-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, EdPZ7AcJE4wqOA2kM6WO6FTrZmdctbJPZANeK7XzRZagl9oqSKVCpjViyeXGYbgi Tg7qoi1u+beoE27stLh0zQ== 0001193125-05-000063.txt : 20050103 0001193125-05-000063.hdr.sgml : 20041231 20050103060913 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-05-000063 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 9 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20041230 ITEM INFORMATION: Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20050103 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20050103 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: MODTECH HOLDINGS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001075066 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PREFABRICATED WOOD BLDGS & COMPONENTS [2452] IRS NUMBER: 330825386 STATE OF INCORPORATION: CA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-25161 FILM NUMBER: 05500008 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2830 BARRETT AVE STREET 2: PO BOX 1240 CITY: PERRIS STATE: CA ZIP: 92571 BUSINESS PHONE: 9099434014 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 4675 MACARTHUR CT., STREET 2: SUITE 710 CITY: NEWPORT STATE: CA ZIP: 92660 8-K 1 d8k.htm FORM 8-K FOR MODTECH HOLDINGS, INC. Form 8-K for Modtech Holdings, Inc.

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


 

FORM 8-K

 


 

CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 30, 2004

 


 

Modtech Holdings, Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 


 

Delaware   000-25161   33-0825386

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

  (Commission File Number)  

(I.R.S. employer

identification no.)

 

2830 Barrett Avenue

Perris, CA 92571

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (951) 943-4014

 

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

 


 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the Registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

¨ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 



ITEM 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities

 

On December 30, 2004, Modtech Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MODT) (“Modtech”) entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “Transaction”) with an institutional investor (the “Investor”), pursuant to which Modtech issued and sold to the Investor $25 million aggregate principal amount of a senior secured, convertible note (“Note”) and a related warrant (the “Warrant” and together with the Note, the “Securities”). The Note converts into Modtech common stock, par value of $.01 per share (“Common Stock”), at a conversion price equal to 115% of the arithmetic average of the five-day weighted average price of the common stock on the five trading day period commencing on December 31, 2004 but not less than $8.61 (as adjusted in accordance with certain anti-dilution adjustments, the “Conversion Price”). At the minimum Conversion Price of $8.61, the Note would convert into an aggregate of 2,903,601 shares of Common Stock and the Warrant would be exercised for 232,289 shares of Common Stock. As of December 28, 2004, there were approximately 14.5 million shares of Common Stock outstanding.

 

Principal Payments under the Note

 

The principal owing under the Note is due on December 31, 2009. The Note holder has the option to cause the Company to redeem up to $8.33 million face amount of notes on each of June 30 of 2006, 2007 and 2008. The principal is payable in cash; provided, however, that if the Company’s senior credit facility would prevent such cash redemption, at the Company’s option, the principal may be repaid by converting the principal amount to be repaid into Common Stock at a conversion price of 95% of the arithmatic average trading price of the Common Stock for a specified number of trading days prior to the scheduled principal payment date and if other specified conditions are satisfied, including compliance with Nasdaq National Market regulations.

 

Modtech has the right to prepay the principal amount owing under the Note in cash after December 31, 2007 if certain conditions are met, among other things that the price of the Common Stock exceeds 175% of the Conversion Price.

 

Interest Payments

 

The Note bears interest at 7% per annum. Interest on the Note is payable quarterly in cash.

 

Conversion of the Note

 

The holder of the Note may convert the Note into the Common Stock at any time or from time-to-time at the Conversion Price.

 

The Note has a weighted average anti-dilution provision that would cause an adjustment to the Conversion Price and the number of shares issuable under the Note upon the occurrence of specified events.

 

Events of Default and Repurchase Rights

 

The Note becomes immediately exercisable in full upon the occurrence of certain specified “events of default.” Furthermore, the holder of the Note has the right to require Modtech to repurchase the Note in cash upon the occurrence of specified events, such as a change in control, while the Note is outstanding.

 

Restrictive Covenants and Financial Covenants

 

The Note contains restrictive covenants, including covenants that prohibit Modtech from incurring certain indebtedness, establishing certain liens on Modtech assets or issuing any variable priced securities. The terms of the Note require Modtech to maintain certain financial ratios on a quarterly basis. The covenants are substantially similar to the covenants contained in Modtech’s senior credit facility, but are more lenient than those contained in the senior credit facility.

 

Security Arrangements for the Note; Cash Balance Requirement

 

The Note is secured by a first priority, perfected security interest in certain cash collateral placed in a restricted, segregated collateral account. The amount of cash collateral required to be maintained in this account is $10 million. The cash collateral is not accessible for use by Modtech until such time as it is released. The cash held in the cash collateral account will be will be reduced as certain financial milestones are met and can be used, in part, to fund optional redemptions that may be exercised by the Note holder on June 30 of 2006, 2007 and 2008, or upon an “event of default” under the Note.

 

The Note is also secured by a second priority security interest in the assets of Modtech, subordinated only to certain senior indebtedness of Modtech, including Modtech’s existing credit facility with Modtech’s senior lenders.

 

Right to Participate in Future Financings

 

The Investor has the right to participate in certain security offerings undertaken by Modtech within two years of the sale and issuance of the Securities. This participation right entitles Investor to collectively purchase up to two-thirds of the securities offered in such offerings.

 

Warrant

 

As part of the transaction, Modtech issued to Investor a five-year warrant to purchase shares of Common Stock exercisable for 8% of the shares underlying the Note. The exercise price of the Warrant will be equal to the Conversion Price. The Warrant may be exercised at any time after issuance and expires December 31, 2009. The Warrant has a weighted average anti-dilution provision that would cause an adjustment to the exercise price of, and number of shares issuable under, the Warrant upon the occurrence of specified events.

 

Shareholder Approval

 

Modtech is required to seek shareholder approval prior to any future issuance of Common Stock or securities convertible into Common Stock that would constitute a dilutive issuance under the Note and Warrant, with certain exceptions (such as issuances of Common Stock under Modtech’s Stock option plans or in connection with any acquisition in an amount not to exceed 20% of the outstanding shares of Common Shares in any twelve month period).

 

Registration Rights

 

In connection with the sale and issuance of the Securities, Modtech and the Investor entered into a Registration Rights Agreement, dated December 30, 2004, with respect to the Securities, pursuant to which Modtech agreed to prepare and file, within 30 days following the issuance of the Securities, a registration statement with the SEC covering the resale of the Common Stock issuable upon the conversion of the Note and the exercise of the Warrant.

 

Forbearance Agreement

 

Simultaneously with the Transaction, the Company entered into an Amendment and Forbearance Agreement with its existing senior lending group which provides for, among other things, relief from its financial covenants through March 31, 2005. The Investor and the Company’s senior lending group have also entered into an intercreditor agreement.

 

As part of its refinancing plans, the Company is in ongoing discussions with alternate senior lenders. The likely terms of a refinancing, if any, could vary from those contained in the existing senior financing agreements and may not be as favorable as those contained in the existing agreement.

 

Other

 

The Securities have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), and were issued and sold in reliance upon the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(2) of the Act and Regulation D promulgated thereunder. The Securities may not be offered or sold in the United States in the absence of an effective registration statement or exemption from the registration requirements under the Act.

 

Copies of the definitive agreements relating to the sale and issuance of the Securities are filed herewith as Exhibits 4.1 through 4.7, and are incorporated herein by reference. The summary of the matters set forth above is qualified in its entirety by reference to such exhibits.

 

On December 31, 2004, Modtech issued a press release announcing the sale and issuance of the Securities. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.


ITEM 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(c) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.

  

Description


4.1    Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of December 30, 2004, by and between Modtech Holdings, Inc. and Investor Limited (excluding schedules and exhibits thereto).
4.2    Form of Senior Subordinated Secured Convertible Note of Modtech Holdings, Inc. dated December 30, 2004 (excluding exhibits).
4.3    Form of Warrant to Purchase Common Stock of Modtech Holdings, Inc. dated December 30, 2004.
4.4    Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of December 30, 2004, by and between Modtech Holdings, Inc. and Investor Limited.
4.5    Pledge and Security Agreement, dated as of December 30, 2004, by and between Modtech Holdings, Inc. and Investor Limited.
4.6    Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of December 31, 2004, by and among Modtech Holdings, Inc., Wells Fargo Bank, National Association and Amulet Limited.
4.7    Amendment and Forbearance Agreement, dated as of December 29, 2004, by and among Modtech Holdings, Inc., Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, Union Bank of California, N.A. and Comerica Bank-California.
99.1    Press Release issued by Modtech Holdings, Inc. on December 31, 2004.

 

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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.

 

    Modtech Holdings, Inc.

Date: December 31, 2004

 

By:

 

/s/ Dennis L. Shogren


       

Dennis L. Shogren

       

Chief Financial Officer

 

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit No.

  

Description


4.1    Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of December 30, 2004, by and between Modtech Holdings, Inc. and Investor Limited (excluding schedules and exhibits thereto).
4.2    Form of Senior Subordinated Secured Convertible Note of Modtech Holdings, Inc. dated December 30, 2004 (excluding exhibits).
4.3    Form of Warrant to Purchase Common Stock of Modtech Holdings, Inc. dated December 30, 2004.
4.4    Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of December 30, 2004, by and between Modtech Holdings, Inc. and Investor Limited
4.5    Pledge and Security Agreement, dated as of December 30, 2004, by and between Modtech Holdings, Inc. and Investor Limited (excluding schedules)
4.6    Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of December 31, 2004, by and among Modtech Holdings, Inc., Wells Fargo Bank, National Association and Amulet Limited.
4.7    Amendment and Forbearance Agreement, dated as of December 29, 2004, by and among Modtech Holdings, Inc., Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, Union Bank of California, N.A. and Comerica Bank-California.
99.1    Press Release issued by Modtech Holdings, Inc. on December 31, 2004.
EX-4.1 2 dex41.htm SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT, DATED DECEMBER 30, 2004 Securities Purchase Agreement, dated December 30, 2004

Exhibit 4.1

 

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”), dated as of December 30, 2004, by and among Modtech Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation, with headquarters located at 2830 Barrett Avenue, Perris, California 92571 (the ”Company”), and the investors listed on the Schedule of Buyers attached hereto (individually, a “Buyer” and collectively, the “Buyers”).

 

WHEREAS:

 

A. The Company and each Buyer is executing and delivering this Agreement in reliance upon the exemption from securities registration afforded by Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), and Rule 506 of Regulation D (“Regulation D”) as promulgated by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under the 1933 Act.

 

B. The Company has authorized a new series of senior subordinated secured convertible notes of the Company, which notes shall be convertible into the Company’s common stock, $.01 par value per share (the Common Stock”), in accordance with the terms of such notes.

 

C. Each Buyer wishes to purchase, and the Company wishes to sell, upon the terms and conditions stated in this Agreement, (i) that aggregate principal amount of notes, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (as amended or modified from time to time, collectively, the “Notes”), set forth opposite such Buyer’s name in column (3) on the Schedule of Buyers (which aggregate amount for all Buyers shall be $25,000,000) (as converted, collectively, the “Conversion Shares”) and (ii) warrants, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B (the “Warrants”), to acquire up to that number of additional shares of Common Stock set forth opposite such Buyer’s name in column (4) of the Schedule of Buyers (as exercised, collectively, the Warrant Shares”).

 

D. Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the parties hereto are executing and delivering a Registration Rights Agreement, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C (as amended or modified from time to time, the “Registration Rights Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company has agreed to provide certain registration rights with respect to the Conversion Shares and the Warrant Shares under the 1933 Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and applicable state securities laws.

 

E. The Notes, the Conversion Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares collectively are referred to herein as the “Securities”.

 

F. The Notes will be (i) subordinated to the Senior Indebtedness (as defined in the Notes), but will rank senior to all other outstanding and future indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries other than as permitted hereunder, (ii) secured by a perfected security interest in all of the assets of the Company and in all of the shares of capital stock and all assets of all of the Company’s current and future Subsidiaries (as hereinafter defined), as evidenced by the Pledge


and Security Agreement, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D (as amended or modified from time to time, the “Pledge and Security Agreement”) in favor of Amphora Limited, a company organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands, in its capacity as collateral agent (in such capacity, the “Senior Agent”) for the Buyers hereto and for the holders of the Securities, which security interest shall be senior to all other security interests therein, except those security interests securing the Senior Indebtedness, and (iii) guaranteed by the Guarantee of all of the Company’s current and future Subsidiaries, other than those Subsidiaries which remain inactive and have no assets, income or operations, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E (such Guaranty, together with the Pledge and Security Agreement, as each may amended or modified from time to time, collectively, the “Security Documents”).

 

NOW, THEREFORE, the Company and each Buyer hereby agree as follows:

 

1. PURCHASE AND SALE OF NOTES AND WARRANTS.

 

(a) Purchase of Notes and Warrants.

 

(i) Subject to the satisfaction (or waiver) of the conditions set forth in Sections 6 and 7 below, the Company shall issue and sell to each Buyer, and each Buyer severally, but not jointly, agrees to purchase from the Company on the Closing Date (as defined below), (w) a principal amount of Notes as is set forth opposite such Buyer’s name in column (3) on the Schedule of Buyers and (x) Warrants to acquire up to that number of Warrant Shares as is set forth opposite such Buyer’s name in column (4) on the Schedule of Buyers (the “Closing”).

 

(ii) Closing. The date and time of the Closing (the “Closing Date”) shall be 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date hereof (or such later date as is mutually agreed to by the Company and each Buyer) after notification of satisfaction (or waiver) of the conditions to the Closing set forth in Sections 6 and 7 below at the offices of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, 919 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10022.

 

(iii) Purchase Price. The aggregate purchase price for the Notes and the Warrants to be purchased by each Buyer at the Closing (the “Purchase Price”) shall be the amount set forth opposite such Buyer’s name in column (5) of the Schedule of Buyers. Each Buyer shall pay $1.00 for each $1.00 of principal amount of Notes and related Warrants to be purchased by such Buyer at the Closing.

 

(b) Form of Payment. On the Closing Date, (i) each Buyer shall pay its Purchase Price to the Company for the Notes and the Warrants to be issued and sold to such Buyer at the Closing, by wire transfer of immediately available funds in accordance with the Company’s written wire instructions, and (ii) the Company shall deliver to each Buyer (A) the Notes (in the principal amounts as such Buyer shall request) which such Buyer is then purchasing and (B) the Warrants (in the amounts as such Buyer shall request) such Buyer is purchasing, in each case duly executed on behalf of the Company and registered in the name of such Buyer or its designee.

 

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2. BUYER’S REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.

 

Each Buyer represents and warrants with respect to only itself that:

 

(a) No Public Sale or Distribution. Such Buyer is (i) acquiring the Notes and the Warrants and (ii) upon conversion of the Notes and exercise of the Warrants (other than pursuant to a Cashless Exercise (as defined in the Warrants)) will acquire the Conversion Shares issuable upon conversion of the Notes and the Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants, as the case may be, in each case, for its own account and not with a view towards, or for resale in connection with, the public sale or distribution thereof, except pursuant to sales registered or exempted under the 1933 Act; provided, however, that by making the representations herein, such Buyer does not agree to hold any of the Securities for any minimum or other specific term and reserves the right to dispose of the Securities at any time in accordance with or pursuant to a registration statement or an exemption under the 1933 Act. Such Buyer is acquiring the Securities hereunder in the ordinary course of its business. Such Buyer does not presently have any agreement or understanding, directly or indirectly, with any Person to distribute any of the Securities.

 

(b) Accredited Investor Status. Such Buyer is an “accredited investor” as that term is defined in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D.

 

(c) Reliance on Exemptions. Such Buyer understands that the Securities are being offered and sold to it in reliance on specific exemptions from the registration requirements of United States federal and state securities laws and that the Company is relying in part upon the truth and accuracy of, and such Buyer’s compliance with, the representations, warranties, agreements, acknowledgments and understandings of such Buyer set forth herein in order to determine the availability of such exemptions and the eligibility of such Buyer to acquire the Securities.

 

(d) Information. Such Buyer and its advisors, if any, have been furnished with all materials relating to the business, finances and operations of the Company and materials relating to the offer and sale of the Securities that have been requested by such Buyer. Such Buyer and its advisors, if any, have been afforded the opportunity to ask questions of the Company. Neither such inquiries nor any other due diligence investigations conducted by such Buyer or its advisors, if any, or its representatives shall modify, amend or affect such Buyer’s right to rely on the Company’s representations and warranties contained herein. Such Buyer understands that its investment in the Securities involves a high degree of risk. Such Buyer has sought such accounting, legal and tax advice as it has considered necessary to make an informed investment decision with respect to its acquisition of the Securities.

 

(e) No Governmental Review. Such Buyer understands that no United States federal or state agency or any other government or governmental agency has passed on or made any recommendation or endorsement of the Securities or the fairness or suitability of the investment in the Securities nor have such authorities passed upon or endorsed the merits of the offering of the Securities.

 

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(f) Transfer or Resale. Such Buyer understands that except as provided in the Registration Rights Agreement: (i) the Securities have not been and are not being registered under the 1933 Act or any state securities laws, and may not be offered for sale, sold, assigned or transferred unless (A) subsequently registered thereunder, (B) such Buyer shall have delivered to the Company an opinion of counsel selected by the Buyer, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Company, to the effect that such Securities to be sold, assigned or transferred may be sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to an exemption from such registration, or (C) such Buyer provides the Company with reasonable assurance that such Securities can be sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to Rule 144 or Rule 144A promulgated under the 1933 Act, as amended, (or a successor rule thereto) (collectively, “Rule 144”); (ii) any sale of the Securities made in reliance on Rule 144 may be made only in accordance with the terms of Rule 144 and further, if Rule 144 is not applicable, any resale of the Securities under circumstances in which the seller (or the Person (as defined in Section 3(s)) through whom the sale is made) may be deemed to be an underwriter (as that term is defined in the 1933 Act) may require compliance with some other exemption under the 1933 Act or the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder; and (iii) neither the Company nor any other Person is under any obligation to register the Securities under the 1933 Act or any state securities laws or to comply with the terms and conditions of any exemption thereunder.

 

(g) Legends. Such Buyer understands that the certificates or other instruments representing the Notes and Warrants and, until such time as the resale of the Conversion Shares and the Warrant Shares have been registered under the 1933 Act as contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement, the stock certificates representing the Conversion Shares and the Warrant Shares, except as set forth below, shall bear any legend as required by the “blue sky” laws of any state and a restrictive legend in substantially the following form (and a stop-transfer order may be placed against transfer of such stock certificates):

 

[NEITHER THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THESE SECURITIES ARE [CONVERTIBLE] [EXERCISABLE] HAVE BEEN][THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN] REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED (I) IN THE ABSENCE OF (A) AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR (B) AN OPINION OF COUNSEL (WHICH COUNSEL SHALL BE SELECTED BY THE HOLDER), IN A FORM REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY, THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER SAID ACT OR (II) UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 OR RULE 144A UNDER SAID ACT. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN OR FINANCING ARRANGEMENT SECURED BY THE SECURITIES.

 

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The legend set forth above shall be removed and the Company shall issue a certificate without such legend to the holder of the Securities upon which it is stamped, if, unless otherwise required by state securities laws, (i) such Securities are registered for resale under the 1933 Act, (ii) in connection with a sale, assignment or other transfer, such holder provides the Company with an opinion of counsel, in a generally acceptable form, to the effect that such sale, assignment or transfer of the Securities may be made without registration under the applicable requirements of the 1933 Act, or (iii) such holder provides the Company with reasonable assurance that the Securities can be sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to Rule 144 or Rule 144A.

 

(h) Validity; Enforcement. This Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement and the Security Documents to which such Buyer is a party have been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered on behalf of such Buyer and shall constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of such Buyer enforceable against such Buyer in accordance with their respective terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity or applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation and other similar laws relating to, or affecting generally, the enforcement of applicable creditors’ rights and remedies.

 

(i) Residency. Such Buyer is a resident of that jurisdiction specified below its address on the Schedule of Buyers.

 

3. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.

 

The Company represents and warrants to each of the Buyers that:

 

(a) Organization and Qualification. The Company and its “Subsidiaries” (which for purposes of this Agreement means any entity in which the Company, directly or indirectly, owns capital stock or holds an equity or similar interest) are entities duly organized and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which they are formed, and have the requisite corporate power and authority to own their properties and to carry on their business as now being conducted. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is duly qualified as a foreign entity to do business and is in good standing in every jurisdiction in which its ownership of property or the nature of the business conducted by it makes such qualification necessary, except to the extent that the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. As used in this Agreement, “Material Adverse Effect” means any material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets, operations, results of operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects (business or financial) of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or on the transactions contemplated hereby and the other Transaction Documents (as defined below) or by the agreements and instruments to be entered into in connection herewith or therewith, or on the authority or ability of the Company to perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents. The Company has no Subsidiaries except as set forth on Schedule 3(a) and each of the Company’s Subsidiaries in existence as of the date hereof are inactive and have no assets, operations or income.

 

(b) Authorization; Enforcement; Validity. The Company has the requisite power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Notes, the Registration Rights Agreement, the Security Documents, the Irrevocable Transfer Agent

 

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Instructions (as defined in Section 5(b)), the Warrants, application with respect to the issuance of the Letter of Credit (as defined below) and each of the other agreements entered into by the parties hereto in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (collectively, the “Transaction Documents”) and to issue the Securities in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof. The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including, without limitation, the issuance of the Notes and the Warrants, the reservation for issuance and the issuance of the Conversion Shares issuable upon conversion of the Notes, the reservation for issuance and issuance of Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants, and the granting of a security interest in the Collateral (as defined in the Security Documents) have been duly authorized by the Company’s Board of Directors and (other than (i) the filing of appropriate UCC financing statements with the appropriate states and other authorities pursuant to the Pledge and Security Agreement, and (ii) the filing with the SEC of one or more Registration Statements in accordance with the requirements of the Registration Rights Agreement) no further filing, consent, or authorization is required by the Company, its Board of Directors or its stockholders. This Agreement and the other Transaction Documents have been duly executed and delivered by the Company, and constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity or applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation or similar laws relating to, or affecting generally, the enforcement of applicable creditors’ rights and remedies.

 

(c) Issuance of Securities. The issuance of the Notes and the Warrants are duly authorized and are free from all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof. As of the Closing, a number of shares of Common Stock shall have been duly authorized and reserved for issuance which equals 120% of the maximum number of shares Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes and issuable upon exercise of the Warrants. Upon issuance or conversion in accordance with the Notes or exercise in accordance with the Warrants, as the case may be, the Conversion Shares and the Warrant Shares, respectively, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free from all preemptive or similar rights, taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof, with the holders being entitled to all rights accorded to a holder of Common Stock. The offer and issuance by the Company of the Securities is exempt from registration under the 1933 Act.

 

(d) No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (including, without limitation, the issuance of the Notes and the Warrants, the granting of a security interest in the Collateral (as defined in the Security Documents) and reservation for issuance and issuance of the Conversion Shares and the Warrant Shares) will not (i) result in a violation of any certificate of incorporation, certificate of formation, any certificate of designations or other constituent documents of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or bylaws of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, any material agreement, indenture or instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party, or (iii) result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree (including federal and state securities laws

 

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and regulations and the rules and regulations of the Nasdaq National Market (the “Principal Market”)) applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by which any property or asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound or affected.

 

(e) Consents. The Company is not required to obtain any consent, authorization or order of, or make any filing (other than (i) the filing of appropriate UCC financing statements with the appropriate states and other authorities pursuant to the Pledge and Security Agreement, and (ii) the filing with the SEC of one or more Registration Statements in accordance with the requirements of the Registration Rights Agreement) or registration with, any court, governmental agency or any regulatory or self-regulatory agency or any other Person in order for it to execute, deliver or perform any of its obligations under or contemplated by the Transaction Documents, in each case in accordance with the terms hereof or thereof. All consents, authorizations, orders, filings and registrations which the Company is required to obtain pursuant to the preceding sentence have been obtained or effected on or prior to the Closing Date, and the Company and its Subsidiaries are unaware of any facts or circumstances which might prevent the Company from obtaining or effecting any of the registration, application or filings pursuant to the preceding sentence. The Company is not in violation of the listing requirements of the Principal Market and has no knowledge of any facts that would reasonably lead to delisting or suspension of the Common Stock in the foreseeable future.

 

(f) Acknowledgment Regarding Buyer’s Purchase of Securities. The Company acknowledges and agrees that each Buyer is acting solely in the capacity of arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and that no Buyer is (i) an officer or director of the Company, (ii) an “affiliate” of the Company (as defined in Rule 144) or (iii) to the knowledge of the Company, a “beneficial owner” of more than 10% of the shares of Common Stock (as defined for purposes of Rule 13d-3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”)). 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 hereby and thereby, and any advice given by a Buyer or any of its representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby is merely incidental to such Buyer’s purchase of the Securities. The Company further represents to each Buyer that the decision of the Company and each of the Subsidiaries to enter into the Transaction Documents, as applicable, has been based solely on the independent evaluation by the Company, its Subsidiaries and their representatives.

 

(g) No General Solicitation; Placement Agent’s Fees. Neither the Company, nor any of its affiliates, nor any Person acting on its or their behalf, has engaged in any form of general solicitation or general advertising (within the meaning of Regulation D) in connection with the offer or sale of the Securities. The Company shall be responsible for the payment of any placement agent’s fees, financial advisory fees, or brokers’ commissions (other than for persons engaged by any Buyer or its investment advisor) relating to or arising out of the transactions contemplated hereby. The Company shall pay, and hold each Buyer harmless against, any liability, loss or expense (including, without limitation, attorney’s fees and out-of-pocket expenses) arising in connection with any such claim. The Company acknowledges that it has engaged Rodman & Renshaw, LLC as placement agent (the “Agent”) in connection with the sale of the Securities. Other than the Agent, the Company has not engaged any placement agent or other agent in connection with the sale of the Securities.

 

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(h) No Integrated Offering. None of the Company, its Subsidiaries, any of their affiliates, and any Person acting on their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to buy any security, under circumstances that would require registration of any of the Securities under the 1933 Act or cause this offering of the Securities to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of the 1933 Act or any applicable stockholder approval provisions, including, without limitation, under the rules and regulations of any exchange or automated quotation system on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or designated.

 

(i) Dilutive Effect. The Company understands and acknowledges that the number of Conversion Shares issuable upon conversion of the Notes and the Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants will increase in certain circumstances. The Company further acknowledges that its obligation to issue Conversion Shares upon conversion of the Notes in accordance with this Agreement and the Notes and its obligation to issue the Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Warrants in accordance with this Agreement and the Warrants is, in each case, absolute and unconditional regardless of the dilutive effect, which may be substantial, that such issuance may have on the ownership interests of other stockholders of the Company.

 

(j) Application of Takeover Protections; Rights Agreement. The Company and its board of directors have taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the Company’s certificate of incorporation or the laws of the jurisdiction of its formation or otherwise which is or could become applicable to any Buyer as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including, without limitation, the Company’s issuance of the Securities and any Buyer’s ownership of the Securities. The Company has not adopted a stockholder rights plan or similar arrangement relating to accumulations of beneficial ownership of Common Stock or a change in control of the Company.

 

(k) SEC Documents; Financial Statements. During the two (2) years prior to the date hereof, the Company has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by it with the SEC pursuant to the reporting requirements of the 1934 Act (all of the foregoing filed prior to the date hereof and all exhibits included therein and financial statements, notes and schedules thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein being hereinafter referred to as the “SEC Documents”). The Company has delivered to the Buyers or their respective representatives true, correct and complete copies of the SEC Documents not available on the EDGAR system. As of their respective dates, the SEC Documents complied in all material respects with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to the SEC Documents, and none of the SEC Documents, at the time they were filed with the SEC, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. As of their respective dates, the financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Documents complied as to form in all material respects with applicable accounting

 

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requirements and the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto. Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied, during the periods involved (except (i) as may be otherwise indicated in such financial statements or the notes thereto, or (ii) in the case of unaudited interim statements, to the extent they may exclude footnotes or may be condensed or summary statements) and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company as of the dates thereof and the results of its operations and cash flows for the periods then ended (subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal year-end audit adjustments). No other information provided by or on behalf of the Company to the Buyers which is not included in the SEC Documents, including, without limitation, information referred to in Section 2(d) of this Agreement, contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstance under which they are or were made, not misleading.

 

(l) Absence of Certain Changes. Except as disclosed in Schedule 3(l), since September 30, 2004, there has been no material adverse change and no material adverse development in the business, properties, operations, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations or prospects of the Company or its Subsidiaries. Since September 30, 2004, the Company has not (i) declared or paid any dividends, (ii) sold any assets, individually or in the aggregate, in excess of $100,000 outside of the ordinary course of business, (iii) had capital expenditures, individually or in the aggregate, in excess of $100,000 or (iv) waived any material rights with respect to any Indebtedness or other rights in excess of $100,000 owed to it. The Company has not taken any steps to seek protection pursuant to any bankruptcy law nor does the Company have any knowledge or reason to believe that its creditors intend to initiate involuntary bankruptcy proceedings or any actual knowledge of any fact that would reasonably lead a creditor to do so. The Company is not as of the date hereof, and after giving effect to the transactions contemplated hereby to occur at the Closing will not be, Insolvent (as defined below). For purposes of this Section 3(l), “Insolvent” means on a consolidated basis (i) the present fair saleable value of the Company’s assets is less than the amount required to pay the Company’s total Indebtedness (as defined in Section 3(s)), (ii) the Company is unable to pay its debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and liabilities become absolute and matured, (iii) the Company intends to incur or believes that it will incur debts that would be beyond its ability to pay as such debts mature or (iv) the Company has unreasonably small capital with which to conduct the business in which it is engaged as such business is now conducted and is proposed to be conducted.

 

(m) No Undisclosed Events, Liabilities, Developments or Circumstances. No event, liability, development or circumstance has occurred or exists, or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to the Company or its Subsidiaries or their respective business, properties, prospects, operations or financial condition, that would be required to be disclosed by the Company under applicable securities laws on a registration statement on Form S-1 filed with the SEC relating to an issuance and sale by the Company of its Common Stock and which has not been publicly announced.

 

(n) Conduct of Business; Regulatory Permits. Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries is in violation of any term of or in default under its Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws or their organizational charter or certificate of incorporation or bylaws, respectively.

 

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Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any judgment, decree or order or any statute, ordinance, rule or regulation applicable to the Company or its Subsidiaries, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries will conduct its business in violation of any of the foregoing, except for possible violations which would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. Since December 31, 2003, (i) the Common Stock has been designated for quotation on the Principal Market, (ii) trading in the Common Stock has not been suspended by the SEC or the Principal Market and (iii) the Company has received no communication, written or oral, from the SEC or the Principal Market regarding the suspension or delisting of the Common Stock from the Principal Market. The Company and its Subsidiaries possess all certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses, except where the failure to possess such certificates, authorizations or permits would not have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, and neither the Company nor any such Subsidiary has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such certificate, authorization or permit.

 

(o) Foreign Corrupt Practices. Neither the Company, nor any of its Subsidiaries, nor any director, officer, agent, employee or other Person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has, in the course of its actions for, or on behalf of, the Company (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expenses relating to political activity; (ii) made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended; or (iv) made any unlawful bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee.

 

(p) Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Company is in compliance with any and all applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that are effective as of the date hereof, and any and all applicable rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC thereunder that are effective as of the date hereof, except where such noncompliance would not have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(q) Transactions With Affiliates. Except as set forth in the SEC Documents filed at least ten days prior to the date hereof and other than the grant of stock options disclosed on Schedule 3(q), none of the officers, directors or employees of the Company is presently a party to any transaction with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than for ordinary course services as employees, officers or directors), including any contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any such officer, director or employee or, to the knowledge of the Company, any corporation, partnership, trust or other entity in which any such officer, director, or employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee or partner.

 

(r) Equity Capitalization. As of the date hereof, the authorized capital stock of the Company consists of (i) 25,000,000 shares of Common Stock, of which as of the date hereof, 14,479,082 are issued and outstanding, 1,660,384 shares are reserved for issuance pursuant to the Company’s stock option and purchase plans and no shares are reserved for issuance pursuant to

 

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securities (other than the Notes and the Warrants) exercisable or exchangeable for, or convertible into, shares of Common Stock and (ii) 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $.01 par value per share, of which as of the date hereof none of which is issued and outstanding or reserved for issuance. All of such outstanding shares have been, or upon issuance will be, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. Except as set forth in the SEC Documents filed at least ten days prior to the date hereof and except as disclosed on Schedule 3(r): (i) there are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip, rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, any share capital of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound to issue additional share capital of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or options, warrants, scrip, rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, any share capital of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (ii) there are no outstanding debt securities, notes, credit agreements, credit facilities or other agreements, documents or instruments evidencing Indebtedness (as defined in Section 3(s)) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound; (iii) there are no financing statements securing obligations in any material amounts, either singly or in the aggregate, filed in connection with the Company; (iv) there are no agreements or arrangements under which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is obligated to register the sale of any of their securities under the 1933 Act (except the Registration Rights Agreement); (v) there are no outstanding securities or instruments of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which contain any redemption or similar provisions, and there are no contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound to redeem a security of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (vi) the Company does not have any stock appreciation rights or “phantom stock” plans or agreements or any similar plan or agreement; and (vii) the Company and its Subsidiaries have no liabilities or obligations required to be disclosed in the SEC Documents but not so disclosed in the SEC Documents, other than those incurred in the ordinary course of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ respective businesses and which, individually or in the aggregate, do not or would not have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as disclosed on Schedule 3(r): (i) none of the Company’s share capital is subject to preemptive rights or any other similar rights or any liens or encumbrances suffered or permitted by the Company; and (ii) there are no securities or instruments containing anti-dilution or similar provisions that will be triggered by the issuance of the Securities. The Company has furnished to the Buyer true, correct and complete copies of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended and as in effect on the date hereof (the “Certificate of Incorporation”), and the Company’s Bylaws, as amended and as in effect on the date hereof (the “Bylaws”), and the terms of all securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, shares of Common Stock and the material rights of the holders thereof in respect thereto.

 

(s) Indebtedness and Other Contracts. Except as disclosed in Schedule 3(s), neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (i) has any outstanding Indebtedness (as defined below), (ii) is a party to any contract, agreement or instrument, the violation of which, or default under which, by the other party(ies) to such contract, agreement or instrument would result in a Material Adverse Effect, (iii) is in violation of any term of or in default under any contract, agreement or instrument relating to any Indebtedness, except where such violations and defaults would not result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect, or (iv) is a party

 

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to any contract, agreement or instrument relating to any Indebtedness, the performance of which, in the judgment of the Company’s officers, has or is expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Schedule 3(s) provides a detailed description of the material terms of any such outstanding Indebtedness. For purposes of this Agreement: (x) “Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication (A) all indebtedness for borrowed money, (B) all obligations (other than trade payables entered into in the ordinary course of business) issued, undertaken or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property or services including, without limitation, “capital leases” in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principals, (C) all reimbursement or payment obligations with respect to letters of credit, surety bonds and other similar instruments, (D) all obligations evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or similar instruments, including obligations so evidenced incurred in connection with the acquisition of property, assets or businesses, (E) all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, or incurred as financing, in either case with respect to any property or assets acquired with the proceeds of such indebtedness (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or bank under such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property), (F) all monetary obligations under any leasing or similar arrangement which, in connection with generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied for the periods covered thereby, is classified as a capital lease, (G) all indebtedness referred to in clauses (A) through (F) above secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or other encumbrance upon or in any property or assets (including accounts and contract rights) owned by any Person, even though the Person which owns such assets or property has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such indebtedness, and (H) all Contingent Obligations in respect of indebtedness or obligations of others of the kinds referred to in clauses (A) through (G) above; (y) “Contingent Obligation” means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect liability, contingent or otherwise, of that Person with respect to any indebtedness, lease, dividend or other obligation of another Person if the primary purpose or intent of the Person incurring such liability, or the primary effect thereof, is to provide assurance to the obligee of such liability that such liability will be paid or discharged, or that any agreements relating thereto will be complied with, or that the holders of such liability will be protected (in whole or in part) against loss with respect thereto; and (z) “Person” means an individual, a limited liability company, a partnership, a joint venture, a corporation, a trust, an unincorporated organization and a government or any department or agency thereof.

 

(t) Absence of Litigation. There is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or by the Principal Market, any court, public board, government agency, self-regulatory organization or body pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company, the Common Stock or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or any of the Company’s or the Company’s Subsidiaries’ officers or directors, except such that if adversely determined would not be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect as set forth in Schedule 3(t).

 

(u) Insurance. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as management of the Company believes to be prudent and customary in the businesses in which the Company and its Subsidiaries are engaged. Neither the Company nor any such Subsidiary has been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for and neither the Company nor any

 

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such 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 at a cost that would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(v) Employee Relations. (i) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any collective bargaining agreement or employs any member of a union. No executive officer of the Company (as defined in Rule 501(f) of the 1933 Act) has notified the Company that such officer intends to leave the Company or otherwise terminate such officer’s employment with the Company. No executive officer of the Company, to the knowledge of the Company, is, or is now expected to be, in violation of any material term of any employment contract, confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information agreement, non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or any restrictive covenant, and the continued employment of each such executive officer does not subject the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any liability with respect to any of the foregoing matters.

 

(ii) The Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations respecting labor, employment and employment practices and benefits, terms and conditions of employment and wages and hours, except where failure to be in compliance would not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(w) Title. The Company and its Subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to all real property and good and marketable title to all personal property owned by them which is material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and defects except such as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and any of its Subsidiaries. Any real property and facilities held under lease by the Company and any of its Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with such exceptions as are not material and do not interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property and buildings by the Company and its Subsidiaries.

 

(x) Intellectual Property Rights. The Company and its Subsidiaries own or possess adequate rights or licenses to use all trademarks, service marks, and all applications and registrations therefor, trade names, patents, patent rights, copyrights, original works of authorship, inventions, licenses, approvals, governmental authorizations, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights (“Intellectual Property Rights”) necessary to conduct their respective businesses as now conducted and which failure to so have would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as set forth in Schedule 3(x), none of the Company’s Intellectual Property Rights have expired or terminated, or are expected to expire or terminate, within three years from the date of this Agreement. The Company does not have any knowledge of any infringement by the Company or its Subsidiaries of Intellectual Property Rights of others. There is no claim, action or proceeding being made or brought, or to the knowledge of the Company, being threatened, against the Company or its Subsidiaries regarding its Intellectual Property Rights. The Company is unaware of any facts or circumstances that might give rise to any of the foregoing infringements or claims, actions or proceedings. The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable security measures to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all of their Intellectual Property Rights.

 

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(y) Environmental Laws. The Company and its Subsidiaries (i) are in compliance with any and all Environmental Laws (as hereinafter defined), (ii) have received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses and (iii) are in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or approval where, in each of the foregoing clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), the failure to so comply could be reasonably expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. The term “Environmental Laws” means all federal, state, local or foreign laws relating to pollution or protection of human health or the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata), including, without limitation, laws relating to emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, or toxic or hazardous substances or wastes (collectively, “Hazardous Materials”) into the environment, or otherwise relating to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials, as well as all authorizations, codes, decrees, demands or demand letters, injunctions, judgments, licenses, notices or notice letters, orders, permits, plans or regulations issued, entered, promulgated or approved thereunder.

 

(z) Subsidiary Rights. Except as set forth in Schedule 3(z), the Company or one of its Subsidiaries has the unrestricted right to vote, and (subject to limitations imposed by applicable law) to receive dividends and distributions on, all capital securities of its Subsidiaries as owned by the Company or such Subsidiary.

 

(aa) Tax Status. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries (i) has made or filed all foreign, federal and state income and all other 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, except those being contested in good faith and (iii) has set aside on its books provision reasonably adequate for the payment of all taxes for periods subsequent to the periods to which such returns, reports or declarations apply. There are no unpaid taxes in any material amount claimed to be due by the taxing authority of any jurisdiction, and the officers of the Company know of no basis for any such claim. No liens have been filed and no claims are being asserted by or against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to any taxes (other than liens for taxes not yet due and payable). Neither the Company nor it Subsidiaries has recived notice of assessment or proposed assessment of any taxes claimed to be owed by it or any other Person on its behalf. Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries is a party to any tax sharing or tax indemnity agreement or any other agreement of a similar nature that remains in effect. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has complied in all material respects with all applicable legal requirements relating to the payment and withholding of taxes and, within the time and in the manner prescribed by law, has withheld from wages, fees and other payments and paid over to the proper governmental or regulatory authorities all amounts required.

 

(bb) Internal Accounting Controls. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations,

 

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(ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset and liability accountability, (iii) access to assets or incurrence of liabilities is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets and liabilities is compared with the existing assets and liabilities at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any difference.

 

(cc) Ranking of Notes. Except as set forth on Schedule 3(cc), no Indebtedness of the Company is senior to or ranks pari passu with the Notes in right of payment, whether with respect of payment of redemptions, interest, damages or upon liquidation or dissolution or otherwise.

 

(dd) Form S-3 Eligibility. The Company is eligible to register the Conversion Shares and the Warrant Shares for resale by the Buyers using Form S-3 promulgated under the 1933 Act.

 

(ee) Manipulation of Price. The Company has not, and to its knowledge no one acting on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to cause or to result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the Securities, (ii) sold, bid for, purchased, or paid any compensation for soliciting purchases of, any of the Securities, or (iii) paid or agreed to pay to any person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other securities of the Company.

 

(ff) Material Contracts. There are no material agreements or instruments to which the Company is a party or is otherwise subject, other than the Current Credit Facility (as defined in the Notes) and the leases set forth on Schedule 3(ff).

 

(gg) Disclosure. The Company confirms that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any of the Buyers or their agents or counsel with any information that constitutes or could reasonably be expected to constitute material, nonpublic information. The Company understands and confirms that each of the Buyers will rely on the foregoing representations in effecting transactions in securities of the Company. All disclosure provided to the Buyers regarding the Company, its business and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Schedules to this Agreement, furnished by or on behalf of the Company is true and correct and does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Each press release issued by the Company during the twelve (12) months preceding the date of this Agreement did not at the time of release contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading. No event or circumstance has occurred or information exists with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or its or their business, properties, prospects, operations or financial conditions, which, under applicable law, rule or regulation, requires public disclosure or announcement by the Company but which has not been so publicly announced or disclosed.

 

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4. COVENANTS.

 

(a) Best Efforts. Each party shall use its reasonable best efforts timely to satisfy each of the conditions to be satisfied by it as provided in Sections 6 and 7 of this Agreement.

 

(b) Form D and Blue Sky. The Company agrees to file a Form D with respect to the Securities as required under Regulation D and to provide a copy thereof to each Buyer promptly after such filing. The Company shall, on or before the Closing Date, 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 pursuant to this Agreement under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of the United States (or to obtain an exemption from such qualification), and shall provide evidence of any such action so taken to the Buyers on or prior to the Closing Date. The Company shall make all filings and reports relating to the offer and sale of the Securities required under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of the United States following the Closing Date.

 

(c) Reporting Status. Until the date on which the Investors (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) shall have sold all the Conversion Shares and Warrant Shares and none of the Notes or Warrants is outstanding (the “Reporting Period”), the Company shall timely file all reports required to be filed with the SEC pursuant to the 1934 Act, and the Company shall not terminate its status as an issuer required to file reports under the 1934 Act even if the 1934 Act or the rules and regulations thereunder would otherwise permit such termination.

 

(d) Use of Proceeds. The Company will use the proceeds from the sale of the Securities for general working capital purposes, general corporate purposes and repayment of certain outstanding Indebtedness of the Company as set forth on Schedule 4(d) hereof and not for redemption or repurchase of any equity securities.

 

(e) Financial Information. Unless the following are filed with the SEC through EDGAR and are available to the public through the EDGAR system, the Company agrees to send the following to each Investor during the Reporting Period (i) within one (1) Business Day after the filing thereof with the SEC, a copy of its Annual Reports on Form 10-K or 10-KSB, any interim reports or any consolidated balance sheets, income statements, stockholders’ equity statements and/or cash flow statements for any period other than annual, any Current Reports on Form 8-K and any registration statements (other than on Form S-8) or amendments filed pursuant to the 1933 Act, (ii) on the same day as the release thereof, facsimile copies of all press releases issued by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and (iii) copies of any notices and other information made available or given to the stockholders of the Company generally, contemporaneously with the making available or giving thereof to the stockholders.

 

(f) Listing. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to promptly secure the listing of all of the Registrable Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) upon each national securities exchange and automated quotation system, if any, upon which the Common Stock is then listed (subject to official notice of issuance) and shall use its reasonable best efforts to maintain such listing of all Registrable Securities from time to time issuable under the terms of the Transaction Documents. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to

 

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maintain the Common Stocks’ authorization for quotation on the Principal Market. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall take any action that would be reasonably expected to result in the delisting or suspension of the Common Stock on the Principal Market. The Company shall pay all fees and expenses in connection with satisfying its obligations under this Section 4(f).

 

(g) Fees. The Company shall reimburse Amphora Limited (a Buyer) or its designee(s) for all reasonable costs and expenses incurred in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (including all reasonable legal fees and disbursements in connection therewith, documentation and implementation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and due diligence in connection therewith), which amount shall be withheld by such Buyer from its Purchase Price at the Closing. The Company shall be responsible for the payment of any placement agent’s fees, financial advisory fees, or broker’s commissions (other than for Persons engaged by any Buyer) relating to or arising out of the transactions contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, any fees or commissions payable to the Agent. The Company shall pay, and hold each Buyer harmless against, any liability, loss or expense (including, without limitation, reasonable attorney’s fees and out-of-pocket expenses) arising in connection with any claim relating to any such payment. Except as otherwise set forth in the Transaction Documents, each party to this Agreement shall bear its own expenses in connection with the sale of the Securities to the Buyers.

 

(h) Pledge of Securities. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Securities may be pledged by an Investor (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) in connection with a bona fide margin agreement or other loan or financing arrangement that is secured by the Securities. The pledge of Securities shall not be deemed to be a transfer, sale or assignment of the Securities hereunder, and no Investor effecting a pledge of Securities shall be required to provide the Company with any notice thereof or otherwise make any delivery to the Company pursuant to this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, including, without limitation, Section 2(f) hereof; provided that an Investor and its pledgee shall be required to comply with the provisions of Section 2(f) hereof in order to effect a sale, transfer or assignment of Securities to such pledgee. The Company hereby agrees to execute and deliver such documentation as a pledgee of the Securities may reasonably request in connection with a pledge of the Securities to such pledgee by an Investor.

 

(i) Disclosure of Transactions and Other Material Information. On or before 8:30 a.m., New York Time, on the first Business Day following the date of this Agreement, the Company shall file a press release and a Current Report on Form 8-K describing the terms of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents in the form required by the 1934 Act and attaching the material Transaction Documents (including, without limitation, this Agreement (and all schedules to this Agreement), the form of each of the Notes, the form of Warrant, the Registration Rights Agreement and the Security Documents) as exhibits to such filing (including all attachments, the “8-K Filing”). From and after the filing of the 8-K Filing with the SEC, no Buyer shall be in possession of any material, nonpublic information received from the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of its respective officers, directors, employees or agents, that is not disclosed in the 8-K Filing. The Company shall not, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries and its and each of their respective officers, directors, employees and agents, not to, provide any Buyer, and no Buyer shall request, with any material, nonpublic information regarding the

 

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Company or any of its Subsidiaries from and after the filing of the 8-K Filing with the SEC without the express written consent of such Buyer. In the event of a breach of the foregoing covenant by the Company, 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, a Buyer shall have the right to request the Company to make a public disclosure, in the form of a press release, public advertisement or otherwise, of such material, nonpublic information without the prior approval by the Company, its Subsidiaries, or any of its or their respective officers, directors, employees or agents. No Buyer shall have any liability to the Company, its Subsidiaries, or any of its or their respective officers, directors, employees, stockholders or agents for any such disclosure. Subject to the foregoing, neither the Company nor any Buyer shall issue any press releases or any other public statements with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby; provided, however, that the Company shall be entitled, without the prior approval of any Buyer, to make any press release or other public disclosure with respect to such transactions (i) in substantial conformity with the 8-K Filing and contemporaneously therewith and (ii) as is required by applicable law and regulations (provided that in the case of clause (i) each Buyer shall be consulted by the Company in connection with and given an opportunity to review and comment on any such press release or other public disclosure prior to its release). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not publicly disclose the name of any Buyer, or include the name of any Buyer in any filing with the SEC or any regulatory agency or the Principal Market, without the prior written consent of such Buyer, except (i) for disclosure thereof in the 8-K Filing or Registration Statement or (ii) as required by law or Principal Market regulations or any order of any court or other governmental agency, in which case the Company shall provide such Buyer with prior notice of such disclosure.

 

(j) Restriction on Redemption and Cash Dividends. So long as any Notes are outstanding, the Company shall not, directly or indirectly, redeem (other than pursuant to the terms of any employee benefit plan that does not relate to an officer or director or an Affiliate of an officer or director which has been approved by the Board of Directors of the Company), or declare or pay any cash dividend or distribution on, the Common Stock without the prior express written consent of the holders of Notes representing not less than a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes.

 

(k) Additional Notes; Variable Securities; Dilutive Issuances. So long as any Buyer beneficially owns any Securities, the Company will not issue any Notes other than to the Buyers as contemplated hereby and the Company shall not issue any other securities that would cause a breach or default under the Notes. For long as any Notes or Warrants remain outstanding, the Company shall not, in any manner, issue or sell any rights, warrants or options to subscribe for or purchase Common Stock or directly or indirectly convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Common Stock at a price which varies or may vary with the market price of the Common Stock, including by way of one or more reset(s) to any fixed price unless the conversion, exchange or exercise price of any such security cannot be less than the then applicable Conversion Price (as defined in the Notes) with respect to the Common Stock into which any Note is convertible or the then applicable Exercise Price (as defined in the Warrants) with respect to the Common Stock into which any Warrant is exercisable. For long as any Notes or Warrants remain outstanding, the Company shall not, in any manner, enter into or affect any Dilutive Issuance (as defined in the Notes) if the effect of such Dilutive Issuance is to cause the Company to be required to issue upon conversion of any Note or exercise of any

 

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Warrant any shares of Common Stock in excess of that number of shares of Common Stock which the Company may issue upon conversion of the Notes and exercise of the Warrants without breaching the Company’s obligations under the rules or regulations of the Principal Market; provided, further, that notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not enter into or affect any Dilutive Issuance prior to receiving Stockholder Approval (as defined below).

 

(l) Corporate Existence. So long as any Buyer beneficially owns any Securities, the Company shall not be party to any Fundamental Transaction (as defined in the Notes) unless the Company is in compliance with the applicable provisions governing Fundamental Transactions set forth in the Notes and the Warrants.

 

(m) Reservation of Shares. The Company shall take all action necessary to at all times have authorized, and reserved for the purpose of issuance, after the Closing Date, 120% of the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of all of the Notes and shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants.

 

(n) Conduct of Business. The business of the Company and its Subsidiaries shall not be conducted in violation of any law, ordinance or regulation of any governmental entity, except where such violations would not result, either individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(o) Additional Issuances of Securities.

 

(i) For purposes of this Section 4(o), the following definitions shall apply.

 

(1) “Convertible Securities” means any stock or securities (other than Options) convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock.

 

(2) “Options” means any rights, warrants or options to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock or Convertible Securities.

 

(3) “Common Stock Equivalents” means, collectively, Options and Convertible Securities.

 

(ii) From the date hereof until the date that is 30 Trading Days (as defined in the Notes) following the Effective Date (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) (the “Trigger Date”), the Company will not, directly or indirectly, offer, sell, grant any option to purchase, or otherwise dispose of (or announce any offer, sale, grant or any option to purchase or other disposition of) any of its or its Subsidiaries’ equity or equity equivalent securities, including without limitation any debt, preferred stock or other instrument or security that is, at any time during its life and under any circumstances, convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents (any such offer, sale, grant, disposition or announcement being referred to as a “Subsequent Placement”).

 

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(iii) From the Trigger Date until the two year anniversary of the Trigger Date, the Company will not, directly or indirectly, effect any Subsequent Placement unless the Company shall have first complied with this Section 4(o)(iii).

 

(1) The Company shall deliver to each Buyer a written notice (the Offer Notice”) of any proposed or intended issuance or sale or exchange (the Offer”) of the securities being offered (the “Offered Securities”) in a Subsequent Placement, which Offer Notice shall (w) identify and describe the Offered Securities, (x) describe the price and other terms upon which they are to be issued, sold or exchanged, and the number or amount of the Offered Securities to be issued, sold or exchanged, (y) identify the persons or entities (if known) to which or with which the Offered Securities are to be offered, issued, sold or exchanged and (z) offer to issue and sell to or exchange with such Buyers a pro rata portion of 67% of the Offered Securities allocated among such Buyers (a) based on such Buyer’s pro rata portion of the aggregate principal amount of Notes purchased hereunder (the “Basic Amount”), and (b) with respect to each Buyer that elects to purchase its Basic Amount, any additional portion of the Offered Securities attributable to the Basic Amounts of other Buyers as such Buyer shall indicate it will purchase or acquire should the other Buyers subscribe for less than their Basic Amounts (the “Undersubscription Amount”).

 

(2) To accept an Offer, in whole or in part, such Buyer must deliver a written notice to the Company prior to the end of the tenth (10th) Business Day after such Buyer’s receipt of the Offer Notice (the “Offer Period”), setting forth the portion of such Buyer’s Basic Amount that such Buyer elects to purchase and, if such Buyer shall elect to purchase all of its Basic Amount, the Undersubscription Amount, if any, that such Buyer elects to purchase (in either case, the “Notice of Acceptance”). If the Basic Amounts subscribed for by all Buyers are less than the total of all of the Basic Amounts, then each Buyer who has set forth an Undersubscription Amount in its Notice of Acceptance shall be entitled to purchase, in addition to the Basic Amounts subscribed for, the Undersubscription Amount it has subscribed for; provided, however, that if the Undersubscription Amounts subscribed for exceed the difference between the total of all the Basic Amounts and the Basic Amounts subscribed for (the “Available Undersubscription Amount”), each Buyer who has subscribed for any Undersubscription Amount shall be entitled to purchase only that portion of the Available Undersubscription Amount as the Basic Amount of such Buyer bears to the total Basic Amounts of all Buyers that have subscribed for Undersubscription Amounts, subject to rounding by the Company to the extent its deems reasonably necessary.

 

(3) The Company shall have ten (10) Business Days from the expiration of the Offer Period above to offer, issue, sell or exchange all or any part of such Offered Securities as to which a Notice of Acceptance has not been given by the Buyers (the “Refused Securities”), but only to the offerees described in the Offer Notice (if so described therein) and only upon terms and conditions (including, without limitation, unit prices and interest rates) that are not more favorable to the acquiring person or persons or less favorable to the Company than those set forth in the Offer Notice.

 

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(4) In the event the Company shall propose to sell less than all the Refused Securities (any such sale to be in the manner and on the terms specified in Section 4(o)(iii)(3) above), then each Buyer may, at its sole option and in its sole discretion, reduce the number or amount of the Offered Securities specified in its Notice of Acceptance to an amount that shall be not less than the number or amount of the Offered Securities that such Buyer elected to purchase pursuant to Section 4(o)(iii)(2) above multiplied by a fraction, (i) the numerator of which shall be the number or amount of Offered Securities the Company actually proposes to issue, sell or exchange (including Offered Securities to be issued or sold to Buyers pursuant to Section 4(o)(iii)(3) above prior to such reduction) and (ii) the denominator of which shall be the original amount of the Offered Securities. In the event that any Buyer so elects to reduce the number or amount of Offered Securities specified in its Notice of Acceptance, the Company may not issue, sell or exchange more than the reduced number or amount of the Offered Securities unless and until such securities have again been offered to the Buyers in accordance with Section 4(o)(iii)(1) above.

 

(5) Upon the closing of the issuance, sale or exchange of all or less than all of the Refused Securities, the Buyers shall acquire from the Company, and the Company shall issue to the Buyers, the number or amount of Offered Securities specified in the Notices of Acceptance, as reduced pursuant to Section 4(o)(iii)(3) above if the Buyers have so elected, upon the terms and conditions specified in the Offer. The purchase by the Buyers of any Offered Securities is subject in all cases to the preparation, execution and delivery by the Company and the Buyers of a purchase agreement relating to such Offered Securities reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Buyers and their respective counsel.

 

(6) Any Offered Securities not acquired by the Buyers or other persons in accordance with Section 4(o)(iii)(3) above may not be issued, sold or exchanged until they are again offered to the Buyers under the procedures specified in this Agreement.

 

(iv) The restrictions contained in subsections (ii) and (iii) of this Section 4(o) shall not apply in connection with the issuance of any Excluded Securities (as defined in the Notes).

 

(p) Integration. None of the Company, its Subsidiaries, their affiliates and any Person acting on their behalf will take any action or steps referred to in Section 3(h) that would require registration of any of the Securities under the 1933 Act or cause the offering of the Securities to be integrated with other offerings.

 

(q) Appointment of Collateral Agent. Amphora Limited (the “Collateral Agent”) is hereby appointed as the collateral agent for the Buyers hereunder, and each Buyer hereby authorizes the Collateral Agent (and its officers, directors, employees and agents) to take any and all such actions on behalf of the Buyers with respect to the Collateral and the Obligations in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. The Collateral Agent shall not have, by reason hereof or any of the other Transaction Documents, a fiduciary relationship in respect of any Buyer. Neither the Collateral Agent nor any of its officers, directors, employees and agents shall

 

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have any liability to any Buyer for any action taken or omitted to be taken in connection hereof 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 “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 Indemnitee, whether direct, indirect or consequential, arising from or in connection with the performance by such Indemnitee of the duties and obligations of Collateral Agent pursuant hereto.

 

(r) Participation in Right of Set-Off Under the Guaranty. If any Buyer shall obtain any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of set-off, or otherwise) on account of any Guaranteed Obligation (as defined in the Form of Guaranty attached as Exhibit E hereto) in excess of its ratable share of payments on account of similar obligations obtained by all the Buyers, such Buyer shall forthwith purchase from the other Buyers such participations in such similar obligations held by them as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Buyer to share the excess payment ratably with each of them; provided, however, that if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from such purchasing Buyer, such purchase from each Buyer shall be rescinded and such Buyer shall repay to the purchasing Buyer the purchase price to the extent of such recovery together with an amount equal to such Buyer’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Buyer’s required repayment to (ii) the total amount so recovered from the purchasing Buyer of any interest or other amount paid by the purchasing Buyer in respect of the total amount so recovered). The Borrower agrees that any Buyer so purchasing a participation from another Buyer pursuant to this Section 4(r) may, to the fullest extent permitted by law, exercise all of its rights (including the Buyer’s right of set-off) with respect to such participation as fully as if such Buyer were the direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation.

 

(s) Letter of Credit.

 

(i) The Company shall obtain an irrevocable letter of credit (the “Letter of Credit”), in the amount of $10,000,000 issued in favor of the Senior Agent by a bank acceptable to such Senior Agent (the “Letter of Credit Bank”) and in form and substance acceptable to such Senior Agent. The Letter of Credit shall have an expiration date that is not earlier than 100 days after the Maturity Date of the Notes (the “LC Expiration Date”). Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default under (and as defined in) any of the Notes, the Senior Agent shall be entitled to draw under the Letter of Credit for the full Letter of Credit Amount (as defined in the Notes) than available thereunder, to be held by the Senior Agent as cash collateral for and/or applied to the Obligations in accordance with the terms of (and as defined in) the Pledge and Security Agreement. The Company shall obtain such renewals, extensions or replacements of the Letter of Credit as necessary to ensure that the Letter of Credit shall not expire prior to the LC Expiration Date (unless the Letter of Credit shall have been reduced to zero in accordance with Section 17 of the Notes prior to such date). If, at any time, the Company cannot obtain a renewal, extension or replacement of the Letter of Credit such that the Letter of Credit will expire prior to the LC Expiration Date (a “Withdrawal Event”), the Company and the Letter of Credit Bank shall each give the Senior Agent written notice of the occurrence of a Withdrawal Event at least forty-five (45) days prior to the then

 

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current expiration date of the Letter of Credit. Following a Withdrawal Event, the Senior Agent shall be entitled to draw down the Letter of Credit Amount in its entirety (whether or not an Event of Default shall have occurred or be continuing under any of the Notes) and hold such amount as cash collateral subject to the terms of the Pledge and Security Agreement.

 

(ii) In the event any holder of a Note requires the Company to redeem any Conversion Amount (as defined in the Notes) (such amount, the “Redemption Amount”) on any Optional Redemption Date (as defined in the Notes) in accordance with Section 9 of the Notes, the Senior Agent shall be entitled to, on behalf of any such holder, draw under the Letter of Credit for payment of all or a portion of the Holder Optional Redemption Price due from the Company in connection with such Holder Optional Redemption (each as defined in the Notes).

 

(iii) In the event that the conditions set forth in Section 17 of the Notes that trigger a reduction in the Letter of Credit Amount are satisfied, the Company shall promptly deliver a written notice to the Senior Agent (the “Letter of Credit Notice”), certifying as to the satisfaction of such conditions (together with a calculation of the relevant “Profitability Target” (as defined in the Notes) and the reduction of the Letter of Credit Amount. Within 10 days of the receipt of the Letter of Credit Notice, the Senior Agent shall issue a written instruction to the Letter of Credit Bank to request the reduction of the Letter of Credit Amount as set forth in the Letter of Credit Notice.

 

(t) Form S-3 Eligibility. The Company shall use its best efforts to maintain the eligibility of its registration statement on Form S-3 so that it is available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities.

 

(u) Holding Period. For the purposes of Rule 144, the Company acknowledges that the holding period of the Conversion Shares may be tacked onto the holding period of the Notes and the holding period of the Warrant Shares may be tacked onto the holding period of the Warrants (in the case of Cashless Exercise (as defined in the Warrants)) and the Company agrees not to take a position contrary to this Section 4(t).

 

(v) Stockholder Approval. Prior to any Dilutive Issuance (as defined in the Notes), the Company shall provide each stockholder entitled to vote at a special or annual meeting of stockholders of the Company (the “Stockholder Meeting”), a proxy statement, substantially in the form which has been previously reviewed by the Buyers and a counsel of their choice, soliciting each such stockholder’s affirmative vote at the Stockholder Meeting for approval of resolutions providing for the Company’s Dilutive Issuance in accordance with applicable law and the rules and regulations of the Principal Market (such affirmative approval being referred to herein as the “Stockholder Approval”). The Company shall not be permitted to conduct such Dilutive Issuance without obtaining the Stockholder Approval.

 

(w) Guaranty. If any of the Company’s Subsidiaries in existence as of the date hereof ever become active or have assets, operations or income, or if the Company or any other Grantor (as defined in the Pledge and Security Agreement) shall hereafter own, create or acquire any other Subsidiary that is not a Grantor hereunder or a party to the Guaranty, then, Company or such other Grantor shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent thereof and, upon the Collateral Agent’s request, Company or such other such Grantor shall cause such Subsidiary to become a

 

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party to the Guaranty, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E, as an additional “Guarantor” thereunder and a party to the Pledge and Security Agreement as an additional “Grantor” hereunder, and to duly execute and/or deliver such opinions of counsel and other documents, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent, as the Collateral Agent shall reasonably request with respect thereto.

 

(x) Acquisitions. The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, acquire or enter into any agreement to acquire, whether through the acquisition of stock or assets or merger or otherwise, of any business, assets or technologies for a period of thirty (30) days after the Closing Date; provided, however, that the Company and its Subsidiaries may make an acquisition or acquisitions that in the aggregate do not exceed $10 million.

 

5. REGISTER; TRANSFER AGENT INSTRUCTIONS.

 

(a) Register. The Company shall maintain at its principal executive offices (or such other office or agency of the Company as it may designate by notice to each holder of Securities), a register for the Notes and the Warrants, in which the Company shall record the name and address of the Person in whose name the Notes and the Warrants have been issued (including the name and address of each transferee), the principal amount of Notes held by such Person, the number of Conversion Shares issuable upon conversion of the Notes and Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants held by such Person. The Company shall keep the register open and available at all times during business hours for inspection of any Buyer or its legal representatives.

 

(b) Transfer Agent Instructions. The Company shall issue irrevocable instructions to its transfer agent, and any subsequent transfer agent, to issue certificates or credit shares to the applicable balance accounts at The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), registered in the name of each Buyer or its respective nominee(s), for the Conversion Shares and the Warrant Shares issued at the Closing or upon conversion of the Notes or exercise of the Warrants in such amounts as specified from time to time by each Buyer to the Company upon conversion of the Notes or exercise of the Warrants in the form of Exhibit F attached hereto (the “Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions”). The Company warrants that no instruction other than the Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions referred to in this Section 5(b), and stop transfer instructions to give effect to Section 2(g) hereof, will be given by the Company to its transfer agent, and that the Securities shall otherwise be freely transferable on the books and records of the Company as and to the extent provided in this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents. If a Buyer effects a sale, assignment or transfer of the Securities in accordance with Section 2(f), the Company shall permit the transfer and shall promptly instruct its transfer agent to issue one or more certificates or credit shares to the applicable balance accounts at DTC in such name and in such denominations as specified by such Buyer to effect such sale, transfer or assignment. In the event that such sale, assignment or transfer involves Conversion Shares or Warrant Shares sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to an effective registration statement or pursuant to Rule 144, the transfer agent shall issue such Securities to the Buyer, assignee or transferee, as the case may be, without any restrictive legend. The Company acknowledges that a breach by it of its obligations hereunder will cause irreparable harm to a Buyer. Accordingly, the Company acknowledges that the remedy at law for a breach of its obligations under this Section 5(b) will be inadequate and agrees, in the event of a breach or threatened breach by the

 

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Company of the provisions of this Section 5(b), that a Buyer shall be entitled, in addition to all other available remedies, to an order and/or injunction restraining any breach and requiring immediate issuance and transfer, without the necessity of showing economic loss and without any bond or other security being required.

 

6. CONDITIONS TO THE COMPANY’S OBLIGATION TO SELL.

 

(a) Closing Date. The obligation of the Company hereunder to issue and sell the Notes and the related Warrants to each Buyer at the Closing is subject to the satisfaction, at or before the Closing Date, of each of the following conditions, provided that these conditions are for the Company’s sole benefit and may be waived by the Company at any time in its sole discretion by providing each Buyer with prior written notice thereof:

 

(i) Such Buyer shall have executed each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and delivered the same to the Company.

 

(ii) Such Buyer and each other Buyer shall have delivered to the Company the Purchase Price (less, in the case of Amphora Limited, the amounts withheld pursuant to Section 4(g)) for the Notes and the related Warrants and being purchased by such Buyer at the Closing by wire transfer of immediately available funds pursuant to the wire instructions provided by the Company.

 

(iii) The representations and warranties of such Buyer shall be true and correct in all material respects (except for those representations and warranties that are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, which shall be true and correct in all respects) as of the date when made and as of the Closing Date as though made at that time (except for representations and warranties that speak as of a specific date), and such Buyer shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with the covenants, agreements and conditions required by this Agreement to be performed, satisfied or complied with by such Buyer at or prior to the Closing Date.

 

7. CONDITIONS TO EACH BUYER’S OBLIGATION TO PURCHASE.

 

(a) Closing Date. The obligation of each Buyer hereunder to purchase the Notes and the related Warrants at the Closing is subject to the satisfaction, at or before the Closing Date, of each of the following conditions, provided that these conditions are for each Buyer’s sole benefit and may be waived by such Buyer at any time in its sole discretion by providing the Company with prior written notice thereof:

 

(i) The Company and, to the extent it is a party thereto, each of it Subsidiaries, shall have executed and delivered to such Buyer (i) each of the Transaction Documents, (ii) the Notes (in such principal amounts as such Buyer shall request) being purchased by such Buyer at the Closing pursuant to this Agreement and (iii) the Warrants (in such amounts as such Buyer shall request) being purchased by such Buyer at the Closing pursuant to this Agreement.

 

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(ii) Such Buyer shall have received the opinions of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, the Company’s outside counsel, dated as of the Closing Date, in substantially the form of Exhibit G attached hereto.

 

(iii) The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a copy of the Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions, in the form of Exhibit F attached hereto, which instructions shall have been delivered to and acknowledged in writing by the Company’s transfer agent.

 

(iv) The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a certificate evidencing the formation and good standing of the Company in such entity’s jurisdiction of formation issued by the Secretary of State (or comparable office) of such jurisdiction, as of a date within 10 days of the Closing Date.

 

(v) The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a certificate evidencing the Company’s qualification as a foreign corporation and good standing issued by the Secretary of State (or comparable office) of each jurisdiction in which the Company is qualified as a foreign corporation, as of a date within 10 days of the Closing Date.

 

(vi) The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a certified copy of the Certificate of Incorporation as certified by the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware within ten (10) days of the Closing Date.

 

(vii) The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a certificate, executed by the Secretary of the Company and dated as of the Closing Date, as to (i) the resolutions consistent with Section 3(b) as adopted by the Company’s Board of Directors in a form reasonably acceptable to such Buyer, (ii) the Certificate of Incorporation and (iii) the Bylaws, each as in effect at the Closing, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit H.

 

(viii) The representations and warranties of the Company shall be true and correct in all material respects (except for those representations and warranties that are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, which shall be true and correct in all respects) as of the date when made and as of the Closing Date as though made at that time (except for representations and warranties that speak as of a specific date) and the Company shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with the covenants, agreements and conditions required by the Transaction Documents to be performed, satisfied or complied with by the Company at or prior to the Closing Date. Such Buyer shall have received a certificate, executed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the foregoing effect and as to such other matters as may be reasonably requested by such Buyer in the form attached hereto as Exhibit I.

 

(ix) The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a letter from the Company’s transfer agent certifying the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding as of a date within five days of the Closing Date.

 

(x) The Common Stock (I) shall be designated for quotation or listed on the Principal Market and (II) shall not have been suspended, as of the Closing Date, by the SEC or the Principal Market from trading on the Principal Market nor shall suspension by the

 

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SEC or the Principal Market have been threatened, as of the Closing Date, either (A) in writing by the SEC or the Principal Market or (B) by falling below the minimum listing maintenance requirements of the Principal Market.

 

(xi) The Company shall have obtained all governmental, regulatory or third party consents and approvals, if any, necessary for the sale of the Securities. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company shall also have obtained the consent or waiver of the Lenders (as defined below) under the documents and agreements evidencing or relating to the Senior Indebtedness, with respect to (A) the issuance of the Notes and the Warrants and (B) the granting of the security interests in the Collateral to secure the Notes, subject to any prior perfected security interests securing the Senior Indebtedness, together with such other agreements as the Buyers shall reasonably require to ensure that the Buyers enjoy full rights with respect to the Collateral, evidence of which shall have been provided to the Buyers.

 

(xii) Within six (6) Business Days prior to the Closing, the Company shall have delivered or caused to be delivered to each Buyer certified copies of UCC financing statement search results listing any and all effective financing statements filed within five (5) years prior to such date in any applicable jurisdiction that name the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as a debtor to perfect an interest in any of the assets thereof, together with copies of such financing statements, none of which financing statements, except for any financing statements filed with respect to the Senior Indebtedness and as otherwise agreed to in writing by the Buyers, shall cover any of the “Collateral” (as defined in the Security Documents), and the results of searches for any effective tax liens and judgment liens filed against any such Person or its property in any applicable jurisdiction, which results, except as otherwise agreed to in writing by the Buyers, shall not show any such effective tax liens and judgment liens.

 

(xiii) The Company shall have delivered the Letter of Credit, in the amount of $10,000,000 issued by the Letter of Credit Bank in favor of the Senior Agent.

 

(xiv) The Company shall have entered into a standstill agreement with Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, Union Bank of California, N.A. and Comerica Bank-California (collectively, the “Lenders”) in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Buyers and their respective counsel pursuant to which the Lenders shall have agreed to refrain from exercising any remedies against the Company for a period of 90 days after the Closing Date.

 

(xv) The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer such other documents relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as such Buyer or its counsel may reasonably request.

 

8. TERMINATION. In the event that the Closing shall not have occurred with respect to a Buyer on or before five (5) Business Days from the date hereof due to the Company’s or such Buyer’s failure to satisfy the conditions set forth in Sections 6 and 7 above (and the nonbreaching party’s failure to waive such unsatisfied condition(s)), the nonbreaching party shall have the option to terminate this Agreement with respect to such breaching party at the close of business on such date without liability of any party to any other party; provided, however, if this Agreement is terminated pursuant to this Section 8, the Company shall remain obligated to reimburse the non-breaching Buyers for the amounts described in Section 4(g) above.

 

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9. MISCELLANEOUS.

 

(a) Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Jury Trial. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdictions other than the State 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, 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 brought in an inconvenient forum or that the venue of such suit, action or proceeding is improper. 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 to such party at the address for such notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any manner permitted by law. EACH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE, AND AGREES NOT TO REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

 

(b) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more identical counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party; provided that a facsimile signature shall be considered due execution and shall be binding upon the signatory thereto with the same force and effect as if the signature were an original, not a facsimile signature.

 

(c) Headings. The headings of this Agreement are for convenience of reference and shall not form part of, or affect the interpretation of, this Agreement.

 

(d) Severability. If any provision of this Agreement shall be invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of this Agreement in that jurisdiction or the validity or enforceability of any provision of this Agreement in any other jurisdiction.

 

(e) Entire Agreement; Amendments. This Agreement supersedes all other prior oral or written agreements between the Buyers, the Company, their affiliates and Persons acting on their behalf with respect to the matters discussed herein, and this Agreement and the instruments referenced herein contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the matters covered herein and therein and, except as specifically set forth herein or therein, neither

 

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the Company nor any Buyer makes any representation, warranty, covenant or undertaking with respect to such matters. No provision of this Agreement may be amended other than by an instrument in writing signed by the Company and the holders of at least a majority of the aggregate number of Registrable Securities issued and issuable hereunder, and any amendment to this Agreement made in conformity with the provisions of this Section 9(e) shall be binding on all Buyers and holders of Securities, as applicable. No provision hereof may be waived other than by an instrument in writing signed by the party against whom enforcement is sought. No such amendment shall be effective to the extent that it applies to less than all of the holders of the applicable Securities then outstanding. No consideration shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of any of the Transaction Documents unless the same consideration also is offered to all of the parties to the Transaction Documents, holders of Notes, or holders of the Warrants, as the case may be. The Company has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreements with any Buyers relating to the terms or conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents except as set forth in the Transaction Documents.

 

(f) Notices. Any notices, consents, waivers or other communications required or permitted to be given under the terms of this Agreement must be in writing and will be deemed to have been delivered: (i) upon receipt, when delivered personally; (ii) upon receipt, when sent by facsimile (provided confirmation of transmission is mechanically or electronically generated and kept on file by the sending party); or (iii) one Business Day after deposit with an overnight courier service, in each case properly addressed to the party to receive the same. The addresses and facsimile numbers for such communications shall be:

 

If to the Company:

 

Modtech Holdings, Inc.

2830 Barrett Avenue

Perris, California 92571

Telephone: (951) 943-4014

Facsimile: (951) 940-0427

Attention: Dennis Shogren, Chief Financial Officer

 

Copy to:

 

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

695 Town Center Drive

Seventeenth Floor

Costa Mesa, CA 92626-1924

Telephone: (714) 668-6200

Facsimile: (714) 979-1921

Attention: William J. Simpson, Esq.

 

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If to the Transfer Agent:

 

Mellon Investor Services LLC

400 S. Hope Street, 4th Floor

Los Angeles, California 90071

Telephone: (213) 553-9724

Facsimile: (213) 553-9735

Attention: Raymond Torres

 

If to a Buyer, to its address and facsimile number set forth on the Schedule of Buyers, with copies to such Buyer’s representatives as set forth on the Schedule of Buyers,

 

with a copy (for informational purposes only) to:

 

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

919 Third Avenue

New York, New York 10022

Telephone: (212) 756-2000

Facsimile: (212) 593-5955

Attention: Eleazer N. Klein, Esq.

 

or to such other address and/or facsimile number and/or to the attention of such other Person as the recipient party has specified by written notice given to each other party five (5) days prior to the effectiveness of such change. Written confirmation of receipt (A) given by the recipient of such notice, consent, waiver or other communication, (B) mechanically or electronically generated by the sender’s facsimile machine containing the time, date, recipient facsimile number and an image of the first page of such transmission (C) provided by an overnight courier service shall be rebuttable evidence of personal service, receipt by facsimile or receipt from an overnight courier service in accordance with clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, respectively; provided however that the foregoing clause (B) shall only be valid if such communication contained in the facsimile is delivered by an overnight courier service within 24 hours of the transmission of facsimile.

 

(g) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their respective successors and assigns, including any purchasers of the Notes or the Warrants. The Company shall not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the holders of at least a majority of the aggregate number of Registrable Securities issued and issuable hereunder, including by way of a Fundamental Transaction (unless the Company is in compliance with the applicable provisions governing Fundamental Transactions set forth in the Notes and the Warrants). A Buyer may assign some or all of its rights hereunder without the consent of the Company, in which event such assignee shall be deemed to be a Buyer hereunder with respect to such assigned rights.

 

(h) No Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns, and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person.

 

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(i) Survival. Unless this Agreement is terminated under Section 8, the representations and warranties of the Company and the Buyers contained in Sections 2 and 3 and the agreements and covenants set forth in Sections 4, 5 and 9 shall survive the Closing. Each Buyer shall be responsible only for its own representations, warranties, agreements and covenants hereunder.

 

(j) Further Assurances. Each party shall do and perform, or cause to be done and performed, all such further acts and things, and shall execute and deliver all such other agreements, certificates, instruments and documents, as any other party may reasonably request in order to carry out the intent and accomplish the purposes of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

(k) Indemnification. In consideration of each Buyer’s execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and acquiring the Securities thereunder and in addition to all of the Company’s other obligations under the Transaction Documents, the Company shall defend, protect, indemnify and hold harmless each Buyer and each other holder of the Securities and all of their stockholders, partners, members, officers, directors, employees and direct or indirect investors and any of the foregoing Persons’ agents or other representatives (including, without limitation, those retained in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement) (collectively, the “Indemnitees”) from and against any and all actions, causes of action, suits, claims, losses, costs, penalties, fees, liabilities and damages, and expenses in connection therewith (irrespective of whether any such Indemnitee is a party to the action for which indemnification hereunder is sought), and including reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements (the “Indemnified Liabilities”), incurred by any Indemnitee as a result of, or arising out of, or relating to (a) any misrepresentation or breach of any representation or warranty made by the Company in any Transaction Documents, (b) any breach of any covenant, agreement or obligation of the Company contained in any Transaction Documents or (c) any cause of action, suit or claim brought or made against such Indemnitee by a third party (including for these purposes a derivative action brought on behalf of the Company) and arising out of or resulting from (i) the execution, delivery, performance or enforcement of any Transaction Documents, (ii) any transaction financed or to be financed in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, with the proceeds of the issuance of the Securities or (iii) the status of such Buyer or holder of the Securities as an investor in the Company pursuant to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. To the extent that the foregoing undertaking by the Company may be unenforceable for any reason, the Company shall make the maximum contribution to the payment and satisfaction of each of the Indemnified Liabilities that is permissible under applicable law. Except as otherwise set forth herein, the mechanics and procedures with respect to the rights and obligations under this Section 9(k) shall be the same as those set forth in Section 6 of the Registration Rights Agreement.

 

(l) No Strict Construction. The language used in this Agreement will be deemed to be the language chosen by the parties to express their mutual intent, and no rules of strict construction will be applied against any party.

 

(m) Remedies. Each Buyer and each holder of the Securities shall have all rights and remedies set forth in the Transaction Documents and all rights and remedies which such holders have been granted at any time under any other agreement or contract and all of the rights

 

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which such holders have under any law. Any Person having any rights under any provision of this Agreement shall be entitled to enforce such rights specifically (without posting a bond or other security), to recover damages by reason of any breach of any provision of this Agreement and to exercise all other rights granted by law. Furthermore, the Company recognizes that in the event that it fails to perform, observe, or discharge any or all of its obligations under the Transaction Documents, any remedy at law may prove to be inadequate relief to the Buyers. The Company therefore agrees that the Buyers shall be entitled to seek temporary and permanent injunctive relief in any such case without the necessity of proving actual damages and without posting a bond or other security.

 

(n) Payment Set Aside. To the extent that the Company makes a payment or payments to the Buyers hereunder or pursuant to any of the other Transaction Documents or 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.

 

(o) 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 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 confirms that it has independently participated in the negotiation of the transaction contemplated hereby with the advice of its own counsel and advisors. 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 any 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.

 

[Signature Page Follows]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Buyer and the Company have caused their respective signature page to this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

COMPANY:
MODTECH HOLDINGS, INC.

By:

 

 


   

Name:

   

Title:

 

[Signature Page to Securities Purchase Agreement]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Buyer and the Company have caused their respective signature page to this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

BUYERS:
AMPHORA LIMITED
    By:  

Amaranth Advisors L.L.C.,

       

Its Trading Advisor

By:

 

 


   

Name:

   

Title:

 

[Signature Page to Securities Purchase Agreement]


SCHEDULE OF BUYERS

 

(1)


  

(2)


   (3)

  

(4)


   (5)

  

(6)


Buyer


  

Address and

Facsimile Number


   Aggregate
Principal
Amount of Notes


  

Number of
Warrant Shares


   Purchase Price

  

Legal Representative’s Address
and Facsimile Number


Amphora Limited

   c/o Amaranth Advisors L.L.C. One American Lane Greenwich, CT 06831 Attention: General Counsel Facsimile: (203) 422-3540 Telephone: (203) 422-3340 Residence: Cayman Islands    $ 25,000,000         $ 25,000,000   

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP 919 Third Avenue

New York, New York 10022 Attention: Eleazer Klein, Esq. Facsimile: (212) 593-5955 Telephone: (212) 756-2376

 


EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit A    Form of Notes
Exhibit B    Form of Warrants
Exhibit C    Registration Rights Agreement
Exhibit D    Form of Pledge and Security Agreement
Exhibit E    Form of Guaranty
Exhibit F    Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions
Exhibit G    Form of Outside Company Counsel Opinion
Exhibit H    Form of Secretary’s Certificate
Exhibit I    Form of Officer’s Certificate
EX-4.2 3 dex42.htm FORM OF SENIOR SUBORDINATED SECURED CONVERTIBLE NOTE, DATED DECEMBER 30, 2004 Form of Senior Subordinated Secured Convertible Note, dated December 30, 2004

Exhibit 4.2

 

[FORM OF SENIOR SUBORDINATED SECURED CONVERTIBLE NOTE]

 

NEITHER THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THESE SECURITIES ARE CONVERTIBLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED (I) IN THE ABSENCE OF (A) AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR (B) AN OPINION OF COUNSEL (WHICH COUNSEL SHALL BE SELECTED BY THE HOLDER), IN A FORM REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY, THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER SAID ACT OR (II) UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 OR RULE 144A UNDER SAID ACT. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN OR FINANCING ARRANGEMENT SECURED BY THE SECURITIES. ANY TRANSFEREE OF THIS NOTE SHOULD CAREFULLY REVIEW THE TERMS OF THIS NOTE, INCLUDING SECTIONS 3(c)(iii) AND 19(a) HEREOF. THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT REPRESENTED BY THIS NOTE AND, ACCORDINGLY, THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION HEREOF MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNTS SET FORTH ON THE FACE HEREOF PURSUANT TO SECTION 3(c)(iii) OF THIS NOTE.

 

MODTECH HOLDINGS, INC.

 

SENIOR SUBORDINATED SECURED CONVERTIBLE NOTE

 

Issuance Date: December 31, 2004   Principal: U.S. $25,000,000

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, Modtech Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), hereby promises to pay to AMPHORA LIMITED or registered assigns (“Holder”) the amount set out above as the Principal (as reduced pursuant to the terms hereof pursuant to redemption, conversion or otherwise, the “Principal”) when due, whether upon the Maturity Date (as defined below), acceleration, redemption or otherwise (in each case in accordance with the terms hereof) and to pay interest (“Interest”) on any outstanding Principal at the rate of 7.00% per annum (the “Interest Rate”), from the date set out above as the Issuance Date (the “Issuance Date”) until the same becomes due and payable, whether upon an Interest Date (as defined below), the Maturity Date, acceleration, conversion, redemption or otherwise (in each case, in accordance with the terms hereof). This Senior Subordinated Secured Convertible Note (including all Senior Subordinated Secured Convertible Notes issued in exchange, transfer or replacement hereof, this “Note”) is one of an issue of Senior Subordinated Secured Convertible Notes issued pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement (as defined below) on the Closing Date (collectively, the “Notes” and such other Senior Subordinated Secured Convertible Notes, the “Other Notes”). Certain capitalized terms used herein are defined in Section 31.


(1) MATURITY. On the Maturity Date, the Holder shall surrender the Note to the Company and the Company shall pay to the Holder an amount in cash representing all outstanding Principal, accrued and unpaid Interest. The “Maturity Date” shall be December 31, 2009, as may be extended at the option of the Holder (i) in the event that, and for so long as, an Event of Default (as defined in Section 4(a)) shall have occurred and be continuing or any event shall have occurred and be continuing which with the passage of time and the failure to cure would result in an Event of Default and (ii) through the date that is ten (10) days after the consummation of a Change of Control in the event that a Change of Control is publicly announced or a Change of Control Notice (as defined in Section 5(b)) is delivered prior to the Maturity Date.

 

(2) INTEREST; INTEREST RATE. Interest on this Note shall commence accruing on the Issuance Date and shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months and shall be payable in arrears on the first day of each January, April, July and October during the period beginning on the Issuance Date and ending on, and including, the Maturity Date (each, an “Interest Date”) with the first Interest Date being April 1, 2005. Interest shall be payable on each Interest Date in cash. Prior to the payment of Interest on an Interest Date, Interest on this Note shall accrue at the Interest Rate and be payable by way of inclusion of the Interest in the Conversion Amount in accordance with Section 3(b)(i). From and after the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Interest Rate shall be increased to twelve and one-half percent (12.5%) (the “Default Rate”); provided, however, that the Interest Rate shall not increase to the Default Rate so long as, but only to the extent that, (a) such Event of Default results solely from the Company’s failure to satisfy or otherwise comply with any financial covenant in accordance with Section 15(e) hereof and (b) the lenders under the Current Credit Facility agree in writing to (i) waive each Event of Default under (and as defined in) the Current Credit Facility that results solely from the Company’s failure to satisfy or otherwise comply with any financial covenant in the Current Credit Facility that directly corresponds to such Section 15(e) financial covenant(s) and (ii) forbear in the exercise of any rights and remedies relating to such Event of Default under the Current Credit Facility. In the event that such Event of Default is subsequently cured, the adjustment referred to in the preceding sentence shall cease to be effective as of the date of such cure; provided that the Interest as calculated at such increased rate during the continuance of such Event of Default shall continue to apply to the extent relating to the days after the occurrence of such Event of Default through and including the date of cure of such Event of Default.

 

(3) CONVERSION OF NOTES. This Note shall be convertible into shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), on the terms and conditions set forth in this Section 3.

 

(a) Conversion Right. Subject to the provisions of Section 3(d), at any time or times on or after the Issuance Date, the Holder shall be entitled to convert any portion of the outstanding and unpaid Conversion Amount (as defined below) into fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock in accordance with Section 3(c), at the Conversion Rate (as defined below). The Company shall not issue any fraction of a share of Common Stock upon

 

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any conversion. If the issuance would result in the issuance of a fraction of a share of Common Stock, the Company shall round such fraction of a share of Common Stock up to the nearest whole share. The Company shall pay any and all taxes that may be payable with respect to the issuance and delivery of Common Stock upon conversion of any Conversion Amount; provided that the Company shall not be required to pay any tax that may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issue and delivery of Common Stock to any Person other than the Holder or with respect to any income tax due by the Holder with respect to such Common Stock issued upon conversion.

 

(b) Conversion Rate. The number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of any Conversion Amount pursuant to Section 3(a) shall be determined by dividing (x) such Conversion Amount by (y) the Conversion Price (such number of shares, the “Conversion Rate”).

 

(i) “Conversion Amount” means the sum of (A) the portion of the Principal to be converted, redeemed or otherwise with respect to which this determination is being made and (B) accrued and unpaid Interest with respect to such Principal.

 

(ii) “Conversion Price” means, as of any Conversion Date (as defined below) or other date of determination a price equal to the greater of (A) the product of (x) 115% and (y) the arithmetic average of the Weighted Average Price of the Common Stock on the five (5) Trading Days commencing with the First Trading Day after the Subscription Date and (B) $8.61, each subject to adjustment as provided herein..

 

(c) Mechanics of Conversion.

 

(i) Optional Conversion. To convert any Conversion Amount into shares of Common Stock on any date (a “Conversion Date”), the Holder shall (A) transmit by facsimile (or otherwise deliver), for receipt on or prior to 11:59 p.m., New York Time, on such date, a copy of an executed notice of conversion in the form attached hereto as Exhibit I (the “Conversion Notice”) to the Company and (B) if required by Section 3(c)(iii), surrender this Note to a common carrier for delivery to the Company as soon as practicable on or following such date (or an indemnification undertaking reasonably satisfactory to the Company with respect to this Note in the case of its loss, theft or destruction) and (C) pay any transfer taxes or other applicable taxes or duties, if any, required in connection with the issuance of shares of Common Stock to a Person other than the Holder. On or before the first (1st) Business Day following the date of receipt of a Conversion Notice, the Company shall transmit by facsimile a confirmation of receipt of such Conversion Notice to the Holder and the Company’s transfer agent (the “Transfer Agent”). On or before the third (3rd) Business Day following the date of receipt of a Conversion Notice (the “Share Delivery Date”), the Company shall (X) provided that the Transfer Agent is participating in the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) Fast Automated Securities Transfer Program, credit such aggregate number of shares of Common Stock to which the Holder shall be entitled to the Holder’s or its designee’s balance account with DTC through its Deposit Withdrawal Agent Commission system or (Y) if the Transfer Agent is not participating in the DTC Fast Automated Securities Transfer Program, issue and deliver to the address as specified in the Conversion Notice, a certificate, registered in the name of the Holder or its designee, for the number of shares of Common Stock to which the Holder shall be

 

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entitled. If this Note is physically surrendered for conversion as required by Section 3(c)(iii) and the outstanding Principal of this Note is greater than the Principal portion of the Conversion Amount being converted, then the Company shall as soon as practicable and in no event later than three (3) Business Days after receipt of this Note and at its own expense, issue and deliver to the holder a new Note (in accordance with Section 21(d)) representing the outstanding Principal not converted. The Person or Persons entitled to receive the shares of Common Stock issuable upon a conversion of this Note shall be treated for all purposes as the record holder or holders of such shares of Common Stock on the Conversion Date.

 

(ii) Company’s Failure to Timely Convert. If the Company shall fail to issue a certificate to the Holder or credit the Holder’s balance account with DTC for the number of shares of Common Stock to which the Holder is entitled upon conversion of any Conversion Amount on or prior to the date which is five Business Days after the Conversion Date (a “Conversion Failure”), then (A) the Company shall pay damages to the Holder for each day of such Conversion Failure in an amount equal to 1.5% of the product of (I) the sum of the number of shares of Common Stock not issued to the Holder on or prior to the Share Delivery Date and to which the Holder is entitled, and (II) the Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock on the Share Delivery Date and (B) the Holder, upon written notice to the Company, may void its Conversion Notice with respect to, and retain or have returned, as the case may be, any portion of this Note that has not been converted pursuant to such Conversion Notice; provided that the voiding of a Conversion Notice shall not affect the Company’s obligations to make any payments which have accrued prior to the date of such notice pursuant to this Section 3(c)(ii) or otherwise. In addition to the foregoing, if within three (3) Trading Days after the Company’s receipt of the facsimile copy of a Conversion Notice the Company shall fail to issue and deliver a certificate to the Holder or credit the Holder’s balance account with DTC for the number of shares of Common Stock to which the Holder is entitled upon such holder’s conversion of any Conversion Amount, and if on or after such Trading Day the Holder purchases (in an open market transaction or otherwise) Common Stock to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the Holder of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion that the Holder anticipated receiving from the Company (a “Buy-In”), then the Company shall, within three (3) Business Days after the Holder’s request and in the Holder’s discretion, either (i) pay cash to the Holder in an amount equal to the Holder’s total purchase price (including brokerage commissions and other out-of-pocket expenses, if any) for the shares of Common Stock so purchased (the “Buy-In Price”), at which point the Company’s obligation to deliver such certificate (and to issue such Common Stock) shall terminate, or (ii) promptly honor its obligation to deliver to the Holder a certificate or certificates representing such Common Stock and pay cash to the Holder in an amount equal to the excess (if any) of the Buy-In Price over the product of (A) such number of shares of Common Stock times (B) the Closing Bid Price on the Conversion Date.

 

(iii) Book-Entry. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, upon conversion of any portion of this Note in accordance with the terms hereof, the Holder shall not be required to physically surrender this Note to the Company unless (A) the full Conversion Amount represented by this Note is being converted or (B) the Holder has provided the Company with prior written notice (which notice may be included in a Conversion Notice) requesting physical surrender and reissue of this Note. The Holder and the Company shall maintain records showing the Principal, Interest converted and the dates of such conversions or shall use such other method, reasonably satisfactory to the Holder and the Company, so as not to require physical surrender of this Note upon conversion.

 

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(iv) Pro Rata Conversion; Disputes. In the event that the Company receives a Conversion Notice from more than one holder of Notes for the same Conversion Date and the Company can convert some, but not all, of such portions of the Notes submitted for conversion, the Company, subject to Section 3(d), shall convert from each holder of Notes electing to have Notes converted on such date a pro rata amount of such holder’s portion of its Notes submitted for conversion based on the principal amount of Notes submitted for conversion on such date by such holder relative to the aggregate principal amount of all Notes submitted for conversion on such date. In the event of a dispute as to the number of shares of Common Stock issuable to the Holder in connection with a conversion of this Note, the Company shall issue to the Holder the number of shares of Common Stock not in dispute and resolve such dispute in accordance with Section 26.

 

(d) Limitations on Conversions.

 

(i) Beneficial Ownership. The Company shall not effect any conversion of this Note, and the Holder of this Note shall not have the right to convert any portion of this Note pursuant to Section 3(a), to the extent that after giving effect to such conversion, the Holder (together with the Holder’s affiliates) would beneficially own in excess of 4.99% (the “Maximum Percentage”) of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such conversion. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by the Holder and its affiliates shall include the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of this Note with respect to which the determination of such sentence is being made, but shall exclude the number of shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon (A) conversion of the remaining, nonconverted portion of this Note beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its affiliates and (B) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or nonconverted portion of any other securities of the Company (including, without limitation, any Other Notes or warrants) subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its affiliates. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this Section 3(d)(i), beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. For purposes of this Section 3(d)(i), 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 (x) the Company’s most recent Form 10-K, Form 10-Q or Form 8-K, as the case may be, (y) a more recent public announcement by the Company or (z) any other notice by the Company or the Transfer Agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding. For any reason at any time, upon the written or oral request of the Holder, the Company shall within one Business 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. By written notice to the Company, the Holder may increase or decrease the Maximum Percentage to any other percentage not in excess of 9.99% specified in such notice; provided that (i) any such increase will not be effective until the sixty-first (61st) day after such notice is delivered to the Company, and (ii) any such increase or decrease will apply only to the Holder and not to any other holder of Notes.

 

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(ii) Principal Market Regulation. The Company shall not be obligated to issue any shares of Common Stock upon conversion of this Note, and the Holder of this Note shall not have the right to receive upon conversion of this Note any shares of Common Stock (and only such shares of Common Stock), 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 conversion or exercise, as applicable, of the Notes and Warrants without breaching the Company’s obligations under the rules or regulations of the Principal Market (the “Exchange Cap”), except that such limitation shall not apply in the event that the Company (A) obtains the approval of its stockholders as required by the applicable rules of the Principal Market for issuances of Common Stock in excess of such amount 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 Required Holders. Until such approval or written opinion is obtained, no purchaser of the Notes pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Purchasers”) shall be issued in the aggregate, upon conversion or exercise, as applicable, of Notes or Warrants, shares of Common Stock in an amount greater than the product of the Exchange Cap multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the principal amount of Notes issued to the Purchasers pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement on the Closing Date and the denominator of which is the aggregate principal amount of all Notes issued to the Purchasers pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement on the Closing Date (with respect to each Purchaser, the “Exchange Cap Allocation”). In the event that any Purchaser shall sell or otherwise transfer any of such Purchaser’s Notes, the transferee shall be allocated a pro rata portion of such Purchaser’s Exchange Cap Allocation, and the restrictions of the prior sentence shall apply to such transferee with respect to the portion of the Exchange Cap Allocation allocated to such transferee. In the event that any holder of Notes shall convert all of such holder’s Notes into a number of shares of Common Stock which, in the aggregate, is less than such holder’s Exchange Cap Allocation, then the difference between such holder’s Exchange Cap Allocation and the number of shares of Common Stock actually issued to such holder shall be allocated to the respective Exchange Cap Allocations of the remaining holders of Notes on a pro rata basis in proportion to the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then held by each such holder.

 

(4) RIGHTS UPON EVENT OF DEFAULT.

 

(a) Event of Default. Each of the following events shall constitute an “Event of Default”:

 

(i) the failure of the applicable Registration Statement required to be filed pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement to be declared effective by the SEC on or prior to the date that is sixty (60) days after the applicable Effectiveness Deadline (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement), or, while the applicable Registration Statement is required to be maintained effective pursuant to the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement, the effectiveness of the applicable Registration Statement lapses for any reason (including, without limitation, the issuance of a stop order) or is unavailable to any holder of the Notes for sale of all of such holder’s Registrable Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights

 

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Agreement) in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement, and such lapse or unavailability continues for a period of ten (10) consecutive days or for more than an aggregate of thirty (30) days in any 365-day period (other than days during an Allowable Grace Period (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement));

 

(ii) the suspension from trading or failure of the Common Stock to be listed on an Eligible Market for a period of five (5) consecutive days or for more than an aggregate of ten (10) days in any 365-day period;

 

(iii) the Company’s (A) failure to cure a Conversion Failure by delivery of the required number of shares of Common Stock within ten (10) Business Days after the applicable Conversion Date or (B) notice, written or oral, to any holder of the Notes, including by way of public announcement or through any of its agents, at any time, of its intention not to comply with a permitted request for conversion of any Notes into shares of Common Stock that is tendered in accordance with the provisions of the Notes (other than notice delivered by the Company in good faith in connection with a dispute that is being resolved in accordance with Section 26 as to the appropriate number of shares of Common Stock to be delivered upon conversion of the Notes so long as the Company timely delivers any shares not subject to such dispute and following the resolution of such dispute the Company delivers such appropriate number of shares to the Holder within two (2) days of such resolution);

 

(iv) if at any time following the tenth (10th) consecutive Business Day that the Holder’s Authorized Share Allocation is less than the number of shares of Common Stock that the Holder would be entitled to receive upon a conversion of the full Conversion Amount of this Note (without regard to any limitations on conversion set forth in Section 3(d) or otherwise);

 

(v) the Company’s failure to pay to the Holder any amount of Principal, Interest or other amounts when and as due under this Note (including, without limitation, the Company’s failure to pay any redemption payments, premiums or other amounts hereunder) or any other Transaction Document (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) except, in the case of a failure to pay Interest when and as due, in which case only if such failure continues for a period of at least three (3) Business Days after written notice thereof is delivered to the Company;

 

(vi) any acceleration prior to maturity of any Indebtedness (as defined in Section 3(s) of the Securities Purchase Agreement) in excess of $3,000,000 in the aggregate of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (as defined in Section 3(a) of the Securities Purchase Agreement) other than with respect to any Other Notes;

 

(vii) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, pursuant to or within the meaning of Title 11, U.S. Code, or any similar Federal or state law for the relief of debtors (collectively, “Bankruptcy Law”), (A) commences a voluntary case, (B) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case, (C) consents to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator or similar official (a “Custodian”), (D) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors or (E) admits in writing that it is generally unable to pay its debts as they become due;

 

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(viii) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that (A) is for relief against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in an involuntary case, (B) appoints a Custodian of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (C) orders the liquidation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;

 

(ix) a final judgment or judgments for the payment of money aggregating in excess of $1,000,000 are rendered against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and which judgments are not, within sixty (60) days after the entry thereof, bonded, discharged or stayed pending appeal, or are not discharged within sixty (60) days after the expiration of such stay; provided, however, that any judgment which is covered by insurance or an indemnity from a credit worthy party shall not be included in calculating the $1,000,000 amount set forth above so long as the Company provides the Holder a written statement from such insurer or indemnity provider (which written statement shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Holder) to the effect that such judgment is covered by insurance or an indemnity and the Company will receive the proceeds of such insurance or indemnity within sixty (60) days of the issuance of such judgment;

 

(x) the Company breaches, in any material manner, any representation, warranty, covenant (other than the covenants set forth in Section 15 of this Note) or other term or condition of any Transaction Document, except, in the case of a breach of a covenant which is curable, only if such breach continues for a period of at least thirty (30) consecutive days after written notice thereof is delivered to the Company;

 

(xi) any breach or failure to comply with Section 15 of this Note; or

 

(xii) any Event of Default (as defined in the Other Notes) occurs with respect to any Other Notes.

 

(b) Redemption Right. Promptly after the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to this Note or any Other Note, the Company shall deliver written notice thereof via facsimile and overnight courier (an “Event of Default Notice”) to the Holder. At any time after the earlier of the Holder’s receipt of an Event of Default Notice and the Holder becoming aware of an Event of Default, the Holder may require the Company to redeem all or any portion of this Note by delivering written notice thereof (the “Event of Default Redemption Notice”) to the Company, which Event of Default Redemption Notice shall indicate the portion of this Note the Holder is electing to redeem. Each portion of this Note subject to redemption by the Company pursuant to this Section 4(b) shall be redeemed by the Company at a price equal to the greater of (i) the product of (x) the Conversion Amount to be redeemed and (y) the Redemption Premium and (ii) the product of (A) the Conversion Rate with respect to such Conversion Amount in effect at such time as the Holder delivers an Event of Default Redemption Notice, and (B) the Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock on the date immediately preceding such Event of Default (the “Event of Default Redemption Price”). Redemptions required by this Section 4(b) shall be made in accordance with the provisions of Section 13.

 

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(5) RIGHTS UPON FUNDAMENTAL TRANSACTION AND CHANGE OF CONTROL.

 

(a) Assumption. The Company shall not enter into or be party to a Fundamental Transaction unless (i) the Successor Entity assumes in writing all of the obligations of the Company under this Note and the other Transaction Documents in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5(a) pursuant to written agreements in form and substance satisfactory to the Required Holders and approved by the Required Holders prior to such Fundamental Transaction, including agreements to deliver to each holder of Notes in exchange for such Notes a security of the Successor Entity evidenced by a written instrument substantially similar in form and substance to the Notes, including, without limitation, having a principal amount and interest rate equal to the principal amounts and the interest rates of the Notes held by such holder and having similar ranking to the Notes, and satisfactory to the Required Holders, (ii) the Successor Entity (including its Parent Entity) is a publicly traded corporation whose common stock is quoted on or listed for trading on an Eligible Market and (iii) the consummation of such Fundamental Transaction shall not result in the Successor Entity’s failure to satisfy the financial covenants in Section 15(e) of this Note. Upon the occurrence of any 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 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 with the same effect as if such Successor Entity had been named as the Company herein. Upon consummation of the Fundamental Transaction, the Successor Entity shall deliver to the Holder confirmation that there shall be issued upon conversion or redemption of this Note at any time after the consummation of the Fundamental Transaction, in lieu of the shares of the Company’s Common Stock (or other securities, cash, assets or other property) issuable upon the conversion or redemption of the Notes prior to such Fundamental Transaction, such shares of stock, securities, cash, assets or any other property whatsoever (including warrants or other purchase or subscription rights) which the Holder would have been entitled to receive upon the happening of such Fundamental Transaction had this Note been converted immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction, as adjusted in accordance with the provisions of this Note. The provisions of this Section shall apply similarly and equally to successive Fundamental Transactions and shall be applied without regard to any limitations on the conversion or redemption of this Note.

 

(b) Redemption Right. No sooner than fifteen (15) days nor later than ten (10) days prior to the consummation of a Change of Control, but not prior to the public announcement of such Change of Control, the Company shall deliver written notice thereof via facsimile and overnight courier to the Holder (a “Change of Control Notice”). At any time during the period (the “Change of Control Period”) beginning after the Holder’s receipt of a Change of Control Notice and ending on the date of the consummation of such Change of Control (or, in the event a Change of Control Notice is not delivered at least ten (10) days prior to a Change of Control, at any time on or after the date which is ten (10) days prior to a Change of Control and ending ten (10) days after the consummation of such Change of Control), the Holder may require the Company to redeem all or any portion of this Note by delivering written notice thereof (“Change of Control Redemption Notice”) to the Company, which Change of Control Redemption Notice shall indicate the Conversion Amount the Holder is electing to

 

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redeem. The portion of this Note subject to redemption pursuant to this Section 5 shall be redeemed by the Company in cash at a price equal to the product of the (i) Change of Control Premium multiplied by (ii) the greater of (x) the product of (I) the Conversion Amount being redeemed and (II) the quotient determined by dividing (A) the Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock immediately after the public announcement of such proposed Change of Control by (B) the Conversion Price, (y) the Conversion Amount being redeemed and (z) the product of (I) the aggregate cash consideration and the aggregate cash value of any non-cash consideration per share of Common Stock to be paid to the holders of the Common Stock upon consummation of the Fundamental Transaction and (II) the quotient determined by dividing (A) the Conversion Amount being redeemed by (B) the Conversion Price (the “Change of Control Redemption Price”). Redemptions required by this Section 5 shall be made in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 and shall have priority to payments to stockholders in connection with a Change of Control. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 5, until the Change of Control Redemption Price (together with any interest thereon) is paid in full, the Conversion Amount submitted for redemption under this Section 5(c) (together with any interest thereon) may be converted, in whole or in part, by the Holder into Common Stock, or in the event the Conversion Date is after the consummation of the Change of Control, shares of stock or equity interests of the Successor Entity substantially equivalent to the Company’s Common Stock pursuant to Section 3.

 

(c) Change of Control Premium Upon Conversion. Upon any conversion of any Conversion Amount of this Note during the Change of Control Period, the Holder shall be entitled to receive on the applicable Conversion Date an amount in cash equal to (i) the product of (x) the Change of Control Premium and (y) the applicable Conversion Amount minus (ii) the applicable Conversion Amount.

 

(6) RIGHTS UPON ISSUANCE OF PURCHASE RIGHTS AND OTHER CORPORATE EVENTS.

 

(a) Purchase Rights. If at any time the Company grants, issues or sells any Options, Convertible Securities or rights to purchase stock, warrants, securities or other property pro rata to the record holders of any class 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 (without taking into account any limitations or restrictions on the convertibility of this Note) 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 Common Stock are to be determined for the grant, issue or sale of such Purchase Rights.

 

(b) Other Corporate Events. In addition to and not in substitution for any other rights hereunder, prior to the consummation of any Fundamental Transaction pursuant to which holders of shares of Common Stock are entitled to receive securities or other assets with respect to or in exchange for shares of Common Stock (a “Corporate Event”), the Company shall make appropriate provision to insure that the Holder will thereafter have the right to receive upon a conversion of this Note, (i) in addition to the shares of Common Stock receivable upon

 

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such conversion, such securities or other assets to which the Holder would have been entitled with respect to such shares of Common Stock had such shares of Common Stock been held by the Holder upon the consummation of such Corporate Event (without taking into account any limitations or restrictions on the convertibility of this Note) or (ii) in lieu of the shares of Common Stock otherwise receivable upon such conversion, such securities or other assets received by the holders of shares of Common Stock in connection with the consummation of such Corporate Event in such amounts as the Holder would have been entitled to receive had this Note initially been issued with conversion rights for the form of such consideration (as opposed to shares of Common Stock) at a conversion rate for such consideration commensurate with the Conversion Rate. Provision made pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be in a form and substance satisfactory to the Required Holders. The provisions of this Section shall apply similarly and equally to successive Corporate Events and shall be applied without regard to any limitations on the conversion or redemption of this Note.

 

(7) RIGHTS UPON ISSUANCE OF OTHER SECURITIES.

 

(a) Adjustment of Conversion Price upon Issuance of Common Stock. If and whenever on or after the Subscription Date, the Company issues or sells, or in accordance with this Section 7(a) is deemed to have issued or sold, any shares of Common Stock (including the issuance or sale of shares of Common Stock owned or held by or for the account of the Company, but excluding shares of Common Stock deemed to have been issued or sold by the Company in connection with any Excluded Security or for which the Holder has a participation right pursuant to Section 18) for a consideration per share (the “New Issuance Price”) less than a price (the “Applicable Price”) equal to the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to such issue or sale (the foregoing a “Dilutive Issuance”), then immediately after such Dilutive Issuance, the Conversion Price then in effect shall be reduced to an amount equal to the product of (A) the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to such Dilutive Issuance and (B) the quotient determined by dividing (1) the sum of (I) the product derived by multiplying the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to such Dilutive Issuance and the number of shares of Common Stock Deemed Outstanding immediately prior to such Dilutive Issuance plus (II) the consideration, if any, received by the Company upon such Dilutive Issuance, by (2) the product derived by multiplying (I) the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to such Dilutive Issuance by (II) the number of shares of Common Stock Deemed Outstanding immediately after such Dilutive Issuance. For purposes of determining the adjusted Conversion Price under this Section 7(a), the following shall be applicable:

 

(i) Issuance of Options. If the Company in any manner grants or sells any Options and the lowest price per share for which one share of Common Stock is issuable upon the exercise of any such Option or upon conversion or exchange or exercise of any Convertible Securities issuable upon exercise of such Option is less than the Applicable Price, then such share of Common Stock shall be deemed to be outstanding and to have been issued and sold by the Company at the time of the granting or sale of such Option for such price per share. For purposes of this Section 7(a)(i), the “lowest price per share for which one share of Common Stock is issuable upon the exercise of any such Option or upon conversion or exchange or exercise of any Convertible Securities issuable upon exercise of such Option” shall be equal to the sum of the lowest amounts of consideration (if any) received or receivable by the Company

 

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with respect to any one share of Common Stock upon granting or sale of the Option, upon exercise of the Option and upon conversion or exchange or exercise of any Convertible Security issuable upon exercise of such Option. No further adjustment of the Conversion Price shall be made upon the actual issuance of such share of Common Stock or of such Convertible Securities upon the exercise of such Options or upon the actual issuance of such Common Stock upon conversion or exchange or exercise of such Convertible Securities.

 

(ii) Issuance of Convertible Securities. If the Company in any manner issues or sells any Convertible Securities and the lowest price per share for which one share of Common Stock is issuable upon such conversion or exchange or exercise thereof is less than the Applicable Price, then such share of Common Stock shall be deemed to be outstanding and to have been issued and sold by the Company at the time of the issuance of sale of such Convertible Securities for such price per share. For the purposes of this Section 7(a)(ii), the “price per share for which one share of Common Stock is issuable upon such conversion or exchange or exercise” shall be equal to the sum of the lowest amounts of consideration (if any) received or receivable by the Company with respect to any one share of Common Stock upon the issuance or sale of the Convertible Security and upon the conversion or exchange or exercise of such Convertible Security. No further adjustment of the Conversion Price shall be made upon the actual issuance of such share of Common Stock upon conversion or exchange or exercise of such Convertible Securities, and if any such issue or sale of such Convertible Securities is made upon exercise of any Options for which adjustment of the Conversion Price had been or are to be made pursuant to other provisions of this Section 7(a), no further adjustment of the Conversion Price shall be made by reason of such issue or sale.

 

(iii) Change in Option Price or Rate of Conversion. If the purchase price provided for in any Options, the additional consideration, if any, payable upon the issue, conversion, exchange or exercise of any Convertible Securities, or the rate at which any Convertible Securities are convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Common Stock changes at any time, the Conversion Price in effect at the time of such change shall be adjusted to the Conversion Price which would have been in effect at such time had such Options or Convertible Securities provided for such changed purchase price, additional consideration or changed conversion rate, as the case may be, at the time initially granted, issued or sold. For purposes of this Section 7(a)(iii), if the terms of any Option or Convertible Security that was outstanding as of the Subscription Date are changed in the manner described in the immediately preceding sentence, then such Option or Convertible Security and the Common Stock deemed issuable upon exercise, conversion or exchange thereof shall be deemed to have been issued as of the date of such change. No adjustment shall be made if such adjustment would result in an increase of the Conversion Price then in effect.

 

(iv) Calculation of Consideration Received. In case any Option is issued in connection with the issue or sale of other securities of the Company, together comprising one integrated transaction in which no specific consideration is allocated to such Options by the parties thereto, the Options will be deemed to have been issued for a consideration of $.01. If any Common Stock, Options or Convertible Securities are issued or sold or deemed to have been issued or sold for cash, the consideration received therefor will be deemed to be the net amount received by the Company therefor. If any Common Stock, Options or Convertible Securities are issued or sold for a consideration other than cash, the amount of the

 

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consideration other than cash received by the Company will be the fair value of such consideration, except where such consideration consists of securities, in which case the amount of consideration received by the Company will be the Closing Sale Price of such securities on the date of receipt. If any Common Stock, Options or Convertible Securities are issued to the owners of the non-surviving entity in connection with any merger in which the Company is the surviving entity, the amount of consideration therefor will be deemed to be the fair value of such portion of the net assets and business of the non-surviving entity as is attributable to such Common Stock, Options or Convertible Securities, as the case may be. The fair value of any consideration other than cash or securities will be determined jointly by the Company and the Required Holders. If such parties are unable to reach agreement within ten (10) days after the occurrence of an event requiring valuation (the “Valuation Event”), the fair value of such consideration will be determined within five (5) Business Days after the tenth (10th) day following the Valuation Event by an independent, reputable appraiser jointly selected by the Company and the Required Holders. The determination of such appraiser shall be deemed binding upon all parties absent manifest error and the fees and expenses of such appraiser shall be borne by the Company.

 

(v) Record Date. If the Company takes a record of the holders of Common Stock for the purpose of entitling them (A) to receive a dividend or other distribution payable in Common Stock, Options or in Convertible Securities or (B) to subscribe for or purchase Common Stock, Options or Convertible Securities, then such record date will be deemed to be the date of the issue or sale of the Common Stock deemed to have been issued or sold upon the declaration of such dividend or the making of such other distribution or the date of the granting of such right of subscription or purchase, as the case may be.

 

(vi) Until such time as the Company receives the Stockholder Approval, no adjustment pursuant to this Section 7(a) shall cause the Conversion Price to be less than $8.57 (as adjusted for any stock dividend, stock split, stock combination, reclassification or similar transaction) (the “Minimum Conversion Price”).

 

(b) Adjustment of Conversion Price upon Subdivision or Combination of Common Stock. If the Company at any time on or after the Subscription Date subdivides (by any stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization or otherwise) one or more classes of its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a greater number of shares, the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to such subdivision will be proportionately reduced. If the Company at any time on or after the Subscription Date combines (by combination, reverse stock split or otherwise) one or more classes of its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to such combination will be proportionately increased.

 

(c) Other Events. If any event occurs of the type contemplated by the provisions of this Section 7 but not expressly provided for by such provisions (including, without limitation, the granting of stock appreciation rights, phantom stock rights or other rights with equity features), then the Company’s Board of Directors will make an appropriate adjustment in the Conversion Price so as to protect the rights of the Holder under this Note; provided that no such adjustment will increase the Conversion Price as otherwise determined pursuant to this Section 7.

 

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(8) COMPANY’S RIGHT OF MANDATORY REDEMPTION.

 

(a) Mandatory Redemption. If at any time from and after the third anniversary of the Issuance Date (the “Mandatory Redemption Eligibility Date”), (i) the Weighted Average Price of the shares of Common Stock exceeds 175% of the Conversion Price as of the Issuance Date (subject to appropriate adjustments for stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions after the Issuance Date) for each of any twenty (20) consecutive Trading Days following the Mandatory Redemption Eligibility Date (the “Mandatory Redemption Measuring Period”) and (ii) the Equity Conditions shall have been satisfied or waived in writing by the Holder from and including the Mandatory Redemption Notice Date (as defined below) through and including the Mandatory Redemption Date (as defined below), the Company shall have the right to redeem all or any portion of the Conversion Amount then remaining under this Note as designated in the Mandatory Redemption Notice, as of the Mandatory Redemption Date (a “Mandatory Redemption”). The portion of this Note subject to redemption pursuant to this Section 8 shall be redeemed by the Company in cash at a price equal to the Conversion Amount being redeemed (the “Mandatory Redemption Price”) on the Mandatory Redemption Date (as defined below). The Company may exercise its right to require redemption under this Section 8(a) by delivering within not more than (2) Trading Days following the end of such Mandatory Redemption Measuring Period a written notice thereof by facsimile and overnight courier to all, but not less than all, of the holders of Notes and the Transfer Agent (the “Mandatory Redemption Notice” and the date all of the holders received such notice is referred to as the “Mandatory Redemption Notice Date”). The Company may deliver one Mandatory Redemption Notice hereunder and the Mandatory Redemption Notice shall be irrevocable. The Mandatory Redemption Notice shall state (A) the date on which the Mandatory Redemption shall occur (the “Mandatory Redemption Date”) which date shall be not less than thirty (30) days nor more than sixty (60) days after the Mandatory Redemption Notice Date, and (B) the aggregate Conversion Amount of the Notes which the Company has elected to be subject to Mandatory Redemption from all of the holders of the Notes pursuant to this Section 8 (and analogous provisions under the Other Notes) on the Mandatory Redemption Date; provided that the Company must redeem no less than $5,000,000 in Principal Amount in such Mandatory Redemption. All Conversion Amounts converted by the Holder after the Mandatory Redemption Notice Date shall reduce the Conversion Amount of this Note required to be redeemed on the Mandatory Redemption Date. Redemptions made pursuant to this Section 8 shall be made in accordance with Section 13.

 

(b) Pro Rata Redemption Requirement. If the Company elects to cause a Mandatory Redemption pursuant to Section 8(a), then it must simultaneously take the same action with respect to the Other Notes. If the Company elects to cause an Optional Redemption pursuant to Section 8(a) (or similar provisions under the Other Notes) with respect to less than all of the Conversion Amounts of the Notes then outstanding, then the Company shall require redemption of a Conversion Amount from each of the holders of the Notes equal to the product of (i) the aggregate Conversion Amount of Notes which the Company has elected to cause to be redeemed pursuant to Section 8(a), multiplied by (ii) the fraction, the numerator of which is the sum of the aggregate initial principal amount of the Notes purchased by such holder and the denominator of which is the sum of the aggregate initial principal amount of the Notes purchased by all holders (such fraction with respect to each holder is referred to as its “Redemption Allocation Percentage”, and such amount with respect to each holder is referred

 

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to as its “Pro Rata Redemption Amount”). In the event that the initial holder of any Notes shall sell or otherwise transfer any of such holder’s Notes, the transferee shall be allocated a pro rata portion of such holder’s Conversion Allocation Percentage and Redemption Allocation Percentage.

 

(c) Mandatory Redemption After Second Anniversary. If at any time from and after the second anniversary of the Issuance Date and prior to the third anniversary of the Issuance Date, the Weighted Average Price of the shares of Common Stock exceeds 200% of the Conversion Price as of the Issuance Date (subject to appropriate adjustments for stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions after the Issuance Date) for each of any twenty (20) consecutive Trading Days following the second anniversary of the Issuance Date, the Holder and the holders of the Other Notes discuss with the Company, in good faith, the amendment of this Note and the Other Notes to provide the Company with a right to redeem the Notes at a redemption price not greater than 116% of the Conversion Amount being redeemed. Any such amendment to the Notes shall be made in accordance with the terms of Section 19.

 

(9) HOLDER’S RIGHT OF OPTIONAL REDEMPTION.

 

(a) The Holder shall have the right, in its sole discretion to require that the Company redeem a portion of this Note (a “Holder Optional Redemption”) by delivering written notice thereof (a “Holder Optional Redemption Notice” and, collectively with the Event of Default Redemption Notice, the Change of Control Redemption Notice and the Mandatory Redemption Notice, the “Redemption Notices” and each a “Redemption Notice”) to the Company no later than twenty (20) Trading Days prior to any Optional Redemption Date. The Holder Optional Redemption Notice shall indicate the Conversion Amount the Holder is electing to have redeemed on such Optional Redemption Date (the “Holder Optional Redemption Amount”); provided, however, that such Holder Optional Redemption Amount indicated shall not exceed the applicable Optional Redemption Amount. The portion of this Note subject to redemption pursuant to this Section 9(a) shall be redeemed by the Company in cash at a price equal to the Conversion Amount being redeemed (the “Holder Optional Redemption Price” and, collectively with the Event of Default Redemption Price, the Change of Control Redemption Price and the Mandatory Redemption Price, the “Redemption Prices” and, each a “Redemption Price”); provided, however, that, only with respect to the First Optional Redemption Date and the Second Optional Redemption Date, in the event the Company is prohibited by the terms of the Current Credit Facility and/or the Intercreditor Agreement to redeem in cash (and the Company has not otherwise received any necessary consent of the requisite parties thereunder to take such action) all or any portion of the Holder Optional Redemption Amount (such amount not able to be redeemed, the “Optional Redemption Shortfall Amount”), the Company may, at its option, and so long as the Equity Conditions shall have been satisfied (or waived in writing by the Holder) during the period from and including the Company Conversion Notice Due Date through and including the applicable Optional Redemption Date, satisfy its obligations under this Section 9 with respect to the redemption of all or any portion of such Optional Redemption Shortfall Amount by delivery of shares of Common Stock to the Holder (the “Company Conversion Option”). If the Company exercises the Company Conversion Option, it shall deliver to the Holder an irrevocable notice no later than fifteen (15) Trading Days prior to the applicable Optional Redemption Date (the “Company

 

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Conversion Notice Due Date”) stating (A) that the Company is exercising such conversion option and (B) the portion of the Optional Redemption Shortfall Amount that is the subject of the Company Conversion Option (the “Company Conversion Amount). On the day immediately following the last day of the Company Conversion Measuring Period, the Company shall provide notice to the Holder of the applicable Company Company Conversion Price. Any Company Conversion Amount shall be converted as of the applicable Optional Redemption Date by dividing such Company Conversion Amount by the Company Conversion Price.

 

(b) In the event there is an Optional Redemption Shortfall Amount and the Equity Conditions shall not have been satisfied as required (or waived), the Holder may, at its option, require the Company to redeem all or any portion of the Optional Redemption Shortfall Amount (such amount, the “Holder Optional Conversion Amount”) on the applicable Optional Redemption Date by delivering shares of Common Stock to the Holder (the “Holder Optional Conversion Option”). The Holder shall state in each Holder Optional Redemption Notice delivered at any time when the Holder is electing the Holder Optional Conversion Option whether such Holder will exercise the Holder Optional Conversion Option in the event there is an Optional Redemption Shortfall Amount. Any Holder Optional Conversion Amount shall be converted as of the applicable Optional Redemption Date by dividing such Holder Optional Conversion Amount by the Minimum Conversion Price.

 

(c) Redemptions required by this Section 9 shall be made in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 and any conversions required by this Section upon election by the Company of the Company Conversion Option or the Holder of the Holder Optional Conversion Option shall be made in accordance with the provisions of Section 3(c). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 9, but subject to Section 3(d), until the Holder receives the Redemption Price and/or the shares deliverable in connection with any Company Conversion Amount or Holder Optional Conversion Amount, the Holder Optional Redemption Amount may be converted, in whole or in part, by the Holder into Common Stock pursuant to Section 3, and any such conversion shall reduce the Holder Optional Redemption Amount in the manner set forth by the Holder in the applicable Conversion Notice.

 

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(10) SECURITY. This Note and the Other Notes are secured to the extent and in the manner set forth in the Security Documents (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement).

 

(11) NONCIRCUMVENTION. The Company hereby covenants and agrees that the Company will not, by amendment of its Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws or through any reorganization, transfer of assets, consolidation, merger, scheme of arrangement, dissolution, issue or sale of securities, or any other voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms of this Note, and will at all times in good faith carry out all of the provisions of this Note and take all action as may be required to protect the rights of the Holder of this Note.

 

(12) RESERVATION OF AUTHORIZED SHARES.

 

(a) Reservation. The Company shall initially reserve out of its authorized and unissued Common Stock a number of shares of Common Stock for each of the Notes equal to 130% of the Conversion Rate with respect to the Conversion Amount of each such Note as of the Issuance Date. So long as any of the Notes are outstanding, the Company shall take all action necessary to reserve and keep available out of its authorized and unissued Common Stock, solely for the purpose of effecting the conversion of the Notes, 130% of the number of shares of Common Stock as shall from time to time be necessary to effect the conversion of all of the Notes then outstanding; provided that at no time shall the number of shares of Common Stock so reserved be less than the number of shares required to be reserved by the previous sentence (without regard to any limitations on conversions) (the “Required Reserve Amount”). The initial number of shares of Common Stock reserved for conversions of the Notes and each increase in the number of shares so reserved shall be allocated pro rata among the holders of the Notes based on the principal amount of the Notes held by each holder at the Closing (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) or increase in the number of reserved shares, as the case may be (the “Authorized Share Allocation”). In the event that a holder shall sell or otherwise transfer any of such holder’s Notes, each transferee shall be allocated a pro rata portion of such holder’s Authorized Share Allocation. Any shares of Common Stock reserved and allocated to any Person which ceases to hold any Notes shall be allocated to the remaining holders of Notes, pro rata based on the principal amount of the Notes then held by such holders.

 

(b) Insufficient Authorized Shares. If at any time while any of the Notes remain outstanding the Company does not have a sufficient number of authorized and unreserved shares of Common Stock to satisfy its obligation to reserve for issuance upon conversion of the Notes at least a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Required Reserve Amount (an “Authorized Share Failure”), then the Company shall immediately take all action necessary to increase the Company’s authorized shares of Common Stock to an amount sufficient to allow the Company to reserve the Required Reserve Amount for the Notes then outstanding. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, as soon as practicable after the date of the occurrence of an Authorized Share Failure, but in no event later than seventy-five (75) days after the occurrence of such Authorized Share Failure, the Company shall hold a meeting of its stockholders for the approval of an increase in the number of authorized shares of Common Stock. In connection with such meeting, the Company shall provide each stockholder with a

 

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proxy statement and shall use its reasonable best efforts to solicit its stockholders’ approval of such increase in authorized shares of Common Stock and to cause its board of directors to recommend to the stockholders that they approve such proposal.

 

(13) HOLDER’S REDEMPTIONS.

 

(a) Mechanics. The Company shall deliver the applicable Event of Default Redemption Price or Holder Optional Redemption Price to the Holder within five (5) Business Days after the Company’s receipt of the Holder’s Event of Default Redemption Notice or the Holder Optional Redemption Notice, as the case may be. If the Holder has submitted a Change of Control Redemption Notice in accordance with Section 5(b), the Company shall deliver the applicable Change of Control Redemption Price to the Holder concurrently with the consummation of such Change of Control if such notice is received prior to the consummation of such Change of Control and within five (5) Business Days after the Company’s receipt of such notice otherwise. The Company shall deliver the Mandatory Redemption Price to the Holder on the Mandatory Redemption Date. In the event of a redemption of less than all of the Conversion Amount of this Note, the Company shall promptly cause to be issued and delivered to the Holder a new Note (in accordance with Section 21(d)) representing the outstanding Principal which has not been redeemed. In the event that the Company does not pay the applicable Redemption Price to the Holder within the time period required, at any time thereafter and until the Company pays such unpaid Redemption Price in full, the Holder shall have the option, in lieu of redemption, to require the Company to promptly return to the Holder all or any portion of this Note representing the Conversion Amount that was submitted for redemption and for which the applicable Redemption Price has not been paid. Upon the Company’s receipt of such notice, (x) the Redemption Notice shall be null and void with respect to such Conversion Amount, (y) the Company shall immediately return this Note, or issue a new Note (in accordance with Section 21(d)) to the Holder representing such Conversion Amount and (z) the Conversion Price of this Note or such new Notes shall be adjusted to the lesser of (A) the Conversion Price as in effect on the date on which the Redemption Notice is voided and (B) the lowest Closing Bid Price of the Common Stock during the period beginning on and including the date on which the Redemption Notice is delivered to the Company and ending on and including the date on which the Redemption Notice is voided

 

(b) Redemption by Other Holders. Upon the Company’s receipt of notice from any of the holders of the Other Notes for redemption or repayment as a result of an event or occurrence substantially similar to the events or occurrences described in Section 4(b), Section 5(b) or Section 9 (each, an “Other Redemption Notice”), the Company shall immediately, but no later than one (1) Business Day of its receipt thereof, forward to the Holder by facsimile a copy of such notice. If the Company receives a Redemption Notice and one or more Other Redemption Notices, during the seven (7) Business Day period beginning on and including the date which is three (3) Business Days prior to the Company’s receipt of the Holder’s Redemption Notice and ending on and including the date which is three (3) Business Days after the Company’s receipt of the Holder’s Redemption Notice and the Company is unable to redeem all principal, interest and other amounts designated in such Redemption Notice and such Other Redemption Notices received during such seven (7) Business Day period, then the Company shall redeem a pro rata amount from each holder of the Notes (including the Holder) based on the principal amount of the Notes submitted for redemption pursuant to such Redemption Notice and such Other Redemption Notices received by the Company during such seven Business Day period.

 

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(14) VOTING RIGHTS. The Holder shall have no voting rights as the holder of this Note, except as required by law, including, but not limited to, the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, and as expressly provided in this Note.

 

(15) COVENANTS.

 

(a) Rank. All payments due under this Note (a) shall rank pari passu with all Other Notes and (b) shall be senior to all other Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries, other than Senior Indebtedness (subject to the terms of Section 16 hereof).

 

(b) Incurrence of Indebtedness. So long as this Note is outstanding, the Company shall not, and the Company shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, incur or guarantee, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, other than (i) the Indebtedness evidenced by this Note and the Other Notes and (ii) Permitted Indebtedness.

 

(c) Existence of Liens. So long as this Note is outstanding, the Company shall not, and the Company shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, allow or suffer to exist 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 (collectively, “Liens”) other than Permitted Liens.

 

(d) Restricted Payments. The Company shall not, and the Company shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, 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 Permitted Indebtedness (other than the Senior Indebtedness), whether by way of payment in respect of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on, such Indebtedness if at the time such payment is due or is otherwise made or, after giving effect to such payment, an event constituting, or that with the passage of time and without being cured would constitute, an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

 

(e) Financial Covenants. On and after March 31, 2005, the Company shall satisfy or otherwise comply with each of the financial covenants set forth in the Exhibit II hereto in each Fiscal Quarter. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Current Credit Facility is amended, restated, renewed, refunded or refinanced prior to March 31, 2005, each of the financial covenants set forth in such amended, restated, renewed, refunded or refinanced facility shall be deemed incorporated herein by reference, with the same effect as if set forth fully herein, and the Company shall, as of the date of such amendment, restatement, renewal, refunding or refinancing, be required to satisfy or otherwise comply with such covenants; provided, however, that for purposes of complying with this Section 15(e), each of the levels set forth in the covenants stated in the Current Credit Facility, as currently in effect or as so amended, restated, renewed, refunded or refinanced, shall be relaxed to allow for a ten percent (10%) cushion. The Company shall (i) provide to the Holder a certificate certifying compliance with these financial covenants, contemporaneously with the delivery of any similar compliance certificate the

 

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Company is required to provide to the lenders or designated agent under the Current Credit Facility, and (ii) prior to or simultaneously with the delivery to the Holder of any such compliance certificate stating that the Company has failed to satisfy any financial covenant hereunder, publicly disclose such failure.

 

(16) SUBORDINATION TO SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.

 

(a) Subordination. The indebtedness represented by this Note and the payment of any Principal, Interest, redemption amount, liquidated damages, fees, expenses or any other amounts in respect of this Note (collectively, the “Subordinated Indebtedness”) is hereby expressly made subordinate and junior and subject in right of payment (to the extent expressly set forth in Section 16(b) hereof) to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness of the Company now outstanding or hereinafter incurred.

 

(b) Payment upon Dissolution, Etc. In the event of any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, composition, assignment for benefit of creditors or other similar proceeding initiated by or against the Company or any dissolution or winding up or total or partial liquidation or reorganization in bankruptcy of the Company (each, a “Proceeding”), all principal and interest due upon any Senior Indebtedness shall first be paid in full before the Holder shall be entitled to receive or, if received, to retain any payment or distribution on account of this Note and, during the continuance of any such Proceeding, any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to which the Holder would be entitled with respect to any Subordinated Indebtedness but for the provisions of this Section 16 shall be paid by the Company or by any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, agent or other Person making such payment or distribution, or by the Holder who shall have received such payment or distribution, directly to the holders of the Senior Indebtedness (pro rata to each such holder on the basis of the respective amounts of such Senior Indebtedness held by such holder) or their representatives to the extent necessary to pay all such Senior Indebtedness in full after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, before any payment or distribution is made to the Holder or any holders of the Notes; provided, however, that notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in any event the Holder shall be entitled to receive and retain any and all Junior Securities (as defined below).

 

(c) Certain Rights. Nothing contained in this Section 16 or elsewhere in this Note or any other Transaction Document, is intended to or shall impair, as among the Company, its creditors including the holders of Senior Indebtedness and the Holder, the right, which is absolute and unconditional, of the Holder to convert this Note in accordance herewith.

 

(d) Rights of Holders Unimpaired. The provisions of this Section 16 are and are intended solely for the purposes of defining the relative rights of the Holder and the holders of Senior Indebtedness and nothing in this Section 16 shall impair, as between the Company and the Holder, the obligation of the Company, which is unconditional and absolute, to pay to the Holder the Principal hereof (and premium, if any), accrued Interest hereon and all other Subordinated Indebtedness payable hereunder, all in accordance with the terms of this Note.

 

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(e) Junior Securities. As used herein, “Junior Securities” means debt or equity securities of the Company as reorganized or readjusted, or debt or equity securities of the Company or any other Person provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment authorized by an order or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction in a Proceeding under any applicable law, so long as in the case of debt securities, such Junior Securities are subordinated in right of payment to all Senior Indebtedness and to whatever is issued to the holders of the Senior Indebtedness on account of the Senior Indebtedness, to the same extent as, or to a greater extent than, the Subordinated Indebtedness is so subordinated as provided for herein.

 

(17) REDUCTION OF LETTER OF CREDIT AMOUNT. The Letter of Credit Amount shall be reduced by $5,000,000 or, solely as to the First Optional Redemption Date in the event an EBITDA Reduction (as defined below) has occurred, $1,700,000, if on any Optional Redemption Date either (a) the holders of the Notes exercise the Holder Optional Redemption on an Optional Redemption Date for the Aggregate Optional Redemption Amount or (b) (i) if the Holder Optional Redemption has not been fully exercised by each Holder on any Optional Redemption Date and (ii) (x) on the First Optional Redemption Date, the Company has been Profitable for two (2) Calendar Quarters prior to such First Optional Redemption Date, (y) on the Second Optional Redemption Date, the Company has been Profitable for two (2) Calendar Quarters during the period beginning after the First Optional Redemption Date through the Second Optional Redemption Date, or (z) on the Third Optional Redemption Date, the Company has been Profitable for one (1) Calendar Quarter during the period beginning after the Second Optional Redemption Date through the Third Optional Redemption Date (each of the foregoing (x), (y) and (z), a “Profitability Target”). In the event that the holders of the Notes exercise the Holder Optional Redemption for less than the Aggregate Optional Redemption Amount on any Optional Redemption Date and the Profitability Target for such Optional Redemption Date has not been met, the Letter of Credit Amount shall be reduced by an amount equal to the product of (1) $5,000,000 or solely as to the First Optional Redemption Date in the event of an EBITDA Reduction (as defined below) has occurred, $1,700,000, multiplied by (2) a fraction (A) the numerator of which is the aggregate Conversion Amount redeemed by all holders on such Optional Redemption Date and (B) the denominator of which is the Aggregate Optional Redemption Amount. In addition, in the event that the Company’s EBITDA for any twelve (12) month period reported by the Company in a Form 10-Q, Form 10-K and Form 8-K filed from and after the Issuance Date and immediately prior to the First Optional Redemption Date is equal to or greater than $18,000,000, then the Letter of Credit Amount shall be immediately reduced by $3,330,000 (an “EBITDA Reduction”).

 

(18) PARTICIPATION. The Holder, as the holder of this Note, shall be entitled to receive such dividends paid and distributions made to the holders of Common Stock to the same extent as if the Holder had converted this Note into Common Stock (without regard to any limitations on conversion herein or elsewhere) and had held such shares of Common Stock on the record date for such dividends and distributions. Payments under the preceding sentence shall be made concurrently with the dividend or distribution to the holders of Common Stock.

 

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(19) VOTE TO ISSUE, OR CHANGE THE TERMS OF, NOTES. The affirmative vote at a meeting duly called for such purpose or the written consent without a meeting of the Required Holders shall be required for any change or amendment to this Note or the Other Notes. Any change or amendment so approved shall be binding upon all existing and future holders of this Note and any Other Notes.

 

(20) TRANSFER. This Note and any shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of this Note may be offered, sold, assigned or transferred by the Holder without the consent of the Company, subject only to the provisions of Section 2(f) of the Securities Purchase Agreement.

 

(21) REISSUANCE OF THIS NOTE.

 

(a) Transfer. If this Note is to be transferred, the Holder shall surrender this Note to the Company, whereupon the Company will forthwith issue and deliver upon the order of the Holder a new Note (in accordance with Section 21(d)), registered as the Holder may request, representing the outstanding Principal being transferred by the Holder and, if less then the entire outstanding Principal is being transferred, a new Note (in accordance with Section 21(d)) to the Holder representing the outstanding Principal not being transferred. The Holder and any assignee, by acceptance of this Note, acknowledge and agree that, by reason of the provisions of Section 3(c)(iii) following conversion or redemption of any portion of this Note, the outstanding Principal represented by this Note may be less than the Principal stated on the face of this Note.

 

(b) Lost, Stolen or Mutilated Note. Upon receipt by the Company of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Note, and, in the case of loss, theft or destruction, of any indemnification undertaking by the Holder to the Company in customary form and, in the case of mutilation, upon surrender and cancellation of this Note, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Holder a new Note (in accordance with Section 21(d)) representing the outstanding Principal.

 

(c) Note Exchangeable for Different Denominations. This Note is exchangeable, upon the surrender hereof by the Holder at the principal office of the Company, for a new Note or Notes (in accordance with Section 21(d) and in principal amounts of at least $100,000) representing in the aggregate the outstanding Principal of this Note, and each such new Note will represent such portion of such outstanding Principal as is designated by the Holder at the time of such surrender.

 

(d) Issuance of New Notes. Whenever the Company is required to issue a new Note pursuant to the terms of this Note, such new Note (i) shall be of like tenor with this Note, (ii) shall represent, as indicated on the face of such new Note, the Principal remaining outstanding (or in the case of a new Note being issued pursuant to Section 21(a) or Section 21(c), the Principal designated by the Holder which, when added to the principal represented by the other new Notes issued in connection with such issuance, does not exceed the Principal remaining outstanding under this Note immediately prior to such issuance of new Notes), (iii) shall have an issuance date, as indicated on the face of such new Note, which is the same as the Issuance Date of this Note, (iv) shall have the same rights and conditions as this Note, and (v) shall represent accrued Interest on the Principal of this Note, from the Issuance Date.

 

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(22) 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. 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 breach, without the necessity of showing economic loss and without any bond or other security being required.

 

(23) PAYMENT OF COLLECTION, ENFORCEMENT AND OTHER COSTS. If (a) this Note is placed in the hands of an attorney for collection or enforcement or is collected or enforced through any legal proceeding or the Holder otherwise takes action to collect amounts due under this Note or to enforce the provisions of this Note or (b) there occurs any bankruptcy, reorganization, receivership of the Company or other proceedings affecting Company creditors’ rights and involving a claim under this Note, then the Company shall pay the reasonable costs incurred by the Holder for such collection, enforcement or action or in connection with such bankruptcy, reorganization, receivership or other proceeding, including, but not limited to, attorneys’ fees and disbursements.

 

(24) CONSTRUCTION; HEADINGS. This Note shall be deemed to be jointly drafted by the Company and all the Purchasers and shall not be construed against any person as the drafter hereof. The headings of this Note are for convenience of reference and shall not form part of, or affect the interpretation of, this Note.

 

(25) FAILURE OR INDULGENCE NOT WAIVER. No failure or delay on the part of the Holder in the exercise of any power, right or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such power, right or privilege preclude other or further exercise thereof or of any other right, power or privilege.

 

(26) DISPUTE RESOLUTION. In the case of a dispute as to the determination of the Closing Bid Price, the Closing Sale Price or the Weighted Average Price or the arithmetic calculation of the Conversion Rate or the Redemption Price, the Company shall submit the disputed determinations or arithmetic calculations via facsimile within one (1) Business Day of receipt, or deemed receipt, of the Conversion Notice or Redemption Notice or other event giving rise to such dispute, as the case may be, to the Holder. If the Holder and the Company are unable to agree upon such determination or calculation within one (1) Business Day of such disputed determination or arithmetic calculation being submitted to the Holder, then the

 

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Company shall, within one Business Day submit via facsimile (a) the disputed determination of the Closing Bid Price, the Closing Sale Price or the Weighted Average Price to an independent, reputable investment bank selected by the Company and approved by the Holder or (b) the disputed arithmetic calculation of the Conversion Rate or the Redemption Price to the Company’s independent, outside accountant. The Company, at the Company’s expense, shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the investment bank or the accountant, as the case may be, to perform the determinations or calculations and notify the Company and the Holder of the results no later than five (5) Business Days from the time it receives the disputed determinations or calculations. Such investment bank’s or accountant’s determination or calculation, as the case may be, shall be binding upon all parties absent demonstrable error. The Company shall not be required to pay any penalty payments hereunder solely relating to the matter and the amount in dispute during the pendency of any bona fide, good faith dispute hereunder as to such matter.

 

(27) NOTICES; PAYMENTS.

 

(a) Notices. Whenever notice is required to be given under this Note, unless otherwise provided herein, such notice shall be given in accordance with Section 9(f) of the Securities Purchase Agreement. The Company shall provide the Holder with prompt written notice of all actions taken pursuant to this Note, including in reasonable detail a description of such action and the reason therefore. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company will give written notice to the Holder (i) immediately upon any adjustment of the Conversion Price, setting forth in reasonable detail, and certifying, the calculation of such adjustment and (ii) at least twenty (20) days prior to the date on which the Company closes its books or takes a record (A) with respect to any dividend or distribution upon the Common Stock, (B) with respect to any pro rata subscription offer to holders of Common Stock or (C) for determining rights to vote with respect to any Fundamental Transaction, dissolution or liquidation, provided in each case that such information shall be made known to the public prior to or in conjunction with such notice being provided to the Holder.

 

(b) Payments. Whenever any payment of cash is to be made by the Company to any Person pursuant to this Note, such payment shall be made in lawful money of the United States of America by a check drawn on the account of the Company and sent via overnight courier service to such Person at such address as previously provided to the Company in writing (which address, in the case of each of the Purchasers, shall initially be as set forth on the Schedule of Buyers attached to the Securities Purchase Agreement); provided that the Holder may elect to receive a payment of cash via wire transfer of immediately available funds by providing the Company with prior written notice setting out such request and the Holder’s wire transfer instructions. Whenever any amount expressed to be due by the terms of this Note is due on any day which is not a Business Day, the same shall instead be due on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day and, in the case of any Interest Date which is not the date on which this Note is paid in full, the extension of the due date thereof shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining the amount of Interest due on such date.

 

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(28) CANCELLATION. After all Principal, accrued Interest and other amounts at any time owed on this Note have been paid in full, this Note shall automatically be deemed canceled, shall be surrendered to the Company for cancellation and shall not be reissued.

 

(29) WAIVER OF NOTICE. To the extent permitted by law, the Company hereby waives demand, notice, protest and all other demands and notices in connection with the delivery, acceptance, performance, default or enforcement of this Note and the Securities Purchase Agreement.

 

(30) GOVERNING LAW. This Note shall be construed and enforced in accordance with, and all questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and performance of this Note shall be governed by, the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdictions other than the State of New York.

 

(31) CERTAIN DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this Note, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

 

(a) “Aggregate Optional Redemption Amount” means $8,333,333.33.

 

(b) “Approved Stock Plan” means any employee benefit plan which has been approved by the Board of Directors of the Company, pursuant to which the Company’s securities may be issued to any employee, officer or director for services provided to the Company.

 

(c) “Bloomberg” means Bloomberg Financial Markets.

 

(d) “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.

 

(e) “Calendar Quarter” means each of: the period beginning on and including January 1 and ending on and including March 31; the period beginning on and including April 1 and ending on and including June 30; the period beginning on and including July 1 and ending on and including September 30; and the period beginning on and including October 1 and ending on and including December 31.

 

(f) “Change of Control” means any Fundamental Transaction other than (A) a Fundamental Transaction in which holders of the Company’s voting power immediately prior to the Fundamental Transaction continue after the Fundamental Transaction to hold publicly traded securities and, directly or indirectly, the voting power of the surviving entity or entities necessary to elect a majority of the members of the board of directors (or their equivalent if other than a corporation) of such entity or entities, or (B) pursuant to a migratory merger effected solely for the purpose of changing the jurisdiction of incorporation of the Company.

 

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(g) “Change of Control Premium” means (i) from the Issuance Date until the eighteen (18) month anniversary thereof, 120%, (ii) from the eighteen (18) month anniversary of the Issuance Date until the forty-second (42) month anniversary thereof, 115% and (iii) from the forty-second (42) month anniversary of the Issuance Date until the Maturity Date, 110%.

 

(h) “Closing Bid Price” and “Closing Sale Price” means, for any security as of any date, the last closing bid price and last closing trade price, respectively, 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 bid price or the closing trade price, as the case may be, then the last bid price or last trade price, respectively, 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 closing bid price or last trade price, respectively, 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 closing bid price or last trade price, respectively, of such security in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin board for such security as reported by Bloomberg, or, if no closing bid price or last trade price, respectively, 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 sheets” by Pink Sheets LLC (formerly the National Quotation Bureau, Inc.). If the Closing Bid Price or the Closing Sale Price cannot be calculated for a security on a particular date on any of the foregoing bases, the Closing Bid Price or the Closing Sale Price, as the case may be, of such security on such date shall be the fair market value as mutually determined by the Company and the Holder. If the Company and the Holder are unable to agree upon the fair market value of such security, then such dispute shall be resolved pursuant to Section 26. All such determinations to be appropriately adjusted for any stock dividend, stock split, stock combination or other similar transaction during the applicable calculation period.

 

(i) “Closing Date” shall have the meaning set forth in the Securities Purchase Agreement, which date is the date the Company initially issued Notes pursuant to the terms of the Securities Purchase Agreement.

 

(j) “Common Stock Deemed Outstanding” means, at any given time, the number of shares of Common Stock actually outstanding at such time, plus the number of shares of Common Stock deemed to be outstanding pursuant to Sections 7(a)(i) and 7(a)(ii) hereof regardless of whether the Options or Convertible Securities are actually exercisable at such time, but excluding any Common Stock owned or held by or for the account of the Company or issuable upon conversion or exercise, as applicable, of the Notes and the Warrants.

 

(k) “Company Conversion Price” means, as of any date of determination, that price which shall be computed as 95% of the arithmetic average of the Weighted Average Price of the Common Stock during each of the ten (10) consecutive Trading Days of the ten (10) Trading Day period commencing three (3) Trading Days after the Company Conversion Notice Due Date (such period, the “Company Conversion Measuring Period”).

 

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(l) “Convertible Securities” means any stock or securities (other than Options) directly or indirectly convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock.

 

(m) “Current Credit Facility” means the Credit Agreement, dated as of December 26, 2001, among the Company, as borrower, the lenders from time to time party thereto and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent, together with any amendments, restatements, renewals, refundings, refinancings or other extensions thereof.

 

(n) “EBITDA” means with respect to any Person for any applicable period, the Net Income of such Person and its subsidiaries for such period, plus without duplication, the sum of the following amounts of such Person and its subsidiaries for such period and to the extent deducted in determining Net Income of such Persons for such period: (i) Net Interest Expense, (ii) income tax expense, (iii) depreciation expense, and (iv) amortization expense.

 

(o) “Eligible Market” means the Principal Market, The New York Stock Exchange, Inc, the American Stock Exchange or The Nasdaq SmallCap Market.

 

(p) “Equity Conditions” means that each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) on each day during the period beginning six (6) months prior to the applicable date of determination and ending on and including the applicable date of determination (the “Equity Conditions Measuring Period”), either (x) the Registration Statement filed pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement shall be effective and available for the resale of all remaining Registrable Securities in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement and there shall not have been any Grace Periods (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) or (y) all shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes and exercise of the Warrants shall be eligible for sale without restriction and without the need for registration under any applicable federal or state securities laws; (ii) on each day during the Equity Conditions Measuring Period, the Common Stock is designated for quotation on an Eligible Market and shall not have been suspended from trading on such exchange or market (other than suspensions of not more than two (2) days and occurring prior to the applicable date of determination due to business announcements by the Company) nor shall delisting or suspension by such exchange or market been threatened or pending either (A) in writing by such exchange or market or (B) by falling below the minimum listing maintenance requirements of such exchange or market; (iii) during the one (1) year period ending on and including the date immediately preceding the applicable date of determination, the Company shall have delivered Conversion Shares upon conversion of the Notes and Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Warrants to the holders on a timely basis as set forth in Section 2(c)(ii) hereof (and analogous provisions under the Other Notes) and Sections 2(a) of the Warrants; (iv) during the Equity Conditions Measuring Period, the Company shall not have failed to timely make any payments within five (5) Business Days of when such payment is due pursuant to any Transaction Document; (v) during the Equity Conditions Measuring Period, there shall not have occurred either (A) the public announcement of a pending, proposed or intended Fundamental Transaction which has not been abandoned, terminated or consummated or (B) an Event of Default or an event that with the passage of time or giving of notice would constitute an Event of Default; (vi) the Company shall have no knowledge of any fact that would cause (x) the Registration Statements required pursuant to the

 

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Registration Rights Agreement not to be effective and available for the resale of all remaining Registrable Securities in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement or (y) any shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes and shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants not to be eligible for sale without restriction pursuant to Rule 144(k) and any applicable state securities laws; (vii) the Stockholder Approval (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) shall have been obtained; and (viii) the Company otherwise shall have been in material compliance with and shall not have materially breached any provision, covenant, representation or warranty of any Transaction Document.

 

(q) “Excluded Securities” means any Common Stock issued or issuable: (i) in connection with any Approved Stock Plan; (ii) upon conversion of the Notes or the exercise of the Warrants; (iii) pursuant to a bona fide firm commitment underwritten public offering at a price per share of Common Stock not less than the Conversion Price in effect at the time of such offering with a nationally recognized underwriter which generates net proceeds to the Company of at least $20,000,000 (other than an “at-the-market offering” as defined in Rule 415(a)(4) under the 1933 Act and “equity lines”) (iv) in connection with any acquisition by the Company, whether through an acquisition of stock or a merger of any business, assets or technologies the primary purpose of which is not to raise equity capital in an amount not to exceed, in the aggregate twenty percent (20%) of the outstanding shares of Common Stock in any twelve (12) month period; and (v) upon conversion of any Options or Convertible Securities which are outstanding on the day immediately preceding the Subscription Date, provided that the terms of such Options or Convertible Securities are not amended, modified or changed on or after the Subscription Date.

 

(r) “First Optional Redemption Date” means June 30, 2006.

 

(s) “Fundamental Transaction” means that the Company shall, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions, (i) consolidate or merge with or into (whether or not the Company is the surviving corporation) another Person, or (ii) sell, assign, transfer, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company to another Person, or (iii) be subject to an offer from another Person or group of related Persons (as defined in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) to make a purchase, tender or exchange offer that is accepted by the holders of more than the 50% of the outstanding shares of Voting Stock (not including any shares of Voting Stock held by the Person or Persons making or party to, or associated or affiliated with the Persons making or party to, such purchase, tender or exchange offer), or (iv) consummate a stock purchase agreement or other business combination (including, without limitation, a reorganization, recapitalization, spin-off or scheme of arrangement) with another Person or group of related Persons (as defined in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) whereby such other Person or group acquires more than the 50% of the outstanding shares of Voting Stock (not including any shares of Voting 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 stock purchase agreement or other business combination), or (v) reorganize, recapitalize or reclassify its Common Stock.

 

(t) “GAAP” means United States generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied.

 

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(u) “Intercreditor Agreement” means that certain intercreditor agreement dated as of the date hereof by the Company, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as first lien collateral agent, and Amphora Limited, as second lien collateral agent.

 

(v) “Letter of Credit Amount” means the amount of the letter of credit issued in favor the Senior Agent (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement), which amount shall initially be $10,000,000, which amount may be reduced pursuant to Section 17 hereof.

 

(w) “Net Income” means, with respect to any Person for any applicable period, the net income (loss) of such Person for such period, determined on a consolidated basis and in accordance with GAAP, but excluding from the determination of Net Income (without duplication): (i) any extraordinary or non recurring gains or losses or gains, (ii) restructuring charges, (iii) effects of discontinued operations, and (iv) interest income.

 

(x) “Net Interest Expense” means, with respect to any Person for any applicable period, gross interest expense of such Person for such period determined on a non-consolidated basis and in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, (including, without limitation, interest expense paid to affiliates of such Person), less (i) gains for such period on hedging agreements (to the extent not included in interest income above and to the extent not deducted in the calculation of gross interest expense), plus (ii) the sum of (x) losses for such period on hedging agreements (to the extent not included in gross interest expense) and (y) the upfront costs or fees for such period associated with hedging agreements (to the extent not included in gross interest expense), in each case, determined on a non-consolidated basis and in accordance with GAAP.

 

(y) “Options” means any rights, warrants or options to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock or Convertible Securities.

 

(z) “Optional Redemption Amount” means, with respect to any Holder, for any Holder Optional Redemption occurring on an Optional Redemption Date an amount that does not exceed one-third of the sum of the Principal amount of this Note on the Issuance Date plus accrued and unpaid Interest on such Principal.

 

(aa) “Optional Redemption Date” means any of the First Optional Redemption Date, the Second Optional Redemption Date and the Third Optional Redemption Date.

 

(bb) “Parent Entity” of a Person means an entity that, directly or indirectly, controls the applicable Person and whose common stock or equivalent equity security is quoted or listed on an Eligible Market, or, if there is more than one such Person or Parent Entity, the Person or Parent Entity with the largest public market capitalization as of the date of consummation of the Fundamental Transaction.

 

(cc) “Permitted Indebtedness” means (A) Senior Indebtedness and (B) Indebtedness incurred by the Company that is made expressly subordinate in right of payment to the Indebtedness evidenced by this Note, as reflected in a written agreement acceptable to the Holder and approved by the Holder in writing, and which Indebtedness does

 

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not provide at any time for (1) the payment, prepayment, repayment, repurchase or defeasance, directly or indirectly, of any principal or premium, if any, thereon until 91 days after the Maturity Date or later and (2) total interest and fees at a rate in excess of seven percent (7%) per annum.

 

(dd) “Permitted Liens” means (i) 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 GAAP, (ii) 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, (iii) 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, (iv) any Lien incurred to secure Senior Indebtedness and (v) Liens securing the Company’s obligations under the Notes.

 

(ee) “Person” means an individual, a limited liability company, a partnership, a joint venture, a corporation, a trust, an unincorporated organization, any other entity and a government or any department or agency thereof.

 

(ff) “Principal Market” means the Nasdaq National Market.

 

(gg) “Profitable” means, with respect to any Person for any applicable period, such Person having positive Net Income for such period

 

(hh) “Redemption Premium” means (i) in the case of the Events of Default described in Section 4(a)(i) - (vi) and (ix) - (xii), 110% or (ii) in the case of the Events of Default described in Section 4(a)(vii) - (viii), 100%.

 

(ii) “Registration Rights Agreement” means that certain registration rights agreement dated as of the Subscription Date by and among the Company and the initial holders of the Notes relating to, among other things, the registration of the resale of the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes and exercise of the Warrants.

 

(jj) “Required Holders” means the holders of Notes representing at least a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding.

 

(kk) “SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

(ll) “Second Optional Redemption Date” means June 30, 2007.

 

(mm) “Securities Purchase Agreement” means that certain securities purchase agreement dated as of the Subscription Date by and among the Company and the initial holders of the Notes pursuant to which the Company issued the Notes.

 

(nn) “Senior Indebtedness” means the principal of (and premium, if any), interest on, and all fees and other amounts (including, without limitation, any reasonable out-of-pocket costs, enforcement expenses (including reasonable out-of-pocket legal fees and

 

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disbursements), collateral protection expenses and other reimbursement or indemnity obligations relating thereto) payable by Company under or in connection with the Current Credit Facility provided, however, that (1) the aggregate amount of such Senior Indebtedness (taking into account the maximum amounts which may be advanced, including pursuant to any letters of credit, under the loan documents evidencing such Senior Indebtedness) does not as of the date on which such Senior Indebtedness is incurred exceed $57,000,000 and (2) such Senior Indebtedness affirmatively provides that it will at no time, respective of the base rate used, bear a rate of interest per annum (including commitment and similar per annum fees) in excess of LIBOR plus nine and one half percent (9.5%) per annum.

 

(oo) “Subscription Date” means December 30, 2004.

 

(pp) “Successor Entity” means the Person, which may be the Company, formed by, resulting from or surviving any Fundamental Transaction or the Person with which such Fundamental Transaction shall have been made, provided that if such Person is not a publicly traded entity whose common stock or equivalent equity security is quoted or listed for trading on an Eligible Market, Successor Entity shall mean such Person’s Parent Entity.

 

(qq) “Third Optional Redemption Date” means June 30, 2008.

 

(rr) “Trading Day” means any day on which the Common Stock is traded on the Principal Market, or, if the Principal Market is not the principal trading market for the Common Stock, then on the principal securities exchange or securities market on which the Common Stock is then traded; provided that “Trading Day” shall not include any day on which the Common Stock is scheduled to trade on such exchange or market for less than 4.5 hours or any day that the Common Stock is suspended from trading during the final hour of trading on such exchange or market (or if such exchange or market does not designate in advance the closing time of trading on such exchange or market, then during the hour ending at 4:00:00 p.m., New York Time).

 

(ss) “Voting Stock” of a Person means capital stock of such Person of the class or classes pursuant to which the holders thereof have the general voting power to elect, or the general power to appoint, at least a majority of the board of directors, managers or trustees of such Person (irrespective of whether or not at the time capital stock of any other class or classes shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency).

 

(tt) “Warrants” has the meaning ascribed to such term in the Securities Purchase Agreement, and shall include all warrants issued in exchange therefor or replacement thereof.

 

(uu) “Weighted Average Price” means, for any security as of any date, the dollar volume-weighted average price for such security on the Principal Market during the period beginning at 9:30:01 a.m., New York Time (or such other time as the Principal Market publicly announces is the official open of trading), and ending at 4:00:00 p.m., New York Time (or such other time as the Principal Market publicly announces is the official close of trading) as reported by Bloomberg through its “Volume at Price” functions, or, if the foregoing does not apply, the dollar volume-weighted average price of such security in the over-the-counter

 

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market on the electronic bulletin board for such security during the period beginning at 9:30:01 a.m., New York Time (or such other time as such market publicly announces is the official open of trading), and ending at 4:00:00 p.m., New York Time (or such other time as such market publicly announces is the official close of trading) 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 sheets” by Pink Sheets LLC (formerly the National Quotation Bureau, Inc.). If the Weighted Average Price cannot be calculated for a security on a particular date on any of the foregoing bases, the Weighted Average Price of such security on such date shall be the fair market value as mutually determined by the Company and the Holder. If the Company and the Holder are unable to agree upon the fair market value of such security, then such dispute shall be resolved pursuant to Section 26. All such determinations to be appropriately adjusted for any stock dividend, stock split, stock combination or other similar transaction during the applicable calculation period.

 

[Signature Page Follows]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be duly executed as of the Issuance Date set out above.

 

MODTECH HOLDINGS, INC.
By:  

 


Name:    
Title:    


EXHIBIT I

 

MODTECH HOLDINGS, INC.

CONVERSION NOTICE

 

Reference is made to the Senior Subordinated Secured Convertible Note (the “Note”) issued to the undersigned by Modtech Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”). In accordance with and pursuant to the Note, the undersigned hereby elects to convert the Conversion Amount (as defined in the Note) of the Note indicated below into shares of Common Stock par value $.01 per share (the “Common Stock”) of the Company, as of the date specified below.

 

Date of Conversion:                                                                                                                                                                 

 

Aggregate Conversion Amount to be converted:                                                                                                                   

 

Please confirm the following information:

 

Conversion Price:                                                                                                                                                                    

 

Number of shares of Common Stock to be issued:                                                                                                                

 

Please issue the Common Stock into which the Note is being converted in the following name and to the following address:

 

Issue to:   

 

____________________________________________________________________________________

    

 

____________________________________________________________________________________

    

 

____________________________________________________________________________________

 

Facsimile Number:                                                                                                                                                                 

 

Authorization:                                                                                                                                                                         

 

By:                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

Title:                                                                                                                                                                 

 

Dated:                                                                                                                                                                                               

 

Account Number:                                                                                                                                                                    

  (if electronic book entry transfer)

 

Transaction Code Number:                                                                                                                                                    

  (if electronic book entry transfer)


ACKNOWLEDGMENT

 

Delivery Via DWAC

 

[Company Letterhead]

 

Date:

 

Via Fax:[201-296-4491] only

 

Mellon Investor Services LLC

DWAC Dept

85 Challenger Road, Overpeck Center

Ridgefield Park NJ 07660

 

Re: DWAC Issuance 001-751-60783C10   Control No. 2005-        

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

You are hereby authorized to issue and deliver the shares of Common Stock as indicated below via DWAC. The shares are being issued to cover the conversion of Senior Subordinated Secured Convertible Notes under the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of December     , 2004.

 

Number of Shares:                                                                         
                 Original Issue or
                 Transfer from Treasury Account
Broker Name:                                                                         
Broker’s DTC Number:                                                                         
Contact and Phone:                                                                         
The broker will initiate the DWAC transaction on (date).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sincerely,

 

[Company Contact Name]

[Title]

 

cc: Broker


ACKNOWLEDGMENT

 

Form for Physical Certificate

 

[Company Letterhead]

 

Via Fax:[201-296-4279] only

 

Mellon Investor Services LLC

Stock Option Dept

85 Challenger Road, Overpeck Center

Ridgefield Park NJ 07660

 

Re: Option Issuance 001-751-60783C10   Control No. 2005-        

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

You are hereby authorized to issue and deliver the shares of Common Stock as indicated below via Physical certificate. The shares are being issued to cover the conversion of Senior Subordinated Secured Convertible Notes under the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of December     , 2004:

 

Date of Certificate:                                                                                                  

 

Number of Shares:                                                                                                  

 

Optionee Name:                                                                                                       

Social Security Number:                                                                                          

 

Restricted Shares:             ¨  NO    ¨  YES (see attached legend to be affixed to certificate)

 

Name on Certificate:                                                                                                 

Mailing Address                                                                                                        

for Certificates:

                                                                                                          
                                                                                                            

 

Method of Delivery:                                                                                                   

 

Please call [Company contact & Phone #] if you have any questions. Thank you for your assistance.

 

Very truly yours,

 

[Company Contact Name]

[Title]


EXHIBIT II

 

FINANCIAL COVENANTS

 

Funded Debt Ratio. Permit the Funded Debt Ratio, as of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter, to be greater than the ratio set forth below opposite such Fiscal Quarter:

 

Fiscal Quarter Ending


   Maximum Ratio

Each March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31

   2.20:1.00

 

Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio. Permit the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, as of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter, to be less than 1.35 to 1.00.

 

Current Ratio. Permit the Current Ratio (a) to be less than 1.125:1.00 at any time during any Fiscal Quarter ending March 31, June 30 or September 30 and (b) to be less than 1.215:1.00 at any time during any Fiscal Quarter ending December 31.

 

Tangible Net Worth. Permit Tangible Net Worth, at any time, to be less than the sum of (a) $27,000,000, plus (b) an amount equal to 45% of Net Income earned after the Closing Date (with no deduction for a net loss in any such Fiscal Quarter) plus (c) an amount equal to 81% of the aggregate increases in Stockholders’ Equity of Borrower and its Subsidiaries after the Closing Date by reason of the issuance and sale of capital stock of Borrower or any Subsidiary thereof (including upon any conversion of debt Securities of Borrower or any Subsidiary thereof into such capital stock).

 

Asset Coverage Ratio. Permit the Asset Coverage Ratio, at any time, to be less than .0.90 to 1.00.

 

Maximum Lease Receivables. Make, permit, enter or suffer to exist any lease contract pursuant to which the aggregate amount of any Lease Receivables during any Fiscal Year will exceed the amount set forth below opposite the applicable Fiscal Year:

 

Fiscal Year Ending


   Maximum Lease Receivable

December 31, 2005

   $ 4,400,000

December 31, 2006

   $ 6,600,000

 

Terms used in this Exhibit II shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Current Credit Facility as in effect on the date hereof.

EX-4.3 4 dex43.htm FORM OF WARRANT TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK, DATED DECEMBER 30, 2004 Form of Warrant to Purchase Common Stock, dated December 30, 2004

Exhibit 4.3

 

[FORM OF WARRANT]

 

NEITHER THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THESE SECURITIES ARE EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED (I) IN THE ABSENCE OF (A) AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR (B) AN OPINION OF COUNSEL REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY (WHICH COUNSEL SHALL BE SELECTED BY THE HOLDER), IN A FORM REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY, THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER SAID ACT OR (II) UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 OR RULE 144A UNDER SAID ACT. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN OR FINANCING ARRANGEMENT SECURED BY THE SECURITIES.

 

MODTECH HOLDINGS, INC.

 

WARRANT TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK

 

Warrant No.:                 

 

Number of Shares of Common Stock:                     

Date of Issuance: December 30, 2004 (“Issuance Date”)

 

Modtech Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), hereby certifies that, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, AMPHORA LIMITED, the registered holder hereof or its permitted assigns (the “Holder”), is entitled, subject to the terms set forth below, to purchase from the Company, at the Exercise Price (as defined below) then in effect, upon surrender of this Warrant to Purchase Common Stock (including any Warrants to Purchase Common Stock issued in exchange, transfer or replacement hereof, the “Warrant”), at any time or times on or after the date hereof (the “Initial Exercisability Date”), but not after 11:59 p.m., New York Time, on the Expiration Date (as defined below), a number of fully paid nonassessable shares of Common Stock (as defined below) (the “Warrant Shares”) equal to the Warrant Number (as defined below). Except as otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms in this Warrant shall have the meanings set forth in Section 15. This Warrant is one of the Warrants to purchase Common Stock (the “SPA Warrants”) issued pursuant to Section 1 of that certain Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of December 30, 2004 (the “Subscription Date”), by and among the Company and the investors (the “Buyers”) referred to therein (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”).


1. EXERCISE OF WARRANT.

 

(a) Mechanics of Exercise. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof (including, without limitation, the limitations set forth in Section 1(f)), this Warrant may be exercised by the Holder on any day on or after the Initial Exercisability Date, in whole or in part, by (i) delivery of a written notice, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Exercise Notice”), of the Holder’s election to exercise this Warrant and (ii) (A) payment to the Company of an amount equal to the applicable Exercise Price multiplied by the number of Warrant Shares as to which this Warrant is being exercised (the “Aggregate Exercise Price”) in cash or wire transfer of immediately available funds or (B) by notifying the Company that this Warrant is being exercised pursuant to a Cashless Exercise (as defined in Section 1(d)). The Holder shall not be required to deliver the original Warrant in order to effect an exercise hereunder. Execution and delivery of the Exercise Notice with respect to less than all of the Warrant Shares shall have the same effect as cancellation of the original Warrant and issuance of a new Warrant evidencing the right to purchase the remaining number of Warrant Shares. On or before the first Business Day following the date on which the Company has received each of the Exercise Notice and the Aggregate Exercise Price (or notice of a Cashless Exercise) (the “Exercise Delivery Documents”), the Company shall transmit by facsimile an acknowledgment of confirmation of receipt of the Exercise Delivery Documents to the Holder and the Company’s transfer agent (the “Transfer Agent”). On or before the third Business Day following the date on which the Company has received all of the Exercise Delivery Documents (the “Share Delivery Date”), the Company shall (X) provided that the Transfer Agent is participating in The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) Fast Automated Securities Transfer Program, credit such aggregate number of shares of Common Stock to which the Holder is entitled pursuant to such exercise to the Holder’s or its designee’s balance account with DTC through its Deposit Withdrawal Agent Commission System, or (Y) if the Transfer Agent is not participating in the DTC Fast Automated Securities Transfer Program, issue and dispatch by overnight courier to the address as specified in the Exercise Notice, a certificate, registered in the Company’s share register in the name of the Holder or its designee, for the number of shares of Common Stock to which the Holder is entitled pursuant to such exercise. Upon delivery of the Exercise Notice and Aggregate Exercise Price referred to in clause (ii)(A) above or notification to the Company of a Cashless Exercise referred to in Section 1(d), 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 certificates evidencing such Warrant Shares. If this Warrant is submitted in connection with any exercise pursuant to this Section 1(a) and the number of Warrant Shares represented by this Warrant submitted for exercise is greater than the number of Warrant Shares being acquired upon an exercise, then the Company shall as soon as practicable and in no event later than three Business Days after any exercise and at its own expense, issue a new Warrant (in accordance with Section 7(d)) representing the right to purchase the number of Warrant Shares purchasable immediately prior to such exercise under this Warrant, less the number of Warrant Shares with respect to which this Warrant is exercised. No fractional shares of Common Stock are to be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant, but rather the number of shares of Common Stock to be issued shall be rounded up to the nearest whole number. The Company shall pay any and all taxes which may be payable with respect to the issuance and delivery of Warrant Shares upon exercise of this Warrant.

 

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(b) Exercise Price. For purposes of this Warrant, “Exercise Price” means a price equal to the greater of (A) the product of (x) 115% and (y) the arithmetic average of the Weighted Average Price of the Common Stock on the five (5) Trading Days commencing with the First Trading Day after the Subscription Date and (B) $8.61, subject to adjustment as provided herein.

 

(c) Company’s Failure to Timely Deliver Securities. Subject to Section 1(f), if the Company shall fail for any reason or for no reason to issue to the Holder within three (3) Business Days of receipt of the Exercise Delivery Documents, a certificate for the number of shares of Common Stock to which the Holder is entitled and register such shares of Common Stock on the Company’s share register or to credit the Holder’s balance account with DTC for such number of shares of Common Stock to which the Holder is entitled upon the Holder’s exercise of this Warrant, then, in addition to all other remedies available to the Holder, the Company shall pay in cash to the Holder on each day after such third Business Day that the issuance of such shares of Common Stock is not timely effected an amount equal to 1.5% of the product of (A) the sum of the number of shares of Common Stock not issued to the Holder on a timely basis and to which the Holder is entitled and (B) the Closing Sale Price of the shares of Common Stock on the trading day immediately preceding the last possible date which the Company could have issued such shares of Common Stock to the Holder without violating Section 1(a). In addition to the foregoing, if within three (3) trading days after the Company’s receipt of the facsimile copy of a Exercise Notice the Company shall fail to issue and deliver a certificate to the Holder and register such shares of Common Stock on the Company’s share register or credit the Holder’s balance account with DTC for the number of shares of Common Stock to which the Holder is entitled upon such holder’s exercise hereunder, and if on or after such trading day the Holder purchases (in an open market transaction or otherwise) shares of Common Stock to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the Holder of shares of Common Stock issuable upon such exercise that the Holder anticipated receiving from the Company (a “Buy-In”), then the Company shall, within three Business Days after the Holder’s request and in the Holder’s discretion, either (i) pay cash to the Holder in an amount equal to the Holder’s total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the shares of Common Stock so purchased (the “Buy-In Price”), at which point the Company’s obligation to deliver such certificate (and to issue such shares of Common Stock) shall terminate, or (ii) promptly honor its obligation to deliver to the Holder a certificate or certificates representing such shares of Common Stock and pay cash to the Holder in an amount equal to the excess (if any) of the Buy-In Price over the product of (A) such number of shares of Common Stock, times (B) the Closing Bid Price on the date of exercise.

 

(d) Cashless Exercise. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, if a Registration Statement (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) covering the Warrant Shares that are the subject of the Exercise Notice (the “Unavailable Warrant Shares”) is not available for the resale of such Unavailable Warrant Shares, the Holder may, in its sole discretion, exercise this Warrant in whole or in part and, in lieu of making the cash payment otherwise contemplated to be made to the Company upon such exercise in payment of the Aggregate Exercise Price, elect instead to receive upon such exercise the “Net Number” of shares of Common Stock determined according to the following formula (a “Cashless Exercise”):

 

Net Number =

  

(A x B) - (A x C)

    

            B

 

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For purposes of the foregoing formula:

 

A= the total number of shares with respect to which this Warrant is then being exercised.

 

B= the Closing Sale Price of the shares of Common Stock (as reported by Bloomberg) on the date immediately preceding the date of the Exercise Notice.

 

C= the Exercise Price then in effect for the applicable Warrant Shares at the time of such exercise.

 

(e) Disputes. In the case of a dispute as to the determination of the Exercise Price or the arithmetic calculation of the Warrant Shares, the Company shall promptly issue to the Holder the number of Warrant Shares that are not disputed and resolve such dispute in accordance with Section 12.

 

(f) Limitations on Exercises.

 

(i) Beneficial Ownership. The Company shall not effect the exercise of this Warrant, and the Holder shall not have the right to exercise this Warrant, to the extent that after giving effect to such exercise, such Person (together with such Person’s affiliates) would beneficially own in excess of 4.99% (the “Maximum Percentage”) of the shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such exercise. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by such Person and its affiliates shall include the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant with respect to which the determination of such sentence is being made, but shall exclude shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon (i) exercise of the remaining, unexercised portion of this Warrant beneficially owned by such Person and its affiliates and (ii) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or unconverted portion of any other securities of the Company beneficially owned by such Person and its affiliates (including, without limitation, any convertible notes or convertible preferred stock or warrants) subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this paragraph, beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. For purposes of this Warrant, 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 (1) the

 

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Company’s most recent Form 10-K, Form 10-Q, Current Report on Form 8-K or other public filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as the case may be, (2) a more recent public announcement by the Company or (3) any other notice by the Company or the Transfer Agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding. For any reason at any time, upon the written or oral request of the Holder, the Company shall within one Business 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 the SPA Securities and the SPA Warrants, by the Holder and its affiliates since the date as of which such number of outstanding shares of Common Stock was reported. By written notice to the Company, the Holder may increase or decrease the Maximum Percentage to any other percentage not in excess of 9.99% specified in such notice; provided that (i) any such increase will not be effective until the sixty-first (61st) day after such notice is delivered to the Company, and (ii) any such increase or decrease will apply only to the Holder and not to any other holder of SPA Warrants.

 

(ii) Principal Market Regulation. The Company shall not be obligated to issue any shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this Warrant if the issuance of such shares of Common Stock would exceed that number of shares of Common Stock which the Company may issue upon exercise or conversion, as applicable, of the SPA Warrants and SPA Securities without breaching the Company’s obligations under the rules or regulations of the Principal Market (the “Exchange Cap”), except that such limitation shall not apply in the event that the Company (A) obtains the approval of its shareholders as required by the applicable rules of the Principal Market for issuances of shares of Common Stock in excess of such amount 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 Required Holders. Until such approval or written opinion is obtained, no Buyer shall be issued in the aggregate, upon exercise or conversion, as applicable, of any SPA Warrants or SPA Securities, shares of Common Stock in an amount greater than the product of the Exchange Cap multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the total number of shares of Common Stock underlying the SPA Warrants issued to such Buyer pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement on the Issuance Date and the denominator of which is the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock underlying the SPA Warrants issued to the Buyers pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement on the Issuance 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 SPA Warrants, the

 

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transferee shall be allocated a pro rata portion of such Buyer’s Exchange Cap Allocation, and the restrictions of the prior sentence shall apply to such transferee with respect to the portion of the Exchange Cap Allocation allocated to such transferee. In the event that any holder of SPA Warrants shall exercise all of such holder’s SPA Warrants into a number of shares of Common Stock which, in the aggregate, is less than such holder’s Exchange Cap Allocation, then the difference between such holder’s Exchange Cap Allocation and the number of shares of Common Stock actually issued to such holder shall be allocated to the respective Exchange Cap Allocations of the remaining holders of SPA Warrants on a pro rata basis in proportion to the shares of Common Stock underlying the SPA Warrants then held by each such holder.

 

(g) Insufficient Authorized Shares. If at any time while any of the Warrants remain outstanding the Company does not have a sufficient number of authorized and unreserved shares of Common Stock to satisfy its obligation to reserve for issuance upon exercise of the Warrants at least a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the 120% of the number of shares of Common Stock as shall from time to time be necessary to effect the exercise of all of the Warrants then outstanding (the “Required Reserve Amount”) (an “Authorized Share Failure”), then the Company shall immediately take all action necessary to increase the Company’s authorized shares of Common Stock to an amount sufficient to allow the Company to reserve the Required Reserve Amount for the Warrants then outstanding. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, as soon as practicable after the date of the occurrence of an Authorized Share Failure, but in no event later than sixty (60) days after the occurrence of such Authorized Share Failure, the Company shall hold a meeting of its stockholders for the approval of an increase in the number of authorized shares of Common Stock. In connection with such meeting, the Company shall provide each stockholder with a proxy statement and shall use its reasonable best efforts to solicit its stockholders’ approval of such increase in authorized shares of Common Stock and to cause its board of directors to recommend to the stockholders that they approve such proposal.

 

2. ADJUSTMENT OF EXERCISE PRICE AND NUMBER OF WARRANT SHARES. The Exercise Price and the number of Warrant Shares shall be adjusted from time to time as follows:

 

(a) Adjustment upon Issuance of shares of Common Stock. If and whenever on or after the Subscription Date the Company issues or sells, or in accordance with this Section 2 is deemed to have issued or sold, any shares of Common Stock (including the issuance or sale of shares of Common Stock owned or held by or for the account of the Company, but excluding shares of Common Stock deemed to have been issued by the Company in connection with any Excluded Securities (as defined in the SPA Securities) for a consideration per share (the “New Issuance Price”) less than a price (the “Applicable Price”) equal to the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such issue or sale or deemed issuance or sale (the foregoing a “Dilutive Issuance”), then immediately after such Dilutive Issuance, the Exercise Price then in effect shall be reduced to an amount equal to the product of (A) the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such Dilutive Issuance and (B) the quotient determined by dividing

 

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(1) the sum of (I) the product derived by multiplying the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such Dilutive Issuance and the number of shares of Common Stock Deemed Outstanding immediately prior to such Dilutive Issuance plus (II) the consideration, if any, received by the Company upon such Dilutive Issuance, by (2) the product derived by multiplying (I) the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such Dilutive Issuance by (II) the number of shares of Common Stock Deemed Outstanding immediately after such Dilutive Issuance. Upon each such adjustment of the Exercise Price hereunder, the number of Warrant Shares shall be adjusted to the number of shares of Common Stock determined by multiplying the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such adjustment by the number of Warrant Shares acquirable upon exercise of this Warrant immediately prior to such adjustment and dividing the product thereof by the Exercise Price resulting from such adjustment. For purposes of determining the adjusted Exercise Price under this Section 2(a), the following shall be applicable:

 

(i) Issuance of Options. If the Company in any manner grants any Options and the lowest price per share for which one share of Common Stock is issuable upon the exercise of any such Option or upon conversion, exercise or exchange of any Convertible Securities issuable upon exercise of any such Option is less than the Applicable Price, then such share of Common Stock shall be deemed to be outstanding and to have been issued and sold by the Company at the time of the granting or sale of such Option for such price per share. For purposes of this Section 2(a)(i), the “lowest price per share for which one share of Common Stock is issuable upon exercise of such Options or upon conversion, exercise or exchange of such Convertible Securities” shall be equal to the sum of the lowest amounts of consideration (if any) received or receivable by the Company with respect to any one share of Common Stock upon the granting or sale of the Option, upon exercise of the Option and upon conversion, exercise or exchange of any Convertible Security issuable upon exercise of such Option. No further adjustment of the Exercise Price or number of Warrant Shares shall be made upon the actual issuance of such shares of Common Stock or of such Convertible Securities upon the exercise of such Options or upon the actual issuance of such shares of Common Stock upon conversion, exercise or exchange of such Convertible Securities.

 

(ii) Issuance of Convertible Securities. If the Company in any manner issues or sells any Convertible Securities and the lowest price per share for which one share of Common Stock is issuable upon the conversion, exercise or exchange thereof is less than the Applicable Price, then such share of Common Stock shall be deemed to be outstanding and to have been issued and sold by the Company at the time of the issuance or sale of such Convertible Securities for such price per share. For the purposes of this Section 2(a)(ii), the “lowest price per share for which one share of Common Stock is issuable upon the conversion, exercise or exchange” shall be equal to the sum of the lowest amounts of consideration (if any) received or receivable by the Company with respect to one share of

 

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Common Stock upon the issuance or sale of the Convertible Security and upon conversion, exercise or exchange of such Convertible Security. No further adjustment of the Exercise Price or number of Warrant Shares shall be made upon the actual issuance of such shares of Common Stock upon conversion, exercise or exchange of such Convertible Securities, and if any such issue or sale of such Convertible Securities is made upon exercise of any Options for which adjustment of this Warrant has been or is to be made pursuant to other provisions of this Section 2(a), no further adjustment of the Exercise Price or number of Warrant Shares shall be made by reason of such issue or sale.

 

(iii) Change in Option Price or Rate of Conversion. If the purchase price provided for in any Options, the additional consideration, if any, payable upon the issue, conversion, exercise or exchange of any Convertible Securities, or the rate at which any Convertible Securities are convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock increases or decreases at any time, the Exercise Price and the number of Warrant Shares in effect at the time of such increase or decrease shall be adjusted to the Exercise Price and the number of Warrant Shares which would have been in effect at such time had such Options or Convertible Securities provided for such increased or decreased purchase price, additional consideration or increased or decreased conversion rate, as the case may be, at the time initially granted, issued or sold. For purposes of this Section 2(a)(iii), if the terms of any Option or Convertible Security that was outstanding as of the date of issuance of this Warrant are increased or decreased in the manner described in the immediately preceding sentence, then such Option or Convertible Security and the shares of Common Stock deemed issuable upon exercise, conversion or exchange thereof shall be deemed to have been issued as of the date of such increase or decrease. No adjustment pursuant to this Section 2(a) shall be made if such adjustment would result in an increase of the Exercise Price then in effect or a decrease in the number of Warrant Shares.

 

(iv) Calculation of Consideration Received. In case any Option is issued in connection with the issue or sale of other securities of the Company, together comprising one integrated transaction in which no specific consideration is allocated to such Options by the parties thereto, the Options will be deemed to have been issued for a consideration of $0.01. If any shares of Common Stock, Options or Convertible Securities are issued or sold or deemed to have been issued or sold for cash, the consideration received therefor will be deemed to be the net amount received by the Company therefor. If any shares of Common Stock, Options or Convertible Securities are issued or sold for a consideration other than cash, the amount of such consideration received by the Company will be the fair value of such consideration, except where such consideration consists of securities, in which case the amount of

 

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consideration received by the Company will be the Closing Sale Price of such security on the date of receipt. If any shares of Common Stock, Options or Convertible Securities are issued to the owners of the non-surviving entity in connection with any merger in which the Company is the surviving entity, the amount of consideration therefor will be deemed to be the fair value of such portion of the net assets and business of the non-surviving entity as is attributable to such shares of Common Stock, Options or Convertible Securities, as the case may be. The fair value of any consideration other than cash or securities will be determined jointly by the Company and the Required Holders. If such parties are unable to reach agreement within ten (10) days after the occurrence of an event requiring valuation (the “Valuation Event”), the fair value of such consideration will be determined within five (5) Business Days after the tenth day following the Valuation Event by an independent, reputable appraiser jointly selected by the Company and the Required Holders. The determination of such appraiser shall be final and binding upon all parties absent manifest error and the fees and expenses of such appraiser shall be borne by the Company.

 

(v) Record Date. If the Company takes a record of the holders of shares of Common Stock for the purpose of entitling them (A) to receive a dividend or other distribution payable in shares of Common Stock, Options or in Convertible Securities or (B) to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock, Options or Convertible Securities, then such record date will be deemed to be the date of the issue or sale of the shares of Common Stock deemed to have been issued or sold upon the declaration of such dividend or the making of such other distribution or the date of the granting of such right of subscription or purchase, as the case may be.

 

(vi) Floor Price. Until such time as the Company receives the Stockholder Approval (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement), no adjustment pursuant to this Section 2(a) shall cause the Exercise Price to be less than $8.56 (as adjusted for any stock dividend, stock split, stock combination, reclassification or similar transaction).

 

(b) Adjustment upon Subdivision or Combination of Common Stock. If the Company at any time on or after the Subscription Date subdivides (by any stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization or otherwise) one or more classes of its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a greater number of shares, the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such subdivision will be proportionately reduced and the number of Warrant Shares will be proportionately increased. If the Company at any time on or after the Subscription Date combines (by combination, reverse stock split or otherwise) one or more classes of its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such combination will be proportionately increased and the number of Warrant Shares will be proportionately decreased. Any adjustment under this Section 2(b) shall become effective at the close of business on the date the subdivision or combination becomes effective.

 

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(c) Other Events. If any event occurs of the type contemplated by the provisions of this Section 2 but not expressly provided for by such provisions (including, without limitation, the granting of stock appreciation rights, phantom stock rights or other rights with equity features), then the Company’s Board of Directors will make an appropriate adjustment in the Exercise Price and the number of Warrant Shares so as to protect the rights of the Holder; provided that no such adjustment pursuant to this Section 2(c) will increase the Exercise Price or decrease the number of Warrant Shares as otherwise determined pursuant to this Section 2.

 

3. RIGHTS UPON DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS. 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, stock 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 Warrant, then, in each such case:

 

(a) any Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the record date fixed for the determination of holders of shares of Common Stock entitled to receive the Distribution shall be reduced, effective as of the close of business on such record date, to a price determined by multiplying such Exercise Price by a fraction of which (i) the numerator shall be the Closing Bid Price of the shares of Common Stock on the trading day immediately preceding such record date minus the value of the Distribution (as determined in good faith by the Company’s Board of Directors) applicable to one share of Common Stock, and (ii) the denominator shall be the Closing Bid Price of the shares of Common Stock on the trading day immediately preceding such record date; and

 

(b) the number of Warrant Shares shall be increased to a number of shares equal to the number of shares of Common Stock obtainable immediately prior to the close of business on the record date fixed for the determination of holders of shares of Common Stock entitled to receive the Distribution multiplied by the reciprocal of the fraction set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph (a); provided that in the event that the Distribution is of shares of Common Stock (or common equity) (“Other Shares of Common Equity”) of a company whose shares of common equity are traded on a national securities exchange or a national automated quotation system, then the Holder may elect to receive a warrant to purchase Other Shares of Common Equity in lieu of an increase in the number of Warrant Shares, the terms of which shall be identical to those of this Warrant, except that such warrant shall be exercisable into the number of shares of Other Shares of Common Equity that would have been payable to the Holder pursuant to the Distribution had the Holder exercised this Warrant immediately prior to such record date and with an aggregate exercise price equal to the product of the amount by which the exercise price of this Warrant was decreased with respect to the Distribution pursuant to the terms of the immediately preceding paragraph (a) and the number of Warrant Shares calculated in accordance with the first part of this paragraph (b).

 

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4. PURCHASE RIGHTS; FUNDAMENTAL TRANSACTIONS.

 

(a) Purchase Rights. In addition to any adjustments pursuant to Section 2 above, if at any time the Company grants, issues or sells any Options, Convertible Securities or rights to purchase stock, 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 exercise of this Warrant (without regard to any limitations on the exercise of this Warrant) 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.

 

(b) Fundamental Transactions. The Company shall not enter into or be party to a Fundamental Transaction unless (i) the Successor Entity assumes in writing all of the obligations of the Company under this Warrant and the other Transaction Documents in accordance with the provisions of this Section (4)(b) pursuant to written agreements in form and substance satisfactory to the Required Holders and approved by the Required Holders prior to such Fundamental Transaction, including agreements to deliver to each holder of Warrants in exchange for such Warrants a security of the Successor Entity evidenced by a written instrument substantially similar in form and substance to this Warrant, including, without limitation, an adjusted exercise price equal to the value for the shares of Common Stock reflected by the terms of such Fundamental Transaction, and exercisable for a corresponding number of shares of capital stock equivalent to the shares of Common Stock acquirable and receivable upon exercise of this Warrant (without regard to any limitations on the exercise of this Warrant) prior to such Fundamental Transaction, and satisfactory to the Required Holders and (ii) the Successor Entity (including its Parent Entity) is a publicly traded corporation whose common stock is quoted on or listed for trading on an Eligible Market. Upon the occurrence of any 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 Warrant 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 Warrant with the same effect as if such Successor Entity had been named as the Company herein. Upon consummation of the Fundamental Transaction, the Successor Entity shall deliver to the Holder confirmation that there shall be issued upon exercise of this Warrant at any time after the consummation of the Fundamental Transaction, in lieu of the shares of the Common Stock (or other securities, cash, assets or other property) purchasable upon the exercise of the Warrant prior to such Fundamental Transaction, such shares of stock, securities, cash, assets or any other property whatsoever (including warrants or other purchase or subscription rights) which the Holder would have been entitled to receive upon the happening of such Fundamental Transaction had this Warrant been converted immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction, as adjusted in accordance with the provisions of this Warrant. In addition to and not in substitution for any other rights hereunder, prior to the consummation of any Fundamental Transaction pursuant to which holders of shares of Common Stock are entitled to receive securities or other assets with respect to or in exchange for shares of Common Stock (a “Corporate Event”), the Company shall make appropriate provision to insure that the Holder will thereafter have the right to receive

 

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upon an exercise of this Warrant at any time after the consummation of the Fundamental Transaction but prior to the Expiration Date, in lieu of the shares of the Common Stock (or other securities, cash, assets or other property) purchasable upon the exercise of the Warrant prior to such Fundamental Transaction, such shares of stock, securities, cash, assets or any other property whatsoever (including warrants or other purchase or subscription rights) which the Holder would have been entitled to receive upon the happening of such Fundamental Transaction had the Warrant been exercised immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction. Provision made pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be in a form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Required Holders. The provisions of this Section shall apply similarly and equally to successive Fundamental Transactions and Corporate Events and shall be applied without regard to any limitations on the exercise of this Warrant.

 

5. NONCIRCUMVENTION. The Company hereby covenants and agrees that the Company will not, by amendment of its Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws or through any reorganization, transfer of assets, consolidation, merger, scheme of arrangement, dissolution, issue or sale of securities, or any other voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms of this Warrant, and will at all times in good faith carry out all the provisions of this Warrant and take all action as may be required to protect the rights of the Holder. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company (i) shall not increase the par value of any shares of Common Stock receivable upon the exercise of this Warrant above the Exercise Price then in effect, (ii) shall take all such actions as may be necessary or appropriate in order that the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock upon the exercise of this Warrant, and (iii) shall, so long as any of the SPA Warrants are outstanding, take all action necessary to reserve and keep available out of its authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock, solely for the purpose of effecting the exercise of the SPA Warrants, 120% of the number of shares of Common Stock as shall from time to time be necessary to effect the exercise of the SPA Warrants then outstanding (without regard to any limitations on exercise).

 

6. WARRANT HOLDER NOT DEEMED A STOCKHOLDER. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, the Holder, solely in such Person’s capacity as a holder of this Warrant, shall not be entitled to vote or receive dividends or be deemed the holder of share capital of the Company for any purpose, nor shall anything contained in this Warrant be construed to confer upon the Holder, solely in such Person’s capacity as the Holder of this Warrant, any of the rights of a shareholder of the Company or any right to vote, give or withhold consent to any corporate action (whether any reorganization, issue of stock, reclassification of stock, consolidation, merger, conveyance or otherwise), receive notice of meetings, receive dividends or subscription rights, or otherwise, prior to the issuance to the Holder of the Warrant Shares which such Person is then entitled to receive upon the due exercise of this Warrant. In addition, nothing contained in this Warrant shall be construed as imposing any liabilities on the Holder to purchase any securities (upon exercise of this Warrant or otherwise) or as a shareholder of the Company, whether such liabilities are asserted by the Company or by creditors of the Company. Notwithstanding this Section 6, the Company shall provide the Holder with copies of the same notices and other information given to the shareholders of the Company generally, contemporaneously with the giving thereof to the shareholders.

 

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7. REISSUANCE OF WARRANTS.

 

(a) Transfer of Warrant. If this Warrant is to be transferred, the Holder shall surrender this Warrant to the Company, whereupon the Company will forthwith issue and deliver upon the order of the Holder a new Warrant (in accordance with Section 7(d)), registered as the Holder may request, representing the right to purchase the number of Warrant Shares being transferred by the Holder and, if less then the total number of Warrant Shares then underlying this Warrant is being transferred, a new Warrant (in accordance with Section 7(d)) to the Holder representing the right to purchase the number of Warrant Shares not being transferred.

 

(b) Lost, Stolen or Mutilated Warrant. Upon receipt by the Company of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Warrant, and, in the case of loss, theft or destruction, of any indemnification undertaking by the Holder to the Company in customary form and, in the case of mutilation, upon surrender and cancellation of this Warrant, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Holder a new Warrant (in accordance with Section 7(d)) representing the right to purchase the Warrant Shares then underlying this Warrant.

 

(c) Exchangeable for Multiple Warrants. This Warrant is exchangeable, upon the surrender hereof by the Holder at the principal office of the Company, for a new Warrant or Warrants (in accordance with Section 7(d)) representing in the aggregate the right to purchase the number of Warrant Shares then underlying this Warrant, and each such new Warrant will represent the right to purchase such portion of such Warrant Shares as is designated by the Holder at the time of such surrender; provided, however, that no Warrants for fractional shares of Common Stock shall be given.

 

(d) Issuance of New Warrants. Whenever the Company is required to issue a new Warrant pursuant to the terms of this Warrant, such new Warrant (i) shall be of like tenor with this Warrant, (ii) shall represent, as indicated on the face of such new Warrant, the right to purchase the Warrant Shares then underlying this Warrant (or in the case of a new Warrant being issued pursuant to Section 7(a) or Section 7(c), the Warrant Shares designated by the Holder which, when added to the number of shares of Common Stock underlying the other new Warrants issued in connection with such issuance, does not exceed the number of Warrant Shares then underlying this Warrant), (iii) shall have an issuance date, as indicated on the face of such new Warrant which is the same as the Issuance Date, and (iv) shall have the same rights and conditions as this Warrant.

 

8. NOTICES. Whenever notice is required to be given under this Warrant, unless otherwise provided herein, such notice shall be given in accordance with Section 9(f) of the Securities Purchase Agreement. The Company shall provide the Holder with prompt written notice of all actions taken pursuant to this Warrant, including in reasonable detail a description of such action and the reason therefore. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company will give written notice to the Holder (i) immediately upon any adjustment of the Exercise Price, setting forth in reasonable detail, and certifying, the calculation of such adjustment and (ii) at least fifteen days prior to the date on which the Company closes its books or takes a record (A) with respect to any dividend or distribution upon the shares of Common

 

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Stock, (B) with respect to any grants, issuances or sales of any Options, Convertible Securities or rights to purchase stock, warrants, securities or other property to holders of shares of Common Stock or (C) for determining rights to vote with respect to any Fundamental Transaction, dissolution or liquidation, provided in each case that such information shall be made known to the public prior to or in conjunction with such notice being provided to the Holder.

 

9. AMENDMENT AND WAIVER. Except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions of this Warrant may be amended and the Company may take any action herein prohibited, or omit to perform any act herein required to be performed by it, only if the Company has obtained the written consent of the Required Holders and any such amendment or action so approved shall be binding upon all existing and future Holders of this Warrant; provided that no such action may increase the exercise price of any SPA Warrants or decrease the number of shares or class of stock obtainable upon exercise of any SPA Warrants without the written consent of the Holder. No such amendment shall be effective to the extent that it applies to less than all of the holders of the SPA Warrants then outstanding.

 

10. GOVERNING LAW. This Warrant shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with, and all questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and performance of this Warrant shall be governed by, the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdictions other than the State of New York.

 

11. CONSTRUCTION; HEADINGS. This Warrant shall be deemed to be jointly drafted by the Company and all the Buyers and shall not be construed against any person as the drafter hereof. The headings of this Warrant are for convenience of reference and shall not form part of, or affect the interpretation of, this Warrant.

 

12. DISPUTE RESOLUTION. In the case of a dispute as to the determination of the Exercise Price or the arithmetic calculation of the Warrant Shares, the Company shall submit the disputed determinations or arithmetic calculations via facsimile within two Business Days of receipt of the Exercise Notice giving rise to such dispute, as the case may be, to the Holder. If the Holder and the Company are unable to agree upon such determination or calculation of the Exercise Price or the Warrant Shares within three Business Days of such disputed determination or arithmetic calculation being submitted to the Holder, then the Company shall, within two Business Days submit via facsimile (a) the disputed determination of the Exercise Price to an independent, reputable investment bank selected by the Company and approved by the Holder or (b) the disputed arithmetic calculation of the Warrant Shares to the Company’s independent, outside accountant. The Company shall use reasonable best efforts to cause at its expense the investment bank or the accountant, as the case may be, to perform the determinations or calculations and notify the Company and the Holder of the results no later than ten Business Days from the time it receives the disputed determinations or calculations. Such investment bank’s or accountant’s determination or calculation, as the case may be, shall be binding upon all parties absent demonstrable error.

 

13. REMEDIES, OTHER OBLIGATIONS, BREACHES AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF. The remedies provided in this Warrant shall be cumulative and in addition to all other

 

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remedies available under this Warrant and 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 right of the Holder right to pursue actual damages for any failure by the Company to comply with the terms of this Warrant. 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 of this Warrant shall be entitled, in addition to all other available remedies, to an injunction restraining any breach, without the necessity of showing economic loss and without any bond or other security being required.

 

14. TRANSFER. This Warrant may be offered for sale, sold, transferred or assigned without the consent of the Company, except as may otherwise be required by Section 2(f) of the Securities Purchase Agreement.

 

15. CERTAIN DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this Warrant, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

 

(a) “Bloomberg” means Bloomberg Financial Markets.

 

(b) “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.

 

(c) “Common Stock” means (i) the Company’s shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, and (ii) any share capital into which such Common Stock shall have been changed or any share capital resulting from a reclassification of such Common Stock.

 

(d) “Closing Bid Price” and “Closing Sale Price” means, for any security as of any date, the last closing bid price and last closing trade price, respectively, 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 bid price or the closing trade price, as the case may be, then the last bid price or last trade price, respectively, 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 closing bid price or last trade price, respectively, 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 closing bid price or last trade price, respectively, of such security in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin board for such security as reported by Bloomberg, or, if no closing bid price or last trade price, respectively, 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 sheets” by Pink Sheets LLC (formerly the National Quotation Bureau, Inc.). If the Closing Bid Price or the Closing Sale Price cannot be calculated for a security on a particular date on any of the foregoing bases, the Closing Bid Price or the Closing Sale Price, as the case may be, of such security on such date shall be the fair market value as mutually determined by the Company and the Holder. If the Company and the Holder are unable to agree upon the fair market value of such security, then such dispute shall be resolved pursuant to Section 12. All such determinations to be appropriately adjusted for any stock dividend, stock split, stock combination or other similar transaction during the applicable calculation period.

 

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(e) “Common Stock Deemed Outstanding” means, at any given time, the number of shares of Common Stock actually outstanding at such time, plus the number of shares of Common Stock deemed to be outstanding pursuant to Sections 2(a)(i) and 2(a)(ii) hereof regardless of whether the Options or Convertible Securities are actually exercisable at such time, but excluding any Common Stock owned or held by or for the account of the Company or issuable upon conversion or exercise, as applicable, of the SPA Securities and the Warrants.

 

(f) “Convertible Securities” means any stock or securities (other than Options) directly or indirectly convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock.

 

(g) “Eligible Market” means the Principal Market, The New York Stock Exchange, Inc., the American Stock Exchange, or The Nasdaq SmallCap Market.

 

(h) “Expiration Date” means the date sixty months after the Issuance Date or, if such date falls on a day other than a Business Day or on which trading does not take place on the Principal Market (a “Holiday”), the next date that is not a Holiday.

 

(i) “Fundamental Transaction” means that the Company shall, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions, (i) consolidate or merge with or into (whether or not the Company is the surviving corporation) another Person, or (ii) sell, assign, transfer, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company to another Person, or (iii) allow another Person to make a purchase, tender or exchange offer that is accepted by the holders of more than the 50% of either the outstanding shares of Common Stock or the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock (not including any shares of Common Stock held by the Person or Persons making or party to, or associated or affiliated with the Persons making or party to, such purchase, tender or exchange offer), or (iv) consummate a stock purchase agreement or other business combination (including, without limitation, a reorganization, recapitalization, spin-off or scheme of arrangement) with another Person whereby such other Person acquires more than the 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 stock purchase agreement or other business combination), or (v) reorganize, recapitalize or reclassify its Common Stock.

 

(j) “Options” means any rights, warrants or options to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock or Convertible Securities.

 

(k) “Parent Entity” of a Person means an entity that, directly or indirectly, controls the applicable Person and whose common stock or equivalent equity security is quoted or listed on an Eligible Market, or, if there is more than one such Person or Parent Entity, the Person or Parent Entity with the largest public market capitalization as of the date of consummation of the Fundamental Transaction.

 

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(l) “Person” means an individual, a limited liability company, a partnership, a joint venture, a corporation, a trust, an unincorporated organization, any other entity and a government or any department or agency thereof.

 

(m) “Principal Market” means the Nasdaq National Market.

 

(n) “Registration Rights Agreement” means that certain registration rights agreement by and among the Company and the Buyers.

 

(o) “Required Holders” means the holders of the SPA Warrants representing at least a majority of shares of Common Stock underlying the SPA Warrants then outstanding.

 

(p) “SPA Securities” means the Notes issued pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement.

 

(q) “Successor Entity” means the Person (or, if so elected by the Required Holders, the Parent Entity) formed by, resulting from or surviving any Fundamental Transaction or the Person (or, if so elected by the Required Holders, the Parent Entity) with which such Fundamental Transaction shall have been entered into.

 

(r) “Trading Day” means any day on which the Common Stock is traded on the Principal Market, or, if the Principal Market is not the principal trading market for the Common Stock, then on the principal securities exchange or securities market on which the Common Stock is then traded; provided that “Trading Day” shall not include any day on which the Common Stock is scheduled to trade on such exchange or market for less than 4.5 hours or any day that the Common Stock is suspended from trading during the final hour of trading on such exchange or market (or if such exchange or market does not designate in advance the closing time of trading on such exchange or market, then during the hour ending at 4:00:00 p.m., New York Time).

 

(s) “Warrant Number” means a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the quotient of (x) 8% of the amount of the Principal (as defined in the SPA Securities) of the Notes issued to the Holder at the Closing (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement and (y) the Exercise Price.

 

(t) “Weighted Average Price” means, for any security as of any date, the dollar volume-weighted average price for such security on the Principal Market during the period beginning at 9:30:01 a.m., New York Time (or such other time as the Principal Market publicly announces is the official open of trading), and ending at 4:00:00 p.m., New York Time (or such other time as the Principal Market publicly announces is the official close of trading) as reported by Bloomberg through its “Volume at Price” functions, 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 9:30:01 a.m., New York Time (or such other time as such market publicly announces is the official open of trading), and ending at 4:00:00 p.m., New York Time (or such other time as such market publicly announces is the official close of trading) 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

 

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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 sheets” by Pink Sheets LLC (formerly the National Quotation Bureau, Inc.). If the Weighted Average Price cannot be calculated for a security on a particular date on any of the foregoing bases, the Weighted Average Price of such security on such date shall be the fair market value as mutually determined by the Company and the Holder. If the Company and the Holder are unable to agree upon the fair market value of such security, then such dispute shall be resolved pursuant to Section 12. All such determinations to be appropriately adjusted for any stock dividend, stock split, stock combination or other similar transaction during the applicable calculation period.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Warrant to Purchase Common Stock to be duly executed as of the Issuance Date set out above.

 

MODTECH HOLDINGS, INC.

By:

 

 


Name:

   

Title:

   

 


EXHIBIT A

 

EXERCISE NOTICE

 

TO BE EXECUTED BY THE REGISTERED HOLDER TO EXERCISE THIS

WARRANT TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK

 

MODTECH HOLDINGS, INC.

 

The undersigned holder hereby exercises the right to purchase                              of the shares of Common Stock (“Warrant Shares”) of Modtech Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), evidenced by the attached Warrant to Purchase Common Stock (the “Warrant”). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Warrant.

 

1. Form of Exercise Price. The Holder intends that payment of the Exercise Price shall be made as:

 

                     a “Cash Exercise” with respect to                                          Warrant Shares; and/or

 

                     a “Cashless Exercise” with respect to                                      Warrant Shares.

 

2. Payment of Exercise Price. In the event that the holder has elected a Cash Exercise with respect to some or all of the Warrant Shares to be issued pursuant hereto, the holder shall pay the Aggregate Exercise Price in the sum of $                         to the Company in accordance with the terms of the Warrant.

 

3. Delivery of Warrant Shares. The Company shall deliver to the holder                      Warrant Shares in accordance with the terms of the Warrant.

 

Date:                          ,             

 

 

 


Name of Registered Holder

 

By:

 

 


Name:

   

Title:

   


ACKNOWLEDGMENT

 

Delivery Via DWAC

 

[Company Letterhead]

 

Date:

 

Via Fax:[201-296-4491] only

 

Mellon Investor Services LLC

DWAC Dept

85 Challenger Road, Overpeck Center

Ridgefield Park NJ 07660

 

Re: DWAC Issuance 001-751-60783C10   Control No. 2005-        

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

You are hereby authorized to issue and deliver the shares of Common Stock as indicated below via DWAC. The shares are being issued to cover the exercise of the Warrants under the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of December     , 2004.

 

Number of Shares:

  ____________________________________________
                         Original Issue or
                         Transfer from Treasury Account

Broker Name:

  ____________________________________________

Broker’s DTC Number:

  ____________________________________________

Contact and Phone:

  ____________________________________________

 

   The broker will initiate the DWAC transaction on (date).

 

Sincerely,

 

[Company Contact Name]

[Title]

 

cc: Broker


ACKNOWLEDGMENT

 

Form for Physical Certificate

 

[Company Letterhead]

 

Via Fax:[201-296-4279] only

 

Mellon Investor Services LLC

Stock Option Dept

85 Challenger Road, Overpeck Center

Ridgefield Park NJ 07660

 

Re: Option Issuance 001-751-60783C10   Control No. 2005-        

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

You are hereby authorized to issue and deliver the shares of Common Stock as indicated below via Physical certificate. The shares are being issued to cover the exercise of the Warrants under the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of December     , 2004:

 

Date of Certificate:

  

_________________________________________________

Number of Shares:

  

_________________________________________________

Optionee Name:

  

_________________________________________________

Social Security Number:

  

_________________________________________________

Restricted Shares:

  

¨  NO     ¨  YES (see attached legend to be affixed to certificate)

Name on Certificate:

  

_________________________________________________

Mailing Address

  

_________________________________________________                                 

for Certificates:

  

_________________________________________________

Method of Delivery:

  

_________________________________________________

 

Please call [Company contact & Phone #] if you have any questions. Thank you for your assistance.

 

Very truly yours,

 

[Company Contact Name]

            [Title]

EX-4.4 5 dex44.htm REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT, DATED DECEMBER 30, 2004 Registration Rights Agreement, dated December 30, 2004

Exhibit 4.4

 

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

 

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of December 30, 2004, by and among Modtech Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation, with headquarters located at 2830 Barrett Avenue, Perris, California 92571 (the “Company”), and the undersigned buyers (each, a “Buyer”, and collectively, the “Buyers”).

 

WHEREAS:

 

A. In connection with the Securities Purchase Agreement by and among the parties hereto of even date herewith (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”), the Company has agreed, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Securities Purchase Agreement, to issue and sell to each Buyer (i) senior subordinated secured convertible notes of the Company (the “Notes”), which will, among other things, be convertible into the Company’s common stock, $.01 par value per share (the ”Common Stock”, as converted, the “Conversion Shares”) in accordance with the terms of the Notes, and (ii) warrants (the “Warrants”), which will be exercisable to purchase shares of Common Stock (as exercised collectively, the “Warrant Shares”).

 

B. To induce the Buyers to execute and deliver the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Company has agreed to provide certain registration rights under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder, or any similar successor statute (collectively, the “1933 Act”), and applicable state securities laws.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and each of the Buyers hereby agree as follows:

 

1. Definitions.

 

Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Securities Purchase Agreement. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

 

a. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which commercial banks in The City of New York are authorized or required by law to remain closed.

 

b. “Closing Date” shall have the meaning set forth in the Securities Purchase Agreement.

 

c. “Effective Date” means the date the Registration Statement has been declared effective by the SEC.

 

d. “Effectiveness Deadline” means the date which is (i) in the event that the Registration Statement is not subject to a full review by the SEC, 90 calendar days after the Closing Date or (ii) in the event that the Registration Statement is subject to a full review by the SEC, 120 calendar days after the Closing Date.


e. “Filing Deadline” means 30 calendar days after the Closing Date.

 

f. “Investor” means a Buyer or any transferee or assignee thereof to whom a Buyer assigns its rights under this Agreement and who agrees to become bound by the provisions of this Agreement in accordance with Section 9 and any transferee or assignee thereof to whom a transferee or assignee assigns its rights under this Agreement and who agrees to become bound by the provisions of this Agreement in accordance with Section 9.

 

g. “Person” means an individual, a limited liability company, a partnership, a joint venture, a corporation, a trust, an unincorporated organization and a government or any department or agency thereof.

 

h. “register,” “registered,” and “registration” refer to a registration effected by preparing and filing one or more Registration Statements (as defined below) in compliance with the 1933 Act and pursuant to Rule 415 and the declaration or ordering of effectiveness of such Registration Statement(s) by the SEC.

 

i. “Registrable Securities” means (i) the Conversion Shares issued or issuable upon conversion of the Notes, (ii) the Warrant Shares issued or issuable upon exercise of the Warrants and (iii) any share capital of the Company issued or issuable with respect to the Conversion Shares, the Notes, the Warrant Shares, or the Warrants as a result of any split, dividend, recapitalization, exchange or similar event or otherwise, without regard to any limitations on conversions of the Notes or exercises of the Warrants.

 

j. “Registration Statement” means a registration statement or registration statements of the Company filed under the 1933 Act covering the Registrable Securities.

 

k. “Required Holders” means the holders of at least a majority of the Registrable Securities.

 

l. “Required Registration Amount” means 130% of the sum of (i) the number of Conversion Shares issued and issuable pursuant to the Notes as of the trading day immediately preceding the applicable date of determination, and (ii) the number of Warrant Shares issued and issuable pursuant to the Warrants as of the trading day immediately preceding the applicable date of determination, all subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2(e).

 

m. “Rule 415” means Rule 415 under the 1933 Act or any successor rule providing for offering securities on a continuous or delayed basis.

 

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

 

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2. Registration.

 

a. Mandatory Registration. The Company shall prepare, and, as soon as practicable but in no event later than the Filing Deadline, file with the SEC the Registration Statement on Form S-3 covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities. In the event that Form S-3 is unavailable for such a registration, the Company shall use such other form as is available for such a registration, subject to the provisions of Section 2(d). The Registration Statement prepared pursuant hereto shall register for resale at least the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Required Registration Amount as of date the Registration Statement is initially filed with the SEC. The Registration Statement shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Required Holders) the “Selling Stockholders” and “Plan of Distribution” sections in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B. The Company shall use its best efforts to have the Registration Statement declared effective by the SEC as soon as practicable, but in no event later than the Effectiveness Deadline.

 

b. Allocation of Registrable Securities. The initial number of Registrable Securities included in any Registration Statement and any increase in the number of Registrable Securities included therein shall be allocated pro rata among the Investors based on the number of Registrable Securities held by each Investor at the time the Registration Statement covering such initial number of Registrable Securities or increase thereof is declared effective by the SEC. In the event that an Investor sells or otherwise transfers any of such Investor’s Registrable Securities, each transferee shall be allocated a pro rata portion of the then remaining number of Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement for such transferor. Any Shares of Common Stock included in a Registration Statement and which remain allocated to any Person which ceases to hold any Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement shall be allocated to the remaining Investors, pro rata based on the number of Registrable Securities then held by such Investors which are covered by such Registration Statement. In no event shall the Company include any securities other than Registrable Securities on any Registration Statement without the prior written consent of the Required Holders.

 

c. Legal Counsel. Subject to Section 5 hereof, the Required Holders shall have the right to select one legal counsel to review and oversee any registration pursuant to this Section 2 (“Legal Counsel”), which shall be Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP or such other counsel as thereafter designated by the Required Holders. The Company and Legal Counsel shall reasonably cooperate with each other in performing the Company’s obligations under this Agreement.

 

d. Ineligibility for Form S-3. In the event that Form S-3 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall (i) register the resale of the Registrable Securities on another appropriate form reasonably acceptable to the Required Holders and (ii) undertake to register the Registrable Securities on Form S-3 as soon as such form is available, provided that the Company shall maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-3 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the SEC.

 

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e. Sufficient Number of Shares Registered. In the event the number of shares available under a Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2(a) is insufficient to cover all of the Registrable Securities required to be covered by such Registration Statement or an Investor’s allocated portion of the Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2(b), the Company shall amend the applicable Registration Statement, or file a new Registration Statement (on the short form available therefor, if applicable), or both, so as to cover at least the Required Registration Amount as of the trading day immediately preceding the date of the filing of such amendment or new Registration Statement, in each case, as soon as practicable, but in any event not later than fifteen (15) days after the necessity therefor arises. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such amendment and/or new Registration Statement to become effective as soon as practicable following the filing thereof. For purposes of the foregoing provision, the number of shares available under a Registration Statement shall be deemed “insufficient to cover all of the Registrable Securities” if at any time the number of shares of Common Stock available for resale under the Registration Statement is less than the product determined by multiplying (i) the Required Registration Amount as of such time by (ii) 0.90. The calculation set forth in the foregoing sentence shall be made without regard to any limitations on the conversion of the Notes or the exercise of the Warrants and such calculation shall assume that the Notes are then convertible into shares of Common Stock at the then prevailing Conversion Rate (as defined in the Notes) and that the Warrants are then exercisable for shares of Common Stock at the then prevailing Exercise Price (as defined in the Warrants).

 

f. Effect of Failure to File and Obtain and Maintain Effectiveness of Registration Statement. If (i) a Registration Statement covering all of the Registrable Securities required to be covered thereby and required to be filed by the Company pursuant to this Agreement is (A) not filed with the SEC on or before the respective Filing Deadline (a “Filing Failure”) or (B) not declared effective by the SEC on or before the respective Effectiveness Deadline (an “Effectiveness Failure”) or (ii) on any day after the Effective Date sales of all of the Registrable Securities required to be included on such Registration Statement cannot be made (other than during an Allowable Grace Period (as defined in Section 3(r)) pursuant to such Registration Statement or otherwise (including, without limitation, because of a failure to keep such Registration Statement effective, to disclose such information as is necessary for sales to be made pursuant to such Registration Statement, to register a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock or to maintain the listing of the Common Stock) (a “Maintenance Failure”) then, as partial relief for the damages to any holder by reason of any such delay in or reduction of its ability to sell the underlying Shares of Common Stock (which remedy shall not be exclusive of any other remedies available at law or in equity), the Company shall pay to each holder of Registrable Securities relating to such Registration Statement an amount in cash equal to (A) one and one percent (1.0%) of the aggregate Purchase Price (as such term is defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) of such Investor’s Notes relating to the Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement on each of the following dates: (i) the day of a Filing Failure; (ii) the day of an Effectiveness Failure; and (iii) the initial day of a Maintenance Failure, and (B) two percent (2.0%) of the aggregate Purchase Price (as such term is defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) of such Investor’s Notes relating to the Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement on each of the following dates: (i) on every thirtieth day after the day of a Filing Failure and thereafter (pro rated for periods totaling less than thirty days) until such Filing Failure is cured; (ii) on every thirtieth day after the day of an Effectiveness Failure and thereafter (pro rated for periods totaling less than thirty days) until such Effectiveness

 

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Failure is cured; (iii) on every thirtieth day after the initial day of a Maintenance Failure and thereafter (pro rated for periods totaling less than thirty days) until such Maintenance Failure is cured. The payments to which a holder shall be entitled pursuant to this Section 2(g) are referred to herein as “Registration Delay Payments.” Registration Delay Payments shall be paid on the earlier of (I) the last day of the calendar month during which such Registration Delay Payments are incurred and (II) the third Business Day after the event or failure giving rise to the Registration Delay Payments is cured. In the event the Company fails to make Registration Delay Payments in a timely manner, such Registration Delay Payments shall bear interest at the rate of 2.0% per month (prorated for partial months) until paid in full.

 

3. Related Obligations.

 

At such time as the Company is obligated to file a Registration Statement with the SEC pursuant to Section 2(a), 2(d) or 2(e), the Company will use its best efforts to effect the registration of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method of disposition thereof and, pursuant thereto, the Company shall have the following obligations:

 

a. The Company shall submit to the SEC, within two (2) Business Days after the Company learns that no review of a particular Registration Statement will be made by the staff of the SEC or that the staff has no further comments on a particular Registration Statement, as the case may be, a request for acceleration of effectiveness of such Registration Statement to a time and date not later than 48 hours after the submission of such request. The Company shall keep each Registration Statement effective pursuant to Rule 415 at all times until the earlier of (i) the date as of which the Investors may sell all of the Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement without restriction pursuant to Rule 144(k) (or any successor thereto) promulgated under the 1933 Act or (ii) the date on which the Investors shall have sold all of the Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement (the “Registration Period”). The Company shall ensure that each Registration Statement (including any amendments or supplements thereto and prospectuses contained therein) shall not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein, or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of prospectuses, in the light of the circumstances in which they were made) not misleading.

 

b. The Company shall prepare and file with the SEC such amendments (including post-effective amendments) and supplements to a Registration Statement and the prospectus used in connection with such Registration Statement, which prospectus is to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 promulgated under the 1933 Act, as may be necessary to keep such Registration Statement effective at all times during the Registration Period, and, during such period, comply with the provisions of the 1933 Act with respect to the disposition of all Registrable Securities of the Company covered by such Registration Statement until such time as all of such Registrable Securities shall have been disposed of in accordance with the intended methods of disposition by the seller or sellers thereof as set forth in such Registration Statement. In the case of amendments and supplements to a Registration Statement which are required to be filed pursuant to this Agreement (including pursuant to this Section 3(b)) by reason of the Company filing a report on Form 10-Q, Form 10-K or any analogous report under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”), the Company shall have incorporated such report by reference into such Registration Statement, if applicable, or shall file such amendments or supplements with the SEC on the same day on which the 1934 Act report is filed which created the requirement for the Company to amend or supplement such Registration Statement.

 

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c. The Company shall (A) permit Legal Counsel to review and comment upon (i) a Registration Statement at least five (5) Business Days prior to its filing with the SEC and (ii) all amendments and supplements to all Registration Statements (except for Annual Reports on Form 10-K, and Reports on Form 10-Q and any similar or successor reports) within a reasonable number of days prior to their filing with the SEC, and (B) not file any Registration Statement or amendment or supplement thereto in a form to which Legal Counsel reasonably objects. The Company shall not submit a request for acceleration of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement thereto without the prior approval of Legal Counsel, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The Company shall furnish to Legal Counsel, without charge, (i) copies of any correspondence from the SEC or the staff of the SEC to the Company or its representatives relating to any Registration Statement, (ii) promptly after the same is prepared and filed with the SEC, one copy of any Registration Statement and any amendment(s) thereto, including financial statements and schedules, all documents incorporated therein by reference, if requested by an Investor, and all exhibits and (iii) upon the effectiveness of any Registration Statement, one copy of the prospectus included in such Registration Statement and all amendments and supplements thereto. The Company shall reasonably cooperate with Legal Counsel in performing the Company’s obligations pursuant to this Section 3.

 

d. The Company shall furnish to each Investor whose Registrable Securities are included in any Registration Statement, without charge, (i) promptly after the same is prepared and filed with the SEC, at least one copy of such Registration Statement and any amendment(s) thereto, including financial statements and schedules, all documents incorporated therein by reference, if requested by an Investor, all exhibits and each preliminary prospectus, (ii) upon the effectiveness of any Registration Statement, ten (10) copies of the prospectus included in such Registration Statement and all amendments and supplements thereto (or such other number of copies as such Investor may reasonably request) and (iii) such other documents, including copies of any preliminary or final prospectus, as such Investor may reasonably request from time to time in order to facilitate the disposition of the Registrable Securities owned by such Investor.

 

e. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to (i) register and qualify, unless an exemption from registration and qualification applies, the resale by Investors of the Registrable Securities covered by a Registration Statement under such other securities or “blue sky” laws of all applicable jurisdictions in the United States, (ii) prepare and file in those jurisdictions, such amendments (including post-effective amendments) and supplements to such registrations and qualifications as may be necessary to maintain the effectiveness thereof during the Registration Period, (iii) take such other actions as may be necessary to maintain such registrations and qualifications in effect at all times during the Registration Period, and (iv) take all other actions reasonably necessary or advisable to qualify the Registrable Securities for sale in such jurisdictions; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required in connection therewith or as a condition thereto to (x) qualify to do business in any jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to qualify but for this Section 3(e), (y) subject itself to general taxation in any such jurisdiction, or (z) file a general

 

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consent to service of process in any such jurisdiction. The Company shall promptly notify Legal Counsel and each Investor who holds Registrable Securities of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the registration or qualification of any of the Registrable Securities for sale under the securities or “blue sky” laws of any jurisdiction in the United States or its receipt of actual notice of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose.

 

f. The Company shall notify Legal Counsel and each Investor in writing of the happening of any event, as promptly as practicable after becoming aware of such event, as a result of which the prospectus included in a Registration Statement, as then in effect, includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (provided that in no event shall such notice contain any material, nonpublic information), and, subject to Section 3(r), promptly prepare a supplement or amendment to such Registration Statement to correct such untrue statement or omission, and deliver ten (10) copies of such supplement or amendment to Legal Counsel and each Investor (or such other number of copies as Legal Counsel or such Investor may reasonably request). The Company shall also promptly notify Legal Counsel and each Investor in writing (i) when a prospectus or any prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment has been filed, and when a Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment has become effective (notification of such effectiveness shall be delivered to Legal Counsel and each Investor by facsimile on the same day of such effectiveness and by overnight mail), (ii) of any request by the SEC for amendments or supplements to a Registration Statement or related prospectus or related information, and (iii) of the Company’s reasonable determination that a post-effective amendment to a Registration Statement would be appropriate.

 

g. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop order or other suspension of effectiveness of a Registration Statement, or the suspension of the qualification of any of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction and, if such an order or suspension is issued, to obtain the withdrawal of such order or suspension at the earliest possible moment and to notify Legal Counsel and each Investor who holds Registrable Securities being sold of the issuance of such order and the resolution thereof or its receipt of actual notice of the initiation or threat of any proceeding for such purpose.

 

h. At the reasonable request of any Investor, the Company shall furnish to such Investor, on the date of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and thereafter from time to time on such dates as an Investor may reasonably request (i) a letter, dated such date, from the Company’s independent certified public accountants in form and substance as is customarily given by independent certified public accountants to underwriters in an underwritten public offering, addressed to the Investors, and (ii) an opinion, dated as of such date, of counsel representing the Company for purposes of such Registration Statement, in form, scope and substance as is customarily given in an underwritten public offering, addressed to the Investors.

 

i. The Company shall make available for inspection by (i) any Investor, (ii) Legal Counsel and (iii) one firm of accountants or other agents retained by the Investors (collectively, the “Inspectors”), all pertinent financial and other records, and pertinent

 

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corporate documents and properties of the Company (collectively, the “Records”), as shall be reasonably deemed necessary by each Inspector, and cause the Company’s officers, directors and employees to supply all information which any Inspector may reasonably request; provided, however, that each Inspector shall agree to hold in strict confidence and shall not make any disclosure (except to an Investor) or use of any Record or other information which the Company determines in good faith to be confidential, and of which determination the Inspectors are so notified, unless (a) the disclosure of such Records is necessary to avoid or correct a misstatement or omission in any Registration Statement or is otherwise required under the 1933 Act, (b) the release of such Records is ordered pursuant to a final, non-appealable subpoena or order from a court or government body of competent jurisdiction, or (c) the information in such Records has been made generally available to the public other than by disclosure in violation of this Agreement. Each Investor agrees that it shall, upon learning that disclosure of such Records is sought in or by a court or governmental body of competent jurisdiction or through other means, give prompt notice to the Company and allow the Company, at its expense, to undertake appropriate action to prevent disclosure of, or to obtain a protective order for, the Records deemed confidential. Nothing herein (or in any other confidentiality agreement between the Company and any Investor) shall be deemed to limit the Investors’ ability to sell Registrable Securities in a manner which is otherwise consistent with applicable laws and regulations.

 

j. The Company shall hold in confidence and not make any disclosure of information concerning an Investor provided to the Company unless (i) disclosure of such information is necessary to comply with federal or state securities laws, (ii) the disclosure of such information is necessary to avoid or correct a misstatement or omission in any Registration Statement, (iii) the release of such information is ordered pursuant to a subpoena or other final, non-appealable order from a court or governmental body of competent jurisdiction, or (iv) such information has been made generally available to the public other than by disclosure in violation of this Agreement or any other agreement. The Company agrees that it shall, upon learning that disclosure of such information concerning an Investor is sought in or by a court or governmental body of competent jurisdiction or through other means, give prompt written notice to such Investor and allow such Investor, at the Investor’s expense, to undertake appropriate action to prevent disclosure of, or to obtain a protective order for, such information.

 

k. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts either to (i) cause all of the Registrable Securities covered by a Registration Statement to be listed on each securities exchange on which securities of the same class or series issued by the Company are then listed, if any, if the listing of such Registrable Securities is then permitted under the rules of such exchange or (ii) secure the inclusion for quotation of all of the Registrable Securities on the Nasdaq National Market or (iii) if, despite the Company’s reasonable best efforts, the Company is unsuccessful in satisfying the preceding clauses (i) and (ii), to secure the inclusion for quotation of all of the Registrable Securities on The Nasdaq SmallCap Market for such Registrable Securities and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, to use its reasonable best efforts to arrange for at least two market makers to register with the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (“NASD”) as such with respect to such Registrable Securities or (iv) if, despite the Company’s reasonable best efforts, the Company is unsuccessful in satisfying the preceding clauses (i)-(iii), to secure the inclusion for quotation of all of the Registrable Securities on the NASD’s OTC Bulletin Board or the American Stock Exchange. The Company shall pay all fees and expenses in connection with satisfying its obligation under this Section 3(k).

 

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l. The Company shall cooperate with the Investors who hold Registrable Securities being offered and, to the extent applicable, facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates (not bearing any restrictive legend) representing the Registrable Securities to be offered pursuant to a Registration Statement and enable such certificates to be in such denominations or amounts, as the case may be, as the Investors may reasonably request and registered in such names as the Investors may request.

 

m. If requested by an Investor, the Company shall (i) as soon as practicable incorporate in a prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment such information as an Investor reasonably requests to be included therein relating to the sale and distribution of Registrable Securities, including, without limitation, information with respect to the number of Registrable Securities being offered or sold, the purchase price being paid therefor and any other terms of the offering of the Registrable Securities to be sold in such offering; (ii) as soon as practicable make all required filings of such prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment after being notified of the matters to be incorporated in such prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment; and (iii) as soon as practicable, supplement or make amendments to any Registration Statement if reasonably requested by an Investor holding any Registrable Securities.

 

n. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Registrable Securities covered by a Registration Statement to be registered with or approved by such other governmental agencies or authorities as may be necessary to consummate the disposition of such Registrable Securities.

 

o. The Company shall make generally available to its security holders as soon as practical, but not later than ninety (90) days after the close of the period covered thereby, an earnings statement (in form complying with, and in the manner provided by, the provisions of Rule 158 under the 1933 Act) covering a twelve-month period beginning not later than the first day of the Company’s fiscal quarter next following the effective date of a Registration Statement.

 

p. The Company shall otherwise use its reasonable best efforts to comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the SEC in connection with any registration hereunder.

 

q. Within two (2) Business Days after a Registration Statement which covers Registrable Securities is ordered effective by the SEC, the Company shall deliver, and shall cause legal counsel for the Company to deliver, to the transfer agent for such Registrable Securities (with copies to the Investors whose Registrable Securities are included in such Registration Statement) confirmation that such Registration Statement has been declared effective by the SEC in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

r. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, at any time after the Effective Date, the Company may delay the disclosure of material, non-public information concerning the Company the disclosure of which at the time is not, in the good faith opinion of the Board of Directors of the Company, in the best interest of the Company and otherwise required (a “Grace Period”); provided, that the Company shall promptly (i) notify the Investors

 

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in writing of the existence of material, non-public information giving rise to a Grace Period (provided that in each notice the Company will not disclose the content of such material, non-public information to the Investors) and the date on which the Grace Period will begin, and (ii) notify the Investors in writing of the date on which the Grace Period ends; and, provided further, that no Grace Period shall exceed twenty (20) consecutive days and during any three hundred sixty five (365) day period such Grace Periods shall not exceed an aggregate of forty-five (45) days and the first day of any Grace Period must be at least two (2) trading days after the last day of any prior Grace Period (each, an “Allowable Grace Period”). For purposes of determining the length of a Grace Period above, the Grace Period shall begin on and include the date the Investors receive the notice referred to in clause (i) and shall end on and include the later of the date the Investors receive the notice referred to in clause (ii) and the date referred to in such notice. The provisions of Section 3(g) hereof shall not be applicable during the period of any Allowable Grace Period. Upon expiration of the Grace Period, the Company shall again be bound by the first sentence of Section 3(f) with respect to the information giving rise thereto unless such material, non-public information is no longer applicable. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the Company shall cause its transfer agent to deliver unlegended shares of Common Stock to a transferee of an Investor in accordance with the terms of the Securities Purchase Agreement in connection with any sale of Registrable Securities with respect to which an Investor has entered into a contract for sale prior to the Investor’s receipt of the notice of a Grace Period and for which the Investor has not yet settled.

 

s. The Company shall use its best efforts to maintain the eligibility of its registration statement on Form S-3 so that it is available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities.

 

4. Obligations of the Investors.

 

a. At least seven (7) Business Days prior to the first anticipated filing date of a Registration Statement, the Company shall notify each Investor in writing of the information the Company requires from each such Investor if such Investor elects to have any of such Investor’s Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement. It shall be a condition precedent to the obligations of the Company to complete the registration pursuant to this Agreement with respect to the Registrable Securities of a particular Investor that such Investor shall furnish to the Company such information regarding itself, the Registrable Securities held by it and the intended method of disposition of the Registrable Securities held by it as shall be reasonably required to effect the effectiveness of the registration of such Registrable Securities and shall execute such documents in connection with such registration as the Company may reasonably request.

 

b. Each Investor, by such Investor’s acceptance of the Registrable Securities, agrees to cooperate with the Company as reasonably requested by the Company in connection with the preparation and filing of any Registration Statement hereunder, unless such Investor has notified the Company in writing of such Investor’s election to exclude all of such Investor’s Registrable Securities from such Registration Statement.

 

c. Each Investor agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company of the happening of any event of the kind described in Section 3(g) or the first

 

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sentence of 3(f), such Investor will immediately discontinue disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to any Registration Statement(s) covering such Registrable Securities until such Investor’s receipt of the copies of the supplemented or amended prospectus contemplated by Section 3(g) or the first sentence of 3(f) or receipt of notice that no supplement or amendment is required. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the Company shall cause its transfer agent to deliver unlegended Shares of Common Stock to a transferee of an Investor in accordance with the terms of the Securities Purchase Agreement in connection with any sale of Registrable Securities with respect to which an Investor has entered into a contract for sale prior to the Investor’s receipt of a notice from the Company of the happening of any event of the kind described in Section 3(g) or the first sentence of 3(f) and for which the Investor has not yet settled.

 

d. Each Investor covenants and agrees that it will comply with the prospectus delivery requirements of the 1933 Act as applicable to it in connection with sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement.

 

5. Expenses of Registration.

 

All reasonable expenses, other than underwriting discounts and commissions, incurred in connection with registrations, filings or qualifications pursuant to Sections 2 and 3, including, without limitation, all registration, listing and qualifications fees, printers and accounting fees, and fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company shall be paid by the Company. The Company shall also reimburse the Investors for the fees and disbursements of Legal Counsel in connection with registration, filing or qualification pursuant to Sections 2 and 3 of this Agreement which amount shall be limited to $15,000 for each Registration Statement.

 

6. Indemnification.

 

In the event any Registrable Securities are included in a Registration Statement under this Agreement:

 

a. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company will, and hereby does, indemnify, hold harmless and defend each Investor, the directors, officers, members, partners, employees, agents, representatives of, and each Person, if any, who controls any Investor within the meaning of the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act (each, an “Indemnified Person”), against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities, judgments, fines, penalties, charges, costs, reasonable attorneys’ fees, amounts paid in settlement or expenses, joint or several, (collectively, “Claims”) incurred in investigating, preparing or defending any action, claim, suit, inquiry, proceeding, investigation or appeal taken from the foregoing by or before any court or governmental, administrative or other regulatory agency, body or the SEC, whether pending or threatened, whether or not an indemnified party is or may be a party thereto (“Indemnified Damages”), to which any of them may become subject insofar as such Claims (or actions or proceedings, whether commenced or threatened, in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon: (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact in a Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto or in any filing made in connection with the qualification of the offering under the securities or other “blue sky” laws of any jurisdiction in which Registrable Securities are offered (“Blue Sky Filing”), or the omission or alleged

 

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omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any preliminary prospectus if used prior to the effective date of such Registration Statement, or contained in the final prospectus (as amended or supplemented, if the Company files any amendment thereof or supplement thereto with the SEC) or the omission or alleged omission to state therein any material fact necessary to make the statements made therein, in the light of the circumstances under which the statements therein were made, not misleading, (iii) any violation or alleged violation by the Company of the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act, any other law, including, without limitation, any state securities law, or any rule or regulation thereunder relating to the offer or sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement or (iv) any violation of this Agreement (the matters in the foregoing clauses (i) through (iv) being, collectively, “Violations”). Subject to Section 6(c), the Company shall reimburse the Indemnified Persons, promptly as such expenses are incurred and are due and payable, for any legal fees or other reasonable expenses incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such Claim. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the indemnification agreement contained in this Section 6(a): (i) shall not apply to a Claim by an Indemnified Person arising out of or based upon a Violation which occurs in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by such Indemnified Person for such Indemnified Person expressly for use in connection with the preparation of the Registration Statement or any such amendment thereof or supplement thereto, if such prospectus was timely made available by the Company pursuant to Section 3(d); (ii) with respect to any preliminary prospectus, shall not inure to the benefit of any such Person from whom the Person asserting any such Claim purchased the Registrable Securities that are the subject thereof (or to the benefit of any Person controlling such Person) if the untrue statement or omission of material fact contained in the preliminary prospectus was corrected in the prospectus, as then amended or supplemented, if such prospectus was timely made available by the Company pursuant to Section 3(d), and the Indemnified Person was promptly advised in writing not to use the incorrect prospectus prior to the use giving rise to a violation and such Indemnified Person, notwithstanding such advice, used it or failed to deliver the correct prospectus as required by the 1933 Act and such correct prospectus was timely made available pursuant to Section 3(d); (iii) shall not be available to the extent such Claim is based on a failure of the Investor to deliver or to cause to be delivered the prospectus made available by the Company, including a corrected prospectus, if such prospectus or corrected prospectus was timely made available by the Company pursuant to Section 3(d); and (iv) shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any Claim if such settlement is effected without the prior written consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. Such indemnity shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Indemnified Person and shall survive the transfer of the Registrable Securities by the Investors pursuant to Section 9.

 

b. In connection with any Registration Statement in which an Investor is participating, each such Investor agrees to severally and not jointly indemnify, hold harmless and defend, to the same extent and in the same manner as is set forth in Section 6(a), the Company, each of its directors, each of its officers who signs the Registration Statement and each Person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act (each, an “Indemnified Party”), against any Claim or Indemnified Damages to which any of them may become subject, under the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act or otherwise, insofar as such Claim or Indemnified Damages arise out of or are based upon any Violation, in each case to the extent,

 

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and only to the extent, that such Violation occurs in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Investor expressly for use in connection with such Registration Statement; and, subject to Section 6(c), such Investor will reimburse any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by an Indemnified Party in connection with investigating or defending any such Claim; provided, however, that the indemnity agreement contained in this Section 6(b) and the agreement with respect to contribution contained in Section 7 shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any Claim if such settlement is effected without the prior written consent of such Investor, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; provided, further, however, that the Investor shall be liable under this Section 6(b) for only that amount of a Claim or Indemnified Damages as does not exceed the net proceeds to such Investor as a result of the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement. Such indemnity shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of such Indemnified Party and shall survive the transfer of the Registrable Securities by the Investors pursuant to Section 9. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the indemnification agreement contained in this Section 6(b) with respect to any preliminary prospectus shall not inure to the benefit of any Indemnified Party if the untrue statement or omission of material fact contained in the preliminary prospectus was corrected on a timely basis in the prospectus, as then amended or supplemented.

 

c. Promptly after receipt by an Indemnified Person or Indemnified Party under this Section 6 of notice of the commencement of any action or proceeding (including any governmental action or proceeding) involving a Claim, such Indemnified Person or Indemnified Party shall, if a Claim in respect thereof is to be made against any indemnifying party under this Section 6, deliver to the indemnifying party a written notice of the commencement thereof, and the indemnifying party shall have the right to participate in, and, to the extent the indemnifying party so desires, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly noticed, to assume control of the defense thereof with counsel mutually satisfactory to the indemnifying party and the Indemnified Person or the Indemnified Party, as the case may be; provided, however, that an Indemnified Person or Indemnified Party shall have the right to retain its own counsel with the fees and expenses of not more than one counsel for such Indemnified Person or Indemnified Party to be paid by the indemnifying party, if, in the reasonable opinion of counsel retained by the indemnifying party, the representation by such counsel of the Indemnified Person or Indemnified Party and the indemnifying party would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between such Indemnified Person or Indemnified Party and any other party represented by such counsel in such proceeding. In the case of an Indemnified Person, legal counsel referred to in the immediately preceding sentence shall be selected by the Investors holding at least a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities included in the Registration Statement to which the Claim relates. The Indemnified Party or Indemnified Person shall cooperate fully with the indemnifying party in connection with any negotiation or defense of any such action or Claim by the indemnifying party and shall furnish to the indemnifying party all information reasonably available to the Indemnified Party or Indemnified Person which relates to such action or Claim. The indemnifying party shall keep the Indemnified Party or Indemnified Person reasonably apprised at all times as to the status of the defense or any settlement negotiations with respect thereto. No indemnifying party shall be liable for any settlement of any action, claim or proceeding effected without its prior written consent, provided, however, that the indemnifying party shall not unreasonably withhold, delay or condition its consent. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the

 

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Indemnified Party or Indemnified Person, consent to entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement or other compromise which does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such Indemnified Party or Indemnified Person of a release from all liability in respect to such Claim or litigation, and such settlement shall not include any admission as to fault on the part of the Indemnified Party. Following indemnification as provided for hereunder, the indemnifying party shall be subrogated to all rights of the Indemnified Party or Indemnified Person with respect to all third parties, firms or corporations relating to the matter for which indemnification has been made. The failure to deliver written notice to the indemnifying party within a reasonable time of the commencement of any such action shall not relieve such indemnifying party of any liability to the Indemnified Person or Indemnified Party under this Section 6, except to the extent that the indemnifying party is prejudiced in its ability to defend such action.

 

d. The indemnification required by this Section 6 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 Indemnified Damages are incurred.

 

e. The indemnity agreements contained herein shall be in addition to (i) any cause of action or similar right of the Indemnified Party or Indemnified Person against the indemnifying party or others, and (ii) any liabilities the indemnifying party may be subject to pursuant to the law.

 

7. Contribution.

 

To the extent any indemnification by an indemnifying party is prohibited or limited by law, the indemnifying party agrees to make the maximum contribution with respect to any amounts for which it would otherwise be liable under Section 6 to the fullest extent permitted by law; provided, however, that: (i) no Person involved in the sale of Registrable Securities which Person is guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the 1933 Act) in connection with such sale shall be entitled to contribution from any Person involved in such sale of Registrable Securities who was not guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation; and (ii) contribution by any seller of Registrable Securities shall be limited in amount to the net amount of proceeds received by such seller from the sale of such Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement.

 

8. Reports Under the 1934 Act.

 

With a view to making available to the Investors the benefits of Rule 144 promulgated under the 1933 Act or any other similar rule or regulation of the SEC that may at any time permit the Investors to sell securities of the Company to the public without registration (“Rule 144”), the Company agrees to:

 

a. make and keep public information available, as those terms are understood and defined in Rule 144;

 

b. file with the SEC in a timely manner all reports and other documents required of the Company under the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act so long as the Company remains subject to such requirements and the filing of such reports and other documents is required for the applicable provisions of Rule 144; and

 

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c. furnish to each Investor so long as such Investor owns Registrable Securities, promptly upon request, (i) a written statement by the Company, if true, that it has complied with the reporting requirements of Rule 144, the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act, (ii) a copy of the most recent annual report of the Company and such other reports and documents so filed by the Company, and (iii) such other information as may be reasonably requested to permit the Investors to sell such securities pursuant to Rule 144 without registration.

 

9. Assignment of Registration Rights.

 

The rights under this Agreement shall be automatically assignable by the Investors to any transferee of all or any portion of such Investor’s Registrable Securities if: (i) the Investor agrees in writing with the transferee or assignee to assign such rights, and a copy of such agreement is furnished to the Company within a reasonable time after such assignment; (ii) the Company is, within a reasonable time after such transfer or assignment, furnished with written notice of (a) the name and address of such transferee or assignee, and (b) the securities with respect to which such registration rights are being transferred or assigned; (iii) immediately following such transfer or assignment the further disposition of such securities by the transferee or assignee is restricted under the 1933 Act or applicable state securities laws; (iv) at or before the time the Company receives the written notice contemplated by clause (ii) of this sentence the transferee or assignee agrees in writing with the Company to be bound by all of the provisions contained herein; and (v) such transfer shall have been made in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Securities Purchase Agreement.

 

10. Amendment of Registration Rights.

 

Provisions of this Agreement may be amended and the observance thereof may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively), only with the written consent of the Company and the Required Holders. Any amendment or waiver effected in accordance with this Section 10 shall be binding upon each Investor and the Company. No such amendment shall be effective to the extent that it applies to less than all of the holders of the Registrable Securities. No consideration shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of any of this Agreement unless the same consideration also is offered to all of the parties to this Agreement.

 

11. Miscellaneous.

 

a. A Person is deemed to be a holder of Registrable Securities whenever such Person owns or is deemed to own of record such Registrable Securities. If the Company receives conflicting instructions, notices or elections from two or more Persons with respect to the same Registrable Securities, the Company shall act upon the basis of instructions, notice or election received from the such record owner of such Registrable Securities.

 

b. Any notices, consents, waivers or other communications required or permitted to be given under the terms of this Agreement must be in writing and will be deemed to have been delivered: (i) upon receipt, when delivered personally; (ii) upon receipt,

 

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when sent by facsimile (provided confirmation of transmission is mechanically or electronically generated and kept on file by the sending party); or (iii) one Business Day after deposit with a nationally recognized overnight delivery service, in each case properly addressed to the party to receive the same. The addresses and facsimile numbers for such communications shall be:

 

If to the Company:

 

Modtech Holdings, Inc.

2830 Barrett Avenue

Perris, California 92571

Telephone: (951) 943-4014

Facsimile:    (951) 940-0427

Attention:   Dennis Shogren, Chief Financial Officer

 

With a copy to:

 

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

695 Town Center Drive

Seventeenth Floor

Costa Mesa, CA 92626-1924

Telephone: (714) 668-6200

Facsimile:    (714) 979-1921

Attention:   William J. Simpson, Esq.

 

If to Legal Counsel:

 

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

919 Third Avenue

New York, New York 10022

Telephone: (212) 756-2000

Facsimile:    (212) 593-5955

Attention:   Eleazer N. Klein, Esq.

 

If to a Buyer, to its address and facsimile number set forth on the Schedule of Buyers attached hereto, with copies to such Buyer’s representatives as set forth on the Schedule of Buyers, or to such other address and/or facsimile number and/or to the attention of such other Person as the recipient party has specified by written notice given to each other party five (5) days prior to the effectiveness of such change. If a notice provided for hereunder is delivered via facsimile, such notice shall be valid only if an original hard copy is delivered within 24 hours of the time such facsimile is delivered. Written confirmation of receipt (A) given by the recipient of such notice, consent, waiver or other communication, (B) mechanically or electronically generated by the sender’s facsimile machine containing the time, date, recipient facsimile number and an image of the first page of such transmission or (C) provided by a courier or overnight courier service shall be rebuttable evidence of personal service, receipt by facsimile or receipt from a nationally recognized overnight delivery service in accordance with clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, respectively.

 

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c. Failure of any party to exercise any right or remedy under this Agreement or otherwise, or delay by a party in exercising such right or remedy, shall not operate as a waiver thereof.

 

d. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdictions other than the State 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, 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 brought in an inconvenient forum or that the venue of such suit, action or proceeding is improper. 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 to such party at the address for such notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any manner permitted by law. If any provision of this Agreement shall be invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of this Agreement in that jurisdiction or the validity or enforceability of any provision of this Agreement in any other jurisdiction. EACH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE, AND AGREES NOT TO REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER OR IN CONNECTION HEREWITH OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

 

e. This Agreement, the other Transaction Documents (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) and the instruments referenced herein and therein constitute the entire agreement among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof. There are no restrictions, promises, warranties or undertakings, other than those set forth or referred to herein and therein. This Agreement, the other Transaction Documents and the instruments referenced herein and therein supersede all prior agreements and understandings among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof.

 

f. Subject to the requirements of Section 9, this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the permitted successors and assigns of each of the parties hereto.

 

g. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.

 

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h. This Agreement may be executed in identical counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which shall constitute one and the same agreement. This Agreement, once executed by a party, may be delivered to the other party hereto by facsimile transmission of a copy of this Agreement bearing the signature of the party so delivering this Agreement.

 

i. Each party shall do and perform, or cause to be done and performed, all such further acts and things, and shall execute and deliver all such other agreements, certificates, instruments and documents, as any other party may reasonably request in order to carry out the intent and accomplish the purposes of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

j. All consents and other determinations required to be made by the Investors pursuant to this Agreement shall be made, unless otherwise specified in this Agreement, by the Required Holders.

 

k. The language used in this Agreement will be deemed to be the language chosen by the parties to express their mutual intent and no rules of strict construction will be applied against any party.

 

l. This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns, and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person.

 

m. The obligations of each Buyer hereunder are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Buyer, and no provision of this Agreement is intended to confer any obligations on any Buyer vis-à-vis any other Buyer. Nothing contained herein, and no action taken by any Buyer pursuant hereto, 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 herein.

 

[Signature Page Follows]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Buyer and the Company have caused their respective signature page to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

COMPANY:

MODTECH HOLDINGS, INC.

By:

 

 


Name:

   

Title:

   


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Buyer and the Company have caused their respective signature page to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

BUYERS:
AMPHORA LIMITED
By:   Amaranth Advisors L.L.C.,
    Its Trading Advisor
By:  

 


Name:    
Title:    


SCHEDULE OF BUYERS

 

Buyer


 

Buyer’s Address

and Facsimile Number


 

Buyer’s Representative’s Address

and Facsimile Number


Amphora Limited

 

c/o Amaranth Advisors L.L.C.

One American Lane

Greenwich, CT 06831

Attention: General Counsel

Facsimile: (203) 422-3540

Telephone: (203) 422-3340

Residence: Cayman Islands

 

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

919 Third Avenue

New York, New York 10022

Attn: Eleazer Klein, Esq.

Facsimile: (212) 593-5955

Telephone: (212) 756-2000


EXHIBIT A

 

FORM OF NOTICE OF EFFECTIVENESS

OF REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

Mellon Investor Services LLC

400 S. Hope Street, 4th Floor

Los Angeles, California 90071

Telephone: (213) 553-9724

Facsimile: (213) 553-9735

Attention: Raymond Torres

 

  Re: Modtech Holdings, Inc.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

[We are][I am] counsel to Modtech Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and have represented the Company in connection with that certain Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”) entered into by and among the Company and the buyers named therein (collectively, the “Holders”) pursuant to which the Company issued to the Holders senior subordinated secured convertible notes (the “Notes”) convertible into the Company’s common stock, $.01 par value per share (the ”Common Stock”) and warrants exercisable for shares of Common Stock (the “Warrants”). Pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Company also has entered into a Registration Rights Agreement with the Holders (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company agreed, among other things, to register the Registrable Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement), including the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”). In connection with the Company’s obligations under the Registration Rights Agreement, on                                  , 200    , the Company filed a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-            ) (the “Registration Statement”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) relating to the Registrable Securities which names each of the Holders as a selling stockholder thereunder.

 

In connection with the foregoing, [we][I] advise you that a member of the SEC’s staff has advised [us][me] by telephone that the SEC has entered an order declaring the Registration Statement effective under the 1933 Act at [ENTER TIME OF EFFECTIVENESS] on [ENTER DATE OF EFFECTIVENESS] and [we][I] have no knowledge, after telephonic inquiry of a member of the SEC’s staff, that any stop order suspending its effectiveness has been issued or that any proceedings for that purpose are pending before, or threatened by, the SEC and the Registrable Securities are available for resale under the 1933 Act pursuant to the Registration Statement.


Very truly yours,

[ISSUER’S COUNSEL]

By:

 

 


 

CC: [LIST NAMES OF HOLDERS]


EXHIBIT B

 

SELLING STOCKHOLDERS

 

The shares of Common Stock being offered by the selling stockholders are issuable upon conversion of the convertible notes and upon exercise of the warrants. For additional information regarding the issuance of those convertible notes and warrants, see “Private Placement of Convertible Notes and Warrants” above. We are registering the shares of Common Stock in order to permit the selling stockholders to offer the shares for resale from time to time. Except for the ownership of the Convertible Notes and the Warrants issued pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement, the selling stockholders have not had any material relationship with us within the past three years.

 

The table below lists the selling stockholders and other information regarding the beneficial ownership of the shares of Common Stock by each of the selling stockholders. The second column lists the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by each selling stockholder, based on its ownership of the convertible notes and warrants, as of             , 200    , assuming conversion of all convertible notes and exercise of the warrants held by the selling stockholders on that date, without regard to any limitations on conversions or exercise.

 

The third column lists the shares of Common Stock being offered by this prospectus by the selling stockholders.

 

In accordance with the terms of registration rights agreements with the selling stockholders, this prospectus generally covers the resale of at least 130% of the sum of (i) the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the convertible notes as of the trading day immediately preceding the date the registration statement is initially filed with the SEC and (ii) the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the related warrants as of the trading day immediately preceding the date the registration statement is initially filed with the SEC. Because the conversion price of the convertible notes and the exercise price of the warrants may be adjusted, the number of shares that will actually be issued may be more or less than the number of shares being offered by this prospectus. The fourth column assumes the sale of all of the shares offered by the selling stockholders pursuant to this prospectus.

 

Under the terms of the convertible notes and the warrants, a selling stockholder may not convert the convertible notes or exercise the warrants to the extent such conversion or exercise would cause such selling stockholder, together with its affiliates, to beneficially own a number of shares of Common Stock which would exceed 4.99% of our then outstanding shares of Common Stock following such conversion or exercise, excluding for purposes of such determination shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the convertible notes which have not been converted and upon exercise of the warrants which have not been exercised. The number of shares in the second column does not reflect this limitation. The selling stockholders may sell all, some or none of their shares in this offering. See “Plan of Distribution.”


Name of Selling Stockholder


 

Number of Shares Owned

Prior to Offering


 

Maximum Number of Shares

to be Sold Pursuant to this

Prospectus


 

Number of Shares Owned

After Offering


Amphora Limited (1)

          0

(1) [                            ].


PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

 

The selling securityholders, or their pledgees, donees, transferees, or any of their successors in interest selling shares received from a named selling securityholder as a gift, partnership distribution or other non-sale-related transfer after the date of this prospectus (all of whom may be selling securityholders), may sell the securities from time to time on any stock exchange or automated interdealer quotation system on which the securities are listed, in the over-the-counter market, in privately negotiated transactions or otherwise, at fixed prices that may be changed, at market prices prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to prevailing market prices or at prices otherwise negotiated. The selling securityholders may sell the securities by one or more of the following methods, without limitation:

 

(a) block trades in which the broker or dealer so engaged will attempt to sell the securities as agent but may position and resell a portion of the block as principal to facilitate the transaction;

 

(b) purchases by a broker or dealer as principal and resale by the broker or dealer for its own account pursuant to this prospectus;

 

(c) an exchange distribution in accordance with the rules of any stock exchange on which the securities are listed;

 

(d) ordinary brokerage transactions and transactions in which the broker solicits purchases;

 

(e) privately negotiated transactions;

 

(f) short sales;

 

(g) through the writing of options on the securities, whether or not the options are listed on an options exchange;

 

(h) through the distribution of the securities by any selling securityholder to its partners, members or stockholders;

 

(i) one or more underwritten offerings on a firm commitment or best efforts basis;

 

(j) any combination of any of these methods of sale; and

 

(k) any other method permitted pursuant to applicable law.

 

The selling securityholders may also transfer the securities by gift. We do not know of any arrangements by the selling securityholders for the sale of any of the securities.

 

The selling securityholders may engage brokers and dealers, and any brokers or dealers may arrange for other brokers or dealers to participate in effecting sales of the securities.


These brokers, dealers or underwriters may act as principals, or as an agent of a selling securityholder. Broker-dealers may agree with a selling securityholder to sell a specified number of the securities at a stipulated price per security. If the broker-dealer is unable to sell securities acting as agent for a selling securityholder, it may purchase as principal any unsold securities at the stipulated price. Broker-dealers who acquire securities as principals may thereafter resell the securities from time to time in transactions in any stock exchange or automated interdealer quotation system on which the securities are then listed, at prices and on terms then prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to the then-current market price or in negotiated transactions. Broker-dealers may use block transactions and sales to and through broker-dealers, including transactions of the nature described above. The selling securityholders may also sell the securities in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, rather than pursuant to this prospectus, regardless of whether the securities are covered by this prospectus.

 

From time to time, one or more of the selling securityholders may pledge, hypothecate or grant a security interest in some or all of the securities owned by them. The pledgees, secured parties or persons to whom the securities have been hypothecated will, upon foreclosure in the event of default, be deemed to be selling securityholders. As and when a selling securityholder takes such actions, the number of securities offered under this prospectus on behalf of such selling securityholder will decrease. The plan of distribution for that selling securityholder’s securities will otherwise remain unchanged. In addition, a selling securityholder may, from time to time, sell the securities short, and, in those instances, this prospectus may be delivered in connection with the short sales and the securities offered under this prospectus may be used to cover short sales.

 

To the extent required under the Securities Act of 1933, the aggregate amount of selling securityholders’ securities being offered and the terms of the offering, the names of any agents, brokers, dealers or underwriters and any applicable commission with respect to a particular offer will be set forth in an accompanying prospectus supplement. Any underwriters, dealers, brokers or agents participating in the distribution of the securities may receive compensation in the form of underwriting discounts, concessions, commissions or fees from a selling securityholder and/or purchasers of selling securityholders’ securities of securities, for whom they may act (which compensation as to a particular broker-dealer might be in excess of customary commissions).

 

The selling securityholders and any underwriters, brokers, dealers or agents that participate in the distribution of the securities may be deemed to be “underwriters” within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, and any discounts, concessions, commissions or fees received by them and any profit on the resale of the securities sold by them may be deemed to be underwriting discounts and commissions.

 

A selling securityholder may enter into hedging transactions with broker-dealers and the broker-dealers may engage in short sales of the securities in the course of hedging the positions they assume with that selling securityholder, including, without limitation, in connection with distributions of the securities by those broker-dealers. The selling securityholders may also sell shares of Common Stock short and deliver shares of Common Stock covered by this prospectus to close out short positions and to return borrowed shares in connection with such short sales. A selling securityholder may enter into option or other


transactions with broker-dealers that involve the delivery of the securities offered hereby to the broker-dealers, who may then resell or otherwise transfer those securities. A selling securityholder may also loan or pledge the securities offered hereby to a broker-dealer and the broker-dealer may sell the securities offered hereby so loaned or upon a default may sell or otherwise transfer the pledged securities offered hereby.

 

The selling securityholders and other persons participating in the sale or distribution of the securities will be subject to applicable provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder, including Regulation M. This regulation may limit the timing of purchases and sales of any of the securities by the selling securityholders and any other person. The anti-manipulation rules under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 may apply to sales of securities in the market and to the activities of the selling securityholders and their affiliates. Furthermore, Regulation M may restrict the ability of any person engaged in the distribution of the securities to engage in market-making activities with respect to the particular securities being distributed for a period of up to five business days before the distribution. These restrictions may affect the marketability of the securities and the ability of any person or entity to engage in market-making activities with respect to the securities.

 

We have agreed to indemnify in certain circumstances the selling securityholders and any brokers, dealers and agents who may be deemed to be underwriters, if any, of the securities covered by the registration statement, against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933. The selling securityholders have agreed to indemnify us in certain circumstances against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933.

 

The securities offered hereby were originally issued to the selling securityholders pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. We agreed to register the securities under the Securities Act of 1933, and to keep the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part effective until the date on which the selling securityholders have sold all of the securities. We have agreed to pay all expenses in connection with this offering, including the fees and expenses of counsel or other advisors to the selling securityholders, but not including underwriting discounts, concessions, commissions or fees of the selling securityholders.

 

We will not receive any proceeds from sales of any securities by the selling securityholders.

 

We cannot assure you that the selling securityholders will sell all or any portion of the securities offered hereby.

EX-4.5 6 dex45.htm PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT, DATED DECEMBER 30, 2004 Pledge and Security Agreement, dated December 30, 2004

Exhibit 4.5

 

PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

 

PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT, dated as of December 30, 2004 (this “Agreement”) made by Modtech Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“MODT”) and each of its existing “Subsidiaries” (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement defined below) named on the signature pages hereto (collectively, the “Existing Subsidiaries”) and each other Subsidiary of MODT hereafter becoming party hereto (together with MODT and the Existing Subsidiaries, each a “Grantor” and, collectively, the “Grantors”), in favor of Amphora Limited, an exempt company organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands, in its capacity as collateral agent (in such capacity and together with its successors, assigns and replacements, collectively, the “Collateral Agent”) for the “Buyers” (as defined below) party to the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of even date herewith (as amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Securities Purchase Agreement”).

 

W I T N E S S E T H:

 

WHEREAS, MODT and each party listed as a “Buyer” on the Schedule of Buyers attached thereto (collectively, the “Buyers”) are parties to the Securities Purchase Agreement, pursuant to which MODT shall be required to sell, and the Buyers shall purchase or have the right to purchase, the “Notes” (as defined therein);

 

WHEREAS, it is a condition precedent to the Buyers entering into the Securities Purchase Agreement that MODT shall have executed and delivered to the Collateral Agent this Agreement providing for the grant to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Buyers of a security interest in all personal property of MODT to secure all of MODT’s obligations under the Securities Purchase Agreement and the “Notes” (as defined therein) issued pursuant thereto (as such Notes may be amended, restated, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, collectively, the “Notes”);

 

WHEREAS, each of the Existing Subsidiaries is a wholly-owned Subsidiary of MODT and will derive substantial benefits from the execution of the Securities Purchase Agreement;

 

WHEREAS, each of the Existing Subsidiaries, MODT and each other Grantor are or will be mutually dependent on each other in the conduct of their respective businesses as an integrated operation, with the credit needed from time to time by one often being provided through financing obtained by the other and the ability to obtain such financing being dependent on the successful operations of each of the Existing Subsidiaries, MODT and each other Grantor;

 

WHEREAS, it is a condition precedent to the Buyers entering into the Securities Purchase Agreement that each of the Existing Subsidiaries shall have executed and delivered to the Collateral Agent the “Guaranty” (as defined therein) with respect to the obligations of MODT under the Securities Purchase Agreement and the Notes (as amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Guaranty”), and this Agreement providing for the grant to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Buyers of a security interest in all personal property of each of the Existing Subsidiaries to secure its obligations under the Guaranty, and that each future Subsidiary of MODT become a party to the Guaranty and this Agreement; and


WHEREAS, each of the Existing Subsidiaries and each other Grantor has determined that the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Guaranty directly benefits, and are in the best interest of MODT; and

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the agreements herein and in order to induce the Buyers to perform under the Securities Purchase Agreement, each Grantor agrees with the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Buyers, as follows:

 

SECTION 1. Definitions.

 

(a) Reference is hereby made to the Securities Purchase Agreement and the Notes for a statement of the terms thereof. All terms used in this Agreement and the recitals hereto which are defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Notes or in Articles 8 or 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (the “Code”) as in effect from time to time in the State of New York, and which are not otherwise defined herein shall have the same meanings herein as set forth therein; provided that terms used herein which are defined in the Code as in effect in the State of New York on the date hereof shall continue to have the same meaning notwithstanding any replacement or amendment of such statute except as the Collateral Agent may otherwise determine.

 

(b) The following terms shall have the respective meanings provided for in the Code: “Accounts”, “Cash Proceeds”, “Chattel Paper”, “Commercial Tort Claim”, “Commodity Account”, “Commodity Contracts”, “Deposit Account”, “Documents”, “Equipment”, “Fixtures”, “General Intangibles”, “Goods”, “Instruments”, “Inventory”, “Investment Property”, “Letter-of-Credit Rights”, “Noncash Proceeds”, “Payment Intangibles”, “Proceeds”, “Promissory Notes”, “Security”, “Record”, “Security Account”, “Software”, and “Supporting Obligations”.

 

(c) As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the respective meanings indicated below, such meanings to be applicable equally to both the singular and plural forms of such terms:

 

Copyright Licenses” means all licenses, contracts or other agreements, whether written or oral, naming any Grantor as licensee or licensor and providing for the grant of any right to use or sell any works covered by any copyright (including, without limitation, all Copyright Licenses set forth in Schedule II hereto).

 

Copyrights” means all domestic and foreign copyrights, whether registered or not, including, without limitation, all copyright rights throughout the universe (whether now or hereafter arising) in any and all media (whether now or hereafter developed), in and to all original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, acquired or used by any Grantor (including, without limitation, all copyrights described in Schedule II hereto), all applications, registrations and recordings thereof (including, without limitation, applications, registrations and recordings in the United States Copyright Office or in any similar office or agency of the United States or any other country or any political subdivision thereof), and all reissues, divisions, continuations, continuations in part and extensions or renewals thereof.

 

Event of Default” shall have the meaning set forth in the Notes.

 

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Insolvency Proceeding” means any proceeding commenced by or against any Person under any provision of the Bankruptcy Code (Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code) or under any other bankruptcy or insolvency law, assignments for the benefit of creditors, formal or informal moratoria, compositions, or extensions generally with creditors, or proceedings seeking reorganization, arrangement, or other similar relief.

 

Intellectual Property” means the Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents.

 

Licenses” means the Copyright Licenses, the Trademark Licenses and the Patent Licenses.

 

Lien” means any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, lien (statutory or otherwise), security interest, charge or other encumbrance or security or preferential arrangement of any nature, including, without limitation, any conditional sale or title retention arrangement, any capitalized lease and any assignment, deposit arrangement or financing lease intended as, or having the effect of, security.

 

Patent Licenses” means all licenses, contracts or other agreements, whether written or oral, naming any Grantor as licensee or licensor and providing for the grant of any right to manufacture, use or sell any invention covered by any Patent (including, without limitation, all Patent Licenses set forth in Schedule II hereto).

 

Patents” means all domestic and foreign letters patent, design patents, utility patents, industrial designs, inventions, trade secrets, ideas, concepts, methods, techniques, processes, proprietary information, technology, know-how, formulae, rights of publicity and other general intangibles of like nature, now existing or hereafter acquired (including, without limitation, all domestic and foreign letters patent, design patents, utility patents, industrial designs, inventions, trade secrets, ideas, concepts, methods, techniques, processes, proprietary information, technology, know-how and formulae described in Schedule II hereto), all applications, registrations and recordings thereof (including, without limitation, applications, registrations and recordings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, or in any similar office or agency of the United States or any other country or any political subdivision thereof), and all reissues, divisions, continuations, continuations in part and extensions or renewals thereof.

 

Trademark Licenses” means all licenses, contracts or other agreements, whether written or oral, naming any Grantor as licensor or licensee and providing for the grant of any right concerning any Trademark, together with any goodwill connected with and symbolized by any such trademark licenses, contracts or agreements and the right to prepare for sale or lease and sell or lease any and all Inventory now or hereafter owned by any Grantor and now or hereafter covered by such licenses (including, without limitation, all Trademark Licenses described in Schedule II hereto).

 

Trademarks” means all domestic and foreign trademarks, service marks, collective marks, certification marks, trade names, business names, d/b/a’s, Internet domain names, trade styles, designs, logos and other source or business identifiers and all general intangibles of like nature, now or hereafter owned, adopted, acquired or used by any Grantor

 

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(including, without limitation, all domestic and foreign trademarks, service marks, collective marks, certification marks, trade names, business names, d/b/a’s, Internet domain names, trade styles, designs, logos and other source or business identifiers described in Schedule II hereto), all applications, registrations and recordings thereof (including, without limitation, applications, registrations and recordings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of the United States, any state thereof or any other country or any political subdivision thereof), and all reissues, extensions or renewals thereof, together with all goodwill of the business symbolized by such marks and all customer lists, formulae and other Records of any Grantor relating to the distribution of products and services in connection with which any of such marks are used.

 

SECTION 2. Grant of Security Interest. As collateral security for all of the “Obligations” (as defined in Section 3 hereof), each Grantor hereby pledges and assigns to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Buyers, and grants to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Buyers a continuing security interest in, all personal property of such Grantor, wherever located and whether now or hereafter existing and whether now owned or hereafter acquired, of every kind and description, tangible or intangible (collectively, the “Collateral”), including, without limitation, the following:

 

(a) all Accounts;

 

(b) all Chattel Paper (whether tangible or electronic);

 

(c) the Commercial Tort Claims specified on Schedule VI hereto;

 

(d) all Deposit Accounts (including, without limitation, all cash, and all other property from time to time deposited therein and the monies and property in the possession or under the control of the Collateral Agent or Buyer or any affiliate, representative, agent or correspondent of the Collateral Agent or Buyer;

 

(e) all Documents;

 

(f) all Equipment;

 

(g) all Fixtures;

 

(h) all General Intangibles (including, without limitation, all Payment Intangibles);

 

(i) all Goods;

 

(j) all Instruments (including, without limitation, Promissory Notes and each certificated Security);

 

(k) all Inventory;

 

(l) all Investment Property;

 

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(m) all Copyrights, Patents and Trademarks, and all Licenses;

 

(n) all Letter-of-Credit Rights;

 

(o) all Supporting Obligations;

 

(p) all other tangible and intangible personal property of such Grantor (whether or not subject to the Code), including, without limitation, all bank and other accounts and all cash and all investments therein, all proceeds, products, offspring, accessions, rents, profits, income, benefits, substitutions and replacements of and to any of the property of such Grantor described in the preceding clauses of this Section 2 (including, without limitation, any proceeds of insurance thereon and all causes of action, claims and warranties now or hereafter held by such Grantor in respect of any of the items listed above), and all books, correspondence, files and other Records, including, without limitation, all tapes, desks, cards, Software, data and computer programs in the possession or under the control of such Grantor or any other Person from time to time acting for such Grantor that at any time evidence or contain information relating to any of the property described in the preceding clauses of this Section 2 or are otherwise necessary or helpful in the collection or realization thereof; and

 

(q) all Proceeds, including all Cash Proceeds and Noncash Proceeds, and products of any and all of the foregoing Collateral; in each case howsoever such Grantor’s interest therein may arise or appear (whether by ownership, security interest, claim or otherwise).

 

SECTION 3. Security for Obligations. The security interest created hereby in the Collateral constitutes continuing collateral security for all of the following obligations, whether now existing or hereafter incurred (collectively, the “Obligations”):

 

(a) (i) the payment by MODT, as and when due and payable (by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand or otherwise), of all amounts from time to time owing by it in respect of the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Notes and the other “Transaction Documents” (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement), and (ii) the payment by each of the Existing Subsidiaries and each other Grantor other than MODT as and when due and payable of all “Guaranteed Obligations” under (as defined in) the Guaranty, including, without limitation, (A) all principal of and interest on the Notes (including, without limitation, all interest that accrues after the commencement of any Insolvency Proceeding of any Grantor, whether or not the payment of such interest is unenforceable or is not allowable due to the existence of such Insolvency Proceeding), and (B) all fees, commissions, expense reimbursements, indemnifications and all other amounts due or to become due under any of the Transaction Documents; and

 

(b) the due performance and observance by each Grantor of all of its other obligations from time to time existing in respect of any of the Transaction Documents for so long as the Notes or any other obligations under the Transaction Documents are outstanding.

 

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SECTION 4. Representations and Warranties. Each Grantor represents and warrants as follows:

 

(a) Schedule I hereto sets forth (i) the exact legal name of such Grantor, and (ii) the organizational identification number of such Grantor or states that no such organizational identification number exists.

 

(b) There is no pending or written notice threatening any action, suit, proceeding or claim affecting such Grantor before any governmental authority or any arbitrator, or any order, judgment or award by any governmental authority or arbitrator, that may adversely affect the grant by such Grantor, or the perfection, of the security interest purported to be created hereby in the Collateral, or the exercise by the Collateral Agent of any of its rights or remedies hereunder.

 

(c) INTENTIONALLY OMITTED.

 

(d) All Equipment, Fixtures, Goods and Inventory of such Grantor now existing are, and all Equipment, Fixtures, Goods and Inventory of such Grantor hereafter existing will be, located and/or based at and/or in transit to the addresses specified therefor in Schedule III hereto, except that such Grantor will give the Collateral Agent not less than 30 days’ prior written notice of any change of the location of any such Collateral, other than to locations set forth on Schedule III and with respect to which the Collateral Agent has filed financing statements and otherwise fully perfected its Liens thereon. Such Grantor’s chief place of business and chief executive office, the place where such Grantor keeps its Records concerning Accounts and all originals of all Chattel Paper are located at the addresses specified therefor in Schedule III hereto. None of the Accounts is evidenced by Promissory Notes or other Instruments. Set forth in Schedule IV hereto is a complete and accurate list, as of the date of this Agreement, of (i) each Promissory Note, Security and other Instrument owned by each Grantor and (ii) each Deposit Account, Securities Account and Commodities Account of each Grantor, together with the name and address of each institution at which each such Account is maintained, the account number for each such Account and a description of the purpose of each such Account. Set forth in Schedule II hereto is a complete and correct list of each trade name used by each Grantor and the name of, and each trade name used by, each person from which such Grantor has acquired any substantial part of the Collateral.

 

(e) Such Grantor shall set forth on Schedule II hereto a complete and correct list of all of the Licenses existing on the date of this Agreement. Each material License now existing is, and any material License entered into in the future will be, the legal, valid and binding obligation of the parties thereto, enforceable against such parties in accordance with its terms. No default under any material License by any such party has occurred, nor does any defense, offset, deduction or counterclaim exist thereunder in favor of any such party.

 

(f) Such Grantor owns and controls, or otherwise possesses adequate rights to use, all Trademarks, Patents and Copyrights, which are the only trademarks, patents, copyrights, inventions, trade secrets, proprietary information and technology, know-how, formulae, rights of publicity necessary to conduct its business in substantially the same manner as conducted as of the date hereof. Schedule II hereto sets forth a true and complete list of all registered copyrights,

 

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issued patents, Trademarks, and Licenses annually owned or used by such Grantor as of the date hereof. To the best knowledge of each Grantor, all such Intellectual Property of such Guarantor is subsisting and in full force and effect, has not been adjudged invalid or unenforceable, is valid and enforceable and has not been abandoned in whole or in part. Except as set forth in Schedule II, no such Intellectual Property is the subject of any licensing or franchising agreement. Such Grantor has no knowledge of any conflict with the rights of others to any Intellectual Property and, to the best knowledge of such Grantor, such Grantor is not now infringing or in conflict with any such rights of others in any material respect, and to the best knowledge of such Grantor, no other Person is now infringing or in conflict in any material respect with any such properties, assets and rights owned or used by such Grantor. Such Grantor has not received any notice that it is violating or has violated the trademarks, patents, copyrights, inventions, trade secrets, proprietary information and technology, know-how, formulae, rights of publicity or other intellectual property rights of any third party.

 

(g) Such Grantor is and will be at all times the sole and exclusive owner of, or otherwise has and will have adequate rights in, the Collateral free and clear of any Liens, except for Permitted Liens on any Collateral. No effective financing statement or other instrument similar in effect covering all or any part of the Collateral is on file in any recording or filing office except (A) such as may have been filed in favor of the Collateral Agent relating to this Agreement, and (B) such as may have been filed to perfect any Liens with respect to the Current Credit Facility.

 

(h) The exercise by the Collateral Agent of any of its rights and remedies hereunder will not contravene any law or any contractual restriction binding on or otherwise affecting such Grantor or any of its properties and will not result in or require the creation of any Lien, upon or with respect to any of its properties.

 

(i) No authorization or approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or other regulatory body, or any other Person, is required for (i) the grant by such Grantor, or the perfection, of the security interest purported to be created hereby in the Collateral, or (ii) the exercise by the Collateral Agent of any of its rights and remedies hereunder, except (A) for the filing under the Code as in effect in the applicable jurisdiction of the financing statements, all of which financing statements, have been duly filed and are in full force and effect, (B) with respect to the perfection of the security interest created hereby in the Intellectual Property, for the recording of the appropriate Assignment for Security, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, as applicable, in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office, as applicable, and (C) with respect to the perfection of the security interest created hereby in foreign Intellectual Property and Licenses, for registrations and filings in jurisdictions located outside of the United States and covering rights in such jurisdictions relating to the Intellectual Property and Licenses.

 

(j) This Agreement creates in favor of the Collateral Agent a legal, valid and enforceable security interest in the Collateral, as security for the Obligations. The Collateral Agent’s having possession of all Instruments and cash constituting Collateral from time to time, the recording of the appropriate Assignment for Security executed pursuant hereto in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office, as applicable, and the filing of the financing statements and the other filings and recordings, as applicable,

 

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described in Schedule V hereto and, with respect to the Intellectual Property hereafter existing and not covered by an appropriate Assignment for Security, the recording in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office, as applicable, of appropriate instruments of assignment, result in the perfection of such security interests. Such security interests are, or in the case of Collateral in which such Grantor obtains rights after the date hereof, will be, perfected, first priority security interests, subject only to Permitted Liens and the recording of such instruments of assignment. Such recordings and filings and all other action necessary or desirable to perfect and protect such security interest have been duly taken, except for the Collateral Agent’s having possession of Instruments and cash constituting Collateral after the date hereof and the other filings and recordations described in Section 4(l) hereof.

 

(k) As of the date hereof, such Grantor does not hold any Commercial Tort Claims nor is aware of any such pending claims, except for such claims described in Schedule VI.

 

(l) Each of the Subsidiaries is a wholly-owned Subsidiary of MODT and are the only Subsidiaries of MODT, as of the date hereof.

 

(m) Each of MODT’s Subsidiaries in existence as of the date hereof are inactive and have no assets, operations or income.

 

SECTION 5. Covenants as to the Collateral. So long as any of the Obligations shall remain outstanding, unless the Collateral Agent shall otherwise consent in writing:

 

(a) Further Assurances. Each Grantor will at its expense, at any time and from time to time, promptly execute and deliver all further instruments and documents and take all further action that the Collateral Agent may reasonably request in order to: (i) perfect and protect the security interest purported to be created hereby; (ii) enable the Collateral Agent to exercise and enforce its rights and remedies hereunder in respect of the Collateral; or (iii) otherwise effect the purposes of this Agreement, including, without limitation: (A) marking conspicuously all Chattel Paper and each License and, at the request of the Collateral Agent, each of its Records pertaining to the Collateral with a legend, in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, indicating that such Chattel Paper, License or Collateral is subject to the security interest created hereby, (B) delivering and pledging to the Collateral Agent hereunder each Promissory Note, Security, Chattel Paper or other Instrument, now or hereafter owned by such Grantor, duly endorsed and accompanied by executed instruments of transfer or assignment, all in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, (C) executing and filing (to the extent, if any, that such Grantor’s signature is required thereon) or authenticating the filing of, such financing or continuation statements, or amendments thereto, as may be necessary or desirable or that the Collateral Agent may request in order to perfect and preserve the security interest purported to be created hereby, (D) furnishing to the Collateral Agent from time to time statements and schedules further identifying and describing the Collateral and such other reports in connection with the Collateral in each case as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request, all in reasonable detail, (E) if any Collateral shall be in the possession of a third party, notifying such Person of the Collateral Agent’s security interest created hereby and obtaining a written acknowledgment from such Person that such Person holds possession of the Collateral for the benefit of the Collateral Agent, which such written acknowledgement shall be in form and

 

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substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, (F) if at any time after the date hereof, such Grantor acquires or holds any Commercial Tort Claim, promptly notifying the Collateral Agent in a writing signed by such Grantor setting forth a brief description of such Commercial Tort Claim and granting to the Collateral Agent a security interest therein and in the proceeds thereof, which writing shall incorporate the provisions hereof and shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, (G) upon the acquisition after the date hereof by such Grantor of any motor vehicle or other Equipment subject to a certificate of title or ownership (other than a Motor Vehicle or Equipment that is subject to a purchase money security interest), causing the Collateral Agent to be listed as the lienholder on such certificate of title or ownership and delivering evidence of the same to the Collateral Agent in accordance with the Securities Purchase Agreement; and (H) taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the Code or by other law, as applicable, in any relevant Code jurisdiction, or by other law as applicable in any foreign jurisdiction.

 

(b) Location of Equipment and Inventory. Each Grantor will keep the Equipment and Inventory at the locations specified therefor in Section 4(g) hereof or, upon not less than thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to the Collateral Agent accompanied by a new Schedule V hereto indicating each new location of the Equipment and Inventory, at such other locations in the United States.

 

(c) Condition of Equipment. Each Grantor will maintain or cause the Equipment (necessary or useful to its business) to be maintained and preserved in good condition, repair and working order, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and will forthwith, or in the case of any loss or damage to any Equipment of such Guarantor within a commercially reasonable time after the occurrence thereof, make or cause to be made all repairs, replacements and other improvements in connection therewith which are necessary or desirable, consistent with past practice, or which the Collateral Agent may reasonably request to such end. Such Grantor will promptly furnish to the Collateral Agent a statement describing in reasonable detail any such loss or damage in excess of $100,000 to any Equipment.

 

(d) Taxes, Etc. Each Grantor agrees to pay promptly when due all property and other material taxes, assessments and governmental charges or levies imposed upon, and all claims (including claims for labor, materials and supplies) against, the Equipment and Inventory, except to the extent the validity thereof is being contested in good faith by proper proceedings which stay the imposition of any penalty, fine or Lien resulting from the non-payment thereof and with respect to which adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP have been set aside for the payment thereof.

 

(e) Insurance.

 

(i) Each Grantor will, at its own expense, maintain insurance (including, without limitation, commercial general liability and property insurance) with respect to the Equipment and Inventory in such amounts, against such risks, in such form and with responsible and reputable insurance companies or associations 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 and in any event, in amount, adequacy and scope reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.

 

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Each such policy for liability insurance shall provide for all losses to be paid on behalf of the Collateral Agent and such Grantor as their respective interests may appear, and each policy for property damage insurance shall provide for all losses to be adjusted with, and paid directly to, the Collateral Agent. Each such policy shall in addition (A) name the Collateral Agent as an additional insured party thereunder (without any representation or warranty by or obligation upon the Collateral Agent) as their interests may appear, (B) contain an agreement by the insurer that any loss thereunder shall be payable to the Collateral Agent on its own account notwithstanding any action, inaction or breach of representation or warranty by such Grantor, (C) provide that there shall be no recourse against the Collateral Agent for payment of premiums or other amounts with respect thereto, and (D) provide that at least 30 days’ prior written notice of cancellation, lapse, expiration or other adverse change shall be given to the Collateral Agent by the insurer. Such Grantor will, if so requested by the Collateral Agent, deliver to the Collateral Agent original or duplicate policies of such insurance and, as often as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request, a report of a reputable insurance broker with respect to such insurance. Such Grantor will also, at the request of the Collateral Agent, execute and deliver instruments of assignment of such insurance policies and cause the respective insurers to acknowledge notice of such assignment.

 

(ii) Reimbursement under any liability insurance maintained by a Grantor pursuant to this Section 5(e) may be paid directly to the Person who shall have incurred liability covered by such insurance. In the case of any loss involving damage to Equipment or Inventory, any proceeds of insurance maintained by a Grantor pursuant to this Section 5(e) shall be paid to the Collateral Agent (except as to which paragraph (iii) of this Section 5(e) is not applicable), such Grantor will make or cause to be made the necessary repairs to or replacements of such Equipment or Inventory, and any proceeds of insurance maintained by such Grantor pursuant to this Section 5(e) shall be immediately paid by the Collateral Agent to such Grantor so long as no Event of Default exists.

 

(iii) All insurance payments in respect of such Equipment or Inventory shall be paid to the Collateral Agent and applied as specified in Section 7(b) hereof.

 

(f) Provisions Concerning the Accounts and the Licenses.

 

(i) Each Grantor will (A) give the Collateral Agent at least 30 days’ prior written notice of any change in such Grantor’s name, identity or organizational structure, (B) maintain its jurisdiction of incorporation as set forth in Section 4(b) hereto, (C) immediately notify the Collateral Agent upon obtaining an organizational identification number, if on the date hereof such Grantor did not have such identification number, and (D) keep adequate records concerning the Accounts and Chattel Paper and, at the expense of Collateral Agent so long as no Event of Default exists, permit representatives of the Collateral Agent during normal business hours on reasonable notice to such Grantor, to inspect and make abstracts from such Records and Chattel Paper.

 

(ii) Each Grantor will, except as otherwise provided in this subsection (f), continue to collect, at its own expense, all amounts due or to become due under the Accounts. In connection with such collections, such Grantor may take such action as such Grantor may deem necessary or advisable to enforce collection or performance of the Accounts;

 

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provided, however, that the Collateral Agent shall have the right at any time, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, to notify the account debtors or obligors under any Accounts of the assignment of such Accounts to the Collateral Agent and to direct such account debtors or obligors to make payment of all amounts due or to become due to such Grantor thereunder directly to the Collateral Agent or its designated agent and, upon such notification and at the expense of such Grantor and to the extent permitted by law, to enforce collection of any such Accounts and to adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment thereof, in the same manner and to the same extent as such Grantor might have done. After receipt by a Grantor of a notice from the Collateral Agent that the Collateral Agent has notified, intends to notify, or has enforced or intends to enforce a Grantor’s rights against the account debtors or obligors under any Accounts as referred to in the proviso to the immediately preceding sentence, (A) all amounts and proceeds (including Instruments) received by such Grantor in respect of the Accounts shall be received in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent hereunder, shall be segregated from other funds of such Grantor and shall be forthwith paid over to the Collateral Agent in the same form as so received (with any necessary endorsement) to be held as cash collateral and either (i) credited to the loan account so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or (ii) if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, applied as specified in Section 7(b) hereof, and (B) such Grantor will not adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment of any Account or release wholly or partly any account debtor or obligor thereof or allow any credit or discount thereon. In addition, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Collateral Agent may (in its sole and absolute discretion) direct any or all of the banks and financial institutions with which such Grantor either maintains a Deposit Account or a lockbox or deposits the proceeds of any Accounts to send immediately to the Collateral Agent by wire transfer (to such account as the Collateral Agent shall specify, or in such other manner as the Collateral Agent shall direct) all or a portion of such securities, cash, investments and other items held by such institution. Any such securities, cash, investments and other items so received by the Collateral Agent shall (in the sole and absolute discretion of the Collateral Agent) be held as additional Collateral for the Obligations or distributed in accordance with Section 7 hereof.

 

(iii) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any breach or default under any material License referred to in Schedule II hereto by any party thereto other than a Grantor, the Grantor party thereto will, promptly after obtaining knowledge thereof, give the Collateral Agent written notice of the nature and duration thereof, specifying what action, if any, it has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto and thereafter will take reasonable steps to protect and preserve its rights and remedies in respect of such breach or default, or will obtain or acquire an appropriate substitute License.

 

(iv) Each Grantor will, at its expense, promptly deliver to the Collateral Agent a copy of each notice or other communication received by it by which any other party to any material License referred to in Schedule II hereto purports to exercise any of its rights or affect any of its obligations thereunder, together with a copy of any reply by such Grantor thereto.

 

(v) Each Grantor will exercise promptly and diligently each and every right which it may have under each material License (other than any right of termination) and will duly perform and observe in all respects all of its obligations under each material License

 

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and will take all action reasonably necessary to maintain such Licenses in full force and effect. No Grantor will, without the prior written consent of the Collateral Agent, cancel, terminate, amend or otherwise modify in any respect, or waive any provision of, any material License referred to in Schedule II hereto.

 

(g) Transfers and Other Liens.

 

(i) No Grantor will sell, assign (by operation of law or otherwise), lease, license, exchange or otherwise transfer or dispose of any of the Collateral, except (A) Inventory in the ordinary course of business, and (B) worn-out or obsolete assets not necessary to the business.

 

(ii) No Grantor will create, suffer to exist or grant any Lien upon or with respect to any Collateral other than a Permitted Lien.

 

(h) Intellectual Property.

 

(i) If applicable, each Grantor shall, upon the Collateral Agent’s written request, duly execute and deliver the applicable Assignment for Security in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. Each Grantor (either itself or through licensees) will, and will cause each licensee thereof to, take all action necessary to maintain all of the material Intellectual Property in full force and effect, including, without limitation, using the proper statutory notices and markings and using the Trademarks on each applicable trademark class of goods in order to so maintain the Trademarks in full force and free from any claim of abandonment for non-use, and such Grantor will not (nor permit any licensee thereof to) do any act or knowingly omit to do any act whereby any material Intellectual Property may become invalidated; provided, however, that so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, such Grantor shall not have an obligation to use or to maintain any Intellectual Property (A) that relates solely to any product or work, that has been, or is in the process of being, discontinued, abandoned or terminated, (B) that is being replaced with Intellectual Property substantially similar to the Intellectual Property that may be abandoned or otherwise become invalid, so long as the failure to use or maintain such Intellectual Property does not materially adversely affect the validity of such replacement Intellectual Property and so long as such replacement Intellectual Property is subject to the Lien created by this Agreement or (C) that is substantially the same as another Intellectual Property that is in full force, so long the failure to use or maintain such Intellectual Property does not materially adversely affect the validity of such replacement Intellectual Property and so long as such other Intellectual Property is subject to the Lien and security interest created by this Agreement. Each Grantor will cause to be taken all necessary steps in any proceeding before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office or any similar office or agency in any other country or political subdivision thereof to maintain each registration of the material Intellectual Property (other than the Intellectual Property described in the proviso to the immediately preceding sentence), including, without limitation, filing of renewals, affidavits of use, affidavits of incontestability and opposition, interference and cancellation proceedings and payment of maintenance fees, filing fees, taxes or other governmental fees. If any material Intellectual Property (other than Intellectual Property described in the proviso to the first sentence of subsection (i) of this clause (h)) is infringed, misappropriated, diluted or otherwise violated in any material respect by a third party, such Grantor shall (x) upon learning of such infringement,

 

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misappropriation, dilution or other violation, promptly notify the Collateral Agent and (y) to the extent such Grantor shall deem appropriate under the circumstances, promptly sue for infringement, misappropriation, dilution or other violation, seek injunctive relief where appropriate and recover any and all damages for such infringement, misappropriation, dilution or other violation, or take such other actions as such Grantor shall deem appropriate under the circumstances to protect such Intellectual Property. Each Grantor shall furnish to the Collateral Agent from time to time upon its request statements and schedules further identifying and describing the Intellectual Property and Licenses and such other reports in connection with the Intellectual Property and Licenses as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request, all in reasonable detail and promptly upon request of the Collateral Agent, following receipt by the Collateral Agent of any such statements, schedules or reports, such Grantor shall modify this Agreement by amending Schedule II hereto, as the case may be, to include any Intellectual Property and License, as the case may be, which becomes part of the Collateral under this Agreement and shall execute and authenticate such documents and do such acts as shall be necessary or, in the judgment of the Collateral Agent, desirable to subject such Intellectual Property and Licenses to the Lien and security interest created by this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, such Grantor may not abandon or otherwise permit any Intellectual Property to become invalid without the prior written consent of the Collateral Agent, and if any Intellectual Property is infringed, misappropriated, diluted or otherwise violated in any material respect by a third party, such Grantor will take such action as the Collateral Agent shall deem appropriate under the circumstances to protect such Intellectual Property.

 

(ii) In no event shall a Grantor, either itself or through any agent, employee, licensee or designee, file an application for the registration of any material Trademark or material Copyright or the issuance of any material Patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office, as applicable, or in any similar office or agency of the United States or any country or any political subdivision thereof unless it gives the Collateral Agent prior written notice thereof. Upon request of the Collateral Agent, each Grantor shall execute, authenticate and deliver any and all assignments, agreements, instruments, documents and papers as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request to evidence the Collateral Agent’s security interest hereunder in such Intellectual Property and the General Intangibles of such Grantor relating thereto or represented thereby, and such Grantor hereby appoints the Collateral Agent its attorney-in-fact to execute and/or authenticate and file all such writings for the foregoing purposes, all acts of such attorney being hereby ratified and confirmed, and such power (being coupled with an interest) shall be irrevocable until the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all of the Obligations in full and the termination of each of the Transaction Documents.

 

(i) Deposit, Commodities and Securities Accounts. Upon the Collateral Agent’s written request each Grantor shall cause each bank and other financial institution with an account referred to in Schedule IV hereto to execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent a control agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, duly executed by such Grantor and such bank or financial institution, or enter into other arrangements in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, pursuant to which such institution shall irrevocably agree, inter alia, that (i) it will comply at any time with the instructions originated by the Collateral Agent to such bank or financial institution directing the disposition of cash,

 

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Commodity Contracts, securities, Investment Property and other items from time to time credited to such account, without further consent of such Grantor, which instructions the Collateral Agent will not give to such bank or other financial institution in the absence of a continuing Event of Default, (ii) all cash, Commodity Contracts, securities, Investment Property and other items of such Grantor deposited with such institution shall be subject to a perfected, second priority security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent, (iii) any right of set off, banker’s Lien or other similar Lien, security interest or encumbrance shall be fully waived as against the Collateral Agent, and (iv) upon receipt of written notice from the Collateral Agent during the continuance of an Event of Default, such bank or financial institution shall immediately send to the Collateral Agent by wire transfer (to such account as the Collateral Agent shall specify, or in such other manner as the Collateral Agent shall direct) all such cash, the value of any Commodity Contracts, securities, Investment Property and other items held by it. Without the prior written consent of the Collateral Agent, such Grantor shall not make or maintain any Deposit Account, Commodity Account or Securities Account except for the accounts set forth in Schedule IV hereto. The provisions of this paragraph 5(i) shall not apply to (i) Deposit Accounts for which the Collateral Agent is the depositary and (ii) Deposit Accounts specially and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of a Grantor’s salaried employees.

 

(j) Control. Each Grantor hereby agrees to take any or all action that the Collateral Agent may reasonably request in order for the Collateral Agent to obtain control in accordance with Sections 9-105 – 9-107 of the Code with respect to the following Collateral: (i) Electronic Chattel Paper, (ii) Investment Property, and (iii) Letter-of-Credit Rights.

 

(k) Inspection and Reporting. Each Grantor shall permit the Collateral Agent, or any agent or representatives thereof or such professionals or other Persons as the Collateral Agent may designate, not more than once a year in the absence of an Event of Default, (i) to examine and make copies of and abstracts from such Grantor’s records and books of account, (ii) upon reasonable notice and during business hours to visit and inspect its properties, (iii) to verify materials, leases, Instruments, Accounts, Inventory and other assets of such Grantor from time to time, (iii) to conduct audits, physical counts, appraisals and/or valuations, examinations at the locations of such Grantor. Each Grantor shall also permit the Collateral Agent, or any agent or representatives thereof or such professionals or other Persons as the Collateral Agent may designate to discuss such Grantor’s affairs, finances and accounts with any of its directors, officers, managerial employees, independent accountants or any of its other representatives.

 

(l) Future Subsidiaries. If any Grantor shall hereafter create or acquire any Subsidiary, simultaneously with the creation of acquisition of such Subsidiary, such Grantor shall cause such Subsidiary to become a party to the Guaranty as an additional “Guarantor” thereunder and to this Agreement as an additional “Grantor” hereunder, and to duly execute and/or deliver such opinions of counsel and other documents, in form and substance acceptable to the Collateral Agent, as the Collateral Agent shall reasonably request with respect thereto.

 

(m) If any of MODT’s Subsidiaries in existence as of the date hereof ever become active or have assets, operations or income, or if MODT or any other Grantor shall hereafter own, create or acquire any other Subsidiary that is not a Grantor hereunder or a party to the Guaranty, then, MODT or such other Grantor shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent thereof

 

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and, upon the Collateral Agent’s request, MODT or such other such Grantor shall cause such Subsidiary to become a party to the Guaranty, in the form attached to the Securities Purchase Agreement as Exhibit      , as an additional “Guarantor” thereunder and a party to this Agreement as an additional “Grantor” hereunder, and to duly execute and/or deliver such opinions of counsel and other documents, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent, as the Collateral Agent shall reasonably request with respect thereto.

 

SECTION 6. Additional Provisions Concerning the Collateral.

 

(a) Each Grantor hereby (i) authorizes the Collateral Agent to file one or more Code financing or continuation statements, and amendments thereto, relating to the Collateral and (ii) ratifies such authorization to the extent that the Collateral Agent has filed any such financing or continuation statements, or amendments thereto, prior to the date hereof. A photocopy or other reproduction of this Agreement or any financing statement covering the Collateral or any part thereof shall be sufficient as a financing statement where permitted by law.

 

(b) Each Grantor hereby irrevocably appoints the Collateral Agent as its attorney-in-fact and proxy, with full authority in the place and stead of such Grantor and in the name of such Grantor or otherwise, from time to time in the Collateral Agent’s discretion, so long as an Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing, to take any action and to execute any instrument which the Collateral Agent may deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement (subject to the rights of such Grantor under Section 5 hereof), including, without limitation, (i) to obtain and adjust insurance required to be paid to the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 5(e) hereof, (ii) to ask, demand, collect, sue for, recover, compound, receive and give acquittance and receipts for moneys due and to become due under or in respect of any Collateral, (iii) to receive, endorse, and collect any drafts or other instruments, documents and chattel paper in connection with clause (i) or (ii) above, (iv) to file any claims or take any action or institute any proceedings which the Collateral Agent may deem necessary or desirable for the collection of any Collateral or otherwise to enforce the rights of the Collateral Agent and the Buyers with respect to any Collateral, and (v) to execute assignments, licenses and other documents to enforce the rights of the Collateral Agent and the Buyers with respect to any Collateral. This power is coupled with an interest and is irrevocable until all of the Obligations are indefeasibly paid in full in cash.

 

(c) For the purpose of enabling the Collateral Agent to exercise rights and remedies hereunder, at such time as the Collateral Agent shall be lawfully entitled to exercise such rights and remedies, and for no other purpose, each Grantor hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, to the extent assignable, an irrevocable, non-exclusive license (exercisable without payment of royalty or other compensation to such Grantor) to use, assign, license or sublicense any Intellectual Property now owned or hereafter acquired by such Grantor, wherever the same may be located, including in such license reasonable access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all computer programs used for the compilation or printout thereof. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, but subject to the provisions of the Securities Purchase Agreement that limit the right of such Grantor to dispose of its property and Section 5(h) hereof, so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, such Grantor may exploit, use, enjoy, protect, license, sublicense, assign, sell, dispose of or take other actions with respect to the Intellectual Property in the ordinary course of

 

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its business. In furtherance of the foregoing, unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Collateral Agent shall from time to time, upon the request of a Grantor, execute and deliver any instruments, certificates or other documents, in the form so requested, which such Grantor shall have certified are appropriate (in such Grantor’s judgment) to allow it to take any action permitted above (including relinquishment of the license provided pursuant to this clause (c) as to any Intellectual Property). Further, upon the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all of the Obligations, the Collateral Agent (subject to Section 11(e) hereof) shall release and reassign to such Grantor all of the Collateral Agent’s right, title and interest in and to the Intellectual Property, and the Licenses, all without recourse, representation or warranty whatsoever. The exercise of rights and remedies hereunder by the Collateral Agent shall not terminate the rights of the holders of any licenses or sublicenses theretofore granted by such Grantor in accordance with the second sentence of this clause (c). Each Grantor hereby releases the Collateral Agent from any claims, causes of action and demands at any time arising out of or with respect to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by the Collateral Agent under the powers of attorney granted herein other than actions taken or omitted to be taken through the Collateral Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct, as determined by a final determination of a court of competent jurisdiction.

 

(d) If a Grantor fails to perform any agreement contained herein, the Collateral Agent may itself perform, or cause performance of, such agreement or obligation, in the name of such Grantor or the Collateral Agent, and the expenses of the Collateral Agent incurred in connection therewith shall be payable by such Grantor pursuant to Section 8 hereof and shall be secured by the Collateral.

 

(e) The powers conferred on the Collateral Agent hereunder are solely to protect its interest in the Collateral and shall not impose any duty upon it to exercise any such powers. Except for the safe custody of any Collateral in its possession and the accounting for moneys actually received by it hereunder, the Collateral Agent shall have no duty as to any Collateral or as to the taking of any necessary steps to preserve rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining to any Collateral.

 

(f) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding (i) each Grantor shall remain liable under the Licenses and otherwise with respect to any of the Collateral to the extent set forth therein to perform all of its obligations thereunder to the same extent as if this Agreement had not been executed, (ii) the exercise by the Collateral Agent of any of its rights hereunder shall not release such Grantor from any of its obligations under the Licenses or otherwise in respect of the Collateral, and (iii) the Collateral Agent shall not have any obligation or liability by reason of this Agreement under the Licenses or with respect to any of the other Collateral, nor shall the Collateral Agent be obligated to perform any of the obligations or duties of such Grantor thereunder or to take any action to collect or enforce any claim for payment assigned hereunder.

 

SECTION 7. Remedies Upon Event of Default. If any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing:

 

(a) The Collateral Agent may exercise in respect of the Collateral, in addition to any other rights and remedies provided for herein or otherwise available to it, all of the rights and

 

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remedies of a secured party upon default under the Code (whether or not the Code applies to the affected Collateral), and also may (i) take absolute control of the Collateral, including, without limitation, transfer into the Collateral Agent’s name or into the name of its nominee or nominees (to the extent the Collateral Agent has not theretofore done so) and thereafter receive, for the benefit of the Collateral Agent, all payments made thereon, give all consents, waivers and ratifications in respect thereof and otherwise act with respect thereto as though it were the outright owner thereof, (ii) require each Grantor to, and each Grantor hereby agrees that it will at its expense and upon request of the Collateral Agent forthwith, assemble all or part of its respective Collateral as directed by the Collateral Agent and make it available to the Collateral Agent at a place or places to be designated by the Collateral Agent that is reasonably convenient to both parties, and the Collateral Agent may enter into and occupy any premises owned or leased by such Grantor where the Collateral or any part thereof is located or assembled for a reasonable period in order to effectuate the Collateral Agent’s rights and remedies hereunder or under law, without obligation to such Grantor in respect of such occupation, and (iii) without notice except as specified below and without any obligation to prepare or process the Collateral for sale, (A) sell the Collateral or any part thereof in one or more parcels at public or private sale, at any of the Collateral Agent’s offices or elsewhere, for cash, on credit or for future delivery, and at such price or prices and upon such other terms as the Collateral Agent may deem commercially reasonable and/or (B) lease, license or dispose of the Collateral or any part thereof upon such terms as the Collateral Agent may deem commercially reasonable. Each Grantor agrees that, to the extent notice of sale or any other disposition of its respective Collateral shall be required by law, at least ten (10) days’ notice to such Grantor of the time and place of any public sale or the time after which any private sale or other disposition of its respective Collateral is to be made shall constitute reasonable notification. The Collateral Agent shall not be obligated to make any sale or other disposition of any Collateral regardless of notice of sale having been given. The Collateral Agent may adjourn any public or private sale from time to time by announcement at the time and place fixed therefor, and such sale may, without further notice, be made at the time and place to which it was so adjourned. Each Grantor hereby waives any claims against the Collateral Agent and the Buyers arising by reason of the fact that the price at which its respective Collateral may have been sold at a private sale was less than the price which might have been obtained at a public sale or was less than the aggregate amount of the Obligations, even if the Collateral Agent accepts the first offer received and does not offer such Collateral to more than one offeree, and waives all rights that such Grantor may have to require that all or any part of such Collateral be marshalled upon any sale (public or private) thereof. Each Grantor hereby acknowledges that (i) any such sale of its respective Collateral by the Collateral Agent shall be made without warranty, (ii) the Collateral Agent may specifically disclaim any warranties of title, possession, quiet enjoyment or the like, and (iii) such actions set forth in clauses (i) and (ii) above shall not adversely effect the commercial reasonableness of any such sale of Collateral. In addition to the foregoing, (1) upon written notice to any Grantor from the Collateral Agent, such Grantor shall cease any use of the Intellectual Property or any trademark, patent or copyright similar thereto for any purpose described in such notice; (2) the Collateral Agent may, at any time and from time to time, upon 10 days’ prior notice to such Grantor, license, whether general, special or otherwise, and whether on an exclusive or non-exclusive basis, any of the Intellectual Property, throughout the universe for such term or terms, on such conditions, and in such manner, as the Collateral Agent shall in its sole discretion determine; and (3) the Collateral Agent may, at any time, pursuant to the authority granted in

 

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Section 6 hereof (such authority being effective upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default), execute and deliver on behalf of such Grantor, one or more instruments of assignment of the Intellectual Property (or any application or registration thereof), in form suitable for filing, recording or registration in any country.

 

(b) Any cash held by the Collateral Agent as Collateral and all Cash Proceeds received by the Collateral Agent in respect of any sale of or collection from, or other realization upon, all or any part of the Collateral may, in the discretion of the Collateral Agent, be held by the Collateral Agent as collateral for, and/or then or at any time thereafter applied (after payment of any amounts payable to the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 8 hereof) in whole or in part by the Collateral Agent against, all or any part of the Obligations in such order as the Collateral Agent shall elect, consistent with the provisions of the Securities Purchase Agreement. Any surplus of such cash or Cash Proceeds held by the Collateral Agent and remaining after the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all of the Obligations shall be paid over to whomsoever shall be lawfully entitled to receive the same or as a court of competent jurisdiction shall direct.

 

(c) In the event that the proceeds of any such sale, collection or realization are insufficient to pay all amounts to which the Collateral Agent and the Buyers are legally entitled, each Grantor shall be liable for the deficiency, together with interest thereon at the highest rate specified in any of the applicable Transaction Documents for interest on overdue principal thereof or such other rate as shall be fixed by applicable law, together with the costs of collection and the reasonable fees, costs, expenses and other client charges of any attorneys employed by the Collateral Agent to collect such deficiency.

 

(d) Each Grantor hereby acknowledges that if the Collateral Agent complies with any applicable state, provincial, or federal law requirements in connection with a disposition of the Collateral, such compliance will not adversely affect the commercial reasonableness of any sale or other disposition of the Collateral.

 

(e) The Collateral Agent shall not be required to marshal any present or future collateral security (including, but not limited to, this Agreement and the Collateral) for, or other assurances of payment of, the Obligations or any of them or to resort to such collateral security or other assurances of payment in any particular order, and all of the Collateral Agent’s rights hereunder and in respect of such collateral security and other assurances of payment shall be cumulative and in addition to all other rights, however existing or arising. To the extent that each Grantor lawfully may, such Grantor hereby agrees that it will not invoke any law relating to the marshalling of collateral which might cause delay in or impede the enforcement of the Collateral Agent’s rights under this Agreement or under any other instrument creating or evidencing any of the Obligations or under which any of the Obligations is outstanding or by which any of the Obligations is secured or payment thereof is otherwise assured, and, to the extent that it lawfully may, such Grantor hereby irrevocably waives the benefits of all such laws.

 

SECTION 8. Indemnity and Expenses.

 

(a) Each Grantor agrees, jointly and severally, to defend, protect, indemnify and hold the Collateral Agent and each of the Buyers, jointly and severally, harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, obligations, penalties, fees, costs and

 

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expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable legal fees, costs, expenses, and disbursements of such Person’s counsel) to the extent that they arise out of or otherwise result from this Agreement (including, without limitation, enforcement of this Agreement), except claims, losses or liabilities resulting solely and directly from such Person’s gross negligence or willful misconduct, as determined by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.

 

(b) Each Grantor agrees, jointly and severally, to upon demand pay to the Collateral Agent the amount of any and all costs and expenses, including the reasonable fees, costs, expenses and disbursements of counsel for the Collateral Agent and of any experts and agents (including, without limitation, any collateral trustee which may act as agent of the Collateral Agent), which the Collateral Agent may incur in connection with (i) the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery, recordation, administration, amendment, waiver or other modification or termination of this Agreement, (ii) the custody, preservation, use or operation of, or the sale of, collection from, or other realization upon, any Collateral, (iii) the exercise or enforcement of any of the rights of the Collateral Agent hereunder, or (iv) the failure by any Grantor to perform or observe any of the provisions hereof.

 

SECTION 9. Successor Agent.

 

(a) 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) calendar days’ prior written notice to MODT and each Buyer. Such resignation shall take effect upon the acceptance by a successor Collateral Agent of appointment pursuant to clauses (b) and (c) below or as otherwise provided below.

 

(b) Upon any such notice of resignation, Buyers holding a majority of the unpaid principal balance of the Notes shall appoint a successor Collateral Agent. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Collateral Agent hereunder by a successor Collateral 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.

 

(c) If a successor Collateral Agent shall not have been so appointed within said ten (10) calendar day period, the Collateral Agent shall then appoint a successor Collateral Agent who shall serve as the Collateral Agent until such time, if any, as the Buyers holding a majority of the unpaid principal balance of the Notes appoint a successor Collateral Agent as provided above.

 

SECTION 10. Notices, Etc. All notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing and shall be mailed (by certified mail, postage prepaid and return receipt requested), telecopied or delivered, if to a Grantor at its address specified below and if to the Collateral Agent to it, at its address specified below; or as to any such Person, at such other address as shall be designated by such Person in a written notice to such other Person complying as to delivery with the terms of this Section 10. All such notices and other communications shall be effective (a) if sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, when received or three days after deposited in the mails, whichever occurs first, (b) if telecopied, when transmitted (during normal business hours) and confirmation is received, otherwise, the day after the notice was transmitted if confirmation is received, or (c) if delivered, upon delivery.

 

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SECTION 11. Miscellaneous.

 

(a) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary herein, the Company shall not and shall not be required to distribute any material non-public information to the Holders. To the extent any information required to be provided hereunder constitutes or may be deemed to constitute material non-public information, the Company shall notify the Holders and must receive the prior written consent of the Holders to receive such information.

 

(b) No amendment of any provision of this Agreement shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by each Grantor and the Collateral Agent, and no waiver of any provision of this Agreement, and no consent to any departure by a Grantor therefrom, shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by the Collateral Agent, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given.

 

(c) No failure on the part of the Collateral Agent to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right hereunder or under any of the other Transaction Documents shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent or any Buyer provided herein and in the other Transaction Documents are cumulative and are in addition to, and not exclusive of, any rights or remedies provided by law. The rights of the Collateral Agent or any Buyer under any of the other Transaction Documents against any party thereto are not conditional or contingent on any attempt by such Person to exercise any of its rights under any of the other Transaction Documents against such party or against any other Person, including but not limited to, any Grantor.

 

(d) Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining portions hereof or thereof or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.

 

(e) This Agreement shall create a continuing security interest in the Collateral and shall (i) remain in full force and effect until the indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Obligations, and (ii) be binding on each Grantor and all other Persons who become bound as debtor to this Agreement in accordance with Section 9-203(d) of the Code and shall inure, together with all rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent and the Buyers hereunder, to the benefit of the Collateral Agent and the Buyers and their respective permitted successors, transferees and assigns. Without limiting the generality of clause (ii) of the immediately preceding sentence, without notice to any Grantor, the Collateral Agent and the Buyers may assign or otherwise transfer their rights and obligations under this Agreement and any of the other Transaction Documents, to any other Person and such other Person shall thereupon become vested with all of the benefits in respect thereof granted to the Collateral Agent and the Buyers herein or otherwise. Upon any such assignment or transfer, all references in this Agreement to the Collateral Agent or any such Buyer shall mean the assignee of the Collateral Agent or such

 

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Buyer. None of the rights or obligations of any Grantor hereunder may be assigned or otherwise transferred without the prior written consent of the Collateral Agent, and any such assignment or transfer without the consent of the Collateral Agent shall be null and void.

 

(f) Upon the indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Obligations, (i) this Agreement and the security interests created hereby shall terminate and all rights to the Collateral shall revert to the respective Grantor that granted such security interests hereunder, and (ii) the Collateral Agent will, upon such Grantor’s request and at such Grantor’s expense, (A) return to such Grantor such of the Collateral as shall not have been sold or otherwise disposed of or applied pursuant to the terms hereof, and (B) execute and deliver to such Grantor such documents as such Grantor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination, all without any representation, warranty or recourse whatsoever.

 

(g) THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, EXCEPT AS REQUIRED BY MANDATORY PROVISIONS OF LAW AND EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT THE VALIDITY AND PERFECTION OR THE PERFECTION AND THE EFFECT OF PERFECTION OR NON-PERFECTION OF THE SECURITY INTEREST CREATED HEREBY, OR REMEDIES HEREUNDER, IN RESPECT OF ANY PARTICULAR COLLATERAL ARE GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF A JURISDICTION OTHER THAN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

(h) ANY LEGAL ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY DOCUMENT RELATED THERETO MAY BE BROUGHT IN THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK IN THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK OR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND APPELLATE COURTS THEREOF, AND, BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT, EACH GRANTOR HEREBY ACCEPTS FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY, THE JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS. EACH GRANTOR HEREBY EXPRESSLY AND IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY OBJECTION, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY OBJECTION TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OR BASED ON THE GROUNDS OF FORUM NONCONVENIENS, WHICH IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE BRINGING OF ANY SUCH ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING IN SUCH RESPECTIVE JURISDICTIONS AND CONSENTS TO THE GRANTING OF SUCH LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RELIEF AS IS DEEMED APPROPRIATE BY THE COURT.

 

(i) EACH GRANTOR AND (BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF THE BENEFITS OF THIS AGREEMENT) THE COLLATERAL AGENT WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION BASED ON, ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS, OR ANY COURSE OF CONDUCT, COURSE OF DEALING, VERBAL OR WRITTEN STATEMENT OR OTHER ACTION OF THE PARTIES HERETO.

 

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(j) Each Grantor irrevocably consents to the service of process of any of the aforesaid courts in any such action, suit or proceeding by the mailing of copies thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially similar form of mail), postage prepaid, to such Grantor at its address provided herein, such service to become effective 10 days after such mailing.

 

(k) Nothing contained herein shall affect the right of the Collateral Agent to serve process in any other manner permitted by law or commence legal proceedings or otherwise proceed against any Grantor or any property of such Grantor in any other jurisdiction.

 

(l) Each Grantor irrevocably and unconditionally waives any right it may have to claim or recover in any legal action, suit or proceeding referred to in this Section any special, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages.

 

(m) Section headings herein are included for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part of this Agreement for any other purpose.

 

(n) This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which taken together constitute one in the same Agreement.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Grantor has caused this Agreement to be executed and delivered by its officer thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written.

 

MODTECH HOLDING, INC.

By:

  

 


Name:

    

Title:

    

Address:

  

2830 Barrett Avenue

    

Perris, CA 92571

 

[Signatures continued.]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Grantor has caused this Agreement to be executed and delivered by its officer thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written.

 

[Signatures continued.]

 

[ALL EXISTING SUBSIDIARIES]
NONE AS OF THE DATE HEREOF

By:

 

 


Name:

   

Title:

   

Address:

  [                                                                     ]
    [                                                                     ]
    [                                                                     ]

 

ACCEPTED BY:

 

AMPHORA LIMITED, as Collateral Agent

By:

 

Amaranth Advisors L.L.C., its Trading Advisor

By:

 

 


Name:

   

Title:

   

 

Address: c/o Amaranth Advisors L.L.C.

One American Lane

Greenwich, CT 06831

Attention: General Counsel

Facsimile: (203) 422 3546

Telephone: (203) 422 3346


SCHEDULE I

 

LEGAL NAMES; ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS; STATES OR

JURISDICTION OF ORGANIZATION

 

Sched. I-1


SCHEDULE II

 

MODT

 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND LICENSES

 

Sched. II-1


EXISTING SUBSIDIARIES

 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND LICENSES

 

Sched. II-1


SCHEDULE III

 

LOCATIONS OF MODT

 

LOCATION

  Description of Location (State if Location
    (i) contains Rolling Stock, other Equipment, Fixtures, Goods or Inventory,
    (ii) is chief place of business and chief executive office, or
    (iii) contains Records concerning Accounts and originals of Chattel Paper)

 

Sched. III-1


LOCATIONS OF EXISTING SUBSIDIARIES

 

LOCATION

  Description of Location (State if Location
    (i) contains Rolling Stock, other Equipment, Fixtures,
    Goods or Inventory,
    (ii) is chief place of business and chief executive office, or
    (iii) contains Records concerning Accounts and originals of Chattel Paper)

 

Sched. III-1


SCHEDULE IV

 

PROMISSORY NOTES, SECURITIES, DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS, SECURITIES ACCOUNTS

AND COMMODITIES ACCOUNTS

 

MODT

Promissory Notes:

 

 

 

Securities and Other Instruments:

 

 

 

Name and Address

of Institution

Maintaining Account


 

Account Number


 

Type of Account


 

Sched. IV-1


EXISTING SUBSIDIARIES

 

Promissory Notes

 

 

 

Securities and Other Instruments

 

 

 

Name and Address

of Institution

Maintaining Account


 

Account Number


 

Type of Account


 

Sched. IV-1


SCHEDULE V

 

MODT

 

UCC-1 FINANCING STATEMENTS

 

Sched. V-1


EXISTING SUBSIDIARIES

 

UCC-1 FINANCING STATEMENTS

 

Sched. V-1


SCHEDULE VI

 

MODT

 

COMMERCIAL TORT CLAIMS

 

Sched. VI-1


EXISTING SUBSIDIARIES

 

COMMERCIAL TORT CLAIMS

 

Sched. VI-1


EXHIBIT A

 

ASSIGNMENT FOR SECURITY

 

[TRADEMARKS] [PATENTS] [COPYRIGHTS]

 

WHEREAS,                                                           (the “Assignor”) [has adopted, used and is using, and holds all right, title and interest in and to, the trademarks and service marks listed on the annexed Schedule 1A, which trademarks and service marks are registered or applied for in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the “Trademarks”)] [holds all right, title and interest in the letter patents, design patents and utility patents listed on the annexed Schedule 1A, which patents are issued or applied for in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the “Patents”)] [holds all right, title and interest in the copyrights listed on the annexed Schedule 1A, which copyrights are registered in the United States Copyright Office (the “Copyrights”)];

 

WHEREAS, the Assignor has entered into a Security Agreement, dated as of                             , 2004 (as amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time the “Security Agreement”), in favor of Amaranth LLC, as collateral agent for certain purchasers (the “Assignee”);

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Security Agreement, the Assignor has assigned to the Assignee and granted to the Assignee for the benefit of the Buyers (as defined in the Security Agreement) a continuing security interest in all right, title and interest of the Assignor in, to and under the [Trademarks, together with, among other things, the good-will of the business symbolized by the Trademarks] [Patents] [Copyrights] and the applications and registrations thereof, and all proceeds thereof, including, without limitation, any and all causes of action which may exist by reason of infringement thereof and any and all damages arising from past, present and future violations thereof (the “Collateral”), to secure the payment, performance and observance of the “Obligations” (as defined in the Security Agreement);

 

NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Assignor does hereby pledge, convey, sell, assign, transfer and set over unto the Assignee and grants to the Assignee for the benefit of the Buyers a continuing security interest in the Collateral to secure the prompt payment, performance and for the benefit of the Buyers observance of the Obligations.

 

The Assignor does hereby further acknowledge and affirm that the rights and remedies of the Assignee with respect to the Collateral are more fully set forth in the Security Agreement, the terms and provisions of which are hereby incorporated herein by reference as if fully set forth herein.

 

Exh. A-1


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Assignor has caused this Assignment to be duly executed by its officer thereunto duly authorized as of             , 20    

 

[GRANTOR]
By:  

 


Name:    
Title:    


STATE OF                     

 

ss.:

 

COUNTY OF                     

 

On this          day of             , 20    , before me personally came                                 , to me known to be the person who executed the foregoing instrument, and who, being duly sworn by me, did depose and say that s/he is the                      of                                                      , a                             , and that s/he executed the foregoing instrument in the firm name of                                                      , and that s/he had authority to sign the same, and s/he acknowledged to me that he executed the same as the act and deed of said firm for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.

 

                                                                                           

 

Exh. A-3


SCHEDULE 1A TO ASSIGNMENT FOR SECURITY

 

[Trademarks and Trademark Applications]

[Patent and Patent Applications]

[Copyright and Copyright Applications]

Owned by                             

EX-4.6 7 dex46.htm INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT, DATED DECEMBER 31, 2004 Intercreditor Agreement, dated December 31, 2004

Exhibit 4.6

 

INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT

 

This INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT (“Agreement”), is dated as of December 31, 2004, and entered into by and among MODTECH HOLDINGS, INC. (the “Company”), WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (“Wells Fargo”), in its capacity as collateral agent and representative for the First Lien Obligations (as defined below) (in such capacity, together with any replacement or successor collateral agent and representative the “First Lien Collateral Agent”), and AMULET LIMITED, an exempt company organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (“Amulet”), in its capacity as collateral agent and representative for the Second Lien Obligations (as defined below), (in such capacity, together with any replacement or successor collateral agent and representative the “Second Lien Collateral Agent”). Capitalized terms used in this Agreement have the meanings assigned to them in Section 1 below.

 

RECITALS

 

The Company, the lenders and agents party thereto, and Wells Fargo, as Administrative Agent, have entered into that Credit Agreement dated as of December 26, 2001 providing for a revolving credit facility and term loan (as amended, restated, supplemented, modified, extended, renewed, replaced or Refinanced from time to time (including as of the date hereof), the “First Lien Credit Agreement”);

 

The Company and the lenders party thereto entered into that Securities Purchase Agreement dated as of the date hereof providing for the issuance of convertible senior subordinated notes (as amended, restated, supplemented, modified, extended, renewed, replaced or Refinanced from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the “Second Lien Credit Agreement”);

 

Pursuant to (i) the First Lien Credit Agreement, certain current Subsidiaries of the Company have agreed to guaranty the First Lien Obligations and Holdings has agreed to cause certain future Subsidiaries of the Company to guaranty the First Lien Obligations (as amended, restated, supplemented, modified, extended, renewed, replaced or Refinanced from time to time the “First Lien Subsidiary Guaranty”); and (ii) the Second Lien Credit Agreement, certain current Subsidiaries of the Company have agreed to guaranty the Second Lien Obligations and the Company has agreed to cause certain future Subsidiaries of the Company to guaranty the Second Lien Obligations (as amended, restated, supplemented, modified, extended, renewed, replaced or Refinanced from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the “Second Lien Subsidiary Guaranty”);

 

The obligations of the Company under the First Lien Credit Agreement and any Hedge Agreements with the First Lien Lenders (or any of their Affiliates) and the obligations of the Subsidiaries under the First Lien Subsidiary Guaranty will be secured on a first priority basis by liens on all the assets of the Company and certain Subsidiaries (such current and future Subsidiaries of the Company providing a guaranty thereof, the “Guarantor Subsidiaries”), respectively, pursuant to the terms of the First Lien Collateral Documents;


The obligations of the Company under the Second Lien Credit Agreement and the obligations of the Subsidiaries under the Second Lien Subsidiary Guaranty will be secured on a second priority basis by liens on substantially all the assets of the Company and the Guarantor Subsidiaries, respectively, pursuant to the terms of the Second Lien Collateral Documents;

 

The First Lien Loan Documents and the Second Lien Loan Documents provide, among other things, that the parties thereto shall set forth in this Agreement their respective rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral; and

 

In order to induce the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders to consent to the Grantors incurring the Second Lien Obligations and to induce the First Lien Claimholders to extend and maintain credit and other financial accommodations and lend monies to or for the benefit of the Company, or any other Grantor, the Second Lien Collateral Agent on behalf of the Second Lien Claimholders has agreed to the intercreditor and other provisions set forth in this Agreement.

 

AGREEMENT

 

In consideration of the foregoing, the mutual covenants and obligations herein set forth and for other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

 

SECTION 1. Definitions.

 

1.1 Defined Terms. As used in the Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

 

Affiliate” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with the Person specified. For purposes of this definition, a Person shall be deemed to “control” or be “controlled by” a Person if such Person possesses, directly or indirectly, power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such Person whether through ownership of equity interests, by contract or otherwise.

 

Agreement” means this Intercreditor Agreement, as amended, restated, renewed, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

 

Asset Sale” has the meaning assigned to that term in the First Lien Credit Agreement.

 

Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled “Bankruptcy,” as now and hereafter in effect, or any successor statute.

 

Bankruptcy Law” means the Bankruptcy Code and any similar federal, state or foreign law for the relief of debtors.

 

Business Day” means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to close.

 

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Collateral” means all of the assets and property of any Grantor, whether real, personal or mixed, constituting both First Lien Collateral and Second Lien Collateral; provided, however, that in no event shall Collateral include the irrevocable standby letter of credit no.             , dated, December 31, 2004, issued by U.S. Bank National Association for the Company’s account for benefit of Amphora Limited, in the maximum amount of $10,000,000 to secure certain of the Second Lien Obligations (the “Second Lien Letter of Credit”), or drawings thereunder but shall include any collateral pledged to support such letter of credit.

 

Collateral Documents” means this Agreement, the First Lien Collateral Documents and the Second Lien Collateral Documents.

 

Company” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Preamble to this Agreement.

 

Comparable Second Lien Collateral Document” means, in relation to any Collateral subject to any Lien created under any First Lien Collateral Document, that Second Lien Loan Document which creates a Lien on the same Collateral, granted by the same Grantor.

 

Currency Agreement” means any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement, futures contract, option contract, synthetic cap or other similar agreement or arrangement, each of which is for the purpose of hedging the foreign currency risk associated with the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ operations and not for speculative purposes.

 

DIP Financing” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 6.1.

 

Discharge of First Lien Obligations” means, except to the extent otherwise expressly provided in Section 5.5 and subject to Section 6.5:

 

(a) payment in full in cash of the principal of and interest (including interest accruing on or after the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, whether or not such interest would be allowed in such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding), and premium, if any, on all Indebtedness outstanding under the First Lien Loan Documents;

 

(b) payment in full in cash under any Hedging Obligations entered into with a First Lien Claimholder (or any of their Affiliates);

 

(c) payment in full in cash of all other First Lien Obligations that are due and payable or otherwise accrued and owing at or prior to the time such principal and interest are paid;

 

(d) termination or expiration of all commitments, if any, to extend credit that would constitute First Lien Obligations; and

 

(e) termination (without any prior demand for payment thereunder having been made or, if made, with such demand having been fully reimbursed in cash) or cash collateralization (in an amount and manner, and on terms, satisfactory to the First Lien Collateral Agent) of all letters of credit issued under the First Lien Loan Documents.

 

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Disposition” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 5.1(b).

 

First Lien Claimholders” means, at any relevant time, the holders of First Lien Obligations at that time, including without limitation the First Lien Lenders (or any Lender Counterparty) and the agents under the First Lien Loan Documents.

 

First Lien Collateral Agent” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Recitals to this Agreement.

 

First Lien Collateral” means all of the assets and property of any Grantor, whether real, personal or mixed, in which a Lien is purported to be granted as security for any First Lien Obligations.

 

First Lien Collateral Documents” means the Collateral Documents (as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement), First Lien Mortgages, and any other agreement, document or instrument which is intended to grant to the First Lien Collateral Agent or any of the First Lien Claimholders a Lien securing any First Lien Obligations or under which rights or remedies with respect to such Liens are governed, as each may be amended, restated, supplemented, modified, renewed, extended or Refinanced from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.

 

First Lien Credit Agreement” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Recitals to this Agreement.

 

First Lien Lenders” means the “Lenders” under and as defined in the First Lien Loan Documents, and any successor to, or replacements of, such Lenders.

 

First Lien Loan Documents” means the First Lien Credit Agreement and the Loan Documents (as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement) and each of the other agreements, documents and instruments providing for or evidencing or relating to any other First Lien Obligation, and any other agreement, writing, document or instrument executed or delivered at any time in connection with any First Lien Obligations, including any intercreditor or joinder agreement among holders of First Lien Obligations, to the extent such are effective at the relevant time, as each may be amended, restated, supplemented, modified, renewed, extended or Refinanced from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.

 

First Lien Mortgages” means a collective reference to each mortgage, deed of trust and other document or instrument under which any Lien on real property owned or leased by any Grantor is purported to be granted to secure any First Lien Obligations or under which rights or remedies with respect to any such Liens are governed.

 

First Lien Obligations” means, subject to the next sentence, all Obligations, whether outstanding or contingent, evidenced by or arising under: (i) the First Lien Credit Agreement and/or (ii) any of the other First Lien Loan Documents and/or (iii) Hedge Agreements entered into with any First Lien Lender (or any Lender Counterparty). “First Lien Obligations” shall include: (a) all interest accrued or accruing (or which would, absent commencement of an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (and the effect of provisions such as Section 502(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code), accrue) after commencement of an Insolvency or

 

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Liquidation Proceeding in accordance with the rate specified in the relevant First Lien Credit Document whether or not the claim for such interest is allowed as a claim in such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; and (b) any and all fees and expenses (including attorneys’ and/or financial consultants’ fees and expenses) incurred by the First Lien Collateral Agent or the other First Lien Claimholders after the commencement of an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, whether or not the claim for fees and expenses is allowed under Section 506(b) of the Bankruptcy Code or any other provision of the Bankruptcy Code or Bankruptcy Law as a claim in such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the sum of: (1) Indebtedness constituting principal outstanding under the First Lien Credit Agreement and the other First Lien Documents plus (2) the aggregate face amount of any letters of credit issued under the First Lien Credit Agreement, is in excess of $57,000,000 in the aggregate (the “Cap Amount”), then only that portion of such Indebtedness and such aggregate face amount of letters of credit equal to the Cap Amount shall be included in Priority First Lien Obligations (any such principal and reimbursement obligations with respect to such letters of credit in excess of the Cap Amount, collectively, the “Excluded First Lien Obligations”).

 

First Lien Subsidiary Guaranty” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Recitals to this Agreement.

 

Governmental Authority” means any federal, state, municipal, national or other government, governmental department, commission, board, bureau, court, agency or instrumentality or political subdivision thereof or any entity or officer exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to any government or any court, in each case whether associated with a state of the United States, the United States, or a foreign entity or government.

 

Grantors” means the Company, each of the Guarantor Subsidiaries and each other Person that may from time to time hereafter execute and deliver a First Lien Collateral Document or a Second Lien Collateral Document as a “Grantor” (or the equivalent thereof).

 

Guarantor Subsidiaries” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals to this Agreement.

 

Hedge Agreements” means an Interest Rate Agreement or a Currency Agreement entered into with a Lender Counterparty and a Grantor.

 

Hedging Obligation” of any Person means any obligation of such Person pursuant to any Hedge Agreements.

 

Indebtedness” means and includes all Obligations that constitute “Indebtedness” within the meaning of the First Lien Credit Agreement or the Second Lien Credit Agreement, as applicable.

 

Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding” means:

 

(a) any voluntary or involuntary case or proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code with respect to any Grantor;

 

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(b) any other voluntary or involuntary insolvency, reorganization or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or any receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar case or proceeding with respect to any Grantor or with respect to a material portion of their respective assets;

 

(c) any liquidation, dissolution, reorganization or winding up of any Grantor whether voluntary or involuntary and whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy other than any liquidation, dissolution, reorganized or winding up permitted by the terms of the First Lien Credit Agreement; or

 

(d) any general assignment for the benefit of creditors or any other marshalling of assets and liabilities of any Grantor.

 

Interest Rate Agreement” means any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest rate collar agreement, interest rate hedging agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement each of which is for the purposes of hedging the interest rate exposure associated with the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ operations and not for speculative purposes.

 

Lender Counterparty” means each First Lien Lender or any Affiliate of a First Lien Lender counterparty to a Hedge Agreement (including any Person who is a First Lien Lender (and any Affiliate thereof) as of the date hereof but subsequently, whether before or after entering into a Hedge Agreement, ceases to be a First Lien Lender) including, without limitation, each such Affiliate that enders into a joinder agreement with the First Lien Collateral Agent.

 

Lien” means any lien, mortgage, pledge, assignment, security interest, charge or encumbrance of any kind (including any agreement to give any of the foregoing, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, and any lease in the nature thereof) and any option, trust, UCC financing statement or other preferential arrangement having the practical effect of any of the foregoing.

 

Lien Enforcement Action” means: (a) the taking of any action to enforce or realize upon any Lien, (b) the exercise of any right or remedy provided to a secured creditor on account of a Lien under any of the Collateral Documents or under applicable law, including the election to retain any collateral in satisfaction of a Lien, (c) the taking of any action or the exercise of any right or remedy in respect of the collection on, set off against, marshaling of, or foreclosure on the Collateral (including, without limitation, the notification of account debtors), (d) the sale, lease, license, or other disposition of all or any portion of the Collateral by private or public sale or any other means permissible under applicable law, (e) the exercise of any other right of a secured creditor under Article 9 of the UCC, (f) the adjustment of any insurance claim, and (g) the commencement of any legal proceedings against the Company or any other Grantor or with respect to any Collateral for any relief described in clauses (a) though (f) above.

 

New Agent” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 5.5.

 

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Obligations” means all obligations of every nature of each Grantor from time to time owed to any agent or trustee, the First Lien Claimholders, the Second Lien Claimholders or any of them or their respective Affiliates under the First Lien Loan Documents, the Second Lien Loan Documents or Hedge Agreements, including, without limitation, (a) any principal of or interest or premium on any indebtedness, including any reimbursement obligation in respect of any letter of credit, or any other liability, including interest accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code, (b) any fees, indemnification obligations, charges, costs, expense reimbursement obligations or other liabilities payable under the documentation governing any indebtedness, (c) any obligation to post cash collateral in respect of letters of credit or any other obligations, (d) in the case of the First Lien Obligations, any Hedging Obligations (including payments for early termination), and (e) all performance obligations under the documentation governing any indebtedness, in each case, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, joint or several, in each case, whether or not the claim for such amounts is allowed under Section 506(b) of the Bankruptcy Code or any other provision of the Bankruptcy Code or Bankruptcy Law as a claim in such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.

 

Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnerships, trust, joint venture, association, company, bank, general or limited partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity or organization, whether or not legal entities.

 

Pledged Collateral” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.4(a).

 

Priority First Lien Obligations” means all First Lien Obligations other than Excluded First Lien Obligations.

 

Recovery” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.5.

 

Refinance” means, in respect of any Indebtedness, to refinance, extend, renew, defease, amend, modify, supplement, restructure, replace, refund or repay, or to issue other indebtedness, in exchange or replacement for, such Indebtedness in whole or in part, whether pursuant to one or more agreements, with the same and/or different lenders and/or agents. “Refinanced” and “Refinancing” shall have correlative meanings.

 

Second Lien Claimholders” means, at any relevant time, the holders of Second Lien Obligations at that time, including without limitation the Second Lien Lenders and the agents under the Second Lien Loan Documents.

 

Second Lien Collateral” means all of the assets and property of any Grantor, whether real, personal or mixed, with respect to which a Lien is purported to be granted as security for any Second Lien Obligations.

 

Second Lien Collateral Agent” has the meaning set assigned to that term in the Preamble of this Agreement.

 

Second Lien Collateral Documents” means the Pledge and Security Agreement (as defined in the Second Lien Credit Agreement), the Second Lien Mortgages, and any other agreement, document or instrument which is intended to grant to the Second Lien Collateral

 

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Agent or any of the Second Lien Claimholders a Lien securing any Second Lien Obligations or under which rights or remedies with respect to such Liens are governed as each may be amended, restated, supplemented, modified, renewed, extended or Refinanced from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.

 

Second Lien Credit Agreement” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Recitals to this Agreement.

 

Second Lien Lenders” means the “Lenders” under and as defined in the Second Lien Credit Agreement, and any successors to, or replacements of, such Lenders.

 

Second Lien Letter of Credit” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Collateral” herein.

 

Second Lien Loan Documents” means the Second Lien Credit Agreement, the Second Lien Notes and the Transaction Documents (as defined in the Second Lien Credit Agreement) and each of the other agreements, documents and instruments providing for or evidencing or relating to any other Second Lien Obligation, and any other agreement, writing, document or instrument executed or delivered at any time in connection with any Second Lien Obligations, including any intercreditor or joinder agreement among holders of Second Lien Obligations to the extent such are effective at the relevant time, as each may be amended, restated, supplemented, modified, renewed, extended or Refinanced from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.

 

Second Lien Mortgages” means a collective reference to each mortgage, deed of trust and any other document or instrument under which any Lien on real property owned or leased by any Grantor is purported to be granted to secure any Second Lien Obligations or under which rights or remedies with respect to any such Liens are governed.

 

Second Lien Notes” means the Senior Subordinated Secured Convertible Notes, dated the date hereof, issued by the Company in favor of the Second Lien Lenders, in the original aggregate principal amount of $25,000,000, as amended, restated, supplemented, modified, renewed, extended or Refinanced from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.

 

Second Lien Obligations” means all Obligations, whether outstanding or contingent, evidenced by or arising under: (i) the Second Lien Credit Agreement and/or (ii) any of the other Second Lien Loan Documents. “Second Lien Obligations” shall include: (a) all interest accrued or accruing (or which would, absent commencement of an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (and the effect of provisions such as Section 502(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code), accrue) after commencement of an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in accordance with the rate specified in the relevant Second Lien Credit Document whether or not the claim for such interest is allowed as a claim in such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; and (b) any and all fees and expenses (including attorneys’ and/or financial consultants’ fees and expenses) incurred by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or the other Second Lien Claimholders after the commencement of an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, whether or not the claim for fees and expenses is allowed under Section 506(b) of the Bankruptcy Code or any other provision of the Bankruptcy Code or Bankruptcy Law as a claim in such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding..

 

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Second Lien Subsidiary Guaranty” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Recitals to this Agreement.

 

Standstill Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(a)(5).

 

Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of stock or other ownership interests entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of the Person or Persons (whether directors, managers, trustees or other Persons performing similar functions) having the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof.

 

UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code (or any similar or equivalent legislation) as in effect in any applicable jurisdiction.

 

1.2 Terms Generally. The definitions of terms in this Agreement shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include,” “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation.” The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall.” Unless the context requires otherwise:

 

(a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, restated, supplemented, modified, renewed or extended subject to the limitations set forth herein;

 

(b) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s permitted successors and assigns;

 

(c) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder,” and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof;

 

(d) all references herein to Sections shall be construed to refer to Sections of this Agreement; and

 

(e) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.

 

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SECTION 2. Lien Priorities.

 

2.1 Relative Priorities. Notwithstanding the date, time, method, manner or order of grant, attachment or perfection of any Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations granted on the Collateral or of any Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted on the Collateral and notwithstanding any provision of the UCC, or any statutory, decisional or other applicable law that would provide for a contrary ordering of priorities, or the Second Lien Loan Documents or any defect or deficiencies in, or failure to perfect, the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations or any other circumstance whatsoever, each of the Grantors, the First Lien Collateral Agent, and the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Claimholders, hereby acknowledges and agrees that:

 

(a) any Lien purported to be granted on the Collateral securing any First Lien Obligations now or hereafter held by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholders or any agent or trustee therefor, regardless of how or when acquired, whether by grant, possession, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise, shall be “first” priority and senior in all respects and prior to any Lien on the Collateral securing any Second Lien Obligations; and

 

(b) any Lien purported to be granted on the Collateral securing any Second Lien Obligations now or hereafter held by or on behalf of the Second Lien Collateral Agent, any Second Lien Claimholders or any agent or trustee therefor regardless of how acquired, whether by grant, possession, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise, shall be “second” priority and junior and subordinate and subject in all respects to all Liens on the Collateral securing any First Lien Obligations. All Liens on the Collateral securing any First Lien Obligations shall be and remain senior in all respects and prior to all Liens on the Collateral securing any Second Lien Obligations for all purposes, whether or not such Liens securing any First Lien Obligations are subordinated to any Lien securing any other obligation of the Company, any other Grantor or any other Person.

 

2.2 Prohibition on Contesting Liens. Each of the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each Second Lien Claimholder, and the First Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each First Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not (and hereby waives any right to) contest or support any other Person in contesting, in any proceeding (including any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding), (i) the priority, validity or enforceability of a Lien held by or on behalf of any of the First Lien Claimholders in the First Lien Collateral or by or on behalf of any of the Second Lien Claimholders in the Second Lien Collateral, as the case may be; provided that nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent or impair the rights of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder to enforce this Agreement, including the provisions of this Agreement relating to the priority of the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations as provided in Sections 2.1 and 3.1, (ii) the validity or enforceability of any Collateral Documents (including this Agreement) or any Obligation or other obligation thereunder, or (iii) except as expressly set forth herein, the relative rights and duties of the First Lien Claimholders and the Second Lien Claimholders granted and/or established pursuant to this Agreement or any other Collateral Document.

 

2.3 No New Liens. So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or

 

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against the Company or any other Grantor, the parties hereto agree that the Company shall not, and shall not permit any other Grantor to (and the Second Lien Claimholders agree that they shall not receive) grant or permit any additional Liens, or take any action to perfect a Lien, on any asset or property to secure any Second Lien Obligation unless a first priority Lien is granted to the First Lien Collateral Agent on such asset or property to secure the First Lien Obligations. To the extent that the foregoing provisions are not complied with for any reason, without limiting any other rights and remedies available to the First Lien Collateral Agent and/or the First Lien Claimholders, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of Second Lien Claimholders, agrees that any amounts received by or distributed to any of them pursuant to or as a result of Liens granted in contravention of this Section 2.3 shall be subject to Section 4.2.

 

SECTION 3. Enforcement.

 

3.1 Exercise of Remedies.

 

(a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:

 

(1) will not exercise or seek to exercise any rights or remedies with respect to any Collateral (including, without limitation, the exercise of any right of setoff or any right under any lockbox agreement, account control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder is a party) or institute any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure) or take any other Lien Enforcement Action;

 

(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;

 

(3) will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as the Liens granted to secure the Second Lien Obligations of the Second Lien Claimholders attach to the proceeds thereof subject to the relative priorities described in Section 2;

 

(4) will not initiate or join in or petition for or vote in favor of any resolution for or instigate or support, any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; and

 

(5) will not:

 

(i) accelerate any payment of all or any of the Second Lien Obligations;

 

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(ii) collect the Second Lien Obligations or any part thereof;

 

(iii) enforce any right of repayment of any Second Lien Obligations; or

 

(iv) initiate (or join in) or file or prosecute any proceeding or judicial action with respect to the Second Lien Obligations;

 

provided that, upon 5 Business Days prior written notice to the First Lien Collateral Agent after the Standstill Period, to the extent permitted by the terms of the Second Lien Loan Documents, the Second Lien Collateral Agent may accelerate the Second Lien Obligations and may, subject to the terms of clause (4) above and the other provisions of this Agreement, file and prosecute a lawsuit to collect the Second Lien Obligations.

 

As used in this Section 3.1(a)(5), the term “Standstill Period” means the period beginning on the occurrence of an Event of Default under and as defined in the Second Lien Loan Documents and ending on the date that is 540 days following the latest date after both (1) any Second Lien Collateral Agent shall have given notice (making specific reference to this Section 3.1(a)(5) and describing such Event of Default that is subject to such notice) to the First Lien Collateral Agent that any such Event of Default under the Second Lien Loan Documents shall have occurred and be continuing and of such Second Lien Collateral Agent’s intent to exercise rights and remedies and (2) the commencement of material work under all of the contracts that any of the Grantors then have entered into as of the time of the delivery of the notice in the preceding clause (1).

 

(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to manage, perform and enforce the terms of the First Lien Loan Documents in respect of the Collateral, to exercise and enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off and the right to credit bid their debt) and make determinations in its sole discretion regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral, including, without limitation, the exclusive right to take or retake control or possession of the Collateral and to hold, prepare for sale, process, lease, sell, dispose of or liquidate the Collateral, all without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder. In exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.

 

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(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and any Second Lien Claimholder may:

 

(1) file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;

 

(2) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to create, perfect or maintain its Lien on the Collateral, subject to the terms of this Agreement;

 

(3) ask the Company for scheduled payments with respect to Second Lien Obligations required to be made in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Loan Documents then due and owing but no acceleration of such obligations;

 

(4) exercise any and all of their rights and remedies in respect of conversion to common equity of any Second Lien Obligations; and

 

(5) sell, assign or otherwise transfer any and all of the Second Lien Obligations and their rights relating thereto, subject to and in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, so long as any such subsequent holder agrees in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement.

 

The Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Claimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off) with respect to any Collateral, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.

 

(d) (1) The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second Lien Claimholders, agrees that the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder, delay, limit or prohibit any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien or Collateral Document or subordinate the priority of the First Lien Obligations to the Second Lien Obligations or afford the Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations equal ranking to the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations;

 

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(2) the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second Lien Claimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or the Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or any other law) to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders is adverse to the interest of the Second Lien Claimholders; and

 

(3) the Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other Second Lien Loan Document shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Credit Documents.

 

(e) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and (d) and subject to Section 3.1(f), the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Second Lien Loan Documents and applicable law; provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations and being subordinate thereto) as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations subject to this Agreement.

 

(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and (d) and Section 4.3, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholders of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as both such payment does not constitute proceeds of Collateral and such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholders of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.

 

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SECTION 4. Payments.

 

4.1 Application of Proceeds.

 

(a) So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, all Collateral or proceeds thereof received or collected in connection with the sale or other disposition of, or collection on, all such Collateral (whether made or affected by a Grantor, a Creditor or any other Person) (i) pursuant to the enforcement of any Collateral Document or the exercise of any remedial provision thereunder or under or pursuant to any applicable law, and all proceeds of Collateral that are recovered pursuant to an avoidance action or (ii) that otherwise are to be paid over to or for the account of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder or the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder in accordance with or pursuant to any of the First Lien Credit Documents or any of the Second Lien Credit Documents, together with all other proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Collateral Agent hereunder (including all funds received in respect of post-petition interest or fees and expenses) as a result of any such enforcement or the exercise of any such remedial provision or as a result of any distribution of or in respect of any Collateral (whether or not expressly characterized as such, including amounts representing proceeds turned over to any such Granter or the estate of any such Grantor by First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder or the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder as a result of any avoidance action) upon or in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor, or the application of any Collateral (or proceeds thereof) to the payment of any of the First Lien Obligations or Second Lien Obligations or any distribution of Collateral (or proceeds thereof) upon the liquidation or dissolution of any Grantor, or the winding up of the assets or business of any Grantor, shall be applied first, to payment of the First Lien Obligations and the provision of cash collateral in respect of issued and outstanding Letters of Credit in accordance with the First Lien Loan Documents and in respect of Hedge Agreements in accordance with the First Lien Loan Documents, and second, to payment of the Second Lien Obligations then due and payable, and third, to payment of Excluded First Lien Obligations and, with respect to Excluded First Lien Obligations consisting of issued and outstanding Letters of Credit and Hedge Agreements, the provision of cash collateral in respect of such Letters of Credit and such Hedge Agreements in accordance with the First Lien Loan Documents.

 

(b) It is understood and agreed that the Grantors remain jointly and severally liable to the relevant creditors for any deficiency between (x) the amount of the proceeds of the Collateral received by such creditors hereunder and (y) the aggregate amount of the Obligations owing to such creditors.

 

4.2 Payments Over. So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has not occurred but subject to Section 6.5 in any event, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, any Collateral or proceeds thereof (or any distribution in respect of Collateral) (whether or not characterized as such) (including assets or proceeds subject to Liens referred to in the final sentence of Section 2.3) received by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholders, whether received from any Grantor or any other Person, in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off) relating to the Collateral or otherwise that is inconsistent or in

 

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contravention of this Agreement shall be segregated and held in trust and forthwith paid over to the First Lien Collateral Agent for the benefit of the First Lien Claimholders in the same form as received, with any necessary endorsements. The First Lien Collateral Agent is hereby authorized to make any such endorsements as agent for the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any such Second Lien Claimholders. This authorization is coupled with an interest and is irrevocable until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations.

 

4.3 No Payment. None of the Second Lien Claimholders (including the Second Lien Collateral Agent) shall accept or receive, call or demand, and none of the Grantors shall make, (x) any payment in respect of the Second Lien Obligations at a time when a default or event of default exists, or would result from any such payment, under the First Lien Loan Documents, (y) any voluntary prepayment of any portion of the principal amount (or interest thereon) or other amounts in respect of the Second Lien Obligations or (z) any other payment, mandatory prepayment or redemption of any portion of the principal amount (or interest thereon) or other amounts in respect of the Second Lien Obligations other than in compliance with the terms of First Lien Loan Documents (as Refinanced) and the Second Lien Loan Documents; provided that the Second Lien Lenders may exercise any and all rights under the Second Lien Loan Documents to convert the Second Lien Obligations into common equity of the Company; provided further that so long as no default or event of default exists, or would result from any such payment, under the First Lien Loan Documents, the Second Lien Lenders may receive payment of principal in cash at the final scheduled maturity date of the Second Lien Notes; provided further however, it being understood and agreed that the terms of the First Lien Loan Documents will provide for certain permitted mandatory redemptions as follows:

 

(a) subject to the following terms, the Second Lien Lenders shall have the right to cause the Company to redeem up to $8.33 million on each of the following anniversary dates following the issuance of the Second Lien Notes: (i) 18 months (“First Redemption Date”), (ii) 30 months (“Second Redemption Date”), and (iii) 48 months (“Third Redemption Date”) (collectively, the “Redemption Dates”);

 

(b) if the Second Lien Lenders elect to redeem any of the Second Lien Notes on the applicable Redemption Dates, the Second Lien Lenders will be required to first use at least $5 million of cash collateral supporting the Second Lien Letter of Credit as repayment proceeds for the First Redemption Date and Second Redemption Date, respectively, to consummate the redemption; provided that such Second Lien Letter of Credit is automatically reduced by the amount of any cash collateral which is released;

 

(c) in the event the Company achieves certain performance milestones which (i) triggers the release of cash collateral from the Second Lien Letter of Credit and (ii) thereby reduces the Second Lien Letter of Credit by a corresponding amount of such released cash collateral, the Second Lien Lenders shall be permitted a right of redemption for an amount up to the additional $3.33 million then called for redemption on the applicable Redemption Date, so long as (A) no greater than $3.33 million of redemption proceeds are derived from borrowings under the First Lien Loan Documents, (B) the Company has met certain financial performance milestones which meet the Redemption Performance metrics, (C) with respect to the applicable Redemption Date. the Second Lien Lenders have used at least $5 million of cash collateral securing the Second Lien

 

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Letter of Credit towards redemption of the Second Lien Notes on such specific Redemption Date (with the corresponding reduction to the Second Lien Letter of Credit) and (D) no default or event of default then exists, or would result from such payment, under the First Lien Loan Documents;

 

(d) it is generally understood, and will be defined during definitive documentation, that the Redemption Performance metrics will be defined for redemptions (i) on the First Redemption Date, as the Company meeting one hundred percent (100%) of its budgeted financial performance for the trailing twelve-month period coinciding with the First Redemption Date, and (ii) on the Second Redemption Date, as the Company meeting ninety percent (90%) of its budgeted financial performance for the trailing twelve-month period coinciding with the Second Redemption Date, in each case as agreed by the Company and the First Lien Lenders.

 

SECTION 5. Other Agreements.

 

5.1 Releases.

 

(a) If, in connection with the exercise of the First Lien Collateral Agent’s remedies in respect of the Collateral provided for in Section 3.1, the First Lien Collateral Agent, for itself or on behalf of any of the First Lien Claimholders, releases any of its Liens on any part of the Collateral or releases any Grantor from its obligations under its guaranty of the First Lien Obligations, then the Liens, if any, of the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself or for the benefit of the Second Lien Claimholders, on such Collateral, and the obligations of such Grantor under its guaranty of the Second Lien Obligations, shall be automatically, unconditionally and simultaneously released. The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself or on behalf of any such Second Lien Claimholders, promptly shall execute and deliver to the First Lien Collateral Agent or such Grantor such termination statements, releases and other documents as the First Lien Collateral Agent or such Grantor may request to effectively confirm such release.

 

(b) If in connection with any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of any Collateral (collectively, a “Disposition”) permitted under the terms of the First Lien Loan Documents or consented to by the First Lien Claimholders (other than the exercise of the First Lien Collateral Agent’s remedies in respect of the Collateral provided for in Section 3.1), the First Lien Collateral Agent, for itself or on behalf of any of the First Lien Claimholders, releases any of its Liens on any part of the Collateral, or releases any Grantor from its obligations under its guaranty of the First Lien Obligations, then the Liens, if any, of the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself or for the benefit of the Second Lien Claimholders, on such Collateral, and the obligations of such Grantor under its guaranty of the Second Lien Obligations, shall be automatically, unconditionally and simultaneously released. The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself or on behalf of any such Second Lien Claimholders, promptly shall execute and deliver to the First Lien Collateral Agent or such Grantor such termination statements, releases and other documents as the First Lien Collateral Agent or such Grantor may request to effectively confirm such release.

 

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(c) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations occurs, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second Lien Claimholders, hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the First Lien Collateral Agent and any officer or agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent, with full power of substitution, as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full irrevocable power and authority in the place and stead of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or such holder or in the First Lien Collateral Agent’s own name, from time to time in the First Lien Collateral Agent’s discretion, for the purpose of carrying out the terms of this Section 5.1, to take any and all appropriate action and to execute any and all documents and instruments which may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Section 5.1, including any endorsements or other instruments of transfer or release.

 

5.2 Insurance. Unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the sole and exclusive right, subject to the rights of the Grantors under the First Lien Loan Documents, to adjust settlement for any insurance policy covering the Collateral in the event of any loss thereunder and to approve any award granted in any condemnation or similar proceeding (or any deed in lieu of condemnation) affecting the Collateral. Unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, and subject to the rights of the Grantors under the First Lien Collateral Documents, all proceeds of any such policy and any such award (or any payments with respect to a deed in lieu of condemnation) if in respect to the Collateral shall be paid to the First Lien Collateral Agent for the benefit of the First Lien Claimholders pursuant to the terms of the First Lien Loan Documents (including, without limitation, for purposes of cash collateralization of commitments, letters of credit and Hedge Agreements) and thereafter, to the extent no First Lien Obligations are outstanding, and subject to the rights of the Grantors under the Second Lien Collateral Documents, to the Second Lien Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Second Lien Claimholders to the extent required under the Second Lien Collateral Documents and then, to the extent no Second Lien Obligations are outstanding, to the owner of the subject property, such other Person as may be entitled thereto or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct. Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, if the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholders shall, at any time, receive any proceeds of any such insurance policy or any such award or payment in contravention of this Agreement, it shall pay such proceeds over to the First Lien Collateral Agent in accordance with the terms of Section 4.2 of this Agreement.

 

5.3 Amendments to First Lien Loan Documents and Second Lien Loan Documents.

 

(a) Subject to the terms of this Agreement, each of the Second Lien Claimholders and the Second Lien Collateral Agent agrees the First Lien Loan Documents and any and all collateral therefor and guarantees thereof, may be amended, supplemented, restated, extended, renewed, replaced or otherwise modified in accordance with their terms and the First Lien Credit Agreement and other First Lien Loan Documents may be Refinanced, and the First Lien Claimholders and the First Lien Collateral Agent may grant waivers or extensions of time or performance to and make compromises, including releases of collateral or guarantees, and settlements with any of the Grantors and all other persons, in each case, without notice to, or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any of the Second Lien Claimholders, but otherwise subject to the terms of this Agreement all without affecting the lien subordination or other provisions of this Agreement.

 

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(b) Without the prior written consent of the First Lien Collateral Agent, no Second Lien Loan Document may be amended, supplemented, restated, extended, renewed, replaced or otherwise modified or entered into to the extent such amendment, supplement, restatement, extension, renewal, replacement or modification, or the terms of any new Second Lien Loan Document, would:

 

(1) increase the principal or the interest rate or yield provisions or otherwise change or add fees or premiums applicable to the Second Lien Obligations (excluding increases resulting from the accrual of interest at the default rate as provided in the Second Lien Loan Documents on the date hereof);

 

(2) (x) add any representations, warranties, covenants (financial or otherwise), default or Event of Default thereunder or (y) change any representation, warranty, covenant, default or Event of Default thereunder (other than eliminate any such representation, covenant, warranty, default or Event of Default or decrease any grace period related thereto or otherwise make such representation, warranty, covenant, default or Event of Default or condition less restrictive or burdensome on the Grantors; it being understood that in no event shall any such change reduce the amount of permitted First Lien Obligations or priority liens thereon);

 

(3) change (to earlier dates) any dates upon which payments of principal or interest are due thereon or change amounts due on any date or change the maturity date (other than to extend the maturity date or reduce amounts due on any date);

 

(4) change the prepayment provisions thereof, or change any collateral therefor (other than to release such collateral);

 

(5) increase the obligations of the obligor thereunder or to confer any additional rights on the lenders under the Second Lien Credit Agreement (or a representative on their behalf) which would be adverse to any Grantor or First Lien Lenders; or

 

(6) contravene the provisions of this Agreement.

 

(c) The Second Lien Credit Agreement may be Refinanced in whole but not in part (but not with cash proceeds from any equity issuance or capital contribution) to the extent the terms and conditions of such Refinancing debt are not less favorable to the Grantors and to the First Lien Lenders or the other First Lien Obligations than the Second Lien Loan Documents (as permitted to be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified pursuant to Section 5.3(b)), as determined in the reasonable opinion of the First Lien Collateral Agent, acting on behalf of the First Lien Lenders, the then outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Second Lien Obligations is not increased, the average life to maturity thereof is greater than or equal to that of a the Second Lien Credit

 

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Agreement and all other terms and provisions of such refinancing debt are acceptable to the First Lien Collateral Agent and the holders of such Refinancing debt bind themselves in writing to the terms of this Agreement.

 

(d) No Second Lien Lender or Second Lien Collateral Agent shall sell, assign, dispose of or otherwise transfer all or any portion of its Second Lien Obligations or resign as agent unless the transferee thereof shall have executed and delivered an Acknowledgement and Consent, in a form acceptable to the First Lien Collateral Agent, providing for the agreement of such transferee to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement as a “Second Lien Lender” or “Second Lien Collateral Agent” hereunder. Notwithstanding any failure of any such transferee to execute and deliver such an Acknowledgement and Consent, this Agreement shall survive any sale, assignment, disposal or other transfer of all or any portion of the Second Lien Obligations to such transferee or replacement of the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the terms of this Agreement shall be binding upon the successors and assigns of the Second Lien Lenders and Second Lien Collateral Agent, as provided herein.

 

(e) Each of the Company and the Second Lien Collateral Agent agrees that each Second Lien Collateral Document shall include the following language (or language to similar effect approved by the First Lien Collateral Agent):

 

“Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the lien and security interest granted to the Second Lien Collateral Agent pursuant to this Agreement and the exercise of any right or remedy by the Second Lien Collateral Agent hereunder are subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of December 31, 2004 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Intercreditor Agreement”), among Modtech Holdings, Inc., Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as First Lien Collateral Agent and Amulet Limited, as Second Lien Collateral Agent and certain other persons party or that may become party thereto from time to time. In the event of any conflict between the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement and this Agreement, the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement shall govern and control.”

 

In addition, the Company agrees that each Second Lien Mortgage covering any Collateral shall contain such other language as the First Lien Collateral Agent may reasonably request to reflect the subordination of such Second Lien Mortgage to the First Lien Collateral Document covering such Collateral.

 

(f) In the event any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders and the relevant Grantor enter into any amendment, waiver or consent in respect of any of the First Lien Collateral Documents for the purpose of adding to, or deleting from, or waiving or consenting to any departures from any provisions of, any First Lien Collateral Document or changing in any manner the rights of the First Lien Collateral Agent, such First Lien Claimholders, the Company or any other Grantor thereunder, then such amendment, waiver or consent shall apply automatically to any comparable provision of

 

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the Comparable Second Lien Collateral Document without the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Claimholders and without any action by the Second Lien Collateral Agent, the Company or any other Grantor, provided, that no such amendment, waiver or consent shall have the effect of: (1) removing assets subject to the Lien of the Second Lien Collateral Documents, except to the extent that a release of such Lien is permitted or required by Section 5.1 of this Agreement; or (2) imposing duties on the Second Lien Collateral Agent without its consent.

 

5.4 Bailee for Perfection.

 

(a) The First Lien Collateral Agent agrees to hold (subject always to the rights of the First Lien Collateral Agent as a prior Lien holder) that part of the Collateral that is in its possession or control (or in the possession or control of its agents or bailees) to the extent that possession or control thereof is taken to perfect a Lien thereon under the UCC (such Collateral being the “Pledged Collateral”) as collateral agent for the First Lien Claimholders and as bailee for the Second Lien Collateral Agent (such bailment being intended, among other things, to satisfy the requirements of Section 8-301(a)(2) and 9-313(c) of the UCC) and any assignee solely for the purpose of perfecting the security interest granted under the First Lien Loan Documents and the Second Lien Loan Documents, respectively, subject to the terms and conditions of this Section 5.4.

 

(b) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall have no duties or obligation whatsoever to the First Lien Claimholders, the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder to ensure that the Pledged Collateral is genuine or owned by any of the Grantors or to preserve rights or benefits of any Person except as expressly set forth in this Section 5.4. The duties or responsibilities of the First Lien Collateral Agent under this Section 5.4 shall be limited solely to holding the Pledged Collateral as bailee in accordance with this Section 5.4.

 

(c) The First Lien Collateral Agent acting pursuant to this Section 5.4 shall not have by reason of the First Lien Collateral Documents, the Second Lien Collateral Documents, this Agreement or any other document a fiduciary relationship in respect of the First Lien Claimholders, the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder.

 

(d) Upon the Discharge of First Lien Obligations under the First Lien Loan Documents to which the First Lien Collateral Agent is a party, the First Lien Collateral Agent shall deliver the remaining Pledged Collateral (if any) together with any necessary endorsements, first, to the Second Lien Collateral Agent to the extent Second Lien Obligations remain outstanding, and second, to the Company to the extent no First Lien Obligations or Second Lien Obligations remain outstanding (in each case, so as to allow such Person to obtain control of such Pledged Collateral). The First Lien Collateral Agent further agrees to take all other action reasonably requested by the Second Lien Collateral Agent in connection with the Second Lien Collateral Agent obtaining a first-priority interest in the Collateral or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct.

 

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5.5 When Discharge of First Lien Obligations Deemed to Not Have Occurred. If, at any time after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, the Company thereafter enters into any Refinancing of any First Lien Loan Document evidencing a First Lien Obligation which Refinancing is permitted by this Agreement, then such Discharge of First Lien Obligations shall automatically be deemed not to have occurred for all purposes of this Agreement (other than with respect to any actions taken as a result of the occurrence of such first Discharge of First Lien Obligations), and, from and after the date on which the New First Lien Debt Notice is delivered to the Second Lien Collateral Agent in accordance with the next sentence, the obligations under such Refinancing of the First Lien Loan Document shall automatically be treated as First Lien Obligations for all purposes of this Agreement, including for purposes of the Lien priorities and rights in respect of Collateral set forth herein, and the First Lien Collateral Agent under such First Lien Loan Documents shall be the First Lien Collateral Agent for all purposes of this Agreement. Upon receipt of a notice (the “New First Lien Debt Notice”) stating that the Company has entered into a new First Lien Loan Document (which notice shall include the identity of the new First Lien Collateral Agent, such agent, the “New Agent”), the Second Lien Collateral Agent shall promptly (a) enter into such documents and agreements (including amendments or supplements to this Agreement) as the Company or such New Agent shall reasonably request in order to provide to the New Agent the rights contemplated hereby, in each case consistent in all material respects with the terms of this Agreement and (b) deliver to the New Agent any Pledged Collateral held by it together with any necessary endorsements (or otherwise allow the New Agent to obtain control of such Pledged Collateral). The New Agent shall agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement.

 

SECTION 6. Insolvency or Liquidation Proceedings.

 

6.1 Finance and Sale Issues. Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, if the Company or any other Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding and the First Lien Collateral Agent shall desire to permit the use of “Cash Collateral” (as such term is defined in Section 363(a) of the Bankruptcy Code), on which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other creditor has a Lien or to permit the Company or any other Grantor to obtain financing, whether from the First Lien Claimholders or any other entity under Section 363 or 364 of the Bankruptcy Code or any similar Bankruptcy Law (“DIP Financing”), then the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Claimholders, agrees that it will raise no objection to such Cash Collateral use or DIP Financing and will not request adequate protection or any other relief in connection therewith (except, as expressly agreed by the First Lien Collateral Agent) and, to the extent the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations are subordinated to or pari passu with such DIP Financing, the Second Lien Collateral Agent will subordinate its Liens in the Collateral to the Liens securing such DIP Financing (and all Obligations relating thereto). Without limiting the generality of any other provision of this Agreement, where the First Lien Collateral Agent has agreed to the use of cash collateral in such an instance, only such cash collateral that is actually distributed to (or permitted to be retained by) the First Lien Collateral Agent for final application against the First Lien Obligations or the Second Lien Obligations shall be subject to the application provisions of Section 4.1. Otherwise, in such an instance, any cash collateral permitted to be used by the Company or any Grantor shall not be subject to such application provisions. Without limiting the generality of any other provision of this Agreement, where the First Lien Collateral Agent shall desire to permit the Company or any other Grantor to obtain DIP Financing and such DIP

 

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Financing has been authorized by an unstayed order or judgment of the court with jurisdiction over such proceeding in form and substance acceptable to the First Lien Collateral Agent, Section 4.1 automatically shall be deemed to have been rewritten in a manner that reflects the priority of payment to which the First Lien Collateral Agent has agreed in approving such DIP Financing, including in the event that the First Lien Collateral Agent has agreed that the obligations owing under such DIP Financing may or shall be paid from Collateral proceeds as first priority in the “waterfall” set forth in Section 4.1 (with each class in the current order of application in such Section then being lowered one notch), and any reference herein to Section 4.1 shall be to Section 4.1 as so rewritten. Notwithstanding any other provision contained in this Agreement to the contrary, the provisions of the immediately preceding sentence shall apply only where the First Lien Collateral Agent affirmatively has consented in writing to such DIP Financing. Where the First Lien Collateral Agent has not so consented in writing to any such DIP Financing, including where any DIP Financing has been approved by such court over the First Lien Collateral Agent’s express objection, there shall be no deemed change to the provisions of Section 4.1, and such provisions (as well as the other provisions of this Agreement) shall continue to apply to the relative rights of the First Lien Claimholders, on the one hand, and the Second Lien Claimholders, on the other hand. The Second Lien Collateral Agent on behalf of the Second Lien Claimholders, agrees that it will raise no objection or oppose a motion to sell or otherwise dispose of any Collateral free and clear of its Liens or other claims under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code if the requisite First Lien Claimholders have consented to such sale or disposition of such assets.

 

6.2 Relief from the Automatic Stay. Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Claimholders, agrees that none of them shall seek (or support any other Person seeking) relief from the automatic stay or any other stay in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in respect of the Collateral, without the prior written consent of the First Lien Collateral Agent.

 

6.3 Adequate Protection.

 

(a) The Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and each of the Second Lien Claimholders, agrees that none of them shall object or contest (or support any other Person contesting):

 

(1) any request by the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders for adequate protection;

 

(2) any objection by the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to any motion, relief, action or proceeding based on the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders claiming a lack of adequate protection; or

 

(3) the payment of interest, fees, expenses or other amounts to the First Lien Claimholders under Section 506(b) or 506(c) of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise.

 

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(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions in this Section 6.3, in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in the event the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Claimholders, seeks or requests adequate protection in respect of Second Lien Obligations and such adequate protection is granted in the form of additional collateral (irrespective of the terms of this Agreement), then the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself or any of the Second Lien Claimholders, agrees that the First Lien Collateral Agent shall also be granted a senior Lien on such additional collateral as security for the First Lien Obligations and for any Cash Collateral use or DIP Financing provided by the First Lien Claimholders and that any Lien on such additional collateral securing the Second Lien Obligations shall be subordinated to the Liens on such collateral securing the First Lien Obligations and any such DIP Financing provided by the First Lien Claimholders (and all Obligations relating thereto) and to any other Liens granted to the First Lien Claimholders as adequate protection on the same basis as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are so subordinated to such First Lien Obligations under this Agreement.

 

6.4 No Waiver; Voting. Nothing contained herein shall prohibit or in any way limit the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from objecting in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or otherwise to any action taken by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any of the Second Lien Claimholders, including the seeking by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholders of adequate protection or the asserting by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholders of any of its rights and remedies under the Second Lien Loan Documents or otherwise. In any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, neither the Second Lien Collateral Agent nor any other Second Lien Claimholder shall (i) oppose, object to, or vote against any plan of reorganization or disclosure statement to the extent the terms of such plan or disclosure statement are consistent with the priorities and enforcement rights of the First Lien Claimholders under this Agreement or (ii) vote any claim in respect of Second Lien Obligations for any plan of reorganization of any Grantor unless (x) such plan provides for the payment in full in cash of all First Lien Obligations on the effective date of such plan of reorganization or (y) such plan provides for treatment of the First Lien Obligations in a manner that would result in such First Lien Obligations having relative lien (or, if the obligations, property or assets to be distributed in respect of the First Lien Obligations under such plan are unsecured, other) priority over the Second Lien Obligations to at least the same extent as if such obligations, property or assets were secured by Liens, whether or not such obligations, property or assets are, in fact, secured by any such Liens, and further requires (or does not purport to otherwise alter the provisions of this Agreement requiring) that all distributions on account of the Second Lien Obligations under such plan be delivered to the First Lien Collateral Agent and distributed as provided in Section 4.1.

 

6.5 Avoidance Issues. If any First Lien Claimholder is required in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or otherwise to turn over or otherwise pay to the estate of the Company or any other Grantor any amount paid in respect of First Lien Obligations (a “Recovery”), then such First Lien Claimholders shall be entitled to a reinstatement of First Lien Obligations with respect to all such recovered amounts and a reinstatement of liens securing the First Lien Obligations with the priorities set forth herein, all as if any Discharge of First Lien Obligations had not occurred. If this Agreement shall have been terminated prior to such Recovery, this Agreement shall be reinstated in full force and effect as if no Discharge of First Lien Obligations

 

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had occurred, and such prior termination shall not diminish, release, discharge, impair or otherwise affect the obligations of the parties hereto, including without limitation, any turnover provisions hereof, which may then require the payment to the First Lien Claimholders by the Second Lien Claimholders.

 

6.6 Reorganization Securities. If, in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, debt obligations of the reorganized debtor secured by Liens upon any property of the reorganized debtor are distributed pursuant to a plan of reorganization or similar dispositive restructuring plan, both on account of First Lien Obligations and on account of Second Lien Obligations, then, to the extent the debt obligations distributed on account of the First Lien Obligations and on account of the Second Lien Obligations are secured by Liens upon the same property, the provisions of this Agreement will survive the distribution of such debt obligations pursuant to such plan and will apply with like effect to the Liens securing such debt obligations.

 

6.7 Post-Petition Interest.

 

(a) Neither the Second Lien Collateral Agent nor any Second Lien Claimholder shall oppose or seek to challenge any claim by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder for allowance in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding of First Lien Obligations consisting of post-petition interest, fees or expenses. Regardless of whether any such claim is allowed, and without limiting the generality of the other provisions of this Agreement, this Agreement expressly is intended to include and does include the “rule of explicitness” in that this Agreement expressly entitles the First Lien Claimholders to receive payment from the Collateral of any post-petition interest, fees or expenses through distributions made pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement even though such interest, fees, expenses are not allowed or allowable against the bankruptcy estate of the Company or any other Grantor under Section 502(b)(2) or Section 506(b) of the Bankruptcy Code or under any other provision of the Bankruptcy Code or any other Bankruptcy Law.

 

(b) Neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any other First Lien Claimholder shall oppose or seek to challenge any claim by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder for allowance in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding of Second Lien Obligations consisting of post-petition interest, fees or expenses to the extent of the value of the Lien of the Second Lien Collateral Agent on behalf of the Second Lien Claimholders on the Collateral (after taking into account the Lien on the First Lien Collateral in favor of the First Lien Collateral Agent for the benefit of the First Lien Claimholders).

 

6.8 Waiver. The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second Lien Claimholders, waives any claim it may hereafter have against any First Lien Claimholder arising out of the election of any First Lien Claimholder of the application of Section 1111(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code, and/or out of any cash collateral or financing arrangement or out of any grant of a security interest in connection with the Collateral in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.

 

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6.9 Limitations. So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has not occurred, without the express written consent of the First Lien Collateral Agent, none of the Second Lien Claimholders shall, in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding involving any Grantor, (i) make an election pursuant to Section 1111(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, (ii) oppose or object to the determination of the extent of any Liens held by any of the First Lien Claimholders or the value of any claims of First Lien Claimholders under Section 506(a) of the Bankruptcy Code or (iii) oppose or object to the payment of interest and expenses under Sections 506(b) and (c) of the Bankruptcy Code.

 

6.10 Separate Grants of Security and Separate Classification. The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second Lien Claimholders, and the First Lien Collateral Agent for itself and on behalf of the First Lien Claimholders, acknowledges and agrees that:

 

(a) the grants of Liens pursuant to the First Lien Collateral Documents and the Second Lien Collateral Documents constitute two separate and distinct grants of Liens; and

 

(b) because of, among other things, their differing rights in the Collateral, the Second Lien Obligations are fundamentally different from the First Lien Obligations and must be separately classified in any plan of reorganization proposed or adopted in an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.

 

To further effectuate the intent of the parties as provided in the immediately preceding sentence, if it is held that the claims of the First Lien Claimholders and the Second Lien Claimholders in respect of the Collateral constitute only one secured claim (rather than separate classes of senior and junior secured claims), then each of the parties hereto hereby acknowledges and agrees that, subject to Sections 2.1 and 4.1, all distributions shall be made as if there were separate classes of senior and junior secured claims against the Grantors in respect of the Collateral (with the effect being that, to the extent that the aggregate value of the Collateral is sufficient (for this purpose ignoring all claims held by the Second Lien Claimholders), the First Lien Claimholders shall be entitled to receive, in addition to amounts distributed to them in respect of principal, pre-petition interest and other claims, all amounts owing in respect of post-petition interest, including any additional interest payable pursuant to the First Lien Credit Agreement, arising from or related to a default, which is disallowed as a claim in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding) before any distribution is made in respect of the claims held by the Second Lien Claimholders, with the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second Lien Claimholders, hereby acknowledging and agreeing to turn over to the First Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the First Lien Claimholders, amounts otherwise received or receivable by them to the extent necessary to effectuate the intent of this sentence, even if such turnover has the effect of reducing the claim or recovery of the Second Lien Claimholders).

 

SECTION 7. Reliance; Waivers; Etc.

 

7.1 Reliance. Other than any reliance on the terms of this Agreement, the First Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the First Lien Claimholders under its First Lien Loan

 

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Documents, acknowledges that it and such First Lien Claimholders have, independently and without reliance on the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholders, and based on documents and information deemed by them appropriate, made their own credit analysis and decision to enter into such First Lien Loan Documents and be bound by the terms of this Agreement and they will continue to make their own credit decision in taking or not taking any action under the First Lien Credit Agreement or this Agreement. The Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Claimholders, acknowledges that it and the Second Lien Claimholders have, independently and without reliance on the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder, and based on documents and information deemed by them appropriate, made their own credit analysis and decision to enter into each of the Second Lien Loan Documents and be bound by the terms of this Agreement and they will continue to make their own credit decision in taking or not taking any action under the Second Lien Loan Documents or this Agreement.

 

7.2 No Warranties or Liability. The First Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the First Lien Claimholders under the First Lien Loan Documents, acknowledges and agrees that each of the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders have made no express or implied representation or warranty, including with respect to the execution, validity, legality, completeness, collectibility or enforceability of any of the Second Lien Loan Documents, the ownership of any Collateral or the perfection or priority of any Liens thereon. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Second Lien Claimholders will be entitled to manage and supervise their respective loans and extensions of credit under the Second Lien Loan Documents in accordance with law and as they may otherwise, in their sole discretion, deem appropriate. The Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Obligations, acknowledges and agrees that the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders have made no express or implied representation or warranty, including with respect to the execution, validity, legality, completeness, collectibility or enforceability of any of the First Lien Loan Documents, the ownership of any Collateral or the perfection or priority of any Liens thereon. Except as otherwise provided herein, the First Lien Claimholders will be entitled to manage and supervise their respective loans and extensions of credit under their respective First Lien Loan Documents in accordance with law and as they may otherwise, in their sole discretion, deem appropriate. The Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders shall have no duty to the First Lien Collateral Agent or any of the First Lien Claimholders, and the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have no duty to the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any of the Second Lien Claimholders, to act or refrain from acting in a manner which allows, or results in, the occurrence or continuance of an event of default or default under any agreements with the Company or any other Grantor (including the First Lien Loan Documents and the Second Lien Loan Documents), regardless of any knowledge thereof which they may have or be charged with.

 

7.3 No Waiver of Lien Priorities.

 

(a) No right of the First Lien Claimholders, the First Lien Collateral Agent or any of them to enforce any provision of this Agreement or any First Lien Loan Document shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company or any other Grantor or by any act or failure to act by any First Lien Claimholder or the First Lien Collateral Agent, or by any noncompliance by any Person

 

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with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Agreement, any of the First Lien Loan Documents or any of the Second Lien Loan Documents, regardless of any knowledge thereof which the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders, or any of them, may have or be otherwise charged with.

 

(b) Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph (but subject to the rights of the Company and the other Grantors under the First Lien Loan Documents), the First Lien Claimholders, the First Lien Collateral Agent and any of them may, at any time and from time to time in accordance with the First Lien Loan Documents and/or applicable law, without the consent of, or notice to, the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholders, without incurring any liabilities to the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholders and without impairing or releasing the Lien priorities and other benefits provided in this Agreement (even if any right of subrogation, reimbursement or contribution or other right or remedy of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholders is affected, impaired or extinguished thereby) do any one or more of the following:

 

(1) make loans and advances to any Grantor or issue, guarantee or obtain letters of credit for account of any Grantor or otherwise extend credit to any Grantor, in any amount and on any terms, whether pursuant to a commitment or as a discretionary advance and whether or not any default or event of default or failure of condition is then continuing;

 

(2) change the manner, place or terms of payment or change or extend the time of payment of, or amend, renew, exchange, increase or alter, the terms of any of the First Lien Obligations or any Lien on any First Lien Collateral or guaranty thereof or any liability of the Company or any other Grantor, or any liability incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof (including any increase in or extension of the First Lien Obligations, without any restriction as to the tenor or terms of any such increase or extension) or otherwise amend, renew, exchange, extend, modify or supplement in any manner any Liens held by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any of the First Lien Claimholders, the First Lien Obligations or any of the First Lien Loan Documents;

 

(3) sell, exchange, release, surrender, realize upon, enforce or otherwise deal with in any manner and in any order any part of the First Lien Collateral or any liability of the Company or any other Grantor to the First Lien Claimholders or the First Lien Collateral Agent, or any liability incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof;

 

(4) settle or compromise any First Lien Obligation or any other liability of the Company or any other Grantor or any security therefor or any liability incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof and apply any sums by whomsoever paid and however realized to any liability (including the First Lien Obligations) in any manner or order;

 

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(5) exercise or delay in or refrain from exercising any right or remedy against the Company or any security or any other Grantor or any other Person, elect any remedy and otherwise deal freely with the Company, any other Grantor or any First Lien Collateral and any security and any guarantor or any liability of the Company or any other Grantor to the First Lien Claimholders or any liability incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof; and

 

(6) release or discharge any First Lien Obligation or any guaranty thereof or any agreement or obligation of any Grantor or any other person or entity with respect thereto.

 

(c) Except as otherwise provided herein, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Claimholders, also agrees that the First Lien Claimholders and the First Lien Collateral Agent shall have no liability to the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholders, and the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Claimholders, hereby waives any claim against any First Lien Claimholder or the First Lien Collateral Agent, arising out of any and all actions which the First Lien Claimholders or the First Lien Collateral Agent may take or permit or omit to take with respect to:

 

(1) the First Lien Loan Documents;

 

(2) the collection of the First Lien Obligations; or

 

(3) the foreclosure upon, or sale, liquidation or other disposition of, any First Lien Collateral. The Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Claimholders, agrees that the First Lien Claimholders and the First Lien Collateral Agent have no duty, express or implied, fiduciary or otherwise, to them in respect of the maintenance or preservation of the First Lien Collateral, the First Lien Obligations or otherwise. Neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any other First Lien Claimholder nor any of their respective directors, officers, employees or agents will be liable for failure to demand, collect or realize upon any of the Collateral or for any delay in doing so, or will be under any obligation to sell or otherwise dispose of any Collateral upon the request of the Company or any other Grantor or upon the request of the Second Lien Collateral Agent, any other holder of Second Lien Obligations or any other Person or to take any other action whatsoever with regard to the Collateral or any part thereof.

 

(d) The Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Claimholders, agrees not to assert and hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any right to demand, request, plead or otherwise assert or otherwise claim the benefit of, any marshalling, appraisal, valuation or other similar right that may otherwise be available under applicable law with respect to the Collateral or any other similar rights a junior secured creditor may have under applicable law.

 

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(e) Each creditor by accepting the benefits of the Collateral Documents agrees that the First Lien Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to realize first upon any type of Collateral or to sell, dispose of or otherwise liquidate all or any portion of the Collateral in any manner, including as a result of the application of the principles of marshaling or otherwise, that would maximize the return to any class of creditors holding Obligations of any type (whether First Lien Obligations or Second Lien Obligations), notwithstanding that the order and timing of any such realization, sale, disposition or liquidation may affect the amount of proceeds actually received by such class of creditors from such realization, sale, disposition or liquidation.

 

7.4 Obligations Unconditional. All rights, interests, agreements and obligations of the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders and the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders, respectively, hereunder shall remain in full force and effect irrespective of:

 

(a) any lack of validity or enforceability of any First Lien Loan Documents or any Second Lien Loan Documents;

 

(b) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other terms of, all or any of the First Lien Obligations or Second Lien Obligations, or any amendment or waiver or other modification, including any increase in the amount thereof, whether by course of conduct or otherwise, of the terms of any First Lien Loan Document or any Second Lien Loan Document;

 

(c) any exchange of any security interest in any Collateral or any other collateral, or any amendment, waiver or other modification, whether in writing or by course of conduct or otherwise, of all or any of the First Lien Obligations or Second Lien Obligations or any guaranty thereof;

 

(d) the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in respect of the Company or any other Grantor; or

 

(e) any other circumstances which otherwise might constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, the Company or any other Grantor in respect of the First Lien Collateral Agent, the First Lien Obligations, or any First Lien Claimholder, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, the Second Lien Obligations or any Second Lien Claimholder in respect of this Agreement.

 

SECTION 8. Miscellaneous.

 

8.1 Conflicts. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this Agreement and the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents or the Second Lien Loan Documents, the provisions of this Agreement shall govern and control.

 

8.2 Effectiveness; Continuing Nature of this Agreement; Severability. This Agreement shall become effective when executed and delivered by the parties hereto. This is a continuing agreement of lien subordination and the First Lien Claimholders may continue, at any time and without notice to the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder to

 

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extend credit and other financial accommodations and lend monies to or for the benefit of the Company or any Grantor constituting First Lien Obligations in reliance hereof. The Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Claimholders, hereby waives any right it may have under applicable law to revoke this Agreement or any of the provisions of this Agreement. The terms of this Agreement shall survive, and shall continue in full force and effect, in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this Agreement is intended to constitute and shall be deemed to constitute a “subordination agreement” within the meaning of Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code and is intended to be and shall be interpreted to be enforceable to the maximum extent permitted pursuant to applicable nonbankruptcy law. Any provision of this Agreement which is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction. All references to the Company or any other Grantor shall include the Company or such Grantor as debtor and debtor-in-possession and any receiver or trustee for the Company or any other Grantor (as the case may be) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding. This Agreement shall terminate and be of no further force and effect:

 

(a) with respect to the First Lien Collateral Agent, the First Lien Claimholders and the First Lien Obligations, the date of Discharge of First Lien Obligations, subject to the rights of the First Lien Claimholders under Sections 6.5 and 7; and

 

(b) with respect to the Second Lien Collateral Agent, the Second Lien Claimholders and the Second Lien Obligations, upon the later of (1) the date upon which the obligations under the Second Lien Credit Agreement terminate if there are no other Second Lien Obligations outstanding on such date and (2) if there are other Second Lien Obligations outstanding on such date, the date upon which such Second Lien Obligations terminate.

 

8.3 Amendments; Waivers. No amendment, modification or waiver of any of the provisions of this Agreement by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Collateral Agent shall be deemed to be made unless the same shall be in writing signed on behalf of each party hereto or its authorized agent and each waiver, if any, shall be a waiver only with respect to the specific instance involved and shall in no way impair the rights of the parties making such waiver or the obligations of the other parties to such party in any other respect or at any other time. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not have any right to consent to or approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement except to the extent to cause additional obligations to the Company.

 

8.4 Information Concerning Financial Condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries. The First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders, on the one hand, and the Second Lien Claimholders and the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on the other hand, shall each be responsible for keeping themselves informed of (a) the financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries and all endorsers and/or guarantors of the First Lien Obligations or the Second Lien Obligations and (b) all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the First Lien Obligations or the Second Lien Obligations. The First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have no duty to advise the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any

 

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Second Lien Claimholder of information known to it or them regarding such condition or any such circumstances or otherwise. In the event the First Lien Collateral Agent or any of the First Lien Claimholders, in its or their sole discretion, undertakes at any time or from time to time to provide any such information to the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder, it or they shall be under no obligation:

 

(a) to make, and the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall not make, any express or implied representation or warranty, including with respect to the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness or validity of any such information so provided;

 

(b) to provide any additional information or to provide any such information on any subsequent occasion;

 

(c) to undertake any investigation; or

 

(d) to disclose any information which, pursuant to accepted or reasonable commercial finance practices, such party wishes to maintain confidential or is otherwise required to maintain confidential.

 

8.5 Subrogation. With respect to the value of any payments or distributions in cash, property or other assets that any of the Second Lien Claimholders or the Second Lien Collateral Agent pays over to the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders under the terms of this Agreement, the Second Lien Claimholders and the Second Lien Collateral Agent shall be subrogated to the rights of the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders; provided that, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Claimholders, hereby waives and agrees not to assert or enforce all rights of subrogation, reimbursement or contribution it may acquire as a result of any payment hereunder until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the value of any payments or distributions in cash, property or other assets received by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Claimholders that are paid over to the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders pursuant to this Agreement shall not reduce any of the Second Lien Obligations.

 

8.6 Application of Payments. All payments received by the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders may be applied, reversed and reapplied, in whole or in part, to such part of the First Lien Obligations as the First Lien Claimholders, in their sole discretion deem appropriate. The Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Claimholders, assents to any extension or postponement of the time of payment of the First Lien Obligations or any part thereof and to any other indulgence with respect thereto, to any substitution, exchange or release of any security which may at any time secure any part of the First Lien Obligations and to the addition or release of any other Person primarily or secondarily liable therefor.

 

8.7 SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; WAIVERS.

 

(a) ALL JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS BROUGHT AGAINST ANY PARTY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING HERETO MAY BE BROUGHT IN

 

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ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION IN THE STATE, COUNTY AND CITY OF NEW YORK. BY EXECUTING AND DELIVERING THIS AGREEMENT, EACH PARTY, FOR ITSELF AND IN CONNECTION WITH ITS PROPERTIES, IRREVOCABLY:

 

(1) ACCEPTS GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION AND VENUE OF SUCH COURTS;

 

(2) WAIVES ANY DEFENSE OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS;

 

(3) AGREES THAT SERVICE OF ALL PROCESS IN ANY SUCH PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT MAY BE MADE BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED, TO THE APPLICABLE PARTY AT ITS ADDRESS PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 8.8; AND

 

(4) AGREES THAT SERVICE AS PROVIDED IN CLAUSE (3) ABOVE IS SUFFICIENT TO CONFER PERSONAL JURISDICTION OVER THE APPLICABLE PARTY IN ANY SUCH PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT, AND OTHERWISE CONSTITUTES EFFECTIVE AND BINDING SERVICE IN EVERY RESPECT.

 

(b) EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY AGREES TO WAIVE ITS RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING HEREUNDER. THE SCOPE OF THIS WAIVER IS INTENDED TO BE ALL-ENCOMPASSING OF ANY AND ALL DISPUTES THAT MAY BE FILED IN ANY COURT AND THAT RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF, INCLUDING CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS, BREACH OF DUTY CLAIMS AND ALL OTHER COMMON LAW AND STATUTORY CLAIMS. EACH PARTY HERETO ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS WAIVER IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT TO ENTER INTO A BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP, THAT EACH HAS ALREADY RELIED ON THIS WAIVER IN ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT, AND THAT EACH WILL CONTINUE TO RELY ON THIS WAIVER IN ITS RELATED FUTURE DEALINGS. EACH PARTY HERETO FURTHER WARRANTS AND REPRESENTS THAT IT HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH ITS LEGAL COUNSEL AND THAT IT KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS FOLLOWING CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL. THIS WAIVER IS IRREVOCABLE, MEANING THAT IT MAY NOT BE MODIFIED EITHER ORALLY OR IN WRITING (OTHER THAN BY A MUTUAL WRITTEN WAIVER SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO THIS SECTION 8.7(b) AND EXECUTED BY EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO), AND THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS HERETO. IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE FILED AS A WRITTEN CONSENT TO A TRIAL BY THE COURT.

 

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(c) EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION BASED ON, OR ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER FIRST LIEN LOAN DOCUMENT OR SECOND LIEN LOAN DOCUMENT, OR ANY COURSE OF CONDUCT, COURSE OF DEALING, VERBAL OR WRITTEN STATEMENT OR ACTION OF ANY PARTY HERETO.

 

(d) EXCEPT AS PROHIBITED BY LAW, EACH OF THE PARTIES HEREBY WAIVES ANY RIGHT WHICH IT MAY HAVE TO CLAIM OR RECOVER IN ANY LITIGATION REFERRED TO IN THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH ANY SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES OTHER THAN, OR IN ADDITION TO, ACTUAL DAMAGES.

 

8.8 Notices. All notices to the Second Lien Claimholders and the First Lien Claimholders permitted or required under this Agreement shall also be sent to the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Collateral Agent, respectively. Unless otherwise specifically provided herein, any notice hereunder shall be in writing and may be personally served, telexed or sent by telefacsimile or United States mail or courier service and shall be deemed to have been given when delivered in person or by courier service and signed for against receipt thereof, upon receipt of telefacsimile or telex, or three Business Days after depositing it in the United States mail with postage prepaid and properly addressed. For the purposes hereof, the addresses of the parties hereto shall be as set forth below each party’s name on the signature pages hereto, or, as to each party, at such other address as may be designated by such party in a written notice to all of the other parties.

 

8.9 Further Assurances. The First Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the First Lien Claimholders under the First Lien Loan Documents, and the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Claimholders under the Second Lien Loan Documents, and the Company, agree that each of them shall take such further action and shall execute and deliver such additional documents and instruments (in recordable form, if requested) as the First Lien Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Collateral Agent may reasonably request to effectuate the terms of and the Lien priorities contemplated by this Agreement.

 

8.10 APPLICABLE LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

8.11 Binding on Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon the Company, the Grantors, the First Lien Collateral Agent, the First Lien Claimholders, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, the Second Lien Claimholders and their respective successors and assigns.

 

8.12 Specific Performance. Each of the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Collateral Agent may demand specific performance of this Agreement. The First Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the First Lien Claimholders under the First Lien Loan Documents, and the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien

 

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Claimholders, hereby irrevocably waive any defense based on the adequacy of a remedy at law and any other defense which might be asserted to bar the remedy of specific performance in any action which may be brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders or the Second Lien Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Claimholders, as the case may be.

 

8.13 Headings. Section headings in this Agreement are included herein for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part of this Agreement for any other purpose or be given any substantive effect.

 

8.14 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement or any document or instrument delivered in connection herewith by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement or such other document or instrument, as applicable.

 

8.15 Authorization. By its signature, each Person executing this Agreement on behalf of a party hereto represents and warrants to the other parties hereto that it is duly authorized to execute this Agreement.

 

8.16 No Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement and the rights and benefits hereof shall inure to the benefit of each of the parties hereto and its respective successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of each of the First Lien Claimholders and the Second Lien Claimholders. No other Person shall have or be entitled to assert rights or benefits hereunder.

 

8.17 Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights. The provisions of this Agreement are and are intended solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the First Lien Claimholders on the one hand and the Second Lien Claimholders on the other hand. None of the Company, any other Grantor or any other creditor thereof shall have any rights hereunder and neither the Company nor any Grantor may rely on the terms hereof. Nothing in this Agreement is intended to or shall impair the obligations of the Company or any other Grantor, which are absolute and unconditional, to pay the First Lien Obligations and the Second Lien Obligations as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms.

 

8.18 Interpretation. This Agreement and the other documents relating to this Agreement are the result of negotiations among and have been reviewed by counsel to the First Lien Collateral Agent, the First Lien Claimholders, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders, and certain of the other parties, and are the products of all parties. Accordingly, they shall not be construed against any party merely because of such party’s involvement in their preparation.

 

8.19 Option to Purchase First Lien Obligations.

 

(a) Upon the delivery by the First Lien Collateral Agent to the Second Lien Collateral Agent of written notice in accordance with this Section 8.19(a) (a “Trigger Notice”) of the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Lenders (x) accelerating the First Lien Obligations or (y) their intent to commence any foreclosure or other action to sell or otherwise realize upon all or substantially all of the Collateral, the Second Lien

 

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Collateral Agent or any or all of the Second Lien Lenders, as a single group, shall have an option, exercised by delivery of written notice by the Second Lien Collateral Agent to the First Lien Collateral Agent (a “Purchase Notice”) given by a same-day facsimile or personal delivery, to purchase all (but not less than all) of the First Lien Obligations (at the “Purchase Price” referred to in Section 8.19(d) below) from the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Lenders. The Purchase Notice shall specify which Second Lien Lenders (the “Purchasing Second Lien Lenders”) will purchase the First Lien Obligations. The Purchase Notice shall be irrevocable. If the Second Lien Collateral Agent does not deliver such Purchase Notice within five (5) Business Days of the delivery of the Trigger Notice, the purchase right of the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Second Lien Lenders hereunder with respect to such Trigger Notice shall expire and be of no force and effect.

 

(b) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall deliver to the Second Lien Collateral Agent the Trigger Notice referred to in Section 8.19(a) above (i) in the absence of an Exigent Circumstance (defined below), not less than five (5) Business Days prior to the taking of the earliest of the actions described in Section 8.19(a)(y), or (ii) if Exigent Circumstances exist, as soon as practicable and in any event not more than five (5) Business Days after the taking of action described in Section 8.19(a)(y) or (iii) in the case of acceleration of the First Lien Obligations, as soon as practicable and in any event not more than five (5) Business Days after such acceleration. The Second Lien Collateral Agent may send to the First Lien Collateral Agent the Purchase Notice referred to in Section 8.19(a) above within five (5) Business Days of receipt of such Trigger Notice, in which event, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Lenders shall not commence any foreclosure or other action to sell or otherwise realize upon such Collateral, as the case may be, provided, that, the purchase and sale with respect to the First Lien Obligations provided for in this Section 8.19 shall have closed within five (5) Business Days after receipt by the First Lien Collateral Agent of the Purchase Notice and the First Lien Collateral Agent shall have received payment in full in cash of the Purchase Price for the First Lien Obligations as provided for herein within such five (5) Business Day period. As used herein, “Exigent Circumstance” shall mean (i) an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding by or against any Grantor, (ii) an exercise by another lender of enforcement rights or remedies with respect to particular Collateral, or (iii) an event or circumstance that materially and imminently threatens the ability of the First Lien Collateral Agent to realize upon all or a material part of the Collateral, such as, without limitation, fraudulent removal or concealment thereof, destruction (other than to the extent covered by insurance) or material waste thereof.

 

(c) On the date specified by the Second Lien Collateral Agent in the Purchase Notice (which shall not be more than five (5) Business Days after the receipt by the First Lien Collateral Agent of the Purchase Notice), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Lenders shall sell to the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Second Lien Lenders, without recourse or warranty (except as specified in Section 8.19(e)) of any kind, and the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Second Lien Lenders shall purchase from the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Lenders all (but not less than all) of the First Lien Obligations. From and after such sale and purchase of the First Lien Obligations, subject to the provisions of Section 8.19(d)

 

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hereof, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Second Lien Lenders shall be parties to the First Lien Credit Agreement and the other First Lien Loan Documents, and shall have the rights and remedies and obligations and responsibilities of the First Lien Collateral Agent and other First Lien Lenders thereunder, and the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Lenders shall have assigned their rights and remedies and shall have been released from their obligations and responsibilities under the First Lien Credit Agreement and the other First Lien Credit Documents and shall cease to be parties thereto. The Creditors will execute an assignment and acceptance agreement, in a form acceptable to the First Lien Collateral Agent to assign the entire First Lien Obligations (as opposed to a percentage share thereof), to assign the agency to the Second Lien Collateral Agent, to otherwise reflect the terms of this Section 8.19, and to evidence the purchase and sale of the First Lien Obligations.

 

(d) Upon the date of such purchase and sale, the Purchasing Second Lien Lenders shall (i) pay to the First Lien Collateral Agent as the purchase price therefor (the “Purchase Price”) the full amount of all the First Lien Obligations then outstanding and unpaid, (ii) without duplication of (i), furnish cash collateral to the First Lien Collateral Agent to secure the First Lien Lenders with respect to (a) obligations under letters of credit in an amount equal to 105% of the aggregate undrawn face amount of any issued and outstanding letters of credit provided by the issuing bank (or any issued and outstanding letters of credit that the First Lien Collateral Agent has arranged to be provided by third parties pursuant to the financing arrangements of the First Lien Lenders with any Grantor) to the Company and, in any event, use reasonable efforts to replace all of such letters of credit with letters of credit issued by or for the account of the Purchasing Second Lien Lenders and (b) Hedge Obligations in an amount equal to 100% of any Grantor’s obligations (as determined by the First Lien Collateral Agent), (iii) without duplication of (i), agree to reimburse the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Lenders for any loss, cost, damage or expense (including attorneys’ fees and expenses) in connection with any commissions, fees, costs or expenses related to any issued and outstanding letters of credit and any checks or other payments provisionally credited to the First Lien Obligations, and/or as to which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Creditor has not yet received final payment, (iv) permit the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Lenders to retain Liens on the Collateral to secure any indemnification obligations of the Grantors that survive the termination of the First Lien Loan Documents, (v) without duplication of (i), agree to reimburse, within five (5) Business Days of written demand by the First Lien Collateral Agent therefor, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Lenders in respect of indemnification obligations of the Grantors under the First Lien Loan Documents as to matters or circumstances identified by the First Lien Collateral Agent prior to such sale which would reasonably be expected to result in any loss, cost, damage or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and legal expenses) to any First Lien Creditor, and (vi) agree to pay to the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Lenders any of the other obligations in respect of the First Lien Obligations, within two (2) Business Days after receipt by the Second Lien Lenders of amounts sufficient to pay all or a portion of such other obligations. Such purchase price and cash collateral shall be remitted by wire transfer of immediately available federal funds to such bank account of the First Lien Collateral Agent as the First Lien Collateral Agent may designate in writing to the

 

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Second Lien Collateral Agent for such purpose. Interest shall be calculated to but excluding the Business Day on which such purchase and sale shall occur if the amounts so paid by the Purchasing Second Lien Lenders to the bank account designated by the First Lien Collateral Agent are received in such bank account prior to 1:00 p.m., New York time and interest shall be calculated to and including such Business Day if the amounts so paid by the Purchasing Second Lien Lenders to the bank account designated by the First Lien Collateral Agent are received in such bank account later than 1:00 p.m., New York time.

 

(e) Such purchase shall be expressly made without representation or warranty of any kind by any of the First Lien Lenders as to the First Lien Obligations or otherwise and without recourse to any of the First Lien Lenders, except that each of the First Lien Lenders shall represent and warrant: (i) the amount of the First Lien Obligations being purchased from such First Lien Creditor; (ii) that such First Lien Creditor owns such First Lien Obligations free and clear of any Liens or encumbrances; and (iii) such First Lien Lenders has the right to assign such First Lien Obligations and the assignment is duly authorized.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Intercreditor Agreement as of the date first written above.

 

First Lien Collateral Agent

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as First Lien Collateral Agent,

By:

 

 


Name:

 

Ernie J. Pinder

Title:

 

Vice President, Principal

333 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90071

 

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Second Lien Collateral Agent

[NAME OF COLLATERAL AGENT],

as Second Lien Collateral Agent

By:

 

 


Name:

   

Title:

   
[NOTICE ADDRESS]

 

Acknowledged and Agreed to by:

 

MODTECH HOLDINGS, INC.

By:

 

 


Name:

   

Title:

   

[NOTICE ADDRESS]

 

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EX-4.7 8 dex47.htm AMENDMENT AND FORBEARANCE AGREEMENT, DATED DECEMBER 29, 2004 Amendment and Forbearance Agreement, dated December 29, 2004

Exhibit 4.7

 

AMENDMENT AND FORBEARANCE AGREEMENT

 

THIS AMENDMENT AND FORBEARANCE AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of December 29, 2004, is entered into among Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (“Wells Fargo”), Union Bank of California, N.A. and Comerica Bank-California (collectively, the “Lenders”), Modtech Holdings, Inc. (the “Borrower”) and Wells Fargo as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”).

 

RECITALS

 

A. The Borrower, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent have previously entered into that certain Credit Agreement dated as of December 26, 2001 (as amended, modified or supplemented as of the date hereof, the “Credit Agreement”), pursuant to which the Lenders have made certain loans and financial accommodations available to the Borrower. Terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Credit Agreement.

 

B. The following Events of Default occurred as of September 30, 2004, and are continuing under the Credit Agreement: (a) the Borrower was not in compliance with Section 6.14 (Current Ratio); (b) the Borrower was in violation of Section 6.15 (Tangible Net Worth); and (c) as of September 30, 2004, the Borrower was in violation of Section 6.27 (Minimum EBITDA) and the Borrower has advised the Lenders that as of December 31, 2004 it will not be in compliance with the foregoing three sections of the Credit Agreement as well as Section 6.12 (Funded Debt Ratio) and Section 6.13 (Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio) and will not be in compliance with Section 6.26 (Asset Coverage Ratio) until the Maximum Revolving Credit Amount is reduced to $24,000,000 (all of the foregoing, collectively, the “Known Defaults”).

 

C. The Borrower has asked the Lenders to forbear from exercising their rights and remedies under the Credit Agreement in order to give the Borrower time to either bring its financial performance back in compliance with the terms of the Credit Agreement or to refinance the amounts outstanding under the Credit Agreement in their entities.

 

D. The Lenders are willing, for a limited period of time and on the terms and conditions set forth herein, to forbear from exercising their rights and remedies under the Credit Agreement with respect to the Known Defaults.

 

E. The Lenders and the Borrower also wish to amend the terms of the Credit Agreement, all as more fully set forth herein.

 

F. The Borrower is entering into this Agreement with the understanding and agreement that, except as specifically provided herein, none of the Lenders’ rights or remedies as set forth in the Credit Agreement is being waived or modified by the terms of this Agreement.

 

AGREEMENT

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual covenants herein contained, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereby agree as follows:

 

1. Incorporation of Recitals. Each of the above recitals is expressly incorporated herein and is represented by the Borrower to be true and correct.


2. Reaffirmation of Obligations. The Borrower hereby acknowledges that the Loan Documents and the Obligations constitute the valid and binding obligations of the Borrower enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with their respective terms, and the Borrower hereby reaffirms its obligations under the Loan Documents. The Lenders’ entry into this Agreement or any of the documents referenced herein, the Lenders’ negotiations with any party with respect to any Loan Document, the Lenders’ conduct of any analysis or investigation of any collateral for the Obligations or any Loan Document, the Lenders’ acceptance of any payment from the Borrower or any other party made to the Lenders prior to the date hereof, or any other action or failure to act on the part of the Lenders shall not constitute (a) except to the extent of the specific amendments contained in Section 6 hereof, a modification of any Loan Document, or (b) a waiver of any Default or Event of Default under the Loan Documents, including, without limitation, the Known Defaults, or a waiver of any term or provision of any Loan Document.

 

3. Agreement to Forbear: Termination of Agreement to Forbear.

 

(a) For the Forbearance Term (as defined below), the Lenders shall not take any action or commence any proceedings with respect to the enforcement of any of their rights or remedies under the Loan Documents as a result of the Known Defaults. The parties agree that neither the foregoing agreement by the Lenders nor the acceptance by the Lenders of any of the payments provided for in the Loan Documents, nor any payment prior to the date hereof shall, however, (a) excuse any party from any of its obligations under the Loan Documents, or (b) toll the running of any time periods applicable to any such rights and remedies, including, without limitation, any time periods within which the Borrower may cure defaults under the Loan Documents or otherwise. The Borrower agrees that it will not assert laches, waiver or any other defense to the enforcement of any of the Loan Documents based upon the foregoing agreement by the Lenders to forbear or the acceptance by the Lenders of any of the payments provided for in the Loan Documents or any payment prior to the date hereof. As used herein, “Forbearance Term” shall mean the period commencing upon the effectiveness of this Agreement and continuing until the earliest to occur of: (x) any Default or Event of Default under any of the Loan Documents (other than the Known Defaults or any Event of Default arising from a failure to comply with the provisions of Sections 6.14, 6.15 or 6.27 of the Credit Agreement which occurs during the Forbearance Term) or (y) March 31, 2005.

 

(b) The Borrower acknowledges and agrees that upon the termination of the Lenders’ agreement to forbear as provided in Section 3(a) hereof, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to exercise any or all of its remedies under the Loan Documents, including, without limitation, the appointment of a receiver, the acceleration of the Obligations and the enforcement under the UCC of any liens in favor of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent, as a result of the Known Defaults, and at any time the Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to exercise any or all of their respective remedies under the Loan Documents as a result of any other Default or Event of Default under the Loan Documents.

 

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4. Termination of Commitments. Each of the parties hereto agrees that as of the Amendment and Forbearance Effective Date, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Swing Line Advances is $1,700,000, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Revolving Advances is $21,200,000 and the Aggregate Effective Amount under all outstanding Letters of Credit is $6,898,125. From and after the Amendment and Forbearance Effective Date, the entire $201,875 of unused Revolving Commitments shall be cancelled without further action by any party and the Commitments of the Lenders to make Swing Line Loans or Revolving Advances and to issue any Letters of Credit under the Credit Agreement shall be terminated. Accordingly, any prepayment or repayment of Swing Line Loans or Revolving Advances shall permanently reduce the Revolving Commitment by the amount of such prepayment or repayment. If any Letter of Credit shall expire or be cancelled prior to its expiry date, the Revolving Commitment shall be permanently reduced by the amount of such Letter of Credit.

 

5. Prepayment of Swing Line Loans and Revolving Advances; Default Rate.

 

(a) The Borrower shall on or prior to the Amendment and Forbearance Effective Date, prepay in full all outstanding Swing Line Loans in the amount of $1,700,000 and $4,300,000 of Revolving Advances. Upon such prepayment, the Maximum Revolving Credit Amount shall be reduced to $23,798,125 without further action by any party.

 

(b) All Obligations under the Credit Agreement shall continue to bear interest at the Default Rate until further notice.

 

6. Amendments to Credit Agreement.

 

(a) The following defined terms are hereby added to Section 1.1 of the Credit Agreement in appropriate alphabetical sequence:

 

Amendment and Forbearance Agreement” means that certain Amendment and Forbearance Agreement dated as of December 29, 2004 among the Borrower, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent.

 

Amendment and Forbearance Effective Date” means the date upon which all conditions precedent set forth in Section 7 of the Amendment and Forbearance Agreement shall have been satisfied.

 

(b) The following defined terms in Section 1.1 of the Credit Agreement are hereby amended in full to read as follows:

 

Maximum Revolving Credit Amount” means the lesser of (a) $23,798,125 and (b) the Asset Borrowing Amount.

 

Revolving Commitment” means, with respect to each relevant Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender to make Revolving Advances (expressed as the maximum aggregate amount of the Revolving Advances to be made by such Lender hereunder), as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.6 and (b) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 11.8. The amount of each relevant Lender’s

 

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Revolving Commitment as of the Amendment and Forbearance Effective Date is set forth on Schedule 1.1. The aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Revolving Commitments as of the Amendment and Forbearance Effective Date is $23,798,125.

 

(c) Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that, as of the Amendment and Forbearance Effective Date, the Revolving Commitment of each Lender is being reduced to the amount set forth on Annex I hereto. Each of the parties hereto agrees that new Revolving Notes are not being issued in connection with this Agreement and that the stated amount of each Revolving Note shall, as of the Amendment and Forbearance Effective Date, be due and payable to each Lender in the amount (or such lesser amount as shall be outstanding from time to time) of such Lender’s Revolving Commitment.

 

(d) Schedule 1.1 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended to read in its entirety as set forth on Annex I hereto.

 

(e) The second paragraph of Section 2.1(a) of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended to read in its entirety as follows:

 

Upon the Amendment and Forbearance Effective Date, all unutilized Revolving Commitments under the Credit Agreement will be terminated and from and after such date the Borrower shall have no further right to reborrow amounts repaid under the Revolving Commitment.

 

(f) There shall be added to Section 2.5 of the Credit Agreement a new subsection (k) reading in its entirety as follows:

 

(k) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, from and after the Amendment and Forbearance Effective Date, no Letters of Credit shall be issued under this Section 2.5.

 

(g) There shall be added to Section 2.8 of the Credit Agreement a new subsection (f) reading in its entirety as follows:

 

(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, from and after the Amendment and Forbearance Effective Date, no Swing Line Loans shall be made under this Section 2.8.

 

(h) Section 3.2 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended to read in its entirety as follows:

 

3.2 [Intentionally Omitted.]

 

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(i) Section 11.23 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended to read in its entirety as follows:

 

11.23 Arbitration.

 

(a) Arbitration. The parties hereto agree, upon demand by any party, to submit to binding arbitration all claims, disputes and controversies between or among them (and their respective employees, officers, directors, attorneys, and other agents), whether in tort, contract or otherwise arising out of or relating to in any way the credit Agreement or any Loan Document and the negotiation, execution, collateralization, administration, repayment, modification, extension, substitution, formation, inducement, enforcement, default or termination of any such agreements.

 

(b) Governing Rules. Any arbitration proceeding will (i) proceed in a location in California selected by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”); (ii) be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act (Title 9 of the United States Code), notwithstanding any conflicting choice of law provision in any of the documents between the parties; and (iii) be conducted by the AAA, or such other administrator as the parties shall mutually agree upon, in accordance with the AAA’s commercial dispute resolution procedures, unless the claim or counterclaim is at least $1,000,000.00 exclusive of claimed interest, arbitration fees and costs in which case the arbitration shall be conducted in accordance with the AAA’s optional procedures for large, complex commercial disputes (the commercial dispute resolution procedures or the optional procedures for large, complex commercial disputes to be referred to, as applicable, as the “Rules”). If there is any inconsistency between the terms hereof and the Rules, the terms and procedures set forth herein shall control. Any party who fails or refuses to submit to arbitration following a demand by any other party shall bear all costs and expenses incurred by such other party in compelling arbitration of any dispute. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to be a waiver by any party that is a bank of the protections afforded to it under 12 U.S.C. §91 or any similar applicable state law.

 

(c) No Waiver of Provisional Remedies, Self-Help and Foreclosure. The arbitration requirement does not limit the right of any party to (i) foreclose against real or personal property collateral; (ii) exercise self-help remedies relating to collateral or proceeds of collateral such as setoff or repossession; or (iii) obtain provisional or ancillary remedies such as replevin, injunctive relief, attachment or the appointment of a receiver, before during or after the pendency of any arbitration proceeding. This exclusion does not constitute a waiver of the right or obligation of any party to submit any dispute to arbitration or reference hereunder, including those arising from the exercise of the actions detailed in sections (i), (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph.

 

(d) Arbitrator Qualifications and Powers. Any arbitration proceeding in which the amount in controversy is $5,000,000.00 or less will be decided by a single arbitrator selected according to the Rules, and who shall not render an award of greater than $5,000,000.00. Any dispute in which the amount in controversy exceeds $5,000,000.00 shall be decided by majority vote of a panel of three arbitrators; provided however, that all three arbitrators must actively participate in all hearings and deliberations. The arbitrator will be a neutral attorney licensed in the State of California or a neutral retired judge of the state or federal judiciary of California, in either case with a minimum of ten years experience in the substantive law applicable to the subject matter

 

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of the dispute to be arbitrated. The arbitrator will determine whether or not an issue is arbitratable and will give effect to the statutes of limitation in determining any claim. In any arbitration proceeding the arbitrator will decide (by documents only or with a hearing at the arbitrator’s discretion) any pre-hearing motions which are similar to motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim or motions for summary adjudication. The arbitrator shall resolve all disputes in accordance with the substantive law of California and may grant any remedy or relief that a court of such state could order or grant within the scope hereof and such ancillary relief as is necessary to make effective any award. The arbitrator shall also have the power to award recovery of all costs and fees, to impose sanctions and to take such other action as the arbitrator deems necessary to the same extent a judge could pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the California Rules of Civil Procedure or other applicable law. Judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court having jurisdiction. The institution and maintenance of an action for judicial relief or pursuit of a provisional or ancillary remedy shall not constitute a waiver of the right of any party, including the plaintiff, to submit the controversy or claim to arbitration if any other party contests such action for judicial relief.

 

(e) Discovery. In any arbitration proceeding discovery will be permitted in accordance with the Rules. All discovery shall be expressly limited to matters directly relevant to the dispute being arbitrated and must be completed no later than 20 days before the hearing date and within 180 days of the filing of the dispute with the AAA. Any requests for an extension of the discovery periods, or any discovery disputes, will be subject to final determination by the arbitrator upon a showing that the request for discovery is essential for the party’s presentation and that no alternative means for obtaining information is available.

 

(f) Class Proceedings and Consolidations. The resolution of any dispute arising pursuant to the terms of this Note shall be determined by a separate arbitration proceeding and such dispute shall not be consolidated with other disputes or included in any class proceeding.

 

(g) Payment Of Arbitration Costs And Fees. The arbitrator shall award all costs and expenses of the arbitration proceeding.

 

(h) Real Property Collateral; Judicial Reference. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, no dispute shall be submitted to arbitration if the dispute concerns indebtedness secured directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, by any real property unless (i) the holder of the mortgage, lien or security interest specifically elects in writing to proceed with the arbitration, or (ii) all parties to the arbitration waive any rights or benefits that might accrue to them by virtue of the single action rule statute of California, thereby agreeing that all indebtedness and obligations of the parties, and all mortgages, liens and security interests securing such indebtedness and obligations, shall remain fully valid and enforceable. If any such dispute is not submitted to arbitration, the dispute shall be referred to a referee in accordance with California Code of Civil Procedure Section 638 et seq., and this general reference agreement is intended to be specifically enforceable in accordance with said Section 638. A referee with the qualifications

 

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required herein for arbitrators shall be selected pursuant to the AAA’s selection procedures. Judgment upon the decision rendered by a referee shall be entered in the court in which such proceeding was commenced in accordance with California Code of Civil Procedure Sections 644 and 645.

 

(i) Miscellaneous. To the maximum extent practicable, the AAA, the arbitrators and the parties shall take all action required to conclude any arbitration proceeding within 180 days of the filing of the dispute with the AAA. No arbitrator or other party to an arbitration proceeding may disclose the existence, content or results thereof, except for disclosures of information by a party required in the ordinary course of its business or by applicable law or regulation. If more than one agreement for arbitration by or between the parties potentially applies to a dispute, the arbitration provision most directly related to the documents between the parties or the subject matter of the dispute shall control. This arbitration provision shall survive termination, amendment or expiration of any of the documents or any relationship between the parties.

 

(j) Section 6.9 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by replacing the period at the end thereof with a semicolon and adding a new subsection (f) reading in its entirety as follows:

 

“(f) Liens on cash or Cash Equivalents in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $10,000,000 to secure the Borrower’s reimbursement obligation to the issuer of the letter of credit described in Section 6.10(e) and Liens on substantially all of the assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries to secure the Senior Subordinated Secured Convertible Note described in Section 6.10(f).”

 

(k) Section 6.10(e) of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended to read in its entirety as follows:

 

(e) reimbursement obligations under a letter of credit in the face amount of $10,000,000 issued by U.S. Bank National Association for the benefit of Amaranth LLC (“Amaranth”) or an Affiliate thereof;

 

(1) Section 6.10(f) of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended to read in its entirety as follows:

 

“(f) Subordinated Obligations in such amount as may be approved in writing by the Requisite Lenders, including, without limitation, Indebtedness evidenced by that certain Senior Subordinated Secured Convertible Note dated on or about December 29, 2004 in the principal amount of $25,000,000 in favor of Amphora Limited that has been so approved by the Requisite Lenders;

 

7. Effectiveness of this Agreement. This Agreement shall not be effective unless on or before the date hereof, the Lenders have received the following, in form and content acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders.

 

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(a) Agreement: Acknowledgement. This Agreement, including the attached Acknowledgement by Guarantors, each fully executed in a sufficient number of counterparts for distribution to all parties.

 

(b) Convertible Senior Notes. Evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that the Borrower and Amaranth or an Affiliate thereof shall have executed all documentation in connection with the issuance of $25,000,000 of convertible senior notes on the terms contemplated by the Summary of Terms and Conditions dated November 30, 2004 and the initial funding thereunder shall have occurred.

 

(c) Senior Secured Credit Facility. Evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that the Borrower and Fortress Credit Corp. (“Fortress”) shall have executed that certain proposal letter dated December 2, 2004 for senior debt financing in an aggregate principal amount of $38,000,000.

 

(d) Intercreditor Agreement. A duly executed subordination and intercreditor agreement among the Borrower, Amaranth or an Affiliate thereof, and the Administrative Agent, in form and content satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders.

 

(e) Corporate Documentation. With respect to Borrower and the Subsidiaries, such documentation as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require to establish the due organization, valid existence and good standing of each such Person, their qualification to engage in business in each material jurisdiction in which they are engaged in business or required to be so qualified, their authority to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement and each of the Loan Documents executed in connection herewith to which it is a Party (if any), the identity, authority and capacity of each Responsible Official thereof authorized to act on its behalf, including certified copies of articles of incorporation and amendments thereto, articles of organization and amendments thereto, operating agreements and amendments thereto, bylaws and amendments thereto, certificates of good standing and/or qualification to engage in business, tax clearance certificates, certificates of corporate resolutions or limited liability company resolutions or other applicable authorization document, incumbency certificates, Certificates of Responsible Officials, and the like.

 

(f) Prepayment. Payment of all amounts required to be paid pursuant to Section 5(a) of this Agreement.

 

(g) Fees and Expenses. Reimbursement of all fees and expenses of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, special counsel to the Administrative Agent, and of Nigro, Karlin & Segal, certified public accountants retained by such counsel.

 

(h) Representations and Warranties. Evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that except for the existence of the Known Defaults, the representations and warranties set forth herein and in the Credit Agreement must be true and correct.

 

(i) Other Required Documentation. All other documents and legal matters in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall have been delivered or executed or recorded and shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders.

 

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8. Representations and Warranties. The Borrower represents and warrants as follows:

 

(a) Authority. The Borrower has the requisite corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement, and to perform its obligations hereunder and under the Loan Documents (as amended and supplemented hereby) to which it is a party. The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of this Agreement have been duly approved by all necessary corporate action and no other corporate proceedings are necessary to consummate such transactions.

 

(b) Enforceability. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Borrower. Each of this Agreement and each Loan Document (as amended and supplemented hereby) is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower, enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with its terms, and is in full force and effect.

 

(c) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties contained in each Loan Document (other than any such representations or warranties that, by their terms, are specifically made as of a date other than the date hereof) are correct on and as of the date hereof as though made on and as of the date hereof.

 

(d) Due Execution. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement are within the power of the Borrower, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, have received all necessary governmental approval, if any, and do not contravene any law or any contractual restrictions binding on the Borrower.

 

(e) No Default. Other than the Known Defaults, no event has occurred and is continuing that constitutes an Event of Default.

 

(f) Counsel. The Borrower has read and understands this Agreement, has consulted with and been represented by legal counsel in connection herewith, and has been advised by its counsel of its rights and obligations hereunder and thereunder.

 

9. Release; Covenant Not to Sue.

 

(a) The Borrower hereby absolutely and unconditionally releases and forever discharges the Lenders and the Administrative Agent, and any and all participants, parent corporations, subsidiary corporations, affiliated corporations, insurers, indemnitors, successors and assigns thereof, together with all of the present and former directors, officers, agents and employees of any of the foregoing (each a “Released Party”), from any and all claims, demands or causes of action of any kind, nature or description, whether arising in law or equity or upon contract or tort or under any state or federal law or otherwise, which the Borrower has had, now has or has made claim to have against any such person for or by reason of any act, omission, matter, cause or thing whatsoever arising from the beginning of time to and including the date of this Agreement, whether such claims, demands and causes of action are matured or unmatured or known or unknown. It is the intention of the Borrower in providing this release that the same

 

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shall be effective as a bar to each and every claim, demand and cause of action specified, and in furtherance of this intention it waives and relinquishes all rights and benefits under Section 1542 of the Civil Code of the State of California, which provides:

 

“A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which if known by him might have materially affected his settlement with the debtor.”

 

The Borrower acknowledges that it may hereafter discover facts different from or in addition to those now known or believed to be true with respect to such claims, demands, or causes of action and agree that this instrument shall be and remain effective in all respects notwithstanding any such differences or additional facts. The Borrower understands, acknowledges and agrees that the release set forth above may be pleaded as a full and complete defense and may be used as a basis for an injunction against any action, suit or other proceeding which may be instituted, prosecuted or attempted in breach of the provisions of such release.

 

(b) The Borrower, on behalf of itself and its successors, assigns, and other legal representatives, hereby absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably, covenants and agrees with and in favor of each Released Party above that it will not sue (at law, in equity, in any regulatory proceeding or otherwise) any Released Party on the basis of any claim released, remised and discharged by the Borrower pursuant to the above release. If the Borrower or any of its successors, assigns or other legal representations violates the foregoing covenant, the Borrower, for itself and its successors, assigns and legal representatives, agrees to pay, in addition to such other damages as any Released Party may sustain as a result of such violation, all attorneys’ fees and costs incurred by such Released Party as a result of such violation.

 

10. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties and separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered, shall be deemed an original, and all of which, when taken together, shall constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement by telefacsimile shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.

 

11. Reference to and Effect on the Loan Documents.

 

(a) Upon and after the effectiveness of this Agreement, each reference in the Credit Agreement to “this Agreement”, “hereunder”, “hereof” or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, and each reference in the other Loan Documents to “the Credit Agreement”, “thereof” or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, shall mean and be a reference to the Credit Agreement as amended and supplemented hereby.

 

(b) The Credit Agreement, as amended and supplemented hereby, and all other Loan Documents, are and shall continue to be in full force and effect and are hereby in all respects ratified and confirmed and shall constitute the legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations of the Borrower to the Lenders.

 

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(c) The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Agreement shall not operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of the Lenders under any of the Loan Documents, nor constitute a waiver of any provision of any of the Loan Documents.

 

(d) To the extent that any terms and conditions in any of the Loan Documents shall contradict or be in conflict with any terms or conditions of the Credit Agreement, as modified and amended hereby, such terms and conditions are hereby deemed modified or amended accordingly to reflect the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement as modified or amended hereby.

 

12. Estoppel. To induce the Lenders to enter into this Agreement, the Borrower hereby acknowledges and agrees that as of the date hereof, other than the Known Defaults there exists no Event of Default and no right of offset, defense, counterclaim or objection in favor of the Borrower as against the Lenders with respect to the Obligations.

 

13. Integration. This Agreement, together with the other Loan Documents, incorporates all negotiations of the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and is the final expression and agreement of the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 

14. Severability. In case any provision in this Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, such provision shall be severable from the remainder of this Agreement and the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

 

15. Modification. This Agreement may not be amended, waived or modified in any manner without the written consent of the party against whom the amendment, waiver or modification is sought to be enforced.

 

16. Submission of Agreement. The submission of this Agreement to the parties or their agents or attorneys for review or signature does not constitute a commitment by the Lenders to forbear from the exercise of its rights and remedies under the Loan Documents, and this Agreement shall have no binding force or effect until all of the conditions to the effectiveness of this Agreement have been satisfied as set forth herein.

 

17. Costs and Expenses. In addition to the obligations of the Borrower under the Loan Documents, the Borrower agrees to pay all costs and expenses (including without limitation reasonable attorneys’ fees) expended or incurred by the Lenders and the Administrative Agent in connection with the negotiation, documentation and preparation of this Agreement and any other documents executed in connection herewith, and in carrying out the terms of this Agreement, whether incurred before or after the effective date hereof.

 

18. Choice of Law. The validity of this Agreement, its construction, interpretation and enforcement, the rights of the parties hereunder, shall be determined under, governed by, and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of California governing contracts only to be performed in that State.

 

[Signatures follow on next page.]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have entered into this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

MODTECH HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware

corporation

By:

 

/s/ Dennis L. Shogren


Name:

 

DENNIS L. SHOGREN

Title:

 

Sec. & CFO

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL

ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent and as a

Lender

By:

 

/s/ E. J. D. Pinder


Name:

 

E. J. D. PINDER

Title:

 

R.M.

UNION BANK OF CALIFORNIA, N.A., as a

Lender

By:

 

/s/ Joel Steiner


Name:

 

JOEL STEINER

Title:

 

Vice President

COMERICA BANK-CALIFORNIA, as a Lender

By:

 

/s/ Clark Foster


Name:

 

CLARK FOSTER

Title:

 

Vice President

 

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BY GUARANTORS

 

Dated as of December 29, 2004

 

Each of the undersigned, being a Guarantor (each a “Guarantor” and collectively, the “Guarantors”) under their respective Guaranties, each dated December 26, 2001 and made in favor of the Lenders (as amended, modified or supplemented, each a “Guaranty” and collectively, the “Guaranties”), hereby acknowledges and agrees to the foregoing Amendment and Forbearance Agreement (the “Agreement”) and confirms and agrees that its Guaranty is and shall continue to be, in full force and effect and is hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects except that, upon the effectiveness of, and on and after the date of the Agreement, each reference in such Guaranty to the Credit Agreement (as defined in the Agreement), “thereunder”, “thereof” or words of like import referring to the “Credit Agreement”, shall mean and be a reference to the Credit Agreement as amended and supplemented by the Agreement. Although the Lenders have informed Guarantors of the matters set forth above, and Guarantors have acknowledged the same, each Guarantor understands and agrees that the Lenders have no duty under the Credit Agreement, the Guaranties or any other agreement with either Guarantor to so notify any Guarantor or to seek such an acknowledgement, and nothing contained herein is intended to or shall create such a duty as to any advances or transaction hereafter.

 

Each Guarantor hereby agrees to submit to binding arbitration all claims, disputes and controversies between or among such Guarantor and the Lenders and the Administrative Agent (and their respective employees, officers, directors, attorneys, and other agents), whether in tort, contract or otherwise arising out of or relating to in any way (i) the Credit Agreement and any Loan Document and the negotiation, execution, collateralization, administration, repayment, modification, extension, substitution, formation, inducement, enforcement, default or termination of any such agreements or (ii) any Guaranty. In furtherance thereof, the Guarantors agree that the procedures set forth in Section 11.23 of the Credit Agreement shall be followed, which procedures are incorporated herein by this reference.

 

COASTAL MODULAR BUILDINGS, INC. a Delaware

corporation

  

INNOVATIVE MODULAR STRUCTURES, INC., a Florida

corporation

By:

 

/s/ Dennis L. Shogren


  

By:

 

/s/ Dennis L. Shogren


Name:

 

DENNIS L. SHOGREN

  

Name:

 

DENNIS L. SHOGREN

Title:

 

Sec. & CFO

  

Title:

 

Sec. / Treasurer

TRAC MODULAR MANUFACTURING, INC., an Arizona

corporation

        

By:

 

/s/ Dennis L. Shogren


        

Name:

 

DENNIS L. SHOGREN

        

Title:

 

Sec. / CFO Modtech Holding, Inc.

        

 

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Annex I

 

Schedule 1.1

 

Lender Commitments and Pro Rata Shares

 

Lender


   Amount of Revolving Commitment

   Pro Rata Share

 

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

   $ 8,924,297    37.5000 %

Comerica Bank-California

   $ 7,436,914    31.2500 %

Union Bank of California, N.A.

   $ 7,436,914    31.2500 %

TOTAL

   $ 23,798,125    100 %

 

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EX-99.1 9 dex991.htm PRESS RELEASE ISSUED ON DECEMBER 31, 2004 Press Release issued on December 31, 2004

Exhibit 99.1

 

David Buckley

 

Dennis Shogren

 

Dan Matsui/Gene Heller

Chief Executive Officer

 

Chief Financial Officer

 

Silverman Heller Associates

(951) 943-8889

 

(951) 943-8800

 

(310) 208-2550

 

MODTECH HOLDINGS INC. COMPLETES $25 MILLION FINANCING

For Working Capital, General Corporate Purposes, Anticipated Growth

 

Perris, California—December 31, 2004—Modtech Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: MODT), a leading national designer and manufacturer of modular buildings, has entered into a definitive agreement for a private placement of $25 million of senior subordinated secured convertible notes. The private placement is anticipated to close today and the proceeds will be used for working capital, general corporate purposes, and to finance anticipated growth.

 

“This transaction is a significant first-step in restructuring the Company’s debt and important for our anticipated growth,” said Charles C. McGettigan, chairman for Modtech Holdings, Inc. “These new funds will allow us to focus on the tremendous market opportunities we see as a leading provider of modular buildings.”

 

The Company issued a five-year 7% senior subordinated secured convertible note due December 30, 2009. Quarterly interest payments will be made in arrears beginning April 1, 2005. The note holder may elect at any time to convert the note, in full or in part, into shares of Modtech common stock. The conversion price will be equal to 115% of the arithmetic average of the five-day weighted average price of the common stock beginning December 31, 2004 but not less than $8.61. The note holders have the option to cause the Company to redeem up to $8.33 million face amount of notes on each of June 30 of 2006, 2007 and 2008. As part of the transaction, Modtech issued to the note holder a five-year warrant to purchase shares of Modtech common stock exercisable for 8% of the shares underlying the convertible note. The exercise price of the warrant will be equal to the conversion price of the note. The warrants may be exercised at any time after issuance and expire December 31, 2009. The note, the warrants and the agreements related to the transaction are posted on our website at http://www.modtech.com/files/modtech/support_files/14/financingupdate.html and an 8-K including those documents will be filed on Monday, January 3, 2005 when the SEC opens after the December 31, 2004 closure of its offices.

 

The Company has immediate use of $15 million for partial reduction of its current revolving facility and other working capital and general corporate purposes. The remaining $10 million shall cash collateralize a letter of credit issued for the benefit of the note holder and such letter of credit will be reduced as certain financial milestones are met and can be used, in part, to fund the optional redemptions described above. To the extent that the milestones are not met or the Company incurs a default under the note, the letter of credit can be called by the holders of the note.

 

The Company has entered into an amendment and forbearance with its existing senior lending group which provides for, among other things, relief from its financial covenants through March 31, 2005 which agreement is also available on our website. The note holder and the Company’s senior lending group have also entered into an intercreditor agreement, a copy of which is available on the Company’s website.


As part of its refinancing plans, the Company is in ongoing discussions with alternate senior lenders. The likely terms of a refinancing, if any, could vary from those contained in the existing senior financing agreements and may not be as favorable as those contained in the existing agreement.

 

The notes and warrants were issued in a private placement and have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the Unites States absent registration under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an applicable exemption from registration requirements. Modtech is required to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission an estimated number of shares of common stock that may be issued should the Company elect to make interest and/or principal payments in shares or force conversion, or should the note holder elect to convert its note and/or exercise the warrant.

 

Rodman & Renshaw, LLC served as the exclusive placement agent for the transaction.

 

About Modtech Holdings, Inc.

 

Modtech is a leading national designer and manufacturer of modular buildings, both permanent and relocatable. In the school industry, the Company has advanced typical modular building technology to greater dimensions of flexibility and architectural integrity. Modtech has substantial product and geographic diversification throughout the southwestern states and a growing presence in Florida and Texas. Modtech’s commercial and industrial buildings are sold to a diverse end-user market and may be leased through national, regional, and local dealers. The Company also designs and manufactures modular buildings to customer specifications for a wide variety of uses.

 

Some statements in this press release may constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by forward-looking statements. Refer to the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for further discussion of such factors. The forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release and the Company assumes no obligation to update such statements.

 

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