-----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, LgbuxcqNqZ1sfFJmsr2Oc02OPFaIWpTdZE76zL+2vF+XAsS8uvYlIoXQcuBj/LGs Y2sHe9N+EXg4aN5oMXIpyA== 0001144204-06-027859.txt : 20060710 0001144204-06-027859.hdr.sgml : 20060710 20060710090204 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001144204-06-027859 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 4 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20060710 ITEM INFORMATION: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement ITEM INFORMATION: Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20060710 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20060710 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PROTALEX INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001099215 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-COMMERCIAL PHYSICAL & BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH [8731] IRS NUMBER: 912003490 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0531 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-28385 FILM NUMBER: 06952584 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 145 UNION SQUARE DRIVE CITY: NEW HOPE STATE: PA ZIP: 18938 BUSINESS PHONE: 215-862-9720 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 145 UNION SQUARE DRIVE CITY: NEW HOPE STATE: PA ZIP: 18938 8-K 1 v047225_8-k.htm Unassociated Document
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 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)   July 10, 2006 (July 7, 2006)

PROTALEX, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Delaware

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

000-28385
91-2003490
(Commission File Number)
(IRS Employer Identification No.)

145 Union Square Drive, New Hope, PA
18938
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)

215-862-9720

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
 


(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 (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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

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

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

 
 

 
Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

On July 7, 2006, Protalex, Inc. (the “Company”) accepted subscriptions from investors under the following material definitive agreements:
 
(1)
Warrant and Common Stock Purchase Agreement with a closing date of July 7, 2006 (the “Purchase Agreement”) among the Company and the several purchasers listed on Exhibit A thereof (the “Purchasers”).

(2)
Registration Rights Agreement by and among, the Company, the Purchasers and the Placement Agents (as defined below) as contemplated under the Purchase Agreement.

(3)
Warrant to Purchase Common Stock among the Company and each Purchaser and Placement Agent as contemplated under the Purchase Agreement .
 
Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Company issued (x) 6,071,013 shares of common stock at $2.50 per share (the “Shares”) for an aggregate cash consideration of $15,177,534 and (y) net exercise warrants to purchase 1,517,753 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $3.85 per share (the “2006 Warrants”). The 2006 Warrants expire on July 7, 2011 and provide for a net issue exercise feature and antidilution protection for certain equity issued below the exercise price.

Based on the sales proceeds described above, pursuant to a Placement Agent Agreement (as defined below) the Company is also obligated to issue warrants (the "Comp Warrants") to purchase common stock in the aggregate amount of 531,214 shares to Griffin Securities, Inc. and Carter Securities, LLC (collectively, the “Placement Agents”) as partial commission compensation in connection with the financing transactions contemplated in the Purchase Agreement. The terms of the Comp Warrants are essentially identical to the 2006 Warrants.

Pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company is also obligated to file a resale Registration Statement on Form SB-2 by July 28, 2006 which will register the Shares and the shares issuable upon exercise of the 2006 Warrants and Comp Warrants (together the “Registrable Securities”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). In addition, the Purchasers are entitled to certain piggyback registration rights. In the event the Company has not filed the Registration Statement by July 28, 2006 (“Filing Default”), the Company has agreed to pay liquidated damages to each Purchaser, from and including the day following such Filing Default until the date that the Registration Statement is filed with the SEC, at a rate per month (or portion thereof) equal to 0.50% of the total purchase price of the Shares purchased by such Purchaser pursuant to the Purchase Agreement (the “Default Rate”). In addition, if the Registration Statement is not declared effective by the SEC by October 27, 2006 (“Registration Default”), the Company has agreed to pay liquidated damages to each purchaser, from and including the day following such Registration Default until the earlier of (i) the time that the Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC, or (ii) the time as all remaining Registrable Securities held by such purchaser (assuming cashless exercise of the 2006 Warrants) may be sold without restriction under Rule 144(k) (or successor rule), at the Default Rate. There are similar additional penalties for failure to respond to SEC comments and to file subsequently required registration statement amendments. In no event, however, may the penalties exceed 10% in the aggregate of such total purchase price.
 
 
 

 
Included among the Purchasers were Company Directors Dinesh Patel through vSpring Capital, Peter G. Tombros, Frank M. Dougherty, and Victor S,. Sloan, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer.

The Purchase Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement and Form of 2006 Warrant are attached as Exhibits 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3 respectively to this current report on Form 8K and their terms are incorporated by reference into this Item 1.01.
 
Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities

As discussed above, pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Company issued (x) 6,071,013 shares of common stock at $2.50 per share for an aggregate cash consideration of $15,177,534 (the “Purchase Price”) and (y) net exercise warrants to purchase 1,517,753 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $3.85 per share. The 2006 Warrants expire on July 7, 2011 and provide for a net issue exercise feature and antidilution protection for certain equity issued below the exercise price.

Pursuant to a Placement Agent Agreement dated June 30, 2006 among the Company and the Placement Agents, the Company became obligated effective as of July 7, 2006 to issue the Comp Warrants to purchase common stock in the aggregate amount of 531,214 to the Placement Agents, upon the Company’s receipt of the Purchase Price, as partial commission compensation in connection with the financing transactions contemplated in the Purchase Agreement. The terms of the Comp Warrants are essentially identical to the 2006 Warrants. In addition, as of July 7, 2006 the Company is obligated to pay cash commission compensation of approximately $792,000 in the aggregate to the Placement Agents. The securities described above were issued to "accredited" investors only as such term is promulgated by the SEC. In reliance upon each such investor’s and each Placement Agent’s representation as an “accredited investor” among other representations, the issuance of the securities described above were exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act of 1933 pursuant Section 4(2) thereof and in reliance upon Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated by the SEC.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

10.1
Warrant and Common Stock Purchase Agreement dated June 30, 2006 among the Company and the Purchasers

10.2
Registration Rights Agreement dated June 30, 2006 by and among, the Company, the Purchasers and the Placement Agents

10.3
Warrant to Purchase Common Stock dated June 30, 2006 among the Company and each Purchaser and Placement Agent

 
 

 
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.

             
       
 
Protalex, Inc. 
 
         
(Registrant)
 
             
             
Date: 
7/10/06
     
/s/ Marc L. Rose
 
     
By:
 
Marc L. Rose
 
     
Title:
 
Vice President of Finance,
 
         
Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and
 
         
Corporate Secretary
 
 
 
 

 
Exhibit Index
Exhibit No.
 
Description
 
 
 
10.1
 
Warrant and Common Stock Purchase Agreement dated June 30, 2006 among the Company and the Purchasers
10.2
 
Registration Rights Agreement dated June 30, 2006 by and among, the Company, the Purchasers and the Placement Agents
10.3
 
Warrant to Purchase Common Stock dated June 30, 2006 among the Company and each Purchaser and Placement Agent
 
 
 

 
 
EX-10.1 2 v047225_ex10-1.htm Unassociated Document
WARRANT AND COMMON STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT
 
This WARRANT AND COMMON STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT is dated effective as of June 30, 2006 by and between Protalex, Inc., a Delaware corporation with its principal office at 145 Union Square Drive, New Hope, PA 18938 (the "Company"), and the several purchasers identified from time to time in the attached Exhibit A (individually, a "Purchaser" and collectively, the "Purchasers").
 
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements, representations, warranties and covenants herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:
 
1. Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following respective meanings:
 
(a) Affiliate" means any Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person as such terms are used in and construed under Rule 144 under the Securities Act.
 
(b) "Agreement" means this Warrant and Common Stock Purchase Agreement.
 
(c) “Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and all of the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
 
(d) Closing” means the closing of the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to Section 2.1.
 
(e) Closing Date” means the Trading Day when all of the Operative Agreements have been executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto, and all conditions precedent to (i) the Purchasers’ obligations to pay the Purchase Price and (ii) the Company’s obligations to deliver the Securities have been satisfied or waived.
 
(f) Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.00001 per share, and any other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or changed into.
 
(g) Common Stock Equivalents” means any securities of the Company or the Subsidiaries which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock, including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, rights, options, warrants or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Common Stock.
 
(h) Disclosure Schedules” means the Disclosure Schedules of the Company delivered concurrently herewith.
 
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(i) Effective Date” means the date that the initial Registration Statement filed by the Company pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement is first declared effective by the SEC.
 
(j) Exempt Issuance” means the issuance of (a) shares of Common Stock or options to employees, officers or directors of the Company (or to consultants where with respect to consultants only such annual issuances to consultants do not exceed 200,000 shares of Common Stock or options to acquire 200,000 shares of Common Stock) pursuant to any stock or option plan duly adopted by a majority of the non-employee members of the Board of Directors of the Company or a majority of the members of a committee of non-employee directors established for such purpose, (b) securities upon the exercise or exchange of or conversion of any Securities issued hereunder and/or other securities exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding on the date of this Agreement, provided that such securities have not been amended since the date of this Agreement to increase the number of such securities or to decrease the exercise, exchange or conversion price of any such securities, and (c) securities issued pursuant to acquisitions or strategic transactions approved by a majority of the disinterested directors, provided any such issuance shall only be to a Person which is, itself or through its subsidiaries, an operating company in a business synergistic with the business of the Company and in which the Company receives benefits in addition to the investment of funds, but shall not include a transaction in which the Company is issuing securities primarily for the purpose of raising capital or to an entity whose primary business is investing in securities.
 
(k) Force Majeure” shall mean any act or omission that is beyond the direct control of the Company, including, but not limited to, an act of god, an act of war, terrorism, natural disaster, failure of communication or electrical services; provided, however, Force Majeure shall not include any act or omission by the SEC, the Trading Market or the Company’s transfer agent.
 
(l) "Operative Agreements" shall mean the Registration Rights Agreement and Warrants together with this Agreement.
 
(m) Person” means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind.
 
(n) Placement Agent” shall mean Griffin Securities, Inc.
 
(o) Proceeding” means an action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding (including, without limitation, an investigation or partial proceeding, such as a deposition), whether commenced or threatened.
 
(p) Purchaser Consent” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 8.9.
 
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(q) Qualified Purchaser” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6.3.
 
(r) "Registration Rights Agreement" shall mean that certain Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the Company and the Purchasers.
 
(s) Registration Statement” means a registration statement meeting the requirements set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement and covering the resale by the Purchasers of the Shares and the Warrant Shares.
 
(t) Rule 144” means Rule 144 promulgated by the SEC pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the SEC having substantially the same effect as such Rule.
 
(u) "SEC" shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.
 
(v) SEC Documents” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.6.
 
(w) Securities” means the Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares.
 
(x) "Securities Act" shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all of the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
 
(y) Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issued or issuable to each Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement.
 
(z) Short Sales” shall include all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act (but shall not be deemed to include the location and/or reservation of borrowable shares of Common Stock)
 
(aa) Trading Day” means a day on which the Common Stock is traded on a Trading Market.
 
(bb) Trading Market” means the OTC Bulletin Board.
 
(cc) VWAP” means, for any date, the price determined by the first of the following clauses that applies: (a) the daily volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the Trading Market as reported by Bloomberg Financial L.P. (based on a Trading Day from 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) to 4:02 p.m. (New York City time); (b) if the Common Stock is not then quoted for trading on the Trading Market and if prices for the Common Stock are then reported in the “Pink Sheets” published by Pink Sheets, LLC (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per share of the Common Stock so reported; or (c) in all other cases, the fair market value of a share of Common Stock as determined by an independent appraiser selected in good faith by the Holder and reasonably acceptable to the Company.
 
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(dd) Warrants” means collectively the Common Stock purchase warrants, in the form of Exhibit C delivered to the Purchasers at the Closing in accordance with Section 2.2 hereof, which Warrants shall be exercisable immediately and have a term of exercise equal to 5 years.
 
(ee) Warrant Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants.
 
2. Purchase and Sale of Shares.
 
2.1 Purchase and Sale. Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Company agrees to issue and sell to each Purchaser, and each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, hereby agrees to purchase from the Company, at the Closing (as defined below), the number of shares of Common Stock set forth opposite the name of such Purchaser under the heading "Number of Shares to be Purchased" on Exhibit A hereto, at a purchase price of $2.50 per share. The total purchase price payable by each Purchaser for the number of shares of Common Stock that such Purchaser is hereby agreeing to purchase is set forth opposite the name of such Purchaser under the heading "Purchase Price" on Exhibit A hereto.
 
2.2 As additional consideration for the purchase of the Shares, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, each Purchaser agrees, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, to purchase and the Company agrees to sell and issue to each Investor, a five-year cashless exercise Warrant in form and substance attached hereto as Exhibit B to acquire one (1) share of the Company's Common Stock at an exercise price equal to $3.85 per share (subject to adjustment therein) for each four (4) shares of Common Stock acquired pursuant to Section 2.1 above. No fractional shares shall be issued under the Warrants (any fractional shares shall be rounded up to the nearest whole number).
 
2.3 Closing. The purchase and sale of the Shares and Warrants shall take place at the offices of Reed Smith, LLP Two Embarcadero, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111 at 10:00 A.M., effective as of June 30, 2006, or at such other time and place as the Company and each Qualified Purchaser mutually agree upon, but in no event later than July 7, 2006. Within five (5) Trading Days after the Closing, the Company shall deliver to each Purchaser a certificate representing the Shares and a corresponding Warrant, registered in the name of such Purchaser, or in such nominee's or nominees' name(s) as designated by such Purchaser in writing in the form of the Investor Questionnaire attached hereto as Appendix I which such Purchaser is purchasing against delivery to the Company by such Purchaser of a cashiers check or wire transfer in the aggregate amount of the Purchase Price therefor payable to the Company's order as identified on Exhibit A.
 
3. Representations and Warranties of the Company. Except as set forth under the corresponding section of the Disclosure Schedules which Disclosure Schedules shall be deemed a part hereof and to qualify any representation or warranty otherwise made herein to the extent of such disclosure, the Company hereby represents and warrants to each of the Purchasers as follows immediately prior to the Closing:
 
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3.1 Incorporation. The Company is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and is qualified to do business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the character of its properties or the nature of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to so qualify would not have a material adverse effect on the business, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Company ("Material Adverse Effect") and no Proceeding has been instituted in any such jurisdiction revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to revoke, limit or curtail such power and authority or qualification. The Company does not have any direct or indirect subsidiaries. Except for short-term investments and investments that are not material to the Company, the Company does not own any shares of stock or any other equity or long-term debt securities of any corporation or have any equity interest in any firm, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, association or other entity. Complete and correct copies of the certificate of incorporation (the "Certificate of Incorporation") and bylaws (the "Bylaws") of the Company as in effect on the Closing Date have been filed by the Company with the SEC. The Company has all requisite corporate power and authority to carry on its business as now conducted.
 
3.2 Capitalization. The authorized capital stock of the Company consists of (i) 100,000,000 shares of Common Stock, of which 22,389,951 shares are outstanding on the date hereof. The outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly and validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in material compliance with all federal and state securities laws, and were not issued in violation of any preemptive or similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities. Except for (i) options to purchase up to 3,823,876 shares of Common Stock or other equity awards issued to employees and consultants of the Company pursuant to the employee benefits plans disclosed in the SEC Documents and (ii) warrants to purchase up to 4,685,913 shares of Common Stock, which options and warrants are more fully described on Schedule 3.2 attached hereto, there are no existing options, warrants, calls, preemptive (or similar) rights, subscriptions or other rights, agreements, arrangements or commitments of any character obligating the Company to issue, transfer or sell, or cause to be issued, transferred or sold, any shares of the capital stock of the Company or other equity interests in the Company or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for such shares of capital stock or other equity interests, and there are no outstanding contractual obligations of the Company to repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any shares of its capital stock or other equity interests. The issuance and sale of the Securities will not obligate the Company to issue shares of Common Stock or other securities to any Person (other than the Purchasers) and will not result in a right of any holder of Company securities to adjust the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price under any of such securities. 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. The Company does not maintain any pension benefit plan, or other retirement plan, subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
 
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3.3 Authorization. All corporate action on the part of the Company, its officers, directors and stockholders necessary for the authorization, execution, delivery and performance of the Operative Agreements and the consummation of the transactions contemplated therein has been taken. When executed and delivered by the Company, each of the Operative Agreements shall constitute the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as such may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other laws affecting creditors' rights generally and by general equitable principles. The Company has all requisite corporate power to enter into the Operative Agreements and to carry out and perform its obligations under the terms of the Operative Agreements.
 
3.4 Valid Issuance of the Shares. The Shares being purchased by the Purchasers hereunder and the Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Warrants will, upon issuance pursuant to the terms hereof and thereof, be duly authorized and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. No preemptive rights or other rights to subscribe for or purchase the Company's capital stock exist with respect to the issuance and sale of the Securities by the Company pursuant to this Agreement, except as set forth on Schedule 3.4 attached hereto. As of the date hereof, no further approval or authority of the stockholders or the Board of Directors of the Company shall be required for the issuance and sale of the Securities by the Company, or the filing of the Registration Statement by the Company, as contemplated in the Operative Agreements. The Shares, Warrants and Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants will, upon issuance pursuant to the terms hereof and thereof, be free and clear from any security interest, pledge, mortgage, lien (statutory or other), charge, option to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire any interest or any claim, restriction or covenant, title defect, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement or other encumbrance of any kind or any preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including, without limitation, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement). The Company has reserved from its duly authorized capital stock the maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to this Agreement and the Warrants.
 
3.5 Financial Statements. 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 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 permitted pursuant to Regulation G promulgated under the Exchange Act, or (ii) in the case of unaudited interim financial 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). Except as set forth in the subset of SEC Documents filed and publicly available beginning with the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2005 and prior to the date hereof, since February 28, 2006, (a) there has been no event, occurrence or development that has had or could result in a Material Adverse Effect, (b) the Company has not incurred any liabilities (contingent or otherwise) other than (x) liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and (y) liabilities not required to be reflected in the Company’s financial statements pursuant to generally accepted accounting principals or required to be disclosed in filings made with the SEC, (c) the Company has not altered its method of accounting or the identity of its auditors and (d) the Company has not declared or made any payment or distribution of cash or other property to its stockholders or officers or directors (other than in compliance with existing Company stock option plans) with respect to its capital stock, or purchased, redeemed (or made any agreements to purchase or redeem) any shares of its capital stock. As of February 28, 2006, the Company’s cash and cash equivalents was equal to approximately $10,816,904.
 
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3.6 SEC Documents. The Company has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements (collectively, and in each case including all exhibits, financial statements and schedules thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein and including all registration statements and prospectuses filed with the SEC) required to be filed by it with the SEC through the Closing Date, and the Company will file, on a timely basis, all similar documents with the SEC during the period commencing on the date hereof and ending on the Closing Date (all of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as the “SEC Documents”). As of their respective dates, the SEC Documents complied or will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to the SEC Documents, and none of the SEC Documents, contained or will contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or will omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, as of their respective filing dates, except to the extent corrected by a subsequently filed SEC Document.
 
3.7 Consents. All consents, approvals, orders and authorizations required on the part of the Company in connection with the execution, delivery or performance of the Operative Agreements and the consummation of the transactions contemplated therein have been obtained and will be effective as of the Closing Date.
 
3.8 No Conflict. The execution and delivery the Operative Agreements by the Company and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby will not conflict with or result in any violation of or default (with or without notice or lapse of time, or both) under, or give rise to a right of termination, cancellation or acceleration of any obligation or to a loss of a material benefit under (i) any provision of the Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws of the Company, (ii) any material bond, debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness, or any material lease, contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, joint venture, franchise, license or other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it or its property is bound or (iii) any judgment, order, statute, law, ordinance, rule or regulations, applicable to the Company or its respective properties or assets.
 
3.9 Brokers or Finders. Except as disclosed on Schedule 3.9 attached hereto, the Company has not dealt with any broker or finder in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or incurred any liability for any brokerage or finders' fees or agents commissions or any similar charges in connection with this Agreement or any transaction contemplated hereby. The Purchasers shall have no obligation with respect to any fees or with respect to any claims made by or on behalf of other Persons for fees of a type contemplated in this Section that may be due in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
 
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3.10 Nasdaq Stock Market. The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and is quoted on the Nasdaq Stock Market Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board ("OTCBB") under the ticker symbol "PRTX.OB." The Company has taken no action designed to remove, or which, to the Company's knowledge, is likely to have the effect of, suspending or terminating the quotation of the Common Stock on the OTCBB. The Company shall comply with all requirements, if any, of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the "NASD") with respect to the issuance of the Shares and Warrant Shares and the quoting of the Shares and Warrant Shares (when issued) on the OTCBB.
 
3.11 Absence of Litigation. There is no action, suit or proceeding or, to the Company's knowledge, any investigation, pending, or to the Company's knowledge, threatened by or before any court, governmental body or regulatory agency against the Company that is required to be disclosed in the SEC Documents and is not so disclosed. Neither the Company, nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any current or former director or officer of the Company, has received any written or oral notification of, or request for information in connection with, any formal or informal inquiry, investigation or proceeding from the SEC or the NASD. The foregoing includes, without limitation, any such action, suit, proceeding or investigation that questions this Agreement or the Registration Rights Agreement or the right of the Company to execute, deliver and perform under same. The SEC has not issued any stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of any registration statement filed by the Company under the Securities Act.
 
3.12 Intellectual Property.
 
(a) To the knowledge of the Company, the Company has ownership of or license or legal right to use all patents, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, domain names, customer lists, designs, manufacturing or other processes, computer software, systems, data compilations, research results and other intellectual property or proprietary rights (collectively, "Intellectual Property") used in the business of the Company and material to the Company. The Company knows of no reason why its patent applications do not or would not comply with any statutory or legal requirements or would not issue into valid and enforceable patents.
 
(b) To the Company's knowledge, there is no material default by the Company under any material licenses or other material agreements under which (i) the Company is granted rights in Intellectual Property or (ii) the Company has granted rights to others in Intellectual Property owned or licensed by the Company. There are no outstanding or threatened claims, disputes or disagreements with respect to any such licenses or agreements.
 
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(c) To the knowledge of the Company, the present business, activities and products of the Company do not infringe or misappropriate any Intellectual Property of any third party. The Company has not been notified that any proceeding charging the Company with infringement or misappropriation of any Intellectual Property held by any third party has been filed. To the Company's knowledge, there exists no patent held by any third party which includes claims that would be infringed by the Company in the conduct of its business as currently conducted where such infringement would have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Company, the Company is not making unauthorized use of any confidential information or trade secrets of any third party. Neither the Company nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any of its employees have any agreements or arrangements with any Persons other than the Company restricting the Company's or any such employee's engagement in business activities that are material aspects of the Company's business as currently conducted.
 
(d) None of the Intellectual Property owned or, to the Company's knowledge, licensed by the Company that is used in the business of the Company and material to the Company, is subject to any outstanding judgment or order, and no action, suit, proceeding, hearing, investigation, charge, complaint, claim or demand is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, which challenges the validity, enforceability, scope, use, or ownership of, or otherwise relates to, any such Intellectual Property anywhere in the world. No Patent has been or is now involved in any interference, reissue, reexamination, opposition, or other proceeding.
 
(e) Each employee of the Company has executed a confidential information and invention assignment agreement in the form made available to Purchasers. No such employee has excluded works or inventions made prior to his or her employment with the Company from his or her assignment of inventions pursuant to such employee's confidential information and invention assignment agreement, which works or inventions are necessary to the business of the Company as it is proposed to be conducted. Each consultant to the Company has entered into an agreement containing appropriate confidentiality and invention assignment provisions, in the form acceptable to Purchasers. The Company does not believe it is or will be necessary to utilize any inventions, trade secrets or proprietary information of any of its employees made prior to their employment by the Company, except for inventions, trade secrets or proprietary information that have been assigned to the Company.
 
3.13 Offering. The Company has not in the past nor will it hereafter take any action to sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy any securities of the Company which would require the offer, issuance or sale of the Securities, as contemplated by this Agreement, to be registered under Section 5 of the Securities Act.
 
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3.14 Investment Company. The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Shares and the Warrants, will not be required to register as, an “investment company” as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
 
3.15 No Manipulation of Stock. The Company has not, and to its knowledge no one acting on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or indirectly, any action in the last 90 days designed to cause or to result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company, (ii) sold, bid for, purchased, or, paid any compensation for soliciting purchases of, any of the Securities, or (iii) paid or agreed to pay to any Person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other securities of the Company, other than, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), compensation paid to the Company’s placement agent in connection with the placement of the Securities.
 
3.16 No Violations. The Company is not in violation of its Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws or other organizational documents, or in violation of any law, administrative regulation, ordinance or order of any court or governmental agency, arbitration panel or authority applicable to the Company, which violation, individually or in the aggregate, would be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or is not in default (and there exists no condition which, with the passage of time or otherwise, would constitute a default) in the performance of any material bond, debenture, note or any other evidence of indebtedness in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust or any other material agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound or by which the property of the Company is bound, which would be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
 
3.17 Accountants. Grant Thornton, LLP, who issued their report with respect to the financial statements to be incorporated by reference from the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended May 31, 2005 into the Registration Statement and the prospectus which forms a part thereof, are an independent registered public accounting firm as required by the Securities Act. The Company expects such accountants will express their opinion with respect to the financial statements to be included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ending May 31, 2006.
 
3.18 Taxes. The Company has filed all necessary federal, state and foreign income and franchise tax returns and has paid or accrued all taxes shown as due thereon, and the Company has no knowledge of a tax deficiency which has been or might be asserted or threatened against it which would have a Material Adverse Effect.
 
3.19 Title. The Company has good and marketable title to all real property and good and marketable title to all Personal property owned by it which is material to the business of the Company, in each case free and clear of all encumbrances and defects, except such as do not have a Material Adverse Effect. Any facilities and items of equipment held under lease by the Company are held by it 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 facilities and items of equipment by the Company. The Company is in compliance with all material terms of each lease to which it is a party or is otherwise bound.
 
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3.20 Foreign Corrupt Practices. To the knowledge of the Company, neither the Company, nor any director, officer, agent, employee or other Person acting on behalf of the Company, has in the course of its actions for, or on behalf of, the Company, used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expenses relating to political activity; made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds; violated or is in violation of any provision of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended; or made any unlawful bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee.
 
3.21 Employee Relations. The Company is not involved in any union labor dispute, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, is any such dispute threatened. The Company is not a party to a collective bargaining agreement, and the Company believes that its relations with its employees are good. No executive officer (as defined in Rule 501(1) of the Securities Act) of the Company has notified the Company that such officer intends to leave the employ of the Company or otherwise terminate such officer’s employment with the Company. To the knowledge of the Company, no employee of the Company, as a consequence of his employment by the Company is, or is now expected to be, in violation of any material term of any agreement, covenant or contract (including any employment contract, confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information agreement, non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or any restrictive covenant with any previous employer), and the continued employment of each such employee by the Company will not subject the Company to any liability with respect to any of the foregoing matters.
 
3.22 Internal Accounting Controls. The Company maintains a system of internal accounting controls (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-14 and 15d-14 under the Exchange Act) sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
 
3.23 Disclosure Controls. The Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-14 and 15d-14 under the Exchange Act); such disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, if any, is made known to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and its Chief Financial Officer by others within those entities, and such disclosure controls and procedures are effective to perform the functions for which they were established; the Company’s auditors and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors have been advised of: (i) any significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls which could adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize, and report financial data; and (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a role in the Company’s internal controls; any material weaknesses in internal controls have been identified for the Company’s auditors; since the date of the most recent evaluation of such disclosure controls and procedures, there have been no significant changes in internal controls or in other factors that could significantly affect internal controls, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses; the principal executive officers (or their equivalents) and principal financial officers (or their equivalents) of the Company have made all certifications required by the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes Oxley Act”) and any related rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC, and the statements contained in any such certification are complete and correct; and the Company is otherwise in compliance in all material respects with all applicable effective provisions of the Sarbanes Oxley Act.
 
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3.24 Disclosure. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Operative Agreements and except with respect to those Purchasers, set forth on Schedule 3.24, that have entered into Non-Disclosure or similar Confidentiality Agreements with the Company, the Company confirms that, neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any of the Purchasers or their agents or counsel with any information that it believes constitutes or might constitute material, non-public information. The Company understands and confirms that the Purchasers will rely on the foregoing representation in effecting transactions in securities of the Company. Neither the Operative Agreements, any of the schedules or exhibits hereto or thereto, nor any other document or certificate provided by the Company to the Purchasers in connection herewith or therewith contains any untrue statement of a material fact or, when considered as a whole, omits a material fact necessary to make the statements contained herein or therein, in light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading. The Company acknowledges and agrees that no Purchaser makes or has made any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in Section 4 hereof and as set forth in the Investor Questionnaire.
 
3.25 Regulatory Permits. The Company possess all certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses as described in the SEC Documents, except where the failure to possess such permits could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect (“Material Permits”), and the Company has not received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any Material Permit.
 
3.26 Insurance. The Company is insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary in the businesses in which the Company is engaged, including, but not limited to, directors and officers insurance coverage in the amount as set forth on Schedule 3.26. The Company has no reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business without a significant increase in cost.
 
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3.27 Transactions With Affiliates and Employees. Except as set forth in the SEC Documents, none of the officers or directors of the Company and, to the knowledge of the Company, none of the employees of the Company is presently a party to any transaction with the Company (other than for services as employees, officers and directors), including any contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any officer, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of the Company, any entity in which any officer, director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee or partner, in each case in excess of $50,000 other than (i) for payment of salary or consulting fees for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for expenses incurred on behalf of the Company and (iii) for other employee benefits, including stock option agreements under any stock option plan of the Company.
 
3.28 Registration Rights. Other than each of the Purchasers and except as set forth on Schedule 3.28, no Person has any right to cause the Company to effect the registration under the Securities Act of any securities of the Company.
 
3.29 Application of Takeover Protections. The Company and its Board of Directors have taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation (or similar charter documents) that is or could become applicable to the Purchasers as a result of the Purchasers and the Company fulfilling their obligations or exercising their rights under the Operative Agreements, including without limitation as a result of the Company’s issuance of the Securities and the Purchasers’ ownership of the Securities.
 
3.30 Solvency. Based on the financial condition of the Company as of the Closing Date after giving effect to the receipt by the Company of the proceeds from the sale of at least $10 million of Securities hereunder, (i) the fair saleable value of the Company’s assets exceeds the amount that will be required to be paid on or in respect of the Company’s existing debts and other liabilities (including known contingent liabilities) as they mature; (ii) the Company’s assets do not constitute unreasonably small capital to carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted for the next 12 months including its capital needs taking into account the particular capital requirements of the business conducted by the Company during such period, and projected capital requirements and capital availability thereof during such period; and (iii) the current cash flow of the Company, together with the proceeds the Company would receive, were it to liquidate all of its assets, after taking into account all anticipated uses of the cash, would be sufficient to pay all amounts on or in respect of its liabilities when such amounts are required to be paid. The Company does not intend in the 12 months following the Closing Date to incur debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as they mature (taking into account the timing and amounts of cash to be payable on or in respect of its debt). The Company has no knowledge of any facts or circumstances which lead it to believe that it will file for reorganization or liquidation under the bankruptcy or reorganization laws of any jurisdiction within one year from the Closing Date. The SEC Documents set forth as of the dates thereof all outstanding secured and unsecured Indebtedness of the Company, or for which the Company has commitments. For the purposes of this Agreement, “Indebtedness” shall mean (a) any liabilities for borrowed money or amounts owed in excess of $75,000 (other than trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business), (b) all guaranties, endorsements and other contingent obligations in respect of indebtedness of others, whether or not the same are or should be reflected in the Company’s balance sheet (or the notes thereto), except guaranties by endorsement of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the ordinary course of business; and (c) the present value of any lease payments in excess of $75,000 due under leases required to be capitalized in accordance with GAAP.
 
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3.31 No General Solicitation. Neither the Company nor any person acting on behalf of the Company has offered or sold any of the Securities by any form of general solicitation or general advertising. The Company has offered the Securities for sale only to the Purchasers and certain other “accredited investors” within the meaning of Rule 501 under the Securities Act.
 
3.32 Real Property Holding Corporation. The Company is not a real property holding corporation within the meaning of Section 897(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) and any regulations promulgated thereunder.
 
3.33 Acknowledgment Regarding Purchasers’ Purchase of Securities. The Company acknowledges and agrees that each of the Purchasers is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Operative Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereby. The Company further acknowledges that no Purchaser is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Operative Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereby and any advice given by any Purchaser or any of their respective representatives or agents in connection with the Operative Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereby is merely incidental to the Purchasers’ purchase of the Securities. The Company further represents to each Purchaser that the Company’s decision to enter into this Agreement and the other Operative Agreements has been based solely on the independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Company and its representatives.
 
3.34 Acknowledgement Regarding Purchasers’ Trading Activity. Anything in this Agreement or elsewhere herein to the contrary notwithstanding, it is understood and acknowledged by the Company (i) that none of the Purchasers have been asked to agree by the Company, nor has any Purchaser agreed with the Company, to desist from purchasing or selling, long and/or short, securities of the Company, or “derivative” securities based on securities issued by the Company or to hold the Securities for any specified term; (ii) that past or future open market or other transactions by any Purchaser, including short sales, and specifically including, without limitation, Short Sales or “derivative” transactions, before or after the closing of this or future private placement transactions, may negatively impact the market price of the Company’s publicly-traded securities; (iii) that any Purchaser, and counter-parties in “derivative” transactions to which any such Purchaser is a party, directly or indirectly, presently may have a “short” position in the Common Stock, and (iv) that each Purchaser shall not be deemed to have any affiliation with or control over any arm’s length counter-party in any “derivative” transaction. The Company further understands and acknowledges that (a) one or more Purchasers may engage in hedging activities at various times during the period that the Securities are outstanding, including, without limitation, during the periods that the value of the Warrant Shares deliverable with respect to Securities are being determined and (b) such hedging activities (if any) could reduce the value of the existing stockholders' equity interests in the Company at and after the time that the hedging activities are being conducted.  The Company acknowledges that such aforementioned hedging activities do not constitute a breach of any of the Operative Agreements.
 
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4. Representations and Warranties of the Purchasers. Each Purchaser severally for itself, and not jointly with the other Purchasers, represents and warrants to the Company as follows:
 
4.1 Authorization. All action on the part of such Purchaser and, if applicable, its officers, directors and shareholders necessary for the authorization, execution, delivery and performance of the Operative Agreements and the consummation of the transactions contemplated therein has been taken. When executed and delivered by the Company and such Purchaser, each of the Operative Agreements will constitute the legal, valid and binding obligation of such Purchaser, enforceable against such Purchaser in accordance with its terms, except as such may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other laws affecting creditors' rights generally and by general equitable principles. Such Purchaser has all requisite power to enter into each of the Operative Agreements and to carry out and perform its obligations under the terms of the Operative Agreements. Such Purchaser has the knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of an investment in the Securities and has the ability to bear the economic risks of an investment in the Securities for an indefinite period of time. Furthermore, the Purchaser acknowledges that the Company has made no representations or warranties except as set for in this Agreement or the Registration Rights Agreement.
 
4.2 Purchase Entirely for Own Account. Except for permitted transfers pursuant to Section 8.11, such Purchaser is acquiring the Securities being purchased by it hereunder for its own account, and not for resale or with a view to distribution thereof in violation of the Securities Act (this representation and warranty not limiting such Purchaser’s right to sell the Securities pursuant to a registration statement or otherwise in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws). Such Purchaser has not entered into an agreement or understanding with any other party to resell or distribute such Securities.
 
4.3 Investor Status; Etc. Such Purchaser certifies and represents to the Company that it is an “Accredited Investor” as defined in Rule 501 of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act and was not organized for the purpose of acquiring the Securities. Such Purchaser’s financial condition is such that it is able to bear the risk of holding the Securities for an indefinite period of time and the risk of loss of its entire investment. Subject to the truth and accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 3 of this Agreement (as modified by the Company Disclosure Schedule), such Purchaser has received, reviewed and considered all information it deems necessary in making an informed decision to make an investment in the Securities and has been afforded the opportunity to ask questions of and receive answers from the management of the Company concerning this investment and has sufficient knowledge and experience in investing in companies similar to the Company in terms of the Company’s stage of development so as to be able to evaluate the risks and merits of its investment in the Company.
 
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4.4 No Conflict. The execution and delivery of the Operative Agreements by such Purchaser and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby will not conflict with or result in any violation of or default by such Purchaser (with or without notice or lapse of time, or both) under, or give rise to a right of termination, cancellation or acceleration of any obligation or to a loss of a material benefit under (i) any provision of the organizational documents of such Purchaser, (ii) any material agreement or instrument, permit, franchise, or license or (iii) any judgment, order, statute, law, ordinance, rule or regulations, applicable to such Purchaser or its respective properties or assets.
 
4.5 Brokers. Such Purchaser has not retained, utilized or been represented by any broker or finder in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
 
4.6 Consents. All consents, approvals, orders and authorizations required on the part of such Purchaser in connection with the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein have been obtained and are effective as of the Closing Date.
 
4.7 No Intent to Effect a Change of Control. Such Purchaser has no present intent to change or influence the control of the Company within the meaning of Rule 13d-1 of the Exchange Act.
 
4.8 Short Sales and Confidentiality Prior To The Date Hereof. Other than the transaction contemplated hereunder, such Purchaser has not directly or indirectly, nor has any Person acting on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with such Purchaser, executed any disposition, including Short Sales, in the securities of the Company during the period commencing from the time that such Purchaser first received a term sheet (written or oral) from the Company or any other Person setting forth the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereunder until the date hereof (“Discussion Time”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Purchaser's assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Purchaser's assets, the representation set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement. Other than to other Persons who are a party to this Agreement, such Purchaser has maintained the confidentiality of all disclosures made to it in connection with this transaction (including the existence and terms of this transaction).
 
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4.9  Securities Not Registered. Such Purchaser understands that the Securities have not been registered under the Securities Act, by reason of their issuance by the Company in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, and that the Securities must continue to be held by such Purchaser unless a subsequent disposition thereof is registered under the Securities Act as contemplated under this Agreement or is exempt from such registration. The Purchaser understands that the exemptions from registration afforded by Rule 144 (the provisions of which are known to it) promulgated under the Securities Act depend on the satisfaction of various conditions, and that, if applicable, Rule 144 may afford the basis for sales only in limited amounts.
 
5. Conditions Precedent.
 
5.1 Conditions to the Obligation of the Purchasers to Consummate the Closing. The obligation of each Purchaser to consummate the Closing and to purchase and pay for the Securities being purchased by it pursuant to this Agreement is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:
 
(a) The representations and warranties of the Company contained herein shall be true and correct on and as of the Closing Date with the same force and effect as though made on and as of the Closing Date (it being understood and agreed by each Purchaser that, in the case of any representation and warranty of the Company contained herein which is not hereinabove qualified by application thereto of a materiality standard, such representation and warranty need be true and correct only in all material respects in order to satisfy as to such representation or warranty the condition precedent set forth in the foregoing provisions of this Section 5.1(a)).
 
(b) The Registration Rights Agreement and respective Warrant shall have been executed and delivered by the Company.
 
(c) The Company shall not have been adversely affected in any material way prior to the Closing Date; and the Company shall have performed all obligations and conditions herein required to be performed or observed by the Company on or prior to the Closing Date.
 
(d) No proceeding challenging this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby, or seeking to prohibit, alter, prevent or materially delay the Closing, shall have been instituted before any court, arbitrator or governmental body, agency or official and shall be pending.
 
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(e) The purchase of and payment for the Securities by the Purchasers shall not be prohibited by any law or governmental order or regulation. All necessary consents, approvals, licenses, permits, orders and authorizations of, or registrations, declarations and filings with, any governmental or administrative agency or of any other Person with respect to any of the transactions contemplated hereby shall have been duly obtained or made and shall be in full force and effect.
 
(f) All instruments and corporate proceedings in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement to be consummated at the Closing shall be satisfactory in form and substance to such Purchaser. Such Purchaser shall have received such certificates of the Company's officers as such Purchaser may have reasonably requested in connection with such transactions.
 
(g) A legal opinion from Reed Smith LLP has been delivered to the Purchasers in the form of Exhibit D attached hereto.
 
(h) The aggregate Purchase Price shall not be less than $10,000,000 nor more than $20,000,000.
 
(i) From the date hereof to the Closing Date, trading in the Common Stock shall not have been suspended by the SEC or the Trading Market (except for any suspension of trading of limited duration agreed to by the Company, which suspension shall be terminated prior to the Closing), and, at any time prior to the Closing Date, trading in securities generally as reported by Bloomberg Financial Markets shall not have been suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall not have been established on securities whose trades are reported by such service, or on any Trading Market, nor shall a banking moratorium have been declared either by the United States or New York State authorities nor shall there have occurred any material outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or international calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any material adverse change in, any financial market which, in each case, in the reasonable judgment of each Purchaser, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Shares at the Closing.
 
5.2 Conditions to the Obligation of the Company to Consummate the Closing. The obligation of the Company to consummate the Closing and to issue and sell to each of the Purchasers the Securities to be purchased by it at the Closing is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:
 
(a) The representations and warranties contained herein of such Purchaser shall be true and correct on and as of the Closing Date with the same force and effect as though made on and as of the Closing Date (it being understood and agreed by the Company that, in the case of any representation and warranty of each Purchaser contained herein which is not hereinabove qualified by application thereto of a materiality standard, such representation and warranty need be true and correct only in all material respects in order to satisfy as to such representation or warranty the condition precedent set forth in the foregoing provisions of this Section 5.2(a)).
 
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(b) The Registration Rights Agreement shall have been executed and delivered by each Purchaser.
 
(c) Each Purchaser shall have performed all obligations and conditions herein required to be performed or observed by such Purchaser on or prior to the Closing Date.
 
(d) No proceeding challenging this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby, or seeking to prohibit, alter, prevent or materially delay the Closing, shall have been instituted before any court, arbitrator or governmental body, agency or official and shall be pending.
 
(e) The sale of the Securities by the Company shall not be prohibited by any law or governmental order or regulation. All necessary consents, approvals, licenses, permits, orders and authorizations of, or registrations, declarations and filings with, any governmental or administrative agency or of any other Person with respect to any of the transactions contemplated hereby shall have been duly obtained or made and shall be in full force and effect.
 
(f) Each such Purchaser shall have executed and delivered to the Company an Investor Questionnaire, in the form attached hereto as Appendix I, pursuant to which such Purchaser shall provide information necessary to confirm each such Purchaser’s status as an "accredited investor" (as such term is defined in Rule 501 promulgated under the Securities Act) and to enable the Company to comply with the Registration Rights Agreement.
 
6. Transfer, Legends.
 
6.1 The Securities may only be disposed of in compliance with state and federal securities laws. In connection with any transfer of Securities other than pursuant to an effective registration statement or Rule 144 (so long as the Company is furnished with satisfactory and customary evidence of compliance with Rule 144), to the Company or to an Affiliate of a Purchaser (so long as the Company is furnished with satisfactory and customary evidence of compliance with Rule 144) or in connection with a pledge as permitted in Section 6.3, the Company may require the transferor thereof to provide to the Company an opinion of counsel selected by the transferor and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the form and substance of which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that such transfer does not require registration of such transferred Securities under the Securities Act. As a condition of transfer, any such transferee shall agree in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and the Warrant (if applicable) and shall have the rights of a Purchaser under this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement. Each non-U.S. Purchaser shall comply with all applicable laws and regulations in each foreign jurisdiction in which it purchases, offers, sells or delivers Securities or has in its possession or distributes any offering material, in all cases at its own expense.  
 
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6.2 The Purchasers agree to the imprinting, so long as is required by this Section 6.1, of a legend on any of the Securities in the following form:
 
"THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, PLEDGED, TRANSFERRED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER SAID ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER SAID ACT AND, IF REQUESTED BY THE COMPANY, UPON DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY THAT THE PROPOSED TRANSFER IS EXEMPT FROM SAID ACT."
 
“THE SHARES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE ARE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFERABILITY AND RESALE PURSUANT TO A PURCHASE AGREEMENT, A COPY OF WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE PRINCIPAL OFFICE OF THE COMPANY.”
 
6.3 The Company acknowledges and agrees that any Purchaser, along with and aggregated with its Affiliates, acquiring $2 million or more in Shares pursuant to this Purchase Agreement (a “Qualified Purchaser”) may from time to time pledge pursuant to a bona fide margin agreement with a registered broker-dealer or grant a security interest in some or all of the Securities to a financial institution that is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and who agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement and, if required under the terms of such arrangement, such Purchaser may transfer pledged or secured Securities to the pledgees or secured parties. Such a pledge or transfer would not be subject to approval of the Company and no legal opinion of legal counsel of the pledgee, secured party or pledgor shall be required in connection therewith. Further, no notice shall be required of such pledge. At the appropriate Purchaser’s expense, the Company will execute and deliver such reasonable documentation as a pledgee or secured party of Securities may reasonably request in connection with a pledge or transfer of the Securities, including, if the Securities are subject to registration pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the preparation and filing of any required prospectus supplement under Rule 424(b)(3) under the Securities Act or other applicable provision of the Securities Act to appropriately amend the list of Selling Stockholders thereunder.
 
6.4 Subject to the conditions set forth in Section 6.6 below and the indemnification set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, certificates evidencing the Shares and Warrant Shares shall not contain any legend (including the legend set forth in Section 6.2), (i) while a registration statement (including the Registration Statement) covering the resale of such security is effective under the Securities Act, or (ii) following any sale of such Shares or Warrant Shares pursuant to Rule 144, or (iii) if such Shares or Warrant Shares are eligible for sale under Rule 144(k), or (iv) if such legend is not required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the SEC). Subject to the conditions set forth in Section 6.6 below and the indemnification set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, if all or any portion of a Warrant is exercised at a time when there is an effective registration statement to cover the resale of the Warrant Shares, such Warrant Shares shall be issued free of all legends. The Company agrees that following the Effective Date or at such time as such legend is no longer required under this Section 6, it will, no later than three Trading Days following the delivery by a Purchaser to the Company or the Company’s transfer agent of a certificate representing Shares or Warrant Shares, as the case may be, issued with a restrictive legend (such third Trading Day, the “Legend Removal Date”), deliver or cause to be delivered to such Purchaser a certificate representing such shares that is free from all restrictive and other legends. The Company may not make any notation on its records or give instructions to any transfer agent of the Company that enlarge the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section. Certificates for Securities subject to legend removal hereunder shall be transmitted by the transfer agent of the Company to the Purchasers by crediting the account of the Purchaser’s prime broker with the Depository Trust Company System.
 
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6.5 In addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies, except for delays arising from Force Majeure, the Company shall pay to a Purchaser, in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for each $2,000 of Shares or Warrant Shares (based on the Closing Price of the Common Stock on the date such Securities are submitted to the Company’s transfer agent) delivered for removal of the restrictive legend and subject to Section 6.1, $10 per Trading Day (increasing to $20 per Trading Day five (5) Trading Days after such damages have begun to accrue) for each Trading Day after the 2nd Trading Day following the Legend Removal Date until such certificate is delivered without a legend. Nothing herein shall limit such Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the Company’s failure to deliver certificates representing any Securities as required by the Operative Agreements, and such Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief.
 
6.6 Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, agrees that the removal of the restrictive legend from certificates representing Securities as set forth in this Section is predicated upon the Purchaser not being an Affiliate of the Company and the Company’s reliance that the Purchaser will sell any Securities pursuant to either the registration requirements of the Securities Act, including any applicable prospectus delivery requirements, or an exemption therefrom, and that if Securities are sold pursuant to a Registration Statement, they will be sold in compliance with the plan of distribution set forth therein. Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, acknowledges that the Company’s agreement hereunder to remove all legend from Shares or Warrants Shares contemplated under this Section 6 is not an affirmative statement or representation that such Shares or Warrant Shares are freely tradable.
 
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7. Additional Covenants.
 
7.1 Integration. The Company shall not sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities in a manner that would require the registration under the Securities Act of the sale of the Securities to the Purchasers.
 
7.2 Securities Laws Disclosure; Publicity. The Company shall, by 8:30 a.m. Eastern time on the 4th Trading Day immediately following the date hereof, issue a Current Report on Form 8-K, disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby which disclosure shall be subject to the approval of the Qualified Purchasers, and shall attach the Operative Agreements thereto. The Company and each Qualified Purchaser shall consult with each other in issuing any other press releases with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, and neither the Company nor any Purchaser shall issue any such press release or otherwise make any such public statement which references the other party without the prior consent of such other party, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed, except if such disclosure is required by law, in which case the disclosing party shall promptly provide the other party with prior notice of such public statement or communication. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not publicly disclose the name of any Qualified Purchaser, or include the name of any Qualified Purchaser in any filing with the SEC or any regulatory agency or Trading Market, without the prior written consent of such Qualified Purchaser, except (i) as required by federal securities law in connection with (A) any registration statement contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement and (B) the filing of final Operative Agreements (including signature pages thereto) with the SEC or (ii) to the extent such disclosure is required by law or Trading Market regulations, in which case the Company shall provide each Qualified Purchasers with prior notice of such disclosure permitted under this subclause (ii).
 
7.3 Shareholder Rights Plan. No claim will be made or enforced by the Company or, with the consent of the Company, any other Person, that any Purchaser is an “Acquiring Person” under any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or similar anti-takeover plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter adopted by the Company, or that any Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the provisions of any such plan or arrangement, solely by virtue of receiving Securities under the Operative Agreements.
 
7.4 Non-Public Information. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Operative Agreements, the Company covenants and agrees that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf will provide any Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any information that the Company believes constitutes material non-public information, unless prior thereto such Purchaser shall have executed a written agreement regarding the confidentiality and use of such information. The Company understands and confirms that each Purchaser shall be relying on the foregoing representations in effecting transactions in securities of the Company.
 
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7.5 Use of Proceeds. Except as set forth on Schedule 7.6 attached hereto, the Company shall use the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder for working capital purposes and not for the satisfaction of any portion of the Company’s debt (other than payment of trade payables in the ordinary course of the Company’s business and prior practices), to redeem any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents or to settle any outstanding litigation.
 
7.6 Indemnification of Purchasers. Subject to the provisions of this Section 7.6, the Company will indemnify and hold each Purchaser and its directors, officers, shareholders, members, partners, employees and agents (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each Person who controls such Purchaser (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, shareholders, agents, members, partners or employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling persons (each, a “Purchaser Party”) harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, obligations, claims, contingencies, damages, costs and expenses, including all judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation that any such Purchaser Party may suffer or incur as a result of or relating to (a) any breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by the Company in this Agreement or in the other Operative Agreements or (b) any action instituted against a Purchaser, or any of them or their respective Affiliates, by any stockholder of the Company who is not an Affiliate of such Purchaser, with respect to any of the transactions contemplated by the Operative Agreements (unless such action is based upon a breach of such Purchaser’s representations, warranties or covenants under the Operative Agreements or any agreements or understandings such Purchaser may have with any such stockholder or any violations by the Purchaser of state or federal securities laws or any conduct by such Purchaser which constitutes fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct or malfeasance). If any action shall be brought against any Purchaser Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement, such Purchaser Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing, and the Company shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser Party. Any Purchaser Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Purchaser Party except to the extent that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Company in writing, (ii) the Company has failed after a reasonable period of time to assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action there is, in the reasonable opinion of such separate counsel, a material conflict on any material issue between the position of the Company and the position of such Purchaser Party, in which case the Company shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than one such separate counsel. The Company will not be liable to any Purchaser Party under this Agreement (i) for any settlement by a Purchaser Party effected without the Company’s prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (ii) to the extent, but only to the extent that a loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to any Purchaser Party’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by such Purchaser Party in this Agreement or in the other Operative Agreements.
 
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7.7 Reservation of Common Stock. As of the date hereof, the Company has reserved and the Company shall continue to reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to issue Shares pursuant to this Agreement and Warrant Shares pursuant to any exercise of the Warrants.
 
7.8 Listing of Common Stock. The Company hereby agrees to use best efforts to maintain the listing of the Common Stock on a Trading Market. The Company further agrees, if the Company applies to have the Common Stock traded on any other market or exchange, it will include in such application all of the Shares and Warrant Shares, and will take such other action as is necessary to cause all of the Shares and Warrant Shares to be listed on such other market or exchange as promptly as possible. The Company will take all action reasonably necessary to continue the listing and trading of its Common Stock on the Trading Market, market or exchange and will comply in all respects with the Company’s reporting, filing and other obligations under the bylaws or rules of the Trading Market or if applicable, future market or exchange.
 
7.9 Equal Treatment of Purchasers. 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 Operative Agreements unless the same consideration is also offered to all of the parties to the Operative Agreements. For clarification purposes, this provision constitutes a separate right granted to each Purchaser by the Company and negotiated separately by each Purchaser, and is intended to treat for the Company the Purchasers as a class and shall not in any way be construed as the Purchasers acting in concert or as a group with respect to the purchase, disposition or voting of Securities or otherwise.
 
7.10 Short Sales and Confidentiality After The Date Hereof. Each Purchaser severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers covenants that neither it nor any Affiliate acting on its behalf or pursuant to any understanding with it will execute any Short Sales during the period commencing at the Discussion Time and ending at the time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced as described in Section 7.2. Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that until such time as the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are publicly disclosed by the Company as described in Section 7.2, such Purchaser will maintain the confidentiality of all disclosures made to it in connection with this transaction (including the existence and terms of this transaction). Each Purchaser understands and acknowledges, severally and not jointly with any other Purchaser, that the SEC currently takes the position that coverage of short sales of shares of the Common Stock “against the box” prior to the Effective Date of the Registration Statement with the Securities is a violation of Section 5 of the Securities Act, as set forth in Item 65, Section A, of the Manual of Publicly Available Telephone Interpretations, dated July 1997, compiled by the Office of Chief Counsel, Division of Corporation Finance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Purchaser makes any representation, warranty or covenant hereby that it will not engage in Short Sales in the securities of the Company after the time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced as described in Section 7.2. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Purchaser's assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Purchaser's assets, the covenant set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement
 
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7.11 Subsequent Equity Sales.
 
(a) From the date hereof until 90 days after the Effective Date, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary shall issue shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents; provided, however, the 90 day period set forth in this Section 7.11 shall be extended for the number of Trading Days during such period in which (i) trading in the Common Stock is suspended by any Trading Market, or (ii) following the Effective Date, the Registration Statement is not effective or the prospectus included in the Registration Statement may not be used by the Purchasers for the resale of the Shares and Warrant Shares.

(b) From the date hereof until such time as no Qualified Purchaser holds any of the Securities, the Company shall be prohibited from effecting or entering into an agreement to effect any Subsequent Financing involving a “Variable Rate Transaction”. The term “Variable Rate Transaction” shall mean a transaction in which the Company issues or sells (i) any debt or equity securities that are convertible into, exchangeable or exercisable for, or include the right to receive additional shares of Common Stock either (A) at a conversion, exercise or exchange rate or other price that is based upon and/or varies with the trading prices of or quotations for the shares of Common Stock at any time after the initial issuance of such debt or equity securities, or (B) with a conversion, exercise or exchange price that is subject to being reset at some future date after the initial issuance of such debt or equity security or upon the occurrence of specified or contingent events directly or indirectly related to the business of the Company or the market for the Common Stock or (ii) enters into any agreement, including, but not limited to, an equity line of credit, whereby the Company may sell securities at a future determined price. Any Purchaser shall be entitled to obtain injunctive relief against the Company to preclude any such issuance, which remedy shall be in addition to any right to collect damages.
 
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 7.11 shall not apply in respect of an Exempt Issuance, except that no Variable Rate Transaction shall be an Exempt Issuance.
 
7.12 Form D; Blue Sky Filings. The Company agrees to timely file a Form D with respect to the Securities as required under Regulation D and to provide a copy thereof, promptly upon request of any Purchaser. The Company shall take such action as the Company shall reasonably determine is necessary in order to obtain an exemption for, or to qualify the Securities for, sale to the Purchasers at the Closing under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of the United States, and shall provide evidence of such actions promptly upon request of any Purchaser.
 
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7.13 Capital Changes. Until the one year anniversary of the Effective Date, the Company shall not undertake a reverse or forward stock split or reclassification of the Common Stock without the prior written consent of each Qualified Purchasers holding a majority in interest of the Shares.
 
8. Miscellaneous Provisions.
 
8.1 Termination. This Agreement may be terminated by any Purchaser, as to such Purchaser’s obligations hereunder only and without any effect whatsoever on the obligations between the Company and the other Purchasers, by written notice to the other parties, if the Closing has not been consummated on or before June 30, 2006; provided, however, that no such termination will affect the right of any party to sue for any breach by the other party (or parties).
 
8.2 Fees and Expenses. At the Closing, the Company has agreed to reimburse Lehman Brothers (“Lehman”) for its legal fees and expenses. Accordingly, in lieu of the foregoing payments, Lehman shall have the right to reduce the aggregate amount that it is to pay for the Securities at the Closing by the amount of such fees and expenses in lieu thereof. Except as expressly set forth in the Operative Agreements to the contrary, each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses incurred by such party incident to the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement. The Company shall pay all transfer agent fees, stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of any Securities to the Purchasers.
 
8.3 Rights Cumulative. Each and all of the various rights, powers and remedies of the parties shall be considered to be cumulative with and in addition to any other rights, powers and remedies which such parties may have at law or in equity in the event of the breach of any of the terms of this Agreement. The exercise or partial exercise of any right, power or remedy shall neither constitute the exclusive election thereof nor the waiver of any other right, power or remedy available to such party.
 
8.4 Pronouns. All pronouns or any variation thereof shall be deemed to refer to the masculine, feminine or neuter, singular or plural, as the identity of the Person, Persons, entity or entities may require.
 
8.5 Notices. Except as otherwise expressly provided under this Agreement, any notices, reports or other correspondence (hereinafter collectively referred to as "correspondence") required or permitted to be given hereunder shall be in writing and shall be sent by postage prepaid first class mail, courier or telecopy or delivered by hand to the party to whom such correspondence is required or permitted to be given hereunder, and shall be deemed sufficient upon receipt when delivered Personally or by courier, overnight delivery service or confirmed facsimile, or three (3) Trading Days after being deposited in the regular mail as certified or registered mail (airmail if sent internationally) with postage prepaid, if such notice is addressed to the party to be notified at such party's address or facsimile number as set forth below:
 
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(a) All correspondence to the Company shall be addressed as follows:
 
Protalex, Inc.
145 Union Square Drive,
New Hope, PA 18938
Attention:  Steven Kane
Chief Executive Officer
Facsimile: (215) 862-6614
 
with a copy to:
 
Reed Smith LLP
Two Embarcadero Center, Suite 2000
San Francisco, CA 94111
Attention:  Donald C. Reinke, Esq.
Facsimile: (415) 391.8269

(b) All correspondence to any Purchaser shall be sent to such Purchaser at the address set forth in Exhibit A.
 
(c) Any entity may change the address to which correspondence to it is to be addressed by written notification as provided for herein.
 
8.6 Captions. The captions and paragraph headings of this Agreement are solely for the convenience of reference and shall not affect its interpretation.
 
8.7 Severability. Should any part or provision of this Agreement be held unenforceable or in conflict with the applicable laws or regulations of any jurisdiction, the invalid or unenforceable part or provisions shall be replaced with a provision which accomplishes, to the extent possible, the original business purpose of such part or provision in a valid and enforceable manner, and the remainder of this Agreement shall remain binding upon the parties hereto.
 
8.8 Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of the Operative Agreements shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other Operative Agreements (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the Operative Agreements), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. The parties hereby waive all rights to a trial by jury. If either party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Operative Agreements, then the prevailing party in such action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding.
 
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8.9 Amendments. Any term of this Agreement may be amended or terminated and the observance of any term of this Agreement 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 Purchasers holding a majority in interest of the Securities then outstanding, so long as such consenting Purchasers include each Qualified Purchaser who then holds at least $250,000 of the Shares originally purchased pursuant to this Agreement or Warrant Shares exercisable under such Qualified Purchaser’s Warrant (or any combination thereof) (collectively, the “Purchasers Consent”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, a waiver or consent to depart from the provisions hereof with respect to a matter that relates exclusively to the rights of a Purchaser that does not directly or indirectly affect the rights of other Purchasers may be given by such Purchaser to which such waiver or consent relates without the consent of a majority in interest of the Securities then outstanding and of the Purchasers Consent; provided, however, that the provisions of this sentence may not be amended, modified or supplemented except in accordance with the provisions of the immediately preceding sentence. No waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right.
 
8.10 Exculpation. Each Purchaser acknowledges that it is not relying upon any Person, entity or corporation, other than the Company and its officers and directors, in making its investment or decision to invest in the Company. The obligations of each Purchaser hereunder are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Purchaser, and no Purchaser shall be responsible in any way for the performance of the obligations of any other Purchaser hereunder. Nothing contained herein, and no action taken by any Purchaser pursuant hereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated hereunder. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights hereunder, and it shall not be necessary for any other Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose. Each Purchaser has been represented by its own separate legal counsel in their review and negotiation of this Agreement. The Company has elected to provide all Purchasers with the same terms and forms of Operative Agreements for the convenience of the Company and not because it was required or requested to do so by the Purchasers. Each Purchaser agrees that no Purchaser nor the respective controlling Persons, officers, directors, partners, agents, or employees of any Purchaser shall be liable to any other Purchaser for any action heretofore or hereafter taken or omitted to be taken by any of them in connection with the Securities or the Operative Agreements.
 
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8.11 Assignment. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns. The Company may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Purchaser (other than by merger or sale of substantially all of its assets). Any Purchaser may assign any or all of its rights under this Agreement (subject to any limitations set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement) to any Person to whom such Purchaser assigns or transfers any Securities, provided such transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with respect to the transferred Securities, by the provisions of the Operative Agreements that apply to the “Purchasers”.
 
8.12 Survival. The respective representations and warranties given by the parties hereto shall survive the Closing Date and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein for a period of three years, without regard to any investigation made by any party.
 
8.13 Counterpart. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original and all of which together shall constitute one instrument. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an original thereof.
 
8.14 Entire Agreement. This Agreement, the Warrants and the Registration Rights Agreement constitute the entire agreement between the parties hereto respecting the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements, negotiations, understandings, representations and statements respecting the subject matter hereof, whether written or oral. No modification, alteration, waiver or change in any of the terms of this Agreement shall be valid or binding upon the parties hereto unless made in writing and duly executed by the Company and the Purchasers.
 
8.15 No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person, except as otherwise set forth in Section 7.6.
 
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8.16 Replacement of Securities. If any certificate or instrument evidencing any Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof (in the case of mutilation), or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction. The applicant for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable third-party costs (including customary indemnity) associated with the issuance of such replacement Securities.
 
8.17 Remedies. In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, each of the Purchasers and the Company will be entitled to specific performance under the Operative Agreements. The parties agree that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of obligations contained in the Operative Agreements and hereby agrees to waive and not to assert in any action for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.
 
8.18 Liquidated Damages. The Company’s obligations to pay any partial liquidated damages or other amounts owing under the Operative Agreements is a continuing obligation of the Company and shall not terminate until all unpaid partial liquidated damages and other amounts have been paid notwithstanding the fact that the instrument or security pursuant to which such partial liquidated damages or other amounts are due and payable shall have been canceled.
 
8.19 Construction. The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel has reviewed and had an opportunity to revise the Operative Agreements and, therefore, the normal rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation of the Operative Agreements or any amendments hereto.
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Warrant and Common Stock Purchase Agreement as of the day and year first above written.
 
PROTALEX, INC.
 

By: _________________________
Name:
Title:
 
THE PURCHASER’S SIGNATURE TO THE INVESTOR QUESTIONNAIRE DATED AS OF THE CLOSING SHALL CONSTITUTE THE PURCHASER’S SIGNATURE TO THIS WARRANT AND COMMON STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT.
 
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Exhibit A
 
SCHEDULE OF PURCHASERS
 
Purchaser Name and Address
Number of Shares to be Purchased
Aggregate Purchase Price
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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Exhibit B
 
FORM OF WARRANT
 
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Exhibit C
 
See attachment to Subscription Agreement.
 
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Appendix I

INVESTOR QUESTIONNAIRE

See attachment to Subscription Agreement.

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EX-10.2 3 v047225_ex10-2.htm Unassociated Document
 
REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
 
This Registration Rights Agreement (this “Agreement”) is entered into as of June 30, 2006 by and among Protalex, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), those investors who have entered into that certain Purchase Agreement (defined below) who are also identified on Schedule I attached hereto (the “Investors”) and the Placement Agents (as identified in Schedule 3.9 to the Purchase Agreement) with reference to the following facts:
 
WHEREAS, the Investors and the Company have entered into a Warrant and Common Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) of even date with this Agreement; and
 
WHEREAS, to induce the Investors to enter into the Purchase Agreement, the Company has agreed to grant certain rights to the Investors as reflected in this Agreement.
 
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises and covenants contained herein, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows:
 
1. Certain Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following respective meanings. All terms not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the meaning set forth in the Purchase Agreement.
 
1.1 Effectiveness Date” means, with respect to the initial Registration Statement required to be filed hereunder, the 120th calendar day following the date hereof and, with respect to any additional Registration Statements which may be required pursuant to Section 2.3, the 90th calendar day following the date on which the Company first knows, or reasonably should have known, that such additional Registration Statement is required hereunder; provided, however, in the event the Company is notified by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) that one of the above Registration Statements will not be reviewed or is no longer subject to further review and comments, the Effectiveness Date as to such Registration Statement shall be the fifth Trading Day following the date on which the Company is so notified if such date precedes the dates required above.
 
1.2 Filing Date means, with respect to the initial Registration Statement required hereunder, the 30th calendar day following the date hereof and, with respect to any additional Registration Statements which may be required pursuant to Section 2.3, the 30th day following the date on which the Company first knows, or reasonably should have known that such additional Registration Statement is required hereunder.
 
1.3 Holder” or “Holders” shall mean the Investors and the Placement Agents holding Registrable Securities or securities exercisable into Registrable Securities and any Person holding such securities to whom rights under this Agreement have been transferred in accordance with Section 2.10 hereof.
 

1.4 Prospectus means the prospectus included in a Registration Statement (including, without limitation, a prospectus that includes any information previously omitted from a prospectus filed as part of an effective registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A promulgated under the Securities Act), as amended or supplemented by any prospectus supplement, with respect to the terms of the offering of any portion of the Registrable Securities covered by a Registration Statement, and all other amendments and supplements to the Prospectus, including post-effective amendments, and all material incorporated by reference or deemed to be incorporated by reference in such Prospectus.
 
1.5 Registrable Securities” means (1) the Shares and the Warrant Shares (including any additional shares issuable in connection with any anti-dilution provisions in the Warrants) (without giving effect to any limitations on exercise set forth in the Warrant) and (2) any Common Stock of the Company issued as (or issuable upon the conversion or exercise of any warrant, right or other security which is issued as) a dividend or other distribution with respect to, or in exchange for or in replacement of, the Shares or Warrant Shares, excluding in all cases, however, (i) any Registrable Securities sold by a Person in a transaction in which such Person’s rights under this Agreement are not assigned, or (ii) any Registrable Securities sold pursuant to a Registration Statement or Rule 144 or (iii) any Registrable Securities that may be sold without restriction under Rule 144(k)(or successor rule).
 
1.6 The terms “register,” “registered” and “registration” refer to a registration effected by preparing and filing a registration statement in compliance with the Securities Act, and the declaration or ordering of the effectiveness of such registration statement.
 
1.7 Registration Expenses” shall mean all expenses, except Selling Expenses as defined below, incurred by the Company in complying with the registration obligations under this Agreement, including, without limitation, all registration, qualification and filing fees, printing expenses, escrow fees, fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company, blue sky fees, trading market fees and expenses, the expense of any special audits incident to or required by any such registration (but excluding the compensation of regular employees of the Company which shall be paid in any event by the Company).
 
1.8 Registration Statement” shall mean a registration statement of the Company, on Form S-3, or if the Company is ineligible to use Form S-3, on Form SB-2 (or successor forms) filed by the Company with the SEC pursuant to this Agreement permitting registration of the Registrable Securities for resale by the respective Holders thereof and any additional registration statements contemplated by Section 2.3, including (in each case) the Prospectus, amendments and supplements to such registration statement or Prospectus, including pre- and post-effective amendments, all exhibits thereto, and all material incorporated by reference or deemed to be incorporated by reference in such registration statement.
 
1.9 Selling Expenses” shall mean all underwriting discounts, selling commissions and stock transfer taxes, if any, applicable to the securities registered by the Holders.
 
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1.10 Rule 424 means Rule 424 promulgated by the SEC pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the SEC having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Rule.
 
2. Registration Rights.
 
2.1 Required Registration. The Company shall file with the SEC and any applicable state securities authorities on or before the Filing Date, and use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective by the SEC on or before the Effectiveness Date, a Registration Statement in order to register the Registrable Securities for resale and distribution under the Securities Act. The Registration Statement shall contain substantially the Plan of Distribution attached hereto as Exhibit A. The Company shall use its best efforts to cause a Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event prior to the applicable Effectiveness Date. The Company shall maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement with respect to a Holder until such time as all remaining Registrable Securities held by such Holder (assuming cashless exercise of the Warrant Shares) may be sold without restriction under Rule 144(k) (or successor rule) (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall telephonically request effectiveness of a Registration Statement as of 5:00 pm Eastern Time on a Trading Day. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders via facsimile or e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the SEC, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of a Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 am Eastern Time on the Trading Day after the Effective Date (as defined in the Purchase Agreement), file a final Prospectus with the SEC as required by Rule 424.
 
2.2 Partial liquidated damages.
 
(a) If the Registration Statement is not filed with the SEC on or before the Filing Date (a “Filing Default”), the Company shall pay partial liquidated damages to each Holder, from and including the day that the day following such Filing Default until the date that the Registration Statement is filed with the SEC, at a rate per month (or portion thereof) equal to 0.50% of the total purchase price of the Shares purchased by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement (the “Default Rate”).
 
(b) If prior to its Effectiveness Date, the Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise respond in writing to comments made by the SEC in respect of such Registration Statement within 30 calendar days after the receipt of comments by or notice from the SEC that such amendment is required in order for a Registration Statement to be declared effective (“Prefiling Default”), the Company shall pay partial liquidated damages to each Holder, from and including the day following such Prefiling Default until such filing is made with the SEC.
 
(c) If the Registration Statement is not declared effective by the SEC on or before the Effectiveness Date (a “Registration Default”), the Company shall pay partial liquidated damages to each Holder, from and including the day following such Registration Default until the earlier of (i) the time that the Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC, or (ii) the time that the Effectiveness Period expires, at the Default Rate.
 
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(d) In the event that the Company exercises its right pursuant to Section 2.7 to suspend the availability of the Registration Statement for a period exceeding the maximum number of days specified therein for the applicable Suspension Period (a “Suspension Default”), the Company shall pay partial liquidated damages to each Holder, from and including the day following such Suspension Default until such time as the Company delivers the Advice (as defined in Section 2.7) to the Holders described in Section 2.7, at the Default Rate.
 
(e) In the event that the Registration Statement ceases to be effective or available for use by the Holders for a period in excess of sixty (60) days in any single instance or ninety (90) days in the aggregate during any 12-month period (an “Effectiveness Default”), the Company shall pay partial liquidated damages to each Holder, from and including the day following such Effectiveness Default until such time as the Registration Statement is again effective and available for use by the Holders, at the Default Rate.
 
(f) The Company’s obligation to pay partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section 2.2 shall accrue and be discharged on a monthly basis on the last Trading of each such month. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of a default.
 
(g) In no event, however, shall the Company be required to pay partial liquidated damages in the aggregate under this Section 2 in excess of 10.0% of the total purchase price of the Shares purchased by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement.
 
2.3 Additional Registration Rights. If during the Effectiveness Period, the number of Registrable Securities at any time exceeds 95% of the number of shares of Common Stock then registered in a Registration Statement, then the Company shall file as soon as reasonably practicable but in any case prior to the applicable Filing Date, an additional Registration Statement covering the resale by the Holders of not less than 110% of the number of such Registrable Securities. The Default Rates set forth in Section 2.2 shall apply to any Registration Statement required to be filed hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall have no obligation to file a Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 2.3 if the SEC advises the Company, orally or in writing, that filing the Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 2.3 is not permitted by law or the rules and regulations of the SEC, provided that the Company shall have used, and shall continue to use, commercially reasonable efforts to overcome the SEC’s position.
 
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2.4 Piggyback Registration Rights.
 
(a) If at any time or from time to time the Company shall determine to register any of its securities, either for its own account or the account of any stockholder, other than (i) a registration relating solely to employee benefit plans, (ii) a registration relating solely to a SEC Rule 145 transaction, (iii) the registration pursuant to Section 2.1 hereof or (iv) a demand registration by the Company’s stockholders pursuant to (A) that certain Investor Rights Agreement dated September 18, 2003 or (B) that certain Registration Rights Agreement dated May 25, 2005 or (C) that certain December 22, 2005 Registration Rights Agreement (collectively, the “Registration Agreements”), the Company will:
 
(i) promptly give to each Holder written notice thereof and of each such Holder’s rights under this Section 2.4; and
 
(ii) use its commercially reasonable efforts to include in such registration (and any related qualification under blue sky laws or other compliance), and in any underwriting involved therein, all the Registrable Securities specified in a written request or requests, made within ten (10) days after receipt of such written notice from the Company, by any Holder, subject to Section 2.4(b) hereof.
 
(b) If the registration of which the Company gives notice is for a registered public offering involving an underwriting, the Company shall so advise the Holders as a part of the written notice given pursuant to Section 2.4(a)(i). In such event the right of any Holder to registration pursuant to Section 2.4 shall be conditioned upon such Holder’s participation in such underwriting and the inclusion of Registrable Securities in the underwriting to the extent provided herein. All Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting shall (together with the Company) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the managing underwriter selected for such underwriting by the Company. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.4, if the Company registration pursuant to this Section 2.4 involves an underwritten offering and the managing underwriter advises the Company in writing that marketing factors require a limitation of the number of shares to be underwritten, the managing underwriter may limit the Registrable Securities and other securities to be distributed through such underwriting, provided, that the Company shall include in such registration (a) first, one hundred percent (100%) of the securities the Company proposes to sell, and (b) second, the amount of Registrable Securities which the Holders have requested to be included in such registration, such amount to be allocated pro rata among all requesting Holders on the basis of the relative amount of Registrable Securities then held by each such Holder together with other holders of rights similar to those granted in this Section 2.4 on a pari passu basis; provided, further, in the case of Clause (b), in no event shall the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such offering be less than twenty percent (20%) of the total number of securities to be included in such offering. The Company shall so advise all Holders distributing their securities through such underwriting of such limitation, and the number of shares of Registrable Securities that may be included in the registration and underwriting shall be allocated among all Holders in proportion, as nearly as practicable, to the respective amounts of Registrable Securities held by such Holders at the time of filing the registration statement or in such other manner as shall be agreed to by the Company and Holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities proposed to be included in such registration. To facilitate the allocation of shares in accordance with the above provisions, the Company may round the number of shares allocated to any Holder or other selling stockholder to the nearest one hundred (100) shares. If any Holder disapproves of the terms of any such underwriting, such Holder or selling stockholder may elect to withdraw therefrom by written notice to the Company and the managing underwriter. Further, any Holder requesting to be included in such registration may elect, in writing prior to the effective date of the registration statement filed in connection with such registration to withdraw therefrom. In addition, the registrations provided for in this Section 2.4 are in addition to, and not in lieu of the registrations made on behalf of the Holders as described elsewhere in this Section 2.
 
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(c) The Company shall have the right to terminate or withdraw any registration initiated by it under this Section 2.4 prior to the effectiveness of such registration whether or not any Holder has elected to include securities in such registration. The Registration Expenses of such withdrawn registration shall be borne by the Company in accordance with Section 2.5 hereof.
 
(d) Notwithstanding the above, this Section 2.4 shall not apply to registrations of the Company’s securities which are not underwritten public offerings (x) when the Registrable Securities are covered by an effective Registration Statement or (y) where with respect to any Holder all of such Holder’s Registrable Securities (assuming cashless exercise of the Warrant Shares) may be sold without restriction under Rule 144(k) (or successor rule).
 
2.5 Expenses of Registration. All Registration Expenses incurred in connection with registrations pursuant to this Agreement shall be borne by the Company. All Selling Expenses shall be borne by the Persons holding securities included in such registration pro rata on the basis of the number of shares so registered.
 
2.6 Registration Procedures. In the case of each registration, qualification or compliance effected by the Company pursuant to this Section 2, the Company will keep each Holder advised in writing as to the initiation of each registration, qualification and compliance and as to the completion thereof. The Company will use its best efforts to:
 
(a) Not less than three Trading Days prior to the filing of each Registration Statement and not less than 1 Trading Day prior to the filing of any related Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto (including any document that would be incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference), the Company shall, (i) furnish to each Holder copies of all such documents proposed to be filed, which documents (other than those incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference) will be subject to the review of such Holders, and (ii) cause its officers and directors, counsel and independent certified public accountants to respond to such inquiries as shall be necessary, in the reasonable opinion of respective counsel to each Holder to conduct a reasonable investigation within the meaning of the Securities Act. The Company shall not file a Registration Statement or any such Prospectus or any amendments or supplements thereto to which the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities shall reasonably object in good faith, provided that, the Company is notified of such objection in writing no later than 3 Trading Days after the Holders have been so furnished copies of a Registration Statement or 1 Trading Day after the Holders have been so furnished copies of any related Prospectus or amendment or supplement thereto and so long as the Filing Date or Effectiveness Date, as the case may be, shall be extended for the period of time that such Holders object to the Company’s filing of the applicable document, provided that the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to remedy the Purchasers’ objection and file the Registration Statement as soon as reasonably possible thereafter.
 
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(b) if the Company becomes eligible to file a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the date on which the Company becomes so eligible, the “S-3 Eligibility Date”), then (A) cause each Registration Statement first filed after the S-3 Eligibility Date to be on Form S-3 and (B) with respect to each Registration Statement filed on Form SB-2 (or such other form as does not permit incorporation by reference, if applicable) prior to the S-3 Eligibility Date where the period of obligation to maintain the effectiveness of such Registration Statement would in the reasonable judgment of the Company exceed three (3) months, cause to be promptly (but in any event not more than 30 days after such date) filed a Registration Statement on Form S-3 to replace each such Registration Statement on Form SB-2 and cause such Registration Statement on Form S-3 to be declared effective by the SEC as soon as possible after filing, thereafter to cause to be filed a post-effective amendment to each Registration Statement on Form SB-2 to de-register unsold shares under such Registration Statement unless this provision 2.5(a) is waived in writing by the unanimous written consent of the Board of Directors; provided, however, that no fewer than three (3) business days before filing a Registration Statement or related prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto in accordance with Section 2 hereof, the Company shall furnish to counsel for the Holders copies of all documents proposed to be filed, which documents be subject to review by such counsel;
 
(c) prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and supplements to such Registration Statement (including any Exchange Act documents incorporated by reference into such Registration Statement) and the prospectus used in connection with such Registration Statement as may be necessary to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective as required herein and to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act with respect to the disposition of all securities covered by such registration statement, including, but not limited to, with respect to each Registration Statement on Form SB-2 (or other such form that does not permit incorporation by reference, if applicable), cause a post-effective amendment (or prospectus supplement) to be filed as may be necessary with the SEC within twenty (20) days after each date on which the Company files its Annual Report on Form 10-KSB (or similar form), and in the case of a post-effective amendment, cause such post-effective amendment to be declared effective by the SEC as soon as possible after filing;
 
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(d) furnish to the Holders participating in such registration and to the underwriters of the securities being registered, if any, such reasonable number of copies of the registration statement, preliminary prospectus, final prospectus, in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act, and such other documents they may reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of Registrable Securities by them;
 
(e) prior to the Effectiveness Date, register and qualify the securities covered by such registration statement under such other securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as shall be reasonably requested by the Holders and do any and all other acts and things which may be reasonably necessary or advisable to enable the Holders and each underwriter, if any, to consummate the disposition of the Registrable Securities in such states;
 
(f) in the event of any underwritten public offering, enter into and perform its obligations under an underwriting agreement, in usual and customary form, with the managing underwriter of such offering;
 
(g) cause all Registrable Securities to be quoted on the Nasdaq Stock Market Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (the “OTCBB”), or such other securities exchange on which similar securities issued by the Company are then listed, and comply with all requirements of the OTCBB or such other securities exchange, as applicable, with regards to the issuance of the shares and the listing thereof;
 
(h) as promptly as possible, but in no event later than 1 Trading Day thereafter, give notice to each Holder and counsel for the Holders, (i) when any prospectus, prospectus supplement, Registration Statement or post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed with the SEC and, with respect to the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment, when the same has been declared effective, (ii) of the receipt of any comments from the SEC, (iii) of any request by the SEC or any other federal or state governmental authority to amend or supplement the Registration Statement or amend or supplement the prospectus or for additional information; (iv) of the issuance by the SEC or any other federal or state governmental authority of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the initiation or written threat of any proceedings for that purpose, (v) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification or exemption from qualification of any of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or the written threat of any proceeding for such purpose or (vi) the necessity of any changes in the Registration Statement or prospectus, or any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference, so that, in the case of the Registration Statement, it will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or any omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and that in the case of the prospectus, it will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or any 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 which notice in the case of (iii) through (vi) above (each a “Required Notice”) may, at the discretion of the Company, state that it constitutes a Suspension Notice (as defined below) in which case the provisions of Section 2.7 shall apply;
 
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(i) if any Registration Statement required pursuant to this Section 2 ceases to be effective for any reason at any time (other than because all Registrable Securities registered thereunder shall have been resold pursuant thereto or shall have otherwise ceased to be Registrable Securities), use its best efforts to obtain the prompt withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness thereof, and in any event shall as promptly as reasonably practicable amend such Registration Statement in a manner reasonably expected to obtain the withdrawal of the order suspending the effectiveness thereof;
 
(j) supplement and amend any Registration Statement required pursuant to this Section 2 if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used by the Company for such Registration Statement, if required by the Securities Act;
 
(k) obtain the withdrawal of any order or the lifting of any suspension of the qualification (or exemption from qualification) of any of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction in which they have been qualified for sale and provide reasonably prompt notice to each Holder and counsel for the Holders of the withdrawal of any such order;
 
(l) incorporate in a prospectus supplement to the Registration Statement or post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement such information as the Holders of the majority in interest of the Registrable Securities (other than information specific to a Holder which shall be at the discretion of the Holder provided that the Holder and its Registrable Securities may be excluded if such information is not provided by the Holder provided further that upon receipt of such information by the Company, the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to include such Holders Registrable Securities on the Registration Statement, or, if not then possible, on any subsequent registration statements) and counsel for the Holders shall determine to be required to be included therein by applicable law and make any required filings of such prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment;
 
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(m) provide a transfer agent and registrar for all Registrable Securities registered pursuant hereunder and a CUSP number for all such Registrable Securities, in each case not later than the effective date of such registration;
 
(n) cooperate with the Holders to facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing Registrable Securities sold or to be sold pursuant to the Registration Statement, which certificates shall not bear any restrictive legends, and use reasonable efforts to cause such Registrable Securities to be in such denominations and registered in such names as the applicable Holder or Holders may request in writing at least one (1) trading day prior to any sale of such Registrable Securities;
 
(o) upon request by a majority-in-interest of the Registrable Securities, make reasonably available for inspection during normal business hours by a representative for any Holder, and any broker-dealers, counsel for the Holders, accountants or underwriter, all relevant financial and other records and pertinent corporate documents and properties of the Company and its subsidiaries, and cause the appropriate officers, directors and employees of the Company and its subsidiaries to make reasonably available for inspection during normal business hours on reasonable notice all relevant information reasonably requested by such representative for a Holder, or any such broker-dealers, counsel for a Holder, accountants or underwriter in connection with such disposition, in each case as is customary for similar “due diligence” examinations; provided, however, that each Holder (and its respective agents and representatives) shall hold in confidence and shall not make any disclosure (except to another Holder) of any such information, unless (i) disclosure of such information is necessary to comply with federal or state securities laws, (ii) disclosure of such information is necessary to avoid or to correct a misstatement or omission in any Registration Statement, (iii) release of such information is ordered pursuant to a subpoena or other order from a court or government body of competent jurisdiction, (iv) such information has been made generally available to the public other than by disclosure in violation of this or any other agreement, or (v) the Company consents to any such disclosure. Nothing herein shall be deemed to limit the Holder’s ability to sell Registrable Securities in a manner which is otherwise consistent with applicable laws and regulations;
 
(p) as promptly as possible notify each Holder covered by such registration statement at any time when a prospectus relating thereto is required to be delivered under the Securities Act of the happening of any event as a result of which the prospectus included in such registration statement, as then in effect, includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in the light of the circumstances then existing and at the request of any such Holder, prepare and furnish to such Holder a reasonable number copies of an amended or supplemental prospectus as may be necessary so that, as thereafter delivered to the purchasers of such Registrable Securities such prospectus shall not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in light of the circumstances then existing;
 
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(q) comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the SEC and make generally available to its securityholders earning statements (which need not be audited) satisfying the provisions of Section 1l(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 thereunder (or any similar rule promulgated under the Securities Act); and
 
(r) furnish, at the request of any Holder requesting registration of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2, on the closing date of any such underwritten public offering, (i) an opinion, dated such date, of the counsel representing the Company for the purposes of such registration, in form and substance as is customarily given to underwriters in an underwritten public offering, addressed to the underwriters and to the Holders requesting registration of Registrable Securities and (ii) a letter dated such date, from the independent certified public accountants of the Company, in form and substance as is customarily given by independent certified public accountants to underwriters in an underwritten public offering, addressed to the underwriters, and to the Holders requesting registration of Registrable Securities.
 
(s) If NASDR Rule 2710 requires any broker-dealer to make a filing prior to executing a sale by a Holder, the Company shall (i) make an Issuer Filing with the NASDR, Inc. Corporate Financing Department pursuant to proposed NASDR Rule 2710(b)(10)(A)(i), (ii) use its best efforts to respond within five Trading Days to any comments received from NASDR in connection therewith, and (iii) pay the filing fee required in connection therewith.
 
2.7 Deferral. The right of the Holders to use the Registration Statement (and the prospectus relating thereto) shall be suspended for a period or periods (the “Suspension Period”) of not more than thirty (30) days in any single instance and not more than sixty (60) days in the aggregate during any twelve (12) month period after delivery by the Company to the Holders of (i) a Required Notice; or (ii) a certificate signed by the President or Chief Executive Officer of the Company certifying that the Board has made the good-faith determination (A) that continued use by the Holders of the Registration Statement for purposes of effecting offers or sales of Registrable Shares pursuant thereto would require, under the Securities Act, premature disclosure in the Registration Statement or prospectus of material, nonpublic information concerning the Company, its business or prospects or any proposed material transaction involving the Company, (B) that such premature disclosure would be materially adverse to the Company, its business or prospects or any such proposed material transaction or would make the successful consummation by the Company of any such material transaction significantly less likely and (C) that it is therefore essential to suspend the use by the Holders of such Registration Statement and prospectus for purposes of effecting offers or sales of Registrable Shares pursuant thereto. A Required Notice and the certificate described in subsection (ii) above are each referred to herein as a “Suspension Notice.” Upon receipt of a Suspension Notice, each Holder agrees not to sell any Registrable Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement until such Holder is advised in writing by the Company that the Registration Statement and related prospectus may be used, and has received copies of any additional or supplemental filings that are incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference in such Registration Statement and related prospectus (the “Advice”). Each Holder shall keep the fact of any Suspension Notice delivered by the Company and its contents confidential. The Company agrees and acknowledges that any periods during which the Holder is required to discontinue the disposition of the Registrable Securities hereunder beyond the Suspension Period shall be subject to the provisions of Section 2.2.
 
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2.8 Indemnification.
 
(a) The Company will indemnify each Holder, each of its officers, directors, members, partners, agents, brokers, investment advisors, employees and legal counsel (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles, notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) and each Person controlling such Holder within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and the officers, directors, members, shareholders, partners, agents and employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles, notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of each such controlling Person (collectively, “Holder Party”), with respect to which registration, qualification or compliance has been effected pursuant to this Section 2, and each underwriter, if any, and each Person who controls any underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act, against all expenses, claims, losses, damages or liabilities (or actions, proceedings or settlements in respect thereof), including any of the foregoing incurred in settlement of any litigation, commenced or threatened, arising out of or based on (i) any untrue statement (or alleged untrue statement) of a material fact contained in any registration statement, prospectus, offering circular or other document, or any amendment or supplement thereto, incident to any such registration, qualification or compliance, or based on any omission (or alleged omission) to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading, or (ii) any violation by the Company of the Securities Act or other applicable securities laws or any rule or regulation promulgated under the Securities Act or such other securities laws applicable to the Company in connection with any such registration, qualification or compliance, and the Company will reimburse each such Holder Party, each such underwriter and each Person who controls any such underwriter, for any legal and any other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating, preparing, defending or settling any such claim, loss, damage, liability or action, provided that the Company will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such claim, loss, damage, liability or expense arises out of or is based on any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission, made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Holder, controlling Person or underwriter and stated to be specifically for use therein.
 
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(b) Each Holder will, if Registrable Securities held by such Holder are included in the securities as to which such registration, qualification or compliance is being effected, severally (but not jointly) indemnify the Company, each of its directors, officers, and legal counsel, each underwriter, if any, of the Company’s securities covered by such a registration statement, each Person who controls the Company or such underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act, against all claims, losses, damages and liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), including reasonable attorneys fees, arising out of or based on (i) any untrue statement (or alleged untrue statement) of a material fact contained in any such registration statement, prospectus, offering circular or other document, or any omission (or alleged omission) to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading (ii) such Holder’s failure to sell the Registrable Securities only pursuant to and in the manner contemplated by the Registration Statement, including the Plan of Distribution section contained therein, and otherwise in compliance with the prospectus delivery requirements of such Act or (iii) violations of the Securities Act arising solely from the Holder’s request to remove the legends from the Registrable Securities prior to a sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement, Rule 144 of the Securities Act, or any other exemption from registration under the Securities Act, and will reimburse the Company, such directors, officers, Persons, underwriters or control Persons for any legal or any other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending any such claim, loss, damage, liability or action, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement (or alleged untrue statement) or omission (or alleged omission) is made in such registration statement, prospectus, offering circular or other document in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Holder and stated to be specifically for use therein; provided, however, that the obligations of such Holder hereunder shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any such claims, losses, damages, or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) if such settlement is effected without the consent of such Holder (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld); and provided that in no event shall the liability of any selling Holder hereunder be greater in amount than the dollar amount of the net proceeds received by such Holder upon the sale of the Registrable Securities giving rise to such indemnification obligation. Except for an underwritten public offering where the underwriters request specified indemnification of all participants, a Holder will not be required to enter into any agreement or undertaking in connection with any registration under this Section 2 providing for any indemnification or contribution on the part of such Holder greater than the Holder’s obligations under this Section 2.8(b).
 
(c) Each party entitled to indemnification under this Section 2.8 (the “Indemnified Party”) shall give notice to the party required to provide indemnification (the “Indemnifying Party”) promptly after such Indemnified Party has actual knowledge of any claim as to which indemnity may be sought, and shall permit the Indemnifying Party to assume the defense of any such claim or any litigation resulting therefrom, provided that counsel for the Indemnifying Party, who shall conduct the defense of such claim or litigation, shall be approved by the Indemnified Party (whose approval shall not unreasonably be withheld), and the Indemnified Party may participate in such defense at such party’s expense, and provided further that the failure of any Indemnified Party to give notice as provided herein shall not relieve the Indemnifying Party of its obligations under this Section 2.8 unless the failure to give such notice is materially prejudicial to an Indemnifying Party’s ability to defend such action and provided further, that the Indemnifying Party shall not assume the defense for matters as to which there is a conflict of interest or separate and different defenses but shall bear the expense of such defense nevertheless. No Indemnifying Party, in the defense of any such claim or litigation, shall, except with the consent of each Indemnified Party, consent to entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such Indemnified Party of a release from all liability in respect to such claim or litigation.
 
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(d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 2.8 is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unavailable to an Indemnified Party with respect to any loss, liability, claim, damage or expense referred to herein, then the Indemnifying Party, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Party hereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Party as a result of such loss, liability, claim, damage or expense in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party on the one hand and of the Indemnified Party on the other in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such loss, liability, claim, damage or expense, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of the Indemnifying Party and of the Indemnified Party shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Indemnifying Party or by the Indemnified Party and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information, and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 2.8(d), no Holder shall be required to contribute, in the aggregate, any amount in excess of the amount by which the net proceeds actually received by such Holder from the sale of the Registrable Securities subject to the Proceeding exceeds the amount of any damages that such Holder has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission.
 
(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that the provisions on indemnification and contribution contained in the underwriting agreement as to any underwriters only and not the Holders entered into in connection with the underwritten public offering are in conflict with the foregoing provisions, the provisions in the underwriting agreement shall control.
 
(f) The obligations of the Company and Holders under this Section 2.8 shall survive the completion of any offering of Registrable Securities in a registration statement under this Section 2, and otherwise.
 
2.9 Rule 144 Reporting. With a view to making available the benefits of certain rules and regulations of the SEC which may at any time permit the sale of the Shares and Warrant Shares to the public without registration, after such time as a public market exists for the Common Stock of the Company, the Company agrees to use its best efforts to:
 
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(a) Make and keep public information available, as those terms are understood and defined in Rule 144, at all times that the Company is subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Act or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended;
 
(b) File with the SEC in a timely manner all reports and other documents required of the Company under the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (at any time after it has become subject to such reporting requirements); and
 
(c) So long as a Holder owns any Shares or Warrant Shares to furnish to the Purchaser forthwith upon request a written statement by the Company as to its compliance with the reporting requirements of Rule 144 (at any time after ninety (90) days after the effective date of the first registration statement filed by the Company for an offering of its securities to the general public), and of the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (at any time after it has become subject to such reporting requirements), a copy of the most recent annual or quarterly report of the Company, and such other reports and documents of the Company and other information in the possession of or reasonably obtainable by the Company as a Purchaser may reasonably request in availing itself of any rule or regulation of the SEC allowing a Purchaser to sell any such securities without registration. The Company further covenants that it will take such further action as any holder of Securities may reasonably request, to the extent required from time to time to enable such Person to sell such Securities without registration under the Securities Act within the requirements of the exemption provided by Rule 144.
 
2.10 Transfer of Registration Rights. None of the rights to cause the Company to register securities granted to Holders under this Agreement may be transferred or assigned by a Holder without the written consent of the Company (which consent may be withheld in its sole discretion) unless (i) the transferee is an Investor or an Affiliate of an Investor or (ii) such person is a Qualifying Holder (as defined below), and such person agrees to become a party to, and bound by, all of the terms and conditions of, this Agreement. For purposes of this Section 2.10, the term “Qualifying Holder” shall mean, with respect to any Investor who has purchased no less than $250,000 of Shares under the Purchase Agreement, (i) any partner or member thereof, (ii) any corporation, partnership or limited liability company controlling, controlled by, or under common control with, such Investor or any partner or member thereof, or (iii) any other direct transferee from such Investor of at least $250,000 of Registrable Securities (based on their original purchase price) or all Registrable Securities originally purchased by such Investor under the Purchase Agreement, whichever is less.
 
2.11 No Inconsistent Agreements. The Company represents and warrants that it is not a party to, nor will it enter into, any agreements that (individually or in the aggregate) conflict with or limit or prohibit the exercise of the rights granted to the Holders in this Agreement.

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3. General Provisions.

3.1 Amendment and Waiver. Any term of this Agreement may be amended or terminated and the observance of any term of this Agreement 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 Holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities then outstanding, so long as such consenting Holders include each Holder that originally purchased no less than $2 million of Shares under the Purchase Agreement and at the time of such consent continues to hold no less than $250,000 of Shares originally purchased under the Purchase Agreement or exercisable under such Holder’s Warrant (or any combination thereof) (collectively, the “Holders Consent”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, a waiver or consent to depart from the provisions hereof with respect to a matter that relates exclusively to the rights of a Holder and that does not directly or indirectly affect the rights of other Holders may be given by such Holder to which such waiver or consent relates without the consent of the Holders of a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities and the Holders Consent; provided, however, that the provisions of this sentence may not be amended, modified, or supplemented except in accordance with the provisions of the immediately preceding sentence.

3.2 Remedies. In the event of a breach by the Company or by a Holder, of any of their respective obligations under this Agreement, each Holder or the Company, as the case may be, in addition to being entitled to exercise all rights granted by law and under this Agreement, including recovery of damages, will be entitled to specific performance of its rights under this Agreement. The Company and each Holder agree that monetary damages would not provide adequate compensation for any losses incurred by reason of a breach by it of any of the provisions of this Agreement and hereby further agrees that, in the event of any action for specific performance in respect of such breach, it shall not assert or shall waive the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.
 
3.3 No Piggyback on Registrations. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.3 attached hereto, neither the Company nor any of its security holders (other than the Holders in such capacity pursuant hereto) may include securities of the Company in the initial Registration Statement other than the Registrable Securities. The Company shall not file any other registration statements until the initial Registration Statement required hereunder is declared effective by the Commission, provided that this Section 3.3 shall not prohibit the Company from filing amendments to registration statements already filed.
 
3.4 No Inconsistent Agreements. The Company has not entered, as of the date hereof, nor shall the Company, on or after the date of this Agreement, enter into any agreement with respect to its securities, that would have the effect of impairing the rights granted to the Holders in this Agreement or otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof.
 
3.5 Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of the Purchase Agreement.
 
3.6 Successors and Assigns. The provisions of this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the successors, assigns, heirs, executors, and administrators of the parties. The Company may not assign its rights (except by merger) or obligations hereunder without the Holders Consent.
 
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3.7 Severability. Should any part or provision of this Agreement be held unenforceable or in conflict with the applicable laws or regulations of any jurisdiction, the invalid or unenforceable part or provisions shall be replaced with a provision which accomplishes, to the extent possible, the original business purpose of such part or provision in a valid and enforceable manner, and the remainder of this Agreement shall remain binding upon the parties hereto.
 
3.8 Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be delivered as set forth in the Purchase Agreement.
 
3.9 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original and all of which together shall constitute one instrument; provided that a facsimile signature or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file 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.
 
3.10 Titles and Subtitles. The titles and subtitles used in this Agreement are used for convenience only and are not to be considered in construing or interpreting this Agreement.
 
3.11 Cumulative Remedies. The remedies provided herein are cumulative and not exclusive of any other remedies provided by law.
 
3.12 Independent Nature of Holders’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of each Holder hereunder are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Holder hereunder, and no Holder shall be responsible in any way for the performance of the obligations of any other Holder hereunder. Nothing contained herein or in any other agreement or document delivered at any closing, and no action taken by any Holder pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Holders as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Holders are in any way acting in concert with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Each Holder shall be entitled to protect and enforce its rights, including without limitation the rights arising out of this Agreement, and it shall not be necessary for any other Holder to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose.
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Investor Rights Agreement has been executed as of the date first above written.
 
COMPANY:
 
PROTALEX, INC., a Delaware corporation
145 Union Square Drive
New Hope, PA 18938
 
By: _________________________________
 
Steven H. Kane,
President and Chief Executive Officer

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SCHEDULE A
 
Investors
 
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EXHIBIT A
Plan of Distribution
 
Each Selling Stockholder (the “Selling Stockholders”) of the common stock and any of their pledgees, assignees and successors-in-interest may, from time to time, sell any or all of their shares of common stock on the [principal Trading Market] or any other stock exchange, market or trading facility on which the shares are traded or in private transactions. These sales may be at fixed or negotiated prices. A Selling Stockholder may use any one or more of the following methods when selling shares:
 
 
·
ordinary brokerage transactions and transactions in which the broker-dealer solicits purchasers;
 
 
·
block trades in which the broker-dealer will attempt to sell the shares as agent but may position and resell a portion of the block as principal to facilitate the transaction;
 
 
·
purchases by a broker-dealer as principal and resale by the broker-dealer for its account;
 
 
·
an exchange distribution in accordance with the rules of the applicable exchange;
 
 
·
privately negotiated transactions;
 
 
·
settlement of short sales entered into after the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part;
 
 
·
broker-dealers may agree with the Selling Stockholders to sell a specified number of such shares at a stipulated price per share;
 
 
·
through the writing or settlement of options or other hedging transactions, whether through an options exchange or otherwise;
 
 
·
a combination of any such methods of sale; or
 
 
·
any other method permitted pursuant to applicable law.
 
The Selling Stockholders may also sell shares under Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), if available, rather than under this prospectus.
 
Broker-dealers engaged by the Selling Stockholders may arrange for other brokers-dealers to participate in sales. Broker-dealers may receive commissions or discounts from the Selling Stockholders (or, if any broker-dealer acts as agent for the purchaser of shares, from the purchaser) in amounts to be negotiated, but, except as set forth in a supplement to this Prospectus, in the case of an agency transaction not in excess of a customary brokerage commission in compliance with NASDR Rule 2440; and in the case of a principal transaction a markup or markdown in compliance with NASDR IM-2440.
 
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In connection with the sale of the common stock or interests therein, the Selling Stockholders may enter into hedging transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institutions, which may in turn engage in short sales of the Common Stock in the course of hedging the positions they assume. The Selling Stockholders may also sell shares of the common stock short and deliver these securities to close out their short positions, or loan or pledge the common stock to broker-dealers that in turn may sell these securities. The Selling Stockholders may also enter into option or other transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institutions or the creation of one or more derivative securities which require the delivery to such broker-dealer or other financial institution of shares offered by this prospectus, which shares such broker-dealer or other financial institution may resell pursuant to this prospectus (as supplemented or amended to reflect such transaction).
 
The Selling Stockholders and any broker-dealers or agents that are involved in selling the shares may be deemed to be “underwriters” within the meaning of the Securities Act in connection with such sales. In such event, any commissions received by such broker-dealers or agents and any profit on the resale of the shares purchased by them may be deemed to be underwriting commissions or discounts under the Securities Act. Each Selling Stockholder has informed the Company that it does not have any written or oral agreement or understanding, directly or indirectly, with any person to distribute the Common Stock. In no event shall any broker-dealer receive fees, commissions and markups which, in the aggregate, would exceed eight percent (8%).
 
The Company is required to pay certain fees and expenses incurred by the Company incident to the registration of the shares. The Company has agreed to indemnify the Selling Stockholders against certain losses, claims, damages and liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act.
 
Because Selling Stockholders may be deemed to be “underwriters” within the meaning of the Securities Act, they will be subject to the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act including Rule 172 thereunder. In addition, any securities covered by this prospectus which qualify for sale pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act may be sold under Rule 144 rather than under this prospectus. There is no underwriter or coordinating broker acting in connection with the proposed sale of the resale shares by the Selling Stockholders.
 
We agreed to keep this prospectus effective until the earlier of (i) the date on which the shares may be resold by the Selling Stockholders without registration and without regard to any volume limitations by reason of Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act or any other rule of similar effect (assuming cashless exercise of any Warrants issued the Selling Stockholders) or (ii) all of the shares have been sold pursuant to this prospectus or Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other rule of similar effect. The resale shares will be sold only through registered or licensed brokers or dealers if required under applicable state securities laws. In addition, in certain states, the resale shares may not be sold unless they have been registered or qualified for sale in the applicable state or an exemption from the registration or qualification requirement is available and is complied with.
 
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Under applicable rules and regulations under the Exchange Act, any person engaged in the distribution of the resale shares may not simultaneously engage in market making activities with respect to the common stock for the applicable restricted period, as defined in Regulation M, prior to the commencement of the distribution. In addition, the Selling Stockholders will be subject to applicable provisions of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, including Regulation M, which may limit the timing of purchases and sales of shares of the common stock by the Selling Stockholders or any other person. We will make copies of this prospectus available to the Selling Stockholders and have informed them of the need to deliver a copy of this prospectus to each purchaser at or prior to the time of the sale.
 
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EX-10.3 4 v047225_ex10-3.htm Unassociated Document
THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS WARRANT HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, PLEDGED, TRANSFERRED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER SAID ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER SAID ACT AND, IF REQUESTED BY THE COMPANY, UPON DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY THAT THE PROPOSED TRANSFER IS EXEMPT FROM SAID ACT.
 
THE SHARES REPRESENTED BY THIS WARRANT ARE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFERABILITY AND RESALE PURSUANT TO A PURCHASE AGREEMENT, A COPY OF WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE PRINCIPAL OFFICE OF THE COMPANY.

No. 2006 - ____
Date: ___________, 2006
 
WARRANT TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK
 
OF
 
PROTALEX, INC.
 
This certifies that, for value received, ______________ (“Holder”) is entitled, subject to the terms and conditions set forth below, to purchase from PROTALEX, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), ________ shares of the Company’s Common Stock (the “Warrant Shares”) at an exercise price of $3.85 per share (the “Exercise Price”). The number, character and Exercise Price of the Warrant Shares are subject to adjustment as provided below and all references to “Warrant Shares” and “Exercise Price” herein shall be deemed to include any such adjustment or series of adjustments. This Warrant is issued pursuant to Section 2 of that certain Warrant and Common Stock Purchase Agreement between the Company and certain “Purchasers” thereunder, dated as of _______________, 2006 (the “Purchase Agreement”), pursuant to which such Purchasers including the Holder, purchase this Warrant and Common Stock shares of the Company. The holder of this Warrant is subject to certain restrictions, and entitled to certain rights, set forth under the Purchase Agreement and as set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, dated on even date herewith (the “Registration Rights Agreement”). Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Purchase Agreement
 
This Warrant is one of a duly authorized series of Warrants of the Company (which are identical except for the variations necessary to express the identification numbers, names of the holder, number of shares issuable upon exercise thereof and Warrant issue dates) issued in connection with the Purchase Agreement and designated for reference purposes as “Series 2006 Common Stock Warrants.” The term “Common Stock Warrant” as used herein shall also mean this Common Stock Warrant, and any Common Stock Warrants delivered in substitution or exchange therefor as provided herein.
 
This Common Stock Warrant is subject to the following terms and conditions:
 
 
 

 
1. Term of Common Stock Warrant. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, this Common Stock Warrant shall be exercisable, in whole or in part, on any Trading Day during the period (the “Exercise Period”) commencing on the Closing Date (as defined in the Purchase Agreement) and ending on the fifth anniversary date of the Closing Date.
 
2. Exercise of Common Stock Warrant.
 
(a) Cash Exercise. This Common Stock Warrant may be exercised by the Holder during the Exercise Period by (i) the surrender of this Common Stock Warrant to the Company (if exercised in full), with the Notice of Exercise annexed hereto duly completed and executed on behalf of the Holder, at the office of the Company (or such other office or agency of the Company as it may designate by notice in writing to the Holder at the address of the Holder appearing on the books of the Company) and (ii) the delivery of payment to the Company, for the account of the Company, by cash, wire transfer of immediately available funds to a bank account specified by the Company, or by certified or bank cashier’s check, in an amount equal to the Exercise Price multiplied by the number of Warrant Shares for which this Common Stock Warrant is being exercised as specified in the Notice of Exercise, such payment to be made in lawful money of the United States of America. The Company agrees that such Warrant Shares shall be deemed to be issued to the Holder as the record holder of such Warrant Shares as of the close of business on the date on which this Common Stock Warrant shall have been exercised and surrendered and payment made for the Warrant Shares as aforesaid. A stock certificate or certificates for the Warrant Shares specified in the Notice of Exercise shall be delivered to the Holder as promptly as practicable, and in any event within three (3) Trading Days (the “Warrant Share Delivery Date”), thereafter. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Holder shall not be required to physically surrender this Warrant to the Company until the Holder has purchased all of the Warrant Shares available hereunder and the Warrant has been exercised in full, in which case, the Holder shall surrender this Warrant to the Company for cancellation within 3 Trading Days of the date the final Notice of Exercise is delivered to the Company. Partial exercises of this Warrant resulting in purchases of a portion of the total number of Warrant Shares available hereunder shall have the effect of lowering the outstanding number of Warrant Shares purchasable hereunder in an amount equal to the applicable number of Warrant Shares purchased. The Holder and the Company shall maintain records showing the number of Warrant Shares purchased and the date of such purchases. The Company shall deliver any objection to any Notice of Exercise Form within 1 Business Day of receipt of such notice. The Holder and any assignee, by acceptance of this Warrant, acknowledge and agree that, by reason of the provisions of this paragraph, following the purchase of a portion of the Warrant Shares hereunder, the number of Warrant Shares available for purchase hereunder at any given time may be less than the amount stated on the face hereof. At the request of the Holder and upon delivery by the Holder of this Warrant to the Company if this Common Stock Warrant shall have been exercised only in part and has not otherwise expired, the Company shall, at the time of delivery of the stock certificate or certificates, deliver to the Holder a new Common Stock Warrant evidencing the right to purchase the remaining Warrant Shares, which new Common Stock Warrant shall in all other respects be identical with this Common Stock Warrant. No adjustments shall be made on Warrant Shares issuable on the exercise of this Common Stock Warrant for any cash dividends or distributions paid or payable to holders of record of any capital stock of the Company prior to the date as of which the Holder shall be deemed to be the record holder of such Warrant Shares. Issuance of certificates for Warrant Shares shall be made without charge to the Holder for any issue or transfer tax or other incidental expense in respect of the issuance of such certificate, all of which taxes and expenses shall be paid by the Company, and such certificates shall be issued in the name of the Holder or in such name or names as may be directed by the Holder (subject to compliance with applicable state and federal securities laws and the Purchase Agreement involving transfers of securities).
 
 
 

 
(b) Net Issue Exercise. In lieu of exercising this Common Stock Warrant pursuant to Section 2(a) above, during the Exercise Period, the Holder may elect to convert this Common Stock Warrant or any portion hereof into Warrant Shares, the aggregate value of which shares shall be equal to the value of this Common Stock Warrant or portion thereof being so converted. The conversion right may be exercised by the Holder by surrender of this Common Stock Warrant to the Company, with a duly executed Notice of Exercise marked to reflect the Holder’s intention to exercise the conversion right hereunder, in which event the Company shall issue to the Holder a number of shares computed using the following formula:
 
X = Y (A-B)
A
 
 
Where
X =
the number of shares to be issued to Holder under this Section 2(b) upon exercise of the conversion rights under this Section 2(b);
 
   
Y =
the number of Warrant Shares otherwise purchasable under this Common Stock Warrant upon a cash exercise or, if only a portion of the Common Stock Warrant is exercised, the portion of the Common Stock Warrant being exercised is such Warrant were issued pursuant to a cash exercise (as adjusted to the date of such calculation);
 
   
A =
the VWAP on the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of such election.
 
   
B =
the Exercise Price (as adjusted to the date of such calculation).
 
(c) Deemed Exercise. This Common Stock Warrant shall be deemed to have been exercised immediately prior to the close of business on the date of its surrender for exercise as provided above, and the person entitled to receive the shares of Warrant Shares issuable upon such exercise shall be treated for all purposes as the holder of record of such shares as of the close of business on such date. As promptly as practicable on or after such date and in any event on or prior to the Warrant Share Delivery Date, the Company at its expense shall issue and deliver to the person or persons entitled to receive the same a certificate or certificates for the number of shares issuable upon such exercise. In the event that this Common Stock Warrant is exercised in part, the Company at its expense will execute and deliver a new Common Stock Warrant of like tenor upon delivery to the Company of the old Common Stock Warrant exercisable for the number of shares for which this Common Stock Warrant may then be exercised.
 
 
 

 
(d) Holder’s Restrictions. A Holder shall not have the right to exercise any portion of this Warrant, pursuant to Section 2(c) or otherwise, to the extent that after giving effect to such issuance after exercise as set forth on the applicable Notice of Exercise, such Holder (together with such Holder’s Affiliates, and any other person or entity acting as a group together with such Holder or any of such Holder’s Affiliates), as set forth on the applicable Notice of Exercise, would beneficially own in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation (as defined below).  For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by such Holder and its Affiliates shall include the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant with respect to which such determination is being made, but shall exclude the number of shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon (A) exercise of the remaining, nonexercised portion of this Warrant beneficially owned by such 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 Warrants) subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein beneficially owned by such Holder or any of its affiliates.  Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this Section 2(d), beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, it being acknowledged by a Holder that the Company is not representing to such Holder that such calculation is in compliance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and such Holder is solely responsible for any schedules required to be filed in accordance therewith. To the extent that the limitation contained in this Section 2(d) applies, the determination of whether this Warrant is exercisable (in relation to other securities owned by such Holder together with any Affiliates) and of which a portion of this Warrant is exercisable shall be in the sole discretion of a Holder, and the submission of a Notice of Exercise shall be deemed to be each Holder’s determination of whether this Warrant is exercisable (in relation to other securities owned by such Holder together with any Affiliates) and of which portion of this Warrant is exercisable, in each case subject to such aggregate percentage limitation, and the Company shall have no obligation to verify or confirm the accuracy of such determination. In addition, a determination as to any group status as contemplated above shall be determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. For purposes of this Section 2(d), in determining the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, a Holder may rely on the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock as reflected in (x) the Company’s most recent Form 10-QSB or Form 10-KSB, as the case may be, (y) a more recent public announcement by the Company or (z) any other notice by the Company or the Company’s Transfer Agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding.  Upon the written or oral request of a Holder, the Company shall within two Trading Days confirm orally and in writing to such Holder the number of shares of Common Stock then outstanding.  In any case, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be determined after giving effect to the conversion or exercise of securities of the Company, including this Warrant, by such Holder or its Affiliates since the date as of which such number of outstanding shares of Common Stock was reported. The “Beneficial Ownership Limitation” shall be 4.99% of the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the issuance of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant. The Beneficial Ownership Limitation provisions of this Section 2(d) may be waived by such Holder, at the election of such Holder, upon not less than 61 days’ prior notice to the Company to change the Beneficial Ownership Limitation to 9.99% of the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the issuance of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this Warrant, and the provisions of this Section 2(d) shall continue to apply. Upon such a change by a Holder of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation from such 4.99% limitation to such 9.99% limitation, the Beneficial Ownership Limitation may not be further waived by such Holder. The provisions of this paragraph shall be construed and implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms of this Section 2(d) to correct this paragraph (or any portion hereof) which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended Beneficial Ownership Limitation herein contained or to make changes or supplements necessary or desirable to properly give effect to such limitation. The limitations contained in this paragraph shall apply to a successor holder of this Warrant.
 
 
 

 
(e) Compensation for Buy-In on Failure to Timely Deliver Certificates Upon Exercise. In addition to any other rights available to the Holder, if the Company fails to cause its transfer agent to transmit to the Holder a certificate or certificates representing the Warrant Shares pursuant to an exercise on or before the 2nd Trading Day following the Warrant Share Delivery Date, and if after such date the Holder is required by its broker to purchase (in an open market transaction or otherwise) shares of Common Stock to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the Holder of the Warrant Shares which the Holder anticipated receiving upon such exercise (a “Buy-In”), then the Company shall (I) pay the greater of (1) the accruing partial liquidating damages pursuant to Section 6.5 of the Purchase Agreement or (2) cash to the Holder the amount by which (x) the Holder’s total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the shares of Common Stock so purchased exceeds (y) the amount obtained by multiplying (A) the number of Warrant Shares that the Company was required to deliver to the Holder in connection with the exercise at issue times (B) the price at which the sell order giving rise to such purchase obligation was executed, and (II) at the option of the Holder, either reinstate the portion of the Warrant and equivalent number of Warrant Shares for which such exercise was not honored or deliver to the Holder the number of shares of Common Stock that would have been issued had the Company timely complied with its exercise and delivery obligations hereunder. For example, if the Holder purchases Common Stock having a total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to an attempted exercise of shares of Common Stock with an aggregate sale price giving rise to such purchase obligation of $10,000, under clause (I)(2) of the immediately preceding sentence the Company shall be required to pay the Holder $1,000. Notwithstanding anything to the foregoing in this Section 2(e), the Holder shall not be entitled to recover damages under this Section 2(e) if it elects to receive or otherwise receives damages pursuant to Section 6 of the Purchase Agreement related to the same share transfer or delivery event. The Holder shall provide the Company written notice indicating the amounts payable to the Holder in respect of the Buy-In and, upon request of the Company, evidence of the amount of such loss. Nothing herein shall limit a Holder’s right to pursue any other remedies available to it hereunder, at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief with respect to the Company’s failure to timely deliver certificates representing shares of Common Stock upon exercise of the Warrant as required pursuant to the terms hereof.
 
 
 

 
(f) Rescission Rights. If the Company fails to cause its transfer agent to transmit to the Holder a certificate or certificates representing the Warrant Shares by the 2nd Trading Day following the Warrant Share Delivery Date, then the Holder will have the right to rescind such exercise.
 
(g) DTC Delivery. After the Effective Date, certificates for shares purchased hereunder shall be transmitted by the transfer agent of the Company to the Holder by crediting the account of the Holder’s prime broker with the Depository Trust Company through its Deposit Withdrawal Agent Commission (“DWAC”) system if the Company is a participant in such system.
 
3. No Fractional Shares or Scrip. No fractional shares or scrip representing fractional shares shall be issued upon the exercise of this Common Stock Warrant. In lieu of any fractional share to which the Holder would otherwise be entitled, the Company shall make a cash payment equal to the Exercise Price multiplied by such fraction (after aggregating all shares issuable upon exercise thereof).
 
4. Replacement of Common Stock Warrant. On receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Common Stock Warrant and, in the case of loss, theft or destruction, on delivery of an indemnity agreement reasonably acceptable to the Company or, in the case of mutilation, on surrender and cancellation of this Common Stock Warrant, the Company at its expense shall execute and deliver, in lieu of this Common Stock Warrant, a new Common Stock Warrant of like tenor and amount. Subject to compliance with Section 6(d) below, this Warrant may be divided or combined with other Warrants upon presentation hereof at the aforesaid office of the Company, together with a written notice specifying the names and denominations in which new Warrants are to be issued, signed by the Holder or its agent or attorney. As to any transfer which may be involved in such division or combination, the Company shall execute and deliver a new Warrant or Warrants in exchange for the Warrant or Warrants to be divided or combined in accordance with such notice.
 
5. Rights of a Stockholder. Subject to Section 9 of this Common Stock Warrant, the Holder shall not be entitled to vote or receive dividends or be deemed the holder of Warrant Shares for any purpose, and nothing contained herein shall be construed to confer upon the Holder, as such, any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company or any right to vote for the election of directors or upon any matter submitted to stockholders at any meeting thereof, or to give or withhold consent to any corporate action (whether upon any recapitalization, issuance of stock, reclassification of stock, change of par value, or change of stock to no par value, consolidation, merger, conveyance or otherwise) or to receive notice of meetings, or to receive dividends or subscription rights or otherwise until this Common Stock Warrant shall have been exercised as provided herein and then only as to the shares for which this Common Stock Warrant has been so exercised.
 
 
 

 
6. Transfer of Common Stock Warrant.
 
(a) Common Stock Warrant Register. The Company will maintain a register (the “Common Stock Warrant Register”) containing the names and addresses of the Holder or Holders. Any Holder of this Common Stock Warrant or any portion thereof may change such Holder’s address as shown on the Common Stock Warrant Register by written notice to the Company requesting such change. Any notice or written communication required or permitted to be given to the Holder may be delivered or given by mail to such Holder as shown on the Common Stock Warrant Register and at the address shown on the Common Stock Warrant Register. Until this Common Stock Warrant is transferred on the Common Stock Warrant Register of the Company, the Company may treat the Holder as shown on the Common Stock Warrant Register as the absolute owner of this Common Stock Warrant for all purposes, notwithstanding any notice to the contrary.
 
(b) Common Stock Warrant Agent. The Company may, by written notice to the Holder, appoint an agent for the purpose of maintaining the Common Stock Warrant Register referred to in Section 6(a) above, issuing the Common Stock Warrant Shares or other securities then issuable upon the exercise of this Common Stock Warrant, exchanging this Common Stock Warrant, replacing this Common Stock Warrant or any or all of the foregoing. Thereafter, any such registration, issuance, exchange or replacement, as the case may be, shall be made at the office of such agent.
 
(c) Transferability and Nonnegotiability of Common Stock Warrant. This Common Stock Warrant may not be transferred or assigned in whole or in part without compliance with all applicable federal and state securities laws by the transferor and the transferee (including the delivery of investment representation letters and legal opinions (which opinion shall be in form, substance and scope customary for opinions of counsel in comparable transactions) to the effect that such transfer may be made without registration under the Securities Act, if such are requested by the Company) and compliance with the requirements set forth in Section 6(d) below. Subject to the provisions of this Common Stock Warrant, title to this Common Stock Warrant may be transferred by endorsement (by the Holder executing the Assignment Form annexed hereto) and delivery in the same manner as a negotiable instrument transferable by endorsement and delivery.
 
(d) Exchange of Common Stock Warrant Upon a Transfer. On surrender of this Common Stock Warrant for exchange, properly endorsed on the Assignment Form and subject to the provisions of this Common Stock Warrant with respect to compliance with the Act and applicable state securities laws, and with the limitations on assignments and transfers contained in this Section 6, the Company at its expense shall issue to or on the order of the Holder a new Common Stock Warrant or Common Stock Warrants of like tenor, in the name of the Holder or as the Holder (on payment by the Holder of any applicable transfer taxes) may direct, for the number of shares issuable upon exercise hereof.
 
 
 

 
(e) Compliance with Securities Laws.
 
(i) The Holder, by acceptance hereof, acknowledges that this Warrant and the Warrant Shares to be issued upon exercise hereof are being acquired solely for the Holder’s own account and not as a nominee for any other party and that the Holder will not offer, sell or otherwise dispose of this Warrant or any Warrant Shares to be issued upon exercise hereof except under circumstances that will not result in a violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities laws (this representation and warranty not limiting the Holders right to sell the Warrants and Warrant Shares pursuant to a registration statement or otherwise in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws). Holder hereby represents and warrants that such Holder is an “accredited investor” as such term is defined under Regulation D promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Upon exercise of this Common Stock Warrant, the Holder shall, if requested by the Company, confirm in writing, in a form satisfactory to the Company, that Holder remains an accredited investor and the Warrant Shares so purchased are being acquired solely for the Holder’s own account and not as a nominee for any other party and not with a view toward distribution or resale (this representation and warranty not limiting the Holders right to sell the Warrants and Warrant Shares pursuant to a registration statement or otherwise in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws). Any transferee of this Common Stock Warrant shall represent the same as condition to such transfer and any subsequent exercise thereof.
 
(ii) This Common Stock Warrant and all Warrant Shares issued upon exercise hereof shall be stamped or imprinted with legends substantially as required by the Purchase Agreement.
 
(f) Reservation of Stock. The Company covenants that during the Exercise Period, the Company will reserve from its authorized and unissued Warrant Shares a sufficient number of shares to provide for the issuance of Warrant Shares upon the exercise of this Common Stock Warrant. The Company further covenants that all shares issued upon the exercise of rights represented by this Common Stock Warrant and payment of the Exercise Price, in the amount and otherwise all as set forth herein, shall be free from all taxes, liens and charges in respect of the issue thereof (other than taxes in respect of any transfer occurring contemporaneously or otherwise specified herein). Except and to the extent as waived or consented to by the Holder, the Company shall not by any action, including, without limitation, amending its certificate of incorporation or through any reorganization, transfer of assets, consolidation, merger, 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, but will at all times in good faith assist in the carrying out of all such terms and in the taking of all such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to protect the rights of Holder as set forth in this Warrant against impairment. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company will (a) not increase the par value of any Warrant Shares above the amount payable therefor upon such exercise immediately prior to such increase in par value, (b) take all such action as may be necessary or appropriate in order that the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and nonassessable Warrant Shares upon the exercise of this Warrant, and (c) use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain all such authorizations, exemptions or consents from any public regulatory body having jurisdiction thereof as may be necessary to enable the Company to perform its obligations under this Warrant.
 
 
 

 
7. Notices. All notices required or permitted hereunder to be given shall be in writing and shall be telecopied or mailed by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, or otherwise delivered by hand or by messenger,
 

 
If to the Company:
145 Union Square Drive
    New Hope, Pennsylvania 18938
    Attn: Marc L. Rose
     
  With a copy to: Reed Smith LLP
    Two Embarcadero Center, Suite 2000
    San Francisco, CA 94111
    Attn: Donald C. Reinke
     
  If to any of the Holders: The address set forth on the Company’s records.
 
8. Amendments. Any term of this Common Stock Warrant hereunder may be amended, waived or terminated (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively) only with the written consent of the Company, and the holders of at least a majority in interest of the Warrant Shares then exercisable under all Series 2006 Common Stock Warrants together with all Purchasers Consents. Any amendment, waiver or termination effected in accordance with this Section 8 shall be binding upon the Company, each of the Holders and each transferee of the Common Stock Warrants (and of any securities into which this Warrant is convertible). The Holder acknowledges that by the operation of this Section 8, the holders of a majority in interest of the Warrant Shares then exercisable under all Series 2006 Common Stock Warrants together with Purchasers Consents will have the right and power to diminish or eliminate certain rights of the Holder under this Warrant. The foregoing shall not limit or otherwise affect the Holder’s right to waive any of such Holder’s rights hereunder with respect to itself without obtaining the consent of any other holders of Series 2006 Common Stock Warrants.
 
9. Adjustments. The Exercise Price and the number of shares purchasable hereunder are subject to adjustment from time to time as follows:
 
(a) Reclassification, etc. If the Company, at any time while this Common Stock Warrant or any portion thereof is exercisable and remains outstanding and unexpired, by reclassification of securities or otherwise, shall change any of the securities as to which purchase rights under this Common Stock Warrant exist into the same or a different number of securities of any other class or classes, this Common Stock Warrant shall thereafter represent the right to acquire such number and kind of securities as would have been issuable as the result of such change with respect to the securities that were subject to the purchase rights under this Common Stock Warrant immediately prior to such reclassification or other change and the Exercise Price therefor shall be appropriately adjusted, all subject to further adjustment as provided in this Section 9.
 
 
 

 
(b) Split, Subdivision or Combination of Shares. If the Company, at any time while this Common Stock Warrant or any portion thereof is exercisable and remains outstanding and unexpired, shall split, subdivide or combine the outstanding shares of Warrant Shares into a different number of shares of Warrant Shares, then (i) in the case of a split or subdivision, the Exercise Price for such securities shall be proportionately decreased and the Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of this Common Stock Warrant shall be proportionately increased, and (ii) in the case of a combination, the Exercise Price for such Warrant Shares shall be proportionately increased and the securities issuable upon exercise of this Common Stock Warrant shall be proportionately decreased. If the Warrant Shares are convertible into any other stock or securities of the Company, then if all of the outstanding Warrant Shares should be converted at any time prior to the Expiration Date into shares of the Company’s Common Stock or other stock or securities of the Company then (i) this Common Stock Warrant immediately shall become exercisable for that number of shares of such stock or securities (subject to further adjustment as herein provided) which would have been received if this Common Stock Warrant had been exercised in full and the Warrant Shares received thereupon had been simultaneously converted immediately prior to such event, (ii) the Exercise Price hereunder shall be appropriately adjusted and (iii) all references herein to Warrant Shares shall be automatically deemed amended to be references to the stock or securities into which the Warrant Shares was converted.
 
(c) Adjustments for Dividends in Stock or Other Securities or Property. If, while this Common Stock Warrant or any portion hereof is exercisable and remains outstanding and unexpired, the holders of Common Stock and/or Common Stock Equivalents shall have received, or, on or after the record date fixed for the determination of eligible stockholders, shall have become entitled to receive, without payment therefor, Common Stock, Common Stock Equivalents, indebtedness, assets (including cash dividends) or any rights, options or warrants to subscribe for, purchase or otherwise acquire any of the foregoing by way of dividend or distribution (collectively, “Additional Consideration”), then and in each case, this Common Stock Warrant shall represent the right to acquire, in addition to the number of shares of the security receivable upon exercise of this Common Stock Warrant, and without payment of any additional consideration therefor, the Additional Consideration that the Holder would hold on the date of such exercise had it been the holder of record of such capital stock as of the date on which the holders of Common Stock and/or Common Stock Equivalents received or became entitled to receive such Additional Consideration.
 
(d) Merger, Consolidation or Sale of Assets. If at any time or from time to time there shall be a capital reorganization of the Common Stock (other than a subdivision, combination, reclassification or exchange of shares provided for elsewhere in this Section 9) or a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into any other person or entity, or the sale of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets and properties to any other person or entity, or any tender offer or exchange offer (whether by the Company or another Person) is completed pursuant to which holders of Common Stock are permitted to tender or exchange their shares for other securities, cash or property, then as a part of such reorganization, merger, consolidation or sale, provision shall be made so that the Holder shall thereafter be entitled to receive upon the exercise of this Warrant, the number of shares of stock or other securities or property of the Company, or of the successor corporation resulting from such reorganization, merger, consolidation or sale, to which a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of this Warrant would have received if this Warrant had been exercised immediately prior to such reorganization, merger, consolidation or sale. As a condition to any merger, consolidation, or sale of substantially all of the assets of the Company, the Company shall require that the surviving corporation assume in writing the obligations pursuant to this Warrant and insuring that this Warrant (or any such replacement security) will be similarly adjusted upon any subsequent transaction analogous to a Fundamental Transaction. If the Company is acquired all or in part in a cash transaction at a per share price less than the product of three and the Exercise Price, the Holder of this Warrant may elect to receive, in its sole discretion at the time of such acquisition, cash equal to the value of this Warrant as determined in accordance with the Black-Scholes option pricing formula.
 
 
 

 
10. Adjustment of Exercise Price for Dilutive Issuances. The Exercise Price shall be subject to adjustment from time to time as follows:
 
(a) For purposes of this Section 10, the following definitions shall apply:
 
(i) Excluded Stock” shall mean:
 
(1) all shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding on the date of this Warrant and all shares of Common Stock issued after the date of this Warrant pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 2.2 of the Purchase Agreement and all shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon the exercise or conversion of any Common Stock Equivalents outstanding on the date of this Warrant (provided that the terms of such Common Stock Equivalents are not modified or changed except as otherwise contemplated by the Purchase Agreement) and all shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon the exercise of this Warrant and all other Series 2006 Common Stock Warrants;
 
(2) all shares of Common Stock or other securities hereafter issued or issuable to officers, directors, employees or scientific advisors of the Company pursuant to any employee or consultant stock offering, plan or arrangement approved by the majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Company;
 
(3) all shares of Common Stock or other securities hereafter issued in connection with or as consideration for the acquisition or licensing of technology approved by the majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Company; and
 
(4) all shares of Common Stock or other securities issued in connection with equipment leasing or equipment financing arrangements approved by the majority of members of the Board of Directors of the Company.
 
 
 

 
(ii) Options” means options to purchase or rights to subscribe for Common Stock (other than Excluded Stock).
 
(iii) Purchase Rights” means Options and Common Stock Equivalents.
 
(iv) Dilutive Issuance” means an issuance of Purchase Rights or Common Stock, which is not Excluded Stock, without consideration or for an effective consideration per share less than the then applicable Exercise Price. “Dilutive Issuance” excludes any stock dividend, subdivision or split-up, stock combination, dividend or transaction described in Section 9.
 
(b) If the Company issues or is deemed to issue any Common Stock or Purchase Rights in a Dilutive Issuance, the applicable Exercise Price in effect after each such issuance shall be reduced, and only reduced, to a price equal to the following: the applicable Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to the Dilutive Issuance (the “Old Exercise Price”) multiplied by the quotient obtained by dividing:
 
(i) an amount equal to the sum of (x) the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Dilutive Issuance, plus (y) the number of shares of Common Stock which the consideration received by the Company upon the Dilutive Issuance would purchase at such Old Exercise Price, by
 
(ii) the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after the Dilutive Issuance.
 
(c) For purposes of any adjustment of the applicable Exercise Price pursuant to Section 10(b) above, the following provisions shall be applicable:
 
(i) In the case of the issuance of Common Stock for cash, the consideration shall be deemed to be the amount of cash paid therefor.
 
(ii) In the case of the issuance of Common Stock for a consideration in whole or in part other than cash, the consideration other than cash shall be deemed to be the fair market value thereof as determined in good faith and in the exercise of reasonable judgment by the Board of Directors of the Company, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles; provided, however, that if at the time of such determination, the Company’s Common Stock is traded in the over-the-counter market or on a national or regional securities exchange, such fair market value as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company shall not exceed the aggregate“Current Market Price” (as defined below) of the shares of Common Stock being issued.
 
(iii) In the case of the issuance of Purchase Rights in a Dilutive Issuance:
 
 
 

 
(1) the aggregate maximum number of shares of Common Stock deliverable upon exercise of Options shall be deemed to have been issued at the time such Options were issued and for a consideration equal to the consideration (determined in the manner provided in Section 10(c)(i) and (ii) above), if any, received by the Company upon the issuance of such Options plus the minimum purchase price provided for in such Options;
 
(2) the aggregate maximum number of shares of Common Stock deliverable upon conversion or exercise of or exchange for any Common Stock Equivalents shall be deemed to have been issued at the time such Common Stock Equivalents were issued and for a consideration equal to the consideration received by the Company for any such Common Stock Equivalents (excluding any cash received on account of accrued interest or accrued dividends), plus the minimum additional consideration, if any, to be received by the Company upon the conversion or exchange of such Common Stock Equivalents (determined in the manner provided in Section 10(c)(i) and (ii) above); and
 
(3) on any change in the number of shares of Common Stock deliverable upon exercise of any such Purchase Rights or on any change in the minimum purchase price of such Purchase Rights, other than a change resulting from the antidilution provisions of such Purchase Rights, the applicable Exercise Price shall forthwith be readjusted to such Exercise Price as would have been obtained had the adjustment made upon (x) the issuance of such Purchase Rights not exercised, converted or exchanged prior to such change, as the case may be, been made upon the basis of such change or (y) the issuance of options or rights related to such securities not converted or exchanged prior to such change, as the case may be, been made upon the basis of such change.
 
(4) on the expiration of any Purchase Rights, the applicable Exercise Price shall forthwith be readjusted to such Exercise Price as would have obtained had the adjustment made upon the issuance of such Purchase Right been made upon the basis of the issuance of only the number of shares of Common Stock actually issued upon the exercise of such Purchase Rights, provided the Company gives each Purchaser 10 Trading Days prior notice of such adjustment.
 
(d) All calculations under this Section 10 shall be made to the nearest cent or to the nearest one hundredth (1/100) of a share, as the case may be.
 
(e) For the purpose of any computation pursuant to this Section 10, the “Current Market Price” at any date of one share of Common Stock, shall be deemed to be the VWAP on the preceding Trading Day; provided, however, that if the Common Stock is not traded in such manner that the quotations referred to in this Section 10(e) are available for the period required hereunder, Current Market Price shall be determined in good faith and in the exercise of reasonable judgment by the Board of Directors of the Company.
 
 
 

 
(f) No adjustment in the Exercise Price need be made if such adjustment would result in a change in the Exercise Price of less than $0.01. Any adjustment of less than $0.01 which is not made shall be carried forward and shall be made at the time of and together with any subsequent adjustment which, on a cumulative basis, amounts to an adjustment of $0.01 or more in the Conversion Price.
 
11. No Impairment. The Company will not, by any voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms to be observed or performed hereunder by the Company, but will at all times in good faith assist in the carrying out of all the provisions of Sections 9 and 10 and in the taking of all such action as may be necessary or appropriate in order to protect the rights of the Holder against impairment.
 
12. Notice of Adjustments and Record Dates. Whenever the Exercise Price or the number of shares of Common Stock purchasable hereunder shall be adjusted pursuant to Sections 9 or 10 (or otherwise), the Company shall promptly notify the Holder in writing of each adjustment or readjustment of the Exercise Price hereunder and the number of shares of Common Stock (or any shares of stock or other securities which may be) issuable upon the exercise of this Warrant, Such notice shall state the adjustment or readjustment and show in reasonable detail the facts on which that adjustment or readjustment is based. Upon (i) any taking by the Company of a record of the holders of any class of securities for the purpose of determining the holders thereof who are entitled to receive any dividend or other distribution, or (ii) any acquisition or other capital reorganization of the Company, any reclassification or recapitalization of the capital stock of the Company, any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into any other person or entity, or any sale of all or substantially all of the assets or any voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company, the Company shall mail to each holder of this Warrant at least fifteen (15) days prior to the record date specified therein a notice specifying (A) the date on which any such record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend or distribution and a description of such dividend or distribution, (B) the date on which any such acquisition, reorganization, reclassification, transfer, consolidation, merger, asset sale, dissolution, liquidation or winding up is expected to become effective, and (C) the date, if any, that is to be fixed as to when the holders of record of Common Stock (or other securities) shall be entitled to exchange their shares of Common Stock (or other securities) for securities or other property deliverable upon such acquisition, reorganization, reclassification, transfer, consolidation, merger, asset sale, dissolution, liquidation or winding up.
 
13. Miscellaneous.
 
(a) Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Warrant shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of the Purchase Agreement.
 
(b) Restrictions on Warrant Shares. The Holder acknowledges that the Warrant Shares acquired upon the exercise of this Warrant, if not registered, will have restrictions upon resale imposed by state and federal securities laws
 
 
 

 
(c) Nonwaiver and Expenses. No course of dealing or any delay or failure to exercise any right hereunder on the part of Holder shall operate as a waiver of such right or otherwise prejudice Holder’s rights, powers or remedies, notwithstanding the fact that all rights hereunder terminate on the Termination Date. If either party willfully and knowingly fails to comply with any provision of this Warrant, which results in any material damages to the other party, such party shall pay to the other party such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover any costs and expenses including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees, including those of appellate proceedings, incurred by such party in collecting any amounts due pursuant hereto or in otherwise enforcing any of its rights, powers or remedies hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, any amount owed by Holder pursuant to this Section 13(c) shall be offset by the Exercise Price paid to the Company in connection with the incident by the Holder, and the amount owed to the Company by Holder pursuant to this Section 13(c) shall not exceed the amount of net proceeds raised from the sale of the Warrant Shares used in connection with the incident.
 
(d) Notices. Any notice, request or other document required or permitted to be given or delivered one party by the other party hereunder shall be delivered in accordance with the notice provisions of the Purchase Agreement.
 
(e) Limitation of Liability. No provision hereof, in the absence of any affirmative action by Holder to exercise this Warrant to purchase Warrant Shares, and no enumeration herein of the rights or privileges of Holder, shall give rise to any liability of Holder for the purchase price of any Common Stock or as a stockholder of the Company, whether such liability is asserted by the Company or by creditors of the Company.
 
(f) Remedies. Holder, in addition to being entitled to exercise all rights granted by law, including recovery of damages, will be entitled to specific performance of its rights under this Warrant. The Company agrees that monetary damages would not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of a breach by it of the provisions of this Warrant and hereby agrees to waive and not to assert the defense in any action for specific performance that a remedy at law would be adequate.
 
(g) Successors and Assigns. Subject to applicable securities laws, the Purchase Agreement and Section 6(e) of this Warrant, this Warrant and the rights and obligations evidenced hereby shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors of the Company and the successors and permitted assigns of Holder. Subject to the foregoing, the provisions of this Warrant are intended to be for the benefit of all Holders from time to time of this Warrant and shall be enforceable by any such Holder or holder of Warrant Shares.
 
(h) Expiration. This Common Stock Warrant shall be exercisable as provided for herein, except that in the event that the expiration date of this Common Stock Warrant shall fall on a day other than a Trading Day, the expiration date for this Common Stock Warrant shall be extended to 5:00 p.m. Eastern standard time on the first Trading Day following such day.
 
 
 

 
(i) Severability. Wherever possible, each provision of this Warrant shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Warrant shall be prohibited by or invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity, without invalidating the remainder of such provisions or the remaining provisions of this Warrant.
 
(j) Headings. The headings used in this Warrant are for the convenience of reference only and shall not, for any purpose, be deemed a part of this Warrant.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, PROTALEX, INC. has caused this Common Stock Warrant to be executed as of the date first above written.
 
Number of Warrant Shares: _________
 
COMPANY:
 
PROTALEX, INC.
a Delaware corporation 

By: ______________________________
Steven H. Kane 
President and Chief Executive Officer

 
 

 
NOTICE OF EXERCISE
 
To: PROTALEX, INC.
 
(1) The undersigned hereby:
 
  ____  
elects to purchase __________ shares of Warrant Shares (as defined in the attached Common Stock Warrant) of PROTALEX, INC. pursuant to the terms of the attached Common Stock Warrant, and tenders herewith payment of the purchase price for such shares in full; or
 
  ____  
elects to exercise the conversion right features under Section 2(b) of the attached Common Stock Warrant with respect to __________ shares of Warrant Shares of PROTALEX, INC. pursuant to the terms of such Common Stock Warrant.
 
(2) In exercising this Common Stock Warrant, the undersigned hereby confirms and acknowledges that the shares of Warrant Shares (and any securities issuable upon conversion thereof) are being acquired solely for the account of the undersigned and not as a nominee for any other party, and that the undersigned will not offer, sell or otherwise dispose of any such shares of Warrant Shares except under circumstances that will not result in a violation of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any applicable state securities laws (this representation and warranty not limiting such Purchaser’s right to sell the Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement or otherwise in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws).
 
(3) Please issue a certificate or certificates representing said shares of Warrant Shares in the name of the undersigned:
 
 
     
  (Name)  
     
     
  (Name)  
 
(4) Please issue a new Common Stock Warrant for the unexercised portion of the attached Common Stock Warrant in the name of the undersigned:
 
       
    (Name)  
       
       
(Date)   (Signature)  

 
 

 
ASSIGNMENT FORM
 
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned registered owner of this Common Stock Warrant hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto the Assignee named below all of the rights of the undersigned under this Common Stock Warrant, with respect to the number of shares of Warrant Shares (as defined in the this Common Stock Warrant) set forth below:
 
Name of Assignee
Address
No. of Shares
     
 
and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint the Secretary of the Company to make such transfer on the books of PROTALEX, INC. maintained for such purpose, with full power of substitution in the premises.
 
The undersigned also represents that, by assignment hereof, the Assignee acknowledges that this Common Stock Warrant and the shares of stock to be issued upon exercise hereof or conversion thereof are being acquired for the account of the Assignee and that the Assignee will not offer, sell or otherwise dispose of this Common Stock Warrant or any shares of stock to be issued upon exercise hereof or conversion thereof except under circumstances which will not result in a violation of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any applicable state securities laws (this representation and warranty not limiting such Purchaser’s right to sell the Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement or otherwise in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws). Further, the Assignee has acknowledged that upon exercise of this Common Stock Warrant, the Assignee shall, if requested by the Company, confirm in writing, in a form satisfactory to the Company, that the shares of stock so purchased are being acquired not with a view toward distribution or resale.
 
Dated: __________
 
     
  Signature of Holder  
 
The undersigned hereby agrees to be bound by the terms of the attached Common Stock Warrant on this __ day of __________, 200_.
 
 
ASSIGNEE:

 

[Name]

 

By:      
 

Title:      
 
 
 

 
 
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