Delaware
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(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)
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(Commission
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(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
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Exhibits.
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4.01
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Form of Warrant.
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4.02
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Form of Subscription Agreement dated March 7, 2011.
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4.03
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Form of Registration Rights Agreement dated March 7, 2011, by and among the Company and the Purchasers.
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ANHUI TAIYANG POULTRY CO., INC.
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Date: March 8, 2011
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By:
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/s/ DAVID DODGE
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David Dodge
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Chief Financial Officer
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THE PARKVIEW GROUP, INC.
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By:
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ARTICLE 2
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE PURCHASER
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(a)
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Accredited Investor. The Purchaser is an “accredited investor” as that term is defined in Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act as amended by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and as set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto and made a part hereof;
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(b)
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Experience. The Purchaser is sufficiently experienced in financial and business matters to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of its investments, and to make an informed decision relating thereto, and to protect its own interests in connection with the purchase of the Securities;
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(c)
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Own Account. The Purchaser is purchasing the Securities as principal for its own account. The Purchaser is purchasing the Securities for investment purposes only and not with an intent or view towards further sale or distribution (as such term is used in Section 2(11) of the Securities Act) thereof, and has not pre-arranged any sale with any other purchaser and has no plans to enter into any such agreement or arrangement;
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Exemption. The Purchaser understands that the offer and sale of the Securities is not being registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws and is intended to be exempt from registration provided by Rule 506 promulgated under Regulation D and/or Section 4(2) of the Securities Act;
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Importance of Representations. The Purchaser understands that the Units are being offered and sold to it in reliance on an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, and that the Company is relying upon the truth and accuracy of the representations, warranties, agreements, acknowledgments and understandings of the Purchaser set forth herein in order to determine the applicability of such safe harbor and the suitability of the Purchaser to acquire the Units;
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No Registration. The Units have not been registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws and may not be transferred, sold, assigned, hypothecated or otherwise disposed of unless registered under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or unless an exemption from such registration is available (including, without limitation, under Rule 144 of the Securities Act, as such rule may be amended, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same effect (“Rule 144”)). The Purchaser represents and warrants and hereby agrees that all offers and sales of the Units and the Securities shall be made only pursuant to such registration or to such exemption from registration;
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Risk. The Purchaser acknowledges that the purchase of the Units involves a high degree of risk, is aware of the risks and further acknowledges that it can bear the economic risk of the Units, including the total loss of its investment. The Purchaser has adequate means of providing for its financial needs and foreseeable contingencies and has no need for liquidity of its investment in the Units for an indefinite period of time;
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(h)
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Memorandum. The Purchaser and its purchaser representatives, if any, have received the Memorandum and all other documents requested by the Purchaser, have carefully reviewed them and understand the information contained therein;
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(i)
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Independent Investigation. The Purchaser, in making the decision to purchase the Units subscribed for, has relied upon independent investigations made by it and its purchaser representatives, if any, and the Purchaser and such representatives, if any, have prior to any sale to it been given access and the opportunity to examine all material contracts and documents relating to this Offering and an opportunity to ask questions of, and to receive answers from, the Company or any person acting on its behalf concerning the terms and conditions of this Offering. The Purchaser and its advisors, if any, have been furnished with access to all materials relating to the business, finances and operation of the Company and materials relating to the offer and sale of the Units (including, without limitation, the Memorandum) which have been requested. The Purchaser and its advisors, if any, have received complete and satisfactory answers to any such inquiries;
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(j)
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No Recommendation or Endorsement. The Purchaser understands that no federal, state or other regulatory authority has passed on or made any recommendation or endorsement of the Units. Furthermore, the foregoing authorities have not confirmed the accuracy or determined the adequacy of this Subscription or the Memorandum. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense;
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(k)
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No Representation. In evaluating the suitability of an investment in the Company, the Purchaser has not relied upon any representation or information (oral or written) other than as stated in this Subscription and in the Memorandum;
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(l)
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No Tax, Legal, Etc. Advice. The Purchaser is not relying on the Company, the Placement Agent (as defined in the Memorandum) or any of their respective employees or agents with respect to the legal, tax, economic and related considerations of an investment in the Units, and the Purchaser has relied on the advice of, or has consulted with, only its own advisers;
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The Purchaser. The Purchaser (i) if a natural person, represents that the Purchaser has reached the age of 21 and has full power and authority to execute and deliver this Subscription and all other related agreements or certificates and to carry out the provisions hereof and thereof; (ii) if a corporation, partnership, or limited liability company or partnership, or association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or other entity, represents that such entity was not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the Units, such entity is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the state of its organization, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby is authorized by, and will not result in a violation of state law or its charter or other organizational documents, such entity has full power and authority to execute and deliver this Subscription and all other related agreements or certificates and to carry out the provisions hereof and thereof and to purchase and hold the Units, the execution and delivery of this Subscription has been duly authorized by all necessary action, this Subscription has been duly executed and delivered on behalf of such entity and is a legal, valid and binding obligation of such entity; or (iii) if executing this Subscription in a representative or fiduciary capacity, represents that it has full power and authority to execute and deliver this Subscription in such capacity and on behalf of the subscribing individual, ward, partnership, trust, estate, corporation, or limited liability company or partnership, or other entity for whom the Purchaser is executing this Subscription, and such individual, partnership, ward, trust, estate, corporation, or limited liability company or partnership, or other entity has full right and power to perform pursuant to this Subscription and make an investment in the Company, and represents that this Subscription constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of such entity. The execution and delivery of this Subscription will not violate or be in conflict with any order, judgment, injunction, agreement or controlling document to which the Purchaser is a party or by which it is bound;
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(n)
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Non-Affiliate Status. The Purchaser is not an Affiliate of the Company nor is any Affiliate of the Purchaser an Affiliate of the Company. An “Affiliate” is 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 (each of the foregoing, a “Person”) that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person as such terms are used in and construed under Rule 405 under the Securities Act. With respect to a Purchaser, any investment fund or managed account that is managed on a discretionary basis by the same investment manager as such Purchaser will be deemed to be an Affiliate of such Purchaser;
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(o)
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No Advertisement or General Solicitation. Purchaser acknowledges that it is not aware of, is in no way relying on, and did not become aware of the offering of the Units through or as a result of any form of general solicitation or general advertising, including, without limitation, any article, notice, advertisement or other communication published in any newspaper, magazine, or similar media or broadcast over television or radio, or through any seminar or meeting whose attendees have been invited by any general solicitation or general advertising;
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Short Sales and Confidentiality after the Date Hereof. The Purchaser covenants that neither it, nor any Affiliate acting on its behalf or pursuant to any understanding with it, will execute any “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Short Sales”, which shall not be deemed to include the location and/or reservation of borrowable shares of Common Stock) during the period commencing at the time it first became aware of this Offering and ending at the time that the transactions contemplated by this Subscription are first publicly announced. The Purchaser covenants that until such time as the transactions contemplated by this Subscription are publicly disclosed by the Company such Purchaser will maintain the confidentiality of the existence and terms of this Offering and the information included in this Subscription and the Memorandum. The Purchaser acknowledges the positions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) 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, Purchaser makes no representation, warranty or covenant hereby that it will not engage in Short Sales in the securities of the Company after the time that the Offering is publicly announced. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Purchaser is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of 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 Subscription.
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(a)
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Legality. The Company has the requisite corporate power and authority to take up and accept this Subscription and to issue, sell and deliver the Units; this Subscription and the issuance, sale and delivery of the Units hereunder and the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly and validly authorized by all necessary corporate action by the Company; this Subscription and the Units have been duly and validly executed and delivered by and on behalf of the Company, and are valid and binding agreements of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, except as enforceability may be limited by general equitable principles, bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium, or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally;
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Proper Organization. The Company and its subsidiaries (“Subsidiaries”) are corporations duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of their respective jurisdiction of incorporation and are duly qualified as a foreign corporation in all jurisdictions where the failure to be so qualified would have a materially adverse effect on their business, taken as whole;
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(c)
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No Legal Proceedings. Except as disclosed in the Memorandum, there is no action, suit or proceeding before or by any court or any governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, now pending or to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, against or affecting the Company or its Subsidiaries, or any of their properties or assets, which might result in (i) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of this Subscription, the related Registration Rights Agreement or the Units (collectively, the “Transaction Documents”), (ii) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, business, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii) a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to perform in any material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any Transaction Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Material Adverse Effect”);
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Non-Default. Except as disclosed in the Memorandum, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in default in the performance or observance of any material obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust or other material instrument or agreement to which it is a party or by which it or its property may be bound;
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No Misleading Statements. The information provided by the Company to the Purchaser does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact;
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Absence of Non-Disclosed Facts. There is no fact known to the Company (other than general economic conditions known to the public generally) that has not been disclosed in writing to the Purchaser that has or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
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Non-Contravention. The acceptance of this Subscription and the consummation of the issuance of the Units and the transactions contemplated by this Subscription do not and will not conflict with or result in a breach by the Company of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under the Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws of the Company, or any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, or other material agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any of its properties or assets are bound, or any existing applicable decrees, judgment or order of any court, federal, state or provincial regulatory body, administrative agency or other domestic governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties or assets;
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Filings, Consents and Approvals. The Company is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other governmental authority or other Person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, other than (i) the filing with the Commission of the registration statement required by the Registration Rights Agreement and (ii) the filing of Form D with the Commission and such filings as are required to be made under applicable state securities laws;
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Issuance of the Units. The Units are duly authorized and, when issued and paid for in accordance with the applicable Transaction Documents, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all liens, charges, security interests, encumbrances, preemptive rights or other restrictions (collectively, “Liens”) imposed by the Company other than restrictions on transfer provided for in the Transaction Documents. The Securities, when issued in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company other than restrictions on transfer provided for in the Transaction Documents. The Company has reserved from its duly authorized capital stock the maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants;
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Capitalization. The capitalization of the Company is as set forth in the Memorandum, which includes the number of shares of Common Stock owned beneficially, and of record, by Affiliates of the Company as of the date hereof. No Person has any right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to participate in the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, except as set forth in the Memorandum. Except as set forth in the Memorandum and as a result of the purchase and sale of the Securities, there are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or obligations convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right to subscribe for or acquire, any shares of Common Stock, or contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any Subsidiary is or may become bound to issue additional shares of Common Stock. Except as set forth in the Memorandum, the issuance and sale of the Units will not obligate the Company to issue shares of Common Stock or other securities to any Person (other than the Purchaser and other purchasers entering into a subscription substantially identical to this Subscription (collectively, the “Purchasers”)) and will not result in a right of any holder of Company securities to adjust the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price under any of such securities. All of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in compliance with all federal and state securities laws, and none of such outstanding shares was issued in violation of any preemptive rights or similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities. No further approval or authorization of any stockholder, the Board of Directors or others is required for the issuance and sale of the Securities. Except as disclosed in the Memorandum, there are no stockholders agreements, voting agreements with respect to the Company’s capital stock to which the Company is a party or, to the knowledge of the Company, between or among any of the Company’s stockholders;
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Title to Assets. The Company and its Subsidiaries have good and marketable title to the leasehold interest owned by it and good and marketable title in all personal property owned by it that is material to the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries in each case free and clear of all Liens, except for Liens as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and the Subsidiaries and Liens for the payment of federal, state or other taxes, the payment of which is neither delinquent nor subject to penalties. Any real property and facilities held under lease by the Company and the Subsidiaries is held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with which the Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance;
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Environmental Compliance. The Company and its Subsidiaries are and have been in compliance in all material respects with all applicable federal, state and local laws, regulations and codes, in each case relating to pollution, protection of the environment or public health and safety (collectively, “Environmental Laws”). There is no civil, criminal or administrative judgment, action, suit, demand, claim, hearing, notice of violation, investigation, proceeding, notice or demand letter pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or its Subsidiaries pursuant to Environmental Laws which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and, to the knowledge of the Company, there are no past or present events, conditions, circumstances, activities, practices, incidents, agreements, actions or plans which may prevent compliance with, or which have given rise to or will give rise to liability under, Environmental Laws, that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
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Transactions with Affiliates and Employees. Except as set forth in the Memorandum, none of the officers or directors of the Company and, to the knowledge of the Company, none of the employees of the Company is presently a party to any transaction with the Company or any Subsidiary (other than for services as employees, officers and directors), including any contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any officer, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of the Company, any entity in which any officer, director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee or partner, in each case in excess of $100,000 other than for (i) payment of salary or consulting fees for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for expenses incurred on behalf of the Company and (iii) other employee benefits, including stock option agreements under any stock option plan of the Company;
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Internal Accounting Controls. The Company and the Subsidiaries will maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The Company will establish disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”)) for the Company and designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms;
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Tax Status. Except for matters that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and each Subsidiary has filed all necessary federal, state and foreign income and franchise tax returns and has paid or accrued all taxes shown as due thereon, and the Company has no knowledge of a tax deficiency which has been asserted or threatened against the Company or any Subsidiary;
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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 as amended by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act;
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Foreign Corrupt Practices. Neither the Company nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any agent or other person acting on behalf of the Company, has (i) directly or indirectly, used any funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses related to foreign or domestic political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to any foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) failed to disclose fully any contribution made by the Company (or made by any person acting on its behalf of which the Company is aware) which is in violation of law, or (iv) violated in any material respect any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended; and
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No Disagreements with Accountants and Lawyers. There are no disagreements of any kind presently existing, or reasonably anticipated by the Company to arise, between the Company and the accountants and lawyers formerly or presently employed by the Company which could affect the Company’s ability to perform any of its obligations under any of the Transaction Documents, and the Company is current with respect to any fees owed to its accountants and lawyers.
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Filings. The Company shall make all necessary filings in connection with the sale of the Securities as required by the laws and regulations of all appropriate jurisdictions and securities exchanges, including but not limited to “Form D”;
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Opinion. The Company will, upon written request by the Purchaser, take such steps as are necessary to cause its counsel to issue an opinion to the Company’s transfer agent (“Transfer Agent”) allowing the Purchaser to offer and sell the shares of Common Stock (including the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants) (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) in reliance on the provisions of Rule 144 provided that the holding period and other requirements of such Rule 144 are met. The costs of obtaining such an opinion shall be borne by the Company;
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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; and
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Non-Public Information. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company covenants and agrees that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf, will provide any Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any information that the Company believes constitutes material non-public information, unless prior thereto such Purchaser shall have executed a written agreement regarding the confidentiality and use of such information. The Company understands and confirms that each Purchaser shall be relying on the foregoing covenant in effecting transactions in securities of the Company.
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8.1
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The Placement Agent is hereby appointed, authorized and empowered to act, or to refrain from acting, as a representative, for the benefit of the Purchasers, as the exclusive agent and attorney-in-fact to act on behalf of the Purchasers, in connection with the exercise and enforcement of Purchasers’ rights under the Units, in accordance with the written consent of holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Units as of the date of such consent (the “Requisite Holders”).
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In connection with its appointment as the Purchasers’ representative hereunder, and in exercising or failing to exercise all or any of the powers conferred upon the Placement Agent hereunder, (i) the Placement Agent shall incur no responsibility whatsoever to any of the Purchasers by reason of any error in judgment or other act or omission performed or omitted hereunder or in connection with any other agreement, instrument or document, excepting only responsibility for any act or failure to act which represents willful misconduct, and (ii) the Placement Agent shall be entitled to rely on the advice of counsel, public accountants or other independent experts experienced in the matter at issue, and any error in judgment or other act or omission of the Placement Agent pursuant to such advice shall in no event subject the Placement Agent to liability to any of the Purchasers. Each Purchaser shall indemnify, on a pro rata basis (based on their respective principal amount of Units (the “Contribution Amount”) at the time any claim, action, proceeding or investigation (a “Claim”) arose), the Placement Agent against all losses, damages, liabilities, claims, obligations, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’, accountants’ and other experts’ fees and the amount of any judgment against them, of any nature whatsoever (including any and all expense whatsoever reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, commenced or threatened or any claims whatsoever), arising out of or in connection with any Claims or in connection with any appeal thereof, relating to the acts or omissions of the Placement Agent hereunder, or under the Units or otherwise. The foregoing indemnification shall not apply in the event of any action or proceeding which finally adjudicates the liability of the Placement Agent hereunder for its willful misconduct. In the event of any indemnification hereunder, upon written notice from the Placement Agent to the Purchasers as to the existence of a deficiency toward the payment of any such indemnification amount, each Purchaser shall promptly deliver to the Placement Agent full payment of his, her or its ratable share of the amount of such deficiency (based on their respective Contribution Amounts).
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All of the indemnities, immunities and powers granted to the Placement Agent under this Agreement shall survive any termination of this Agreement and/or the retirement, conversion or cancellation of the Units.
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The grant of authority provided for herein is coupled with an interest and shall be irrevocable and survive the death, incompetency, bankruptcy or liquidation of any of the Purchasers.
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See Omnibus Signature Pages for Purchasers’ Signatures
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