0001615774-18-006740.txt : 20180723 0001615774-18-006740.hdr.sgml : 20180723 20180720213914 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001615774-18-006740 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: S-1/A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 13 FILED AS OF DATE: 20180723 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20180720 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SenesTech, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001680378 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: AGRICULTURE CHEMICALS [2870] IRS NUMBER: 202079805 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-1/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-225713 FILM NUMBER: 18963408 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3140 N. CADEN COURT STREET 2: SUITE 1 CITY: FLAGSTAFF STATE: AZ ZIP: 86004 BUSINESS PHONE: (928) 779 - 4143 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3140 N. CADEN COURT STREET 2: SUITE 1 CITY: FLAGSTAFF STATE: AZ ZIP: 86004 S-1/A 1 s111479_s1a.htm S-1/A

 

As filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on July 20, 2018

Registration No. 333-225713

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

 

AMENDMENT NO. 2
TO
FORM S-1

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

 

SENESTECH, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   2879   20-2079805
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

 

3140 N. Caden Court, Suite 1

Flagstaff, AZ 86004

(928) 779-4143

(Address, including zip code and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal place of business)

 

 

 

Loretta P. Mayer, Ph.D.

Chair of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer

SenesTech, Inc.

3140 N. Caden Court, Suite 1

Flagstaff, AZ 86004

(928) 779-4143

(Name, address, including zip code and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

 

Copies to:

Chris Hall

Gina Eiben

Perkins Coie LLP

1120 NW Couch Street, 10th Floor

Portland, Oregon 97209

(503) 727-2000

Barry I. Grossman

Sarah E. Williams

Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP

1345 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10105

(212) 370-1300

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this registration statement.

 

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, check the following box.

 

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an “emerging growth company.” See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer   Accelerated filer
Non-accelerated filer   Smaller reporting company
(do not check if smaller reporting company)   Emerging growth company

 

If an emerging growth company, indicated by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

Title of each class of securities to be registered  Proposed maximum
aggregate offering
price (1)
    Amount of
registration fee
 
Units consisting of shares of the Registrant’s common stock, $0.001 par value per share (“Common Stock”), and warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock  $15,000,000    $1,867.50 
Non-transferable Rights to purchase Units (2)         
Warrants to purchase Common Stock included as part of the Units (3)  Included with units      
Common Stock included as part of the Units  Included with units       
Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants, including the Dealer-Manager Warrant  $16,125,000    $2,007.56 
Total: (4)  $31,125,000    $3,875.06(5)

 

(1)Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act.

 

(2)Non-transferable Rights to purchase Units are being issued without consideration. Pursuant to Rule 457(g) under the Securities Act, no separate registration fee is required for the Rights because the Rights are being registered in the same registration statement as the securities of the Registrant underlying the Rights.

 

(3)Pursuant to Rule 457(g) under the Securities Act, no separate registration fee is required for the Warrants because the Warrants are being registered in the same registration statement as the securities of the Registrant underlying the Warrants.

 

(4)Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act, the securities being registered hereunder include such indeterminate number of additional securities as may be issuable to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.

 

(5) Previously paid.

 

The Registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment that specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 

The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and we are not soliciting offers to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED JULY 20, 2018

 

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS

 

 

SenesTech, Inc.

 

Non-transferable Subscription Rights to Purchase Units
Consisting of an Aggregate of Up to 8,571,428 Shares of Common Stock
and Warrants to Purchase Up to 8,571,428 Shares of Common Stock
at a Subscription Price of $1.75 Per Unit

 

We are distributing to holders of our common stock and to eligible warrant holders, at no charge, non-transferable subscription rights to purchase Units. Each Unit consists of one share of our common stock, par value $0.001 per share, which we refer to as Common Stock and one warrant. Each warrant will be exercisable for one share of our Common Stock at an exercise price of $1.75 per share, which we refer to as the Warrant. We refer to the offering of Units through the subscription right that is the subject of this prospectus as the Rights Offering. In the Rights Offering, you will receive one subscription right for each share of Common Stock owned or deemed owned as of July 24, 2018, the Record Date for the Rights Offering. Shares that are “deemed owned” refer to the shares issuable upon exercise of outstanding warrants that have a contractual right to participate in the Rights Offering, including warrants issued to investors in November 2017 and June 2018, and warrants issued to the underwriter of our IPO and November 2017 offering. We refer to the Record Date holders of these warrants as the eligible warrant holders. The Common Stock and Warrants comprising the Units will be separate upon the closing of the Rights Offering and will be issued separately, however, they may only be purchased as a Unit, and the Unit will not trade as a separate security. The subscription rights will not be tradeable.

 

Each subscription right will entitle you to purchase one Unit at a subscription price of $1.75 per Unit. If you fully exercise your basic subscription right, you may also exercise an over-subscription right to purchase additional Units that remain unsubscribed to at the expiration of the Rights Offering, subject to the availability and pro rata allocation of Units among participants exercising this over-subscription right and subject to ownership limitations. Unless waived by us in our sole discretion, in no event may any holder purchase Units in the Rights Offering that, when aggregated with all the shares of Common Stock otherwise beneficially owned by such holder and its affiliates, would immediately following the closing of the Rights Offering represent 25% or more of our issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock. No fractional shares or warrants will be issued upon exercise of subscription rights in the Rights Offering.

 

The Company will accept subscriptions for up to 8,571,428 units for a total purchase price of approximately $15,000,000. We are not requiring a minimum subscription amount to complete the Rights Offering. However, we reserve the right to cancel the Rights Offering for any reason at any time before it expires. If we cancel the Rights Offering, all subscription payments received will be returned as soon as practicable, without interest or penalty.

 

The subscription rights will expire if they are not exercised by August 8, 2018, unless we extend the subscription period of the Rights Offering in our sole discretion. You should carefully consider whether to exercise your subscription right prior to the expiration of the Rights Offering. All exercises of subscription rights are irrevocable, even if we extend the Rights Offering.

 

Our board of directors is making no recommendation regarding your exercise of the subscription rights. The subscription rights may not be sold, transferred or assigned and will not be listed for trading on any stock exchange or market.

 

We have engaged Maxim Group LLC to act as the dealer-manager (the “dealer-manager”) for this Rights Offering. We have not entered into any standby purchase agreement or other similar arrangement in connection with this Rights Offering. The Rights Offering is being conducted on a best-efforts basis.

 

Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc. will serve as the Subscription Agent and the Information Agent for the Rights Offering. The Subscription Agent will hold in escrow the funds we receive from subscribers until we complete or terminate the Rights Offering. If you want to participate in the Rights Offering and you are the owner or deemed owner of your shares, we recommend that you submit your subscription documents to the Subscription Agent before the deadline. If you want to participate in the Rights Offering and you hold your shares through your broker, dealer, bank or other nominee, you should promptly contact your nominee and submit your subscription documents in accordance with the instructions and within the time period specified by the nominee. For additional information, please read “The Rights Offering — The Subscription Rights.”

 

Our Common Stock is listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “SNES.” On July 20, 2018, the last reported sale price for our Common Stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market was $1.59 per share.

 

We are an “emerging growth company” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and are subject to reduced public company reporting requirements. Please read “Prospectus Summary — Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company.”

 

Investing in our Units involves a high degree of risk. Please read “Risk Factors” beginning on page 17 of this prospectus as well as any other risk factors and other information contained in any other document that is incorporated by reference herein.

 

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Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

   Per Unit    Total (1)  
Subscription price  $1.75   $15,000,000 
Dealer-manager fees and expenses (2)  $0.12   $1,050,000 
Proceeds to us, after dealer-manager commissions, before other expenses  $1.63   $13,950,000 

 

(1)Assumes the Rights Offering is fully subscribed.

 

(2) In connection with this Rights Offering, we have agreed to pay to the dealer-manager a cash fee equal to 7% of the gross proceeds received by us directly from exercises of the subscription rights. We will reimburse the dealer-manager up to $75,000 for expenses incurred in connection with the Rights Offering. We advanced $25,000 to Maxim Group LLC upon its engagement as dealer-manager. The $25,000 advancement will be used by Maxim Group LLC to cover its expenses or returned to us to the extent not offset by actual costs. Subject to completion of the Rights Offering, we have agreed to grant Maxim Group LLC a warrant to purchase a number of shares of Common Stock equal to 5% of the total number of shares of Common Stock issued upon exercise of the subscription rights in the Rights Offering. The dealer-manager warrant will not be exercisable for six (6) months after the effective date of the registration statement of this Rights Offering and will be exercisable at a price per share equal to 150% of the subscription price of the Common Stock in the Rights Offering. Please read “Plan of Distribution.”

 

Dealer-Manager

 

Maxim Group LLC

 

The date of this prospectus is             , 2018

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

PROSPECTUS SUMMARY 5
THE RIGHTS OFFERING 9
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE RIGHTS OFFERING 12
RISK FACTORS 17
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS 22
USE OF PROCEEDS 23
DILUTION 24
MARKET PRICE OF OUR COMMON STOCK 25
DIVIDEND POLICY 26
CAPITALIZATION 27
THE RIGHTS OFFERING 28
CERTAIN UNITED STATES FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSIDERATIONS 35
DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES 39
DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK 41
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION 49
LEGAL MATTERS 51
EXPERTS 51
WHERE YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 51
INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION BY REFERENCE 51

 

You should read this prospectus, any applicable prospectus supplement and the information incorporated by reference in this prospectus before making an investment in the securities of SenesTech, Inc. Please read “Where You Can Find Additional Information” on page 51 for more information. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with any information or to make any representation, other than those contained in this prospectus or any free writing prospectus we have prepared. We take no responsibility for, and provide no assurance as to the reliability of, any other information that others may give you. This prospectus is an offer to sell only the Units offered hereby, but only in circumstances and in jurisdictions where it is lawful to so do. The information contained in this prospectus is accurate only as of its date, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or of any sale of our Units. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since that date.

 

For investors outside the United States: Neither we nor the dealer-manager has done anything that would permit this offering or possession or distribution of this prospectus in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required, other than in the United States. Persons outside the United States who come into possession of this prospectus must inform themselves about, and observe any restrictions relating to, the offering of securities and the distribution of this prospectus outside the United States.

 

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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

 

This summary highlights information contained in other parts of this prospectus or incorporated by reference into this prospectus from our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, as described later in the prospectus. Because it is only a summary, it does not contain all of the information that you should consider before investing in the Units and it is qualified in its entirety by, and should be read in conjunction with, the more detailed information appearing elsewhere in this prospectus, including the information incorporated by reference in this prospectus. You should read the entire prospectus and the information incorporated by reference carefully, including the Sections titled “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our audited financial statements and unaudited condensed financial statements and the related notes, before deciding to buy the Units. Unless the context requires otherwise, references in this prospectus to “Registrant,” “SenesTech,” “we,” “us” and “our” refer to SenesTech, Inc.

 

Overview

 

We have developed and are in the process of commercializing a global, proprietary technology for managing animal pest populations, primarily rat populations, through fertility control.

 

Although there is a myriad of tools available to fight rat infestations, pest management professionals (PMPs) continue to face challenges in controlling today’s infestations. Not only do these infestations result in incredible infrastructure damage, but rats also pose risks to the health and food security of our communities. PMPs are increasingly being asked for new solutions to help them solve the problem. With growing interest in non-lethal options, we believe it is becoming increasingly important for PMPs to have new tools at their disposal. Our goal is to provide PMPs with a proven solution to not only combat their most difficult infestations, but also offer a non-lethal option to serve customers that are looking to eliminate the lethal methodologies within their integrated pest management programs.

 

Our first fertility control product, ContraPest®, is a liquid bait containing the active ingredients 4-vinylcyclohexene diepoxide, or VCD, and triptolide. When consumed, ContraPest targets reproduction, reducing fertility in male and female rats beginning with the first breeding cycle following consumption. ContraPest is being marketed for use in controlling rat populations. The EPA granted registration approval for ContraPest effective August 2, 2016. We expect to continue to pursue additional regulatory approvals and amendments to existing registration in the United States for ContraPest, including additional species and additional jurisdictions.

 

We believe ContraPest is the first non-lethal, fertility control product approved by the EPA for the management of rodent populations. In addition to the EPA registration of ContraPest in the U.S., we must obtain registration from the various state regulatory agencies prior to selling in each state. We have received registration for ContraPest in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

 

For a complete description of our business, financial condition, results of operations and other important information, please read our filings with the SEC that are incorporated by reference in this prospectus, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K, as amended, for the year ended December 31, 2017. For instructions on how to find copies of these documents, please read “Where You Can Find Additional Information” and “Incorporation of Certain Information by Reference.”

 

Integrated Pest Management: Current Challenges

 

Despite current pest control methodologies, ranging from sanitation and physical approaches to biological and chemical approaches, rat infestations continue to be a significant problem. While deploying these methodologies can lead to an initial decrease in rat populations, rat infestations persist due to continued reproduction. As these infestations persist, so does the damage associated with them. Rodents cause significant damage to public infrastructure by undermining foundations with burrowing, gnawing on electrical wiring and insulation, fireproofing systems and electronic and computer equipment. Rats also pose additional risks to the health and food security of our communities.

 

While lethal poisons have been at the forefront of pest management programs to curb these infestations and thus the associated damage, they have not provided consistent, sustained results. This is because they are at a disadvantage: rats reproduce at an extremely rapid rate. This rapid rate of reproduction can be seen in the population rebound that typically follows the initial decline in rodent populations that are exposed to lethal poisons. After the initial decline in the infestation, surviving rodents can have plentiful food and harborage creating conditions under which rats can quickly reproduce. A single pair of rats can, under ideal breeding conditions, contribute over 15,000 progenies in 12 months. This means that PMPs typically need to visit a site often to combat not only the initial infestation, but subsequent rebounds.

 

Additionally, studies have shown that rodents will generally not consume food that they have seen adversely affect other rodents; this is known as bait shyness. When the adverse effects of lethal products are displayed by treated rodents, other rodents in the vicinity typically avoid the areas where these poisons were located. Finally, there is the potential of rats developing a resistance to certain lethal rodenticides, further contributing to a potential failure of existing pest management approaches. This requires property owners and PMPs to continuously apply, on a rotating basis, poisons that vary in active ingredients and formulations to control these populations without favoring resistance to a particular poison.

 

Fertility Control: The Missing Link in Integrated Pest Management Programs

 

The most effective, long-term way to manage rodents is by using a combination of tools that work together to magnify the efficacy of the pest management protocol. Integrated pest management is based upon this concept. However, no matter how many traditional tools we use, some rodent infestations are still a problem and rodents continue to contribute billions of dollars a year in damage to stored food and/or infrastructure.

 

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ContraPest is an innovative technology with an approach that targets the reproductive capabilities of both sexes in rat populations, inducing egg loss in female rats and impairing sperm development in males. Our proprietary formulation addresses key biological traits of rats, making it a more targeted solution. Targeting both males and females allows us to drive populations down more quickly and to sustain that population reduction. Using a proprietary bait delivery method, ContraPest is dispensed in a highly palatable liquid formulation that promotes sustained consumption by rat communities, helping keep populations down.

 

To help combat bait shyness, ContraPest was specifically formulated to be a desirable bait. Rats require 10% of their body weight in water, making ContraPest an attractive bait to add to pest management programs. The high fat content and sweet taste leads to repeat consumption even among sought after food sources. In both field and laboratory settings, ContraPest was chosen by the rats even in the presence of abundant water sources and plentiful food options including animal feed, trash, and other options.

 

Adding ContraPest to an integrated pest management program allows PMPs to bring the populations down and keep them at a more manageable level by preventing reproduction and therefore limiting population rebounds. Knowing the populations are lower could allow PMPs to be more focused on preventing future invasions and preventative maintenance instead of continually needing to respond to unplanned population spikes.

 

In addition to helping PMPs suppress infestations, we believe ContraPest can establish a new paradigm in rodent control, allowing for a decreased reliance on lethal options through the offering of a stand-alone, non-lethal option, where requested by the customer. ContraPest delivery system is designed to minimize handler exposure and is dispensed inside tamper resistant bait stations, minimizing the risks to non-target species. Consumption of ContraPest does not cause illness in rats and therefore it does not change behavior, and limits the chances of prey captures and secondary exposure.

 

Recent Research Regarding the Effectiveness of ContraPest

 

The majority of our research efforts have been focused on developing our lead product, ContraPest. We have completed studies regarding the effectiveness of our product, which were funded by and in cooperation with the National Institute of Health, or NIH, the United States Department of Agriculture, or USDA, the National Wildlife Research Center, or NWRC, and the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority, or MTA, and other third parties. The following summarizes the results of these studies:

 

A NWRC study involving 50 wild caught female and male Norway rats completed in December 2014 demonstrated a 96% reduction in litter size in rats provided ContraPest along with unlimited food and water in a laboratory setting.

 

A NWRC study involving 32 wild caught female and male Norway rats completed in June 2015 demonstrated a 96% reduction in litter size in rats provided ContraPest along with unlimited food and water in a semi-field setting.

 

A NWRC study involving 50 wild caught female and male black or roof rats completed in September 2016 demonstrated a 93% reduction in litter size in rats provided ContraPest along with unlimited food and water in a laboratory setting.

 

A March 2015 study in Rose Hill, North Carolina resulted in a 46% reduction in rodent activity over 12 weeks after being exposed to ContraPest and rodenticides as compared to the use of rodenticide alone;

 

A NIH-funded study completed in August 2014 in the subway trash rooms of the MTA in New York City observed that there was a 43% reduction in the rodent population in the trash rooms that were baited with ContraPest;

 

Internal laboratory studies involving 32 rats have shown zero pups born to any rat groups provided with ContraPest along with food and water, while rats given the control bait with no active ingredients had on average 11 pups per litter;

 

In December 2015, we completed a research study with the Chicago Transit Authority, or CTA. While the observations and results are subject to a confidentiality agreement, the performance of ContraPest and the new delivery system met expectations; and

 

In August 2016, we conducted a study in neighborhoods in a Massachusetts suburb. This study resulted in the suppression of rodent populations by upwards of 67% in approximately 4 months.

 

No further studies were required after we received EPA approval of ContraPest, however, we have additional field trials underway in Hawaii and are contemplating further research trials in a variety of applications.

 

Together, these studies reinforce that ContraPest is a highly attractive, liquid contraceptive bait that with repeated consumption, was effective in reducing rat populations in a variety of settings.

 

We have also begun exploring diverse applications with a variety of collaborators. We have conducted proof of concept studies with feral dogs on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico with a grant from the USDA, and we have collected rabies and geographic data on stray dogs in the Tibetan refugee camps of Mainpat, India. We completed a collaboration with Texas A&M University in June 2016 to test the potential of our product candidates to manage feral pigs. Studies have also been conducted for proof of concept in Australia with wallaby, rat, and mouse populations and in New Zealand with rats and brushtail possums. We have also conducted early trials with cats in collaboration with the University of Florida. These diverse studies seek to provide evidence of the potential for ContraPest and the continued development of fertility control technology in general.

 

Business Strategy

 

Our goal is to become a leader in fertility control technology designed to limit the adverse effects of rodent infestations including infrastructure damage and risks to our communities’ health and food security. Key elements of our strategy are:

 

Commercialize our lead product, ContraPest, throughout the U.S. and strategically in other parts of the world.

 

 

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Demonstrate to our target markets the long-term benefits of our fertility control solution.

 

Expand and improve our manufacturing processes and supply chain to meet growing demand and improve margins.

 

Leverage our extensive scientific research and core technologies to develop and commercialize a broad suite of products utilizing fertility control.

 

Continue to develop and establish third party relationships with manufacturing, marketing and distribution partners in the U.S. and internationally.

 

Our Third-Party Relationships and Commercialization Plans

 

We intend to continue to establish and develop relationships in the U.S. and internationally. We are currently party to the following arrangements:

 

Distributors – In the U.S., ContraPest is currently classified by the EPA as a restricted use product, and as such, must be deployed and serviced by licensed PMPs. These PMPs typically purchase their supplies through distributors. We have signed agreements with distributors Forshaw, Univar and Target Specialty Products, and formed a relationship with Bug Off Exterminators and others. We intend to strategically add additional distributors from time to time.

 

Bioceres – In January 2016, we signed an agency agreement with INMET, the research and development subsidiary of Bioceres, Inc., a leading agricultural biotechnology company in Argentina, to seek regulatory approval for and conduct pre-sales marketing of ContraPest in Argentina. Under the agreement, INMET, which specializes in bacterial fermentation solutions, will act as our exclusive agent to obtain necessary governmental approvals to sell and market ContraPest in agricultural, residential and public transport applications throughout the country of Argentina. The parties intend to create a joint venture entity in Argentina which we will control. Sales in Argentina will occur only after regulatory approval is obtained and the joint venture entity is formed. We have also entered into a services agreement with Bioceres and INMET to provide research and development services to develop an efficient production method for a biosynthetic version of triptolide, one of the two active ingredients in ContraPest that also has pharmaceutical applications. These agreements expire on their terms in January 2019.

 

We plan to market ContraPest in additional international jurisdictions, including Europe, subject to obtaining necessary regulatory approvals. Our expectation is that we will stage these market launches based on the length of time required to complete each country’s regulatory process, the market potential, identification and agreements with appropriate parties and the safety of our intellectual property. However, we have not yet entered into any binding agreements related to these matters.

 

Commercialization Plans

 

We are focused on full commercialization of ContraPest. To date, we have generated minimal revenue from product sales as we continue to educate our target market and demonstrate the long-term benefits of ContraPest. Our target segments for ContraPest include government (e.g., subways, transit systems and public housing agencies); healthcare; agriculture (e.g., farms, storage facilities and protein production facilities (including cattle, sheep, pig and poultry facilities)); food production (e.g., factories, meat packing facilities, dairy production plants and vegetable and fruit preparation facilities); and commercial (e.g., major restaurant chains, retail locations, casinos and hotels). Since EPA approval, we have received calls or emails of interest from the following types of potential customers: zoos, animal research and care facilities, waste and recycling centers, parks, transit agencies, natural resource managers, island conservation groups, botanical gardens, animal sanctuaries, children’s gardens, healthcare providers, property managers, and food production facilities in non-food use areas. In addition, we intend to approach large pest management companies to pursue potential strategic relationships for the distribution and sale of ContraPest.

 

Recent Developments

 

On July 12, 2018, the Company received registration for ContraPest in California.

 

Corporate and Other Information

 

We were incorporated in Nevada in July 2004 and reincorporated in Delaware in November 2015. Our principal executive offices are located at 3140 N. Caden Court, Suite 1, Flagstaff, Arizona 86004, and our telephone number is (928) 779-4143. Our corporate website address is www.senestech.com. Except for the documents incorporated by reference in this prospectus, the information contained on or accessible through our website is not a part of this prospectus and should not be relied upon in connection with making an investment decision.

 

This prospectus contains references to our trademarks and to trademarks belonging to other entities. Solely for convenience, trademarks and trade names referred to in this prospectus, including logos, artwork and other visual displays, may appear without the ® or TM symbols, but such references are not intended to indicate, in any way, that their respective owners will not assert, to the fullest extent under applicable law, their rights thereto. We do not intend our use or display of other companies’ trade names or trademarks to imply a relationship with, or endorsement or sponsorship of us by, any other companies.

 

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Risk Factors

 

An investment in our Units involves risks, including those described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 17 of this prospectus and in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, as amended, for the year ended December 31, 2017. You should carefully read and consider these risk factors together with all of the other information included in or incorporated by reference into this prospectus before you decide to exercise your subscription right to purchase Units.

 

Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company

 

We are an “emerging growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or the JOBS Act, and therefore we have elected to comply with certain reduced disclosure and regulatory requirements for this prospectus and future filings, including only presenting two years of audited financial statements and related financial information, not having our internal control over financial reporting audited by our independent registered public accounting firm pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements and not holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved. We may take advantage of these reduced requirements until we are no longer an “emerging growth company.” Under Section 107(b) of the JOBS Act, “emerging growth companies” may take advantage of an extended transition period to comply with new or revised accounting standards applicable to public companies. We have irrevocably elected not to avail ourselves of this extended transition period and, as a result, we will adopt new or revised accounting standards on the relevant dates on which adoption of such standards is required for other public companies.

 

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THE RIGHTS OFFERING

 

Securities Offered   We are distributing to you, at no charge, one non-transferable subscription right to purchase one Unit at a subscription price of $1.75 per Unit for every share of Common Stock that you owned or were deemed to own as of the Record Date. Each Unit consists of one share of our Common Stock and one Warrant. Shares of Common Stock and Warrants included in the Units sold in the Rights Offering will be issued only in book-entry form. The Common Stock and Warrants comprising the Units will be separate upon the closing of the Rights Offering and will be issued separately, however, they may only be purchased as a Unit, and the Unit will not trade as a separate security.
   
Warrants   Each Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share of our Common Stock at an exercise price of $1.75 per share, will be exercisable upon issuance and will expire five years from the date of issuance. The Warrants will be exercisable for cash, or, solely during any period when a registration statement for the exercise of the Warrants is not in effect, on a cashless basis, at any time after the date of issuance. This prospectus also relates to the offering of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants. We may redeem the Warrants for $0.01 per Warrant if the volume weighted average price of our common stock is above $4.375 for five consecutive trading days, provided that we may not do so prior to six months after the issuance date. We do not intend to list the Warrants on any national securities exchange or nationally recognized trading system. Please read “Description of Securities — Warrants Included in Units Issuable in the Rights Offering.”
     
Size of Offering   8,571,428 subscription rights for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $15,000,000.
     
Subscription Price   $1.75 per Unit. To be effective, any payment for the exercise of a right must clear before the expiration of the Rights Offering.
   
Participation of Certain Warrant Holders   Certain holders of our warrants to purchase Common Stock have the contractual right to participate in this Rights Offering, including holders of warrants issued to investors in November 2017 and June 2018, and the holder of the warrants issued to the underwriter of our IPO and November 2017 offering. Each such eligible warrant holder will receive one subscription right for each share of Common Stock that such warrant holder’s warrant is exercisable for (or, as referred to elsewhere herein, for each share that such warrant holder is deemed to own). A total of 5,043,250 subscription rights will be issued to these warrant holders. Holders of warrants issued to investors in November 2017 also have rights to a downward adjustment in the exercise price for 3,181,841 of these warrants if the deemed subscription price of each Unit is below the current warrant exercise price. See “Description of Capital Stock — Outstanding Warrants — Common Stock Warrants Issued to Participants in November 2017 Offering.”
     
Basic Subscription Right   Each subscription right will entitle you to purchase one Unit at a subscription price of $1.75 per Unit, which we refer to as the basic subscription right. Please read “The Rights Offering — The Subscription Rights — Basic Subscription Right.”
   
Over-Subscription Right  

If you fully exercise your basic subscription right (other than those subscription rights to acquire less than one whole Unit, which cannot be exercised) and other stockholders or eligible warrant holders do not fully exercise their basic subscription right, you may also exercise an over-subscription right to purchase additional Units that remain unsubscribed at the expiration of the subscription period, subject to availability and ownership limitations.

 

If the number of unsubscribed Units is not sufficient to satisfy all of the properly exercised over-subscription right requests, the available Units will be prorated among those who properly exercised over-subscription rights in proportion to their respective basic subscription right. Please read “The Rights Offering — The Subscription Rights — Over-Subscription Right.”

   
Record Date   5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, on July 24, 2018.
   
Expiration of the Offering Period   5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, on August 8, 2018. We may extend the expiration of the offering period for exercising your subscription right, in our sole discretion.
   
Use of Proceeds   We intend the net proceeds from the Rights Offering to be used for working capital and general corporate purposes, including our commercialization efforts of ContraPest, development and enhancement of our ContraPest product, capital expenditures and facility expansion related to manufacturing, and new product development for additional species. Please read “Use of Proceeds.”
   
Non-Transferability of Subscription Rights   The subscription rights issued in the Rights Offering may not be sold, transferred, assigned or given away under any circumstances, and will not be listed on any stock exchange or market.
   
Transferability of Warrants   The Warrants will be separately transferable following their issuance.
     
No Board of Directors Recommendation   Our board of directors is making no recommendation regarding your exercise of the subscription rights. You are urged to make your decision based on your own assessment of our business and the Rights Offering. Please read “Risk Factors” for a discussion of some of the risks involved in investing in Units in the Rights Offering.
   
No Revocation   All exercises of subscription rights are irrevocable, even if you later learn information that you consider to be unfavorable to the exercise of your subscription right, or if the market price of Common Stock falls below the subscription price of $1.75 per Unit, or if the Rights Offering is extended by the board of directors. You should not exercise your subscription right unless you are certain that you wish to purchase Units at a subscription price of $1.75 per Unit.
     
U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations   For U.S. federal income tax purposes, you generally should not recognize income or loss in connection with the receipt or exercise of your subscription right. You are urged to consult your own tax advisor as to your particular tax consequences resulting from the receipt and the disposition or exercise of subscription rights and the receipt, ownership and disposition of Common Stock. For further information, please read “Certain United States Federal Income Tax Considerations.”

 

 

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Amendment, Extension and Termination  

We may extend the offering period for additional time in our sole discretion. The board of directors may cancel the Rights Offering at any time before its expiration for any reason.

 

The board of directors also reserves the right to amend the terms of the Rights Offering for any reason, including, without limitation, in order to increase participation in the Rights Offering. Such amendments may include a change in the subscription price, although no such change is presently contemplated.

 

If we should make any fundamental change to the terms set forth in this prospectus, we will file a post-effective amendment to the registration statement in which this prospectus is included, offer potential purchasers who have subscribed for rights the opportunity to cancel such subscriptions and issue a refund of any money advanced by such stockholder or eligible warrant holder and recirculate an updated prospectus after the post-effective amendment is declared effective with the SEC. In addition, upon such event, we may extend the expiration date of the subscription period to allow holders of rights ample time to make new investment decisions and for us to recirculate updated documentation. Please read “The Rights Offering — Expiration Date, Extension, and Amendments.”

     
Procedures for Exercising Rights  

To exercise your subscription right, you must complete the rights certificate and deliver it to the Subscription Agent, together with full payment for all the subscription rights you elect to exercise under the basic subscription right and over-subscription right, before the expiration of the offering period. Please read “The Rights Offering” for detailed information on the procedure and requirements for exercising your subscription right. You may deliver the documents and payments by mail or commercial carrier. If regular mail is used for this purpose, we recommend using registered mail, properly insured, with return receipt requested.

 

If you are a beneficial owner of shares or eligible warrants that are registered in the name of a broker, dealer, bank or other nominee, you should instruct your nominee to exercise your subscription right on your behalf and deliver all required documents and payment before the expiration of the offering period.

 

If you cannot deliver your rights certificate to the Subscription Agent before the expiration of the subscription period, you may follow the guaranteed delivery procedures described in “The Rights Offering — Guaranteed Delivery Procedures”.

     
Limitation on Exercise   Unless waived by us in our sole discretion, no holder may purchase Units in the Rights Offering that, when aggregated with all the shares of Common Stock otherwise beneficially owned by such holder and its affiliates, would immediately following the closing of the Rights Offering represent 25% or more of our issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock.
     
Minimum Subscription Requirement   There is no minimum subscription requirement. We may consummate the Rights Offering regardless of the amount raised from the exercise of basic and over-subscription rights by the expiration date.
     
Subscription Agent and Information Agent   Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc.
     
Dealer-Manager   Maxim Group LLC
     
Shares Outstanding Before the Rights Offering   As of July 20, 2018, 18,068,235 shares of Common Stock were issued and outstanding and 6,090,035 shares of Common Stock were issuable upon the exercise of our outstanding warrants.
     
Shares Outstanding After Completion of the Rights Offering   Assuming that all subscription rights offered hereby are exercised, and excluding the exercise of the Warrants offered hereby, we expect 26,639,663 shares of Common Stock will be outstanding immediately after completion of the Rights Offering, and 41,301,126 shares if all of our outstanding warrants, including the Warrants offered hereby, were exercised. See “Description of Capital Stock” below for more information regarding our outstanding warrants.

 

 

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Delivery of Shares and Warrants   Within five business days after the expiration of the Rights Offering, we expect to close on subscriptions and for the Subscription Agent to arrange for the issuance of the shares of Common Stock and Warrants purchased pursuant to the Rights Offering. All shares of Common Stock and Warrants that are purchased in the Rights Offering will be issued in book-entry, or uncertificated form, meaning that you will receive a direct registration, or DRS, account statement from our transfer agent reflecting ownership of these securities if you are a holder of record of shares. If you hold your shares of Common Stock or eligible warrants in the name of a bank, broker, dealer, or other nominee, DTC will credit your account with your nominee with the securities you purchased in the Rights Offering.
     
Fees and Expenses   We will pay the fees and expenses we incur related to the Rights Offering.
     
Market for Common Stock   Our Common Stock is listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “SNES.” We will not list the subscription rights on any stock exchange or market.
     
Market for Warrants   There is no established public trading market for our Warrants, and we do not expect a market to develop. We do not intend to list the Warrants on any national securities exchange or nationally recognized trading system.
     
Risk Factors   Before you exercise your subscription right and purchase Units in the Rights Offering, you should be aware that there are risks associated with these transactions, including the risks described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 17 of this prospectus and in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, as amended, for the year ended December 31, 2017. You should carefully read and consider these risk factors together with all of the other information included in or incorporated by reference into this prospectus before you decide to exercise your subscription right to purchase Units.
     
Questions   If you have any questions about the Rights Offering, including questions about subscription procedures and requests for additional copies of this prospectus or other documents, please contact the Subscription Agent, Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc. by telephone toll-free at (855) 793-5068.

 

 

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE RIGHTS OFFERING

 

The following are examples of what we anticipate will be common questions about the Rights Offering. The answers are based on selected information included elsewhere in this prospectus. The following questions and answers do not contain all of the information that may be important to you and may not address all of the questions that you may have about the Rights Offering. This prospectus and the documents incorporated by reference herein contain more detailed descriptions of the terms and conditions of the Rights Offering and provide additional information about us and our business, including potential risks related to the Rights Offering, the securities offered hereby, and our business. Exercising the subscription rights and investing in our securities involves a high degree of risk. Before you decide whether to exercise your subscription right, we urge you to read this entire prospectus, our financial statements and related notes, the section entitled “Risk Factors” contained herein or incorporated by reference herein and the other information incorporated by reference herein as described in “Incorporation of Certain Information by Reference.”

 

What is the Rights Offering?

 

We are distributing to holders of our Common Stock and holders of certain outstanding warrants as of the Record Date, July 24, 2018, at no charge, non-transferable subscription rights to purchase Units. We have granted to you, as a stockholder or eligible warrant holder on the Record Date, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, on July 24, 2018, one subscription right for each share of Common Stock that you owned or were deemed to own at such time. If you hold your shares of Common Stock or eligible warrants in the name of a broker, dealer, bank or other nominee who uses the services of The Depository Trust Company, or DTC, one subscription right will be issued by DTC to the nominee for each share of Common Stock that you own or are deemed to own at the Record Date. Each subscription right will entitle the holder to a basic subscription right and if the basic subscription right is exercised in full, an over-subscription right.

 

Why is the Company conducting the Rights Offering?

 

We are conducting the Rights Offering to raise additional capital for working capital and general corporate purposes, including our commercialization efforts of ContraPest, development and enhancement of our ContraPest product, capital expenditures and facility expansion related to manufacturing, and new product development for additional species. Please read “Use of Proceeds.”

 

What is the basic subscription right?

 

The basic subscription right gives our stockholders and eligible warrant holders the opportunity to purchase one Unit at a subscription price of $1.75 per Unit. Each Unit consists of one share of our Common Stock and one Warrant. Each Warrant will be exercisable for one share of our Common Stock for an exercise price of $1.75 pursuant to the terms of the Warrant. The shares of Common Stock and Warrants will be immediately separable upon closing of the Rights Offering. You may exercise all or a portion of your basic subscription right, or you may choose not to exercise any subscription rights. However, if you exercise fewer than all of your basic subscription right, you will not be entitled to purchase any additional Units pursuant to the over-subscription right. No fractional shares or warrants will be issued upon exercise of subscription rights in the Rights Offering.

 

What is the over-subscription right?

 

We do not expect all of our stockholders or all of our eligible warrant holders to exercise all of such holder’s basic subscription right. If you fully exercise your basic subscription right (other than those subscription rights to acquire less than one whole Unit, which cannot be exercised) and other stockholders or eligible warrant holders do not fully exercise their basic subscription right, you may also exercise an over-subscription right to purchase additional Units that remain unsubscribed at the expiration of the Rights Offering, subject to availability, at the same subscription price of $1.75 per Unit. To the extent the number of unsubscribed Units is insufficient to satisfy all of the properly exercised over-subscription right requests, the available Units will be prorated among those who properly exercised over-subscription rights in proportion to their respective basic subscription right. The Subscription Agent will return any excess payments without interest or penalty as soon as practicable after the expiration of the Rights Offering.

 

In order to properly exercise your over-subscription right, you must deliver the subscription payment for exercise of your over-subscription right before the expiration of the Rights Offering. Because we will not know the total number of unsubscribed Units before the expiration of the Rights Offering, if you wish to maximize the number of Units you purchase pursuant to your over-subscription right, you will need to deliver payment in an amount equal to the aggregate subscription price for the maximum number of Units available, assuming that no stockholder or eligible warrant holder other than you has purchased any Units pursuant to their basic subscription right and over-subscription right. Please read “The Rights Offering — The Subscription Rights — Over-Subscription Right.”

 

May the subscription rights that I exercise be reduced for any reason?

 

Yes. While we are distributing to holders of our Common Stock and certain warrant holders one subscription right for every share of Common Stock owned or deemed owned on the Record Date, we are only seeking to raise $15 million dollars in gross proceeds in this Rights Offering. As a result, based on (1) 18,068,235 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of July 20, 2018 and (2) 5,043,250 shares of Common Stock deemed to be owned by certain warrant holders that have a contractual right to participate in this Rights Offering and deemed to be outstanding as of July 20, 2018, we would grant subscription rights to acquire 23,111,485 Units but will only accept subscriptions for 8,571,428 Units. Accordingly, sufficient Units may not be available to honor your subscription in full. If exercises of basic subscription rights exceed the number of Units available in the Rights Offering, we will allocate the available Units pro rata among the record holders exercising the basic subscription rights in proportion to the number of shares of our Common Stock each of those record holders owned or were deemed to own on the Record Date, relative to the number of shares owned on the Record Date by all record holders exercising the basic subscription right. If this pro rata allocation results in any record holders receiving a greater number of Units than the record holder subscribed for pursuant to the exercise of the basic subscription rights, then such record holder will be allocated only that number of Units for which the record holder subscribed, and the remaining Units will be allocated among all other record holders exercising their basic subscription rights on the same pro rata basis described above. The proration process will be repeated until all Units have been allocated. Please see “The Rights Offering—The Subscription Rights—Over-Subscription Right” for a description of potential proration as to the over-subscription right and certain stock ownership limitations.

 

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If for any reason the amount of Units allocated to you is less than you have subscribed for, then the excess funds held by the Subscription Agent on your behalf will be returned to you, without interest, as soon as practicable after the Rights Offering has expired and all prorating calculations and reductions contemplated by the terms of the Rights Offering have been effected, and we will have no further obligations to you.

 

How was the subscription price determined?

 

In determining the subscription price for exercising the rights, the board of directors considered a number of factors, including the likely cost of capital from other sources, our business prospects, historical and current trading prices of our Common Stock, the value of the Warrants being issued as components of the Unit, general conditions of the securities markets, and our need for liquidity and capital. The subscription price is not necessarily related to our book value, net worth or any other established criteria of value. After the date of this prospectus, our Common Stock may trade at a price below the subscription price for each Unit. In that event, the board of directors, in its sole discretion, may determine to cancel or otherwise alter the terms of the Rights Offering.

 

Will fractional shares of Common Stock be issued upon exercise of the subscription rights?

 

No. We will not issue fractional shares of Common Stock or Warrants. If the number of subscription rights you exercise would otherwise permit you to purchase a fractional share of Common Stock or Warrant, the number of shares of Common Stock and number of Warrants that you may purchase will be rounded down to the nearest whole share or Warrant, as applicable.

 

Am I required to exercise all of the subscription rights I receive in the Rights Offering?

 

No. You may exercise any whole number of your subscription rights, or you may choose not to exercise any subscription rights. If you do not exercise your basic subscription right in full, you will not be entitled to participate in the over-subscription right.

 

May I transfer my subscription rights?

 

No. You may not sell, transfer or assign your subscription right to anyone. Subscription rights will not be listed for trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market or any other stock exchange or market. Rights certificates may only be completed by the stockholder or eligible warrant holder who receives them.

 

Will holders of our equity awards to employees, officers and directors receive rights in the Rights Offering?

 

Holders of our equity awards to employees, officers and directors, including outstanding stock options, will not receive rights in the Rights Offering in connection with such equity awards, but will receive subscription rights in connection with any shares of our Common Stock held as of the Record Date.

 

How will the Rights Offering affect our outstanding Common Stock and warrants?

 

As of July 20, 2018, we had 18,068,235 shares of our Common Stock outstanding. Assuming no additional shares of Common Stock are issued by the Company prior to consummation of the Rights Offering and assuming all Units are sold in the Rights Offering, we will have 26,639,663 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding and warrants to purchase an additional 14,661,463 shares of our Common Stock outstanding. The issuance of shares of our Common Stock and Warrants in the Rights Offering may dilute, and thereby reduce, your proportionate ownership in our shares of Common Stock. In addition, as a result of the Rights Offering, the exercise price for warrants to purchase up to 3,181,841 shares of Common Stock will adjust down, effective as of the Record Date, to $1.47 per share from the prior exercise price of $1.50 per share as a result of price adjustment protection contained within those warrants. See “Description of Capital Stock — Outstanding Warrants — Common Stock Warrants Issued to Participants in November 2017 Offering” below for more information.

 

How much will the Company receive in net proceeds from the Rights Offering?

 

We expect the aggregate proceeds, net of dealer-manager fees, from the Rights Offering will be approximately $13.9 million, assuming all subscription rights are exercised. We will also have approximately $225,000 in other fees and expenses. Please see “Use of Proceeds.”

 

Are there any limitations on the number of my rights that I may exercise?

 

Yes. Unless waived by us in our sole discretion, in no event may any subscriber purchase Units in the Rights Offering that, when aggregated with all of the shares of Common Stock otherwise beneficially owned (as defined by Rule 13(d) of the Exchange Act) by the subscriber and its affiliates, would immediately following the closing of this Rights Offering represent 25% or more of our issued and outstanding shares. If the amount of subscription rights that you exercise is limited, any amount not used for purchases will be refunded.

 

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How soon must I act to exercise my subscription rights?

 

If you received a rights certificate, the subscription rights may be exercised at any time before the expiration of the Rights Offering, which is on August 8, 2018, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Please read “The Rights Offering” for detailed information on the procedure and requirements for exercising your subscription right. If you elect to exercise any rights, the Subscription Agent must actually receive all required documents from you, and your payment must have cleared, before that time. If your required subscription exercise documentation is received by the Subscription Agent after the expiration of the Rights Offering, we may, in our sole discretion, choose to accept your subscription, but will be under no obligation to do so.

 

If you hold your shares of Common Stock or eligible warrants in name of a broker, dealer, bank, or other nominee, your nominee may establish a deadline before the expiration of the Rights Offering by which you must provide such nominee with your instructions to exercise your subscription right along with the required payment. We reserve the option of extending the expiration of the subscription period in our sole discretion.

 

How do I exercise my subscription rights?

 

If you wish to participate in the Rights Offering, you must:

 

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Deliver payment to the Subscription Agent using one of the methods outlined under the section entitled “The Rights Offering — Method of Exercising Subscription Rights” and “— Form of Payment”, which payment must have cleared before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, on August 8, 2018; and

 

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Deliver a properly completed rights certificate to the Subscription Agent before the expiration of the offering period, which is August 8, 2018.

 

Any stockholder or eligible warrant holder who cannot deliver its rights certificate to the Subscription Agent before the expiration time may use the procedures for guaranteed delivery described under the section entitled “The Rights Offering—Guaranteed Delivery Procedures.” In some cases, you may be required to provide additional documentation.

 

If you hold your shares of Common Stock or eligible warrants through a broker, dealer, bank or other nominee as record holder, complete and return to your record holder the form entitled “Beneficial Owner Election Form” or such other appropriate documents as provided by your nominee related to your subscription right prior to the deadline established by your nominee.

 

To whom should I send my forms and payment?

 

If your shares or eligible warrants are held in the name of a broker, dealer, bank or other nominee as record holder, then you should send your subscription documents, rights certificate, notices of guaranteed delivery (if applicable) and subscription payment to that nominee.

 

If you are the record holder, then you should send your subscription documents, rights certificate, notices of guaranteed delivery (if applicable) and subscription payment by hand delivery, first class mail or courier service to the Subscription Agent, Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc.:

 

By mail:   By hand or overnight courier:
Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc.   Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc.
Attn: BCIS Re-Organization Dept.   Attn: BCIS IWS
P.O. Box 1317   51 Mercedes Way
Brentwood, New York 11717-0693   Edgewood, New York 11717
(855) 793-5068 (toll-free)   (855) 793-5068 (toll-free)

 

You are solely responsible for completing delivery of your subscription documents, rights certificate and payment to the Subscription Agent or, if you are not a record holder to your broker, dealer, custodian bank or other nominee. We urge you to allow sufficient time for delivery of your subscription materials to the Subscription Agent or your broker, dealer, custodian bank or other nominee. If you send a payment that is insufficient to purchase the number of Units you requested, or if the number of Units you requested is not specified in the forms, the payment received will be applied to exercise your subscription right to the fullest extent possible based on the amount of the payment received.

 

After I send in my payment and rights certificate, may I cancel or revoke my exercise of subscription rights?

 

No. All exercises of subscription rights are irrevocable, even if you later learn information that you consider to be unfavorable to the exercise of your subscription right, or the market price of Common Stock falls below the subscription price of the Units, including during any extension of the subscription period. However, if we amend the Rights Offering to make a material change to the terms set forth in this prospectus, you may cancel your subscription and receive a refund of any money you have advanced. You should not exercise your subscription right unless you are certain that you wish to purchase Units at a subscription price of $1.75 per Unit.

 

What should I do if I want to participate in the Rights Offering but my shares are held in the name of my broker, dealer, bank or other nominee?

 

If you hold your shares of Common Stock or eligible warrants in the name of a broker, dealer, bank or other nominee as record holder, then your broker, dealer, bank or other nominee is the record holder of the shares you own or are deemed to own and the record holder must exercise the subscription rights on your behalf for the Units that you wish to purchase. If you wish to participate in the Rights Offering and purchase Units, contact your broker, dealer, bank or other nominee promptly. You should complete and return to your nominee the form entitled “Beneficial Owner Election Form.” You should receive this form from your broker, dealer, bank or other nominee with the other Rights Offering materials. You should contact your broker, dealer, bank, or other nominee if you believe that you are entitled to participate in the Rights Offering but have not received any Rights Offering materials.

 

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Will holders of our warrants be permitted to participate in the Rights Offering?

 

Certain holders of our warrants to purchase Common Stock have the contractual right to participate in the Rights Offering, including holders of warrants issued to investors in November 2017 and June 2018, and the holder of warrants issued to the underwriter of our IPO and November 2017 offering. As of July 20, 2018, such eligible holders held warrants to purchase 5,043,250 shares of Common Stock.

 

What will happen if I do not exercise my subscription rights?

 

If you do not exercise any subscription rights or choose not to exercise your subscription right in full, the number of shares of Common Stock that you own will not change; however, you will own a smaller proportional interest of Common Stock than if you had timely exercised all or a portion of your subscription right. If other stockholders or eligible warrant holders fully exercise their subscription rights or exercise a greater proportion of their subscription rights than you exercise, the percentage of our Common Stock owned by these other stockholders or eligible warrant holders will increase relative to your ownership percentage, and your voting and other rights in the Company will likewise be diluted. Further, the shares issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants to be issued pursuant to the Rights Offering will dilute the ownership interest of stockholders not participating in this Rights Offering or holders of Warrants who have not exercised them. Subscription rights not exercised prior to the expiration of the Rights Offering will expire.

 

Are there risks in exercising my subscription rights?

 

Yes. Exercising your subscription right involves the purchase of Units and should be considered as carefully as you would consider any other investment. Stockholders or eligible warrant holders who exercise subscription rights risk investment loss on new money invested. We cannot assure you that anyone purchasing Units at the subscription price will be able to sell the shares of Common Stock or shares issued upon the exercise of the Warrants included in the Unit in the future at the same price or a higher price. Among other things, you should carefully consider the risks described under the heading “Risk Factors” in this prospectus and the documents incorporated by reference herein.

 

How and when will I receive my shares of Common Stock and Warrants purchased in the Rights Offering?

 

Shares of Common Stock and Warrants included in the Units purchased in the Rights Offering will be issued only in book-entry form (i.e. no physical stock certificates will be issued). If you are the holder of record of Common Stock or an eligible warrant holder (whether you hold share certificates or your shares are maintained in book-entry form by our transfer agent, Transfer Online, Inc.), you will receive a statement of ownership reflecting the shares of Common Stock and Warrants included in the Units purchased in the offering in the DRS as soon as practicable after the expiration of the Rights Offering. If your shares of Common Stock or eligible warrants are registered in the name of a broker, dealer, bank or other nominee, your shares of Common Stock and Warrants included in the Units will be issued to the same account, and you may request a statement of ownership from the nominee following the expiration of the Rights Offering.

 

If the Rights Offering is not completed, will my subscription payment be refunded to me?

 

Yes. The Subscription Agent will hold all funds it receives in escrow until completion of the Rights Offering. If the Rights Offering is not completed, all subscription payments received by the Subscription Agent will be returned, without interest, as soon as practicable. If you hold your shares of Common Stock or eligible warrants through a broker, dealer, bank or other nominee as record holder, the Subscription Agent will return payments to the record holder of the shares.

 

How do I exercise my subscription rights if I live outside the United States?

 

We will not mail this prospectus or the rights certificates to stockholders or eligible warrant holders whose addresses are outside the United States or who have an army post office or foreign post office address, because their exercise of rights may be prohibited by the laws of the country in which they live. Instead, the Subscription Agent will hold the rights certificates for their account. To exercise subscription rights, our foreign stockholders and foreign eligible warrant holders must notify the Subscription Agent on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, on August 3, 2018 and timely follow the procedures described in the section entitled “The Rights Offering — Foreign Stockholders.”

 

What fees or charges apply to me if I exercise rights?

 

We are not charging any fee or sales commission to issue subscription rights to you or to issue shares of Common Stock and Warrants to you if you exercise your subscription right. However, if you exercise your subscription right through the record holder of your shares or eligible warrants, or if you exercise the Warrants included in the Units, you are responsible for paying any fees your nominee may charge you.

 

Will I receive interest on any funds I deposit with the Subscription Agent?

 

No. You will not be entitled to any interest on any funds that are deposited with the Subscription Agent pending completion or cancellation of the Rights Offering. If the Rights Offering is cancelled for any reason, the Subscription Agent will return this money to subscribers, without interest or penalty, as soon as practicable.

 

What are the U.S. federal income tax consequences of exercising subscription rights?

 

For U.S. federal income tax purposes, you generally should not recognize income or loss in connection with the receipt or exercise of subscription rights. You are urged to consult your own tax advisor as to your particular tax consequences resulting from the receipt and exercise of subscription rights and the receipt, ownership and disposition of Units and the Common Stock and Warrants included in the Units. For further information, please read “Certain United States Federal Income Tax Considerations.”

 

Is the Company requiring a minimum subscription to complete the Rights Offering?

 

No.

 

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Will the Company’s directors or officers participate in the Rights Offering?

 

All holders of Common Stock and eligible warrant holders as of the Record Date for the Rights Offering will receive, at no charge, non-transferable subscription rights to purchase Units as described in this prospectus. To the extent that our directors and officers held shares of Common Stock or are eligible warrant holders as of the Record Date, they will receive the subscription rights and, while they are under no obligation to do so, will be entitled to participate in the Rights Offering.

 

Has the board of directors made a recommendation to our stockholders regarding the Rights Offering?

 

No. The board of directors does not make any recommendation to stockholders or eligible warrant holders regarding the exercise of rights under the Rights Offering. You should make an independent investment decision about whether or not to exercise your rights based on your own assessment of our business and the Rights Offering.

 

How many shares of Common Stock will be outstanding after the Rights Offering?

 

We expect that, as of the Record Date, we will have approximately 18,068,235 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding and the numbers set forth in this paragraph are based on that expectation. If all of our outstanding warrants as of the Record Date are exercised, we will have approximately 24,158,270 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding as of the Record Date. If the Rights Offering is fully subscribed, meaning that we issue the maximum possible number of Units upon exercise of rights, we will issue an aggregate of 8,571,428 Units, each Unit consisting of one share of Common Stock and one Warrant in exchange for an exercise price of $1.75 per Unit, or aggregate gross proceeds of $15,000,000.

 

Can the Company extend, cancel or amend the Rights Offering?

 

Yes. We reserve the option to extend the Rights Offering and the offering period for exercising your subscription right, in our sole discretion. If we elect to extend the expiration of the Rights Offering, we will issue a press release announcing such extension no later than the next business day after the most recently announced expiration of the Rights Offering. We will extend the duration of the Rights Offering as required by applicable law or regulation and may choose to extend it if we decide to give investors more time to exercise their subscription rights in the Rights Offering.

 

The board of directors may cancel the Rights Offering at any time before the expiration of the Rights Offering for any reason. In the event that the Rights Offering is cancelled, we will issue a press release notifying stockholders and eligible warrant holders of the cancellation and all subscription payments received by the Subscription Agent will be returned, without interest or penalty, as soon as practicable. If you own shares or eligible warrants through a broker, dealer, bank or other nominee as record holder, it may take longer for you to receive your subscription payment because the Subscription Agent will return payments through the record holder of your shares or eligible warrants.

 

We may amend or modify the terms of the Rights Offering for any reason, including, without limitation, in order to increase participation in the Rights Offering, in our sole discretion. Such amendments or modifications may include a change in the subscription price, although no such change is presently contemplated.

 

If we should make any fundamental changes to the terms set forth in this prospectus, we will file a post-effective amendment to the registration statement in which this prospectus is included, offer potential purchasers who have subscribed for rights the opportunity to cancel their subscriptions, issue a refund of any money advanced by such stockholder or eligible warrant holder and recirculate an updated prospectus after the post-effective amendment is declared effective by the SEC. In addition, upon such event, we may extend the expiration date of the Rights Offering to allow holders of rights ample time to make new investment decisions and for us to recirculate updated documentation. Promptly following any such occurrence, we will issue a press release announcing any changes and the new expiration date.

 

Whom should I contact if I have other questions?

 

If you have other questions or need assistance, please contact the Information Agent, Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc.:

 

By mail:   By hand or overnight courier:
Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc.   Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc.
Attn: BCIS Re-Organization Dept.   Attn: BCIS IWS
P.O. Box 1317   51 Mercedes Way
Brentwood, New York 11717-0693   Edgewood, New York 11717
(855) 793-5068 (toll-free)   (855) 793-5068 (toll-free)

 

Who is the dealer-manager?

 

Maxim Group LLC will act as the dealer-manager for the Rights Offering. Under the terms and subject to the conditions contained in the dealer-manager agreement, the dealer-manager will use its best efforts to solicit the exercise of subscription rights. We have agreed to pay the dealer-manager certain fees for acting as dealer-manager and to reimburse the dealer-manager for expenses incurred in connection with this Rights Offering. The dealer-manager is not underwriting or placing any of the subscription rights or the Units being issued in the Rights Offering and is not making any recommendation with respect to such subscription rights (including with respect to the exercise or expiration of such subscription rights) or the Units.

 

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RISK FACTORS

 

Investing in our Units, Common Stock and Warrants involves a number of risks. You should not invest unless you are able to bear the complete loss of your investment. You should carefully consider the risks described below and discussed under the section entitled “Risk Factors” in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, as amended, as well as any amendment or updates to our risk factors reflected in subsequent filings under the Exchange Act, including but not limited to our most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as amended, which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety, together with other information in this prospectus and the information and documents incorporated by reference in this prospectus. These risks and uncertainties described below or otherwise incorporated herein by reference are not the only risks and uncertainties we face. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial also may impair our business operations. If any of the following risks actually occur, our business could be harmed. In such case, the trading price of our Common Stock could decline and investors could lose all or a part of the money paid to buy our Units. Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of these and other factors.

 

Risks Relating to the Rights Offering and Common Stock

 

This Rights Offering and future sales, or the possibility of future sales of a substantial number of shares of our Common Stock or future sales at a lower price could adversely affect the price of the shares and dilute stockholders.

 

Future sales of a substantial number of shares of our Common Stock, or the perception that such sales will occur, could cause a decline in the market price of our Common Stock. This is particularly true if we sell our stock at a discount. As a result of the Rights Offering, if the deemed subscription price of each Unit is below the current exercise price of the warrants, the exercise price for warrants to purchase up to 3,181,841 shares of Common Stock will adjust down, effective as of the Record Date, to the lower of the net subscription price of each Unit and the lowest weighted average trading price of the common stock during the four trading days immediately following public announcement of the dilutive issuance pursuant to price adjustment protection contained within these warrants. The public announcement of the price of each Unit in this Rights Offering resulted in an initial adjustment of the exercise price of these warrants from $1.50 per share to $1.47 per share effective as of the Record Date, which is the lowest weighted average trading price of our Common Stock during the four trading days immediately following our announcement of the pricing of Units in the Rights Offering. The exercise price of these warrants may further adjust downward in connection with the Rights Offering. Any future issuance of Common Stock or securities convertible or exercisable into our Common Stock could cause a further downward adjustment of the exercise price of these warrants to the deemed issuance price if the issuance price is less than the exercise price of the warrants at the time of the new issuance. See “Description of Capital Stock — Outstanding Warrants — Common Stock Warrants Issued to Participants in November 2017 Offering.”

 

In addition, in connection with this offering, our directors and executive officers are expected to enter into lock-up agreements. If, after the end of such lock-up agreements, these stockholders sell substantial amounts of Common Stock in the public market, or the market perceives that such sales may occur, the market price of our Common Stock and our ability to raise capital through an issue of equity securities in the future could be adversely affected.

 

Also, in the future, we may issue additional shares of our Common Stock or other equity or debt securities convertible into Common Stock in connection with a financing, acquisition, litigation settlement, employee arrangements, or otherwise. Any such issuance could result in substantial dilution to our existing stockholders and could cause our common share price to decline.

 

Your relative ownership interest may experience significant dilution as a result of this Rights Offering or due to other transactions.

 

Stockholders or eligible warrant holders who do not fully exercise their subscription rights should expect that they will, at the completion of this offering, own a smaller proportional interest in the Company than would otherwise be the case had they fully exercised their subscription rights. Even if you fully exercise your subscription right, your proportionate voting interest may be reduced due to the participation of eligible warrant holders. The shares issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants to be issued pursuant to the Rights Offering will further dilute the ownership interest of stockholders not participating in the Rights Offering or holders of Warrants who have not exercised them.

 

As of July 20, 2018, there were approximately 6,090,035 shares of Common Stock underlying outstanding warrants, 1,719,771 shares of Common Stock underlying outstanding stock options and 209,579 shares of common stock underlying outstanding restricted stock units. The conversion or exercise of all or a portion of these warrants or options, or the Warrants included in the Units sold in this Rights Offering would result in additional dilution to your ownership interest. Additionally, if we do not increase our revenue or reduce our expenses, we may need to raise additional capital, which may result in further dilution to our stockholders.

 

We may not be able to comply with all applicable listing requirements or standards of the Nasdaq Capital Market and Nasdaq could delist our Common Stock.

 

Our Common Stock is listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market. In order to maintain that listing, we must satisfy minimum financial and other continued listing requirements and standards. On January 3, 2018, we received a deficiency letter from the listing qualifications staff of the Nasdaq Stock Market, notifying us that, for the prior 30 consecutive business days, the closing bid price of our Common Stock was not maintained at the minimum required closing bid price of at least $1.00 per share as required for continued listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market. In accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rules, we had an initial compliance period of 180 calendar days, until July 2, 2018, to regain compliance with this requirement. On June 5, 2018, we received notice from the listing qualifications staff of the Nasdaq Stock Market, notifying us that the closing bid price of our Common Stock was greater than $1.00 per share for ten consecutive business days and that we had regained compliance with the minimum bid price requirement.

 

We cannot provide any assurance that our stock price will continue to satisfy the minimum bid price requirement or that we will be able to satisfy any other continued listing requirement of the Nasdaq Stock Market. In the event that our Common Stock is not eligible for quotation on another market or exchange, trading of our Common Stock could be conducted in the over-the-counter market or on an electronic bulletin board established for unlisted securities such as the Pink Sheets or the OTC Bulletin Board. In such event, it could become more difficult to dispose of, or obtain accurate price quotations for, our Common Stock, and there would likely be a reduction in our coverage by security analysts and the news media, which could cause the price of our Common Stock to decline further. In addition, it may be difficult for us to raise additional capital if we are not listed on a major exchange.

 

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The market price of Common Stock may decrease before or after the subscription rights expire.

 

The market price of Common Stock could be subject to wide fluctuations in response to numerous factors, some of which are beyond our control. These factors include, among other things, macroeconomic conditions, industry trends, regulatory approvals, customer demands, and competition. We cannot assure you that the market price of Common Stock will not decline after you elect to exercise your subscription right. If that occurs, you may have committed to buy Units which include shares of Common Stock and Warrants in the Rights Offering at a price greater than the prevailing market price, and could have an immediate unrealized loss. Moreover, we cannot assure you that following the exercise of your subscription right you will be able to sell your Common Stock or shares issued upon exercise of the Warrants at a price equal to or greater than the subscription price.

 

The number of shares of Common Stock and Warrants we could issue if the Rights Offering is completed or the adjustments to certain warrants as a result of the Rights Offering may result in an immediate decrease in the trading price of our Common Stock. This decrease may continue after the completion of the Rights Offering. If that occurs, your purchase of Units in the Rights Offering may be at a price greater than the prevailing trading price of Common Stock following the completion of the Rights Offering. Further, if a substantial number of subscription rights are exercised, and the holders of the shares received upon exercise of those subscription rights or upon exercise of the Warrants choose to sell some or all of those shares, the resulting sales could depress the market price of Common Stock.

 

Our corporate documents and Delaware law and certain warrants contain provisions that could discourage, delay or prevent a change in control of our company.

 

Provisions in our certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws may discourage, delay or prevent a merger or acquisition involving us that our stockholders may consider favorable. For example, our certificate of incorporation currently provides for a staggered board of directors, whereby directors serve for three-year terms, with approximately one-third of the directors coming up for reelection each year. Having a staggered board will make it more difficult for a third party to obtain control of our board of directors through a proxy contest, which may be a necessary step in an acquisition of us that is not favored by our board of directors. Additionally, warrants we issued in November 2017 and June 2018, and the Warrants included in Units issuable in the Rights Offering, provide a Black Scholes value based payment in connection with certain transactions that may discourage, delay or prevent a merger or acquisition.

 

We are also subject to the anti-takeover provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. Under these provisions, if anyone becomes an “interested stockholder,” we may not enter into a “business combination” with that person for three years without special approval, which could discourage a third party from making a takeover offer and could delay or prevent a change of control. For purposes of Section 203, “interested stockholder” means, generally, someone owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock or an affiliate of ours that owned 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock during the past three years, subject to certain exceptions as described in Section 203.

 

You must act promptly and follow instructions carefully if you want to exercise your rights.

 

Eligible participants and, if applicable, brokers, dealers, banks or other nominees acting on their behalf, who desire to purchase Units in the Rights Offering must act promptly to ensure that all required certificates and payments are actually received by the Subscription Agent prior to the expiration of the Rights Offering on August 8, 2018, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The time period to exercise rights is limited. If you or your broker fail to complete and sign the required rights certificate, send an incorrect payment amount or otherwise fail to follow the procedures that apply to the exercise of your rights, we may, depending on the circumstances, reject your exercise of rights or accept it only to the extent of the payment received. Neither we nor the Subscription Agent undertakes to contact you concerning, or attempt to correct, an incomplete or incorrect rights certificate or payment or contact you concerning whether a broker, dealer bank or other nominee holds rights on your behalf. We have the sole discretion to determine whether an exercise properly follows the procedures that apply to the exercise of your rights.

 

We may terminate the Rights Offering at any time prior to the expiration of the offer period, and neither we nor the Subscription Agent will have any obligation to you except to return your exercise payments.

 

We may, in our sole discretion, decide not to continue with the Rights Offering or terminate the Rights Offering prior to the expiration of the offer period. If we withdraw or terminate this offering, neither we nor the Subscription Agent will have any obligation with respect to rights that have been exercised except to return as soon as practicable any subscription payments, without interest or penalty, the Subscription Agent received from you.

 

You will not receive interest on any subscription payments returned to you.

 

If we cancel the Rights Offering, neither we nor the Subscription Agent will have any obligation with respect to the subscription rights except to return, without interest or deduction, any subscription payments to you.

 

We may amend or modify the terms of the Rights Offering at any time before the expiration of the Rights Offering in our sole discretion.

 

The board of directors reserves the right to amend the terms of the Rights Offering in its sole discretion. We may choose to amend the terms of the Rights Offering for any reason, including, without limitation, in order to increase participation in the Rights Offering. Any such amendment that is not fundamental enough for us to have to return your subscription payment may nonetheless affect your rights, including any anticipated return on your investment, adversely.

 

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You may not receive all of the Units for which you oversubscribe.

 

Eligible participants who fully exercise their basic subscription right (other than those subscription rights to acquire less than one whole Unit, which cannot be exercised) will be entitled to subscribe for an additional number of Units by exercising an over-subscription right. Over-subscription rights will generally be allocated pro rata among rights holders who oversubscribe, based on the number of basic subscription Units to which they have subscribed, although the allocation of over-subscription rights among investors who may become 5% holders, who are 5% holders that have not properly filed any required forms with the SEC, or who would own in excess of 25% of the Company’s shares may be reduced. We cannot guarantee that you will receive any or the entire number of Units for which you oversubscribed. If the prorated number of Units allocated to you in connection with your over-subscription right is less than your request, then the excess funds held by the Subscription Agent on your behalf will be returned to you, without interest, as soon as practicable after the Rights Offering has expired and all prorating calculations and reductions contemplated by the terms of the Rights Offering have been effected, and we will have no further obligation to you.

 

Completion of the Rights Offering is not subject to us raising a minimum offering amount.

 

Completion of the Rights Offering is not subject to us raising a minimum offering amount and, therefore, proceeds may be insufficient to meet our objectives, thereby increasing the risk to investors in the offering, including investing in a company that continues to require capital. We will incur substantial expenses in connection with the Rights Offering, and insufficient proceeds from the Rights Offering may result in offering related expenses in excess of proceeds received from the Rights Offering. Please read “Use of Proceeds.”

 

You may not revoke your subscription exercise, even if we extend the expiration of the Rights Offering, and you could be committed to buying Units above the prevailing market price.

 

Once you exercise your subscription right, you may not revoke the exercise of such rights. If we decide to extend the expiration of the Rights Offering, you still may not revoke the exercise of your subscription right. The public trading market price of our Common Stock may decline before the subscription rights expire. If you exercise your subscription right and, afterwards, the public trading market price of our Common Stock decreases below the subscription price of each Unit, you will have committed to buying Units, including shares of Common Stock and Warrants, at a price above the prevailing market price. Our Common Stock is traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “SNES.” The last reported sales price of our Common Stock on July 20, 2018 was $1.59 per share. Following the exercise of your rights, you may be unable to sell your shares of Common Stock or Warrants at a price equal to or greater than the subscription price you paid for the Unit, and you may lose all or part of your investment in the Unit or our Common Stock.

 

If you make payment of the subscription price by uncertified check, your check may not clear in sufficient time to enable you to purchase Units in this Rights Offering.

 

Any uncertified check used to pay for Units to be issued in this Rights Offering must clear prior to the expiration date of this Rights Offering, and the clearing process may require seven or more business days. If you choose to exercise your subscription right, in whole or in part, and to pay for Units by uncertified check and your check has not cleared prior to the expiration date of this Rights Offering, you will not have satisfied the conditions to exercise your subscription right and will not receive the Units you wish to purchase.

 

Exercising the subscription right limits your ability to engage in certain hedging transactions that could provide you with financial benefits.

 

By exercising the subscription rights, you are representing to us that you have not entered into any short sale or similar transaction with respect to our Common Stock since the Record Date for the Rights Offering. These requirements prevent you from pursuing certain investment strategies that could provide you greater financial benefits than you might have realized if the subscription rights did not contain these requirements.

 

The subscription rights are not transferable, and there is no market for the subscription rights.

 

You may not sell, transfer, assign or give away your subscription right. Because the subscription rights are non-transferable, there is no market or other means for you to directly realize any value associated with the subscription rights. You must exercise the subscription rights to realize any potential value from your subscription right.

 

There is no public market for the Warrants included in the Units.

 

There is no established public trading market for our Warrants, and we do not expect a market to develop. We do not intend to list the Warrants on any national securities exchange or nationally recognized trading system.

 

The subscription price for the Units sold in the Rights Offering is not an indication of the value of our Common Stock.

 

The subscription price is not necessarily related to our book value, net worth or any other established criteria of value and may or may not be considered the fair value of the Units to be offered in the Rights Offering. We cannot give any assurance that Common Stock will trade at or above the subscription price of each Unit in any given time period. After the date of this prospectus, our Common Stock may trade at prices above or below the subscription price of each Unit.

 

The market price of our Common Stock may never exceed the exercise price of the Warrants issued in connection with this Rights Offering.

 

The Warrants being issued in connection with this offering become exercisable upon issuance and will expire five years from the date of issuance. The market price of our Common Stock may never exceed the exercise price of the Warrants prior to their date of expiration. Any Warrants not exercised by their date of expiration will expire worthless and we will be under no further obligation to the Warrant holder.

 

The Warrants contain features that may reduce your economic benefit from owning them.

 

The Warrants contain features that allow us to redeem all of the Warrants no earlier than six months after the date of issuance for $0.01 per Warrant once the volume weighted average price of our common stock has equaled or exceeded $4.375 per share, subject to adjustment, for five consecutive trading days. To redeem the Warrants, we must provide not less than 30 days’ prior written notice, which notice could come at a time when it is not advisable or possible for you to exercise the Warrants. As a result, you may be unable to fully benefit from owning the Warrants being redeemed.

 

Except for certain contractual participation rights, Holders of our Warrants will have no rights as a common stockholder until such holders exercise their Warrants and acquire our Common Stock.

 

Until holders of Warrants acquire shares of our Common Stock upon exercise of the Warrants, holders of Warrants will have no rights with respect to the shares of our Common Stock underlying such Warrants, except for certain contractual participation rights.

 

You may not be able to immediately resell any shares of Common Stock or Warrants that you purchase pursuant to the exercise of subscription rights upon expiration of the subscription period.

 

If you exercise subscription rights, you may not be able to resell the Common Stock or Warrants included in the Unit purchased by exercising your subscription right until you, or your broker, custodian bank or other nominee, if applicable, have received those shares or Warrants. Moreover, you will have no rights as a stockholder in the shares included in the Units you purchased in the Rights Offering until the shares are issued to you. Although we will endeavor to issue the shares and Warrants as soon as practicable after completion of the Rights Offering and after all necessary calculations have been completed, there may be a delay between the expiration date of the Rights Offering and the time that the shares and Warrants are issued.

 

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Our share price may be volatile, which could subject us to securities class action litigation and prevent you from being able to sell your shares at or above the offering price.

 

Our Common Stock could be subject to wide fluctuation in response to many risk factors listed in this section or incorporated by reference into this prospectus, and others beyond our control, including:

 

Market acceptance and commercialization of our products;

 

Our being able to timely demonstrate achievement of milestones, including those related to revenue generation, cost control, cost effective source supply, and regulatory approvals;

 

Our ability to remain listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market;

 

Results and timing of our submissions with the regulatory authorities;

 

Failure or discontinuation of any of our development programs;

 

Regulatory developments or enforcements in the United States and non-U.S. countries with respect to our products or our competitors’ products;

 

Failure to achieve pricing acceptable to the market;

 

Actual or anticipated fluctuations in our financial condition and operating results, or our continuing to sustain operating losses;

 

Competition from existing products or new products that may emerge;

 

Announcements by us or our competitors of significant acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, collaborations, or capital commitments;

 

Issuance of new or updated research or reports by securities analysts;

 

Announcement or expectation of additional financing efforts, particularly if our cash available for operations significantly decreases or if the financing efforts result in a price adjustment to certain warrants;

 

Fluctuations in the valuation of companies perceived by investors to be comparable to us;

 

Share price and volume fluctuations attributable to inconsistent trading volume levels of our shares;

 

Additions or departures of key management or scientific personnel;

 

Disputes or other developments related to proprietary rights, including patents, litigation matters, and our ability to obtain patent protection for our technologies;

 

Entry by us into any material litigation or other proceedings;

 

Sales of our Common Stock by us, our insiders, or our other stockholders;

 

Exercise of outstanding warrants, including the Warrants issued in this Rights Offering;

 

Market conditions for stocks in general; and

 

General economic and market conditions unrelated to our performance.

 

Furthermore, the stock markets have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have affected and continue to affect the market prices of equity securities of many companies. These fluctuations may be unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies. These broad market and industry fluctuations, as well as general economic, political, and market conditions such as recessions, interest rate changes, or international currency fluctuations, may negatively impact the market price of shares of our Common Stock. In addition, such fluctuations could subject us to securities class action litigation, which could result in substantial costs and divert our management’s attention from other business concerns, which could seriously harm our business. If the market price of shares of our Common Stock after this offering does not exceed the subscription price of the Unit, you may not realize any return on your investment in us and may lose some or all of your investment.

 

If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about our business, our stock price and trading volume could decline.

 

The trading market for our securities is impacted by the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our business. We do not have any control over these analysts. We cannot assure that analysts will continue to cover us or provide favorable coverage. If one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrade our stock or change their opinion of our stock, our share price would likely decline. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of us or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which could cause our stock price or trading volume to decline.

 

The tax treatment of the Rights Offering is uncertain and it may be treated as a taxable event to our stockholders.

 

If the Rights Offering is deemed to be part of a “disproportionate distribution” under Code Section 305, our stockholders and eligible warrant holders may recognize taxable income for U.S. federal income tax purposes in connection with the receipt of subscription rights in the Rights Offering depending on our current and accumulated earnings and profits and your tax basis in our Common Stock. A “disproportionate distribution” is a distribution or a series of distributions, including deemed distributions, that has the effect of the receipt of cash or other property by some stockholders or holders of debt instruments convertible into stock and an increase in the proportionate interest of other stockholders in a company’s assets or earnings and profits. The disproportionate distribution rules are complicated, however, and their application is uncertain. Please read “Certain United States Federal Income Tax Considerations” for further information on the treatment of the Rights Offering.

 

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The Rights Offering could impair or limit our net operating loss carryforwards.

 

As of December 31, 2017, we had net operating losses, or NOLs of approximately $44.1 million for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Under the Code, an “ownership change” with respect to a corporation could limit the amount of pre-ownership change NOLs and certain other tax assets that the corporation may utilize after the ownership change to offset future taxable income, possibly reducing the amount of cash available to the corporation to satisfy its obligations. An ownership change generally should occur if the aggregate stock ownership of beneficial owners of at least 5% of our stock increases by more than 50 percentage points over the preceding three-year period. Because not all stockholders or eligible warrant holders may exercise their basic subscription right in full, the purchase of Units could result in a shift in this beneficial ownership that could trigger an ownership change with respect to our stock. Please read the section entitled “Certain United States Federal Income Tax Considerations” for further information.

 

You may be required to allocate a portion of your tax basis in our Common Stock to the subscription rights received in the offering.

 

You will be required to allocate a portion of your tax basis in your Common Stock to the subscription rights we distribute to you in the offering (which will carry over and become part of the tax basis in any of our Common Stock acquired upon exercise of the rights) if you determine the value of the stock rights equals or exceeds 15% of the fair market value of our Common Stock on the date we distribute the rights to you, or if you so elect to allocate a portion of your tax basis to the rights. We are not required to, nor do we intend to, provide you with an appraisal setting forth the estimated fair market value of the rights. Please read “Certain United States Federal Income Tax Considerations” for further information on the treatment of the Rights Offering.

 

We have broad discretion in the use of the net proceeds from this offering and may not use them effectively.

 

We currently intend to allocate the net proceeds that we will receive from this offering as described in this prospectus under the “Use of Proceeds” section of this prospectus. However, our management will have broad discretion in the actual application of the net proceeds, and we may elect to allocate proceeds differently from that described herein if we believe it would be in the best interest of the Company to do so. Our stockholders may not agree with the manner in which our management chooses to allocate and spend the net proceeds. The failure by our management to apply these funds effectively could have a material adverse effect on our business. Pending their use, we may invest the net proceeds from this offering in a manner that does not produce income or that loses value.

 

We are an “emerging growth company” as that term is used in the JOBS Act, and we intend to continue to take advantage of reduced disclosure and governance requirements applicable to emerging growth companies, which could result in our Common Stock being less attractive to investors and adversely affect the market price of our Common Stock or make it more difficult to raise capital as and when we need it.

 

We are an “emerging growth company” as that term is used in the JOBS Act, and we intend to continue to take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements, exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved, and exemptions from any rules that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board may adopt requiring mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor’s report on the financial statements. We currently take advantage of some, but not all, of the reduced regulatory and reporting requirements that are available to us under the JOBS Act, and intend to continue to do so as long as we qualify as an “emerging growth company.” For example, so long as we qualify as an “emerging growth company,” we may elect not to provide you with certain information, including certain financial information and certain information regarding compensation of our executive officers, that we would have otherwise been required to provide in filings we make with the SEC, which may make it more difficult for investors and securities analysts to evaluate us.

 

Because of the exemptions from various reporting requirements provided to us as an “emerging growth company,” we may be less attractive to investors and it may be difficult for us to raise additional capital as and when we need it. Investors may be unable to compare our business with other companies in our industry if they believe that our financial accounting is not as transparent as other companies in our industry. If we are unable to raise additional capital as and when we need it, our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows, and future prospects may be materially and adversely affected. We may take advantage of these reporting exemptions until we are no longer an emerging growth company, which in certain circumstances could be for up to five years. Please read “Prospectus Summary—Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company.”

 

The dealer-manager is not underwriting, nor acting as placement agent of, the subscription rights or the securities underlying the subscription rights.

 

Maxim Group LLC will act as the dealer-manager for this Rights Offering. As provided in the dealer-manager agreement, the dealer-manager will provide marketing assistance in connection with this offering. The dealer-manager is not underwriting or placing any of the subscription rights or the Units being issued in this offering and is not making any recommendation with respect to such subscription rights (including with respect to the exercise or expiration of such subscription rights) or Units. The dealer-manager will not be subject to any liability to us in rendering the services contemplated by the dealer-manager agreement except for any act of bad faith or gross negligence by the dealer-manager. The Rights Offering may not be successful despite the services of the dealer-manager to us in this offering.

 

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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

This prospectus and the documents incorporated by reference herein contain forward-looking statements. These statements relate to future events or to our future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about:

 

The commercialization opportunities for our products and product candidates;

 

Our ability to sell our products at commercially reasonable prices and margins;

 

The effectiveness of our solution and our strategy;

 

Our views of the direction of pest control management and products;

 

Our ability to remain listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market;

 

The likelihood and timing of regulatory approvals for our product candidates;

 

Estimates of our expenses, capital requirements and need for additional financing and the ability to fund operations;

 

The initiation, timing, progress and results of future laboratory and field studies and our research and development programs;

 

Our use of proceeds from this offering;

 

Our financial condition and operating performance;

 

Our expectations regarding the subscriptions exercised in this Rights Offering and amounts we might receive from this Rights Offering;

 

Our expectations regarding the subscription period in the Rights Offering; and

 

Developments and projections relating to our competitors and our industry.

 

In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “could,” “intend,” “target,” “project,” “contemplate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” or “continue” or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions. These statements are only current predictions and are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our or our industry’s actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those anticipated by the forward-looking statements. We discuss many of these risks in this prospectus in greater detail under the heading “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this prospectus. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. New risk factors and uncertainties may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for management to predict all risks and uncertainties.

 

Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Except as required by law, after the date of this prospectus, we are under no duty to update or revise any of the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

 

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USE OF PROCEEDS

 

The gross proceeds that we receive from the Rights Offering will depend upon the number of rights exercised. If 8,571,428 of the subscription rights offered are exercised, we will receive gross cash proceeds of approximately $15,000,000. We intend the net proceeds from the Rights Offering to be used for working capital and general corporate purposes, including the following estimates:

 

Between $2-3 million on our commercialization efforts of ContraPest, including customer trials and sales incentives;

 

Between $2-3 million on development and enhancement of our ContraPest product, including to meet increased demand and lower cost;

 

$2 million on capital expenditures and facility expansion related to manufacturing; and

 

Up to $9 million on general corporate purposes, including new product development for additional species that we identify as having meaningful market potential.

 

If we receive substantially less than the maximum proceeds in this Rights Offering, we intend to use such proceeds for working capital and general corporate purposes, prioritizing on our commercialization efforts of ContraPest and the development and enhancement of our ContraPest product. The expected use of the net proceeds from this Rights Offering represents our intentions based upon our current plans and business conditions, which could change in the future as our plans and business conditions evolve. The amounts and timing of our actual expenditures will depend on numerous factors, including the progress of our product development efforts, timing of regulatory approvals and market acceptance of our products. As a result, our management will have broad discretion in applying the net proceeds from this offering.

 

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DILUTION

 

If you invest in our Units in this offering, you will experience an immediate dilution of the net tangible book value per share of our Common Stock. Our historical net tangible book value as of March 31, 2018 was approximately $5.6 million, or $0.34 per share of Common Stock. Our historical net tangible book value is the amount of our total tangible assets less our total liabilities. Historical net tangible book value per share is our historical net tangible book value divided by the weighted average number of shares of Common Stock outstanding as of March 31, 2018.

 

After giving effect to the sale of Units in this offering, at an assumed subscription price of $1.75 per Unit (and assuming no exercise of the Warrants), and after deducting the estimated offering expenses and dealer-manager fees and expenses payable by us, our as adjusted net tangible book value as of March 31, 2018 would have been approximately 19.3 million, or $0.77 per share of Common Stock. This represents an immediate increase in net tangible book value of $0.43 per share to existing stockholders and an immediate dilution in net tangible book value of $0.98 per share to new investors purchasing Units in this offering. The following table illustrates this dilution on a per share basis:

 

Subscription price  $1.75 
Historical net tangible book value per share as of March 31, 2018   0.34 
As adjusted increase in net tangible book value per share attributable to Rights Offering   0.43 
As adjusted net tangible book value per share as of March 31, 2018, after giving effect to the Rights Offering   0.77 
Dilution in net tangible book value per share to participants in the Rights Offering  $0.98 

 

The foregoing tables and calculations as of March 31, 2018 exclude the following potentially dilutive shares of Common Stock:

 

 

Shares issuable upon the exercise of Warrants to be issued in connection with this Rights Offering;

 

1,719,771 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of stock options outstanding as of July 20, 2018, at a weighted average exercise price of $1.57 per share;

 

  209,579 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the vesting of restricted stock units outstanding as of July 20, 2018;

 

  6,090,035 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding Common Stock warrants as of July 20, 2018, at a weighted average exercise price of $2.68 per share; and

 

  1,862,875 shares of Common Stock available for future issuance under our 2018 Plan as of July 20, 2018.

 

To the extent that any outstanding Common Stock options and Common Stock warrants are exercised or there are additional issuances of Common Stock options, Common Stock warrants or shares of our Common Stock in the future, there will be further dilution to investors participating in this offering.

 

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MARKET PRICE OF OUR COMMON STOCK

 

Our Common Stock is traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “SNES.” Our Common Stock has, from time to time, traded on a limited, sporadic or volatile basis. As of July 20, 2018, our Common Stock was held by approximately 655 stockholders of record. The following tables show the high and low sales prices for our Common Stock for the periods indicated, as reported on the Nasdaq Capital Market.

 

Period   High     Low  
Quarter ending September 30, 2018*     1.74       1.23  
Quarter ended June 30, 2018     2.37       0.30  
Quarter ended March 31, 2018     0.97       0.50  
Quarter ended December 31, 2017     3.87       0.56  
Quarter ended September 30, 2017     6.12       1.54  
Quarter ended June 30, 2017     8.77       4.85  
Quarter ended March 31, 2017     10.69       7.05  
Quarter ended December 31, 2016**     8.98       7.44  

 

*         Ending on July 20, 2018.

**       Beginning on December 8, 2016.

 

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DIVIDEND POLICY

 

We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our Common Stock. We currently intend to retain all available funds and any future earnings to support our operations and finance the growth and development of our business. We do not intend to pay cash dividends on our Common Stock for the foreseeable future. Any future determination related to our dividend policy will be made at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend upon, among other factors, our results of operations, financial condition, capital requirements, contractual restrictions, business prospects and other factors our board of directors may deem relevant.

 

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CAPITALIZATION

 

Set forth below is our cash and liquid assets and capitalization as of March 31, 2018:

 

on an actual basis; and
on an as adjusted basis, reflecting the issuance of shares of Common Stock and Warrants included in the Units offered by this prospectus, at a subscription price of $1.75 per Units, assuming net proceeds of approximately $13.7 million, after offering expenses and commissions payable by us.

 

The information below should be read in conjunction with our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2018 and our audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2017, all of which are incorporated by reference in this prospectus and any additional reports incorporated by reference herein. Our financial statements should also be read in conjunction with the “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” which is included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017, as amended and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2018, as amended, and incorporated by reference in this prospectus. Please read “Where You Can Find Additional Information” and “Incorporation of Certain Information by Reference.”

 

   As of March 31, 2018
(unaudited)
(in thousands, except share and per share data)
 
   Actual   Pro Forma   As Adjusted (1) 
Cash, cash equivalents and investments in short term securities  $4,771   $13,710   $18,481 
Debt               
Short-term debt   182        $182 
Notes payable, related parties   6         6 
Long-term debt, net   552         552 
Total Debt   740         740 
                
Stockholders’ equity:               
Common stock, $0.001 par value, 100,000,000 shares authorized, 16,512,246 shares issued and outstanding at March 31, 2018(2)   17    9    26 
Additional paid-in capital   81,792    13,710    95,502 
Stock subscribed, but not issued   8         8 
Accumulated deficit   (76,262)        (76,262)
Total stockholders’ equity   5,555    13,710    19,265 
Total capitalization  $6,295   $13,710   $20,005 

 

(1) The As Adjusted balance sheet amount reflects (i) the number of shares of our common stock included in the Units in this offering at an assumed offering price of $1.75 per Unit, after deducting commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

(2) The shares of Common Stock outstanding as of March 31, 2018 exclude the following potentially dilutive shares of Common Stock:

 

 

Shares issuable upon the exercise of Warrants to be issued in connection with this Rights Offering;

 

 

1,719,771 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of stock options outstanding as of July 20, 2018, at a weighted average exercise price of $1.57 per share;

 

  209,579 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the vesting of restricted stock units outstanding as of July 20, 2018;

 

  6,090,035 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding Common Stock warrants as of July 20, 2018, at a weighted-average exercise price of $2.68 per share (see “Description of Capital Stock — Outstanding Warrants”); and

 

  1,862,875 shares of Common Stock available for future issuance under our 2018 Plan as of July 20, 2018.

 

To the extent that any outstanding Common Stock options and Common Stock warrants are exercised or there are additional issuances of Common Stock options, Common Stock warrants or shares of our Common Stock in the future, there will be further dilution to investors participating in this offering.

 

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THE RIGHTS OFFERING

 

The Subscription Rights

 

We are distributing, at no charge, to holders of Common Stock and holders of certain outstanding warrants as of the Record Date, up to 23,111,485 non-transferable subscription rights to purchase in the aggregate up to 8,571,428 Units at a subscription price of $1.75 per Unit, for an aggregate purchase price of $15,000,000. Each eligible holder will receive one subscription right for each share of Common Stock owned or deemed to be owned at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, on July 24, 2018, the Record Date for the Rights Offering. Each subscription right will entitle a holder to purchase one Unit at a subscription price of $1.75 per Unit, which we refer to as the “basic subscription right.” Each basic subscription right will entitle each holder to purchase one share of our Common Stock and one Warrant. Each Warrant will be exercisable for one share of our Common Stock at an exercise price of $1.75 per share from the date of issuance through the expiration five years from the date of issuance. Please read “Description of Securities — Warrants Included in Units Issuable in the Rights Offering”.

 

Participation of Certain Warrant Holders. Certain holders of our warrants to purchase Common Stock have the contractual right to participate in this Rights Offering, including holders of warrants issued to investors in November 2017 and June 2018, and the holder of warrants issued to the underwriter of our IPO and the November 2017 offering. Each such eligible warrant holder will receive one subscription right for each share of Common Stock that such warrant holder’s warrant is exercisable for (or, as referred to elsewhere herein, for each share that such warrant holder is deemed to own). A total of 5,043,250 rights will be issued to these warrant holders.

 

Basic Subscription Right. Your basic subscription right allows you to purchase one Unit per subscription right, subject to proration as described below, upon delivery of the required documents and payment of the subscription price of $1.75 per Unit, before the expiration of the Rights Offering. For example, if you owned or were deemed to own 100 shares of Common Stock as of the Record Date, you would receive 100 subscription rights and would have the right to purchase 100 Units for $1.75 per Unit with your basic subscription right.

 

We will not issue fractional shares of Common Stock or Warrants upon the exercise of subscription rights in the Rights Offering. If the number of subscription rights you exercise would otherwise permit you to purchase a fractional share of Common Stock or Warrant, the number of shares of Common Stock and number of Warrants that you may purchase will be rounded down to the nearest whole share or Warrant, as applicable. You may exercise all or a portion of your basic subscription right, or you may choose not to exercise any subscription rights. If you exercise less than your full basic subscription right (other than those subscription rights to acquire less than one Unit, which cannot be exercised), you will not be entitled to purchase Units pursuant to your over-subscription right.

 

While each subscription right entitles you to purchase one Unit, we are only seeking to raise $15,000,000 dollars in gross proceeds in this Rights Offering. As a result, based on (1) 18,068,235 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of July 20, 2018 and (2) 5,043,250 shares of Common Stock deemed to be owned by certain warrant holders that have a contractual right to participate in this Rights Offering and deemed to be outstanding as of July 20, 2018, we would grant subscription rights to acquire 23,111,485 Units but will only accept subscriptions for 8,571,428 Units. Accordingly, sufficient Units may not be available to honor your subscription in full. If exercises of basic subscription rights exceed the number of Units available in the Rights Offering, we will allocate the available Units pro rata among the record holders exercising the basic subscription rights in proportion to the number of shares of our Common Stock each of those record holders owned or were deemed to own on the Record Date, relative to the number of shares owned on the Record Date by all record holders exercising the basic subscription right. If this pro rata allocation results in any record holders receiving a greater number of Units than the record holder subscribed for pursuant to the exercise of the basic subscription rights, then such record holder will be allocated only that number of Units for which the record holder subscribed, and the remaining Units will be allocated among all other record holders exercising their basic subscription rights on the same pro rata basis described above.

 

If for any reason the amount of Units allocated to you is less than you have subscribed for, then the excess funds held by the Subscription Agent on your behalf will be returned to you, without interest, as soon as practicable after the Rights Offering has expired and all prorating calculations and reductions contemplated by the terms of the Rights Offering have been effected, and we will have no further obligations to you.

 

Over-Subscription Right. The over-subscription right provides stockholders and eligible warrant holders, who exercise in full their basic subscription right, the opportunity to purchase the Units that are not purchased by other stockholders or eligible warrant holders. If you fully exercise your basic subscription right (other than those subscription rights to acquire less than one whole Unit, which cannot be exercised) and other stockholders or eligible warrant holders do not fully exercise their basic subscription right, you may also exercise an over-subscription right to purchase additional Units that remain unsubscribed at the expiration of the Rights Offering, subject to availability. To the extent the number of the unsubscribed Units are not sufficient to satisfy all of the properly exercised over-subscription rights requests, the available Units will be prorated among those who properly exercised over-subscription rights in proportion to their respective basic subscription right. To the extent any stockholders or eligible warrant holders properly exercise their over-subscription right for an aggregate amount of Units that is less than the number of the unsubscribed Units, such stockholders and eligible Warrant holders will be allocated the full number of unsubscribed Units for which each actually paid in connection with the over-subscription right. The remaining Units will be allocated among all other persons exercising the over-subscription right on the same pro rata basis described above.

 

In order to properly exercise your over-subscription right, you must deliver the subscription payment related to your over-subscription right before the expiration of the Rights Offering. Because we will not know the total number of unsubscribed Units before the expiration of the Rights Offering, if you wish to maximize the number of Units you purchase pursuant to your over-subscription right, you will need to deliver payment in an amount equal to the aggregate subscription price for the maximum number of Units, assuming that no stockholder or eligible warrant holder other than you has purchased any Units pursuant to their basic subscription right and over-subscription right.

 

We can provide no assurances that you will actually be entitled to purchase the number of Units issuable upon the exercise of your over-subscription right in full, or at all, at the expiration of the Rights Offering. We will not be able to satisfy your exercise of the over-subscription right if all of our stockholders or eligible warrant holders exercise their basic subscription right in full, and we will only honor an over-subscription right to the extent sufficient unsubscribed Units are available following the exercise of the basic subscription right.

 

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To the extent the aggregate subscription price of the maximum number of unsubscribed Units available to you pursuant to the over-subscription right is less than the amount you actually paid in connection with the exercise of the over-subscription right, you will be allocated only the number of unsubscribed Units available to you, and any excess subscription payments received by the Subscription Agent will be returned, without interest or penalty, as soon as practicable.

 

Limitation on Exercise. Unless waived by us in our sole discretion, no holder may purchase Units in the Rights Offering that, when aggregated with all the shares of Common Stock otherwise beneficially owned (as defined by Rule 13(d) of the Exchange Act) by such holder and its affiliates, would immediately following the closing of the Rights Offering represent 25% or more of our issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock. If the amount of subscription rights that you exercise is limited, any amount not used for purchases also will be refunded.

 

Reasons for the Rights Offering

 

We are conducting the Rights Offering to raise additional capital for general corporate purposes, including for our commercialization efforts. Please read “Use of Proceeds.” We believe that the Rights Offering will strengthen our financial condition by generating additional cash and increasing our stockholders’ equity. In authorizing the Rights Offering, the board of directors carefully evaluated our need for liquidity, financial flexibility and additional capital. The board of directors considered several alternatives before concluding that the Rights Offering was the appropriate alternative in the circumstances for a number of reasons, including that it provides an opportunity to our existing stockholders to limit ownership dilution by buying Units.

 

Determination of Subscription Price

 

The subscription price was established at a price of $1.75 per Unit. In determining the subscription price, the board of directors considered a number of factors, including the likely cost of capital from other sources, our business prospects, historical and current trading prices of Common Stock, the value of the Warrants being issued as components of the Unit, general conditions of the securities markets, and our need for liquidity and capital. The subscription price is not necessarily related to our book value, net worth or any other established criteria of value. We cannot assure you that the market price of Common Stock during the offering period will be equal or above the subscription price of the Units. You should obtain a current quote for our Common Stock before deciding whether to exercise your subscription right to purchase Units.

 

No Short Sales

 

By exercising the subscription right, you are representing to us that you have not entered into any short sale or similar transaction with respect to our Common Stock since the Record Date for the Rights Offering. In addition, the subscription right provides that, upon exercise of the subscription right, you represent that you have not since the Record Date and agree to not to enter into any short sale or similar transaction with respect to our Common Stock. These requirements prevent you from pursuing certain investment strategies that could provide you greater financial benefits than you might have realized if the subscription rights did not contain these requirements.

 

Method of Exercising Subscription Rights

 

You may exercise your subscription right as follows:

 

  1. Subscription by Registered Holders or Eligible Warrant Holders. You may exercise your subscription right by properly completing and executing the rights certificate together with any required signature guarantees, a notice of guaranteed delivery (if applicable) and an IRS Form W-9 and forwarding them, together with your full subscription payment for a whole number of Units, to the Subscription Agent at the address set forth below under “Subscription Agent,” before the expiration of the Rights Offering.

 

  2. Subscription by DTC Participants. We expect that the exercise of your subscription right may be made through the facilities of DTC. If your subscription right is held of record through DTC, you may exercise your subscription right by instructing DTC, or having your broker instruct DTC, to transfer your subscription right from your account to the account of the Subscription Agent, together with certification as to the aggregate number of subscription rights you are exercising and the number of Units you are subscribing for under your basic subscription right and your over-subscription right, if any, and your full subscription payment.

 

  3. Subscription by Beneficial Owners. If you are a beneficial owner of shares of Common Stock or eligible warrants that are registered in the name of a broker, dealer, bank or other nominee, or if you hold Common Stock or eligible warrants certificates and would prefer to have an institution conduct the transaction relating to the subscription rights on your behalf, you should instruct your broker, dealer, bank or other nominee to exercise your subscription right and deliver all documents and payment on your behalf before the expiration of the Rights Offering. Your subscription right will not be considered exercised unless the Subscription Agent receives from you or such other party all of the required documents and your full subscription payment (in good, cleared funds) by that date. Your nominee may establish a deadline that may be before the 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, on August 8, 2018 expiration date that we have established for the Rights Offering. If you are not contacted by your nominee, you should promptly contact your broker, dealer, bank or other nominee if you wish to subscribe for Units in the Rights Offering.

 

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Form of Payment

 

As described in the instructions accompanying the rights certificate, all payments submitted to the Subscription Agent must be made in full United States currency by personal, cashier’s or certified check payable to the Subscription Agent, drawn upon a United States bank; U.S. postal or express money order; or wire transfer of immediately available funds. If you elect to exercise your subscription right, we urge you to consider using a certified or cashier’s check, U.S. money order, or wire transfer of funds to ensure that the Subscription Agent receives your funds before the expiration of the Rights Offering. If payment is issued by check, payment will be deemed to have been received by the Subscription Agent only upon the Subscription Agent’s receipt and clearance of such check. Funds paid by uncertified personal check may take at least seven business days to clear. If you wish to pay by means of uncertified personal check, we urge you to make payment sufficiently in advance of the expiration of the Rights Offering to ensure that the Subscription Agent receives cleared funds before the expiration of the Rights Offering. Payment received after the expiration of the Rights Offering may not be honored, and the Subscription Agent will return your payment to you, without interest or penalty, as soon as practicable.

 

You should read and follow the instructions accompanying the rights certificate carefully. As described in the instructions accompanying the rights certificate, in certain cases additional documentation or signature guarantees may be required.

 

The method of delivery of payments of the subscription amount to the Subscription Agent will be at the risk of the holders of subscription rights. If sent by mail, we recommend that you send those documents and payments by registered mail, properly insured, with return receipt requested, and that a sufficient number of days be allowed to ensure timely delivery to the Subscription Agent. Do not send or deliver these materials to the Company.

 

There is no sales fee or commission payable by you in connection with the issuance of subscription rights or the issuance of shares of Common Stock and Warrants underlying the Units if you exercise your subscription right (other than the subscription price). We will pay all fees charged by the Subscription Agent. However, if you exercise your subscription right through a custodian bank, broker, dealer or other nominee, or if you exercise the Warrants included in the Units, you are responsible for paying any other commissions, fees, taxes or other expenses your nominee may charge you in connection with the exercise of the subscription right or Warrant.

 

Where to Submit Subscriptions

 

The address to which subscription documents, rights certificates, notices of guaranteed delivery (if applicable) and subscription payments other than wire transfers should be mailed or delivered is:

 

By mail:   By hand or overnight courier:
Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc.   Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc.
Attn: BCIS Re-Organization Dept.   Attn: BCIS IWS
P.O. Box 1317   51 Mercedes Way
Brentwood, New York 11717-0693   Edgewood, New York 11717
(855) 793-5068 (toll-free)   (855) 793-5068 (toll-free)

 

If you deliver subscription documents, rights certificates or notices of guaranteed delivery in a manner different than that described in this prospectus, we may not honor the exercise of your subscription right.

 

You should direct any questions or requests for assistance to the Subscription Agent, Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc. by telephone at (855) 793-5068.

 

Missing or Incomplete Subscription Information

 

If you do not indicate the number of subscription rights being exercised, or the Subscription Agent does not receive the full subscription payment for the number of subscription rights that you indicate are being exercised, then you will be deemed to have exercised the maximum number of subscription rights that may be exercised with the aggregate subscription payment you delivered to the Subscription Agent. If we do not apply your full subscription payment to your purchase of Units, any excess subscription payment received by the Subscription Agent will be returned, without interest or penalty, as soon as practicable.

 

Delivery of Subscriptions

 

You should read the instruction letter accompanying the rights certificate carefully and strictly follow it. Do not send your rights certificates or payments to the Company. Except as described below under “Guaranteed Delivery Procedures,” we will not consider your subscription received until the Subscription Agent has received delivery of a properly completed and duly executed rights certificate and the full subscription amount, payment of which has cleared. The risk of delivery of all documents and payments is borne by you or your nominee, not by the Subscription Agent or us. 

 

The method of delivery of rights certificates and payment of the subscription amount to the Subscription Agent will be at the risk of the holders of the subscription right. If sent by mail, we recommend that you send those certificates and payments by overnight courier or by registered mail, properly insured, with return receipt requested, and that a sufficient number of days be allowed to ensure delivery to the Subscription Agent and clearance of payment before the expiration of the Rights Offering.

 

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Notice to Nominees

 

If you are a broker, dealer, bank or other nominee that holds shares of Common Stock or eligible warrants for the account of others on the Record Date, you should notify the beneficial owners of the shares or warrants for whom you are the nominee of the Rights Offering as soon as possible to learn their intentions with respect to exercising their subscription right. You should obtain instructions from the beneficial owner as set forth in the instructions we have provided to you for your distribution to beneficial owners. If the beneficial owner so instructs, you should complete the appropriate rights certificate and submit it to the Subscription Agent with the proper subscription payment. If you hold shares of Common Stock or eligible warrants for the account(s) of more than one beneficial owner, you may exercise the number of subscription rights to which all beneficial owners in the aggregate otherwise would have been entitled had they been direct holders of Common Stock or eligible warrants on the Record Date, provided that you, as a nominee record holder, make a proper showing to the Subscription Agent by submitting the form entitled “Nominee Holder Certification,” which is provided with your Rights Offering materials. If you did not receive this form, you should contact the Subscription Agent to request a copy.

 

Beneficial Owners

 

If you are a beneficial owner of shares of Common Stock or eligible warrants that are held of record in the name of a broker, dealer, bank or other nominee, we will ask your broker, dealer, bank or other nominee to notify you of the Rights Offering. Instead of receiving a rights certificate, you will receive your subscription right through your broker, dealer, bank or other nominee. If you wish to exercise your subscription right, you will need to have your broker, dealer, bank or other nominee act for you. To exercise your subscription right, you should complete and return to your broker, dealer, bank or other nominee the form entitled “Beneficial Owner Election Form.” You should receive such form from your broker, dealer, bank or other nominee with the other Rights Offering materials. You should contact your broker, bank or other nominee if you do not receive this form and other Rights Offering material but you believe you are entitled to participate in the Rights Offering. We are not responsible if you do not receive the form from your broker, dealer, bank or other nominee or if you receive it without sufficient time to respond by the deadline established by your nominee, which deadline may be prior to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, on August 8, 2018.

 

If you hold certificates of Common Stock or eligible warrants directly and received a rights certificate but would prefer to have your broker, dealer, bank or other nominee act for you, you should contact your nominee and request such nominee to effect the transactions for you.

 

Guaranteed Delivery Procedures

 

If you wish to exercise your subscription right but you do not have sufficient time to deliver the rights certificate evidencing your subscription right to the Subscription Agent before the expiration of the Rights Offering, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, on August 8, 2018, you may exercise your subscription right by the following guaranteed delivery procedures:

 

deliver to the Subscription Agent before the expiration of the Rights Offering the subscription payment for each Unit you elected to purchase pursuant to the exercise of subscription rights in the manner set forth above under “Method of Exercising Subscription Rights;”

 

deliver to the Subscription Agent before the expiration of the Rights Offering the form entitled “Notice of Guaranteed Delivery;” and

 

deliver the properly completed rights certificate evidencing your subscription right being exercised and the related nominee holder certification, if applicable, with any required signatures guaranteed, to the Subscription Agent within three business days following the date you submit your Notice of Guaranteed Delivery.

 

Your Notice of Guaranteed Delivery must be delivered in substantially the same form provided with the “Form of Instructions for Use of The SenesTech, Inc. Subscription Right Certificate,” which will be distributed to you with your rights certificate. Your Notice of Guaranteed Delivery must include a signature guarantee from an eligible institution acceptable to the Subscription Agent. A form of that guarantee is included with the Notice of Guaranteed Delivery.

 

In your Notice of Guaranteed Delivery, you must provide:

 

your name

 

the number of subscription rights represented by your rights certificate, the number of Units for which you are subscribing under your basic subscription right, and the number of Units for which you are subscribing under your over-subscription right, if any; and

 

your guarantee that you will deliver to the Subscription Agent a rights certificate evidencing the subscription right you are exercising within three business days following the date the Subscription Agent receives your Notice of Guaranteed Delivery.

 

You may deliver your Notice of Guaranteed Delivery to the Subscription Agent in the same manner as your rights certificate at the address set forth above under “Subscription Agent.” The Subscription Agent will send you additional copies of the form of Notice of Guaranteed Delivery if you need them. You should contact the Subscription Agent, Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc., by telephone at (855) 793-5068 to request additional copies of the form of Notice of Guaranteed Delivery.

 

Recombination

 

The Common Stock and Warrants comprising the Units will separate upon the exercise of the Subscription Rights, and the Units will not trade as a separate security. Holders may not recombine shares of Common Stock and Warrants to receive a Unit.

 

Non-Transferability of Subscription Rights

 

The subscription rights are non-transferable (other than by operation of law), and as a result, you may not sell, transfer, assign or give away your subscription right to anyone. The subscription rights will not be listed for trading on any stock exchange or market.

 

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No Fractional Shares

 

We will not issue fractional shares of Common Stock or Warrants upon the exercise of the subscription rights in the Rights Offering. If the number of subscription rights you exercise would otherwise permit you to purchase a fractional share of Common Stock or Warrant, the number of shares of Common Stock and number of Warrants that you may purchase will be rounded down to the nearest whole share or Warrant, as applicable. Any excess subscription payments received by the Subscription Agent will be returned, without interest, as soon as practicable.

 

Validity of Subscriptions

 

We will resolve all questions regarding the validity and form of the exercise of your subscription right, including time of receipt and eligibility to participate in the Rights Offering. In resolving all such questions, we will review the relevant facts, consult with our legal advisors and may request input from the relevant parties. Our determination will be final and binding. Once made, subscriptions and directions are irrevocable, even if you later learn information that you consider to be unfavorable to the exercise of your subscription right and even if the Rights Offering is extended by the board of directors, and we will not accept any alternative, conditional or contingent subscriptions or directions. We reserve the absolute right to reject any subscriptions or directions not properly submitted or the acceptance of which would be unlawful. You must resolve any irregularities in connection with your subscriptions before the subscription period expires, unless waived by us in our sole discretion. Neither we nor the Subscription Agent will be under any duty to notify you or your representative of any defect in your subscription. A subscription will be considered accepted, subject to our right to terminate the Rights Offering, only when a properly completed and duly executed rights certificate and any other required documents and the full subscription payment have been received by the Subscription Agent. Our interpretations of the terms and conditions of the Rights Offering will be final and binding.

 

Escrow Arrangements; Return of Funds

 

The Subscription Agent will hold funds received in payment for Units in a segregated account pending completion of the Rights Offering. The Subscription Agent will hold this money in escrow until the Rights Offering is completed or is withdrawn and canceled. If the Rights Offering is canceled for any reason, all subscription payments received by the Subscription Agent will be returned, without interest or penalty, as soon as practicable. In addition, all subscription payments received by the Subscription Agent will be returned, without interest or penalty, as soon as practicable, if subscribers decide to cancel their subscription right in the event that there is a fundamental change to the Rights Offering.

 

Expiration Date, Extension and Amendments

 

The subscription period, during which you may exercise your subscription right, expires at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, on August 8, 2018, which is the expiration of the Rights Offering. If you do not exercise your subscription right before that time, your subscription right will expire and will no longer be exercisable. We will not be required to issue shares of Common Stock and Warrants to you if the Subscription Agent receives your rights certificate or your subscription payment (in good, cleared funds) after that time, regardless of when the rights certificate and subscription payment were sent, unless you send the documents in compliance with the guaranteed delivery procedures described herein.

 

In our sole discretion, we may extend the expiration of the Rights Offering by giving written notice to the Subscription Agent before the expiration of the Rights Offering. If we elect to extend the expiration of the Rights Offering, we will issue a press release announcing such extension no later than the next business day after the most recently announced expiration of the Rights Offering. We will extend the duration of the Rights Offering as required by applicable law or regulation and may choose to extend it if we decide to give investors more time to exercise their subscription rights in the Rights Offering.

 

The board of directors also reserves the right to amend the terms of the Rights Offering. We may choose to amend the terms of the Rights Offering for any reason, including, without limitation, in order to increase participation in the Rights Offering. Such amendments or modifications may include a change in the subscription price, although no such change is presently contemplated. If we should make any fundamental changes to the terms set forth in this prospectus, we will file a post-effective amendment to the registration statement in which this prospectus is included, offer potential purchasers who have subscribed for rights the opportunity to cancel such subscriptions and issue a refund of any money advanced by such stockholder or eligible warrant holder and recirculate an updated prospectus after the post-effective amendment is declared effective with the SEC. In addition, upon such event, we may extend the expiration date of the Rights Offering to allow holders of rights ample time to make new investment decisions and for us to recirculate updated documentation. Promptly following any such occurrence, we will issue a press release announcing any changes with respect to the Rights Offering and the new expiration date. The terms of the Rights Offering cannot be modified or amended after the expiration date of the Rights Offering.

 

Conditions and Termination

 

There is no minimum subscription requirement to complete the Rights Offering. We may consummate the Rights Offering regardless of the amount raised. We reserve the right to terminate the Rights Offering before its expiration for any reason. In particular, we may terminate the Rights Offering, in whole or in part, if at any time before completion of the Rights Offering there is any judgment, order, decree, injunction, statute, law or regulation entered, enacted, amended or held to be applicable to the Rights Offering that in the sole judgment of the board of directors would or might make the Rights Offering or its completion, whether in whole or in part, illegal or otherwise restrict or prohibit completion of the Rights Offering. We may waive any of these conditions and choose to proceed with the Rights Offering even if one or more of these events occur. If we terminate the Rights Offering in whole or in part, we will issue a press release notifying the stockholders and eligible warrant holders of such event, all affected subscription rights will expire without value, and all excess subscription payments received by the Subscription Agent will be returned, without interest or penalty, as soon as practicable following such termination.

 

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No Revocation or Change

 

Your exercise of your subscription right is irrevocable and may not be cancelled or modified, even if you later learn information that you consider to be unfavorable to the exercise of your subscription right, if the market price of the Common Stock falls below the subscription price of $1.75 per Unit, or if the Rights Offering is extended by the board of directors. However, if we amend the Rights Offering to make a fundamental change to the terms set forth in this prospectus, you may cancel your subscription and receive a refund of any money you have advanced.

 

Dilutive Effects of the Rights Offerings

 

If you do not exercise any subscription rights, the number of shares of Common Stock that you own will not change but you will own a smaller proportional interest in our Company than would otherwise be the case had you fully exercised your subscription right. Even if you fully exercise your subscription right, your proportionate voting interest may be reduced due to the participation of eligible warrant holders. Further, the shares issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants to be issued pursuant to the Rights Offering will dilute the ownership interest of stockholders not participating in the Rights Offering or holders of Warrants who have not exercised them.

 

Stockholder Rights

 

You will have no rights as a holder of the shares of Common Stock included in the Units you purchase in the Rights Offering, if any, until such shares are issued to you through the DRS or, if you hold shares through a broker, dealer, bank or other nominee, your broker or bank has received the shares. You will have no right to revoke your subscriptions after you deliver your completed rights certificate, the full subscription payment and any other required documents to the Subscription Agent.

 

Issuance of Shares and Warrants Acquired in the Rights Offering; Trading Market

 

Shares of Common Stock and Warrants purchased in the Rights Offering will be issued only in book-entry form, and no physical stock certificates will be issued for such shares or Warrants. If you are the holder of record of Common Stock (whether you hold share certificates or your shares are maintained in book-entry form by our transfer agent, Transfer Online, Inc.), you will receive a statement of ownership reflecting the shares of Common Stock and Warrants purchased in the offering in the DRS, as soon as practicable after the expiration of the Rights Offering. If you hold your shares of Common Stock or eligible warrants through a broker, dealer, bank or other nominee, you may request a statement of ownership from the holder of your shares following the expiration of the Rights Offering. We will not issue fractional shares or Warrants upon exercise of the subscription rights. If the number of subscription rights you exercise would otherwise permit you to purchase a fractional share of Common Stock or Warrant, the number of shares of Common Stock and number of Warrants that you may purchase will be rounded down to the nearest whole share or Warrant, as applicable. Any excess subscription payments received by the Subscription Agent will be returned, without interest, as soon as practicable. The subscription rights may not be sold, transferred, assigned or given away to anyone, and will not be listed for trading on any stock exchange or market.

 

Warrant Agent

 

The warrant agent for the Warrants is Transfer Online, Inc.

 

Foreign Stockholders

 

We will not mail this prospectus or rights certificates to stockholders or eligible warrant holders with addresses that are outside the United States or that have an army post office or foreign post office address. The Subscription Agent will hold rights certificates for the account of such stockholders or eligible warrant holders. To exercise their subscription right, our foreign stockholders or eligible warrant holders must notify the Subscription Agent before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, at least three business days before the expiration of the Rights Offering and demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Subscription Agent that the exercise of such subscription right does not violate the laws of the jurisdiction of such stockholder or eligible warrant holder. The deadlines for delivery of subscription materials and payment described above also apply.

 

Regulatory Limitation

 

We will not be required to issue to you shares of Common Stock and Warrants pursuant to the Rights Offering if, in our opinion, you are required to obtain prior clearance or approval from any state or federal regulatory authorities to own or control such shares or Warrants and if, at the time the Rights Offering expires, you have not obtained such clearance or approval.

 

Fees and Expenses

 

We will pay all fees due to the Subscription Agent, as well as any other expenses we incur in connection with the Rights Offering. You are responsible for paying any other commissions, fees, taxes or other expenses incurred by you in connection with the exercise of your subscription right and in connection with the exercise of the Warrants issued pursuant to the Rights Offering.

 

No Board of Directors Recommendation to Rights Holders

 

The board of directors is making no recommendation regarding your exercise of the subscription rights. You are urged to make your decision based on your own assessment of our business and the Rights Offering. Please read “Risk Factors” for a discussion of some of the risks involved in investing in Units in the Rights Offering.

 

U.S. Federal Income Tax Treatment of Rights Offering

 

For U.S. federal income tax purposes, we do not believe holders of shares of Common Stock should recognize income or loss upon receipt or exercise of a subscription right. Please read “Certain United States Federal Income Tax Considerations.”

 

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Distribution Arrangements

 

Maxim Group LLC is the dealer-manager for the Rights Offering. The dealer-manager will provide marketing assistance and advice to us in connection with the Rights Offering and will use its best efforts to solicit the exercise of subscription rights and participation in the over-subscription right. The dealer-manager is not underwriting or placing any of the subscription rights or the Units to be issued in the Rights Offering and does not make any recommendation with respect to such subscription rights (including with respect to the exercise or expiration of such subscription rights) or Units. We have agreed to pay the dealer-manager certain fees and to reimburse the dealer-manager for certain expenses incurred in connection with this offering. Please read “Plan of Distribution.”

 

Other Matters

 

We are not making the Rights Offering in any state or other jurisdiction in which it is unlawful to do so, nor are we distributing or accepting any offers to purchase any Units from subscription right holders who are residents of those states or other jurisdictions or who are otherwise prohibited by federal or state laws or regulations from accepting or exercising the subscription rights. We may delay the commencement of the Rights Offering in those states or other jurisdictions, or change the terms of the Rights Offering, in whole or in part, in order to comply with the securities laws or other legal requirements of those states or other jurisdictions. Subject to state securities laws and regulations, we also have the discretion to delay allocation and distribution of any shares of Common Stock and Warrants you may elect to purchase by exercise of your subscription right in order to comply with state securities laws. We may decline to make modifications to the terms of the Rights Offering requested by those states or other jurisdictions, in which case, if you are a resident in those states or jurisdictions or if you are otherwise prohibited by federal or state laws or regulations from accepting or exercising the subscription right, you will not be eligible to participate in the Rights Offering. However, we are not currently aware of any states or jurisdictions that would preclude participation in the Rights Offering.

 

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CERTAIN UNITED STATES FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSIDERATIONS

 

The following is a discussion of certain U.S. federal income tax considerations, as of the date of this prospectus, to U.S. holders (as defined below) of our Common Stock of the receipt, sale and exercise (or expiration) of the subscription right acquired through the Rights Offering and the receipt, ownership and sale of the Common Stock and Warrants received upon exercise of the basic subscription right or, if applicable, the over-subscription right, and the ownership or disposition of the shares of Common Stock received upon exercise of the Warrants.

 

This summary does not provide a complete analysis of all potential tax considerations. It applies to you only if you are a U.S. holder, acquire your subscription right by distribution from the Company in the Rights Offering and hold the Common Stock and Warrants issued to you upon exercise of the subscription right or, if applicable, the over-subscription right, as capital assets within the meaning of section 1221 of the Code. This section does not apply to you if you are not a U.S. holder or if you are a member of a special class of holders subject to special rules, including, without limitation, financial institutions, regulated investment companies, real estate investment trusts, holders who are dealers in securities or foreign currency, traders in securities that elect to use a mark-to-market method of accounting for securities holdings, tax-exempt organizations, insurance companies, persons liable for alternative minimum tax, holders who hold such stock as part of a hedge, straddle, conversion, constructive sale or other integrated security transaction, holders whose functional currency is not the U.S. dollar, or holders who received our Common Stock on which the subscription rights are distributed in satisfaction of our indebtedness or as compensation. Additionally, this discussion does not address U.S. holders who beneficially own our shares through either a “foreign financial institution” (as such term is defined in Section 1471(d) (4) of the Code) or certain other non-U.S. entities specified in Section 1472 of the Code.

 

This section is based upon the Code, the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, legislative history, judicial authority and published rulings, any of which may subsequently be changed, possibly retroactively, or subject to different interpretations. Changes in these authorities may cause the U.S. federal income tax consequences to vary substantially from the consequences discussed below. The discussion that follows neither binds the IRS nor precludes the IRS from adopting a position contrary to that expressed in this prospectus, and we cannot assure you that such a contrary position could not be asserted successfully by the IRS or adopted by a court if the position was litigated. We have not sought, and will not seek, a ruling from the IRS regarding the Rights Offering. This summary does not deal with any U.S. federal non-income, state, local or foreign tax consequences, estate or gift tax consequences, or alternative minimum tax consequences, nor does it address any tax considerations to persons other than U.S. holders.

 

You are a U.S. holder if you are a beneficial owner of subscription rights or Common Stock and you are:

 

An individual who is a U.S. citizen or U.S. resident alien,

 

A corporation (or entity treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes) created or organized, or treated as created or organized, in or under the laws of the United Sates, any state thereof or the District of Columbia,

 

An estate whose income is subject to U.S. federal income tax regardless of its source, or

 

A trust that either is subject to the supervision of a U.S. court and has one or more U.S. persons authorized to control all of its substantial decisions or has a valid election in effect under applicable Treasury Regulations to be treated as a U.S. person.

 

If a partnership (including any entity or arrangement treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes) receives a distribution of subscription rights or holds Common Stock and Warrants received upon exercise of the subscription rights or, if applicable, the over-subscription right, or shares of our Common Stock acquired upon exercise of the Warrants, the tax treatment of a partner in such partnership generally will depend upon the status of the partner and the activities of the partnership. Such a partner or partnership is urged to consult its own tax advisor as to the U.S. federal income tax consequences of receiving, selling or exercising the subscription rights and acquiring, holding or disposing of our Common Stock.

 

EACH HOLDER OF OUR COMMON STOCK IS URGED TO CONSULT ITS OWN TAX ADVISOR REGARDING THE SPECIFIC FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL AND FOREIGN INCOME AND OTHER TAX CONSIDERATIONS OF THE RECEIPT AND EXERCISE (OR EXPIRATION) OF SUBSCRIPTION RIGHTS AND THE RECEIPT, OWNERSHIP AND DISPOSITION OF THE COMMON STOCK AND WARRANTS.

 

Receipt, Exercise and Expiration of the Subscription Right; Tax Basis and Holding Period of Common Stock and Warrants Received upon Exercise of the Subscription Right

 

Receipt of the Distribution of Subscription Rights

 

The U.S. federal income tax consequences of the Rights Offering will depend on whether the Rights Offering is considered part of a “disproportionate distribution” within the meaning of Section 305 of the Code. Your receipt of the distribution of subscription rights in the Rights Offering should be treated as a nontaxable distribution with respect to your existing Common Stock for U.S. federal income tax purposes provided that the Rights Offering is not part of a disproportionate distribution. A disproportionate distribution is a distribution or a series of distributions, including deemed distributions, from a corporation that has the effect of the receipt of cash or other property by some stockholders and an increase in the proportionate interest of other stockholders in the corporation’s assets or earnings and profits. For purposes of the above, “stockholder” generally includes holders of rights to acquire stock (such as warrants and options) and holders of convertible securities. The distribution of rights should not result in the receipt by any stockholders of cash or property from the Company. Accordingly, we believe and intend to take the position, and the following discussion assumes (unless explicitly stated otherwise), that the subscription rights issued in the Rights Offering are not part of a disproportionate distribution and, thus, we will not treat the distribution of the subscription rights to you as a dividend of our earnings and profits that is taxable to you for U.S. federal income tax purposes. However, the disproportionate distribution tax rules are complex, the determination is highly dependent on the existence or non-existence of certain facts and the interpretation of such facts or absence thereof, and, as a result, their application is uncertain. Further, the determination of whether the distribution of the subscription rights for our Common Stock results in the receipt of a dividend depends, in part, on the presence of certain facts and the determination of whether such facts exist cannot be made until the close of our taxable year. Finally, it is possible that the IRS, which is not bound by our determination, could challenge our position. For a discussion of the U.S. federal income tax consequences to you if the Rights Offering were to be considered part of a disproportionate distribution, please read “Consequences if the Rights Offering Is Considered Part of a Disproportionate Distribution” below.

 

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EACH HOLDER OF SUBSCRIPTION RIGHTS SHOULD CONSULT ITS OWN TAX ADVISOR WITH RESPECT TO THE TAX CONSEQUENCES OF THE DISTRIBUTION, EXERCISE (OR EXPIRATION), OR DISPOSITION OF SUBSCRIPTION RIGHTS, INCLUDING WHETHER THE RIGHTS OFFERING WERE TAXABLE AS A “DISPROPORTIONATE DISTRIBUTION” WITHIN THE MEANING OF CODE SECTION 305.

 

Tax Basis in the Subscription Right

 

If the fair market value of the subscription right distributed to you is less than 15% of the fair market value of your Common Stock on the date you receive your subscription right, your subscription right will be allocated a zero tax basis for U.S. federal income tax purposes, unless you elect to allocate tax basis between your existing Common Stock and your subscription right in proportion to their relative fair market values determined on the date you receive your subscription right. If you choose to allocate tax basis between your existing Common Stock and your subscription right, you must make this election on a statement included with your tax return for the taxable year in which you receive your subscription right. Such an election is irrevocable.

 

If the fair market value of the subscription right distributed to you is 15% or more of the fair market value of your existing Common Stock on the date you receive your subscription right, you must allocate your tax basis in your existing Common Stock between your existing Common Stock and your subscription right in proportion to their relative fair market values determined on the date you receive your subscription right.

 

The fair market value of the subscription right on the date the subscription right will be distributed is uncertain, and we have not obtained, and do not intend to obtain, an appraisal of that fair market value. In determining the fair market value of the subscription right, you should consider all relevant facts and circumstances, including any difference between the subscription price of the subscription right and the trading price of our Common Stock on the date that the subscription rights are distributed, and the length of the period during which the subscription right may be exercised.

 

Exercise and Expiration of the Subscription Rights

 

You should not recognize any gain or loss upon the exercise of subscription rights distributed to you in the Rights Offering, and the tax basis, if any, in the subscription rights plus the subscription price for the Common Stock and Warrants should be allocated between the shares of our Common Stock and Warrants acquired through exercise of the subscription rights. This allocation will establish your initial tax basis for U.S. federal income tax purposes in the newly acquired Common Stock and Warrants received upon exercise. The holding period for the shares of Common Stock and Warrants acquired through exercise of the subscription rights will begin on the date the subscription rights are exercised.

 

If you allow subscription rights received in the Rights Offering to expire, you generally should not recognize any gain or loss upon that expiration. If you have tax basis in the subscription rights and you allow the subscription rights to expire, the tax basis of our Common Stock owned by you with respect to which such subscription rights were distributed will be restored to the tax basis of such Common Stock immediately before the receipt of the subscription rights in the Rights Offering.

 

If, at the time of the receipt or exercise of a subscription right distributed to you in the Rights Offering, you no longer hold the share of our Common Stock with respect to which such subscription right is received, certain aspects of the tax treatment of the exercise of the subscription right are unclear, including (1) the allocation of tax basis between the Common Stock previously sold and the subscription right, (2) the impact of such allocation on the amount and timing of gain or loss recognized with respect to the Common Stock previously sold, and (3) the impact of such allocation on the tax basis of Common Stock and Warrants acquired through the exercise of the subscription right. If you exercise a subscription right distributed to you in the Rights Offering after disposing of the Common Stock with respect to which the subscription right is received, you should consult your tax advisor as to these uncertainties.

 

Consequences if the Rights Offering Is Considered Part of a Disproportionate Distribution

 

If the Rights Offering is part of a “disproportionate distribution” within the meaning of Section 305 of the Code, the distribution of subscription rights would be treated as a distribution with respect to your underlying Common Stock equal to the fair market value of the subscription rights you received and would be taxable to you as a dividend to the extent that such fair market value is allocable to our current or accumulated earnings and profits for the taxable year in which the subscription rights are distributed. We cannot determine, before the consummation of the Rights Offering, the extent to which we will have sufficient current and accumulated earnings and profits to cause any distribution to be treated as a dividend. Dividends received by corporate holders of our Common Stock are taxable at ordinary corporate tax rates subject to any applicable dividends-received deduction. Subject to the discussion of the tax on net investment income set forth below (please read “— Additional Tax on Net Investment Income”), dividends received by noncorporate holders of our Common Stock are generally taxed at preferential rates provided that the holder meets applicable holding period and certain other requirements. Any such distribution in excess of our current and accumulated earnings and profits would be treated first as a tax-free return of your basis in our Common Stock and thereafter as gain from the sale or exchange of your Common Stock. Regardless of whether the distribution of subscription rights is treated as a dividend, as a tax-free return of basis or as gain from the sale or exchange of our Common Stock, your tax basis in the subscription rights you receive will be their fair market value.

 

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If the receipt of subscription rights is taxable to you as described in the previous paragraph and you allow subscription rights received in the Rights Offering to expire, you should recognize a capital loss equal to your tax basis in the expired subscription rights. Your ability to use any capital loss is subject to certain limitations. You should not recognize any gain or loss upon the exercise of the subscription rights, and the tax basis of the subscription rights plus the subscription price for the Common Stock and Warrants should be allocated between the shares of Common Stock and Warrants acquired through exercise of the subscription rights. The holding period for the shares of Common Stock and Warrants acquired through exercise of the subscription rights will begin on the date the subscription rights are exercised.

 

Ownership and Disposition of Warrants Acquired Through Exercise of the Subscription Rights

 

Sale or Other Disposition, Exercise or Expiration of Warrants Acquired Through Exercise of the Subscription Rights

 

Upon the sale or other disposition of a Warrant (other than by exercise), you generally will recognize capital gain or loss equal to the difference between the amount realized on the sale or other disposition and your tax basis in the Warrant. This capital gain or loss will be long-term capital gain or loss if your holding period in such Warrant is more than one year at the time of the sale or other disposition. The deductibility of capital losses is subject to certain limitations.

 

In general, you will not be required to recognize income, gain or loss upon exercise of a Warrant for its exercise price. Your tax basis in a share of our Common Stock received upon exercise of a Warrant will be equal to the sum of your tax basis in the Warrant exchanged therefor and the exercise price of such Warrant. Your holding period in the shares of our Common Stock received upon exercise will commence on the day after you exercise the Warrant. Although there is no direct legal authority as to the U.S. federal income tax treatment of an exercise of a Warrant on a cashless basis, we intend to take the position that such exercise will not be taxable, either because the exercise is not a gain realization event or because it qualifies as a tax-free recapitalization. In the former case, the holding period of the shares of our Common Stock received upon exercise of Warrants should commence on the day after the Warrants are exercised. In the latter case, the holding period of the shares of our Common Stock received upon exercise of Warrants would include the holding period of the exercised Warrants. However, our position is not binding on the IRS, and the IRS may treat a cashless exercise of a Warrant as a taxable exchange. You are urged to consult your tax advisor as to the consequences of an exercise of a Warrant on a cashless basis, including with respect to their holding period and tax basis in the Common Stock received.

 

If a Warrant expires without being exercised, you will recognize a capital loss in an amount equal to your tax basis in the Warrant. Such loss will be long-term capital loss if, at the time of the expiration, your holding period in such Warrant is more than one year. The deductibility of capital losses is subject to certain limitations.

 

Distributions and Constructive Distributions on Warrants

 

In the event that the Company declares or makes any dividend or other distribution of its assets to holders of its Common Stock and you also receive a distribution in accordance with the terms of the Warrant, the tax treatment of such distribution will be treated in the same manner as a distribution received on Common Stock as described below. In addition, if exercise price or number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of a Warrant is adjusted in certain circumstances, such adjustments may result in a deemed distribution to you. You should consult your tax advisor regarding the proper treatment of any distributions or adjustments to the exercise price or number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants.

 

Ownership and Disposition of Common Stock Acquired Through Exercise of the Subscription Rights and Warrants

 

Distributions on Common Stock Acquired Through Exercise of the Subscription Rights and Warrants

 

Cash distributions on Common Stock will be dividends for U.S. federal income tax purposes to the extent of our current or accumulated earnings and profits, as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and will be taxable as ordinary income, although possibly at reduced rates as discussed below. To the extent that the amount of any distribution paid with respect to Common Stock exceeds our current or accumulated earnings and profits, the excess will be treated first as a nontaxable return of capital to the extent of your adjusted tax basis in the Common Stock and then as capital gain.

 

Distributions on Common Stock taxable as dividends received by corporate U.S. holders generally will be eligible for the dividends received deduction, subject to various conditions and limitations. Subject to certain exceptions for short-term and hedged positions and provided that certain holding period and other requirements are met, distributions constituting “qualified dividend income” received by non-corporate U.S. holders in respect of Common Stock generally are currently subject to a reduced maximum tax rate of 20% plus the additional tax on net investment income described below under “—Additional Tax on Net Investment Income,” if applicable.

 

You should consult your own tax advisor regarding the availability of the reduced dividend tax rate or the dividends received deduction in light of your particular circumstances.

 

Sale or Other Disposition

 

A sale, exchange, or other disposition of the Common Stock generally will result in gain or loss equal to the difference between the amount realized upon the disposition (not including any proceeds attributable to declared and unpaid dividends, which will be taxable as described above to you if you have not previously included such dividends in income) and your adjusted tax basis in the Common Stock. The gain or loss will be long-term capital gain or loss if you held the Common Stock more than one year at the time of sale, exchange, or other disposition. Under current law, long-term capital gains of individuals, estates, and trusts generally are subject to a reduced maximum federal income tax rate of 20% plus the additional tax on net investment income described below under “— Additional Tax on Net Investment Income,” if applicable.

 

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Sale or Other Disposition, Exercise or Expiration of Warrants Acquired Through Exercise of the Subscription Rights

 

Upon the sale or other disposition of a Warrant (other than by exercise), a U.S. holder will generally recognize capital gain or loss equal to the difference between the amount realized on the sale or other disposition and the U.S. holder’s tax basis in the Warrant. This capital gain or loss will be long-term capital gain or loss if the U.S. holder’s holding period in such Warrant is more than one year at the time of the sale or other disposition. The deductibility of capital losses is subject to certain limitations.

 

In general, a U.S. holder will not be required to recognize income, gain or loss upon exercise of a Warrant for its exercise price. A U.S. holder’s tax basis in a share of our common stock received upon exercise of the Warrants will be equal to the sum of (1) the U.S. holder’s tax basis in the Warrants exchanged therefor and (2) the exercise price of such Warrants. A U.S. holder’s holding period in the shares of our common stock received upon exercise will commence on the day after such U.S. holder exercises the Warrants. Although there is no direct legal authority as to the U.S. federal income tax treatment of an exercise of a Warrant on a cashless basis, we intend to take the position that such exercise will not be taxable, either because the exercise is not a gain realization event or because it qualifies as a tax-free recapitalization. In the former case, the holding period of the shares of our common stock received upon exercise of Warrants should commence on the day after the Warrants are exercised. In the latter case, the holding period of the shares of our common stock received upon exercise of Warrants would include the holding period of the exercised Warrants. However, our position is not binding on the IRS, and the IRS may treat a cashless exercise of a Warrant as a taxable exchange. U.S. holders are urged to consult their tax advisors as to the consequences of an exercise of a Warrant on a cashless basis, including with respect to their holding period and tax basis in the common stock received.

 

If a Warrant expires without being exercised, a U.S. holder will recognize a capital loss in an amount equal to such holder’s tax basis in the Warrant. Such loss will be long-term capital loss if, at the time of the expiration, the U.S. holder’s holding period in such Warrant is more than one year. The deductibility of capital losses is subject to certain limitations.

 

Additional Tax on Net Investment Income

 

Certain U.S. citizens and residents and certain estates and trusts are subject to a 3.8% tax on certain net investment income, including dividends and capital gain from the disposition of property, such as the subscription rights and the Common Stock and Warrants. You should consult your tax advisor with respect to this additional tax.

 

Information Reporting and Backup Withholding

 

You may be subject to information reporting and/or backup withholding with respect to dividend payments on or the gross proceeds from the disposition of Common Stock acquired through the exercise of subscription rights or through exercise of the Warrants. The current rate for backup withholding is 24% but is subject to change. Backup withholding may apply under certain circumstances if (1) you fail to furnish your social security or other taxpayer identification number (“TIN”), (2) you furnish an incorrect TIN, (3) you fail to report interest or dividends properly, (4) you fail to provide a certified statement, signed under penalty of perjury, that the TIN provided is correct, that you are not subject to backup withholding and that you are a U.S. person or (5) the IRS notifies us that you are otherwise subject to backup withholding. Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Any amount withheld from a payment under the backup withholding rules is allowable as a credit against (and may entitle you to a refund with respect to) your U.S. federal income tax liability, provided that the required information is timely furnished to the IRS. You may obtain a refund of any excess amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules by timely filing the appropriate claim for refund with the IRS and furnishing any required information. Certain persons are exempt from backup withholding, including corporations. 

 

THE PRECEDING DISCUSSION OF CERTAIN UNITED STATES FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSIDERATIONS IS NOT TAX ADVICE. HOLDERS OF SUBSCRIPTION RIGHTS, SHARES OF OUR COMMON STOCK AND WARRANTS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR OWN TAX ADVISORS REGARDING THE APPLICATION OF THE U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX LAWS TO THEIR PARTICULAR SITUATIONS AND THE CONSEQUENCES UNDER FEDERAL ESTATE AND GIFT TAX LAWS, FOREIGN, STATE AND LOCAL LAWS AND TAX TREATIES OF THE RECEIPT, OWNERSHIP AND EXERCISE OF SUBSCRIPTION RIGHTS AND THE ACQUISITION, OWNERSHIP AND DISPOSITION OF SHARES OF OUR COMMON STOCK AND WARRANTS ACQUIRED UPON EXERCISE OF SUBSCRIPTION RIGHTS AND THE SHARES OF OUR COMMON STOCK ACQUIRED UPON EXERCISE OF THE WARRANTS.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

 

In this Rights Offering, we are accepting subscriptions for 8,571,428 Units, with each Unit consisting of one share of our Common Stock and one Warrant. Each Warrant will be exercisable for one share of our Common Stock. The shares of Common Stock and Warrants comprising the Units are immediately separable and will be issued separately, but will be purchased together in this Rights Offering. We are also registering the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants including the Dealer-Manager Warrant.

 

Common Stock

 

The material terms and provisions of our Common Stock are described herein under the caption “Description of Capital Stock.”

 

Warrants

 

The following summary of certain terms and provisions of Warrants that are being offered hereby is not complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the provisions of the Warrant, the form of which is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. You should carefully review the terms and provisions of the form of Warrant for a complete description of the terms and conditions of the Warrants.

 

Warrants Included in Units Issuable in the Rights Offering

 

Subject to a holder’s right to elect to receive a warrant in certificated form, all Warrants that are purchased in the Rights Offering as part of the Units will be initially issued in book-entry, or uncertificated, form meaning that you will receive a DRS account statement from our transfer agent reflecting ownership of Warrants if you are a holder of record. The Subscription Agent will arrange for the issuance of the Warrants as soon as practicable after the Closing. At Closing, all prorating calculations and reductions contemplated by the terms of the Rights Offering will have been effected and payment to us for the subscribed-for Units will have cleared. If you hold your shares of Common Stock or eligible warrants, as applicable, in the name of a bank, broker, dealer, or other nominee, DTC will credit your account with your nominee with the Warrants you purchased in the Rights Offering.

 

The Warrants to be issued as a part of this Rights Offering will be separately transferable following their issuance. Each Warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one share of our Common Stock.

 

Duration and Exercise Price. The warrants have an exercise price of $1.75 per share and are exercisable upon issuance. The warrants will expire five years from the date of issuance.

 

Adjustment. For so long as the warrants remain outstanding, the exercise price and number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the warrant is subject to adjustment as follows: (a) as the Company’s board of directors deems appropriate, or (b) upon subdivision (by stock spilt, stock dividend, recapitalization, or otherwise) or combination (by reverse stock split or otherwise) of shares of Common Stock.

 

Rights upon Distribution of Assets. In the event that the Company declares or makes any dividend or other distribution of its assets to holders of its Common Stock, the warrant holder will be entitled to participate in such distribution to the same extent that such holder would have participated therein if the holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon exercise of the warrant.

 

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Fundamental Transaction. In the event of a Fundamental Transaction, as described in the warrants and generally including the sale, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of our properties or assets, our consolidation or merger with or into another person, recapitalization or reclassification or the acquisition of our outstanding Common Stock which results in any person or group becoming the beneficial owner of 50% of the voting power represented by our outstanding Common Stock, the holders of the warrants will be entitled to receive upon exercise of the warrants the kind and amount of securities, cash, assets or other property that the holders would have received had they exercised the warrants immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction. Subject to certain limitations, in the event of a Fundamental Transaction the warrant holder may at its option require the Company or any Successor Entity to purchase the warrant from the holder by paying to the holder an amount of cash equal to the Black Scholes Value of the remaining unexercised portion of the warrant on the date of the consummation of the Fundamental Transaction.

 

Purchase Right. Any time that the Company grants, issues, or sells any securities pro rata to all of the record holders of the Common Stock (the “Purchase Right”), the holder of the warrant will be entitled to acquire the aggregate Purchase Rights which the holder could have acquired if the holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon exercise of the warrant.

 

Transferability. Subject to applicable laws and restrictions on transfer, the warrant may be transferred at the option of the holder. The warrants are not listed on any securities exchange or nationally recognized trading system.

 

Redemption Right. We may redeem the Warrants for $0.01 per Warrant if the volume weighted average of our common stock closes for each of five consecutive trading days exceeds $4.375 per share, subject to certain conditions and limitations, provided that we may not do so prior to the date that is six months after the issuance date.

 

Exercisability. The warrants will be exercisable, at the option of each holder, in whole or in part, by delivering to us a duly executed exercise notice accompanied by payment in full for the number of shares of our Common Stock purchased upon such exercise. If, at the time a holder exercises its warrant, a registration statement registering the issuance of the shares of Common Stock underlying the warrants under the Securities Act is not then effective for the issuance or resale of such shares, then in lieu of making the cash payment otherwise contemplated to be made to us upon such exercise in payment of the aggregate exercise price, the holder may elect instead to receive upon such exercise (either in whole or in part) the net number of shares of Common Stock determined according to a formula set forth in the warrant.

 

Limitations on Exercise. A holder (together with its affiliates as determined in accordance with the warrant) may not exercise any portion of the warrant to the extent that the holder would own more than 4.99% of the outstanding Common Stock after exercise, except that upon at least 61 days’ prior notice from the holder to us, the holder may increase the amount of ownership of outstanding stock after exercising the holder’s warrants up to 9.99% of the number of shares of our Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the exercise, as such percentage ownership is determined in accordance with the terms of the warrants. A holder may also decrease the applicable percentage. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued in connection with the exercise of a warrant but rather the number of shares to be issued shall be rounded up to the nearest whole number.

 

Right as a Stockholder. Except as otherwise provided in the warrants or by virtue of such holder’s ownership of shares of our Common Stock, the holders of the warrants do not have the rights or privileges of holders of our Common Stock, including any voting rights, unless and until they exercise their warrants.

 

Waivers and Amendments. Subject to certain exceptions, any term of the warrants may be amended or waived with our written consent and the written consent of the holders of warrants covering 66% of the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants, provided that the Company may not amend the exercise price, expiration date, or number of warrant shares into which the warrant is exercisable without the consent of the holder, or if the warrant is held in global form through DTC (or any successor depository), the beneficial owner of the warrant.

 

Failure to Timely Deliver Securities. Upon exercise of the warrant by the holder, if the Company or its transfer agent fails to deliver the securities to holder by the required share delivery date set forth in the warrant, then, generally, the holder may require the Company to pay to the holder an amount in cash to cover the loss the holder otherwise would incur as a result of short selling shares of Common Stock in anticipation of timely settling that sale with warrant shares. The Company may also be required to pay liquidated damages to the holder for each trading day after the required share delivery date until the securities are delivered.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

 

General

 

The descriptions of our capital stock and certain provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws are summaries and are qualified by reference to the amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws that are currently in effect. Copies of these documents have been filed with the SEC and are incorporated by reference herein.

 

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides for Common Stock and preferred stock, the rights, preferences and privileges of which may be designated from time to time by our board of directors.

 

Our authorized capital stock consists of 110,000,000 shares, all with a par value of $0.001 per share, of which 100,000,000 shares are designated as Common Stock and 10,000,000 shares are designated as preferred stock.

 

As of July 20, 2018, our Common Stock was held by approximately 655 stockholders of record. As of July 20, 2018, we had 1,862,875 shares of our Common Stock reserved for issuance under our 2018 Plan.

 

Common Stock

 

The holders of our Common Stock are entitled to one vote per share on all matters submitted to a vote of our stockholders. Subject to preferences that may be applicable to any preferred stock outstanding at the time, the holders of outstanding shares of Common Stock are entitled to receive ratably any dividends declared by our board of directors out of assets legally available therefor. In the event that we liquidate, dissolve or wind up, holders of our Common Stock are entitled to share ratably in all assets remaining after payment of liabilities and the liquidation preference of any then outstanding shares of preferred stock. Holders of Common Stock have no preemptive or conversion rights or other subscription rights. There are no redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to the Common Stock. All outstanding shares of Common Stock are, and all shares of Common Stock to be outstanding upon the closing of this Rights Offering will be, fully paid and non-assessable.

 

Except as otherwise required by Delaware law, all stockholder action, other than the election of directors or certain amendments of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, is taken by the vote of a majority of the voting power of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the subject matter, at a meeting in which a quorum, consisting of a majority of the outstanding shares of Common Stock is present in person or by proxy. The election of directors by our stockholders is determined by a plurality of the voting power of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote, at a meeting held for such purposes at which a quorum, consisting of a majority of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, is present in person or by proxy. Certain amendments to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation require the approval of holders of at least sixty-six and two-third percent (66 2/3%) of the voting power of all then-outstanding shares of our Common Stock entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class.

 

We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our capital stock. We currently intend to retain all available funds and any future earnings to support our operations and finance the growth and development of our business. We do not intend to pay cash dividends on our Common Stock for the foreseeable future. Any future determination related to our dividend policy will be made at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend upon, among other factors, our results of operations, financial condition, capital requirements, contractual restrictions, business prospects and other factors our board of directors may deem relevant.

 

Preferred Stock

 

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that our board of directors may, without further action by our stockholders, fix the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions of up to an aggregate of 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock in one or more series and authorize their issuance. These rights, preferences and privileges could include dividend rights, conversion rights, voting rights, terms of redemption, liquidation preferences, sinking fund terms and the number of shares constituting any series or the designation of such series, any or all of which may be greater than the rights of our Common Stock. The issuance of our preferred stock could adversely affect the voting power of holders of our Common Stock and the likelihood that such holders will receive dividend payments and payments upon liquidation. In addition, the issuance of preferred stock could have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change of control or other corporate action. We have no present plan to issue any shares of preferred stock.

 

Options to Purchase Common Stock

 

As of July 20, 2018, options to purchase 1,719,771 shares of our Common Stock issued pursuant to our 2015 Plan and 2018 Plan at a weighted-average exercise price of $1.57 per share were outstanding. As of July 20, 2018, we had 209,579 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the vesting of restricted stock units outstanding.

 

Outstanding Warrants

 

As of July 20, 2018, we had 6,090,035 shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of outstanding Common Stock warrants, at a weighted-average exercise price of $2.68 per share.

 

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Common Stock Warrants Issued to Participants in November 2017 Offering

 

On November 21, 2017, in its public offering of common stock, the Company issued warrants to purchase a total of 4,657,500 shares of Common Stock to investors. Terms used but not otherwise defined herein will have the meaning given them in the warrant, attached as Exhibit 4.2 to our Form 8-K filed on November 17, 2017.

 

Duration and Exercise Price. The warrants have an initial exercise price of $1.50 per share, which will adjust to $1.47 per share as of the Record Date, and is subject to further adjustment as described below. The warrants are exercisable immediately and will expire in November 2022 on the fifth anniversary of the original issuance date.

 

Adjustment. For so long as the warrants remain outstanding and notwithstanding any prior adjustments, the exercise price and number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the warrant is subject to adjustment as follows: (a) as the Company’s board of directors deems appropriate, (b) upon subdivision (by stock spilt, stock dividend, recapitalization, or otherwise) or combination (by reverse stock split or otherwise) of shares of Common Stock, (c) upon the issuance or announcement of contemplated issuance (“Dilutive Issuance”) of shares of Common Stock, options or convertible securities for consideration per share less than the price equal to the exercise price of the warrants, except for certain Excluded Securities issued in connection with an Approved Equity Plan, (d) at the option of the warrant holder upon the Company’s entering into an agreement to issue securities that are issuable at a price which varies or may vary with the market price of the Company’s Common Stock (the “Variable Price”), and (e) in certain cases upon granting of stock appreciation rights, phantom stock rights or other rights with equity features, except for those granted pursuant to an Approved Equity Plan. For the adjustments summarized in (c) above, the exercise price of the warrants outstanding generally will adjust upon the record date of such issuance to the New Issuance Price (as defined in the warrant, and which will be based on the net price at which new securities in the Dilutive Issuance are issued, and in some cases such as where warrants are issued with a stock offering, the lower of such price or the lowest weighted average trading price of the common stock during the four trading days immediately following public announcement of the Dilutive Issuance). For the adjustments summarized in (d) above, the holder may, at its option, elect to adjust the exercise price of the warrants to the Variable Price of securities sold by the Company pursuant to the agreement. Any adjustment made upon announcement or pursuant to a Dilutive Issuance will not be readjusted in the event that such Dilutive Issuance does not occur. This Rights Offering is a Dilutive Issuance, which caused a downward adjustment to the initial exercise price.

 

Rights upon Distribution of Assets. In the event that the Company declares or makes any dividend or other distribution of its assets to holders of its Common Stock, the warrant holder will be entitled to participate in such distribution to the same extent that such holder would have participated therein if the holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon exercise of the warrant.

 

Fundamental Transaction. In the event of a Fundamental Transaction, as described in the warrants and generally including the sale, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of our properties or assets, our consolidation or merger with or into another person or reorganization, recapitalization or reclassification or the acquisition of our outstanding Common Stock which results in any person or group becoming the beneficial owner of 50% of the voting power represented by our outstanding Common Stock, the holders of the warrants will be entitled to receive upon exercise of the warrants the kind and amount of securities, cash, assets or other property that the holders would have received had they exercised the warrants immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction. Subject to certain limitations, in the event of a Fundamental Transaction the warrant holder may at its option require the Company or any Successor Entity to purchase the warrant from the holder by paying to the holder an amount of cash equal to the Black Scholes Value of the remaining unexercised portion of the warrant on the date of the consummation of the Fundamental Transaction.

 

Purchase Right. Any time that the Company grants, issues, or sells any securities pro rata to all of the record holders of the Common Stock (the “Purchase Right”), the holder of the warrant will be entitled to acquire the aggregate Purchase Rights which the holder could have acquired if the holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon exercise of the warrant.

 

Transferability. Subject to applicable laws and restrictions on transfer, the warrant may be transferred at the option of the holder. The warrants are not listed on any securities exchange or nationally recognized trading system.

 

Exercisability. The warrants will be exercisable, at the option of each holder, in whole or in part, by delivering to us a duly executed exercise notice accompanied by payment in full for the number of shares of our Common Stock purchased upon such exercise. If, at the time a holder exercises its warrant, a registration statement registering the issuance of the shares of Common Stock underlying the warrants under the Securities Act is not then effective or available and an exemption from registration under the Securities Act is not available for the issuance of such shares, then in lieu of making the cash payment otherwise contemplated to be made to us upon such exercise in payment of the aggregate exercise price, the holder may elect instead to receive upon such exercise (either in whole or in part) the net number of shares of Common Stock determined according to a formula set forth in the warrant.

 

Limitations on Exercise. A holder (together with its affiliates) may not exercise any portion of the warrant to the extent that the holder would own more than 4.99% of the outstanding Common Stock after exercise, except that upon at least 61 days’ prior notice from the holder to us, the holder may increase the amount of ownership of outstanding stock after exercising the holder’s warrants up to 9.99% of the number of shares of our Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the exercise, as such percentage ownership is determined in accordance with the terms of the warrants. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued in connection with the exercise of a warrant. In lieu of fractional shares, we will round up to the next whole share.

 

Right as a Stockholder. Except as otherwise provided in the warrants or by virtue of such holder’s ownership of shares of our Common Stock, the holders of the warrants do not have the rights or privileges of holders of our Common Stock, including any voting rights, unless and until they exercise their warrants.

 

Limitation on Variable Rate Transactions. The Company may not effect or enter into any agreement to sell securities in a Variable Rate Transaction.

 

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Waivers and Amendments. Subject to certain exceptions, any term of the warrants may be amended or waived with our written consent and the written consent of the holders.

 

Failure to Timely Deliver Securities. Upon exercise of the warrant by the holder, if the Company or its transfer agent fails to deliver the securities to holder by the required share delivery date set forth in the warrant, or if the Company did not provide the required notice to holder that a registration statement covering the issuance of the warrant shares subject to the exercise notice is not available and the Company is unable to deliver the securities without any restrictive legend (each, an Exercise Failure), then, generally, the holder may rescind the exercise in whole or in part or may require the Company to pay to the holder an amount in cash to make the investor whole in connection with the Company’s failure to timely deliver securities.

 

Common Stock Warrant Issued to Underwriter of November 2017 Offering

 

In November 2017, the Company issued to Roth Capital Partners, LLC, as underwriter, a warrant to purchase 540,000 shares of Common Stock, which shares include a warrant (in the form of warrant issued to the public) to purchase an additional 405,000 shares of Common Stock in connection with our November 2017 offering. Terms used but not otherwise defined herein will have the meaning given them in the warrant.

 

Duration and Exercise Price. The warrants have an exercise price of $1.50 per share, are exercisable immediately and will expire in November 2022, on the fifth anniversary of the original issuance date. The terms of the warrant are limited by FINRA Rule 5110(f)(2)(G), which provide, among others, that the warrant may not be exercised more than five years from the date that the registration statement registering the warrant was declared effective by the SEC.

 

Adjustment. The exercise price and number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the warrant is subject to adjustment as follows: (a) as the Company’s board of directors deems appropriate, or (b) upon a stock dividend, stock split, reorganization, subdivision or combination of shares of Common Stock.

 

Fundamental Transaction. In the event of a Fundamental Transaction, as described in the warrants and generally including any reorganization, recapitalization or reclassification of our Common Stock, the sale, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of our properties or assets, our consolidation or merger with or into another person, the acquisition of more than 50% of our outstanding Common Stock, or any person or group becoming the beneficial owner of 50% of the voting power represented by our outstanding Common Stock, the holders of the warrants will be entitled to receive upon exercise of the warrants the kind and amount of securities, cash or other property that the holders would have received had they exercised the warrants immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction.

 

Purchase Right. Any time that the Company grants, issues, or sells any securities pro rata to all of the record holders of the Common Stock (the “Purchase Right”), the holder of the warrant will be entitled to acquire the aggregate Purchase Rights which the holder could have acquired if the holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon exercise of the warrant.

 

Transferability. Subject to applicable laws and restrictions on transfer, the warrant may be transferred at the option of the holder after the expiration of the Lock-Up Period, which is 180 days after the registration statement registering the warrant became effective. The warrants are not listed on any securities exchange or nationally recognized trading system.

 

Exercisability. The warrants will be exercisable, at the option of each holder, in whole or in part, by delivering to us a duly executed exercise notice accompanied by payment in full for the number of shares of our Common Stock purchased upon such exercise. If, at the time a holder exercises its warrant, a registration statement registering the issuance of the shares of Common Stock underlying the warrants under the Securities Act is not then effective or available and an exemption from registration under the Securities Act is not available for the issuance of such shares, then in lieu of making the cash payment otherwise contemplated to be made to us upon such exercise in payment of the aggregate exercise price, the holder may elect instead to receive upon such exercise (either in whole or in part) the net number of shares of Common Stock determined according to a formula set forth in the warrant.

 

Limitations on Exercise. A holder (together with its affiliates) may not exercise any portion of the warrant to the extent that the holder would own more than 4.99% of the outstanding Common Stock after exercise, except that upon at least 61 days’ prior notice from the holder to us, the holder may increase the amount of ownership of outstanding stock after exercising the holder’s warrants up to 9.99% of the number of shares of our Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the exercise, as such percentage ownership is determined in accordance with the terms of the warrants. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued in connection with the exercise of a warrant. In lieu of fractional shares, we will either pay the holder an amount in cash equal to the fractional amount multiplied by the exercise price or round up to the next whole share.

 

Right as a Stockholder. Except as otherwise provided in the warrants or by virtue of such holder’s ownership of shares of our Common Stock, the holders of the warrants do not have the rights or privileges of holders of our Common Stock, including any voting rights, unless and until they exercise their warrants.

 

Waivers and Amendments. Subject to certain exceptions, any term of the warrants may be amended or waived with our written consent and the written consent of the holder.

 

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Common Stock Warrant Issued in June 2018 Private Placement

 

On June 20, 2018, the Company issued warrants to purchase a total of 1,133,909 shares of Common Stock to an investor in a private placement. Terms used but not otherwise defined herein will have the meaning given them in the warrant, attached as Exhibit 4.1 to our Form 8-K filed on June 20, 2018.

 

Duration and Exercise Price. The warrants have an exercise price of $1.82 per share and are exercisable after December 20, 2018. The warrants will expire in December 2023.

 

Adjustment. For so long as the warrants remain outstanding, the exercise price and number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the warrant is subject to adjustment as follows: (a) as the Company’s board of directors deems appropriate, or (b) upon subdivision (by stock spilt, stock dividend, recapitalization, or otherwise) or combination (by reverse stock split or otherwise) of shares of Common Stock.

 

Rights upon Distribution of Assets. In the event that the Company declares or makes any dividend or other distribution of its assets to holders of its Common Stock, the warrant holder will be entitled to participate in such distribution to the same extent that such holder would have participated therein if the holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon exercise of the warrant.

 

Fundamental Transaction. In the event of a Fundamental Transaction, as described in the warrants and generally including the sale, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of our properties or assets, our consolidation or merger with or into another person or reorganization, recapitalization or reclassification or the acquisition of our outstanding Common Stock which results in any person or group becoming the beneficial owner of 50% of the voting power represented by our outstanding Common Stock, the holders of the warrants will be entitled to receive upon exercise of the warrants the kind and amount of securities, cash, assets or other property that the holders would have received had they exercised the warrants immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction. Subject to certain limitations, in the event of a Fundamental Transaction the warrant holder may at its option require the Company or any Successor Entity to purchase the warrant from the holder by paying to the holder an amount of cash equal to the Black Scholes Value of the remaining unexercised portion of the warrant on the date of the consummation of the Fundamental Transaction.

 

Purchase Right. Any time that the Company grants, issues, or sells any securities pro rata to all of the record holders of the Common Stock (the “Purchase Right”), the holder of the warrant will be entitled to acquire the aggregate Purchase Rights which the holder could have acquired if the holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon exercise of the warrant.

 

Transferability. Subject to applicable laws and restrictions on transfer, the warrant may be transferred at the option of the holder. The warrants are not listed on any securities exchange or nationally recognized trading system.

 

Exercisability. After the Initial Exercisability Date, the warrants will be exercisable, at the option of each holder, in whole or in part, by delivering to us a duly executed exercise notice accompanied by payment in full for the number of shares of our Common Stock purchased upon such exercise. If, at the time a holder exercises its warrant, a registration statement registering the issuance of the shares of Common Stock underlying the warrants under the Securities Act is not then effective or available and an exemption from registration under the Securities Act is not available for the issuance of such shares, then in lieu of making the cash payment otherwise contemplated to be made to us upon such exercise in payment of the aggregate exercise price, the holder may elect instead to receive upon such exercise (either in whole or in part) the net number of shares of Common Stock determined according to a formula set forth in the warrant.

 

Limitations on Exercise. A holder (together with its affiliates) may not exercise any portion of the warrant to the extent that the holder would own more than 4.99% of the outstanding Common Stock after exercise, except that upon at least 61 days’ prior notice from the holder to us, the holder may increase the amount of ownership of outstanding stock after exercising the holder’s warrants up to 9.99% of the number of shares of our Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the exercise, as such percentage ownership is determined in accordance with the terms of the warrants. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued in connection with the exercise of a warrant. In lieu of fractional shares, we will round up to the next whole share.

 

Right as a Stockholder. Except as otherwise provided in the warrants or by virtue of such holder’s ownership of shares of our Common Stock, the holders of the warrants do not have the rights or privileges of holders of our Common Stock, including any voting rights, unless and until they exercise their warrants.

 

Waivers and Amendments. Subject to certain exceptions, any term of the warrants may be amended or waived with our written consent and the written consent of the holders.

 

Failure to Timely Deliver Securities. Upon exercise of the warrant by the holder, if the Company or its transfer agent fails to deliver the securities to holder by the required share delivery date set forth in the warrant, then, generally, the holder may require the Company to pay to the holder an amount in cash to make the investor whole in connection with the Company’s failure to timely deliver securities.

 

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Warrants that Expire on or Before the Second Anniversary of the Closing of the Initial Public Offering

 

Prior to our initial public offering, we issued warrants to purchase 488,119 shares of Common Stock having a weighted average exercise price of $10.74 per share and are exercisable. Terms used but not otherwise defined herein will have the meaning given them in the warrants.

 

Duration and Exercise Price. Warrants to purchase 40,000 shares of Common Stock expire on December 13, 2018. Warrants to purchase 210,526 shares of Common Stock expire on the earlier of November 15, 2018 and the closing of a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company. Warrants to purchase 137,592 shares of Common Stock expire on the earlier of December 13, 2018 and the closing of a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company. For purposes of the warrants, the following are deemed to be a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company: (i) a sale, exclusive lease, exclusive license or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company; or (ii) any reorganization, consolidation, merger, stock sale, or similar transaction in which the Company is a constituent corporation or is a party if, as a result of such transaction, the voting securities of the Company that are outstanding immediately prior to such transaction do not represent, or are not converted into, securities of the resulting or surviving corporation that together represent a majority of the voting power of the surviving or resulting corporation in such a transaction (a “Change of Control Transaction”).

 

Adjustment. The exercise price and number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the warrant is subject to adjustment upon a stock dividend, stock split, reorganization, subdivision, combination, reclassification or reorganization of shares of Common Stock.

 

Notice. The warrant holder is entitled to notice of certain transactions, including when: (i) the Company takes a record of holders of its Common Stock for the purpose of entitling or enabling them to receive any dividend or other distribution, or to receive any right to subscribe for or purchase any shares of stock or any class or other securities, (ii) the Company makes any changes to its certificate of incorporation, (iii) the Company undertakes any capital reorganization of the Company, reclassification of the Company stock, any Change of Control Transaction, or a transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, (iv) the Company undergoes a voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company.

 

Transferability. Subject to applicable laws and restrictions on transfer, the warrant may be transferred at the option of the holder.

 

Exercisability. The warrants will be exercisable, at the option of each holder, in whole or in part, by delivering to us a duly executed exercise notice accompanied by payment in full for the number of shares of our Common Stock purchased upon such exercise. At the election of the holder, in lieu of making the cash payment otherwise contemplated to be made to us upon such exercise in payment of the aggregate exercise price, the holder may elect instead to receive upon such exercise (either in whole or in part) the net number of shares of Common Stock determined according to a formula set forth in the warrant. The warrant will be deemed to be exercised automatically in full pursuant to net issue exercise immediately prior to the time it would otherwise expire or terminate pursuant to its terms.

 

Right as a Stockholder. Except as otherwise provided in the warrants or by virtue of such holder’s ownership of shares of our Common Stock, the holders of the warrants do not have the rights or privileges of holders of our Common Stock, including any voting rights, unless and until they exercise their warrants.

 

Waivers and Amendments. Subject to certain exceptions, any term of the warrants may be amended or waived with our written consent and the written consent of the holder.

 

Warrants that Expire on or Before the Third Anniversary of the Closing of the Initial Public Offering

 

Prior to our initial public offering, we issued warrants to purchase 138,666 shares of Common Stock having a weighted-average exercise price of $7.50 per share and are exercisable. Terms used but not otherwise defined herein will have the meaning given them in the warrants.

 

Duration and Exercise Price. The warrants expire on the earlier of November 15, 2019 and the closing of a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company. For purposes of the warrants, the following are deemed to be a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company: (i) a sale, exclusive lease, exclusive license or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company; or (ii) any reorganization, consolidation, merger, stock sale, or similar transaction in which the Company is a constituent corporation or is a party if, as a result of such transaction, the voting securities of the Company that are outstanding immediately prior to such transaction do not represent, or are not converted into, securities of the resulting or surviving corporation that together represent a majority of the voting power of the surviving or resulting corporation in such a transaction (a “Change of Control Transaction”).

 

Adjustment. The exercise price and number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the warrant is subject to adjustment upon a stock dividend, stock split, reorganization, subdivision, combination, reclassification or reorganization of shares of Common Stock.

 

Notice. The warrant holder is entitled to notice of certain transactions, including when: (i) the Company takes a record of holders of its Common Stock for the purpose of entitling or enabling them to receive any dividend or other distribution, or to receive any right to subscribe for or purchase any shares of stock or any class or other securities, (ii) the Company makes any changes to its certificate of incorporation, (iii) the Company undertakes any capital reorganization of the Company, reclassification of the Company stock, any Change of Control Transaction, or a transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, (iv) the Company undergoes a voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company.

 

Transferability. Subject to applicable laws and restrictions on transfer, the warrant may be transferred at the option of the holder.

 

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Exercisability. The warrants will be exercisable, at the option of each holder, in whole or in part, by delivering to us a duly executed exercise notice accompanied by payment in full for the number of shares of our Common Stock purchased upon such exercise. At the election of the holder, in lieu of making the cash payment otherwise contemplated to be made to us upon such exercise in payment of the aggregate exercise price, the holder may elect instead to receive upon such exercise (either in whole or in part) the net number of shares of Common Stock determined according to a formula set forth in the warrant. The warrant will be deemed to be exercised automatically in full pursuant to net issue exercise immediately prior to the time it would otherwise expire or terminate pursuant to its terms.

 

Right as a Stockholder. Except as otherwise provided in the warrants or by virtue of such holder’s ownership of shares of our Common Stock, the holders of the warrants do not have the rights or privileges of holders of our Common Stock, including any voting rights, unless and until they exercise their warrants.

 

Waivers and Amendments. Subject to certain exceptions, any term of the warrants may be amended or waived with our written consent and the written consent of the holder.

 

Other Warrants

 

Prior to our initial public offering and in connection with entering into a license agreement, we issued warrants to purchase 15,000 shares of Common Stock to the University of Arizona. Terms used but not otherwise defined herein will have the meaning given them in the warrant.

 

Duration and Exercise Price. The warrants expire in June 2020 and have an exercise price of $7.50 per share.

 

Adjustment. The exercise price and number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the warrant is subject to adjustment upon a stock dividend, stock split, reorganization, subdivision, combination, reclassification or reorganization of shares of Common Stock.

 

Terminating Change. In the event of a Terminating Change, defined to include any consolidation, merger, sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, or capital reorganization or certain reclassifications of the Company’s stock, the Company will pay to the holder the fair market value of the warrant shares immediately prior to the Terminating Change.

 

Notice. The warrant holder is entitled to notice of certain transactions, including when: (i) the Company takes a record of holders of its Common Stock for the purpose of entitling or enabling them to receive any dividend or other distribution, or to receive any right to subscribe for or purchase any shares of stock or any class or other securities, (ii) the Company offers to sell certain Company securities, (iii) the Company’s Common Stock is reorganized or reclassified, (iv) any consolidation or merger of the Company or any conveyance of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, (v) the Company undergoes a voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company.

 

Transferability. Subject to applicable laws and restrictions on transfer, the warrant may be transferred at the option of the holder.

 

Exercisability. The warrants will be exercisable, at the option of each holder, in whole or in part, by delivering to us a duly executed exercise notice accompanied by payment in full for the number of shares of our Common Stock purchased upon such exercise. At the election of the holder, in lieu of making the cash payment otherwise contemplated to be made to us upon such exercise in payment of the aggregate exercise price, the holder may elect instead to receive upon such exercise (either in whole or in part) the net number of shares of Common Stock determined according to a formula set forth in the warrant.

 

Right as a Stockholder. Except as otherwise provided in the warrants or by virtue of such holder’s ownership of shares of our Common Stock, the holders of the warrants do not have the rights or privileges of holders of our Common Stock, including any voting rights, unless and until they exercise their warrants.

 

Waivers and Amendments. Subject to certain exceptions, any term of the warrants may be amended or waived with our written consent and the written consent of the holder.

 

IPO Underwriter Warrant

 

In connection with our initial public offering in December 2016, we issued warrants to purchase 187,500 shares of our Common Stock to Roth Capital Partners LLC.

 

Duration and Exercise Price. The warrants have an exercise price of $9.60 per share. The warrant was fully vested and exercisable on the date of grant and will expire in December 2021, on the fifth anniversary of the original issuance date.

 

Adjustment. The exercise price and number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the warrant is subject to adjustment as follows: (a) as the Company’s board of directors deems appropriate, or (b) upon a stock dividend, stock split, reorganization, subdivision or combination of shares of Common Stock.

 

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Rights upon Distribution of Assets. In the event that the Company declares or makes any dividend or other distribution of its assets to holders of its Common Stock, the warrant holder will be entitled to participate in such distribution to the same extent that such holder would have participated therein if the holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon exercise of the warrant.

 

Fundamental Transaction. In the event of a Fundamental Transaction, as described in the warrants and generally including any reorganization, recapitalization or reclassification of our Common Stock, the sale, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of our properties or assets, our consolidation or merger with or into another person, the acquisition of more than 50% of our outstanding Common Stock, or any person or group becoming the beneficial owner of 50% of the voting power represented by our outstanding Common Stock, the holders of the warrants will be entitled to receive upon exercise of the warrants the kind and amount of securities, cash or other property that the holders would have received had they exercised the warrants immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction. The Company may not enter into a Fundamental Transaction unless the successor entity assumes all obligations of the Company under the warrant pursuant to an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the holder.

 

Purchase Right. Any time that the Company grants, issues, or sells any securities pro rata to all of the record holders of the Common Stock (the “Purchase Right”), the holder of the warrant will be entitled to acquire the aggregate Purchase Rights which the holder could have acquired if the holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon exercise of the warrant.

 

Transferability. Subject to applicable laws and restrictions on transfer, the warrant may be transferred at the option of the holder. The warrants are not listed on any securities exchange or nationally recognized trading system.

 

Exercisability. The warrants will be exercisable, at the option of each holder, in whole or in part, by delivering to us a duly executed exercise notice accompanied by payment in full for the number of shares of our Common Stock purchased upon such exercise. If, at the time a holder exercises its warrant, a registration statement registering the issuance of the shares of Common Stock underlying the warrants under the Securities Act is not then effective or available and an exemption from registration under the Securities Act is not available for the issuance of such shares, then in lieu of making the cash payment otherwise contemplated to be made to us upon such exercise in payment of the aggregate exercise price, the holder may elect instead to receive upon such exercise (either in whole or in part) the net number of shares of Common Stock determined according to a formula set forth in the warrant.

 

Limitations on Exercise. A holder (together with its affiliates) may not exercise any portion of the warrant to the extent that the holder would own more than 4.99% of the outstanding Common Stock after exercise, except that upon at least 61 days’ prior notice from the holder to us, the holder may increase the amount of ownership of outstanding stock after exercising the holder’s warrants up to 9.99% of the number of shares of our Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the exercise, as such percentage ownership is determined in accordance with the terms of the warrants. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued in connection with the exercise of a warrant. In lieu of fractional shares, we will round up to the next whole share.

 

Right as a Stockholder. Except as otherwise provided in the warrants or by virtue of such holder’s ownership of shares of our Common Stock, the holders of the warrants do not have the rights or privileges of holders of our Common Stock, including any voting rights, unless and until they exercise their warrants.

 

Waivers and Amendments. Subject to certain exceptions, any term of the warrants may be amended or waived with our written consent and the written consent of the holder.

 

For additional information about outstanding warrants, please read “Item 1. Financial Statements — Notes to Condensed Financial Statements — Note 11. Common Stock Warrants and Common Stock Warrant Liability” in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on May 15, 2018, as amended by Form 10-Q/A filed with the SEC on May 22, 2018.

 

Registration Rights

 

On June 20, 2018, we entered into a Letter Agreement (the “Letter Agreement”) with a certain holder of the Company’s outstanding warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock, originally issued on November 21, 2017 (the “November 2017 Warrants”). Pursuant to the Letter Agreement, such holder exercised November 2017 Warrants representing 1,133,909 million shares of Common Stock for cash at the $1.50 exercise price for gross proceeds to the Company of $1.7 million. The Company issued such holder a new warrant (the “New Warrant”) to purchase 1,133,909 shares of Common Stock. See “Description of Capital Stock — Outstanding Warrants — Common Stock Warrants Issued in June 2018 Private Placement.” Pursuant to the Letter Agreement, the Company agreed to file a registration statement providing for the resale of the shares of common stock underlying the New Warrants and use best efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective within 90 days following the date of issuance of the New Warrant and to keep such registration statement effective until the holder no longer owns any New Warrants.

 

Anti-Takeover Provisions

 

Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws

 

Because our stockholders do not have cumulative voting rights, our stockholders holding a majority of the outstanding shares of Common Stock outstanding will be able to satisfy the quorum requirement and be able to elect all of our directors by a plurality of the voting power of the shares present in person or by proxy. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws provide that all stockholder actions must be effected at a duly called meeting of stockholders and not by written consent. A special meeting of stockholders may be called by a resolution adopted by a majority of our board, our chair of the board, our chief executive officer or the president in absence of the chief executive officer. Any power of the stockholders to call a special meeting is specifically denied by the terms of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation.

 

Our board of directors is divided into three classes with staggered three-year terms. These provisions make it more difficult for our existing stockholders to replace our board of directors as well as for another party to obtain control of us by replacing our board of directors. Since our board of directors has the power to retain and discharge our officers, these provisions could also make it more difficult for existing stockholders or another party to effect a change in management. In addition, the authorization of undesignated preferred stock makes it possible for our board of directors to issue preferred stock with voting or other rights or preferences that could impede the success of any attempt to obtain control of us.

 

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These provisions are intended to enhance the likelihood of continued stability in the composition of our board of directors and its policies and to discourage certain types of transactions that may involve an actual or threatened acquisition of us. These provisions are also designed to reduce our vulnerability to an unsolicited acquisition proposal and to discourage certain tactics that may be used in proxy fights. However, such provisions could have the effect of discouraging others from making tender offers for our shares and may have the effect of deterring hostile takeovers or delaying changes in our control or management. As a consequence, these provisions also may inhibit fluctuations in the market price of our stock that could result from actual or rumored takeover attempts.

 

Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law

 

We are subject to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which prohibits a Delaware corporation from engaging in any business combination with any interested stockholder for a period of three years after the date that such stockholder became an interested stockholder, with the following exceptions:

 

Before such date, the board of directors of the corporation approved either the business combination or the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder;

 

Upon closing of the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder, the interested stockholder owned at least 85% of the voting stock of the corporation outstanding at the time the transaction began, excluding for purposes of determining the voting stock outstanding (but not the outstanding voting stock owned by the interested stockholder) those shares owned by (i) persons who are directors and also officers and (ii) employee stock plans in which employee participants do not have the right to determine confidentially whether shares held subject to the plan will be tendered in a tender or exchange offer; or

 

On or after such date, the business combination is approved by the board of directors and authorized at an annual or special meeting of the stockholders, and not by written consent, by the affirmative vote of at least sixty-six and two-third percent (66 2/3%) of the outstanding voting stock that is not owned by the interested stockholder.

 

In general, Section 203 defines business combination to include the following:

 

Any merger or consolidation involving the corporation and the interested stockholder;

 

Any sale, lease, exchange, mortgage, transfer, pledge or other disposition of 10% or more of the assets of the corporation involving the interested stockholder;

 

Subject to certain exceptions, any transaction that results in the issuance or transfer by the corporation of any stock of the corporation to the interested stockholder;

 

Any transaction involving the corporation that has the effect of increasing the proportionate share of the stock or any class or series of the corporation beneficially owned by the interested stockholder; or

 

The receipt by the interested stockholder of the benefit of any loss, advances, guarantees, pledges or other financial benefits by or through the corporation.

 

In general, Section 203 defines an “interested stockholder” as an entity or person who, together with the person’s affiliates and associates, beneficially owns, or within three years prior to the time of determination of interested stockholder status did own, 15% or more of the outstanding voting stock of the corporation.

 

Choice of Forum

 

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware is the exclusive forum for any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf; any action asserting a claim of a breach of fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer or other employee to the Company or the Company’s stockholders; any action asserting a claim against us or any of our directors, officers or other employees arising pursuant to the Delaware General Corporation Law, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or our amended and restated bylaws; or any action or proceeding asserting a claim against us or any of our directors, officers or other employees that is governed by the internal affairs doctrine.

 

Listing of our Common Stock

 

Our Common Stock is listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “SNES.”

 

Transfer Agent and Registrar

 

The transfer agent and registrar for our Common Stock is Transfer Online, Inc. The transfer agent and registrar’s address is 512 SE Salmon Street, Portland, Oregon 97214.

 

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PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

 

We will distribute rights certificates and copies of this prospectus to those persons who were holders of our Common Stock or who were holders of certain outstanding warrants that have a contractual right to participate in the Rights offering, in each case on July 24, 2018, the Record Date for the Rights Offering, promptly following the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. We are offering the rights and the shares of Common Stock and Warrants underlying the Units directly to you. Those directors and officers of the Company who may assist in the Rights Offering will not register with the SEC as brokers in reliance on certain safe harbor provisions contained in Rule 3a4-1 under the Exchange Act. Therefore, while certain of our director, officers or employees may solicit responses from you, they will not receive any commissions or compensation for those services. Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc. is acting as our Subscription Agent to effect the exercise of the rights. Transfer Online, Inc. is our transfer agent and will be the warrant agent for the Warrants included as part of the Units.

 

Delivery of Subscription Documents

 

If your shares or eligible warrants are held in the name of a broker, dealer, custodian bank or other nominee as record holder, then you should send your subscription documents and subscription payment to that nominee. If you are the record holder, then you should send your subscription documents, rights certificate, notice of guaranteed delivery and subscription payment to the address provided below. If sent by mail, we recommend that you send documents and payments by registered mail, properly insured, with return receipt requested, and that a sufficient number of days be allowed to ensure delivery to the Subscription Agent. Do not send or deliver these materials to the Company.

 

By mail:   By hand or overnight courier:
Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc.   Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc.
Attn: BCIS Re-Organization Dept.   Attn: BCIS IWS
P.O. Box 1317   51 Mercedes Way
Brentwood, New York 11717-0693   Edgewood, New York 11717
(855) 793-5068 (toll-free)   (855) 793-5068 (toll-free)

 

Please read “The Rights Offering—Method of Exercising Subscription Rights.” If you have any questions regarding the Rights Offering, or you have any questions regarding completing a rights certificate or submitting payment in the Rights Offering, please contact the Subscription Agent, Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc., by telephone at (855) 793-5068.

 

Delivery of Common Stock and Warrants

 

As soon as practicable after the expiration of the Rights Offering, and within five business days thereof, we expect to close on subscriptions and for the Subscription Agent to arrange for the issuance of the shares of Common Stock and Warrants purchased pursuant to the Rights Offering. All shares and Warrants that are purchased in the Rights Offering will be issued in book-entry, or uncertificated, form meaning that you will receive a direct registration, or DRS, account statement from our transfer agent reflecting ownership of these securities if you are a holder of record of shares of Common Stock or Warrants. If you hold your shares of Common Stock or eligible warrants in the name of a bank, broker, dealer, or other nominee, DTC will credit your account with your nominee with the securities you purchased in the Rights Offering.

 

Notice to Prospective Investors in Canada

 

This prospectus constitutes an “exempt offering document” as defined in and for the purposes of applicable Canadian securities laws. No prospectus has been filed with any securities commission or similar regulatory authority in Canada in connection with the offer and sale of the shares. No securities commission or similar regulatory authority in Canada has reviewed or in any way passed upon this prospectus or on the merits of the shares and any representation to the contrary is an offence.

 

Canadian investors are advised that this prospectus has been prepared in reliance on section 3A.3 of National Instrument 33-105 Underwriting Conflicts (“NI 33-105”). Pursuant to section 3A.3 of NI 33-105, this prospectus is exempt from the requirement that the Company and the underwriter(s) provide Canadian investors with certain conflicts of interest disclosure pertaining to “connected issuer” and/or “related issuer” relationships that may exist between the Company and the underwriter(s) as would otherwise be required pursuant to subsection 2.1(1) of NI 33-105.

 

Resale Restrictions

 

The offer and sale of the shares in Canada is being made on a private placement basis only and is exempt from the requirement that the Company prepares and files a prospectus under applicable Canadian securities laws. Any resale of shares acquired by a Canadian investor in this offering must be made in accordance with applicable Canadian securities laws, which may vary depending on the relevant jurisdiction, and which may require resales to be made in accordance with Canadian prospectus requirements, pursuant to a statutory exemption from the prospectus requirements, in a transaction exempt from the prospectus requirements or otherwise under a discretionary exemption from the prospectus requirements granted by the applicable local Canadian securities regulatory authority. These resale restrictions may under certain circumstances apply to resales of the shares outside of Canada.

 

Representations of Purchasers

 

Each Canadian investor who purchases shares will be deemed to have represented to the Company, the underwriters and to each dealer from whom a purchase confirmation is received, as applicable, that the investor is (i) purchasing as principal, or is deemed to be purchasing as principal in accordance with applicable Canadian securities laws, for investment only and not with a view to resale or redistribution; (ii) an “accredited investor” as such term is defined in section 1.1 of National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus Exemptions or, in Ontario, as such term is defined in section 73.3(1) of the Securities Act (Ontario); and (iii) is a “permitted client” as such term is defined in section 1.1 of National Instrument 31-103 Registration Requirements, Exemptions and Ongoing Registrant Obligations.

 

Taxation and Eligibility for Investment

 

Any discussion of taxation and related matters contained in this prospectus does not purport to be a comprehensive description of all of the tax considerations that may be relevant to a Canadian investor when deciding to purchase the shares and, in particular, does not address any Canadian tax considerations. No representation or warranty is hereby made as to the tax consequences to a resident, or deemed resident, of Canada of an investment in the shares or with respect to the eligibility of the shares for investment by such investor under relevant Canadian federal and provincial legislation and regulations.

 

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Rights of Action for Damages or Rescission

 

Securities legislation in certain of the Canadian jurisdictions provides certain purchasers of securities pursuant to an offering memorandum (such as this prospectus), including where the distribution involves an “eligible foreign security” as such term is defined in Ontario Securities Commission Rule 45-501 Ontario Prospectus and Registration Exemptions and in Multilateral Instrument 45-107 Listing Representation and Statutory Rights of Action Disclosure Exemptions, as applicable, with a remedy for damages or rescission, or both, in addition to any other rights they may have at law, where the offering memorandum, or other offering document that constitutes an offering memorandum, and any amendment thereto, contains a “misrepresentation” as defined under applicable Canadian securities laws. These remedies, or notice with respect to these remedies, must be exercised or delivered, as the case may be, by the purchaser within the time limits prescribed under, and are subject to limitations and defences under, applicable Canadian securities legislation. In addition, these remedies are in addition to and without derogation from any other right or remedy available at law to the investor.

 

Language of Documents

 

Upon receipt of this document, each Canadian investor hereby confirms that it has expressly requested that all documents evidencing or relating in any way to the sale of the securities described herein (including for greater certainty any purchase confirmation or any notice) be drawn up in the English language only. Par la réception de ce document, chaque investisseur canadien confirme par les présentes qu’il a expressément exigé que tous les documents faisant foi ou se rapportant de quelque manière que ce soit à la vente des valeurs mobilières décrites aux présentes (incluant, pour plus de certitude, toute confirmation d’achat ou tout avis) soient rédigés en anglais seulement.

 

Dealer-Manager

 

Other than as described in this prospectus, we do not know of any existing agreements between any stockholder, broker, dealer, underwriter or agent relating to the sale or distribution of the underlying securities.

 

Maxim Group LLC is the dealer-manager for this Rights Offering. In such capacity, such dealer-manager will provide marketing assistance and financial advice (including determining the subscription price and the structure of the Rights Offering) to us in connection with this offering and will solicit the exercise of basic subscription right and participation in the over-subscription right. The dealer-manager will provide us with updated investor feedback and recommendations on pricing and structure through to the end of the subscription period. The dealer-manager is not underwriting or placing any of the basic subscription right and does not make any recommendation with respect to such basic subscription right (including with respect to the exercise or expiration of such basic subscription right).

 

In connection with this Rights Offering, we have agreed to pay fees to Maxim Group LLC as dealer-manager a cash fee equal to 7.0% of the gross proceeds received by us directly from exercises of the subscription rights. We agreed to reimburse the dealer-manager up to a total of $75,000 for out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the dealer-manager in connection with the Rights Offering. We advanced $25,000 of this $75,000 to Maxim Group LLC upon its engagement as dealer-manager. The $25,000 advancement will be used by Maxim Group LLC to cover its expenses or returned to us to the extent not offset by actual costs.

 

Subject to completion of this Rights Offering, we have agreed to grant Maxim Group LLC a warrant, or the Dealer-Manager Warrant, to purchase a number of shares of Common Stock equal to five percent (5%) of the total number of shares of Common Stock issued upon exercise of the subscription rights. The Dealer-Manager Warrant will not be exercisable for six (6) months from the effective date of the registration statement and will expire five (5) years after such effective date. The Dealer-Manager Warrant will be exercisable at a price per share equal to 150% of the subscription price of Common Stock. The Dealer-Manager Warrant will not be redeemable. The Dealer-Manager Warrant will not be sold, transferred, assigned or hypothecated for a period of six (6) months from the closing date of the Rights Offering, except that it may be assigned, in whole or in part, to any successor, officer, or partner of the dealer-manager (or to officers or partners of any such successor).

 

Upon the closing of this Rights Offering, for a period of twelve (12) months from the earlier of the effective date of the registration statement or commencement of solicitation effort, Maxim Group LLC is entitled to a right of first refusal to act as lead left book runner and lead left manager and/or lead left placement agent, with at least 75% of the economics for a two handed deal and 50% for the economics for a three handed deal, for any and all public and private equity, convertible or debt offerings of the Company’s securities if the gross proceeds from such offering are greater than $10 million. In addition, for a period of six (6) months from the earlier of the effective date of the registration statement or commencement of solicitation effort of this Rights Offering, Maxim Group LLC is entitled to the right of participation to act as a book runner and lead manager and/or lead placement agent, with at least 50% of the economics, for any and all public and private equity, convertible or debt offerings of the Company’s securities if the gross proceeds of the offering are less than $10 million.

 

We have also agreed to indemnify the dealer-manager and its respective affiliates against certain liabilities arising under the Securities Act. The dealer-manager’s participation in this offering is subject to customary conditions contained in the dealer-manager agreement, including the receipt by the dealer-manager of an opinion of our counsel. The dealer-manager and its affiliates may provide to us from time to time in the future in the ordinary course of their business certain financial advisory, investment banking and other services for which they will be entitled to receive fees.

 

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Maxim Group LLC is a broker-dealer registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. The principal business address of Maxim Group LLC is 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10174.

 

LEGAL MATTERS

 

The validity of the securities being offered hereby will be passed upon for us by Perkins Coie LLP, Portland, Oregon. The dealer-manager is being represented by Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, New York, New York.

 

EXPERTS

 

The financial statements at December 31, 2017 and 2016, and for the years then ended incorporated by reference in this prospectus have been so incorporated in reliance on the report of M&K CPAS, PLLC, an independent registered public accounting firm, given on the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting.

 

WHERE YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

 

The Company files annual, quarterly and special reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. You may read and copy any document filed by the Company at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the public reference room. Statements contained in this prospectus as to the contents of any contract or any other document referred to are not necessarily complete, and in each instance, we refer you to the copy of the contract or other document filed as an exhibit to the registration statement. Each of these statements is qualified in all respects by this reference.

 

INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION BY REFERENCE

 

We “incorporate by reference” certain information into this prospectus, which means that we disclose important information to you by referring you to another document filed separately with the SEC. The information incorporated by reference is deemed to be part of this prospectus, and relying on the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, or the FAST Act, as a smaller reporting company, subsequent information that we file with the SEC will automatically update and supersede that information. Any statement contained in a previously filed document incorporated by reference will be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this prospectus to the extent that a statement contained in this prospectus modifies or replaces that statement.

 

We incorporate by reference our documents listed below and any future filings made by us with the SEC under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to the termination of the offering, including documents we may file with the SEC after the date of the initial registration statement and prior to effectiveness of the registration statement. We are not, however, incorporating by reference any documents or portions thereof, whether specifically listed below or filed in the future, that are not deemed “filed” with the SEC, including any information furnished pursuant to Items 2.02 or 7.01 of Form 8-K or related exhibits furnished pursuant to Item 9.01 of Form 8-K. This prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto incorporate by reference the documents set forth below that have previously been filed with the SEC:

 

Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, filed with the SEC on March 30, 2018, as amended by our Annual Report on Form 10-K/A filed with the SEC on May 22, 2018;

 

Our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2018 filed with the SEC on May 15, 2018, as amended by our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q/A, filed with the SEC on May 22, 2018;

 

The portions of our Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC on April 30, 2018, that are incorporated by reference into our Annual Report on Form 10-K, as amended, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017;

 

Our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 15, 2018 and June 20, 2018; and

 

The description of our capital stock contained in our registration statement on Form 8-A filed with the SEC on November 7, 2016, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

 

You may request a free copy of any or all of the reports or documents incorporated by reference in this prospectus (other than exhibits, unless they are specifically incorporated by reference in the documents) by writing or telephoning us at the following address:

 

SenesTech, Inc.

3140 N. Caden Court, Suite 1

Flagstaff, AZ 86004 Attn: Secretary (928) 779-4143

 

We also maintain a website at www.SenesTech.com where incorporated reports or other documents filed with the SEC may be accessed. We have not incorporated by reference into this prospectus the information contained in, or that can be accessed through, our website, and you should not consider it to be part of this prospectus.

 

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SenesTech, Inc.

 

Non-transferable Subscription Rights to Purchase Units
Consisting of an Aggregate of Up to 8,571,428 Shares of Common Stock
and Warrants to Purchase Up to 8,571,428 Shares of Common Stock
at a Subscription Price of $1.75 Per Unit

 

PROSPECTUS

 

Dealer-Manager

 

Maxim Group LLC

 

, 2018

 

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PART II

 

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

Item 13. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.

 

The following table sets forth the anticipated costs and expenses payable by SenesTech, Inc. (other than commissions and fees) in connection with the sale of the securities being registered. All amounts shown are estimates except for the SEC registration fee.

 

SEC registration fee  $3,875.06
Legal fees and expenses   150,000 
Accounting fees and expenses   5,000 
Subscription, Transfer and Warrant Agent fees   30,000 
Printing and miscellaneous expenses   36,124.94 
Total  $225,000 

 

Item 14. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

 

The Registrant incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware. Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides that a Delaware corporation may indemnify any persons who were, are, or are threatened to be made, parties to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of such corporation), by reason of the fact that such person is or was an officer, director, employee or agent of such corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such corporation as an officer, director, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise. The indemnification may include expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with defending or settling such action, suit or proceeding, provided that such person acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the corporation’s best interests except that no indemnification is permitted without judicial approval if the officer or director is adjudged to be liable to the corporation. Where an officer or director is successful on the merits or otherwise in the defense of any action referred to above, the corporation must indemnify him or her against the expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred.

 

The Registrant’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws provide for the indemnification of its directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted under the Delaware General Corporation Law.

 

Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General Corporation Law permits a corporation to provide in its certificate of incorporation that a director of the corporation shall not be personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duties as a director, except for liability for any:

 

Breach of director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders.

 

Act or omission not in good faith or that involves intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;

 

Unlawful payment of dividends or unlawful purchase or redemption of shares; or

 

Transaction from which the director derives an improper personal benefit;

 

The Registrant’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation includes such a provision. Expenses incurred by any officer or director in defending any such action, suit or proceeding in advance of its final disposition shall be paid by the Registrant upon delivery to it of an undertaking, by or on behalf of such director or officer, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that such director or officer is not entitled to be indemnified by the Registrant.

 

Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides, among other things, that a director who willfully or negligently approves of an unlawful payment of dividends or an unlawful stock purchase or redemption, may be held jointly and severally liable for such actions. A director who was either absent when the unlawful actions were approved or dissented at the time may avoid liability by causing his or her dissent to such actions to be entered in the books containing minutes of the meetings of the board of directors at the time such action occurred or immediately after such absent director receives notice of the unlawful acts.

 

As permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Registrant has entered into indemnification agreements with each of its directors and executive officers, that require the Registrant to indemnify such persons against any and all costs and expenses (including attorneys’, witness or other professional fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such persons in connection with any action, suit or proceeding (including derivative actions), whether actual or threatened, to which any such person may be made a party by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer or is or was acting or serving as an officer, director, employee or agent of the Registrant or any of its affiliated enterprises. Under these agreements, the Registrant is not required to provide indemnification for certain matters, including:

 

Indemnification for expenses or losses with respect to proceedings initiated by the director or officer, including any proceedings against the Registrant or its directors, officers, employees or other indemnitees and not by way of defense, with certain exceptions;

 

Indemnification for any proceeding if a final decision by a court of competent jurisdiction determines that such indemnification is prohibited by applicable law;

 

Indemnification for the disgorgement of profits arising from the purchase or sale by the director or officer of securities of the Registrant in violation of Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act, or any similar successor statute; or

 

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Indemnification for the director or officer’s reimbursement to the Registrant of any bonus or other incentive-based or equity-based compensation previously received by the director or officer or payment of any profits realized by the director or officer from the sale of securities of the Registrant, as required in each case under the Exchange Act.

 

The indemnification agreements also set forth certain procedures that will apply in the event of a claim for indemnification thereunder. Except as otherwise disclosed under the headings “Part I. — Item 3. Legal Proceedings” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017 and “Part II. Other Information — Item 1. Legal Proceedings” in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2018, there is at present no pending litigation or proceeding involving any of the Registrant’s directors or executive officers as to which indemnification is required or permitted, and the Registrant is not aware of any threatened litigation or proceeding that may result in a claim for indemnification.

 

The Registrant has an insurance policy in place, with limits of $20.0 million in the aggregate, that covers its officers and directors with respect to certain liabilities, including liabilities arising under the Securities Act or otherwise. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.

 

Item 15. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities.

 

The following sets forth information regarding all securities sold or granted by the Registrant within the past three years that were not registered under the Securities Act, and the consideration, if any, received by the Registrant for such securities. The securities were offered and sold in reliance on the exemption from registration afforded by Section 4(a)(2) or Rule 506(b) of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act, which exempt transactions by an issuer not involving any public offering. The purchasers were “accredited investors” as such term is defined in Regulation D. The securities are non-transferable in the absence of an effective registration statement under the Act or an available exemption therefrom, and all certificates and instruments issued are imprinted with a restrictive legend to that effect.

 

(a)Stock Option Grants

 

Between June 12, 2015 and September 30, 2016, the Registrant granted options to purchase an aggregate of 93,334 shares of Common Stock under its 2008 – 2009 Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan, or 2008 Plan, to its directors, officers, employees, consultants, and other service providers with per share exercise prices of $0.005. In this same period, the Registrant granted options to purchase an aggregate of 2,112,367 shares of Common Stock under its 2015 Equity Incentive Plan, or 2015 Plan, to its directors, officers, employees, consultants, and other service providers with per share exercise prices of $0.50 and $7.50. Also in this same period, the Registrant issued an aggregate of 93,334 and 766,000 shares of Common Stock upon exercise of stock options previously issued under the 2008 Plan and 2015 Plan, respectively, to its directors, officers, employees, consultants, and other service providers for cash consideration in the aggregate amount of $467 and $521,000, respectively. The stock options and the Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of such options as described in this section (a) of Item 15 were issued pursuant to written compensatory plans or arrangements with the Registrant’s employees and directors in reliance on the exemption provided by Rule 701 promulgated under the Securities Act. All recipients either received adequate information about the Registrant or had access, through employment or other relationships, to such information.

 

(b)Warrants to Purchase Common Stock

 

On June 20, 2018, the Registrant entered into a letter agreement with a certain holder of the Company’s outstanding warrants to purchase Common Stock, originally issued in November 2017. Pursuant to the letter agreement, the warrant holder agreed to exercise its warrants representing 1,133,909 million shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $1.50 for gross proceeds to the Registrant of $1.7 million. In connection with the letter agreement, the Registrant issued a new warrant to the holder to purchase an aggregate of 1,133,909 shares of Common Stock at a per share exercise price of $1.82. The securities issued in this transaction were exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in reliance upon Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act and Rule 506(b) of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act. See “Description of Capital Stock — Outstanding Warrants — Common Stock Warrants Issued in June 2018 Private Placement.”

 

Between June 12, 2015 and November 18, 2016, in connection with equity financings and debt conversions, the Registrant issued warrants to accredited investors to purchase an aggregate of 335,593 shares of Common Stock. The Common Stock warrants have per share exercise prices of $7.50. The securities issued in these transactions were exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in reliance upon Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act as transactions by an issuer not involving any public offering.

 

(c)Sales of Common Stock

 

Between June 12, 2015 and September 30, 2016, the Registrant issued an aggregate of 2,186,712 shares of Registrant’s Common Stock to accredited or otherwise sophisticated investors at per share prices ranging from $2.50 to $15.00, respectively, for aggregate consideration of $5.8 million in cash. The securities issued in these transactions were exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in reliance upon Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act as transactions by an issuer not involving any public offering.

 

(d)Sales of Preferred Stock

 

In November 2015, the Registrant issued an aggregate of 400,000 shares of Registrant’s Series A convertible preferred stock upon the cancellation and extinguishment of the outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest on a promissory note. The securities issued in this transaction were exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in reliance upon Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act as transactions by an issuer not involving any public offering.

 

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Between December 2015 and April 2016, the Registrant issued an aggregate of 135,666 shares of Registrant’s Series B convertible preferred stock to accredited investors at a per share price of $7.75 for aggregate consideration of $1.1 million in cash. Also in December 2015 the Registrant issued an aggregate of 379,512 shares of Series B convertible preferred stock to existing investors upon the exchange of outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest on promissory notes totaling $2.9 million. The securities issued in these transactions were exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in reliance upon Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act as transactions by an issuer not involving any public offering.

 

(e)Sales of Convertible and other Promissory Notes

 

Between June 12, 2015 and December 31, 2015, the Registrant issued convertible and other promissory notes with an aggregate principal amount of $1.5 million to accredited investors for aggregate consideration of $1.5 million in cash. The securities issued in these transactions were exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in reliance upon Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act as transactions by an issuer not involving any public offering.

 

None of the foregoing transactions involved any underwriter, underwriting discounts or commissions, general solicitation or any public offering, and the Registrant believes each transaction was exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act as stated above.

 

Item 16. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules.

 

(a)Exhibits

 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit Number   Description of Document
1.1*   Form of Dealer-Manager Agreement
3.1   Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to the Registrant’s Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on October 20, 2016 (File no. 333-213736))
3.2   Amended and Restated Bylaws (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S- 1, filed with the SEC on September 21, 2016 (File no. 333-213736))
4.1   Form of the Registrant’s common stock certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on October 7, 2016 (File no. 333-213736))
4.2   Form of Subscription and Information Agent Agreement by and between SenesTech, Inc. and Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Registrant’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on July 16, 2018 (File No. 333-225713))
4.3   Form of Non-Transferable Rights Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to the Registrant’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on July 16, 2018 (File No. 333-225713))
4.4*   Form of Warrant Agency Agreement
4.5*   Form of Warrant
5.1*   Legal Opinion of Perkins Coie LLP
8.1*   Legal Opinion of Perkins Coie LLP relating to U.S. Tax Matters
10.1+   SenesTech, Inc. 2008 – 2009 Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan and form of agreement thereunder (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on September 21, 2016 (File no. 333- 213736))
10.2+   SenesTech, Inc. 2015 Equity Incentive Plan and forms of agreement thereunder (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on September 21, 2016 (File no. 333-213736))
10.3+   Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on December 21, 2016 (File no. 001-37941)
10.4+   Form of Indemnification Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on September 21, 2016 (File no. 333-213736))
10.5+   Employment Letter Agreement by and between the Registrant and Loretta P. Mayer, Ph.D. dated June 30, 2016 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on September 21, 2016 (File no. 333-213736))
10.6+   Employment Letter Agreement by and between the Registrant and Cheryl A. Dyer, Ph.D. dated June 30, 2016 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on September 21, 2016 (File no. 333-213736))
10.7+   Employment Offer Letter by and between the Registrant and Thomas Chesterman dated November 20, 2015 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on September 21, 2016 (File no. 333-213736))
10.8   Agency Agreement by and between the Registrant, Inmet S.A. and Bioceres, Inc., dated January 21, 2016 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on September 21, 2016 (File no. 333-213736))
10.9   Services Agreement by and between the Registrant, Inmet S.A. and Bioceres, Inc., dated January 21, 2016 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.11 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on September 21, 2016 (File no. 333-213736))
10.10   Settlement Agreement and Release, dated January 23, 2017 by and between Neogen Corporation and the Registrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on January 23, 2017 (File No. 001-37941))

 

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10.11   Lease by and between the Registrant and Caden Court, LLC, dated as of December 20, 2011 and amendments thereto dated December 6, 2013 and February 27, 2014 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on September 21, 2016 (File no. 333-213736))
10.12+   SenesTech, Inc. 2018 Equity Incentive Plan and forms of agreement thereunder (incorporated by reference to Annex A to the Registrant’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A with respect to the 2018 annual meeting of stockholders filed with the SEC on April 30, 2018 (File no. 001-37941))
23.1*   Consent of M&K CPAS, PLLC, independent registered public accounting firm
23.2*   Consent of Perkins Coie LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1)
23.3*   Consent of Perkins Coie LLP (contained in Exhibit 8.1)
24.1   Power of Attorney (incorporated by reference to the signature page of the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on June 19, 2018 (File no. 333-225713)
99.1   Form of Instructions as to Use of Subscription Right Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Registrant’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on July 16, 2018 (File No. 333-225713))
99.2   Form of Letter to Stockholders Who are Record Holders (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 to the Registrant’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on July 16, 2018 (File No. 333-225713))
99.3   Form of Letter to Brokers, Dealers, Banks and Other Nominees (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.3 to the Registrant’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on July 16, 2018 (File No. 333-225713))
99.4   Form of Broker Letter to Clients Who are Beneficial Holders (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.4 to the Registrant’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on July 16, 2018 (File No. 333-225713))
99.5   Form of Beneficial Owner Election Form (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.5 to the Registrant’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on July 16, 2018 (File No. 333-225713))
99.6   Form of Nominee Holder Certification (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.6 to the Registrant’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on July 16, 2018 (File No. 333-225713))
99.7   Form of Notice of Guaranteed Delivery (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.7 to the Registrant’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on July 16, 2018 (File No. 333-225713))

 

*Filed herewith.
+Indicates a management contract or compensatory plan.

 

(b)Financial Statement Schedules

 

No financial statement schedules are provided because the information called for is not required or is shown either in the financial statements or the notes thereto, which are incorporated by reference herein.

 

Item 17. Undertakings.

 

(a)       The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

 

(1)       To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

 

(i)       To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

 

(ii)       To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement; and

 

(iii)       To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement.

 

(2)       That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

(3)       To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered that remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

 

(4)       That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act to any purchaser: If the registrant is subject to Rule 430C, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.

 

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(5)       For the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

 

(i)       Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

 

(ii)       Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;

 

(iii)       The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and

 

(iv)       Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

 

(b)           The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant’s annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

(c)           The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to supplement the prospectus, after the expiration of the subscription period, to set forth the results of the subscription offer, the transactions by the underwriters during the subscription period, the amount of unsubscribed securities to be purchased by the underwriters, and the terms of any subsequent reoffering thereof. If any public offering by the underwriters is to be made on terms differing from those set forth on the cover page of the prospectus, a post-effective amendment will be filed to set forth the terms of such offering.

 

(d)          The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to deliver or cause to be delivered with the prospectus, to each person to whom the prospectus is sent or given, the latest annual report to security holders that is incorporated by reference in the prospectus and furnished pursuant to and meeting the requirements of Rule 14a-3 or Rule 14c-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and, where interim financial information required to be presented by Article 3 of Regulation S-X are not set forth in the prospectus, to deliver, or cause to be delivered to each person to whom the prospectus is sent or given, the latest quarterly report that is specifically incorporated by reference in the prospectus to provide such interim financial information.

 

(e)          Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit, or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

(f)          For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.

 

(g)          For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Flagstaff, State of Arizona, on the 20th day of July, 2018.

 

    SENESTECH, INC.
     
    /s/ Loretta P. Mayer
  By: Loretta P. Mayer, Ph.D.
    Chair of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature Title Date
     
/s/ Loretta P. Mayer Chair of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer July 20, 2018
Loretta P. Mayer, Ph.D. (Principal Executive Officer)  
     
/s/ Thomas C. Chesterman Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer July 20, 2018
Thomas C. Chesterman (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)  
     
/s/ Jamie Bechtel*   July 20, 2018
Jamie Bechtel Director  
     
/s/ Delphine François Chiavarini*   July 20, 2018
Delphine François Chiavarini Director  
     
/s/ Marc Dumont*   July 20, 2018
Marc Dumont Director  
     
/s/ Matthew K. Szot*   July 20, 2018
Matthew K. Szot Director  
     
/s/ Grover Wickersham*   July 20, 2018
Grover Wickersham Director  
     
/s/ Julia Williams*   July 20, 2018
Julia Williams, M.D. Director  
     
/s/ Loretta P. Mayer Attorney in fact July 20, 2018
*By: Loretta P. Mayer    

 

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EX-1.1 2 s111479_ex1-1.htm EXHIBIT 1.1

 

Exhibit 1.1

 

SENESTECH, INC.

 

DEALER-MANAGER AGREEMENT

 

Maxim Group LLC 

405 Lexington Avenue 

New York, NY 10174 

As Dealer-Manager

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

The following will confirm our agreement relating to the proposed rights offering (the “Rights Offering”) to be undertaken by SenesTech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), pursuant to which the Company will distribute to holders of record of its common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”) and to holders of warrants issued to investors in November 2017 and June 2018 (the “Participating Warrants”), subscription rights (the “Rights”) to subscribe for up to an aggregate of [ ] units (the “Units”), each Unit consisting of one share of Common Stock (the “Rights Shares”) and one warrant representing the right to purchase one share of Common Stock (the “Rights Warrants” and the Rights Shares, the Rights Warrants and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Rights Warrants, the “Securities”), at a subscription price of $[ ] per Unit in cash (the “Subscription Price”).

 

1.        The Rights Offering.

 

(a)      The Company proposes to undertake the Rights Offering pursuant to which each holder of Common Stock and Participating Warrants shall receive one Right for each share of Common Stock and each share of Common Stock underlying each Participating Warrant held of record at the close of business on July 24, 2018 (the “Record Date”). Holders of Rights will be entitled to subscribe for and purchase, at the Subscription Price, one (1) Rights Share and one (1) Rights Warrant for each Right held (the “Basic Subscription Right”), subject to allotment, as more fully discussed in the Prospectus (as defined herein). Rights may only be exercised for whole Right Shares and Rights Warrants; no fractional securities will be issued in the Rights Offering.

 

(b)      The Rights will not trade or be listed for quotation on any exchange or service, and shall be non-transferable.

 

(c)      Any holder of Rights who fully exercises all Basic Subscription Rights issued to such holder is entitled to subscribe for Units which were not otherwise subscribed for by others pursuant to their Basic Subscription Rights (the “Over-Subscription Right”). The Over-Subscription Right shall allow a holder of a Right to subscribe for an additional amount of Units above the amount which such holder was otherwise entitled to subscribe. Units acquired pursuant to the Over-Subscription Right are subject to proration allotment and stock ownership limitations, as more fully discussed in the Prospectus.

 

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(d)      The Rights will expire at 5:00 p.m., Eastern time, on August 8, 2018 (the “Expiration Date”). The Company shall have the right to extend the Expiration Date in its sole discretion. Any Rights not exercised on or before the Expiration Date will expire worthless without any payment to the holders of unexercised Rights.

 

(e)      All funds from the exercise of Basic Subscription Rights and Over-Subscription Rights will be deposited with Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc. (“Broadridge”), as subscription agent (in this context, the “Subscription Agent”), and held in a segregated account with the Subscription Agent pending a final determination of the number of Rights Shares and Rights Warrants to be issued pursuant to the exercise of Basic Subscription Rights and Over-Subscription Rights. The Company may conduct a closing of the Rights Offering (a “Closing”) at its sole discretion at any time following the Expiration Date.

 

2.        Appointment as Dealer-Manager; Role of Dealer-Manager.

 

(a)      On the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Company hereby appoints Maxim Group LLC (“Maxim”) as the sole dealer-manager (the “Dealer-Manager”) for the Rights Offering and authorizes the Dealer-Manager to act as such in connection with the Rights Offering.

 

(b)      The services previously provided by the Dealer-Manager under that certain engagement letter, dated May 23, 2018, between the Company and the Dealer-Manager (as amended, the “Engagement Letter,” which such Engagement Letter shall continue to be effective and the terms therein shall continue to survive and be enforceable by the Dealer-Manager in accordance with its terms, provided that, in the event of a conflict between the terms of the Engagement Letter and this Agreement, the terms of this Agreement shall prevail), or to be provided by the Dealer-Manager through the Closing, consist of the following:

 

(i)      providing market assistance in connection with the conduct of the Rights Offering (which shall include assisting the Company in drafting a presentation that may be used to market the Rights Offering to investors and assistance in the coordination of the Rights Offering together with Broadridge);

 

(ii)     providing financial advice to the Company in connection with the Rights Offering (including advice regarding the structure, pricing, timing and other terms and conditions of the Rights Offering);

 

(iii)    responding to requests for information and materials in connection with the Rights Offering (it being agreed that Broadridge (in this capacity, as the “Information Agent”) will be the Company’s primary third party source of information regarding the Rights Offering and will be identified by the Company as such in the Registration Statement) (the services described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) being collectively referred to as the “Advisory Services”); and

 

(iv)    in accordance with customary practice, using best efforts to solicit the exercise of the Rights and subscriptions for the Units pursuant to the Offer Documents (as defined herein) (the services described in this clause (iv) being referred to as the “Solicitation Services”);

 

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(c)      The services of the Dealer-Manager described in clauses (b)(iii) and (iv) above shall commence on the date that the Registration Statement is declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”). The Company hereby authorizes the Dealer-Manager, or one or more registered broker-dealers chosen exclusively by the Dealer-Manager, to act as the Company’s agent in making the Rights Offering to residents of such states as to which such agent designation may be necessary to comply with applicable law.

 

(d)      The Company hereby acknowledges that Maxim is acting only as a dealer-manager in connection with the Rights Offering. The Dealer-Manager shall not (and shall not be obligated to) underwrite or place any Rights or any Rights Shares or Rights Warrants, and the Company acknowledges and agrees that Maxim’s participation as Dealer-Manager does not ensure or guarantee that the Company will raise any funds through the Rights Offering.

 

(e)      The Company further acknowledges that Maxim is acting as an independent contractor pursuant to a contractual relationship created solely by this Agreement entered into on an arm’s length basis and in no event do the parties intend that Maxim act or be responsible as a fiduciary to the Company, its management, shareholders, creditors or any other natural person, partnership, limited liability partnership, corporation, limited liability company, business trust, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture, or other entity or organization (each, a “Person”) in connection with any activity that Maxim may undertake or has undertaken in furtherance of the Rights Offering, either before or after the date hereof. Maxim hereby expressly disclaims any fiduciary or similar obligations to the Company, either in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any matters leading up to such transactions, and the Company hereby confirms its understanding and agreement to that effect. The Company and Maxim agree that they are each responsible for making their own independent judgments with respect to any such transactions, and that any opinions or views expressed by Maxim to the Company regarding such transactions, including but not limited to any opinions or views with respect to the price or market for the Company’s securities, do not constitute advice or recommendations to the Company. The Company hereby waives and releases, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims that the Company may have against Maxim with respect to any breach or alleged breach of any fiduciary or similar duty to the Company in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any matters leading up to such transactions.

 

3.        No Liability for Acts of Brokers, Dealers, Banks and Trust Companies. The Dealer-Manager shall not be subject to any liability to the Company or “Affiliates,” as such term is defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), for any act or omission on the part of any broker or dealer in securities (other than the Dealer-Manager) or any bank or trust company or any other Person, and the Dealer-Manager shall not be liable for its own acts or omissions in performing its obligations as advisor or Dealer-Manager hereunder or otherwise in connection with the Rights Offering or the related transactions, except for any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses determined in a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted directly from any such acts or omissions undertaken or omitted to be taken by the Dealer-Manager through its bad faith, gross negligence, intentional omission or willful misconduct. In soliciting or obtaining exercises of Rights, the Dealer-Manager shall not be deemed to be acting as the agent of the Company or as the agent of any broker, dealer, bank or trust company, and no broker, dealer, bank or trust company shall be deemed to be acting as the Dealer-Manager’s agent or as the agent of the Company. As used herein, the term “Subsidiary” means a significant subsidiary of the Company as defined as defined in Rule 1-02 (w) of Regulation S-X of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Unless the context specifically requires otherwise, the term “Company” as used in this Agreement means the Company and its Subsidiaries collectively on a consolidated basis.

 

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4.        The Offer Documents.

 

(a)      There will be used in connection with the Rights Offering certain materials in addition to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus (each as defined herein), including: (i) all exhibits to the Registration Statement which pertain to the conduct of the Rights Offering; and (ii) any soliciting materials relating to the Rights Offering approved by the Company (collectively with the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, the “Offer Documents”). The Dealer-Manager shall be given such opportunity to review and comment upon the Offer Documents.

 

(b)      The Company agrees to furnish the Dealer-Manager with as many copies as it may reasonably request of the final forms of the Offer Documents and the Dealer-Manager is authorized to use copies of the Offer Documents in connection with its acting as Dealer-Manager. The Dealer-Manager hereby agrees that it will not disseminate any written material for or in connection with the solicitation of exercises of Rights pursuant to the Rights Offering other than the Offer Documents.

 

(c)      The Company represents and agrees that no solicitation material, other than the Offer Documents and the documents to be filed therewith as exhibits thereto (each in the form of which has been reasonably approved by the Dealer-Manager), will be used in connection with the Rights Offering by or on behalf of the Company without the prior approval of the Dealer-Manager, which approval will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. In the event that the Company uses or permits the use of any such solicitation material in connection with the Rights Offering, then the Dealer-Manager shall be entitled to withdraw as Dealer-Manager in connection with the Rights Offering and the related transactions without any liability or penalty to the Dealer-Manager or any other Person identified in Section 11 hereof as an “indemnified party,” and the Dealer-Manager shall be entitled to receive the payment of all fees and expenses payable under this Agreement or the Engagement Letter which have accrued to the date of such withdrawal.

 

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5.        Representations and Warranties. The Company represents and warrants to the Dealer-Manager that:

 

(a)      The Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333- 225713) with respect to the Rights, the Units, the Rights Shares, the Rights Warrants and the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Rights Warrants: (i) has been prepared by the Company in conformity with, in all material respects, the requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission (the “Rules and Regulations”) promulgated under the Securities Act; (ii) has been filed with the Commission under the Securities Act; and (iii) upon declaration by the Commission, will become effective under the Securities Act. Copies of such Registration Statement as amended to date have been delivered or made available by the Company to the Dealer-Manager. For purposes of this Agreement, “Effective Time” means the date and the time as of which such Registration Statement, or the most recent post-effective amendment thereto, if any, was declared effective by the Commission; “Effective Date” means the date of the Effective Time; “Preliminary Prospectus” means each prospectus included in such registration statement, or amendments thereof, before it becomes effective under the Securities Act and any prospectus filed with the Commission by the Company with the consent of the Dealer-Manager pursuant to Rule 424(a) of the Rules and Regulations; “Registration Statement” means such Registration Statement, as amended at the Effective Time, including any documents which are exhibits thereto; and “Prospectus” means such final prospectus, as first filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations, as amended by any prospectus supplement thereto. The Commission has not issued any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus. All references in this Agreement to the Registration Statement, a Preliminary Prospectus, and the Prospectus, or any amendments or supplements to any of the foregoing shall be deemed to include any copy thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System (“EDGAR”). Additionally, any reference in this Agreement to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-1 under the Securities Act, as of the effective date of the Registration Statement or the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be. The Prospectus delivered to the Dealer-Manager for use in connection with the Rights Offering will be identical to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T promulgated by the Commission.

 

(b)      The Registration Statement conforms, and any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus and any further amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement conforms or will conform, when they are filed with or become effective by the Commission, as the case may be, in each case, in all material respects, to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and collectively do not and will not, as of the applicable Effective Date (as to the Registration Statement and any amendment thereto) and as of the applicable filing date (as to the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto) contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (with respect to the Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading; provided that no representation or warranty is made by the Company as to information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement or the Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of the Dealer-Manager specifically for inclusion therein, it being acknowledged and agreed that such information provided by or on behalf of the Dealer-Manager consists solely and exclusively of the following disclosure contained in the Prospectus (collectively, the “Dealer-Manager Information”): (i) the name of Maxim acting in its capacity as dealer-manager for the Rights Offering and (ii) “The Rights Offering — Distribution Arrangements.”

 

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(c)      Neither: (i) any Issuer-Represented General Free Writing Prospectus(es) (as defined below) issued at or prior to the Closing and the Prospectus, all considered together (collectively, the “General Disclosure Package”), nor (ii) any individual Issuer-Represented Limited-Use Free Writing Prospectus(es) (as defined below), when considered together with the General Disclosure Package, includes or will include as of the Closing any untrue statement of a material fact or omits or will omit as of the Closing to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The preceding sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from any Prospectus included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or any Issuer-Represented Limited-Use Free Writing Prospectus (as defined below) in conformity with written the Dealer-Manager Information. For purposes of this Agreement, (x) “Issuer-Represented Free Writing Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act, relating to the Rights Offering that (A) is required to be filed with the Commission by the Company, or (B) is exempt from filing pursuant to Rule 433(d)(5)(i) under the Securities Act because it contains a description of the Rights or of the Rights Offering that does not reflect the final terms or pursuant to Rule 433(d)(8)(ii) because it is a “bona fide electronic road show,” as defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act, in each case in the form filed or required to be filed with the Commission or, if not required to be filed, in the form retained in the Company’s records pursuant to Rule 433(g) under the Securities Act; (y) “Issuer-Represented General Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer-Represented Free Writing Prospectus that is intended for general distribution to prospective investors, as evidenced by its being specified in Schedule I to this Agreement; and (z) “Issuer-Represented Limited-Use Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer-Represented Free Writing Prospectus that is not an Issuer-Represented General Free Writing Prospectus. The term Issuer-Represented Limited-Use Free Writing Prospectus also includes any “bona fide electronic road show,” as defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act, that is made available without restriction pursuant to Rule 433(d)(8)(ii), even though not required to be filed with the Commission.

 

(d)      Each Issuer-Represented Free Writing Prospectus, if any, as of its issue date and at all subsequent times until the Closing or until any earlier date that the Company notified or notifies the Dealer-Manager as described in the next sentence, did not, does not and will not include any information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the information contained in the then-current Registration Statement or Prospectus. If at any time following issuance of an Issuer-Represented Free Writing Prospectus there occurred or occurs an event or development as a result of which such Issuer-Represented Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or would conflict with the information contained in the then-current Registration Statement or Prospectus relating to the Rights Offering or included or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances prevailing at that subsequent time, not misleading, the Company has notified or will notify promptly the Dealer-Manager so that any use of such Issuer-Represented Free Writing Prospectus may cease until it is promptly amended or supplemented by the Company, at its own expense, to eliminate or correct such conflict, untrue statement or omission.

 

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(e)      The Company has not distributed and will not distribute any prospectus or other offering material in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities other than the General Disclosure Package, any Issuer-Represented Limited-Use Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus or other materials permitted by the Securities Act to be distributed by the Company. Unless the Company obtains the prior consent of the Dealer-Manager, the Company has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act, or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, required to be filed with the Commission; provided that the prior written consent of the Dealer-Manager shall be deemed to have been given in respect of any free writing prospectus referenced on Schedule I attached hereto. The Company has complied and will comply with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 under the Securities Act applicable to any Issuer-Represented Free Writing Prospectus as of its issue date and at all subsequent times through the Closing, including timely filing with the Commission where required, legending and record keeping. To the extent an electronic road show is used, the Company has satisfied and will satisfy the conditions in Rule 433 under the Securities Act to avoid a requirement to file with the Commission any electronic road show.

 

(f)      There are no contracts, agreements, plans or other documents which are required to be described in the Prospectus or filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement by the Securities Act or by the Rules and Regulations which have not been described in the Prospectus or filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement or referred to in, or incorporated by reference into, the exhibit table of the Registration Statement as permitted by the Rules and Regulations.

 

(g)      The Company does not have any Subsidiaries. The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of Delaware, is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which its respective ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its respective businesses requires such qualification, and has all power and authority necessary to own or hold its respective properties and to conduct the businesses in which it is engaged, except where the absence of such power or authority (either individually and in the aggregate) would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on: (i) the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, shareholders’ equity, properties or prospects (as such prospects are disclosed or described in the Prospectus) of the Company; (ii) the long-term debt or capital stock of the Company; or (iii) the Rights Offering or consummation of any of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus (any such effect being a “Material Adverse Effect”).

 

(h)      This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery by the Dealer-Manager, constitutes the valid and legally binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity.

 

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(i)      The Company is not: (i) in violation of its charter or by-laws, (ii) in default under or in breach of, and no event has occurred which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute a default or breach under or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge, mortgage, pledge, security interest, claim, trust or other encumbrance, defect or restriction of any kind whatsoever (each, a “Lien”), except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect, upon any of its property or assets pursuant to, any material contract, agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it is bound or to which any of its properties or assets is subject or (iii) except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect, is in violation in any respect of any law, rule, regulation, ordinance, directive, judgment, decree or order, foreign and domestic, to which it or its properties or assets may be subject or has failed to obtain any material license, permit, certificate, franchise or other governmental authorization or permit necessary to the ownership of its properties or assets or to the conduct of its business.

 

(j)      Prior to or on the date hereof the Company and Broadridge have or will have entered into a subscription and information agent agreement (the “Agent Agreement”). When executed by the Company, the Agent Agreement will have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by Broadridge will constitute a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity.

 

(k)     The Rights to be issued and distributed by the Company have been duly and validly authorized and, when issued and delivered in accordance with the terms of the Offer Documents, will be duly and validly issued, and will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, no holder of the Rights is or will be subject to personal liability by reason of being such a holder, and the Rights conform to the description thereof contained in the Prospectus.

 

(l)      The Rights Warrants conform to the description thereof in the Registration Statement and in the Prospectus and, when issued and delivered by the Company in accordance with the terms of the Offer Documents, will be duly and validly issued, and will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms. The shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Rights Warrants have been duly authorized and reserved for issuance upon exercise of the Rights Warrants by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company and, when issued and delivered and paid for upon such exercise in accordance with the terms of the Rights Warrants, will be validly issued, fully paid, nonassessable and free of preemptive rights and will conform to the description thereof in the Prospectus.

 

(m)    The Rights Shares have been duly and validly authorized and reserved for issuance upon exercise of the Rights and are free of statutory and contractual preemptive rights (or which have been complied with) and are sufficient in number to meet the exercise requirements of the Rights Offering; and Rights Shares, when so issued and delivered against payment therefor in accordance with the terms of the Rights Offering, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, with no personal liability attaching to the ownership thereof, and will conform to the description thereof contained in the Prospectus.

 

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(n)     The Common Stock is listed for trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market (“NASDAQ”). Except as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Company has not received an oral or written notification from NASDAQ or any court or any other Governmental Authority of any inquiry or investigation or other action that would cause the Common Stock, including the Common Stock underlying the Rights Warrants, to not be listed for trading on NASDAQ. “Governmental Authority” means any federal, state, local, foreign or other governmental, quasi-governmental or administrative body, instrumentality, department or agency or any court, tribunal, administrative hearing body, arbitration panel, commission, or other similar dispute resolving panel or body and shall include any Person acting on behalf of a such Governmental Authority. “Law” means any federal, state, local, municipal, foreign or other law, statute, legislation, principle of common law, ordinance, code, edict, decree, proclamation, treaty, convention, rule, regulation, directive, requirement, writ, injunction, settlement, Permit or Order that is or has been issued, enacted, adopted, passed, approved, promulgated, made, implemented or otherwise put into effect by or under the authority of any Governmental Authority.

 

(o)      The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth under the caption “Description of Capital Stock” in the Prospectus and all of the issued shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and have been issued in compliance with federal and state securities laws. None of the outstanding shares of the Company capital stock were issued in violation of any preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities of the Company. There are no authorized or outstanding options, warrants, preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other rights to purchase, or equity or debt securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for, any capital stock of the Company other than those accurately described in the Registration Statement in all material respects. The description of the Company’s stock option, stock bonus and other stock plans or arrangements, and the options or other rights granted thereunder, set forth in the Registration Statement accurately and fairly presents in all material respects the information required to be shown with respect to such plans, arrangements, options and rights.

 

(p)      The Company owns or leases all such assets or properties as are necessary to the conduct of its business as presently operated and as proposed to be operated as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. The Company has good and marketable title in fee simple to all assets or real property and good and marketable title to all personal property owned by it, in each case free and clear of any Lien, except for such (i) Liens as are described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, (ii) Liens as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company (iii) Liens for the payment of federal, state or other taxes, for which appropriate reserves have been made in accordance with GAAP, and the payment of which is neither delinquent nor subject to penalties, and (iv) Liens made in the ordinary course of business that would not have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company. Any assets or real property and buildings held under lease or sublease by the Company is held under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with such exceptions as are not material to, and do not interfere with, the use made and proposed to be made of such property and buildings by the Company. The Company has not received any notice of any material claim adverse to its ownership of any real or personal property or of any material claim against the continued possession of any real property, whether owned or held under lease or sublease by the Company.

 

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(q)       Except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect, the Company has all material consents, approvals, authorizations, orders, registrations, qualifications, licenses, filings and permits of, with and from all judicial, regulatory and other Governmental Authorities and all third parties, foreign and domestic, including, without limitation, those administered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and specifically, the Office of Pesticide Programs, or by any foreign, federal, state or local governmental or regulatory authority performing functions similar to those performed by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Pesticide Programs (collectively, with the Licensing Requirements described below, the “Consents”), to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct its businesses as presently being conducted and as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and, to the Company’s knowledge, each such Consent is valid and in full force and effect. The Company has not received notice of any investigation or proceedings by a Governmental Authority which results in or, if decided adversely to the Company, would reasonably be expected to result in the revocation of any Consent or would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the Company’s knowledge, the Company is in compliance with all such Consents, and all such Consents are valid and in full force and effect except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company has not received notification of any revocation, suspension, termination or invalidation (or proceedings related thereto) of any such Consent and, to the Company’s knowledge after reasonable investigation, no event has occurred that allows or results in, or after notice or lapse of time or both would allow or result in, revocation, suspension, termination or invalidation (or proceedings related thereto ) of any such Consent and the Company has no reason to believe that any such Consent will not be renewed (if renewal is required) except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(r)      The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company, the issuance of the Rights in accordance with the terms of the Offer Documents, the issuance of Rights Shares and the Rights Warrants in accordance with the terms of the Rights Offering, and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any material indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other material agreement (including any agreement with any broker dealer, placement agent, financial advisor or similar person or entity) or instrument to which the Company or any of its Affiliates is a party or by which the Company or its Affiliates is bound or to which any of the properties or assets of the Company or its Affiliates is subject, nor will such actions result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or by-laws of the Company or any statute or any order, rule or regulation of any Governmental Authority, except where such breach or violation would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and except for the registration of the Rights, Rights Shares and the Rights Warrants under the Securities Act and such consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations or qualifications as may be required under the Exchange Act and applicable state securities laws in connection with the distribution of the Rights and the sale of the Rights Shares and Rights Warrants by the Company, no consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing or registration with, any such court or Governmental Authority is required for the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

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(s)      Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any Person granting such Person the right to require the Company to file a registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to any securities of the Company owned or to be owned by such Person or to require the Company to include such securities in the securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement or in any securities being registered pursuant to any other registration statement filed by the Company under the Securities Act. No holder of any security of the Company has any rights of rescission of similar rights with respect to such securities held by them.

 

(t)      The Company has not sustained, since the date of the latest balance sheet included in the Prospectus or after such date and as disclosed in the Prospectus, any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree; and, since such date or after such date and as disclosed in the Prospectus, there has not been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the general affairs, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity, results of operations or prospects (as such prospects are disclosed or described in the Prospectus) of the Company (a “Material Adverse Change”). Since the date of the latest balance sheet presented in the Prospectus and except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect, the Company has not incurred or undertaken any liabilities or obligations outside the ordinary course of business, whether direct or indirect, liquidated or contingent, matured or unmatured, or entered into any transactions, including any acquisition or disposition of any business or asset, which are material to the Company, except for liabilities, obligations and transactions which are disclosed in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus.

 

(u)      To the Company’s knowledge, M&K CPAS, PLLC (“M&K”), whose reports relating to the Company are included in the Registration Statement, is an independent public accountant as required by the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, the Rules and Regulations and the rules and regulations promulgated by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”). M&K has not, during the periods covered by the financial statements included in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, provided to the Company any non-audit services, as such term is used in Section 10A(g) of the Exchange Act.

 

(v)      The financial statements, including the notes thereto, and any supporting schedules included in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position as of the dates indicated and the cash flows and results of operations for the periods specified of the Company. Except as otherwise stated in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, said financial statements have been prepared in conformity with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved. Any supporting schedules included in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus present fairly, in all material respects, the information required to be stated therein. No other financial statements or supporting schedules are required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement. The other financial and statistical information included in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus present fairly, in all material respects, the information included therein and have been prepared on a basis consistent with that of the financial statements that are included in the Registration Statement, such Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus and the books and records of the respective entities presented therein.

 

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(w)     There are no pro forma or as adjusted financial statements which are required to be included in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus in accordance with Regulation S-X under the Securities Act which have not been included as so required. The pro forma and/or as adjusted financial information included in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, if any, has been properly compiled and prepared in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and include all adjustments necessary to present fairly, in all material respects, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles the pro forma and as adjusted financial position of the respective entity or entities presented therein at the respective dates indicated and its cash flows and the results of operations for the respective periods specified. The assumptions used in preparing the pro forma and as adjusted financial information included in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, if any, provide a reasonable basis for presenting the significant effects directly attributable to the transactions or events described therein. The related pro forma and pro forma as adjusted adjustments, if any, give appropriate effect to those assumptions; and the pro forma and pro forma as adjusted financial information, if any, reflect the proper application of those adjustments to the corresponding historical financial statement amounts.

 

(x)      The statistical, industry-related and market-related data included in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources which the Company reasonably believes are reliable and accurate, and such data agree with the sources from which they are derived. All required third party consents have been obtained in order for such data to be included in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus.

 

(y)      The Company maintains a system of internal accounting and other controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances 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 United States generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain accountability for assets, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv) the recorded accounting for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.

 

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(z)      The Company’s Board of Directors has validly appointed an audit committee and compensation committee whose composition satisfies the requirements of the rules and regulations of the Commission and NASDAQ and the Company’s Board of Directors and/or audit committee and the compensation committee has each adopted a charter and such charters are in full force and effect as of the date hereof. Neither the Company’s Board of Directors nor the audit committee thereof has been informed, nor is any director of the Company aware, of: (i) except as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, any significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; or (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

(aa)    The Company is in material compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended (“Sarb-Ox”), applicable to the Company, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder and related or similar rules and regulations promulgated by any other Governmental Authority or self-regulatory entity or agency, except for violations which, singly or in the aggregate, are disclosed in the Prospectus or would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(bb)    No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among any of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company, on the one hand, and any director, officer, shareholder, customer or supplier of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company, on the other hand, which is required by the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or the Rules and Regulations to be described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus which is not so described as required. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there are no outstanding loans, advances (except normal advances for business expenses in the ordinary course of business) or guarantees of indebtedness by the Company to or for the benefit of any of the officers or directors of the Company or any of their respective family members. The Company has not, in violation of Sarb-Ox, directly or indirectly, including through any Affiliate of the Company (other than as permitted under the Sarb-Ox for depositary institutions), extended or maintained credit, arranged for the extension of credit, or renewed an extension of credit, in the form of a personal loan to or for any director or executive officer of the Company.

 

(cc)    Except as described in the Prospectus, there are no legal or governmental proceedings pending to which the Company is a party or of which any property or asset of the Company is the subject, including without limitation any proceeding before the Environmental Protection Agency, and specifically, the Office of Pesticide Programs, or comparable federal, state, local or foreign governmental bodies (it being understood that the interaction between the Company and the Environmental Protection Agency and such comparable governmental bodies relating to the clinical development and product approval process shall not be deemed proceedings for purposes of this representation), which, if determined adversely to the Company, are reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect; and to the Company’s knowledge, except as disclosed in the Prospectus, no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated by Governmental Authorities or threatened by others. The Company has not received any written notice of any claim, action, litigation, or proceeding (arbitral, administrative, legal or otherwise, including any informal proceeding) asserting a condition of default or material breach of contract, or material violation of applicable Law, in connection with a material contract or agreement.

 

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(dd)    The Company has filed all necessary federal, state and foreign income and franchise tax returns and has paid all taxes required to be paid by it and, if due and payable, any related or similar assessment, fine or penalty levied against it, except where the failure to make such filings or make such payments, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect. The Company has made adequate charges, accruals and reserves in its financial statements above in respect of all federal, state and foreign income and franchise taxes for all periods as to which the tax liability of the Company has not been finally determined.

 

(ee)    The Company maintains insurance of the types and in the amounts which the Company believes to be reasonable and sufficient for a company of its size operating in the Company’s industry, including, but not limited to: (i) directors’ and officers’ insurance (including insurance covering the Company, its directors and officers for liabilities or losses arising in connection with the Rights Offering, including, without limitation, liabilities or losses arising under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, the Rules and Regulations and applicable foreign securities laws), (ii) insurance covering real and personal property owned or leased against theft, damage, destruction, acts of vandalism and all other risks customarily insured against, (iii) business interruption insurance and (iv) product-related or clinical development-related insurance. There are no material claims by the Company under any policy or instrument described in this paragraph as to which any insurance company is denying liability or defending under a reservation of rights clause. All of the insurance policies described in this paragraph are in full force and effect. 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 at a cost that would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(ff)    Intellectual Property.

 

(i)      The Company owns, licenses or possesses the right to use sufficient trademarks, trade names, patents, patent rights, copyrights, domain names, licenses, approvals, trade secrets, inventions, technology, know-how and other similar rights (collectively, “Intellectual Property Rights”) as are reasonably necessary or material to conduct its business as now conducted and contemplated to be conducted, each as described in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus. To the Company’s knowledge, all Intellectual Property Rights are valid and enforceable.

 

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(ii)     Except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect (A) there is no actual, pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding, or claim by others challenging the rights of the Company and its Affiliates in or to any Intellectual Property Rights; (B)  there is no actual, pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding, or claim by others that the Company or its Affiliates infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any Intellectual Property Rights of others; (C) there is no actual, pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding, or claim by others challenging the validity or scope of any such Intellectual Property Rights owned by the Company or its Affiliates; (D) to the Company’s knowledge, the operation of the business of the Company, its Affiliates as now conducted and in connection with the development and commercialization of its technology described in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus does not infringe any claim of any patent or published patent application nor would such infringement, misappropriation or violation arise upon the commercialization of any product or service described in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus as under development; (E) to the Company’s knowledge, there is no “prior art” of which the Company is aware that may render any patent owned or licensed by the Company invalid or any patent application owned or licensed by the Company or its Affiliates unpatentable which has not been disclosed to the applicable government patent office; and (F) the patents, trademarks, and copyrights maintained by the Company or its Affiliates are in full force and in effect, and none of such patents, trademarks and copyrights have been adjudged invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part. Neither the Company nor its Affiliates is a party to or bound by any options, licenses or agreements with respect to the Intellectual Property Rights of any other Person that are required to be set forth in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and Prospectus and are not described therein in all material respects.

 

(iii)     The Company has duly and properly filed or caused to be filed with the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (the “PTO”) and applicable foreign and international patent authorities all patent applications owned by the Company, its Affiliates and which are determined to be material by the Company (the “Company Patent Applications”). The products described in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus as under a Company Patent Application or published patent fall within the scope of the claims of one or more patents or patent applications owned by, or licensed to, the Company. The Company has complied in all material respects with the PTO’s duty of candor and disclosure for the Company Patent Applications and has made no material misrepresentation in the Company Patent Applications. The Company Patent Applications disclose patentable subject matters, and the Company has not been notified of any inventorship challenges nor has any interference been declared or provoked nor is any material fact known by the Company that would preclude the issuance of patents with respect to the Company Patent Applications or would render such patents invalid or unenforceable.

 

(iv)     Other than as disclosed in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and Prospectus, to the Company’s knowledge, there are no rulemaking or similar proceedings before the Environmental Protection Agency, PTO or applicable foreign and international patent authorities, which affect or involve the Company or any of the processes or technologies that the Company has developed, is developing or proposes to develop or uses or proposes to use which, if the subject of an action unfavorable to the Company, would result in a Material Adverse Change.

 

(v)      Except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect, from and after January 1, 2015, the Company has obtained legally binding written agreements from all officers, employees and third parties with whom the Company has shared confidential proprietary information: (A) of the Company, or (B) received from others which the Company is obligated to treat as confidential, which agreements require such employees and third parties to keep such information confidential. The Company has taken all necessary actions to obtain ownership of all works of authorship and inventions made by its employees, consultants and contractors during the time they were employed by or under contract with the Company and which relate to the Company’s business as currently conducted. All founders and current key employees have signed invention assignment agreements with the Company.

 

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(vi)     The Company possesses valid and current licenses, registrations, certificates, permits and other authorizations issued by the appropriate foreign, federal, state or local regulatory authorities as necessary to conduct its respective businesses (collectively, the “Licensing Requirements”) and are enforceable by or against the parties thereto in accordance to its terms, except where the failure of a Licensing Requirement would not have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company has not received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of, or noncompliance with, any such license, certificate, permit or authorization, which could result in a Material Adverse Effect. No action, suit or proceeding, other than routine audits, by or before any court or Governmental Authority or any arbitrator involving the Company with respect to the removal, revocation, suspension or other termination of the authority to operate under the Licensing Requirements is pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened. The Company does not believe that any pending audit is reasonably likely to result in the removal, revocation, suspension or other termination of the Company’s authority to operate under the Licensing Requirements.

 

(vii)    To the Company’s knowledge, the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not result in the loss or impairment of or payment of any additional amounts with respect to, nor require the consent of any other person in respect of, the Company’s right to own, use, or hold for use any of the Intellectual Property Rights as owned, used or held for use in the conduct of the business as currently conducted.

 

(viii)   To the Company’s knowledge, the Company has at all times complied with all applicable laws relating to privacy, data protection, and the collection and use of personal information collected, used, or held for use by the Company in the conduct of the Company’s business. No claims have been asserted or threatened against the Company alleging a violation of any person’s privacy or personal information or data rights and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not breach or otherwise cause any violation of any law related to privacy, data protection, or the collection and use of personal information collected, used, or held for use by the Company in the conduct of the Company’s business, except such claims as would not reasonably be likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Company takes reasonable measures to ensure that such information is protected against unauthorized access, use, modification, or other misuse.

 

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(gg)    The Company: (i) is and at all times has been in compliance with all statutes, rules, regulations or guidance applicable to the ownership, testing, development, manufacture, packaging, processing, use, distribution, marketing, labeling, promotion, sale, offer for sale, storage, import, export or disposal of any product manufactured, distributed or sold by the Company or any component thereof (such statutes, rules, regulations or guidance, collectively, “Applicable Laws”); (ii) is, and to the Company’s knowledge, the Company’s manufacturing facility, after reasonable investigation, and operations of its suppliers are in compliance with all applicable federal, state, local and foreign laws, regulations, orders and decrees governing its business as prescribed by the Environmental Protection Agency or any other applicable Governmental Authority engaged in the regulation of the products that the Company develops, (iii) has not received any notice of adverse finding, warning letter, untitled letter or other correspondence or notice from the Environmental Protection Agency or any other Governmental Authority alleging or asserting noncompliance with any Applicable Laws or any licenses, certificates, approvals, clearances, authorizations, permits and supplements or amendments thereto required by any such Applicable Laws (“Authorizations”); (iv) possesses all Authorizations and such Authorizations are valid and in full force and effect and are not in violation of any term of any such Authorizations; (v) has not received notice of any claim, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, audit, investigation, arbitration or other action from any Governmental Authority or third party alleging that any product operation or activity is in violation of any Applicable Laws or Authorizations and has no knowledge that any such Governmental Authority or third party is considering any such claim, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, audit, investigation, arbitration or other action; (vi) has not received notice that any Governmental Authority has taken, is taking or intends to take action to limit, suspend, modify or revoke any Authorizations and has no knowledge that any such Governmental Authority is considering such action; and (vii) has filed, obtained, maintained or submitted all material reports, documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims, submissions and supplements or amendments as required by any Applicable Laws or Authorizations and that all such material reports, documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims, submissions and supplements or amendments were complete and correct in all material respects on the date filed (or were corrected or supplemented by a subsequent submission), except, in the case of each of clauses (i), (ii), (iii) (iv), (v) (vi) and (vii) for any failure, default, violation, notice or event that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(gg)    The studies and tests conducted or sponsored by or on behalf of the Company (the “Studies and Tests”) that are described or referred to in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and the Registration Statement were and, if still pending, are being conducted in accordance with experimental protocols, procedures and controls pursuant to accepted professional scientific standards and all Applicable Laws and Authorizations; the descriptions of the results of such studies, tests and trials contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and the Registration Statement are accurate and complete in all material respects and fairly present the data derived from such studies, tests and trials. The Company is not aware of any studies or tests, the results of which the Company believes reasonably call into question the study or test described or referred to in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and the Registration Statement when viewed in the context in which such results are described. The Company has not received any notices or correspondence with the Environmental Protection Agency or any foreign, state or local governmental body exercising comparable authority suggesting or requiring a clinical hold, termination, suspension or material modification of the Studies and Tests and that such clinical hold, termination, suspension or material modification would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(ii)      Neither the Company nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any of the Company’s directors, officers or employees has violated: (i) the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended, (ii) the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, as amended, (iii) the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or (iv) the Uniting and Strengthening of America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001, and/or the rules and regulations promulgated under any such law, or any successor law, except for such violations which, singly or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(jj)      Neither the Company nor any of its Affiliates has, prior to the date hereof, made any offer or sale of any securities which are required to be “integrated” pursuant to the Securities Act or the Rules and Regulations with the issuance or exercise of the Rights or the sale of the Rights Shares or Rights Warrants pursuant to the Registration Statement.

 

(kk)    Transactions Affecting Disclosure to FINRA.

 

(i)       Except as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there are no claims, payments, arrangements, agreements or understandings relating to the payment of a finder’s, consulting or origination fee or other compensation by the Company with respect to the issuance or exercise of the Rights or the sale of the Rights Shares or Rights Warrants or any other arrangements, agreements or understandings of the Company or, to the Company’s knowledge, the Company’s officers, directors and employees or Affiliates that may affect the Dealer-Manager’s compensation, as determined by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”).

 

(ii)      Except as previously disclosed by the Company to the Dealer-Manager in writing, no officer, director, or beneficial owner of 5% or more of any class of the Company’s securities (whether debt or equity, registered or unregistered, regardless of the time acquired or the source from which derived) or any other Affiliate is a member or a Person associated, or affiliated with a member of FINRA.

 

(iii)     No proceeds from the exercise of the Rights will be paid to any FINRA member, or any Persons associated or affiliated with a member of FINRA, except as specifically contemplated herein.

 

(iv)     Except as previously disclosed by the Company to the Dealer-Manager or as set forth in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, no Person to whom securities of the Company have been privately issued within the 180-day period prior to the initial filing date of the Registration Statement has any relationship or affiliation or association with any member of FINRA.

 

(ll)      There are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any Person that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or the Dealer-Manager for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or other like payment in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Other than the Dealer-Manager, the Company has not employed any brokers, dealers or underwriters in connection with solicitation of exercise of Rights in the Rights Offering, and except as provided for in Sections 6 and 7 hereof, no other commissions, fees or discounts will be paid by the Company or otherwise in connection with the Rights Offering.

 

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(mm)  The Company has at all times operated their businesses in material compliance with all Environmental Laws, and no material expenditures are or will be required in order to comply therewith. The Company has not received any notice or communication that relates to or alleges any actual or potential violation or failure to comply with any Environmental Laws that will result in a Material Adverse Effect. As used herein, the term “Environmental Laws” means all applicable laws and regulations, including any licensing, permits or reporting requirements, and any action by a Governmental Authority pertaining to the protection of the environment, protection of public health, protection of worker health and safety, or the handling of hazardous materials, including without limitation, the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7401, et seq., the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 9601, et seq., the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1321, et seq., the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, 49 U.S.C. § 1801, et seq., the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. § 690-1, et seq., and the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2601, et seq.

 

(nn)   Except as set forth in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, the Company is not a party to an “employee benefit plan,” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) which: (i) is subject to any provision of ERISA and (ii) is or was at any time maintained, administered or contributed to by the Company and covers any employee or former employee of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate (as defined hereafter). These plans are referred to collectively herein as the “Employee Plans.” For purposes of this paragraph, “ERISA Affiliate” of any Person means any other person or entity which, together with that person or entity, could be treated as a single employer under Section 414(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), or is an “affiliate,” whether or not incorporated, as defined in Section 407(d)(7) of ERISA, of the Person.

 

(oo)   The execution of this Agreement and consummation of the Rights Offering does not constitute a triggering event under any Employee Plan or any other employment contract, whether or not legally enforceable, which (either alone or upon the occurrence of any additional or subsequent event) will or may result in any payment (of severance pay or otherwise), acceleration, increase in vesting, or increase in benefits to any current or former participant, employee or director of the Company.

 

(pp)   No “prohibited transaction” (as defined in either Section 406 of the ERISA or Section 4975 of Code), “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA) or other event of the kind described in Section 4043(b) of ERISA (other than events with respect to which the 30-day notice requirement under Section 4043 of ERISA has been waived) has occurred with respect to any employee benefit plan for which the Company would have any liability; each employee benefit plan of the Company is in compliance in all material respects with applicable law, including (without limitation) ERISA and the Code; the Company has not incurred and does not expect to incur liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of, or withdrawal from any “pension plan”; and each employee benefit plan of the Company that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified and nothing has occurred, whether by action or by failure to act, which could cause the loss of such qualification.

 

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(qq)    Neither the Company nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any of the Company’s officers, directors, employees or agents has at any time during the last five (5) years: (i) made any unlawful contribution to any candidate for foreign office, or failed to disclose fully any contribution in violation of law; or (ii) made any payment to any federal or state governmental officer or official, or other Person charged with similar public or quasi-public duties, other than payments that are not prohibited by the laws of the United States of any jurisdiction thereof.

 

(rr)     The Company has not and will not, directly or indirectly through any officer, director or Affiliate of the Company or through any other Person: (i) taken any action designed to cause or to result in, or that has constituted or which might reasonably be expected to constitute, the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the issuance of the Rights or the sale or resale of the Rights Shares, Rights Warrants or shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise thereof, (ii) since the filing of the Registration Statement sold, bid for or purchased, or paid any Person (other than the Dealer-Manager) any compensation for soliciting exercises or purchases of the Rights or the Rights Shares or Rights Warrants; and (iii) until the later of the expiration of the Rights or the completion of the distribution (within the meaning of Regulation M under the Exchange Act) of the Rights Shares and Rights Warrants, sell, bid for or purchase, apply or agree to pay to any Person (other than the Dealer-Manager) any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other securities of the Company (except for the solicitation of the exercises of Rights pursuant to this Agreement). The foregoing shall not apply to the offer, sale, agreement to sell or delivery with respect to: (i) Rights Shares and Rights Warrants offered and sold upon exercise of the Rights, as described in the Prospectus; or (ii) any shares of Common Stock sold pursuant to the Company’s employee benefit plans.

 

(ss)    As used in this Agreement, references to matters being “material” with respect to the Company or any matter relating to the Company shall mean a material item, event, change, condition or status having a material and adverse effect related to the condition (financial or otherwise), properties, assets (including intangible assets), liabilities, business, prospects (as such prospects are disclosed or described in any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus), operations or results of operations of the Company, taken as a whole.

 

(tt)    As used in this Agreement, the term “Company’s knowledge” (or similar language) shall mean the knowledge of the officers of the Company who are named in the Prospectus, with the assumption that such officers shall have made reasonable and diligent inquiry of the matters presented (with reference to what is customary and prudent for the applicable individuals in connection with the discharge by the applicable individuals of their duties as officers or directors of the Company).

 

(uu)  Any certificate signed by or on behalf of the Company and delivered to the Dealer-Manager or to Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, counsel for the Dealer-Manager, shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Company to the Dealer-Manager as to the matters covered thereby.

 

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6.        Compensation of the Dealer-Manager. In consideration of the services rendered and to be rendered by the Dealer-Manager to the Company in connection with the Rights Offering, the Company agrees to pay the Dealer-Manager the following:

 

(a)       to the Dealer-Manager, a cash fee equal to 7.0% of the total gross proceeds received by the Company directly from exercises of subscription rights in the Rights Offering;

 

(b)       the Dealer-Manager shall receive (less the advance in the amount of $25,000 previously paid to Maxim, the “Advance”) up to $75,000 in reimbursement of their reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses (including legal fees) if the Rights Offering occurs. Any portion of the Advance not offset by actual expenses will be returned to the Company.

 

(c)       a warrant (the “Dealer-Manager Warrant”) to purchase a number of shares of Common Stock equal to five percent (5%) of the total number of Rights Shares sold in the Rights Offering. The Dealer-Manager Warrant shall not be exercisable for six (6) months from the Effective Date and shall expire five (5) years after the Effective Date. The Dealer-Manager Warrant shall be exercisable at a price per share of $[ ] which is equal to 150% of the offering price for the Rights Shares. The Dealer-Manager Warrant shall not be redeemable. The Dealer-Manager Warrant shall not be sold, transferred, assigned or hypothecated for a period of six (6) months from later of (i) the Effective Date and (ii) the date of Closing, except that it may be assigned, in whole or in part, to any successor, officer, or partner of the Dealer-Manager (or to officers or partners of any such successor or member).

 

The compensation set forth in this Section 6 of this Agreement shall be paid to the Dealer-Manager within three business days of the Closing. Except as provided in Section 6(b) or Section 11, the Dealer-Manager shall be responsible for its own expenses.

 

7.        Expenses. The Company shall pay or cause to be paid:

 

(a)      all of its expenses (including any taxes) incurred in connection with the Rights Offering (including “road show” expenses) and the preparation, issuance, execution, authentication and delivery of the Rights and the Rights Shares and Rights Warrants;

 

(b)      all fees, expenses and disbursements of the Company’s accountants, legal counsel and other third party advisors (including any public relations or solicitation firms hired by the Company);

 

(c)      all fees and expenses of the Subscription Agent and the Information Agent set forth in the Agent Agreement;

 

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(d)      all fees, expenses and disbursements (including, without limitation, fees and expenses of the Company’s accountants and counsel) in connection with the preparation, printing, filing, mailing, delivery and shipping of the Registration Statement (including the financial statements therein and all amendments and exhibits thereto), each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, the other Offer Documents and any amendments or supplements of the foregoing;

 

(e)      all fees, expenses and disbursements relating to the registration or qualification of the Rights and the Rights Shares under the “blue sky” securities laws of any states or other jurisdictions and all fees and expenses associated with the preparation of the preliminary and final forms of Blue Sky Memoranda;

 

(f)       all filing fees of the Commission;

 

(g)      all filing fees relating to the review of the Rights Offering by FINRA;

 

(h)       any applicable listing or other fees;

 

(i)        the cost of printing certificates representing the Rights and the Rights Shares and Rights Warrants;

 

(j)        all advertising charges pertaining to the Rights Offering agreed to by the Company;

 

(k)       the cost and charges of the Company’s transfer agent(s) or registrar(s) agreed to by the Company; and

 

(l)        all other costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder for which provision is not otherwise made in this Section.

 

The Company shall perform its obligations set forth in this Section 7 whether or not the Rights Offering commences or any Rights are exercised pursuant to the Rights Offering.

 

8.       Shareholder Lists; Subscription Agent.

 

(a)        The Company will cause the Dealer-Manager to be provided with any cards or lists showing the names and, as available the addresses of, and the number of shares of Common Stock held by, the holders of shares of Common Stock or shares of Common Stock underlying Participating Warrants as of a recent date and will use its best efforts to cause the Dealer-Manager to be advised from time to time during the period, as the Dealer-Manager shall request, of the Rights Offering as to any transfers of record of shares of Common Stock or Participating Warrants.

 

(b)       The Company will arrange for the Subscription Agent to advise the Dealer-Manager as to such matters as they may reasonably request, including the number of Rights which have been exercised pursuant to the Rights Offering.

 

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9.       Covenants. Subject to the Company’s right to discontinue the Rights Offering and withdraw the Registration Statement if the Company’s Board of Directors determines in good faith that it is no longer in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders, the Company covenants and agrees with the Dealer-Manager:

 

(a)       To use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto to become effective, provided that the Company shall have the right to discontinue the Rights Offering and withdraw the Registration Statement if the Company’s Board of Directors determines in good faith that it is no longer in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders; to advise the Dealer-Manager, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the time when the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereto, becomes effective or any supplement to the Prospectus or any amended Prospectus has been filed and to furnish the Dealer-Manager with copies thereof; to prepare a Prospectus in a form approved by the Dealer-Manager (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and to file such Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act within the time prescribed by such rule; to advise the Dealer-Manager, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, of the suspension of the qualification of the Rights for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose, or of any request by the Commission for the amending or supplementing of the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or for additional information; and, in the event of the issuance of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus or suspending any such qualification, to use promptly its reasonable best efforts to obtain its withdrawal;

 

(b)        To deliver promptly to the Dealer-Manager in New York City such number of the following documents as the Dealer-Manager shall reasonably request: (i) conformed copies of the Registration Statement as originally filed with the Commission and each amendment thereto (in each case excluding exhibits other than this Agreement, any other Offer Documents filed as exhibits, the computation of the ratio of earnings to fixed charges and the computation of per share earnings); (ii) each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and any amended or supplemented Prospectus; and (iii) any document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus (excluding exhibits thereto); and, if the delivery of a prospectus is required at any time during which the Prospectus relating to the Rights or the Rights Shares or Rights Warrants is required to be delivered under the Securities Act and if at such time any events shall have occurred as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made when such Prospectus is delivered, not misleading, or, if for any other reason it shall be necessary during such period to amend or supplement the Prospectus or to file under the Exchange Act any document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus in order to comply with the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, to notify the Dealer-Manager and, upon its request, to file such document and to prepare and furnish without charge to the Dealer-Manager as many copies as the Dealer-Manager may from time to time reasonably request of an amended or supplemented Prospectus which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance;

 

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(c)        To file promptly with the Commission any amendment to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or any supplement to the Prospectus that may, in the judgment of the Company or the Dealer-Manager, be necessary or advisable in connection with the distribution of the Rights or the sale of the Securities or be requested by the Commission;

 

(d)       Prior to filing with the Commission any: (i) Preliminary Prospectus, (ii) amendment to the Registration Statement, any document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus or (iii) any Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424 of the Rules and Regulations, to furnish a copy thereof to the Dealer-Manager and counsel for the Dealer-Manager and obtain the consent of the Dealer-Manager to the filing (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld);

 

(e)        Until the completion of the Rights Offering, following the effective date of the Registration Statement, to furnish to the Dealer-Manager copies of all materials not available via EDGAR furnished by the Company to its shareholders and all public reports and all reports and financial statements furnished by the Company to the principal national securities exchange upon which any of the Company’s securities may be listed pursuant to requirements of or agreements with such exchange or to the Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act or any rule or regulation of the Commission thereunder;

 

(f)        To qualify or register the Rights and the Rights Shares and Rights Warrants for sale under (or obtain exemptions from the application of) the applicable state securities or blue sky laws of those United States jurisdictions designated by the Dealer-Manager, to comply with such laws and to continue such qualifications, registrations and exemptions in effect so long as required for the distribution of the Rights and the Rights Shares and Rights Warrants; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or to take any action that would subject it to general service of process in any such jurisdiction where it is not presently qualified or where it would be subject to taxation as a foreign corporation. The Company will advise the Dealer-Manager promptly of the suspension of the qualification or registration of (or any such exemption relating to) the Rights and the Rights Shares and Rights Warrants for offering, sale or trading in any jurisdiction or any initiation or threat of any proceeding for any such purpose, and in the event of the issuance of any order suspending such qualification, registration or exemption, the Company shall use its best efforts to obtain the withdrawal thereof at the earliest possible moment.

 

(g)      To apply the net proceeds from the exercise of the Rights in the manner described under the caption “Use of Proceeds” in the Prospectus.

 

(h)      Prior to the effective date of the Registration Statement, to apply for the listing of the Rights Shares and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Rights Warrants on NASDAQ and to use its best efforts to complete that listing, subject only to official notice of issuance (if applicable), prior to the expiration of the Rights Offering.

 

(i)       To take such steps as shall be necessary to ensure that the Company does not become an “investment company” within the meaning of such term under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

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(j)       To advise the Dealer-Manager, directly or through the Subscription Agent, from time to time, as the Dealer-Manager shall request, of the number of Rights Shares and Rights Warrants subscribed for, and arrange for the Subscription Agent to furnish the Dealer-Manager with copies of written reports it furnishes to the Company concerning the Rights Offering;

 

(k)      To commence mailing the Offer Documents to record holders of the Common Stock not later than the second business day following the record date for the Rights Offering, and complete such mailing as soon as practicable;

 

(l)       To reserve and keep available for issue upon distribution of the Rights such number of authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock as will be sufficient to permit the sale of all Rights Shares and exercise in full of all Rights Warrants issued upon such exercise in full of the Rights issuable pursuant to the Prospectus;

 

(m)        (i) To abide by all rules and regulations of the Commission relating to public offerings, including, without limitation, those relating to public statements (i.e., “gun jumping”) and disclosures of material nonpublic information and (ii) to not issue press releases or engage in any other publicity, without Maxim’s prior written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably delayed, withheld or denied), during the Engagement Period, other than normal and customary releases issued in the ordinary course of the Company’s business; and

 

(n)     To not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to cause or to result in, or that has constituted or which might reasonably be expected to constitute, the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the issuance of the Rights or the sale or resale of the Rights Shares or Rights Warrants.

 

10.      Conditions of Dealer-Manager’s Obligations. The obligations of the Dealer-Manager hereunder are subject to (and the occurrence of any Closing shall be conditioned upon) the accuracy, as of the date hereof and at all times during the Rights Offering, of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein, to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder (in each case in the reasonable opinion of the Dealer-Manager) and to the following additional conditions:

 

(a)       (i) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and the Prospectus shall have been timely filed with the Commission in accordance with the Rules and Regulations; (ii) all post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement shall have become effective; and (iii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement thereto shall have been issued and no proceedings for the issuance of any such order shall have been initiated or threatened, and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been disclosed to the Dealer-Manager and complied with to the Dealer-Manager’s reasonable satisfaction.

 

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(b)       The Dealer-Manager shall not have been advised by the Company or shall have discovered and disclosed to the Company that the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, contains an untrue statement of fact which in the Dealer-Manager’s opinion, or in the opinion of counsel to the Dealer-Manager, is material, or omits to state a fact which, in the Dealer-Manager’s opinion, or in the opinion of counsel to the Dealer-Manager, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.

 

(c)       All corporate proceedings and other legal matters incident to the authorization, form and validity of this Agreement, the Rights, the Rights Shares, the Rights Warrants, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and all other legal matters relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be reasonably satisfactory in all material respects to counsel for the Dealer-Manager, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel all documents and information that they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.

 

(d)       Concurrently with the Closing, there shall have been furnished to the Dealer-Manager (i) the signed opinion (addressed to the Dealer-Manager) of Perkins Coie LLP, counsel for the Company, dated as of such Closing, and (ii) the signed opinion (addressed to the Dealer-Manager) of Oblon, McClelland, Maier and Neustadt, LLP, intellectual property counsel for the Company, dated as of such Closing, each of (i) and (ii) in form and substance satisfactory to counsel for the Dealer-Manager.

 

(e)       Concurrently with the execution of this Agreement and at Closing, there shall have been furnished to the Dealer-Manager the certificate of the Company’s Chief Financial Officer with respect to certain regulatory matters dated the date hereof and as of such Closing, and in form and substance satisfactory to counsel for the Dealer-Manager.

 

(f)        Concurrently with the execution of this Agreement and at Closing, the Company shall have furnished to the Dealer-Manager a customary comfort letter of M&K, addressed to the Dealer-Manager and dated the date hereof and as of such Closing in form and content satisfactory to the Dealer-Manager.

 

(g)      The Company shall have furnished to the Dealer-Manager a certificate, dated the date of Closing, of its Chief Executive Officer or President and its Chief Financial Officer stating that:

 

(i)        To the best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation, the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of the Company in Section 5 hereof are true and correct in all material respects;

 

(ii)       The conditions set forth in this Section 10 have been fulfilled;

 

(iii)      Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any development reasonably likely to result in a prospective Material Adverse Change; and

 

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(iv)       They have carefully examined the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and, in their opinion (A) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, as of the Effective Date, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and (B) since the Effective Date no event has occurred which should have been set forth in a supplement or amendment to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus and has not been.

 

(h)      The Company shall not have sustained since the date of this Agreement any Material Adverse Change, the effect of which is, in the judgment of the Dealer-Manager, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the Rights Offering.

 

(i)       The Common Stock shall then be listed and trading on NASDAQ and the Company shall have notified NASDAQ of the listing of the Rights Shares and the shares issuable upon exercise of the Rights Warrants.

 

(j)       All opinions, letters, evidence and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Dealer-Manager. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 10 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, this Agreement and all obligations of the Dealer-Manager hereunder may be canceled at, or at any time during the Rights Offering, by the Dealer-Manager. Any such cancellation shall be without liability of the Dealer-Manager to the Company. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing, or by telephone and confirmed in writing.

 

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11.      Indemnification and Contribution.

 

(a)      The Company agrees to hold harmless and indemnify Maxim and its affiliates and any officer, director, employee or agent of Maxim or any such affiliates and any Person controlling (within the meaning of Section 20(a) of the Exchange Act) Maxim or any of such affiliates from and against any and all (A) losses, claims, damages and liabilities whatsoever, under the Securities Act or otherwise (as incurred or suffered), arising out of or based upon: (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Offer Documents or any amendment or supplement thereto, in any other solicitation material used by the Company or authorized by it for use in connection with the Rights Offering, or in any blue sky application or other document prepared or executed by the Company (or based on any written information furnished by the Company) specifically for the purpose of qualifying any or all of the Rights or the Rights Shares or Rights Warrants under the securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction (any such application, document or information being hereinafter called a “Blue Sky Application”) or arising out of or based upon the omission or alleged omission to state in any such document a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (other than statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with the Dealer-Manager Information); (ii) any withdrawal or termination by the Company of, or failure by the Company to make or consummate, the Rights Offering, (iii) actions taken or omitted to be taken by an indemnified party with the consent of the Company or in conformity with actions taken or omitted to be taken by the Company, in each case in connection with the letter agreement, dated June 20, 2018, between the Company and a warrant holder relating to an inducement offer to exercise common stock purchase warrants, and the transactions contemplated thereby, the Rights Offering or this Agreement; (iv) any failure by the Company to comply with any agreement or covenant contained in this Agreement; or (v) arising out of, relating to or in connection with or alleged to arise out of, relate to or be in connection with, the Rights Offering, any of the other transactions contemplated thereby or the performance of Maxim’s services to the Company with respect to the Rights Offering, and (B) all reasonable expenses (including, but not limited to, any and all reasonable legal expenses) incurred in connection with investigating, preparing to defend or defending any lawsuit, claim or other proceeding, commenced or threatened, whether or not resulting in any liability, which legal or other expenses shall be reimbursed by the Company promptly after receipt of any invoices therefore from Maxim. However, the Company will not be obligated to indemnify an indemnified party for any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense pursuant to this Section 11 which has been determined in a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted directly from bad faith, willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of any indemnified party.

 

(b)      The Dealer-Manager shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its officers, directors and employees, each of its directors and each Person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act, from and against any loss, claim, damage or liability, joint or several, or any action in respect thereof, to which the Company or any such director, officer or controlling Person may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of, or is based upon: (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained (A) in any Offer Documents, or in any such amendment or supplement, in any other solicitation material used by the Company or authorized by it for use in connection with the Rights Offering or (B) in any Blue Sky Application; or (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state in any Offer Documents, or in any such amendment or supplement, in any other solicitation material used by the Company or authorized by it for use in connection with the Rights Offering, or in any Blue Sky Application, any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, but in each case solely and exclusively to the extent that the untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with the Dealer-Manager Information, and shall reimburse the Company and any such director, officer or controlling Person for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company or any such director, officer or controlling Person in connection with investigating or defending or preparing to defend against any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred.

 

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(c)      If any lawsuit, claim or proceeding is brought against any indemnified party in respect of which indemnification may be sought against the indemnifying party pursuant to this Section 11, such indemnified party shall promptly notify the indemnifying party of the commencement of such lawsuit, claim or proceeding; provided, however, that the failure so to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve the indemnifying party from any obligation or liability which it may have under this Section 11 except to the extent that it has been prejudiced in any material respect by such failure and in any event shall not relieve the indemnifying party from any other obligation or liability which it may have to such indemnified party otherwise than under this Section 11, provided, however that this shall not effect the obligations of the parties contained in the Engagement Agreement. In case any such lawsuit, claim or proceeding shall be brought against any indemnified party and such indemnified party shall notify the indemnifying party of the commencement of such lawsuit, claim or proceeding, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate in such lawsuit, claim or proceeding, and, after written notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party, to assume the defense of such lawsuit, claim or proceeding with counsel of its choice at its expense; provided, however, that such counsel shall be satisfactory to the indemnified party in the exercise of its reasonable judgment. Notwithstanding the election of the indemnifying party to assume the defense of such lawsuit, claim or proceeding, such indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate counsel and to participate in the defense of such lawsuit, claim or proceeding, and the indemnifying party shall bear the reasonable fees, costs and expenses of such separate counsel (and shall pay such reasonable fees, costs and expenses promptly after receipt of any invoice therefor) if: (i) the use of counsel chosen by the indemnifying party to represent such indemnified party would present such counsel with a conflict of interest; (ii) the defendants in, or targets of, any such lawsuit, claim or proceeding include both an indemnified party and the indemnifying party, and such indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it or to other indemnified parties which are different from or in addition to those available to the indemnifying party (in which case the indemnifying party shall not have the right to direct the defense of such action on behalf of the indemnified party); (iii) the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party, in the exercise of such indemnified party’s reasonable judgment, to represent such indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice of the institution of any such lawsuit, claim or proceeding; or (iv) the indemnifying party shall authorize such indemnified party to employ separate counsel at the expense of the indemnifying party. The foregoing indemnification commitments shall apply whether or not the indemnified party is a formal party to any such lawsuit, claim or proceeding. The indemnifying party shall not be liable for any settlement of any lawsuit, claim or proceeding effected without its consent (which consent will not be unreasonably withheld), but if settled with such consent, the indemnifying party agrees, subject to the provisions of this Section 11, to indemnify the indemnified party from and against any loss, damage or liability by reason of such settlement. The Company agrees to notify Maxim promptly, or cause Maxim to be notified promptly, of the assertion of any lawsuit, claim or proceeding against the Company, any of its officers or directors or any Person who controls any of the foregoing within the meaning of Section 20(a) of the Exchange Act, arising out of or relating the Rights Offering. The Company further agrees that any settlement of a lawsuit, claim or proceeding against it arising out of Rights Offering shall include, if applicable, an explicit and unconditional release from the parties bringing such lawsuit, claim or proceeding of Maxim, its respective affiliates, and any officer, director, employee or agent of Maxim, and any Person controlling (within the meaning of Section 20(a) of the Exchange Act) Maxim.

 

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(d)      The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating, preparing to defend or defending any such action or claim.

 

(e)      The foregoing rights to indemnification and contribution shall be in addition to any other rights which any indemnified parties may have under common law or otherwise including the rights to indemnification, reimbursement and contribution provided for under the Engagement Letter.

 

(f)       In order to provide for contribution in circumstances in which the indemnification provided for in this Section 11 for any reason held to be unavailable from any indemnifying party or is insufficient to hold harmless a party indemnified thereunder, the Company, on the one hand, and Maxim, on the other hand, shall contribute to the aggregate losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses of the nature contemplated by such indemnification provision (including any investigation, legal and other expenses incurred in connection with, and any amount paid in settlement of, any action, suit or proceeding or any claims asserted, but after deducting in the case of losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses suffered by the Company, any contribution received by the Company from Persons, other than Maxim, who may also be liable for contribution, including Persons who control the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, officers of the Company who signed the Registration Statement and directors of the Company) as incurred to which the Company and Maxim may be subject, in such proportions as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and Maxim, on the other hand, from the Rights Offering or, if such allocation is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportions as are appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to above but also the relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and Maxim, on the other hand, in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and Maxim, on the other hand, shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as: (x) the total proceeds from the Rights Offering (net of the fees of the Dealer-Manager set forth in Section 6 hereof, but before deducting expenses) received by the Company bears to (y) the fees of the Dealer-Manager set forth in Section 6 hereof actually received by the Dealer-Manager. The relative fault of each of the Company, on the one hand, and Maxim, on the other hand, shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or Maxim (which consists solely and exclusively of the Dealer-Manager Information) and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Company and the Dealer-Manager agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 11(f) were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this Section. The aggregate amount of losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by an indemnified party and referred to above in this Section 11 shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any judicial, regulatory or other legal or governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 11: (i) the Dealer-Manager shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the fees actually received by the Dealer-Manager from the Company in connection with the Rights Offering and (ii) no Person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any Person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes of this Section 11, each Person controlling a Dealer-Manager within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as such Dealer-Manager, and each Person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, each officer of the Company who shall have signed the Registration Statement and each director of the Company shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company, subject in each case to clauses (i) and (ii) of the immediately preceding sentence. Any party entitled to contribution will, promptly after receipt of notice of commencement of any action, suit or proceeding against such party in respect of which a claim for contribution may be made against another party or parties, notify each party or parties from whom contribution may be sought, but the omission to so notify such party or parties shall not relieve the party or parties from whom contribution may be sought from any obligation it or they may have under this Section 11(f) or otherwise.

 

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12.      Effective Date of Agreement; Termination; Right of First Refusal; Standstill.

 

(a)      This Agreement shall become effective upon the later of the time on which the Dealer-Manager shall have received notification of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and the time which this Agreement shall have been executed by all of the parties hereto.

 

(b)       At any time during the Rights Offering, this Agreement may be terminated by the Dealer-Manager by giving notice as hereinafter provided to the Company if:

 

(i)      the Company shall have failed, refused or been unable, at any applicable time during the Rights Offering, to perform any material agreement on its part to be performed hereunder,

 

(ii)      any other material condition of the Dealer-Manager’s obligations as set forth in Section 10 or elsewhere hereunder is not fulfilled,

 

(iii)     trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Stock Market or the NYSE Alternext U.S. or in the OTCQB, or trading in any securities of the Company on any exchange or in the over-the-counter market, shall have been suspended on any such exchanges or such market by the Commission, by such exchange or by any other regulatory body or Governmental Authority,

 

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(iv)     a banking moratorium shall have been declared by Federal or state authorities, or

 

(v)      there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or acts of terrorism involving the United States or there is a declaration of a national emergency or war by the United States or there shall have been any other calamity or crisis or any change in political, financial or economic conditions of the United States.

 

(c)      At any time during the Rights Offering, this Agreement may be terminated by the Company by giving notice as hereinafter provided to the Dealer-Manager if the Company’s Board of Directors determines in good faith that the Rights Offering is no longer in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders.

 

(d) Any termination of this Agreement pursuant to this Section 12 shall be without liability on the part of the Company or the Dealer-Manager, except as otherwise provided in Section 11 hereof. Any notice referred to above may be given at the address specified in Section 14 hereof in writing or by facsimile or telephone, and if by telephone, shall be immediately confirmed in writing.

 

(e)       Upon the Closing of the Rights Offering, the Company, or any successor to or any subsidiary of the Company shall grant to Maxim: (i) for a period of twelve (12) months from the commencement of solicitation of the Rights Offering, the right of first refusal to act as lead left book runner and lead left manager and/or lead left placement agent, with at least 75.0% of the economics for a two handed deal and 50% of the economics for a three handed deal, for any and all public and private equity, convertible or debt offerings of the Company’s securities if the gross proceeds of the Rights Offering are greater than $10.0 million; or (ii) for a period of six (6) months from the commencement of solicitation of the Offering, the Company grants Maxim the right of participation to act as a book runner and lead manager and/or lead placement agent, with at least 50.0% of the economics, for any and all public and private equity, convertible or debt offerings of the Company’s Securities if the gross proceeds of the Rights Offering are less than $10.0 million.

 

(f)       From the date hereof until 90 days after the Closing, the Company (along with any Subsidiaries that the Company may have following the date hereof) shall not enter into any agreement to issue or announce the issuance or proposed issuance of any shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents other than an Exempt Issuance. For purposes of this Section 12(g), “Common Stock Equivalents” means any securities of the Company which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock, including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, right, option, warrant or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Common Stock and “Exempt Issuance” means the issuance of (a) shares of Common Stock, restricted stock, restricted stock units or Common Stock Equivalents to employees, officers directors or consultants of the Company pursuant to any stock or option plan duly adopted for such purpose, by a majority of the non-employee members of the Board of Directors or a majority of the members of a committee of non-employee directors established for such purpose for services rendered to the Company, (b) securities upon the exercise Rights Warrants issued hereunder and/or other securities exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding on the date of this Agreement, provided that such securities have not been amended since the date of this Agreement to increase the number of such securities or to decrease the exercise price, exchange price or conversion price of such securities (other than in connection with stock splits, adjustments or combinations as set forth in such securities) or to extend the term of such securities and (c) securities issued pursuant to acquisitions or strategic transactions approved by a majority of the disinterested directors of the Company, provided that such securities are issued as “restricted securities” (as defined in Rule 144) and carry no registration rights that require or permit the filing of any registration statement in connection therewith, and provided that any such issuance shall only be to a Person (or to the equityholders of a Person) which is, itself or through its subsidiaries, an operating company or an owner of an asset in a business synergistic with the business of the Company and shall provide to the Company additional benefits in addition to the investment of funds, but shall not include a transaction in which the Company is issuing securities primarily for the purpose of raising capital or to an entity whose primary business is investing in securities.

 

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(g)       If within the Tail Period (as defined below) the Company completes any financing of equity, equity-linked or debt of the Company (other than the exercise by any person or entity of any options, warrants or other convertible securities) with any of the investors introduced to the Company by the Dealer-Manager during the period beginning on May 23, 2018 and ending on the earlier of September 30, 2018 or the Closing (the “Engagement Period”) (which excludes any current Company investor), then the Company will pay to the Dealer-Manager upon the closing of such financing the compensation set forth in Section 6(a) and 6(c) herein. The “Tail Period” shall be the period of time six (6) months after the expiration of the Engagement Period.

 

13.      Survival of Certain Provisions. The agreement contained in Sections 11, 12(e), 12(f) and 12(g) hereof and the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company contained in Sections 5, 6 and 7 hereof shall survive the consummation of the Rights Offering and shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of, except for Sections 12(e) and 12(f) hereof (which shall terminate upon a termination or cancellation of this Agreement), any termination or cancellation of this Agreement or any investigation made by or on behalf of any indemnified party; provided however than in the event of any failure to commence or consummate the Rights Offering, the agreements contained in Sections 5 and 6 shall terminate and be of no further force or effect. The Engagement Letter shall survive the consummation of or failure to commence or consummate the Rights Offering and shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any termination or cancellation of this Agreement or any investigation made by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

 

14.      Notices. All notices or other communications hereunder shall be in writing, and (a) if sent to the Dealer-Manager, shall be mailed, delivered, or faxed and confirmed in writing, to Maxim Group LLC, 405 Lexington, New York, New York 10174, Fax Number: (212) 895-3783, Attention: Clifford A. Teller, Executive Managing Director — Investment Banking, in each case, with a copy to Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, 1345 Avenue of the Americas, 11th Floor, New York, New York, 10105 Fax Number: (212) 370-7889, Attention: Sarah Williams, Esq.; and (b) if sent to the Company shall be mailed, delivered, or faxed and confirmed in writing to the Company and its counsel at the address set forth in the Registration Statement, with a copy to Perkins Coie LLP, 1120 N.W. Couch Street, Tenth Floor, Portland, OR 97209, Fax Number: 503-727-2222, Attention: Chris Hall. Any such notices and other communications shall take effect at the time of receipt thereof.

 

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15.        Parties. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Dealer-Manager, the Company and their respective successors. This Agreement and the terms and provisions hereof are for the sole benefit of only those Persons, except that the representations, warranties, indemnities and agreements of the Company contained in this Agreement shall also be deemed to be for the benefit of the Person or Persons, if any, who control the Dealer-Manager within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to give any Person, other than the Persons referred to in this Section, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision contained herein.

 

16.        Amendment. This Agreement may not be amended or modified except in writing signed by each of the parties hereto.

 

17.        Governing Law; Venue. This Agreement shall be deemed to have been executed and delivered in New York and both this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be governed as to validity, interpretation, construction, effect, and in all other respects by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to the conflicts of laws principals thereof (other than Section 5-1401 of The New York General Obligations Law). Each of the Dealer-Manager and the Company: (a) agrees that any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement and/or the transactions contemplated hereby shall be instituted exclusively in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, or in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; (b) waives any objection which it may have or hereafter to the venue of any such suit, action or proceeding; and (c) irrevocably consents to the jurisdiction of Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, or in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in any such suit, action or proceeding. Each of the Dealer-Manager and the Company further agrees to accept and acknowledge service of any and all process which may be served in any such suit, action or proceeding in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, or in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and agrees that service of process upon the Company mailed by certified mail to the Company’s address or delivered by Federal Express via overnight delivery shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon the Company, in any such suit, action or proceeding, and service of process upon the Dealer-Manager mailed by certified mail to the Dealer-Manager’s address or delivered by Federal Express via overnight delivery shall be deemed in every respect effective service process upon the Dealer-Manager, in any such suit, action or proceeding. THE COMPANY HEREBY WAIVES TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY CLAIM BASED UPON, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT AND THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS AGREEMENT, THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT, ANY PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS AND THE PROSPECTUS.

 

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18.        Entire Agreement. This Agreement, together with the exhibit attached hereto and as the same may be amended from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof, and the Engagement Letter contain the entire agreement among the parties hereto relating to the subject matter hereof and there are no other or further agreements outstanding not specifically mentioned herein.

 

19.        Severability. If any term or provision of this Agreement or the performance thereof shall be invalid or unenforceable to any extent, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect or render invalid or unenforceable any other provision of this Agreement and this Agreement shall be valid and enforced to the fullest extent permitted by law.

 

20.        Headings. The headings herein are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of, or to affect the meaning or interpretation of, this Agreement.

 

21.        Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of a signed counterpart of this Agreement by facsimile or other electronic transmission shall constitute valid and sufficient delivery thereof.

 

[Signature Page Follows]

 

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If the foregoing correctly sets forth your understanding, please so indicate in the space provided below for that purpose, whereupon this letter shall constitute a binding agreement among us as of July [ ], 2018. 

     
  Very truly yours,
   
  SENESTECH, INC.
   
By: 
    Name:
    Title:
     

Accepted by the Dealer-Manager 

as of the date first written above: 

 
   
MAXIM GROUP LLC  
     
By:  
  Name:  
  Title:  
   

[Signature Page to Dealer-Manager Agreement]

 

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Schedule I

 

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EX-4.4 3 s111479_ex4-4.htm EXHIBIT 4.4

 

Exhibit 4.4

 

 

SenesTech, Inc.

 

and

 

[           ], as 

Warrant Agent

 

 

Warrant Agency Agreement

 

Dated as of ______, 2018

 

 

 

 

WARRANT AGENCY AGREEMENT

 

WARRANT AGENCY AGREEMENT, dated as of ______, 2018 (“Agreement”), between SenesTech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and [ ], a [_____ corporation (the “Warrant Agent”).

 

W I T N E S S E T H

 

WHEREAS, the Company is engaged in a public rights offering (the “Offering”) pursuant to which the Company has distributed, at no charge, non-transferable subscription rights to purchase units (the “Units”) to each of the Company’s holders of common stock (the “Common Stock”) and to eligible holders of the Company’s warrants pursuant to an effective registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-225713) (the “Registration Statement”);

 

WHEREAS, the Units consists of shares of Common Stock and warrants (collectively, the “Warrants”) to purchase shares of Common Stock, and the Company wishes to issue the Warrants in book entry form entitling the respective holders of the Warrants (the “Holders”, which term shall include a Holder’s transferees, successors and assigns and “Holder” shall include, if the Warrants are held in “street name,” a Participant (as defined below) or a designee appointed by such Participant) to purchase an aggregate of up to [_________ shares of Common Stock upon the terms and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth;

 

WHEREAS, the Common Stock and Warrants to be issued in connection with the Offering shall be immediately separable and will be issued separately, but will be purchased together in the Offering; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company wishes the Warrant Agent to act on behalf of the Company, and the Warrant Agent is willing so to act, in connection with the issuance, registration, transfer, exchange, exercise and replacement of the Warrants and, in the Warrant Agent’s capacity as the Company’s transfer agent, the delivery of the Warrant Shares (as defined below).

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual agreements herein set forth, the parties hereby agree as follows:

 

Section 1. Certain Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings indicated:

 

(a)          “Business Day” means any day except any Saturday, any Sunday, any day which is a federal legal holiday in the United States or any day on which the New York Stock Exchange is authorized or required by law or other governmental action to close.

 

(b)          “Close of Business” on any given date means 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on such date; provided, however, that if such date is not a Business Day it means 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the next succeeding Business Day.

 

(c)          “Person” means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization, government or political subdivision thereof or governmental agency or other entity.

 

(d)          “Warrant Certificate” means a certificate issued to a Holder, representing such number of Warrant Shares as is indicated therein.

 

(e)          “Warrant Shares” means the shares of Common Stock underlying the Warrants and issuable upon exercise of the Warrants.

 

All other capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to such terms in the Warrant.

 

Section 2. Appointment of Warrant Agent. The Company hereby appoints the Warrant Agent to act as agent for the Company in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof, and the Warrant Agent hereby accepts such appointment. The Company may from time to time appoint a Co-Warrant Agent as it may, in its sole discretion, deem necessary or desirable. The Warrant Agent shall have no duty to supervise, and will in no event be liable for the acts or omissions of, any co-Warrant Agent.

 

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Section 3. Global Warrants.

 

(a)          The Warrants shall be issuable in book entry form (the “Global Warrants”). All of the Warrants shall initially be represented by one or more Global Warrants deposited with the Warrant Agent and registered in the name of Cede & Co., a nominee of The Depository Trust Company (the “Depositary”), or as otherwise directed by the Depositary. Ownership of beneficial interests in the Warrants shall be shown on, and the transfer of such ownership shall be effected through, records maintained by (i) the Depositary or its nominee for each Global Warrant or (ii) institutions that have accounts with the Depositary (such institution, with respect to a Warrant in its account, a “Participant”).

 

(b)          If the Depositary subsequently ceases to make its book-entry settlement system available for the Warrants, the Company may instruct the Warrant Agent regarding other arrangements for book-entry settlement. In the event that the Warrants are not eligible for, or it is no longer necessary to have the Warrants available in, book-entry form, the Warrant Agent shall provide written instructions to the Depositary to deliver to the Warrant Agent for cancellation each Global Warrant, and the Company shall instruct the Warrant Agent to deliver to each Holder a Warrant Certificate.

 

(c)          A Holder has the right to elect at any time or from time to time a Warrant Exchange (as defined below) pursuant to a Warrant Certificate Request Notice (as defined below). Upon written notice by a Holder to the Warrant Agent for the exchange of some or all of such Holder’s Global Warrants for a Warrant Certificate evidencing the same number of Warrants, which request shall be in the form attached hereto as Annex A (a “Warrant Certificate Request Notice” and the date of delivery of such Warrant Certificate Request Notice by the Holder, the “Warrant Certificate Request Notice Date” and the deemed surrender upon delivery by the Holder of a number of Global Warrants for the same number of Warrants evidenced by a Warrant Certificate, a “Warrant Exchange”), the Warrant Agent shall promptly effect the Warrant Exchange and shall promptly issue and deliver to the Holder a Warrant Certificate for such number of Warrants in the name set forth in the Warrant Certificate Request Notice. Such Warrant Certificate shall be dated the original issue date of the Warrants and shall be manually executed by an authorized signatory of the Company. In connection with a Warrant Exchange, the Company agrees to deliver, or to direct the Warrant Agent to deliver, the Warrant Certificate to the Holder within five (5) Business Days of the Warrant Certificate Request Notice pursuant to the delivery instructions in the Warrant Certificate Request Notice (“Warrant Certificate Delivery Date”). If the Company fails for any reason to deliver to the Holder the Warrant Certificate subject to the Warrant Certificate Request Notice by the Warrant Certificate Delivery Date, the Company shall pay to the Holder, in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for each $1,000 of Warrant Shares evidenced by such Warrant Certificate (based on the VWAP (as defined in the Warrant) of the Common Stock on the Warrant Certificate Request Notice Date), $10 per Business Day (increasing to $20 per Business Day on the fifth Business Day after such liquidated damages begin to accrue) for each Business Day after such Warrant Certificate Delivery Date until such Warrant Certificate is delivered or, prior to delivery of such Warrant Certificate, the Holder rescinds such Warrant Exchange. The Company covenants and agrees that, upon the date of delivery of the Warrant Certificate Request Notice, the Holder shall be deemed to be the holder of the Warrant Certificate and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, the Warrant Certificate shall be deemed for all purposes to contain all of the terms and conditions of the Warrants evidenced by such Warrant Certificate and the terms of this Agreement, other than Section 3(c), which shall not apply to the Warrants evidenced by a Warrant Certificate. In the event a beneficial owner requests a Warrant Exchange, upon issuance of the paper Warrant Certificate, the Company shall act as warrant agent and the terms of the paper Warrant Certificate so issued shall exclusively govern in respect thereof.

 

Section 4. Form of Warrant. The Warrants, together with the form of election to purchase Common Stock (the “Exercise Notice”) and the form of assignment to be printed on the reverse thereof, whether a Warrant Certificate or a Global Warrant, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit 1 hereto.

 

Section 5. Countersignature and Registration. The Warrants shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chief Executive Officer or Chief Financial Officer or another officer of the Company, either manually or by facsimile signature, which shall be attested by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or another officer of the Company, either manually or by facsimile signature. The Warrants shall be countersigned by the Warrant Agent either manually or by facsimile signature and shall not be valid for any purpose unless so countersigned. In case any officer of the Company who shall have signed a Warrant shall cease to be such officer of the Company before countersignature by the Warrant Agent and issuance and delivery by the Company, such Warrant, nevertheless, may be countersigned by the Warrant Agent, issued and delivered with the same force and effect as though the person who signed such Warrant had not ceased to be such officer of the Company; and any Warrant may be signed on behalf of the Company by any person who, at the actual date of the execution of such Warrant, shall be a proper officer of the Company to sign such Warrant, although at the date of the execution of this Warrant Agreement any such person was not such an officer.

 

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The Warrant Agent will keep or cause to be kept, at one of its offices, or at the office of one of its agents, books for registration and transfer of the Warrant Certificates issued hereunder. Such books shall show the names and addresses of the respective Holders of the Warrant Certificates, the number of warrants evidenced on the face of each of such Warrant Certificate and the date of each of such Warrant Certificate. The Warrant Agent will create a special account for the issuance of Warrant Certificates.

 

Section 6. Transfer, Split Up, Combination and Exchange of Warrant Certificates; Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Warrant Certificates. Subject to the provisions of the Warrant and the last sentence of this first paragraph of Section 6 and subject to applicable law, rules or regulations, or any “stop transfer” instructions the Company may give to the Warrant Agent, at any time after the closing date of the Offering, and at or prior to the Close of Business on the Expiration Date, any Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates or Global Warrant or Global Warrants may be transferred, split up, combined or exchanged for another Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates or Global Warrant or Global Warrants, entitling the Holder to purchase a like number of shares of Common Stock as the Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates or Global Warrant or Global Warrants surrendered then entitled such Holder to purchase. Any Holder desiring to transfer, split up, combine or exchange any Warrant Certificate or Global Warrant shall make such request in writing delivered to the Warrant Agent, and shall surrender the Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates to be transferred, split up, combined or exchanged at the principal office of the Warrant Agent, provided that no such surrender is applicable to the Holder of a Global Warrant. Any requested transfer of Warrants, whether a Global Warrant or a Warrant Certificate, shall be accompanied by reasonable evidence of authority of the party making such request that may be required by the Warrant Agent. Thereupon the Warrant Agent shall, subject to the last sentence of this first paragraph of Section 6, countersign and deliver to the Person entitled thereto any Warrant Certificate or Global Warrant, as the case may be, as so requested. The Company may require payment from the Holder of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer, split up, combination or exchange of Warrants. The Company shall compensate the Warrant Agent per the fee schedule mutually agreed upon by the parties hereto and provided separately on the date hereof.

 

Upon receipt by the Warrant Agent of evidence reasonably satisfactory to it of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of a Warrant Certificate, which evidence shall include an affidavit of loss, or in the case of mutilated certificates, the certificate or portion thereof remaining, and, in case of loss, theft or destruction, of indemnity in customary form and amount, and satisfaction of any other reasonable requirements established by Section 8-405 of the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of Delaware, and reimbursement to the Company and the Warrant Agent of all reasonable expenses incidental thereto, and upon surrender to the Warrant Agent and cancellation of the Warrant Certificate if mutilated, the Company will make and deliver a new Warrant Certificate of like tenor to the Warrant Agent for delivery to the Holder in lieu of the Warrant Certificate so lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated.

 

Section 7. Exercise of Warrants; Exercise Price; Expiration Date.

 

(a)The Warrants shall be exercisable commencing on the Initial Exercise Date. The Warrants shall cease to be exercisable and shall terminate and become void, and all rights thereunder and under this Agreement shall cease, at or prior to 11:59 p.m., Eastern time, on the Expiration Date. Subject to the foregoing and to Section 7(b) below, the Holder of a Warrant may exercise the Warrant in whole or in part upon providing the items required by Section 7(c) below to the Warrant Agent at the principal office of the Warrant Agent or to the office of one of its agents as may be designated by the Warrant Agent from time to time. In the case of the Holder of a Global Warrant, the Holder shall deliver the executed Exercise Notice and payment of the Exercise Price pursuant to Section 1(a) of the Warrant. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, a holder whose interest in a Global Warrant is a beneficial interest in a Global Warrant held in book-entry form through the Depositary (or another established clearing corporation performing similar functions), shall effect exercises by delivering to the Depositary (or such other clearing corporation, as applicable) the appropriate instruction form for exercise, complying with the procedures to effect exercise that are required by the Depositary (or such other clearing corporation, as applicable). The Company acknowledges that the bank accounts maintained by the Warrant Agent in connection with the services provided under this Agreement will be in its name and that the Warrant Agent may receive investment earnings in connection with the investment at Warrant Agent risk and for its benefit of funds held in those accounts from time to time. Neither the Company nor the Holders will receive interest on any deposits or Exercise Price.

 

(b)          Upon receipt of an Exercise Notice for a cashless exercise pursuant to Section 1(d) of the Warrant (each, a “Cashless Exercise”), the Company will promptly calculate and transmit to the Warrant Agent the number of Warrant Shares issuable in connection with such Cashless Exercise (referred to as “Net Number” in the Warrant) and deliver a copy of the Exercise Notice to the Warrant Agent, which shall issue such number of Warrant Shares in connection with such Cashless Exercise.

 

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(c)Upon the Warrant Agent’s receipt, at or prior to the 11:59 p.m., Eastern time, on the Expiration Date set forth in a Warrant, of the executed Exercise Notice, accompanied by payment of the Exercise Price pursuant to Section 1(a) of the Warrant, the shares to be purchased (other than in the case of a Cashless Exercise), an amount equal to any applicable tax, governmental charge or expense reimbursement referred to in Section 6 in cash, or by certified check or bank draft payable to the order of the Company and, in the case of an exercise of a Warrant in the form of a Warrant Certificate for all of the Warrant Shares represented thereby, the Warrant Certificate, the Warrant Agent shall cause the Warrant Shares underlying such Warrant to be delivered to or upon the order of the Holder of such Warrant, registered in such name or names as may be designated by such Holder, no later than the Share Delivery Date. If the Company is then a participant in the DWAC system of the Depositary and either (A) there is an effective registration statement permitting the issuance of the Warrant Shares to or resale of the Warrant Shares by Holder or (B) the Warrant is being exercised via Cashless Exercise, then the certificates for Warrant Shares shall be transmitted by the Warrant Agent to the Holder by crediting the account of the Holder’s broker with the Depositary through its DWAC system. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Company becomes obligated to pay any amounts to any Holders pursuant to Section 1(c) of the Warrant, such obligation shall be solely that of the Company and not that of the Warrant Agent. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary in this Agreement, except in the case of a Cashless Exercise, if any Holder fails to duly deliver payment to the Warrant Agent of an amount equal to the aggregate Exercise Price of the Warrant Shares to be purchased upon exercise of such Holder’s Warrant as set forth in Section 7(a) hereof, the Warrant Agent will not obligated to deliver certificates representing any such Warrant Shares (via DWAC or otherwise) until following receipt of such payment, and the applicable Share Delivery Date shall be deemed extended by one day for each day (or part thereof) until such payment is delivered to the Warrant Agent.

 

(d)          The Warrant Agent shall deposit all funds received by it in payment of the Exercise Price for all Warrants in the account of the Company maintained with the Warrant Agent for such purpose (or to such other account as directed by the Company in writing) and shall advise the Company via telephone at the end of each day on which funds for the exercise of any Warrant are received of the amount so deposited to its account. The Warrant Agent shall promptly confirm such telephonic advice to the Company in writing.

 

(e)          In case the Holder of any Warrant Certificate exercises fewer than all Warrants evidenced thereby and surrenders such Warrant Certificate in connection with such partial exercise, a new Warrant Certificate evidencing the number of Warrant Shares equivalent to the number of Warrant Shares remaining unexercised may be issued by the Warrant Agent to the Holder of such Warrant Certificate or to Holder’s duly authorized assigns, subject to the provisions of Section 6 hereof.

 

Section 8. Cancellation and Destruction of Warrant Certificates. All Warrant Certificates surrendered for the purpose of exercise, transfer, split up, combination or exchange shall, if surrendered to the Company or to any of its agents, be delivered to the Warrant Agent for cancellation or in canceled form, or, if surrendered to the Warrant Agent, shall be canceled by it, and no Warrant Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Company shall deliver to the Warrant Agent for cancellation and retirement, and the Warrant Agent shall so cancel and retire, any other Warrant Certificate purchased or acquired by the Company otherwise than upon the exercise thereof. The Warrant Agent shall deliver all canceled Warrant Certificates to the Company, or shall, at the written request of the Company, destroy such canceled Warrant Certificates, and in such case shall deliver a certificate of destruction thereof to the Company, subject to any applicable law, rule or regulation requiring the Warrant Agent to retain such canceled certificates.

 

Section 9. Certain Representations; Reservation and Availability of Shares of Common Stock or Cash.

 

(a)          This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery hereof by the Warrant Agent, constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, and the Warrants have been duly authorized, executed and issued by the Company and, assuming due authentication thereof by the Warrant Agent pursuant hereto and payment therefor by the Holders as provided in the Registration Statement, constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms and entitled to the benefits thereof; in each case except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally or by general equitable principles (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

 

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(b)          The Company covenants and agrees that it will cause to be reserved and kept available out of its authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock or its authorized and issued shares of Common Stock held in its treasury, free from preemptive rights, the number of shares of Common Stock that will be sufficient to permit the exercise in full of all outstanding Warrants.

 

(c)          The Warrant Agent will create a special account for the issuance of Common Stock upon the exercise of Warrants.

 

(d)          The Company further covenants and agrees that it will pay when due and payable any and all federal and state transfer taxes and charges which may be payable in respect of the original issuance or delivery of the Warrant Certificates or certificates evidencing Common Stock upon exercise of the Warrants. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay any tax or governmental charge which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the transfer or delivery of Warrant Certificates or the issuance or delivery of certificates for Common Stock in a name other than that of the Holder of the Warrant Certificate evidencing Warrants surrendered for exercise or to issue or deliver any certificate for shares of Common Stock upon the exercise of any Warrants until any such tax or governmental charge shall have been paid (any such tax or governmental charge being payable by the Holder of such Warrant Certificate at the time of surrender) or until it has been established to the Company’s reasonable satisfaction that no such tax or governmental charge is due.

 

Section 10. Common Stock Record Date. Each Holder shall be deemed to have become the holder of record for the Warrant Shares pursuant to Section 7(e) of the Warrants.

 

Section 11. Adjustment of Exercise Price, Number of Shares of Common Stock or Number of the Company Warrants. The Exercise Price, the number of shares covered by each Warrant and the number of Warrants outstanding and the securities, cash or property into which the Warrant becomes exercisable are subject to adjustment from time to time as provided in the Warrant. In the event that at any time, as a result of an adjustment made pursuant to the Warrant and the Holder of any Warrant thereafter exercised shall become entitled to receive any shares of capital stock of the Company or any successor other than shares of Common Stock, thereafter the number and type of such other shares so receivable upon exercise of any Warrant shall be subject to adjustment from time to time in a manner and on terms as provided in the Warrant, and the provisions of Sections 7, 9 and 13 of this Agreement with respect to the shares of Common Stock shall apply on like terms to any such other shares. All Warrants originally issued by the Company subsequent to any adjustment made to the Exercise Price pursuant to the Warrant shall evidence the right to purchase, at the adjusted Exercise Price, the number of shares of Common Stock or other securities, cash or property, purchasable from time to time hereunder upon exercise of the Warrants, all subject to further adjustment as provided therein.

 

Section 12. Certification of Adjusted Exercise Price or Number of Shares of Common Stock. Whenever the Exercise Price or the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of each Warrant is adjusted as provided in Section 11 or 13, the Company shall (a) promptly prepare a certificate setting forth the Exercise Price of each Warrant as so adjusted, and a brief statement of the facts accounting for such adjustment, (b) promptly file with the Warrant Agent and with each transfer agent for the Common Stock a copy of such certificate and (c) instruct the Warrant Agent to send a brief summary thereof to each Holder of a Warrant.

 

Section 13. Fractional Shares of Common Stock.

 

(a)          The Company shall not issue fractions of Warrants or distribute a Global Warrant or Warrant Certificates that evidence fractional Warrants. Whenever any fractional Warrant would otherwise be required to be issued or distributed, the actual issuance or distribution shall reflect a rounding of such fraction either up or down to the nearest whole Warrant.

 

(b)          The Company shall not issue fractions of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of Warrants or distribute stock certificates that evidence fractional shares of Common Stock. Whenever any fraction of a share of Common Stock would otherwise be required to be issued or distributed, the actual issuance or distribution in respect thereof shall be made in accordance with Section 1(a) of the Warrant.

 

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Section 14. Conditions of the Warrant Agent’s Obligations. The Warrant Agent accepts its obligations herein set forth upon the terms and conditions hereof, including the following to all of which the Company agrees and to all of which the rights hereunder of the Holders from time to time of the Warrant shall be subject:

 

(a)          Compensation and Indemnification. The Company agrees promptly to pay the Warrant Agent the compensation detailed on Exhibit 2 hereto for all services rendered by the Warrant Agent and to reimburse the Warrant Agent for reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable counsel fees) incurred without gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct by the Warrant Agent in connection with the services rendered hereunder by the Warrant Agent. The Company also agrees to indemnify the Warrant Agent for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on the part of the Warrant Agent, arising out of or in connection with its acting as Warrant Agent hereunder, including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending against any claim of such liability.

 

(b)          Agent for the Company. In acting under this Warrant Agreement and in connection with the Warrant Certificates, the Warrant Agent is acting solely as agent of the Company and does not assume any obligations or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the Holders of Warrant Certificates or beneficial owners of Warrants.

 

(c)          Counsel. The Warrant Agent may consult with counsel satisfactory to it, which may include counsel for the Company, and the written advice of such counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the advice of such counsel.

 

(d)          Documents. The Warrant Agent shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken or omitted by it in reliance upon any Warrant Certificate, notice, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement or other paper or document reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been presented or signed by the proper parties.

 

(e)          Certain Transactions. The Warrant Agent, and its officers, directors and employees, may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, Warrants, with the same rights that it or they would have if it were not the Warrant Agent hereunder, and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, it or they may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with the Company and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of Holders of Warrant Securities or other obligations of the Company as freely as if it were not the Warrant Agent hereunder. Nothing in this Warrant Agreement shall be deemed to prevent the Warrant Agent from acting as trustee under any indenture to which the Company is a party.

 

(f)           No Liability for Interest. Unless otherwise agreed with the Company, the Warrant Agent shall have no liability for interest on any monies at any time received by it pursuant to any of the provisions of this Agreement or of the Warrant Certificates.

 

(g)          No Liability for Invalidity. The Warrant Agent shall have no liability with respect to any invalidity of this Agreement or any of the Warrant Certificates (except as to the Warrant Agent's countersignature thereon).

 

(h)          No Responsibility for Representations. The Warrant Agent shall not be responsible for any of the recitals or representations herein or in the Warrant Certificates (except as to the Warrant Agent's countersignature thereon), all of which are made solely by the Company.

 

(i)           No Implied Obligations. The Warrant Agent shall be obligated to perform only such duties as are herein and in the Warrants specifically set forth and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Warrants against the Warrant Agent. The Warrant Agent shall not be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which may tend to involve it in any expense or liability, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its reasonable opinion, assured to it. The Warrant Agent shall not be accountable or under any duty or responsibility for the use by the Company of any of the Warrants authenticated by the Warrant Agent and delivered by it to the Company pursuant to this Agreement or for the application by the Company of the proceeds of the Warrants. The Warrant Agent shall have no duty or responsibility in case of any default by the Company in the performance of its covenants or agreements contained herein or in the Warrants or in the case of the receipt of any written demand from a Holder of a Warrant Certificate with respect to such default, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any duty or responsibility to initiate or attempt to initiate any proceedings at law.

 

Section 15. Purchase or Consolidation or Change of Name of Warrant Agent. Any corporation into which the Warrant Agent or any successor Warrant Agent may be merged or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Warrant Agent or any successor Warrant Agent shall be party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate trust business of the Warrant Agent or any successor Warrant Agent, shall be the successor to the Warrant Agent under this Agreement without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, provided that such corporation would be eligible for appointment as a successor Warrant Agent under the provisions of Section 17. In case at the time such successor Warrant Agent shall succeed to the agency created by this Agreement any of the Warrants shall have been countersigned but not delivered, any such successor Warrant Agent may adopt the countersignature of the predecessor Warrant Agent and deliver such Warrants so countersigned; and in case at that time any of the Warrants shall not have been countersigned, any successor Warrant Agent may countersign such Warrants either in the name of the predecessor Warrant Agent or in the name of the successor Warrant Agent; and in all such cases such Warrants shall have the full force provided in the Warrants and in this Agreement.

 

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In case at any time the name of the Warrant Agent shall be changed and at such time any of the Warrants shall have been countersigned but not delivered, the Warrant Agent may adopt the countersignature under its prior name and deliver Warrants so countersigned; and in case at that time any of the Warrants shall not have been countersigned, the Warrant Agent may countersign such Warrants either in its prior name or in its changed name; and in all such cases such Warrants shall have the full force provided in the Warrants and in this Agreement.

 

Section 16. Duties of Warrant Agent. The Warrant Agent undertakes the duties and obligations imposed by this Agreement upon the following terms and conditions, by all of which the Company, by its acceptance hereof, shall be bound:

 

(a)          The Warrant Agent may consult with legal counsel reasonably acceptable to the Company (who may be legal counsel for the Company), and the opinion of such counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection to the Warrant Agent as to any action taken or omitted by it in good faith and in accordance with such opinion.

 

(b)          Whenever in the performance of its duties under this Agreement the Warrant Agent shall deem it necessary or desirable that any fact or matter be proved or established by the Company prior to taking or suffering any action hereunder, such fact or matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer or Chief Financial Officer of the Company; and such certificate shall be full authentication to the Warrant Agent for any action taken or suffered in good faith by it under the provisions of this Agreement in reliance upon such certificate.

 

(c)          Subject to the limitation set forth in Section 14, the Warrant Agent shall be liable hereunder only for its own gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct, or for a breach by it of this Agreement.

 

(d)          The Warrant Agent shall not be liable for or by reason of any of the statements of fact or recitals contained in this Agreement or in the Warrants (except its countersignature thereof) by the Company or be required to verify the same, but all such statements and recitals are and shall be deemed to have been made by the Company only.

 

(e)          The Warrant Agent shall not be under any responsibility in respect of the validity of this Agreement or the execution and delivery hereof (except the due execution hereof by the Warrant Agent) or in respect of the validity or execution of any Warrant (except its countersignature thereof); nor shall it be responsible for any breach by the Company of any covenant or condition contained in this Agreement or in any Warrant; nor shall it be responsible for the adjustment of the Exercise Price or the making of any change in the number of shares of Common Stock required under the provisions of Section 11 or 13 or responsible for the manner, method or amount of any such change or the ascertaining of the existence of facts that would require any such adjustment or change (except with respect to the exercise of Warrants evidenced by Warrant Certificates after actual notice of any adjustment of the Exercise Price); nor shall it by any act hereunder be deemed to make any representation or warranty as to the authorization or reservation of any shares of Common Stock to be issued pursuant to this Agreement or any Warrant or as to whether any shares of Common Stock will, when issued, be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

 

(f)           Each party hereto agrees that it will perform, execute, acknowledge and deliver or cause to be performed, executed, acknowledged and delivered all such further and other acts, instruments and assurances as may reasonably be required by the other party hereto for the carrying out or performing by any party of the provisions of this Agreement.

 

(g)          The Warrant Agent is hereby authorized to accept instructions with respect to the performance of its duties hereunder from the Chief Executive Officer or Chief Financial Officer or other officer of the Company, and to apply to such officers for advice or instructions in connection with its duties, and it shall not be liable and shall be indemnified and held harmless for any action taken or suffered to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with instructions of any such officer, provided Warrant Agent carries out such instructions without gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct.

 

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(h)          The Warrant Agent and any shareholder, director, officer or employee of the Warrant Agent may buy, sell or deal in any of the Warrants or other securities of the Company or become pecuniarily interested in any transaction in which the Company may be interested, or contract with or lend money to the Company or otherwise act as fully and freely as though it were not Warrant Agent under this Agreement. Nothing herein shall preclude the Warrant Agent from acting in any other capacity for the Company or for any other legal entity.

 

(i)           The Warrant Agent may execute and exercise any of the rights or powers hereby vested in it or perform any duty hereunder either itself or by or through its attorney or agents, and the Warrant Agent shall not be answerable or accountable for any act, default, neglect or misconduct of any such attorney or agents or for any loss to the Company resulting from any such act, default, neglect or misconduct, provided reasonable care was exercised in the selection and continued employment thereof.

 

Section 17. Change of Warrant Agent. The Warrant Agent may resign and be discharged from its duties under this Agreement upon 30 days’ notice in writing sent to the Company and to each transfer agent of the Common Stock, and to the Holders of the Warrant Certificates. The Company may remove the Warrant Agent or any successor Warrant Agent upon 30 days’ notice in writing, sent to the Warrant Agent or successor Warrant Agent, as the case may be, and to each transfer agent of the Common Stock, and to the Holders of the Warrant Certificates. If the Warrant Agent shall resign or be removed or shall otherwise become incapable of acting, the Company shall appoint a successor to the Warrant Agent. If the Company shall fail to make such appointment within a period of 30 days after such removal or after it has been notified in writing of such resignation or incapacity by the resigning or incapacitated Warrant Agent or by the Holder of a Warrant Certificate (who shall, with such notice, submit his Warrant Certificate for inspection by the Company), then the Holder of any Warrant Certificate may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a new Warrant Agent. Any successor Warrant Agent, whether appointed by the Company or by such a court, shall be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States or of a state thereof, in good standing, which is authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers and is subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority and which has at the time of its appointment as Warrant Agent a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. After appointment, the successor Warrant Agent shall be vested with the same powers, rights, duties and responsibilities as if it had been originally named as Warrant Agent without further act or deed; but the predecessor Warrant Agent shall deliver and transfer to the successor Warrant Agent any property at the time held by it hereunder, and execute and deliver any further assurance, conveyance, act or deed necessary for the purpose. Not later than the effective date of any such appointment, the Company shall file notice thereof in writing with the predecessor Warrant Agent and each transfer agent of the Common Stock, and mail a notice thereof in writing to the Holders of the Warrant Certificates. However, failure to give any notice provided for in this Section 17, or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of the resignation or removal of the Warrant Agent or the appointment of the successor Warrant Agent, as the case may be.

 

Section 18. Issuance of New Warrants. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Agreement or of the Warrants to the contrary, the Company may, at its option, issue a new Global Warrant or Warrant Certificates, if any, evidencing Warrants in such form as may be approved by its Board of Directors to reflect any adjustment or change in the Exercise Price per share and the number or kind or class of shares of stock or other securities or property purchasable under the Global Warrant or Warrant Certificates, if any, made in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.

 

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Section 19. Notices. Notices or demands authorized by this Agreement to be given or made (i) by the Warrant Agent or by the Holder of any Warrant Certificate to or on the Company, (ii) subject to the provisions of Section 17, by the Company or by the Holder of any Warrant Certificate to or on the Warrant Agent or (iii) by the Company or the Warrant Agent to the Holder of any Warrant Certificate, shall be deemed given (a) on the date delivered, if delivered personally, (b) on the first Business Day following the deposit thereof with Federal Express or another recognized overnight courier, if sent by Federal Express or another recognized overnight courier, (c) on the fourth Business Day following the mailing thereof with postage prepaid, if mailed by registered or certified mail (return receipt requested), and (d) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile or email attachment at or prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day and (e) the next Business Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile or email attachment on a day that is not a Business Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Business Day, in each case to the parties at the following addresses (or at such other address for a party as shall be specified by like notice):

 

(a)          If to the Company, to:

 

SenesTech, Inc. 

3140 N. Caden Court, Suite 1 

Flagstaff, AZ 86004 

Facsimile: [____ 

Attention: Chief Executive Officer

 

(b)          If to the Warrant Agent, to:

 

[Name of Warrant Agent] 

[Address of Warrant Agent] 

Attention: [____

 

(c)          If to the Holder of any Warrant Certificate, to the address of such Holder as shown on the registry books of the Company. Any notice required to be delivered by the Company to the Holder of any Warrant may be given by the Warrant Agent on behalf of the Company. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, where this Agreement provides for notice of any event to a Holder of any Warrant Certificate, for a Global Warrant, such notice shall be sufficiently given if given to the Depositary (or its designee) pursuant to the procedures of the Depositary or its designee

 

For any notice delivered by email to be deemed given or made, such notice must be followed by notice sent by overnight courier service to be delivered on the next business day following such email, unless the recipient of such email has acknowledged via return email receipt of such email.

 

Section 20. Supplements and Amendments.

 

(a)          The Company and the Warrant Agent may from time to time supplement or amend this Agreement without the approval of any Holders of Warrant Certificates in order to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision contained herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provisions herein, or to make or change any other provisions with regard to matters arising hereunder which the Company and the Warrant Agent may deem necessary or desirable and which do not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Warrants Certificates in any material respect.

 

(b)          In addition to the foregoing, with the consent of Holders of Warrant Certificates covering 66% of the number of Warrant Shares into which the Warrants are then exercisable) or, if this Warrant is held in global form through DTC (or any successor depositary), the beneficial owners of this Warrants on the same basis (excluding Affiliates of the Company for all purposes of the calculation), the Company and the Warrant Agent may modify this Agreement for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Warrant Agreement or modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Warrant Certificates; provided, however, that no modification of the Exercise Price, Expiration Date, or number of Warrant Shares into which the Warrants are then exercisable or reducing the percentage required for consent to modification of this Agreement may be made without the consent of the Holder of each outstanding Warrant Certificate affected thereby. As a condition precedent to the Warrant Agent’s execution of any amendment, the Company shall deliver to the Warrant Agent a certificate from a duly authorized officer of the Company that states that the proposed amendment complies with the terms of this Section 20.

 

Section 21. Successors. All covenants and provisions of this Agreement by or for the benefit of the Company or the Warrant Agent shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective successors and assigns hereunder.

 

Section 22. Benefits of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to give any Person other than the Company, the Holders of Warrant Certificates and the Warrant Agent any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Agreement; but this Agreement shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Company, the Warrant Agent and the Holders of the Warrant Certificates.

 

Section 23. Governing Law. This Agreement and each Warrant issued hereunder shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York without giving effect to the conflicts of law principles thereof.

 

Section 24. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and each of such counterparts shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original, and all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

 

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Section 25. Captions. The captions of the sections of this Agreement have been inserted for convenience only and shall not control or affect the meaning or construction of any of the provisions hereof.

 

Section 26. Information. The Company agrees to promptly provide to the Holders of the Warrants any information it provides to all holders of the Common Stock, except to the extent any such information is publicly available on the EDGAR system (or any successor thereof) of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Section 27. Force Majeure. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Warrant Agent shall not be liable for any delays or failures in performance resulting from acts beyond its reasonable control including, without limitation, acts of God, terrorist acts, shortage of supply, breakdowns or malfunctions, interruptions or malfunction of computer facilities, or loss of data due to power failures or mechanical difficulties with information storage or retrieval systems, labor difficulties, war, or civil unrest, it being understood that the Warrant Agent shall use reasonable best efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.

 

[Signature Page to Follow]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

 

  SENESTECH, INC.
   
  By:   
  Name:
 
  Title:  

 

  [WARRANT AGENT]
   
  By:   
  Name:
 
  Title:  

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Annex A: Form of Warrant Certificate Request Notice

 

WARRANT CERTIFICATE REQUEST NOTICE

 

To: [               ] as Warrant Agent for SenesTech, Inc. (the “Company”)

 

The undersigned Holder of Common Stock Purchase Warrants (“Warrants”) in the form of Global Warrants issued by the Company hereby elects to receive a Warrant Certificate evidencing the Warrants held by the Holder as specified below:

 

1.Name of Holder of Warrants in form of Global Warrants: _____________________________

 

2.Name of Holder in Warrant Certificate (if different from name of Holder of Warrants in form of Global Warrants): ________________________

 

3.Number of Warrants in name of Holder in form of Global Warrants: ___________________

 

4.Number of Warrants for which Warrant Certificate shall be issued: __________________

 

5.Number of Warrants in name of Holder in form of Global Warrants after issuance of Warrant Certificate, if any: ___________

 

6.Warrant Certificate shall be delivered to the following address:

 

______________________________

 

______________________________

 

______________________________

 

______________________________

 

The undersigned hereby acknowledges and agrees that, in connection with this Warrant Exchange and the issuance of the Warrant Certificate, the Holder is deemed to have surrendered the number of Warrants in form of Global Warrants in the name of the Holder equal to the number of Warrants evidenced by the Warrant Certificate.

 

[SIGNATURE OF HOLDER]

 

Name of Investing Entity: ____________________________________________________

 

Signature of Authorized Signatory of Investing Entity: ______________________________

 

Name of Authorized Signatory: ________________________________________________

 

Title of Authorized Signatory: _________________________________________________

 

Date: _______________________________________________________________

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 1: Form of Warrant

 

 

EX-4.5 4 s111479_ex4-5.htm EXHIBIT 4.5

 

Exhibit 4.5

 

[Form of Rights Offering 2018 Public Warrant]

 

PURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF THIS WARRANT, ALL OR A PORTION OF THIS WARRANT MAY HAVE BEEN EXERCISED, AND THEREFORE THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS WARRANT MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SET FORTH ON THE FACE HEREOF.

 

THIS WARRANT IS VOID AFTER 11:59 PM, EASTERN TIME, ON _____________.

 

SENESTECH, INC.

 

Warrant To Purchase Common Stock

 

Warrant No.: [     ]

Number of Shares of Common Stock: [     ]

Date of Issuance: [                         ], 2018 (“Issuance Date”)

 

SenesTech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), hereby certifies that, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, [               ], the registered holder hereof or its permitted assigns (the “Holder”), is entitled, subject to the terms set forth below, to purchase from the Company, at the Exercise Price (as defined in Section 1(b)) then in effect, at any time or times on or after the Issuance Date (the “Initial Exercisability Date”), but not after 11:59 p.m., Eastern time, on the Expiration Date, up to such number of fully paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock equal to [   ] shares, subject to adjustment as provided herein (the “Warrant Shares”). Except as otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms in this Warrant to Purchase Common Stock (including any warrants to purchase Common Stock issued in exchange, transfer or replacement hereof, this “Warrant”), shall have the meanings set forth in Section 18. This Warrant is being issued in connection with the Company’s public rights offering. This Warrant shall initially be issued and maintained in the form of a security held in book-entry form and the Depository Trust Company or its nominee (“DTC”) shall initially be the sole registered holder of this Warrant, subject to a Holder’s right to elect to receive a Warrant in certificated form pursuant to the terms of the Warrant Agency Agreement, in which case this sentence shall not apply.

 

 

 

1. EXERCISE OF WARRANT.

 

(a) Mechanics of Exercise. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof (including, without limitation, the limitations set forth in Section 1(f)), this Warrant may be exercised by the Holder at any time or times on or after the Initial Exercisability Date, in whole or in part, by delivery (whether via facsimile, electronic mail or otherwise) of a written notice, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Exercise Notice”), of the Holder’s election to exercise this Warrant. Within one (1) Trading Day following the delivery of the Exercise Notice, the Holder shall make payment to the Company of an amount equal to the applicable Exercise Price (as defined below) multiplied by the number of Warrant Shares as to which this Warrant is being exercised (the “Aggregate Exercise Price”) in cash by wire transfer of immediately available funds or if the provisions of Section 1(d) are applicable, by notifying the Company that this Warrant is being exercised pursuant to a Cashless Exercise (as defined in Section 1(d)). The Holder shall not be required to deliver the original Warrant in order to effect an exercise hereunder, nor shall any ink-original signature or medallion guarantee (or other type of guarantee or notarization) with respect to any Exercise Notice be required. Execution and delivery of the Exercise Notice with respect to less than all of the Warrant Shares shall have the same effect as cancellation of the original Warrant and issuance of a new Warrant evidencing the right to purchase the remaining number of Warrant Shares. On or before the first (1st) Trading Day following the date on which the Company has received the applicable Exercise Notice, the Company shall transmit by facsimile or electronic mail an acknowledgment of confirmation of receipt of the Exercise Notice to the Holder and the Company’s transfer agent (the “Transfer Agent”). So long as the Holder delivers the Aggregate Exercise Price (or notice of a Cashless Exercise) on or prior to the first (1st) Trading Day following the date on which the Exercise Notice has been delivered to the Company, then on or prior to the second (2nd) Trading Day following the date on which the Exercise Notice has been delivered to the Company, or, if the Holder does not deliver the Aggregate Exercise Price (or notice of a Cashless Exercise) on or prior to the first (1st) Trading Day following the date on which the Exercise Notice has been delivered to the Company, then on or prior to the first (1st) Trading Day following the date on which the Aggregate Exercise Price (or notice of a Cashless Exercise) is delivered (the “Share Delivery Date”), the Company shall (X) provided that the Transfer Agent is participating in DTC Fast Automated Securities Transfer Program and the Holder may sell the Warrant Shares either (I) pursuant to Rule 144 of the 1933 Act without volume or manner of sale limitations or (II) pursuant to an effective registration statement registering the Warrant Shares for issuance or resale, credit such aggregate number of Warrant Shares to which the Holder is entitled pursuant to such exercise to the Holder’s or its designee’s balance account with DTC through its Deposit / Withdrawal At Custodian system, or (Y) if the Transfer Agent is not participating in the DTC Fast Automated Securities Transfer Program, or if the Holder may not sell the Warrant Shares (I) pursuant to Rule 144 of the 1933 Act without volume or manner of sale limitations or (II) pursuant to an effective registration statement registering the Warrant Shares for issuance or resale, issue and dispatch by overnight courier to the address as specified in the Exercise Notice, a certificate, registered in the Company’s share register in the name of the Holder or its designee, for the number of Warrant Shares to which the Holder is entitled pursuant to such exercise. The Company shall be responsible for all fees and expenses of the Transfer Agent and all fees and expenses with respect to the issuance of Warrant Shares via DTC, if any, including without limitation for same day processing. Upon delivery of the Exercise Notice, the Holder shall be deemed for all corporate purposes to have become the holder of record of the Warrant Shares with respect to which this Warrant has been exercised, irrespective of the date such Warrant Shares are credited to the Holder’s DTC account or the date of delivery of the certificates evidencing such Warrant Shares, as the case may be; provided that payment of the aggregate Exercise Price (other than in the case of a Cashless Exercise) is received within two (2) Trading Days following delivery of the Notice of Exercise. If this Warrant is physically delivered to the Company in connection with any exercise pursuant to this Section 1(a) and the number of Warrant Shares represented by this Warrant submitted for exercise is greater than the number of Warrant Shares being acquired upon an exercise, then the Company shall as soon as practicable and in no event later than two (2) Trading Days after any exercise and at its own expense, issue and deliver to the Holder (or its designee) a new Warrant (in accordance with Section 7(d)) representing the right to purchase the number of Warrant Shares issuable immediately prior to such exercise under this Warrant, less the number of Warrant Shares with respect to which this Warrant is exercised. No fractional Warrant Shares are to be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant, but rather the number of Warrant Shares to be issued shall be rounded up to the nearest whole number. The Company shall pay any and all taxes (other than the Holder’s income taxes) and costs and expenses (including, without limitation, fees and expenses of the Transfer Agent but excluding those of the Holder) which may be payable with respect to the issuance and delivery of Warrant Shares upon exercise of this Warrant. The Company’s obligations to issue and deliver Warrant Shares in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions hereof are absolute and unconditional, irrespective of any action or inaction by the Holder to enforce the same, any waiver or consent with respect to any provision hereof, the recovery of any judgment against any Person or any action to enforce the same, or any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, limitation or termination; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to deliver Warrant Shares with respect to an exercise prior to the Holder’s delivery of the Aggregate Exercise Price (or notice of a Cashless Exercise) with respect to such exercise. For purposes of clarity, if the Holder exercises this Warrant (other than by Cashless Exercise) at a time when the Holder may not sell the Warrant Shares either (I) pursuant to Rule 144 of the 1933 Act without volume or manner of sale limitations or (II) pursuant to an effective registration statement registering the Warrant Shares for issuance, the Company may satisfy the delivery of Warrant Shares under this Section 1(a) by issue and dispatch by overnight courier to the address as specified in the Exercise Notice, a certificate, registered in the Company’s share register in the name of the Holder or its designee, for the number of Warrant Shares to which the Holder is entitled pursuant to such exercise, which certificate may contain a restrictive legend. If the Company fails for any reason to deliver to the Holder the Warrant Shares subject to a Notice of Exercise by the Warrant Share Delivery Date as required by this subsection, the Company shall pay to the Holder, in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for each $1,000 of Warrant Shares subject to such exercise (based on the VWAP of the Common Stock on the date of the applicable Notice of Exercise), $10 per Trading Day (increasing to $20 per Trading Day on the fifth Trading Day after such liquidated damages begin to accrue) for each Trading Day after such Warrant Share Delivery Date until such Warrant Shares are delivered or Holder rescinds such exercise.

 

 

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing in this Section 1(a), a Holder whose interest in this Warrant is a beneficial interest in certificate(s) representing this Warrant held in book-entry form through DTC (or another established clearing corporation performing similar functions), shall effect exercises made pursuant to this Section 1(a) by delivering to DTC (or such other clearing corporation, as applicable) the appropriate instruction form for exercise, complying with the procedures to effect exercise that are required by DTC (or such other clearing corporation, as applicable), subject to a Holder’s right to elect to receive a Warrant in certificated form pursuant to the terms of the Warrant Agency Agreement, in which case this sentence shall not apply.

 

(b) Exercise Price. For purposes of this Warrant, “Exercise Price” means $[•], subject to adjustment as provided herein.

 

(c) Company’s Failure to Timely Deliver Securities. In addition to any other rights available to the Holder, if the Company fails to cause the Transfer Agent to transmit to the Holder the Warrant Shares in accordance with the provisions of Section 1(a) above pursuant to an exercise on or before the Share Delivery Date, and if after such date the Holder is required by its broker to purchase (in an open market transaction or otherwise) or the Holder’s brokerage firm otherwise purchases, shares of Common Stock to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the Holder of the Warrant Shares which the Holder anticipated receiving upon such exercise (a “Buy-In”), then the Company shall (A) pay in cash to the Holder the amount, if any, by which (x) the Holder’s total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the shares of Common Stock so purchased exceeds (y) the amount obtained by multiplying (1) the number of Warrant Shares that the Company was required to deliver to the Holder in connection with the exercise at issue times (2) the price at which the sell order giving rise to such purchase obligation was executed, and (B) at the option of the Holder, either reinstate the portion of the Warrant and equivalent number of Warrant Shares for which such exercise was not honored (in which case such exercise shall be deemed rescinded) or deliver to the Holder the number of shares of Common Stock that would have been issued had the Company timely complied with its exercise and delivery obligations hereunder. For example, if the Holder purchases Common Stock having a total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to an attempted exercise of shares of Common Stock with an aggregate sale price giving rise to such purchase obligation of $10,000, under clause (A) of the immediately preceding sentence the Company shall be required to pay the Holder $1,000. The Holder shall provide the Company written notice indicating the amounts payable to the Holder in respect of the Buy-In and, upon request of the Company, evidence of the amount of such loss. Nothing herein shall limit a Holder’s right to pursue any other remedies available to it hereunder, at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief with respect to the Company’s failure to timely deliver shares of Common Stock upon exercise of the Warrant as required pursuant to the terms hereof.

 

(d) Cashless Exercise. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, if the issuance or resale of the Warrant Shares is not registered on an effective registration statement under the 1933 Act, the Holder may, after the Initial Exercisability Date and in its sole discretion, exercise this Warrant in whole or in part and, in lieu of making the cash payment otherwise contemplated to be made to the Company upon such exercise in payment of the Aggregate Exercise Price, elect instead to receive upon such exercise the “Net Number” of shares of Common Stock determined according to the following formula (a “Cashless Exercise”):

 

Net Number = (A x B) - (A x C)

D

 

For purposes of the foregoing formula:

 

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

 

B=the arithmetic average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the five (5) consecutive Trading Days ending on the date immediately preceding the date of the Exercise Notice.

 

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

 

 

 

D=as applicable: (i) the Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of the applicable Exercise Notice if such Exercise Notice is (1) both executed and delivered pursuant to Section 1(d) hereof on a day that is not a Trading Day or (2) both executed and delivered pursuant to Section 1(d) hereof on a Trading Day prior to the opening of “regular trading hours” (as defined in Rule 600(b)(64) of Regulation NMS promulgated under the federal securities laws) on such Trading Day, (ii) the Bid Price of the Common Stock as of the time of the Holder’s execution of the applicable Exercise Notice if such Exercise Notice is executed during “regular trading hours” on a Trading Day and is delivered within two (2) hours thereafter pursuant to Section 1(d) hereof, or (iii) the Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock on the date of the applicable Exercise Notice if the date of such Exercise Notice is a Trading Day and such Exercise Notice is both executed and delivered pursuant to Section 1(d) hereof after the close of “regular trading hours” on such Trading Day.

 

If Warrant Shares are issued in a Cashless Exercise, the Company acknowledges and agrees that in accordance with Section 3(a)(9) of the 1933 Act, the Warrant Shares shall take on the registered characteristics of the Warrant being exercised. The Company agrees not to take any position contrary to this Section 1(d).

 

(e) Disputes. In the case of a dispute as to the determination of the Exercise Price or the arithmetic calculation of the Warrant Shares, the Company shall promptly issue to the Holder the number of Warrant Shares that are not disputed and resolve such dispute in accordance with Section 13.

 

(f) Beneficial Ownership Limitation on Exercises. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company shall not effect the exercise of any portion of this Warrant, and the Holder shall not have the right to exercise any portion of this Warrant, pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Warrant and any such exercise shall be null and void and treated as if never made, to the extent that after giving effect to such exercise, the Holder together with the other Attribution Parties collectively would beneficially own in excess of 4.99% (the “Maximum Percentage”) of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such exercise. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by the Holder and the other Attribution Parties shall include the number of shares of Common Stock held by the Holder and all other Attribution Parties plus the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant with respect to which the determination of such sentence is being made, but shall exclude the number of shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon (A) exercise of the remaining, unexercised portion of this Warrant beneficially owned by the Holder or any of the other Attribution Parties and (B) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or unconverted portion of any other securities of the Company (including, without limitation, any convertible notes or convertible preferred stock or warrants) beneficially owned by the Holder or any other Attribution Party subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained in this Section 1(f). For purposes of this Section 1(f), beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”).

 

For purposes of this Warrant, in determining the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock the Holder may acquire upon the exercise of this Warrant without exceeding the Maximum Percentage, the Holder may rely on the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock as reflected in (x) the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K or other public filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), as the case may be, (y) a more recent public announcement by the Company or (3) any other written notice by the Company or the Transfer Agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (the “Reported Outstanding Share Number”). If the Company receives an Exercise Notice from the Holder at a time when the actual number of outstanding shares of Common Stock is less than the Reported Outstanding Share Number, the Company shall (i) notify the Holder in writing of the number of shares of Common Stock then outstanding and, to the extent that such Exercise Notice would otherwise cause the Holder’s beneficial ownership, as determined pursuant to this Section 1(f), to exceed the Maximum Percentage, the Holder must notify the Company of a reduced number of Warrant Shares to be purchased pursuant to such Exercise Notice (the number of shares by which such purchase is reduced, the “Reduction Shares”) and (ii) as soon as reasonably practicable, the Company shall return to the Holder any exercise price paid by the Holder for the Reduction Shares. For any reason at any time, upon the written or oral request of the Holder, the Company shall within one (1) Business Day confirm orally and in writing or by electronic mail to the Holder the number of shares of Common Stock then outstanding. In any case, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be determined after giving effect to the conversion or exercise of securities of the Company, including this Warrant, by the Holder and any other Attribution Party since the date as of which the Reported Outstanding Share Number was reported.

 

 

 

In the event that the issuance of shares of Common Stock to the Holder upon exercise of this Warrant results in the Holder and the other Attribution Parties being deemed to beneficially own, in the aggregate, more than the Maximum Percentage of the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock (as determined under Section 13(d) of the 1934 Act), the number of shares so issued by which the Holder’s and the other Attribution Parties’ aggregate beneficial ownership exceeds the Maximum Percentage (the “Excess Shares”) shall be deemed null and void and shall be cancelled ab initio, and the Holder shall not have the power to vote or to transfer the Excess Shares. As soon as reasonably practicable after the issuance of the Excess Shares has been deemed null and void, the Company shall return to the Holder the exercise price paid by the Holder for the Excess Shares.

 

Upon delivery of a written notice to the Company, the Holder may from time to time increase or decrease the Maximum Percentage to any other percentage not in excess of 9.99% as specified in such notice; provided, however, that (i) any such increase in the Maximum Percentage will not be effective until the sixty-first (61st) day after such notice is delivered to the Company and (ii) any such increase or decrease will apply only to the Holder and the other Attribution Parties and not to any other holder of warrants that is not an Attribution Party of the Holder.

 

For purposes of clarity, the shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the terms of this Warrant in excess of the Maximum Percentage shall not be deemed to be beneficially owned by the Holder for any purpose including for purposes of Section 13(d) or Rule 16a-1(a)(1) of the 1934 Act. No prior inability to exercise this Warrant pursuant to this section shall have any effect of the applicability of the provisions of this section with respect to any subsequent determination of exercisability. The provisions of this paragraph shall be construed and implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms of this Section 1(f) to the extent necessary to correct this paragraph or any portion of this paragraph which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended beneficial ownership limitation contained in this Section 1(f) or to make changes or supplements necessary or desirable to properly give effect to such limitation. The limitation contained in this paragraph may not be waived and shall apply to a successor holder of this Warrant. The Holder acknowledges that the Company may rely on the information set forth in the Exercise Notice, and shall not be required to independently verify whether or not an exercise would trigger the provisions of this section.

 

(g) Required Reserve Amount. So long as this Warrant remains outstanding, the Company shall at all times keep reserved for issuance under this Warrant a number of shares of Common Stock at least equal to 100% of the maximum number of shares of Common Stock as shall be necessary to satisfy the Company’s obligation to issue shares of Common Stock under the Warrant then outstanding (without regard to any limitations on exercise) (the “Required Reserve Amount”); provided that at no time shall the number of shares of Common Stock reserved pursuant to this Section 1(g) be reduced other than in connection with any exercise of Warrant or such other event covered by Section 2(a) below.

 

(h) Insufficient Authorized Shares. If at any time while this Warrant remains outstanding the Company does not have a sufficient number of authorized and unreserved shares of Common Stock to satisfy its obligation to reserve for issuance the Required Reserve Amount (an “Authorized Share Failure”), then the Company shall immediately take all action reasonably necessary to increase the Company’s authorized shares of Common Stock to an amount sufficient to allow the Company to reserve the Required Reserve Amount for this Warrant. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, as soon as practicable after the date of the occurrence of an Authorized Share Failure, but in no event later than sixty (60) days after the occurrence of such Authorized Share Failure, the Company shall either (x) obtain the written consent of its stockholders for the approval of an increase in the number of authorized shares of Common Stock and provide each stockholder with an information statement with respect thereto or (y) hold a meeting of its stockholders for the approval of an increase in the number of authorized shares of Common Stock. In connection with such meeting, the Company shall provide each stockholder with a proxy statement and shall use its best efforts to solicit its stockholders’ approval of such increase in authorized shares of Common Stock and to cause its board of directors to recommend to the stockholders that they approve such proposal. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any such time of an Authorized Share Failure, the Company is able to obtain the written consent of a majority of the shares of its issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock to approve the increase in the number of authorized shares of Common Stock, the Company may satisfy this obligation by obtaining such consent and submitting for filing with the SEC an Information Statement on Schedule 14C.

 

 

 

(i) Right of Redemption. Subject to this Section 1(i), if, six (6) months after the Initial Exercisability Date, (i) the VWAP for each of five consecutive Trading Days (the “Measurement Period,” which five consecutive Trading Day period shall not have commenced until six (6) months after the Initial Exercisability Date) exceeds $[____1 (subject to adjustment for forward and reverse stock splits, recapitalizations, stock dividends and the like after the Initial Exercisability Date) and (ii) the Holder is not in possession of any information that reasonably constitutes material non-public information which was provided to Holder by the Company, any of its subsidiaries, or any of their officers, directors, employees, agents or Affiliates, then the Company may redeem not less than all of the outstanding Warrants for which a Notice of Exercise has not yet been delivered (such right, a “Redemption Right”) for consideration equal to $0.01 per Warrant (subject to adjustment for forward and reverse stock splits, recapitalizations, stock dividends and the like after the Initial Exercisability Date, the “Redemption Price”). The Company shall be required to exercise its Redemption Right with respect to all of the other Warrants issued by the Company pursuant to the Registration Statement and the limitations in Section 1(e) will not apply. To exercise the Redemption Right, the Company must deliver to all of the Holders an irrevocable written notice (a “Redemption Notice”) indicating therein the Company’s election to redeem all of the Warrants and setting forth a date for the redemption of such Warrants, which date shall be at least thirty (30) days after the date of the Redemption Notice (the “Redemption Date”). The Redemption Notice shall be mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, by the Company to the Holders of the Warrants at their last addresses as they shall appear on the Warrant Register. Any Redemption Notice mailed in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given on the date sent whether or not the Holder received such notice. The Warrants may be exercised for cash in accordance with the terms therein at any time after the Redemption Notice shall have been given by the Company pursuant to this Section 1(i) hereof and prior to the Redemption Date. In furtherance thereof, the Company covenants and agrees that it will honor all Notices of Exercise with respect to Warrant Shares subject to a Redemption Notice that are tendered through 6:30 p.m. (New York City time) on the Redemption Date. Following the Redemption Date, the Holders of the Warrants shall have no further rights except to receive the Redemption Price upon surrender of the Warrants. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Warrant, the Company may not deliver a Redemption Notice or require the redemption of this Warrant (and any such Redemption Notice shall be void), unless, from the beginning of the Measurement Period through the Redemption Date, (1) the Company shall have honored in accordance with the terms of this Warrant all Notices of Exercise delivered by 6:30 p.m. (New York City time) on the Redemption Date, (2) a registration statement shall be effective as to all Warrant Shares and the prospectus thereunder available for use by the Company for the sale of all such Warrant Shares to the Holder, (3) the Common Stock shall be listed or quoted for trading on an Eligible Market, and (4) there is a sufficient number of authorized shares of Common Stock for issuance of all Warrant Shares. Notwithstanding Section 1(f), in the event that the exercise of this Warrant after a Redemption Notice would otherwise cause the Holder to exceed the Beneficial Ownership Limitation set forth in Section 1(f), the Company shall only issue such number of Warrant Shares to the Holder that would not cause the Holder to exceed the maximum number of Warrant Shares permitted under Section 1(f) with the balance to be held in abeyance until notice from the Holder that the balance (or portion thereof) may be issued in compliance with such limitations. For clarity, the foregoing sentence will not limit the Holder's obligation to pay the Exercise Price in accordance with this Warrant for any Warrant Shares that will be held in abeyance.

 

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

 

(a) Voluntary Adjustment By Company. The Company may at any time during the term of this Warrant reduce the then current Exercise Price to any amount and for any period of time deemed appropriate by the Board of Directors of the Company.

 

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

 

 

1 2.5 times the exercise price

 

 

 

3. RIGHTS UPON DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS. In addition to any adjustments pursuant to Section 2 above, if, on or after the Effectiveness Date and on or prior to the Expiration Date, the Company shall declare or make any dividend or other distribution of its assets (or rights to acquire its assets) to holders of shares of Common Stock, by way of return of capital or otherwise (including, without limitation, any distribution of cash, stock (not including shares of Common Stock of the Company) or other securities, property, options, evidence of indebtedness or any other assets by way of a dividend, spin off, reclassification, corporate rearrangement, scheme of arrangement or other similar transaction) (a “Distribution”), at any time after the issuance of this Warrant, then, in each such case, the Holder shall be entitled to participate in such Distribution to the same extent that the Holder would have participated therein if the Holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon complete exercise of this Warrant (without regard to any limitations or restrictions on exercise of this Warrant, including without limitation, the Maximum Percentage) immediately before the date on which a record is taken for such Distribution, or, if no such record is taken, the date as of which the record holders of shares of Common Stock are to be determined for the participation in such Distribution (provided, however, that to the extent that the Holder’s right to participate in any such Distribution would result in the Holder and the other Attribution Parties exceeding the Maximum Percentage, then the Holder shall only be entitled to participate in such Distribution to the extent of the Maximum Percentage (and shall not be entitled to beneficial ownership of such shares of Common Stock as a result of such Distribution (and beneficial ownership) to the extent of any such excess) and the portion of such Distribution shall be held in abeyance for the benefit of the Holder until such time or times, if ever, as its right thereto would not result in the Holder and the other Attribution Parties exceeding the Maximum Percentage, at which time or times the Holder shall be granted such Distribution (and any Distributions declared or made on such initial Distribution or on any subsequent Distribution held similarly in abeyance) to the same extent as if there had been no such limitation).

 

4. PURCHASE RIGHTS; FUNDAMENTAL TRANSACTIONS.

 

(a) Purchase Rights. In addition to any adjustments pursuant to Section 2 above, if at any time on or after the Issuance Date and on or prior to the Expiration Date, the Company grants, issues or sells any Options, Convertible Securities or rights to purchase stock, warrants, securities or other property pro rata to all the record holders of any class of Common Stock (the “Purchase Rights”), then the Holder will be entitled to acquire, upon the terms applicable to such Purchase Rights, the aggregate Purchase Rights which the Holder could have acquired if the Holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon complete exercise of this Warrant (without regard to any limitations or restrictions on exercise of this Warrant, including without limitation, the Maximum Percentage) immediately before the date on which a record is taken for the grant, issuance or sale of such Purchase Rights, or, if no such record is taken, the date as of which the record holders of shares of Common Stock are to be determined for the grant, issue or sale of such Purchase Rights (provided, however, that to the extent that the Holder’s right to participate in any such Purchase Right would result in the Holder and the other Attribution Parties exceeding the Maximum Percentage, then the Holder shall not be entitled to participate in such Purchase Right to such extent (and shall not be entitled to beneficial ownership of such shares of Common Stock as a result of such Purchase Right (and beneficial ownership) to such extent) and such Purchase Right to such extent shall be held in abeyance for the benefit of the Holder until such time or times as its right thereto would not result in the Holder and the other Attribution Parties exceeding the Maximum Percentage, at which time or times the Holder shall be granted such right (and any Purchase Right granted, issued or sold on such initial Purchase Right or on any subsequent Purchase Right held similarly in abeyance) to the same extent as if there had been no such limitation).

 

(b) Fundamental Transactions. Upon the occurrence of any Fundamental Transaction, the Successor Entity shall succeed to, and be substituted for the Company (so that from and after the date of such Fundamental Transaction, each and every provision of this Warrant referring to the “Company” shall instead refer to the Successor Entity), and the Successor Entity may exercise every prior right and power of the Company and shall assume all prior obligations of the Company under this Warrant with the same effect as if the Successor Entity had been named as the Company in this Warrant and the adjustments in the following sentence had occurred. On or prior to the consummation of each Fundamental Transaction, the Successor Entity shall deliver to the Holder confirmation that there shall be issued upon exercise of this Warrant at any time after the consummation of the Fundamental Transaction, in lieu of the shares of Common Stock (or other securities, cash, assets or other property purchasable upon the exercise of this Warrant prior to such Fundamental Transaction), such shares of stock, securities, cash, assets or any other property whatsoever (including warrants or other purchase or subscription rights), which for purposes of clarification may continue to be shares of Common Stock, if any, that the Holder would have been entitled to receive upon the happening of such Fundamental Transaction or the record, eligibility or other determination date for the event resulting in such Fundamental Transaction, had this Warrant been exercised immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction or the record, eligibility or other determination date for the event resulting in such Fundamental Transaction (without regard to any limitations on the exercise of this Warrant), as adjusted in accordance with the provisions of this Warrant.

 

 

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in the event of a Fundamental Transaction, the Company or any Successor Entity shall at the Holder’s option exercisable at any time prior to the 20th Business Day after notice of the Fundamental Transaction and this right, conditioned on the consummation of the Fundamental Transaction, purchase this Warrant from the Holder by paying to the Holder an amount of cash equal to the Black Scholes Value of the remaining unexercised portion of this Warrant on the date of the consummation of such Fundamental Transaction; provided, however, that, if the Fundamental Transaction is not within the Company’s control, including not approved by the Company’s Board of Directors, Holder shall only be entitled to receive from the Company or any Successor Entity, as of the date of consummation of such Fundamental Transaction, the same type or form of consideration (and in the same proportion), at the Black Scholes Value of the unexercised portion of this Warrant, that is being offered and paid to the holders of Common Stock of the Company in connection with the Fundamental Transaction, whether that consideration be in the form of cash, stock or any combination thereof, or whether the holders of Common Stock are given the choice to receive from among alternative forms of consideration in connection with the Fundamental Transaction.

 

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

 

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

 

7. REISSUANCE OF WARRANTS.

 

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

 

 

 

(b) Lost, Stolen or Mutilated Warrant. Upon receipt by the Company of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Warrant, and, in the case of loss, theft or destruction, of any indemnification undertaking by the Holder to the Company in customary form (but without an obligation to post a bond) and, in the case of mutilation, upon surrender and cancellation of this Warrant, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Holder a new Warrant (in accordance with Section 7(d)) representing the right to purchase the Warrant Shares then underlying this Warrant.

 

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

 

(d) Issuance of New Warrants. Whenever the Company is required to issue a new Warrant pursuant to the terms of this Warrant, such new Warrant (i) shall be of like tenor with this Warrant, (ii) shall represent, as indicated on the face of such new Warrant, the right to purchase the Warrant Shares then underlying this Warrant (or in the case of a new Warrant being issued pursuant to Section 7(a) or Section 7(c), the Warrant Shares designated by the Holder which, when added to the number of shares of Common Stock underlying the other new warrants issued in connection with such issuance, does not exceed the number of Warrant Shares then underlying this Warrant), (iii) shall have an issuance date, as indicated on the face of such new Warrant which is the same as the Issuance Date, and (iv) shall have the same rights and conditions as this Warrant. If this Warrant is not held in global form through DTC (or any successor depositary), 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. Subject to compliance with Section 7(a), 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. All Warrants issued on transfers or exchanges shall be dated the initial issuance date of this Warrant and shall be identical with this Warrant except as to the number of Warrant Shares issuable pursuant thereto.

 

(e) Warrant Register. The Warrant Agent shall register this Warrant, upon records to be maintained by the Warrant Agent for that purpose (the “Warrant Register”), in the name of the record Holder hereof from time to time. The Company and the Warrant Agent may deem and treat the registered Holder of this Warrant as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of any exercise hereof or any distribution to the Holder, and for all other purposes, absent actual notice to the contrary.

 

8. NOTICES. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries to be provided by the Holders hereunder including, without limitation, any Exercise Notice, shall be in writing and delivered personally, by e-mail, or sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier service, addressed to the Company, at 3140 N. Caden Ct., Suite 1, Flagstaff, Arizona 86004, Attention: Thomas C. Chesterman, email address: tom.chesterman@senestech.com, or such other email address or address as the Company may specify for such purposes by notice to the Holders. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries to be provided by the Company hereunder shall be in writing and delivered personally, by mail, facsimile or e-mail, or sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier service addressed to each Holder at the facsimile number, e-mail address or address of such Holder appearing on the books of the Company. Any notice or other communication or deliveries hereunder shall be deemed given and received and effective on the earliest of (i) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile or e-mail at the facsimile number or e-mail address set forth in this Section prior to 5:30 p.m. (Eastern time) on any date, (ii) the next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile or e-mail at the facsimile number or e-mail address set forth in this Section on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (Eastern time) on any Trading Day, (iii) the second Trading Day following the date of delivery to the courier service, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service, (iv) the third Trading Day following the date of mailing to Holders (v) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given.

 

 

 

9. AMENDMENT AND WAIVER. Except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions of this Warrant may be amended or waived and the Company may take any action herein prohibited, or omit to perform any act herein required to be performed by it, only if the Company has obtained the written consent of the record Holders of Warrants covering 66% of the number of Warrant Shares into which the Warrants are then exercisable) or, if this Warrant is held in global form through DTC (or any successor depositary), the beneficial owners of this Warrants on the same basis (excluding Affiliates of the Company for all purposes of the calculation); provided that the Company may not amend the Exercise Price, Expiration Date, or number of Warrant Shares into which the Warrants are then exercisable, without the consent of the Holder or, if this Warrant is held in global form through DTC (or any successor depositary), the beneficial owner of this Warrant.

 

10. GOVERNING LAW; JURISDICTION; JURY TRIAL. This Warrant shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with, and all questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and performance of this Warrant shall be governed by, the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdictions other than the State of New York. The Company hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in The City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein, and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum or that the venue of such suit, action or proceeding is improper. The Company hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof to the Company at the address set forth in Section 8 above or such other address as the Company subsequently delivers to the Holder and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any manner permitted by law. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed or operate to preclude the Holder from bringing suit or taking other legal action against the Company in any other jurisdiction to collect on the Company’s obligations to the Holder, to realize on any collateral or any other security for such obligations, or to enforce a judgment or other court ruling in favor of the Holder. THE COMPANY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE, AND AGREES NOT TO REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF THIS WARRANT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

 

11. WARRANT AGENCY AGREEMENT. If this Warrant is held in global form through DTC (or any successor depositary), this Warrant is issued subject to the Warrant Agency Agreement. To the extent any provision of this Warrant conflicts with the express provisions of the Warrant Agency Agreement, the provisions of this Warrant shall govern and be controlling

 

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

 

13. DISPUTE RESOLUTION. In the case of a dispute as to the determination of the Exercise Price or the arithmetic calculation of the Warrant Shares, the Company shall submit the disputed determinations or arithmetic calculations via facsimile or electronic mail within two (2) Business Days after receipt of the Exercise Notice or other event giving rise to such dispute, as the case may be, to the Holder. If the Holder and the Company are unable to agree upon such determination or calculation of the Exercise Price or the Warrant Shares within three (3) Business Days after such disputed determination or arithmetic calculation being submitted to the Holder, then the Company shall, within two (2) Business Days submit via facsimile or electronic mail (a) the disputed determination of the Exercise Price to an independent, reputable investment bank selected by the Company and approved by the Holder (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), or (b) the disputed arithmetic calculation of the Warrant Shares to the Company’s independent, outside accountant. The Company shall cause at its expense the investment bank or the accountant, as the case may be, to perform the determinations or calculations and notify the Company and the Holder of the results no later than ten (10) Business Days from the time it receives the disputed determinations or calculations. Such investment bank’s or accountant’s determination or calculation, as the case may be, shall be binding upon all parties absent demonstrable error.

 

 

 

14. REMEDIES, OTHER OBLIGATIONS, BREACHES AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF. The remedies provided in this Warrant shall be cumulative and in addition to all other remedies available under this Warrant, at law or in equity (including a decree of specific performance and/or other injunctive relief), and nothing herein shall limit the right of the Holder to pursue actual damages for any failure by the Company to comply with the terms of this Warrant. The Company acknowledges that a breach by it of its obligations hereunder will cause irreparable harm to the Holder and that the remedy at law for any such breach may be inadequate. The Company therefore agrees that, in the event of any such breach or threatened breach, the holder of this Warrant shall be entitled, in addition to all other available remedies, to an injunction restraining any breach, without the necessity of showing economic loss and without any bond or other security being required.

 

15. TRANSFER. This Warrant and the Warrant Shares may be offered for sale, sold, transferred, pledged or assigned without the consent of the Company.

 

16. SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this Warrant is prohibited by law or otherwise determined to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the provision that would otherwise be prohibited, invalid or unenforceable shall be deemed amended to apply to the broadest extent that it would be valid and enforceable, and the invalidity or unenforceability of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Warrant so long as this Warrant as so modified continues to express, without material change, the original intentions of the parties as to the subject matter hereof and the prohibited nature, invalidity or unenforceability of the provision(s) in question does not substantially impair the respective expectations or reciprocal obligations of the parties or the practical realization of the benefits that would otherwise be conferred upon the parties. The parties will endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the prohibited, invalid or unenforceable provision(s) with a valid provision(s), the effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the prohibited, invalid or unenforceable provision(s).

 

17. DISCLOSURE. Upon receipt or delivery by the Company of any notice in accordance with the terms of this Warrant, unless the Company has in good faith determined that the matters relating to such notice do not constitute material, nonpublic information relating to the Company or its subsidiaries, the Company shall within four (4) Business Days after any such receipt or delivery publicly disclose such material, nonpublic information on a Current Report on Form 8-K or otherwise. In the event that the Company believes that a notice contains material, nonpublic information relating to the Company or its subsidiaries, the Company so shall indicate to such Holder contemporaneously with delivery of such notice, and in the absence of any such indication, the Holder shall be allowed to presume that all matters relating to such notice do not constitute material, nonpublic information relating to the Company or its subsidiaries.

 

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

 

(a) “1933 Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

(b) “Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any other Person that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person, it being understood for purposes of this definition that “control” of a Person means the power directly or indirectly either to vote 10% or more of the stock having ordinary voting power for the election of directors of such Person or direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person whether by contract or otherwise.

 

(c) “Attribution Parties” means, collectively, the following Persons and entities: (i) any investment vehicle, including, any funds, feeder funds or managed accounts, currently, or from time to time after the Issuance Date, directly or indirectly managed or advised by the Holder’s investment manager or any of its Affiliates or principals, (ii) any direct or indirect Affiliates of the Holder or any of the foregoing, (iii) any Person acting or who could be deemed to be acting as a Group together with the Holder or any of the foregoing and (iv) any other Persons whose beneficial ownership of the Company’s Common Stock would or could be aggregated with the Holder’s and the other Attribution Parties for purposes of Section 13(d) of the 1934 Act. For clarity, the purpose of the foregoing is to subject collectively the Holder and all other Attribution Parties to the Maximum Percentage.

 

 

 

(d) “Bid Price” means, for any security as of the particular time of determination, the bid price for such security on the Principal Market as reported by Bloomberg as of such time of determination, or, if the Principal Market is not the principal securities exchange or trading market for such security, the bid price of such security on the principal securities exchange or trading market where such security is listed or traded as reported by Bloomberg as of such time of determination, or if the foregoing does not apply, the bid price of such security in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin board for such security as reported by Bloomberg as of such time of determination, or, if no bid price is reported for such security by Bloomberg as of such time of determination, the average of the bid prices of any market makers for such security as reported in the “pink sheets” by OTC Markets Group Inc. (formerly Pink Sheets LLC) as of such time of determination. If the Bid Price cannot be calculated for a security as of the particular time of determination on any of the foregoing bases, the Bid Price of such security as of such time of determination shall be the fair market value as mutually determined by the Company and the Holder. If the Company and the Holder are unable to agree upon the fair market value of such security, then such dispute shall be resolved in accordance with the procedures in Section 13. All such determinations shall be appropriately adjusted for any stock dividend, stock split, stock combination or other similar transaction during such period.

 

(e) “Black Scholes Value” means the value of this Warrant based on the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model obtained from the “OV” function on Bloomberg determined as of the day immediately following the first public announcement of the applicable Fundamental Transaction, or, if the Fundamental Transaction is not publicly announced, the date the Fundamental Transaction is consummated, for pricing purposes and reflecting (i) a risk-free interest rate corresponding to the U.S. Treasury rate for a period equal to the remaining term of this Warrant as of such date of request, (ii) an expected volatility equal to the greater of 100% and the 100 day volatility obtained from the HVT function on Bloomberg as of the day immediately following the public announcement of the applicable Fundamental Transaction, or, if the Fundamental Transaction is not publicly announced, the date the Fundamental Transaction is consummated, (iii) the underlying price per share equal to the greater of (1) the highest Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock during the period beginning on the Trading Day immediately preceding the announcement of the applicable Fundamental Transaction (or the consummation of the applicable Fundamental Transaction, if earlier) and ending on the Trading Day of the Holder’s request pursuant to Section 4(c), and (2) the sum of the price per share being offered in cash in the applicable Fundamental Transaction (if any), plus the per share value of any non-cash consideration, if any, being offered in the Fundamental Transaction, (iv) a zero cost of borrow and (v) a 360 day annualization factor.

 

(f) “Bloomberg” means Bloomberg Financial Markets.

 

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

 

(h) “Closing Sale Price” means, for any security as of any date, the last closing trade price for such security on the Principal Market, as reported by Bloomberg, or, if the Principal Market begins to operate on an extended hours basis and does not designate the closing trade price, then the last trade price of such security prior to 4:00:00 p.m., Eastern time, as reported by Bloomberg, or, if the Principal Market is not the principal securities exchange or trading market for such security, the last trade price of such security on the principal securities exchange or trading market where such security is listed or traded as reported by Bloomberg, or if the foregoing do not apply, the last trade price of such security in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin board for such security as reported by Bloomberg, or, if no last trade price is reported for such security by Bloomberg, the average of the ask prices of any market makers for such security as reported in the OTC Link or “pink sheets” by OTC Markets Group Inc. (formerly Pink OTC Markets Inc.). If the Closing Sale Price cannot be calculated for a security on a particular date on any of the foregoing bases, the Closing Sale Price of such security on such date shall be the fair market value as mutually determined by the Company and the Holder. If the Company and the Holder are unable to agree upon the fair market value of such security, then such dispute shall be resolved pursuant to Section 13. All such determinations to be appropriately adjusted for any stock dividend, stock split, stock combination, reclassification or other similar transaction during the applicable calculation period.

 

 

 

(i) “Common Stock” means (i) the Company’s shares of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share, and (ii) any capital stock into which such Common Stock shall have been changed or any capital stock resulting from a reclassification of such Common Stock.

 

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

 

(k) “Effectiveness Date” means the date on which the SEC declares the Registration Statement effective.

 

(l) “Eligible Market” means the Principal Market, the NYSE American, The NASDAQ Global Market, The NASDAQ Global Select Market, The New York Stock Exchange, Inc., the OTC Bulletin Board, the OTC QX or the OTC QB.

 

(m) “Expiration Date” means the date that is sixty (60) months after the Initial Exercisability Date, or, if such date falls on a day other than a Business Day or on which trading does not take place on the Principal Market (a “Holiday”), the next day that is not a Holiday.

 

(n) “Fundamental Transaction” means (i) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions effects any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another Person, (ii) the Company, directly or indirectly, effects any sale, lease, license, assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of its assets in one or a series of related transactions, (iii) any, direct or indirect, purchase offer, tender offer or exchange offer (whether by the Company or another Person) is completed pursuant to which holders of Common Stock are permitted to sell, tender or exchange their shares for other securities, cash or property and has been accepted by the holders of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Stock, (iv) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions effects any reclassification, reorganization or recapitalization of the Common Stock or any compulsory share exchange pursuant to which the Common Stock is effectively converted into or exchanged for other securities, cash or property, or (v) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions consummates a stock or share purchase agreement or other business combination (including, without limitation, a reorganization, recapitalization, spin-off or scheme of arrangement) with another Person or group of Persons whereby such other Person or group acquires more than 50% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (not including any shares of Common Stock held by the other Person or other Persons making or party to, or associated or affiliated with the other Persons making or party to, such stock or share purchase agreement or other business combination).

 

(o) “Group” means a “group” as that term is used in Section 13(d) of the 1934 Act and as defined in Rule 13d-5 thereunder.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

(s) “Principal Market” means The NASDAQ Capital Market.

 

(t) “Registration Statement” means the Company’s registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-225713).

 

 

 

(u) “Standard Settlement Period” means the standard settlement period, expressed in a number of Trading Days, on the Company’s primary trading market or quotation system, with respect to the Common Stock that is in effect on the date of receipt of an applicable Exercise Notice.

 

(v) “Successor Entity” means one or more Person or Persons formed by, resulting from or surviving any Fundamental Transaction, or if a Fundamental Transaction involves consideration consisting of capital stock of a Parent Entity, the Parent Entity.

 

(w) “Trading Day” means any day on which the Common Stock is traded on the Principal Market, or, if the Principal Market is not the principal trading market for the Common Stock, then on the principal securities exchange or securities market on which the Common Stock is then traded.

 

(x) “Trading Market” means any of the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE American, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market or the New York Stock Exchange (or any successors to any of the foregoing).

 

(y) “VWAP” means, for any date, the price determined by the first of the following clauses that applies: (a) if the Common Stock is then listed or quoted on a Trading Market, the daily volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the Trading Market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted as reported by Bloomberg 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 OTCQB or OTCQX is not a Trading Market, the volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on OTCQB or OTCQX as applicable, (c) if the Common Stock is not then listed or quoted for trading on OTCQB or OTCQX and if prices for the Common Stock are then reported in the “Pink Sheets” published by OTC Markets Group, Inc. (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per share of the Common Stock so reported, or (d) in all other cases, the fair market value of a share of Common Stock as determined by an independent appraiser selected in good faith by the holders of a majority in interest of the Warrants then outstanding and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the fees and expenses of which shall be paid by the Company.

 

(z) “Warrant Agency Agreement” means that certain warrant agency agreement, dated on or about the Initial Exercise Date, between the Company and the Warrant Agent.

 

(aa) “Warrant Agent” means [     ] and any successor warrant agent of the Company.

 

(bb) “Warrants” means this Warrant and other Common Stock purchase warrants issued by the Company pursuant to the Registration Statement.

 

[Signature Page Follows]

 

 

 

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

 

  SENESTECH, INC.
   
  By:    
  Name: Thomas C. Chesterman
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

EXHIBIT A

 

EXERCISE NOTICE

TO BE EXECUTED BY THE REGISTERED HOLDER TO EXERCISE THIS

WARRANT TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK

 

SenesTech, Inc.

 

The undersigned holder hereby exercises the right to purchase _________________ of the shares of Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Warrant Shares”), of SenesTech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), evidenced by the attached Warrant to Purchase Common Stock No. ____ (the “Warrant”). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Warrant.

 

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

 

____________ a “Cash Exercise” with respect to _________________ Warrant Shares; or

____________ a “Cashless Exercise” with respect to _______________ Warrant Shares.

 

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

 

3. Maximum Percentage Representation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, this Exercise Notice shall constitute a representation by the Holder that after giving effect to the exercise provided for in this Exercise Notice, such Holder (together with the other Attribution Parties) will not have beneficial ownership (together with the other Attribution Parties) of a number of shares of Common Stock which exceeds the Maximum Percentage (as defined in the Warrant) of the total outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company as determined pursuant to the provisions of Section 1(f) of the Warrant and utilizing a Reported Outstanding Share Number equal to ______________.

 

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

 

 

 

Please issue the Warrant Shares in the following name and to the following account:
 
Issue to:  
   
Facsimile Number and Electronic Mail:  
   
Authorization:  
   
By:  
   
Title:  
   
Dated:  
   
Broker Name:  
   
Broker DTC #:  
   
Broker Telephone #:  
   
Account Number:  
(if electronic book entry transfer)  
   
Transaction Code Number:  
(if electronic book entry transfer)  
           

 

 

 

TRANSFER AGENT INSTRUCTIONS

 

SENESTECH, INC.__________ __, 20__

 

  Re: Order to Issue Common Stock of SenesTech, Inc.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

This instruction letter shall serve as our authorization and direction to you to issue:

 

  to the recipient identified under “Issue to” in the Exercise Notice,
  such number of shares of Common Stock as set forth under “Delivery of Warrant Shares,” respectively, in the Exercise Notice,
  out of the Transfer Agent Reserve (as defined in the [________] 20__ Instruction),
  by crediting the designated recipient’s balance account with the Depository Trust Company, identified in the Exercise Notice under “Broker Name,” “Broker DTC#,” “Account Number,” and “Transaction Code Number” through its Deposit Withdrawal at Custodian system

The issuance of these shares of Common Stock have been registered pursuant to an effective registration statement as indicated in the attached Counsel Instruction.

 

[Signature Page Follows]

 

Should you have any questions concerning this matter, please contact me at ____________________.

 

  Very truly yours,
   
  SENESTECH, INC.
   
  By:    
    Name:
    Title:

 

 

 

EX-5.1 5 s111479_ex5-1.htm EXHIBIT 5.1

 

(graphic) 1120 NW Couch Street
10th Floor
Portland, OR 97209-4128
(graphic)   +1.503.727.2000
(graphic)  +1.503.727.2222
PerkinsCoie.com

 

Exhibit 5.1

 

July 20, 2018

 

SenesTech, Inc.

3140 N. Caden Ct., Ste 1

Flagstaff, AZ 86004

 

Re:SenesTech, Inc. – Registration Statement on Form S-1

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We have acted as counsel to SenesTech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the preparation and filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (the “Rules”), of a registration statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-225713) (the “Registration Statement”), including the prospectus contained therein (the “Prospectus”) relating to the distribution of nontransferable subscription rights (the “Rights”) to its stockholders and eligible warrant holders. Each Right reflects the right of the holder to purchase, together for a single purchase price, one share of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Stock”) (such shares of Common Stock underlying all of the Rights, the “Rights Shares”) and a warrant to purchase one share of Common Stock (collectively with all such warrants, the “Warrants,” and such shares of Common Stock underlying all of the Warrants, the “Warrant Shares”). The aggregate Rights may be exercised for an aggregate amount of up to $15,000,000.

 

In our capacity as counsel to the Company, we have examined such documents, records and instruments as we have deemed necessary for the purposes of this opinion. As to matters of fact material to the opinions expressed herein, we have relied on (a) information in public authority documents (and all opinions based on public authority documents are as of the date of such public authority documents and not as of the date of this opinion letter), and (b) factual information provided in certificates of officers of the Company. We have not independently verified the facts so relied on.

 

In such examination, we have assumed the following without investigation: (a) the authenticity of original documents and the genuineness of all signatures; (b) the conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies; and (c) the truth, accuracy and completeness of the information, representations and warranties contained in the records, documents, instruments and certificates we have reviewed.

 

 

 

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Based upon the foregoing, it is our opinion that:

 

1.When the Rights have been issued and delivered as contemplated in the Registration Statement, the Rights will be valid and binding obligations of the Company.

 

2.When the Rights Shares have been issued and delivered upon exercise of the Rights in accordance with the terms of the Registration Statement against the receipt of requisite consideration provided therein, and have been registered by the registrar, the Rights Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

 

3.When the Warrants have been duly authorized, executed and delivered upon exercise of the Rights in accordance with the terms of the Registration Statement against the receipt of requisite consideration provided for therein, the Warrants will be valid and binding obligations of the Company.

 

4.The Warrant Shares, when issued and paid for in accordance with the terms of the Warrants, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

 

The foregoing opinions are subject to the following exclusions and qualifications:

 

(a)       Our opinions are as of the date hereof, and we have no responsibility to update this opinion for events and circumstances occurring after the date hereof or as to facts relating to prior events that are subsequently brought to our attention. This opinion is limited to the laws, including the rules and regulations, as in effect on the date hereof, and we disavow any undertaking to advise you of any changes in law.

 

(b)       We express no opinion as to enforceability of any right or obligation to the extent such right or obligation is subject to and limited by (i) the effect of bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, conservatorship, arrangement, moratorium, fraudulent transfer or other laws affecting or relating to the rights of creditors generally; (ii) rules governing the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and general principles of equity, regardless of whether arising prior to or after the date hereof or considered in a proceeding in equity or at law; or (iii) the effect of federal and state securities laws and principles of public policy on the rights of indemnity and contribution.

 

(c)       With respect to the Warrant Shares, we express no opinion to the extent that, notwithstanding its current reservation of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Stock”), future issuances of securities, including the Warrant Shares, of the Company and/or adjustments to outstanding securities, including the Warrants, of the Company may cause the Warrants to be exercisable for more shares of Common Stock than the number that remain authorized but unissued. Further, we have assumed the exercise price for the Warrant Shares will not be adjusted to an amount below the par value per share of the Common Stock.

 

(d)       We do not express any opinions herein concerning any laws other than the laws in their current forms of the State of Delaware and the federal securities laws of the United States of America, and we express no opinion with respect to the laws of any other jurisdiction and expressly disclaim responsibility for advising you as to the effect, if any, that the laws of any other jurisdiction may have on the opinions set forth herein.

 

 

 

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We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended, filed with the Commission on or about the date hereof, and to the reference to our firm in the Prospectus relating thereto under the heading “Legal Matters.” In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or related Rules.

 

  Very truly yours,
   
  /s/ Perkins Coie LLP
   
  PERKINS COIE LLP

  

 

EX-8.1 6 s111479_ex8-1.htm EXHIBIT 8.1

 

(graphic) 1120 NW Couch Street
10th Floor
Portland, OR 97209-4128
(graphic)   +1.503.727.2000
  +1.503.727.2222
PerkinsCoie.com

  

Exhibit 8.1

 

July 20, 2018

 

SenesTech, Inc.

3140 N. Caden Court, Suite 1

Flagstaff, AZ 86004

 

Re:SenesTech, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-1

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We have acted as counsel to SenesTech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the preparation and filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (the “Rules”) of a registration statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-225713) including the prospectus contained therein (the “Registration Statement”) relating to the distribution of nontransferable subscription rights (the “Rights”) to its stockholders and eligible warrant holders (the “Rights Offering”). Each Right reflects the right of the holder to purchase, together for a single purchase price, one share of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Stock”) and a warrant to purchase one share of Common Stock (the “Warrants”). The aggregate Rights may be exercised for an aggregate amount of up to $15,000,000.

 

As counsel for the Company and for purposes of our opinion set forth below, we have examined and relied upon the truth, accuracy, and completeness of the facts, statements and representations contained in the Registration Statement (including any exhibits thereto) and such other documents, certificates, records, statements and representations as we have deemed necessary or appropriate as a basis for the opinion set forth below. We have not, however, undertaken an independent investigation of any factual matter set forth in any of the foregoing.

 

In addition, we have assumed, with your permission, (i) that the Rights Offering will be consummated as described in the Registration Statement, (ii) that the statements concerning the terms of the Rights Offering contained in the Registration Statement are true, correct and complete and will remain true, correct and complete at all relevant times, (iii) the authenticity of original documents submitted to us and the conformity to the originals of documents submitted to us as copies and (iv) that any statement or representation contained in the Tax Certificate with the qualification “to the knowledge of” or “based on the belief of” or other similar qualification, is true, correct and complete and will remain true, correct and complete at all relevant times, in each case without such qualification.

 

Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the limitations, qualifications, assumptions and caveats set forth herein and in the Registration Statement, we hereby confirm that the statements set forth under the heading “Certain United States Federal Income Tax Considerations” in the Registration Statement, to the extent such statements summarize U.S. federal income tax law, constitute our opinion as to the material United States federal income tax consequences of the Rights Offering of the receipt and exercise (or expiration) of the Rights and owning and disposing of the Common Stock and Warrants received upon exercise of the Rights.

 

 

 

SenesTech, Inc.

July 20, 2018
Page 2

 

This opinion addresses only the matters of United States federal income taxation specifically described under the heading “Certain United States Federal Income Tax Considerations” in the Registration Statement. This opinion does not address any other United States federal tax consequences or any state, local or foreign tax consequences that may be relevant to prospective unitholders.

 

We hereby consent to the discussion of this opinion in the Registration Statement, to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the use of our name under the captions “Legal Matters” in the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act, nor do we admit that we are experts with respect to any part of the Registration Statement within the meaning of the term “expert” as used in the Securities Act or the Rules.

 

  Very truly yours,
   
  /s/ Perkins Coie LLP
   
  Perkins Coie LLP

 

 

EX-23.1 7 s111479_ex23-1.htm EXHIBIT 23.1

 

Exhibit 23.1

.

 

 

 

 

 

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

 

We hereby consent to the inclusion in this Registration Statement on Form S-1 of our report dated March 30, 2018, of SenesTech, Inc. relating to the audit of the financial statements for the period ending December 31, 2017 and the reference to our firm under the caption “Experts” in the Registration Statement.

 

 

/s/ M&K CPAS, PLLC              

www.mkacpas.com

Houston, Texas

 

July 20, 2018

 

 

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