-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, Iay3BtJTE58KeH2LWXKR/iy+H7eyOWDB8SVfjbsNHuXtZiV9fyKYUPdb3v5CpClc NzROKvuO2ROFwsUHPUqJCw== 0000927356-97-000018.txt : 19970113 0000927356-97-000018.hdr.sgml : 19970113 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000927356-97-000018 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 10-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 24 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 19960930 FILED AS OF DATE: 19970110 SROS: NASD FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: INTERCELL CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000745655 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS (NO RADIO TELEPHONE) [4813] IRS NUMBER: 840928627 STATE OF INCORPORATION: CO FISCAL YEAR END: 0430 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 10-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-14306 FILM NUMBER: 97504335 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 4455 E CAMELBACK RD STREET 2: STE E-160 CITY: PHOENIX STATE: AZ ZIP: 85028 BUSINESS PHONE: 6028521524 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 770-1130 WEST PENDER ST STREET 2: VANCOUVER BRITISH COLUMBIA V6E 4A4 STATE: A1 10-K 1 FORM 10-K FORM 10-K SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended: September 30, 1996 Commission file number: 0-14306 INTERCELL CORPORATION ----------------------------------------------- (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Colorado 84-0928627 - --------------------------------- ----------------------- (State of other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. employer incorporation or organization) identification number) 999 West Hastings Street, Suite 1750 Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6C 2W2 ---------------------------------------------------- (Address and zip code of principal executive office) Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (604) 684-1533 Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: Common Stock, No Par Value -------------------------- (Title of class) Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes X No ____ ----- Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant's knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. [X] As of the close of trading on December 20, 1996, there were 17,364,750 common shares outstanding, 10,135,891 of which were held by non-affiliates. The aggregate market value of the non-affiliated common shares, based on the average closing bid and asked prices on December 20, 1996, was approximately $41,177,000. DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE NONE PART I ITEM 1. BUSINESS OVERVIEW Intercell Corporation (the "Company") was incorporated under the laws of Colorado on October 4, 1983, and was originally engaged in the marketing of business and cellular telephone equipment. This business was discontinued and all remaining assets of the Company were liquidated or otherwise abandoned during 1991, and all obligations of the Company were paid or otherwise satisfied. From 1991 until the acquisition of Modern Industries, Inc., on July 7, 1995, which subsequently changed its name to Energy Corporation ("Energy"), the Company was generally inactive and reported no operating revenues prior to the former fiscal year ending December 31, 1994. During that time period, the Company explored various new business and investment opportunities involving, primarily, companies engaged in specialty lines of business in the wireless communications and electronic technology industries. On July 7, 1995, the Company purchased all of the assets and liabilities of Energy. Energy's principal asset was its wholly owned subsidiary California Tube Laboratory, Inc. ("CTL"). The transaction was accounted for as an acquisition of the Company by Energy. As such the historical financial statements contained herein reflect the financial statements of Energy. The results of operations of the Company have been included only since the date of acquisition. See "Financial Statements and Supplementary Data." As a result of the acquisition of Energy and additional acquisitions made during the 1996 fiscal year (see "-Recent Acquisitions and Transactions"), the Company is currently engaged in three lines of business: (i) the design, development and production of shielded cellular phone antennas (the "Antenna Systems") that use the Company's proprietary antenna technology (the "Antenna Technology") as well as the manufacture of miniature and non-miniature coils, transformers and other electronic assemblies; (ii) manufacturing and rebuilding specialty electron power tubes; and (iii) the design, development and production of patented particle interconnect products ("Particle Interconnect Products") that use the Company's patented particle interconnect technology (the "PI Technology") and a proprietary trade secret electroplating process (the "Proprietary Electroplating Process"). The Company's operations are or will be conducted by and through its wholly owned subsidiaries, CTL, Cellular Magnetics, Inc. ("Cellular Magnetics"), Intercell Wireless Corp. ("Intercell Wireless"), which was formed after the end of the 1996 fiscal year, and Particle Interconnect Corporation ("PI Corp."). Because the Antenna Technology and the PI Technology are in the development stage, the Company does not anticipate operating revenues from such lines of business until such time, if ever, as products developed using the Antenna Technology and PI Technology are completed, developed, manufactured in commercial quantities, available for commercial delivery, and accepted in the market place. The statements contained in this report, if not historical, are forward- looking statements and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results, financial or otherwise, or other expectations described in such forward-looking statements. Therefore, forward- looking statements should not be relied upon as a prediction of actual future results or occurrences. In this regard, see "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations-General," "-Overview" and "-Specific Trends and/or Uncertainties." RECENT ACQUISITIONS AND TRANSACTIONS ACQUISITION OF M.C. DAVIS Effective September 30, 1996, the Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary Cellular Magnetics, an Arizona corporation, merged with AC Magnetics, Inc., an Arizona corporation doing business as M.C. Davis Company ("M.C. Davis"), for an aggregate purchase price of $1,800,000, comprised of a cash payment equal to $800,000 and the issuance of 277,778 shares of the Company's restricted no par value common stock (the "Common Stock") at a fair value of approximately $3.60 per share. M.C. Davis was acquired by the Company to provide industrial engineering and production capabilities for the Antenna Technology. M.C. Davis has production facilities located in Arizona City, Arizona and Sonora, Mexico and has been engaged in the production of miniature and subminiature electronic components since 1968. PARTICLE INTERCONNECT TRANSACTION On September 3, 1996, the Company completed the merger (the "PI Merger") of Particle Interconnect Inc., a California corporation ("Particle California"), with and into the Company's wholly owned Colorado subsidiary, Particle Interconnect Corporation ("PI Corp."). The PI Merger resulted in PI Corp. obtaining all of the properties, assets, liabilities and business operations of Particle California, including the entire right, title and interest in and to the improvements of seven United States patents and six patent applications involving the PI Technology and the Proprietary Electroplating Process, except the right to receive royalty payments from five companies that previously obtained licenses to the PI Technology and certain know-how relating to its electroplating application from Mr. Louis DiFrancesco, the inventor of the PI Technology, or companies that he controlled. In exchange for the PI Technology and the Proprietary Electroplating Process, the Company issued 1,400,000 shares of restricted Common Stock to the shareholders of Particle California. The PI Merger was accounted for as an immaterial pooling-of-interest. The Company plans to incur expenditures of not less than $1,500,000 to develop and equip PI Corp.'s new manufacturing facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 2 RIGHT TO DUAL RESONANCE CELLULAR PHONE ANTENNA On November 15, 1995, the Company entered into an agreement with Arizona State University ("ASU") in connection with the development of a new form of cellular phone antenna with certain features designed to reduce potential health hazards that may be associated with electromagnetic signals and to increase transmittal reception and range of cellular telephones. The Agreement required the Company to pay to ASU a total amount of approximately $78,000. On June 5, 1996, Dr. El-Badawy El-Sharawy ("Dr. Sharawy"), a tenured professor of ASU, assigned to the Company, on a royalty-free basis, his entire right, title and interest in, and to improvements on his U.S. Patent application entitled "Dual Resonance Antenna with Portable Telephone Therewith" (the "Dual Resonance Application"), and any and all patent applications thereon for nominal consideration. The Dual Resonance Application and additional patent extensions thereon constitute the basis of the Antenna Technology. The Company subsequently entered into a license agreement with the Arizona Board of Regents, on behalf of ASU, under which the Company, as licensor, granted to the Arizona Board of Regents, strictly for education and scientific purposes, a non-exclusive right and license to publish, make, use and sell the technology covered by the Dual Resonance Application and any patents that may issue thereon for the life of the patent upon which no royalties need be paid. The Company believes the grant of such license will have a minimal impact, if any, on any revenues the Company may earn on the Antenna Technology. To the extent the Company acquires the rights to any future antennas developed by ASU, it will be required to pay ASU a royalty for the licensing rights on mutually agreed upon terms and prices. MISCELLANEOUS TRANSACTIONS Arizcan Properties, Ltd. On March 13, 1996, Arizcan Properties, Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company ("Arizcan"), entered into an agreement with a group, including certain minority shareholders of the Company, to acquire a 94-acre development property located in Pinal County, Arizona for a total purchase price of $1,424,362. This transaction was completed on June 18, 1996. As consideration, the Company issued 400,000 shares of restricted Common Stock at a fair value of $2.50 per share, and made cash payments of $57,000. In addition, Arizcan assumed first and second mortgages on the property totaling $367,000. The Company acquired this property for the purpose of constructing a manufacturing facility for the products developed under the Antenna Technology. Due the Company's acquisition of M.C. Davis, this property is no longer required for manufacturing purposes and it is currently being held for sale. Asia Skylink Corp. On December 29, 1994, the Company executed an Asset Purchase Agreement with Asia Skylink Corp., to acquire certain microwave transmission and associated support equipment, in exchange for 210,000 shares of the Company's Series A Preferred Stock (the "Series A Preferred Stock"). On August 30, 1996, in return for the cancellation of all of the Series A Preferred Stock outstanding, the Company re-assigned the microwave transmission and associated support equipment to the original seller and paid the holders of the Series A 3 Preferred Stock an aggregate of $40,000 as storage charges for the period July 7, 1995 through August 30, 1996. THE COMPANY'S ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW OF ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY The Company has the rights to certain patent applications relating to new antenna technology (the "Antenna Technology"), which the Company jointly developed with the Telecommunications Research Center at ASU. The Antenna Technology is designed to reduce actual or perceived potential health hazards that may be associated with exposure to electromagnetic signals by using a "shielded" antenna. The Antenna Technology has been tested in working prototypes in cellular phones by ASU. These tests indicated a significant reduction in radiation emissions caused by wireless devices, and cellular phones in particular. The tests also indicated several other benefits including increased range and reception, and improved battery life. In addition, the Antenna Technology results in an antenna that is smaller in size and lighter in weight than most antennas currently on the market. The Company anticipates that the initial market for the Antenna Technology will be the cellular telephone market, a part of the wireless communication market. ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY BACKGROUND General The wireless communications industry is relatively young and is characterized by continual change. Currently, the wireless communications industry is experiencing significant worldwide growth. Contributing to this growth are improvements in wireless communication products, such as cellular, personal communication service networks, global satellite telephones and wireless data systems. Wireless Communication Market Segments and Technology Cellular Communication Services. The market for cellular technology, a subset of the wireless communications market, has materially increased in the last decade, growing from approximately 92,000 subscribers in the United States in 1983 to more than 33.5 million at the end of December 1995. The Company believes that there are over 30 brand names and in excess of 70 models of portable cellular phones for sale in the United States; however, there are only approximately 18 manufacturers of cellular phones in the world and eight of these manufacturers are original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs"). No one company dominates the market and there are only two manufacturers with more than 10% of the market. Although industry revenue from the manufacture and sale of cellular phones is expected by industry analysts to grow just .2% in the 1996 calendar year to approximately $6.27 billion, the number 4 of cellular phones sold is expected by industry analysts to increase more than 15% to 16.6 million. The cellular communications process begins by carving a service area into small areas called cells, which can range from one mile in diameter to 20 miles in diameter. Each cell is equipped with a radio transmitter and receiver, which are connected through the cellular phone company's switching center to the local phone network. Currently, cellular phones primarily transmit data through the cellular phone antenna by means of analog transmission (the transmission of information in continuous form by varying the modification of electrical signals) and, to a lesser extent, through digital transmission (the conversion of voice communications to computer binary language of zeros and ones, that are then transmitted separately). Personal Communications Services. New digital communication standards and technologies are rapidly emerging to provide the performance improvements necessary to address overcrowding of existing cellular systems and provide increased performance of communication equipment including Personal Communications Services ("PCS"). PCS is a term encompassing a wide range of wireless mobile technologies, primarily two-way paging and cellular-like calling services that are transmitted at lower power and higher frequencies than other cellular services. Unlike current cellular technology, plans call for broadband PCS to be digital from the start. Because PCS services are digital, it is expected that PCS telephone sets will be smaller and lighter in weight than most cellular sets. The Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") has stated that it expects the PCS industry to compete with existing cellular and private advanced mobile communications services, thereby yielding lower prices for existing users of those services. In addition, the FCC has stated that it believes PCS service will promote the development of a wide range of services and devices such as, among others, smaller, lighter, multi-function portable phones; portable facsimile and other imaging equipment; and multi-channel cordless phones. The development of PCS services is also expected to permit the United States industry to develop services and technologies for international markets. Narrowband PCS, which operate in the 900-901 MHz, 930-931 MHz and 940-941 MHz range, will largely be used for advanced paging services, such as two-way paging, in which a recipient can respond to a sender's message with a message of his or her own, and voice messaging. The Company believes that, in the near term, broadband PCS will consist of cellular-like services including new categories of wireless voice and data transmissions over both local and wide areas using low power, lightweight pocket phones and hand-held computers, all of which require the use of an antenna. Current Cellular Phone Technology Operation of Cellular Phones and Related Potential Health Risk. Cellular phones and their antennas must comply with a particular bandwidth (i.e., a range of frequencies that can 5 carry a signal without distortion) and directionality constraints. Conventional cellular telephones operate over a relatively wide bandwidth of approximately 824 MHz to 896 MHz, or approximately 8% of the entire frequency. For a portable telephone to communicate more than a few hundred feet, it must radiate a substantial amount of L-band (approximately 915 MHz) or S-band electromagnetic energy (approximately 2,000-3,500 MHz). A typical cellular portable telephone transmits at a power level of around 600 microwatts. In normal use, electromagnetic energy radiates from a cellular phone or portable telephone antenna which is used in a position immediately adjacent to the user's head. Electromagnetic energy in the L-band and S-band is absorbed by and may otherwise influence organic matter, such as the human brain and other tissues. Research has indicated that up to 50% of the energy radiated from a traditional antenna can be absorbed by the body tissue of a user's head and hand. Since many portable telephone users spend a significant amount of time using portable telephones, the possibility exists for serious cumulative adverse health effects to the extent that the electromagnetic energy is harmful to cellular phone users. In this regard, there is growing concern both in the scientific community and among the general public that cellular phone use could be hazardous to the health of humans. In response to this concern, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association commenced a multi-year, multi-million dollar program to award grants to researchers who will investigate this issue. In addition, certain cellular phone OEMs caution users in their advertisements against prolonged usage of their cellular phones. To date, the Company is not aware of any definitive studies that provide conclusive evidence on the potential adverse health effect of electromagnetic energy on cellular phone users. Current Antenna Technology and Products Existing cellular phones must meet weight, size and cost constraints in attempting to limit the amount of electromagnetic energy radiated toward the user's head and hand. For example, a cellular phone that uses a remote antenna so that antenna emissions do not emanate from a location in close proximity to a user's head or hand, would seriously diminish the convenience of the cellular phone. Other technologies and techniques that might reduce radiation emission solutions generally lead to increases in cellular phone cost, weight or require excessively large antennas. For instance, many microstrip antennas (an antenna that does not use wires like a conventional antenna, but rather transmits data through a transmission line configuration which consists of a substrate (a material that provides a supporting surface) in which a conductor over a parallel ground plane is separated by a dielectric material) have been adapted to various applications having L-band and S-band frequencies. Generally, however, microstrip antennas are too heavy, costly, and fragile for use in cellular and similar portable telephones. Attempts to modify a monopole antenna by mounting it on a ground plane and applying a metallic shield coated with an isotropic magnetic material have succeeded in reducing the emission of electromagnetic radiation in the near field but have encountered the same problems as microstrip antennas. A more conventional technique of using shielding with a traditional antenna design to decrease near-field radiation (radiation within a few feet of the antenna) in one direction is 6 generally not practicable because such a technique tends to narrow bandwidth. Moreover, this technique limits the omnidirectional antenna patterns necessary to ensure that the quality of communication service will not vary with the direction a user faces at any given point in time when using a cellular phone. THE COMPANY'S ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY Characteristics of Company's Antenna Technology The Company's Antenna Technology is designed to minimize the radiation emitted toward the user in order to reduce potential health hazards that may be associated with exposure to electromagnetic energy. The Company has installed an external prototype cellular phone antenna that uses the Antenna Technology in existing cellular phone models. Preliminary testing of the prototype antenna showed that it reduced the amount of electromagnetic energy in the near field by 90% while in use. In such testing, there was also evidence of a significant increase in transmittal reception and range of the signal and a demonstrable extension of the life of the cellular phone battery. Due to the novel nature of the Antenna Technology, the prototype antennas the Company has developed are also physically smaller in size, lighter in weight, and therefore should not require cellular phone OEMs to modify their existing cellular phone antenna housing designs in order to use the Company's Antenna Systems. In addition, the Company believes that the simplicity, combined with the size advantage, will enable it to manufacture the Antenna Systems at a cost attractive to both consumers and OEMs. The Company also believes its Antenna Systems will prove attractive to OEMs due to the continuing trend in lighter weight and smaller cellular phones, which trend should continue as a result of the emerging PCS market. Operation of Technology The Company's Antenna Technology reduces the electromagnetic energy emanating toward the user primarily through the use of a conductive ground plane attached to existing substrates in cellular phones. The ground plane reflects the electromagnetic energy away from the user. The Company's antenna resonates at two distinctly different frequencies above and below the required or target bandwidth. The frequencies are spaced sufficiently apart so that, after impedance (the total opposition to current flow), the subject bandwidth resides between the two resonances. Neither lower nor higher resonances alone achieve the desired impedance for the antenna throughout the bandwidth, while also reducing the radio frequencies near the user and maintaining omnidirectionality in distances farther away. In addition, attaching the ground plane to existing substrates adds no appreciable cost or weight to the cellular phone. Moreover, radiating elements of the antenna are assembled from a relatively rigid conductive material that can support its own shape, weight and condition 7 without the use of additional structural substrates. As a result, the absence of additional substrates reduces the weight of the antenna and, therefore, reduces the weight of the cellular phones. The Antenna Technology was designed to be used with both analog and digital cellular phones and, therefore, if accepted in the market, should be also available for use in the emerging PCS market. COMPANY ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY The Company intends to manufacture its Antenna Systems in two models, an internal and an external unit. The internal version (which does not have an external antenna application) will be used by cellular phone OEMs that design new cellular phones or modify existing cellular phone designs to incorporate the antenna internally (the "Internal Antenna"). The Company has designed the Internal Antenna to minimize the amount of modification that cellular phone OEMs will need to perform to use the Internal Antenna. The external version will permit the cellular phone antenna to be used as an aftermarket "retrofit" on existing cellular phones (the "External Antenna"). In order to bring the Antenna Technology to market as soon as practicable, the Company will initially manufacture the External Antenna. The Company has completed all documentation and specifications for the External Antenna and has several prototypes in place. The Company intends to commence production of the External Antenna in the 1997 fiscal year. In addition, the Company also plans to manufacture prototypes of the Internal Antenna, which is less complex and cheaper to manufacture, in the 1997 fiscal year. While the safety of cellular phones is subject to question by consumers and scientists, the Company believes there currently exists a marketing opportunity for the development, manufacture and sale of its Antenna Systems. The Company believes the overriding benefit of protection, whether perceived or scientifically proven, will result in market demand for the Antenna Technology. The Company also believes that the cellular phone industry will find the Antenna Systems attractive due to their increased signal strength, range, and battery life and their small and lightweight size. ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY SALES AND MARKETING Antenna Systems The Company recently hired a full-time employee with substantial sales and marketing experience in the cellular phone industry to be responsible for managing and coordinating the development and marketing of the Antenna Technology. Intercell Wireless, the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, will be responsible for the marketing, sale and distribution of the Antenna Systems. 8 The Company is preparing to work with cellular service providers who are interested in assessing the new technology for range, signal strength, and other significant benchmarks. The Company has had discussions with cellular manufacturers in Europe and the Asia-Pacific Rim region and is working on establishing sales arrangements with distributors and expanding the production facilities of Cellular Magnetics to accommodate additional production. The Company has received requests for working phone models incorporating the Company's technology from Telstar, the largest carrier and provider of cellular technology in Australia, and Optus Communications, the second largest telecommunications carrier in Australia operating a nation-wide cellular network. Although the terms of the testing and evaluation have not been formalized, both Telstar and Optus Communications expressed interest in evaluating the Company's Antenna Systems to determine the compatibility of the Antenna System with their respective technologies and for potential performance enhancements The Company will also continue to work on prototypes for models with several cellular phone OEMs. There can be no assurance that, after testing and evaluations, any orders will be placed by Telstar or Optus Communications with the Company or any other cellular service providers. The Company also plans to exhibit prototypes of its Antenna Systems at industry trade shows as well as other public events. Other Electronic Assemblies The Company will continue to market miniature and non-miniature coils, transformers, surface mount coils and electronic assemblies previously produced by M.C. Davis. The customer base for these products consists principally of electronic companies that manufacture their own electronic equipment. The Company intends to sell these products primarily in the Southwest region of the United States. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT OF ANTENNA SYSTEMS The Company is currently working on engineering designs to manufacture additional prototypes of the External and Internal Antennas for use by cellular phone OEMs. The Company also plans to continue the development of the Antenna Technology in other markets, including the development of its "strip" antenna system for use in specialty applications with exposure to extreme conditions, such as those encountered in the military, and satellite communications. The strip antenna is a form of micro-strip antenna that is currently being designed using the Antenna Technology. The Company is designing the strip antenna to transmit at 500MHz to 20GHz. The Company's system consists of combining ("stacking") several micro-strip antennas, which have a long range, at reduced power, but which transmit only in a specified direction. Because antennas used for satellite transmission and military use require omnidirectional transmission and reception, the Company intends to stack its micro-strip antennas so that the completed product has omnidirectional transmission and reception. The strip antenna is currently in the development stage and the Company can provide no assurances that it will operate as planned or will be accepted by the industry. 9 MANUFACTURING OF ANTENNA SYSTEMS The Company will manufacture its Antenna Systems and continue to produce electronic assemblies at its 8,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Arizona City, Arizona and its 8,600 square foot plant in Sonora, Mexico. The Company is currently working on the fixtures and tooling required for the manufacture and sale of the External Antenna. The Internal Antenna is less complex and easier to manufacture and should not require substantial changes in the Company's manufacturing facilities. These manufacturing facilities will also manufacture the electronic assemblies previously manufactured by M.C. Davis. The Company does not anticipate that the manufacture of its Antenna Systems will affect the Company's ability to continue to manufacture its electronic assembly products. ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY COMPETITION At present, the Company is not aware of any major OEMs that have indicated a change in the conventional approach to power or emissions with respect to their portable phones; however, there can be no assurances that such a change may not be instituted in the future or that, in fact, such changes may not currently be contemplated. Currently, cellular phone OEMs either manufacture cellular phone antennas themselves or purchase such antennas from companies that manufacture the antennas to their specifications. The Company believes that many of these manufacturers have greater financial and other resources than the Company. The Company is also aware of one development stage company that is seeking to modify existing antenna technology with the intent of lowering radiation emissions. THE COMPANY'S ELECTRON TUBE PRODUCTS OVERVIEW OF COMPANY'S ELECTRON TUBE BUSINESS The Company manufactures and rebuilds a wide variety of electron power tubes in numerous forms and models which service the frequency range of 200KHz to 18GHz. Currently, the Company provides rebuilt and new electron tubes to a wide variety of customers who use microwave technology in various types of applications, including AM and VHF radio, television, linear accelerators, radar, electron guns and industrial microwave and heating use. This line of business will continue to be conducted by and through the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, CTL. The Company believes that it is one of the more significant domestic companies engaged in rebuilding electron power tubes in the United States. 10 ELECTRON TUBE INDUSTRY BACKGROUND AND TECHNOLOGY General Electron power tubes or electron tubes are enclosed tubes, in which electrons act as the principal conductors of current between at least two electrodes. Electron tubes fall into two categories, oscillators and amplifiers. Oscillators are typically magnetrons and power grid tubes (triodes and tetrodes) and amplifiers are klystrons and traveling wave tubes. Electron power tubes are commonly identified by reference to the frequency band of the electromagnetic spectrum (generally the L-band through KU-band) within which they operate. Electron tubes are used in a wide variety of products, including induction heating and AM radio transmission using the 200KHz to the 5MHz range; VHF radio and television and linear accelerators using the 5MHz to 600MHz range; industrial microwave cooking and heating which use the 400MHz to 2.45GHz range; and radar and electron guns using the 3GHz to 18GHz range. See "-The Company's Electron Tube Products." Electron and vacuum tubes are generally recognized as the dominant technology for the generation of high power radio frequency ("RF") and microwaves. Consequently, these tubes are used by many companies for widely varying applications. The manufacturing and rebuilding of these units is a significant industry. The Company has focused on creating its own "niche" in this large industry. Discussed below is relevant industry information for that segment of the microwave technology in which the Company is engaged. The Company is not aware of any industry trade associations or government statistics that describe the electron tube industry segments in which the Company currently competes. The information in the tables below is management's estimate of the world-wide market for the industry segments in which the Company competes based on its knowledge of industry needs and the activities of other competitors in the industry. Accordingly, the information below should be considered a rough approximation. Magnetron Tubes A "magnetron tube" is a vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons is controlled by an exterior applied magnetic field to generate power at microwave frequencies (400 MHz to 18 GHz). Magnetrons are generally categorized as either Continuous Wave ("CW") or Pulse ("Pulse") units. CW magnetrons are used primarily in heating and drying applications. Pulse magnetrons are used primarily in measuring devices, such as radar and other applications. New and rebuilt magnetron tubes are used in both commercial and military radar units, high power industrial heating equipment and for medical and industrial x-ray machines. The radar market consists of civilian weather radar and military airborne and ground-based radar systems, among others. Industrial heating magnetrons are used in food processing and drying systems at L-band (approximately 915MHz) and S-band (approximately 2,000-3,500MHz) 11 frequency levels. Microwave heating is used for food cooking, drying and processing, wood glue drying, waste management, clothes drying, oil reclamation and plasma generation for production of diamond films. Magnetrons used in x-ray equipment typically operate in the S-band or X- band frequency range, focusing a beam of electrons on a tungsten target, which produces x-rays.
Annual Rebuilt Market --------------------- Radar $40 million Medical $10 million Industrial $ 3 million
Klystron Tubes A "klystron tube" is an electron tube in which bunching of electrons is produced by electric fields, which are then used for the amplification of microwave energy. Klystrons tubes (both external cavity and internal cavity) are commonly used in UHF television transmission, medical and nonmedical accelerators, and navigational equipment. Klystron tubes are rebuilt for television broadcasting firms and are used to transmit data from the studio transmitter to land-based receivers, such as television, and from satellite uplinks to satellites for further transmission. Some types of clinical x-ray machines use klystron tubes, which can also be rebuilt.
Published Annual Annual Approximate Company New Units Units New Price/*/ Produced Rebuilt Price Rebuilt -------------- ---------- -------------- ----------- Television Broadcasting 2500 50 $40,000 $16,000 Transmission of Data 2000 10 $13,000 $ 6,000 Medical Use 200 or more 6 $40,000 $15,000 Navigation 400 or more 25 $12,000 $ 4,000 /*/Subject to change depending on prevailing market and other financial conditions.
Power Grid Tubes Power grid tubes, also known as triode or tetrode tubes, are used in the steel industry for radio frequency ("RF") heating and welding of all types of steel products. They are also used in radio and VHF television transmission, environmental test equipment and as switch tubes in high voltage pulsers. A "triode tube" is an electron tube with three electrodes: an anode, a 12 cathode and a controlling grid; "tetrode tubes" are similar to triode tubes except that they have four electrodes: an anode, cathode, a control grid and an additional grid. Annual Rebuilt Market --------------------- Power Grid $20 million Other Industry Products An "electron gun" is an electron-emitting cathode with its surrounding assembly for directing, controlling and forcing a stream of electrons to a target. A "linear accelerator" is a device in which charged particles are accelerated in a straight line by successive impulses from a series of alternating electric fields. One of the principal uses of linear accelerators is in the medical field for the generation of high energy x-rays for the therapeutic treatment of tumors. THE COMPANY'S ELECTRON TUBE PRODUCTS The Company, through CTL, manufactures and rebuilds a wide variety of electron tubes in numerous iterations and models which service the frequency range of 200KHz to 18GHz with power levels of up to three million watts. The Company's product lines operate within the following frequency bands: the L-band 400KHz to 2MHz; the S-band 2MHz to 3.5MHz; the C-band 4MHz to 7MHz; the X-band 7MHz to 1GHz and the KU-band 1.2GHz to 1.8GHz. The Company primarily manufactures and rebuilds electron power tubes categorized as follows: magnetrons (CW and Pulse), klystrons, power triodes and tetrodes, linear accelerators and electron guns. The Company offers warranties for its rebuilt electron tubes that meet or exceed the original manufacturer's warranty. The rebuilt electron tubes can be purchased for approximately one half the cost of a new tube and are often technologically superior to a new tube due to the Company's analysis of the reasons for failure of the original manufacturers technology, which analysis often results in the usage of components incorporating the latest technological improvements, designs and performance specifications. The Company also manufactures new electron power tubes for use in the industry. The Company rebuilds and manufactures new electron tubes in the following industry segments: Magnetrons General. The Company believes that it is one of the major suppliers of L- band (operating in the 915 MHz frequency range), CW Magnetrons in the world. The Company services and sells magnetrons with power levels from 5 KW through 75 KW. It has developed its own 30 KW S-band (operating in the 2,000-3,500 MHz frequency range), CW Magnetron, 13 which is used primarily for industrial heating applications. The Company believes that this product has the highest power rating at this frequency in the industry. The Company is not considered a major supplier in the medical x-ray market, since such market is essentially dominated by two major companies, Varian/CPI and Siemens. The electron power tubes utilized by Varian/CPI and Siemens operate in the S-band frequency range. The Company does not manufacture electron power tubes operating in the S-band frequency range for the medical x- ray market. Consequently, the Company only offers repair services for the electron power tubes used in such medical systems. The Company, however, believes that it can effectively compete in the X- band industrial and medical systems x-ray market (a relatively new, small and growing market), where new tubes are being manufactured. To the knowledge of the Company, it manufactures the only magnetron operating in the X-band frequency range, which is used in x-ray machines for medical applications. The Company supplies magnetron tubes, operating in the X-band frequency range, for x-ray applications for companies such as Accuray and Schaumberg Research. Rebuilding Process. The rebuilding of magnetrons includes an incoming cold test involving a microwave reflectometer, a hot test, disassembly and inspection of the internal structure. Generally at a minimum, and if required, the cathode heater assembly is replaced. Other damaged sub-assemblies can be replaced depending on the cost effectiveness of such a repair. This product line accounted for approximately 83% of the Company's net revenues in fiscal year 1996. Approximately 41% of these net revenues are generated by the rebuilding of magnetrons, with the remaining 42% derived from the manufacturing and sale of new magnetrons. Klystrons and Linear Accelerators General. The Company's rebuilding program for Klystrons has, until recently, been limited by a lack of suitable testing equipment. The Company has recently obtained two test sets for klystron data transmission tubes and has purchased a surplus television transmitter to test television klystrons. The Company has entered into an agreement with a manufacturer of x-ray machines to test the Company's rebuilt klystrons for the medical market. This line of products accounted for less than 5% of the Company's net revenues in fiscal year 1996. Rebuilding Process. The rebuilding process with respect to klystrons includes opening the vacuum envelopes either by machining in the case of ceramic insulator tubes or by cutting the glass on those tubes with glass insulators. The grids are removed and salvaged and the cathodes are replaced. Typically, cathodes are directly heated tungsten or thoriated tungsten filaments. These are replaced and processed, the cleaned grids replaced and the envelope resealed. Tubes are then pumped and baked for 48-hours, at which time they are burned-in and tested. All klystron tubes are cleaned and finished in bright nickel plate. Workmanship and material warranties prorated over 3,000 hours are provided with every klystron tube. As with 14 klystron tubes, in rebuilding linear accelerators, the electron gun is removed and rebuilt, then the rebuilt unit is pumped, boiled and processed. High Power and High Frequency Triodes and Tetrodes The Company believes that it is one of the major rebuilders of high power and high frequency triode and tetrode tubes in the world. These units are available with power output ranging from 10KW up to 300KW. These units comprised approximately 7% of the net revenues of the Company in fiscal year 1996. Electron Guns The Company rebuilds various sizes and powers of electron guns up to 120 KV, 20A gridded electron sources for research application. Rebuilt electron guns are also used on rebuilt medical accelerators. The rebuilding of electron guns typically requires the removal of the old cathode and heater structure and the replacement with a new unit. The electron gun is rebuilt under vacuum conditions. COMPANY ELECTRON TUBE STRATEGY The Company, as one of the largest rebuilders of electron tubes in the industry, intends to continue to strengthen its reputation for quality, customer service, warranty and the performance of its rebuilt electron tubes by continuing to emphasize these business characteristics. For magnetron tubes, the Company concentrates on markets where the unit price is high and competition is the least. For power grid tubes (i.e., triode and tetrode tubes), the Company concentrates on the high power, and more expensive units where new tubes are no longer manufactured and rebuilding is necessary to avoid replacement of large, expensive equipment. With the addition of two new test sets for klystron tubes, the Company also intends to focus more heavily on this segment of the market. ELECTRON TUBE SALES AND MARKETING The Company recently hired a full-time, experienced marketing employee to increase the Company's existing market and to create new markets for its products and services. The efforts of such employee, to date, have resulted in an increase in new orders from existing and new customers. CUSTOMERS The Company currently has approximately 100 customers in its electron tube business and has shipped over 25,000 electron tubes to 350 customers. The Company's client base is comprised of industrial companies, commercial service firms and government agencies in the 15 United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia and Australia. The two largest customers of the Company, Amana Refrigeration, Inc. and Ferrite Components System, accounted for approximately 14% and 12%, respectively, of its annual revenues for fiscal year 1996. The loss of any one such customer could have a materially adverse effect on the business of the Company. MANUFACTURING OF THE ELECTRON TUBES The Company's existing 8,000 square foot manufacturing facility for its electron tube business is currently operating at maximum capacity. In recognition of these constraints, the Company has entered into an agreement with the City of Watsonville, California for the lease, development and construction of a 21,600 square foot manufacturing facility. Construction of this facility began in March of 1996 with an expected final occupancy date in February 1997. Initially, the Company will occupy approximately 12,000 square feet of the building and will sublet the balance until such time as it requires the additional space. Upon completion of the Watsonville manufacturing facility, the Company intends to apply for ISO 9000 certification, which will enable it to more effectively compete in overseas sales. Since the Company is engaged in manufacturing and rebuilding of electron tubes designed by major manufacturers of such tubes, the Company does not experience and does not contemplate encountering any substantial difficulties relating to the sources or availability of materials with which to conduct its principal business operations. The components to remanufacture and rebuild these tubes are commonly available from numerous sources. BACKLOG OF ELECTRON TUBES As of September 30, 1996, the Company's production backlog represented by customer orders in its electron tube business was approximately $3,170,000. For the preceding year ended (or equivalent) September 30, 1995, the Company had approximately $1,300,000 in firm backlog. The Company anticipates completing all production backlog during its current fiscal year. There is no guarantee, however, that the Company will recognize sales from any or all of the backlog orders. ELECTRON TUBE COMPETITION The Company is engaged in a very narrow segment of the microwave technology industry, the rebuilding of electron and microwave tubes, and has attempted to avoid direct competition with the major manufacturers of microwave products. The manufacturing of new microwave products is dominated by several very large companies in the United States and internationally. These companies, however, have not chosen to dedicate their resources to the rebuilding of such products or the manufacture of the electron tube the Company manufactures. The principal competitors of the Company are relatively few, but have with the Company, significant segments of the narrow market area in which the Company competes. 16 Principal among these competitors are Litton Industries, Varian Associates, English Electric Valve and Burle Industries, Inc. Although there are a few small competitors, management believes that, based upon the Company's latest internal market information, it has the largest market share in certain product lines, such as the CW magnetrons. Because of its perceived reputation for quality, customer service, warranty and the performance of its new and rebuilt units, the Company believes that it offers a competitive advantage equal to or superior to what is otherwise provided by its competitors. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRON TUBES Research and development activities to be conducted for the Company with respect to electron tubes will be conducted through institutions or other firms qualified to conduct such research and development activities as independent contractors to the Company. To the extent that the Company does engage in business activities which will require research and development, it will seek to decrease such costs by entering into joint ventures or other types of business relationships wherein the costs of research and development activities will be paid for by other parties, who in consideration of such payments will enjoy partial ownership or other rights relating to any technologies or products which might develop from such research and development. THE COMPANY'S PARTICLE INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW OF PARTICLE INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY The Company proposes to pursue a new line of business involving the development and manufacturing of high performance, low-cost interconnect products. The Company's PI Technology utilizes patents procured and owned by the Company for the production of electronic interconnect products. The Company's Proprietary Electroplating Process will be used in the manufacture of 12" x 18" panels used to mount, package or attach electronic devices and other products utilizing the PI Technology. This new line of business will be conducted through the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, PI Corp. PI TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY BACKGROUND Electronics Industry Trends Over the past decade, consumers and OEMs have demanded electronic products that provide a significant increase in performance accompanied by reduced size, weight and cost. These factors have forced manufacturers to produce smaller, lighter and higher performing components while reducing their costs in order to remain competitive. New developments in printed circuit boards (including flexible circuitry), integrated circuits ("ICs"), IC packaging techniques, and new forms of interconnect assemblies for connecting the various electronic 17 components, have contributed to the ability of electronic system manufacturers to accomplish these objectives. As these products have decreased in size and increased in complexity, conventional techniques of connecting their components together have begun to become inadequate. The conventional methods of interconnecting electronic components in a rematable fashion have limits to the miniaturization the electronic components can tolerate, while at the same time remaining cost effective. The interconnect industry that serves the personal computer ("PC"), automotive, communication and workstation markets is aggressively pursuing technologies that will allow it to move to the next level of performance and size. Integrated Circuits The Company believes that market trends in IC packaging will lead to increased demand for emerging high density substrates. ICs have historically been packaged by connecting the silicon die to a lead frame or by bonding the silicon die to an interconnect substrate using fine wires. As ICs are becoming increasingly powerful, they produce more heat and require a significantly greater number of input/output ("I/O") electrical connections to attach the silicon die, thus placing substantially greater demands on the IC packaging materials. For instance, a typical IC five years ago required up to approximately 80 I/O connections to the silicon die, whereas today typical ICs require up to approximately 250 I/O connections. The Company believes that the number of high density IC packages requiring more than the typical 250 I/O connections to the silicon die increased from an estimated 240 million in 1990 to an estimated 777 million in 1995, based on published industry information. Market demands are currently forcing certain IC toward 1,000 I/O connections. Further, IC packaging demands arise when multiple silicon dies are integrated into one powerful package, known as a "Multi Chip Module" or "MCM." The international interconnect market in 1995 was estimated by an independent research organization, to be $26.3 billion. The Company believes that the typical integrated circuit package is a 40 billion unit per year market. The market for the "Ball Grid Array" technology ("BGAs"), a product line in which the Company intends to compete, is approximately 150 million units per year (for both micro and mini BGA's). The Company believes, based on interviews and contact with industry leaders and experts, that the PI Technology has the potential and the capability to solve this miniaturization problem and allow electronics manufacturers to move to the next level of high-performance, low cost interconnect systems. The advantage of PI Technology, in addition to providing increased performance and reliability, is that it replaces the fragile leads which extend from the perimeter of current IC packages, resulting in improved assembly yields and reduced size. 18 PI TECHNOLOGY-TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCTS General Interconnect technology has not kept pace with micro-miniaturization in the electronics industry. Thus, component packages and the connectors used to form an electrical and/or mechanical interface between various components and assemblies in electronic products are now the most expensive portion of such products. Component packages, connectors, sockets, plugs and the like are also the bulkiest and heaviest portion of such products. Conventional interconnect technology complicates the electronic equipment design and manufacturing processes by introducing special considerations into such processes with regard to component placement, heat generation, power loss, and signal propagation delay (the time it takes a signal to traverse a given distance). These considerations have an adverse impact on potential gains in performance being realized by new and emerging technologies. Wiping Action Technology Wiping Action Technology is still the prevailing means for interconnecting electronic components. Wiping action interconnect technology (for example, sockets, plugs, and needle pins) forms a temporary electrical interconnect and thus readily allows the remating of various components and assemblies (for example, when replacing a defective component, such as a random access memory ("RAM") chip in a personnel computer). A problem with using such technology is that it is subject to the persistent formation of oxides (a non-conductive material) along a contacting surface, which increases contact resistance. In time, these oxides build up, hastening connection failure and thus equipment failure. Wiping action technology is only available in the form of various connectors and sockets. These devices usually provide a contact surface formed from a limited range of special metals, alloys, and other expensive materials, as are suitable for maintaining a sliding connection. The devices themselves have interfering electrical properties due to their size and orientation on a circuit board, among others, and thus degrade signal propagation through the interconnect (by introducing resistive, capacitive, and inductive components into the signal path). Wiping action technology provides high ohmic connections that produce excessive and unwanted wear and heat, and therefore contribute to equipment failure while wasting energy. The wiper mechanism, as in the case of a socket, requires significant space on a circuit board. Thus, potential circuit operating speeds are degraded due to propagation delays. In addition, sockets, plugs, and similar interconnect devices are only available in a limited number of configurations and materials. Thus, the evolution of electronic technology is constrained by the limitations wiper interconnects impose upon a designer. Additionally, wiper interconnects are unreliable in punishing environments such as that in which a laptop computer is used. Wiper connections subject to shock, intense vibration, 19 temperature extremes, and/or high levels of contamination tend to induce disruption in the continuity of connections made at a wiper interconnect. As wiper interconnects are mechanical devices, they corrode and are subject to wear. Thus, they have a limited useful life. Identification of Problem The Company and others in the industry are aware of the physical constraints imposed upon the development of new products using existing technologies. The problem is simple to identify and define, but difficult to solve. As IC packages increase in I/O count and complexity while remaining constant or decreasing in physical size, a challenge arose in accommodating this complexity in a reliable, technically efficient fashion. Whether the package is connected to the device via solder, adhesive or socket, the connection process as I/O counts move ever higher becomes difficult to achieve. Designers of rematable connections, however, find this issue especially troubling. As pin counts rise, the amount of force the device to package interface must support also rises. Using conventional contact technology like a gold to gold wiping connection, contact force measures around 40 grams per contact. When IC packages had I/O counts of 100, this force was easy to accommodate, but as I/O counts move toward 1,000 and beyond, current contact technologies are inadequate. For example, at 40 grams per contact, a 1,000 I/O BGA socket must effectively accommodate 40 kg of force, equivalent to half the weight of an average man. Requiring a plastic substrate, barely 2 cm on a side to support half the weight of a man is unreasonable, even with today's excellent plastic technologies. Such force, concentrated in a small space contained by petroleum based products that are almost always re-heated is very likely to fail because of board warp, package warp, or outright physical failure. This difficulty, when coupled with increasing intolerance from the market to pay premium prices, presents today's socket manufacturer with an immense task: create a socket that can: . Accommodate very high I/O count devices. . Receive high speed devices without seriously degrading their performance (have as short a circuit path as possible). . Be very low-cost. The Company's Solution The Company believes that its PI Technology provides a cost effective solution to solving this industry-wide problem. As discussed below, Particle Interconnect coating can establish reliable, rematable connections at only 10 grams of force. This means that only 10 kg versus 40 to 80 kg of force is required to interconnect a 1,000 I/O IC socket with the underlying 20 substrate. The Company believes this reduction in force may enable manufacturers to connect complex ICs to products through the next several generations of electronics. Additionally, the connection pathway provided by a connection using PI technology is exceptionally short and has very low resistance. These features allow the connection of very high speed ICs without seriously degrading their performance as conventional techniques sometimes do. Moreover, the Company believes that it can apply the PI Technology using its Proprietary Electroplating Process at a very low cost. THE COMPANY'S PI TECHNOLOGY Overview Background. PI Technology was conceived in 1986, with the initial patent thereon issued in 1987. A major aerospace firm took a special evaluation contract in August 1988 to use the PI Technology for the development of the Space Defense Initiative ("SDI") "Super Computer Program" and for use in other portions of the SDI ("Star Wars") Programs. The results of the SDI Programs demonstrated that the PI Technology could meet and surpass military IC packaging and interconnect requirements, designated MIL-STD 883C and MIL-STD 38510, which the Company believes are more stringent than the requirements in the commercial marketplace. The Company received the rights to seven patents and six patent applications and the Proprietary Electroplating Process from Particle California. See "Business-Recent Transactions." Five companies operate under licenses from the Company to use the PI Technology. These licensee's are utilizing the PI Technology to produce products that do not currently compete with the Company's proposed Particle Interconnect Products; however, nothing in the license agreements would prohibit these companies from doing so in the future. General. The PI Technology utilizes patents owned by the Company for bonding and joining metal surfaces to enhance electronic connectivity and also uses the Proprietary Electroplating Process to electroplate panels at an anticipated lower cost than conventional manufacturing processes. The Company's core product is similar to "conductive sandpaper" in appearance, and is formed by attaching conductive diamond particles to a panel. The "conductive sandpaper" creates a socket or connector for electronic devices, and replaces the use of soldering to create such connections. Operation of the Technology PI Technology begins with sharp, metallized, doped diamond particles which have been closely screened as to size. The particles are tightly classified in sizes ranging from 10 microns to 125 microns, depending upon the end-product application. Small particle size, 8 to 12 micron range, are for small pad sizes, less than 5 mm in diameter and have a small amount of penetration. Medium particle size, in the 20 to 30 micron range, are for medium pads sizes, 21 5 mm to 100 mm in diameter, and have a medium amount of penetration. Large particle size, 115 to 135 micron range, are for large pads sizes, greater than 100 mm in diameter, and have a large amount of penetration. These electrically conductive diamond particles are attached onto contact sites using standard masking and electroplating processes. The sharp, embedded particles create a surface with many sharp points that make many parallel electrical paths by penetrating though an oxide without requiring the wiping action of conventional contacts. The Company believes that its non-wiping action, oxide penetrating Particle Interconnect Products are capable of penetrating surface contamination and oils to create a gas-tight electrical contact. The sharpness of the diamond particles concentrates insertion force transmitted by a contact into a very small area or point. This gives the diamond particle the force per square inch required to pierce oxides and other contaminates on most surfaces without requiring large amounts of force on the contact. Reliable, gas-tight connections can be made with PI Technology with as little as 10 grams of force per contact. This low-level of force is sufficient to drive the particles into the mating surface (for example a I/O pad on a silicon die) and provide low contact resistance. Moreover, the diamond particles do very little damage to the mating surface. This provides very long remate life with very little degradation of the connection. Since there is no wiping action, contact coatings stay intact. The Company can apply these particles to many different substrates, both flexible, rigid, metallic and non-metallic. This ability coupled with the very low contact force gives the Company the capability to make very reliable connectors out of materials that could collapse if exposed to the normally required contact forces. Proprietary Process of PI Technology Manufacturing The Company's ability to compete on a cost-effective basis is driven by two factors; the high-speed Proprietary Electroplating Process and a re-cycling, pollution reduction process. The Company believes it will be able to offer its Particle Interconnect Products at costs competitive with conventional techniques because of its high speed Proprietary Electroplating Process. This Proprietary Electroplating Process allows the Company to electroplate at rates substantially higher than industry standards while investing larger capital amounts in automated equipment. Additionally, the Proprietary Electroplating Process uses fewer raw materials and eliminates ancillary processes that cost competing technologies both time and money. The Company expects to additionally benefit from the Proprietary Electroplating Process because the entire manufacturing operation is cleaner and less environmentally hazardous with its recycling design, than existing plating processes used in the electronics industry. Since electroplating is typically an environmentally hostile process, the Company expects to gain advantages over competitors by avoiding or minimizing the costs associated with the control, removal and processing of these pollutants. 22 COMPANY PI TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY The PI Technology has application in many different industries where electrical connections and interconnections are made. The Company initially has selected the connector industry as its primary industry to potentially penetrate. The PI Technology has been in use in the connector industry for several years, mainly in test and burn-in socket applications by the Company's licensees. There is a current demand in the connector industry for reliable Ball Grid Array (BGA) and Land Grid Array (LGA) production sockets. The Company believes the PI Technology offers immediate advantages for these products. As a result, the Company has developed the following short term and long term strategies. The Company intends to initially focus on high speed electroplating of conductive diamond particles. The primary objective is to provide this service to numerous connector manufacturers, in competing and non-competing applications. The Company intends to provide this service to companies in the form of teaming/co-manufacturing agreements. The Company believes this approach will provide it with the ability to penetrate the market utilizing existing customer bases and reputations of established leaders in the connector industry. In many cases the Company will attempt to establish long term strategic alliances with these industry leaders to continue development and manufacture of new products that will incorporate PI Technology. The Company's initial product line will be a BGA production socket. The Company expects to produce this socket in moderate quantities at its existing facility and using domestic subcontractors, until co-manufacturing partner(s) are able to produce in larger quantities. If or when this occurs, the Company will attempt to expand with proposed partners into numerous other BGA and LGA applications and new products as they are designed. As these business relationships mature, the Company intends to begin expansion into other industries in a similar fashion. The Company currently contemplates that some of these industries will include the printed circuit board ("PCB") industry with alternative interconnect attachment solutions, automotive electronics and the utility power industry (splices and switches). Sales and Marketing Phase I Corporate Image. The Company, as an emerging Company with respect to the design, manufacture, marketing and sales of its proposed Particle Interconnect Products recognizes that it must become recognized in the industry. Establishing a solid corporate image is and will continue to be a tactical initiative. Manufacturers will not put their own production schedules and reputations at risk with companies they feel are unstable regardless of how revolutionary the product or service may be. This is exceptionally true in the connector industry. The Company believes that it has been successful at projecting an image acceptable to the industry as evidenced by the willingness of industry leaders to enter teaming and strategic alliance discussions with the Company prior to production. The Company will continue to use conventional methods such as attending industry conventions, meeting with high-level executives in the industry's leading companies and contacting key analysts in the industry to enhance and 23 stabilize the Company's corporate image. In the future the Company expects to expand its efforts to include: . Traveling to meet individually with key executives. . Generating interest through the trade press and presentations at trade shows. . Exhibiting with display booths at certain industry trade shows. . Publishing and publicizing test results as they become available. The Company believes this approach will provide it with an image that will enhance the formation of relationships with key industry leaders. Phase II - Forming Strategic Alliances. The Company believes that establishment of a sound business image and an appropriate level of exposure for PI Technology in the market place is only the first step in successfully penetrating the market through a strategic partner. To be successful with this approach, the Company must select an appropriate partner, convince this partner of the viability and advantages of the PI Technology at its Proprietary Electroplating Process, negotiate a mutually beneficial agreement, and perform on the agreement. There is no guarantee that the Company will be able to accomplish these tasks. In each industry in which the Company decides to compete, the Company will select market leaders that have key characteristics such as: . Significant market share and strong distribution channels. . Manufacturing competencies that compliment that of the Company. . A corporate culture that allows them to quickly respond to a new technology. . Sufficient capital and sales strength. The Company is currently in preliminary discussions with two industry leaders that satisfy all of the above criteria, however, there can be no assurances given that any agreements will be consummated or, if consummated, that any such agreements will be profitable to the Company. Phase III - Penetrate Other Industries and Application Areas. Combinations of the Company's intended strategies in Phases I and II above will be used in Phase III to allow access to all the markets where PI Technology is potentially viable. The steps the Company has taken and will take in the electronics industry in Phases I and II, will be repeated in other industries in which the Company may compete. 24 PI TECHNOLOGY COMPETITION Competition in the electronic connector market is fierce. The principal competitive factors are product quality, performance, price and service. Multinational companies with established manufacturing facilities and tremendous economies compete with each other daily on both price and quality. The Company's approach of supplying rather than competing with these large firms means that it will not directly compete with such well established leaders. The Company will face competition to its PI Technology primarily through the development of competing technologies. Technologies currently exist that offer features similar to the PI Technology. These technologies include: dendrite crystals, gold dot technology, fuzz button technology, elastromerics, z-axis conductive adhesives and others. These technologies are currently produced by materials suppliers, flexible and rigid PCB manufacturers, as well as electronics manufacturers who produce their own materials and interconnect systems. Many of these competitors have substantially greater financial and other resources than the Company. The Company believes that each of these technologies has drawbacks that will not be surmounted in the near future. In addition, the Company believes that each technology currently has unacceptable limitations with regard to electrical/mechanical performance, manufacturability or cost. There is no assurance, however, that the market place will accept the PI Technology and proposed Particle Interconnect Products. In connection with the development of commercially saleable prototypes, the Company must successfully complete a testing program for such products before they can be marketed. Unforeseen technical problems arising out of such testing could adversely affect the Company's ability to manufacture a commercially acceptable version of such products. The risk of organizations developing new and competitive technologies also exists. The Company will continually monitor the technical environment to identify these risks early and develop strategies to respond to them quickly. PI TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT While the Company believes the area of quickest return and greatest initial growth is in the electronics connector market, PI Technology has applications in many other areas. These areas include: . Direct IC attachment. . Manufacture of complex PCB cards at low-costs. . Multi-Chip Modules. 25 . Heat Dissipation Products (Heat Sinks). . High Voltage Splicing Products. . High Voltage Contractors and Switches. The Company will consider researching the potential of these markets and develop appropriate manufacturing and penetration strategies for them, as discussed in "-Company Strategy" above, whenever the electronic connector market begins to show signs of maturation with declining profit margins, increased competition and lack of opportunity. GOVERNMENT REGULATION The various business operations of the Company are subject to numerous federal, state and local laws and regulations, including those relating to the use and disposal of hazardous substances. Specifically, the operations of CTL and PI Corp. involve the use and handling of environmentally hazardous substances. The use of hazardous substances is subject to extensive and frequently changing federal, state and local laws and substantial regulation under these laws by governmental agencies, including the United States Environmental Protection Agency, various state agencies and county and local authorities acting in conjunction with federal and state authorities. Among other things, these regulatory bodies impose restrictions to control air, soil and water pollution. Furthermore, amendments to statutes and regulations and the Company's expansion into new areas could require the Company to continually modify or alter methods of operations at costs which could be substantial. The Company believes that it is in substantial compliance with all material federal and state laws and regulations governing its operations. The Company believes that its Proprietary Electroplating Process will be subject to less environmental regulation because the Company's Proprietary Electroplating Process does not use a lead based interconnect technology and generates very small quantities of hazardous waste. As a result, the Company has applied for and anticipates receiving a zero percent (0%) emissions permit from the EPA. Compliance with federal and state environmental laws and regulations did not have a material effect on the Company's capital expenditures, earnings or competitive position during fiscal year ended September 30, 1996. Similarly, capital expenditures to comply with such laws and regulations are not expected to be material in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CELLULAR PHONE ANTENNAS AND PARTICLE INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY The Company will rely on a combination of patents, patent applications, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets to establish and protect its proprietary rights in the Antenna Technology and PI Technology and the Proprietary Electroplating Process. The electron tube 26 technology utilizes no intellectual property rights belonging to the Company. The Company currently owns seven U.S. patents (which expire from February 14, 2006 to October 15, 2013) on the PI Technology and seven patent applications, six related to the PI Technology and one relating to the Antenna Technology. Prior to the Company's acquisition of Particle California, Mr. Louis DiFrancesco, the inventor of the PI Technology, or companies he controlled, granted two exclusive and three nonexclusive licenses to use the patents and patent applications on the PI Technology to the following Companies: Exatron Automatic Test Equipment Inc., with an exclusive license to use the PI Technology for sockets for use in automatic test equipment; Acsist Associates Inc., now known as Johnson-Matthey Laminates Division; MicroModule Systems Inc., with an exclusive license for thin film products; Multiflex Inc.; and Myers Consulting Inc. Mr. DiFrancesco, and not the Company, will receive any royalty payments or other compensation received under the terms of these licenses. In addition, nothing prohibits these licensees from competing with the Company in the future. See "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations-Trends and Uncertainties." The Dual Resonance Application has been accepted for filing by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The Company has subsequently filed extensions to the Dual Resonance Application to cover additional features made available through the use of the Antenna Technology. The Company also owns certain proprietary techniques and trade secrets relating to a Proprietary Electroplating Process. The Company recognizes the benefits associated with developing a portfolio of corporate intellectual property, particularly during the new product development process, and is pursuing patentability searches and activities on several technologies. There can be no assurance that patents will be issued from any of the pending applications, or that any claims allowed from existing or pending patents will be sufficiently broad enough to protect the Company's technology. While the Company intends to vigorously protect its intellectual property rights, there can be no assurance that any patents held by the Company will not be challenged, invalidated or circumvented, or that the rights granted thereunder will provide competitive advantages to the Company. Litigation may be necessary to enforce the Company's patents, patent applications, trade secrets, licenses and other intellectual property rights, to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others or to defend against claims of infringement. Such litigation could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business and results of operations regardless of the final outcome of the litigation. Despite the Company's efforts to maintain and safeguard its proprietary rights, there can be no assurances that the Company will be successful in doing so or that the Company's competitors will not independently develop or patent technologies that are substantially equivalent or superior to the Company's technologies. The telecommunications and interconnect industries are characterized by uncertain and conflicting intellectual property claims. The Company has in the past and may in the future 27 become aware of the intellectual property rights of others that it may be infringing, although it does not believe that it is infringing any third party proprietary rights at this time. To the extent that it deems necessary, the Company may license the right to use certain technology patented by others in certain products that it manufactures. There can be no assurance that the Company will not in the future be notified that it is infringing other patent and/or intellectual property rights of third parties. In the event of such infringement, there can be no assurance that a license to the technology in question could be obtained on commercially reasonable terms, if at all, that litigation will not occur or that the outcome of such litigation will not be adverse to the Company. The failure to obtain necessary licenses or other rights, the occurrence of litigation arising out of such claims or an adverse outcome from such litigation could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business. In any event, patent litigation is expensive, and the Company's operating results could be materially adversely affected by any such litigation, regardless of its outcome. The Company also seeks to protect its trade secrets and proprietary technology, in part, through confidentiality and non-competition agreements, among other practices and procedures, with employees, consultants and other parties. There can be no assurance that these agreements will not be breached, that the Company will have adequate remedies for any breach, or that the Company's trade secrets, such as the Proprietary Electroplating Process,will not otherwise become known to or independently developed by others. In addition, the laws of some foreign countries do not offer protection of the Company's proprietary rights to the same extent as do the laws of the United States. EMPLOYEES As of September 30, 1996, the Company and its three active wholly owned subsidiaries had 127 employees. None of the Company's employees is represented by a labor union or is subject to a collective bargaining agreement. The Company believes that its relations with its employees are satisfactory. ITEM 2. PROPERTIES PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES The principal executive office of the Company is located at 999 West Hastings Street, Suite 1750, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6C 2W2. The Company leases this office space pursuant to a lease that expires on July 31, 2001. The monthly lease payments are $3,000. PRINCIPAL CORPORATE OFFICES The principal corporate office of the Company is located at 7201 E. Camelback Road, Suite 250, Scottsdale, Arizona 85251. The Company leases this office space. The monthly lease payments are approximately $3,500 pursuant to a lease that expires July 31, 2001. 28 PI CORP. The Company conducts operations on a 10-acre site located at 3550 South Marksheffel Road, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The building has 45,000 square feet with 22,000 square feet currently allocated for production. The facility also includes two 1000 square feet security vaults for storage of finished products prior to shipping. The Company leases this facility pursuant to a lease that expires on July 31, 1998. The monthly lease payments for the first year are approximately $23,000, and approximately $23,500 for the remainder of the term. CELLULAR MAGNETICS The Company will manufacture its Antenna Systems and continue to produce electronic assemblies at its 8,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Arizona City, Arizona and its 8,600 square foot plant in Sonora, Mexico. The Company owns the land on which these facilities are located. CTL The Company's manufacturing facilities are presently located at 1305 17th Avenue, Santa Cruz, California 95062. The current leased premises comprise approximately 8,000 square feet at a monthly lease cost of approximately $10,000. The Company has entered into a lease agreement dated June 16, 1995 with the City of Watsonville, California, for a new manufacturing facility consisting of approximately 21,600 square feet. Construction of this facility began in March 1996, with an anticipated final occupancy date of February 1997. The Company will initially occupy approximately 12,000 square feet at the facility and will sublet the remainder until such time as it requires additional space. The lease is for a period of 15 years with an option to renew for 3 successive five-year terms. The total lease cost will be approximately $15,000 per month, exclusive of any sublease revenues. ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS No material legal proceedings (other than routine litigation incidental to the business) to which the Company (or any officer or director of the Company, or any affiliate or owners of record or beneficially of more than 5% of the common stock) to management's knowledge, is a party or to which the property of the Company is subject, is pending and no such material proceedings are known by management of the Company to be contemplated. ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS There were no meetings of security holders during the period covered by this report. 29 PART II ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANTS' COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS The Common Stock is presently traded on the over-the-counter market on the OTC Bulletin Board maintained by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the "NASD") The NASDAQ symbol for the Common Stock is "INCE." The following table sets forth the range of high and low bid quotations for the Common Stock of each full quarterly period during the fiscal year or equivalent period for the fiscal periods indicated below. The quotations were obtained from information published by the NASD and reflect interdealer prices, without retail mark-up, mark-down or commission and may not necessarily represent actual transactions. The average for the closing bid and asked prices for the Common Stock was $4.0625 on December 20, 1996.
1995 Fiscal Year High Low - ---------------------- ------- ------ December 31, 1994 $ 5.13 $ .25 March 31, 1995 3.69 .50 June 30, 1995 2.00 .625 September 30, 1995 .825 .625 1996 Fiscal Year - ---------------------- December 31, 1995 $ 1.625 $.625 March 31, 1996 1.9375 1.00 June 30, 1996 5.75 2.00 September 30, 1996 5.50 2.75
As of December 20, 1996, there were 272 record holders of its Common Stock. Based upon information provided to the Company by persons holding securities for the benefit of others, it is estimated that the Company has in excess of 3,200 beneficial owners of its Common Stock as of December 20, 1996. DIVIDEND POLICY While there are no restrictions prohibiting the Company from paying dividends to its shareholders, the Company has not paid any cash dividends on its Common Stock in the past and does not anticipate paying any dividends in the foreseeable future. Earnings, if any, are expected to be retained to fund future operations of the Company. There can be no assurance that the Company will pay dividends at any time in the future. 30 RECENT SALES OF UNREGISTERED SECURITIES The Company made the following unregistered sales of its securities from October 1, 1995 through September 30, 1996./(1)(2)/
TITLE OF DATE OF SALE SECURITIES AMOUNT CONSIDERATION PURCHASER - ------------ ---------- -------- ------------- --------- 1) 11/9/95 Options to Purchase 700,000 Agreement to serve as Gordon J. Sales Common Stock, at Officers, Directors & Mark S. Pierce an exercise price of Counsel to the Company Terry W. Neild $.50 per share Corporate Advisors, Inc. 2) 11/9/95 Options to Purchase 265,000 Agreement to Continue 10 Employees of California Tube Common Stock, at Employment at CTL and to Laboratories, Inc.; an exercise price of provide consulting S. Wilde and Alan M. Smith $.50 per share services to the Company 3) 12/22/95 Options to Purchase 716,180 Agreement to Provide 1. Communique Media Services, Ltd. Common Stock, at Consulting Services to 2. Financial Power Network, Inc. an exercise price of the Company 3. James O. Gray $.50 per share 4. Admiral House 4) 2/1/96 Options to Purchase 800,000 Agreement to provide James O. Gray Common Stock, at consulting services to L.L. Ross an exercise price of the Company and for past Wendy S. Gobbett $.75 per share for services of consultants 650,000 shares and $1.25 per share for 150,000 shares 5) 3/3/96 Common Stock 96,606 Legal Services - valued Corporate Consultancy Services, Ltd. at $39,751 6) 3/28/96 Common Stock 126,761 Contribution to ESOP California Tube Laboratory, Inc. valued at $1.25 per Stock Bonus Employee Stock share for $158,451.15 Ownership Plan & Trust 7) 3/29/96 Options to Purchase 550,000 Agreement to provide Quidquia Management Common Stock, at consulting services to Rocha Holdings, Ltd. an exercise price of the Company $.50 per share for 300,000 shares and $.75 per share for 250,000 shares 8) 5/9/96 Common Stock 400,000 Conveyance of Land, Sonora Station, Ltd. Recorded at $1,000,000 Muriel J. Fulton Barbara J. Drew Darren Begley
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9) 6/3/96 Options to Purchase 380,000 As consideration for past David Blank Common Stock, at services as employees of James Martin an exercise price of CTL Lance Mullins $.50 per share Tony Wynn 10) 6/12/96 Options to Purchase 400,000 As consideration for Jeffrey Halbirt Common Stock, at consulting services and as Alan M. Smith an exercise price of an incentive to remain an $.50 per share officer of the Company 11) 5/17/96 Common Stock 14,780 Legal Services - valued at Charmirathor, Inc. $16,554 12) 7/10/96 Warrants to acquire 330,159 Services as Placement Swartz Investments, LLC. Common Stock, at Agent a price of $3.9375 per share 13) 9/3/96 Common Stock 1,400,000 Exchange of shares of Five (5) shareholders of Particle Particle Interconnect, Inc. Interconnect, Inc. in a Triangular Merger, which was accounted for as an immaterial pooling of interests. 14) 10/8/96 Common Stock 277,778 Exchange of shares of Three (3) shareholders of A.C. Magnetics, Inc. in A.C. Magnetics, Inc. Triangular Merger, with a total share value of $1,000,000. 15) 9/3/96 Options to Purchase 800,000 Agreement to serve as Alan M. Smith Common Stock, at Officers, Counsel or Corporate Advisors, Inc. an exercise price of Consultant to Company 521508 B.C. Ltd. $4.00 per share 16) 9/3/96 Options to Purchase 230,000 Agreement to serve as Certain employees of PI Corp. Common Stock, at officers or employees of an exercise price of the Company. $4.00 per share
_______________ /(1)/ The above information does not include the sale of 1,000 shares of the Company's Series B Preferred Stock on July 10, 1996 made under Regulation S of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. This transaction was previously reported in the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 10, 1996. /(2)/ During the period commencing September, 1996 through December 31, 1996, certain holders of the Series B Preferred Stock, pursuant to the Certificate of Designation, converted a total of 677 shares of Series B Preferred Stock into 2,238,979 shares of Common Stock which were issued without registration pursuant to the exemption provided by Regulation S. 32 UNDERWRITERS No underwriter was involved in any of the transactions described above, except that Swartz Investments, LLC ("Swartz") was engaged as selling agent in connection with the sale of the Company's Series B Preferred Stock and warrants to acquire Common Stock and was paid compensation equivalent to 11% of the aggregate funds raised therein. In addition, Swartz received warrants to purchase Common Stock equal to 10% of the aggregate securities sold, assuming that the holders of the Series B Preferred Stock and related warrants, converted their Series B Preferred Stock or exercised their warrants at the Fixed Conversion Price (as defined below). EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED All of the sales by the Company of its unregistered securities were made by the Company in reliance upon Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. All of the individuals who purchased the unregistered securities were all known to the Company and its management, through pre-existing business relationships, as long standing business associates, friends, employees, relatives or members of the immediate family of management. All purchasers were provided access to all material information which they requested and all information necessary to verify such information and were afforded access to management of the Company in connection with their purchases. All purchasers of the unregistered securities acquired such securities for investment and not with a view toward distribution, acknowledging such intent to the Company. All certificates or agreements representing such securities that were issued contained restrictive legends, prohibiting further transfer of the certificates or agreements representing such securities, without such securities either being first registered or otherwise exempt from registration in any further resale or disposition. TERMS OF WARRANT EXERCISE The material terms of the warrants received by Swartz are set forth in Section 3 of the Warrant Agreement included as Exhibit 4.3 to this Report and provides as follows: Payment of Warrant Exercise Price. ---------------------------------- The Exercise Price ("Exercise Price") shall equal $3.9375 ("Initial Exercise Price") or, if the Date of Exercise is more than one (1) year after the Date of Issuance, the lesser of (i) the Initial Exercise Price or (ii) the "Lowest Reset Price", as that term is defined below. The Company shall calculate a "Reset Price" on each anniversary date of the Date of Issuance which shall equal one hundred percent (100%) of the average Closing Price of the Company's Common Stock for the five (5) trading days ending on such anniversary date of the Date of Issuance. The "Lowest Reset Price" shall equal the lowest Reset Price determined on an anniversary date of the Date of Issuance preceding the Date of Exercise, taking into account, as appropriate, any adjustments made pursuant to Section 5 of the Warrant Agreement. For purposes hereof, the term "Closing Price" shall mean the closing price on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System ("Nasdaq") Small Cap 33 Market or OTC Bulletin Board, or if no longer traded on the Nasdaq Small Cap Market or OTC Bulletin Board, the closing price on the principal national securities exchange or the National Market System on which the Common Stock is so traded and, if not available, the mean of the high and low prices on the principal national securities exchange or the National Securities Exchange on which the Common Stock is so traded. Payment of the Exercise Price may be made by either of the following, or a combination thereof, at the election of Holder: (i) Cash Exercise: cash, certified check or cashiers check or wire transfer; or (ii) Cashless Exercise: surrender of the Warrant at the principal office of the Company together with notice of cashless election, in which event the Company shall issue Holder a number of shares of Common Stock computed using the following formula: X = Y (A-B)/A where: X = the number of shares of Common Stock to be issued to Holder. Y = the number of shares of Common Stock for which the Warrant is being exercised. A = the Market Price of one (1) share of Common Stock (for purposes hereof, the "Market Price" shall be defined as the average closing price of the Common Stock for the five (5) trading days prior to the Date of Exercise of the Warrant (the "Average Closing Price"), as reported by the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System ("NASDAQ"), or it the Common Stock is not traded on NASDAQ, the price in the over-the-counter market; provided, however, that if the Common Stock is listed on a stock exchange, the Market Price shall be the average Closing on such exchange. If the Common Stock is/was not traded during the five (5) trading days prior to the Date of Exercise, then the closing price for the last publicly traded day shall be deemed to be the closing price for any and all (if applicable) days during such five (5) trading day period. B = the Exercise price. 34 ITEM 6. SELECTED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA On December 4, 1995, the Company changed its fiscal year end from December 31, 1995 to September 30, 1995 due to the acquisition of the assets and liabilities of Energy on July 7, 1995 for 5,412,191 shares of Common Stock, which represented 52% of the Common Stock outstanding at that time. As a result, for accounting purposes, Energy was considered the acquiring corporation and the comparative information presented herein represents that of Energy prior to July 7, 1995 and Energy and the Company subsequent to such date. See "-Recent Acquisitions and Transactions," the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto included elsewhere herein, and "Financial Statements and Supplementary Data-Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements." The following selected consolidated financial data should be read in conjunction with "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto included elsewhere herein. The Consolidated Statements of Operations data presented below for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1996, the eleven months ended September 30, 1995 and the fiscal year ended October 31, 1994 and the Consolidated Balance Sheet data as of September 30, 1996 have been derived from the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements included herein. The Consolidated Financial Statements as of and for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1996 and the eleven months ended September 30, 1995 were audited by KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP, independent public accountants. The Consolidated Financial Statements, as of and for the fiscal year ended October 31, 1994 were audited by Mark Shelley, CPA, independent public accountant. The Statements of Operations data set forth below for the years ended October 31, 1993 and 1992 and the Balance Sheet data set forth below at October 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992 are derived from audited financial statements not included herein. 35
Year Eleven Year Year Year Ended Months Ended Ended Ended Ended 9/30/96 9/30/95/(1)/ 0/31/94 10/31/93 10/31/92 ------- ------- ------- -------- -------- Total net sales $ 3,405,000 $3,768,000 $2,066,000 $ 60,000 $ 0 Costs & expenses 8,688,000 5,089,000 2,428,000 142,000 43,000 Net loss (5,283,000) (1,321,000) (362,000) (82,000) (43,000) Net loss per common share $(0.45) $(0.18) $(0.08) $(0.04) $N/A Weighted average Number of common shares outstanding 11,779,787 7,391,275 4,828,007 2,066,979 1,781,880 At period end: Current assets $10,625,000 $1,796,000 $1,499,000 $ 4,000 $ 0 Current liabilities 2,060,000 1,799,000 1,621,000 82,000 149,000 Working capital (deficit) 8,565,000 (3,000) (122,000) (78,000) (149,000) Total assets 13,826,000 3,069,000 3,141,000 51,000 0 Long-term debt 86,000 48,000 48,000 175,000 0 Stockholders' equity $11,680,000 $1,222,000 $1,472,000 $ (206,000) $ (149,000) Cash dividends per common share 0 0 0 0 0 _______________ /(1)/ On December 4, 1995, the Company changed its fiscal year end from December 31, 1995 to September 30, 1995. The comparative information presented herein represents that of Modern Industries, Inc. which was deemed to be the acquiring company in the July 7, 1995 transaction.
36 ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS GENERAL The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the "Selected Consolidated Financial Data" and the "Financial Statements and Supplementary Data." The statements contained in this report, if not historical, are forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results, financial or otherwise, or other expectations described in such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties that may affect the operations, performance, development and results of the Company's business include those, among others, discussed under "Trends and Uncertainties" below. Any forward looking statement or statements speak only as of the date on which such statement was made, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward looking statement or statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Therefore, forward- looking statements should not be relied upon as a prediction of actual future results. From 1991 through the fiscal year ended December 31, 1994, the Company was generally inactive and reported no operating revenues. In July 1995, the Company completed the acquisition of Energy and its wholly owned subsidiary CTL. See "Business-Overview." The Company has substantially expanded the scope of its business and revised its business strategy subsequent to the Energy transaction through the acquisition of certain patents, patent applications and proprietary technology relating to the Antenna Technology and the PI Technology. During this time, the Company has been engaged primarily in directing, supervising and coordinating the Company's activities in the continuing development of its new lines of business, in addition to the recruitment of management and technical personnel and raising new capital to fund its operations. The primary asset acquired in the Energy transaction, its wholly owned subsidiary CTL, continued to generate positive cash flows in the 1996 fiscal year, although sales decreased 9.6% over the 1995 fiscal year. This decrease in sales was primarily attributable to a change in product mix, the delayed timing of certain orders in the fourth quarter of 1996 and production capacity constraints at CTL's current manufacturing facilities. CTL anticipates moving to new production facilities in February of 1997, which the Company believes will eliminate the production capacity constraints. On November 15, 1995, the Company entered into a research and development agreement with ASU for the development of the Antenna Technology. To date the Company has developed several working prototypes of the External Antenna and anticipates commencing commercial production of both the External Antenna and Internal Antenna in the 1997 fiscal 37 year. There can be no assurance, however, that the Company will commence production in 1997 or thereafter. On September 30, 1996, the Company formed a wholly owned subsidiary, Cellular Magnetics, which acquired all the assets and liabilities of M.C. Davis in exchange for 277,778 shares of Common Stock valued at $1,000,000 and $800,000 in cash. While the Company had initially considered constructing its own manufacturing facility, this acquisition, accounted for by the purchase method of accounting, provides the Company with both a facility for the immediate production of its Antenna Technology and an established manufacturing facility. The Company intends to continue to produce the miniature and subminiature electronic components previously produced by M.C. Davis and does not anticipate that the production of the Antenna Technology will significantly impact its ability to manufacture these electronic assemblies. To further diversify the Company's operations and to capitalize on a new and emerging technology, the Company formed a wholly owned subsidiary, PI Corp., which merged with Particle California. The Company exchanged 1,400,000 shares of Common Stock for all of the outstanding stock of Particle California. The transaction was accounted for as an immaterial pooling-of-interest as the prior operations of Particle California are not material to the Company's consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows. Accordingly, the consolidated financial statements for periods prior to the date of acquisition have not been restated, except for loss per common share information. From the date of the merger, PI Corp. has been engaged primarily in the construction of production capabilities at its plant and the continuing development of the technology. PI Corp. expects to commence commercial production in 1997. On July 7, 1996, the Company completed an offering pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act (the "Regulation S Offering") of 1,000 shares of its Series B Preferred Stock, with attached warrants, pursuant to which it received net proceeds of $8,900,000. To further improve the Company's working capital position, the Company completed a Regulation D private offering to institutional investors on December 15, 1996, of 525 shares of its Series C Preferred Stock, no par value, pursuant to which it received net proceeds of $4,672,500. See "-Liquidity and Capital Resources" below. RESULTS OF OPERATIONS Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1996 compared to Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1995 (Eleven Months). Net Sales. Net sales, which are derived solely from the operations of CTL, decreased 9.6% in 1996 to $3,405,000 from $3,768,000 in 1995. This decrease in sales is generally due to a combination of a change in the Company's product mix and the delayed timing of significant orders which were originally planned for the fourth quarter of 1996, but were not placed until the end of the 1996 calendar year. 38 In the 1996 fiscal year, net sales of new magnetrons totaled $1,436,000, accounting for 42% of sales, compared with $1,455,000 or 39% of net sales in 1995. Net revenues from rebuilding of magnetrons decreased from $1,848,000 or 49% of net sales in 1995 to $1,403,000 or 41% of net sales in 1996. This shift in sales mix was due primarily to the Company's focus on new and more complex tube types such as certain Pulse magnetrons in an attempt to broaden the Company's product line and a slow down in orders for rebuilt magnetrons for the food processing industry in the last two quarters of 1996. It is anticipated that the sales mix experienced in the final six months of fiscal 1996 will continue for the foreseeable future. The Company obtained a significant contract for the manufacture of new and rebuilt Pulse magnetrons in June of 1996. However, the initial order under this contract was not placed until September, 1996. As a result, sales were not recorded under this contract until the first quarter of fiscal 1997, resulting in a significant increase in sales in the first quarter of 1997 over the final quarter of 1996. In conjunction with the changes in sales mix noted above, the Company experienced a decrease in gross margins to 17% in the 1996 fiscal year from 23% in 1995. This decrease was due to the increased development time and costs associated with the new and more complex tube types now being constructed by the Company. In particular, direct labor costs increased to 34% of net sales in 1996 compared to 30% in 1995, while direct materials costs increased to 26% in 1996 from 25% in 1995. The Company anticipates that gross margins will improve in the 1997 fiscal year as development of these new tube types is now complete and production should therefore become more efficient. In addition to the above, the Company's current electron tube manufacturing facility is operating at maximum capacity. The Company believes that its move to the new Watsonville manufacturing facility in February, 1997 should satisfy the Company's production needs for the foreseeable future. The Company anticipates that it may experience minor disruptions in production due to the movement of equipment and the familiarization of employees with the new manufacturing facility, which disruptions are not expected to have a material impact on the Company's operations. Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. The Company's allowance for doubtful accounts increased from $81,000 in 1995 to $255,000 in 1996. This increase is primarily a result of the return of certain Pulse magnetrons, a new product of the Company, for which rework was requested by the purchasers. The Company does not believe that similar returns will occur in the future. Selling, General and Administrative Expense. Selling, general and administrative ("SGA") expenses increased 331.5% from $1,317,000 in 1995 to $5,683,000 in 1996. This increase is primarily attributable to an increase in compensation expense of $3,686,000 resulting from the vesting of stock options to purchase an aggregate of 4,841,000 shares of Common Stock granted to the Company's officers, directors, employees and consultants in 1996 at exercise prices below the fair value of the Common Stock on the date of grant. The Company 39 recorded deferred compensation expense of $4,017,000 based on these grants. The options were granted as an incentive to such persons at a time when the Company did not have sufficient funds to otherwise compensate such persons. In the future, the Company does not intend to grant stock options in the amounts granted in 1996 or at less than the fair value of the Common Stock on the date of grant. In addition to the above, SGA expenses increased in 1996 due to higher legal and audit costs ($387,000 in 1996 compared to $102,000 in 1995) associated with the Company's acquisitions, financings and compensation arrangements, and increased compensation paid to management and administrative personnel. In the 1997 fiscal year, it is anticipated that sales and marketing expenses will increase considerably over 1996 levels. In 1996, sales and marketing expenses were limited to costs associated with CTL's operations. In 1997, significant costs will be incurred in order to bring the Company's Antenna Systems and Particle Interconnect Products to market. In addition, the Company intends to significantly expand its marketing activities for its electron tube products in an effort to capture a larger share of the market. Research and Development. Research and development expenses increased from - -0- in 1995 to $88,000 in 1996. This increase was attributable entirely to costs associated with research and development of the Company's Antenna Systems. It is anticipated that research and development activities will materially increase in 1997 as the Company continues to develop its Antenna Technology and the PI Technology. Interest Income and Expense. The Company earned interest income of $36,000 in 1996 compared to -0- in 1995. This increase was due to the investment in Treasury Bills of undeployed cash resources realized through the sale of its Series B Preferred Stock. The Company anticipates that interest income will increase in 1997 as undeployed funds, including those raised through the sale of its Series C Preferred Stock, will continue to be invested in low risk interest bearing securities. Interest expense increased to $90,000 in 1996 compared to $88,000 in 1995 due to continued bank financing and outstanding notes payable to related parties. The Company repaid these financings and notes with the proceeds received from the Series B Preferred Stock financing and does not currently anticipate obtaining further debt financing. Net Operating Loss Carryforwards for Tax Purposes. As of September 30, 1996 the Company had a net operating loss carryover for federal and California income tax purposes of approximately $7,376,000 and $3,463,000 respectively. The federal net operating losses expire from 2007 to 2011. The California net operating losses expire from 2000 to 2001. The benefit of these net operating loss carryforwards has not been recorded by the Company as it is uncertain that the Company will generate sufficient income in future periods to utilize the loss carryforwards. 40 Eleven Months Ended September 30, 1995 compared to Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 1994. On July 7, 1995, the Company acquired all of the assets and assumed all of the liabilities of Energy through the issuance of 5,412,191 shares of Common Stock. The principal asset acquired in this transaction was all of the issued and outstanding common stock of CTL. Energy had acquired its investment in CTL on May 1, 1994. In accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, the results of operations disclosed in the Company's audited consolidated financial statements include CTL's operations for the eleven-month period ended September 30, 1995 for the 1995 fiscal year and for the six-month period ended October 31, 1994 for the comparative 1994 fiscal year. Net Sales and Gross Margins. The Company's net sales of $3,768,000, which are attributable entirely to the operations of CTL, increased 82% in the 1995 fiscal year compared to net sales of $2,066,000 in 1994. This increase was due primarily to the inclusion in the financial statements of eleven months of CTL's operations in the 1995 fiscal year compared to only six months in fiscal 1994 as described above. Monthly sales in both the 1995 and 1994 fiscal years averaged approximately $340,000 due to capacity limitations at CTL's manufacturing facilities. Although CTL's average monthly sales remained constant in the 1995 and 1994 fiscal years, the Company experienced a decline in gross margins on sales of electron tubes to 23% of net sales in 1995 from 42% in 1994. This decrease was due primarily to increased costs associated with the development and manufacture of new types of tubes. In addition, the Company sold a greater percentage of new tubes relative to rebuilt tubes in the 1995 fiscal year compared to 1994. As new tubes carry a lower gross margin than rebuilt tubes, an overall decline in gross margins was experienced. Selling, General and Administrative Expenses. SGA expenses increased by 11% in the 1995 fiscal year due to increased consulting, legal and audit costs associated with the Energy transaction and the Company's financing activities. Interest Expense. Interest expense increased to $88,000 in 1995 from $3,000 in 1994 primarily due to an increase in notes payable to former owners of CTL and other third parties. Loss on Investments. During fiscal 1995, the Company purchased approximately 15% of the outstanding stock of American Microcell for 712,571 shares of common stock at a deemed price of approximately $0.70 per share, or $500,000. American Microcell was engaged in the research and development of improved technologies for cellular phones. However, American Microcell proved unsuccessful in its efforts to finance continuing development of the technologies acquired, and the rights to these technologies reverted to the original developers. Accordingly, the Company wrote off its investment in American Microcell in fiscal 1995. 41 In addition, the Company sold certain microwave technology rights to a related party for a note in the face amount of $1,250,000. Due to concerns about collectibility, the Company reserved the remaining carrying value of $250,000 in fiscal 1995. In addition, related deferred development costs totalling $44,631 were written off in fiscal 1995. Losses on investments in fiscal 1994 were not significant. Net Operating Loss Carryforwards for Tax Purposes. As of September 30, 1995 the Company had a net operating loss carryover for federal and California income tax purposes of approximately $1,083,000 and $317,000 respectively. The federal net operating losses expire from 2007 to 2010. The California net operating losses expire in 2000. The benefit of these net operating loss carryforwards has not been recorded by the Company as it is uncertain that the Company will generate sufficient income in future periods to utilize the loss carryforwards. Fiscal 1994 compared to Fiscal 1993 On May 1, 1994, Energy acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of CTL for 762,031 shares of Energy's common stock (valued at $1,069,140) and notes payable to two major stockholders of CTL for $955,860. In addition, Energy bought out an employment contract with a former owner of CTL for 222,572 shares of Energy common stock (valued at $312,272). From the date of acquisition of CTL to October 31, 1994, the Company's net sales were $2,066,462. For the 1994 fiscal year, the Company incurred a net loss of $362,102. Prior to the acquisition of CTL, Energy had been engaged in the development of technologies designed to enhance the production of hydrocarbons from oil properties. Subsequent to the acquisition of CTL, Energy incurred no additional costs or revenues relating to the development of these technologies. As discussed above, this technology was sold in the 1995 fiscal year in exchange for certain royalty payouts and a note in the face amount of $1,250,000 bearing interest at 6%. Due to concerns about collectibility, this note was fully reserved as of September 30, 1995. LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES As of September 30, 1996, the Company had cash and cash equivalents on hand of $4,224,000 as compared to $57,000 at September 30, 1995. This increase in working capital was primarily due to net proceeds of $8,900,000 received from the issuance of Series B Preferred Stock and warrants and the proceeds of $1,342,000 received from sales of Common Stock. In addition, the Company acquired $167,000 in connection with its acquisition of Particle California and M.C. Davis and realized proceeds of $174,000 on the sale of property. These proceeds were used to finance the Company's operating activities of $1,697,000, to repay bank debt of $190,000 and other debt totalling $994,000, and to acquire property, plant, equipment and other assets of $472,000. The Company acquired assets comprised of working capital and property, plant and equipment, and recorded related goodwill and other intangibles, totalling $1,649,000 in 1996 as 42 a result of the business combinations of M.C. Davis and PI Corp. In addition, the Company acquired land in exchange for 400,000 shares of the Company's common stock valued at $1,000,000, the assumption of mortgages of $367,000 and acquisition costs of $57,000. The Company also disposed of equipment held for resale through the return and cancellation of its Series A Preferred Stock for which it recognized neither a gain or loss, except for $40,000 in storage costs. As a result of the transactions described above and the Series C Preferred Stock financing, the Company believes that current and known future capital resources will be adequate to fund its operations in the near term. The Company also believes that sales of its Antenna Systems and Particle Interconnect Products, both anticipated to commence in the 1997 fiscal year, in combination with the sales of the electronic assemblies of Cellular Magnetics and the operations of CTL will provide sufficient funds to meet the Company's capital requirements for the next two years. At this time, the Company does not intend to raise additional capital through the sale of additional capital stock or through the issuance of debt. In the 1997 fiscal year, the Company expects to make capital expenditures of approximately $1,700,000. These expenditures will be made on CTL's new manufacturing facility in Watsonville, California, establishing PI Corp.'s initial full production line and facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado and purchasing new equipment for the Company's manufacturing plants in Arizona City, Arizona and Sonora, Mexico in connection with the manufacture of the Antenna Systems. TRENDS AND UNCERTAINTIES As a result of its activities in 1996, the Company believes that it has positioned itself for long term success through the acquisition of M.C. Davis and by obtaining the rights to the Antenna Technology, the PI Technology and the Proprietary Electroplating Process. The Company's activities in fiscal 1997 will focus on bringing these new technologies to market and on expanding the existing markets for its electron tube products and the electronic assemblies previously manufactured by M.C. Davis. However, the future operating results of the Company are subject to certain trends and uncertainties within the industries in which the Company is operating and within the Company itself. OVERVIEW In general, due to the Company's change of business purpose, the Company has a limited operating history that is relevant to its current business. The Company does not anticipate producing significant operating revenues until such time, if ever, as products developed using the Antenna Technology and PI Technology are completely developed, manufactured in commercial quantities and available for commercial delivery, and accepted in the marketplace. There can be no assurance that the Company's technology and products, if developed and manufactured, will be able to compete successfully in the marketplace and/or generate significant revenue. The Company anticipates incurring significant costs in connection with the 43 development of its technologies and proposed products and there is no assurance that the Company will achieve significant revenues to offset anticipated operating costs. Included in such costs are research and development expenses, marketing costs, increased capital expenditures for the expansion of its manufacturing facilities and the research and development of its products, and general and administrative expenses. Inasmuch as the Company will continue to have high levels of operating expenses and will be required to make significant expenditures in connection with its continued research and development activities, the Company anticipates that such losses will continue until such time, if ever, as the Company is able to generate sufficient revenues to exceed its total costs of operation. SPECIFIC TRENDS AND/OR UNCERTAINTIES The Company is currently attempting to expand its customer base for its electron tube business by and through the development of new products and increased marketing activities. At this time, it is uncertain whether the Company will be able to create new markets for its products. In addition, the response of larger competitors in the electron tube markets to the Company's increased marketing activities is not determinable. The Company also faces uncertainty over the effects of business slowdowns relating to the move to its new electron tube manufacturing facilities. While the Company believes that the impact of this move will be minimal, unanticipated difficulties may arise, which could result in a negative impact on the Company's operations. The acceptance of the Antenna Technology and Antenna Systems by cellular phone users and OEMs has not yet been tested. While the Company has received significant expressions of interest from third parties for the Antenna Technology, the existence and extent of market opportunities for its Antenna Systems is unknown. In addition, the response of competitors to the marketing of the Antenna Systems is unknown at this time. The Company's PI Technology is currently in the development stage and the marketability of the PI products has not yet been tested. The PI Technology is currently being utilized by third parties in limited applications under licenses granted from Louis DiFrancesco, the developer of the PI Technology or from companies he previously controlled such as Particle California. The wide spread acceptance of the PI Technology and the Particle Interconnect Products by the market has yet to be tested by the Company. In addition, no prediction can be made as to competitive responses in the market place should the PI Technology and the Particle Interconnect Products prove successful. Moreover, the licensees of the PI Technology could compete directly with the Company in the markets it intends to enter. If such licensees desire to do so, Mr. Louis DiFrancesco, and not the Company, would receive any increase in royalty payments due to such success. 44 The Company is operating in three diverse businesses with different operating and management requirements. As the operations of the Company expand there will be a requirement for increased management expertise. The Company is currently seeking to expand its management complement, particularly in the marketing field, to cope with the anticipated growth in the Company's operations. PENDING ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS The Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS") No. 121, "Accounting for the Impairment of Long-Lived Assets to Be Disposed Of," ("SFAS No. 121") which establishes methods for determining when an impairment of long-lived assets has occurred and for measuring the impairment of long-lived assets. The implementation of SFAS No. 121 in the Company's 1997 fiscal year is not expected to have a material effect on the Company's consolidated results of operations or financial condition. The FASB also issued SFAS No. 123, "Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation," ("SFAS No. 123") which encourages, but does not require, employers to adopt a fair value method of accounting for employee stock-based compensation, and which requires increased stock-based compensation disclosures in lieu of expense recognition. The Company expects to continue to use the intrinsic value-based method of Accounting as allowed under SFAS No. 123. The implementation of SFAS No. 123 in the Company's 1997 fiscal year is not expected to have a material effect on the Company's reported consolidated results of operations or financial position. 45 ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA The Consolidated Financial Statements and related financial information required to be filed are indexed on page F-2 and are incorporated herein. ITEM 9. CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS In connection with the audits of the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements for the year ended September 30, 1996, the eleven-month period ended September 30, 1995 and the year ended October 31, 1994, there were no disagreements or reportable conditions between the Company and either KPMG Peat Marwick LLP or Mark Shelley, CPA on accounting or financial disclosure. PART III ITEM 10. DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS The executive officers, directors and significant employees of the Company are as follows:
Name and Age Position Period of Service ------------ -------- ----------------- Gordon J. Sales (59) Director, President and Chief July 7, 1995 to Present Executive Officer Terry W. Neild (56) Director and Executive Vice July 7, 1995 to Present and President Director since October 23, 1996 to Present Alan M. Smith (45) Director, Secretary, Treasurer July 7, 1995 to Present and and Chief Financial Officer Director since June 1996 to Present Theodore A. Waibel (59) Director November 22, 1996 to Present Charles E. Bauer, Ph.D. (46) Director November 22, 1996 to Present Steven D. Clark (38) President of PI Corp. October 22, 1996 to Present Lawrence DiFrancesco (48) Executive Vice President and September 3, 1996 to Present Chief Operations Officer of PI Corp.
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Patricia H. Grihalva (52) Chief Financial Officer and September 3, 1996 to Present Assistant Secretary of PI Corp. Jerry W. Tooley (53) President and Chief Executive October 14, 1996 to Present Officer of Cellular Magnetics David Putnam (50) Chief Financial Officer of October 14, 1996 to Present Cellular Magnetics James D. Martin (40) Vice President, CTL February, 1977 to Present Anthony P. Wynn (53) Vice President, CTL January, 1979 to Present David E. Blank (62) Vice President, CTL July, 1989 to Present
The directors hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until their successors have been duly elected and qualified. The officers are elected by the Board of Directors at its annual meeting immediately following the shareholders' annual meeting and hold office until they resign or are removed from office. There are no family relationships that exist between any director, executive officer, significant employee or person nominated or chosen by the Company to become a director or executive officer. The Company has not established an executive committee of the Board of Directors or any committee that would serve similar functions such as an audit, incentive compensation or nominating committee. In connection with its merger with Particle California, the Company agreed to appoint Lawrence DiFrancesco to the Board of Directors and elected Louis DiFrancesco as Chief Technical Officer of Particle Interconnect. Mr. Lawrence DiFrancesco subsequently resigned from the Board of Directors on October 23, 1996. Mr. Louis DiFrancesco resigned as Chief Technical Officer of PI Corp. and now serves as a paid consultant to PI Corp. In connection with the Company's purchase of assets from Energy, Mr. Sales was appointed as Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and Messrs. Neild and Smith were appointed as officers of the Company. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS AND SIGNIFICANT EMPLOYEES GORDON J. SALES. Mr. Sales has been President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of the Company since July 7, 1995. In addition, he has been President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company's subsidiaries, CTL and Particle Interconnect, since May 1, 1994 and September 3, 1996, respectively. Mr. Sales also has been President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Energy since March of 1993. Prior to his association with the Company, its parent and subsidiary, Mr. Sales was involved in the building supply, forest products and real estate industries. During the years 1977 to 1993, Mr. Sales was President of his privately owned holding company, which had interests in truck parts manufacturing, wood fibre processing and commercial real estate development. Mr. Sales devotes substantially all of his professional time to the business affairs of the Company. 47 TERRY W. NEILD. Mr. Neild became an Executive Vice President of the Company on July 7, 1995 and was appointed to the Board of Directors on October 23, 1996. From August 1, 1993 to September 26, 1995, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Energy. Prior to that time Mr. Neild was self-employed as a business and financial consultant. Mr. Neild is a Certified Management Accountant. Mr. Neild served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Clearly Canadian Beverage Corp. ("Clearly Canadian") from February 1986 to March 1989, and as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Clearly Canadian's majority shareholder, Camfrey Resources, Ltd., from March 1989 to February 1990. Mr. Neild has been a Director of Baywest Capital Corp., MacNeill International Corp., North American Contractors, Ltd., Barwell Development Corp., and Crest Realty and Development Ltd. Mr. Neild devotes substantially all of his professional time to the business affairs of the Company. ALAN M. SMITH. Mr. Smith has been Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of the Company since July 7, 1995 and a director since June 12, 1996. Mr. Smith is a Chartered Accountant practicing in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Mr. Smith established a financial consulting practice in Vancouver, Canada in 1985 and in 1990 obtained his license to practice as an independent accountant. He has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario since 1978 and of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia since 1981. Mr. Smith devotes substantially all of his professional time to the business affairs of the Company. THEODORE A. WAIBEL. Mr. Waibel has served as a director of the Company since November 22, 1996. Mr. Waibel has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of T.A.W. Vehicle Concepts, Inc. (an importer of magnesium wheels for race cars) since March 1996. From March 1991 to March 1996, Mr. Waibel was the President and Chief Executive Officer of TVX, Inc. (a high technology company that has developed the placement of a camera on a computer chip for security applications). From July 1980 through February 1991, Mr. Waibel was President and Chief Executive Officer of Ultrak, Inc. (NASDAQ: ULTK), a company he co-founded in 1980. From July 1975 until June 1980, he was Executive Vice President of Marketing for Alarm Device Manufacturing Co., ADEMCO Division of Pittway Corporation, Tyosset, New York which had purchased Sontrix, Inc., a public company co-founded by Mr. Waibel. From October 1969 through July 1975, Mr. Waibel served as President of Sontrix, Inc., Boulder, Colorado, which developed a new very successful multi-head ultrasonic system for the security market. Mr. Waibel is past National Director of the American Electronics Association, a past member of the Dean's Advisory Council to Dean Firman of the University of Denver and founded the Alarm Industry Telecommunications Committee in Washington, D.C. Mr. Waibel received his BS/BA from the University of Denver with a major in marketing in 1967. 48 CHARLES E. BAUER, PH.D. Dr. Bauer has served as a director of the Company since November 22, 1996. Dr. Bauer has been the Managing Director of TechLead Corporation, an international consulting firm, since 1990. During his career, Dr. Bauer has served as Director, Research and Technology of MicroLithics Corporation, Golden, Colorado. At MicroLithics Corporation, Dr. Bauer was responsible for a variety of technology programs with the Coors Advanced Electronics Group, including, MicroLithics Coors Electronic Packaging Company, two internal research groups of the Coors Ceramic Company and a joint venture with W. R. Grace & Company. From 1978 through 1989 he was employed by Tektronix, Incorporated, Beaverton, Oregon, in various capacities as a Material Scientist/Engineer, Materials Science/Engineering Manager, Engineering Scientific Manager, Bipolar Products Packaging Unit Manager and Integrated Circuit Packaging Operations Manager. Dr. Bauer received his BS in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 1972, his MS in Metallurgical Engineering from Ohio State University in 1975, his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, Oregon in 1980 and his MBA from the University of Portland in 1988. Dr. Bauer has served as Assistant Adjunct Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration with the University of Portland, as an Associate Professor (visiting) in Mechanical Engineering with Florida International University, Miami, Florida and is currently associated as Assistant Adjunct Professor, with dual appointment in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Computing Engineering with the University of Colorado. He is currently Director, Industrial Relations for the Center for Advance Manufacturing and Packaging of Microwave, Optical and Digital Electronics for the University of Colorado. Dr. Bauer served as the President of the Rocky Mountain Chapter, the Microelectronic Society (ISHM) (1995-96). He has received the Fellow of Society Award of ISHM (1993) and served as National Technical Vice President (1988-90). Dr. Bauer is a Director and the Secretary of the Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA) and is currently serving as President of the Rocky Mountain Chapter (1995-96). Dr. Bauer has been a member of the following professional societies: ASM International (ASM) since 1971, International Electronics Packaging Society (IEPS) since 1983 and Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (IEE) since 1993. Dr. Bauer holds one U.S. Patent on Multilayer Interconnect Circuitry and has five Patent Applications pending, relating to interconnect circuitry and packaging. Dr. Bauer has published over 50 technical papers and presentations in journals and conferences around the world. He founded and is currently General Chair of Pan Pacific Microelectronics Symposium and Chip Scale Packaging Advanced Technology Workshop. SIGNIFICANT EMPLOYEES. The Company considers the following officers of its subsidiaries as significant employees of the Company 49 STEVEN D. CLARK. Mr. Clark has served as President of PI Corp. since October 22, 1996. Prior thereto, Mr. Clark worked on the B2 Bomber program as a project manager in charge of new business acquisitions with Northrop Grumman Corporation from 1981 to 1996. In addition, Mr. Clark has served as a consultant in the development of the PI Technology for the past ten years. LAWRENCE DIFRANCESCO. Mr. DiFrancesco has served as Director, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of PI Corp. since September 3, 1996 and he served as a Director of the Company from September 3, 1996 to October 23, 1996. From March 1995 through May 1996, Mr. DiFrancesco was employed as an engineer with Sheldahl Inc., Northfield, Minnesota, a large manufacturer of flex circuits. From March 1994 through March 1995, Mr. DiFrancesco was employed by Particle California, working jointly with his brother, Louis DiFrancesco, in the further development of the PI Technology and the Proprietary Electroplating Process. From December 1992 through March 1994, he was employed at Exatron- Accist Associates where he served as Program Coordinator and Process Engineer for the development of a new, high density, fine pitch, surface mount interconnect technology. From July 1992 through December 1992, he was employed as an Engineer with Logical Services, Inc. From 1982 to 1991, he served as a Project Leader for Hughes Aircraft Company where his responsibilities related to high volume manufacturing operations. Mr. DiFrancesco is the co-developer of the PI Technology and the Proprietary Electroplating Process. He served as the Senior Scientist for Particle California in an advisory capacity or as an employee from 1991 until September 3, 1996 when it assigned the PI Technology and the Proprietary Electroplating Process to the Company. Mr. DiFrancesco received an AAE Electronic Technology degree from Chabot College, Hayward, California and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California. PATRICIA H. GRIHALVA. Ms. Grihalva has been the Chief Financial Officer of Particle Interconnect since September 3, 1996. Ms. Grihalva has been a Certified Public Accountant since 1971. She served in a managerial position, responsible for business valuation and consulting services, litigation support services and general tax and accounting practice for Carothers & Ito, Certified Public Accountants, from 1990 to 1996. JERRY W. TOOLEY. Mr. Tooley has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cellular Magnetics since October 14, 1996. Prior thereto, Mr. Tooley served as the President of M.C. Davis. DAVID PUTNAM. Mr. Putnam has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Cellular Magnetics since October 14, 1996. Prior thereto, Mr. Putnam served as Vice President and Treasurer of M.C. Davis. 50 JAMES D. MARTIN, VICE PRESIDENT, CTL. Mr. Martin has been employed by CTL since February, 1977 and has served as Vice President of CTL since 1993. He has worked in every department of CTL from production and sales to customer service. Mr. Martin provides technical support to customers in this highly technical business and organizes and runs production lines for rebuilding triodes, cyclotrons and medical linear accelerators. ANTHONY P. WYNN, VICE PRESIDENT, CTL. Mr. Wynn has served as Vice President of CTL since January, 1979. Mr. Wynn is a design engineer responsible for developing a 50kw L-band Magnetron and rebuilds high power magnetrons, cyclotrons, triodes, medical linear accelerators, electron guns and ion pumps. He has worked with English Electric Valve Co. (U.K.) and Litton Industries (U.S.) as a professional microwave engineer in the magnetron tube divisions. DAVID E. BLANK, VICE-PRESIDENT, CTL. Mr. Blank has been Vice-President of Engineering at CTL since July, 1989. A graduate of Brunel College, London University, England and a member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, he has worked in senior engineering positions with Varian Associates, EEV Inc.'s Relmag Division of Litton Industries. He has designed and developed numerous magnetrons at various power levels during his career. 51 ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE The following table sets forth certain information concerning compensation paid by the Company to the Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") and any other executive officer whose total annual salary and bonus exceeded $100,000 for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1996 (the "Named Executive Officers"):
Long-Term Annual Compensation Compensation --------------------------- ------------ Securities Fiscal Underlying All Other Name and Principal Position Year Salary($) Bonus($) Options (#) Compensation($) - --------------------------- ------ --------- -------- ----------- ----------------- Gordon J. Sales, President 1996 $105,917 -0- 700,000/(2)/ -0- and Chief Executive Officer 1995 -0- -0- 500,000/(2)/ $82,265/(1)/ Alan M. Smith, Director, 1996 93,371 -0- 550,000/(3)/ -0- Secretary, Treasurer and 1995 15,000 -0- -0- 40,000/(4)/ Chief Financial Officer Terry W. Neild, Director 1996 40,000 -0- 700,000/(2)/ -0- and Executive Vice 1995 -0- -0- 500,000/(2)/ -0- President ________________ /(1)/ Received as compensation as an officer of CTL. /(2)/ An option to purchase 500,000 shares of Common Stock was originally granted to Messrs. Sales and Neild on July 7, 1995 at an exercise price of $.625 per share. On November 9, 1995 these options were repriced at an exercise price of $.50 per share. Concurrently, an option to purchase an additional 200,000 shares of Common Stock was granted by the Company to Messrs. Sales and Neild at the same exercise price. Messrs. Sales and Neild each subsequently transferred options to purchase 50,000, of the 200,000 shares originally granted, on November 11, 1996 to Alan M. Smith as a gift. /(3)/ Mr. Smith received additional options to purchase 150,000 shares of Common Stock from Messrs. Sales, Neild and the Company's general counsel. These options have not been included in the above table as the options were not granted by the Company. /(4)/ Received as compensation as a consultant to Energy Corporation and CTL.
The foregoing compensation table does not include certain fringe benefits made available on a nondiscriminatory basis to all Company employees such as group health insurance, dental insurance, long-term disability insurance, vacation and sick leave. In addition, the Company makes available certain non-monetary benefits to its executive officers with a view to acquiring and retaining qualified personnel and facilitating job performance. The Company considers such benefits to be ordinary and incidental business costs and expenses. The aggregate value of such benefits in the case of each executive officer listed in the above table, which cannot be precisely ascertained but which is less than 10% of the cash compensation paid to each such executive officer, is not included in such table. 52 OPTION GRANTS TABLE The following table provides information relating to the grant of stock options to the Company's executive officers during the fiscal year ended September 30, 1996. OPTION GRANTS IN THE LAST FISCAL YEAR
POTENTIAL REALIZABLE VALUE AT ASSUMED ANNUAL RATES OF STOCK PRICE INDIVIDUAL GRANTS APPRECIATION FOR OPTION TERM/(1)/ - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- PERCENT OF TOTAL NUMBER OF OPTIONS SECURITIES GRANTED TO UNDERLYING EMPLOYEES FAIR MARKET OPTIONS IN FISCAL EXERCISE VALUE ON EXPIRATION NAME GRANTED(#) YEAR/(3)/ PRICE($/SH) GRANT DATE/(2)/ DATE 0% ($) 5% ($) 10% ($) - ----------------- ------------ ---------- ---------- --------------- ---------- ------- ------- -------- Gordon J. Sales 200,000/(4)/ 4.1% .50 .625 11/9/2005 $25,000 $103,760 $223,760 500,000/(4)/ 10.3% .50 .625 7/7/2005 62,500 259,400 559,400 Alan M. Smith 50,000 4.1% .50 .625 11/9/2005 6,250 25,940 55,940 300,000 6.2% .50 4.860 6/12/2006 654,000 1,113,270 1,813,110 200,000 4.1% 4.00 4.750 9/3/2006 150,000 748,500 1,660,500 Terry W. Neild 200,000/(4)/ 4.1% .50 .625 11/9/2005 25,000 103,760 223,760 500,000/(4)/ 10.3% .50 .625 7/7/2005 62,500 259,400 559,400
_________________ /(1)/ Potential realizable value is based on an assumption that the stock price of the Common Stock appreciates at the annual rate shown (compounded annually) from the date of grant until the end of the ten-year option term. These numbers are calculated based on the requirements promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission and do not reflect the Company's estimate of future stock price growth which may or may not occur. /(2)/ Computed based on the average closing bid and asked prices on the date the options were granted. /(3)/ All options granted were immediately exercisable on the date of grant. /(4)/ An option to purchase 500,000 shares of Common Stock was originally granted to Messrs. Sales and Neild on July 7, 1995 at an exercise price of $.625 per share. On November 9, 1995 these options were repriced at an exercise price of $.50 per share. Concurrently, an option to purchase an additional 200,000 shares of Common Stock was granted by the Company to Messrs. Sales and Neild at the same exercise price. /(5)/ The Company granted options to other officers, directors, consultants and employees, including employees of the Company's subsidiaries, to purchase an aggregate of 4,841,180 shares of Common Stock during fiscal 1996. 53 AGGREGATED OPTION EXERCISE AND FISCAL YEAR-END OPTION TABLE The following table provides information relating to the exercise of stock options during the fiscal year ended September 30, 1996 by the Company's executive officers and the 1996 fiscal year-end value of unexercised options. AGGREGATED OPTION EXERCISES IN LAST FISCAL YEAR, AND FISCAL YEAR-END OPTION VALUES
VALUE OF NUMBER OF UNEXERCISED UNEXERCISED IN-THE-MONEY OPTIONS OPTIONS AT FY-END/(1)/ AT FY-END($)/(1)/ ------------- ------------- SHARES ACQUIRED ON VALUE EXERCISABLE/ EXERCISABLE/ NAME EXERCISE(#) REALIZED($) UNEXERCISABLE UNEXERCISABLE - ----------------- ------------------ ------------- --------------- ------------- Gordon J. Sales -0- -0- 650,000/0/(2)/ $2,315,625/0 Alan M. Smith 200,000 $687,500/(3)/ 150,000/0 534,375/0 200,000/0 12,500/0 Terry W. Neild -0- -0- 650,000/0/(2)/ 2,315,625/0
______________ /(1)/ The average of the closing bid and asked price of the Common Stock on December 20, 1996 ($4.0625) was used to calculate the option value. /(2)/ The holders transferred 50,000 out of an original 200,000 stock options issued to them on November 9, 1995 to Alan M. Smith at no cost. /(3)/ The market value of the Common Stock on the date of exercise, June 27, 1996, minus the exercise price of $.50 per share. The average of the closing bid and asked price of the Common Stock on June 27, 1996 was $3.9375. DIRECTOR COMPENSATION An option to purchase 100,000 shares of Common Stock was originally granted to Mark S. Pierce on July 7, 1995 at an exercise price of $.625 per share. On November 7, 1995 these options were repriced at an exercise price of $.50 per share. Concurrently, an option to purchase an additional 100,000 shares of Common Stock was granted by the Company to Mr. Pierce at the same exercise price. Mr. Pierce resigned as an officer of the Company effective July 7, 1995 and as a director of the Company on June 12, 1996. In the future, the Company's Board of Directors intends to pay its non- employee directors $1,500 for their attendance at each regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors and award each non-employee director options to purchase 100,000 shares of Common Stock, which options shall vest 25,000 shares per year for each full year served as a director of the Company. 54 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENTS On September 1, 1996, the Company entered into certain employment agreements (the "Employment Agreements"), with Gordon J. Sales to serve as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, Alan M. Smith to serve as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, and Terry W. Neild to serve as Executive Vice President of the Company (collectively, the "Employees" and individually an "Employee"). The Employment Agreements are for a period of sixty months beginning September 1, 1996 and ending August 31, 2001. Any extension or renewal of the Employment Agreements must occur at least three months prior to the end of the initial term or any renewal term and absent mutual agreement of the parties, the failure to conclude such extension or renewal by such date shall be deemed notice to the Company and the Employee, that the relevant Employment Agreement shall not be extended. Under each Employment Agreement, each Employee will be paid an annual salary of $120,000 ("Annual Salary") for the first year which amount will be increased to $180,000, $240,000, $270,000 and $300,000 on September 1, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000, respectively. Each Employee also is entitled to participate in the Company's bonus and stock option plans and participate in the customary employee benefits programs maintained by the Company, including health, life and disability insurance to the extent provided to other senior executives of the Company. The Company or an Employee may terminate the applicable Employment Agreement at any time with or without cause. In the event the Company terminates an Employment Agreement for cause or an Employee terminates his Employee Agreement without cause, all of such Employee's rights to compensation would cease upon the date of his termination. If the Company terminates an Employment Agreement without cause or the Employee terminates his Employment Agreement for cause (which is limited to the Company's failure to pay the Employee his monthly compensation) the Company will pay to the Employee, within 15 days of the effective date of such termination, all compensation and other benefits that would have accrued and/or been payable to the Employee during the full term of the Employment Agreement. In the event of a change in control of the Company, each Employee is be entitled to receive a lump sum payment equal to $400,000, if the change of control occurs prior to August 31, 1999, and $430,000 if the change of control occurs thereafter. A change of control shall be deemed to have occurred when, as a result of any type of corporate reorganization, execution of proxies, voting trusts or similar arrangements, a person or group of persons (other than incumbent officers, directors and principal shareholders) acquires sufficient control to elect more than a majority of the Board of Directors. The Employment Agreements also include a non-compete and non-disclosure provisions in which each Employee agrees not to compete with or disclose confidential information regarding the Company and its business, during the term of the Employment Agreement and for a period of one year thereafter. Additional Employment Agreements. The Company has entered into an employment agreement with the Company's general counsel under terms substantially similar to those discussed above. The Company, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, has also entered into 55 employment agreements with the following individuals, among others, Steven Clark, Lawrence DiFrancesco, Patricia Grihalva, Jerry W. Tooley and David Putnam. COMPENSATION PURSUANT TO PLANS STOCK OPTION PLANS The Company has one stock option plan entitled the Intercell Corporation 1995 Compensatory Stock Option Plan (the "1995 Plan") under which options to purchase 4,841,180 shares of Common Stock were granted to directors, officers, employees and consultants of the Company and its subsidiaries in the 1996 fiscal year. EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN In 1988, CTL established an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (the "ESOP") and a related trust for substantially all of its employees. To participate in the ESOP, employees of CTL must have worked at least 1,000 hours during the year and must be employed at the end of the ESOP year. Participants do not vest until their third year of employment and then vest 20% per year through year seven. Employer contributions are voluntary and are generally based on a percentage of eligible payroll, limited to 15%. The contributions for 1995 and 1994 were approximately $158,000 and $247,000, respectively, and were recognized as compensation expense. The Company discontinued the ESOP in 1996. COMPENSATION COMMITTEE INTERLOCKS AND INSIDER PARTICIPATION The Company does not have a compensation committee, all decisions on the compensation of executive officers and directors of the Company are made by the full Board of Directors. In the preceding fiscal year the following members of the Board of Directors participated in discussions involving the compensation of executive officers of the Company: Messrs. Sales, Neild, Smith and Pierce. SECTION 16(A) BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP REPORTING COMPLIANCE Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules thereunder require the Company's officers and directors, and persons who own more than ten percent of a registered class of the Company's equity securities, to file reports of ownership and changes in ownership with the Securities and Exchange Commission and to furnish the Company with copies. Based solely on its review of the copies of the Section 16(a) forms received by it, or written representations from certain reporting persons, the Company believes that, during the last fiscal year, all Section 16(a) filing requirements applicable to its officers, directors and greater than ten-percent beneficial owners were complied with except that Alan M. Smith failed to timely file a report on Form 4 reporting the grant of an option to purchase 50,000 shares of Common Stock on November 9, 1995 until June 1996. 56 ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT The following table sets forth certain information regarding the beneficial ownership of outstanding shares of Common Stock as of December 20, 1996, by (i) each person known by the Company to own beneficially five percent or more of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (ii) the Company's directors, Chief Executive Officer and executive officers whose total compensation exceeded $100,000 for the last fiscal year, and (iii) all directors and executive officers of the Company as a group.
Name and Address of Percentage of Beneficial Owner Number of Shares Class/(6)/ - ------------------- ---------------- ----- Energy Corporation 999 West Hastings St., Suite 1750 Vancouver, B.C., V6C 2W2 5,412,191/(1)/ 31.17% Gordon J. Sales, Chief Executive Officer 999 West Hastings St., Suite 1750 Vancouver, B.C., V6C 2W2 1,383,334/(1)(2)/ 7.97 Terry W. Neild, Executive Vice President 7201 E. Camelback Rd., Suite 250 Scottsdale, AZ 85251 1,383,334/(2)/ 7.97 Alan M. Smith, Chief Financial Officer 999 West Hastings St., Suite 1750 Vancouver, B.C., V6C 2W2 850,000/(3)/ 4.89 Cheri L. Perry 3236 Jellison Street Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 1,351,340/(4)/ 7.78 Theodore A. Waibel, Director 890 S. Coors Drive Lakewood, CO 80228 -0-/(5)/ Charles E. Bauer, Director 31321 Island Drive Evergreen, CO 80439 -0-/(5)/ All officers and directors as a group (5 persons) 3,616,668 21.69
57 _______________ /(1)/ Mr. Sales is President and a Director of Energy but does not beneficially own any shares of common stock of Energy. Accordingly, the Company does not believe Mr. Sales is the beneficial owner of the shares of Common Stock held by Energy. Mr. Sales disclaims beneficial ownership thereof and, consequently, its ownership is not attributed to or included in his ownership. Energy currently acts as a holding company, whose only assets is the Common Stock which is being held for distribution to Energy's shareholders. /(2)/ Includes 650,000 shares of Common Stock subject to presently exercisable stock options held by Messrs. Sales and Neild. The options are exercisable at $0.50 per share and expire July 7, 2005 with respect to 500,000 shares and November 9, 2005 with respect to 150,000 shares. The holders transferred 50,000 out of an original 200,000 stock options issued to them on November 9, 1995 to Alan M. Smith at no cost. /(3)/ Includes 500,000 shares of Common Stock subject to presently exercisable stock options held by Mr. Smith. The options are exercisable at $0.50 per share and which expire on June 12, 2006 with respect to 150,000 shares; $0.50 per share and which expire on November 9, 2005 with respect to 150,000 shares (transferred to him, at no cost by certain other shareholders) and at $4.00 per share and which expire on October 21, 2006 with respect to 200,000 shares. /(4)/ Includes 850,000 shares of Common Stock subject to presently exercisable stock options held by such individual. The options are exercisable at $0.50 per share and which expire on July 7, 2005 with respect to 500,000 shares and on November 9, 2005 with respect to 150,000 shares; and at $4.00 per share and which expire on October 21, 2006 with respect to 200,000 shares. /(5)/ The ownership indicated does not include options granted effective November 22, 1996 to acquire up to one hundred thousand (100,000) shares of the Common Stock at $4.00 per share. The options vest at the rate of twenty-five thousand (25,000) shares per year for each year served as a director. As the options are not presently exercisable, the option holder is not considered to be the beneficial owner of the shares of Common Stock underlying the Options. The Options have a term expiring on November 22, 2006. /(6)/ Based upon 17,364,750 shares issued and outstanding on December 20, 1996. 58 ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS GRANT OF STOCK OPTIONS On September 3, 1996, the Company granted options to purchase 400,000 shares of Common Stock, with an exercise price of $4.00 per share, to 521,508 B.C. Ltd. ("B.C. Ltd.") in return for which B.C. Ltd. agreed to promote the sale of the Company's products and services in Canada. B.C. Ltd. is 521508 B.C. Ltd., which has its own management, is beneficially owned by the adult children of Mr. Gordon J. Sales and by the father-in-law of Mr. Terry W. Neild. Both Mr. Sales and Mr. Neild disclaim any direct or indirect beneficial ownership of or interest in 521508 B.C. Ltd. PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION On July 8, 1996, Energy, which does not currently conduct any operations and whose only assets consist of the Company's Common Stock and the Company entered into a certain Plan of Liquidating Dissolution (the "Plan"). The Plan was approved by a majority of the shareholders of Energy on October 21, 1996 in accordance with the provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law. Under the Plan, the Company has agreed to register the shares of Common Stock issued to Energy over a period of three years. The 5,412,191 shares of Common Stock owned by Energy will be distributed to the beneficial owners of the shares of common stock of Energy as of July 8, 1996, pro-rata as follows: 902,032 on each of January 31 and April 30, 1997, January 30 and April 30, 1998 and January 31 and April 30, 1999. The Blonde Bear Trust, the beneficiary of which is the spouse of Alan M. Smith, the Company's Director, Secretary, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer, and Messrs. James D. Martin, Anthony P. Wynn and David E. Blank, significant employees of the Company, own shares of Energy and will receive approximately 32,500, 20,000, 20,000 and 20,000 shares of Common Stock, respectively, in the distribution. NOTES PAYABLE As of September 30, 1996, the Company had an outstanding promissory note due to Jerry W. Tooley, the Chief Financial Officer of Cellular Magnetics in the amount of $80,000 with an interest rate of 8%, due annually. The promissory note was issued as part of the consideration paid for the purchase of M.C. Davis consummated on September 30, 1996. This note was repaid in October 1996. The Company has noninterest bearing notes payable totaling $800,000 due to the former owners of M.C. Davis in consideration for the purchase of M.C. Davis consummated on September 30, 1996. These notes were repaid in October 1996. See also Note 11 to the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto included elsewhere herein. 59 PART IV ITEM 14. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, SCHEDULES AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K (a) The following documents are filed as a part of this Report. 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. See Index to Financial Statements on page F-2 of this Report. 2. FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES. See Index to Financial Statements on page F-2 of this Report. All other schedules are omitted since they are not required, are inapplicable, or the required information is included in the financial statements or notes thereto. 3. EXHIBITS. The following is a complete list of exhibits filed as part of this Form 10-K. Exhibit numbers correspond to the numbers in the Exhibit Table of Item 601 of Regulation S-K. EXHIBIT NO. DESCRIPTION - ----------- ----------- 2.1* Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, dated July 7, 1995, between the Company and Modern Industries, Inc. 2.2/(3)/ Plan and Agreement of Merger dated September 3, 1996, by and between Particle Interconnect, Inc., Particle Interconnect Corporation and the Company. 2.3/(4)/ Agreement and Plan of Merger dated October 14, 1996, by and between AC Magnetics, Inc., doing business as M.C. Davis Company, Cellular Magnetics, Inc. and the Company. 3.1* Articles of Incorporation of the Company, and all amendments thereto, as amended. 3.2* Bylaws of the Company. 4.1* Form of Common Stock Certificate. 4.2 Certificate of Designation for Series B Preferred Stock is included in the Company's Articles of Incorporation filed as Exhibit 3.1 and incorporated herein by reference. 4.3/(1)/ Specimen of Warrant attached to Series B Preferred Stock. 60 EXHIBIT NO. DESCRIPTION - ----------- ----------- 4.4 Certificate of Designation for Series C Preferred Stock is included in the Company's Articles of Incorporation filed as Exhibit 3.1 and is incorporated herein by reference. 4.5* Form of Warrant attached to Series C Preferred Stock. 4.6* Specimen of Registration Rights Agreement for Series B Preferred Stock. 4.7* Specimen of Registration Rights Agreement for Series C Preferred Stock. 4.8* Plan of Liquidating Dissolution of Energy Corporation dated July 8, 1996. 10.1/(2)/ 1995 Compensatory Stock Option Plan. 10.2* Assignment Agreement dated September 3, 1996, assigning certain Patents and Patent Applications and trade secrets relating to the PI Technology to the Company, as assignee, and Particle Interconnect, Inc. as assignor. 10.3* Assignment Agreement dated June 5, 1996, assigning the Patent Application for the Antenna Technology to the Company, as assignee, and El-Badawy Amien El-Sharaway, as assignor. 10.4* Employment and Non-Disclosure Non-Competition Agreement, dated September 1, 1996, between Gordon J. Sales and the Company. 10.5* Employment and Non-Disclosure Non-Competition Agreement, dated September 1, 1996, between Alan M. Smith and the Company. 10.6* Employment and Non-Disclosure Non-Competition Agreement, dated September 1, 1996 between Terry W. Neild and the Company. 10.7* Employment and Non-Disclosure Non-Competition Agreement, dated October 22, 1996 between Steven D. Clark and PI Corp. 10.8* Employment and Non-Disclosure Non-Competition Agreement, dated September 1, 1996 between Lawrence DiFrancesco and PI Corp. 10.9* Employment and Non-Disclosure Non-Competition Agreement, dated September 1, 1996 between Patricia H. Grihalva and PI Corp. 61 EXHIBIT NO. DESCRIPTION - ----------- ----------- 10.10* Employment and Non-Disclosure Non-Competition Agreement, dated October 8, 1996 between Jerry W. Tooley and Cellular Magnetics. 10.11* Employment and Non-Disclosure Non-Competition Agreement, dated October 8, 1996 between David Putnam and Cellular Magnetics. 11* Statement regarding Computation of Per Share Earnings. 21* Subsidiaries of the Company. 23.1* Consent of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP 23.2* Consent of Mark Shelley, CPA 27* Financial Data Schedule. _________________ * Filed herewith. /(1)/ Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 10, 1996. /(2)/ Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Registration Statement on Form S-8, Registration No. 333-604, effective January 24, 1996. /(3)/ Incorporated by reference to the Company Current Report on Form 8-K dated September 3, 1996. /(4)/ Incorporated by reference to the Company Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 14, 1996. (b) Reports on Form 8-K: 1. Form 8-K dated July 10, 1996 regarding the sale of the Company's Series B Preferred Stock pursuant to Regulation S. 2. Form 8-K dated September 3, 1996 regarding the acquisition of Particle Interconnect, Inc. 3. Form 8-K dated October 14, 1996 regarding the acquisition of AC Magnetics, Inc. which was effective September 30, 1996. 4. Form 8-K/A filed December 13, 1996 containing pro forma financial information on the acquisition of AC Magnetics, Inc. 5. Form 8-K dated December 16, 1996 regarding the sale of 525 shares of Series C Preferred Stock. 62 SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized. INTERCELL CORPORATION, (a Colorado corporation) Date: January 9, 1997 By /s/ Gordon J. Sales ---------------------------------------------- Gordon J. Sales, Director, Chief Executive Officer and President Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and the capacities and on the dates indicated. Date: January 9, 1997 By /s/ Gordon J. Sales ---------------------------------------------- Gordon J. Sales, Director, Chief Executive Officer and President Date: January 9, 1997 By /s/ Alan M. Smith ---------------------------------------------- Alan M. Smith, Director, Chief Financial and Accounting Officer and Secretary Date: January 9, 1997 By /s/ Terry W. Neild ---------------------------------------------- Terry W. Neild, Director and Executive Vice President 63 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Consolidated Financial Statements September 30, 1996 and 1995 and October 31, 1994 (With Independent Auditors' Reports Thereon) F-1 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA INTERCELL CORPORATION INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Page Independent Auditors' Reports......................................................... F-3, F-4 Consolidated Balance Sheets - September 30, 1996 and September 30, 1995................... F-5 Consolidated Statements of Operations - Year ended September 30, 1996, Eleven-month period ended September 30, 1995 and the Year ended October 31, 1994...................... F-6 Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity (Deficit) - Year ended September 30, 1996, Eleven-month period ended September 30, 1995 and the Year ended October 31, 1994......................................................................... F-7 Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows - Year ended September 30, 1996, Eleven-month period ended September 30, 1995 and the Year ended October 31, 1994...................... F-8 Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements................................................ F-9 Schedule II - Valuation and Qualifying Accounts........................................... F-24
The remaining schedules for which provision is made in Regulation S-X are not required under the instructions contained therein, are inapplicable, or the information required is included in the financial statements or footnotes. F-2 INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT The Stockholders and Board of Directors Intercell Corporation: We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Intercell Corporation and subsidiaries (the Company), formerly Modern Industries, Inc. and subsidiaries, as of September 30, 1996 and 1995, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders' equity and cash flows for the year ended September 30, 1996, and for the eleven-month period ended September 30, 1995. In connection with our audits of the aforementioned consolidated financial statements, we also have audited the financial statement schedule as listed in Item 14(a)2 of this Form 10-K. These consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule based on our audits. We conducted our audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Intercell Corporation and subsidiaries as of September 30, 1996 and 1995, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the year ended September 30, 1996, and for the eleven-month period ended September 30, 1995, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein. /s/ KPMG Peat Marwick LLP San Jose, California December 6, 1996 F-3 MARK SHELLEY, CPA 110 S. Mesa Drive #31 Mesa, Arizona 85210 (602) 833-4054 INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT The Shareholders and Board of Directors Intercell Corporation: I have audited the accompanying consolidated statements of operations, stockholders' equity, and cash flows for the year ended October 31, 1994 of Intercell Corporation and subsidiary, formerly Modern Industries, Inc. and subsidiaries, (the Company). These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. My responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on my audit. I have conducted my audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that I plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. I believe that my audit provides a reasonable basis for my opinion. In my opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the results of operations and cash flows for the year ended October 31, 1994 of Intercell Corporation and subsidiary in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. This updated report above and corresponding financial statements do not include the balance sheet of the Company as of October 31, 1994. This balance sheet is not required to be included in the current 1996 filings. This balance sheet was included in previous filings of the Company. At those times an unqualified opinion was given for the October 31, 1994 balance sheet. /s/ Mark Shelley CPA March 14, 1995 Updated December 31, 1996 F-4 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Consolidated Balance Sheets
September 30, --------------------------- Assets 1996 1995 ---- ---- Current assets: Cash and cash equivalents $ 4,224,000 57,000 Short-term investments 3,063,000 - Accounts receivable, less allowance for returns and doubtful accounts of $255,000 and $81,000 in 1996 and 1995, respectively 746,000 637,000 Inventories 1,066,000 773,000 Prepaid expenses and other current assets 102,000 79,000 Investment land held for sale 1,424,000 - Equipment held for sale - 250,000 ----------- ---------- Total current assets 10,625,000 1,796,000 Property, plant, and equipment, net 1,418,000 885,000 Goodwill and other intangible assets, net 1,583,000 388,000 Other assets 200,000 - ----------- ---------- $13,826,000 3,069,000 =========== ========== Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity Current liabilities: Loan payable to bank $ - 190,000 Note payable 266,000 71,000 Notes payable to related parties 932,000 495,000 Current portion of long-term debt 120,000 2,000 Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 742,000 829,000 Accounts payable to related parties - 212,000 ----------- ---------- Total current liabilities 2,060,000 1,799,000 Long-term debt, less current portion 86,000 48,000 Commitments Stockholders' equity: Convertible preferred stock; 10,000,000 shares authorized: Series A; 210,000 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 1995 - 250,000 Series B; 787 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 1996 (liquidation preference of $10,225 per share) 5,533,000 - Warrants to acquire common stock 1,870,000 - Common stock; no par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized; 15,734,229 and 10,409,244 shares outstanding, respectively 12,187,000 3,109,000 Deferred compensation (331,000) - Accumulated deficit (7,579,000) (2,137,000) ----------- ---------- Total stockholders' equity 11,680,000 1,222,000 ----------- ---------- $13,826,000 3,069,000 =========== ==========
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements. F-5 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Consolidated Statements of Operations
Eleven-month Year ended period ended Year ended September 30, September 30, October 31, 1996 1995 1994 -------------- -------------- ------------ Net sales $ 3,405,000 3,768,000 2,066,000 Cost of goods sold 2,830,000 2,884,000 1,208,000 ----------- ---------- --------- Gross profit 575,000 884,000 858,000 Selling, general, and administrative expenses 5,683,000 1,317,000 1,182,000 Research and development 88,000 - - ----------- ---------- --------- Operating loss (5,196,000) (433,000) (324,000) Other income (expense): Interest income 36,000 - - Interest expense (90,000) (88,000) (3,000) Loss on investments - (795,000) - Other (33,000) (3,000) (16,000) ----------- ---------- --------- (87,000) (886,000) (19,000) ----------- ---------- --------- Loss before income taxes (5,283,000) (1,319,000) (343,000) Income taxes - 2,000 19,000 ----------- ---------- --------- Net loss $(5,283,000) (1,321,000) (362,000) =========== ========== ========= Net loss per common share $(.45) (.18) (.08) =========== ========== ========= Weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding 11,779,787 7,391,275 4,828,007 =========== ========== =========
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements. F-6 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity (Deficit) Year ended September 30, 1996, eleven-month period ended September 30, 1995, and year ended October 31, 1994
Warrants Convertible to preferred stock acquire Common stock Additional ----------------------- common ----------------- paid-in Deferred Shares Amount Stock Shares Amount capital Compensation ------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ---------- ------------ Balances as of October 31, 1993 - $ - - 2,352,081 $ 7,000 242,000 - Conversion of debt to equity - - - 676,777 2,000 473,000 - Shares issued in exchange for prepaid promotion - - - 35,637 - 50,000 - Shares issued in exchange for consulting services - - - 14,255 - 20,000 - Acquisition of California Tube Laboratory, Inc. - - - 762,031 2,000 1,067,000 - Employment contract buy out - - - 222,572 1,000 311,000 - Shares issued in exchange for microwave technology - - - 178,188 500 250,000 - Shares issued in exchange for services - - - 178,188 500 69,000 - Purchase of treasury stock - - - - - (206,000) - Net loss - - - - - - - -------- ----------- --------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ------------ Balances as of October 31, 1994 - - - 4,419,729 13,000 2,276,000 - Shares issued in lieu of interest payment to related party - - - 17,819 - 13,000 - Shares issued in exchange for investment in American Microcell - - - 712,751 2,000 498,000 - Shares issued in private placement - - - 85,530 - 60,000 - Contribution to ESOP - - - 176,362 1,000 246,000 - Conversion of additional paid-in capital to common stock - - - - 3,093,000 (3,093,000) - Acquisition of Intercell 210,000 250,000 - 4,997,053 - - - Net loss - - - - - - - -------- ----------- --------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ------------ Balances as of September 30, 1995 210,000 250,000 - 10,409,244 3,109,000 - - Repurchase of shares of Series A preferred stock (210,000) (250,000) - - - - - Shares of Series B preferred stock and warrants issued in private placement, net of issuance costs of $1,100,000 1,000 7,030,000 1,870,000 - - - - Shares issued in exchange for land - - - 400,000 1,000,000 - - Contribution to ESOP - - - 126,761 158,000 - - Shares issued to effect business combination with Particle Interconnect, Inc. treated as an immaterial pooling - - - 1,400,000 8,000 - - Deferred compensation related to stock option grants - - - - 4,017,000 - (4,017,000) Amortization of deferred compensation - - - - - - 3,686,000 Exercise of stock options - - - 2,295,180 1,342,000 - - Conversion of Series B preferred stock to common stock (213) (1,497,000) - 588,880 1,497,000 - - Shares issued in exchange for services - - - 236,386 56,000 - - Shares to be issued for acquisition of M.C. Davis - - - 277,778 1,000,000 - - Net loss - - - - - - - -------- ----------- --------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ------------- Balances as of September 30, 1996 787 $ 5,533,000 1,870,000 15,734,229 $12,187,000 - (331,000) ======== =========== ========= ========== =========== ========== =============
Total stockholders' Accumulated equity deficit (deficit) ----------- ------------- Balances as of October 31, 1993 (454,000) (205,000) Conversion of debt to equity - 475,000 Shares issued in exchange for prepaid promotion - 50,000 Shares issued in exchange for consulting services - 20,000 Acquisition of California Tube Laboratory, Inc. - 1,069,000 Employement contract by out - 312,000 Shares issued in exchange for microcave technology - 250,500 Shares issued in exchange for services - 69,500 Purchase of treasury stock - (206,000) Net loss (362,000) (362,000) ------------ ------------- Balances as of October 31, 1994 (816,000) 1,473,000 Shares issued in lieu of interest payment to related party - 13,000 Shares issued in exchange for investment in American Microcell - 500,000 Shares issued in private placement - 60,000 Contribution to ESOP - 247,000 Conversion of additional paid-in capital to common stock - - Acquisition of Intercell - 250,000 Net loss (1,321,000) (1,321,000) ------------ ------------- Balances as of September 30, 1995 (2,137,000) 1,222,000 Repurchase of shares of Series A preferred stock - (250,000) Shares of Series B preferred stock and warrants issued in private placement, net of issuance costs of $1,100,000 - 8,900,000 Shares issued in exchange for land - 1,000,000 Contribution to ESOP - 158,000 Shares issued to effect business combination with Particle Interconnect, Inc. treated as an immaterial pooling (159,000) (151,000) Deferred compensation related to stock option grants - - Amortization of deferred compensation - 3,686,000 Exercise of stock options - 1,342,000 Conversion of Series B preferred stock to common stock - - Shares issued in exchange for services - 56,000 Shares to be issued for acquisition of M.C. Davis - 1,000,000 Net loss (5,283,000) (5,283,000) --------------- ------------- Balances as of September 30, 1996 (7,579,000) 11,680,000 See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements. F-7 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Eleven-month Year ended period ended Year ended September 30, September 30, October 31, 1996 1995 1994 -------------- -------------- ------------ Cash flows from operating activities: Net loss $(5,283,000) (1,321,000) (362,000) Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash (used in) provided by operating activities: Depreciation and amortization 59,000 97,000 136,000 Loss on investments 795,000 102,000 Loss on sale of property 36,000 - - Common stock issued for interest, services 56,000 13,000 - Accrual of ESOP contributions - 158,000 247,000 Amortization of deferred compensation 3,686,000 - - Changes in operating assets and liabilities: Accounts receivable 47,000 (167,000) 119,000 Inventories (28,000) (275,000) (208,000) Prepaid expenses and other current assets 21,000 32,000 - Accounts payable and accrued liabilities (79,000) 344,000 326,000 Accounts payable to re1ated parties (212,000) 123,000 - ---------- --------- --------- Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities (1,697,000) (201,000) 360,000 ---------- --------- --------- Cash flows from investing activities: Acquisition of property, plant, and equipment (273,000) (31,000) (19,000) Acquisition of land (57,000) - - Other assets (142,000) 9,000 (8,000) Cash acquired in connection with acquisitions 167,000 - 262,000 Purchase of short-term investments (3,063,000) - - Proceeds from sale of property 174,000 - - ----------- ---------- -------- Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities (3,194,000) (22,000) 235,000 ----------- ---------- -------- Cash flows from financing activities: Proceeds from (payments on) loan payable to bank (190,000) 190,000 - Payments on notes payable to related parties (495,000) (460,000) - Proceeds from notes payable - 110,000 - Payments on note payable (4,017,000) (71,000) (40,000) - Proceeds from issuance of Series B preferred stock and warrants 8,900,000 - - Stockholders' repayment - - (175,000) Proceeds from sale of common stock 1,342,000 60,000 - Repayments of long-term debt (428,000) - - ----------- ---------- -------- Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities 9,058,000 (140,000) (175,000) ----------- ---------- -------- Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents 4,167,000 (363,000) 420,000 ----------- ---------- -------- Cash and cash equivalents beginning of year/period 57,000 420,000 - ----------- ---------- -------- Cash and cash equivalents end of year/period $ 4,224,000 57,000 420,000 =========== ========== ========
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements. F-8 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements September 30, 1996 and 1995 and October 31, 1994 (1) DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS General Intercell Corporation (the Company or Intercell), is a Colorado corporation that invests in companies in the technology industries. Acquisition of Modern Industries, Inc. In July 1995, Intercell entered into an Agreement and Plan of Reorganization with Modern Industries, Inc. (Modern) a Delaware Corporation. The Company issued 5,412,191 shares of common stock to Modern in exchange for all of the assets and liabilities of Modern and its wholly owned subsidiary, California Tube Laboratory, Inc. (CTL). The 5,412,191 shares issued to Modern represented approximately 52% of the Company's outstanding common stock upon completion of the transaction. As such, the transaction was treated for financial reporting purposes as a purchase of Intercell by Modern. The assets of Intercell have been recorded at their estimated fair value at the date of acquisition and Intercell's results of operations have been included in the consolidated statements of operations subsequent to the date of the acquisition. Modern's historical share amounts have been adjusted on a retroactive basis in a manner similar to a reverse stock split. Acquisition of California Tube Laboratory, Inc. In May 1994, Modern acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of CTL for 762,031 shares of its common stock (valued at $1,069,000) and notes payable to two major stockholders of CTL for $956,000. Modern also bought out an employment contract with a former owner of CTL for 222,572 shares of Modern common stock (valued at $311,000). CTL is an electronic parts manufacturer located in Northern California. CTL manufactures, rebuilds, and repairs magnetrons, klystrons, high power triodes and tetrodes, electron guns, and linear accelerators for customers located primarily in the United States. Acquisition of Particle Interconnect, Inc. In September 1996, Intercell formed a wholly owned subsidiary, Particle Interconnect Corp. (PI Corp.), a Colorado corporation, which merged with Particle Interconnect, Inc. (Particle), a California corporation. Particle is engaged in the development and manufacturing of particle-coated substrates for integrated circuits and is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Company exchanged 1,400,000 shares of Intercell common stock for all of the outstanding stock (Continued) F-9 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements of Particle. The transaction was accounted for by the pooling-of-interest method of accounting. The results of operations of Particle are not material to the Company's consolidated financial position, results of operations, and cash flows. Accordingly, the consolidated financial statements for periods prior to the date of acquisition have not been restated, except for loss per common share information. The weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding and loss per common share has been restated for all periods presented to reflect the 1,400,000 shares of common stock issued in the transaction. Acquisition of A.C. Magnetics, Inc. On September 30, 1996, Intercell formed a wholly owned subsidiary, Cellular Magnetics Inc., an Arizona corporation, which acquired all the assets and liabilities of A.C. Magnetics, Inc. dba M.C. Davis, Co. Inc. (M.C. Davis) in exchange for 277,778 shares of Intercell common stock (valued at $1,000,000) and $800,000 in cash. M.C. Davis is a manufacturer and distributor of electrical devices and equipment with manufacturing facilities near Phoenix, Arizona, and in the province of Sonora, Mexico. The transaction was accounted for by the purchase method of accounting. The results of operations for M.C. Davis have not been included in the Company's consolidated results of operations as the transaction occurred on the last day of Intercell's fiscal year. The total purchase price of $1,800,000 has been allocated to the net assets acquired based on their relative fair values as follows: Current assets $ 544,000 Property, plant, and equipment 383,000 Goodwill and other intangibles 1,223,000 Current liabilities (293,000) Other liabilities assumed (57,000) ---------- Total purchase price $1,800,000 ========== The following table presents unaudited pro forma results of operations as if the acquisition had occurred on November 1, 1994. These pro forma results have been prepared for comparative purposes only and do not purport to be indicative of what would have occurred had the acquisition been made at the beginning of 1995, or indicative of results which may occur in the future. 1996 1995 ---------- --------- Net sales $5,164,000 5,471,000 Operating loss 5,323,000 531,000 Net loss 5,427,000 1,451,000 Net loss per common share .45 .20 (Continued) F-10 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements Change in Fiscal Year During the eleven-month period ended September 30, 1995, Intercell changed its fiscal year-end to September 30. Previously, Intercell had an October 31 year-end. The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the results of operations and cash flows of Intercell for the year ended September 30, 1996, the eleven-month period ended September 30, 1995, and the year ended October 31, 1994. (2) SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES Principles of Consolidation The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany transactions and accounts have been eliminated in consolidation. Use of Estimates The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments Cash equivalents are highly liquid investments with a maturity of less than three months at the date of purchase. Short-term investments consist of certificates of deposit and short-term debt securities with maturities greater than three months and less than one year. As of September 30, 1996, the Company's investments consisted of U.S. government treasury bills of $3,925,000 and certificates of deposit of $126,000. As of September 30, 1996, investment securities of $988,000 and $3,063,000 are classified as cash equivalents and short-term investment, respectively. Investments in debt securities are classified as "available for sale." Such investments are recorded at fair value, as determined from quoted market prices, and the cost of securities sold is determined based on the specific identification method. Unrealized gains and losses, if any, are reported as a component of stockholders' equity. Unrealized gains and losses were not significant for any period presented. Revenue Recognition Revenues are recognized when earned, generally upon product shipment. Provision is made for estimated customer returns and warranty costs at the time of sale. (Continued) F-11 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements Inventories Inventories generally are stated at the lower of cost (first in, first out) or market. Costs incurred in the manufacture of new tubes is recorded on a standard cost basis, which approximates the first-in, first-out method, with the costs of raw materials, labor, and overheads adjusted periodically when actual costs change. Each tube repair is unique and is costed out on a specific item basis with costs accumulated as incurred. Tubes rebuilt for the U.S. government follow governmental cost allocation guidelines. Property, Plant, and Equipment Property, plant, and equipment are stated at cost. Depreciation expense is provided by use of the accelerated and straight-line methods over the estimated useful lives of the assets, generally 5 to 12 years for furniture, equipment, and vehicles and 31 years for buildings. Goodwill and Other Intangibles Goodwill and other intangibles, which include costs in excess of fair value of net assets of businesses acquired, proprietary technology, and trade names are being amortized over 3 to 15 years using the straight-line method. The Company periodically evaluates the carrying amount of its intangibles to determine whether any impairment of the assets has occurred based on estimated undiscounted future cash flows. This evaluation necessarily involves significant management judgment and actual results could differ from the estimates and forecasts used. There were no adjustments to the carrying value of intangible assets resulting from these evaluations in 1996, 1995, and 1994. Accumulated amortization amounted to $61,000 and $28,000 as of September 30, 1996 and 1995, respectively. Income Taxes Income taxes are accounted for by the asset and liability method. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. Valuation allowances are established when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amounts expected to be realized. (Continued) F-12 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements Net Loss Per Common Share Net loss per common share is computed using the weighted average number of common shares and dilutive common equivalent shares outstanding during each period presented. Common equivalent shares consist of stock options that are computed using the treasury stock method. Recent Accounting Pronouncements The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 121, Accounting, for the Impairment of Long-Lived Assets and for Long-Lived Assets to Be Disposed Of. SFAS No. 121 will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 1995, and requires long-lived assets to be evaluated for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. The Company will adopt SFAS No. 121 in fiscal 1997 and does not expect its provisions to have a material effect on the Company's consolidated results of operations. FASB also has issued SFAS No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation. SFAS No. 123 will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 1995, and will require that the Company either recognize in its consolidated financial statements costs related to its employee stock-based compensation plans, such as stock option and stock purchase plans, or make pro forma disclosures of such costs in a footnote to the consolidated financial statements. The Company expects to continue to use the intrinsic value-based method of Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25, as allowed under SFAS No. 123, to account for all of its employee stock-based compensation plans. Therefore, in its consolidated financial statements for fiscal 1997, the Company will make the required pro forma disclosures in a footnote to the consolidated financial statements. SFAS No. 123 is not expected to have a material effect on the Company's consolidated results of operations or financial position. (3) BALANCE SHEET COMPONENTS Inventories A summary of inventories follows: September 30, ----------------- 1996 1995 ---- ---- Raw materials $ 422,000 296,000 Work in process 453,000 477,000 Finished goods 191,000 - ---------- ------- $1,066,000 773,000 ========== ======= (Continued) F-13 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements Property, Plant, and Equipment A summary of property, plant, and equipment follows: September 30, ----------------- 1996 1995 ---- ---- Furniture and fixtures $ 339,000 76,000 Equipment and machinery 845,000 690,000 Land and buildings 282,000 230,000 Leasehold improvements 71,000 - Vehicles 23,000 - ---------- ------- 1,560,000 996,000 Less accumulated depreciation 142,000 111,000 ---------- ------- $1,418,000 885,000 ========== ======= Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities A summary of accounts payable and accrued liabilities follows: September 30, ----------------- 1996 1995 ---- ---- Accounts payable $ 376,000 208,000 Warranty reserves 130,000 130,000 Accrued employee compensation 191,000 153,000 Accrued ESOP contribution - 158,000 Other liabilities 45,000 180,000 ---------- ------- $ 742,000 829,000 ========== ======= (4) SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION For the year ended September 30, 1996, and the eleven-month period ended September 30, 1995, cash paid by the Company for interest was $87,000 and $15,000, respectively. Cash paid by the Company for interest in 1994 was not significant. (Continued) F-14 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements A summary of noncash investing and financing activities follows:
Eleven-month Year ended period ended Year ended September 30, September 30, October 31, 1996 1995 1994 ------------- ------------- ----------- Shares issued in acquisition of Intercell -$250,000 - Shares issued in exchange for investment in American Microcell - 500,000 - Shares issued in exchange for microwave technology - 250,000 - Contribution to ESOP 158,000 247,000 - Shares issued in lieu of interest payment to related party - 13,000 - Shares issued in acquisition of CTL - - 2,025,000 Conversion of debt to equity - - 475,000 Shares issued in exchange for prepaid promotion - - 140,000 Employment contract buy out - - 311,000 Shares issued in exchange for microwave technology - - 250,000 Shares issued in exchange for services 56,000 - - Net assets acquired in business combinations 1,649,000 - - Shares issued in exchange for land 1,000,000 - - Debt assumed in land acquisition 367,000 - - Shares to be issued for acquisition of M.C. Davis 1,000,000 - - Debt incurred in acquisition of M.C. Davis 800,000 - - Deferred compensation related to stock option grants 4,017,000 - - Repurchase of shares of Series A preferred stock 250,000 - - Conversion of Series B preferred stock to common stock 1,497,000 - -
(5) EQUIPMENT HELD FOR SALE On December 29, 1994, Intercell executed an Asset Purchase Agreement with Asia Skylink Corp. to acquire microwave transmission and associated support equipment in exchange for 210,000 shares of Series A redeemable convertible preferred stock. In August 1996, the shares were returned to the Company, and the equipment was returned to Asia Skylink, Corp. No gain or loss was recognized by the Company in connection with the reversal of this transaction. (6) BANK BORROWINGS Loan Payable to Bank In June 1995, the Company obtained a revolving loan for up to $500,000 based on a percentage of eligible assets. This loan expires on December 31, 1996, bears interest at the bank's base rate (8.25% as of September 30, 1996) plus 1/2% for administration fees and an additional 6%, and is secured by all assets of the Company. (Continued) F-15 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements Long-Term Debt Long-term debt is summarized as follows: September 30, ---------------- 1996 1995 ---- ---- Note payable to bank; interest at prime plus 2%; due April 4, 1997; collateralized by various assets; repaid in October 1996 $100,000 - Note payable; noninterest bearing; due June 1998; collateralized by building 47,000 - Note payable to bank; interest at 9.75%; due in 36 monthly payments of $481; collateralized by a vehicle; repaid in October 1996 15,000 - Note payable to bank; interest at 9.75%; due May 2008; secured by real property; repaid in April 1996 - 50,000 Other 44,000 - -------- ------ 206,000 50,000 Less current portion 120,000 2,000 -------- ------ Long-term debt, net $ 86,000 48,000 ======== ====== Future maturities of long-term debt as of September 30, 1996, are as follows: Year ending September 30, ------------- 1997 $120,000 1998 86,000 -------- Total $206,000 ======== (Continued) F-16 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (7) STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY Preferred Stock As of September 30, 1996 and 1995, the Company is authorized to issue 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock. In December 1994, the Company issued 210,000 shares of Series A redeemable convertible preferred stock (Series A preferred) in exchange for microwave transmission equipment. During 1996, the Series A preferred shares were surrendered to and canceled by the Company in exchange for the return of the microwave transmission equipment (see Note 5). In July 1996, the Company issued 1,000 shares of Series B redeemable convertible preferred stock (Series B preferred) and detachable warrants for proceeds of $8,900,000 (net of issuance costs of $1,100,000). Each share of Series B preferred stock is convertible into common stock at the exchange rate in effect at the time of the conversion, as described in the preferred stock agreements, and is subject to appropriate adjustment for common stock splits, stock dividends, and other similar transactions. Conversion of the Series B preferred is automatic upon the expiration of three years from the original date of issuance. The Series B preferred contain a liquidation preference equal to the original issue price plus 10% of the original issue price per annum to the date of liquidation. Series B preferred shares are not entitled to voting rights. Each share of Series B preferred is accompanied by a detachable warrant to purchase a number of shares of common stock of the Company equal to 30% of the original aggregate purchase price of the shares of Series B preferred divided by a fixed conversion rate of $3.9375 per share, exercisable 105 days after original issuance. As of September 30, 1996, warrants to acquire 1,092,063 shares of common stock were outstanding. The warrants will expire if not exercised by July 1, 2001. Stock Options In July 1995, Intercell established a Compensatory Stock Option Plan (the Plan) and reserved 5,000,000 shares of common stock for issuance under the Plan. In June 1996, an additional 2,000,000 shares were reserved for issuance under the Plan. Incentive stock options can be granted under the Plan, at prices not less than 110% of the fair market value of the stock at the date of grant, and nonqualified options can be granted at not less than 50% of the stock's fair market value at the date of grant or the date the exercise price of any such option is modified. All stock options expire 10 years from the date of grant. (Continued) F-17 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements A summary of stock option activity under the Plan follows: Options outstanding Shares --------------------- available Price for grant Shares per share ----------- ---------- --------- Balances as of July 1995 5,000,000 - $ Options granted (1,600,000) 1,600,000 0.50 ---------- ---------- ----------- Balances as of September 30, 1995 3,400,000 1,600,000 0.50 Additional shares authorized 2,000,000 - - Options granted (4,841,000) 4,841,000 0.50 - 4.00 Options canceled 150,000 (150,000 0.50 Options exercised - (2,295,000) 0.50 - 2.00 ---------- ---------- ----------- Balances as of September 30, 1996 709,000 3,996,000 0.50 - 4.00 ========== ========== As of September 30, 1996, options to purchase approximately 3,366,000 shares of common stock were exercisable. The Company recorded deferred compensation of $4,017,000 for the difference between the exercise price and the fair value of the common stock related to stock options granted in 1996. Certain of the options vested immediately and, therefore, the related compensation expense of $3,686,000 was recorded at the grant date. The remaining deferred compensation will be amortized over the vesting period of the options, generally four years. (8) EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN CTL has established an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (the Employee Plan) and a related trust for substantially all of its eligible employees. To participate in the Employee Plan, employees must have worked at least 1,000 hours during the year and must be employed at the end of the plan year. Participants do not vest until their third year of employment and then vest 20% per year through year seven. Employer contributions are voluntary and generally are based on a percentage of eligible payroll, limited to 15%. In 1995, the Company elected to contribute 126,761 shares of the Company's common stock valued at $158,000 to the Employee Plan. The Employee Plan was terminated in 1996, and, as such, the Company has not made any additional contributions. (Continued) F-18 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (9) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN MICROCELL During fiscal 1995, the Company acquired approximately 15% of the outstanding stock of American Microcell in exchange for 712,751 shares of common stock at a deemed value of approximately $0.70 per share. American Microcell was engaged in the research and development of improved technologies for cellular phones. However, American Microcell proved unsuccessful in its efforts to finance continuing development of technologies acquired, and the rights to these technologies reverted to the original developers. Accordingly, the Company's investment in American Microcell has been written off as a charge to income in the accompanying 1995 consolidated statement of operations. (10) ADVANCES TO INTERPRETEL, INC. In anticipation of a merger, the Company advanced $100,000 to Interpretel, Inc. in January 1995. The proposed merger was not completed and Interpretel, Inc. repaid $45,000 of the advance and will issue 100,000 shares of Wavetech, Inc. common stock to the Company in fiscal 1997. (11) RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS Notes Payable As of September 30, 1995, the Company had an outstanding promissory note due to a former owner of CTL in the amount of $495,000, bearing interest at 8%. The note was repaid during fiscal 1996. As of September 30, 1996, the Company had an outstanding promissory note due to a former owner and current president of M.C. Davis in the amount of $80,000, bearing interest at 8%, due December 15, 1996. The note was repaid in October 1996. As of September 30, 1996, the Company had an outstanding promissory note due to a former owner of Particle in the amount of $52,000, bearing interest at 8%, due on demand. The Company has noninterest bearing notes payable totaling $800,000 due to the former owners of M.C. Davis in consideration for the purchase of M.C. Davis consummated on September 30, 1996 (see Note 1). The notes were paid in full in October 1996. Purchase of Land During April 1996, the Company entered into an agreement with a related party whereby in exchange for 400,000 shares of the Company's common stock (valued at $1,000,000) and assumption of mortgages of $367,000, the Company acquired development land located in Arizona. In connection with the exchange, the Company incurred acquisition costs of $57,000. (Continued) F-19 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements The land, including acquisition costs, is recorded on the accompanying 1996 consolidated balance sheet as investment land held for sale. Purchase and Sale of Microwave Technology In June 1994, the Company purchased one half of the rights to a technology that utilizes microwaves to enhance the production of oil wells for 178,188 shares of its common stock. The Company already owned the one half interest in the technology. In January 1995, the Company sold these rights to Reland International, Inc. (Reland) for certain royalty payouts and a note receivable with a face amount of $1,250,000, bearing interest at 6%, with accrued interest payable annually on or before January 15 of each year, and principal payable on or before January 16, 2000. Due to concerns about collectibility, this note and related accrued interest was written off as a charge to income in the accompanying 1995 consolidated statement of operations. Operating Leases CTL leases its principal facility on a month-to-month basis from a significant stockholder. Monthly rental payments for the facility lease are $10,000, and the lease expires in August 1999. The Company paid rent related to this lease of $118,000, $106,000, and $29,000, during 1996, 1995, and 1994, respectively. The Company leases a facility in Vancouver, Canada, from a executive and director of the Company with monthly rental payments of $3,000. The lease expires in August 2001. (12) COMMITMENTS Operating Leases The Company leases office space, manufacturing facilities, and certain equipment under various operating lease agreements. Future minimum lease payments under noncancelable leases as of September 30, 1996, are as follows: Year ending September 30, ------------- 1997 $ 513,000 1998 475,000 1999 262,000 2000 254,000 Thereafter 2,048,000 ---------- Total $3,552,000 ========== (Continued) F-20 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements Rent expense under operating leases was approximately $277,000, $145,000, and $116,000 during 1996, 1995, and 1994, respectively. Litigation The Company is subject to various legal proceedings and claims. In the opinion of management, the ultimate liability with respect to these actions will not materially affect the Company's consolidated financial position or results of operations. (13) INCOME TAXES Income tax expense in 1996 was not significant. In 1995 and 1994, income tax expense was $2,000 and $19,000, respectively. Income tax expense differed from amounts computed by applying the federal statutory income tax rate of 34% to pretax loss as a result of the following: Eleven-month Year ended period ended Year ended September 30, September 30, October 31, 1996 1995 1994 ------------- ------------- ----------- Computed "expected" tax benefit $ (1,616,000) (448,000) (117,000) State income taxes (442,000) 2,000 19,000 Change in valuation allowance 1,912,000 249,000 117,000 Net operating loss carryforwards for state purposes not available for future utilization 146,000 142,000 - Other - 57,000 - ------------- ------------- ------------ $ 2,000 19,000 ============= ============= ============ (Continued) F-21 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements The tax effects of temporary differences that give rise to significant portions of deferred tax assets are as follows: 1996 1995 ---- ---- Deferred tax assets: Stock options $ 688,000 - Net operating loss carryovers 1,610,000 398,000 Allowance for returns and doubtful accounts 47,000 35,000 ---------- ---------- 2,345,000 433,000 Less valuation allowance 2,345,000 433,000 ---------- ---------- Net deferred tax assets $ - - ========== ========= The change in the valuation allowance was an increase of $1,912,000 and $164,000 in fiscal 1996 and 1995, respectively. The valuation allowance applies primarily to those temporary differences that are expected to be deductible at a point in the future when taxable income is uncertain. Since the Company is entitled to a deduction for federal and state tax purposes resulting from the exercise of nonqualified stock options and employees' early dispositions of stock acquired through incentive stock options, a portion of the deferred tax asset, when recognized by a reduction of the valuation allowance, will be credited to additional paid-in capital. As of September 30, 1996, approximately $1,262,000 of the deferred asset will be credited to additional paid-in capital when recognized. As of September 30, 1996, the Company had a net operating loss carryover for federal and California income tax purpose of approximately $7,376,000 and 3,463,000, respectively. The federal net operating losses expire from 2007 to 2011. The California net operating losses expire from 2000 to 2001. The difference between the federal and California loss carryforwards results primarily from a 50% limitation on California net operating losses. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 and the California Conformity Act of 1987 impose substantial restrictions on the utilization of net operating loss carryforwards in the event of an ownership change, as defined by Internal Revenue Code, Section 382. Federal loss carryforwards of approximately $439,000 are subject to an annual limitation of approximately $176,000. Any unused annual limitation can be carried forward and added to the succeeding years annual limitation, subject to the expiration dates discussed above. (Continued) F-22 INTERCELL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statments (14) SIGNIFICANT CUSTOMER AND INDUSTRY SEGMENT INFORMATION Two customers individually accounted for 10% or more of the Company's net sales in 1996, 1995, and 1994. Sales and the related receivable percentages to these customers as of September 30, 1996 and 1995, and October 31, 1994 are summarized as follows: Percentage of Percentage of net sales accounts receivables ------------------ -------------------- 1996 1995 1994 1996 1995 1994 ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Customer A 14% 15% 22% 6% 9% 15% Customer B 12% 12% 35% 11% 12% 17% As of and through September 30, 1996, substantially all of the Company's net sales and gross profits from operations have been generated by CTL. As of September 30, 1996 and 1995, identifiable assets of CTL and M.C. Davis, a business purchased by Intercell in September 1996, were as follows: 1996 1995 ---- ---- CTL $3,371,000 3,950,000 M.C. Davis 2,150,000 - (15) SUBSEQUENT EVENT (UNAUDITED) In December 1996, the Company issued 525 shares of no par value Series C preferred stock (Series C preferred) and detachable warrants in a private placement for $4,672,500 (net of issuance costs of $577,500). Each share of Series C preferred is convertible into common stock at the exchange rate in effect at the time of the conversion, as described in the preferred stock agreements, and is subject to appropriate adjustment for common stock splits, stock dividends, and other similar transactions. Conversion of the Series C preferred is automatic upon the expiration of three years from the original date of issuance. The Series C preferred are junior to the Company's Series B preferred shares and contain a liquidation preference equal to the original issue price plus 8% of the original issue price per annum to the date of liquidation. Series C preferred shares are not entitled to voting rights. Shares of Series C preferred purchased in excess of certain quantities as described in the preferred stock agreements, or purchased in addition to previous purchases of Series B preferred shares are accompanied by detachable warrants to purchase a number of shares of common stock of the Company equal to between 25% and 50% of the original aggregate purchase price of the Series C preferred shares divided by a fixed conversion rate of $3.25 per share, exercisable 105 days after original issuance. (Continued) F-23 INTERCELL CORPORATION SCHEDULE II - VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS (IN THOUSANDS) Balance at Charged to Beginning Costs and Balance at Classification of Year Expenses Deductions End of Year -------------- ---------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Allowance for returns and doubtful accounts Year ended October 31, 1994 $ -- $ 15 $ -- $ 15 ==== ==== ==== ==== Eleven months ended September 30, 1995 $ 15 $ 81 $(15) $ 81 ==== ==== ==== ==== Year ended September 30, 1996 $ 81 $174 $ -- $255 ==== ==== ==== ==== F-24 INDEX TO EXHIBITS EXHIBIT NO. DESCRIPTION - ----------- ----------- 2.1* Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, dated July 7, 1995, between the Company and Modern Industries, Inc. 2.2/(3)/ Plan and Agreement of Merger dated September 3, 1996, by and between Particle Interconnect, Inc., Particle Interconnect Corporation and the Company. 2.3/(4)/ Agreement and Plan of Merger dated October 14, 1996, by and between AC Magnetics, Inc., doing business as M.C. Davis Company, Cellular Magnetics, Inc. and the Company. 3.1* Articles of Incorporation of the Company, and all amendments thereto, as amended. 3.2* Bylaws of the Company. 4.1* Form of Common Stock Certificate. 4.2 Certificate of Designation for Series B Preferred Stock is included in the Company's Articles of Incorporation filed as Exhibit 3.1 and incorporated herein by reference. 4.3/(1)/ Specimen of Warrant attached to Series B Preferred Stock. 4.4 Certificate of Designation for Series C Preferred Stock is included in the Company's Articles of Incorporation filed as Exhibit 3.1 and is incorporated herein by reference. 4.5* Form of Warrant attached to Series C Preferred Stock. 4.6* Specimen of Registration Rights Agreement for Series B Preferred Stock. 4.7* Specimen of Registration Rights Agreement for Series C Preferred Stock. 4.8* Plan of Liquidating Dissolution of Energy Corporation dated July 8, 1996. 10.1/(2)/ 1995 Compensatory Stock Option Plan. 10.2* Assignment Agreement dated September 3, 1996, assigning certain Patents and Patent Applications and trade secrets relating to the PI Technology to the Company, as assignee, and Particle Interconnect, Inc. as assignor. EXHIBIT NO. DESCRIPTION - ----------- ----------- 10.3* Assignment Agreement dated June 5, 1996, assigning the Patent Application for the Antenna Technology to the Company, as assignee, and El-Badawy Amien El-Sharaway, as assignor. 10.4* Employment and Non-Disclosure Non-Competition Agreement, dated September 1, 1996, between Gordon J. Sales and the Company. 10.5* Employment and Non-Disclosure Non-Competition Agreement, dated September 1, 1996, between Alan M. Smith and the Company. 10.6* Employment and Non-Disclosure Non-Competition Agreement, dated September 1, 1996 between Terry W. Neild and the Company. 10.7* Employment and Non-Disclosure Non-Competition Agreement, dated October 22, 1996 between Steven D. Clark and PI Corp. 10.8* Employment and Non-Disclosure Non-Competition Agreement, dated September 1, 1996 between Lawrence DiFrancesco and PI Corp. 10.9* Employment and Non-Disclosure Non-Competition Agreement, dated September 1, 1996 between Patricia H. Grihalva and PI Corp. 10.10* Employment and Non-Disclosure Non-Competition Agreement, dated October 8, 1996 between Jerry W. Tooley and Cellular Magnetics. 10.11* Employment and Non-Disclosure Non-Competition Agreement, dated October 8, 1996 between David Putnam and Cellular Magnetics. 11* Statement regarding Computation of Per Share Earnings. 21* Subsidiaries of the Company. 23.1* Consent of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP 23.2* Consent of Mark Shelley, CPA 27* Financial Data Schedule. _________________ * Filed herewith. /(1)/ Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 10, 1996. /(2)/ Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Registration Statement on Form S-8, Registration No. 333-604, effective January 24, 1996. /(3)/ Incorporated by reference to the Company Current Report on Form 8-K dated September 3, 1996. /(4)/ Incorporated by reference to the Company Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 14, 1996.
EX-2.1 2 AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER EXHIBIT 2.1 ----------- AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF REORGANIZATION This Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, ("Agreement") dated as of the 7th day of July, 1995 among Intercell Corporation and Modern Industries, Inc. WITNESSETH Whereas, the parties hereto desire that stock of Intercell Corporation be exchanged with Modern Industries, Inc., for assets of Modern Industries, Inc., on the date and at the time provided for herein (the "Effective Date"); and Whereas, the parties hereto desire to set forth certain representations, warranties and covenants made by each to the other as an inducement to the transaction contemplated; Now, therefore, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual representations, warranties and covenants herein contained, the parties hereby agree as follows; ARTICLE I EXCHANGE 1.1 EXCHANGE Subject to the terms and conditions herein on July 7, 1995, at 10:00 a.m., or at such other time as Intercell Corporation and Modern Industries, Inc., shall designate, Intercell Corporation shall deliver to Modern Industries, Inc. the stock of Intercell Corporation herein described and Modern Industries, Inc. shall deliver to Intercell Corporation the assets of Modern Industries, Inc. herein described. 1.2 RIGHTS AND PREFERENCES OF INTERCELL CORPORATION STOCK The rights and preferences of Intercell Corporation Stock transferred to the Stockholders of Modern Industries, Inc. shall be as follows: 5,412,191 common restricted no par value shares, as described in the Articles of Incorporation of Intercell Corporation 1.3 ASSETS TO BE TRANSFERRED-LIABILITIES TO BE ASSUMED The assets to be transferred by Modern Industries, Inc. pursuant to this Agreement are set forth in EXHIBIT "A" attached hereto and the liabilities to be assumed are set forth in EXHIBIT "B" attached hereto. Intercell Corporation may waive the production of all Schedules Annexes and Exhibits requested of Modern Industries, Inc. herein and accept in lieu thereof the Financial Statements of Modern Industries, Inc., along with copies of all supporting audit work papers and supporting documentation. It is specifically understood that the principal asset of Modern Industries, Inc., is its 100% subsidiary California Tube Laboratory, Inc., which is conveyed and delivered hereby to Intercell Corporation. 1.4 CHANGE OF NAME Modern Industries, Inc. agrees to change its name at closing and to assign to Intercell Corporation said name if requested by Intercell Corporation. 1.5 ESCROW AND BULK SALES ACT Modern Industries, Inc., shall assure Intercell Corporation, in form acceptable to counsel to Intercell Corporation, that Modern Industries, Inc., has complied with applicable provisions, if any, of the Bulk Sales Act of the California Uniform Commercial Code. ARTICLE II MODERN INDUSTRIES, INC., REPRESENTATIONS 2.1 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF MODERN INDUSTRIES, INC. Modern Industries, Inc. represents and warrants to Intercell Corporation as of the date hereof and on the Effective Date as follows: (a) GOOD STANDING. Modern Industries, Inc. is a corporation duly organized and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and it is duly authorized, qualified and licensed under all applicable laws, regulations, ordinances and orders of public authorities to carry on its business in all States wherein it conducts business. Modern Industries, Inc., has one wholly owned subsidiary: California Tube Laboratory, Inc. (b) STOCKHOLDERS AND STOCK. The authorized capital stock of Modern Industries, Inc. consists of 45,000,000 shares of Common Stock, $0.001 par value, of which 15,186,763 shares are issued and outstanding (the Modern Industries, Inc. stock); and 5,000,000 Preferred Shares, of which none are issued and outstanding. (c) FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. Modern Industries, Inc. has delivered to Intercell Corporation copies of the following financial statements of Modern Industries, Inc. and the Subsidiaries of Modern Industries, Inc. (EXHIBIT "C") (1) Consolidated Balance Sheet as of October 31, 1994 (hereinafter referred to as "Modern Industries, Inc.'s Balance Sheet Date"); (2) Consolidated Profit and Loss Statement for the Twelve month period ended on Modern Industries, Inc.'s Balance Sheet Date; (3) Consolidated Balance Sheet and Profit and related Financial Statements on January 31, 1995. Except as and only to the extent expressly disclosed on a statement signed by Modern Industries, Inc. and identified as being delivered pursuant to this Section, such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods indicated. Except as and only to the extent expressly disclosed on a statement signed by and identified as being delivered pursuant to this Section, Modern Industries, Inc.'s Balance Sheets present fairly the financial condition of Modern Industries, Inc. and the Subsidiaries of Modern Industries, Inc. as of the dates indicated thereon and such Profit and Loss Statements present fairly the results of operations of Modern Industries, Inc. and the Subsidiaries of Modern Industries, Inc. for the periods indicated thereon. (d) ACCOUNT RECEIVABLE. Modern Industries, Inc. has delivered to Intercell Corporation an accurate list (SCHEDULE C-1) as of the Balance Sheet Date of the accounts and notes receivable of Modern Industries, Inc. and each Subsidiary of Modern Industries, Inc. Except to the extent of the reserve for bad debts reflected thereon, to the best knowledge of Modern Industries, Inc., such accounts and notes are collectible in the amount shown on SCHEDULE C-1. (e) PERMITS. Modern Industries, Inc. has delivered to Intercell Corporation an accurate list and summary description (SCHEDULE C-2) as of Modern Industries, Inc.'s Balance Sheet Date of all permits, licenses, franchises, certificates, trademarks, trade names, patents, patent applications and copyrights (excluding only radio and usual motor vehicle licenses) of a material nature owned or held by Modern Industries, Inc. and each Subsidiary of Modern Industries, Inc., all of which are upon the knowledge and belief of Modern Industries, Inc. thought to be now valid and in good standing. (f) FIXED ASSETS. Modern Industries, Inc. has delivered to Intercell Corporation an accurate list and a substantially complete description (SCHEDULE C-3) as of Modern Industries, Inc.'s Balance Sheet Date of all the fixed assets of Modern Industries, Inc. and each Subsidiary of Modern Industries, Inc., including true and correct copies of leases on properties on which are situated buildings, warehouses, workshops, garages and other structures used in the operation of the business of Modern Industries, Inc. Substantially all of the trucks, machinery and equipment of Modern Industries, Inc. and Subsidiaries of Modern Industries, Inc. are in reasonably good working order and condition to the knowledge and belief of Stockholders of Modern Industries, Inc. Such leases are in full force and effect and constitute valid and binding agreements of the parties thereto in accordance with their respective terms. Except as indicated on SCHEDULE C-3, since Modern Industries, Inc.'s Balance Sheet Date, neither Modern Industries, Inc. nor any Subsidiary of Modern Industries, Inc. has acquired or sold or otherwise disposed of any fixed assets, except in the ordinary course of business. All fixed assets used either by Modern Industries, Inc. or any Subsidiary of Modern Industries, Inc. in the operation of its business are either owned by Modern Industries, Inc. or the Subsidiary of Modern Industries, Inc. or leased under an agreement reflected on a schedule hereto. (g) ASSETS. Modern Industries, Inc. has delivered to Intercell Corporation a substantially accurate list (SCHEDULE C-4) as of Modern Industries, Inc.'s Balance Sheet Date of all properties and assets of Modern Industries, Inc. and each Subsidiary of Modern Industries, Inc. other than those shown on SCHEDULE C- 1,C-2 and C-3. Except as indicated on SCHEDULE C-4, since the Balance Sheet Date, neither Modern Industries, Inc. nor any Subsidiary of Modern Industries, Inc. has acquired or sold or otherwise disposed of any of such properties or assets except in the ordinary course of business. (h) SUBSIDIARY. Modern Industries, Inc., has delivered to Intercell Corporation, a certificate representing 100% ownership of its subsidiary California Tube Laboratory, Inc. (i) CONTRACTS. Modern Industries, Inc. has delivered to Intercell Corporation an accurate complete list (SCHEDULE C-5) as of Modern Industries, Inc.'s Balance Sheet Date of all material contracts and agreements to which Modern Industries, Inc. and each Subsidiary of Modern Industries, Inc. are parties or by which they or any of their property are bound (including, but not limited to, joint venture or partnership agreements, contracts with any labor organizations, loan agreements, bonds, mortgages, liens, pledges or other security agreements). For purposes only of providing a convenient frame of reference for listing contracts and agreements pursuant to this Subsection, a "material" contract or agreement shall be deemed to mean and include any contract or agreement singularly or in the aggregate (in the case of a series of similar or substantially similar contracts or agreements) which provides for a "face", "fixed", or liquidated monetary obligation or benefit equal to or in excess of $1,000; in the event no fixed monetary amount is provided for, such contract or agreement shall be listed in any event. To the knowledge and belief of Modern Industries, Inc., none of such contracts or agreements contain covenants or restrictions which unduly burden or restrict Modern Industries, Inc. or the Subsidiaries of Modern Industries, Inc. in the ordinary course of its or their business. Except to the extent set forth on SCHEDULE C-5 Modern Industries, Inc. and each Subsidiary of Modern Industries, Inc. have complied with all material commitments and obligations under all such contracts and agreements set forth in this section which they were obligated to comply with or perform as the Effective Date. (j) TITLE. To the knowledge and belief of Modern Industries, Inc., each of Modern Industries, Inc. and each Subsidiary of Modern Industries, Inc. all have good and marketable title to all properties, assets and leasehold estates, real and personal, to be transferred pursuant to this Agreement including those reflected on SCHEDULE C-1 through C-5 (except as since sold or otherwise disposed of in the ordinary course of business), subject to no mortgage pledge, lien, conditional sales agreement, encumbrance or charge, except for: (1) Liens reflected on SCHEDULE C-6 as securing specified liabilities (with respect to which no default exists); and (2) Liens for current taxes and assessments not in default; and (3) Liens arising by operation of law of which, except to the extent disclosed on C-6 of Modern Industries, Inc. has no knowledge of any such liens existing. ARTICLES III COVENANTS OF MODERN INDUSTRIES, INC. 3.1 COVENANTS OF MODERN INDUSTRIES, INC. PRIOR TO CLOSING Between the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date: (a) Modern Industries, Inc. will afford to the officers and authorized representatives of Intercell Corporation access to the plants, properties, books and records of Modern Industries, Inc. and will furnish Intercell Corporation with such additional financial and operating data and other information as to the business and properties of Modern Industries, Inc. as Intercell Corporation may from time to time reasonably request. (b) Modern Industries, Inc. and its Subsidiaries will: (1) Carry on their business in substantially the same manner as they have heretofore and not introduce any material new method of management, operation or accounting; (2) Maintain their properties and facilities in as good working order and condition as at present, ordinary wear and tear excepted; (3) Perform all their material obligations under agreements relating to or affecting their assets, properties and rights; (4) Keep in full force and effect present insurance policies or other comparable insurance coverage; and (5) Use their best efforts to maintain and preserve their business organization intact, retain their present employees and maintain their relationships with suppliers, customers and other having business relations with them. (c) Modern Industries, Inc. will not without the prior written consent of Intercell Corporation: (1) Declare or pay any dividend or make any distribution in respect of its stock whether now or hereafter outstanding, or purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value any shares of its stock; (2) Enter into any contract or commitment or incur or agree to incur any liability or make any capital expenditures except in the normal course of business; (3) Increase the compensation payable or to become payable to any officer, employee or agent, or make any bonus payment to any such person; or (4) Create, assume or permit to exist any mortgage, pledge or other lien or encumbrance upon any assets or properties whether now owned or hereafter acquired; or (5) Sell, assign, lease or otherwise transfer or dispose of any property or equipment except in the normal course of business. (6) ADOPT RESOLUTIONS APPROVING OR IMPLEMENTING A PLAN OF DISSOLUTION OR LIQUIDATION OR ADOPT RESOLUTIONS APPROVING OR IMPLEMENTING A DISTRIBUTION OF THE SHARES OF INTERCELL CORPORATION RECEIVED HEREUNDER, ON OR BEFORE ONE YEAR FROM THE CLOSING DATE HEREOF; AND IF THEREAFTER CONTEMPLATED TO BE ADOPTED SHALL BE ADOPTED ONLY WITH THE CONSENT OF INTERCELL CORPORATION. Modern Industries, Inc., further covenants that it shall provide to Intercell Corporation the financial statements which are required under Form 8-K and Regulation S-X, as made applicable by Form 8-K, within the time limitations provided therein. ARTICLES IV CONDITIONS TO THE OBLIGATIONS OF MODERN INDUSTRIES, INC. 4.1 CONDITIONS The obligations of Modern Industries, Inc. hereunder are, at its option, subject to the satisfaction, on or prior to the Effective Date of the following conditions: (a) TRUE REPRESENTATIONS. The representations and warranties of Intercell Corporation contained in this Agreement shall be true on and as of the Effective Date with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of such date; each and all of the agreements of Intercell Corporation to be performed on or before the Closing Date pursuant to the terms thereof shall have been performed; and Intercell Corporation shall have delivered to Modern Industries, Inc. a certificate dated the Closing Date and signed by it to all such effects. (b) AUTHORIZATION. Intercell Corporation has obtained the legally required approval of this Agreement and the transaction herein contemplated by its Board of Directors and Shareholders (if required); and that such approval has been obtained in compliance with all existing laws, to the best of its knowledge; and that its officers have been authorized to enter into and execute this Agreement as a valid, binding and enforceable Agreement. ARTICLE V REPRESENTATIONS OF INTERCELL CORPORATION 5.1 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF INTERCELL CORPORATION Intercell Corporation represents and warrants to Modern Industries, Inc. as of the date hereof and as of the Effective Date as follows: (a) GOOD STANDING. Intercell Corporation is a Corporation duly organized and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of Colorado, and it is duly authorized, qualified and licensed under all applicable laws, regulations, ordinances and orders of public authorities to carry on its business in the places and in the manner as now conducted. The character and location of the assets now owned or regularly leased by Intercell Corporation in the conduct of its business and the nature of the business as now transacted by it does not require qualification as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction at the present time. (b) STOCKHOLDERS AND STOCK. The authorized capital stock of Intercell Corporation consists of 100,000,000 shares of Common Stock, no par value, of which 4,997,053 shares are issued and outstanding (the "Intercell Corporation Stock"); and Preferred Stock, Series A of par value $10.00 of which 210,000 shares are authorized, issued and outstanding. EXHIBIT "D" hereto contains a complete and accurate list of all the Stockholders of Intercell Corporation and the number of shares held by each free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and claims of every kind. Each share of Intercell Corporation is duly and validly authorized and issued, fully paid and nonassessable, and was not issued in violation of the preemptive right of any Stockholder. No option, warrant, call or commitment of any kind obligates Intercell Corporation to issue any of its capital stock exists as otherwise disclosed, in writing, to Modern Industries, Inc. (c) FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. Intercell Corporation has delivered to Modern Industries, Inc. copies of the following financial statements of Intercell Corporation EXHIBIT "D": (1) Balance Sheet as of December 31, 1994, (hereinafter referred to as "Intercell Corporation's Balance Sheet Date"); (2) Profit and Loss Statement for the Twelve month period ended on Intercell Corporation's Balance Sheet Date; (3) Balance Sheets for the threeand six months ended March 31, 1995 and June 30, 1995 and related Financial Statements. Except as and only to the extent expressly disclosed on a statement signed by Intercell Corporation and identified as being delivered pursuant to this Section, such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with general accepted accounting principles, applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods indicated. Except as and only to the extent expressly disclosed on a statement signed by Intercell Corporation and identified as being delivered pursuant to this Section, Intercell Corporation's Balance Sheets present fairly the financial condition of Intercell Corporation as of the dates indicated thereon and such Profit and Loss Statements present fairly the results of operations of Intercell Corporation for the periods indicated thereon and comply with all material commitments and obligations under all such contracts and agreements set forth in this section which they were obligated to comply with or perform as of the Effective Date. (d) TITLE. To the knowledge and belief of Intercell Corporation has good and marketable title to all properties, assets and leasehold estates, real and personal, owned and used in its business, and which is material to the operation of its business. ARTICLE VI COVENANTS OF INTERCELL CORPORATION 6.1 COVENANTS OF INTERCELL CORPORATION PRIOR TO CLOSING Between the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date: (a) Intercell Corporation will afford to the officers and authorized representative of Modern Industries, Inc. access to the plants, properties, books and records of Intercell Corporation and will furnish Modern Industries, Inc. with such additional financial and operating data and other information as to the business and properties of Intercell Corporation as Modern Industries, Inc. may from time to time reasonably request. (b) Intercell Corporation will: (1) Carry on its business in substantially the same manner as they have heretofore and not introduce any material new method of management, operation or accounting; (2) Maintain its properties and facilities in as good working order and condition as at present, ordinary wear and tear excepted; (3) Perform all its material obligations under agreements relating to or affecting its assets, properties and rights; (4) Keep in full force and effect present insurance policies or other comparable insurance coverage; and (5) Use its best efforts to maintain and preserve its business organization intact, retain its present employees and maintain its relationships with suppliers, customers and others having business relations with it. ARTICLES VII CONDITIONS TO THE OBLIGATIONS OF INTERCELL CORPORATION 7.1 CONDITIONS The obligations of Intercell Corporation hereunder are, at its option, subject to the satisfaction, on or prior to the Effective Date of the following conditions: (a) TRUE REPRESENTATIONS. The representations and warranties of Modern Industries, Inc. contained in this agreement shall be true on and as of the Effective Date with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of such date; each and all of the agreements of Modern Industries, Inc. to be performed on or before the Closing Date pursuant to the terms hereof shall have been performed; and Modern Industries, Inc. shall have delivered to Intercell Corporation a certificate dated the Closing Date and signed by it to all such effects. (b) AUTHORIZATION. Modern Industries, Inc. has obtained the legally required approval of this Agreement and the transaction herein contemplated by its Board of Directors and Shareholders; that such approval has been obtained in compliance with all existing laws, to the best of its knowledge; and that its officers have been authorized to enter into and execute this Agreement as a valid, binding and enforceable Agreement. ARTICLE VIII GENERAL 8.1 ADDITIONAL INSTRUMENTS The parties hereto shall deliver or cause to be delivered on the Effective Date, and at such other times and places as shall be reasonably agreed on, such additional instruments as any party may reasonably request for the purpose of carrying out this Agreement. Intercell Corporation and Modern Industries, Inc. will cooperate and use their best efforts to have the present officers, directors and employees of Intercell Corporation and Modern Industries, Inc. cooperate on and after the Effective Date in furnishing information, evidence, testimony and other assistance in connection with any actions, proceedings, arrangements or disputes of any nature with respect to matters pertaining to all periods prior to the Effective Date. 8.2 ENTIRE AGREEMENT This Agreement (including all EXHIBITS, SCHEDULES and APPENDICES hereto) and the documents delivered pursuant hereto constitute the entire agreement and understanding between the parties hereto and supersede any prior agreement and understanding relating to the subject matter of this agreement. This Agreement may be assigned modified or amended only by a duly authorized written instrument executed by the parties hereto. 8.3 COUNTERPARTS This agreement may be executed simultaneously in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original and all of which together shall constitute but one and the same instrument. It shall not be necessary that any single counterpart hereof be executed by all parties hereto so long as at least one counterpart is executed by each party. 8.4 NOTICES Any notice or communication required or permitted hereunder shall be sufficiently given if sent by first class mail, postage prepaid: (a) Intercell Corporation Mark Pierce, President 4740 E. Sunrise Drive Box 333 Tucson, AZ 85718 (b) Modern Industries, Inc. Gordon J. Sales, Chief Executive Officer 4455 E. Camelback Rd. E-160 Phoenix, AZ 85018 8.5 SURVIVORSHIP All warranties, covenants, representations and guarantees shall survive the closing and execution of the documents contemplated by this Agreement. The parties hereto in executing, and in carrying out the provisions of this Agreement are relying solely on the representations, warranties and agreements contained in this Agreement or in any writing delivered pursuant to provisions of this Agreement or at the closing of the transactions herein provided for and not upon any representation, warranty, agreement, promise or information, written or oral, made by any person other than as specifically set forth herein or therein. 8.7 LAW This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Colorado. In witness whereof, the parties have executed this agreement as of the day and year first above written. Intercell Corporation By: /s/ Mark S. Pierce ------------------- Mark S. Pierce, President Modern Industries, Inc. By: /s/ Gordon J. Sales -------------------- Gordon J. Sales, Chief Executive Officer STATE OF COLORADO County of Denver On this 7th day of July, 1995, before me personally came Mark S. Pierce, to me known, who being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he/she is the President of Intercell Corporation, the corporation described in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by order of the board of directors of said corporation. /s/ Debra Dee Eagzwood ----------------------- Notary Public, Denver County, State of Colorado My Commission Expires: 12/2/95 STATE OF COLORADO County of Denver On this 7th day of July, 1995, before me personally came Gordon J. Sales, to me known, who being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he/she is the President of Modern Industries, Inc., the corporation described in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and the he/she signed his/her name thereto by order of the board of directors of said corporation. /s/ Debra Dee Eagzwood ----------------------- Notary Public, Denver County, State of Colorado My Commission Expires: 12/2/95 EX-3.1 3 ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION Exhibit 3.1 ----------- ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF INTERCELL CORPORATION KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENT: That the undersigning incorporator being a natural person of the age of eighteen years or more and desiring to form a body corporate under the laws of the State of Colorado does hereby sign, verify and deliver in duplicate to the Secretary of State of the State of Colorado these Articles of Incorporation: ARTICLE I --------- Name ---- The name of the corporation shall be: Intercell Corporation. ARTICLE II ---------- Period of Duration ------------------ This corporation shall exist in perpetuity, from and after the date of filing these Articles of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Colorado unless dissolved according to law. ARTICLE III ----------- Objects and Purposes -------------------- The objects and purposes for which the said corporation is organized and the nature of the business to be carried on by it are as follows: 1. To engage in the communications business and to carry on any business or activity related thereto. 2. In general to carry on any lawful business or activity and to have and exercise all of the powers and rights conferred by the laws of the State of Colorado upon corporations formed under such laws. ARTICLE IV ---------- Capital ------- The aggregate number of shares which this corporation shall have authority to issue is Fifty Million (50,000,000) shares of no par value common stock, which shares shall be designated "Common Stock". 1. Dividends. Dividends in cash, property or shares of the corporation may ---------- be paid upon the Common Stock, as and when declared by the board of directors, out of funds of the corporation to the extent and in the manner permitted by law. 2. Distribution in Liquidation. Upon any liquidation, dissolution or ---------------------------- winding up of the corporation, and after paying or adequately providing for the payment of all its obligations, the remainder of the assets of the corporation shall be distributed, either in cash or in kind, pro rata to the holders of the Common Stock. The board of directors may, from time to time, distribute to the shareholders in partial liquidation, out of stated capital or capital surplus of the corporation, a portion of its assets, in cash or property, in the manner permitted and upon compliance with limitations imposed by law. 3. Voting Rights; Cumulative Voting. Each outstanding share of Common Stock --------------------------------- shall be entitled to one vote and each fractional share of Common Stock shall be entitled to a corresponding fractional vote on each matter submitted to a vote of shareholders. Cumulative voting shall not be allowed in the election of directors of the corporation. 4. Denial of Pre-emptive Rights. No holder of any shares of the ----------------------------- corporation, whether now or hereafter authorized, shall have any pre-emptive or preferential right to acquire any shares or securities of the corporation, including shares or securities held in the treasury of the corporation. 5. Restrictions on Transfer. The Corporation shall have the right to impose ------------------------- restrictions on the transfer, disposition, encumbrance, or bequethal of any or all classes of its shares of stock. ARTICLE V --------- Right of Directors to Contract with Corporation ----------------------------------------------- No contract or other transaction between the corporation and one or more of its directors or any other corporation, firm, association, or entity in which one or more of its directors are directors or officers or are financially interested shall be either void or voidable solely because of such relationship or interest or solely because such directors are present at the meeting of the board of directors or a committee thereof which authorizes, approves, or ratifies such contract or transaction or solely because their votes are counted for such purpose if: (a) The fact of such relationship or interest is disclosed or known to the board of directors or committee which authorizes, approves, or ratifies the contract or transaction by a vote or consent sufficient for the purpose without counting the votes or consents of such interested directors; or (b) The fact of such relationship or interest is disclosed or known to the shareholders entitled to vote and they authorize, approve, or ratify such contract or transaction by vote or written consent; or (c) The contract or transaction is fair and reasonable to the corporation. Common or interested directors may be counted in determining the presence of a quorum at a meeting of the board of directors or a committee thereof which authorizes, approves, or ratifies such contract or transaction. ARTICLE VI ---------- Corporate Opportunity --------------------- The officers, directors and other members of management of this corporation shall be subject to the doctrine of "corporate opportunities" only insofar as it applies to business opportunities in which this corporation has expressed an interest as determined from time to time by this corporation's board of directors as evidenced by resolutions appearing in the corporation's minutes. Once such areas of interest are delineated, all such business opportunities within such areas of interest which come to the attention of this corporation shall be disclosed promptly to this corporation and made available to it. The board of directors may reject any business opportunity presented to it and thereafter any officer, director or other member of management may avail himself of such opportunity. Until such item as this corporation, through its board of directors, has designated an area of interest, the officers, directors and other members of management of this corporation shall be free to engage in such areas of interest on their own and this doctrine shall not limit the rights of any officer, director or other member of management of this corporation to continue a business existing prior to the time that such area of interest is designated by the corporation. This provision shall not be construed to release any employee of this corporation (other than officer, director or member of management) from any duties which he may have to this corporation. ARTICLE VII ----------- Indemnification of Directors, Officers and Others ------------------------------------------------- This Corporation may indemnify each director, officer, and any employee, fiduciary or agent of the corporation, his heirs, executors and administrators, against expenses reasonable incurred or any amounts paid by him in connection with any action, suit or proceeding to which he may be made a party by reason of his being or having been a director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of the corporation to the full extent permitted by the laws of the State of Colorado now existing or as such laws may hereafter be amended. ARTICLE VIII ------------ Shareholder Voting ------------------ A majority of the shares entitled to vote, represented in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at a meeting of shareholders. When, with respect to any action to be taken by shareholders of this Corporation, the laws of Colorado require the vote or concurrence of the holders of two-thirds of the outstanding shares, of the shares entitled to vote thereon, or of any class or series, such action may be taken by the vote or concurrence of a majority of such shares or class or series thereof. ARTICLE IX ---------- Severability ------------ Should any clause, paragraph, line, sentence, or other part of this instrument be declared invalid and ineffective, such finding shall not be deemed to affect the reminder of these Articles of Incorporation so long as such remaining part reasonably effectuates the intent and purposes expressed herein. ARTICLE X --------- Registered Office and Registered Agent -------------------------------------- The address of the initial registered office of the corporation is P.O. Box 1645, Pleasantview, Colorado 81331 and the name of the initial registered agent at such address is John Williams. Either the registered office or the registered agent may be changed in the manner permitted by law. ARTICLE XI ---------- Initial Board of Directors -------------------------- The number of directors of the corporation shall be fixed by the bylaws of the corporation except the initial board of directors of the corporation shall consist of six directors. The names and addresses of the persons who shall serve as directors until the first annual meeting of shareholders or until their successors are elected and shall qualify are as follows:
NAME ADDRESS ---- ------- John Williams P.O. Box 1534 Pleasantview, CO 81331 Michael Lancaster P.O. Box 1587 Pleasantview, CO 81331 Hershel Oliver 20911 Highway 666 Yellowjacket, CO 81335 Renay Neely P.O. Box 22 Cahone, CO 81320 C.E. Honaker 27229 Highway 666 Pleasantview, CO 81331 Lloyd Hartle P.O. Box 1525 Pleasantview, CO 81331
ARTICLE XII ----------- Incorporator ------------ The name and address of the incorporator is as follows:
NAME ADDRESS ---- ------- Russell C. Cline Suite 201 - Right Bank Building 1041 Blake Street Denver, CO 80202
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the above named incorporator has signed these Articles of Incorporation this 4th day of October, 1983. /s/ Russel C. Cline -------------------- Russel C. Cline STATE OF COLORADO ) )ss. COUNTY OF DENVER ) I, the undersigned, a Notary Public, hereby certify that on the 4th day of October, 1983, personally appeared before me Russell C. Cline, who being by me first duly sworn, declared that he is the person who signed the foregoing document as incorporator, that it was his free and voluntary act and deed, and that the statements therein contained are true. WITNESS my hand and official seal. My commission expires: January 27, 1985 /s/ Roxanne L. Owens --------------------- Roxanne L. Owens Notary Public Right Bank Building 1401 Blake St., Suite 201 Denver, Colorado 80202 (NOTARIAL SEAL) ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT TO THE ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF INTERCELL CORPORATION Pursuant to the provisions of Section 7-2-109 of the Colorado Corporation Code, the undersigned corporation adopts the following Articles of Amendment to its Articles of Incorporation: FIRST: The name of the corporation is Intercell Corporation. SECOND: The following amendment of the Articles of Incorporation was adopted by the shareholders of the Corporation on March 9, 1984, in the manner prescribed by the Colorado Corporation Code: Article IV is amended to read as follows: ARTICLE IV ---------- Capital ------- The aggregate number of shares which this Corporation shall have authority to issue is Eighty Million (80,000,000) shares of no par value common stock, which shares shall be designated "Common Stock". 1. Dividends. Dividends in cash, property or shares of the ---------- corporation may be paid upon the Common Stock, as and when declared by the board of directors, out of funds of the Corporation to the extent and in the manner permitted by law. 2. Distribution in Liquidation. Upon any liquidation, dissolution or ---------------------------- winding up of the Corporation, and after paying or adequately providing for the payment of all its obligations, the remainder of the assets of the Corporation shall be distributed, either in cash or in kind, pro rata to the holders of the Common Stock. The board of directors may, from time to time, distribute to the shareholders in partial liquidation, out of stated capital or capital surplus of the Corporation, a portion of its assets, in cash or property, in the manner permitted and upon compliance with limitations imposed by law. 3. Voting Rights; Cumulative Voting. Each outstanding share of --------------------------------- Common Stock shall be entitled to one vote and each fractional share of Common Stock shall be entitled to a corresponding fractional vote on each matter submitted to a vote of shareholders. Cumulative voting shall not be allowed in the election of directors of the Corporation. 4. Denial of Pre-emptive Rights. No holder of any shares of the ----------------------------- Corporation, whether now or hereafter authorized, shall have any pre- emptive or preferential right to acquire any shares or securities of the Corporation, including shares or securities held in the treasury of the Corporation. 5. Restrictions on Transfer. The Corporation shall have the right to ------------------------- impose restrictions on the transfer, disposition, encumbrance, or bequeathal of any or all classes of its shares of stock. THIRD: The number of shares of the Corporation outstanding at the time of such adoption was 100,000 and the number of shares entitled to vote thereon was 100,000. FOURTH: The designation and number of outstanding shares of each class entitled to vote thereon as a class were as follows:
Class Number of Shares ----- ---------------- No par value common stock 100,000
FIFTH: The number of shares voted for the amendment to Article IV was 100,000 and the number of shares voted against such amendment was 0. SIXTH: The number of shares of each class entitled to vote thereon as a class voted for and against such amendment, respectively was:
Number of Shares Voted Class For Against ----- -------------- -------------------- No par value common stock 100,000 -0-
SEVENTH: The manner, if not set forth in such amendment, in which any exchange, reclassification or cancellation of issued shares provided for in the amendment shall be effected is as follows: Not Applicable. EIGHTH: The manner in which such amendment effects a change in the amount of stated capital, and the amount of stated capital as changed by such amendment, is as follows: No Change. DATED: March 23, 1984 INTERCELL CORPORATION By: /s/ William B. Fulks --------------------- William B. Fulks, President By: /s/ Karen Petit ---------------- Karen Petit, Secretary STATE OF COLORADO ) )ss. COUNTY OF MONTEZUMA ) Before me, Kay D. Herrmann, a Notary Public in and for said county and state, personally appeared William B. Fulks and Karen Petit, who acknowledged before me that he is the President and she is the Secretary, respectively, of Intercell Corporation, a Colorado corporation, and that they signed the foregoing Articles of Amendment as their free and voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein set forth, and that the facts contained therein are true. In Witness Whereof, I have here unto set my hand and seal this 23rd day of March, 1984. My Commission Expires: 8/19/87 /s/ Kay D. Herrmann -------------------- Notary Public Address: 14755 Highway 666 Dolores, CO 81323 (Notarial Seal) ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT TO THE ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF INTERCELL CORPORATION Pursuant to the provisions of Section 7-2-109 of the Colorado Corporation Code, the undersigned corporation adopts the following Articles of Amendment to its Articles of Incorporation as amended. First: The name of the Corporation is Intercell Corporation. Second: The following amendment of the Articles of Incorporation were adopted by a vote of shareholders of the Corporation on September 19, 1987 in the manner prescribed by the Colorado Corporation Code. The Articles of Incorporation are amended by adding new Article XIII which shall read as follows: ARTICLE XIII LIMITATION OF DIRECTOR LIABILITY No director shall be personally liable to this Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty by such director as a director. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, a director shall be liable to the extent provided by applicable law (i) for breach of the director's duty of loyalty to this Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) pursuant to Section 7-5-114 of the Colorado Corporation Code, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. No amendment to or repeal of this Article XIII shall apply to or have any effect on the liability or alleged liability of any director of this Corporation for or with respect to any acts or omissions of such director occurring prior to such amendment or repeal. Third: The number of shares voted for the amendment were sufficient for approval. Fourth: The amendment does not provide for an exchange, reclassification or cancellation of issued shares nor does it effect a change in the amount of stated capital. Dated: December 15, 1987 INTERCELL CORPORATION By /s/ William B. Fulks --------------------- William B. Fulks, President By /s/ Renay Neely ---------------- Renay Neely, Secretary STATE OF COLORADO ) ) SS COUNTY OF MONTEZUMA ) I, the undersigned, a Notary Public, hereby certify that on the 22nd day of September 1987, personally appeared before me William B. Fulks and Renay Neely, President and Secretary respectively, who being by me first duly sworn, declared that they are the persons who signed the foregoing document, that it was their free and voluntary act, and deed and the statements therein contained are true. WITNESS my hand and official seal. My commission expires: January 15, 1989 /s/ Karen K. Petit ------------------- Karen K. Petit, Notary Public Address: 15442 County Road "CC" Pleasant View, CO 81331 (N O T A R I A L S E A L) ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT TO THE ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF INTERCELL CORPORATION Pursuant to the provisions of the Colorado Corporation Code, the undersigned corporation adopts the following Articles of Amendment to its Articles of Incorporation. First: The name of the Corporation is Intercell Corporation. Second: The following amendment of the Articles of Incorporation were adopted by a vote of shareholders of the Corporation on December 14, 1992, as prescribed by the Colorado Corporation Code. Third: The manner, if not set forth in such amendment, in which any exchange, reclassification, or cancellation of issued shares provided for in the amendment shall be effected, are as follows: Not Applicable. Fourth: The manner in which such amendment effects a change in the amount of stated capital, and the amount of stated capital as changed by such amendment, are as follows: NO CHANGE. Such amendment was adopted by a vote of the shareholders. The number of shares voted for the amendment was sufficient for approval. SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO AND SPECIFICALLY INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE INTERCELL CORPORATION By /s/ Unlegible -------------------------- __________, President By /s/ Laura W. Hilton -------------------------- Laura W. Hilton, Secretary Exhibit A ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT TO THE ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION FOR INTERCELL CORPORATION The fourth article shall be amended in its entirety to read as follows: FOURTH: (a) Classes of Shares. The outstanding proprietary interest of the ------------------ Corporation is hereby reverse split on the basis of one share in exchange for each 150 shares now outstanding. The proprietary interest of the Corporation shall thereafter be divided into two classes of stock, which are collectively referred to herein as "Shares." The first is a class of common stock, no par value per share, and the second a class of preferred stock, also no par value per share. (An individual share within the respective classes of stock shall be referred to appropriately as either a "Common Share" or a "Preferred Share.") The Corporation has the authority to issue 100,000,000 Common Shares and 10,000,000 Preferred Shares. The authority of the Corporation to issue shares may be limited by resolution of the board of directors of the Corporation (the "Board of Directors"). Shares may be issued from time to time for such consideration in money or property (tangible or intangible) or labor or services actually performed as the Board of Directors may determine in their sole judgment and without the necessity of action by the holders of Shares. Common Shares may not be issued in series. Shares may not be issued until paid for and, when issued, are nonassessable. Fractional Shares may not be issued by the Corporation and, in the event fractional shares are or may become outstanding, the Corporation shall redeem said shares at the then market price. (b) Preferred Shares. The designation, preferences, relative rights, and ----------------- limitations of Preferred Shares are as follows: (i) Issuance in Series. The Board of Directors is authorized to act by ------------------- resolution, subject to limitations prescribed by the laws of the Sate of Colorado, the Articles of Incorporation, the Bylaws of the Corporation (the "Bylaws"), and previous resolutions by the Board of Directors limiting this authorization, to provide for the issuance of Preferred Shares in series. To exercise this authority the Board of Directors must first designate the series so established, and, secondly, fix and determine the relative rights, preferences, and limitations of the Preferred Shares in the series established to the extent not fixed and determined by these Articles of Incorporation. The extent of this authority, with respect to each series established, is to be determined by reference to the "Colorado Corporation Code," articles 1 through 10, inclusive, of title 7, Colorado Revised States, as amended. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this authority includes fixing and determining the following: 1. the number of Preferred Shares which may be issued under the series established, and the designation of such series; 2. the rate of dividend on Preferred Shares of that series, if any, the time of payment of dividends, whether dividends shall be cumulative, and, if cumulative, the date from which dividends shall begin accruing; 3. whether Preferred Shares of that series may be redeemed, and, if redeemable, the redemption price, terms, and conditions of redemption; 4. whether to establish a sinking fund or make other provisions for the redemption or purchase of Preferred Shares of that series; 5. the amount payable per Preferred Share of that series in the event of the dissolution, liquidation, or winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntarily or involuntarily; 6. voting powers, if any, of the series; and 7. whether the series shall have conversion privileges, and, if convertible, the terms and conditions upon which Preferred Shares of that series shall be convertible, including, without limitation, the provision, if any, for adjustment of the conversion rate and the payment of additional amounts by holders of such shares upon the exercise of this privilege. Irrespective of the limitations set forth in subsection (i)1. of this Section (b), the Board of Directors may, at any time after the number of Preferred Shares authorized under a series has been established, authorize the issuance of additional Preferred Shares of the same series or reduce the number of Preferred Shares authorized under such series. All Preferred Shares shall be identical to each other in all respects, except as those relative rights, preferences, and limitations established by the Board of Directors pursuant to its authority as determined by reference to the Colorado Corporation Code and as established in subsections (i)1 through (i)7 , inclusive, of this Section (b), as to which there may be variations between series. (ii) Dividend Rights. The holders of Preferred Shares are entitled to ---------------- receive when, as, and if declared by the Board of Directors in its sole discretion, but only out of funds available therefor under the laws of the State of Colorado, cumulative, partially cumulative, and non-cumulative dividends, as the case may be. Dividends may be paid in such cash, property, or Preferred Shares of the same series (including Preferred Share of the same series held as treasury Preferred Shares) as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may determine upon the date fixed and at the intervals determined by the Board of Directors. Dividends will accrue, if cumulative or partially cumulative, whether or not earned or declared from the date or dates determined by the Board of Directors. Full dividends on the Preferred Shares of all series for all past periods and for the then current period must be paid, or declared and a sum sufficient for such payment be set apart, before any dividends may be declared or paid upon or set apart for, or before any other distribution may be declared or made in respect of, the Common Shares. Accruals of dividends shall not bear interest. As long as Preferred Shares are outstanding, the Corporation shall not declare, set apart for payment, pay any dividends (other than dividends payable in Common Shares), make any distribution on any Common Shares, redeem, purchase or to otherwise acquire, or permit any subsidiary to purchase, or otherwise acquire any Common Shares if at the time of making such declaration, payment, distribution, redemption, purchase, or acquisition the Corporation is in default with respect to any dividend payable on, or any obligation to redeem or retire, Preferred Shares. Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, the Corporation may at any time (i) redeem, purchase, or otherwise acquire Common Shares in exchange for, or out of the net cash proceeds from the sale of Common Shares and (ii) acquire Common Shares that are held by firms or corporations acquired by the Corporation, whether by merger, consolidation, purchase of assets, exchange of securities, or otherwise. (iii) Redemption. On the sole authority and option of the Board of Directors ----------- the Corporation may redeem all or any part of any series of Preferred Shares outstanding upon the terms (including redemption price) and conditions, in the manner, and upon such notice as is determined by the Board of Directors. No redemption may be made, however, until all dividends accrued to the redemption date on all series of Preferred Shares have been paid, or until declared and a sum sufficient in amount set aside for such payment. If less than all the Preferred Shares of a series are to be redeemed on any one date set for redemption, the shares designated for redemption may be in such amount ant determined by such method, whether by lot, pro rata or otherwise, and subject to such other provisions as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine in it s sole discretion. Preferred Shares of any series which have been redeemed (whether by sinking fund or otherwise) shall have the status of authorized and unissued Preferred Shares, unless the Board of Directors in its sole discretion cancels such shares. Preferred Shares which have been redeemed, unless canceled, may be reissued as a part of the series of which they were originally a part, or may be reclassified and reissued as part of a new series of Preferred Shares created by resolution of the Board of Directors or as part of any other series of Preferred Shares. (iv) Liquidation Rights. In the event of any liquidation, dissolution, or ------------------- winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, which results in any distribution of the assets of the Corporation to its Shareholders, the holders of Preferred Shares then outstanding shall be entitled to an amount per share equal to that amount fixed by the Board of Directors upon the initial issuance of the Preferred Share of the series of which the Preferred Shares in question are a part before any distribution of the assets of the Corporation may be made to or set apart for the holders of Common Shares. If assets of the Corporation distributable to the holder of Preferred Shares are insufficient for the payment to them of the full preferential amount described above, such assets shall be distributed ratably among the holders of the Preferred Shares of all series in accordance with the amounts which would be payable on such distribution if all sums payable were discharged in full unless the Board of Directors upon the initial issuance of any series of Preferred Shares has provided otherwise. After payment in full of the preferential amounts required to be paid to the holders of the Preferred Shares than outstanding, the holder of Common Share shall be entitled, to the exclusion of the holders of Preferred Shares, to share in all remaining assets of the Corporation in accordance with their respective interests unless the Board of Directors upon the initial issuance of any series of Preferred Shares, or otherwise, has provided otherwise. For purposes of this article and any statement filed pursuant to law setting forth the designation, description, and term of any series of Preferred Shares the voluntary sale, lease, exchange, or transfer (for cash, securities or other consideration) of all or substantially all of the property or assets of the Corporation to, or its consolidation or merger with, any other corporation or corporations shall not be deemed to be a liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the Corporation, voluntarily or involuntarily. (v) Voting Rights. Except as otherwise provided by the laws of the State of -------------- Colorado or subsection (i)6 of this Section (b), the holders of Preferred Share of all series shall not have the right to vote at any meeting of Shareholders in respect to any matter upon which the vote of Shareholders is required. Except as otherwise provided by the laws of the State of Colorado, these Articles of Incorporation, the Bylaws, or the Board of Directors acting pursuant to the authority set forth in subsection (i) of Section (b) and for so long as any Preferred Shares are outstanding, the Corporation shall not: 1. without the affirmative vote or written consent of the holders of at least 50% of the then outstanding Preferred Shares voting separately by class without regard to series (a) create any class of stock ranking prior to the Preferred Shares as to dividends or liquidation, (b) increase the authorized number of shares of any such class of stock, or (c) alter or change any of the provisions hereof so as to adversely affect the preferences or the special rights or powers given to the preferred Shares; or 2. without the affirmative vote or written consent of the holders of at least 50% of the then outstanding shares of all series of Preferred Shares voting separately as a series, alter or change any of the provisions hereof or in the resolution adopted by the Board of Directors providing for the issuance of a series, if such series has been issued and Preferred Shares of that series are then outstanding, so adversely to affect the preferences, special rights, or powers to such series. (vi) Conversion Rights. The holders of Preferred Shares shall have such ------------------ rights as are set forth by the Board of Directors in its resolution authorizing the issuance of the series of which such Preferred Shares are a part to convert their shares into any other class or series of Shares at such price or prices or at such rates of exchange and with such adjustments as shall be determined by the Board of Directors. Preferred Shares so converted shall have the status of authorized and unissued Preferred Shares and may be reissued as part of the series of which they were originally a part, or may be reclassified and reissued as part of a new series of Preferred Shares to be created by resolution of the Board of Directors or as part of any other series of Preferred Shares. (c) General Provisions. Subject to the foregoing provisions, such dividends ------------------- (either in cash, Shares or otherwise) as may be determined by the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may be declared and paid on the Common Shares from time to time in accordance with the laws of the State of Colorado; however, Preferred Shares shall not be entitled to participate in any such dividends whether payable in cash, Shares, or otherwise. (d) Voting. Each record holder of Common Shares (and to the extent, if any, ------- provided by the laws of the State of Colorado or by the Board of Directors acting pursuant to the authority set forth in Section (b)(i)6 of this article each record holder of Preferred Shares) shall have one vote on each matter submitted to a vote for each Share standing in his name on the books of the Corporation. Unless otherwise required under the laws of the State of Colorado, these Articles of Incorporation, the Bylaws, or the resolution of the Board of Directors creating any series of Preferred Shares, no matter submitted to a Shareholder vote shall require the approval of a class or series of Shares. (e) Quorum. At all meetings of Shareholders, one-third (1/3) of the Shares ------- entitled to vote at such meeting, whether represented in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum and at any meeting at which a quorum is present the affirmative vote of a majority of the Shares represented at such meeting and entitled to vote on the subject matter shall be the act of the Shareholders. (f) Distributions to Shareholders. Distributions to liquidate, dissolve, or ------------------------------ wind up the Corporation may be made, after paying or adequately providing for the payment of all the debts and liabilities of the Corporation, from the assets of the Corporation to the holders of Shares in the order of priority established by the laws of the State of Colorado, these Articles of Incorporation, the Bylaws, and the resolutions of the Board of Directors in providing for the issuance of Shares by class or series. In addition, the Board of Directors may from time to time distribute to the holders of Shares in partial liquidation out of either capital or capital surplus of the Corporation a portion of the assets of the Corporation in cash or property, subject to any limitations imposed by the laws of the State of Colorado, these Articles of Incorporation, the Bylaws, and any resolution of the Board of Directors in providing for the issuance of Shares by class or series. Further, dividends in cash, property, or Shares may be paid, as, when, and if declared by the Board of Directors in its sole discretion out of funds of the Corporation to the extent and in the manner prescribed by the laws of the State of Colorado, these Articles of Incorporation, the Bylaws, and the resolutions of the Board of Directors in providing for the issuance of Shares by class or series. (g) Stock Rights and Options. The Corporation is authorized to create and ------------------------- issue, whether or not in connection with the issuance and sale of any of the Shares or other securities of the Corporation, rights or options entitling the holders thereof to purchase Shares or other securities from the Corporation. These rights and options shall be evidenced in such manner as the Board of Directors approves and must set forth the terms upon which, the time within which, the Shares and the number of Shares acquirable, and the price at which the options or rights may be exercised. SERIES A: NON-DIVIDEND BEARING, REDEEMABLE CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK CERTIFICATE SETTING FORTH RESOLUTIONS BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR INTERCELL CORPORATION (PURSUANT TO THE COLORADO CORPORATION CODE) We, the undersigned, as the President and Secretary of Intercell Corporation, a Colorado corporation, the Articles of Incorporation of which are on file in the office of the Secretary of State for the State of Colorado, DO EACH HEREBY CERTIFY AND VERIFY: that the Board of Directors of Intercell Corporation, in accordance with said articles and pursuant to the laws of the State of Colorado, duly adopted on December 29, 1994, the preambles and resolutions attached hereto. IN WITNESS WHEREOF: we have set our hands and the corporate seal this 29th day of December, 1994. INTERCELL CORPORATION (SEAL) /s/ Mark Pierce ----------------------- Mark Pierce, President /s/ Tracy Landry ----------------------- Tracy Landry, Secretary UNANIMOUS CONSENT IN LIEU OF SPECIAL MEETING BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR INTERCELL CORPORATION Pursuant to the provisions of Section 7-5-108, Colorado Revised Statues, as amended ("C.R.S.") - which provide that action required or permitted by the "Colorado Corporation Code" to be taken at a meeting of the board of directors of a Company may be taken without a meeting with the same force and effect as a unanimous vote of said board if the action is (i) evidenced by one or more written consents describing the action taken, (ii) signed by each director and (iii) delivered to the secretary of the Company for filing with the corporate records - the undersigned, constituting all of the members of the board for Intercell Corporation (the "Board of Directors" and the "Company," respectively), do hereby waive any and all notice which may be required to be given with respect to a meeting of the Board of Directors and do hereby take, ratify, confirm and approve the following action to be effective as of December 29, 1994: WHEREAS, the Articles of Incorporation governing the Company (the "Articles of Incorporation") permit the issuance of preferred shares in series with such designations, preferences and relative participating, optional, or other rights and qualifications, limitations and restrictions as may be fixed by the Board of Directors, including, without limitation, the rate of dividends and redemption and conversion prices, all of which are to be determined after giving consideration to the financial and general condition of the Company and to the condition of the securities' markets existing at the time of issuance; WHEREAS, the holder of certain personal property which the Company wishes to acquire has indicated its willingness and desire to accept preferred equity in the Company solely in consideration for the sale of said property; and WHEREAS, the directors deem it advisable to issue a new series of preferred stock at this time to accomplish the aforesaid acquisition, having carefully investigated the financial and general condition of the Company and the relation of the condition of the Company to the condition of the securities' market, and have determined that it is in the best interests of the Company to establish a new series of preferred stock to be denominated "SERIES A: NON-DIVIDEND BEARING, REDEEMABLE, CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK," with the attributes set forth in this resolution; NOW THEREFORE, BE IT: RESOLVED, that the Board of Directors hereby authorizes the Company to issue in exchange for those assets held by Asia Skylink, Inc., Two Hundred Ten Thousand (210,000) shares of its "SERIES A: NON-DIVIDEND BEARING, CONVERTIBLE, REDEEMABLE, PREFERRED STOCK" at a price of $10.00 per share, which series shall have the following features: (a) DIVIDENDS - the series shall be not be entitled to receive any dividends; (b) CONVERSION - the aforesaid holder shall be entitled to convert from time to time and at any time all or any part of its shares into common shares of the Company at a conversion price of $10.00 per share of such common stock beginning upon issuance of this series, which shall also, upon exercise, entitle the holder to the receipt of one Class A Common Stock Purchase Warrant; (c) REDEMPTION - the Company may redeem from time to time and at any time all or any part of the series upon the payment of $10.00 per share, less any previous distributions by the Company thereon; (d) LIQUIDATION PREFERENCE - the series shall not be entitled to a liquidation preference over any other series of preferred stock of the Company, but shall be entitled to a liquidation preference of $10.00 per share over the common shares of the Company; (e) SINKING FUND - the series shall have no sinking fund provisions; (f) VOTING RIGHTS - the series shall carry no voting powers; and (g) ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS - the series shall be issued, upon compliance with the laws of the State of Colorado, in accordance with those terms set forth on Exhibit A hereto, which is specifically incorporated herein by this reference and adopted as the act of the Company: RESOLVED FURTHER, that the aforesaid warrants shall have such terms and conditions applicable to them as set forth in Schedule 1 to Exhibit A; RESOLVED FURTHER, that the President and Secretary are hereby authorized and directed to cause to be filed under corporate seal such certificates as shall be requisite to the end that the stock and warrants shall be issued as aforesaid said; and RESOLVED FINALLY, that the President be and he hereby is, authorized to (i) effectuate, to the extent necessary and appropriate, those actions taken hereby, (ii) issue certificates for the shares and warrants, (iii) prepare a form of certificate for the shares and warrants in accordance with the above resolution and (iv) provide for filing all necessary documentation with the Secretary of State for the Sate of Colorado, applicable state securities authorities and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. This consent may be signed in any one or more counterparts, all of which when taken together shall constitute the same, and when signed by all of the directors of the Company, may be certified by any proper officer as having been unanimously adopted by the Board of Directors on the effective date first set forth above. /s/ Mark S. Pierce - ------------------- Mark S. Pierce EXHIBIT A PREFERRED STOCK PROVISIONS SERIES A: NON-DIVIDEND BEARING, REDEEMABLE, CONVERTIBLE The Series A: Non-Dividend Bearing, Redeemable, Convertible Preferred Stock (the "Preferred Stock") shall consist of one (1) series of Two Hundred Ten Thousand (210,000) shares with each share to be identical to every other in all respects. The "Capital Amount" for the Preferred Stock is $2,100,000 and the Capital Amount per share is $10.00, irrespective of the Company's allocation of the Capital Amount to stated and/or paid-in-capital. The following sets forth the provisions of the Preferred Stock. PART 1: DIVIDENDS The Preferred Stock shall not be entitled to any dividends. PART 2: CONVERSION (2.10) CONVERSION PRICE. The Capital Amount evidenced by the Preferred Stock from time to time may be converted in whole of in part at any time and from time to time into common stock at the sole option of the holder of the Preferred Stock at the price of $10.00 per common share. If converted prior to redemption, the holder shall also be entitled to receive, in addition to one share of common stock, a "CLASS A COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT," the terms and conditions of which are set forth on Schedule 1 attached hereto. (2.02) EXERCISE PROCEDURE. Any share shall be deemed to have been exercised when the Company shall have received the certificate evidencing such shares appropriately endorsed to reflect conversion thereof; whereupon the Company shall forthwith issue the shares of common stock and warrant to which the exercising shareholder is entitled. (2.03) RESERVATION OF SHARES. The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available for the purpose of effecting the conversion of the Preferred Stock the full number of shares of common stock then deliverable upon the conversion of all shares of then outstanding Preferred Stock. (2.04) FRACTIONAL SHARES. No fractional share of common stock shall be issued upon conversion, but, instead of any fraction of a share which would otherwise be issuable, the Company shall pay to the holder an amount equal to the book value allocable to the fractional share of common stock which would have otherwise been issued, as determined using Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. (2.05) PAYMENT OF TAXES. The Company shall pay any and all taxes that may be required in respect of the issuance or delivery of common stock and warrants on conversion. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issuance and delivery of common stock or warrants in a name other than that in which the shares converted were registered, and no such issuance or delivery shall be made unless and until the person requesting such has paid to the Company the amount of any such tax, or has established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax has been paid. (2.06) REGISTRATION, APPROVAL AND LISTING. If any shares of common stock or warrants required to be issued upon conversion of Preferred Stock shall require registration with or approval by any governmental authority under any federal or state law, or listing on any national securities exchange before such shares or warrants may be issued, the holder shall, at his own expense, cause the accomplishment of the same. The Company in such event shall, as expeditiously as possible, assist the holder in his efforts and shall use its best efforts and shall use its best efforts, again at the holder's expense, to cause such shares to be duly registered of approved, as the case may be. (2.07) DELIVERY OF NEW CERTIFICATES. Certificates for common stock and warrants acquired upon conversion shall be delivered to the holder named therein within 15 days after exercise and delivery to the Company thereof. Unless all shares of Preferred Stock are converted or redeemed, the Company shall, within the aforesaid period, prepare a new certificate, substantially identical to that surrendered, representing the balance of the shares previously represented which have not been converted. PART 3: REDEMPTION (3.01) OPTIONAL REDEMPTION. All or any part of the Preferred Stock may be redeemed by the Company in its sole and exclusive discretion at any time and from time to time by payment of the Capital Amount per share to be redeemed. The Preferred Stock may no be redeemed until such time as the "market price" (average of inside bid and asked price) has been $12.50 or more for twenty consecutive trading days prior to the mailing of the redemption notice. (3.02) REDEMPTION NOTICE. Before making any redemption under this part, the Company shall mail to each record holder at his address a written notice stating: (i) the number of shares of Preferred Stock held of record by such holder which the Company proposes to redeem; (ii) the date on which the Company proposes to pay the Capital Amount per share for the shares to be redeemed; (iii) the Capital Amount to be paid for each share redeemed; and (iv) the place at which the shares to be redeemed may be surrendered in exchange for the amount due. The Company shall provide such notice at least 30, but no more than 90, days prior to the established redemption date, except that the holders of Preferred Stock may waive such notice. The Company shall not be obligated to pay the redemption price until the shares to be redeemed are tendered and until the redemption date. Redemption shall be deemed to have occurred on the earlier of delivery to the Company of the Preferred Stock to be redeemed or the date set for redemption. (3.03) DETERMINATION OF NUMBER OF EACH HOLDER'S SHARES TO BE REDEEMED. Unless all shares of Preferred Stock are redeemed, each record holder shall share on a pro rata basis with all other holders of Preferred Stock in any redemption. (3.04) REDEMPTION PRICE. For each share of Preferred Stock which shall be redeemed by the Company, the Company shall be obligated to pay to the record holder an amount equal to the Capital Amount allocated to each such share. Each holder of Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive at any time after the redemption date the full Capital Amount per share at the redemption date upon surrender by the holder at the Company's principal executive office of the certificate representing the shares duly endorsed in blank or accompanied by an appropriate form of assignment duly endorsed in blank. (3.05) ALLOCATION OF PARTIAL REDEMPTION PAYMENTS AMONG HOLDERS OF PREFERRED STOCK. If at any time the Company shall elect to redeem only a portion of the Capital Amount then outstanding, each holder of Preferred Stock shall have the right to have redeemed his pro rata portion. (3.06) REDEEMED CUMULATIVE PREFERRED STOCK TO BE CANCELED OR RETURNED TO TREASURY. The Company, by resolution of its Board of Directors, may, in its sole discretion, either cancel or return to treasury any shares of Preferred Stock redeemed or for any other reason acquired. PART 4: LIQUIDATION The Preferred Stock shall be entitled to preferential liquidation rights over any other series of preferred stock previously or which may subsequently be issued by the Company. The Preferred Stock shall be entitled to preferential liquidation rights over the common stock, but only the extent of the Capital Amount then outstanding. PART 5: SINKING FUND The Preferred Stock shall not be entitled to the establishment of any sinking fund. PART 6: VOTING RIGHTS Except as otherwise provided by the Colorado Corporation Code and such other laws as may be or become applicable, the entire voting power for the election of directors and for all other purposes shall be exclusively vested in the holders of Common Stock or such other or subsequently authorized and issued series of preferred stock as such rights are granted or may accrue to. In the event that holders of Preferred Stock may become entitled to vote, the Preferred Stock is not entitled to cumulative voting, nor is it entitled to any preemptive or similar rights. Further, each share is entitled to one (1) vote on each matter submitted to a vote and to which it is entitled to vote. PART 7: ADJUSTMENT OF CONVERSION PRICE AND SHARES The Conversion Price shall be subject to adjustments as follows: (7.01) If the Company shall issue any shares of common stock as a share dividend or shall subdivide the number of outstanding shares of common stock into a greater number of shares of common stock into a greater number of shares, the conversion price per share shall be reduced proportionately and the number of shares acquirable shall be increased proportionately. Conversely, if the Company shall reduce the number of shares of commons stock outstanding by combining such shares into a smaller number of shares, the conversion price per share shall be increased proportionately and the number of shares of common stock purchasable shall be decreased proportionately. (7.02) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Part 7, no adjustments of the conversion price shall be made whereby such price is adjusted in an amount less the $.10 or until the aggregate of such adjustments shall equal or exceed $.10. (7.03) No adjustment of the conversion price shall be made as a result of or in connection with (i) the issuance of common stock pursuant to options, warrants, and/or share purchase agreements outstanding or in effect on the date hereof, (ii) the establishment of additional option or warrant plans of the Company, the modification, renewal or extension of any plan now in effect or hereafter created, or the issuance of common stock on exercise of any options pursuant to such plans, (iii) the issuance of common stock in connection with an acquisition, consolidation, recapitalization or merger of any type, (iv) compensation or similar arrangements for officers, employees, contractors, consultants or agents of the Company or any subsidiary or (v) the issuance of common stock in private or public offerings. (7.04) Before taking any action which would cause an adjustment reducing the conversion price below the then par value of the common stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock, the Company shall take any corporate action which may, in the opinion of its counsel, be necessary in order that the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and non-assessable shares of common stock at the adjusted conversion price. PART 8: ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS. The Preferred Stock may be subordinated in any respect to the terms and provisions of the common stock and to the terms and provisions of any other series of the Company's preferred stock which may be issued and become outstanding subsequent to the Preferred Stock, unless specifically provided to the contrary above. SCHEDULE 1 CLASS A WARRANT PROVISIONS The Class A Common Stock Purchase Warrants shall consist of one (1) series of Two Hundred Ten Thousand (210,000) warrants, with each warrant to be identical to every other in all respects. The following sets forth the provisions of the warrants. PART 1: EXERCISE (1.01) EXERCISE PRICE. The warrants in their entirety only may be exercised beginning December 29, 1995, through and including January 19, 1996. The warrants may not be exercised in part. Every Two and One-Tenth (2 1/10) warrant may be exercised upon the payment of $5.50 per warrant to acquire one common share. (1.02) EXERCISE PROCEDURE. Any warrants shall be deemed to have been exercised when the Company shall have received the certificate evidencing such appropriately endorsed to reelect conversion thereof; whereupon the Company shall forthwith issue the shares of common stock to which the exercising shareholder is entitled. (1.03) RESERVATION OF SHARES. The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available for the purpose of effecting the exercise of the warrants the full number of shares of common stock then deliverable upon the conversion of all warrants then outstanding. (1.04) FRACTIONAL SHARES. No Fractional share of common stock shall be issued upon exercise of the warrants, but, instead of any fraction of a share which would otherwise be issuable, the Company shall pay to the holder an amount equal to the book value allocable to the fractional share of common stock which would have otherwise been issued, as determined using Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. (1.05) PAYMENT OF TAXES. The Company shall pay any and all taxes that may be required in respect of the issuance or delivery of common stock on exercise. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issuance and delivery of common stock in a name other than that in which the warrants converted were registered, and no such issuance or delivery shall be made unless and until the person requesting such has paid to the Company the amount of any such tax, or has established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax has been paid. (1.06) REGISTRATION, APPROVAL AND LISTING. If any shares of common stock required to be issued upon exercise of the warrants shall require registration with or approval by any governmental authority under any federal or state law, or listing on any national securities exchange before such shares may be issued, the holder shall, at his own expense, cause the accomplishment of the same. The Company in such event shall, as expeditiously as possible, assist the holder in his efforts and shall use its best efforts, again at the holder's expense, to cause such shares to be duly registered or approved, as the case may be. (1.07) DELIVERY OF NEW CERTIFICATES. Certificates for common stock acquired upon exercise shall be delivered to the holder named therein within 15 days after exercise and delivery to the Company thereof. PART 2: REDEMPTION The Company is not entitled to redeem the Warrants. PART 3: LIQUIDATION The warrants shall be not be entitled to any liquidation rights. If the Company liquidates during the period in which the warrants are outstanding, the warrants will simply cease to exist. PART 4: VOTING RIGHTS The warrants shall not be entitled to any voting rights. PART 5: ADJUSTMENT OF EXERCISE PRICE AND SHARES The Exercise Price shall be subject to adjustment as follows: (5.01) If the Company shall issue any shares of common stock as a share dividend or shall subdivide the number of outstanding shares of common stock into a greater number of shares, the exercise price per share shall be reduced proportionately and the number of shares acquirable shall be increased proportionately. Conversely, if the Company shall reduce the number of shares of common stock outstanding by combining such shares into a smaller number of shares, the exercise price per share shall be increased proportionately and the number of shares of common stock purchasable shall be decreased proportionately. (5.02) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Part 7, no adjustments of the exercise price shall be made whereby such price is adjusted in an amount less that $.10 or until the aggregate of such adjustments shall equal or exceed $.10. (5.03) No adjustment of the exercise price shall be made as a result of or in connection with (i) the issuance of common stock pursuant to options, warrants, and/or share purchase agreements outstanding or in effect on the date hereof, (ii) the establishment of additional option or warrant plans of the Company, the modification, renewal or extension of any plan now in effect or hereafter created, or the issuance of common stock on exercise of any options pursuant to such plans, (iii) the issuance of common stock in connection with an acquisition, consolidation, recapitalization or merger of any type, (iv) compensation or similar arrangements for officers, employees, contractors, consultants or agents of the Company or any subsidiary or (v) the issuance of common stock in private or public offerings. (5.04) Before taking any action which would cause an adjustment reducing the conversion price below the then par value of the common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants, the Company shall take any corporate action which may, in the opinion of its counsel, be necessary in order that the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and non-assessable shares of common stock at the adjusted exercise price. CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION OF SERIES B PREFERRED STOCK OF INTERCELL CORPORATION It is hereby certified that: 1. The name of the Company (hereinafter called the "Company") is Intercell Corporation, a Colorado corporation. 2. The certificate of incorporation of the Company authorize the issuance of Ten Million (10,000,000) shares of preferred stock, no par value per share, and expressly vests in the Board of Directors of the Company the authority provided therein to issue any or all of said shares in one (1) or more series and by resolution or resolutions to establish the designation and number and to fix the relative rights and preferences of each series to be issued. 3. The Board of Directors of the Company, pursuant to the authority expressly vested in it as aforesaid, has adopted the following resolutions creating a Series B issue of Preferred Stock: RESOLVED, that one thousand (1,000) of the Ten Million (10,000,000) authorized shares of Preferred Stock of the Company shall be designated Series B Preferred Stock, no par value per share, and shall possess the rights and preferences set forth below: Section 1. Designation and Amount. The shares of such series shall have ---------------------- no par value and shall be designated as Series B Preferred Stock (the "Series B Preferred Stock") and the number of shares constituting the Series B Preferred Stock shall be one thousand (1,000). The Series B Preferred Stock shall be offered at a purchase price of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) per share (the "Original Series B Issue Price"), with a ten percent (10%) per annum accretion rate as set forth herein. Section 2. Rank. The Series B Preferred Stock shall rank: (i) junior to ---- any other class or series of capital stock of the Company hereafter created specifically ranking by its terms senior to the Series B Preferred Stock (collectively, the "Senior Securities"); (ii) prior to all of the Company's Common Stock, no par value per share ("Common Stock"); (iii) prior to any existing class or series of preferred stock ("Existing Preferred Stock"); (iv) prior to any class or series of capital stock of the Company hereafter created not specifically ranking by its terms senior to or on parity with any Series B Preferred Stock of whatever subdivision (collectively, with the Common Stock and the Existing Preferred Stock, "Junior Securities"); and (v) on parity with any class or series of capital stock of the Company hereafter created specifically ranking by its terms on parity with the Series B Preferred Stock ("Parity Securities") in each case as to distributions of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary (all such distributions being referred to collectively as "Distributions"). Section 3. Dividends. The Series B Preferred Stock will bear no --------- dividends, and the holders of the Series B Preferred Stock ("Holders") shall not be entitled to receive dividends on the Series B Preferred Stock. Section 4. Liquidation Preference. ---------------------- (a) In the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, either voluntary or involuntary, the Holders of shares of Series B Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, immediately after any distributions to Senior Securities required by the Company's Certificate of Incorporation or any certificate of designation, and prior in preference to any distribution to Junior Securities but in parity with any distribution to Parity Securities, an amount per share equal to the sum of (i) the Original Series B Issue Price for each outstanding share of Series B Preferred Stock and (ii) an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the Original Series B Issue Price per annum for the period that has passed since the date that, in connection with the consummation of the purchase by Holder of shares of Series B Preferred Stock from the Company, the escrow agent first had in its possession funds representing full payment for the shares of Series B Preferred Stock (such amount being referred to herein as the "Premium"). If upon the occurrence of such event, and after payment in full of the preferential amounts with respect to the Senior Securities, the assets and funds available to be distributed among the Holders of the Series B Preferred Stock and Parity Securities shall be insufficient to permit the payment to such Holders of the full preferential amounts due to the Holders of the Series B Preferred Stock and the Parity Securities, respectively, then the entire assets and funds of the Company legally available for distribution shall be distributed among the Holders of the Series B Preferred Stock and the Parity Securities, pro rata, based on the respective liquidation amounts to which each such series of stock is entitled by the Company's Certificate of Incorporation and any certificate(s) of designation relating thereto. (b) Upon the completion of the distribution required by subsection 4(a), if assets remain in this Company, they shall be distributed to holders of Junior Securities in accordance with the Company's Certificate of Incorporation including any duly adopted certificate(s) of designation. (c) At each Holder's option, a sale, conveyance or disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company or the effectuation by the Company of a transaction or series of related transactions in which more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting power of the Company is disposed of shall be deemed to be a liquidation, dissolution or winding up within the meaning of this Section 4; provided further that an event described in the prior clause that the Holder does not elect to treat as a liquidation and a consolidation, merger, acquisition, or other business combination of the Company with or into any other company or companies shall not be treated as a liquidation, dissolution or winding up within the meaning of this Section 4, but instead shall be treated pursuant to Section 5(f) hereof. (d) In the event that, immediately prior to the closing of a transaction described in Section 4(c) which would constitute a liquidation event, the cash distributions required by Section 4(a) or Section 6 have not been made, the Company shall either: (i) cause such closing to be postponed until such cash distributions have been made, or (ii) cancel such transaction, in which event the rights of the Holders of Series B Preferred Stock shall be the same as existing immediately prior to such proposed transaction. Section 5. Conversion. The record Holders of this Series B Preferred ---------- Stock shall have conversion rights as follows (the "Conversion Rights"): (a) Right to Convert. Each record Holder of Series B Preferred Stock shall be entitled (at the times and in the amounts set forth below) and subject to the Company's right of redemption set forth in Section 6(a), at the office of the Company or any transfer agent for the Series B Preferred Stock (the "Transfer Agent"), to convert (in multiples of one (1) share of Preferred Stock) as follows: (x) up to one-third (1/3) of the shares of Series B Preferred Stock initially issued to such Holder at any time beginning forty-five (45) days following the date of the last closing of a purchase and sale of Series B Preferred Stock that occurs pursuant to the offering of the Series B Preferred Stock by the Company (the "Last Closing Date") and at any time thereafter, (y) up to an additional one-third (1/3) of the shares of Series B Preferred Stock initially issued to such Holder at any time beginning seventy-five (75) days following the Last Closing Date and at any time thereafter, and (z) all remaining Series B Preferred Stock held by such Holder at any time beginning one hundred five (105) days following the Last Closing Date (each of the time periods referenced in subclauses (x), (y) and (z) is hereinafter referred to singularly as a "Conversion Gate") at the office of the Company or any Transfer Agent for the Series B Preferred Stock, into that number of fully-paid and non- assessable shares of Common Stock of the Company calculated in accordance with the following formula (the "Conversion Rate"): Number of shares issued upon conversion of one (1) share of Series B Preferred Stock = (.10) (N/365) (10,000) + 10,000 ------------------------------- Conversion Price where, N= the number of days between (i) the date that, in connection with the consummation of the initial purchase by Holder of shares of Series B Preferred Stock from the Company, the escrow agent first had in its possession funds representing full payment for the shares of Series B Preferred Stock for which conversion is being elected, and (ii) the applicable Date of Conversion (as defined in Section 5(c)(iv) below) for the shares of Series B Preferred Stock for which conversion is being elected, and Conversion Price = the lesser of (x) 100% of the average Closing Bid Price, as that term is defined below, for the five (5) trading days ending on June 26, 1996, which amount is equal to $ 3.9375 (the "Fixed Conversion Price"), or (y) 85% of the average Closing Bid Price, as that term is defined below, of the Company's Common Stock for the five (5) trading days immediately preceding the Date of Conversion, as defined below (the "Variable Conversion Price"). For purposes hereof, the term "Closing Bid Price" shall mean the closing bid price on the Nasdaq Small Cap Market, or if not traded on the Nasdaq Small Cap Market, the closing bid price on the principal national securities exchange or the National Market System on which the Common Stock is so traded and if not available, the mean of the high and low prices on the principal national securities exchange or the National Market System on which the Common Stock is so traded. (b) Conversion at Market Price. Notwithstanding the limitations on conversion set forth above, each record Holder of Series B Preferred Stock shall be entitled to convert, subject to the Company's right of redemption set forth in section 6(a), the Preferred Stock (in multiples of one (1) share of Preferred Stock) prior to the applicable Conversion Gate (but no earlier than forty-five (45) days following the Last Closing Date), at the office of the Transfer Agent, into that number of fully-paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock of Company calculated in accordance with the Conversion Rate set forth above; provided, however, that, for purposes of the conversion pursuant to this subsection 4(b), the Conversion Price shall equal the Closing Bid Price of the Company's Common Stock on the trading day immediately prior to the Date of Conversion. (c) Mechanics of Conversion. In order to convert Series B Preferred Stock into full shares of Common Stock, the Holder shall (i) fax, on or prior to 11:59 p.m., New York City time (the "Conversion Notice Deadline") on the date of conversion, a copy of the fully executed notice of conversion ("Notice of Conversion") to the Company at the office of the Company or its designated transfer agent (the "Transfer Agent") for the Series B Preferred Stock stating that the Holder elects to convert, which notice shall specify the date of conversion, the number of shares of Series B Preferred Stock to be converted, the applicable conversion price and a calculation of the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion (together with a copy of the front page of each certificate to be converted) and (ii) surrender to a common courier for delivery to the office of the Company or the Transfer Agent, the original certificates representing the Series B Preferred Stock being converted (the "Preferred Stock Certificates"), duly endorsed for transfer; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to issue certificates evidencing the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion unless either the Preferred Stock Certificates are delivered to the Company or its Transfer Agent as provided above, or the Holder notifies the Company or its Transfer Agent that such certificates have been lost, stolen or destroyed (subject to the requirements of subparagraph (i) below). Upon receipt by Company of a facsimile copy of a Notice of Conversion, Company shall immediately send, via facsimile, a confirmation of receipt of the Notice of Conversion to Holder which shall specify that the Notice of Conversion has been received and the name and telephone number of a contact person at the Company whom the Holder should contact regarding information related to the Conversion. In the case of a dispute as to the calculation of the Conversion Rate, the Company shall promptly issue to the Holder the number of Shares that are not disputed and shall submit the disputed calculations to its outside accountant via facsimile within three (3) days of receipt of Holder's Notice of Conversion. The Company shall cause the accountant to perform the calculations and notify Company and Holder of the results no later than forty-eight (48) hours from the time it receives the disputed calculations. Accountant's calculation shall be deemed conclusive absent manifest error. (i) Lost or Stolen Certificates. Upon receipt by the Company of evidence of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of any Preferred Stock Certificates representing shares of Series B Preferred Stock, and (in the case of loss, theft or destruction) of indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to the Company, and upon surrender and cancellation of the Preferred Stock Certificate(s), if mutilated, the Company shall execute and deliver new Preferred Stock Certificate(s) of like tenor and date. However, Company shall not be obligated to re-issue such lost or stolen Preferred Stock Certificates if Holder contemporaneously requests Company to convert such Series B Preferred Stock into Common Stock. (ii) Delivery of Common Stock Upon Conversion. The Transfer Agent or the Company (as applicable) shall, no later than the close of business on the second (2nd) business day (the "Deadline") after receipt by the Company or the Transfer Agent of a facsimile copy of a Notice of Conversion and receipt by Company or the Transfer Agent of all necessary documentation duly executed and in proper form required for conversion, including the original Preferred Stock Certificates to be converted (or after provision for security or indemnification in the case of lost or destroyed certificates, if required), issue and surrender to a common courier for either overnight or (if delivery is outside the United States) two (2) day delivery to the Holder at the address of the Holder as shown on the stock records of the Company a certificate for the number of shares of Common Stock to which the Holder shall be entitled as aforesaid. (iii) No Fractional Shares. If any conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock would create a fractional share of Common Stock or a right to acquire a fractional share of Common Stock, such fractional share shall be disregarded and the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion, in the aggregate, shall be the next lower number of shares. (iv) Date of Conversion. The date on which conversion occurs (the "Date of Conversion") shall be deemed to be the date set forth in such Notice of Conversion, provided (i) that the advance copy of the Notice of Conversion is faxed to the Company before 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on the Date of Conversion, and (ii) that the original Preferred Stock Certificates representing the shares of Series B Preferred Stock to be converted are surrendered by depositing such certificates with a common courier, as provided above, and received by the Transfer Agent or the Company as soon as practicable after the Date of Conversion. The person or persons entitled to receive the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion shall be treated for all purposes as the record Holder or Holders of such shares of Common Stock on the Date of Conversion. (d) Reservation of Stock Issuable Upon Conversion. The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available out of its authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock, solely for the purpose of effecting the conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock, such number of its shares of Common Stock as shall from time to time be sufficient to effect the conversion of all then outstanding Series B Preferred Stock; and if at any time the number of authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock shall not be sufficient to effect the conversion of all then outstanding shares of Series B Preferred Stock, the Company will take such corporate action as may be necessary to increase its authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock to such number of shares as shall be sufficient for such purpose. (e) Automatic Conversion. Each share of Series B Preferred Stock outstanding on the date which is three (3) years after the Last Closing Date automatically shall be converted into Common Stock on such date at the Conversion Rate then in effect (calculated in accordance with the formula in Section 5(a) above), and the date which is three (3) years after the Last Closing Date shall be deemed the Date of Conversion with respect to such conversion. (f) Adjustment to Conversion Rate. (i) Adjustment to Fixed Conversion Price Due to Stock Split, Stock Dividend, Etc. If, prior to the conversion of all of the Series B Preferred Stock, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock is increased by a stock split, stock dividend, or other similar event, the Fixed Conversion Price shall be proportionately reduced, or if the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock is decreased by a combination or reclassification of shares, or other similar event, the Fixed Conversion Price shall be proportionately increased. (ii) Adjustment to Variable Conversion Price. If, at any time when any shares of the Series B Preferred Stock are issued and outstanding, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock is increased or decreased by a stock split, stock dividend, or other similar event, which event shall have taken place during the reference period for determination of the Conversion Price for any conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock, then the Variable Conversion Price shall be calculated giving appropriate effect to the stock split, stock dividend, combination, reclassification or other similar event for all five (5) trading days immediately preceding the Date of Conversion. (iii) Adjustment Due to Merger, Consolidation, Etc. If, prior to the conversion of all Series B Preferred Stock, there shall be any merger, consolidation, exchange of shares, recapitalization, reorganization, or other similar event, as a result of which shares of Common Stock of the Company shall be changed into the same or a different number of shares of the same or another class or classes of stock or securities of the Company or another entity or there is a sale of all or substantially all the Company's assets or there is a change of control transaction not deemed to be a liquidation pursuant to section 4(c), then the Holders of Series B Preferred Stock shall thereafter have the right to receive upon conversion of Series B Preferred Stock, upon the basis and upon the terms and conditions specified herein and in lieu of the shares of Common Stock immediately theretofore issuable upon conversion, such stock, securities and/or other assets which the Holder would have been entitled to receive in such transaction had the Series B Preferred Stock been converted immediately prior to such transaction, and in any such case appropriate provisions shall be made with respect to the rights and interests of the Holders of the Series B Preferred Stock to the end that the provisions hereof (including, without limitation, provisions for the adjustment of the Conversion Price and of the number of shares issuable upon conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock) shall thereafter be applicable, as nearly as may be practicable in relation to any securities thereafter deliverable upon the exercise hereof. The Company shall not effect any transaction described in this subsection 5(f)(iii) unless (a) it first gives thirty (30) business days prior notice of such merger, consolidation, exchange of shares, recapitalization, reorganization, or other similar event (during which time the Holder shall be entitled to convert its shares of Series B Preferred Stock into Common Stock) and (b) the resulting successor or acquiring entity (if not the Company) assumes by written instrument the obligations of the Company under this Certificate of Designation including this subsection 5(f)(iii). (iv) No Fractional Shares. If any adjustment under this Section 5(f) would create a fractional share of Common Stock or a right to acquire a fractional share of Common Stock, such fractional share shall be disregarded and the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion shall be the next lower number of shares. Section 6. Redemption by Company. --------------------- (a) Company's Right to Redeem Upon Receipt of Notice of Conversion. If the Conversion Price of the Company's Common Stock is less than the Fixed Conversion Price (as defined in Section 5(a)), at the time of receipt of a Notice of Conversion pursuant to Section 5, the Company shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to redeem in whole or in part any Series B Preferred Stock submitted for conversion, immediately prior to and in lieu of conversion ("Redemption Upon Receipt of Notice of Conversion"). If the Company elects to redeem some, but not all, of the Series B Preferred Stock submitted for conversion, the Company shall redeem from among the Series B Preferred Stock submitted by the various shareholders for conversion on the applicable date, a pro-rata amount from each such Holder so submitting Series B Preferred Stock for conversion. (i) Redemption Price Upon Receipt of a Notice of Conversion. The redemption price per share of Series B Preferred Stock under this Section 6(a) shall be calculated in accordance with the following formula ("Redemption Rate"): [[(.10)(N/365) (10,000)] + 10,000] x Closing Bid Price on Date of Conversion --------------------------------------- Conversion Price where, "N," "Date of Conversion," "Closing Bid Price" and "Conversion Price" shall have the same meanings as defined in Section 5. (ii) Mechanics of Redemption Upon Receipt of Notice of Conversion. The Company shall effect each such redemption by giving notice of its election to redeem, by facsimile, by 5:00 p.m. New York City time the next business day following receipt of a Notice of Conversion from a Holder, and the Company shall provide a copy of such redemption notice by overnight or two (2) day courier, to (A) the Holder of the Series B Preferred Stock submitted for conversion at the address and facsimile number of such Holder appearing in the Company's register for the Series B Preferred Stock and (B) the Company's Transfer Agent. Such redemption notice shall indicate whether the Company will redeem all or part of the Series B Preferred Stock submitted for conversion and the applicable redemption price. (b) Company's Right to Redeem at its Election. At any time, commencing twelve (12) months and one (1) day after the Last Closing Date, the Company shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to redeem ("Redemption at Company's Election"), from time to time, any or all of the Series B Preferred Stock; provided (i) Company shall first provide thirty (30) business days advance written notice as provided in subparagraph 6(b)(ii) below (which can be given beginning thirty (30) business days prior to the date which is twelve (12) months and one (1) day after the Last Closing Date), and (ii) that the Company shall only be entitled to redeem Series B Preferred Stock having an aggregate Stated Value (as defined below) of at least One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000). If the Company elects to redeem some, but not all, of the Series B Preferred Stock, the Company shall redeem a pro-rata amount from each Holder of the Series B Preferred Stock. (i) Redemption Price At Company's Election. The "Redemption Price At Company's Election" shall be calculated as a percentage of Stated Value, as that term is defined below, of the Series B Preferred Stock redeemed pursuant to this Section 6(b), which percentage shall vary depending on the date of Redemption at Company's Election (as defined below), and shall be determined as follows:
Date of Notice of Redemption at Company's Election % of Stated Value - -------------------------------------------------- ----------------- 12 months and 1 day to 18 months following Last Closing Date 130% 18 months and 1 day to 24 months following Last Closing Date 125% 24 months and 1 day to 30 months following Last Closing Date 120% 30 months and 1 day to 36 months following Last Closing Date 115%
For purposes hereof, "Stated Value" shall mean the Original Series B Issue Price (as defined in Section 4(a)) of the shares of Series B Preferred Stock being redeemed pursuant to this Section 6(b), together with the accrued but unpaid Premium (as defined in Section 4(a)). (ii) Mechanics of Redemption at Company's Election. The Company shall effect each such redemption by giving at least thirty (30) business days prior written notice ("Notice of Redemption At Company's Election") to (A) the Holders of the Series B Preferred Stock selected for redemption, at the address and facsimile number of such Holder appearing in the Company's Series B Preferred stock register and (B) the Transfer Agent, which Notice of Redemption At Company's Election shall be deemed to have been delivered three (3) business days after the Company's mailing (by overnight or two (2) day courier, with a copy by facsimile) of such Notice of Redemption At Company's Election. Such Notice of Redemption At Company's Election shall indicate (i) the number of shares of Series B Preferred Stock that have been selected for redemption, (ii) the date which such redemption is to become effective (the "Date of Redemption At Company's Election") and (iii) the applicable Redemption Price At Company's Election, as defined in subsection (b)(i) above. Notwithstanding the above, Holder may convert into Common Stock pursuant to section 5, prior to the close of business on the Date of Redemption at Company's Election, any Series B Preferred Stock which it is otherwise entitled to convert, including Series B Preferred Stock that has been selected for redemption at Company's election pursuant to this subsection 6(b); provided, however, that the Company shall still be entitled to exercise its right to redeem upon receipt of a Notice of Conversion pursuant to section 6(a). (c) Company Must Have Immediately Available Funds or Credit Facilities. The Company shall not be entitled to send any Redemption Notice and begin the redemption procedure under Sections 6(a) and 6(b) unless it has: (i) the full amount of the redemption price in cash, available in a demand or other immediately available account in a bank or similar financial institution; or (ii) immediately available credit facilities, in the full amount of the redemption price with a bank or similar financial institution; or (iii) an agreement with a standby underwriter willing to purchase from the Company a sufficient number of shares of stock to provide proceeds necessary to redeem any stock that is not converted prior to redemption; or (iv) a combination of the items set forth in (i), (ii) and (iii) above, aggregating the full amount of the redemption price. (d) Payment of Redemption Price. (i) Each Holder submitting Preferred Stock being redeemed under this Section 6 shall send their Series B Preferred Stock Certificates so redeemed to the Company or its Transfer Agent, and the Company shall pay the applicable redemption price to that Holder within five (5) business days of the Date of Redemption at Company's Election. The Company shall not be obligated to deliver the redemption price unless the Preferred Stock Certificates so redeemed are delivered to the Company or its Transfer Agent, or, in the event one (1) or more certificates have been lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed, unless the Holder has complied with Section 5(c)(i). (ii) If Company elects to redeem pursuant to Section 6(a) hereof, and Company fails to pay Holder the redemption price within the time frame as required by this Section 6(d), then Company shall issue shares of Common Stock to any such Holder who has submitted a Notice of Conversion in compliance with Section 5(c) hereof. The shares to be issued to Holder pursuant to this provision shall be the number of shares determined using a Conversion Price (as defined in Section 6 hereof) that equals the lesser of (i) the Conversion Price on the date Holder sends its Notice of Conversion to Company or Transfer Agent via facsimile or (ii) the Conversion Price on the date the Transfer Agent issues Common Stock pursuant to this Section 6(d)(ii). The issuance of such shares shall not affect the Company's liability for damages, if any, to the Holder resulting from its failure to redeem. (e) Blackout Period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may not either send out a redemption notice or effect a redemption pursuant to Section 6(b) above during a Blackout Period (defined as a period during which the Company's officers or directors would not be entitled to buy or sell stock because of their holding of material non-public information), unless the Company shall first disclose the non-public information that resulted in the Blackout Period; provided, however, that no redemption shall be effected until at least ten (10) days after the Company shall have given the Holder written notice that the Blackout Period has been lifted. Section 7. Advance Notice of Redemption. ---------------------------- (a) Holder's Right to Elect to Receive Notice of Cash Redemption by the Company. Holder shall have the right to require Company to provide advance notice stating whether the Company will elect to redeem Holder's shares of Series B Preferred Stock in cash, pursuant to the Company's redemption rights discussed in Section 6(a). (b) Mechanics of Holder's Election Notice. Holder shall send notice ("Election Notice") to the Company and such other person(s) as the Company may designate, via facsimile, Holder's intention to require Company to disclose that if Holder were to exercise his, her or its right of conversion (pursuant to Section 5) whether Company would elect to redeem a specific number of shares of Holder's Series B Preferred Stock for cash in lieu of issuing Common Stock. Company is required to disclose to Holder what action Company would take over the subsequent twenty (20) business day period, including the date of such Election Notice, as further discussed in subsection 7(c). (c) Company's Response. Upon receipt by the Company of a facsimile copy of an Election Notice, Company shall immediately send, via facsimile, a confirmation of receipt of the Election Notice to Holder, which shall specify that the Election Notice has been received and the name and telephone number of a contact person at the Company whom the Holder should contact regarding information related to the requested advance notice. Thereafter, the Company must respond by the close of business on the next business day following receipt of Holder's Election Notice (1) via facsimile and (2) by depositing such response with an overnight or two (2) day courier. The Company's response must state whether it would redeem the shares, in whole or in part, or allow conversion into shares of Common Stock without redemption. If Company does not respond to Holder within one (1) business day via facsimile and overnight or two (2) day courier, Company shall be required to issue to Holder Common Stock upon Holder's conversion within the subsequent twenty (20) business day period of Holder's Election Notice. However, if the Company's Common Stock price decreases so that under the Conversion Rate Company would be required to issue more than an additional ten percent (10% ) of shares of Common Stock than Holder was entitled to receive at the time Holder sent Company its Election Notice, then Company shall no longer be bound to convert Holder's Preferred Stock into Common Stock but may elect to redeem for cash. Section 8. Voting Rights. The Holders of the Series B Preferred Stock ------------- shall have no voting power whatsoever, except as otherwise provided by the Colorado Business Corporation Act ("Colorado Law"), and no Holder of Series B Preferred Stock shall vote or otherwise participate in any proceeding in which actions shall be taken by the Company or the shareholders thereof or be entitled to notification as to any meeting of the shareholders. Notwithstanding the above, Company shall provide Holder with notification of any meeting of the shareholders regarding any major corporate events affecting the Company. In the event of any taking by the Company of a record of its shareholders for the purpose of determining shareholders who are entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution, any right to subscribe for, purchase or otherwise acquire any share of any class or any other securities or property (including by way of merger, consolidation or reorganization), or to receive any other right, or for the purpose of determining shareholders who are entitled to vote in connection with any proposed sale, lease or conveyance of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, or any proposed liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, the Company shall mail a notice to Holder, at least ten (10) days prior to the record date specified therein, of the date on which any such record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution, right or other event, and a brief statement regarding the amount and character of such dividend, distribution, right or other event to the extent known at such time. To the extent that under Colorado Law the vote of the Holders of the Series B Preferred Stock, voting separately as a class, is required to authorize a given action of the Company, the affirmative vote or consent of the Holders of at least a majority of the shares of the Series B Preferred Stock represented at a duly held meeting at which a quorum is present or by written consent of a majority of the shares of Series B Preferred Stock (except as otherwise may be required under Colorado Law) shall constitute the approval of such action by the class. To the extent that under Colorado Law the Holders of the Series B Preferred Stock are entitled to vote on a matter with holders of Common Stock, voting together as one (1) class, each share of Series B Preferred Stock shall be entitled to a number of votes equal to the number of shares of Common Stock into which it is then convertible using the record date for the taking of such vote of stockholders as the date as of which the Conversion Price is calculated. Holders of the Series B Preferred Stock also shall be entitled to notice of all shareholder meetings or written consents with respect to which they would be entitled to vote, which notice would be provided pursuant to the Company's by- laws and applicable statutes. Section 9. Protective Provision. So long as shares of Series B Preferred -------------------- Stock are outstanding, the Company shall not without first obtaining the approval (by vote or written consent, as provided by Colorado Law) of the Holders of at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the then outstanding shares of Series B Preferred Stock, and at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the then outstanding Holders: (a) alter or change the rights, preferences or privileges of the Series B Preferred Stock or any Senior Securities so as to affect adversely the Series B Preferred Stock; provided, however, that no such change may be approved at any time on or prior to the fortieth (40th) day following the Last Closing Date unless such change is unanimously approved by all Holders; (b) create any new class or series of stock having a preference over or on parity with the Series B Preferred Stock with respect to Distributions (as defined in Section 2 above) or increase the size of the authorized number of Series B Preferred; or (c) do any act or thing not authorized or contemplated by this Designation which would result in taxation of the holders of shares of the Series B Preferred Stock under Section 305 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (or any comparable provision of the Internal Revenue Code as hereafter from time to time amended). In the event Holders of at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the then outstanding shares of Series B Preferred Stock and at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the then outstanding Holders agree to allow the Company to alter or change the rights, preferences or privileges of the shares of Series B Preferred Stock, pursuant to subsection (a) above, so as to affect the Series B Preferred Stock, then the Company will deliver notice of such approved change to the Holders of the Series B Preferred Stock that did not agree to such alteration or change (the "Dissenting Holders") and Dissenting Holders shall have the right for a period of thirty (30) business days to convert pursuant to the terms of this Certificate of Designation as they exist prior to such alteration or change (notwithstanding the forty-five (45) day, seventy-five (75) day, and one hundred five (105) day holding requirements set forth in Section 5(a) hereof), or continue to hold their shares of Series B Preferred Stock provided, however, that the Dissenting Holders may not convert anytime on or before the fortieth (40th) day following the Last Closing Date. Section 10. Status of Converted or Redeemed Stock. In the event any ------------------------------------- shares of Series B Preferred Stock shall be converted or redeemed pursuant to Section 5 or Section 6 hereof, the shares so converted or redeemed shall be canceled, shall return to the status of authorized but unissued Preferred Stock of no designated series, and shall not be issuable by the Company as Series B Preferred Stock. Section 11. Preference Rights. Nothing contained herein shall be ----------------- construed to prevent the Board of Directors of the Company from issuing one (1) or more series of Preferred Stock with dividend and/or liquidation preferences junior to the dividend and liquidation preferences of the Series B Preferred Stock. Signed on July 10, 1996 By: /s/ Gordon Sales ----------------------- Gordon Sales, President CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION OF SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK OF INTERCELL CORPORATION It is hereby certified that: 1. The name of the Company (hereinafter called the "Company") is Intercell Corporation, a Colorado corporation. 2. The certificate of incorporation of the Company authorizes the issuance of Ten Million (10,000,000) shares of preferred stock, no par value per share, and expressly vests in the Board of Directors of the Company the authority provided therein to issue any or all of said shares in one (1) or more series and by resolution or resolutions to establish the designation and number and to fix the relative rights and preferences of each series to be issued. 3. The Board of Directors of the Company, pursuant to the authority expressly vested in it as aforesaid, has adopted the following resolutions creating a Series C issue of Preferred Stock: RESOLVED, that Six Hundred (600) of the Ten Million (10,000,000) authorized shares of Preferred Stock of the Company shall be designated Series C Preferred Stock, no par value per share, and shall possess the rights and preferences set forth below: Section 1. Designation and Amount. The shares of such series shall have ---------------------- no par value per share and shall be designated as Series C Preferred Stock (the "Series C Preferred Stock") and the number of shares constituting the Series C Preferred Stock shall be Six Hundred (600). The Series C Preferred Stock shall be offered at a purchase price of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) per share (the "Original Series C Issue Price"), with an eight percent (8%) per annum accretion rate as set forth herein. Section 2. Rank. The Series C Preferred Stock shall rank: (i) junior to ---- the Company's Series B Preferred Stock and any other class or series of capital stock of the Company hereafter created specifically ranking by its terms senior to the Series C Preferred Stock (collectively, the "Senior Securities"); (ii) prior to all of the Company's Common Stock, no par value per share ("Common Stock"); (iii) prior to any class or series of capital stock of the Company hereafter created not specifically ranking by its terms senior to or on parity with any Series C Preferred Stock of whatever subdivision (collectively, with the Common Stock, "Junior Securities"); and (iv) on parity with any class or series of capital stock of the Company hereafter created specifically ranking by its terms on parity with the Series C Preferred Stock ("Parity Securities") in each case as to distributions of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary (all such distributions being referred to collectively as "Distributions"). Section 3. Dividends. The Series C Preferred Stock will bear no --------- dividends, and the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock ("Holders") shall not be entitled to receive dividends on the Series C Preferred Stock. Section 4. Liquidation Preference. ---------------------- (a) In the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company ("Liquidation Event"), either voluntary or involuntary, the Holders of shares of Series C Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, immediately after any distributions to Senior Securities required by the Company's Certificate of Incorporation or any certificate of designation, and prior in preference to any distribution to Junior Securities but in parity with any distribution to Parity Securities, an amount per share equal to the sum of (i) the Original Series C Issue Price for each outstanding share of Series C Preferred Stock and (ii) an amount equal to eight percent (8%) of the Original Series C Issue Price per annum for the period that has passed since the date that, in connection with the consummation of the purchase by Holder of shares of Series C Preferred Stock from the Company, the escrow agent first had in its possession funds representing full payment for the shares of Series C Preferred Stock (such amount being referred to herein as the "Premium"). If upon the occurrence of such event, and after payment in full of the preferential amounts with respect to the Senior Securities, the assets and funds available to be distributed among the Holders of the Series C Preferred Stock and Parity Securities shall be insufficient to permit the payment to such Holders of the full preferential amounts due to the Holders of the Series C Preferred Stock and the Parity Securities, respectively, then the entire assets and funds of the Company legally available for distribution shall be distributed among the Holders of the Series C Preferred Stock and the Parity Securities, pro rata, based on the respective liquidation amounts to which each such series of stock is entitled by the Company's Certificate of Incorporation and any certificate(s) of designation relating thereto. (b) Upon the completion of the distribution required by subsection 4(a), if assets remain in this Company, they shall be distributed to holders of Junior Securities in accordance with the Company's Certificate of Incorporation including any duly adopted certificate(s) of designation. (c) At each Holder's option, a sale, conveyance or disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company or the effectuation by the Company of a transaction or series of related transactions in which any person or entity acquires more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting power of the Company (a "Change of Control") shall be deemed to be a Liquidation Event as defined in Section 4(a); provided further that (i) a consolidation, merger, acquisition, or other business combination of the Company with or into any other publicly traded company or companies shall not be treated as a Liquidation Event as defined in Section 4(a), but instead shall be treated pursuant to Section 5(e)(iii) hereof, and (ii) a consolidation, merger, acquisition, or other business combination of the Company with or into any other non-publicly traded company or companies shall be treated as a Liquidation Event as defined in Section 4(a). The Company shall not effect any transaction described in subsection 4(c)(ii) unless it first gives thirty (30) business days prior notice of such transaction (during which time the Holder shall be entitled to immediately convert any or all of its shares of Series C Preferred Stock into Common Stock at the Conversion Price, as defined below, then in effect, which conversion shall not be subject to the conversion restrictions set forth in Section 5(a)). (d) In the event that, immediately prior to the closing of a transaction described in Section 4(c) which would constitute a Liquidation Event, the cash distributions required by Section 4(a) or Section 6 have not been made, the Company shall either: (i) cause such closing to be postponed until such cash distributions have been made, or (ii) cancel such transaction, in which event the rights of the Holders of Series C Preferred Stock shall be the same as existing immediately prior to such proposed transaction. Section 5. Conversion. The record Holders of this Series C Preferred ---------- Stock shall have conversion rights as follows (the "Conversion Rights"): (a) Right to Convert. Each record Holder of Series C Preferred Stock shall be entitled to convert the aggregate Series C Preferred Stock initially issued to such Holder i) at the Fixed Conversion Price (as defined below), at any time after the date that is four (4) months after the date of the Last Closing and ii) at the Variable Conversion Price (as defined below), at the times and in the amounts as follows:
No. of Months Percentage of Series C Preferred Stock Initially After the Last Closing Date Issued to such Holder Available for Conversion - --------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ 4 months 20% 5 months 40% 6 months 60% 7 months 80% 8 months 100%
provided, however, that a Holder may not convert more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the aggregate number of shares of Preferred Stock initially issued to such Holder at the Variable Conversion Price in any given one month period, beginning on the date that is four (4) months following the Last Closing Date and beginning the same day of each subsequent month thereafter until the date that is eight (8) months following the Last Closing Date (the "Monthly Conversion Limit"). Subsequent to the date that is eight (8) months following the Last Closing Date, there shall be no restrictions on the number of shares of Series C Preferred Stock convertible into Common Stock. As used herein, "Last Closing Date" shall mean the date of the last closing of a purchase and sale of the Series C Preferred Stock that occurs pursuant to the offering of the Series C Preferred Stock by the Company. The date that is four (4) months following the Last Closing Date and the same day of each subsequent monthly period referenced above are hereinafter referred to singularly as a "Conversion Gate" and collectively as "Conversion Gates". At the applicable Conversion Gate and at any time thereafter, the percentage of the aggregate Series C Preferred Stock initially issued to such Holder which is available for conversion as set forth above is convertible into that number of fully-paid and non- assessable shares of Common Stock of the Company calculated in accordance with the following formula (the "Conversion Rate"): Number of shares issued upon conversion of one (1) share of Series C Preferred Stock = (.08) (N/365) (10,000) + 10,000 ------------------------------- Conversion Price where, N= the number of days between (i) the date that, in connection with the consummation of the initial purchase by Holder of shares of Series C Preferred Stock from the Company, the escrow agent first had in its possession funds representing full payment for the shares of Series C Preferred Stock for which conversion is being elected, and (ii) the applicable Date of Conversion (as defined in Section 5(b)(iv) below) for the shares of Series C Preferred Stock for which conversion is being elected, and Conversion Price = the lesser of (x) $3.25 (the "Fixed Conversion Price"), or (y) 85% of the average Closing Bid Price, as that term is defined below, of the Company's Common Stock for the five (5) trading days immediately preceding the Date of Conversion, as defined below (the "Variable Conversion Price"). For purposes hereof, any Holder which acquires shares of Series C Preferred Stock from another Holder (the "Transferor") and not upon original issuance from the Company shall be entitled to exercise its conversion right as to the percentages of such shares specified under Section 5(a) in such amounts and at such times such that the number of shares eligible for conversion by such Holder at any time shall be in the same proportion that the number of shares of Series C Preferred Stock acquired by such Holder from its Transferor bears to the total number of shares of Series C Preferred Stock originally issued by the Company to such Transferor (or its predecessor Transferor). For purposes hereof, the term "Closing Bid Price" shall mean the closing bid price as reported by the OTC Bulletin Board or the Nasdaq Small Cap Market or the Nasdaq National Market, or if not traded on the OTC Bulletin Board or the Nasdaq Small Cap Market or the Nasdaq National Market, the closing bid price on the over the counter market, the principal national securities exchange or the National Market System on which the Common Stock is so traded and if not available, the mean of the high and low prices on the over the counter market, including but not limited to the Bulletin Board or the Pink Sheets, the principal national securities exchange or the National Market System on which the Common Stock is so traded. (b) Mechanics of Conversion. In order to convert Series C Preferred Stock into full shares of Common Stock, the Holder shall (i) fax, on or prior to 11:59 p.m., New York City time (the "Conversion Notice Deadline") on the Date of Conversion (as defined below), a copy of the fully executed notice of conversion ("Notice of Conversion") to the Company and to First Union National Bank, the custodian of the Common Stock (the "Custodian") stating that the Holder elects to convert, which notice shall specify the date of conversion, the number of shares of Series C Preferred Stock to be converted, the applicable conversion price and a calculation of the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion (together with a copy of the front page of each certificate to be converted) and (ii) surrender to a common courier for delivery to the office of the Company or the Custodian, the original certificates representing the Series C Preferred Stock being converted (the "Preferred Stock Certificates"), duly endorsed for transfer; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to issue certificates evidencing the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion unless either the Preferred Stock Certificates are delivered to the Company or the Custodian as provided above, or the Holder notifies the Company or the Custodian that such certificates have been lost, stolen or destroyed (subject to the requirements of subparagraph (i) below). Upon receipt by Company of a facsimile copy of a Notice of Conversion, Company shall immediately send, via facsimile, a confirmation of receipt of the Notice of Conversion to Holder which shall specify that the Notice of Conversion has been received and the name and telephone number of a contact person at the Company whom the Holder should contact regarding information related to the Conversion. In the case of a dispute as to the calculation of the Conversion Rate, the Company shall promptly issue or cause the Custodian to issue to the Holder the number of shares that are not disputed and shall submit the disputed calculations to its outside accountant via facsimile within three (3) days of receipt of Holder's Notice of Conversion. The Company shall cause the accountant to perform the calculations and notify Company, Custodian and Holder of the results no later than forty- eight (48) hours from the time it receives the disputed calculations. Accountant's calculation shall be deemed conclusive absent manifest error. All Notices of Conversion shall be irrevocable. (i) Lost or Stolen Certificates. Upon receipt by the Company of evidence of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of any Preferred Stock Certificates representing shares of Series C Preferred Stock, and (in the case of loss, theft or destruction) of indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to the Company, and upon surrender and cancellation of the Preferred Stock Certificate(s), if mutilated, the Company shall execute and deliver new Preferred Stock Certificate(s) of like tenor and date. However, Company shall not be obligated to re-issue such lost or stolen Preferred Stock Certificates if Holder contemporaneously requests Company to convert such Series C Preferred Stock into Common Stock. (ii) Delivery of Common Stock Upon Conversion. The Company either: (x) shall use its best efforts to cause the Custodian, no later than the close of business on the following business day, and, in any event, shall cause the Custodian, no later than the close of business on the second (2nd) business day after receipt by the Company or the Custodian of a facsimile copy of a Notice of Conversion (the "Custodian's Deadline"), to surrender to a common courier for overnight delivery to the Company's transfer agent (the "Transfer Agent") a certificate or certificates for the number of shares of Common Stock to which the Holder shall be entitled as aforesaid and shall cause the Transfer Agent to countersign the Common Stock certificate(s) which it receives from the Custodian and, no later than the close of business on the business day following the day it receives the Common Stock certificate(s) and receives written confirmation from the Custodian or the Company that the Custodian or the Company has received all necessary documentation duly executed and in proper form required for conversion, including the original Preferred Stock Certificates to be converted (or after provision for security or indemnification in the case of lost or destroyed certificates, if required)(the "Transfer Agent's Deadline"), to surrender such Common Stock certificate(s) to a common courier for either overnight or (if delivery is outside the United States) two (2) day delivery to the Holder at the address of the Holder as shown on the stock records of the Company (or to such other address as the Holder shall provide in writing), or (y) shall use its best efforts to cause its Transfer Agent, no later than the close of business on the following business day, and, in any event shall cause its Transfer Agent, no later than the close of business on the second (2nd) business day (the "Deadline"), after receipt by the Company or the Custodian of a facsimile copy of a Notice of Conversion and receipt by the Company or the Custodian of all necessary documentation duly executed and in proper form required for conversion, including the original Preferred Stock Certificates to be converted (or after provision for security or indemnification in the case of lost or destroyed certificates, if required), to issue and surrender for either overnight or (if delivery is outside the United States) two (2) day delivery to the Holder at the address of the Holder as shown on the stock records of the Company (or to such other address as the Holder shall provide in writing) a countersigned certificate for the number of shares of Common Stock to which the Holder shall be entitled as aforesaid. (iii) No Fractional Shares. If any conversion of the Series C Preferred Stock would create a fractional share of Common Stock or a right to acquire a fractional share of Common Stock, such fractional share shall be disregarded and the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion, in the aggregate, shall be the next lower number of shares. (iv) Date of Conversion. The date on which conversion occurs (the "Date of Conversion") shall be deemed to be the date set forth in such Notice of Conversion, provided (i) that the advance copy of the Notice of Conversion is faxed to the Company or the Custodian before 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on the Date of Conversion, and (ii) that the original Preferred Stock Certificates representing the shares of Series C Preferred Stock to be converted are surrendered by depositing such certificates with a common courier, for delivery to the Company or the Custodian as provided above, as soon as practicable after the Date of Conversion. The person or persons entitled to receive the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion shall be treated for all purposes as the record Holder or Holders of such shares of Common Stock on the Date of Conversion. (c) Reservation of Stock Issuable Upon Conversion. The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available out of its authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock, solely for the purpose of effecting the conversion of the Series C Preferred Stock, such number of its shares of Common Stock as shall from time to time be sufficient to effect the conversion of all then outstanding Series C Preferred Stock; and if at any time the number of authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock shall not be sufficient to effect the conversion of all then outstanding shares of Series C Preferred Stock, the Company will take such corporate action as may be necessary to increase its authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock to such number of shares as shall be sufficient for such purpose. (d) Automatic Conversion. Each share of Series C Preferred Stock outstanding on the date which is three (3) years after the Last Closing Date or, if not a business day, the first business day thereafter ("Termination Date") automatically shall either (i) be converted ("Automatic Conversion") into Common Stock on such date at the Conversion Rate then in effect (calculated in accordance with the formula in Section 5(a) above), and the Termination Date shall be deemed the Date of Conversion with respect to such conversion or, at the Company's option, (ii) be redeemed ("Automatic Redemption") by the Company for cash in an amount equal to the Stated Value (as defined in Section 6(b)(i) below) of the shares of Series C Preferred Stock being redeemed. If the Company elects to redeem, the Company shall send to the Holders of outstanding Series C Preferred Stock notice (the "Automatic Redemption Notice") on the fifth (5th) day immediately preceding the Termination Date, via facsimile of its intent to effect an Automatic Redemption of the outstanding Series C Preferred Stock. If the Company does not send such notice to Holder on such date, an Automatic Conversion shall be deemed to have occurred. If an Automatic Conversion occurs, the Company and the Holders shall follow the applicable conversion procedures set forth in this Certificate of Designation; provided, however, that the Holders are not required to send the Notice of Conversion contemplated by Section 5(b). If the Company elects to redeem, each Holder of outstanding Series C Preferred Stock shall send their certificates representing the Series C Preferred Stock to the Company within five (5) days of the date of receipt of the Automatic Redemption Notice from the Company, and the Company shall pay the applicable redemption price to each respective Holder within five (5) days of the receipt of such certificates. The Company shall not be obligated to deliver the redemption price unless the certificates representing the Series C Preferred Stock are delivered to the Company, or, in the event one or more certificates have been lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed, unless the Holder has complied with Section 5(b)(i). If the Company elects to redeem under this Section 5(d) and the Company fails to pay the Holders the redemption price within five (5) days of the Termination Date as required by this Section 5(d), then an Automatic Conversion shall be deemed to have occurred and, upon receipt of the Preferred Stock Certificates, the Company shall immediately deliver to the Holders the certificates representing the number of shares of Common Stock to which the Holders would have been entitled upon Automatic Conversion. (e) Adjustment to Conversion Rate. (i) Adjustment to Fixed Conversion Price Due to Stock Split, Stock Dividend, Etc. If, prior to the conversion of all of the Series C Preferred Stock, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock is increased by a stock split, stock dividend, or other similar event, the Fixed Conversion Price shall be proportionately reduced, or if the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock is decreased by a combination or reclassification of shares, or other similar event, the Fixed Conversion Price shall be proportionately increased. (ii) Adjustment to Variable Conversion Price. If, at any time when any shares of the Series C Preferred Stock are issued and outstanding, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock is increased or decreased by a stock split, stock dividend, or other similar event, which event shall have taken place during the reference period for determination of the Conversion Price for any conversion of the Series C Preferred Stock, then the Variable Conversion Price shall be calculated giving appropriate effect to the stock split, stock dividend, combination, reclassification or other similar event for all five (5) trading days immediately preceding the Date of Conversion. (iii) Adjustment Due to Merger, Consolidation, Etc. If, prior to the conversion of all Series C Preferred Stock, there shall be any merger, consolidation, exchange of shares, recapitalization, reorganization, or other similar event, as a result of which shares of Common Stock of the Company shall be changed into the same or a different number of shares of the same or another class or classes of stock or securities of the Company or another entity or there is a sale of all or substantially all the Company's assets or there is a Change of Control deemed not to be a Liquidation Event pursuant to section 4(c), then the Holders of Series C Preferred Stock shall thereafter have the right to receive upon conversion of Series C Preferred Stock, upon the basis and upon the terms and conditions specified herein and in lieu of the shares of Common Stock immediately theretofore issuable upon conversion, such stock, securities and/or other assets which the Holder would have been entitled to receive in such transaction had the Series C Preferred Stock been converted immediately prior to such transaction, and in any such case appropriate provisions shall be made with respect to the rights and interests of the Holders of the Series C Preferred Stock to the end that the provisions hereof (including, without limitation, provisions for the adjustment of the Conversion Price and of the number of shares issuable upon conversion of the Series C Preferred Stock) shall thereafter be applicable, as nearly as may be practicable in relation to any securities thereafter deliverable upon the exercise hereof. The Company shall not effect any transaction described in this subsection 5(e)(iii) unless (a) it first gives thirty (30) business days prior notice of such merger, consolidation, exchange of shares, recapitalization, reorganization, or other similar event (during which time the Holder shall be entitled to convert its shares of Series C Preferred Stock into Common Stock) and (b) the resulting successor or acquiring entity (if not the Company) assumes by written instrument the obligations of the Company under this Certificate of Designation including this subsection 5(e)(iii). (iv) No Fractional Shares. If any adjustment under this Section 5(e) would create a fractional share of Common Stock or a right to acquire a fractional share of Common Stock, such fractional share shall be disregarded and the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion shall be the next lower number of shares. Section 6. Redemption by Company. --------------------- (a) Company's Right to Redeem Upon Receipt of Notice of Conversion. If the Conversion Price of the Company's Common Stock is less than the Fixed Conversion Price (as defined in Section 5(a)), at the time of receipt of a Notice of Conversion pursuant to Section 5, the Company shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to redeem in whole or in part any Series C Preferred Stock submitted for conversion at the Redemption Rate (as defined below), immediately prior to and in lieu of conversion ("Redemption Upon Receipt of Notice of Conversion"). If the Company elects to redeem some, but not all, of the Series C Preferred Stock submitted for conversion, the Company shall redeem from among the Series C Preferred Stock submitted by the various shareholders for conversion on the applicable date, a pro-rata amount from each such Holder so submitting Series C Preferred Stock for conversion. (i) Redemption Price Upon Receipt of a Notice of Conversion. The redemption price of Series C Preferred Stock under this Section 6(a) shall be calculated as follows ("Redemption Rate"): Redemption Rate = Stated Value x 117.6% where, "Stated Value" shall have the same meaning as defined in Section 6(b)(i) below. (ii) Mechanics of Redemption Upon Receipt of Notice of Conversion. The Company shall effect each such redemption by giving notice to the Holder and to the Custodian of its election to redeem, by facsimile, by 5:00 p.m. New York City time the next business day following receipt of a Notice of Conversion from a Holder, and the Company shall provide a copy of such redemption notice by overnight or two (2) day courier, to (A) the Holder of the Series C Preferred Stock submitted for conversion at the address and facsimile number of such Holder appearing in the Company's register for the Series C Preferred Stock and (B) the Custodian. Such redemption notice shall indicate whether the Company will redeem all or part of the Series C Preferred Stock submitted for conversion and the applicable redemption price. (b) Company's Right to Redeem at its Election. At any time, commencing twelve (12) months and one (1) day after the Last Closing Date, the Company shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to redeem ("Redemption at Company's Election"), from time to time, any or all of the Series C Preferred Stock; provided that (i) Company shall first provide thirty (30) business days advance written notice as provided in subparagraph 6(b)(ii) below (which can be given beginning thirty (30) business days prior to the date which is twelve (12) months and one (1) day after the Last Closing Date), and (ii) the Company shall only be entitled to redeem Series C Preferred Stock having an aggregate Stated Value (as defined below) of at least One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000). If the Company elects to redeem some, but not all, of the Series C Preferred Stock, the Company shall redeem a pro-rata amount from each Holder of the Series C Preferred Stock. (i) Redemption Price At Company's Election. The "Redemption Price At Company's Election" shall be calculated as a percentage of Stated Value, as that term is defined below, of the Series C Preferred Stock redeemed pursuant to this Section 6(b), which percentage shall vary depending on the date of Redemption at Company's Election (as defined below), and shall be determined as follows:
Date of Notice of Redemption at Company's Election % of Stated Value - -------------------------------------------------- ----------------- 12 months and 1 day to 18 months following Last Closing Date 130% 18 months and 1 day to 24 months following Last Closing Date 125% 24 months and 1 day to 30 months following Last Closing Date 120% 30 months and 1 day to 36 months following Last Closing Date 115%
For purposes hereof, "Stated Value" shall mean the Original Series C Issue Price (as defined in Section 1) of the shares of Series C Preferred Stock being redeemed pursuant to this Section 6(b), together with the accrued but unpaid Premium (as defined in Section 4(a)). (ii) Mechanics of Redemption at Company's Election. The Company shall effect each such redemption by giving at least thirty (30) business days prior written notice ("Notice of Redemption At Company's Election") to (A) the Holders of the Series C Preferred Stock selected for redemption, at the address and facsimile number of such Holder appearing in the Company's Series C Preferred stock register and (B) the Custodian, which Notice of Redemption At Company's Election shall be deemed to have been delivered three (3) business days after the Company's mailing (by overnight or two (2) day courier, with a copy by facsimile) of such Notice of Redemption At Company's Election. Such Notice of Redemption At Company's Election shall indicate (i) the number of shares of Series C Preferred Stock that have been selected for redemption, (ii) the date which such redemption is to become effective (the "Date of Redemption At Company's Election") and (iii) the applicable Redemption Price At Company's Election, as defined in subsection (b)(i) above. Notwithstanding the above, Holder may convert into Common Stock pursuant to section 5, prior to the close of business on the Date of Redemption at Company's Election, any Series C Preferred Stock which it is otherwise entitled to convert, including Series C Preferred Stock that has been selected for redemption at Company's election pursuant to this subsection 6(b); provided, however, that the Company shall still be entitled to exercise its right to redeem upon receipt of a Notice of Conversion pursuant to section 6(a). (c) Company Must Have Immediately Available Funds or Credit Facilities. The Company shall not be entitled to send any Redemption Notice and begin the redemption procedure under Sections 6(a) and 6(b) unless it has: (i) the full amount of the redemption price in cash, available in a demand or other immediately available account in a bank or similar financial institution; or (ii) immediately available credit facilities, in the full amount of the redemption price with a bank or similar financial institution; or (iii) a firm commitment agreement with an underwriter to purchase from the Company a sufficient number of shares of stock to provide proceeds necessary to redeem any stock that is not converted prior to redemption; or (iv) a combination of the items set forth in (i), (ii) and (iii) above, aggregating the full amount of the redemption price. (d) Payment of Redemption Price. (i) Each Holder submitting Preferred Stock being redeemed under this Section 6 shall send their Series C Preferred Stock Certificates so redeemed to the Custodian, and the Company shall pay the applicable redemption price to that Holder within five (5) business days of the Date of Redemption at Company's Election. The Company shall not be obligated to deliver the redemption price unless the Preferred Stock Certificates so redeemed are delivered to the Custodian, or, in the event one (1) or more certificates have been lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed, unless the Holder has complied with Section 5(b)(i). (ii) If Company elects to redeem pursuant to Section 6(a) hereof, and Company fails to pay Holder the redemption price within the time frame as required by this Section 6(d), then Company shall issue shares of Common Stock to any such Holder who has submitted a Notice of Conversion in compliance with Section 5(b) hereof. The shares to be issued to Holder pursuant to this provision shall be the number of shares determined using a Conversion Price (as defined in Section 6 hereof) that equals the lesser of (i) the Conversion Price on the date Holder sends its Notice of Conversion to Company and the Custodian via facsimile or (ii) the Conversion Price on the date the Custodian issues Common Stock pursuant to this Section 6(d)(ii). (e) Blackout Period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may not either send out a redemption notice or effect a redemption pursuant to Section 6(b) above during a Blackout Period (defined as a period during which the Company's officers or directors would not be entitled to buy or sell stock because of their holding of material non-public information), unless the Company shall first publicly disclose the non-public information that resulted in the Blackout Period; provided, however, that no redemption shall be effected until at least ten (10) days after the Company shall have given the Holder written notice that the Blackout Period has been lifted. Section 7. Advance Notice of Redemption. ---------------------------- (a) Holder's Right to Elect to Receive Notice of Cash Redemption by the Company. Holder shall have the right to require Company to provide advance notice stating whether the Company will elect to redeem Holder's shares of Series C Preferred Stock in cash, pursuant to the Company's redemption rights discussed in Section 6(a). (b) Mechanics of Holder's Election Notice. Holder shall send notice ("Election Notice") to the Company and such other person(s) as the Company may designate, via facsimile, of the Holder's intention to require Company to disclose that if Holder were to exercise his, her or its right of conversion (pursuant to Section 5) whether Company would elect to redeem a specific number of shares of Holder's Series C Preferred Stock for cash in lieu of issuing Common Stock. Company is required to disclose to Holder what action Company would take, as set forth in subsection 7(c) below. The Holder is not bound to exercise his, her or its right of conversion by virtue of having delivered a notice pursuant to this Section. (c) Company's Response. Upon receipt by the Company of a facsimile copy of an Election Notice, Company shall immediately send, via facsimile, a confirmation of receipt of the Election Notice to Holder, which shall specify that the Election Notice has been received and the name and telephone number of a contact person at the Company whom the Holder should contact regarding information related to the requested advance notice. Thereafter, the Company must respond by the close of business on the next business day following receipt of Holder's Election Notice (1) via facsimile and (2) by depositing such response with an overnight or two (2) day courier. The Company's response must state whether it would redeem the shares, in whole or in part, or allow conversion into shares of Common Stock without redemption. If Company does not respond to Holder within one (1) business day via facsimile and overnight or two (2) day courier, Company shall be required to issue to Holder Common Stock upon Holder's conversion within the subsequent three (3) business day period of Holder's Election Notice. However, if the Company's Common Stock price decreases so that under the Conversion Rate applicable to such conversion, Company would be required to issue more than an additional ten percent (10%) of shares of Common Stock than Holder would have been entitled to receive if Holder had sent a Conversion Notice on the same date Holder sent Company its Election Notice, then Company shall no longer be bound to convert Holder's Preferred Stock into Common Stock but may elect to redeem for cash. Section 8. Voting Rights. The Holders of the Series C Preferred Stock ------------- shall have no voting power whatsoever, except as otherwise provided by the corporation law of the State of Colorado ("Colorado Law"), and no Holder of Series C Preferred Stock shall vote or otherwise participate in any proceeding in which actions shall be taken by the Company or the shareholders thereof or be entitled to notification as to any meeting of the shareholders. Notwithstanding the above, Company shall provide Holder with notification of any meeting of the shareholders regarding any major corporate events affecting the Company. In the event of any taking by the Company of a record of its shareholders for the purpose of determining shareholders who are entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution, any right to subscribe for, purchase or otherwise acquire any share of any class or any other securities or property (including by way of merger, consolidation or reorganization), or to receive any other right, or for the purpose of determining shareholders who are entitled to vote in connection with any proposed sale, lease or conveyance of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, or any proposed liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, the Company shall mail a notice to Holder, at least ten (10) days prior to the record date specified therein, of the date on which any such record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution, right or other event, and a brief statement regarding the amount and character of such dividend, distribution, right or other event to the extent known at such time. To the extent that under Colorado Law the vote of the Holders of the Series C Preferred Stock, voting separately as a class, is required to authorize a given action of the Company, the affirmative vote or consent of the Holders of at least a majority of the shares of the Series C Preferred Stock represented at a duly held meeting at which a quorum is present or by written consent of a majority of the shares of Series C Preferred Stock (except as otherwise may be required under Colorado Law) shall constitute the approval of such action by the class. To the extent that under Colorado Law the Holders of the Series C Preferred Stock are entitled to vote on a matter with holders of Common Stock, voting together as one (1) class, each share of Series C Preferred Stock shall be entitled to a number of votes equal to the number of shares of Common Stock into which it is then convertible using the record date for the taking of such vote of stockholders as the date as of which the Conversion Price is calculated. Holders of the Series C Preferred Stock also shall be entitled to notice of all shareholder meetings or written consents with respect to which they would be entitled to vote, which notice would be provided pursuant to the Company's by- laws and applicable statutes. Section 9. Protective Provision. So long as shares of Series C Preferred -------------------- Stock are outstanding, the Company shall not without first obtaining the approval (by vote or written consent, as provided by Colorado Law) of the Holders of at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the then outstanding shares of Series C Preferred Stock, and at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the then outstanding Holders: (a) alter or change the rights, preferences or privileges of the Series C Preferred Stock or any other Securities so as to affect adversely the Series C Preferred Stock; (b) create any new class or series of stock having a preference over or on parity with the Series C Preferred Stock with respect to Distributions (as defined in Section 2 above) or increase the size of the authorized number of Series C Preferred; or (c) do any act or thing not authorized or contemplated by this Certificate of Designation which would result in taxation of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred Stock under Section 305 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (or any comparable provision of the Internal Revenue Code as hereafter from time to time amended). (d) issue any additional shares of the Series C Preferred Stock after the Last Closing Date. In the event Holders of at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the then outstanding shares of Series C Preferred Stock and at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the then outstanding Holders agree to allow the Company to alter or change the rights, preferences or privileges of the shares of Series C Preferred Stock, pursuant to subsection (a) above, so as to affect the Series C Preferred Stock, then the Company will deliver notice of such approved change to the Holders of the Series C Preferred Stock that did not agree to such alteration or change (the "Dissenting Holders") and Dissenting Holders shall have the right for a period of thirty (30) business days to convert pursuant to the terms of this Certificate of Designation as they exist prior to such alteration or change (notwithstanding the holding requirements set forth in Section 5(a) hereof), or continue to hold their shares of Series C Preferred Stock. Section 10. Status of Converted or Redeemed Stock. In the event any ------------------------------------- shares of Series C Preferred Stock shall be converted or redeemed pursuant to Section 5 or Section 6 hereof, the shares so converted or redeemed shall be canceled, shall return to the status of authorized but unissued Preferred Stock of no designated series, and shall not be issuable by the Company as Series C Preferred Stock. Section 11. Preference Rights. Nothing contained herein shall be ----------------- construed to prevent the Board of Directors of the Company from issuing one (1) or more series of Preferred Stock with dividend and/or liquidation preferences junior to the dividend and liquidation preferences of the Series C Preferred Stock. Section 12. Events of Default. Upon the occurrence of and during the ----------------- continuation of an Event of Default (as defined below) and upon delivery of a notice of acceleration by any Holder, the Company shall pay to the Holder an amount (the "Acceleration Payment") equal to one hundred thirty percent (130%) of the Stated Value of the Holder's outstanding Series C Preferred Stock to the date of payment and all other amounts payable hereunder shall immediately become due and payable, all without demand, presentment, or notice, all of which hereby are expressly waived, together with all costs, including, without limitation, legal fees and expenses, of collection, and the Holder shall be entitled to exercise all other rights and remedies available at law or equity. If the Company fails to pay any amounts due pursuant to this Section 12 within five (5) business days of such amounts being due and payable, then the Holder shall have the right at any time, so long as the Company remains in default, to require the Company, upon written notice, to immediately issue, in lieu of such amounts, the number of shares of Common Stock of the Company equal to the amounts owed by Company to the Holder divided by the Conversion Price then in effect on the date the Company issues shares pursuant to this Section 12. The Company shall be required promptly upon its knowledge of an Event of Default hereunder to give notice of such Event of Default to the Holder hereof. An "Event of Default" shall mean the following: (a) Conversion. If the Company fails to issue shares of Common Stock to any Holder upon exercise by such Holder of the Conversion Rights of the Holder in accordance with the terms of this Certificate of Designation, fails to transfer any certificate for shares of Common Stock issued to any Holder upon conversion of any Preferred Stock and when required by the Certificate of Designation or fails to remove any restrictive legend on any certificate for any shares of Common Stock issued to a Holder upon conversion of any Preferred Stock as and when required by this Certificate of Designation or any Subscription Agreement by and between Company and Holders and any such failure shall continue uncured for ten (10) business days; (b) Breach of Covenant. If the Company breached any material covenant or other material term or condition of this Certificate of Designation or any Subscription Agreement by and between Company and Holder (including the failure to have enough stock available for issuance upon conversion), and such breach continues for a period of ten (10) business days after written notice thereof to the Company from the Holder; (c) Breach of Representations and Warranties. Any representation or warranty of the Company made herein or in any agreement, statement or certificate given in writing pursuant hereto or in connection herewith (including, without limitation, any Subscription Agreement by and between Company and Holder), shall be false or misleading in any material respect when made; (d) Receiver or Trustee. The Company or any subsidiary of the Company shall make an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver or trustee for it or for a substantial part of its property or business; or such a receiver or trustee shall otherwise be appointed; (e) Judgments. Any money judgment, writ or similar process shall be entered or filed against the Company or any subsidiary of the Company or any of its property or other assets for more than Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000), and shall remain unvacated, unbonded or unstayed for a period or twenty (20) days unless otherwise consented to by the Holder, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld; or (f) Bankruptcy. Bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or liquidation proceedings or other proceedings for relief under any bankruptcy law or any law for the relief or debtors shall be instituted by or against the Company or any subsidiary of the Company. Section 13. Future Offering of Securities. In the event that in a capital ----------------------------- raising transaction, the Company, after the date of this Certificate, issues any Common Stock or debt or equity securities convertible into Common Stock (collectively referred to hereinafter as "Future Equity") and such shares of Common Stock are or will become freely tradable on or prior to eight (8) months following the Last Closing Date pursuant to a registration statement or pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Holders of the outstanding Series C Preferred Stock shall have the right, on the date of the closing of such Future Equity transaction and at any time thereafter, to convert any or all of its outstanding Series C Preferred Stock into Common Stock pursuant to the terms of this Certificate of Designation (notwithstanding the holding requirements set forth in Section 5(a) hereof). Signed on December 16, 1996 /s/ Gordon J. Sales -------------------- Gordon J. Sales, President and CEO Attest: /s/ Alan M. Smith - ------------------ Alan M. Smith, Secretary
EX-3.2 4 BYLAWS OF THE COMPANY Exhibit 3.2 ----------- BYLAWS OF INTERCELL CORPORATION ARTICLE I PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND CORPORATE SEAL Section 1. The principal office and place of business of the business of the Corporation in the State of Colorado shall be at the Wilson Building, Suite 112, Cortez, Colorado 81321. Other offices and places of business may be established from time to time by resolution of the board of directors or as the business of the Corporation may require. Section 2. The seal of the Corporation shall have inscribed thereon the name of the Corporation and shall be in such form as may be approved by the board of directors, which shall have power to alter the same at pleasure. The Corporation may use the seal by causing it, or a facsimile thereof, to be impressed or affixed or in any other manner reproduced. ARTICLE II SHARES AND TRANSFER THEREOF Section 1. The shares of this Corporation shall be represented by certificates signed by the president or a vice president and the secretary or an assistant secretary of the Corporation, and may be sealed with the seal of the Corporation or a facsimile thereof. The signatures of the president or vice president and the secretary or assistant secretary upon a certificate may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent, or registrar, other than the Corporation itself or an employee of the Corporation. In case any officer who has signed a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as if he were such officer at the date of its issue. Section 2. No new certificates evidencing shares shall be issued unless and until the old certificate or certificates, in lieu of which the new certificate is issued, shall be surrendered for cancellation, except as provided in Section 3 of this Article II. Section 3. In case of loss or destruction of any certificate of shares, another certificate may be issued in its place upon satisfactory proof of such loss or destruction and, at the discretion of the corporation, upon giving to the Corporation a satisfactory bond of indemnity issued by a corporate surety in an amount and for a period satisfactory to the board of directors. Section 4. For the purpose of determining shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of shareholders, or any adjournment thereof, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend, or in order to make a determination of shareholders for any other proper purpose, the board of directors may provide that the stock transfer books shall be closed for a stated period, but not to exceed fifty days. If the stock transfer books shall be closed for the purpose of determining shareholders entitled to notice of, or to vote at a meeting of shareholders, such books shall be closed for at least ten days immediately preceding such meeting. In lieu of closing the stock transfer books, the board of directors may fix in advance a date as the record date for any such determination of shareholders, such date in any case to be not more than fifty days and, in case of a meeting of shareholders, not less than ten days prior to the date on which the particular action requiring such determination of shareholders is to be taken. If the board of directors does not order the stock transfer books closed, or fix in advance a record date, as above provided, then the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to notice of, or to vote at any meeting of shareholders entitled to notice of, or to vote at any meeting of shareholders, or any adjournment thereof, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend, or for the determination of shareholders for any proper purpose shall be thirty days prior to the date on which the particular action requiring such determination of shareholders is to be taken. ARTICLE III SHAREHOLDERS AND MEETINGS THEREOF Section 1. Only shareholders of record on the books of the Corporation shall be entitled to be treated by the Corporation as holders in fact of the shares standing in their respective names, and the Corporation shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to, or interest in, any shares on the part of any other person, firm or corporation, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as expressly provided by the laws of Colorado. Section 2. Meetings of shareholders shall be held at such locations as determined by the Company's board of directors. Section 3. In the absence of a resolution of the board of directors providing otherwise, the annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation for the election of directors, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting, shall be held on the 15th day of May in each year, if the same be not a legal holiday, and if a legal holiday, then on the next succeeding business day, at 9:00 o'clock a.m. Section 4. Special meetings of shareholders may be called by the president (or in his absence by a vice president). Section 5. Written or printed notice stating the place, day and hour of the shareholders' meeting, and in case of a special meeting of shareholders, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be delivered not less than ten days nor more than fifty days before the date of the meeting, either personally or by mail, by or at the direction of the president, the secretary, the board of directors, or the officer or persons calling the meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting, except that if the authorized shares are to be increased, at least thirty days' notice shall be given. If mailed, such notice shall be deemed to be delivered when deposited in the United States mail addressed to the shareholder at his address as it appears on the stock transfer books of the Corporation, with postage thereon prepaid. Failure to deliver such notice or obtain a waiver thereof shall not cause the meeting to be void, but it shall be adjourned by the shareholders present for a period not to exceed sixty days until any deficiency in notice or waiver shall be supplied. Section 6. The officer or agent having charge of the stock transfer books for shares of this Corporation shall make, at least ten days before each meeting of shareholders, a complete list of the shareholders entitled to vote at such meeting or any adjournment thereof, arranged in alphabetical order, with the address of and the number of shares held by each, which list, for a period of ten days prior to such meeting, shall be kept on file at the principal office of the Corporation, whether within or outside Colorado, and shall be subject to inspection by any shareholder at any time during usual business hours. Such list shall also be produced and kept open at the time and place of the meeting and shall be subject to the inspection of any shareholder during the whole time of the meeting. The original stock transfer books shall be prima facie evidence as to who are the shareholders entitled to examine such list or transfer books or to vote at any meeting of shareholders. Section 7. A quorum at any meeting of shareholders shall consist of a majority of the shares of the Corporation entitled to vote thereat, represented in person or by proxy. If a quorum is present, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares represented at the meeting and entitled to vote on the subject matter shall be the act of the shareholders, unless the vote of a greater number or voting by classes is required by law, the articles of incorporation or these bylaws. Section 8. A shareholder may vote either in person or by proxy executed in writing by the shareholder or by his duly authorized attorney in fact. No proxy shall be valid after eleven months from the date of its execution, unless otherwise provided in the proxy. ARTICLE IV DIRECTORS, POWERS AND MEETINGS Section 1. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by a board of not less than one director and directors need not be shareholders of the Corporation or residents of the State of Colorado and shall be elected at the annual meeting of shareholders or some adjournment thereof. Directors shall hold office until the next succeeding annual meeting of shareholders or until their successors shall have been elected and shall qualify. Section 2. The annual meeting of the board of directors shall be held at the same place as, and immediately after, the annual meeting of shareholders, and no notice shall be required in connection therewith. The annual meeting of the board of directors shall be for the purpose of electing officers and the transaction of such other business as may come before the meeting. Section 3. Special meetings of the board of directors may be called at any time by the president ( or in his absence by a vice president), or by any director, and may be held within or outside the State of Colorado at such time and place as the notice or waiver thereof may specify. Notice of such meetings shall be mailed or telegraphed to the last known address of each director at least five days, or shall be given to a director in person or by telephone at least forty-eight hours, prior to the date or time fixed for the meeting. Special meetings of the board of directors may be held at any time that all directors are present in person, and presence of any meeting except as otherwise provided by law. Unless specifically required by law, the articles of incorporation or these bylaws, neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any meeting of the board of directors need be specified in the notice or waiver of notice of such meeting. Section 4. A quorum at all meetings of the board of directors shall consist of a majority of the number of directors then holding office, but a smaller number may adjourn from time to time without further notice, until a quorum be secured. The act of a majority of the directors present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the board of directors, unless the act of a greater number is required by articles of incorporation of these bylaws. Section 5. Any vacancy occurring in the board of directors may be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors though less than a quorum of the board of directors. A director elected to fill a vacancy shall be elected for the unexpired term of his predecessor in office, and shall hold such office until his successor is duly elected and shall qualify. Any directorship to be filled by reason of an increase in the number of directors shall be filed by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors than in office or by an election at an annual meeting, or at a special meeting of shareholders called for that purpose. A director chosen to fill a position resulting from an increase in the number of directors shall hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his successor shall have been elected and shall qualify. Section 6. Directors may receive such fees as may be established by appropriate resolution of the board of directors for attendance at meetings of the board, and in addition thereto, shall receive reasonable traveling expenses, if any are required, for attendance at such meetings. Section 7. The board of directors may by resolution designate two or more directors to constitute an executive committee which shall have and may exercise such authority in the management of the Corporation as shall be provided in such resolution. Section 8. The shareholders may, at a meeting called for the express purpose of removing directors, by the concurrence of a majority of the shares entitled to votes at an election of directors, remove the entire board of directors or any lesser number, with or without cause. ARTICLE V OFFICERS Section 1. The elective officers of the Corporation shall be a president, one or more vice presidents, a secretary and a treasurer, who shall be elected by the board of directors at its first meeting after the annual meeting of shareholders. Unless removed in accordance with procedures established by law and theses bylaws, the said officers shall serve until the next succeeding annual meeting of the board of directors and until their respective successors are elected and shall qualify. Section 2. The board may elect or appoint such other officers and agents as it may deem advisable, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the board, and shall be paid such compensation as may be directed by the board. Section 3. The officers of the Corporation shall respectively exercise and perform the respective powers, duties and functions as are stated below, and as may be assigned to the by the board of directors. (a) The president shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation and shall, subject to the control of the board of directors, have general supervision, direction and control of the business and officers of the Corporation. He shall preside at all meetings of the shareholders and of the board of directors. The president or a vice president, unless some other person is specifically authorized by the board of directors, shall sign all stock certificates, bonds, deeds, mortgages, leases and contracts of the Corporation. The president shall perform all the duties commonly incident to his office and such other duties as the board of directors shall designate. (b) In absence or disability of the president, the vice president or vice presidents, in order of their rank as fixed by the board of directors, and if not ranked, the vice presidents in the order designated by the board of directors, shall perform all the duties of the president, and when so acting shall have all the powers of, and be subject to all the restrictions on the president. Each vice president shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may from time to time be assigned to him by the president. (c) The secretary shall keep accurate minutes of all meetings of the shareholders and the board of directors. He shall keep, or cause to be kept a register of the shareholders of the Corporation and shall be responsible for the giving of notice of meetings of the shareholder or the board of directors. The secretary shall be custodian of the records and of the seal of the Corporation and shall attest the affixing of the seal of the Corporation when so authorized. The secretary shall perform all duties commonly incident to his office and such other duties as may from time to time be assigned to him by the president. (d) An assistant secretary may, at the request of the secretary, or in the absence or disability of the secretary, perform all of the duties of the secretary. He shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by the president or by the secretary. (e) The treasurer, subject to the order of the board of directors, shall have the care and custody of the money, funds, valuable papers and documents of the Corporation. He shall keep accurate books of accounts of the Corporation's transactions, which shall be the property of the Corporation, and shall render financial reports and statements of condition of the Corporation when so requested by the board of directors or president. The treasurer shall perform all duties commonly incident to his office and such other duties as may from time to time be assigned to him by the president. (f) An assistant treasurer may, at the request of the treasurer, or in the absence or disability of the treasurer. He shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by the president or by the treasurer. Section 4. All officers of the Corporation may receive salaries or other compensation if so ordered and fixed by the board of directors. The board shall have authority to fix salaries in advance for stated periods or render the same retroactive as the board may deem advisable. Section 5. In the event of absence or inability of any officer to act, the board of directors may delegate the powers or duties of such officer to any other officer, director or person whom it may select. Section 6. Any officer or agent may be removed by the board of directors or by the executive committee, if any, whenever in its judgment the best interest of the Corporation will be served thereby, but such removal shall be without prejudice to the contract rights, if any, of the person so removed. Election or appointment of an officer or agent shall not, of itself, create contract rights. ARTICLE VI FINANCE Section 1. The board of directors, in its uncontrolled discretion, may set aside from time to time, out of the net profits or earned surplus of the Corporation, such sum or sums as it deems expedient as a reserve fund to meet contingencies, for equalizing dividends, for maintaining any property of the Corporation, and for any other purpose. Section 2. The moneys of the Corporation shall be deposited in the name of the Corporation in such bank or banks or trust company or trust companies, as the board of directors shall designate, and may be drawn out only on checks signed in the name of the Corporation by such person or persons as the board of directors by appropriate resolution may direct. Notes and commercial paper, when authorized by the board, shall be signed in the name of the Corporation by such officer or officers or agent or agents as shall thereunto be authorized from time to time. Section 3. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be determined by resolution of the board of directors. ARTICLE VII WAIVER OF NOTICE With any notices required by law or under these bylaws to be given to any shareholder or director of the Corporation, a waiver thereof in writing signed by the person entitled to such notice, whether before, at, or after the item stated therein shall be the equivalent to the giving of such notice. ARTICLE VIII ACTION WITHOUT A MEETING Any action required to be taken at a meeting of the directors, executive committee members or shareholders of this Corporation, or any action which may be taken at a meeting of directors, executive committee members, or shareholders, may be without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken is signed by all directors or executive committee members, or the minimum number of shareholders as is required by the laws of the State of Colorado, depending on the subject matter thereof. Notice of such action shall be provided according to statute. ARTICLE IX INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS, OFFICERS AND OTHERS Section 1. The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or complete action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the Corporation) by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorney's fees), judgments fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not of itself create a --------------- presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interest of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful. Section 2. The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the Corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interest of the Corporation, except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue, or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable for negligence or misconduct in the performance of his duty to the Corporation unless and only to the extent that the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which such court shall deem proper. Section 3. To the extent that a director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of the Corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in Section 1 and 2 of this Article IX, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection therewith. Section 4. Any indemnification under Sections 1 and 2 of this Article IX (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the Corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the officer, director, employee, fiduciary or agent is proper in the circumstances because he has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Sections 1 and 2 of this Article IX. Such determination shall be made (a) by the board of directors by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, or (b) if such a quorum is not obtainable, or, even if obtainable, if a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (c) by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of stock entitled to vote and represented at a meeting called for such purpose. Section 5. Expenses incurred in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding may be paid by the Corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding as authorized by the board of directors as provided in Section 4 of this Article IX upon receipt of any undertaking by or on behalf of the director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent to repay such amount unless it shall ultimately be determined that he is entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized in this Article IX. Section 6. The board of directors may exercise the Corporation's power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify him against such liability hereunder or otherwise. Section 7. The indemnification provided by this Article IX shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights or limitations to which those seeking indemnification may be entitled or limited under the Articles of Incorporation, these Bylaws, agreement, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors, the Colorado Corporation Code, or otherwise, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs and personal representatives of such a person. ARTICLE X AMENDMENTS These bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed at the annual meeting of the board of directors or at any special meeting of the board called for that purpose. ARTICLE XI GENDER Whenever in these bylaws the masculine gender is used, it shall be deemed to include the feminine gender. The above bylaws approved and adopted by the Board of Directors on November 10, 1983. /s/ John Williams ------------------------ John Williams EX-4.1 5 FORM OF STOCK CERTIFICATE Exhibit 4.1 ----------- INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF COLORADO [COMPANY LOGO] INTERCELL CORPORATION NO PAR VALUE NUMBER SHARES ------ This Certifies That CUSIP 458441 30 0 is the owner of Fully Paid and Non-Assessable No Par Value Shares of Common Stock of INTERCELL CORPORATION transferable only on the books of this Corporation in person or by Attorney upon surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed. This Certificate is not valid unless countersigned by the transfer agent and registrar. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the said Corporation has caused this certificate to be endorsed by the facsimile signature of its duly authorized officers and to be sealed with the facsimile seal of the Corporation. Dated: ALAN M. SMITH, SECRETARY [CORPORATE SEAL] GORDON J. SALES, PRESIDENT EX-4.5 6 FORM OF WARRANT Exhibit 4.5 ----------- THIS WARRANT AND THE SECURITIES RECEIVABLE UPON EXERCISE HEREOF HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAW, AND MAY NOT BE SOLD, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF OR EXERCISED UNLESS (i) A REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS SHALL HAVE BECOME EFFECTIVE WITH REGARD THERETO, OR (ii) AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS IS AVAILABLE IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER. Warrant to Purchase 38,462 shares - ------ WARRANT TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK OF INTERCELL CORPORATION THIS CERTIFIES that THE GIFFORD FUND LTD or any subsequent ("Holder") hereof, has the right to purchase from INTERCELL CORPORATION, a Colorado corporation (the "Company"), up to 38,462 fully paid and nonassessable shares of the ------ Company's Common Stock, no par value ("Common Stock"), subject to adjustment as provided herein, at a price equal to the Exercise Price as defined in Section 3 below, at any time beginning on the Date of Issuance and ending at 5:00 p.m., New York, New York time, on November 30, 2001. The Holder of this Warrant agrees with the Company that this Warrant is issued and all rights hereunder shall be held subject to all of the conditions, limitations and provisions set forth herein. 1. Date of Issuance. ----------------- This Warrant shall be deemed to be issued on December 10, 1996 ("Date of Issuance"). 2. Exercise. -------- (a) Manner of Exercise. This Warrant may not be exercised prior to June 1, 1997. Thereafter, this Warrant may be exercised as to all or any lesser number of full shares of Common Stock covered hereby upon surrender of this Warrant, with the Exercise Form attached hereto duly executed, together with the full Exercise Price (as defined in Section 3) for each share of Common Stock as to which this Warrant is exercised, at the office of the Company, Suite 1750, 999 West Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2W2; Attention: President, Telephone No. (604) 684-1533, Telecopy No. (604) 688-7997, or at such other office or agency as the Company may designate in writing, by overnight mail, with an advance copy of the Exercise Form attached as Exhibit A ("Exercise Form") by facsimile (such surrender and payment of the Exercise Price hereinafter called the "Exercise of this Warrant"). (b) Date of Exercise. The "Date of Exercise" of the Warrant shall be defined as the date that the advance copy of the Exercise Form is sent by facsimile to the Company, provided that the original Warrant and Exercise Form are received by the Company as soon as practicable thereafter. Alternatively, the Date of Exercise shall be defined as the date the original Exercise Form is received by the Company, if Holder has not sent advance notice by facsimile. (c) Cancellation of Warrant. This Warrant shall be canceled upon its Exercise, and, as soon as practical after the Date of Exercise, the Holder hereof shall be entitled to receive Common Stock for the number of shares purchased upon such Exercise, and if this Warrant is not exercised in full, the Holder shall be entitled to receive a new Warrant or Warrants (containing terms identical to this Warrant) representing any unexercised portion of this Warrant in addition to such Common Stock. (d) Holder of Record. Each person in whose name any Warrant for shares of Common Stock is issued shall, for all purposes, be deemed to have become the Holder of record of such shares on the Date of Exercise of this Warrant, irrespective of the date of delivery of such shares of Common Stock. Nothing in this Warrant shall be construed as conferring upon the Holder hereof any rights as a shareholder of the Company. 3. Payment of Warrant Exercise Price. --------------------------------- The Exercise Price shall equal $3.25 ("Exercise Price"). Payment of the Exercise Price may be made by either of the following, or a combination thereof, at the election of Holder: (i) Cash Exercise: cash, certified check or cashiers check or wire transfer; or (ii) Cashless Exercise: subject to the last sentence of this Section 3, surrender of this Warrant at the principal office of the Company together with notice of cashless election, in which event the Company shall issue Holder a number of shares of Common Stock computed using the following formula: X = Y (A-B)/A where: X = the number of shares of Common Stock to be issued to Holder. Y = the number of shares of Common Stock for which this Warrant is being exercised. A = the Market Price of one (1) share of Common Stock (for purposes of this Section 3(ii), the "Market Price" shall be defined as the average closing price of the Common Stock for the five (5) trading days prior to the Date of Exercise of this Warrant (the "Average Closing Price"), as reported by the OTC Bulletin Board, or if the Common Stock is not traded on the OTC Bulletin Board, the Average Closing Price in the over-the-counter market; provided, however, that if the Common Stock is listed on a stock exchange, the Market Price shall be the Average Closing Price on such exchange. If the Common Stock is/was not traded during the five (5) trading days prior to the Date of Exercise, then the closing price for the last publicly traded day shall be deemed to be the closing price for any and all (if applicable) days during such five (5) trading day period. B = the Exercise Price. For purposes of Rule 144 and sub-section (d)(3)(ii) thereof, it is intended, understood and acknowledged that the Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant in a cashless exercise transaction shall be deemed to have been acquired at the time this Warrant was issued. Moreover, it is intended, understood and acknowledged that the holding period for the Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant in a cashless exercise transaction shall be deemed to have commenced on the date this Warrant was issued. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, this Warrant may not be exercised in a cashless exercise transaction if, on the Date of Exercise, the shares of Common Stock to be issued upon exercise of this Warrant would upon such (x) be then registered pursuant to an effective registration statement filed pursuant to that certain Registration Rights Agreement dated on or about December 9, 1996 by and among the Company and certain investors; or (y) otherwise be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. 4. Transfer and Registration. ------------------------- (a) Transfer Rights. Subject to the provisions of Section 8 of this Warrant, this Warrant may be transferred on the books of the Company, in whole or in part, in person or by attorney, upon surrender of this Warrant properly endorsed. This Warrant shall be canceled upon such surrender and, as soon as practicable thereafter, the person to whom such transfer is made shall be entitled to receive a new Warrant or Warrants as to the portion of this Warrant transferred, and the Holder of this Warrant shall be entitled to receive a new Warrant or Warrants as to the portion hereof retained. (b) Registrable Securities. The Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of this Warrant constitute "Registrable Securities" under that certain Registration Rights Agreement dated on or about December 9, 1996 between the Company and certain investors and, accordingly, has the benefit of the registration rights pursuant to that agreement. 5. Anti-Dilution Adjustments. ------------------------- (a) Stock Dividend. If the Company shall at any time declare a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock, then the Holder hereof, upon Exercise of this Warrant after the record date for the determination of Holders of Common Stock entitled to receive such dividend, shall be entitled to receive upon Exercise of this Warrant, in addition to the number of shares of Common Stock as to which this Warrant is Exercised, such additional shares of Common Stock as such Holder would have received had this Warrant been Exercised immediately prior to such record date and the Exercise Price will be proportionately adjusted. (b) Recapitalization or Reclassification. If the Company shall at any time effect a recapitalization, reclassification or other similar transaction of such character that the shares of Common Stock shall be changed into or become exchangeable for a larger or smaller number of shares, then upon the effective date thereof, the number of shares of Common Stock which the Holder hereof shall be entitled to purchase upon Exercise of this Warrant shall be increased or decreased, as the case may be, in direct proportion to the increase or decrease in the number of shares of Common Stock by reason of such recapitalization, reclassification or similar transaction, and the Exercise Price shall be, in the case of an increase in the number of shares, proportionally decreased and, in the case of decrease in the number of shares, proportionally increased. The Company shall give the Warrant Holder the same notice it provides to holders of Common Stock of any transaction described in this Section 5(b). (c) Distributions. If the Company shall at any time distribute to Holders of Common Stock cash, evidences of indebtedness or other securities or assets (other than cash dividends or distributions payable out of earned surplus or net profits for the current or preceding year) then, in any such case, the Holder of this Warrant shall be entitled to receive, upon exercise of this Warrant, with respect to each share of Common Stock issuable upon such Exercise, the amount of cash or evidences of indebtedness or other securities or assets which such Holder would have been entitled to receive with respect to each such share of Common Stock as a result of the happening of such event had this Warrant been Exercised immediately prior to the record date or other date fixing shareholders to be affected by such event (the "Determination Date") or, in lieu thereof, if the Board of Directors of the Company should so determine at the time of such distribution, a reduced Exercise Price determined by multiplying the Exercise Price on the Determination Date by a fraction, the numerator of which is the result of such Exercise Price reduced by the value of such distribution applicable to one share of Common Stock (such value to be determined by the Board in its discretion) and the denominator of which is such Exercise Price. (d) Notice of Consolidation or Merger. In the event of a merger, consolidation, exchange of shares, recapitalization, reorganization, or other similar event, as a result of which shares of Common Stock of the Company shall be changed into the same or a different number of shares of the same or another class or classes of stock or securities or other assets of the Company or another entity or there is a sale of all or substantially all the Company's assets (a "Corporate Change"), then this Warrant shall be exercisable into such class and type of securities or other assets as the Holder would have received had the Holder exercised this Warrant immediately prior to such Corporate Change; provided, however, that Company may not affect any Corporate Change unless it first shall have given thirty (30) business days notice to the Holder hereof of any Corporate Change. (e) Exercise Price Adjusted. As used in this Warrant, the term "Exercise Price" shall mean the purchase price per share specified in Section 3 of this Warrant, until the occurrence of an event stated in subsection (a), (b) or (c) of this Section 5, and thereafter shall mean said price as adjusted from time to time in accordance with the provisions of said subsection. No such adjustment under this Section 5 shall be made unless such adjustment would change the Exercise Price at the time by $.01 or more; provided, however, that all adjustments not so made shall be deferred and made when the aggregate thereof would change the Exercise Price at the time by $.01 or more. No adjustment made pursuant to any provision of this Section 5 shall have the effect of increasing the Exercise Price. The number of shares of Common Stock subject hereto shall increase proportionately with each decrease in the Exercise Price. (f) Adjustments: Additional Shares, Securities or Assets. In the event that at any time, as a result of an adjustment made pursuant to this Section 5, the Holder of this Warrant shall, upon Exercise of this Warrant, become entitled to receive shares and/or other securities or assets (other than Common Stock) then, wherever appropriate, all references herein to shares of Common Stock shall be deemed to refer to and include such shares and/or other securities or assets; and thereafter the number of such shares and/or other securities or assets shall be subject to adjustment from time to time in a manner and upon terms as nearly equivalent as practicable to the provisions of this Section 5. 6. Fractional Interests. -------------------- No fractional shares or scrip representing fractional shares shall be issuable upon the Exercise of this Warrant, but on Exercise of this Warrant, the Holder hereof may purchase only a whole number of shares of Common Stock. If, on Exercise of this Warrant, the Holder hereof would be entitled to a fractional share of Common Stock or a right to acquire a fractional share of Common Stock, such fractional share shall be disregarded and the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion shall be the next higher number of shares. 7. Reservation of Shares. --------------------- The Company shall at all times reserve for issuance such number of authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock (or other securities substituted therefor as herein above provided) as shall be sufficient for Exercise and payment of the Exercise Price of this Warrant. The Company covenants and agrees that upon Exercise of this Warrant, all shares of Common Stock issuable upon such Exercise shall be duly and validly issued, fully paid, nonassessable and not subject to preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or similar rights of any person or entity. 8. Restrictions on Transfer. ------------------------ (a) Registration or Exemption Required. This Warrant has been issued in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Act by virtue of Regulation D. The Warrant and the Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrant may not be sold except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an exemption to the registration requirements of the Act and applicable state laws. (b) Assignment. Assuming the conditions of (a) above regarding registration or exemption have been satisfied, the Holder may sell, transfer, assign, pledge or otherwise dispose of this Warrant, in whole or in part. Holder shall deliver a written notice to Company, substantially in the form of the Assignment attached hereto as Exhibit B, indicating the person or persons to whom the Warrant shall be assigned and the respective number of warrants to be assigned to each assignee. The Company shall effect the assignment within ten (10) days, and shall deliver to the assignee(s) designated by Holder a Warrant or Warrants of like tenor and terms for the appropriate number of shares. 9. Benefits of this Warrant. ------------------------ Nothing in this Warrant shall be construed to confer upon any person other than the Company and the Holder of this Warrant any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Warrant and this Warrant shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Company and the Holder of this Warrant. 10. Applicable Law. -------------- This Warrant is issued under and shall for all purposes be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Colorado, without giving effect to conflict of law provisions thereof. 11. Loss of Warrant. --------------- Upon receipt by the Company of evidence of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Warrant, and (in the case of loss, theft or destruction) of indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to the Company, and upon surrender and cancellation of this Warrant, if mutilated, the Company shall execute and deliver a new Warrant of like tenor and date. 12. Notice or Demands. ----------------- Notices or demands pursuant to this Warrant to be given or made by the Holder of this Warrant to or on the Company shall be sufficiently given or made if sent by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, and addressed, until another address is designated in writing by the Company, to Attention: President, Intercell Corporation, Suite 1750, 999 West Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2W2, Attention: President, Telephone No. (604) 684-1533, Telecopy No. (604) 688-7997. Notices or demands pursuant to this Warrant to be given or made by the Company to or on the Holder of this Warrant shall be sufficiently given or made if sent by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, and addressed, to the address of the Holder set forth in the Company's records, until another address is designated in writing by Holder. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Warrant as of the 16th day of December, 1996. INTERCELL CORPORATION By: /s/ Gordon Sales ------------------------ Print Name: Gordon Sales Title: President EXHIBIT A EXERCISE FORM TO: INTERCELL CORPORATION The undersigned hereby irrevocably exercises the right to purchase ____________ of the shares of Common Stock of INTERCELL CORPORATION, a Colorado corporation (the "Company"), evidenced by the attached Warrant, and herewith makes payment of the Exercise Price with respect to such shares in full, all in accordance with the conditions and provisions of said Warrant. 1. The undersigned agrees not to offer, sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of Common Stock obtained on exercise of the Warrant, except in accordance with the provisions of Section 8(a) of the Warrant. 2. The undersigned requests that stock certificates for such shares be issued free of any restrictive legend, and a warrant representing any unexercised portion hereof be issued, pursuant to the Warrant in the name of the Registered Holder and delivered to the undersigned at the address set forth below: Dated: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signature of Registered Holder - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name of Registered Holder (Print) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Non-U.S. Address EXHIBIT B ASSIGNMENT (To be executed by the registered Holder desiring to transfer the Warrant) FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned Holder of the attached Warrant hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto the person or persons below named the right to purchase _______ shares of the Common Stock of INTERCELL CORPORATION evidenced by the attached Warrant and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint _______________________ attorney to transfer the said Warrant on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises. Dated: ______________________________ Signature Fill in for new Registration of Warrant: _________________________________________ Name _________________________________________ Address _________________________________________ Please print name and address of assignee (including zip code number) _______________________________________________________________________ NOTICE The signature to the foregoing Exercise Form or Assignment must correspond to the name as written upon the face of the attached Warrant in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. ________________________________________________________________________ EX-4.6 7 SPECIMAN OF REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT Exhibit 4.6 ----------- INTERCELL CORPORATION REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT THIS REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is entered into as of July 1, 1996, by and among INTERCELL CORPORATION, a Colorado corporation ("Company"), and the subscribers ("Subscribers") to the Company's offering ("Offering") of up to Ten Million ($10,000,000) of Series B Preferred Stock ("Preferred Stock") pursuant to the Regulation S Subscription Agreement between the Company and the Subscribers of even date herewith ("Subscription Agreement"). 1. DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this Agreement: (a) The terms "register," "registered," and "registration" refer to a registration effected by preparing and filing a registration statement or similar document in compliance with the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Act"), and pursuant to Rule 415 under the Act or any successor rule, and the declaration or ordering of effectiveness of such registration statement or document; (b) For purposes of the Required Registration under Section 2 hereof, the term "Registrable Securities" means the Company's Common Stock (together with any capital stock issued as a dividend on, in replacement of, in exchange for, or otherwise in respect of such Common Stock or issued pursuant to Section 17 hereof, the "Common Stock") issuable or issued upon conversion of the Preferred Stock and exercise of the Warrants. For purposes of a Demand Registration under Section 3 hereof or a Piggyback Registration under Section 4 hereof, the term "Registrable Securities" means the Company's Common Stock issuable or issued upon conversion of the Preferred Stock and exercise of the Warrants; provided, however, that after the expiration of the Restricted Period (as defined in the Subscription Agreement), for purposes of Section 3 and Section 4, shares of Common Stock obtainable on conversion of the Preferred Stock and exercise of the Warrants (in whole or in part) shall not constitute Registrable Securities, if those shares of Common Stock may be immediately sold or transferred in the U.S. by the Holder free of any restrictive legend, including without limitation under Rule 144; (c) The number of shares of "Registrable Securities then outstanding" shall be determined by the number of shares of Common Stock which have been issued or are issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock or exercise of the Warrants at the time of such determination; (d) The term "Holder" means any person owning or having the right to acquire Registrable Securities or any permitted assignee thereof; (e) The terms "Warrant" and "Warrants" refer to the warrant or warrants issued to Subscribers as securities in connection with the Offering; and (f) The term "Due Date" means the date which is ninety (90) days after the Last Closing (as defined in the Subscription Agreement) of the Offering. 2. REQUIRED REGISTRATION. (a) Within ninety (90) days after the Last Closing (as defined in the Subscription Agreement) of the Offering, the Company shall file a registration statement ("Registration Statement") on Form S-1, Form SB-2 or Form S-3 (if filing on Form S-3 is available to Company) (or other suitable form), covering the resale of all shares of Registrable Securities then outstanding. (b) The Registration Statement shall be prepared as a "shelf" registration statement under Rule 415, and shall be maintained effective until the distribution described in the Registration Statement is completed. The Company shall use its best efforts to have the Registration Statement declared effective as soon as possible after filing. (c) The Holders have the right to convert the Preferred Stock into Common Stock pursuant to the terms of the Subscription Agreement and the Certificate of Designation of Series B Preferred Stock of the Company and sell the Common Stock under Regulation S and applicable exemptions until such time that the Registration Statement becomes effective. (d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Holder (together with any assignee of its rights) (collectively referred to as "Excluded Holders") shall be entitled, by written notice to the Company delivered at any time prior to the filing of the Registration Statement contemplated by this Section 2, to elect to have the Registrable Securities issued or issuable to it excluded from the Registration Statement. In the event a Holder elects not to have its Registrable Securities included in the Registration Statement, the Holder shall, nonetheless, and notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, have the right (i) upon written notice to the Company from Holders of at least twenty-five (25%) of the Registrable Securities not subject to another registration statement then on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, at any time following the expiration of the ninety (90) day period following the Last Closing, to cause the Company to effect a Demand Registration (as defined in Section 3) registering the Registrable Securities held by such Holders on Form S-1 or Form SB-2 or, if available, Form S-3 (or other suitable form, subject to the approval of such Holders), and (ii) at any time following the Due Date, to have its shares included in any Piggyback Registration (as defined in Section 4), in each case in accordance with the provisions of Sections 3 and 4 hereof. In connection with a Demand Registration initiated by the Excluded Holders under this Subsection 2(d), the Company shall pay all costs and expenses of Demand Registration in accordance with Section 9. 3. DEMAND REGISTRATION. (a) If the Registration Statement described in Section 2 is not filed by the Due Date, or if such Registration Statement is filed timely but is not effective within a reasonable time thereafter, the Holders of Registrable Securities obtained or obtainable upon conversion of at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the shares of the Preferred Stock outstanding may notify the Company in writing that they demand that the Company file a registration statement under the Act covering the registration of all of the Registrable Securities then outstanding on Form S-1 or Form SB-2, or if available, Form S-3. Upon receipt of such notice, the Company shall, within ten (10) days, give written notice of such request to all Holders and shall, subject to the limitations of subsection 3(b), effect as soon as practicable, and in any event within thirty (30) days of the receipt of such request, the registration under the Act of all Registrable Securities which the Holders request, by notice given to the Company within ten (10) days of receipt of the Company's notice, to be registered as expeditiously as reasonably possible after the mailing of such notice by the Company (a "Demand Registration"). (b) If the Holders initiating the registration request hereunder ("Initiating Holders") intend to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by their request by means of an underwriting, they shall so advise the Company as a part of their request made pursuant to this Section 3 and the Company shall include such information in the written notice referred to in subsection 3(a). In such event, the right of any Holder to include his Registrable Securities in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Holder's participation in such underwriting and the inclusion of such Holder's Registrable Securities in the underwriting (unless otherwise mutually agreed by a majority in interest of the Initiating Holders and such Holder) to the extent provided herein. All Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting shall (together with the Company as provided in subsection 7(f)) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by a majority in interest of the Initiating Holders, and reasonably acceptable to the Company; provided that no Holder shall be required to make any representations other than with respect to its ownership of Registered Securities and its intended method of distribution. (c) The Company agrees to include all Registrable Securities held by all Holders in such Registration Statement without cutback or reduction. In the event the Company breaches its obligation of the preceding sentences, any Holders of the Registrable Securities which were not included in such Registration Statement shall be entitled to additional Demand Registrations for such excluded securities on the same terms as the Demand Registration described in this Agreement. In the event the Company breaches its obligations to effect and maintain any registration statement filed pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, any Holders of Registrable Securities which were not sold because of such breach shall be entitled to additional Demand Registrations for such securities which shall be maintained until such time as the securities are sold. (d) The Company is not obligated to effect a demand registration under this Section 3 if in the written opinion of counsel to the Company reasonably acceptable to the person or persons from whom written request for registration has been received (and satisfactory to the Company's transfer agent to permit the transfer) that registration under the Act is not required for the immediate transfer of the Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 144 or other applicable provision. (e) The Company represents that it is eligible to effect the registration contemplated hereby on Form S-1 or Form SB-2 and will continue to take such actions as are necessary to maintain such eligibility. The Company will use its best efforts to become eligible to use Form S-3 and maintain such eligibility. 4. PIGGYBACK REGISTRATION. If the Registration Statement described in Section 2 is not effective by the Due Date, and no demand for a Demand Registration has been made pursuant to Section 3, and if (but without any obligation to do so), the Company proposes to register (including for this purpose a registration effected by the Company for shareholders other than the Holders) any of its Common Stock under the Act in connection with the public offering of such securities (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to participants in a Company stock plan or a registration on Form S-4 promulgated under the Act or any successor or similar form registering stock issuable upon a reclassification, upon a business combination involving an exchange of securities or upon an exchange offer for securities of the issuer or another entity), the Company shall, at such time, promptly give each Holder written notice of such registration. Upon the written request of each Holder given by fax within ten (10) days after mailing of such notice by the Company, which request shall state the intended method of disposition of such shares by such Holder, the Company shall cause to be registered under the Act all of the Registrable Securities that each such Holder has requested to be registered (a "Piggyback Registration"). 5. LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS TO REGISTER. (a) In the case of a Piggyback Registration on an underwritten public offering by the Company, if the managing underwriter determines and advises in writing that the inclusion in the registration statement of all Registrable Securities proposed to be included would interfere with the successful marketing of the securities proposed to be registered by the Company, then the number of such Registrable Securities to be included in the registration statement shall be allocated among all Holders who had requested Piggyback Registration, in the proportion that the number of Registrable Securities which each such Holder seeks to register bears to the total number of Registrable Securities sought to be included by all Holders; provided that in no event shall the number of Registrable Securities be less than thirty-five percent (35%) pro-rata of the total number of shares included in such registration. (b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Company shall have the right (i) to defer the initial filing or request for acceleration of effectiveness of any Demand Registration or Piggyback Registration or (ii) after effectiveness, to suspend effectiveness of any such registration statement, if, in the good faith judgment of the board of directors of the Company and upon the advice of counsel of the managing underwriter (if any) of the offering, such delay in filing or requesting acceleration of effectiveness or such suspension of effectiveness is necessary in light of the existence of material non-public information (financial or otherwise) concerning the Company disclosure of which at the time is not, in the opinion of the board of directors of the Company upon the advice of counsel, (A) otherwise required and (B) in the best interests of the Company; provided however that the Company will use its best efforts to terminate such delay or suspension as soon as practicable and, in any event will not delay effectiveness of such registration for more than two (2) months from the date of the demand or suspend effectiveness for more than twenty (20) days, unless it is then engaged in an acquisition that would make such registration impracticable, in which case it will use its best efforts to eliminate such impracticability as soon as possible. 6. OBLIGATIONS TO INCREASE AVAILABLE SHARES. In the event that the number of shares available under a registration statement filed pursuant to Section 3 is insufficient to cover all of the Registrable Securities then outstanding, the Company shall amend that registration statement, or file a new registration statement, or both, so as to cover all shares of Registrable Securities then outstanding. The Company shall effect such amendment or new registration within sixty (60) days of the date the registration statement filed under Section 3 is insufficient to cover all the shares of Registrable Securities then outstanding. Any Registration Statement filed hereunder shall, to the extent permissible by the Rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), state that, in accordance with Rule 416 under the Act, such Registration Statement also covers such indeterminate numbers of additional shares of Common Stock as may become issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock to prevent dilution resulting from stock changes or by reason of changes in the conversion price in accordance with the terms thereof. 7. OBLIGATIONS OF THE COMPANY. Whenever required under this Agreement to effect the registration of any Registrable Securities, the Company shall, as expeditiously as reasonably possible: (a) Prepare and file with the SEC a registration statement with respect to such Registrable Securities and use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective. (b) Prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and supplements to such registration statement and the prospectus used in connection with such registration statement as may be necessary to comply with the provisions of the Act with respect to the disposition of all securities covered by such registration statement. (c) With respect to any Demand Registration, use best efforts to keep such registration statement effective until the Holders of Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement have completed the distribution described in the registration statement. (d) Furnish to the Holders (i) such numbers of copies of a prospectus, including a preliminary prospectus, in conformity with the requirements of the Act, and such other documents as they may reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of Registrable Securities owned by them and (ii) copies of all correspondence to or with the SEC. Each Holder shall be furnished with copies of drafts of all filings (including amendments and supplements) prior to filing and given sufficient time to provide comments thereon. (e) Use its best efforts to register and qualify the securities covered by such registration statement under such other securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as shall be reasonably requested by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement, provided that the Company shall not be required in connection therewith or as a condition thereto to qualify to do business or to file a general consent to service of process in any such states or jurisdictions. (f) In the event of any underwritten public offering, enter into and perform its obligations under an underwriting agreement, in usual and customary form, with the managing underwriter of such offering. Each Holder participating in such underwriting shall also enter into and perform its obligations under such an agreement. (g) Notify each Holder of Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement at any time when a prospectus relating thereto is required to be delivered under the Act upon the happening of any event as a result of which the prospectus included in such registration statement, as then in effect, includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in the light of the circumstances then existing. (h) Furnish, at the request of any Holder whose shares are being registered pursuant to this Agreement, on the date that such Registrable Securities are delivered to the underwriters for sale in connection with a registration pursuant to this Agreement, if such securities are being sold through underwriters, or, if such securities are not being sold through underwriters, on the date that the registration statement with respect to such securities becomes effective, (i) an opinion, dated such date, of the counsel representing the Company for the purposes of such registration, in form and substance as is customarily given to underwriters in an underwritten public offering, addressed to the underwriters, if any, and to the Holders requesting registration of Registrable Securities and (ii) a letter dated such date, from the independent certified public accountants of the Company, in form and substance as is customarily given by independent certified public accountants to underwriters in an underwritten public offering, addressed to the underwriters, if any, and to the Holders requesting registration of Registrable Securities. (i) Maintain the listing of the Common Stock on the OTC Bulletin Board or other automated quotation system or a national securities exchange. 8. FURNISH INFORMATION. It shall be a condition precedent to the obligations of the Company to take any action pursuant to this Agreement that the selling Holders shall furnish to the Company such information regarding themselves, the Registrable Securities held by them, and the intended method of disposition of such securities as shall be required to effect the registration of their Registrable Securities or to determine that registration is not required pursuant to Rule 144 or other applicable provision of the Act. 9. EXPENSES OF REQUIRED OR DEMAND REGISTRATION. All expenses other than underwriting discounts and commissions incurred in connection with registrations, filings or qualifications pursuant to Sections 2 or 3, including (without limitation) all registration, filing and qualification fees, printers' and accounting fees, fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company, and including the reasonable fees and disbursements incurred of only one counsel for the selling Holders shall be borne by the Company; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay for any expenses of any registration proceeding begun pursuant to Sections 2 or 3 if the registration request is subsequently withdrawn at the request of the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be registered (in which case all Holders who had requested such registration shall bear such expenses); provided further, however, that if at the time of such withdrawal, the Holders have learned of a material adverse change in the condition, business, or prospects of the Company from that known to the Holders at the time of their request, then the Holders shall not be required to pay any of such expenses and shall retain their rights pursuant to Sections 2 and 3. 10. EXPENSES OF COMPANY REGISTRATION. The Company shall bear and pay all expenses incurred in connection with any registration, filing or qualification of Registrable Securities with respect to the registrations pursuant to Section 4 for each Holder, including (without limitation) all registration, filing, and qualification fees, printers and accounting fees relating or apportionable thereto (and including the reasonable fees and disbursements incurred of only one counsel for the selling Holders selected by them), but excluding underwriting discounts and commissions relating to Registrable Securities. 11. INDEMNIFICATION. In the event any Registrable Securities are included in a registration statement under this Agreement: (a) To the extent permitted by law, the Company will indemnify and hold harmless each "Holder Indemnified Persons" (defined for purposes of this Section 11 as each Holder, the officers and directors of each Holder acting in their capacity as such, any underwriter (as defined in the Act) for such Holder and each person, if any, who controls such Holder or underwriter within the meaning of the Act or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act")), against any losses, claims, damages, expenses, or liabilities (joint or several) (hereinafter referred to singularly as "Loss" and collectively as "Losses") to which they may become subject under the Act, the 1934 Act or other federal or state law, insofar as such Losses (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any of the following statements, omissions or violations (collectively a "Violation"): (i) any untrue statement, or alleged untrue statement, of a material fact contained in such registration statement, including any preliminary prospectus or final prospectus contained therein or any amendments or supplements thereto, (ii) the omission, or alleged omission, to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein, or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or (iii) any violation by the Company of the Act, the 1934 Act, any state securities law or any rule or regulation promulgated under the Act, the 1934 Act or any state securities law; and the Company will reimburse each such Holder Indemnified Person for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such Loss or action; provided, however, that the indemnity agreement contained in this subsection 11(a) shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any such Loss or action if such settlement is effected without the consent of the Company (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), nor shall the Company be liable in any such case to an Indemnified Person for any such Loss or action to the extent that it arises out of or is based upon a Violation which occurs (i) in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished expressly for use in connection with such registration by such Holder Indemnified Person or (ii) based upon a prospectus which included a Violation after the Company has advised such Indemnified Person not to sell pursuant to such prospectus, and has made available to such Indemnified Person an amended or supplemental prospectus that corrects such Violation. (b) To the extent permitted by law, each selling Holder will indemnify and hold harmless the "Company Indemnified Persons" (defined for the purpose of this Section 11 as the Company, each of its directors in their capacity as such, each of its officers who have signed the registration statement in their capacity as such, each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Act in their capacity as such, any underwriter and any other Holder Indemnified Person selling securities in such registration statement), against any Loss (joint or several) to which the Company or any such director, officer, controlling person, or underwriter or controlling person, or other such Holder Indemnified Person may become subject, under the Act, the 1934 Act or other federal or state law, insofar as such Loss (or actions in respect thereto) arises out of or is based upon any Violation, in each case to the extent (and only to the extent) that such Violation occurs in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished by such Holder expressly for use in connection with such registration; and each such Holder will reimburse any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company and any such Company Indemnified Person in connection with investigating or defending any such Loss or action; provided, however, that the indemnity agreement contained in this subsection 11(b) shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any such Loss or action if such settlement is effected without the consent of the Holder, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld; provided, that, in no event shall any indemnity under this subsection 11(b) exceed the gross proceeds from the offering received by such Holder. (c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 11 of notice of the commencement of any action (including any governmental action), such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against any indemnifying party under this Section 11, deliver to the indemnifying party a written notice of the commencement thereof and the indemnifying party shall have the right to participate in, and, to the extent the indemnifying party so desires, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly noticed, to assume the defense thereof with counsel mutually satisfactory to the parties; provided, however, that an indemnified party shall have the right to retain its own counsel, with the reasonably incurred fees and expenses to be paid by the indemnifying party, if representation of such indemnified party by the counsel retained by the indemnifying party would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between such indemnified party and any other party represented by such counsel in such proceeding. The failure to deliver written notice to the indemnifying party within a reasonable time of the commencement of any such action, if prejudicial to its ability to defend such action, shall relieve such indemnifying party of any liability to the indemnified party under this Section 11, but the omission so to deliver written notice to the indemnifying party will not relieve it of any liability that it may have to any indemnified party otherwise than under this Section 11 to the extent it is prejudicial. (d) The obligations of the Company and Holders under this Section 11 shall survive the redemption and conversion, if any, of the Preferred Stock, the completion of any offering of Registrable Securities in a registration statement under this Agreement, and otherwise. 12. REPORTS UNDER SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934. With a view to making available to the Holders the benefits of Rule 144 promulgated under the Act and any other rule or regulation of the SEC that may at any time permit a Holder to sell securities of the Company to the public without registration, the Company agrees to: (a) make and keep public information available, as those terms are understood and defined in SEC Rule 144, at all times; (b) file with the SEC in a timely manner all reports and other documents required of the Company under the Act and the 1934 Act; and (c) furnish to any Holder, so long as the Holder owns any Registrable Securities, forthwith upon request (i) a written statement by the Company, if true, that it has complied with the reporting requirements of SEC Rule 144 (at any time after ninety (90) days after the effective date of the first registration statement filed by the Company), the Act and the 1934 Act, (ii) a copy of the most recent annual or quarterly report of the Company and such other reports and documents so filed by the Company, and (iii) such other information as may be reasonably requested in availing any Holder of any rule or regulation of the SEC which permits the selling of any such securities without registration. 13. AMENDMENT OF REGISTRATION RIGHTS. Any provision of this Agreement may be amended and the observance thereof may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively), only with the written consent of the Company, and the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities then outstanding. Any amendment or waiver effected in accordance with this paragraph shall be binding upon each Holder, each future Holder, and the Company; provided, however, that no amendment or waiver that materially and adversely affects the rights of any Holder shall be effective against such Holder unless such Holder agrees thereto. 14. NOTICES. All notices required or permitted under this Agreement shall be made in writing signed by the party making the same, shall specify the section under this Agreement pursuant to which it is given, and shall be addressed if to (i) the Company at: President, 770-1130 West Pender Street, Vancouver, BC V6E 4A4; Telephone No. (604) 684-1533; Telecopy No. (604) 688-7997 and (ii) the Holders at their respective last address as the party shall have furnished in writing as a new address to be entered on such register. Any notice, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, shall be made by fax and shall be deemed given at the time of transmission of the fax. 15. TERMINATION. This Agreement shall terminate on the later to occur of (a) the date that is five (5) years from the date of this Agreement and (b) the date that is ninety (90) days after the date on which all the Warrants have been exercised; but without prejudice to (i) the parties' rights and obligations arising from breaches of this Agreement occurring prior to such termination or (ii) other indemnification obligations under this Agreement. 16. ASSIGNMENT. No assignment, transfer or delegation, whether by operation of law or otherwise, of any rights or obligations under this Agreement by the Company or any Holder, respectively, shall be made without the prior written consent of the majority in interest of the Holders or the Company, respectively; provided that the rights of a Holder may be transferred to a subsequent holder of the Holder's Registrable Securities (provided such transferee shall provide to the Company, together with or prior to such transferee's request to have such Registrable Securities included in a Demand Registration or Piggyback Registration, a writing executed by such transferee agreeing to be bound as a Holder by the terms of this Agreement); and provided further that the Company may transfer its rights and obligations under this Agreement to a purchaser of all or a substantial portion of its business if the obligations of the Company under this Agreement are assumed in connection with such transfer, either by merger or other operation of law (which may include without limitation a transaction whereby the Registrable Securities are converted into securities of the successor in interest) or by specific assumption executed by the transferee. 17. PAYMENTS FOR FAILURE TO REGISTER OR FAILURE TO LIST. If the Registration Statement required under Section 2 hereof is not filed on or prior to ninety (90) days after the Last Closing or if a registration statement filed pursuant to Section 3 is not effective within ninety (90) days of demand, or if the Company fails to respond to any request for information from the SEC related to such Registration Statement within fifteen (15) days of such request, then the Company shall pay to all Holders of outstanding Preferred Stock an aggregate amount equal to two percent (2%) per month of the aggregate amount of Preferred Stock sold in the Offering, compounded monthly, and accruing daily, payable in Common Stock, which Common Stock shall also be deemed "Registrable Securities" hereunder. If, the Company is not eligible to effect a Registration under Form S-1 or SB-2 or S-3, or other appropriate registration statement, at the time of a Demand Registration under the terms of this agreement solely through the act or failure to act by the Company, and not due to a change in statute or regulation or other fact circumstance not under the Company's control, then the Company shall pay to all Holders of outstanding Preferred Stock an aggregate penalty equal to the amount of the Conversion Default Payment ("Conversion Default Payment") set forth in Section 7.6 of the Regulation S Subscription Agreement between the Company and the Subscribers ("Subscription Agreement") for each day beyond sixty (60) days of the receipt of a request for a Demand Registration until such registration is complete. If, on the date (the "Conversion Eligibility Date") that Preferred Stock becomes eligible for conversion into Common Stock or the Warrants are exercisable, the Common Stock is not listed on the OTC Bulletin Board or other national stock exchange or automated quotation system, then the Company shall pay to all Holders of outstanding Preferred Stock that are eligible for immediate conversion and to all Holders of unexercised Warrants a penalty equal to the amount of the Conversion Default Payment ("Conversion Default Payment") set forth in Section 7.6 of the Regulation S Subscription Agreement between the Company and the Subscribers ("Subscription Agreement") for each day beyond the Conversion Eligibility Date until such listing is complete. 18. GOVERNING LAW. This Registration Rights Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Colorado applicable to agreements made in and wholly to be performed in that jurisdiction, except for matters arising under the Act or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which matters shall be construed and interpreted in accordance with such laws. Any action brought to enforce, or otherwise arising out of, this Agreement shall be heard and determined only in either a federal or province court sitting in the State of Colorado, Denver County. [INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Registration Rights Agreement as of the date first above written. INTERCELL CORPORATION By: /s/ Gordon J. Sales --------------------------- Name: Gordon J. Sales Title: President Address: 770-1130 West Pender Street Vancouver, BC V6E 4A4 INVESTOR(S) ___________________________________ Investor's Name By:_________________________________ (Signature) Address: __________________________ ____________________________________ EX-4.7 8 SPECIMAN OF REGRISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT Exhibit 4.7 ----------- REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT THIS REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is entered into as of December 16, 1996, by and among Intercell Corporation, a Colorado corporation ("Company"), Swartz Investments, LLC, a Georgia limited liability company ("Swartz Investments") and the subscribers (hereinafter referred to as "Subscribers" or "Investors") to the Company's offering ("Offering") of up to Six Million Dollars ($6,000,000) of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock (the "Preferred Stock") pursuant to the Regulation D Securities Subscription Agreement between the Company and the Subscribers ("Subscription Agreement"). 1. DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this Agreement: ----------- (a) The terms "register," "registered," and "registration" refer to a registration effected by preparing and filing a registration statement or similar document in compliance with the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Act"), and pursuant to Rule 415 under the Act or any successor rule, and the declaration or ordering of effectiveness of such registration statement or document; (b) For purposes of the Required Registration under Section 2 hereof, the term "Registrable Securities" means the shares of the Company's Common Stock together with any capital stock issued in replacement of, in exchange for or otherwise in respect of such Common Stock, the "Common Stock"), issuable or issued upon (i) conversion of the Series C Preferred Stock (the "Preferred Stock") issued to Subscribers in the Offering and (ii) exercise of the Warrants. For purposes of a Demand Registration under Section 3 hereof or a Piggyback Registration under Section 4 hereof, "Registrable Securities" shall have the meaning set forth above, except that the following shall not constitute Registrable Securities for purposes of a Demand Registration under Section 3 hereof or a Piggyback Registration under Section 4 hereof: 1. shares of Common Stock obtainable (x) on conversion of the Preferred Stock (in whole or in part) and (y) on exercise of the Warrant (the "Warrant Shares"), shall not constitute Registrable Securities if those shares of Common Stock may be resold in a public transaction without registration under the Act, including without limitation pursuant to Rule 144 under the Act; and 2. any Registrable Securities resold in a public transaction shall cease to constitute Registrable Securities. (c) The number of shares of "Registrable Securities then outstanding" shall be determined by the number of shares of Common Stock which have been issued or are issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock and exercise of the Warrants at the time of such determination; (d) The term "Holder" means any person owning or having the right to acquire Registrable Securities or any permitted assignee thereof; (e) The terms "Warrant" and "Warrants" refer to (i) the warrants granted to Swartz Investments or to persons designated by Swartz Investments in connection with this Offering or in connection with the offering of the Company's Series B Preferred Stock and (ii) the warrant or warrants issued to Subscribers as securities in connection with the Offering; (f) The term "Initiating Holders" means (i) holders of Registrable Securities obtained or obtainable upon conversion of at least Fifty (50) shares of Preferred Stock; and (g) The term "Due Date" means the date which is four (4) months after the Last Closing (as defined in the Subscription Agreement) of the Offering (as defined in the Subscription Agreement). 2. REQUIRED REGISTRATION. --------------------- (a) Within thirty (30) days after the Last Closing of the Offering (as defined in the Subscription Agreement), the Company shall file a registration statement ("Registration Statement") on Form S-1 (or other suitable form, at the Company's discretion but subject to the reasonable approval of the Investors), covering the resale of all shares of Registrable Securities then outstanding including an indeterminate number of shares of Common Stock as required to effect conversion of the Preferred Stock and exercise of the Warrants. Such Registration Statement shall initially cover at least Four Million (4,000,000) shares of Common Stock and allocated and reserved pro rata among the Subscribers. (b) The Registration Statement shall be prepared as a "shelf" registration statement under Rule 415, and shall be maintained effective until the distribution described in the Registration Statement is completed. The Company shall use its best efforts to have the Registration Statement declared effective within four (4) months after the Last Closing (as defined in the Subscription Agreement). (c) If the Registration Statement is not declared effective by the Due Date, the Company must continue to use its best efforts to obtain a declaration of effectiveness and shall pay the Investors an amount equal to two percent (2%) per month of the aggregate amount of Preferred Stock sold in the Offering, compounded monthly and accruing daily, until the Registration Statement or a registration statement filed pursuant to Section 3 or Section 4 is declared effective, payable in common stock, which common stock shall also be deemed "Registrable Securities" for the purpose of this Agreement. The accrual amount payable will be tolled for any periods occasioned by a delay of a Registration Statement under Section 3 as a result of the choice of the Holders to have that Registration Statement underwritten. 3. DEMAND REGISTRATION. ------------------- (a) If the Registration Statement described in Section 2 above is not effective by the Due Date, Initiating Holders may notify the Company in writing and, subject to the terms of Section 5(d) below, demand that the Company file a registration statement under the Securities Act (a "Demand Registration Statement") covering the resale of the Registrable Securities then outstanding. Upon receipt of such notice, the Company shall, within ten (10) days thereafter, give written notice of such request to all Holders and shall, subject to the limitations of subsections 3(b) and 5(b), as soon as practicable, and in any event within sixty (60) days after the receipt of such request, effect registration under the Act of all Registrable Securities which the Holders request, by notice given to the Company within ten (10) days of receipt of the Company's notice. The election of initiating Holders to demand the Company to file a Demand Registration Statement shall not impact the amount payable to investors pursuant to Section 2(c) herein. (b) If the Initiating Holders intend to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by their request by means of an underwriting, they shall so advise the Company as a part of their request made pursuant to this Section 3 and the Company shall include such information in the written notice referred to in subsection 3(a). In such event, the right of any other Holder to include such Holder's Registrable Securities in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Holder's participation in such underwriting and the inclusion of such Holder's Registrable Securities in the underwriting (unless otherwise mutually agreed by a majority in interest of the Initiating Holders and such Holder) to the extent provided herein. All Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting shall (together with the Company as provided in subsection 6(f)) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by a majority in interest of the Initiating Holders, and reasonably acceptable to the Company. The Holder will not be required to make any representation other than as to its ownership of the Registrable Securities and its intended method of distribution. (c) The Company is obligated to effect only one (1) demand registration pursuant to Section 3 of this Agreement. The Company agrees to include all Registrable Securities held by all Holders in such registration statement without cutback or reduction. In the event the Company breaches its obligation of the preceding sentences, any Holders of the Registrable Securities which were not included in such registration statement shall be entitled to a second demand registration for such excluded securities and the Company shall keep such registration statement effective as required by Section 6. (d) The Company represents that it is presently eligible to effect the registration contemplated hereby on Form S-1 and will use its best efforts to continue to take such actions as are necessary to maintain such eligibility. 4. PIGGYBACK REGISTRATION. If the Registration Statement described ---------------------- in Section 2 is not effective by the Due Date, and no demand for a Demand Registration Statement has been made pursuant to Section 3, and if (but without any obligation to do so) the Company proposes to register (including for this purpose a registration effected by the Company for shareholders other than the Holders) any of its Common Stock under the Act in connection with the public offering of such securities solely for cash (other than a registration relating solely for the sale of securities to participants in a Company stock plan or a registration on Form S-4 promulgated under the Act or any successor or similar form registering stock issuable upon a reclassification, upon a business combination involving an exchange of securities or upon an exchange offer for securities of the issuer or another entity), the Company shall, at such time, promptly give each Holder written notice of such registration (a "Piggyback Registration Statement"). Upon the written request of each Holder given by fax within ten (10) days after mailing of such notice by the Company, the Company shall cause to be included in such registration statement under the Act all of the Registrable Securities that each such Holder has requested to be registered ("Piggyback Registration"); nothing herein shall prevent the Company from withdrawing or abandoning the registration statement prior to its effectiveness. The election of initiating Holders to participate in a Piggyback Registration Statement shall not impact the amount payable to investors pursuant to Section 2(c) herein. 5. LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS TO REGISTER. ------------------------------------- (a) In the case of a Piggyback Registration on an underwritten public offering by the Company, if the managing underwriter determines and advises in writing that the inclusion in the registration statement of all Registrable Securities proposed to be included would interfere with the successful marketing of the securities proposed to be registered by the Company, then the number of such Registrable Securities to be included in the registration statement shall be allocated among all Holders who had requested Piggyback Registration, in the proportion that the number of Registrable Securities which each such Holder, including Swartz Investments, seeks to register bears to the total number of Registrable Securities sought to be included by all Holders, including Swartz Investments. (b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Company shall have the right (i) to defer the initial filing or request for acceleration of effectiveness of any Demand Registration Statement or Piggyback Registration Statement or (ii) after effectiveness, to suspend effectiveness of any such registration statement, if, in the good faith judgment of the board of directors of the Company and upon the advice of counsel to the Company, such delay in filing or requesting acceleration of effectiveness or such suspension of effectiveness is necessary in light of (i) the requirement by the underwriter in a public offering by the Company that such registration statement be delayed or suspended or (ii) the existence of material non-public information (financial or otherwise) concerning the Company, disclosure of which at the time is not, in the opinion of the board of directors of the Company upon the advice of counsel, (A) otherwise required and (B) in the best interests of the Company; provided, however, that solely in the case of a demand registration the Company will not delay filing or suspend effectiveness of such registration for more than three (3) months from the date of the demand, unless it is then engaged in an acquisition that would make such registration impracticable, in which case it will use its best efforts to eliminate such impracticability as soon as possible after such three (3) month period. (c) In the event the Company believes that shares sought to be registered under Section 2, Section 3 or Section 4 by Holders do not constitute "Registrable Securities" by virtue of Section 1(b) of this Agreement, and the status of those shares as Registrable Securities is disputed, the Company shall provide, at its expense, an Opinion of Counsel, reasonably acceptable to the Holders of the Securities at issue (and satisfactory to the Company's transfer agent to permit the sale and transfer) that those securities may be sold immediately, without restriction or resale, without registration under the Act, by virtue of Rule 144 or applicable provisions. (d) The Company is not obligated to effect a Demand Registration under this Section 3: i) during the ninety (90) day period after the Due Date, so long as the Registration Statement has been filed, and the Company is using its best efforts to obtain a declaration of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement during such period or, ii) if in the opinion of counsel to the Company reasonably acceptable to the person or persons from whom written request for registration has been received (and satisfactory to the Company's transfer agent to permit the transfer) that registration under the Act is not required for the immediate transfer of all of the Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 144 or other applicable provision. 6. OBLIGATIONS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF AVAILABLE SHARES. In the ------------------------------------------------------ event that the number of shares available under a registration statement filed pursuant to Section 2 or Section 3 is insufficient to cover all of the Registrable Securities then outstanding, the Company shall amend that registration statement, or file a new registration statement, or both, so as to cover all shares of Registrable Securities then outstanding. The Company shall effect such amendment or new registration as soon as practicable, but in any event within thirty (30) days of the date the registration statement filed under Section 2 or Section 3 is insufficient to cover all the shares of Registrable Securities then outstanding. Any registration statement filed hereunder shall, to the extent permissible by the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), state that, in accordance with Rule 416 under the Act, such registration statement also covers such indeterminate numbers of additional shares of Common Stock as may become issuable upon conversion of the Preferred stock to prevent dilution resulting from stock changes or by reason of changes in the conversion price in accordance with the terms thereof. Unless and until such amendment or new registration statement is effective, the Investors shall have the rights described in Section 2(c) above. 7. OBLIGATIONS OF THE COMPANY. Whenever required under this -------------------------- Agreement to effect the registration of any Registrable Securities, the Company shall, as expeditiously as reasonably possible: (a) Prepare and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") a registration statement with respect to such Registrable Securities and use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective. (b) Prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and supplements to such registration statement and the prospectus used in connection with such registration statement as may be necessary to comply with the provisions of the Act with respect to the disposition of all securities covered by such registration statement. (c) With respect to any registration statement filed pursuant to this Agreement, keep such registration statement effective until the sooner to occur of (A) such time as the Holders of Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement have completed the distribution described in the registration statement, and (B) such time as all of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement may be sold without any volume limitation pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Act. (d) Furnish to the Holders such numbers of copies of a prospectus, including a preliminary prospectus, in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act, and such other documents as they may reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of Registrable Securities owned by them. (e) Use its best efforts to register and qualify the securities covered by such registration statement under such other securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as shall be reasonably requested by the Holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement, provided that the Company shall not be required in connection therewith or as a condition thereto to qualify to do business or to file a general consent to service of process in any such states or jurisdictions. (f) In the event of any underwritten public offering, enter into and perform its obligations under an underwriting agreement, in usual and customary form, with the managing underwriter of such offering. Each Holder participating in such underwriting shall also enter into and perform its obligations under such an agreement. (g) Notify each Holder of Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement at any time when a prospectus relating thereto is required to be delivered under the Act of the happening of any event as a result of which the prospectus included in such registration statement, as then in effect, includes an untrue statement of material fact or omits to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in light of the circumstances then existing. (h) Furnish, at the request of any Holder whose shares are being registered pursuant to this Agreement, on the date that such Registrable Securities are delivered to the underwriters for sale in connection with a registration pursuant to this Agreement, if such securities are being sold through underwriters, or, if such securities are not being sold through underwriters, on the date that the registration statement with respect to such securities becomes effective, (i) an opinion, dated such date, of outside counsel of recognized standing (or reasonably acceptable to Holder) representing the Company for the purposes of such registration, in form and substance as is customarily given to underwriters in an underwritten public offering, addressed to the underwriters, if any, and to the Holders requesting registration of Registrable Securities and (ii) a letter dated such date, from the independent certified public accountants of the Company, in form and substance as is customarily given by independent certified public accountants to underwriters in an underwritten public offering, addressed to the underwriters, if any, and to the Holders whose shares are being registered pursuant to this Agreement. (i) As promptly as practicable after becoming aware of such event, notify each Investor of the happening of any event of which the Company has knowledge, as a result of which the prospectus included in the registration statement, as then in effect, includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and use its best efforts promptly to prepare a supplement or amendment to the registration statement to correct such untrue statement or omission, and deliver a number of copies of such supplement or amendment to each Holder as such Holder may reasonably request. (j) Provide Holders with written notice of the date that a registration statement registering the resale of the Registrable Securities is declared effective by the SEC, and the date or dates when the registration statement is no longer effective. (k) Provide Holders and their representatives the opportunity to conduct a reasonable due diligence inquiry of Company's pertinent financial and other records and make available its officers, directors and employees for questions regarding such information as it relates to information contained in the registration statement. (l) Provide Holders and their representatives the opportunity to review the registration statement and all amendments thereto a reasonable period of time prior to their filing with the SEC. 8. FURNISH INFORMATION. It shall be a condition precedent to the ------------------- obligations of the Company to take any action pursuant to this Agreement with regard to each selling Holder that such selling Holders shall furnish to the Company such information regarding themselves, the Registrable Securities held by them, and the intended method of disposition of such securities as shall be required to effect the registration of their Registrable Securities or to determine that registration is not required pursuant to Rule 144 or other applicable provision of the Act. 9. EXPENSES OF REQUIRED OR DEMAND REGISTRATION. All expenses other ------------------------------------------- than underwriting discounts and commissions and fees and expenses of counsel to the selling Holders incurred in connection with registrations, filings or qualifications pursuant to Sections 2 and 3, including (without limitation) all registration, filing and qualification fees, printers' and accounting fees, fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company, shall be borne by the Company. 10. EXPENSES OF PIGGYBACK REGISTRATION. The Company shall bear and ---------------------------------- pay all expenses incurred in connection with any registration, filing or qualification of Registrable Securities with respect to the registration pursuant to Section 4 for each Holder, including (without limitation) all registration, filing, and qualification fees, printers and accounting fees relating or apportionable thereto but excluding underwriting discounts and commissions and fees and expenses of counsel to the selling Holders relating to Registrable Securities. 11. INDEMNIFICATION. In the event any Registrable Securities are --------------- included in a registration statement under this Agreement: (a) To the extent permitted by law, the Company will indemnify and hold harmless each Holder, the officers and directors of each Holder, any underwriter (as defined in the Act) for such Holder and each person, if any, who controls such Holder or underwriter within the meaning of the Act or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act"), against any losses, claims, damages, or liabilities (joint or several) to which they may become subject under the Act, the 1934 Act or other federal or state law, insofar as such losses, claims, damages, or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any of the following statements, omissions or violations (collectively a "Violation"): (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in such registration statement, including any preliminary prospectus or final prospectus contained therein or any amendments or supplements thereto, (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein, or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or (iii) any violation by the Company of the Act, the 1934 Act, any state securities law or any rule or regulation promulgated under the Act, the 1934 Act or any state securities law; and the Company will reimburse each such Holder, officer or director, underwriter or controlling person for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability, or action; provided, however, that the indemnity agreement contained in this subsection 11(a) shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any such loss, claim, damage, liability, or action if such settlement is effected without the consent of the Company (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), nor shall the Company be liable in any such case for any such loss, claim, damage, liability, or action to the extent that it arises out of or is based upon a Violation which occurs in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished expressly for use in connection with such registration by any such Holder, officer, director, underwriter or controlling person. (b) To the extent permitted by law, each selling Holder, severally and not jointly, will indemnify and hold harmless the Company, each of its directors, each of its officers who have signed the registration statement, each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Act, any underwriter and any other Holder selling securities in such registration statement or any of its directors or officers or any person who controls such Holder, against any losses, claims, damages, or liabilities (joint or several) to which the Company or any such director, officer, controlling person, or underwriter or controlling person, or other such Holder or director, officer or controlling person may become subject, under the Act, the 1934 Act or other federal or state law, insofar as such losses, claims, damages, or liabilities (or actions in respect thereto) arise out of or are based upon any Violation, in each case to the extent (and only to the extent) that such Violation occurs in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished by such Holder expressly for use in connection with such registration; and each such Holder will reimburse any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company and any such director, officer, controlling person, underwriter or controlling person, other Holder, officer, director, or controlling person in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability, or action; provided, however, that the indemnity agreement contained in this subsection 11(b) shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action if such settlement is effected without the consent of the Holder, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld; provided, that, in no event shall any indemnity under this subsection 11(b) exceed the net proceeds from the offering received by such Holder. (c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 11 of notice of the commencement of any action (including any governmental action), such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against any indemnifying party under this Section 11, deliver to the indemnifying party a written notice of the commencement thereof and the indemnifying party shall have the right to participate in, and, to the extent the indemnifying party so desires, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly noticed, to assume the defense thereof with counsel mutually satisfactory to the parties; provided, however, that an indemnified party shall have the right to retain its own counsel, with the reasonably incurred fees and expenses of one such counsel to be paid by the indemnifying party, if representation of such indemnified party by the counsel retained by the indemnifying party would be inappropriate due to actual or potential conflicting interests between such indemnified party and any other party represented by such counsel in such proceeding. The failure to deliver written notice to the indemnifying party within a reasonable time of the commencement of any such action, if prejudicial to its ability to defend such action, shall relieve such indemnifying party of any liability to the indemnified party under this Section 11, but the omission so to deliver written notice to the indemnifying party will not relieve it of any liability that it may have to any indemnified party otherwise than under this Section 11. (d) In the event that the indemnity provided in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section 11 is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party for any reason, the Company and each holder of Registrable Securities agree to contribute to the aggregate claims, losses, damages and liabilities (including legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending same) (collectively "Losses") to which the Company and one or more of the holders of Registrable Securities may be subject in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the Company and the holders in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such Losses; provided, however, that in no case shall any holder be responsible for any amount in excess of the net purchase price of securities sold by it under the registration statement. Relative fault shall be determined by reference to whether any alleged untrue statement or omission relates to information provided by the Company or by the holders. The Company and the holders agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution were determined by pro rata allocation or any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph (d), 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 who controls a holder of Registrable Securities within the meaning of either the Securities Act or the Exchange Act and each director, officer, partner, employee and agent of a holder shall have the same rights to contribution as such holder, and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of either the Securities Act or the Exchange Act and each director of the Company, and each officer of the Company who has signed the registration statement, shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company, subject in each case to the applicable terms and conditions of this paragraph (d). (e) The obligations of the Company and Holders under this Section 11 shall survive the redemption and conversion, if any, of the Preferred Stock, the completion of any offering of Registrable Securities in a registration statement under this Agreement, and otherwise. 12. REPORTS UNDER SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934. With a view to --------------------------------------------- making available to the Holders the benefits of Rule 144 promulgated under the Act and any other rule or regulation of the SEC that may at any time permit a Holder to sell securities of the Company to the public without registration, the Company agrees to: (a) make and keep public information available, as those terms are understood and defined in SEC Rule 144; (b) file with the SEC in a timely manner all reports and other documents required of the Company under the Act and the 1934 Act; and (c) furnish to any Holder, so long as the Holder owns any Registrable Securities, forthwith upon request (i) a written statement by the Company, if true, that it has complied with the reporting requirements of SEC Rule 144, the Act and the 1934 Act, (ii) a copy of the most recent annual or quarterly report of the Company and such other reports and documents so filed by the Company, and (iii) such other information as may be reasonably requested in availing any Holder of any rule or regulation of the SEC which permits the selling of any such securities without registration. 13. AMENDMENT OF REGISTRATION RIGHTS. Any provision of this Agreement -------------------------------- may be amended and the observance thereof may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively), only with the written consent of the Company and the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities provided that the amendment treats all Holders equally. Any amendment or waiver effected in accordance with this paragraph shall be binding upon each Holder, each future Holder, and the Company. 14. NOTICES. All notices required or permitted under this Agreement ------- shall be made in writing signed by the party making the same, shall specify the section under this Agreement pursuant to which it is given, and shall be addressed if to (i) the Company at: Intercell Corporation, Suite 1750, 999 West Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C., V6C 2W2 Telephone No. (604) 684-1533, Telecopy No. (604) 688-7997 and (ii) the Holders at their respective last address as the party shall have furnished in writing as a new address to be entered on such register. Any notice, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, shall be made by fax and shall be deemed given at the time of transmission of the fax. 15. TERMINATION. This Agreement shall terminate on the earlier to ----------- occur of (a) the date that is three (3) years from the date of this Agreement and (b) the date the distribution of all Registrable Securities described in any registration statement filed pursuant to this Agreement is completed; but without prejudice to (i) the parties' rights and obligations arising from breaches of this Agreement occurring prior to such termination (ii) other indemnification obligations under this Agreement or (iii) the Company's obligation to maintain the effectiveness of a registration statement filed prior thereto in accordance with the terms hereof, and to fulfill its obligation hereunder in respect thereof until it is no longer required to maintain the effectiveness thereof. 16. ASSIGNMENT. No assignment, transfer or delegation, whether by ---------- operation of law or otherwise, of any rights or obligations under this Agreement by the Company or any Holder, respectively, shall be made without the prior written consent of the majority in interest of the Holders or the Company, respectively; provided that the rights of a Holder may be transferred to a subsequent holder of the Holder's Registrable Securities (provided such transferee shall provide to the Company, together with or prior to such transferee's request to have such Registrable Securities included in a Demand Registration or Piggyback Registration, a writing executed by such transferee agreeing to be bound as a Holder by the terms of this Agreement); and provided further that the Company may transfer its rights and obligations under this Agreement to a purchaser of all or a substantial portion of its business if the obligations of the Company under this Agreement are assumed in connection with such transfer, either by merger or other operation of law (which may include without limitation a transaction whereby the Registrable Securities are converted into securities of the successor in interest) or by specific assumption executed by the transferee. 17. GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed ------------- in accordance with the laws of the State of Colorado applicable to agreements made in and wholly to be performed in that jurisdiction, except for matters arising under the Act or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which matters shall be construed and interpreted in accordance with such laws. 18. EXECUTION IN COUNTERPARTS PERMITTED. This Agreement may be ----------------------------------- executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be enforceable against the parties actually executing such counterparts, and all of which together shall constitute one (1) instrument. [INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written. INTERCELL CORPORATION By: /s/ Gordon J. Sales -------------------------------- Gordon J. Sales, President Address: Intercell Corporation Suite 1750, 999 West Hastings St. Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2W2 Telephone No. (604) 684-1533 Telecopy No. (604) 688-7997 SWARTZ INVESTMENTS, LLC By: /s/ Eric Swartz -------------------------------- Eric Swartz, President Address: 200 Roswell Summit, Suite 285 1080 Holcomb Bridge Road Roswell, GA 30076 INVESTOR(S) ___________________________________ Investor's Name By:_________________________________ (Signature) Address: ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ EX-4.8 9 PLAN OF LIQUIDATING DISSOLUTION OF ENERGY CORP. Exhibit 4.8 ----------- PLAN OF LIQUIDATING DISSOLUTION OF ENERGY CORPORATION WHEREAS, the Undersigned, as Sole Director of Energy Corporation (hereinafter "Energy") has approved a Plan of Liquidating Dissolution of Energy; and WHEREAS, this Plan of Liquidating Dissolution will be proposed to the shareholders of Energy for their approval; and WHEREAS, Energy and Intercell Corporation (hereinafter "Intercell") have agreed to the terms and conditions of a registered distribution of Five Million, Four Hundred and Twelve Thousand, One Hundred and Ninety-One (5,412,191) shares owned by Energy; and WHEREAS, Intercell has agreed to file a Registration Statement, registering such shares for distribution over a period of three (3) years; and WHEREAS, Energy believes the orderly liquidation and dissolution of Energy is and will be for the benefit of its shareholders; and NOW THEREFORE, the following Plan of Liquidating Dissolution, as set forth herein, subject to shareholder approval, is adopted and shall be implemented, pursuant to the General Corporation Code of the State of Delaware. 1. All assets of this Corporation, except for the Five Million, Four Hundred and Twelve, One Hundred and Ninety-One (5,412,191) shares, to be distributed to the shareholders of Energy, shall be sold and the proceed therefrom shall be used to pay all legal claims against this Corporation and the balance, if any, remaining shall be distributed to the shareholders. 2. All creditors having legal claims against this Corporation shall be satisfied. 3. The Five Million, Four Hundred and Twelve Thousand, One Hundred and Ninety-One (5,412,191) shares of Intercell owned by Energy shall be distributed to all beneficial owners of the common stock of Energy as of July 8, 1996, in the following stages: (a) On or about January 31, 1997, Nine Hundred and Two Thousand, Thirty-Two (902,032) shares; (b) On or about April 30, 1997, Nine Hundred and Two Thousand, Thirty-Two (902,032) shares; (c) On or about January 30, 1998, Nine Hundred and Two Thousand, Thirty-Two (902,032) shares; (d) On or about April 30, 1998, Nine Hundred and Two Thousand, Thirty-Two (902,032) shares; (e) On or about January 31, 1999, Nine Hundred and Two Thousand, Thirty Two (902,032) shares; and (f) On or about April 30, 1997, Nine Hundred and Two Thousand, Thirty-One (902,031) shares. 4. Energy shall use its best efforts to co-operate with Intercell in the expeditious filing of a Registration Statement registering the shares for the distribution set forth above, and in assisting Intercell in obtaining the earliest possible Declaration of Effectiveness of such registration. Energy, shall further, undertake to perform such procedures as may be required of it by Intercell or by the Securities and Exchange Commission or by any state regulatory authority to comply with both federal and state securities laws. 5. Upon completion of the final distribution of the shares referred to above, Energy Corporation shall cause to be prepared and filed with the State of Delaware. a Certificate of Dissolution, dissolving it as a matter of law. Dated: July 8, 1996 ENERGY CORPORATION By: /s/ Gordon J. Sales ------------------------- Gordon J. Sales President and Sole Director EX-10.2 10 ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT Exhibit 10.2 ------------ ASSIGNMENT In consideration of Ten Dollars ($10.00) and other valuable consideration, of which receipt is hereby acknowledged, Particle Interconnect, Inc., of 31032 Hershey Avenue, Hayward, CA 94544 (ASSIGNOR) hereby sells and assigns to Particle Interconnect Corporation, a Colorado corporation having offices at 3550 Marksheffel, Colorado Springs, CO 80925 (ASSIGNEE), its successors and assigns, the entire right, title and interest in and to the improvements of the following United States Patents: 1. U.S. Patent Number 4,804,132; Issue Date 2/14/89; Title: "Method For Cold Bonding," 2. U.S. Patent Number 5,083,697; Issue Date 1/28/92; Title: "Particle Enhanced Joining of Metal Surfaces," 3. U.S. Patent Number 5,471,151; Issue Date 11/28/95; Title: "Electrical Interconnect Using Particle Enhanced Joining of Metal Surfaces," 4. U.S. Patent Number 5,334,809; Issue Date 8/2/94; Title: "Particle Enhanced Joining of Metal Surfaces," 5. U.S. Patent Number 5,430,614; Issue Date 7/4/95; Title: "Electrical Interconnect Using Particle Enhanced Joining of Metal Surfaces," and 6. U.S. Patent Number 5,506,514; Issue Date 4/9/96; Title: "Electrical Interconnect Using Particle Enhanced Joining of Metal Surfaces." and in and to the improvements of the following United States Patent Applications: 7. U.S. Patent Application Number 08/320,436; Filing Date 10/7/94; Title: "Patternable Particle Filled Adhesive Matrix For Localized Communication Between Joined Surfaces," ASSIGNMENT Page 2 of 3 8. U.S. Patent Application Number 08/320,443; Filing Date 10/7/94; Title: "Patternable Particle Filled Adhesive Matrix For Forming Patterned Structures Between Joined Surfaces," 9. U.S. Patent Application Number 08/422,445; Filing Date 4/12/95; Title: "Electrical Interconnect Using Particle Enhanced Joining of Metal Surfaces," 10. U.S. Patent Application Number 08/422,446; Filing Date: 4/12/95; Title: "Electrical Interconnect Using Particle Enhanced Joining of Metal Surfaces," 11. U.S. Patent Application Number 08/622,447; Filing Date 4/12/95; Title: "Electrical Interconnect Using Particle Enhanced Joining of Metal Surfaces," 12. U.S. Patent Application Number 08/422,448; Filing Date: 4/12/95; Title: "Electrical Interconnect Using Particle Enhanced Joining of Metal Surfaces," and 13. U.S. Patent Application Number 08/440, 497; Filing Date 5/10/95; Title: "Method And Apparatus For Handling Electronic Devices." and any and all applications for patent and patents therefor in any and all countries, including all divisions, reissues, continuations and extensions thereof, and all rights of priority resulting from the filing of said United States patents and applications, and authorize and request any official whose duty it is to issue patents, to issue any patent on said improvements or resulting therefrom to said ASSIGNEE, or its successors or assigns and agree that on request and without further consideration, but at the expense of ASSIGNEE, ASSIGNOR will communicate to said ASSIGNEE, or its representatives or nominees, any facts known to us respecting said improvements and testify in any legal proceedings, sign all lawful papers, execute all divisional, continuing and reissue applications, make all rightful oaths and generally do everything possible to aid ASSIGNEE its successors, assigns and nominees, to obtain and enforce proper patent protection for said inventions in all countries. ASSIGNOR covenants with said ASSIGNEE, its successors and assign, that the rights and property hereby covered are free and ASSIGNMENT Page 3 of 3 clear of any encumbrances, other than the existing licenses previously granted by ASSIGNOR to third parties, and that has full right to convey the same as herein expressed. September 3, 1996 /s/ Louis DiFrancesco ---------------------------------- Louis DiFrancesco President and CEO, Particle Interconnect, Inc. On this 3rd day of September, 1996, before me, the undersigned, personally appeared Louis DiFrancesco, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the foregoing instrument for the purpose therein contained. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand and official seal. /s/ Paul H. Metzinger -------------------------------- Paul H. Metzinger Notary Public Commission Expires 1-13-97 (Seal) EX-10.3 11 ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT Exhibit 10.3 ------------ ASSIGNMENT In consideration of Ten Dollars ($10.00) and other valuable consideration, of which I acknowledge receipt, I, EL-BADAWY AMIEN EL-SHARAWY of 225 South Rush Circle, Chandler, Arizona 85226, hereby sell, and assign to INTERCELL CORPORATION, having offices at 4455 East Camelback Road #E-160, Phoenix, Arizona 85108, its successors and assigns, the entire right, title and interest in and to the improvements of DUAL RESONANCE ANTENNA AND PORTABLE TELEPHONE THEREWITH, invented by me, as described in the application for United States Patent Application filed concurrently herewith (LWG Docket Number 2215-020), and any and all applications for patent and patents therefor in any and all countries, including all divisions, reissues, continuations and extensions thereof, and all rights of priority resulting from the filing of said United States application, and authorize and request any official whose duty it is to issue patents, to issue any patent on said improvements or resulting therefrom to said INTERCELL CORPORATION, or its successors or assigns and agree that on request and without further consideration, but at the expense of INTERCELL CORPORATION, I will communicate to said INTERCELL CORPORATION or its representatives or nominees, any facts known to me respecting said improvements and testify in any legal proceeding, sign all lawful papers, execute all divisional, continuing and reissue applications, make all rightful oaths and generally do everything possible to aid INTERCELL CORPORATION, its successors, assigns and nominees to obtain and enforce proper patent protection for said invention in all countries. I covenant with said INTERCELL CORPORATION, its successors and assigns, that the rights and property hereby covered are free and clear of any encumbrances, and that We have full right to convey the same as herein expressed. June 5, 1996 /s/ El-Badawy Amien El-Sharawy - ------------ ------------------------------- DATE EL-BADAWY AMIEN EL-SHARAWY STATE OF ARIZONA ) ) ss. COUNTY OF MARICOPA ) On this 5th day of June 1996, before me, the undersigned, personally appeared El-Badawy Amien El-Sharawy, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the foregoing instrument for the purposes therein contained. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We have set our hands and official seal. /s/ Jordan M. Meschkow ---------------------------- Notary Public (SEAL) EX-10.4 12 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT Exhibit 10.4 ------------ EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT This Agreement is between Intercell Corporation, a Colorado corporation, hereinafter referred to as the "Company," and Gordon J. Sales, President and Chief Executive Officer, hereinafter referred to as "Employee." 1. Engagement. The Company hereby engages the Employee and the Employee ---------- hereby accepts engagement upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. Employee's compensation set forth herein shall be subject to all applicable federal or state tax withholding provisions. 2. Term. Subject to the provisions for termination as hereinafter provided, ---- the term of this Agreement shall be for a period of Sixty (60) months commencing on September 1, 1996. The parties hereby acknowledge and agree it is their intent that: (a) any extension or renewal of this Agreement shall be concluded at least Three (3) months prior to the expiration date of the initial Sixty (60) months term and Three (3) months prior to the expiration date of any subsequent extension or renewal term hereof; and (b) absent mutual agreement to the contrary, the failure to conclude such extension or renewal by the dates indicated shall be deemed notice to the Company and the Employee that the Agreement shall not be extended. 3. Duties. The Employee shall be the President and Chief Executive Officer ------ of the Company. As Employee, the Employee shall, during the term of this Agreement, perform the responsibilities and duties, exercise the powers and follow the instructions which from time to time may be lawfully assigned to or vested in him by the Board of Directors of the Company. It is agreed that during the term of this Agreement, the Employee will not accept an officership or directorship, participate in the operation or management of or act as a Employee to any other company, which is in the same line of business as or in competition with the Company unless it be a company either owned or controlled by the Company, without the prior written consent of the Board of Directors of the Company. 4. Extent of Services. Employee agrees to provide not less than 30 hours ------------------ per week of executive services to the Company for the compensation paid to the Employee. Employee shall not be prevented from investing his assets in such form or manner as will not require any services on the part of the Employee in the operation of the affairs of the companies in which such investments are made, except that in no event may the Employee make investments in any firms in competition with, or in the business of supplying goods or services to the Company, unless such investments are disclosed to and approved by the Board of Directors of the Company. 5. Compensation. For services rendered by the Employee under this ------------ Agreement, the Company shall pay the Employee the compensation set forth on Exhibit "A." If during the term of the Agreement the Employee is unavailable because of illness which prevents Employee from performing his duties described herein, the Company shall be obligated to pay the Employee for all such periods of absence; not to exceed however three (3) months. 6. Bonus and Stock Option Plans and Benefit Programs. The Company proposes ------------------------------------------------- to establish certain bonus and stock option plans. During the term of this Agreement, and as additional compensation, the Employee will be eligible to participate in those plans currently in effect and as they may be amended from time to time, so long as such plans remain in existence. Furthermore, during the term of this Agreement, the Employee shall be entitled to participate in all current or subsequently enacted benefit programs applicable to other officers, directors, agent and consultants of the Company. For purposes of this Agreement, all references to stock option plans, bonus plans or benefit programs shall be deemed to mean that Employee shall be eligible to participate in such plans or programs of the Company in which Employee presently participates or is eligible for, or such plans or programs of the Company that may subsequently be adopted in substitution for the Company plans or programs Options, if any, under this Agreement are set forth on Exhibit B. 7. Expenses. The Employee is authorized to incur reasonable expenses with -------- regard to the business of the Company, including expenses for entertainment, travel and other items of a similar character. The Company will reimburse the Employee for all such expenses incurred by him in the performance of his duties hereunder. 8. Termination by Company. This Agreement may be terminated by the Company ---------------------- as follows: (a) If the Employee shall commit a breach of this Agreement, and such breach, if capable of rectification, is not rectified with thirty (30) calendar days of receipt by Employee from the Company of written notice requiring him so to do; (b) If the Employee shall be convicted of a felony criminal offense, or been found in a judicial proceeding initiated after the date of this Agreement by a court of competent jurisdiction, in a decision subject to no further appeals, to have committed any dishonest or unlawful act or to have been engaged or engaging or might irreparably injure or tend to injure the reputation or business of the Company; (c) If the Employee shall grossly, willfully or inexcusably neglect the performance of Employee's duties as set forth herein. Such standard of neglect shall however be determined only by the Board of Directors, based upon the written opinion of independent counsel and written advice to Employee and unanimously approved by the full Board of Directors especially convened for such purpose. 9. Termination by Employee. Employee may terminate this Agreement with or ----------------------- without cause, and if terminated, the Company and Employee agree to abide by and promptly honor the provisions of Section 10 of this Agreement. Cause for termination by Employee shall not consist of the Company's refusal to follow the bona-fide professional recommendations of the Employee. 10. Payments upon Termination by Company or Employee. It is agreed that if ------------------------------------------------ this Agreement is terminated payments and/or provisions for payments will be made as follows: (a) If the Company terminates this Agreement on some basis other than for any of the reasons as stated in Paragraph 8 hereof, the Company will take the actions set forth in Subparagraphs (1), (2) and (3) of this Paragraph. If the Employee terminates this Agreement for cause, which shall be limited to a failure by the Company to pay Employee his compensation, the Company will take the actions set forth in Subparagraphs (1), (2) and (3) of this Paragraph. (1) All stock options granted to the Employee will become immediately vested for the full amount of Optioned Shares and shall be exercised, if ever, in accordance with and subject to the terms and provisions of the Company's 1995 Compensatory Stock Option Plan and Employee's Stock Option Agreement; and (2) The Employee will receive within fifteen (15) days of the effective date of such termination, all compensation and all other benefits that would have accrued and/or been payable to the Employee during the term of this Agreement; and (3) The Employee will be paid in full any other contractual benefits Employee may have with the Company and be reimbursed for all un- reimbursed accountable expenses. (b) If the Company terminates this Agreement for a reason or reasons set forth in paragraph 8 hereof or the Employee terminates this Agreement without cause, the Company will only be obligated to pay to the Employee the actual amount of compensation accrued to the date of termination, the Employee will be bound to the terms of the Company's Compensatory Stock Option Plan as it relates to the exercise of any vested options, and, all other payments or benefits recited herein shall be canceled and terminated, without recourse. 11. Termination Due to Change in Control. If Employee is terminated by the ------------------------------------ Company, for any reason as part of or because of a change in control of the Company, then Employee shall be entitled to a one time lump sum payment of cash for the termination of this Agreement as follows: Termination Occurring In Amount Years One (1) through Three (3) $400,000.00 Years Four (4) through Five (5) $430,000.00 The cash payment set forth herein, shall be made within Five (5) days of the date of delivery to Employee of written termination of this Agreement by the Company. Upon receipt of the payment as set forth herein, the Employee and the Company shall in writing cancel this Agreement and the parties shall be released of all further obligations under this Agreement, provided however, that any options which have been granted to Employee and which are otherwise vested shall remain unimpaired and in full force and effect. A change in control of the Company shall be deemed to have occurred when, as a result of any type of corporate reorganization, execution of proxies or voting trust or other arrangements, such person or group of persons acquire sufficient equity or voting control of the Company to elect more than a majority of the Board of Directors. 12. Notices of Termination. All Notices of Termination provided for in this ---------------------- Agreement must be in writing and must provide for a minimum notice period of Sixty (60) calendar days between the date of such notification and the effective date of such termination. 13. Arbitration. Any controversy or claim arising out of, or relating to ----------- this Agreement, or the breach hereof, shall be settled by arbitration in the City of Denver, Colorado in accordance with the then effective rules of the American Arbitration Association. Such ruling shall be binding upon the parties. 14. Notices. Any notice required or permitted to be given under this ------- Agreement shall be sufficient if in writing, and if sent by registered or certified mail to the Employee's residence in the case of the Employee, or to is principal office in the case of the Company. 15. Waiver, Modification or Cancellation. Any waiver, alteration or ------------------------------------ modification of any of the provisions of this Agreement or cancellation or replacement of this Agreement shall not be valid unless in writing and signed by the Parties. 16. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be -------------- binding upon the Company, its successors and assigns, including but not limited to any entity which may acquire all or substantially all of the Company's assets and business or with or into which the Company may be consolidated or merged, and the Employee, his successors, representatives and assigns, provided that the duties of the Employee as described herein may not be delegated. 17. Severability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of ------------ this Agreement shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. 18. Entire Agreement. This Agreement represents the entire Agreement between ---------------- the parties. Each party represents that there are no other oral, written, express or implied contracts, agreements or understandings between them. 19. Authorization. Each party represents that he, she or it is duly ------------- competent, authorized and capable of executing this Agreement as a valid, binding and enforceable Agreement. 20. Governing Law. The substantive law of Colorado shall govern all the ------------- terms, conditions and interpretations of this Agreement and all other instruments, documents or agreements executed pursuant hereto. In the event of litigation concerning this Agreement or any other instrument, document or agreement relating to it, the parties hereto agree that the exclusive venue and place of jurisdiction shall be the State of Colorado, City and County of Denver. Further, the Employee by execution hereof, irrevocably and unconditionally consents to receive service of process and further agrees to file a general appearance upon either acceptance of process by the Employee or actual service of process upon the Employee. 21. Nondisclosure and Non-Competition. Employee agrees to the terms and --------------------------------- conditions of his obligations, if any, relating to nondisclosure and non- competition as set forth on Exhibit C. 22. Specific Representations. Each party represents that: ------------------------ (a) The consideration recited herein shall conclusively be deemed fair, adequate, reasonable and sufficient. (b) He, she or it has voluntarily and without fraud, duress, coercion, undue influence or improper persuasion executed this Agreement. (c) The signature appearing below is his, her or its manual, original, genuine, authentic and undeniable signature. DATED: September 1, 1996 Intercell Corporation Gordon J. Sales By: /s/ Terry W. Neild By: /s/ Gordon J. Sales ------------------------ -------------------------- Terry W. Neild Gordon J. Sales Executive Vice President Individually EXHIBIT A
Period Compensation ------ ------------ September 1, 1996 - August 31, 1997 $10,000 per month September 1, 1997 - August 31, 1998 $15,000 per month September 1, 1998 - August 31, 1999 $20,000 per month September 1, 1999 - August 31, 2000 $22,500 per month September 1, 2000 - August 31, 2001 $25,000 per month
EXHIBIT B -NONE- EXHIBIT C NONDISCLOSURE AND NON-COMPETITION --------------------------------- 1. During the term of Employee's employment with the Company and for one (1) year thereafter, Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, as principal, agent, Employee, trustee, or in any like capacity, or through the agency of any corporation, partnership, association, agent, agency or any other like entity, i) engage in any business that is similar to the business conducted by the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates; or ii) solicit any person (natural or otherwise) who is or has been within three (3) years prior to the date Employee's association is terminated, a customer or client of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates; or iii) induce any present or future Employee or affiliate of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates to accept employment or similar association with the Employee or any person, firm, association, corporation or other entity with whom the Employee is now or may hereafter become associated; or iv) become the direct or beneficial owner of the capital stock of, or acquire the right or option to become such owner, or become a member or partner of any partnership or any owner or affiliate of any other business which conducts a business similar to the business conducted by the Company. v) in any manner interfere with, disrupt or attempt to disrupt the relationship between the Company and/or any of its customers, or use in any manner whatsoever, the Company's customer list, database, or trade secrets. 2. The parties agree that in light of the specialized nature of the industry and the national-customer base of the Company's business that the restrictions set forth in Paragraph 1 hereof shall apply to Employee within the territory of the United States of America. 3. In the event of a violation by Employee of any of the covenants contained in this Agreement, it is mutually agreed that the term of said covenant and/or covenants shall be automatically extended against Employee for a period of one (1) year from the date on which Employee permanently ceases such violation or for a period of one (1) year from the date of the entry by a Court of competent jurisdiction of a final order or judgment enforcing said convenant(s), whichever period is later. The extension of the term(s) of said covenant(s) as provided in this sub-paragraph 3 shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of the remedies provided below. 4. Other than within the proper course of Employee's duties, the Employee will not during or at any time after the termination of association with the Company, use for himself or others or divulge or convey to others any secret or confidential information, knowledge or data of the Company, its subsidiaries its affiliates or that of third parties obtained by him during the period of his employment with the Company. Such information, knowledge or data includes but is not limited to secret or confidential matters, i) of a technical nature such as but not limited to research methods, know- how, reporting procedures, composition, processes, computer databases and similar items or research project, ii) of a business nature such as but not limited to information about finances, costs, profits, sales, contracts, transactions, or customer lists, or iii) pertaining to future developments such as but not limited to research and development or future marketing or advertising programs. Further, the Employee shall, during and after the period of Employee's employment, diligently endeavor to prevent the publication or disclosure of any such secret or confidential information, knowledge or data. 5. All forms, manuals, letters, notes, notebooks, reports, sketches, formulas, computer programs and similar items, memoranda, client lists, business, marketing and financial plans and studies and all other materials and all copies thereof relating in any way to the business of the Company or of its subsidiaries or affiliates and in any way obtained or produced by the Employee during the period of his employment with the Company shall be the property of the Company and shall be surrendered to the Company or its authorized representative upon the termination of the employment or at any other time at the request of the Company. Employee further agrees that Employee will not make or retain any copies of any of the foregoing and will so represent to the Company upon the termination of Employee's employment. 6. The Company and Employee agree that the Company would not have an adequate remedy at law for money damages in the event that the provisions of this Agreement are not complied with in accordance with their terms, and therefore agree that in the event of any breach of any of these provisions by the Employee, the Company shall be entitled to equitable relief by way of injunction or otherwise, together with costs and expenses incurred by it, including attorneys' fees, in addition to such other remedies as the Company may have. 7. In the event, Employee violates the terms of this Nondisclosure and Non- competition section, and in the further event that Company is not made aware of such violation until a point in time after which Employee has commenced engaging in services similar to those engaged in by Company, for clients for whom Company has provided services within three years of the date of Employee's termination of employment, then in addition to the injunctive relief provide for in subparagraph 6 above, Company shall be entitled to liquidated damages which shall be based upon the revenues generated by Employee from Company's clients as follows. a. Employee shall pay to Company one-third of all revenues collected by Employee from Company's clients for a period of three (3) years from the date on which Employee first collected revenues from any such Company client. 8. The parties hereby acknowledge that the restrictive covenants contained in this Agreement are fair and reasonable in light of all of the facts and circumstances of the relationship between Employee and Company; however, Employee and Company are aware that in certain circumstances courts have refused to enforce certain agreements not to compete. Therefore, in furtherance and not in derogation of the provisions of this Agreement, Company and Employee agree that in the event a court of competent jurisdiction should for any reason decline to enforce any of said covenants, that his Agreement shall be deemed to be modified to restrict Employee's competition with Company to the maximum extent in time, geography and otherwise as the court shall deem enforceable and/or to grant Company such other relief at law or in equity as shall be reasonable necessary to protect the interest of Company.
EX-10.5 13 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT Exhibit 10.5 ------------ EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT This Agreement is between Intercell Corporation, a Colorado corporation, hereinafter referred to as the "Company," and Alan M. Smith, Secretary - Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer, hereinafter referred to as "Employee." 1. Engagement. The Company hereby engages the Employee and the Employee ----------- hereby accepts engagement upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. Employee's compensation set forth herein shall be subject to all applicable federal or state tax withholding provisions. 2. Term. Subject to the provisions for termination as hereinafter provided, ----- the term of this Agreement shall be for a period of Sixty (60) months commencing on September 1, 1996. The parties hereby acknowledge and agree it is their intent that: (a) any extension or renewal of this Agreement shall be concluded at least Three (3) months prior to the expiration date of the initial Sixty (60) months term and Three (3) months prior to the expiration date of any subsequent extension or renewal term hereof; and (b) absent mutual agreement to the contrary, the failure to conclude such extension or renewal by the dates indicated shall be deemed notice to the Company and the Employee that the Agreement shall not be extended. 3. Duties. The Employee shall be the Secretary - Treasurer and Chief ------- Financial Officer of the Company. As Employee, the Employee shall, during the term of this Agreement, perform the responsibilities and duties, exercise the powers and follow the instructions which from time to time may be lawfully assigned to or vested in him by the Board of Directors of the Company. It is agreed that during the term of this Agreement, the Employee will not accept an officership or directorship, participate in the operation or management of or act as a Employee to any other company, which is in the same line of business as or in competition with the Company unless it be a company either owned or controlled by the Company, without the prior written consent of the Board of Directors of the Company. 4. Extent of Services. Employee agrees to provide not less than 30 hours ------------------- per week of executive services to the Company for the compensation paid to the Employee. Employee shall not be prevented from investing his assets in such form or manner as will not require any services on the part of the Employee in the operation of the affairs of the companies in which such investments are made, except that in no event may the Employee make investments in any firms in competition with, or in the business of supplying goods or services to the Company, unless such investments are disclosed to and approved by the Board of Directors of the Company. 5. Compensation. For services rendered by the Employee under this ------------- Agreement, the Company shall pay the Employee the compensation set forth on EXHIBIT "A." If during the term of the Agreement the Employee is unavailable because of illness which prevents Employee from performing his duties described herein, the Company shall be obligated to pay the Employee for all such periods of absence; not to exceed however three (3) months. 6. Bonus and Stock Option Plans and Benefit Programs. The Company proposes -------------------------------------------------- to establish certain bonus and stock option plans. During the term of this Agreement, and as additional compensation, the Employee will be eligible to participate in those plans currently in effect and as they may be amended from time to time, so long as such plans remain in existence. Furthermore, during the term of this Agreement, the Employee shall be entitled to participate in all current or subsequently enacted benefit programs applicable to other officers, directors, agent and consultants of the Company. For purposes of this Agreement, all references to stock option plans, bonus plans or benefit programs shall be deemed to mean that the Employee shall be eligible to participate in such plans or programs of the Company in which Employee presently participates or is eligible for, or such plans or programs of the Company that may subsequently be adopted in substitution for the Company plans or programs. Options, if any, under this Agreement as set forth on EXHIBIT "B." 7. Expenses. The Employee is authorized to incur reasonable expenses with --------- regard to the business of the Company, including expenses for entertainment, travel and other items of a similar character. The Company will reimburse the Employee for all such expenses incurred by him in the performance of his duties hereunder. 8. Termination by Company. This Agreement may be terminated by the Company ----------------------- as follows: (a) If the Employee shall commit a breach of this Agreement, and such breach, if capable of rectification, is not rectified with thirty (30) calendar days of receipt by Employee from the Company of written notice requiring him so to do; (b) If the Employee shall be convicted of a felony criminal offense, or found in a judicial proceeding initiated after the date of this Agreement by a court of competent jurisdiction, in a decision subject to no further appeals, to have committed any dishonest or unlawful act or to have been engaged or engaging in any conduct which might irreparably injure or tend to injure the reputation or business of the Company; (c) If the Employee shall grossly, willfully or inexcusably neglect the performance of Employee's duties as set forth herein. Such standard of neglect shall however be determined only by the Board of Directors, based upon written opinion of independent counsel and written advice to Employee and unanimously approved by the full Board of Directors especially convened for such purpose. 9. Termination by Employee. Employee may terminate this Agreement with or ------------------------ without cause, and if terminated, the Company and Employee agree to abide by and promptly honor the provisions of Section 10 of this Agreement. Cause for termination by Employee shall not consist of the Company's refusal to follow the bona-fide professional recommendations of the Employee. 10. Payments upon Termination by Company or Employee. It is agreed that if ------------------------------------------------- this Agreement is terminated payments and/or provisions for payments will be made as follows: (a) If the Company terminates this Agreement on some basis other than for any of the reasons as stated in Paragraph 8 hereof, the Company will take the actions set forth in Subparagraphs (1), (2) and (3) of this Paragraph. If the Employee terminates this Agreement for cause, which shall be limited to a failure by the Company to pay Employee his compensation, the Company will take the actions set forth in Subparagraphs (1), (2) and (3) of this Paragraph. (1) All stock options granted to the Employee will become immediately vested for the full amount of Optioned Shares and shall be exercised, if ever, in accordance with and subject to the terms and provisions of the Company's 1995 Compensatory Stock Option Plan and Employee's Stock Option Agreement; and (2) The Employee will receive within fifteen (15) days of the effective date of such termination, all compensation and all other benefits that would have accrued and/or been payable to the Employee during the term of this Agreement; and (3) The Employee will be paid in full any other contractual benefits Employee may have with the Company and be reimbursed for all un- reimbursed accountable expenses. (b) If the Company terminates this Agreement for a reason or reasons set forth in paragraph 8 hereof or the Employee terminates this Agreement without cause, the Company will only be obligated to pay to the Employee the actual amount of compensation accrued to the date of termination, the Employee will be bound to the terms of the Company's 1995 Compensatory Stock Option Plan as it relates to the exercise of any vested options, and, all other payments or benefits recited herein shall be canceled and terminated, without recourse. 11. Termination Due to Change in Control. If Employee is terminated by the ------------------------------------- Company, for any reason as part or because of a change in control of the Company, then Employee shall be entitled to a one time lump sum payment of cash for the termination of this Agreement as follows: Termination Occurring In Amount Years One (1) through Three (3) $400,000.00 Years Four (4) through Five (5) $430,000.00 The cash payment set forth herein, shall be made within Five (5) days of the date of delivery to Employee of written termination of this Agreement by the Company. Upon receipt of the payment as set forth herein, the Employee and the Company shall in writing cancel this Agreement and the parties shall be released of all further obligations under this Agreement, provided however, that any options which have been granted to Employee and which are otherwise vested shall remain unimpaired and in full force and effect. A change in control of the Company shall be deemed to have occurred when, as a result of any type of corporate reorganization, execution of proxies or voting trusts or other arrangements such person or group of persons acquire sufficient equity or voting control of the Company to elect more than a majority of the Board of Directors. 12. Notices of Termination. All Notices of Termination provided for in this ----------------------- Agreement must be in writing and must provide for a minimum notice period of Sixty (60) calendar days between the date of such notification and the effective date of such termination. 13. Arbitration. Any controversy or claim arising out of, or relating to ------------ this Agreement, or the breach hereof, shall be settled by arbitration in the City of Denver, Colorado in accordance with the then effective rules of the American Arbitration Association. Such ruling shall be binding upon the parties. 14. Notices. Any notice required or permitted to be given under this -------- Agreement shall be sufficient if in writing, and if sent by registered or certified mail to the Employee's residence in the case of the Employee, or to is principal office in the case of the Company. 15. Waiver, Modification or Cancellation. Any waiver, alteration or ------------------------------------- modification of any of the provisions of this Agreement or cancellation or replacement of this Agreement shall not be valid unless in writing and signed by the Parties. 16. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be --------------- binding upon the Company, its successors and assigns, including but not limited to any entity which may acquire all or substantially all of the Company's assets and business or with or into which the Company may be consolidated or merged, and the Employee, his successors, representatives and assigns, provided that the duties of the Employee as described herein may not be delegated. 17. Severability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of ------------- this Agreement shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. 18. Entire Agreement. This Agreement represents the entire Agreement between ----------------- the parties. Each party represents that there are no other oral, written, express or implied contracts, agreements or understandings between them. 19. Authorization. Each party represents that he, she or it is duly -------------- competent, authorized and capable of executing this Agreement as a valid, binding and enforceable Agreement. 20. Governing Law. The substantive law of Colorado shall govern all the -------------- terms, conditions and interpretations of this Agreement and all other instruments, documents or agreements executed pursuant hereto. In the event of litigation concerning this Agreement or any other instrument, document or agreement relating to it, the parties hereto agree that the exclusive venue and place of jurisdiction shall be the State of Colorado, City and County of Denver. Further, the Employee by execution hereof, irrevocably and unconditionally consents to receive service of process and further agrees to file a general appearance upon either acceptance of process by the Employee or actual service of process upon the Employee. 21. Nondisclosure and Non-Competition. Employee agrees to the terms and ---------------------------------- conditions of his obligations, if any, relating to nondisclosure and non- competition as set forth on EXHIBIT "C." 22. Specific Representations. Each party represents that: ------------------------- (a) The consideration recited herein shall conclusively be deemed fair, adequate, reasonable and sufficient. (b) He, she or it has voluntarily and without fraud, duress, coercion, undue influence or improper persuasion executed this Agreement. (c) The signature appearing below is his, her or its manual, original, genuine, authentic and undeniable signature. DATED: September 1, 1996 Intercell Corporation Alan M. Smith /s/ Gordon J. Sales /s/ Alan M. Smith - ------------------------- ------------------------ By: Gordon J. Sales By: Alan M. Smith Chief Executive Officer Individually and President EXHIBIT "A"
Period Compensation ------ ------------ September 1, 1996 - August 31, 1997 $10,000 per month September 1, 1997 - August 31, 1998 $15,000 per month September 1, 1998 - August 31, 1999 $20,000 per month September 1, 1999 - August 31, 2000 $22,500 per month September 1, 2000 - August 31, 2001 $25,000 per month
EXHIBIT "B" -NONE- EXHIBIT "C" NONDISCLOSURE AND NON-COMPETITION --------------------------------- 1. During the term of Employee's employment with the Company and for one (1) year thereafter, Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, as principal, agent, Employee, trustee, or in any like capacity, or through the agency of any corporation, partnership, association, agent, agency or any other like entity, i) engage in any business that is similar to the business conducted by the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates; or ii) solicit any person (natural or otherwise) who is or has been within three (3) years prior to the date Employee's association is terminated, a customer or client of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates; or iii) induce any present or future Employee or affiliate of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates to accept employment or similar association with the Employee or any person, firm, association, corporation or other entity with whom the Employee is now or may hereafter become associated; or iv) become the direct or beneficial owner of the capital stock of, or acquire the right or option to become such owner, or become a member or partner of any partnership or any owner or affiliate of any other business which conducts a business similar to the business conducted by the Company. v) in any manner interfere with, disrupt or attempt to disrupt the relationship between the Company and/or any of its customers, or use in any manner whatsoever, the Company's customer list, database, or trade secrets. 2. The parties agree that in light of the specialized nature of the industry and the national-customer base of the Company's business that the restrictions set forth in Paragraph 1 hereof shall apply to Employee within the territory of the United States of America. 3. In the event of a violation by Employee of any of the covenants contained in this Agreement, it is mutually agreed that the term of said covenant and/or covenants shall be automatically extended against Employee for a period of one (1) year from the date on which Employee permanently ceases such violation or for a period of one (1) year from the date of the entry by a Court of competent jurisdiction of a final order or judgment enforcing said covenant(s), whichever period is later. The extension of the term(s) of said covenant(s) as provided in this sub-paragraph 3 shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of the remedies provided below. 4. Other than within the proper course of Employee's duties, the Employee will not during or at any time after the termination of association with the Company, use for himself or others or divulge or convey to others any secret or confidential information, knowledge or data of the Company, its subsidiaries its affiliates or that of third parties obtained by him during the period of his employment with the Company. Such information, knowledge or data includes but is not limited to secret or confidential matters, i) of a technical nature such as but not limited to research methods, know- how, reporting procedures, composition, processes, computer databases and similar items or research project, ii) of a business nature such as but not limited to information about finances, costs, profits, sales, contracts, transactions, or customer lists, or iii) pertaining to future developments such as but not limited to research and development or future marketing or advertising programs. Further, the Employee shall, during and after the period of Employee's employment, diligently endeavor to prevent the publication or disclosure of any such secret or confidential information, knowledge or data. 5. All forms, manuals, letters, notes, notebooks, reports, sketches, formulas, computer programs and similar items, memoranda, client lists, business, marketing and financial plans and studies and all other materials and all copies thereof relating in any way to the business of the Company or of its subsidiaries or affiliates and in any way obtained or produced by the Employee during the period of his employment with the Company shall be the property of the Company and shall be surrendered to the Company or its authorized representative upon the termination of the employment or at any other time at the request of the Company. Employee further agrees that Employee will not make or retain any copies of any of the foregoing and will so represent to the Company upon the termination of Employee's employment. 6. The Company and Employee agree that the Company would not have an adequate remedy at law for money damages in the event that the provisions of this Agreement are not complied with in accordance with their terms, and therefore agree that in the event of any breach of any of these provisions by the Employee, the Company shall be entitled to equitable relief by way of injunction or otherwise, together with costs and expenses incurred by it, including attorneys' fees, in addition to such other remedies as the Company may have. 7. In the event, Employee violates the terms of this Nondisclosure and Non- competition section, and in the further event that Company is not made aware of such violation until a point in time after which Employee has commenced engaging in services similar to those engaged in by Company, for clients for whom Company has provided services within three years of the date of Employee's termination of employment, then in addition to the injunctive relief provide for in subparagraph 6 above, Company shall be entitled to liquidated damages which shall be based upon the revenues generated by Employee from Company's clients as follows. a. Employee shall pay to Company one-third of all revenues collected by Employee from Company's clients for a period of three (3) years from the date on which Employee first collected revenues from any such Company client. 8. The parties hereby acknowledge that the restrictive covenants contained in this Agreement are fair and reasonable in light of all of the facts and circumstances of the relationship between Employee and Company; however, Employee and Company are aware that in certain circumstances courts have refused to enforce certain agreements not to compete. Therefore, in furtherance and not in derogation of the provisions of this Agreement, Company and Employee agree that in the event a court of competent jurisdiction should for any reason decline to enforce any of said covenants, that his Agreement shall be deemed to be modified to restrict Employee's competition with Company to the maximum extent in time, geography and otherwise as the court shall deem enforceable and/or to grant Company such other relief at law or in equity as shall be reasonable necessary to protect the interest of Company.
EX-10.6 14 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT Exhibit 10.6 ------------ EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT This Agreement is between Intercell Corporation, a Colorado corporation, hereinafter referred to as the "Company," and Terry W. Neild, Executive Vice- President, hereinafter referred to as "Employee." 1. Engagement. The Company hereby engages the Employee and the Employee ----------- hereby accepts engagement upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. Employee's compensation set forth herein shall be subject to all applicable federal or state tax withholding provisions. 2. Term. Subject to the provisions for termination as hereinafter provided, ----- the term of this Agreement shall be for a period of Sixty (60) months commencing on September 1, 1996. The parties hereby acknowledge and agree it is their intent that: (a) any extension or renewal of this Agreement shall be concluded at least Three (3) months prior to the expiration date of the initial Sixty (60) months term and Three (3) months prior to the expiration date of any subsequent extension or renewal term hereof; and (b) absent mutual agreement to the contrary, the failure to conclude such extension or renewal by the dates indicated shall be deemed notice to the Company and the Employee that the Agreement shall not be extended. 3. Duties. The Employee shall be the Executive Vice-President of the ------- Company. As Employee, the Employee shall, during the term of this Agreement, perform the responsibilities and duties, exercise the powers and follow the instructions which from time to time may be lawfully assigned to or vested in him by the Board of Directors of the Company. It is agreed that during the term of this Agreement, the Employee will not accept an officership or directorship, participate in the operation or management of or act as a Employee to any other company, which is in the same line of business as or in competition with the Company unless it be a company either owned or controlled by the Company, without the prior written consent of the Board of Directors of the Company. 4. Extent of Services. Employee agrees to provide not less than 30 hours ------------------- per week of executive services to the Company for the compensation paid to the Employee. Employee shall not be prevented from investing his assets in such form or manner as will not require any services on the part of the Employee in the operation of the affairs of the companies in which such investments are made, except that in no event may the Employee make investments in any firms in competition with, or in the business of supplying goods or services to the Company, unless such investments are disclosed to and approved by the Board of Directors of the Company. 5. Compensation. For services rendered by the Employee under this ------------- Agreement, the Company shall pay the Employee the compensation set forth on EXHIBIT "A". If during the term of the Agreement the Employee is unavailable because of illness which prevents Employee from performing his duties described herein, the Company shall be obligated to pay the Employee for all such periods of absence; not to exceed however three (3) months. 6. Bonus and Stock Option Plans and Benefit Programs. The Company proposes -------------------------------------------------- to establish certain bonus and stock option plans. During the term of this Agreement, and as additional compensation, the Employee will be eligible to participate in those plans currently in effect and as they may be amended from time to time, so long as such plans remain in existence. Furthermore, during the term of this Agreement, the Employee shall be entitled to participate in all current or subsequently enacted benefit programs applicable to other officers, directors, agent and employees of the Company. For purposes of this Agreement, all references to stock option plans, bonus plans or benefit programs shall be deemed to mean that Employee shall be eligible to participate in such plans or programs of the Company in which Employee presently participates or is eligible for, or such plans or programs of the Company that may subsequently be adopted in substitution for the Company plans or programs. Options, if any, under this Agreement as set forth on EXHIBIT "B." 7. Expenses. The Employee is authorized to incur reasonable expenses with --------- regard to the business of the Company, including expenses for entertainment, travel and other items of a similar character. The Company will reimburse the Employee for all such expenses incurred by him in the performance of his duties hereunder. 8. Termination by Company. This Agreement may be terminated by the Company ----------------------- as follows: (a) If the Employee shall commit a breach of this Agreement, and such breach, if capable of rectification, is not rectified with thirty (30) calendar days of receipt by Employee from the Company of written notice requiring him so to do; (b) If the Employee shall be convicted of a felony criminal offense, or been found in a judicial proceeding initiated after the date of this Agreement by a court of competent jurisdiction, in a decision subject to no further appeals, to have committed any dishonest or unlawful act or to have been engaged or engaging in any conduct which might irreparably injure or tend to injure the reputation or business of the Company; (c) If the Employee shall grossly, willfully or inexcusably neglect the performance of Employee's duties as set forth herein. Such standard of neglect shall however be determined only by the Board of Directors, based upon written opinion of independent counsel and written advice to Employee and unanimously approved by the full Board of Directors especially convened for such purpose. 9. Termination by Employee. Employee may terminate this Agreement with or ------------------------ without cause, and if terminated, the Company and Employee agree to abide by and promptly honor the provisions of Section 10 of this Agreement. Cause for termination by Employee shall not consist of the Company's refusal to follow the bona-fide professional recommendations of the Employee. 10. Payments upon Termination by Company or Employee. It is agreed that if ------------------------------------------------- this Agreement is terminated payments and/or provisions for payments will be made as follows: (a) If the Company terminates this Agreement on some basis other than for any of the reasons as stated in Paragraph 8 hereof, the Company will take the actions set forth in Subparagraphs (1), (2) and (3) of this Paragraph. If the Employee terminates this Agreement for cause, which shall be limited to a failure by the Company to pay Employee his compensation, the Company will take the actions set forth in Subparagraphs (1), (2) and (3) of this Paragraph. (1) All stock options granted to the Employee will become immediately vested for the full amount of Optioned Shares and shall be exercised, if ever, in accordance with and subject to the terms and provisions of the Company's 1995 Compensatory Stock Option Plan and Employee's Stock Option Agreement; and (2) The Employee will receive within fifteen (15) days of the effective date of such termination, all compensation and all other benefits that would have accrued and/or been payable to the Employee during the term of this Agreement; and (3) The Employee will be paid in full any other contractual benefits Employee may have with the Company and be reimbursed for all un- reimbursed accountable expenses. (b) If the Company terminates this Agreement for a reason or reasons set forth in paragraph 8 hereof or the Employee terminates this Agreement without cause, the Company will only be obligated to pay to the Employee the actual amount of compensation accrued to the date of termination, the Employee will be bound to the terms of the Company's 1995 Compensatory Stock Option Plan as it relates to the exercise of any vested options, and, all other payments or benefits recited herein shall be canceled and terminated, without recourse. 11. Termination Due to Change in Control. If Consultant is terminated by the ------------------------------------- Company, for any reason as part or because of a change in control of the Company, then Consultant shall be entitled to a one time lump sum payment of cash for the termination of this Agreement as follows: Termination Occurring In Amount Years One (1) through Three (3) $400,000.00 Years Four (4) through Five (5) $430,000.00 The cash payment set forth herein, shall be made within Five (5) days of the date of delivery to Employee of written termination of this Agreement by the Company. Upon receipt of the payment as set forth herein, the Consultant and the Company shall in writing cancel this Agreement and the parties shall be released of all further obligations under this Agreement, provided however, that any options which have been granted to Consultant and which are otherwise vested shall remain unimpaired and in full force and effect. A change in control of the Company shall be deemed to have occurred when, as a result of any type of corporate reorganization, execution of proxies or voting trusts or other arrangements, such person or group of persons acquire sufficient equity or voting control of the Company to elect more than a majority of the Board of Directors. 12. Notices of Termination. All Notices of Termination provided for in this ----------------------- Agreement must be in writing and must provide for a minimum notice period of Sixty (60) calendar days between the date of such notification and the effective date of such termination. 13. Arbitration. Any controversy or claim arising out of, or relating to ------------ this Agreement, or the breach hereof, shall be settled by arbitration in the City of Denver, Colorado in accordance with the then effective rules of the American Arbitration Association. Such ruling shall be binding upon the parties. 14. Notices. Any notice required or permitted to be given under this -------- Agreement shall be sufficient if in writing, and if sent by registered or certified mail to the Employee's residence in the case of the Employee, or to is principal office in the case of the Company. 15. Waiver, Modification or Cancellation. Any waiver, alteration or ------------------------------------- modification of any of the provisions of this Agreement or cancellation or replacement of this Agreement shall not be valid unless in writing and signed by the Parties. 16. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be --------------- binding upon the Company, its successors and assigns, including but not limited to any entity which may acquire all or substantially all of the Company's assets and business or with or into which the Company may be consolidated or merged, and the Employee, his successors, representatives and assigns, provided that the duties of the Employee as described herein may not be delegated. 17. Severability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of ------------- this Agreement shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. 18. Entire Agreement. This Agreement represents the entire Agreement between ----------------- the parties. Each party represents that there are no other oral, written, express or implied contracts, agreements or understandings between them. 19. Authorization. Each party represents that he, she or it is duly -------------- competent, authorized and capable of executing this Agreement as a valid, binding and enforceable Agreement. 20. Governing Law. The substantive law of Colorado shall govern all the -------------- terms, conditions and interpretations of this Agreement and all other instruments, documents or agreements executed pursuant hereto. In the event of litigation concerning this Agreement or any other instrument, document or agreement relating to it, the parties hereto agree that the exclusive venue and place of jurisdiction shall be the State of Colorado, City and County of Denver. Further, the Employee by execution hereof, irrevocably and unconditionally consents to receive service of process and further agrees to file a general appearance upon either acceptance of process by the Employee or actual service of process upon the Employee. 21. Nondisclosure and Non-Competition. Employee agrees to the terms and ---------------------------------- conditions of his obligations, if any, relating to nondisclosure and non- competition as set forth on Exhibit "C." 22. Specific Representations. Each party represents that: ------------------------- (a) The consideration recited herein shall conclusively be deemed fair, adequate, reasonable and sufficient. (b) He, she or it has voluntarily and without fraud, duress, coercion, undue influence or improper persuasion executed this Agreement. (c) The signature appearing below is his, her or its manual, original, genuine, authentic and undeniable signature. DATED: September 1, 1996 Intercell Corporation Terry W. Neild /s/ Gordon J. Sales By: /s/ Terry W. Neild - --------------------------------------- ------------------------ By: Gordon J. Sales Terry W. Neild Chief Executive Officer and President Individually EXHIBIT "A"
Period Compensation ------ ------------ September 1, 1996 - August 31, 1997 $10,000 per month September 1, 1997 - August 31, 1998 $15,000 per month September 1, 1998 - August 31, 1999 $20,000 per month September 1, 1999 - August 31, 2000 $22,500 per month September 1, 2000 - August 31, 2001 $25,000 per month
EXHIBIT "B" -NONE- EXHIBIT "C" NONDISCLOSURE AND NON-COMPETITION --------------------------------- 1. During the term of Employee's employment with the Company and for one (1) year thereafter, Consultant shall not, directly or indirectly, as principal, agent, employee, trustee, or in any like capacity, or through the agency of any corporation, partnership, association, agent, agency or any other like entity, i) engage in any business that is similar to the business conducted by the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates; or ii) solicit any person (natural or otherwise) who is or has been within three (3) years prior to the date Consultant's association is terminated, a customer or client of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates; or iii) induce any present or future Employee or affiliate of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates to accept employment or similar association with the Consultant or any person, firm, association, corporation or other entity with whom the Consultant is now or may hereafter become associated; or iv) become the direct or beneficial owner of the capital stock of, or acquire the right or option to become such owner, or become a member or partner of any partnership or any owner or affiliate of any other business which conducts a business similar to the business conducted by the Company. v) in any manner interfere with, disrupt or attempt to disrupt the relationship between the Company and/or any of its customers, or use in any manner whatsoever, the Company's customer list, database, or trade secrets. 2. The parties agree that in light of the specialized nature of the industry and the national-customer base of the Company's business that the restrictions set forth in Paragraph 1 hereof shall apply to Consultant within the territory of the United States of America. 3. In the event of a violation by Employee of any of the covenants contained in this Agreement, it is mutually agreed that the term of said covenant and/or covenants shall be automatically extended against Consultant for a period of one (1) year from the date on which Consultant permanently ceases such violation or for a period of one (1) year from the date of the entry by a Court of competent jurisdiction of a final order or judgment enforcing said covenant(s), whichever period is later. The extension of the term(s) of said covenant(s) as provided in this sub-paragraph 3 shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of the remedies provided below. 4. Other than within the proper course of Consultant's duties, the Employee will not during or at any time after the termination of association with the Company, use for himself or others or divulge or convey to others any secret or confidential information, knowledge or data of the Company, its subsidiaries its affiliates or that of third parties obtained by him during the period of his employment with the Company. Such information, knowledge or data includes but is not limited to secret or confidential matters, i) of a technical nature such as but not limited to research methods, know- how, reporting procedures, composition, processes, computer databases and similar items or research project, ii) of a business nature such as but not limited to information about finances, costs, profits, sales, contracts, transactions, or customer lists, or iii) pertaining to future developments such as but not limited to research and development or future marketing or advertising programs. Further, the Employee shall, during and after the period of Employee's employment, diligently endeavor to prevent the publication or disclosure of any such secret or confidential information, knowledge or data. 5. All forms, manuals, letters, notes, notebooks, reports, sketches, formulas, computer programs and similar items, memoranda, client lists, business, marketing and financial plans and studies and all other materials and all copies thereof relating in any way to the business of the Company or of its subsidiaries or affiliates and in any way obtained or produced by the Consultant during the period of his employment with the Company shall be the property of the Company and shall be surrendered to the Company or its authorized representative upon the termination of the employment or at any other time at the request of the Company. Consultant further agrees that Consultant will not make or retain any copies of any of the foregoing and will so represent to the Company upon the termination of Consultant's employment. 6. The Company and Employee agree that the Company would not have an adequate remedy at law for money damages in the event that the provisions of this Agreement are not complied with in accordance with their terms, and therefore agree that in the event of any breach of any of these provisions by the Employee, the Company shall be entitled to equitable relief by way of injunction or otherwise, together with costs and expenses incurred by it, including attorneys' fees, in addition to such other remedies as the Company may have. 7. In the event, Employee violates the terms of this Nondisclosure and Non-competition section, and in the further event that Company is not made aware of such violation until a point in time after which Employee has commenced engaging in services similar to those engaged in by Company, for clients for whom Company has provided services within three years of the date of Employee's termination of employment, then in addition to the injunctive relief provide for in subparagraph 6 above, Company shall be entitled to liquidated damages which shall be based upon the revenues generated by Employee from Company's clients as follows. a. Employee shall pay to Company one-third of all revenues collected by Employee from Company's clients for a period of three (3) years from the date on which Employee first collected revenues from any such Company client. 8. The parties hereby acknowledge that the restrictive covenants contained in this Agreement are fair and reasonable in light of all of the facts and circumstances of the relationship between Employee and Company; however, Employee and Company are aware that in certain circumstances courts have refused to enforce certain agreements not to compete. Therefore, in furtherance and not in derogation of the provisions of this Agreement, Company and Employee agree that in the event a court of competent jurisdiction should for any reason decline to enforce any of said covenants, that his Agreement shall be deemed to be modified to restrict Employee's competition with Company to the maximum extent in time, geography and otherwise as the court shall deem enforceable and/or to grant Company such other relief at law or in equity as shall be reasonable necessary to protect the interest of Company.
EX-10.7 15 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT Exhibit 10.7 ------------ EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT This Agreement is between Particle Interconnect Corporation, a Colorado corporation, hereinafter referred to as the "Company," and Steven D. Clark, President, hereinafter referred to as "Employee." 1. Engagement. The Company hereby engages the Employee and the Employee ----------- hereby accepts engagement upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. Employee's compensation set forth herein shall be subject to all applicable federal or state tax withholding provisions. 2. Term. Subject to the provisions for termination as hereinafter provided, ----- the term of this Agreement shall be for a period of Thirty-Six (36) months commencing on October 22, 1996. The parties hereby acknowledge and agree it is their intent that: (a) any extension or renewal of this Agreement shall be concluded at least Three (3) months prior to the expiration date of the initial Thirty-Six (36) months term and Three (3) months prior to the expiration date of any subsequent extension or renewal term hereof; and (b) absent mutual agreement to the contrary, the failure to conclude such extension or renewal by the dates indicated shall be deemed notice to the Company and the Employee that the Agreement shall not be extended. At the end of one (1) year the Board of Directors shall review the Employee's performance and upon their determination of satisfactory performance, Employee shall be eligible for appointment as Chief Executive Officer of the Company. 3. Duties. The Employee shall be the President of the Company. As ------- Employee, the Employee shall, during the term of this Agreement, perform the responsibilities and duties, exercise the powers and follow the instructions which from time to time may be lawfully assigned to or vested in him by the Board of Directors of the Company. It is agreed that during the term of this Agreement, the Employee will not accept an officership or directorship, participate in the operation or management of or act as a Employee to any other company, which is in the same line of business as or in competition with the Company unless it be a company either owned or controlled by the Company, without the prior written consent of the Board of Directors of the Company. 4. Extent of Services. Employee agrees to provide not less than 40 hours ------------------- per week of executive services to the Company for the compensation paid to the Employee. Employee shall not be prevented from investing Employee's assets in such form or manner as will not require any services on the part of the Employee in the operation of the affairs of the companies in which such investments are made, except that in no event may the Employee make investments in any firms in competition with, or in the business of supplying goods or services to the Company, unless such investments are disclosed to and approved by the Board of Directors of the Company. 5. Compensation. For services rendered by the Employee under this ------------- Agreement, the Company shall pay the Employee the compensation set forth on EXHIBIT "A". If during the term of the Agreement the Employee is unavailable because of illness which prevents Employee from performing Employee's duties described herein, the Company shall be obligated to pay the Employee for all such periods of absence; not to exceed however three (3) months. 6. Bonus and Stock Option Plans and Benefit Programs. The Company proposes -------------------------------------------------- to establish certain bonus and stock option plans. During the term of this Agreement, and as additional compensation, the Employee will be eligible to participate in those plans currently in effect and as they may be amended from time to time, so long as such plans remain in existence. Furthermore, during the term of this Agreement, the Employee shall be entitled to participate in all current or subsequently enacted benefit programs applicable to other officers, directors, agent and employees of the Company. For purposes of this Agreement, all references to stock option plans, bonus plans or benefit programs shall be deemed to mean that Employee shall be eligible to participate in such plans or programs of the Company in which Employee presently participates or is eligible for, or such plans or programs of the Company that may subsequently be adopted in substitution for the Company plans or programs. Options, if any, under this Agreement as set forth on EXHIBIT "B." 7. Expenses. The Employee is authorized to incur reasonable expenses with --------- regard to the business of the Company, including expenses for entertainment, travel and other items of a similar character. The Company will reimburse the Employee for all such expenses incurred by him in the performance of Employee's duties hereunder. The Company will re-imburse Employee for all moving and transportation costs in relocating to Colorado Springs, Colorado. Employee shall present copies of all such expenses to the Company prior to reimbursement. 8. Termination by Company. This Agreement may be terminated by the Company ----------------------- as follows: (a) If the Employee shall commit a breach of this Agreement, and such breach, if capable of rectification, is not rectified with thirty (30) calendar days of receipt by Employee from the Company of written notice requiring him so to do; (b) If the Employee shall be convicted of a felony criminal offense, or been found in a judicial proceeding initiated after the date of this Agreement by a court of competent jurisdiction, in a decision subject to no further appeals, to have committed any dishonest or unlawful act or to have been engaged or engaging in any conduct which might irreparably injure or tend to injure the reputation or business of the Company; (c) If the Employee shall grossly, willfully or inexcusably neglect the performance of Employee's duties as set forth herein. Such standard of neglect shall however be determined only by the Board of Directors, based upon written opinion of independent counsel and written advice to Employee and unanimously approved by the full Board of Directors especially convened for such purpose. 9. Termination by Employee. Employee may terminate this Agreement with or ------------------------ without cause, and if terminated, the Company and Employee agree to abide by and promptly honor the provisions of Section 10 of this Agreement. Cause for termination by Employee shall not consist of the Company's refusal to follow the bona-fide professional recommendations of the Employee. 10. Payments upon Termination by Company or Employee. It is agreed that if ------------------------------------------------- this Agreement is terminated payments and/or provisions for payments will be made as follows: (a) If the Company terminates this Agreement on some basis other than for any of the reasons as stated in Paragraph 8 hereof, the Company will take the actions set forth in Subparagraphs (1), (2) and (3) of this Paragraph. If the Employee terminates this Agreement for cause, which shall be limited to a failure by the Company to pay Employee's compensation, the Company will take the actions set forth in Subparagraphs (1), (2) and (3) of this Paragraph. (1) All stock options granted to the Employee will become immediately vested for the full amount of Optioned Shares and shall be exercised, if ever, in accordance with and subject to the terms and provisions of the Intercell Corporation 1995 Compensatory Stock Option Plan and Employee's Stock Option Agreement; and (2) The Employee will receive within fifteen (15) days of the effective date of such termination, all compensation and all other benefits that would have accrued and/or been payable to the Employee during the term of this Agreement; and (3) The Employee will be paid in full any other contractual benefits Employee may have with the Company and be reimbursed for all un- reimbursed accountable expenses. (b) If the Company terminates this Agreement for a reason or reasons set forth in paragraph 8 hereof or the Employee terminates this Agreement without cause, the Company will only be obligated to pay to the Employee the actual amount of compensation accrued to the date of termination, the Employee will be bound to the terms of the Intercell Corporation 1995 Compensatory Stock Option Plan as it relates to the exercise of any vested options, and, all other payments or benefits recited herein shall be canceled and terminated, without recourse. 11. Termination Due to Change in Control. If Employee is terminated by the ------------------------------------- Company, for any reason as part or because of a change in control of the Company, then Employee shall be entitled to a one time lump sum payment of cash for the termination of this Agreement as follows: Termination Occurring In Amount Years One (1) through Two (2) $ 270,000.00 Years Three (3) $ 180,000.00 The cash payment set forth herein, shall be made within Five (5) days of the date of delivery to Employee of written termination of this Agreement by the Company. Upon receipt of the payment as set forth herein, the Employee and the Company shall in writing cancel this Agreement and the parties shall be released of all further obligations under this Agreement, provided however, that any options which have been granted to Employee and which are otherwise vested shall remain unimpaired and in full force and effect. A change in control of the Company shall be deemed to have occurred when, as a result of any type of corporate reorganization, execution of proxies or voting trusts or other arrangements, a person or group of persons acquire sufficient equity or voting control of the Company to elect more than a majority of the Board of Directors. 12. Notices of Termination. All Notices of Termination provided for in this ----------------------- Agreement must be in writing and must provide for a minimum notice period of Sixty (60) calendar days between the date of such notification and the effective date of such termination. 13. Arbitration. Any claim or controversy arising out of, or relating to, ------------ this Agreement, or the making, performance or interpretation of this Agreement, shall be settled by arbitration in El Paso County, Colorado, according to the Commercial Rules of the American Arbitration Association then existing, and judgment on the arbitration award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction over the subject matter of the controversy. The arbitrator shall have been a member of the State Bar of Colorado for at least ten (10) years; shall be neutral and impartial; and shall not have had any prior relationship with either Party. The arbitrator shall be paid at the daily rate established by the American Arbitration Association then in effect for each and every day of the arbitration proceedings, including all days of hearings, case study, preparation and deliberation and such payment shall be assessed equally against the parties. The law governing the arbitration tribunal shall be the law of Colorado, irrespective of any choice of law principles. 14. Notices. Any notice required or permitted to be given under this -------- Agreement shall be sufficient if in writing, and if sent by registered or certified mail to the Employee's residence in the case of the Employee, or to is principal office in the case of the Company. 15. Waiver, Modification or Cancellation. Any waiver, alteration or ------------------------------------- modification of any of the provisions of this Agreement or cancellation or replacement of this Agreement shall not be valid unless in writing and signed by the Parties. 16. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be --------------- binding upon the Company, its successors and assigns, including but not limited to any entity which may acquire all or substantially all of the Company's assets and business or with or into which the Company may be consolidated or merged, and the Employee, Employee's successors, representatives and assigns, provided that the duties of the Employee as described herein may not be delegated. 17. Severability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of ------------- this Agreement shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. 18. Entire Agreement. This Agreement represents the entire Agreement between ----------------- the parties. Each party represents that there are no other oral, written, express or implied contracts, agreements or understandings between them. 19. Authorization. Each party represents that he, she or it is duly -------------- competent, authorized and capable of executing this Agreement as a valid, binding and enforceable Agreement. 20. Governing Law. The substantive law of Colorado shall govern all the -------------- terms, conditions and interpretations of this Agreement and all other instruments, documents or agreements executed pursuant hereto. In the event of litigation concerning this Agreement or any other instrument, document or agreement relating to it, the parties hereto agree that the exclusive venue and place of jurisdiction shall be the State of Colorado, City and County of Denver. Further, the Employee by execution hereof, irrevocably and unconditionally consents to receive service of process and further agrees to file a general appearance upon either acceptance of process by the Employee or actual service of process upon the Employee. 21. Nondisclosure and Non-Competition. Employee agrees to the terms and ---------------------------------- conditions of Employee's obligations, if any, relating to nondisclosure and non- competition as set forth on Exhibit "C." 22. Specific Representations. Each party represents that: ------------------------- (a) The consideration recited herein shall conclusively be deemed fair, adequate, reasonable and sufficient. (b) He, she or it has voluntarily and without fraud, duress, coercion, undue influence or improper persuasion executed this Agreement. (c) The signature appearing below is Employee's manual, original, genuine, authentic and undeniable signature. DATED: October 22, 1996 Particle Interconnect Corporation Steven D. Clark By: /s/ Gordon J. Sales By: /s/ Steven D. Clark ---------------------- ------------------------- Gordon J. Sales Steven D. Clark Chief Executive Officer Individually EXHIBIT "A"
Period Minimum Compensation ------ -------------------- October 22, 1996 - October 21, 1997 $90,000.00 per year
payable according to the Company's normal payroll practices, but in no event less frequently than monthly; the Employee's salary shall be reviewed by the Board of Directors no less often than once every six (6) months. EXHIBIT "B" OPTION PARTICIPATION An Option for One Hundred Thousand (100,000) shares under the Intercell Corporation 1995 Compensatory Stock Option Plan. This option shall vest according to the following schedule: one-thirty-sixth (1/36) per month on the last day of each month, for Thirty-Six (36) months, beginning with November 1, 1996 and ending with October 31, 1999. EXHIBIT "C" NONDISCLOSURE AND NON-COMPETITION --------------------------------- 1. During the term of Employee's employment with the Company and for one (1) year thereafter, Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, as principal, agent, employee, trustee, or in any like capacity, or through the agency of any corporation, partnership, association, agent, agency or any other like entity, i) engage in any business that is similar to the business conducted by the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates; or ii) solicit any person (natural or otherwise) who is or has been within three (3) years prior to the date Employee's association is terminated, a customer or client of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates; or iii) induce any present or future Employee or affiliate of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates to accept employment or similar association with the Employee or any person, firm, association, corporation or other entity with whom the Employee is now or may hereafter become associated; or iv) become the direct or beneficial owner of the capital stock of, or acquire the right or option to become such owner, or become a member or partner of any partnership or any owner or affiliate of any other business which conducts a business similar to the business conducted by the Company. v) in any manner interfere with, disrupt or attempt to disrupt the relationship between the Company and/or any of its customers, or use in any manner whatsoever, the Company's customer list, database, or trade secrets. 2. The parties agree that in light of the specialized nature of the industry and the national-customer base of the Company's business that the restrictions set forth in Paragraph 1 hereof shall apply to Employee within the territory of the United States of America. 3. In the event of a violation by Employee of any of the covenants contained in this Agreement, it is mutually agreed that the term of said covenant and/or covenants shall be automatically extended against Employee for a period of one (1) year from the date on which Employee permanently ceases such violation or for a period of one (1) year from the date of the entry by a Court of competent jurisdiction of a final order or judgment enforcing said covenant(s), whichever period is later. The extension of the term(s) of said covenant(s) as provided in this sub-paragraph 3 shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of the remedies provided below. 4. Other than within the proper course of Employee's duties, the Employee will not during or at any time after the termination of association with the Company, use for himself or others or divulge or convey to others any secret or confidential information, knowledge or data of the Company, its subsidiaries, its affiliates or that of third parties obtained by him during the period of Employee's employment with the Company. Such information, knowledge or data includes but is not limited to secret or confidential matters, i) of a technical nature such as but not limited to research methods, know- how, reporting procedures, composition, processes, computer databases and similar items or research project, ii) of a business nature such as but not limited to information about finances, costs, profits, sales, contracts, transactions, or customer lists, or iii) pertaining to future developments such as but not limited to research and development or future marketing or advertising programs. Further, the Employee shall, during and after the period of Employee's employment, diligently endeavor to prevent the publication or disclosure of any such secret or confidential information, knowledge or data. 5. Except as otherwise provided in a written agreement between Employee and the Company, if any, all forms, manuals, letters, notes, notebooks, reports, sketches, formulas, computer programs and similar items, memoranda, client lists, business, marketing and financial plans and studies and all other materials and all copies thereof relating in any way to the business of the Company or of its subsidiaries or affiliates and in any way obtained or produced by the Employee during the period of Employee's employment with the Company shall be the property of the Company and shall be surrendered to the Company or its authorized representative upon the termination of the employment or at any other time at the request of the Company. Employee further agrees that Employee will not make or retain any copies of any of the foregoing and will so represent to the Company upon the termination of Employee's employment. 6. The Company and Employee agree that the Company would not have an adequate remedy at law for money damages in the event that the provisions of this Agreement are not complied with in accordance with their terms, and therefore agree that in the event of any breach of any of these provisions by the Employee, the Company shall be entitled to equitable relief by way of injunction or otherwise, together with costs and expenses incurred by it, including attorneys' fees, in addition to such other remedies as the Company may have. 7. In the event, Employee violates the terms of this Nondisclosure and Non- competition section, and in the further event that Company is not made aware of such violation until a point in time after which Employee has commenced engaging in services similar to those engaged in by Company, for clients for whom Company has provided services within three years of the date of Employee's termination of employment, then in addition to the injunctive relief provide for in subparagraph 6 above, Company shall be entitled to liquidated damages which shall be based upon the revenues generated by Employee from Company's clients as follows. a. Employee shall pay to Company one-third of all revenues collected by Employee from Company's clients for a period of three (3) years from the date on which Employee first collected revenues from any such Company client. 8. The parties hereby acknowledge that the restrictive covenants contained in this Agreement are fair and reasonable in light of all of the facts and circumstances of the relationship between Employee and Company; however, Employee and Company are aware that in certain circumstances courts have refused to enforce certain agreements not to compete. Therefore, in furtherance and not in derogation of the provisions of this Agreement, Company and Employee agree that in the event a court of competent jurisdiction should for any reason decline to enforce any of said covenants, that Employee's Agreement shall be deemed to be modified to restrict Employee's competition with Company to the maximum extent in time, geography and otherwise as the court shall deem enforceable and/or to grant Company such other relief at law or in equity as shall be reasonable necessary to protect the interest of Company.
EX-10.8 16 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT Exhibit 10.8 ------------ EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT This Agreement is between Particle Interconnect Corporation, a Colorado corporation, hereinafter referred to as the "Company," and Lawrence DiFrancesco, Executive Vice-President and Chief Operations Officer, hereinafter referred to as "Employee." 1. Engagement. The Company hereby engages the Employee and the Employee ----------- hereby accepts engagement upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. Employee's compensation set forth herein shall be subject to all applicable federal or state tax withholding provisions. 2. Term. Subject to the provisions for termination as hereinafter provided, ----- the term of this Agreement shall be for a period of Sixty (60) months commencing on September 1, 1996. The parties hereby acknowledge and agree it is their intent that: (a) any extension or renewal of this Agreement shall be concluded at least Three (3) months prior to the expiration date of the initial Sixty (60) months term and Three (3) months prior to the expiration date of any subsequent extension or renewal term hereof; and (b) absent mutual agreement to the contrary, the failure to conclude such extension or renewal by the dates indicated shall be deemed notice to the Company and the Employee that the Agreement shall not be extended. 3. Duties. The Employee shall be the Executive Vice-President and Chief ------- operations Officer of the Company. As Employee, the Employee shall, during the term of this Agreement, perform the responsibilities and duties, exercise the powers and follow the instructions which from time to time may be lawfully assigned to or vested in him by the Board of Directors of the Company. It is agreed that during the term of this Agreement, the Employee will not accept an officership or directorship, participate in the operation or management of or act as a Employee to any other company, which is in the same line of business as or in competition with the Company unless it be a company either owned or controlled by the Company, without the prior written consent of the Board of Directors of the Company. 4. Extent of Services. Employee agrees to provide not less than 30 hours ------------------- per week of executive services to the Company for the compensation paid to the Employee. Employee shall not be prevented from investing Employee's assets in such form or manner as will not require any services on the part of the Employee in the operation of the affairs of the companies in which such investments are made, except that in no event may the Employee make investments in any firms in competition with, or in the business of supplying goods or services to the Company, unless such investments are disclosed to and approved by the Board of Directors of the Company. 5. Compensation. For services rendered by the Employee under this ------------- Agreement, the Company shall pay the Employee the compensation set forth on EXHIBIT "A." The Company agrees that the Board of Directors shall review the Employee's compensation no less frequently than every six (6) months. If during the term of the Agreement the Employee is unavailable because of illness which prevents Employee from performing Employee's duties described herein, the Company shall be obligated to pay the Employee for all such periods of absence; not to exceed however three (3) months. 6. Bonus and Stock Option Plans and Benefit Programs. The Company proposes -------------------------------------------------- to establish certain bonus and stock option plans. During the term of this Agreement, and as additional compensation, the Employee will be eligible to participate in those plans currently in effect and as they may be amended from time to time, so long as such plans remain in existence. Furthermore, during the term of this Agreement, the Employee shall be entitled to participate in all current or subsequently enacted benefit programs applicable to other officers, directors, agent and employees of the Company. For purposes of this Agreement, all references to stock option plans, bonus plans or benefit programs shall be deemed to mean that Employee shall be eligible to participate in such plans or programs of the Company in which Employee presently participates or is eligible for, or such plans or programs of the Company that may subsequently be adopted in substitution for the Company plans or programs. Options, if any, under this Agreement as set forth on EXHIBIT "B." 7. Expenses. The Employee is authorized to incur reasonable expenses with --------- regard to the business of the Company, including expenses for entertainment, travel and other items of a similar character. The Company will reimburse the Employee for all such expenses incurred by him in the performance of Employee's duties hereunder. 8. Termination by Company. This Agreement may be terminated by the Company ----------------------- as follows: (a) If the Employee shall commit a breach of this Agreement, and such breach, if capable of rectification, is not rectified with thirty (30) calendar days of receipt by Employee from the Company of written notice requiring him so to do; (b) If the Employee shall be convicted of a felony criminal offense, or been found in a judicial proceeding initiated after the date of this Agreement by a court of competent jurisdiction, in a decision subject to no further appeals, to have committed any dishonest or unlawful act or to have been engaged or engaging in any conduct which might irreparably injure or tend to injure the reputation or business of the Company; (c) If the Employee shall grossly, willfully or inexcusably neglect the performance of Employee's duties as set forth herein. Such standard of neglect shall however be determined only by the Board of Directors, based upon written opinion of independent counsel and written advice to Employee and unanimously approved by the full Board of Directors especially convened for such purpose. 9. Termination by Employee. Employee may terminate this Agreement with or ------------------------ without cause, and if terminated, the Company and Employee agree to abide by and promptly honor the provisions of Section 10 of this Agreement. Cause for termination by Employee shall not consist of the Company's refusal to follow the bona-fide professional recommendations of the Employee. 10. Payments upon Termination by Company or Employee. It is agreed that if ------------------------------------------------- this Agreement is terminated payments and/or provisions for payments will be made as follows: (a) If the Company terminates this Agreement on some basis other than for any of the reasons as stated in Paragraph 8 hereof, the Company will take the actions set forth in Subparagraphs (1), (2) and (3) of this Paragraph. If the Employee terminates this Agreement for cause, which shall be limited to a failure by the Company to pay Employee's compensation, the Company will take the actions set forth in Subparagraphs (1), (2) and (3) of this Paragraph. (1) All stock options granted to the Employee will become immediately vested for the full amount of Optioned Shares and shall be exercised, if ever, in accordance with and subject to the terms and provisions of the Intercell Corporation 1995 Compensatory Stock Option Plan and Employee's Stock Option Agreement; and (2) The Employee will receive within fifteen (15) days of the effective date of such termination, all compensation and all other benefits that would have accrued and/or been payable to the Employee during the term of this Agreement; and (3) The Employee will be paid in full any other contractual benefits Employee may have with the Company and be reimbursed for all un- reimbursed accountable expenses. (b) If the Company terminates this Agreement for a reason or reasons set forth in paragraph 8 hereof or the Employee terminates this Agreement without cause, the Company will only be obligated to pay to the Employee the actual amount of compensation accrued to the date of termination, the Employee will be bound to the terms of the Intercell Corporation 1995 Compensatory Stock Option Plan as it relates to the exercise of any vested options, and, all other payments or benefits recited herein shall be canceled and terminated, without recourse. 11. Termination Due to Change in Control. If Employee is terminated by the ------------------------------------- Company, for any reason as part or because of a change in control of the Company, then Employee shall be entitled to a one time lump sum payment of cash for the termination of this Agreement as follows: Termination Occurring In Amount Years One (1) through Three (3) $300,000.00 Years Four (4) through Five (5) $200,000.00 The cash payment set forth herein, shall be made within Five (5) days of the date of delivery to Employee of written termination of this Agreement by the Company. Upon receipt of the payment as set forth herein, the Employee and the Company shall in writing cancel this Agreement and the parties shall be released of all further obligations under this Agreement, provided however, that any options which have been granted to Employee and which are otherwise vested shall remain unimpaired and in full force and effect. A change in control of the Company shall be deemed to have occurred when, as a result of any type of corporate reorganization, execution of proxies or voting trusts or other arrangements, a person or group of persons acquire sufficient equity or voting control of the Company to elect more than a majority of the Board of Directors. 12. Notices of Termination. All Notices of Termination provided for in this ----------------------- Agreement must be in writing and must provide for a minimum notice period of Sixty (60) calendar days between the date of such notification and the effective date of such termination. 13. Arbitration. Any claim or controversy arising out of, or relating to, ------------ this Agreement, or the making, performance or interpretation of this Agreement, shall be settled by arbitration in El Paso County, Colorado, according to the Commercial Rules of the American Arbitration Association then existing, and judgment on the arbitration award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction over the subject matter of the controversy. The arbitrator shall have been a member of the State Bar of Colorado for at least ten (10) years; shall be neutral and impartial; and shall not have had any prior relationship with either Party. The arbitrator shall be paid at the daily rate established by the American Arbitration Association then in effect for each and every day of the arbitration proceedings, including all days of hearings, case study, preparation and deliberation and such payment shall be assessed equally against the parties. The law governing the arbitration tribunal shall be the law of Colorado, irrespective of any choice of law principles. 14. Notices. Any notice required or permitted to be given under this -------- Agreement shall be sufficient if in writing, and if sent by registered or certified mail to the Employee's residence in the case of the Employee, or to is principal office in the case of the Company. 15. Waiver, Modification or Cancellation. Any waiver, alteration or ------------------------------------- modification of any of the provisions of this Agreement or cancellation or replacement of this Agreement shall not be valid unless in writing and signed by the Parties. 16. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be --------------- binding upon the Company, its successors and assigns, including but not limited to any entity which may acquire all or substantially all of the Company's assets and business or with or into which the Company may be consolidated or merged, and the Employee, Employee's successors, representatives and assigns, provided that the duties of the Employee as described herein may not be delegated. 17. Severability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of ------------- this Agreement shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. 18. Entire Agreement. This Agreement represents the entire Agreement between ----------------- the parties. Each party represents that there are no other oral, written, express or implied contracts, agreements or understandings between them. 19. Authorization. Each party represents that he, she or it is duly -------------- competent, authorized and capable of executing this Agreement as a valid, binding and enforceable Agreement. 20. Governing Law. The substantive law of Colorado shall govern all the -------------- terms, conditions and interpretations of this Agreement and all other instruments, documents or agreements executed pursuant hereto. In the event of litigation concerning this Agreement or any other instrument, document or agreement relating to it, the parties hereto agree that the exclusive venue and place of jurisdiction shall be the State of Colorado, City and County of Denver. Further, the Employee by execution hereof, irrevocably and unconditionally consents to receive service of process and further agrees to file a general appearance upon either acceptance of process by the Employee or actual service of process upon the Employee. 21. Nondisclosure and Non-Competition. Employee agrees to the terms and ---------------------------------- conditions of Employee's obligations, if any, relating to nondisclosure and non- competition as set forth on Exhibit "C." 22. Specific Representations. Each party represents that: ------------------------- (a) The consideration recited herein shall conclusively be deemed fair, adequate, reasonable and sufficient. (b) He, she or it has voluntarily and without fraud, duress, coercion, undue influence or improper persuasion executed this Agreement. (c) The signature appearing below is Employee's, her or its manual, original, genuine, authentic and undeniable signature. DATED: September 1, 1996 Particle Interconnect Corporation Lawrence DiFrancesco By: /s/ Steven Clark By: /s/ Lawrence DiFrancesco ----------------- ------------------------- Steven Clark Lawrence DiFrancesco Chief Executive Officer Individually and President EXHIBIT "A"
Period Minimum Compensation ------ -------------------- September 1, 1996 - August 31, 1997 $100,000.00 per year
payable according to the Company's normal payroll practices, but in no event less frequently than monthly; the Employee's salary shall be reviewed by the Board of Directors no less often than once every six (6) months. EXHIBIT "B" OPTION PARTICIPATION An Option for One Hundred Thousand (100,000) shares under the Intercell Corporation 1995 Compensatory Stock Option Plan. This option shall vest according to the following schedule: one-thirty-sixth (1/36) per month on the last day of each month, for thirty-six (36) months, beginning with September 1, 1996 and ending with August 31, 1999. EXHIBIT "C" NONDISCLOSURE AND NON-COMPETITION --------------------------------- 1. During the term of Employee's employment with the Company and for one (1) year thereafter, Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, as principal, agent, employee, trustee, or in any like capacity, or through the agency of any corporation, partnership, association, agent, agency or any other like entity, i) engage in any business that is similar to the business conducted by the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates; or ii) solicit any person (natural or otherwise) who is or has been within three (3) years prior to the date Employee's association is terminated, a customer or client of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates; or iii) induce any present or future Employee or affiliate of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates to accept employment or similar association with the Employee or any person, firm, association, corporation or other entity with whom the Employee is now or may hereafter become associated; or iv) become the direct or beneficial owner of the capital stock of, or acquire the right or option to become such owner, or become a member or partner of any partnership or any owner or affiliate of any other business which conducts a business similar to the business conducted by the Company. v) in any manner interfere with, disrupt or attempt to disrupt the relationship between the Company and/or any of its customers, or use in any manner whatsoever, the Company's customer list, database, or trade secrets. 2. The parties agree that in light of the specialized nature of the industry and the national-customer base of the Company's business that the restrictions set forth in Paragraph 1 hereof shall apply to Employee within the territory of the United States of America. 3. In the event of a violation by Employee of any of the covenants contained in this Agreement, it is mutually agreed that the term of said covenant and/or covenants shall be automatically extended against Employee for a period of one (1) year from the date on which Employee permanently ceases such violation or for a period of one (1) year from the date of the entry by a Court of competent jurisdiction of a final order or judgment enforcing said covenant(s), whichever period is later. The extension of the term(s) of said covenant(s) as provided in this sub-paragraph 3 shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of the remedies provided below. 4. Other than within the proper course of Employee's duties, the Employee will not during or at any time after the termination of association with the Company, use for himself or others or divulge or convey to others any secret or confidential information, knowledge or data of the Company, its subsidiaries, its affiliates or that of third parties obtained by him during the period of Employee's employment with the Company. Such information, knowledge or data includes but is not limited to secret or confidential matters, i) of a technical nature such as but not limited to research methods, know- how, reporting procedures, composition, processes, computer databases and similar items or research project, ii) of a business nature such as but not limited to information about finances, costs, profits, sales, contracts, transactions, or customer lists, or iii) pertaining to future developments such as but not limited to research and development or future marketing or advertising programs. Further, the Employee shall, during and after the period of Employee's employment, diligently endeavor to prevent the publication or disclosure of any such secret or confidential information, knowledge or data. 5. Except as otherwise provided in a written agreement between Employee and the Company, if any, all forms, manuals, letters, notes, notebooks, reports, sketches, formulas, computer programs and similar items, memoranda, client lists, business, marketing and financial plans and studies and all other materials and all copies thereof relating in any way to the business of the Company or of its subsidiaries or affiliates and in any way obtained or produced by the Employee during the period of Employee's employment with the Company shall be the property of the Company and shall be surrendered to the Company or its authorized representative upon the termination of the employment or at any other time at the request of the Company. Employee further agrees that Employee will not make or retain any copies of any of the foregoing and will so represent to the Company upon the termination of Employee's employment. 6. The Company and Employee agree that the Company would not have an adequate remedy at law for money damages in the event that the provisions of this Agreement are not complied with in accordance with their terms, and therefore agree that in the event of any breach of any of these provisions by the Employee, the Company shall be entitled to equitable relief by way of injunction or otherwise, together with costs and expenses incurred by it, including attorneys' fees, in addition to such other remedies as the Company may have. 7. In the event, Employee violates the terms of this Nondisclosure and Non- competition section, and in the further event that Company is not made aware of such violation until a point in time after which Employee has commenced engaging in services similar to those engaged in by Company, for clients for whom Company has provided services within three years of the date of Employee's termination of employment, then in addition to the injunctive relief provide for in subparagraph 6 above, Company shall be entitled to liquidated damages which shall be based upon the revenues generated by Employee from Company's clients as follows. a. Employee shall pay to Company one-third of all revenues collected by Employee from Company's clients for a period of three (3) years from the date on which Employee first collected revenues from any such Company client. 8. The parties hereby acknowledge that the restrictive covenants contained in this Agreement are fair and reasonable in light of all of the facts and circumstances of the relationship between Employee and Company; however, Employee and Company are aware that in certain circumstances courts have refused to enforce certain agreements not to compete. Therefore, in furtherance and not in derogation of the provisions of this Agreement, Company and Employee agree that in the event a court of competent jurisdiction should for any reason decline to enforce any of said covenants, that Employee's Agreement shall be deemed to be modified to restrict Employee's competition with Company to the maximum extent in time, geography and otherwise as the court shall deem enforceable and/or to grant Company such other relief at law or in equity as shall be reasonable necessary to protect the interest of Company.
EX-10.9 17 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT Exhibit 10.9 ------------ EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT This Agreement is between Particle Interconnect Corporation, a Colorado corporation, hereinafter referred to as the "Company," and Patricia E. Grihalva, Chief Financial Officer, hereinafter referred to as "Employee." 1. Engagement. The Company hereby engages the Employee and the Employee ----------- hereby accepts engagement upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. Employee's compensation set forth herein shall be subject to all applicable federal or state tax withholding provisions. 2. Term. Subject to the provisions for termination as hereinafter provided, ----- the term of this Agreement shall be for a period of Sixty (60) months commencing on September 1, 1996. The parties hereby acknowledge and agree it is their intent that: (a) any extension or renewal of this Agreement shall be concluded at least Three (3) months prior to the expiration date of the initial Sixty (60) months term and Three (3) months prior to the expiration date of any subsequent extension or renewal term hereof; and (b) absent mutual agreement to the contrary, the failure to conclude such extension or renewal by the dates indicated shall be deemed notice to the Company and the Employee that the Agreement shall not be extended. 3. Duties. The Employee shall be the Chief Financial Officer of the ------- Company. As Employee, the Employee shall, during the term of this Agreement, perform the responsibilities and duties, exercise the powers and follow the instructions which from time to time may be lawfully assigned to or vested in him by the Board of Directors of the Company. It is agreed that during the term of this Agreement, the Employee will not accept an officership or directorship, participate in the operation or management of or act as a Employee to any other company, which is in the same line of business as or in competition with the Company unless it be a company either owned or controlled by the Company, without the prior written consent of the Board of Directors of the Company. 4. Extent of Services. Employee agrees to provide not less than 30 hours ------------------- per week of executive services to the Company for the compensation paid to the Employee. Employee shall not be prevented from investing Employee's assets in such form or manner as will not require any services on the part of the Employee in the operation of the affairs of the companies in which such investments are made, except that in no event may the Employee make investments in any firms in competition with, or in the business of supplying goods or services to the Company, unless such investments are disclosed to and approved by the Board of Directors of the Company. 5. Compensation. For services rendered by the Employee under this ------------- Agreement, the Company shall pay the Employee the compensation set forth on EXHIBIT "A". The Company agrees that the Board of Directors shall review the Employee's compensation no less frequently than every six (6) months. If during the term of the Agreement the Employee is unavailable because of illness which prevents Employee from performing Employee's duties described herein, the Company shall be obligated to pay the Employee for all such periods of absence; not to exceed however three (3) months. 6. Bonus and Stock Option Plans and Benefit Programs. The Company proposes -------------------------------------------------- to establish certain bonus and stock option plans. During the term of this Agreement, and as additional compensation, the Employee will be eligible to participate in those plans currently in effect and as they may be amended from time to time, so long as such plans remain in existence. Furthermore, during the term of this Agreement, the Employee shall be entitled to participate in all current or subsequently enacted benefit programs applicable to other officers, directors, agent and employees of the Company. For purposes of this Agreement, all references to stock option plans, bonus plans or benefit programs shall be deemed to mean that Employee shall be eligible to participate in such plans or programs of the Company in which Employee presently participates or is eligible for, or such plans or programs of the Company that may subsequently be adopted in substitution for the Company plans or programs. Options, if any, under this Agreement as set forth on EXHIBIT "B." 7. Expenses. The Employee is authorized to incur reasonable expenses with --------- regard to the business of the Company, including expenses for entertainment, travel and other items of a similar character. The Company will reimburse the Employee for all such expenses incurred by him in the performance of Employee's duties hereunder. 8. Termination by Company. This Agreement may be terminated by the Company ----------------------- as follows: (a) If the Employee shall commit a breach of this Agreement, and such breach, if capable of rectification, is not rectified with thirty (30) calendar days of receipt by Employee from the Company of written notice requiring him so to do; (b) If the Employee shall be convicted of a felony criminal offense, or been found in a judicial proceeding initiated after the date of this Agreement by a court of competent jurisdiction, in a decision subject to no further appeals, to have committed any dishonest or unlawful act or to have been engaged or engaging in any conduct which might irreparably injure or tend to injure the reputation or business of the Company; (c) If the Employee shall grossly, willfully or inexcusably neglect the performance of Employee's duties as set forth herein. Such standard of neglect shall however be determined only by the Board of Directors, based upon written opinion of independent counsel and written advice to Employee and unanimously approved by the full Board of Directors especially convened for such purpose. 9. Termination by Employee. Employee may terminate this Agreement with or ------------------------ without cause, and if terminated, the Company and Employee agree to abide by and promptly honor the provisions of Section 10 of this Agreement. Cause for termination by Employee shall not consist of the Company's refusal to follow the bona-fide professional recommendations of the Employee. 10. Payments upon Termination by Company or Employee. It is agreed that if ------------------------------------------------- this Agreement is terminated payments and/or provisions for payments will be made as follows: (a) If the Company terminates this Agreement on some basis other than for any of the reasons as stated in Paragraph 8 hereof, the Company will take the actions set forth in Subparagraphs (1), (2) and (3) of this Paragraph. If the Employee terminates this Agreement for cause, which shall be limited to a failure by the Company to pay Employee's compensation, the Company will take the actions set forth in Subparagraphs (1), (2) and (3) of this Paragraph. (1) All stock options granted to the Employee will become immediately vested for the full amount of Optioned Shares and shall be exercised, if ever, in accordance with and subject to the terms and provisions of the Intercell Corporation 1995 Compensatory Stock Option Plan and Employee's Stock Option Agreement; and (2) The Employee will receive within fifteen (15) days of the effective date of such termination, all compensation and all other benefits that would have accrued and/or been payable to the Employee during the term of this Agreement; and (3) The Employee will be paid in full any other contractual benefits Employee may have with the Company and be reimbursed for all un- reimbursed accountable expenses. (b) If the Company terminates this Agreement for a reason or reasons set forth in paragraph 8 hereof or the Employee terminates this Agreement without cause, the Company will only be obligated to pay to the Employee the actual amount of compensation accrued to the date of termination, the Employee will be bound to the terms of the Intercell Corporation 1995 Compensatory Stock Option Plan as it relates to the exercise of any vested options, and, all other payments or benefits recited herein shall be canceled and terminated, without recourse. 11. Termination Due to Change in Control. If Employee is terminated by the ------------------------------------- Company, for any reason as part or because of a change in control of the Company, then Employee shall be entitled to a one time lump sum payment of cash for the termination of this Agreement as follows: Termination Occurring In Amount Years One (1) through Three (3) $ 255,000.00 Years Four (4) through Five (5) $ 170,000.00 The cash payment set forth herein, shall be made within Five (5) days of the date of delivery to Employee of written termination of this Agreement by the Company. Upon receipt of the payment as set forth herein, the Employee and the Company shall in writing cancel this Agreement and the parties shall be released of all further obligations under this Agreement, provided however, that any options which have been granted to Employee and which are otherwise vested shall remain unimpaired and in full force and effect. A change in control of the Company shall be deemed to have occurred when, as a result of any type of corporate reorganization, execution of proxies or voting trusts or other arrangements, a person or group of persons acquire sufficient equity or voting control of the Company to elect more than a majority of the Board of Directors. 12. Notices of Termination. All Notices of Termination provided for in this ----------------------- Agreement must be in writing and must provide for a minimum notice period of Sixty (60) calendar days between the date of such notification and the effective date of such termination. 13. Arbitration. Any claim or controversy arising out of, or relating to, ------------ this Agreement, or the making, performance or interpretation of this Agreement, shall be settled by arbitration in El Paso County, Colorado, according to the Commercial Rules of the American Arbitration Association then existing, and judgment on the arbitration award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction over the subject matter of the controversy. The arbitrator shall have been a member of the State Bar of Colorado for at least ten (10) years; shall be neutral and impartial; and shall not have had any prior relationship with either Party. The arbitrator shall be paid at the daily rate established by the American Arbitration Association then in effect for each and every day of the arbitration proceedings, including all days of hearings, case study, preparation and deliberation and such payment shall be assessed equally against the parties. The law governing the arbitration tribunal shall be the law of Colorado, irrespective of any choice of law principles. 14. Notices. Any notice required or permitted to be given under this -------- Agreement shall be sufficient if in writing, and if sent by registered or certified mail to the Employee's residence in the case of the Employee, or to is principal office in the case of the Company. 15. Waiver, Modification or Cancellation. Any waiver, alteration or ------------------------------------- modification of any of the provisions of this Agreement or cancellation or replacement of this Agreement shall not be valid unless in writing and signed by the Parties. 16. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be --------------- binding upon the Company, its successors and assigns, including but not limited to any entity which may acquire all or substantially all of the Company's assets and business or with or into which the Company may be consolidated or merged, and the Employee, Employee's successors, representatives and assigns, provided that the duties of the Employee as described herein may not be delegated. 17. Severability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of ------------- this Agreement shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. 18. Entire Agreement. This Agreement represents the entire Agreement between ----------------- the parties. Each party represents that there are no other oral, written, express or implied contracts, agreements or understandings between them. 19. Authorization. Each party represents that he, she or it is duly -------------- competent, authorized and capable of executing this Agreement as a valid, binding and enforceable Agreement. 20. Governing Law. The substantive law of Colorado shall govern all the -------------- terms, conditions and interpretations of this Agreement and all other instruments, documents or agreements executed pursuant hereto. In the event of litigation concerning this Agreement or any other instrument, document or agreement relating to it, the parties hereto agree that the exclusive venue and place of jurisdiction shall be the State of Colorado, City and County of Denver. Further, the Employee by execution hereof, irrevocably and unconditionally consents to receive service of process and further agrees to file a general appearance upon either acceptance of process by the Employee or actual service of process upon the Employee. 21. Nondisclosure and Non-Competition. Employee agrees to the terms and ---------------------------------- conditions of Employee's obligations, if any, relating to nondisclosure and non- competition as set forth on Exhibit "C." 22. Specific Representations. Each party represents that: ------------------------- (a) The consideration recited herein shall conclusively be deemed fair, adequate, reasonable and sufficient. (b) He, she or it has voluntarily and without fraud, duress, coercion, undue influence or improper persuasion executed this Agreement. (c) The signature appearing below is Employee's manual, original, genuine, authentic and undeniable signature. DATED: September 1, 1996 Particle Interconnect Corporation Patricia E. Grihalva By: /s/ Steven Clark By: /s/ Patricia E. Grihalva ----------------- ------------------------- Steven Clark Patricia E. Grihalva President Individually EXHIBIT "A"
Period Minimum Compensation ------ -------------------- September 1, 1996 - August 31, 1997 $85,000.00 per year
payable according to the Company's normal payroll practices, but in no event less frequently than monthly; the Employee's salary shall be reviewed by the Board of Directors no less often than once every six (6) months. EXHIBIT "B" OPTION PARTICIPATION An Option for Fifty Thousand (50,000) shares under the Intercell Corporation 1995 Compensatory Stock Option Plan. This option shall vest according to the following schedule: one-thirty-sixth (1/36) per month on the last day of each month, for thirty-six (36) months, beginning with September 1, 1996 and ending with August 31, 1999. EXHIBIT "C" NONDISCLOSURE AND NON-COMPETITION --------------------------------- 1. During the term of Employee's employment with the Company and for one (1) year thereafter, Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, as principal, agent, employee, trustee, or in any like capacity, or through the agency of any corporation, partnership, association, agent, agency or any other like entity, i) engage in any business that is similar to the business conducted by the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates; or ii) solicit any person (natural or otherwise) who is or has been within three (3) years prior to the date Employee's association is terminated, a customer or client of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates; or iii) induce any present or future Employee or affiliate of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates to accept employment or similar association with the Employee or any person, firm, association, corporation or other entity with whom the Employee is now or may hereafter become associated; or iv) become the direct or beneficial owner of the capital stock of, or acquire the right or option to become such owner, or become a member or partner of any partnership or any owner or affiliate of any other business which conducts a business similar to the business conducted by the Company. v) in any manner interfere with, disrupt or attempt to disrupt the relationship between the Company and/or any of its customers, or use in any manner whatsoever, the Company's customer list, database, or trade secrets. 2. The parties agree that in light of the specialized nature of the industry and the national-customer base of the Company's business that the restrictions set forth in Paragraph 1 hereof shall apply to Employee within the territory of the United States of America. 3. In the event of a violation by Employee of any of the covenants contained in this Agreement, it is mutually agreed that the term of said covenant and/or covenants shall be automatically extended against Employee for a period of one (1) year from the date on which Employee permanently ceases such violation or for a period of one (1) year from the date of the entry by a Court of competent jurisdiction of a final order or judgment enforcing said covenant(s), whichever period is later. The extension of the term(s) of said covenant(s) as provided in this sub-paragraph 3 shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of the remedies provided below. 4. Other than within the proper course of Employee's duties, the Employee will not during or at any time after the termination of association with the Company, use for himself or others or divulge or convey to others any secret or confidential information, knowledge or data of the Company, its subsidiaries, its affiliates or that of third parties obtained by him during the period of Employee's employment with the Company. Such information, knowledge or data includes but is not limited to secret or confidential matters, i) of a technical nature such as but not limited to research methods, know- how, reporting procedures, composition, processes, computer databases and similar items or research project, ii) of a business nature such as but not limited to information about finances, costs, profits, sales, contracts, transactions, or customer lists, or iii) pertaining to future developments such as but not limited to research and development or future marketing or advertising programs. Further, the Employee shall, during and after the period of Employee's employment, diligently endeavor to prevent the publication or disclosure of any such secret or confidential information, knowledge or data. 5. Except as otherwise provided in a written agreement between Employee and the Company, if any, all forms, manuals, letters, notes, notebooks, reports, sketches, formulas, computer programs and similar items, memoranda, client lists, business, marketing and financial plans and studies and all other materials and all copies thereof relating in any way to the business of the Company or of its subsidiaries or affiliates and in any way obtained or produced by the Employee during the period of Employee's employment with the Company shall be the property of the Company and shall be surrendered to the Company or its authorized representative upon the termination of the employment or at any other time at the request of the Company. Employee further agrees that Employee will not make or retain any copies of any of the foregoing and will so represent to the Company upon the termination of Employee's employment. 6. The Company and Employee agree that the Company would not have an adequate remedy at law for money damages in the event that the provisions of this Agreement are not complied with in accordance with their terms, and therefore agree that in the event of any breach of any of these provisions by the Employee, the Company shall be entitled to equitable relief by way of injunction or otherwise, together with costs and expenses incurred by it, including attorneys' fees, in addition to such other remedies as the Company may have. 7. In the event, Employee violates the terms of this Nondisclosure and Non- competition section, and in the further event that Company is not made aware of such violation until a point in time after which Employee has commenced engaging in services similar to those engaged in by Company, for clients for whom Company has provided services within three years of the date of Employee's termination of employment, then in addition to the injunctive relief provide for in subparagraph 6 above, Company shall be entitled to liquidated damages which shall be based upon the revenues generated by Employee from Company's clients as follows. a. Employee shall pay to Company one-third of all revenues collected by Employee from Company's clients for a period of three (3) years from the date on which Employee first collected revenues from any such Company client. 8. The parties hereby acknowledge that the restrictive covenants contained in this Agreement are fair and reasonable in light of all of the facts and circumstances of the relationship between Employee and Company; however, Employee and Company are aware that in certain circumstances courts have refused to enforce certain agreements not to compete. Therefore, in furtherance and not in derogation of the provisions of this Agreement, Company and Employee agree that in the event a court of competent jurisdiction should for any reason decline to enforce any of said covenants, that Employee's Agreement shall be deemed to be modified to restrict Employee's competition with Company to the maximum extent in time, geography and otherwise as the court shall deem enforceable and/or to grant Company such other relief at law or in equity as shall be reasonable necessary to protect the interest of Company.
EX-10.10 18 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT Exhibit 10.10 ------------- EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT This Agreement is between Cellular Magnetics, an Arizona corporation, (hereinafter referred to as the "Company"), and Jerry W. Tooley (hereinafter referred to as "Employee"). 1. Engagement. The Company hereby engages the Employee and the Employee ---------- hereby accepts engagement upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. Employee's compensation set forth herein shall be subject to all applicable federal or state tax withholding provisions. 2. Term. Subject to the provisions for termination as hereafter provided, ---- the term of this Agreement shall be for a period of thirty-six (36) months commencing on October 15, 1996. The parties hereby acknowledge and agree it is their intent that: (a) any extension or renewal of this Agreement shall be concluded at least Three (3) months prior to the expiration date of the initial thirty-six (36) months term and Three (3) months prior to the expiration date of any subsequent extension or renewal term hereof; and (b) absent mutual agreement to the contrary, the failure to conclude such extension or renewal by the dates indicated shall be deemed notice to the Company and the Employee that the Agreement shall not be extended. 3. Duties. The Employee shall be the President of the Company. As such, ------ the Employee shall, during the term of this Agreement, perform the responsibilities and duties, exercise the powers and follow the instructions which from time to time may be lawfully assigned to or vested in him by the Board of Directors of the Company. It is agreed that during the term of this Agreement, and for so long as no Event of Default has occurred hereunder, the Employee will not accept an officership or directorship, participate in the operation or management of or act as an Employee to any other company, which is in the same line of business as or in competition with the Company unless it be a company either owned or controlled by the Company, without the prior written consent of the Board of Directors of the Company. 4. Extent of Services. Employee agrees to provide not less than 30 hours ------------------ per week of executive services to the Company for the compensation paid to the Employee. Employee shall not be prevented from investing his assets in any manner, except that in no event may the Employee make investments in any firms in competition with, or in the business of supplying goods or services to the Company, unless such investments are disclosed to and approved by the Board of Directors of the Company. 5. Compensation. For services rendered by the Employee under this ------------ Agreement, the Company shall pay the Employee the compensation and bonus, and grant such other benefits, as are set forth on Exhibit "A." If during the term ------------ of the Agreement the Employee is unavailable because of illness which prevents Employee from performing his duties described herein, the Company shall be obligated to pay the Employee for all such periods of absence; not to exceed however three (3) months. 6. Bonus and Stock Option Plans and Benefit Programs. The Company proposes ------------------------------------------------- to establish certain bonus and stock option plans. During the term of this Agreement, and as additional compensation, the Employee will be eligible to participate in those plans currently in effect and as they may be amended from time to time, so long as such plans remain in existence. Furthermore, during the term of this Agreement, the Employee shall be entitled to participate in all current or subsequently enacted benefit programs applicable to other officers, directors, agent and employees of the Company. For purposes of this Agreement, all references to stock option plans, bonus plans or benefit programs shall be deemed to mean that Employee shall be eligible to participate in such plans or programs of the Company in which Employee presently participates or is eligible for, or such plans or programs of the Company that may subsequently be by the Company. Options, if any, under this Agreement as are set forth on Exhibit "B." ----------- 7. Expenses. The Employee is authorized to incur reasonable expenses with -------- regard to the business of the Company, including expenses for entertainment, travel and other items of a similar character. The Company will reimburse the Employee for all such expenses incurred by him in the performance of his duties hereunder. 8. Termination by Company. This Agreement may be terminated by the Company ---------------------- as follows: (a) If the Employee shall commit a breach of this Agreement, and such breach, if capable of rectification, is not rectified within thirty (30) calendar days of receipt by Employee from the Company of written notice requiring him so to do. (b) If the Employee shall be convicted of a felony criminal offense, or been found in a judicial proceeding initiated after the date of this Agreement by a court of competent jurisdiction, in a decision subject to no further appeals, to have committed any dishonest or unlawful act or to have been engaged or engaging in any conduct which might irreparably injure or tend to injure the reputation or business of the Company. (c) If the Employee shall grossly, willfully or inexcusably neglect the performance of Employee's duties as set forth herein. Such standard of neglect shall however be determined only by the Board of Directors, based upon written opinion of independent counsel and written advice to Employee and unanimously approved by the full Board of Directors especially convened for such purpose. 9. Termination by Employee. Employee may terminate this Agreement with or ----------------------- without cause, and if terminated, the Company and Employee agree to abide by and promptly honor the provisions of Section 10 of this Agreement. Cause for ---------- termination by Employee shall not consist of the Company's refusal to follow the bona-fide professional recommendations of the Employee. 10. Payments Upon Termination by Company or Employee. It is agreed that if ------------------------------------------------ this Agreement is terminated payments and/or provisions for payments will be made as follows: (a) If the Company terminates this Agreement on some basis other than for any of the reasons as stated in Paragraph 8 hereof, the Company will take the actions set forth in Subparagraphs (1) through (5) of this Paragraph. If the Employee terminates this Agreement for cause, which shall be limited to a failure by the Company to pay Employee his compensation, or a breach by Employer of that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger of even date herewith to which Employer and Employee are partners, or that certain Promissory Note of even date herewith in the principal amount of Eighty Thousand Dollars ($80,000), the Company will take all of the following actions: (1) All stock options granted to the Employee pursuant to this Agreement will become immediately vested for the full amount of Optioned Shares and shall be exercised, if ever, in accordance with and subject to the terms and provisions of the Company's Compensatory Stock Option Plan and Employee's Stock Option Agreement; and (2) The Employee will receive within fifteen (15) days of the effective date of such termination, all compensation and all other benefits that would have accrued and/or been payable to the Employee during the term of this Agreement; and (3) The Employee will be paid in full any other contractual benefits Employee may have with the Company and be reimbursed for all un- reimbursed accountable expenses; and (4) Within ninety (90) days thereafter, Employee shall have the option, on giving Employer fifteen (15) days prior written notice, to require Employer to redeem for cash all or any portion of the stock of Employer then owned by Employee, at one hundred percent (100%) of its then fair market value. (5) Within thirty (30) days after the effective date of such termination, Employer shall pay to Employee the amount of any Minimum Bonus payable to Employee during the first two (2) years hereof, as set forth on Exhibit "A," Section B, which has not theretofore been paid to Employee. (b) If the Company terminates this Agreement for a reason or reasons set forth in paragraph 9 hereof or the Employee terminates this Agreement without cause, the Company will only be obligated to pay to the Employee the actual amount of compensation accrued to the date of termination to which Employee is otherwise entitled pursuant to this Employment Agreement, including, but not limited to, the minimum bonus set forth on Exhibit "A," Section B hereto and, all other payments or benefits recited ---------------------- herein shall be canceled and terminated, without recourse. 11. Termination Due to Change in Control. If Employee is terminated by the ------------------------------------ -------- Company, for any reason as part or because of a change in control of the Company, or of Intercell, Inc., the Company's parent, then Employee shall be entitled to a one time lump sum payment of cash for the termination of this Agreement as follows: Termination Occurring In Amount ------------------------ ------ Years One (1) through Three (3) $216,000.00 The cash payment set forth herein, shall be made within Five (5) days of the date of delivery to Employee of written termination of this Agreement by the Company. Upon receipt of the payment as set forth herein, the Employee and the Company shall in writing cancel this Agreement and the parties shall be released of all further obligations under this Agreement, provided however, that any options which have been granted to Employee and which are otherwise vested shall remain unimpaired and in full force and effect. A change in control of the Company shall be deemed to have occurred when, as a result of any type of corporate reorganization, execution of proxies or voting trusts or other arrangements, a person or group or persons acquire sufficient equity or voting control of the Company to elect more than a majority of the Board of Directors. 12. Notices of Termination. All Notices of Termination provided for in this ---------------------- Agreement must be in writing and must provide for a minimum notice period of Sixty (60) calendar days between the date of such notification and the effective date of such termination. 13. Arbitration. Any controversy or claim arising out of, or relating to ----------- this Agreement, or the breach hereof, shall be settled by arbitration in the City of Phoenix, Arizona in accordance with the then effective rules of the American Arbitration Association. Such ruling shall be binding upon the parties. 14. Notices. Any notice required or permitted to be given under this ------- Agreement shall be sufficient if in writing, and if sent by registered or certified mail to the Employee's residence in the case of the Employee, or to is principal office in the case of the Company. 15. Waiver, Modification or Cancellation. Any waiver, altercation or ------------------------------------ modification of any of the provisions of this Agreement or cancellation or replacement of this Agreement shall not be valid unless in writing and signed by the Parties. 16. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be -------------- binding upon the Company, its successors and assigns, including but not limited to any entity which may acquire all or substantially all of the Company's assets and business or with or into which the Company may be consolidated or merged, and the Employee, his successors, representatives and assigns, provided that the duties of the Employee as described herein may not be delegated. 17. Severability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of ------------ this Agreement shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. 18. Entire Agreement. This Agreement represents the entire Agreement between ---------------- the parties. Each party represents that there are no other oral, written, express or implied contracts, agreements or understandings between them. 19. Authorization. Each party represents that he, she or it is duly ------------- competent, authorized and capable of executing this Agreement as a valid, binding and enforceable Agreement. 20. Governing Law. The substantive law of Arizona shall govern all the ------------- terms, conditions and interpretations of this Agreement and all other instruments, documents or agreements executed pursuant hereto. In the event of litigation concerning this Agreement or any other instrument, document or agreement relating to it, the parties hereto agree that the exclusive venue and place of jurisdiction shall be the State of Arizona, County of Maricopa. Further, each of Employee and Employer by execution hereof, irrevocably and unconditionally consents to receive service of process and further agrees to file a general appearance upon either acceptance of process by the other party or actual service of process upon such party. 21. Nondisclosure and Non-Competition. Employee agrees to the terms and --------------------------------- conditions of his obligations, if any, relating to nondisclosure and non- competition as set forth on Exhibit "C." ------------ 22. Specific Representations. Each party represents that: ------------------------ (a) The consideration recited herein shall conclusively be deemed fair, adequate, reasonable and sufficient. (b) He, she or it has voluntarily and without fraud, duress, coercion, undue influence or improper persuasion executed this Agreement. DATED: October 8, 1996 Intercell Corporation By: /s/ Gordon J. Sales By: /s/ Jerry W. Tooley -------------------- -------------------- Gordon J. Sales Jerry W. Tooley Chief Executive Officer Individually and President EXHIBIT "A" A. Base Compensation $72,000 annually B. Minimum Bonus: 1. On or before October 1, 1997: $90,000 2. On or before October 1, 1998: $90,000 C. Performance Bonus: Annually, based on _________ percent (____%) of the amount by which Net Operating Profit exceeds One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00). For purposes hereof "Net Operating Profit" shall be as determined for financial accounting purposes, without taking into consideration inter- company expenditures, and expenses in excess of current (September 30, 1996) expense ratios. D. Fringe Benefits: Use of own company vehicle. 3 weeks paid vacation annually EXHIBIT "B" EXHIBIT "C" NONDISCLOSURE AND NON-COMPETITION --------------------------------- 1. During the term of Employee's employment with the Company and for one (1) year thereafter, and further provided that neither Company nor Intercell, Inc. are then in default of any of their respective obligations to Employee under any agreement to which they are parties, Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, as principal, agent, employee, trustee, or in any like capacity, or through the agency of any corporation, partnership, association, agent, agency or any other like entity. (a) engage in any business that is similar to the business conducted by the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates; or (b) solicit any person (natural or otherwise) who is or has been within three (3) years prior to the date Employee's association is terminated, a customer or client of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates; or (c) induce any present or future Employee or affiliate of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates to accept employment or similar association with the Employee or any person, firm, association, corporation or other entity with whom the Employee is now or may hereafter become associated; or (d) in any manner interfere with, disrupt or attempt to disrupt the relationship between the Company and/or any of its customers, or use in any manner whatsoever, the Company's customer list, database, or trade secrets. 2. The parties agree that in light of the specialized nature of the industry and the national-customer base of the Company's business that the restrictions set forth in Paragraph 1 hereof shall apply to Employee within the territory of the United States of America. 3. In the event of a violation by Employee of any of the covenants contained in this Agreement, it is mutually agreed that the term of said covenant and/or covenants shall be automatically extended against Employee for a period of one (1) year from the date on which Employee permanently ceases such violation or for a period of time of one (1) year from the date of the entry by a Court of competent jurisdiction of a final order or judgment enforcing said covenant(s), whichever period is later. The extension of the term(s) of said covenant(s) as provided in this sub-paragraph 3 shall be in addition to and not in lieu of the remedies provided below. 4. Other than within the proper course of Employee's duties, the Employee will not during or at any time after the termination of association with the Company, use for himself or others or divulge or convey to others any secret or confidential information, knowledge or data of the Company, its subsidiaries its affiliates or that of third parties obtained by him during the period of his employment with the Company. Such information, knowledge or data includes but is not limited to secret or confidential matters. (a) of a technical nature such as but not limited to research methods, know- how, reporting procedures, composition, processes, computer databases and similar terms or research project. (b) of a business nature such as but not limited to information about finances, costs, profits, sales, contracts, transactions, or customer lists, or (c) pertaining to future developments such as but not limited to research and development or future marketing or advertising programs. Further, the Employee shall, during and after the period of Employee's employment, diligently endeavor to prevent the publication or disclosure of any such secret or confidential information, knowledge or data. 5. All forms, manuals, letters, notes, notebooks, reports, sketches, formulas, computer programs and similar items, memoranda, client lists, business, marketing and financial plans and studies and all other materials and all copies thereof relating in any way to the business of the Company or of its subsidiaries or affiliates and in any way obtained or produced by the Employee during the period of his employment with the Company or its authorized representative upon the termination of the employment or at any other time at the request of the Company. Employee further agrees that Employee will not make or retain any copies of any of the foregoing and will so represent to the Company upon the termination of Employee's employment. 6. The Company and Employee agree that the Company would not have an adequate remedy at law for money damages in the event that the provisions of this Agreement are not complied with in accordance with their terms, and therefore agree that in the event of any breach of any of these provisions by the Employee, the Company shall be entitled to equitable relief by way of injunction or otherwise, together with costs and expenses incurred by it, including attorneys' fees, in addition to such other remedies as the Company may have. 7. In the event, Employee violates the terms of this Nondisclosure and Non- Competition section, and in the further event that Company is not made aware of such violation until a point in time after which Employee has commenced engaging in services similar to those engaged in by Company, for clients for whom Company has provided services within three years of the date of Employee's termination of employment, then in addition to the injunctive relief provide for in subparagraph 6 above, Company shall be entitled to liquidated damages which shall be based upon the revenues generated by Employee from Company's clients as follows. (a) Employee shall pay to Company one-third of all revenues collected by Employee from Company's clients for a period of three (3) years from the date on which Employee first collected revenues from any such Company client. The parties hereby acknowledge that the restrictive covenants contained in this Agreement are fair and reasonable in light of all of the facts and circumstances of the relationship between Employee and Company; however, Employee and Company are aware that in certain circumstances courts have refused to enforce certain agreements not to compete. Therefore, in furtherance and not in derogation of the provisions of this Agreement, Company and Employee agree that in the event a court of competent jurisdiction should for any reason decline to enforce any of said covenants, that his Agreement shall be deemed to be modified to restrict Employee's competition with Company to the maximum extent in time, geography and otherwise as the court shall deem enforceable and/or to grant Company such other relief at law or in equity as shall be reasonable necessary to protect the interest of Company. EX-10.11 19 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT Exhibit 10.11 ------------- EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT This Agreement is between Cellular Magnetics an Arizona corporation, (hereinafter referred to as the "Company"), and David Putnam (hereinafter referred to as "Employee"). 8. Engagement. The Company hereby engages the Employee and the Employee ---------- hereby accepts engagement upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. Employee's compensation set forth herein shall be subject to all applicable federal or state tax withholding provisions. 9. Term. Subject to the provisions for termination as hereafter provided, ---- the term of this Agreement shall be for a period of sixty (60) months commencing on October 15, 1996. The parties hereby acknowledge and agree it is their intent that: (a) any extension or renewal of this Agreement shall be concluded at least Three (3) months prior to the expiration date of the initial sixty (60) ---------- months term and Three (3) months prior to the expiration date of any subsequent extension or renewal term hereof; and (b) absent mutual agreement to the contrary, the failure to conclude such extension or renewal by the dates indicated shall be deemed notice to the Company and the Employee that the Agreement shall not be extended. 10. Duties. The Employee shall, during the term of this Agreement, perform ------ the responsibilities and duties, exercise the powers and follow the instructions which from time to time may be lawfully assigned to or vested in him by the Board of Directors of the Company. It is agreed that during the term of this Agreement, and for so long as no Event of Default has occurred hereunder, the Employee will not accept an officership or directorship, participate in the operation or management of or act as an Employee to any other company, which is in the same line of business as or in competition with the Company unless it be a company either owned or controlled by the Company, without the prior written consent of the Board of Directors of the Company. 11. Extent of Services. Employee agrees to provide not less than 40 hours ------------------ per week of services to the Company for the compensation paid to the Employee. Employee shall not be prevented from investing his assets in any manner, except that in no event may the Employee make investments in any firms in competition with, or in the business of supplying goods or services to the Company, unless such investments are disclosed to and approved by the Board of Directors of the Company. 12. Compensation. For services rendered by the Employee under this ------------ Agreement, the Company shall pay the Employee the compensation and bonus, and grant such other benefits, as are set forth on Exhibit "A." If during the term ------------ of the Agreement the Employee is unavailable because of illness which prevents Employee from performing his duties described herein, the Company shall be obligated to pay the Employee for all such periods of absence; not to exceed however three (3) months. 13. Bonus and Stock Option Plans and Benefit Programs. The Company proposes ------------------------------------------------- to establish certain bonus and stock option plans. During the term of this Agreement, and as additional compensation, the Employee will be eligible to participate in those plans currently in effect and as they may be amended from time to time, so long as such plans remain in existence. Furthermore, during the term of this Agreement, the Employee shall be entitled to participate in all current or subsequently enacted benefit programs applicable to other officers, directors, agent and employees of the Company. For purposes of this Agreement, all references to stock option plans, bonus plans or benefit programs shall be deemed to mean that Employee shall be eligible to participate in such plans or programs of the Company in which Employee presently participates or is eligible for, or such plans or programs of the Company that may subsequently be by the Company. Options, if any, under this Agreement as are set forth on Exhibit "B." ----------- 14. Expenses. The Employee is authorized to incur reasonable expenses with -------- regard to the business of the Company, including expenses for entertainment, travel and other items of a similar character. The Company will reimburse the Employee for all such expenses incurred by him in the performance of his duties hereunder. 15. Termination by Company. This Agreement may be terminated by the Company ---------------------- as follows: (a) If the Employee shall commit a breach of this Agreement, and such breach, if capable of rectification, is not rectified within thirty (30) calendar days of receipt by Employee from the Company of written notice requiring him so to do. (b) If the Employee shall be convicted of a felony criminal offense, or been found in a judicial proceeding initiated after the date of this Agreement by a court of competent jurisdiction, in a decision subject to no further appeals, to have committed any dishonest or unlawful act or to have been engaged or engaging in any conduct which might irreparably injure or tend to injure the reputation or business of the Company (c) If the Employee shall grossly, willfully or inexcusably neglect the performance of Employee's duties as set forth herein. Such standard of neglect shall however be determined only by the Board of Directors, based upon written opinion of independent counsel and written advice to Employee and unanimously approved by the full Board of Directors especially convened for such purpose. 16. Termination by Employee. Employee may terminate this Agreement with or ----------------------- without cause, and if terminated, the Company and Employee agree to abide by and promptly honor the provisions of Section 10 of this Agreement. Cause for ---------- termination by Employee shall not consist of the Company's refusal to follow the bona-fide professional recommendations of the Employee. 17. Payments Upon Termination by Company or Employee. It is agreed that if ------------------------------------------------ this Agreement is terminated payments and/or provisions for payments will be made as follows: (a) If the Company terminates this Agreement on some basis other than for any of the reasons as stated in Paragraph 8 hereof, the Company will take the actions set forth in Subparagraphs (1) through (5) of this Paragraph. If the Employee terminates this Agreement for cause, which shall be limited to a failure by the Company to pay Employee his compensation, or a breach by Employer of that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger of even date herewith to which Employer and Employee are parties, the Company will take all of the following actions: (1) All stock options granted to the Employee pursuant to this Agreement will become immediately vested for the full amount of Optioned Shares and shall be exercised, if ever, in accordance with and subject to the terms and provisions of the Company's Compensatory Stock Option Plan and Employee's Stock Option Agreement; and (2) The Employee will receive within fifteen (15) days of the effective date of such termination, all compensation and all other benefits that would have accrued and/or been payable to the Employee during the term of this Agreement; and (3) The Employee will be paid in full any other contractual benefits Employee may have with the Company and be reimbursed for all un- reimbursed accountable expenses; and (4) Within ninety (90) days thereafter, Employee shall have the option, upon giving Employer fifteen (15) days prior written notice, to require Employer to redeem for cash all or any portion of the stock of Employer then owned by Employee, at One Hundred percent (100%) of its then fair market value. (5) Within thirty (30) days after the effective date of such termination, Employer shall pay to Employee the amount of any Minimum Bonus payable to Employee during the first two (2) years hereof, as set forth on Exhibit "A," Section B, which has not theretofore been paid to Employee. (b) If the Company terminates this Agreement for a reason or reasons set forth in paragraph 9 hereof or the Employee terminates this Agreement without cause, the Company will only be obligated to pay to the Employee the actual amount of compensation accrued to the date of termination to which Employee is otherwise entitled pursuant to this Employment Agreement, including, but not limited to, the minimum bonus set forth on Exhibit "A," Section B hereto and, all other payments or benefits recited herein shall be canceled and terminated, without recourse. 18. Termination Due to Change in Control. INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK. ------------------------------------ 19. Notices of Termination. All Notices of Termination provided for in this ---------------------- Agreement must be in writing and must provide for a minimum notice period of Sixty (60) calendar days between the date of such notification and the effective date of such termination. 20. Arbitration. Any controversy or claim arising out of, or relating to ----------- this Agreement, or the breach hereof, shall be settled by arbitration in the City of Phoenix, Arizona in accordance with the then effective rules of the American Arbitration Association. Such ruling shall be binding upon the parties. 21. Notices. Any notice required or permitted to be given under this ------- Agreement shall be sufficient if in writing, and if sent by registered or certified mail to the Employee's residence in the case of the Employee, or to is principal office in the case of the Company. 22. Waiver, Modification or Cancellation. Any waiver, altercation or ------------------------------------ modification of any of the provisions of this Agreement or cancellation or replacement of this Agreement shall not be valid unless in writing and signed by the Parties. 23. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be -------------- binding upon the Company, its successors and assigns, including but not limited to any entity which may acquire all or substantially all of the Company's assets and business or with or into which the Company may be consolidated or merged, and the Employee, his successors, representatives and assigns, provided that the duties of the Employee as described herein may not be delegated. 24. Severability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of ------------ this Agreement shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. 25. Entire Agreement. This Agreement represents the entire Agreement between ---------------- the parties. Each party represents that there are no other oral, written, express or implied contracts, agreements or understandings between them. 26. Authorization. Each party represents that he, she or it is duly ------------- competent, authorized and capable of executing this Agreement as a valid, binding and enforceable Agreement. 27. Governing Law. The substantive law of Arizona shall govern all the ------------- terms, conditions and interpretations of this Agreement and all other instruments, documents or agreements executed pursuant hereto. In the event of litigation concerning this Agreement or any other instrument, document or agreement relating to it, the parties hereto agree that the exclusive venue and place of jurisdiction shall be the State of Arizona, County of Maricopa. Further, each of Employee and Employer by execution hereof, irrevocably and unconditionally consents to receive service of process and further agrees to file a general appearance upon either acceptance of process by the other party or actual service of process upon such party. 28. Nondisclosure and Non-Competition. Employee agrees to the terms and --------------------------------- conditions of his obligations, if any, relating to nondisclosure and non- competition as set forth on Exhibit "C." ------------ 29. Specific Representations. Each party represents that: ------------------------ (a) The consideration recited herein shall conclusively be deemed fair, adequate, reasonable and sufficient. (b) He, she or it has voluntarily and without fraud, duress, coercion, undue influence or improper persuasion executed this Agreement DATED: October 8, 1996 Intercell Corporation By: /s/ Gordon J. Sales By: /s/ David Putnam -------------------- ----------------- Gordon J. Sales David Putnam Chief Executive Officer Individually and President EXHIBIT "A" A. Base Compensation $47,623 annually B. Bonus Compensation: Minimum Bonus: 1. On or before October 1, 1997: $10,000 2. On or before October 1, 1998: $10,000 C. Performance Bonus: Annually, based on _________ percent (____%) of the amount by which Net Operating Profit exceeds One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00). For purposes hereof "Net Operating Profit" shall be as determined for financial accounting purposes, without taking into consideration inter- company expenditures, and expenses in excess of current (September 30, 1996) expense ratios. D. Fringe Benefits: 2 weeks paid vacation annually EXHIBIT "B" EXHIBIT "C" NONDISCLOSURE AND NON-COMPETITION --------------------------------- 1. During the term of Employee's employment with the Company and for one (1) year thereafter, and further provided that neither Company nor Intercell, Inc. are then in default of any of their respective obligations to Employee under any agreement to which they are parties, Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, as principal, agent, employee, trustee, or in any like capacity, or through the agency of any corporation, partnership, association, agent, agency or any other like entity. (a) engage in any business that is similar to the business conducted by the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates; or (b) solicit any person (natural or otherwise) who is or has been within three (3) years prior to the date Employee's association is terminated, a customer or client of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates; or (c) induce any present or future Employee or affiliate of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates to accept employment or similar association with the Employee or any person, firm, association, corporation or other entity with whom the Employee is now or may hereafter become associated; or (d) in any manner interfere with, disrupt or attempt to disrupt the relationship between the Company and/or any of its customers, or use in any manner whatsoever, the Company's customer list, database, or trade secrets. 2. The parties agree that in light of the specialized nature of the industry and the national-customer base of the Company's business that the restrictions set forth in Paragraph 1 hereof shall apply to Employee within the territory of the United States of America. 3. In the event of a violation by Employee of any of the covenants contained in this Agreement, it is mutually agreed that the term of said covenant and/or covenants shall be automatically extended against Employee for a period of one (1) year from the date on which Employee permanently ceases such violation or for a period of time of one (1) year from the date of the entry by a Court of competent jurisdiction of a final order or judgment enforcing said covenant(s), whichever period is later. The extension of the term(s) of said covenant(s) as provided in this sub-paragraph 3 shall be in addition to and not in lieu of the remedies provided below. 4. Other than within the proper course of Employee's duties, the Employee will not during or at any time after the termination of association with the Company, use for himself or others or divulge or convey to others any secret or confidential information, knowledge or data of the Company, its subsidiaries its affiliates or that of third parties obtained by him during the period of his employment with the Company. Such information, knowledge or data includes but is not limited to secret or confidential matters. (a) of a technical nature such as but not limited to research methods, know- how, reporting procedures, composition, processes, computer databases and similar terms or research project. (b) of a business nature such as but not limited to information about finances, costs, profits, sales, contracts, transactions, or customer lists, or (c) pertaining to future developments such as but not limited to research and development or future marketing or advertising programs. Further, the Employee shall, during and after the period of Employee's employment, diligently endeavor to prevent the publication or disclosure of any such secret or confidential information, knowledge or data. 5. All forms, manuals, letters, notes, notebooks, reports, sketches, formulas, computer programs and similar items, memoranda, client lists, business, marketing and financial plans and studies and all other materials and all copies thereof relating in any way to the business of the Company or of its subsidiaries or affiliates and in any way obtained or produced by the Employee during the period of his employment with the Company or its authorized representative upon the termination of the employment or at any other time at the request of the Company. Employee further agrees that Employee will not make or retain any copies of any of the foregoing and will so represent to the Company upon the termination of Employee's employment. 6. The Company and Employee agree that the Company would not have an adequate remedy at law for money damages in the event that the provisions of this Agreement are not complied with in accordance with their terms, and therefore agree that in the event of any breach of any of these provisions by the Employee, the Company shall be entitled to equitable relief by way of injunction or otherwise, together with costs and expenses incurred by it, including attorneys' fees, in addition to such other remedies as the Company may have. 7. In the event, Employee violates the terms of this Nondisclosure and Non- Competition section, and in the further event that Company is not made aware of such violation until a point in time after which Employee has commenced engaging in services similar to those engaged in by Company, for clients for whom Company has provided services within three years of the date of Employee's termination of employment, then in addition to the injunctive relief provide for in subparagraph 6 above, Company shall be entitled to liquidated damages which shall be based upon the revenues generated by Employee from Company's clients as follows. (a) Employee shall pay to Company one-third of all revenues collected by Employee from Company's clients for a period of three (3) years from the date on which Employee first collected revenues from any such Company client. The parties hereby acknowledge that the restrictive covenants contained in this Agreement are fair and reasonable in light of all of the facts and circumstances of the relationship between Employee and Company; however, Employee and Company are aware that in certain circumstances courts have refused to enforce certain agreements not to compete. Therefore, in furtherance and not in derogation of the provisions of this Agreement, Company and Employee agree that in the event a court of competent jurisdiction should for any reason decline to enforce any of said covenants, that his Agreement shall be deemed to be modified to restrict Employee's competition with Company to the maximum extent in time, geography and otherwise as the court shall deem enforceable and/or to grant Company such other relief at law or in equity as shall be reasonable necessary to protect the interest of the Company. EX-11 20 COMPUTATION OF PER SHARE EARNINGS Exhibit 11 ---------- INTERCELL CORPORATION STATEMENT REGARDING COMPUTATION OF PER SHARE EARNINGS
Year ended September 30, -------------------------------------- Statement of operations data: 1996 1995 1994 ----------- ---------- --------- Net (loss) (5,283,000) (1,321,000) (362,000) ========== ========== ========= Weighted average shares outstanding 11,779,787 7,391,275 4,828,007 Common equivalent shares from stock options Average common and equivalent shares outstanding/(1)/ -- -- -- ---------- ---------- --------- 11,779,787 7,391,275 4,828,007 ========== ========== ========= Net (loss) per share (.45) (.18) (.08) ========== ========== =========
________________ /(1)/ The difference between primary and fully diluted earnings per share is not material.
EX-21 21 SUBSIDIARIES OF THE CO. Exhibit 21 ---------- SUBSIDIARIES OF THE COMPANY The following is a list of the Company's wholly-owned subsidiaries: . Arizcan Properties, Ltd., an Arizona corporation . California Tube Laboratory, a California corporation . Cellular Magnetics, Inc., an Arizona corporation . Intercell Wireless Corp., an Arizona corporation . Particle Interconnect Corporation, a Colorado corporation EX-23.1 22 CONSENT OF KPMG PEAT MARWICK LLP Exhibit 23.1 ------------ Consent of Independent Auditors The Board of Directors Intercell Corporation: We consent to incorporation by reference in the registration statement (No. 333-604) on Form S-8 of Intercell Corporation of our report dated December 6, 1996, relating to the consolidated balance sheets of Intercell Corporation and subsidiaries as of September 30, 1996 and 1995, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders' equity, and cash flows for the year ended September 30, 1996, and the eleven-month period ended September 30, 1995, and the related schedule, which report appears in the September 30, 1996, annual report on Form 10-K of Intercell Corporation. /s/ KPMG Peat Marwick LLP San Jose, California January 8, 1997 EX-23.2 23 CONSENT OF MARK SHELLEY, CPA Exhibit 23.2 ------------ CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS As an independent public accountant, I hereby consent to the incorporation of my report included in this Form 10-K into Intercell Corporation's previously filed Registration Statement on Form S-8, No. 333-604. /s/ Mark Shelley, CPA January 1, 1997 EX-27 24 FINANCIAL DATA SCHEDULE
5 YEAR SEP-30-1996 OCT-01-1995 SEP-30-1996 4,224,000 3,063,000 746,000 255,000 1,066,000 10,625,000 1,418,000 142,000 13,826,000 2,060,000 86,000 0 5,533,000 12,187,000 (6,040,000) 13,826,000 3,405,000 3,441,000 2,830,000 8,601,000 33,000 47,000 54,000 (5,283,000) 0 (5,283,000) 0 0 0 (5,283,000) (.45) (.45)
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