0001437749-14-009075.txt : 20140514 0001437749-14-009075.hdr.sgml : 20140514 20140514170021 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001437749-14-009075 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 13 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20140509 ITEM INFORMATION: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement ITEM INFORMATION: Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20140514 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20140514 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PLC SYSTEMS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000879682 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTROMEDICAL & ELECTROTHERAPEUTIC APPARATUS [3845] IRS NUMBER: 043153858 STATE OF INCORPORATION: B0 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-11388 FILM NUMBER: 14842282 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 10 FORGE PARK CITY: FRANKLIN STATE: MA ZIP: 02038 BUSINESS PHONE: 5085418800 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 10 FORGE PARK CITY: FRANKLIN STATE: MA ZIP: 02038 8-K 1 plcsf20140507_8k.htm FORM 8-K plcsf20140507_8k.htm

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

 

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported):

 

May 9, 2014

 

PLC SYSTEMS INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Yukon Territory, Canada

1-11388

04-3153858

(State or other Jurisdiction of

Incorporation or Organization)

(Commission File No.)

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

PLC Systems Inc.

459 Fortune Boulevard

Milford, Massachusetts

01757

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip Code)

   

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (508) 541-8800

 

Not Applicable


(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 
 

 

 

Item 1.01.     Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

The Merger Agreement

 

On May 9, 2014, PLC Systems Inc. (the “Company”) entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) by and among the Company, Viveve, Inc. (“Viveve”) and PLC Systems Acquisition Corporation, a newly formed, wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“Merger Sub”).

 

Viveve is a Delaware corporation that was incorporated in 2005 by Jonathon Parmer, MD, an OBGYN physician and Edward Knowlton, the holder of patents covering the use of radiofrequency energy to tighten tissue. Viveve designs, develops, manufactures and markets medical devices for the non-invasive treatment of vaginal introital laxity.

 

Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, Merger Sub will merge with and into Viveve, with Viveve being the surviving entity and the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Merger”). The “Effective Time” of the Merger will be the time at which the Certificate of Merger and other appropriate or required documents prepared and executed in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law are filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware. The closing of the Merger is subject to the satisfaction of certain customary and other closing conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement, including the approval of holders of not less than two-thirds of shares of common stock of the Company (the “Common Stock”) voting on the matter, approval of the Merger Agreement by the Viveve shareholders, the closing of the RenalGuard Spinoff (as defined herein), the exchange of certain convertible securities and warrants of the Company for shares of Common Stock, the termination of certain of Viveve’s outstanding convertible debt and warrants, holders of not more than 35% of the Company's Common Stock shall have elected to become dissenting shares, Viveve, as of the closing, shall have no more than $1,500,000 of accounts payable and accrued expenses and a principal balance on its outstanding senior secured notes of no more than $1,500,000, and each of the officers and directors of the Company shall have delivered resignations from their respective positions at the Company that will become effective immediately after the Effective Time of the Merger.

 

At the Effective Time of the Merger (i) Viveve will succeed to and assume all the rights, liabilities and obligations of Merger Sub in accordance with the Delaware General Corporation Law; (ii) the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws, as amended, of Viveve as in effect at the Effective Time of the Merger will become the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws of the surviving corporation; (iii) each issued and outstanding share of common stock of Merger Sub will be converted into the right to receive one share of common stock of the surviving corporation post-Merger; (iv) each issued and outstanding share of common stock of Viveve will be converted into and represent the right to receive 0.0080497 of one share of Common Stock (rounded to the nearest whole number) (the “Merger Consideration”); (v) 100% of the outstanding shares of common stock of a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company that owns the RenalGuard business will have previously been sold to GCP IV LLC (“GCP”) in exchange for the cancellation of 95% of the Company’s outstanding 5% Senior Secured Convertible Debentures (“Debentures”) and a release of liens on substantially all of the Company’s assets (the “RenalGuard Spinoff”); (vi) the remaining 5% of the outstanding Debentures will have converted into an aggregate of 40,731 shares of Common Stock pursuant to a Conversion Agreement dated May 9, 2014 (the “Conversion Agreement”); (vii) upon receipt of all necessary approvals, the officers and directors of Viveve will become the officers and directors of the Company and the current officers and directors of the Company will resign; (viii) the Company will amend its 2013 Stock Option and Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) to increase the number of shares of Common Stock issuable under the Plan and assume the rights and obligations under Viveve’s outstanding stock options and stock option plan; (ix) the Company will enter into a Joinder and Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement with a lender of Viveve to include the Company as a borrower under the Viveve loan documents and to pledge the shares of Viveve, as the surviving wholly owned subsidiary of the Company as a result of the Merger and (x) the Company will effectuate a one for one hundred reverse stock split of its Common Stock. Upon the closing of the Merger, the Company will change its corporate name to “Viveve Medical, Inc.” Immediately following the Effective Time of the Merger, the Offering (as defined below) will be completed.

 

Upon completion of the Merger, Viveve Medical, Inc., the surviving corporation will maintain its principal offices at 150 Commercial Street, Sunnyvale, California 94086.

 

 
 

 

  

After the closing of the Merger and on a fully diluted basis, 63.1% of the outstanding Common Stock will be owned by the current stockholders of Viveve and 36.9% of the outstanding Common Stock will be owned by the current shareholders of the Company. Pursuant to a Financial Advisory Agreement dated May 9, 2014 (the “Financial Advisory Agreement”), the Company agreed to issue to Bezalel Partners, LLC or its designees 223,200 shares of Common Stock on the closing date of the Merger for certain consulting services rendered by Bezalel Partners, LLC to the Company in connection with the Merger.

 

The Company and Viveve have made customary representations, warranties and covenants in the Merger Agreement, which expire at the Effective Time of the Merger. The Company may not solicit competing proposals or, subject to exceptions that permit the Board of Directors to take actions required by their fiduciary duties with respect to certain superior proposals, participate in any discussions or negotiations regarding alternative business transactions. The Company may not solicit competing proposals or participate in any discussions or negotiations regarding alternative business transactions. The Merger Agreement also requires the post-Merger Company to use its reasonable best efforts to consummate a registered public offering within one year from the closing of the Merger.

 

The Merger Agreement contains specified termination rights for the parties, and provides that, in certain circumstances, the Company would be required to pay Viveve a termination fee of $150,000.

 

GBS Venture Partners Limited Warrant

 

On May 9, 2014, the Company issued to GBS Venture Partners Limited (“GBS Venture”), a convertible debenture holder and stockholder of Viveve, a warrant to purchase shares of Common Stock equal to 5% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock on a post-Merger basis (the “GBS Warrant”) in consideration for the cancellation of Convertible Promissory Notes of Viveve in the aggregate principal amount of $1,750,000 held by GBS Venture (the “GBS Notes”). The GBS Warrant is not exercisable until the Effective Time of the Merger, at which time the GBS Warrant will automatically convert into 943,596 shares of Common Stock. The GBS Warrant will immediately terminate upon the termination of the Merger Agreement. After the closing of the Merger and the Offering, GBS Venture will own approximately 19.1% of the outstanding Common Stock. The cancellation of the GBS Notes is a condition to the consummation of the Merger Agreement.

 

Warrant-Equity Exchange Agreement

 

On May 9, 2014, the Company and the holders of certain outstanding warrants to purchase shares of the Common Stock entered into a Warrant-Equity Exchange Agreement pursuant to which the warrant holders will exchange the warrants for shares of Common Stock equal to two-thirds the number of shares of Common Stock underlying the warrants, or an aggregate of 891,971 shares of Common Stock (the “Exchange Shares”), as soon as practicable following the date of the agreement.

 

In conjunction with the Warrant-Equity Exchange Agreement, the Company entered into a Right To Shares Agreement with GCP dated May 9, 2014 (the “Right Agreement”). Pursuant to the Right Agreement, in lieu of issuing 432,479 shares of Common Stock issuable to GCP under the Warrant-Equity Exchange Agreement, the Company granted a right (the “Right”) to GCP such that GCP has the right, at its discretion, to receive up to 432,479 shares of the Company’s Common Stock, subject to the beneficial ownership limitation of 4.99% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company. No additional consideration will be paid by GCP upon its exercise of this Right. The Company is obligated to deliver the shares to GCP upon its exercise of the Right within 3 days of GCP’s request for the share issuance. If the Company fails to deliver the shares within 3 days of the request, under certain circumstances defined in the Right Agreement, the Company may be obligated to reimburse GCP in cash for losses that GCP incurs as a result of not having access to the shares.

 

 
 

 

 

Private Placement

 

On May 9, 2014, the Company and certain accredited investors (the “Investors”) entered into two Securities Purchase Agreements (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”), pursuant to which the Investors agreed to purchase and the Company has agreed to sell an aggregate of approximately 11,320,755 shares of Common Stock (the “Shares”) at a price of $0.53 per share to the Investors and warrants to purchase up to 940,188 shares of Common Stock to certain of the Investors, at an exercise price of $0.53 per Share (the “Investor Warrants” and together with the Shares, the “Securities”) for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $6 million, consisting of $5,500,000 in cash payments and the conversion of approximately $500,000 outstanding amount of principal and interest of certain Viveve bridge notes (the “Offering”). Pursuant to the terms of the Escrow Agreement dated May 9, 2014 by and among the Company, Palladium Capital Advisors LLC, Middlebury Securities and Signature Bank, as escrow agent (the “Escrow Agreement”), the gross cash proceeds of the Offering will be held in escrow until the closing of the Offering, which is subject to the satisfaction of certain closing conditions including the closing of the Merger and the RenalGuard Spinoff.

 

The Investor Warrants will be exercisable at any time upon the election of the holder, beginning on the date of issuance and ending on the 5th year anniversary thereof. If, one (1) year from the date of issuance there is no effective registration statement registering the shares of Common Stock underlying the Investor Warrants, the Investor Warrants will be exercisable on a cashless basis. The exercise price and number of shares of Common Stock to be received upon the exercise of Investor Warrants will be subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events, such as stock splits, stock dividends or our recapitalization. In the event of our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, the holders of Investor Warrants will not be entitled to participate in the distribution of our assets. Holders of Investor Warrants will not have voting, pre-emptive, subscription or other rights of shareholders in respect of the Investor Warrants, nor shall holders thereof be entitled to receive dividends. The Investor Warrants will be subject to a call option at the election of the Company subject to certain share price and trading volume conditions.

 

On May 9, 2014, the Company and the Investors entered into a Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), subject to certain closing conditions including the closing of the Offering, the Merger and the RenalGuard Spinoff. Pursuant to the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company will register the Shares issued in connection with the Offering, on a registration statement to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Registration Statement”) within sixty (60) days after the closing of the Offering (the “Filing Date”) and use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement to be declared effective within one hundred fifty (150) days after the closing of the Offering (the “Effectiveness Date”) and to keep the Registration Statement effective until all of the Shares have been sold, or may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144. If the Company (i) does not file the Registration Statement by the Filing Date, (ii) does not obtain effectiveness of the Registration Statement by the Effectiveness Date or (iii) allows certain lapses in effectiveness (each an “Event”), the Company is obligated to pay to the Investors liquidated damages equal to 1.5% of the original subscription amount paid by the Investors upon the occurrence of an Event and for every thirty (30) days after the occurrence of an Event until cured.

 

The issuance of the GBS Warrant, the Exchange Shares, the Right and the Securities were not registered under the Securities Act and qualified for exemption under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act and Regulation D promulgated thereunder and in reliance on similar exemptions under applicable state laws. GBS Venture, GCP and the Investors were accredited investor (as defined by Rule 501 under the Act) at the time of the transactions.

 

All numbers of shares set forth herein are based on a 1 for 100 reverse stock split of the Common Stock to be effected prior to the Merger.

 

The foregoing description of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Conversion Agreement, the Warrant Exchange Agreement, the Right Agreement, the GBS Warrant, the Financial Advisory Agreement, Securities Purchase Agreements, Investor Warrant, Escrow Agreement and Registration Rights Agreement is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Merger Agreement, a copy of which is filed with this Current Report as Exhibit 10.1, the Conversion Agreement, a copy of which is filed with this Current Report as Exhibit 4.1, the Warrant Exchange Agreement, a copy of which is filed with this Current Report as Exhibit 4.2, the Rights Agreement, a copy of which is filed with this Current Report as Exhibit 10.7, the GBS Warrant, a copy of which is filed with this Current Report as Exhibit 4.4, the Financial Advisory Agreement, a copy of which is filed with this Current Report as Exhibit 10.2, first of two Securities Purchase Agreements, a copy of which is filed with this Current Report as Exhibit 10.3, second of two Securities Purchase Agreements, a copy of which is filed with this Current Report as Exhibit 10.4, the Investor Warrant, a copy of which is filed with this Current Report as Exhibit 4.3, the Escrow Agreement, a copy of which is filed with this Current Report as Exhibit 10.5 and the Registration Rights Agreement, a copy of which is filed with this Current Report as Exhibit 10.6, all of which are incorporated by reference herein.

 

 
 

 

 

Important Additional Information

 

The Merger Agreement, the Warrant Exchange Agreement, the Conversion Agreement, the GBS Warrant, the Securities Purchase Agreements and the Registration Rights Agreement have been included to provide shareholders with information regarding their terms, but are not intended to provide any other factual information about the Company or the other parties thereto. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Merger Agreement, the Warrant Exchange Agreement, the Conversion Agreement, the GBS Warrant the Securities Purchase Agreements and the Registration Rights Agreement were made solely for the purposes of such agreements and as of specific dates, were solely for the benefit of the parties to those agreements, may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties, including being qualified by confidential disclosures made for the purposes of allocating contractual risk between the parties thereto instead of establishing these matters as facts, and may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to shareholders. Shareholders are not third-party beneficiaries under the Merger Agreement, the Warrant Exchange Agreement, the Conversion Agreement, the GBS Warrant, the Securities Purchase Agreements and the Registration Rights Agreement and should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of the Company or the other parties thereto.

 

The Company intends to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a proxy statement and other relevant materials in connection with seeking shareholder approval of the Merger Agreement, and the transactions contemplated thereby. When finalized, the proxy statement will be mailed to the shareholders of the Company. Before making any voting decision with respect to the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, shareholders of the Company are urged to carefully read the proxy statement and the other relevant materials when they become available, because they will contain important information about the proposed transactions. The proxy statement and other relevant materials (when they become available), and any other documents filed by the Company with the SEC, may be obtained free of charge at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. In addition, investors and shareholders of the Company may obtain free copies of the proxy statement (when available) and other documents filed by the Company with the SEC from the Company’s website at www.plcmed.com.

 

The Company and its directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from the Company’s shareholders in connection with the Merger Agreement. Additional information regarding the interests of participants in the solicitation of proxies in connection with the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby will be included in the proxy statement that the Company intends to file with the SEC. Shareholders may obtain additional information regarding the direct and indirect interests of the Company and its directors and executive officers with respect to the transactions by reading the proxy statement once it is available and the other filings referred to above.

 

Forward-Looking Statements

 

Certain statements in this report may constitute “forward-looking statements” under Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended related to the Company and/or Viveve and their expectations for Merger. Actual results could differ materially from those projected or forecast in the forward-looking statements. The factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include those referred to in filings of the Company with the SEC, including as set forth in the proxy statement, as well as the following: operating costs, customer loss and business disruption (including, without limitation, difficulties in maintaining relationships with employees, customers or suppliers) may be greater than expected following the announcement of the transaction; the benefits of the proposed transaction may not meet the parties or shareholders expectations; the conditions to the completion of the Merger and related transactions may not be satisfied; the parties may not be able to meet expectations regarding the timing, completion and accounting and tax treatments of the Merger. The Company assumes no obligation, and expressly disclaims any obligation, to update the information in this communication, except as otherwise required by law. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements that speak only as of the date hereof.

 

Item 3.02.     Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

 

The descriptions of the Merger Agreement, the Conversion Agreement, the GBS Warrant, the Warrant Exchange Agreement, the Right Agreement, the Securities Purchase Agreements, the Investor Warrants and the Offering with respect to the issuance of the Merger Consideration, the Exchange Shares, the GBS Warrant, the Right and the Securities under Item 1.01 above are incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 8.01.     Other Items.

 

On May 14, 2014, the Company issued a press release, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 9.01.     Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

 
 

 

 

(d) Exhibits

 

Number

Exhibit

   

4.1

Conversion Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and certain holders of 5% Senior Secured Convertible Debentures.

4.2

Warrant Exchange Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and the holders of Warrants.

4.3

Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant, dated May 9, 2014, to be issued by the Company to the Investors.

4.4

Common Stock Purchase Warrant, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and GBS Venture Partners Limited.

  10.1+

Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated May 9, 2014, by and among the Company, PLC Systems Acquisition Corporation and Viveve, Inc.

10.2

Financial Advisory Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and Bezalel Partners, LLC.

10.3

Securities Purchase Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and among the Company and the Investors.

10.4

Securities Purchase Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and among the Company and GBS Venture Partners as trustee for GBS BioVentures III Trust.

10.5

Escrow Deposit Agreement, dated May 9, 2014 by and among the Company, Palladium Capital Advisors LLC, Middlebury Securities and Signature Bank, as escrow agent.

10.6

Registration Rights Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and the Investors.

10.7

Right To Shares Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and GCP IV LLC.

99.1

Press release of the Company released on May 14, 2014.

 

 

+ Certain exhibits or schedules to the Agreement and Plan of Merger have been omitted from this filing pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K. The Company will furnish copies of any such exhibits and schedules to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.

   

 
 

 

  

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Dated: May 14, 2014

PLC SYSTEMS INC.

 

       
       
 

By:

/s/ Gregory W. Mann

 
   

Gregory W. Mann

Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 
 

 

 

EXHIBIT INDEX

Number

Exhibit

   

4.1

Conversion Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and certain holders of 5% Senior Secured Convertible Debentures.

4.2

Warrant Exchange Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and the holders of Warrants.

4.3

Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant, dated May 9, 2014, to be issued by the Company to the Investors.

4.4

Common Stock Purchase Warrant, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and GBS Venture Partners Limited.

   10.1+

Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated May 9, 2014, by and among the Company, PLC Systems Acquisition Corporation and Viveve, Inc.

10.2

Financial Advisory Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and Bezalel Partners, LLC.

10.3

Securities Purchase Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and among the Company and the Investors.

10.4

Securities Purchase Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and among the Company and GBS Venture Partners as trustee for GBS BioVentures III Trust.

10.5

Escrow Deposit Agreement, dated May 9, 2014 by and among the Company, Palladium Capital Advisors LLC, Middlebury Securities and Signature Bank, as escrow agent.

10.6

Registration Rights Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and the Investors.

10.7

Right To Shares Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and GCP IV LLC.

99.1

Press release of the Company released on May 14, 2014.

 

 

+ Certain exhibits or schedules to the Agreement and Plan of Merger have been omitted from this filing pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K. The Company will furnish copies of any such exhibits and schedules to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.

   

EX-4 2 ex4-1.htm EXHIBIT 4.1 ex4-1.htm

Exhibit 4.1

 

CONVERSION agreement

 

This Conversion Agreement (this “Agreement”) is entered into as of May 9, 2014, by and between PLC Systems Inc., a Yukon Territory corporation (the “Company”), and each of the holders of the Company’s 5% Senior Secured Convertible Debentures (the “Debentures”) identified on the signature pages hereto (each, including its successors and permitted assigns, a “Debenture Holder” and collectively, the “Debenture Holders”).

 

WHEREAS, the Company is party to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, among the Company, PLC Acquisition Corp. and Viveve, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Viveve”), of even date herewith (the “Merger Agreement”), pursuant to which, among other things, the Company shall (i) acquire, through a merger, all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Viveve (the “Merger”);

 

WHEREAS, the Company shall, in connection with and immediately preceding the Effective Time (as such term is defined in the Merger Agreement) of the Merger, transfer the RenalGuard Business (as defined in the Merger Agreement) to GCP IV LLC (“GCP”) or an affiliate thereof in exchange for the cancellation of all indebtedness of the Company held by GCP (the “RenalGuard Spinoff”);

 

WHEREAS, it is a condition to the closing of the Merger Agreement that the Debenture Holders convert each of their Debentures into shares of common stock, no par value per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”) pursuant to the terms set forth in the Debentures; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company and the Debenture Holders believes that is in each of their best interests to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement;

 

NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and each Debenture Holder agree as follows:

 

1.     Conversion. Notwtihstanding anything to the contrary in the Debentures, conditional and effective upon the consummation of the RenalGuard Spinoff, each of the Debentures held by the Debenture Holders, by virtue of this Agreement, automatically and without any action on the part of the Debenture Holders, shall (a) convert into shares of Common Stock in accordance with the terms of Section 4 of the Debentures (such shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Debentures, the “Conversion Shares”) and (b) be cancelled and immediately cease to be outstanding. As soon as practicable following the conversion of the Debentures pursuant to this Section 1, in accordance with Section 4 of the Debentures, and in no event later than 3 Trading Days (as defined in the Debentures) thereafter, (x) the Company shall issue any and all Conversion Shares to the Debenture Holders issuable upon the conversion of their respective Debentures pursuant to the terms of such Debentures and (y) the Debenture Holders shall surrender their original Debentures to the Company.

 

2.     Termination. This Agreement shall be terminated automatically and be of no force or effect upon termination of the Merger Agreement in accordance with its terms. In the event of, and following, such a termination of the Merger Agreement, the Company shall provide the Debenture Holders notice thereof.

 

3.     Entire Agreement. This Agreement and each Debenture Holder’s respective Debenture constitute the entire agreement among the Company, on the one hand, and such Debenture Holder, on the other hand, with respect to the subject matter hereof and no party shall be liable or bound to any other party in any manner by any warranties, representations or covenants except as specifically set forth herein or therein.

  

 
 

 

 

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

 

5.     Governing Law. The validity, interpretation, enforceability, and performance of this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York.

 

6.     Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which when taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Facsimiles or portable document files transmitted by e-mail containing original signatures shall be deemed for all purposes to be originally signed copies of the documents which are the subject of such facsimiles or files.

 

7.     Binding on Successors. This Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the successors and permitted assigns of the parties.

 

[Signature Pages Follow]

 

 
 

 

 

[COMPANY SIGNATURE PAGES TO CONVERSION AGREEMENT]

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Conversion Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

PLC SYSTEMS INC.

 

 

 

By:      /s/ Mark R. Tauscher                                   
     Name: Mark R. Tauscher
     Title: Chief Executive Officer

  

 
 

 

 

[DEBENTURE HOLDER SIGNATURE PAGES TO CONVERSION AGREEMENT]

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Conversion Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

ALPHA CAPITAL ANSTALT


By:       /s/ Konrad Ackermann                                                                       
Name:  Konrad Ackermann
Title:    Director

 

Original Conversion Price of Debenture:                 $0.06                     

 

Original Issue Date of Debenture:                    February 2012              

  

 
 

 

 

[DEBENTURE HOLDER SIGNATURE PAGES TO CONVERSION AGREEMENT]

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Conversion Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

BRIO CAPITAL MASTER FUND LTD.


By:      /s/ Shaye Hirsch                                                                             
Name: Shaye Hirsch
Title:   Director

 

Original Conversion Price of Debenture:         $0.06                               

 

 

Original Issue Date of Debenture:              February 2012                    

 

 
 

 

 

[DEBENTURE HOLDER SIGNATURE PAGES TO CONVERSION AGREEMENT]

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Conversion Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

DENVILLE & DOVER FUND LLC


By:      
/s/ Edward Karr                                                                            

Name:  Edward Karr
Title:    Manager

 

Original Conversion Price of Debenture:                  $0.06                   

 

 

Original Issue Date of Debenture:              February 2012                  

 

EX-4 3 ex4-2.htm EXHIBIT 4.2 ex4-2.htm

Exhibit 4.2

 

WARRANT EXCHANGE AGREEMENT

 

This WARRANT EXCHANGE AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of May 9, 2014, by and between PLC Systems, Inc., a Yukon Territory corporation (the “Company”), and each of the holders of the Company’s warrants set forth on the signature pages hereto (each, a “Holder” and collectively, the “Holders”).

 

WHEREAS, in connection with a series of private placement transactions, the Company issued (i) five year warrants, originally issued in February 2011 and reissued in February 2013, to purchase up to an aggregate of 65,263,158 shares of the Company’s common stock, no par value (the “Common Stock”), at an exercise price of $0.06 per share (as amended, the 2011 Warrants); (ii) five year warrants, originally issued in July 2012 and reissued in February 2013, to purchase up to an aggregate of 16,315,789 shares of Common Stock, at an exercise price of $0.06 per share (as amended, the “2012 Warrants); (iii) five year warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 28,818,667 shares of Common Stock, at an exercise price of $0.06 per share (as amended, the “February 2013 Warrants”); (iv) five year warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 30,625,001 shares of Common Stock, at an exercise price of $0.08 per share (the “September 2013 Warrants”); and (v) five year warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 43,227,501 shares of Common Stock, at an exercise price of $0.06 per share (the “Ratchet Warrants” and together with the 2011 Warrants, the 2012 Warrants, the February 2013 Warrants and the September 2013 Warrants, the “Warrants”) to the investors in such private placements;

 

WHEREAS, each Holder owns those certain Warrants to purchase such shares of Common Stock as are listed on Schedule A attached hereto (the “Warrant Shares”) and has requested that the Company exchange such Holder’s Warrants, for no additional consideration, for such number of shares of Common Stock that is equal to a fraction, (i) the numerator of which is the product of (a) the number of Warrant Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Holder’s Warrants, multiplied by (b) two (2), and (ii) the denominator of which shall be three (3) (such shares, the “Exchange Shares” and such exchange of Warrants for Exchange Shares, the “Exchange”), with any fractional Exchange Share to be rounded up or down to the nearest whole Exchange Share;

 

WHEREAS, in order to improve the capital structure of the Company, the Company desires to consummate the Exchange pursuant to the terms proposed by the Holders;

 

WHEREAS, following the Exchange, the Warrants shall be automatically cancelled and terminated and the Holders shall have no further rights pursuant to the Warrants;

 

WHEREAS, the Exchange is being made in reliance upon the exemption from registration provided by Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”); and

 

WHEREAS, in addition to the Exchange, each Holder shall agree to certain covenants with respect to such Holder’s Exchange Shares and other shares of Common Stock held by such Holder (collectively, the “Subject Shares”);

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual covenants herein below, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows:

 

 

1.

The Exchange. At the Closing (as defined below), the Company and the Holders shall, pursuant to Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act, exchange the Warrants for the Exchange Shares, as follows:

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

a.

Closing. The Exchange shall occur remotely via exchange of signatures as soon as practicable following the date hereof (the “Closing”). The Holders understand that this Agreement is not binding on the Company until the Company accepts it, which acceptance is in the Company’s sole discretion, by executing this Agreement where indicated.

 

 

b.

Exchange Shares. The Holders shall receive the number of Exchange Shares equal to two-thirds (2/3) of the number of Warrant Shares and as further set forth on Schedule A hereto, with any fractional Exchange Share to be rounded up or down to the nearest whole Exchange Share.

 

 

c.

Consideration. At the Closing, the Exchange Shares shall be issued to each Holder in exchange for such Holder’s Warrants without the payment of any other consideration by such Holder that would not be consistent with the application of Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act to the issuance of the Exchange Shares. Each Holder hereby agrees that, upon and subject to the Closing, all of the Company’s obligations under the terms and conditions of such Holder’s Warrants shall be automatically terminated and cancelled in full without any further action required, and that this Section 1(c) shall constitute an instrument of termination and cancellation of such Warrants.

 

 

d.

Delivery. In the Exchange, the Company shall, at the Closing, deliver the Exchange Shares to each Holder in certificated form. Each Holder shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Company (or its designee), within five (5) trading days after the Closing, the original Warrants. For the avoidance of doubt, as of the Closing all of the Holders’ rights under the terms and conditions of the Warrants shall be extinguished.

 

 

e.

Other Documents. The Company and the Holders shall execute and/or deliver such other documents and agreements as are reasonably necessary to effectuate the Exchange pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.

 

 

2.

Representations and Warranties.

 

 

a.

Holders’ Representations and Warranties. Each Holder hereby represents and warrants to the Company:

 

 

i.

Such Holder is either an individual or an entity validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization.

 

 

ii.

This Agreement has been duly authorized, validly executed and delivered by such Holder and is a valid and binding agreement and obligation of such Holder enforceable against such Holder in accordance with its terms, subject to limitations on enforcement by general principles of equity and by bankruptcy or other laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, and such Holder has full power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the other agreements and documents referred to in Section 1(e) and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder.

 

 

iii.

Such Holder understands that the Exchange Shares are being offered, sold, issued and delivered to it in reliance upon specific provisions of federal and applicable state securities laws, and that the Company is relying upon the truth and accuracy of the representations, warranties, agreements, acknowledgments and understandings of such Holder set forth herein for purposes of qualifying for exemptions from registration under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.

 

 
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iv.

Such Holder is not acquiring the Exchange Shares as a result of any advertisement, article, notice or other communication regarding the Exchange Shares published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over television or radio or presented at any seminar or any other general advertisement.

 

 

v.

Such Holder, either alone or together with its representatives, has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in business and financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment in the Exchange Shares, and has so evaluated the merits and risks of such investment. Such Holder is able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the Exchange Shares and, at the present time, is able to afford a complete loss of such investment.

 

 

vi.

Such Holder acknowledges that the offer, sale, issuance and delivery of the Exchange Shares to it is intended to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act, by virtue of Section 3(a)(9) thereof. Such Holder understands that the Exchange Shares may be sold or transferred only in compliance with all federal and applicable state securities laws.

 

 

vii.

Such Holder understands that the Exchange Shares are “restricted securities” and have not been registered under the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law and such Holder is acquiring the Exchange Shares as principal for its own account and not with a view to or for distributing or reselling such Exchange Shares or any part thereof in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law, has no present intention of distributing any of such Exchange Shares in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law and has no direct or indirect arrangement or understandings with any other persons to distribute or regarding the distribution of such Exchange Shares in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law (this representation and warranty not limiting such Holder’s right to sell the Exchange Shares in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws). Such Holder is acquiring the Exchange Shares hereunder in the ordinary course of its business.

 

 

viii.

Such Holder owns and holds, beneficially and of record, the entire right, title, and interest in and to such Holder’s Warrants free and clear of all rights and Encumbrances (as defined below). Such Holder has full power and authority to transfer and dispose of the Warrants to the Company free and clear of any right or Encumbrance. Other than the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, there is no outstanding vote, plan, pending proposal, or other right of any person to acquire all or any of the Warrants. As used herein, “Encumbrances” shall mean any security or other property interest or right, claim, lien, pledge, option, charge, security interest, contingent or conditional sale, or other title claim or retention agreement, interest or other right or claim of third parties, whether perfected or not perfected, voluntarily incurred or arising by operation of law, and including any agreement (other than this Agreement) to grant or submit to any of the foregoing in the future. The Warrants set forth opposite such Holder’s name on Schedule A hereto constitutes all of the Warrants owned or held of record or beneficially owned or held by such Holder.

 

 
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b.

Company Representations and Warranties. The Company hereby represents and warrants to the Holders:

 

 

i.

The Exchange Shares have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, and, when issued and delivered in accordance with the terms hereof, the Exchange Shares shall be validly issued and outstanding, fully paid and nonassessable, and, except as otherwise set forth herein, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and rights of refusal of any kind.

 

 

ii.

This Agreement has been duly authorized, validly executed and delivered on behalf of the Company and is a valid and binding agreement and obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, subject to limitations on enforcement by general principles of equity and by bankruptcy or other laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, and the Company has full power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the other agreements and documents contemplated hereby and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder.

 

 

iii.

The Company represents that it has not paid, and shall not pay, any commissions or other remuneration, directly or indirectly, to any third party for the solicitation of the Exchange contemplated by this Agreement. Other than the exchange of a Holder’s Warrants, the Company has not received and will not receive any consideration from such Holder for the Exchange Shares to be issued to such Holder pursuant to this Agreement.

 

 

iv.

The Company has not, nor has any person acting on its behalf, directly or indirectly made any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to buy any security under circumstances that would cause the Exchange and the issuance of the Exchange Shares pursuant to this Agreement to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of the Securities Act which would prevent the Company from delivering the Exchange Shares to each Holder pursuant to Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act, nor will the Company take any action or steps that would cause the Exchange, issuance and delivery of the Exchange Shares to be integrated with other offerings to the effect that the delivery of the Exchange Shares to the Holders would be seen not to be exempt pursuant to Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act.

 

 

v.

For the purposes of Rule 144 of the Securities Act, the Company acknowledges that the holding period of the Exchange Shares may be tacked onto the holding period of the Warrants pursuant to Rule 144(d)(3)(ii).

 

 

3.

Additional Covenants.

 

 

a.

Voting of Subject Shares. At any meeting of the shareholders of the Company called to adopt or approve any of the transactions set forth in the Agreement and Plan of Merger substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex I, which shall be subject to such changes or modifications in terms as the Company and its board of directors shall determine to be necessary or advisable (the “Transactions”) or in any other circumstances upon which a vote, consent or other approval (including by written consent) with respect to the Transactions or any other transaction contemplated by the Transactions is sought, and at every adjournment or postponement thereof, each Holder shall, or shall cause the holder of record on any applicable record date to, appear or otherwise cause such Holder’s Subject Shares to be counted as present for purposes of establishing a quorum at any such meeting of the Company’s shareholders and vote such Holder’s Subject Shares, (A) in favor of (i) the adoption and approval of such Transactions being voted upon and any transactions contemplated thereunder (the “Subject Transactions”), and (ii) approval of any proposal to adjourn or postpone the meeting to a later date, if there are not sufficient votes for the adoption and approval of the Subject Transactions on the date on which such meeting is held, (B) against (i) any action or agreement which would in any material respect impede, interfere with or prevent the Subject Transactions, including, but not limited to, any other extraordinary corporate transaction, including, a merger, acquisition, sale, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization, extraordinary dividend or liquidation involving the Company and any Person (as defined below), or any other proposal of any Person to acquire the Company or all or substantially all of the assets thereof, or (ii) any action, proposal, transaction or agreement that would reasonably be expected to result in the failure of any conditions contained in any of the definitive documentation related to the Subject Transactions or result in a breach of any covenant, representation or warranty or any other obligation or agreement of such Holder under this Agreement, and/or (C) in favor of any other matter necessary for consummation of the Subject Transactions, which is considered at any such meeting of the Company’s shareholders.

 

 
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b.

No Transfer; No Inconsistent Arrangements. Except as provided hereunder (including pursuant to Section 3(a)), pursuant to the Transactions, such Holder shall not, directly or indirectly, (i) except for already existing liens pledged to secure personal credit lines or loans, which liens and pledges will be released not later than the time such Subject Shares are tendered pursuant to the Transactions, if necessary, create or permit to exist any lien, other than Permitted Encumbrances (as defined below), on any or all of such Holder’s Subject Shares, (ii) except as otherwise permitted below, transfer, sell, assign, gift, hedge, pledge or otherwise dispose (whether by sale, liquidation, dissolution, dividend or distribution) of, or enter into any derivative arrangement with respect to (collectively, “Transfer”), any or all of such Holder’s Subject Shares, including any right or interest therein (or consent to any of the foregoing), (iii) except as otherwise permitted below, enter into any contract, option or other agreement, arrangement or understanding with respect to any Transfer of any or all of such Holder’s Subject Shares or any right or interest therein, (iv) grant or permit the grant of any proxy, power-of-attorney or other authorization or consent in or with respect to any or all of such Holder’s Subject Shares, (v) deposit or permit the deposit of any or all of such Holder’s Subject Shares into a voting trust or enter into a voting agreement or arrangement with respect to any of such Subject Shares, or (vi) take or permit any other action that would in any way restrict, limit or interfere with the performance of such Holder’s obligations hereunder or the transactions contemplated hereby or otherwise make any representation or warranty of such Holder herein untrue or incorrect in any material respect. Any action taken in violation of the foregoing sentence shall be null and void ab initio and such Holder agrees that any such prohibited action may and should be enjoined. If any involuntary Transfer of any or all of such Holder’s Subject Shares shall occur (including, if applicable, a sale by such Holder’s trustee in any bankruptcy, or a sale to a purchaser at any creditor’s or court sale), the transferee (which term, as used herein, shall include any and all transferees and subsequent transferees of the initial transferee) shall take and hold such Subject Shares subject to all of the restrictions, liabilities and rights under this Agreement, which shall continue in full force and effect until valid termination of this Agreement. Such Holder agrees that it shall not, and shall cause each of its “Affiliates” (as defined below) not to, become a member of a “group” (as defined under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) with respect to any equity securities in the Company for the purpose of opposing or competing with or taking any actions inconsistent with the Transactions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, such Holder may make Transfers of Subject Shares and any rights or interests therein in each of the foregoing (x) to any “Permitted Transferee” (as defined below), in which case the Subject Shares shall continue to be bound by this Agreement and provided that any such Permitted Transferee agrees in writing to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement prior to the consummation of any such Transfer; or (y) as the Company may otherwise agree in writing in its sole discretion. If so requested by the Company, such Holder agrees that the Subject Shares shall bear a legend stating that the Subject Shares are subject to this Agreement, provided such legend shall be removed if in the Company’s reasonable judgment, the Transactions will not be effected or if this Agreement is otherwise terminated in accordance with the terms hereof. A “Permitted Encumbrance” means any liens pursuant to any applicable restrictions on transfer under the Securities Act. A “Permitted Transferee” means, with respect to any Holder, (A) a spouse, lineal descendant or antecedent, brother or sister, adopted child or grandchild, or the spouse of any child, adopted child, grandchild, or adopted grandchild of such Holder or a former spouse who is entitled to such transfer pursuant to the terms of a domestic relations order, (B) any charitable organization described in Section 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, (C) any trust, the beneficiaries of which include only one or more of the Persons named in clause (A) or (B) of this definition, or (D) any corporation, limited liability company, or partnership, the stockholders, members, and general or limited partners of which include only the Persons named in clause (A) or (B) of this definition. An “Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with such Person. As used in the definition of “Affiliate,” the term “control” means possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise. A “Person” means (i) an individual, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, joint stock company, trust, estate, joint venture, association or unincorporated organization, or any other form of business or professional entity, but shall not include a governmental authority, or (ii) any “person” for purposes of Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

 
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c.

No Exercise of Appraisal Rights; Actions. Such Holder (i) waives and agrees not to exercise any appraisal rights in accordance with the Yukon Business Corporations Act in respect of such Holder’s Subject Shares that may arise with respect to the Transactions and (ii) agrees not to commence or join in, and agrees to take all actions necessary to opt out of any class in any class action with respect to, any claim, derivative or otherwise, against the Company, any other Person party to the Transactions or any of their respective successors (x) challenging the validity of, or seeking to enjoin the operation of, any provision of this Agreement or (y) alleging breach of any fiduciary duty of any Person in connection with the negotiation and entry into the Transactions.

 

 

d.

Documentation and Information. Such Holder shall not make any public announcement regarding this Agreement, the Transactions or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby without the prior written consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. Such Holder agrees to promptly give the Company any information such party may reasonably require for the preparation of any disclosure documents, and such Holder agrees to promptly notify the Company of any required corrections with respect to any written information supplied by it specifically for use in any such disclosure document, if and to the extent that such Holder shall become aware that any such information shall have become false or misleading in any material respect.

 

 
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e.

Adjustments. In the event (i) of any stock split, stock dividend, merger, reorganization, recapitalization, reclassification, combination, exchange of shares or the like of the capital stock of the Company on, of or affecting the Subject Shares or (ii) that such Holder shall become the beneficial owner of any additional shares of Common Stock, then the terms of this Agreement shall apply to the shares of Common Stock held by such Holder immediately following the effectiveness of the events described in clause (i) or such Holder becoming the beneficial owner thereof as described in clause (ii), as though, in either case, they were Subject Shares hereunder. In the event that any such Holder shall become the beneficial owner of any other securities entitling the holder thereof to vote or give consent with respect to the matters set forth in Section 3(a) hereof, then the terms of Section 3(a) hereof shall apply to such other securities as though they were Subject Shares hereunder.

 

 

f.

Termination. The obligations of the Holders set forth in this Section 3 shall terminate automatically, without any notice or other action by any Person, upon the first to occur of (i) consummation of the Transactions, (ii) the passage of 180 days following the date hereof, and (iii) the mutual written consent of all of the parties hereto. Upon termination of this Section 3, no Holder shall have any further obligations or liabilities under this Section 3; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 3(f) shall relieve any Holder of any liability for a breach of this Section 3 prior to the effective date of termination.

 

 

4.

Miscellaneous.

 

 

a.

Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement, and supersedes all other prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings, both oral and written, between the Holders and the Company with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 

 

b.

Amendment. This Agreement may only be amended with the written consent of the Holders and the Company.

 

 

c.

Successors. All the covenants and provisions of this Agreement by or for the benefit of the Holders or the Company shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective successors and assigns.

 

 

d.

Applicable Law; Consent to Jurisdiction. The validity, interpretation and performance of this Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to conflicts of law principles that would result in the application of the substantive laws of another jurisdiction. Each of the parties hereby agrees that any action, proceeding or claim against it arising out of or relating in any way to this Agreement shall be brought and enforced in the courts of the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and irrevocably submits to such jurisdiction, which jurisdiction shall be exclusive. Each party hereby waives any objection to such exclusive jurisdiction and that such courts represent an inconvenient forum.

 

 
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e.

Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in original or facsimile counterparts, each of such counterparts shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original, and all of such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

 

 

f.

Severability. Whenever possible, each provision of this Agreement shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Agreement is held to be prohibited by or invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be ineffective only to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity, without invalidating the remainder of this Agreement.

 

 

g.

No Commissions. Neither the Company nor any Holder has paid or given, or will pay or give, to any person, any commission, fee or other remuneration, directly or indirectly, in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Warrant Exchange Agreement has been duly executed by the undersigned as of the date first written above.

 

 

PLC SYSTEMS, INC.

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Mark R. Tauscher

 

Name:

Mark R. Tauscher

 

Title:

Chief Executive Officer

 

 

[Holder Signature Page To Follow]

 

 

 

[Company Signature Page to Warrant Exchange Agreement]

 

 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Warrant Exchange Agreement has been duly executed by the undersigned as of the date first written above.

 

 

 

HOLDER:

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

By:

   

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

   

 

WARRANT NUMBER: R -              NUMBER OF WARRANT SHARES:                        

 

 

   

 

     

 

 

 

[Holder Signature Page to Warrant Exchange Agreement]

 

 

 

 

SCHEDULE A

 

 

The 2011 Warrants

Name of Warrant Holder

Warrant Number

Number of Warrant Shares

Number of Exchange Shares

GCP IV LLC

R-1A

20,047,291

13,364,861

       

The 2012 Warrants

Name of Warrant Holder

Warrant Number

Number of Warrant Shares

Number of Exchange Shares

GCP IV LLC

R-2A

8,157,895

5,438,597

GRQ Consultants, Inc.401K

R-2E

2,719,299

1,812,866

       

The February 2013 Warrants

Name of Warrant Holder

Warrant Number

Number of Warrant Shares

Number of Exchange Shares

GCP IV LLC

R-5

8,000,000

5,333,333

Alpha Capital Anstalt

R-6

3,333,333

2,222,222

Joseph I. Kazarnovsky

R-7

1,666,667

1,111,111

Brio Capital Master Fund Ltd.

R-8

1,333,333

888,889

Fortis Business Holdings LLC

R-9

1,000,000

666,667

Chaim H. Rausman

R-10

800,000

533,333

Starcity Capital LLC

R-11

800,000

533,333

LRFI LLC

R-12

333,333

222,222

BEBE Holdings, LLC

R-13

500,000

333,333

Gila Silber

R-14

233,333

155,555

Cranshire Capital Master Fund Ltd

R-15

166,667

111,111

Leon Frenkel

R-16

200,000

133,333

Triage Capital Management L.P.

R-17

200,000

133,333

American European Insurance Company

R-18

500,000

333,333

Alexander Hasenfeld, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan

R-19

233,333

155,555

Nachum Stein

R-20

166,667

111,111

HSI Partnership

R-21

100,000

66,667

Denville and Dover Fund LLC

R-22

1,666,667

1,111,111

Barry Honig

R-23

1,666,667

1,111,111

Sandor Capital Master Fund

R-24

1,333,333

888,889

GRQ Consultants, Inc. 401K

R-25

1,000,000

666,667

Robert S. Colman Trust

R-26

666,667

444,445

HS Contrarian Investments LLC

R-27

333,333

222,222

Holmes Revocable Trust

R-28

200,000

133,333

Richard Molinsky

R-29

166,667

111,111

Ronald Low

R-30

333,334

222,223

Palladium Capital Advisors, LLC

R-31

471,333

314,222

Leon Frenkel

R-32

200,000

133,333

Moishe Hartstein

R-33

1,414,000

942,667

       

The September 2013 Warrants

 

 

[Schedule A to Warrant Exchange Agreement]

 

 

 

 

Name of Warrant Holder

Warrant Number

Number of Warrant Shares

Number of Exchange Shares

GCP IV LLC

R-34

16,666,667

11,111,111

Alpha Capital Anstalt

R-35

4,166,667

2,777,778

Denville and Dover Fund LLC

R-36

1,666,667

1,111,111

Barry Honig

R-37

2,500,000

1,666,667

GRQ Consultants, Inc. 401K

R-38

2,500,000

1,666,667

Sandor Capital Master Fund

R-39

1,666,667

1,111,111

Palladium Capital Advisors, LLC

R-40

1,458,333

972,222

       

The Ratchet Warrants

Name of Warrant Holder

Warrant Number

Number of Warrant Shares

Number of Exchange Shares

GCP IV LLC

R-41

12,000,000

8,000,000

Alpha Capital Anstalt

R-42

5,000,000

3,333,333

Palladium Capital Advisors, LLC

R-43

706,500

471,000

Michael Hartstein

R-44

2,121,000

1,414,000

Joseph I. Kazarnovsky

R-45

2,500,000

1,666,667

Brio Capital Master Fund Ltd.

R-46

2,000,000

1,333,333

Fortis Business Holdings LLC

R-47

1,500,000

1,000,000

Chaim H. Rausman

R-48

1,200,000

800,000

Starcity Capital LLC

R-49

1,200,000

800,000

LRFI LLC

R-50

500,000

333,333

BEB Holdings, LLC

R-51

750,000

500,000

Gila Silber

R-52

350,000

233,333

Cranshire Capital Master Fund Ltd.

R-53

250,000

166,667

Leon Frenkel

R-54

300,000

200,000

Triage Capital Management L.P.

R-55

300,000

200,000

American European Insurance Company

R-56

750,000

500,000

Alexander Hasenfeld, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan

R-57

350,000

233,333

Nachum Stein

R-58

250,000

166,667

HSI Partnership

R-59

150,000

100,000

Denville and Dover Fund LLC

R-60

2,500,000

1,666,667

Barry Honig

R-61

2,500,000

1,666,667

Sandor Capital Master Fund

R-62

2,000,000

1,333,333

GRQ Consultants, Inc. 401K

R-63

1,500,000

1,000,000

Robert S. Colman Trust

R-64

1,000,000

666,667

HS Contrarian Investments LLC

R-65

500,000

333,333

Gordon Holmes

R-66

300,000

200,000

Richard Molinsky

R-67

250,000

166,667

Ronald Low

R-68

500,001

333,334

 

 

[Schedule A to Warrant Exchange Agreement]

 

 

 

 

ANNEX I

 

Agreement and Plan of Merger

 

 

[Annex I to Warrant Exchange Agreement]

EX-4 4 ex4-3.htm EXHIBIT 4.3 ex4-3.htm

Exhibit 4.3

 

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR THE SECURITIES FOR WHICH THIS SECURITY IS EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY. THIS SECURITY AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES.

 

COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT

 

 PLC SYstems inc.

 

 

Warrant Shares: 940,188

Initial Exercise Date: ______, 2014 

 

 

 

THIS COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT (the “Warrant”) certifies that, for value received, _____________ or its assigns (the “Holder”) is entitled, upon the terms and subject to the limitations on exercise and the conditions hereinafter set forth, at any time on or after the date hereof (the “Initial Exercise Date”) and on or prior to the close of business on the 5 year anniversary of the Initial Exercise Date (the “Termination Date”) but not thereafter, to subscribe for and purchase from PLC Systems Inc., a Yukon Territory corporation (the “Company”), up to 940,188 shares (as subject to adjustment hereunder, the “Warrant Shares”) of Common Stock. The purchase price of one share of Common Stock under this Warrant shall be equal to the Exercise Price, as defined in Section 2(b).

 

Section 1.     Definitions. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in that certain Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”), dated May 9, 2014, among the Company and the purchasers signatory thereto.

 

Section 2.     Exercise.

 

 
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  a)     Exercise of Warrant. Exercise of the purchase rights represented by this Warrant may be made, in whole or in part, at any time or times on or after the Initial Exercise Date and on or before the Termination Date by delivery to the Company (or such other office or agency of the Company as it may designate by notice in writing to the registered Holder at the address of the Holder appearing on the books of the Company) of a duly executed facsimile copy of the Notice of Exercise in the form annexed hereto and within three (3) Trading Days of the date said Notice of Exercise is delivered to the Company, the Company shall have received payment of the aggregate Exercise Price of the shares thereby purchased by wire transfer or cashier’s check drawn on a United States bank or, if available, pursuant to the cashless exercise procedure specified in Section 2(c) below. No ink-original Notice of Exercise shall be required, nor shall any medallion guarantee (or other type of guarantee or notarization) of any Notice of Exercise form be required. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Holder shall not be required to physically surrender this Warrant to the Company until the Holder has purchased all of the Warrant Shares available hereunder and the Warrant has been exercised in full, in which case, the Holder shall surrender this Warrant to the Company for cancellation within three (3) Trading Days of the date the final Notice of Exercise is delivered to the Company. Partial exercises of this Warrant resulting in purchases of a portion of the total number of Warrant Shares available hereunder shall have the effect of lowering the outstanding number of Warrant Shares purchasable hereunder in an amount equal to the applicable number of Warrant Shares purchased. The Holder and the Company shall maintain records showing the number of Warrant Shares purchased and the date of such purchases. The Company shall deliver any objection to any Notice of Exercise within one (1) Trading Day of receipt of such notice. The Holder and any assignee, by acceptance of this Warrant, acknowledge and agree that, by reason of the provisions of this paragraph, following the purchase of a portion of the Warrant Shares hereunder, the number of Warrant Shares available for purchase hereunder at any given time may be less than the amount stated on the face hereof.

 

  b)     Exercise Price. The exercise price per share of the Common Stock under this Warrant shall be $0.53, subject to adjustment hereunder (the “Exercise Price”).

  c)     Cashless Exercise. If at any time after the one year anniversary of the date of the Purchase Agreement, there is no effective Registration Statement registering, or no current prospectus available for, the resale of the Warrant Shares by the Holder, then this Warrant may also be exercised, in whole or in part, at such time by means of a “cashless exercise” in which the Holder shall be entitled to receive a number of Warrant Shares equal to the quotient obtained by dividing [(A-B) (X)] by (A), where:

(A) = the VWAP on the Trading Day immediately preceding the date on which Holder elects to exercise this Warrant by means of a “cashless exercise,” as set forth in the applicable Notice of Exercise;

 

(B) = the Exercise Price of this Warrant, as adjusted hereunder; and 

 

(X) = the number of Warrant Shares that would be issuable upon exercise of this Warrant in accordance with the terms of this Warrant if such exercise were by means of a cash exercise rather than a cashless exercise.

 

 
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Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, on the Termination Date, this Warrant shall be automatically exercised via cashless exercise pursuant to this Section 2(c).

 

 

d)

Mechanics of Exercise.

 

i.     Delivery of Warrant Shares Upon Exercise. Warrant Shares purchased hereunder shall be transmitted by the Transfer Agent to the Holder by crediting the account of the Holder’s prime broker with The Depository Trust Company through its Deposit or Withdrawal at Custodian system (“DWAC”) if the Company is then a participant in such system and either (A) there is an effective registration statement permitting the issuance of the Warrant Shares to or resale of the Warrant Shares by the Holder or (B) the shares are eligible for resale by the Holder without volume or manner-of-sale limitations pursuant to Rule 144, and otherwise by physical delivery to the address specified by the Holder in the Notice of Exercise by the date that is three (3) Trading Days after the delivery to the Company of the Notice of Exercise (such date, the “Warrant Share Delivery Date”). The Warrant Shares shall be deemed to have been issued, and Holder or any other person so designated to be named therein shall be deemed to have become a holder of record of such shares for all purposes, as of the date the Warrant has been exercised, with payment to the Company of the Exercise Price (or by cashless exercise, if permitted) and all taxes required to be paid by the Holder, if any, pursuant to Section 2(d)(vi) prior to the issuance of such shares, having been paid. If the Company fails for any reason to deliver to the Holder the Warrant Shares subject to a Notice of Exercise by the Warrant Share Delivery Date, the Company shall pay to the Holder, in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for each $1,000 of Warrant Shares subject to such exercise (based on the VWAP of the Common Stock on the date of the applicable Notice of Exercise), $10 per Trading Day (increasing to $20 per Trading Day on the fifth Trading Day after such liquidated damages begin to accrue) for each Trading Day after such Warrant Share Delivery Date until such Warrant Shares are delivered or Holder rescinds such exercise.

 

ii.     Delivery of New Warrants Upon Exercise. If this Warrant shall have been exercised in part, the Company shall, at the request of a Holder and upon surrender of this Warrant certificate, at the time of delivery of the Warrant Shares, deliver to the Holder a new Warrant evidencing the rights of the Holder to purchase the unpurchased Warrant Shares called for by this Warrant, which new Warrant shall in all other respects be identical with this Warrant.

 

iii.     Rescission Rights. If the Company fails to cause the Transfer Agent to transmit to the Holder the Warrant Shares pursuant to Section 2(d)(i) by the Warrant Share Delivery Date, then the Holder will have the right to rescind such exercise.

 

 
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iv.     Compensation for Buy-In on Failure to Timely Deliver Warrant Shares Upon Exercise. In addition to any other rights available to the Holder, if the Company fails to cause the Transfer Agent to transmit to the Holder the Warrant Shares pursuant to an exercise on or before the Warrant Share Delivery Date, and if after such date the Holder is required by its broker to purchase (in an open market transaction or otherwise) or the Holder’s brokerage firm otherwise purchases, shares of Common Stock to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the Holder of the Warrant Shares which the Holder anticipated receiving upon such exercise (a “Buy-In”), then the Company shall (A) pay in cash to the Holder the amount, if any, by which (x) the Holder’s total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the shares of Common Stock so purchased exceeds (y) the amount obtained by multiplying (1) the number of Warrant Shares that the Company was required to deliver to the Holder in connection with the exercise at issue times (2) the price at which the sell order giving rise to such purchase obligation was executed, and (B) at the option of the Holder, either reinstate the portion of the Warrant and equivalent number of Warrant Shares for which such exercise was not honored (in which case such exercise shall be deemed rescinded) or deliver to the Holder the number of shares of Common Stock that would have been issued had the Company timely complied with its exercise and delivery obligations hereunder. For example, if the Holder purchases Common Stock having a total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to an attempted exercise of shares of Common Stock with an aggregate sale price giving rise to such purchase obligation of $10,000, under clause (A) of the immediately preceding sentence the Company shall be required to pay the Holder $1,000. The Holder shall provide the Company written notice indicating the amounts payable to the Holder in respect of the Buy-In and, upon request of the Company, evidence of the amount of such loss. Nothing herein shall limit a Holder’s right to pursue any other remedies available to it hereunder, at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief with respect to the Company’s failure to timely deliver shares of Common Stock upon exercise of the Warrant as required pursuant to the terms hereof.

 

v.     No Fractional Shares or Scrip. No fractional shares or scrip representing fractional shares shall be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant. As to any fraction of a share which the Holder would otherwise be entitled to purchase upon such exercise, the Company shall, at its election, either pay a cash adjustment in respect of such final fraction in an amount equal to such fraction multiplied by the Exercise Price or round up to the next whole share.

 

 
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vi.     Charges, Taxes and Expenses. Issuance of Warrant Shares shall be made without charge to the Holder for any issue or transfer tax or other incidental expense in respect of the issuance of Warrant Shares, all of which taxes and expenses shall be paid by the Company, and such Warrant Shares shall be issued in the name of the Holder or in such name or names as may be directed by the Holder; provided, however, that in the event that Warrant Shares are to be issued in a name other than the name of the Holder, this Warrant when surrendered for exercise shall be accompanied by the Assignment Form attached hereto duly executed by the Holder and the Company may require, as a condition thereto, the payment of a sum sufficient to reimburse it for any transfer tax incidental thereto. The Company shall pay all Transfer Agent fees required for same-day processing of any Notice of Exercise and all fees to the Depository Trust Company (or another established clearing corporation performing similar functions) required for same-day electronic delivery of the Warrant Shares.

 

vii.     Closing of Books. The Company will not close its stockholder books or records in any manner which prevents the timely exercise of this Warrant, pursuant to the terms hereof.

 

e)     Holder’s Exercise Limitations. The Company shall not effect any exercise of this Warrant, and a Holder shall not have the right to exercise any portion of this Warrant, pursuant to Section 2 or otherwise, to the extent that after giving effect to such issuance after exercise as set forth on the applicable Notice of Exercise, the Holder (together with the Holder’s Affiliates, and any other Persons acting as a group together with the Holder or any of the Holder’s Affiliates), would beneficially own in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation (as defined below).  For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by the Holder and its Affiliates shall include the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant with respect to which such determination is being made, but shall exclude the number of shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon (i) exercise of the remaining, nonexercised portion of this Warrant beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its Affiliates and (ii) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or nonconverted portion of any other securities of the Company (including, without limitation, any other Common Stock Equivalents) subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its Affiliates.  Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this Section 2(e), beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, it being acknowledged by the Holder that the Company is not representing to the Holder that such calculation is in compliance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the Holder is solely responsible for any schedules required to be filed in accordance therewith. To the extent that the limitation contained in this Section 2(e) applies, the determination of whether this Warrant is exercisable (in relation to other securities owned by the Holder together with any Affiliates) and of which portion of this Warrant is exercisable shall be in the sole discretion of the Holder, and the submission of a Notice of Exercise shall be deemed to be the Holder’s determination of whether this Warrant is exercisable (in relation to other securities owned by the Holder together with any Affiliates) and of which portion of this Warrant is exercisable, in each case subject to the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, and the Company shall have no obligation to verify or confirm the accuracy of such determination. In addition, a determination as to any group status as contemplated above shall be determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. For purposes of this Section 2(e), in determining the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, a Holder may rely on the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock as reflected in (A) the Company’s most recent periodic or annual report filed with the Commission, as the case may be, (B) a more recent public announcement by the Company or (C) a more recent written notice by the Company or the Transfer Agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding.  Upon the written or oral request of a Holder, the Company shall within two Trading Days confirm orally and in writing to the Holder the number of shares of Common Stock then outstanding.  In any case, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be determined after giving effect to the conversion or exercise of securities of the Company, including this Warrant, by the Holder or its Affiliates since the date as of which such number of outstanding shares of Common Stock was reported. The “Beneficial Ownership Limitation” shall be 4.99% of the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the issuance of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant. The Holder, upon not less than 61 days’ prior notice to the Company, may increase or decrease the Beneficial Ownership Limitation provisions of this Section 2(e), provided that the Beneficial Ownership Limitation in no event exceeds 9.99% of the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the issuance of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this Warrant held by the Holder and the provisions of this Section 2(e) shall continue to apply. Any such increase or decrease will not be effective until the 61st day after such notice is delivered to the Company. The provisions of this paragraph shall be construed and implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms of this Section 2(e) to correct this paragraph (or any portion hereof) which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended Beneficial Ownership Limitation herein contained or to make changes or supplements necessary or desirable to properly give effect to such limitation. The limitations contained in this paragraph shall apply to a successor holder of this Warrant.

 

 
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 Section 3.     Certain Adjustments.

 

   a)     Stock Dividends and Splits. If the Company, at any time while this Warrant is outstanding: (i) pays a stock dividend or otherwise makes a distribution or distributions on shares of its Common Stock or any other equity or equity equivalent securities payable in shares of Common Stock (which, for avoidance of doubt, shall not include any shares of Common Stock issued by the Company upon exercise of this Warrant), (ii) subdivides outstanding shares of Common Stock into a larger number of shares, (iii) combines (including by way of reverse stock split) outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares or (iv) issues by reclassification of shares of the Common Stock any shares of capital stock of the Company, then in each case the Exercise Price shall be multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock (excluding treasury shares, if any) outstanding immediately before such event and of which the denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, and the number of shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant shall be proportionately adjusted such that the aggregate Exercise Price of this Warrant shall remain unchanged. Any adjustment made pursuant to this Section 3(a) shall become effective immediately after the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or distribution and shall become effective immediately after the effective date in the case of a subdivision, combination or re-classification.

 

 
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   b)     [Reserved]

 

   c)     Subsequent Rights Offerings. In addition to any adjustments pursuant to Section 3(a) above, if at any time the Company grants, issues or sells any Common Stock Equivalents or rights to purchase stock, warrants, securities or other property pro rata to the record holders of any class of shares of Common Stock (the “Purchase Rights”), then the Holder will be entitled to acquire, upon the terms applicable to such Purchase Rights, the aggregate Purchase Rights which the Holder could have acquired if the Holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon complete exercise of this Warrant (without regard to any limitations on exercise hereof, including without limitation, the Beneficial Ownership Limitation) immediately before the date on which a record is taken for the grant, issuance or sale of such Purchase Rights, or, if no such record is taken, the date as of which the record holders of shares of Common Stock are to be determined for the grant, issue or sale of such Purchase Rights (provided, however, to the extent that the Holder’s right to participate in any such Purchase Right would result in the Holder exceeding the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, then the Holder shall not be entitled to participate in such Purchase Right to such extent (or beneficial ownership of such shares of Common Stock as a result of such Purchase Right to such extent) and such Purchase Right to such extent shall be held in abeyance for the Holder until such time, if ever, as its right thereto would not result in the Holder exceeding the Beneficial Ownership Limitation).

 

   d)     Pro Rata Distributions. During such time as this Warrant is outstanding, if the Company shall declare or make any dividend or other distribution of its assets (or rights to acquire its assets) to holders of shares of Common Stock, by way of return of capital or otherwise (including, without limitation, any distribution of cash, stock or other securities, property or options by way of a dividend, spin off, reclassification, corporate rearrangement, scheme of arrangement or other similar transaction) (a "Distribution"), at any time after the issuance of this Warrant, then, in each such case, the Holder shall be entitled to participate in such Distribution to the same extent that the Holder would have participated therein if the Holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon complete exercise of this Warrant (without regard to any limitations on exercise hereof, including without limitation, the Beneficial Ownership Limitation) immediately before the date of which a record is taken for such Distribution, or, if no such record is taken, the date as of which the record holders of shares of Common Stock are to be determined for the participation in such Distribution (provided, however, to the extent that the Holder's right to participate in any such Distribution would result in the Holder exceeding the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, then the Holder shall not be entitled to participate in such Distribution to such extent (or in the beneficial ownership of any shares of Common Stock as a result of such Distribution to such extent) and the portion of such Distribution shall be held in abeyance for the benefit of the Holder until such time, if ever, as its right thereto would not result in the Holder exceeding the Beneficial Ownership Limitation).

 

 
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   e)     Fundamental Transaction. If, at any time while this Warrant is outstanding, (i) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions effects any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another Person, (ii) the Company, directly or indirectly, effects any sale, lease, license, assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of its assets in one or a series of related transactions, (iii) any, direct or indirect, purchase offer, tender offer or exchange offer (whether by the Company or another Person) is completed pursuant to which holders of Common Stock are permitted to sell, tender or exchange their shares for other securities, cash or property and has been accepted by the holders of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Stock, (iv) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions effects any reclassification, reorganization or recapitalization of the Common Stock or any compulsory share exchange pursuant to which the Common Stock is effectively converted into or exchanged for other securities, cash or property, or (v) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions consummates a stock or share purchase agreement or other business combination (including, without limitation, a reorganization, recapitalization, spin-off or scheme of arrangement) with another Person or group of Persons whereby such other Person or group acquires more than 50% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (not including any shares of Common Stock held by the other Person or other Persons making or party to, or associated or affiliated with the other Persons making or party to, such stock or share purchase agreement or other business combination) (each a “Fundamental Transaction”), then, upon any subsequent exercise of this Warrant, the Holder shall have the right to receive, for each Warrant Share that would have been issuable upon such exercise immediately prior to the occurrence of such Fundamental Transaction, at the option of the Holder (without regard to any limitation in Section 2(e) on the exercise of this Warrant), the number of shares of Common Stock of the successor or acquiring corporation or of the Company, if it is the surviving corporation, and any additional consideration (the “Alternate Consideration”) receivable as a result of such Fundamental Transaction by a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock for which this Warrant is exercisable immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction (without regard to any limitation in Section 2(e) on the exercise of this Warrant). For purposes of any such exercise, the determination of the Exercise Price shall be appropriately adjusted to apply to such Alternate Consideration based on the amount of Alternate Consideration issuable in respect of one share of Common Stock in such Fundamental Transaction, and the Company shall apportion the Exercise Price among the Alternate Consideration in a reasonable manner reflecting the relative value of any different components of the Alternate Consideration. If holders of Common Stock are given any choice as to the securities, cash or property to be received in a Fundamental Transaction, then the Holder shall be given the same choice as to the Alternate Consideration it receives upon any exercise of this Warrant following such Fundamental Transaction. The Company shall cause any successor entity in a Fundamental Transaction in which the Company is not the survivor (the “Successor Entity”) to assume in writing all of the obligations of the Company under this Warrant and the other Transaction Documents in accordance with the provisions of this Section 3(e) pursuant to written agreements in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Holder and approved by the Holder (without unreasonable delay) prior to such Fundamental Transaction and shall, at the option of the Holder, deliver to the Holder in exchange for this Warrant a security of the Successor Entity evidenced by a written instrument substantially similar in form and substance to this Warrant which is exercisable for a corresponding number of shares of capital stock of such Successor Entity (or its parent entity) equivalent to the shares of Common Stock acquirable and receivable upon exercise of this Warrant (without regard to any limitations on the exercise of this Warrant) prior to such Fundamental Transaction, and with an exercise price which applies the exercise price hereunder to such shares of capital stock (but taking into account the relative value of the shares of Common Stock pursuant to such Fundamental Transaction and the value of such shares of capital stock, such number of shares of capital stock and such exercise price being for the purpose of protecting the economic value of this Warrant immediately prior to the consummation of such Fundamental Transaction), and which is reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Holder. Upon the occurrence of any such Fundamental Transaction, the Successor Entity shall succeed to, and be substituted for (so that from and after the date of such Fundamental Transaction, the provisions of this Warrant and the other Transaction Documents referring to the “Company” shall refer instead to the Successor Entity), and may exercise every right and power of the Company and shall assume all of the obligations of the Company under this Warrant and the other Transaction Documents with the same effect as if such Successor Entity had been named as the Company herein.

 

 
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   f)     Calculations. All calculations under this Section 3 shall be made to the nearest cent or the nearest 1/100th of a share, as the case may be. For purposes of this Section 3, the number of shares of Common Stock deemed to be issued and outstanding as of a given date shall be the sum of the number of shares of Common Stock (excluding treasury shares, if any) issued and outstanding.

 

   g)     Notice to Holder.

 

i.     Adjustment to Exercise Price. Whenever the Exercise Price is adjusted pursuant to any provision of this Section 3, the Company shall promptly mail to the Holder a notice setting forth the Exercise Price after such adjustment and any resulting adjustment to the number of Warrant Shares and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment..

 

 
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ii.     Notice to Allow Exercise by Holder. If (A) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution in whatever form) on the Common Stock, (B) the Company shall declare a special nonrecurring cash dividend on or a redemption of the Common Stock, (C) the Company shall authorize the granting to all holders of the Common Stock rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares of capital stock of any class or of any rights, (D) the approval of any stockholders of the Company shall be required in connection with any reclassification of the Common Stock, any consolidation or merger to which the Company is a party, any sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, or any compulsory share exchange whereby the Common Stock is converted into other securities, cash or property, or (E) the Company shall authorize the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the affairs of the Company, then, in each case, the Company shall cause to be mailed to the Holder at its last address as it shall appear upon the Warrant Register of the Company, at least 10 calendar days prior to the applicable record or effective date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (x) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution, redemption, rights or warrants, or if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of the Common Stock of record to be entitled to such dividend, distributions, redemption, rights or warrants are to be determined or (y) the date on which such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange is expected to become effective or close, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of the Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their shares of the Common Stock for securities, cash or other property deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange; provided that the failure to mail such notice or any defect therein or in the mailing thereof shall not affect the validity of the corporate action required to be specified in such notice. To the extent that any notice provided hereunder constitutes, or contains, material, non-public information regarding the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, the Company shall simultaneously file such notice with the Commission pursuant to a Current Report on Form 8-K. The Holder shall remain entitled to exercise this Warrant during the period commencing on the date of such notice to the effective date of the event triggering such notice except as may otherwise be expressly set forth herein.

 

Section 4.     Transfer of Warrant.

 

  a)     Transferability. Subject to compliance with any applicable securities laws and the conditions set forth in Section 4(d) hereof and to the provisions of Section 4.1 of the Purchase Agreement, this Warrant and all rights hereunder (including, without limitation, any registration rights) are transferable, in whole or in part, upon surrender of this Warrant at the principal office of the Company or its designated agent, together with a written assignment of this Warrant substantially in the form attached hereto duly executed by the Holder or its agent or attorney and funds sufficient to pay any transfer taxes payable upon the making of such transfer. Upon such surrender and, if required, such payment, the Company shall execute and deliver a new Warrant or Warrants in the name of the assignee or assignees, as applicable, and in the denomination or denominations specified in such instrument of assignment, and shall issue to the assignor a new Warrant evidencing the portion of this Warrant not so assigned, and this Warrant shall promptly be cancelled. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Holder shall not be required to physically surrender this Warrant to the Company unless the Holder has assigned this Warrant in full, in which case, the Holder shall surrender this Warrant to the Company within three (3) Trading Days of the date the Holder delivers an assignment form to the Company assigning this Warrant full. The Warrant, if properly assigned in accordance herewith, may be exercised by a new holder for the purchase of Warrant Shares without having a new Warrant issued.

 

 
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   b)     New Warrants. This Warrant may be divided or combined with other Warrants upon presentation hereof at the aforesaid office of the Company, together with a written notice specifying the names and denominations in which new Warrants are to be issued, signed by the Holder or its agent or attorney. Subject to compliance with Section 4(a), as to any transfer which may be involved in such division or combination, the Company shall execute and deliver a new Warrant or Warrants in exchange for the Warrant or Warrants to be divided or combined in accordance with such notice. All Warrants issued on transfers or exchanges shall be dated the Initial Exercise Date and shall be identical with this Warrant except as to the number of Warrant Shares issuable pursuant thereto.

 

   c)     Warrant Register. The Company shall register this Warrant, upon records to be maintained by the Company for that purpose (the “Warrant Register”), in the name of the record Holder hereof from time to time. The Company may deem and treat the registered Holder of this Warrant as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of any exercise hereof or any distribution to the Holder, and for all other purposes, absent actual notice to the contrary.

 

   d)     Transfer Restrictions. If, at the time of the surrender of this Warrant in connection with any transfer of this Warrant, the transfer of this Warrant shall not be either (i) registered pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and under applicable state securities or blue sky laws or (ii) eligible for resale without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions or current public information requirements pursuant to Rule 144, the Company may require, as a condition of allowing such transfer, that the Holder or transferee of this Warrant, as the case may be, comply with the provisions of Sections 4.1 and 5.7 of the Purchase Agreement.

 

   e)     Representation by the Holder. The Holder, by the acceptance hereof, represents and warrants that it is acquiring this Warrant and, upon any exercise hereof, will acquire the Warrant Shares issuable upon such exercise, for its own account and not with a view to or for distributing or reselling such Warrant Shares or any part thereof in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law, except pursuant to sales registered or exempted under the Securities Act.

 

 
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Section 5.     Miscellaneous.

 

  a)     Call Option. If at any time after the date hereof, (i) the volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for twenty (20) consecutive Trading Days (the “Measurement Period”) is at least equal to one hundred fifty percent 150% of the Exercise Price (subject to adjustment for forward and reverse stock splits, recapitalizations, stock dividends and the like after the date hereof), (ii) the average daily volume of the Common Stock for such Measurement Period is at least [_],000 shares of Common Stock per Trading Day (subject to adjustment for forward and reverse stock splits, recapitalizations, stock dividends and the like after the date hereof), (iii) the Holder is not in possession of any information that constitutes, or might constitute, material non-public information which was provided by the Company, and (iv) there is an effective Registration Statement pursuant to which the Holder is permitted to utilize the prospectus thereunder to resell all of the Warrant Shares, then the Company may, within one (1) Trading Day of the end of such Measurement Period, call for cancellation of all or any portion of this Warrant for which a Notice of Exercise has not yet been delivered. To exercise this right, the Company must deliver to the Holder a written notice (the “Call Notice”), indicating therein the unexercised portion of this Warrant to which such notice applies. Any unexercised portion of this Warrant for which a Notice of Exercise shall not have been received, will be cancelled at 6:30 p.m. (New York City time) on the thirtieth (30th) calendar day after the date of the Call Notice.

 

  b)     No Rights as Stockholder Until Exercise. This Warrant does not entitle the Holder to any voting rights, dividends or other rights as a stockholder of the Company prior to the exercise hereof as set forth in Section 2(d)(i), except as expressly set forth in Section 3.

 

  c)     Loss, Theft, Destruction or Mutilation of Warrant. The Company covenants that upon receipt by the Company of evidence reasonably satisfactory to it of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Warrant or any stock certificate relating to the Warrant Shares, and in case of loss, theft or destruction, of indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to it (which, in the case of the Warrant, shall not include the posting of any bond), and upon surrender and cancellation of such Warrant or stock certificate, if mutilated, the Company will make and deliver a new Warrant or stock certificate of like tenor and dated as of such cancellation, in lieu of such Warrant or stock certificate.

 

  d)     Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, etc. If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not be a Trading Day, then, such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding Trading Day.

 

  e)     Authorized Shares.

 

The Company covenants that, during the period the Warrant is outstanding, it will reserve from its authorized and unissued Common Stock a sufficient number of shares to provide for the issuance of the Warrant Shares upon the exercise of any purchase rights under this Warrant. The Company further covenants that its issuance of this Warrant shall constitute full authority to its officers who are charged with the duty of issuing the necessary Warrant Shares upon the exercise of the purchase rights under this Warrant. The Company will take all such reasonable action as may be necessary to assure that such Warrant Shares may be issued as provided herein without violation of any applicable law or regulation, or of any requirements of the Trading Market upon which the Common Stock may be listed. The Company covenants that all Warrant Shares which may be issued upon the exercise of the purchase rights represented by this Warrant will, upon exercise of the purchase rights represented by this Warrant and payment for such Warrant Shares in accordance herewith, be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free from all taxes, liens and charges created by the Company in respect of the issue thereof (other than taxes in respect of any transfer occurring contemporaneously with such issue).

 

 
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Except and to the extent as waived or consented to by the Holder, the Company shall not by any action, including, without limitation, amending its certificate of incorporation or through any reorganization, transfer of assets, consolidation, merger, dissolution, issue or sale of securities or any other voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms of this Warrant, but will at all times in good faith assist in the carrying out of all such terms and in the taking of all such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to protect the rights of Holder as set forth in this Warrant against impairment. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company will (i) not increase the par value of any Warrant Shares above the amount payable therefor upon such exercise immediately prior to such increase in par value, (ii) take all such action as may be necessary or appropriate in order that the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and nonassessable Warrant Shares upon the exercise of this Warrant and (iii) use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain all such authorizations, exemptions or consents from any public regulatory body having jurisdiction thereof, as may be, necessary to enable the Company to perform its obligations under this Warrant.

 

Before taking any action which would result in an adjustment in the number of Warrant Shares for which this Warrant is exercisable or in the Exercise Price, the Company shall obtain all such authorizations or exemptions thereof, or consents thereto, as may be necessary from any public regulatory body or bodies having jurisdiction thereof.

 

  f)     Jurisdiction. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Warrant shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of the Purchase Agreement.

 

  g)     Restrictions. The Holder acknowledges that the Warrant Shares acquired upon the exercise of this Warrant, if not registered and the Holder does not utilize cashless exercise, will have restrictions upon resale imposed by state and federal securities laws.

 

 
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  h)     Nonwaiver and Expenses. No course of dealing or any delay or failure to exercise any right hereunder on the part of Holder shall operate as a waiver of such right or otherwise prejudice the Holder’s rights, powers or remedies, notwithstanding the fact that all rights hereunder terminate on the Termination Date. If the Company willfully and knowingly fails to comply with any provision of this Warrant, which results in any material damages to the Holder, the Company shall pay to the Holder such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover any costs and expenses including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees, including those of appellate proceedings, incurred by the Holder in collecting any amounts due pursuant hereto or in otherwise enforcing any of its rights, powers or remedies hereunder.

 

  i)     Notices. Any notice, request or other document required or permitted to be given or delivered to the Holder by the Company shall be delivered in accordance with the notice provisions of the Purchase Agreement.

 

  j)     Limitation of Liability. No provision hereof, in the absence of any affirmative action by the Holder to exercise this Warrant to purchase Warrant Shares, and no enumeration herein of the rights or privileges of the Holder, shall give rise to any liability of the Holder for the purchase price of any Common Stock or as a stockholder of the Company, whether such liability is asserted by the Company or by creditors of the Company.

 

  k)     Remedies. The Holder, in addition to being entitled to exercise all rights granted by law, including recovery of damages, will be entitled to specific performance of its rights under this Warrant. The Company agrees that monetary damages would not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of a breach by it of the provisions of this Warrant and hereby agrees to waive and not to assert the defense in any action for specific performance that a remedy at law would be adequate.

 

  l)     Successors and Assigns. Subject to applicable securities laws, this Warrant and the rights and obligations evidenced hereby shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors and permitted assigns of the Company and the successors and permitted assigns of Holder. The provisions of this Warrant are intended to be for the benefit of any Holder from time to time of this Warrant and shall be enforceable by the Holder or holder of Warrant Shares.

 

  m)     Amendment. This Warrant may be modified or amended or the provisions hereof waived with the written consent of the Company and the Holder.

 

  n)     Severability. Wherever possible, each provision of this Warrant shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Warrant shall be prohibited by or invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity, without invalidating the remainder of such provisions or the remaining provisions of this Warrant.

 

  o)     Headings. The headings used in this Warrant are for the convenience of reference only and shall not, for any purpose, be deemed a part of this Warrant.

 

 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Warrant to be executed by its officer thereunto duly authorized as of the date first above indicated.

 

 

 

 

plc systems inc.

   
   
 

By:

/s/ Gregory W. Mann
  Name: Gregory W. Mann
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 
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NOTICE OF EXERCISE

 

To:     PLC SYSTEMS INC.

 

(1)     The undersigned hereby elects to purchase ________ Warrant Shares of the Company pursuant to the terms of the attached Warrant (only if exercised in full), and tenders herewith payment of the exercise price in full, together with all applicable transfer taxes, if any.

 

(2)     Payment shall take the form of (check applicable box):

 

[ ] in lawful money of the United States; or

 

[ ] [if permitted the cancellation of such number of Warrant Shares as is necessary, in accordance with the formula set forth in subsection 2(c), to exercise this Warrant with respect to the maximum number of Warrant Shares purchasable pursuant to the cashless exercise procedure set forth in subsection 2(c).

 

(3)     Please issue said Warrant Shares in the name of the undersigned or in such other name as is specified below:

 

_______________________________

 

 

The Warrant Shares shall be delivered to the following DWAC Account Number:

 

_______________________________

 

_______________________________

 

_______________________________

 

(4) Accredited Investor. The undersigned is an “accredited investor” as defined in Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

[SIGNATURE OF HOLDER]

 

Name of Investing Entity:

Signature of Authorized Signatory of Investing Entity:

Name of Authorized Signatory:

Title of Authorized Signatory:

Date:

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT B                  

 

ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

(To assign the foregoing Warrant, execute this form and supply required information. Do not use this form to purchase shares.)

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the foregoing Warrant and all rights evidenced thereby are hereby assigned to

 

Name:

   
 

(Please Print)

 
     

Address:

   
 

(Please Print)

 

Dated: _______________ __, ______

   
     

Holder’s Signature:                                            

   
     

Holder’s Address:                                             

   

 

 

EX-4 5 ex4-4.htm EXHIBIT 4.4 ex10-6.htm

Exhibit 4.4

 

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR THE SECURITIES FOR WHICH THIS SECURITY IS EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”) AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS, THIS SECURITY AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES.               

 

COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT

 

PLC SYSTEMS, INC.

 

Warrant Shares: 943,596

 Date: May 9, 2014

                                                     

 

THIS COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT (this “Warrant”) certifies that, for value received, GBS Venture Partners Limited, as trustee for GBS BioVentures III or its registered assigns (the “Holder”), is entitled, upon the terms and subject to the limitations on exercise and the conditions hereinafter set forth, immediately after the Effective Time (as defined in the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) by and among PLC Systems, Inc., a Yukon Territory corporation (the “Company”), PLC Systems Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and Viveve, Inc., a Delaware corporation), to purchase and receive from the Company, 943,596 shares (after giving effect to the 1 for 100 reverse stock split contemplated by the Merger Agreement, collectively, the “Warrant Shares”) of the Company’s common shares, without par or nominal value (“Common Stock”). The purchase price of one share of Common Stock under this Warrant shall be equal to the Exercise Price, as defined in Section 1(b).

 

Section 1.       Exercise.

 

a)     Exercise of Warrant. This Warrant shall be deemed automatically exercised in whole to purchase all of the Warrant Shares, without any action being required on the part of the Holder, immediately after the Effective Time (the “Automatic Exercise Time”). The Holder shall not be required to physically surrender this Warrant to the Company upon exercise.

 

b)     Exercise Price. The exercise price per share of the Common Stock under this Warrant shall be $0.0000001 (the “Exercise Price”).

 

c)     Cashless Exercise. This Warrant shall be exercised, at the Automatic Exercise Time, in whole by means of a “cashless exercise” in which the Holder shall be entitled to receive a certificate for the number of Warrant Shares equal to the quotient obtained by dividing [(A-B) (X)] by (A), where:

 

(A) = the Private Placement Price Per Share;

 

 
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(B) = the Exercise Price of this Warrant; and

 

(X) = the total number of Warrant Shares for which this Warrant is then exercisable.

 

For purposes of this Agreement, “Private Placement Price Per Share” means the price for one share of Common Stock sold in the Private Placement (as defined in the Merger Agreement).

 

d)            Mechanics of Exercise.

 

i.     Delivery of Certificates Upon Exercise. Certificates for shares purchased hereunder shall be transmitted by Computershare Trust Company, N.A., the current transfer agent for the Company, or any successor transfer agent of the Company, to the Holder by crediting the account of the Holder’s prime broker with The Depository Trust Company through its Deposit or Withdrawal at Custodian system if the Company is then a participant in such system and either (A) there is an effective registration statement permitting the issuance of the Warrant Shares to or resale of the Warrant Shares by the Holder or (B) the Warrant Shares are eligible for resale by the Holder without volume or manner-of-sale limitations pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”), and otherwise by physical delivery to the Holder within three (3) business days after the Automatic Exercise Time. The Warrant Shares shall be deemed to have been issued, and Holder or any other person so designated to be named therein shall be deemed to have become a holder of record of such shares for all purposes, as of the Automatic Exercise Time.

 

ii.     No Fractional Shares or Scrip. No fractional shares or scrip representing fractional shares shall be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant. As to any fraction of a share which the Holder would otherwise be entitled to purchase upon such exercise, the Company shall, at its election, either pay a cash adjustment in respect of such final fraction in an amount equal to such fraction multiplied by the Exercise Price or round up to the next whole share.

 

iii.     Charges, Taxes and Expenses. Issuance of certificates for Warrant Shares shall be made without charge to the Holder for any issue or transfer tax or other incidental expense in respect of the issuance of such certificate, all of which taxes and expenses shall be paid by the Company, and such certificates shall be issued in the name of the Holder.

 

Section 2.

 

a)            Stock Dividends and Splits. Other than the 1 for 100 reverse stock split contemplated by the Merger Agreement, if the Company, at any time while this Warrant is outstanding: (i) pays a stock dividend or otherwise makes a distribution or distributions on shares of its Common Stock or any other equity or equity equivalent securities payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides outstanding shares of Common Stock into a larger number of shares, (iii) combines (including by way of reverse stock split) outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues by reclassification of shares of the Common Stock any shares of capital stock of the Company, then in each case the Exercise Price shall be multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock (excluding treasury shares, if any) outstanding immediately before such event and of which the denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, and the number of shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant shall be proportionately adjusted such that the aggregate Exercise Price of this Warrant shall remain unchanged. Any adjustment made pursuant to this Section 2(a) shall become effective immediately after the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or distribution (provided that if the declaration of such dividend or distribution is rescinded or otherwise cancelled, then such adjustment shall be reversed upon notice to the Holder of the termination of such proposed declaration or distribution as to any unexercised portion of this Warrant at the time of such rescission or cancellation) and shall become effective immediately after the effective date in the case of a subdivision, combination or re-classification.

 

 
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b)            Calculations. All calculations under this Section 2 shall be made to the nearest cent or the nearest 1/100th of a share, as the case may be. For purposes of this Section 2, the number of shares of Common Stock deemed to be issued and outstanding as of a given date shall be the sum of the number of shares of Common Stock (excluding treasury shares, if any) issued and outstanding.

 

c)            Notice to Holder. Whenever the Exercise Price is adjusted pursuant to any provision of this Section 2, the Company shall promptly send to the Holder a notice setting forth the Exercise Price after such adjustment and any resulting adjustment to the number of Warrant Shares and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment at the following address:

 

GBS Ventures

Harley House, Level 5

71 Collins Street

Melbourne Vic 3000

Australia

E-mail: brigitte.smith@gbsventures.com.au

Attn: Brigitte Smith, Managing Partner

 

Section 3.               Transfer of Warrant.

 

a)            Transferability. Subject to compliance with any applicable securities laws and the conditions set forth in Section 3(c) hereof, this Warrant and all rights hereunder (including, without limitation, any registration rights) are transferable, in whole or in part, upon a written assignment of this Warrant in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Company, duly executed by the Holder or its agent or attorney and funds sufficient to pay any transfer taxes payable upon the making of such transfer. Upon such payment, if such payment shall be required, the Company shall execute and deliver a new Warrant in the name of the assignee and in the denomination or denominations specified in such instrument of assignment, and shall issue to the assignor a new Warrant evidencing the portion of this Warrant not so assigned, and this Warrant shall promptly be cancelled. The Warrant, if properly assigned in accordance herewith, may be exercised by a new holder for the purchase of Warrant Shares without having a new Warrant issued.

 

b)            Warrant Register. The Company shall register this Warrant, upon records to be maintained by the Company for that purpose (the “Warrant Register”), in the name of the record Holder hereof from time to time. The Company and any agent of the Company may deem and treat the person or entity in whose name this Warrant is duly registered on the Warrant Register as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of any exercise hereof or any distribution to the Holder, and for all other purposes, absent actual notice to the contrary. In the event of an assignment or transfer of this Warrant, the assignee or transferee shall be deemed a registered holder hereunder on the date the assignment form referred to in Section 2(a) above is duly executed and delivered to the Company.

 

 
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c)            Transfer Restrictions. If any transfer of this Warrant shall not be either (i) registered pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and under applicable state securities or blue sky laws or (ii) eligible for resale without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions or current public information requirements pursuant to Rule 144, the Company may require, as a condition of allowing such transfer, the transferor thereof to provide to the Company an opinion of counsel selected by the transferor and reasonably acceptable to the Company, to the effect that such transfer does not require registration of such transferred Warrant Shares under the Securities Act.

 

d)            Representation by the Holder. The Holder, by the acceptance hereof, represents and warrants that (x) it is acquiring this Warrant for its own account and not with a view to or for distributing or reselling this Warrant, (y) upon any exercise hereof, it will acquire the Warrant Shares issuable upon such exercise, for its own account and not with a view to or for distributing or reselling such Warrant Shares or any part thereof in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities laws, except pursuant to sales registered or exempted under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws, and (z) it is an “accredited investor,” as defined in Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

Section 4.              Miscellaneous.

 

a)            No Rights as Stockholder Until Exercise. This Warrant does not entitle the Holder to any voting rights, dividends or other rights as a stockholder of the Company prior to the exercise hereof as set forth in Section 1(a).

 

b)            Loss, Theft, Destruction or Mutilation of Warrant. The Company covenants that upon receipt by the Company of evidence reasonably satisfactory to it of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Warrant or any stock certificate relating to the Warrant Shares, and of the ownership hereof or thereof, and in case of loss, theft or destruction, of indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to it (which, in the case of this Warrant, shall not include the posting of any bond), and upon surrender and cancellation of such Warrant or stock certificate, if mutilated, the Company will make and deliver a new Warrant or stock certificate of like tenor and dated as of such cancellation, in lieu of such Warrant or stock certificate.

 

c)            Automatic Termination. In the event of any termination of the Merger Agreement, pursuant to the terms thereof without the Merger (as defined in the Merger Agreement) being consummated, this Warrant shall automatically become null and void and of no further force or effect.

 

d)            Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, etc. If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not be a business day, then, such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding business day.

 

e)            Authorized Shares.

 

The Company covenants that, during the period the Warrant is outstanding, it will reserve from its authorized and unissued Common Stock a sufficient number of shares to provide for the issuance of the Warrant Shares upon the exercise of any purchase rights under this Warrant. The Company further covenants that its issuance of this Warrant shall constitute full authority to its officers who are charged with the duty of executing stock certificates to execute and issue the necessary certificates for the Warrant Shares upon the due exercise of the purchase rights under this Warrant. The Company will take all such reasonable action as may be necessary to assure that such Warrant Shares may be issued as provided herein without violation of any applicable law or regulation, or of any requirements of any of the markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock of the Company is listed or quoted for trading. The Company covenants that all Warrant Shares which may be issued upon the exercise of the purchase rights represented by this Warrant will, upon exercise of the purchase rights represented by this Warrant and payment for such Warrant Shares in accordance herewith, be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free from all taxes, liens and charges created by the Company in respect of the issue thereof (other than taxes in respect of any transfer occurring contemporaneously with such issue).

 

 
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Except and to the extent as waived or consented to by the Holder, the Company shall not by any action, including, without limitation, amending its certificate of continuance or through any reorganization, transfer of assets, consolidation, merger, dissolution, issue or sale of securities or any other voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms of this Warrant, but will at all times in good faith assist in the carrying out of all such terms and in the taking of all such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to protect the rights of Holder as set forth in this Warrant against impairment. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company will (i) not increase the par value of any Warrant Shares above the amount payable therefor upon such exercise immediately prior to such increase in par value, (ii) take all such action as may be necessary or appropriate in order that the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and nonassessable Warrant Shares upon the exercise of this Warrant and (iii) use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain all such authorizations, exemptions or consents from any public regulatory body having jurisdiction thereof, as may be, necessary to enable the Company to perform its obligations under this Warrant.

 

f)             Jurisdiction. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Warrant shall be determined in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Delaware Court of Chancery or any other state or federal courts sitting in the State of Delaware for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder.

 

g)            Restrictions. The Holder acknowledges that the Warrant Shares acquired upon the exercise of this Warrant, if not registered under the Securities Act or other applicable securities laws, will have restrictions upon resale imposed by applicable securities laws.

 

h)            Nonwaiver and Expenses. No course of dealing or any delay or failure to exercise any right hereunder on the part of Holder shall operate as a waiver of such right or otherwise prejudice the Holder’s rights, powers or remedies. Without limiting any other provision of this Warrant, if the Company willfully and knowingly fails to comply with any provision of this Warrant, which results in any material damages to the Holder, the Company shall pay to the Holder such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover any costs and expenses including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees, including those of appellate proceedings, incurred by the Holder in collecting any amounts due pursuant hereto or in otherwise enforcing any of its rights, powers or remedies hereunder.

 

i)              Limitation of Liability. No provision hereof, in the absence of any affirmative action by the Holder to exercise this Warrant to purchase Warrant Shares, and no enumeration herein of the rights or privileges of the Holder, shall give rise to any liability of the Holder for the purchase price of any Common Stock or as a stockholder of the Company, whether such liability is asserted by the Company or by creditors of the Company.

 

 
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j)             Remedies. The Holder, in addition to being entitled to exercise all rights granted by law, including recovery of damages, will be entitled to specific performance of its rights under this Warrant. The Company agrees that monetary damages would not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of a breach by it of the provisions of this Warrant and hereby agrees to waive and not to assert the defense in any action for specific performance that a remedy at law would be adequate.

 

k)            Successors and Assigns. Subject to applicable securities laws, this Warrant and the rights and obligations evidenced hereby shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors and permitted assigns of the Company and the successors and permitted assigns of Holder. The provisions of this Warrant are intended to be for the benefit of any Holder from time to time of this Warrant and shall be enforceable by the Holder.

 

l)             Amendment. This Warrant may be modified or amended or the provisions hereof waived upon the written consent of the Company and the Holder.

 

m)           Severability. Wherever possible, each provision of this Warrant shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Warrant shall be prohibited by or invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity, without invalidating the remainder of such provisions or the remaining provisions of this Warrant.

 

n)            Headings. The headings used in this Warrant are for the convenience of reference only and shall not, for any purpose, be deemed a part of this Warrant.

 

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Warrant to be executed by its duly authorized officer as of the date first above indicated.

 

 

 

PLC SYSTEMS, INC.

 

By:     /s/ Mark R. Tauscher                                          

     Name: Mark R. Tauscher

     Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

 

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EX-10 6 ex10-1.htm EXHIBIT 10.1 ex10-1.htm

Exhibit 10.1

 

 

 

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER

 

 

 

 

 

 

by and among

 

 

 

 

 

Viveve, Inc.,

 

PLC Systems, Inc.

 

and

 

 PLC Systems Acquisition Corporation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 9, 2014

 

 

 
 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

  Page

ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS  

1

1.1

Certain Definitions

1

ARTICLE II MERGER  

10

2.1

The Merger

10

2.2

Effects of Merger

10

2.3

Effect on Company Capital Stock and Merger Sub Capital Stock

10

2.4

Rights of Holders of Certificates Evidencing Company Capital Stock

11

2.5

Procedure for Exchange of Company Capital Stock

11

2.6

Dissenting Shares

12

2.7

Directors and Officers of the Surviving Company

13

ARTICLE III REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY

13

3.1

Organization and Qualification

13

3.2

Authority Relative to this Agreement; Non-Contravention

13

3.3

No Conflicts

13

3.4

Capitalization

14

3.5

Government Approvals

14

3.6

Litigation

15

3.7

Brokers or Finders

15

3.8

Tax Matters

15

3.9

Affiliate Transactions

16

3.10

Financial Statements

16

3.11

Books and Records

16

3.12

No Undisclosed Liabilities

17

3.13

Material Changes

17

3.14

Compliance with Laws

17

3.15

Real Property

18

3.16

Insurance

18

3.17

Environmental Matters

18

3.18

Employee Matters

19

3.19

Intellectual Property

21

3.20

Investment Company

22

3.21

Foreign Corrupt Practices

22

3.22

Application of Takeover Provisions.

22

3.23

Information

22

3.24

Accredited Investors

23

3.25

Solvency

23

3.26

No Other Information

23

3.27

Access to Information; Disclaimer

23

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE IV REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF Parent AND MERGER SUB

23

4.1

Organization and Qualification

23

4.2

Authority Relative to this Agreement; Non-Contravention

24

4.3

No Conflicts

24

4.4

Capitalization

24

4.5

Government Approvals

25

4.6

Exchange Act Reports; Financial Statements

25

4.7

Litigation

26

4.8

Subsidiaries; Merger Sub

26

4.9

No Brokers or Finders

26

4.10

Tax Matters

26

4.11

Affiliate Transactions

27

4.12

Compliance with Laws; Permits

28

4.13

Validity of the Parent Capital Stock.

28

4.14

Books and Records

28

4.15

Real Property

28

4.16

Insurance

29

4.17

Environmental Matters

29

4.18

Employee Matters

29

4.19

Intellectual Property

31

4.20

No Undisclosed Liabilities

32

4.21

Material Changes

32

4.22

RenalGuard Spinoff.

33

4.23

Investment Company

33

4.24

Foreign Corrupt Practices

33

4.25

No Integrated Offering

33

4.26

Application of Takeover Provisions.

34

4.27

Information

34

4.28

No Other Information

34

4.29

Access to Information; Disclaimer

34

ARTICLE V CONDUCT OF BUSINESS PENDING THE MERGER  

34

5.1

Conduct of Business by Parent and Merger Sub

34

5.2

Conduct of Business by the Company

35

ARTICLE VI ADDITIONAL COVENANTS AND AGREEMENTS  

36

6.1

Reasonable Best Efforts; Governmental Filings

36

6.2

Expenses

36

6.3

Due Diligence; Access to Information; Confidentiality

36

6.4

Press Releases

37

6.5

Survival of Representations and Warranties.

37

6.6

Securities Reports

37

6.7

Company Interim Financial Statements.

37

 

 
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6.8

No Solicitation by Parent

38

6.9

No Solicitation by the Company

39

6.10

Failure to Fulfill Conditions

40

6.11

Company Stock Option Plan

40

6.12

Proxy Statement

41

6.13

Company Stockholder Approval.

42

6.14

Post-Closing Covenants of Parent

42

6.15

DTC Eligible

43

6.16

Obligations of Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation

44

ARTICLE VII CONDITIONS  

44

7.1

Conditions to Obligations of Each Party

44

7.2

Additional Conditions to Obligations of Parent and Merger Sub

44

7.3

Additional Conditions to Obligations of the Company

45

7.4

Frustration of Closing Conditions

46

ARTICLE VIII TERMINATION  

47

8.1

Termination

47

8.2

Termination Fees.

48

8.3

Expenses following Termination

49

8.4

Failure to Pay

49

ARTICLE IX GENERAL PROVISIONS  

49

9.1

Notices

49

9.2

Interpretation

50

9.3

Severability

50

9.4

Amendment

50

9.5

Waiver

50

9.6

Miscellaneous

50

9.7

Counterparts; Facsimile Signatures

51

9.8

Third Party Beneficiaries

51

9.9

Governing Law

51

9.10

Enforcement; Jurisdiction; Service of Process

51

9.11

Waiver of Jury Trial

52

9.12

Disclosure in Schedules

52

     

EXHIBIT A FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF MERGER

 

EXHIBIT B POST-MERGER PARENT CAPITAL STRUCTURE

 

 

 

 
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AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER

 

This Agreement and Plan of Merger (this “Agreement) is entered into as of May 9, 2014, by and among Viveve, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), PLC Systems, Inc., a Yukon Territory corporation (“Parent”); and PLC Systems Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”).

 

W I T N E S S E T H

 

WHEREAS, the Boards of Directors (as hereinafter defined) of the Company and Merger Sub have determined that it is in the best interests of such corporations and their respective stockholders, and the Board of Directors of Parent has determined that it is in the best interests of Parent, to consummate the merger of Merger Sub with and into the Company with the Company as the surviving corporation (the “Merger”);

 

WHEREAS, Parent, as the sole stockholder of Merger Sub, has approved the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Merger, and the Board of Directors of the Company has resolved, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, to recommend adoption of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby to its stockholders (the “Recommendation”);

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Merger, among other things, the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company shall be converted into Merger Consideration (as hereinafter defined) upon the Effective Time (as hereinafter defined);

 

WHEREAS, immediately prior to the Closing, Parent will effect the RenalGuard Spinoff (as hereinafter defined);

 

WHEREAS, immediately following the Closing (as hereinafter defined), Parent (as it will exist as of the Closing) will sell up to approximately $6,000,000 of the Parent Common Stock (as hereinafter defined) in a private placement offering (the “Private Placement”) to accredited investors pursuant to the terms of that certain securities purchase agreement, dated as of the date hereof, entered into between Parent and the other parties thereto (the “Private Placement Agreement”) for the purpose of financing the ongoing business and operations of the Surviving Company (as hereinafter defined) following the Merger; and

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the representations, warranties and covenants contained herein, the parties hereto agree to be legally bound as follows:

 

Article I
DEFINITIONS

 

As used herein, the following terms shall have the following meanings (such meaning to be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined):

 

1.1     Certain Definitions.

 

Affiliate” has the meaning as defined in Rule 12b-2 promulgated under the Exchange Act, as such regulation is in effect on the date hereof.

 

Alternative Proposal” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.8(f)(i).

 

 
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Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the entity specified.

 

Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day on which the banks in New York are authorized by Law or executive order to be closed.

 

Certificate of Merger” means the certificate of merger to be filed in the State of Delaware in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

Closing” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(c).

 

Closing Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(c).

 

COBRA” means the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended, and as codified in Section 4980B of the Code and Section 601 et. seq. of ERISA.

 

Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

Company Capital Stock” means the Company Common Stock, the Company Series A Preferred Stock and the Company Series B Preferred Stock, representing all authorized capital stock of the Company prior to the Merger.

 

Company Common Stock” means the common stock, par value $0.001, of the Company.

 

Company Convertible Note Exchange Agreement” means the Convertible Note Exchange Agreement, dated the date hereof, between the Company and GBS Venture Partners Limited.

 

Company Convertible Note Termination Agreements” means, collectively, the Convertible Note Termination Agreements, dated the date hereof, between the Company and each of the holders of outstanding convertible promissory notes of the Company.

 

Company Disclosure Schedule” means the disclosure schedules delivered by the Company to Parent and Merger Sub prior to and in connection with the execution of this Agreement.

 

Company Employee” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.18(a).

 

Company Employee Plans” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.18(a).

 

Company Financial Statements” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.10.

 

Company Interim Financial Statements” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.7.

 

Company IP” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.19(b).

 

Company IP Agreements” means all licenses, sublicenses, consent to use agreements, covenants not to sue and permissions and other Contracts, including the right to receive royalties or any other consideration, whether written or oral, relating to Intellectual Property and to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or under which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a licensor or licensee.

 

Company Latest Balance Sheet” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.12.

 

Company Options” means the stock options issued pursuant to the Company Stock Option Plan that are outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, which stock options are disclosed in Company Disclosure Schedule 3.4(a) hereto and have not prior to the Effective Date been exercised, cancelled or terminated nor expired.

 

 
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Company-Owned IP” means all Intellectual Property owned or purported to be owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

Company Returns” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.8(a).

 

Company Series A Preferred Stock” means the Series A preferred stock, par value $0.001, of the Company.

 

Company Series B Preferred Stock” means the Series B preferred stock, par value $0.001, of the Company.

 

Company Stock Option Plan” means the Company’s Amended and Restated 2006 Incentive Award Plan.

 

Company Warrant Termination Agreements” means, collectively, the Warrant Termination Agreements, dated the date hereof, between the Company and each of the holders of outstanding warrants to acquire Company Capital Stock.

 

Compensatory Plan” means (i) any employment, consulting, noncompetition, nondisclosure, nonsolicitation, severance, termination, pension, retirement, supplemental retirement, excess benefit, profit sharing, bonus, incentive, deferred compensation, retention, change in control and similar plan, program, arrangement, agreement, policy or commitment, (ii) any compensatory equity interest, stock option, restricted stock, deferred stock, performance stock, stock appreciation, stock unit or other equity or equity-based plan, program, arrangement, agreement, policy or commitment, (iii) any savings, life, health, disability, accident, medical, dental, vision, cafeteria, insurance, flex spending, adoption/dependent/employee assistance, tuition, vacation, paid-time-off, other welfare fringe benefit and other employee compensation plan, program, arrangement, agreement, policy or commitment, including any “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA and any trust, escrow, funding, insurance or other agreement related to any of the foregoing, in any case, to, under or with respect to which, Parent and/or Merger Sub has any actual or contingent obligation or liability.

 

Contracts” means any contracts, agreements, licenses, notes, bonds, mortgages, indentures, leases or other binding instruments or binding commitments, whether written or oral.

 

DGCL” means the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as amended.

 

Dissenting Shares” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.6.

 

DTC” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.15.

 

Effective Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(c).

 

Effective Time” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(c).

 

End Date” means October 31, 2014.

 

 
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Environmental Law or Laws” shall mean any and all laws, statutes, regulations, ordinances or rules of the United States, any state of the United States, any foreign country and any political subdivision thereof pertaining to the protection of the environment currently in effect and applicable to a specified Person and its Subsidiaries, including, without limitation, the Clean Air Act, as amended, the Clean Water Act, as amended, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended, the Comprehensive Environmental, Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, the Toxic Substances Control Act, as amended, the Atomic Energy Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Hazardous & Solid Waste Amendments Act of 1984, as amended, the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, as amended, the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, as amended, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, as amended, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, as amended, the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, as amended, and any state or local Laws implementing or analogous to the foregoing federal Laws.

 

ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or any successor law and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

ERISA Affiliate” means any entity which is (or at any relevant time was), with Parent and/or Merger Sub, a member of a “controlled group of corporations,” under “common control” with, or a member of an “affiliated service group,” within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code.

 

Evaluation Material” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.3(a).

 

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

Exchange Ratio” means 0.0080497.

 

GAAP” means United States generally accepted accounting principles as in effect from time to time.

 

Governmental Authority” means any supranational, national, state, municipal, local or foreign government, any instrumentality, subdivision, court, administrative agency or commission or other governmental authority, or any quasi-governmental or private body exercising any regulatory or other governmental or quasi-governmental authority.

 

Hazardous Substance” shall mean (a) any material, substance, chemical, waste, product, derivative, compound, mixture, solid, liquid, mineral or gas, in each case, whether naturally occurring or man-made, that is hazardous, acutely hazardous, toxic, or words of similar import or regulatory effect under Environmental Laws, and (b) any petroleum or petroleum-derived products, radon, radioactive materials or wastes, asbestos in any form, lead or lead-containing materials, urea formaldehyde foam insulation and polychlorinated biphenyls.

 

Intellectual Property” means all intellectual property and other similar proprietary rights in any jurisdiction worldwide, whether registered or unregistered, including such rights in and to: (a) patents (including all reissues, divisions, provisionals, continuations and continuations-in-part, re-examinations, renewals and extensions thereof), patent applications, patent disclosures or other patent rights; (b) copyrights, design, design registration, and all registrations, applications for registration, and renewals for any of the foregoing, and any “moral” rights; (c) trademarks, service marks, trade names, business names, logos, trade dress, certification marks and other indicia of commercial source or origin together with all goodwill associated with the foregoing, and all registrations, applications and renewals for any of the foregoing; (d) trade secrets and business, technical and know-how information, databases, data collections and other confidential and proprietary information and all rights therein; (e) software, including data files, source code, object code, application programming interfaces, architecture, files, records, schematics, computerized databases and other software-related specifications and documentation; and (f) Internet domain name registrations.

 

 
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Investigated Party” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.3(a).

 

Investigating Party” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.3(a).

 

IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.

 

Knowledge” means, with respect to an individual, that such individual is actually aware of a particular fact or other matter, with no obligation to conduct any inquiry or other investigation to determine the accuracy of such fact or other matter. A Person other than an individual shall be deemed to have Knowledge of a particular fact or other matter if the officers or directors of such Person had Knowledge of such fact or other matter.

 

Laws” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.14(a).

 

Lease” shall mean all leases, subleases and other agreements under which an entity or any of its Subsidiaries leases, uses or occupies, or has the right to use or occupy, any real property.

 

Leased Real Estate” shall mean all real property that an entity or any of its Subsidiaries leases, subleases or otherwise uses or occupies, or has the right to use or occupy, pursuant to a Lease.

 

Legal Proceeding” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.6.

 

Liens” means, with respect to any property or asset, all pledges, liens, mortgages, charges, encumbrances, hypothecations, options, rights of first refusal, rights of first offer and security interests of any kind or nature whatsoever.

 

Loss” means any loss, liability, claim, damage, or expense (including, but not limited to, any and all expense whatsoever reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing, or defending against any litigation, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever).

 

Material Adverse Effect” with respect to an entity, means any event, occurrence, fact, condition or change that is, or would reasonably be expected to become, individually or in the aggregate, materially adverse to (i) the business, results of operations, condition (financial or otherwise), or assets of such entity and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (ii) the ability of such entity to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby on a timely basis; provided, however, that, for the purposes of clause (i), a Material Adverse Effect shall not be deemed to include events, occurrences, facts, conditions or changes arising out of, relating to or resulting from: (a) changes generally affecting the economy, or financial or securities markets; (b) the announcement of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; (c) any outbreak or escalation of war or any act of terrorism; (d) general conditions in the industry in which such entity and its Subsidiaries operate; (e) changes after the date of this Agreement in GAAP or regulatory accounting requirements, (f) changes after the date of this Agreement in Laws of general applicability to companies in the industry in which such entity and its Subsidiaries operate; (g) failure, in and of itself, to meet earnings projections or internal financial forecasts, but not including any underlying causes thereof unless separately excluded hereunder, or changes in the trading price of such entity’s common stock, in and of itself, but not including any underlying causes unless separately excluded hereunder; or (h) actions or omissions taken with the prior written consent of the other party hereto or expressly required by this Agreement; provided further, however, that any event, change and effect referred to in clauses (a), (c), (d), (e) or (f) immediately above shall be taken into account in determining whether a Material Adverse Effect has occurred or would reasonably be expected to occur to the extent that such event, change or effect has a disproportionate effect on such entity and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, compared to other participants in the industries in which such entity and its Subsidiaries conduct their businesses.

 

 
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Merger” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Recitals of this Agreement.

 

Merger Consideration” means the shares of Parent Common Stock issuable in connection with and by virtue of the Merger to the holders of Company Capital Stock, based on the Exchange Ratio.

 

Merger Sub Common Stock” means the shares of Merger Sub common stock, par value $0.001.

 

Merger Sub Organization Documents” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.1.

 

Original Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.12(c).

 

Other Filings” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.12(a).

 

Parent Capital Stock” means the Parent Common Stock and the Parent Preferred Stock, representing all authorized capital stock of Parent prior to the Merger.

 

Parent Common Stock” means the common shares, without par or nominal value, of Parent.

 

Parent Debenture – Common Stock Conversion Agreement” means that certain Conversion Agreement, dated on or about the date hereof, by and among Parent and Alpha Capital Anstalt, Brio Capital Master Fund Ltd., and Denville & Dover Fund LLC.

 

Parent Disclosure Schedule” means the disclosure schedules delivered by Parent and Merger Sub in connection with the execution of this Agreement.

 

Parent Employee” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.18(a).

 

Parent Employee Plans” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.18(a).

 

Parent Financial Statements” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.6(b).

 

Parent Insiders” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.11.

 

Parent IP” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.19(b).

 

Parent IP Agreements” means all licenses, sublicenses, consent to use agreements, covenants not to sue and permissions and other Contracts, including the right to receive royalties or any other consideration, whether written or oral, relating to Intellectual Property and to which Parent is a party or under which Parent is a licensor or licensee.

 

Parent Latest Balance Sheet” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.20.

 

Parent Organization Documents” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.1.

 

Parent-Owned IP” means all Intellectual Property owned or purported to be owned by Parent.

 

Parent Preferred Stock” means the preferred shares, issuable in series, without par or nominal value, of Parent.

 

 
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Parent Professional Fees” means the aggregate amount of up to $500,000, which shall only include actual and documented fees, costs and expenses of Parent’s and RenalGuard Purchaser’s attorneys, accountants and other service providers incurred by Parent and RenalGuard Purchaser on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the preparation and negotiation of the Transaction Documents, the filings with the SEC related hereto and thereto and the closing of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby (including, without limitation, the Private Placement), provided that all such fees, costs and expenses are itemized on a schedule delivered by Parent to the Company in accordance with Section 6.2 below.

 

Parent Returns” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.10(a).

 

Parent SEC Filings” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.6(a).

 

Parent Shareholder” means a holder of Parent Capital Stock.

 

Parent Shareholder Meeting” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.12(b).

 

Parent Specific Liabilitiesmeans any liability or obligation of Parent with respect to or relating to the indemnification by Parent of its directors or officers in their capacities as such, Parent Capital Stock or other securities of Parent, any filings of Parent with the SEC, any public disclosures of Parent, Parent’s status as a registered issuer under the Exchange Act and any Contract to which Parent is a party with respect to any of the foregoing, including with its stock transfer agent, audit engagement and directors and officers liability insurance provider to the extent each such Contract is referenced in Parent Disclosure Schedule 1.1.

 

Parent Stock Option Plans” means Parent’s 2005 Stock Incentive Plan and the 2013 Stock Option and Incentive Plan.

 

Parent Voting Matters” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.12(b).

 

Parent Warrant-Equity Exchange Agreement” means the Warrant Exchange Agreement, dated on or about the date hereof, by and among Parent and certain warrant holders of Parent.

 

Permits” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.14(b).

 

Permitted Liens” means (a) statutory Liens for current Taxes or other governmental charges not yet due and payable or the amount or validity of which is being contested in good faith (provided appropriate reserves required pursuant to GAAP have been made in respect thereof), (b) mechanics’, carriers’, workers’, repairers’ and similar statutory Liens arising or incurred in the ordinary course of business for amounts which are not delinquent or which are being contested by appropriate proceedings (provided appropriate reserves required pursuant to GAAP have been made in respect thereof), (c) zoning, entitlement, building and other land use regulations imposed by Governmental Authorities having jurisdiction over such Person’s owned or leased real property, which are not violated by the current use and operation of such real property, (d) covenants, conditions, restrictions, easements and other similar non-monetary matters of record affecting title to such Person’s owned or leased real property, which do not materially impair the occupancy or use of such real property for the purposes for which it is currently used in connection with such Person’s businesses, (e) any right of way or easement related to public roads and highways, which do not materially impair the occupancy or use of such real property for the purposes for which it is currently used in connection with such Person’s businesses, and (f) Liens arising under workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, social security, retirement and similar legislation.

 

 
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Person” means any individual, corporation (including any non-profit corporation), general or limited partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, estate, trust, association, organization, labor union, Governmental Authority or other entity.

 

PLC Name” means collectively (i) the name “PLC,” “PLC Systems,” “RenalGuard” or any variation, derivation, abbreviation or portion thereof, in each case alone or in combination with any other words, names, logos, symbols or devices, (ii) trademarks or tradenames associated with “PLC,” “PLC Systems,” “RenalGuard” or any variation, derivation, abbreviation or portion thereof, and (iii) usernames or other similar account names and the associated social media accounts, in each case that are registered, operated or controlled by or on behalf of Parent and in existence as of the date hereof.

 

“Post-Conversion Parent Common Stock” means the Parent Common Stock into which Company Options shall be exercisable immediately after the Effective Time pursuant to the terms of the Company Stock Option Plan.

 

Private Placement” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals of this Agreement.

 

Private Placement Agreement” has the meaning set forth in Recitals of this Agreement.

 

Proxy Statement” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.12(a).

 

Recommendation” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Recitals of this Agreement.

 

Recommendation Withdrawal” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.8(c).

 

RenalGuard Business” means any and all tangible and intangible assets and operations of Parent and its Subsidiaries, including (without limitation) the assets and operations relating to Parent’s RenalGuard product.

 

RenalGuard Purchaser” means, collectively, GCP IV LLC or an Affiliate thereof.

 

RenalGuard Spinoff” means the direct or indirect sale by Parent through the sale of all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of a Subsidiary of Parent which shall hold all of the assets and liabilities (other than Parent Specific Liabilities) of the RenalGuard Business to the RenalGuard Purchaser in exchange for the cancellation by the RenalGuard Purchaser of Parent’s currently outstanding $4,744,355 of senior secured convertible debt and the cancellation of any outstanding debt financings permitted by the proviso in Section 5.1 hereof. The “RenalGuard Spinoff” shall include an internal reorganization of the RenalGuard Business, including its transfer to a single Subsidiary of Parent.   

 

RenalGuard Spinoff Transaction Documents” means, collectively, all Contracts evidencing and effecting the RenalGuard Spinoff.

 

Representatives” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.3(a).

 

Requisite Company Stockholder Vote” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.2.

 

Requisite Parent Shareholder Vote” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.2.

 

Schedule” means either the Company Disclosure Schedule or the Parent Disclosure Schedule.

 

SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

 
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Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, including the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

Solvent” with respect to any Person means that, as of any date of determination, (a) the amount of the “fair saleable value” of the assets of such Person exceeds, as of such date, the sum of (i) the value of all “liabilities of such Person, including contingent and other liabilities,” as of such date, as such quoted terms are generally determined in accordance with applicable federal Laws governing determinations of the solvency of debtors, and (ii) the amount that will be required to pay the probable liabilities of such Person on its existing debts (including contingent liabilities) as such debts become absolute and matured; and (b) such Person will not have, as of such date, an unreasonably small amount of capital for the operation of the business in which it is engaged or proposed to be engaged following such date; and (c) such Person will be able to pay its liabilities, including contingent and other liabilities, as they mature.

 

Stockholder Questionnaire” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.2(f).

 

Subject Transactions” means the Merger, the RenalGuard Spinoff, the Private Placement, the other transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, and the transactions contemplated by the Parent Debenture-Common Stock Conversion Agreement , the Parent Warrant-Equity Exchange Agreement, the Company Warrant Termination Agreements, the Company Convertible Note Termination Agreements and the Company Convertible Note Exchange Agreement.

 

Subsidiary” with respect to any Person, means (i) each corporation in which such Person owns directly or indirectly fifty percent (50%) or more of the voting securities of such corporation and (ii) any other Person in which such Person owns at least a majority voting interest, and shall, in each case, unless otherwise indicated, be deemed to refer to both direct and indirect subsidiaries of such Person.

 

Superior Proposal” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.8(f)(ii).

 

Surviving Company” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1.

 

Tax” or “Taxes” (and, with correlative meaning, “Taxable” and “Taxing”) means any federal, state, local or foreign income, gross receipts, license, payroll, employment, excise, severance, stamp, occupation, premium, property or windfall profits taxes, environmental taxes, customs duties, capital stock, franchise, employees’ income withholding, foreign or domestic withholding, social security, unemployment, disability, workers’ compensation, employment-related insurance, real property, personal property, sales, use, transfer, value added, alternative or add-on minimum or other governmental tax, fee, assessment or charge of any kind whatsoever including any interest, penalties or additions to any Tax or additional amounts in respect of the foregoing.

 

Termination Fee” shall mean an amount in cash equal to $150,000.

 

Transaction Documents” means this Agreement, the Private Placement Agreement, the Contracts effecting the RenalGuard Spinoff (when entered into) and all Contracts, certificates and instruments relating to the foregoing to be executed by any of the parties in connection or pursuant to the foregoing.

 

YBCA” means the Yukon Business Corporations Act, as amended.

 

 
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Article II
MERGER

 

2.1     The Merger. Subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Article VII, at the Effective Time, (a) Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company, and (b) the Company will remain the surviving corporation in the Merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent. The term “Surviving Company” as used herein shall mean the Company, as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent after giving effect to the Merger. The Merger will be effected pursuant to the Certificate of Merger in accordance with the provisions of, and with the effect provided in, Section 251 of the DGCL.

 

2.2     Effects of Merger.

 

(a)     From and after the Effective Time and until further amended in accordance with law, (i) the certificate of incorporation of the Company as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be the certificate of incorporation of the Surviving Company and (ii) the bylaws of the Company as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be the bylaws of the Surviving Company.

 

(b)     Parent, the Company and Merger Sub, respectively, shall each use its best efforts to take all such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the Merger in accordance with the DGCL at the Effective Time. If at any time after the Effective Time, any further action is necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this Agreement and to vest the Surviving Company with full right, title and possession to all properties, rights, privileges, immunities, powers and franchises of either the Company or Merger Sub, the officers of the Surviving Company are fully authorized in the name of Parent, the Company and Merger Sub or otherwise to take, and shall take, all such lawful and necessary action.

 

(c)     Subject to the provisions of Article VII and Article VIII hereof, the closing of the transactions contemplated hereby (the “Closing”) shall take place by electronic communication at such time and place as the Company and Parent mutually agree at the earliest practicable time after the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions in Article VII (other than those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied by actions taken at the Closing, but subject to the satisfaction or waiver of such conditions), but in no event later than ten (10) Business Days after all such conditions have been satisfied or waived, or on such other date as may be mutually agreed upon by the parties hereto (the “Closing Date”). On the Closing Date or as soon thereafter as practicable to effect the Merger, the parties hereto will cause the Certificate of Merger to be filed with the Delaware Secretary of State in accordance with the DGCL. The Merger shall be effective when the filing of the Certificate of Merger is accepted by the Delaware Secretary of State (the “Effective Time”). As used herein, the term “Effective Date” shall mean the date on which the Effective Time occurs.

 

2.3     Effect on Company Capital Stock and Merger Sub Capital Stock.

 

(a)     To effectuate the Merger, and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, at the Effective Time:

  

(i)     Each share of Company Capital Stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (other than shares cancelled and extinguished pursuant to this Section and Dissenting Shares) shall automatically be converted into and exchangeable for that number of fully paid and nonassessable shares of Parent Common Stock equal to the number of shares of Company Capital Stock multiplied by the Exchange Ratio, such that the post-Merger capital structure of Parent shall be as set forth in Exhibit B hereto (for the avoidance of doubt, each share of Company Common Stock, Company Series A Preferred Stock and Company Series B Preferred Stock shall be converted and exchanged under this Section 2.3(a)(i) in accordance with the terms of the Company’s certificate of incorporation);

 

 
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(ii)     All shares of Company Capital Stock held immediately prior to the Effective Time by the Company as treasury stock or otherwise, if any, will be cancelled and extinguished and no payment will be made with respect to those shares; and

 

(iii)     Each share of Merger Sub Common Stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time will be converted into and become one validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable share of common stock of the Surviving Company, which shall represent all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of the Surviving Company immediately following the Effective Time.

 

(b)     No fraction of a share of Parent Common Stock will be issued pursuant to Section , but in lieu thereof each holder of shares of Company Capital Stock who would otherwise be entitled to a fraction of a share of Parent Common Stock (after aggregating all fractional shares of Parent Common Stock to be received by such holder) shall receive from Parent one full share of Parent Common Stock (i.e., rounded up to the nearest whole share).

 

2.4     Rights of Holders of Certificates Evidencing Company Capital Stock. On and after the Effective Time and until surrendered for exchange, each outstanding stock certificate that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented shares of Company Capital Stock (except Dissenting Shares) shall be deemed for all purposes, to evidence ownership of and to represent the number of whole shares of Parent Common Stock into which such shares of Company Capital Stock shall have been converted pursuant to Section . The record holder of each such outstanding certificate representing shares of Company Capital Stock, shall, after the Effective Time, be entitled to vote the shares of Parent Common Stock into which such shares of Company Capital Stock shall have been converted on any matters on which the registered holders of Parent Common Stock, as of any date subsequent to the Effective Time, shall be entitled to vote. In any matters relating to such certificates of Company Capital Stock, Parent may rely conclusively upon the record of stockholders maintained by the Company containing the names and addresses of the holders of record of Company Capital Stock at the Effective Time.

 

2.5     Procedure for Exchange of Company Capital Stock.

 

(a)     After the Effective Time, holders of certificates theretofore evidencing outstanding shares of Company Capital Stock (except Dissenting Shares), upon surrender of such certificates to the corporate secretary of Parent and execution of a customary letter of transmittal prepared by Parent, shall be entitled to receive certificates representing the number of shares of Parent Common Stock into which shares of Company Capital Stock theretofore represented by the certificates so surrendered are exchangeable as provided in Section hereof. Parent shall not be obligated to deliver any such shares of Parent Common Stock to which any former holder of shares of Company Capital Stock is entitled until such holder surrenders the certificate or certificates representing such shares. Upon surrender, each certificate evidencing Company Capital Stock shall be cancelled. If there is a transfer of Company Capital Stock ownership that is not registered in the transfer records of the Company, a certificate representing the proper number of shares of Parent Common Stock may be issued to a Person other than the Person in whose name the certificate so surrendered is registered if: (i) upon presentation to the corporate secretary of Parent, such certificate shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer, (ii) the Person requesting such payment shall pay any transfer or other Taxes required by reason of the issuance of shares of Parent Common Stock to a Person other than the registered holder of such certificate or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Parent that such Tax has been paid or is not applicable, and (iii) the issuance of such Parent Common Stock shall not, in the sole discretion of Parent, violate the requirements of the Regulation D “safe harbor” of the Securities Act with respect to the Private Placement.

 

 
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(b)     All shares of Parent Common Stock issued upon the surrender for exchange of Company Capital Stock, in accordance with the above terms and conditions shall be deemed to have been issued and paid in full satisfaction of all rights pertaining to such shares of Company Capital Stock.

 

(c)     Any shares of Parent Common Stock issued in the Merger will not be transferable except (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) upon receipt by Parent of a written opinion of counsel for the holder reasonably satisfactory to Parent to the effect that the proposed transfer is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. Restrictive legends shall be placed on all certificates representing shares of Parent Common Stock, issued in the Merger, unless issued pursuant to an effective registration statement, substantially as follows:

 

NO TRANSFER, SALE, ASSIGNMENT, PLEDGE, HYPOTHECATION OR OTHER DISPOSITION OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE MADE EXCEPT (A) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, AND THE RULES AND REGULATIONS IN EFFECT THEREUNDER AND ALL APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES OR “BLUE SKY” LAWS (SUCH FEDERAL AND STATE LAWS, THE “SECURITIES LAWS”) OR (B) IF THE CORPORATION HAS BEEN FURNISHED WITH AN OPINION OF COUNSEL FOR THE HOLDER, WHICH OPINION AND COUNSEL SHALL BE REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE CORPORATION, TO THE EFFECT THAT SUCH TRANSFER, SALE, ASSIGNMENT, PLEDGE, HYPOTHECATION OR OTHER DISPOSITION IS EXEMPT FROM THE PROVISIONS OF THE SECURITIES LAWS.

 

(d)     In the event any certificate for Company Capital Stock shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, Parent shall issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, promptly following its receipt of an affidavit of that fact by the holder thereof, such shares of the Parent Common Stock, as may be required pursuant to this Agreement; provided, however, that Parent, in its discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, may require the owner of such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate to deliver a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against Parent or any other party with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed.

 

2.6     Dissenting Shares. Shares of Company Capital Stock held by stockholders of the Company who have not voted in favor of the adoption of this Agreement or consented thereto in writing and who have properly exercised and preserved appraisal rights with respect to those shares in accordance with Section 262 of the DGCL (“Dissenting Shares”) shall not be converted into or represent a right to receive shares of Parent Common Stock, pursuant to Section 2.3 above, but the holders thereof shall be entitled only to such rights as are granted by Section 262 of the DGCL. Each holder of Dissenting Shares who becomes entitled to payment for such shares pursuant to Section 262 of the DGCL shall receive payment therefor from the Surviving Company in accordance with such laws; provided, however, that if any such holder of Dissenting Shares shall have effectively withdrawn such holder’s demand for appraisal of such shares or failed to perfect or lost such holder’s right to appraisal and payment of such shares under Section 262 of the DGCL, such holder or holders (as the case may be) shall forfeit the right to appraisal of such shares and each such share shall thereupon be deemed to have been cancelled, extinguished and exchanged, as of the Effective Time, into and represent the right to receive from Parent shares of Parent Common Stock, as provided in Section 2.3 above. The Company shall provide Parent with (a) prompt written notice of any demands received by the Company for appraisal of shares of Company Capital Stock, any withdrawal of any such demand and any other demand, notice or instrument delivered to the Company prior to the Effective Time pursuant to the DGCL that relates to such demand, and (b) the opportunity to participate in all negotiations and proceedings with respect to such demands. Except with the prior written consent of Parent, the Company shall not make any payment with respect to, or settle or offer to settle, any such demands. Any payments in respect of Dissenting Shares will be deemed made by the Surviving Company, and no funds or other property will be provided by Merger Sub.

 

 
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2.7     Directors and Officers of the Surviving Company. From and after the Effective Time, the directors and officers of the Surviving Company shall be the persons who were directors and officers of the Company immediately prior to the Effective Time, respectively. These directors and officers of the Surviving Company shall hold office for the term specified in, and subject to the provisions contained in, the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the Surviving Company and applicable law.

 

Article III
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
OF THE COMPANY

 

Except as set forth in the relevant sections of the Company Disclosure Schedule, the Company hereby represents and warrants to Parent and Merger Sub as follows:

 

3.1     Organization and Qualification. The Company is, and on the Effective Date will be, a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and has the requisite corporate power to carry on its business as now conducted. The copies of the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the Company that have been made available to Parent prior to the date of this Agreement are correct and complete copies of such documents as in effect as of the date hereof, and shall be in effect on the Effective Date. The Company is, and on the Effective Date will be, licensed or qualified to do business in every jurisdiction in which the nature of its business or its ownership of property requires it to be licensed or qualified, except where the failure to be so licensed or qualified would not have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company or the Surviving Company.

 

3.2     Authority Relative to this Agreement; Non-Contravention. The execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company and, except for approval of the Merger and adoption of this Agreement by the affirmative vote of a majority of votes that holders of the outstanding shares of Company Capital Stock are entitled to cast (the “Requisite Company Stockholder Vote”), which will be obtained prior to Closing, no other corporate proceedings on the part of the Company are necessary to authorize the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming it is a valid and binding obligation of Parent and Merger Sub, constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable in accordance with its terms except as enforcement may be limited by general principles of equity whether applied in a court of law or a court of equity and by bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights and remedies, generally. Except for (a) approvals under applicable Blue Sky laws and filing of Form D with the SEC, and (b) the filing of the Certificate of Merger with the Secretary of State of Delaware, no authorization, consent or approval of, or filing with, any public body, court or authority is necessary on the part of the Company for the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except for such authorizations, consents, approvals and filings as to which the failure to obtain or make the same would not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company or the Surviving Company or adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

 
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3.3     No Conflicts. The Company is not subject to, or obligated under, any provision of (a) its certificate of incorporation or bylaws, (b) any agreement, arrangement or understanding, (c) any license, franchise or permit or (d) subject to obtaining the approvals referred to in the next sentence, any Law, regulation, order, judgment or decree, which would conflict with, be breached or violated, or in respect of which a right of termination or acceleration or any security interest, charge or encumbrance on any of its assets would be created, by the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement, or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, other than any such conflicts, breaches, violations, rights of termination or acceleration or security interests, charges or encumbrances which, in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect on the Company or the Surviving Company.

 

3.4     Capitalization.

 

(a)     As of the date hereof, the Company is authorized to issue (i) 612,000,000 shares of Company Common Stock, of which 6,555,305 shares are issued and outstanding as of the date of this Agreement; (ii) 251,543,626 shares of Company Preferred Stock, of which 24,543,626 shares are designated Company Series A Preferred Stock and 227,000,000 shares are designated Company Series B Preferred Stock, of which 23,863,302 and 171,199,348 are issued and outstanding as of the date of this Agreement, respectively. The issued and outstanding shares of Company Capital Stock are, and at the Effective Time will be, duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and not issued in violation of any preemptive rights and free from any restrictions on transfer (other than restrictions under the Securities Act or state securities laws) or any option, lien, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, restriction or charge of any kind. As of the date hereof, an aggregate of 45,146,118 shares of Company Common Stock were subject to issuance pursuant to Company Options granted under the Company Stock Option Plan. All shares of Company Common Stock subject to issuance under the Company Stock Option Plan, upon issuance in accordance with the terms and conditions specified in the instruments pursuant to which they are issuable, will be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable. As of the date hereof, an aggregate of 24,299,963 shares of Company Common Stock were subject to issuance pursuant to Warrants. All shares of Company Common Stock subject to issuance under the Warrants, upon issuance in accordance with the terms and conditions specified in the instruments pursuant to which they are issuable, will be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable. Other than as described in Company Disclosure Schedule 3.4(a), the Company has, and at the Effective Time will have, no other equity securities or securities containing any equity features authorized, issued or outstanding. Other than as described in Company Disclosure Schedule 3.4(a), there are no other commitments, agreements or other rights or arrangements existing which provide for the sale or issuance of common stock or any other securities by the Company of any kind and there are no rights, subscriptions, warrants, options, conversion rights or agreements of any kind outstanding to purchase or otherwise acquire from the Company any shares of Company Capital Stock or other securities of the Company of any kind, and, there will not be any such agreements prior to or at the Effective Date. There are, and on the Effective Date there will be, no commitments, agreements or other obligations (contingent or otherwise) which may require the Company to repurchase or otherwise acquire any shares of Company Capital Stock or other securities. Company Disclosure Schedule 3.4(a) sets forth the names of the holders of record of all issued and outstanding shares of the Company Capital Stock and their respective holdings of such securities. To the Knowledge of the Company, the stockholders providing the Requisite Company Stockholder Vote by written consent own the shares set forth opposite each such stockholder’s name on such Schedule, free and clear of any Liens other than any Liens that will be discharged at Closing or any Liens resulting from applicable securities Laws.

 

(b)     The Company does not have, and on the Effective Date, will not have, any Subsidiaries, nor does it have any direct or indirect interest in any other business entity and does not own, and is not party to any contract to acquire, any equity securities or other securities of any Person or any direct or indirect equity or ownership interest in any other Person. Except as contemplated by this Agreement and as set forth on Company Disclosure Schedule 3.4(b), the Company is not a party to, and, to the Company’s Knowledge, there do not exist any voting trusts, proxies, or other contracts with respect to the voting of shares of Company Capital Stock.

 

3.5     Government Approvals. Except for the filing of all necessary documents with the Delaware Secretary of State pursuant to the DGCL, no consent or approval of, or filing, license, permit or authorization, declaration or registration with, any Governmental Authority are necessary for the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Company, the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and the consummation by the Company of the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, except where the failure to obtain such permits, authorizations, consents or approvals or to make such filings or give such notice would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to prevent or materially impair the ability of the Company to consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement or to execute, deliver and perform its obligations pursuant hereto.

 

 
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3.6     Litigation. There are no actions, suits, proceedings, orders or investigations (a “Legal Proceeding”) pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or its officers, directors, employees or Affiliates, or the nominees for officer or director of Parent after the Effective Time, individually or in the aggregate, at law or in equity, or before or by any federal, state or other governmental department, court, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, and to the Knowledge of the Company, there is no reasonable basis for any Legal Proceeding directly or indirectly involving the Company or its officers, directors, employees, Affiliates or the nominees for officer or director of Parent after the Effective Time, individually or in the aggregate. The Company is not a party to any order, judgment or decree issued by any federal, state or other governmental department, court, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign.

 

3.7     Brokers or Finders. Other than as set forth on Company Disclosure Schedule 3.7, neither the Company nor any of its officers, directors, employees or Affiliates has employed any broker, finder, investment banker or investment advisor or Person performing similar function, or incurred any liability, for brokerage commissions, finders’ fees, investment advisory fees or similar compensation, in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

 

3.8     Tax Matters.

 

(a)     (i) The Company has timely filed (or has had timely filed on its behalf) all material returns, declarations, reports, estimates, information returns, and statements, including any schedules and amendments to such documents (“Company Returns”), required to be filed by it in respect of any Taxes; (ii) all such Company Returns are complete and accurate in all material respects; (iii) the Company has timely paid (or has had timely paid on its behalf) all Taxes required to have been paid by it (whether or not shown on any Company Return); (iv) the Company has established on the Company Latest Balance Sheet, in accordance with GAAP, reserves that are adequate for the payment of any Taxes not yet paid; and (v) the Company has complied with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations relating to the collection or withholding of Taxes from third parties (including without limitation employees) and the payment thereof (including, without limitation, withholding of Taxes under Sections 1441 and 1442 of the Code, or similar provisions under any foreign laws).

 

(b)     There are no liens for Taxes upon any assets of the Company, except statutory liens for current Taxes not yet due.

 

(c)     No deficiency for any Taxes has been asserted, assessed or proposed against the Company that has not been finally resolved. No waiver, extension or comparable consent given by the Company regarding the application of the statute of limitations with respect to any Taxes or Company Returns is outstanding, nor is any request for any such waiver or consent pending. There is no pending or threatened Tax audit or other administrative proceeding or court proceeding with regard to any Taxes or Company Returns, nor is any such Tax audit or other proceeding pending, nor has there been any notice to the Company by any Taxing authority regarding any such Tax audit or other proceeding, or, to the Knowledge of the Company, is any such Tax audit or other proceeding threatened with regard to any Taxes or Company Returns. The Company does not expect the assessment of any additional Taxes of the Company for any period prior to the date hereof and has no Knowledge of any unresolved questions, claims or disputes concerning the liability for Taxes of the Company which would exceed the estimated reserves established on its books and records.

 

 
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(d)     Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, either alone or in combination with any other event (whether contingent or otherwise) will result in any “parachute payment” under Section 280G of the Code (or any corresponding provision of state, local, or foreign Tax law).

 

(e)     There is no contract, agreement, plan or arrangement to which the Company is a party which requires the Company to pay a Tax gross-up, equalization or reimbursement payment to any Person, including without limitation, with respect to any Tax-related payments under Section 409A of the Code or Section 280G of the Code.

 

(f)     The Company is not liable for Taxes of any other Person under Treasury Regulations section 1.1502-6 or any similar provision of state, local or foreign Tax law, as a transferee or successor, by Contract or otherwise. The Company is not a party to any Tax sharing, allocation or indemnification agreement. The Company has not agreed and is not required, as a result of a change in method of accounting or otherwise, to include any adjustment under Section 481 of the Code (or any corresponding provision of state, local or foreign law) in Taxable income. The Company will not be required to include any item of income in Taxable income for any Taxable period (or portion thereof) ending after the Closing Date as a result of any (i) prepaid amount received on or prior to the Closing Date or (ii) “closing agreement” described in Section 7121 of the Code (or any similar or corresponding provision of any other Tax law). No claim has ever been made by a Taxing authority in a jurisdiction where the Company does not file a Company Return that the Company is subject to Tax imposed by that jurisdiction. There are no advance rulings in respect of any Tax pending or issued by any Taxing authority with respect to any Taxes of the Company.

 

(g)     The Company has not been a “distributing corporation” or a “controlled corporation” (within the meaning of Section 355 of the Code) in a distribution of stock qualifying for tax-free treatment under Section 355 of the Code.

 

(h)     The Company has not requested any extension of time within which to file any Company Return, which return has not since been filed.

 

3.9     Affiliate Transactions. No officer, director or employee of the Company, or any member of the immediate family of any such officer or director or employee, or any entity in which any of such persons owns any beneficial interest (collectively “Company Insiders”), has any agreement with the Company or any interest in any property, real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, used in or pertaining to the business of the Company. Except as set forth on Company Disclosure Schedule 3.9, the Company is not indebted to any Company Insider (except for reimbursement of ordinary business expenses) and no Company Insider is indebted to the Company (except for cash advances for ordinary business expenses). For purposes of this Section 3.9, the members of the immediate family of an officer, director or employee shall consist of the spouse, parents, children or siblings of such officer, director or employee.

 

3.10     Financial Statements. The Company has made available to Parent the audited balance sheets of the Company as of December 31, 2012 and December 31, 2013, and the related statements of income, changes in stockholders’ equity, and cash flows of the Company for the years then ended, audited by Burr Pilger Mayer, Inc. (the “Company Financial Statements”). The Company Financial Statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP and applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except in each case as described in the notes thereto) and on that basis present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and the results of operations, changes in stockholders’ equity, and cash flows of the Company as of the dates of and for the periods referred to in the Company Financial Statements.

 

3.11     Books and Records. The books of account, minute books, stock record books, and other records of the Company, complete copies of which have been made available to Parent, have been properly kept and contain no inaccuracies except for inaccuracies that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company. At the Closing, all of the Company’s records will be in the possession of the Company or its counsel.

 

 
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3.12     No Undisclosed Liabilities. Except as reflected on Company Disclosure Schedule 3.12 or in the audited balance sheet of the Company at December 31, 2013 (the “Company Latest Balance Sheet”), the Company has no material liabilities (whether accrued, absolute, contingent, unliquidated or otherwise, except (a) liabilities which have arisen after the date of the Company Latest Balance Sheet in the ordinary course of business, (b) liabilities arising or permitted under this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents, and (c) any debt financings permitted by the proviso in Section 5.2 hereof, which shall be exchanged for Parent Common Stock issued in the Private Placement.

 

3.13     Material Changes.  Since the date of the latest Company Financial Statements, (a) there has been no event, occurrence or development that has had or that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (b) the Company has not altered its method of accounting, (c) except as set forth in Company Disclosure Schedule 3.13, the Company has not declared or made any dividend or distribution of cash or other property to its stockholders or purchased, redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem any shares of its capital stock, (d) except as set forth in Company Disclosure Schedule 3.13, the Company has not issued any equity or equity-linked securities, (e) there has been no material change or amendment to, or termination of, any agreement material to the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (f) no executive officer or key employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has resigned or terminated his employment, and (g) no Legal Proceedings have been commenced or threatened against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

3.14     Compliance with Laws.

 

(a)     Except as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect or would not reasonably be expected to prevent or materially impair the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the business of the Company has not been, and as of the Effective Date will not be conducted in violation of any applicable United States federal, state or local, non-United States, national, provincial or multinational law, statute or ordinance, common law, or any rule, regulation, directive, treaty provision, or any applicable judgment, agency requirement, license or permit of any Governmental Authority (collectively, “Laws”). No investigation, audit or review by any Governmental Authority with respect to the Company is pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened, nor has any Governmental Authority notified the Company of its intention to conduct the same, except for (i) such investigations or reviews that would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect and/or (ii) any investigation or review related to the Merger. As of the date hereof, the Company has not received any notice or communication of any material noncompliance with any applicable Laws that has not been cured as of the date hereof.

 

(b)     The Company holds, to the extent legally required to operate its business as such businesses is being operated as of the date hereof, all permits, licenses, clearances, authorizations and approvals from federal, state, local and foreign authorities (collectively, “Permits”), except for any Permits for which the failure to obtain or hold would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. No suspension or cancellation of any Permits of the Company is pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened, except for any such suspension or cancellation which would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries is in compliance with the terms of all Permits, except where the failure to be in such compliance would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

 
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3.15     Real Property.

 

(a)     The Company does not own any real property.

 

(b)     Except as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries has a valid and subsisting leasehold estate in each parcel of real property demised under a Lease for the full term of the respective Lease free and clear of any Liens other than Permitted Liens. Company Disclosure Schedule 3.15(b) contains a complete and correct list, as of the date hereof, of the Leased Real Estate including with respect to each such Lease the date of such Lease and any material amendments thereto. Except as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, (i) all Leases are valid and in full force and effect except to the extent they have previously expired or terminated in accordance with their terms, and (ii) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, no third party, has violated any provision of, or committed or failed to perform any act which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both would constitute a default under the provisions of, any Lease. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has assigned, pledged, mortgaged, hypothecated or otherwise transferred any Lease nor has the Company or any of its Subsidiaries entered into with any other Person (other than another wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company) any sublease, license or other agreement that is material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and that relates to the use or occupancy of all or any portion of the Leased Real Estate. The Company has delivered or otherwise made available to Parent true and complete copies of all Leases (including all material modifications, amendments, supplements, waivers and side letters thereto) pursuant to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries thereof leases, subleases or licenses, as tenant, any Leased Real Estate.

 

(c)     Except as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries has good title to, or a valid and binding leasehold interest in, all the personal property owned by it, free and clear of all Liens, other than Permitted Liens.

 

3.16     Insurance. Company Disclosure Schedule 3.16 identifies all insurance policies maintained by, at the expense of or for the benefit the Company or any Subsidiary, identifies any material claims made thereunder, and includes a summary of the amounts and types of coverage and the deductibles under each such insurance policy. Each of the insurance policies identified in Company Disclosure Schedule 3.16 is in full force and effect. Except as set forth in Company Disclosure Schedule 3.16, the Company has not received any notice or other communication regarding any actual or possible (a) cancellation or invalidation of any insurance policy, (b) refusal of any coverage or rejection of any claim under any insurance policy, or (c) material adjustment in the amount of the premiums payable with respect to any insurance policy. With respect to each such insurance policy: (i) to the Knowledge of the Company, the policy is legal, valid, binding, enforceable, and in full force and effect; (ii) none of the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries nor, to the Company’s Knowledge, any other party to the policy is in breach or default (including with respect to the payment of premiums or the giving of notices), and, to the Company’s Knowledge, no event has occurred that, with notice or the lapse of time, would constitute such a breach or default, or permit termination, modification, or acceleration, under the policy; and (iii) no party to the policy has repudiated any provision thereof.

 

3.17     Environmental Matters. Except for such matters as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect:

 

(a)     The Company and its Subsidiaries are, and have been, in compliance with all Environmental Laws, which compliance includes the possession, maintenance of, compliance with, or application for, all Permits required under applicable Environmental Laws for the operation of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted.

 

 
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(b)     Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has (i) produced, processed, manufactured, generated, transported, treated, handled, used, stored, disposed of or released any Hazardous Substances, except in compliance with Environmental Laws, at any Leased Real Estate of the Company or its Subsidiaries, or (ii) exposed any employee or any third party to any Hazardous Substances under circumstances reasonably expected to give rise to any material Liability or obligation under any Environmental Law.

 

(c)     Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received written notice of and there is no Legal Proceeding pending, or to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, alleging any liability or responsibility under or non-compliance with any Environmental Law or seeking to impose any financial responsibility for any investigation, cleanup, removal, containment or any other remediation or compliance under any Environmental Law. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to any order, judgment or decree or written agreement by or with any Governmental Authority or third party imposing any material liability or obligation with respect to any of the foregoing.

 

3.18     Employee Matters.

 

(a)     Company Disclosure Schedule 3.18(a) contains an accurate and complete list, as of the date hereof, of each material plan, program, policy, agreement, collective bargaining agreement or other arrangement providing for compensation, severance, deferred compensation, performance awards, stock or stock-based awards, fringe, retirement, death, disability or medical benefits or other employee benefits or remuneration of any kind, including each employment, severance, retention, change in control or consulting plan, program arrangement or agreement, in each case whether written or unwritten or otherwise, funded or unfunded, including each “employee benefit plan,” within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA, whether or not subject to ERISA, which is or has been sponsored, maintained, contributed to, or required to be contributed to, by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries for the benefit of any current or former employee, independent contractor, consultant or director of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (each, a “Company Employee”), or with respect to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has or may have any material liability (collectively, the “Company Employee Plans”).

 

(b)     The Company has made available to Parent correct and complete copies (or, if a plan is not written, a written description) of all Company Employee Plans and amendments thereto in each case that are in effect as of the date hereof, and, to the extent applicable, (i) all related trust agreements, funding arrangements and insurance contracts now in effect or required in the future as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or otherwise, (ii) the most recent determination letter received regarding the tax-qualified status of each Company Employee Plan, (iii) the most recent financial statements for each Company Employee Plan, (iv) the Form 5500 Annual Returns/Reports for the most recent plan year for each Company Employee Plan, (v) the current summary plan description for each Company Employee Plan, and (vi) all actuarial valuation reports related to any Company Employee Plans.

 

(c)     (i) Each Company Employee Plan has been established, administered, and maintained in all material respects in accordance with its terms and in material compliance with applicable Laws, including but not limited to ERISA and the Code; (ii) all the Company Employee Plans that are intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code are so qualified and have received timely determination letters from the IRS and, as of the date hereof, no such determination letter has been revoked nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, has any such revocation been threatened, and to the Knowledge of the Company, as of the date hereof, no circumstance exists that is likely to result in the loss of such qualified status under Section 401(a) of the Code; (iii) the Company and its Subsidiaries, where applicable, have timely made all material contributions and other material payments required by and due under the terms of each Company Employee Plan and applicable Law, and all benefits accrued under any unfunded Company Employee Plan have been paid, accrued or otherwise adequately reserved to the extent required by, and in accordance with GAAP; (iv) except to the extent limited by applicable Law, each Company Employee Plan can be amended, terminated or otherwise discontinued after the Effective Time in accordance with its terms, without material liability to Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than ordinary administration expenses and in respect of accrued benefits thereunder); (v) as of the date hereof, there are no material audits, inquiries or Legal Proceedings pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened by the IRS or the U.S. Department of Labor, or any similar Governmental Authority with respect to any Company Employee Plan; (vi) as of the date hereof, there are no material Legal Proceedings pending, or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened with respect to any Company Employee Plan (in each case, other than routine claims for benefits); and (vii) to the Knowledge of the Company, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has engaged in a transaction that could subject the Company or any Subsidiary to a tax or penalty imposed by either Section 4975 of the Code or Section 502(i) of ERISA.

 

 
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(d)     No Company Employee Plan provides post-termination or retiree welfare benefits to any person for any reason, except as may be required by COBRA or other applicable Law, and neither the Company nor any Company ERISA Affiliate has any liability to provide post-termination or retiree welfare benefits to any person or ever represented, promised or contracted to any Company Employee (either individually or to Company Employees as a group) or any other person that such Company Employee(s) or other person would be provided with post-termination or retiree welfare benefits, except to the extent required by COBRA or other applicable Law.

 

(e)     No Company Employee Plan has within the three years prior to the date hereof, been the subject of an examination or audit by a Governmental Authority or is the subject of an application or filing under, or is a participant in, an amnesty, voluntary compliance, self-correction or similar program sponsored by any Governmental Authority.

 

(f)     Each Company Employee Plan that is subject to Section 409A of the Code has been operated in compliance with such section and all applicable regulatory guidance (including, without limitation, proposed regulations, notices, rulings, and final regulations).

 

(g)     Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries complies in all material respects with the applicable requirements of COBRA or any similar state statute with respect to each Company Employee Plan that is a group health plan within the meaning of Section 5000(b)(1) of the Code or such state statute.

 

(h)     Neither the execution of this Agreement, the consummation of the Merger, nor any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will (either alone or upon the occurrence of any additional or subsequent events): (i) entitle any current or former director, employee, contractor or consultant of the Company to severance pay or any other payment; (ii) accelerate the time of payment, funding, or vesting, or increase the amount of compensation due to any such individual, (iii) limit or restrict the right of the Company to merge, amend or terminate any Company Employee Plan, (iv) increase the amount payable or result in any other material obligation pursuant to any Company Employee Plan, or (v) result in “excess parachute payments” within the meaning of Section 280G(b) of the Code.

 

(i)     The Company and each of its Subsidiaries: (i) is in compliance with all applicable Laws and agreements respecting hiring, employment, termination of employment, plant closing and mass layoff, employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation and reasonable accommodation, leaves of absence, terms and conditions of employment, wages and hours of work, employee health and safety, leasing and supply of temporary and contingent staff, engagement of independent contractors, including proper classification of same, payroll taxes, and immigration with respect to Company Employees and contingent workers; and (ii) is in compliance with all applicable Laws relating to the relations between it and any labor organization, trade union, work council or other body representing Company Employees, except, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii) immediately above, where the failure to be in compliance with the foregoing would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

 
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(j)     Neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is party to, or subject to, any collective bargaining agreement or other agreement with any labor organization, work council or trade union with respect to any of its or their operations. No material work stoppage, slowdown or labor strike against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to employees who are employed within the United States is pending, threatened or has occurred in the last two (2) years, and, to the Knowledge of the Company, no material work stoppage, slowdown or labor strike against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to employees who are employed outside the United States is pending, threatened or has occurred in the last two (2) years. As of the date hereof, none of the Company Employees are represented by a labor organization, work council or trade union and, to the Knowledge of the Company, there is no organizing activity, Legal Proceeding, election petition, union card signing or other union activity or union corporate campaigns of or by any labor organization, trade union or work council directed at the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Company Employees. As of the date hereof, there are no Legal Proceedings, government investigations, or labor grievances pending, or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened relating to any employment related matter involving any Company Employee or applicant, including, but not limited to, charges of unlawful discrimination, retaliation or harassment, failure to provide reasonable accommodation, denial of a leave of absence, failure to provide compensation or benefits, unfair labor practices, or other alleged violations of Law, except for any of the foregoing which would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(k)      Neither the Company nor any Company ERISA Affiliate has at any time contributed to or had any obligation to contribute to, or has had any liability (contingent or otherwise) with respect to (i) any "multiemployer plan", as that term is defined in Section 4001 of ERISA; (ii) any "employee benefit plan" subject to Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code; or (iii) any "multiple employer welfare arrangement" within the meaning of Section 3(40) of ERISA.

 

3.19     Intellectual Property.

 

(a)     Company Disclosure Schedule 3.19(a) contains a true and complete list, as of the date hereof, of all: (i) Company-Owned IP that is the subject of any issuance, registration, certificate, application or other filing by, to or with any Governmental Authority or authorized private registrar, including registered trademarks, registered copyrights, issued patents, domain name registrations and pending applications for any of the foregoing; and (ii) material unregistered Company-Owned IP.

 

(b)     The Company and its Subsidiaries are the sole and exclusive owner of all right, title and interest in and to, or has the valid right to use all Intellectual Property used or held for use in or necessary for the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted and contemplated (the “Company IP”), free and clear of all liens, except as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(c)     The Company and its Subsidiaries’ rights in the Company-Owned IP are valid, subsisting and enforceable, except as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has taken reasonable steps to maintain the Company IP and to protect and preserve the confidentiality of all trade secrets included in the Company IP, except where the failure to take such actions would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(d)     Company Disclosure Schedule 3.19(d) contains a complete and accurate list of all Company IP Agreements, other than licenses for shrinkwrap, clickwrap or other similar commercially available off-the-shelf software that has not been modified or customized by a third party for the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. The consummation of the transactions contemplated hereunder will not result in the loss or impairment of any rights of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under any of the Company IP Agreements, except as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

 
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(e)     Except as would not be reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, (i) the conduct of the businesses of the Company and its Subsidiaries has not infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated, and is not infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating, any Intellectual Property of any other Person; and (ii) to the Knowledge of the Company and its Subsidiaries, no third party is infringing upon, violating or misappropriating any Company IP.

 

(f)     There are no Legal Proceedings pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company and its Subsidiaries, threatened: (i) alleging any infringement, misappropriation or violation of the Intellectual Property of any Person by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (ii) challenging the validity, enforceability or ownership of any Company-Owned IP or the Company or any of its Subsidiaries’ rights with respect to any Company IP, in each case except for such Legal Proceedings that would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and its Subsidiaries are not subject to any outstanding order, judgment or decree that restricts or impairs the use of any Company IP, except where compliance with such order, judgment or decree would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

3.20     Investment Company.     The Company is not, as of the date of this Agreement, nor upon the Closing will be, an “investment company,” a company controlled by an “investment company,” or an “affiliated person” of, or “promoter” or “principal underwriter” for, an “investment company,” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

3.21     Foreign Corrupt Practices. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries nor any director, officer, employee nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, agent or Affiliate of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has (a) while acting on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (i) made or agreed to make any contribution, payment, gift or entertainment to, or accepted or received any contributions, payments, gifts or entertainment from, any government official or employee, political party or agent or any candidate for any federal, state, local or foreign public office, where either the contribution, payment or gift or the purpose thereof was in violation of Law or (ii) engaged in or otherwise knowingly participated in, assisted or facilitated any transaction that is prohibited by any applicable embargo or related trade restriction imposed by the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control or any other agency of the United States government or (b) made any unlawful payment to any government official or employee or to any political party or campaign or violated any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

 

3.22     Application of Takeover Provisions. There is no control share acquisition, business combination, or other similar takeover, anti-takeover, moratorium, fair price, interested shareholder or similar provision under the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the Company or the DGCL applicable to the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Merger. The Company has never, and as of the Effective Date, will have never adopted any shareholder rights plan or similar arrangement relating to accumulations of beneficial ownership of Company Common Stock or a change in control of the Company.

 

3.23     Information. None of the information supplied or to be supplied by the Company or any Affiliate or representative of the Company for inclusion or incorporation by reference in the Proxy Statement will at the time the Proxy Statement is first mailed and at the time of the Parent Shareholders Meeting, and none of the information supplied or to be supplied by the Company or any Affiliate or representative of the Company for inclusion or incorporation by reference in any other SEC filing of Parent in connection with the transaction contemplated by this Agreement will at the time of its filing with the SEC, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

 
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3.24     Accredited Investors. To the Company’s Knowledge, no more than an aggregate of thirty-five (35) of the Company’s stockholders are not “accredited investors” within the meaning of Regulation D promulgated by the SEC under the Securities Act.

 

3.25     Solvency. As of the Effective Time, assuming satisfaction of the conditions to the Company’s obligation to consummate the Merger as set forth herein, assuming that the representations and warranties of Parent under Article IV are true and correct in all material respects, and after giving effect to all of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Private Placement and RenalGuard Spinoff, and payment of all related fees and expenses, the Surviving Company and Parent will be Solvent.

 

3.26     No Other Information. The Company acknowledges that Parent and Merger Sub make no representations or warranties as to any matter whatsoever except as expressly set forth in Article IV. The representations and warranties set forth in Article IV are made solely by Parent and Merger Sub, and no Representative of Parent or Merger Sub shall have any responsibility or liability related thereto.

 

3.27     Access to Information; Disclaimer. The Company acknowledges and agrees that it (a) has had an opportunity to discuss the business of Parent and its Subsidiaries with the management of Parent, (b) has had reasonable access to (i) the books and records of Parent and its Subsidiaries and (ii) the electronic dataroom maintained by Parent for purposes of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (c) has been afforded the opportunity to ask questions of and receive answers from officers of Parent and (d) has conducted its own independent investigation of Parent and its Subsidiaries, their respective businesses and the transactions contemplated hereby, and has not relied on any representation, warranty or other statement by any Person on behalf of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries, other than the representations and warranties of Parent expressly contained in Article IV of this Agreement and that all other representations and warranties are specifically disclaimed.

 

 

Article IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
OF Parent AND MERGER SUB

 

Except as set forth in the corresponding sections of the Parent Disclosure Schedule and Parent SEC Filings (other than any risk factors set forth therein), Parent and Merger Sub hereby represent and warrant to the Company as follows:

 

4.1     Organization and Qualification. Each of Parent and Merger Sub (a) is and on the Effective Date will be a legal entity duly organized or incorporated (as applicable), validly existing and in good standing (to the extent the relevant jurisdiction recognizes such concept of good standing) under the Laws of its respective jurisdiction of organization or incorporation (as applicable), (b) has, and on the Effective Date will have, the requisite corporate power to carry on their respective businesses as now conducted, and (c) is qualified to do business and in good standing (to the extent the relevant jurisdiction recognizes such concept of good standing) as a foreign corporation where the ownership, leasing or operation of its assets or properties or conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so organized, qualified or in good standing, would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on Parent, Merger Sub, or the Surviving Company. Parent has heretofore made available to the Company accurate and complete copies of its Articles of Continuance and By-Law No. 1, each as amended and in effect as of the date of this Agreement (the “Parent Organization Documents”) and the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of Merger Sub, each as amended to date and as currently in effect (the “Merger Sub Organization Documents”). Neither Parent nor Merger Sub is in violation of any Parent Organization Document or Merger Sub Organization Document, as the case may be.

 

 
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4.2     Authority Relative to this Agreement; Non-Contravention. Each of Parent and Merger Sub has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into this Agreement, and to carry out its obligations hereunder. The execution and delivery of this Agreement by Parent and Merger Sub, and the consummation by Parent and Merger Sub of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly authorized by the respective Boards of Directors of Parent and Merger Sub. Subject only to the adoption of this Agreement by Parent as the sole stockholder of Merger Sub and the adoption of the Parent Voting Matters by the affirmative vote of such number of votes of those who attend in person or by proxy and vote at the Parent Shareholder Meeting necessary to approve each of the Parent Voting Matters (the “Requisite Parent Shareholder Vote”), obtained prior to Closing, no further corporate proceedings on the part of Parent or Merger Sub are necessary to authorize the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or will otherwise be sought by Parent. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by Parent and Merger Sub and, assuming it is a valid and binding obligation of the Company, constitutes a valid and binding obligation of Parent and Merger Sub enforceable in accordance with its terms except as enforcement may be limited by general principles of equity whether applied in a court of law or a court of equity and by bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights and remedies generally. Except for (a) approvals under applicable Blue Sky laws and the filing of Form D with the SEC and (b) the filing of the Certificate of Merger with the Delaware Secretary of State, no authorization, consent or approval of, or filing with, any public body, court or authority is necessary on the part of Parent or Merger Sub for the consummation by Parent or Merger Sub of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except for such authorizations, consents, approvals and filings as to which the failure to obtain or make the same would not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on Parent or Merger Sub, or adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

4.3     No Conflicts. Neither Parent nor Merger Sub is subject to, or obligated under, any provision of (a) the Parent Organization Documents or the Merger Sub Organization Documents, as applicable, (b) any agreement, arrangement or understanding, (c) any license, franchise or permit, or (d) subject to obtaining the approvals referred to in the next sentence, any law, regulation, order, judgment or decree, which would conflict with, be breached or violated, or in respect of which a right of termination or acceleration or any security interest, charge or encumbrance on any of their respective assets would be created, by the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, other than any such conflicts, breaches, violations, rights of termination or acceleration or security interests, charges or encumbrances which, in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on Parent or Merger Sub.

 

4.4     Capitalization.

 

(a)     Notwithstanding any disclosures or information to the contrary in any Parent SEC Filing, Parent is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares of Parent Preferred Stock, and an unlimited number of shares of Parent Common Stock, of which no shares and 124,998,195 shares are currently issued and outstanding, respectively. The issued and outstanding shares of the share capital of Parent are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and not issued in violation of any preemptive rights or applicable law or regulation and free from any restrictions on transfer (other than restrictions under the Securities Act or state securities laws) or any option, lien, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, restriction or charge of any kind. There are, and on the Effective Date there will be, no agreements or other obligations (contingent or otherwise) which may require Parent to repurchase or otherwise acquire any shares of the Parent Capital Stock.

 

 
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(b)     Except as set forth on Parent Disclosure Schedule 4.4, (i) Parent has, and at the Effective Time will have, no other securities, including equity securities or securities containing any equity features authorized, issued or outstanding; (ii) Parent has not at any time granted any stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units, phantom stock, performance stock or other compensatory equity or equity-linked awards; and (iii) there are no commitments, obligations, agreements or other rights or arrangements (contingent or otherwise) existing which provide for the sale or issuance of capital stock by Parent and there are no rights, subscriptions, warrants, options, conversion rights or agreements of any kind (contingent or otherwise) outstanding to purchase or otherwise acquire from Parent any shares of capital stock or other securities of Parent of any kind, and there will not be any of the foregoing prior to or at the Effective Time.

 

(c)     Parent is not a party to, and, to Parent’s Knowledge, there do not exist, any voting trusts, proxies, or other contracts with respect to the voting of shares of capital stock of Parent.

 

(d)     The authorized capital of Merger Sub consists of 1,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, all of which are, and at the Effective Time will be, issued and outstanding and held of record by Parent. The issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of Merger Sub are, and at the Effective Time will be, duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and have not been issued in violation of any preemptive rights or any applicable law or regulation, and free from any restrictions on transfer (other than restrictions under the Securities Act or state securities laws) or any option, lien, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, restriction or charge of any kind. There are no rights, subscriptions, warrants, options, conversion rights or agreements of any kind outstanding to purchase or otherwise acquire from Merger Sub any shares of capital stock or other securities of Merger Sub of any kind, and there will not be any such agreements prior to or at the Effective Time. Merger Sub has not at any time granted any stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units, phantom stock, performance stock or other compensatory equity or equity-linked awards. There are, and at the Effective Time, there will be, no commitments, agreements or other obligations (contingent or otherwise) which may require Merger Sub to repurchase or otherwise acquire any shares of its capital stock.

 

4.5     Government Approvals. Except for (a) compliance with the applicable requirements of the Exchange Act, (b) the filing of all necessary documents with the Delaware Secretary of State pursuant to the DGCL and (c) the filing of all necessary documents with the Yukon Territories Registrar of Corporations, no consent or approval of, or filing, license, permit or authorization, declaration or registration with, any Governmental Authority are necessary for the execution and delivery of this Agreement by Parent or Merger Sub, the performance by Parent and Merger Sub of their respective obligations hereunder and the consummation by Parent and Merger Sub of the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, except where the failure to obtain such permits, authorizations, consents or approvals or to make such filings or give such notice would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to prevent or materially impair the ability of Parent and Merger Sub to consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement or to execute, deliver and perform its obligations pursuant hereto.

 

4.6     Exchange Act Reports; Financial Statements.

 

(a)     Since January 1, 2011, Parent has filed all reports, forms, financial statements and documents that it was required to file with the SEC pursuant to the Exchange Act (the “Parent Previous Filings”). Parent shall notify the Company as soon as practicable and in writing of the filing of any additional forms, reports or documents with the SEC by Parent after the date hereof and prior to the Effective Time (together with the Parent Previous Filings, the “Parent SEC Filings”). As of their respective filing dates (or if amended or superseded by a subsequent filing prior to the date of this Agreement, on the date of such amending or superseding filing), each of the Parent SEC Filings (i) did not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (ii) complied as to form in all material respects with the Exchange Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder, except (with respect each of clauses (i) and (ii)), to the extent that the information in any such Parent SEC Filing has been amended or superseded by a later Parent SEC Filing.

 

 
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(b)     The financial statements (including footnotes thereto) included in or incorporated by reference into the Parent SEC Filings (the “Parent Financial Statements”) complied as to form in all material respects with the Exchange Act and the applicable accounting requirements, rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder as of their respective dates and have been prepared in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except as otherwise noted therein). The Parent Financial Statements fairly present in all material respects the financial condition of Parent as of the dates thereof and results of operations, cash flows and stockholders’ equity for the periods referred to therein (subject, in the case of unaudited Parent Financial Statements, to normal recurring year-end adjustments). There has been no change in Parent accounting policies except as described in the notes to the Parent Financial Statements.

 

4.7     Litigation. There are no Legal Proceedings pending or, to the Knowledge of Parent, threatened against Parent, Merger Sub, or Parent’s officers, directors or employees, individually or in the aggregate, at law or in equity, or before or by any federal, state or other governmental department, court, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, and to the Knowledge of Parent, there is no reasonable basis for any Legal Proceeding directly or indirectly involving Parent, Merger Sub, or Parent’s officers, directors, or employees, individually or in the aggregate. Neither Parent nor Merger Sub are a party to any order, judgment or decree issued by any federal, state or other governmental department, court, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign.

 

4.8     Subsidiaries; Merger Sub. Parent owns all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of its Subsidiaries and all such shares are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and not subject to preemptive rights or encumbrances. Merger Sub was formed solely for the purpose of engaging in the transactions contemplated hereby and, except for obligations or liabilities incurred in connection with its incorporation or organization and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and except for this Agreement and any other agreements or arrangements contemplated hereby or thereby, Merger Sub has not incurred, directly or indirectly, any obligations or liabilities or engaged in any business activities of any type or kind whatsoever or entered into any agreements or arrangements with any Person.

 

4.9     No Brokers or Finders. None of Parent or any of its officers, directors, employees or Affiliates has employed any broker, finder, investment banker or investment advisor or Person performing a similar function, or incurred any liability for brokerage commissions, finders’ fees, investment advisory fees or similar compensation in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

 

4.10     Tax Matters.

 

(a)     (i) Each of Parent and Merger Sub has timely filed (or has had timely filed on its behalf) all material returns, declarations, reports, estimates, information returns, and statements, including any schedules and amendments to such documents (“Parent Returns”), required to be filed by it in respect of any Taxes; (ii) all such Parent Returns are complete and accurate in all material respects; (iii) each of Parent and Merger Sub has timely paid (or has had timely paid on its behalf) all Taxes required to have been paid by it (whether or not shown on any Parent Return); (iv) Parent has established on the Parent Latest Balance Sheet, in accordance with GAAP, reserves that are adequate for the payment of any Taxes not yet paid; and (v) each of Parent and Merger Sub has complied with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations relating to the collection or withholding of Taxes from third parties (including without limitation employees) and the payment thereof (including, without limitation, withholding of Taxes under Sections 1441 and 1442 of the Code, or similar provisions under any foreign laws).

 

 
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(b)     There are no liens for Taxes upon any assets of Parent or Merger Sub, except statutory liens for current Taxes not yet due.

 

(c)     No deficiency for any Taxes has been asserted, assessed or proposed against Parent or Merger Sub that has not been finally resolved. No waiver, extension or comparable consent given by Parent or Merger Sub regarding the application of the statute of limitations with respect to any Taxes or Parent Returns is outstanding, nor is any request for any such waiver or consent pending. There is no pending or threatened Tax audit or other administrative proceeding or court proceeding with regard to any Taxes or Parent Returns, nor is any such Tax audit or other proceeding pending, nor has there been any notice to Parent or Merger Sub by any Taxing authority regarding any such Tax audit or other proceeding, or, to the Knowledge of Parent, is any such Tax audit or other proceeding threatened with regard to any Taxes or Parent Returns. Parent does not expect the assessment of any additional Taxes of Parent or Merger Sub for any period prior to the date hereof and has no Knowledge of any unresolved questions, claims or disputes concerning the liability for Taxes of Parent which would exceed the estimated reserves established on its books and records.

 

(d)     Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, either alone or in combination with any other event (whether contingent or otherwise) will result in any “parachute payment” under Section 280G of the Code (or any corresponding provision of state, local, or foreign Tax law).

 

(e)     There is no contract, agreement, plan or arrangement to which Parent or Merger Sub is a party which requires Parent or Merger Sub to pay a Tax gross-up, equalization or reimbursement payment to any Person, including without limitation, with respect to any Tax-related payments under Section 409A of the Code or Section 280G of the Code.

 

(f)     Neither Parent nor Merger Sub is liable for Taxes of any other Person under Treasury Regulations section 1.1502-6 or any similar provision of state, local or foreign Tax law, as a transferee or successor, by Contract or otherwise. Neither Parent nor Merger Sub is a party to any Tax sharing, allocation or indemnification agreement. Neither Parent nor Merger Sub has agreed nor is required, as a result of a change in method of accounting or otherwise, to include any adjustment under Section 481 of the Code (or any corresponding provision of state, local or foreign law) in Taxable income. Neither Parent nor Merger Sub will be required to include any item of income in Taxable income for any Taxable period (or portion thereof) ending after the Closing Date as a result of any (i) prepaid amount received on or prior to the Closing Date or (ii) “closing agreement” described in Section 7121 of the Code (or any similar or corresponding provision of any other Tax law). No claim has ever been made by a Taxing authority in a jurisdiction where Parent or Merger Sub does not file a Return that Parent or Merger Sub is subject to Tax imposed by that jurisdiction. There are no advance rulings in respect of any Tax pending or issued by any Taxing authority with respect to any Taxes of Parent.

 

(g)     Neither Parent nor Merger Sub has been a “distributing corporation” or a “controlled corporation” (within the meaning of Section 355 of the Code) in a distribution of stock qualifying for tax-free treatment under Section 355 of the Code.

 

(h)     Neither Parent nor Merger Sub has requested any extension of time within which to file any Parent Return, which return has not since been filed.

 

4.11     Affiliate Transactions. No officer, director or employee of Parent, or any member of the immediate family of any such officer or director or employee, or any entity in which any of such persons owns any beneficial interest (collectively “Parent Insiders”), has any agreement with Parent or any interest in any property, real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, used in or pertaining to the business of Parent. Parent is not indebted to any Parent Insider (except for reimbursement of ordinary business expenses) and no Parent Insider is indebted to Parent (except for cash advances for ordinary business expenses). For purposes of this Section , the members of the immediate family of an officer, director or employee shall consist of the spouse, parents, children or siblings of such officer, director or employee.

 

 
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4.12     Compliance with Laws; Permits.

 

(a)     Except as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect or would not reasonably be expected to prevent or materially impair the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the businesses of Parent and Merger Sub have not been, and as of the Effective Date will not be conducted in violation of any applicable Laws. No investigation, audit or review by any Governmental Authority with respect to Parent or Merger Sub is pending or, to the Knowledge of Parent, threatened, nor has any Governmental Authority notified Parent or Merger Sub of its intention to conduct the same, except for (i) such investigations or reviews that would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect and/or (ii) any investigation or review related to the Merger. As of the date hereof, Parent and/or Merger Sub have not received any notice or communication of any material noncompliance with any applicable Laws that has not been cured as of the date hereof.

 

(b)     To the Knowledge of Parent, neither Parent nor Merger Sub has solicited, received, paid or offered to pay any remuneration, directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly, in cash or kind for the purpose of making or receiving any referral that violated an anti-corruption Law.

 

4.13     Validity of the Parent Capital Stock. The shares of Parent Common Stock to be issued to holders of Company Capital Stock, pursuant and by virtue of the Merger, will be, when issued, duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free of preemptive rights and, provided that the information set forth in each Stockholder Questionnaire is accurate in all material respects, not issued in violation of any applicable law or regulation.

 

4.14     Books and Records. The books of account, minute books, stock record books, and other records of Parent, complete copies of which have been made available to the Company, have been properly kept and contain no inaccuracies except for inaccuracies that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on Parent. At the Closing, all of Parent’s records will be in the possession of Parent or its counsel.

 

4.15     Real Property.

 

(a)     None of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries owns any real property.

 

(b)     Except as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, Parent has a valid and subsisting leasehold estate in each parcel of real property demised under a Lease for the full term of the respective Lease free and clear of any Liens other than Permitted Liens. Parent Disclosure Schedule 4.15(b) contains a complete and correct list, as of the date hereof, of the Leased Real Estate including with respect to each such Lease the date of such Lease and any material amendments thereto. Except as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, (i) all Leases are valid and in full force and effect except to the extent they have previously expired or terminated in accordance with their terms, and (ii) neither Parent nor, to the Knowledge of Parent, any third party, has violated any provision of, or committed or failed to perform any act which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both would constitute a default under the provisions of, any Lease. Parent has not assigned, pledged, mortgaged, hypothecated or otherwise transferred any Lease and Parent has not entered into with any other Person (other than another wholly-owned Subsidiary of Parent) any sublease, license or other agreement that is material to Parent, taken as a whole, and that relates to the use or occupancy of all or any portion of the Leased Real Estate. Parent has delivered or otherwise made available to Parent true and complete copies of all Leases (including all material modifications, amendments, supplements, waivers and side letters thereto) pursuant to which Parent leases, subleases or licenses, as tenant, any Leased Real Estate.

 

 
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(c)     Except as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, Parent has good title to, or a valid and binding leasehold interest in, all the personal property owned by it, free and clear of all Liens, other than Permitted Liens.

 

4.16     Insurance. Parent Disclosure Schedule 4.16 identifies all insurance policies maintained by, at the expense of or for the benefit Parent, identifies any material claims made thereunder, and includes a summary of the amounts and types of coverage and the deductibles under each such insurance policy. Each of the insurance policies identified in Parent Disclosure Schedule 4.16 is in full force and effect. Except as set forth in Parent Disclosure Schedule 4.16, Parent has not received any notice or other communication regarding any actual or possible (a) cancellation or invalidation of any insurance policy, (b) refusal of any coverage or rejection of any claim under any insurance policy, or (c) material adjustment in the amount of the premiums payable with respect to any insurance policy. With respect to each such insurance policy: (i) to the Knowledge of Parent, the policy is legal, valid, binding, enforceable, and in full force and effect; (ii) neither Parent nor, to Parent’s Knowledge, any other party to the policy is in breach or default (including with respect to the payment of premiums or the giving of notices), and, to Parent’s Knowledge, no event has occurred that, with notice or the lapse of time, would constitute such a breach or default, or permit termination, modification, or acceleration, under the policy; and (iii) no party to the policy has repudiated any provision thereof.

 

4.17     Environmental Matters. Except for such matters as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect:

 

(a)     Parent is, and has been, in compliance with all Environmental Laws, which compliance includes the possession, maintenance of, compliance with, or application for, all Permits required under applicable Environmental Laws for the operation of the business of Parent as currently conducted.

 

(b)     Parent has not (i) produced, processed, manufactured, generated, transported, treated, handled, used, stored, disposed of or released any Hazardous Substances, except in compliance with Environmental Laws, at any Leased Real Estate of Parent, or (ii) exposed any employee or any third party to any Hazardous Substances under circumstances reasonably expected to give rise to any material Liability or obligation under any Environmental Law.

 

(c)     Parent has not received written notice of and there is no Legal Proceeding pending, or to the Knowledge of Parent, threatened against Parent, alleging any liability or responsibility under or non-compliance with any Environmental Law or seeking to impose any financial responsibility for any investigation, cleanup, removal, containment or any other remediation or compliance under any Environmental Law. Parent is not subject to any order, judgment or decree or written agreement by or with any Governmental Authority or third party imposing any material liability or obligation with respect to any of the foregoing.

 

4.18     Employee Matters.

 

(a)     Parent Disclosure Schedule 4.18(a) contains an accurate and complete list, as of the date hereof, of each material plan, program, policy, agreement, collective bargaining agreement or other arrangement providing for compensation, severance, deferred compensation, performance awards, stock or stock-based awards, fringe, retirement, death, disability or medical benefits or other employee benefits or remuneration of any kind, including each employment, severance, retention, change in control or consulting plan, program arrangement or agreement, in each case whether written or unwritten or otherwise, funded or unfunded, including each “employee benefit plan,” within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA, whether or not subject to ERISA, which is or has been sponsored, maintained, contributed to, or required to be contributed to, by Parent for the benefit of any current or former employee, independent contractor, consultant or director of Parent (each, a “Parent Employee”), or with respect to which Parent has or may have any material liability (collectively, the “Parent Employee Plans”).

 

 
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(b)     Parent has made available to the Company correct and complete copies (or, if a plan is not written, a written description) of all Parent Employee Plans and amendments thereto in each case that are in effect as of the date hereof, and, to the extent applicable, (i) all related trust agreements, funding arrangements and insurance contracts now in effect or required in the future as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or otherwise, (ii) the most recent determination letter received regarding the tax-qualified status of each Parent Employee Plan, (iii) the most recent financial statements for each Parent Employee Plan, (iv) the Form 5500 Annual Returns/Reports for the most recent plan year for each Parent Employee Plan, (v) the current summary plan description for each Parent Employee Plan, and (vi) all actuarial valuation reports related to any Parent Employee Plans.

 

(c)     (i) Each Parent Employee Plan has been established, administered, and maintained in all material respects in accordance with its terms and in material compliance with applicable Laws, including but not limited to ERISA and the Code; (ii) all the Parent Employee Plans that are intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code are so qualified and have received timely determination letters from the IRS and, as of the date hereof, no such determination letter has been revoked nor, to the Knowledge of Parent, has any such revocation been threatened, and to the Knowledge of Parent, as of the date hereof, no circumstance exists that is likely to result in the loss of such qualified status under Section 401(a) of the Code; (iii) Parent has timely made all material contributions and other material payments required by and due under the terms of each Parent Employee Plan and applicable Law, and all benefits accrued under any unfunded Parent Employee Plan have been paid, accrued or otherwise adequately reserved to the extent required by, and in accordance with GAAP; (iv) except to the extent limited by applicable Law, each Parent Employee Plan can be amended, terminated or otherwise discontinued after the Effective Time in accordance with its terms, without material liability to Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than ordinary administration expenses and in respect of accrued benefits thereunder); (v) as of the date hereof, there are no material audits, inquiries or Legal Proceedings pending or, to the Knowledge of Parent, threatened by the IRS or the U.S. Department of Labor, or any similar Governmental Authority with respect to any Parent Employee Plan; (vi) as of the date hereof, there are no material Legal Proceedings pending, or, to the Knowledge of Parent, threatened with respect to any Parent Employee Plan (in each case, other than routine claims for benefits); and (vii) to the Knowledge of Parent, Parent has not engaged in a transaction that could subject Parent to a tax or penalty imposed by either Section 4975 of the Code or Section 502(i) of ERISA.

 

(d)     No Parent Employee Plan provides post-termination or retiree welfare benefits to any person for any reason, except as may be required by COBRA or other applicable Law, and neither Parent nor any Parent ERISA Affiliate has any liability to provide post-termination or retiree welfare benefits to any person or ever represented, promised or contracted to any Parent Employee (either individually or to Parent Employees as a group) or any other person that such Parent Employee(s) or other person would be provided with post-termination or retiree welfare benefits, except to the extent required by COBRA or other applicable Law.

 

(e)     No Parent Employee Plan has within the three years prior to the date hereof, been the subject of an examination or audit by a Governmental Authority or is the subject of an application or filing under, or is a participant in, an amnesty, voluntary compliance, self-correction or similar program sponsored by any Governmental Authority.

 

 
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(f)     Each Parent Employee Plan that is subject to Section 409A of the Code has been operated in compliance with such section and all applicable regulatory guidance (including, without limitation, proposed regulations, notices, rulings, and final regulations).

 

(g)     Parent complies in all material respects with the applicable requirements of COBRA or any similar state statute with respect to each Parent Employee Plan that is a group health plan within the meaning of Section 5000(b)(1) of the Code or such state statute.

 

(h)     Neither the execution of this Agreement, the consummation of the Merger, nor any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will (either alone or upon the occurrence of any additional or subsequent events): (i) entitle any current or former director, employee, contractor or consultant of Parent to severance pay or any other payment; (ii) accelerate the time of payment, funding, or vesting, or increase the amount of compensation due to any such individual, (iii) limit or restrict the right of Parent to merge, amend or terminate any Parent Employee Plan, (iv) increase the amount payable or result in any other material obligation pursuant to any Parent Employee Plan, or (v) result in “excess parachute payments” within the meaning of Section 280G(b) of the Code.

 

(i)     Parent: (i) is in compliance with all applicable Laws and agreements respecting hiring, employment, termination of employment, plant closing and mass layoff, employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation and reasonable accommodation, leaves of absence, terms and conditions of employment, wages and hours of work, employee health and safety, leasing and supply of temporary and contingent staff, engagement of independent contractors, including proper classification of same, payroll taxes, and immigration with respect to Parent Employees and contingent workers; and (ii) is in compliance with all applicable Laws relating to the relations between it and any labor organization, trade union, work council or other body representing Parent Employees, except, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii) immediately above, where the failure to be in compliance with the foregoing would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(j)     Parent is not party to, or subject to, any collective bargaining agreement or other agreement with any labor organization, work council or trade union with respect to any of its or their operations. No material work stoppage, slowdown or labor strike against Parent with respect to employees who are employed within the United States is pending, threatened or has occurred in the last two (2) years, and, to the Knowledge of Parent, no material work stoppage, slowdown or labor strike against Parent with respect to employees who are employed outside the United States is pending, threatened or has occurred in the last two (2) years. As of the date hereof, none of the Parent Employees are represented by a labor organization, work council or trade union and, to the Knowledge of Parent, there is no organizing activity, Legal Proceeding, election petition, union card signing or other union activity or union corporate campaigns of or by any labor organization, trade union or work council directed at Parent or any Parent Employees. As of the date hereof, there are no Legal Proceedings, government investigations, or labor grievances pending, or, to the Knowledge of Parent, threatened relating to any employment related matter involving any Parent Employee or applicant, including, but not limited to, charges of unlawful discrimination, retaliation or harassment, failure to provide reasonable accommodation, denial of a leave of absence, failure to provide compensation or benefits, unfair labor practices, or other alleged violations of Law, except for any of the foregoing which would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

4.19     Intellectual Property.

 

(a)     Parent Disclosure Schedule 4.19(a) contains a true and complete list, as of the date hereof, of all: (i) Parent-Owned IP that is the subject of any issuance, registration, certificate, application or other filing by, to or with any Governmental Authority or authorized private registrar, including registered trademarks, registered copyrights, issued patents, domain name registrations and pending applications for any of the foregoing; and (ii) material unregistered Parent-Owned IP.

 

 
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(b)     Parent is the sole and exclusive owner of all right, title and interest in and to, or has the valid right to use all Intellectual Property used or held for use in or necessary for the conduct of the business of Parent as currently conducted and contemplated (the “Parent IP”), free and clear of all liens, except as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(c)     Parent’s rights in the Parent-Owned IP are valid, subsisting and enforceable, except as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. Parent has taken reasonable steps to maintain Parent IP and to protect and preserve the confidentiality of all trade secrets included in Parent IP, except where the failure to take such actions would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(d)     Parent Disclosure Schedule 4.19(d) contains a complete and accurate list of all Parent IP Agreements, other than licenses for shrinkwrap, clickwrap or other similar commercially available off-the-shelf software that has not been modified or customized by a third party for Parent. The consummation of the transactions contemplated hereunder will not result in the loss or impairment of any rights of Parent under any of the Parent IP Agreements, except as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(e)     Except as would not be reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, (i) the conduct of the businesses of Parent has not infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated, and is not infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating, any Intellectual Property of any other Person; and (ii) to the Knowledge of Parent, no third party is infringing upon, violating or misappropriating any Parent IP.

 

(f)     There are no Legal Proceedings pending or, to the Knowledge of Parent, threatened: (i) alleging any infringement, misappropriation or violation of the Intellectual Property of any Person by Parent; (ii) challenging the validity, enforceability or ownership of any Parent-Owned IP or Parent’s rights with respect to any Parent IP, in each case except for such Legal Proceedings that would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. Parent is not subject to any outstanding order, judgment or decree that restricts or impairs the use of any Parent IP, except where compliance with such order, judgment or decree would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

4.20     No Undisclosed Liabilities. As of the date hereof, except as set forth in Parent Disclosure Schedule 4.20 or except as reflected in or reserved against in the audited balance sheet of Parent at December 31, 2013, for the twelve (12) months ended as on such date (the “Parent Latest Balance Sheet”), Parent has no material liabilities (whether accrued, absolute, contingent, unliquidated or otherwise) other than Parent Professional Fees in an amount not to exceed $500,000, liabilities arisen in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice since December 31, 2013 and liabilities arising or permitted under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents. Notwithstanding any disclosures or information to the contrary in any Parent SEC Filing, Parent and its Subsidiaries will have no material liabilities (whether accrued, absolute, contingent, unliquidated or otherwise) at Closing (assuming and taking into account that the consummation of the RenalGuard Spinoff has occurred) other than Parent Professional Fees in an amount not to exceed $500,000, Parent Specific Liabilities and liabilities arising or permitted under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents. Merger Sub has and at Closing will have no liabilities (whether accrued, absolute, contingent, unliquidated or otherwise).

 

4.21     Material Changes.  Since the date of the latest Parent Financial Statements, (a) there has been no event, occurrence or development that has had or that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (b) Parent has not altered its method of accounting, (c) except as set forth in Parent Disclosure Schedule 4.21, Parent has not declared or made any dividend or distribution of cash or other property to its stockholders or purchased, redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem any shares of its capital stock, and (d) except as set forth in Parent Disclosure Schedule 4.21, Parent has not issued any equity securities.

 

 
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4.22     RenalGuard Spinoff.

 

(a)     Each Contract included in the RenalGuard Spinoff Transaction Documents, as of the Closing Date, shall constitute a valid and binding obligation of the parties thereto, enforceable against such parties in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by general principles of equity whether applied in a court of law or a court of equity and by bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights and remedies generally.

 

(b)     As of the Effective Time, assuming satisfaction of the conditions to the Parent’s obligation to consummate the Merger as set forth herein, assuming that the representations and warranties of the Company under Article III are true and correct in all material respects, and after giving effect to all of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Private Placement and RenalGuard Spinoff, and payment of all related fees and expenses, the Surviving Company and Parent will be Solvent.

 

(c)     The stock purchase agreement pursuant to which the RenalGuard Spinoff will be effected shall contain substantially the following representation of the RenalGuard Purchaser thereunder:

 

“As of the closing of the RenalGuard Spinoff, (X) assuming (i) satisfaction of the conditions to RenalGuard Purchaser’s obligation to consummate the RenalGuard Spinoff as set forth herein, and (ii) that the representations and warranties of Viveve, Inc. under Article III of the PLC-Viveve merger agreement, PLC Systems, Inc. under the Article IV of the PLC-Viveve merger agreement, and PLC Systems, Inc. under this Agreement are true and correct in all material respects, and (Y) after giving effect to all of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Private Placement and the PLC-Viveve merger agreement, and payment of all related fees and expenses, the RenalGuard Purchaser will be Solvent.”

 

4.23     Investment Company.      Neither Parent nor Merger Sub is as of the date of this Agreement, nor upon the Closing will be, an “investment company,” a company controlled by an “investment company,” or an “affiliated person” of, or “promoter” or “principal underwriter” for, an “investment company,” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

4.24     Foreign Corrupt Practices. Neither Parent nor any director, officer, employee nor, to the Knowledge of Parent, agent or Affiliate of Parent has (a) while acting on behalf of Parent (i) made or agreed to make any contribution, payment, gift or entertainment to, or accepted or received any contributions, payments, gifts or entertainment from, any government official or employee, political party or agent or any candidate for any federal, state, local or foreign public office, where either the contribution, payment or gift or the purpose thereof was in violation of Law or (ii) engaged in or otherwise knowingly participated in, assisted or facilitated any transaction that is prohibited by any applicable embargo or related trade restriction imposed by the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control or any other agency of the United States government or (b) made any unlawful payment to any government official or employee or to any political party or campaign or violated any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

 

4.25     No Integrated Offering. Neither Parent nor any Affiliates of Parent, nor any Person acting on the behalf of any of the foregoing, has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to purchase any security, under circumstances that would require registration of any of the shares of Parent Common Stock issuable pursuant to this Agreement under the Securities Act or cause this offering of the Merger Consideration to be integrated with prior offerings by Parent for purposes of the Securities Act or any applicable shareholder approval requirements of any authority.

 

 
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4.26     Application of Takeover Provisions. There is no control share acquisition, business combination, or other similar takeover, anti-takeover, moratorium, fair price, interested shareholder or similar provision under the Parent Organization Documents, the Merger Sub Organization Documents, the YBCA or the DGCL applicable to the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Merger and Parent’s issuance of shares of Parent Common Stock to the stockholders of the Company. Parent has never, and as of the Effective Date, will have never adopted any shareholder rights plan or similar arrangement relating to accumulations of beneficial ownership of Parent Common Stock or a change in control of Parent.

 

4.27     Information. The Proxy Statement will not at the time it is first mailed or at the time of the Parent Shareholders Meeting, and no other SEC filing of Parent in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will at the time of its filing with the SEC, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that no representation is made by Parent with respect to information supplied by or related to or the sufficiency of disclosures related to, the Company or any Affiliate or representative of the Company. The Proxy Statement and any other SEC filing of Parent in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will comply as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act, except that no representation is made by Parent with respect to information supplied by or related to the Company or any Affiliate or representative of the Company.

 

4.28     No Other Information. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge that the Company makes no representations or warranties as to any matter whatsoever except as expressly set forth in Article III. The representations and warranties set forth in Article III are made solely by the Company, and no Representative of the Company shall have any responsibility or liability related thereto.

 

4.29     Access to Information; Disclaimer. Parent and Merger Sub each acknowledges and agrees that it (a) has had an opportunity to discuss the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries with the management of the Company, (b) has had reasonable access to (i) the books and records of the Company and its Subsidiaries and (ii) the electronic dataroom maintained by the Company for purposes of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (c) has been afforded the opportunity to ask questions of and receive answers from officers of the Company and (d) has conducted its own independent investigation of the Company and its Subsidiaries, their respective businesses and the transactions contemplated hereby, and has not relied on any representation, warranty or other statement by any Person on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, other than the representations and warranties of the Company expressly contained in Article III of this Agreement and that all other representations and warranties are specifically disclaimed.

 

Article V
CONDUCT OF BUSINESS PENDING THE MERGER

 

5.1     Conduct of Business by Parent and Merger Sub. From the date of this Agreement to the Effective Date, except as set forth in Parent Disclosure Schedule 5.1 or unless the Company shall otherwise consent (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) in writing or as may be otherwise required by applicable Law as otherwise expressly contemplated or permitted by other provisions of this Agreement, including but not limited to this Section , neither Parent nor Merger Sub shall, directly or indirectly, (a) amend the Parent Organization Documents or Merger Sub Organization Documents, as the case may be, except with respect to any actions necessary for a reverse stock split or change in the name of the Parent Common Stock, (b) split, combine or reclassify any outstanding shares of Parent Capital Stock, (c) declare, set aside, make or pay any dividend or distribution in cash, stock, property or otherwise with respect to the Parent Capital Stock, (d) default in its obligations under any material debt, contract or commitment which default results in the acceleration of obligations due thereunder, except for such defaults arising out of Parent’s entry into this Agreement for which consents, waivers or modifications are required to be obtained, (e) conduct its business other than in the ordinary course on an arms-length basis and in accordance in all material respects with all applicable laws, rules and regulations and Parent’s past custom and practice, (f) issue or sell any additional shares of, or options, warrants, conversions, privileges or rights of any kind to acquire any shares of, any of its capital stock, except in connection with (i) the exercise or conversion of Parent securities outstanding on the date of this Agreement or payment of stock dividends, or (ii) the issuance of awards under the Parent Stock Option Plans, (g) acquire (by merger, exchange, consolidation, acquisition of stock or assets or otherwise) any corporation, partnership, joint venture or other business organization or division or material assets thereof, (h) make or change any material Tax elections, settle or compromise any material Tax liability or file any amended Parent Returns, (i) adopt any Compensatory Plan or hire or materially increase the existing compensation of any employee, consultant, director or other service provider, (j) take any action that is intended or would reasonably be expected to result in any of the conditions to the Merger set forth in Article VII not being satisfied or in a violation of any provision of this Agreement, except, in every case, as may be required by applicable Law, or (k) commit or agree to take any of the actions prohibited by this Section 5.1; provided, however, that no provision in this Section 5.1 shall apply to or restrict in any way the actions of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to or in any way related to the Subject Transactions or one or more debt financings in an aggregate principal amount up to $750,000 with GCP IV LLC or any Person designated by GCP IV LLC so long as such debt is converted into or exchanged for an equity interest in the RenalGuard Business.

 

 
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 5.2     Conduct of Business by the Company. From the date of this Agreement to the Effective Date, unless Parent shall otherwise consent (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) in writing or as may be otherwise required by applicable Law or except as set forth in Company Disclosure Schedule 5.2 or otherwise expressly contemplated or permitted by other provisions of this Agreement, including but not limited to this Section , the Company shall not, directly or indirectly, (a) amend its certificate of incorporation or by-laws, (b) split, combine or reclassify any outstanding shares of Company Capital Stock, (c) declare, set aside, make or pay any dividend or distribution in cash, stock, property or otherwise with respect to the Company Capital Stock, (d) default in its obligations under any material debt, contract or commitment which default results in the acceleration of obligations due thereunder, except for such defaults arising out of its entry into this Agreement for which consents, waivers or modifications are required to be obtained, (e) conduct its business other than in the ordinary course on an arms-length basis and in accordance in all material respects with all applicable laws, rules and regulations and its past custom and practice, (f) issue or sell any additional shares of, or options, warrants, conversions, privileges or rights of any kind to acquire any shares of, any of its capital stock, except in connection with (i) the exercise of Company Options outstanding on the date of this Agreement or as contemplated by this Agreement, or (ii) the issuance of awards under the Company Stock Option Plan, (g) acquire (by merger, exchange, consolidation, acquisition of stock or assets or otherwise) any corporation, partnership, joint venture or other business organization or division or material assets thereof, (h) make or change any material Tax elections, settle or compromise any material Tax liability or file any amended Company Returns, (i) adopt any Compensatory Plan or hire or materially increase the existing compensation of any employee, consultant, director or other service provider, (j) take any action that is intended or would reasonably be expected to result in any of the conditions to the Merger set forth in Article VII not being satisfied or in a violation of any provision of this Agreement, except, in every case, as may be required by applicable Law, or (k) commit or agree to take any of the actions prohibited by this Section 5.2; provided, however, that no provision in this Section 5.2 shall apply to or restrict in any way the actions of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to or in any way related to (x) the Subject Transactions, (y) one or more debt financings in an aggregate principal amount up to $1,500,000 with 5AM Partners II, LLC and GBS Venture Partners Limited, or any Person designated by 5AM Partners II, LLC or GBS Venture Partners Limited so long as such debt is convertible into or exchangeable for Parent Common Stock issued pursuant to the Private Placement, or (z) the financing described in Company Disclosure Schedule 3.12.

 

 
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Article VI
ADDITIONAL COVENANTS AND AGREEMENTS

 

6.1     Reasonable Best Efforts; Governmental Filings. Subject to the terms and conditions herein provided, each party will use all reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable to consummate and make effective as promptly as practicable the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Each party will use all commercially reasonable efforts and will cooperate with the other party in the preparation (including by furnishing any information, including financial statements, in respect of such party and its Affiliates required to be included in such filings) and filing, as soon as practicable, of all filings, applications or other documents required under applicable laws, including, but not limited to, the Exchange Act, to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Each party will use all commercially reasonable efforts and will cooperate with the other party in taking any other actions necessary to obtain such regulatory or other approvals and consents at the earliest practicable time, including participating in any required hearings or proceedings.

 

6.2     Expenses. The Company shall pay the Parent Professional Fees at Closing. No less than five (5) Business Days prior to the Closing, Parent shall furnish to the Company a schedule setting forth in reasonable detail the fees, costs and expenses comprising the Parent Professional Fees.

 

6.3     Due Diligence; Access to Information; Confidentiality.

 

(a)     Between the date hereof and the Closing Date, each of Parent and Company (for the purposes of this Section 6.3 only, an “Investigated Party”) shall afford to the other party (the “Investigating Party”) and such Investigating Party’s authorized representatives the opportunity to conduct and complete a due diligence investigation of the Investigated Party as described herein. In light of the foregoing, the Investigated Party shall make available (together with the right to copy) to the Investigating Party and its officers, employees, attorneys, accountants and other representatives (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Representatives”), all books, papers, and records relating to the assets, stock, properties, operations, obligations and liabilities of such Investigated Party and its Subsidiaries, including, without limitation, all books of account (including, without limitation, the general ledger), Tax records, minute books of directors’ and stockholders’ meetings, organizational documents, bylaws, contracts and agreements, filings with any regulatory authority, accountants’ work papers, litigation files (including, without limitation, legal research memoranda), attorney’s audit response letters, securities transfer records and stockholder lists, and any books, papers and records (collectively referred to herein as “Evaluation Material”) and otherwise provide such assistance as is reasonably requested in order that the Investigating Party may have a full opportunity to make such investigation and evaluation as it shall reasonably desire to make of the business and affairs of the Investigated Party; provided, however, that the foregoing rights granted to the Investigating Party shall, whether or not and regardless of the extent to which the same are exercised, in no way affect the nature or scope of the representations, warranties and covenants of the Investigated Party set forth herein.

 

(b)     The Investigating Party agrees that it will not use the Evaluation Material for any purpose other than in connection with the Merger and the transactions contemplated hereunder. The Investigating Party agrees not to disclose or allow disclosure to others of any Evaluation Material, except to such party’s Affiliates or Representatives, in each case, to the extent necessary to permit such Affiliate or Investigating Party Representative to assist such party in connection with the Merger and the transactions contemplated hereunder, or as may be required by Law. The Investigating Party agrees that it will, within ten (10) days of the Investigated Party’s request, re-deliver all copies of the Investigated Party’s Evaluation Material in its possession or that of its Affiliates or Representatives if the Merger does not close as contemplated herein.

 

(c)     The parties acknowledge that, upon execution and delivery, this Agreement (but not the exhibits or schedules thereto) will be filed by Parent with the SEC under cover of Form 8-K.

 

 
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(d)     Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, if prior to Closing, for any reason, the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are not consummated, neither the Investigating Party nor any of the Investigating Party’s Representatives shall disclose to third parties or otherwise use any Evaluation Material or other confidential information received from the Investigated Party in the course of investigating, negotiating, and performing the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; provided, however, that nothing shall be deemed to be confidential information which:

 

(i)     is or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of an act or omission by the Investigating Party, its Affiliates or Representatives in breach of this Agreement;

 

(ii)     was available to the Investigating Party on a non-confidential basis prior to its disclosure;

 

(iii)     becomes available to the Investigating Party on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the Investigated Party or its agents, advisors or Representatives;

 

(iv)     was developed by the Investigating Party independently of any disclosure by the Investigated Party; or

 

(v)     is disclosed in compliance with Section .

 

Nothing in this Section 6.3 shall prohibit the disclosure of information required to be made under federal or state securities laws. If any disclosure is so required, the Investigating Party shall consult with the Investigated Party prior to making such disclosure, and the parties shall use all reasonable efforts, acting in good faith, to agree upon a text for such disclosure which is satisfactory to both parties.

 

6.4     Press Releases. The Company and Parent shall agree with each other as to the form and substance of any press release or public announcement related to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall prohibit either party, following notification to the other party, from making any disclosure which is required by law or regulation. If any such press release or public announcement is so required, the party making such disclosure shall consult with the other party prior to making such disclosure, and the parties shall use all reasonable efforts, acting in good faith, to agree upon a text for such disclosure which is satisfactory to both parties.

 

6.5     Survival of Representations and Warranties. The respective representations, warranties, obligations, covenants, and agreements of the parties shall not survive the Effective Time, except for this Section 6.5, Section 6.14, Section 9.8 and those other covenants and agreements that by their terms are to be performed in whole or in part after the Effective Time.

 

6.6     Securities Reports. Prior to the Closing, Parent will have filed with the SEC all reports, forms, financial statements and other documents required to be filed under the Exchange Act that were or are due to be filed at any time prior to or on the Closing Date, including, without limitation, those delinquent filings set forth on Parent Disclosure Schedule 4.6(a). Parent agrees to provide to the Company copies of all reports and other documents filed under the Securities Act or Exchange Act with the SEC by it between the date hereof and the Effective Date, to the extent such reports and other documentation are not publicly available on EDGAR, prior to filing with the SEC.

 

6.7     Company Interim Financial Statements. Prior to Closing, the Company will have furnished to Parent unaudited interim financial statements for each interim period completed prior to Closing that would be required to be included in a periodic report due prior to the Closing if the Company were subject to the periodic reporting requirements under the Exchange Act (the “Company Interim Financial Statements”). The Company Interim Financial Statements will be prepared in accordance with GAAP and applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except in each case as described in the notes thereto) and on that basis will present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and the results of operations, changes in stockholders’ equity, and cash flows of the Company as of the dates of and for the periods referred to in the Company Interim Financial Statements.

 

 
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6.8     No Solicitation by Parent.

 

(a)     Subject to Section 6.8(b), from the date of this Agreement until the Effective Time or, if earlier, the termination of this Agreement in accordance with Article VIII, none of Parent or Parent’s Subsidiaries shall, and Parent shall use reasonable best efforts to cause its respective Representatives not to, directly or indirectly, (A) initiate, solicit or knowingly encourage the submission of any inquiries, proposals or offers that constitute any Alternative Proposal or engage in any discussions or negotiations with respect thereto or otherwise cooperate with or assist or participate in any such inquiries, proposals, discussions or negotiations, or (B) approve or recommend, or publicly propose to approve or recommend, an Alternative Proposal or enter into any merger agreement, letter of intent, agreement in principle, share purchase agreement, asset purchase agreement or share exchange agreement, option agreement or other similar agreement providing for or relating to an Alternative Proposal or enter into any agreement or agreement in principle requiring Parent to abandon, terminate or fail to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby or breach its obligations hereunder or propose or agree to do any of the foregoing. Subject to Section 6.8(b), Parent shall immediately cease and cause to be terminated any solicitation, encouragement, discussion or negotiation with any Persons conducted theretofore by Parent, its Subsidiaries or any Representatives with respect to any Alternative Proposal.

 

(b)      Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section 6.8(a), if at any time following the date of this Agreement and prior to obtaining the Requisite Parent Shareholder Vote, (i) Parent has not knowingly breached any material provision of Section 6.8 and Parent has received a written Alternative Proposal from a third party which did not result from a breach of Section 6.8(a) and (ii) the Board of Directors of Parent determines in good faith, after consultation with its outside counsel, that such Alternative Proposal constitutes or could reasonably be expected to lead to a Superior Proposal, then Parent may (A) furnish information with respect to Parent and its Subsidiaries to the Person making such Alternative Proposal and (B) participate in discussions or negotiations with the Person making such Alternative Proposal regarding such Alternative Proposal; provided, that Parent will not, and will use reasonable best efforts not to allow Parent Representatives to, disclose any non-public information to such Person without entering into a confidentiality agreement on terms which are consistent with the confidentiality agreement between Parent and the Company effective as of October 2, 2013. From and after the date of this Agreement, Parent shall promptly (within 48 hours) notify the Company in the event it receives (i) an Alternative Proposal or written indication by any Person that it is considering making an Alternative Proposal, (ii) any request for non-public information relating to Parent or any of its Subsidiaries, other than requests for information in the ordinary course of business or unrelated to an Alternative Proposal or (iii) any inquiry or request for discussions or negotiations regarding any Alternative Proposal, and shall include in such notice the material terms and conditions thereof and the identity of the party making such proposal or inquiry, and shall keep the Company reasonably apprised as to the status and any material developments, discussions and negotiations concerning the same. Without limiting the foregoing, Parent shall promptly (within 48 hours) notify the Company orally and in writing if it determines to provide non-public information or to engage in discussions or negotiations concerning an Alternative Proposal pursuant to this Section 6.8(b) after the date of this Agreement.

 

(c)     The Board of Directors of Parent shall not directly or indirectly withdraw or modify the Recommendation in a manner adverse to the Company, or publicly propose to do so; provided, that if at any time prior to obtaining the Requisite Parent Shareholder Vote, Parent receives an Alternative Proposal which the Board of Directors of Parent determines in good faith constitutes a Superior Proposal, then the Board of Directors of Parent may withdraw or modify its Recommendation in a manner adverse to the Company, including by failing to include the Recommendation in the Proxy Statement (“Recommendation Withdrawal”) if such Board of Directors determines in good faith (after consultation with outside counsel) that failure to take such action likely would be inconsistent with its fiduciary duties under applicable Law. In order for the Board of Directors of Parent to make the determination that an Alternative Proposal constitutes a Superior Proposal, Parent shall be required to provide the Company with prior written notice, at least 48 hours in advance (or, in the event of a material modification of an Alternative Proposal with respect to which prior written notice of such intention to determine has previously been provided, the period shall be 24 hours in advance) of its intention to determine that such Alternative Proposal constitutes a Superior Proposal.

 

 
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(d)     Nothing contained in this 6.8 or elsewhere in this Agreement shall prohibit Parent from (i) taking and disclosing to its shareholders a position contemplated by Rule 14d-9 and 14e-2(a) promulgated under the Exchange Act or (ii) making any disclosure to Parent’s shareholders or taking any position with respect to the Merger if, in the good faith judgment of Parent’s Board of Directors, after consultation with its outside counsel, failure to so take and/or disclose likely would be inconsistent with its fiduciary duties under applicable Law or necessary to comply with obligations under federal securities Laws; provided, any such disclosure made pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) (other than a “stop, look and listen” letter or similar communication of the type contemplated by Rule 14d-9(f) under the Exchange Act) shall be deemed to be a Recommendation Withdrawal unless the Board of Directors of Parent expressly reaffirms in such disclosure the Recommendation.

 

(e)     Parent shall in no event be deemed to violate this Section 6.8 as a result of responding to any unsolicited proposal or inquiry solely by advising the Person making such proposal or inquiry of the terms of this Section 6.8.

 

(f)     As used in this Agreement, the term:

 

(i)     Alternative Proposal” shall mean any inquiry, proposal or offer from any Person or group of Persons other than the Company or its Affiliates for (i) a merger, reorganization, consolidation, share exchange, business combination, recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution or similar transaction involving an acquisition of Parent (or any Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of Parent whose business constitutes 20% or more of the net revenues, net income or assets of Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole) or (ii) the acquisition in any manner, directly or indirectly, of over 20% of the equity securities or consolidated total assets of Parent and its Subsidiaries, in each case other than the Merger.

 

(ii)     Superior Proposal” shall mean any Alternative Proposal (except the references therein to “20%” shall be replaced by “50%”) on terms which the Board of Directors of Parent determines in good faith, after consultation with Parent’s outside legal counsel, to be more favorable to the shareholders of Parent than the transactions contemplated hereby or the terms of any other proposal made by the Company after the Company’s receipt of such Alternative Proposal.

 

6.9     No Solicitation by the Company. Unless and until this Agreement shall have been terminated pursuant to Section and except as related to negotiations between Parent and the Company with respect to the Subject Transactions, neither Company nor its officers, directors or agents shall, directly or indirectly, encourage, solicit or initiate discussions or negotiations with, or engage in negotiations or discussions with, or provide non-public information to, any Person concerning (i) a merger, reorganization, consolidation, share exchange, business combination, recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution or similar transaction involving an acquisition of the Company or (ii) the acquisition in any manner, directly or indirectly, of any equity securities or consolidated total assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in each case other than the Merger. The Company will promptly notify Parent if it receives a proposal or inquiry with respect to the matters described above.

 

 
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6.10     Failure to Fulfill Conditions. At or prior to the Effective Time, each party shall give prompt notice to the other party of any fact, event or circumstance to the Knowledge of such party that would cause, or reasonably be expected to cause, the failure of any condition precedent to its obligations specified in Article VII to be satisfied so as to permit the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby prior to the End Date.

 

6.11     Company Stock Option Plan   

 

(a)     At the Effective Time, subject to Section 6.12(b), Parent shall assume all of the Company’s rights and obligations under the Company Options and the Company Stock Option Plan. Subject to Section 6.12(b), the Company Options shall be assumed in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Company Stock Option Plan and on the same terms and conditions as were applicable under the Company Stock Option Plan immediately prior to the Effective Time, except that, from and after the Effective Time: (i) all actions to be taken under the Company Stock Option Plan or the Company Options by the Company’s Board of Directors (or a committee thereof) shall be taken by the Board of Directors of Parent (or a committee thereof), (ii) each Company Option shall evidence the right to purchase a number of shares of Post-Conversion Parent Common Stock (rounded down to the nearest whole share) equal to the number of shares of Company Capital Stock into which such Company Options are exercisable immediately prior to the Effective Time multiplied by the applicable Exchange Ratio, (iii) the new option price for each share of Post-Conversion Parent Common Stock issuable upon exercise of a Company Option shall be determined by dividing the option exercise price immediately prior to the Effective Time by the applicable Exchange Ratio (rounded up to the nearest cent), and (iv) all references in the Company Options and the Company Stock Option Plan to the Company and Company Capital Stock shall be deemed to be references to Parent and Post-Conversion Parent Common Stock, respectively, after giving effect to the adjustments pursuant to clauses (ii) and (iii) above. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the exercise price and the number of shares of Post-Conversion Parent Common Stock subject to each Company Option shall be determined in a manner consistent with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code to the extent applicable; and provided, further, that in the case of any Company Option to which Section 422 of the Code applies, the option exercise price, the number of shares subject to such Option and the terms and conditions of exercise of such Company Option shall be determined in accordance with the foregoing, subject to such adjustments as are necessary in order to satisfy the requirements of Section 424(a) of the Code. Any restriction on the exercise of any Company Option assumed by Parent shall continue in full force and effect and the term, exercisability and other provisions of such Company Option shall otherwise remain unchanged as a result of the assumption of such Company Option.

 

(b)     Subject to Section 6.12(b), Parent shall reserve for issuance a sufficient number of shares of Post-Conversion Parent Common Stock for delivery upon exercise of the Company Options assumed by Parent. Within sixty (60) days following the Effective Time, Parent shall file a registration statement on Form S-8 (or any successor form) with respect to the shares of Post-Conversion Parent Common Stock subject to such Company Options held by persons who become employees or consultants of the Surviving Company and shall use its reasonable best efforts to maintain the effectiveness of such registration statement or registration statements (and maintain the current status of the prospectus or prospectuses contained therein) for so long as such Company Options remain outstanding.

 

(c)     Parent shall amend its 2013 Stock Option and Incentive Plan providing for an aggregate grant of awards to qualified participants of not more than 3,111,587 shares of Parent Common Stock (which shall include the Company Options that will be assumed by Parent in accordance with this Section 6.11), calculated as of the Closing.

 

 
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6.12     Proxy Statement.

 

(a)     As promptly as reasonably practicable following the date of this Agreement, Parent shall prepare and file with the SEC a proxy statement in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Proxy Statement”), and each of the Company and Parent shall, or shall cause their respective Affiliates to, prepare and file with the SEC all other documents to be filed by Parent with the SEC in connection with the Merger and other transactions contemplated hereby (the “Other Filings”) as required by the Exchange Act, and Parent and the Company shall cooperate with each other in connection with the preparation of the Proxy Statement and any Other Filings. Parent will use its reasonable best efforts to have the Proxy Statement cleared by the staff of the SEC as promptly as reasonably practicable after such filing. Parent will use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Proxy Statement to be mailed to Parent’s shareholders as promptly as reasonably practicable after the Proxy Statement is cleared by the staff of the SEC. Each party shall as promptly as reasonably practicable notify the other party of the receipt of any oral or written comments from the staff of the SEC on the Proxy Statement or any Other Filing. Each party shall cooperate and provide the other party with a reasonable opportunity to review and comment on, (i) the draft of the Proxy Statement (including each amendment or supplement thereto) and any Other Filings and (ii) all written responses to requests for additional information by and replies to written comments of the staff of the SEC, prior to filing of the Proxy Statement or any Other Filing with or sending such to the SEC, and each party will provide the other party with copies of all such filings made and correspondence with the SEC or its staff with respect thereto. If at any time prior to the Effective Time, any information should be discovered by any party hereto which should be set forth in an amendment or supplement to the Proxy Statement or any Other Filing so that the Proxy Statement or any Other Filing would not include any misstatement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, the party which discovers such information shall promptly notify the other parties hereto and, to the extent required by applicable Law, an appropriate amendment or supplement describing such information shall be promptly filed by the Company with the SEC and, in the case of the Proxy Statement, disseminated by the Company to the shareholders of the Company.

 

(b)     Subject to Section 6.12(c), Parent shall (X) take all action necessary in accordance with the YBCA and the Parent Organization Documents to set the record date for determining the Parent Shareholders entitled to attend a meeting of the Parent Shareholders, and duly call, give notice of, convene and hold a meeting of its shareholders as promptly as reasonably practicable following the clearance of the Proxy Statement by the SEC for the purpose of obtaining the Requisite Parent Shareholder Vote (such meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, the “Parent Shareholder Meeting”) to approve (a) the principal terms of the Merger and the adoption of this Agreement, (b) the principal terms of the RenalGuard Spinoff, (c) the authorization and adoption of an amendment to Parent’s 2013 Stock Option and Incentive Plan to increase the number of awards issuable thereunder, (d) a reverse stock split of the Parent Common Stock, (e) the election of new directors of Parent, (f) a change in Parent’s name to Viveve Medical, Inc., the other proposals submitted to the vote of the Parent Shareholders in the Proxy Statement (collectively, the “Parent Voting Matters”), and (Y) subject to the Board of Directors of Parent’s withdrawal or modification of its Recommendation in accordance with Section 6.8, use reasonable best efforts to solicit from its shareholders proxies in favor of the adoption and approval of this Agreement, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby and include its Recommendation in the Proxy Statement.

 

(c)     Notwithstanding Section 6.12(a) or (b), if on a date for which the Parent Shareholder Meeting is scheduled (the “Original Date”), Parent has not received proxies representing a sufficient number of shares of Parent Common Stock to obtain the Requisite Parent Shareholder Vote, whether or not a quorum is present, Parent shall have the right to postpone or adjourn the Parent Shareholders Meeting to a date which shall not be more than 45 days after the Original Date. If Parent continues not to receive proxies representing a sufficient number of shares of Parent Common Stock to obtain the Requisite Parent Shareholder Vote, whether or not a quorum is present, the Parent may make one or more successive postponements or adjournments of the Parent Shareholder Meeting as long as the date of the Parent Shareholder Meeting is not postponed or adjourned more than an aggregate of 45 days from the Original Date in reliance on this subsection. In the event that the Parent Shareholder Meeting is adjourned or postponed as a result of applicable Law, including the need to supplement the Proxy Statement, any days resulting from such adjournment or postponement shall not be included for purposes of the calculations of numbers of days pursuant to this Section 6.12.

 

 
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6.13     Company Stockholder Approval.

 

(a)     On or prior to the date hereof, the Board of Directors of the Company shall submit this Agreement for adoption by the stockholders of the Company by written consent and recommend that the stockholders of the Company adopt this Agreement. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the Requisite Company Stockholder Vote, which shall be irrevocable, as soon as possible following the date hereof in compliance with the requirements under the applicable Laws.

 

(b)     After the Requisite Company Stockholder Vote has been obtained, the Company shall send, pursuant to Sections 228 and 262(d) of the DGCL, a written notice to all stockholders of the Company that did not execute the written consent under which the Requisite Company Stockholder Vote was obtained, informing them that this Agreement was adopted and that appraisal rights are available for their Company Capital Stock pursuant to Section 262 of the DGCL (which notice shall include a copy of such Section 262).

 

6.14     Post-Closing Covenants of Parent. Parent hereby agrees and covenants as to the following, from and after the Closing:

 

(a)     Indemnification and Insurance.

 

(i)     The Company agrees that all rights to exculpation, indemnification and advancement of expenses for acts or omissions occurring at or prior to the Effective Time, whether asserted or claimed prior to, at or after the Effective Time, now existing in favor of the current or former directors, officers or employees, as the case may be, of Parent or its Subsidiaries as provided in their respective certificates of incorporation or by-laws or other organization documents or in any agreement shall survive the Merger and shall continue in full force and effect. Parent and the Surviving Corporation shall maintain in effect any and all exculpation, indemnification and advancement of expenses provisions of Parent’s and any of its Subsidiaries’ articles of incorporation and by-laws or similar organization documents in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time or in any indemnification agreements of Parent or its Subsidiaries with any of their respective current or former directors, officers or employees in effect as of the date hereof, and shall not for a period of six (6) years from the Closing Date amend, repeal or otherwise modify any such provisions in any manner that would adversely affect the rights thereunder of any individuals who at the Effective Time were current or former directors, officers or employees of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries and all rights to indemnification in respect of any Action pending or asserted or any claim made within such period shall continue until the disposition of such Action or resolution of such claim.

 

(ii)     From and after the Effective Time, each of Parent and the Surviving Corporation shall jointly and severally, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable Law, indemnify and hold harmless (and advance funds in respect of each of the foregoing) each current and former director, officer or employee of the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries (each, together with such person’s heirs, executors or administrators, an “Indemnified Party”) against any costs or expenses (including advancing reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses in advance of the final disposition of any claim, suit, proceeding or investigation to each Indemnified Party to the fullest extent permitted by Law), judgments, fines, losses, claims, damages, liabilities and amounts paid in settlement in connection with any actual or threatened claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (an “Action”), arising out of, relating to or in connection with any action or omission occurring or alleged to have occurred whether before or after the Effective Time (including in connection with such Indemnified Party serving as an officer, director, employee or other fiduciary of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or any entity if such service was at the request or for the benefit of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries).

 

 
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(iii)     Prior to the Effective Time, Parent shall purchase, and, following the Effective Time, Parent shall maintain with reputable and financially sound carriers, fully pre-paid six-year “tail” policies to the current directors’ and officers’ liability insurance and fiduciaries liability insurance policies maintained as of the date hereof by Parent (the “Current Policies”), which tail policies shall cover a period from the Effective Time through and including the date six years after the Closing Date with respect to claims arising from facts or events that existed or occurred prior to or at the Effective Time, and which tail policies shall contain at least the same coverage (including the scope and amount thereof) as, and contain terms and conditions that are equivalent to, the coverage set forth in the Current Policies.

 

(iv)     The rights of each Indemnified Party hereunder shall be in addition to, and not in limitation of, any other rights such Indemnified Party may have under the articles of incorporation or bylaws or other organization documents of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries, any other indemnification agreement or arrangement, the YBCA or otherwise. The provisions of this Section 6.14(a) shall survive the consummation of the Merger and, notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement that may be to the contrary, expressly are intended to benefit, and are enforceable by, each of the Indemnified Parties.

 

(v)     In the event Parent, the Surviving Corporation or any of their respective successors or assigns (i) consolidates with or merges into any other person and shall not be the continuing or surviving corporation or entity in such consolidation or merger or (ii) transfers all or substantially all of its properties and assets to any person, then, and in either such case, proper provision shall be made so that the successors and assigns of Parent or the Surviving Corporation, as the case may be, shall assume the obligations set forth in this Section 6.14(a). The agreements and covenants contained herein shall not be deemed to be exclusive of any other rights to which any Indemnified Party is entitled, whether pursuant to Law, contract or otherwise. Nothing in this Agreement is intended to, shall be construed to or shall release, waive or impair any rights to directors’ and officers’ insurance claims under any policy that is or has been in existence with respect to Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or their respective officers, directors and employees, it being understood and agreed that the indemnification provided for in this Section 6.14(a) is not prior to, or in substitution for, any such claims under any such policies.

 

(b)     Use of PLC Name. Parent shall, and shall cause the Surviving Corporation and any of Parent’s Subsidiaries to, not use the PLC Name or any confusingly similar names, marks, words, logos, symbols or devices related to the PLC Name.

 

(c)     Registered Public Offering. Within no more than 365 days after the Closing, Parent shall engage a registered broker-dealer to facilitate, and use its reasonable best efforts to consummate, a registered public offering of its shares of Common Stock on Form S-1 resulting in aggregate proceeds to Parent of approximately $8,000,000 to $10,000,000.

 

(d)     Appointment of Officers. From and after the Effective Time, the directors of Parent shall appoint as the officers of Parent the persons who were officers of the Company immediately prior to the Effective Time.

 

6.15     DTC Eligible. Parent shall make commercially reasonable efforts such that the shares of Parent Common Stock are at time of the Closing Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) eligible or electronically transferable through DTC or DTC’s FAST program.

 

 
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6.16      Obligations of Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation. Parent shall take all action necessary to cause Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to perform their respective obligations under this Agreement.

 

Article VII
CONDITIONS

 

7.1     Conditions to Obligations of Each Party. The respective obligations of each party to effect the transactions contemplated hereby in accordance with the terms of this Agreement are subject to the fulfillment or waiver at or prior to the Effective Date of the following conditions:

 

(a)     Governmental Action. No Governmental Authority of competent jurisdiction shall have enacted, issued, promulgated, enforced or entered any Law (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that is in effect and restrains, enjoins or otherwise prohibits consummation of the Merger or the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

 

(b)     Stockholder Approvals. This Agreement and the Parent Voting Matters shall have been approved by the Requisite Parent Shareholder Vote.

 

7.2     Additional Conditions to Obligations of Parent and Merger Sub. The obligations of Parent and Merger Sub to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby in accordance with the terms of this Agreement are also subject to the fulfillment or waiver at or prior to the Effective Date of the following conditions:

 

(a)     Representations and Compliance. The representations of the Company contained in this Agreement were true and correct as of the date of this Agreement and are true and correct as of the Closing Date (except for representations and warranties made as of a specific date, which shall be true and correct as of such date), in all respects (in the case of any representation containing any materiality qualification) or in all material respects (in the case of any representation without any materiality qualification); provided, however, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the condition set forth in this Section 7.2(a) shall be deemed to have been satisfied even if any representations and warranties of the Company are not so true and correct unless the failure of such representations and warranties of the Company to be so true and correct, individually or in the aggregate, has had or would reasonably be likely to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company. The Company shall have performed in all material respects each obligation and agreement and complied in all material respects with each covenant to be performed and complied with by it hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date.

 

(b)     Officers’ Certificate. The Company shall have furnished to Parent and Merger Sub a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, dated as of the Effective Date, in which such officer shall certify that, to the best of his Knowledge, the conditions set forth in Section 7.2(a) have been fulfilled.

 

(c)     Secretary’s Certificate. The Company shall have furnished to Parent (i) copies of the text of the resolutions by which the corporate action on the part of the Company necessary to approve this Agreement, the Certificate of Merger and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby were taken, (ii) a certificate dated as of the Closing Date executed on behalf of the Company by its corporate secretary or one of its assistant corporate secretaries certifying to Parent that such copies are true, correct and complete copies of such resolutions and that such resolutions were duly adopted and have not been amended or rescinded, (iii) an incumbency certificate dated as of the Closing Date executed on behalf of the Company by its corporate secretary or one of its assistant corporate secretaries certifying the signature and office of each officer of the Company executing this Agreement, the Certificate of Merger or any other agreement, certificate or other instrument executed pursuant hereto by the Company, (iv) a copy of the certificate of incorporation of the Company, certified by the Secretary of State of Delaware, and (v) a certificate from the Secretary of State of Delaware evidencing the good standing of the Company in such jurisdiction as of a day within five (5) Business Days prior to the Closing Date.

 

 
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(d)     Absence of Material Adverse Effect. There shall not have occurred any Material Adverse Effect on the Company, and no event shall have occurred or circumstance shall exist that, in combination with any other events or circumstances, would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on the Company.

 

(e)     Certain Transactions. The Company shall have completed the transactions contemplated by the Company Warrant Termination Agreements and the Company Convertible Note Termination Agreements.

 

(f)     Stockholder Questionnaire. At least ninety (90) percent of the stockholders of the Company shall have executed and delivered to Parent a completed stockholder qualification questionnaire in the form reasonably acceptable to both Parent and the Company (a “Stockholder Questionnaire”), accurate in all material respects and attesting that (i) each such stockholder is acquiring the Merger Consideration for his, her or its sole account, for investment and not with a view to the resale or distribution thereof and (ii) that each stockholder either (A) is an “accredited investor” as defined in Regulation D of the Securities Act, and either (B) has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters that the stockholder is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of receiving the Merger Consideration, or (C) has appointed an appropriate person reasonably acceptable to both Parent and the Company to act as the stockholder’s purchaser representative in connection with evaluating the merits and risks of receiving the Merger Consideration.

 

(g)     Parent Professional Fees. The Company shall have paid the Parent Professional Fees at Closing.

 

(h)     Liabilities. The Company shall have (i) no more than $1.5 million of liabilities in the form of accounts payable and accrued expenses (excluding liabilities related to warrants to purchase Company Common Stock), (ii) a principal balance on its outstanding senior secured notes of no more than $1.5 million, and (iii) no more than the maximum amount of debt financing permitted under the proviso in Section 5.2 hereof, which shall be exchanged for Parent Common Stock issued in the Private Placement.

 

7.3     Additional Conditions to Obligations of the Company. The obligation of the Company to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby in accordance with the terms of this Agreement is also subject to the fulfillment or waiver at or prior to the Effective Date of the following conditions:

 

(a)     Representations and Compliance. The representations of Parent and Merger Sub contained in this Agreement were true and correct as of the date of this Agreement and are true and correct as of the Closing Date (except for representations and warranties made as of a specific date, which shall be true and correct as of such date), in all respects (in the case of any representation containing any materiality qualification) or in all material respects (in the case of any representation without any materiality qualification); provided, however, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the condition set forth in this Section 7.3(a) shall be deemed to have been satisfied even if any representations and warranties of Parent are not so true and correct unless the failure of such representations and warranties of Parent to be so true and correct, individually or in the aggregate, has had or would reasonably be likely to have a Material Adverse Effect on Parent. Parent and Merger Sub, respectively, shall have performed in all material respects each obligation and agreement and complied in all material respects with each covenant to be performed and complied with by them hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date.

 

(b)     Officers’ Certificate. Parent shall have furnished to the Company a certificate of the Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer of Parent, dated as of the Effective Date, in which such officer shall certify that, to the best of his Knowledge, the conditions set forth in Section 7.3(a) have been fulfilled.

 

 
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(c)     Secretary’s Certificate. Parent shall have furnished to the Company (i) copies of the text of the resolutions by which the corporate action on the part of Parent necessary to approve this Agreement and the Certificate of Merger, the election of the directors of Parent to serve following the Closing Date and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, which shall be accompanied by a certificate of the corporate secretary or assistant corporate secretary of Parent dated as of the Closing Date certifying to the Company that such copies are true, correct and complete copies of such resolutions and that such resolutions were duly adopted and have not been amended or rescinded, (ii) an incumbency certificate dated as of the Closing Date executed on behalf of Parent by its corporate secretary or one of its assistant corporate secretaries certifying the signature and office of each officer of Parent executing this Agreement, the Certificate of Merger or any other agreement, certificate or other instrument executed pursuant hereto, and (iii) copies of (A) the Articles of Continuance of Parent, certified by Yukon Corporate Affairs, and (B) the certificate evidencing the good standing of Parent as of a day within five (5) Business Days prior to the Closing Date.

 

(d)     Absence of Material Adverse Effect. There shall not have occurred any Material Adverse Effect on either Parent or Merger Sub, and no event shall have occurred or circumstance shall exist that, in combination with any other events or circumstances, would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on either Parent or Merger Sub.

 

(e)     Certain Transactions. Parent shall have completed the transactions contemplated in the Parent Warrant-Equity Exchange Agreement and the Parent Debenture-Common Stock Conversion Agreement.

 

(f)     Directors of Parent. To be effective upon the Effective Time, the Parent Shareholders shall have elected to the Board of Directors of Parent the persons who were directors of the Company immediately prior to the Closing.

 

(g)     Resignations. Each of the officers and directors of Parent immediately prior to the Effective Time shall deliver duly executed resignations from their positions with Parent effective immediately after the Effective Time.

 

(h)     RenalGuard Spinoff. The RenalGuard Purchaser and Parent shall have consummated the RenalGuard Spinoff immediately prior to Closing. Parent shall have provided the Company and its counsel with substantially final drafts of all RenalGuard Spinoff Transaction Documents no less than five (5) days prior to their execution and the form and substance of such documents shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company and its counsel.

 

(i)     Dissenting Shares. Holders of not more than 35% of Parent Capital Stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Closing shall have elected to become dissenting shares under the YBCA.

 

7.4     Frustration of Closing Conditions. Neither the Company nor Parent may rely, either as a basis for not consummating the Merger or terminating this Agreement and abandoning the Merger, on the failure of any condition set forth in Section 7.1, 7.2 or 7.3, as the case may be, to be satisfied if such failure was caused by such party’s breach in any material respect of any provision of this Agreement or failure to use all reasonable best efforts to consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, as required by Section 6.1.

 

 
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Article VIII
TERMINATION

 

8.1     Termination. This Agreement may be terminated prior to the Effective Date:

 

(a)     by the mutual written consent of the Company and Parent;

 

(b)     by either the Company or Parent, if:

 

(i)     the Effective Time shall not have occurred on or before the End Date, and the party seeking to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 8.1(b)(i) shall not have breached its obligations under this Agreement in any manner that shall have proximately caused the failure to consummate the Merger on or before the End Date;

 

(ii)     if any court of competent jurisdiction shall have entered an injunction, other legal restraint or order permanently restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting the consummation of the Merger and such injunction, other legal restraint or order shall have become final and non-appealable; or

 

(iii)     the Parent Shareholder Meeting (including any adjournments or postponements thereof) shall have concluded and the Requisite Parent Shareholder Approval contemplated by this Agreement shall not have been obtained.

 

(c)     by Parent, if:

 

(i)     the Company shall have breached or failed to perform any of its representations, warranties, covenants or other agreements contained in this Agreement, which breach or failure to perform (i) would result in a failure of a condition set forth in Sections 7.1 or 7.2, and (ii) cannot be cured by the End Date, provided that Parent shall have given the Company written notice, delivered at least thirty (30) days prior to such termination, stating Parent’s intention to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 8.1(c)(i) and the basis for such termination; or

 

(ii)     prior to the receipt of the Requisite Parent Shareholder Approval, Parent shall have received an Alternative Proposal and the Board of Directors of Parent shall have determined in good faith that such Alternative Proposal constitutes a Superior Proposal; provided, however, that Parent shall not terminate this Agreement pursuant to this clause (ii) unless: (A) in connection with a Superior Proposal determination made after the date of this Agreement, Parent shall have provided prior written notice to the Company of the intention of the Board of Directors of Parent to determine that the Alternative Proposal constitutes a Superior Proposal at least three (3) Business Days in advance of such termination (or, in the event of a material modification of an Alternative Proposal with respect to which prior written notice of such intention has previously been provided, the advance notice period shall be one Business Day), and prior to transmitting notification to the Company of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to this clause (ii) the Board of Directors of Parent has not concluded that the Alternative Proposal is no longer a Superior Proposal; (B) Parent concurrently with transmitting notification to the Company of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to this clause (ii) pays the Termination Fee payable pursuant to Section 8.2(a); and (C) the Board of Directors of Parent concurrently with transmitting notification to the Company of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to this clause (ii) approves, and Parent substantially concurrently enters into, a definitive agreement with respect to such Superior Proposal.

 

 
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(d)     by the Company, if:

 

(i)     Parent shall have breached or failed to perform any of its representations, warranties, covenants or other agreements contained in this Agreement, which breach or failure to perform (i) would result in a failure of a condition set forth in Section 7.1 or 7.3 to be satisfied and (ii) cannot be cured by the End Date, provided that the Company shall have given Parent written notice, delivered at least thirty (30) days prior to such termination, stating the Company’s intention to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 8.1(d)(i) and the basis for such termination; or

 

(ii)     the Board of Directors of Parent shall have effected a Recommendation Withdrawal.

 

In the event of termination of this Agreement pursuant to this Section 8.1, this Agreement shall terminate (except for the confidentiality obligations under Section 6.3 and the provisions of Section 8.2 and Article IX), and there shall be no other liability on the part of Parent or the Company except liability arising out of the provisions of Section 8.2 and 8.3, respectively, or any willful and material breach of any of the representations, warranties or covenants in this Agreement by Parent or the Company (subject to any express limitations set forth in this Agreement). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, (X) entry by Parent into a definitive agreement with respect to a Superior Proposal in accordance with clause (C) of Section 8.1(c)(ii) hereof shall not be deemed a breach of Section 6.8 of this Agreement, and (Y) the last sentence of Section 3.4 shall be read without the Knowledge qualification therein for purposes of determining whether such representation has been breached.

 

8.2     Termination Fees.

 

(a)     In the event that:

 

(i)     (A) after the date hereof, a bona fide Alternative Proposal shall have been made known to Parent or shall have been made directly to its shareholders generally or any person shall have publicly announced a bona fide intention (not subsequently withdrawn) to make an Alternative Proposal and (B) following the occurrence of an event described in the preceding clause (A), this Agreement is terminated by Parent or the Company pursuant to Section 8.1(b)(iii) (so long as the Alternative Proposal was publicly disclosed prior to, and had not been withdrawn at, the time of the Parent Shareholder Meeting) or Section 8.1(d)(i), and (C) Parent consummates a transaction with respect to an Alternative Proposal within six (6) months of the date this Agreement is terminated or enters into a definitive agreement with respect to any Alternative Proposal within six (6) months of the date this Agreement is terminated and consummates a transaction with respect to such Alternative Proposal (provided that for purposes of this Section 8.2(a)(i), the references to “20%” in the definition of Alternative Proposal shall be deemed to be references to “50%”); or

 

(ii)     this Agreement is terminated by Parent pursuant to Section 8.1(c)(ii); or

 

(iii)     this Agreement is terminated by the Company pursuant to Section 8.1(d)(ii);

 

then in any such event under clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of this Section 8.2(a), Parent shall pay to the Company the Termination Fee, it being understood that in no event shall Parent be required to pay the Termination Fee on more than one occasion.

 

(b)     Any payment required to be made pursuant to clause (i) of Section 8.2(a) shall be made to the Company promptly following the consummation of the transaction referred to therein (and in any event not later than two (2) Business Days after delivery to Parent of notice of demand for payment); any payment required to be made pursuant to clause (ii) of Section 8.2(a) shall be made to the Company concurrently with the termination of this Agreement by Parent pursuant to Section 8.1(c)(ii); any payment required to be made pursuant to clause (iii) of Section 8.2(a) shall be made to the Company promptly following termination of this Agreement by the Company pursuant to Section 8.1(d)(ii) (and in any event not later than two (2) Business Days after delivery to Parent of notice of demand for payment), and such payment shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account to be designated by the Company.

 

 
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8.3     Expenses following Termination. Upon a termination occurring pursuant to Section , each party hereto shall be responsible for and pay its own fees and expenses, including the fees of any professional service providers incurred in connection with the Subject Transactions; provided, however, that if this Agreement is terminated by Parent pursuant to 8.1(c)(i), the Company shall pay to Parent the Parent Professional Fees within two (2) Business Days of the date Parent furnishes to the Company a schedule setting forth in reasonable detail the fees, costs and expenses comprising the Parent Professional Fees, and such payment shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account to be designated by Parent; provided, however, that solely for purposes of this Section 8.3, the Company shall only be required to pay a maximum of $400,000 of such Parent Professional Fees.

 

8.4     Failure to Pay. In the event that Parent or the Company shall fail to pay the Termination Fee or the Parent Professional Fees required pursuant to Section 8.2 and 8.3, respectively, when due, such fees shall accrue interest for the period commencing on the date such fees became past due, at a rate equal to the rate of interest publicly announced by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, in the City of New York from time to time during such period, as such bank’s prime lending rate. In addition, if Parent or the Company shall fail to pay such fees when due, such party shall also pay to the other all of the other’s reasonable costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) in connection with efforts to collect such fees. Each party acknowledges that the fees and the other provisions of Sections 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 are an integral part of the Merger and that, without these agreements, neither party would enter into this Agreement. Each of the parties hereto acknowledges that the agreements contained in Sections 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 are an integral part of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and that neither the Termination Fee nor the Parent Professional Fees are penalties, but rather liquidated damages in a reasonable amount that will compensate the receiving party for the efforts and resources expended and opportunities foregone while negotiating this Agreement and in reliance on this Agreement and on the expectation of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, which amount would otherwise be impossible to calculate with precision.

 

 
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Article IX
GENERAL PROVISIONS
 

 

9.1     Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be sufficiently given if made by hand delivery, by telecopier, by overnight delivery service for next Business Day delivery, or by registered or certified mail (return receipt requested), in each case with delivery charges prepaid, to the parties at the following addresses (or at such other address for a party as shall be specified by it by like notice):

 

If to the Company:

Viveve, Inc.
150 Commercial Street
Sunnyvale, California 94086
Facsimile: (
408) 530-1919

Telephone: (408) 530-1900
Attn:  Patricia Scheller

 

With copies to:

 

Richardson Patel LLP 
405 Lexington Avenue, 49th Floor
New York, New York 10174
Facsimile: (917) 591-6898

Telephone: (212) 931-8700
 
Attn: Kevin Friedmann, Esq.

 

If to Parent or Merger Sub:


PLC Systems Inc.

459 Fortune Boulevard

Milford, Massachusetts 01757

Facsimile: (508) 541-7990

Telephone: (508) 541-8800

Attn: Chief Executive Officer

   

With copies to:

Haynes and Boone, LLP

30 Rockefeller Plaza, 26th Floor

New York, New York 10112
Facsimile: (
212) 884-8234
Telephone:
(212) 659-7300 

Attn: Rick A. Werner, Esq.

 

All such notices and other communications shall be deemed to have been duly given as follows: when delivered by hand, if personally delivered, when received; (i) if delivered by registered or certified mail (return receipt requested), when receipt acknowledged; or (ii) if telecopied, on the day of transmission or, if that day is not a Business Day, on the next Business Day; and the next Business Day delivery after being timely delivered to a recognized overnight delivery service.

 

9.2     Interpretation. The headings contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement. References to Sections and Articles refer to Sections and Articles of this Agreement unless otherwise stated. Words such as “herein,” “hereinafter,” “hereof,” “hereto,” “hereby” and “hereunder,” and words of like import, unless the context requires otherwise, refer to this Agreement (including the Schedules hereto). As used in this Agreement, the masculine, feminine and neuter genders shall be deemed to include the others if the context requires.

 

9.3     Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties shall negotiate in good faith to modify this Agreement and to preserve each party’s anticipated benefits under this Agreement.

 

9.4     Amendment. This Agreement may not be amended or modified except by an instrument in writing approved by the parties to this Agreement and signed on behalf of each of the parties hereto.

 

9.5     Waiver. At any time prior to the Effective Date, any party hereto may (i) extend the time for the performance of any of the obligations or other acts of the other party hereto or (ii) waive compliance with any of the agreements of the other party or with any conditions to its own obligations, in each case only to the extent such obligations, agreements and conditions are intended for its benefit. Any such extension or waiver shall only be effective if made in writing and duly executed by the party giving such extension or waiver. 

 

9.6     Miscellaneous. This Agreement (together with all other documents and instruments referred to herein): (i) constitutes the entire agreement, and supersedes all other prior agreements and undertakings, both written and oral, among the parties, with respect to the subject matter hereof; and (ii) shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns, but shall not be assignable by either party hereto without the prior written consent of the other party hereto.

 

 
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9.7     Counterparts; Facsimile Signatures. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, which together shall constitute a single agreement. This Agreement and any documents relating to it may be executed and transmitted to any other party by facsimile or email of a PDF, which facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be, and utilized in all respects as, an original, wet-inked document.

 

9.8     Third Party Beneficiaries. Each party hereto intends that this Agreement, except as set forth in Section 6.14 or expressly provided herein, shall not benefit or create any right or cause of action in or on behalf of any Person other than the parties hereto. The representations and warranties set forth in Articles III and IV and the covenants set forth in Sections 5.1 and 5.2 have been made solely for the benefit of the parties to this Agreement and (a) may be intended not as statements of fact, but rather as a way of allocating the risk to one of the parties if those statements prove to be inaccurate; (b) have been qualified by reference to the Company Disclosure Schedule and the Parent Disclosure Schedule, each of which contains certain disclosures that are not reflected in the text of this Agreement; and (c) may apply standards of materiality in a way that is different from what may be viewed as material by shareholders of, or other investors in, the parties hereto.

 

9.9     Governing Law. This Agreement is governed by the internal laws of the State of Delaware without regard to such State’s principles of conflicts of laws that would defer to the substantive laws of another jurisdiction.

 

9.10     Enforcement; Jurisdiction; Service of Process.

 

(a)     The parties agree that irreparable damage would occur in the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached, and that money damages or other legal remedies would not be an adequate remedy for any such damages. It is accordingly agreed that prior to the termination of this Agreement in accordance with Article VIII, in the event of any breach or threatened breach by the Company, on the one hand, or Parent and Merger Sub, on the other hand, of any of their respective covenants or obligations set forth in this Agreement, the Company, on the one hand, and Parent and Merger Sub, on the other hand, shall be entitled to an injunction or injunctions to prevent or restrain breaches or threatened breaches of this Agreement by the other (as applicable), and to specifically enforce the terms and provisions of this Agreement to prevent breaches or threatened breaches of, or to enforce compliance with, the covenants and obligations of the other under this Agreement. Each party hereby agrees not to raise any objections to the availability of the equitable remedy of specific performance to prevent or restrain breaches or threatened breaches of this Agreement by such party, and to specifically enforce the terms and provisions of this Agreement to prevent breaches or threatened breaches of, or to enforce compliance with, the covenants and obligations of such party under this Agreement. Any party seeking an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Agreement shall not be required to provide any bond or other security in connection with any such order or injunction. The parties hereto further agree that (x) by seeking the remedies provided for in this Section 9.10(a), a party shall not in any respect waive its right to seek any other form of relief that may be available to a party under this Agreement in the event that the remedies provided for in this Section 9.10(a) are not available or otherwise are not granted, and (y) nothing set forth in this Section 9.10(a) shall require any party hereto to institute any proceeding for (or limit any party’s right to institute any proceeding for) specific performance under this Section 9.10(a) prior or as a condition to exercising any termination right under Article VIII, nor shall the commencement of any legal action or legal proceeding pursuant to this Section 9.10(a) or anything set forth in this Section 9.10(a) restrict or limit any party’s right to terminate this Agreement in accordance with the terms of Article VIII, or pursue any other remedies under this Agreement that may be available then or thereafter.

 

 
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(b)     Any action or proceeding seeking to enforce any provision of, or based on any right arising out of, this Agreement must, to the extent such courts will accept such jurisdiction, be brought against any of the parties in the courts of the State of Delaware, or, if it has or can acquire jurisdiction, in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, and each of the parties consents to the jurisdiction of those courts (and of the appropriate appellate courts) in any such action or proceeding and waives any objection to venue laid therein. Process in any such action or proceeding may be served by sending or delivering a copy of the process to the party to be served at the address and in the manner provided for the giving of notices in Section . Nothing in this Section , however, affects the right of any party to serve legal process in any other manner permitted by law.

 

9.11     WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING BETWEEN THE PARTIES HERETO ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

 

9.12     Disclosure in Schedules. For purposes of this Agreement, with respect to any matter that is clearly disclosed on any Schedule hereto with respect to any Section hereof in such a way as to make its relevance to the information called for by another Section hereof or any other Schedule, as the case may be, reasonably apparent, such matter shall be deemed to have been disclosed in response to such other Section or Schedule, notwithstanding the omission of any appropriate cross-reference thereto; provided, however, that each of Parent and the Company hereby covenants to make a good faith diligent effort to make all appropriate cross-references within and to any and all Sections of this Agreement and Schedules hereto.

 

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed on the date first written above by their respective officers.

 

 

  VIVEVE, INC.
     
     
     
 

By:

    /s/ Patricia Scheller
 

Name:

Patricia Scheller

 

Title:

Chief Executive Officer

     
     
  PLC SYSTEMS, INC.

 

 
 
 
 

By:

    /s/ Mark R. Tauscher
 

Name:

Mark R. Tauscher

 

Title:

Chief Executive Officer

     
     
  PLC SYSTEMS ACQUISITION CORPORATION
 
 
 
 

By:

    /s/ Mark R. Tauscher
 

Name:

Mark R. Tauscher

 

Title:

President

     
     

 

 
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EXHIBIT A 

 

FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF MERGER

 

OF

 

PLC SYSTEMS ACQUISITION CORPORATION

(a Delaware corporation)

 

WITH AND INTO

 

VIVEVE, INC.

(a Delaware corporation)

Pursuant to Section 251 of the

General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware

 

Pursuant to Title 8, section 251(c) of the Delaware General Corporation Law, the undersigned the corporation does hereby certify that:

 

FIRST:          The name and state of incorporation of the surviving corporation is Viveve, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Surviving Corporation”), and the name and state of incorporation of the corporation being merged into the Surviving Corporation is PLC Systems Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Merger Sub”).

 

SECOND:     The constituent entities have entered into a Merger Agreement (the “Merger Agreement”) by and between the constituent entities and the Merger Agreement has been approved, adopted, certified, executed and acknowledged by each of the constituent entities in accordance with Section 251 of the Delaware General Corporation Law.

 

THIRD:          The name of the Surviving Corporation is Viveve, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

 

FOURTH:      The Certificate of Incorporation of the Surviving Corporation shall be its Certificate of Incorporation.

 

FIFTH:           This Certificate of Merger shall be effective immediately upon filing.

 

SIXTH:          The executed Merger Agreement is on file at the office of the Surviving Corporation, the address of which is 150 Commercial St., Sunnyvale, CA 94086-5201.

 

SEVENTH:    A copy of the Merger Agreement will be furnished upon request and without cost to any stockholder of the Surviving Corporation or any constituent corporation.

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said Surviving Corporation has caused this Certificate of Merger to be executed by a duly authorized officer this __ day of _____, 2014.

 

 

 

 

 

Patricia Scheller 

 

 

Chief Executive Officer 

 

 

 

 
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EXHIBIT B

Post-Merger Parent Capital Structure

 

[ATTACHED HERETO.]

 

 
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Viveve Holder

 

Shares of Viveve
Common Stock
Equivalent
Issued and
Outstanding
(Pre-Merger)1

   

Shares of Parent
Common Stock

Issued and

Outstanding
(Post-Merger)2

   

% of Parent Common Stock Issued and Outstanding (Post-Merger)

GBS Venture Partners Limited

    212,099,649       1,707,339       22.6 %

5AM Ventures II

    204,048,346       1,642,528       21.8 %

Donna Bella International Sun Hongyu

    20,000,000       160,994       2.1 %

5AM Co-Investors II

    8,051,303       64,811       0.9 %

Galloway Limited

    6,000,000       48,299       0.6 %

Stellartech Research Corporation

    2,400,876       19,327       0.3 %

Parmer M.D., Jonathan B.

    2,155,441       17,351       0.2 %

Simpson, Carl

    1,911,121       15,384       0.2 %

Knowlton, Edward W.

    1,600,000       12,880       0.2 %

Pope, Kerry

    1,536,348       12,368       0.2 %

Regina E. L. Bandet, Trustee Regina E. L. Bandet Revocable Trust Dated 5/19/97

    1,133,928       9,128       0.1 %

Hadler, Kenneth

    1,076,259       8,664       0.1 %

Fogarty M.D., Thomas J.

    1,000,009       8,050       0.1 %

Scheuer, Lee

    563,956       4,540       0.1 %

Art and Janet Wong Revocable Trust

    538,129       4,332       0.1 %

Parmer, Michael A.

    538,129       4,332       0.1 %

Stephen F. Weiss, M.D. and Susan H. Weiss

    538,129       4,332       0.1 %

The Stephanie A. Vinella Living Trust, dated 2/26/98, Stephanie A. Vinella, Trustee

    538,129       4,332       0.1 %

WS Investment Company, LLC (2006A)

    538,129       4,332       0.1 %

Nevitt, Judith B.

    528,894       4,258       0.0 %

Polansky, Francis

    528,894       4,258       0.0 %

Schmidt, Richard J.

    528,894       4,258       0.0 %

Lucas, Sherree

    440,005       3,542       0.0 %

WS Investment Compny (2006C)

    322,873       2,600       0.0 %

Jonathan B. Parmer, M.D., PC, PSP & T

    201,714       1,624       0.0 %

Lopez, Steven

    16,485       133       0.0 %

Tamura, Anna

    12,800       104       0.0 %

Willson, Cindy

    11,520       93       0.0 %

Chavez, Natalie

    9,200       75       0.0 %

Pollet, Sarah

    8,750       71       0.0 %

Velez, Kimberly

    5,000       41       0.0 %

Beckmen, Johanna

    2,208       18       0.0 %

Prendergast, Stephanie

    1,792       15       0.0 %
      468,886,910       3,774,413       50.0 %

 

 
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Viveve Convertible Debt Holder

 

Outstanding
Principal Balance
of Convertible
Debt (Pre-
Merger)

   

Shares of Parent
Common Stock
Issued and
Outstanding
(Post-Merger)3

   

% of Parent
Common Stock
Issued and
Outstanding
(Post-Merger)

 

GBS Venture Partners Limited

    1,750,000       943,596       12.5 %

 

 

PLC Holder

 

Shares of PLC
Common Stock

Equivalent

Issued and

Outstanding
(Pre-Merger)4

   

Shares of Parent
Common Stock
Issued and
Outstanding
(Post-Merger)

   

% of Parent
Common Stock
Issued and
Outstanding
(Post-Merger)

 

Common Stock Holders

    1,249,982       1,249,982       16.6 %

Common Stock issued to former Warrant Holders5

    891,971       891,971       11.8 %

Stock Option Holders6

    68,237       68,237       0.9 %

Rights to Shares7

    356,667       356,667       4.7 %

Bezalel Shares8

    223,200       223,200       3.0 %

Common Stock Issued to Former Senior Debt Holders9

    40,731       40,731       0.5 %
      2,830,788.0       2,830,788.0       37.5 %

 


1 Pursuant to a request of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Preferred Stock, all outstanding shares of Preferred Stock will be converted to shares of Viveve Common Stock immediately prior to the merger.

2 Based on an exchange ratio of 0.0080497x. Calculated to represent 50% of the shares of Parent common stock issued and outstanding following the merger.

3 Calculated to represent 12.5% of the shares of Parent Common Stock issued and outstanding following the merger.

4 Assumes a 1 for 100 reverse stock-split undertaken by PLC Medical System, Inc. immediately prior to the merger.

5 Based on the Parent Warrant-Equity Exchange Agreement as described in the Merger Agreement.

6 Represents the total number of issued and outstanding PLC stock options that will remain outstanding after June 2, 2014. Included for % ownership calculation purposes only. Shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of such stock options will not actually be issued and outstanding.

7 Represents a pre-merger contractual right of GCP IV to be issued shares of common stock by PLC.

8 Represents a pre-merger contractual right of Bezalel Partners, LLP to be issued shares of common stock by PLC representing 3% of shares of common stock issued and outstanding following the merger.

9 Based on the Parent Debenture-Common Stock Conversion Agreement as described in the Merger Agreement.

 

 

EX-10 7 ex10-2.htm EXHIBIT 10.2 ex10-2.htm

Exhibit 10.2

 

FINANCIAL ADVISORY AGREEMENT

 

This FINANCIAL ADVISORY AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made and entered into as of May 9, 2014 (the “Effective Date”), by and between PLC Systems Inc., a Yukon Territory corporation (the “Company”), and Bezalel Partners, LLC (“Bezalel”).

 

WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Company desires to retain Bezalel to provide certain consulting services described herein, and Bezalel desires to provide such services; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company intends to consummate a “reverse merger” transaction (by way of merger, share exchange or other business combination) with Viveve, Inc., a private operating company, whereby such private company would become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Combination”);

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants contained herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

 

1.     Recitals. The foregoing recitals are hereby incorporated herein by reference and acknowledged as true and correct by the parties hereto.

 

2.     Retention. During the term of this Agreement (the “Term”), the Company hereby engages, and Bezalel hereby agrees to such engagement, to provide the Company with consulting services as described in Section 3 hereof (the “Consulting Services”) in connection with the Company’s business and operations.

 

Notice is hereby given that this Agreement contains indemnification provisions in Section 7(b) that apply to any Indemnified Liabilities (as defined in Section 7(a) below).

 

3.     Consulting Services. Bezalel shall provide the Consulting Services to the Company as requested from time to time by the Company with respect to (i) strategic, financial and operational planning, (ii) advice regarding potential financing arrangements, (iii) assistance with the preparation of reports, summaries, corporate profiles, due diligence packages and other materials to assist in presenting the Company to third parties, (iv) the evaluation and assessment of investor relations and ongoing business operations, (v) the identification of potential acquisition candidates and financing sources, (vi) the identification and potential acquisition of undervalued assets, (vii) the operations, marketing and development of the Company, (viii) advice with respect to potential mergers (including, without limitation, the Combination), acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and similar transactions, and (ix) other general business advisory services as may reasonably be requested by the Company from time to time.  Bezalel agrees to meet with representatives of the Company as reasonably requested by the Company.  Bezalel is under no obligation to devote a specified number of hours to providing the Consulting Services.

 

4.     Consulting Fees. Upon the consummation of the Combination, Bezalel shall receive an award of 424,956 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Awarded Shares”). The Awarded Shares shall be one hundred percent (100%) vested on the date of issuance and deemed to have been fully earned on such date. 201,756 of the Awarded Shares will be issued pursuant to the Company’s equity incentive plan in effect at such time. The Awarded Shares shall be the sole compensation payable to Bezalel with respect to its performance of the Consulting Services.

 

 
 

 

 

5.     Reserved.

 

6.     Term of Agreement. The Agreement shall continue in full force and effect until the two year anniversary of the date hereof or until the Company is liquidated, dissolved or wound up. The obligations of the Company and Bezalel under Section 4 above shall survive any such termination.

 

7.     Indemnity.

 

(a)     Company’s Indemnity. The Company hereby agrees to indemnify, exonerate and hold Bezalel, and Bezalel’s members, managers, affiliates, persons for which they are acting as nominees, trustees, directors, officers, fiduciaries, employees and agents and each of the partners, shareholders, affiliates, trustees, directors, officers, fiduciaries, employees and agents of each of the foregoing (collectively, the “Bezalel Affiliates”) free and harmless from and against any and all actions, causes of action, suits, losses, liabilities and damages, and expenses in connection therewith, including without limitation attorneys’ fees and disbursements (collectively, the “Indemnified Liabilities”), incurred by the Bezalel Affiliates or any of them as a result of, or arising out of, or relating to the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or existence of this Agreement except for any such Indemnified Liabilities arising on account of any Bezalel Affiliate’s breach of this Agreement, gross negligence or willful misconduct.

(b)     Bezalel’s Indemnity. Bezalel hereby agrees to indemnify, exonerate and hold the Company, and the Company’s members, managers, affiliates, persons for which they are acting as nominees, trustees, directors, officers, fiduciaries, employees and agents and each of the partners, shareholders, affiliates, trustees, directors, officers, fiduciaries, employees and agents of each of the foregoing (collectively, the “Company Affiliates”) free and harmless from and against any and all Indemnified Liabilities incurred by the Company Affiliates or any of them as a result of, or arising out of, or relating to the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or existence of this Agreement except for any such Indemnified Liabilities arising on account of any Company Affiliate’s breach of this Agreement, gross negligence or willful misconduct.

8.     Disclaimer and Opportunities.

(a)     Disclaimer; Standard of Care. Bezalel makes no representations or warranties, express or implied, in respect of the Consulting Services to be provided by Bezalel hereunder, provided that the Consulting Services shall not be provided in a manner that would reasonably be deemed to damage the reputation of the Company or the Company’s Affiliates.

(b)     Freedom to Pursue Opportunities. In recognition that the Bezalel Affiliates currently have, and will in the future have or will consider acquiring, investments in numerous companies and other entities with respect to which Bezalel Affiliates may serve as an advisor, a director or in some other capacity, and in recognition that the Bezalel Affiliates have myriad duties to various entities, investors and partners, and in anticipation that the Company, on the one hand and the Bezalel Affiliates (or one or more associated investment funds or portfolio companies or clients of a Bezalel Affiliate), on the other hand, may engage in the same or similar activities or lines of business and have an interest in the same areas of corporate opportunities, and in recognition of the benefits to be derived by the Company hereunder, the provisions of this Section 8(b) are set forth to regulate, define and guide the conduct of certain affairs of the Company as they may involve the Bezalel Affiliates. Except as otherwise agreed by Bezalel and any other Bezalel Affiliate:

 
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(i)     Bezalel and the other Bezalel Affiliates will have the right: (A) to directly or indirectly engage in any business (including, without limitation, any business activities or lines of business that are the same as or similar to those pursued by, or competitive with, the Company) or invest, own or deal in securities of any other Person so engaged in any business, (B) to directly or indirectly do business with any client or customer of the Company, (C) to take any other action that Bezalel or any Bezalel Affiliate believes in good faith is necessary to or appropriate to fulfill its obligations as described in the first sentence of this Section 8(b), and (D) not to present potential transactions, matters or business opportunities to the Company, and to pursue, directly or indirectly, any such opportunity for itself, and to direct any such opportunity to another Person. “Person” means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization, other entity or group, including any governmental entity.

(ii)     Bezalel and the other Bezalel Affiliates will have no duty (contractual or otherwise) to communicate or present any corporate opportunities to the Company or to refrain from any actions specified in Section 8(b)(i), and the Company hereby renounces and waives any right to require Bezalel or any other Bezalel Affiliate to act in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of this Section 8(b).

(iii)     Bezalel and the other Bezalel Affiliates will not be liable to the Company for breach of any duty (contractual or otherwise) by reason of any activities or omissions of the types referred to in this Section 8(b) or of any such Person’s participation therein, except to the extent required by Section 7(b) hereof.

9.     Confidentiality. Bezalel agrees that all the materials and information, whether or not in writing, of a private, secret, nonpublic or confidential nature concerning the Company’s technology, business or financial affairs, including without limitation the identification of the Company’s customers, suppliers and clients (collectively, “Confidential Information”) is and shall be the exclusive property of the Company.  Bezalel will not disclose any Confidential Information to others outside the Company or use the same for any purposes (other than in the performance of the Consulting Services) without the prior written approval of the Company, either during or after the Term, unless and until such Confidential Information has become public knowledge without fault by Bezalel. “Confidential Information” also includes information or material that is commercially valuable to Company and not generally known or readily ascertainable in the industry. This includes, but is not limited to:

 

(i) technical information concerning the Company's technologies and services, including, but not limited to, product know-how, formulas, designs, devices, diagrams, software code, test results, processes, inventions, research projects and product development, technical memoranda and correspondence;

 

(ii) information concerning the Company's business, including , but not limited to, cost information, profits, sales information, accounting and unpublished financial information, business plans, markets and marketing methods, customer lists and customer information, purchasing techniques, supplier lists and supplier information and marketing strategies;

 

(iii) information concerning the Company's employees, including salaries, strengths, weaknesses and skills;

 

(iv) information submitted by the Company's customers, suppliers, employees, consultants or co-venture partners with the Company for study, evaluation or use; and

 

(v) any other information not generally known to the public which, if misused or disclosed, could reasonably be expected to adversely affect the Company's business.

 

 
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10.     Independent Contractor. The Company and Bezalel agree and acknowledge that Bezalel shall perform services hereunder as an independent contractor, retaining control over and responsibility for its own operations and personnel. Neither Bezalel nor any other Bezalel Affiliate shall be considered an employee of the Company as a result of this Agreement or the services provided hereunder.

 

11.     Non-Assignability of Agreement. Neither party shall have the right to assign this Agreement without the consent of the other party hereto, except by operation of law. Bezalel acknowledges that its services under this Agreement are unique. Accordingly, any purported assignment by Bezalel without the consent of the Company shall be void.

 

12.     Waiver. No amendment or waiver of any term, provision or condition of this Agreement shall be effective unless in writing and executed by each of Bezalel and the Company. No waiver on any one occasion shall extend to or effect or be construed as a waiver of any right or remedy on any future occasion. No course of dealing of any Person nor any delay or omission in exercising any right or remedy shall constitute an amendment of this Agreement or a waiver of any right or remedy of any party hereto.

 

13.     Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial

(a)     Choice of Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the domestic substantive laws of the State of New York without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule that would cause the application of the domestic substantive laws of any other jurisdiction.

(b)     Consent to Jurisdiction. Each of the parties agrees that all actions, suits or proceedings arising out of or based upon this Agreement or the subject matter hereof shall be brought and maintained exclusively in the federal and state courts of the State of New York located in the County of New York. Each of the parties hereto by execution hereof (i) hereby irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of the federal and state courts located in the County of New York in the State of New York for the purpose of any action, suit or proceeding arising out of or based upon this Agreement or the subject matter hereof and (ii) hereby waives, to the extent not prohibited by applicable law, and agrees not to assert, by way of motion, as a defense or otherwise, in any such action, suit or proceeding, any claim that it is not subject personally to the jurisdiction of the above-named courts, that it is immune from extraterritorial injunctive relief or other injunctive relief, that its property is exempt or immune from attachment or execution, that any such action, suit or proceeding may not be brought or maintained in one of the above-named courts, that any such action, suit or proceeding brought or maintained in one of the above-named courts should be dismissed on grounds of forum non conveniens, should be transferred to any court other than one of the above-named courts, should be stayed by virtue of the pendency of any other action, suit or proceeding in any court other than one of the above-named courts, or that this Agreement or the subject matter hereof may not be enforced in or by any of the above-named courts. Each of the parties hereto hereby consents to service of process in any such suit, action or proceeding in any manner permitted by the laws of the State of New York, agrees that service of process by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, at the address specified in or pursuant to Section 15 is reasonably calculated to give actual notice and waives and agrees not to assert by way of motion, as a defense or otherwise, in any such action, suit or proceedings any claim that service of process made in accordance with Section 15 does not constitute good and sufficient service of process. The provisions of this Section 13(b) shall not restrict the ability of any party to enforce in any court any judgment obtained in a federal or state court of the State of New York.

(c)     Waiver of Jury Trial. To the extent not prohibited by applicable law that cannot be waived, each of the parties hereto hereby waives, and covenants that he or it will not assert (whether as plaintiff, defendant, or otherwise), any right to trial by jury in any forum in respect of any issue, claim, demand, cause of action, action, suit or proceeding arising out of or based upon this Agreement or the subject matter hereof, in each case whether now existing or hereafter arising and whether in contract or tort or otherwise. Each of the parties hereto acknowledges that it has been informed by each other party that the provisions of this Section 13(c) constitute a material inducement upon which such party is relying and will rely in entering into this Agreement and the transaction contemplated hereby. Any of the parties hereto may file an original counterpart or a copy of this Section 13(c) with any court as written evidence of the consent of each of the parties hereto to the waiver of his or its right to trial by jury.

 
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14.     Entire Agreement. This Agreement contains the entire understanding of the parties and supersedes and preempts any prior agreements, understandings or representations by or between the parties, written or oral, with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 

15.     Notice. All notices, demands, and communications of any kind that any party may require or desire to serve upon any other party under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be served upon such other party as specified below by personal delivery to its address set forth below or to such other address as any party shall have specified by notice to each other party or by mailing a copy thereof by certified or registered mail, or by Federal Express or any other reputable overnight courier service, postage prepaid, with return receipt requested, addressed to such party. In the case of service by personal delivery, it shall be deemed complete on the first business day after the date of actual delivery to such address. In case of service by certified or registered mail or by overnight courier, it shall be deemed complete, whether or not received, on the third day after the date of mailing as shown by the registered or certified mail receipt or courier service receipt. Notwithstanding the foregoing, notice to any of change of address shall be deemed complete only upon actual receipt by an officer or agent of such party.

 

If to the Company, to:

 

PLC Systems Inc.

459 Fortune Boulevard

Milford, MA 01757

Attn: Chief Executive Officer                     

Fax:     (508) 541-7990

 

If to Bezalel, to:

 

Bezalel Partners, LLC

1070 Forest Avenue

Lakewood, NJ 08701

Attn: David Stefansky

Email: davidstefansky@bcp.com

 

16.     Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by each of the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement. The exchange of copies of this Agreement and of signature pages by facsimile or “.pdf” transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Agreement as to the parties and may be used in lieu of the original Agreement for all purposes. Signatures of the parties transmitted by facsimile or “.pdf” shall be deemed to be their original signatures for any purpose whatsoever.

 

 
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17.     Severability. If in any judicial proceedings a court shall refuse to enforce any provision of this Agreement, then such unenforceable provision shall be deemed eliminated from this Agreement for the purpose of such proceedings to the extent necessary to permit the remaining provisions to be enforced. To the full extent, however, that the provisions of any applicable law may be waived, they are hereby waived to the end that this Agreement be deemed to be a valid and binding agreement, enforceable in accordance with its terms, and in the event that any provision hereof shall be found to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be construed by limiting it so as to be valid and enforceable to the maximum extent consistent with and possible under applicable law.

 

* * * * * * * *

 

[SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS]

 

 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Financial Advisory Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

 

 

PLC SYSTEMS INC.,  

 

 

a Yukon Territory corporation  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:  

  /s/ Mark R. Tauscher

 

 

Name:

  Mark R. Tauscher

 

 

Title: 

  Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bezalel PARTNERS, LLC 

 

 

a New York limited liability company 

 

 

 

 

 

  By:

David Stefansky,

 
   

Its managing member

 
       
       
       
  By:   /s/ David Stefansky  
  Name:   David Stefansky  
 

Title:

  Managing Member  

 

 

 

Signature Page to Financial Advisory Agreement

 

EX-10 8 ex10-3.htm EXHIBIT 10.3 ex10-3.htm

Exhibit 10.3

 

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

This Securities Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated as of May 9, 2014, between PLC Systems Inc., a Yukon Territory corporation (the “Company”), and each purchaser identified on the signature pages hereto (each, including its successors and permitted assigns, a “Purchaser” and collectively, the “Purchasers”).

 

WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Rule 506 promulgated thereunder, the Company desires to issue and sell to each Purchaser, and each Purchaser, severally and not jointly, desires to purchase from the Company, securities of the Company as more fully described in this Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and each Purchaser agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS

 

1.1     Definitions. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, for all purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings set forth in this Section 1.1:

 

Acquiring Person” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.5.

 

Action” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(j).

 

Affiliate” means any Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person, as such terms are used in and construed under Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

 

Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company.

 

Closing” means the closing of the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to Section 2.1.

 

Closing Date” means the Trading Day on which all of the Transaction Documents have been executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto, and all conditions precedent to (i) the Purchasers’ obligations to pay the Subscription Amount and (ii) the Company’s obligations to deliver the Securities, in each case, have been satisfied or waived.

 

Commission” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company, no par value per share, and any other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or changed.

 

 
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Common Stock Equivalents” means any securities of the Company or the Subsidiaries which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock, including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, right, option, warrant or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Common Stock.

 

Company Placement Agent” means Palladium Capital Advisors LLC.

 

Concurrent Agreement” means that certain Securities Purchase Agreement dated May 9, 2014 by and among the Company and certain Purchasers.

 

Disclosure Schedules” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1.

 

EGS” means Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, with offices located at 1345 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10105-0302.

 

Effective Date” means, as to each Purchaser, the earliest of the date that (a) the initial Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Commission, (b) all of the Registrable Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) held by such Purchaser have been sold pursuant to Rule 144 or may be sold pursuant to Rule 144 without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144 and without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions or (c) for any Purchaser that is not an Affiliate of the Company, following the one year anniversary of the Closing Date provided all of the Registrable Securities held by such Purchaser may be sold pursuant to an exemption from registration under Section 4(1) of the Securities Act without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions and counsel acceptable to the Company has delivered to such holder a standing written unqualified opinion that resales may then be made by such holders of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such exemption which opinion shall be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to such holder.

 

Escrow Agent” means Signature Bank, a New York State chartered bank, with offices at 261 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016

 

Escrow Agreement” means the escrow agreement entered into prior to the date hereof, by and among the Company, the Escrow Agent and the Placement Agents pursuant to which the Purchasers shall deposit Subscription Amounts with the Escrow Agent to be applied to the transactions contemplated hereunder.

 

Evaluation Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(r).

 

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

Exempt Issuance” means the issuance of (a) shares of Common Stock or options to employees, officers, directors or consultants of the Company pursuant to any stock or option plan duly adopted for such purpose, by the Board of Directors or a committee of the Board of Directors established for such purpose and the Company’s stockholders within one year of the plan’s adoption by the Board of Directors, (b) securities upon the exercise or exchange of or conversion of any Securities issued hereunder and/or any securities exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding on the date of this Agreement, provided that such securities have not been amended since the date of this Agreement to increase the number of such securities or to decrease the exercise price, exchange price or conversion price of such securities, and (c) securities issued primarily for noncash consideration pursuant to acquisitions or strategic transactions approved by a majority of the disinterested directors of the Company, provided that any such issuance shall only be to a Person (or to the equityholders of a Person) which is, itself or through its subsidiaries, an operating company or an owner of an asset in a business synergistic with the business of the Company and shall provide to the Company additional benefits in addition to the investment of funds.

 

 
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FCPA” means the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

 

FDA” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(jj).

 

FDCA” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(jj).

 

GAAP” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).

 

Indebtedness” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(aa).

 

Intellectual Property Rights” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(o).

 

Legend Removal Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.1(c).

 

Liens” means any liens, charges, pledges, security interests, encumbrances, rights of first refusal, preemptive rights or other restrictions.

 

Material Adverse Effect” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(b).

 

Material Permits” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(m).

 

Merger” has the meaning set forth in the Merger Agreement.

 

Merger Agreement” means that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, among the Company, PLC Acquisition Corp. and Viveve, Inc. dated as of May 9, 2014.

 

Per Share Purchase Price” equals $0.53, subject to proportionate adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement.

 

 
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Person” means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind.

 

Pharmaceutical Product” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(jj).

 

Placement Agents” shall mean the Company Placement Agent and the Viveve Placement Agents.

 

Principal Trading Market” means the Trading Market on which the Common Stock is primarily listed on and quoted for trading, which, as of the date of this Agreement, shall be the OTCQB Marketplace maintained by the OTC Markets Group Inc.

 

Proceeding” means an action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding (including, without limitation, an informal investigation or partial proceeding, such as a deposition), whether commenced or threatened.

 

Proxy Statement” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(y).

 

Public Information Failure” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.2(b).

 

Public Information Failure Payments” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.2(b).

 

Purchaser Party” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8.

 

Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated the date hereof, among the Company and the Purchasers, in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.

 

Registration Statement” means a registration statement meeting the requirements set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement and covering the resale by the Purchasers of the Shares.

 

RenalGuard Spin-Off” has the meaning set forth in the Merger Agreement.

 

Required Approvals” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(e).

 

Rule 144” means Rule 144 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Rule.

 

 
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Rule 424” means Rule 424 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Rule.

 

 

SEC Reports” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).

 

Securities” means the Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares.

 

Securities Act” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.

 

Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issued or issuable to each Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement.

 

Short Sales” means all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act (but shall not be deemed to include the location and/or reservation of borrowable shares of Common Stock)

 

Subscription Amount” means, as to each Purchaser, the aggregate amount to be paid for Shares and Warrants, as applicable, purchased hereunder as specified below such Purchaser’s name on the signature page of this Agreement and next to the heading “Subscription Amount,” in either (i) United States dollars and in immediately available funds or (ii) through the cancellation of the Viveve Bridge Notes.

 

Subsequent Financing” means, after the date hereof, any issuance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of Common Stock, Common Stock Equivalents for cash consideration, Indebtedness or a combination of units thereof.

 

Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Company as set forth on Schedule 3.1(a) and shall, where applicable, also include any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Company formed or acquired after the date hereof.

 

Trading Day” means a day on which the Principal Trading Market is open for trading.

 

Trading Market” means any of the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE MKT, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange, or the OTCQB Marketplace maintained by the OTC Market Group Inc. (or any successors to any of the foregoing).

 

Transaction Documents” means this Agreement, the Concurrent Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement, the Warrants, all exhibits and schedules thereto and hereto and any other documents or agreements executed in connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder.

 

Transfer Agent” means Computershare Trust Company, N.A., the current transfer agent of the Company, with a mailing address of 350 Indiana Street, Suite 750, Golden, CO 80401 and a facsimile number of (312) 601-2312, and any successor transfer agent of the Company.

 

 
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Variable Rate Transaction” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.12.

 

Viveve Bridge Notes” means those certain promissory notes of Viveve in the individual amounts and held by the Persons set forth on Schedule A.

 

Viveve Placement Agents” means Evolution Venture Partners and Middlebury Securities.

 

VWAP” means, for any date, the price determined by the first of the following clauses that applies: (a) if the Common Stock is then listed or quoted on a Trading Market, the daily volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the Trading Market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted as reported by Bloomberg L.P. (based on a Trading Day from 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) to 4:02 p.m. (New York City time)), (b)  if the OTC Bulletin Board is not a Trading Market, the volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the OTCQB Marketplace maintained by the OTC Markets Group Inc., (c) if the Common Stock is not then listed or quoted for trading on the OTCQB Marketplace and if prices for the Common Stock are then reported in the “Pink Sheets” published by OTC Markets Group Inc. (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per share of the Common Stock so reported, or (d) in all other cases, the fair market value of a share of Common Stock as determined by an independent appraiser selected in good faith by the Purchasers of a majority in interest of the Shares then outstanding and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the fees and expenses of which shall be paid by the Company.

 

Warrants” means, collectively, the Common Stock purchase warrants delivered to the Purchasers listed on Schedule A attached hereto at the Closing in accordance with Section 2.2(a) hereof, which Warrants shall be exercisable immediately and have a term of exercise equal to 5 years, in the form of Exhibit C attached hereto.

 

Warrant Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants.

 

ARTICLE II.
PURCHASE AND SALE

 

2.1     Closing. On the Closing Date, which shall be simultaneous with the Closing under the Concurrent Agreement, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, substantially concurrent with the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the parties hereto, the Company agrees to sell, and the Purchasers, severally and not jointly, agree to purchase, up to $5,500,000.60 of Shares, which shall be aggregated with the $500,000.14 received pursuant to the Concurrent Agreement for a total offering amount of approximately $6,000,000, at a price per share equal to the Per Share Purchase Price. Each Purchaser (other than Purchasers to the extent the same are paying their Subscription Amount partly or wholly through cancellation of the Viveve Bridge Notes) shall deliver to the Escrow Agent, via wire transfer or a certified check, immediately available funds equal to such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount as set forth on the signature page hereto (or the balance of the Subscription Amount payable after giving effect to the cancellation of such Purchaser’s Viveve Bridge Notes) executed by such Purchaser. The Company shall deliver to each Purchaser (including, for clarity, those paying their Subscription Amount through cancellation of the Viveve Bridge Notes), its respective Shares and a Warrant, if applicable, as determined pursuant to Section 2.2(a)(iii), and the Company and each Purchaser shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.2 deliverable at the Closing. Upon satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set forth in Sections 2.2 and 2.3, the Closing shall occur at the offices of EGS or such other location as the parties shall mutually agree. 

 

 
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2.2     Deliveries.

 

(a)     On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to each Purchaser the following:

 

(i)     this Agreement duly executed by the Company;

 

(ii)     a legal opinion of company counsel dated the Closing Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit B attached hereto;

 

(iii)     a copy of the irrevocable instructions to the Transfer Agent instructing the Transfer Agent to deliver, on an expedited basis, a certificate evidencing a number of Shares equal to such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount divided by the Per Share Purchase Price, registered in the name of such Purchaser

 

(iv)     to each Purchaser listed on Schedules A attached hereto, a Warrant registered in the name of such Purchaser to purchase up to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the number of Warrant Shares listed on Schedule A, with an exercise price equal to $0.53, subject to adjustment therein (such Warrant certificate may be delivered within three Trading Days of the Closing Date); and

 

(v)     the Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by the Company.

 

(b)     On or prior to the Closing Date, each Purchaser (except as noted) shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Company or the Escrow Agent, as applicable, the following:

 

(i)     this Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser;

 

(ii)     as to Purchasers whose Subscription Amount is being paid partly or wholly in cash, to Escrow Agent, such Purchaser’s cash Subscription Amount by wire transfer to the account specified in the Escrow Agreement, provided that such Purchaser shall not be required to wire into such account until the Closing Date;

 

(iii)      as to Purchases whose Subscription Amount is being paid through the cancellation of the Viveve Bridge Notes, to the Company, the original Viveve Bridge Notes being cancelled and

 

 
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(iv)     the Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser.

 

2.3     Closing Conditions.

 

(a)     The obligations of the Company hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:

 

(i)     The Merger shall have been consummated on or before the Closing;

 

(ii)     the accuracy in all material respects on the Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Purchasers contained herein (unless as of a specific date therein in which case they shall be accurate as of such date);

 

(iii)     all obligations, covenants and agreements of each Purchaser required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed; and

 

(iv)     the delivery by each Purchaser of the items set forth in Section 2.2(b) of this Agreement.

 

(b)     The respective obligations of the Purchasers hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:

 

(i)     the accuracy in all material respects when made and on the Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein (unless as of a specific date therein);

 

(ii)     all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Company required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed;

 

(iii)     the Merger shall have been consummated;

 

(iv)     the minimum aggregate Subscription Amount hereunder from pre-Merger shareholders of Viveve shall be $3.5 million;

 

(v)     the minimum aggregate Subscription Amount hereunder from Company investors introduced by the Company Placement Agent shall be $1.5 million, which such aggregate Subscription Amount shall include the cancellation of the Viveve Bridge Notes;

 

(vi)     the minimum aggregate Subscription Amount from investors introduced to the Company by Viveve shall be $1 million (excluding amounts described in 2.3(b)(iv);

 

(vii)     the RenalGuard Spin-Off shall have occurred prior to the closing of the Merger;

 

 
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(viii)     the delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section 2.2(a) of this Agreement;

 

(ix)     there shall have been no Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company since the date hereof; and

 

(x)     from the date hereof to the Closing Date, trading in the Common Stock shall not have been suspended by the Commission or the Company’s Principal Trading Market, and, at any time prior to the Closing Date, trading in securities generally as reported by Bloomberg L.P. shall not have been suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall not have been established on securities whose trades are reported by such service, or on any Trading Market, nor shall a banking moratorium have been declared either by the United States or New York State authorities nor shall there have occurred any material outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or international calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any material adverse change in, any financial market which, in each case, in the reasonable judgment of such Purchaser, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Securities at the Closing.

 

ARTICLE III.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

3.1     Representations and Warranties of the Company. Except as set forth in the schedules delivered herewith (the “Disclosure Schedules”), which Disclosure Schedules shall be deemed a part hereof and shall qualify any representation or otherwise made herein to the extent of the disclosure contained in the corresponding section of the Disclosure Schedules, the Company hereby makes the following representations and warranties to each Purchaser:

 

(a)     Subsidiaries. All of the direct and indirect subsidiaries of the Company are set forth on Schedule 3.1(a). The Company owns, directly or indirectly, all of the capital stock or other equity interests of each Subsidiary free and clear of any Liens, and all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of each Subsidiary are validly issued and are fully paid, non-assessable and free of preemptive and similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities.

 

(b)     Organization and Qualification. The Company and each of the Subsidiaries is an entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, with the requisite power and authority to own and use its properties and assets and to carry on its business as currently conducted. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in violation or default of any of the provisions of its respective certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents. Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is duly qualified to conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other entity in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property owned by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, could not have or reasonably be expected to result in: (i) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document, (ii) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, business, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii) a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to perform in any material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any Transaction Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Material Adverse Effect”) and no Proceeding has been instituted in any such jurisdiction revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to revoke, limit or curtail such power and authority or qualification.

 

 
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(c)     Authorization; Enforcement. The Company has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of each of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Company and no further action is required by the Company, the Board of Directors or the Company’s stockholders in connection herewith or therewith other than in connection with the Required Approvals. This Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which it is a party has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by the Company and, when delivered in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, will constitute the valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.

 

(d)     No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, the issuance and sale of the Securities and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do not and will not: (i) conflict with or violate any provision of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents, (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing a Company or Subsidiary debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which any property or asset of the Company or any Subsidiary is bound or affected, or (iii) subject to the Required Approvals, conflict with or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment, injunction, decree or other restriction of any court or governmental authority to which the Company or a Subsidiary is subject (including Canadian and U.S. federal and state securities laws and regulations), or by which any property or asset of the Company or a Subsidiary is bound or affected; except in the case of each of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

 
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(e)     Filings, Consents and Approvals. The Company is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other Canadian, U.S. federal, state, local or other governmental authority or other Person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, other than: (i) the filings required pursuant to Section 4.4 of this Agreement, (ii) the filing with the Commission pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, (iii) the notice and/or application(s) to each applicable Trading Market for the issuance and sale of the Securities and the listing of the Shares and Warrant Shares for trading thereon in the time and manner required thereby, and (iv) the filing of Form D with the Commission and such filings as are required to be made under applicable state securities laws (collectively, the “Required Approvals”).

 

(f)     Issuance of the Securities. The Securities are duly authorized and, when issued and paid for in accordance with the applicable Transaction Documents, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company other than restrictions on transfer provided for in the Transaction Documents. Based in part on the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Purchasers in the Agreement, the Securities will be issued in compliance with all applicable federal and state securities laws. The Warrant Shares, when issued in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company other than restrictions on transfer provided for in the Transaction Documents. The Company has reserved from its duly authorized capital stock the maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to this Agreement and the Warrants.

 

(g)     Capitalization. The capitalization of the Company is as set forth on Schedule 3.1(g), which Schedule 3.1(g) shall also include the number of shares of Common Stock owned beneficially, and of record, by Affiliates of the Company as of the date hereof and shall include a pro-forma, post-Merger capitalization of the Company. The Company has not issued any capital stock since its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act, other than as disclosed in the SEC Reports or pursuant to the exercise of employee stock options under the Company’s stock option plans, the issuance of shares of Common Stock to employees pursuant to the Company’s employee stock purchase plans and pursuant to the conversion and/or exercise of Common Stock Equivalents outstanding as of the date of the most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act. No Person has any right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to participate in the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Except as a result of the purchase and sale of the Securities, there are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or obligations convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right to subscribe for or acquire any shares of Common Stock, or contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any Subsidiary is or may become bound to issue additional shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents. The issuance and sale of the Securities will not obligate the Company to issue shares of Common Stock or other securities to any Person (other than the Purchasers) and will not result in a right of any holder of Company securities to adjust the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price under any of such securities. All of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in compliance with all applicable Canadian, provincial, and U.S. federal and state securities laws, and none of such outstanding shares was issued in violation of any preemptive rights or similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities. No further approval or authorization of any stockholder, the Board of Directors or others is required for the issuance and sale of the Securities. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.1(g), there are no stockholders agreements, voting agreements or other similar agreements with respect to the Company’s capital stock to which the Company is a party or, to the knowledge of the Company, between or among any of the Company’s stockholders.

 

 
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(h)     SEC Reports; Financial Statements. The Company has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof, for the two years preceding the date hereof (or such shorter period as the Company was required by law or regulation to file such material) (the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, being collectively referred to herein as the “SEC Reports”) on a timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of filing and has filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration of any such extension. As of their respective dates, the SEC Reports complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The Company has previously been an issuer subject to Rule 144(i) under the Securities Act. The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing. Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (“GAAP”), except as may be otherwise specified in such financial statements or the notes thereto and except that unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP, and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial, year-end audit adjustments.

 

(i)     Material Changes; Undisclosed Events, Liabilities or Developments. Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports, except as specifically disclosed in a subsequent SEC Report filed prior to the date hereof: (i) there has been no event, occurrence or development that has had or that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the Company has not incurred any liabilities (contingent or otherwise) other than (A) trade payables and accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and (B) liabilities not required to be reflected in the Company’s financial statements pursuant to GAAP or disclosed in filings made with the Commission, (iii) the Company has not altered its method of accounting, (iv) the Company has not declared or made any dividend or distribution of cash or other property to its stockholders or purchased, redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem any shares of its capital stock and (v) the Company has not issued any equity securities to any officer, director or Affiliate, except pursuant to existing Company stock option plans. The Company does not have pending before the Commission any request for confidential treatment of information. Except for the issuance of the Securities contemplated by this Agreement, the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement or as set forth on Schedule 3.1(i), no event, liability, fact, circumstance, occurrence or development has occurred or exists, or is reasonably expected to occur or exist, with respect to the Company or its Subsidiaries or their respective businesses, properties, operations, assets or financial condition, that would be required to be disclosed by the Company under applicable securities laws at the time this representation is made or deemed made that has not been publicly disclosed at least one Trading Day prior to the date that this representation is made.

 

 
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(j)     Litigation. There is no action, suit, inquiry, notice of violation, proceeding or investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company, any Subsidiary or any of their respective properties before or by any court, arbitrator, governmental or administrative agency or regulatory authority (Canadian, provincial, U.S. federal, state, county, local or foreign) (collectively, an “Action”) which (i) adversely affects or challenges the legality, validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents or the Securities or (ii) could, if there were an unfavorable decision, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, nor any director or officer thereof, is or has been the subject of any Action involving a claim of violation of or liability under Canadian, provincial, U.S. federal or state securities laws or a claim of breach of fiduciary duty. There has not been, and to the knowledge of the Company, there is not pending or contemplated, any investigation by the Commission involving the Company or any current or former director or officer of the Company. The Commission has not issued any stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of any registration statement filed by the Company or any Subsidiary under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act.

 

(k)     Labor Relations. No material labor dispute exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent with respect to any of the employees of the Company. None of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ employees is a member of a union that relates to such employee’s relationship with the Company or such Subsidiary, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to a collective bargaining agreement, and the Company and its Subsidiaries believe that their relationships with their employees are good. To the knowledge of the Company, no executive officer of the Company(as defined in Rule 501(f) of the Securities Act) or any Subsidiary is, or is now expected to be, in violation of any material term of any employment contract, confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information agreement or non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or any restrictive covenant in favor of any third party, and the continued employment of each such executive officer does not subject the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any liability with respect to any of the foregoing matters. The Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all applicable Canadian, provincial, U.S. federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations relating to employment and employment practices, terms and conditions of employment and wages and hours, except where the failure to be in compliance could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

 
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(l)     Compliance. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary: (i) is in default under or in violation of (and no event has occurred that has not been waived that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would result in a default by the Company or any Subsidiary under), nor has the Company or any Subsidiary received notice of a claim that it is in default under or that it is in violation of, any indenture, loan or credit agreement or any other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties is bound (whether or not such default or violation has been waived), (ii) is in violation of any judgment, decree, or order of any court, arbitrator or other governmental authority or (iii) is or has been in violation of any statute, rule, ordinance or regulation of any governmental authority, including without limitation all Canadian, provincial, foreign, U.S, federal, state and local laws relating to taxes, environmental protection, occupational health and safety, product quality and safety and employment and labor matters, except as could not have or reasonably be expected to result (individually or collectively) in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(m)     Regulatory Permits. The Company and the Subsidiaries possess all certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate Canadian, provincial, U.S, federal, state, local or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses as described in the SEC Reports, except where the failure to possess such permits could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect (“Material Permits”), and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any Material Permit.

 

(n)     Title to Assets. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.1(n), the Company and the Subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to all real property owned by them and good and marketable title in all personal property owned by them that is material to the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all Liens, except for (i) Liens as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and the Subsidiaries and (ii) Liens for the payment of Canadian, provincial, U.S, federal, state or other taxes, for which appropriate reserves have been made therefor in accordance with GAAP and the payment of which is neither delinquent nor subject to penalties. Any real property and facilities held under lease by the Company and the Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with which the Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance.

 

 
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(o)     Intellectual Property. The Company and the Subsidiaries have, or have rights to use, all patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade names, trade secrets, inventions, copyrights, licenses and other intellectual property rights and similar rights as necessary or required for use in connection with their respective businesses and which the failure to so have could have a Material Adverse Effect (collectively, the “Intellectual Property Rights”). Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received a notice (written or otherwise) that any of, the Intellectual Property Rights has expired, terminated or been abandoned, or is expected to expire or terminate or be abandoned, within two (2) years from the date of this Agreement. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports, a written notice of a claim or otherwise has any knowledge that the Intellectual Property Rights violate or infringe upon the rights of any Person, except as could not have or reasonably be expected to not have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Company, all such Intellectual Property Rights are enforceable and there is no existing infringement by another Person of any of the Intellectual Property Rights. The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable security measures to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all of their intellectual properties, except where failure to do so could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(p)     Insurance. The Company and the Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary in the businesses in which the Company and the Subsidiaries are engaged, including, but not limited to, directors’ and officers’ insurance coverage. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business without a significant increase in cost.

 

(q)     Transactions With Affiliates and Employees. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports and the Proxy Statement, none of the officers or directors of the Company or any Subsidiary and, to the knowledge of the Company, none of the employees of the Company or any Subsidiary is presently a party to any transaction with the Company or any Subsidiary (other than for services as employees, officers and directors), including any contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, providing for the borrowing of money from or lending of money to or otherwise requiring payments to or from any officer, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of the Company, any entity in which any officer, director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee, stockholder, member or partner, in each case in excess of $120,000 other than for: (i) payment of salary or consulting fees for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for expenses incurred on behalf of the Company and (iii) other employee benefits, including stock option agreements under any stock option plan of the Company.

 

 
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(r)     Sarbanes-Oxley; Internal Accounting Controls. The Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance with any and all applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that are effective as of the date hereof, and any and all applicable rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder that are effective as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date. The Company and the Subsidiaries maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The Company and the Subsidiaries have established disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the Company and the Subsidiaries and designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms. The Company’s certifying officers have evaluated the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures of the Company and the Subsidiaries as of the end of the period covered by the most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act (such date, the “Evaluation Date”). The Company presented in its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act the conclusions of the certifying officers about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based on their evaluations as of the Evaluation Date. Since the Evaluation Date, there have been no changes in the internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in the Exchange Act) of the Company and its Subsidiaries that have materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the internal control over financial reporting of the Company or its Subsidiaries.

 

(s)     Certain Fees. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(s), no brokerage or finder’s fees or commissions are or will be payable by the Company or any Subsidiary to any broker, financial advisor or consultant, finder, placement agent, investment banker, bank or other Person with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Purchasers shall have no obligation with respect to any fees or with respect to any claims made by or on behalf of other Persons for fees of a type contemplated in this Section that may be due in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

 

(t)     Private Placement. Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.2, no registration under the Securities Act is required for the offer and sale of the Securities by the Company to the Purchasers as contemplated hereby. The issuance and sale of the Securities hereunder does not contravene the rules and regulations of the Trading Market.

 

(u)     Investment Company. The Company is not, and is not an Affiliate of, and immediately after receipt of payment for the Securities, will not be or be an Affiliate of, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Company shall conduct its business in a manner so that it will not become an “investment company” subject to registration under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

 
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(v)     Registration Rights. Other than each of the Purchasers (to the extent so provided in the Registration Rights Agreement) or as set forth in Schedule 3.1(v), no Person has any right to cause the Company to effect the registration under the Securities Act of any securities of the Company or any Subsidiary.

 

(w)     Listing and Maintenance Requirements. The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act, and the Company has taken no action designed to, or which to its knowledge is likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission is contemplating terminating such registration. The Company has not, in the twelve months preceding the date hereof, received notice from any Trading Market on which the Common Stock is or has been listed or quoted to the effect that the Company is not in compliance with the listing or maintenance requirements of such Trading Market. The Company is, and has no reason to believe that it will not in the foreseeable future continue to be, in compliance with all such listing and maintenance requirements. The Common Stock is currently eligible for electronic transfer through the Depository Trust Company or another established clearing corporation and the Company is current in payment of the fees to the Depository Trust Company (or such other established clearing corporation) in connection with such electronic transfer.

 

(x)     Application of Takeover Protections. The Company and the Board of Directors have taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the Company’s certificate of incorporation (or similar charter documents) or the laws of its state of incorporation that is or could become applicable to the Purchasers as a result of the Purchasers and the Company fulfilling their obligations or exercising their rights under the Transaction Documents, including without limitation as a result of the Company’s issuance of the Securities and the Purchasers’ ownership of the Securities

 

(y)     Disclosure. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and the Merger Agreement, the Company confirms that neither it nor to the best of the Company’s knowledge, any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any of the Purchasers or their agents or counsel with any information that it believes constitutes or might constitute material, non-public information. Attached hereto as Schedule 3.1(y) is a draft of the Company’s preliminary proxy statement that the Company will file with the Commission in connection with the Merger on or prior to 9:00 AM (ET) on the three week anniversary date of the date hereof (which proxy statement contains, among other information, risk factors concerning the post-Merger Company, audited and pro-forma financial statements required to be filed therewith and all other information with respect to Viveve required to by the Exchange Act to be included therein) (the “Proxy Statement”). The Company understands and confirms that the Purchasers will rely on the foregoing representation in effecting transactions in securities of the Company. All of the disclosure furnished by or on behalf of the Company to the Purchasers regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries, their respective businesses and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Disclosure Schedules to this Agreement, is true and correct and does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The press releases disseminated by the Company during the twelve months preceding the date of this Agreement taken as a whole do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made and when made, not misleading. The Company acknowledges and agrees that no Purchaser makes or has made any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in Section 3.2 hereof.

 

 
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(z)     No Integrated Offering. Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.2, neither the Company, nor any of its Affiliates, nor any Person acting on its or their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to buy any security, under circumstances that would cause this offering of the Securities to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of (i) the Securities Act which would require the registration of any such securities under the Securities Act, or (ii) any applicable shareholder approval provisions of any Trading Market on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or designated.

 

(aa)     Solvency. Based on the consolidated financial condition of the Company as of the Closing Date, after giving effect to the receipt by the Company of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder: (i) the fair saleable value of the Company’s assets exceeds the amount that will be required to be paid on or in respect of the Company’s existing debts and other liabilities (including known contingent liabilities) as they mature, (ii) the Company’s assets do not constitute unreasonably small capital to carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted including its capital needs taking into account the particular capital requirements of the business conducted by the Company, consolidated and projected capital requirements and capital availability thereof, and (iii) the current cash flow of the Company, together with the proceeds the Company would receive, were it to liquidate all of its assets, after taking into account all anticipated uses of the cash, would be sufficient to pay all amounts on or in respect of its liabilities when such amounts are required to be paid. The Company does not intend to incur debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as they mature (taking into account the timing and amounts of cash to be payable on or in respect of its debt). The Company has no knowledge of any facts or circumstances which lead it to believe that it will file for reorganization or liquidation under the bankruptcy or reorganization laws of any jurisdiction within one year from the Closing Date. Schedule 3.1(aa) sets forth as of the date hereof all outstanding secured and unsecured Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary, or for which the Company or any Subsidiary has commitments. For the purposes of this Agreement, “Indebtedness” means (x) any liabilities for borrowed money or amounts owed in excess of $50,000 (other than trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business), (y) all guaranties, endorsements and other contingent obligations in respect of indebtedness of others, whether or not the same are or should be reflected in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet (or the notes thereto), except guaranties by endorsement of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the ordinary course of business; and (z) the present value of any lease payments in excess of $50,000 due under leases required to be capitalized in accordance with GAAP. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in default with respect to any Indebtedness.

 

 
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(bb)     Tax Status. Except for matters that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and its Subsidiaries each (i) has made or filed all Canadian, provincial, United States federal, state and local income and all foreign income and franchise tax returns, reports and declarations required by any jurisdiction to which it is subject, (ii) has paid all taxes and other governmental assessments and charges that are material in amount, shown or determined to be due on such returns, reports and declarations and (iii) has set aside on its books provision reasonably adequate for the payment of all material taxes for periods subsequent to the periods to which such returns, reports or declarations apply. There are no unpaid taxes in any material amount claimed to be due by the taxing authority of any jurisdiction, and the officers of the Company or of any Subsidiary know of no basis for any such claim.

 

(cc)     No General Solicitation. Neither the Company nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any Person acting on behalf of the Company has offered or sold any of the Securities by any form of general solicitation or general advertising. The Company has offered the Securities for sale only to the Purchasers and certain other “accredited investors” within the meaning of Rule 501 under the Securities Act.

 

(dd)     Foreign Corrupt Practices. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, to the knowledge of the Company or any Subsidiary, any agent or other person acting on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary, has: (i) directly or indirectly, used any funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses related to foreign or domestic political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to any foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) failed to disclose fully any contribution made by the Company or any Subsidiary (or made by any person acting on its behalf of which the Company is aware) which is in violation of law or (iv) violated in any material respect any provision of FCPA.

 

(ee)     Accountants. The Company’s accounting firm is set forth on Schedule 3.1(ee) of the Disclosure Schedules and shall include the Company’s accounting firm post-Merger. To the knowledge and belief of the Company, such accounting firms are registered public accounting firms as required by the Exchange Act.

 

(ff)     No Disagreements with Accountants and Lawyers.     There are no disagreements of any kind presently existing, or reasonably anticipated by the Company to arise, between the Company and the accountants and lawyers formerly or presently employed by the Company and the Company is current with respect to any fees owed to its accountants and lawyers which could affect the Company’s ability to perform any of its obligations under any of the Transaction Documents.      

 

 
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(gg)      Acknowledgment Regarding Purchasers’ Purchase of Securities. The Company acknowledges and agrees that each of the Purchasers is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby. The Company further acknowledges that no Purchaser is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby and any advice given by any Purchaser or any of their respective representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby is merely incidental to the Purchasers’ purchase of the Securities. The Company further represents to each Purchaser that the Company’s decision to enter into this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Company and its representatives.

 

(hh)     Acknowledgment Regarding Purchaser’s Trading Activity. Anything in this Agreement or elsewhere herein to the contrary notwithstanding (except for Sections 3.2(f) and 4.14 hereof), it is understood and acknowledged by the Company that: (i) none of the Purchasers has been asked by the Company to agree, nor has any Purchaser agreed, to desist from purchasing or selling, long and/or short, securities of the Company, or “derivative” securities based on securities issued by the Company or to hold the Securities for any specified term, (ii) past or future open market or other transactions by any Purchaser, specifically including, without limitation, Short Sales or “derivative” transactions, before or after the closing of this or future private placement transactions, may negatively impact the market price of the Company’s publicly-traded securities, (iii) any Purchaser, and counter-parties in “derivative” transactions to which any such Purchaser is a party, directly or indirectly, may presently have a “short” position in the Common Stock and (iv) each Purchaser shall not be deemed to have any affiliation with or control over any arm’s length counter-party in any “derivative” transaction. The Company further understands and acknowledges that (y) one or more Purchasers may engage in hedging activities at various times during the period that the Securities are outstanding, including, without limitation, during the periods that the value of the Warrant Shares deliverable with respect to Securities are being determined, and (z) such hedging activities (if any) could reduce the value of the existing stockholders' equity interests in the Company at and after the time that the hedging activities are being conducted.  The Company acknowledges that such aforementioned hedging activities do not constitute a breach of any of the Transaction Documents.

 

(ii)     Regulation M Compliance.  The Company has not, and to its knowledge no one acting on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to cause or to result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the Securities, (ii) sold, bid for, purchased, or paid any compensation for soliciting purchases of, any of the Securities, or (iii) paid or agreed to pay to any Person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other securities of the Company, other than, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), compensation paid to the Placement Agents in connection with the placement of the Securities.

 

 
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(jj)     FDA. As to each product subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, as amended, and the regulations thereunder (“FDCA”), that is manufactured, packaged, labeled, tested, distributed, sold, and/or marketed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (each such product, a “Pharmaceutical Product”), such Pharmaceutical Product is being manufactured, packaged, labeled, tested, distributed, sold and/or marketed by the Company in compliance with all applicable requirements under FDCA and similar laws, rules and regulations relating to registration, investigational use, premarket clearance, licensure, or application approval, good manufacturing practices, good laboratory practices, good clinical practices, product listing, quotas, labeling, advertising, record keeping and filing of reports, except where the failure to be in compliance would not have a Material Adverse Effect. There is no pending, completed or, to the Company's knowledge, threatened, action (including any lawsuit, arbitration, or legal or administrative or regulatory proceeding, charge, complaint, or investigation) against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice, warning letter or other communication from the FDA or any other governmental entity, which (i) contests the premarket clearance, licensure, registration, or approval of, the uses of, the distribution of, the manufacturing or packaging of, the testing of, the sale of, or the labeling and promotion of any Pharmaceutical Product, (ii) withdraws its approval of, requests the recall, suspension, or seizure of, or withdraws or orders the withdrawal of advertising or sales promotional materials relating to, any Pharmaceutical Product, (iii) imposes a clinical hold on any clinical investigation by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (iv) enjoins production at any facility of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (v) enters or proposes to enter into a consent decree of permanent injunction with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or (vi) otherwise alleges any violation of any laws, rules or regulations by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and which, either individually or in the aggregate, would have a Material Adverse Effect. The properties, business and operations of the Company have been and are being conducted in all material respects in accordance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations of the FDA.  The Company has not been informed by the FDA that the FDA will prohibit the marketing, sale, license or use in the United States of any product proposed to be developed, produced or marketed by the Company nor has the FDA expressed any concern as to approving or clearing for marketing any product being developed or proposed to be developed by the Company.

 

(kk)     Stock Option Plans. Each stock option granted by the Company under the Company’s stock option plan was granted (i) in accordance with the terms of the Company’s stock option plan and (ii) with an exercise price at least equal to the fair market value of the Common Stock on the date such stock option would be considered granted under GAAP and applicable law. No stock option granted under the Company’s stock option plan has been backdated. The Company has not knowingly granted, and there is no and has been no Company policy or practice to knowingly grant, stock options prior to, or otherwise knowingly coordinate the grant of stock options with, the release or other public announcement of material information regarding the Company or its Subsidiaries or their financial results or prospects.

 

 
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(ll)     Office of Foreign Assets Control. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary nor, to the Company's knowledge, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any Subsidiary is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”).

 

(mm)     No Disqualification Events.  With respect to the Securities to be offered and sold hereunder in reliance on Rule 506 under the Securities Act, none of the Company, any of its predecessors, any affiliated issuer, any director, executive officer, other officer of the Company participating in the offering hereunder, any beneficial owner of 20% or more of the Company’s outstanding voting equity securities, calculated on the basis of voting power, nor any promoter (as that term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) connected with the Company in any capacity at the time of sale (each, an "Issuer Covered Person" and, together, "Issuer Covered Persons") is subject to any of the "Bad Actor" disqualifications described in Rule 506(d)(1)(i) to (viii) under the Securities Act (a "Disqualification Event"), except for a Disqualification Event covered by Rule 506(d)(2) or (d)(3). The Company has exercised reasonable care to determine whether any Issuer Covered Person is subject to a Disqualification Event. The Company has complied, to the extent applicable, with its disclosure obligations under Rule 506(e), and has furnished to the Purchasers a copy of any disclosures provided thereunder.

 

(nn)     Other Covered Persons. Other than the Placement Agents, the Company is not aware of any person (other than any Issuer Covered Person) that has been or will be paid (directly or indirectly) remuneration for solicitation of purchasers in connection with the sale of any Securities.

 

(oo)     Notice of Disqualification Events. The Company will notify the Purchasers and the Placement Agents in writing, prior to the Closing Date of (i) any Disqualification Event relating to any Issuer Covered Person and (ii) any event that would, with the passage of time, become a Disqualification Event relating to any Issuer Covered Person.

 

3.2     Representations and Warranties of the Purchasers. Each Purchaser, for itself and for no other Purchaser, hereby represents and warrants as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date to the Company as follows (unless as of a specific date therein):

 

(a)     Organization; Authority. Such Purchaser is either an individual or an entity duly incorporated or formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or formation with full right, corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and performance by such Purchaser of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar action, as applicable, on the part of such Purchaser. Each Transaction Document to which it is a party has been duly executed by such Purchaser, and when delivered by such Purchaser in accordance with the terms hereof, will constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of such Purchaser, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.

 

 
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(b)     Own Account. Such Purchaser understands that the Securities are “restricted securities” and have not been registered under the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law and is acquiring the Securities as principal for its own account and not with a view to or for distributing or reselling such Securities or any part thereof in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law, has no present intention of distributing any of such Securities in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law and has no direct or indirect arrangement or understandings with any other persons to distribute or regarding the distribution of such Securities in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law (this representation and warranty not limiting such Purchaser’s right to sell the Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement or otherwise in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws). Such Purchaser is acquiring the Securities hereunder in the ordinary course of its business.

 

(c)     Purchaser Status. At the time such Purchaser was offered the Securities, it was, and as of the date hereof it is, and on each date on which it exercises any Warrants, it will be an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501under the Securities Act.

 

(d)     Experience of Such Purchaser. Such Purchaser, either alone or together with its representatives, has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in business and financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment in the Securities, and has so evaluated the merits and risks of such investment. Such Purchaser is able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the Securities and, at the present time, is able to afford a complete loss of such investment.

 

(e)     General Solicitation. Such Purchaser is not purchasing the Securities as a result of any advertisement, article, notice or other communication regarding the Securities published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over television or radio or presented at any seminar or any other general solicitation or general advertisement.

 

(f)     Certain Transactions and Confidentiality. Other than consummating the transactions contemplated hereunder, such Purchaser has not directly or indirectly, nor has any Person acting on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with such Purchaser, executed any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of the securities of the Company during the period commencing as of the time that such Purchaser first received a term sheet (written or oral) from the Company or any other Person representing the Company setting forth the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereunder and ending immediately prior to the execution hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Purchaser’s assets, the representation set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement. Other than to other Persons party to this Agreement, such Purchaser has maintained the confidentiality of all disclosures made to it in connection with this transaction (including the existence and terms of this transaction). Notwithstanding the foregoing, for avoidance of doubt, nothing contained herein shall constitute a representation or warranty, or preclude any actions, with respect to the identification of the availability of, or securing of, available shares to borrow in order to effect Short Sales or similar transactions in the future.

 

 
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(g)     Canadian Restrictions. Each Purchaser acknowledges that the Securities have not been qualified for sale in Ontario or Canada and each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, agrees with the Company that the Securities shall not be offered, sold or traded directly or indirectly to any Person, to its knowledge, in the Yukon Territory or Canada before the date that is four months and one day after the later of (i) the original issuance of such Securities, and (ii) the date the Company became a reporting issuer in any province or territory of Canada, unless such offer, sale or trade is to an “accredited investor” as such term is defined under National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus and Registration Exemptions.

 

(h)     Access to Information.  Such Purchaser acknowledges that it has had the opportunity to review the SEC Reports and the Disclosure Schedules and the Viveve Disclosure Schedules incorporated in the Merger Agreement and has been afforded (i) the opportunity to ask such questions as it has deemed necessary of, and to receive answers from, representatives of the Company and Viveve concerning the terms and conditions of the offering of the Securities and the merits and risks of investing in the Securities; (ii) access to information about the Company and the Subsidiaries and Viveve and their respective financial condition, results of operations, business, properties, management and prospects sufficient to enable it to evaluate its investment; and (iii) the opportunity to obtain such additional information that the Company or Viveve possesses or can acquire without unreasonable effort or expense that is necessary to make an informed investment decision with respect to the investment. Neither such inquiries nor any other investigation conducted by or on behalf of such Purchaser or its representatives or counsel shall modify, amend or affect such Purchaser’s right to rely on the truth, accuracy and completeness of the SEC Reports and Disclosure Schedules, the Company’s representations and warranties contained in the Transaction Documents and Viveve’s representations and warranties set forth in Article III of the Merger Agreement and the Viveve Disclosure Schedules incorporated therein.  Such Purchaser had the opportunity to seek such accounting, legal and tax advice as it has considered necessary to make an informed decision with respect to its acquisition of the Securities.

 

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

 

The Company acknowledges and agrees that the representations contained in Section 3.2 shall not modify, amend or affect such Purchaser’s right to rely on the Company’s representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any representations and warranties contained in any other Transaction Document or any other document or instrument executed and/or delivered in connection with this Agreement or the consummation of the transaction contemplated hereby.

 

ARTICLE IV.
OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES

 

4.1     Transfer Restrictions.

 

(a)     The Securities may only be disposed of in compliance with state and federal securities laws. In connection with any transfer of Securities other than pursuant to an effective registration statement or Rule 144, to the Company or to an Affiliate of a Purchaser or in connection with a pledge as contemplated in Section 4.1(b) ) (in all of which cases the company will specifically waive the opinion requirement set out in the legend to be imprinted pursuant to Section 4.1(b)), the Company may require the transferor thereof to provide to the Company an opinion of counsel selected by the transferor and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the form and substance of which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that such transfer does not require registration of such transferred Securities under the Securities Act. As a condition of transfer, any such transferee shall agree in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and, with regard to the Shares, the Registration Rights Agreement and shall have the rights and obligations of a Purchaser under this Agreement and, with regard to the Shares only, the Registration Rights Agreement.

 

(b)     The Purchasers agree to the imprinting, so long as is required by this Section 4.1, of a legend on any certificates evidencing the Securities in the following form:

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT (IF REQUESTED BY THE COMPANY), THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY. THIS SECURITY MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT WITH A REGISTERED BROKER-DEALER OR OTHER LOAN WITH A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION THAT IS AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR OTHER LOAN SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES.

 

 
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The Company acknowledges and agrees that a Purchaser may from time to time pledge pursuant to a bona fide margin agreement with a registered broker-dealer or grant a security interest in some or all of the Securities to a financial institution that is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and who agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement and, if required under the terms of such arrangement, such Purchaser may transfer pledged or secured Securities to the pledgees or secured parties. Such a pledge or transfer would not be subject to approval of the Company and no legal opinion of legal counsel of the pledgee, secured party or pledgor shall be required in connection therewith. Further, no notice shall be required of such pledge. At the appropriate Purchaser’s expense, the Company will execute and deliver such reasonable documentation as a pledgee or secured party of Securities may reasonably request in connection with a pledge or transfer of the Securities, including, if the Securities are subject to registration pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the preparation and filing of any required prospectus supplement under Rule 424(b)(3) under the Securities Act or other applicable provision of the Securities Act to appropriately amend the list of Selling Stockholders (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) thereunder.

 

(c)     Certificates evidencing the Shares and Warrant Shares shall not contain any legend (including the legend set forth in Section 4.1(b) hereof), (i) while a registration statement (including the Registration Statement) covering the resale of such security is effective under the Securities Act, (ii) following any sale of such Shares or Warrant Shares pursuant to Rule 144, (iii) if such Shares or Warrant Shares are eligible for sale under Rule 144, or (iv) if such legend is not required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission). The Company shall cause its counsel to issue a legal opinion to the Transfer Agent promptly if required by the Transfer Agent to effect the removal of the legend hereunder. If there is an effective registration statement to cover the resale of the Shares or Warrant Shares, or if such Shares or Warrant Shares may be sold under Rule 144 or if such legend is not otherwise required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission) then such Shares or Warrant Shares shall be issued free of all legends. The Company agrees that following the Effective Date or at such time as such legend is no longer required under this Section 4.1(c), it will, no later than three Trading Days following the delivery by a Purchaser to the Company or the Transfer Agent of a certificate representing Shares or Warrant Shares, as the case may be, issued with a restrictive legend (such third Trading Day, the “Legend Removal Date”), deliver or cause to be delivered to such Purchaser a certificate representing such shares that is free from all restrictive and other legends. The Company may not make any notation on its records or give instructions to the Transfer Agent that enlarge the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section 4. Certificates for Securities subject to legend removal hereunder shall be transmitted by the Transfer Agent to the Purchaser by crediting the account of the Purchaser’s prime broker with the Depository Trust Company System as directed by such Purchaser.

 

 
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(d)     In addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies, the Company shall pay to a Purchaser, in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for each $1,000 of Shares or Warrant Shares (based on the VWAP of the Common Stock on the date such Securities are submitted to the Transfer Agent) delivered for removal of the restrictive legend and subject to Section 4.1(c), $10 per Trading Day (increasing to $20 per Trading Day five (5) Trading Days after such damages have begun to accrue) for each Trading Day after the Legend Removal Date until such certificate is delivered without a legend. Nothing herein shall limit such Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the Company’s failure to deliver certificates representing any Securities as required by the Transaction Documents, and such Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief.

 

(e)     Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, agrees with the Company that such Purchaser will sell any Securities pursuant to either the registration requirements of the Securities Act, including any applicable prospectus delivery requirements, or an exemption therefrom, and that if Securities are sold pursuant to a Registration Statement, they will be sold in compliance with the plan of distribution set forth therein, and acknowledges that the removal of the restrictive legend from certificates representing Securities as set forth in this Section 4.1 is predicated upon the Company’s reliance upon this understanding.

 

4.2     Furnishing of Information; Public Information.

 

(a)     Until the time that no Purchaser owns any Securities, the Company covenants to maintain the registration of the Common Stock under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act and to timely file (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the Company after the date hereof pursuant to the Exchange Act even if the Company is not then subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act.

 

(b)     At any time during the period commencing from the one year anniversary of the date hereof and ending at such time that all of the Securities may be sold without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with Rule 144(c)(1) and otherwise without restriction or limitation pursuant to Rule 144, if the Company shall fail for any reason to satisfy the current public information requirement under Rule 144(c) (a “Public Information Failure”) then, in addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies, the Company shall pay to each Purchaser, in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, by reason of any such delay in or reduction of its ability to sell the Securities, an amount in cash equal to two percent (2.0%) of the aggregate Subscription Amount of such Purchaser’s Securities on the day of a Public Information Failure and on every thirtieth (30th) day (pro rated for periods totaling less than thirty days) thereafter until the earlier of (a) the date such Public Information Failure is cured and (b) such time that such public information is no longer required for the Purchasers to transfer the Shares and Warrant Shares without restriction or limitation pursuant to Rule 144.  The payments to which a Purchaser shall be entitled pursuant to this Section 4.2(b) are referred to herein as “Public Information Failure Payments.”  Public Information Failure Payments shall be paid on the earlier of (i) the last day of the calendar month during which such Public Information Failure Payments are incurred and (ii) the third (3rd) Trading Day after the event or failure giving rise to the Public Information Failure Payments is cured.  In the event the Company fails to make Public Information Failure Payments or amounts required to be paid under Section 4.1(d) in a timely manner, such unpaid amounts shall bear interest at the rate of 1.5% per month (prorated for partial months) until paid in full. Nothing herein shall limit such Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the Public Information Failure, and such Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief.

 

 
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4.3     Integration. The Company shall not sell, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that no Affiliate of the Company shall sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities in a manner that would require the registration under the Securities Act of the sale of the Securities or that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities for purposes of the rules and regulations of any Trading Market such that it would require shareholder approval prior to the closing of such other transaction unless shareholder approval is obtained before the closing of such subsequent transaction.

 

4.4     Securities Laws Disclosure; Publicity. The Company shall (a) by 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) on or before the fourth Trading Day immediately following the date hereof, issue a press release disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby, and (b) file a Current Report on Form 8-K, including the Transaction Documents as exhibits thereto, with the Commission within the time required by the Exchange Act. From and after the filing of the Proxy Statement, the Company represents to the Purchasers that it shall have publicly disclosed all material, non-public information delivered to any of the Purchasers by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees or agents in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Company and each Purchaser shall consult with each other in issuing any other press releases with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, and neither the Company nor any Purchaser shall issue any such press release nor otherwise make any such public statement without the prior consent of the Company, with respect to any press release of any Purchaser, or without the prior consent of each Purchaser, with respect to any press release of the Company, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed, except if such disclosure is required by law, in which case the disclosing party shall promptly provide the other party with prior notice of such public statement or communication. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not publicly disclose the name of any Purchaser, or include the name of any Purchaser in any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency or Trading Market, without the prior written consent of such Purchaser, except: (a) as required by federal securities law in connection with any registration statement contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement and (b) to the extent such disclosure is required by law or Trading Market regulations, in which case the Company shall provide the Purchasers with prior notice of such disclosure permitted under this clause (b).

 

 
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4.5     Shareholder Rights Plan. No claim will be made or enforced by the Company or, with the consent of the Company, any other Person, that any Purchaser is an “Acquiring Person” under any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or similar anti-takeover plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter adopted by the Company, or that any Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the provisions of any such plan or arrangement, by virtue of receiving Securities under the Transaction Documents or under any other agreement between the Company and the Purchasers.

 

4.6     Non-Public Information. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and the information set forth in the Proxy Statement, the Company covenants and agrees that neither it, nor any other Person acting on its behalf, will provide any Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any information that the Company believes constitutes material non-public information, unless prior thereto such Purchaser shall have entered into a written agreement with the Company regarding the confidentiality and use of such information. The Company understands and confirms that each Purchaser shall be relying on the foregoing covenant in effecting transactions in securities of the Company.

 

4.7     Use of Proceeds. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.7 attached hereto, the Company shall use the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder for working capital purposes and shall not use such proceeds: (a) for the satisfaction of any portion of the Company’s debt (other than payment of trade payables in the ordinary course of the Company’s business and prior practices), (b) for the redemption of any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents, (c) for the settlement of any outstanding litigation or (d) in violation of FCPA or OFAC regulations.

 

 
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4.8     Indemnification of Purchasers. Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.8, the Company will indemnify and hold each Purchaser and its directors, officers, shareholders, members, partners, employees and agents (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each Person who controls such Purchaser (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, shareholders, agents, members, partners or employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling persons (each, a “Purchaser Party”) harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, obligations, claims, contingencies, damages, costs and expenses, including all judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation that any such Purchaser Party may suffer or incur as a result of or relating to (a) any breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by the Company in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents or (b) any action instituted against the Purchaser Parties in any capacity, or any of them or their respective Affiliates, by any stockholder of the Company who is not an Affiliate of such Purchaser Parties, with respect to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (unless such action is based upon a breach of such Purchaser Party’s representations, warranties or covenants under the Transaction Documents or any agreements or understandings such Purchaser Parties may have with any such stockholder or any violations by such Purchaser Parties of Canadian, provincial, U.S. state or federal securities laws or any conduct by such Purchaser Parties which constitutes fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct or malfeasance). If any action shall be brought against any Purchaser Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement, such Purchaser Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing, and the Company shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser Party. Any Purchaser Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Purchaser Party except to the extent that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Company in writing, (ii) the Company has failed after a reasonable period of time to assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action there is, in the reasonable opinion of counsel, a material conflict on any material issue between the position of the Company and the position of such Purchaser Party, in which case the Company shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than one such separate counsel. The Company will not be liable to any Purchaser Party under this Agreement (y) for any settlement by a Purchaser Party effected without the Company’s prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (z) to the extent, but only to the extent, that a loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to any Purchaser Party’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by such Purchaser Party in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents. The indemnification required by this Section 4.8 shall be made by periodic payments of the amount thereof during the course of the investigation or defense, as and when bills are received or are incurred. The indemnity agreements contained herein shall be in addition to any cause of action or similar right of any Purchaser Party against the Company or others and any liabilities the Company may be subject to pursuant to law.

 

4.9     Reservation of Common Stock. As of the date hereof, the Company has reserved and the Company shall continue to reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to issue Shares pursuant to this Agreement and the Warrant Shares pursuant to any exercise of the Warrants.   

 

4.10     Listing of Common Stock. The Company hereby agrees to use best efforts to maintain the listing or quotation of the Common Stock on the Trading Market on which it is currently listed, and concurrently with the Closing, the Company shall, to the extent required, apply to list or quote all of the Shares and Warrant Shares on such Trading Market and promptly secure the listing of all of the Shares and Warrant Shares on such Trading Market. The Company further agrees, if the Company applies to have the Common Stock traded on any other Trading Market, it will then include in such application all of the Shares and Warrant Shares, and will take such other action as is necessary to cause all of the Shares and Warrant Shares to be listed or quoted on such other Trading Market as promptly as possible. The Company will then take all action reasonably necessary to continue the listing or quotation and trading of its Common Stock on a Trading Market and will comply in all respects with the Company’s reporting, filing and other obligations under the bylaws or rules of the Trading Market. The Company agrees to maintain the eligibility of the Common Stock for electronic transfer through the Depository Trust Company or another established clearing corporation, including, without limitation, by timely payment of fees to the Depository Trust Company or such other established clearing corporation in connection with such electronic transfer.

 

 
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4.11     [RESERVED]

 

4.12     Subsequent Equity Sales. From the date hereof until the one (1) year anniversary of the Closing Date, the Company shall be prohibited from effecting or entering into an agreement to effect any issuance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents (or a combination of units thereof) involving a Variable Rate Transaction. “Variable Rate Transaction” means a transaction in which the Company (i) issues or sells any debt or equity securities that are convertible into, exchangeable or exercisable for, or include the right to receive, additional shares of Common Stock either (A) at a conversion price, exercise price or exchange rate or other price that is based upon, and/or varies with, the trading prices of or quotations for the shares of Common Stock at any time after the initial issuance of such debt or equity securities or (B) with a conversion, exercise or exchange price that is subject to being reset at some future date after the initial issuance of such debt or equity security or upon the occurrence of specified or contingent events directly or indirectly related to the business of the Company or the market for the Common Stock or (ii) enters into any agreement, including, but not limited to, an equity line of credit, whereby the Company may issue securities at a future determined price. Any Purchaser shall be entitled to obtain injunctive relief against the Company to preclude any such issuance, which remedy shall be in addition to any right to collect damages.

 

4.13     Equal Treatment of Purchasers. No consideration (including any modification of any Transaction Document) shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of this Agreement unless the same consideration is also offered to all of the parties to this Agreement. For clarification purposes, this provision constitutes a separate right granted to each Purchaser by the Company and negotiated separately by each Purchaser, and is intended for the Company to treat the Purchasers as a class and shall not in any way be construed as the Purchasers acting in concert or as a group with respect to the purchase, disposition or voting of Securities or otherwise.

 

4.14     Certain Transactions and Confidentiality. Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that neither it, nor any Affiliate acting on its behalf or pursuant to any understanding with it will execute any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of any of the Company’s securities during the period commencing with the execution of this Agreement and ending at such time that the Proxy Statement is filed.  Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that until such time as the Proxy Statement is filed, such Purchaser will maintain the confidentiality of any information provided to it in connection with the Transaction Documents.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, and notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, the Company expressly acknowledges and agrees that (i) no Purchaser makes any representation, warranty or covenant hereby that it will not engage in effecting transactions in any securities of the Company after the time that the Proxy Statement is filed, (ii) no Purchaser shall be restricted or prohibited from effecting any transactions in any securities of the Company in accordance with applicable securities laws from and after the time that the Proxy Statement is filed and (iii) no Purchaser shall have any duty of confidentiality to the Company or its Subsidiaries after the Proxy Statement is filed.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Purchaser’s assets, the covenant set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement.

 

 
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4.15     Per Share Price Protection.

 

(a)     From the date hereof until such date that the Company consummates a Subsequent Financing with gross cash proceeds of at least $2.5 million at an effective per share purchase price equal to at least $0.53 (subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits and the like after the date hereof), if and whenever the Company or any Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, issues or sells (whether through a Subsequent Financing or otherwise) any shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents (including the issuance or sale of shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents owned or held by or for the account of the Company) for a consideration per share that is less than the Per Share Purchase Price (adjusted for stock splits, combinations, dividends and the like occurring after the Closing Date) (such lesser price is referred to herein as the “Discounted Per Share Purchase Price”) (the foregoing a “Dilutive Issuance”), then immediately after such Dilutive Issuance, the Company shall issue to each Purchaser, without the payment of additional consideration, in connection with such Dilutive Issuance, a number of additional shares of Common Stock equal to the product of (i) the fraction obtained by dividing (A) the sum of the number of Initial Shares and Additional Shares then held by such Purchaser on the date of the Dilutive Issuance by (B) the sum of the number of Initial Shares issued to such Purchaser on the Closing Date and all Additional Shares previously reserved for issuance to such Purchaser after the Closing Date, multiplied by (ii) the difference between (A) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that would have been issued to such Purchaser at the Closing if the Subscription Amount was divided by the Discounted Per Share Purchase Price minus (B) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock equal to the sum of the Initial Shares (as defined below), plus, to the extent there has been a previous reservation of Additional Shares (as defined below) to such Purchaser, the number of Additional Shares previously reserved for issuance to such Purchaser. For purposes of this Section 4.15, (I) “Additional Shares” means, with respect to the applicable Purchaser, shares of Common Stock issued to such Purchaser pursuant to this Section 4.15 (adjusted for stock splits, combinations, dividends and the like occurring after the Closing Date); and (II) “Initial Shares” means, with respect to the applicable Purchaser, the number of shares of Common Stock issued to such Purchaser on the Closing Date (adjusted for stock splits, combinations, dividends and the like occurring after the Closing Date)

 


 

 
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(b)     In implementation of the foregoing, to the extent that an issuance of Additional Shares would result in a Purchaser or any of its affiliates beneficially owning in excess of 4.9% (the “Maximum Percentage”) of the Common Stock, then the Company shall initially issue only such number of Additional Shares that would result in such Purchaser (together with such Purchaser’s affiliates) beneficially owning the Maximum Percentage of the Common Stock, and, except as otherwise provided below, no other Additional Shares shall be issuable under this Section 4.15. After such initial issuance, and until all Additional Shares which otherwise would have been issued under this Section 4.15 have been issued, from time to time the Company will issue such number of such unissued Additional Shares so that such Purchaser (together such Purchaser’s affiliates) will beneficially own only the Maximum Percentage of the Common Stock. Such Purchaser shall make written representations and warranties to the Company regarding its (together with its affiliates’) beneficial ownership to effectuate the foregoing. The provisions of this paragraph shall be implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms this paragraph to correct this paragraph (or any portion hereof) which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended Maximum Percentage beneficial ownership limitation herein contained or to make changes or supplements necessary or desirable to properly give effect to such Maximum Percentage limitation. The limitations contained in this paragraph shall apply to assignees of such Purchaser hereunder. The holders of Common Stock of the Company shall be third party beneficiaries of this paragraph and the Company may not waive this paragraph without the consent of holders of a majority of its Common Stock. For the purposes of this paragraph, beneficial ownership and all determinations and calculations (including, without limitation, with respect to calculations of percentage ownership) shall be determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

(c)     If shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents are issued for a consideration other than cash, the per share price shall be the fair value of such consideration as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company. For the purposes of this Section 4.15, the “price per share for which one share of Common Stock is issuable upon the conversion, exercise or exchange of any Common Stock Equivalents” shall be equal to the sum of the lowest amounts of consideration (if any) received or receivable by the Company with respect to one share of Common Stock upon the issuance or sale of such Common Stock Equivalents and upon conversion, exercise or exchange of such Common Stock Equivalents. The Company may not refuse to issue to a Purchaser Additional Shares hereunder based on any claim that such Purchaser or any one associated or affiliated with such Purchaser has been engaged in any violation of law, agreement or for any other reason, unless, an injunction from a court, on notice, restraining and or enjoining an issuance hereunder shall have been sought and obtained. Nothing herein shall limit a Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the Company’s failure to deliver Additional Shares hereunder, and such Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief. On the date of closing of any transaction pursuant to which securities are issued for a Discounted Per Share Purchase Price, the Company shall give each of the Purchasers written notice thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein in this Section 4.15, this Section 4.15 shall not apply to an Exempt Issuance. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the right set forth in this Section 4.15 is a right granted by the Company, separately, to each Purchaser.

 

 
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4.16     Form D; Blue Sky Filings. The Company agrees to timely file (i) a Form D with respect to the Securities as required under Regulation D and to provide a copy thereof, promptly upon request of any Purchaser and (ii) all of the other Required Approvals when due or required for filing. The Company shall take such action as the Company shall reasonably determine is necessary in order to obtain an exemption for, or to qualify the Securities for, sale to the Purchasers at the Closing under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of the United States, and shall provide evidence of such actions promptly upon request of any Purchaser.

 

4.17     Acknowledgment of Dilution. The Company acknowledges that the issuance of the Securities may result in dilution of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, which dilution may be substantial under certain market conditions. The Company further acknowledges that its obligations under the Transaction Documents, including, without limitation, its obligation to issue the Shares and Warrant Shares pursuant to the Transaction Documents, are unconditional and absolute and not subject to any right of set off, counterclaim, delay or reduction, regardless of the effect of any such dilution or any claim the Company may have against any Purchaser and regardless of the dilutive effect that such issuance may have on the ownership of the other stockholders of the Company.

 

 

 

ARTICLE V.
MISCELLANEOUS

 

5.1     Termination.  This Agreement may be terminated by any Purchaser, as to such Purchaser’s obligations hereunder only and without any effect whatsoever on the obligations between the Company and the other Purchasers, by written notice to the other parties, if the Closing has not been consummated on or before October 31, 2014; provided, however, that such termination will not affect the right of any party to sue for any breach by any other party (or parties).

  

5.2     Fees and Expenses. At the Closing, the Company and the Purchasers shall each pay the fees and expenses of their respective advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses incurred by such party in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and related hereto, including, without limitation, the Merger; provided, however, the Company acknowledges the Parent Professional Fees (as defined in and required by the Merger Agreement) shall be paid at the closing of the Merger. The Company shall pay all Transfer Agent fees (including, without limitation, any fees required for same-day processing of any instruction letter delivered by the Company and any exercise notice delivered by a Purchaser), stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of any Securities to the Purchasers.

 

5.3     Entire Agreement. The Transaction Documents, together with the exhibits and schedules thereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and schedules.

 

 
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5.4     Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of: (a) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto at or prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the second (2nd) Trading Day following the date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (d) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given. The address for such notices and communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto.

 

5.5     Amendments; Waivers. No provision of this Agreement may be waived, modified, supplemented or amended except in a written instrument signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Company and the Purchasers holding at least 67% in interest of the Shares (based on initial Subscription Amounts hereunder) or, in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom enforcement of any such waived provision is sought. No waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right.

 

5.6     Headings. The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.

 

5.7     Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns. The Company may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Purchaser (other than by merger). Any Purchaser may assign any or all of its rights under this Agreement to any Person to whom such Purchaser assigns or transfers any Securities, provided that such transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with respect to the transferred Securities, by the provisions of the Transaction Documents that apply to the “Purchasers.”

 

5.8     No Third-Party Beneficiaries. . This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person, except as otherwise set forth in Section 4.8.

 

5.9     Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of the Transaction Documents shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, partners, members, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. If any party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction Documents, then in addition to the obligations of the Company under Section 4.8, the prevailing party in such action, suit or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding.

 

 
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5.10     Survival. The representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the Closing and the delivery of the Securities.

 

5.11     Execution. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to each other party, it being understood that the parties need not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an original thereof.

 

5.12     Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.

 

5.13     Rescission and Withdrawal Right. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in (and without limiting any similar provisions of) any of the other Transaction Documents, whenever any Purchaser exercises a right, election, demand or option under a Transaction Document and the Company does not timely perform its related obligations within the periods therein provided, then such Purchaser may rescind or withdraw, in its sole discretion from time to time upon written notice to the Company, any relevant notice, demand or election in whole or in part without prejudice to its future actions and rights; provided, however, that in the case of a rescission of an exercise of a Warrant, the applicable Purchaser shall be required to return any shares of Common Stock subject to any such rescinded exercise notice concurrently with the return to such Purchaser of the aggregate exercise price paid to the Company for such shares and the restoration of such Purchaser’s right to acquire such shares pursuant to such Purchaser’s Warrant (including, issuance of a replacement warrant certificate evidencing such restored right).

 

 
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5.14     Replacement of Securities. If any certificate or instrument evidencing any Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof (in the case of mutilation), or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction. The applicant for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable third-party costs (including customary indemnity) associated with the issuance of such replacement Securities.

 

5.15     Remedies. In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, each of the Purchasers and the Company will be entitled to specific performance under the Transaction Documents. The parties agree that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of obligations contained in the Transaction Documents and hereby agree to waive and not to assert in any action for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

 

5.16     Payment Set Aside. To the extent that the Company makes a payment or payments to any Purchaser pursuant to any Transaction Document or a Purchaser enforces or exercises its rights thereunder, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or exercise or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside, recovered from, disgorged by or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored to the Company, a trustee, receiver or any other Person under any law (including, without limitation, any bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause of action), then to the extent of any such restoration the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred.

 

5.17     Independent Nature of Purchasers’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of each Purchaser under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Purchaser, and no Purchaser shall be responsible in any way for the performance or non-performance of the obligations of any other Purchaser under any Transaction Document. Nothing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Purchaser pursuant hereof or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose. Each Purchaser has been represented by its own separate legal counsel in its review and negotiation of the Transaction Documents. For reasons of administrative convenience only, each Purchaser and its respective counsel have chosen to communicate with the Company through EGS. EGS does not represent any of the Purchasers and only represents Genesis Capital Advisors LLC. The Company has elected to provide all Purchasers with the same terms and Transaction Documents for the convenience of the Company and not because it was required or requested to do so by any of the Purchasers.

 

 
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5.18     Liquidated Damages.  The Company’s obligations to pay any partial liquidated damages or other amounts owing under the Transaction Documents is a continuing obligation of the Company and shall not terminate until all unpaid partial liquidated damages and other amounts have been paid notwithstanding the fact that the instrument or security pursuant to which such partial liquidated damages or other amounts are due and payable shall have been canceled.

 

5.19     Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, etc.     If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not be a Trading Day, then such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding Trading Day.

 

5.20     Construction. The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel have reviewed and had an opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the normal rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation of the Transaction Documents or any amendments thereto. In addition, each and every reference to share prices and shares of Common Stock in any Transaction Document shall be subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement.

 

5.21     WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING IN ANY JURISDICTION BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY, THE PARTIES EACH KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY, TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HEREBY ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY, IRREVOCABLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES FOREVER ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY.

 

 

 

(Signature Pages Follow)

 

 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

 

PLC Systems Inc.

Address for Notice:

   
   

By:              /s/ Mark R. Tauscher                                 

     Name:   Mark R. Tauscher

     Title:     Chief Executive Officer

With a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):

Fax:

 

 

 

 

[REMAINDER OF PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK

SIGNATURE PAGE FOR EACH PURCHASER FOLLOWS]

 

 
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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO PLC SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT]

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

Name of Purchaser: ________________________________________________________

 

Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser: __________________________________

 

Name of Authorized Signatory: ____________________________________________________

 

Title of Authorized Signatory: _____________________________________________________

 

Email Address of Authorized Signatory: ______________________________________________

 

Facsimile Number of Authorized Signatory: _____________________________________________

 

Address for Notice to Purchaser:

 

 

 

 

Address for Delivery of Securities to Purchaser (if not same as address for notice):

 

 

 

 

Subscription Amount: $_________________

 

Principal Amount, plus accrued but unpaid interest

of Viveve Bridge Note: $__________________

 

Shares: _________________

 

 

EIN Number: _______________________

 

 

[SIGNATURE PAGES CONTINUE]

 

 
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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO PLC SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT]

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

   

Name of Purchaser:                                 

 

Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser: _______________________________

 

Name of Authorized Signatory:                                                                           

 

Title of Authorized Signatory:                                                                              

 

Email Address of Authorized Signatory:                                                                

 

Facsimile Number of Authorized Signatory:                                                        

 

Address for Notice to Purchaser:                        

                                                                                 

 

 

 

Address for Delivery of Securities to Purchaser (if not same as address for notice):

 

 

 

Subscription Amount: $                                    

 

Principal Amount, plus accrued but unpaid interest

of Viveve Bridge Note: $__________________

 

Shares:                                           

 

EIN Number: _______________________

 

 

[SIGNATURE PAGES CONTINUE]

 

 
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Schedule A

 

 

NAME OF PURCHASER 

NUMBER OF WARRANT SHARES  

 

 

 

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EX-10 9 ex10-4.htm EXHIBIT 10.4 ex10-4.htm

Exhibit 10.4

 

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

This Securities Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated as of May 9, 2014, between PLC Systems Inc., a Yukon Territory corporation (the “Company”), and each purchaser identified on the signature pages hereto (each, including its successors and permitted assigns, a “Purchaser” and collectively, the “Purchasers”).

 

WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Rule 506 promulgated thereunder, the Company desires to issue and sell to each Purchaser, and each Purchaser, severally and not jointly, desires to purchase from the Company, securities of the Company as more fully described in this Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and each Purchaser agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS

 

1.1            Definitions. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, for all purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings set forth in this Section 1.1:

 

Acquiring Person” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.5.

 

Action” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(j).

 

Affiliate” means any Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person, as such terms are used in and construed under Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

 

Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company.

 

Closing” means the closing of the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to Section 2.1.

 

Closing Date” means the Trading Day on which all of the Transaction Documents have been executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto, and all conditions precedent to (i) the Purchasers’ obligations to pay the Subscription Amount and (ii) the Company’s obligations to deliver the Securities, in each case, have been satisfied or waived.

 

Commission” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company, no par value per share, and any other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or changed.

  

 
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Common Stock Equivalents” means any securities of the Company or the Subsidiaries which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock, including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, right, option, warrant or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Common Stock.

 

Company Placement Agent” means Palladium Capital Advisors LLC.

 

Concurrent Agreement” means that certain Securities Purchase Agreement dated May 9, 2014 by and among the Company and certain Purchasers.

 

Disclosure Schedules” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1.

 

EGS” means Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, with offices located at 1345 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10105-0302.

 

Effective Date” means, as to each Purchaser, the earliest of the date that (a) the initial Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Commission, (b) all of the Registrable Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) held by such Purchaser have been sold pursuant to Rule 144 or may be sold pursuant to Rule 144 without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144 and without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions or (c) for any Purchaser that is not an Affiliate of the Company, following the one year anniversary of the Closing Date provided all of the Registrable Securities held by such Purchaser may be sold pursuant to an exemption from registration under Section 4(1) of the Securities Act without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions and counsel acceptable to the Company has delivered to such holder a standing written unqualified opinion that resales may then be made by such holders of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such exemption which opinion shall be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to such holder.

 

Escrow Agent” means Signature Bank, a New York State chartered bank, with offices at 261 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016

 

Escrow Agreement” means the escrow agreement entered into prior to the date hereof, by and among the Company, the Escrow Agent and the Placement Agents pursuant to which the Purchasers shall deposit Subscription Amounts with the Escrow Agent to be applied to the transactions contemplated hereunder.

 

Evaluation Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(r).

 

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

  

 
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Exempt Issuance” means the issuance of (a) shares of Common Stock or options to employees, officers, directors or consultants of the Company pursuant to any stock or option plan duly adopted for such purpose, by the Board of Directors or a committee of the Board of Directors established for such purpose and the Company’s stockholders within one year of the plan’s adoption by the Board of Directors, (b) securities upon the exercise or exchange of or conversion of any Securities issued hereunder and/or any securities exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding on the date of this Agreement, provided that such securities have not been amended since the date of this Agreement to increase the number of such securities or to decrease the exercise price, exchange price or conversion price of such securities, and (c) securities issued primarily for noncash consideration pursuant to acquisitions or strategic transactions approved by a majority of the disinterested directors of the Company, provided that any such issuance shall only be to a Person (or to the equityholders of a Person) which is, itself or through its subsidiaries, an operating company or an owner of an asset in a business synergistic with the business of the Company and shall provide to the Company additional benefits in addition to the investment of funds.

 

FCPA” means the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

 

FDA” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(jj).

 

FDCA” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(jj).

 

GAAP” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).

 

Indebtedness” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(aa).

 

Intellectual Property Rights” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(o).

 

Legend Removal Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.1(c).

 

Liens” means any liens, charges, pledges, security interests, encumbrances, rights of first refusal, preemptive rights or other restrictions.

 

Material Adverse Effect” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(b).

 

Material Permits” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(m).

 

Merger” has the meaning set forth in the Merger Agreement.

 

Merger Agreement” means that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, among the Company, PLC Acquisition Corp. and Viveve, Inc. dated as of May 9, 2014.

  

 
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Per Share Purchase Price” equals $0.53, subject to proportionate adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement.

 

Person” means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind.

 

Pharmaceutical Product” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(jj).

 

Placement Agents” shall mean the Company Placement Agent and the Viveve Placement Agent.

 

Principal Trading Market” means the Trading Market on which the Common Stock is primarily listed on and quoted for trading, which, as of the date of this Agreement, shall be the OTCQB Marketplace maintained by the OTC Markets Group Inc.

 

Proceeding” means an action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding (including, without limitation, an informal investigation or partial proceeding, such as a deposition), whether commenced or threatened.

 

Proxy Statement” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(y).

 

Public Information Failure” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.2(b).

 

Public Information Failure Payments” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.2(b).

 

Purchaser Party” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8.

 

Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated the date hereof, among the Company and the Purchasers, in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.

 

Registration Statement” means a registration statement meeting the requirements set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement and covering the resale by the Purchasers of the Shares.

 

RenalGuard Spin-Off” has the meaning set forth in the Merger Agreement.

 

Required Approvals” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(e).

 

Rule 144” means Rule 144 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Rule.

  

 
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Rule 424” means Rule 424 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Rule.

 

 

SEC Reports” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).

 

Securities” means the Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares.

 

Securities Act” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.

 

Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issued or issuable to each Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement.

 

Short Sales” means all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act (but shall not be deemed to include the location and/or reservation of borrowable shares of Common Stock)

 

Subscription Amount” means, as to each Purchaser, the aggregate amount to be paid for Shares and Warrants, as applicable, purchased hereunder as specified below such Purchaser’s name on the signature page of this Agreement and next to the heading “Subscription Amount,” in either (i) United States dollars and in immediately available funds or (ii) through the cancellation of the Viveve Bridge Notes.

 

Subsequent Financing” means, after the date hereof, any issuance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of Common Stock, Common Stock Equivalents for cash consideration, Indebtedness or a combination of units thereof.

 

Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Company as set forth on Schedule 3.1(a) and shall, where applicable, also include any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Company formed or acquired after the date hereof.

 

Trading Day” means a day on which the Principal Trading Market is open for trading.

 

Trading Market” means any of the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE MKT, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange, or the OTCQB Marketplace maintained by the OTC Market Group Inc. (or any successors to any of the foregoing).

 

Transaction Documents” means this Agreement, the Concurrent Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement, the Warrants, all exhibits and schedules thereto and hereto and any other documents or agreements executed in connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder.

  

 
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Transfer Agent” means Computershare Trust Company, N.A., the current transfer agent of the Company, with a mailing address of 350 Indiana Street, Suite 750, Golden, CO 80401 and a facsimile number of (312) 601-2312, and any successor transfer agent of the Company.

 

Trust” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.11(a).

 

Variable Rate Transaction” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.12.

 

Viveve Bridge Notes” means those certain promissory notes of Viveve in the individual amounts and held by the Persons set forth on Schedule A.

 

Viveve Placement Agent” means Middlebury Securities.

 

VWAP” means, for any date, the price determined by the first of the following clauses that applies: (a) if the Common Stock is then listed or quoted on a Trading Market, the daily volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the Trading Market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted as reported by Bloomberg L.P. (based on a Trading Day from 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) to 4:02 p.m. (New York City time)), (b)  if the OTC Bulletin Board is not a Trading Market, the volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the OTCQB Marketplace maintained by the OTC Markets Group Inc., (c) if the Common Stock is not then listed or quoted for trading on the OTCQB Marketplace and if prices for the Common Stock are then reported in the “Pink Sheets” published by OTC Markets Group Inc. (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per share of the Common Stock so reported, or (d) in all other cases, the fair market value of a share of Common Stock as determined by an independent appraiser selected in good faith by the Purchasers of a majority in interest of the Shares then outstanding and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the fees and expenses of which shall be paid by the Company.

 

Warrants” means, collectively, the Common Stock purchase warrants delivered to the Purchasers listed on Schedule B attached hereto at the Closing in accordance with Section 2.2(a) hereof, which Warrants shall be exercisable immediately and have a term of exercise equal to 5 years, in the form of Exhibit C attached hereto.

 

Warrant Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants.

  

 
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ARTICLE II.
PURCHASE AND SALE

 

2.1     Closing. On the Closing Date, which shall be simultaneous with the Closing under the Concurrent Agreement, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Company shall sell, and the Purchasers, severally and not jointly, shall purchase, up to $500,000.14 of Shares, which shall be aggregated with the $5,500,000.60 received pursuant to the Concurrent Agreement for a total offering amount of approximately $6,000,000, at a price per share equal to the Per Share Purchase Price. Each Purchaser (other than Purchasers to the extent the same are paying their Subscription Amount partly or wholly through cancellation of the Viveve Bridge Notes) shall deliver to the Escrow Agent, via wire transfer or a certified check, immediately available funds equal to such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount as set forth on the signature page (or the balance of the Subscription Amount payable after giving effect to the cancellation of such Purchaser’s Viveve Bridge Notes) executed by such Purchaser. The Company shall deliver to each Purchaser (including, for clarity, those paying their Subscription Amount through cancellation of the Viveve Bridge Notes), its respective Shares and a Warrant, if applicable, as determined pursuant to Section 2.2(a)(iii), and the Company and each Purchaser shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.2 deliverable at the Closing. Upon satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set forth in Sections 2.2 and 2.3, the Closing shall occur at the offices of EGS or such other location as the parties shall mutually agree.

 

2.2     Deliveries.

 

(a)     On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to each Purchaser the following:

 

(i)     this Agreement duly executed by the Company;

 

(ii)     a legal opinion of company counsel dated the Closing Date, in the form reasonably acceptable to the Purchasers;

 

(iii)     a copy of the irrevocable instructions to the Transfer Agent instructing the Transfer Agent to deliver, on an expedited basis, a certificate evidencing a number of Shares equal to such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount divided by the Per Share Purchase Price, registered in the name of such Purchaser

 

(iv)     to each Purchaser listed on Schedule B attached hereto, a Warrant registered in the name of such Purchaser to purchase up to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the number of Warrant Shares listed on Schedule B, with an exercise price equal to $0.53, subject to adjustment therein (such Warrant certificate may be delivered within three Trading Days of the Closing Date); and

 

(v)     the Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by the Company.

 

(b)     On or prior to the Closing Date, each Purchaser (except as noted) shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Company or the Escrow Agent, as applicable, the following:

 

(i)     this Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser;

 

(ii)     as to Purchasers whose Subscription Amount is being paid partly or wholly in cash, to Escrow Agent, such Purchaser’s cash Subscription Amount by wire transfer to the account specified in the Escrow Agreement, provided that such Purchaser shall not be required to wire into such account until the Closing Date;

  

 
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(iii)      as to Purchases whose Subscription Amount is being paid through the cancellation of the Viveve Bridge Notes, to the Company, the original Viveve Bridge Notes being cancelled and

 

(iv)     the Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser.

 

2.3     Closing Conditions.

 

(a)     The obligations of the Company hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:

 

(i)     The Merger shall have been consummated on or before the Closing;

 

(ii)     the accuracy in all material respects on the Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Purchasers contained herein (unless as of a specific date therein in which case they shall be accurate as of such date);

 

(iii)     all obligations, covenants and agreements of each Purchaser required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed; and

 

(iv)     the delivery by each Purchaser of the items set forth in Section 2.2(b) of this Agreement.

 

(b)     The respective obligations of the Purchasers hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:

 

(i)     the accuracy in all material respects when made and on the Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein (unless as of a specific date therein);

 

(ii)     all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Company required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed;

 

(iii)     the Merger shall have been consummated;

 

(iv)     the minimum aggregate Subscription Amount hereunder from pre-Merger shareholders of Viveve shall be $3.5 million;

 

(v)     the minimum aggregate Subscription Amount hereunder from Company investors introduced by the Company Placement Agent shall be $1.5 million, which such aggregate Subscription Amount shall include the cancellation of the Viveve Bridge Notes;

  

 
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(vi)     the minimum aggregate Subscription Amount from investors introduced to the Company by Viveve shall be $1 million (excluding amounts described in 2.3(b)(iv);

 

(vii)     the RenalGuard Spin-Off shall have occurred prior to the closing of the Merger;

 

(viii)     the delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section 2.2(a) of this Agreement;

 

(ix)     there shall have been no Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company since the date hereof; and

 

(x)     from the date hereof to the Closing Date, trading in the Common Stock shall not have been suspended by the Commission or the Company’s Principal Trading Market, and, at any time prior to the Closing Date, trading in securities generally as reported by Bloomberg L.P. shall not have been suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall not have been established on securities whose trades are reported by such service, or on any Trading Market, nor shall a banking moratorium have been declared either by the United States or New York State authorities nor shall there have occurred any material outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or international calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any material adverse change in, any financial market which, in each case, in the reasonable judgment of such Purchaser, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Securities at the Closing.

 

ARTICLE III.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

3.1     Representations and Warranties of the Company. Except as set forth in the schedules delivered herewith (the “Disclosure Schedules”), which Disclosure Schedules shall be deemed a part hereof and shall qualify any representation or otherwise made herein to the extent of the disclosure contained in the corresponding section of the Disclosure Schedules, the Company hereby makes the following representations and warranties to each Purchaser:

 

(a)     Subsidiaries. All of the direct and indirect subsidiaries of the Company are set forth on Schedule 3.1(a). The Company owns, directly or indirectly, all of the capital stock or other equity interests of each Subsidiary free and clear of any Liens, and all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of each Subsidiary are validly issued and are fully paid, non-assessable and free of preemptive and similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities.

  

 
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(b)     Organization and Qualification. The Company and each of the Subsidiaries is an entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, with the requisite power and authority to own and use its properties and assets and to carry on its business as currently conducted. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in violation or default of any of the provisions of its respective certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents. Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is duly qualified to conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other entity in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property owned by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, could not have or reasonably be expected to result in: (i) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document, (ii) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, business, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii) a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to perform in any material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any Transaction Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Material Adverse Effect”) and no Proceeding has been instituted in any such jurisdiction revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to revoke, limit or curtail such power and authority or qualification.

 

(c)     Authorization; Enforcement. The Company has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of each of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Company and no further action is required by the Company, the Board of Directors or the Company’s stockholders in connection herewith or therewith other than in connection with the Required Approvals. This Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which it is a party has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by the Company and, when delivered in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, will constitute the valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.

 

(d)     No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, the issuance and sale of the Securities and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do not and will not: (i) conflict with or violate any provision of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents, (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing a Company or Subsidiary debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which any property or asset of the Company or any Subsidiary is bound or affected, or (iii) subject to the Required Approvals, conflict with or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment, injunction, decree or other restriction of any court or governmental authority to which the Company or a Subsidiary is subject (including Canadian and U.S. federal and state securities laws and regulations), or by which any property or asset of the Company or a Subsidiary is bound or affected; except in the case of each of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

  

 
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(e)     Filings, Consents and Approvals. The Company is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other Canadian, U.S. federal, state, local or other governmental authority or other Person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, other than: (i) the filings required pursuant to Section 4.4 of this Agreement, (ii) the filing with the Commission pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, (iii) the notice and/or application(s) to each applicable Trading Market for the issuance and sale of the Securities and the listing of the Shares and Warrant Shares for trading thereon in the time and manner required thereby, and (iv) the filing of Form D with the Commission and such filings as are required to be made under applicable state securities laws (collectively, the “Required Approvals”).

 

(f)     Issuance of the Securities. The Securities are duly authorized and, when issued and paid for in accordance with the applicable Transaction Documents, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company other than restrictions on transfer provided for in the Transaction Documents. Based in part on the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Purchasers in the Agreement, the Securities will be issued in compliance with all applicable federal and state securities laws. The Warrant Shares, when issued in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company other than restrictions on transfer provided for in the Transaction Documents. The Company has reserved from its duly authorized capital stock the maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to this Agreement and the Warrants.

 

(g)     Capitalization. The capitalization of the Company is as set forth on Schedule 3.1(g), which Schedule 3.1(g) shall also include the number of shares of Common Stock owned beneficially, and of record, by Affiliates of the Company as of the date hereof and shall include a pro-forma, post-Merger capitalization of the Company. The Company has not issued any capital stock since its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act, other than as disclosed in the SEC Reports or pursuant to the exercise of employee stock options under the Company’s stock option plans, the issuance of shares of Common Stock to employees pursuant to the Company’s employee stock purchase plans and pursuant to the conversion and/or exercise of Common Stock Equivalents outstanding as of the date of the most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act. No Person has any right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to participate in the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Except as a result of the purchase and sale of the Securities, there are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or obligations convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right to subscribe for or acquire any shares of Common Stock, or contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any Subsidiary is or may become bound to issue additional shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents. The issuance and sale of the Securities will not obligate the Company to issue shares of Common Stock or other securities to any Person (other than the Purchasers) and will not result in a right of any holder of Company securities to adjust the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price under any of such securities. All of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in compliance with all applicable Canadian, provincial, and U.S. federal and state securities laws, and none of such outstanding shares was issued in violation of any preemptive rights or similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities. No further approval or authorization of any stockholder, the Board of Directors or others is required for the issuance and sale of the Securities. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.1(g), there are no stockholders agreements, voting agreements or other similar agreements with respect to the Company’s capital stock to which the Company is a party or, to the knowledge of the Company, between or among any of the Company’s stockholders.

  

 
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(h)     SEC Reports; Financial Statements. The Company has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof, for the two years preceding the date hereof (or such shorter period as the Company was required by law or regulation to file such material) (the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, being collectively referred to herein as the “SEC Reports”) on a timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of filing and has filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration of any such extension. As of their respective dates, the SEC Reports complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The Company has previously been an issuer subject to Rule 144(i) under the Securities Act. The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing. Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (“GAAP”), except as may be otherwise specified in such financial statements or the notes thereto and except that unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP, and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial, year-end audit adjustments.

  

 
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(i)     Material Changes; Undisclosed Events, Liabilities or Developments. Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports, except as specifically disclosed in a subsequent SEC Report filed prior to the date hereof: (i) there has been no event, occurrence or development that has had or that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the Company has not incurred any liabilities (contingent or otherwise) other than (A) trade payables and accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and (B) liabilities not required to be reflected in the Company’s financial statements pursuant to GAAP or disclosed in filings made with the Commission, (iii) the Company has not altered its method of accounting, (iv) the Company has not declared or made any dividend or distribution of cash or other property to its stockholders or purchased, redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem any shares of its capital stock and (v) the Company has not issued any equity securities to any officer, director or Affiliate, except pursuant to existing Company stock option plans. The Company does not have pending before the Commission any request for confidential treatment of information. Except for the issuance of the Securities contemplated by this Agreement, the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement or as set forth on Schedule 3.1(i), no event, liability, fact, circumstance, occurrence or development has occurred or exists, or is reasonably expected to occur or exist, with respect to the Company or its Subsidiaries or their respective businesses, properties, operations, assets or financial condition, that would be required to be disclosed by the Company under applicable securities laws at the time this representation is made or deemed made that has not been publicly disclosed at least one Trading Day prior to the date that this representation is made.

 

(j)     Litigation. There is no action, suit, inquiry, notice of violation, proceeding or investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company, any Subsidiary or any of their respective properties before or by any court, arbitrator, governmental or administrative agency or regulatory authority (Canadian, provincial, U.S. federal, state, county, local or foreign) (collectively, an “Action”) which (i) adversely affects or challenges the legality, validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents or the Securities or (ii) could, if there were an unfavorable decision, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, nor any director or officer thereof, is or has been the subject of any Action involving a claim of violation of or liability under Canadian, provincial, U.S. federal or state securities laws or a claim of breach of fiduciary duty. There has not been, and to the knowledge of the Company, there is not pending or contemplated, any investigation by the Commission involving the Company or any current or former director or officer of the Company. The Commission has not issued any stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of any registration statement filed by the Company or any Subsidiary under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act.

  

 
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(k)     Labor Relations. No material labor dispute exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent with respect to any of the employees of the Company. None of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ employees is a member of a union that relates to such employee’s relationship with the Company or such Subsidiary, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to a collective bargaining agreement, and the Company and its Subsidiaries believe that their relationships with their employees are good. To the knowledge of the Company, no executive officer of the Company(as defined in Rule 501(f) of the Securities Act) or any Subsidiary is, or is now expected to be, in violation of any material term of any employment contract, confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information agreement or non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or any restrictive covenant in favor of any third party, and the continued employment of each such executive officer does not subject the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any liability with respect to any of the foregoing matters. The Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all applicable Canadian, provincial, U.S. federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations relating to employment and employment practices, terms and conditions of employment and wages and hours, except where the failure to be in compliance could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(l)     Compliance. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary: (i) is in default under or in violation of (and no event has occurred that has not been waived that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would result in a default by the Company or any Subsidiary under), nor has the Company or any Subsidiary received notice of a claim that it is in default under or that it is in violation of, any indenture, loan or credit agreement or any other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties is bound (whether or not such default or violation has been waived), (ii) is in violation of any judgment, decree, or order of any court, arbitrator or other governmental authority or (iii) is or has been in violation of any statute, rule, ordinance or regulation of any governmental authority, including without limitation all Canadian, provincial, foreign, U.S, federal, state and local laws relating to taxes, environmental protection, occupational health and safety, product quality and safety and employment and labor matters, except as could not have or reasonably be expected to result (individually or collectively) in a Material Adverse Effect.

   

(m)     Regulatory Permits. The Company and the Subsidiaries possess all certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate Canadian, provincial, U.S, federal, state, local or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses as described in the SEC Reports, except where the failure to possess such permits could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect (“Material Permits”), and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any Material Permit.

 

(n)     Title to Assets. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.1(n), the Company and the Subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to all real property owned by them and good and marketable title in all personal property owned by them that is material to the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all Liens, except for (i) Liens as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and the Subsidiaries and (ii) Liens for the payment of Canadian, provincial, U.S, federal, state or other taxes, for which appropriate reserves have been made therefor in accordance with GAAP and the payment of which is neither delinquent nor subject to penalties. Any real property and facilities held under lease by the Company and the Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with which the Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance.

  

 
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(o)     Intellectual Property. The Company and the Subsidiaries have, or have rights to use, all patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade names, trade secrets, inventions, copyrights, licenses and other intellectual property rights and similar rights as necessary or required for use in connection with their respective businesses and which the failure to so have could have a Material Adverse Effect (collectively, the “Intellectual Property Rights”). Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received a notice (written or otherwise) that any of, the Intellectual Property Rights has expired, terminated or been abandoned, or is expected to expire or terminate or be abandoned, within two (2) years from the date of this Agreement. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports, a written notice of a claim or otherwise has any knowledge that the Intellectual Property Rights violate or infringe upon the rights of any Person, except as could not have or reasonably be expected to not have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Company, all such Intellectual Property Rights are enforceable and there is no existing infringement by another Person of any of the Intellectual Property Rights. The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable security measures to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all of their intellectual properties, except where failure to do so could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(p)     Insurance. The Company and the Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary in the businesses in which the Company and the Subsidiaries are engaged, including, but not limited to, directors’ and officers’ insurance coverage. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business without a significant increase in cost.

 

(q)     Transactions With Affiliates and Employees. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports and the Proxy Statement, none of the officers or directors of the Company or any Subsidiary and, to the knowledge of the Company, none of the employees of the Company or any Subsidiary is presently a party to any transaction with the Company or any Subsidiary (other than for services as employees, officers and directors), including any contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, providing for the borrowing of money from or lending of money to or otherwise requiring payments to or from any officer, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of the Company, any entity in which any officer, director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee, stockholder, member or partner, in each case in excess of $120,000 other than for: (i) payment of salary or consulting fees for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for expenses incurred on behalf of the Company and (iii) other employee benefits, including stock option agreements under any stock option plan of the Company.

  

 
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(r)     Sarbanes-Oxley; Internal Accounting Controls. The Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance with any and all applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that are effective as of the date hereof, and any and all applicable rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder that are effective as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date. The Company and the Subsidiaries maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The Company and the Subsidiaries have established disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the Company and the Subsidiaries and designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms. The Company’s certifying officers have evaluated the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures of the Company and the Subsidiaries as of the end of the period covered by the most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act (such date, the “Evaluation Date”). The Company presented in its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act the conclusions of the certifying officers about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based on their evaluations as of the Evaluation Date. Since the Evaluation Date, there have been no changes in the internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in the Exchange Act) of the Company and its Subsidiaries that have materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the internal control over financial reporting of the Company or its Subsidiaries.

 

(s)     Certain Fees. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(s), no brokerage or finder’s fees or commissions are or will be payable by the Company or any Subsidiary to any broker, financial advisor or consultant, finder, placement agent, investment banker, bank or other Person with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Purchasers shall have no obligation with respect to any fees or with respect to any claims made by or on behalf of other Persons for fees of a type contemplated in this Section that may be due in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

 

(t)     Private Placement. Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.2, no registration under the Securities Act is required for the offer and sale of the Securities by the Company to the Purchasers as contemplated hereby. The issuance and sale of the Securities hereunder does not contravene the rules and regulations of the Trading Market.

  

 
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(u)     Investment Company. The Company is not, and is not an Affiliate of, and immediately after receipt of payment for the Securities, will not be or be an Affiliate of, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Company shall conduct its business in a manner so that it will not become an “investment company” subject to registration under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

(v)     Registration Rights. Other than each of the Purchasers (to the extent so provided in the Registration Rights Agreement) or as set forth in Schedule 3.1(v), no Person has any right to cause the Company to effect the registration under the Securities Act of any securities of the Company or any Subsidiary.

 

(w)     Listing and Maintenance Requirements. The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act, and the Company has taken no action designed to, or which to its knowledge is likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission is contemplating terminating such registration. The Company has not, in the twelve months preceding the date hereof, received notice from any Trading Market on which the Common Stock is or has been listed or quoted to the effect that the Company is not in compliance with the listing or maintenance requirements of such Trading Market. The Company is, and has no reason to believe that it will not in the foreseeable future continue to be, in compliance with all such listing and maintenance requirements. The Common Stock is currently eligible for electronic transfer through the Depository Trust Company or another established clearing corporation and the Company is current in payment of the fees to the Depository Trust Company (or such other established clearing corporation) in connection with such electronic transfer.

 

(x)     Application of Takeover Protections. The Company and the Board of Directors have taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the Company’s certificate of incorporation (or similar charter documents) or the laws of its state of incorporation that is or could become applicable to the Purchasers as a result of the Purchasers and the Company fulfilling their obligations or exercising their rights under the Transaction Documents, including without limitation as a result of the Company’s issuance of the Securities and the Purchasers’ ownership of the Securities

 

(y)     Disclosure. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and the Merger Agreement, the Company confirms that neither it nor to the best of the Company’s knowledge, any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any of the Purchasers or their agents or counsel with any information that it believes constitutes or might constitute material, non-public information. Attached hereto as Schedule 3.1(y) is a draft of the Company’s preliminary proxy statement that the Company will file with the Commission in connection with the Merger on or prior to 9:00 AM (ET) on the three week anniversary date of the date hereof (which proxy statement contains, among other information, risk factors concerning the post-Merger Company, audited and pro-forma financial statements required to be filed therewith and all other information with respect to Viveve required to by the Exchange Act to be included therein) (the “Proxy Statement”). The Company understands and confirms that the Purchasers will rely on the foregoing representation in effecting transactions in securities of the Company. All of the disclosure furnished by or on behalf of the Company to the Purchasers regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries, their respective businesses and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Disclosure Schedules to this Agreement, is true and correct and does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The press releases disseminated by the Company during the twelve months preceding the date of this Agreement taken as a whole do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made and when made, not misleading. The Company acknowledges and agrees that no Purchaser makes or has made any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in Section 3.2 hereof.

  

 
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(z)     No Integrated Offering. Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.2, neither the Company, nor any of its Affiliates, nor any Person acting on its or their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to buy any security, under circumstances that would cause this offering of the Securities to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of (i) the Securities Act which would require the registration of any such securities under the Securities Act, or (ii) any applicable shareholder approval provisions of any Trading Market on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or designated.

 

(aa)     Solvency. Based on the consolidated financial condition of the Company as of the Closing Date, after giving effect to the receipt by the Company of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder: (i) the fair saleable value of the Company’s assets exceeds the amount that will be required to be paid on or in respect of the Company’s existing debts and other liabilities (including known contingent liabilities) as they mature, (ii) the Company’s assets do not constitute unreasonably small capital to carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted including its capital needs taking into account the particular capital requirements of the business conducted by the Company, consolidated and projected capital requirements and capital availability thereof, and (iii) the current cash flow of the Company, together with the proceeds the Company would receive, were it to liquidate all of its assets, after taking into account all anticipated uses of the cash, would be sufficient to pay all amounts on or in respect of its liabilities when such amounts are required to be paid. The Company does not intend to incur debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as they mature (taking into account the timing and amounts of cash to be payable on or in respect of its debt). The Company has no knowledge of any facts or circumstances which lead it to believe that it will file for reorganization or liquidation under the bankruptcy or reorganization laws of any jurisdiction within one year from the Closing Date. Schedule 3.1(aa) sets forth as of the date hereof all outstanding secured and unsecured Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary, or for which the Company or any Subsidiary has commitments. For the purposes of this Agreement, “Indebtedness” means (x) any liabilities for borrowed money or amounts owed in excess of $50,000 (other than trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business), (y) all guaranties, endorsements and other contingent obligations in respect of indebtedness of others, whether or not the same are or should be reflected in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet (or the notes thereto), except guaranties by endorsement of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the ordinary course of business; and (z) the present value of any lease payments in excess of $50,000 due under leases required to be capitalized in accordance with GAAP. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in default with respect to any Indebtedness.

  

 
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(bb)     Tax Status. Except for matters that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and its Subsidiaries each (i) has made or filed all Canadian, provincial, United States federal, state and local income and all foreign income and franchise tax returns, reports and declarations required by any jurisdiction to which it is subject, (ii) has paid all taxes and other governmental assessments and charges that are material in amount, shown or determined to be due on such returns, reports and declarations and (iii) has set aside on its books provision reasonably adequate for the payment of all material taxes for periods subsequent to the periods to which such returns, reports or declarations apply. There are no unpaid taxes in any material amount claimed to be due by the taxing authority of any jurisdiction, and the officers of the Company or of any Subsidiary know of no basis for any such claim.

 

(cc)     No General Solicitation. Neither the Company nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any Person acting on behalf of the Company has offered or sold any of the Securities by any form of general solicitation or general advertising. The Company has offered the Securities for sale only to the Purchasers and certain other “accredited investors” within the meaning of Rule 501 under the Securities Act.

 

(dd)     Foreign Corrupt Practices. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, to the knowledge of the Company or any Subsidiary, any agent or other person acting on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary, has: (i) directly or indirectly, used any funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses related to foreign or domestic political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to any foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) failed to disclose fully any contribution made by the Company or any Subsidiary (or made by any person acting on its behalf of which the Company is aware) which is in violation of law or (iv) violated in any material respect any provision of FCPA.

 

(ee)     Accountants. The Company’s accounting firm is set forth on Schedule 3.1(ee) of the Disclosure Schedules and shall include the Company’s accounting firm post-Merger. To the knowledge and belief of the Company, such accounting firms are registered public accounting firms as required by the Exchange Act.

  

 
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(ff)     No Disagreements with Accountants and Lawyers.     There are no disagreements of any kind presently existing, or reasonably anticipated by the Company to arise, between the Company and the accountants and lawyers formerly or presently employed by the Company and the Company is current with respect to any fees owed to its accountants and lawyers which could affect the Company’s ability to perform any of its obligations under any of the Transaction Documents.      

 

(gg)      Acknowledgment Regarding Purchasers’ Purchase of Securities. The Company acknowledges and agrees that each of the Purchasers is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby. The Company further acknowledges that no Purchaser is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby and any advice given by any Purchaser or any of their respective representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby is merely incidental to the Purchasers’ purchase of the Securities. The Company further represents to each Purchaser that the Company’s decision to enter into this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Company and its representatives.

 

(hh)     Acknowledgment Regarding Purchaser’s Trading Activity. Anything in this Agreement or elsewhere herein to the contrary notwithstanding (except for Sections 3.2(f) and 4.14 hereof), it is understood and acknowledged by the Company that: (i) none of the Purchasers has been asked by the Company to agree, nor has any Purchaser agreed, to desist from purchasing or selling, long and/or short, securities of the Company, or “derivative” securities based on securities issued by the Company or to hold the Securities for any specified term, (ii) past or future open market or other transactions by any Purchaser, specifically including, without limitation, Short Sales or “derivative” transactions, before or after the closing of this or future private placement transactions, may negatively impact the market price of the Company’s publicly-traded securities, (iii) any Purchaser, and counter-parties in “derivative” transactions to which any such Purchaser is a party, directly or indirectly, may presently have a “short” position in the Common Stock and (iv) each Purchaser shall not be deemed to have any affiliation with or control over any arm’s length counter-party in any “derivative” transaction. The Company further understands and acknowledges that (y) one or more Purchasers may engage in hedging activities at various times during the period that the Securities are outstanding, including, without limitation, during the periods that the value of the Warrant Shares deliverable with respect to Securities are being determined, and (z) such hedging activities (if any) could reduce the value of the existing stockholders' equity interests in the Company at and after the time that the hedging activities are being conducted.  The Company acknowledges that such aforementioned hedging activities do not constitute a breach of any of the Transaction Documents.

  

 
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(ii)     Regulation M Compliance.  The Company has not, and to its knowledge no one acting on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to cause or to result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the Securities, (ii) sold, bid for, purchased, or paid any compensation for soliciting purchases of, any of the Securities, or (iii) paid or agreed to pay to any Person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other securities of the Company, other than, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), compensation paid to the Placement Agents in connection with the placement of the Securities.

 

(jj)     FDA. As to each product subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, as amended, and the regulations thereunder (“FDCA”), that is manufactured, packaged, labeled, tested, distributed, sold, and/or marketed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (each such product, a “Pharmaceutical Product”), such Pharmaceutical Product is being manufactured, packaged, labeled, tested, distributed, sold and/or marketed by the Company in compliance with all applicable requirements under FDCA and similar laws, rules and regulations relating to registration, investigational use, premarket clearance, licensure, or application approval, good manufacturing practices, good laboratory practices, good clinical practices, product listing, quotas, labeling, advertising, record keeping and filing of reports, except where the failure to be in compliance would not have a Material Adverse Effect. There is no pending, completed or, to the Company's knowledge, threatened, action (including any lawsuit, arbitration, or legal or administrative or regulatory proceeding, charge, complaint, or investigation) against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice, warning letter or other communication from the FDA or any other governmental entity, which (i) contests the premarket clearance, licensure, registration, or approval of, the uses of, the distribution of, the manufacturing or packaging of, the testing of, the sale of, or the labeling and promotion of any Pharmaceutical Product, (ii) withdraws its approval of, requests the recall, suspension, or seizure of, or withdraws or orders the withdrawal of advertising or sales promotional materials relating to, any Pharmaceutical Product, (iii) imposes a clinical hold on any clinical investigation by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (iv) enjoins production at any facility of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (v) enters or proposes to enter into a consent decree of permanent injunction with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or (vi) otherwise alleges any violation of any laws, rules or regulations by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and which, either individually or in the aggregate, would have a Material Adverse Effect. The properties, business and operations of the Company have been and are being conducted in all material respects in accordance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations of the FDA.  The Company has not been informed by the FDA that the FDA will prohibit the marketing, sale, license or use in the United States of any product proposed to be developed, produced or marketed by the Company nor has the FDA expressed any concern as to approving or clearing for marketing any product being developed or proposed to be developed by the Company.

 

(kk)     Stock Option Plans. Each stock option granted by the Company under the Company’s stock option plan was granted (i) in accordance with the terms of the Company’s stock option plan and (ii) with an exercise price at least equal to the fair market value of the Common Stock on the date such stock option would be considered granted under GAAP and applicable law. No stock option granted under the Company’s stock option plan has been backdated. The Company has not knowingly granted, and there is no and has been no Company policy or practice to knowingly grant, stock options prior to, or otherwise knowingly coordinate the grant of stock options with, the release or other public announcement of material information regarding the Company or its Subsidiaries or their financial results or prospects.

  

 
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(ll)     Office of Foreign Assets Control. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary nor, to the Company's knowledge, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any Subsidiary is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”).

 

(mm)     No Disqualification Events.  With respect to the Securities to be offered and sold hereunder in reliance on Rule 506 under the Securities Act, none of the Company, any of its predecessors, any affiliated issuer, any director, executive officer, other officer of the Company participating in the offering hereunder, any beneficial owner of 20% or more of the Company’s outstanding voting equity securities, calculated on the basis of voting power, nor any promoter (as that term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) connected with the Company in any capacity at the time of sale (each, an "Issuer Covered Person" and, together, "Issuer Covered Persons") is subject to any of the "Bad Actor" disqualifications described in Rule 506(d)(1)(i) to (viii) under the Securities Act (a "Disqualification Event"), except for a Disqualification Event covered by Rule 506(d)(2) or (d)(3). The Company has exercised reasonable care to determine whether any Issuer Covered Person is subject to a Disqualification Event. The Company has complied, to the extent applicable, with its disclosure obligations under Rule 506(e), and has furnished to the Purchasers a copy of any disclosures provided thereunder.

 

(nn)     Other Covered Persons. Other than the Placement Agents, the Company is not aware of any person (other than any Issuer Covered Person) that has been or will be paid (directly or indirectly) remuneration for solicitation of purchasers in connection with the sale of any Securities.

 

(oo)     Notice of Disqualification Events. The Company will notify the Purchasers and the Placement Agents in writing, prior to the Closing Date of (i) any Disqualification Event relating to any Issuer Covered Person and (ii) any event that would, with the passage of time, become a Disqualification Event relating to any Issuer Covered Person.

 

3.2     Representations and Warranties of the Purchasers. Each Purchaser, for itself and for no other Purchaser, hereby represents and warrants as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date to the Company as follows (unless as of a specific date therein):

  

 
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(a)     Organization; Authority. Such Purchaser is either an individual or an entity duly incorporated or formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or formation with full right, corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and performance by such Purchaser of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar action, as applicable, on the part of such Purchaser. Each Transaction Document to which it is a party has been duly executed by such Purchaser, and when delivered by such Purchaser in accordance with the terms hereof, will constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of such Purchaser, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.

 

(b)     Own Account. Such Purchaser understands that the Securities are “restricted securities” and have not been registered under the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law and is acquiring the Securities as principal for its own account and not with a view to or for distributing or reselling such Securities or any part thereof in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law, has no present intention of distributing any of such Securities in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law and has no direct or indirect arrangement or understandings with any other persons to distribute or regarding the distribution of such Securities in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law (this representation and warranty not limiting such Purchaser’s right to sell the Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement or otherwise in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws). Such Purchaser is acquiring the Securities hereunder in the ordinary course of its business.

 

(c)     Purchaser Status. At the time such Purchaser was offered the Securities, it was, and as of the date hereof it is, and on each date on which it exercises any Warrants, it will be an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501under the Securities Act.

 

(d)     Experience of Such Purchaser. Such Purchaser, either alone or together with its representatives, has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in business and financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment in the Securities, and has so evaluated the merits and risks of such investment. Such Purchaser is able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the Securities and, at the present time, is able to afford a complete loss of such investment.

 

(e)     General Solicitation. Such Purchaser is not purchasing the Securities as a result of any advertisement, article, notice or other communication regarding the Securities published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over television or radio or presented at any seminar or any other general solicitation or general advertisement.

  

 
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(f)     Certain Transactions and Confidentiality. Other than consummating the transactions contemplated hereunder, such Purchaser has not directly or indirectly, nor has any Person acting on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with such Purchaser, executed any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of the securities of the Company during the period commencing as of the time that such Purchaser first received a term sheet (written or oral) from the Company or any other Person representing the Company setting forth the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereunder and ending immediately prior to the execution hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Purchaser’s assets, the representation set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement. Other than to other Persons party to this Agreement, such Purchaser has maintained the confidentiality of all disclosures made to it in connection with this transaction (including the existence and terms of this transaction). Notwithstanding the foregoing, for avoidance of doubt, nothing contained herein shall constitute a representation or warranty, or preclude any actions, with respect to the identification of the availability of, or securing of, available shares to borrow in order to effect Short Sales or similar transactions in the future.

 

(g)     Canadian Restrictions. Each Purchaser acknowledges that the Securities have not been qualified for sale in Ontario or Canada and each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, agrees with the Company that the Securities shall not be offered, sold or traded directly or indirectly to any Person, to its knowledge, in the Yukon Territory or Canada before the date that is four months and one day after the later of (i) the original issuance of such Securities, and (ii) the date the Company became a reporting issuer in any province or territory of Canada, unless such offer, sale or trade is to an “accredited investor” as such term is defined under National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus and Registration Exemptions.

 

(h)     Access to Information.  Such Purchaser acknowledges that it has had the opportunity to review the SEC Reports and the Disclosure Schedules and the Viveve Disclosure Schedules incorporated in the Merger Agreement and has been afforded (i) the opportunity to ask such questions as it has deemed necessary of, and to receive answers from, representatives of the Company and Viveve concerning the terms and conditions of the offering of the Securities and the merits and risks of investing in the Securities; (ii) access to information about the Company and the Subsidiaries and Viveve and their respective financial condition, results of operations, business, properties, management and prospects sufficient to enable it to evaluate its investment; and (iii) the opportunity to obtain such additional information that the Company or Viveve possesses or can acquire without unreasonable effort or expense that is necessary to make an informed investment decision with respect to the investment. Neither such inquiries nor any other investigation conducted by or on behalf of such Purchaser or its representatives or counsel shall modify, amend or affect such Purchaser’s right to rely on the truth, accuracy and completeness of the SEC Reports and Disclosure Schedules, the Company’s representations and warranties contained in the Transaction Documents and Viveve’s representations and warranties set forth in Article III of the Merger Agreement and the Viveve Disclosure Schedules incorporated therein.  Such Purchaser had the opportunity to seek such accounting, legal and tax advice as it has considered necessary to make an informed decision with respect to its acquisition of the Securities.

  

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

 

The Company acknowledges and agrees that the representations contained in Section 3.2 shall not modify, amend or affect such Purchaser’s right to rely on the Company’s representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any representations and warranties contained in any other Transaction Document or any other document or instrument executed and/or delivered in connection with this Agreement or the consummation of the transaction contemplated hereby.

 

ARTICLE IV.
OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES

 

4.1           Transfer Restrictions.

 

(a)     The Securities may only be disposed of in compliance with state and federal securities laws. In connection with any transfer of Securities other than pursuant to an effective registration statement or Rule 144, to the Company or to an Affiliate of a Purchaser or in connection with a pledge as contemplated in Section 4.1(b) ) (in all of which cases the company will specifically waive the opinion requirement set out in the legend to be imprinted pursuant to Section 4.1(b)), the Company may require the transferor thereof to provide to the Company an opinion of counsel selected by the transferor and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the form and substance of which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that such transfer does not require registration of such transferred Securities under the Securities Act. As a condition of transfer, any such transferee shall agree in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and, with regard to the Shares, the Registration Rights Agreement and shall have the rights and obligations of a Purchaser under this Agreement and, with regard to the Shares only, the Registration Rights Agreement.

 

(b)     The Purchasers agree to the imprinting, so long as is required by this Section 4.1, of a legend on any certificates evidencing the Securities in the following form:

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT (IF REQUESTED BY THE COMPANY), THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY. THIS SECURITY MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT WITH A REGISTERED BROKER-DEALER OR OTHER LOAN WITH A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION THAT IS AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR OTHER LOAN SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES.

  

 
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The Company acknowledges and agrees that a Purchaser may from time to time pledge pursuant to a bona fide margin agreement with a registered broker-dealer or grant a security interest in some or all of the Securities to a financial institution that is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and who agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement and, if required under the terms of such arrangement, such Purchaser may transfer pledged or secured Securities to the pledgees or secured parties. Such a pledge or transfer would not be subject to approval of the Company and no legal opinion of legal counsel of the pledgee, secured party or pledgor shall be required in connection therewith. Further, no notice shall be required of such pledge. At the appropriate Purchaser’s expense, the Company will execute and deliver such reasonable documentation as a pledgee or secured party of Securities may reasonably request in connection with a pledge or transfer of the Securities, including, if the Securities are subject to registration pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the preparation and filing of any required prospectus supplement under Rule 424(b)(3) under the Securities Act or other applicable provision of the Securities Act to appropriately amend the list of Selling Stockholders (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) thereunder.

 

(c)     Certificates evidencing the Shares and Warrant Shares shall not contain any legend (including the legend set forth in Section 4.1(b) hereof), (i) while a registration statement (including the Registration Statement) covering the resale of such security is effective under the Securities Act, (ii) following any sale of such Shares or Warrant Shares pursuant to Rule 144, (iii) if such Shares or Warrant Shares are eligible for sale under Rule 144, or (iv) if such legend is not required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission). The Company shall cause its counsel to issue a legal opinion to the Transfer Agent promptly if required by the Transfer Agent to effect the removal of the legend hereunder. If there is an effective registration statement to cover the resale of the Shares or Warrant Shares, or if such Shares or Warrant Shares may be sold under Rule 144 or if such legend is not otherwise required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission) then such Shares or Warrant Shares shall be issued free of all legends. The Company agrees that following the Effective Date or at such time as such legend is no longer required under this Section 4.1(c), it will, no later than three Trading Days following the delivery by a Purchaser to the Company or the Transfer Agent of a certificate representing Shares or Warrant Shares, as the case may be, issued with a restrictive legend (such third Trading Day, the “Legend Removal Date”), deliver or cause to be delivered to such Purchaser a certificate representing such shares that is free from all restrictive and other legends. The Company may not make any notation on its records or give instructions to the Transfer Agent that enlarge the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section 4. Certificates for Securities subject to legend removal hereunder shall be transmitted by the Transfer Agent to the Purchaser by crediting the account of the Purchaser’s prime broker with the Depository Trust Company System as directed by such Purchaser.

  

 
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(d)     In addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies, the Company shall pay to a Purchaser, in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for each $1,000 of Shares or Warrant Shares (based on the VWAP of the Common Stock on the date such Securities are submitted to the Transfer Agent) delivered for removal of the restrictive legend and subject to Section 4.1(c), $10 per Trading Day (increasing to $20 per Trading Day five (5) Trading Days after such damages have begun to accrue) for each Trading Day after the Legend Removal Date until such certificate is delivered without a legend. Nothing herein shall limit such Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the Company’s failure to deliver certificates representing any Securities as required by the Transaction Documents, and such Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief.

 

(e)     Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, agrees with the Company that such Purchaser will sell any Securities pursuant to either the registration requirements of the Securities Act, including any applicable prospectus delivery requirements, or an exemption therefrom, and that if Securities are sold pursuant to a Registration Statement, they will be sold in compliance with the plan of distribution set forth therein, and acknowledges that the removal of the restrictive legend from certificates representing Securities as set forth in this Section 4.1 is predicated upon the Company’s reliance upon this understanding.

 

4.2     Furnishing of Information; Public Information.

 

(a)     Until the time that no Purchaser owns any Securities, the Company covenants to maintain the registration of the Common Stock under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act and to timely file (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the Company after the date hereof pursuant to the Exchange Act even if the Company is not then subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act.

  

 
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(b)     At any time during the period commencing from the one year anniversary of the date hereof and ending at such time that all of the Securities may be sold without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with Rule 144(c)(1) and otherwise without restriction or limitation pursuant to Rule 144, if the Company shall fail for any reason to satisfy the current public information requirement under Rule 144(c) (a “Public Information Failure”) then, in addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies, the Company shall pay to each Purchaser, in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, by reason of any such delay in or reduction of its ability to sell the Securities, an amount in cash equal to two percent (2.0%) of the aggregate Subscription Amount of such Purchaser’s Securities on the day of a Public Information Failure and on every thirtieth (30th) day (pro rated for periods totaling less than thirty days) thereafter until the earlier of (a) the date such Public Information Failure is cured and (b) such time that such public information is no longer required for the Purchasers to transfer the Shares and Warrant Shares without restriction or limitation pursuant to Rule 144.  The payments to which a Purchaser shall be entitled pursuant to this Section 4.2(b) are referred to herein as “Public Information Failure Payments.”  Public Information Failure Payments shall be paid on the earlier of (i) the last day of the calendar month during which such Public Information Failure Payments are incurred and (ii) the third (3rd) Trading Day after the event or failure giving rise to the Public Information Failure Payments is cured.  In the event the Company fails to make Public Information Failure Payments or amounts required to be paid under Section 4.1(d) in a timely manner, such unpaid amounts shall bear interest at the rate of 1.5% per month (prorated for partial months) until paid in full. Nothing herein shall limit such Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the Public Information Failure, and such Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief.

 

4.3     Integration. The Company shall not sell, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that no Affiliate of the Company shall sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities in a manner that would require the registration under the Securities Act of the sale of the Securities or that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities for purposes of the rules and regulations of any Trading Market such that it would require shareholder approval prior to the closing of such other transaction unless shareholder approval is obtained before the closing of such subsequent transaction.

 

4.4     Securities Laws Disclosure; Publicity. The Company shall (a) by 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) on or before the fourth Trading Day immediately following the date hereof, issue a press release disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby, and (b) file a Current Report on Form 8-K, including the Transaction Documents as exhibits thereto, with the Commission within the time required by the Exchange Act. From and after the filing of the Proxy Statement, the Company represents to the Purchasers that it shall have publicly disclosed all material, non-public information delivered to any of the Purchasers by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees or agents in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Company and each Purchaser shall consult with each other in issuing any other press releases with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, and neither the Company nor any Purchaser shall issue any such press release nor otherwise make any such public statement without the prior consent of the Company, with respect to any press release of any Purchaser, or without the prior consent of each Purchaser, with respect to any press release of the Company, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed, except if such disclosure is required by law, in which case the disclosing party shall promptly provide the other party with prior notice of such public statement or communication. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not publicly disclose the name of any Purchaser, or include the name of any Purchaser in any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency or Trading Market, without the prior written consent of such Purchaser, except: (a) as required by federal securities law in connection with any registration statement contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement and (b) to the extent such disclosure is required by law or Trading Market regulations, in which case the Company shall provide the Purchasers with prior notice of such disclosure permitted under this clause (b).

  

 
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4.5     Shareholder Rights Plan. No claim will be made or enforced by the Company or, with the consent of the Company, any other Person, that any Purchaser is an “Acquiring Person” under any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or similar anti-takeover plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter adopted by the Company, or that any Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the provisions of any such plan or arrangement, by virtue of receiving Securities under the Transaction Documents or under any other agreement between the Company and the Purchasers.

 

4.6     Non-Public Information. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and the information set forth in the Proxy Statement, the Company covenants and agrees that neither it, nor any other Person acting on its behalf, will provide any Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any information that the Company believes constitutes material non-public information, unless prior thereto such Purchaser shall have entered into a written agreement with the Company regarding the confidentiality and use of such information. The Company understands and confirms that each Purchaser shall be relying on the foregoing covenant in effecting transactions in securities of the Company.

 

4.7     Use of Proceeds. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.7 attached hereto, the Company shall use the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder for working capital purposes and shall not use such proceeds: (a) for the satisfaction of any portion of the Company’s debt (other than payment of trade payables in the ordinary course of the Company’s business and prior practices), (b) for the redemption of any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents, (c) for the settlement of any outstanding litigation or (d) in violation of FCPA or OFAC regulations.

  

 
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4.8     Indemnification of Purchasers. Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.8, the Company will indemnify and hold each Purchaser and its directors, officers, shareholders, members, partners, employees and agents (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each Person who controls such Purchaser (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, shareholders, agents, members, partners or employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling persons (each, a “Purchaser Party”) harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, obligations, claims, contingencies, damages, costs and expenses, including all judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation that any such Purchaser Party may suffer or incur as a result of or relating to (a) any breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by the Company in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents or (b) any action instituted against the Purchaser Parties in any capacity, or any of them or their respective Affiliates, by any stockholder of the Company who is not an Affiliate of such Purchaser Parties, with respect to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (unless such action is based upon a breach of such Purchaser Party’s representations, warranties or covenants under the Transaction Documents or any agreements or understandings such Purchaser Parties may have with any such stockholder or any violations by such Purchaser Parties of Canadian, provincial, U.S. state or federal securities laws or any conduct by such Purchaser Parties which constitutes fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct or malfeasance). If any action shall be brought against any Purchaser Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement, such Purchaser Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing, and the Company shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser Party. Any Purchaser Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Purchaser Party except to the extent that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Company in writing, (ii) the Company has failed after a reasonable period of time to assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action there is, in the reasonable opinion of counsel, a material conflict on any material issue between the position of the Company and the position of such Purchaser Party, in which case the Company shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than one such separate counsel. The Company will not be liable to any Purchaser Party under this Agreement (y) for any settlement by a Purchaser Party effected without the Company’s prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (z) to the extent, but only to the extent, that a loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to any Purchaser Party’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by such Purchaser Party in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents. The indemnification required by this Section 4.8 shall be made by periodic payments of the amount thereof during the course of the investigation or defense, as and when bills are received or are incurred. The indemnity agreements contained herein shall be in addition to any cause of action or similar right of any Purchaser Party against the Company or others and any liabilities the Company may be subject to pursuant to law.

 

4.9     Reservation of Common Stock. As of the date hereof, the Company has reserved and the Company shall continue to reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to issue Shares pursuant to this Agreement and the Warrant Shares pursuant to any exercise of the Warrants.

 

4.10     Listing of Common Stock. The Company hereby agrees to use best efforts to maintain the listing or quotation of the Common Stock on the Trading Market on which it is currently listed, and concurrently with the Closing, the Company shall, to the extent required, apply to list or quote all of the Shares and Warrant Shares on such Trading Market and promptly secure the listing of all of the Shares and Warrant Shares on such Trading Market. The Company further agrees, if the Company applies to have the Common Stock traded on any other Trading Market, it will then include in such application all of the Shares and Warrant Shares, and will take such other action as is necessary to cause all of the Shares and Warrant Shares to be listed or quoted on such other Trading Market as promptly as possible. The Company will then take all action reasonably necessary to continue the listing or quotation and trading of its Common Stock on a Trading Market and will comply in all respects with the Company’s reporting, filing and other obligations under the bylaws or rules of the Trading Market. The Company agrees to maintain the eligibility of the Common Stock for electronic transfer through the Depository Trust Company or another established clearing corporation, including, without limitation, by timely payment of fees to the Depository Trust Company or such other established clearing corporation in connection with such electronic transfer.

  

 
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4.11     Limitation of Liability and Obligations.

 

(a)     GBS Venture Partners enters into this Agreement only in its capacity as responsible entity of the GBS BioVentures III Trust (the “Trust”) and in no other capacity. A liability arising under or in connection with this Agreement is limited to, and can be enforced against GBS Venture Partners only to the extent to which it can be satisfied out of the assets of the Trust from which GBS Venture Partners is actually indemnified for the liability. This limitation of GBS Venture Partners’ liability applies despite any other provision of this Agreement and extends to all liabilities and obligations of GBS Venture Partners in any way connected with any representation, warranty, conduct, omission, agreement or transaction related to this Agreement.

 

(b)     No party may sue GBS Venture Partners in any capacity other than as responsible entity of the Trust, including seek the appointment of a receiver (except in relation to property of the Trust), a liquidator, an administrator, or any similar person to GBS Venture Partners or prove in any liquidation, administration or arrangement of or affecting GBS Venture Partners (except in relation to property of the Trust).

 

(c)     The provisions of this Section 4.11 do not apply to any obligation or liability of GBS Venture Partners to the extent that it is not satisfied because under the deed governing the Trust, or by operation of law, there is a reduction in the extent of GBS Venture Partners’ indemnification out of the assets of the Trust, as a result of GBS Venture Partners fraud, negligence or breach of trust.

 

(d)     No attorney, agent, receiver or receiver and manager appointed in accordance with this Agreement has authority to act on behalf of GBS Venture Partners in a way which exposes GBS Venture Partners to any personal liability, and no act or omission of any such person will be considered fraud, negligence or breach of trust of GBS Venture Partners for the purpose of subsection 4.11(c).

 

4.12     Subsequent Equity Sales. From the date hereof until the one (1) year anniversary of the Closing Date, the Company shall be prohibited from effecting or entering into an agreement to effect any issuance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents (or a combination of units thereof) involving a Variable Rate Transaction. “Variable Rate Transaction” means a transaction in which the Company (i) issues or sells any debt or equity securities that are convertible into, exchangeable or exercisable for, or include the right to receive, additional shares of Common Stock either (A) at a conversion price, exercise price or exchange rate or other price that is based upon, and/or varies with, the trading prices of or quotations for the shares of Common Stock at any time after the initial issuance of such debt or equity securities or (B) with a conversion, exercise or exchange price that is subject to being reset at some future date after the initial issuance of such debt or equity security or upon the occurrence of specified or contingent events directly or indirectly related to the business of the Company or the market for the Common Stock or (ii) enters into any agreement, including, but not limited to, an equity line of credit, whereby the Company may issue securities at a future determined price. Any Purchaser shall be entitled to obtain injunctive relief against the Company to preclude any such issuance, which remedy shall be in addition to any right to collect damages.

  

 
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4.13     Equal Treatment of Purchasers. No consideration (including any modification of any Transaction Document) shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of this Agreement unless the same consideration is also offered to all of the parties to this Agreement. For clarification purposes, this provision constitutes a separate right granted to each Purchaser by the Company and negotiated separately by each Purchaser, and is intended for the Company to treat the Purchasers as a class and shall not in any way be construed as the Purchasers acting in concert or as a group with respect to the purchase, disposition or voting of Securities or otherwise.

 

4.14     Certain Transactions and Confidentiality. Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that neither it, nor any Affiliate acting on its behalf or pursuant to any understanding with it will execute any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of any of the Company’s securities during the period commencing with the execution of this Agreement and ending at such time that the Proxy Statement is filed.  Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that until such time as the Proxy Statement is filed, such Purchaser will maintain the confidentiality of any information provided to it in connection with the Transaction Documents.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, and notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, the Company expressly acknowledges and agrees that (i) no Purchaser makes any representation, warranty or covenant hereby that it will not engage in effecting transactions in any securities of the Company after the time that the Proxy Statement is filed, (ii) no Purchaser shall be restricted or prohibited from effecting any transactions in any securities of the Company in accordance with applicable securities laws from and after the time that the Proxy Statement is filed and (iii) no Purchaser shall have any duty of confidentiality to the Company or its Subsidiaries after the Proxy Statement is filed.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Purchaser’s assets, the covenant set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement.

  

 
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4.15     Per Share Price Protection.

 

(a)     From the date hereof until such date that the Company consummates a Subsequent Financing with gross cash proceeds of at least $2.5 million at an effective per share purchase price equal to at least $0.53 (subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits and the like after the date hereof), if and whenever the Company or any Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, issues or sells (whether through a Subsequent Financing or otherwise) any shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents (including the issuance or sale of shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents owned or held by or for the account of the Company) for a consideration per share that is less than the Per Share Purchase Price (adjusted for stock splits, combinations, dividends and the like occurring after the Closing Date) (such lesser price is referred to herein as the “Discounted Per Share Purchase Price”) (the foregoing a “Dilutive Issuance”), then immediately after such Dilutive Issuance, the Company shall issue to each Purchaser, without the payment of additional consideration, in connection with such Dilutive Issuance, a number of additional shares of Common Stock equal to the product of (i) the fraction obtained by dividing (A) the sum of the number of Initial Shares and Additional Shares then held by such Purchaser on the date of the Dilutive Issuance by (B) the sum of the number of Initial Shares issued to such Purchaser on the Closing Date and all Additional Shares previously reserved for issuance to such Purchaser after the Closing Date, multiplied by (ii) the difference between (A) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that would have been issued to such Purchaser at the Closing if the Subscription Amount was divided by the Discounted Per Share Purchase Price minus (B) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock equal to the sum of the Initial Shares (as defined below), plus, to the extent there has been a previous reservation of Additional Shares (as defined below) to such Purchaser, the number of Additional Shares previously reserved for issuance to such Purchaser. For purposes of this Section 4.15, (I) “Additional Shares” means, with respect to the applicable Purchaser, shares of Common Stock issued to such Purchaser pursuant to this Section 4.15 (adjusted for stock splits, combinations, dividends and the like occurring after the Closing Date); and (II) “Initial Shares” means, with respect to the applicable Purchaser, the number of shares of Common Stock issued to such Purchaser on the Closing Date (adjusted for stock splits, combinations, dividends and the like occurring after the Closing Date)

 

(b)     In implementation of the foregoing, to the extent that an issuance of Additional Shares would result in a Purchaser or any of its affiliates beneficially owning in excess of 4.9% (the “Maximum Percentage”) of the Common Stock, then the Company shall initially issue only such number of Additional Shares that would result in such Purchaser (together with such Purchaser’s affiliates) beneficially owning the Maximum Percentage of the Common Stock, and, except as otherwise provided below, no other Additional Shares shall be issuable under this Section 4.15. After such initial issuance, and until all Additional Shares which otherwise would have been issued under this Section 4.15 have been issued, from time to time the Company will issue such number of such unissued Additional Shares so that such Purchaser (together such Purchaser’s affiliates) will beneficially own only the Maximum Percentage of the Common Stock. Such Purchaser shall make written representations and warranties to the Company regarding its (together with its affiliates’) beneficial ownership to effectuate the foregoing. The provisions of this paragraph shall be implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms this paragraph to correct this paragraph (or any portion hereof) which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended Maximum Percentage beneficial ownership limitation herein contained or to make changes or supplements necessary or desirable to properly give effect to such Maximum Percentage limitation. The limitations contained in this paragraph shall apply to assignees of such Purchaser hereunder. The holders of Common Stock of the Company shall be third party beneficiaries of this paragraph and the Company may not waive this paragraph without the consent of holders of a majority of its Common Stock. For the purposes of this paragraph, beneficial ownership and all determinations and calculations (including, without limitation, with respect to calculations of percentage ownership) shall be determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

  

 
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(c)     If shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents are issued for a consideration other than cash, the per share price shall be the fair value of such consideration as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company. For the purposes of this Section 4.15, the “price per share for which one share of Common Stock is issuable upon the conversion, exercise or exchange of any Common Stock Equivalents” shall be equal to the sum of the lowest amounts of consideration (if any) received or receivable by the Company with respect to one share of Common Stock upon the issuance or sale of such Common Stock Equivalents and upon conversion, exercise or exchange of such Common Stock Equivalents. The Company may not refuse to issue to a Purchaser Additional Shares hereunder based on any claim that such Purchaser or any one associated or affiliated with such Purchaser has been engaged in any violation of law, agreement or for any other reason, unless, an injunction from a court, on notice, restraining and or enjoining an issuance hereunder shall have been sought and obtained. Nothing herein shall limit a Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the Company’s failure to deliver Additional Shares hereunder, and such Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief. On the date of closing of any transaction pursuant to which securities are issued for a Discounted Per Share Purchase Price, the Company shall give each of the Purchasers written notice thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein in this Section 4.15, this Section 4.15 shall not apply to an Exempt Issuance. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the right set forth in this Section 4.15 is a right granted by the Company, separately, to each Purchaser.

 

4.16     Form D; Blue Sky Filings. The Company agrees to timely file (i) a Form D with respect to the Securities as required under Regulation D and to provide a copy thereof, promptly upon request of any Purchaser and (ii) all of the other Required Approvals when due or required for filing. The Company shall take such action as the Company shall reasonably determine is necessary in order to obtain an exemption for, or to qualify the Securities for, sale to the Purchasers at the Closing under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of the United States, and shall provide evidence of such actions promptly upon request of any Purchaser.

 

4.17     Acknowledgment of Dilution. The Company acknowledges that the issuance of the Securities may result in dilution of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, which dilution may be substantial under certain market conditions. The Company further acknowledges that its obligations under the Transaction Documents, including, without limitation, its obligation to issue the Shares and Warrant Shares pursuant to the Transaction Documents, are unconditional and absolute and not subject to any right of set off, counterclaim, delay or reduction, regardless of the effect of any such dilution or any claim the Company may have against any Purchaser and regardless of the dilutive effect that such issuance may have on the ownership of the other stockholders of the Company.

 

 
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ARTICLE V.
MISCELLANEOUS

 

5.1     Termination.  This Agreement may be terminated by any Purchaser, as to such Purchaser’s obligations hereunder only and without any effect whatsoever on the obligations between the Company and the other Purchasers, by written notice to the other parties, if the Closing has not been consummated on or before October 31, 2014; provided, however, that such termination will not affect the right of any party to sue for any breach by any other party (or parties).

 

5.2     Fees and Expenses. At the Closing, the Company and the Purchasers shall each pay the fees and expenses of their respective advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses incurred by such party in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and related hereto, including, without limitation, the Merger; provided, however, the Company acknowledges the Parent Professional Fees (as defined in and required by the Merger Agreement) shall be paid at the closing of the Merger. The Company shall pay all Transfer Agent fees (including, without limitation, any fees required for same-day processing of any instruction letter delivered by the Company and any exercise notice delivered by a Purchaser), stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of any Securities to the Purchasers.

 

5.3     Entire Agreement. The Transaction Documents, together with the exhibits and schedules thereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and schedules.

 

5.4     Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of: (a) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto at or prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the second (2nd) Trading Day following the date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (d) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given. The address for such notices and communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto.

 

5.5     Amendments; Waivers. No provision of this Agreement may be waived, modified, supplemented or amended except in a written instrument signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Company and the Purchasers holding at least 67% in interest of the Shares (based on initial Subscription Amounts hereunder) or, in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom enforcement of any such waived provision is sought. No waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right.

 

5.6     Headings. The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.

  

 
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5.7     Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns. The Company may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Purchaser (other than by merger). Any Purchaser may assign any or all of its rights under this Agreement to any Person to whom such Purchaser assigns or transfers any Securities, provided that such transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with respect to the transferred Securities, by the provisions of the Transaction Documents that apply to the “Purchasers.”

 

5.8     No Third-Party Beneficiaries.   This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person, except as otherwise set forth in Section 4.8.

 

5.9     Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of the Transaction Documents shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, partners, members, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. If any party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction Documents, then in addition to the obligations of the Company under Section 4.8, the prevailing party in such action, suit or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding.

  

 
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5.10     Survival. The representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the Closing and the delivery of the Securities.

 

5.11     Execution. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to each other party, it being understood that the parties need not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an original thereof.

 

5.12     Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.

 

5.13     Rescission and Withdrawal Right. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in (and without limiting any similar provisions of) any of the other Transaction Documents, whenever any Purchaser exercises a right, election, demand or option under a Transaction Document and the Company does not timely perform its related obligations within the periods therein provided, then such Purchaser may rescind or withdraw, in its sole discretion from time to time upon written notice to the Company, any relevant notice, demand or election in whole or in part without prejudice to its future actions and rights; provided, however, that in the case of a rescission of an exercise of a Warrant, the applicable Purchaser shall be required to return any shares of Common Stock subject to any such rescinded exercise notice concurrently with the return to such Purchaser of the aggregate exercise price paid to the Company for such shares and the restoration of such Purchaser’s right to acquire such shares pursuant to such Purchaser’s Warrant (including, issuance of a replacement warrant certificate evidencing such restored right).

 

5.14     Replacement of Securities. If any certificate or instrument evidencing any Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof (in the case of mutilation), or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction. The applicant for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable third-party costs (including customary indemnity) associated with the issuance of such replacement Securities.

  

 
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5.15     Remedies. In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, each of the Purchasers and the Company will be entitled to specific performance under the Transaction Documents. The parties agree that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of obligations contained in the Transaction Documents and hereby agree to waive and not to assert in any action for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

 

5.16     Payment Set Aside. To the extent that the Company makes a payment or payments to any Purchaser pursuant to any Transaction Document or a Purchaser enforces or exercises its rights thereunder, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or exercise or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside, recovered from, disgorged by or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored to the Company, a trustee, receiver or any other Person under any law (including, without limitation, any bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause of action), then to the extent of any such restoration the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred.

 

5.17     Independent Nature of Purchasers’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of each Purchaser under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Purchaser, and no Purchaser shall be responsible in any way for the performance or non-performance of the obligations of any other Purchaser under any Transaction Document. Nothing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Purchaser pursuant hereof or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose. Each Purchaser has been represented by its own separate legal counsel in its review and negotiation of the Transaction Documents. For reasons of administrative convenience only, each Purchaser and its respective counsel have chosen to communicate with the Company through EGS. EGS does not represent any of the Purchasers and only represents Genesis Capital Advisors LLC. The Company has elected to provide all Purchasers with the same terms and Transaction Documents for the convenience of the Company and not because it was required or requested to do so by any of the Purchasers.

 

5.18     Liquidated Damages.  The Company’s obligations to pay any partial liquidated damages or other amounts owing under the Transaction Documents is a continuing obligation of the Company and shall not terminate until all unpaid partial liquidated damages and other amounts have been paid notwithstanding the fact that the instrument or security pursuant to which such partial liquidated damages or other amounts are due and payable shall have been canceled.

 

5.19     Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, etc.     If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not be a Trading Day, then such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding Trading Day.

  

 
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5.20     Construction. The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel have reviewed and had an opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the normal rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation of the Transaction Documents or any amendments thereto. In addition, each and every reference to share prices and shares of Common Stock in any Transaction Document shall be subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement.

 

5.21     WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING IN ANY JURISDICTION BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY, THE PARTIES EACH KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY, TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HEREBY ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY, IRREVOCABLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES FOREVER ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY.

 

 

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

 

PLC Systems Inc.

 

 

Address for Notice:

By: /s/ Mark R. Tauscher                                               

     Name: Mark R. Tauscher

     Title:   Chief Executive Officer

With a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):

Fax:

 

 

 

 

 

[REMAINDER OF PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK

SIGNATURE PAGE FOR EACH PURCHASER FOLLOWS]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO PLC SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT]

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

Name of Purchaser: ________________________________________________________

 

Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser: __________________________________

 

Name of Authorized Signatory: ____________________________________________________

 

Title of Authorized Signatory: _____________________________________________________

 

Email Address of Authorized Signatory: ______________________________________________

 

Facsimile Number of Authorized Signatory: _____________________________________________

 

Address for Notice to Purchaser:

 

 

 

 

Address for Delivery of Securities to Purchaser (if not same as address for notice):

 

 

 

 

 

Subscription Amount: $_________________

 

Principal Amount, plus accrued but unpaid interest

of Viveve Bridge Note: $__________________

 

Shares: _________________

 

 

EIN Number: _______________________

 

 

[SIGNATURE PAGES CONTINUE]

 

 
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Schedule A

 

 

None.

 

 
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Schedule B

 

None.

 

 

 

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EX-10 10 ex10-5.htm EXHIBIT 10.5 ex10-4.htm

Exhibit 10.5

 

 

ESCROW DEPOSIT AGREEMENT

 

This ESCROW DEPOSIT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) dated as of this 9th day of May 2014 by and among PLC SYSTEMS INC., a Yukon Territory corporation (the “Company”), having an address at 459 Fortune Boulevard, Milford, Massachusetts 01757, PALLADIUM CAPITAL ADVISORS LLC, having an address at 230 Park Avenue, #539, New York, New York 10169 (the “Placement Agent 1”), MIDDLEBURY SECURITIES, having an address at 1043 Sheeo Farm Road, Weybridge, Vermont 05753 (the “Placement Agent 2” and, collectively with Placement Agent 1, the “Placement Agents”) and SIGNATURE BANK (the “Escrow Agent”), a New York State chartered bank, having an office at 261 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016. All capitalized terms not herein defined shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the two certain Securities Purchase Agreements, dated as of May 9, 2014 as amended or supplemented from time-to-time, including all attachments, schedules and exhibits thereto (the “Purchase Agreement”).

 

W I T N E S S E T H:

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Agreement, the Company desires to sell (the “Offering”) up to an aggregate of $6,000,000 of shares (“Shares”) of common stock, no par value, at a per Share price of $0.53; and

 

WHEREAS, unless the Offering has closed by October 31, 2014 (the “Termination Date”), the Offering shall terminate and all funds shall be returned to the subscribers in the Offering; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company and Placement Agents desire to establish an escrow account with the Escrow Agent into which the Company and Placement Agents shall instruct subscribers introduced to the Company by the Placement Agents (the “Subscribers”) to deliver funds by wire transfer to the order of “PLC Systems Inc., Signature Bank as Escrow Agent” pursuant to the instructions herein and Escrow Agent is willing to accept said funds in accordance with the terms hereinafter set forth; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company, as issuer, and Placement Agents, as introducing broker-dealers, each, severally and not jointly, represents and warrants to the Escrow Agent that it will comply with all of their respective obligations under applicable state and federal securities laws and regulations with respect to sale of the Offering; and

 

WHEREAS, the Placement Agents, severally and not jointly, represent and warrant to the Escrow Agent that each has performed due diligence on all Subscribers and complied with all applicable state and federal securities laws and regulations with respect to sale of the Offering; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company and Placement Agents each, severally and not jointly, represents and warrants to the Escrow Agent that it has not stated to any individual or entity that the Escrow Agent’s duties will include anything other than those duties stated in this Agreement; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company and Placement Agents each, severally and not jointly, represents and warrants to the Escrow Agent that a copy of each document that has been delivered to Subscribers and third parties that include Escrow Agent’s name and duties, has been attached hereto as Schedule I.

 

 
 

 

  

 

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS AGREED as follows:

 

1.            Delivery of Escrow Funds.

 

(a) Placement Agents and the Company shall instruct Subscribers to deliver to Escrow Agent funds by wire transfer to Signature Bank, 261 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016, ABA No. 026013576 (Swift Code: SIGNUS33) for credit to PLC Systems Inc., Signature Bank as Escrow Agent, Account No. 1502260312, in each case, with the name and address of the individual or entity making payment. In the event that any Subscriber’s address is not provided to Escrow Agent by the Subscriber, then Placement Agents and/or the Company agree to promptly provide Escrow Agent with such information in writing. The funds shall be deposited into a non interest-bearing account at Signature Bank entitled “PLC Systems Inc., Signature Bank as Escrow Agent” (the “Escrow Account”).

 

(b)     The collected funds deposited into the Escrow Account are referred to as the “Escrow Funds.”

 

(c)     The Escrow Agent shall have no duty or responsibility to enforce the collection or demand payment of any funds deposited into the Escrow Account.

 

2.             Release of Escrow Funds. The Escrow Funds shall be paid by the Escrow Agent in accordance with the following:

 

(a)     In the event that the Company and Placement Agents advise the Escrow Agent in writing that the Offering has been terminated (the “Termination Notice”), the Escrow Agent shall promptly return the funds paid by each Subscriber to said Subscriber without interest or offset.      

 

(b)      Provided that the Escrow Agent does not receive the Termination Notice in accordance with paragraph 2(a), and there are Escrow Funds deposited in the Escrow Account, the Escrow Agent shall, upon receipt of written instructions, in the form of Exhibit A, attached hereto and made a part hereof, or in a form and substance satisfactory to the Escrow Agent, received from the Company and Placement Agents, pay the Escrow Funds in accordance with such written instructions, which instructions shall be limited to payments to the Placement Agents and service providers in the Offering, payment to the Escrow Agent and payment of the balance of funds to the Company. Upon the satisfaction of the conditions of the Offering, including, without limitation, the conditions in the Purchase Agreement and the conditions in any engagement agreement(s) between the Company and the Placement Agents, the Placement Agents shall not unreasonably withhold the instructions for the distribution of funds pursuant to this paragraph. Such payment or payments shall be made by wire transfer on the same day as receipt of such written instructions or, if the day of receipt of such instructions is not a Business Day, on the first Business Day following the day of receipt of such instructions. Such instructions must be received by the Escrow Agent no later than 3:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day for the Escrow Agent to process such instructions on that Business Day.

 

 
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(c)     If by 3:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Termination Date, the Escrow Agent has not received written instructions from the Company and Placement Agents regarding the disbursement of the Escrow Funds, then the Escrow Agent shall promptly return the Escrow Funds to the Subscribers without interest or offset. The Escrow Funds returned to each Subscriber shall be free and clear of any and all claims of the Escrow Agent.

 

(d)     The Escrow Agent shall not be required to pay any uncollected funds or any funds that are not available for withdrawal.

 

(e)     If the Termination Date or any date that is a deadline under this Agreement for giving the Escrow Agent notice or instructions or for the Escrow Agent to take action is not a Business Day, then such date shall be the Business Day that immediately preceding that date. A “Business Day” is any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a Bank holiday.

 

3.             Acceptance by Escrow Agent. The Escrow Agent hereby accepts and agrees to perform its obligations hereunder, provided that:

 

(a)     The Escrow Agent may act in reliance upon any signature believed by it to be genuine, and may assume that any person who has been designated by Placement Agents or the Company to give any written instructions, notice or receipt, or make any statements in connection with the provisions hereof has been duly authorized to do so. Escrow Agent shall have no duty to make inquiry as to the genuineness, accuracy or validity of any statements or instructions or any signatures on statements or instructions. The names and true signatures of each individual authorized to act singly on behalf of the Company and Placement Agents are stated in Schedule II, which is attached hereto and made a part hereof. The Company and Placement Agents may each remove or add one or more of its authorized signers stated on Schedule II by notifying the Escrow Agent of such change in accordance with this Agreement, which notice shall include the true signature for any new authorized signatories.

 

(b)     The Escrow Agent may act relative hereto in reliance upon advice of counsel in reference to any matter connected herewith. The Escrow Agent shall not be liable for any mistake of fact or error of judgment or law, or for any acts or omissions of any kind, unless caused by its willful misconduct or gross negligence.

 

(c)     Placement Agents and the Company agree to indemnify and hold the Escrow Agent harmless from and against any and all claims, losses, costs, liabilities, damages, suits, demands, judgments or expenses (including but not limited to reasonable attorney’s fees) claimed against or incurred by Escrow Agent arising out of or related, directly or indirectly, to this Escrow Agreement unless caused by the Escrow Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct.

 

 
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(d)      In the event that the Escrow Agent shall be uncertain as to its duties or rights hereunder, the Escrow Agent shall be entitled to (i) refrain from taking any action other than to keep safely the Escrow Funds until it shall be directed otherwise by a court of competent jurisdiction, or (ii) deliver the Escrow Funds to a court of competent jurisdiction.

 

(e)     The Escrow Agent shall have no duty, responsibility or obligation to interpret or enforce the terms of any agreement other than Escrow Agent’s obligations hereunder, and the Escrow Agent shall not be required to make a request that any monies be delivered to the Escrow Account, it being agreed that the sole duties and responsibilities of the Escrow Agent shall be to the extent not prohibited by applicable law (i) to accept checks or other instruments for the payment of money and wire transfers delivered to the Escrow Agent for the Escrow Account and deposit said checks and wire transfers into the non-interest bearing Escrow Account, and (ii) to disburse or refrain from disbursing the Escrow Funds as stated above, provided that the checks received by the Escrow Agent have been collected and are available for withdrawal.

 

4.         Escrow Account Statements and Information. The Escrow Agent agrees to send to the Company and/or the Placement Agents a copy of the Escrow Account periodic statement, upon request in accordance with the Escrow Agent’s regular practices for providing account statements to its non-escrow clients and to also provide the Company and/or Placement Agents, or their designee, upon request other deposit account information, including Escrow Account balances, by telephone or by computer communication, to the extent practicable. The Company and Placement Agents agree to complete and sign all forms or agreements required by the Escrow Agent for that purpose. The Company and Placement Agents each consent to the Escrow Agent’s release of such Escrow Account information to any of the individuals designated by Company or Placement Agents, which designation has been signed in accordance with paragraph 3(a) by any of the persons in Schedule II.  Further, the Company and Placement Agents have an option to receive e-mail notification of incoming and outgoing wire transfers. If this e-mail notification service is requested and subsequently approved by the Escrow Agent, the Company and Placement Agents agrees to provide a valid e-mail address and other information necessary to set-up this service and sign all forms and agreements required for such service. The Company and Placement Agents each consent to the Escrow Agent’s release of wire transfer information to the designated e-mail address(es). The Escrow Agent’s liability for failure to comply with this section shall not exceed the cost of providing such information.

 

5.         Resignation and Termination of the Escrow Agent. The Escrow Agent may resign at any time by giving 30 days’ prior written notice of such resignation to Placement Agents and the Company. Upon providing such notice, the Escrow Agent shall have no further obligation hereunder except to hold as depositary the Escrow Funds that it receives until the end of such 30-day period. In such event, the Escrow Agent shall not take any action, other than receiving and depositing Subscribers checks and wire transfers in accordance with this Agreement, until the Company has designated a banking corporation, trust company, attorney or other person as successor. Upon receipt of such written designation signed by Placement Agents and the Company, the Escrow Agent shall promptly deliver the Escrow Funds to such successor and shall thereafter have no further obligations hereunder. If such instructions are not received within 30 days following the effective date of such resignation, then the Escrow Agent may deposit the Escrow Funds held by it pursuant to this Agreement with a clerk of a court of competent jurisdiction pending the appointment of a successor. In either case provided for in this paragraph, the Escrow Agent shall be relieved of all further obligations and released from all liability thereafter arising with respect to the Escrow Funds.

 

 
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6.         Termination. The Company and Placement Agents may terminate the appointment of the Escrow Agent hereunder upon written notice specifying the date upon which such termination shall take effect, which date shall be at least 30 days from the date of such notice. In the event of such termination, the Company and Placement Agents shall, within 30 days of such notice, appoint a successor escrow agent and the Escrow Agent shall, upon receipt of written instructions signed by the Company and Placement Agents, turn over to such successor escrow agent all of the Escrow Funds; provided, however, that if the Company and Placement Agents fail to appoint a successor escrow agent within such 30-day period, such termination notice shall be null and void and the Escrow Agent shall continue to be bound by all of the provisions hereof. Upon receipt of the Escrow Funds, the successor escrow agent shall become the escrow agent hereunder and shall be bound by all of the provisions hereof and the Escrow Agent shall be relieved of all further obligations and released from all liability thereafter arising with respect to the Escrow Funds and under this Agreement.

 

7.          Investment. All funds received by the Escrow Agent shall be invested only in non-interest bearing bank accounts at Signature Bank.

 

8.         Compensation. Escrow Agent shall be entitled, for the duties to be performed by it hereunder, to a fee of $4,000, which fee shall be paid by the Company from the Escrow Funds. In addition, the Company shall be obligated to reimburse Escrow Agent for all fees, costs and expenses incurred or that become due in connection with this Agreement or the Escrow Account, including reasonable attorney’s fees. Neither the modification, cancellation, termination or rescission of this Agreement nor the resignation or termination of the Escrow Agent shall affect the right of Escrow Agent to retain the amount of any fee which has been paid, or to be reimbursed or paid any amount which has been incurred or becomes due, prior to the effective date of any such modification, cancellation, termination, resignation or rescission. To the extent the Escrow Agent has incurred any such expenses, or any such fee becomes due, prior to any closing, the Escrow Agent shall advise the Company and the Company shall direct all such amounts to be paid directly at any such closing. Escrow Agent shall be entitled to a fee of $1,000 in the event that this Agreement is amended for any reason in accordance with Section 10(d) other than an amendment that solely relates to the extension of the Termination Date.

 

9.          Notices. All notices, requests, demands and other communications required or permitted to be given hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if sent by hand-delivery, by facsimile or delivery of a “.pdf” format data file attached to an e-mail (followed by first-class mail), by nationally recognized overnight courier service or by prepaid registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the addresses set forth below:

 

 
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If to Placement Agent 1:

 

Palladium Capital Advisors LLC

230 Park Avenue, #539

New York, New York 10169

Attention: Joel Padowitz

Fax: 646-390-6328

E-mail: JPadowitz@palladiumcapital.com

 

If to Placement Agent 2:

 

Middlebury Securities

1043 Sheep Farm Road

Weybridge, Vermont 05753

Attention: Craig Sherman

Fax: 802-419-3738

Email: csherman@middsec.com

  

If to the Company immediately before the Merger (as defined in the Purchase Agreement:

 

459 Fortune Boulevard

Milford, Massachusetts 01757

Attention: Gregory Mann, CFO

Facsimile: N/A

E-mail: gmann@plcmed.com

If to the Company immediately following the Merger (as defined in the Purchase Agreement:

 

150 Commercial Street

Sunnyvale, California 94086

Attention: Scott Durbin, CFO

Facsimile: 408-530-1919

E-mail: sdurbin@viveve.com

 

If to Escrow Agent:

 

Signature Bank

261 Madison Avenue

New York, New York, 10016

Attention: Cliff Broder, Group Director and Senior Vice President

Fax: (646) 822-1359

E-mail:

 

 
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10.           General.

 

(a)     This Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to agreements made and to be entirely performed within such State, without regard to choice of law principles and any action brought hereunder shall be brought in the courts of the State of New York, located in the County of New York. Each party hereto irrevocably waives any objection on the grounds of venue, forum nonconveniens or any similar grounds and irrevocably consents to service of process by mail or in any manner permitted by applicable law and consents to the jurisdiction of said courts. Each of the parties hereto hereby waives all right to trial by jury in any action, proceeding or counterclaim arising out of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

 

(b)     This Agreement sets forth the entire agreement and understanding of the parties with respect to the matters contained herein and supersedes all prior agreements, arrangements and understandings relating thereto.

 

(c)     All of the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by, the parties hereto, as well as their respective successors and assigns.

 

(d)     This Agreement may be amended, modified, superseded or canceled, and any of the terms or conditions hereof may be waived, only by a written instrument executed by each party hereto or, in the case of a waiver, by the party waiving compliance. The failure of any party at any time or times to require performance of any provision hereof shall in no manner affect its right at a later time to enforce the same. No waiver of any party of any condition, or of the breach of any term contained in this Agreement, whether by conduct or otherwise, in any one or more instances shall be deemed to be or construed as a further or continuing waiver of any such condition or breach or a waiver of any other condition or of the breach of any other term of this Agreement. No party may assign any rights, duties or obligations hereunder unless all other parties have given their prior written consent.

 

(e)     If any provision included in this Agreement proves to be invalid or unenforceable, it shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions.

 

(f)     This Agreement and any modification or amendment of this Agreement may be executed in several counterparts or by separate instruments and all of such counterparts and instruments shall constitute one agreement, binding on all of the parties hereto.

 

11.          Form of Signature. The parties hereto agree to accept a facsimile transmission copy or an e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file of their respective actual signatures as evidence of their actual signatures to this Agreement and any modification or amendment of this Agreement; provided, however, that each party who produces a facsimile or e-mail signature agrees, by the express terms hereof, to place, promptly after transmission of his or her signature by fax or delivery by e-mail of a “.pdf” format data file, a true and correct original copy of his or her signature in overnight mail to the address of the other party.

 

 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have duly executed this Agreement as of the date first set forth above.

 

 

PLC SYSTEMS INC.

 

PALLADIUM CAPITAL ADVISORS LLC

 

         
         
By:   /s/ Gregory W. Mann

 

By:

/s/ Joel Padowitz

 

 

Name:  Gregory W. Mann

 

 

Name: Joel Padowitz

 

 

Title:    Chief Financial Officer

 

 

Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

 

                             

MIDDLEBURY SECURITIES        
 

 

 

 

 

 

By: /s/ Craig Sherman

 

 

 

 

 

Name: Craig Sherman

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Authorized Signatory, COO

 

 

 

 

  

 

SIGNATURE BANK

       
 

 

 

 

 

 

By:  

 

 

 

 

 

Name

 

 

 

 

 

Title

 

 

 

 

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:   

 

 

 

 

 

Name

 

 

 

 

 

Title

 

 

 

 

  

 

 
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Schedule I

OFFERING DOCUMENTS

 

 

Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 9, 2014.

 

 

 
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Schedule II

 

The Escrow Agent is authorized to accept instructions signed or believed by the Escrow Agent to be signed by any one of the following on behalf of the Company and Placement Agent.

 

PLC SYSTEMS INC.

         
Name     True Signature  

  

 

 

 

 

    Gregory W. Mann

 

 

    /s/ Gregory W. Mann

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PALLADIUM CAPITAL ADVISORS LLC
         
Name      True Signature  

 

 

 

 

 

Joel Padowitz

 

 

/s/ Joel Padowitz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MIDDLEBURY SECURITIES

         
Name     True Signature  

 

 

 

 

 

Craig Sherman

 

 

/s/ Craig Sherman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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Exhibit A

 

FORM OF ESCROW RELEASE NOTICE

 

Date: ___, 2014

 

Signature Bank

261 Madison Avenue,

New York, New York 10016

Attention: Cliff Broder, Group Director and Senior Vice President

Fax: (646) 822-1359

 

Dear Mr. Broder:

 

In accordance with the terms of paragraph 2(b) of the Escrow Deposit Agreement, dated as of May ___, 2014 by and between PLC Systems Inc. (the "Company"), Signature Bank (the "Escrow Agent") and Palladium Capital Advisors LLC and Middlebury Securities (collectively, "Placement Agents"), the Company and Placement Agents hereby notify the Escrow Agent that the closing will be held on ___, 2014 for gross proceeds of $__________________.

 

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE FUNDS BY WIRE TRANSFER AS FOLLOWS (wire instructions attached):

 

__________________________:          $

 

__________________________:           $        

 

__________________________:          $

 

Signature Bank (Escrow Fee):                    $4,000

 

 
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Very truly yours,

 

PLC Systems Inc.

 

By:                                                

Name:                                          

Title:                                            

 

Palladium Capital Advisors LLC

 

By:                                              

Name:                                         

Title:                                           

 

Middlebury Securities

 

By:                                             

Name:                                        

Title:                                          

 

 

[Signature Page to PLC Escrow Release Notice]

 

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EX-10 11 ex10-6.htm EXHIBIT 10.6 ex10-5.htm

 Exhibit 10.6

 

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

 

This Registration Rights Agreement (this “Agreement”) is made and entered into as of May 9, 2014, between PLC Systems Inc. a Yukon Territory corporation (the “Company”), and each of the several purchasers signatory hereto (each such purchaser, a “Purchaser” and, collectively, the “Purchasers”).

 

This Agreement is made pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between the Company and each Purchaser (the “Purchase Agreement”).

 

NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and each of the Purchasers agree as follows:

 

1.                 Definitions.

 

               Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein that are defined in the Purchase Agreement shall have the meanings given such terms in the Purchase Agreement. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

 

Advice” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(d).

 

Effectiveness Date” means, with respect to the Initial Registration Statement required to be filed hereunder, the 150th calendar day following the Closing Date (as defined in the Purchase Agreement) and with respect to any additional Registration Statements which may be required pursuant to Section 2(c) or Section 3(c), the 90th calendar day following the applicable Filing Date for such additional Registration Statement; provided, however, that in the event the Company is notified by the Commission that one or more of the above Registration Statements will not be reviewed or is no longer subject to further review and comments, the Effectiveness Date as to such Registration Statement shall be the fifth Trading Day following the date on which the Company is so notified if such date precedes the dates otherwise required above, provided, further, if such Effectiveness Date falls on a day that is not a Trading Day, then the Effectiveness Date shall be the next succeeding Trading Day.

 

Effectiveness Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(a).

 

Event” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(d).

 

Event Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(d).

 

 
 

 

 

Filing Date” means, with respect to the Initial Registration Statement required hereunder, the 60th calendar day following the Closing Date and, with respect to any additional Registration Statements which may be required pursuant to Section 2(c) or Section 3(c), the earliest practical date on which the Company is permitted by SEC Guidance to file such additional Registration Statement related to the Registrable Securities.

 

Holder” or “Holders” means the holder or holders, as the case may be, from time to time of Registrable Securities.

 

Holder Delay” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(a).

 

Indemnified Party” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(c).

 

Indemnifying Party” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(c).

 

Initial Registration Statement” means the initial Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Agreement.

 

Losses” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(a).

 

Plan of Distribution” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(a).

 

Prospectus” means the prospectus included in a Registration Statement (including, without limitation, a prospectus that includes any information previously omitted from a prospectus filed as part of an effective registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act), as amended or supplemented by any prospectus supplement, with respect to the terms of the offering of any portion of the Registrable Securities covered by a Registration Statement, and all other amendments and supplements to the Prospectus, including post-effective amendments, and all material incorporated by reference or deemed to be incorporated by reference in such Prospectus.

 

Registrable Securities” means, as of any date of determination, (a) all Shares and (b) any securities issued or then issuable upon any stock split, dividend or other distribution, recapitalization or similar event with respect to the Shares; provided, however, that any such Registrable Securities shall cease to be Registrable Securities (and the Company shall not be required to maintain the effectiveness of any, or file another, Registration Statement hereunder with respect thereto) upon the earliest to occur of the following (a) a Registration Statement with respect to the sale of such Registrable Securities is declared effective by the Commission under the Securities Act and such Registrable Securities have been disposed of by the Holder in accordance with such effective Registration Statement, (b) such Registrable Securities have been previously sold in accordance with Rule 144, or (c) such securities become eligible for resale without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions and without current public information pursuant to Rule 144 as set forth in a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed, delivered and acceptable to the Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (assuming that such securities and any securities issuable upon exercise, conversion or exchange of which, or as a dividend upon which, such securities were issued or are issuable, were at no time held by any Affiliate of the Company, and all Warrants are exercised by “cashless exercise” as provided in Section 2(c) of each of the Warrants), as reasonably determined by the Company, upon the advice of counsel to the Company.

 

 
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"Registration Statement” means any registration statement required to be filed hereunder pursuant to Section 2(a) and any additional registration statements contemplated by Section 2(c) or Section 3(c), including (in each case) the Prospectus, amendments and supplements to any such registration statement or Prospectus, including pre- and post-effective amendments, all exhibits thereto, and all material incorporated by reference or deemed to be incorporated by reference in any such registration statement.

 

Rule 415” means Rule 415 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Rule.

 

Rule 424” means Rule 424 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Rule.

 

Selling Stockholder Questionnaire” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(a).

 

SEC Guidance” means (i) any publicly-available written or oral guidance of the Commission staff, or any comments, requirements or requests of the Commission staff and (ii) the Securities Act.

 

2.             Registration Rights.

 

(a)     On or prior to each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. Each Registration Statement filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 or, if Form S-3 is unavailable to the Company, on Form S-1 and shall contain (unless otherwise directed by at least 85% in interest of the Holders) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement (i) have been sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall telephonically request effectiveness of a Registration Statement as of 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on a Trading Day. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders via facsimile or by e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement on the same Trading Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission, which shall be the date requested for effectiveness of such Registration Statement. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time on the Trading Day after the effective date of such Registration Statement, file a final Prospectus with the Commission in accordance with Rule 424. Failure to so notify the Holder within one (1) Trading Day of such notification of effectiveness or failure to file a final Prospectus as foresaid shall be deemed an Event under Section 2(d).

 

 
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(b)     Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-3 or Form S-1, and subject to the provisions of Section 2(d) with respect to the payment of liquidated damages; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall be obligated to use commercially reasonable efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.

 

(c)     Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(d), if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used commercially reasonable efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater portion of Registrable Securities), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:

 

 
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a.

First, the Company shall reduce or eliminate any securities to be included by any Person other than a Holder; and

 

 

b.

Second, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities consisting of Shares (applied, in the case that some Shares may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Shares held by such Holders).

 

 

In the event of a cutback hereunder, the Company shall give each Holder at least five (5) Trading Days prior written notice along with the calculations as to such Holder’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-3 or such Form S-1 to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended.

 

(d)     If: (i) the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Initial Registration Statement without affording the Holders the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause (i)), or (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, within five Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review, or (iii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date of the Initial Registration Statement, or (iv) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, for more than ten (10) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of thirty (30) calendar days (which need not be consecutive calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clauses (i) and (iii), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such five (5) Trading Day period is exceeded, and for purpose of clause (iv) the date on which such ten (10) or thirty (30) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to the product of 1.5% multiplied by the aggregate Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event.

 

 
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3.              Registration Procedures.

 

In connection with the Company’s registration obligations hereunder, the Company shall:

 

(a)     Not less than three (3) Trading Days prior to the filing of each Registration Statement and not less than one (1) Trading Day prior to the filing of any related Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto (including any document that would be incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference), the Company shall (i) furnish to each Holder copies of all such documents proposed to be filed, which documents (other than those incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference) will be subject to the review of such Holders, and (ii) cause its officers and directors, counsel and independent registered public accountants to respond to such inquiries as shall be necessary, in the reasonable opinion of respective counsel to each Holder, to conduct a reasonable investigation within the meaning of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding the above, the Company shall not be obligated to provide the Holders advance copies of any universal shelf registration statement registering securities in addition to those required hereunder, or any Prospectus prepared thereto. The Company shall not file a Registration Statement or any such Prospectus or any amendments or supplements thereto to which the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities shall reasonably object in good faith, provided that, the Company is notified of such objection in writing no later than three (3) Trading Days after the Holders have been so furnished copies of a Registration Statement or one (1) Trading Day after the Holders have been so furnished copies of any related Prospectus or amendments or supplements thereto. Each Holder agrees to furnish to the Company a completed questionnaire in the form attached to this Agreement as Annex B (a “Selling Stockholder Questionnaire”) on a date that is not less than two (2) Trading Days prior to the Filing Date or by the end of the third (3rd) Trading Day following the date on which such Holder receives draft materials in accordance with this Section.

 

 
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(b)     (i) Prepare and file with the Commission such amendments, including post-effective amendments, to a Registration Statement and the Prospectus used in connection therewith as may be necessary to keep a Registration Statement continuously effective as to the applicable Registrable Securities for the Effectiveness Period and prepare and file with the Commission such additional Registration Statements in order to register for resale under the Securities Act all of the Registrable Securities, (ii) cause the related Prospectus to be amended or supplemented by any required Prospectus supplement (subject to the terms of this Agreement), and, as so supplemented or amended, to be filed pursuant to Rule 424, (iii) respond as promptly as reasonably possible to any comments received from the Commission with respect to a Registration Statement or any amendment thereto and provide as promptly as reasonably possible to the Holders true and complete copies of all correspondence from and to the Commission relating to a Registration Statement (provided that, the Company shall excise any information contained therein which would constitute material non-public information regarding the Company or any of its Subsidiaries), and (iv) comply in all material respects with the applicable provisions of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act with respect to the disposition of all Registrable Securities covered by a Registration Statement during the applicable period in accordance (subject to the terms of this Agreement) with the intended methods of disposition by the Holders thereof set forth in such Registration Statement as so amended or in such Prospectus as so supplemented.

 

(c)     If during the Effectiveness Period, the number of Registrable Securities at any time exceeds 100% of the number of shares of Common Stock then registered in a Registration Statement, then the Company shall file as soon as reasonably practicable, but in any case prior to the applicable Filing Date, an additional Registration Statement covering the resale by the Holders of not less than the number of such Registrable Securities.

 

(d)     Notify the Holders of Registrable Securities to be sold (which notice shall, pursuant to clauses (iii) through (vi) hereof, be accompanied by an instruction to suspend the use of the Prospectus until the requisite changes have been made) as promptly as reasonably possible (and, in the case of (i)(A) below, not less than one (1) Trading Day prior to such filing) and (if requested by any such Person) confirm such notice in writing no later than one (1) Trading Day following the day (i)(A) when a Prospectus or any Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment to a Registration Statement is proposed to be filed, (B) when the Commission notifies the Company whether there will be a “review” of such Registration Statement and whenever the Commission comments in writing on such Registration Statement, and (C) with respect to a Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment, when the same has become effective, (ii) of any request by the Commission or any other federal or state governmental authority for amendments or supplements to a Registration Statement or Prospectus or for additional information, (iii) of the issuance by the Commission or any other federal or state governmental authority of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement covering any or all of the Registrable Securities or the initiation of any Proceedings for that purpose, (iv) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification or exemption from qualification of any of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction, or the initiation or threatening of any Proceeding for such purpose, (v) of the occurrence of any event or passage of time that makes the financial statements included in a Registration Statement ineligible for inclusion therein or any statement made in a Registration Statement or Prospectus or any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference untrue in any material respect or that requires any revisions to a Registration Statement, Prospectus or other documents so that, in the case of a Registration Statement or the Prospectus, as the case may be, it will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (vi) of the occurrence or existence of any pending corporate development with respect to the Company that the Company believes may be material and that, in the determination of the Company, makes it not in the best interest of the Company to allow continued availability of a Registration Statement or Prospectus, provided, however, in no event shall any such notice contain any information which would constitute material, non-public information regarding the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

 
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(e)     Use its best efforts to avoid the issuance of, or, if issued, obtain the withdrawal of (i) any order stopping or suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement, or (ii) any suspension of the qualification (or exemption from qualification) of any of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction, at the earliest practicable moment.

 

(f)     Furnish to each Holder, without charge, at least one conformed copy of each such Registration Statement and each amendment thereto, including financial statements and schedules, all documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference to the extent requested by such Person, and all exhibits to the extent requested by such Person (including those previously furnished or incorporated by reference) promptly after the filing of such documents with the Commission; provided, that any such item which is available on the EDGAR system (or successor thereto) need not be furnished in physical form.

 

(g)     Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company hereby consents to the use of such Prospectus and each amendment or supplement thereto by each of the selling Holders in connection with the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities covered by such Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, except after the giving of any notice pursuant to Section 3(d).

 

 
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(h)     The Company shall cooperate with any broker-dealer through which a Holder proposes to resell its Registrable Securities in effecting a filing with the FINRA Corporate Financing Department pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110, as requested by any such Holder, and the Company shall pay the filing fee required by such filing within two (2) Business Days of request therefor.

 

(i)     Prior to any resale of Registrable Securities by a Holder, use its commercially reasonable efforts to register or qualify or cooperate with the selling Holders in connection with the registration or qualification (or exemption from the Registration or qualification) of such Registrable Securities for the resale by the Holder under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions within the United States as any Holder reasonably requests in writing, to keep each registration or qualification (or exemption therefrom) effective during the Effectiveness Period and to do any and all other acts or things reasonably necessary to enable the disposition in such jurisdictions of the Registrable Securities covered by each Registration Statement; provided, that, the Company shall not be required to qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not then so qualified, subject the Company to any material tax in any such jurisdiction where it is not then so subject or file a general consent to service of process in any such jurisdiction.

 

(j)     If requested by a Holder, cooperate with such Holder to facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing Registrable Securities to be delivered to a transferee pursuant to a Registration Statement, which certificates shall be free, to the extent permitted by the Purchase Agreement, of all restrictive legends, and to enable such Registrable Securities to be in such denominations and registered in such names as any such Holder may request.

 

(k)     Upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by Section 3(d), as promptly as reasonably possible under the circumstances taking into account the Company’s good faith assessment of any adverse consequences to the Company and its stockholders of the premature disclosure of such event, prepare a supplement or amendment, including a post-effective amendment, to a Registration Statement or a supplement to the related Prospectus or any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference, and file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered, neither a Registration Statement nor such Prospectus will contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. If the Company notifies the Holders in accordance with clauses (iii) through (vi) of Section 3(d) above to suspend the use of any Prospectus until the requisite changes to such Prospectus have been made, then the Holders shall suspend use of such Prospectus. The Company will use its best efforts to ensure that the use of the Prospectus may be resumed as promptly as is practicable. The Company shall be entitled to exercise its right under this Section 3(k) to suspend the availability of a Registration Statement and Prospectus, subject to the payment of partial liquidated damages otherwise required pursuant to Section 2(d), for a period not to exceed 60 calendar days (which need not be consecutive days) in any 12-month period.

 

 
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(l)     Comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the Commission.

 

(m)     The Company may require each selling Holder to furnish to the Company a certified statement as to the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by such Holder and, if required by the Commission, the natural persons thereof that have voting and dispositive control over the shares. During any periods that the Company is unable to meet its obligations hereunder with respect to the registration of the Registrable Securities solely because any Holder fails to furnish such information within three Trading Days of the Company’s request, any liquidated damages that are accruing at such time as to such Holder only shall be tolled and any Event that may otherwise occur solely because of such delay shall be suspended as to such Holder only, until such information is delivered to the Company.

 

        4.                 Registration Expenses. All fees and expenses incident to the performance of or compliance with, this Agreement by the Company shall be borne by the Company whether or not any Registrable Securities are sold pursuant to a Registration Statement. The fees and expenses referred to in the foregoing sentence shall include, without limitation, (i) all registration and filing fees (including, without limitation, fees and expenses of the Company’s counsel and independent registered public accountants and reasonable fees of one counsel for the Holders) (A) with respect to filings made with the Commission, (B) with respect to filings required to be made with any Trading Market on which the Common Stock is then listed for trading, (C) in compliance with applicable state securities or Blue Sky laws reasonably agreed to by the Company in writing (including, without limitation, fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company in connection with Blue Sky qualifications or exemptions of the Registrable Securities) and (D) if not previously paid by the Company in connection with an Issuer Filing, with respect to any filing that may be required to be made by any broker through which a Holder intends to make sales of Registrable Securities with FINRA pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110, so long as the broker is receiving no more than a customary brokerage commission in connection with such sale, (ii) printing expenses (including, without limitation, expenses of printing certificates for Registrable Securities), (iii) messenger, telephone and delivery expenses, (iv) fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company, (v) Securities Act liability insurance, if the Company so desires such insurance, and (vi) fees and expenses of all other Persons retained by the Company in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. In addition, the Company shall be responsible for all of its internal expenses incurred in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including, without limitation, all salaries and expenses of its officers and employees performing legal or accounting duties), the expense of any annual audit and the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the listing of the Registrable Securities on any securities exchange as required hereunder. In no event shall the Company be responsible for any broker or similar commissions of any Holder or, except to the extent provided for hereinabove or in the Transaction Documents, any legal fees or other costs of the Holders.

 

 
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        5.                     Indemnification.

 

(a)     Indemnification by the Company. The Company shall, notwithstanding any termination of this Agreement, indemnify and hold harmless each Holder, the officers, directors, members, partners, agents, brokers (including brokers who offer and sell Registrable Securities as principal as a result of a pledge or any failure to perform under a margin call of Common Stock), investment advisors and employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles, notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of each of them, each Person who controls any such Holder (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act) and the officers, directors, members, stockholders, partners, agents and employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles, notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of each such controlling Person, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, costs (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees) and expenses (collectively, “Losses”), as incurred, arising out of or relating to (1) any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in a Registration Statement, any Prospectus or any form of prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus, or arising out of or relating to any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of any Prospectus or supplement thereto, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading or (2) any violation or alleged violation by the Company of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or any state securities law, or any rule or regulation thereunder, in connection with the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, except to the extent, but only to the extent, that (i) such untrue statements or omissions are based solely upon information regarding such Holder furnished in writing to the Company by such Holder expressly for use therein, or to the extent that such information relates to such Holder or such Holder’s proposed method of distribution of Registrable Securities and was reviewed and expressly approved in writing by such Holder expressly for use in a Registration Statement, such Prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto (it being understood that the Holder has approved Annex A hereto for this purpose) or (ii) in the case of an occurrence of an event of the type specified in Section 3(d)(iii)-(vi), the use by such Holder of an outdated, defective or otherwise unavailable Prospectus after the Company has notified such Holder in writing that the Prospectus is outdated, defective or otherwise unavailable for use by such Holder and prior to the receipt by such Holder of the Advice contemplated in Section 6(d), but only if and to the extent that following the receipt of the Advice the misstatement or omission giving rise to such Loss would have been corrected. The Company shall notify the Holders promptly of the institution, threat or assertion of any Proceeding arising from or in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement of which the Company is aware. Such indemnity shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of such indemnified person and shall survive the transfer of any Registrable Securities by any of the Holders in accordance with Section 6(h).

 

 
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(b)     Indemnification by Holders. Each Holder shall, severally and not jointly, indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, officers, agents and employees, each Person who controls the Company (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, agents or employees of such controlling Persons, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, from and against all Losses, as incurred, to the extent arising out of or based solely upon: (x) such Holder’s failure to comply with any applicable prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act through no fault of the Company or (y) any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement, any Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus, or arising out of or relating to any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of any Prospectus or supplement thereto, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading (i) to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or omission is contained in any information so furnished in writing by such Holder to the Company expressly for inclusion in such Registration Statement or such Prospectus or (ii) to the extent, but only to the extent, that such information relates to such Holder’s proposed method of distribution of Registrable Securities and was reviewed and expressly approved in writing by such Holder expressly for use in a Registration Statement (it being understood that the Holder has approved Annex A hereto for this purpose), such Prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or (iii) in the case of an occurrence of an event of the type specified in Section 3(d)(iii)-(vi), to the extent, but only to the extent, related to the use by such Holder of an outdated, defective or otherwise unavailable Prospectus after the Company has notified such Holder in writing that the Prospectus is outdated, defective or otherwise unavailable for use by such Holder and prior to the receipt by such Holder of the Advice contemplated in Section 6(d), but only if and to the extent that following the receipt of the Advice the misstatement or omission giving rise to such Loss would have been corrected. In no event shall the liability of any selling Holder under this Section 5(b) be greater in amount than the dollar amount of the net proceeds received by such Holder upon the sale of the Registrable Securities giving rise to such indemnification obligation.

 

 
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(c)     Conduct of Indemnification Proceedings. If any Proceeding shall be brought or asserted against any Person entitled to indemnity hereunder (an “Indemnified Party”), such Indemnified Party shall promptly notify the Person from whom indemnity is sought (the “Indemnifying Party”) in writing, and the Indemnifying Party shall have the right to assume the defense thereof, including the employment of counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Party and the payment of all fees and expenses incurred in connection with defense thereof; provided, that, the failure of any Indemnified Party to give such notice shall not relieve the Indemnifying Party of its obligations or liabilities pursuant to this Agreement, except (and only) to the extent that it shall be finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction (which determination is not subject to appeal or further review) that such failure shall have materially and adversely prejudiced the Indemnifying Party.

 

               An Indemnified Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such Proceeding and to participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Indemnified Party or Parties unless: (1) the Indemnifying Party has agreed in writing to pay such fees and expenses, (2) the Indemnifying Party shall have failed promptly to assume the defense of such Proceeding and to employ counsel reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Party in any such Proceeding, or (3) the named parties to any such Proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both such Indemnified Party and the Indemnifying Party, and counsel to the Indemnified Party shall reasonably believe that a material conflict of interest is likely to exist if the same counsel were to represent such Indemnified Party and the Indemnifying Party (in which case, if such Indemnified Party notifies the Indemnifying Party in writing that it elects to employ separate counsel at the expense of the Indemnifying Party, the Indemnifying Party shall not have the right to assume the defense thereof and the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than one separate counsel shall be at the expense of the Indemnifying Party). The Indemnifying Party shall not be liable for any settlement of any such Proceeding effected without its written consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. No Indemnifying Party shall, without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Party, effect any settlement of any pending Proceeding in respect of which any Indemnified Party is a party, unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such Proceeding.

 

               Subject to the terms of this Agreement, all reasonable fees and expenses of the Indemnified Party (including reasonable fees and expenses to the extent incurred in connection with investigating or preparing to defend such Proceeding in a manner not inconsistent with this Section) shall be paid to the Indemnified Party, as incurred, within ten Trading Days of written notice thereof to the Indemnifying Party; provided, that, the Indemnified Party shall promptly reimburse the Indemnifying Party for that portion of such fees and expenses applicable to such actions for which such Indemnified Party is finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction (which determination is not subject to appeal or further review) not to be entitled to indemnification hereunder.

 

 
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(d)     Contribution. If the indemnification under Section 5(a) or 5(b) is unavailable to an Indemnified Party or insufficient to hold an Indemnified Party harmless for any Losses, then each Indemnifying Party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Party, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the Indemnifying Party and Indemnified Party in connection with the actions, statements or omissions that resulted in such Losses as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of such Indemnifying Party and Indemnified Party shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any action in question, including any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission of a material fact, has been taken or made by, or relates to information supplied by, such Indemnifying Party or Indemnified Party, and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such action, statement or omission. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of any Losses shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in this Agreement, any reasonable attorneys’ or other fees or expenses incurred by such party in connection with any Proceeding to the extent such party would have been indemnified for such fees or expenses if the indemnification provided for in this Section was available to such party in accordance with its terms.

 

               The parties hereto agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 5(d) were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation that does not take into account the equitable considerations referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 5(d), no Holder shall be required to contribute pursuant to this Section 5(d), in the aggregate, any amount in excess of the amount by which the net proceeds actually received by such Holder from the sale of the Registrable Securities subject to the Proceeding exceeds the amount of any damages that such Holder has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission.

 

The indemnity and contribution agreements contained in this Section are in addition to any liability that the Indemnifying Parties may have to the Indemnified Parties.

 

        6.               Miscellaneous.

 

(a)     Remedies. In the event of a breach by the Company or by a Holder of any of their respective obligations under this Agreement, each Holder or the Company, as the case may be, in addition to being entitled to exercise all rights granted by law and under this Agreement, including recovery of damages, shall be entitled to specific performance of its rights under this Agreement. Each of the Company and each Holder agrees that monetary damages would not provide adequate compensation for any losses incurred by reason of a breach by it of any of the provisions of this Agreement and hereby further agrees that, in the event of any action for specific performance in respect of such breach, it shall not assert or shall waive the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

 

 
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(b)     No Piggyback on Registrations; Prohibition on Filing Other Registration Statements. Except as set forth on Schedule 6(b) attached hereto, neither the Company nor any of its security holders (other than the Holders in such capacity pursuant hereto) may include securities of the Company in any Registration Statements other than the Registrable Securities. The Company shall not file any other registration statements until all Registrable Securities are registered pursuant to a Registration Statement that is declared effective by the Commission, provided that this Section 6(b) shall not prohibit the Company from filing amendments to registration statements filed prior to the date of this Agreement.

 

(c)     Compliance. Each Holder covenants and agrees that it will comply with the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act as applicable to it (unless an exemption therefrom is available) in connection with sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement.

 

(d)     Discontinued Disposition. By its acquisition of Registrable Securities, each Holder agrees that, upon receipt of a notice from the Company of the occurrence of any event of the kind described in Section 3(d)(iii) through (vi), such Holder will forthwith discontinue disposition of such Registrable Securities under a Registration Statement until it is advised in writing (the “Advice”) by the Company that the use of the applicable Prospectus (as it may have been supplemented or amended) may be resumed. The Company will use its best efforts to ensure that the use of the Prospectus may be resumed as promptly as is practicable. The Company agrees and acknowledges that any periods during which the Holder is required to discontinue the disposition of the Registrable Securities hereunder shall be subject to the provisions of Section 2(d).

 

(e)     Piggy-Back Registrations. If, at any time during the Effectiveness Period, there is not an effective Registration Statement covering all of the Registrable Securities and the Company shall determine to prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement relating to an offering for its own account or the account of others under the Securities Act of any of its equity securities, other than on Form S-4 or Form S-8 (each as promulgated under the Securities Act) or their then equivalents relating to equity securities to be issued solely in connection with any acquisition of any entity or business or equity securities issuable in connection with the Company’s stock option or other employee benefit plans, then the Company shall deliver to each Holder a written notice of such determination and, if within fifteen days after the date of the delivery of such notice, any such Holder shall so request in writing, the Company shall include in such registration statement all or any part of such Registrable Securities such Holder requests to be registered.

 

 
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(f)     Amendments and Waivers. The provisions of this Agreement, including the provisions of this sentence, may not be amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from the provisions hereof may not be given, unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Company and the Holders of 67% or more of the then outstanding Registrable Securities. If a Registration Statement does not register all of the Registrable Securities pursuant to a waiver or amendment done in compliance with the previous sentence, then the number of Registrable Securities to be registered for each Holder shall be reduced pro rata among all Holders and each Holder shall have the right to designate which of its Registrable Securities shall be omitted from such Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a waiver or consent to depart from the provisions hereof with respect to a matter that relates exclusively to the rights of a Holder or some Holders and that does not directly or indirectly affect the rights of other Holders may be given only by such Holder or Holders of all of the Registrable Securities to which such waiver or consent relates; provided, however, that the provisions of this sentence may not be amended, modified, or supplemented except in accordance with the provisions of the first sentence of this Section 6(f). No consideration shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of this Agreement unless the same consideration also is offered to all of the parties to this Agreement.

 

(g)     Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be delivered as set forth in the Purchase Agreement.

 

(h)     Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors and permitted assigns of each of the parties and shall inure to the benefit of each Holder. The Company may not assign (except by merger) its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of all of the Holders of the then outstanding Registrable Securities. Each Holder may assign their respective rights hereunder in the manner and to the Persons as permitted under Section 5.7 of the Purchase Agreement.

 

(i)     No Inconsistent Agreements. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has entered, as of the date hereof, nor shall the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, on or after the date of this Agreement, enter into any agreement with respect to its securities, that would have the effect of impairing the rights granted to the Holders in this Agreement or otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof. Except as set forth on Schedule 6(i), neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has previously entered into any agreement granting any registration rights with respect to any of its securities to any Person that have not been satisfied in full.

 

(j)     Execution and Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party, it being understood that both parties need not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an original thereof.

 

 
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(k)     Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of the Purchase Agreement.

 

(l)     WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING IN ANY JURISDICTION BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY, THE PARTIES EACH KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY, TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HEREBY ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY, IRREVOCABLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES FOREVER ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY.

 

(m)     Cumulative Remedies. The remedies provided herein are cumulative and not exclusive of any other remedies provided by law.

 

(n)     Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.

 

(o)     Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of the Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.

 

(p)     Independent Nature of Holders’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of each Holder hereunder are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Holder hereunder, and no Holder shall be responsible in any way for the performance of the obligations of any other Holder hereunder. Nothing contained herein or in any other agreement or document delivered at any closing, and no action taken by any Holder pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Holders as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of group or entity, or create a presumption that the Holders are in any way acting in concert or as a group or entity with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other matters, and the Company acknowledges that the Holders are not acting in concert or as a group, and the Company shall not asset any such claim, with respect to such obligations or transactions. Each Holder shall be entitled to protect and enforce its rights, including without limitation the rights arising out of this Agreement, and it shall not be necessary for any other Holder to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose. The use of a single agreement with respect to the obligations of the Company contained was solely in the control of the Company, not the action or decision of any Holder, and was done solely for the convenience of the Company and not because it was required or requested to do so by any Holder. It is expressly understood and agreed that each provision contained in this Agreement is between the Company and a Holder, solely, and not between the Company and the Holders collectively and not between and among Holders.

 

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               IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Registration Rights Agreement as of the date first written above.

 

 

PLC SYSTEMS Inc.

   
   
 

By:

  /s/ Mark R. Tauscher
    Name:  Mark R. Tauscher
    Title:    Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

 

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[SIGNATURE PAGE OF HOLDERS TO PLC RRA]

 

 

Name of Holder: __________________________

 

Signature of Authorized Signatory of Holder: __________________________

 

Name of Authorized Signatory: _________________________

 

Title of Authorized Signatory: __________________________

 

 

 

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Annex A

 

Plan of Distribution

 

Each Selling Stockholder (the “Selling Stockholders”) of the securities and any of their pledgees, assignees and successors-in-interest may, from time to time, sell any or all of their securities covered hereby on the principal Trading Market or any other stock exchange, market or trading facility on which the securities are traded or in private transactions. These sales may be at fixed or negotiated prices. A Selling Stockholder may use any one or more of the following methods when selling securities:

 

 

ordinary brokerage transactions and transactions in which the broker-dealer solicits purchasers;

 

 

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

 

 

purchases by a broker-dealer as principal and resale by the broker-dealer for its account;

 

 

an exchange distribution in accordance with the rules of the applicable exchange;

 

 

privately negotiated transactions;

 

 

settlement of short sales;

 

 

in transactions through broker-dealers that agree with the Selling Stockholders to sell a specified number of such securities at a stipulated price per security;

 

 

through the writing or settlement of options or other hedging transactions, whether through an options exchange or otherwise;

 

 

a combination of any such methods of sale; or

 

 

any other method permitted pursuant to applicable law.

 

The Selling Stockholders may also sell securities under Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), if available, rather than under this prospectus.

 

Broker-dealers engaged by the Selling Stockholders may arrange for other brokers-dealers to participate in sales. Broker-dealers may receive commissions or discounts from the Selling Stockholders (or, if any broker-dealer acts as agent for the purchaser of securities, from the purchaser) in amounts to be negotiated, but, except as set forth in a supplement to this Prospectus, in the case of an agency transaction not in excess of a customary brokerage commission in compliance with FINRA Rule 2440; and in the case of a principal transaction a markup or markdown in compliance with FINRA IM-2440.

 

 

 

 

In connection with the sale of the securities or interests therein, the Selling Stockholders may enter into hedging transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institutions, which may in turn engage in short sales of the securities in the course of hedging the positions they assume. The Selling Stockholders may also sell securities short and deliver these securities to close out their short positions, or loan or pledge the securities to broker-dealers that in turn may sell these securities. The Selling Stockholders may also enter into option or other transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institutions or create one or more derivative securities which require the delivery to such broker-dealer or other financial institution of securities offered by this prospectus, which securities such broker-dealer or other financial institution may resell pursuant to this prospectus (as supplemented or amended to reflect such transaction).

 

The Selling Stockholders and any broker-dealers or agents that are involved in selling the securities may be deemed to be “underwriters” within the meaning of the Securities Act in connection with such sales. In such event, any commissions received by such broker-dealers or agents and any profit on the resale of the securities purchased by them may be deemed to be underwriting commissions or discounts under the Securities Act. Each Selling Stockholder has informed the Company that it does not have any written or oral agreement or understanding, directly or indirectly, with any person to distribute the securities.

 

The Company is required to pay certain fees and expenses incurred by the Company incident to the registration of the securities. The Company has agreed to indemnify the Selling Stockholders against certain losses, claims, damages and liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act.

 

Because Selling Stockholders may be deemed to be “underwriters” within the meaning of the Securities Act, they will be subject to the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act including Rule 172 thereunder. In addition, any securities covered by this prospectus which qualify for sale pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act may be sold under Rule 144 rather than under this prospectus. The Selling Stockholders have advised us that there is no underwriter or coordinating broker acting in connection with the proposed sale of the resale securities by the Selling Stockholders.

 

We agreed to keep this prospectus effective until the earlier of (i) the date on which the securities may be resold by the Selling Stockholders without registration and without regard to any volume or manner-of-sale limitations by reason of Rule 144, without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information under Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other rule of similar effect or (ii) all of the securities have been sold pursuant to this prospectus or Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other rule of similar effect. The resale securities will be sold only through registered or licensed brokers or dealers if required under applicable state securities laws. In addition, in certain states, the resale securities covered hereby may not be sold unless they have been registered or qualified for sale in the applicable state or an exemption from the registration or qualification requirement is available and is complied with.

 

 
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Under applicable rules and regulations under the Exchange Act, any person engaged in the distribution of the resale securities may not simultaneously engage in market making activities with respect to the common stock for the applicable restricted period, as defined in Regulation M, prior to the commencement of the distribution. In addition, the Selling Stockholders will be subject to applicable provisions of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, including Regulation M, which may limit the timing of purchases and sales of the common stock by the Selling Stockholders or any other person. We will make copies of this prospectus available to the Selling Stockholders and have informed them of the need to deliver a copy of this prospectus to each purchaser at or prior to the time of the sale (including by compliance with Rule 172 under the Securities Act).

 

 
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Annex B

 

PLC SYSTEMS INC.

 

Selling Stockholder Notice and Questionnaire

 

The undersigned beneficial owner of common stock (the “Registrable Securities”) of PLC Systems Inc. (the “Company”), understands that the Company has filed or intends to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement (the “Registration Statement”) for the registration and resale under Rule 415 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), of the Registrable Securities, in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) to which this document is annexed. A copy of the Registration Rights Agreement is available from the Company upon request at the address set forth below. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Registration Rights Agreement.

 

Certain legal consequences arise from being named as a selling stockholder in the Registration Statement and the related prospectus. Accordingly, holders and beneficial owners of Registrable Securities are advised to consult their own securities law counsel regarding the consequences of being named or not being named as a selling stockholder in the Registration Statement and the related prospectus.

 

NOTICE

 

The undersigned beneficial owner (the “Selling Stockholder”) of Registrable Securities hereby elects to include the Registrable Securities owned by it in the Registration Statement.

 

 

 

 

The undersigned hereby provides the following information to the Company and represents and warrants that such information is accurate:

 

QUESTIONNAIRE

 

1. 

Name. 

 

 

 

 

 

(a) 

Full Legal Name of Selling Stockholder 

     

 

 

 

     

 

(b) 

Full Legal Name of Registered Holder (if not the same as (a) above) through which Registrable Securities are held: 

     

 

 

 

     
  (c) Full Legal Name of Natural Control Person (which means a natural person who directly or indirectly alone or with others has power to vote or dispose of the securities covered by this Questionnaire):
     
     

            

 

      

2. Address for Notices to Selling Stockholder:

 

       
       
       

Telephone:

   

Fax:

     

Contact Person:

 

 

3. Broker-Dealer Status:

 

(a)           Are you a broker-dealer?

 

Yes       No 

 

(b)           If “yes” to Section 3(a), did you receive your Registrable Securities as compensation for investment banking services to the Company?

 

Yes       No 

 

Note:      If “no” to Section 3(b), the Commission’s staff has indicated that you should be identified as an underwriter in the Registration Statement.

 

 
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(c)          Are you an affiliate of a broker-dealer?

 

Yes       No 

 

(d)          If you are an affiliate of a broker-dealer, do you certify that you purchased the Registrable Securities in the ordinary course of business, and at the time of the purchase of the Registrable Securities to be resold, you had no agreements or understandings, directly or indirectly, with any person to distribute the Registrable Securities?

 

Yes       No 

 

Note:     If “no” to Section 3(d), the Commission’s staff has indicated that you should be identified as an underwriter in the Registration Statement.

 

4. Beneficial Ownership of Securities of the Company Owned by the Selling Stockholder.

 

Except as set forth below in this Item 4, the undersigned is not the beneficial or registered owner of any securities of the Company other than the securities issuable pursuant to the Purchase Agreement.

 

(a)         Type and Amount of other securities beneficially owned by the Selling Stockholder:

 

 
 
 

 

 
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5. Relationships with the Company:

 

Except as set forth below, neither the undersigned nor any of its affiliates, officers, directors or principal equity holders (owners of 5% of more of the equity securities of the undersigned) has held any position or office or has had any other material relationship with the Company (or its predecessors or affiliates) during the past three years.

 

State any exceptions here:

 

 
 
 

 

 

The undersigned agrees to promptly notify the Company of any inaccuracies or changes in the information provided herein that may occur subsequent to the date hereof at any time while the Registration Statement remains effective.

 

By signing below, the undersigned consents to the disclosure of the information contained herein in its answers to Items 1 through 5 and the inclusion of such information in the Registration Statement and the related prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto. The undersigned understands that such information will be relied upon by the Company in connection with the preparation or amendment of the Registration Statement and the related prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, by authority duly given, has caused this Notice and Questionnaire to be executed and delivered either in person or by its duly authorized agent.

 

Date: 

 

 

Beneficial Owner: 

 

 

 

  By:

 

 

 

Name: 

 

 

Title: 

 

PLEASE FAX A COPY (OR EMAIL A .PDF COPY) OF THE COMPLETED AND EXECUTED NOTICE AND QUESTIONNAIRE, AND RETURN THE ORIGINAL BY OVERNIGHT MAIL, TO:

 

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EX-10 12 ex10-7.htm EXHIBIT 10.7 ex10-6.htm

Exhibit 10.7

 

RIGHT TO SHARES LETTER AGREEMENT

 

This Right to Shares Letter Agreement, dated as of May 9, 2014 (this “Agreement”) constitutes an agreement between PLC Systems Inc., a Yukon Territory corporation (the “Company”) and GCP IV LLC (the “Purchaser”).

 

WHEREAS, the Company and Purchaser and other investors signatory thereto entered into that certain Warrant Exchange Agreement (the “Exchange Agreement”), dated May 9, 2014, among the Company and the purchasers signatory thereto, pursuant to which the Purchaser agreed to exchange Warrants to purchase an aggregate of 64,871,853 shares of the Company’s common stock, no par value (the “Common Stock”) in exchange for the issuance of an aggregate of 43,247,902 newly issued shares of Common Stock (the “Warrant Exchange Shares”);

 

WHEREAS, in lieu of issuing the 43,247,902 Warrant Exchange Shares issuable to the Purchaser at the Closing under the Warrant Exchange Agreement, as a condition to the Purchaser’s obligations under the Warrant Exchange Agreement, the Company and the Purchaser have agreed to enter into this Agreement whereby, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, from time to time, the Company shall be obligated to issue and the Purchaser shall have the right to the issuance of up to 43,247,902 Warrant Exchange Shares, subject to adjustment hereunder (collectively, the “Reserved Shares” and such right of the Purchaser, the “Right”).

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants contained herein, and intending to be legally bound, the parties hereto agree as follows:

 

Section 1.       Definitions. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Warrant Exchange Agreement, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with its terms.

 

Section 2.       Issuance of Reserved Shares.

 

Section 2.1     Issuance of Right in Lieu of Share Issuance. In lieu of issuing the 43,247,902 Warrant Exchange Shares to the Purchaser at the Closing under the Warrant Exchange Agreement, the Company hereby grants the Right to the Purchaser. The Company and the Purchaser hereby agree that no additional consideration is payable in connection with the issuance of the Reserved Shares. The Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that the Company has no obligation to return any of the Warrants to the Purchaser, or any assignee or successor to the Purchaser.

 

Section 2.2     Right of Issuance of Shares. Subject to the terms hereof, the exercise of the Right may be made, in whole or in part, at any time or times on or after the date hereof by delivery to the Company (or such other office or agency of the Company as it may designate by notice in writing to the registered Purchaser at the address of the Purchaser appearing on the books of the Company) of a duly executed facsimile copy of the Notice of Issuance Form annexed hereto requesting the issuance of Warrant Exchange Shares. Partial exercises of the Right resulting in issuances of a portion of the total number of Reserved Shares available hereunder shall have the effect of lowering the outstanding number of Reserved Shares purchasable hereunder in an amount equal to the applicable number of Reserved Shares issued. The Purchaser and the Company shall maintain records showing the number of Reserved Shares issued and the date of such issuances. The Company shall deliver any objection to any Notice of Issuance Form within two (2) business days of receipt of such notice. The Purchaser and any assignee, by assignment of this Agreement, acknowledge and agree that, by reason of the provisions of this paragraph, following the issuance of a portion of the Reserved Shares hereunder, the number of Reserved Shares available for issuance hereunder at any given time may be less than the amount stated in Section 2 hereof.

 

 
 

 

 

Section 2.3     Delivery of Certificates. Certificates for the Reserved Shares issued hereunder shall be transmitted by the Company’s transfer agent (the “Transfer Agent”) to the Purchaser by crediting the account of the Purchaser’s prime broker with The Depository Trust Company through its Deposit or Withdrawal at Custodian system (“DWAC”) if the Company is then a participant in such system and either (A) there is an effective registration statement permitting the issuance of the Reserved Shares to or resale of the Reserved Shares by the Purchaser or (B) the Reserved Shares are eligible for resale by the Purchaser without volume or manner-of-sale limitations pursuant to Rule 144, and otherwise by physical delivery to the address specified by the Purchaser in the Notice of Issuance by the date that is three (3) business days after the delivery to the Company of the Notice of Issuance (such date, the “Share Delivery Date”). The Reserved Shares shall be deemed to have been issued, and Purchaser or any other person so designated to be named therein shall be deemed to have become a holder of record of such shares for all purposes, as of the date the Right has been exercised.

 

Section 2.4     Compensation for Buy-In on Failure to Timely Deliver Certificates. In addition to any other rights available to the Purchaser, if the Company fails to cause the Transfer Agent to transmit to the Purchaser a certificate or the certificates representing the Reserved Shares pursuant to an exercise on or before the Share Delivery Date, and if after such date and prior to the delivery of such certificate or certificates the Purchaser is required by its broker to purchase (in an open market transaction or otherwise) or the Purchaser’s brokerage firm otherwise purchases, shares of Common Stock to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the Purchaser of the Reserved Shares which the Purchaser anticipated receiving upon such exercise (a “Buy-In”), then the Company shall (A) pay in cash to the Purchaser the amount, if any, by which (x) the Purchaser’s total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the shares of Common Stock so purchased exceeds (y) the amount obtained by multiplying (1) the number of Reserved Shares that the Company was required to deliver to the Purchaser in connection with the exercise at issue times (2) the price at which the sell order giving rise to such purchase obligation was executed, and (B) at the option of the Purchaser, either reinstate the portion of the Right and equivalent number of Reserved Shares for which such exercise was not honored (in which case such exercise shall be deemed rescinded, and the Purchaser shall promptly return to the Company the certificates issued to such Purchaser pursuant to the rescinded Notice of Issuance) or deliver to the Purchaser the number of shares of Common Stock that would have been issued had the Company timely complied with its exercise and delivery obligations hereunder. For example, if the Purchaser purchases Common Stock having a total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to an attempted exercise of shares of Common Stock with an aggregate sale price giving rise to such purchase obligation of $10,000, under clause (A) of the immediately preceding sentence the Company shall be required to pay the Purchaser $1,000. The Purchaser shall provide the Company written notice indicating the amounts payable to the Purchaser in respect of the Buy-In and, upon request of the Company, evidence of the amount of such loss. Nothing herein shall limit a Purchaser’s right to pursue any other remedies available to it hereunder, at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief with respect to the Company’s failure to timely deliver certificates representing shares of Common Stock upon exercise of the Right as required pursuant to the terms hereof.

 

Section 2.5     Charges, Taxes and Expenses. Issuance of certificates for Reserved Shares shall be made without charge to the Purchaser for any issue or transfer tax or other incidental expense in respect of the issuance of such certificate, all of which taxes and expenses shall be paid by the Company, and such certificates shall be issued in the name of the Purchaser or in such name or names as may be directed by the Purchaser; provided, however, that in the event certificates for Reserved Shares are to be issued in a name other than the name of the Purchaser, the Purchaser shall deliver the Assignment Form attached hereto duly executed by the Purchaser and the Company may require, as a condition thereto, the payment of a sum sufficient to reimburse it for any transfer tax incidental thereto. The Company shall pay all Transfer Agent fees required for same-day processing of any Notice of Issuance.

 

Section 2.6     Closing of Books. The Company will not close its stockholder books or records in any manner which prevents the timely exercise of the Right, pursuant to the terms hereof.

 

 
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Section 2.7     Purchaser’s Limitations. The Purchaser shall not have the right to exercise any portion of the Right, pursuant to Section 2 or otherwise, to the extent that after giving effect to such issuance after exercise as set forth on the applicable Notice of Issuance, the Purchaser (together with the Purchaser’s Affiliates, and any other Persons acting as a group together with the Purchaser or any of the Purchaser’s Affiliates), would beneficially own in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation (as defined below).  For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by the Purchaser and its Affiliates shall include the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Right with respect to which such determination is being made, but shall exclude the number of shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon (i) exercise of the remaining, nonexercised portion of the Right beneficially owned by the Purchaser or any of its Affiliates and (ii) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or nonconverted portion of any other securities of the Company beneficially owned by the Purchaser or any of its Affiliates that are convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitle the holder thereof to receive, Common Stock that are subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein.  The Company shall not be liable for any instruction received by the Purchaser. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this Section 2.7, beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, it being acknowledged by the Purchaser that the Company is not representing to the Purchaser that such calculation is in compliance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the Purchaser is solely responsible for any schedules required to be filed in accordance therewith. To the extent that the limitation contained in this Section 2.7 applies, the determination of whether the Right is exercisable (in relation to other securities owned by the Purchaser together with any Affiliates) and of which portion of the Right is exercisable shall be in the sole discretion of the Purchaser, and the submission of a Notice of Issuance shall be deemed to be the Purchaser’s determination of whether the Right is exercisable (in relation to other securities owned by the Purchaser together with any Affiliates) and of which portion of the Right is exercisable, in each case subject to the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, and the Company shall have no obligation to verify or confirm the accuracy of such determination. In addition, a determination as to any group status as contemplated above shall be determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. For purposes of this Section 2.7, in determining the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, the Purchaser may rely on the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock as reflected in (A) the Company’s most recent periodic or annual report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), as the case may be, (B) a more recent public announcement by the Company or (C) a more recent written notice by the Company or the Transfer Agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding.  Upon the written or oral request of the Purchaser, the Company shall within two business days confirm orally and in writing to the Purchaser the number of shares of Common Stock then outstanding.  In any case, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be determined after giving effect to the conversion or exercise of securities of the Company, including the Right, by the Purchaser or its Affiliates since the date as of which such number of outstanding shares of Common Stock was reported. The “Beneficial Ownership Limitation” shall be 9.99% of the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the issuance of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Right. The Purchaser, upon not less than 61 days’ prior notice to the Company, may increase or decrease the Beneficial Ownership Limitation provisions of this Section 2.7. Any such increase or decrease will not be effective until the 61st day after such notice is delivered to the Company. The provisions of this paragraph shall be construed and implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms of this Section 2.7 to correct this paragraph (or any portion hereof) which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended Beneficial Ownership Limitation herein contained or to make changes or supplements necessary or desirable to properly give effect to such limitation. The limitations contained in this paragraph shall apply to a successor assignee of this Agreement.

 

Section 3.       Certain Adjustments.

 

Section 3.1.     Stock Dividends and Splits. If the Company, at any time while the Right exists: (i) pays a stock dividend or otherwise makes a distribution or distributions on shares of its Common Stock or any other equity or equity equivalent securities payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides outstanding shares of Common Stock into a larger number of shares, (iii) combines (including by way of reverse stock split) outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues by reclassification of shares of the Common Stock any shares of capital stock of the Company, then in each case the number of Reserved Shares issuable upon exercise of the Right shall be proportionately adjusted. Any adjustment made pursuant to this Section 3.1 shall become effective immediately after the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or distribution (provided that if the declaration of such dividend or distribution is rescinded or otherwise cancelled, then such adjustment shall be reversed upon notice to the Purchaser of the termination of such proposed declaration or distribution as to any unexercised portion of the Right at the time of such rescission or cancellation) and shall become effective immediately after the effective date in the case of a subdivision, combination or re-classification.

 

Section 3.2     Restrictions.  All contractual restrictions applicable to the Warrant Exchange Shares set forth in the Warrant Exchange Agreement shall be applicable to the Reserved Shares, including, without limitation, Section 3 of the Warrant Exchange Agreement.

 

 
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Section 3.3     Subsequent Rights Offerings. If Section 3.1 above does not apply, if at any time the Company grants, issues or sells any (a) securities that would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock, including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, right, option, warrant or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Common Stock or (b) rights to purchase stock, warrants, securities or other property pro rata to the record holders of any class of shares of Common Stock (the “Purchase Rights”), then the Purchaser will be entitled to acquire, upon the terms applicable to such Purchase Rights, the aggregate Purchase Rights which the Purchaser could have acquired if the Purchaser had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon complete exercise of the Right (without regard to any limitations on exercise hereof, including without limitation, the Beneficial Ownership Limitation) immediately before the date on which a record is taken for the grant, issuance or sale of such Purchase Rights, or, if no such record is taken, the date as of which the record holders of shares of Common Stock are to be determined for the grant, issue or sale of such Purchase Rights (provided, however, to the extent that the Purchaser’s right to participate in any such Purchase Right would result in the Purchaser exceeding the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, then the Purchaser shall not be entitled to participate in such Purchase Right to such extent (or beneficial ownership of such shares of Common Stock as a result of such Purchase Right to such extent) and such Purchase Right to such extent shall be held in abeyance for the Purchaser until such time, if ever, as its right thereto would not result in the Purchaser exceeding the Beneficial Ownership Limitation).

 

Section 3.4     Fundamental Transaction. If, at any time while the Right remains outstanding, (a) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions effects any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another Person, (b) the Company, directly or indirectly, effects any sale, lease, license, assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of its assets in one or a series of related transactions, (c) any, direct or indirect, purchase offer, tender offer or exchange offer (whether by the Company or another Person) is completed pursuant to which holders of Common Stock are permitted to sell, tender or exchange their shares for other securities, cash or property and has been accepted by the holders of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Stock, (d) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions effects any reclassification, reorganization or recapitalization of the Common Stock or any compulsory share exchange pursuant to which the Common Stock is effectively converted into or exchanged for other securities, cash or property, or (e) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions consummates a stock or share purchase agreement or other business combination (including, without limitation, a reorganization, recapitalization, spin-off or scheme of arrangement) with another Person or group of Persons whereby such other Person or group acquires more than 50% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (not including any shares of Common Stock held by the other Person or other Persons making or party to, or associated or affiliated with the other Persons making or party to, such stock or share purchase agreement or other business combination) (each a “Fundamental Transaction”), then, upon any subsequent exercise of the Right, the Purchaser shall have the right to receive, for each Reserved Share that would have been issuable upon such exercise immediately prior to the occurrence of such Fundamental Transaction, at the option of the Purchaser (without regard to any limitation in Section 2.7 on the exercise of the Right), the number of shares of Common Stock of the successor or acquiring corporation or of the Company, if it is the surviving corporation, and any additional consideration (the “Alternate Consideration”) receivable as a result of such Fundamental Transaction by a holder of one share of Common Stock. Upon the occurrence of any such Fundamental Transaction, any successor entity in a Fundamental Transaction in which the Company is not the survivor (the “Successor Entity”) shall succeed to, and be substituted for the Company (so that from and after the date of such Fundamental Transaction, the provisions of this Agreement referring to the “Company” shall refer instead to the Successor Entity), and may exercise every right and power of the Company and shall assume all of the obligations of the Company under this Agreement with the same effect as if such Successor Entity had been named as the Company herein.

 

 
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Section 3.5     Notice to Allow Exercise of Right. If (a) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution in whatever form) on the Common Stock, (b) the Company shall declare a special nonrecurring cash dividend on or a redemption of the Common Stock, (c) the Company shall authorize the granting to all holders of the Common Stock rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares of capital stock of any class or of any rights, (d) the approval of any stockholders of the Company shall be required in connection with any reclassification of the Common Stock, any consolidation or merger to which the Company is a party, any sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, or any compulsory share exchange whereby the Common Stock is converted into other securities, cash or property, or (e) the Company shall authorize the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the affairs of the Company, then, in each case, the Company shall cause to be mailed to the Purchaser, at least 20 calendar days prior to the applicable record or effective date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (x) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution, redemption, rights or warrants, or if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of the Common Stock of record to be entitled to such dividend, distributions, redemption, rights or warrants are to be determined or (y) the date on which such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange is expected to become effective or close, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of the Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their shares of the Common Stock for securities, cash or other property deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange; provided that the failure to mail such notice or any defect therein or in the mailing thereof shall not affect the validity of the corporate action required to be specified in such notice. To the extent that any notice provided hereunder constitutes, or contains, material, non-public information regarding the Company or any of its subsidiaries, the Company shall simultaneously file such notice with the Commission pursuant to a Current Report on Form 8-K. The Purchaser shall remain entitled to exercise the Right during the period commencing on the date of such notice to the effective date of the event triggering such notice except as may otherwise be expressly set forth herein.

 

Section 4.       Transfer of Right.

 

Section 4.1     Transferability. Subject to compliance with any applicable securities laws, the Right and all rights hereunder are transferable, in whole or in part, upon written assignment substantially in the form attached hereto duly executed by the Purchaser or its agent or attorney and funds sufficient to pay any transfer taxes payable upon the making of such transfer of this Agreement delivered to the principal office of the Company or its designated agent. Upon such assignment and, if required, such payment, the Company shall enter into a new agreement with the assignee or assignees, as applicable, and this Agreement shall promptly be cancelled. The Right, if properly assigned in accordance herewith, may be exercised by a new holder for the issue of Reserved Shares without having a new agreement executed.

 

Section 4.2     Division of Rights. The Right may be divided or combined with other rights upon presentation hereof at the aforesaid office of the Company, together with a written notice specifying the names and denominations in which such Rights are to be granted, signed by the Purchaser or its agent or attorney.

 

Section 5.       Miscellaneous.

 

Section 5.1     No Rights as Stockholder Until Exercise. This Agreement does not entitle the Purchaser to any voting rights, dividends or other rights as a stockholder of the Company prior to the exercise hereof as set forth in Section 2.

 

Section 5.2     Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, etc. If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not be a business day, then, such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding business day.

 

Section 5.3     Authorized Shares.

 

The Company covenants that, during the period the Right is outstanding, it will reserve from its authorized and unissued Common Stock a sufficient number of shares to provide for the issuance of the Reserved Shares upon the exercise of the Right. The Company further covenants that its issuance of the Right shall constitute full authority to its officers who are charged with the duty of executing stock certificates to execute and issue the necessary certificates for the Reserved Shares upon the due exercise of the Right. The Company will take all such reasonable action as may be necessary to assure that such Reserved Shares may be issued as provided herein without violation of any applicable law or regulation, or of any requirements of the trading market upon which the Common Stock may be listed. The Company covenants that all Reserved Shares which may be issued upon the exercise of the Right represented by this Agreement will, upon exercise of the Right, be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free from all taxes, liens and charges created by the Company in respect of the issue thereof (other than taxes in respect of any transfer occurring contemporaneously with such issue).

 

 
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Except and to the extent as waived or consented to by the Purchaser, the Company shall not by any action, including, without limitation, amending its certificate of incorporation or through any reorganization, transfer of assets, consolidation, merger, dissolution, issue or sale of securities or any other voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms of this Agreement, but will at all times in good faith assist in the carrying out of all such terms and in the taking of all such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to protect the rights of the Purchaser as set forth in this Agreement against impairment. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company will (i) not increase the par value of any Reserved Shares above the amount payable therefor upon such exercise immediately prior to such increase in par value, (ii) take all such action as may be necessary or appropriate in order that the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and nonassessable Reserved Shares upon the exercise of the Right and (iii) use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain all such authorizations, exemptions or consents from any public regulatory body having jurisdiction thereof, as may be, necessary to enable the Company to perform its obligations under this Agreement.

Before taking any action which would result in an adjustment in the number of Reserved Shares for which the Right provides for, the Company shall obtain all such authorizations or exemptions thereof, or consents thereto, as may be necessary from any public regulatory body or bodies having jurisdiction thereof.

Section 5.4     Jurisdiction. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of the Warrant Exchange Agreement.

 

Section 5.5     Nonwaiver and Expenses. No course of dealing or any delay or failure to exercise any right hereunder on the part of Purchaser shall operate as a waiver of such right or otherwise prejudice the Purchaser’s rights, powers or remedies. Without limiting any other provision of this Agreement or the Warrant Exchange Agreement, as applicable, if the Company willfully and knowingly fails to comply with any provision of this Agreement, which results in any material damages to the Purchaser, the Company shall pay to the Purchaser such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover any costs and expenses including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees, including those of appellate proceedings, incurred by the Purchaser in collecting any amounts due pursuant hereto or in otherwise enforcing any of its rights, powers or remedies hereunder.

 

Section 5.6     Execution. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party, it being understood that both parties need not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an original thereof.

 

[SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS]

 

 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Right to Shares Letter Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

 

PLC SYSTEMS INC.

 

Address for Notice:

     
     

 

 

459 Fortune Boulevard

Milford, MA 01757

By: 

 

/s/ Mark R. Tauscher

 

Fax: (508) 541-7990

Name:

Mark R. Tauscher

 

 

Title: 

President and CEO

 

 

 

 

 

With a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):

 

 

 

 

 

Gennari Aronson, LLP

300 First Avenue

Needham, MA 02494

Attn: Neil H. Aronson, Esq.

Fax: 781-719-9853

 

 

 

 

 

[REMAINDER OF PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK

SIGNATURE PAGE FOR PURCHASER FOLLOWS]

 

 
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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO PLC SYSTEMS INC.

RIGHT TO SHARES LETTER AGREEMENT]

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Right to Shares Letter Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

Name of Purchaser:                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

 

 

Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser:                                                                                                                                                                   

 

 Name of Authorized Signatory:                                                                                                                                                                                                

 

Title of Authorized Signatory:                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

 
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NOTICE OF ISSUANCE

 

To:     PLC SYSTEMS INC.

 

(1)     The undersigned hereby elects in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Right to Shares Letter Agreement, dated as of May 9, 2014 (the “Letter Agreement”), to exercise its Right to the issuance of ________ Reserved Shares of the PLC Systems Inc., a Yukon Territory corporation (the “Company”) pursuant to the terms of the Letter Agreement, and tenders all applicable transfer taxes, if any.

 

(2)     Please issue a certificate or certificates representing ___________ of the Warrant Exchange Shares, comprising said Reserved Shares in the name of the undersigned registered holder or in such other name as is specified below:

_______________________________

 

 

The Reserved Shares shall be delivered to the following DWAC Account Number or by physical delivery of a certificate to:

 

_______________________________

 

_______________________________

 

_______________________________

 

(4) Accredited Investor. The undersigned is an “accredited investor” as defined in Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

[SIGNATURE OF HOLDER]

 

Name of Registered Holder:                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Signature of Authorized Signatory of Registered Holder                                                                                                                                                  

Name of Authorized Signatory:                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Title of Authorized Signatory:                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Date:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

 

 
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ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

(To assign the foregoing Right, execute
this form and supply required information.
Do not use this form to exercise the Right.)

 

PLC SYSTEMS INC.

 

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, hereby assigns in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Right to Shares Letter Agreement, dated as of May 9, 2014 (the “Letter Agreement”) [____] all of or [_______] shares of the Right (as defined in the Letter Agreement) and all rights evidenced thereby to

 

_______________________________________________ whose address is

 

_______________________________________________________________.

 

 

 

_______________________________________________________________

 

Dated: ______________, _______

 

 

Purchaser’s Signature:     ___________________________

 

Purchaser’s Address:      ___________________________

 

 ___________________________

 

 

 

Signature Guaranteed: ___________________________________________

 

 

NOTE: The signature to this Assignment Form must correspond with the name as it appears on purchaser signature page the Letter Agreement, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever, and must be guaranteed by a bank or trust company. Officers of corporations and those acting in a fiduciary or other representative capacity should file proper evidence of authority to assign the foregoing Right.

 

 

 

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EX-99 13 ex99-1.htm EXHIBIT 99.1 ex99-2.htm

Exhibit 99.1

 

For information contact:

 

Gregory Mann, Chief Financial Officer

PLC Systems 

508-541-8800 

gmann@plcmed.com

 

 

PLC Systems Proposes Series of Business Transactions

Designed to Preserve Value for Shareholders

 

MILFORD, Mass.—May 14, 2014 -- PLC Systems Inc. (OTCQB: PLCSF) (“PLC”), a medical device company focused on innovative technologies for the cardiac and vascular markets, today announced that it is proposing to its shareholders a series of business transactions.

 

Said Mark R. Tauscher, president and chief executive officer of PLC, “The management of PLC has been working diligently for the past few years to raise the additional capital needed to both fund our operations as well as our U.S. clinical trial of RenalGuard®. Despite considering every alternative, we have not been successful in doing so. To avoid the route of bankruptcy, which would leave very little if any value for current shareholders, we have constructed, with our board and advisors, a series of corporate transactions that we believe will address the financial needs of the underlying business operations of RenalGuard, while providing current PLC stockholders with the ability to participate in a better capitalized public company that has a strong growth opportunity. We believe that these transactions, while complicated, will help preserve the most value for stockholder’s equity in PLC.”

 

The transactions proposed include merging PLC Systems Inc., the public company, with Viveve, Inc., (“Viveve”) a private medical device company pioneering innovative technology in the field of women’s healthcare. Viveve, a commercial stage company, recently received regulatory approval for its lead product in Canada, Europe and Hong Kong, and also sells product into Japan. Following this step, it is contemplated that PLC stockholders would own in aggregate approximately 36.9% of the public company, while Viveve stockholders would own in aggregate approximately 63.1% of the public company.

 

Proposed Business Transaction Steps:

 

 

Prior to the merger, PLC will transfer its existing RenalGuard business, PLC’s sole business segment, into an entity called RenalGuard Solutions, which will then be sold to GCP IV LLC, PLC’s principal debt holder, GCP IV LLC, in exchange for the cancellation of all debentures held by GCP (the “RenalGuard Transfer”);

 

In connection with the merger, PLC shall undergo a recapitalization, including the exchange of shares of PLC common stock for outstanding warrants and a 1 for 100 reverse stock split ;

 

Immediately after the RenalGuard Transfer and the merger, PLC will complete a private placement of its common stock and warrants to certain accredited investors, including 5AM Ventures, GBS Ventures and Alta Bioequities, for total gross proceeds of approximately $6,000,000 (including approximately $500,000 of bridge debt conversion);

 

Following the merger, PLC will change its name to Viveve Medical, Inc. to more accurately reflect its new business (the “Name Change”);

 

Upon consummation of the merger, the officers and directors of Viveve immediately prior to the Merger will become the officers and directors of Viveve Medical, Inc. f/k/a PLC; and

 

 
 

 

 

 

Initially, Viveve Medical, Inc. will continue to be quoted on the OTCQB marketplace maintained by the OTC Market Group Inc. under the symbol “PLCSF” but will undertake to change its symbol to more accurately reflect the Name Change.

 

The completion of the merger is contingent upon the satisfaction of certain conditions included in the merger agreement, which is attached as an exhibit to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by PLC today with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission. These conditions include:

 

 

PLC shareholder approval of the merger and related transactions; and

 

 

Completion of the RenalGuard Transfer prior to closing of the merger.

 

 

About PLC Systems Inc.

PLC Systems Inc. through its operating subsidiary, PLC Medical Systems, Inc., is a medical device company focused on innovative technologies for the cardiac and vascular markets. PLC's lead product, RenalGuard®, significantly reduces the onset of CIN in at-risk patients undergoing certain cardiac and vascular imaging procedures. CIN is a form of acute kidney injury resulting from toxic contrast agents that occurs in 10% to 20% of at-risk patients. RenalGuard is CE-marked and is being sold in Europe and certain countries around the world via a network of distributors. Two investigator-sponsored studies in Europe have demonstrated RenalGuard's effectiveness at preventing CIN. The CIN-RG RenalGuard pivotal study is underway in the U.S. to support a planned Premarket Approval filing with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Additional company information can be found at www.plcmed.com.

 

About Viveve, Inc:

Viveve, Inc. is a women’s health company passionately committed to advancing new solutions to improve women’s overall well-being and quality of life. The company’s lead product, the Viveve® System, is a non-surgical, non-ablative medical device that remodels collagen and restores tissue. The Viveve System treats the condition of vaginal laxity, which is the result of the over-stretching of tissue during childbirth, which can result in a decrease in sexual function and physical sensation. For more information, please visit contact:

 

Investor Relations

Viveve, Inc.

408-530-1900 x 208

ir@viveve.com

 

This press release contains "forward-looking" statements. For this purpose, any statements contained in this press release that relate to prospective events or developments are deemed to be forward-looking statements. Words such as "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "will" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Our statements of our objectives are also forward-looking statements. While we may elect to update forward-looking statements in the future, we specifically disclaim any obligation to do so, even if our estimates change, and you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as representing our views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release. Actual results could differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of important factors, including that we may not receive necessary regulatory approvals to market our RenalGuard product or that such approvals may be withdrawn, the U.S. clinical trial for RenalGuard may not be completed in a timely fashion, if at all, or, if this clinical trial is completed, it may not produce clinically significant or meaningful results, the RenalGuard product may not be commercially accepted, operational changes, the need for additional financing, competitive developments may affect the market for our products, regulatory approval requirements may affect the market for our products, and additional risk factors described in the "Forward Looking Statements" section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013, a copy of which is on file with the SEC.

 

PLC Systems, PLC, RenalGuard and RenalGuard System are trademarks of PLC Systems Inc.