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): October 28, 2008
CLEAN
ENERGY FUELS CORP.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in
its charter)
Delaware
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001-33480
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33-0968580
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(State or other
jurisdiction
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(Commission
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(I.R.S. Employer
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of incorporation)
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File Number)
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Identification No.)
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3020
Old Ranch Parkway, Suite 200, Seal Beach, California
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90740
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(Address of principal
executive offices)
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(Zip Code)
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Registrants telephone number, including
area code: (562) 493-2804
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 (see General Instruction A.2. below):
o Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the
Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
o Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the
Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
o Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under
the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
o re-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under
the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
Item 1.01 Entry into a Material
Definitive Agreement.
On
October 28, 2008, Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company), entered into a
Placement Agent Agreement (the Placement
Agent Agreement) in which Lazard Capital Markets LLC served as
lead placement agent and W.R. Hambrecht + Co., LLC served as co-placement agent
(the Placement Agents),
relating to the sale and issuance by the Company to select investors (the Investors) of up to
4,419,192 units (the Units),
with each Unit consisting of (i) one share of the Companys common stock,
par value $0.0001 per share (Common
Stock), (ii) a warrant to purchase 0.75 shares of Common
Stock (the Series I Warrant),
and (iii) one warrant to purchase up to 0.2571 shares of Common Stock (the
Series II Warrant
and together with the Series I Warrants, the Warrants). The sale of the Units is being made pursuant
to Subscription Agreements, each dated October 28, 2008 (the Subscription Agreements),
with each of the Investors pursuant to which the Investors agreed to purchase
the Units at a purchase price of $7.92 per Unit. In the aggregate, the Company
would issue up to 4,419,192 shares of Common Stock (the Shares), Series I
Warrants to purchase up to 3,314,394 shares of Common Stock, and Series II
Warrants to purchase up to 1,136,364 shares of Common Stock pursuant to the
terms of the Placement Agent Agreement and the related Subscription Agreements.
The Series I Warrants to be issued to each Investor would be exercisable
beginning six months from the date of issuance for a period of seven years from
the date they become exercisable, and would carry an exercise price of $13.50
per share. On the first anniversary of the issuance of the Series I warrants,
the exercise price will reset to an exercise price equal to one-hundred twenty
percent (120%) of the closing price of our common stock on such first
anniversary date. On the second anniversary
of the issuance of the Series I warrants, the exercise price will reset to an
exercise price equal to one-hundred twenty percent (120%) of the closing price
of our common stock on such second anniversary date. However, under the terms of the Series I
warrants, no such reset adjustment will operate to increase the exercise price
above the then current exercise price at the time of the first or second
anniversary of the issuance of the Series I warrant. The Series II Warrants are
conditioned upon the outcome of the November 4, 2008 California election
related to Proposition 10, the California Alternative Fuels and Renewable
Energy Initiative. The Series II Warrants will become exercisable during
the period beginning on the date which is five trading days after November 4,
2008 in the event that Proposition 10 is not approved by the voters in the
State of California during the election to be held on November 4, 2008 and
ending on November 14, 2008, subject to an extension of one trading day
for each trading day that the result of the election is not declared by 9:00 a.m.,
New York time, on November 5, 2008, at an exercise price of $0.01 per
share of Common Stock. The Series II warrants will be exercisable for such
number of shares of Common Stock as will be equal to (i) the quotient of (A) the
aggregate purchase price paid by each investor for the purchase of Units
divided by (B) 85% of the average Weighted Average Price (as defined in
the Series II Warrants) per share of the Common Stock during the five
trading days beginning November 5, 2008, provided that such resulting
price shall not be less than $6.30, (ii) minus the number of shares of
common stock purchased by such investor. In the event that Proposition 10 is
approved by the California voters, then the Series II warrants shall not be
exercisable and shall terminate.
The
Company anticipates raising gross proceeds of approximately $35 million. The
net offering proceeds to the Company from the sale of the Units, after
deducting the placement agents fees and other estimated offering expenses
payable by the Company, are expected to be approximately $32.3 million.
The
Shares, the Warrants and the shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants
(together, the Securities)
are being offered and sold pursuant to a prospectus dated July 29, 2008 and a prospectus
supplement dated October 28, 2008 (the Prospectus
Supplement), pursuant to the Companys effective shelf
registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-152306). The legal
opinion of Morrison Foerster LLP relating to the Securities is filed as Exhibit 5.1
to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
The closing of the sale
and issuance of the Units is expected to take place on or about November 3,
2008, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
The foregoing is only a
brief description of the material terms of the Placement Agent Agreement, the
Warrants and the Subscription Agreements; it does not purport to be a complete
description of the rights and obligations of the parties thereunder and is
qualified in its entirety by reference to the Placement Agent Agreement, the
form of Series I Warrant, the Form of Series II Warrant and the
form of Subscription Agreement, respectively, that are filed as Exhibits 1.1,
4.5, 4.6 and 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by
reference herein.
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Item 2.02 Results
of Operations and Financial Condition.
Recent Developments
Third Quarter Financial Performance
While our financial
statements for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 have not yet been
prepared, based on preliminary estimates, we expect to report a net loss in the
range of $10.4 million to $11.5 million, or ($0.23) to ($0.26) per share. In
the quarter ended September 30, 2007, we reported a net loss of ($0.03)
per share. As previously disclosed, our anticipated net loss for the quarter
ended September 30, 2008 will include a loss of approximately $6.0 million
from the sale of natural gas futures contracts that we purchased to hedge our
potential exposure to a fixed price customer contract with the City of Phoenix,
Arizona for which we submitted a bid. We submitted a bid and purchased futures
contracts with respect to the entire contract with the City of Phoenix, but the
City of Phoenix awarded us only a portion of the contract. Thus, we sold the
futures contracts that were associated with the portion of the fixed price
customer contract that we were not awarded. This loss will offset an unrealized
gain of $5.7 million that we recorded in the three month period ended June 30,
2008 related to the futures contracts, which resulted in a realized net loss of
$0.3 million related to the futures contracts we sold. In addition, our
anticipated net loss for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 includes
approximately $500,000 in expenses associated with our support for Proposition
10, the California Alternative Fuel Vehicles and Renewable Energy ballot
initiative. Revenues in the quarter ended September 30, 2008 are expected
to be in the range of $33.5 million to $37.0 million, as compared to $29.2
million in the quarter ended September 30, 2007. We anticipate that volume
of gasoline gallon equivalents sold for the third quarter of 2008 (including
sales of LNG utilized in industrial applications and natural gas sold by our
landfill gas facility in Dallas, Texas) will be 18.7 million gallons, as
compared to 20.0 million gasoline gallon equivalents sold in the third quarter
of 2007.
Item 8.01 Other Events.
On October 29, 2008,
the Company issued a press release announcing its completion of the sale and
issuance of the units described above. A copy of this press release is attached
as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is
incorporated by reference into this Item 8.01.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d) Exhibits.
Exhibit
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Description
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1.1
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Placement Agent
Agreement, dated October 28, 2008, by and between Clean Energy Fuels
Corp., and Lazard Capital Markets LLC and W.R. Hambrecht + Co., LLC
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4.5
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Form of
Series I Warrant to be issued to each of the Investors
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4.6
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Form of
Series II Warrant to be issued to each of the Investors
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5.1
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Opinion of Morrison
Foerster LLP
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10.1
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Form of
Subscription Agreement by and between Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and each of
the Investors
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23.1
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Consent of Morrison
Foerster LLP (included as part of Exhibit 5.1)
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99.1
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Press release issued by
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. on October 29, 2008
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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.
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CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP
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Dated: October 28,
2008
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By:
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/s/ Richard R. Wheeler
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Name: Richard R.
Wheeler
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Title: Chief Financial
Officer
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Exhibit 1.1
4,419,192
Shares of Common Stock
and Series I Warrants
to Purchase 3,314,394 Shares of Common Stock
Series II Warrants
to Purchase up to 1,136,363 Shares of Common Stock
CLEAN ENERGY
FUELS CORP.
PLACEMENT AGENT AGREEMENT
October 28,
2008
LAZARD CAPITAL MARKETS LLC
W.R. HAMBRECHT + CO., LLC
c/o Lazard Capital
Markets LLC
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10020
Dear Sirs:
1. INTRODUCTION. Clean Energy Fuels
Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company),
proposes to issue and sell to the purchasers, pursuant to the terms and
conditions of this Placement Agent Agreement (this Agreement)
and the subscription agreements in the form of EXHIBIT A attached hereto
(the Subscription Agreements) entered into
with the purchasers identified therein (each a Purchaser
and collectively, the Purchasers),
up to an aggregate of 4,419,192 units (the Units),
each Unit consisting of (i) one share (a Share,
collectively, the Shares)
of its common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the Common Stock), and (ii) one warrant to purchase 0.75
shares of Common Stock (the Series I Warrant)
and (iii) one warrant (the Series II Warrant,
and together with the Series I Warrant, the Warrants)
to purchase up to 0.257143 shares of Common Stock, for an aggregate purchase price
of $35,000,000 (the Purchase Price). The Units will not be issued or
certificated. The Shares and Warrants are immediately
separable and will be issued separately. The terms and conditions of the
Warrants are set forth in the forms of Exhibit B-1 and Exhibit B-2
attached hereto. The Shares issuable
upon exercise of the Warrants are referred to herein as the Warrant Shares and, together
with the Units, the Shares and the Warrants, are referred to herein as the Securities. The Company hereby confirms that Lazard Capital Markets LLC
(LCM) and W.R. Hambrecht + Co., LLC (WRHCo together with LCM, the Placement
Agents) acted as Placement Agents in accordance with the terms and
conditions hereof. LCM is acting as the
representative of the Placement Agents and in such capacity is hereinafter
referred to as the Representative.
2. AGREEMENT TO ACT AS PLACEMENT AGENTS; PLACEMENT OF SECURITIES. On the basis of the representations,
warranties and agreements of the Company contained herein, and subject to all
the terms and conditions of this Agreement:
(I) The
Company has authorized and hereby acknowledges that the Placement Agents have
acted as its exclusive agents to solicit offers for the purchase of all or part
of the Units from the Company in connection with the proposed offering of the
Units (the Offering). Until the Closing Date (as defined in Section 4
hereof), the Company shall not, without the prior written consent of the
Representative, solicit or accept offers to purchase the Units otherwise than
through the Placement Agents. LCM may
utilize the
expertise of Lazard Frères & Co. LLC in connection with LCMs
placement agent activities.
(II) The
Company hereby acknowledges that the Placement Agents, as agents of the
Company, used their commercially reasonable best efforts to solicit offers to
purchase the Units from the Company on the terms and subject to the conditions
set forth in the Prospectus (as defined below).
The Placement Agents shall use commercially reasonable efforts to assist
the Company in obtaining performance by each Purchaser whose offer to purchase
the Units was solicited by the Placement Agents and accepted by the Company,
but the Placement Agents shall not, except as otherwise provided in this
Agreement, have any liability to the Company in the event any such purchase is
not consummated for any reason. Under no
circumstances will either Placement Agent be obligated to underwrite or
purchase any Units for its own account and, in soliciting purchases of Units,
the Placement Agents acted solely as the Companys agents and not as
principal. Notwithstanding the foregoing
and except as otherwise provided in Section 2, it is understood and
agreed that the Placement Agents (or their respective affiliates) may, solely
at their discretion and without any obligation to do so, purchase Units as
principals.
(III) Subject
to the provisions of this Section 2, offers for the purchase of
Units were solicited by the Placement Agents as agents for the Company at such
times and in such amounts as the Placement Agents in their discretion deemed
advisable. The Placement Agents
communicated to the Company, orally or in writing, each reasonable offer to
purchase Units received by it as agent of the Company. The Company shall have
the sole right to accept offers to purchase the Units and may reject any such
offer, in whole or in part. The
Placement Agents have the right, in their discretion, without notice to the
Company, to reject any offer to purchase Units received by it, in whole or in
part, and any such rejection shall not be deemed a breach of this Agreement.
(IV) The
Units are being sold to the Purchaser(s) at a price of $7.92 per
Unit. The purchases of the Units by the
Purchaser(s) shall be evidenced by the execution of Subscription
Agreements by each of the Purchasers and the Company.
(V) As
compensation for services rendered, on the Closing Date (as defined in Section 4
hereof), the Company shall pay to LCM, as the Representative of the Placement
Agents, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account or
accounts designated by the Representative, an aggregate amount equal to six
percent (6.0%) of the gross proceeds received by the Company from the sale of
the Units on such Closing Date. Such
amount may be deducted from the payment made by the Purchaser(s) to the
Company and paid directly to LCM on the Closing Date.
(VI) No
Units which the Company has agreed to sell pursuant to this Agreement and the
Subscription Agreements shall be deemed to have been purchased and paid for, or
sold by the Company, until such Units shall have been delivered to the
Purchaser thereof against payment by such Purchaser. If the Company shall
default in its obligations to deliver Units to a Purchaser whose offer it has
accepted, the Company shall indemnify and hold the Placement Agents harmless
against any loss, claim, damage or
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expense arising from or as a result of such default by the Company in
accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 8(III) herein.
3. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE
COMPANY.
(I) The
Company represents and warrants to the Placement Agents and the Purchasers, and
agrees with the Placement Agents and the Purchasers, that:
(a) The Company has
prepared and filed in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the Securities Act),
and published rules and regulations thereunder (the Rules and
Regulations) adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
Commission) a shelf Registration
Statement (as hereinafter defined) on Form S-3 (File No. 333-152306),
which became effective as of July 29, 2008 (the Effective
Date), including a base prospectus relating to the Securities (the
Base Prospectus), and such amendments
and supplements thereto as may have been required to the date of this
Agreement. The term Registration Statement
as used in this Agreement means the registration statement (including all
exhibits, financial schedules and all documents and information deemed to be a
part of the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430B of the Rules and
Regulations), as amended and/or supplemented to the date of this Agreement,
including the Base Prospectus. The
Registration Statement is effective under the Securities Act and no stop order
preventing or suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or
suspending or preventing the use of the Prospectus has been issued by the
Commission and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the
knowledge of the Company, are threatened by the Commission. The Company, if required by the Rules and
Regulations of the Commission, will file the Prospectus (as defined below),
with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and
Regulations. The term Prospectus as
used in this Agreement means the Prospectus, in the form in which it is to be
filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and
Regulations, or, if the Prospectus is not to be filed with the Commission
pursuant to Rule 424(b), the Prospectus in the form included as part of
the Registration Statement as of the Effective Date, except that if any revised
prospectus or prospectus supplement shall be provided to the Placement Agents
by the Company for use in connection with the offering and sale of the
Securities which differs from the Prospectus (whether or not such revised
prospectus or prospectus supplement is required to be filed by the Company
pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations), the term
Prospectus shall refer to such revised
prospectus or prospectus supplement, as the case may be, from and after the
time it is first provided to the Placement Agents for such use. Any preliminary
prospectus or prospectus subject to completion included in the Registration
Statement or filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424 of the Rules and
Regulations is hereafter called a Preliminary Prospectus. Any reference herein to the Registration
Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to
refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant
to Item 12 of Form S-3 which were filed under the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act),
on or before the last to occur of the Effective Date, the date of the
Preliminary Prospectus, or the date of the Prospectus, and any reference herein
to the terms amend, amendment, or supplement with respect to the
Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus
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or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include (i) the
filing of any document under the Exchange Act after the Effective Date, the
date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the date of the Prospectus, as the case
may be, which is incorporated by reference (ii) the filing of any document
with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424 under the Rules and
Regulations after the Effective Date, the date of such Preliminary Prospectus
or the date of the Prospectus, as the case may be, which is deemed to be a part
thereof pursuant to Rule 430B or Rule 430C under the Rules and
Regulations, and (iii) in each case any such document so filed and not
modified or superseded pursuant to Rule 412 under the Rules and
Regulations. If the Company has filed an abbreviated registration statement to
register additional Securities pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Rules and
Regulations (the 462(b) Registration
Statement), then any reference herein to the Registration Statement
shall also be deemed to include such 462(b) Registration Statement.
(b) The conditions to
the use of Form S-3 in connection with the offering and sale of the
Securities as contemplated hereby have been satisfied. The Registration
Statement meets, and the offering and sale of the Securities as contemplated
hereby complies with, the requirements of Rule 415 under the Securities
Act (including, without limitation, Rule 415(a)(4) and (a)(5) of
the Rules and Regulations).
(c) As of the Applicable
Time (as defined below) and as of the Closing Date, neither (i) any
General Use Free Writing Prospectus (as defined below) issued at or prior to
the Applicable Time, and the Pricing Prospectus (as defined below) and the
information included on Schedule SCHEDULE A hereto, all considered
together (collectively, the General Disclosure Package),
(ii) any individual Limited Use Free Writing Prospectus (as defined below)
nor (iii) any bona fide electronic road show (as defined in Rule 433(h)(5) of
the Rules and Regulations that has been made available without restriction
to any person, when considered together with the General Disclosure Package,
included or will include, any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or
as of the Closing Date will omit, to state a material fact necessary in order
to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which
they were made, not misleading; provided, however,
that the Company makes no representations or warranties as to information
contained in or omitted from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, in reliance
upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company
through the Representative by or on behalf of any Placement Agent specifically
for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to
the Placement Agents Information (as defined in Section 18. As used in this paragraph (a) and
elsewhere in this Agreement:
Applicable Time
means 5:00 P.M., New York time, on the date of this Agreement.
General Use Free Writing
Prospectus means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is
identified on Schedule SCHEDULE A to this Agreement.
Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus means any issuer free writing
prospectus, as defined in Rule 433 of the Rules and
Regulations relating to the Securities in the form filed or required to be
filed with the Commission or, if not required to be filed, in the
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form retained in the Companys records pursuant to Rule 433(g) of
the Rules and Regulations.
Limited Use Free Writing
Prospectuses means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is
not a General Use Free Writing Prospectus.
Pricing Prospectus
means the Preliminary Prospectus, if any, and the Base Prospectus, each as
amended and supplemented immediately prior to the Applicable Time, including
any document incorporated by reference therein and any prospectus supplement
deemed to be a part thereof.
(d) No order preventing
or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus or the Prospectus relating to the Offering has been issued by the
Commission, and no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A
of the Securities Act has been instituted or threatened by the Commission, and
each Preliminary Prospectus, at the time of filing thereof, conformed in all
material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and
Regulations, and at the date of this
Agreement did not, and will not as of the Closing Date, 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 the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided,
however, that the Company makes no representations or warranties as
to information contained in or omitted from any Preliminary Prospectus, in
reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the
Company through the Representative by or on behalf of any Placement Agent specifically
for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to
the Placement Agents Information (as defined in Section 18).
(e) At the respective
times the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto became or becomes
effective, at the date of this Agreement and at the Closing Date, each
Registration Statement and any amendments thereto conformed and will conform in
all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and
Regulations and did not and 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, not misleading; and the Prospectus
and any amendments or supplements thereto, at the time the Prospectus or any
amendment or supplement thereto was issued and at the Closing Date, conformed
and will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities
Act and the Rules and Regulations and did not and will not contain an
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary
in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading; provided, however,
that the foregoing representations and warranties in this paragraph (e) shall
not apply to information contained in or omitted from the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, in
reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the
Company through the Representative by or on behalf of any Placement Agent
specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree
is limited to the Placement Agents Information (as defined in Section 18). The Prospectus contains all required
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information under the Securities Act with respect to the Units and the
distribution of the Units.
(f) Each Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus, if any, as of its issue date and at all subsequent times through
the completion of the Offering or until any earlier date that the Company
notified or notifies the Representative as described in Section 5(I)(f),
did not, does not and will not include any information that conflicted,
conflicts or will conflict with the information contained in the Registration
Statement, Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, including any document
incorporated by reference therein and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a
part thereof that has not been superseded or modified, or includes an untrue
statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit 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 foregoing sentence does
not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the
Company through the Representative by or on behalf of any Placement Agent
specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree
is limited to the Placement Agents Information (as defined in Section 18).
(g) The documents
incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, or at the time such documents
became effective, as applicable, complied, in all material respects, with the
requirements of the Exchange Act or the Securities Act, as the case may be, and
the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and did not
include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and any further
documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, when such
documents become effective or are filed with the Commission, as the case may
be, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities
Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of
the Commission thereunder and 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 not misleading.
(h) With respect to the
Offering contemplated hereby, the Company has not offered shares of its Common
Stock or any other securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable
for shares of Common Stock in a manner in violation of the Securities Act; the
Company has not distributed any offering material in connection with the offer
and sale of the Securities, other than in the Registration Statement, the
Prospectus or any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus (as defined below) and
other materials permitted by the Securities Act.
(i) The Company is not an
ineligible issuer (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) as
of the eligibility determination date for purposes of Rules 164 and 433
under the Securities Act with respect to the offering of the Securities
contemplated by the Registration Statement.
The Company has not, directly or indirectly, distributed and will not
distribute any offering material in connection with the Offering other than any
Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and other materials, if any, permitted
under the
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Securities Act and consistent with Section 5(I)(b) below. The Company will file with the Commission all
Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses (other than a road show, as described in Rule 433(d)(8) of
the Rules and Regulations) if any, in the time and manner required under Rules 163(b)(2) and
433(d) of the Rules and Regulations.
(j) The Company (i) has
been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good
standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, having full corporate power
and authority to own or lease its properties and to conduct its business as
described in the Prospectus, together with any combination of one or more of
the then issued Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses, if any; and (ii) is
duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing
in all other jurisdictions in which the character of the property owned or
leased or the nature of the business transacted by it makes qualification
necessary except for such jurisdictions where the failure to so qualify,
individually or in the aggregate, would not (A) have a material adverse
effect on the assets, properties, condition (financial or otherwise) or in the
results of operations, business affairs or business prospects of the Company
and its subsidiaries considered as a whole or (B) impair in any material
respect the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this
Agreement or to consummate any transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the
General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (any such effect as described in
clauses (A) and (B), a Material Adverse Effect). The Company has employees located solely in
Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, Texas, Washington, Wyoming and Canada, and
in no other jurisdiction, and is duly qualified to do business as a foreign
corporation and is in good standing in such jurisdictions, which are the only
jurisdictions where the Company is required to be so qualified. To the Companys knowledge, 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. Except for Canada and
Peru, the Company does not own, lease or license any asset or property outside
the United States of America. The Company owns or controls, directly or
indirectly, only the following corporations, partnerships, limited liability
partnerships, limited liability companies, associations or other entities:
Clean Energy Fueling Services Corp., a British Columbia company; Clean Energy,
a California corporation; Clean Energy Construction, a California corporation;
Clean Energy Finance, LLC, a California company; Blue Energy General, LLC, a
Delaware company; Blue Energy Limited, LLC, a Delaware company; Clean Energy &
Technologies LLC, a Delaware company; Clean Energy LNG, LLC, a Delaware
company; Clean Energy Texas LNG, LLC, a Texas company; Blue Fuels Group, LP, a
Texas partnership; DFW Airport CNG Fueling Partnership, LLP, a Texas
partnership; TranStar Energy Company, LP, a Texas partnership; Natural Fuels
Company LLC, a Colorado company; Natural/Peoples LLC, a Wyoming company;
Natural/Total Limited Liability Company, a Wyoming company; Dallas Clean
Energy, LLC, a Delaware company; CE Fueling Oklahoma LLC, an Oklahoma
company; and Clean Energy del Peru S.R.L., a Peruvian company.
(k) All necessary
corporate action has been duly and validly taken by the Company to authorize
the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Subscription
Agreements and the Warrants and the issuance and sale of the
Securities by the
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Company. This Agreement, the Subscription
Agreement(s) and the Warrant(s) have been duly and validly
authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and constitutes and will
constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable
against the Company in accordance with their respective terms, except as the
enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of
creditors rights generally and by general equitable principles.
(l) The shares of
Common Stock to be issued and sold by the Company to the Purchasers hereunder
and under the Subscription Agreements and the Warrant Shares have been duly and
validly authorized and the Common Stock, when issued and delivered against
payment therefor as provided herein and in the Subscription Agreements and the
Warrant Shares, when issued and delivered against payment therefore as provided
in the Warrants, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable
and free of any preemptive or similar rights and will conform to the
description thereof contained in the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus.
(m) The Company has the
duly authorized and validly issued outstanding capitalization as of June 30,
2008, as set forth in the Companys quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the
three months ended June 30, 2008.
The certificates evidencing the Shares of Common Stock and other
securities of the Company are in due and proper legal form and have been duly
authorized for issuance by the Company, except that some certificates do not
contain the legend required by Section 151(f) of the General
Corporation Law of Delaware. All of the
issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock have been duly and validly issued
and fully paid and nonassessable. All of
the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company were issued
in transactions that were either registered under the Securities Act, or exempt
from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, without violation of
preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or similar rights. Except as disclosed in, or incorporated by
reference into, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, there are no
statutory preemptive or other similar rights to subscribe for or to purchase or
acquire any shares of Common Stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or
any such rights pursuant to its Certificate of Incorporation or bylaws or any
agreement or instrument to or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries
is a party or bound other than any that do not apply to the issuance and sale
of the Shares pursuant to this Agreement and that will expire at the date
hereof. The Shares to be issued and sold
by the Company pursuant to this Agreement, when issued and sold against payment
therefor pursuant to this Agreement, will be duly authorized and validly
issued, fully paid and nonassessable and none of them will be issued in
violation of any preemptive or other similar right. Except as disclosed in, or incorporated by
reference into, the Prospectus, there is no outstanding option, warrant or
other right calling for the issuance of, and there is no commitment, plan or
arrangement to issue, any share of stock of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries or any security convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable
for, such stock. The securities of the
Company conform, and the Warrant Shares when issued will conform, to the
descriptions thereof contained in, or incorporated by reference into, the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus. All
outstanding shares of capital stock of each of the Companys subsidiaries have
been duly authorized and validly issued, and are fully paid and nonassessable
and are owned
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directly by the Company or by another wholly-owned subsidiary of the
Company free and clear of any security interests, liens, encumbrances, equities
or claims, other than those described in, or incorporated by reference into,
the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
(n) All the outstanding
shares of capital stock of each significant subsidiary within the meaning of Rule 1-02(w) of
Regulation S-X (such a significant subsidiary of the Company, a Significant Subsidiary) of the Company have been duly
authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable and, except to
the extent set forth in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, are
owned by the Company directly or indirectly through one or more wholly-owned
subsidiaries, free and clear of any claim, lien, encumbrance, security
interest, restriction upon voting or transfer or any other claim of any third
party.
(o) The execution,
delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Subscription Agreements and the
Warrants by the Company, the issue and sale of the Units by the Company and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby will not (with
or without notice or lapse of time or both) give rise to a right to terminate
or accelerate the due date of any payment due under, or conflict with or result
in the breach of any term or provision of, or constitute a default (or an event
which with notice or lapse of time or both would constitute a default) under,
or require any consent or waiver under, or result in the execution or
imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any properties or assets of
the Company or its subsidiaries pursuant to the terms of, any indenture,
mortgage, deed of trust or other agreement or instrument to which the Company
or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which either the Company or its
subsidiaries or any of their properties or businesses is bound, or any
franchise, license, permit, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or
regulation applicable to the Company or any of its subsidiaries or violate any
provision of the charter or bylaws of the Company or any of its subsidiaries,
except for (i) such consents or waivers which have already been obtained
and are in full force and effect, (ii) any such termination or
acceleration right, conflict, breach, default, lien or violation that would
not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect or (iii) except
as may be required by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) or state securities or Blue Sky laws in connection
with the offer and sale of the Securities.
(p) Except for the
registration of the Common Stock and Warrants under the Securities Act, and
such consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations or qualifications as
may be required under the Exchange Act and applicable state or foreign
securities laws, FINRA and the Nasdaq Global Market (Nasdaq GM)
in connection with the offering and sale by the Company of the Units and the
listing of the Common Stock on the Nasdaq GM, no consent, approval,
authorization or order of, or filing, qualification or registration (each an Authorization) with, any court, governmental or
non-governmental agency or body, foreign or domestic, which has not been made,
obtained or taken and is not in full force and effect, is required for the
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Warrants and the
Subscription Agreements by the Company, the offer or sale of the Units or the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby; and no event
has occurred that allows or results in, or
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after notice or lapse of time or both would allow or result in,
revocation, suspension, termination or invalidation of any such Authorization
or any other impairment of the rights of the holder or maker of any such
Authorization. All corporate approvals
(including those of stockholders) necessary for the Company to consummate the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement have been obtained and are in
effect.
(q) KPMG LLP, who have certified
certain financial statements and related schedules included or incorporated by
reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, is an independent registered public accounting firm as required by
the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and the Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (the PCAOB). Except as disclosed in the Registration
Statement and as pre-approved in accordance with the requirements set forth in Section 10A
of the Exchange Act, KPMG LLP has not been engaged by the Company to perform
any prohibited activities (as defined in Section 10A of the Exchange
Act).
(r) The financial
statements of the Company, together with the related notes and schedules,
included or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package, the
Prospectus and in the Registration Statement¸ and any financial statements
required by Rule 3-05 and Article 11 of Regulation S-X, included in
or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
filed with the Commission present fairly in all material respects the financial
position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries at the dates
indicated and the statement of operations, stockholders equity and cash flows
of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the periods specified; and
such financial statements and related schedules and notes thereto, and the
unaudited financial information filed with the Commission as part of or
incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
has been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles,
consistently applied throughout the periods involved except as disclosed in the
notes thereto. The selected financial
data included in or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and
the Prospectus present fairly in all material respects the information shown
therein as at the respective dates and for the respective periods specified and
have been presented on a basis consistent with the consolidated financial
statements set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and other
financial information.
(s) Neither the Company
nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained, since the date of the latest audited
financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the General
Disclosure Package, any material loss or interference with its business from
fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance,
or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree,
otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the General Disclosure Package;
and, since such date, there has not been any change in the capital stock or
long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any Material
Adverse Effect, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the General
Disclosure Package.
(t) Except as disclosed
in, or incorporated by reference into, the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus, there is no action, suit, claim, proceeding or investigation
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pending or, to the Companys knowledge, threatened against the Company
or its subsidiaries before or by any court, regulatory body or administrative
agency or any other governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, that (i) questions
the validity of the capital stock of the Company or this Agreement or any
action taken or to be taken by the Company pursuant to or in connection with
this Agreement; (ii) is required to be disclosed in, or incorporated by
reference into, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and
the Prospectus and is not disclosed or incorporated by reference (and such
proceedings, if any, as are summarized in the Registration Statement, the
General Disclosure and the Prospectus, are accurately summarized in all material
respects) or (iii) may have a Material Adverse Effect.
(u) Neither the Company
nor any of its subsidiaries (i) is in violation of its charter or by-laws
(or analogous governing instrument, as applicable), (ii) is in default in
any respect, and no event has occurred which, with notice or lapse of time or
both, would constitute such a default, in the due performance or observance of
any term, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of
trust, loan agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument to which it is a
party or by which it is bound or to which any of its property or assets is
subject or (iii) is in violation in any respect of any law, ordinance,
governmental rule, regulation or court order, decree or judgment to which it or
its property or assets may be subject except, in the case of clauses (ii) and
(iii) of this paragraph (u), for any violations or defaults which,
singularly or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(v) Except as disclosed
in, or incorporated by reference into, the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus, the Company and each of its subsidiaries has all requisite
corporate power and authority, and all necessary authorizations, approvals,
consents, orders, licenses, certificates and permits of and from all
governmental or regulatory bodies or any other person or entity (collectively,
the Permits), to own, lease and license
its assets and properties and conduct its business, all of which are valid and
in full force and effect, except where the lack of such Permits, individually
or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and
each of its subsidiaries has fulfilled and performed in all material respects
all of its material obligations with respect to such Permits and no event has
occurred that allows, or after notice or lapse of time would allow, revocation
or termination thereof or results in any other material impairment of the
rights of the Company thereunder except, in each such case, where such revocation,
termination or impairment would not have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as may be required under the
Securities Act and state and foreign Blue Sky laws and the rules and
regulations of FINRA, no other Permits are required for the Company to enter into,
deliver and perform this Agreement and to issue and sell the Securities to be
issued and sold by it hereunder.
(w) The Company is not
and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Securities, including
the issuance, offering and sale of the Warrant Shares, and the application of
proceeds from the sale of the Securities as described in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, will not be an
investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940,
as amended (the Investment Company Act).
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(x) Neither the Company
nor any of its subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers, directors or
affiliates has taken or will take, directly or indirectly, any action designed
or intended to stabilize or manipulate the price of any security of the
Company, or which caused or resulted in, or which might in the future
reasonably be expected to cause or result in, stabilization or manipulation of
the price of any security of the Company.
(y) Except as disclosed
in, or incorporated by reference into, the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus, the Company and each of its subsidiaries owns or possesses legally
enforceable rights to use all patents, patent rights, patent applications,
inventions, trademarks, trademark applications, trade names, service marks,
copyrights, copyright applications, licenses, domain names, know-how (including
trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or
confidential information, systems or procedures) and other similar rights and
proprietary knowledge (collectively, Intellectual Property)
necessary for the conduct of its business; and such patents have been (i) duly
and properly filed or caused to be filed with the United States Patent and
Trademark Office and any applicable foreign and international patent
authorities and (ii) any assignments for all patents and patent
applications owned by or licensed to the Company or its subsidiaries that are
material to the conduct of the business of the Company or its subsidiaries in
the manner in which it has been or is contemplated to be conducted have been
properly executed and recorded for each named inventor. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries
has knowledge of or has received any notice of any (i) infringement,
misappropriation or violation by third parties of any such Intellectual
Property or (ii) any threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by
others challenging the Company or its subsidiaries rights in or to any such
Intellectual Property. The Intellectual
Property owned by the Company and its subsidiaries has not been adjudged
invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, and there is no pending or, to
the Companys knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others
challenging the validity or scope of any such Intellectual Property. There is no pending or, to the Companys
knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others against the
Company or any of its subsidiaries that the Company or any of its subsidiaries
infringes, misappropriates or otherwise violates any Intellectual Property or
other proprietary rights of others. To
the Companys knowledge, no employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries
is the subject of any claim or proceeding involving a violation of any term of
any employment contract, patent disclosure agreement, invention assignment
agreement, non-competition agreement, non-solicitation agreement, nondisclosure
agreement or any restrictive covenant to or with a former employer where the
basis of such violation relates to such employees employment with the Company
or any of the Companys subsidiaries or actions undertaken by the employee
while employed with the Company or any of the Companys subsidiaries.
(z) To the knowledge of
the Company, no third party is engaging in any activity that infringes,
misappropriates or otherwise violates any patent, trademark, service mark,
trade name, copyright, trade secret, license, know-how or any other
intellectual property right or franchise right owned by or licensed to the
Company or its subsidiaries, except as described in the General Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus and except for such activities that, singularly or
in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(aa) With respect to each
material agreement governing all rights in and to any patent, trademark,
service mark, trade name, copyright, trade secret, license, know-how or any
other intellectual property right or franchise right licensed by or licensed to
the Company or its subsidiaries: (i) neither the Company nor its
subsidiaries has received any notice of indemnification, termination or
cancellation under such agreement, received any notice of breach or default
under such agreement, which breach has not been cured, or granted to any third
party any rights, adverse or otherwise, under such agreement that would
constitute a material breach of such agreement; and (ii) none of the
Company, its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any other party
to such agreement, is in breach or default thereof in any material respect, and
no event has occurred that, with notice or lapse of time, would constitute such
a material breach or default or permit termination, modification or
acceleration under such agreement.
(bb) The Company and each
of its subsidiaries has good and indefeasible title in fee simple to all real
property, and good and indefeasible title to all other property owned by it, in
each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims, security interests
and defects, except such as do not materially affect the value of such property
and do not materially interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of
such property by the Company and its subsidiaries. All property held under lease by the Company
and its subsidiaries is held by them under valid, existing and enforceable
leases, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims, security interests
and defects, except such as would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(cc) Subsequent to the
respective dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus, neither
the Company nor its subsidiaries has (A) issued any securities, except for
issuance pursuant to this Agreement or pursuant to reservations, agreements or
employee benefit plans referred to in, or incorporated by reference into, the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus or upon the conversion or exercise of
convertible securities, options or warrants referred to in, or incorporated by
reference into, the Registration Statement or Prospectus, or incurred any
liability or obligation, direct or contingent, for borrowed money, except such
liabilities or obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business, (B) entered
into any transaction not in the ordinary course of business that is material to
the Company or (C) declared or paid any dividend or made any distribution
on any shares of its stock or redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired or
agreed to redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire any shares of its capital
stock.
(dd) Neither the Company
nor any of its subsidiaries is involved in any labor dispute nor, to the
knowledge of the Company, is any such dispute threatened, which dispute would
have a Material Adverse Effect. To the
Companys knowledge there is no existing or imminent labor disturbance by the
employees of any of its principal suppliers or contractors which would have a Material
Adverse Effect. There is no threatened
or to the Companys knowledge, any pending litigation between the Company or
its subsidiaries and any of its executive officers which, if adversely
determined, could have a Material Adverse Effect and the Company has no reason
to believe that such officers will not remain in the employment of the Company.
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(ee) The Company has
fulfilled its obligations, if any, under the minimum funding standards of Section 302
of the U.S. Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the regulations and published interpretations
thereunder with respect to each plan as defined in Section 3(3) of
ERISA and such regulations and published interpretations in which its employees
are eligible to participate and each such plan is in compliance in all material
respects with the presently applicable provisions of ERISA and such regulations
and published interpretations. No Reportable Event (as defined in 12 ERISA)
has occurred with respect to any Pension Plan (as defined in ERISA) for which
the Company could have any liability.
(ff) (i) Each
of the Company and each of its subsidiaries is in compliance with all rules,
laws and regulation relating to the use, treatment, storage and disposal of
toxic substances and protection of health or the environment (Environmental Laws) which are applicable to its business,
except where a failure to comply would not have a Material Adverse Effect; (ii) neither
the Company nor its subsidiaries has received any notice from any governmental
authority or third party of an asserted claim under Environmental Laws; (iii) each
of the Company and each of its subsidiaries has received all permits, licenses
or other approvals required of it under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct
its business and is in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such
permit, license or approval, except where a failure to comply would not have a
Material Adverse Effect; (iv) to the Companys knowledge, no facts
currently exist that will require the Company or any of its subsidiaries to
make future material capital expenditures to comply with Environmental Laws;
and (v) no property which is or has been owned, leased or occupied by the
Company or its subsidiaries has been designated as a Superfund site pursuant to
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation of Liability Act of
1980, as amended (42 U.S.C. Section 9601, et. seq.)
(CERCLA) or otherwise designated as a
contaminated site under applicable state or local law. Neither the Company nor any of its
subsidiaries has been named as a potentially responsible party under
CERCLA. In the ordinary course of its
business, the Company periodically reviews the effect of Environmental Laws on the
business, operations and properties of the Company and its subsidiaries, in the
course of which the Company identifies and evaluates associated costs and
liabilities (including, without limitation, any capital or operating
expenditures required for clean-up, closure of properties or compliance with
Environmental Laws, or any permit, license or approval, any related constraints
on operating activities and any potential liabilities to third parties). On the basis of such review, the Company has
reasonably concluded that such associated costs and liabilities would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
(gg) The Company and each
of its subsidiaries has filed all federal, state, local and foreign tax returns
which are required to be filed through the date hereof, except in such
jurisdictions where the failure to file would not have a Material Adverse
Effect, which returns are true and correct in all material respects, or has
received timely extensions thereof, and has paid all taxes shown on such
returns and all assessments received by it to the extent that the same are
material and have become due. The
Company and its subsidiaries have not engaged in any transaction which is a
corporate tax shelter or which could be characterized as such by the Internal
Revenue Service or any other taxing
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authority. The accruals and
reserves on the books and records of the Company and its subsidiaries in
respect of tax liabilities for any taxable period not yet finally determined
are adequate to meet any assessments and related liabilities for any such
period, and since December 31, 2007, neither the Company nor any of its
subsidiaries has incurred any liability for taxes other than in the ordinary
course.
(hh) The Company and its
subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility
against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are generally deemed
customary in the businesses in which they are engaged or propose to engage
after giving effect to the transactions described in the Prospectus, all of
which insurance is in full force and effect.
The Company and each of its subsidiaries are in compliance with the
terms of such policies and instruments in all material respects; and neither
the Company nor any subsidiary of the Company 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 at a cost that would not have a Material
Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor
any of its subsidiaries has been denied any material insurance policy or
coverage for which it has applied.
Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries insure risk of loss through
any captive insurance, risk retention group, reciprocal group or by means of
any fund or pool of assets specifically set aside for contingent liabilities
other than as described in the General Disclosure Package.
(ii) The Company and
each of its subsidiaries maintains a system of internal control over financial
reporting (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15 of the General Rules and
Regulations under the Exchange Act (the Exchange Act Rules))
that complies with the requirements of the Exchange Act and has been designed
by the Companys principal executive officer and principal financial officer,
or under their supervision, to provide reasonable assurances that (i) transactions
are executed in accordance with managements general or specific authorizations;
(ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of
financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain accountability for
assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with
managements general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded
accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable
intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The Company reasonably expects that its
internal control over financial reporting will be effective at the time it
files with the Commission the first management report required by Item 308 of
Regulation S-K. Except as described in
the General Disclosure Package, since the end of the Companys most recent
audited fiscal year, there has been (A) no material weakness in the
Companys internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated)
and (B) no change in the Companys internal control over financial
reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially
affect, the Companys internal control over financial reporting. The Companys internal control over financial
reporting is overseen by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the
Company (the Audit Committee) in accordance
with the Exchange Act Rules. The Company
has not publicly disclosed or reported to the Audit Committee or to the Board,
and within the next 90 days the Company does not reasonably expect to publicly
disclose or report to the Audit Committee or the Board, a significant
deficiency, material weakness, change in internal
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control over financial reporting or fraud involving management or other
employees who have a significant role in the internal control over financial
reporting (each an Internal Control Event),
any violation of, or failure to comply with, the U.S. Securities Laws, or any
matter which, if determined adversely, would have a Material Adverse Effect.
(jj) A member of the
Audit Committee has confirmed to the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial
Officer or General Counsel of the Company that, except as set forth in the
General Disclosure Package, the Audit Committee is not reviewing or
investigating, and neither the Companys independent auditors nor its internal
auditors have recommended that the Audit Committee review or investigate, (i) adding
to, deleting, changing the application of or changing the Companys disclosure
with respect to, any of the Companys material accounting policies, (ii) any
matter which could result in a restatement of the Companys financial
statements for any annual or interim period during the current or prior three
fiscal years, or (iii) any Internal Control Event.
(kk) The minute books of the Company and each of
its subsidiaries that would be a Significant Subsidiary have been made
available upon request to the Placement Agents and counsel for the Placement
Agents, and such books (i) contain a complete summary of all
meetings and actions of the board of directors (including each board committee)
and shareholders of the Company (or analogous governing bodies and interest
holders, as applicable), and each of its Significant Subsidiaries since the
time of their respective incorporation or organization through the date of the
latest meeting and action, and (ii) accurately in all material respects
reflect all transactions referred to in such minutes.
(ll) There is no
document, contract or other agreement required to be described in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or to
be filed as an exhibit to, or incorporated by reference into, the Registration
Statement that is not described or filed as required by the Securities
Act. Each description of a contract,
document or other agreement in the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus accurately reflects in all material
respects the terms of the underlying contract, document or other
agreement. Except as disclosed in, or
incorporated by reference into, the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package or Prospectus, each contract, document or other agreement
described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the
Prospectus or listed as an exhibit to an Incorporated Document is in full force
and effect and is valid and enforceable by and against the Company or its
subsidiaries, as the case may be, in accordance with its terms, except as such
enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization
or other similar laws relating to the enforcement of creditors rights
generally, and general equitable principles relating to the availability of
remedies, and except as rights of indemnity or contribution may be limited by
federal or state securities laws and the public policy underlying such
laws. Neither the Company nor any of its
subsidiaries, if a subsidiary is a party, nor to the Companys knowledge, any
other party is in default in the observance or performance of any term or
obligation to be performed by it under any such agreement, and no event has
occurred which with notice or lapse of time or both would constitute such a
default, in any such case which default or event, individually or in the
aggregate, would have a Material Adverse Effect. No default exists, and no event has occurred
which with notice or lapse of time or both
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would constitute a default, in the due performance and observance of
any term, covenant or condition, by the Company or a subsidiary, if a
subsidiary is a party thereto, of any other agreement or instrument to which
the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or
its properties or business or a subsidiary or the subsidiarys properties or
business may be bound or affected which default or event, individually or in
the aggregate, would have a Material Adverse Effect.
(mm) No relationship, direct
or indirect, exists between or among the Company or its subsidiaries, on the
one hand, and the current or prior directors, officers, stockholders, customers
or suppliers of the Company and its subsidiaries, on the other hand, which is
required to be described in, or incorporated by reference into, the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus that is not so described, or so
incorporated.
(nn) No person has the
right to subscribe for securities of the Company, exercise any preemptive
rights or to require the Company or any of its subsidiaries to register any
securities for sale under the Securities Act by reason of the filing of the
Registration Statement with the Commission or the issuance and sale of the
Securities, other than such rights as have been duly and validly waived or
complied with and except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement
or the Prospectus.
(oo) The Company is in
compliance with all applicable corporate governance requirements set forth in
the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules that are then in effect and is actively
taking steps to ensure that it will be in compliance with other applicable
corporate governance requirements set forth in the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules not
currently in effect upon and all times after the effectiveness of such
requirements.
(pp) None of the Company
nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any other person associated with or
acting on behalf of the Company including, without limitation, any director,
officer, agent or employee of the Company or its subsidiary, has, directly or
indirectly, while acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (i) used
any corporate funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other
unlawful expenses relating to political activity; (ii) made any unlawful
payment to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to foreign
or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds; (iii) violated
any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended; or (iv) made
any other unlawful payment.
(qq) Neither the Company
nor any of its subsidiaries owns any margin securities as that term is
defined in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
(the Federal Reserve Board), and none of
the proceeds of the sale of the Units will be used, directly or indirectly, for
the purpose of purchasing or carrying any margin security, for the purpose of
reducing or retiring any indebtedness which was originally incurred to purchase
or carry any margin security or for any other purpose which might cause any of
the Units to be considered a purpose credit within the meanings of
Regulations T, U or X of the Federal Reserve Board.
(rr) Other than any
contracts or agreements between the Company and the Placement Agents, neither
the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to any contract,
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agreement or understanding with any person that would give rise to a
valid claim against the Company or the Placement Agents for a brokerage
commission, finders fee or like payment in connection with the offering and
sale of the Units or any transaction contemplated by this Agreement, the
Subscription Agreements, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure
Package or the Prospectus.
(ss) No forward-looking
statement (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E
of the Exchange Act) contained in either the General Disclosure Package or the
Prospectus has been made or reaffirmed without a reasonable basis or has been
disclosed other than in good faith.
(tt) The Company is
subject to and in compliance in all material respects with the reporting
requirements of Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange
Act. The Common Stock is registered
pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is listed on the
Nasdaq GM. The Company has taken no
action designed to, or likely to have the effect of, terminating the
registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act or the listing of the
Common Stock on the Nasdaq GM, nor has the Company received any notification
that the Commission or the Nasdaq GM is contemplating terminating such
registration or listing. The Securities
to be sold hereunder will have been (prior to the date that the first shares
are sold pursuant to the terms of this Agreement), approved for listing,
subject only to official notice of issuance, on the Nasdaq GM.
(uu) The Company maintains
disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-14(c) under
the Exchange Act) to ensure that material information relating to the Company
is made known to the Companys principal executive officer and the Companys
principal financial officer or persons performing similar functions; the
Company is otherwise in compliance in all material respects with all applicable
effective provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) and is actively taking steps to ensure
that it will be in compliance with other applicable provisions of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act upon the effectiveness of such provisions.
(vv) There are no
transactions, arrangements or other relationships between and/or among the
Company, any of its affiliates (as such term is defined in Rule 405 of the
Securities Act) and any unconsolidated entity, including, but not limited to,
any structured finance, special purpose or limited purpose entity that could
reasonably be expected to materially affect the Companys liquidity or the
availability of or requirements for their capital resources required to be
described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or a document
incorporated by reference therein which have not been described as required.
(ww) The Company does
not, directly or indirectly, including through any subsidiary, have any
outstanding personal loans or other credit extended to or for any of its
directors or executive officers.
(xx) The statistical and
market related data included in, or incorporated by reference into, the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, are
based on or derived from sources that the Company believes to be reliable and
accurate.
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(yy) Neither the Company
nor any subsidiary nor any of their affiliates (within the meaning of FINRA)
Conduct Rule 2720(b)(1)(a)) directly or indirectly controls, is controlled
by, or is under common control with, or is an associated person (within the
meaning of Article I, Section 1(ee) of the By-laws of FINRA) of, any
member firm of FINRA.
(zz) No approval of the
shareholders of the Company under the rules and regulations of Nasdaq, and
no approval of the shareholders of the Company thereunder is required for the
Company to issue and deliver to the Purchasers the Units, including such as may
be required pursuant to Rule 4350 of the Nasdaq Global Marketplace Rules.
(aaa) The parties hereto
agree and understand that the content of any and all road shows (as defined
in Rule 433 under the Securities Act) related to the offering of the
Securities contemplated hereby is solely the property of the Company.
(bbb) The operations of the
Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in
compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements
of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the
USA PATRIOT Act, the money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions to which it
is subject, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or
similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by
any governmental agency (collectively, the Money
Laundering Laws), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before
any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving
the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering
Laws is pending, or to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.
(ccc) Neither the Company
nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director,
officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries
is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of
Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (OFAC);
and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the
offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any
subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of
financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions
administered by OFAC..
Any certificate signed by or on behalf of the Company
and delivered to the Representative or to counsel for the Placement Agents
shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Company to the
Placement Agents and the Purchasers as to the matters covered thereby.
4. THE
CLOSING. The time and date of closing and
delivery of the documents required to be delivered to the Placement Agents
pursuant to Sections 5 and 7 hereof shall be at 10:00 A.M.,
New York time, on November 3, 2008 (the Closing Date)
at the office of Morrison & Foerster LLP, 425 Market Street, San
Francisco, California 94105.
5. FURTHER
AGREEMENTS OF THE COMPANY.
(I) The
Company agrees with the Placement Agents and the Purchasers:
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(a) To prepare the Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement, if necessary, in a form approved by the Representative and file such
Rule 462(b) Registration Statement with the Commission on the date
hereof; to prepare the Prospectus in a form approved by the Representative
containing information previously omitted at the time of effectiveness of the
Registration Statement in reliance on Rules 430A, 430B or 430C of the Rules and
Regulations and to file such Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) of
the Rules and Regulations not later than the second (2nd) business day
following the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if applicable, such
earlier time as may be required by Rule 424(b) of the Rules and
Regulations; to notify the Representative immediately of the Companys
intention to file or prepare any supplement or amendment to the Registration
Statement or to the Prospectus and to make no amendment or supplement to the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or to the Prospectus to
which the Representative shall reasonably object by notice to the Company after
a reasonable period to review; to advise the Placement Agents, promptly after
it receives notice thereof, of the time when any amendment to any Registration
Statement has been filed or becomes effective or any supplement to the General
Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or any amended Prospectus has been filed
and to furnish the Representative with copies thereof; to file promptly all
material required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rules 433(d) or
163(b)(2) of the Rules and Regulations, as the case may be; to file
promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or information statements
required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of
the Prospectus and for so long as the delivery of a prospectus (or in lieu
thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Rules and
Regulations) is required in connection with the offering or sale of the
Securities; to advise the Representative, promptly after it receives notice
thereof, of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of any order
preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus, of the suspension of the qualification of
the Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or
threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose, or of any request by the
Commission for the amending or supplementing of the Registration Statement, the
General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or for additional information;
and, in the event of the issuance of any stop order or of any order preventing
or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus or the Prospectus or suspending any such qualification, and promptly
to use its best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of such order.
(b) Prior to the
execution of this Agreement, the Company has not, directly or indirectly,
offered or sold any Securities by means of any prospectus (within the meaning
of the Securities Act) or used any prospectus (within the meaning of the
Securities Act) in connection with the offer or sale of the Securities, in each
case other than the Base Prospectus, the Preliminary Prospectus and the
Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses, if any.
(c) The Company
represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the
Representative, and each Placement Agent represents and agrees that, unless it
obtains the prior consent of the Representative, it has not made and will not,
make any offer relating to the Units that would constitute a free writing
prospectus as defined in Rule
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405 of the Rules and Regulations unless the prior written consent
of the Placement Agents has been received (each, a Permitted
Free Writing Prospectus); provided that
the prior written consent of the Representative hereto shall be deemed to have
been given in respect of the Issuer Free Writing Prospectus(es) included in Schedule
A hereto, if any. The Company
represents that it has treated and agrees that it will treat each Permitted
Free Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, comply with the
requirements of Rules 164 and 433 of the Rules and Regulations
applicable to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including the requirements
relating to timely filing with the Commission, legending and record keeping and
will not take any action that would result in the Placement Agents or the
Company being required to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) of
the Rules and Regulations a free writing prospectus prepared by or on
behalf of such Placement Agents that such Placement Agents otherwise would not
have been required to file thereunder.
(d) If at any time when
a Prospectus relating to the Securities is required to be delivered under the
Securities Act any event occurs or condition exists as a result of which the
Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement
of a material fact, or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the
statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made
when the Prospectus is delivered (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in
Rule 173(a) of the Rules and Regulations), not misleading, or if
it is necessary at any time to amend or supplement any Registration Statement
or the Prospectus or to file under the Exchange Act any document incorporated
by reference in the Prospectus to comply with the Securities Act or the
Exchange Act, that the Company will promptly notify the Representative thereof
and upon the Representatives request will prepare an appropriate amendment or
supplement or upon their request make an appropriate filing pursuant to Section 13
or 14 of the Exchange Act in form and substance satisfactory to the Placement
Agents which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance
and will use its best efforts to have any amendment to any Registration
Statement declared effective as soon as possible. The Company will furnish without charge to
the Placement Agents and to any dealer in securities as many copies as the
Placement Agents may from time to time reasonably request of such amendment or
supplement. In case the Placement Agents
is required to deliver a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to
in Rule 173(a) of the Rules and Regulations) relating to the
Units nine (9) months or more after the date of the Prospectus, the
Company upon the request of the Placement Agents will prepare promptly an amended
or supplemented Prospectus as may be necessary to permit compliance with the
requirements of Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act and deliver to
the Placement Agents as many copies as the Placement Agents may request of such
amended or supplemented Prospectus complying with Section 10(a)(3) of
the Securities Act.
(e) If the General
Disclosure Package is being used to solicit offers to buy the Units at a time
when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers and any
event shall occur as a result of which, in the judgment of the Company or in
the reasonable opinion of the Representative, it becomes necessary to amend or
supplement the General Disclosure Package in order to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances then prevailing, not misleading, or
to make the statements therein not
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conflict with the information contained or incorporated by reference in
the Registration Statement then on file and not superseded or modified, or if
it is necessary at any time to amend or supplement the General Disclosure
Package to comply with any law, the Company promptly will either (i) prepare,
file with the Commission (if required) and furnish to the Placement Agents and
any dealers an appropriate amendment or supplement to the General Disclosure
Package or (ii) prepare and file with the Commission an appropriate filing
under the Exchange Act which shall be incorporated by reference in the General
Disclosure Package so that the General Disclosure Package as so amended or
supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances then prevailing, be misleading
or conflict with the Registration Statement then on file, or so that the
General Disclosure Package will comply with law.
(f) If at any time
following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus there occurred or
occurs an event or development as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus conflicted or will conflict with the information contained in the
Registration Statement, Pricing Prospectus or Prospectus, including any
document incorporated by reference therein and any prospectus supplement deemed
to be a part thereof and not superseded or modified or included or would
include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit 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 prevailing at
the subsequent time, not misleading, the Company has promptly notified or will
promptly notify the Representative so that any use of the Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus may cease until it is amended or supplemented and has promptly
amended or will promptly amend or supplement, at its own expense, such Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict, untrue statement
or omission. The foregoing sentence does
not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the
Company by the Placement Agents specifically for inclusion therein, which
information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agents
Information (as defined in Section 18).
(g) To furnish promptly
to the Placement Agents and to counsel for the Placement Agents, if so
requested, a signed copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed with
the Commission, and of each amendment thereto filed with the Commission,
including all consents and exhibits filed therewith.
(h) To deliver promptly
to the Representative in New York City such number of the following documents
as the Representative shall reasonably request:
(i) conformed copies of the Registration Statement as originally
filed with the Commission (in each case excluding exhibits), (ii) each
Preliminary Prospectus, (iii) any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, (iii) the
Prospectus (the delivery of the documents referred to in clauses (i), (ii) and
(iii) of this paragraph (g) to be made not later than 10:00 a.m.,
New York time, on the business day following the execution and delivery of this
Agreement), (iv) conformed copies of any amendment to the Registration
Statement (excluding exhibits), (v) any amendment or supplement to the
General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (the delivery of the documents
referred to in clauses (iv) and (v) of this paragraph (g) to be
made not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the business day
following the
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date of such amendment or supplement) and (vi) any document
incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus
(excluding exhibits thereto) (the delivery of the documents referred to in
clause (v) of this paragraph (g) to be made not later than 10:00 a.m.,
New York City time, on the business day following the date of such document).
(i) To make generally
available to its shareholders as soon as practicable, but in any event not
later than eighteen (18) months after the effective date of each Registration
Statement (as defined in Rule 158(c) of the Rules and
Regulations), an earnings statement of the Company and its subsidiaries (which
need not be audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the Securities
Act and the Rules and Regulations (including, at the option of the
Company, Rule 158); and to furnish to its shareholders as soon as
practicable after the end of each fiscal year an annual report (including a
balance sheet and statements of income, shareholders equity and cash flows of
the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries certified by independent public
accountants) and as soon as possible after each of the first three fiscal
quarters of each fiscal year (beginning with the first fiscal quarter after the
effective date of such Registration Statement), consolidated summary financial
information of the Company and its subsidiaries for such quarter in reasonable
detail.
(j) To take promptly
from time to time such actions as the Representative may reasonably request to
qualify the Securities for offering and sale under the securities or Blue Sky
laws of such jurisdictions (domestic or foreign) as the Representative may designate
and to continue such qualifications in effect, and to comply with such laws,
for so long as required to permit the offer and sale of Units in such
jurisdictions; provided that the Company and its
subsidiaries shall not be obligated to qualify as foreign corporations in any
jurisdiction in which they are not so qualified or to file a general consent to
service of process in any jurisdiction.
(k) To the extent not
available on the Commissions EDGAR system, upon request, during the period of
five (5) years from the date hereof, to deliver to the Placement Agents, (i) as
soon as they are available, copies of all reports or other communications
furnished to shareholders, and (ii) as soon as they are available, copies
of any reports and financial statements furnished or filed with the Commission
or any national securities exchange or automatic quotation system on which the
Units is listed or quoted.
(l) That the Company
will not, for a period of sixty (60) days from the date of this Agreement, (the
Lock-Up Period) without the prior
written consent of Representative, directly or indirectly offer, sell, assign,
transfer, pledge, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of, any shares of
Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable
for Common Stock, other than the Companys sale of the Units hereunder and the
issuance of Common Stock or options to acquire Common Stock pursuant to the
Companys employee benefit plans, qualified stock option plans or other
director or employee compensation plans as such plans are in existence on the
date hereof and described in the Prospectus and the issuance of Common Stock
pursuant to the valid exercises of options, warrants or rights outstanding on
the date hereof. The Company will cause
each executive officer and director, and each shareholder listed in
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SCHEDULE B to furnish to the Representative, prior to
the date of this Agreement, a letter, substantially in the form of Exhibit C
hereto, pursuant to which each such person shall agree, among other things, not
to directly or indirectly offer, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, contract to
sell, or otherwise dispose of, or announce the intention to otherwise dispose
of, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or
exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, not to engage in any swap, hedge
or similar agreement or arrangement that transfers, in whole or in part,
directly or indirectly, the economic risk of ownership of Common Stock or any
such securities and not to engage in any short selling of any Common Stock or
any such securities, during the Lock-Up Period, without the prior written
consent of the Representative.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that California Alternative
Fuels and Renewable Energy Initiative (California Proposition 10)
is approved on November 4, 2008, and during the Lock-up Period there is an
increase in the price of the Common Stock of not less than twenty percent (20%)
above the closing price of the Common Stock on the date hereof, then the
restrictions under this Section 5(I)(l) shall no longer apply to the
Company. The Company also agrees that
during the Lock-Up Period, other than for (i) the sale of the Units
hereunder or (ii) any securities issued by the Company following the
passage of California Proposition 10, without prior written consent of LCM, the
Company will not file any registration statement, preliminary prospectus or
prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, under the Securities Act
for any such transaction or which registers, or offers for sale, Common Stock
or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common
Stock, except for a registration statement on Form S-8 relating to
employee benefit plans. The Company
hereby agrees that, notwithstanding anything here in to the contrary, (i) if
it issues an earnings release or material news, or if a material event relating
to the Company occurs, during the last seventeen (17) days of the Lock-Up Period,
or (ii) if prior to the expiration of the Lock-Up Period, the Company
announces that it will release earnings results during the sixteen (16)-day
period beginning on the last day of the Lock-Up Period, the restrictions
imposed by this paragraph (k) or the letter shall continue to apply until
the expiration of the eighteen (18)-day period beginning on the issuance of the
earnings release or the occurrence of the material news or material event; provided, however that
such extension will not apply if, (i) within three business days
prior to the 15th calendar day before the last day of the lock-up period, the
Company delivers a certificate, signed by the Chief Financial Officer or Chief
Executive Officer of the Company, certifying on behalf of the Company that (i) the
Shares are actively traded securities (as defined in Regulation M), (ii) the
Company meets the applicable requirements of paragraph (a)(1) of Rule 139
under the Securities Act in the manner contemplated by FINRA Conduct Rule 2711(f)(4),
and (iii) the provisions of FINRA Conduct Rule 2711(f)(4) are
not applicable to any research reports relating to the Company published or
distributed by any of the Placement Agents during the 15 days before or after
the last day of the lock-up period (before giving effect to such extension); or
(iv) FINRA Rule 2711 is amended to permit any of the Placement Agents
to publish or otherwise distribute research reports during the 15 days before
or after the last day of the Lock-up Period (before giving effect to such
extension). The Company will provide the
Placement Agents with prior notice (in accordance with Section 16
hereof) of any such announcement that gives rise to an extension of the Lock-Up
Period.
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(m) To supply the
Representative with copies of all correspondence to and from, and all documents
issued to and by, the Commission in connection with the registration of the
Securities under the Securities Act or any of the Registration Statement, any
Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement
thereto or document incorporated by reference therein.
(n) Prior to the Closing
Date, to furnish to the Placement Agents, as soon as they have been prepared,
copies of any unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of the
Company for any periods subsequent to the periods covered by the financial
statements appearing in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
(o) Prior to the Closing
Date, not to issue any press release or other communication directly or
indirectly or hold any press conference with respect to the Company, its
condition, financial or otherwise, or earnings, business affairs or business
prospects (except for routine oral marketing communications in the ordinary
course of business and consistent with the past practices of the Company and of
which the Representative is notified), without the prior written consent of the
Representative, unless in the judgment of the Company and its counsel, and
after notification to the Representative, such press release or communication
is required by law.
(p) Until the
Representative shall have notified the Company of the completion of the
offering of the Units, that the Company will not, and will cause its affiliated
purchasers (as defined in Regulation M under the Exchange Act) not to, either
alone or with one or more other persons, bid for or purchase, for any account
in which it or any of its affiliated purchasers has a beneficial interest, any
Units, or attempt to induce any person to purchase any Units; and not to, and
to cause its affiliated purchasers not to, make bids or purchase for the
purpose of creating actual, or apparent, active trading in or of raising the
price of the Units.
(q) Not to take any
action prior to the Closing Date which would require the Prospectus to be
amended or supplemented.
(r) To at all times
comply with all applicable provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in effect from
time to time.
(s) To maintain, at its
expense, a registrar and transfer agent for the Common Stock.
(t) To apply the net
proceeds from the sale of the Units as set forth in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the heading Use of
Proceeds. The Company shall manage its
affairs and investments in such a manner as not to be or become an investment
company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act and the rules and
regulations thereunder.
(u) To use its best
efforts to list, subject to notice of issuance, and to maintain the listing of
the Common Stock on the Nasdaq GM.
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(v) To use its best
efforts to assist the Representative with any filings with FINRA and obtaining
clearance from FINRA as to the amount of compensation allowable or payable to
the Placement Agents.
(w) To use its best
efforts to do and perform all things required to be done or performed under
this Agreement by the Company prior to the Closing Date and to satisfy all
conditions precedent to the delivery of the Units.
6. PAYMENT OF EXPENSES. The
Company agrees to pay, or reimburse if paid by the Placement Agents, whether or
not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated or this Agreement is
terminated: (a) the costs incident
to the authorization, issuance, sale, preparation and delivery of the Units to
the Purchasers and any taxes payable in that connection; (b) the costs
incident to the registration of the Units under the Securities Act; (c) the
costs incident to the preparation, printing and distribution of the
Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus,
any amendments, supplements and exhibits thereto or any document incorporated
by reference therein and the costs of printing, reproducing and distributing
this Agreement, the Subscription Agreements and any closing document by mail,
telex or other means of communications; (d) the fees and expenses
(including related fees and expenses of counsel for the Placement Agents)
incurred in connection with securing any required review by FINRA of the terms
of the sale of the Units and any filings made with FINRA; (e) any
applicable listing, quotation or other fees; (f) the fees and expenses
(including related fees and expenses of counsel to the Placement Agents) of
qualifying the Units under the securities laws of the several jurisdictions as
provided in Section 5(I)(j) and of preparing, printing and
distributing wrappers, Blue Sky Memoranda and Legal Investment Surveys; (g) the
cost of preparing and printing stock certificates; (h) all fees and
expenses of the registrar and transfer agent of the Securities; and (i)
all other costs and expenses incident to the offering of the Units or the
performance of the obligations of the Company under this Agreement (including,
without limitation, the fees and expenses of the Companys counsel and the
Companys independent accountants and the travel and other expenses incurred by
Company personnel in connection with any road show including, without
limitation, any expenses advanced by the Placement Agents on the Companys
behalf (which will be promptly reimbursed)).
7. CONDITIONS TO THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE PLACEMENT AGENTS AND THE
PURCHASERS, AND THE SALE OF THE UNITS. The respective obligations of the Placement
Agents hereunder and the Purchasers under the Subscription Agreements, and the
Closing of the sale of the Securities, are subject to the accuracy, when made
and as of the Applicable Time and on the Closing Date, of the representations
and warranties of the Company contained herein, to the accuracy of the
statements of the Company made in any certificates pursuant to the provisions
hereof, to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and to
each of the following additional terms and conditions:
(I) The
Registration Statement is effective under the Securities Act, and no stop order
suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement or any part thereof,
preventing or suspending the use of any Base Prospectus, any Preliminary
Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus or any part
thereof shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose or pursuant
to Section 8A under the Securities
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Act shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, and all
requests for additional information on the part of the Commission (to be
included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the reasonable
satisfaction of the Representative; the Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement, if any, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, if any, and the
Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time
period prescribed for such filing by, and in compliance with, the Rules and
Regulations and in accordance with Section 5(I)(a), and the Rule 462(b) Registration
Statement, if any, shall have become effective immediately upon its filing with
the Commission; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and
reasonableness of the terms of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated
hereby.
(II) The
Placement Agents shall not have discovered and disclosed to the Company on or
prior to the Closing Date that any Registration Statement or any amendment or
supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of a fact which, in the opinion
of counsel for the Placement Agents, is material or omits to state any fact
which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is required to be stated
therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or that
the General Disclosure Package, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the
Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto contains an untrue statement
of fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material or omits to state
any fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is necessary in
order to make the statements, in the light of the circumstances in which they
were made, not misleading.
(III) All
corporate proceedings and other legal matters incident to the authorization,
form and validity of each of this Agreement, the Subscription Agreements, the
Securities, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, each
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and the Prospectus and all other legal matters
relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be
reasonably satisfactory in all material respects to counsel for the Placement
Agents, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel all documents and
information that they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such
matters.
(IV) Morrison &
Foerster LLP shall have furnished to the Placement Agents
such counsels written opinion, as counsel to the Company, addressed to the
Placement Agents and dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Representative, and a statement confirming the absence of
any material misstatements or omissions in the Registration Statement or the
General Disclosure Package, in form and substance customary to transactions
such as the Offering and reasonably satisfactory to the Representative.
(V) Baker
Botts LLP shall have furnished to the Placement
Agents such counsels statement confirming the absence of any material
misstatements or omissions in the Registration Statement or the General
Disclosure Package, in form and substance customary to transactions such as the
Offering and reasonably satisfactory to the Representative.
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(VI) The
Placement Agents shall have received from Proskauer Rose LLP, counsel for the
Placement Agents, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date, with respect
to such matters as the Representative may reasonably require, and the Company
shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as it requests to enable it
to pass upon such matters.
(VII) KPMG,
LLP, whose reports are filed with the Commission and incorporated by reference
into the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, is and, during the periods
covered by their reports, was an independent registered public accounting firm
within the meaning of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations
adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the PCAOB); and at the time of the execution of this Agreement,
the Representative shall have received from KPMG LLP a letter, addressed to the
Placement Agents, executed and dated such date, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Representative stating the conclusions and findings of such
firm, of the type ordinarily included in accountants comfort letters to
underwriters, with respect to the financial statements and certain financial
information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(VIII) On
the effective date of any post-effective amendment to any Registration
Statement and on the Closing Date, the Placement Agents shall have received a
letter (the Bring-Down Letter) from KPMG LLP
addressed to the Placement Agents and dated the Closing Date confirming, as of
the date of the Bring-Down Letter (or, with respect to matters involving
changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified
financial information is given in the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, as the case may be, as of a date not more than three (3) business
days prior to the date of the Bring-Down Letter), the conclusions and findings
of such firm, of the type ordinarily included in accountants comfort letters
to underwriters, with respect to the financial information and other matters
covered by its letter delivered to the Placement Agents concurrently with the
execution of this Agreement pursuant to paragraph (VII) of this Section 7.
(IX) The
Company shall have furnished to the Placement Agents and the Purchasers a
certificate, dated the Closing Date, of its Chief Executive Officer or a Vice
President and its Chief Financial Officer stating that (i) such officers
have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure
Package, any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and, in their
opinion, the Registration Statement and each amendment thereto, at the
Applicable Time, as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date
did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to
state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading, and the General Disclosure Package, as of
the Applicable Time and as of the Closing Date, any Permitted Free Writing
Prospectus as of its date and as of the Closing Date, the Prospectus and each
amendment or supplement thereto, as of the respective date thereof and as of
the Closing Date, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and
did not omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances in which they were made, not
misleading, (ii) since the effective date of the Initial
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Registration Statement, no event has occurred which should have been
set forth in a supplement or amendment to the Registration Statement, the
General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, (iii) to the best of their
knowledge after reasonable investigation, as of the Closing Date, the
representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and
correct and the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all
conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to
the Closing Date, and (iv) there has not been, subsequent to the date of
the most recent audited financial statements included or incorporated by
reference in the General Disclosure Package, any material adverse change in the
financial position or results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries, or any change or development that, singularly or in the
aggregate, would involve a material adverse change or a prospective material
adverse change, in or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), results
of operations, business, assets or prospects of the Company and its
subsidiaries taken as a whole, except as set forth in the Prospectus.
(X) Since
the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the General
Disclosure Package or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure
Package as of the date hereof, (i) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries
shall have sustained any loss or interference with its business from fire,
explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or
from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree,
otherwise than as set forth in the General Disclosure Package, and (ii) there
shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any change, or any development involving
a prospective change, in or affecting the business, general affairs,
management, financial position, stockholders equity or results of operations
of the Company and its subsidiaries, otherwise than as set forth in the General
Disclosure Package, the effect of which, in any such case described in clause (i) or
(ii) of this paragraph (X), is, in the judgment of the Representative, so
material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with
the sale or delivery of the Units on the terms and in the manner contemplated
in the General Disclosure Package.
(XI) No
action shall have been taken and no law, statute, rule, regulation or order
shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any governmental agency or body
which would prevent the issuance or sale of the Units or materially and
adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or
operations of the Company or its subsidiaries; and no injunction, restraining
order or order of any other nature by any federal or state court of competent
jurisdiction shall have been issued which would prevent the issuance or sale of
the Units or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and
adversely affect the business or operations of the Company or its subsidiaries.
(XII) Subsequent
to the execution and delivery of this Agreement there shall not have occurred
any of the following: (i) trading
in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq GM or the
American Stock Exchange or in the over-the-counter market, or trading in any
securities of the Company on any exchange or in the over-the-counter market,
shall have been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or maximum prices
or maximum range for prices shall have been established on any such
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exchange or such market by the Commission, by such exchange or market
or by any other regulatory body or governmental authority having jurisdiction, (ii) a
banking moratorium shall have been declared by Federal or state authorities or
a material disruption has occurred in commercial banking or securities
settlement or clearance services in the United States, (iii) the United
States shall have become engaged in hostilities, or the subject of an act of
terrorism, or there shall have been an outbreak of or escalation in hostilities
involving the United States, or there shall have been a declaration of a
national emergency or war by the United States or (iv) there shall have
occurred such a material adverse change in general economic, political or financial
conditions (or the effect of international conditions on the financial markets
in the United States shall be such) as to make it, in the judgment of the
Representative, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale or
delivery of the Units on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the
General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(XIII) The
Nasdaq GM shall have approved the Common Stock for listing therein, subject
only to official notice of issuance.
(XIV) The
Placement Agents shall have received the written agreements, substantially in
the form of Exhibit C hereto, of the executive officers and
directors of the Company listed in SCHEDULE B to this Agreement.
(XV) The
Company shall have entered into Subscription Agreements with each of the
Purchasers and such agreements shall be in full force and effect.
(XVI) The
Company shall have executed and delivered the Warrants.
(XVII) The
Placement Agents shall have received clearance from FINRA as to the amount of
compensation allowable or payable to the Placement Agents as described in the
Pricing Prospectus.
(XVIII) Prior
to the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Placement Agents
such further information, opinions, certificates (including a Secretarys
Certificate), letters or documents as the Representative shall have reasonably
requested.
(XIX) The
Company shall have prepared and filed with the Commission a Current Report on Form 8-K
including as an exhibit thereto this Agreement.
All opinions, letters, evidence and certificates
mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in
compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Placement Agents.
8. INDEMNIFICATION
AND CONTRIBUTION.
(I) The
Company shall indemnify and hold harmless the Placement Agents, its affiliates
and each of its and their respective directors, officers, members, employees,
representatives and agents (including, without limitation Lazard Frères &
Co. LLC, (which will provide services to the Placement Agents) and its
affiliates, and each of its and their respective directors, officers, members,
employees, representatives and agents
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and each person, if any, who controls Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20
of the Exchange Act) and each person, if any, who controls the Placement Agents
within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act of or Section 20
of the Exchange Act (collectively the Placement Agents
Indemnified Parties, and each a Placement
Agent Indemnified Party) against any loss, claim, damage, expense
or liability whatsoever (or any action, investigation or proceeding in respect
thereof), joint or several, to which such Placement Agent Indemnified Party may
become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such loss,
claim, damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding arises
out of or is based upon (A) any untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any issuer information filed or required to
be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations,
any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement
thereto or document incorporated by reference therein, (B) the omission
or alleged omission to state in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus, any issuer information filed or required to be filed
pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations, any
Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement
thereto or document incorporated by reference therein, a material fact required
to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading, or (C) any breach of the representations and warranties of the
Company contained herein or the failure of the Company to perform its
obligations hereunder or pursuant to any law, and shall reimburse the Placement
Agent Indemnified Party promptly upon demand for any legal fees or other
expenses reasonably incurred by that Placement Agent Indemnified Party in
connection with investigating, or preparing to defend, or defending against, or
appearing as a third party witness in respect of, or otherwise incurred in
connection with, any such loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action,
investigation or proceeding, as such fees and expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Company shall not be liable in
any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage, expense or
liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement in, or omission or alleged omission from any Preliminary Prospectus,
any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or any such amendment or
supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus made in reliance upon
and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the
Representative by or on behalf of any Placement Agent specifically for use
therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement
Agents Information (as defined in Section 18). This indemnity agreement is not exclusive and
will be in addition to any liability, which the Company might otherwise have
and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available at
law or in equity to each Placement Agent Indemnified Party.
(II) The
Placement Agents, severally and not jointly, shall indemnify and hold harmless
the Company and its directors, its officers who signed the Registration
Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning
of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act
(collectively the Company Indemnified
Parties and each a Company Indemnified Party)
against any loss, claim, damage, expense or liability whatsoever (or any
action, investigation or proceeding in respect thereof), joint or several, to
which such Company Indemnified
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Party may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise,
insofar as such loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action, investigation
or proceeding arises out of or is based upon (i) any untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary
Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any issuer information filed
or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules and
Regulations, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment
or supplement thereto, or (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state
in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any issuer
information filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of
the Rules and Regulations, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus,
or in any amendment or supplement thereto, a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, but
in each case only to the extent that the untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in
conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the
Representative by or on behalf of any Placement Agent specifically for use
therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement
Agents Information as defined in Section 18, and shall reimburse
the Company Indemnified Parties for any legal or other expenses reasonably
incurred by such party in connection with investigating or preparing to defend
or defending against or appearing as third party witness in connection with any
such loss, claim, damage, liability, action, investigation or proceeding, as
such fees and expenses are incurred. Notwithstanding
the provisions of this Section 8(II), in no event shall any
indemnity by the Placement Agents under this Section 8(II) exceed
the total compensation received by such Placement Agents in accordance with Section 2(V).
(III) Promptly
after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 8 of
notice of the commencement of any action, the indemnified party shall, if a
claim in respect thereof is to be made against an indemnifying party under this
Section 8, notify such indemnifying party in writing of the
commencement of that action; provided, however,
that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any
liability which it may have under this Section 8 except to the
extent it has been materially prejudiced by such failure; and, provided, further, that the failure to notify an
indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have to
an indemnified party otherwise than under this Section 8. If any such action shall be brought against
an indemnified party, and it shall notify the indemnifying party thereof, the
indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent
that it wishes, jointly with any other similarly notified indemnifying party,
to assume the defense of such action with counsel reasonably satisfactory to
the indemnified party (which counsel shall not, except with the written consent
of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party). After notice from the indemnifying party to
the indemnified party of its election to assume the defense of such action,
except as provided herein, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to the
indemnified party under Section 8 for any legal or other expenses
subsequently incurred by the indemnified party in connection with the defense
of such action other than reasonable costs of investigation; provided, however, that any indemnified party shall have the
right to employ separate counsel in any such action and to participate in the
defense of such action but the fees and expenses of such counsel (other than reasonable
costs of investigation) shall be at the expense of such indemnified party
unless (i) the employment thereof has been
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specifically authorized in writing by the Company in the case of a claim
for indemnification under Section 8(I) or Section 2(VI)
or LCM in the case of a claim for
indemnification under Section 8(II), (ii) such indemnified
party shall have been advised by its counsel that there may be one or more
legal defenses available to it which are different from or additional to those
available to the indemnifying party, or (iii) the indemnifying party has
failed to assume the defense of such action and employ counsel reasonably
satisfactory to the indemnified party within a reasonable period of time after
notice of the commencement of the action or the indemnifying party does not
diligently defend the action after assumption of the defense, 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 of (or, in
the case of a failure to diligently defend the action after assumption of the
defense, to continue to defend) such action on behalf of such indemnified party
and the indemnifying party shall be responsible for legal or other expenses
subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense
of such action; provided, however, that the indemnifying
party shall not, in connection with any one such action or separate but
substantially similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction arising out
of the same general allegations or circumstances, be liable for the reasonable
fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys at any time for
all such indemnified parties (in addition to any local counsel), which firm
shall be designated in writing by LCM if the indemnified parties under this Section 8
consist of any Placement Agent Indemnified Party or by the Company if the
indemnified parties under this Section 8 consist of any Company
Indemnified Parties. Subject to this Section 8(III),
the amount payable by an indemnifying party under Section 8 shall
include, but not be limited to, (x) reasonable legal fees and expenses of
counsel to the indemnified party and any other expenses in investigating, or
preparing to defend or defending against, or appearing as a third party witness
in respect of, or otherwise incurred in connection with, any action,
investigation, proceeding or claim, and (y) all amounts paid in settlement
of any of the foregoing. No indemnifying
party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties,
settle or compromise or consent to the entry of judgment with respect to any
pending or threatened action or any claim whatsoever, in respect of which
indemnification or contribution could be sought under this Section 8
(whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties
thereto), unless such settlement, compromise or consent (i) includes an
unconditional release of each indemnified party in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party from all liability arising
out of such action or claim and (ii) does not include a statement as to or
an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any
indemnified party. Subject to the
provisions of the following sentence, no indemnifying party shall be liable for
settlement of any pending or threatened action or any claim whatsoever that is
effected without its written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld or delayed), but if settled with its written consent, if its consent
has been unreasonably withheld or delayed or if there be a judgment for the
plaintiff in any such matter, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless any indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by
reason of such settlement or judgment.
In addition, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested
that an indemnifying party reimburse the indemnified party for reasonable fees
and expenses of
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counsel, such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any
settlement of the nature contemplated herein effected without its written
consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than forty-five (45)
days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the request for reimbursement,
(ii) such indemnifying party shall have received notice of the terms of
such settlement at least thirty (30) days prior to such settlement being
entered into and (iii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed
such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such
settlement.
(IV) If
the indemnification provided for in this Section 8 is unavailable
or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under Section 8(I)
or Section 8(II), then each indemnifying party shall, in lieu of
indemnifying such indemnified party, contribute to the amount paid, payable or
otherwise incurred by such indemnified party as a result of such loss, claim,
damage, expense or liability (or any action, investigation or proceeding in
respect thereof), as incurred, (i) in such proportion as shall be
appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one
hand and the Placement Agents on the other hand from the offering of the Units,
or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) of this Section 8(IV)
is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to
reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) of this Section 8(IV)
but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Placement
Agents on the other with respect to the statements, omissions, acts or failures
to act which resulted in such loss, claim, damage, expense or liability (or any
action, investigation or proceeding in respect thereof) as well as any other
relevant equitable considerations. The
relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Placement
Agents on the other with respect to such offering shall be deemed to be in the
same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering of the Units
purchased under this Agreement and the Subscription Agreements (before
deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total fees received by
the Placement Agents in connection with the Offering, in each case as set forth
in the table on the cover page of
the Prospectus. The relative
fault of the Company on the one hand and the Placement Agents on the other
shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or
alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission
to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company on the
one hand or the Placement Agents on the other, the intent of the parties and
their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or
prevent such untrue statement, omission, act or failure to act; provided that the parties hereto agree that the written
information furnished to the Company by the Representative by or on behalf of
any Placement Agent for use in the Preliminary Prospectus, any Registration
Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto,
consists solely of the Placement Agents Information as defined in Section 18. The Company and the Placement Agents agree
that it would not be just and equitable if contributions pursuant to this Section 8(IV) were
to be determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation
that does not take into account the equitable considerations referred to
herein. The amount paid or payable by an
indemnified party as a result of the loss, claim, damage, expense, liability,
action, investigation or proceeding referred to above in this Section 8(IV)
shall be deemed to include, for purposes of this Section 8(IV), any
legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in
connection with investigating, preparing to defend or defending against or
appearing as a third party witness in respect
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of, or otherwise incurred in connection with, any such loss, claim,
damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 8(IV),
the Placement Agents shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess
of the total compensation received by the Placement Agents in accordance with Section 2(V)
less the amount of any damages which the Placement Agents has otherwise paid or
become liable to pay by reason of any untrue or alleged untrue statement,
omission or alleged omission, act or alleged act or failure to act or alleged
failure to act. No person guilty of
fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of
the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was
not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.
9. TERMINATION. The
obligations of the Placement Agents and the Purchasers hereunder and under the
Subscription Agreements may be terminated by the Representative, in its
absolute discretion by notice given to the Company prior to delivery of and
payment for the Units if, prior to that time, any of the events described in Sections
7(X), 7(XI) or 7(XII) have occurred or if the Purchasers
shall decline to purchase the Units for any reason permitted under this
Agreement or the Subscription Agreements.
10. REIMBURSEMENT
OF PLACEMENT AGENTS EXPENSES.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if (a) this
Agreement shall have been terminated pursuant to Section 9, (b) the
Company shall fail to tender the Units for delivery to the Purchasers for any
reason not permitted under this Agreement or the Subscription Agreements, or (c) the
sale of the Units is not consummated because of the refusal, inability or
failure on the part of the Company to perform any agreement herein or to
satisfy any condition or to comply with the provisions hereof, then in addition
to the payment of amounts in accordance with Section 6, the Company
shall reimburse the Placement Agents for the fees and expenses of the Placement
Agents counsel and for such other out-of-pocket expenses as shall have been
reasonably incurred by them in connection with this Agreement and the proposed
purchase of the Units, including, without limitation, travel and lodging
expenses of the Placement Agents, and upon demand the Company shall pay the
full amount thereof to the Placement Agents.
11. AUTHORITY OF
THE REPRESENTATIVE. WRHCo consents and agrees that LCM will act
as Representative of the Placement Agents under this Agreement and with respect
to the sale of the Units. Accordingly,
WRHCo authorizes LCM to manage the Offering and the sale of the Units and to
take such action in connection therewith as LCM in its sole discretion deems
appropriate or desirable, consistent with the provisions of each Agreement
Among Underwriters previously entered into between LCM and WRHCo, respectively,
taking into account that the Offering of the Units will be in the form of a
best efforts placement and not a firm commitment underwriting. WRHCo agrees to comply with such Agreement
Among Underwriters and that any action taken under this Agreement by the
Representative shall be binding upon all of the Placement Agents.
12. ABSENCE OF
FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIP. The
Company acknowledges and agrees that: the Placement Agents responsibility to
the Company is solely contractual in nature, the Placement Agents has been
retained solely to act as Placement Agents in connection with the Offering and
no fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship between the Company and the
Placement Agents has been created in respect of any of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, irrespective of whether the Placement Agents or
Lazard Frères & Co. LLC has advised or is advising the Company on
other matters;
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(a) the price of the
Units set forth in this Agreement was established by the Company following
discussions and arms-length negotiations with the Placement Agents, and the
Company is capable of evaluating and understanding, and understands and
accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement;
(b) it has been advised
that the Placement Agents and Lazard Frères & Co. LLC and their
affiliates are engaged in a broad range of transactions which may involve
interests that differ from those of the Company and that the Placement Agents
has no obligation to disclose such interests and transactions to the Company by
virtue of any fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship; and
(c) it waives, to the
fullest extent permitted by law, any claims it may have against the Placement
Agents for breach of fiduciary duty or alleged breach of fiduciary duty and
agrees that the Placement Agents shall have no liability (whether direct or
indirect) to the Company in respect of such a fiduciary duty claim or to any
person asserting a fiduciary duty claim on behalf of or in right of the
Company, including stockholders, employees or creditors of the Company.
13. SUCCESSORS;
PERSONS ENTITLED TO BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of
and be binding upon the Placement Agents, the Company, and their respective
successors and assigns. This Agreement
shall also inure to the benefit of Lazard Frères & Co. LLC, the
Purchasers, and each of their respective successors and assigns, which shall be
third party beneficiaries hereof. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this
Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person, other than the
persons mentioned in the preceding sentences, any legal or equitable right,
remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement, or any provisions herein
contained, this Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof being
intended to be and being for the sole and exclusive benefit of such persons and
for the benefit of no other person; except that the representations,
warranties, covenants, agreements and indemnities of the Company contained in
this Agreement shall also be for the benefit of the Placement Agents
Indemnified Parties, and the indemnities of the Placement Agents shall be for
the benefit of the Company Indemnified Parties.
It is understood that Placement Agents responsibility to the Company is
solely contractual in nature and the Placement Agents does not owe the Company,
or any other party, any fiduciary duty as a result of this Agreement.
14. SURVIVAL OF
INDEMNITIES, REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, ETC. The respective indemnities, covenants,
agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company and
the Placement Agents, as set forth in this Agreement or made by them
respectively, pursuant to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and
effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Placement
Agents, the Company, the Purchasers or any person controlling any of them and
shall survive delivery of and payment for the Units. Notwithstanding any termination of this
Agreement, including without limitation any termination pursuant to Sections
9 or 10, the indemnity and contribution agreements contained in Section 8
and the covenants, representations, warranties set forth in this Agreement
shall not terminate and shall remain in full force and effect at all times.
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15. NOTICES. All statements, requests, notices and
agreements hereunder shall be in writing, and:
(a) if to the Placement
Agents, shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex, facsimile transmission or
email to Lazard Capital Markets LLC, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York
10020, Attention: General Counsel, Fax: 212-830-3615; and
(b) if to the Company,
shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex, facsimile transmission or email to
Clean Energy Fuels Corp., 3020 Old Ranch Parkway, Seal Beach, CA 90740, Attention: Harrison Clay, Esq.,
Facsimile: (562) 493-4532, with a copy to Morrison & Foerster LLP, 425
Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, Attention: Andrew D. Thorpe, Esq., Facsimile: (415) 268-7522.
provided, however, that any
notice to the Placement Agents pursuant to Section 8 shall be
delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to the Placement
Agents at its address set forth in its acceptance telex to the Placement
Agents, which address will be supplied to any other party hereto by the
Representative upon request. Any such
statements, requests, notices or agreements shall take effect at the time of receipt
thereof, except that any such statement, request, notice or agreement delivered
or sent by email shall take effect at the time of confirmation of receipt
thereof by the recipient thereof.
16. DEFINITION
OF CERTAIN TERMS. For
purposes of this Agreement, (a) business day means any day on which the
Nasdaq GM is open for trading, and (b) subsidiary has the meaning set
forth in Rule 405 of the Rules and Regulations.
17. GOVERNING
LAW, AGENT FOR SERVICE AND JURISDICTION. This Agreement shall be governed
by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York,
including without limitation Section 5-1401 of the New York General
Obligations Law. No legal
proceeding may be commenced, prosecuted or continued in any court other than
the courts of the State of New York located in the City and County of New York
or in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York,
which courts shall have jurisdiction over the adjudication of such matters, and
the Company and the Placement Agents each hereby consent to the jurisdiction of
such courts and personal service with respect thereto. The Company and the Placement Agents each
hereby consent to personal jurisdiction, service and venue in any court in
which any legal proceeding arising out of or in any way relating to this
Agreement is brought by any third party against the Company or the Placement
Agents. The Company and the Placement
Agents each hereby waive all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding
(whether based upon contract, tort or otherwise) in any way arising out of or
relating to this Agreement. The Company
agrees that a final judgment in any such legal proceeding brought in any such
court shall be conclusive and binding upon the Company and the Placement Agents
and may be enforced in any other courts in the jurisdiction of which the
Company is or may be subject, by suit upon such judgment.
18. PLACEMENT
AGENTS INFORMATION. The
parties hereto acknowledge and agree that, for all purposes of this Agreement,
the Placement Agents Information consists solely of the following information
in the Prospectus: (i) the last
paragraph on the front cover page concerning the terms of the offering;
and (ii) the statements concerning the Placement Agents contained in the
first paragraph under the heading Plan of Distribution.
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19. PARTIAL
UNENFORCEABILITY. The
invalidity or unenforceability of any section, paragraph, clause or provision
of this Agreement shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other
section, paragraph, clause or provision hereof.
If any section, paragraph, clause or provision of this Agreement is for
any reason determined to be invalid or unenforceable, there shall be deemed to
be made such minor changes (and only such minor changes) as are necessary to
make it valid and enforceable.
20. GENERAL. This Agreement constitutes the entire
agreement of the parties to this Agreement and supersedes all prior written or
oral and all contemporaneous oral agreements, understandings and negotiations
with respect to the subject matter hereof.
In this Agreement, the masculine, feminine and neuter genders and the
singular and the plural include one another.
The section headings in this Agreement are for the convenience of the
parties only and will not affect the construction or interpretation of this
Agreement. This Agreement may be amended
or modified, and the observance of any term of this Agreement may be waived,
only by a writing signed by the Company and the Placement Agents.
21. COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be signed in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if
the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument and such
signatures may be delivered by facsimile.
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Exhibit 4.5
CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP.
WARRANT TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK
Warrant No.:
Number of Shares of Common Stock:
Date of Issuance: October [ ], 2008 (Issuance Date)
Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a
Delaware corporation (the Company),
hereby certifies that, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged,
[ ],
the registered holder hereof or its permitted assigns (the Holder), is entitled, subject to the terms
set forth below, to purchase from the Company, at the Exercise Price (as
defined below) then in effect, upon surrender of this Warrant to Purchase
Common Stock (including any Warrants to Purchase Common Stock issued in
exchange, transfer or replacement hereof, this Warrant), at any time or times on or after the date six (6) months
from the date hereof (the Exercisability Date),
but not after 11:59 p.m., New York time, on the Expiration Date (as
defined below) (the period between the Exercisability Date and the Expiration
Date, the Exercise Period),
[ ]
([ ])
fully paid nonassessable shares of Common Stock (as defined below) (the Warrant
Shares). Except as otherwise
defined herein, capitalized terms in this Warrant shall have the meanings set
forth in Section 15. This
Warrant is the Warrant to purchase Common Stock issued pursuant to Section 2
of that certain Subscription Agreement (the Subscription
Agreement), dated as of October [ ],
2008 (the Subscription Date), by
and among the Company and the Holder (the Subscription
Agreement) pursuant to the Companys Registration Statement on Form S-3
(File number 333-152306) (the Registration Statement).
1. EXERCISE OF WARRANT.
(a) Mechanics of Exercise. Subject to the
terms and conditions hereof, this Warrant may be exercised by the Holder on any
day on or after the Exercisability Date, in whole or in part, by delivery of a
written notice, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the Exercise Notice), of the Holders election to
exercise this Warrant. The Holder shall
not be required to deliver the original Warrant in order to effect an exercise
hereunder, but shall deliver the original Warrant within five (5) Business
Days thereafter. Execution and delivery
of the Exercise Notice with respect to less than all of the Warrant Shares
shall have the same effect as cancellation of the original Warrant and issuance
of a new Warrant evidencing the right to purchase the remaining number of
Warrant Shares. On or before the first
(1st) Business Day following the date on which the Company has
received the Exercise Notice, the Company shall transmit by facsimile an
acknowledgment of confirmation of receipt of the Exercise Notice to the Holder
and the Companys transfer agent, Computershare Trust Company, N.A. (the Transfer Agent). On or before the third (3rd)
Business Day following the date on which the Company has received the Exercise
Notice (the Share Delivery Date),
the Company shall (X) provided that the Transfer Agent is participating in
The Depository Trust Company (DTC)
Fast Automated Securities Transfer Program, upon the request of the Holder,
credit such aggregate number of Warrant Shares to which the Holder is entitled
pursuant to such exercise to the
Holders or its designees balance account
with DTC through its Deposit Withdrawal Agent Commission system, or (Y) if
the Transfer Agent is not participating in the DTC Fast Automated Securities
Transfer Program, issue and dispatch by overnight courier to the address as
specified in the Exercise Notice, a certificate, registered in the Companys
share register in the name of the Holder or its designee, for the number of
shares of Common Stock to which the Holder is entitled pursuant to such
exercise. Upon delivery of the Exercise
Notice, the Holder shall be deemed for all corporate purposes to have become
the holder of record of the Warrant Shares with respect to which this Warrant
has been exercised, irrespective of the date such Warrant Shares are credited
to the Holders DTC account or the date of delivery of the certificates
evidencing such Warrant Shares, as the case may be. If this Warrant is submitted in connection
with any exercise pursuant to this Section 1(a) and the number of
Warrant Shares represented by this Warrant submitted for exercise is greater
than the number of Warrant Shares being acquired upon an exercise, then the
Company shall as soon as practicable and in no event later than three (3) Business
Days after any exercise and at its own expense, issue a new Warrant (in
accordance with Section 7(d)) representing the right to purchase
the number of Warrant Shares purchasable immediately prior to such exercise
under this Warrant, less the number of Warrant Shares with respect to which
this Warrant is exercised. No fractional
shares of Common Stock are to be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant, but
rather the number of shares of Common Stock to be issued shall be rounded down
to the nearest whole number. The Company
shall pay any and all taxes, as well as all fees of the Transfer Agent and DTC,
which may be payable with respect to the issuance and delivery of Warrant
Shares upon exercise of this Warrant.
Upon exercise of this Warrant, including any
cashless exercise under Section 1(d), the Company shall promptly
issue or cause to be issued and cause to be delivered to or upon the written
order of the Holder and in such name or names as the Holder may designate, a
certificate for the Warrant Shares issuable upon such exercise, free of
restrictive legends unless a registration statement covering the issuance of or
resale of the Warrant Shares is not then effective or the Warrant Shares are
not freely transferable without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144
under the Securities Act. The Holder, or
any Person so designated by the Holder to receive Warrant Shares, shall be
deemed to have become the holder of record of such Warrant Shares as of the
Exercise Date.
(b) Exercise Price. For purposes of
this Warrant, Exercise Price
means $13.50 per share, subject to adjustment as provided herein.
(c) Companys Failure to Timely Deliver Securities. If the Company shall fail for any reason or
for no reason to issue to the Holder within three (3) Business Days of
receipt of the Exercise Notice in compliance with the terms of this Section 1,
a certificate for the number of shares of Common Stock to which the Holder is
entitled and register such shares of Common Stock on the Companys share
register or to credit the Holders balance account with DTC for such number of
shares of Common Stock to which the Holder is entitled upon the Holders
exercise of this Warrant, and if on or after such Trading Day the Holder
purchases (in an open market transaction or otherwise) shares of Common Stock
to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the Holder of shares of Common Stock
issuable upon such exercise that the Holder anticipated receiving from the
Company (a Buy-In),
then the Company shall, within three (3) Business Days after the Holders
request and in the Holders discretion, either (i) pay cash to the Holder
in an amount equal to the Holders total purchase price (including brokerage
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commissions, if any) for the shares of Common
Stock so purchased (the Buy-In Price), at which point the Companys obligation to deliver such
certificate (and to issue such Warrant Shares) shall terminate, or (ii) promptly
honor its obligation to deliver to the Holder a certificate or certificates representing
such Warrant Shares and pay cash to the Holder in an amount equal to the excess
(if any) of the Buy-In Price over the product of (A) such number of shares
of Common Stock, times (B) the Closing Bid Price on the date of exercise.
(d) Payment of Exercise Price; Cashless Exercise. The
Holder shall pay the Exercise Price in immediately available funds; provided, however, that if at any time during the Exercise
Period the Registration Statement covering the Warrant Shares is not effective
on such exercise date or the registration statement is not otherwise available
for the resale of the shares of Common Stock issuable hereunder, the Holder may
satisfy its obligation to pay the Exercise Price through a cashless exercise,
in which event the Company shall issue to the Holder the number of Warrant
Shares determined as follows:
Where X = the number of shares of Common
Stock to be issued to the Holder
Y = the number of shares of
Common Stock purchasable under this Warrant or, if only a portion of this
Warrant is being exercised, the portion of this Warrant being canceled (at the
date of such calculation)
A = the fair market value of
one share of the Companys Common Stock (at the date of such calculation)
B = Exercise Price (as
adjusted to the date of such calculation)
For purposes of the above calculation, the fair
market value of one share of Common Stock shall mean (i) the average of
the closing sales prices for the shares of Common Stock on the Nasdaq Global
Market or other trading market where such security is listed or traded as
reported by Bloomberg Financial Markets (or a comparable reporting service of
national reputation selected by the Company and reasonably acceptable to the
Holder if Bloomberg Financial Markets is not then reporting sales prices of
such security) (collectively, Bloomberg)
for the ten (10) consecutive trading days immediately preceding such date,
or (ii) if the Nasdaq Global Market is not the principal trading market
for the shares of Common Stock, the average of the reported sales prices
reported by Bloomberg on the principal trading market for the Common Stock
during the same period, or, if there is no sales price for such period, the
last sales price reported by Bloomberg for such period, or (iii) if
neither of the foregoing applies, the last sales price of such security in the
over-the-counter market on the pink sheets or bulletin board for such security
as reported by Bloomberg, or if no sales price is so reported for such
security, the last bid price of such security as reported by Bloomberg or (iv) if
fair market value cannot be calculated as of such date on any of the foregoing
bases, the fair market value shall be as determined by the Board of Directors
of the Company in the exercise of its good faith judgment.
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(e) Disputes. In the case of a dispute as to the
determination of the Exercise Price or the arithmetic calculation of the
Warrant Shares, the Company shall promptly issue to the Holder the number of
Warrant Shares that are not disputed.
(f) Beneficial Ownership. The Holder shall
not have the right to exercise this Warrant, to the extent that after giving
effect to such exercise, such Person (together with such Persons affiliates) would
beneficially own in excess of 4.99% (the Maximum
Percentage) of the shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately
after giving effect to such exercise.
The Company shall be entitled to rely on Holders exercise notice as an
indication that Holder will not, pursuant to such exercise, exceed the Maximum
Percentage. For purposes of the
foregoing sentence, the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock beneficially
owned by such Person and its affiliates shall include the number of shares of
Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant with respect to which the
determination of such sentence is being made, but shall exclude shares of
Common Stock which would be issuable upon (i) exercise of the remaining,
unexercised portion of this Warrant beneficially owned by such Person and its
affiliates and (ii) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or
unconverted portion of any other securities of the Company beneficially owned
by such Person and its affiliates (including, without limitation, any convertible
notes or convertible preferred stock or warrants) subject to a limitation on
conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein.. Except as set forth in the preceding
sentence, for purposes of this paragraph, beneficial ownership shall be
calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. For
purposes of this Warrant, in determining the number of outstanding shares of
Common Stock, the Holder may rely on the number of outstanding shares of Common
Stock as reflected in (1) the Companys most recent Form 10-K, Form 10-Q,
Current Report on Form 8-K or other public filing with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, as the case may be, (2) a more recent public
announcement by the Company or (3) any other notice by the Company or the
Transfer Agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding. For any reason at any time,
upon the written or oral request of the Holder, the Company shall within two (2) Business
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 and its affiliates since the date as of which such
number of outstanding shares of Common Stock was reported. By written notice to the Company, the Holder
may from time to time increase or decrease the Maximum Percentage to any other
percentage not in excess of 4.99% specified in such notice; provided that (i) any
such increase will not be effective until the sixty-first (61st) day
after such notice is delivered to the Company, and (ii) any such increase
or decrease will apply only to the Holder.
The provisions of this paragraph shall be construed and implemented in a
manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms of this Section 1(h) 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.
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2. ADJUSTMENT OF EXERCISE PRICE AND NUMBER OF WARRANT SHARES. The Exercise Price and the number of Warrant
Shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant shall be adjusted from time to
time as follows:
(a) Adjustment upon Issuance of Shares of Common Stock. If and whenever on or after the Subscription
Date, the Company issues or sells, or in accordance with this Section 2
is deemed to have issued or sold, any shares of Common Stock other than
Exempted Securities (including the issuance or sale of shares of Common Stock
owned or held by or for the account of the Company) for a consideration per
share (the New Issuance Price)
less than a price (the Applicable Price)
equal to the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such issue or sale
or deemed issuance or sale (the foregoing a Dilutive
Issuance), then immediately after such Dilutive Issuance, the
Exercise Price then in effect shall be reduced to an amount equal to the
product of (A) the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such
Dilutive Issuance and (B) the quotient determined by dividing (1) the
sum of (I) the product derived by multiplying the Exercise Price in effect
immediately prior to such Dilutive Issuance and the number of shares of Common
Stock Deemed Outstanding immediately prior to such Dilutive Issuance plus (II) the
consideration, if any, received by the Company upon such Dilutive Issuance, by (2) the
product derived by multiplying (I) the Exercise Price in effect
immediately prior to such Dilutive Issuance by (II) the number of shares
of Common Stock Deemed Outstanding immediately after such Dilutive
Issuance. For purposes of determining
the adjusted Exercise Price under this Section 2(a), the following
shall be applicable:
(i) Issuance of Options. If the Company in any manner grants any
Options and the lowest price per share for which one share of Common Stock is
issuable upon the exercise of any such Option or upon conversion, exercise or
exchange of any Convertible Securities issuable upon exercise of any such
Option is less than the Applicable Price, then such share of Common Stock shall
be deemed to be outstanding and to have been issued and sold by the Company at
the time of the granting or sale of such Option for such price per share. For purposes of this Section 2(a)(i),
the lowest price per share for which one share of Common Stock is issuable
upon exercise of such Options or upon conversion, exercise or exchange of such
Convertible Securities issuable upon exercise of any such Option shall be
equal to the sum of the lowest amounts of consideration (if any) received or
receivable by the Company with respect to any one share of Common Stock upon
the granting or sale of the Option, upon exercise of the Option and upon
conversion, exercise or exchange of any Convertible Security issuable upon
exercise of such Option. No further
adjustment of the Exercise Price or number of Warrant Shares shall be made upon
the actual issuance of such shares of Common Stock or of such Convertible
Securities upon the exercise of such Options or upon the actual issuance of
such shares of Common Stock upon conversion, exercise or exchange of such
Convertible Securities.
(ii) Issuance of Convertible
Securities. If the Company in any manner
issues or sells any Convertible Securities and the lowest price per share for
which one share of Common Stock is issuable upon the conversion,
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exercise or
exchange thereof is less than the Applicable Price, then such share of Common
Stock shall be deemed to be outstanding and to have been issued and sold by the
Company at the time of the issuance or sale of such Convertible Securities for
such price per share. For the purposes
of this Section 2(a)(ii), the lowest price per share for which one share
of Common Stock is issuable upon the conversion, exercise or exchange thereof
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 the Convertible Security and upon conversion,
exercise or exchange of such Convertible Security. No further adjustment of the Exercise Price
or number of Warrant Shares shall be made upon the actual issuance of such
shares of Common Stock upon conversion, exercise or exchange of such
Convertible Securities, and if any such issue or sale of such Convertible
Securities is made upon exercise of any Options for which adjustment of this
Warrant has been or is to be made pursuant to other provisions of this Section 2(a),
no further adjustment of the Exercise Price or number of Warrant Shares shall
be made by reason of such issue or sale.
(iii) Change in Option Price or
Rate of Conversion. If the
purchase price provided for in any Options, the additional consideration, if
any, payable upon the issue, conversion, exercise or exchange of any
Convertible Securities, or the rate at which any Convertible Securities are
convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock
increases or decreases at any time, then the Exercise Price and the number of
Warrant Shares in effect at the time of such increase or decrease shall be
adjusted to the Exercise Price and the number of Warrant Shares which would
have been in effect at such time had such Options or Convertible Securities
provided for such increased or decreased purchase price, additional
consideration or increased or decreased conversion rate, as the case may be, at
the time initially granted, issued or sold.
For purposes of this Section 2(a)(iii), if the terms of any Option
or Convertible Security that was outstanding as of the date of issuance of this
Warrant are increased or decreased in the manner described in the immediately
preceding sentence, then such Option or Convertible Security and the shares of
Common Stock deemed issuable upon exercise, conversion or exchange thereof
shall be deemed to have been issued as of the date of such increase or
decrease. No adjustment pursuant to this
Section 2(a) shall be made if such adjustment would result in an
increase of the Exercise Price then in effect or a decrease in the number of
Warrant Shares.
(iv) Calculation of
Consideration Received. In case any Option is issued in
connection with the issue or sale of other securities of the Company, together
comprising one integrated transaction, (x) the Options will be deemed to
have been issued for a value determined by use of the Black Scholes Option
Pricing Model (the Option Value) and (y) the
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other
securities issued or sold in such integrated transaction shall be deemed to
have been issued for the difference of (I) the aggregate consideration
received by the Company, less (II) the Option Value. If any shares of Common Stock, Options or
Convertible Securities are issued or sold or deemed to have been issued or sold
for cash, the consideration received therefor will be deemed to be the net
amount received by the Company therefor.
If any shares of Common Stock, Options or Convertible Securities are
issued or sold for a consideration other than cash, the amount of such
consideration received by the Company will be the fair value of such
consideration, except where such consideration consists of securities, in which
case the amount of consideration received by the Company will be the Weighted
Average Price of such security on the date of receipt. The fair value of any consideration other
than cash or securities will be determined jointly by the Company and the
Holder. If such parties are unable to
reach agreement within ten (10) days after the occurrence of an event
requiring valuation (the Valuation Event), the fair value of such
consideration will be determined within five (5) Business Days after the
tenth (10th) day following the Valuation Event by an independent, reputable
appraiser jointly selected by the Company and the Holder. The determination of such appraiser shall be
final and binding upon all parties absent manifest error and the fees and
expenses of such appraiser shall be borne by the Company.
(v) Record Date. If the Company takes a record of the holders
of shares of Common Stock for the purpose of entitling them (A) to receive
a dividend or other distribution payable in shares of Common Stock, Options or
in Convertible Securities or (B) to subscribe for or purchase shares of
Common Stock, Options or Convertible Securities, then such record date will be
deemed to be the date of the issue or sale of the shares of Common Stock deemed
to have been issued or sold upon the declaration of such dividend or the making
of such other distribution or the date of the granting of such right of
subscription or purchase, as the case may be.
(b) Adjustment upon Subdivision or Combination
of Common Stock. If the Company at any time on or
after the Subscription Date subdivides (by any stock split, stock dividend,
recapitalization, reorganization, scheme, arrangement or otherwise) one or more
classes of its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a greater number of
shares, the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such subdivision will
be proportionately reduced and the number of Warrant Shares will be
proportionately increased. If the
Company at any time on or after the Subscription Date combines (by any stock
split, stock dividend, recapitalization, reorganization, scheme, arrangement or
otherwise) one or more classes of its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a
smaller number of shares, the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to
such combination will be proportionately increased and the number of Warrant Shares
will be proportionately decreased. Any
adjustment under this Section 2(b) shall become effective at
the close of business on the date the subdivision or combination becomes
effective.
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(c) Other
Events. If any event occurs of the
type contemplated by the provisions of this Section 2 but not
expressly provided for by such provisions, then the Companys Board of
Directors will make an appropriate adjustment in the Exercise Price and the number
of Warrant Shares so as to protect the rights of the Holder; provided that no
such adjustment pursuant to this Section 2(b) will increase
the Exercise Price or decrease the number of Warrant Shares as otherwise
determined pursuant to this Section 2.
(d) Adjustment
One Year and Two Years from the Date Hereof. (a) Upon the date one year from the date
hereof (the First Reset Date), the Exercise Price of this
Warrant, if then-outstanding, shall be reset to an exercise price equal to
one-hundred twenty percent (120%) of the closing price of the Companys Common
Stock as listed on the NASDAQ Global Market (or such other Eligible Market if
the Warrants Shares are no longer listed on the Nasdaq Global Market) on such
date; (b) upon the date two years from the date hereof (the Second Reset Date), the Exercise Price of
this Warrant, if then-outstanding, shall be reset to an exercise price equal to
one-hundred twenty percent (120%) of the closing price of the Companys Common
Stock as listed on the NASDAQ Global Market (or such other Eligible Market if
the Warrants Shares are no longer listed on the Nasdaq Global Market) on such
date; provided, however, that no such
adjustment pursuant to this Section 2(d) will increase the
Exercise Price of this Warrant above the then current Exercise Price at the
time of such reset.
3. RIGHTS
UPON DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS. 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, stock split, spin off, subdivision, 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:
(a) any
Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the
record date fixed for the determination of holders of shares of Common Stock
entitled to receive the Distribution shall be reduced, effective as of the
close of business on such record date, to a price determined by multiplying
such Exercise Price by a fraction of which (i) the numerator shall be the
Closing Bid Price of the shares of Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately
preceding such record date minus the value of the Distribution (as determined
in good faith by the Companys Board of Directors) applicable to one share of
Common Stock, and (ii) the denominator shall be the Closing Bid Price of
the shares of Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding such record
date; and
(b) the
number of Warrant Shares shall be increased or decreased to a number of shares
equal to the number of shares of Common Stock obtainable immediately prior to
the close of business on the record date fixed for the determination of holders
of shares of Common Stock entitled to receive the Distribution multiplied by
the reciprocal of the fraction set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph
(a); provided that in the event that the
Distribution is of shares of Common Stock (or common stock) (Other Shares of Common Stock) of a company whose common
shares are traded on a national securities exchange or a national automated
quotation system, then the Holder may elect to receive a warrant to purchase
Other Shares of Common Stock in lieu of an adjustment in the number of Warrant
Shares, the terms of
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identical to those of this Warrant, except that such warrant shall be
exercisable into the number of shares of Other Shares of Common Stock that
would have been payable to the Holder pursuant to the Distribution had the
Holder exercised this Warrant immediately prior to such record date and with an
aggregate exercise price equal to the product of the amount by which the
exercise price of this Warrant was decreased with respect to the Distribution
pursuant to the terms of the immediately preceding paragraph (a) and the
number of Warrant Shares calculated in accordance with the first part of this
paragraph (b).
4. PURCHASE
RIGHTS; FUNDAMENTAL TRANSACTIONS.
(a) Purchase
Rights. In addition to any
adjustments pursuant to Section 2 above, if at any time the Company
grants, issues or sells any 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
the exercise of this Warrant) 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.
(b) In connection with any Fundamental Transaction, the
Company shall make appropriate provision so that this Warrant shall thereafter
be exercisable for shares of the Successor Entity based upon the conversion
ratio or other consideration payable in the Fundamental Transaction. The
provisions of this Section shall apply similarly and equally to successive
Fundamental Transactions and shall be applied without regard to any limitations
on the exercise of this Warrant. Without
limiting the foregoing, in connection with a Fundamental Transaction that
constitutes a Change of Control, at the request of the Holder delivered before
the 90th day after such Fundamental Transaction, the Company (or the Successor
Entity) shall purchase this Warrant from the Holder by paying to the Holder,
within five Business Days after such request (or, if later, on the effective
date of the Fundamental Transaction), cash in an amount equal to the Black
Scholes Value of the remaining unexercised portion of this Warrant on the date
of such Fundamental Transaction.
In the event that any
person becomes a Parent Entity of the Company, such person shall assume all of
the obligations of the Company under this Warrant with the same effect as if
such person had been named as the Company herein.
5. NON-CIRCUMVENTION. The Company hereby covenants and agrees that
the Company will not, by amendment of its Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws
or through any reorganization, transfer of assets, consolidation, merger,
scheme of arrangement, 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, and will at all times in good faith carry out all
the provisions of this Warrant and take all action as may be required to
protect the rights of the Holder.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company (i) shall
not increase the par value of any shares of Common Stock receivable upon the
exercise of this Warrant above the
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Exercise Price then in effect, (ii) shall
take all such actions as may be necessary or appropriate in order that the
Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and nonassessable shares of
Common Stock upon the exercise of this Warrant, and (iii) shall, so long
as this Warrant is outstanding, take all action necessary to reserve and keep
available out of its authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock, solely for
the purpose of effecting the exercise of this Warrant, 100% of the number of
shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant then outstanding
(without regard to any limitations on exercise).
6. WARRANT
HOLDER NOT DEEMED A STOCKHOLDER.
Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, the Holder, solely in
such Persons capacity as a holder of this Warrant, shall not be entitled to
vote or receive dividends or be deemed the holder of share capital of the
Company for any purpose, nor shall anything contained in this Warrant be
construed to confer upon the Holder, solely in such Persons capacity as the
Holder of this Warrant, any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company or
any right to vote, give or withhold consent to any corporate action (whether
any reorganization, issue of stock, reclassification of stock, consolidation,
merger, conveyance or otherwise), receive notice of meetings, receive dividends
or subscription rights, or otherwise, prior to the issuance to the Holder of
the Warrant Shares which such Person is then entitled to receive upon the due
exercise of this Warrant. In addition,
nothing contained in this Warrant shall be construed as imposing any
liabilities on the Holder to purchase any securities (upon exercise of this
Warrant or otherwise) or as a stockholder of the Company, whether such
liabilities are asserted by the Company or by creditors of the Company.
7. REISSUANCE
OF WARRANTS.
(a) Transfer
of Warrant. If this Warrant is to be
transferred, the Holder shall surrender this Warrant to the Company, whereupon
the Company will forthwith issue and deliver upon the order of the Holder a new
Warrant (in accordance with Section 7(d)), registered as the Holder
may request, representing the right to purchase the number of Warrant Shares
being transferred by the Holder and, if less then the total number of Warrant
Shares then underlying this Warrant is being transferred, a new Warrant (in
accordance with Section 7(d)) to the Holder representing the right
to purchase the number of Warrant Shares not being transferred.
(b) Lost,
Stolen or Mutilated Warrant. Upon
receipt by the Company of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of
the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Warrant, and, in the case of
loss, theft or destruction, of any indemnification undertaking by the Holder to
the Company in customary form and, in the case of mutilation, upon surrender
and cancellation of this Warrant, the Company shall execute and deliver to the
Holder a new Warrant (in accordance with Section 7(d)) representing
the right to purchase the Warrant Shares then underlying this Warrant.
(c) Exchangeable for Multiple
Warrants. This Warrant is
exchangeable, upon the surrender hereof by the Holder at the principal office
of the Company, for a new Warrant or Warrants (in accordance with Section 7(d))
representing in the aggregate the right to purchase the number of Warrant
Shares then underlying this Warrant, and each such new Warrant will represent
the right to purchase such portion of such Warrant Shares as is designated by
the Holder at
the time of such surrender; provided, however, that no Warrants for fractional
shares of Common Stock shall be given.
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(d) Issuance
of New Warrants. Whenever the
Company is required to issue a new Warrant pursuant to the terms of this
Warrant, such new Warrant (i) shall be of like tenor with this Warrant, (ii) shall
represent, as indicated on the face of such new Warrant, the right to purchase
the Warrant Shares then underlying this Warrant (or in the case of a new
Warrant being issued pursuant to Section 7(a) or Section 7(c),
the Warrant Shares designated by the Holder which, when added to the number of
shares of Common Stock underlying the other new Warrants issued in connection
with such issuance, does not exceed the number of Warrant Shares then
underlying this Warrant), (iii) shall have an issuance date, as indicated
on the face of such new Warrant which is the same as the Issuance Date, and (iv) shall
have the same rights and conditions as this Warrant.
8. NOTICES. Whenever notice is required to be given under
this Warrant, unless otherwise provided herein, such notice shall be given in
accordance with Section 7 of Annex I to the Subscription Agreement. The Company shall provide the Holder with
prompt written notice of all actions taken pursuant to this Warrant, including
in reasonable detail a description of such action and the reason therefore.
9. AMENDMENT
AND WAIVER. Except as otherwise
provided herein, the provisions of this Warrant may be amended and the Company
may take any action herein prohibited, or omit to perform any act herein
required to be performed by it, only if the Company has obtained the written
consent of the Holder.
10. GOVERNING
LAW. This Warrant shall be governed
by and construed and enforced in accordance with, and all questions concerning
the construction, validity, interpretation and performance of this Warrant
shall be governed by, the internal laws of the State of New York, without
giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether
of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the
application of the laws of any jurisdictions other than the State of New York.
11. CONSTRUCTION;
HEADINGS. This Warrant shall be
deemed to be jointly drafted by the Company and the Holder and shall not be
construed against any person as the drafter hereof. The headings of this Warrant are for
convenience of reference and shall not form part of, or affect the
interpretation of, this Warrant.
12. DISPUTE
RESOLUTION. In the case of a dispute
as to the determination of the Exercise Price or the arithmetic calculation of
the Warrant Shares, the Company shall submit the disputed determinations or
arithmetic calculations via facsimile within two (2) Business Days of
receipt of the Exercise Notice giving rise to such dispute, as the case may be,
to the Holder. If the Holder and the
Company are unable to agree upon such determination or calculation of the
Exercise Price or the Warrant Shares within three Business Days of such
disputed determination or arithmetic calculation being submitted to the Holder,
then the Company shall, within two (2) Business Days submit via facsimile (a) the
disputed determination of the Exercise Price to an independent, reputable
investment bank selected by the Company and approved by the Holder or (b) the
disputed arithmetic calculation of the Warrant Shares to the
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Companys
independent, outside accountant. The
Company shall cause at its expense the investment bank or the accountant, as
the case may be, to perform the determinations or calculations and notify the
Company and the Holder of the results no later than ten Business Days from the
time it receives the disputed determinations or calculations. Such investment banks or accountants
determination or calculation, as the case may be, shall be binding upon all
parties absent demonstrable error.
13. REMEDIES,
OTHER OBLIGATIONS, BREACHES AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF. The remedies provided in this Warrant shall
be cumulative and in addition to all other remedies available under this
Warrant, at law or in equity (including a decree of specific performance and/or
other injunctive relief), and nothing herein shall limit the right of the
Holder to pursue actual damages for any failure by the Company to comply with
the terms of this Warrant.
14. TRANSFER. Subject to applicable laws, this Warrant may
be offered for sale, sold, transferred or assigned without the consent of the
Company. This Warrant and all rights
hereunder are transferable, by the Holder in person or by duly authorized
attorney, upon delivery of this Warrant and the form of assignment attached
hereto as Exhibit B to any transferee designated by Holder. Any purported transfer of all or any portion
of this Warrant in violation of the provisions of this Warrant shall be null
and void.
15. CERTAIN
DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this Warrant,
the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(a) Black Scholes Value means the value of
this Warrant based on the Black and Scholes Option Pricing Model obtained from
the OV function on Bloomberg (i) a price per share of Common Stock equal
to the Weighted Average Price of the Common Stock for the Trading Day
immediately preceding the date of consummation of the applicable Fundamental
Transaction, (ii) a risk-free interest rate corresponding to the U.S.
Treasury rate for a period equal to the remaining term of this Warrant as of
the date of consummation of the applicable Fundemental Transaction and (iii) an
expected volatility equal to the 30 day volatility obtained from the HVT
function on Bloomberg determined as of the Trading Day immediately following
the public announcement of the applicable Fundamental Transaction.
(b) Bloomberg means Bloomberg Financial Markets.
(c) Business Day means any day other than Saturday,
Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in The City of New York are
authorized or required by law to remain closed.
(d) Change of Control means any Fundamental
Transaction other than (A) any reorganization, recapitalization or
reclassification of the Common Stock, in which holders of the Companys voting power
immediately prior to such reorganization, recapitalization or reclassification
continue after such reorganization, recapitalization or reclassification to
hold publicly traded securities and, directly or indirectly, the voting power
of the surviving entity or entities necessary to elect a majority of the
members of the board of directors (or their equivalent if
other than a
corporation) of such entity or entities, or (B) pursuant to a migratory
merger effected solely for the purpose of changing the jurisdiction of
incorporation of the Company.
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(e) Closing Bid Price and Closing Sale Price means, for any security as of
any date, the last closing bid price and last closing trade price, respectively,
for such security on the Principal Market, as reported by Bloomberg, or, if the
Principal Market begins to operate on an extended hours basis and does not
designate the closing bid price or the closing trade price, as the case may be,
then the last bid price or the last trade price, respectively, of such security
prior to 4:00:00 p.m., New York time, as reported by Bloomberg, or, if the
Principal Market is not the principal securities exchange or trading market for
such security, the last closing bid price or last trade price, respectively, of
such security on the principal securities exchange or trading market where such
security is listed or traded as reported by Bloomberg, or if the foregoing do
not apply, the last closing bid price or last trade price, respectively, of
such security in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin board
for such security as reported by Bloomberg, or, if no closing bid price or last
trade price, respectively, is reported for such security by Bloomberg, the average
of the bid prices, or the ask prices, respectively, of any market makers for
such security as reported in the pink sheets by Pink Sheets LLC (formerly the
National Quotation Bureau, Inc.).
If the Closing Bid Price or the Closing Sale Price cannot be calculated
for a security on a particular date on any of the foregoing bases, the Closing
Bid Price or the Closing Sale Price, as the case may be, of such security on
such date shall be the fair market value as mutually determined by the Company
and the Holder. All such determinations
to be appropriately adjusted for any stock dividend, stock split, stock
combination or other similar transaction during the applicable calculation
period.
(f) Common Stock means (i) the Companys
shares of Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, and (ii) any share
capital into which such Common Stock shall have been changed or any share
capital resulting from a reclassification of such Common Stock.
(g) Eligible Market means the Principal Market,
The New York Stock Exchange, Inc., The American Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ
Global Select Market or The NASDAQ Capital Market.
(h) Exempted Securities means (i) shares of Common Stock or
options to employees, officers or directors of the Company pursuant to any
existing stock or option plan, or any stock or option planduly adopted by a
majority of the non-employee members of the Board of Directors of the Company
or a majority of the members of a committee of non-employee directors
established for such purpose, (b) securities issued upon the exercise or exchange of or
conversion of any Securities issued hereunder and/or securities exercisable or
exchangeable for or convertible into shares of Common Stock issued and
outstanding on the date of this Agreement, provided that such securities have
not been amended since the date of this Agreement to increase the number of
such securities or to decrease the exercise, exchange or conversion price of
any such securities, and (c) securities issued pursuant to acquisitions or
strategic transactions, provided any such issuance shall only be to a Person
which is, itself or through its subsidiaries, an operating company in a
business synergistic with the business of the Company and in which the Company
receives benefits in addition to the investment of funds, but shall not include
a transaction in which the Company is issuing securities primarily for the
purpose of raising capital or to an entity whose primary business is investing
in securities.
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(i) Expiration Date means the date seven (7) years after the
Exercisability Date or, if such date falls on a day other than a Business Day
or on which trading does not take place on the Principal Market (a Holiday), the next date that is not a
Holiday.
(j) Fundamental Transaction means that the Company shall,
directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions, (i) consolidate
or merge with or into (whether or not the Company is the surviving corporation)
another Person, or (ii) sell, assign, transfer, convey or otherwise
dispose of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company
to another Person, or (iii) allow another Person to make a purchase, tender or exchange offer
that is accepted by the holders of more than the 50% of the outstanding shares
of Common Stock (not including any shares of Common
Stock held by the Person or Persons making or party to, or associated or
affiliated with the Persons making or party to, such purchase, tender or
exchange offer), or (iv) consummate a stock purchase agreement or other business combination
(including, without limitation, a reorganization, recapitalization, spin-off or
scheme of arrangement) with another Person whereby such other
Person acquires more
than the 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 purchase agreement or other business combination),
(v) reorganize,
recapitalize or reclassify its Common Stock, or (vi) any person or group
(as these terms are used for purposes of Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of
the Exchange Act) is or shall become the beneficial owner (as defined in Rule 13d-3
under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of 50% of the aggregate
ordinary voting power represented by issued and outstanding Common Stock; provided, however, that with respect to T. Boone Pickens or
any Affiliate of T. Boone Pickens, such percentage shall not apply until the
Common Stock of the Company is no longer publicly traded, upon which date a
Fundamental Transaction shall be deemed to have occurred.
(k) Parent Entity of a Person means an
entity that, directly or indirectly, controls the applicable Person and whose common stock or equivalent
equity security is quoted or listed on an Eligible Market,
or, if there is more than one such Person or Parent Entity, the Person or
Parent Entity with the largest public market capitalization as of the date of
consummation of the Fundamental Transaction.
(l) Person means an individual, a limited
liability company, a partnership, a joint venture, a corporation, a trust, an
unincorporated organization, any other entity and a government or any department
or agency thereof.
(m) Principal Market means The NASDAQ Global
Market.
(n) Successor Entity means the
Person (or, if so elected by the Holder, the Parent Entity) formed by,
resulting from or surviving any Fundamental Transaction or the Person (or, if
so elected by the Holder, the Parent Entity) with which such Fundamental
Transaction shall have been entered into.
(o) Trading Day means any day on which the Common Stock are
traded on the Principal Market, or, if the Principal Market is not the
principal trading market for the Common Stock, then on the principal securities
exchange or securities market on which the Common Stock are then traded;
provided that Trading Day shall not include any day on which
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the Common Stock are
scheduled to trade on such exchange or market for less than 4.5 hours or any
day that the Common Stock are suspended from trading during the final hour of
trading on such exchange or market (or if such exchange or market does not
designate in advance the closing time of trading on such exchange or market,
then during the hour ending at 4:00:00 p.m., New York time).
(p) Weighted Average Price means, for any security as of any
date, the dollar volume-weighted average price for such security on the
Principal Market during the period beginning at 9:30:01 a.m., New York
City time, and ending at 4:00:00 p.m., New York City time, as reported by
Bloomberg through its Volume at Price function or, if the foregoing does not
apply, the dollar volume-weighted average price of such security in the
over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin board for such security
during the period beginning at 9:30:01 a.m., New York City time, and
ending at 4:00:00 p.m., New York City time, as reported by Bloomberg, or,
if no dollar volume-weighted average price is reported for such security by
Bloomberg for such hours, the average of the highest closing bid price and the
lowest closing ask price of any of the market makers for such security as
reported in the pink sheets by Pink Sheets LLC (formerly the National
Quotation Bureau, Inc.). If the
Weighted Average Price cannot be calculated for such security on such date on
any of the foregoing bases, the Weighted Average Price of such security on such
date shall be the fair market value as mutually determined by the Company and
the Holders. If the Company and the
Holders are unable to agree upon the fair market value of such security, then
such dispute shall be resolved pursuant to Section 12 with the term Weighted
Average Price being substituted for the term Exercise Price. All such
determinations shall be appropriately adjusted for any share dividend, share
split or other similar transaction during such period.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF,
the Company has caused this Warrant to Purchase Common Stock to be duly
executed as of the Issuance Date set out above.
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EXHIBIT A
EXERCISE NOTICE
TO BE EXECUTED BY THE REGISTERED HOLDER TO EXERCISE
THIS
WARRANT TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK
CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP.
The undersigned holder
hereby exercises the right to purchase
of the shares of Common Stock (Warrant
Shares) of Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company), evidenced by the attached
Warrant to Purchase Common Stock (the Warrant). Capitalized terms used herein and not
otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Warrant.
1. Form of Exercise Price. The Holder
intends that payment of the Exercise Price shall be made as:
a Cash Exercise
with respect to
Warrant Shares; and/or
a Cashless Exercise
with respect to
Warrant Shares.
2. Payment
of Exercise Price. In the event that
the holder has elected a Cash Exercise with respect to some or all of the
Warrant Shares to be issued pursuant hereto, the holder shall pay the Aggregate
Exercise Price in the sum of
$
to the Company in accordance with the terms of the Warrant.
3. Delivery
of Warrant Shares. The Company shall
deliver to the holder
Warrant Shares in accordance with the terms of the Warrant.
Date:
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The Company
hereby acknowledges this Exercise Notice and hereby directs Computershare Trust
Company, N.A. to issue the above indicated number of shares of Common Stock in
accordance with the Transfer Agent Instructions dated
, 2008
from the Company and acknowledged and agreed to by Computershare Trust Company,
N.A.
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EXHIBIT B
ASSIGNMENT FORM
(To assign the foregoing Warrant, execute this form and supply the
required information. Do not use this
form to purchase shares.)
FOR GOOD AND VALUABLE CONSIDERATION,
the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the foregoing
Warrant and all rights evidenced thereby are hereby assigned to:
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[NOTE: The signature to this
Assignment Form must correspond with the name as it appears on the face of
the foregoing Warrant, without alteration or enlargement or any change
whatsoever. Officers of corporations and
those acting in a fiduciary or other representative capacity should file proper
evidence of authority to assign the foregoing Warrant.]
Exhibit 4.6
CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP.
WARRANT TO PURCHASE ADDITIONAL SHARES OF COMMON STOCK
Warrant No.:
Number of Shares of Common Stock: Up to
Date
of Issuance: October [ ], 2008 (Issuance Date)
Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a Delaware
corporation (the Company),
hereby certifies that, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged,
[ ],
in the event that California Proposition 10 is not approved by the voters in
the State of California during the election to be held on November 4,
2008, the registered holder hereof or its permitted assigns (the Holder), is entitled, subject to the terms
set forth below, to purchase from the Company, at the Exercise Price (as
defined below) then in effect, upon surrender of this Warrant to Purchase
Common Stock (including any Warrants to Purchase Common Stock issued in
exchange, transfer or replacement hereof, this Warrant), at any time or times on or after the date which is
five Trading days after November 4, 2008 (the Exercisability
Date), but not after 11:59 p.m., New York time, on the
Expiration Date (as defined below) (the period between the Exercisability Date
and the Expiration Date, the Exercise Period),
up to such number of fully paid nonassessable shares of Common Stock (as
defined below) (the Warrant Shares), as determined in Section 1(b) below. In the event that the result of the vote with
respect to California Proposition 10 is not declared by 9:00 a.m., New
York time, on November 5, 2008, then the Exercisability Date shall be
extended one Trading Day for each Trading Day that such result is not
declared. Except as otherwise defined
herein, capitalized terms in this Warrant shall have the meanings set forth in Section 15. This Warrant is the Warrant to purchase
Additional Shares of Common Stockissued pursuant to Section 2 of that
certain Subscription Agreement (the Subscription Agreement),
dated as of October [ ], 2008 (the Subscription Date), by and among the
Company and the Holder (the Subscription
Agreement) pursuant to the Companys Registration Statement on Form S-3
(File number 333-152306) (the Registration Statement).
1. EXERCISE
OF WARRANT.
(a) Mechanics of Exercise. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof,
in the event that California Proposition 10 is not approved by the voters in
the State of California during the election to be held on November 4,
2008, this Warrant may be exercised by the Holder on any day on or after the
Exercisability Date but prior to the Expiration Date, in whole or in part, by
delivery of a written notice, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A
(the Exercise Notice), of the Holders election to exercise this Warrant. The Holder shall not be required to deliver
the original Warrant in order to effect an exercise hereunder, but shall
deliver the original Warrant within five (5) Business Days
thereafter. Execution and delivery of
the Exercise Notice with respect to less than all of the Warrant Shares shall have
the same effect as cancellation of the original Warrant and issuance of a new
Warrant evidencing the right to purchase the remaining number of Warrant
Shares. On or before the first (1st) Business Day following the date on which the Company has
received the Exercise Notice, the Company shall transmit by facsimile an
acknowledgment of confirmation of receipt of the Exercise Notice to the Holder
and
the
Companys transfer agent, Computershare Trust Company, N.A. (the Transfer Agent). On or before the third (3rd)
Business Day following the date on which the Company has received the Exercise
Notice (the Share Delivery Date), the Company shall (X) provided that the Transfer
Agent is participating in The Depository Trust Company (DTC)
Fast Automated Securities Transfer Program, upon the request of the Holder,
credit such aggregate number of Warrant Shares to which the Holder is entitled
pursuant to such exercise to the Holders or its designees balance account
with DTC through its Deposit Withdrawal Agent Commission system, or (Y) if
the Transfer Agent is not participating in the DTC Fast Automated Securities
Transfer Program, issue and dispatch by overnight courier to the address as
specified in the Exercise Notice, a certificate, registered in the Companys
share register in the name of the Holder or its designee, for the number of
shares of Common Stock to which the Holder is entitled pursuant to such
exercise. Upon delivery of the Exercise
Notice, the Holder shall be deemed for all corporate purposes to have become
the holder of record of the Warrant Shares with respect to which this Warrant
has been exercised, irrespective of the date such Warrant Shares are credited
to the Holders DTC account or the date of delivery of the certificates evidencing
such Warrant Shares, as the case may be.
If this Warrant is submitted in connection with any exercise pursuant to
this Section 1(a) and the number of Warrant Shares represented by
this Warrant submitted for exercise is greater than the number of Warrant
Shares being acquired upon an exercise, then the Company shall as soon as
practicable and in no event later than three (3) Business Days after any
exercise and at its own expense, issue a new Warrant (in accordance with Section 7(d))
representing the right to purchase the number of Warrant Shares purchasable
immediately prior to such exercise under this Warrant, less the number of
Warrant Shares with respect to which this Warrant is exercised. No fractional shares of Common Stock are to
be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant, but rather the number of shares of
Common Stock to be issued shall be rounded down to the nearest whole
number. The Company shall pay any and
all taxes, as well as all fees of the Transfer Agent and DTC, which may be
payable with respect to the issuance and delivery of Warrant Shares upon
exercise of this Warrant.
Upon exercise of this Warrant, the
Company shall promptly issue or cause to be issued and cause to be delivered to
or upon the written order of the Holder and in such name or names as the Holder
may designate, a certificate for the Warrant Shares issuable upon such
exercise, free of restrictive legends.
The Holder, or any Person so designated by the Holder to receive Warrant
Shares, shall be deemed to have become the holder of record of such Warrant
Shares as of the Exercise Date.
(b) Exercise Price and Number of Warrant Shares. For purposes of
this Warrant, Exercise Price means $0.01 per share, subject to adjustment as provided
herein. This Warrant shall be exercisable
for such number of Warrant Shares as shall be equal to (i) the quotient of
(A) the aggregate purchase price paid by the Holder for the purchase of
Units pursuant to the Subscription Agreement divided by (B) 85% of the
Weighted Average Price per share of Common Stock during the five Trading Days
beginning November 5, 2008, provided that such resulting price shall not
be less than $6.30, (ii) minus the number of shares of Common Stock
purchased by the Holder pursuant to the Subscription Agreement on the Issuance
Date.
(c) Companys Failure to Timely Deliver Securities. If the Company
shall fail for any reason or for no reason to issue to the Holder within three (3) Business
Days of receipt of the Exercise Notice in compliance with the terms of this Section 1,
a certificate for the number of shares of Common Stock to which the Holder is
entitled and register such shares of Common Stock on the Companys share
register or to credit the Holders balance account with DTC for such number of
shares of Common Stock to which the Holder is entitled upon the Holders
exercise of this Warrant, and if on or after such Trading Day the Holder
purchases (in an open market transaction or otherwise) shares of Common Stock
to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the Holder of shares of Common Stock
issuable upon such exercise that the Holder anticipated receiving from the
Company (a Buy-In), then the Company shall, within three (3) Business
Days after the Holders request and in the Holders discretion, either (i) pay
cash to the Holder in an amount equal to the Holders total purchase price
(including brokerage commissions, if any) for the shares of Common Stock so
purchased (the Buy-In Price), at which point the Companys obligation to deliver such
certificate (and to issue such Warrant Shares) shall terminate, or (ii) promptly
honor its obligation to deliver to the Holder a certificate or certificates
representing such Warrant Shares and pay cash to the Holder in an amount equal
to the excess (if any) of the Buy-In Price over the product of (A) such
number of shares of Common Stock, times (B) the Closing Bid Price on the
date of exercise.
(d) Payment of Exercise Price; Cashless Exercise. The Holder shall pay the Exercise
Price by means of a cashless exercise, in which event the Company shall issue
to the Holder the number of Warrant Shares determined as follows:
Where X = the number of shares of Common Stock to be
issued to the Holder
Y = the number of
shares of Common Stock purchasable under this Warrant or, if only a portion of
this Warrant is being exercised, the portion of this Warrant being canceled (at
the date of such calculation)
A = the fair market
value of one share of the Companys Common Stock (at the date of such calculation)
B = Exercise Price
(as adjusted to the date of such calculation)
For purposes of the above calculation,
the fair market value of one share of Common Stock shall mean (i) the
average of the closing sales prices for the shares of Common Stock on the
Nasdaq Global Market or other trading market where such security is listed or
traded as reported by Bloomberg Financial Markets (or a comparable reporting
service of national reputation selected by the Company and reasonably
acceptable to the Holder if Bloomberg Financial Markets is not then reporting
sales prices of such security) (collectively, Bloomberg) for the ten (10) consecutive trading days
immediately preceding such date, or (ii) if the Nasdaq Global Market is
not the principal trading market for the shares of Common Stock, the average of
the reported sales prices reported by Bloomberg on the principal trading market
for
the Common Stock during the same period, or, if there is no sales price for
such period, the last sales price reported by Bloomberg for such period, or (iii) if
neither of the foregoing applies, the last sales price of such security in the
over-the-counter market on the pink sheets or bulletin board for such security
as reported by Bloomberg, or if no sales price is so reported for such
security, the last bid price of such security as reported by Bloomberg or (iv) if
fair market value cannot be calculated as of such date on any of the foregoing
bases, the fair market value shall be as determined by the Board of Directors
of the Company in the exercise of its good faith judgment.
(e) Disputes. In the case of a dispute as to the
determination of the Exercise Price or the arithmetic calculation of the
Warrant Shares, the Company shall promptly issue to the Holder the number of Warrant
Shares that are not disputed.
(f) Beneficial Ownership. The Holder shall not have the right to
exercise this Warrant, to the extent that after giving effect to such exercise,
such Person (together with such Persons affiliates) would beneficially own in
excess of 4.99% (the Maximum Percentage)
of the shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to
such exercise. The Company shall be
entitled to rely on Holders exercise notice as an indication that Holder will
not, pursuant to such exercise, exceed the Maximum Percentage. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the
aggregate number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by such Person
and its affiliates shall include the number of shares of Common Stock issuable
upon exercise of this Warrant with respect to which the determination of such
sentence is being made, but shall exclude shares of Common Stock which would be
issuable upon (i) exercise of the remaining, unexercised portion of this
Warrant beneficially owned by such Person and its affiliates and (ii) exercise
or conversion of the unexercised or unconverted portion of any other securities
of the Company beneficially owned by such Person and its affiliates (including,
without limitation, any convertible notes or convertible preferred stock or
warrants) subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the
limitation contained herein.. Except as
set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this paragraph, beneficial
ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
For purposes of this Warrant, in determining the number of outstanding
shares of Common Stock, the Holder may rely on the number of outstanding shares
of Common Stock as reflected in (1) the Companys most recent Form 10-K,
Form 10-Q, Current Report on Form 8-K or other public filing with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, as the case may be, (2) a more recent
public announcement by the Company or (3) any other notice by the Company
or the Transfer Agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding. For any reason at any time,
upon the written or oral request of the Holder, the Company shall within two (2) Business
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 and its affiliates since the date as of which such
number of outstanding shares of Common Stock was reported. By written notice to the Company, the Holder
may from time to time increase or decrease the Maximum Percentage to any other
percentage not in excess of 4.99% specified in such notice; provided that (i) any
such increase will not be effective until the sixty-first (61st) day after such notice is delivered to the Company, and (ii) any
such increase or decrease will apply only to the Holder. The provisions of this paragraph shall be
construed and implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with
the terms of this Section 1(h) 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.
(g) Termination if California Proposition 10 is Approved. In the event that
California Proposition 10 is approved by the voters in the State of California
during the election to be held on November 4, 2008, then this Warrant
shall terminate in its entirety and be of no further force or effect.
2. ADJUSTMENT
OF EXERCISE PRICE AND NUMBER OF WARRANT SHARES. The Exercise Price and the number of Warrant
Shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant shall be adjusted from time to
time as follows:
(a) Adjustment upon Issuance of Shares of Common Stock. If and whenever on
or after the Subscription Date, the Company issues or sells, or in accordance
with this Section 2 is deemed to have issued or sold, any shares of
Common Stock other than Exempted Securities (including the issuance or sale of
shares of Common Stock owned or held by or for the account of the Company) for
a consideration per share (the New Issuance
Price) less than a price (the Applicable
Price) equal to the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to
such issue or sale or deemed issuance or sale (the foregoing a Dilutive Issuance), then immediately after
such Dilutive Issuance, the Exercise Price then in effect shall be reduced to
an amount equal to the product of (A) the Exercise Price in effect
immediately prior to such Dilutive Issuance and (B) the quotient
determined by dividing (1) the sum of (I) the product derived by
multiplying the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such Dilutive
Issuance and the number of shares of Common Stock Deemed Outstanding
immediately prior to such Dilutive Issuance plus (II) the consideration,
if any, received by the Company upon such Dilutive Issuance, by (2) the
product derived by multiplying (I) the Exercise Price in effect
immediately prior to such Dilutive Issuance by (II) the number of shares
of Common Stock Deemed Outstanding immediately after such Dilutive
Issuance. Upon each such adjustment of
the Exercise Price hereunder, the number of Warrant Shares shall be adjusted to
the number of shares of Common Stock determined by multiplying the Exercise
Price in effect immediately prior to such adjustment by the number of Warrant
Shares acquirable upon exercise of this Warrant immediately prior to such
adjustment and dividing the product thereof by the Exercise Price resulting
from such adjustment. For purposes of
determining the adjusted Exercise Price under this Section 2(a), the
following shall be applicable:
(i) Issuance of Options. If
the Company in any manner grants any Options and the lowest price per share for
which one share of Common Stock is issuable upon the exercise of any such
Option or upon conversion, exercise or exchange of any Convertible Securities
issuable upon exercise of any such Option is less than the Applicable Price,
then such share of Common Stock shall be deemed to be outstanding and to have
been issued and sold by the Company at the time of the granting or sale of such
Option for such price per share. For
purposes of this Section 2(a)(i), the lowest price per share for
which one share of Common Stock is issuable upon exercise of such Options or
upon conversion, exercise or exchange of such Convertible Securities issuable
upon exercise of any
such
Option shall be equal to the sum of the lowest amounts of consideration (if
any) received or receivable by the Company with respect to any one share of Common
Stock upon the granting or sale of the Option, upon exercise of the Option and
upon conversion, exercise or exchange of any Convertible Security issuable upon
exercise of such Option. No further
adjustment of the Exercise Price or number of Warrant Shares shall be made upon
the actual issuance of such shares of Common Stock or of such Convertible
Securities upon the exercise of such Options or upon the actual issuance of
such shares of Common Stock upon conversion, exercise or exchange of such Convertible
Securities.
(ii) Issuance of Convertible Securities. If the Company in any manner issues or sells
any Convertible Securities and the lowest price per share for which one share
of Common Stock is issuable upon the conversion, exercise or exchange thereof
is less than the Applicable Price, then such share of Common Stock shall be
deemed to be outstanding and to have been issued and sold by the Company at the
time of the issuance or sale of such Convertible Securities for such price per
share. For the purposes of this Section 2(a)(ii),
the lowest price per share for which one share of Common Stock is issuable
upon the conversion, exercise or exchange thereof 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
the Convertible Security and upon conversion, exercise or exchange of such
Convertible Security. No further
adjustment of the Exercise Price or number of Warrant Shares shall be made upon
the actual issuance of such shares of Common Stock upon conversion, exercise or
exchange of such Convertible Securities, and if any such issue or sale of such
Convertible Securities is made upon exercise of any Options for which adjustment
of this Warrant has been or is to be made pursuant to other provisions of this Section 2(a),
no further adjustment of the Exercise Price or number of Warrant Shares shall
be made by reason of such issue or sale.
(iii) Change in Option Price or Rate of Conversion. If the purchase price provided for in any
Options, the additional consideration, if any, payable upon the issue,
conversion, exercise or exchange of any Convertible Securities, or the rate at
which any Convertible Securities are convertible into or exercisable or
exchangeable for shares of Common Stock increases or decreases at any time,
then the Exercise Price and the number of Warrant Shares in effect at the time
of such increase or decrease shall be adjusted to the Exercise Price and the number
of Warrant Shares which would have been in effect at such time had such Options
or Convertible Securities provided for such increased or decreased purchase
price, additional consideration or increased or decreased conversion rate, as
the case may be, at the time initially granted, issued or sold. For purposes of this Section 2(a)(iii),
if the terms of any Option or Convertible Security that was outstanding as of
the date of issuance of this Warrant are
increased or decreased in
the manner described in the immediately preceding sentence, then such Option or
Convertible Security and the shares of Common Stock deemed issuable upon
exercise, conversion or exchange thereof shall be deemed to have been issued as
of the date of such increase or decrease.
No adjustment pursuant to this Section 2(a) shall be made if
such adjustment would result in an increase of the Exercise Price then in
effect or a decrease in the number of Warrant Shares.
(iv) Calculation of Consideration Received. In
case any Option is issued in connection with the issue or sale of other
securities of the Company, together comprising one integrated transaction, (x) the
Options will be deemed to have been issued for a value determined by use of the
Black Scholes Option Pricing Model (the Option Value) and (y) the other securities issued
or sold in such integrated transaction shall be deemed to have been issued for
the difference of (I) the aggregate consideration received by the Company,
less (II) the Option Value. If any
shares of Common Stock, Options or Convertible Securities are issued or sold or
deemed to have been issued or sold for cash, the consideration received
therefor will be deemed to be the net amount received by the Company
therefor. If any shares of Common Stock,
Options or Convertible Securities are issued or sold for a consideration other
than cash, the amount of such consideration received by the Company will be the
fair value of such consideration, except where such consideration consists of
securities, in which case the amount of consideration received by the Company
will be the Weighted Average Price of such security on the date of
receipt. If any shares of Common Stock,
Options or Convertible Securities are issued to the owners of the non-surviving
entity in connection with any merger in which the Company is the surviving
entity, the amount of consideration therefor will be deemed to be the fair
value of such portion of the net assets and business of the non-surviving
entity as is attributable to such shares of Common Stock, Options or
Convertible Securities, as the case may be.
The fair value of any consideration other than cash or securities will
be determined jointly by the Company and the Holder. If such parties are unable to reach agreement
within ten (10) days after the occurrence of an event requiring valuation
(the Valuation Event), the
fair value of such consideration will be determined within five (5) Business
Days after the tenth (10th) day following the Valuation Event by an
independent, reputable appraiser jointly selected by the Company and the
Holder. The determination of such
appraiser shall be final and binding upon all parties absent manifest error and
the fees and expenses of such appraiser shall be borne by the Company.
(v) Record Date. If the
Company takes a record of the holders of shares of Common Stock for the purpose
of entitling them (A) to receive a dividend or other distribution payable
in shares of Common Stock,
Options or
in Convertible Securities or (B) to subscribe for or purchase shares of
Common Stock, Options or Convertible Securities, then such record date will be
deemed to be the date of the issue or sale of the shares of Common Stock deemed
to have been issued or sold upon the declaration of such dividend or the making
of such other distribution or the date of the granting of such right of
subscription or purchase, as the case may be.
(b) Adjustment upon Subdivision or Combination of Common
Stock. If the Company at
any time on or after the Subscription Date subdivides (by any stock split,
stock dividend, recapitalization, reorganization, scheme, arrangement or
otherwise) one or more classes of its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a
greater number of shares, the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to
such subdivision will be proportionately reduced and the number of Warrant
Shares will be proportionately increased.
If the Company at any time on or after the Subscription Date combines
(by any stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization, reorganization, scheme,
arrangement or otherwise) one or more classes of its outstanding shares of
Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, the Exercise Price in effect
immediately prior to such combination will be proportionately increased and the
number of Warrant Shares will be proportionately decreased. Any adjustment under this Section 2(b) shall
become effective at the close of business on the date the subdivision or
combination becomes effective.
(c) Other
Events. If any event occurs of the
type contemplated by the provisions of this Section 2 but not
expressly provided for by such provisions, then the Companys Board of
Directors will make an appropriate adjustment in the Exercise Price and the number
of Warrant Shares so as to protect the rights of the Holder; provided that no
such adjustment pursuant to this Section 2(a) will increase
the Exercise Price or decrease the number of Warrant Shares as otherwise
determined pursuant to this Section 2.
3. RIGHTS
UPON DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS. 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, stock split, spin off, subdivision, 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:
(a) any
Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the
record date fixed for the determination of holders of shares of Common Stock
entitled to receive the Distribution shall be reduced, effective as of the
close of business on such record date, to a price determined by multiplying
such Exercise Price by a fraction of which (i) the numerator shall be the
Closing Bid Price of the shares of Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately
preceding such record date minus the value of the Distribution (as determined
in good faith by the Companys Board of Directors) applicable to one share of
Common Stock, and (ii) the denominator shall be the Closing Bid Price of
the shares of Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding such record
date; and
(b) the
number of Warrant Shares shall be increased or decreased to a number of shares
equal to the number of shares of Common Stock obtainable immediately prior to
the close of business on the record date fixed for the determination of holders
of shares of Common Stock entitled to receive the Distribution multiplied by
the reciprocal of the fraction set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph
(a); provided that in the event that the
Distribution is of shares of Common Stock (or common stock) (Other Shares of Common Stock) of a company whose common
shares are traded on a national securities exchange or a national automated
quotation system, then the Holder may elect to receive a warrant to purchase
Other Shares of Common Stock in lieu of an adjustment in the number of Warrant
Shares, the terms of which shall be identical to those of this Warrant, except
that such warrant shall be exercisable into the number of shares of Other
Shares of Common Stock that would have been payable to the Holder pursuant to
the Distribution had the Holder exercised this Warrant immediately prior to
such record date and with an aggregate exercise price equal to the product of the
amount by which the exercise price of this Warrant was decreased with respect
to the Distribution pursuant to the terms of the immediately preceding
paragraph (a) and the number of Warrant Shares calculated in accordance
with the first part of this paragraph (b).
4. PURCHASE
RIGHTS; FUNDAMENTAL TRANSACTIONS.
(a) Purchase
Rights. In addition to any
adjustments pursuant to Section 2 above, if at any time the Company
grants, issues or sells any 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 the
exercise of this Warrant) 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.
(b) In connection with any Fundamental Transaction, the
Company shall make appropriate provision so that this Warrant shall thereafter
be exercisable for shares of the Successor Entity based upon the conversion
ratio or other consideration payable in the Fundamental Transaction. The
provisions of this Section shall apply similarly and equally to successive
Fundamental Transactions and shall be applied without regard to any limitations
on the exercise of this Warrant. Without
limiting the foregoing, in connection with a Fundamental Transaction that
constitutes a Change of Control, at the request of the Holder delivered before
the 90th day after such Fundamental Transaction, the Company (or the Successor
Entity) shall purchase this Warrant from the Holder by paying to the Holder,
within five Business Days after such request (or, if later, on the effective
date of the Fundamental Transaction), cash in an amount equal to the Black
Scholes Value of the remaining unexercised portion of this Warrant on the date
of such Fundamental Transaction.
In the event that any
person becomes a Parent Entity of the Company, such person shall assume all of
the obligations of the Company under this Warrant with the same effect as if
such person had been named as the Company herein.
5. NON-CIRCUMVENTION. The Company hereby covenants and agrees that
the Company will not, by amendment of its Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws
or through any reorganization, transfer of assets, consolidation, merger,
scheme of arrangement, 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, and will at all times in good faith carry out all
the provisions of this Warrant and take all action as may be required to
protect the rights of the Holder.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company (i) shall
not increase the par value of any shares of Common Stock receivable upon the
exercise of this Warrant above the Exercise Price then in effect, (ii) shall
take all such actions as may be necessary or appropriate in order that the
Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and nonassessable shares of
Common Stock upon the exercise of this Warrant, and (iii) shall, so long
as this Warrant is outstanding, take all action necessary to reserve and keep
available out of its authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock, solely for
the purpose of effecting the exercise of this Warrant, 100% of the number of
shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant then outstanding
(without regard to any limitations on exercise).
6. WARRANT
HOLDER NOT DEEMED A STOCKHOLDER.
Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, the Holder, solely in
such Persons capacity as a holder of this Warrant, shall not be entitled to
vote or receive dividends or be deemed the holder of share capital of the
Company for any purpose, nor shall anything contained in this Warrant be
construed to confer upon the Holder, solely in such Persons capacity as the
Holder of this Warrant, any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company or
any right to vote, give or withhold consent to any corporate action (whether
any reorganization, issue of stock, reclassification of stock, consolidation,
merger, conveyance or otherwise), receive notice of meetings, receive dividends
or subscription rights, or otherwise, prior to the issuance to the Holder of
the Warrant Shares which such Person is then entitled to receive upon the due
exercise of this Warrant. In addition,
nothing contained in this Warrant shall be construed as imposing any
liabilities on the Holder to purchase any securities (upon exercise of this
Warrant or otherwise) or as a stockholder of the Company, whether such
liabilities are asserted by the Company or by creditors of the Company.
7. REISSUANCE
OF WARRANTS.
(a) Transfer
of Warrant. If this Warrant is to be
transferred, the Holder shall surrender this Warrant to the Company, whereupon
the Company will forthwith issue and deliver upon the order of the Holder a new
Warrant (in accordance with Section 7(d)), registered as the Holder
may request, representing the right to purchase the number of Warrant Shares
being transferred by the Holder and, if less then the total number of Warrant
Shares then underlying this Warrant is being transferred, a new Warrant (in
accordance with Section 7(d)) to the Holder representing the right
to purchase the number of Warrant Shares not being transferred.
(b) Lost,
Stolen or Mutilated Warrant. Upon
receipt by the Company of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of
the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Warrant, and, in the case of
loss, theft or destruction, of any indemnification undertaking by the Holder to
the Company in customary form and, in the case of mutilation, upon surrender
and cancellation of this Warrant, the Company shall execute and deliver to the
Holder a new Warrant
(in accordance with Section 7(d))
representing the right to purchase the Warrant Shares then underlying this
Warrant.
(c) Exchangeable
for Multiple Warrants. This Warrant
is exchangeable, upon the surrender hereof by the Holder at the principal
office of the Company, for a new Warrant or Warrants (in accordance with Section 7(d))
representing in the aggregate the right to purchase the number of Warrant
Shares then underlying this Warrant, and each such new Warrant will represent
the right to purchase such portion of such Warrant Shares as is designated by
the Holder at the time of such surrender; provided, however, that no Warrants
for fractional shares of Common Stock shall be given.
(d) Issuance
of New Warrants. Whenever the
Company is required to issue a new Warrant pursuant to the terms of this
Warrant, such new Warrant (i) shall be of like tenor with this Warrant, (ii) shall
represent, as indicated on the face of such new Warrant, the right to purchase
the Warrant Shares then underlying this Warrant (or in the case of a new
Warrant being issued pursuant to Section 7(a) or Section 7(c),
the Warrant Shares designated by the Holder which, when added to the number of
shares of Common Stock underlying the other new Warrants issued in connection
with such issuance, does not exceed the number of Warrant Shares then
underlying this Warrant), (iii) shall have an issuance date, as indicated
on the face of such new Warrant which is the same as the Issuance Date, and (iv) shall
have the same rights and conditions as this Warrant.
8. NOTICES. Whenever notice is required to be given under
this Warrant, unless otherwise provided herein, such notice shall be given in
accordance with Section 7 of Annex I to the Subscription Agreement. The Company shall provide the Holder with
prompt written notice of all actions taken pursuant to this Warrant, including
in reasonable detail a description of such action and the reason therefore.
9. AMENDMENT
AND WAIVER. Except as otherwise
provided herein, the provisions of this Warrant may be amended and the Company
may take any action herein prohibited, or omit to perform any act herein
required to be performed by it, only if the Company has obtained the written
consent of the Holder.
10. GOVERNING
LAW. This Warrant shall be governed
by and construed and enforced in accordance with, and all questions concerning
the construction, validity, interpretation and performance of this Warrant
shall be governed by, the internal laws of the State of New York, without
giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether
of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the
application of the laws of any jurisdictions other than the State of New York.
11. CONSTRUCTION;
HEADINGS. This Warrant shall be
deemed to be jointly drafted by the Company and the Holder and shall not be
construed against any person as the drafter hereof. The headings of this Warrant are for
convenience of reference and shall not form part of, or affect the
interpretation of, this Warrant.
12. DISPUTE
RESOLUTION. In the case of a dispute
as to the determination of the Exercise Price or the arithmetic calculation of
the Warrant Shares, the Company shall submit the disputed determinations or
arithmetic calculations via facsimile within two (2) Business Days of
receipt of the Exercise Notice giving rise to such dispute, as the case may be,
to the Holder. If the Holder and the
Company are unable to agree upon such determination or calculation of the
Exercise Price or the Warrant Shares within three Business Days of such
disputed determination or arithmetic calculation being submitted to the Holder,
then the Company shall, within two (2) Business Days submit via facsimile (a) the
disputed determination of the Exercise Price to an independent, reputable
investment bank selected by the Company and approved by the Holder or (b) the
disputed arithmetic calculation of the Warrant Shares to the Companys
independent, outside accountant. The
Company shall cause at its expense the investment bank or the accountant, as
the case may be, to perform the determinations or calculations and notify the
Company and the Holder of the results no later than ten Business Days from the
time it receives the disputed determinations or calculations. Such investment banks or accountants
determination or calculation, as the case may be, shall be binding upon all
parties absent demonstrable error.
13. REMEDIES,
OTHER OBLIGATIONS, BREACHES AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF. The remedies provided in this Warrant shall
be cumulative and in addition to all other remedies available under this
Warrant, at law or in equity (including a decree of specific performance and/or
other injunctive relief), and nothing herein shall limit the right of the
Holder to pursue actual damages for any failure by the Company to comply with
the terms of this Warrant.
14. TRANSFER. Subject to applicable laws, this Warrant may
be offered for sale, sold, transferred or assigned without the consent of the
Company. This Warrant and all rights
hereunder are transferable, by the Holder in person or by duly authorized
attorney, upon delivery of this Warrant and the form of assignment attached
hereto as Exhibit B to any transferee designated by Holder. Any purported transfer of all or any portion
of this Warrant in violation of the provisions of this Warrant shall be null
and void.
15. CERTAIN
DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this
Warrant, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(a) Black Scholes Value means the value of
this Warrant based on the Black and Scholes Option Pricing Model obtained from
the OV function on Bloomberg (i) a price per share of Common Stock equal
to the Weighted Average Price of the Common Stock for the Trading Day
immediately preceding the date of consummation of the applicable Fundamental
Transaction, (ii) a risk-free interest rate corresponding to the U.S.
Treasury rate for a period equal to the remaining term of this Warrant as of
the date of consummation of the applicable Fundemental Transaction and (iii) an
expected volatility equal to the 30 day volatility obtained from the HVT
function on Bloomberg determined as of the Trading Day immediately following
the public announcement of the applicable Fundamental Transaction.
(b) Bloomberg means Bloomberg Financial
Markets.
(c) Business Day means any day other than
Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in The City of New York
are authorized or required by law to remain closed.
(d) California Proposition 10 means the
California Alternative Fuels and Renewable Energy Initiative.
(e) Change of Control means any Fundamental
Transaction other than (A) any reorganization, recapitalization or
reclassification of the Common Stock, in which holders of the Companys voting
power immediately prior to such reorganization, recapitalization or
reclassification continue after such reorganization, recapitalization or
reclassification to hold publicly traded securities and, directly or
indirectly, the voting power of the surviving entity or entities necessary to
elect a majority of the members of the board of directors (or their equivalent
if other than a corporation) of such entity or entities, or (B) pursuant
to a migratory merger effected solely for the purpose of changing the
jurisdiction of incorporation of the Company.
(f) Closing Bid Price and Closing Sale Price means, for any security as of
any date, the last closing bid price and last closing trade price,
respectively, for such security on the Principal Market, as reported by
Bloomberg, or, if the Principal Market begins to operate on an extended hours
basis and does not designate the closing bid price or the closing trade price,
as the case may be, then the last bid price or the last trade price,
respectively, of such security prior to 4:00:00 p.m., New York time, as
reported by Bloomberg, or, if the Principal Market is not the principal
securities exchange or trading market for such security, the last closing bid
price or last trade price, respectively, of such security on the principal
securities exchange or trading market where such security is listed or traded
as reported by Bloomberg, or if the foregoing do not apply, the last closing
bid price or last trade price, respectively, of such security in the
over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin board for such security as
reported by Bloomberg, or, if no closing bid price or last trade price,
respectively, is reported for such security by Bloomberg, the average of the
bid prices, or the ask prices, respectively, of any market makers for such
security as reported in the pink sheets by Pink Sheets LLC (formerly the
National Quotation Bureau, Inc.).
If the Closing Bid Price or the Closing Sale Price cannot be calculated
for a security on a particular date on any of the foregoing bases, the Closing
Bid Price or the Closing Sale Price, as the case may be, of such security on
such date shall be the fair market value as mutually determined by the Company
and the Holder. All such determinations
to be appropriately adjusted for any stock dividend, stock split, stock
combination or other similar transaction during the applicable calculation
period.
(g) Common Stock means (i) the Companys
shares of Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, and (ii) any share
capital into which such Common Stock shall have been changed or any share
capital resulting from a reclassification of such Common Stock.
(h) Eligible Market means the Principal Market,
The New York Stock Exchange, Inc., The American Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ
Global Select Market or The NASDAQ Capital Market.
(i) Exempted Securities means (i) shares of Common Stock or options to
employees, officers or directors of the Company pursuant to any existing stock
or option plan, or any stock or option plan duly adopted by a majority of the
non-employee members of the Board of Directors of the Company or a majority of
the members of a committee of non-employee directors established for such
purpose, (b) securities issued upon the exercise or exchange of or
conversion of any Securities issued hereunder and/or securities exercisable or
exchangeable for or
convertible into shares of Common Stock
issued and outstanding on the date of this Agreement, provided that such
securities have not been amended since the date of this Agreement to increase
the number of such securities or to decrease the exercise, exchange or
conversion price of any such securities, and (c) securities issued
pursuant to acquisitions or strategic transactions, provided any such issuance
shall only be to a Person which is, itself or through its subsidiaries, an
operating company in a business synergistic with the business of the Company
and in which the Company receives benefits in addition to the investment of
funds, but shall not include a transaction in which the Company is issuing
securities primarily for the purpose of raising capital or to an entity whose
primary business is investing in securities.
(j) Expiration Date means November 14, 2008. In the event that the result of the vote with
respect to California Proposition 10 is not declared by 9:00 a.m., New
York time, on November 5, 2008, then the Expiration Date shall be extended
one Trading Day for each Trading Day that such result is not declared.
(k) Fundamental Transaction means that the Company shall, directly or indirectly,
in one or more related transactions, (i) consolidate or merge with or into
(whether or not the Company is the surviving corporation) another Person, or (ii) sell,
assign, transfer, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of
the properties or assets of the Company to another Person, or (iii) allow another Person to make a
purchase, tender or exchange offer that is accepted by the holders of more than
the 50% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (not
including any shares of Common Stock held by the Person or Persons making or
party to, or associated or affiliated with the Persons making or party to, such
purchase, tender or exchange offer), or (iv) consummate a stock purchase
agreement or other
business combination (including, without limitation, a reorganization,
recapitalization, spin-off or scheme of arrangement) with another
Person whereby such other Person acquires more than the 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 purchase agreement or other business combination),
(v) reorganize,
recapitalize or reclassify its Common Stock, or (vi) any person or group
(as these terms are used for purposes of Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of
the Exchange Act) is or shall become the beneficial owner (as defined in Rule 13d-3
under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of 50% of the aggregate
ordinary voting power represented by issued and outstanding Common Stock; provided, however, that with respect to T. Boone Pickens or
any Affiliate of T. Boone Pickens, such percentage shall not apply until the
Common Stock of the Company is no longer publicly traded, upon which date a
Fundamental Transaction shall be deemed to have occurred.
(l) Parent Entity of a Person means an entity that, directly or
indirectly, controls the applicable Person and whose common stock or equivalent
equity security is quoted or listed on an Eligible Market,
or, if there is more than one such Person or Parent Entity, the Person or
Parent Entity with the largest public market capitalization as of the date of
consummation of the Fundamental Transaction.
(m) Person
means an individual, a limited liability company, a partnership, a joint
venture, a corporation, a trust, an unincorporated organization, any other
entity and a government or any department or agency thereof.
(n) Principal Market
means The NASDAQ Global Market.
(o) Successor Entity
means the Person (or, if so elected by the Holder, the Parent
Entity) formed by, resulting from or surviving any Fundamental Transaction or
the Person (or, if so elected by the Holder, the Parent Entity) with which such
Fundamental Transaction shall have been entered into.
(p) Trading Day
means any day on which the Common Stock are traded on the Principal Market, or,
if the Principal Market is not the principal trading market for the Common
Stock, then on the principal securities exchange or securities market on which
the Common Stock are then traded; provided that Trading Day shall not include
any day on which the Common Stock are scheduled to trade on such exchange or
market for less than 4.5 hours or any day that the Common Stock are suspended
from trading during the final hour of trading on such exchange or market (or if
such exchange or market does not designate in advance the closing time of
trading on such exchange or market, then during the hour ending at 4:00:00 p.m.,
New York time).
(q) Weighted Average Price
means, for any security as of any date, the dollar volume-weighted average
price for such security on the Principal Market during the period beginning at
9:30:01 a.m., New York City time, and ending at 4:00:00 p.m., New
York City time, as reported by Bloomberg through its Volume at Price function
or, if the foregoing does not apply, the dollar volume-weighted average price
of such security in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin
board for such security during the period beginning at 9:30:01 a.m., New York
City time, and ending at 4:00:00 p.m., New York City time, as reported by
Bloomberg, or, if no dollar volume-weighted average price is reported for such
security by Bloomberg for such hours, the average of the highest closing bid
price and the lowest closing ask price of any of the market makers for such
security as reported in the pink sheets by Pink Sheets LLC (formerly the
National Quotation Bureau, Inc.).
If the Weighted Average Price cannot be calculated for such security on
such date on any of the foregoing bases, the Weighted Average Price of such
security on such date shall be the fair market value as mutually determined by
the Company and the Required Holders. If
the Company and the Required Holders are unable to agree upon the fair market value
of such security, then such dispute shall be resolved pursuant to Section 12
with the term Weighted Average Price being substituted for the term Exercise
Price. All such determinations shall be appropriately adjusted for any share
dividend, share split or other similar transaction during such period.
[Signature Page Follows]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF,
the Company has caused this Warrant to Purchase Common Stock to be duly
executed as of the Issuance Date set out above.
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EXHIBIT A
EXERCISE NOTICE
TO BE EXECUTED BY THE REGISTERED HOLDER TO EXERCISE
THIS
WARRANT TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK
CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP.
The undersigned holder
hereby exercises the right to purchase
of the shares of Common Stock (Warrant
Shares) of Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company), evidenced by the attached
Warrant to Purchase Common Stock (the Warrant). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise
defined shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Warrant.
1. Form of Exercise Price. The Holder intends that payment of the
Exercise Price shall be made as a Cashless Exercise with respect to
Warrant Shares.
2. Delivery of Warrant Shares. The
Company shall deliver to the holder
Warrant Shares in accordance with the terms of the Warrant.
Date:
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The Company
hereby acknowledges this Exercise Notice and hereby directs Computershare Trust
Company, N.A. to issue the above indicated number of shares of Common Stock in
accordance with the Transfer Agent Instructions dated
, 2008
from the Company and acknowledged and agreed to by Computershare Trust Company,
N.A.
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EXHIBIT B
ASSIGNMENT FORM
(To assign the foregoing Warrant, execute this form and supply the
required information. Do not use this
form to purchase shares.)
FOR GOOD AND VALUABLE CONSIDERATION, the
receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the foregoing Warrant
and all rights evidenced thereby are hereby assigned to:
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Dated:
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Holders Address:
[NOTE: The signature to this
Assignment Form must correspond with the name as it appears on the face of
the foregoing Warrant, without alteration or enlargement or any change
whatsoever. Officers of corporations and
those acting in a fiduciary or other representative capacity should file proper
evidence of authority to assign the foregoing Warrant.]
Exhibit 5.1
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MARKET STREET
SAN FRANCISCO
CALIFORNIA 94105-2482
TELEPHONE: 415.268.7000
FACSIMILE: 415.268.7522
WWW.MOFO.COM
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MORRISON &
FOERSTER LLP
NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO,
LOS ANGELES, PALO ALTO,
SAN DIEGO, WASHINGTON, D.C.
DENVER, NORTHERN VIRGINIA,
ORANGE COUNTY, SACRAMENTO,
WALNUT CREEK, CENTURY CITY
TOKYO, LONDON, BEIJING,
SHANGHAI, HONG KONG,
SINGAPORE, BRUSSELS
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October
28, 2008
Clean
Energy Fuels Corp.
3020
Old Ranch Parkway, Suite 200
Seal
Beach, CA 90740
Re:
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Shares of Common Stock and Warrants to Purchase up to 4,450,757 Shares of
Common Stock of Clean Energy Fuels Corp.
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Ladies
and Gentlemen:
We are
acting as counsel to Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company)
in connection with the issuance and sale of 4,419,192 shares (the Shares)
of the Companys Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the Common
Stock), together with warrants (the Warrants) to purchase up to 4,450,757
shares of Common Stock (the Warrant Shares), pursuant to a
Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-152306) (the Registration
Statement) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission)
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Act), the related
prospectus included therein (the Prospectus) and the prospectus
supplement to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) promulgated
under the Act (the Prospectus Supplement).
As counsel to the Company, we have examined
originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of
such documents, corporate records, certificates of public officials and other
instruments as we have deemed necessary for the purposes of rendering this
opinion and we are familiar with the proceedings taken and proposed to be taken
by the Company in connection with the authorization, issuance and sale of the
Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares.
In our examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures,
the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the
conformity with the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies.
Our
opinions are subject to the following qualifications and exceptions:
(i) The effect of bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
arrangement, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the
rights of creditors generally, including, without limitation, laws relating to
fraudulent transfers or conveyances, preferences and equitable subordination.
(ii) Limitations
imposed by general principles of equity upon the availability of equitable
remedies or the enforcement of provisions of the Warrants and the effect of
judicial decisions which have held that certain provisions are unenforceable
where their enforcement
would
violate the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, or would be
commercially unreasonable, or where a default under the Warrants is not
material.
(iii) The
enforceability of any provision of the Warrants which purports to transfer
rights under a contract the transfer of which is prohibited or restricted (by a
requirement of consent or otherwise) by the contract or by law.
(iv) The
enforceability of any provision of the Warrants which purports to prohibit or
restrict a transfer of rights under the Warrants.
(v) The
enforceability of any provision of the Warrants imposing or which are construed
as effectively imposing a penalty.
(vi) The
enforceability of any provision of the Warrants to the extent it permits any
purchaser of a participation interest to set off or apply any deposit, property
or indebtedness with respect to any participation interest.
(vii) The
enforceability of any provision of the Warrants which purports to establish
evidentiary standards or to make determinations conclusive or powers absolute.
(viii) The
effect of judicial decisions which may permit the introduction of extrinsic
evidence to supplement the terms of the Warrants or to aid in the
interpretation of the Warrants.
(ix) The
enforceability of any provision of the Warrants providing for arbitration of
disputes to the extent that arbitration of a particular dispute would be
against public policy.
Based upon, subject to and limited by the foregoing,
we are of the opinion that:
1. The Shares have been duly and validly authorized and upon
issuance, delivery and payment therefor in the manner contemplated by the
Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement, will be
validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
2. When duly executed and delivered by the Company in
the manner contemplated by the Prospectus, the Warrants will be valid, binding
and enforceable obligations of the Company.
3. The Warrant Shares have been duly authorized and, upon issuance,
payment therefor and delivery in accordance with the terms of the Warrants, will
be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.
We express no opinion as
to matters governed by any laws other than the General Corporation law of the
State of Delaware, and, with respect to the Warrants, the substantive laws of
the State of New York and the State of Delaware (without reference to
choice-of-law rules), as in effect on the date hereof. We express no opinion as to enforceability of
the New York choice-of-law provision contained in the Warrants.
We hereby consent to the filing
of this opinion letter as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement and to
reference to us under the caption Legal Matters in the Prospectus Supplement. In giving such consent, we do not hereby
admit that we are acting within the category of persons whose consent is
required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules or regulations of
the Commission thereunder.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Morrison & Foerster LLP
Exhibit 10.1
SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT
Clean Energy Fuels Corp.
3020 Old Ranch Parkway, Suite 200
Seal Beach, California 90740
Gentlemen:
The undersigned (the Investor) hereby confirms its agreement
with you as follows:
1. This Subscription Agreement, including the
Terms and Conditions For Purchase of the Shares and the Warrants attached
hereto as Annex I (collectively, this Agreement)
is made as of the date set forth below between Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company), and the Investor.
2. The
Company has authorized the sale and issuance to certain investors of (i) up
to an aggregate of 4,419,192 shares (each a Share,
and collectively, the Shares) of its
common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the Common Stock),
(ii) warrants (the Series I Warrants)
to purchase up to an aggregate of 3,314,394 shares of Common Stock in the ratio
of 0.75 shares per share of Common Stock, in substantially the form attached
hereto as Exhibit B, and (iii) warrants (the Series II Warrants) to purchase up to an aggregate of
1,136,364 shares of Common Stock, in the ratio of up to 0.257143 shares per
share of Common Stock, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit C,
subject to adjustment by the Companys Board of Directors, or a committee
thereof, for a purchase price of $7.92 per unit (the Purchase
Price). The Series I
Warrants, together with the Series II Warrants, are collectively referred
to herein as the Warrants. The Shares issuable upon exercise of the
Warrants are referred to herein as the Warrant Shares
and, together with the Shares and the Warrants, are referred to herein as the Securities. The
fractional amount of each of the Series I Warrants and the Series II
Warrants are referred to herein as the Applicable Warrant Ratio
3. The offering and sale of the Shares and the
Warrants (the Offering) are
being made pursuant to (1) an effective Registration Statement on Form S-3
(including the Prospectus contained therein (the Base
Prospectus), File No. 333-152306, the Registration Statement) filed by the
Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission), (2) if applicable,
certain free writing prospectuses (as that term is defined in Rule 405
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Act)),
that have been or will be filed, if required, with the Commission and delivered
to the Investor on or prior to the date hereof, (3) a Prospectus
Supplement (the Prospectus Supplement
and together with the Base Prospectus, the Prospectus)
containing certain supplemental information regarding the Shares and terms of
the Offering that will be filed with the Commission and delivered to the
Investor (or made available to the Investor by the filing by the Company of an
electronic version thereof with the Commission), along with the Companys
counterpart to this Agreement, and (4) if the Company has filed an
abbreviated registration statement to register additional securities pursuant
to Rule 462(b) (the 462(b) Registration
Statement), then any reference herein to the Registration Statement
shall also be deemed to include such 462(b) Registration Statement.
4. The Company and the Investor agree that the
Investor will purchase from the Company and the Company will issue and sell to
the Investor the Shares and the Warrants set forth below for the
aggregate purchase price set
forth below. The Shares and the Warrants
shall be purchased pursuant to the Terms and Conditions for Purchase of Shares
and Warrants attached hereto as Annex I and incorporated herein by this
reference as if fully set forth herein.
The Investor acknowledges that the Offering is not being underwritten by
the placement agents (the Placement Agents)
named in the Prospectus Supplement and that there is no minimum offering amount.
5. The manner of settlement of the Shares
included in the Shares and the Warrants purchased by the Investor shall be as
follows:
Delivery versus payment (DVP) through the Depository Trust Company (DTC) (i.e., at
closing, the Company shall issue Shares registered in the Investors name and
address as set forth below and released by Computershare Trust Company, N.A.
(the Transfer Agent) directly to the account(s) at
Lazard Capital Markets LLC (LCM)
identified by the Investor; upon receipt of such Shares, LCM shall promptly
electronically deliver such shares to the Investor, and simultaneously
therewith payment shall be made by LCM
by wire transfer to the Company) NO LATER THAN ONE (1) BUSINESS DAY AFTER THE
EXECUTION OF THIS AGREEMENT BY THE INVESTOR AND THE COMPANY, THE INVESTOR
SHALL:
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LCM OF THE ACCOUNT OR ACCOUNTS AT LCM TO BE CREDITED WITH THE SHARES BEING
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THAT THE ACCOUNT OR ACCOUNTS AT LCM TO BE CREDITED WITH THE SHARES BEING
PURCHASED BY THE INVESTOR HAVE A MINIMUM BALANCE EQUAL TO THE AGGREGATE
PURCHASE PRICE FOR THE SHARES BEING PURCHASED BY THE INVESTOR.
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INVESTORS RESPONSIBILITY TO (A) MAKE THE NECESSARY WIRE TRANSFER OR
CONFIRM THE PROPER ACCOUNT BALANCE IN A TIMELY MANNER AND (B) ARRANGE FOR
SETTLEMENT BY WAY OF DVP IN A TIMELY MANNER.
IF THE INVESTOR DOES NOT DELIVER THE AGGREGATE PURCHASE PRICE FOR THE
SHARES AND THE WARRANTS OR DOES NOT MAKE PROPER ARRANGEMENTS FOR SETTLEMENT IN
A TIMELY MANNER, THE SHARES AND THE WARRANTS MAY NOT BE DELIVERED AT
CLOSING TO THE INVESTOR OR THE INVESTOR MAY BE EXCLUDED FROM THE OFFERING
ALTOGETHER.
6. The
executed Warrants shall be delivered in accordance with the respective terms
thereof.
7. The
Investor represents that, except as set forth below, (a) it has had no
position, office or other material relationship within the past three years
with the Company or persons known to it to be affiliates of the Company, (b) it
is not a FINRA member or an Associated Person (as such term is defined under
the FINRA Membership and Registration Rules Section 1011) as of the
Closing, and (c) neither the Investor nor any group of Investors, if any
(as identified in a public filing made with the Commission) of which the
Investor is a part in connection with the Offering, acquired, or obtained the
right to acquire, 20% or more of the Common Stock (or securities convertible
into or exercisable for Common Stock) or the voting power of the Company on a
post-transaction basis. Exceptions:
(If no exceptions, write none.
If left blank, response will be deemed to be none.)
8. The Investor represents that it has
received (or otherwise had made available to it by the filing by the Company of
an electronic version thereof with the Commission) the Base Prospectus, dated July 29,
2008, which is a part of the Companys Registration Statement, the documents
incorporated by reference therein, the Prospectus Supplement, dated October 28,
2008 and any free writing prospectus (collectively, the Disclosure Package), prior to or in
connection with the receipt of this Agreement.
The Investor acknowledges that, prior to the delivery of this Agreement
to the Company, the Investor will receive certain additional information regarding
the Offering, including pricing information (the Offering Information). Such information may be provided to
the Investor by any means permitted under the Act, including the Prospectus
Supplement, a free writing prospectus and oral communications.
9. No offer by the Investor to buy the
Shares and the Warrants will be accepted and no part of the Purchase Price will
be delivered to the Company until the Investor has received the Offering
Information and the Company has accepted such offer by countersigning a copy of
this Agreement, and any such offer may be withdrawn or revoked, without
obligation or commitment of any kind, at any time prior to the Company (or LCM
on behalf of the Company) sending (orally, in writing or by electronic mail)
notice of its acceptance of such offer.
An indication of interest will involve no obligation or commitment of
any kind until the Investor has been delivered the Offering Information and
this Agreement is accepted and countersigned by or on behalf of the Company.
10. For so long
as any Warrants remain outstanding, the Company shall not, in any manner, issue
or sell any rights, warrants or options to subscribe for or purchase Common
Stock, or directly or indirectly convertible into or exchangeable for Common
Stock at a price which resets as a function of market price of the Common
Stock, unless the conversion, exchange or exercise price of any such security
cannot be less than the then applicable Exercise Price (as defined in the
Warrants) with respect to the Common Stock into which any Warrant is
exercisable.
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foregoing correctly sets forth the agreement between us by signing in the space
provided below for that purpose.
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October 28, 2008
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Agreed and Accepted
this day of October,
2008:
CLEAN
ENERGY FUELS CORP.
ANNEX I
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR PURCHASE OF THE SHARES AND THE
WARRANTS
1. Authorization
and Sale of the Shares and the Warrants.
Subject to the
terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Company has authorized the sale of
the Shares and the Warrants.
2. Agreement
to Sell and Purchase the Shares and the Warrants; Placement Agents.
2.1 At the Closing (as defined in Section 3.1),
the Company will sell to the Investor, and the Investor will purchase from the
Company, upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, the respective number
of Shares and Warrants set forth on the last page of the Agreement to
which these Terms and Conditions for Purchase of Shares and Warrants are
attached as Annex I (the Signature
Page) for the aggregate purchase price therefor set forth on the
Signature Page.
2.2 The Company proposes to enter into
substantially this same form of Subscription Agreement with certain other
investors (the Other Investors)
and expects to complete sales of Securities to them. The Investor and the Other Investors are
hereinafter sometimes collectively referred to as the Investors, and this Agreement and the
Subscription Agreements executed by the Other Investors are hereinafter
sometimes collectively referred to as the Agreements.
2.3 Investor
acknowledges that the Company has agreed to pay Lazard Capital Markets
LLC (LCM)
and W.R. Hambrecht + Co., LLC (WRHCo together
with LCM, the Placement Agents) a fee (the Placement Fee) in respect of the sale of
the Shares and the Warrants to the Investor.
2.4 The Company has entered into a
Placement Agent Agreement, dated the date hereof (the Placement Agreement), with the Placement
Agents that contains certain representations, warranties, covenants and
agreements of the Company that, subject to Section 5 hereof, may be relied
upon by the Investor, which shall be a third party beneficiary thereof. The Company confirms that neither it nor any
other Person acting on its behalf has provided the Investor with any information
that constitutes or could reasonably be expected to constitute material,
nonpublic information, except as will be disclosed in the Prospectus and the
Companys Form 8-K filed with the Commission in connection with the
Offering. The Company understands and
confirms that the Investor will rely on the foregoing representations in
effecting transactions in securities of the Company.
3. Closings
and Delivery of the Shares, Warrants and Funds.
3.1 Closing. The completion of the purchase and sale of the Shares and the Warrants
(the Closing) shall occur at a
place and time (the Closing Date)
to be specified by the Company and the Placement Agents, and of which the
Investor will be notified in advance by the Placement Agents, in accordance
with Rule 15c6-1 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the Exchange Act). At the Closing, (a) the Company shall
cause the Transfer Agent to deliver to the Investor the number of Shares set
forth on the Signature Page registered in the name of the Investor or, if
so indicated on the Investor Questionnaire attached hereto as Exhibit A,
in the name of a nominee designated by the Investor, (b) the Company shall
cause to be delivered to the Investor each of the Series I Warrant and the
Series II Warrant to purchase a number of whole Warrant Shares determined
by multiplying the number of Shares set forth on the signature page by the
Applicable Warrant Ratio and rounding down to
the nearest whole number and (c) the aggregate purchase price for the
Shares and the Warrants being purchased by the Investor will be delivered by or
on behalf of the Investor to the Company.
3.2 Conditions
to the Companys Obligations.
(a) The Companys obligation to issue and sell the Shares and
the Warrants to the Investor shall be subject to: (i) the receipt by the
Company of the purchase price for the Shares and the Warrants being purchased
hereunder as set forth on the Signature Page and (ii) the accuracy of
the representations and warranties made by the Investor and the fulfillment of
those undertakings of the Investor to be fulfilled prior to the Closing Date.
(b) Conditions to the
Investors Obligations. The
Investors obligation to purchase the Shares and the Warrants will be subject to the condition that the Placement
Agents shall not have: (a) terminated the Placement Agreement pursuant to
the terms thereof or (b) determined that the conditions to the closing in
the Placement Agreement have not been satisfied. The
Investors obligations are expressly not conditioned on the purchase by any or
all of the Other Investors of the Shares that they have agreed to purchase from
the Company.
3.3 Delivery of
Funds.
Delivery Versus Payment through The Depository Trust Company. The Investor has elected to settle the Shares
purchased by such Investor by delivery versus payment through DTC, no later than one (1) business day after the
execution of this Agreement by the Investor and the Company, and
the Investor shall confirm that the account or accounts at LCM to be
credited with the Shares being purchased by the Investor have a minimum balance
equal to the aggregate purchase price for the Shares and the Warrants being purchased by the
Investor.
3.4 Delivery of
Shares.
Delivery
Versus Payment through The Depository Trust Company. The
Investor has elected to settle the
Shares purchased by such Investor by delivery versus payment through DTC, no later than one (1) business day after the
execution of this Agreement by the Investor and the Company, and
the Investor shall notify LCM of the account or accounts at LCM to be credited
with the Shares being purchased by such Investor. On the Closing Date, the Company shall
deliver the Shares to the Investor through DTC directly to the account(s) at
LCM identified by Investor and simultaneously therewith payment shall be made
by LCM by wire transfer to the Company.
4. Representations,
Warranties and Covenants of the Investor.
The Investor
acknowledges, represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the Company and the
Placement Agents that:
4.1 The
Investor (a) is knowledgeable,
sophisticated and experienced in making, and is qualified to make decisions
with respect to, investments in securities presenting an investment decision
like that involved in the purchase of the Shares and the Warrants, including investments in securities issued by the
Company and investments in comparable companies, (b) has answered all
questions on the Signature Page and the Investor Questionnaire and the
answers thereto are true and correct as of the date hereof and will be true and
correct as of the Closing Date and (c) in connection
with its decision to purchase
the respective number of Shares and Warrants set forth on the Signature Page,
has received and is relying solely upon (i) the Disclosure Package and the
documents incorporated by reference therein and (ii) the Offering
Information.
4.2 (a) No action has been or will be
taken in any jurisdiction outside the United States by the Company or the
Placement Agents that would permit an offering of the Shares and the Warrants,
or possession or distribution of offering materials in connection with the
issue of the Securities in any jurisdiction outside the United States where
action for that purpose is required, (b) if the Investor is outside the
United States, it will comply with all applicable laws and regulations in each
foreign jurisdiction in which it purchases, offers, sells or delivers the
Shares and the Warrants or has in its possession or distributes any offering
material, in all cases at its own expense and (c) the Placement Agents are
not authorized to make and have not made any representation, disclosure or use
of any information in connection with the issue, placement, purchase and sale
of the Shares and the Warrants, except as set forth or incorporated by
reference in the Base Prospectus or the Prospectus Supplement.
4.3 (a) The Investor has full right, power,
authority and capacity to enter into this Agreement and to consummate the
transactions contemplated hereby and has taken all necessary action to authorize
the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, and (b) this
Agreement constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Investor
enforceable against the Investor in accordance with its terms, except as
enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors and contracting
parties rights generally and except as enforceability may be subject to
general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and except as to the
enforceability of any rights to indemnification or contribution that may be
violative of the public policy underlying any law, rule or regulation
(including any federal or state securities law, rule or regulation).
4.4 The Investor understands that nothing
in this Agreement, the Prospectus, the Disclosure Package, the Offering
Information or any other materials presented to the Investor in connection with
the purchase and sale of the Shares and the Warrants constitutes legal, tax or
investment advice. The Investor has
consulted such legal, tax and investment advisors as it, in its sole
discretion, has deemed necessary or appropriate in connection with its purchase
of the Shares and the Warrants. The
Investor also understands that there is no established public trading market
for the Warrants being offered in the Offering, and that the Company does not
expect such a market to develop. In
addition, the Company does not intend to apply for listing the Warrants on any
securities exchange. Without an active
market, the liquidity of the Warrants will be limited.
4.5 Since the date on which the Placement
Agents first contacted such Investor about the Offering, the Investor has not
engaged in any purchases or sales of the securities of the Company (including,
without limitation, any Short Sales (as defined herein) involving the Companys
securities), and has not violated its obligations of confidentiality. The Investor covenants that it will not
engage in any purchases or sales of the securities of the Company (including
Short Sales) or disclose any information about the Offering (other than to its
advisors that are under a legal obligation of confidentiality) prior to the
time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are publicly
disclosed. Each Investor agrees that it
will not use any of the Securities acquired pursuant to this Agreement to cover
any short position in the Common Stock if doing so would be in violation of applicable
securities laws. For purposes hereof, Short
Sales include, without limitation, all short sales as defined in Rule 200
promulgated under Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act, whether or not against
the box, and all types of direct and indirect stock pledges, forward sales
contracts, options,
puts,
calls, short sales, swaps, put equivalent positions (as defined in Rule 16a-1(h) under
the Exchange Act) and similar arrangements (including on a total return basis),
and sales and other transactions through non-US broker dealers or foreign
regulated brokers.
5. Acknowledgement
Regarding Investors Trading Activity. Anything in this Agreement or elsewhere herein
to the contrary notwithstanding, but subject to compliance by the Investors
with applicable law and the provisions of this Agreement, it is understood and
acknowledged by the Company (i) that none of the Investors have been asked
by the Company to agree, nor has any Investor agreed with the Company, to
desist from purchasing or selling, long and/or short, securities of the
Company, or derivative securities based on securities issued by the Company
or to hold the Securities for any specified term; (ii) that past or future
open market or other transactions by any Investor, 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 Companys publicly-traded securities; (iii) that
any Investor, and counter-parties in derivative transactions to which any
such Investor is a party, directly or indirectly, presently may have a short
position in the Common Stock, and (iv) that each Investor shall not be
deemed to have any affiliation with or control over any arms length
counter-party in any derivative transaction.
The Company further understands and acknowledges that (a) one or
more Investors may engage in hedging and/or trading 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 the Warrants are being determined and (b) such hedging
and/or trading activities, if any, can reduce the value of the existing shareholders
equity interest in the Company both at and after the time the hedging and/or
trading activities are being conducted.
The Company acknowledges that such aforementioned hedging and/or trading
activities do not constitute a breach of this Agreement, the Warrants or any of
the documents executed in connection herewith.
6. Survival of Representations,
Warranties and Agreements; Third Party Beneficiary. Notwithstanding any investigation made by any party to this Agreement
or by the Placement Agents, all covenants, agreements, representations and
warranties made by the Company and the Investor herein will survive the
execution of this Agreement, the delivery to the Investor of the Shares
and the Warrants being purchased and the payment
therefor. The Placement Agents and
Lazard Fréres & Co. shall be third party beneficiaries with respect to
the representations, warranties and agreements of the Investor in Section 4
hereof.
7. Notices. All notices, requests, consents and other communications hereunder will
be in writing, will be mailed (a) if within the domestic United States by
first-class registered or certified airmail, or nationally recognized overnight
express courier, postage prepaid, or by facsimile or (b) if delivered from
outside the United States, by International Federal Express or facsimile, and
will be deemed given (i) if delivered by first-class registered or
certified mail domestic, three business days after so mailed, (ii) if
delivered by nationally recognized overnight carrier, one business day after so
mailed, (iii) if delivered by International Federal Express, two business
days after so mailed and (iv) if delivered by facsimile, upon electronic
confirmation of receipt and will be delivered and addressed as follows:
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Clean Energy
Fuels Corp.
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3020 Old
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Seal Beach,
California 90740
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Attention:
Harrison Clay, Esq.
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Facsimile:
(562) 493-4532
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with copies to (which
shall not constitute notice):
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Morrison &
Foerster LLP
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425 Market
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Attention:
Andrew D. Thorpe, Esq.
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Facsimile:
(415) 268-7522
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(b) if to the Investor, at its address on the Signature Page hereto,
or at such other address or addresses as may have been furnished to the Company
in writing.
8. Changes. This Agreement may not be modified or amended except pursuant to an
instrument in writing signed by the Company and the Investor.
9. Headings. The headings of the various sections of this Agreement have been
inserted for convenience of reference only and will not be deemed to be part of
this Agreement.
10. Severability. In case any provision contained in this Agreement should be invalid,
illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and
enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein will not in any way
be affected or impaired thereby.
11. Governing
Law. This Agreement will be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the internal laws of the State of New York, without
giving effect to the principles of conflicts of law that would require the
application of the laws of any other jurisdiction.
12. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of
which will constitute an original, but all of which, when taken together, will
constitute but one instrument, and will become effective when one or more
counterparts have been signed by each party hereto and delivered to the other
parties. The Company and the Investor
acknowledge and agree that the Company shall deliver its counterpart to the
Investor along with the Prospectus Supplement (or the filing by the Company of
an electronic version thereof with the Commission).
13. Confirmation
of Sale. The Investor acknowledges and agrees that such
Investors receipt of the Companys counterpart to this Agreement, together
with the Prospectus Supplement (or the filing by the Company of an electronic
version thereof with the Commission), shall constitute written confirmation of
the Companys sale of Shares and Warrants to such Investor.
14. Press
Release. The Company and the Investor agree that the
Company shall issue a press release announcing the Offering and disclosing all
material terms and conditions of the
Offering prior to the opening of the financial markets in New York City
on the business day immediately after the date hereof.
15. Termination. In
the event that the Placement Agreement is terminated by the Placement Agents
pursuant to the terms thereof, this Agreement shall terminate without any
further action on the part of the parties hereto.
EXHIBIT A
CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP.
INVESTOR QUESTIONNAIRE
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Pursuant to Section 3
of Annex I to the Agreement, please provide us with the following
information:
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The exact name that your
Shares and Warrants are to be registered in. You may use a nominee name if
appropriate:
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The relationship between
the Investor and the registered holder listed in response to item 1 above:
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The mailing address of the
registered holder listed in response to item 1 above:
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The Social Security Number
or Tax Identification Number of the registered holder listed in the response
to item 1 above:
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Name of DTC Participant
(broker-dealer at which the account or accounts to be credited with the
Shares are maintained):
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DTC Participant Number:
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Name of Account at DTC
Participant being credited with the Shares:
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Account Number at DTC
Participant being credited with the Shares:
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EXHIBIT B
SERIES I WARRANT
EXHIBIT C
SERIES II WARRANT
Exhibit 99.1
3020 Old Ranch
Parkway, Suite 200
Seal Beach,
California 90740 USA
562.493.2804 fax: 562.546.0097
www.cleanenergyfuels.com
News Release
Clean Energy to
Raise $35 Million in Registered Direct Offering of Common Stock and Warrants
Seal Beach, CA (Oct. 29, 2008) Clean Energy Fuels Corp.
(Nasdaq: CLNE) today announced it has entered into definitive agreements with
selected institutional investors to sell 4,419,192 units (the Units), with
each Unit consisting of (i) one share of its common stock, par value
$0.0001 per share (the Common Stock), (ii) one warrant to purchase 0.75
shares of Common Stock (the Series I Warrant) and (iii) one warrant
(the Series II Warrant, and together with the Series I Warrant, the
Warrants) to purchase up to 0.257143 shares of Common Stock, in a registered
direct offering for gross proceeds of approximately $35 million, before
deducting placement agents fees and estimated offering expenses. Under the terms of the transaction, Clean
Energy will sell and the investors have agreed to purchase approximately 4.4
million Units at the negotiated purchase
price of $7.92 per Unit. The Series I
Warrant, represents the right to acquire an aggregate of up to 3,314,394 shares
of Common Stock, and is exercisable at a price of $13.50 per share, and the Series II
Warrant, which represent the right to acquire an aggregate of up to 1,136,192
shares of Common Stock, is exercisable at a price of $0.01 per share. The closing of the offering is expected to
take place on Monday, November 3rd, 2008, subject to the
satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Lazard Capital Markets LLC served as the lead placement agent. and W.R.
Hambrecht + Co., LLC served as the co-placement agent for the offering.
The Company currently
intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for working capital and
other general corporate purposes, which may include capital expenditures
related to its LNG plant in California, station construction activities, and
future acquisitions
The Common Stock and
Warrants described above are being offered by the Company only by means of a
prospectus. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying base
prospectus relating to this offering can be obtained at the SECs website at http://www.sec.gov.
or from Lazard Capital Markets LLC at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 60th
Floor, New York, NY 10020. A shelf
registration statement relating to these securities was declared effective by
the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 29, 2008. This press release shall not constitute an
offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor
shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in
which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration
or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
Clean Energy (Nasdaq: CLNE) is the leading provider
of natural gas (CNG and LNG) for transportation in North America. It has a
broad customer base in the refuse, transit, ports, shuttle, taxi, trucking,
airport and municipal fleet markets, fueling more than 14,000 vehicles daily at
over 170 strategic locations across the United States and Canada. Clean Energy
del Peru, Clean Energys Peruvian joint venture, operates the worlds largest
natural gas vehicle fueling station in Lima, Peru. Please visit
www.cleanenergyfuels.com
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release
contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of
the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Actual results and
the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in these
forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements made herein speak
only as of the date of this press release and the company undertakes no
obligation to publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect
subsequent events or circumstances.
Contacts
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Investors
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Christine Thomas,
310/559-4955 x103
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Ina McGuinness,
310/954-1100
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cthomas@cleanenergyfuels.com
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