3.6 Reservation and Listing of Underlying Shares. If, after the date hereof, the Company shall list the Common Stock on any of the New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, or any NASDAQ market (each, a “Subsequent Market”), then the Company shall include in such listing for the benefit of the Purchasers for issuance upon exercise of the Warrants and conversion of the Shares a number of shares of Common Stock equal to not less than the Underlying Shares.
3.7 Conversion and Exercise Obligations and Procedures. The Company shall honor conversion of the Shares and exercise of the Warrants and shall deliver Underlying Shares in accordance with the respective terms, conditions and time periods set forth in the Certificate of Designation and Warrants. The Conversion Notice (as defined in the Certificate of Designation) and Notice of Exercise under the Warrants set forth the totality of the procedures with respect to the conversion of the Shares and exercise of the Warrants, including the form of legal opinion, if necessary, that shall be rendered to the Company’s transfer agent and such other information and instructions as may be reasonably necessary to enable the Purchasers to convert their Shares and exercise their Warrants as contemplated in the Certificate of Designation and the Warrants (as applicable).
3.8 Certain Securities Laws Disclosures; Publicity. The Company shall: (i) file with the Commission a Report on Form 8-K disclosing the transactions contemplated hereby within four Business Days after the Closing Date, and (ii) timely file with the Commission a Form D promulgated under the Securities Act. The Company and the Purchasers shall consult with each other in issuing any press releases or otherwise making public statements or filings and other communications with the Commission or any regulatory agency or stock market or trading facility with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby and neither party shall issue any such press release or otherwise make any such public statement, filings or other communications without the prior written consent of the other, except if such disclosure is required by law or stock market or trading facility regulation, in which such case the disclosing party shall promptly provide the other party with prior notice of such public statement, filing or other communication. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not publicly disclose the names of the Purchasers, or include the names of the Purchasers in any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency, trading facility or stock market without the prior written consent of the Purchasers, except to the extent such disclosure is required by law or stock market regulations, in which case the Company shall provide the Purchasers with prior notice of such disclosure.
3.9 Use of Proceeds. The Company estimates that it shall use (i) approximately $80,000 of the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder for note payments on existing debt, (ii) approximately $270,000 of the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder for payment of existing accounts payable and (iii) the remainder for working capital purposes.
3.10 Exclusivity. The Company shall not issue and sell the Shares to any Person other than to the Purchasers.
3.11 Shareholder Rights Plan. No claim will be made or enforced by the Company or any other Person that any Purchaser is an “Acquiring Person” under any shareholders rights plan or similar plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter adopted by the Company, or that any Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the provisions of any such plan or arrangement, by virtue of receiving Securities or shares of Common Stock under the Transaction Documents.
3.12 Trading Restrictions. At no time immediately prior to the date hereof has such Purchaser engaged in or effected, in any manner whatsoever, directly or indirectly, in any “Short Sale” (as defined herein). Each Purchaser further agrees that as long as such Purchaser holds Shares, such Purchaser will not enter into any Short Sales. For purposes hereof, a “Short Sale” by a Purchaser shall mean a marked “short sale” of Common Stock by such Purchaser that is made at a time when there is no equivalent offsetting long position in the Common Stock held by such Purchaser. For purposes of determining whether there is an equivalent offsetting long position in the Common Stock held by a Purchaser, Underlying Shares issuable upon exercises of Warrants and upon delivered Conversion Notices under the Shares shall be deemed to be held long by such Purchaser.
ARTICLE IV
MISCELLANEOUS
4.1 Fees and Expenses. Each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses incurred by such party incident to the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement. The Company shall pay all stamp and other taxes and duties levied in connection with the issuance of the Securities.
4.2 Entire Agreement; Amendments. The Transaction Documents, together with the Exhibits and Schedules thereto contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and schedules.
4.3 Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of (i) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile telephone number specified in this Section prior to 5:30 p.m. (Pacific Time) on a Business Day, (ii) the Business Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile telephone number specified in this Agreement later than 5:30 p.m. (Pacific Time) on any date and earlier than 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on such date, (iii) the Business Day following the date of mailing, if sent by nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (iv) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given. The address for such notices and communications shall be as follows:
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4.4 Amendments; Waivers. No provision of this Agreement may be waived or amended except in a written instrument signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Company and each of the Purchasers or, in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom enforcement of any such waiver is sought. No waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of either party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right accruing to it thereafter.
4.5 Headings. The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.
4.6 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns. The Company may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Purchasers. Except as set forth in Section 3.1(a), the Purchasers may not assign this Agreement or any of the rights or obligations hereunder without the consent of the Company. This provision shall not limit any Purchaser’s right to transfer securities or transfer or assign rights under the Registration Rights Agreement.
4.7 No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person.
4.8 Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of California, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City and County of San Diego, for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is improper. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any manner permitted by law.
4.9 Survival. The representations, warranties, agreements and covenants contained herein shall survive the Closing and the delivery and conversion or exercise (as the case may be) of the Shares and of the Warrants for a period of one year.
4.10 Execution. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party, it being understood that both parties need not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) the same with the same force and effect as if such facsimile signature page were an original thereof.
4.11 Severability. In case any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement shall be invalid or unenforceable in any respect, the validity and enforceability of the remaining terms and provisions of this Agreement shall not in any way be affecting or impaired thereby and the parties will attempt to agree upon a valid and enforceable provision which shall be a reasonable substitute therefor, and upon so agreeing, shall incorporate such substitute provision in this Agreement.
4.12 Remedies. In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, each of the Purchasers and the Company will be entitled to specific performance of each other’s obligations under the Transaction Documents. The parties agree that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of obligations described in the foregoing sentence and hereby agree to waive in any action for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.
4.13 Independent Nature of Purchasers’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of each Purchaser under any Transaction Document is several and not joint with the obligations of any other Purchaser and no Purchaser shall be responsible in any way for the performance of the obligations of any other Purchaser under any Transaction Document. Nothing contained herein or in any Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Purchaser pursuant thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Purchasers are in any way acting in concert with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Document. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including without limitation the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Convertible Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.
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EX-99.3
EXHIBIT 99.3
NEITHER THESE SECURITIES NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THESE SECURITIES ARE EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY.
e.DIGITAL CORPORATION
SERIES AA WARRANT
Warrant No. [______]
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e.Digital Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), hereby certifies that, for value received, [ ] or its, registered assigns (the “Holder”), has the right to purchase from the Company up to a total of [ ] shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company (each such share, a “Warrant Share” and all such shares, the “Warrant Shares”) at an exercise price equal to $0.10 per share (as adjusted from time to time as provided in Section 8, the “Exercise Price”), at any time and from time to time from and after June ●, 2008 and through and including June 30, 2011 (the “Expiration Date”), and subject to the following terms and conditions.
1. Registration of Warrant. The Company shall register this Series AA Warrant (the “Warrant”), upon records to be maintained by the Company for that purpose (the “Warrant Register”), in the name of the record Holder hereof from time to time. The Company may deem and treat the registered Holder of this Warrant as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of any exercise hereof or any distribution to the Holder, and for all other purposes, absent actual notice to the contrary.
2. Registration of Transfers. The Company shall register the transfer of any portion of this Warrant in the Warrant Register, upon surrender of this Warrant, with the Form of Assignment attached hereto duly completed and signed, to the Company’s transfer agent or to the Company at its address specified herein. Upon any such registration or transfer, a new warrant to purchase Common Stock, in substantially the form of this Warrant (any such new warrant, a “New Warrant”), evidencing the portion of this Warrant so transferred shall be issued to the transferee and a New Warrant evidencing the remaining portion of this Warrant not so transferred, if any, shall be issued to the transferring Holder. The acceptance of the New Warrant by the transferee thereof shall be deemed the acceptance by such transferee of all of the rights and obligations of a holder of a Warrant.
3. Exercise and Duration of Warrants.
(a) This Warrant shall be exercisable by the registered Holder at any time and from time to time during the three year period commencing on or after June ●, 2008 to and including the Expiration Date. At 5:30 p.m., Pacific Time on the Expiration Date, the portion of this Warrant not exercised prior thereto shall be and become void and of no value.
(b) At the option of the registered Holder, in lieu of payment of the Exercise Price, the registered Holder may request in writing that the Company issue to it the net Warrant Shares issuable determined in accordance with the following formula:
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4. Delivery of Warrant Shares.
(a) Upon delivery of the Form of Notice of Exercise to the Company (with the attached Warrant Shares Exercise Log) at its address for notice set forth in Section 14 and upon payment of the Exercise Price multiplied by the number of Warrant Shares that the Holder intends to purchase hereunder, the Company shall promptly (but in no event later than five trading days after the Date of Exercise (as defined herein)) issue and deliver to the Holder, a certificate for the Warrant Shares issuable upon such exercise free of all restrictive or other legends, other than as required under Section 4(e). Any person so designated by the Holder to receive Warrant Shares shall be deemed to have become holder of record of such Warrant Shares as of the Date of Exercise of this Warrant. A “Date of Exercise” means the date on which the Holder shall have delivered to the Company (i) the Form of Notice of Exercise attached hereto (with the Warrant Exercise Log attached to it), appropriately completed and duly signed and (ii) payment of the Exercise Price for the number of Warrant Shares so indicated by the Holder to be purchased.
(b) If the Company fails to deliver to the Holder a certificate or certificates representing the Warrant Shares issuable upon an exercise by the third trading day after the Date of Exercise, then the Holder will have the right to rescind such exercise.
(c) The Company’s obligations to issue and deliver Warrant Shares in accordance with the terms hereof are absolute and unconditional, irrespective of any action or inaction by the Holder to enforce the same, any waiver or consent with respect to any provision hereof, the recovery of any judgment against any person or any action to enforce the same, or any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, limitation or termination, or any breach or alleged breach by the Holder or any other person of any obligation to the Company or any violation or alleged violation of law by the Holder or any other person, and irrespective of any other circumstance which might otherwise limit such obligation of the Company to the Holder in connection with the issuance of Warrant Shares. Nothing herein shall limit a Holder’s right to pursue any other remedies available to it hereunder, at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief with respect to the Company’s failure to timely deliver certificates representing shares of Common Stock upon exercise of the Warrant as required pursuant to the terms hereof. If the Company breaches its obligations under this Warrant, then, in addition to any other liabilities the Company may have hereunder and under applicable law, the Company shall pay or reimburse the Holder on demand for all costs of collection and enforcement (including reasonable attorneys fees and expenses).
(d) Transfer Restrictions.
(i) This Warrant and the Warrant Shares may only be disposed of pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, to the Company or pursuant to an available exemption from or in a transaction not subject to the registration requirements of the Securities Act, and in compliance with any applicable federal and state securities laws. In connection with any transfer of this Warrant or any Warrant Shares other than pursuant to an effective registration statement or to the Company, except as otherwise set forth herein, the Company may require the transferor thereof to provide to the Company an opinion of counsel selected by the transferor to the effect that such transfer does not require registration under the Securities Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company, without requiring a legal opinion as described in the immediately preceding sentence, hereby consents to and agrees to register on the books of the Company and with any transfer agent for the securities of the Company any transfer of this Warrant and the Warrant Shares by the Holder to an Affiliate (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) of the Holder or to one or more funds or managed accounts under common management with such Holder, and any transfer among any such Affiliates or one or more funds or managed accounts, provided that the transferee certifies to the Company that it is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and that it is acquiring the Warrant and the Warrant Shares solely for investment purposes (subject to the qualifications hereof).
(ii) Warrant Shares issued while there is not an effective registration statement covering the resale by the Holder of the Warrant Shares (a “Registration Statement”) or while the Holder may not resell such Warrant Shares pursuant to Rule 144(b) under the Securities Act shall be issued with the following legend:
THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.
(iii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Warrant Shares issued when there is an effective Registration Statement, or at a time when the Holder may resell such Warrant Shares under Rule 144(b) under the Securities Act, or when such legend is not required under the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the Staff of the Commission) shall be issued free of all restrictions and other legends. The Company agrees that following the date on which a Registration Statement is first declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the date on which Warrant Shares may be resold under 144(b), it will, no later than five trading days following the delivery by a Holder to the Company of a certificate or certificates representing any Warrant Shares issued with a restrictive legend, deliver to such Holder certificates representing such Warrant Shares which shall be free from all restrictive legends. The Company may not make any notation on its records or give instructions to any transfer agent of the Company which enlarge the restrictions of transfer set forth in this Section.
5. Charges, Taxes and Expenses. Issuance and delivery of certificates for shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this Warrant shall be made without charge to the Holder for any issue or transfer tax, withholding tax, transfer agent fee or other incidental tax or expense in respect of the issuance of such certificates, all of which taxes and expenses shall be paid by the Company; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the registration of any certificates for Warrant Shares or Warrants in a name other than that of the Holder. The Holder shall be responsible for all other tax liability that may arise as a result of holding or transferring this Warrant or receiving Warrant Shares upon exercise hereof.
6. Replacement of Warrant. If this Warrant is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation hereof, or in lieu of and substitution for this Warrant, a New Warrant, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction and customary and reasonable indemnity, if requested. Applicants for a New Warrant under such circumstances shall also comply with such other reasonable regulations and procedures and pay such other reasonable third-party costs as the Company may prescribe.
7. Reservation of Warrant Shares. The Company covenants that it will utilize its reasonable best efforts to reserve and keep available out of the aggregate of its authorized but unissued and otherwise unreserved Common Stock, solely for the purpose of enabling it to issue Warrant Shares upon exercise of this Warrant as herein provided, the number of Warrant Shares which are then issuable and deliverable upon the exercise of this entire Warrant, free from preemptive rights or any other contingent purchase rights of persons other than the Holder (taking into account the adjustments and restrictions of Section 8). The Company covenants that all Warrant Shares so issuable and deliverable shall, upon issuance and the payment of the applicable Exercise Price in accordance with the terms hereof, be duly and validly authorized, issued and fully paid and nonassessable.
8. Certain Adjustments. The Exercise Price and number of Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant are subject to adjustment from time to time as set forth in this Section 8.