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): September 29, 2014 (September 23, 2014)

 

VIVEVE MEDICAL, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Yukon Territory, Canada

1-11388

04-3153858

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation)

(Commission File Number)

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

150 Commercial Street

Sunnyvale, California

94086

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip Code)

 

 

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (408) 530-1900

 

No change

 


(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:

 

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Item 1.01     Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

The information included at Item 3.02 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 2.01     Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.

 

The Merger

 

On September 23, 2014, Viveve Medical, Inc., formerly PLC Systems Inc. (the “Company”) completed its previously announced merger (the “Merger”) of PLC Systems Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“Merger Sub”), with and into Viveve, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Viveve”), with Viveve continuing as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. The Merger was consummated pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated May 9, 2014, as amended on August 8, 2014 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Company, Viveve and Merger Sub. In connection with the Merger, the Company changed its name to Viveve Medical, Inc. to better reflect the Company’s new business.

 

The Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby were approved by the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) on April 28, 2014 and by the Company’s stockholders at an annual and special meeting of stockholders held on September 18, 2014 (the “Meeting”).

 

At the effective time of the Merger (the “Effective Time”):

 

●     each share of Viveve’s common stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time of the Merger was converted into the right to receive either (i) 0.0080497 (the “Exchange Ratio”) shares of the Company’s common stock, no par value per share (the “Common Stock”), if held by an accredited investor, as defined in Rule 501 of Regulation D as promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or (ii) cash payment in an amount equal to the product of the Exchange Ratio and $0.53, if held by a non-accredited investor; and

 

●     each outstanding option to purchase a share of Viveve’s common stock, whether vested or unvested, immediately prior to the Effective Time, was converted into an option to purchase a number of shares of Common Stock (rounded down to the nearest whole share) equal to (i) the number of shares of Viveve’s common stock for which such option was exercisable immediately prior to the Effective Time multiplied by (ii) the Exchange Ratio, at an exercise price equal to (y) the exercise price of the Viveve option immediately prior to the Effective Time divided by (z) the Exchange Ratio (rounded up to the nearest cent).

  

At the Effective Time, the former stockholders of Viveve were issued approximately 3,743,282 representing approximately 62% of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock on a fully diluted basis after the Effective Time (not including shares issued to certain investors in the Private Placement described below).  The aggregate amount of cash merger consideration payable to former Viveve stockholders equals approximately $16,500.

 

The Company issued shares of Common Stock in connection with the Merger in reliance upon the exemptions from registration afforded by Section 4(a)(2) and Rule 506 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

 
 

 

 

In connection with the Merger, the Company entered into a Warrant Exchange Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, with holders of warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock (the “Exchange Agreement”), pursuant to which the holders exchanged the warrants for shares of Common Stock equal to 2/3 of the shares of Common Stock underlying the warrants (the “Exchange”). As a condition to the Exchange Agreement, GCP IV LLC, a stockholder of the Company and sole stockholder of Renalguard Solutions, Inc. (“GCP”), and the Company entered into a Right to Shares Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, pursuant to which the Company granted a right (the “Right”) to GCP such that GCP has the right, at its discretion, to receive up to 432,479 shares of Common Stock, subject to the beneficial ownership limitation of 4.99% of the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock. No additional consideration will be paid to GCP upon its exercise of this Right.

 

In connection with the Merger, on May 9, 2014, the Company issued to GBS Venture Partners Limited (“GBS”), a convertible debenture holder and stockholder of Viveve, a warrant to purchase shares of Common Stock equal to approximately 5% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock on a post-Merger basis in consideration for the cancellation of convertible promissory notes of Viveve in the aggregate principal amount of $1,750,000 held by GBS. At the Effective Time, the Company issued 943,596 shares of Common Stock to GBS upon the automatic exercise of the warrant.

 

Immediately following the Effective Time, the Company issued 223,200 shares of Common Stock to Bezalel Partners, LLC as compensation for consulting services rendered to the Company.

 

The shares of Common Stock issued in connection with the Merger will not be transferable except (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (ii) upon receipt by the Company of a written opinion of counsel for the holder reasonably satisfactory to the Company to the effect that the proposed transfer is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.

 

The RenalGuard Spin-Off

 

As a condition to the Merger, pursuant to an Agreement of Reorganization, dated September 23, 2014 (the “RenalGuard Reorganization Agreement”), the Company transferred (the “Spin-Off”) certain Company assets and liabilities and all of the outstanding shares of RenalGuard Solutions, Inc., which became the owner of the RenalGuard business through its holdings of 100% of the outstanding equity in PLC Medical Systems, Inc. and PLC Systemas Medicos Inernacionais, to GCP in exchange for the cancellation of all of the Company’s 5% Senior Secured Convertible Debentures (the “Debentures”) held by GCP, and a release of liens on substantially all of the Company’s assets. Following the Spin-Off, RenalGuard Solutions, Inc. became a private company wholly owned by GCP.

  

Immediately prior to the Merger, the remaining holders of the Debentures converted into an aggregate of 40,731 shares of Common Stock pursuant to the Conversion Agreement, dated May 9, 2014 (the “Conversion Agreement”), by and among the Company and such holders, and the Debentures were terminated and canceled in full (the “Conversion”).

 

The foregoing summary of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and the RenalGuard Reorganization Agreement does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full text of the Merger Agreement, as amended, and RenalGuard Reorganization Agreement, which are attached as Exhibits 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 hereto, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

 

 
 

 

 

Item 3.02     Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

 

The information included at Item 2.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Immediately prior to the closing of the Merger, as a result of the Conversion, the holders of the Debentures (after cancellation of the Debentures held by GCP) received an aggregate of 40,731 shares of Common Stock.

 

Upon the closing of the Merger, the Company issued 3,743,282 shares of Common Stock to 21 former stockholders of Viveve in exchange for all of the outstanding shares of Viveve’s capital stock; 223,200 shares of Common Stock to Bezalel Partners, LLC as compensation for consulting services rendered to the Company; and 943,596 shares of Common Stock upon the automatic conversion of the warrant held by GBS.

 

Concurrently with the consummation of the Merger, the Company completed a separate private placement of 11,406,932 shares of Common Stock, of which only 11,305,567 shares were issued as of September 23, 2014 as a result of the beneficial ownership limitation in the SPAs (defined below), with gross proceeds of approximately $6,000,000, which included the conversion of $1,500,000 of Viveve convertible notes (the “Private Placement”) to 31 accredited investors (the “Investors”), which represent approximately 60% of the shares of issued and outstanding Common Stock on a fully diluted basis after the consummation of the Merger and the Private Placement. The Private Placement was conducted pursuant to those two Securities Purchase Agreements, dated May 9, 2014, by and among the Company and various Investors identified on the signature pages thereto (collectively, the “SPAs”). Immediately prior to the closing of the Merger, the SPAs were amended by those two Amendments to the SPAs (collectively, the “SPA Amendment”) to clarify that the Subscription Amounts (as defined in the SPAs) included the applicable interest accrued under the Viveve convertible notes, which converted into the Private Placement.

  

Palladium Capital Advisors, LLC and Middlebury Securities acted as placement agents in connection with the Private Placement. Middlebury Securities received a cash commission of $175,000 in the Private Placement

 

The foregoing summary of the transactions contemplated by the SPAs and the SPA Amendment does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full text of the SPAs and SPA Amendment, which are attached as Exhibits 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5 hereto, and which are incorporated herein by reference.

 

The issuance and sale of these securities were not registered under the Securities Act. The securities were issued in reliance upon an exemption from registration afforded by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder. In determining that the issuance of the securities qualified for an exemption under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act, the Company relied on the following facts: (i) the stockholders of Viveve who received stock merger consideration were accredited investors, as defined in Rule 501 of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act, (ii) investors received information about Viveve that was generally the same as information required to be delivered in a registered offering; (iii) Viveve had fewer than 35 non-accredited stockholders, and (iv) the Company did not use any form of general solicitation or advertising to offer the securities issued, and (v) the representations made in the Conversion Agreement, SPAs, and other agreements signed by the stockholders.

  

Item 3.03     Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders.

 

In conjunction with the Merger, the Company’s stockholders approved the authorization of the Board to, in its discretion, amend the Company’s Articles of Continuance (the “Articles of Continuance”) to effect a reverse stock split of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock at a ratio of 1 for 100 (the “Share Consolidation”). On September 18, 2014, the Company’s stockholders approved the Share Consolidation and the articles of amendment to amend the Company’s Articles of Continuance (the “Amendment”). The Amendment was filed with the registrar under the Yukon Business Corporation Act on September 23, 2014. As a result of the Share Consolidation, each 100 shares of the Common Stock issued and outstanding immediately before the Share Consolidation became one share of Common Stock. All share totals and related exercises and percentages are reflected herein on a post-Share Consolidation basis.

  

 
 

 

 

The Company is authorized to issue an unlimited amount of Common Stock pursuant to its Articles of Continuance. As a result, the possibility of dilution of the holders of our Common Stock shareholdings has not changed following the Share Consolidation.

 

Additionally, the Share Consolidation affected all of the Company’s stockholders uniformly and did not affect any Company stockholder’s percentage ownership interests or proportionate voting power, except to the extent that the Share Consolidation results in any Company stockholders owning a fractional share of Common Stock in which case each fractional share of Common Stock that is less than one-half of one share of Common Stock will be cancelled without any compensation therefor and each fractional share of Common Stock that is at least one-half of one share of Common Stock will be adjusted upward to one whole share of Common Stock. After the Share Consolidation, the Common Stock has the same voting rights and rights to dividends and distributions, if any, and is identical in all other respects to the Common Stock now authorized. The Common Stock issued pursuant to the Share Consolidation will remain fully paid and non-assessable.

 

A copy of the Amendment is attached hereto as Exhibit 3.1 and incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the Amendment is qualified in its entirety by reference to Exhibit 3.1 attached hereto.

 

Item 4.01     Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant.

 

Effective September 23, 2014, McGladrey LLP (“McGladrey”) resigned from the Company as its independent registered public accounting firm as a result of the Merger, which the Board accepted.

 

Neither the report of McGladrey for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2013, nor subsequent interim periods contained an adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion, or was qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles, except that the Company's audited financial statements in its Form 10-K for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2013 contained a going concern qualification. The Company has had no disagreements with McGladrey, whether or not resolved, on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which, if not resolved to McGladrey’s satisfaction would have caused them to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreement in connection with their reports on our financial statements.

 

We have provided McGladrey with a copy of the foregoing disclosure, and have requested that it furnish us with a letter addressed to the Securities and Exchange Commission stating whether or not it agrees with such disclosure. We are including as Exhibit 16.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K a copy of the letter from McGladrey as required by Item 304(a)(3) of Regulation S-K.

 

There were no disagreements or other “reportable events” as that term is described in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) and Item 304(a)(1)(v), respectively, of Regulation S-K, occurring within the Company’s two most recent fiscal years and the subsequent interim periods through the date of dismissal.

  

 
 

 

 

On September 23, 2013, following stockholder approval at the Meeting, the Company engaged Burr Pilger Mayer, Inc. (“BPM”) as its independent registered public accounting firm. During the most recent fiscal year and the interim periods preceding the engagement, the Company has not consulted BPM regarding any of the matters set forth in Item 304(a)(2)(i) or (ii) of Regulation S-K.

  

Item 5.01     Changes in Control of Registrant.

 

The information included at Item 2.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 5.02     Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

 

Executive Officers

 

Effective upon the closing of the Merger on September 23, 2014, our executive officers prior to the Merger, Mark Tauscher, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Gregory Mann, Chief Financial Officer, each tendered his resignation from all executive management positions then held with the Company. Following the resignations, the members of the Board that were elected in connection with the closing of the Merger, as described below, appointed the following individuals as the executive officers:

 

Name

Position

Patricia Scheller

Chief Executive Officer

Scott Durbin

Chief Financial Officer

 

The following is biographical information about our executive officers.

 

Patricia Scheller, Chief Executive Officer and Director. Ms. Scheller has served as Chief Executive Officer of Viveve since May 2012 and as a director of Viveve since June 2012. Prior to joining Viveve, she served as the CEO of Prescient Medical, Inc. (“PMI”), a privately held company that developed diagnostic imaging catheters and coronary stents designed to reduce deaths from heart attacks, from September 2004 through April 2012 and as a director of PMI from July 2004 to September 2011. Prior to joining PMI, from August 2003 to September 2004, she was the CEO of SomaLogic, a biotechnology company focused on the development of diagnostic products using aptamer technology. From December 2000 to April 2003, Ms. Scheller also managed several business units at Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, a Johnson & Johnson company, and from October 1997 to November 2000 served in key executive positions at Dade Behring, a clinical diagnostics firm. While at Dade Behring Holdings, Inc., she directed the commercialization of the hsCRP diagnostic test, a screening test for systemic inflammation, which has been shown to increase the risk of heart attacks.  The hsCRP test was the first diagnostic test added to the cardiac test panel by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and American Heart Association in over 30 years.  As Director of cardiology systems at Cordis Corporation (a Johnson & Johnson company) from February 1994 to February 1996, Ms. Scheller managed the launch of the first Palmaz-Schatz® balloon-expandable coronary stent, the first major product entry into what became a $6 billion market.  Ms. Scheller received a B.S.E. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and completed executive business education programs at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University and Northwestern University. As a result of Ms. Scheller’s commitment and dedication to the healthcare industry for more than 25 years, serving in various executive capacities, Viveve appointed Ms. Scheller to serve as one of its directors and led to the conclusion that she should serve as a director of the Company at the Effective Time.

  

 
 

 

 

Scott Durbin, Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Durbin joined Viveve as Chief Financial Officer in February 2013. From June 2012 to until January 2013 he served as an advisor and Acting Chief Financial Officer for Viveve. Prior to joining Viveve, from June 2010 to October 2011, he was Chief Financial Officer of Aastrom Biosciences (“Aastrom”), a publicly traded, cardiovascular cell therapy company. Before Aastrom, he spent six years as Chief Operating and Financial Officer for Prescient Medical (“Prescient”) from May 2004 to June 2010, a privately held company that developed diagnostic imaging catheters and coronary stents designed to reduce deaths from heart attacks. Prior to Prescient, from January 2003 to April 2004, he spent several years as a financial consultant for two publicly traded biotech companies, Scios Inc. – a Johnson & Johnson company and Alteon Inc. He began his career in corporate finance as an investment banker in the Healthcare and M&A groups at Lehman Brothers Inc. from August 1999 to January 2003, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and financings for the lifescience industry. At Lehman, he successfully executed over $5 billion in transactions for medical device and biotech companies. He began his career as a Director of Neurophysiology for Biotronic, Inc. Mr. Durbin received a B.S. from the University of Michigan and an M.P.H. in Health Management with Honors from the Yale University School of Medicine and School of Management.

  

There are no family relationships between any of our executive officers and directors.

 

Executive Compensation

 

Patricia Scheller

 

Effective May 14, 2012, Viveve entered into an employment agreement with Patricia Scheller, prior to the Merger (the “Scheller Employment Agreement”), pursuant to which Ms. Scheller serves as Viveve’s Chief Executive Officer and a Director. Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Scheller Employment Agreement, Ms. Scheller is an at-will employee of Viveve. The Scheller Employment Agreement provides that Ms. Scheller will receive an initial base salary of $335,000 gross per year, to be paid in accordance with Viveve’s standard payroll schedule and subject to annual review and increases by Viveve’s Board, as it deems appropriate.

 

In addition to her salary, Ms. Scheller recieved or is entitled to receive: (i) a bonus of up to 30% of her base salary; (ii) options to purchase 221,682 shares of Common Stock, all of which are vested, exercisable at a per share price of $1.24, after giving effect to the Merger; (iii) paid vacation in accordance with Viveve’s vacation policy, as in effect from time to time; and (iv) continued base salary and benefits for 12 months following an “involuntary termination” as defined in the Schelle Employment Agreement.

 

Scott Durbin

 

Effective January 23, 2013, Viveve entered into an employment agreement with Scott Durbin, prior to the Merger (the “Durbin Employment Agreement”), pursuant to which Mr. Durbin serves as Viveve’s CFO. The Durbin Employment Agreement provides that Mr. Durbin will receive an initial base salary of $298,000 gross per year, to be paid in accordance with Viveve’s standard payroll schedule and subject to annual review and increases by Viveve’s board, as it deems appropriate.

 

In addition to his salary, Mr. Durbin recieved or is entitled to receive: (i) a bonus of up to 30% of his base salary; (ii) a bonus of $50,000 in the event that Viveve raises at least $1,500,000 in its next equity financing, which has been paid in connection with the Private Placement; (iii) options to purchase 82,580 shares of Common Stock, all of which are vested, exercisable at a per share price of $1.24, after giving effect to the Merger; (iv) company-sponsored benefits as in effect from time to time; (v) paid vacation in accordance with Viveve’s vacation policy, as in effect from time to time; and (vi) continued base salary and benefits for 10 months following an “involuntary termination” as defined in the Durbin Employment Agreement.

  

 
 

 

 

Directors

 

Effective upon the closing of the Merger, our directors prior to the Merger resigned and appointed as our new directors the following individuals:

 

Brigitte Smith, Chairman of the Board. Ms. Smith is co-founder and Managing Director of GBS, a leading Australian life science venture capital investor, founded in. GBS has completed more than 40 medical device and life science investments for companies based in Australia and the U.S. Before joining GBS, she worked with high-tech start-up companies in Australia and the U.S. in fundraising and business development roles. From 1990 to 1992 Ms. Smith also served as a consultant for Bain & Company, a strategic management consulting firm. Ms. Smith is on the board of GBS portfolio companies AirXpanders Inc., Endoluminal Sciences Pty Ltd, Neuromonics Pty Ltd, and Proacta Inc. Ms. Smith earned her Bachelor of Chemical Engineering with Honours from the University of Melbourne, her Master of Business Administration with Honours from the Harvard Business School and her Master of International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston, Massachusetts, where she was also a Fulbright Scholar. Ms. Smith is a Fellow of The Australian Institute of Company Directors. As a result of Ms. Smith’s significant early-stage investing experience, Viveve appointed Ms. Smith as one of its directors and led to the conclusion that she is well qualified to serve as a director of the Company.

 

Mark S. Colella, Director. Mr. Colella has been a director of Viveve since April 2012 and principal of 5AM Ventures, II, Inc., which owns 30.58% of Viveve’s outstanding common stock, since October 2007. II, LLC (“5AM Ventures”). Mr. Colella specializes in medical device investing at 5AM Ventures and brings over 15 years of venture capital and operating experience within medical device and healthcare companies. Mr. Colella currently serves, or has served, in board or advisory roles with companies which include: Ceterix Orthopedics, Flexion Therapeutics, Incline Therapeutics, Semprus Biosciences, Viveve and WaveRx. He also sits on the Advisory Board for the Innovation and New Ventures Office at Northwestern University and The V Foundation Wine Celebration—a charity wine auction—which has raised over $30 million for cancer research. Before joining 5AM Ventures from 2007 to 2008 he was head of marketing for BÂRRX Medical, Inc. (“BÂRRX”), a Bay Area start-up medical device company. Prior to BÂRRX, he held various management roles including with Stryker, Inc. from 2002 to 2007, focused in the fields of orthopedics, laparoscopy, urology, gynecology, and general minimally invasive surgery. In addition, he spent four years from 1996 to 2000 as an Executive Director managing healthcare facilities with Primrose Alzheimer’s Living, Inc., an early-stage healthcare service start-up company, and one year working for Versant Ventures. Mr. Colella holds a B.S. in Biology from Williams College and earned his M.B.A. from Northwestern University, the Kellogg School of Management. Prior to Williams College he spent two years at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Mr. Colella is based in the Menlo Park, CA office. As a result of Mr. Colella’s medical device industry experience, as well as his financial and early-stage investing experience, Viveve appointed Mr. Colella as one of its directors and led to the conclusion that he is well qualified to serve as a director of the Company.

 

Carl Simpson, Director. Mr. Simpson has served as a director of Viveve since its inception in September of 2005 and has worked in the medical/medical device arena for over 40 years. He is also a founder and Managing Director of Coronis Medical Ventures, LLC, a venture capital entity since 2005. From 2001 to 2004 Mr. Simpson was a partner for Versant Ventures. In 1993, he founded CardioGenesis Corp. a medical device company that designs, manufactures and distributes laser-based surgical products that promote cardiac angiogenesis and served as Vice President of Development until 1997. In 1979, Mr. Simpson founded Advanced Cardiovascular Systems (“ACS”), a medical device company that develops and markets medical devices for treatment of cardiovascular diseases and served as Senior Vice President of Research and Development until 2001. ACS was later sold to Eli Lilly in 1984 and spun-off into Guidant Vascular Intervention. Mr. Simpson currently serves on the board of Novobionics, Curant Medical, Uptake Medical and Entent. He also served on the board of directors of Silver Bullet from 2009 to 2012, CoRepair from 2007 to 2013, Revascular Therapeutics from 2004 to 2011, Conor MedSystems Inc. from 2003 to 2005, Thermage from 1997 to 2004, Interventional Thermodynamics (Innerdyne) from 1989 to 1991 and Interventional Technologies from 1985 to 1989. His undergraduate training is in Microbiology and Biochemistry. His graduate degree is in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and he holds an MBA, both from the University of Santa Clara. As a result of Mr. Simpson’s prior experience with multiple start-up companies, an understanding of VC business models and 40 years of operational and clinical experience, Viveve appointed Mr. Simpson one of its directors and led to the conclusion that he is well qualified to serve as a director of the Company.

  

 
 

 

 

Daniel Janney, DirectorMr. Janney was appointed as a director of Viveve immediately prior to the closing of the Merger and currently serves as a director of Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESPR) since November 2012. Mr. Janney is a managing director at Alta Partners, a life sciences venture capital firm, which he joined in 1996. Prior to joining Alta, from 1993 to 1996, he was a Vice President in Montgomery Securities' healthcare and biotechnology investment banking group, focusing on life sciences companies. Mr. Janney is a director of a number of companies including Alba Therapeutics Corporation, DiscoveRx Corporation, Lithera, Inc., Prolacta Bioscience, Inc. and ViroBay, Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles. As a result of Mr. Janney's experience working with and serving on the boards of directors of life sciences companies and his experience working in the venture capital industry, Viveve appointed Mr. Janney as one of its directors and led to the conclusion that he is well qualified to serve as a director of the Company.

 

Patricia Scheller – Director. See Ms. Scheller’s biography in the section titled “Executive Officers”.

 

Given Ms. Schellers’ professional achievements, she is well qualified to serve as a director of the Company.

 

Our Board has established an Audit Committee, a Compensation Committee and a Nominating and Governance Committee. Messrs. Colella, Simpson and Janney are members of the Audit Committee, Ms. Smith and Messrs. Colella and Simpson are members of our Compensation Committee and Messrs. Janney and Colella and Ms. Smith are members of the Nominating and Governance Committee.

 

All of the directors are each considered related parties, since Viveve and the Company agreed that they would be appointed to the Company’s Board upon consummation of the Merger. None of these individuals engaged in any transactions with the Company in which any of them had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.

 

Director Compensation


                The Company’s Compensation Committee will determine the annual compensation to be paid to the members of the Company’s Board of Directors.

 

First Amendment to the Company’s 2013 Stock Option and Incentive Plan

 

On April 22, 2014, the Company’s Board adopted the First Amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Company’s 2013 Stock Option and Incentive Plan (the “2013 Plan”), to increase the number of shares reserved under the Incentive Plan from 113,826 to 3,111,587. The Amendment was approved by the Company’s stockholders at Meeting. The Amendment became effective on September 23, 2014. No other changes were made to the 2013 Plan.

 

Item 5.03     Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

 

The information in Item 3.03 above is incorporated herein by reference.

 

 

 
 

 

 

Item 9.01     Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(a)           Financial Statements of Businesses Acquired

 

Financial statements of Viveve, Inc. for the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013 (unaudited) and for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012 (audited)+

 

(b)           Unaudited Pro Forma Financial Information

 

 

(i)

Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Balance Sheet of PLC Systems Inc. and Viveve, Inc. as of March 31, 2014+

 

 

(ii)

Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statement of Operations of PLC Systems Inc. and Viveve, Inc. as of March 31, 2014+

 

 

(iii)

Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Balance Sheet of PLC Systems Inc. and Viveve, Inc. as of December 31, 2013+

     
 

(iv)

Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statement of Operations of PLC Systems Inc. and Viveve, Inc. as of December 31, 2013+

     

 

(v)

Notes to Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Statements of PLC Systems Inc. and Viveve, Inc. +

 

+ Incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Commission on August 11, 2014.

 

(d)             Exhibits

 

Exhibit

No.

Description

 

 

2.1

Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated May 9, 2014, by and among Viveve, Inc., PLC Systems Inc. and PLC Systems Acquisition Corporation. (1)

2.2

Amendment to Agreement and Plan of Merger. (1)

2.3

RenalGuard Reorganization Agreement. (2)

3.1

Articles of Amendment to the Company’s Articles of Continuance dated September 23, 2014.*

4.1

Conversion Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and certain holders of 5% Senior Secured Convertible Debentures. (4)

4.2

Warrant Exchange Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and the holders of Warrants. (4)

4.3

Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant to be issued by the Company to the Investors. (4)

4.4

Common Stock Purchase Warrant, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and GBS Venture Partners Limited. (4)

10.1

Amendment to the Company’s 2013 Equity and Stock Option Plan (3)

10.2

Financial Advisory Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and Bezalel Partners, LLC. (4)

 

 

 
 

 

 

10.3

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

10.4

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

10.5

Form of Amendment to the Securities Purchase Agreement dated September 23, 2014.*

10.6

Escrow Deposit Agreement, dated May 9, 2014 by and among the Company, Palladium Capital Advisors LLC, Middlebury Securities and Signature Bank, as escrow agent. (4)

10.7

Registration Rights Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and the Investors. (4)

10.8

Right To Shares Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and GCP IV LLC. (4)

10.9 Employment Agreement dated as of May 14, 2012, by and between Viveve, Inc. and Patricia Scheller.*
10.10 Employment Agreement dated as of January 23, 2013, by and between Viveve, Inc. and Scott Durbin.*

16.1

Letter from McGladrey LLP, dated September 29, 2014.*

 

 

(1)

Incorporated by reference to Annex A to the Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Commission on August 11, 2014.

 

(2)

Incorporated by reference to Annex B to the Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Commission on August 11, 2014.

 

(3)

Incorporated by reference to Annex E to the Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Commission on August 11, 2014.

 

(4)

Incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on May 14, 2014.

 

 

 

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

* Filed herewith.

 

 

  

 
 

 

 

SIGNATURE

 

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

 

 Dated: September 29, 2014

 

 

 

VIVEVE MEDICAL, INC. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  By:  /s/ Patricia Scheller   

 

 

Patricia Scheller 

 

 

 

Chief Executive Officer 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit

No.

Description

2.1

Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated May 9, 2014, by and among Viveve, Inc., PLC Systems Inc. and PLC Systems Acquisition Corporation. (1)

2.2

Amendment to Agreement and Plan of Merger. (1)

2.3

RenalGuard Reorganization Agreement. (2)

3.1

Articles of Amendment to the Company’s Articles of Continuance dated September 23, 2014.*

4.1

Conversion Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and certain holders of 5% Senior Secured Convertible Debentures. (4)

4.2

Warrant Exchange Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and the holders of Warrants. (4)

4.3

Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant to be issued by the Company to the Investors. (4)

4.4

Common Stock Purchase Warrant, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and GBS Venture Partners Limited. (4)

10.1

Amendment to the Company’s 2013 Equity and Stock Option Plan (3)

10.2

Financial Advisory Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and Bezalel Partners, LLC. (4)

10.3

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

10.4

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

10.5

Form of Amendment to the Securities Purchase Agreement dated September 23, 2014.*

10.6

Escrow Deposit Agreement, dated May 9, 2014 by and among the Company, Palladium Capital Advisors LLC, Middlebury Securities and Signature Bank, as escrow agent. (4)

10.7

Registration Rights Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and the Investors. (4)

10.8

Right To Shares Agreement, dated May 9, 2014, by and between the Company and GCP IV LLC. (4)

10.9 Employment Agreement dated as of May 14, 2012, by and between Viveve, Inc. and Patricia Scheller.*
10.10 Employment Agreement dated as of January 23, 2013, by and between Viveve, Inc. and Scott Durbin.*

16.1

Letter from McGladrey LLP, dated September 29, 2014.*

 

 

(1)

Incorporated by reference to Annex A to the Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Commission on August 11, 2014.

 

(2)

Incorporated by reference to Annex B to the Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Commission on August 11, 2014.

 

(3)

Incorporated by reference to Annex E to the Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Commission on August 11, 2014.

 

(4)

Incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on May 14, 2014.

  

 

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

* Filed herewith.

 

 



Exhibit 3.1

 

BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT (YUKON)

(Section 30 or 179) 

Form 5-01

 

ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT

 

 

1.

Name of Corporation: PLC SYSTEMS INC. (the "Corporation")

 

2.

Corporate Access Number:     27034

 

3.

The Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation are amended pursuant to a Court Order:

 

 

YES __________

NO         X       

 

4.

The Articles of Continuance of the Corporation filed on March 12, 1999 and amended by Articles of Amendment filed on June 17, 2002 (the “Articles of Amendment”) be further amended as follows pursuant to a Special Resolution of the Corporation’s Shareholders dated as at September 18, 2014:

 

 

(a)

the Corporation consolidate all of its issued and outstanding Common Shares on the basis that One Hundred (100) issued and outstanding Common Shares shall be consolidated into one (1) issued and outstanding Common Share; and

 

 

(i)

no fractional Common Shares of the Corporation shall be issued in connection with the consolidation and in the event that the resultant number of shares held by any shareholder is not a whole number, then the number of Common Shares to be received by a shareholder shall be rounded up or down to the nearest whole number of Common Shares; and

 

 

(ii)

For greater certainty, the maximum number of Common Shares that the Corporation is authorized to issue shall remain at an unlimited number of Common Shares.

 

 

(b)

the name of the Corporation is changed to VIVEVE MEDICAL, INC.

 

 

(c)

Paragraphs (3), (4) and (5) of Appendix 2 attached to the Corporation’s Articles of Continuance, as amended by the Articles of Amendment, be deleted in their entirety.

  

 

(d)

    the following paragraphs be added as paragraphs (3) and (4) to Appendix 2 attached to the Corporation’s Articles of Continuance:

 

 

(3)

The directors or the shareholders may fix the number of directors to be elected at an annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation, provided that the number of directors fixed to be elected is neither greater than the maximum nor less than the minimum number of directors set out in paragraph 4 of the Articles of Continuance.

 

 

(4)

The Directors of the Corporation may, between annual meetings of the Corporation, appoint one or more additional Directors to serve until the next annual meeting but the number of additional Directors shall not at any time exceed one third of the number of Directors who held office at the expiration of the last annual meeting, and in no event shall the total number of Directors exceed the maximum number of Directors fixed pursuant to paragraph 4 of the Articles of Continuance.

 

 

5.

DATE

  

SIGNATURE

  

TITLE

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 September 23, 2014

  

/s/  Gregory Mann

  

 CFO

 

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Exhibit 10.3

 

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Commission” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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

 

 

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

 

Company Placement Agent” means Palladium Capital Advisors LLC.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Viveve Placement Agent” means Middlebury Securities.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

ARTICLE II.
PURCHASE AND SALE

 

2.1     Closing. On the Closing Date, which shall be simultaneous with the Closing under the Concurrent Agreement, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Company shall sell, and the Purchasers, severally and not jointly, shall purchase, up to $5,500,000.63 of Shares, which shall be aggregated with the $500,000.41 received pursuant to the Concurrent Agreement for a total offering amount of approximately $6,000,000, at a price per share equal to the Per Share Purchase Price. Each Purchaser (other than Purchasers to the extent the same are paying their Subscription Amount partly or wholly through cancellation of the Viveve Bridge Notes) shall deliver to the Escrow Agent, via wire transfer or a certified check, immediately available funds equal to such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount as set forth on the signature page hereto (or the balance of the Subscription Amount payable after giving effect to the cancellation of such Purchaser’s Viveve Bridge Notes) executed by such Purchaser. The Company shall deliver to each Purchaser (including, for clarity, those paying their Subscription Amount through cancellation of the Viveve Bridge Notes), its respective Shares and a Warrant, if applicable, as determined pursuant to Section 2.2(a)(iii), and the Company and each Purchaser shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.2 deliverable at the Closing. Upon satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set forth in Sections 2.2 and 2.3, the Closing shall occur at the offices of EGS or such other location as the parties shall mutually agree.

 

 

 
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2.2     Deliveries.

 

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

 

(i)     this Agreement duly executed by the Company;

 

(ii)     a legal opinion of company counsel dated the Closing Date, in the form reasonably acceptable to the Purchasers;

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

(i)     this Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser;

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

2.3     Closing Conditions.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

(iii)     the Merger shall have been consummated;

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

ARTICLE III.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

ARTICLE IV.
OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES

 

4.1     Transfer Restrictions.

 

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

 

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

 

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

  

 
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The Company acknowledges and agrees that a Purchaser may from time to time pledge pursuant to a bona fide margin agreement with a registered broker-dealer or grant a security interest in some or all of the Securities to a financial institution that is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and who agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement and, if required under the terms of such arrangement, such Purchaser may transfer pledged or secured Securities to the pledgees or secured parties. Such a pledge or transfer would not be subject to approval of the Company and no legal opinion of legal counsel of the pledgee, secured party or pledgor shall be required in connection therewith. Further, no notice shall be required of such pledge. At the appropriate Purchaser’s expense, the Company will execute and deliver such reasonable documentation as a pledgee or secured party of Securities may reasonably request in connection with a pledge or transfer of the Securities, including, if the Securities are subject to registration pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the preparation and filing of any required prospectus supplement under Rule 424(b)(3) under the Securities Act or other applicable provision of the Securities Act to appropriately amend the list of Selling Stockholders (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) thereunder.

 

(c)     Certificates evidencing the Shares and Warrant Shares shall not contain any legend (including the legend set forth in Section 4.1(b) hereof), (i) while a registration statement (including the Registration Statement) covering the resale of such security is effective under the Securities Act, (ii) following any sale of such Shares or Warrant Shares pursuant to Rule 144, (iii) if such Shares or Warrant Shares are eligible for sale under Rule 144, or (iv) if such legend is not required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission). The Company shall cause its counsel to issue a legal opinion to the Transfer Agent promptly if required by the Transfer Agent to effect the removal of the legend hereunder. If there is an effective registration statement to cover the resale of the Shares or Warrant Shares, or if such Shares or Warrant Shares may be sold under Rule 144 or if such legend is not otherwise required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission) then such Shares or Warrant Shares shall be issued free of all legends. The Company agrees that following the Effective Date or at such time as such legend is no longer required under this Section 4.1(c), it will, no later than three Trading Days following the delivery by a Purchaser to the Company or the Transfer Agent of a certificate representing Shares or Warrant Shares, as the case may be, issued with a restrictive legend (such third Trading Day, the “Legend Removal Date”), deliver or cause to be delivered to such Purchaser a certificate representing such shares that is free from all restrictive and other legends. The Company may not make any notation on its records or give instructions to the Transfer Agent that enlarge the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section 4. Certificates for Securities subject to legend removal hereunder shall be transmitted by the Transfer Agent to the Purchaser by crediting the account of the Purchaser’s prime broker with the Depository Trust Company System as directed by such Purchaser.

 

 

 
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(d)     In addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies, the Company shall pay to a Purchaser, in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for each $1,000 of Shares or Warrant Shares (based on the VWAP of the Common Stock on the date such Securities are submitted to the Transfer Agent) delivered for removal of the restrictive legend and subject to Section 4.1(c), $10 per Trading Day (increasing to $20 per Trading Day five (5) Trading Days after such damages have begun to accrue) for each Trading Day after the Legend Removal Date until such certificate is delivered without a legend. Nothing herein shall limit such Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the Company’s failure to deliver certificates representing any Securities as required by the Transaction Documents, and such Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief.

 

(e)     Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, agrees with the Company that such Purchaser will sell any Securities pursuant to either the registration requirements of the Securities Act, including any applicable prospectus delivery requirements, or an exemption therefrom, and that if Securities are sold pursuant to a Registration Statement, they will be sold in compliance with the plan of distribution set forth therein, and acknowledges that the removal of the restrictive legend from certificates representing Securities as set forth in this Section 4.1 is predicated upon the Company’s reliance upon this understanding.

 

4.2     Furnishing of Information; Public Information.

 

(a)     Until the time that no Purchaser owns any Securities, the Company covenants to maintain the registration of the Common Stock under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act and to timely file (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the Company after the date hereof pursuant to the Exchange Act even if the Company is not then subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act.

 

(b)     At any time during the period commencing from the one year anniversary of the date hereof and ending at such time that all of the Securities may be sold without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with Rule 144(c)(1) and otherwise without restriction or limitation pursuant to Rule 144, if the Company shall fail for any reason to satisfy the current public information requirement under Rule 144(c) (a “Public Information Failure”) then, in addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies, the Company shall pay to each Purchaser, in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, by reason of any such delay in or reduction of its ability to sell the Securities, an amount in cash equal to two percent (2.0%) of the aggregate Subscription Amount of such Purchaser’s Securities on the day of a Public Information Failure and on every thirtieth (30th) day (pro rated for periods totaling less than thirty days) thereafter until the earlier of (a) the date such Public Information Failure is cured and (b) such time that such public information is no longer required for the Purchasers to transfer the Shares and Warrant Shares without restriction or limitation pursuant to Rule 144.  The payments to which a Purchaser shall be entitled pursuant to this Section 4.2(b) are referred to herein as “Public Information Failure Payments.”  Public Information Failure Payments shall be paid on the earlier of (i) the last day of the calendar month during which such Public Information Failure Payments are incurred and (ii) the third (3rd) Trading Day after the event or failure giving rise to the Public Information Failure Payments is cured.  In the event the Company fails to make Public Information Failure Payments or amounts required to be paid under Section 4.1(d) in a timely manner, such unpaid amounts shall bear interest at the rate of 1.5% per month (prorated for partial months) until paid in full. Nothing herein shall limit such Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the Public Information Failure, and such Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief.

 

 

 
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4.3     Integration. The Company shall not sell, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that no Affiliate of the Company shall sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities in a manner that would require the registration under the Securities Act of the sale of the Securities or that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities for purposes of the rules and regulations of any Trading Market such that it would require shareholder approval prior to the closing of such other transaction unless shareholder approval is obtained before the closing of such subsequent transaction.

 

4.4     Securities Laws Disclosure; Publicity. The Company shall (a) by 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) on or before the fourth Trading Day immediately following the date hereof, issue a press release disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby, and (b) file a Current Report on Form 8-K, including the Transaction Documents as exhibits thereto, with the Commission within the time required by the Exchange Act. From and after the filing of the Proxy Statement, the Company represents to the Purchasers that it shall have publicly disclosed all material, non-public information delivered to any of the Purchasers by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees or agents in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Company and each Purchaser shall consult with each other in issuing any other press releases with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, and neither the Company nor any Purchaser shall issue any such press release nor otherwise make any such public statement without the prior consent of the Company, with respect to any press release of any Purchaser, or without the prior consent of each Purchaser, with respect to any press release of the Company, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed, except if such disclosure is required by law, in which case the disclosing party shall promptly provide the other party with prior notice of such public statement or communication. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not publicly disclose the name of any Purchaser, or include the name of any Purchaser in any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency or Trading Market, without the prior written consent of such Purchaser, except: (a) as required by federal securities law in connection with any registration statement contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement and (b) to the extent such disclosure is required by law or Trading Market regulations, in which case the Company shall provide the Purchasers with prior notice of such disclosure permitted under this clause (b).

 

 

 
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4.5     Shareholder Rights Plan. No claim will be made or enforced by the Company or, with the consent of the Company, any other Person, that any Purchaser is an “Acquiring Person” under any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or similar anti-takeover plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter adopted by the Company, or that any Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the provisions of any such plan or arrangement, by virtue of receiving Securities under the Transaction Documents or under any other agreement between the Company and the Purchasers.

 

4.6     Non-Public Information. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and the information set forth in the Proxy Statement, the Company covenants and agrees that neither it, nor any other Person acting on its behalf, will provide any Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any information that the Company believes constitutes material non-public information, unless prior thereto such Purchaser shall have entered into a written agreement with the Company regarding the confidentiality and use of such information. The Company understands and confirms that each Purchaser shall be relying on the foregoing covenant in effecting transactions in securities of the Company.

 

4.7     Use of Proceeds. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.7 attached hereto, the Company shall use the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder for working capital purposes and shall not use such proceeds: (a) for the satisfaction of any portion of the Company’s debt (other than payment of trade payables in the ordinary course of the Company’s business and prior practices), (b) for the redemption of any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents, (c) for the settlement of any outstanding litigation or (d) in violation of FCPA or OFAC regulations.

 

 

 
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4.8     Indemnification of Purchasers. Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.8, the Company will indemnify and hold each Purchaser and its directors, officers, shareholders, members, partners, employees and agents (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each Person who controls such Purchaser (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, shareholders, agents, members, partners or employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling persons (each, a “Purchaser Party”) harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, obligations, claims, contingencies, damages, costs and expenses, including all judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation that any such Purchaser Party may suffer or incur as a result of or relating to (a) any breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by the Company in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents or (b) any action instituted against the Purchaser Parties in any capacity, or any of them or their respective Affiliates, by any stockholder of the Company who is not an Affiliate of such Purchaser Parties, with respect to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (unless such action is based upon a breach of such Purchaser Party’s representations, warranties or covenants under the Transaction Documents or any agreements or understandings such Purchaser Parties may have with any such stockholder or any violations by such Purchaser Parties of Canadian, provincial, U.S. state or federal securities laws or any conduct by such Purchaser Parties which constitutes fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct or malfeasance). If any action shall be brought against any Purchaser Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement, such Purchaser Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing, and the Company shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser Party. Any Purchaser Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Purchaser Party except to the extent that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Company in writing, (ii) the Company has failed after a reasonable period of time to assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action there is, in the reasonable opinion of counsel, a material conflict on any material issue between the position of the Company and the position of such Purchaser Party, in which case the Company shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than one such separate counsel. The Company will not be liable to any Purchaser Party under this Agreement (y) for any settlement by a Purchaser Party effected without the Company’s prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (z) to the extent, but only to the extent, that a loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to any Purchaser Party’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by such Purchaser Party in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents. The indemnification required by this Section 4.8 shall be made by periodic payments of the amount thereof during the course of the investigation or defense, as and when bills are received or are incurred. The indemnity agreements contained herein shall be in addition to any cause of action or similar right of any Purchaser Party against the Company or others and any liabilities the Company may be subject to pursuant to law.

 

4.9     Reservation of Common Stock. As of the date hereof, the Company has reserved and the Company shall continue to reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to issue Shares pursuant to this Agreement and the Warrant Shares pursuant to any exercise of the Warrants.

 

4.10     Listing of Common Stock. The Company hereby agrees to use best efforts to maintain the listing or quotation of the Common Stock on the Trading Market on which it is currently listed, and concurrently with the Closing, the Company shall, to the extent required, apply to list or quote all of the Shares and Warrant Shares on such Trading Market and promptly secure the listing of all of the Shares and Warrant Shares on such Trading Market. The Company further agrees, if the Company applies to have the Common Stock traded on any other Trading Market, it will then include in such application all of the Shares and Warrant Shares, and will take such other action as is necessary to cause all of the Shares and Warrant Shares to be listed or quoted on such other Trading Market as promptly as possible. The Company will then take all action reasonably necessary to continue the listing or quotation and trading of its Common Stock on a Trading Market and will comply in all respects with the Company’s reporting, filing and other obligations under the bylaws or rules of the Trading Market. The Company agrees to maintain the eligibility of the Common Stock for electronic transfer through the Depository Trust Company or another established clearing corporation, including, without limitation, by timely payment of fees to the Depository Trust Company or such other established clearing corporation in connection with such electronic transfer.

 

 

 
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4.11     [RESERVED]

 

4.12     Subsequent Equity Sales. From the date hereof until the one (1) year anniversary of the Closing Date, the Company shall be prohibited from effecting or entering into an agreement to effect any issuance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents (or a combination of units thereof) involving a Variable Rate Transaction. “Variable Rate Transaction” means a transaction in which the Company (i) issues or sells any debt or equity securities that are convertible into, exchangeable or exercisable for, or include the right to receive, additional shares of Common Stock either (A) at a conversion price, exercise price or exchange rate or other price that is based upon, and/or varies with, the trading prices of or quotations for the shares of Common Stock at any time after the initial issuance of such debt or equity securities or (B) with a conversion, exercise or exchange price that is subject to being reset at some future date after the initial issuance of such debt or equity security or upon the occurrence of specified or contingent events directly or indirectly related to the business of the Company or the market for the Common Stock or (ii) enters into any agreement, including, but not limited to, an equity line of credit, whereby the Company may issue securities at a future determined price. Any Purchaser shall be entitled to obtain injunctive relief against the Company to preclude any such issuance, which remedy shall be in addition to any right to collect damages.

 

4.13     Equal Treatment of Purchasers. No consideration (including any modification of any Transaction Document) shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of this Agreement unless the same consideration is also offered to all of the parties to this Agreement. For clarification purposes, this provision constitutes a separate right granted to each Purchaser by the Company and negotiated separately by each Purchaser, and is intended for the Company to treat the Purchasers as a class and shall not in any way be construed as the Purchasers acting in concert or as a group with respect to the purchase, disposition or voting of Securities or otherwise.

 

4.14     Certain Transactions and Confidentiality. Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that neither it, nor any Affiliate acting on its behalf or pursuant to any understanding with it will execute any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of any of the Company’s securities during the period commencing with the execution of this Agreement and ending at such time that the Proxy Statement is filed.  Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that until such time as the Proxy Statement is filed, such Purchaser will maintain the confidentiality of any information provided to it in connection with the Transaction Documents.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, and notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, the Company expressly acknowledges and agrees that (i) no Purchaser makes any representation, warranty or covenant hereby that it will not engage in effecting transactions in any securities of the Company after the time that the Proxy Statement is filed, (ii) no Purchaser shall be restricted or prohibited from effecting any transactions in any securities of the Company in accordance with applicable securities laws from and after the time that the Proxy Statement is filed and (iii) no Purchaser shall have any duty of confidentiality to the Company or its Subsidiaries after the Proxy Statement is filed.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Purchaser’s assets, the covenant set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement.

 

 

 
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4.15     Per Share Price Protection.

 

(a)     From the date hereof until such date that the Company consummates a Subsequent Financing with gross cash proceeds of at least $2.5 million at an effective per share purchase price equal to at least $0.53 (subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits and the like after the date hereof), if and whenever the Company or any Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, issues or sells (whether through a Subsequent Financing or otherwise) any shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents (including the issuance or sale of shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents owned or held by or for the account of the Company) for a consideration per share that is less than the Per Share Purchase Price (adjusted for stock splits, combinations, dividends and the like occurring after the Closing Date) (such lesser price is referred to herein as the “Discounted Per Share Purchase Price”) (the foregoing a “Dilutive Issuance”), then immediately after such Dilutive Issuance, the Company shall issue to each Purchaser, without the payment of additional consideration, in connection with such Dilutive Issuance, a number of additional shares of Common Stock equal to the product of (i) the fraction obtained by dividing (A) the sum of the number of Initial Shares and Additional Shares then held by such Purchaser on the date of the Dilutive Issuance by (B) the sum of the number of Initial Shares issued to such Purchaser on the Closing Date and all Additional Shares previously reserved for issuance to such Purchaser after the Closing Date, multiplied by (ii) the difference between (A) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that would have been issued to such Purchaser at the Closing if the Subscription Amount was divided by the Discounted Per Share Purchase Price minus (B) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock equal to the sum of the Initial Shares (as defined below), plus, to the extent there has been a previous reservation of Additional Shares (as defined below) to such Purchaser, the number of Additional Shares previously reserved for issuance to such Purchaser. For purposes of this Section 4.15, (I) “Additional Shares” means, with respect to the applicable Purchaser, shares of Common Stock issued to such Purchaser pursuant to this Section 4.15 (adjusted for stock splits, combinations, dividends and the like occurring after the Closing Date); and (II) “Initial Shares” means, with respect to the applicable Purchaser, the number of shares of Common Stock issued to such Purchaser on the Closing Date (adjusted for stock splits, combinations, dividends and the like occurring after the Closing Date)

 

 

 
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(b)     In implementation of the foregoing, to the extent that an issuance of Additional Shares would result in a Purchaser or any of its affiliates beneficially owning in excess of 4.9% (the “Maximum Percentage”) of the Common Stock, then the Company shall initially issue only such number of Additional Shares that would result in such Purchaser (together with such Purchaser’s affiliates) beneficially owning the Maximum Percentage of the Common Stock, and, except as otherwise provided below, no other Additional Shares shall be issuable under this Section 4.15. After such initial issuance, and until all Additional Shares which otherwise would have been issued under this Section 4.15 have been issued, from time to time the Company will issue such number of such unissued Additional Shares so that such Purchaser (together such Purchaser’s affiliates) will beneficially own only the Maximum Percentage of the Common Stock. Such Purchaser shall make written representations and warranties to the Company regarding its (together with its affiliates’) beneficial ownership to effectuate the foregoing. The provisions of this paragraph shall be implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms this paragraph to correct this paragraph (or any portion hereof) which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended Maximum Percentage beneficial ownership limitation herein contained or to make changes or supplements necessary or desirable to properly give effect to such Maximum Percentage limitation. The limitations contained in this paragraph shall apply to assignees of such Purchaser hereunder. The holders of Common Stock of the Company shall be third party beneficiaries of this paragraph and the Company may not waive this paragraph without the consent of holders of a majority of its Common Stock. For the purposes of this paragraph, beneficial ownership and all determinations and calculations (including, without limitation, with respect to calculations of percentage ownership) shall be determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

(c)     If shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents are issued for a consideration other than cash, the per share price shall be the fair value of such consideration as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company. For the purposes of this Section 4.15, the “price per share for which one share of Common Stock is issuable upon the conversion, exercise or exchange of any Common Stock Equivalents” shall be equal to the sum of the lowest amounts of consideration (if any) received or receivable by the Company with respect to one share of Common Stock upon the issuance or sale of such Common Stock Equivalents and upon conversion, exercise or exchange of such Common Stock Equivalents. The Company may not refuse to issue to a Purchaser Additional Shares hereunder based on any claim that such Purchaser or any one associated or affiliated with such Purchaser has been engaged in any violation of law, agreement or for any other reason, unless, an injunction from a court, on notice, restraining and or enjoining an issuance hereunder shall have been sought and obtained. Nothing herein shall limit a Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the Company’s failure to deliver Additional Shares hereunder, and such Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief. On the date of closing of any transaction pursuant to which securities are issued for a Discounted Per Share Purchase Price, the Company shall give each of the Purchasers written notice thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein in this Section 4.15, this Section 4.15 shall not apply to an Exempt Issuance. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the right set forth in this Section 4.15 is a right granted by the Company, separately, to each Purchaser.

 

4.16     Form D; Blue Sky Filings. The Company agrees to timely file (i) a Form D with respect to the Securities as required under Regulation D and to provide a copy thereof, promptly upon request of any Purchaser and (ii) all of the other Required Approvals when due or required for filing. The Company shall take such action as the Company shall reasonably determine is necessary in order to obtain an exemption for, or to qualify the Securities for, sale to the Purchasers at the Closing under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of the United States, and shall provide evidence of such actions promptly upon request of any Purchaser.

 

 

 
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4.17     Acknowledgment of Dilution. The Company acknowledges that the issuance of the Securities may result in dilution of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, which dilution may be substantial under certain market conditions. The Company further acknowledges that its obligations under the Transaction Documents, including, without limitation, its obligation to issue the Shares and Warrant Shares pursuant to the Transaction Documents, are unconditional and absolute and not subject to any right of set off, counterclaim, delay or reduction, regardless of the effect of any such dilution or any claim the Company may have against any Purchaser and regardless of the dilutive effect that such issuance may have on the ownership of the other stockholders of the Company.

 

 

 

ARTICLE V.
MISCELLANEOUS

 

5.1     Termination.  This Agreement may be terminated by any Purchaser, as to such Purchaser’s obligations hereunder only and without any effect whatsoever on the obligations between the Company and the other Purchasers, by written notice to the other parties, if the Closing has not been consummated on or before October 31, 2014; provided, however, that such termination will not affect the right of any party to sue for any breach by any other party (or parties).

 

5.2     Fees and Expenses. At the Closing, the Company and the Purchasers shall each pay the fees and expenses of their respective advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses incurred by such party in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and related hereto, including, without limitation, the Merger; provided, however, the Company acknowledges the Parent Professional Fees (as defined in and required by the Merger Agreement) shall be paid at the closing of the Merger. The Company shall pay all Transfer Agent fees (including, without limitation, any fees required for same-day processing of any instruction letter delivered by the Company and any exercise notice delivered by a Purchaser), stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of any Securities to the Purchasers.

 

5.3     Entire Agreement. The Transaction Documents, together with the exhibits and schedules thereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and schedules.

 

5.4     Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of: (a) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto at or prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the second (2nd) Trading Day following the date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (d) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given. The address for such notices and communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto.

 

 

 
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5.5     Amendments; Waivers. No provision of this Agreement may be waived, modified, supplemented or amended except in a written instrument signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Company and the Purchasers holding at least 67% in interest of the Shares (based on initial Subscription Amounts hereunder) or, in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom enforcement of any such waived provision is sought. No waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right.

 

5.6     Headings. The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.

 

5.7     Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns. The Company may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Purchaser (other than by merger). Any Purchaser may assign any or all of its rights under this Agreement to any Person to whom such Purchaser assigns or transfers any Securities, provided that such transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with respect to the transferred Securities, by the provisions of the Transaction Documents that apply to the “Purchasers.”

 

5.8     No Third-Party Beneficiaries. . This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person, except as otherwise set forth in Section 4.8.

 

5.9     Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of the Transaction Documents shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, partners, members, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. If any party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction Documents, then in addition to the obligations of the Company under Section 4.8, the prevailing party in such action, suit or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding.

 

 

 
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5.10     Survival. The representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the Closing and the delivery of the Securities.

 

5.11     Execution. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to each other party, it being understood that the parties need not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an original thereof.

 

5.12     Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.

 

5.13     Rescission and Withdrawal Right. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in (and without limiting any similar provisions of) any of the other Transaction Documents, whenever any Purchaser exercises a right, election, demand or option under a Transaction Document and the Company does not timely perform its related obligations within the periods therein provided, then such Purchaser may rescind or withdraw, in its sole discretion from time to time upon written notice to the Company, any relevant notice, demand or election in whole or in part without prejudice to its future actions and rights; provided, however, that in the case of a rescission of an exercise of a Warrant, the applicable Purchaser shall be required to return any shares of Common Stock subject to any such rescinded exercise notice concurrently with the return to such Purchaser of the aggregate exercise price paid to the Company for such shares and the restoration of such Purchaser’s right to acquire such shares pursuant to such Purchaser’s Warrant (including, issuance of a replacement warrant certificate evidencing such restored right).

 

 

 
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5.14     Replacement of Securities. If any certificate or instrument evidencing any Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof (in the case of mutilation), or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction. The applicant for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable third-party costs (including customary indemnity) associated with the issuance of such replacement Securities.

 

5.15     Remedies. In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, each of the Purchasers and the Company will be entitled to specific performance under the Transaction Documents. The parties agree that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of obligations contained in the Transaction Documents and hereby agree to waive and not to assert in any action for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

 

5.16     Payment Set Aside. To the extent that the Company makes a payment or payments to any Purchaser pursuant to any Transaction Document or a Purchaser enforces or exercises its rights thereunder, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or exercise or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside, recovered from, disgorged by or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored to the Company, a trustee, receiver or any other Person under any law (including, without limitation, any bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause of action), then to the extent of any such restoration the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred.

 

5.17     Independent Nature of Purchasers’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of each Purchaser under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Purchaser, and no Purchaser shall be responsible in any way for the performance or non-performance of the obligations of any other Purchaser under any Transaction Document. Nothing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Purchaser pursuant hereof or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose. Each Purchaser has been represented by its own separate legal counsel in its review and negotiation of the Transaction Documents. For reasons of administrative convenience only, each Purchaser and its respective counsel have chosen to communicate with the Company through EGS. EGS does not represent any of the Purchasers and only represents Genesis Capital Advisors LLC. The Company has elected to provide all Purchasers with the same terms and Transaction Documents for the convenience of the Company and not because it was required or requested to do so by any of the Purchasers.

 

 

 
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5.18     Liquidated Damages.  The Company’s obligations to pay any partial liquidated damages or other amounts owing under the Transaction Documents is a continuing obligation of the Company and shall not terminate until all unpaid partial liquidated damages and other amounts have been paid notwithstanding the fact that the instrument or security pursuant to which such partial liquidated damages or other amounts are due and payable shall have been canceled.

 

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

 

5.20     Construction. The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel have reviewed and had an opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the normal rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation of the Transaction Documents or any amendments thereto. In addition, each and every reference to share prices and shares of Common Stock in any Transaction Document shall be subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement.

 

5.21     WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING IN ANY JURISDICTION BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY, THE PARTIES EACH KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY, TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HEREBY ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY, IRREVOCABLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES FOREVER ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY.

 

 

 

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

 

 

PLC SYSTEMS INC.

 

Address for Notice:

By:__________________________________________

     Name:

     Title:

With a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):

Fax:

 

 

 

 

 

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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO PLC SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT]

 

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

 

Name of Purchaser: ________________________________________________________

 

Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser: __________________________________

 

Name of Authorized Signatory: ____________________________________________________

 

Title of Authorized Signatory: _____________________________________________________

 

Email Address of Authorized Signatory: ______________________________________________

 

Facsimile Number of Authorized Signatory: _____________________________________________

 

Address for Notice to Purchaser:

 

 

 

 

Address for Delivery of Securities to Purchaser (if not same as address for notice):

 

 

 

 

 

Subscription Amount: $_________________

 

Principal Amount, plus accrued but unpaid interest

of Viveve Bridge Note: $__________________

 

Shares: _________________

 

 

EIN Number: _______________________

 

 

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Schedule A

 

NAME OF PURCHASER        

NUMBER OF WARRANT SHARES

 

 

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Exhibit 10.4

  

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

  

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

 

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

 

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

 

ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Commission” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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

 

 

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

 

Company Placement Agent” means Palladium Capital Advisors LLC.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

Trust” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.11(a).

 

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

 

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

 

Viveve Placement Agent” means Middlebury Securities.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

ARTICLE II.
PURCHASE AND SALE

 

2.1     Closing. On the Closing Date, which shall be simultaneous with the Closing under the Concurrent Agreement, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Company shall sell, and the Purchasers, severally and not jointly, shall purchase, up to $500,000.41 of Shares, which shall be aggregated with the $5,500,000.63 received pursuant to the Concurrent Agreement for a total offering amount of approximately $6,000,000, at a price per share equal to the Per Share Purchase Price. Each Purchaser (other than Purchasers to the extent the same are paying their Subscription Amount partly or wholly through cancellation of the Viveve Bridge Notes) shall deliver to the Escrow Agent, via wire transfer or a certified check, immediately available funds equal to such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount as set forth on the signature page (or the balance of the Subscription Amount payable after giving effect to the cancellation of such Purchaser’s Viveve Bridge Notes) executed by such Purchaser. The Company shall deliver to each Purchaser (including, for clarity, those paying their Subscription Amount through cancellation of the Viveve Bridge Notes), its respective Shares and a Warrant, if applicable, as determined pursuant to Section 2.2(a)(iii), and the Company and each Purchaser shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.2 deliverable at the Closing. Upon satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set forth in Sections 2.2 and 2.3, the Closing shall occur at the offices of EGS or such other location as the parties shall mutually agree.

 

 

 
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2.2     Deliveries.

 

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

 

(i)     this Agreement duly executed by the Company;

 

(ii)     a legal opinion of company counsel dated the Closing Date, in the form reasonably acceptable to the Purchasers;

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

(i)     this Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser;

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

2.3     Closing Conditions.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

(iii)     the Merger shall have been consummated;

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

ARTICLE III.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

ARTICLE IV.
OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES

 

4.1     Transfer Restrictions.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

 
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The Company acknowledges and agrees that a Purchaser may from time to time pledge pursuant to a bona fide margin agreement with a registered broker-dealer or grant a security interest in some or all of the Securities to a financial institution that is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and who agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement and, if required under the terms of such arrangement, such Purchaser may transfer pledged or secured Securities to the pledgees or secured parties. Such a pledge or transfer would not be subject to approval of the Company and no legal opinion of legal counsel of the pledgee, secured party or pledgor shall be required in connection therewith. Further, no notice shall be required of such pledge. At the appropriate Purchaser’s expense, the Company will execute and deliver such reasonable documentation as a pledgee or secured party of Securities may reasonably request in connection with a pledge or transfer of the Securities, including, if the Securities are subject to registration pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the preparation and filing of any required prospectus supplement under Rule 424(b)(3) under the Securities Act or other applicable provision of the Securities Act to appropriately amend the list of Selling Stockholders (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) thereunder.

 

(c)     Certificates evidencing the Shares and Warrant Shares shall not contain any legend (including the legend set forth in Section 4.1(b) hereof), (i) while a registration statement (including the Registration Statement) covering the resale of such security is effective under the Securities Act, (ii) following any sale of such Shares or Warrant Shares pursuant to Rule 144, (iii) if such Shares or Warrant Shares are eligible for sale under Rule 144, or (iv) if such legend is not required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission). The Company shall cause its counsel to issue a legal opinion to the Transfer Agent promptly if required by the Transfer Agent to effect the removal of the legend hereunder. If there is an effective registration statement to cover the resale of the Shares or Warrant Shares, or if such Shares or Warrant Shares may be sold under Rule 144 or if such legend is not otherwise required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission) then such Shares or Warrant Shares shall be issued free of all legends. The Company agrees that following the Effective Date or at such time as such legend is no longer required under this Section 4.1(c), it will, no later than three Trading Days following the delivery by a Purchaser to the Company or the Transfer Agent of a certificate representing Shares or Warrant Shares, as the case may be, issued with a restrictive legend (such third Trading Day, the “Legend Removal Date”), deliver or cause to be delivered to such Purchaser a certificate representing such shares that is free from all restrictive and other legends. The Company may not make any notation on its records or give instructions to the Transfer Agent that enlarge the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section 4. Certificates for Securities subject to legend removal hereunder shall be transmitted by the Transfer Agent to the Purchaser by crediting the account of the Purchaser’s prime broker with the Depository Trust Company System as directed by such Purchaser.

 

 

 
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(d)     In addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies, the Company shall pay to a Purchaser, in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for each $1,000 of Shares or Warrant Shares (based on the VWAP of the Common Stock on the date such Securities are submitted to the Transfer Agent) delivered for removal of the restrictive legend and subject to Section 4.1(c), $10 per Trading Day (increasing to $20 per Trading Day five (5) Trading Days after such damages have begun to accrue) for each Trading Day after the Legend Removal Date until such certificate is delivered without a legend. Nothing herein shall limit such Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the Company’s failure to deliver certificates representing any Securities as required by the Transaction Documents, and such Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief.

 

(e)     Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, agrees with the Company that such Purchaser will sell any Securities pursuant to either the registration requirements of the Securities Act, including any applicable prospectus delivery requirements, or an exemption therefrom, and that if Securities are sold pursuant to a Registration Statement, they will be sold in compliance with the plan of distribution set forth therein, and acknowledges that the removal of the restrictive legend from certificates representing Securities as set forth in this Section 4.1 is predicated upon the Company’s reliance upon this understanding.

 

4.2     Furnishing of Information; Public Information.

 

(a)     Until the time that no Purchaser owns any Securities, the Company covenants to maintain the registration of the Common Stock under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act and to timely file (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the Company after the date hereof pursuant to the Exchange Act even if the Company is not then subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act.

 

 

 
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(b)     At any time during the period commencing from the one year anniversary of the date hereof and ending at such time that all of the Securities may be sold without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with Rule 144(c)(1) and otherwise without restriction or limitation pursuant to Rule 144, if the Company shall fail for any reason to satisfy the current public information requirement under Rule 144(c) (a “Public Information Failure”) then, in addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies, the Company shall pay to each Purchaser, in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, by reason of any such delay in or reduction of its ability to sell the Securities, an amount in cash equal to two percent (2.0%) of the aggregate Subscription Amount of such Purchaser’s Securities on the day of a Public Information Failure and on every thirtieth (30th) day (pro rated for periods totaling less than thirty days) thereafter until the earlier of (a) the date such Public Information Failure is cured and (b) such time that such public information is no longer required for the Purchasers to transfer the Shares and Warrant Shares without restriction or limitation pursuant to Rule 144.  The payments to which a Purchaser shall be entitled pursuant to this Section 4.2(b) are referred to herein as “Public Information Failure Payments.”  Public Information Failure Payments shall be paid on the earlier of (i) the last day of the calendar month during which such Public Information Failure Payments are incurred and (ii) the third (3rd) Trading Day after the event or failure giving rise to the Public Information Failure Payments is cured.  In the event the Company fails to make Public Information Failure Payments or amounts required to be paid under Section 4.1(d) in a timely manner, such unpaid amounts shall bear interest at the rate of 1.5% per month (prorated for partial months) until paid in full. Nothing herein shall limit such Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the Public Information Failure, and such Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief.

 

4.3     Integration. The Company shall not sell, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that no Affiliate of the Company shall sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities in a manner that would require the registration under the Securities Act of the sale of the Securities or that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities for purposes of the rules and regulations of any Trading Market such that it would require shareholder approval prior to the closing of such other transaction unless shareholder approval is obtained before the closing of such subsequent transaction.

 

4.4     Securities Laws Disclosure; Publicity. The Company shall (a) by 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) on or before the fourth Trading Day immediately following the date hereof, issue a press release disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby, and (b) file a Current Report on Form 8-K, including the Transaction Documents as exhibits thereto, with the Commission within the time required by the Exchange Act. From and after the filing of the Proxy Statement, the Company represents to the Purchasers that it shall have publicly disclosed all material, non-public information delivered to any of the Purchasers by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees or agents in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Company and each Purchaser shall consult with each other in issuing any other press releases with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, and neither the Company nor any Purchaser shall issue any such press release nor otherwise make any such public statement without the prior consent of the Company, with respect to any press release of any Purchaser, or without the prior consent of each Purchaser, with respect to any press release of the Company, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed, except if such disclosure is required by law, in which case the disclosing party shall promptly provide the other party with prior notice of such public statement or communication. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not publicly disclose the name of any Purchaser, or include the name of any Purchaser in any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency or Trading Market, without the prior written consent of such Purchaser, except: (a) as required by federal securities law in connection with any registration statement contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement and (b) to the extent such disclosure is required by law or Trading Market regulations, in which case the Company shall provide the Purchasers with prior notice of such disclosure permitted under this clause (b).

 

 

 
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4.5     Shareholder Rights Plan. No claim will be made or enforced by the Company or, with the consent of the Company, any other Person, that any Purchaser is an “Acquiring Person” under any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or similar anti-takeover plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter adopted by the Company, or that any Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the provisions of any such plan or arrangement, by virtue of receiving Securities under the Transaction Documents or under any other agreement between the Company and the Purchasers.

 

4.6     Non-Public Information. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and the information set forth in the Proxy Statement, the Company covenants and agrees that neither it, nor any other Person acting on its behalf, will provide any Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any information that the Company believes constitutes material non-public information, unless prior thereto such Purchaser shall have entered into a written agreement with the Company regarding the confidentiality and use of such information. The Company understands and confirms that each Purchaser shall be relying on the foregoing covenant in effecting transactions in securities of the Company.

 

4.7     Use of Proceeds. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.7 attached hereto, the Company shall use the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder for working capital purposes and shall not use such proceeds: (a) for the satisfaction of any portion of the Company’s debt (other than payment of trade payables in the ordinary course of the Company’s business and prior practices), (b) for the redemption of any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents, (c) for the settlement of any outstanding litigation or (d) in violation of FCPA or OFAC regulations.

 

4.8     Indemnification of Purchasers. Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.8, the Company will indemnify and hold each Purchaser and its directors, officers, shareholders, members, partners, employees and agents (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each Person who controls such Purchaser (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, shareholders, agents, members, partners or employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling persons (each, a “Purchaser Party”) harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, obligations, claims, contingencies, damages, costs and expenses, including all judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation that any such Purchaser Party may suffer or incur as a result of or relating to (a) any breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by the Company in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents or (b) any action instituted against the Purchaser Parties in any capacity, or any of them or their respective Affiliates, by any stockholder of the Company who is not an Affiliate of such Purchaser Parties, with respect to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (unless such action is based upon a breach of such Purchaser Party’s representations, warranties or covenants under the Transaction Documents or any agreements or understandings such Purchaser Parties may have with any such stockholder or any violations by such Purchaser Parties of Canadian, provincial, U.S. state or federal securities laws or any conduct by such Purchaser Parties which constitutes fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct or malfeasance). If any action shall be brought against any Purchaser Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement, such Purchaser Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing, and the Company shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser Party. Any Purchaser Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Purchaser Party except to the extent that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Company in writing, (ii) the Company has failed after a reasonable period of time to assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action there is, in the reasonable opinion of counsel, a material conflict on any material issue between the position of the Company and the position of such Purchaser Party, in which case the Company shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than one such separate counsel. The Company will not be liable to any Purchaser Party under this Agreement (y) for any settlement by a Purchaser Party effected without the Company’s prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (z) to the extent, but only to the extent, that a loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to any Purchaser Party’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by such Purchaser Party in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents. The indemnification required by this Section 4.8 shall be made by periodic payments of the amount thereof during the course of the investigation or defense, as and when bills are received or are incurred. The indemnity agreements contained herein shall be in addition to any cause of action or similar right of any Purchaser Party against the Company or others and any liabilities the Company may be subject to pursuant to law.

 

 

 
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4.9     Reservation of Common Stock. As of the date hereof, the Company has reserved and the Company shall continue to reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to issue Shares pursuant to this Agreement and the Warrant Shares pursuant to any exercise of the Warrants.

 

4.10     Listing of Common Stock. The Company hereby agrees to use best efforts to maintain the listing or quotation of the Common Stock on the Trading Market on which it is currently listed, and concurrently with the Closing, the Company shall, to the extent required, apply to list or quote all of the Shares and Warrant Shares on such Trading Market and promptly secure the listing of all of the Shares and Warrant Shares on such Trading Market. The Company further agrees, if the Company applies to have the Common Stock traded on any other Trading Market, it will then include in such application all of the Shares and Warrant Shares, and will take such other action as is necessary to cause all of the Shares and Warrant Shares to be listed or quoted on such other Trading Market as promptly as possible. The Company will then take all action reasonably necessary to continue the listing or quotation and trading of its Common Stock on a Trading Market and will comply in all respects with the Company’s reporting, filing and other obligations under the bylaws or rules of the Trading Market. The Company agrees to maintain the eligibility of the Common Stock for electronic transfer through the Depository Trust Company or another established clearing corporation, including, without limitation, by timely payment of fees to the Depository Trust Company or such other established clearing corporation in connection with such electronic transfer.

 

 

 
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4.11     Limitation of Liability and Obligations.

 

(a)     GBS Venture Partners enters into this Agreement only in its capacity as responsible entity of the GBS BioVentures III Trust (the “Trust”) and in no other capacity. A liability arising under or in connection with this Agreement is limited to, and can be enforced against GBS Venture Partners only to the extent to which it can be satisfied out of the assets of the Trust from which GBS Venture Partners is actually indemnified for the liability. This limitation of GBS Venture Partners’ liability applies despite any other provision of this Agreement and extends to all liabilities and obligations of GBS Venture Partners in any way connected with any representation, warranty, conduct, omission, agreement or transaction related to this Agreement.

 

(b)     No party may sue GBS Venture Partners in any capacity other than as responsible entity of the Trust, including seek the appointment of a receiver (except in relation to property of the Trust), a liquidator, an administrator, or any similar person to GBS Venture Partners or prove in any liquidation, administration or arrangement of or affecting GBS Venture Partners (except in relation to property of the Trust).

 

(c)     The provisions of this Section 4.11 do not apply to any obligation or liability of GBS Venture Partners to the extent that it is not satisfied because under the deed governing the Trust, or by operation of law, there is a reduction in the extent of GBS Venture Partners’ indemnification out of the assets of the Trust, as a result of GBS Venture Partners fraud, negligence or breach of trust.

 

(d)     No attorney, agent, receiver or receiver and manager appointed in accordance with this Agreement has authority to act on behalf of GBS Venture Partners in a way which exposes GBS Venture Partners to any personal liability, and no act or omission of any such person will be considered fraud, negligence or breach of trust of GBS Venture Partners for the purpose of subsection 4.11(c).

 

4.12     Subsequent Equity Sales. From the date hereof until the one (1) year anniversary of the Closing Date, the Company shall be prohibited from effecting or entering into an agreement to effect any issuance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents (or a combination of units thereof) involving a Variable Rate Transaction. “Variable Rate Transaction” means a transaction in which the Company (i) issues or sells any debt or equity securities that are convertible into, exchangeable or exercisable for, or include the right to receive, additional shares of Common Stock either (A) at a conversion price, exercise price or exchange rate or other price that is based upon, and/or varies with, the trading prices of or quotations for the shares of Common Stock at any time after the initial issuance of such debt or equity securities or (B) with a conversion, exercise or exchange price that is subject to being reset at some future date after the initial issuance of such debt or equity security or upon the occurrence of specified or contingent events directly or indirectly related to the business of the Company or the market for the Common Stock or (ii) enters into any agreement, including, but not limited to, an equity line of credit, whereby the Company may issue securities at a future determined price. Any Purchaser shall be entitled to obtain injunctive relief against the Company to preclude any such issuance, which remedy shall be in addition to any right to collect damages.

 

 

 
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4.13     Equal Treatment of Purchasers. No consideration (including any modification of any Transaction Document) shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of this Agreement unless the same consideration is also offered to all of the parties to this Agreement. For clarification purposes, this provision constitutes a separate right granted to each Purchaser by the Company and negotiated separately by each Purchaser, and is intended for the Company to treat the Purchasers as a class and shall not in any way be construed as the Purchasers acting in concert or as a group with respect to the purchase, disposition or voting of Securities or otherwise.

 

4.14     Certain Transactions and Confidentiality. Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that neither it, nor any Affiliate acting on its behalf or pursuant to any understanding with it will execute any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of any of the Company’s securities during the period commencing with the execution of this Agreement and ending at such time that the Proxy Statement is filed.  Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that until such time as the Proxy Statement is filed, such Purchaser will maintain the confidentiality of any information provided to it in connection with the Transaction Documents.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, and notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, the Company expressly acknowledges and agrees that (i) no Purchaser makes any representation, warranty or covenant hereby that it will not engage in effecting transactions in any securities of the Company after the time that the Proxy Statement is filed, (ii) no Purchaser shall be restricted or prohibited from effecting any transactions in any securities of the Company in accordance with applicable securities laws from and after the time that the Proxy Statement is filed and (iii) no Purchaser shall have any duty of confidentiality to the Company or its Subsidiaries after the Proxy Statement is filed.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Purchaser’s assets, the covenant set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement.

 

 

 
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4.15     Per Share Price Protection.

 

(a)     From the date hereof until such date that the Company consummates a Subsequent Financing with gross cash proceeds of at least $2.5 million at an effective per share purchase price equal to at least $0.53 (subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits and the like after the date hereof), if and whenever the Company or any Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, issues or sells (whether through a Subsequent Financing or otherwise) any shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents (including the issuance or sale of shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents owned or held by or for the account of the Company) for a consideration per share that is less than the Per Share Purchase Price (adjusted for stock splits, combinations, dividends and the like occurring after the Closing Date) (such lesser price is referred to herein as the “Discounted Per Share Purchase Price”) (the foregoing a “Dilutive Issuance”), then immediately after such Dilutive Issuance, the Company shall issue to each Purchaser, without the payment of additional consideration, in connection with such Dilutive Issuance, a number of additional shares of Common Stock equal to the product of (i) the fraction obtained by dividing (A) the sum of the number of Initial Shares and Additional Shares then held by such Purchaser on the date of the Dilutive Issuance by (B) the sum of the number of Initial Shares issued to such Purchaser on the Closing Date and all Additional Shares previously reserved for issuance to such Purchaser after the Closing Date, multiplied by (ii) the difference between (A) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that would have been issued to such Purchaser at the Closing if the Subscription Amount was divided by the Discounted Per Share Purchase Price minus (B) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock equal to the sum of the Initial Shares (as defined below), plus, to the extent there has been a previous reservation of Additional Shares (as defined below) to such Purchaser, the number of Additional Shares previously reserved for issuance to such Purchaser. For purposes of this Section 4.15, (I) “Additional Shares” means, with respect to the applicable Purchaser, shares of Common Stock issued to such Purchaser pursuant to this Section 4.15 (adjusted for stock splits, combinations, dividends and the like occurring after the Closing Date); and (II) “Initial Shares” means, with respect to the applicable Purchaser, the number of shares of Common Stock issued to such Purchaser on the Closing Date (adjusted for stock splits, combinations, dividends and the like occurring after the Closing Date)

 

(b)     In implementation of the foregoing, to the extent that an issuance of Additional Shares would result in a Purchaser or any of its affiliates beneficially owning in excess of 4.9% (the “Maximum Percentage”) of the Common Stock, then the Company shall initially issue only such number of Additional Shares that would result in such Purchaser (together with such Purchaser’s affiliates) beneficially owning the Maximum Percentage of the Common Stock, and, except as otherwise provided below, no other Additional Shares shall be issuable under this Section 4.15. After such initial issuance, and until all Additional Shares which otherwise would have been issued under this Section 4.15 have been issued, from time to time the Company will issue such number of such unissued Additional Shares so that such Purchaser (together such Purchaser’s affiliates) will beneficially own only the Maximum Percentage of the Common Stock. Such Purchaser shall make written representations and warranties to the Company regarding its (together with its affiliates’) beneficial ownership to effectuate the foregoing. The provisions of this paragraph shall be implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms this paragraph to correct this paragraph (or any portion hereof) which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended Maximum Percentage beneficial ownership limitation herein contained or to make changes or supplements necessary or desirable to properly give effect to such Maximum Percentage limitation. The limitations contained in this paragraph shall apply to assignees of such Purchaser hereunder. The holders of Common Stock of the Company shall be third party beneficiaries of this paragraph and the Company may not waive this paragraph without the consent of holders of a majority of its Common Stock. For the purposes of this paragraph, beneficial ownership and all determinations and calculations (including, without limitation, with respect to calculations of percentage ownership) shall be determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

 

 
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(c)     If shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents are issued for a consideration other than cash, the per share price shall be the fair value of such consideration as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company. For the purposes of this Section 4.15, the “price per share for which one share of Common Stock is issuable upon the conversion, exercise or exchange of any Common Stock Equivalents” shall be equal to the sum of the lowest amounts of consideration (if any) received or receivable by the Company with respect to one share of Common Stock upon the issuance or sale of such Common Stock Equivalents and upon conversion, exercise or exchange of such Common Stock Equivalents. The Company may not refuse to issue to a Purchaser Additional Shares hereunder based on any claim that such Purchaser or any one associated or affiliated with such Purchaser has been engaged in any violation of law, agreement or for any other reason, unless, an injunction from a court, on notice, restraining and or enjoining an issuance hereunder shall have been sought and obtained. Nothing herein shall limit a Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the Company’s failure to deliver Additional Shares hereunder, and such Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief. On the date of closing of any transaction pursuant to which securities are issued for a Discounted Per Share Purchase Price, the Company shall give each of the Purchasers written notice thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein in this Section 4.15, this Section 4.15 shall not apply to an Exempt Issuance. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the right set forth in this Section 4.15 is a right granted by the Company, separately, to each Purchaser.

 

4.16     Form D; Blue Sky Filings. The Company agrees to timely file (i) a Form D with respect to the Securities as required under Regulation D and to provide a copy thereof, promptly upon request of any Purchaser and (ii) all of the other Required Approvals when due or required for filing. The Company shall take such action as the Company shall reasonably determine is necessary in order to obtain an exemption for, or to qualify the Securities for, sale to the Purchasers at the Closing under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of the United States, and shall provide evidence of such actions promptly upon request of any Purchaser.

 

4.17     Acknowledgment of Dilution. The Company acknowledges that the issuance of the Securities may result in dilution of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, which dilution may be substantial under certain market conditions. The Company further acknowledges that its obligations under the Transaction Documents, including, without limitation, its obligation to issue the Shares and Warrant Shares pursuant to the Transaction Documents, are unconditional and absolute and not subject to any right of set off, counterclaim, delay or reduction, regardless of the effect of any such dilution or any claim the Company may have against any Purchaser and regardless of the dilutive effect that such issuance may have on the ownership of the other stockholders of the Company.

 

 

 
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ARTICLE V.
MISCELLANEOUS

 

5.1     Termination.  This Agreement may be terminated by any Purchaser, as to such Purchaser’s obligations hereunder only and without any effect whatsoever on the obligations between the Company and the other Purchasers, by written notice to the other parties, if the Closing has not been consummated on or before October 31, 2014; provided, however, that such termination will not affect the right of any party to sue for any breach by any other party (or parties).

 

5.2     Fees and Expenses. At the Closing, the Company and the Purchasers shall each pay the fees and expenses of their respective advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses incurred by such party in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and related hereto, including, without limitation, the Merger; provided, however, the Company acknowledges the Parent Professional Fees (as defined in and required by the Merger Agreement) shall be paid at the closing of the Merger. The Company shall pay all Transfer Agent fees (including, without limitation, any fees required for same-day processing of any instruction letter delivered by the Company and any exercise notice delivered by a Purchaser), stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of any Securities to the Purchasers.

 

5.3     Entire Agreement. The Transaction Documents, together with the exhibits and schedules thereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and schedules.

 

5.4     Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of: (a) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto at or prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the second (2nd) Trading Day following the date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (d) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given. The address for such notices and communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto.

 

5.5     Amendments; Waivers. No provision of this Agreement may be waived, modified, supplemented or amended except in a written instrument signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Company and the Purchasers holding at least 67% in interest of the Shares (based on initial Subscription Amounts hereunder) or, in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom enforcement of any such waived provision is sought. No waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right.

 

 

 
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5.6     Headings. The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.

 

5.7     Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns. The Company may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Purchaser (other than by merger). Any Purchaser may assign any or all of its rights under this Agreement to any Person to whom such Purchaser assigns or transfers any Securities, provided that such transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with respect to the transferred Securities, by the provisions of the Transaction Documents that apply to the “Purchasers.”

 

5.8     No Third-Party Beneficiaries. . This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person, except as otherwise set forth in Section 4.8.

 

5.9     Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of the Transaction Documents shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, partners, members, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. If any party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction Documents, then in addition to the obligations of the Company under Section 4.8, the prevailing party in such action, suit or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding.

 

 

 
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5.10     Survival. The representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the Closing and the delivery of the Securities.

 

5.11     Execution. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to each other party, it being understood that the parties need not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an original thereof.

 

5.12     Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.

 

5.13     Rescission and Withdrawal Right. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in (and without limiting any similar provisions of) any of the other Transaction Documents, whenever any Purchaser exercises a right, election, demand or option under a Transaction Document and the Company does not timely perform its related obligations within the periods therein provided, then such Purchaser may rescind or withdraw, in its sole discretion from time to time upon written notice to the Company, any relevant notice, demand or election in whole or in part without prejudice to its future actions and rights; provided, however, that in the case of a rescission of an exercise of a Warrant, the applicable Purchaser shall be required to return any shares of Common Stock subject to any such rescinded exercise notice concurrently with the return to such Purchaser of the aggregate exercise price paid to the Company for such shares and the restoration of such Purchaser’s right to acquire such shares pursuant to such Purchaser’s Warrant (including, issuance of a replacement warrant certificate evidencing such restored right).

 

5.14     Replacement of Securities. If any certificate or instrument evidencing any Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof (in the case of mutilation), or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction. The applicant for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable third-party costs (including customary indemnity) associated with the issuance of such replacement Securities.

 

5.15     Remedies. In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, each of the Purchasers and the Company will be entitled to specific performance under the Transaction Documents. The parties agree that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of obligations contained in the Transaction Documents and hereby agree to waive and not to assert in any action for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

 

 

 
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5.16     Payment Set Aside. To the extent that the Company makes a payment or payments to any Purchaser pursuant to any Transaction Document or a Purchaser enforces or exercises its rights thereunder, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or exercise or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside, recovered from, disgorged by or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored to the Company, a trustee, receiver or any other Person under any law (including, without limitation, any bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause of action), then to the extent of any such restoration the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred.

 

5.17     Independent Nature of Purchasers’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of each Purchaser under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Purchaser, and no Purchaser shall be responsible in any way for the performance or non-performance of the obligations of any other Purchaser under any Transaction Document. Nothing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Purchaser pursuant hereof or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose. Each Purchaser has been represented by its own separate legal counsel in its review and negotiation of the Transaction Documents. For reasons of administrative convenience only, each Purchaser and its respective counsel have chosen to communicate with the Company through EGS. EGS does not represent any of the Purchasers and only represents Genesis Capital Advisors LLC. The Company has elected to provide all Purchasers with the same terms and Transaction Documents for the convenience of the Company and not because it was required or requested to do so by any of the Purchasers.

 

5.18     Liquidated Damages.  The Company’s obligations to pay any partial liquidated damages or other amounts owing under the Transaction Documents is a continuing obligation of the Company and shall not terminate until all unpaid partial liquidated damages and other amounts have been paid notwithstanding the fact that the instrument or security pursuant to which such partial liquidated damages or other amounts are due and payable shall have been canceled.

 

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

 

 

 
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5.20     Construction. The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel have reviewed and had an opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the normal rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation of the Transaction Documents or any amendments thereto. In addition, each and every reference to share prices and shares of Common Stock in any Transaction Document shall be subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement.

 

5.21     WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING IN ANY JURISDICTION BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY, THE PARTIES EACH KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY, TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HEREBY ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY, IRREVOCABLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES FOREVER ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY.

 

 

 

(Signature Pages Follow)

 

 

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

 

 

PLC SYSTEMS INC.

 

Address for Notice:

By:/s/ Mark Tauscher

     Name: Mark Tauscher

     Title: CEO

With a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):

Fax:

 

 

 

 

 

[REMAINDER OF PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK

SIGNATURE PAGE FOR EACH PURCHASER FOLLOWS]

 

 

 
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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO PLC SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT]

 

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

 

Name of Purchaser: GBS Venture Partners as trustee for the GBS BioVentures III

 

Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser: /s/ Brigitte Smith

 

Name of Authorized Signatory: Brigitte Smith

 

Title of Authorized Signatory: Managing Director, GBS Venture Partners

 

Email Address of Authorized Signatory: ______________________________________________

 

Facsimile Number of Authorized Signatory: _____________________________________________

 

Address for Notice to Purchaser:

 

 

 

Address for Delivery of Securities to Purchaser (if not same as address for notice):

 

 

 

Subscription Amount: $500,000.41

 

Principal Amount, plus accrued but unpaid interest

of Viveve Bridge Note: $__________________

 

Shares:943,397

 

 

EIN Number: _______________________

 

 

[SIGNATURE PAGES CONTINUE]

 

 

 
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SCHEDULE A

 

 

None.

 

 

 

  

SCHEDULE B

 

None.

 

 

 

 

  

EXHIBIT A

 

Registration Rights Agreement

 

 

 

 

  

EXHIBIT B

 

None.

 



Exhibit 10.5

 

 AMENDMENT TO SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

This AMENDMENT TO SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT (this “Amendment”) is made and entered into as of September __, 2014 by and between PLC Systems Inc., a Yukon Territory corporation (the “Company”), and each purchaser identified on the signature pages hereto (“Purchasers”).

 

WHEREAS, the parties hereto wish to amend the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 9, 2014 (the “Main Agreement”), between the Company and the purchasers set forth on the signature pages thereto on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein; and

 

WHEREAS, the Purchasers identified on the signature pages hereto hold, in the aggregate, at least 67% in interest of the Shares (based on initial Subscription Amounts under the Main Agreement) as required by Section 5.5 of the Main Agreement to authorize the amendments to the Main Agreement contemplated hereby.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the parties hereto intending to be legally bound hereby agree as follows:

 

1.     Section 1.1. Section 1.1 of the Main Agreement is hereby amended as follows:

 

 

(a)     the term “Subscription Agreement” is hereby amended by inserting the following proviso immediately after the words “Viveve Bridge Notes” and before the period:

 

provided, however, notwithstanding the Subscription Amount and number of Shares specified on any such signature page, the Subscription Amount (and corresponding number of purchasable Shares hereunder) of any Purchaser holding one or more Viveve Bridge Notes on the Closing Date shall be automatically increased, without any action being required on the part of the Purchaser, to reflect the total amount of interest accrued on such Viveve Bridge Notes from the time of issuance until the Closing at the applicable interest rate”; and

 

(b)     the following defined term is hereby added thereto in the appropriate alphabetical order:

 

“‘Viveve means Viveve, Inc., a Delaware corporation.”

 

 
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2.     Section 2.1. Section 2.1 of the Main Agreement is hereby amended by inserting the following proviso immediately after the words “executed by Such Purchaser” and before the closing parenthesis in the eleventh line thereof:

 

provided, however, notwithstanding the Subscription Amount and number of Shares set forth on any such signature page, the Subscription Amount (and corresponding number of purchasable Shares hereunder) of any Purchaser holding one or more Viveve Bridge Notes on the Closing Date shall be automatically increased, without any action being required on the part of the Purchaser, to reflect the total amount of interest accrued on such Viveve Bridge Notes from the time of issuance until the Closing at the applicable interest rate”

 

3.     Signature Pages.

 

(a)     The references on the signature page of 5AM Ventures II, LP attached to the Main Agreement to “Subscription Amount: $2,866,119.77”, “Principal Amount, plus accrued but unpaid interest of Viveve Bridge Note: $___________”, and “Shares: 5,445,509.0” are deleted in their entirety and the following are substituted therefor:

 

“Subscription Amount: $2,645,610.03

Principal Amount: $481,019.95

Shares: 4,991,718.0

 

(b)     The references on the signature page of 5AM Co-Investors II, LP attached to the Main Agreement to “Subscription Amount: $113,880.57”, “Principal Amount, plus accrued but unpaid interest of Viveve Bridge Note: $___________”, and “Shares: 214,869.0” are deleted in their entirety and the following are substituted therefor:

 

“Subscription Amount: $104,389.98

Principal Amount: $18,980.05

Shares: 196,963.0

 

4.     Schedule A. Schedule A of the Main Agreement is hereby amended by deleting its entirety and replacing it with the Schedule A attached hereto.

 

5.     Conflicts. Except as expressly set forth in this Amendment, the terms and provisions of the Main Agreement shall continue unmodified and in full force and effect. In the event of any conflict between this Amendment and the Main Agreement, this Amendment shall control.

 

6.     Counterparts; Governing Law. This Amendment may be executed and delivered in counterpart signature pages executed and delivered via facsimile transmission or via email with scan or email attachment, and any such counterpart executed and delivered via facsimile transmission or via email with scan or email attachment will be deemed an original for all intents and purposes. This Amendment shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

  

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

 

PLC SYSTEMS, INC.

 
 

By:

 

Name:

Gregory W. Mann

Title:

Chief Financial Officer

   
   

5AM VENTURES II, LP

 
 

By:

 

Name:

Andrew J. Schwab

Title:

Managing Member

   
   

5AM CO-INVESTORS II, LP

 
 

By:

 

Name:

Andrew J. Schwab

Title:

Managing Member

   

 

ALTA BIOEQUITIES, L.P.

 
 

By:

 

Name:

Dan Janney

Title:

General Partner

   
   

  

 

 

 

Schedule A

 

Names

Viveve Bridge Notes(1)

Alpha Capital Anstalt

$125,000.00

Sandor Capital Master Fund

$140,000.00

DKR Ventures (Barry Honig)

$85,000.00

GCP IV LLC

$150,000.00

5AM Ventures II, LP

$481,019.95

5AM Co-Investors II, LP

$18,980.05

Alta Bioequities, L.P.

$166,667.00

Brigitte Smith(2)

$100,000.00

Michael Catalano(2)

$75,000.00

Dr. Shahram Gholami(2)

$75,000.00

Total Principal Amount:

$1,416,667.00

 

(1)

Amounts do not reflect accrued but unpaid interest at the applicable interest rate to be added to each respective Purchaser’s Subscription Amount at Closing.

(2)

Such Viveve Bridge Note holder was added as a result of 5AM Ventures II, LP and 5AM Co-Investors, LP assigning a portion of their respective Subscription Amount pursuant to those three certain Subscription Assignment and Joinder Agreements, effective as of July 7, 2014.

 

 

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Exhibit 10.9

 

 

VIVEVE, INC.

150 COMMERCIAL STREET
SUNNYVALE, CA 94086

 

May 14, 2012

 

Patricia K. Scheller

3013 Comfort Road

P.O. Box 142

Solebury, Pennsylvania 18963-0142

 

Dear Pat:

 

Viveve, Inc. (the "Company") is pleased to offer you employment as its Chief Executive Officer reporting to the Board of Directors ("Board"). Subject to formal appointment, in your capacity as Chief Executive Officer you will also serve as a Director on the Board. This offer of employment is subject to (i) the Company's completion of a formal background check to which you hereby consent and (ii) the following terms and conditions:

 

1.     Position. Your initial title will be Chief Executive Officer. This is a full-time position. While you are an employee of the Company, you will not engage in any other employment, consulting or other business activity (whether full-time or part-time) or serve as a director on the board of any other company ("External Activities") in each case which (a) would create a conflict of interest with the Company, or (b) is not approved by the Board in a written acknowledgment. By signing this letter agreement, you confirm to the Company that you currently have no such External Activities and that you have no contractual commitments or other legal obligations that would prohibit you from performing or would materially limit you capability to perform your duties for the Company.

 

2.     Cash Compensation. The Company will pay you a base salary at the annual rate of three hundred thirty-five thousand dollars ($335,000) per year, payable in accordance with the Company's standard payroll schedule. In addition, subject to the discretion of the Board, you will be eligible to be considered for an annual incentive bonus, typically for each fiscal year of the Company. The bonus (if any) will be awarded based on objective or subjective criteria relating to the performance of the Company and/or your own personal performance and in each case as established by the Board. A determination of the satisfaction of any such criteria, and the ultimate award of any bonus will be at the sole discretion of the Board. Your initial target bonus will be equal to thirty percent (30%) of your annual base salary. Any bonus for the fiscal year in which your employment begins will be prorated, based on the number of days you are employed by the Company during that fiscal year. Any bonus for a fiscal year will typically be paid within 2½ months after the close of that fiscal year, but only if you are still employed by the Company at the time of payment. The determinations by the Board with respect to your bonus will be final and binding.

  

 
 

 

 

Patricia K. Scheller

May 14, 2012

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Your base salary will generally be subject to adjustment pursuant to the Company's employee compensation policies in effect from time to time. As an additional performance incentive, subject to approval by the Board, upon or near the one (1) year anniversary of the start of your employment with the Company, your base salary shall be eligible for an increase in an amount of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each one million dollars ($1,000,000) of capital raised from new investors in qualified equity financing(s) completed during your first year of employment with the Company; provided, however, that capital raised from existing investors shall not be considered in connection with such adjustment and that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any such adjustment of your base salary shall not exceed twenty thousand dollars ($20,000). Accordingly, your base salary may be adjusted pursuant to the foregoing up to a maximum of three hundred fifty-five thousand dollars ($355,000) per year at such one-year anniversary.

 

3.     Employee Benefits. As a regular employee of the Company, you will be eligible to participate in a number of Company-sponsored benefits, as in effect from time to time. In addition, you will be entitled to paid vacation in accordance with the Company's vacation policy, as in effect from time to time.

 

4.     Stock Options. Subject to the approval of the Board, you will be granted an option to purchase 27,539,116 shares of the Company's Common Stock (the "Option"), such shares representing upon vesting and exercise approximately five percent (5%) of the equity shares of the company on a fully-diluted basis, which for purposes hereof shall include those shares issued and outstanding (which, with respect to preferred shares, shall be on an as-converted basis), those shares reserved for issuance upon exercise of stock options already granted or included within an option pool authorized for future grant under the Company's 2006 Stock Plan (the "Plan"), as well as those shares reserved for issuance upon exercise of any outstanding warrants, in each case, as of the first date of your employment with the Company. The exercise price per share of the Option will be determined by the Board based on the fair market value of the Common Stock of the Company on the date the Option is granted. The Option will be subject to the terms and conditions applicable to options granted under the Plan, as described in the Plan and the. applicable Stock Option Agreement.

 

In general, you will vest in 25% of the Option shares after 12 months of continuous service, and the balance will vest in equal monthly installments over the next 36 months of continuous service, as described in the applicable Stock Option Agreement. In addition, you will vest in one hundred percent (100%) of your remaining unvested Option shares if both (a) the Company is subject to a Change in Control before your service with the Company terminates, and (b) you are subject to an Involuntary Termination within 12 months after that Change in Control. Also, if you are subject to an Involuntary Termination prior to a Change in Control, then the vested percentage of your Option will be determined by adding six (6) months to the actual period of services that you have completed.

 

5.     Severance Benefits.

 

 
 

 

 

Patricia K. Scheller

May 14, 2012

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 (a)     General. If you are subject to an Involuntary Termination, then you will be entitled to the benefits described in this Section 5. However, this Section 5 will not apply unless you (i) have returned all Company property in your possession, (ii) have resigned as a member of the Boards of Directors of the Company and all of its subsidiaries, to the extent applicable, and (iii) have executed a general release of all claims that you may have against the Company or persons affiliated with the Company. The release must be in the form prescribed by the Company, without alterations. You must execute and return the release on or before the date specified by the Company in the prescribed form (the "Release Deadline"). The Release Deadline will in no event be later than 50 days after your Separation. If you fail to return the release on or before the Release Deadline, or if you revoke the release, then you will not be entitled to the benefits described in this Section 5.

 

(b)     Salary Continuation. If you are subject to an Involuntary Termination, then the Company will continue to pay your base salary for a period of twelve (12) months after your Separation. Your base salary will be paid at the rate in effect at the time of your Separation and in accordance with the Company's standard payroll procedures. The salary continuation payments will commence within 60 days after your Separation and, once they commence, will include any unpaid amounts accrued from the date of your Separation. However, if the 60-day period described in the preceding sentence spans two calendar years, then the payments will in any event begin in the second calendar year.

 

(c)     COBRA Health Benefit. Subject to the Company's right of election for an alternative lump-sum payment under Section 5(d) hereof, if you are subject to an Involuntary Termination and you elect to continue your health insurance coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act ("COBRA") following your Separation, then the Company will pay the same portion of your monthly premium under COBRA as it pays for active employees and their eligible dependents until the earliest of (i) the close of the twelve (12)-month period following your Separation, (ii) the expiration of your continuation coverage under COBRA or (iii) the date when you become eligible for substantially equivalent health insurance coverage in connection with new employment or self-employment.

 

(d)     Lump-Sum Payment in Lieu of COBRA Health Benefit. If you are subject to an Involuntary Termination, the Company may elect, at its sole discretion and in lieu of any payment obligations of the Company under Section 5(c) hereof, to pay you a lump-sum amount equal to the product of (A) twelve (12) months and (B) the amount per month the Company was paying on behalf of you and your eligible dependents with respect to the Company's health insurance plans in which you and your eligible dependents were participants as of the date of your Separation. Subject to the Company's having first received an effective Release pursuant to Section 5(a) above, such payment will be made within 60 days after your Separation; however, if such 60-day period spans two calendar years, then the payment will be made in the second calendar year.

 

6.     Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement. You will berequired, as a condition of your employment with the Company, to sign the Company's standard At-Will Employment, Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.

  

 
 

 

 

Patricia K. Scheller

May 14, 2012

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7.     Indemnification Agreement. You and the Company shall enter into a Indemnification Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B.

 

8.     Employment Relationship. Employment with the Company is for no specific period of time. Your employment with the Company will be "at will," meaning that either you or the Company may terminate your employment at any time and for any reason, with or without cause. Any contrary representations that may have been made to you are superseded by this letter agreement. This is the full and complete agreement between you and the Company on this term. Although your job duties, title, compensation and benefits, as well as the Company's personnel policies and procedures, may change from time to time, the "at will" nature of your employment may only be changed in an express written agreement signed by you and a duly authorized officer of the Company (other than you).

 

9.     Tax Matters.

 

(a)     Withholding. All forms of compensation referred to in this letter agreement are subject to reduction to reflect applicable withholding and payroll taxes and other deductions required by law.

 

(b)     Section 409A. For purposes of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), each salary continuation payment under Section 5(b) is hereby designated as a separate payment. If the Company determines that you are a "specified employee" under Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Code at the time of your Separation, then (i) the salary continuation payments under Section 5(b), to the extent that they are subject to Section 409A of the Code, will commence on the first business day following (A) expiration of the six-month period measured from your Separation or (B) the date of your death and (ii) the installments that otherwise would have been paid prior to such date will be paid in a lump sum when the salary continuation payments commence.

 

(c)     Tax Advice. You are encouraged to obtain your own tax advice regarding your compensation from the Company. You agree that the Company does not have a duty to design its compensation policies in a manner that minimizes your tax liabilities, and you will not make any claim against the Company or its Board of Directors related to tax liabilities arising from your compensation.

 

10.     Interpretation, Amendment and Enforcement. This letter agreement and Exhibit A supersede and replace any prior agreements, representations or understandings (whether written, oral, implied or otherwise) between you and the Company and constitute the complete agreement between you and the Company regarding the subject matter set forth herein. This letter agreement may not be amended or modified, except by an express written agreement signed by both you and a duly authorized officer of the Company. The terms of this letter agreement and the resolution of any disputes as to the meaning, effect, performance or validity of this letter agreement or arising out of, related to, or in any way connected with, this letter agreement, your employment with the Company or any other relationship between you and the Company (the "Disputes") will be governed by California law, excluding laws relating to conflicts or choice of law. You and the Company submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of the federal and state courts located in Santa Clara County, California, in connection with any Dispute or any claim related to any Dispute.

 

 
 

 

 

Patricia K. Scheller

May 14, 2012

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11.     Definitions. The following terms have the meaning set forth below wherever they are used in this letter agreement:

 

"Cause" means (a) your unauthorized use or disclosure of the Company's confidential information or trade secrets, which use or disclosure causes material harm to the Company, (b) your material breach of any agreement between you and the Company, (c) your material failure to comply with the Company's written policies or rules, (d) your conviction of, or your plea of "guilty" or "no contest" to, a felony under the laws of the United States or any State, (e) your gross negligence or willful misconduct, (f) your continuing failure to perform assigned duties after receiving written notification of the failure from the Company's Board of Directors or (g) your failure to cooperate in good faith with a governmental or internal investigation of the Company or its directors, officers or employees, if the Company has requested your cooperation.

 

"Change in Control" means (a) the consummation of a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or (b) the dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company. The foregoing notwithstanding, a merger or consolidation of the Company does not constitute a "Change in Control" if immediately after the merger or consolidation a majority of the voting power of the capital stock of the continuing or surviving entity, or any direct or indirect parent corporation of the continuing or surviving entity, will be owned by the persons who were the Company's stockholders immediately prior to the merger or consolidation in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of the voting power of the Company's capital stock immediately prior to the merger or consolidation.

 

"Involuntary Termination" means either (a) your Termination Without Cause,(b) your Resignation for Good Reason, or (c) your Termination Due to Death or Disability.

 

"Resignation for Good Reason" means a Separation as a result of your resignation within 12 months after one of the following conditions has come into existence without your consent:

 

(a)     A reduction in your base salary by more than 20% which is independent of a general across-the-board salary reduction for other senior management; or

 

(b)     A material diminution of your authority, duties or responsibilities not warranted by your continuing failure to perform assigned duties after receiving written notification of the failure from the Company's Board of Directors.

 

A Resignation for Good Reason will not be deemed to have occurred unless you give the Company written notice of the condition within 90 days after the condition comes into existence and the Company fails to remedy the condition within 30 days after receiving your written notice.

  

 
 

 

 

Patricia K. Scheller

May 14, 2012

Page 6

 

 

"Separation" means a "separation from service," as defined in the regulations under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

"Termination Due to Death or Disability" means a Separation as a result of a termination of your employment by the Company due to your death, or due to a disability which in the sole and reasonable discretion of the Board materially impairs your ability to adequately perform assigned duties and carry out required responsibilities.

 

"Termination Without Cause" means a Separation as a result of a termination of your employment by the Company without Cause, provided you are willing and able to continue performing services within the meaning of Treasury Regulation 1.409A-1(n)(1).

 

We believe that you will add substantial value to Viveve, Inc., and sincerely hope that you will accept our offer to join the Company. You may indicate your agreement with these terms and accept this offer by signing and dating both the enclosed duplicate original of this letter agreement and the enclosed Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement and returning them to me. This offer, if not accepted, will expire at the close of business on Wednesday, May 16, 2012. As required by law, your employment with the Company is contingent upon your providing legal proof of your identity and authorization to work in the United States. Your employment is also contingent upon your starting work with the Company on or before May 21, 2012, or other date mutually agreeable between you and the Company.

 

Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

VIVEVE, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By: 

 

 

 

Mark S. Colella

 

 

Director, Viveve, Inc.

 

 
 

 

 

Patricia K. Scheller

May 14, 2012

Page 7

 

 

 

Attachments

 

Exhibit A: At-Will Employment, Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement

 

Exhibit B: Indemnification Agreement



Exhibit 10.10

 

VIVEVE, INC.

150 COMMERCIAL STREET
SUNNYVALE, CA 94086

 

January 23, 2013

 

Scott C. Durbin

1244 N. Stone Street-#3

Chicago, IL 60610

 

Dear Scott:

 

Viveve, Inc. (the "Company") is pleased to offer you employment as its Chief Financial Officer reporting to the Chief Executive Officer ("CEO"). This offer of employment is subject to (i) the Company's completion of a formal background check to which you hereby consent and (ii) the following terms and conditions:

 

1.     Position. Your initial title will be Chief Financial Officer. This is a full-time position. While you are an employee of the Company, you will not engage in any other employment, consulting or other business activity (whether full-time or part-time) or serve as a director on the board of any other company ("External Activities") in each case which (a) would create a conflict of interest with the Company, or (b) is not approved by the CEO in a written acknowledgment. By signing this letter agreement, you confirm to the Company that you currently have no such External Activities and that you have no contractual commitments or other legal obligations that would prohibit you from performing or would materially limit your capability to perform your duties for the Company.

 

2.     Cash Compensation. The Company will pay you a base salary at the annual rate of two hundred ninety-eight thousand dollars ($298,000) per year, payable in accordance with the Company's standard payroll schedule. Your base salary will generally be subject to adjustment pursuant to the Company's employee compensation policies in effect from time to time. In addition, subject to the discretion of the Board, you will be eligible to be considered for an annual incentive bonus, typically for each fiscal year of the Company. The bonus (if any) will be awarded based on objective or subjective criteria relating to the performance of the Company and/or your own personal performance and in each case as established by the CEO. A determination of the satisfaction of any such criteria, and the ultimate award of any bonus will be at the sole discretion of the Board. Your initial target bonus will be equal to thirty percent (30%) of your annual base salary. Any bonus for the fiscal year in which your employment begins will be prorated, based on the number of days you are employed by the Company during that fiscal year. Any bonus for a fiscal year will typically be paid within 2½ months after the close of that fiscal year, but only if you are still employed by the Company at the time of payment. The determinations by the Board with respect to your bonus will be final and binding.

  

 
 

 

 

3.     Financing Bonus. You will be eligible to earn a bonus of $50,000 in the event the Company raises at least $1,500,000 in its next equity financing, in a single transaction or series of related transactions from new investors (the "Financing Bonus"). For purposes of clarification, a bridge round will not trigger a Financing Bonus. The Financing Bonus (if any) will be paid as soon as reasonably practicable following the closing of the equity financing, subject to your continued employment with the Company through such closing, but in no event will it be paid later than 2½ months following the close of the Company's fiscal year during which the financing closed.

 

4.     Employee Benefits. As a regular employee of the Company, you will be eligible to participate in a number of Company-sponsored benefits, as in effect from time to time. In addition, you will be entitled to paid vacation in accordance with the Company's vacation policy, as in effect from time to time.

 

5.     Stock Options. Subject to the approval of the Board, you will be granted an option to purchase 10,258,690 shares of the Company's Common Stock (the "Option"), such shares representing upon vesting and exercise (a) approximately one and seventy-five one-hundredths of a percent (1.75%) of the equity shares of the Company on a fully-diluted basis (equal to 10,058,690 shares), which for purposes hereof shall include those shares issued and outstanding (which, with respect to preferred shares, shall be on an as-converted basis), those shares reserved for issuance upon exercise of stock options already granted or included within an option pool authorized for future grant under the Company's 2006 Stock Plan (the "Plan"), as well as those shares reserved for issuance upon exercise of any outstanding warrants, in each case, as of the first date of your employment with the Company and (b) an additional 200,000 shares. The exercise price per share of the Option will be determined by the Board based on the fair market value of the Common Stock of the Company on the date the Option is granted. The Option will be subject to the terms and conditions applicable to options granted under the Plan, as described in the Plan and the applicable Stock Option Agreement.

 

As described in the applicable Stock Option Agreement, 100,000 of the Option shares will be immediately vested upon grant, and an additional 2,614,672 of the Option shares will vest after 12 months of continuous service. The remaining shares will vest in equal monthly installments over the next 36 months of continuous service. In addition, you will vest in one hundred percent (100%) of your remaining unvested Option shares if the Company is subject to a Change in Control before your service with the Company terminates. Also, if you are subject to an Involuntary Termination prior to a Change in Control, then the vested percentage of your Option will be determined by adding ten (10) months to the actual period of services that you have completed.

 

6.     Severance Benefits.

 

(a)     General. If you are subject to an Involuntary Termination, then you will be entitled to the benefits described in this Section 6. However, this Section 6 will not apply unless you (i) have returned all Company property in your possession, (ii) have resigned as a member of the Boards of Directors of the Company and all of its subsidiaries, to the extent applicable, and (iii) have executed a general release of all claims that you may have against the Company or persons affiliated with the Company. The release must be in the form prescribed by the Company, without alterations. You must execute and return the release on or before the date specified by the Company in the prescribed form (the "Release Deadline"). The Release Deadline will in no event be later than 50 days after your Separation. If you fail to return the release on or before the Release Deadline, or if you revoke the release, then you will not be entitled to the benefits described in this Section 6.

  

 
 

 

 

(b)     Salary Continuation. If you are subject to an Involuntary Termination, then the Company will continue to pay your base salary for a period of ten (10) months after your Separation. Your base salary will be paid at the rate in effect at the time of your Separation and in accordance with the Company's standard payroll procedures. The salary continuation payments will commence within 60 days after your Separation and, once they commence, will include any unpaid amounts accrued from the date of your Separation. However, if the 60-day period described in the preceding sentence spans two calendar years, then the payments will in any event begin in the second calendar year.

 

(c)     COBRA Health Benefit. Subject to the Company's right of election for an alternative lump-sum payment under Section 6(d) hereof, if you are subject to an Involuntary Termination and you elect to continue your health insurance coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act ("COBRA") following your Separation, then the Company will pay the same portion of your monthly premium under COBRA as it pays for active employees and their eligible dependents until the earliest of (i) the close of the ten (10) month period following your Separation, (ii) the expiration of your continuation coverage under COBRA or (iii) the date when you become eligible for substantially equivalent health insurance coverage in connection with new employment.

 

(d)     Lump-Sum Payment in Lieu of COBRA Health Benefit. If you are subject to an Involuntary Termination, the Company may elect, at its sole discretion and in lieu of any payment obligations of the Company under Section 6(c) hereof, to pay you a lump-sum amount equal to the product of (A) ten (10) months and (B) the amount per month the Company was paying on behalf of you and your eligible dependents with respect to the Company's health insurance plans in which you and your eligible dependents were participants as of the date of your Separation. Subject to the Company's having first received an effective Release pursuant to Section 6(a) above, such payment will be made within 60 days after your Separation; however, if such 60-day period spans two calendar years, then the payment will be made in the second calendar year.

 

(e)     Accrued Vacation. If you are subject to an Involuntary Termination, the Company will pay you a lump-sum amount equal to your accrued but unused paid vacation time (which has been accrued in accordance with the Company's vacation policy). Subject to the Company's having first received an effective Release pursuant to Section 6(a) above, such payment will be made within 60 days after your Separation; however, if such 60-day period spans two calendar years, then the payment will be made in the second calendar year.

 

 
 

 

 

7.     Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement. You will be required, as a condition of your employment with the Company, to sign the Company's standard At-Will Employment, Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

8.     Indemnification Agreement. You and the Company shall enter into a Indemnification Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B.

 

9.     Employment Relationship. Employment with the Company is for no specific period of time. Your employment with the Company will be "at will," meaning that either you or the Company may terminate your employment at any time and for any reason, with or without cause. Any contrary representations that may have been made to you are superseded by this letter agreement. This is the full and complete agreement between you and the Company on this term. Although your job duties, title, compensation and benefits, as well as the Company's personnel policies and procedures, may change from time to time, the "at will" nature of your employment may only be changed in an express written agreement signed by you and a duly authorized officer of the Company (other than you).

 

10.     Tax Matters.

 

(a)     Withholding. All forms of compensation referred to in this letter agreement are subject to reduction to reflect applicable withholding and payroll taxes and other deductions required by law.

 

(b)     Section 409A. For purposes of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), each salary continuation payment under Section 6(b) is hereby designated as a separate payment. If the Company determines that you are a "specified employee" under Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Code at the time of your Separation, then (i) the salary continuation payments under Section 6(b), to the extent that they are subject to Section 409A of the Code, will commence on the first business day following (A) expiration of the six-month period measured from your Separation or (B) the date of your death and (ii) the installments that otherwise would have been paid prior to such date will be paid in a lump sum when the salary continuation payments commence.

 

(c)     Tax Advice. You are encouraged to obtain your own tax advice regarding your compensation from the Company. You agree that the Company does not have a duty to design its compensation policies in a manner that minimizes your tax liabilities, and you will not make any claim against the Company or its Board of Directors related to tax liabilities arising from your compensation.

 

11.     Interpretation, Amendment and Enforcement.     This letter agreement and Exhibit A supersede and replace any prior agreements, representations or understandings (whether written, oral, implied or otherwise) between you and the Company and constitute the complete agreement between you and the Company regarding the subject matter set forth herein. This letter agreement may not be amended or modified, except by an express written agreement signed by both you and a duly authorized officer of the Company. The terms of this letter agreement and the resolution of any disputes as to the meaning, effect, performance or validity of this letter agreement or arising out of, related to, or in any way connected with, this letter agreement, your employment with the Company or any other relationship between you and the Company (the "Disputes") will be governed by California law, excluding laws relating to conflicts or choice of law. You and the Company submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of the federal and state courts located in Santa Clara County, California, in connection with any Dispute or any claim related to any Dispute.

  

 
 

 

 

12.     Definitions. The following terms have the meaning set forth below wherever they are used in this letter agreement:

 

"Cause" means (a) your unauthorized use or disclosure of the Company's confidential information or trade secrets, which use or disclosure causes material harm to the Company, (b) your material breach of any agreement between you and the Company, (c) your material failure to comply with the Company's written policies or rules, (d) your conviction of, or your plea of "guilty" or "no contest" to, a felony under the laws of the United States or any State, (e) your gross negligence or willful misconduct, (f) your continuing failure to perform assigned duties after receiving written notification of the failure from the Company's Board of Directors or (g) your failure to cooperate in good faith with a governmental or internal investigation of the Company or its directors, officers or employees, if the Company has requested your cooperation. It shall only be considered "Cause" for purposes of sub-clauses (b), (c), (f) and (g) above only if such breach or failure, as applicable, continues after you have been given written notice thereof and 30 days thereafter in which to cure such breach or failure, as applicable, and you have not in fact cured the same.

 

"Change in Control" means (a) the consummation of a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or (b) the dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company. The foregoing notwithstanding, a merger or consolidation of the Company does not constitute a "Change in Control" if immediately after the merger or consolidation a majority of the voting power of the capital stock of the continuing or surviving entity, or any direct or indirect parent corporation of the continuing or surviving entity, will be owned by the persons who were the Company's stockholders immediately prior to the merger or consolidation in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of the voting power of the Company's capital stock immediately prior to the merger or consolidation.

 

"Involuntary Termination" means either (a) your Termination Without Cause or (b) your Resignation for Good Reason.

 

"Resignation for Good Reason" means a Separation as a result of your resignation within 12 months after one of the following conditions has come into existence without your consent:

 

 
 

 

 

(a)     A material reduction in your base salary which is independent of a general across-the-board salary reduction for all senior management; or

 

(b)     A material diminution of your authority, duties or responsibilities not warranted by your continuing failure to perform assigned duties after receiving written notification of the failure from the Company's Board of Directors; or

 

(c)     A material change in the geographic location where you are expected to perform your duties which is currently Chicago, IL.

 

A Resignation for Good Reason will not be deemed to have occurred unless you give the Company written notice of the condition within 90 days after the condition comes into existence and the Company fails to remedy the condition within 30 days after receiving your written notice.

 

"Separation" means a "separation from service," as defined in the regulations under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

"Termination Without Cause" means a Separation as a result of a termination of your employment by the Company without Cause, provided you are willing and able to continue performing services within the meaning of Treasury Regulation 1.409A-1(n)(1).

 

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We believe that you will add substantial value to Viveve, Inc., and sincerely hope that you will accept our offer to join the Company. You may indicate your agreement with these terms and accept this offer by signing and dating both the enclosed duplicate original of this letter agreement and the enclosed Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement and returning them to me. This offer, if not accepted, will expire at the close of business on January 30, 2013. As required by law, your employment with the Company is contingent upon your providing legal proof of your identity and authorization to work in the United States. Your employment is also contingent upon your starting work with the Company on or before February 1, 2013, or other date mutually agreeable between you and the Company.

 

Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

 

VIVEVE, INC.

 

 

 

 

Patricia K. Scheller

 

 

CEO, Viveve, Inc.

 

Attachments

 

Exhibit A: At-Will Employment, Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement

 

Exhibit B: Indemnification Agreement



Exhibit 16.1

 

[FIRM LETTERHEAD]

 

September 29, 2014

 

 

Securities and Exchange Commission

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

Commissioners:

 

We have read Viveve Medical Inc.'s (formerly PLC Systems, Inc.) statements included under Item 4.01 of its Form 8-K filed on September 29, 2014 and we agree with such statements concerning our firm.

  

 

 

McGladrey LLP

 

 

 

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