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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 10, 2024

 

 

Fisker Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   001-38625   82-3100340
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
  (Commission
File Number)
  (IRS Employer
Identification No.)

1888 Rosecrans Avenue

Manhattan Beach, California 90266

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (833) 434-7537

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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Title of each class

 

Trading
Symbol

 

Name of each exchange
on which registered

Class A Common Stock, par value of $0.00001 per share   FSRN   OTC Pink Current Information

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

 

 

 


Item 1.01

Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

On May 10, 2024, Fisker Inc. (the “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our”) entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”) with the holder of the 0% senior convertible notes due 2025 (the “Investor”) pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell, and the Investor agreed to purchase, $3,456,000 in aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2024 (the “Notes”) in a private offering (the “Offering”) in reliance on the exemption from registration provided in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

The Offering closed on May 10, 2024 (such date is referred to herein as the “Closing Date”).

The Notes were issued under a note certificate, dated the Closing Date, by the Company.

The gross amount of proceeds to us from the Offering was $3,456,000. We intend to use the proceeds from the Offering solely to finance expenses consistent with the Approved Budget (as defined in the Notes).

The following is intended to provide a summary of the terms of the agreements and securities described above. This summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of such documents, each of which is incorporated herein by reference and included as an exhibit to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

Securities Purchase Agreement

The Notes were be issued pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement. The Securities Purchase Agreement provides for the sale of the Notes for gross proceeds of $3,456,000.

The Securities Purchase Agreement obligates us to indemnify the Investor and various related parties for certain losses including those resulting from (i) any misrepresentation or breach of any representation or warranty made by us, (ii) any breach of any obligation of ours, and (iii) certain claims by third parties.

Notes

Description of Notes

The Notes are issued as senior secured obligations of the Company under the Securities Purchase Agreement. The terms of the Notes include those provided in the Notes and the Securities Purchase Agreement.

Initial Closing; Additional Closings

At the closing of the Offering, we issued $3,456,000 in aggregate principal amount of Notes to certain institutional investors.

Upon our delivery of an additional closing notice to the Investor, if elected by the Investor, we may consummate additional closings of up to $4,044,000 in aggregate principal amount of new Notes, which we refer to herein as the Additional Notes, at additional closings pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement. The Additional Notes will be identical in all material respect to the Notes.

Ranking; Guaranty and Collateral

The Notes are and will be senior secured obligations of the Company and certain of our direct and indirect wholly owned subsidiaries that entered into (or are required to enter into) a guaranty agreement, dated on the Closing Date, in favor of the Investor as collateral agent (the “Guaranty”). Until such date no Notes remain outstanding, all payments due under the Notes will be pari passu with all Additional Notes and senior to all other indebtedness of the Company and/or any of our subsidiaries.

The obligations under the Notes are and will be secured by liens on substantially all of the existing and future assets of the Company and the subsidiaries party to (or required under the Notes to be party to) the Guaranty, subject to certain exceptions, including those set out in the Security and Pledge Agreement entered into by the Company and certain of its direct and indirect wholly owned subsidiaries on the Closing Date in favor of the Investor as collateral agent (the “Security and Pledge Agreement”).


Maturity Date; Repayment

The Notes will mature on June 24, 2024. We are required to pay, on the Maturity Date, all outstanding principal, together with accrued and unpaid interest and accrued and unpaid late charges on such principal and interest, if any.

We are also required to repay, on the last business day of each calendar week, an amount in cash equal to the positive net cash flow for such week (calculated in the same manner as used for the Approved Budget), if any, up to the amount of the then-outstanding obligations under the Notes.

Interest

The Notes bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the three-month Secured Overnight Financing Rate plus 12.0%, however, the interest rate of the Notes is increased to the three-month Secured Overnight Financing Rate plus 15% per annum (the “Default Rate”) on overdue principal and interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any bankruptcy law). Interest shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year and twelve 30-day months and shall be payable in arrears on the last business day of each calendar week in which interest accrues (each, an “Interest Payment Date”). Interest shall be paid in kind, shall accrue daily and shall be capitalized and added to the outstanding principal on each Interest Payment Date, payable on the Maturity Date.

Events of Default

The Notes contain standard and customary events of default including but not limited to: (i) the Company’s failure to pay any principal, interest, late charges, or other amounts due under the Notes, (ii) default or the occurrence of certain events of default or other violations of the terms of other existing indebtedness (subject to certain exceptions during the Forbearance Period (as defined in the Notes)), (iii) bankruptcy, reorganization or liquidation events (subject to certain exceptions with respect to the Company’s subsidiaries in Austria and the United Kingdom), (iii) material breaches of Company representations, warranties and covenants in the transaction documents in respect of the Notes, (iv) invalidity of any Transaction Document (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) or invalidity of any security document to create a separate valid and perfected first priority lien on the assets that are pledged as collateral in favor of the Investor to the extent required under the Notes, (v) failure to comply with the Approved Budget, (vi) termination or expiration of the Forbearance Agreement (as defined in the Notes) and (vii) the occurrence of any uninsured loss to any material portion of the assets that are pledged as collateral.

If an event of default occurs, the Investor may require us to redeem all or any portion of the Notes, in cash, at a 25% redemption premium to the sum of (x) such portion of the principal amount to be redeemed, (y) all accrued and unpaid interest with respect to such portion of the principal amount and (z) accrued and unpaid late charges with respect to such portion of the principal amount and interest (the “Redemption Amount”).

Bankruptcy Event of Default Mandatory Redemption

If any bankruptcy event of default occurs, we shall immediately redeem in cash all amounts due under the Notes at the Redemption Amount, unless the Investor waives such right to receive such payment.

Fundamental Transactions

The Notes prohibit us from entering specified fundamental transactions (including, without limitation, mergers, business combinations and similar transactions).

Change of Control Redemption Right

In connection with a change of control of the Company, the Investor may require us to redeem in cash all, or any portion, of the Notes at the Redemption Amount.

Covenants

The Notes contain a variety of obligations on our part not to engage in specified activities, which are typical for transactions of this type, as well as the following covenants:

 

   

we and our subsidiaries will comply with the Approved Budget and deliver, on a weekly basis, an Approved Budget Variance Report (as defined in the Notes) beginning on the Thursday of the first week following the Closing Date;

 

   

we and our subsidiaries will not (directly or indirectly) incur any other indebtedness except for permitted indebtedness;

 

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we and our subsidiaries will not (directly or indirectly) incur any liens, except for permitted liens;

 

   

we and our subsidiaries will not, directly or indirectly, redeem or repay all or any portion of any indebtedness (A) prior to the due date or or (B) if at the time the payment is due or is made or, after giving effect to the payment, an event constituting, or that with the passage of time and without being cured would constitute, an event of default has occurred and is continuing or elect to accelerate, prepay or redeem early any indebtedness;

 

   

we and our subsidiaries will not make any restricted investments;

 

   

we and our subsidiaries will not redeem, repurchase or pay any dividend or distribution on our respective capital stock;

 

   

we and our subsidiaries will not sell, lease, assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of our assets or any assets of any subsidiary, except for permitted dispositions (with the proceeds of such dispositions used in accordance with the Approved Budget and as provided in the Notes and the Securities Purchase Agreement);

 

   

we and our subsidiaries will not (directly or indirectly) engage in a material line of business substantially different from those lines of business as of the date of the issuance of the Notes;

 

   

we and our subsidiaries will not initially, directly or indirectly, permit any indebtedness to mature or accelerate prior to the Maturity Date of the Notes (subject to certain exceptions during the Forbearance Period);

 

   

we and our subsidiaries will maintain and our existence, rights, and privileges, to become or remain, duly qualified and in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the transaction of its business makes such qualification necessary;

 

   

we and our subsidiaries will not make any significant changes in accounting treatment or reporting practices;

 

   

we and our subsidiaries will maintain and preserve, all respective properties;

 

   

we and our subsidiaries will take all action necessary or advisable to maintain all of the intellectual property rights (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) that are necessary or material to the conduct of our business in full force and effect;

 

   

we and our subsidiaries will maintain insurance in such amounts and covering such risks as is required by any governmental authority having jurisdiction with respect thereto or as is in accordance with sound business practice by similar companies and in accordance with the Approved Budget;

 

   

we and our subsidiaries will not, (directly or indirectly), enter into, renew, extend or be a party to, any transaction or series of related transactions with any affiliate

 

   

we will not, directly or indirectly, without the prior written consent of the Investor, (i) issue any Notes (other than as contemplated by the Offering and any Additional Notes) or (ii) issue any other securities that would cause a breach or default under the Notes;

 

   

we agree, to the extent legally permissible, to not insist upon, plead, claim or take the benefit of any stay, extension or usury law that may affect our performance under the Notes, and expressly waive all benefits or advantages of any such law;

 

   

we and our subsidiaries will pay when due all taxes, fees or other charges of any nature whatsoever now or hereafter imposed or assessed us in accordance with the Approved Budget;

 

   

we will hire an independent, reputable investment bank to investigate whether any breach of the Notes has occurred if an event constituting, or that with the passage of time and without being cured would constitute, an event of default has occurred and is continuing or the Investor reasonably believes that an event constituting an event of default has occurred or is continuing;

 

   

we and our subsidiaries will continue to sell vehicles at auctions and through dealers and direct-to-consumer channels as contemplated by the Approved Budget, with all proceeds from such sales used in accordance with the Approved Budget and as provided in the Notes and the Securities Purchase Agreement;

 

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we and our subsidiaries shall continue to retain a chief restructuring officer satisfactory to the Investor in its sole discretion; and

 

   

we shall deliver to the Investor a proposed liquidation plan, in form and substance acceptable to the Investor, on or before May 23, 2024.

Changes to the Notes

Each Note may not be changed or amended without the prior written consent of the Company and the Investor.

Governing Law

The Notes will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of New York without regard to its conflicts of law principles.

 

Item 2.03

Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.

The disclosure in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 8.01

Other Events

On May 13, 2024, we issued a press release announcing the signing of the Securities Purchase Agreement. A copy of the press release is filed as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 9.01

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit
No.
   Description
4.1    Senior Secured Notes due 2024, dated May 10, 2024
10.1    Securities Purchase Agreement, dated May 10, 2024
10.2    Security and Pledge Agreement, dated May 10, 2024
10.3    Guaranty, dated May 10, 2024
99.1    Press Release of Fisker Inc., dated May 13, 2024
104    Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL)

 

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SIGNATURES

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

 

Date: May 13, 2024   FISKER INC.
    By:  

/s/ John DiDonato

      John DiDonato
      Chief Restructuring Officer

EXHIBIT 4.1

THE SECURITIES EVIDENCED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS AND HAVE BEEN ISSUED IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND SUCH OTHER SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED, HYPOTHECATED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF, EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO A TRANSACTION WHICH IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION, IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS, AND, IN THE CASE OF A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION, THE HOLDER WILL NOTIFY ANY SUBSEQUENT PURCHASER OF THE SECURITIES EVIDENCED BY THIS CERTIFICATE FROM IT OF SUCH RESALE RESTRICTIONS.

FISKER INC.

SENIOR SECURED NOTE DUE 2024

 

Issuance Date: May 10, 2024    Original Principal Amount: U.S. $3,456,000

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, Fisker Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), hereby promises to pay to the order of CVI Investments, Inc. or its registered assigns (“Holder”) the amount set forth above as the Original Principal Amount (as reduced pursuant to the terms hereof pursuant to redemption or otherwise, the “Principal”) when due, whether upon the Maturity Date, or upon acceleration, redemption or otherwise (in each case in accordance with the terms hereof) and interest and default interest thereon, as set forth below. This Senior Secured Note due 2024 (including all Senior Secured Notes due 2024 issued in exchange, transfer or replacement hereof, this “Note”) is one of an issue of Senior Secured Notes (collectively, the “Notes”, and such other Senior Secured Notes, the “Other Notes”) issued pursuant to Section 1 of that certain Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 10, 2024 (the “Subscription Date”), by and among the Company and the investors (the “Buyers”) referred to therein, as amended from time to time (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”). Certain capitalized terms used herein are defined in Section 30.

1. PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL. On the Maturity Date, the Company shall pay to the Holder an amount in cash representing all outstanding Principal, accrued and unpaid Interest and accrued and unpaid Late Charges (as defined in Section 23(c)) on such Principal and Interest. Except as prohibited by applicable law, not later than 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on the last Business Day of each calendar week, the Company shall repay to the Holder an amount in cash equal to the positive Net Cash Flow for such week (calculated in the same manner as used for the Approved Budget), if any, up to the amount of the then-outstanding Obligations. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, with respect to any redemption or repayment hereunder, as applicable, the Company shall redeem or repay, as applicable, First, all accrued and unpaid Late Charges on any Principal and Interest hereunder and under any other Notes held by the Holder and all other amounts owed to the Holder under any other Transaction Document, Second, all accrued and unpaid Interest, if any, hereunder and under any Other Notes held by such Holder, Third, all other amounts (other than Principal) outstanding under any Other Notes held by such Holder and, Fourth, all Principal outstanding hereunder and under any Other Notes held by such Holder, in each case, allocated pro rata among this Note and such Other Notes held by such Holder.

 


2. INTEREST; DEFAULT RATE. Interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on this Note (“Interest”) shall accrue hereunder beginning on the Issuance Date at a rate equal to the three-month Secured Overnight Financing Rate plus twelve percent (12.00%) per annum (the “Interest Rate”) and shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year and twelve 30-day months, shall be payable in arrears on the last Business Day of each calendar week (each an “Interest Payment Date”), provided, that, the Company shall pay Interest (including post-petition Interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue Principal at the rate equal to three percent (3%) per annum in excess of the Interest Rate otherwise payable on the Notes to the extent lawful (the “Default Rate”), provided further, that, the Company shall pay Interest (including post-petition Interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue Interest at the Default Rate to the extent lawful. Interest shall be paid in kind, shall accrue daily and shall be capitalized and added to the outstanding Principal on each Interest Payment Date. From and after each applicable Interest Payment Date, the outstanding Principal shall without further action by any party hereto be deemed to be increased by the aggregate amount of Interest that is paid in kind so capitalized and added to the Principal in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence. Accrued and unpaid Interest and Late Fees, if any, shall also be payable by way of inclusion of such Interest and Late Fees in the Redemption Amount (as defined below) upon any redemption in accordance with Section 11 or any required payment upon any Bankruptcy Event of Default (as defined in Section 4(a) below).

3. RESERVED.

4. RIGHTS UPON EVENT OF DEFAULT.

(a) Event of Default. Each of the following events shall constitute an “Event of Default” and each of the events in clauses (vii), (viii) and (ix) shall constitute a “Bankruptcy Event of Default”:

(i) [Reserved];

(ii) [Reserved];

(iii) [Reserved];

(iv) the Company’s failure to pay to the Holder any amount of Principal, Interest, Late Charges or other amounts when and as due under this Note (including, without limitation, the Company’s failure to pay any redemption payments or amounts hereunder) or any other Transaction Document (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) or any other agreement, document, certificate or other instrument delivered in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby;

(v) [Reserved];

(vi) the occurrence of any default under, redemption of or acceleration prior to maturity of at least an aggregate of $10,000 of Indebtedness (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, other than with respect to (i) any Other Notes or (ii) solely during the Forbearance Period (as defined in the Forbearance Agreement) (A) any default under, redemption of or acceleration of the 2025 Notes as a result of any Specified Defaults (as defined in the Forbearance Agreement) or (B) any default under or acceleration of the Company’s 2.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026 existing on the Issuance Date;

(vii) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or liquidation proceedings or other proceedings for the relief of debtors shall be instituted by or against the Company or any Subsidiary and, if instituted against the Company or any Subsidiary by a third party, shall not be dismissed within thirty (30) days of their initiation, provided, that the foregoing shall not apply with respect to Fisker GmbH (Austria) or Fisker (GB) Limited (United Kingdom);

 

 

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(viii) the commencement by the Company or any Subsidiary of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the entry of a decree, order, judgment or other similar document in respect of the Company or any Subsidiary in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable federal, state or foreign law, or the consent by it to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or any Subsidiary or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the execution of a composition of debts, or the occurrence of any other similar federal, state or foreign proceeding, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, the taking of corporate action by the Company or any Subsidiary in furtherance of any such action or the taking of any action by any Person to commence a Uniform Commercial Code foreclosure sale or any other similar action under federal, state or foreign law against the assets of the Company or any Subsidiary, provided, that the foregoing shall not apply with respect to Fisker GmbH (Austria) or Fisker (GB) Limited (United Kingdom);

(ix) the entry by a court of (i) a decree, order, judgment or other similar document in respect of the Company or any Subsidiary of a voluntary or involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (ii) a decree, order, judgment or other similar document adjudging the Company or any Subsidiary as bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking liquidation, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company or any Subsidiary under any applicable federal, state or foreign law, or (iii) a decree, order, judgment or other similar document appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or any Subsidiary or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree, order, judgment or other similar document or any such other decree, order, judgment or other similar document unstayed and in effect for a period of thirty (30) consecutive days;

(x) a final judgment or judgments for the payment of money aggregating in excess of $10,000 are rendered against the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries and which judgments are not, within thirty (30) days after the entry thereof, bonded, discharged, settled or stayed pending appeal, or are not discharged within thirty (30) days after the expiration of such stay; provided, however, any judgment which is covered by insurance or an indemnity from a credit worthy party shall not be included in calculating the $10,000 amount set forth above so long as the Company provides the Holder a written statement from such insurer or indemnity provider (which written statement shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Holder) to the effect that such judgment is covered by insurance or an indemnity and the Company or such Subsidiary (as the case may be) will receive the proceeds of such insurance or indemnity within thirty (30) days of the issuance of such judgment;

 

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(xi) the Company and/or any Subsidiary, individually or in the aggregate, either (i) fails to pay, when due, or within any applicable grace period, any payment with respect to any Indebtedness in excess of $10,000 due to any third party (other than, with respect to unsecured Indebtedness only, payments contested by the Company and/or such Subsidiary (as the case may be) in good faith by proper proceedings and with respect to which adequate reserves have been set aside for the payment thereof in accordance with GAAP) or (ii) is otherwise in breach or violation of any agreement for monies owed or owing in an amount in excess of $10,000, which breach or violation (i) results in such indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable prior to its stated maturity or (ii) constitutes a failure to pay the principal or interest of any such debt when due and payable (after giving effect to any applicable grace periods) at its stated maturity, upon required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise, except, in each case, solely during the Forbearance Period (as defined in the Forbearance Agreement) with respect to (A) any default under, redemption of or acceleration of the 2025 Notes as a result of any Specified Defaults (as defined in the Forbearance Agreement) or (B) any default under or acceleration of the Company’s 2.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026 existing on the Issuance Date;

(xii) other than as specifically set forth in another clause of this Section 4(a), the Company or any Subsidiary breaches any representation or warranty, in any material respect (other than representations or warranties subject to material adverse effect or materiality, which may not be breached in any respect) or any covenant or other term or condition of any Transaction Document;

(xiii) a false or inaccurate certification (including a false or inaccurate deemed certification) by the Company;

(xiv) any breach or failure in any respect by the Company or any Subsidiary to comply with any provision of Section 13 of this Note;

(xv) any Event of Default (as defined in the Other Notes) occurs and is continuing with respect to any Other Notes;

(xvi) any provision of any Transaction Document (including, without limitation) the Security Documents or the Guaranty shall at any time for any reason (other than pursuant to the express terms thereof) cease to be valid and binding on or enforceable against the parties thereto, or the validity or enforceability thereof shall be contested by the Company or any Subsidiary, or a proceeding shall be commenced by the Company or any Subsidiary or any governmental authority having jurisdiction over any of them, seeking to establish the invalidity or unenforceability thereof, or the Company or any Subsidiary shall deny in writing that it has any liability or obligation purported to be created under any Transaction Document (including, without limitation, the Security Documents and the Guaranty);

(xvii) any Security Document shall for any reason fail or cease to create a separate valid and perfected and, except to the extent permitted by the terms hereof or thereof, first priority Lien (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) on the Collateral (as defined in the Security Documents) in favor of the Collateral Agent (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) or any material provision of any Security Document shall at any time for any reason cease to be valid and binding on or enforceable against the Company or the validity or enforceability thereof shall be contested by any party thereto, or a proceeding shall be commenced by the Company or any governmental authority having jurisdiction over the Company, seeking to establish the invalidity or unenforceability thereof;

 

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(xviii) failure to comply with the Approved Budget in any respect;

(xix) termination or expiration of the Forbearance Agreement;

(xx) there occurs any uninsured loss to any material portion of the Collateral.

(b) Notice of an Event of Default; Redemption Right. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to this Note or any Other Note, the Company shall within one (1) calendar day deliver written notice thereof via electronic mail and overnight courier (with next day delivery specified) (an “Event of Default Notice”) to the Holder. At any time after the earlier of the Holder’s receipt of an Event of Default Notice and the Holder becoming aware of an Event of Default, the Holder may require the Company to redeem (regardless of whether such Event of Default has been cured) all or any portion of this Note by delivering written notice thereof (the “Event of Default Redemption Notice”) to the Company, which Event of Default Redemption Notice shall indicate the portion of this Note the Holder is electing to redeem. Each portion of this Note subject to redemption by the Company pursuant to this Section 4(b) shall be redeemed by the Company at a price equal to the product of (A) the sum of (x) such portion of the Principal to be redeemed, (y) all accrued and unpaid Interest with respect to such portion of the Principal amount, and (z) accrued and unpaid Late Charges with respect to such portion of such Principal and such Interest, if any (such sum, the “Redemption Amount”), multiplied by (B) the Redemption Premium (the “Event of Default Redemption Price”). Redemptions required by this Section 4(b) shall be made in accordance with the provisions of Section 11. To the extent redemptions required by this Section 4(b) are deemed or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be prepayments of this Note by the Company, such redemptions shall be deemed to be voluntary prepayments. In the event of a partial redemption of this Note pursuant hereto, the Principal amount redeemed shall be deducted from the Principal outstanding hereunder. In the event of the Company’s redemption of any portion of this Note under this Section 4(b), the Holder’s damages would be uncertain and difficult to estimate because of the parties’ inability to predict future interest rates and the uncertainty of the availability of a suitable substitute investment opportunity for the Holder. Accordingly, any redemption premium due under this Section 4(b) is intended by the parties to be, and shall be deemed, a reasonable estimate of the Holder’s actual loss of its investment opportunity and not as a penalty. Any redemption upon an Event of Default shall not constitute an election of remedies by the Holder, and all other rights and remedies of the Holder shall be preserved.

(c) Mandatory Redemption upon Bankruptcy Event of Default. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, upon any Bankruptcy Event of Default, whether occurring prior to or following the Maturity Date, the Company shall immediately pay to the Holder an amount in cash representing (i) all outstanding Principal, accrued and unpaid Interest and accrued and unpaid Late Charges on such Principal and Interest, multiplied by (ii) the Redemption Premium, in addition to any and all other amounts due hereunder, without the requirement for any notice or demand or other action by the Holder or any other person or entity, provided that the Holder may, in its sole discretion, waive such right to receive payment upon a Bankruptcy Event of Default, in whole or in part, and any such waiver shall not affect any other rights of the Holder hereunder, including any other rights in respect of such Bankruptcy Event of Default, and any right to payment of the Event of Default Redemption Price or any other Redemption Price, as applicable.

 

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5. RIGHTS UPON FUNDAMENTAL TRANSACTION.

(a) Assumption. The Company shall not enter into or be party to a Fundamental Transaction unless the Successor Entity assumes in writing all of the obligations of the Company under this Note and the other Transaction Documents in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5(a) pursuant to written agreements in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Required Holders and approved by the Required Holders prior to such Fundamental Transaction, including agreements to deliver to each holder of Notes in exchange for such Notes a security of the Successor Entity evidenced by a written instrument substantially similar in form and substance to the Notes reasonably satisfactory to the Required Holders, including, without limitation, having a principal amount and interest rate equal to the principal amounts then outstanding and the interest rates of the Notes held by such holder, having equal or greater security to the Notes and having similar ranking to the Notes. Upon the occurrence of any Fundamental Transaction, the Successor Entity shall succeed to, and be substituted for (so that from and after the date of such Fundamental Transaction, the provisions of this Note and the other Transaction Documents referring to the “Company” shall refer instead to the Successor Entity), and may exercise every right and power of the Company and shall assume all of the obligations of the Company under this Note and the other Transaction Documents with the same effect as if such Successor Entity had been named as the Company herein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Holder may elect, at its sole option, by delivery of written notice to the Company to waive this Section 5(a) to permit the Fundamental Transaction without the assumption of this Note. The provisions of this Section 5 shall apply similarly and equally to successive Fundamental Transactions.

(b) Notice of a Change of Control; Redemption Right. No later than ten (10) Business Days prior to the consummation of a Change of Control, the Company shall deliver written notice thereof via electronic mail and overnight courier to the Holder (a “Change of Control Notice”). At any time during the period beginning after the Holder’s receipt of a Change of Control Notice or the Holder becoming aware of a Change of Control if a Change of Control Notice is not delivered to the Holder in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence (as applicable) and ending on twenty (20) Business Days after the later of (A) the date of consummation of such Change of Control or (B) the date of receipt of such Change of Control Notice or (C) the date of the announcement of such Change of Control, the Holder may require the Company to redeem all or any portion of this Note by delivering written notice thereof (“Change of Control Redemption Notice”) to the Company, which Change of Control Redemption Notice shall indicate the Redemption Amount the Holder is electing to redeem. The portion of this Note subject to redemption pursuant to this Section 5 shall be redeemed by the Company in cash at a price equal to the product of (w) the Change of Control Redemption Premium multiplied by (y) the Redemption Amount being redeemed (the “Change of Control Redemption Price”). Redemptions required by this Section 5 shall be made in accordance with the provisions of Section 11 and shall have priority to payments to stockholders in connection with such Change of Control. To the extent redemptions required by this Section 5(b) are deemed or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be prepayments of this Note by the Company, such redemptions shall be deemed to be voluntary prepayments. In the event of a partial redemption of this Note pursuant hereto, the Principal amount redeemed shall be deducted from the Principal outstanding hereunder as set forth in the Change of Control Redemption Notice. In the event of the Company’s redemption of any portion of this Note under this Section 5(b), the Holder’s damages would be uncertain and difficult to estimate because of the parties’ inability to predict future interest rates and the uncertainty of the availability of a suitable substitute investment opportunity for the Holder. Accordingly, any Redemption Premium due under this Section 5(b) is intended by the parties to be, and shall be deemed, a reasonable estimate of the Holder’s actual loss of its investment opportunity and not as a penalty.

 

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6. RESERVED.

7. RESERVED.

8. RESERVED.

9. NONCIRCUMVENTION. The Company hereby covenants and agrees that the Company will not, by amendment of its Certificate of Incorporation (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement), Bylaws (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) or through any reorganization, transfer of assets, consolidation, merger, scheme of arrangement, dissolution, issue or sale of securities, or any other voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms of this Note, and will at all times in good faith carry out all of the provisions of this Note and take all action as may be required to protect the rights of the Holder of this Note.

10. RESERVED.

11. REDEMPTIONS.

(a) Mechanics. The Company shall deliver the applicable Event of Default Redemption Price to the Holder in cash within one (1) Business Day after the Company’s receipt of the Holder’s Event of Default Redemption Notice. If the Holder has submitted a Change of Control Redemption Notice in accordance with Section 5(b), the Company shall deliver the applicable Change of Control Redemption Price to the Holder in cash concurrently with the consummation of such Change of Control if such notice is received prior to the consummation of such Change of Control and within one (1) Business Day after the Company’s receipt of such notice otherwise. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in connection with any redemption hereunder at a time the Holder is entitled to receive a cash payment under any of the other Transaction Documents, at the option of the Holder delivered in writing to the Company, the applicable Redemption Price hereunder shall be increased by the amount of such cash payment owed to the Holder under such other Transaction Document and, upon payment in full in accordance herewith, shall satisfy the Company’s payment obligation under such other Transaction Document. In the event of a redemption of less than all of the Redemption Amount of this Note, the Company shall promptly cause to be issued and delivered to the Holder a new Note (in accordance with Section 17(d)) representing the outstanding Principal which has not been redeemed. In the event that the Company does not pay the applicable Redemption Price to the Holder within the time period required, at any time thereafter and until the Company pays such unpaid Redemption Price in full, the Holder shall have the option, in lieu of redemption, to require the Company to promptly return to the Holder all or any portion of this Note representing the Redemption Amount that was submitted for redemption and for which the applicable Redemption Price (together with any Late Charges thereon) has not been paid. Upon the Company’s receipt of such notice, (x) the applicable Redemption Notice shall be null and void with respect to such Redemption Amount and (y) the Company shall immediately return this Note, or issue a new Note (in accordance with Section 17(d)), to the Holder, and in each case the principal amount of this Note or such new Note (as the case may be) shall be increased by an amount equal to the difference between (1) the applicable Redemption Price (as the case may be, and as adjusted pursuant to this Section 11, if applicable) minus (2) the Principal portion of the Redemption Amount submitted for redemption. The Holder’s delivery of a notice voiding a Redemption Notice and exercise of its rights following such notice shall not affect the Company’s obligations to make any payments of Late Charges which have accrued prior to the date of such notice with respect to the Redemption Amount subject to such notice.

 

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(b) Redemption by Other Holders. Upon the Company’s receipt of notice from any of the holders of the Other Notes for redemption or repayment as a result of an event or occurrence substantially similar to the events or occurrences described in Section 4(b) or Section 5(b) (each, an “Other Redemption Notice”), the Company shall immediately, but no later than one (1) Business Day of its receipt thereof, forward to the Holder by electronic mail a copy of such notice. If the Company receives a Redemption Notice and one or more Other Redemption Notices, during the seven (7) Business Day period beginning on and including the date which is two (2) Business Days prior to the Company’s receipt of the Holder’s applicable Redemption Notice and ending on and including the date which is two (2) Business Days after the Company’s receipt of the Holder’s applicable Redemption Notice and the Company is unable to redeem all principal, interest and other amounts designated in such Redemption Notice and such Other Redemption Notices received during such seven (7) Business Day period, then the Company shall redeem a pro rata amount from each holder of the Notes (including the Holder) based on the principal amount of the Notes submitted for redemption pursuant to such Redemption Notice and such Other Redemption Notices received by the Company during such seven (7) Business Day period.

12. RESERVED.

13. COVENANTS. Until all of the Notes have been redeemed or otherwise satisfied in accordance with their terms:

(a) Rank; Guaranty; Collateral. The Company shall designate all payments due under this Note as senior secured Indebtedness, and (a) the Notes shall rank pari passu with all Other Notes and (b) shall be senior to all other Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries. The Notes shall be guaranteed as set forth in the Guaranty. The Notes and the Guaranty shall be secured by a priming first priority lien on the Collateral on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Security Agreement.

(b) Incurrence of Indebtedness. Except with the prior express written consent of the Required Holder, the Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not, directly or indirectly, incur or guarantee, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness (other than (i) the Indebtedness evidenced by this Note and the Other Notes, (ii) the Existing Notes and (iii) Permitted Indebtedness). The Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not, directly or indirectly, incur or guarantee, assume or suffer to exist any indebtedness convertible, exchangeable, exercisable or otherwise linked to the Company’s Common Stock, or any other equity security of the Company, except the Existing Notes.

(c) Existence of Liens. The Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not, directly or indirectly, allow or suffer to exist any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or other encumbrance upon or in any property or assets (including accounts and contract rights) owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (collectively, “Liens”) other than Permitted Liens.

(d) Restricted Payments. Without limiting the generality of Section 13(v), the Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not, directly or indirectly, (i) redeem, defease, repurchase, repay, prepay or make any payments in respect of, by the payment of cash or cash equivalents (in whole or in part, whether by way of open market purchases, tender offers, private transactions or otherwise), all or any portion of any Indebtedness (other than the Notes) whether by way of payment in respect of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on, such Indebtedness (A) prior to the due date or (B) if at the time such payment with respect to such Indebtedness is due or is otherwise made or, after giving effect to such payment, (I) an event constituting an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or (II) an event that with the passage of time and without being cured would constitute an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, or (ii) elect to accelerate, prepay or redeem early any Indebtedness.

 

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(e) Restricted Investments. Without limiting the generality of Section 13(v), the Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not, directly or indirectly, make any Restricted Investments.

(f) Restriction on Redemption and Cash Dividends. Without limiting the generality of Section 13(v), the Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not, directly or indirectly, redeem, repurchase or declare or pay any cash dividend or distribution on any of its capital stock.

(g) Restriction on Transfer of Assets. Without limiting the generality of Section 13(v), the Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not, directly or indirectly, sell, lease, license, assign, transfer, spin-off, split-off, close, convey or otherwise dispose of any assets or rights of the Company or any Subsidiary owned or hereafter acquired (including any Collateral) whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions, other than a repayment of the Obligations or a Permitted Asset Disposition, and the proceeds from any sale, disposition or other monetization of any assets or rights of the Company or any Subsidiary owned or hereafter acquired shall be deposited directly into the Segregated Account.

(h) Maturity of Indebtedness. The Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not, directly or indirectly, permit any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to mature or accelerate prior to the Maturity Date; except, solely during the Forbearance Period (as defined in the Forbearance Agreement) with respect to (A) any maturity, redemption or acceleration of the 2025 Notes as a result of any Specified Defaults (as defined in the Forbearance Agreement) or (B) any default under or acceleration of the Company’s 2.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026 existing on the Issuance Date.

(i) Change in Nature of Business. The Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not, directly or indirectly, engage in any material line of business substantially different from those lines of business conducted by or publicly contemplated to be conducted by the Company and each of its Subsidiaries on the Subscription Date or any business substantially related or incidental thereto. The Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not, directly or indirectly, modify its or their corporate structure or purpose other than for tax or other general corporate purposes that are not meant to (and do not) (i) change the nature of the business of the Company currently conducted as of the Issuance Date or (ii) affect in any way the perfection of the Collateral Agent’s Liens on any of the Collateral.

(j) Accounting Matters. The Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not, directly or indirectly, make any significant change in accounting treatment or reporting practices, except as required by GAAP; or establish a fiscal year different than the Fiscal Year.

(k) Preservation of Existence, Etc. The Company shall maintain and preserve, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain and preserve, its existence, rights and privileges, and become or remain, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to become or remain, duly qualified and in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the character of the properties owned or leased by it or in which the transaction of its business makes such qualification necessary.

(l) Maintenance of Properties, Etc. The Company shall maintain and preserve, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain and preserve, all of its properties in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and comply, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply, at all times with the provisions of all leases to which it is a party as lessee or under which it occupies property, so as to prevent any loss or forfeiture thereof or thereunder.

 

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(m) Maintenance of Intellectual Property. The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, take all action necessary or advisable to maintain all of the Intellectual Property Rights (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) of the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries that are necessary or material to the conduct of its business in full force and effect.

(n) Maintenance of Insurance. The Company shall maintain, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain, insurance with responsible and reputable insurance companies or associations (including, without limitation, comprehensive general liability, hazard, rent and business interruption insurance) with respect to its properties (including all real properties leased or owned by it) and business, in such amounts and covering such risks as is required by any governmental authority having jurisdiction with respect thereto or as is carried generally in accordance with sound business practice by companies in similar businesses (including, without limitation, and for the avoidance of doubt, at least $5,000,000 in director’s and officer’s insurance), in each case, in accordance with the Approved Budget.

(o) Transactions with Affiliates. Without limiting the generality of Section 13(v), the Company shall not, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into, renew, extend or be a party to, any transaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, the purchase, sale, lease, transfer or exchange of property or assets of any kind or the rendering of services of any kind) with any affiliate.

(p) Restricted Issuances. Without limiting the generality of Section 13(v), the Company shall not, directly or indirectly, without the prior written consent of the Required Holders, (i) issue any Notes (other than as contemplated by the Securities Purchase Agreement and the Notes) or (ii) issue any other securities that would cause a breach or default under the Notes.

(q) Reserved.

(r) Reserved.

(s) Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. To the extent that it may lawfully do so, the Company (A) agrees that it will not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law (wherever or whenever enacted or in force) that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Note; and (B) expressly waives all benefits or advantages of any such law and agrees that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power granted to the Holder by this Note, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law has been enacted.

(t) Taxes. The Company and its Subsidiaries shall pay when due all taxes, fees or other charges of any nature whatsoever (together with any related interest or penalties) now or hereafter imposed or assessed against the Company and its Subsidiaries or their respective assets or upon their ownership, possession, use, operation or disposition thereof or upon their rents, receipts or earnings arising therefrom (except where the failure to pay would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material effect on the Company or any of its Subsidiaries), in each case, in accordance with the Approved Budget. The Company and its Subsidiaries shall file on or before the due date therefor all personal property tax returns (except where the failure to file would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material effect on the Company or any of its Subsidiaries). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company and its Subsidiaries may contest, in good faith and by appropriate proceedings, taxes for which they maintain adequate reserves therefor in accordance with GAAP, in each case, in accordance with the Approved Budget.

 

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(u) Independent Investigation. At the request of the Holder either (x) at any time when an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (y) upon the occurrence of an event that with the passage of time or giving of notice would constitute an Event of Default or (z) at any time the Holder reasonably believes an Event of Default may have occurred or be continuing, the Company shall hire an independent, reputable investment bank selected by the Company and approved by the Holder to investigate as to whether any breach of this Note has occurred (the “Independent Investigator”). If the Independent Investigator determines that such breach of this Note has occurred, the Independent Investigator shall notify the Company of such breach and the Company shall deliver written notice to each holder of a Note of such breach. In connection with such investigation, the Independent Investigator may, during normal business hours, inspect all contracts, books, records, personnel, offices and other facilities and properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries and, to the extent available to the Company after the Company uses reasonable efforts to obtain them, the records of its legal advisors and accountants (including the accountants’ work papers) and any books of account, records, reports and other papers not contractually required of the Company to be confidential or secret, or subject to attorney-client or other evidentiary privilege, and the Independent Investigator may make such copies and inspections thereof as the Independent Investigator may reasonably request. The Company shall furnish the Independent Investigator with such financial and operating data and other information with respect to the business and properties of the Company as the Independent Investigator may reasonably request. The Company shall permit the Independent Investigator to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the Company with, and to make proposals and furnish advice with respect thereto to, the Company’s officers, directors, key employees and independent public accountants or any of them (and by this provision the Company authorizes said accountants to discuss with such Independent Investigator the finances and affairs of the Company and any Subsidiaries), all at such reasonable times, upon reasonable notice, and as often as may be reasonably requested.

(v) Approved Budget.

(i) At all times that any Notes are outstanding, the Company shall, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, act in accordance with an Approved Budget.

(ii) The Company shall, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply with the then-current Approved Budget in all respects.

(iii) The Company shall, beginning on the Thursday of the first week following the end of the First Test Period, deliver on a weekly basis (by 5:00pm (Eastern Time) on the Thursday of each week) to the Holder and the Holder’s advisors an Approved Budget Variance Report.

(iv) The Company’s advisors shall hold weekly meetings with the Holder’s advisors to discuss the applicable Approved Budget Variance Report.

(w) Sales of Vehicles. The Company shall, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, continue to sell vehicles at auction and through dealers and direct-to-consumer channels consistent with the Approved Budget. All proceeds from any sale or disposition or other monetization of any vehicles (through any channels) by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall be deposited directly into the Segregated Account.

(x) Chief Restructuring Officer. Except as otherwise agreed in writing by the Holder, the Company and its Subsidiaries shall continue to retain a Chief Restructuring Officer (“CRO”) satisfactory to the Holder in its sole discretion, on terms and conditions and with a scope of services acceptable to Holders in its sole discretion, including without limitation, access to all financial and other information of the Company and its Subsidiaries. Each of the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ officers and all other executive management members shall inform the CRO of any actions or decisions taken or to be taken, including, without limitation, any proposals to be made or discussed with the board of directors of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

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(y) Liquidation Plan. The Company shall deliver to the Holder and its advisors a proposed liquidation plan, in form and substance acceptable to the Holder, on or before May 23, 2024.

14. RESERVED.

15. AMENDING THE TERMS OF THIS NOTE. The prior written consent of the Company and the Holder shall be required for any change, waiver or amendment to this Note.

16. TRANSFER. This Note may be offered, sold, assigned or transferred by the Holder without the consent of the Company, subject to satisfaction of applicable securities law.

17. REISSUANCE OF THIS NOTE.

(a) Transfer. If this Note is to be transferred, the Holder shall surrender this Note to the Company, whereupon the Company will forthwith issue and deliver upon the order of the Holder a new Note (in accordance with Section 17(d)), registered as the Holder may request, representing the outstanding Principal being transferred by the Holder and, if less than the entire outstanding Principal is being transferred, a new Note (in accordance with Section 17(d)) to the Holder representing the outstanding Principal not being transferred. The Holder and any assignee, by acceptance of this Note, acknowledge and agree that, following redemption of any portion of this Note, the outstanding Principal represented by this Note may be less than the Principal stated on the face of this Note.

(b) Lost, Stolen or Mutilated Note. Upon receipt by the Company of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Note (as to which a written certification and the indemnification contemplated below shall suffice as such evidence), and, in the case of loss, theft or destruction, of any indemnification undertaking by the Holder to the Company in customary and reasonable form and, in the case of mutilation, upon surrender and cancellation of this Note. The Company shall execute such new Note and deliver to the Holder a new Note (in accordance with Section 17(d)) representing the outstanding Principal.

(c) Note Exchangeable for Different Denominations. This Note is exchangeable, upon the surrender hereof by the Holder at the principal office of the Company, for a new Note or Notes (in accordance with Section 17(d) and in principal amounts of at least $1,000) representing in the aggregate the outstanding Principal of this Note, and each such new Note will represent such portion of such outstanding Principal as is designated by the Holder at the time of such surrender.

(d) Issuance of New Notes. Whenever the Company is required to issue a new Note pursuant to the terms of this Note, such new Note (i) shall be of like tenor with this Note, (ii) shall represent, as indicated on the face of such new Note, the Principal remaining outstanding (or in the case of a new Note being issued pursuant to Section 17(a) or Section 17(c), the Principal designated by the Holder which, when added to the principal represented by the other new Notes issued in connection with such issuance, does not exceed the Principal remaining outstanding under this Note immediately prior to such issuance of new Notes), (iii) shall have an issuance date, as indicated on the face of such new Note, which is the same as the Issuance Date of this Note, (iv) shall have the same rights and conditions as this Note and (v) shall represent accrued and unpaid Interest and Late Charges on the Principal and Interest of this Note from the Issuance Date.

 

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18. REMEDIES, CHARACTERIZATIONS, OTHER OBLIGATIONS, BREACHES AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF. The remedies provided in this Note shall be cumulative and in addition to all other remedies available under this Note and any of the other Transaction Documents at law or in equity (including a decree of specific performance and/or other injunctive relief), and nothing herein shall limit the Holder’s right to pursue actual and consequential damages for any failure by the Company to comply with the terms of this Note. No failure on the part of the Holder to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right, power or remedy hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise by the Holder of any right, power or remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy. In addition, the exercise of any right or remedy of the Holder at law or equity or under this Note or any of the documents shall not be deemed to be an election of Holder’s rights or remedies under such documents or at law or equity. The Company covenants to the Holder that there shall be no characterization concerning this instrument other than as expressly provided herein. Amounts set forth or provided for herein with respect to payments and the like (and the computation thereof) shall be the amounts to be received by the Holder and shall not, except as expressly provided herein, be subject to any other obligation of the Company (or the performance thereof). The Company acknowledges that a breach by it of its obligations hereunder will cause irreparable harm to the Holder and that the remedy at law for any such breach may be inadequate. The Company therefore agrees that, in the event of any such breach or threatened breach, the Holder shall be entitled, in addition to all other available remedies, to specific performance and/or temporary, preliminary and permanent injunctive or other equitable relief from any court of competent jurisdiction in any such case without the necessity of proving actual damages and without posting a bond or other security. The Company shall provide all information and documentation to the Holder that is requested by the Holder to enable the Holder to confirm the Company’s compliance with the terms and conditions of this Note.

19. PAYMENT OF COLLECTION, ENFORCEMENT AND OTHER COSTS. If (a) this Note is placed in the hands of an attorney for collection or enforcement or is collected or enforced through any legal proceeding or the Holder otherwise takes action to collect amounts due under this Note and/or any other Transaction Document or to enforce the provisions of this Note and/or any other Transaction Document or (b) there occurs any bankruptcy, reorganization, receivership of the Company or other proceedings affecting Company creditors’ rights and involving a claim under this Note, then the Company shall pay the reasonable out-of-pocket costs incurred by the Holder for such collection, enforcement or action or in connection with such bankruptcy, reorganization, receivership or other proceeding, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements.

20. CONSTRUCTION; HEADINGS. This Note shall be deemed to be jointly drafted by the Company and the initial Holder and shall not be construed against any such Person as the drafter hereof. The headings of this Note are for convenience of reference and shall not form part of, or affect the interpretation of, this Note. Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, each pronoun herein shall be deemed to include the masculine, feminine, neuter, singular and plural forms thereof. The terms “including,” “includes,” “include” and words of like import shall be construed broadly as if followed by the words “without limitation.” The terms “herein,” “hereunder,” “hereof” and words of like import refer to this entire Note instead of just the provision in which they are found. Unless expressly indicated otherwise, all section references are to sections of this Note. Terms used in this Note and not otherwise defined herein, but defined in the other Transaction Documents, shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms on the Initial Closing Date in such other Transaction Documents unless otherwise consented to in writing by the Holder.

21. FAILURE OR INDULGENCE NOT WAIVER. No failure or delay on the part of the Holder in the exercise of any power, right or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such power, right or privilege preclude other or further exercise thereof or of any other right, power or privilege. No waiver shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving party.

 

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22. RESERVED.

23. NOTICES; CURRENCY; PAYMENTS.

(a) Notices. Whenever notice is required to be given under this Note, unless otherwise provided herein, such notice shall be given in accordance with Section 8(f) of the Securities Purchase Agreement. The Company shall provide the Holder with prompt written notice of all actions taken pursuant to this Note, including in reasonable detail a description of such action and the reason therefore.

(b) Currency. All dollar amounts referred to in this Note are in United States Dollars (“U.S. Dollars”), and all amounts owing under this Note shall be paid in U.S. Dollars. All amounts denominated in other currencies (if any) shall be converted into the U.S. Dollar equivalent amount in accordance with the Exchange Rate on the date of calculation. “Exchange Rate” means, in relation to any amount of currency to be converted into U.S. Dollars pursuant to this Note, the U.S. Dollar exchange rate as published in the Wall Street Journal on the relevant date of calculation (it being understood and agreed that where an amount is calculated with reference to, or over, a period of time, the date of calculation shall be the final date of such period of time).

(c) Payments. Whenever any payment of cash is to be made by the Company to any Person pursuant to this Note, unless otherwise expressly set forth herein, such payment shall be made in lawful money of the United States of America by a certified check drawn on the account of the Company and sent via overnight courier service to such Person at such address as previously provided to the Company in writing (which address, in the case of each of the Buyers, shall initially be as set forth on the Schedule of Buyers attached to the Securities Purchase Agreement), provided that the Holder may elect to receive a payment of cash via wire transfer of immediately available funds by providing the Company with prior written notice setting out such request and the Holder’s wire transfer instructions. Whenever any amount expressed to be due by the terms of this Note is due on any day which is not a Business Day, the same shall instead be due on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day. Any amount of Principal or other amounts due under the Transaction Documents which is not paid when due (except to the extent such amount is simultaneously accruing Interest at the Default Rate hereunder) shall result in a late charge being incurred and payable by the Company in an amount equal to interest on such amount at the rate of eighteen percent (18%) per annum from the date such amount was due until the same is paid in full (“Late Charge”).

24. CANCELLATION. After all Principal, accrued Interest, Late Charges and other amounts at any time owed on this Note or any other Transaction Documents have been paid in full, this Note shall automatically be deemed canceled, shall be surrendered to the Company for cancellation and shall not be reissued.

25. WAIVER OF NOTICE. To the extent permitted by law, the Company hereby irrevocably waives demand, notice, presentment, protest and all other demands and notices in connection with the delivery, acceptance, performance, default or enforcement of this Note and the Securities Purchase Agreement.

26. GOVERNING LAW. This Note shall be construed and enforced in accordance with, and all questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and performance of this Note shall be governed by, the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdictions other than the State of New York. The Company 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

 

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or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein, 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 brought in an inconvenient forum or that the venue of such suit, action or proceeding is improper. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any manner permitted by law. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed or operate to preclude the Holder from (A) asserting jurisdiction over the Company and its property in any court in which jurisdiction may be laid over the Company or its property or (B) bringing suit or taking other legal action against the Company in any other jurisdiction to collect on the Company’s obligations to the Holder, or to enforce a judgment or other court ruling in favor of the Holder. THE COMPANY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO, AND AGREES NOT TO REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF THIS NOTE OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

27. JUDGMENT CURRENCY.

(a) If for the purpose of obtaining or enforcing judgment against the Company in any court in any jurisdiction it becomes necessary to convert into any other currency (such other currency being hereinafter in this Section 27 referred to as the “Judgment Currency”) an amount due in U.S. Dollars under this Note, the conversion shall be made at the Exchange Rate prevailing on the Business Day immediately preceding:

(i) the date actual payment of the amount due, in the case of any proceeding in the courts of New York or in the courts of any other jurisdiction that will give effect to such conversion being made on such date: or

(ii) the date on which the foreign court determines, in the case of any proceeding in the courts of any other jurisdiction (the date as of which such conversion is made pursuant to this Section 27(a)(ii) being hereinafter referred to as the “Judgment Conversion Date”).

(b) If in the case of any proceeding in the court of any jurisdiction referred to in Section 27(a)(ii) above, there is a change in the Exchange Rate prevailing between the Judgment Conversion Date and the date of actual payment of the amount due, the applicable party shall pay such adjusted amount as may be necessary to ensure that the amount paid in the Judgment Currency, when converted at the Exchange Rate prevailing on the date of payment, will produce the amount of U.S. Dollars which could have been purchased with the amount of Judgment Currency stipulated in the judgment or judicial order at the Exchange Rate prevailing on the Judgment Conversion Date.

(c) Any amount due from the Company under this provision shall be due as a separate debt and shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other amounts due under or in respect of this Note.

28. SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this Note is prohibited by law or otherwise determined to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the provision that would otherwise be prohibited, invalid or unenforceable shall be deemed amended to apply to the broadest extent that it would be valid and enforceable, and the invalidity or unenforceability of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Note so long as this Note as so modified continues to express, without material change, the original intentions of the parties as to the subject matter hereof and the prohibited nature, invalidity or unenforceability of the provision(s) in question does not substantially impair the respective expectations or reciprocal obligations of the parties or the practical realization of the benefits that would otherwise be conferred upon the parties. The parties will endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the prohibited, invalid or unenforceable provision(s) with a valid provision(s), the effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the prohibited, invalid or unenforceable provision(s).

 

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29. MAXIMUM PAYMENTS. Without limiting Section 9(d) of the Securities Purchase Agreement, nothing contained herein shall be deemed to establish or require the payment of a rate of interest or other charges in excess of the maximum permitted by applicable law. In the event that the rate of interest required to be paid or other charges hereunder exceed the maximum permitted by such law, any payments in excess of such maximum shall be credited against amounts owed by the Company to the Holder and thus refunded to the Company.

30. CERTAIN DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this Note, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

(a) “1934 Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder.

(b) “2025 Notes” means, collectively, the Company’s Series A-1 and Series B-1 Senior Secured Convertible Notes due 2025.

(c) “Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any other Person that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person, it being understood for purposes of this definition that “control” of a Person means the power directly or indirectly either to vote 10% or more of the stock having ordinary voting power for the election of directors of such Person or direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person whether by contract or otherwise.

(d) “Approved Budget” means a customary three-week budget and cash flow forecast for the Company and its Subsidiaries delivered to the Holder and the Holder’s advisors, containing line items of sufficient detail to reflect the consolidated receipts and disbursements (including all professional fees) of the Company and its Subsidiaries broken down by week (including anticipated uses of the proceeds of the Notes for such period), in form and substance acceptable to the Holder in its sole discretion, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit I, which budget and cash flow forecast may be amended from time to time with the consent of the Holder in its sole discretion.

(e) “Approved Budget Variance Report” means (i) a weekly budget variance report/reconciliation for each Test Period immediately preceding the date of each such delivery setting forth in reasonable detail, actual operating receipts, operating disbursements, non-operating disbursements, and any other receipts and disbursements of the Company on an individual line item basis and aggregate basis for such Test Period to receipts and disbursements for such Test Period as set forth in the Approved Budget, and (ii) a statement certifying compliance with the Approved Budget and explaining in reasonable detail all variances from the Approved Budget. The Approved Budget Variance Report shall be in a form, and shall contain supporting information, reasonably satisfactory to the Holder (or its advisors).

(f) “Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11, U.S. Code or any similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors.

(g) “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in The City of New York are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided, however, for clarification, commercial banks shall not be deemed to be authorized or required by law to remain closed due to “stay at home”, “shelter-in-place”, “non-essential employee” or any other similar orders or restrictions or the closure of any physical branch locations at the direction of any governmental authority so long as the electronic funds transfer systems (including for wire transfers) of commercial banks in The City of New York generally are open for use by customers on such day.

 

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(h) “cash” of the Company and its Subsidiaries on any date shall be determined from such Persons’ books maintained in accordance with GAAP, and means, without duplication, the cash, cash equivalents and Eligible Marketable Securities accrued by the Company and its wholly owned Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis on such date.

(i) “Change of Control” means any Fundamental Transaction other than (i) any merger of the Company or any of its, direct or indirect, wholly-owned Subsidiaries with or into any of the foregoing Persons, (ii) any reorganization, recapitalization or reclassification of the shares of Common Stock in which holders of the Company’s voting power immediately prior to such reorganization, recapitalization or reclassification continue after such reorganization, recapitalization or reclassification to hold publicly traded securities and, directly or indirectly, are, in all material respects and in substantially the same proportions, the holders of the voting power of the surviving entity (or entities with the authority or voting power to elect the members of the board of directors (or their equivalent if other than a corporation) of such entity or entities) after such reorganization, recapitalization or reclassification, or (iii) pursuant to a migratory merger effected solely for the purpose of changing the jurisdiction of incorporation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

(j) “Change of Control Redemption Premium” means 125%.

(k) “Collateral” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Security Agreement.

(l) “Collateral Agent” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Security Agreement.

(m) “Common Stock” means (i) the Company’s shares of Class A common stock, $0.00001 par value per share, and (ii) any capital stock into which such common stock shall have been changed or any share capital resulting from a reclassification of such common stock.

(n) “Eligible Market” means the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE American, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the Nasdaq Global Market or the Nasdaq Capital Market.

(o) “Eligible Marketable Securities” as of any date means marketable securities which would be reflected on a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP, and which are permitted under the Company’s investment policies as in effect on the Issuance Date or approved thereafter by the Company’s Board of Directors.

(p) “Existing Notes” means the 2025 Notes and the Company’s 2.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026.

(q) “Fiscal Year” means the fiscal year adopted by the Company for financial reporting purposes as of the date hereof that ends on December 31.

(r) “Forbearance Agreement” means the Forbearance Agreement, dated as of April 21, 2024, by and among the Company, certain Subsidiaries of the Company and the Holder, as amended by that certain Amendment No. 1 to Forbearance Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2024, by and among the Company, certain Subsidiaries of the Company and the Holder, and as may be amended or extended from time to time, with the consent of the Holder in its sole discretion.

 

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(s) “Fundamental Transaction” means (A) that the Company shall, directly or indirectly, including through subsidiaries, Affiliates or otherwise, in one or more related transactions, (i) consolidate or merge with or into (whether or not the Company is the surviving corporation) another Subject Entity, or (ii) sell, assign, transfer, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries to one or more Subject Entities, or (iii) make, or allow one or more Subject Entities to make, or allow the Company to be subject to or have its Common Stock be subject to or party to one or more Subject Entities making, a purchase, tender or exchange offer that is accepted by the holders of at least either (x) 50% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (y) 50% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock calculated as if any shares of Common Stock held by all Subject Entities making or party to, or Affiliated with any Subject Entities making or party to, such purchase, tender or exchange offer were not outstanding; or (z) such number of shares of Common Stock such that all Subject Entities making or party to, or Affiliated with any Subject Entity making or party to, such purchase, tender or exchange offer, become collectively the beneficial owners (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the 1934 Act) of at least 50% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iv) consummate a stock or share purchase agreement or other business combination (including, without limitation, a reorganization, recapitalization, spin-off or scheme of arrangement) with one or more Subject Entities whereby all such Subject Entities, individually or in the aggregate, acquire, either (x) at least 50% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (y) at least 50% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock calculated as if any shares of Common Stock held by all the Subject Entities making or party to, or Affiliated with any Subject Entity making or party to, such stock purchase agreement or other business combination were not outstanding; or (z) such number of shares of Common Stock such that the Subject Entities become collectively the beneficial owners (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the 1934 Act) of at least 50% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (v) reorganize, recapitalize or reclassify its Common Stock, (B) that the Company shall, directly or indirectly, including through subsidiaries, Affiliates or otherwise, in one or more related transactions, allow any Subject Entity individually or the Subject Entities in the aggregate to be or become the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the 1934 Act), directly or indirectly, whether through acquisition, purchase, assignment, conveyance, tender, tender offer, exchange, reduction in outstanding shares of Common Stock, merger, consolidation, business combination, reorganization, recapitalization, spin-off, scheme of arrangement, reorganization, recapitalization or reclassification or otherwise in any manner whatsoever, of either (x) at least 50% of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by issued and outstanding Common Stock, (y) at least 50% of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by issued and outstanding Common Stock not held by all such Subject Entities as of the date of this Note calculated as if any shares of Common Stock held by all such Subject Entities were not outstanding, or (z) a percentage of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock or other equity securities of the Company sufficient to allow such Subject Entities to effect a statutory short form merger or other transaction requiring other stockholders of the Company to surrender their shares of Common Stock without approval of the stockholders of the Company or (C) directly or indirectly, including through subsidiaries, Affiliates or otherwise, in one or more related transactions, the issuance of or the entering into any other instrument or transaction structured in a manner to circumvent, or that circumvents, the intent of this definition in which case this definition shall be construed and implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms of this definition to the extent necessary to correct this definition or any portion of this definition which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended treatment of such instrument or transaction.

(t) “GAAP” means United States generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied.

 

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(u) “Group” means a “group” as that term is used in Section 13(d) of the 1934 Act and as defined in Rule 13d-5 thereunder.

(v) “Guarantor” means each Subsidiary of the Company, wherever located (or formed, as applicable) and whether now existing or thereafter acquired; provided that (i) as of the Subscription Date, only the Subsidiaries of the Company that are incorporated or organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany and France shall be required to be a Guarantor, (ii) any other Subsidiaries of the Company party to a Security Document or otherwise reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent to become Guarantors shall be required to be joined as Guarantors within 3 Business Days after the Subscription Date (in the case of such Subsidiaries party to a Security Document) or 5 Business Days after the date of request by the Collateral Agent (and, if applicable, such joinder documents shall include or be subject to any necessary local law limitations or requirements) and (iii) notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall any Subsidiary of the Company be required to be joined as a Guarantor at any time (x) if such Subsidiary is incorporated or organized in India or China or any political subdivision thereof, (y) if joining such Subsidiary as a Guarantor would reasonably be expected to result in material adverse tax consequences to the Company or its Subsidiaries as determined by the Company and the Buyers in good faith or (z) the burden or cost of joining such Subsidiary as a Guarantor outweighs the benefits afforded, as determined by the Company and the Buyers in good faith.

(w) “Guaranty” means each guaranty now or hereafter executed by a Guarantor with respect to any of the Obligations.

(x) “Indebtedness” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Securities Purchase Agreement.

(y) “Initial Closing Date” shall have the meaning set forth in the Securities Purchase Agreement, which date is the date the Company initially issued Initial Notes (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) pursuant to the terms of the Securities Purchase Agreement.

(z) “Issuance Date” means the date set forth above as the issuance date.

(aa) “Maturity Date” shall mean June 24, 2024.

(bb) “Obligations” shall mean all Obligations as that term is defined in the Security Agreement plus, without duplication, all Principal, Interest or other amounts when and as due under the Notes (including, without limitation, the Company’s failure to pay any redemption payments or amounts hereunder) or any other Transaction Document or any other agreement, document, certificate or other instrument delivered in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.

(cc) “Parent Entity” of a Person means an entity that, directly or indirectly, controls the applicable Person and whose common stock or equivalent equity security is quoted or listed on an Eligible Market, or, if there is more than one such Person or Parent Entity, the Person or Parent Entity with the largest public market capitalization as of the date of consummation of the Fundamental Transaction.

(dd) “Permitted Asset Disposition” means a sale and disposition made in the ordinary course of business on arm’s length terms and for fair market value or in accordance with the Approved Budget; provided that proceeds from any such sale and disposition shall be deposited into the Segregated Account.

 

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(ee) “Permitted Indebtedness” means (i) Indebtedness evidenced by this Note and the Other Notes, (ii) Indebtedness set forth on Schedule 3(s) to the Securities Purchase Agreement, as in effect as of the Subscription Date and (iii) Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business and in accordance with the Approved Budget; provided, that (A) all Permitted Indebtedness must be subordinate to the terms of the Notes (other than Permitted Indebtedness secured by Permitted Liens), and (B) no Permitted Indebtedness shall prohibit or limit in any manner any term or condition under the Transaction Documents and/or any amendment, or modification or waiver hereunder or thereunder, as applicable, including, but not limited to any prohibition on any payment of cash by the Company in respect of any obligation under the Notes.

(ff) “Permitted Liens” means (i) any Lien for taxes not yet due or delinquent or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings for which adequate reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP, (ii) any statutory Lien arising in the ordinary course of business by operation of law with respect to a liability that is not yet due or delinquent and (iii) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payments of custom duties in connection with the importation of goods.

(gg) “Person” means an individual, a limited liability company, a partnership, a joint venture, a corporation, a trust, an unincorporated organization, any other entity or a government or any department or agency thereof.

(hh) “Redemption Notices” means, collectively, the Event of Default Redemption Notices, and the Change of Control Redemption Notices, and each of the foregoing, individually, a “Redemption Notice.”

(ii) “Redemption Premium” means 125%.

(jj) “Redemption Prices” means, collectively, Event of Default Redemption Prices and the Change of Control Redemption Prices, and each of the foregoing, individually, a “Redemption Price.”

(kk) “Required Holders” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Securities Purchase Agreement.

(ll) “Restricted Investment” means any investment other than: (i) investments existing on the date of the Securities Purchase Agreement and (ii) investments in cash or cash equivalents (provided that they shall be held in the Segregated Account).

(mm) “SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission or the successor thereto.

(nn) “Securities Purchase Agreement” means that certain securities purchase agreement, dated as of the Subscription Date, by and among the Company and the initial holders of the Notes pursuant to which the Company issued the Notes, as may be amended from time to time.

(oo) “Security Agreement” means that certain Security and Pledge Agreement, dated as of May 10, 2024, between the Company and its Subsidiaries that are party thereto and the Collateral Agent.

(pp) “Security Documents” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Security Agreement.

 

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(qq) “Segregated Account” means a cash account, which is subject to a deposit account control agreement solely for the benefit of the Buyers and in form and substance acceptable to the Buyers, provided, that within five (5) Business Days of the Subscription Date, all funds in the Segregated Account shall be moved to a segregated cash account, which is subject to a deposit account control agreement solely for the benefit of the Buyers and in form and substance acceptable to the Buyers, and thereafter, the term “Segregated Account” shall refer to such account.

(rr) “Significant Subsidiaries” or “Significant Subsidiary” means, as of any time of determination, any of the “significant subsidiaries” (as defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X) of the Company as of such time of determination.

(ss) “Subject Entity” means any Person, Persons or Group or any Affiliate or associate of any such Person, Persons or Group.

(tt) “Subsidiaries” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Securities Purchase Agreement.

(uu) “Successor Entity” means the Person (or, if so elected by the Holder, the Parent Entity) formed by, resulting from or surviving any Fundamental Transaction or the Person (or, if so elected by the Holder, the Parent Entity) with which such Fundamental Transaction shall have been entered into.

(vv) “Test Period” means (i) initially, the one-week period beginning with the first day of the week during which the Issuance Date occurs (the “First Test Period”), (ii) then, the one-week period beginning with the first day of the week during which the Approved Budget Variance Report for the First Test Period was delivered, and (iii) thereafter, any one week period ended on the last day of the week immediately prior to the week during which the applicable Approved Budget Variance Report is required to be delivered.

(ww) “Transaction Documents” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Securities Purchase Agreement.

31. DISCLOSURE. The Company shall comply with the terms of the Non-Disclosure Agreement, dated April 13, 2024, by and among the Company, the Holder and Heights Capital Management, Inc. (as amended, the “Non-Disclosure Agreement”) in delivering any notice to the Holder in accordance with the terms of this Note. Nothing contained in this Section 31 shall limit any obligations of the Company, or any rights of the Holder, under Section 4(l) of the Securities Purchase Agreement or pursuant to the Non-Disclosure Agreement.

32. ABSENCE OF TRADING AND DISCLOSURE RESTRICTIONS. Subject to the Non-Disclosure Agreement, the Company acknowledges and agrees that the Holder is not a fiduciary or agent of the Company and that the Holder shall have no obligation to (a) maintain the confidentiality of any information provided by the Company or (b) refrain from trading any securities while in possession of such information in the absence of a written non-disclosure agreement signed by an officer of the Holder, including the Non-Disclosure Agreement, that explicitly provides for such confidentiality and trading restrictions. In the absence of the Non-Disclosure Agreement or another such executed, written non-disclosure agreement, the Company acknowledges that the Holder may freely trade in any securities issued by the Company, may possess and use any information provided by the Company in connection with such trading activity, and may disclose any such information to any third party.

33. SECURITY. This Note and the Other Notes are secured and guaranteed to the extent and in the manner set forth in the Transaction Documents (including, without limitation, the Security Agreement, the other Security Documents and the Guaranty).

 

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[signature page follows]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be duly executed as of the Issuance Date set out above.

 

FISKER INC.
By:  

/s/ Geeta Gupta-Fisker

  Name: Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker
  Title: Chief Financial Officer and Chief
  Operating Officer

Senior Secured Convertible Note - Signature Page


EXHIBIT I

APPROVED BUDGET

[Intentionally Omitted]

EXHIBIT 10.1

EXECUTION COPY

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

This SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”), dated as of May 10, 2024, is by and among Fisker Inc., a Delaware corporation with offices located at 1888 Rosecrans Avenue, Manhattan Beach, California 90266 (the “Company”), and the investors listed on the Schedule of Buyers attached hereto (individually, a “Buyer” and collectively, the “Buyers”).

RECITALS

A. WHEREAS, the Company desires to issue and sell to each Buyer, and each Buyer desires to purchase the Notes (as defined below) in reliance upon the exemption from securities registration afforded by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 (as amended from time to time, the “1933 Act”) on each Closing Date (as defined below);

B. WHEREAS, the Company has authorized the issuance and sale of senior secured notes of the Company, in the aggregate original principal amount of up to (seven million and five hundred thousand dollars) $7,500,000 (“Maximum Issuance Amount”), substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Notes”), in one or more tranches (each a “Tranche”);

C. WHEREAS, each Buyer wishes to purchase, and the Company wishes to sell, upon the terms and conditions stated in this Agreement, at the Initial Closing (as defined below) a Note in the original principal amount set forth opposite such Buyer’s name in column (2) (Initial Tranche) on the Schedule of Buyers (the “Initial Notes”);

D. WHEREAS, each Buyer may, at its sole discretion purchase, and the Company wishes to sell, upon the terms and conditions stated in this Agreement, at Additional Closing Date(s) (as defined below) in subsequent Tranche(s) Notes up to the Maximum Issuance Amount in the aggregate;

AGREEMENT

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

 

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PURCHASE AND SALE OF NOTES.

(a) Purchase of Notes.

(i) Purchase of Initial Tranche of Notes. Subject to the satisfaction (or waiver) of the conditions set forth in Sections 1(b)(i), 6(a) and 7(a) below, the Company shall issue and sell to each Buyer, and each Buyer, severally but not jointly, shall purchase from the Company on the Initial Closing Date (as defined below) an Initial Note in the original principal amount as set forth opposite such Buyer’s name in column (2) (Initial Tranche) on the Schedule of Buyers (the “Initial Closing”).

(ii) Purchase of Subsequent Tranches of Notes. Subject to the consent of each Buyer in its sole discretion to provide additional funding (which may be withheld for any reason or no reason), the satisfaction (or waiver) of the conditions set forth in Sections 1(b)(ii), 6(b) and 7(b) below and the delivery of a written notice from the Company to the Buyers requesting the Closing of a subsequent Tranche to occur (the “Additional Closing Notice”), which notice shall be delivered at least two (2) Business Days prior to the proposed Closing Date and the proposed Closing Date shall not be sooner than five (5) Business Days after the immediately preceding Closing Date, the Company shall issue and sell to each Buyer, and each Buyer, severally but not jointly, may purchase from the Company on each Additional Closing Dates (as defined below), an additional Note (each, an “Additional Note”) in such original principal amount as offered by the Company and may be agreed to by such Buyer (each such closing of the purchase of such Additional Note, an “Additional Closing”).


(b) Closing. Each of the Initial Closing and any Additional Closings (collectively, the “Closings”) of the purchase of Notes by the Buyers shall occur at the offices of White & Case LLP, 1221 The Avenue of Americas, New York, NY 10020.

(i) Initial Closing. The date and time of the Initial Closing (the “Initial Closing Date”) shall be 10:00 a.m., New York time, on the first (1st) Business Day on which the conditions to the Initial Closing set forth in Sections 1(b)(i), 6(a) and 7(a) below are satisfied or waived (or such other date as is mutually agreed to by the Company and the Buyer). As used herein “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in the City of New York are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided, however, for clarification, commercial banks shall not be deemed to be authorized or required by law to remain closed due to “stay at home”, “shelter-in-place”, “non-essential employee” or any other similar orders or restrictions or the closure of any physical branch locations at the direction of any governmental authority so long as the electronic funds transfer systems (including for wire transfers) of commercial banks in the City of New York generally are open for use by customers on such day.

(ii) Additional Closings. If the Company has delivered an Additional Closing Notice to the Buyers and the Buyers have consented in writing to such additional funding by countersigning the Additional Closing Notice, the date and time of the applicable Additional Closing (each, an “Additional Closing Date,” and together with the Initial Closing Date, each, a “Closing Date”) shall be 10:00 a.m., New York time, on the first (1st) Business Day on which the conditions to such Additional Closing set forth in Section 1(b)(ii), 6(b) and 7(b) below are satisfied or waived (or such other date as is mutually agreed to by the Company and each Buyer).

(c) Purchase Price. The aggregate purchase price for the Initial Notes (the “Initial Purchase Price”) to be purchased by a Buyer shall be the amount set forth as the Investment Amount opposite such Buyer’s name in column (2) (Initial Tranche) on the Schedule of Buyers. The aggregate purchase price for each Additional Note shall be as mutually agreed to between each Buyer and the Company in the relevant Additional Closing Notice (each an “Additional Purchase Price” and with the Initial Purchase Price, each a “Purchase Price”).

(d) Form of Payment.

(i) Initial Closing. On the Initial Closing Date, (i) each Buyer shall pay its respective Initial Purchase Price (less, in the case of any Buyer, the amounts withheld pursuant to Section 4(h)) to the Company for the Initial Notes to be issued and sold to such Buyer at the Initial Closing, by wire transfer of immediately available funds in accordance with the Initial Flow of Funds Letter (as defined below) and (ii) the Company shall deliver to each Buyer an Initial Note in the aggregate original principal amount as is set forth opposite such Buyer’s name in column (2) (Initial Tranche) of the Schedule of Buyers, duly executed on behalf of the Company and registered in the name of such Buyer or its designee.

(ii) Additional Closings. On each Additional Closing Date, (i) each Buyer shall pay its respective applicable Additional Purchase Price for such Additional Closing (less, in the case of any Buyer, the amounts withheld pursuant to Section 4(h)) to the Company for the Additional Notes to be issued and sold to such Buyer at such Additional Closing, by wire transfer of immediately available funds in accordance with the applicable Additional Flow of Funds Letter (as defined below) and (ii) the Company shall deliver to each Buyer Additional Notes in the aggregate original principal amount as is set forth in the applicable agreed Additional Closing Notice to be issued to such Buyer, duly executed on behalf of the Company and registered in the name of such Buyer or its designee.

 

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2.

BUYER’S REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.

Each Buyer, severally and not jointly, represents and warrants to the Company with respect to only itself that, as of the date hereof and as of each Closing Date:

(a) Organization; Authority. Such Buyer is an entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization with the requisite power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (as defined below) to which it is a party and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder.

(b) Validity; Enforcement. This Agreement has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered on behalf of such Buyer and shall constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of such Buyer enforceable against such Buyer in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity or to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation and other similar laws relating to, or affecting generally, the enforcement of applicable creditors’ rights and remedies.

(c) No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by such Buyer of this Agreement and the consummation by such Buyer of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby will not (i) result in a violation of the organizational documents of such Buyer, or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, any agreement, indenture or instrument to which such Buyer is a party, or (iii) result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree (including federal and state securities laws) applicable to such Buyer, except in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, for such conflicts, defaults, rights or violations which could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the ability of such Buyer to perform its obligations hereunder.

 

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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.

The Company represents and warrants to each of the Buyers that, as of the date hereof and as of each Closing Date (and for purposes of Section 3(z), the Company also represents and warrants as of the date any Information is furnished):

(a) Organization and Qualification. Each of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries are entities duly organized and validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which they are formed, and have the requisite power and authority to own their properties and to carry on their business as now being conducted and as presently proposed to be conducted. Each of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries is duly qualified as a foreign entity to do business and is in good standing in every jurisdiction in which its ownership of property or the nature of the business conducted by it makes such qualification necessary, except to the extent that the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect (as defined below). As used in this Agreement, “Material Adverse Effect” means any material adverse effect on (i) the business, properties, assets, liabilities, operations (including results thereof), condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Company or any Subsidiary, taken as a whole, (ii) the transactions contemplated hereby or in any of the other Transaction Documents or any other agreements or instruments to be entered into in connection herewith or therewith or (iii) the authority or ability of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to perform any of their respective obligations under any of the Transaction Documents (as defined below). Other than

 

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the Persons (as defined below) set forth on Schedule 3(a), the Company has no Subsidiaries. “Subsidiaries” means any Person in which the Company, directly or indirectly, (I) owns at least 10% of the outstanding capital stock or holds at least 10% of the equity or similar interest of such Person or (II) controls or operates all or any part of the business, operations or administration of such Person, and each of the foregoing, is individually referred to herein as a “Subsidiary.”

(b) Authorization; Enforcement; Validity. The Company has the requisite power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and to issue the Notes in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents by the Company, and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (including, without limitation, the issuance of the Notes) have been duly authorized by the Company’s board of directors (other than the filing with the SEC of the applicable 8-K Filing (as defined below) (collectively, the “Required Approvals”)) and no further filing, consent or authorization is required by the Company, its board of directors or its stockholders or other governing body. This Agreement has been, and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party will be prior to such Closing, duly executed and delivered by the Company, and each constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its respective terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity or applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation or similar laws relating to, or affecting generally, the enforcement of applicable creditors’ rights and remedies and except as rights to indemnification and to contribution may be limited by federal or state securities law. “Transaction Documents” means, collectively, this Agreement, the Notes, the US Security Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, made by the Company and each of the undersigned Subsidiaries (as defined therein) of the Company from time to time, in favor of CVI Investments, Inc. (the “US Security Agreement”), the Guaranty, the Senior Intercreditor Agreement dated as of the date hereof among the Company, CVI Investments, Inc. (as first lien representative, first lien collateral agent, junior lien representative and junior lien collateral agent) and other parties therein (the “Intercreditor Agreement”), the Perfection Certificate in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B (the “Perfection Certificate”), and any other Security Documents (as defined below) and each of the other agreements and instruments entered into or delivered by any of the parties hereto in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, as may be amended from time to time.

Security Documents” means collectively, each and every agreement set forth in Exhibit C hereto, security agreement, pledge agreement, mortgage, deed of trust, Account Control Agreement (as defined in the US Security Agreement) or other collateral security agreement required by or delivered to the Collateral Agent (as defined in the US Security Agreement) from time to time that purport to create a Lien (as defined below) in favor of any of the Collateral Agent as collateral agent for the Holder (as defined in the Notes) of Notes to secure payment or performance of the Obligations (as defined in the Notes) or any portion thereof.

(c) Issuance of Notes. The issuance of the Notes is duly authorized and upon issuance in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents shall be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and free from all preemptive or similar rights, mortgages, defects, claims, liens, pledges, charges, taxes, rights of first refusal, encumbrances, security interests and other encumbrances (collectively “Liens”) with respect to the issuance thereof. Upon receipt of the Notes, each of the Buyers will have good and marketable title to the Notes.

(d) No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (including, without limitation, the issuance of the Notes) will not (i) result in a violation of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended and as in effect on the date hereof (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) (including, without limitation, any certificate of designation contained therein), the Company’s bylaws, as amended and as in effect on the date hereof (the “Bylaws”), certificate of formation,

 

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memorandum of association, articles of association, bylaws or other organizational documents of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any capital stock or other securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) in any respect under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, any agreement, indenture or instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party, or (iii) result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree (including, without limitation, foreign, federal and state securities laws and regulations and the rules and regulations of the New York Stock Exchange (the “Principal Market”) and including all applicable foreign, federal and state laws, rules and regulations) applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by which any property or asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound or affected.

(e) Consents. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is required to obtain any consent from, authorization or order of, or make any filing or registration with (other than the Required Approvals), any Governmental Entity (as defined below) or any regulatory or self-regulatory agency or any other Person in order for it to execute, deliver or perform any of its respective obligations under or contemplated by the Transaction Documents, in each case, in accordance with the terms hereof or thereof, except for such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders and registrations or qualifications as may be required to perfect the Collateral Agent’s security interests granted pursuant to the Security Documents and the financing statements and other registrations, lodgments and filings related thereto. All consents, authorizations, orders, filings and registrations which the Company or any Subsidiary is required to obtain pursuant to the preceding sentence have been or will be obtained or effected on or prior to such Closing Date, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries are aware of any facts or circumstances which might prevent the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from obtaining or effecting any of the registration, application or filings contemplated by the Transaction Documents. “Governmental Entity” means any nation, state, county, city, town, village, district, or other political jurisdiction of any nature, federal, state, local, municipal, foreign, or other government, governmental or quasi-governmental authority of any nature (including any governmental agency, branch, department, official, or entity and any court or other tribunal), multi-national organization or body; or body exercising, or entitled to exercise, any administrative, executive, judicial, legislative, police, regulatory, or taxing authority or power of any nature or instrumentality of any of the foregoing, including any entity or enterprise owned or controlled by a government or a public international organization or any of the foregoing.

(f) Acknowledgment Regarding Buyer’s Purchase of Securities. The Company acknowledges and agrees that each Buyer is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and that no Buyer is (i) an officer or director of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) to its knowledge, a “beneficial owner” of more than 10% of the shares of Common Stock (as defined for purposes of Rule 13d-3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”)). The Company further acknowledges that no Buyer is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, and any advice given by a Buyer or any of its representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby is merely incidental to the Buyer’s purchase of the Notes. The Company further represents to each Buyer that the Company’s decision to enter into the Transaction Documents to which it is a party has been based solely on the independent evaluation by the Company and its representatives.

(g) Financial Advisory Fees. The Company shall be responsible for the payment of any placement agent’s fees, financial advisory fees, or brokers’ commissions (other than for Persons engaged by any Buyer or its investment advisor) relating to or arising out of the transactions contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, financial advisory fees payable in connection with the sale of the Notes. The Company shall pay, and hold each Buyer harmless against, any liability, loss or expense (including, without limitation, attorney’s fees and out-of-pocket expenses) arising in connection with any such claim. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has engaged any placement agent or other agent in connection with the offer or sale of the Notes.

 

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(h) No Integrated Offering. None of the Company, its Subsidiaries, their affiliates nor any Person acting on their behalf will take any action or steps that would cause the offering of any of the Notes to be integrated with other offerings of securities of the Company for purposes of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder.

(i) Security Documents and Collateral. Upon execution and delivery, the Security Documents will be effective to grant a legal, valid and enforceable Lien on or security title in and security interest in all of the Company’s right, title and interest and the right, title and interest of each Subsidiary of the Company party thereto in the Collateral subject to any necessary registrations, lodgments and filings. Upon due and timely filing and/or recording of the financing statements, or other registrations or lodgments in the relevant jurisdiction with respect to the Collateral described in the Security Documents (including deposit accounts in jurisdictions where the security interests over deposit accounts will be perfected by registration), subject to Permitted Liens the security interests granted thereby will constitute valid, perfected first-priority liens on and security interests in the Collateral, to the extent such Liens and security interests can be perfected by the filing and/or recording, as applicable, of financing statements such other registrations, lodgments and filings required thereby in favor of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of itself, and the holders of the Securities, and such liens and security interests will be enforceable in accordance with the terms contained therein against all creditors of any grantor or mortgagor and subject only to liens expressly permitted to be incurred or exist on the Collateral under the Transaction Documents (“Permitted Liens”). The Company and its subsidiaries collectively own, have rights in or have the power and authority to collaterally assign rights in or grant security interests in the Collateral, free and clear of any liens other than the Permitted Liens.

(j) [Intentionally Omitted].

(k) SEC Documents; Financial Statements. Except as disclosed on Schedule 3(k), during the two (2) years prior to the date hereof, the Company has timely filed all reports, schedules, forms, proxy statements, statements and other documents required to be filed by it with the SEC pursuant to the reporting requirements of the 1934 Act (all of the foregoing filed prior to the date hereof and all exhibits and appendices included therein and financial statements, notes and schedules thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein being hereinafter referred to as the “SEC Documents”). The Company has delivered or has made available to the Buyers or their respective representatives true, correct and complete copies of each of the SEC Documents not available on the EDGAR system. As of their respective dates, the SEC Documents complied in all material respects with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to the SEC Documents, and none of the SEC Documents, at the time they were filed with the SEC, 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. As of their respective dates, the financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Documents complied in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto as in effect as of the time of filing. Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), consistently applied, during the periods involved (except (i) as may be otherwise indicated in such financial statements or the notes thereto, or (ii) in the case of unaudited interim statements, to the extent they may exclude footnotes or may be condensed or summary statements) and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company as of the dates thereof and the results of its operations and cash flows for the periods then ended (subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal year-end audit adjustments which will not be material, either individually or in the aggregate). The reserves, if any, established by the Company or the

 

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lack of reserves, if applicable, are reasonable based upon facts and circumstances known by the Company on the date hereof and there are no loss contingencies that are required to be accrued by the Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 5 of the Financial Accounting Standards Board which are not provided for by the Company in its financial statements or otherwise. No other information provided by or on behalf of the Company to any of the Buyers which is not included in the SEC Documents (including, without limitation, information in the disclosure schedules to this Agreement) contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading, in the light of the circumstance under which they are or were made. The Company is not currently contemplating to amend or restate any of the financial statements (including, without limitation, any notes or any letter of the independent accountants of the Company with respect thereto) included in the SEC Documents (the “Financial Statements”), nor is the Company currently aware of facts or circumstances which would require the Company to amend or restate any of the Financial Statements, in each case, in order for any of the Financial Statements to be in compliance with GAAP and the rules and regulations of the SEC. The Company has not been informed by its independent accountants that they recommend that the Company amend or restate any of the Financial Statements or that there is any need for the Company to amend or restate any of the Financial Statements.

(l) Absence of Certain Changes. Since the date of the Company’s most recent audited financial statements contained in a Form 10-K, there has been no material adverse change and no material adverse development in the business, assets, liabilities, properties, operations (including results thereof), condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Since the date of the Company’s most recent audited financial statements contained in a Form 10-K and except as disclosed on Schedule 3(l), neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has (i) declared or paid any dividends, (ii) sold any assets, individually or in the aggregate, outside of the ordinary course of business or (iii) made any capital expenditures, individually or in the aggregate, outside of the ordinary course of business.

(m) No Undisclosed Events, Liabilities, Developments or Circumstances. Except for events, conditions or circumstances disclosed to the Buyer in writing prior to the date hereof, and the continuation or prosecution thereof, no event, liability, development or circumstance has occurred or exists, or is reasonably expected to exist or occur with respect to the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective businesses, properties, liabilities, prospects, operations (including results thereof) or condition (financial or otherwise), that (i) could have a material adverse effect on any Buyer’s investment hereunder or (ii) could have a Material Adverse Effect.

(n) Conduct of Business; Regulatory Permits. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any term of or in default under its Certificate of Incorporation, any certificate of designation, preferences or rights of any other outstanding series of preferred stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Bylaws or their organizational charter, certificate of formation, memorandum of association, articles of association, Certificate of Incorporation or certificate of incorporation or bylaws, respectively. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any judgment, decree or order or any statute, ordinance, rule or regulation applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries will conduct its business in violation of any of the foregoing, except in all cases for possible violations which could not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company is not in violation of any of the rules, regulations or requirements of the Principal Market. During the two years prior to the date hereof, (i) trading in the Common Stock has not been suspended by the SEC and (ii) the Company has received no communication, written or oral, from the SEC regarding the suspension of trading of the Common Stock. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries possess all certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses, except where the failure to possess such certificates, authorizations or permits would not have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, and neither the Company nor any such Subsidiary has

 

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received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such certificate, authorization or permit. There is no agreement, commitment, judgment, injunction, order or decree binding upon the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party which has or would reasonably be expected to have the effect of prohibiting or materially impairing any business practice of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any acquisition of property by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or the conduct of business by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as currently conducted other than such effects, individually or in the aggregate, which have not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

(o) Foreign Corrupt Practices. Neither the Company, the Company’s subsidiary or any director, officer, agent, employee, nor any other person acting for or on behalf of the foregoing (individually and collectively, a “Company Affiliate”) have violated the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended (the “FCPA”), or any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption laws, nor has any Company Affiliate offered, paid, promised to pay, or authorized the payment of any money, or offered, given, promised to give, or authorized the giving of anything of value, to any officer, employee or any other person acting in an official capacity for any Governmental Entity to any political party or official thereof or to any candidate for political office (individually and collectively, a “Government Official”) or to any person under circumstances where such Company Affiliate knew or was aware of a high probability that all or a portion of such money or thing of value would be offered, given or promised, directly or indirectly, to any Government Official, for the purpose of:

(i) (A) influencing any act or decision of such Government Official in his/her official capacity, (B) inducing such Government Official to do or omit to do any act in violation of his/her lawful duty, (C) securing any improper advantage, or (D) inducing such Government Official to influence or affect any act or decision of any Governmental Entity, or

(ii) assisting the Company or its Subsidiaries in obtaining or retaining business for or with, or directing business to, the Company or its Subsidiaries.

(p) Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Company and each Subsidiary is in compliance with any and all applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, and any and all applicable rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC thereunder.

(q) Transactions With Affiliates. No current or former employee, partner, director, officer or stockholder (direct or indirect) of the Company or its Subsidiaries, or any associate, or, to the knowledge of the Company, any affiliate of any thereof, or any relative with a relationship no more remote than first cousin of any of the foregoing, is presently, or has ever been, (i) a party to any transaction with the Company or its Subsidiaries (including any contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services by, or rental of real or personal property from, or otherwise requiring payments to, any such director, officer or stockholder or such associate or affiliate or relative Subsidiaries (other than for ordinary course services as employees, officers or directors of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries)) or (ii) the direct or indirect owner of an interest in any corporation, firm, association or business organization which is a competitor, supplier or customer of the Company or its Subsidiaries (except for a passive investment (direct or indirect) in less than 5% of the common stock of a company whose securities are traded on or quoted through an Eligible Market (as defined in the Notes)), nor does any such Person receive income from any source other than the Company or its Subsidiaries which relates to the business of the Company or its Subsidiaries or should properly accrue to the Company or its Subsidiaries. No employee, officer, stockholder or director of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or member of his or her immediate family is indebted to the Company or its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, nor is the Company or any of its Subsidiaries indebted (or committed to make loans or extend or guarantee credit) to any of them, other than (i) for payment of salary for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for reasonable expenses incurred on behalf of the Company, and (iii) for other standard employee benefits made generally available to all employees or executives (including stock option agreements outstanding under any stock option plan approved by the Board of Directors of the Company).

 

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(r) [Intentionally Omitted].

(s) Indebtedness and Other Contracts. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries, (i) except as disclosed on Schedule 3(s), has any outstanding debt securities, notes, credit agreements, credit facilities or other agreements, documents or instruments evidencing Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound, (ii) is a party to any contract, agreement or instrument, the violation of which, or default under which, by the other party(ies) to such contract, agreement or instrument could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (iii) has any financing statements securing obligations in any amounts filed in connection with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (iv) is in violation of any term of, or in default under, any contract, agreement or instrument relating to any Indebtedness, except where such violations and defaults would not result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect, or (v) is a party to any contract, agreement or instrument relating to any Indebtedness, the performance of which, in the judgment of the Company’s officers, has or is expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have any liabilities or obligations required to be disclosed in the SEC Documents which are not so disclosed in the SEC Documents, other than those incurred in the ordinary course of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ respective businesses and which, individually or in the aggregate, do not or could not have a Material Adverse Effect. For purposes of this Agreement: (x) “Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication (A) all indebtedness for borrowed money, (B) all obligations issued, undertaken or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property or services (including, without limitation, “capital leases” in accordance with GAAP) (other than trade payables entered into in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice), (C) all reimbursement or payment obligations with respect to letters of credit, surety bonds and other similar instruments, (D) all obligations evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or similar instruments, including obligations so evidenced incurred in connection with the acquisition of property, assets or businesses and any guarantees of any such obligations, (E) all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, or incurred as financing, in either case with respect to any property or assets acquired with the proceeds of such indebtedness (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or bank under such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property), (F) all monetary obligations under any leasing or similar arrangement which, in connection with GAAP, consistently applied for the periods covered thereby, is classified as a capital lease, (G) all indebtedness referred to in clauses (A) through (F) above secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien upon or in any property or assets (including accounts and contract rights) owned by any Person, even though the Person which owns such assets or property has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such indebtedness, and (H) all Contingent Obligations in respect of indebtedness or obligations of others of the kinds referred to in clauses (A) through (G) above; (y) “Contingent Obligation” means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect liability, contingent or otherwise, of that Person with respect to any Indebtedness, lease, dividend or other obligation of another Person if the primary purpose or intent of the Person incurring such liability, or the primary effect thereof, is to provide assurance to the obligee of such liability that such liability will be paid or discharged, or that any agreements relating thereto will be complied with, or that the holders of such liability will be protected (in whole or in part) against loss with respect thereto; and (z) “Person” means an individual, a limited liability company, a partnership, a joint venture, a corporation, a trust, an unincorporated organization, any other entity and any Governmental Entity or any department or agency thereof.

 

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(t) Litigation. There is no action, suit, arbitration, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or by the Principal Market, any court, public board, other Governmental Entity, self-regulatory organization or body pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the Common Stock or any of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ officers or directors, whether of a civil or criminal nature or otherwise, in their capacities as such, which is outside of the ordinary course of business or individually or in the aggregate material to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, except as set forth in Schedule 3(t). No director, officer or employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has willfully violated 18 U.S.C. §1519 or engaged in spoliation in reasonable anticipation of litigation. Without limitation of the foregoing, there has not been, and to the knowledge of the Company, there is not pending or contemplated, any investigation by the SEC involving the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any current or former director or officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. The SEC has not issued any stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of any registration statement filed by the Company under the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act. After reasonable inquiry of its employees, the Company is not aware of any fact which might result in or form the basis for any such action, suit, arbitration, investigation, inquiry or other proceeding. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to any order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree, determination or award of any Governmental Entity.

(u) Insurance. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as management of the Company believes to be prudent and customary in the businesses in which the Company and its Subsidiaries are engaged. Neither the Company nor any such Subsidiary has been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for, and neither the Company nor any such Subsidiary has any reason to believe that it will be unable to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

(v) Employee Relations. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any collective bargaining agreement or employs any member of a union. The Company and its Subsidiaries believe that their relations with their employees are good. No current (or former) executive officer (as defined in Rule 501(f) promulgated under the 1933 Act) or other key employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has notified the Company or any such Subsidiary that such officer intends to leave the Company or any such Subsidiary or otherwise terminate such officer’s employment with the Company or any such Subsidiary. No current (or, to the knowledge of the Company, former) executive officer or other key employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is, or is now expected to be, in violation of any material term of any employment contract, confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information agreement, non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or any restrictive covenant, and the continued employment of each such executive officer or other key employee (as the case may be) 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 federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations respecting labor, employment and employment practices and benefits, terms and conditions of employment and wages and hours, except where failure to be in compliance would not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(w) Title.

(i) Real Property. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries holds good title to all real property, leases in real property, facilities or other interests in real property owned or held by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (the “Real Property”) owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (as applicable). The Real Property is free and clear of all Liens and is not subject to any rights of way, building use restrictions, exceptions, variances, reservations, or limitations of any nature except for (a) Liens for current taxes not yet due and (b) zoning laws and other land use restrictions that do not impair the present or anticipated use of the property subject thereto. Any Real Property held under lease by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with such exceptions as are not material and do not interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property and buildings by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

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(ii) Fixtures and Equipment. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries (as applicable) has good title to, or a valid leasehold interest in, the tangible personal property, equipment, improvements, fixtures, and other personal property and appurtenances that are used by the Company or its Subsidiary in connection with the conduct of its business (the “Fixtures and Equipment”). The Fixtures and Equipment are structurally sound, are in good operating condition and repair, are adequate for the uses to which they are being put, are not in need of maintenance or repairs except for ordinary, routine maintenance and repairs and are sufficient for the conduct of the Company’s and/or its Subsidiaries’ businesses (as applicable) in the manner as conducted prior to such Closing. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries owns all of its Fixtures and Equipment free and clear of all Liens except for (a) liens for current taxes not yet due and (b) zoning laws and other land use restrictions that do not impair the present or anticipated use of the property subject thereto.

(x) Intellectual Property Rights. The Company and its Subsidiaries own or possess adequate rights or licenses to use all trademarks, trade names, service marks, service mark registrations, service names, original works of authorship, patents, patent rights, copyrights, inventions, licenses, approvals, governmental authorizations, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights and all applications and registrations therefor (“Intellectual Property Rights”) necessary to conduct their respective businesses as now conducted and presently proposed to be conducted. The Company does not have any knowledge of any infringement by the Company or its Subsidiaries of Intellectual Property Rights of others. There is no claim, action or proceeding being made or brought, or to the knowledge of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, being threatened, against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries regarding its Intellectual Property Rights. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is aware of any facts or circumstances which might give rise to any of the foregoing infringements or claims, actions or proceedings. The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable security measures to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all of their Intellectual Property Rights.

(y) Environmental Laws. (i) The Company and its Subsidiaries (A) are in compliance with any and all Environmental Laws (as defined below), (B) have received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses and (C) are in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or approval where, in each of the foregoing clauses (A), (B) and (C), the failure to so comply could be reasonably expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. The term “Environmental Laws” means all federal, state, local or foreign laws relating to pollution or protection of human health or the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata), including, without limitation, laws relating to emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, or toxic or hazardous substances or wastes (collectively, “Hazardous Materials”) into the environment, or otherwise relating to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials, as well as all authorizations, codes, decrees, demands or demand letters, injunctions, judgments, licenses, notices or notice letters, orders, permits, plans or regulations issued, entered, promulgated or approved thereunder.

(ii) No Hazardous Materials:

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(B) are present on, over, beneath, in or upon any Real Property or any portion thereof in quantities that would constitute a violation of any Environmental Laws. No prior use by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any Real Property has occurred that violates any Environmental Laws, which violation would have a material adverse effect on the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

(iii) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries knows of any other person who or entity which has stored, treated, recycled, disposed of or otherwise located on any Real Property any Hazardous Materials, including, without limitation, such substances as asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyls.

(iv) None of the Real Properties are on any federal or state “Superfund” list or Liability Information System (“CERCLIS”) list or any state environmental agency list of sites under consideration for CERCLIS, nor subject to any environmental related Liens.

(z) Subsidiary Rights. The Company or one of its Subsidiaries has the unrestricted right to vote, and (subject to limitations imposed by applicable law) to receive dividends and distributions on, all capital securities of its Subsidiaries as owned by the Company or such Subsidiary, except as otherwise limited by applicable law or any insolvency proceeding currently or anticipated to be commenced with respect to Fisker GmbH (Austria) and Fisker (GB) Limited (United Kingdom).

(aa) Tax Status. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries (i) has timely made or filed all foreign, federal and state income and all other tax returns, reports and declarations required by any jurisdiction to which it is subject, (ii) has timely 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, except those being contested in good faith and (iii) has set aside on its books provision reasonably adequate for the payment of all 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. The Company is not operated in such a manner as to qualify as a passive foreign investment company, as defined in Section 1297 of the Code.

(bb) Internal Accounting and Disclosure Controls. Except as set forth in the Company’s periodic and current reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), the Company and each of its Subsidiaries maintains internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the 1934 Act) that is effective to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, including 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 and liability accountability, (iii) access to assets or incurrence of liabilities is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets and liabilities is compared with the existing assets and liabilities at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any difference. Except as set forth in the Company’s periodic and current reports filed with the SEC, the Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the 1934 Act) that are effective in ensuring that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the 1934 Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC, including, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the 1934 Act is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including its principal executive officer or officers and its principal financial officer or officers, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice or correspondence from any accountant, Governmental Entity or other Person relating to any potential material weakness or significant deficiency in any part of the internal controls over financial reporting of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

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(cc) Off Balance Sheet Arrangements. There is no transaction, arrangement, or other relationship between the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and an unconsolidated or other off balance sheet entity that is required to be disclosed by the Company in its 1934 Act filings and is not so disclosed or that otherwise could be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(dd) Investment Company Status. The Company is not, and upon consummation of the sale of the Notes will not be, an “investment company,” an affiliate of an “investment company,” a company controlled by an “investment company” or an “affiliated person” of, or “promoter” or “principal underwriter” for, an “investment company” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

(ee) [Intentionally Omitted].

(ff) Manipulation of Price. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has, and, to the knowledge of the Company, no Person acting on their behalf has, directly or indirectly, (i) taken any action designed to cause or to result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the Notes, (ii) sold, bid for, purchased, or paid any compensation for soliciting purchases of, any of the Notes, (iii) paid or agreed to pay to any Person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (iv) paid or agreed to pay any Person for research services with respect to any securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

(gg) U.S. Real Property Holding Corporation. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is, or has ever been, and so long as any of the Notes are held by any of the Buyers, shall become, a U.S. real property holding corporation within the meaning of Section 897 of the Code, and the Company and each Subsidiary shall so certify upon any Buyer’s request.

(hh) [Intentionally Omitted].

(ii) Transfer Taxes. On such Closing Date, all transfer taxes (not including any income or similar taxes) which are required to be paid in connection with the issuance, sale and transfer of the Notes to be sold to each Buyer hereunder will be, or will have been, fully paid or provided for by the Company, and all laws imposing such taxes will be or will have been complied with.

(jj) Bank Holding Company Act. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended (the “BHCA”) and to regulation by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve”). Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or affiliates owns or controls, directly or indirectly, five percent (5%) or more of the outstanding shares of any class of voting securities or twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the total equity of a bank or any entity that is subject to the BHCA and to regulation by the Federal Reserve. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or affiliates exercises a controlling influence over the management or policies of a bank or any entity that is subject to the BHCA and to regulation by the Federal Reserve.

(kk) [Intentionally Omitted].

(ll) Illegal or Unauthorized Payments; Political Contributions. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries nor, to the best of the Company’s knowledge (after reasonable inquiry of its officers and directors), any of the officers, directors, employees, agents or other representatives of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any other business entity or enterprise with which the Company or any Subsidiary is or has been affiliated or associated, has, directly or indirectly, made or authorized any payment, contribution or gift of money, property, or services, whether or not in contravention of applicable law, (i) as a kickback or bribe to any Person or (ii) to any political organization, or the holder of or any aspirant to any elective or appointive public office except for personal political contributions not involving the direct or indirect use of funds of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

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(mm) Money Laundering. The Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with, and have not previously violated, the USA Patriot Act of 2001 and all other applicable U.S. and non-U.S. anti-money laundering laws and regulations, including, without limitation, the laws, regulations and Executive Orders and sanctions programs administered by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, including, but not limited, to (i) Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001 entitled, “Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism” (66 Fed. Reg. 49079 (2001)); and (ii) any regulations contained in 31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V.

(nn) Management. Except as set forth in Schedule 3(nn) hereto, during the past five-year period, no current or former officer or director or, to the knowledge of the Company, no current ten percent (10%) or greater stockholder of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has been the subject of:

(i) a petition under bankruptcy laws or any other insolvency or moratorium law or the appointment by a court of a receiver, fiscal agent or similar officer for such Person, or any partnership in which such person was a general partner at or within two years before the filing of such petition or such appointment, or any corporation or business association of which such person was an executive officer at or within two years before the time of the filing of such petition or such appointment;

(ii) a conviction in a criminal proceeding or a named subject of a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations that do not relate to driving while intoxicated or driving under the influence);

(iii) any order, judgment or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction, permanently or temporarily enjoining any such person from, or otherwise limiting, the following activities:

(1) Acting as a futures commission merchant, introducing broker, commodity trading advisor, commodity pool operator, floor broker, leverage transaction merchant, any other person regulated by the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission or an associated person of any of the foregoing, or as an investment adviser, underwriter, broker or dealer in securities, or as an affiliated person, director or employee of any investment company, bank, savings and loan association or insurance company, or engaging in or continuing any conduct or practice in connection with such activity;

(2) Engaging in any particular type of business practice; or

(3) Engaging in any activity in connection with the purchase or sale of any security or commodity or in connection with any violation of securities laws or commodities laws;

(iv) any order, judgment or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any authority barring, suspending or otherwise limiting for more than sixty (60) days the right of any such person to engage in any activity described in the preceding sub paragraph, or to be associated with persons engaged in any such activity;

(v) a finding by a court of competent jurisdiction in a civil action or by the SEC or other authority to have violated any securities law, regulation or decree and the judgment in such civil action or finding by the SEC or any other authority has not been subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated; or

 

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(vi) a finding by a court of competent jurisdiction in a civil action or by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to have violated any federal commodities law, and the judgment in such civil action or finding has not been subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated.

(oo) Stock Option Plans. Each stock option granted by the Company was granted (i) in accordance with the terms of the applicable stock option plan of the Company 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 policy or practice of the Company 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.

(pp) No Disagreements with Accountants and Lawyers. There are no material 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. In addition, on or prior to the date hereof, the Company had discussions with its accountants about its financial statements previously filed with the SEC. Based on those discussions, the Company has no reason to believe that it will need to restate any such financial statements or any part thereof.

(qq) No Additional Agreements. The Company does not have any agreement or understanding with any Buyer with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents other than as specified in the Transaction Documents.

(rr) Public Utility Holding Company Act. None of the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a “holding company,” or an “affiliate” of a “holding company,” as such terms are defined in the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005.

(ss) Federal Power Act. None of the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to regulation as a “public utility” under the Federal Power Act, as amended.

(tt) Ranking of Notes. No Indebtedness of the Company, at such Closing, will be senior to, or pari passu with, the Notes in right of payment, whether with respect to payment or redemptions, interest, damages, upon liquidation or dissolution or otherwise (other than Indebtedness secured by Permitted Liens (as defined in the Notes)).

(uu) Cybersecurity. The Company and its Subsidiaries’ information technology assets and equipment, computers, systems, networks, hardware, software, websites, applications, and databases (collectively, “IT Systems”) are adequate for, and operate and perform in all material respects as required in connection with the operation of the business of the Company and its subsidiaries as currently conducted, free and clear of all material bugs, errors, defects, Trojan horses, time bombs, malware and other corruptants that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company’s business. The Company and its Subsidiaries have implemented and maintained commercially reasonable physical, technical and administrative controls, policies, procedures, and safeguards to maintain and protect their material confidential information and the integrity, continuous operation, redundancy and security of all IT Systems and data, including “Personal Data,” used in connection with their businesses. “Personal Data” means (i) a natural person’s name, street address, telephone number, e-mail address, photograph, social security number or tax identification number, driver’s license number, passport number, credit card number, bank information, or customer or account number; (ii) any information which would qualify as “personally identifying information” under the Federal Trade Commission Act, as amended; (iii) “personal data” as defined by the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) (EU 2016/679); (iv) any

 

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information which would qualify as “protected health information” under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (collectively, “HIPAA”); and (v) any other piece of information that allows the identification of such natural person, or his or her family, or permits the collection or analysis of any data related to an identified person’s health or sexual orientation. There have been no breaches, violations, outages or unauthorized uses of or accesses to same, except for those that have been remedied without material cost or liability or the duty to notify any other person or such, nor any incidents under internal review or investigations relating to the same except in each case, where such would not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and its Subsidiaries are presently in compliance with all applicable laws or statutes and all judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, internal policies and contractual obligations relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and Personal Data and to the protection of such IT Systems and Personal Data from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification except in each case, where such would not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(vv) Compliance with Data Privacy Laws. The Company and its Subsidiaries are, and at all prior times were, in compliance with all applicable state and federal data privacy and security laws and regulations, including without limitation HIPAA, and the Company and its Subsidiaries have taken commercially reasonable actions to prepare to comply with, and since May 25, 2018, have been and currently are in compliance with, the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (GDPR) (Regulation EU 2016/679) (collectively, the “Privacy Laws”) except in each case, where such would not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. To ensure compliance with the Privacy Laws, the Company and its Subsidiaries have in place, comply with, and take appropriate steps reasonably designed to ensure compliance in all material respects with their policies and procedures relating to data privacy and security and the collection, storage, use, disclosure, handling, and analysis of Personal Data (the “Policies”). The Company and its Subsidiaries have at all times made all disclosures to users or customers required by applicable laws and regulatory rules or requirements, and none of such disclosures made or contained in any Policy have, to the knowledge of the Company, been inaccurate or in violation of any applicable laws and regulatory rules or requirements in any material respect. The Company further certifies that neither it nor any Subsidiary: (i) has received notice of any actual or potential liability under or relating to, or actual or potential violation of, any of the Privacy Laws, and has no knowledge of any event or condition that would reasonably be expected to result in any such notice; (ii) is currently conducting or paying for, in whole or in part, any investigation, remediation, or other corrective action pursuant to any Privacy Law; or (iii) is a party to any order, decree, or agreement that imposes any obligation or liability under any Privacy Law.

(ww) [Intentionally Omitted].

(xx) Accuracy of Perfection Certificate. The Perfection Certificate as delivered by the Company pursuant to the terms of Section 7 of this Agreement is or will be, when furnished, true, correct and complete in all material respects.

(yy) [Intentionally Omitted].

(zz) Disclosure. The Company confirms that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any of the Buyers or their agents or counsel with any information that constitutes or could reasonably be expected to constitute material, non-public information concerning the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, other than (i) the existence of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and (ii) information provided pursuant to that certain Non-Disclosure Agreement, dated April 13, 2024, by and among the Company and one of the Buyers. The Company understands and confirms that each of the Buyers will rely on the foregoing representations in effecting

 

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transactions in securities of the Company. All written information and disclosure furnished or is hereafter furnished to the Buyers by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or on their behalf) regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries, their businesses and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the schedules to this Agreement (other than projections (the “Projections”) other forward looking information and information of a general economic or general industry nature)(such non-excluded written information being referred to herein collectively as, the “Information”) is or will be, when furnished, true and correct in all material respects and does not or will not, when furnished, contain any material misstatement of fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements contain therein taken as a whole not materially misleading, in the light of the circumstances under which they were (or hereafter are) made (in each case, after giving effect to all supplements and updates thereto). Each press release issued by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries during the twelve (12) months preceding the date of this Agreement did not at the time of release 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 the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading. No event or circumstance has occurred or information exists with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or its or their business, properties, liabilities, prospects, operations (including results thereof) or conditions (financial or otherwise), which, under applicable law, rule or regulation, requires public disclosure at or before the date hereof or announcement by the Company but which has not been so publicly disclosed. All Projections that have been prepared by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and made available to you have been prepared in good faith based upon reasonable assumptions and represented, at the time each such financial projection or forecast was delivered to each Buyer, the Company’s best estimate of future financial performance (it being recognized that such financial projections or forecasts are not to be viewed as facts and that the actual results during the period or periods covered by any such financial projections or forecasts may differ from the projected or forecasted results and that such differences may be material). The Company agrees that if at any time prior to any Closing Date the Company becomes aware that any of the representations and warranties in the Projections would be incorrect in any material respect if the Information were being furnished, and such representations and warranties were being made, at such time, then the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly supplement the Information so that such representations and warranties will be correct in all material respects under those circumstances. The Company acknowledges and agrees that no Buyer makes or has made any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in Section 2.

 

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COVENANTS.

(a) Best Efforts. The Company shall satisfy each of the covenants hereunder and use its best efforts to satisfy the conditions to be satisfied by it as provided in Section 7 of this Agreement.

(b) Notes Covenants. Until this Agreement has been terminated and all Notes have been redeemed or otherwise satisfied in accordance with their terms, the Company shall comply with each of the covenants set forth in Section 13 of the Notes (regardless of whether any Notes have been issued).

(c) [Intentionally Omitted].

(d) [Intentionally Omitted].

(e) Use of Proceeds. The Company will use the proceeds from the sale of the Notes solely to finance expenses consistent with the Approved Budget (as defined in the Notes), and the proceeds shall be deposited into, and shall remain at all times in, a cash account (the “Segregated Account”), which is subject to a deposit account control agreement (the “Segregated Account DACA”) solely for the benefit of the Buyers and in form and substance acceptable to the Buyers (the establishment of such Segregated Account and the implementation of the Segregated Account DACA, the “Segregated Account Arrangements”), provided, that within five (5) Business Days of the Initial Closing, all funds in the Segregated Account shall

 

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be moved to a segregated cash account, which is subject to a deposit account control agreement solely for the benefit of the Buyers and in form and substance acceptable to the Buyers, and thereafter, the term Segregated Account shall refer to such account, the term Segregated Account DACA shall refer to such deposit account control agreement and the term Segregated Account Arrangements shall refer to the establishment of such Segregated Account and the implementation of such Segregated Account DACA.

(f) Financial Information. The Company agrees to send the following to each holder of Notes (each, an “Investor”) during the Reporting Period (i) unless the following are otherwise widely disseminated via a recognized news release service (such as PR Newswire), on the same day as the release thereof, e-mail copies of all press releases issued by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and (ii) copies of any notices and other information made available or given to the stockholders of the Company generally, contemporaneously with the making available or giving thereof to the stockholders.

(g) [Intentionally Omitted].

(h) Fees. The Company shall pay for and otherwise reimburse the lead Buyer for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by it or its affiliates in connection with the structuring, documentation, negotiation and closing of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and due diligence and regulatory filings in connection therewith including, without limitation, for (x) the legal fees and disbursements of White & Case LLP (“White & Case”) and Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, counsels to the lead Buyer with respect to each Closing, (y) the fees and disbursements of GHU Associates, LLC (“GHU”), advisor to the lead Buyer, and (z) the fees and disbursements of any outside counsel (including local counsel) and accounting, appraisal, consulting and other advisors (collectively, the “Transaction Expenses”). The Company shall pay, in each case, within two (2) Business Days of receiving an invoice (i) all Transaction Expenses for which invoices (subject to redaction to protect privileges or other confidential communications) have been submitted to the Company, and (ii) all other fees and expenses submitted to the Company and required to be paid or reimbursed pursuant to Section 8(k) of this Agreement or Section 19 of the Notes.

The Company shall be responsible for the payment of any placement agent’s fees, financial advisory fees or broker’s commissions (other than for Persons engaged by any Buyer) relating to or arising out of the transactions contemplated hereby (including, without limitation, any fees or commissions payable to the Financial Advisor, who is the Company’s sole financial advisor in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement). The Company shall pay, and hold each Buyer harmless against, any liability, loss or expense (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and out-of-pocket expenses) arising in connection with any claim relating to any such payment. Except as otherwise set forth in the Transaction Documents, each party to this Agreement shall bear its own expenses in connection with the sale of the Notes to the Buyers.

(i) Pledge of Notes. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Company acknowledges and agrees that the Notes may be pledged by an Investor in connection with a bona fide margin agreement or other loan or financing arrangement that is secured by the Notes. The Company hereby agrees to execute and deliver such documentation as a pledgee of the Notes may reasonably request in connection with a pledge of the Notes to such pledgee by a Buyer.

 

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(j) Disclosure of Transactions and Other Material Information.

(i) Disclosure of Transaction.

(1) Initial Closing. The Company shall, on or before 9:30 a.m., New York time, on the first (1st) Business Day after the date of this Agreement, issue a press release (the “Initial Press Release”) reasonably acceptable to the Buyers disclosing all the material terms of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. On or before 9:30 a.m., New York time, on the the first (1st) Business Day after the date of this Agreement, the Company shall file a Current Report on Form 8-K describing all the material terms of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents in the form required by the 1934 Act and attaching all the material Transaction Documents (including, without limitation, this Agreement (and all schedules to this Agreement), and the form of Notes (including all attachments), the “Initial 8-K Filing”). From and after the filing of the Initial 8-K Filing, the Company shall have disclosed all material, non-public information (if any) provided to any of the Buyers 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. In addition, effective upon the filing of the Initial 8-K Filing, the Company acknowledges and agrees that any and all confidentiality or similar obligations under any agreement, whether written or oral, between the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective officers, directors, affiliates, employees or agents, on the one hand, and any of the Buyers or any of their affiliates, on the other hand, shall terminate (other than those under that certain Non-Disclosure Agreement, dated April 13, 2024, by and among the Company and one of the Buyers).

(2) Additional Closings. The Company shall, on or before 9:30 a.m., New York time, on the first (1st) Business Day after the date on which an Additional Closing Notice delivered by the Company is countersigned by the applicable Buyer, either issue a press release (each, an “Additional Press Release” and, together with the Initial Press Release, each a “Press Release”) or file a Current Report on Form 8-K (each, an “Additional 8-K Filing”, and together with the Initial 8-K Filing, the “8-K Filings”), in each case reasonably acceptable to each Buyer participating in such Additional Closing, disclosing that an Additional Closing Notice has been duly countersigned or an Additional Closing has occurred, as applicable. From and after the filing of the Additional Press Release or Additional 8-K Filing, solely to the extent such Additional Closing Notice constitutes material, non-public information, the Company shall have disclosed all material, non-public information (if any) provided to any of the Buyers 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. In addition, effective upon the filing of the Additional 8-K Filing, the Company acknowledges and agrees that any and all confidentiality or similar obligations under any agreement, whether written or oral, between the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective officers, directors, affiliates, employees or agents, on the one hand, and any of the Buyers or any of their affiliates, on the other hand, shall terminate (other than those under that certain Non-Disclosure Agreement, dated April 13, 2024, by and among the Company and one of the Buyers).

(ii) Limitations on Disclosure. Except with respect to the delivery of an Additional Closing Notice, the Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries and each of its and their respective officers, directors, employees and agents not to, provide any Buyer with any material, non-public information regarding the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from and after the date hereof without the express prior written consent of such Buyer (which may be granted or withheld in such Buyer’s sole discretion). In the event of a breach of any of the foregoing covenants, or any of the covenants or agreements contained in any other Transaction Document, by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or any of its or their respective officers, directors, employees and agents (as determined in the reasonable good faith judgment of such Buyer), in addition to any other remedy provided herein or in the Transaction Documents, such Buyer shall have the right to make a public disclosure, in the form of a press release, public advertisement or

 

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otherwise, of such breach or such material, non-public information, as applicable, without the prior approval by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or any of its or their respective officers, directors, employees or agents. No Buyer shall have any liability to the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or any of its or their respective officers, directors, employees, affiliates, stockholders or agents, for any such disclosure. To the extent that the Company delivers any material, non-public information to a Buyer without such Buyer’s consent, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that such Buyer shall not have any duty of confidentiality with respect to, or a duty not to trade on the basis of, such material, non-public information. Subject to the foregoing, neither the Company, its Subsidiaries nor any Buyer shall issue any press releases or any other public statements with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby; provided, however, the Company shall be entitled, without the prior approval of any Buyer, to make the Press Release and any press release or other public disclosure with respect to such transactions (i) in substantial conformity with the 8-K Filings and contemporaneously therewith and (ii) as is required by applicable law and regulations (provided that in the case of clause (i) each Buyer shall be consulted by the Company in connection with any such press release or other public disclosure prior to its release). Without the prior written consent of the applicable Buyer (which may be granted or withheld in such Buyer’s sole discretion), the Company shall not (and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries and affiliates to not) disclose the name of such Buyer in any filing, announcement, release or otherwise. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary and without implication that the contrary would otherwise be true, the Company expressly acknowledges and agrees that no Buyer shall have (unless (i) pursuant to that certain Non-Disclosure Agreement, dated April 13, 2024, by and among the Company and one of the Buyers or (ii) expressly agreed to by a particular Buyer after the date hereof in a written definitive and binding agreement executed by the Company and such particular Buyer (it being understood and agreed that no Buyer may bind any other Buyer with respect thereto)), any duty of confidentiality with respect to, or a duty not to trade on the basis of, any material, non-public information regarding the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

(k) Additional Issuance of Notes. So long as any Buyer beneficially owns any Notes, the Company will not, without the prior written consent of the Required Holders issue any Notes (other than to the Buyers as contemplated hereby) and the Company shall not issue any other securities that would cause a breach or default under the Notes. The Company agrees that for the period commencing on the date hereof and ending on the date no Buyer owns any Notes (the “Restricted Period”), neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall directly or indirectly:

(i) amend or modify (whether by an amendment, waiver, exchange of securities, or otherwise) any of the Company’s warrants to purchase Common Stock that are outstanding as of the date hereof; or

(ii) issue, offer, sell, grant any option or right to purchase, or otherwise dispose of (or announce any issuance, offer, sale, grant of any option or right to purchase or other disposition of) any equity security or any equity-linked or related security (including, without limitation, any “equity security” (as that term is defined under Rule 405 promulgated under the 1933 Act)), any Convertible Securities, any debt, any preferred stock or any purchase rights (any such issuance, offer, sale, grant, disposition or announcement (whether occurring during the Restricted Period or at any time thereafter) is referred to as a “Subsequent Placement”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 4(k) shall not apply in respect of the issuance of (A) shares of Common Stock or standard options to purchase Common Stock to directors, officers or employees of the Company in their capacity as such pursuant to an Approved Stock Plan (as defined below), provided that (x) all such issuances (taking into account the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of such options) after the date hereof pursuant to this clause (A) do not, in the aggregate, exceed more than 5% of the Common Stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the date

 

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hereof and (y) the exercise price of any such options is not lowered, none of such options are amended to increase the number of shares issuable thereunder and none of the terms or conditions of any such options are otherwise materially changed in any manner that adversely affects any of the Buyers; (B) shares of Common Stock issued upon the conversion or exercise of Convertible Securities (other than standard options to purchase Common Stock issued pursuant to an Approved Stock Plan that are covered by clause (A) above) issued prior to the date hereof, provided that the conversion, exercise or other method of issuance (as the case may be) of any such Convertible Security is made solely pursuant to the conversion, exercise or other method of issuance (as the case may be) provisions of such Convertible Security that were in effect on the date immediately prior to the date of this Agreement, the conversion, exercise or issuance price of any such Convertible Securities (other than standard options to purchase Common Stock issued pursuant to an Approved Stock Plan that are covered by clause (A) above) is not lowered, none of such Convertible Securities (other than standard options to purchase Common Stock issued pursuant to an Approved Stock Plan that are covered by clause (A) above) are amended to increase the number of shares issuable thereunder and none of the terms or conditions of any such Convertible Securities (other than standard options to purchase Common Stock issued pursuant to an Approved Stock Plan that are covered by clause (A) above) are otherwise materially changed in any manner that adversely affects any of the Buyers; and (C) any shares of Common Stock, warrants or options issued or issuable in connection with any bona fide strategic or commercial alliances, acquisitions, mergers, licensing arrangements, and strategic partnerships, provided, that (x) the primary purpose of such issuance is not to raise capital as reasonably determined, and (y) the purchaser or acquirer or recipient of the securities in such issuance solely consists of either (I) the actual participants in such strategic or commercial alliance, strategic or commercial licensing arrangement or strategic or commercial partnership, (II) the actual owners of such assets or securities acquired in such acquisition or merger or (III) the stockholders, partners, employees, consultants, officers, directors or members of the foregoing Persons, in each case, 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, and (z) the number or amount of securities issued to such Persons by the Company shall not be disproportionate to each such Person’s actual participation in (or fair market value of the contribution to) such strategic or commercial alliance or strategic or commercial partnership or ownership of such assets or securities to be acquired by the Company, as applicable (each of the foregoing in clauses (A) through (C), collectively the “Excluded Securities”). “Approved Stock Plan” means any employee benefit plan, including stock incentive plans, which has been approved by the board of directors of the Company prior to or subsequent to the date hereof pursuant to which shares of Common Stock and standard options to purchase Common Stock may be issued to any employee, officer or director for services provided to the Company in their capacity as such.

(l) [Intentionally Omitted].

(m) Conduct of Business. The business of the Company and its Subsidiaries shall not be conducted in violation of any law, ordinance or regulation of any Governmental Entity, except where such violations would not reasonably be expected to result, either individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect.

(n) Other Notes; Variable Securities. So long as any Notes remain outstanding, the Company and each Subsidiary shall be prohibited from effecting or entering into an agreement to effect any Subsequent Placement involving a Variable Rate Transaction. “Variable Rate Transaction” means a transaction in which the Company or any Subsidiary (i) issues or sells any Convertible Securities either (A) at a conversion, exercise 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

 

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Convertible 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 Convertible Securities 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, other than pursuant to a customary “weighted average” anti-dilution provision or (ii) enters into any agreement (including, without limitation, an equity line of credit or an “at-the-market” offering) whereby the Company or any Subsidiary may sell securities at a future determined price (other than standard and customary “preemptive” or “participation” rights). Each Buyer shall be entitled to obtain injunctive relief against the Company and its Subsidiaries to preclude any such issuance, which remedy shall be in addition to any right to collect damages.

(o) Participation Right. At any time on or prior to the first anniversary of the Commitment Date, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall, directly or indirectly, effect any Subsequent Placement or Subsequent Financing (as defined below) unless the Company shall have first complied with this Section 4(o). The Company acknowledges and agrees that the right set forth in this Section 4(o) is a right granted by the Company, separately, to each Buyer.

(i) At least five (5) Business Days prior to any proposed or intended Subsequent Placement, the Company shall deliver to each Buyer a written notice (each such notice, a “Pre-Notice”), which Pre-Notice shall not contain any information (including, without limitation, material, non-public information) other than: (A) if the proposed Offer Notice (as defined below) constitutes or contains material, non-public information, a statement asking whether the Investor is willing to accept material non-public information or (B) if the proposed Offer Notice does not constitute or contain material, non-public information, (x) a statement that the Company proposes or intends to effect a Subsequent Placement, (y) a statement that the statement in clause (x) above does not constitute material, non-public information and (z) a statement informing such Buyer that it is entitled to receive an Offer Notice (as defined below) with respect to such Subsequent Placement upon its written request. Upon the written request of a Buyer within three (3) Business Days after the Company’s delivery to such Buyer of such Pre-Notice, and only upon a written request by such Buyer, the Company shall promptly, but no later than one (1) Business Day after such request, deliver to such Buyer an irrevocable written notice (the “Offer Notice”) of any proposed or intended issuance or sale or exchange (the “Offer”) of the securities being offered (the “Offered Securities”) in a Subsequent Placement, which Offer Notice shall (A) identify and describe the Offered Securities, (B) describe the price and other terms upon which they are to be issued, sold or exchanged, and the number or amount of the Offered Securities to be issued, sold or exchanged, (C) identify the Persons (if known) to which or with which the Offered Securities are to be offered, issued, sold or exchanged and (D) offer to issue and sell to or exchange with such Buyer in accordance with the terms of the Offer such Buyer’s pro rata portion of 25% of the Offered Securities, provided that the number of Offered Securities which such Buyer shall have the right to subscribe for under this Section 4(o) shall be (x) based on such Buyer’s pro rata portion of the aggregate original principal amount of the Notes purchased hereunder by all Buyers (the “Basic Amount”), and (y) with respect to each Buyer that elects to purchase its Basic Amount, any additional portion of the Offered Securities attributable to the Basic Amounts of other Buyers as such Buyer shall indicate it will purchase or acquire should the other Buyers subscribe for less than their Basic Amounts (the “Undersubscription Amount”), which process shall be repeated until each Buyer shall have an opportunity to subscribe for any remaining Undersubscription Amount.

(ii) To accept an Offer, in whole or in part, such Buyer must deliver a written notice to the Company prior to the end of the fifth (5th) Business Day after such Buyer’s receipt of the Offer Notice (the “Offer Period”), setting forth the portion of such Buyer’s Basic Amount that such Buyer elects to purchase and, if such Buyer shall elect to purchase all of its Basic Amount, the Undersubscription Amount, if any, that such Buyer elects to purchase (in either case, the

 

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Notice of Acceptance”). If the Basic Amounts subscribed for by all Buyers are less than the total of all of the Basic Amounts, then each Buyer who has set forth an Undersubscription Amount in its Notice of Acceptance shall be entitled to purchase, in addition to the Basic Amounts subscribed for, the Undersubscription Amount it has subscribed for; provided, however, if the Undersubscription Amounts subscribed for exceed the difference between the total of all the Basic Amounts and the Basic Amounts subscribed for (the “Available Undersubscription Amount”), each Buyer who has subscribed for any Undersubscription Amount shall be entitled to purchase only that portion of the Available Undersubscription Amount as the Basic Amount of such Buyer bears to the total Basic Amounts of all Buyers that have subscribed for Undersubscription Amounts, subject to rounding by the Company to the extent it deems reasonably necessary. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company desires to modify or amend the terms and conditions of the Offer prior to the expiration of the Offer Period, the Company may deliver to each Buyer a new Offer Notice and the Offer Period shall expire on the fifth (5th) Business Day after such Buyer’s receipt of such new Offer Notice.

(iii) The Company shall have five (5) Business Days from the expiration of the Offer Period above (A) to offer, issue, sell or exchange all or any part of such Offered Securities as to which a Notice of Acceptance has not been given by a Buyer (the “Refused Securities”) pursuant to a definitive agreement(s) (the “Subsequent Placement Agreement”), but only to the offerees described in the Offer Notice (if so described therein) and only upon terms and conditions (including, without limitation, unit prices and interest rates) that are not more favorable to the acquiring Person or Persons or less favorable to the Company than those set forth in the Offer Notice and (B) to publicly announce (x) the execution of such Subsequent Placement Agreement, and (y) either (I) the consummation of the transactions contemplated by such Subsequent Placement Agreement or (II) the termination of such Subsequent Placement Agreement, which shall be filed with the SEC on a Current Report on Form 8-K with such Subsequent Placement Agreement and any documents contemplated therein filed as exhibits thereto.

(iv) In the event the Company shall propose to sell less than all the Refused Securities (any such sale to be in the manner and on the terms specified in Section 4(o)(iii) above), then each Buyer may, at its sole option and in its sole discretion, withdraw its Notice of Acceptance or reduce the number or amount of the Offered Securities specified in its Notice of Acceptance to an amount that shall be not less than the number or amount of the Offered Securities that such Buyer elected to purchase pursuant to Section 4(o)(ii) above multiplied by a fraction, (i) the numerator of which shall be the number or amount of Offered Securities the Company actually proposes to issue, sell or exchange (including Offered Securities to be issued or sold to Buyers pursuant to this Section 4(o) prior to such reduction) and (ii) the denominator of which shall be the original amount of the Offered Securities. In the event that any Buyer so elects to reduce the number or amount of Offered Securities specified in its Notice of Acceptance, the Company may not issue, sell or exchange more than the reduced number or amount of the Offered Securities unless and until such securities have again been offered to the Buyers in accordance with Section 4(o)(i) above.

(v) Upon the closing of the issuance, sale or exchange of all or less than all of the Refused Securities, such Buyer shall acquire from the Company, and the Company shall issue to such Buyer, the number or amount of Offered Securities specified in its Notice of Acceptance, as reduced pursuant to Section 4(o)(iv) above if such Buyer has so elected, upon the terms and conditions specified in the Offer. The purchase by such Buyer of any Offered Securities is subject in all cases to the preparation, execution and delivery by the Company and such Buyer of a separate purchase agreement relating to such Offered Securities reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to such Buyer and its counsel.

 

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(vi) Any Offered Securities not acquired by a Buyer or other Persons in accordance with this Section 4(o) may not be issued, sold or exchanged until they are again offered to such Buyer under the procedures specified in this Agreement.

(vii) The Company and each Buyer agree that if any Buyer elects to participate in the Offer, neither the Subsequent Placement Agreement with respect to such Offer nor any other transaction documents related thereto (collectively, the “Subsequent Placement Documents”) shall include any term or provision whereby such Buyer shall be required to agree to any restrictions on trading as to any securities of the Company or be required to consent to any amendment to or termination of, or grant any waiver, release or the like under or in connection with, any agreement previously entered into with the Company or any instrument received from the Company.

(viii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 4(o) and unless otherwise agreed to by such Buyer, the Company shall either confirm in writing to such Buyer that the transaction with respect to the Subsequent Placement has been abandoned or shall publicly disclose its intention to issue the Offered Securities, in either case, in such a manner such that such Buyer will not be in possession of any material, non-public information relating to a transaction with respect to the Offered Securities, by the fifth (5th) Business Day following delivery of the Offer Notice. If by such fifth (5th) Business Day, no public disclosure regarding a transaction with respect to the Offered Securities has been made, and no notice regarding the abandonment of such transaction has been received by such Buyer, such transaction shall be deemed to have been abandoned and such Buyer shall not be in possession of any material, non-public information relating to a transaction with respect to the Offered Securities. Should the Company decide to pursue such transaction with respect to the Offered Securities, the Company shall provide such Buyer with another Offer Notice and such Buyer will again have the right of participation set forth in this Section 4(o). The Company shall not be permitted to deliver more than one such Offer Notice to such Buyer in any sixty (60) day period, except as expressly contemplated by the last sentence of Section 4(o)(ii).

(ix) The restrictions contained in this Section 4(o) shall not apply in connection with the issuance of any Excluded Securities. The Company shall not circumvent the provisions of this Section 4(o) by providing terms or conditions to one Buyer that are not provided to all.

(x) In respect of Subsequent Indebtedness, Company shall deliver to each Buyer a written notice (each such notice, a “Pre-Financing Notice”) at least ten (10) Business Days prior to such Subsequent Financing, which Pre-Financing Notice shall not contain any information (including, without limitation, material, non-public information) other than whether such Buyer wants to review the details of such financing. The Company shall, within one (1) Business Day provide the terms of the Subsequent Financing to any Buyer that has elected to review such terms. Each Buyer shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to elect to review the terms of the Subsequent Financing and participate in financing up to an amount of the Subsequent Financing equal to 25% of the Subsequent Financing on the same terms, conditions and price provided for in the Subsequent Financing. “Subsequent Financing” means the incurrence of borrowed money by the Company in an amount exceeding $1,000,000, other than through a Subsequent Placement.

(p) Additional Collateral; Perfection of Security Interests. The Company and each Subsidiary party to a Security Document (i) shall complete all filings and other similar actions required in connection with the pledge and perfection of security interests in the Collateral as and to the extent contemplated by the Security Documents within 10 days of the Closing Date, (ii) shall take all actions necessary to execute and deliver additional Security Documents reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent from time to time after the Closing Date (including but not limited to the documents set forth in Exhibit D) and (iii) shall take all actions necessary to maintain such security interests and to perfect security interests in any Collateral acquired after the Closing Date or any Security Document entered into after the Closing Date, in each case as and to the extent contemplated by the Security Documents.

 

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(q) Passive Foreign Investment Company. The Company shall conduct its business, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to conduct their respective businesses, in such a manner as will ensure that the Company will not be deemed to constitute a passive foreign investment company within the meaning of Section 1297 of the Code.

(r) Restriction on Redemption and Cash Dividends. So long as any Notes are outstanding, the Company shall not, directly or indirectly, redeem, or declare or pay any cash dividend or distribution on, any securities of the Company without the prior express written consent of the Buyers.

(s) Corporate Existence. So long as any Buyer beneficially owns any Notes, the Company shall not be party to any Fundamental Transaction (as defined in the Notes) unless the Company is in compliance with the applicable provisions governing Fundamental Transactions set forth in the Notes.

(t) Stock Splits. Until the Notes and all notes issued pursuant to the terms thereof are no longer outstanding, the Company shall not effect any stock combination, reverse stock split or other similar transaction (or make any public announcement or disclosure with respect to any of the foregoing) without the prior written consent of the Required Holders (as defined below).

(u) [Intentionally Omitted].

(v) Regulation M. The Company will not take any action prohibited by Regulation M under the 1934 Act, in connection with the distribution of the Securities contemplated hereby.

 

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REGISTER; LEGEND.

(a) Register. The Company shall maintain at its principal executive offices (or such other office or agency of the Company as it may designate by notice to each holder of Notes), a register for the Notes in which the Company shall record the name and address of the Person in whose name the Notes have been issued (including the name and address of each transferee) and the principal amount of the Notes held by such Person. The Company shall keep the register open and available at all times during business hours for inspection of any Buyer or its legal representatives.

(b) [Intentionally Omitted].

(c) Legends. Buyer understands that, until such time as the Notes may be sold pursuant to Rule 144 under the 1933 Act (“Rule 144”), any certificates representing the Notes, whether maintained in a book entry system or otherwise, will bear one or more legends in substantially the following form and substance:

“THE SECURITIES EVIDENCED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS AND HAVE BEEN ISSUED IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND SUCH OTHER SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED, HYPOTHECATED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF, EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO A TRANSACTION WHICH IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION, IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS, AND, IN THE CASE OF A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION, THE HOLDER WILL NOTIFY ANY SUBSEQUENT PURCHASER OF THE SECURITIES EVIDENCED BY THIS CERTIFICATE FROM IT OF SUCH RESALE RESTRICTIONS.”

 

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In addition, any certificates, whether maintained in a book entry system or otherwise, representing the Notes may contain any legend required by the blue sky laws of any state to the extent such laws are applicable to the sale of such Notes hereunder. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to help facilitate the removal of such legend when it is legally permitted to do so under Rule 144, and to facilitate any transfer of the Notes under Rule 144 that may be requested by Notes but shall not be obligated to incur any material costs or expenses in making such efforts other than as set forth herein.

(d) Restricted Securities. Each Buyer understands that the Notes are characterized as “restricted securities” under the federal securities laws inasmuch as they are being acquired from the Company in a transaction not involving a public offering and that under such laws and applicable regulations such Notes may be resold without registration under the Securities Act only in certain limited circumstances. Accordingly, such Buyer represents that it is familiar with Rule 144 of the Securities Act, as presently in effect, and understands the resale limitations imposed thereby and by the Securities Act.

 

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CONDITIONS TO THE COMPANY’S OBLIGATION TO SELL.

(a) The obligation of the Company hereunder to issue and sell the Initial Notes to each Buyer at the Initial Closing is subject to the satisfaction, at or before the Initial Closing Date, of each of the following conditions, provided that these conditions are for the Company’s sole benefit and may be waived by the Company at any time in its sole discretion by providing each Buyer with prior written notice thereof:

(i) Such Buyer shall have executed each of the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party and delivered the same to the Company.

(ii) Such Buyer and each other Buyer shall have delivered to the Company the Purchase Price (less, in the case of any Buyer, the amounts withheld pursuant to Section 4(h)) for the Initial Notes being purchased by such Buyer at the Initial Closing by wire transfer of immediately available funds in accordance with the Flow of Funds Letter.

(iii) The representations and warranties of such Buyer shall be true and correct in all material respects as of the date when made and as of the Initial Closing Date as though originally made at that time (except for representations and warranties that speak as of a specific date, which shall be true and correct as of such specific date), and such Buyer shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with the covenants, agreements and conditions required by this Agreement to be performed, satisfied or complied with by such Buyer at or prior to the Initial Closing Date.

(b) The obligation of the Company hereunder to issue and sell Additional Notes to each Buyer at the applicable Additional Closing is subject to the satisfaction, at or before such Additional Closing Date, of each of the following conditions, provided that these conditions are for the Company’s sole benefit and may be waived by the Company at any time in its sole discretion by providing each Buyer with prior written notice thereof:

(i) Such Buyer shall have executed each of the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party and delivered the same to the Company.

 

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(ii) Such Buyer and each other Buyer shall have delivered to the Company the applicable Additional Purchase Price (less, in the case of any Buyer, the amounts withheld pursuant to Section 4(h)) for the Additional Notes being purchased by such Buyer at such Additional Closing by wire transfer of immediately available funds in accordance with the Additional Flow of Funds Letter.

(iii) The representations and warranties of such Buyer shall be true and correct in all material respects as of the date when made and as of such Additional Closing Date as though originally made at that time (except for representations and warranties that speak as of a specific date, which shall be true and correct as of such specific date), and such Buyer shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with the covenants, agreements and conditions required by this Agreement to be performed, satisfied or complied with by such Buyer at or prior to such Additional Closing Date.

 

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CONDITIONS TO EACH BUYER’S OBLIGATION TO PURCHASE.

(a) The obligation of each Buyer hereunder to purchase its Initial Note at the Initial Closing is subject to the satisfaction, at or before the Initial Closing Date, of each of the following conditions, provided that these conditions are for each Buyer’s sole benefit and may be waived by such Buyer at any time in its sole discretion by providing the Company with prior written notice thereof:

(i) The Company shall have duly executed and delivered to such Buyer each of the following (which shall remain in full force and effect as of the Initial Closing Date):

(A) the Security Documents set forth in Exhibit C;

(B) the Intercreditor Agreement;

(C) the Guaranty;

(D) the Perfection Certificate; and

(E) the Initial Notes (in such original principal amount as is set forth across from such Buyer’s name in column (2) (Initial Tranche) of the Schedule of Buyers) being purchased by such Buyer at the Initial Closing pursuant to this Agreement.

(ii) Such Buyer shall have received the opinions of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, the Company’s counsel in connection with the Security Documents executed and delivered by the Company pursuant to the terms of Section 7(a)(i) of this Agreement, dated as of the Initial Closing Date, in the form acceptable to the Buyer.

(iii) The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer:

(A) a certificate evidencing the formation and good standing of the Company in such entity’s jurisdiction of formation issued by the Secretary of State (or comparable office) of such jurisdiction of formation as of a date within ten (10) days of the Initial Closing Date;

(B) a certificate evidencing the Company’s qualification as a foreign corporation and good standing issued by the Secretary of State (or comparable office) of each jurisdiction in which the Company conducts business and is required to so qualify, as of a date within ten (10) days of the Initial Closing Date; and

(C) a certificate, in the form acceptable to such Buyer, executed by the Secretary of the Company and dated as of the Initial Closing Date, as to (i) the resolutions consistent with Section 3(b) as adopted by the Company’s board of directors in a form reasonably acceptable to such Buyer, (ii) the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company and (iii) the Bylaws of the Company, each as in effect at the Initial Closing.

 

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(iv) The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer’s Designated Adviser (as specified for such Buyer in the Schedule of Buyers) an Approved Budget (as defined in the Notes) current as of the Initial Closing Date.

(v) [Intentionally Omitted].

(vi) Each and every representation and warranty of the Company shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date when made and as of the Initial Closing Date as though originally made at that time (except for representations and warranties that speak as of a specific date, which shall be true and correct as of such specific date) and the Company shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all respects with the covenants, agreements and conditions required to be performed, satisfied or complied with by the Company at or prior to the Initial Closing Date. Such Buyer shall have received a certificate, duly executed by an executive officer of the Company, dated as of the Initial Closing Date, to the foregoing effect and as to such other matters as may be reasonably requested by such Buyer in the form acceptable to such Buyer.

(vii) No statute, rule, regulation, executive order, decree, ruling or injunction shall have been enacted, entered, promulgated or endorsed by any court or Governmental Entity of competent jurisdiction that prohibits the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

(viii) Such Buyer shall have received a letter on the letterhead of the Company, duly executed by an executive officer of the Company, setting forth the wire amounts of each Buyer and the wire transfer instructions of the Company (the “Initial Flow of Funds Letter”).

(ix) No Event of Default (as defined in the Notes) or event which, with the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing (i) on such Initial Closing Date or (ii) immediately after giving effect to the issuance of the Initial Notes or the sale of the Initial Notes to such Buyer.

(x) [Intentionally Omitted].

(xi) The Company and its Subsidiaries shall have delivered to such Buyer such other documents, instruments or certificates relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as such Buyer or its counsel may reasonably request.

(xii) The Company shall be in compliance with the Approved Budget.

(b) The obligation of each Buyer hereunder to purchase the applicable Additional Notes at the applicable Additional Closing is subject to the satisfaction, at or before such Additional Closing Date, of each of the following conditions, provided that these conditions are for each Buyer’s sole benefit and may be waived by such Buyer at any time in its sole discretion by providing the Company with prior written notice thereof:

(i) Each Transaction Document shall be in full force and effect and, in the case of the Perfection Certificate, shall be true, correct and complete in all material respects;

(ii) The Company shall have duly executed and delivered to such Buyer such Additional Notes being purchased by such Buyer at such Additional Closing pursuant to this Agreement.

 

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(iii) Such Buyer shall have received the opinions of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, the Company’s counsel, and of such other counsel as may be requested by such Buyer in connection with any additional Security Documents executed and delivered by the Company pursuant to the terms of this Agreement in the form acceptable to the Buyer.

(iv) The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer:

(A) a certificate evidencing the formation and good standing of the Company in such entity’s jurisdiction of formation issued by the Secretary of State (or comparable office) of such jurisdiction of formation as of a date within ten (10) days of such Additional Closing Date; and

(B) a certificate, in the form acceptable to such Buyer, executed by the Secretary of the Company and dated as of such Additional Closing Date, as to (i) the resolutions consistent with Section 3(b) as adopted by the Company’s board of directors in a form reasonably acceptable to such Buyer, (ii) the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company and (iii) the Bylaws of the Company, each as in effect at such Additional Closing.

(v) Each and every representation and warranty of the Company shall be true and correct in all material respects as of the date when made and as of such Additional Closing Date as though originally made at that time (except for representations and warranties that speak as of a specific date, which shall be true and correct as of such specific date) and the Company shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all respects with the covenants, agreements and conditions required to be performed, satisfied or complied with by the Company at or prior to such Additional Closing Date. Such Buyer shall have received a certificate, duly executed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, dated as of such Additional Closing Date, to the foregoing effect and as to such other matters as may be reasonably requested by such Buyer in the form acceptable to such Buyer.

(vi) No statute, rule, regulation, executive order, decree, ruling or injunction shall have been enacted, entered, promulgated or endorsed by any court or Governmental Entity of competent jurisdiction that prohibits the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

(vii) Since the date of execution of this Agreement, no event or series of events shall have occurred that individually or in the aggregate, result or would reasonably be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect.

(viii) Such Buyer shall have received a letter on the letterhead of the Company, duly executed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, setting forth the wire amounts of each Buyer and the wire transfer instructions of the Company with respect to such Additional Closing (each, an “Additional Flow of Funds Letter”).

(ix) No Event of Default (as defined in the Notes) or default under any of the Transaction Documents shall have occurred and be continuing (i) on such Additional Closing Date or (ii) immediately after giving effect to the issuance of such Additional Notes or the sale of the Additional Notes to such Buyer.

(x) [Intentionally Omitted].

(xi) The Company shall be in compliance with the Approved Budget in effect as of such Additional Closing Date.

 

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(xii) The Company and its Subsidiaries shall have delivered to such Buyer such other documents, instruments or certificates relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as such Buyer or its counsel may reasonably request.

 

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MISCELLANEOUS.

(a) Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Jury Trial. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdictions other than the State of New York. The Company hereby irrevocably and unconditionally (A) 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 under any of the other Transaction Documents or with any transaction contemplated hereby or thereby; provided, however, that each Buyer shall be entitled to assert jurisdiction over the Company and its property in any court in which jurisdiction may be laid over the Company or its property, (B) waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby in any such New York State or Federal court, as the case may be, (C) waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court, and (D) agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. THE COMPANY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO, AND AGREES NOT TO REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

(b) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more identical counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by an e-mail which contains a portable document format (.pdf) file of an executed signature page, such signature page 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 signature page were an original thereof.

(c) Headings; Gender. The headings of this Agreement are for convenience of reference and shall not form part of, or affect the interpretation of, this Agreement. Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, each pronoun herein shall be deemed to include the masculine, feminine, neuter, singular and plural forms thereof. The terms “including,” “includes,” “include” and words of like import shall be construed broadly as if followed by the words “without limitation.” The terms “herein,” “hereunder,” “hereof” and words of like import refer to this entire Agreement instead of just the provision in which they are found.

(d) Severability; Maximum Payment Amounts. If any provision of this Agreement is prohibited by law or otherwise determined to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the provision that would otherwise be prohibited, invalid or unenforceable shall be deemed amended to apply to the broadest extent that it would be valid and enforceable, and the invalidity or unenforceability of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Agreement so long as this Agreement as so modified continues to express, without material change, the original intentions of the parties as to the subject matter hereof and the prohibited nature, invalidity or unenforceability of the provision(s) in question does not substantially impair the respective expectations or reciprocal obligations of the parties or the practical realization of the benefits that would otherwise be

 

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conferred upon the parties. The parties will endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the prohibited, invalid or unenforceable provision(s) with a valid provision(s), the effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the prohibited, invalid or unenforceable provision(s). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document (and without implication that the following is required or applicable), it is the intention of the parties that in no event shall amounts and value paid by the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries (as the case may be), or payable to or received by any of the Buyers, under the Transaction Documents (including without limitation, any amounts that would be characterized as “interest” under applicable law) exceed amounts permitted under any applicable law. Accordingly, if any obligation to pay, payment made to any Buyer, or collection by any Buyer pursuant to the Transaction Documents is finally judicially determined to be contrary to any such applicable law, such obligation to pay, payment or collection shall be deemed to have been made by mutual mistake of the Buyer, the Company and its Subsidiaries and such amount shall be deemed to have been adjusted with retroactive effect to the maximum amount or rate of interest, as the case may be, as would not be so prohibited by the applicable law. Such adjustment shall be effected, to the extent necessary, by reducing or refunding, at the option of the Buyer, the amount of interest or any other amounts which would constitute unlawful amounts required to be paid or actually paid to such Buyer under the Transaction Documents. For greater certainty, to the extent that any interest, charges, fees, expenses or other amounts required to be paid to or received by such Buyer under any of the Transaction Documents or related thereto are held to be within the meaning of “interest” or another applicable term to otherwise be violative of applicable law, such amounts shall be pro-rated over the period of time to which they relate.

(e) Entire Agreement; Amendments. This Agreement, the other Transaction Documents and the schedules and exhibits attached hereto and thereto and the instruments referenced herein and therein supersede all other prior oral or written agreements between the Buyers, the Company, its Subsidiaries, their affiliates and Persons acting on their behalf, including, without limitation, any transactions by any Buyer with respect to Common Stock or the Securities, and the other matters contained herein and therein, and this Agreement, the other Transaction Documents, the schedules and exhibits attached hereto and thereto and the instruments referenced herein and therein contain the entire understanding of the parties solely with respect to the matters covered herein and therein; provided, however, nothing contained in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document shall (or shall be deemed to) (i) have any effect on any agreements any Buyer has entered into with, or any instruments any Buyer has received from, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries prior to the date hereof with respect to any prior investment made by such Buyer in the Company or (ii) waive, alter, modify or amend in any respect any obligations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any rights of or benefits to any Buyer or any other Person, in any agreement entered into prior to the date hereof between or among the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries and any Buyer, or any instruments any Buyer received from the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries prior to the date hereof, and all such agreements and instruments shall continue in full force and effect. Except as specifically set forth herein or therein, neither the Company nor any Buyer makes any representation, warranty, covenant or undertaking with respect to such matters. For clarification purposes, the Recitals are part of this Agreement. No provision of this Agreement may be amended other than by an instrument in writing signed by the Company and the Required Holders (as defined below), and any amendment to any provision of this Agreement made in conformity with the provisions of this Section 8(e) shall be binding on all Buyers and holders of Notes, as applicable; provided that no such amendment shall be effective to the extent that it (A) applies to less than all of the holders of the Notes then outstanding or (B) imposes any obligation or liability on any Buyer without such Buyer’s prior written consent (which may be granted or withheld in such Buyer’s sole discretion). No waiver shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving party, provided that the Required Holders may waive any provision of this Agreement, and any waiver of any provision of this Agreement made in conformity with the provisions of this Section 8(e) shall be binding on all Buyers and holders of Notes, as applicable, provided that no such waiver shall be effective to the extent that it (1) applies to less than all of the holders of the Notes then outstanding (unless a party gives a waiver as to itself only) or (2) imposes any obligation

 

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or liability on any Buyer without such Buyer’s prior written consent (which may be granted or withheld in such Buyer’s sole discretion). No consideration (other than reimbursement of legal fees) shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of any of the Transaction Documents unless the same consideration also is offered to all of the parties to the Transaction Documents (other than the Company and its Subsidiaries) and all holders of the Notes. From the date hereof and while any Notes are outstanding, the Company shall not be permitted to receive any consideration from a Buyer or a holder of Notes that is not otherwise contemplated by the Transaction Documents in order to, directly or indirectly, induce the Company or any Subsidiary (i) to treat such Buyer or holder of Notes in a manner that is more favorable than other similarly situated Buyers or holders of Notes, or (ii) to treat any Buyer(s) or holder(s) of Notes in a manner that is less favorable than such Buyer or holder of Notes that is paying such consideration; provided, however, that the determination of whether a Buyer has been treated more or less favorably than another Buyer shall disregard any securities of the Company purchased or sold by any Buyer. The Company has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreements with any Buyers relating to the terms or conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents except as set forth in the Transaction Documents. Without limiting the foregoing, the Company confirms that, except as set forth in this Agreement, no Buyer has made any commitment or promise or has any other obligation to provide any financing to the Company, any Subsidiary or otherwise. As a material inducement for each Buyer to enter into this Agreement, the Company expressly acknowledges and agrees that (x) no due diligence or other investigation or inquiry conducted by a Buyer, any of its advisors or any of its representatives shall affect such Buyer’s right to rely on, or shall modify or qualify in any manner or be an exception to any of, the Company’s representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document and (y) unless a provision of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document is expressly preceded by the phrase “except as disclosed in the SEC Documents,” nothing contained in any of the SEC Documents shall affect such Buyer’s right to rely on, or shall modify or qualify in any manner or be an exception to any of, the Company’s representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document. “Required Holders” means (I) prior to the Initial Closing Date, each Buyer entitled to purchase Notes at the Closing and (II) on or after the Initial Closing Date, holders of a majority of the Notes.

(f) Notices. Any notices, consents, waivers or other communications required or permitted to be given under the terms of this Agreement must be in writing and will be deemed to have been delivered: (i) upon receipt, when delivered personally; (ii) on the day it is sent, when sent by electronic mail (provided that such sent email is kept on file (whether electronically or otherwise) by the sending party and the sending party does not receive an automatically generated message from the recipient’s email server that such e-mail could not be delivered to such recipient); or (iii) one (1) Business Day after deposit with an overnight courier service with next day delivery specified, in each case, properly addressed to the party to receive the same. The mailing addresses and e-mail addresses for such communications shall be:

If to the Company:

Fisker Inc.

1888 Rosecrans Avenue

Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

Telephone:

Attention: Geeta Gupta-Fisker, Chief Financial Officer and Chief

Operating Officer

E-Mail:

With a copy (for informational purposes only) to:

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

450 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10017

Telephone:

Attention: Brian Resnick

E-Mail:

 

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If to a Buyer, to its mailing address and e-mail address set forth on the Schedule of Buyers, with copies to such Buyer’s representatives as set forth on the Schedule of Buyers,

with a copy (for informational purposes only) to:

White & Case LLP

1221 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020

Telephone:

Attention: Andrew Weisberg

E-mail:

or to such other mailing address and/or e-mail address and/or to the attention of such other Person as the recipient party has specified by written notice given to each other party five (5) days prior to the effectiveness of such change, provided that White & Case LLP shall only be provided copies of notices sent to the lead Buyer. Written confirmation of receipt (A) given by the recipient of such notice, consent, waiver or other communication, (B) mechanically or electronically generated by the sender’s e-mail containing the time, date and recipient’s e-mail or (C) provided by an overnight courier service shall be rebuttable evidence of personal service, receipt by e-mail or receipt from an overnight courier service in accordance with clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, respectively.

(g) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their respective successors and assigns, including any purchasers of any of the Notes. The Company shall not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Required Holders, including, without limitation, by way of a Fundamental Transaction (as defined in the Notes) (unless the Company is in compliance with the applicable provisions governing Fundamental Transactions set forth in the Notes). A Buyer may assign some or all of its rights hereunder in connection with any transfer of any of its Notes without the consent of the Company, in which event such assignee shall be deemed to be a Buyer hereunder with respect to such assigned rights.

(h) No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns, and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person, other than the Indemnitees referred to in Section 8(k).

(i) Survival. The representations, warranties, agreements and covenants shall survive the Closing. Each Buyer shall be responsible only for its own representations, warranties, agreements and covenants hereunder.

(j) Further Assurances. Each party shall do and perform, or cause to be done and performed, all such further acts and things, and shall execute and deliver all such other agreements, certificates, instruments and documents, as any other party may reasonably request in order to carry out the intent and accomplish the purposes of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

(k) Indemnification.

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hold harmless each Buyer and each holder of any Notes and all of their stockholders, partners, members, officers, directors, employees and direct or indirect investors and any of the foregoing Persons’ agents or other representatives (including, without limitation, those retained in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement) (collectively, the “Indemnitees”) from and against any and all actions, causes of action, suits, claims, losses, costs, penalties, fees, liabilities and damages, and expenses in connection therewith (irrespective of whether any such Indemnitee is a party to the action for which indemnification hereunder is sought), and including reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements (the “Indemnified Liabilities”), incurred by any Indemnitee as a result of, or arising out of, or relating to (i) any misrepresentation or breach of any representation or warranty made by the Company or any Subsidiary in any of the Transaction Documents, (ii) any breach of any covenant, agreement or obligation of the Company or any Subsidiary contained in any of the Transaction Documents or (iii) any cause of action, suit, proceeding or claim brought or made against such Indemnitee by a third party (including for these purposes a derivative action brought on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary) or which otherwise involves such Indemnitee that arises out of or results from (A) the execution, delivery, performance or enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents, (B) any transaction financed or to be financed in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, with the proceeds of the issuance of the Notes, (C) any disclosure properly made by such Buyer pursuant to Section 4(j), or (D) the status of such Buyer or holder of the Notes either as an investor in the Company pursuant to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or as a party to this Agreement (including, without limitation, as a party in interest or otherwise in any action or proceeding for injunctive or other equitable relief). To the extent that the foregoing undertaking by the Company may be unenforceable for any reason, the Company shall make the maximum contribution to the payment and satisfaction of each of the Indemnified Liabilities which is permissible under applicable law.

(ii) Promptly after receipt by an Indemnitee under this Section 8(k) of notice of the commencement of any action or proceeding (including any governmental action or proceeding) involving an Indemnified Liability, such Indemnitee shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the Company under this Section 8(k), deliver to the Company a written notice of the commencement thereof, and the Company shall have the right to participate in, and, to the extent the Company so desires, to assume control of the defense thereof with counsel mutually satisfactory to the Company and the Indemnitee; provided, however, that an Indemnitee shall have the right to retain its own counsel with the fees and expenses of such counsel to be paid by the Company if: (A) the Company has agreed in writing to pay such fees and expenses; (B) the Company shall have failed promptly to assume the defense of such Indemnified Liability and to employ counsel reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnitee in any such Indemnified Liability; or (C) the named parties to any such Indemnified Liability (including any impleaded parties) include both such Indemnitee and the Company, and such Indemnitee shall have been advised by counsel that a conflict of interest is likely to exist if the same counsel were to represent such Indemnitee and the Company (in which case, if such Indemnitee notifies the Company in writing that it elects to employ separate counsel at the expense of the Company, then the Company shall not have the right to assume the defense thereof and such counsel shall be at the expense of the Company), provided further, that in the case of clause (C) above the Company shall not be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of more than one (1) separate legal counsel for the Indemnitees. The Indemnitee shall reasonably cooperate with the Company in connection with any negotiation or defense of any such action or Indemnified Liability by the Company and shall furnish to the Company all information reasonably available to the Indemnitee which relates to such action or Indemnified Liability. The Company shall keep the Indemnitee reasonably apprised at all times as to the status of the defense or any settlement negotiations with respect thereto. The Company shall not be liable for any settlement of any action, claim or proceeding effected without its prior written consent, provided, however, that the Company shall not unreasonably withhold, delay or condition its

 

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consent. The Company shall not, without the prior written consent of the Indemnitee, consent to entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement or other compromise which does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such Indemnitee of a release from all liability in respect to such Indemnified Liability or litigation, and such settlement shall not include any admission as to fault on the part of the Indemnitee. Following indemnification as provided for hereunder, the Company shall be subrogated to all rights of the Indemnitee with respect to all third parties, firms or corporations relating to the matter for which indemnification has been made. The failure to deliver written notice to the Company within a reasonable time of the commencement of any such action shall not relieve the Company of any liability to the Indemnitee under this Section 8(k), except to the extent that the Company is materially and adversely prejudiced in its ability to defend such action.

(iii) The indemnification required by this Section 8(k) shall be made by periodic payments of the amount thereof during the course of the investigation or defense, within ten (10) days after bills are received or Indemnified Liabilities are incurred.

(iv) The indemnity agreement contained herein shall be in addition to (A) any cause of action or similar right of the Indemnitee against the Company or others, and (B) any liabilities the Company may be subject to pursuant to the law.

(l) Construction. The language used in this Agreement will be deemed to be the language chosen by the parties to express their mutual intent, and no rules of strict construction will be applied against any party. No specific representation or warranty shall limit the generality or applicability of a more general representation or warranty. Each and every reference to share prices, shares of Common Stock and any other numbers in this Agreement that relate to the Common Stock shall be automatically adjusted for any stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations, recapitalizations or other similar transactions that occur with respect to the Common Stock after the date of this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, for the avoidance of doubt, nothing contained herein shall constitute a representation or warranty against, or a prohibition of, any actions with respect to the borrowing of, arrangement to borrow, identification of the availability of, and/or securing of, securities of the Company in order for such Buyer (or its broker or other financial representative) to effect short sales or similar transactions in the future.

(m) Remedies. Each Buyer and in the event of assignment by Buyer of its rights and obligations hereunder, each holder of Notes, shall have all rights and remedies set forth in the Transaction Documents and all rights and remedies which such holders have been granted at any time under any other agreement or contract and all of the rights which such holders have under any law. Any Person having any rights under any provision of this Agreement shall be entitled to enforce such rights specifically (without posting a bond or other security), to recover damages by reason of any breach of any provision of this Agreement and to exercise all other rights granted by law. Furthermore, the Company recognizes that in the event that it or any Subsidiary fails to perform, observe, or discharge any or all of its or such Subsidiary’s (as the case may be) obligations under the Transaction Documents, any remedy at law would be inadequate relief to the Buyers. The Company therefore agrees that the Buyers shall be entitled to specific performance and/or temporary, preliminary and permanent injunctive or other equitable relief from any court of competent jurisdiction in any such case without the necessity of proving actual damages and without posting a bond or other security. The remedies provided in this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents shall be cumulative and in addition to all other remedies available under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, at law or in equity (including a decree of specific performance and/or other injunctive relief).

(n) Withdrawal Right. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in (and without limiting any similar provisions of) the Transaction Documents, whenever any Buyer exercises a right, election, demand or option under a Transaction Document and the Company or any Subsidiary does not timely perform its related obligations within the periods therein provided, then such Buyer may rescind or withdraw, in its sole discretion from time to time upon written notice to the Company or such Subsidiary (as the case may be), any relevant notice, demand or election in whole or in part without prejudice to its future actions and rights.

 

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(o) Payment Set Aside; Currency. To the extent that the Company makes a payment or payments to any Buyer hereunder or pursuant to any of the other Transaction Documents or any of the Buyers enforce or exercise their rights hereunder or 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, foreign, 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. Unless otherwise expressly indicated, all dollar amounts referred to in this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents are in United States Dollars (“U.S. Dollars”), and all amounts owing under this Agreement and all other Transaction Documents shall be paid in U.S. Dollars. All amounts denominated in other currencies (if any) shall be converted into the U.S. Dollar equivalent amount in accordance with the Exchange Rate on the date of calculation. “Exchange Rate” means, in relation to any amount of currency to be converted into U.S. Dollars pursuant to this Agreement, the U.S. Dollar exchange rate as published in the Wall Street Journal on the relevant date of calculation.

(p) Judgment Currency.

(i) If for the purpose of obtaining or enforcing judgment against the Company in connection with this Agreement or any other Transaction Document in any court in any jurisdiction it becomes necessary to convert into any other currency (such other currency being hereinafter in this Section 8(p) referred to as the “Judgment Currency”) an amount due in U.S. Dollars under this Agreement, the conversion shall be made at the Exchange Rate prevailing on the Business Day immediately preceding:

(1) the date actual payment of the amount due, in the case of any proceeding in the courts of New York or in the courts of any other jurisdiction that will give effect to such conversion being made on such date: or

(2) the date on which the foreign court determines, in the case of any proceeding in the courts of any other jurisdiction (the date as of which such conversion is made pursuant to this Section 8(p)(i)(2) being hereinafter referred to as the “Judgment Conversion Date”).

(ii) If in the case of any proceeding in the court of any jurisdiction referred to in Section 8(p)(i)(2) above, there is a change in the Exchange Rate prevailing between the Judgment Conversion Date and the date of actual payment of the amount due, the applicable party shall pay such adjusted amount as may be necessary to ensure that the amount paid in the Judgment Currency, when converted at the Exchange Rate prevailing on the date of payment, will produce the amount of U.S. Dollars which could have been purchased with the amount of Judgment Currency stipulated in the judgment or judicial order at the Exchange Rate prevailing on the Judgment Conversion Date.

(iii) Any amount due from the Company under this provision shall be due as a separate debt and shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other amounts due under or in respect of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document.

 

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(q) Independent Nature of Buyers’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of each Buyer under the Transaction Documents are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Buyer, and no Buyer shall be responsible in any way for the performance of the obligations of any other Buyer under any Transaction Document. Nothing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Buyer pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Buyers as, and the Company acknowledges that the Buyers do not so constitute, a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of group or entity, or create a presumption that the Buyers are in any way acting in concert or as a group or entity, and the Company shall not assert any such claim with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or any matters, and the Company acknowledges that the Buyers are not acting in concert or as a group, and the Company shall not assert any such claim, with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The decision of each Buyer to purchase Notes pursuant to the Transaction Documents has been made by such Buyer independently of any other Buyer. Each Buyer acknowledges that no other Buyer has acted as agent for such Buyer in connection with such Buyer making its investment hereunder and that no other Buyer will be acting as agent of such Buyer in connection with monitoring the Buyer’s investment in the Notes or enforcing its rights under the Transaction Documents. The Company and each Buyer confirms that each Buyer has independently participated with the Company and its Subsidiaries in the negotiation of the transaction contemplated hereby with the advice of its own counsel and advisors. Each Buyer shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of any other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Buyer to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose. The use of a single agreement to effectuate the purchase and sale of the Notes contemplated hereby was solely in the control of the Company, not the action or decision of any Buyer, and was done solely for the convenience of the Company and its Subsidiaries and not because it was required or requested to do so by any Buyer. It is expressly understood and agreed that each provision contained in this Agreement and in each other Transaction Document is between the Company, each Subsidiary and a Buyer, solely, and not between the Company, its Subsidiaries and the Buyers collectively and not between and among the Buyers.

 

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RELEASE; NON-DISPARAGEMENT.

(a) Release. The Company, on behalf of itself, each Subsidiary and each of their past and/or present, officers, directors, employees, predecessors, successors, assigns, affiliates, parents and subsidiaries (together, the “Fisker Releasing Parties”) fully, irrevocably and generally releases each Buyer and each of its past and present parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, owners, officers, directors, trustees, shareholders, unitholders, members, partners, employees, contractors, agents, insurers, attorneys, investment bankers, advisors, auditors, accountants, partners, general partners, heirs, executors, administrators, and representatives (collectively the “Released Parties”), from any and all claims (whether direct, class, derivative, representative or otherwise), actions, suits, liabilities, damages (whether compensatory, punitive or otherwise), losses, costs, expenses, and rights and causes of action, known or Unknown Claims (as defined below), that they now have or have ever had or may ever have in the future, whether resulting from any action or inaction with respect to, based upon, arising with respect to, or directly or indirectly relating to, as applicable, the Notes and/or the Transaction Documents (the “Released Claims”). Released Claims shall not include claims to enforce this Agreement or for breach of this Agreement. “Unknown Claims” means claims which the Fisker Releasing Parties do not know or do or do not suspect to exist in their favor at the time of the release of the Released Claims, which, if known by them might have affected their release of the Released Claims, or might have affected their decision(s) with respect to this Agreement. With respect to any and all Released Claims, the Fisker Releasing Parties stipulate and agree that they expressly waive, the provisions, rights, and benefits of California Civil Code §1542, which provides:

 

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A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS THAT THE CREDITOR OR RELEASING PARTY DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE AND THAT, IF KNOWN BY HIM OTHER, WOULD HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR OR RELEASED PARTY.

The Fisker Releasing Parties hereby further waive any and all provisions, rights and benefits conferred by any law of any state or territory of the United States, or principle of common law, which is similar, comparable, or equivalent to California Civil Code §1542. The Fisker Releasing Parties acknowledge that they may hereafter discover facts in addition to or different from those which they now know or believe to be true with respect to the subject matter of the Released Claims, but expressly fully, finally and forever waive, compromise, settle, discharge, extinguish and release fully, finally and forever, any and all Released Claims, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, contingent or noncontingent, whether or not concealed or hidden, which now exist, or heretofore have existed, upon any theory of law or equity now existing or coming into existence in the future, including, but not limited to, conduct which is negligent, intentional, with or without malice, or a breach of any duty, law or rule, without regard to the subsequent discovery or existence of such different or additional facts, legal theories or authorities. The Fisker Releasing Parties acknowledge that the foregoing waiver was separately bargained for and is an essential element of this Agreement.

(b) Non-Disparagement. The Company, on behalf of itself, its Subsidiaries, and each of the other Fisker Releasing Parties, agrees that it will not at any time make, publish or communicate (whether made or given orally, in writing, in any digital medium, in any filing with any Governmental Entity or in any other manner) to any Person, any Disparaging (defined below) remarks, comments or statements concerning any of the Released Parties or any of the Transaction Documents. For purposes of this Agreement, “Disparaging remarks, comments or statements are those that impugn, or threaten to impugn, the character, honesty, integrity, morality, legality, business acumen or abilities of the individual or Person or Transaction Document being disparaged, as applicable. Disparaging remarks shall expressly include, but not be limited to, any suggestion that any of the Released Parties violates or operates in contravention of federal or state securities laws, that any term or condition of any of the Transaction Documents are void or invalid, or any other remark, comment or statement that undermines any of the Released Parties’ reputation or the validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents (whether made or given orally, in writing, in any digital medium, in any filing with any Governmental Entity or in any other manner to any Person). The Company further agrees that it should be jointly and severally liable under this Section 9 for any Disparaging remarks, comments or statements of any of the Fisker Releasing Parties. The Fisker Releasing Parties acknowledge that the foregoing non-disparagement agreement was separately bargained for and is an essential element of this Agreement.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Buyer and the Company have caused their respective signature page to this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

COMPANY:
FISKER INC.
By:  

/s/ Geeta Gupta-Fisker

  Name: Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker
  Title: Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer

[Signature Page to Securities Purchase Agreement]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Buyer and the Company have caused their respective signature page to this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

BUYER:
CVI INVESTMENTS, INC.
By: Heights Capital Management, Inc., its authorized agent
By:  

    

  Name:
  Title:


SCHEDULE OF BUYERS

 

(1)    (2)
Buyer    Initial Tranche

Lead Buyer

 

CVI Investments, Inc.

 

Mailing Address and E-mail Address

 

c/o Heights Capital Management

101 California Street

Suite 3250

San Francisco, CA 94111

Attention:

E-Mail:

 

Legal Representative’s Mailing Address and E-mail Address

 

White & Case LLP

1221 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020

Telephone:

Attention: Andrew Weisberg

  

Original Principal Amount of Notes:

 

$3,456,000.00

 

Investment Amount:

 

$7,500,000.00


DISCLOSURE SCHEDULES TO

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

[Intentionally Omitted]


EXHIBIT A

Form of Note

[Intentionally Omitted]


EXHIBIT B

Form of Perfection Certificate

[Intentionally Omitted]


EXHIBIT C

SECURITY DOCUMENTS

[Intentionally Omitted]

 

Schedule XIII


EXHIBIT D

POST-CLOSING DELIVERABLES

[Intentionally Omitted]

EXHIBIT 10.2

Execution Version

SECURITY AND PLEDGE AGREEMENT

SECURITY AND PLEDGE AGREEMENT, dated as of May 10, 2024 (this “Agreement”), made by Fisker Inc., a company organized under the laws of Delaware, with offices located at 1888 Rosecrans Avenue, Manhattan Beach, California 90266 (the “Company”), and each of the undersigned Subsidiaries (as defined below) of the Company from time to time, if any (each a “Grantor” and together with the Company, collectively, the “Grantors”), in favor of CVI Investment, Inc. with offices located at c/o Heights Capital Management, 101 California Street, Suite 3250, San Francisco, CA 94111 in its capacity as collateral agent (together with its successors and assignees, in such capacity, the “Collateral Agent”) for the Noteholders (as defined below).

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, the Company is party to that certain Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 10, 2024 (as amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, the “Securities Purchase Agreement”), by and among the Company and each party listed as an “ Investor” on the Schedule of Investors attached thereto (each an “Investor” and collectively, the “Investors”), pursuant to which the Company has sold, and may in the future be required to sell, to the Investors, and the Investors have purchased, and may in the future be required or have the right to purchase, the “Notes” issued pursuant thereto (as such Notes may be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms and conditions thereof, collectively, the “Notes”);

WHEREAS, the Grantors, other than the Company, (each a “Guarantor” and collectively, the “Guarantors”) have executed and delivered that certain Guaranty, dated as of the date hereof (as amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, the “Guaranty”) with respect to the Company’s Obligations (as defined below);

WHEREAS, the Grantors are Affiliates that are part of a common enterprise such that each Grantor will derive substantial direct and indirect financial and other benefits from the consummation of the transactions contemplated under the Transaction Documents and, accordingly, the consummation of such transactions are in the best interests of each Grantor; and

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the agreements herein, each Grantor agrees with the Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Collateral Agent and the Noteholders, as follows:

SECTION 1 Foreign Currency Amounts; Definitions.

(a) Amounts expressed herein in dollars or $ shall mean, with respect to any amounts denominated in a currency other than United States dollars, the equivalent of such dollar amount in such other currency, as reasonably determined by the Company using a widely available foreign exchange rate.

(b) All terms used in this Agreement and the recitals hereto which are defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Notes or in the Code, and which are not otherwise defined herein, shall have the same meanings herein as set forth therein; provided that terms used herein which are defined in the Code on the date hereof shall continue to have the same meaning notwithstanding any replacement or amendment of the Code except as the Collateral Agent may otherwise determine in its sole and absolute discretion.

(c) Without limiting the generality of, and subject to the proviso at the end of, Section 1(b), the following terms shall have the respective meanings provided for in the Code: “Accounts”, “Account Debtor”, “Cash Proceeds”, “Certificate of Title”, “Chattel Paper”, “Commercial Tort Claim”, “Commodity Account”, “Commodity Contracts”, “Deposit Account”, “Documents”, “Electronic Chattel Paper”, “Equipment”, “Financial Asset”, “Fixtures”, “General Intangibles”, “Goods”, “Instruments”, “Inventory”, “Investment Property”, “Letter-of-Credit Rights”, “Noncash Proceeds”, “Payment Intangibles”, “Proceeds”, “Promissory Notes”, “Security Entitlement”, “Security”, “Record”, “Securities Account”, “Software”, “Supporting Obligations” and “Uncertificated Securities”.


(d) As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the respective meanings indicated below, such meanings to be applicable equally to both the singular and plural forms of such terms:

Affiliate” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Notes.

Bankruptcy Code” means Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code, 11 U.S.C §§ 101 et seq. (or other applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws).

Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York are authorized or required by law to remain closed.

Capital Stock” means (i) with respect to any Person that is a corporation, any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated and whether or not voting) of corporate stock (including, without limitation, any warrants, options, rights or other securities exercisable or convertible into equity interests or securities of such Person), and (ii) with respect to any Person that is not an individual or a corporation, any and all partnership, membership, trust or other equity interests of such Person.

Code” means Articles 8 or 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of New York; provided that, if perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or the priority of any security interest in any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, “Code” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority.

Collateral” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(a) of this Agreement.

Collateral Agent” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

Collateral Reporting Date” means the last Business Day of each January, March, May, July, September and November, commencing May 31, 2024.

Company” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

Controlled Account” means any Pledged Account that is subject to a Controlled Account Agreement.

Controlled Account Agreement” means (a) in the case of any Pledged Account maintained at a financial institution in the United States, a deposit account control agreement or securities account control agreement with respect to such Pledged Account, pursuant to which the Collateral Agent is granted control over such Pledged Account in a manner that perfects its security interest in such Pledged Account under the Code or (b) in the case of any other Pledged Account maintained at a financial institution outside of the United States, an agreement with respect to such Pledged Account that is necessary under the laws of the jurisdiction where such Pledged Account is maintained to perfect the Collateral Agent’s security interest in such Pledged Account and to permit the Collateral Agent to control the disposition of funds or other assets deposited in or credited to such Pledged Account at such time that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, as the same may be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or replaced from time to time.

 

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Controlled Account Bank” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(i).

Copyright Licenses” means all licenses, contracts or other agreements, whether written or oral, naming any Grantor as licensee or licensor and providing for the grant of any right to use or sell any works covered by any Copyright.

Copyrights” means all domestic and foreign copyrights, whether registered or not, including, without limitation, all copyright rights throughout the universe (whether now or hereafter arising) in any and all media (whether now or hereafter developed), in and to all original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, acquired or used by any Grantor, all applications, registrations and recordings thereof (including, without limitation, the applications, registrations and recordings in the United States Copyright Office or in any similar office or agency of any other country described in Schedule II, as updated by the Grantors from time to time), and all reissues, divisions, continuations, continuations in part and extensions or renewals thereof.

Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary other than a Foreign Subsidiary.

Enforcement Restrictions” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(i).

Event of Default” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a) of the Notes.

Excluded Accounts” means (a) any deposit accounts or securities accounts that are maintained by any Grantor exclusively for one or more of the purposes described in the following clauses: (i) disbursements and payments for payroll, healthcare and other employee wage and benefit accounts in the ordinary course of business, (ii) tax accounts related to Taxes required to be collected, remitted or withheld (including, federal and state withholding taxes) (with respect to clauses (a)(i) and (a)(ii), the aggregate balance in such accounts shall not exceed the total amount estimated by the Grantors in good faith to be payable in the following thirty (30) days from such accounts), (iii) fiduciary, trust or escrow accounts held for another Person (other than a Grantor or Affiliate) in the ordinary course of business; (iv) accounts holding deposits made by customers to secure orders placed with any Grantor pursuant to a written agreement; (v) accounts holding cash or cash equivalents required to be restricted in favor of any of the Company’s financing partners pending the perfection of such financing partners’ liens on vehicles financed for the benefit of third party purchasers by such financing partners; and (vi) accounts maintained to satisfy minimum capital requirements imposed by Governmental Authorities in countries other than the United States only to the extent and for so long as such requirement is in effect and (b) deposit accounts or securities accounts holding cash or cash equivalents pledged to secure or that are otherwise restricted to support reimbursement obligations of a Grantor with respect to letters of credit, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments.

Excluded Property” means (a) any governmental licenses or state or local franchises, charters and authorizations to the extent the grant of a security interest is prohibited or restricted thereby (except to the extent such prohibition or restriction is ineffective under the Code or other applicable law) other than proceeds and receivables thereof the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under the Code or other applicable law notwithstanding such prohibition; (b) any property or assets as to which pledges thereof or security interests therein are prohibited or restricted by applicable law (including any requirement to obtain the consent of any (x) Governmental Authority or (y) similar regulatory third party, in each case, except to the extent such consent has been obtained) after giving effect to the applicable anti-assignment provisions of the Code and other applicable law (provided that such property shall be Excluded Property only to the extent and for so long as such prohibition is in effect); (c) any lease, license or other contract or agreement or any property or assets subject to an agreement binding on and relating to such property at the time of acquisition thereof (and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition), to the extent that a grant of a Lien therein would violate or invalidate, such lease, license or other contract or agreement or create a right of termination or right of acceleration in favor of any party (other than the Company or any

 

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of its Subsidiaries) thereto or otherwise require consent (other than the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) thereunder (after giving effect to the applicable anti-assignment provisions of the Code or other applicable law) other than proceeds and receivables thereof; (d) any Excluded Accounts; (e) any intent-to-use trademark application prior to the filing of a “Statement of Use” or “Amendment to Allege Use” with respect thereto, solely during the period, if any, in which the grant of a security interest therein may impair the validity or enforceability of such intent-to-use trademark application under applicable federal law; (f) any property subject to a purchase money arrangement or finance lease that is permitted or not otherwise prohibited by the terms of any Transaction Document to the extent that a grant of a security interest therein would violate or invalidate such purchase money arrangement or finance lease or create a right of termination in favor of any other party thereto (other than the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) after giving effect to the applicable anti-assignment provisions of the UCC and other applicable law, other than proceeds and receivables thereof the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under the Code or other applicable law notwithstanding such prohibition; (g) the portion of the voting Capital Stock of any Foreign Subsidiary (other than a Grantor) in excess of 65% of the issued and outstanding voting Capital Stock of such Foreign Subsidiary to the extent that at any time the pledging of more than 65% of the total outstanding voting Capital Stock of such Foreign Subsidiary would result in a material adverse tax consequence to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; and (h) any “margin stock”, as such term is defined in Regulation U promulgated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, “Excluded Property” shall not include any proceeds, products, substitutions or replacements of any “Excluded Property” (unless such proceeds, substitutions or replacements would constitute “Excluded Property”). Immediately upon the ineffectiveness, lapse or termination of each restriction or condition set forth in the definition of “Excluded Property” that prevented the grant of a security interest in any right, interest or other asset that would have, but for such restriction or condition, constituted Collateral, the Collateral shall include, and the relevant Grantor shall be deemed to have automatically granted a security interest in, such previously restricted or conditioned right, interest or other asset, as the case may be, as if such restriction or condition had never been in effect.

Foreign Collateral Actions” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(m).

Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of a Grantor organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States, any of the states thereof, Puerto Rico or the District of Columbia.

GAAP” means U.S. generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied.

Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any Federal, state, city, town, municipality, county, local, foreign or other political subdivision thereof or thereto and any department, commission, board, bureau, court, tribunal, instrumentality, agency or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government.

Guaranteed Obligations” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2 of the Guaranty.

Guarantor” or “Guarantors” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Guaranty” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Insolvency Proceeding” means any proceeding commenced by or against any Person under any provision of the Bankruptcy Code or under any other bankruptcy or insolvency law or law for the relief of debtors, any proceeding relating to assignments for the benefit of creditors, formal or informal moratoria, compositions, or extensions generally with creditors, or any proceeding seeking reorganization, arrangement, or other similar relief.

 

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Intellectual Property” means, collectively, all intellectual property rights and assets, and all rights, interests and protections that are associated with, similar to, or required for the exercise of, any of the foregoing, however arising, under the applicable laws of any jurisdiction throughout the world, whether registered or unregistered, including, without limitation, any and all: (a) Trademarks; (b) internet domain names, whether or not trademarks, registered in any top-level domain by any authorized private registrar or Governmental Authority, web addresses, web pages, websites and related content; (c) accounts with YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and other social media companies and the content found thereon (to the extent that such accounts and content are transferable pursuant to the terms, conditions, and policies of each applicable social media platform); (d) Copyrights; (e) Patents; (f) Software and (g) Trade Secrets.

Intellectual Property Security Agreement” means the Intellectual Property Security Agreement required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6(h)(i) of this Agreement, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.

Investor” or “Investors” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Joinder Agreement” means an agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B.

Licenses” means, collectively, the Copyright Licenses, the Trademark Licenses and the Patent Licenses, and all other Intellectual Property licenses or sublicense agreements to which any Grantor is a party, together with any and all (i) renewals, extensions, supplements and continuations thereof, (ii) income, fees, royalties, damages, claims and payments now and hereafter due and/or payable thereunder or with respect thereto including damages and payments for past, present or future infringements or violations thereof, and (iii) rights to sue for past, present and future violations thereof.

Lien” means any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest, adverse claim or other encumbrance upon or in any property or assets.

Material Adverse Effect” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Securities Purchase Agreement.

Non-Grantor Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Company that is not a Grantor.

Noteholders” means, at any time, the holders of the Notes at such time.

Notes” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Obligations” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4 of this Agreement.

Paid in Full” or “Payment in Full” means the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all of the Obligations.

Patent Licenses” means all licenses, contracts or other agreements, whether written or oral, naming any Grantor as licensee or licensor and providing for the grant of any right to manufacture, use or sell any invention covered by any Patent.

Patents” means all domestic and foreign letters patent, design patents, utility patents, industrial designs, and inventions, now existing or hereafter acquired (including, without limitation, all domestic and foreign letters patent, design patents, utility patents, industrial designs, and inventions), all applications, registrations and recordings thereof (including, without limitation, applications, registrations and recordings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, or in any similar office or agency of the United States or any other country or any political subdivision thereof described in Schedule II hereto, as updated by the Grantors from time to time), and all reissues, reexaminations, divisions, continuations, continuations in part and extensions or renewals thereof.

 

 

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Perfection Requirements” means: (a) the filing under the Code in the applicable jurisdiction of the financing statements described in Schedule V hereto, (b) with respect to any Collateral constituting Registered Intellectual Property, the recording in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office of the appropriate Intellectual Property Security Agreement, (c) with respect to all Pledged Accounts (other than Excluded Accounts), and all cash and other property from time to time deposited or carried therein or credited thereto, the execution of a Controlled Account Agreement with the depository, securities intermediary or commodity intermediary with which the applicable Pledged Accounts are maintained, as provided in Section 6(i), (d) with respect to any Collateral constituting Letter- of-Credit Rights, the consent of the issuer of the applicable letter of credit to the assignment of proceeds of such letter of credit, (e) with respect to any Collateral constituting uncertificated securities, the applicable Grantor causing the issuer thereof either (i) to register the Collateral Agent as the registered owner of such securities or (ii) to agree in an authenticated record with such Grantor and the Collateral Agent that such issuer will comply with instructions with respect to such securities originated by the Collateral Agent without further consent of such Grantor, such authenticated record to be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, (f) with respect to any Collateral constituting certificated securities, the acquisition by the Collateral Agent, or by another person on behalf of the Collateral Agent, of the security certificates evidencing such certificated securities, indorsed to such Person in blank or by an effective indorsement, (g) with respect to any Collateral constituting Electronic Chattel Paper, the Collateral Agent obtaining “control” of such Electronic Chattel Paper within the meaning of Section 9-105 of the Code; (h) with respect to any Collateral constituting Documents, Chattel Paper (other than Electronic Chattel Paper), or Instruments, the Collateral Agent obtaining possession of such Collateral and (i) with respect to the assets or Capital Stock of any Foreign Subsidiary, the Foreign Collateral Actions.

Permitted Liens” shall have the meaning set forth in the Notes.

Person” means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, joint venture or other enterprise or entity or Governmental Authority.

Pledged Accounts” means (a) all of each Grantor’s right, title and interest in all of its Deposit Accounts, Commodity Accounts and Securities Accounts and all Security Entitlements with respect thereto; and (b) all right, title and interest of each Non-Grantor Subsidiary in any Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts and all Security Entitlements with respect thereto that have been or will be pledged by such Non-Grantor Subsidiary to the Collateral Agent to secure the Obligations (including those listed on Schedule IV attached hereto), but in each case excluding any Excluded Accounts.

Pledged Collateral” shall have the meaning set forth in Section Error! Reference source not found..

Pledged Debt” shall have the meaning set forth in Section Error! Reference source not found..

Pledged Entity” means, each Person listed from time to time on Schedule IV hereto as a “Pledged Entity,” together with each other Person, any right in or interest in or to all or a portion of whose Securities or Capital Stock is acquired or otherwise owned by a Grantor after the date hereof.

Pledged Equity” means all of each Grantor’s right, title and interest in and to all of the Capital Stock now or hereafter owned by such Grantor (including, without limitation, those interests listed opposite the name of such Grantor on Schedule IV, but excluding Financial Assets credited to any Securities Account and any Security Entitlements with respect thereto), regardless of class or designation, including all substitutions therefor and replacements thereof, all proceeds thereof and all rights relating thereto, all

 

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certificates representing such Capital Stock, the right to receive any certificates representing any of such Capital Stock, all warrants, options, subscription, share appreciation rights and other rights, contractual or otherwise, in respect thereof, and the right to receive dividends, distributions of income, profits, surplus, or other compensation by way of income or liquidating distributions, in cash or in kind, and cash, instruments, and other property from time to time received, receivable, or otherwise distributed in respect of or in addition to, in substitution of, on account of, or in exchange for any or all of the foregoing; provided, that “Pledged Equity” shall not include any Excluded Property.

Pledged Operating Agreements” means all of each Grantor’s rights, powers and remedies under the limited liability company operating agreements of each of the Pledged Entities that is a limited liability company, as may be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or replaced from time to time.

Pledged Partnership Agreements” means all of each Grantor’s rights, powers, and remedies under the general or limited partnership agreements of each of the Pledged Entities that is a general or limited partnership, as may be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or replaced from time to time.

Pledged Securities” means any Promissory Notes, stock certificates, limited liability membership interests or other Securities, certificates or Instruments now or hereafter included in the Pledged Collateral, including all Pledged Equity, Pledged Debt and all other certificates, instruments or other documents representing or evidencing any Pledged Collateral.

Principal Market” means the New York Stock Exchange.

Registered Copyrights” means all Copyrights registered or applied for with or recorded in the United States Copyright Office or in any similar office or agency of any other country.

Registered Intellectual Property” means, collectively, the Registered Copyrights, the Registered Patents and the Registered Trademarks.

Registered Patents” means all Patents registered or applied for with or recorded in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of any other country.

Registered Trademarks” means all Trademarks registered or applied for with or recorded in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of any other country.

Required Holders” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Securities Purchase Agreement.

Securities Purchase Agreement” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Software” means all computer programs, object code, source code and supporting documentation, including, without limitation, “software” as such term is defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the date hereof in the State of New York and computer programs that may be construed as included in the definition of “goods” in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the date hereof in the State of New York, including any licensed rights to Software, and all media that may contain Software or recorded data of any kind.

Subsidiary” means any Person in which a Grantor directly or indirectly, (i) owns a majority of the outstanding Capital Stock of such Person or (ii) controls or operates all or any part of the business, operations or administration of such Person, and all of the foregoing, collectively, “Subsidiaries”.

 

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Taxes” means all present and future taxes, levies, deductions, withholdings, assessments, fees and other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest applicable thereto.

Trade Secrets” means any trade secrets or other proprietary and confidential information, including unpatented inventions, invention disclosures, engineering or other technical data, financial data, procedures, know-how, designs, personal information, supplier lists, customer lists, business, production or marketing plans, formulae, methods (whether or not patentable), processes, compositions, schematics, ideas, algorithms, techniques, analyses, proposals, source code, object code, data collection, rights of publicity and any other general intangibles of like nature.

Trademark Licenses” means all licenses, contracts or other agreements, whether written or oral, naming any Grantor as licensor or licensee and providing for the grant of any right concerning any Trademark, together with any goodwill connected with and symbolized by any such licenses, contracts or agreements and the right to prepare for sale or lease and sell or lease any and all Inventory now or hereafter owned by any Grantor and now or hereafter covered by such licenses, contracts or agreements.

Trademarks” means all domestic and foreign trademarks, service marks, collective marks, certification marks, trade names, business names, d/b/a’s, assumed names, Internet domain names, trade styles, designs, logos and other source or business identifiers and all general intangibles of like nature, now or hereafter owned, adopted, acquired or used by any Grantor (including, without limitation, all domestic and foreign trademarks, service marks, collective marks, certification marks, trade names, business names, d/b/a’s, assumed names, Internet domain names, trade styles, designs, logos and other source or business identifiers), all applications, registrations and recordings thereof (including, without limitation, the applications, registrations and recordings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of any other country described in Schedule II, as updated by the Grantors from time to time), and all reissues, extensions or renewals thereof, together with all goodwill of the business symbolized by such marks and all customer lists, formulae and other Records of any Grantor relating to the distribution of products and services in connection with which any of such marks are used.

Transaction Documents” means, collectively, the Securities Purchase Agreement, this Agreement, the Notes, the Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions, the Voting Agreement, the Guaranty, the Security Documents and each of the other agreements and instruments entered into or delivered by any of the parties hereto in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby including in connection with any Foreign Collateral Action, as may be amended from time to time.

Transfer Cut-Off Time” means, on any Business Day, the latest time on which a transfer of cash or Cash Equivalents may be made by wire, book-entry transfer, automated clearing house or other electronic means from one Controlled Account to another Controlled Account may be made in order for such cash or Cash Equivalents to be shown by the applicable Controlled Account Bank as available in or credited to the receiving Controlled Account on such Business Day.

SECTION 2 Pledge of Pledged Collateral.

(a) As collateral security for due and punctual payment and performance in full of the Obligations, as and when due, each Grantor hereby assigns and pledges to the Collateral Agent, and hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Collateral Agent and the Noteholders, and subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, a continuing Lien on and security interest in all of such Grantor’s right, title and interest in, to and under all of the following, wherever located and whether now or hereafter existing and whether now owned or hereafter acquired: (i) the Pledged Equity; (ii) all Promissory Notes, and other Instruments evidencing debt now owned or at any time hereafter acquired by it (including, without limitation, those listed opposite the name of such Grantor on Schedule IV, but excluding any Excluded Property) (the “Pledged Debt”); (iii) subject to Section 2(g) and 2(h), all payments of principal or interest, dividends, distributions, cash, Securities, Instruments and other property from time to time received,

 

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receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of, in exchange for or upon the conversion of, and all other Proceeds received in respect of, the Pledged Equity and the Pledged Debt; (iv) all rights and privileges of such Grantor with respect to the Securities and other property referred to in clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) above; and (v) all Proceeds of any of the foregoing (the items referred to in clauses (i) through (v) above being collectively referred to as the “Pledged Collateral”); provided that the Pledged Collateral shall not include any item referred to in clauses (i) through (v) above if, for so long as and to the extent such item constitutes Excluded Property.

(b) No later than the fifth (5th) Business Day following (x) the date of this Agreement (in the case of any Grantor that party to this Agreement on the date hereof) or (y) the date on which it becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 6(m) (in the case of any other Grantor), each Grantor shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Collateral Agent any and all Pledged Securities (other than any Uncertificated Securities, but only for so long as such Securities remain uncertificated) to the extent such Pledged Securities, in the case of Promissory Notes and other Instruments evidencing debt, are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 2(c). Thereafter, whenever such Grantor acquires any other Pledged Security (other than any Uncertificated Securities, but only for so long as such Uncertificated Securities remain uncertificated), such Grantor shall promptly, and in any event within 30 days (or such longer period as the Collateral Agent may agree to in writing), deliver or cause to be delivered to the Collateral Agent such Pledged Security as Collateral hereunder to the extent such Pledged Securities, in the case of Promissory Notes and Instruments evidencing debt, are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 2(c).

(c) Each Grantor will cause each Promissory Note or Instrument constituting Collateral to be pledged and delivered to the Collateral Agent (i) no later than the fifth (5th) Business Day following (x) the date of this Agreement (in the case of any Grantor that party to this Agreement on the date hereof) or (y) the date on which it becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 6(m) (in the case of any other Grantor), in the case of any such debt existing on such date or (ii) on the next Collateral Reporting Date that is at least 30 days after the acquisition thereof, in the case of any such Promissory Note or Instrument acquired by a Grantor after the date hereof (or after the date such Grantor becomes party to this Agreement), in each case pursuant to the terms hereof.

(d) Upon delivery to the Collateral Agent, any Pledged Securities required to be delivered pursuant to Section Error! Reference source not found. and/or 2(c) shall be accompanied by undated stock or note powers duly executed by the applicable Grantor in blank or other instruments of transfer reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and by such other instruments and documents as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request in order to effect the transfer of such Pledged Securities. Each delivery of Pledged Securities or other Pledged Collateral shall be accompanied by a schedule describing such Pledged Securities or Pledged Collateral, as the case may be, which schedule shall be deemed to supplement Schedule IV and be made a part hereof; provided that failure to attach any such schedule hereto shall not affect the validity of such pledge of such Pledged Securities. Each schedule so delivered shall supplement any prior schedules so delivered.

(e) The assignment, pledge, Lien and security interest granted in Section Error! Reference source not found. are granted as security only and shall not subject the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder to, or in any way alter or modify, any obligation or liability of any Grantor with respect to or arising out of the Pledged Collateral.

(f) Subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, if an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing and, other than in the case of a Bankruptcy Event of Default, the Collateral Agent shall have notified the Borrower in writing of its exercise of such rights, (a) the Collateral Agent, shall have the right (in its sole and absolute discretion) to cause each of the Pledged Securities to be transferred of record into the name of the Collateral Agent or into the name of its nominee (as pledgee or as sub-agent) or the name of the applicable Grantor, endorsed or assigned in blank or in favor of the Collateral Agent and (b) to the

 

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extent permitted by the documentation governing such Pledged Securities and applicable law, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to exchange the certificates representing Pledged Securities for certificates of smaller or larger denominations for any purpose consistent with this Agreement. Each Grantor will take any and all actions reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent to facilitate compliance with this Section 2(f).

(g) Subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, unless and until an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and, other than in the case of a Bankruptcy Event of Default, the Collateral Agent shall have notified the Grantors in writing that the rights of the Grantors under this Section 2(g) are suspended:

(i) Each Grantor shall be entitled to exercise any and all voting and/or other consensual rights and powers inuring to an owner of Pledged Collateral or any part thereof for any purpose consistent with or not otherwise prohibited by the terms of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents.

(ii) The Collateral Agent shall promptly execute and deliver to each Grantor, or cause to be executed and delivered to such Grantor, all such proxies, powers of attorney and other instruments as such Grantor may reasonably request in writing for the purpose of enabling such Grantor to exercise the voting and/or consensual rights and powers it is entitled to exercise pursuant to Section 2(g)(i), in each case as shall be specified in such request.

(iii) Each Grantor shall be entitled to receive and retain any and all dividends, interest, principal and other distributions paid on or distributed in respect of the Pledged Collateral, to the extent (and only to the extent) that such dividends, interest, principal and other distributions are permitted by, the other Transaction Documents and applicable laws; provided that any noncash dividends, interest, principal or other distributions that would constitute Pledged Equity or Pledged Debt, whether resulting from a subdivision, combination or reclassification of the outstanding equity interests of the issuer of any Pledged Securities or received in exchange for Pledged Securities or any part thereof, or in redemption thereof, or as a result of any merger, consolidation, acquisition or other exchange of assets to which such issuer may be a party or otherwise, shall be and become part of the Pledged Collateral, and, if received by any Grantor, shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and shall, to the extent required by Section Error! Reference source not found. and/or 2(c) be forthwith delivered to the Collateral Agent in the same form as so received (with any necessary endorsement or documents set forth in Section 2(d) or as otherwise reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent). So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Collateral Agent shall promptly deliver to each Grantor any Pledged Securities in its possession if requested to be delivered to the issuer thereof in connection with any exchange or redemption of such Pledged Securities.

(h) Subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default and, other than in the case of a Bankruptcy Event of Default, after the Collateral Agent shall have notified the Grantors in writing of the suspension of the rights of the Grantors under Section 2(g)(iii), all rights of any Grantor to dividends, interest, principal or other distributions that such Grantor is authorized to receive pursuant to Section 2(g)(iii) shall cease, and all such rights shall thereupon become vested in the Collateral Agent, which shall have the sole and exclusive right and authority to receive and retain such dividends, interest, principal or other distributions as part of the Pledged Collateral, subject to Section 2(k) and the last sentence of this Section 2(h). All dividends, interest, principal or other distributions received by any Grantor contrary to the provisions of Section 2(g) or this Section 2(h) shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and shall be forthwith delivered to the Collateral Agent upon demand in the same form as so received (with any necessary endorsement reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent). Any and all money and other property paid over to or received by the Collateral

 

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Agent pursuant to the provisions of Section 2(g) and/or this Section 2(h) shall be retained by the Collateral Agent in an account to be established by the Collateral Agent upon receipt of such money or other property, shall be held as security for the payment and performance of the Obligations and shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of Section 8. After all Events of Default have been cured or waived, and the Grantors have delivered to the Collateral Agent a certificate of an executive officer to such effect, the Collateral Agent shall promptly repay to each Grantor (without interest) all dividends, interest, principal or other distributions that such Grantor would otherwise be permitted to retain pursuant to the terms of Section 2(g)(iii) in the absence of an Event of Default and that remain in such account.

(i) Subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default and, other than in the case of a Bankruptcy Event of Default, after the Collateral Agent shall have notified the Grantors in writing of the suspension of the rights of the Grantors under Section 2(g)(i), all rights of any Grantor to exercise the voting and consensual rights and powers it is entitled to exercise pursuant to Section 2(g)(i), and the obligations of the Collateral Agent under Section 2(g)(ii), shall cease, and all such rights shall thereupon become vested in the Collateral Agent, which shall have the sole and exclusive right and authority to exercise such voting and consensual rights and powers subject to Section 2(k) and the last sentence of this Section 2(i); provided that, the Collateral Agent shall have the right from time to time following and during the continuance of an Event of Default to permit the Grantors to exercise such rights. After all Events of Default have been cured or waived, and the Grantors have delivered to the Collateral Agent a certificate of an executive officer to such effect, each Grantor shall have the exclusive right to exercise the voting and/or consensual rights and powers that such Grantor would otherwise be entitled to exercise pursuant to the terms of Section 2(g)(i), and the obligations of the Collateral Agent under Section 2(g)(ii) shall be reinstated.

(j) Any notice given by the Collateral Agent to the Grantors under Section 2(f) or Section 2(g) (i) may be given by telephone if promptly confirmed in writing, (ii) may be given with respect to one or more of the Grantors at the same or different times and (iii) may suspend the rights of the Grantors under Section 2(g)(i) or 2(g)(iii) in part without suspending all such rights (as specified by the Collateral Agent in its sole and absolute discretion) and without waiving or otherwise affecting the Collateral Agent’s rights to give additional notices from time to time suspending other rights so long as an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

(k) Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed to make the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder liable as a member of any limited liability company or as a partner of any partnership, and neither the Collateral Agent nor any Noteholder by virtue of this Agreement or otherwise (except as referred to in the following sentence) shall have any of the duties, obligations or liabilities of a member of any limited liability company or as a partner in any partnership. The parties hereto expressly agree that, unless the Collateral Agent shall become the absolute owner of Pledged Equity consisting of a limited liability company interest or a partnership interest pursuant hereto, this Agreement shall not be construed as creating a partnership or joint venture among the Collateral Agent, any Noteholder, any Grantor and/or any other Person.

 

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SECTION 3 Grant of Security Interest

(a) As collateral security for the due and punctual payment and performance in full of the Obligations, as and when due, each Grantor hereby pledges and assigns to the Collateral Agent, and hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Collateral Agent and the Noteholders, a continuing Lien on and security interest in, all of such Grantor’s right, title and interest in, to and under all personal property and assets of such Grantor, wherever located and whether now or hereafter existing and whether now owned or hereafter acquired, of every kind, nature and description, whether tangible or intangible (together with the Pledged Collateral, the “Collateral”), including, without limitation, the following:

(i) all Accounts;

(ii) all Chattel Paper (whether tangible or Electronic Chattel Paper);

(iii) all Commercial Tort Claims, including, without limitation, those specified on Schedule VI hereto;

(iv) all Documents;

(v) all Equipment;

(vi) all Fixtures;

(vii) all General Intangibles (including, without limitation, all Payment Intangibles);

(viii) all Goods;

(ix) all Instruments;

(x) all Inventory;

(xi) all Investment Property (and, regardless of whether classified as Investment Property under the Code, all Pledged Equity, Pledged Operating Agreements and Pledged Partnership Agreements);

(xii) all Intellectual Property and all Licenses;

(xiii) all Letter-of-Credit Rights;

(xiv) all Pledged Accounts, all cash and other property from time to time deposited therein, including without limitation all Financial Assets and all Security Entitlements with respect thereto and all monies and property in the possession or under the control of the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder or any Affiliate, representative, agent or correspondent of the Collateral Agent or any such Noteholder;

(xv) all Supporting Obligations;

(xvi) all other tangible and intangible personal property of each Grantor (whether or not subject to the Code), including, without limitation, all Deposit Accounts and other accounts and all cash and all investments therein, all proceeds, products, accessions, rents, profits, income, benefits, substitutions and replacements of and to any of the property of any Grantor described in the preceding clauses of this Section 3(a) (including, without limitation, any proceeds of insurance thereon and all causes of action, claims and warranties now or hereafter held by each Grantor in respect of any of the items listed above), and all books, correspondence, files and other Records, including, without limitation, all tapes, desks, cards, Software, data and computer programs in the possession or under the control of any Grantor or any other Person from time to time acting for any Grantor, in each case, to the extent of such Grantor’s rights therein, that at any time evidence or contain information relating to any of the property described in the preceding clauses of this Section 3(a) or are otherwise necessary or helpful in the collection or realization thereof; and

(xvii) all Proceeds, including all Cash Proceeds and Noncash Proceeds, and products of any and all of the foregoing Collateral; in each case howsoever any Grantor’s interest therein may arise or appear (whether by ownership, security interest, claim or otherwise).

 

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(b) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the term “Collateral” shall not include any Excluded Property.

SECTION 4 Security for Obligations. The Lien and security interest created hereby in the Collateral constitutes continuing collateral security for all of the following obligations, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, and whether now existing or hereafter incurred (collectively, the “Obligations”):

(a) (i) the payment by the Company and each other Grantor, as and when due and payable (by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand or otherwise), of all amounts from time to time owing by it in respect of the Securities Purchase Agreement, this Agreement, the Notes and the other Transaction Documents, and (ii) in the case of the Guarantors, the payment by such Guarantors, as and when due and payable of all Guaranteed Obligations under the Guaranties, including, without limitation, in both cases, (A) all principal of, interest, make-whole and other amounts on the Notes (including, without limitation, all interest, make-whole and other amounts that accrues after the commencement of any Insolvency Proceeding of any Grantor, whether or not the payment of such interest is enforceable or is allowable in such Insolvency Proceeding), and (B) all fees, interest, premiums, penalties, contract causes of action, costs, commissions, expense reimbursements, indemnifications and all other amounts due or to become due under this Agreement or any of the Transaction Documents; and

(b) the due and punctual performance and observance by each Grantor of all of its other obligations from time to time existing in respect of any of the Transaction Documents, including without limitation, with respect to any conversion or redemption rights of the Noteholders under the Notes.

SECTION 5 Representations and Warranties. Each Grantor represents and warrants as follows:

(a) Schedule I hereto sets forth (i) the exact legal name of each Grantor, and (ii) the jurisdiction of incorporation, organization or formation and the organizational identification number (if any) of each Grantor in such jurisdiction. The information set forth in Schedule I hereto with respect to such Grantor is true and accurate in all respects. Such Grantor has not changed its name (or operated under any other name), jurisdiction of organization or organizational identification number prior to the date of this Agreement from those set forth in Schedule I hereto except as disclosed in Schedule I hereto.

(b) There is no pending or, to its knowledge, written notice threatening any action, suit, proceeding or claim affecting any Grantor before any Governmental Authority or any arbitrator, or any order, judgment or award issued by any Governmental Authority or arbitrator, in each case, that may adversely affect the grant by any Grantor, or the perfection, of the Lien and security interest purported to be created hereby in the Collateral, or the exercise by the Collateral Agent of any of its rights or remedies hereunder.

(c) All Federal, state and material local tax returns and other material reports required by applicable law to be filed by any Grantor have been filed, or extensions have been obtained, and all taxes, assessments and other governmental charges or levies imposed upon any Grantor or any property of any Grantor (including, without limitation, all federal income and social security taxes on employees’ wages) that are material in amount and which have become due and payable on or prior to the date hereof have been paid, except to the extent contested in good faith by proper proceedings which stay the imposition of any penalty, fine or Lien resulting from the non-payment thereof and with respect to which adequate reserves have been set aside for the payment thereof in accordance with GAAP.

 

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(d) All Equipment, Fixtures, Inventory and other Goods of each Grantor are located at the addresses specified therefor in Schedule II hereto, excluding (i) [reserved], (ii) [reserved], and (iii) assets that are in transit to (x) any of the locations described on Schedule II, (y) [reserved], or (z) any customer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; provided, that Schedule II shall also reflect finished Inventory located at any warehouses or distribution centers pending delivery to customers. Each Grantor’s principal place of business and chief executive office, the place where each Grantor keeps its Records concerning the Collateral and all originals of all Chattel Paper evidencing obligations in which any Grantor has any right, title or interest are located at the addresses specified therefor in Schedule II hereto.

(e) Set forth in Schedule IV hereto is a complete and accurate list, as of the date of this Agreement, of (i) all Pledged Debt, specifying the debtor thereof and the outstanding principal amount thereof as of the date of this Agreement, in which any Grantor has any right, title or interest, (ii) each Deposit Account and Securities Account of each Grantor and each Pledged Account of each applicable Non-Grantor Subsidiary, together with the name and country of each institution at which each such account is maintained, the account number for each such account, a description of the purpose of each such account and, in the case of each Deposit Account and Securities Account of a Grantor, whether such account is an Excluded Account (and, in the case of any such account that is an Excluded Account, the relevant clause(s) in the definition of “Excluded Account” that are applicable to such account). Set forth in Schedule II hereto is a complete and correct list of each trade name used by each Grantor. All of the Pledged Debt, to the best of the Grantors’ knowledge (provided that no such knowledge qualification applies to Pledged Debt issued by a Grantor or a Subsidiary), is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the issuer thereof, enforceable against such issuer in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity or applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation or similar laws relating to, or affecting generally, the enforcement of applicable creditors’ rights and remedies.

(f) [Reserved]

(g) Each Grantor owns and controls, or otherwise possesses adequate rights to use, all of its Intellectual Property and Licenses necessary to conduct its business in substantially the same manner as conducted as of the date hereof. Schedule II hereto sets forth a true and complete list of all Registered Intellectual Property owned or used by each Grantor as of the date hereof. Except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect, all Intellectual Property of such Grantor is subsisting and in full force and effect, has not been adjudged invalid or unenforceable, is valid and enforceable and has not been abandoned in whole or in part. Except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect (i) each Grantor is not now infringing or in conflict with any Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Trade Secret or other intellectual property rights or similar rights of others, and (ii) no other Person is now infringing or in conflict in any material respect with any such properties, assets and rights owned or used by each Grantor. No Grantor has received any written, or the knowledge of the Grantor, oral notice that it is violating or has violated the Trademarks, Patents, Copyrights, inventions, Trade Secrets, proprietary information and technology, know-how, formulae, rights of publicity or other intellectual property rights of any third party.

(h) Each Grantor is and will be at all times the sole and exclusive owner of, or will otherwise have rights to, the Collateral in which such Grantor has granted a Lien and security interest hereunder free and clear of any Liens, except for (i) Permitted Liens thereon and (ii) certain Intellectual Property rights of the Company which is jointly owned by the Company with certain third parties. No effective financing statement or other instrument similar in effect covering all or any part of the Collateral is on file in any recording or filing office except such as may have been filed in favor of the Collateral Agent and/or the Noteholders relating to this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents, or are intended to perfect Permitted Liens.

 

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(i) The exercise by the Collateral Agent of any of its rights and remedies hereunder will not contravene any law or contractual restriction binding on or otherwise affecting any Grantor or any of its properties other than restrictions arising under (x) any governmental license or state or local franchise, charter or authorizations, (y) any law or (y) any contract, in each case, to the extent described in clauses (a) through (c) of the definition of “Excluded Property” (disregarding for purposes of this subsection (i) any anti-assignment or override provision under the Code or other applicable law) (any such restrictions, “Enforcement Restrictions”) and will not result in or require the creation of any Lien upon or with respect to any of its properties other than as granted pursuant to this Agreement.

(j) No authorization or approval or other action by or with, and no notice to or filing with (except as provided in Section 7), any Governmental Authority or any other Person, is required under the Code for (i) the grant by each Grantor, or the perfection, of the Lien and security interest purported to be created hereby in the Collateral, or (ii) the exercise by the Collateral Agent of any of its rights and remedies hereunder, except for (x) the filing under the Code in the applicable jurisdiction of the financing statements described in Schedule V hereto, (y) the performance of the Perfection Requirements and (z) the waiver of any applicable Enforcement Restrictions.

(k) This Agreement creates in favor of the Collateral Agent a legal, valid and enforceable Lien on and security interest in the Collateral, as security for the Obligations. The performance of the Perfection Requirements results in (and when performed in accordance with Section 7 shall result in) the perfection of such Lien on and security interest in the Collateral, to the extent that the Code governs perfection of such Lien and security interest. Such Lien and security interest is (or in the case of Collateral in which any Grantor obtains any right, title or interest after the date hereof, will be), subject only to Permitted Liens and the Perfection Requirements, a first priority, valid, enforceable and perfected Lien on and security interest in the Collateral, to the extent that the Code governs the creation and perfection of such Lien and security interest. The security interest granted herein shall have the priority set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement.

(l) As of the date of this Agreement, no Grantor holds any Commercial Tort Claims, or has knowledge of any pending Commercial Tort Claims, except for the Commercial Tort Claims described in Schedule VI.

(m) As of the date of this Agreement (i) all of the Pledged Equity is presently owned by the applicable Grantor as set forth in Schedule IV free and clear of all Liens other than Permitted Liens and, in the case of certificated securities, is presently represented by the certificates listed on Schedule IV hereto (if applicable); (ii) there are no existing options, warrants, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to the Pledged Equity other than as contemplated and permitted by the Transaction Documents; (iii) each Grantor is the sole holder of record or the sole beneficial owner of the Pledged Equity, as applicable; (iv) none of the Pledged Equity has been issued or transferred in violation of the securities registration, securities disclosure or similar laws of any jurisdiction to which such issuance or transfer may be subject; (v) the Pledged Equity constitutes 100% or such other percentage as set forth on Schedule IV of the issued and outstanding shares of Capital Stock of the applicable Pledged Entity; (vi) all of the Pledged Equity has been duly and validly authorized and issued by the issuer thereof and (vii) in the case of Pledged Equity constituting Capital Stock (other than Capital Stock consisting of limited liability company interests or partnership interests which, pursuant to the relevant organizational or formation documents, cannot be fully paid and non-assessable), is fully paid and non-assessable.

(n) Such Grantor (i) is a corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership or other legal entity, as applicable, duly organized, validly existing and in good standing (to the extent that the concept of good standing exists) under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, organization or formation, (ii) has all requisite corporate, limited liability company, limited partnership or other legal entity power and authority to conduct its business as now conducted and as presently contemplated and to execute and deliver this Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which such Grantor is a party, and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and (iii) is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing (to the extent that the concept of good standing exists) in each jurisdiction in which the character of the properties owned or leased by it or in which the transaction of its business makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(o) The execution, delivery and performance by each Grantor of this Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which such Grantor is a party (i) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, limited liability company, limited partnership or other legal entity action, (ii) do not and will not contravene its charter or by-laws, limited liability company or operating agreement, certificate of partnership or partnership agreement, or similar formation and organizational documents, as applicable, or any applicable law or any contractual restriction binding on such Grantor or its properties, (iii) do not and will not result in or require the creation of any Lien (other than pursuant to any Transaction Document) upon or with respect to any of its assets or properties, and (iv) do not and will not result in any default, noncompliance, suspension, revocation, impairment, forfeiture or nonrenewal of any permit, license, authorization or approval applicable to it or its operations or any of its assets or properties, except any default, noncompliance, suspension, revocation, impairment, forfeiture or nonrenewal that would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(p) This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by each Grantor and is the legal, valid and binding obligation of such Grantor, enforceable against such Grantor in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance, suretyship or other similar laws and equitable principles (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in equity or at law).

SECTION 6 Covenants as to the Collateral. Until all of the Obligations shall have been Paid in Full, unless the Collateral Agent shall otherwise consent in writing (in its sole and absolute discretion):

(a) Further Assurances. Each Grantor will, at its expense, at any time and from time to time, promptly execute and deliver all further instruments and documents and take all further action that the Collateral Agent may reasonably request in order to: (i) perfect and protect the Lien and security interest of the Collateral Agent created hereby; (ii) enable the Collateral Agent to exercise and enforce its rights and remedies hereunder in respect of the Collateral, including, without limitation, the Pledged Accounts; or (iii) otherwise effect the purposes of this Agreement; provided, however, that unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, no Grantor shall be required to take any action under this Section 6(a) to (A) obtain the consent or acknowledgment of any Person that is not a Subsidiary of the Company or a Controlled Account Bank, (B) comply with the Federal Assignment of Claims Act, (C) perfect the Collateral Agent’s Lien on any Collateral consisting of Goods covered by a Certificate of Title (except to the extent perfection can be attained by the filing of a financing statement under the Code), (D) perfect by possession the Collateral Agent’s Lien on any Collateral consisting of Goods or (E) unless reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent perfect or register the pledge of shares of Capital Stock in any Foreign Subsidiary in accordance with the laws of the applicable foreign jurisdiction.

(b) Location of Collateral. Each Grantor will keep the Collateral constituting Equipment, Fixtures, Inventory and other Goods of such Grantor at the locations specified therefor on Schedule II hereto (as such Schedule II will be updated in accordance with this Section 6(b)), excluding (i) [reserved], (i) [reserved], (iii) assets that are in transit to (x) any of the locations described on Schedule II (as such Schedule II will be updated in accordance with this Section 6(b)), (y) [reserved], or (z) any customer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; provided that Schedule II shall also reflect the finished Inventory located at any warehouses or distribution centers pending delivery to customers. On each Collateral Reporting Date, each Grantor shall deliver to the Collateral Agent an updated Schedule II setting forth where any Collateral constituting Equipment, Fixtures, Inventory and other Goods of such Grantor (other than Collateral described in the exclusions to the immediately preceding sentence) is located as of a date that is no earlier than five (5) Business Days prior to such Collateral Reporting Date.

 

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(c) Condition of Equipment. Each Grantor will maintain or cause to be maintained and preserved in good condition, repair and working order, ordinary wear and tear excepted, the Equipment necessary or useful to its business.

(d) Taxes, Etc. Each Grantor agrees to pay promptly when due all property and other taxes, assessments and governmental charges or levies imposed upon, and all claims (including claims for labor, materials and supplies) against, the Equipment and Inventory, except to the extent the validity thereof is being contested in good faith by proper proceedings which stay the imposition of any penalty, fine or Lien resulting from the non-payment thereof and with respect to which adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP have been set aside for the payment thereof.

(e) Insurance.

(i) Each Grantor will, at its own expense, maintain insurance (including, without limitation, comprehensive general liability, hazard, rent and business interruption insurance) with respect to its properties (including all real properties leased or owned by it) and business, in such amounts and covering such risks, in such form and with responsible and reputable insurance companies or associations as is required by any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction with respect thereto or as is carried generally in accordance with sound business practice by companies in similar businesses similarly situated and in any event, in amount, adequacy and scope reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.

(ii) Each Grantor will, at its own expense, provide certificates of insurance, naming the Investor, as an additional insured party and/or lenders loss payee, as applicable. Any policy for general liability insurance shall provide for all losses to be paid on behalf of the Collateral Agent and any Grantor as their respective interests may appear, and each policy for property damage insurance shall provide for all losses to be adjusted with, and paid directly to, the Collateral Agent. In addition to and without limiting the foregoing, each such policy shall (A) name the Collateral Agent as an additional insured party and/or lenders loss payee, as applicable, thereunder (without any representation or warranty by or obligation upon the Collateral Agent) as its interests may appear, (B) contain an agreement by the insurer that any loss thereunder shall be payable to the Collateral Agent on its own account notwithstanding any action, inaction or breach of representation or warranty by any Grantor, (C) provide that there shall be no recourse against the Collateral Agent for payment of premiums or other amounts with respect thereto, and (D) provide that at least 30 days’ (or 10 days’ for non-payment of premium) prior written notice of cancellation, lapse, expiration or other adverse change shall be given to the Collateral Agent by the insurer. Any Grantor will, if so requested by the Collateral Agent, deliver to the Collateral Agent original or duplicate policies of such insurance (including certificates demonstrating compliance with this Section 6(e)). Any Grantor will also, at the request of the Collateral Agent, execute and deliver instruments of assignment of such insurance policies and cause the respective insurers to acknowledge notice of such assignment.

(iii) Reimbursement under any liability insurance maintained by any Grantor pursuant to this Section 6(e) may be paid directly to the Person who shall have incurred liability covered by such insurance. In the case of any loss involving damage to Equipment or Inventory, to the extent paragraph (iv) of this Section 6(e) is not applicable, any proceeds of insurance involving such damage shall be paid to the Collateral Agent, and any Grantor will make or cause to be made the necessary repairs to or replacements of such Equipment or Inventory, and any proceeds of insurance maintained by any Grantor pursuant to this Section 6(e) (except as otherwise provided in paragraph (iv) of this Section 6(e)) shall be paid by the Collateral Agent to any Grantor as reimbursement for the reasonable costs of such repairs or replacements.

 

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(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in subsection 6(e)(iii) above, following written notification by the Collateral Agent to the Grantors during the continuance of an Event of Default, all insurance payments in respect of each Grantor’s properties and business shall be paid to the Collateral Agent and applied as specified in Section 8(b) hereof.

(f) Provisions Concerning Name, Organization, Location, Accounts and Licenses.

(i) Each Grantor will (A) notify the Collateral Agent no later than ten (10) Business Days prior to the date of any change in such Grantor’s name, identity or organizational structure, (B) maintain its jurisdiction of incorporation, organization or formation as set forth in Schedule I hereto, and (C) keep adequate records concerning the Collateral and permit representatives of the Collateral Agent during normal business hours on reasonable notice to such Grantor, to inspect and make abstracts from such records; provided that unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Collateral Agent may not conduct more than once in any calendar year inspections under this Section 6(f)(i) and under Section 7.

(ii) The Collateral Agent shall have the right at any time following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default to notify the Account Debtors or obligors under any Accounts of the assignment of such Accounts to the Collateral Agent and to direct such Account Debtors or obligors to make payment of all amounts due or to become due to any Grantor thereunder directly to the Collateral Agent or its designated agent and, upon such notification and at the expense of any Grantor and to the extent permitted by applicable law, to enforce collection of any such Accounts and to adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment thereof, in the same manner and to the same extent as any Grantor might have done. After receipt by any Grantor of a notice from the Collateral Agent that the Collateral Agent has notified, intends to notify, or has enforced or intends to enforce any Grantor’s rights against the Account Debtors or obligors under any Accounts as referred to in the immediately preceding sentence, (A) all amounts and proceeds (including, without limitation, Instruments) received by any Grantor in respect of the Accounts shall be received in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent hereunder (for the ratable benefit of the Collateral Agent and the Noteholders), shall be segregated from other funds of any Grantor and shall be forthwith paid over to the Collateral Agent in the same form as so received (with any necessary endorsement) to be applied as specified in Section 8(b) hereof, and (B) no Grantor will adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment of any Account or release wholly or partly any Account Debtor or obligor thereof or allow any credit or discount thereon. In addition, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Collateral Agent may (in its sole and absolute discretion) direct any or all of the banks and financial institutions with which any Grantor either maintains a Pledged Account or a lockbox or deposits the proceeds of any Accounts to send immediately to the Collateral Agent by wire transfer (to such deposit account as the Collateral Agent shall specify, or in such other manner as the Collateral Agent shall direct) all or a portion of the cash, investments and other items held by such institution in such Pledged Account. Any such cash, investments and other items so received by the Collateral Agent shall be applied as specified in accordance with Section 8(b) hereof.

(g) Other Liens. No Grantor will create, suffer to exist or grant any Lien upon or with respect to any Collateral other than a Permitted Lien.

(h) Intellectual Property.

(i) If applicable, each Grantor shall duly execute and deliver the applicable Intellectual Property Security Agreement. Subject to the qualifiers below in this subsection 6(h)(i), each Grantor (either itself or through licensees) will, and will cause each licensee thereof to, take all action necessary to maintain all of the Intellectual Property in full force and effect, including, without limitation, using the proper statutory notices, numbers and markings (relating to patent, trademark and copyright rights) and using the Trademarks on each applicable trademark class of goods in order to so maintain the Trademarks in full force and free from any claim of abandonment for non-use, and each Grantor will not

 

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(nor permit any licensee thereof to) do any act or knowingly omit to do any act whereby any Intellectual Property may become abandoned, cancelled or invalidated; provided, however, that so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, no Grantor shall have an obligation to use or to maintain any Intellectual Property (A) that each Grantor in its reasonable business judgment determines is no longer needed for the operation of the business of each Grantor’s business, so long as no Material Adverse Effect will occur (B) that relates to any product or work, that is no longer necessary or material and has been, or is in the process of being, discontinued, abandoned or terminated in the ordinary course of business and consistent with the exercise of reasonable business judgment, (C) that is being replaced with Intellectual Property substantially similar to the Intellectual Property that may be abandoned or otherwise become invalid, so long as the failure to use or maintain such Intellectual Property does not materially adversely affect the validity of such replacement Intellectual Property and so long as such replacement Intellectual Property is subject to the Lien created by this Agreement and does not have a material adverse effect on the business of any Grantor or (D) that is substantially the same as other Intellectual Property that is in full force, so long as the failure to use or maintain such Intellectual Property does not materially adversely affect the validity of such replacement Intellectual Property and so long as such other Intellectual Property is subject to the Lien and security interest created by this Agreement and does not have a material adverse effect on the business of any Grantor. Subject to each Grantor’s reasonable business judgment, each Grantor will cause to be taken all necessary steps in any proceeding before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office or any similar office or agency in any other country or political subdivision thereof to maintain each registration of the Intellectual Property and application for registration of Intellectual Property (other than the Intellectual Property described in the proviso to the immediately preceding sentence), including, without limitation, filing of renewals, affidavits of use, affidavits of incontestability and opposition, interference and cancellation proceedings and payment of maintenance fees, filing fees, taxes or other governmental charges or fees. If any Intellectual Property (other than Intellectual Property described in the proviso to the second sentence of subsection (i) of this clause (h)) is infringed, misappropriated, diluted or otherwise violated in any material respect by a third party that would result in a Material Adverse Effect, each Grantor shall (x) upon learning of such infringement, misappropriation, dilution or other violation, promptly notify the Collateral Agent and (y) where deemed appropriate by each Grantor under the circumstances, promptly consider whether to sue for infringement, misappropriation, dilution or other violation, seek injunctive relief where appropriate and recover any and all damages for such infringement, misappropriation, dilution or other violation, or take such other actions as such Grantor shall deem appropriate under the circumstances to protect such Intellectual Property. On each Collateral Reporting Date, the Company shall furnish to the Collateral Agent an updated Schedule II hereto that sets forth all Registered Intellectual Property of the Grantors that has been registered or recorded with the applicable Governmental Authority as of a date that is no earlier than ten (10) Business Days prior to such Collateral Reporting Date and shall comply with such Perfection Requirements required hereunder to subject such Registered Intellectual Property (other than Excluded Property) to the Lien and security interest created by this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, no Grantor may abandon, surrender or cancel or otherwise permit any Intellectual Property to become abandoned, surrendered, cancelled or invalid without the prior written consent of the Collateral Agent (in its sole and absolute discretion), and if any Intellectual Property is infringed, misappropriated, diluted or otherwise violated in any material respect by a third party, each Grantor will take such reasonable action, as the Collateral Agent shall deem appropriate under the circumstances to protect such Intellectual Property.

(ii) Upon request of the Collateral Agent, any Grantor shall execute, authenticate and deliver any and all assignments, agreements, instruments, documents and papers as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request to complete the Perfection Requirements with respect to any Registered Intellectual Property (other than Excluded Property) of any Grantor, and each Grantor hereby appoints the Collateral Agent its attorney-in-fact to execute and/or authenticate and file all such writings for the foregoing purposes, all acts of such attorney being hereby ratified and confirmed, and such power (being coupled with an interest) shall be irrevocable until all Obligations are fully performed and Paid in Full.

 

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(i) Pledged Accounts. Each Grantor shall cause each bank and other financial institution which maintains a Pledged Account that is not an Excluded Account (each a “Controlled Account Bank”) to execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent a Controlled Account Agreement with respect to all Pledged Accounts maintained with such Controlled Account Bank pursuant to which such Controlled Account Bank shall agree, among other things, with respect to such Pledged Account, that (i) at any time after any Grantor, the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder shall have notified such Controlled Account Bank that an Event of Default has occurred or is continuing, such Controlled Account Bank will comply with any and all instructions originated by the Collateral Agent directing the disposition of the funds in such Controlled Account without further consent by such Grantor and (ii) at any time after the Collateral Agent shall have notified such Pledged Account Bank that an Event of Default has occurred or is continuing, such Pledged Account Bank shall not comply with any instructions, directions or orders of any form with respect to such Controlled Accounts other than instructions, directions or orders originated by the Collateral Agent.

(j) Reserved.

(k) Control. Each Grantor hereby agrees to take any or all action that may be necessary or that the Collateral Agent may reasonably request in order for the Collateral Agent to obtain “control” in accordance with Section 8-106 or Section 9-105 through Section 9-107 of the Code, as applicable, with respect Collateral consisting of (i) Investment Property (ii) Electronic Chattel Paper or (iii) Letter-of-Credit Rights.

(l) Inspection and Reporting. Each Grantor shall permit the Collateral Agent, or any agent or representatives thereof or such attorneys, accountant or other professionals or other Persons as the Collateral Agent may designate (at Grantors’ sole cost and expense) (x)(i) to examine and make copies of and abstracts from any Grantor’s Records and books of account, (ii) to visit and inspect its properties, (iii) to verify materials, leases, Instruments, Accounts, Inventory and other assets of any Grantor from time to time, and (iv) to conduct audits, physical counts, appraisals, valuations and/or examinations at the locations of any Grantor and (y) to discuss such Grantor’s affairs, finances and accounts with any of its directors, officers, managerial employees, attorneys, independent accountants or any of its other representatives provided that unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Collateral Agent may not conduct more than once in any calendar year inspections under this Section 7 and under Section 6(f)(i). Without limiting the foregoing, the Collateral Agent may, at any time that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, in the Collateral Agent’s own name, in the name of a nominee of the Collateral Agent, or in the name of any Grantor communicate (by mail, telephone, facsimile or otherwise) with the Account Debtors of such Grantor, parties to contracts with such Grantor and/or obligors in respect of Instruments or Pledged Debt of such Grantor to verify with such Persons, to the Collateral Agent’s satisfaction, the existence, amount, terms of, and any other matter relating to, Accounts, Instruments, Pledged Debt, Chattel Paper, payment intangibles and/or other receivables.

(m) Future Subsidiaries; Foreign Collateral Actions. If any Grantor hereafter creates or acquires any Subsidiary other than a Foreign Subsidiary, then as soon as commercially practicable (but no later than thirty (30) days following the creation or acquisition of such Subsidiary, such Grantor shall (i)(x) if such Subsidiary is a Domestic Subsidiary, cause such Subsidiary to become a party to this Agreement as an additional “Grantor” hereunder by execution of a Joinder Agreement or (y) if such Subsidiary is a Foreign Subsidiary, cause such Subsidiary to execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent such documents and to take such actions in such foreign jurisdictions that the Collateral Agent shall reasonably request to create and perfect in favor of the Collateral Agent a security interest in the assets of such Subsidiary (other than Excluded Property), (ii) deliver to the Collateral Agent updated Schedules to

 

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this Agreement, as appropriate (including, without limitation, an updated Schedule IV to reflect the grant by such Grantor of a Lien on and security interest in all Pledged Debt and Pledged Equity now or hereafter owned by such Grantor), (iii) cause such Subsidiary to duly execute and deliver a joinder to the Guaranty in accordance with Section 18 of the Guaranty, (iv) deliver to the Collateral Agent the stock certificates representing all of the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary that is a certificated, along with undated stock powers for each such certificates, executed in blank (or, if any such shares of Capital Stock are uncertificated, confirmation and evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent that the security interest in such uncertificated securities has been perfected by the Collateral Agent, in accordance with Section 8-106(c) of the Code or any other similar or local or foreign law that may be applicable), and (v) duly execute and deliver (or cause to be duly executed and delivered) to the Collateral Agent, in form and substance acceptable to the Collateral Agent, such opinions of counsel and other documents as the Collateral Agent shall reasonably request with respect thereto; provided, however, that no Grantor shall be required to pledge any Excluded Property. Each Grantor hereby authorizes the Collateral Agent to attach such updated Schedules to this Agreement and agrees that all Pledged Equity and Pledged Debt listed on any updated Schedule delivered to the Collateral Agent shall for all purposes hereunder be considered Collateral. The Grantors (i) agree that, upon the reasonable request of the Collateral Agent, the pledge of the shares of Capital Stock currently owned or acquired by a Grantor of any Foreign Subsidiary may be supplemented by one or more separate pledge agreements, deeds of pledge, share charges, or other similar agreements or instruments, executed and delivered by the relevant Grantor in favor of the Collateral Agent, which pledge agreements will provide for the pledge of such shares of Capital Stock in accordance with the laws of the applicable foreign jurisdiction and (ii) shall, upon the reasonable request of the Collateral Agent, cause each applicable Non-Grantor Subsidiary to execute and deliver Controlled Account Agreements with respect to the Pledged Accounts held by such Non-Grantor Subsidiary (the actions that may be taken by the Collateral Agent under this sentence or under subsection (i)(y) of this Section 6(m), collectively, the “Foreign Collateral Actions”).

SECTION 7 Additional Provisions Concerning the Collateral.

(a) To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, and for the purpose of taking any action that the Collateral Agent may deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement, each Grantor hereby (i) authorizes the Collateral Agent to execute any such agreements, instruments or other documents in such Grantor’s name and to file such agreements, instruments or other documents in such Grantor’s name and in any appropriate filing office to satisfy the Perfection Requirements, (ii) authorizes the Collateral Agent at any time and from time to time to file, one or more financing or continuation statements, and amendments thereto, relating to the Collateral (including, without limitation, any such financing statements that (A) describe the Collateral as “all assets” or “all personal property” (or words of similar effect) or that describe or identify the Collateral by type or in any other manner as the Collateral Agent may determine regardless of whether any particular asset of such Grantor falls within the scope of Article 9 of the Code or whether any particular asset of such Grantor constitutes part of the Collateral, and (B) contain any other information required by Part 5 of Article 9 of the Code for the sufficiency or filing office acceptance of any financing statement, continuation statement or amendment, including, without limitation, whether such Grantor is an organization, the type of organization and any organizational identification number issued to such Grantor) and (iii) ratifies such authorization to the extent that the Collateral Agent has filed any such financing or continuation statements, or amendments thereto, prior to the date hereof.

(b) Each Grantor hereby irrevocably appoints the Collateral Agent as its attorney-in-fact and proxy, with full authority in the place and stead of such Grantor and in the name of such Grantor or otherwise, from time to time in the Collateral Agent’s discretion, to take any action and to execute any instrument which the Collateral Agent may deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement, including, without limitation, (i) to ask, demand, collect, sue for, recover, compound, receive and give acquittance and receipts for moneys due and to become due under or in respect of any Collateral,

 

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(ii) to receive, endorse, and collect any drafts or other Instruments, Documents and Chattel Paper in connection with clause (i) above, (iii) to file any claims or take any action or institute any action, suit or proceedings which the Collateral Agent may deem necessary or desirable for the collection of any Collateral or otherwise to enforce the rights of the Collateral Agent and the Noteholders with respect to any Collateral, (iv) to execute assignments, licenses and other documents to enforce the rights of the Collateral Agent and the Noteholders with respect to any Collateral, and (v) to verify any and all information with respect to any and all Accounts; provided, however, that the Collateral Agent may only take the actions described in clauses (i) through (v) if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. This power is coupled with an interest and is irrevocable until all of the Obligations are Paid in Full.

(c) For the purpose of enabling the Collateral Agent to exercise rights and remedies hereunder at such time that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, at such time as the Collateral Agent shall be lawfully entitled to exercise such rights and remedies, and for no other purpose and at no other time, each Grantor hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, to the extent assignable, an irrevocable, non-exclusive license (exercisable without payment of royalty or other compensation to any Grantor) to use, assign, license or sublicense any Intellectual Property in which such Grantor now or hereafter has any right, title or interest, wherever the same may be located, including, without limitation, in such license reasonable access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all computer programs used for the compilation or printout thereof. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, but subject to the provisions of the Securities Purchase Agreement that limit the right of any Grantor to dispose of its property, and Section 6(g) and Section 6(h) hereof, unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, any Grantor may exploit, use, enjoy, protect, license, sublicense, assign, sell, dispose of or take other actions with respect to the Intellectual Property in the ordinary course of its business and as otherwise expressly permitted by any of the other Transaction Documents. In furtherance of the foregoing, unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Collateral Agent shall from time to time, upon the request of any Grantor, execute and deliver any instruments, certificates or other documents, in the form so requested, which such Grantor shall have certified are appropriate (in such Grantor’s judgment) to allow it to take any action permitted above (including relinquishment of the license provided pursuant to this clause (c) as to any Intellectual Property). Further, upon the Payment in Full of all of the Obligations, the Collateral Agent shall release and reassign to any Grantor all of the Collateral Agent’s right, title and interest in and to the Intellectual Property, and the Licenses, all without recourse, representation or warranty whatsoever. The exercise of rights and remedies hereunder by the Collateral Agent shall not terminate the rights of the holders of any licenses or sublicenses theretofore granted by each Grantor in accordance with the second sentence of this clause (c). Each Grantor hereby releases the Collateral Agent from any claims, causes of action and demands at any time arising out of or with respect to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by the Collateral Agent under the powers of attorney granted herein other than actions taken or omitted to be taken through the Collateral Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct, as determined by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction no longer subject to appeal.

(d) If any Grantor fails to perform any agreement or obligation contained herein, the Collateral Agent may itself perform, or cause performance of, such agreement or obligation, in the name of such Grantor or the Collateral Agent, and the expenses of the Collateral Agent incurred in connection therewith shall be payable by such Grantor pursuant to Section 9 hereof and such obligation shall be secured by the Collateral.

(e) The powers conferred on the Collateral Agent hereunder are solely to protect its interest in the Collateral and shall not impose any duty upon it to exercise any such powers. Except for the safe custody of any Collateral in its possession and the accounting for moneys actually received by it hereunder, the Collateral Agent shall have no duty as to any Collateral or as to the taking of any necessary steps to preserve rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining to any Collateral.

 

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(f) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding (i) each Grantor shall remain liable under the Licenses and otherwise with respect to any of the Collateral to the extent set forth therein to perform all of its obligations thereunder to the same extent as if this Agreement had not been executed, (ii) the exercise by the Collateral Agent of any of its rights or remedies hereunder shall not release any Grantor from any of its obligations under the Licenses or otherwise in respect of the Collateral, and (iii) the Collateral Agent shall not have any obligation or liability by reason of this Agreement under the Licenses or with respect to any of the other Collateral, nor shall the Collateral Agent be obligated to perform any of the obligations or duties of any Grantor thereunder or to take any action to collect or enforce any claim for payment assigned hereunder.

SECTION 8 Remedies Upon Event of Default; Application of Proceeds. If any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement:

(a) The Collateral Agent may exercise in respect of the Collateral, in addition to any other rights and remedies provided for herein, in any other Transaction Document or otherwise available to it, all of the rights and remedies of a secured party upon default under the Code (whether or not the Code applies to the affected Collateral), and also may (i) take absolute control of the Collateral, including, without limitation, transfer into the Collateral Agent’s name or into the name of its nominee or nominees (to the extent the Collateral Agent has not theretofore done so) and thereafter receive, for the ratable benefit of itself and the Noteholders, all payments made thereon, give all consents, waivers and ratifications in respect thereof and otherwise act with respect thereto as though it were the outright owner thereof, (ii) require each Grantor to, and each Grantor hereby agrees that it will at its expense and upon request of the Collateral Agent forthwith, assemble all or part of its respective Collateral as directed by the Collateral Agent and make it available to the Collateral Agent at a place or places to be designated by the Collateral Agent that is reasonably convenient to both parties, and the Collateral Agent may enter into and occupy any premises owned or leased by any Grantor where the Collateral or any part thereof is located or assembled for a reasonable period in order to effectuate the Collateral Agent’s rights and remedies hereunder or under law, without obligation to any Grantor in respect of such occupation, and (iii) without notice except as specified below and without any obligation to prepare or process the Collateral for sale, (A) sell the Collateral or any part thereof in one or more parcels at public or private sale (including, without limitation, by credit bid), at any of the Collateral Agent’s offices or elsewhere, for cash, on credit or for future delivery, and at such price or prices and upon such other terms as the Collateral Agent may deem commercially reasonable and/or (B) lease, license or dispose of the Collateral or any part thereof upon such terms as the Collateral Agent may deem commercially reasonable. Each Grantor agrees that, to the extent notice of sale or any other disposition of its respective Collateral shall be required by law, at least ten (10) days’ notice to any Grantor of the time and place of any public sale or the time after which any private sale or other disposition of its respective Collateral is to be made shall constitute reasonable notification. The Collateral Agent shall not be obligated to make any sale or other disposition of any Collateral regardless of notice of sale having been given. The Collateral Agent may adjourn any public or private sale from time to time by announcement at the time and place fixed therefor, and such sale may, without further notice, be made at the time and place to which it was so adjourned. Each Grantor hereby waives any claims against the Collateral Agent and the Noteholders arising by reason of the fact that the price at which its respective Collateral may have been sold at a private sale was less than the price which might have been obtained at a public sale or was less than the aggregate amount of the Obligations, even if the Collateral Agent accepts the first offer received and does not offer such Collateral to more than one offeree, and waives all rights that any Grantor may have to require that all or any part of such Collateral be marshaled upon any sale (public or private) thereof. Each Grantor hereby acknowledges that (i) any such sale of its respective Collateral by the Collateral Agent shall be made without warranty, (ii) the Collateral Agent may specifically disclaim any warranties of title, possession, quiet enjoyment or the like, and (iii) such actions set forth in clauses (i) and (ii) above shall not adversely affect the commercial reasonableness of any such sale of Collateral. In addition to the foregoing, (1) upon written notice to any Grantor from the Collateral Agent after and during the continuance of an

 

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Event of Default, such Grantor shall cease any use of the Intellectual Property or any trademark, patent or copyright similar thereto for any purpose described in such notice; (2) the Collateral Agent may, at any time and from time to time after and during the continuance of an Event of Default, license, whether general, special or otherwise, and whether on an exclusive or non-exclusive basis, any of the Intellectual Property, throughout the universe for such term or terms, on such conditions, and in such manner, as the Collateral Agent shall in its sole discretion determine; (3) the Collateral Agent may, at any time, pursuant to the authority granted in Section 7 hereof or otherwise (such authority being effective upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default), execute and deliver on behalf of such Grantor, one or more instruments of assignment of the Intellectual Property (or any application or registration thereof), in form suitable for filing, recording or registration in any country and (4) take and use or sell the Intellectual Property rights, and take and use or sell the goodwill of such Grantor’s business symbolized by the Trademarks and the right to carry on the business and use the assets of such Grantor in connection with which the Trademarks or domain names have been used.

(b) Any cash held by the Collateral Agent as Collateral and all Cash Proceeds received by the Collateral Agent in respect of any sale or disposition of or collection from, or other realization upon, all or any part of the Collateral shall be applied as follows (subject to the provisions of the Securities Purchase Agreement), subject to the Intercreditor Agreement: first, to pay any fees, indemnities or expense reimbursements then due to the Collateral Agent (including, without limitation, those described in Section 9 hereof); second, to pay any fees, indemnities or expense reimbursements then due to the Noteholders, on a pro rata basis; third to pay interest due under the Notes owing to the Noteholders, on a pro rata basis; fourth, to pay or prepay principal in respect of the Notes, whether or not then due, owing to the Noteholders, on a pro rata basis; fifth, to pay or prepay any other Obligations, whether or not then due, in such order and manner as the Collateral Agent shall elect, consistent with the provisions of the Securities Purchase Agreement. Any surplus of such cash or Cash Proceeds held by the Collateral Agent and remaining after the full performance and Payment in Full of all of the Obligations shall be paid over to whomsoever shall be lawfully entitled to receive the same or as a court of competent jurisdiction shall direct.

(c) In the event that the proceeds of any such sale, disposition, collection or realization are insufficient to pay all amounts to which the Collateral Agent and the Noteholders are legally entitled, each Grantor shall be, jointly and severally, liable for the deficiency, together with interest thereon at the highest rate specified in the Notes for interest on overdue principal thereof or such other rate as shall be fixed by applicable law, together with the costs of collection and the reasonable fees, costs, expenses and other charges of any attorneys employed by the Collateral Agent to collect such deficiency.

(d) To the extent that applicable law imposes duties on the Collateral Agent to exercise rights and remedies in a commercially reasonable manner, each Grantor acknowledges and agrees that it is commercially reasonable for the Collateral Agent (i) to fail to incur expenses deemed significant by the Collateral Agent to prepare Collateral for disposition or otherwise to transform raw material or work in process into finished goods or other finished products for disposition, (ii) to fail to obtain third party consents for access to Collateral to be disposed of, or to obtain or, if not required by other law, to fail to obtain governmental or third party consents for the collection or disposition of Collateral to be collected or disposed of, (iii) to fail to exercise collection remedies against Account Debtors or other Persons obligated on Collateral or to remove Liens on or any adverse claims against Collateral, (iv) to exercise collection remedies against Account Debtors and other Persons obligated on Collateral directly or through the use of collection agencies and other collection specialists, (v) to advertise dispositions of Collateral through publications or media of general circulation, whether or not the Collateral is of a specialized nature, (vi) to contact other Persons, whether or not in the same business as any Grantor, for expressions of interest in acquiring all or any portion of such Collateral, (vii) to hire one or more professional auctioneers to assist in the disposition of Collateral, whether or not the Collateral is of a specialized nature, (viii) to dispose of Collateral by utilizing internet sites that provide for the auction of assets of the types included in the Collateral or that have the reasonable capacity of doing so, or that match buyers and sellers of assets, (ix)

 

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to dispose of assets in wholesale rather than retail markets, (x) to disclaim disposition warranties, such as title, possession or quiet enjoyment, (xi) to purchase insurance or credit enhancements to insure the Collateral Agent against risks of loss, collection or disposition of Collateral or to provide to the Collateral Agent a guaranteed return from the collection or disposition of Collateral, or (xii) to the extent deemed appropriate by the Collateral Agent, to obtain the services of brokers, investment bankers, consultants, attorneys and other professionals to assist the Collateral Agent in the collection or disposition of any of the Collateral. Each Grantor acknowledges that the purpose of this section is to provide non-exhaustive indications of what actions or omissions by the Collateral Agent would be commercially reasonable in the Collateral Agent’s exercise of rights and remedies against the Collateral and that other actions or omissions by the Collateral Agent shall not be deemed commercially unreasonable solely on account of not being indicated in this section. Without limitation of the foregoing, nothing contained in this section shall be construed to grant any rights to any Grantor or to impose any duties on the Collateral Agent that would not have been granted or imposed by this Agreement or by applicable law in the absence of this section.

(e) The Collateral Agent shall not be required to marshal any present or future collateral security (including, but not limited to, this Agreement and the Collateral) for, or other assurances of payment of, the Obligations or any of them or to resort to such collateral security or other assurances of payment in any particular order, and all of the Collateral Agent’s rights and remedies hereunder and in respect of such collateral security and other assurances of payment shall be cumulative and in addition to all other rights and remedies, however existing or arising. To the extent that any Grantor lawfully may, each Grantor hereby agrees that it will not invoke any law relating to the marshaling of collateral which might cause delay in or impede the enforcement of the Collateral Agent’s rights and remedies under this Agreement or under any other instrument creating or evidencing any of the Obligations or under which any of the Obligations is outstanding or by which any of the Obligations is secured or payment thereof is otherwise assured, and, to the extent that it lawfully may, each Grantor hereby irrevocably waives the benefits of all such laws.

(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or any of the other Transaction Documents, the Collateral Agent shall, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, not give notice of exclusive control or any similar notice to any Controlled Account Bank under a Controlled Account Agreement unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

SECTION 9 Indemnity; Expenses.

(a) Each Grantor, jointly and severally, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Collateral Agent and each other Indemnitee (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) to the same extent and subject to the same terms that the Company has agreed to indemnify the Indemnitees under Section 9(k) of the Securities Purchase Agreement, which Section 9(k) is hereby incorporated by reference, mutatis mutandis.

(b) Each Grantor agrees, jointly and severally, to pay to the Collateral Agent upon demand the amount of any and all costs and expenses, including the reasonable fees, costs, expenses and disbursements of counsel for the Collateral Agent and of any experts and agents (including, without limitation, any collateral trustee which may act as agent of the Collateral Agent), which the Collateral Agent may incur in connection with (i) the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery, recordation, administration, amendment, waiver or other modification or termination of this Agreement, the Guaranty and any other Transaction Documents or the performance of any Foreign Collateral Action, (ii) the custody, preservation, use or operation of, or the sale of, collection from, or other realization upon, any Collateral, (iii) the exercise or enforcement of any of the rights or remedies of the Collateral Agent hereunder, or (iv) the failure by any Grantor to perform or observe any of the provisions hereof.

 

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SECTION 10 Austrian Capital Maintenance Restrictions.

(a) The liabilities and obligations of each Grantor incorporated in Austria under any of the Transaction Documents shall be limited so that at no time the assumption or enforcement of a liability or obligation under any of the Transaction Documents would be required if this would violate mandatory Austrian capital maintenance rules (Kapitalerhaltungsvorschriften) pursuant to Austrian company law, in particular sections 82 et seq. of the Austrian Act on Limited Liability Companies (GmbH-Gesetz) and/or sections 52 et seq. (including, for the avoidance of doubt and without limitation, section 66a to the extent being directly or analogously applied) of the Austrian Stock Corporation Act (Aktiengesetz’) (the “Austrian Capital Maintenance Rules”).

(b) Should any liability and/or obligation of a Grantor incorporated in Austria under the Transaction Documents violate or contradict Austrian Capital Maintenance Rules and should therefore be held invalid or unenforceable or should the assumption, creation or enforcement of such liability and/or obligation expose any managing director or member of the supervisory board of the Grantor incorporated in Austria, if applicable, to personal liability or criminal responsibility, then such liability and/or obligation shall be limited in accordance with the Austrian Capital Maintenance Rules and shall be deemed to be replaced by a liability and/or obligation of a similar nature which is in compliance with the Austrian Capital Maintenance Rules and which provides the best possible security interest in favour of the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Noteholders. By way of example, should it be held that the security created under any Transaction Document contradicts the Austrian Capital Maintenance Rules in relation to any amount of the Obligations, the security created by the respective Transaction Document shall be reduced to such an amount of the Obligations which is permitted pursuant to the Austrian Capital Maintenance Rules.

(c) No reduction of the amount enforceable under any Transaction Document in accordance with the limitations set out in this Section 10 will prejudice the rights of the Collateral Agent or the Noteholders under any Transaction Document (subject always to the operation of the limitations set out in this Section 10 at the time of such enforcement) until full satisfaction of any guaranteed claims.

SECTION 11 Notices, Etc. All notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing and shall be mailed (by certified mail, first-class postage prepaid and return receipt requested), telecopied, e-mailed or delivered, if to any Grantor, to the Company’s address, or if to the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder, to it at its respective address, each as set forth in Section 9(f) of the Securities Purchase Agreement; or as to any such Person, at such other address as shall be designated by such Person in a written notice to all other parties hereto complying as to delivery with the terms of this Section 11. All such notices and other communications shall be effective (a) if sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, when received or five Business Days after deposited in the mails, whichever occurs first, (b) if telecopied or e-mailed, when transmitted (during normal business hours) and confirmation is received, and otherwise, the day after the notice or communication was transmitted and confirmation is received, or (c) if delivered in person, upon delivery. For the avoidance of doubt, all Foreign Subsidiaries, as Grantors, hereby appoint the Company as its agent for receipt of service of process and all notices and other communications in the United States at the address specified below, but shall at any rate not be sent to an address, e-mail address or fax number with an Austrian nexus.

SECTION 12 Miscellaneous.

(a) No amendment of any provision of this Agreement shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by each Grantor and the Collateral Agent (and approved by the Required Holders), and no waiver of any provision of this Agreement, and no consent to any departure by each Grantor therefrom, shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by each Grantor and the Collateral Agent (and approved by the Required Holders), and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given. No amendment, modification or waiver of this Agreement shall be effective to the extent that it (1) applies to fewer than all of the holders of Notes or (2) imposes any obligation or liability on any holder of Notes without such holder’s prior written consent (which may be granted or withheld in such holder’s sole and absolute discretion).

 

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(b) No failure on the part of the Collateral Agent to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right or remedy hereunder or under any of the other Transaction Documents shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or remedy. The rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder provided herein and in the other Transaction Documents are cumulative and are in addition to, and not exclusive of, any rights or remedies provided by law. The rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder under any of the other Transaction Documents against any party thereto are not conditional or contingent on any attempt by such Person to exercise any of its rights or remedies under any of the other Transaction Documents against such party or against any other Person, including but not limited to, any Grantor.

(c) Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining portions hereof or thereof or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.

(d) This Agreement shall create a continuing Lien on and security interest in the Collateral and shall (i) remain in full force and effect until the Payment in Full of the Obligations, and (ii) be binding on each Grantor and all other Persons who become bound as debtor to this Agreement in accordance with Section 9-203(d) of the Code and shall inure, together with all rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent and the Noteholders hereunder, to the ratable benefit of the Collateral Agent and the Noteholders and their respective permitted successors, transferees and assigns. Without limiting the generality of clause (ii) of the immediately preceding sentence, without notice to any Grantor, the Collateral Agent and the Noteholders may assign or otherwise transfer their rights and obligations under this Agreement and any of the other Transaction Documents, to any other Person and such other Person shall thereupon become vested with all of the benefits in respect thereof granted to the Collateral Agent and the Noteholders herein or otherwise. Upon any such assignment or transfer, all references in this Agreement to the Collateral Agent or any such Noteholder shall mean the assignee of the Collateral Agent or such Noteholder. None of the rights or obligations of any Grantor hereunder may be assigned, delegated or otherwise transferred without the prior written consent of the Collateral Agent in its sole and absolute discretion, and any such assignment, delegation or transfer without such consent of the Collateral Agent shall be null and void.

(e) Upon the Payment in Full of the Obligations, (i) this Agreement and the security interests created hereby shall terminate and all rights to the Collateral shall revert to the respective Grantor that granted such security interests hereunder, and (ii) the Collateral Agent will, upon any Grantor’s request and at such Grantor’s expense, (A) return to such Grantor such of the Collateral as shall not have been sold or otherwise disposed of or applied pursuant to the terms hereof and (B) execute and deliver to such Grantor such documents as such Grantor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination, all without any representation, warranty or recourse whatsoever.

(f) Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Jury Trial.

(i) All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any provision or rule of law (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of New York.

 

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(ii) Each Grantor 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 under any of the other Transaction Documents or with any transaction contemplated hereby or thereby, and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim, defense or objection that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum or that the venue of such suit, action or proceeding is improper. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof to such party at the address for such notices to it under Section 9(f) of the Securities Purchase Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any manner permitted by law. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed or operate to preclude the Collateral Agent or the Noteholders from bringing suit or taking other legal action against any Grantor in any other jurisdiction to collect on a Grantor’s obligations or to enforce a judgment or other court ruling in favor of the Collateral Agent or a Noteholder.

(iii) WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL, ETC. EACH GRANTOR IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO, AND AGREES NOT TO REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER OR UNDER ANY OTHER TRANSACTION DOCUMENT OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OTHER TRANSACTION DOCUMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY.

(iv) Each Grantor irrevocably and unconditionally waives any right it may have to claim or recover in any legal action, suit or proceeding referred to in this Section any special, exemplary, indirect, incidental, punitive or consequential damages.

(g) Section headings herein are included for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part of this Agreement for any other purpose.

(h) This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which taken together constitute one and the same Agreement. Delivery of any executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by pdf, facsimile or other electronic transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.

(i) This Agreement shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment of any of the Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by the Collateral Agent, any Noteholder or any other Person (upon (i) the occurrence of any Insolvency Proceeding of any of the Company or any Grantor or (ii) otherwise, in all cases as though such payment had not been made).

(j) [Reserved.]

(k) The parties hereto agree that the Collateral Agent shall be the joint and several creditor (Gesamtgläubiger) (together with the relevant other Noteholders) of each and every obligation of the Grantors towards that other Noteholder under the Transaction Documents and that accordingly the Collateral Agent will have its own and independent right to demand performance by the Grantors of those obligations in full.

 

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SECTION 13 Material Non-Public Information.

(a) On or before 9:30 a.m., New York time, on the first Business Day following the date of this Agreement, the Company shall file a Current Report on Form 8-K describing all the material terms of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents in the form required by the 1934 Act and attaching all the material Transaction Documents (including, without limitation, this Agreement, the “8-K Filing”). From and after the filing of the 8-K Filing, the Company shall have disclosed all material, non-public information (if any) provided to any of the Noteholders 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. In addition, effective upon the filing of the 8-K Filing, the Company acknowledges and agrees that any and all confidentiality or similar obligations under any agreement, whether written or oral, between the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective officers, directors, affiliates, employees or agents, on the one hand, and any of the Noteholders or any of their affiliates, on the other hand, shall terminate.

(b) Upon receipt or delivery by any Grantor of any notice in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, unless such Grantor has in good faith determined that the matters relating to such notice do not constitute material, non-public information relating to the Grantor or any of its Subsidiaries, such Grantor shall by the next Business Day (if delivery is made after the close of the Principal Market on a Business Day or a Saturday or Sunday) or the same Business Day (if disclosure is made on a Business Day prior to the opening of the Principal Market) after any such receipt or delivery publicly disclose such material, non-public information on a Current Report on Form 8-K or otherwise. In the event that such Grantor believes that a notice contains material, non-public information relating to such Grantor or any of its Subsidiaries, such Grantor so shall indicate to the Collateral Agent and any applicable Noteholder contemporaneously with delivery of such notice (which shall before the opening or after the close of the Principal Market), and in the absence of any such indication, the Collateral Agent and each Noteholder shall be allowed to presume that all matters relating to such notice do not constitute material, non-public information relating to such Grantor or its Subsidiaries. Nothing contained in this Section 13 shall limit any obligations of any Grantor, or any rights or remedies of the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder, under Section 4(j) of the Securities Purchase Agreement.

SECTION 14 Intercreditor Agreement. With respect to any Grantor, this Agreement is subject in all respects (including with respect to all obligations and agreements of the Grantors provided for hereunder) to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement and if any provision in this Agreement expressly conflicts with any provision in the Intercreditor Agreement, the provisions in the Intercreditor Agreement shall govern and control.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Grantor has caused this Agreement to be executed and delivered by its officer thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written.

 

GRANTORS:
FISKER INC.
By:  

/s/ Geeta Gupta- Fisker

  Name: Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker
  Title: Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
FISKER GROUP INC.
By:  

/s/ Geeta Gupta- Fisker

  Name: Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker
  Title: Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
TERRA ENERGY INC.
By:  

/s/ Geeta Gupta- Fisker

  Name: Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker
  Title: Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer

 

[Signature Page to Security and Pledge Agreement]


PLATINUM IPR LLC.
By:  

/s/ Geeta Gupta- Fisker

  Name: Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker
  Title: Authorized Officer
FISKER TN LLC.
By:  

/s/ Geeta Gupta- Fisker

  Name: Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker
  Title: President
BLUE CURRENT HOLDINGS LLC.
By:  

/s/ Geeta Gupta- Fisker

  Name: Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker
  Title: President

 

[Signature Page to Security and Pledge Agreement]


ACCEPTED BY:
CVI INVESTMENTS, INC.,
as Collateral Agent
By: Heights Capital Management, Inc.,
  its authorized agent
By:  
  Name:
  Title:

 

[Signature Page to Security and Pledge Agreement]


SCHEDULE I

Grantors

[Intentionally Omitted]


SCHEDULE II

Intellectual Property

[Intentionally Omitted]


SCHEDULE III

Locations of Chief Executive Office, Principal Place of Business and Books and Records

[Intentionally Omitted]


Locations of Equipment, Fixtures, Inventory and Other Goods

[Intentionally Omitted]


SCHEDULE IV

Pledged Equity; Pledged Debt; Pledged Accounts

[Intentionally Omitted]


SCHEDULE V

Financing Statements

[Intentionally Omitted]


SCHEDULE VI

Commercial Tort Claims

[Intentionally Omitted]


EXHIBIT A

FORM OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT

[Intentionally Omitted]


EXHIBIT B

FORM OF JOINDER AGREEMENT

[Intentionally Omitted]

EXHIBIT 10.3

Execution Version

GUARANTY

This GUARANTY, dated as of May 10, 2024 (this “Guaranty”), is made by each of the undersigned (each a “Guarantor”, and collectively, the “Guarantors”), in favor of CVI Investments, Inc., in its capacity as collateral agent (in such capacity, the “Collateral Agent”) for the Noteholders (as defined below).

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, Fisker Inc., a company organized under the laws of Delaware, with offices located at 1888 Rosecrans Avenue, Manhattan Beach, California 90266 (the “Company”) and each party listed as a “ Investor” on the Schedule of Investors attached thereto (collectively, the “Investors”) are parties to the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 10, 2024 (as amended, restated, extended, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Securities Purchase Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company has sold, and may in the future be required to sell, to the Investors, and the Investors have purchased, and may in the future be required or have the right to purchase, the “Notes” issued pursuant thereto (as such Notes may be amended, restated, extended, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, collectively, the “Notes,” and the holders of the Notes at any time, the “Noteholders”);

WHEREAS, the Securities Purchase Agreement requires that the Guarantors execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent, (i) a guaranty guaranteeing all of the obligations of the Company under the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Notes and the other Transaction Documents (as defined below); (ii) with respect to the Guarantors formed in the United States, a Security and Pledge Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, granting the Collateral Agent a lien on and security interest in all of their assets and properties that constitute Collateral (the “US Security Agreement”) and (iii) such other Security Documents as are entered into on or after the date hereof granting the Collateral Agent a Lien on and security interest in the assets and properties that constitute Collateral as more particularly set forth therein; and

WHEREAS, each Guarantor has determined that the execution, delivery and performance of this Guaranty directly benefits, and is in the best interest of, such Guarantor.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the agreements herein, each Guarantor hereby agrees with each Noteholder as follows:

SECTION 1 Definitions. Reference is hereby made to the Securities Purchase Agreement and the Notes for a statement of the terms thereof. All terms used in this Guaranty and the recitals hereto which are defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement or the Notes, and which are not otherwise defined herein shall have the same meanings herein as set forth therein. In addition, the following terms when used in the Guaranty shall have the meanings set forth below:

Bankruptcy Code” means Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code, 11 U.S.C §§ 101 et seq. (or other applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws).

Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided, however, for clarification, commercial banks shall not be deemed to be authorized or required by law to remain closed due to “stay at home”, “shelter-in-place”, “non-essential employee” or any other similar orders or restrictions or the closure of any physical branch locations at the direction of any governmental authority so long as the electronic funds transfer systems (including for wire transfers) of commercial banks in The City of New York generally are open for use by customers on such day.


Capital Stock” means (i) with respect to any Person that is a corporation, any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated and whether or not voting) of corporate stock (including, without limitation, any warrants, options, rights or other securities exercisable or convertible into equity interests or securities of such Person), and (ii) with respect to any Person that is not a corporation, any and all partnership, membership or other equity interests of such Person.

Collateral Agent” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Company” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors (or any class of creditors), moratorium, arrangement, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief laws of the United States, or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally (including any applicable corporations legislation to the extent the relief sought thereunder relates to or involves the compromise, settlement, adjustment or arrangement of debt).

French Obligor” means any Guarantor or grantor under a Security Document incorporated in France.

German Obligor” means any Guarantor or grantor under a Security Document incorporated in Germany.

Governmental Authority” means any nation, state, county, city, town, village, district, or other political jurisdiction of any nature, federal, state, local, municipal, foreign, or other government, governmental or quasi-governmental authority of any nature (including any governmental agency, branch, department, official, or entity and any court or other tribunal), multi-national organization or body; or body exercising, or entitled to exercise, any administrative, executive, judicial, legislative, police, regulatory, or taxing authority or power of any nature or instrumentality of any of the foregoing, including any entity or enterprise owned or controlled by a government or a public international organization or any of the foregoing.

Guaranteed Obligations” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2 of this Guaranty.

Guarantor” or “Guarantors” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Indemnitee” shall have the meaning set forth in the Securities Purchase Agreement.

Insolvency Proceeding” means any proceeding commenced by or against any Person under any Debtor Relief Laws.

Investor” or “Investors” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Joinder Agreement” means an agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.

Notes” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Obligations” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4 of the US Security Agreement.

Other Taxes” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 15(a)(iv) of this Guaranty.

Paid in FullorPayment in Full” means the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all of the Guaranteed Obligations (other than inchoate indemnity obligations).

 

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Person” means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, joint venture or other enterprise or entity or Governmental Authority.

Securities Purchase Agreement” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Subsidiary” means any Person in which a Guarantor directly or indirectly, (i) owns a majority of the outstanding Capital Stock of such Person or (ii) controls or operates all or any part of the business, operations or administration of such Person, and all of the foregoing, collectively, “Subsidiaries”.

Taxes” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13(a) of this Guaranty.

Transaction Documents” shall have the meaning set forth in the Securities Purchase Agreement.

Transaction Party” means the Company and each Guarantor, collectively, “Transaction Parties”.

UK Obligor” means any Guarantor or grantor under a Security Document incorporated in England and Wales.

US Security Agreement” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

SECTION 2 Guaranty.

(a) The Guarantors, jointly and severally, hereby unconditionally and irrevocably, guaranty to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and the Noteholders, the punctual payment in full in cash, as and when due and payable, by stated maturity, by required prepayment declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise, of all Obligations, including, without limitation, all interest, make-whole and other amounts that accrue after the commencement of any Insolvency Proceeding of the Company or any Guarantor, whether or not the payment of such interest, make-whole and/or other amounts are enforceable or are allowable in such Insolvency Proceeding or under any provision of any Debtor Relief Law, and all fees, interest, premiums, penalties, causes of actions, costs, commissions, expense reimbursements, indemnifications and all other amounts due or to become due under any of the Transaction Documents (all of the foregoing collectively being the “Guaranteed Obligations”), and agrees to pay any and all costs and expenses (including counsel fees and expenses) incurred by the Collateral Agent in enforcing any rights under this Guaranty. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor’s liability hereunder shall extend to all amounts that constitute part of the Guaranteed Obligations and would be owed by the Company to the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder under the Securities Purchase Agreement and the Notes but for the fact that they are unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of an Insolvency Proceeding involving any Transaction Party.

(b) Each Guarantor, and by its acceptance of this Guaranty, the Collateral Agent and each Noteholder, hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such Persons that this Guaranty and the Guaranteed Obligations of each Guarantor hereunder not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code, any other Debtor Relief Law, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar foreign, federal, provincial, state, or other applicable law to the extent applicable to this Guaranty and the Guaranteed Obligations of each Guarantor hereunder. To effectuate the foregoing intention, by acceptance of the benefits of this Guaranty, the Collateral Agent, the Noteholders and the Guarantors hereby irrevocably agree that the Guaranteed Obligations of each Guarantor under this Guaranty at any time shall be limited to the maximum amount as will result in the Guaranteed Obligations of such Guarantor under this Guaranty not constituting a fraudulent transfer or conveyance.

 

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SECTION 3 Guaranty Absolute; Continuing Guaranty; Assignments.

(a) The Guarantors, jointly and severally, agree that the Guaranteed Obligations will be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents, regardless of any law, regulation or order now or hereafter in effect in any jurisdiction affecting any of such terms or the rights of the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder with respect thereto. The obligations of each Guarantor under this Guaranty are independent of the obligations of the Company or any other guarantor (including any other Guarantor) of the obligations of the Company, and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against any Guarantor to enforce such obligations, irrespective of whether any action is brought against the Company or any other guarantor (including any other Guarantor) of the obligations of the Company or whether any Transaction Party is joined in any such action or actions. The liability of any Guarantor under this Guaranty shall be as a primary obligor (and not merely as a surety) and shall be irrevocable, absolute and unconditional irrespective of, and each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives, to the extent permitted by law, any defenses (other than a defense of Payment in Full of the Guaranteed Obligations) it may now or hereafter have in any way relating to, any or all of the following:

(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document;

(ii) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Guaranteed Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure from any Transaction Document, including, without limitation, any increase in the Guaranteed Obligations resulting from the extension of additional credit to any Transaction Party or extension of the maturity of any Guaranteed Obligations or otherwise;

(iii) any taking, exchange, release or non-perfection of any Collateral;

(iv) any taking, release or amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from any other guaranty, for all or any of the Guaranteed Obligations;

(v) any change, restructuring or termination of the corporate, limited liability company or partnership structure or existence of any Transaction Party;

(vi) any manner of application of any Collateral or any other collateral, or proceeds thereof, to all or any of the Guaranteed Obligations, or any manner of sale or other disposition of any Collateral or any other collateral for all or any of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other Obligations of any Transaction Party under the Transaction Documents or any other assets of any Transaction Party or any of its Subsidiaries;

(vii) any failure of the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder to disclose to any Transaction Party any information relating to the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or prospects of any other Transaction Party now or hereafter known to the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder (each Guarantor waiving any duty on the part of the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder to disclose such information);

(viii) the taking of any action in furtherance of the release of any Guarantor or any other Person that is liable for the Guaranteed Obligations from all or any part of any liability arising under or in connection with any Transaction Document without the prior written consent of the Collateral Agent; or

(ix) any other circumstance (including, without limitation, any statute of limitations) or any existence of or reliance on any representation by the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Transaction Party or any other guarantor or surety.

 

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(b) This Guaranty shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment of any of the Guaranteed Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by the Collateral Agent, any Noteholder, or any other Person upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of any Transaction Party or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made.

(c) Payment by any Guarantor of a portion, but not all, of the Guaranteed Obligations shall in no way limit, affect, modify or abridge any Guarantor’s liability for any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations which has not been paid. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if the Collateral Agent is awarded a judgment in any suit brought to enforce any Guarantor’s covenant to pay a portion of the Guaranteed Obligations, such judgment shall not be deemed to release such Guarantor from its covenant to pay the portion of the Guaranteed Obligations that is not the subject of such suit, and such judgment shall not, except to the extent satisfied by such Guarantor, limit, affect, modify or abridge any other Guarantor’s liability hereunder in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations.

(d) This Guaranty is a continuing guaranty and shall (i) remain in full force and effect until Payment in Full of the Guaranteed Obligations and shall not terminate for any reason prior to the respective Maturity Date of each Note (other than Payment in Full of the Guaranteed Obligations) and (ii) be binding upon each Guarantor and its respective successors and assigns. This Guaranty shall inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Collateral Agent, the Noteholders, and their respective successors, and permitted pledgees, transferees and assigns. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder may pledge, assign or otherwise transfer all or any portion of its rights and obligations under and subject to the terms of any Transaction Document to any other Person, and such other Person shall thereupon become vested with all the benefits in respect thereof granted to the Collateral Agent or such Noteholder (as applicable) herein or otherwise, in each case as provided in the Securities Purchase Agreement or such Transaction Document. None of the rights or obligations of any Guarantor hereunder may be assigned or otherwise transferred without the prior written consent of the Collateral Agent (acting on the instructions of each Noteholder).

SECTION 4 Waivers. To the extent permitted by applicable law, each Guarantor hereby waives promptness, diligence, protest, notice of acceptance and any other notice or formality of any kind with respect to any of the Guaranteed Obligations and this Guaranty and any requirement that the Collateral Agent exhaust any right or take any action against any Transaction Party or any other Person or any Collateral. Each Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated herein and that the waiver set forth in this Section 4 is knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits. The Guarantors hereby waive any right to revoke this Guaranty, and acknowledge that this Guaranty is continuing in nature and applies to all Guaranteed Obligations, whether existing now or in the future. Without limiting the foregoing, to the extent permitted by applicable law, each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives (a) any defense arising by reason of any claim or defense based upon an election of remedies by the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder that in any manner impairs, reduces, releases or otherwise adversely affects the subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution or indemnification rights of such Guarantor or other rights of such Guarantor to proceed against any of the other Transaction Parties, any other guarantor or any other Person or any Collateral, and (b) any defense based on any right of set-off or counterclaim against or in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations of such Guarantor hereunder. Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives any duty on the part of the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder to disclose to such Guarantor any matter, fact or thing relating to the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or prospects of any other Transaction Party or any of its Subsidiaries now or hereafter known by the Collateral Agent or an Noteholder.

 

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SECTION 5 Subrogation. No Guarantor may exercise any rights that it may now or hereafter acquire against any Transaction Party or any other guarantor that arise from the existence, payment, performance or enforcement of any Guarantor’s obligations under this Guaranty, including, without limitation, any right of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution or indemnification and any right to participate in any claim or remedy of the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder against any Transaction Party or any other guarantor or any Collateral, whether or not such claim, remedy or right arises in equity or under contract, statute or common law, including, without limitation, the right to take or receive from any Transaction Party or any other guarantor, directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-off or in any other manner, payment or security solely on account of such claim, remedy or right, unless and until there has been Payment in Full of the Guaranteed Obligations. If any amount shall be paid to a Guarantor in violation of the immediately preceding sentence at any time prior to Payment in Full of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty, such amount shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and shall forthwith be paid to the Collateral Agent to be credited and applied to the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Document, or to be held as Collateral for any Guaranteed Obligations or other amounts payable under this Guaranty thereafter arising. If (a) any Guarantor shall make payment to the Collateral Agent of all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations, and (b) there has been Payment in Full of the Guaranteed Obligations, the Collateral Agent will, at such Guarantor’s request and expense, execute and deliver to such Guarantor appropriate documents, without recourse and without representation or warranty, necessary to evidence the transfer by subrogation to such Guarantor of an interest in the Guaranteed Obligations resulting from such payment by such Guarantor.

SECTION 6 Representations, Warranties and Covenants.

(a) Each Guarantor hereby represents and warrants as of the date first written above as follows:

(i) such Guarantor (A) is a corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership or other legal entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing (to the extent that the concept of good standing exists) under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization as set forth on the signature pages hereto, (B) has all requisite corporate, limited liability company, limited partnership or other legal entity power and authority to conduct its business as now conducted and as presently contemplated and to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Guaranty and each other Transaction Document to which such Guarantor is a party, and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and (C) is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing (to the extent that the concept of good standing exists) in each jurisdiction in which the character of the properties owned or leased by it or in which the transaction of its business makes such qualification necessary except where the failure to be so qualified (individually or in the aggregate) would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(ii) The execution, delivery and performance by such Guarantor of this Guaranty and each other Transaction Document to which such Guarantor is a party (A) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, limited liability company, limited partnership or other legal entity action, (B) do not and will not contravene its charter, articles, certificate of formation or by-laws, its limited liability company or operating agreement or its certificate of partnership or partnership agreement, or similar formation and organizational documents, as applicable, or any applicable law or any contractual restriction binding on such Guarantor or its properties do not and will not result in or require the creation of any lien, security interest or encumbrance (other than pursuant to any Transaction Document) upon or with respect to any of its properties, and (C) do not and will not result in any default, noncompliance, suspension, revocation, impairment, forfeiture or nonrenewal of any permit, license, authorization or approval applicable to it or its operations or any of its properties, except any default, noncompliance, suspension, revocation, impairment, forfeiture or nonrenewal that would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(iii) No authorization or approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any Governmental Authority or other Person is required in connection with the due execution, delivery and performance by such Guarantor of this Guaranty or any of the other Transaction Documents to which such Guarantor is a party (other than as expressly provided for in any of the Transaction Documents).

(iv) This Guaranty has been duly executed and delivered by each Guarantor and is a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Guarantor, enforceable against such Guarantor in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by the Bankruptcy Code or other applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance, suretyship or similar laws and equitable principles (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in equity or at law).

(v) There is no pending or, to the best knowledge of such Guarantor, threatened action, suit or proceeding against such Guarantor or to which any of the properties of such Guarantor is subject, before any court or other Governmental Authority or any arbitrator that (A) if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (B) relates to this Guaranty or any of the other Transaction Documents to which such Guarantor is a party or any transaction contemplated hereby or thereby.

(vi) Such Guarantor (A) has read and understands the terms and conditions of the Securities Purchase Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, and (B) now has and will continue to have independent means of obtaining information concerning the affairs, financial condition and business of the Company and the other Transaction Parties, and has no need of, or right to obtain from the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder, any credit or other information concerning the affairs, financial condition or business of the Company or the other Transaction Parties.

(b) Each Guarantor covenants and agrees that, until Payment in Full of the Guaranteed Obligations, it will comply with each of the covenants (except to the extent applicable only to a public company) which are set forth in Section 4 of the Securities Purchase Agreement and Section 13 of the Notes as if such Guarantor were a party thereto.

SECTION 7 Right of Set-off. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default and subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, the Collateral Agent and any Noteholder may, and is hereby authorized to, at any time and from time to time, without prior notice to the Guarantors (any such notice being expressly waived by each Guarantor) and to the fullest extent permitted by law, set-off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other indebtedness at any time owing by the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder to or for the credit or the account of any Guarantor against any and all obligations of the Guarantors now or hereafter existing under this Guaranty or any other Transaction Document, irrespective of whether or not the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder shall have made any demand under this Guaranty or any other Transaction Document and although such obligations may be contingent or unmatured. The Collateral Agent and each Noteholder agrees to notify the relevant Guarantor promptly after any such set-off and application made by the Collateral Agent or such Noteholder, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and application. The rights of the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder under this Section 7 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including, without limitation, other rights of set-off) which the Collateral Agent or such Noteholder may have under this Guaranty or any other Transaction Document in law or otherwise.

SECTION 8 Limitation on Guaranteed Obligations.

(a) Notwithstanding any provision herein contained to the contrary, each Guarantor’s liability hereunder shall be limited to an amount not to exceed as of any date of determination the greater of:

 

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(i) the amount of all Guaranteed Obligations, plus interest thereon at the applicable Interest Rate as specified in the Note; and

(ii) the amount which could be claimed by the Collateral Agent from any Guarantor under this Guaranty without rendering such claim voidable or avoidable under the Bankruptcy Code or under any applicable state Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act or similar statute or common law after taking into account, among other things, Guarantor’s right of contribution and indemnification.

(b) Each Guarantor agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations may at any time and from time to time exceed the amount of the liability of such Guarantor hereunder without impairing the guaranty hereunder or affecting the rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder hereunder or under applicable law.

(c) No payment made by the Company, any Guarantor, any other guarantor or any other Person or received or collected by the Collateral Agent or any other Noteholder from the Company, any of the Guarantors, any other guarantor or any other Person by virtue of any action or proceeding or any set-off or appropriation or application at any time or from time to time in reduction of or in payment of the Guaranteed Obligations shall be deemed to modify, reduce, release or otherwise affect the liability of any Guarantor hereunder which shall, notwithstanding any such payment (other than any payment made by such Guarantor in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations or any payment received or collected from such Guarantor in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations), remain liable for the Guaranteed Obligations up to the maximum liability of such Guarantor hereunder until after all of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty shall have been Paid in Full.

SECTION 9 French Guarantee Limitation.

(a) Notwithstanding anything set out to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, the obligations and liabilities of any French Obligor under this Agreement shall apply only insofar as required to:

(i) guarantee the payment obligations under this Agreement of its direct or indirect Subsidiaries which are or become Guarantors, (an “Obligor”) from time to time under this Agreement and incurred by those Subsidiaries as Guarantors ; and

(ii) guarantee the payment obligations of the Company or any other Obligor which is not its direct or indirect Subsidiary (each a “Guaranteed Obligor”), provided that in such case such guarantee shall be limited, in respect of any Guaranteed Obligor: (A) to the payment obligations of such Guaranteed Obligor and (B) up to an amount equal to the aggregate of all amounts received under the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Notes or any other Transaction Document directly or indirectly (by way of intra-group loans directly or indirectly from any other issuer) by such Guaranteed Obligor and on-lent directly or indirectly to that French Obligor and/or (without double counting) its direct or indirect Subsidiaries and outstanding on the date on which the guarantee is enforced against that French Obligor (the “Maximum Guaranteed Amount”); it being specified that any payment made by such French Obligor under this Agreement in respect of the obligations of any other Guaranteed Obligor (x) shall reduce pro tanto the outstanding amount of the intercompany loans (if any) owed by such French Obligor to that Guaranteed Obligor under the intercompany loan arrangements referred to above and (y) shall reduce the Maximum Guaranteed Amount of such French Obligor in the same amount.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, no French Obligor shall secure liabilities under the Agreement which would result in such French Obligor not complying with French financial assistance rules as set out in article L. 225-216 of the French Commercial Code and/or would constitute a misuse of corporate assets within the meaning of article L. 241-3, article L. 242-6 or L. 244-1 of the French Commercial Code or any other law or regulations having the same effect, as interpreted by French courts.

 

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(c) The limitations set out under paragraphs (a) and (b) above shall apply mutatis mutandis to any security created by any French Obligor under any Security Document and to any guarantee, undertaking, obligation, indemnity and payment, including (but not limited to) distributions, cash sweeps, credits, loans and set offs, pursuant to or permitted under the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Notes or any other Transaction Documents and made by a French Obligor.

SECTION 10 German Guarantee Limitation

(a) The enforcement of the Guaranty granted by the German Obligor shall be limited if and to the extent that:

(i) the Guaranty is an up-stream or cross-stream guarantee as the Guaranty of the German Obligor secures obligations of an affiliated company (verbundenes Unternehmen) of the German Obligor within the meaning of Section 15 of the German Stock Corporation Act (Aktiengesetz) (other than any of the German Obligor’s subsidiaries within the meaning of Sections 15 et seq. of the German Stock Corporation Act (Aktiengesetz)) (each an “Up-Stream and/or Cross-Stream Guaranty”); and

(ii) the enforcement of the Guaranty granted by the German Obligor would lead to a situation where:

(a) the Net Assets (Reinvermögen) are not sufficient to maintain the registered share capital (Stammkapital) of the German Obligor; or

(b) an existing shortfall of the Net Assets of the German Obligor would be further increased (Vertiefung einer bestehenden Unterbilanz),

provided that, for the purposes of the calculation of the amount (if any) which can be demanded under the Guaranty from the German Obligor, the balance sheet items of German Obligor shall be adjusted as set out below:

 

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the amount of any increase of the registered share capital of the German Obligor out of retained earnings (Kapitalerhöhung aus Gesellschaftsmitteln) after the date hereof (excluding any such increase of the registered share capital which is not prohibited under the Transaction Documents) that (x) has been effected without the prior written consent of the Collateral Agent or (y) to the extent it has not been fully paid up shall be deducted from the registered share capital;

 

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any loan provided to the German Obligor after the date hereof, insofar as such loan qualifies as equity or subordinated shareholder loan within the meaning of section 39 para. 2 of the German Insolvency Code (Insolvenzordnung), shall be disregarded if it is waived or can be waived by the respective intra-group or shareholder creditor at the time without the risk of triggering a personal or criminal liability for waiving such shareholder loan on behalf of the respective intra-group or shareholder creditor; and

 

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loans and other contractual liabilities incurred by the German Obligor (if any) in violation of the provisions of any of the Transaction Documents shall be disregarded to the extent such violation can be attributed to the willful misconduct or negligence of the managing directors (Geschäftsführer) of the German Obligor (if any).

 

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(b) The limits of paragraph (a) above will not apply:

(i) to any amounts which correspond to funds that have been borrowed under the Securities Purchase Agreement and/or any Notes and have been on-lent to, or otherwise been passed on to the German Obligor or the German Obligor’s subsidiaries within the meaning of Sections 15 et seq. of the German Stock Corporation Act (Aktiengesetz);

(ii) if the German Obligor does not provide the Management’s Determination and/or the Auditor’s Determination in accordance with paragraphs (c) and (d) below;

(iii) if and to the extent for any other reason (including, without limitation, as a result of a change in the relevant rules of law) the deficit (Unterbilanz) referred to under Section 10(b)(ii) does not constitute a breach of the German Obligor’s obligations to maintain its registered share capital pursuant to sections 30 et seq. of the German Limited Liability Companies Act (“GmbHG”) or does not result in a personal liability of the managing directors (Geschäftsführer) of the German Obligor pursuant to section 43 para. 3 GmbHG, each as amended, supplemented and/or replaced from time to time;

(iv) if at the point in time where a Demand (as defined below) is made, the German Obligor (as dominated entity) is party to a domination and/or profit and loss transfer agreement (Beherrschungs- und/oder Gewinnabführungsvertrag); or

(v) if and to the extent the German Obligor holds at the point in time where a Demand (as defined below) is made a fully recoverable indemnity claim or claim for refund (vollwertiger Gegenleistungs-oder Rückgewähranspruch) against the relevant Grantor whose obligations are secured by the Guaranty that can be accounted for in the balance sheet of the German Obligor at full value (vollwertig).

(vi) In this entire Section 10:

“Net Assets” means an amount equal to the sum of the amounts of the German Obligor’s assets (consisting of all assets which correspond to the items set forth in section 266 para. 2 A, B, C, D and E of the German Commercial Code (Handelsgesetzbuch, “HGB)) less the aggregate amount of the German Obligor’s liabilities (consisting of all liabilities and liability reserves which correspond to the items set forth in section 266 para. 3 B, C, D and E HGB), save that any obligations (Verbindlichkeiten) of the German Obligor and in accordance with the generally accepted accounting principles applicable from time to time in Germany (Grundsätze ordnungsmäßiger Buchführung) and be based on the same principles that were applied by the German Obligor in the preparation of its most recent annual balance sheet (Jahresbilanz).

(c) The managing directors on behalf of the German Obligor must confirm in writing to the Collateral Agent (together with a calculation in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent (acting reasonably)) by not later than twenty (20) Business Days after the German Obligor’s receipt of a demand from the Collateral Agent (a “Demand”) to enforce the Guaranty granted by the German Obligor (the “Management Determination Delivery Period”):

(a) to what extent the Guaranty form an Up-Stream and/or Cross-Stream Guaranty; and

(b) which amount of such Up-Stream and/or Cross-Stream Guaranty cannot be enforced as it would lead to a situation where:

(i) the Net Assets (Reinvermögen) are not sufficient to maintain the registered share capital (Stammkapital) of the German Obligor (Entstehen einer Unterbilanz); or

 

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(ii) an existing shortfall of the Net Assets of the German Obligor would be further increased (Vertiefung einer bestehenden Unterbilanz);

provided that the amounts shall be calculated for the purposes of this paragraph on the basis of the registered share capital and the amount of Net Assets (in each case calculated as set out in Sections 10(a) and 10(b) above) shown in interim balance sheets of the German Obligor as of the relevant point in time prepared by its management (“Management’s Determination”), a copy of which shall be made available to the Collateral Agent within 30 Business Days of the German Obligor’s receipt of such Demand. The Management’s Determination shall be made as of the date of the respective German Obligor’s receipt of the Demand.

If the Management’s Determination is not provided within the Management Determination Delivery Period, the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to enforce the Guaranty (or any of them) without any limitation or restriction under this Section 10. If the Management Determination is provided within the Management Determination Delivery Period, the Collateral Agent shall without any further limitation or restriction in any event be entitled to enforce the Guaranty for any amounts where such enforcement would, in accordance with the Management Determination, not cause that the German Obligor’s Net Assets to be less than (or to fall further below) the amount of its respective registered share capital (in each case as calculated and adjusted in accordance with Sections 10(a) and 10(b) above and taking into account any proceeds resulting from a realization of assets in accordance with Section 10(g) below).

(d) Following the Collateral Agent’s receipt of the Management’s Determination, the German Obligor shall not later than twenty (20) Business Days after a request of the Collateral Agent obtain and provide the Collateral Agent with a determination by auditors of a standing and repute normally used appointed by the German Obligor either confirming the Management Determination or setting out deviations from the Management Determination (the “Auditor’s Determination”) (such determination to take into account the balance sheet adjustments set out in Section 10(a) and the methods of calculation in Section 10(b) and any proceeds actually received from a realization of assets in accordance with Section 10(g) below).

(e) The further enforcement of the Guaranty shall be limited, if and to the extent such enforcement of the Guaranty would, in accordance with the Auditor’s Determination, cause German Obligor’s Net Assets, as applicable to be less than (or fall further below) the amount of its share capital (in each case as calculated and adjusted in accordance with Sections 10(a) and 10(b) above and taking into account any proceeds resulting from a realization of assets in accordance with Section 10(g) below).

(f) The Collateral Agent, or, if and to the extent already distributed by the Collateral Agent to the Investors and/or the Noteholders, as the case may be, the Investors and the Noteholders, as the case may be, shall upon written demand of the German Obligor to the Collateral Agent repay any amount received from the German Obligor or from the realization proceeds of the enforcement of the Guaranty granted by the German Obligor which pursuant to the Auditor’s Determination would not have been available for enforcement.

(g) If the Management’s Determination does not show sufficient assets to maintain the German Obligor’s registered share capital, the German Obligor shall realize to the extent legally permitted and in the German Obligor’s opinion and commercially justified (with regard to the costs and effort involved in such realization) any and all of its assets that are shown in the balance sheet with a book value (Buchwert) that is significantly lower than the market value of the assets, if the relevant asset is not necessary for the German Obligor’s operational business (nicht betriebsnotwendig).

 

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SECTION 11 English Guarantee Limitation.

Any guarantee granted by a Guarantor incorporated under the laws of England and Wales under this Agreement or any of the other Transaction Documents shall not apply to any liability to the extent that it would result in such guarantee constituting unlawful financial assistance within the meaning of sections 678 or 679 of the Companies Act 2006.

SECTION 12 Notices, Etc. Any notices, consents, waivers or other communications required or permitted to be given under the terms of this Guaranty must be in writing and will be deemed to have been delivered: (i) upon receipt, when delivered personally; (ii) upon receipt, when sent by email or other electronic transmission (provided that such sent email is kept on file (whether electronically or otherwise) by the sending party and the sending party does not receive an automatically generated message from the recipient’s email server that such email could not be delivered to such recipient); or (iii) one (1) Business Day after deposit with an nationally recognized overnight courier service with next day delivery specified, in each case, properly addressed to the party to receive the same. All notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be sent, if to any Guarantor, to the Company’s address and/or email address, or if to the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder, to it at its respective address and/or email address, each as set forth in Section 8(f) of the Securities Purchase Agreement, but shall at any rate not be sent to an address, e-mail address or fax number with an Austrian nexus.

SECTION 13 Governing Law; Jurisdiction. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Guaranty shall be governed by the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of New York. Each Guarantor 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 under any of the other Transaction Documents or with any transaction contemplated hereby or thereby, and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim, obligation or defense that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum or that the venue of such suit, action or proceeding is improper. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof to such party at the address for such notices to it under Section 8(f) of the Securities Purchase Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any manner permitted by law. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed or operate to preclude the Collateral Agent or the Noteholders from bringing suit or taking other legal action against any Guarantor in any other jurisdiction to collect on a Guarantor’s obligations or to enforce a judgment or other court ruling in favor of the Collateral Agent or an Noteholder.

SECTION 14 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL, ETC. EACH GUARANTOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO, AND AGREES NOT TO REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER OR UNDER ANY OTHER TRANSACTION DOCUMENT OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF THIS GUARANTY, ANY OTHER TRANSACTION DOCUMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY.

 

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SECTION 15 Taxes.

(a) All payments made by any Guarantor hereunder or under any other Transaction Document shall be made in accordance with the terms of the respective Transaction Document and shall be made without set-off, counterclaim, withholding, deduction or other defense. Without limiting the foregoing, all such payments shall be made free and clear of and without deduction or withholding for any present or future taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings, and all liabilities with respect thereto, excluding taxes imposed on the net income of the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder by the jurisdiction in which the Collateral Agent or such Noteholder is organized or where it has its principal lending office (all such nonexcluded taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges, withholdings and liabilities, collectively or individually, “Taxes”). If any Guarantor shall be required to deduct or to withhold any Taxes from or in respect of any amount payable hereunder or under any other Transaction Document:

(i) the amount so payable shall be increased to the extent necessary so that after making all required deductions and withholdings (including Taxes on amounts payable to the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder pursuant to this sentence) the Collateral Agent or each Noteholder receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made,

(ii) such Guarantor shall make such deduction or withholding,

(iii) such Guarantor shall pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law, and

(iv) as promptly as possible thereafter, such Guarantor shall send the Collateral Agent or each Noteholder an official receipt (or, if an official receipt is not available, such other documentation as shall be satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, as the case may be) showing payment. In addition, each Guarantor agrees to pay any present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies that arise from any payment made hereunder or from the execution, delivery, registration or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Guaranty or any other Transaction Document (collectively, “Other Taxes”).

(b) Each Guarantor hereby indemnifies and agrees to hold each Indemnitee harmless from and against Taxes or Other Taxes (including, without limitation, any Taxes or Other Taxes imposed by any jurisdiction on amounts payable under this Section 15) paid by any Indemnitee as a result of any payment made hereunder or from the execution, delivery, registration or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Guaranty or any other Transaction Document, and any liability (including penalties, interest and expenses for nonpayment, late payment or otherwise) arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally asserted. This indemnification shall be paid within thirty (30) days from the date on which the Collateral Agent or such Noteholder makes written demand therefor, which demand shall identify the nature and amount of such Taxes or Other Taxes.

(c) If any Guarantor fails to perform any of its obligations under this Section 13, such Guarantor shall indemnify the Collateral Agent and each Noteholder for any taxes, interest or penalties that may become payable as a result of any such failure. The obligations of the Guarantors under this Section 13 shall survive the termination of this Guaranty and the payment of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable hereunder.

SECTION 16 Right of Contribution.

(a) Each Guarantor agrees that to the extent that any Guarantor shall have paid more than its proportionate share of any payment made hereunder in respect of any Guaranteed Obligations of any other Guarantor, such Guarantor shall be entitled to seek and receive contribution from and against any other Guarantor which has not paid its proportionate share of such payment.

 

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(b) Each Guarantor’s right of contribution under this Section 16 shall be subject to the terms and conditions of Section 5. The provisions of this Section 16 shall in no respect limit the obligations and liabilities of the Company or any other Guarantor to the Collateral Agent and the Noteholders, and each Guarantor shall remain jointly and severally liable to the Collateral Agent and the Noteholders for the full amount of the Guaranteed Obligations. Each Guarantor agrees to contribute, to the maximum extent permitted by law, such amounts to each other Guarantor so as to maximize the aggregate amount paid to the Noteholders under or in respect of the Transaction Documents.

SECTION 17 Indemnification.

(a) Without limitation of any other obligations of any Guarantor or remedies of the Collateral Agent or the Noteholders under this Guaranty or applicable law, each Guarantor shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, indemnify, defend and save and hold harmless the Collateral Agent and each other Indemnitee (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) to the same extent and subject to the same terms that the Company has agreed to indemnify the Indemnities under Section 8(k) of the Securities Purchase Agreement, which Section 8(k) is hereby incorporated by reference, mutatis mutandis.

(b) Each Guarantor hereby also agrees that none of the Indemnitees shall have any liability (whether direct or indirect, in contract, tort or otherwise) or any fiduciary duty or obligation to any of the Guarantors or any of their respective affiliates or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents and advisors, and each Guarantor hereby agrees not to assert any claim against any Indemnitee on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential, incidental or punitive damages arising out of or otherwise relating to this Guaranty, the other Transaction Documents or any of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.

SECTION 18 Miscellaneous.

(a) Each Guarantor will make each payment hereunder in lawful money of the United States of America and in immediately available funds to the Collateral Agent or each Noteholder, at such address specified by the Collateral Agent or such Noteholder from time to time by notice to the Guarantors.

(b) No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Guaranty and no consent to any departure by any Guarantor therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by each Guarantor, the Collateral Agent and each Noteholder, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given.

(c) No failure on the part of the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right or remedy hereunder or under any other Transaction Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right hereunder or under any Transaction Document preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or remedy. The rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent and the Noteholders provided herein and in the other Transaction Documents are cumulative and are in addition to, and not exclusive of, any rights or remedies provided by law. The rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent and the Noteholders under any Transaction Document against any party thereto are not conditional or contingent on any attempt by the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder to exercise any of their respective rights or remedies under any other Transaction Document against such party or against any other Person.

(d) Any provision of this Guaranty that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction or with respect to any Guarantor shall, as to such jurisdiction or Guarantor, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining portions hereof or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction or against any other Guarantor.

(e) For so long as any Notes remain outstanding, upon any entity becoming a direct, or indirect, Subsidiary of the Company, the Company shall cause each such Subsidiary to become party to the Guaranty by executing a joinder to the Guaranty reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Required Holders.

 

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(f) This Guaranty and the other Transaction Documents reflect the entire understanding of the transaction contemplated hereby and shall not be contradicted or qualified by any other agreement, oral or written, entered into before the date hereof.

(g) Section headings herein are included for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part of this Guaranty for any other purpose.

SECTION 19 Currency Indemnity.

If, for the purpose of obtaining or enforcing judgment against Guarantor in any court in any jurisdiction, it becomes necessary to convert into any other currency (such other currency being hereinafter in this Section 19 referred to as the “Judgment Currency”) an amount due under this Guaranty in any currency (the “Obligation Currency”) other than the Judgment Currency, the conversion shall be made at the rate of exchange prevailing on the Business Day immediately preceding the date on which the judgment is given (such date being hereinafter in this Section 19 referred to as the “Judgment Conversion Date”).

If, in the case of any proceeding in the court of any jurisdiction referred to in the preceding paragraph, there is a change in the rate of exchange prevailing between the Judgment Conversion Date and the date of actual payment of the amount due in immediately available funds, the Guarantors shall pay such additional amount (if any, but in any event not a lesser amount) as may be necessary to ensure that the amount actually received in the Judgment Currency, when converted at the rate of exchange prevailing on the date of payment, will produce the amount of the Obligation Currency which could have been purchased with the amount of the Judgment Currency stipulated in the judgment or judicial order at the rate of exchange prevailing on the Judgment Conversion Date. If the amount of the Judgment Currency actually paid is greater than the sum originally due to the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder in the Obligation Currency, the Collateral Agent or such Noteholder agrees to return the amount of any excess to the Company (or to any other Person who may be entitled thereto under applicable law). Any amount due from the Guarantors under this Section 19 shall be due as a separate debt and shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other amounts due under or in respect of this Guaranty.

SECTION 20 Joinder of Additional Guarantors. Any Subsidiary of the Company may become a Guarantor under this Guaranty by executing and delivering to the Collateral Agent a joinder agreement in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.

SECTION 21 Intercreditor Agreement. With respect to any Guarantor, this Agreement is subject in all respects (including with respect to all obligations and agreements of the Guarantors provided for hereunder) to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement and if any provision in this Agreement expressly conflicts with any provision in the Intercreditor Agreement, the provisions in the Intercreditor Agreement shall govern and control.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Guarantor has caused this Guaranty to be executed by its respective duly authorized officer, as of the date first above written.

 

GUARANTORS:
FISKER INC.
By:  

/s/ Geeta Gupta-Fisker

  Name:   Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
FISKER GROUP INC.
By:  

/s/ Geeta Gupta-Fisker

  Name:   Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
FISKER GMBH (Germany)
By:  

/s/ Geeta Gupta-Fisker

  Name:   Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker
  Title:   Director
TERRA ENERGY INC.
By:  

/s/ Geeta Gupta-Fisker

  Name:   Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
PLATINUM IPR LLC
By:    

/s/ Geeta Gupta-Fisker

  Name:   Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker
  Title:   Authorized Officer
FISKER TN LLC
By:  

/s/ Geeta Gupta-Fisker

  Name:   Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker
  Title:   President

[Signature Page to Guaranty]


BLUE CURRENT HOLDING LLC
By:  

/s/ Geeta Gupta-Fisker

  Name:   Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker
  Title:   President
FISKER FRANCE SAS
By:  

/s/ Geeta Gupta-Fisker

  Name:   Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker
  Title:   Director
FISKER (GB) LIMITED
By:  

/s/ Geeta Gupta-Fisker

  Name:   Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker
  Title:   Director

[Signature Page to Guaranty]


CVI INVESTMENTS, INC.,

as Collateral Agent

By: Heights Capital Management, Inc., its authorized agent
By:  
  Name:
  Title:

[Signature Page to Guaranty]


EXHIBIT A

FORM OF JOINDER AGREEMENT

[Intentionally Omitted]

Exhibit 99.1

 

LOGO

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FISKER RAISES ADDITIONAL CAPITAL FROM EXISTING INVESTOR; FUNDING IS $3.456 MILLION; POTENTIAL TO INCREASE TO $7.5 MILLION

LOS ANGELES (May 13, 2024) – Fisker Inc. (“Fisker”), driven by a mission to create the world’s most emotional and sustainable electric vehicles, announced today the signing of a securities purchase agreement in connection with an offering (the “Offering”) of $3,456,000 in aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2024 (the “Notes”) to an existing institutional investor (the “Investor”), resulting in gross proceeds of $3,456,000 to Fisker and the potential to increase the aggregate principal amount of the Notes to $7,500,000. The Notes bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the three-month Secured Overnight Financing Rate plus 12%.

The Offering closed on May 10, 2024.

Fisker intends to use the gross proceeds from the Offering to finance expenses consistent with the approved budget approved by the Investor.

The Notes will mature on June 24, 2024.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities described herein, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

Further information about the Offering is contained in our Form 8-K filed with the SEC concurrently with this press release.

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Contact:

Fisker Inc. Communications:

Matthew DeBord

VP, Communications

mdebord@fiskerinc.com

Investor Relations:

Eric Goldstein

Head of Investor Relations

egoldstein@fiskerinc.com

US Media

Fisker@GODRIVEN360.com

European Media:

Press.europe@fiskerinc.com

Customer service:

Support@fiskerinc.com

About Fisker Inc.

California-based Fisker Inc. is revolutionizing the automotive industry by developing the most emotionally desirable and eco-friendly electric vehicles on Earth. Passionately driven by the vision of a clean future for all, the company is on a mission to become the No. 1 e-mobility service provider with the world’s most sustainable vehicles. To learn more, visit www.FiskerInc.com – and enjoy exclusive content across Fisker’s social media channels: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn.

Download the revolutionary new Fisker mobile app from the App Store or Google Play store.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release includes forward-looking statements, which are subject to the “safe harbor” provisions of the US Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements may be identified by words such as “feel,” “believes,” “expects,” “estimates,” “projects,” “intends,” “should,” “is to be,” or the negative of such terms, or other comparable terminology and include, among other things, the Offering and issuance of additional notes pursuant to the securities purchase agreement, the Company’s future performance, expansion of operations, and other future events that involve risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained herein due to many factors, including, but not limited to: Fisker’s limited operating history; Fisker’s ability to continue as a going concern; Fisker’s ability to enter into additional manufacturing and other contracts with Magna, OEMs, or tier-one suppliers in order to execute on its business plan; the risk that OEM and supply partners do not meet agreed-upon timelines or experience capacity constraints; Fisker may experience significant delays in the design, manufacture, regulatory approval, launch and financing of its vehicles; Fisker’s ability to execute its business model, including market acceptance of its planned products and services; Fisker’s inability to retain key personnel and to hire additional personnel; competition in the electric vehicle market; Fisker’s inability to develop a sales distribution or dealership network; and the ability to protect its intellectual property rights; and those factors discussed in Fisker’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, under the heading “Risk Factors”, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), as supplemented by Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and other reports and documents Fisker files from time to time with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and Fisker undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release.

 

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