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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): September 25, 2023

 

NKGen Biotech, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware   001-40427   86-2191918
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation)
  (Commission File Number)   (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

  

3001 Daimler Street

Santa Ana, CA 92705

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

 

(949)396-6830 

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Not Applicable

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class

 

Trading
Symbol(s)

 

Name of each
exchange on which
registered

Units, each consisting of one share of common stock and one-fifth of one redeemable warrant   GFOR.U   The New York Stock Exchange
Common stock, par value $0.0001 per share   GFOR   The New York Stock Exchange
Redeemable warrants, each warrant exercisable for one share of common stock, each at an exercise price of $11.50   GFOR. WS   The New York Stock Exchange

  

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 x

 

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.

 

As previously announced, on September 29, 2023, NKGen Biotech, Inc. (formerly known as Graf Acquisition Corp. IV), a Delaware corporation (“Graf,” before the closing of the Business Combination, or “New NKGen” after the closing of the Business Combination), NKGen Operating Biotech, Inc. (formerly known as NKGen Biotech, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (“Legacy NKGen,” before the closing of the Business Combination, or “Legacy NKGen”), and Austria Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Merger Sub”), consummated the merger transactions contemplated by that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of April 14, 2023 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and between New NKGen, Legacy NKGen and Merger Sub, pursuant to which Merger Sub merged with and into Legacy NKGen with the separate corporate existence of Merger Sub ceasing (the “Merger” and, together with the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the “Business Combination”).

 

Warrant Subscription Agreements

 

As previously announced, in connection with the Business Combination, on September 19, 2023, Graf entered into a subscription agreement (the “Initial Warrant Subscription Agreement”) with certain investors (the “Initial Warrant Investors”), pursuant to which the investors thereto agreed to purchase an aggregate of 1,999,998 warrants at a purchase price of $1.00 per warrant (the “Initial Subscribed Warrants”). 

 

On September 27, 2023, Graf and the Initial Warrant Investors entered into an amendment and restatement of the Initial Warrant Subscription Agreement (the “Amended and Restated Warrant Subscription Agreement”), pursuant to which, among other things, Graf agreed to, within six months, use its commercially reasonable efforts to explore the feasibility of, and commence certain preliminary steps with the purpose of, making the Initial Subscribed Warrants a DTC eligible security and quoted on the over-the-counter (OTC) market, subject to existing warrant investors’ consent, and the parties amended certain mechanisms for determining the exercise price of the Initial Subscribed Warrants, as described in more detail below. 

 

On September 26, 2023 and September 27, 2023, Graf entered into additional subscription agreements (the “Additional Warrant Subscription Agreements” and together with the Amended and Restated Warrant Subscription Agreement, the “Warrant Subscription Agreements”), in substantially the same form as the Amended and Restated Warrant Subscription Agreement, with additional investors (the “New Warrant Investors” and together with the Initial Warrant Investors, the “Investors”) to purchase an aggregate of 8,209,996 additional warrants at a purchase price of $1.00 per warrant (the “Additional Subscribed Warrants” and together with the Initial Subscribed Warrants, the “Subscribed Warrants”).  

 

Pursuant to the Warrant Subscription Agreements, the Subscribed Warrants will be exercisable for cash (or by “cashless” exercise under certain circumstances) during the five-year period beginning on the date of the Closing (the “Closing Date”). One-third of the Subscribed Warrants will be exercisable initially at $10.00 (the “First Tranche”), one-third of the Subscribed Warrants will be exercisable initially at $12.50 (the “Second Tranche”), and one-third of the Subscribed Warrants will be exercisable initially at $15.00 (the “Third Tranche”). The exercise price of each tranche will be subject to adjustment every 180 days after the Closing Date (the “Reset Date”), such that the reset exercise price (the “Reset Price”) of the First Tranche will be the higher of (A) the lower of (x) the volume-weighted average price of the common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of New NKGen (the “Common Stock,” including the common stock of Graf prior to the Closing) during the 30 day period immediately prior to the Reset Date and (y) the exercise price on the previous Reset Date (or, on the first Reset Date, the original exercise price) (the lower of (x) and (y), the “Test Price”), and (B) $5.00 (the “Downside Protection Threshold Price”) (the higher of (A) and (B), the “Reset Price”). The exercise price of the Second Tranche will be reset to the greater of the (x) the Downside Protection Threshold Price and (y)125% of the Reset Price and the exercise price of the Third Tranche will be reset to the greater of the (x) the Downside Protection Threshold Price and (y) 150% of the Reset Price. Additionally, beginning on the date that is 180 days after the Closing Date, if New NKGen issues shares of Common Stock or securities that are convertible into or exercisable for shares of Common Stock at an effective price per share less than the then existing Reset Price, subject to certain carve-outs, then the exercise price will be reset upon the consummation of such dilutive offering. The exercise price of the First Tranche will be reset to the higher of (A) the price of such dilutive offering and (B) the Downside Protection Threshold Price (the higher of (A) and (B), the “Dilutive Offering Reset Price”); the exercise price of the Second Tranche will be reset to the greater of the (x) the Downside Protection Threshold Price and (y)125% of the Dilutive Offering Reset Price; and the exercise price of the Third Tranche will be reset to the greater of the (x) the Downside Protection Threshold Price and (y)150% of the Dilutive Offering Reset Price.

 

 

 

 

In the event that the Test Price or Dilutive Offering Reset Price is less than the Downside Protection Threshold Price but is greater than or equal to $1.50, the Investor may, in its sole option, demand a cashless exchange of any singular tranche of the Subscribed Warrants and receive a number of shares of Common Stock (the “Warrant Shares”) equal to (i) the number of shares being exercised divided by (ii)(x) the Test Price or Dilutive Offering Reset Price (which shall not be less than $1.50) divided by (y) $1.50 (the “Downside Protection” and such Warrant Shares, the “Downside Protection Shares”). In the event that the Test Price or Dilutive Offering Reset Price is less than $1.50, then in addition to issuing the Downside Protection Shares, the Company will pay the Investor a cash amount equal to the product of (A) the difference between the Exercise Price and $1.50 multiplied by (B) the number of shares for which the Investor has demanded Downside Protection (the “Downside Protection Cash”). Demand of the Downside Protection is available for only one tranche of the Subscribed Warrants at a time. Downside Protection for the other traches of Subscribed Warrants shall be triggered only if, at the next Reset Date (x) with respect to the First Tranche the Exercise Price is lower than the Downside Protection Threshold Price, (y) with respect to the Second Tranche, 125% of the Test Price is lower than the Downside Protection Threshold Price, or (z) with respect to the Third Tranche, 150% of the Test Price is lower than the Downside Protection Threshold Price.

 

If the Investor demands the Downside Protection, New NKGen will have the right, exercisable within two business days following the Investor’s demand of the Downside Protection, to repurchase the warrants for which Downside Protection is demanded for $1.75 in cash per warrant in lieu of issuing Downside Protection Shares and Downside Protection Cash (if applicable).

 

The Subscribed Warrants are also subject to customary transaction-based antidilution adjustments for stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations, recapitalizations or other similar transactions.

 

The Warrant Subscription Agreements are expected to be consummated substantially concurrently with the Closing of the Business Combination. The consummation of the Warrant Subscription Agreements is conditioned on, among other things, (i) the satisfaction or waiver of all conditions precedent to the Business Combination and the substantially concurrent consummation of the Business Combination, (ii) the accuracy of all representations and warranties of Graf and the Investors in the Warrant Subscription Agreement, subject to certain bring-down standards, (iii) the satisfaction of all covenants, agreements, and conditions required to be performed by Graf and the Investors pursuant to the Warrant Subscription Agreements, (iv) the listing of New NKGen’s Common Stock, including the Warrant Shares, on the Nasdaq Stock Market, subject only to official notice of issuance, (v) except for certain carve-outs, the Business Combination Agreement shall not have been amended, modified, supplemented or waived in a manner reasonably expected to materially adversely affect the economic benefits that the Investor would reasonably expect to receive under the Warrant Subscription Agreement, (vi) the Lockup Agreement described in Graf’s definitive proxy statement/prospectus being in effect as of the Closing Date, and (vii) NKGen having entered into agreements with other investors for one or more private financings not to exceed $85 million which will have been consummated prior to the Closing. The Warrant Subscription Agreement provides customary registration rights to the Investors with respect to the Warrant Shares.

 

As previously disclosed, pursuant to the Initial Warrant Subscription Agreement, if Graf does not sell $9,999,999 worth of Subscribed Warrants prior to the Closing Date, Graf will have no obligation to consummate the sale of the Initial Subscribed Warrants. With the entry of the Additional Warrant Subscription Agreements, Graf has entered into agreements to sell an aggregate of $10,209,994 worth of Subscribed Warrants prior to the Closing Date.

 

The description of the Warrant Subscription Agreements contained herein is not intended to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the form of the Additional Warrant Subscription Agreements and the Amended and Restated Warrant Subscription Agreement, which are attached as Exhibit 10.1 and Exhibit 10.2 hereto and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

 

 

 

Forward Purchase Transactions

 

As previously announced, in connection with the Business Combination, on September 22, 2023, Graf and Legacy NKGen entered into a forward purchase agreement (the “Meteora Forward Purchase Agreement”) and a subscription agreement (the “Meteora FPA Funding Amount PIPE Subscription Agreement”) with each of (i) Meteora Strategic Capital, LLC (“MSC”), Meteora Capital Partners, LP (“MCP”) and Meteora Select Trading Opportunities Master, LP (“MSTO”) (with MSC, MCP, and MSTO collectively as “Meteora”) for an OTC Equity Prepaid Forward Transaction.

 

Sandia Forward Purchase Agreement 

 

On September 26, 2023, Graf and Legacy NKGen entered into an additional forward purchase agreement (the “Sandia Forward Purchase Agreement”), in substantially the same form as the Meteora Forward Purchase Agreement, with Sandia Investment Management LP (“Sandia”) on behalf of the investors thereto (collectively, “Sellers”). For purposes of the Sandia Forward Purchase Agreement, “Counterparty” refers to Graf prior to the consummation of the Business Combination and New NKGen after the consummation of the Business Combination. Capitalized terms used in this section but not otherwise defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Sandia Forward Purchase Agreement.

 

Pursuant to the terms of the Sandia Forward Purchase Agreement, the Seller intends, but is not obligated, to purchase up to 471,000 shares of Common Stock concurrently with the Closing. The Number of Shares (as defined in the Sandia Forward Purchase Agreement) subject to the agreement is subject to reduction following a termination of the Sandia Forward Purchase Agreement with respect to such shares as described under “Optional Early Termination” in the Sandia Forward Purchase Agreement.

 

The Sandia Forward Purchase Agreement provides that Seller will be paid an aggregate cash amount (the “Prepayment Amount”) equal to the product of (i) the Number of Shares as set forth in each Pricing Date Notice and (ii) the Redemption price per share as defined in Section 9.2(a) of Graf’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the “Redemption Price”) less (iii) an amount in USD equal to 0.50% of the product of (i) the Recycled Shares multiplied by (ii) the Redemption Price paid by Seller to Counterparty on the Prepayment Date (which amount shall be netted from the Prepayment Amount) (the “Prepayment Shortfall”).

 

The Counterparty will pay to the Escrow Agent for the benefit of the Seller the Prepayment Amount required under the Sandia Forward Purchase Agreement directly from the Counterparty’s Trust Account maintained by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company (“Continental”) holding the net proceeds of the sale of the units in the Counterparty’s initial public offering and the sale of private placement warrants (the “Trust Account”) no later than the earlier of (a) one business day after the Closing Date and (b) the date any assets from the Trust Account are disbursed in connection with the Business Combination. Simultaneously with the Closing, Graf will deposit the Prepayment Amount into an escrow account for the benefit of the Seller (the “Escrow Account”) with Continental (in such capacity, the “Escrow Agent”). The funds will be released from the escrow account to the Seller and Counterparty as further described below.

 

Following the Closing, the reset price (the “Reset Price”) will initially be the Redemption Price; provided, however, that the Reset Price may be reduced immediately to any lower price at which the Counterparty sells, issues or grants any Common Stock or securities convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock (excluding any secondary transfers) (a “Dilutive Offering”), then the Reset Price shall be modified to equal such reduced price as of such date.

 

From time to time and on any date following the Trade Date (any such date, an “OET Date”), Seller may, in its absolute discretion, terminate the Sandia Forward Purchase Agreement in whole or in part by providing written notice to the Counterparty and, if applicable, the Escrow Agent (the “OET Notice”), no later than the next Payment Date following the OET Date (which shall specify the quantity by which the Number of Shares shall be reduced (such quantity, the “Terminated Shares”)); provided that “Terminated Shares” includes only such quantity of Shares by which the Number of Shares is to be reduced and included in an OET Notice and does not include any other Share sales, Shortfall Sale Shares or sales of Shares that are designated as Shortfall Sales (which designation can be made only up to the amount of Shortfall Sale Proceeds), any Share Consideration sales or any other Shares, whether or not sold, which shares will not be included in any OET Notice when calculating the number of Terminated Shares. The effect of an OET Notice shall be to reduce the Number of Shares by the number of Terminated Shares specified in such OET Notice with effect as of the related OET Date. As of each OET Date, the Counterparty shall be entitled to an amount from the Escrow Account, and the Escrow Agent shall pay to the Counterparty an amount, equal to the product of (x) the number of Terminated Shares and (y) the Reset Price in respect of such OET Date, except that no such amount will be due to Counterparty upon any Shortfall Sale. The payment date may be changed within a quarter at the mutual agreement of the parties.

 

 

 

 

The Sandia Forward Purchase Agreement matures on the earliest to occur of (a) 12 months after of the Closing Date, (b) the date specified by a Seller in a written notice to be delivered to the Counterparty at a Seller’s discretion (which Valuation Date shall not be earlier than the day such notice is effective) after the occurrence of any of (w) a VWAP Trigger Event (x) a Delisting Event, (y) a Registration Failure or (z) unless otherwise specified therein, upon any Additional Termination Event.

 

Upon receipt by the Escrow Agent and the Counterparty of an OET Notice, resulting in a reduction to the Number of Shares, the Escrow Agent will release from the Escrow Account (a) to the Counterparty the Early Termination Obligation associated with such Terminated Shares and (b) to the Seller an amount in cash equal to the difference between the Initial Price (as defined in the Forward Purchase Agreement) and Early Termination Obligation for each Terminated Share.

 

On the Cash Settlement Payment Date, which is the tenth business day following the last day of the valuation period commencing on the Valuation Date, the Escrow Agent will remit to the Counterparty an amount equal to the Settlement Amount (as determined in accordance with the section entitled “Settlement Amount” in the Forward Purchase Agreement) less the Settlement Amount Adjustment (as determined in accordance with the terms of the section entitled “Settlement Amount Adjustment” in the Forward Purchase Agreement)(unless previously paid by the Counterparty in Maturity Shares) and will not otherwise be required to return to the Counterparty any of the Prepayment Amount, and the Escrow Agent shall remit from the Escrow Account to the Seller (i) unless previously paid by the Counterparty in Maturity Shares, the Settlement Amount Adjustment and (ii) all other amounts remaining in the Escrow Account; provided, that if the Settlement Amount less the Settlement Amount Adjustment is a negative number and either clause (x) of Settlement Amount Adjustment applies or the Counterparty has elected pursuant to clause (y) of Settlement Amount Adjustment to pay the Settlement Amount Adjustment in cash, then the Escrow Agent shall remit nothing from the Escrow Account to the Counterparty, and all amounts in the Escrow Account shall be paid by the Escrow Agent to the Seller.

 

Seller has agreed to waive any redemption rights under Graf’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, with respect to any Graf Common Stock purchased pursuant to the Sandia Forward Purchase Agreement in connection with the Business Combination, that would require redemption by Graf of the Common Stock. Such waiver may reduce the number of Graf Common Stock redeemed in connection with the Business Combination, and such reduction could alter the perception of the potential strength of the Business Combination. The Forward Purchase Agreement has been structured, and all activity in connection with such agreement has been undertaken, to comply with the requirements of all tender offer regulations applicable to the Business Combination, including Rule 14e-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).

 

Polar Forward Purchase Transactions

 

On September 29, 2023, Graf and Legacy NKGen entered into another forward purchase transaction (the “Polar Forward Transaction”), pursuant to a forward purchase agreement (the “Polar Forward Purchase Agreement”) and a subscription agreement (the “Polar FPA Funding Amount PIPE Subscription Agreement”), in substantially the same form as the Meteora Forward Purchase Agreement, and the Meteora FPA Funding Amount PIPE Subscription Agreement, respectively, with Polar Multi-Strategy Master Fund (“Polar”). Pursuant to the terms of the Polar Forward Purchase Agreement, Polar intends, but is not obligated, to purchase up 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock, concurrently with the Closing pursuant to Polar FPA Funding Amount PIPE Subscription Agreement in connection with the closing of the Business Combination.  

 

The foregoing summaries of the agreemets are qualified in its entirety by reference to the text of the Sandia Forward Purchase Agreement, Polar Forward Purchase Agreement and Polar FPA Funding Amount PIPE Subscription Agreement, which are filed as Exhibit 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

 

 

 

Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

 

The disclosure set forth above in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference herein. The Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares issuable as described above will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)Exhibits

 

Exhibit No.   Description
10.1   Form of Additional Warrant Subscription Agreement.
10.2   Amended and Restated Warrant Subscription Agreement, dated as of September 26, 2023.
10.3   Forward Purchase Agreement, dated as of September 26, 2023, by and among Graf, Legacy NKGen and Sandia Investment Management LP and certain other affiliates.
10.4   Forward Purchase Agreement, dated as of September 29, 2023, by and among Graf, Legacy NKGen and Polar Multi-Strategy Master Fund.
10.5   FPA Funding Amount Subscription Agreement, dated as of September 29, 2023, by and among Graf and Polar Multi-Strategy Master Fund.
104   Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)

 

 

 

 

SIGNATURE

 

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

 

  NKGEN BIOTECH, INC.
       
  By: /s/ Paul Y. Song, MD
    Name: Paul Y. Song, MD
    Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

Date: September 29, 2023

 

 

 

Exhibit 10.1

 

SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT

 

This SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT (this “Subscription Agreement”) is entered into on September [●], 2023, by and between Graf Acquisition Corp. IV, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and the undersigned subscriber (“Subscriber”).

 

WHEREAS, on April 14, 2023, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger with NKGen Biotech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“NKGen”), and the other parties thereto, providing for a business combination between the Company and NKGen (the “Business Combination Agreement” and the transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement, the “Transaction”);

 

WHEREAS, in connection with the Transaction, Subscriber desires to subscribe for and purchase from the Company, immediately prior to the consummation of the Transaction, that number of warrants set forth on the signature page hereto (the “Subscribed Warrants”), for a purchase price of $1.00 per Subscribed Warrant (the “Per Warrant Price” and the aggregate of such Per Warrant Price for all Subscribed Warrants being referred to herein as the “Purchase Price”), provided that the Subscriber must purchase no less than $3.00 of Subscribed Warrants and the Subscribed Warrants will be sold in denominations of $3.00, and the Company desires to issue and sell to Subscriber the Subscribed Warrants in consideration of the payment of the Purchase Price by or on behalf of Subscriber to the Company;

 

WHEREAS, the Subscribed Warrants will entitle the holder to purchase shares (“Warrant Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), upon substantially the terms included in the form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant set forth in Annex B (the “Common Stock Purchase Warrant”), with one-third of such Subscribed Warrants exercisable at an initial exercise price of $10.00, one-third of such Subscribed Warrants exercisable at an initial exercise price of $12.50 per warrant, and one-third of such Subscribed Warrants exercisable at an initial exercise price of $15.00 per warrant, in each case subject to adjustment; and

 

WHEREAS, on or about the date of this Subscription Agreement, the Company is entering into subscription agreements (the “Other Subscription Agreements” and together with the Subscription Agreement, the “Subscription Agreements”) with certain other investors (the “Other Subscribers” and together with Subscriber, the “Subscribers”), pursuant to which such Subscribers have agreed to purchase Common Stock Purchase Warrants at the Per Warrant Price on the closing date of the Transaction.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual representations, warranties and covenants, and subject to the conditions, herein contained, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

 

Section 1.      Subscription. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, at the Closing (as defined below), Subscriber hereby subscribes for and agrees to purchase from the Company, and the Company hereby agrees to issue and sell to Subscriber, upon the payment of the Purchase Price, the Subscribed Warrants (such subscription and issuance, the “Subscription”).

 

Section 2.      Closing.

 

(a)          The consummation of the Subscription contemplated hereby (the “Closing”) shall occur on the closing date of the Transaction (the “Closing Date”), immediately prior to or substantially concurrently with the consummation of the Transaction.

 

 

 

 

(b)          At least one (1) Business Day before the anticipated Closing Date, the Company shall deliver written notice to Subscriber (the “Closing Notice”) specifying (i) the anticipated Closing Date and (ii) the wire instructions for delivery of the Purchase Price to the Company. No later than one (1) Business Day prior to the anticipated Closing Date as set forth in the Closing Notice, Subscriber shall deliver the Purchase Price for the Subscribed Warrants by wire transfer of United States dollars in immediately available funds to the account specified by the Company in the Closing Notice, such funds to be held by the Company in escrow or a segregated account until the Closing. Upon satisfaction (or, if applicable, waiver) of the conditions set forth in this Section 2, the Company shall deliver to Subscriber at the Closing a Common Stock Purchase Warrant representing the Subscribed Warrants in the form of Annex B hereto, free and clear of any liens, charges, mortgages, pledges, claims, equities, encumbrances and other third party rights or other restrictions (other than those arising under this Subscription Agreement, the organizational documents of the Company or applicable securities laws), in the name of Subscriber (or its nominee or custodian in accordance with its delivery instructions) (and the Purchase Price shall be released from escrow automatically and without further action by the Company or the Subscriber). In the event that the consummation of the Transaction does not occur within one (1) Business Day after the anticipated Closing Date specified in the Closing Notice, unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the Company and the Subscriber, the Company shall promptly (but in no event later than two (2) Business Days after the anticipated Closing Date specified in the Closing Notice) return the funds so delivered by Subscriber to the Company by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account specified by Subscriber, and the Common Stock Purchase Warrants and any records of the Subscribed Warrants on the Company’s books and records shall be deemed cancelled. Notwithstanding such return or cancellation (x) a failure to close on the anticipated Closing Date shall not, by itself, be deemed to be a failure of any of the conditions to Closing set forth in this Section 2 to be satisfied or waived on or prior to the Closing Date, and (y) unless and until this Subscription Agreement is terminated in accordance with Section 6 herein, Subscriber shall remain obligated (A) to redeliver funds to the Company following the Company’s delivery to Subscriber of a new Closing Notice in accordance with this Section 2 and (B) to consummate the Closing upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this Section 2. For the purposes of this Subscription Agreement, “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday, or any other day on which banks located in New York, New York are required or authorized by law to be closed for business.

 

(c)          The Closing shall be subject to the satisfaction, or valid waiver in writing by each of the parties hereto, of the conditions that, on the Closing Date:

 

(i)all conditions precedent to the closing of the Transaction set forth in Article IX of the Business Combination Agreement shall have been satisfied (as determined by the parties to the Business Combination Agreement) or waived in writing by the person(s) with the authority to make such waiver (other than those conditions which, by their nature, are to be satisfied at the closing of the Transaction pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement), and the closing of the Transaction shall be scheduled to occur substantially concurrently with the Closing;

 

(ii)no governmental authority shall have enacted, issued, promulgated, enforced or entered any judgment, order, law, rule or regulation (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) which is then in effect and has the effect of making the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby illegal or otherwise restraining or prohibiting consummation of the Subscription or the transactions contemplated hereby, and no governmental authority shall have instituted or threatened in writing a proceeding seeking to impose any such restraint or prohibition; and

 

(iii)the Company’s Common Stock (including the Warrant Shares) shall be approved for listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) subject only to official notice of issuance.

 

 

 

 

(d)          The obligation of the Company to consummate the Closing shall be subject to the satisfaction or valid waiver in writing by the Company of the additional conditions that, on the Closing Date:

 

(i)all representations and warranties of Subscriber contained in this Subscription Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality or Subscriber Material Adverse Effect (as defined below), which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) at and as of the Closing Date (except to the extent that any such representation and warranty expressly speaks as of an earlier date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality or Subscriber Material Adverse Effect, which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) as of such earlier date), and consummation of the Closing shall constitute a reaffirmation by Subscriber of each of the representations, warranties and agreements of Subscriber contained in this Subscription Agreement as of the Closing Date, but without giving effect to consummation of the Transaction, or as of such earlier date, as applicable, except, in each case, where the failure of such representations and warranties to be true and correct (whether as of the Closing Date or such earlier date), taken as a whole, does not result in a Subscriber Material Adverse Effect;

 

(ii)Subscriber shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with all covenants, agreements and conditions required by this Subscription Agreement to be performed, satisfied or complied with by it at or prior to the Closing; and

 

(iii)the Company shall have entered into Subscription Agreements with the Subscriber and Other Subscribers for the sale of an aggregate amount of no less than 9,999,999 Common Stock Purchase Warrants, at the Per Warrant Price for an aggregate purchase price, inclusive of the Purchase Price, of no less than $9,999,999.

 

(e)          The obligation of Subscriber to consummate the Closing shall be subject to the satisfaction or valid waiver in writing by Subscriber of the additional conditions that, on the Closing Date:

 

(i)all representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Subscription Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality or Company Material Adverse Effect (as defined below), which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) at and as of the Closing Date (except to the extent that any such representation or warranty expressly speaks as of an earlier date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality or Company Material Adverse Effect, which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) as of such earlier date), and consummation of the Closing shall constitute a reaffirmation by the Company of each of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company contained in this Subscription Agreement as of the Closing Date, but without giving effect to consummation of the Transaction, or as of such earlier date, as applicable, except, in each case, where the failure of such representations and warranties to be true and correct (whether as of the Closing Date or such earlier date), taken as a whole, does not result in a Company Material Adverse Effect;

 

 

 

 

(ii)the Company shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with all covenants, agreements and conditions required by this Subscription Agreement to be performed, satisfied or complied with by it at or prior to the Closing;

 

(iii)except (A) for a waiver of Section 9.02(e) with respect to the Company delivering the Closing deliverable specified in Section 2.06(b)(ii), (B) for a waiver of Section 9.03(f) of the Business Combination Agreement, and (C)to the extent consented to in writing by Subscriber, the Business Combination Agreement shall not have been amended, modified, supplemented or waived in a manner that would reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the economic benefits that Subscriber would reasonably expect to receive under this Subscription Agreement;

 

(iv)there shall have been no amendment, waiver or modification to the Other Subscription Agreements that materially benefits any Other Subscriber thereunder (other than terms particular to the legal or regulatory requirements of such Other Subscriber or its affiliates or related persons) unless the Subscriber has been offered substantially the same benefits;

 

(v)the Lockup Agreement substantially in the form described in the Definitive Proxy Statement Prospectus dated as of August 14, 2023 which is to be entered into by certain parties pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement, and the Sponsor Support and Lockup Agreement, dated as of April 14, 2023, by and among Graf Acquisition Partners IV LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, the Company, NKGen and the persons set forth on Schedule I thereto, each providing for the restriction of the transfer of shares of Common Stock of the Company by certain parties specified therein, will be in effect as of the Closing Date; and

 

(vi)NKGen shall have (A) entered into a subscription agreement, securities purchase agreement, side letter or other agreements (including convertible notes, promissory notes and warrants) with other investors associated with a private financing in one or a series of related transactions, not to exceed $85 million in the aggregate, and (B) consummated such private financing provided for thereby prior to the Closing of the Transaction.

 

(f)          Prior to or at the Closing, Subscriber shall deliver to the Company all such other information as is reasonably requested in order for the Company to issue the Subscribed Warrants to Subscriber, including, without limitation, the legal name of the person in whose name the Subscribed Warrants are to be issued (or the Subscriber’s nominee in accordance with its delivery instructions) and a duly completed and executed Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or appropriate Form W-8.

 

(g)          Each Common Stock Purchase Warrant representing the Subscribed Warrants shall contain a legend, and each book entry position or certificate (if any) evidencing the Warrant Shares shall be stamped or otherwise imprinted with a legend, in substantially the following form:

 

NEITHER THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS WARRANT NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THESE SECURITIES ARE EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (“SECURITIES ACT”), OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, PLEDGED, HEDGED, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED IN THE ABSENCE OF (A) AN EFFECTIVE AND AVAILABLE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND A CURRENT PROSPECTUS, (B) IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (C) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER APPLICABLE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. THE ISSUER OF THESE SECURITIES MAY REQUIRE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE ISSUER THAT SUCH OFFER, SALE, PLEDGE, HEDGE, TRANSFER OR ASSIGNMENT OTHERWISE COMPLIES WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE NUMBER OF SHARES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THIS WARRANT MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNTS SET FORTH ON THE FACE HEREOF PURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF THIS WARRANT.

 

 

 

 

Section 3.      Company Representations and Warranties. The Company represents and warrants to Subscriber that:

 

(a)          The Company (i) is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, (ii) has the requisite power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties, to carry on its business as it is now being conducted and to enter into and perform its obligations under this Subscription Agreement, and (iii) is duly licensed or qualified to conduct its business and, if applicable, is in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction (other than its jurisdiction of incorporation) in which the conduct of its business or the ownership of its properties or assets requires such license or qualification, except, with respect to the foregoing clause (iii), where the failure to be in good standing would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect. For purposes of this Subscription Agreement, a “Company Material Adverse Effect” means an event, change, development, occurrence, condition or effect with respect to the Company that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, financial condition, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company or its subsidiaries individually or taken as a whole, or materially affects the legal authority and ability of the Company to comply with the terms of this Subscription Agreement, including the issuance and sale of the Subscribed Warrants, or the Transaction.

 

(b)          Upon issuance in accordance with the terms of this Subscription Agreement against full payment therefor, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery by other parties hereto, the Subscribed Warrants will constitute the valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws affecting creditors generally and by the availability of equitable remedies. As of the Closing, the Company shall have reserved an amount of duly authorized shares of Common Stock that is equal to the number of Warrant Shares issuable upon the initial exercise of the Subscribed Warrants, and shall keep such number of shares of Common Stock as necessary to satisfy the exercise of the Subscribed Warrants at all times reserved for issuance until the earlier of the exercise of the Subscribed Warrants in full or the termination of the Subscribed Warrants in accordance with their terms. The Warrant Shares issued to Subscriber upon the exercise of any Subscribed Warrant will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

 

(c)          This Subscription Agreement has been duly authorized, validly executed and delivered by the Company, and assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of the same by Subscriber, this Subscription Agreement shall constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws affecting creditors generally and by the availability of equitable remedies.

 

(d)          Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of Subscriber set forth in Section 4 of this Subscription Agreement, the execution and delivery of this Subscription Agreement, the issuance and sale of the Subscribed Warrants hereunder, the compliance by the Company with all of the provisions of this Subscription Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any of the property or assets of the Company pursuant to the terms of (i) any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease, license or other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company is subject, (ii) the organizational documents of the Company, or (iii) any statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties that, in the case of clauses (i) and (iii), would reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect.

 

 

 

 

(e)          The Company is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other governmental authority, self-regulatory organization (including Nasdaq) or other person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of this Subscription Agreement (including, without limitation, the issuance of the Subscribed Warrants), other than (i) filings required by Regulation D of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws, (ii) the filing of the Registration Statement (as defined below) pursuant to Section 5 below, (iii) filings required by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), (iv) filings required by Nasdaq, including with respect to obtaining stockholder approval, if applicable, (v) filings required to consummate the Transaction as provided under the Business Combination Agreement, (vi) the filing of notification under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, if applicable, and (vii) those filings, the failure of which to obtain would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect.

 

(f)          Except for such matters as have not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect, there is no (i) suit, action, proceeding or arbitration before a governmental authority or arbitrator pending, or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened in writing against the Company or (ii) judgment, decree, injunction, ruling or order of any governmental authority or arbitrator outstanding against the Company.

 

(g)          Assuming the accuracy of Subscriber’s representations and warranties set forth in Section 4 of this Subscription Agreement, no registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) or any state securities (or Blue Sky) laws is required for the offer and sale of the Subscribed Warrants or Warrant Shares by the Company to Subscriber.

 

(h)          Neither the Company nor any person acting on its behalf has engaged or will engage in any form of general solicitation or general advertising (within the meaning of Regulation D) in connection with any offer or sale of the Subscribed Warrants or Warrant Shares. The Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares are not being offered in a manner involving a public offering under, or in a distribution in violation of, the Securities Act or any state securities laws. Neither the Company nor any person acting on the Company’s behalf has, directly or indirectly, at any time within the past six (6) months, made any offer or sale of any security or solicitation of any offer to buy any security under circumstances that would (i) eliminate the availability of the exemption from registration under Regulation D under the Securities Act in connection with the offer and sale by the Company of the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares as contemplated hereby or (ii) cause the offering of the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares pursuant to this Subscription Agreement to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of the Securities Act or any applicable stockholder approval provisions. Neither the Company nor any person acting on the Company’s behalf has offered or sold or will offer or sell any securities, or has taken or will take any other action, which would reasonably be expected to subject the offer, issuance or sale of the Subscribed Warrants or Warrant Shares, as contemplated hereby, to the registration provisions of the Securities Act.

 

(i)          The Company is in compliance with all applicable laws and has not received any written communication from a governmental entity that alleges that the Company is not in compliance with or is in default or violation of any applicable law, except where such non-compliance, default or violation would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect. The Company is in all material respects in compliance with applicable provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder.

 

 

 

 

(j)          The Common Stock is eligible for clearing through The Depository Trust Company (the “DTC”), through its Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian (DWAC) system, and the Company is eligible and participating in the Direct Registration System (DRS) of DTC with respect to the Common Stock. The Company’s transfer agent (the “Transfer Agent”) is a participant in DTC’s Fast Automated Securities Transfer Program. The Common Stock is not, and has not been at any time, subject to any DTC “chill,” “freeze” or similar restriction with respect to any DTC services, including the clearing of shares of Common Stock through DTC.

 

(k)          No broker or finder is entitled to any brokerage or finder’s fee or commission solely in connection with the sale of the Subscribed Warrants to Subscriber.

 

(l)          As of their respective dates, each form, report, statement, schedule, prospectus, proxy, registration statement and other document required to be filed by the Company with the Commission prior to the date hereof (the “SEC Documents”) complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder, and none of the SEC Documents, when filed, or if amended prior to the date of this Subscription Agreement, as of the date of such amendment with respect to those disclosures that were amended, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Documents comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, year-end audit adjustments, and such consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (“GAAP”) (except as may be disclosed therein or in the notes thereto, and except that the unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP). A copy of each SEC Document is available to each Subscriber via the Commission’s EDGAR system. The Company has timely filed each report, statement, schedule, prospectus, and registration statement that the Company was required to file with the Commission since its initial registration of the Common Stock with the Commission and through the date hereof. There are no material outstanding or unresolved comments in comment letters from the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) of the Commission with respect to any of the SEC Documents as of the date hereof.

 

(m)          As of the date hereof, the authorized share capital of the Company consists of 400,000,000 shares of Common Stock and 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Preferred Shares”). As of the date hereof: (i) 10,373,875 shares of Common Stock and no Preferred Shares were issued and outstanding; (ii) 3,432,300 warrants, each exercisable to purchase one share of Common Stock at $11.50 per share, and 4,721,533 private placement warrants, and (iii) each exercisable to purchase one share of Common Stock at $11.50 per share (together, “SPAC Warrants”), were issued and outstanding; and (iv) no Common Stock was subject to issuance upon exercise of outstanding options. No SPAC Warrants are exercisable on or prior to the Closing. All (A) issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are not subject to preemptive rights or similar and (B) outstanding SPAC Warrants have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and are not subject to preemptive or similar rights. As of the date hereof, except as set forth above and pursuant to (1) the Other Subscription Agreements, (2) the Backstop Agreement, dated as of April 14, 2023, by and between the Company and NKMAX Co., Ltd. (the “Backstop Agreement”), (3) the Business Combination Agreement, (4) a securities purchase agreement dated on or about the date hereof for the sale by the Company to certain investors of senior convertible notes and warrants (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”), or (5) as disclosed in the SEC Documents, there are no outstanding options, warrants or other rights to subscribe for, purchase or acquire from the Company any Common Stock or other equity interests in the Company (collectively, “Equity Interests”) or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Equity Interests. Except as set forth in the SEC Documents, as of the date hereof, the Company has no subsidiaries and does not own, directly or indirectly, interests or investments (whether equity or debt) in any person, whether incorporated or unincorporated. There are no stockholder agreements, voting trusts or other agreements or understandings to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound relating to the voting of any Equity Interests, other than as contemplated by (i) the Business Combination Agreement and (ii) that certain letter agreement, dated as of May 20, 2021, by and between the Company, Graf Acquisition Partners IV LLC and the other parties thereto (the “IPO Letter Agreement”). Except as described in the SEC Documents, there are no securities or instruments issued by or to which the Company is a party containing anti-dilution or similar provisions that will be triggered by the issuance of (i) the Subscribed Warrants or (ii) the Common Stock Purchase Warrants to be issued pursuant to any Other Subscription Agreement.

 

 

 

 

(n)          The issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and are listed for trading on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the symbol “GFOR.” There is no suit, action, proceeding or investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company by NYSE or the Commission with respect to any intention by such entity to deregister the shares of Common Stock or prohibit or terminate the listing of the shares of Common Stock on NYSE. The Company has taken no action that is designed to terminate the registration of the shares of Common Stock under the Exchange Act.

 

(o)          Upon consummation of the Transaction, the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock will continue to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and will be listed for trading on Nasdaq.

 

(p)          The Company is not, and immediately after receipt of payment for the Subscribed Warrants and consummation of the Transaction, will not be, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

(q)          The Company has not entered into any subscription agreement, side letter or other agreement with any Other Subscriber or any other investor in connection with such Other Subscriber’s or investor’s direct or indirect investment in the Company other than (i) the Other Subscription Agreements, (ii) the Backstop Agreement, (iii) the IPO Letter Agreement, and (iv) the Securities Purchase Agreement. The Other Subscription Agreements have not been amended in any material respect following the date of this Subscription Agreement and reflect the same Per Warrant Price and other terms with respect to the purchase of the Common Stock Purchase Warrants that are no more favorable to such Other Subscriber thereunder than the terms of this Subscription Agreement other than terms particular to the regulatory requirements of such Other Subscriber or its affiliates or related fund.

 

(r)          Neither the Company nor anyone acting on its behalf has, directly or indirectly, offered the Common Stock Purchase Warrants or any similar securities for sale to, or solicited any offer to buy the Common Stock Purchase Warrants or any similar securities from, or otherwise approached or negotiated in respect thereof with, any person other than the Subscriber and a limited number of other “accredited investors” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act), each of which has been offered the Common Stock Purchase Warrants at a private sale for investment. Neither the Company nor anyone acting on its behalf has taken, or will take, any action that would subject the issuance or sale of the Subscribed Warrants to the registration requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act or to the registration requirements of any securities or blue sky laws of any applicable jurisdiction.

 

 

 

 

Section 4.      Subscriber Representations and Warranties. Subscriber represents and warrants to the Company that:

 

(a)          Subscriber (i) is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation or incorporation and (ii) has the requisite power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations under this Subscription Agreement.

 

(b)          This Subscription Agreement has been duly authorized, validly executed and delivered by Subscriber, and assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of the same by the Company, this Subscription Agreement shall constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of Subscriber, enforceable against Subscriber in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited or otherwise affected by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally and by the availability of equitable remedies.

 

(c)          The execution, delivery and performance by Subscriber of this Subscription Agreement, the purchase of the Subscribed Warrants hereunder, the compliance by Subscriber with all of the provisions of this Subscription Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any of the property or assets of Subscriber pursuant to the terms of (i) any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease, license or other agreement or instrument to which Subscriber is a party or by which Subscriber is bound or to which any of the property or assets of Subscriber is subject; (ii) the organizational documents of Subscriber; or (iii) any statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over Subscriber or any of its properties that in the case of clauses (i) and (iii), would have a Subscriber Material Adverse Effect. For purposes of this Subscription Agreement, a “Subscriber Material Adverse Effect” means an event, change, development, occurrence, condition or effect with respect to Subscriber that would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on Subscriber’s ability to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, including the purchase of the Subscribed Warrants.

 

(d)          Subscriber (i) is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) or an institutional “accredited investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act), in each case, satisfying the applicable requirements set forth on Annex A hereto, (ii) is acquiring the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares only for its own account and not for the account of others, or if Subscriber is subscribing for the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares as a fiduciary or agent for one or more investor accounts, each owner of such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) or an “accredited investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act) and Subscriber has full investment discretion with respect to each such account, and the full power and authority to make the acknowledgements, representations, warranties and agreements herein on behalf of each owner of each such account, for investment purposes only, (iii) is not acquiring the Subscribed Warrants or Warrant Shares with a view to, or for offer or sale in connection with, any distribution thereof in violation of the securities laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction and (iv) has provided the Company with the requested information on Annex A following the signature page hereto and the information contained therein is accurate and complete. The Subscriber is not an entity formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the Subscribed Warrants or Warrant Shares.

 

(e)          Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares are being offered in a transaction not involving any public offering within the meaning of the Securities Act and that the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares have not been registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction and that the Company is not required to register the Subscribed Warrants or Warrant Shares except as set forth in Section 5 of this Subscription Agreement. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares may not be offered, resold, transferred, pledged or otherwise disposed of by Subscriber absent an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, except (i) to the Company or a subsidiary thereof, (ii) pursuant to an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act (including without limitation a private resale pursuant to so called “Section 4(a)1½”), or (iii) in an ordinary course pledge such as a broker lien over account property generally, and, in each of clauses (i)-(iii), in accordance with any applicable securities laws of the states and other jurisdictions of the United States, and that the Common Stock Purchase Warrant representing the Subscribed Warrants and any certificates or account entries representing the Warrant Shares shall contain the restrictive legend set forth in Section 2(g) hereof. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares will be subject to these securities law transfer restrictions, and as a result of these transfer restrictions, Subscriber may not be able to readily offer, resell, transfer, pledge or otherwise dispose of the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares and may be required to bear the financial risk of an investment in the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares for an indefinite period of time. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares will not be immediately eligible for offer, resale, transfer, pledge or disposition pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act, as amended (“Rule 144”), until at least one year following the filing of certain required information with the Commission after the Closing Date. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that it has been advised to consult legal counsel prior to making any offer, resale, pledge or transfer of any of the Subscribed Warrants or Warrant Shares.

 

 

 

 

(f)          Subscriber understands and agrees that Subscriber is purchasing the Subscribed Warrants directly from the Company. Subscriber further acknowledges that there have not been, and Subscriber hereby agrees that it is not relying on, any representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made to Subscriber by the Company, any of its affiliates or any control persons, officers, directors, employees, partners, agents or representatives, any other party to the Transaction or any other person or entity, expressly or by implication, other than those representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of the Company set forth in this Subscription Agreement.

 

(g)          In making its decision to purchase the Subscribed Warrants, Subscriber represents that it has relied solely upon independent investigation made by Subscriber and the Company’s representations in Section 3 of this Subscription Agreement. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that Subscriber has received access to and has had an adequate opportunity to review such information as Subscriber deems necessary in order to make an investment decision with respect to the Subscribed Warrants, including with respect to the Company, NKGen (and its subsidiaries, if any (collectively, the “Acquired Companies”)) and the Transaction, and made its own assessment and is satisfied concerning the relevant financial, tax and other economic considerations relevant to Subscriber’s investment in the Subscribed Warrants. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Subscriber acknowledges that it has reviewed the Company’s filings with the Commission including the filings relating to the Transaction. Subscriber represents and agrees that Subscriber and Subscriber’s professional advisor(s), if any, received, reviewed and understood the offering materials made available to them in connection with the Subscription and the Transaction, have had the full opportunity to ask such questions, including on the financial information, receive such answers and obtain such information as Subscriber and Subscriber’s professional advisor(s), if any, have deemed necessary to make an investment decision with respect to the Subscribed Warrants. Subscriber further acknowledges that the information provided to Subscriber was preliminary and subject to change, including in the Company’s filings with the Commission with respect the Transaction (which may include additional information about the Company, the Acquired Companies and the Transaction, including with respect to any financial statements or pro forma or other financial information), and that any changes to such information, including, without limitation, any changes based on updated information or changes in terms of the Transaction, shall in no way affect the Subscriber’s obligation to purchase the Subscribed Warrants hereunder. The Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that, except for the representations and warranties made by the Company that are expressly set forth in Section 3 of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any of its affiliates nor any other person is making or has made any representations or warranties, expressed or implied, at law or in equity, with respect to or on behalf of the Company, its businesses, operations, assets, liabilities, financial condition, results of operations, future operating or financial results, estimates, projections, forecasts, plans or prospects (including the reasonableness of the assumptions underlying such estimates, projections, forecasts, plans or prospects) or the accuracy or completeness of any information regarding the Company or any other matter made available to the Subscriber or its representatives in expectation of, or in connection with, this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. The Subscriber is not relying upon and specifically disclaims that it is relying upon or has relied upon any such other representations or warranties that may have been made by any person and acknowledges and agrees that the Company has specifically disclaimed any such other representations and warranties. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that none of the Acquired Companies or any of their affiliates or any of such person’s or its affiliate’s control persons, officers, directors, employees or other representatives, legal counsel, financial advisors, accountants or agents (collectively, “Representatives”) has provided Subscriber with any information or advice with respect to the Subscribed Warrants nor is such information or advice necessary or desired. None of the Acquired Companies or any of their respective affiliates or Representatives has made or makes any representation as to the Company or the Acquired Companies or the quality or value of the Subscribed Warrants.

 

 

 

 

(h)          [Reserved].

 

(i)          Subscriber acknowledges that it is aware that there are substantial risks incident to the purchase and ownership of the Subscribed Warrants, including those set forth in the SEC Documents. Subscriber is able to fend for itself in the transactions contemplated herein, has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of an investment in the Subscribed Warrants, and Subscriber has had an opportunity to seek, and has sought, such accounting, legal, business and tax advice as Subscriber has considered necessary to make an informed investment decision. Subscriber (i) is an institutional account as defined in FINRA Rule 4512(c), (ii) is a sophisticated investor, experienced in investing in private equity transactions and capable of evaluating investment risks independently, both in general and with regard to all transactions and investment strategies involving a security or securities, and (iii) has exercised independent judgment in evaluating its participation in the purchase of the Subscribed Warrants. Subscriber understands and acknowledges that the purchase and sale of the Subscribed Warrants hereunder meets (i) the exemptions from filing under FINRA Rule 5123(b)(1)(A) and (ii) the institutional customer exemption under FINRA Rule 2111(b).

 

(j)          Subscriber has adequately analyzed and fully considered the risks of an investment in the Subscribed Warrants and determined that the Subscribed Warrants are a suitable investment for Subscriber and that Subscriber is able at this time and in the foreseeable future to bear the economic risk of a total loss of Subscriber’s investment in the Company. Subscriber acknowledges specifically that a possibility of total loss exists.

 

(k)          Subscriber understands and agrees that no federal or state agency has passed upon or endorsed the merits of the offering of the Subscribed Warrants or made any findings or determination as to the fairness of this investment.

 

(l)          Subscriber is not (i) a person or entity named (a “Person”) on the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) or in any Executive Order issued by the President of the United States and administered by OFAC (“OFAC List”), or a person or entity prohibited by any OFAC sanctions program, (ii) owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, a person, that is named on an OFAC List, (iii) organized, incorporated, established, located, resident or born in, or a citizen, national, or the government, including any political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof, of, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the Crimea region of Ukraine, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic or any other country or territory embargoed or subject to substantial trade restrictions by the United States, (iv) a Designated National as defined in the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 515, or (v) a non-U.S. shell bank or providing banking services indirectly to a non-U.S. shell bank. Subscriber agrees to provide law enforcement agencies, if requested thereby, such records as required by applicable law, provided that Subscriber is permitted to do so under applicable law. If Subscriber is a financial institution subject to the Bank Secrecy Act (31 U.S.C. Section 5311 et seq.) (the “BSA”), as amended by the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 (the “PATRIOT Act”), and its implementing regulations (collectively, the “BSA/PATRIOT Act”), such Subscriber maintains policies and procedures reasonably designed to comply with applicable obligations under the BSA/PATRIOT Act. To the extent required, Subscriber maintains policies and procedures reasonably designed for the screening of its investors against the OFAC sanctions programs, including the OFAC List. To the extent required, Subscriber maintains policies and procedures reasonably designed to ensure that the funds held by Subscriber and used to purchase the Subscribed Warrants were legally derived.

 

 

 

 

(m)          No foreign person (as defined in 31 C.F.R. Part 800.224) in which the national or subnational governments of a single foreign state have a substantial interest (as defined in 31 C.F.R. Part 800.244) will acquire a substantial interest in the Company as a result of the purchase and sale of Subscribed Warrants hereunder such that a declaration to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States would be mandatory under 31 C.F.R. Part 800.401.

 

(n)          If Subscriber is an employee benefit plan that is subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), a plan, an individual retirement account or other arrangement that is subject to section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) or an employee benefit plan that is a governmental plan (as defined in section 3(32) of ERISA), a church plan (as defined in section 3(33) of ERISA), a non-U.S. plan (as described in section 4(b)(4) of ERISA) or other plan that is not subject to the foregoing but may be subject to provisions under any other federal, state, local, non-U.S. or other laws or regulations that are similar to such provisions of ERISA or the Code, or an entity whose underlying assets are considered to include “plan assets” of any such plan, account or arrangement (each, a “Plan”) subject to the fiduciary or prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA or section 4975 of the Code, Subscriber represents and warrants that (i) it has not relied on the Company or any of its affiliates (the “Transaction Parties”) for investment advice or as the Plan’s fiduciary with respect to its decision to acquire and hold the Subscribed Warrants, and none of the Transaction Parties shall at any time be relied upon as the Plan’s fiduciary with respect to any decision to acquire, continue to hold or transfer the Subscribed Warrants and (ii) the acquisition and holding of the Subscribed Warrants will not result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.

 

(o)          Subscriber at the Closing will have sufficient funds to pay the Purchase Price pursuant to Section 2.

 

(p)          Subscriber acknowledges that it is not relying upon, and has not relied upon, any statement, representation or warranty made by any person, firm or corporation (including, without limitation, the Company, NKGen or any of their respective affiliates or any of its or their respective control persons, officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives), other than the representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 3 of this Subscription Agreement, in making its investment or decision to invest in the Company.

 

(q)          No broker or finder has acted on behalf of the Subscriber in connection with the sale of the Subscribed Warrants pursuant to this Subscription Agreement in such a way as to create any liability on the Company.

 

 

 

 

(r)          Subscriber hereby agrees that neither it, nor any person or entity acting on its behalf or pursuant to any understanding with the Subscriber, shall, directly or indirectly, engage in any hedging activities or execute any Short Sales with respect to the securities of the Company prior to the Closing Date or the earlier termination of this Subscription Agreement in accordance with its terms (other than pledges in the ordinary course of business as part of prime brokerage arrangements). “Short Sales” shall include, without limitation, all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act, and all types of direct and indirect stock pledges, forward sale contracts, options, puts, calls, swaps and similar arrangements (including on a total return basis), including through non-U.S. broker dealers or foreign regulated brokers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section 4(r) (i) shall restrict Subscriber’s ability to maintain bona fide hedging positions in respect of the SPAC Warrants held by the Subscriber as of the date hereof; (ii) shall prohibit any entities under common management or that share an investment advisor with Subscriber from entering into any short sales or engaging in other hedging transactions; and (iii) in the case of a Subscriber that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Subscriber’s assets, this Section 4(r) shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Subscription Amount covered by this Subscription Agreement.

 

(s)          Except as expressly disclosed in a Schedule 13D or Schedule 13G (or amendments thereto) filed by Subscriber with the Commission with respect to the beneficial ownership of the Company’s outstanding securities prior to the date hereof, Subscriber is not currently (and at all times through the Closing Date will refrain from being or becoming) a member of a “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), including any group acting for the purpose of acquiring, holding or disposing of equity securities of the Company (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act).

 

(t)          Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that (i) the Commission Staff issued the “Staff Statement on Accounting and Reporting Considerations for Warrants Issued by Special Purpose Acquisition Companies” on April 12, 2021 (together with any subsequent guidance, statements or interpretations issued by the Commission or its staff relating thereto or other accounting matters related to initial public offerings, securities or expenses, the “Statement”), (ii) the Commission Staff have issued comments regarding the appropriate classification of public shares as permanent or temporary equity (the “Staff Comments”), (iii) on March 30, 2022, the SEC issued proposed rules with respect to the regulation of special purpose acquisition companies (the “SPAC Rule Proposals” and together with the Statement and Staff Comments, the “SEC Guidance”) relating to, among other items, disclosures in business combination transactions involving SPACs and private operating companies, the condensed financial statement requirements applicable to transactions involving shell companies, the use of projections by SPACs in SEC filings in connection with proposed business combination transactions, the potential liability of certain participants in proposed business combination transactions, and the extent to which SPACs could become subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, (iv) the Company continues to review the SEC Guidance and its implications, including on the financial statements and other information included in its filings with the Commission, including the SEC Documents, and (v) any restatement, revision or other modification of such filings relating to or arising from such review, any subsequent related agreements or other guidance from the Staff of the Commission shall be deemed not material for purposes of this Subscription Agreement.

 

(u)          Subscriber acknowledges that (i) the Company, NKGen, and any of their respective affiliates, control persons, officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives currently may have, and later may come into possession of, information regarding the Company and NKGen that is not known to Subscriber and that may be material to a decision to purchase the Subscribed Warrants, (ii) Subscriber has determined to purchase the Subscribed Warrants notwithstanding its lack of knowledge of such information, and (iii) none of the Company, NKGen, or any of their respective affiliates, control persons, officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives shall have liability to Subscriber, and Subscriber hereby to the extent permitted by law waives and releases any claims it may have against the Company, NKGen, and their respective affiliates, control persons, officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives, with respect to the nondisclosure of such information.

 

 

 

 

(v)          Subscriber acknowledges that it is aware that NKGen may enter into a subscription agreement, side letter or other agreement (including convertible promissory notes) with other investors associated with a private financing in one or a series of related transactions, not to exceed $85 million in the aggregate, and that such private financing, if pursued, will close prior to the closing of the Transaction. For the avoidance of doubt, such subscription agreement, side letter or other agreement, if any, shall not be deemed an Other Subscription Agreement under this Agreement.

 

Section 5.      Registration of Warrant Shares.

 

(a)          The Company agrees that, within fifteen (15) Business Days following the Closing Date (the “Filing Deadline”), the Company will file with the Commission (at the Company’s sole cost and expense) a registration statement registering the resale of one hundred percent (100%) of the maximum number of the Warrant Shares (the “Registration Statement”), and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to have the Registration Statement declared effective as soon as reasonably practicable after the filing thereof, but in any event no later than forty-five (45) calendar days after the Filing Deadline (the “Effectiveness Deadline”); provided, that the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to ninety (90) calendar days after the Closing Date if the Registration Statement is reviewed by, and comments thereto are provided from, the Commission; provided, further, that the Company shall have the Registration Statement declared effective within ten (10) Business Days after the date the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the staff of the Commission that the Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review; provided, further, that (i) if the Effectiveness Deadline falls on a Saturday, Sunday or other day that the Commission is closed for business, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to the next Business Day on which the Commission is open for business and (ii) if the Commission is closed for operations due to a government shutdown, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended by the same number of Business Days that the Commission remains closed for. Upon Subscriber’s timely request, the Company shall provide a draft of the Registration Statement to the Subscriber for review at least two (2) Business Days in advance of the date of filing the Registration Statement with the Commission (the “Filing Date”), and Subscriber shall provide any comments on the Registration Statement to the Company no later than the one (1) Business Day immediately preceding the Filing Date. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the Subscriber prior to the filing of the Registration Statement, the Subscriber shall not be identified as a statutory underwriter in the Registration Statement; provided, that if the Commission requests that Subscriber be identified as a statutory underwriter in the Registration Statement, Subscriber will have the opportunity to withdraw from the Registration Statement upon its prompt written request to the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Commission prevents the Company from including any or all of the shares proposed to be registered under the Registration Statement due to limitations on the use of Rule 415 of the Securities Act for the resale of the Warrant Shares by the applicable stockholders or otherwise, such Registration Statement shall register for resale such number of Warrant Shares which is equal to the maximum number of Warrant Shares as is permitted by the Commission. In such event, the number of Warrant Shares or other shares to be registered for each selling stockholder named in the Registration Statement shall be reduced pro rata among all such selling stockholders and as promptly as practicable after being permitted to register additional shares under Rule 415 under the Securities Act, the Company shall amend the Registration Statement or file one or more new Registration Statement(s) (such amendment or new Registration Statement shall also be deemed to be a “Registration Statement” hereunder) to register such additional Warrant Shares that were excluded due to limitations on the use of Rule 415 of the Securities Act and cause such amendment or Registration Statement(s) to become effective as promptly as practicable after the filing thereof, but in any event no later than forty-five (45) calendar days after the filing of such Registration Statement (the “Additional Effectiveness Deadline”); provided, that the Additional Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to ninety (90) calendar days after the filing of such Registration Statement if such Registration Statement is reviewed by, and comments thereto are provided from, the Commission; provided, further, that the Company shall have such Registration Statement declared effective within ten (10) Business Days after the date the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the staff of the Commission that such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review; provided, further, that (i) if such day falls on a Saturday, Sunday or other day that the Commission is closed for business, the Additional Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to the next Business Day on which the Commission is open for business and (ii) if the Commission is closed for operations due to a government shutdown, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended by the same number of Business Days that the Commission remains closed for. Any failure by the Company to file a Registration Statement by the Effectiveness Deadline or Additional Effectiveness Deadline shall not otherwise relieve the Company of its obligations to file or effect a Registration Statement as set forth in this Section 5.

 

 

 

 

(b)          The Company agrees that, except for such times as the Company is permitted hereunder to suspend the use of the prospectus forming part of a Registration Statement, the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to remain effective with respect to Subscriber, including to prepare and file any post-effective amendment to such Registration Statement or a supplement to the related prospectus such that the prospectus will not include any untrue statement or a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, until the earlier of (i) two (2) years from the effective date of the Registration Statement, (ii) the date on which all of the Warrant Shares shall have been sold or (iii) on the first date on which the Subscriber can sell all of its Warrant Shares (or shares received in exchange therefor) under Rule 144 of the Securities Act without limitation as to the manner of sale or the amount of such securities that may be sold and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144(c)(1) (or Rule 144(i)(2), if applicable) and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement as soon as reasonably practicable. For so long as the Registration Statement shall remain effective, the Company will use reasonable best efforts to file all reports, and provide all customary and reasonable cooperation, necessary to enable Subscriber to resell Warrant Shares pursuant to the Registration Statement, qualify the Warrant Shares for listing on the applicable stock exchange on which the Company’s Common Stock is then listed and update or amend the Registration Statement as necessary to include Warrant Shares. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to, for so long as the Subscriber holds Subscribed Warrants and/or Warrant Shares, make and keep public information available (as those terms are understood and defined in Rule 144) and file with the Commission in a timely manner all reports and other documents required of the Company under the Exchange Act so long as the Company remains subject to such requirements to enable the Subscriber to resell the Warrant Shares pursuant to Rule 144. The Subscriber agrees to disclose its beneficial ownership, as determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3 of the Exchange Act, of Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares to the Company (or its successor) upon reasonable request to assist the Company in making the determination described above.

 

(c)          The Company’s obligations to include the Warrant Shares in the Registration Statement are contingent upon Subscriber furnishing in writing to the Company a completed selling stockholder questionnaire in customary form that contains such information regarding Subscriber, the securities of the Company held by Subscriber and the intended method of disposition of the Warrant Shares as shall be reasonably requested by the Company to effect the registration of the Warrant Shares, and Subscriber shall execute such documents in connection with such registration as the Company may reasonably request that are customary of a selling stockholder in similar situations, including providing that the Company shall be entitled to postpone and suspend the effectiveness or use of the Registration Statement (i) during any customary blackout or similar period or as permitted hereunder and (ii) as may be necessary in connection with the preparation and filing of a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement following the filing of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K; provided, that the Company shall request such information from Subscriber, including the selling stockholder questionnaire, at least five (5) Business Days prior to the anticipated Filing Date of the Registration Statement; and provided, further, under no circumstances shall Subscriber be required to sign any type of lock-up agreement. In the case of the registration effected by the Company pursuant to this Subscription Agreement, the Company shall, upon reasonable request, inform Subscriber as to the status of such registration. Subscriber shall not be entitled to use the Registration Statement for an underwritten offering of Warrant Shares. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company may delay or postpone filing of such Registration Statement, and from time to time require Subscriber not to sell under the Registration Statement or suspend the use or effectiveness of any such Registration Statement if it determines in good faith that in order for the registration statement to not contain a material misstatement or omission, an amendment thereto would be needed, or if such filing or use would reasonably be expected to materially affect a bona fide business or financing transaction of the Company or would reasonably be expected to require premature disclosure of information that would materially adversely affect the Company (each such circumstance, a “Suspension Event”); provided, that, (w) the Company shall not so delay filing or so suspend the use of the Registration Statement for a period of more than sixty (60) consecutive days or more than two (2) times in any three hundred sixty (360) day period, and (x) the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to make such registration statement available for the sale by the Subscriber of such securities as soon as practicable thereafter.

 

 

 

 

(d)          Upon receipt of any written notice from the Company (which notice shall not contain any material non-public information regarding the Company and which notice shall not be subject to any duty of confidentiality) of the happening of (i) an issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for such purpose, which notice shall be given no later than three (3) Business Days from the date of such event, (ii) any Suspension Event during the period that the Registration Statement is effective, which notice shall be given no later than three (3) Business Days from the date of such Suspension Event, or (iii) or if as a result of a Suspension Event the Registration Statement or related prospectus contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made (in the case of the prospectus) not misleading, the Subscriber agrees that (1) it will immediately discontinue offers and sales of the Warrant Shares under the Registration Statement (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, sales conducted pursuant to Rule 144, if available at such time) until the Subscriber receives copies of a supplemental or amended prospectus (which the Company agrees to promptly prepare) that corrects the misstatement(s) or omission(s) referred to above and receives notice that any post-effective amendment has become effective or unless otherwise notified by the Company that it may resume such offers and sales, and (2) it will maintain the confidentiality of any information included in such written notice delivered by the Company unless otherwise required by law, subpoena or regulatory request or requirement. If so directed by the Company, the Subscriber will deliver to the Company or, in the Subscriber’s sole discretion destroy, all copies of the prospectus covering the Warrant Shares in the Subscriber’s possession; provided, however, that this obligation to deliver or destroy all copies of the prospectus covering the Warrant Shares shall not apply (w) to the extent the Subscriber is required to retain a copy of such prospectus (A) in order to comply with applicable legal, regulatory, self-regulatory or professional requirements or (B) in accordance with a bona fide pre-existing document retention policy or (x) to copies stored electronically on archival servers as a result of automatic data back-up.

 

(e)          Subscriber may deliver written notice (an “Opt-Out Notice”) to the Company requesting that Subscriber not receive notices from the Company otherwise required by this Section 5; provided, however, that Subscriber may later revoke any such Opt-Out Notice in writing. Following receipt of an Opt-Out Notice from Subscriber (unless subsequently revoked), (i) the Company shall not deliver any such notices to Subscriber and Subscriber shall no longer be entitled to the rights associated with any such notice and (ii) each time prior to Subscriber’s intended use of an effective Registration Statement, Subscriber will notify the Company in writing at least two (2) Business Days in advance of such intended use, and if a notice of a Suspension Event was previously delivered (or would have been delivered but for the provisions of this Section 5(e)) and the related suspension period remains in effect, the Company will so notify Subscriber, within one (1) Business Day of Subscriber’s notification to the Company, by delivering to Subscriber a copy of such previous notice of Suspension Event, and thereafter will provide Subscriber with the related notice of the conclusion of such Suspension Event promptly following its availability.

 

 

 

 

(f)          For purposes of this Section 5 of this Subscription Agreement, (i) “Warrant Shares” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the Warrant Shares (as defined in the recitals to this Subscription Agreement) and any other equity security issued or issuable with respect to the Warrant Shares by way of share split, dividend, distribution, recapitalization, merger, exchange, or replacement, and (ii) “Subscriber” shall include any affiliate of the Subscriber to which the rights under this Section 5 shall have been duly assigned.

 

(g)          The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless Subscriber (to the extent a seller under the Registration Statement), the officers, directors, members, managers, partners, agents, investment advisors and employees of Subscriber, each person who controls Subscriber (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act) and the officers, directors, members, managers, partners, agents and employees of each such controlling person, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, costs (including, without limitation, reasonable and documented attorneys’ fees) and expenses incurred in connection with defending or investigating any such action or claim (collectively, “Losses”) that arise out of or are based upon any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, any prospectus included in the Registration Statement or any form of prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus, or arising out of or relating to any omission or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of any prospectus or form of prospectus or supplement thereto, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, except to the extent that untrue statements, alleged untrue statements, omissions or alleged omissions are based upon information regarding Subscriber furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of Subscriber expressly for use therein or Subscriber has omitted a material fact from such information, provided that the Company has given notice of such event to the Subscriber in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. In addition, the Company shall not be liable for any Losses to the extent they arise out of or are based upon a violation which occurs (A) in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished by Subscriber expressly for use in such Registration Statement or preliminary prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, (B) in connection with any failure of such person to deliver or cause to be delivered a prospectus made available by the Company in a timely manner, (C) as a result of offers or sales effected by or on behalf of any person by means of a “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) that was not authorized by the Company or (D) in connection with any offers or sales effected by or on behalf of Subscriber in violation of Section 5(c) hereof. The Company shall notify Subscriber promptly of the institution, threat or assertion of any proceeding arising from or in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Section 5 of which the Company is aware. Notwithstanding the forgoing, the Company’s indemnification obligations shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any Losses or action if such settlement is effected without the prior written consent of the Company (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed).

 

(h)          Subscriber shall, severally and not jointly with any Other Subscriber in the offering contemplated by this Subscription Agreement or selling stockholder named in the Registration Statement, indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, officers, agents and employees, each person who controls the Company (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, agents or employees of such controlling persons, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, from and against any and all Losses arising out of or based upon any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement, any prospectus included in the Registration Statement, or any form of prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus, or arising out of or relating to any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of any prospectus, or any form of prospectus or supplement thereto, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statements, alleged untrue statements, omissions or alleged omissions are based upon information regarding Subscriber furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of Subscriber expressly for use therein and that Subscriber has received notice from the Company of such Suspension Event in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. In no event shall the liability of Subscriber be greater in amount than the dollar amount of the net proceeds received by Subscriber upon the sale of the Warrant Shares giving rise to such indemnification obligation. Notwithstanding the forgoing, Subscriber’s indemnification obligations shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any Losses or action if such settlement is effected without the prior written consent of Subscriber (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed).

 

 

 

 

(i)          Any person or entity entitled to indemnification herein shall (i) give prompt written notice to the indemnifying party of any claim with respect to which it seeks indemnification (provided that the failure to give prompt notice shall not impair any person’s or entity’s right to indemnification hereunder to the extent such failure has not prejudiced the indemnifying party) and (ii) unless in such indemnified party’s reasonable judgment a conflict of interest between such indemnified and indemnifying parties may exist with respect to such claim, permit such indemnifying party to assume the defense of such claim with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party. If such defense is assumed, the indemnifying party shall not be subject to any liability for any settlement made by the indemnified party without its consent (but such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed). An indemnifying party who is not entitled to, or elects not to, assume the defense of a claim shall not be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of more than one counsel for all parties indemnified by such indemnifying party with respect to such claim, unless in the reasonable judgment of any indemnified party a conflict of interest may exist between such indemnified party and any other of such indemnified parties with respect to such claim. No indemnifying party shall, without the consent of the indemnified party, consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which cannot be settled in all respects by the payment of money (and such money is so paid by the indemnifying party pursuant to the terms of such settlement), which settlement shall not include a statement or admission of fault and culpability on the part of such indemnified party, and which settlement shall include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such indemnified party of a release from all liability in respect to such claim or litigation.

 

(j)          The indemnification provided for under this Subscription Agreement shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the indemnified party or any officer, director or controlling person of such indemnified party and shall survive the transfer of the Warrant Shares.

 

(k)          If the indemnification provided under this Section 5 from the indemnifying party is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any Losses referred to herein, then the indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying the indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by the indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party and the indemnified party, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations; provided, however, that the liability of the Subscriber shall be limited to the net proceeds received by such Subscriber from the sale of Warrant Shares giving rise to such indemnification obligation. The relative fault of the indemnifying party and indemnified party shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any action in question, including any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact, was made by, or relates to information supplied by, such indemnifying party or indemnified party, and the indemnifying party’s and indemnified party’s relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such action. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the Losses or other liabilities referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 5, any legal or other fees, charges or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with any investigation or proceeding. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution pursuant to this Section 5(k) from any person or entity who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in no event will any party be liable for consequential, special, exemplary or punitive damages in connection with this Subscription Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

 

 

 

(l)          Subject to receipt from the Subscriber and its broker by the Company and the Transfer Agent of customary representations and other documentation reasonably acceptable to the Company and the Transfer Agent in connection therewith, the Subscriber may request that the Company remove any legend from the book entry position evidencing its Warrant Shares and the Company will, if required by the Transfer Agent, use its reasonable best efforts to cause an opinion of the Company’s counsel to be provided, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Company and the Transfer Agent, to the effect that the removal of such restrictive legends in such circumstances may be effected under the Securities Act, following the earliest of such time as such Warrant Shares (i) have been sold or transferred pursuant to an effective and available registration statement and current prospectus or (ii) have been sold pursuant to Rule 144. If restrictive legends are no longer required for such Warrant Shares pursuant to the foregoing, the Company shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5(l) and within two (2) Trading Days (as defined below) of any request therefor from the Subscriber accompanied by such customary representations and other documentation of Subscriber and its broker referred to above establishing that restrictive legends are no longer required, deliver to the Transfer Agent irrevocable instructions that the Transfer Agent shall make a new, unlegended entry for such book entry Warrant Shares. The Company shall be responsible for the fees of its Transfer Agent and all DTC fees associated with such issuance. As used herein, “Trading Day” means any day on which the Common Stock is traded on Nasdaq, or, if Nasdaq is not the principal trading market for the Common Stock, then on the principal securities exchange or securities market on which the Common Stock is then traded, provided that “Trading Day” shall not include any day on which the Common Stock is scheduled to trade on such exchange or market for less than 4.5 hours or any day that the Common Stock is suspended from trading during the final hour of trading on such exchange or market (or if such exchange or market does not designate in advance the closing time of trading on such exchange or market, then during the hour ending at 4:00:00 p.m., New York time).

 

(m)          Within six (6) months from the date of this issuance, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) explore the feasibility of making the Warrants a DTC eligible security and quoted on the over-the-counter (OTC) markets and (ii) commence preliminary steps, including retention of a warrant agent and preparation of a warrant agreement and the ability to exchange the Warrants into book-entry positions governed by such warrant agreement with such warrant agent, in order to have the Warrants registered and quoted on the OTC markets, subject to existing warrant investors’ consent.

 

Section 6.      Termination. This Subscription Agreement shall terminate and be void and of no further force and effect, and all rights and obligations of the parties hereunder shall terminate without any further liability on the part of any party in respect thereof, upon the earliest to occur of (a) such date and time as the Business Combination Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms, (b) upon the mutual written agreement of the parties hereto to terminate this Subscription Agreement, and (c) the Termination Date (as such term is defined in the Business Combination Agreement), if the Closing has not occurred by such date other than as a result of a breach by Subscriber of its obligations hereunder; provided, that nothing herein will relieve any party from liability for any willful breach hereof prior to the time of termination, and each party will be entitled to any remedies at law or in equity to recover losses, liabilities or damages arising from such breach. The Company shall notify Subscriber of the termination of the Business Combination Agreement promptly after the termination thereof. Upon the termination hereof in accordance with this Section 6, any monies paid by Subscriber to the Company in connection herewith shall promptly (and in any event within one (1) Business Day) be returned in full to Subscriber by wire transfer of U.S. dollars in immediately available funds to the account specified by Subscriber, without any deduction for or on account of any tax withholding, charges or set-off, whether or not the Transaction shall have been consummated.

 

 

 

 

Section 7.      Trust Account Waiver. Subscriber hereby acknowledges that, as described in the Company’s prospectus relating to its initial public offering (the “IPO”) dated May 20, 2021 available at www.sec.gov, the Company has established a trust account (the “Trust Account”) containing the proceeds of IPO and from certain private placements occurring simultaneously with the IPO (including interest accrued from time to time thereon) for the benefit of the Company, its public stockholders and certain other parties (including the underwriters of the IPO). For and in consideration of the Company entering into this Subscription Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Subscriber hereby (a) agrees that it does not now and shall not at any time hereafter have any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the Trust Account or any distributions or payments therefrom, or upon the release to the Company of the funds held in the Trust Account upon consummation of the Closing and shall not make any claim against the Trust Account, arising out or as a result of, in connection with or relating in any way to this Subscription Agreement, and regardless of whether such claim arises based on contract, tort, equity or any other theory of legal liability (any and all such claims are collectively referred to hereafter as the “Released Claims”), (b) irrevocably waives any Released Claims that it may have against the Trust Account now or in the future as a result of, or arising out of, this Subscription Agreement, and (c) will not seek recourse against the Trust Account as a result of, in connection with or relating in any way to this Subscription Agreement; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 7 shall (i) serve to limit or prohibit Subscriber’s right to pursue a claim against the Company for legal relief against assets, monies or other properties of the Company held outside the Trust Account (so long as such claim would not affect the Company’s ability to fulfill its obligation to effectuate any redemption right with respect to any securities of the Company), for specific performance or other equitable relief, (ii) serve to limit or prohibit any claims that the Subscriber may have in the future against the Company’s assets or funds that are not held in the Trust Account (including any funds that have been released from the Trust Account and any assets that have been purchased or acquired with any such funds) (so long as such claim would not affect the Company’s ability to fulfill its obligation to effectuate any redemption right with respect to any securities of the Company) or (iii) be deemed to limit Subscriber’s right to distributions from the Trust Account in accordance with the Company’s certificate of incorporation in respect of any redemptions by Subscriber in respect of Common Stock acquired by any means other than pursuant to this Subscription Agreement or any other rights held as an stockholder of the Company.

 

Section 8.      Miscellaneous.

 

(a)          All notices, requests, demands, claims, and other communications hereunder shall be in writing. Any notice, request, demand, claim, or other communication hereunder shall be deemed duly given (i) when delivered personally to the recipient, (ii) when sent by electronic mail, with no mail undeliverable or other rejection notice, on the date of transmission to such recipient, if sent on a Business Day prior to 5:00 p.m. New York City time, or on the Business Day following the date of transmission, if sent on a day that is not a Business Day or after 5:00 p.m. New York City time on a Business Day, (iii) one (1) Business Day after being sent to the recipient via overnight mail by reputable overnight courier service (charges prepaid), or (iv) four (4) Business Days after being mailed to the recipient by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested and postage prepaid, and, in each case, addressed to the intended recipient at its address specified on the signature page hereof or to such electronic mail address or address as subsequently modified by written notice given in accordance with this Section 8(a). A courtesy electronic copy of any notice sent by methods (i), (iii), or (iv) above shall also be sent to the recipient via electronic mail if an electronic mail address is provided in the applicable signature page hereof or to an electronic mail address as subsequently modified by written notice given in accordance with this Section 8(a).

 

 

 

 

(b)          Subscriber acknowledges that (i) the Company will rely on the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties of Subscriber contained in this Subscription Agreement and (ii) following the Closing Date, NKGen will rely on the representations and warranties of the Subscriber contained in this Subscription Agreement; provided, however, that the foregoing clause of this Section 8(b) shall not give the Company any rights other than those expressly set forth herein. Prior to the Closing, Subscriber agrees to promptly notify the Company if it becomes aware that any of the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties of Subscriber set forth herein are no longer accurate in all material respects. The Company acknowledges that Subscriber will rely on the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Subscription Agreement. Prior to the Closing, the Company agrees to promptly notify Subscriber if it becomes aware that any of the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties of the Company set forth herein are no longer accurate in all material respects.

 

(c)          Each of the Company and Subscriber is irrevocably authorized to produce this Subscription Agreement or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceeding or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.

 

(d)          Each party hereto shall pay all of its own expenses in connection with this Subscription Agreement and the transactions contemplated herein.

 

(e)          Neither this Subscription Agreement nor any rights that may accrue to Subscriber hereunder (other than the Subscribed Warrants acquired hereunder, the Warrant Shares, and the rights set forth in Section 5) may be transferred or assigned by Subscriber. Neither this Subscription Agreement nor any rights that may accrue to the Company hereunder may be transferred or assigned by the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Subscriber may assign its rights and obligations under this Subscription Agreement to one or more of its affiliates (including other investment funds or accounts managed or advised by the investment manager who acts on behalf of Subscriber) or, with the Company’s prior written consent, to another person; provided, that in the case of any such assignment, the assignee(s) shall become a Subscriber hereunder and have the rights and obligations and be deemed to make the representations and warranties of Subscriber provided for herein to the extent of such assignment and provided further that no such assignment shall relieve the assigning Subscriber of its obligations hereunder if any such assignee fails to perform such obligations, unless the Company has given its prior written consent to such relief.

 

(f)          All the agreements, representations and warranties made by each party hereto in this Subscription Agreement shall survive the Closing.

 

(g)          The Company may request from Subscriber such additional information as the Company may reasonably deem necessary to evaluate the eligibility of Subscriber to acquire the Subscribed Warrants and to register the Warrant Shares for resale, and Subscriber shall promptly provide such information as may be reasonably requested, to the extent readily available and to the extent consistent with its internal policies and procedures; provided, that the Company agrees to keep any such information provided by Subscriber confidential, except (A) as required by the federal securities laws, rules or regulations and (B) to the extent such disclosure is required by other laws, rules or regulations, at the request of the staff of the Commission or regulatory agency or under the regulations of Nasdaq. Subscriber acknowledges that the Company may file a form of this Subscription Agreement with the Commission as an exhibit to a current or periodic report of the Company or a registration statement of the Company.

 

(h)          This Subscription Agreement may not be amended, modified or waived except by an instrument in writing, signed by each of the parties hereto.

 

(i)          This Subscription Agreement, including the eligibility representations made by the Subscriber on Annex A and the form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant attached as Annex B, constitutes the entire agreement, and supersedes all other prior or contemporaneous agreements, understandings, representations and warranties, both written and oral, among the parties, with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 

 

 

 

(j)          Except as otherwise provided herein, this Subscription Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their heirs, executors, administrators, successors, legal representatives, and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other person. Except as set forth in Section 5 with respect to the persons specifically referenced therein, this Subscription Agreement shall not confer any rights or remedies upon any person other than the parties hereto, and their respective successors and assigns, and the parties hereto acknowledge that such persons so referenced are third party beneficiaries of this Subscription Agreement for the purposes of, and to the extent of, the rights granted to them, if any, pursuant to the applicable provisions.

 

(k)          The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that irreparable damage would occur in the event that any of the provisions of this Subscription Agreement were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached and that money or other legal remedies would not be an adequate remedy for such damage. It is accordingly agreed that the parties shall be entitled to equitable relief, including in the form of an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches or threatened breaches of this Subscription Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Subscription Agreement, this being in addition to any other remedy to which such party is entitled at law, in equity, in contract, in tort or otherwise. The parties hereto further acknowledge and agree: (x) to waive any requirement for the security or posting of any bond in connection with any such equitable remedy; (y) not to assert that a remedy of specific enforcement pursuant to this Section 8(k) is unenforceable, invalid, contrary to applicable law or inequitable for any reason; and (z) to waive any defenses in any action for specific performance, including the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

 

(l)          If any provision of this Subscription Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Subscription Agreement shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and shall continue in full force and effect.

 

(m)          No failure or delay by a party hereto in exercising any right, power or remedy under this Subscription Agreement, and no course of dealing between the parties hereto, shall operate as a waiver of any such right, power or remedy of such party. No single or partial exercise of any right, power or remedy under this Subscription Agreement by a party hereto, nor any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce any such right, power or remedy, shall preclude such party from any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy hereunder. The election of any remedy by a party hereto shall not constitute a waiver of the right of such party to pursue other available remedies. No notice to or demand on a party not expressly required under this Subscription Agreement shall entitle the party receiving such notice or demand to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances or constitute a waiver of the rights of the party giving such notice or demand to any other or further action in any circumstances without such notice or demand.

 

(n)          This Subscription Agreement may be executed and delivered in one or more counterparts (including by electronic mail, in .pdf or other electronic submission) and by different parties in separate counterparts, with the same effect as if all parties hereto had signed the same document. All counterparts so executed and delivered shall be construed together and shall constitute one and the same agreement.

 

(o)          This Subscription Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to the principles of conflicts of laws that would otherwise require the application of the law of any other state.

 

(p)          EACH PARTY AND ANY PERSON ASSERTING RIGHTS AS A THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARY HEREBY WAIVES ITS RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OR RELATED TO THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR OTHER LITIGATION OF ANY TYPE BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ANY OTHER SUCH PARTY, WHETHER WITH RESPECT TO CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS OR OTHERWISE. THE PARTIES AGREE THAT ANY SUCH CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE TRIED BY A COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THE PARTIES FURTHER AGREE THAT THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IS WAIVED BY OPERATION OF THIS SECTION AS TO ANY ACTION, COUNTERCLAIM OR OTHER PROCEEDING WHICH SEEKS, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, TO CHALLENGE THE VALIDITY OR ENFORCEABILITY OF THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR ANY PROVISION HEREOF. THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT.

 

 

 

 

(q)          The parties agree that all disputes, legal actions, suits and proceedings arising out of or relating to this Subscription Agreement must be brought exclusively in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware and any state appellate court therefrom within the State of Delaware (or, if the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware declines to accept jurisdiction over a particular matter, any federal court within the State of Delaware or, in the event each federal court within the State of Delaware declines to accept jurisdiction over a particular matter, any state court within the State of Delaware) (collectively the “Designated Courts”). Each party hereby consents and submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Designated Courts. No legal action, suit or proceeding with respect to this Subscription Agreement may be brought in any other forum. Each party hereby irrevocably waives all claims of immunity from jurisdiction, and any objection which such party may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding in any Designated Court, including any right to object on the basis that any dispute, action, suit or proceeding brought in the Designated Courts has been brought in an improper or inconvenient forum or venue. Each of the parties also agrees that delivery of any process, summons, notice or document to a party hereof in compliance with Section 8(a) of this Subscription Agreement shall be effective service of process for any action, suit or proceeding in a Designated Court with respect to any matters to which the parties have submitted to jurisdiction as set forth above.

 

(r)          This Subscription Agreement may only be enforced against, and any claim, action, suit or other legal proceeding based upon, arising out of, or related to this Subscription Agreement, or the negotiation, execution or performance of this Subscription Agreement, may only be brought against the entities that are expressly named as parties hereto.

 

(s)          The Company shall, by 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the first (1st) Business Day immediately following the date of this Subscription Agreement, file with the Commission a Current Report on Form 8-K (the “Disclosure Document”) disclosing all material terms of this Subscription Agreement and the Other Subscription Agreements and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, the Transaction and any other material, nonpublic information that the Company has provided to Subscriber or any of Subscriber’s affiliates, attorneys, agents or representatives at any time prior to the filing of the Disclosure Document and including as exhibits to the Disclosure Document, the form of this Subscription Agreement and the Other Subscription Agreement (in each case, without redaction). Upon the issuance of the Disclosure Document, to the Company’s knowledge, Subscriber and Subscriber’s affiliates, attorneys, agents and representatives shall not be in possession of any material, non-public information received from the Company or any of its affiliates, officers, directors, or employees or agents, and Subscriber shall no longer be subject to any confidentiality or similar obligations under any current agreement, whether written or oral with the Company or any of its affiliates. Notwithstanding anything in this Subscription Agreement to the contrary, the Company (i) shall not publicly disclose the name of Subscriber or any of its affiliates or advisers, or include the name of Subscriber or any of its affiliates or advisers in any press release, without the prior written consent of Subscriber and (ii) shall not publicly disclose the name of the Subscriber or any of its affiliates or advisers, or include the name of the Subscriber or any of its affiliates or advisers in any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency or trading market, without the prior written consent of Subscriber, except (A) as required by the federal securities laws, rules or regulations and (B) to the extent such disclosure is required by other laws, rules or regulations, at the request of the staff of the Commission or regulatory agency or under the regulations of Nasdaq, in which case of clause (A) or (B), the Company shall provide the Subscriber with prior written notice (including by e-mail) of such permitted disclosure, and shall reasonably consult with the Subscriber regarding such disclosure. Subscriber will promptly provide any information reasonably requested by the Company for any regulatory application or filing made or approval sought in connection with the Transaction (including filings with the Commission).

 

 

 

 

(t)          The obligations of Subscriber under this Subscription Agreement are several and not joint with the obligations of any Other Subscriber or any other investor under the Other Subscription Agreements, and Subscriber shall not be responsible in any way for the performance of the obligations of any Other Subscriber under this Subscription Agreement or any Other Subscriber or other investor under the Other Subscription Agreements. The decision of Subscriber to purchase Subscribed Warrants pursuant to this Subscription Agreement has been made by Subscriber independently of any Other Subscriber or any other investor and independently of any information, materials, statements or opinions as to the business, affairs, operations, assets, properties, liabilities, results of operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Company, NKGen or any of their respective subsidiaries which may have been made or given by any Other Subscriber or investor or by any agent or employee of any Other Subscriber or investor, and neither Subscriber nor any of its agents or employees shall have any liability to any Other Subscriber or investor (or any other person) relating to or arising from any such information, materials, statements or opinions. Nothing contained herein or in any Other Subscription Agreement, and no action taken by Subscriber or Other Subscriber or other investor pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute Subscriber and any Other Subscribers or other investors as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that Subscriber and any Other Subscribers or other investors are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by this Subscription Agreement and the Other Subscription Agreements. Subscriber acknowledges that no Other Subscriber has acted as agent for Subscriber in connection with making its investment hereunder and no Other Subscriber will be acting as agent of Subscriber in connection with monitoring its investment in the Subscribed Warrants or enforcing its rights under this Subscription Agreement. Subscriber shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including without limitation the rights arising out of this Subscription Agreement, and it shall not be necessary for any Other Subscriber or investor to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose.

 

(u)          The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Subscription Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof. The language used in this Subscription Agreement will be deemed to be the language chosen by the parties hereto to express their mutual intent, and no rules of strict construction will be applied against any party. Unless the context otherwise requires, (i) all references to Sections, Schedules or Annexes are to Sections, Schedules or Annexes contained in or attached to this Subscription Agreement, (ii) each accounting term not otherwise defined in this Subscription Agreement has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with GAAP, (iii) words in the singular or plural include the singular and plural and pronouns stated in either the masculine, the feminine or neuter gender shall include the masculine, feminine and neuter, (iv) the use of the word “including” in this Subscription Agreement shall be by way of example rather than limitation, and (v) the word “or” shall not be exclusive.

 

(v)          The Company shall be responsible for paying all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar taxes that arise from any payment or issuance made under, from the execution, delivery, performance or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Subscription Agreement.

 

[Signature pages follow]

 

 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has accepted this Subscription Agreement as of the date first set forth above.

 

  GRAF ACQUISITION CORP. IV
   
  By:  
    Name:
    Title:
   
  Address for Notices:
   
  Graf Acquisition Corp. IV
  1790 Hughes Landing Blvd., Suite 400
  The Woodlands, Texas 77380
  Email: tony@grafacq.com
  Attention: Anthony Kuznik, EVP & General Counsel
   
  with a copy (not to constitute notice) to:
   
  White & Case LLP
  1221 Avenue of the Americas
  New York, New York 10020
  Email: joel.rubinstein@whitecase.com
    elliott.smith@whitecase.com
  Attention:   Joel Rubinstein
    Elliott Smith

 

[Signature Page to Subscription Agreement]

 

 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Subscriber has executed or caused this Subscription Agreement to be executed by its duly authorized representative as of the date set forth below.

 

Name of Subscriber:   State/Country of Formation or Domicile:
     
By:      
Name:        
Title:      
     
Name in which Subscribed Warrants are to be registered (if different):   Date: September _____, 2023
     
Subscriber’s EIN:    
     
Business Address-Street:   Mailing Address-Street (if different):
     
City, State, Zip:   City, State, Zip:
     
Attn:               Attn:            
     
Telephone No.:   Telephone No.:
Email for notices:   Email for notices (if different):
     
Number of Subscribed Warrants:    
     
Aggregate Purchase Price: $   Price Per Subscribed Warrant: $1.00

 

[Signature Page to Subscription Agreement]

 

 

 

 

Annex A

 

ELIGIBILITY REPRESENTATIONS OF SUBSCRIBER

 

This Annex A should be completed and signed by Subscriber
and constitutes a part of the Subscription Agreement.

 

1.QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS (Please check the box, if applicable)

 

¨Subscriber is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) (a “QIB”)

 

¨We are subscribing for the Subscribed Warrants as a fiduciary or agent for one or more investor accounts, and each owner of such account is a QIB.

 

** OR **

 

2.ACCREDITED INVESTOR STATUS (Please check the box)

 

¨Subscriber is an institutional “accredited investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act) or an entity in which all of the equity holders are accredited investors within the meaning of Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and has marked and initialed the appropriate box below indicating the provision under which it qualifies as an “accredited investor.”

 

** AND **

 

3.AFFILIATE STATUS
(Please check the applicable box)

 

SUBSCRIBER:

 

¨ is:

 

¨ is not:

 

an “affiliate” (as defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act) of the Company or acting on behalf of an affiliate of the Company.

 

Rule 501(a), in relevant part, states that an “accredited investor” shall mean any person who comes within any of the below listed categories, or who the issuer reasonably believes comes within any of the below listed categories, at the time of the sale of the securities to that person. Subscriber has indicated, by marking and initialing the appropriate box(es) below, the provision(s) below which apply to Subscriber and under which Subscriber accordingly qualifies as an institutional “accredited investor.”

 

¨Any bank, registered broker or dealer, insurance company, registered investment company, business development company, small business investment company, private business development company, or rural business investment company;

 

¨Any investment adviser registered pursuant to section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act or registered pursuant to the laws of a state;

 

¨Any investment adviser relying on the exemption from registering with the Commission under section 203(l) or (m) of the Investment Advisers Act;

 

 

 

 

¨Any plan established and maintained by a state, its political subdivisions, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or its political subdivisions, for the benefit of its employees, if such plan has total assets in excess of $5,000,000;

 

¨Any employee benefit plan within the meaning of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), if (i) the investment decision is made by a plan fiduciary, as defined in section 3(21) of ERISA, which is either a bank, a savings and loan association, an insurance company, or a registered investment adviser, (ii) the employee benefit plan has total assets in excess of $5,000,000 or, (iii) such plan is a self-directed plan, with investment decisions made solely by persons that are “accredited investors”;

 

¨Any (i) corporation, limited liability company or partnership, (ii) Massachusetts or similar business trust, or (iii) organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, in each case that was not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities offered and that has total assets in excess of $5,000,000;

 

¨Any trust, with total assets in excess of $5,000,000, not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities offered, whose purchase is directed by a sophisticated person as described in Section 230.506(b)(2)(ii) of Regulation D under the Securities Act;

 

This Annex A should be completed by Subscriber and constitutes a part of the Subscription Agreement.

 

 

 

 

Annex B

 

COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT

 

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NEITHER THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS WARRANT NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THESE SECURITIES ARE EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (“Securities act”), OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, PLEDGED, HEDGED, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED IN THE ABSENCE OF (A) AN EFFECTIVE AND AVAILABLE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND A CURRENT PROSPECTUS, (B) IN ACCORDANCE with RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (C) pursuant to another applicable exemption from registration under the securities act. THE ISSUER OF THESE SECURITIES MAY REQUIRE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE ISSUER THAT SUCH OFFER, SALE, PLEDGE, HEDGE, TRANSFER or ASSIGNMENT OTHERWISE COMPLIES WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE NUMBER OF SHARES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THIS WARRANT MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNTS SET FORTH ON THE FACE HEREOF PURSUANT TO the terms OF THIS WARRANT.

 

Total Warrant Shares: [____], consisting of
[__] Tranche I Warrant Shares
[__] Tranche II Warrant Shares
[__] Tranche III Warrant Shares
Date of Issuance: September [_____], 2023
(the “Issuance Date”)1

 

NKGEN BIOTECH, INC.

COMMON Stock Purchase Warrant

 

NKGen Biotech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), for value received, hereby certifies that [__________________], or its registered assigns (the “Holder”), is entitled, subject to the terms set forth below and during the term specified in Section 1(b) hereof, to purchase from the Company the number of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”) set forth herein. This Common Stock Purchase Warrant (this “Warrant”) is issued pursuant to the Subscription Agreement, dated September [●], 2023, by and between the Company and the Holder (the “Subscription Agreement”). The shares purchasable upon exercise of this Warrant, and the exercise price per share, as adjusted from time to time pursuant to the provisions of this Warrant, are hereinafter referred to as the “Warrant Shares” and the “Exercise Price,” respectively. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Subscription Agreement.

 

1.          Exercise.

 

(a)          Initial Exercise Price. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof and subject to adjustment as provided herein, the Holder is entitled to purchase from the Company an aggregate of [_________] Warrant Shares, subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 2 and Section 3, as follows:

 

(i)          Tranche I. With respect to [__] of the Warrant Shares issuable hereunder, the initial Exercise Price is $10.00 per share (the “Tranche I Warrant Shares”).

 

(ii)          Tranche II. With respect to [__] of the Warrant Shares issuable hereunder, the initial Exercise Price is $12.50 per share (the “Tranche II Warrant Shares”).

 

(iii)          Tranche III. With respect to [__] of the Warrant Shares issuable hereunder, the initial Exercise Price is $15.00 per share (the “Tranche III Warrant Shares”).

 

For purposes of this Warrant, the Tranche I Warrant Shares, the Tranche II Warrant Shares and the Tranche III Warrant Shares shall be referred to as a “Tranche of Warrant Shares” and collectively, the “Tranches of Warrant Shares”.

 

 

 

1 NTD: to be the closing date of the business combination

 

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(b)          Exercise Period. This Warrant shall be exercisable during the period (“Exercise Period”) commencing on the date the Company completes its business combination with NKGen Operating Biotech, Inc. (f/k/a NKGen Biotech, Inc.) (the “Business Combination”) and terminating at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date that is five (5) years after the date on which the Company completes the Business Combination (the “Expiration Date”).

 

(c)          Mechanics of Exercise. This Warrant may be exercised by the Holder, in whole or in part, during the Exercise Period by delivering the purchase/exercise form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Exercise Notice”), duly executed by such Holder or by such Holder’s duly authorized attorney, at the principal office of the Company, or at such other office or agency as the Company may designate, accompanied by payment in full of the Exercise Price multiplied by the number of Warrant Shares purchased upon such exercise. The Exercise Price may be paid by cash, check, or wire transfer of immediately available funds (or by “cashless exercise” as provided for in Section 1(d) or the cashless exchange for Downside Protection Shares and Downside Protection Cash, if applicable, if the Holder has demanded Downside Protection pursuant to Section 2(d)). The Holder shall not be required to deliver the original of this Warrant in order to effect an exercise hereunder. Execution and delivery of an Exercise Notice with respect to less than all of the Warrant Shares will have the same effect as cancellation of the original of this Warrant and issuance of a new Warrant evidencing the right to purchase the remaining number of Warrant Shares. Execution and delivery of an Exercise Notice for all of the then-remaining Warrant Shares will have the same effect as cancellation of the original of this Warrant after delivery of the Warrant Shares in accordance with the terms hereof. On or before the first (1st) Trading Day following the date (which shall be a Trading Day) on which the Company has received an Exercise Notice (or, if the Company has delivered a Company Objection Notice, the first (1st) Trading Day after the final resolution of the Company Objection Notice pursuant to Section 7), the Company shall transmit by electronic mail an acknowledgment of confirmation of receipt of such Exercise Notice, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B, to the Holder and the Company’s transfer agent (the “Transfer Agent”), which confirmation shall constitute an instruction to the Transfer Agent to process such Exercise Notice in accordance with the terms herein. On or before the second (2nd) Trading Day following the date (which shall be a Trading Day) on which the Company has received such Exercise Notice (or, if the Company has delivered a Company Objection Notice, the second (2nd) Trading Day after the final resolution of the Company Objection Notice pursuant to Section 7) (or such earlier date as required pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”), or other applicable law, rule or regulation for the settlement of a trade of such Warrant Shares initiated on the applicable Exercise Date (the “Standard Settlement Period”)), the Company shall (X) provided that the Transfer Agent is participating in The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) Fast Automated Securities Transfer Program (“FAST”) and if either (I) such shares of Common Stock to be issued have been sold pursuant to an effective and available registration statement and current prospectus or (II) such shares of Common Stock to be issued have been sold by the Holder pursuant to Rule 144 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“Securities Act”), and in both cases the Holder has delivered or caused to be delivered to the Company customary representations and other documentation of the Holder and its broker reasonably acceptable to the Company and the Transfer Agent in connection therewith at the time it delivers the Exercise Notice (collectively, the “Electronic Issuance Condition”), upon the request of the Holder and receipt of such required representations and other documentation of the Holder and its broker, credit such aggregate number of shares of Common Stock to which the Holder is entitled pursuant to such exercise to the Holder’s or its designee’s balance account with DTC through its Deposit/Withdrawal at Custodian system, or (Y) if the Transfer Agent is not participating in the DTC FAST or the Electronic Issuance Condition is not satisfied, upon the request of the Holder, issue and deliver (via reputable overnight courier) to the address as specified in the Exercise Notice, a certificate, registered in the name of the Holder or its designee, for the number of shares of Common Stock to which the Holder shall be entitled pursuant to such exercise. Notwithstanding any reference herein to the issuance of a “certificate” evidencing Warrant Shares hereunder, at any time as such Warrant Shares are required to be issued with a restricted legend in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities Act, including if the customary representations and other documentation of the Holder and its broker have not been delivered to the Company in connection with the Exercise Notice, unless the Holder shall explicitly specify in writing to the Company that such Warrant Shares should not be delivered as a book-entry with the Transfer Agent, in lieu of the delivery of such a certificate to the Holder (or to such other Person at the direction of the Holder), such Warrant Shares may be issued by the Company as a book-entry with the Transfer Agent (with reasonably documented written evidence of such book-entry delivered to the Holder on or prior to the applicable Share Delivery Date (as defined below)) and will be notated with a restricted legend if applicable. Upon delivery of an Exercise Notice, the Holder shall be deemed for all corporate purposes to have become the holder of record of the Warrant Shares with respect to which this Warrant has been exercised, irrespective of the date such Warrant Shares are credited to the Holder’s DTC account or the date of delivery of the certificates evidencing such Warrant Shares (as the case may be), provided that payment of the aggregate Exercise Price (other than in the case of a cashless exercise pursuant to Section 1(d) or in the event that the Holder has demanded Downside Protection pursuant to Section 2(d)) is received within the earlier of (i) two (2) Trading Days and (ii) the number of Trading Days comprising the Standard Settlement Period following delivery of the Notice of Exercise. If this Warrant is submitted in connection with any exercise pursuant to this Section 1(c) and the number of Warrant Shares represented by this Warrant submitted for exercise is greater than the number of Warrant Shares being acquired upon an exercise and upon surrender of this Warrant to the Company by the Holder, then, at the request of the Holder, the Company shall as soon as practicable and in no event later than two (2) Business Days after any exercise and upon receipt of this Warrant and at its own expense, issue and deliver to the Holder (or its designee) a new Warrant representing the right to purchase the number of Warrant Shares purchasable immediately prior to such exercise under this Warrant, less the number of Warrant Shares with respect to which this Warrant is exercised. No fractional shares of Common Stock are to be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant, but rather the number of shares of Common Stock to be issued shall be rounded up to the nearest whole number. The Company shall pay any and all transfer, stamp, issuance and similar taxes, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, fees and expenses of the Transfer Agent) that may be payable with respect to the issuance and delivery of Warrant Shares upon exercise of this Warrant. If the Company fails for any reason to deliver Warrant Shares to the Holder on or prior to the later of (i) two (2) Trading Days after receipt of the applicable Exercise Notice (or such earlier date as required pursuant to the Exchange Act or other applicable law, rule or regulation for the settlement of a trade of such Warrant Shares initiated on the applicable Exercise Date), (ii) one (1) Trading Day after the Company’s receipt of the Exercise Price, and (iii) if applicable, the second (2nd) Trading Day after the final resolution of the Company Objection Notice pursuant to Section 7 (such later date, the “Share Delivery Date”), the Company shall pay to the Holder, in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for each $1,000 of Warrant Shares subject to such exercise (based on the volume-weighted average price of the Common Stock on the date of the applicable Exercise Notice), $5 per Trading Day (increasing to $10 per Trading Day on the third Trading Day after the Share Delivery Date) for each Trading Day after such Share Delivery Date until such Warrant Shares are delivered or the Holder rescinds such exercise. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Warrant or the Subscription Agreement, after the effective date of the Registration Statement, the Company shall, upon Holder’s request, use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Transfer Agent to deliver unlegended shares of Common Stock to the Holder (or its designee) in connection with any sale of Warrant Shares with respect to which the Holder has entered into a contract for sale, and delivered a copy of the prospectus included as part of the particular Registration Statement to the extent applicable, and for which the Holder has not yet settled. During the Exercise Period, the Company shall maintain a transfer agent that participates in FAST.

 

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(d)          Cashless Exercise if No Effective Registration Statement. If a Registration Statement has not been declared effective by the Effectiveness Deadline, the Holder of the Warrant shall have the right, during the period beginning on the Business Day after the Effectiveness Deadline and ending upon the day when such Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Commission, and during any other period when the Company shall fail to have maintained an effective Registration Statement covering the Warrant Shares, to exercise such Warrant on a “cashless basis,” by exchanging the Warrant (in accordance with Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act (or any successor rule) or another exemption) for that number of shares of Common Stock equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the product of the number of shares of Common Stock underlying the Warrant, multiplied by the excess of the “Fair Market Value” (as defined below) over the Exercise Price by (y) the Fair Market Value. Solely for purposes of this Section 1(d), “Fair Market Value” shall mean the volume-weighted average price of the Common Stock for the ten (10) Trading Day period ending on the Trading Day prior to the date that Exercise Notice is received by the Company from the Holder of such Warrant or its securities broker or intermediary. In connection with the “cashless exercise” of the Warrant, the Company shall, upon request, and in addition to the transmission of Exhibit B provide the Transfer Agent with an opinion of counsel for the Company stating that (i) the exercise of the Warrant on a cashless basis in accordance with this Section 1(d) is not required to be registered under the Securities Act and (ii) the shares of Common Stock issued upon such exercise shall be freely tradable under United States federal securities laws by anyone who is not an affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or any successor rule)) of the Company and, accordingly, shall not be required to bear a restrictive legend. For the avoidance of any doubt, unless and until all of the Warrant has been exercised or has expired, the Company shall continue to be obligated to comply with its registration obligations under the Subscription Agreement.

 

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(e)          Maximum Percentage. A Holder of a Warrant may notify the Company in writing in the event it elects to be subject to the provisions contained in this Section 1(e); however, no Holder shall be subject to this Section 1(e) unless he, she or it makes such election. If the election is made by a Holder, the Company shall not effect the exercise of the Holder’s Warrant, and such Holder shall not have the right to exercise such Warrant, to the extent that after giving effect to such exercise, such person (together with such person’s affiliates), or any “group” of which Holder or its affiliates is a member, would beneficially own in excess of 9.99% (or such other amount as a Holder may specify) (the “Maximum Percentage”) of the shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such exercise. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by such person and its affiliates, or any “group” of which Holder or its affiliates is a member, shall include the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrant with respect to which the determination of such sentence is being made, but shall exclude shares of Common Stock that would be issuable upon (x) exercise of the remaining, unexercised portion of the Warrant beneficially owned by such person and its affiliates, or any “group” of which Holder or its affiliates is a member, and (y) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or unconverted portion of any other securities of the Company beneficially owned by such person and its affiliates (including, without limitation, any convertible notes or convertible preferred stock or warrants) subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this paragraph, beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the applicable regulations of the Commission. For purposes hereof, “group” has the meaning set forth in Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act (or any successor rule) and applicable regulations of the Commission, and the percentage held by Holder shall be determined in a manner consistent with the provisions of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act. To the extent that a Holder makes the election described in this Section 1(e), the Company shall not effect the exercise of the Holder’s Warrant, and such Holder shall not have the right to exercise such Warrant unless it provides to the Company in its Exercise Notice a certification that, upon giving effect to such exercise, such person (together with such person’s affiliates) or any “group” of which Holder or its affiliates is a member, would beneficially own in excess of the Maximum Percentage of the shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such exercise as determined in accordance with this subsection. For purposes of the Warrant, in determining the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, the Holder may rely on the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock as reflected in (1) the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, current report on Form 8-K or other public filing with the Commission as the case may be, (2) a more recent public announcement by the Company or (3) any other notice by the Company or the Transfer Agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding. For any reason at any time, upon the written request of the Holder of the Warrant, the Company shall, within two (2) Business Days, confirm orally and in writing to such Holder the number of shares of Common Stock then outstanding. In any case, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be determined after giving effect to the conversion or exercise of equity securities of the Company by the Holder and its affiliates since the date as of which such number of outstanding shares of Common Stock was reported. By written notice to the Company, the Holder may from time to time increase or decrease the Maximum Percentage applicable to such Holder to any other percentage specified in such notice; provided, however, that any such increase shall not be effective until the sixty-first (61st) day after such notice is delivered to the Company.

 

(f)          Reservation of Shares. At all times during the Exercise Period, the Company shall keep reserved for issuance under this Warrant a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock as shall be necessary to satisfy the Company’s obligation to issue Warrant Shares hereunder (without regard to any limitations on exercise) (the “Required Reserve Amount”); provided that at no time shall the number of shares of Common Stock reserved pursuant to this Section 1(f) be reduced other than proportionally in connection with any exercise or redemption hereunder or such other adjustment event covered by Section 3 below. If at any time during the Exercise Period, the Company does not have a sufficient number of authorized shares of Common Stock to satisfy its obligation to reserve the Required Reserve Amount, then the Company shall immediately take such corporate action as may, in the opinion of its counsel, be necessary to increase the Company’s authorized shares of Common Stock to an amount sufficient to allow the Company to reserve the Required Reserve Amount.

 

2.          Reset Provisions.

 

(a)          On the date that is 180 days after the Issuance Date, and each 180th day thereafter during the Exercise Period, and on the Expiration Date (each, a “Reset Date”), the Exercise Price of the Warrant shall be reset as follows:

 

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(i)          The Exercise Price of the Tranche I Warrant Shares shall be reset to the higher of (A) the lower of (x) the volume-weighted average price per share of the Common Stock during the 30-day period ending on the Reset Date, as reported on the relevant Bloomberg Screen “NKGN <Equity> AQR SEC” (or any successor thereto), and (y) the Exercise Price on the previous Reset Date (or, on the first Reset Date after the Issuance Date, the original Exercise Price) (the lower of (x) and (y), the “Test Price”) and (B) $5.00 (the “Downside Protection Threshold Price”) (the higher of (A) and (B), the “Reset Price”);

 

(ii)          The Exercise Price of the Tranche II Warrant Shares shall be reset to a price that is the greater of (x) the Downside Protection Threshold Price and (y) 125% of the Test Price; and

 

(iii)          The Exercise Price of the Tranche III Warrant Shares shall be reset to a price that is the greater of (x) the Downside Protection Threshold Price and (y) 150% of the Test Price.

 

(b)          Beginning on the date that is 180 days after the Issuance Date of the Warrants, to the extent the Company closes a sale and issuance of shares of Common Stock or securities of the Company that are convertible into or exercisable for shares of Common Stock at an effective price per share less than the then existing Reset Price (a “Dilutive Offering”), then the Exercise Price of the Warrant shall be reset (a “Dilutive Offering Reset”) upon the consummation of such Dilutive Offering (such date on which a Dilutive Offering occurs, a “Dilutive Offering Reset Date”) as follows; provided that, without limiting the foregoing, a Dilutive Offering Reset (for the avoidance of doubt) shall exclude (i)  any equity line of credit, at the market offering or other similar financing, (ii)  the grant, issuance, exercise or settlement of stock options or other equity awards under the Company’s equity compensation plans in effect immediately after the closing of the Business Combination or shares of Common Stock underlying warrants outstanding immediately after the closing of the Business Combination and (iii) Common Stock issued in connection with the Business Combination pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of April 14, 2023, by and among Graf Acquisition Corp. IV, a Delaware corporation (“GFOR”), Austria Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of GFOR (“Merger Sub”), and the Company (the “BCA”) and any other securities issued prior to or in connection with the Business Combination pursuant to any other financing:

 

(i)          The Exercise Price of the Tranche I Warrant Shares shall be reset to the higher of (A) the price of such shares of Common Stock sold in the Dilutive Offering or the initial conversion price or initial exercise price of the securities sold in the Dilutive Offering that are convertible or exercisable into shares of Common Stock, as applicable, and (B) the Downside Protection Threshold Price (the higher of (A) and (B), the “Dilutive Offering Reset Price”);

 

(ii)          The Exercise Price of the Tranche II Warrant Shares shall be reset to a price that is the greater of (x) the Downside Protection Threshold Price and (y) 125% of the Dilutive Offering Reset Price; and

 

(iii)          The Exercise Price of the Tranche III Warrant Shares shall be reset to a price that is the greater of (x) the Downside Protection Threshold Price and (y) 150% of the Dilutive Offering Reset Price.

 

(c)          The Exercise Price on each Reset Date, or, if applicable, on each Dilutive Offering Reset Date, shall never exceed the Exercise Price on any prior Reset Date, or, if applicable, on any prior Dilutive Offering Reset Date. In no event will the Reset Price, or, if applicable, the Dilutive Offering Reset Price, be lower than the Downside Protection Threshold Price.

 

(d)          In the event that the Test Price calculated pursuant to Section 2(a)(i), or, if applicable, the Dilutive Offering Reset Price calculated pursuant to Section 2(b)(i), is less than the Downside Protection Threshold Price, the Holder may, in its sole option, upon delivery of the Exercise Notice to the Company demand a cashless exchange in lieu of an exercise for cash at the then Exercise Price, of any singular Tranche of Warrant Shares for which such Holder has remaining Warrant Shares with respect to which the Warrant has not yet been exercised and such Warrant Shares issued, in whole or in part (the “Downside Protection”, and such Warrant Shares, the “Downside Protection Shares”) pursuant to which the Holder shall be entitled to receive a number of Warrant Shares equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (A) by [(B) / (C)], where:

 

A = the number of Warrant Shares to be issued upon exercise of unexercised Warrants;

 

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B = the Test Price or Dilutive Offering Reset Price pursuant to Section 2(a) or Section 2(b), as applicable (provided, however, (B) shall not be lower than $1.50); and

 

C = $1.50

 

Demand of the Downside Protection shall be irrevocable. The Downside Protection is available for only one Tranche of Warrant Shares per Reset Date and, if applicable, one Tranche of Warrant Shares per Dilutive Offering Reset Date, and shall not affect the application of Section 2(a) or Section 2(b) (as applicable) with respect to applicable Exercise Price of the other Tranches of Warrant Shares. Downside Protection for the other Tranches of Warrant Shares shall be triggered only if, at the next Reset Date (x) with respect to the Tranche I Warrants, the Exercise Price is lower than the Downside Protection Threshold Price, (y) with respect to the Tranche II Warrants, 125% of the Test Price is lower than the Downside Protection Threshold Price, or (z) with respect to the Tranche III Warrants, 150% of the Test Price is lower than the Downside Protection Threshold Price. For the avoidance of doubt, to the extent a Holder exercises the Downside Protection with respect to a Tranche of Warrant Shares in full, the Holder shall have no other right to exercise this Warrant to purchase or receive Warrant Shares with respect to that particular Tranche of Warrant Shares.

 

Further, in the event that (B) in the formula above would be less than $1.50 but for the limitation set forth in the parenthetical in (B), then in addition to issuing the Downside Protection Shares, the Company shall pay the Holder in cash, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account specified by the Holder in the Exercise Notice, an amount equal to the product of (x) the difference between the Exercise Price and $1.50 multiplied by (y) the number of Warrant Shares for which the Holder has demanded Downside Protection (the “Downside Protection Cash”).

 

By way of example and not limitation, if the Holder demands Downside Protection with respect to 3,300,000 Tranche I Warrant Shares at a time when the Test Price is $4.50, the Company will issue to the Holder a number of Downside Protection Shares equal to 3,300,000 / ($4.50/$1.50) = 1,100,000 Downside Protection Shares. In such example, the Reset Price for the Tranche II Warrant Shares will be 125% of $4.50, or $5.63, and the Reset Price for the Tranche III Warrant Shares will be 150% of $4.50, or $6.75, and therefore, Downside Protection would not be available for such Tranches of Warrants. As another example, if the Holder demands Downside Protection with respect to 3,300,000 Tranche I Warrant Shares when the Test Price is $2.50, the Company would be required to issue to the Holder a number of Downside Protection Shares equal to 3,300,000 / ($2.50/$1.50) = 1,980,000 Downside Protection Shares. In such example, the Exercise Price for the Tranche II Warrant Shares will be 125% of $2.50 or $3.25, which is less than the Downside Protection Threshold Price and therefore the Exercise Price for the Tranche II Warrant Shares will be set at the Downside Protection Threshold Price, and the Exercise Price for the Tranche III Warrant Shares will be 150% of $2.50 or $3.75, which is less than the Downside Protection Threshold Price and therefore the Exercise Price for the Tranche III Warrant Shares will be set at the Downside Protection Threshold Price. As a third example, if the Holder demands Downside Protection with respect to 3,300,000 Tranche I Warrant Shares at a time when the Reset Price would be $0.50, the Company will issue to the Holder a number of Downside Protection Shares equal to 3,300,000 / ($1.50/$1.50) = 3,300,000 Downside Protection Shares plus an amount of Downside Protection Cash equal to 3,300,000 * ($1.50 - $0.50) = $3,300,000. In such example, the Exercise Price for the Tranche II Warrant Shares will be 125% of $0.50 or $0.63, which is less than the Downside Protection Threshold Price and therefore the Exercise Price for the Tranche II Warrant Shares will be set at the Downside Protection Threshold Price, and the Exercise Price for the Tranche III Warrant Shares will be 150% of $0.50 or $0.75, which is less than the Downside Protection Threshold Price and therefore the Exercise Price for the Tranche III Warrant Shares will be set at the Downside Protection Threshold Price.

 

(e)          Within two (2) Business Days after each Reset Date or Dilutive Offering Reset Date, as applicable, the Company shall deliver to each Holder a written notice setting forth the Company’s calculation of (i) the Test Price, Reset Price, and Exercise Price of each Tranche of Warrant Shares calculated pursuant to Section 2(a), or (ii) the Dilutive Offering Reset Price and Exercise Price of each Tranche of Warrant Shares calculated pursuant to Section 2(b), as applicable (such notice, the “Reset Notice”); provided, that, in no event will the Company include any material non-public information in the Reset Notice and the Holder shall be entitled to presume that the information contained in the Reset Notice does not constitute material, non-public information relating to the Company. If the holders of a majority in interest of all Warrants issued pursuant to the Subscription Agreement then outstanding (the “Majority Holders”) wish to object to the information set forth in the Reset Notice, the Majority Holders shall deliver to the Company a written notice setting forth such objection in reasonable detail (the “Holder Objection Notice”) within two (2) Business Days after its receipt of the Reset Notice (such date, the “Holder Objection Deadline”), and the Company and the Majority Holders shall resolve such dispute in accordance with Section 7 hereof. If the Majority Holders have not delivered a Holder Objection Notice to the Company by the Holder Objection Deadline, then the prices and calculations as set forth in the Reset Notice shall be deemed to be irrevocably accepted by each Holder. If the Company objects to the arithmetic calculation of the Warrant Shares, Downside Protection Shares, and/or Downside Protection Cash set forth in the Exercise Notice, the Company shall deliver to each Holder a written notice setting forth the Company’s objection in reasonable detail (the “Company Objection Notice”) on or before the first (1st) Trading Day following the date on which the Company has received the Exercise Notice (such date, the “Company Objection Deadline”), and the Company and the Majority Holders shall resolve such dispute in accordance with Section 7 hereof. If the Company has not delivered a Company Objection Notice to each Holder on or before the Company Objection Deadline, then the arithmetic calculation as set forth in the Exercise Notice shall be deemed to be irrevocably accepted by the Company.

 

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(f)          Within two (2) Business Days of the Company’s receipt of notice from the Holder that the Holder has demanded the Downside Protection, the Company shall have the right, but not the obligation, to notify the Holder of the Company’s intent to repurchase all such Warrant Shares for which the Holder has demanded Downside Protection for cash at a repurchase price of $1.75 per share (the “Redemption Price”) in lieu of issuing the Downside Protection Shares and Downside Protection Cash, if applicable (the “Redemption Right”). If the Company exercises the Redemption Right, the Company shall within five (5) Business Days of the applicable Reset Date or Dilutive Offering Reset Date (as applicable) deliver to the Holder the Redemption Price in cash and a countersigned Warrant for the remaining number of shares of Common Stock as to which such Warrant shall not have been so redeemed.

 

3.          Adjustments.

 

(a)          Split-Ups. If after the date hereof, and subject to the provisions of Section 3(g) below, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock is increased by a stock dividend payable in shares of Common Stock, or by a split-up of shares of Common Stock or other similar event, then, on the effective date of such stock dividend, split-up or similar event, the number of shares of Common Stock issuable on exercise of the Warrant shall be increased in proportion to such increase in the outstanding shares of Common Stock. A rights offering to holders of the Common Stock entitling holders to purchase shares of Common Stock at a price less than the “Fair Market Value” (as defined below) shall be deemed a stock dividend of a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the product of (i) the number of shares of Common Stock actually sold in such rights offering (or issuable under any other equity securities sold in such rights offering that are convertible into or exercisable for the Common Stock) multiplied by (ii) one (1) minus the quotient of (x) the price per share of Common Stock paid in such rights offering and divided by (y) the Fair Market Value. For purposes of this Section 3(a), (i) if the rights offering is for securities convertible into or exercisable for Common Stock, in determining the price payable for Common Stock, there shall be taken into account any consideration received for such rights, as well as any additional amount payable upon exercise or conversion and (ii) “Fair Market Value” means the volume weighted average price of the Common Stock as reported during the ten (10) Trading Day period ending on the Trading Day prior to the first date on which the shares of Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, without the right to receive such rights.

 

(b)          Extraordinary Dividends. If the Company, at any time while the Warrant is outstanding and unexpired, shall pay a dividend or make a distribution in cash, securities or other assets to the holders of the Common Stock on account of such shares of Common Stock (or other shares of the Company’s capital stock into which the Warrant is convertible), other than (a) as described in Section 3(a) above or (b) Ordinary Cash Dividends (as defined below) (any such non-excluded event being referred to herein as an “Extraordinary Dividend”), then the Exercise Price shall be decreased, effective immediately after the effective date of such Extraordinary Dividend, by the amount of cash and/or the fair market value (as determined by the Company’s board of directors, in good faith) of any securities or other assets paid on each share of Common Stock in respect of such Extraordinary Dividend. For purposes of this Section 3(b), “Ordinary Cash Dividends” means any cash dividend or cash distribution which, when combined on a per share basis, with the per share amounts of all other cash dividends and cash distributions paid on the Common Stock during the 365-day period ending on the date of declaration of such dividend or distribution (as adjusted to appropriately reflect any of the events referred to in other subsections of this Section 3 and excluding cash dividends or cash distributions that resulted in an adjustment to the Exercise Price or to the number of shares of Common Stock issuable on exercise of the Warrant) does not exceed the Downside Protection Threshold Price.

 

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(c)          Aggregation of Shares. If after the date hereof, and subject to the provisions of Section 3(g) hereof, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock is decreased by a consolidation, combination, reverse stock split or reclassification of shares of Common Stock or other similar event, then, on the effective date of such consolidation, combination, reverse stock split, reclassification or similar event, the number of shares of Common Stock issuable on exercise of the Warrant shall be decreased in proportion to such decrease in outstanding shares of Common Stock.

 

(d)          Adjustments in Warrant Price. Whenever the number of shares of Common Stock purchasable upon the exercise of the Warrants is adjusted as provided in Sections 3(a), (b), or (c) above, the Exercise Price shall be adjusted (to the nearest cent) by multiplying such Exercise Price immediately prior to such adjustment by a fraction (x) the numerator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock purchasable upon the exercise of the Warrant immediately prior to such adjustment, and (y) the denominator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock so purchasable immediately thereafter, in each case with proportionate adjustments among the Warrant Shares to maintain the same ratio of Tranche I Warrant Shares, Tranche II Warrant Shares, and Tranche III Warrant Shares purchasable prior to such adjustment.

 

(e)          Replacement of Securities upon Reorganization, etc. In case of any reclassification or reorganization of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (other than a change under Sections 3(a), (b), or (c) above or that solely affects the par value of such shares of Common Stock), or in the case of any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or conversion of the Company as another entity (other than a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing corporation and is not a subsidiary of another entity whose stockholders did not own all or substantially all of the Common Stock of the Company in substantially the same proportions immediately before such transaction and that does not result in any reclassification or reorganization of the outstanding shares of Common Stock), or in the case of any sale or conveyance to another entity of the assets or other property of the Company as an entirety or substantially as an entirety in connection with which the Company is dissolved, the Holder shall thereafter have the right to purchase and receive, upon the basis and upon the terms and conditions specified in the Warrant and in lieu of the shares of Common Stock of the Company immediately theretofore purchasable and receivable upon the exercise of the rights represented thereby, the kind and amount of shares or other securities or property (including cash) receivable upon such reclassification, reorganization, merger or consolidation, or upon a dissolution following any such sale or transfer, that the Holder would have received if such Holder had exercised his, her or its Warrant immediately prior to such event (the “Alternative Issuance”); provided, however, that (i) if the holders of the Common Stock were entitled to exercise a right of election as to the kind or amount of securities, cash or other assets receivable upon such consolidation or merger, then the kind and amount of securities, cash or other assets constituting the Alternative Issuance for which the Warrant shall become exercisable shall be deemed to be the weighted average of the kind and amount received per share by the holders of the Common Stock in such consolidation or merger that affirmatively make such election, and (ii) if a tender, exchange or redemption offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of the Common Stock under circumstances in which, upon completion of such tender or exchange offer, the maker thereof, together with members of any group (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act (or any successor rule)) of which such maker is a part, and together with any affiliate or associate of such maker (within the meaning of Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act (or any successor rule)) and any members of any such group of which any such affiliate or associate is a part, own beneficially (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act (or any successor rule)) more than 65% of the voting power of the Company’s outstanding equity securities (including with respect to the election of directors), the Holder shall be entitled to receive as the Alternative Issuance, the weighted average of the amount of cash, securities or other property to which such Holder would actually have been entitled as a stockholder if such Holder had exercised the Warrant prior to the expiration of such tender or exchange offer, accepted such offer, and participated in such tender or exchange offer on a pro rata basis with all other holders of Common Stock, subject to adjustments (from and after the consummation of such tender or exchange offer) as nearly equivalent as possible to the adjustments provided for in this Section 3. If any reclassification or reorganization also results in a change in shares of Common Stock covered by Sections 3(a), (b), or (c) above, then such adjustment shall be made pursuant to Sections 3(a), (b), or (c) and this Section 3(e). The provisions of this Section 3(e) shall similarly apply to successive reclassifications, reorganizations, mergers or consolidations, sales or other transfers. In no event will the Exercise Price be reduced to less than the par value per share issuable upon exercise of the Warrant.

 

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(f)          Notices of Changes in Warrant. Upon every adjustment of the Exercise Price or the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrant, the Company shall give written notice thereof to the Holder, which notice shall state the Exercise Price resulting from such adjustment and the increase or decrease, if any, in the number of shares of Common Stock purchasable at such price upon the exercise of the Warrant, setting forth in reasonable detail the method of calculation and the facts upon which such calculation is based. Failure to give such notice, or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of such event or constitute a breach hereof.

 

(g)          No Fractional Shares. Notwithstanding any provision contained herein to the contrary, the Company shall not issue fractional shares of Common Stock upon the exercise of Warrants. If, by reason of any adjustment made pursuant to this Section 3, the Holder would be entitled, upon the exercise of such Warrant, to receive a fractional interest in a share, the Company shall, upon such exercise, round down to the nearest whole number the number of shares of Common Stock to be issued to such Holder.

 

(h)          Other Events. In case any event shall occur affecting the Company as to which none of the provisions of the preceding subsections of this Section 3 are strictly applicable, but which would require an adjustment to the terms of the Warrants in order to (i) avoid an adverse impact on the Warrants and (ii) effectuate the intent and purpose of this Section 3 then, in each such case, the Company’s board of directors shall in good faith determine and implement an appropriate adjustment in the Exercise Price and the number of Warrant Shares (if applicable) so as to protect the rights of the Holder, provided that no such adjustment pursuant to this Section 3(h) will increase the Exercise Price or decrease the number of Warrant Shares as otherwise determined pursuant to this Section 3.

 

(i)          Voluntary Adjustment by Company. Subject to the rules and regulations of Nasdaq, the Company may at any time during the term of this Warrant, with the prior written consent of the Majority Holders, reduce the then current Exercise Price to any amount and for any period of time deemed appropriate by the board of directors of the Company.

 

4.          Warrant Holder Not Deemed a Shareholder. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, the Holder, solely in its capacity as a holder of this Warrant, shall not be entitled to vote or receive dividends or be deemed the holder of share capital of the Company for any purpose, nor shall anything contained in this Warrant be construed to confer upon the Holder, solely in its capacity as the holder of this Warrant, any of the rights of a shareholder of the Company or any right to vote, give or withhold consent to any corporate action (whether any reorganization, issue of stock, reclassification of stock, consolidation, merger, conveyance or otherwise), receive notice of meetings, receive dividends or subscription rights, or otherwise, prior to the issuance to the Holder of the Warrant Shares which it is then entitled to receive upon the due exercise of this Warrant. In addition, nothing contained in this Warrant shall be construed as imposing any liabilities on the Holder to purchase any securities (upon exercise of this Warrant or otherwise) or as a shareholder of the Company, whether such liabilities are asserted by the Company or by creditors of the Company.

 

5.          Transfers.

 

(a)          Unregistered Security. The Holder acknowledges that this Warrant and the Warrant Shares have not been registered under the Securities Act as of the Issuance Date and agrees not to sell, pledge, distribute, offer for sale, transfer or otherwise dispose of this Warrant or any Warrant Shares issued upon its exercise (or any securities issued by the Company upon conversion or exchange thereof) in the absence of (i) an effective and available registration statement under the Securities Act and current prospectus as to the sale of any such securities and registration or qualification of such securities under any applicable U.S. federal or state securities law then in effect, or (ii) an opinion of counsel, satisfactory to the Company and the Transfer Agent, that there is an applicable exemption from such registration and qualification under applicable U.S. federal and state securities laws. Subject to Section 1(c), the Warrant Shares (and any securities issued by the Company upon conversion or exchange thereof) shall bear the legend set forth on Exhibit D. For the avoidance of doubt, the Warrants carry no registration rights.

 

(b)          Transferability. Subject to compliance with any applicable securities law and the provisions of Section 5(a) hereof, this Warrant and all rights hereunder are transferable, in whole or in part, upon surrender of the Warrant with a properly executed assignment (in the form of Exhibit C hereto) at the principal office of the Company.

 

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(c)          Warrant Register. The Company will maintain a register containing the names and addresses of the Holder of this Warrant. Until any transfer of this Warrant is made in the warrant register, the Company may treat the Holder of this Warrant as the absolute owner hereof for all purposes; provided, however, that if this Warrant is properly assigned in blank, the Company may (but shall not be required to) treat the bearer hereof as the absolute owner hereof for all purposes, notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. Any Holder may change such Holder’s address as shown on the warrant register by written notice to the Company requesting such change.

 

6.          Replacement of Warrants. Upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Warrant and (in the case of loss, theft or destruction) upon delivery of an indemnity agreement (with surety if reasonably required) in an amount reasonably satisfactory to the Company, or (in the case of mutilation) upon surrender and cancellation of this Warrant, the Company will issue, in lieu thereof, a new Warrant of like tenor; provided that, in the case of mutilation, no indemnity shall be required if this Warrant in identifiable form is surrendered to the Company for cancellation.

 

7.          Dispute Resolution Regarding Certain Matters. If the Majority Holders have delivered a Holder Objection Notice to the Company on or prior to the Holder Objection Deadline, or if the Company has delivered a Company Objection Notice to each Holder on or prior to the Company Objection Deadline, and the Majority Holders and the Company are unable to agree upon such determination or calculation within three (3) Business Days of delivery of such Holder Objection Notice or Company Objection Notice (as the case may be), then the Company shall, within two (2) Business Days after the end of such three (3) Business Day period, submit via electronic mail (a) the disputed determination of the Exercise Price, Test Price, Reset Price, or Dilutive Offering Reset Price (as the case may be) or (b) the disputed arithmetic calculation of the Warrant Shares, Downside Protection Shares, or Downside Protection Cash, to an independent, reputable investment bank selected by the Company and reasonably acceptable to the Majority Holders. The Company shall cause the investment bank to perform the determinations or calculations and notify the Company and each Holder of the results as soon as reasonably practicable. Such investment bank’s determination or calculation shall be binding upon all parties absent demonstrable error. The fees and expenses of such investment bank shall be borne by the Company unless the number in question, as finally determined by such investment bank is within ten percent (10%) of the Company’s originally proposed number, in which case such fees and expenses shall be borne by the Holders.

 

8.          Miscellaneous.

 

(a)          Applicable Law and Exclusive Forum. The validity, interpretation, and performance of this Warrant shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to conflicts of law principles that would result in the application of the substantive laws of another jurisdiction. The Company and the Holder hereby agree that any action, proceeding or claim against it arising out of or relating in any way to this Warrant shall be brought and enforced in the courts of the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and irrevocably submit to such jurisdiction, which jurisdiction shall be the exclusive forum for any such action, proceeding or claim. The Company and the Holder hereby waive any objection to such jurisdiction and that such courts represent an inconvenient forum. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 8(a) shall not apply to any action, proceeding or claim brought to enforce any liability or duty created by the Exchange Act or any other claim for which the federal district courts of the United States of America are the sole and exclusive forum. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions of this paragraph will not apply to suits brought to enforce any liability or duty created by the Exchange Act or any other claim for which the federal district courts of the United States of America are the sole and exclusive forum.

 

Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in this Warrant shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the forum provisions in this Section 8(a). If any action, the subject matter of which is within the scope of the forum provisions above, is filed in a court other than a court located within the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (a “foreign action”) in the name of any Warrant holder, such Holder shall be deemed to have consented to: (x) the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located within the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in connection with any action brought in any such court to enforce the forum provisions (an “enforcement action”), and (y) having service of process made upon such Holder in any such enforcement action by service upon such Holder’s counsel in the foreign action as agent for such Holder.

 

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THE COMPANY AND HOLDER EACH HEREBY WAIVES ITS RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OR RELATED TO THIS WARRANT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR OTHER LITIGATION OF ANY TYPE BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ANY OTHER SUCH PARTY, WHETHER WITH RESPECT TO CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS OR OTHERWISE. THE COMPANY AND HOLDER EACH AGREE THAT ANY SUCH CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE TRIED BY A COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THE COMPANY AND HOLDER EACH FURTHER AGREE THAT THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IS WAIVED BY OPERATION OF THIS SECTION AS TO ANY ACTION, COUNTERCLAIM OR OTHER PROCEEDING WHICH SEEKS, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, TO CHALLENGE THE VALIDITY OR ENFORCEABILITY OF THIS WARRANT OR ANY PROVISION HEREOF. THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS WARRANT.

 

(b)          Entire Agreement. This Warrant and the Subscription Agreement set forth the entire agreement and understanding of the parties relating to the subject matter herein and supersede all prior or contemporaneous agreements, understandings, representations and warranties, both written and oral, between them relating to the subject matter hereof.

 

(c)          Amendments and Waivers. This Warrant may be amended by the Company and the holders representing more than 50% of the Warrant Shares issuable under all Warrants issued pursuant to the Subscription Agreement and then-outstanding (i) for the purpose of curing any ambiguity, or curing, correcting or supplementing any defective provision contained herein and (ii) adding or changing any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Warrant as such parties may deem necessary or desirable and that such parties deem shall not adversely affect the economic interest of the Holders. All other modifications or amendments to this Warrant, or any waivers of any rights under this Warrant, must be in writing signed by (i) the Company and (ii) the holders representing more than 75% of the Warrant Shares issuable under all Warrants issued pursuant to the Subscription Agreement and then-outstanding. No delay or failure to require performance of any provision of this Warrant shall constitute a waiver of that provision as to that or any other instance.

 

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

 

(e)          Notices. All notices, requests, demands, claims, and other communications hereunder shall be in writing, at the most recent address set forth in the Company’s books and records. Any notice, request, demand, claim, or other communication hereunder shall be deemed duly given (i) when delivered personally to the recipient, (ii) when sent by electronic mail, with no mail undeliverable or other rejection notice, on the date of transmission to such recipient, if sent on a Business Day prior to 5:00 p.m. New York City time, or on the Business Day following the date of transmission, if sent on a day that is not a Business Day or after 5:00 p.m. New York City time on a Business Day, (iii) one (1) Business Day after being sent to the recipient via overnight mail by reputable overnight courier service (charges prepaid), or (iv) four (4) Business Days after being mailed to the recipient by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested and postage prepaid, and, in each case, addressed to the intended recipient at its address specified on the signature page hereof or to such electronic mail address or address as subsequently modified by written notice given in accordance with this Section 8(e). A courtesy electronic copy of any notice sent by methods (i), (iii), or (iv) above shall also be sent to the recipient via electronic mail if an electronic mail address is provided in the applicable signature page hereof or to an electronic mail address as subsequently modified by written notice given in accordance with this Section 8(e).

 

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(f)          Severability. If one or more provisions of this Warrant are held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable under applicable law, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other term or provision of this Warrant or invalidate or render unenforceable such term or provision in any other jurisdiction.

 

(g)          Construction. This Warrant is the result of negotiations between and has been reviewed by the Company and the initial Holder and their respective counsel, if any; accordingly, this Warrant shall be deemed to be the product of all of the parties hereto, and no ambiguity shall be construed in favor of or against any one of the parties hereto.

 

[Signature Page Follows]

 

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

 

  NKGEN Biotech, Inc.
     
  By:     
    Name:
    Title:

 

Signature Page to Common Stock Purchase Warrant

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT A

 

EXERCISE NOTICE

 

TO BE EXECUTED BY THE HOLDER TO EXERCISE THIS
COMmon stock purchase warrant

 

NKGEN BIOTECH, INC.

 

The undersigned holder hereby elects to exercise the Common Stock Purchase Warrant (the “Warrant”) of NKGen Biotech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) as specified below. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Warrant.

 

1. Cash Exercise. The Holder intends to exercise the following number of Warrant Shares:

 

__________ Tranche I Warrant Shares

 

__________ Tranche II Warrant Shares

 

__________ Tranche III Warrant Shares

 

The total number of Warrant Shares to be delivered to the Holder is: ______________

 

2. Payment of Cash Exercise Price. The Holder shall pay the aggregate Exercise Price in the sum of

 

$___________________ to the Company in accordance with the terms of the Warrant.

 

3. Cashless Exercise Pursuant to Section 1(d). The Holder hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the Warrant pursuant to Section 1(d) on a cashless basis to receive the following number of Warrant Shares:

 

________ Tranche ____ Warrant Shares

 

If said number of shares of Common Stock is less than all of the shares of Common Stock purchasable hereunder (after giving effect to the cashless exercise), the Holder requests that a new Warrant be issued pursuant to Section 1(c) evidencing the right to purchase the following remaining number of Warrant Shares:

 

__________ Tranche I Warrant Shares

 

__________ Tranche II Warrant Shares

 

__________ Tranche III Warrant Shares

 

4. Downside Protection Demand. The Holder hereby certifies that, as of ____________ (the Reset Date or Dilutive Offering Reset Date, as applicable), the Test Price or Dilutive Offering Reset Price, as applicable, of the Tranche ___ Warrant Shares calculated pursuant to Section 2(a) or Section 2(b) of the Warrant, as applicable, is below the Downside Protection Threshold Price. The Holder hereby demands Downside Protection with respect to the following number of Warrant Shares:

 

________ Tranche ____ Warrant Shares

 

The number of Downside Protection Shares to be delivered to the Holder is: ______________

 

The amount of Downside Protection Cash to be delivered to the Holder is: _______________

 

Exhibit A to Common Stock Purchase Warrant

 

 

 

 

5. Delivery of Warrant Shares. The Company shall deliver to Holder, or its designee or agent as specified below, the total number of Warrant Shares specified in Item 1 or 3 above in accordance with the terms of the Warrant. Delivery shall be made to Holder, or for its benefit, as follows:

 

¨ Check here if requesting delivery as a certificate to the following name and to the following address:

 

Issue to:     
     
     

 

¨ Check here if requesting delivery by Deposit/Withdrawal at Custodian as follows:

 

DTC Participant:     
DTC Number:    
Account Number:    

 

6. Maximum Percentage Representation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, this Exercise Notice shall constitute a representation by the Holder of the Warrant submitting this Exercise Notice that after giving effect to the exercise provided for in this Exercise Notice, such Holder (together with its affiliates) will not have beneficial ownership (together with the beneficial ownership of such Person’s affiliates) of a number of shares of Common Stock which exceeds the Maximum Percentage of the total outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company as determined pursuant to the provisions of Section 1(e) of the Warrant.

 

7. Delivery of Downside Protection Cash. The Holder’s wire information for the delivery of the Downside Protection Cash (if applicable), is as follows:

 

[INSERT WIRE INFORMATION]

 

[Signature Page Follows]

 

Exhibit A to Common Stock Purchase Warrant

 

 

 

 

Date: __________________  
   
   
   
Name of Holder  
   
By:    
  Name:  
  Title:  

 

Tax ID:    
   
Address:    
   
E-mail Address:    

 

Exhibit A to Common Stock Purchase Warrant

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT B

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

 

The Company hereby acknowledges this Exercise Notice and hereby directs Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company to issue the above indicated number of shares of Common Stock in accordance with the Transfer Agent Instructions dated _________, from the Company and acknowledged and agreed to by _______________.

 

  NKGEN BIOTECH, INC.
     
  By:  
    Name:
    Title:

 

Exhibit B to Common Stock Purchase Warrant

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT C

 

ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, _________________________________________ hereby sells, assigns and transfers all of the rights of the undersigned under the attached Warrant with respect to the number of shares of capital stock covered thereby set forth below, unto:

 

Name of Assignee Address/Facsimile Number No. of Warrant Shares
and Tranche
     
     
     

 

Acknowledged and agreed to by the Holder:  
   
(Holder)  
   
By:                     
   
(Signature)  
Name:    
   
Title:    
   
Address:  
   
   
Email:    

 

Exhibit C to Common Stock Purchase Warrant

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT D

 

FORM OF RESTRICTED STOCK LEGEND

 

THE OFFER AND SALE OF THE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK REPRESENTED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, PLEDGED, HEDGED, ASSIGNED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, EXCEPT (1) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE AND AVAILABLE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND A CURRENT PROSPECTUS, (2) IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (3) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER APPLICABLE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. THE ISSUER OF THESE SECURITIES MAY REQUIRE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE ISSUER THAT SUCH OFFER, SALE, PLEDGE, HEDGE, ASSIGNMENT OR OTHER TRANSFER OTHERWISE COMPLIES WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.

 

Exhibit D to Common Stock Purchase Warrant

 

 

 

Exhibit 10.2

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT

 

This AMENDED AND RESTATED SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT (as may be further amended from time to time, this “Subscription Agreement”) is entered into on September [26], 2023, by and between Graf Acquisition Corp. IV, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and the undersigned subscriber (“Subscriber”).

 

WHEREAS, on April 14, 2023, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger with NKGen Biotech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“NKGen”), and the other parties thereto, providing for a business combination between the Company and NKGen (the “Business Combination Agreement” and the transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement, the “Transaction”);

 

WHEREAS, in connection with the Transaction, Subscriber desires to subscribe for and purchase from the Company, immediately prior to the consummation of the Transaction, that number of warrants set forth on the signature page hereto (the “Subscribed Warrants”), for a purchase price of $1.00 per Subscribed Warrant (the “Per Warrant Price” and the aggregate of such Per Warrant Price for all Subscribed Warrants being referred to herein as the “Purchase Price”), provided that the Subscriber must purchase no less than $3.00 of Subscribed Warrants and the Subscribed Warrants will be sold in denominations of $3.00, and the Company desires to issue and sell to Subscriber the Subscribed Warrants in consideration of the payment of the Purchase Price by or on behalf of Subscriber to the Company;

 

WHEREAS, the Subscribed Warrants will entitle the holder to purchase shares (“Warrant Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), upon substantially the terms included in the form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant set forth in Annex B (the “Common Stock Purchase Warrant”), with one-third of such Subscribed Warrants exercisable at an initial exercise price of $10.00, one-third of such Subscribed Warrants exercisable at an initial exercise price of $12.50 per warrant, and one-third of such Subscribed Warrants exercisable at an initial exercise price of $15.00 per warrant, in each case subject to adjustment;

 

WHEREAS, the parties hereto entered into a Subscription Agreement, dated as of September 19, 2023 (the “Original Subscription Agreement”), and the parties hereto desire to amend and restate the Original Subscription Agreement in its entirety and to enter into this Subscription Agreement to modify the terms of the Original Subscription Agreement as set forth herein; and

 

WHEREAS, on or about the date of this Subscription Agreement, the Company is entering into subscription agreements (the “Other Subscription Agreements” and together with the Subscription Agreement, the “Subscription Agreements”) with certain other investors (the “Other Subscribers” and together with Subscriber, the “Subscribers”), pursuant to which such Subscribers have agreed to purchase Common Stock Purchase Warrants at the Per Warrant Price on the closing date of the Transaction.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual representations, warranties and covenants, and subject to the conditions, herein contained, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

 

Section 1.            Subscription. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, at the Closing (as defined below), Subscriber hereby subscribes for and agrees to purchase from the Company, and the Company hereby agrees to issue and sell to Subscriber, upon the payment of the Purchase Price, the Subscribed Warrants (such subscription and issuance, the “Subscription”).

 

 

 

 

Section 2.            Closing.

 

(a)            The consummation of the Subscription contemplated hereby (the “Closing”) shall occur on the closing date of the Transaction (the “Closing Date”), immediately prior to or substantially concurrently with the consummation of the Transaction.

 

(b)            At least one (1) Business Day before the anticipated Closing Date, the Company shall deliver written notice to Subscriber (the “Closing Notice”) specifying (i) the anticipated Closing Date and (ii) the wire instructions for delivery of the Purchase Price to the Company. No later than one (1) Business Day prior to the anticipated Closing Date as set forth in the Closing Notice, Subscriber shall deliver the Purchase Price for the Subscribed Warrants by wire transfer of United States dollars in immediately available funds to the account specified by the Company in the Closing Notice, such funds to be held by the Company in escrow or a segregated account until the Closing. Upon satisfaction (or, if applicable, waiver) of the conditions set forth in this Section 2, the Company shall deliver to Subscriber at the Closing a Common Stock Purchase Warrant representing the Subscribed Warrants in the form of Annex B hereto, free and clear of any liens, charges, mortgages, pledges, claims, equities, encumbrances and other third party rights or other restrictions (other than those arising under this Subscription Agreement, the organizational documents of the Company or applicable securities laws), in the name of Subscriber (or its nominee or custodian in accordance with its delivery instructions) (and the Purchase Price shall be released from escrow automatically and without further action by the Company or the Subscriber). In the event that the consummation of the Transaction does not occur within one (1) Business Day after the anticipated Closing Date specified in the Closing Notice, unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the Company and the Subscriber, the Company shall promptly (but in no event later than two (2) Business Days after the anticipated Closing Date specified in the Closing Notice) return the funds so delivered by Subscriber to the Company by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account specified by Subscriber, and the Common Stock Purchase Warrants and any records of the Subscribed Warrants on the Company’s books and records shall be deemed cancelled. Notwithstanding such return or cancellation (x) a failure to close on the anticipated Closing Date shall not, by itself, be deemed to be a failure of any of the conditions to Closing set forth in this Section 2 to be satisfied or waived on or prior to the Closing Date, and (y) unless and until this Subscription Agreement is terminated in accordance with Section 6 herein, Subscriber shall remain obligated (A) to redeliver funds to the Company following the Company’s delivery to Subscriber of a new Closing Notice in accordance with this Section 2 and (B) to consummate the Closing upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this Section 2. For the purposes of this Subscription Agreement, “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday, or any other day on which banks located in New York, New York are required or authorized by law to be closed for business.

 

(c)            The Closing shall be subject to the satisfaction, or valid waiver in writing by each of the parties hereto, of the conditions that, on the Closing Date:

 

(i)all conditions precedent to the closing of the Transaction set forth in Article IX of the Business Combination Agreement shall have been satisfied (as determined by the parties to the Business Combination Agreement) or waived in writing by the person(s) with the authority to make such waiver (other than those conditions which, by their nature, are to be satisfied at the closing of the Transaction pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement), and the closing of the Transaction shall be scheduled to occur substantially concurrently with the Closing;

 

(ii)no governmental authority shall have enacted, issued, promulgated, enforced or entered any judgment, order, law, rule or regulation (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) which is then in effect and has the effect of making the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby illegal or otherwise restraining or prohibiting consummation of the Subscription or the transactions contemplated hereby, and no governmental authority shall have instituted or threatened in writing a proceeding seeking to impose any such restraint or prohibition; and

 

 

 

 

(iii)the Company’s Common Stock (including the Warrant Shares) shall be approved for listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) subject only to official notice of issuance.

 

(d)            The obligation of the Company to consummate the Closing shall be subject to the satisfaction or valid waiver in writing by the Company of the additional conditions that, on the Closing Date:

 

(i)all representations and warranties of Subscriber contained in this Subscription Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality or Subscriber Material Adverse Effect (as defined below), which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) at and as of the Closing Date (except to the extent that any such representation and warranty expressly speaks as of an earlier date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality or Subscriber Material Adverse Effect, which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) as of such earlier date), and consummation of the Closing shall constitute a reaffirmation by Subscriber of each of the representations, warranties and agreements of Subscriber contained in this Subscription Agreement as of the Closing Date, but without giving effect to consummation of the Transaction, or as of such earlier date, as applicable, except, in each case, where the failure of such representations and warranties to be true and correct (whether as of the Closing Date or such earlier date), taken as a whole, does not result in a Subscriber Material Adverse Effect;

 

(ii)Subscriber shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with all covenants, agreements and conditions required by this Subscription Agreement to be performed, satisfied or complied with by it at or prior to the Closing; and

 

(iii)the Company shall have entered into Subscription Agreements with the Subscriber and Other Subscribers for the sale of an aggregate amount of no less than 9,999,999 Common Stock Purchase Warrants, at the Per Warrant Price for an aggregate purchase price, inclusive of the Purchase Price, of no less than $9,999,999.

 

(e)            The obligation of Subscriber to consummate the Closing shall be subject to the satisfaction or valid waiver in writing by Subscriber of the additional conditions that, on the Closing Date:

 

(i)all representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Subscription Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality or Company Material Adverse Effect (as defined below), which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) at and as of the Closing Date (except to the extent that any such representation or warranty expressly speaks as of an earlier date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality or Company Material Adverse Effect, which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) as of such earlier date), and consummation of the Closing shall constitute a reaffirmation by the Company of each of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company contained in this Subscription Agreement as of the Closing Date, but without giving effect to consummation of the Transaction, or as of such earlier date, as applicable, except, in each case, where the failure of such representations and warranties to be true and correct (whether as of the Closing Date or such earlier date), taken as a whole, does not result in a Company Material Adverse Effect;

 

 

 

 

(ii)the Company shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with all covenants, agreements and conditions required by this Subscription Agreement to be performed, satisfied or complied with by it at or prior to the Closing;

 

(iii)except (A) for a waiver of Section 9.02(e) with respect to the Company delivering the Closing deliverable specified in Section 2.06(b)(ii), (B) for a waiver of Section 9.03(f) of the Business Combination Agreement, and (C)to the extent consented to in writing by Subscriber, the Business Combination Agreement shall not have been amended, modified, supplemented or waived in a manner that would reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the economic benefits that Subscriber would reasonably expect to receive under this Subscription Agreement;

 

(iv)there shall have been no amendment, waiver or modification to the Other Subscription Agreements that materially benefits any Other Subscriber thereunder (other than terms particular to the legal or regulatory requirements of such Other Subscriber or its affiliates or related persons) unless the Subscriber has been offered substantially the same benefits;

 

(v)the Lockup Agreement substantially in the form described in the Definitive Proxy Statement Prospectus dated as of August 14, 2023 which is to be entered into by certain parties pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement, and the Sponsor Support and Lockup Agreement, dated as of April 14, 2023, by and among Graf Acquisition Partners IV LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, the Company, NKGen and the persons set forth on Schedule I thereto, each providing for the restriction of the transfer of shares of Common Stock of the Company by certain parties specified therein, will be in effect as of the Closing Date; and

 

(vi)NKGen shall have (A) entered into a subscription agreement, securities purchase agreement, side letter or other agreements (including convertible notes, promissory notes and warrants) with other investors associated with a private financing in one or a series of related transactions, not to exceed $85 million in the aggregate, and (B) consummated such private financing provided for thereby prior to the Closing of the Transaction.

 

(f)            Prior to or at the Closing, Subscriber shall deliver to the Company all such other information as is reasonably requested in order for the Company to issue the Subscribed Warrants to Subscriber, including, without limitation, the legal name of the person in whose name the Subscribed Warrants are to be issued (or the Subscriber’s nominee in accordance with its delivery instructions) and a duly completed and executed Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or appropriate Form W-8.

 

 

 

 

(g)            Each Common Stock Purchase Warrant representing the Subscribed Warrants shall contain a legend, and each book entry position or certificate (if any) evidencing the Warrant Shares shall be stamped or otherwise imprinted with a legend, in substantially the following form:

 

NEITHER THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS WARRANT NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THESE SECURITIES ARE EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (“SECURITIES ACT”), OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, PLEDGED, HEDGED, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED IN THE ABSENCE OF (A) AN EFFECTIVE AND AVAILABLE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND A CURRENT PROSPECTUS, (B) IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (C) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER APPLICABLE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. THE ISSUER OF THESE SECURITIES MAY REQUIRE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE ISSUER THAT SUCH OFFER, SALE, PLEDGE, HEDGE, TRANSFER OR ASSIGNMENT OTHERWISE COMPLIES WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE NUMBER OF SHARES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THIS WARRANT MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNTS SET FORTH ON THE FACE HEREOF PURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF THIS WARRANT.

 

Section 3.            Company Representations and Warranties. The Company represents and warrants to Subscriber that:

 

(a)            The Company (i) is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, (ii) has the requisite power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties, to carry on its business as it is now being conducted and to enter into and perform its obligations under this Subscription Agreement, and (iii) is duly licensed or qualified to conduct its business and, if applicable, is in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction (other than its jurisdiction of incorporation) in which the conduct of its business or the ownership of its properties or assets requires such license or qualification, except, with respect to the foregoing clause (iii), where the failure to be in good standing would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect. For purposes of this Subscription Agreement, a “Company Material Adverse Effect” means an event, change, development, occurrence, condition or effect with respect to the Company that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, financial condition, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company or its subsidiaries individually or taken as a whole, or materially affects the legal authority and ability of the Company to comply with the terms of this Subscription Agreement, including the issuance and sale of the Subscribed Warrants, or the Transaction.

 

(b)            Upon issuance in accordance with the terms of this Subscription Agreement against full payment therefor, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery by other parties hereto, the Subscribed Warrants will constitute the valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws affecting creditors generally and by the availability of equitable remedies. As of the Closing, the Company shall have reserved an amount of duly authorized shares of Common Stock that is equal to the number of Warrant Shares issuable upon the initial exercise of the Subscribed Warrants, and shall keep such number of shares of Common Stock as necessary to satisfy the exercise of the Subscribed Warrants at all times reserved for issuance until the earlier of the exercise of the Subscribed Warrants in full or the termination of the Subscribed Warrants in accordance with their terms. The Warrant Shares issued to Subscriber upon the exercise of any Subscribed Warrant will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

 

(c)            This Subscription Agreement has been duly authorized, validly executed and delivered by the Company, and assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of the same by Subscriber, this Subscription Agreement shall constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws affecting creditors generally and by the availability of equitable remedies.

 

 

 

 

(d)            Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of Subscriber set forth in Section 4 of this Subscription Agreement, the execution and delivery of this Subscription Agreement, the issuance and sale of the Subscribed Warrants hereunder, the compliance by the Company with all of the provisions of this Subscription Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any of the property or assets of the Company pursuant to the terms of (i) any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease, license or other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company is subject, (ii) the organizational documents of the Company, or (iii) any statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties that, in the case of clauses (i) and (iii), would reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect.

 

(e)            The Company is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other governmental authority, self-regulatory organization (including Nasdaq) or other person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of this Subscription Agreement (including, without limitation, the issuance of the Subscribed Warrants), other than (i) filings required by Regulation D of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws, (ii) the filing of the Registration Statement (as defined below) pursuant to Section 5 below, (iii) filings required by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), (iv) filings required by Nasdaq, including with respect to obtaining stockholder approval, if applicable, (v) filings required to consummate the Transaction as provided under the Business Combination Agreement, (vi) the filing of notification under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, if applicable, and (vii) those filings, the failure of which to obtain would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect.

 

(f)            Except for such matters as have not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect, there is no (i) suit, action, proceeding or arbitration before a governmental authority or arbitrator pending, or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened in writing against the Company or (ii) judgment, decree, injunction, ruling or order of any governmental authority or arbitrator outstanding against the Company.

 

(g)            Assuming the accuracy of Subscriber’s representations and warranties set forth in Section 4 of this Subscription Agreement, no registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) or any state securities (or Blue Sky) laws is required for the offer and sale of the Subscribed Warrants or Warrant Shares by the Company to Subscriber.

 

(h)            Neither the Company nor any person acting on its behalf has engaged or will engage in any form of general solicitation or general advertising (within the meaning of Regulation D) in connection with any offer or sale of the Subscribed Warrants or Warrant Shares. The Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares are not being offered in a manner involving a public offering under, or in a distribution in violation of, the Securities Act or any state securities laws. Neither the Company nor any person acting on the Company’s behalf has, directly or indirectly, at any time within the past six (6) months, made any offer or sale of any security or solicitation of any offer to buy any security under circumstances that would (i) eliminate the availability of the exemption from registration under Regulation D under the Securities Act in connection with the offer and sale by the Company of the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares as contemplated hereby or (ii) cause the offering of the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares pursuant to this Subscription Agreement to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of the Securities Act or any applicable stockholder approval provisions. Neither the Company nor any person acting on the Company’s behalf has offered or sold or will offer or sell any securities, or has taken or will take any other action, which would reasonably be expected to subject the offer, issuance or sale of the Subscribed Warrants or Warrant Shares, as contemplated hereby, to the registration provisions of the Securities Act.

 

 

 

 

(i)            The Company is in compliance with all applicable laws and has not received any written communication from a governmental entity that alleges that the Company is not in compliance with or is in default or violation of any applicable law, except where such non-compliance, default or violation would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect. The Company is in all material respects in compliance with applicable provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder.

 

(j)            The Common Stock is eligible for clearing through The Depository Trust Company (the “DTC”), through its Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian (DWAC) system, and the Company is eligible and participating in the Direct Registration System (DRS) of DTC with respect to the Common Stock. The Company’s transfer agent (the “Transfer Agent”) is a participant in DTC’s Fast Automated Securities Transfer Program. The Common Stock is not, and has not been at any time, subject to any DTC “chill,” “freeze” or similar restriction with respect to any DTC services, including the clearing of shares of Common Stock through DTC.

 

(k)            No broker or finder is entitled to any brokerage or finder’s fee or commission solely in connection with the sale of the Subscribed Warrants to Subscriber.

 

(l)            As of their respective dates, each form, report, statement, schedule, prospectus, proxy, registration statement and other document required to be filed by the Company with the Commission prior to the date hereof (the “SEC Documents”) complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder, and none of the SEC Documents, when filed, or if amended prior to the date of this Subscription Agreement, as of the date of such amendment with respect to those disclosures that were amended, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Documents comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, year-end audit adjustments, and such consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (“GAAP”) (except as may be disclosed therein or in the notes thereto, and except that the unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP). A copy of each SEC Document is available to each Subscriber via the Commission’s EDGAR system. The Company has timely filed each report, statement, schedule, prospectus, and registration statement that the Company was required to file with the Commission since its initial registration of the Common Stock with the Commission and through the date hereof. There are no material outstanding or unresolved comments in comment letters from the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) of the Commission with respect to any of the SEC Documents as of the date hereof.

 

 

 

 

(m)            As of the date hereof, the authorized share capital of the Company consists of 400,000,000 shares of Common Stock and 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Preferred Shares”). As of the date hereof: (i) 10,373,875 shares of Common Stock and no Preferred Shares were issued and outstanding; (ii) 3,432,300 warrants, each exercisable to purchase one share of Common Stock at $11.50 per share, and 4,721,533 private placement warrants, and (iii) each exercisable to purchase one share of Common Stock at $11.50 per share (together, “SPAC Warrants”), were issued and outstanding; and (iv) no Common Stock was subject to issuance upon exercise of outstanding options. No SPAC Warrants are exercisable on or prior to the Closing. All (A) issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are not subject to preemptive rights or similar and (B) outstanding SPAC Warrants have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and are not subject to preemptive or similar rights. As of the date hereof, except as set forth above and pursuant to (1) the Other Subscription Agreements, (2) the Backstop Agreement, dated as of April 14, 2023, by and between the Company and NKMAX Co., Ltd. (the “Backstop Agreement”), (3) the Business Combination Agreement, (4) a securities purchase agreement dated on or about the date hereof for the sale by the Company to certain investors of senior convertible notes and warrants (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”), or (5) as disclosed in the SEC Documents, there are no outstanding options, warrants or other rights to subscribe for, purchase or acquire from the Company any Common Stock or other equity interests in the Company (collectively, “Equity Interests”) or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Equity Interests. Except as set forth in the SEC Documents, as of the date hereof, the Company has no subsidiaries and does not own, directly or indirectly, interests or investments (whether equity or debt) in any person, whether incorporated or unincorporated. There are no stockholder agreements, voting trusts or other agreements or understandings to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound relating to the voting of any Equity Interests, other than as contemplated by (i) the Business Combination Agreement and (ii) that certain letter agreement, dated as of May 20, 2021, by and between the Company, Graf Acquisition Partners IV LLC and the other parties thereto (the “IPO Letter Agreement”). Except as described in the SEC Documents, there are no securities or instruments issued by or to which the Company is a party containing anti-dilution or similar provisions that will be triggered by the issuance of (i) the Subscribed Warrants or (ii) the Common Stock Purchase Warrants to be issued pursuant to any Other Subscription Agreement.

 

(n)            The issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and are listed for trading on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the symbol “GFOR.” There is no suit, action, proceeding or investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company by NYSE or the Commission with respect to any intention by such entity to deregister the shares of Common Stock or prohibit or terminate the listing of the shares of Common Stock on NYSE. The Company has taken no action that is designed to terminate the registration of the shares of Common Stock under the Exchange Act.

 

(o)            Upon consummation of the Transaction, the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock will continue to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and will be listed for trading on Nasdaq.

 

(p)            The Company is not, and immediately after receipt of payment for the Subscribed Warrants and consummation of the Transaction, will not be, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

(q)            The Company has not entered into any subscription agreement, side letter or other agreement with any Other Subscriber or any other investor in connection with such Other Subscriber’s or investor’s direct or indirect investment in the Company other than (i) the Other Subscription Agreements, (ii) the Backstop Agreement, (iii) the IPO Letter Agreement, and (iv) the Securities Purchase Agreement. The Other Subscription Agreements have not been amended in any material respect following the date of this Subscription Agreement and reflect the same Per Warrant Price and other terms with respect to the purchase of the Common Stock Purchase Warrants that are no more favorable to such Other Subscriber thereunder than the terms of this Subscription Agreement other than terms particular to the regulatory requirements of such Other Subscriber or its affiliates or related fund.

 

 

 

 

(r)            Neither the Company nor anyone acting on its behalf has, directly or indirectly, offered the Common Stock Purchase Warrants or any similar securities for sale to, or solicited any offer to buy the Common Stock Purchase Warrants or any similar securities from, or otherwise approached or negotiated in respect thereof with, any person other than the Subscriber and a limited number of other “accredited investors” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act), each of which has been offered the Common Stock Purchase Warrants at a private sale for investment. Neither the Company nor anyone acting on its behalf has taken, or will take, any action that would subject the issuance or sale of the Subscribed Warrants to the registration requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act or to the registration requirements of any securities or blue sky laws of any applicable jurisdiction.

 

Section 4.            Subscriber Representations and Warranties. Subscriber represents and warrants to the Company that:

 

(a)            Subscriber (i) is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation or incorporation and (ii) has the requisite power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations under this Subscription Agreement.

 

(b)            This Subscription Agreement has been duly authorized, validly executed and delivered by Subscriber, and assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of the same by the Company, this Subscription Agreement shall constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of Subscriber, enforceable against Subscriber in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited or otherwise affected by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally and by the availability of equitable remedies.

 

(c)            The execution, delivery and performance by Subscriber of this Subscription Agreement, the purchase of the Subscribed Warrants hereunder, the compliance by Subscriber with all of the provisions of this Subscription Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any of the property or assets of Subscriber pursuant to the terms of (i) any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease, license or other agreement or instrument to which Subscriber is a party or by which Subscriber is bound or to which any of the property or assets of Subscriber is subject; (ii) the organizational documents of Subscriber; or (iii) any statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over Subscriber or any of its properties that in the case of clauses (i) and (iii), would have a Subscriber Material Adverse Effect. For purposes of this Subscription Agreement, a “Subscriber Material Adverse Effect” means an event, change, development, occurrence, condition or effect with respect to Subscriber that would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on Subscriber’s ability to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, including the purchase of the Subscribed Warrants.

 

(d)            Subscriber (i) is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) or an institutional “accredited investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act), in each case, satisfying the applicable requirements set forth on Annex A hereto, (ii) is acquiring the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares only for its own account and not for the account of others, or if Subscriber is subscribing for the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares as a fiduciary or agent for one or more investor accounts, each owner of such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) or an “accredited investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act) and Subscriber has full investment discretion with respect to each such account, and the full power and authority to make the acknowledgements, representations, warranties and agreements herein on behalf of each owner of each such account, for investment purposes only, (iii) is not acquiring the Subscribed Warrants or Warrant Shares with a view to, or for offer or sale in connection with, any distribution thereof in violation of the securities laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction and (iv) has provided the Company with the requested information on Annex A following the signature page hereto and the information contained therein is accurate and complete. The Subscriber is not an entity formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the Subscribed Warrants or Warrant Shares.

 

 

 

 

(e)            Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares are being offered in a transaction not involving any public offering within the meaning of the Securities Act and that the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares have not been registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction and that the Company is not required to register the Subscribed Warrants or Warrant Shares except as set forth in Section 5 of this Subscription Agreement. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares may not be offered, resold, transferred, pledged or otherwise disposed of by Subscriber absent an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, except (i) to the Company or a subsidiary thereof, (ii) pursuant to an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act (including without limitation a private resale pursuant to so called “Section 4(a)1½”), or (iii) in an ordinary course pledge such as a broker lien over account property generally, and, in each of clauses (i)-(iii), in accordance with any applicable securities laws of the states and other jurisdictions of the United States, and that the Common Stock Purchase Warrant representing the Subscribed Warrants and any certificates or account entries representing the Warrant Shares shall contain the restrictive legend set forth in Section 2(g) hereof. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares will be subject to these securities law transfer restrictions, and as a result of these transfer restrictions, Subscriber may not be able to readily offer, resell, transfer, pledge or otherwise dispose of the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares and may be required to bear the financial risk of an investment in the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares for an indefinite period of time. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that the Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares will not be immediately eligible for offer, resale, transfer, pledge or disposition pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act, as amended (“Rule 144”), until at least one year following the filing of certain required information with the Commission after the Closing Date. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that it has been advised to consult legal counsel prior to making any offer, resale, pledge or transfer of any of the Subscribed Warrants or Warrant Shares.

 

(f)            Subscriber understands and agrees that Subscriber is purchasing the Subscribed Warrants directly from the Company. Subscriber further acknowledges that there have not been, and Subscriber hereby agrees that it is not relying on, any representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made to Subscriber by the Company, any of its affiliates or any control persons, officers, directors, employees, partners, agents or representatives, any other party to the Transaction or any other person or entity, expressly or by implication, other than those representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of the Company set forth in this Subscription Agreement.

 

(g)            In making its decision to purchase the Subscribed Warrants, Subscriber represents that it has relied solely upon independent investigation made by Subscriber and the Company’s representations in Section 3 of this Subscription Agreement. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that Subscriber has received access to and has had an adequate opportunity to review such information as Subscriber deems necessary in order to make an investment decision with respect to the Subscribed Warrants, including with respect to the Company, NKGen (and its subsidiaries, if any (collectively, the “Acquired Companies”)) and the Transaction, and made its own assessment and is satisfied concerning the relevant financial, tax and other economic considerations relevant to Subscriber’s investment in the Subscribed Warrants. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Subscriber acknowledges that it has reviewed the Company’s filings with the Commission including the filings relating to the Transaction. Subscriber represents and agrees that Subscriber and Subscriber’s professional advisor(s), if any, received, reviewed and understood the offering materials made available to them in connection with the Subscription and the Transaction, have had the full opportunity to ask such questions, including on the financial information, receive such answers and obtain such information as Subscriber and Subscriber’s professional advisor(s), if any, have deemed necessary to make an investment decision with respect to the Subscribed Warrants. Subscriber further acknowledges that the information provided to Subscriber was preliminary and subject to change, including in the Company’s filings with the Commission with respect the Transaction (which may include additional information about the Company, the Acquired Companies and the Transaction, including with respect to any financial statements or pro forma or other financial information), and that any changes to such information, including, without limitation, any changes based on updated information or changes in terms of the Transaction, shall in no way affect the Subscriber’s obligation to purchase the Subscribed Warrants hereunder. The Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that, except for the representations and warranties made by the Company that are expressly set forth in Section 3 of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any of its affiliates nor any other person is making or has made any representations or warranties, expressed or implied, at law or in equity, with respect to or on behalf of the Company, its businesses, operations, assets, liabilities, financial condition, results of operations, future operating or financial results, estimates, projections, forecasts, plans or prospects (including the reasonableness of the assumptions underlying such estimates, projections, forecasts, plans or prospects) or the accuracy or completeness of any information regarding the Company or any other matter made available to the Subscriber or its representatives in expectation of, or in connection with, this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. The Subscriber is not relying upon and specifically disclaims that it is relying upon or has relied upon any such other representations or warranties that may have been made by any person and acknowledges and agrees that the Company has specifically disclaimed any such other representations and warranties. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that none of the Acquired Companies or any of their affiliates or any of such person’s or its affiliate’s control persons, officers, directors, employees or other representatives, legal counsel, financial advisors, accountants or agents (collectively, “Representatives”) has provided Subscriber with any information or advice with respect to the Subscribed Warrants nor is such information or advice necessary or desired. None of the Acquired Companies or any of their respective affiliates or Representatives has made or makes any representation as to the Company or the Acquired Companies or the quality or value of the Subscribed Warrants.

 

 

 

 

(h)            [Reserved].

 

(i)            Subscriber acknowledges that it is aware that there are substantial risks incident to the purchase and ownership of the Subscribed Warrants, including those set forth in the SEC Documents. Subscriber is able to fend for itself in the transactions contemplated herein, has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of an investment in the Subscribed Warrants, and Subscriber has had an opportunity to seek, and has sought, such accounting, legal, business and tax advice as Subscriber has considered necessary to make an informed investment decision. Subscriber (i) is an institutional account as defined in FINRA Rule 4512(c), (ii) is a sophisticated investor, experienced in investing in private equity transactions and capable of evaluating investment risks independently, both in general and with regard to all transactions and investment strategies involving a security or securities, and (iii) has exercised independent judgment in evaluating its participation in the purchase of the Subscribed Warrants. Subscriber understands and acknowledges that the purchase and sale of the Subscribed Warrants hereunder meets (i) the exemptions from filing under FINRA Rule 5123(b)(1)(A) and (ii) the institutional customer exemption under FINRA Rule 2111(b).

 

(j)            Subscriber has adequately analyzed and fully considered the risks of an investment in the Subscribed Warrants and determined that the Subscribed Warrants are a suitable investment for Subscriber and that Subscriber is able at this time and in the foreseeable future to bear the economic risk of a total loss of Subscriber’s investment in the Company. Subscriber acknowledges specifically that a possibility of total loss exists.

 

(k)            Subscriber understands and agrees that no federal or state agency has passed upon or endorsed the merits of the offering of the Subscribed Warrants or made any findings or determination as to the fairness of this investment.

 

 

 

 

(l)            Subscriber is not (i) a person or entity named (a “Person”) on the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) or in any Executive Order issued by the President of the United States and administered by OFAC (“OFAC List”), or a person or entity prohibited by any OFAC sanctions program, (ii) owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, a person, that is named on an OFAC List, (iii) organized, incorporated, established, located, resident or born in, or a citizen, national, or the government, including any political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof, of, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the Crimea region of Ukraine, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic or any other country or territory embargoed or subject to substantial trade restrictions by the United States, (iv) a Designated National as defined in the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 515, or (v) a non-U.S. shell bank or providing banking services indirectly to a non-U.S. shell bank. Subscriber agrees to provide law enforcement agencies, if requested thereby, such records as required by applicable law, provided that Subscriber is permitted to do so under applicable law. If Subscriber is a financial institution subject to the Bank Secrecy Act (31 U.S.C. Section 5311 et seq.) (the “BSA”), as amended by the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 (the “PATRIOT Act”), and its implementing regulations (collectively, the “BSA/PATRIOT Act”), such Subscriber maintains policies and procedures reasonably designed to comply with applicable obligations under the BSA/PATRIOT Act. To the extent required, Subscriber maintains policies and procedures reasonably designed for the screening of its investors against the OFAC sanctions programs, including the OFAC List. To the extent required, Subscriber maintains policies and procedures reasonably designed to ensure that the funds held by Subscriber and used to purchase the Subscribed Warrants were legally derived.

 

(m)            No foreign person (as defined in 31 C.F.R. Part 800.224) in which the national or subnational governments of a single foreign state have a substantial interest (as defined in 31 C.F.R. Part 800.244) will acquire a substantial interest in the Company as a result of the purchase and sale of Subscribed Warrants hereunder such that a declaration to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States would be mandatory under 31 C.F.R. Part 800.401.

 

(n)            If Subscriber is an employee benefit plan that is subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), a plan, an individual retirement account or other arrangement that is subject to section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) or an employee benefit plan that is a governmental plan (as defined in section 3(32) of ERISA), a church plan (as defined in section 3(33) of ERISA), a non-U.S. plan (as described in section 4(b)(4) of ERISA) or other plan that is not subject to the foregoing but may be subject to provisions under any other federal, state, local, non-U.S. or other laws or regulations that are similar to such provisions of ERISA or the Code, or an entity whose underlying assets are considered to include “plan assets” of any such plan, account or arrangement (each, a “Plan”) subject to the fiduciary or prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA or section 4975 of the Code, Subscriber represents and warrants that (i) it has not relied on the Company or any of its affiliates (the “Transaction Parties”) for investment advice or as the Plan’s fiduciary with respect to its decision to acquire and hold the Subscribed Warrants, and none of the Transaction Parties shall at any time be relied upon as the Plan’s fiduciary with respect to any decision to acquire, continue to hold or transfer the Subscribed Warrants and (ii) the acquisition and holding of the Subscribed Warrants will not result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.

 

(o)            Subscriber at the Closing will have sufficient funds to pay the Purchase Price pursuant to Section 2.

 

(p)            Subscriber acknowledges that it is not relying upon, and has not relied upon, any statement, representation or warranty made by any person, firm or corporation (including, without limitation, the Company, NKGen or any of their respective affiliates or any of its or their respective control persons, officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives), other than the representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 3 of this Subscription Agreement, in making its investment or decision to invest in the Company.

 

 

 

 

(q)            No broker or finder has acted on behalf of the Subscriber in connection with the sale of the Subscribed Warrants pursuant to this Subscription Agreement in such a way as to create any liability on the Company.

 

(r)            Subscriber hereby agrees that neither it, nor any person or entity acting on its behalf or pursuant to any understanding with the Subscriber, shall, directly or indirectly, engage in any hedging activities or execute any Short Sales with respect to the securities of the Company prior to the Closing Date or the earlier termination of this Subscription Agreement in accordance with its terms (other than pledges in the ordinary course of business as part of prime brokerage arrangements). “Short Sales” shall include, without limitation, all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act, and all types of direct and indirect stock pledges, forward sale contracts, options, puts, calls, swaps and similar arrangements (including on a total return basis), including through non-U.S. broker dealers or foreign regulated brokers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section 4(r) (i) shall restrict Subscriber’s ability to maintain bona fide hedging positions in respect of the SPAC Warrants held by the Subscriber as of the date hereof; (ii) shall prohibit any entities under common management or that share an investment advisor with Subscriber from entering into any short sales or engaging in other hedging transactions; and (iii) in the case of a Subscriber that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Subscriber’s assets, this Section 4(r) shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Subscription Amount covered by this Subscription Agreement.

 

(s)            Except as expressly disclosed in a Schedule 13D or Schedule 13G (or amendments thereto) filed by Subscriber with the Commission with respect to the beneficial ownership of the Company’s outstanding securities prior to the date hereof, Subscriber is not currently (and at all times through the Closing Date will refrain from being or becoming) a member of a “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), including any group acting for the purpose of acquiring, holding or disposing of equity securities of the Company (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act).

 

(t)            Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that (i) the Commission Staff issued the “Staff Statement on Accounting and Reporting Considerations for Warrants Issued by Special Purpose Acquisition Companies” on April 12, 2021 (together with any subsequent guidance, statements or interpretations issued by the Commission or its staff relating thereto or other accounting matters related to initial public offerings, securities or expenses, the “Statement”), (ii) the Commission Staff have issued comments regarding the appropriate classification of public shares as permanent or temporary equity (the “Staff Comments”), (iii) on March 30, 2022, the SEC issued proposed rules with respect to the regulation of special purpose acquisition companies (the “SPAC Rule Proposals” and together with the Statement and Staff Comments, the “SEC Guidance”) relating to, among other items, disclosures in business combination transactions involving SPACs and private operating companies, the condensed financial statement requirements applicable to transactions involving shell companies, the use of projections by SPACs in SEC filings in connection with proposed business combination transactions, the potential liability of certain participants in proposed business combination transactions, and the extent to which SPACs could become subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, (iv) the Company continues to review the SEC Guidance and its implications, including on the financial statements and other information included in its filings with the Commission, including the SEC Documents, and (v) any restatement, revision or other modification of such filings relating to or arising from such review, any subsequent related agreements or other guidance from the Staff of the Commission shall be deemed not material for purposes of this Subscription Agreement.

 

 

 

 

(u)            Subscriber acknowledges that (i) the Company, NKGen, and any of their respective affiliates, control persons, officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives currently may have, and later may come into possession of, information regarding the Company and NKGen that is not known to Subscriber and that may be material to a decision to purchase the Subscribed Warrants, (ii) Subscriber has determined to purchase the Subscribed Warrants notwithstanding its lack of knowledge of such information, and (iii) none of the Company, NKGen, or any of their respective affiliates, control persons, officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives shall have liability to Subscriber, and Subscriber hereby to the extent permitted by law waives and releases any claims it may have against the Company, NKGen, and their respective affiliates, control persons, officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives, with respect to the nondisclosure of such information.

 

(v)            Subscriber acknowledges that it is aware that NKGen may enter into a subscription agreement, side letter or other agreement (including convertible promissory notes) with other investors associated with a private financing in one or a series of related transactions, not to exceed $85 million in the aggregate, and that such private financing, if pursued, will close prior to the closing of the Transaction. For the avoidance of doubt, such subscription agreement, side letter or other agreement, if any, shall not be deemed an Other Subscription Agreement under this Agreement.

 

Section 5.            Registration of Warrant Shares.

 

(a)            The Company agrees that, within fifteen (15) Business Days following the Closing Date (the “Filing Deadline”), the Company will file with the Commission (at the Company’s sole cost and expense) a registration statement registering the resale of one hundred percent (100%) of the maximum number of the Warrant Shares (the “Registration Statement”), and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to have the Registration Statement declared effective as soon as reasonably practicable after the filing thereof, but in any event no later than forty-five (45) calendar days after the Filing Deadline (the “Effectiveness Deadline”); provided, that the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to ninety (90) calendar days after the Closing Date if the Registration Statement is reviewed by, and comments thereto are provided from, the Commission; provided, further, that the Company shall have the Registration Statement declared effective within ten (10) Business Days after the date the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the staff of the Commission that the Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review; provided, further, that (i) if the Effectiveness Deadline falls on a Saturday, Sunday or other day that the Commission is closed for business, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to the next Business Day on which the Commission is open for business and (ii) if the Commission is closed for operations due to a government shutdown, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended by the same number of Business Days that the Commission remains closed for. Upon Subscriber’s timely request, the Company shall provide a draft of the Registration Statement to the Subscriber for review at least two (2) Business Days in advance of the date of filing the Registration Statement with the Commission (the “Filing Date”), and Subscriber shall provide any comments on the Registration Statement to the Company no later than the one (1) Business Day immediately preceding the Filing Date. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the Subscriber prior to the filing of the Registration Statement, the Subscriber shall not be identified as a statutory underwriter in the Registration Statement; provided, that if the Commission requests that Subscriber be identified as a statutory underwriter in the Registration Statement, Subscriber will have the opportunity to withdraw from the Registration Statement upon its prompt written request to the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Commission prevents the Company from including any or all of the shares proposed to be registered under the Registration Statement due to limitations on the use of Rule 415 of the Securities Act for the resale of the Warrant Shares by the applicable stockholders or otherwise, such Registration Statement shall register for resale such number of Warrant Shares which is equal to the maximum number of Warrant Shares as is permitted by the Commission. In such event, the number of Warrant Shares or other shares to be registered for each selling stockholder named in the Registration Statement shall be reduced pro rata among all such selling stockholders and as promptly as practicable after being permitted to register additional shares under Rule 415 under the Securities Act, the Company shall amend the Registration Statement or file one or more new Registration Statement(s) (such amendment or new Registration Statement shall also be deemed to be a “Registration Statement” hereunder) to register such additional Warrant Shares that were excluded due to limitations on the use of Rule 415 of the Securities Act and cause such amendment or Registration Statement(s) to become effective as promptly as practicable after the filing thereof, but in any event no later than forty-five (45) calendar days after the filing of such Registration Statement (the “Additional Effectiveness Deadline”); provided, that the Additional Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to ninety (90) calendar days after the filing of such Registration Statement if such Registration Statement is reviewed by, and comments thereto are provided from, the Commission; provided, further, that the Company shall have such Registration Statement declared effective within ten (10) Business Days after the date the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the staff of the Commission that such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review; provided, further, that (i) if such day falls on a Saturday, Sunday or other day that the Commission is closed for business, the Additional Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to the next Business Day on which the Commission is open for business and (ii) if the Commission is closed for operations due to a government shutdown, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended by the same number of Business Days that the Commission remains closed for. Any failure by the Company to file a Registration Statement by the Effectiveness Deadline or Additional Effectiveness Deadline shall not otherwise relieve the Company of its obligations to file or effect a Registration Statement as set forth in this Section 5.

 

 

 

 

(b)            The Company agrees that, except for such times as the Company is permitted hereunder to suspend the use of the prospectus forming part of a Registration Statement, the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to remain effective with respect to Subscriber, including to prepare and file any post-effective amendment to such Registration Statement or a supplement to the related prospectus such that the prospectus will not include any untrue statement or a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, until the earlier of (i) two (2) years from the effective date of the Registration Statement, (ii) the date on which all of the Warrant Shares shall have been sold or (iii) on the first date on which the Subscriber can sell all of its Warrant Shares (or shares received in exchange therefor) under Rule 144 of the Securities Act without limitation as to the manner of sale or the amount of such securities that may be sold and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144(c)(1) (or Rule 144(i)(2), if applicable) and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement as soon as reasonably practicable. For so long as the Registration Statement shall remain effective, the Company will use reasonable best efforts to file all reports, and provide all customary and reasonable cooperation, necessary to enable Subscriber to resell Warrant Shares pursuant to the Registration Statement, qualify the Warrant Shares for listing on the applicable stock exchange on which the Company’s Common Stock is then listed and update or amend the Registration Statement as necessary to include Warrant Shares. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to, for so long as the Subscriber holds Subscribed Warrants and/or Warrant Shares, make and keep public information available (as those terms are understood and defined in Rule 144) and file with the Commission in a timely manner all reports and other documents required of the Company under the Exchange Act so long as the Company remains subject to such requirements to enable the Subscriber to resell the Warrant Shares pursuant to Rule 144. The Subscriber agrees to disclose its beneficial ownership, as determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3 of the Exchange Act, of Subscribed Warrants and Warrant Shares to the Company (or its successor) upon reasonable request to assist the Company in making the determination described above.

 

 

 

 

(c)            The Company’s obligations to include the Warrant Shares in the Registration Statement are contingent upon Subscriber furnishing in writing to the Company a completed selling stockholder questionnaire in customary form that contains such information regarding Subscriber, the securities of the Company held by Subscriber and the intended method of disposition of the Warrant Shares as shall be reasonably requested by the Company to effect the registration of the Warrant Shares, and Subscriber shall execute such documents in connection with such registration as the Company may reasonably request that are customary of a selling stockholder in similar situations, including providing that the Company shall be entitled to postpone and suspend the effectiveness or use of the Registration Statement (i) during any customary blackout or similar period or as permitted hereunder and (ii) as may be necessary in connection with the preparation and filing of a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement following the filing of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K; provided, that the Company shall request such information from Subscriber, including the selling stockholder questionnaire, at least five (5) Business Days prior to the anticipated Filing Date of the Registration Statement; and provided, further, under no circumstances shall Subscriber be required to sign any type of lock-up agreement. In the case of the registration effected by the Company pursuant to this Subscription Agreement, the Company shall, upon reasonable request, inform Subscriber as to the status of such registration. Subscriber shall not be entitled to use the Registration Statement for an underwritten offering of Warrant Shares. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company may delay or postpone filing of such Registration Statement, and from time to time require Subscriber not to sell under the Registration Statement or suspend the use or effectiveness of any such Registration Statement if it determines in good faith that in order for the registration statement to not contain a material misstatement or omission, an amendment thereto would be needed, or if such filing or use would reasonably be expected to materially affect a bona fide business or financing transaction of the Company or would reasonably be expected to require premature disclosure of information that would materially adversely affect the Company (each such circumstance, a “Suspension Event”); provided, that, (w) the Company shall not so delay filing or so suspend the use of the Registration Statement for a period of more than sixty (60) consecutive days or more than two (2) times in any three hundred sixty (360) day period, and (x) the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to make such registration statement available for the sale by the Subscriber of such securities as soon as practicable thereafter.

 

(d)            Upon receipt of any written notice from the Company (which notice shall not contain any material non-public information regarding the Company and which notice shall not be subject to any duty of confidentiality) of the happening of (i) an issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for such purpose, which notice shall be given no later than three (3) Business Days from the date of such event, (ii) any Suspension Event during the period that the Registration Statement is effective, which notice shall be given no later than three (3) Business Days from the date of such Suspension Event, or (iii) or if as a result of a Suspension Event the Registration Statement or related prospectus contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made (in the case of the prospectus) not misleading, the Subscriber agrees that (1) it will immediately discontinue offers and sales of the Warrant Shares under the Registration Statement (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, sales conducted pursuant to Rule 144, if available at such time) until the Subscriber receives copies of a supplemental or amended prospectus (which the Company agrees to promptly prepare) that corrects the misstatement(s) or omission(s) referred to above and receives notice that any post-effective amendment has become effective or unless otherwise notified by the Company that it may resume such offers and sales, and (2) it will maintain the confidentiality of any information included in such written notice delivered by the Company unless otherwise required by law, subpoena or regulatory request or requirement. If so directed by the Company, the Subscriber will deliver to the Company or, in the Subscriber’s sole discretion destroy, all copies of the prospectus covering the Warrant Shares in the Subscriber’s possession; provided, however, that this obligation to deliver or destroy all copies of the prospectus covering the Warrant Shares shall not apply (w) to the extent the Subscriber is required to retain a copy of such prospectus (A) in order to comply with applicable legal, regulatory, self-regulatory or professional requirements or (B) in accordance with a bona fide pre-existing document retention policy or (x) to copies stored electronically on archival servers as a result of automatic data back-up.

 

 

 

 

(e)            Subscriber may deliver written notice (an “Opt-Out Notice”) to the Company requesting that Subscriber not receive notices from the Company otherwise required by this Section 5; provided, however, that Subscriber may later revoke any such Opt-Out Notice in writing. Following receipt of an Opt-Out Notice from Subscriber (unless subsequently revoked), (i) the Company shall not deliver any such notices to Subscriber and Subscriber shall no longer be entitled to the rights associated with any such notice and (ii) each time prior to Subscriber’s intended use of an effective Registration Statement, Subscriber will notify the Company in writing at least two (2) Business Days in advance of such intended use, and if a notice of a Suspension Event was previously delivered (or would have been delivered but for the provisions of this Section 5(e)) and the related suspension period remains in effect, the Company will so notify Subscriber, within one (1) Business Day of Subscriber’s notification to the Company, by delivering to Subscriber a copy of such previous notice of Suspension Event, and thereafter will provide Subscriber with the related notice of the conclusion of such Suspension Event promptly following its availability.

 

(f)            For purposes of this Section 5 of this Subscription Agreement, (i) “Warrant Shares” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the Warrant Shares (as defined in the recitals to this Subscription Agreement) and any other equity security issued or issuable with respect to the Warrant Shares by way of share split, dividend, distribution, recapitalization, merger, exchange, or replacement, and (ii) “Subscriber” shall include any affiliate of the Subscriber to which the rights under this Section 5 shall have been duly assigned.

 

(g)            The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless Subscriber (to the extent a seller under the Registration Statement), the officers, directors, members, managers, partners, agents, investment advisors and employees of Subscriber, each person who controls Subscriber (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act) and the officers, directors, members, managers, partners, agents and employees of each such controlling person, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, costs (including, without limitation, reasonable and documented attorneys’ fees) and expenses incurred in connection with defending or investigating any such action or claim (collectively, “Losses”) that arise out of or are based upon any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, any prospectus included in the Registration Statement or any form of prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus, or arising out of or relating to any omission or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of any prospectus or form of prospectus or supplement thereto, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, except to the extent that untrue statements, alleged untrue statements, omissions or alleged omissions are based upon information regarding Subscriber furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of Subscriber expressly for use therein or Subscriber has omitted a material fact from such information, provided that the Company has given notice of such event to the Subscriber in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. In addition, the Company shall not be liable for any Losses to the extent they arise out of or are based upon a violation which occurs (A) in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished by Subscriber expressly for use in such Registration Statement or preliminary prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, (B) in connection with any failure of such person to deliver or cause to be delivered a prospectus made available by the Company in a timely manner, (C) as a result of offers or sales effected by or on behalf of any person by means of a “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) that was not authorized by the Company or (D) in connection with any offers or sales effected by or on behalf of Subscriber in violation of Section 5(c) hereof. The Company shall notify Subscriber promptly of the institution, threat or assertion of any proceeding arising from or in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Section 5 of which the Company is aware. Notwithstanding the forgoing, the Company’s indemnification obligations shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any Losses or action if such settlement is effected without the prior written consent of the Company (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed).

 

 

 

 

(h)            Subscriber shall, severally and not jointly with any Other Subscriber in the offering contemplated by this Subscription Agreement or selling stockholder named in the Registration Statement, indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, officers, agents and employees, each person who controls the Company (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, agents or employees of such controlling persons, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, from and against any and all Losses arising out of or based upon any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement, any prospectus included in the Registration Statement, or any form of prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus, or arising out of or relating to any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of any prospectus, or any form of prospectus or supplement thereto, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statements, alleged untrue statements, omissions or alleged omissions are based upon information regarding Subscriber furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of Subscriber expressly for use therein and that Subscriber has received notice from the Company of such Suspension Event in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. In no event shall the liability of Subscriber be greater in amount than the dollar amount of the net proceeds received by Subscriber upon the sale of the Warrant Shares giving rise to such indemnification obligation. Notwithstanding the forgoing, Subscriber’s indemnification obligations shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any Losses or action if such settlement is effected without the prior written consent of Subscriber (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed).

 

(i)            Any person or entity entitled to indemnification herein shall (i) give prompt written notice to the indemnifying party of any claim with respect to which it seeks indemnification (provided that the failure to give prompt notice shall not impair any person’s or entity’s right to indemnification hereunder to the extent such failure has not prejudiced the indemnifying party) and (ii) unless in such indemnified party’s reasonable judgment a conflict of interest between such indemnified and indemnifying parties may exist with respect to such claim, permit such indemnifying party to assume the defense of such claim with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party. If such defense is assumed, the indemnifying party shall not be subject to any liability for any settlement made by the indemnified party without its consent (but such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed). An indemnifying party who is not entitled to, or elects not to, assume the defense of a claim shall not be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of more than one counsel for all parties indemnified by such indemnifying party with respect to such claim, unless in the reasonable judgment of any indemnified party a conflict of interest may exist between such indemnified party and any other of such indemnified parties with respect to such claim. No indemnifying party shall, without the consent of the indemnified party, consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which cannot be settled in all respects by the payment of money (and such money is so paid by the indemnifying party pursuant to the terms of such settlement), which settlement shall not include a statement or admission of fault and culpability on the part of such indemnified party, and which settlement shall include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such indemnified party of a release from all liability in respect to such claim or litigation.

 

(j)            The indemnification provided for under this Subscription Agreement shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the indemnified party or any officer, director or controlling person of such indemnified party and shall survive the transfer of the Warrant Shares.

 

 

 

 

(k)            If the indemnification provided under this Section 5 from the indemnifying party is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any Losses referred to herein, then the indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying the indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by the indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party and the indemnified party, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations; provided, however, that the liability of the Subscriber shall be limited to the net proceeds received by such Subscriber from the sale of Warrant Shares giving rise to such indemnification obligation. The relative fault of the indemnifying party and indemnified party shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any action in question, including any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact, was made by, or relates to information supplied by, such indemnifying party or indemnified party, and the indemnifying party’s and indemnified party’s relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such action. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the Losses or other liabilities referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 5, any legal or other fees, charges or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with any investigation or proceeding. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution pursuant to this Section 5(k) from any person or entity who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in no event will any party be liable for consequential, special, exemplary or punitive damages in connection with this Subscription Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

(l)            Subject to receipt from the Subscriber and its broker by the Company and the Transfer Agent of customary representations and other documentation reasonably acceptable to the Company and the Transfer Agent in connection therewith, the Subscriber may request that the Company remove any legend from the book entry position evidencing its Warrant Shares and the Company will, if required by the Transfer Agent, use its reasonable best efforts to cause an opinion of the Company’s counsel to be provided, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Company and the Transfer Agent, to the effect that the removal of such restrictive legends in such circumstances may be effected under the Securities Act, following the earliest of such time as such Warrant Shares (i) have been sold or transferred pursuant to an effective and available registration statement and current prospectus or (ii) have been sold pursuant to Rule 144. If restrictive legends are no longer required for such Warrant Shares pursuant to the foregoing, the Company shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5(l) and within two (2) Trading Days (as defined below) of any request therefor from the Subscriber accompanied by such customary representations and other documentation of Subscriber and its broker referred to above establishing that restrictive legends are no longer required, deliver to the Transfer Agent irrevocable instructions that the Transfer Agent shall make a new, unlegended entry for such book entry Warrant Shares. The Company shall be responsible for the fees of its Transfer Agent and all DTC fees associated with such issuance. As used herein, “Trading Day” means any day on which the Common Stock is traded on Nasdaq, or, if Nasdaq is not the principal trading market for the Common Stock, then on the principal securities exchange or securities market on which the Common Stock is then traded, provided that “Trading Day” shall not include any day on which the Common Stock is scheduled to trade on such exchange or market for less than 4.5 hours or any day that the Common Stock is suspended from trading during the final hour of trading on such exchange or market (or if such exchange or market does not designate in advance the closing time of trading on such exchange or market, then during the hour ending at 4:00:00 p.m., New York time).

 

(m)            Within six (6) months from the date of this issuance, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) explore the feasibility of making the Warrants a DTC eligible security and quoted on the over-the-counter (OTC) markets and (ii) commence preliminary steps, including retention of a warrant agent and preparation of a warrant agreement and the ability to exchange the Warrants into book-entry positions governed by such warrant agreement with such warrant agent, in order to have the Warrants registered and quoted on the OTC markets, subject to existing warrant investors’ consent.

 

 

 

 

Section 6.            Termination. This Subscription Agreement shall terminate and be void and of no further force and effect, and all rights and obligations of the parties hereunder shall terminate without any further liability on the part of any party in respect thereof, upon the earliest to occur of (a) such date and time as the Business Combination Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms, (b) upon the mutual written agreement of the parties hereto to terminate this Subscription Agreement, and (c) the Termination Date (as such term is defined in the Business Combination Agreement), if the Closing has not occurred by such date other than as a result of a breach by Subscriber of its obligations hereunder; provided, that nothing herein will relieve any party from liability for any willful breach hereof prior to the time of termination, and each party will be entitled to any remedies at law or in equity to recover losses, liabilities or damages arising from such breach. The Company shall notify Subscriber of the termination of the Business Combination Agreement promptly after the termination thereof. Upon the termination hereof in accordance with this Section 6, any monies paid by Subscriber to the Company in connection herewith shall promptly (and in any event within one (1) Business Day) be returned in full to Subscriber by wire transfer of U.S. dollars in immediately available funds to the account specified by Subscriber, without any deduction for or on account of any tax withholding, charges or set-off, whether or not the Transaction shall have been consummated.

 

Section 7.            Trust Account Waiver. Subscriber hereby acknowledges that, as described in the Company’s prospectus relating to its initial public offering (the “IPO”) dated May 20, 2021 available at www.sec.gov, the Company has established a trust account (the “Trust Account”) containing the proceeds of IPO and from certain private placements occurring simultaneously with the IPO (including interest accrued from time to time thereon) for the benefit of the Company, its public stockholders and certain other parties (including the underwriters of the IPO). For and in consideration of the Company entering into this Subscription Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Subscriber hereby (a) agrees that it does not now and shall not at any time hereafter have any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the Trust Account or any distributions or payments therefrom, or upon the release to the Company of the funds held in the Trust Account upon consummation of the Closing and shall not make any claim against the Trust Account, arising out or as a result of, in connection with or relating in any way to this Subscription Agreement, and regardless of whether such claim arises based on contract, tort, equity or any other theory of legal liability (any and all such claims are collectively referred to hereafter as the “Released Claims”), (b) irrevocably waives any Released Claims that it may have against the Trust Account now or in the future as a result of, or arising out of, this Subscription Agreement, and (c) will not seek recourse against the Trust Account as a result of, in connection with or relating in any way to this Subscription Agreement; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 7 shall (i) serve to limit or prohibit Subscriber’s right to pursue a claim against the Company for legal relief against assets, monies or other properties of the Company held outside the Trust Account (so long as such claim would not affect the Company’s ability to fulfill its obligation to effectuate any redemption right with respect to any securities of the Company), for specific performance or other equitable relief, (ii) serve to limit or prohibit any claims that the Subscriber may have in the future against the Company’s assets or funds that are not held in the Trust Account (including any funds that have been released from the Trust Account and any assets that have been purchased or acquired with any such funds) (so long as such claim would not affect the Company’s ability to fulfill its obligation to effectuate any redemption right with respect to any securities of the Company) or (iii) be deemed to limit Subscriber’s right to distributions from the Trust Account in accordance with the Company’s certificate of incorporation in respect of any redemptions by Subscriber in respect of Common Stock acquired by any means other than pursuant to this Subscription Agreement or any other rights held as an stockholder of the Company.

 

 

 

 

Section 8.            Miscellaneous.

 

(a)            All notices, requests, demands, claims, and other communications hereunder shall be in writing. Any notice, request, demand, claim, or other communication hereunder shall be deemed duly given (i) when delivered personally to the recipient, (ii) when sent by electronic mail, with no mail undeliverable or other rejection notice, on the date of transmission to such recipient, if sent on a Business Day prior to 5:00 p.m. New York City time, or on the Business Day following the date of transmission, if sent on a day that is not a Business Day or after 5:00 p.m. New York City time on a Business Day, (iii) one (1) Business Day after being sent to the recipient via overnight mail by reputable overnight courier service (charges prepaid), or (iv) four (4) Business Days after being mailed to the recipient by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested and postage prepaid, and, in each case, addressed to the intended recipient at its address specified on the signature page hereof or to such electronic mail address or address as subsequently modified by written notice given in accordance with this Section 8(a). A courtesy electronic copy of any notice sent by methods (i), (iii), or (iv) above shall also be sent to the recipient via electronic mail if an electronic mail address is provided in the applicable signature page hereof or to an electronic mail address as subsequently modified by written notice given in accordance with this Section 8(a).

 

(b)            Subscriber acknowledges that (i) the Company will rely on the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties of Subscriber contained in this Subscription Agreement and (ii) following the Closing Date, NKGen will rely on the representations and warranties of the Subscriber contained in this Subscription Agreement; provided, however, that the foregoing clause of this Section 8(b) shall not give the Company any rights other than those expressly set forth herein. Prior to the Closing, Subscriber agrees to promptly notify the Company if it becomes aware that any of the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties of Subscriber set forth herein are no longer accurate in all material respects. The Company acknowledges that Subscriber will rely on the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Subscription Agreement. Prior to the Closing, the Company agrees to promptly notify Subscriber if it becomes aware that any of the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties of the Company set forth herein are no longer accurate in all material respects.

 

(c)            Each of the Company and Subscriber is irrevocably authorized to produce this Subscription Agreement or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceeding or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.

 

(d)            Each party hereto shall pay all of its own expenses in connection with this Subscription Agreement and the transactions contemplated herein.

 

(e)            Neither this Subscription Agreement nor any rights that may accrue to Subscriber hereunder (other than the Subscribed Warrants acquired hereunder, the Warrant Shares, and the rights set forth in Section 5) may be transferred or assigned by Subscriber. Neither this Subscription Agreement nor any rights that may accrue to the Company hereunder may be transferred or assigned by the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Subscriber may assign its rights and obligations under this Subscription Agreement to one or more of its affiliates (including other investment funds or accounts managed or advised by the investment manager who acts on behalf of Subscriber) or, with the Company’s prior written consent, to another person; provided, that in the case of any such assignment, the assignee(s) shall become a Subscriber hereunder and have the rights and obligations and be deemed to make the representations and warranties of Subscriber provided for herein to the extent of such assignment and provided further that no such assignment shall relieve the assigning Subscriber of its obligations hereunder if any such assignee fails to perform such obligations, unless the Company has given its prior written consent to such relief.

 

(f)            All the agreements, representations and warranties made by each party hereto in this Subscription Agreement shall survive the Closing.

 

 

 

 

(g)            The Company may request from Subscriber such additional information as the Company may reasonably deem necessary to evaluate the eligibility of Subscriber to acquire the Subscribed Warrants and to register the Warrant Shares for resale, and Subscriber shall promptly provide such information as may be reasonably requested, to the extent readily available and to the extent consistent with its internal policies and procedures; provided, that the Company agrees to keep any such information provided by Subscriber confidential, except (A) as required by the federal securities laws, rules or regulations and (B) to the extent such disclosure is required by other laws, rules or regulations, at the request of the staff of the Commission or regulatory agency or under the regulations of Nasdaq. Subscriber acknowledges that the Company may file a form of this Subscription Agreement with the Commission as an exhibit to a current or periodic report of the Company or a registration statement of the Company.

 

(h)            This Subscription Agreement may not be amended, modified or waived except by an instrument in writing, signed by each of the parties hereto.

 

(i)            This Subscription Agreement, including the eligibility representations made by the Subscriber on Annex A and the form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant attached as Annex B, constitutes the entire agreement, and supersedes all other prior or contemporaneous agreements, understandings, representations and warranties, both written and oral, among the parties, with respect to the subject matter hereof, including the Original Subscription Agreement.

 

(j)            Except as otherwise provided herein, this Subscription Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their heirs, executors, administrators, successors, legal representatives, and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other person. Except as set forth in Section 5 with respect to the persons specifically referenced therein, this Subscription Agreement shall not confer any rights or remedies upon any person other than the parties hereto, and their respective successors and assigns, and the parties hereto acknowledge that such persons so referenced are third party beneficiaries of this Subscription Agreement for the purposes of, and to the extent of, the rights granted to them, if any, pursuant to the applicable provisions.

 

(k)            The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that irreparable damage would occur in the event that any of the provisions of this Subscription Agreement were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached and that money or other legal remedies would not be an adequate remedy for such damage. It is accordingly agreed that the parties shall be entitled to equitable relief, including in the form of an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches or threatened breaches of this Subscription Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Subscription Agreement, this being in addition to any other remedy to which such party is entitled at law, in equity, in contract, in tort or otherwise. The parties hereto further acknowledge and agree: (x) to waive any requirement for the security or posting of any bond in connection with any such equitable remedy; (y) not to assert that a remedy of specific enforcement pursuant to this Section 8(k) is unenforceable, invalid, contrary to applicable law or inequitable for any reason; and (z) to waive any defenses in any action for specific performance, including the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

 

(l)            If any provision of this Subscription Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Subscription Agreement shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and shall continue in full force and effect.

 

(m)            No failure or delay by a party hereto in exercising any right, power or remedy under this Subscription Agreement, and no course of dealing between the parties hereto, shall operate as a waiver of any such right, power or remedy of such party. No single or partial exercise of any right, power or remedy under this Subscription Agreement by a party hereto, nor any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce any such right, power or remedy, shall preclude such party from any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy hereunder. The election of any remedy by a party hereto shall not constitute a waiver of the right of such party to pursue other available remedies. No notice to or demand on a party not expressly required under this Subscription Agreement shall entitle the party receiving such notice or demand to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances or constitute a waiver of the rights of the party giving such notice or demand to any other or further action in any circumstances without such notice or demand.

 

 

 

 

(n)            This Subscription Agreement may be executed and delivered in one or more counterparts (including by electronic mail, in .pdf or other electronic submission) and by different parties in separate counterparts, with the same effect as if all parties hereto had signed the same document. All counterparts so executed and delivered shall be construed together and shall constitute one and the same agreement.

 

(o)            This Subscription Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to the principles of conflicts of laws that would otherwise require the application of the law of any other state.

 

(p)            EACH PARTY AND ANY PERSON ASSERTING RIGHTS AS A THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARY HEREBY WAIVES ITS RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OR RELATED TO THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR OTHER LITIGATION OF ANY TYPE BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ANY OTHER SUCH PARTY, WHETHER WITH RESPECT TO CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS OR OTHERWISE. THE PARTIES AGREE THAT ANY SUCH CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE TRIED BY A COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THE PARTIES FURTHER AGREE THAT THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IS WAIVED BY OPERATION OF THIS SECTION AS TO ANY ACTION, COUNTERCLAIM OR OTHER PROCEEDING WHICH SEEKS, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, TO CHALLENGE THE VALIDITY OR ENFORCEABILITY OF THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR ANY PROVISION HEREOF. THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT.

 

(q)            The parties agree that all disputes, legal actions, suits and proceedings arising out of or relating to this Subscription Agreement must be brought exclusively in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware and any state appellate court therefrom within the State of Delaware (or, if the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware declines to accept jurisdiction over a particular matter, any federal court within the State of Delaware or, in the event each federal court within the State of Delaware declines to accept jurisdiction over a particular matter, any state court within the State of Delaware) (collectively the “Designated Courts”). Each party hereby consents and submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Designated Courts. No legal action, suit or proceeding with respect to this Subscription Agreement may be brought in any other forum. Each party hereby irrevocably waives all claims of immunity from jurisdiction, and any objection which such party may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding in any Designated Court, including any right to object on the basis that any dispute, action, suit or proceeding brought in the Designated Courts has been brought in an improper or inconvenient forum or venue. Each of the parties also agrees that delivery of any process, summons, notice or document to a party hereof in compliance with Section 8(a) of this Subscription Agreement shall be effective service of process for any action, suit or proceeding in a Designated Court with respect to any matters to which the parties have submitted to jurisdiction as set forth above.

 

(r)            This Subscription Agreement may only be enforced against, and any claim, action, suit or other legal proceeding based upon, arising out of, or related to this Subscription Agreement, or the negotiation, execution or performance of this Subscription Agreement, may only be brought against the entities that are expressly named as parties hereto.

 

 

 

 

(s)            The Company shall, by 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the first (1st) Business Day immediately following the date of this Subscription Agreement, file with the Commission a Current Report on Form 8-K (the “Disclosure Document”) disclosing all material terms of this Subscription Agreement and the Other Subscription Agreements and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, the Transaction and any other material, nonpublic information that the Company has provided to Subscriber or any of Subscriber’s affiliates, attorneys, agents or representatives at any time prior to the filing of the Disclosure Document and including as exhibits to the Disclosure Document, the form of this Subscription Agreement and the Other Subscription Agreement (in each case, without redaction). Upon the issuance of the Disclosure Document, to the Company’s knowledge, Subscriber and Subscriber’s affiliates, attorneys, agents and representatives shall not be in possession of any material, non-public information received from the Company or any of its affiliates, officers, directors, or employees or agents, and Subscriber shall no longer be subject to any confidentiality or similar obligations under any current agreement, whether written or oral with the Company or any of its affiliates. Notwithstanding anything in this Subscription Agreement to the contrary, the Company (i) shall not publicly disclose the name of Subscriber or any of its affiliates or advisers, or include the name of Subscriber or any of its affiliates or advisers in any press release, without the prior written consent of Subscriber and (ii) shall not publicly disclose the name of the Subscriber or any of its affiliates or advisers, or include the name of the Subscriber or any of its affiliates or advisers in any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency or trading market, without the prior written consent of Subscriber, except (A) as required by the federal securities laws, rules or regulations and (B) to the extent such disclosure is required by other laws, rules or regulations, at the request of the staff of the Commission or regulatory agency or under the regulations of Nasdaq, in which case of clause (A) or (B), the Company shall provide the Subscriber with prior written notice (including by e-mail) of such permitted disclosure, and shall reasonably consult with the Subscriber regarding such disclosure. Subscriber will promptly provide any information reasonably requested by the Company for any regulatory application or filing made or approval sought in connection with the Transaction (including filings with the Commission).

 

(t)            The obligations of Subscriber under this Subscription Agreement are several and not joint with the obligations of any Other Subscriber or any other investor under the Other Subscription Agreements, and Subscriber shall not be responsible in any way for the performance of the obligations of any Other Subscriber under this Subscription Agreement or any Other Subscriber or other investor under the Other Subscription Agreements. The decision of Subscriber to purchase Subscribed Warrants pursuant to this Subscription Agreement has been made by Subscriber independently of any Other Subscriber or any other investor and independently of any information, materials, statements or opinions as to the business, affairs, operations, assets, properties, liabilities, results of operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Company, NKGen or any of their respective subsidiaries which may have been made or given by any Other Subscriber or investor or by any agent or employee of any Other Subscriber or investor, and neither Subscriber nor any of its agents or employees shall have any liability to any Other Subscriber or investor (or any other person) relating to or arising from any such information, materials, statements or opinions. Nothing contained herein or in any Other Subscription Agreement, and no action taken by Subscriber or Other Subscriber or other investor pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute Subscriber and any Other Subscribers or other investors as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that Subscriber and any Other Subscribers or other investors are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by this Subscription Agreement and the Other Subscription Agreements. Subscriber acknowledges that no Other Subscriber has acted as agent for Subscriber in connection with making its investment hereunder and no Other Subscriber will be acting as agent of Subscriber in connection with monitoring its investment in the Subscribed Warrants or enforcing its rights under this Subscription Agreement. Subscriber shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including without limitation the rights arising out of this Subscription Agreement, and it shall not be necessary for any Other Subscriber or investor to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose.

 

 

 

 

(u)            The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Subscription Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof. The language used in this Subscription Agreement will be deemed to be the language chosen by the parties hereto to express their mutual intent, and no rules of strict construction will be applied against any party. Unless the context otherwise requires, (i) all references to Sections, Schedules or Annexes are to Sections, Schedules or Annexes contained in or attached to this Subscription Agreement, (ii) each accounting term not otherwise defined in this Subscription Agreement has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with GAAP, (iii) words in the singular or plural include the singular and plural and pronouns stated in either the masculine, the feminine or neuter gender shall include the masculine, feminine and neuter, (iv) the use of the word “including” in this Subscription Agreement shall be by way of example rather than limitation, and (v) the word “or” shall not be exclusive.

 

(v)            The Company shall be responsible for paying all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar taxes that arise from any payment or issuance made under, from the execution, delivery, performance or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Subscription Agreement.

  

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has accepted this Subscription Agreement as of the date first set forth above.

 

  GRAF ACQUISITION CORP. IV
     
     
  By: /s/ James Graf
    Name: James Graf
    Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

  Address for Notices:
   
  Graf Acquisition Corp. IV
  1790 Hughes Landing Blvd., Suite 400
  The Woodlands, Texas 77380
  Email: tony@grafacq.com
  Attention: Anthony Kuznik, EVP & General Counsel
     
  with a copy (not to constitute notice) to:
   
  White & Case LLP
  1221 Avenue of the Americas
  New York, New York 10020
  Email: joel.rubinstein@whitecase.com
    elliott.smith@whitecase.com
  Attention: Joel Rubinstein
    Elliott Smith

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Subscriber has executed or caused this Subscription Agreement to be executed by its duly authorized representative as of the date set forth below.

 

Name of Subscriber: Meteora Select Trading Opportunities Master, LP;
Meteora Capital Partners, LP;
Meteora Special Opportunity Fund I, LP; and
Meteora Strategic Capital, LLC
  State/Country of Formation or Domicile:

 

By: /s/ Vik Mittal    
Name: Vik Mittal    
Title: Managing Member    
     
Name in which Subscribed Warrants are to be registered (if different):   Date: September 26, 2023
     
Subscriber’s EIN:    
         
Number of Subscribed Warrants: 1,999,998    
     
Aggregate Purchase Price: $1,999,998   Price Per Subscribed Warrant: $1.00

 

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Annex A

 

ELIGIBILITY REPRESENTATIONS OF SUBSCRIBER

 

This Annex A should be completed and signed by Subscriber
and constitutes a part of the Subscription Agreement.

 

1.QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS (Please check the box, if applicable)

 

¨Subscriber is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) (a “QIB”)

 

¨We are subscribing for the Subscribed Warrants as a fiduciary or agent for one or more investor accounts, and each owner of such account is a QIB.

 

** OR **

 

2.ACCREDITED INVESTOR STATUS (Please check the box)

 

¨Subscriber is an institutional “accredited investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act) or an entity in which all of the equity holders are accredited investors within the meaning of Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and has marked and initialed the appropriate box below indicating the provision under which it qualifies as an “accredited investor.”

 

** AND **

 

3.AFFILIATE STATUS
(Please check the applicable box)

 

SUBSCRIBER:

 

¨ is:

 

¨ is not:

 

an “affiliate” (as defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act) of the Company or acting on behalf of an affiliate of the Company.

 

Rule 501(a), in relevant part, states that an “accredited investor” shall mean any person who comes within any of the below listed categories, or who the issuer reasonably believes comes within any of the below listed categories, at the time of the sale of the securities to that person. Subscriber has indicated, by marking and initialing the appropriate box(es) below, the provision(s) below which apply to Subscriber and under which Subscriber accordingly qualifies as an institutional “accredited investor.”

 

¨Any bank, registered broker or dealer, insurance company, registered investment company, business development company, small business investment company, private business development company, or rural business investment company;

 

¨Any investment adviser registered pursuant to section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act or registered pursuant to the laws of a state;

 

¨Any investment adviser relying on the exemption from registering with the Commission under section 203(l) or (m) of the Investment Advisers Act;

 

 

 

 

¨Any plan established and maintained by a state, its political subdivisions, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or its political subdivisions, for the benefit of its employees, if such plan has total assets in excess of $5,000,000;

 

¨Any employee benefit plan within the meaning of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), if (i) the investment decision is made by a plan fiduciary, as defined in section 3(21) of ERISA, which is either a bank, a savings and loan association, an insurance company, or a registered investment adviser, (ii) the employee benefit plan has total assets in excess of $5,000,000 or, (iii) such plan is a self-directed plan, with investment decisions made solely by persons that are “accredited investors”;

 

¨Any (i) corporation, limited liability company or partnership, (ii) Massachusetts or similar business trust, or (iii) organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, in each case that was not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities offered and that has total assets in excess of $5,000,000;

 

¨Any trust, with total assets in excess of $5,000,000, not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities offered, whose purchase is directed by a sophisticated person as described in Section 230.506(b)(2)(ii) of Regulation D under the Securities Act;

 

This Annex A should be completed by Subscriber and constitutes a part of the Subscription Agreement.

 

 

 

 

Annex B

 

COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT

 

[attached]

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 10.3

 

Date: September 26, 2023
   
To: Graf Acquisition Corp. IV, a Delaware corporation (“GFOR”) and NKGen Biotech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Target”)
   
Address: 1790 Hughes Landing Blvd., Suite 400, The Woodlands, Texas, 77380
   
From: Sandia Investment Management LP on behalf of Investors listed on Schedule A (collectively, “Seller”)
   
Re: OTC Equity Prepaid Forward Transaction

  

The purpose of this agreement (this “Confirmation”) is to confirm the terms and conditions of the transaction (the “Transaction”) entered into between Seller, GFOR and Target on the Trade Date specified below. The term “Counterparty” refers to GFOR until the Business Combination (as defined below), then following the Business Combination, to NKGen Biotech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“PubCo”), which such name change will happen at or immediately prior to the closing of the Business Combination, concurrently with Target being renamed as “NKGen Operating Biotech, Inc.” In connection with the transactions contemplated by the BCA (as defined below), (i) Austria Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of PubCo (“Merger Sub”) will merge with and into Target, with Target as the surviving entity and a wholly-owned subsidiary of PubCo (the “Merger”, and together with the other transactions contemplated by the BCA, the “Business Combination”). Certain terms of the Transaction shall be as set forth in this Confirmation, with additional terms as set forth in a pricing date notice (the “Pricing Date Notice”) in the form of Schedule A hereto. This Confirmation, together with the Pricing Date Notice(s), constitutes a “Confirmation” and the Transaction constitutes a separate “Transaction” as referred to in the ISDA Form (as defined below).

 

This Confirmation, together with the Pricing Date Notices, evidences a complete binding agreement between Seller, GFOR and Target as to the subject matter and terms of the Transaction to which this Confirmation relates and shall supersede all prior or contemporaneous written or oral communications with respect thereto.

 

The 2006 ISDA Definitions (the “Swap Definitions”) and the 2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions (the “Equity Definitions”, and with the Swap Definitions, the “Definitions”), each as published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., are incorporated into this Confirmation. If there is any inconsistency between the Definitions and this Confirmation, this Confirmation governs. If, in relation to the Transaction to which this Confirmation relates, there is any inconsistency between the ISDA Form, this Confirmation (including the Pricing Date Notice), the Swap Definitions and the Equity Definitions, the following will prevail for purposes of such Transaction in the order of precedence indicated: (i) this Confirmation (including the Pricing Date Notice(s)); (ii) the Equity Definitions; (iii) the Swap Definitions, and (iv) the ISDA Form.

 

This Confirmation, together with the Pricing Date Notice, shall supplement, form a part of, and be subject to an agreement in the form of the ISDA 2002 Master Agreement (the “ISDA Form”) as if Seller, Target and Counterparty had executed an agreement in such form (but without any Schedule except as set forth herein under “Schedule Provisions”) on the Trade Date of the Transaction.

 

The terms of the particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates are as follows:

 

General Terms

 

Type of Transaction:   Share Forward Transaction
     
Trade Date:   September 25, 2023
     
Pricing Date:   As specified in a Pricing Date Notice.
     
Effective Date:   One (T+2) Settlement Cycle following the Pricing Date.

 

 

 

 

Valuation Date:   The earlier to occur of (a) the date that is twelve (12) months after the date of the closing of the Business Combination (the date of the closing of the Business Combination, the “Closing Date”) pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of April 14, 2023 (the “BCA”), by and among GFOR, Merger Sub and Target, and (b) the date specified by Seller in a written notice to be delivered to Counterparty at Seller’s discretion (which Valuation Date shall not be earlier than the day such notice is effective) after the occurrence of any of (w) a VWAP Trigger Event, (x) a Delisting Event, (y) a Registration Failure or (z) unless otherwise specified therein, upon any Additional Termination Event.  
     
VWAP Trigger Event:   An event that occurs if the VWAP Price, for any 20 trading days during a 30 consecutive trading day-period thereafter beginning 30 days following the closing of the Business Combination, is below $2.00 per Share.
     
VWAP Price:   For any scheduled trading day, the volume weighted average price per Share for such day as reported on the relevant Bloomberg Screen “NKGN <Equity> AQR SEC” (or any successor thereto), or if such price is not so reported on such trading day for any reason or is erroneous, the VWAP Price shall be as reasonably determined by the Calculation Agent.
     
Reset Price:   The Reset Price will initially be the Initial Price; provided that the Reset Price will be reduced upon a Dilutive Offering Reset immediately upon the occurrence of such Dilutive Offering.
     
Dilutive Offering Reset:   To the extent the Counterparty closes any agreement to sell or grants any right to reprice, or otherwise disposes of or issues (or announce any offer, sale, grant or any option to purchase or other disposition) any Shares or any securities of the Counterparty or any of its respective subsidiaries (but for the avoidance of doubt, excluding any secondary transfers), which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire or sell on behalf of the Counterparty at any time Shares or other securities, including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, preference shares, right, option, warrant or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Shares or other securities, at an effective price per share less than the then existing Reset Price (a “Dilutive Offering”), then the Reset Price shall be modified to equal such reduced price as of such date; provided that, without limiting the foregoing, a Dilutive Offering Reset (for the avoidance of doubt) (i) shall not include any equity line of credit, at the market offering or other similar financing, (ii) shall not include the grant, issuance or exercise of stock options or other equity awards under the Counterparty or PubCo’s equity compensation plans or Shares underlying warrants now outstanding or to be issued in connection with the Business Combination and (iii) shall not include any Shares or other securities convertible or exercisable for Shares issued in connection with the Business Combination pursuant to the BCA and any other financing or subscription agreement entered into in connection with the closing of Business Combination, including the Warrant Subscription Agreements and the Securities Purchase Agreement to be entered into between GFOR and the investors party thereto in connection with the closing of the Business Combination.
     
Seller:   Seller.
     
Buyer:   Counterparty.
     
Shares:   Prior to the closing of the Business Combination, shares of the common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of Graf Acquisition Corp. IV (Ticker: “GFOR”) and, after the closing of the Business Combination, common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of PubCo.

 

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Number of Shares:   The sum of the number of Recycled Shares plus but in no event more than the Maximum Number of Shares. The Number of Shares is subject to reduction only as described under “Optional Early Termination.”
     
Maximum Number of Shares:   Initially 436,111 Shares (the “Purchased Amount”); upon the occurrence of a Dilutive Offering Reset, a number of Shares equal to the quotient of (i) the Purchased Amount divided by (ii) the quotient of (a) the price of such Dilutive Offering divided by (b) the Initial Price.  For the avoidance of doubt, any adjustment pursuant to a Dilutive Offering Reset shall only result in an increase to the Maximum Number of Shares.
     
Initial Price:   Equals the Redemption Price (the “Redemption Price”) as defined in Section 9.2(a) of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of GFOR, effective as of May 20, 2021, as amended by the Certificate of Amendment effective as of May 22, 2023 and as further amended from time to time (the “Certificate of Incorporation”).
     
Recycled Shares:   The number of Shares purchased by Seller from third parties (other than Counterparty) through a broker in the open market (other than through Counterparty); provided that (a) if such Shares have been purchased by Seller prior to the time set forth in the Definitive Proxy Statement Prospectus dated as of August 14, 2023 for submission of a written request to redeem such Shares as provided for in accordance Section 9.2 of the Certificate of Incorporation (the “Redemption Deadline”), Seller shall have irrevocably waived all redemption rights with respect to such Shares as provided below in the section captioned “Transactions by Seller in the Shares” and (b) if such Shares have been purchased by Seller after the Redemption Deadline, then the third party from whom Seller purchased such Shares shall have submitted a written reversal of the redemption request such third party previously submitted to Continental Stock Transfer and Trust Company prior to the Redemption Deadline, which has been confirmed by Counterparty.  Seller shall specify the number of Recycled Shares (the “Number of Recycled Shares”) in the initial Pricing Date Notice.

 

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Prepayment Amount:   A cash amount equal to the product of (i) the Number of Shares as set forth in a Pricing Date Notice and (ii) the Initial Price less (y) the Prepayment Shortfall.
     
Prepayment:  

Subject to Counterparty receiving a Pricing Date Notice, Counterparty will pay the Prepayment Amount by bank wire in immediately available funds to an account designated by Seller from (subject to the below exception) the Counterparty’s Trust Account maintained by Continental Stock Transfer and Trust Company holding the net proceeds (less any amounts previously redeemed) of the sale of the units in Counterparty’s initial public offering and the sale of private placement warrants (the “Trust Account”), no later than the earlier of (a) one Local Business Day after the Closing Date and (b) the date any assets from the Trust Account are disbursed in connection with the Business Combination.

 

Counterparty shall provide notice to (i) Counterparty’s trustee of the entrance into this Confirmation no later than one Local Business Day following the date hereof, with copy to Seller and Seller’s outside legal counsel, and (ii) Seller and Seller’s outside legal counsel of the Closing Date at least one Local Business Day before the Closing Date, and a final draft of the flow of funds from the Trust Account one Local Business Day prior to the closing of the Business Combination itemizing the Prepayment Amount due to Seller; provided that Seller shall be invited and permitted to attend any closing call in connection with the Business Combination. The Prepayment Amount shall be deposited into a new escrow account as further described in “Escrow” below.

     
Escrow  

Simultaneously with the closing of the Business Combination, GFOR shall deposit the Prepayment Amount into an escrow account for the benefit of the Seller (the “Escrow Account”) with Continental Stock Transfer and Trust Company (the “Escrow Agent”), subject to the terms of a written escrow agreement provided by the Escrow Agent (with any customary changes as reasonably requested by the parties hereto) and to be entered into on or prior to the date the Seller has purchased any Recycled Shares after the Redemption Deadline.

 

Upon receipt by the Escrow Agent and the Counterparty of an OET Notice, resulting in a reduction to the Number of Shares, the Escrow Agent will release from the Escrow Account (a) to the Counterparty the Early Termination Obligation associated with such Terminated Shares and (b) to the Seller an amount in cash equal to the difference between the Initial Price and Early Termination Obligation for each Terminated Share.

 

On the Cash Settlement Payment Date, the Escrow Agent shall remit from the Escrow Account to the Counterparty an amount equal to the Settlement Amount less the Settlement Amount Adjustment (unless previously paid by the Counterparty in Maturity Shares) and will not otherwise be required to return to the Counterparty any of the Prepayment Amount, and the Escrow Agent shall remit from the Escrow Account to the Seller (i) unless previously paid by the Counterparty in Maturity Shares, the Settlement Amount Adjustment and (ii)  all other amounts remaining in the Escrow Account; provided, that if the Settlement Amount less the Settlement Amount Adjustment is a negative number and either clause (x) of Settlement Amount Adjustment applies or the Counterparty has elected pursuant to clause (y) of Settlement Amount Adjustment to pay the Settlement Amount Adjustment in cash, then the Escrow Agent shall remit nothing from the Escrow Account to the Counterparty, and all amounts in the Escrow Account shall be paid by the Escrow Agent to the Seller.

 

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Prepayment Shortfall:   An amount in USD equal to 0.50% of the product of (i) the Recycled Shares multiplied by (ii) the Initial Price; paid by Seller to Counterparty on the Prepayment Date (which amount shall be netted from the Prepayment Amount).
     
Prepayment Shortfall Consideration:   Seller in its sole discretion may sell Recycled Shares at any time following the Trade Date with sales during the first six months following the Trade Date being sold at a price no less than the Reset Price and without payment by Seller of any Early Termination Obligation (as defined below) until such time as the proceeds from such sales equal 100% of the Prepayment Shortfall (as set forth under Shortfall Sales below) (such sales, “Shortfall Sales,” and such Shares, “Shortfall Sale Shares”). A sale of Shares is only (a) a “Shortfall Sale,” subject to the terms and conditions herein applicable to Shortfall Sale Shares, when a Shortfall Sale Notice is delivered hereunder, and (b) an Optional Early Termination, subject to the terms and conditions herein applicable to Terminated Shares, when an OET Notice (as defined below) is delivered hereunder, in each case the delivery of such notice in the sole discretion of the Seller.
     
Variable Obligation:   Not applicable.
     
Exchanges:   Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
     
Related Exchange(s):   All Exchanges
     
Payment Dates:   Following the Business Combination, the last day of each calendar quarter or, if such date is not a Local Business Day, the next following Local Business Day, until the Valuation Date.
     
Reimbursement of Legal Fees and Other Expenses:   Together with the Prepayment Amount, Counterparty shall pay to Seller an amount equal to (a) the reasonable and documented attorney fees and other reasonable out-of-pocket expenses related thereto actually incurred by Seller or its affiliates in connection with this Transaction, not to exceed $25,000 in the aggregate and (b) expenses actually incurred in connection with the acquisition of the Recycled Shares in an amount not to exceed $0.06 per Recycled Share. Counterparty shall also pay to Seller, a quarterly fee of $5,000 (payable at the Closing Date, prorated to account for any days remaining in the quarter, and upon the first day of each subsequent quarter) in consideration of certain legal and administrative obligations in connection with this Transaction, including, without limitation, legal, structuring and documentation, entity maintenance, escrow management, account set-up, and ongoing audit fees.

 

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Settlement Terms    
     
Settlement Method Election:   Not Applicable.
     
Settlement Method:   Cash Settlement.
     
Settlement Amount:  

With respect to Recycled Shares that have been sold by Seller as of the Valuation Date and that are not Terminated Shares, a cash amount equal to the product of (x) the number of such Shares and (y) the Reset Price in respect of such Valuation Date.

 

With respect to Recycled Shares that have not been sold by Seller as of the Valuation Date, a cash amount equal to (x) the number of such Shares as of the Valuation Date less the number of Unregistered Shares (as defined below), multiplied by (y) the volume weighted daily VWAP Price over the Valuation Period; provided that the Settlement Amount shall not be less than zero.

 

In the event that Seller has delivered a Registration Request at least 90 days prior to the Valuation Date, Shares which are set forth in Pricing Date Notices that are neither registered for resale under an effective resale Registration Statement nor transferable without any restrictions pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act, including pursuant to Rule 144 (so long as not subject to the requirement for the Counterparty to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144I(1) (or Rule 144(i)(2), if applicable) the volume and manner of sale limitations under Rule 144(e), (f) and (g)) (in either event, “Unregistered Shares”) will not be included in the calculation of the Settlement Amount with respect to Recycled Shares that have not been sold by Seller prior to the Valuation Date.

     
Settlement Amount Adjustment:   A cash amount equal to the product of (1) the number of Recycled Shares that have not been sold by Seller as of the Valuation Date multiplied by (2) $2.00. The Settlement Amount Adjustment shall be paid (x) in the event that the expected Settlement Amount determined by the VWAP Price over the 15 scheduled trading days ending on but excluding the Valuation Date exceeds the Settlement Amount Adjustment, in cash (in which case the Settlement Amount Adjustment will be automatically netted from the Settlement Amount and any remaining amount paid in cash), or (y) otherwise, at the option of Counterparty, in cash or Shares (such Shares, the “Maturity Shares”) (other than in the case of a Delisting Event, in which case the Settlement Amount Adjustment must be paid in cash).  In the event that Counterparty is eligible to pay the Settlement Amount Adjustment using Maturity Shares, Counterparty will be deemed to have elected to pay the Settlement Amount Adjustment in Maturity Shares unless Counterparty notifies Seller no later than ten Local Business Days prior to the Valuation Date that Counterparty elects to pay the Settlement Amount Adjustment in cash.  In the event the Settlement Amount Adjustment is paid in Maturity Shares then, on the Valuation Date, Counterparty shall deliver to Seller an initial calculation of the Maturity Shares equal to (a) the Settlement Amount Adjustment divided by (b) the volume weighted daily VWAP Price over the 15 scheduled trading days ending on but excluding the Valuation Date (the “Estimated Maturity Shares”).  The total number of Maturity Shares to be delivered to Seller by Counterparty shall be based on the volume weighted daily VWAP Price over the Valuation Period (the “Final Maturity Shares”).  On the Local Business Day following the end of the Valuation Period, (i) if the Final Maturity Shares exceeds the Estimated Maturity Shares, Counterparty shall deliver to Seller an additional number of Maturity Shares equal to such excess, and (ii) if the volume weighted daily VWAP Price over the Valuation Period multiplied by the Estimated Maturity Shares exceeds the Settlement Amount Adjustment, Seller shall deliver to Counterparty a cash amount equal to such excess.  By no later than the start of the Valuation Period, all Maturity Shares shall be registered for resale by the Counterparty under an effective resale Registration Statement pursuant to the Securities Act under which Seller may sell or transfer the Shares and, subject to the receipt of Seller representation letters and such other customary supporting documentation as requested by (and in a form reasonably acceptable to) Counterparty and its counsel, bear no restrictive legend; provided, however, that Counterparty shall not be able to pay the Settlement Amount Adjustment with Maturity Shares if following the issuance of the Maturity Shares, Seller’s ownership of Shares would exceed 9.9% ownership of the total Shares outstanding immediately after giving effect to such issuance unless Seller at its sole discretion waives such 9.9% ownership limitation.  To the extent that a Delisting Event occurs during the Valuation Period, the VWAP Price for the remainder of the Valuation Period shall be deemed to be zero and any election to pay the Settlement Amount Adjustment with Maturity Shares will automatically revert to a requirement that the Settlement Amount Adjustment be paid in cash such that any further payment that is to be made of the Settlement Amount Adjustment as provided above shall be made by Seller in cash.

 

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Valuation Period:   The period commencing on the Valuation Date (or if the Valuation Date is not an Exchange Business Day, the first Exchange Business Day thereafter) and ending at 4:00 pm on the Exchange Business Day on which 10% of the total volume traded in the Shares over the period, excluding any volumes traded during the opening and closing auctions, has reached an amount equal to the Number of Shares outstanding as of the Valuation Date plus the Estimated Maturity Shares, less the number of Shares owned by Seller that are neither registered for resale under an effective resale Registration Statement nor eligible for resale under Rule 144 without volume or manner of sale limitations (but only counting such Shares that are eligible for resale under Rule 144 to the extent the Counterparty is in compliance with the requirements of Rule 144(i)(2) for the entire period).
     
Settlement Currency:   USD.
     
Cash Settlement Payment Date:   The tenth Local Business Day immediately following the last day of the Valuation Period.  For the avoidance of doubt, the Escrow Agent will remit to the Counterparty on the Cash Settlement Payment Date an amount equal to the Settlement Amount and will not otherwise be required to return to the Counterparty any of the Prepayment Amount and the Counterparty shall remit to the Seller the Settlement Amount Adjustment; provided, that if the Settlement Amount less the Settlement Amount Adjustment is a negative number and either clause (x) of Settlement Amount Adjustment applies or the Counterparty has elected pursuant to clause (y) of Settlement Amount Adjustment to pay the Settlement Amount Adjustment in cash, then neither the Seller nor the Counterparty shall be liable to the other party for any payment under this section.  
     
Excess Dividend Amount:   Ex Amount.

 

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Optional Early Termination:   From time to time and on any date following the Trade Date (any such date, an “OET Date”) and subject to the terms and conditions below, Seller may, in its absolute discretion, terminate the Transaction in whole or in part by providing written notice to Counterparty, and if applicable, the Escrow Agent (the “OET Notice”), no later than the next Payment Date following the OET Date, (which shall specify the quantity by which the Number of Shares shall be reduced (such quantity, the “Terminated Shares”)); provided that “Terminated Shares” includes only such quantity of Shares by which the Number of Shares is to be reduced and included in an OET Notice and does not include any other Share sales, Shortfall Sale Shares or sales of Shares that are designated as Shortfall Sales (which designation can be made only up to the amount of Shortfall Sale Proceeds), any Share Consideration Shares sales or any other Shares, whether or not sold, which Shares will not be included in any OET Notice or included in the definition, or when calculating the number, of Terminated Shares.  The effect of an OET Notice shall be to reduce the Number of Shares by the number of Terminated Shares specified in such OET Notice with effect as of the related OET Date.  As of each OET Date, Counterparty shall be entitled to an amount from Escrow Account and the Escrow Agent shall pay to Counterparty an amount, equal to the product of (x) the number of Terminated Shares and (y) the Reset Price in respect of such OET Date (an “Early Termination Obligation”), except that no such amount will be due to Counterparty upon any Shortfall Sale; provided, that, the Escrow Agent shall pay the Early Termination Obligation to the accounts and in the amounts as directed by Counterparty.  The remainder of the Transaction, if any, shall continue in accordance with its terms.  The Early Termination Obligation shall be payable by the Escrow Agent on the first Local Business Day following the date of delivery by the Escrow Agent of the OET Notice.  For the avoidance of doubt, no other amounts as may be set forth in Sections 16.1 and 18.1 of the Swap Definitions shall be due to Counterparty upon an Optional Early Termination.  The payment date may be changed within a quarter at the mutual agreement of the parties.
     
Shortfall Sales:   From time to time and on any date following the Trade Date (any such date, a “Shortfall Sale Date”) and subject to the terms and conditions below, Seller may, in its absolute discretion, sell Shortfall Sale Shares, with sales during the first six months following the Trade Date being sold at a price no less than the Reset Price, and in connection with such sales, Seller shall provide written notice to Counterparty (the “Shortfall Sale Notice”) no later than the later of (a) the fifth Local Business Day following the Shortfall Sales Date and (b) the first Payment Date after the Shortfall Sales Date, specifying the quantity of the Shortfall Sale Shares and the allocation of the Shortfall Sale Proceeds. Seller shall not have any Early Termination Obligation in connection with any Shortfall Sales. The Counterparty covenants and agrees for a period of at least sixty Local Business Days (commencing on the Prepayment Date or if an earlier Registration Request is submitted by Seller on the Registration Statement Effective Date) not to issue, sell or offer or agree to sell more than $20 million of Shares, or securities or debt that is convertible, exercisable or exchangeable into Shares, including under any existing or future equity line of credit, until the Shortfall Sales equal the Prepayment Shortfall, without the Seller’s consent; provided, however, that nothing in the foregoing covenant shall prohibit (i) the grant, issuance or exercise of employee stock options or other equity awards under the Counterparty’s equity compensation plans, (ii) the issuance of any securities issued or assumed in connection with the Business Combination, or (iii) repricing of Counterparty’s warrants in connection with the closing of the Business Combination.

 

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Unless and until the proceeds from Shortfall Sales equal 100% of the Prepayment Shortfall, in the event that the product of (x) the difference between (i) the number of Shares as specified in the Pricing Date Notice(s), less (ii) any Shortfall Sale Shares as of such measurement time, multiplied by (y) the VWAP Price, is less than (z) the difference between (i) the Prepayment Shortfall, less (ii) the proceeds from Shortfall Sales as of such measurement time (the “Shortfall Variance”), then the Counterparty, as liquidated damages in respect of such Shortfall Variance, at its option shall within five (5) Local Business Days either:

 

(A) Pay in cash an amount equal to the Shortfall Variance; or

 

(B) Issue and deliver to Seller such number of additional Shares that are equal to (1) the Shortfall Variance, divided by (2) 90% of the VWAP Price (the “Shortfall Variance Shares”).

 

In the event that the Counterparty issues and delivers to Seller Shortfall Variance Shares, within thirty calendar days of such issuance and delivery, Counterparty shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to file (at Counterparty’s sole cost and expense) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement registering the resale of all shares held by the Seller, including the Recycled Shares (the “Shortfall Variance Registration Statement”), provided, that, the Counterparty’s obligations to file such Shortfall Variance Registration Statement shall be contingent upon Seller furnishing in writing to the Counterparty a completed selling stockholder questionnaire in customary form that contains such information regarding Seller, the securities of the Counterparty held by Seller and the intended method of disposition of the shares as shall be reasonably requested by the Counterparty to effect the registration of the shares, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to have the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement declared effective as soon as practicable after the filing thereof, but no later than the earliest of (i) the 90th calendar day (or 120th calendar day if the Commission notifies the Counterparty that it will “review” the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement) following the issuance and delivery of the Shortfall Variance Shares and (ii) the 10th Local Business Day after the date the Counterparty is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that such Shortfall Variance Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review. Upon notification by the Commission that the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Commission, within two Local Business Days thereafter, the Counterparty shall file the final prospectus under Rule 424 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended containing a “plan of distribution” reasonably agreeable to Seller. Counterparty shall not identify Seller as a statutory underwriter in the Registration Statement unless requested by the Commission. The Counterparty will use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement covering the resale of the shares as described above continuously effective (except that the Counterparty shall be entitled to postpone and suspend the effectiveness or use of the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement (i) during any customary blackout or similar period or as permitted hereunder and (ii) as may be necessary in connection with the preparation and filing of a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement following the filing of the Counterparty’s Annual Report on Form 10-K), until all such Shortfall Variance Shares have been sold or may be transferred without any restrictions, including the requirement for the Counterparty to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144(c)(1) (or Rule 144(i)(2), if applicable) or the volume and manner of sale limitations under Rule 144(e), (f) and (g) under the Securities Act. Seller shall not be entitled to use the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement for an underwritten offering of Shortfall Variance Shares. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Counterparty may delay or postpone filing of such Shortfall Variance Registration Statement, and from time to time require Seller not to sell under the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement or suspend the use or effectiveness of any such Shortfall Variance Registration Statement if it determines in good faith that in order for the registration statement to not contain a material misstatement or omission, an amendment thereto would be needed, or if such filing or use would reasonably be expected to materially affect a bona fide business or financing transaction of the Counterparty or would reasonably be expected to require premature disclosure of information that would materially adversely affect the Counterparty (each such circumstance, a “Suspension Event”); provided, that, (w) the Counterparty shall not so delay filing or so suspend the use of the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement for a period of more than sixty (60) consecutive days or more than two (2) times in any three hundred sixty (360) day period, and (x) the Counterparty shall use commercially reasonable efforts to make such registration statement available for the sale by Seller of such Shortfall Variance Shares as soon as practicable thereafter. If requested by Seller, the Counterparty shall within five (5) Local Business Days of receipt of such request, subject to receipt of a legal opinion of Counterparty’s counsel, instruct its transfer agent to remove any restrictive legend with respect to transfers under the Securities Act from Shortfall Variance Shares that have been sold pursuant to an effective registration statement or Rule 144 under the Securities Act (subject to all applicable requirements of Rule 144 being met); provided that Seller and its broker shall have timely provided customary representations and other documentation reasonably acceptable to the Counterparty, its counsel and/or its transfer agent in connection therewith. Any fees (with respect to the transfer agent, Counterparty’s counsel or otherwise) associated with the issuance of any legal opinion required by the Counterparty’s transfer agent or the removal of such legend shall be borne by the Counterparty.

 

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Any Shortfall Variance Shares shall constitute Shortfall Shares, and the sale of such Shortfall Variance Shares after the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission shall be a Shortfall Sale. If the Shortfall Variance has not been paid in cash by the Counterparty, and after the sale of all Shortfall Variance Shares, the proceeds from all Shortfall Sales, including the Shortfall Variance Shares, is less than 100% of the Prepayment Shortfall, then there will be another Shortfall Variance, calculated in accordance with this provision, and the Counterparty shall address such Shortfall Variance as provided for by this provision. This shall continue until such time as the proceeds from all Shortfall Sales equal 100% of the Prepayment Shortfall or the Counterparty shall have paid any Shortfall Variance in cash.

 

With respect to the forgoing and any issuance of Shortfall Variance Shares, the Counterparty shall not issue any Shortfall Variance Shares pursuant to this provision to the extent that after giving effect thereto, the aggregate number of Shares that would be issued pursuant to this provision would exceed 19.99% of the Shares that are issued and outstanding immediately prior to such issuance, which number of shares shall be (i) reduced, on a share-for-share basis, by the number of Shares issued or issuable pursuant to any transaction or series of transactions that may be aggregated with the transactions contemplated hereby under applicable rules of the Nasdaq and (ii) appropriately adjusted for any reorganization, recapitalization, non cash dividend, stock split or other similar transaction that occurs after the date of this Confirmation (such maximum number of shares, the “Exchange Cap”), unless and until the Counterparty elects to solicit stockholder approval of the issuance of the Shortfall Variance Shares as contemplated hereby, and the stockholders of the Counterparty have in fact approved the issuance of the Shortfall Variance Shares as contemplated hereby in accordance with the applicable rules of the Nasdaq. In the event that there is an Exchange Cap, if the Counterparty does not elect to solicit stockholder approval and obtain such stockholder approval in accordance with the applicable rules of the Nasdaq, then the Counterparty will pay the Shortfall Variance in cash.

 

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Share Consideration:   In addition to the Prepayment Amount, Counterparty shall pay directly from the Trust Account, on the Prepayment Date, an amount equal to the product of (x) 34,889 and (y) the Initial Price. The Shares purchased with the Share Consideration (the “Share Consideration Shares”) shall be incremental to the Maximum Number of Shares, shall not be included in the Number of Shares in this Transaction, and the Seller and the Share Consideration Shares shall be free and clear of all obligations with respect to the Seller and such Share Consideration Shares in connection with this Confirmation.
     
Share Registration:   Within 30 days after receipt of a written request of Seller (the “Registration Request”), which request may be made no earlier than the Trade Date (as defined above) and no later than the Valuation Date, Counterparty use commercially reasonable efforts to file (at Counterparty’s sole cost and expense) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement registering the resale of all shares held by the Seller, including the Recycled Shares and Share Consideration Shares (the “Registration Statement”), provided, that, the Counterparty’s obligations to file the Registration Statement shall be contingent upon Seller furnishing in writing to the Counterparty a completed selling stockholder questionnaire in customary form that contains such information regarding Seller, the securities of the Counterparty held by Seller and the intended method of disposition of the shares as shall be reasonably requested by the Counterparty to effect the registration of the shares, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to have the Registration Statement declared effective as soon as practicable after the filing thereof, but no later than the earliest of (i) the 90th calendar day (or 120th calendar day if the Commission notifies the Counterparty that it will “review” the Registration Statement) following the date of the Registration Request (provided, however, that in the event the Commission issues any written rules related to special purpose acquisition companies that would reasonably effect the timing of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and such rules become effective following the date hereof and prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, such number of calendar days in this subsection (i) shall be changed to the 120th calendar day (or 180th calendar day if the Commission notifies the Counterparty that it will “review” the Registration Statement) and (ii) the 10th Local Business Day after the date the Counterparty is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review (each respective date as described above, the “Effectiveness Deadline”); provided, that (x) if such day falls on a Saturday, Sunday or other day that the Commission is closed for business, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to the next Local Business Day on which the Commission is open for business and (y) if the Commission is closed for operations due to a government shutdown, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended by the same number of Local Business Days that the Commission remains closed for. Upon notification by the Commission that the Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Commission, within two Local Business Days thereafter, the Counterparty shall file the final prospectus under Rule 424 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, containing a “plan of distribution” reasonably agreeable to Seller.

 

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Counterparty shall not identify Seller as a statutory underwriter in the Registration Statement unless requested by the Commission. In the event that the SEC asks that Seller be identified as a statutory underwriter, Seller shall have the option, in its sole discretion and without any breach of this provision or without any Registration Failure deemed to have occur, to remove its shares from the Registration Statement. The Counterparty will use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Registration Statement covering the resale of the shares as described above continuously effective (except that the Counterparty shall be entitled to postpone and suspend the effectiveness or use of the Registration Statement (i) during any customary blackout or similar period or as permitted hereunder (a “Blackout Period Suspension”) and (ii) as may be necessary in connection with the preparation and filing of a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement following the filing of the Counterparty’s Annual Report on Form 10-K (the “10-K Post-Effective Amendment Suspension”)), until all such shares have been sold or may be transferred without any restrictions, including the requirement for the Counterparty to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144(c)(1) (or Rule 144(i)(2), if applicable) or the volume and manner of sale limitations under Rule 144(e), (f) and (g) under the Securities Act. Seller shall not be entitled to use the Registration Statement for an underwritten offering of Shares. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Counterparty may delay or postpone filing of such Registration Statement, and from time to time require Seller not to sell under the Registration Statement or suspend the use or effectiveness of any such Registration Statement if there is a Suspension Event; provided, that, (w) the Counterparty shall not so delay filing or so suspend the use of the Registration Statement for a period of more than sixty (60) consecutive days or more than two (2) times in any three hundred sixty (360) day period, and (x) the Counterparty shall use commercially reasonable efforts to make such registration statement available for the sale by Seller of such Shares as soon as practicable thereafter, provided that Counterparty covenants and agrees to make all necessary filings, amendments, supplements and submissions in furtherance of the foregoing, including to register all of Seller’s Shares for resale; provided further, that it shall be a “Registration Failure” if (a) the Registration Statement covering all of the shares described above in this section is not declared effective after the 90th calendar day (or 120th calendar day if the Commission notifies the Counterparty that it will “review” the Registration Statement) after the Trade Date (provided, however, that in the event the Commission issues any written rules related to special purpose acquisition companies that would reasonably effect the timing of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and such rules become effective following the date hereof and prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, such number of calendar days in this subsection (i) shall be changed to the 120th calendar day (or 180th calendar day if the Commission notifies the Counterparty that it will “review” the Registration Statement) and or (b) the Registration Statement after it is declared effective ceases to be continuously effective (subject to the Blackout Period Suspensions and 10-K Post-Effective Amendment Suspension as indicated above and any Suspension Event) as set forth in the preceding sentence for more than 120 consecutive calendar days; provided, that (x) if such day falls on a Saturday, Sunday or other day that the Commission is closed for business, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to the next Local Business Day on which the Commission is open for business and (y) if the Commission is closed for operations due to a government shutdown, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended by the same number of Local Business Days that the Commission remains closed for. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Registration Failure will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Shares that may be transferred at such time under Rule 144 (without volume or manner of sale limitations), so long as the Counterparty is in compliance with the requirements of Rule 144 (c)(1) and (i)(2), if applicable.

 

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Seller will promptly deliver customary representations and other documentation reasonably acceptable to the Counterparty, its counsel and/or its transfer agent in connection with the Registration Statement, including those related to selling stockholders, and to respond to SEC comments. If requested by Seller, the Counterparty shall remove or instruct its transfer agent to remove any restrictive legend with respect to transfers under the Securities Act from Shares that have been sold pursuant to (i) an effective and available registration statement and current prospectus or (ii) Rule 144 under the Securities Act (subject to all applicable requirements of Rule 144 being met); provided that Seller and its broker shall have timely provided customary representations and other documentation reasonably acceptable to the Counterparty, its counsel and/or its transfer agent in connection therewith. Any reasonable and documented fees (with respect to the transfer agent, Counterparty’s counsel or otherwise) associated with the removal of such legend shall be borne by the Counterparty. If a legend is removed pursuant to the foregoing sentence, the Counterparty will, no later than five Local Business Days following the delivery by Seller to the Counterparty or the transfer agent (with notice to the Counterparty) of customary representations and other documentation reasonably acceptable to the Counterparty, its counsel and/or its transfer agent, remove the restrictive legend related to such Shares that have been sold.

 

Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in this Share Registration section, in the event the Commission informs the Counterparty that all of the Shares cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Counterparty agrees to promptly (i) inform Seller and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Registration Statement as required by the Commission and/or (ii) withdraw the Registration Statement and file a new registration statement (a “New Registration Statement”), on Form S-3, or if Form S-3 is not then available to the Counterparty for such registration statement, on such other form available to register for resale the Shares as a secondary offering; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment or New Registration Statement, the Counterparty shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Shares in accordance with any publicly-available written or oral guidance, comments, requirements or requests of the Commission staff (the “SEC Guidance”). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation of the number of securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Counterparty used commercially reasonable efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater number of the Shares), unless otherwise directed in writing by a selling stockholder as to its securities to register fewer securities, the number of securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced on a pro rata basis among all selling stockholders named in such Registration Statement (except that such pro rata reduction shall not apply with respect to any securities the registration of which is necessary to satisfy applicable listing rules of a national securities exchange). In the event the Counterparty amends the Registration Statement or files a New Registration Statement, as the case may be, under clauses (i) or (ii) above, the Counterparty will use its commercially reasonable efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Counterparty or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale that portion of Shares that were not registered for resale on the Registration Statement, as amended, or the New Registration Statement, and to use commercially reasonable efforts to seek effectiveness of the New Registration Statement, but in any event no later than thirty (30) calendar days after the filing of such Registration Statement (the “Additional Effectiveness Deadline”); provided, that the Additional Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to ninety (90) calendar days (or one hundred twenty (120) calendar days if the Commission notifies the Counterparty that it will “review” the New Registration Statement) if such New Registration Statement is reviewed by, and comments thereto are provided from, the Commission; provided, further, that the Counterparty shall have such Registration Statement declared effective within five (5) Local Business Days after the date the Counterparty is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the staff of the Commission that such New Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review; provided, further, that (x) if such day falls on a Saturday, Sunday or other day that the Commission is closed for business, the Additional Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to the next Local Business Day on which the Commission is open for business and (y) if the Commission is closed for operations due to a government shutdown, the Additional Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended by the same number of Local Business Days that the Commission remains closed for. For the avoidance of doubt, any such amendments to or withdrawal of the Registration Statement or filing of the New Registration Statement shall not constitute a Registration Failure.

 

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Short Selling:   Seller represents that with respect to the securities of PubCo, it has not engaged in any short selling activity of any kind prior to the date hereof and shall not engage in any such activity whatsoever at any time through the Maturity.
     
Share Adjustments:    
     
Method of Adjustment:   Calculation Agent Adjustment.
     
Extraordinary Events:    
     
Consequences of Merger Events involving Counterparty:    
     
Share-for-Share:   Calculation Agent Adjustment.
     
Share-for-Other:   Cancellation and Payment.
     
Share-for-Combined:   Component Adjustment.

 

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Tender Offer:   Applicable; provided, however, that Section 12.1(d) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by (i) replacing the reference therein to “10%” with “25%” and (ii) adding “, or of the outstanding Shares,” before “of the Issuer” in the fourth line thereof. Sections 12.1(e) and 12.1(l)(ii) of the Equity Definitions are hereby amended by adding “or Shares, as applicable,” after “voting Shares”.
     
Consequences of Tender Offers:    
     
Share-for-Share:   Calculation Agent Adjustment.
     
Share-for-Other:   Calculation Agent Adjustment.
     
Share-for-Combined:   Calculation Agent Adjustment.
     
Composition of Combined Consideration:   Not Applicable.
     
Nationalization, Insolvency or Delisting:   Cancellation and Payment (Calculation Agent Determination); provided that in addition to the provisions of Section 12.6(a)(iii) of the Equity Definitions, it shall also constitute a Delisting if the Exchange is located in the United States and the Shares are not immediately re-listed, re-traded or re-quoted on any of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE American, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, Nasdaq Capital Market or the Nasdaq Global Market (or their respective successors) or such other exchange or quotation system which, in the determination of the Calculation Agent, has liquidity comparable to the aforementioned exchanges; if the Shares are immediately re-listed, re-traded or re-quoted on any such exchange or quotation system, such exchange or quotation system shall be deemed to be the Exchange.
     
Business Combination Exclusion:   Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision herein, the parties agree that the Business Combination shall not constitute a Merger Event, Tender Offer, Delisting or any other Extraordinary Event hereunder.
     
Additional Disruption Events:    
     
(a) Change in Law:   Applicable; provided that Section 12.9(a)(ii) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by adding the words “(including, for the avoidance of doubt and without limitation, adoption or promulgation of new regulations authorized or mandated by existing statute)” after the word “regulation” in the second line thereof.
     
(b) Failure to Deliver:   Not Applicable.
     
(c) Insolvency Filing:   Applicable.
     
(d) Hedging Disruption:   Not Applicable.
     
(e) Increased Cost of Hedging:   Not Applicable.
     
(f) Loss of Stock Borrow:   Not Applicable.
     
(g) Increased Cost of Stock Borrow:   Not Applicable.
     
Determining Party:   For all applicable events, Seller, unless (i) an Event of Default, Potential Event of Default or Termination Event has occurred and is continuing with respect to Seller, or (ii) if Seller fails to perform its obligations as Determining Party, in which case a Third Party Dealer (as defined below) in the relevant market selected by Counterparty will be the Determining Party. When making any determination or calculation as “Determining Party”, Seller shall be bound by the same obligations relating to required acts of the Calculation Agent as set forth in Section 1.40 of the Equity Definitions and this Confirmation as if Determining Party were the Calculation Agent.

 

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Additional Provisions:    
     
Calculation Agent:   Seller, unless (i) an Event of Default, Potential Event of Default or Termination Event has occurred and is continuing with respect to Seller, or (ii) if Seller fails to perform its obligations as Calculation Agent, in which case an unaffiliated leading dealer in the relevant market selected by Counterparty in its sole discretion will be the Calculation Agent.
     
   

In the event that a party (the “Disputing Party”) does not agree with any calculation or determination made (or the failure to make any determination) by the Calculation Agent or the Determining Party, the Disputing Party shall have the right to require that the Calculation Agent or the Determining Party, as applicable, have such calculation or determination reviewed by a disinterested third party that is a dealer in derivatives of the type that is the subject of the dispute and that is not an Affiliate of either party (a “Third Party Dealer”). Such Third Party Dealer shall be jointly selected by the parties within one Local Business Day after the Disputing Party’s exercise of its rights hereunder (once selected, such Third Party Dealer shall be the “Substitute Calculation Agent” or “Substitute Determining Party,” as applicable). If the parties are unable to agree on a Substitute Calculation Agent or Substitute Determining Party, as applicable, within the prescribed time, each of the parties shall elect a Third Party Dealer and such two dealers shall agree on a Third Party Dealer by the end of the subsequent Local Business Day. Such Third Party Dealer shall be deemed to be the Substitute Calculation Agent or Substitute Determining Party, as applicable. Any exercise by the Disputing Party of its rights hereunder must be in writing and shall be delivered to the Calculation Agent or Determining Party, as applicable, not later than the third Local Business Day following the Local Business Day on which the Calculation Agent or Determining Party, as applicable, notifies the Disputing Party of any calculation or determination made (or of the failure to make any calculation or determination). Any calculation or determination by the Substitute Calculation Agent or Substitute Determining Party, as applicable, shall be binding in the absence of manifest error and shall be made as soon as possible but no later than the second Local Business Day following the Substitute Calculation Agent’s or Substitute Determining Party’s, appointment, as applicable. The costs of such Substitute Calculation Agent or Substitute Determining Party, as applicable, shall be borne by (a) the Disputing Party if the Substitute Calculation Agent or Substitute Determining Party, as applicable, substantially agrees with the Calculation Agent or Determining Party, or (b) the non-Disputing Party if the Substitute Calculation Agent or Substitute Determining Party, as applicable, does not substantially agree with the Calculation Agent or Determining Party, as applicable. If, after following the procedures and within the specified time frames set forth above, a binding calculation or determination is not achieved, the original calculation or determination of the Calculation Agent or Determining Party, as applicable, shall apply.

 

Following any adjustment, determination or calculation by the Calculation Agent hereunder, upon a written request by Counterparty (which may be by email), the Calculation Agent will promptly (but in any event within five Exchange Business Days) provide to Counterparty by email to the email address provided by Counterparty in such written request a report (in a commonly used file format for the storage and manipulation of financial data) displaying in reasonable detail the basis for such adjustment, determination or calculation (including any quotations, market data or information from internal or external sources, and any assumptions used in making such adjustment, determination or calculation), it being understood that in no event will the Calculation Agent be obligated to share with Counterparty any proprietary or confidential data or information or any proprietary or confidential models used by it in making such adjustment, determination or calculation or any information that is subject to an obligation not to disclose such information. All calculations and determinations by the Calculation Agent shall be made in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner.

 

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Non-Reliance:   Applicable.
     
Agreements and Acknowledgements Regarding Hedging Activities:   Applicable.
     
Additional Acknowledgements:   Applicable.
     
Schedule Provisions:    
     
Specified Entity:   In relation to both Seller and Counterparty for the purpose of:
    Section 5(a)(v), Not Applicable
    Section 5(a)(vi), Not Applicable
    Section 5(a)(vii), Not Applicable
     
Cross-Default:   The “Cross-Default” provisions of Section 5(a)(vi) of the ISDA Form will not apply to either party.
     
Credit Event Upon Merger:   The “Credit Event Upon Merger” provisions of Section 5(b)(v) of the ISDA Form will not apply to either party.
     
Automatic Early Termination:   The “Automatic Early Termination” of Section 6(a) of the ISDA Form will not apply to either party.
     
Other Events of Early Termination   Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in the Definitions or in the ISDA Form, if the Business Combination does not close and the Shares are redeemed pursuant to a SPAC liquidation, this Transaction shall automatically terminate as of the time when redemptions are first effected without any amounts or other obligations being owed by either party to the other hereunder except for the payment by Counterparty to Seller of any amounts owing pursuant to “Reimbursement of Legal Fees and Other Expenses” herein.
     
Termination Currency:   United States Dollars.
     
Additional Termination Events:  

Will apply to Seller. The occurrence of any of the following events, and only these events, shall constitute an Additional Termination Event in respect of which Seller shall be the Affected Party.

 

(a)      The BCA is terminated pursuant to its terms prior to the closing of the Business Combination;    and

(b)     The Counterparty materially amends the BCA prior to the Closing Date (provided, however, that   an amendment or waiver of the Acquiror Closing Cash Amount condition to closing set forth in   Section 9.1(f) of the BCA to reduce such condition to closing of the Business Combination from   $50 million shall not constitute a material amendment of the BCA if consented to in writing by   Seller). Seller will not withhold consent to any amendments or waivers to BCA by Counterparty.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in the Definitions or in the ISDA Form, if an Early Termination Date is designated prior to the closing of the Business Combination as a result of an Additional Termination Event, then this Transaction will terminate as of such Early Termination Date without any amounts or other obligations being owed by either party to the other hereunder.

 

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    Notwithstanding the foregoing, Counterparty’s obligations set forth under the captions, “Reimbursement of Legal Fees and Other Expenses,” and “Other Provisions — (d) Indemnification” shall survive any termination due to the occurrence of any of the foregoing Additional Termination Events.
     
Governing Law:   New York law (without reference to choice of law doctrine other than Sections 5-1401 and 5-1402 of the General Obligations Law).
     
Credit Support Provider:   With respect to Seller and Counterparty, None.
     
Local Business Days:   Seller specifies the following places for the purposes of the definition of Local Business Day as it applies to it: New York. Counterparty specifies the following places for the purposes of the definition of Local Business Day as it applies to it: New York.

 

Representations, Warranties and Covenants

 

1. Each of Counterparty, Target and Seller represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with, the other as of the date on which it enters into the Transaction that (in the absence of any written agreement between the parties that expressly imposes affirmative obligations to the contrary for the Transaction) as follows.
(a) Non-Reliance. It is acting for its own account, and it has made its own independent decisions to enter into the Transaction and as to whether the Transaction is appropriate or proper for it based upon its own judgment and upon advice from such advisors as it has deemed necessary. It is not relying on any communication (written or oral) of the other party as investment advice or as a recommendation to enter into the Transaction, it being understood that information and explanations related to the terms and conditions of the Transaction will not be considered investment advice or a recommendation to enter into the Transaction. No communication (written or oral) received from the other party will be deemed to be an assurance or guarantee as to the expected results of the Transaction.
(b) Assessment and Understanding. It is capable of assessing the merits of and understanding (on its own behalf or through independent professional advice), and understands and accepts, the terms, conditions and risks of the Transaction. It is also capable of assuming, and assumes, the risks of the Transaction.
(c) Non-Public Information. It is in compliance with Section 10(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).
(d) Tender Offer Rules. Counterparty, Target and Seller each acknowledge that the Transaction has been structured, and all activity in connection with the Transaction has been undertaken to comply with the requirements of all tender offer regulations applicable to the Business Combination, including Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act.
(e) Authorization. The Transaction, including this Confirmation, has been entered into pursuant to authority granted by its board of directors or other governing authority. It has no internal policy, whether written or oral, that would prohibit it from entering into any aspect of the Transaction, including, but not limited to, the purchase of Shares to be made in connection therewith.
(f) Enforceability. The Transaction, including the Confirmation, when executed and delivered by each of the parties, will constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of each such party, enforceable against each of them in accordance with its terms, except (i) as limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance and any other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, or (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies.

 

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(g) Compliance with Other Instruments and Law. The execution, delivery and performance of this Transaction, including the Confirmation, and the consummation of the Transaction, will not result in any violation or default (i) of any provisions of its organizational documents, (ii) of any instrument, judgment, order, writ or decree to which it is a party or by which it is bound, (iii) under any note, indenture or mortgage to which it is a party or by which it is bound, (iv) under any lease, agreement, contract or purchase order to which it is a party or by which it is bound or (v) of any provision of any applicable federal or state statute, rule or regulation, in each case (other than clause (i)), which would have a material adverse effect on it or its ability to consummate the Transaction.
(h) Affiliate Status. It is the intention of the parties hereto that Seller shall not be an “affiliate” (as such term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) of Target or Counterparty, including GFOR or PubCo, following the closing of the Business Combination, as a result of the transactions contemplated hereunder.

 

2. Counterparty represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with, Seller as of the date on which it enters into the Transaction, that:
(a) Total Assets. GFOR expects to have as of the closing of the Business Combination, after giving effect to this transaction and the other transactions contemplated by the BCA, total assets of at least USD $5,000,001, which are, for the avoidance of doubt, measured on a consolidated basis. Furthermore, the condition to closing set forth in Section 9.03(f) of the BCA shall have been satisfied or waived on the Closing Date.
(b) Non-Reliance. Without limiting the generality of Section 13.1 of the Equity Definitions, Counterparty acknowledges that Seller is not making any representations or warranties or taking any position or expressing any view with respect to the treatment of the Transaction under any accounting standards.
(c) Solvency. Auditors to Counterparty will not deliver a going concern opinion at time of Business Combination.
(d) Public Reports. As of the Trade Date, Counterparty is in compliance in all material respects with its reporting obligations under the Exchange Act, and all reports and other documents filed by Counterparty with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act, when considered as a whole (with the most recent such reports and documents deemed to amend inconsistent statements contained in any earlier such reports and documents), do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or any omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(e) No Distribution. Except with respect to any Shares that may be offered and sold pursuant to the Registration Statement, Counterparty is not entering into the Transaction to facilitate a distribution of the Shares (or any security that may be converted into or exercised or exchanged for Shares, or whose value under its terms may in whole or in significant part be determined by the value of the Shares) or in connection with any future issuance of securities, in each case, in violation of Regulation M or other federal securities laws.
(f) SEC Documents. The Counterparty shall comply with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s guidance, including Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation No. 166.01, for all relevant disclosure in connection with this Confirmation and the Transaction.
(g) Waiver. The Counterparty shall waive any violation of its “bulldog clause,” as set forth in Section 9.2(c) of the Certificate of Incorporation, and any other restrictions that would be caused by Seller entering into this Transaction.
(h)

Disclosure. The Counterparty agrees to comply with applicable SEC guidance in respect of disclosure and the

Counterparty shall preview with Seller all public disclosure relating to the Transaction and shall consult with

Seller to ensure that such public disclosure, including the press release, Form 8-K or other filing that announces

the Transaction adequately discloses the material terms and conditions of the Transaction and all material non-public information disclosed to Seller in connection with the Transaction, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Seller.

(i) Listing. The Counterparty agrees to use its reasonable best efforts to maintain the listing of the Pubco Shares on a national securities exchange; provided that if the PubCo Shares cease to be listed on a national securities exchange or upon the filing of a Form 25 (and, in each case, if the Counterparty fails to relist on such national securities exchange or list on a different national securities exchange within 10 calendar days) (following such 10 calendar day period, each a “Delisting Event”), Seller may accelerate the Valuation Date under this Confirmation by delivering notice to the Counterparty and shall be entitled to the Legal Fees and Other Expenses, which shall be due and payable immediately following the Valuation Date.
(j) Regulatory Filings. Counterparty covenants that it will make all regulatory filings that it is required by law or regulation to make with respect to the Transaction.

 

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(k) Regulation M and Approvals. Counterparty is not on the Trade Date and agrees and covenants on behalf of itself and Target that it and Target will not be on any date Seller is purchasing shares that may be included in a Pricing Date Notice, engaged or engaging in a distribution, as such term is used in Regulation M under the Exchange Act, of any securities of Counterparty, other than a distribution meeting the requirements of the exception set forth in Rules 101(b)(10) and 102(b)(7) of Regulation M. Counterparty shall not and shall cause Target to not, until the second scheduled trading day immediately following dates referenced in the preceding sentence, engage in any such distribution.
(l) Investment Company Act. Counterparty is not and, after giving effect to the Transaction, will not be required to register as an “investment company” under, and as such term is defined in, the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(m) Exclusivity. Counterparty and Target shall not enter into, negotiate or exchange terms with any other party for any other Share Forward Transaction or any other similar arrangement during the term of this Transaction without the prior written consent of Seller.
(n) Lock-Up Provision. Counterparty covenants that both the Lockup Agreement substantially in the form described in the Definitive Proxy Statement Prospectus dated as of August 14, 2023 which is to be entered into by certain parties pursuant to the BCA other than those individuals for which entry into a Lockup Agreement has been waived by the parties to the BCA prior to the Closing Date, and the Sponsor Support and Lockup Agreement, dated as of April 14, 2023, by and among Graf Acquisition Partners IV LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, GFOR, Target and the persons set forth on Schedule I thereto, each providing for the restriction of the transfer of Shares of Counterparty by certain parties specified therein, will be in effect as of the Closing Date and at all times prior to the Valuation Date, subject to exceptions stated in such Lockup Agreement or Sponsor Support and Lockup Agreement.   Seller will not withhold consent to any amendments or waivers to BCA by Counterparty.

 

3. Seller represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with, Counterparty and Target as of the date on which it enters into the Transaction, that:

 

(a) Regulatory Filings. Seller will make all regulatory filings that it is required by law or regulation to make with respect to the Transaction including, without limitation, as may be required by Section 13 or Section 16 (if applicable) under the Exchange Act and, assuming the accuracy of Counterparty’s Repurchase Notices (as described under “Repurchase Notices” below) any sales of the Recycled Shares will be in compliance therewith.
(b) Eligible Contract Participant. Seller is an “eligible contract participant” under, and as defined in, the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1a(18)) and CFTC regulations (17 CFR § 1.3).
(c) Tax Characterization. Seller shall treat the Transaction as a derivative financial contract for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and it shall not take any action or tax return filing position contrary to this characterization, except to the extent otherwise required by a “determination” within the meaning of Section 1313 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any similar provision of state, local or foreign law.
(d) Private Placement. Seller (i) is an “accredited investor” as such term is defined in Regulation D as promulgated under the Securities Act, (ii) is entering into the Transaction for its own account without a view to the distribution or resale thereof and (iii) understands that the assignment, transfer or other disposition of the Transaction has not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act.

 

Transactions by Seller in the Shares

 

(a) Seller hereby waives the redemption rights (“Redemption Rights”) set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation in connection with the Business Combination with respect to the Recycled Shares only during the term of this Confirmation. Subject to any restrictions set forth in this Confirmation, Seller may sell or otherwise transfer, loan or dispose of any of the Shares or any other shares or securities of the Counterparty in one or more public or private transactions at any time. Any Recycled Shares that are not Shortfall Sale Shares sold by Seller during the term of the Transaction and included on an OET Notice will cease to be included in the Number of Shares.

 

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(b) Unless specified in an OET Notice (or Shortfall Sale Notice pursuant to the section entitled Shortfall Sales), no sale of Shares by Seller shall terminate all or any portion of this Confirmation and provided that Seller complies with all of its other obligations hereunder nothing contained herein shall limit any of Seller’s purchases and sales of Shares.

 

Trust Account Waiver

 

Seller hereby waives any and all right, title and interest, or any claim of any kind they have or may have during the term of this Confirmation, in or to any monies held in the Counterparty’s Trust Account and agrees not to seek recourse against the Trust Account in each case, as a result of, or arising out of, this Transaction; provided, however, that nothing herein shall (x) serve to limit or prohibit Seller’s right to pursue a claim against the Counterparty for legal relief against assets held outside the Trust Account, for specific performance or other equitable relief, (y) serve to limit or prohibit any claims that the Seller may have in the future against the Counterparty’s assets or funds that are not held in the Trust Account (including any funds that have been released from the Trust Account and any assets that have been purchased or acquired with any such funds), (z) be deemed to limit Seller’s right, title, interest or claim to the Trust Account by virtue of such Seller’s record or beneficial ownership of securities of the Counterparty acquired by any means other than pursuant to this Transaction or (aa) serve to limit Seller’s redemption right with respect to any such securities of the Seller other than during the term of the Confirmation.

 

No Arrangements

 

Seller, Counterparty and Target each acknowledge and agree that: (i) there are no voting, hedging or settlement arrangements between or among Seller, Counterparty and Target with respect to any Shares or the Counterparty or Target, other than those set forth herein; (ii) Seller may hedge its risk under the Transaction in any way Seller determines (that does not otherwise violate the terms of this Confirmation), provided that Seller has no obligation to hedge with the purchase, sale or maintenance of any Shares or otherwise; (iii) Counterparty and Target will not be entitled to any voting rights in respect of any of the Shares underlying the Transaction; and (iv) Counterparty and Target will not seek to influence Seller with respect to the voting or disposition of any Shares.

 

Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act

 

In connection with Section 739 of the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act of 2010 (“WSTAA”), the parties hereby agree that neither the enactment of WSTAA or any regulation under WSTAA, nor any requirement under WSTAA or an amendment made by WSTAA, nor any similar legal certainty provision in any legislation enacted, or rule or regulation promulgated, on or after the date of this Confirmation, shall limit or otherwise impair either party’s otherwise applicable rights to terminate, renegotiate, modify, amend or supplement this Confirmation or the ISDA Form, as applicable, arising from a termination event, force majeure, illegality, increased costs, regulatory change or similar event under this Confirmation, the Equity Definitions incorporated herein, or the ISDA Form.

 

Address for Notices

 

Notice to Seller:

 

Sandia Investment Management LP

201 Washington Street, Suite 2600

Boston, MA 02108

Attn: Thomas Cagna

Email: tom@sandiamgmt.com

 

Notice to Counterparty:

 

Graf Acquisition Corp. IV

1790 Hughes Landing Blvd., Suite 400

The Woodlands, Texas, 77380

Attn: James A. Graf and Tony Kuznik

E-mail: james@grafacq.com and tony@grafacq.com

 

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With a copy to:

White & Case LLP

1221 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020-1095

Attn: James Hu and Elliott Smith

E-mail: james.hu@whitecase.com and elliott.smith@whitecase.com

 

Following the Closing of the Business Combination:

NKGen Biotech, Inc.

3001 Daimler Street

Santa Ana, CA 92705

Attn: Paul Song

E-mail: info@nkgenbiotech.com

 

With a copy to:

Cooley LLP

10265 Science Center Dr,

San Diego, CA 92121

Attn: Rama Padmanabhan and Ken Rollins

E-mail: padmanabhan@cooley.com and Krollins@cooley.com

 

Other Provisions.

 

(a) Rule 10b-5.

  (i) Counterparty represents and warrants to Seller that Counterparty is not entering into the Transaction to create actual or apparent trading activity in the Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for the Shares) or to raise or depress or otherwise manipulate the price of the Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for the Shares) for the purpose of inducing the purchase or sale of such securities or otherwise in violation of the Exchange Act, and Counterparty represents and warrants to Seller that Counterparty has not entered into or altered, and agrees that Counterparty will not enter into or alter, any corresponding or hedging transaction or position with respect to the Shares, in each case, except for other forward purchase agreements.
  (ii) Counterparty acknowledges and agrees that Counterparty does not have, and shall not attempt to exercise, any influence over how, when or whether Seller effects any purchases of Shares in connection with the Transaction. Counterparty represents and warrants that it has consulted with its own advisors as to the legal aspects of its adoption and implementation of this Confirmation and the Transaction under the federal securities laws, including without limitation, the prohibitions on manipulative and deceptive devices under the Exchange Act.
  (iii) Counterparty acknowledges and agrees that any amendment, modification, waiver or termination of this Confirmation must be effected in accordance with the requirements for the amendment or termination of a written trading plan for trading securities. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Counterparty acknowledges and agrees that any such amendment, modification, waiver or termination shall be made in good faith and not as part of a plan or scheme to evade compliance with the federal securities laws, including without limitation the prohibition on manipulative and deceptive devises under the Exchange Act and no such amendment, modification or waiver shall be made at any time at which Counterparty or any officer, director, manager or similar person of Counterparty is aware of any material non-public information regarding Counterparty or the Shares.

 

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(b) Repurchase Notices. Counterparty shall, on any day on which Counterparty effects any repurchase of Shares (other than in connection with a Counterparty equity compensation program (e.g., to fund taxes in connection with vested RSUs)), promptly give Seller a written notice of such repurchase (a “Repurchase Notice”), if following such repurchase, the number of outstanding Shares as determined on such day is (i) less than the number of Shares outstanding that would result in the percentage of total Shares outstanding represented by the number of Shares underlying the Transaction increasing by 0.10% (in the case of the first such notice) or (ii) thereafter more than the number of Shares that would need to be repurchased to result in the percentage of total Shares outstanding represented by the number of Shares underlying the Transaction increasing by a further 0.10% less than the number of Shares included in the immediately preceding Repurchase Notice; provided that Counterparty agrees that this information does not constitute material non-public information; provided further if this information shall be material non-public information, it shall publicly disclosed immediately. Counterparty agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Seller and its affiliates and their respective officers, directors, employees, affiliates, advisors, agents and controlling persons (each, an “Indemnified Person”) from and against any and all losses (including losses relating to Seller’s hedging activities as a consequence of remaining or becoming a Section 16 “insider” following the closing of the Business Combination, including without limitation, any forbearance from hedging activities or cessation of hedging activities and any losses in connection therewith with respect to the Transaction), claims, damages, judgments, liabilities and reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable and documented attorney’s fees), joint or several, which an Indemnified Person may become subject to, as a result of Counterparty’s failure to provide Seller with a Repurchase Notice on the day and in the manner specified in this paragraph, and to reimburse, within thirty days, upon written request, each of such Indemnified Persons for any reasonable and documented legal or other expenses incurred in connection with investigating, preparing for, providing testimony or other evidence in connection with or defending any of the foregoing; provided, however, for the avoidance of doubt, Counterparty has no indemnification or other obligations with respect to Seller becoming a Section 16 “insider” prior to the closing of the Business Combination. If any suit, action, proceeding (including any governmental or regulatory investigation), claim or demand shall be brought or asserted against the Indemnified Person as a result of Counterparty’s failure to provide Seller with a Repurchase Notice in accordance with this paragraph, such Indemnified Person shall promptly notify Counterparty in writing, and Counterparty, upon request of the Indemnified Person, shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person to represent the Indemnified Person and any others Counterparty may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and expenses of such counsel related to such proceeding. Counterparty shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding contemplated by this paragraph that is effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, Counterparty agrees to indemnify any Indemnified Person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. Counterparty shall not, without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Person, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding contemplated by this paragraph that is in respect of which any Indemnified Person is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such Indemnified Person, unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Person from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding on terms reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Person. If the indemnification provided for in this paragraph is unavailable to an Indemnified Person or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein, then Counterparty hereunder, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Person thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Person as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities. The remedies provided for in this paragraph are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available to any Indemnified Person at law or in equity. The indemnity and contribution agreements contained in this paragraph shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of the termination of the Transaction.

 

(c) Transfer or Assignment. The rights and duties under this Confirmation may not be transferred or assigned by any party hereto without the prior written consent of the other party, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, subject to the immediately following sentence. If at any time following the closing of the Business Combination at which (A) the Section 16 Percentage exceeds 9.9%, or (B) the Share Amount exceeds the Applicable Share Limit, if any applies (any such condition described in clause (A) or (B), an “Excess Ownership Position”), Seller is unable to effect a transfer or assignment of a portion of the Transaction to a third party on pricing terms reasonably acceptable to Seller and within a time period reasonably acceptable to Seller such that no Excess Ownership Position exists, then Seller may designate any Local Business Day as an Early Termination Date with respect to a portion of the Transaction (the “Terminated Portion”), such that following such partial termination no Excess Ownership Position exists. In the event that Seller so designates an Early Termination Date with respect to a portion of the Transaction, a portion of the Shares with respect to the Transaction shall be delivered to Counterparty as if the Early Termination Date was the Valuation Date in respect of a Transaction having terms identical to the Transaction and a Number of Shares equal to the number of Shares underlying the Terminated Portion. The “Section 16 Percentage” as of any day is the fraction, expressed as a percentage, as determined by Seller, (A) the numerator of which is the number of Shares that Seller and each person subject to aggregation of Shares with Seller under Section 13 or Section 16 of the Exchange Act and rules promulgated thereunder and all persons who may form a “group” (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) of the Exchange Act) with Seller directly or indirectly beneficially own (as defined under Section 13 or Section 16 of the Exchange Act and rules promulgated thereunder) (the “Seller Group” ) and (B) the denominator of which is the number of Shares outstanding.

 

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The “Share Amount” as of any day is the number of Shares that Seller and any person whose ownership position would be aggregated with that of Seller and any group (however designated) of which Seller is a member (Seller or any such person or group, a “Seller Person”) under any law, rule, regulation, regulatory order or organizational documents or contracts of Counterparty that are, in each case, applicable to ownership of Shares (“Applicable Restrictions”), owns, beneficially owns, constructively owns, controls, holds the power to vote or otherwise meets a relevant definition of ownership under any Applicable Restriction, as determined by Seller in its sole discretion.

 

The “Applicable Share Limit” means a number of Shares equal to (A) the minimum number of Shares that could give rise to reporting (other than on Schedule 13D or 13G) or registration obligations or other requirements (including obtaining prior approval from any person or entity) of a Seller Person, or could result in an adverse effect on a Seller Person, under any Applicable Restriction, as determined by Seller in its sole discretion, minus (B) 0.1% of the number of Shares outstanding.

 

(d) Indemnification. Counterparty agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnified Person from and against any and all losses (but not including financial losses to an Indemnified Person relating to the economic terms of the Transaction provided that the Counterparty performs its obligations under this Confirmation in accordance with its terms), claims, damages and liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees), joint or several, incurred by or asserted against such Indemnified Person arising out of, in connection with, or relating to, and to reimburse, within thirty days, upon written request, each of such Indemnified Persons for any reasonable legal or other expenses incurred in connection with investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever, whether arising out of any action between any of the Indemnified Parties and the Counterparty or between any of the Indemnified Parties and any third party, or otherwise) to which they or any of them may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or any other statute or at common law or otherwise or under the laws of foreign countries, arising out of or based upon the Transaction, including the execution or delivery of this Confirmation, the performance by Counterparty of its obligations under the Transaction, any material breach of any covenant, representation or warranty made by Counterparty or Target in this Confirmation or the ISDA Form, regulatory filings and submissions made by or on behalf of the Counterparty related to the Transaction (other than as relates to any information provided in writing by or on behalf of Seller or its affiliates), or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Registration Statement or any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any registration statement, press release, filings or other document, or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Counterparty will not be liable under the foregoing indemnification provision to the extent that any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense is related to the manner in which Seller sells, or arising out of any sales by Seller of, any Shares, including the Recycled Shares or found in a nonappealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from Seller’s material breach of any covenant, representation or other obligation in this Confirmation or the ISDA Form or from Seller’s willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence in performing the services that are subject of the Transaction. If for any reason the foregoing indemnification is unavailable to any Indemnified Person or insufficient to hold harmless any Indemnified Person, then Counterparty shall contribute, to the maximum extent permitted by law, to the amount paid or payable by the Indemnified Person as a result of such loss, claim, damage or liability. In addition (and in addition to any other Reimbursement of Legal Fees and other Expenses contemplated by this Confirmation), Counterparty will reimburse any Indemnified Person for all reasonable, out-of-pocket, expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and expenses) as they are incurred in connection with the investigation of, preparation for or defense or settlement of any pending or threatened claim or any action, suit or proceeding arising therefrom, whether or not such Indemnified Person is a party thereto and whether or not such claim, action, suit or proceeding is initiated or brought by or on behalf of Counterparty. Counterparty also agrees that no Indemnified Person shall have any liability to Counterparty or any person asserting claims on behalf of or in right of Counterparty in connection with or as a result of any matter referred to in this Confirmation except to the extent that any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses incurred by Counterparty result from such Indemnified Person’s breach of any covenant, representation or other obligation in this Confirmation or the ISDA Form or from the gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith of the Indemnified Person or breach of any U.S. federal or state securities laws or the rules, regulations or applicable interpretations of the Commission. The provisions of this paragraph shall survive the completion of the Transaction contemplated by this Confirmation and any assignment and/or delegation of the Transaction made pursuant to the ISDA Form or this Confirmation shall inure to the benefit of any permitted assignee of Seller.

 

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(e) Amendments to Equity Definitions.

  (i) Section 12.6(a)(ii) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by (i) deleting from the fourth line thereof the word “or” after the word “official” and inserting a comma therefor, and (ii) deleting the semi-colon at the end of subsection (B) thereof and inserting the following words therefor “or (C) the occurrence of any of the events specified in Section 5(a)(vii)(1) through (9) of the ISDA Form with respect to that Issuer.”; and
  (ii) Section 12.6(c)(ii) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by replacing the words “the Transaction will be cancelled,” in the first line with the words “Seller will have the right, which it must exercise or refrain from exercising, as applicable, in good faith acting in a commercially reasonable manner, to cancel the Transaction,”;

(f) Waiver of Jury Trial. Each party waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any right it may have to a trial by jury in respect of any suit, action or proceeding relating to the Transaction. Each party (i) certifies that no representative, agent or attorney of either party has represented, expressly or otherwise, that such other party would not, in the event of such a suit, action or proceeding, seek to enforce the foregoing waiver and (ii) acknowledges that it and the other party have been induced to enter into the Transaction, as applicable, by, among other things, the mutual waivers and certifications provided herein.
(g) Attorney and Other Fees. Subject to clause (d) Indemnification (above), in the event of any legal action initiated by any party arising under or out of, in connection with or in respect of, this Confirmation or the Transaction, the prevailing party shall be entitled to reasonable and documented attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses incurred in such action, as determined and fixed by the court.
(h) Tax Disclosure. Effective from the date of commencement of discussions concerning the Transaction, Counterparty and each of its employees, representatives, or other agents may disclose to any and all persons, the tax treatment and tax structure of the Transaction and all materials of any kind (including tax analyses) that are provided to Counterparty relating to such tax treatment and tax structure.
(i) Securities Contract; Swap Agreement. The parties hereto intend for (i) the Transaction to be (a) a “securities contract” as defined in the Bankruptcy Code, in which case each payment and delivery made pursuant to the Transaction is a “termination value,” “payment amount” or “other transfer obligation” within the meaning of Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code and a “settlement payment,” within the meaning of Section 546 of the Bankruptcy Code, and (b) a “swap agreement” as defined in the Bankruptcy Code, with respect to which each payment and delivery hereunder or in connection herewith is a “termination value,” “payment amount” or “other transfer obligation” within the meaning of Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code and a “transfer,” as such term is defined in Section 101(54) of the Bankruptcy Code and a “payment or other transfer of property” within the meaning of Sections 362 and 546 of the Bankruptcy Code, and the parties hereto to be entitled to the protections afforded by, among other Sections, Sections 362(b)(6), 362(b)(17), 546(e), 546(g), 555 and 560 of the Bankruptcy Code, (ii) a party’s right to liquidate, terminate and accelerate the Transaction and to exercise any other remedies upon the occurrence of any Event of Default under the ISDA Form with respect to the other party to constitute a “contractual right” as described in the Bankruptcy Code, and (iii) each payment and delivery of cash, securities or other property hereunder to otherwise constitute a “margin payment” or “settlement payment” and a “transfer” as defined in the Bankruptcy Code.
(j) Process Agent. For the purposes of Section 13(c) of the ISDA Form:

 

Seller appoints as its Process Agent: None

 

Counterparty appoints as its Process Agent: None.

 

[Signature page follows]

 

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Please confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the terms of our agreement by executing a copy of this Confirmation and returning it to us at your earliest convenience.

 

 

  Very truly yours,
   
 

Sandia Investment Management LP on behalf of Investors listed on Schedule A,

   
     
  By: /s/ Thomas J. Cagna
  Name: Thomas J. Cagna
  Title: COO, CFO & CCO

 

 

Agreed and accepted by:  
   
GRAF ACQUISITION CORP. IV    
   
     
By: /s/ James A. Graf  
Name: James A. Graf  

Title:

Chief Executive Officer

 

 

     
NKGEN BIOTECH, INC.  
     
By: /s/ Paul Song  
Name: Paul Y. Song  
Title: Chief Executive Officer  

 

(Signature Page to Forward Share Purchase Agreement)

 

 

 

SCHEDULE A

 

FORM OF PRICING DATE NOTICE

 

Date: September 26, 2023

 

To: GRAF ACQUISITION CORP. IV (“Counterparty”)

 

Address: 1790 Hughes Landing Blvd., Suite 400, The Woodlands, Texas, 77380

 

Phone: (346) 442-0819

 

From: Sandia Investment Management LP on behalf of Investors below (collectively, “Seller”)

 

Re: OTC Equity Prepaid Forward Transaction

 

1. This Pricing Date Notice supplements, forms part of, and is subject to the Confirmation Re: OTC Equity Prepaid Forward Transaction dated as of September 26, 2023 (the “Confirmation”) between Counterparty and Seller, as amended and supplemented from time to time. All provisions contained in the Confirmation govern this Pricing Date Notice except as expressly modified below.

 

2. The purpose of this Pricing Date Notice is to confirm certain terms and conditions of the Transaction entered into between Seller and Counterparty pursuant to the Confirmation.

 

Pricing Date: September 26, 2023

 

Number of Recycled Shares: 436,111

 

Number of Shares: 471,000

 

Prepayment Date: [•]

 

 

Exhibit 10.4

 

Execution Version

Date:   September 28, 2023
   
To:   Graf Acquisition Corp. IV, a Delaware corporation (“GFOR”) and NKGen Biotech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Target”)
   
Address:   1790 Hughes Landing Blvd., Suite 400, The Woodlands, Texas, 77380
   
From:   Polar Multi-Strategy Master Fund (“Seller”)
   
Re:   OTC Equity Prepaid Forward Transaction

 

The purpose of this agreement (this “Confirmation”) is to confirm the terms and conditions of the transaction (the “Transaction”) entered into between Seller, GFOR and Target on the Trade Date specified below. The term “Counterparty” refers to GFOR until the Business Combination (as defined below), then following the Business Combination, to NKGen Biotech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“PubCo”), which such name change will happen at or immediately prior to the closing of the Business Combination, concurrently with Target being renamed as “NKGen Operating Biotech, Inc.” In connection with the transactions contemplated by the BCA (as defined below), (i) Austria Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of PubCo (“Merger Sub”) will merge with and into Target, with Target as the surviving entity and a wholly-owned subsidiary of PubCo (the “Merger”, and together with the other transactions contemplated by the BCA, the “Business Combination”). Certain terms of the Transaction shall be as set forth in this Confirmation, with additional terms as set forth in a pricing date notice (the “Pricing Date Notice”) in the form of Schedule A hereto. This Confirmation, together with the Pricing Date Notice(s), constitutes a “Confirmation” and the Transaction constitutes a separate “Transaction” as referred to in the ISDA Form (as defined below).

 

This Confirmation, together with the Pricing Date Notices, evidences a complete binding agreement between Seller, GFOR and Target as to the subject matter and terms of the Transaction to which this Confirmation relates and shall supersede all prior or contemporaneous written or oral communications with respect thereto.

 

The 2006 ISDA Definitions (the “Swap Definitions”) and the 2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions (the “Equity Definitions”, and with the Swap Definitions, the “Definitions”), each as published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., are incorporated into this Confirmation. If there is any inconsistency between the Definitions and this Confirmation, this Confirmation governs. If, in relation to the Transaction to which this Confirmation relates, there is any inconsistency between the ISDA Form, this Confirmation (including the Pricing Date Notice), the Swap Definitions and the Equity Definitions, the following will prevail for purposes of such Transaction in the order of precedence indicated: (i) this Confirmation (including the Pricing Date Notice(s)); (ii) the Equity Definitions; (iii) the Swap Definitions, and (iv) the ISDA Form.

This Confirmation, together with the Pricing Date Notice, shall supplement, form a part of, and be subject to an agreement in the form of the ISDA 2002 Master Agreement (the “ISDA Form”) as if Seller, Target and Counterparty had executed an agreement in such form (but without any Schedule except as set forth herein under “Schedule Provisions”) on the Trade Date of the Transaction.

 

The terms of the particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates are as follows:

 

General Terms

     
Type of Transaction:   Share Forward Transaction
   
Trade Date:   September 29, 2023
   
Pricing Date:   As specified in a Pricing Date Notice.
   
Effective Date:   One (T+2) Settlement Cycle following the Pricing Date.
   
Valuation Date:   The earlier to occur of (a) the date that is twelve (12) months after the date of the closing of the Business Combination (the date of the closing of the Business Combination, the “Closing Date”) pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of April 14, 2023 (the “BCA”), by and among GFOR, Merger Sub and Target, and (b) the date specified by Seller in a written notice to be delivered to Counterparty at Seller’s discretion (which Valuation Date shall not be earlier than the day such notice is effective) after the occurrence of any of (w) a VWAP Trigger Event, (x) a Delisting Event, (y) a Registration Failure or (z) unless otherwise specified therein, upon any Additional Termination Event.  

 

 

 

 

VWAP Trigger Event:   An event that occurs if the VWAP Price, for any 20 trading days during a 30 consecutive trading day-period thereafter beginning 30 days following the closing of the Business Combination, is below $2.00 per Share.
   
VWAP Price:   For any scheduled trading day, the volume weighted average price per Share for such day as reported on the relevant Bloomberg Screen “NKGN <Equity> AQR SEC” (or any successor thereto), or if such price is not so reported on such trading day for any reason or is erroneous, the VWAP Price shall be as reasonably determined by the Calculation Agent.
   
Reset Price:   The Reset Price will initially be the Initial Price; provided that the Reset Price will be reduced upon a Dilutive Offering Reset immediately upon the occurrence of such Dilutive Offering.
   
Dilutive Offering Reset:   To the extent the Counterparty closes any agreement to sell or grants any right to reprice, or otherwise disposes of or issues (or announce any offer, sale, grant or any option to purchase or other disposition) any Shares or any securities of the Counterparty or any of its respective subsidiaries (but for the avoidance of doubt, excluding any secondary transfers), which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire or sell on behalf of the Counterparty at any time Shares or other securities, including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, preference shares, right, option, warrant or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Shares or other securities, at an effective price per share less than the then existing Reset Price (a “Dilutive Offering”), then the Reset Price shall be modified to equal such reduced price as of such date; provided that, without limiting the foregoing, a Dilutive Offering Reset (for the avoidance of doubt) (i) shall not include any equity line of credit, at the market offering or other similar financing, (ii) shall not include the grant, issuance or exercise of stock options or other equity awards under the Counterparty or PubCo’s equity compensation plans or Shares underlying warrants now outstanding or to be issued in connection with the Business Combination and (iii) shall not include any Shares or other securities convertible or exercisable for Shares issued in connection with the Business Combination pursuant to the BCA and any other financing or subscription agreement entered into in connection with the closing of Business Combination, including the Warrant Subscription Agreements and the Securities Purchase Agreement to be entered into between GFOR and the investors party thereto in connection with the closing of the Business Combination.
   
Seller:   Seller.
   
Buyer:   Counterparty.
   
Shares:   Prior to the closing of the Business Combination, shares of the common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of Graf Acquisition Corp. IV (Ticker: “GFOR”) and, after the closing of the Business Combination, common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of PubCo.

 

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Number of Shares:   The sum of (i) the number of Recycled Shares plus (ii) the number of Additional Shares, but in no event more than the Maximum Number of Shares. The Number of Shares is subject to reduction only as described under “Optional Early Termination.”
   
Maximum Number of Shares:   Initially 1,000,000 Shares (the “Purchased Amount”); upon the occurrence of a Dilutive Offering Reset, a number of Shares equal to the quotient of (i) the Purchased Amount divided by (ii) the quotient of (a) the price of such Dilutive Offering divided by (b) the Initial Price.  For the avoidance of doubt, any adjustment pursuant to a Dilutive Offering Reset shall only result in an increase to the Maximum Number of Shares.
   
Initial Price:   Equals the Redemption Price (the “Redemption Price”) as defined in Section 9.2(a) of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of GFOR, effective as of May 20, 2021, as amended by the Certificate of Amendment effective as of May 22, 2023 and as further amended from time to time (the “Certificate of Incorporation”).
   
Recycled Shares:   The number of Shares purchased by Seller from third parties (other than Counterparty) through a broker in the open market (other than through Counterparty); provided that (a) if such Shares have been purchased by Seller prior to the time set forth in the Definitive Proxy Statement Prospectus dated as of August 14, 2023 for submission of a written request to redeem such Shares as provided for in accordance Section 9.2 of the Certificate of Incorporation (the “Redemption Deadline”), Seller shall have irrevocably waived all redemption rights with respect to such Shares as provided below in the section captioned “Transactions by Seller in the Shares” and (b) if such Shares have been purchased by Seller after the Redemption Deadline, then the third party from whom Seller purchased such Shares shall have submitted a written reversal of the redemption request such third party previously submitted to Continental Stock Transfer and Trust Company prior to the Redemption Deadline, which has been confirmed by Counterparty.  Seller shall specify the number of Recycled Shares (the “Number of Recycled Shares”) in the initial Pricing Date Notice.
   
PIPE Subscription Agreement:   The Counterparty and Seller have entered into a subscription agreement(s), from time to time for the purchase by Seller of the Additional Shares (the “PIPE Subscription Agreement”). As of the date hereof, the PIPE Subscription Agreement are in full force and effect and are legal, valid and binding upon the Counterparty and, to the knowledge of the Counterparty, the Seller, enforceable in accordance with it terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject, as to enforceability, to general principles of equity. Seller shall purchase pursuant to the PIPE Subscription Agreements, Additional Shares in an amount no less than the Maximum Number of Shares less the Recycled Shares; provided, however, that Seller shall not be required to purchase an amount of Additional Shares such that following the issuance of Additional Shares, its ownership would exceed 9.9% ownership of the total Shares outstanding immediately after giving effect to such issuance unless Seller at its sole discretion waives such 9.9% ownership limitation.
   
Additional Shares:   The Seller shall have the right to purchase Additional Shares from the Counterparty at any date prior to the Valuation Date at the Initial Price, with such number of Shares to be specified in a Pricing Date Notice as Additional Shares subject to 9.9% ownership limitations which may be waived by Seller at its sole discretion; provided that such number of Additional Shares that may be purchased from the Counterparty shall not exceed (x) the Maximum Number of Shares, minus (y) the Recycled Shares. For the avoidance of doubt, any Additional Shares purchased by Seller will be included in the Number of Shares for all purposes.

 

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Prepayment Amount:   A cash amount equal to the product of (i) the Number of Shares as set forth in a Pricing Date Notice and (ii) the Initial Price less (y) the Prepayment Shortfall.
   
Prepayment:  

Subject to Counterparty receiving a Pricing Date Notice, Counterparty will pay the Prepayment Amount by bank wire in immediately available funds to the Escrow Account from (subject to the below exception) the Counterparty’s Trust Account maintained by Continental Stock Transfer and Trust Company holding the net proceeds (less any amounts previously redeemed) of the sale of the units in Counterparty’s initial public offering and the sale of private placement warrants (the “Trust Account”), no later than the earlier of (a) one Local Business Day after the Closing Date and (b) the date any assets from the Trust Account are disbursed in connection with the Business Combination; except that to the extent that the Prepayment Amount is to be paid from the purchase of Additional Shares by Seller pursuant to the PIPE Subscription Agreement (the “Subscription Amount”), the Prepayment Amount will be netted against the Subscription Amount, with Seller depositing the Subscription Amount into the Escrow Account.

 

Counterparty shall provide notice to (i) Counterparty’s trustee of the entrance into this Confirmation no later than one Local Business Day following the date hereof, with copy to Seller and Seller’s outside legal counsel, and (ii) Seller and Seller’s outside legal counsel of the Closing Date at least one Local Business Day before the Closing Date; provided that Seller shall be invited and permitted to attend any closing call in connection with the Business Combination. The Prepayment Amount shall be deposited into a new escrow account as further described in “Escrow” below.

   
Escrow:  

Simultaneously with the closing of the Business Combination and the deposit of the Subscription Amount into an escrow account (the “Escrow Account”) by the Seller with Continental Stock Transfer and Trust Company (the “Escrow Agent”), Counterparty shall be deemed to have deposited the Prepayment Amount with respect to the Additional Shares, into the Escrow Account for the benefit of the Seller, which Escrow Account shall be subject to the terms of a written escrow agreement provided by the Escrow Agent (with any customary changes as reasonably requested by the parties hereto) and to be entered into on or prior to the closing of the Business Combination.

 

Upon receipt by the Escrow Agent and the Counterparty of an OET Notice, resulting in a reduction to the Number of Shares, the Escrow Agent will release from the Escrow Account (a) to the Counterparty the Early Termination Obligation associated with such Terminated Shares and (b) to the Seller an amount in cash equal to the difference between the Initial Price and Early Termination Obligation for each Terminated Share.

 

On the Cash Settlement Payment Date, the Escrow Agent shall remit from the Escrow Account to the Counterparty an amount equal to the Settlement Amount less the Settlement Amount Adjustment (unless previously paid by the Counterparty in Maturity Shares) and will not otherwise be required to return to the Counterparty any of the Prepayment Amount, and the Escrow Agent shall remit from the Escrow Account to the Seller (i) unless previously paid by the Counterparty in Maturity Shares, the Settlement Amount Adjustment and (ii)  all other amounts remaining in the Escrow Account; provided, that if the Settlement Amount less the Settlement Amount Adjustment is a negative number and either clause (x) of Settlement Amount Adjustment applies or the Counterparty has elected pursuant to clause (y) of Settlement Amount Adjustment to pay the Settlement Amount Adjustment in cash, then the Escrow Agent shall remit nothing from the Escrow Account to the Counterparty, and all amounts in the Escrow Account shall be paid by the Escrow Agent to the Seller. 

 

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Prepayment Shortfall:   An amount in USD equal to 0.50% of the product of (i) the Recycled Shares multiplied by (ii) the Initial Price; paid by Seller to Counterparty on the Prepayment Date (which amount shall be netted from the Prepayment Amount).
   
Prepayment Shortfall Consideration:   Seller in its sole discretion may sell Recycled Shares at any time following the Trade Date with sales during the first six months following the Trade Date being sold at a price no less than the Reset Price and without payment by Seller of any Early Termination Obligation (as defined below) until such time as the proceeds from such sales equal 100% of the Prepayment Shortfall (as set forth under Shortfall Sales below) (such sales, “Shortfall Sales,” and such Shares, “Shortfall Sale Shares”). A sale of Shares is only (a) a “Shortfall Sale,” subject to the terms and conditions herein applicable to Shortfall Sale Shares, when a Shortfall Sale Notice is delivered hereunder, and (b) an Optional Early Termination, subject to the terms and conditions herein applicable to Terminated Shares, when an OET Notice (as defined below) is delivered hereunder, in each case the delivery of such notice in the sole discretion of the Seller.
   
Variable Obligation:   Not applicable.
   
Exchanges:   Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
   
Related Exchange(s):   All Exchanges
   
Payment Dates:   Following the Business Combination, the last day of each calendar quarter or, if such date is not a Local Business Day, the next following Local Business Day, until the Valuation Date.
   
Reimbursement of Legal Fees and Other Expenses:   Together with the Prepayment Amount, Counterparty shall pay to Seller an amount equal to (a) the reasonable and documented attorney fees and other reasonable out-of-pocket expenses related thereto actually incurred by Seller or its affiliates in connection with this Transaction, not to exceed $25,000 in the aggregate and (b) expenses actually incurred in connection with the acquisition of the Recycled Shares in an amount not to exceed $0.06 per Recycled Share. Counterparty shall also pay to Seller, a quarterly fee of $5,000 (payable at the Closing Date, prorated to account for any days remaining in the quarter, and upon the first day of each subsequent quarter) in consideration of certain legal and administrative obligations in connection with this Transaction, including, without limitation, legal, structuring and documentation, entity maintenance, escrow management, account set-up, and ongoing audit fees.
   
Settlement Terms    
   
Settlement Method Election:   Not Applicable.
   
Settlement Method:   Cash Settlement.

 

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Settlement Amount:  

With respect to Recycled Shares or Additional Shares that have been sold by Seller as of the Valuation Date and that are not Terminated Shares, a cash amount equal to the product of (x) the number of such Shares and (y) the Reset Price in respect of such Valuation Date.

 

With respect to Recycled Shares or Additional Shares that have not been sold by Seller as of the Valuation Date, a cash amount equal to (x) the number of such Shares as of the Valuation Date less the number of Unregistered Shares (as defined below), multiplied by (y) the volume weighted daily VWAP Price over the Valuation Period; provided that the Settlement Amount shall not be less than zero.

 

In the event that Seller has delivered a Registration Request at least 90 days prior to the Valuation Date, Shares which are set forth in Pricing Date Notices that are neither registered for resale under an effective resale Registration Statement nor transferable without any restrictions pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act, including pursuant to Rule 144 (so long as not subject to the requirement for the Counterparty to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144I(1) (or Rule 144(i)(2), if applicable) the volume and manner of sale limitations under Rule 144(e), (f) and (g)) (in either event, “Unregistered Shares”) will not be included in the calculation of the Settlement Amount with respect to Recycled Shares or Additional Shares that have not been sold by Seller prior to the Valuation Date.

   
Settlement Amount Adjustment:   A cash amount equal to the product of (1) the number of Recycled Shares and Additional Shares that have not been sold by Seller as of the Valuation Date multiplied by (2) $2.00. The Settlement Amount Adjustment shall be paid (x) in the event that the expected Settlement Amount determined by the VWAP Price over the 15 scheduled trading days ending on but excluding the Valuation Date exceeds the Settlement Amount Adjustment, in cash (in which case the Settlement Amount Adjustment will be automatically netted from the Settlement Amount and any remaining amount paid in cash), or (y) otherwise, at the option of Counterparty, in cash or Shares (such Shares, the “Maturity Shares”) (other than in the case of a Delisting Event, in which case the Settlement Amount Adjustment must be paid in cash).  In the event that Counterparty is eligible to pay the Settlement Amount Adjustment using Maturity Shares, Counterparty will be deemed to have elected to pay the Settlement Amount Adjustment in Maturity Shares unless Counterparty notifies Seller no later than ten Local Business Days prior to the Valuation Date that Counterparty elects to pay the Settlement Amount Adjustment in cash.  In the event the Settlement Amount Adjustment is paid in Maturity Shares then, on the Valuation Date, Counterparty shall deliver to Seller an initial calculation of the Maturity Shares equal to (a) the Settlement Amount Adjustment divided by (b) the volume weighted daily VWAP Price over the 15 scheduled trading days ending on but excluding the Valuation Date (the “Estimated Maturity Shares”).  The total number of Maturity Shares to be delivered to Seller by Counterparty shall be based on the volume weighted daily VWAP Price over the Valuation Period (the “Final Maturity Shares”).  On the Local Business Day following the end of the Valuation Period, (i) if the Final Maturity Shares exceeds the Estimated Maturity Shares, Counterparty shall deliver to Seller an additional number of Maturity Shares equal to such excess, and (ii) if the volume weighted daily VWAP Price over the Valuation Period multiplied by the Estimated Maturity Shares exceeds the Settlement Amount Adjustment, Seller shall deliver to Counterparty a cash amount equal to such excess.  By no later than the start of the Valuation Period, all Maturity Shares shall be registered for resale by the Counterparty under an effective resale Registration Statement pursuant to the Securities Act under which Seller may sell or transfer the Shares and, subject to the receipt of Seller representation letters and such other customary supporting documentation as requested by (and in a form reasonably acceptable to) Counterparty and its counsel, bear no restrictive legend; provided, however, that Counterparty shall not be able to pay the Settlement Amount Adjustment with Maturity Shares if following the issuance of the Maturity Shares, Seller’s ownership of Shares would exceed 9.9% ownership of the total Shares outstanding immediately after giving effect to such issuance unless Seller at its sole discretion waives such 9.9% ownership limitation.  To the extent that a Delisting Event occurs during the Valuation Period, the VWAP Price for the remainder of the Valuation Period shall be deemed to be zero and any election to pay the Settlement Amount Adjustment with Maturity Shares will automatically revert to a requirement that the Settlement Amount Adjustment be paid in cash such that any further payment that is to be made of the Settlement Amount Adjustment as provided above shall be made by Seller in cash.

 

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Valuation Period:   The period commencing on the Valuation Date (or if the Valuation Date is not an Exchange Business Day, the first Exchange Business Day thereafter) and ending at 4:00 pm on the Exchange Business Day on which 10% of the total volume traded in the Shares over the period, excluding any volumes traded during the opening and closing auctions, has reached an amount equal to the Number of Shares outstanding as of the Valuation Date plus the Estimated Maturity Shares, less the number of Shares owned by Seller that are neither registered for resale under an effective resale Registration Statement nor eligible for resale under Rule 144 without volume or manner of sale limitations (but only counting such Shares that are eligible for resale under Rule 144 to the extent the Counterparty is in compliance with the requirements of Rule 144(i)(2) for the entire period).
   
Settlement Currency:   USD.
   
Cash Settlement Payment Date:   The tenth Local Business Day immediately following the last day of the Valuation Period.  
   
Excess Dividend Amount:   Ex Amount.
   
Optional Early Termination:   From time to time and on any date following the Trade Date (any such date, an “OET Date”) and subject to the terms and conditions below, Seller may, in its absolute discretion, terminate the Transaction in whole or in part by providing written notice to Counterparty, and if applicable, the Escrow Agent (the “OET Notice”), no later than the next Payment Date following the OET Date, (which shall specify the quantity by which the Number of Shares shall be reduced (such quantity, the “Terminated Shares”)); provided that “Terminated Shares” includes only such quantity of Shares by which the Number of Shares is to be reduced and included in an OET Notice and does not include any other Share sales, Shortfall Sale Shares or sales of Shares that are designated as Shortfall Sales (which designation can be made only up to the amount of Shortfall Sale Proceeds), any Share Consideration Shares sales or any other Shares, whether or not sold, which Shares will not be included in any OET Notice or included in the definition, or when calculating the number, of Terminated Shares.  The effect of an OET Notice shall be to reduce the Number of Shares by the number of Terminated Shares specified in such OET Notice with effect as of the related OET Date.  As of each OET Date, Counterparty shall be entitled to an amount from Escrow Account and the Escrow Agent shall pay to Counterparty an amount, equal to the product of (x) the number of Terminated Shares and (y) the Reset Price in respect of such OET Date (an “Early Termination Obligation”), except that no such amount will be due to Counterparty upon any Shortfall Sale; provided, that, the Escrow Agent shall pay the Early Termination Obligation to the accounts and in the amounts as directed by Counterparty.  The remainder of the Transaction, if any, shall continue in accordance with its terms.  The Early Termination Obligation shall be payable by the Escrow Agent on the first Local Business Day following the date of delivery by the Escrow Agent of the OET Notice.  For the avoidance of doubt, no other amounts as may be set forth in Sections 16.1 and 18.1 of the Swap Definitions shall be due to Counterparty upon an Optional Early Termination.  The payment date may be changed within a quarter at the mutual agreement of the parties.

 

Shortfall Sales:   From time to time and on any date following the Trade Date (any such date, a “Shortfall Sale Date”) and subject to the terms and conditions below, Seller may, in its absolute discretion, sell Shortfall Sale Shares, with sales during the first six months following the Trade Date being sold at a price no less than the Reset Price, and in connection with such sales, Seller shall provide written notice to Counterparty (the “Shortfall Sale Notice”) no later than the later of (a) the fifth Local Business Day following the Shortfall Sales Date and (b) the first Payment Date after the Shortfall Sales Date, specifying the quantity of the Shortfall Sale Shares and the allocation of the Shortfall Sale Proceeds. Seller shall not have any Early Termination Obligation in connection with any Shortfall Sales. The Counterparty covenants and agrees for a period of at least sixty Local Business Days (commencing on the Prepayment Date or if an earlier Registration Request is submitted by Seller on the Registration Statement Effective Date) not to issue, sell or offer or agree to sell more than $20 million of Shares, or securities or debt that is convertible, exercisable or exchangeable into Shares, including under any existing or future equity line of credit, until the Shortfall Sales equal the Prepayment Shortfall, without the Seller’s consent; provided, however, that nothing in the foregoing covenant shall prohibit (i) the grant, issuance or exercise of employee stock options or other equity awards under the Counterparty’s equity compensation plans, (ii) the issuance of any securities issued or assumed in connection with the Business Combination, or (iii) repricing of Counterparty’s warrants in connection with the closing of the Business Combination.
     
    Unless and until the proceeds from Shortfall Sales equal 100% of the Prepayment Shortfall, in the event that the product of (x) the difference between (i) the number of Shares as specified in the Pricing Date Notice(s), less (ii) any Shortfall Sale Shares as of such measurement time, multiplied by (y) the VWAP Price, is less than (z) the difference between (i) the Prepayment Shortfall, less (ii) the proceeds from Shortfall Sales as of such measurement time (the “Shortfall Variance”), then the Counterparty, as liquidated damages in respect of such Shortfall Variance, at its option shall within five (5) Local Business Days either:
     
    (A) Pay in cash an amount equal to the Shortfall Variance; or
     
    (B) Issue and deliver to Seller such number of additional Shares that are equal to (1) the Shortfall Variance, divided by (2) 90% of the VWAP Price (the “Shortfall Variance Shares”).

 

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    In the event that the Counterparty issues and delivers to Seller Shortfall Variance Shares, within thirty calendar days of such issuance and delivery, Counterparty shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to file (at Counterparty’s sole cost and expense) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement registering the resale of all shares held by the Seller, including the Recycled Shares (the “Shortfall Variance Registration Statement”), provided, that, the Counterparty’s obligations to file such Shortfall Variance Registration Statement shall be contingent upon Seller furnishing in writing to the Counterparty a completed selling stockholder questionnaire in customary form that contains such information regarding Seller, the securities of the Counterparty held by Seller and the intended method of disposition of the shares as shall be reasonably requested by the Counterparty to effect the registration of the shares, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to have the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement declared effective as soon as practicable after the filing thereof, but no later than the earliest of (i) the 90th calendar day (or 120th calendar day if the Commission notifies the Counterparty that it will “review” the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement) following the issuance and delivery of the Shortfall Variance Shares and (ii) the 10th Local Business Day after the date the Counterparty is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that such Shortfall Variance Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review. Upon notification by the Commission that the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Commission, within two Local Business Days thereafter, the Counterparty shall file the final prospectus under Rule 424 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended containing a “plan of distribution” reasonably agreeable to Seller. Counterparty shall not identify Seller as a statutory underwriter in the Registration Statement unless requested by the Commission. In the event that the SEC asks that Seller be identified as a statutory underwriter, Seller shall have the option, in its sole discretion and without any breach of this provision or without any Registration Failure deemed to have occur, to remove its shares from the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement. The Counterparty will use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement covering the resale of the shares as described above continuously effective (except that the Counterparty shall be entitled to postpone and suspend the effectiveness or use of the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement (i) during any customary blackout or similar period or as permitted hereunder and (ii) as may be necessary in connection with the preparation and filing of a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement following the filing of the Counterparty’s Annual Report on Form 10-K), until all such Shortfall Variance Shares have been sold or may be transferred without any restrictions, including the requirement for the Counterparty to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144(c)(1) (or Rule 144(i)(2), if applicable) or the volume and manner of sale limitations under Rule 144(e), (f) and (g) under the Securities Act. Seller shall not be entitled to use the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement for an underwritten offering of Shortfall Variance Shares. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Counterparty may delay or postpone filing of such Shortfall Variance Registration Statement, and from time to time require Seller not to sell under the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement or suspend the use or effectiveness of any such Shortfall Variance Registration Statement if it determines in good faith that in order for the registration statement to not contain a material misstatement or omission, an amendment thereto would be needed, or if such filing or use would reasonably be expected to materially affect a bona fide business or financing transaction of the Counterparty or would reasonably be expected to require premature disclosure of information that would materially adversely affect the Counterparty (each such circumstance, a “Suspension Event”); provided, that, (w) the Counterparty shall not so delay filing or so suspend the use of the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement for a period of more than sixty (60) consecutive days or more than two (2) times in any three hundred sixty (360) day period, and (x) the Counterparty shall use commercially reasonable efforts to make such registration statement available for the sale by Seller of such Shortfall Variance Shares as soon as practicable thereafter. If requested by Seller, the Counterparty shall within five (5) Local Business Days of receipt of such request, subject to receipt of a legal opinion of Counterparty’s counsel, instruct its transfer agent to remove any restrictive legend with respect to transfers under the Securities Act from Shortfall Variance Shares that have been sold pursuant to an effective registration statement or Rule 144 under the Securities Act (subject to all applicable requirements of Rule 144 being met); provided that Seller and its broker shall have timely provided customary representations and other documentation reasonably acceptable to the Counterparty, its counsel and/or its transfer agent in connection therewith. Any fees (with respect to the transfer agent, Counterparty’s counsel or otherwise) associated with the issuance of any legal opinion required by the Counterparty’s transfer agent or the removal of such legend shall be borne by the Counterparty.

 

    Any Shortfall Variance Shares shall constitute Shortfall Shares, and the sale of such Shortfall Variance Shares after the Shortfall Variance Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission shall be a Shortfall Sale. If the Shortfall Variance has not been paid in cash by the Counterparty, and after the sale of all Shortfall Variance Shares, the proceeds from all Shortfall Sales, including the Shortfall Variance Shares, is less than 100% of the Prepayment Shortfall, then there will be another Shortfall Variance, calculated in accordance with this provision, and the Counterparty shall address such Shortfall Variance as provided for by this provision. This shall continue until such time as the proceeds from all Shortfall Sales equal 100% of the Prepayment Shortfall or the Counterparty shall have paid any Shortfall Variance in cash.
     
    With respect to the forgoing and any issuance of Shortfall Variance Shares, the Counterparty shall not issue any Shortfall Variance Shares pursuant to this provision to the extent that after giving effect thereto, the aggregate number of Shares that would be issued pursuant to this provision would exceed 19.99% of the Shares that are issued and outstanding immediately prior to such issuance, which number of shares shall be (i) reduced, on a share-for-share basis, by the number of Shares issued or issuable pursuant to any transaction or series of transactions that may be aggregated with the transactions contemplated hereby under applicable rules of the Nasdaq and (ii) appropriately adjusted for any reorganization, recapitalization, non-cash dividend, stock split or other similar transaction that occurs after the date of this Confirmation (such maximum number of shares, the “Exchange Cap”), unless and until the Counterparty elects to solicit stockholder approval of the issuance of the Shortfall Variance Shares as contemplated hereby, and the stockholders of the Counterparty have in fact approved the issuance of the Shortfall Variance Shares as contemplated hereby in accordance with the applicable rules of the Nasdaq. In the event that there is an Exchange Cap, if the Counterparty does not elect to solicit stockholder approval and obtain such stockholder approval in accordance with the applicable rules of the Nasdaq, then the Counterparty will pay the Shortfall Variance in cash.

 

 

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Share Consideration:   In addition to the Prepayment Amount, Counterparty shall issue 80,000 Shares to the Seller pursuant to Section 1(b) of the PIPE Subscription Agreement (the “Share Consideration Shares”), which shall be incremental to the Maximum Number of Shares, shall not be included in the Number of Shares in this Transaction, and the Seller and the Share Consideration Shares shall be free and clear of all obligations with respect to the Seller and such Share Consideration Shares in connection with this Confirmation.
   
Share Registration:   Within 30 days after receipt of a written request of Seller (the “Registration Request”), which request may be made no earlier than the Trade Date (as defined above) and no later than the Valuation Date, Counterparty use commercially reasonable efforts to file (at Counterparty’s sole cost and expense) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement registering the resale of all shares held by the Seller, including the Recycled Shares and Share Consideration Shares (but excluding any Additional Shares, with registration rights for such Additional Shares governed by the PIPE Subscription Agreement) (the “Registration Statement”), provided, that, the Counterparty’s obligations to file the Registration Statement shall be contingent upon Seller furnishing in writing to the Counterparty a completed selling stockholder questionnaire in customary form that contains such information regarding Seller, the securities of the Counterparty held by Seller and the intended method of disposition of the shares as shall be reasonably requested by the Counterparty to effect the registration of the shares, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to have the Registration Statement declared effective as soon as practicable after the filing thereof, but no later than the earliest of (i) the 90th calendar day (or 120th calendar day if the Commission notifies the Counterparty that it will “review” the Registration Statement) following the date of the Registration Request (provided, however, that in the event the Commission issues any written rules related to special purpose acquisition companies that would reasonably effect the timing of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and such rules become effective following the date hereof and prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, such number of calendar days in this subsection (i) shall be changed to the 120th calendar day (or 180th calendar day if the Commission notifies the Counterparty that it will “review” the Registration Statement) and (ii) the 10th Local Business Day after the date the Counterparty is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review (each respective date as described above, the “Effectiveness Deadline”); provided, that (x) if such day falls on a Saturday, Sunday or other day that the Commission is closed for business, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to the next Local Business Day on which the Commission is open for business and (y) if the Commission is closed for operations due to a government shutdown, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended by the same number of Local Business Days that the Commission remains closed for. Upon notification by the Commission that the Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Commission, within two Local Business Days thereafter, the Counterparty shall file the final prospectus under Rule 424 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, containing a “plan of distribution” reasonably agreeable to Seller.

 

    Counterparty shall not identify Seller as a statutory underwriter in the Registration Statement unless requested by the Commission. In the event that the SEC asks that Seller be identified as a statutory underwriter, Seller shall have the option, in its sole discretion and without any breach of this provision or without any Registration Failure deemed to have occur, to remove its shares from the Registration Statement. The Counterparty will use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Registration Statement covering the resale of the shares as described above continuously effective (except that the Counterparty shall be entitled to postpone and suspend the effectiveness or use of the Registration Statement (i) during any customary blackout or similar period or as permitted hereunder (a “Blackout Period Suspension”) and (ii) as may be necessary in connection with the preparation and filing of a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement following the filing of the Counterparty’s Annual Report on Form 10-K (the “10-K Post-Effective Amendment Suspension”)), until all such shares have been sold or may be transferred without any restrictions, including the requirement for the Counterparty to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144(c)(1) (or Rule 144(i)(2), if applicable) or the volume and manner of sale limitations under Rule 144(e), (f) and (g) under the Securities Act. Seller shall not be entitled to use the Registration Statement for an underwritten offering of Shares. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Counterparty may delay or postpone filing of such Registration Statement, and from time to time require Seller not to sell under the Registration Statement or suspend the use or effectiveness of any such Registration Statement if there is a Suspension Event; provided, that, (w) the Counterparty shall not so delay filing or so suspend the use of the Registration Statement for a period of more than sixty (60) consecutive days or more than two (2) times in any three hundred sixty (360) day period, and (x) the Counterparty shall use commercially reasonable efforts to make such registration statement available for the sale by Seller of such Shares as soon as practicable thereafter, provided that Counterparty covenants and agrees to make all necessary filings, amendments, supplements and submissions in furtherance of the foregoing, including to register all of Seller’s Shares for resale; provided further, that it shall be a “Registration Failure” if (a) the Registration Statement covering all of the shares described above in this section is not declared effective after the 90th calendar day (or 120th calendar day if the Commission notifies the Counterparty that it will “review” the Registration Statement) after the Trade Date (provided, however, that in the event the Commission issues any written rules related to special purpose acquisition companies that would reasonably effect the timing of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and such rules become effective following the date hereof and prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, such number of calendar days in this subsection (i) shall be changed to the 120th calendar day (or 180th calendar day if the Commission notifies the Counterparty that it will “review” the Registration Statement) and or (b) the Registration Statement after it is declared effective ceases to be continuously effective (subject to the Blackout Period Suspensions and 10-K Post-Effective Amendment Suspension as indicated above and any Suspension Event) as set forth in the preceding sentence for more than 120 consecutive calendar days; provided, that (x) if such day falls on a Saturday, Sunday or other day that the Commission is closed for business, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to the next Local Business Day on which the Commission is open for business and (y) if the Commission is closed for operations due to a government shutdown, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended by the same number of Local Business Days that the Commission remains closed for. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Registration Failure will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Shares that may be transferred at such time under Rule 144 (without volume or manner of sale limitations), so long as the Counterparty is in compliance with the requirements of Rule 144 (c)(1) and (i)(2), if applicable.

 

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    Seller will promptly deliver customary representations and other documentation reasonably acceptable to the Counterparty, its counsel and/or its transfer agent in connection with the Registration Statement, including those related to selling stockholders, and to respond to SEC comments. If requested by Seller, the Counterparty shall remove or instruct its transfer agent to remove any restrictive legend with respect to transfers under the Securities Act from Shares that have been sold pursuant to (i) an effective and available registration statement and current prospectus or (ii) Rule 144 under the Securities Act (subject to all applicable requirements of Rule 144 being met); provided that Seller and its broker shall have timely provided customary representations and other documentation reasonably acceptable to the Counterparty, its counsel and/or its transfer agent in connection therewith. Any reasonable and documented fees (with respect to the transfer agent, Counterparty’s counsel or otherwise) associated with the removal of such legend shall be borne by the Counterparty. If a legend is removed pursuant to the foregoing sentence, the Counterparty will, no later than five Local Business Days following the delivery by Seller to the Counterparty or the transfer agent (with notice to the Counterparty) of customary representations and other documentation reasonably acceptable to the Counterparty, its counsel and/or its transfer agent, remove the restrictive legend related to such Shares that have been sold.

 

    Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in this Share Registration section, in the event the Commission informs the Counterparty that all of the Shares cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Counterparty agrees to promptly (i) inform Seller and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Registration Statement as required by the Commission and/or (ii) withdraw the Registration Statement and file a new registration statement (a “New Registration Statement”), on Form S-3, or if Form S-3 is not then available to the Counterparty for such registration statement, on such other form available to register for resale the Shares as a secondary offering; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment or New Registration Statement, the Counterparty shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Shares in accordance with any publicly-available written or oral guidance, comments, requirements or requests of the Commission staff (the “SEC Guidance”). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation of the number of securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Counterparty used commercially reasonable efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater number of the Shares), unless otherwise directed in writing by a selling stockholder as to its securities to register fewer securities, the number of securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced on a pro rata basis among all selling stockholders named in such Registration Statement (except that such pro rata reduction shall not apply with respect to any securities the registration of which is necessary to satisfy applicable listing rules of a national securities exchange). In the event the Counterparty amends the Registration Statement or files a New Registration Statement, as the case may be, under clauses (i) or (ii) above, the Counterparty will use its commercially reasonable efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Counterparty or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale that portion of Shares that were not registered for resale on the Registration Statement, as amended, or the New Registration Statement, and to use commercially reasonable efforts to seek effectiveness of the New Registration Statement, but in any event no later than thirty (30) calendar days after the filing of such Registration Statement (the “Additional Effectiveness Deadline”); provided, that the Additional Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to ninety (90) calendar days (or one hundred twenty (120) calendar days if the Commission notifies the Counterparty that it will “review” the New Registration Statement) if such New Registration Statement is reviewed by, and comments thereto are provided from, the Commission; provided, further, that the Counterparty shall have such Registration Statement declared effective within five (5) Local Business Days after the date the Counterparty is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the staff of the Commission that such New Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review; provided, further, that (x) if such day falls on a Saturday, Sunday or other day that the Commission is closed for business, the Additional Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to the next Local Business Day on which the Commission is open for business and (y) if the Commission is closed for operations due to a government shutdown, the Additional Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended by the same number of Local Business Days that the Commission remains closed for. For the avoidance of doubt, any such amendments to or withdrawal of the Registration Statement or filing of the New Registration Statement shall not constitute a Registration Failure.

 

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Short Selling:   Seller represents that with respect to the securities of PubCo, it has not engaged in any short selling activity of any kind prior to the date hereof and shall not engage in any such activity whatsoever at any time through the Maturity.
   
Share Adjustments:    
   
Method of Adjustment:   Calculation Agent Adjustment.
   
Extraordinary Events:    
   
Consequences of Merger Events involving Counterparty:    
   
Share-for-Share:   Calculation Agent Adjustment.
   
Share-for-Other:   Cancellation and Payment.
   
Share-for-Combined:   Component Adjustment.
   
Tender Offer:   Applicable; provided, however, that Section 12.1(d) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by (i) replacing the reference therein to “10%” with “25%” and (ii) adding “, or of the outstanding Shares,” before “of the Issuer” in the fourth line thereof. Sections 12.1(e) and 12.1(l)(ii) of the Equity Definitions are hereby amended by adding “or Shares, as applicable,” after “voting Shares”.
   
Consequences of Tender Offers:    
   
Share-for-Share:   Calculation Agent Adjustment.
   
Share-for-Other:   Calculation Agent Adjustment.
   
Share-for-Combined:   Calculation Agent Adjustment.
   
Composition of Combined Consideration:   Not Applicable.

  

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Nationalization, Insolvency or Delisting:   Cancellation and Payment (Calculation Agent Determination); provided that in addition to the provisions of Section 12.6(a)(iii) of the Equity Definitions, it shall also constitute a Delisting if the Exchange is located in the United States and the Shares are not immediately re-listed, re-traded or re-quoted on any of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE American, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, Nasdaq Capital Market or the Nasdaq Global Market (or their respective successors) or such other exchange or quotation system which, in the determination of the Calculation Agent, has liquidity comparable to the aforementioned exchanges; if the Shares are immediately re-listed, re-traded or re-quoted on any such exchange or quotation system, such exchange or quotation system shall be deemed to be the Exchange.
   
Business Combination Exclusion:   Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision herein, the parties agree that the Business Combination shall not constitute a Merger Event, Tender Offer, Delisting or any other Extraordinary Event hereunder.
     
Additional Disruption Events:    
   
(a) Change in Law:   Applicable; provided that Section 12.9(a)(ii) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by adding the words “(including, for the avoidance of doubt and without limitation, adoption or promulgation of new regulations authorized or mandated by existing statute)” after the word “regulation” in the second line thereof.
   
(b) Failure to Deliver:   Not Applicable.
   
(c) Insolvency Filing:   Applicable.
   
(d) Hedging Disruption:   Not Applicable.
   
(e) Increased Cost of Hedging:   Not Applicable.
   
(f) Loss of Stock Borrow:   Not Applicable.
   
(g) Increased Cost of Stock Borrow:   Not Applicable.
   
Determining Party:   For all applicable events, Seller, unless (i) an Event of Default, Potential Event of Default or Termination Event has occurred and is continuing with respect to Seller, or (ii) if Seller fails to perform its obligations as Determining Party, in which case a Third Party Dealer (as defined below) in the relevant market selected by Counterparty will be the Determining Party. When making any determination or calculation as “Determining Party”, Seller shall be bound by the same obligations relating to required acts of the Calculation Agent as set forth in Section 1.40 of the Equity Definitions and this Confirmation as if Determining Party were the Calculation Agent.
   
Additional Provisions:    
   
Calculation Agent:   Seller, unless (i) an Event of Default, Potential Event of Default or Termination Event has occurred and is continuing with respect to Seller, or (ii) if Seller fails to perform its obligations as Calculation Agent, in which case an unaffiliated leading dealer in the relevant market selected by Counterparty in its sole discretion will be the Calculation Agent.
   

 

 

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    In the event that a party (the “Disputing Party”) does not agree with any calculation or determination made (or the failure to make any determination) by the Calculation Agent or the Determining Party, the Disputing Party shall have the right to require that the Calculation Agent or the Determining Party, as applicable, have such calculation or determination reviewed by a disinterested third party that is a dealer in derivatives of the type that is the subject of the dispute and that is not an Affiliate of either party (a “Third Party Dealer”). Such Third Party Dealer shall be jointly selected by the parties within one Local Business Day after the Disputing Party’s exercise of its rights hereunder (once selected, such Third Party Dealer shall be the “Substitute Calculation Agent” or “Substitute Determining Party,” as applicable). If the parties are unable to agree on a Substitute Calculation Agent or Substitute Determining Party, as applicable, within the prescribed time, each of the parties shall elect a Third Party Dealer and such two dealers shall agree on a Third Party Dealer by the end of the subsequent Local Business Day. Such Third Party Dealer shall be deemed to be the Substitute Calculation Agent or Substitute Determining Party, as applicable. Any exercise by the Disputing Party of its rights hereunder must be in writing and shall be delivered to the Calculation Agent or Determining Party, as applicable, not later than the third Local Business Day following the Local Business Day on which the Calculation Agent or Determining Party, as applicable, notifies the Disputing Party of any calculation or determination made (or of the failure to make any calculation or determination). Any calculation or determination by the Substitute Calculation Agent or Substitute Determining Party, as applicable, shall be binding in the absence of manifest error and shall be made as soon as possible but no later than the second Local Business Day following the Substitute Calculation Agent’s or Substitute Determining Party’s, appointment, as applicable. The costs of such Substitute Calculation Agent or Substitute Determining Party, as applicable, shall be borne by (a) the Disputing Party if the Substitute Calculation Agent or Substitute Determining Party, as applicable, substantially agrees with the Calculation Agent or Determining Party, or (b) the non-Disputing Party if the Substitute Calculation Agent or Substitute Determining Party, as applicable, does not substantially agree with the Calculation Agent or Determining Party, as applicable. If, after following the procedures and within the specified time frames set forth above, a binding calculation or determination is not achieved, the original calculation or determination of the Calculation Agent or Determining Party, as applicable, shall apply. 
     
    Following any adjustment, determination or calculation by the Calculation Agent hereunder, upon a written request by Counterparty (which may be by email), the Calculation Agent will promptly (but in any event within five Exchange Business Days) provide to Counterparty by email to the email address provided by Counterparty in such written request a report (in a commonly used file format for the storage and manipulation of financial data) displaying in reasonable detail the basis for such adjustment, determination or calculation (including any quotations, market data or information from internal or external sources, and any assumptions used in making such adjustment, determination or calculation), it being understood that in no event will the Calculation Agent be obligated to share with Counterparty any proprietary or confidential data or information or any proprietary or confidential models used by it in making such adjustment, determination or calculation or any information that is subject to an obligation not to disclose such information. All calculations and determinations by the Calculation Agent shall be made in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner.

 

Non-Reliance:   Applicable.
   
Agreements and Acknowledgements Regarding Hedging Activities:   Applicable.
   
Additional Acknowledgements:   Applicable.

 

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Schedule Provisions:    
   
Specified Entity:   In relation to both Seller and Counterparty for the purpose of:
    Section 5(a)(v), Not Applicable
    Section 5(a)(vi), Not Applicable
    Section 5(a)(vii), Not Applicable
   
Cross-Default:   The “Cross-Default” provisions of Section 5(a)(vi) of the ISDA Form will not apply to either party.
   
Credit Event Upon Merger:   The “Credit Event Upon Merger” provisions of Section 5(b)(v) of the ISDA Form will not apply to either party.
   
Automatic Early Termination:   The “Automatic Early Termination” of Section 6(a) of the ISDA Form will not apply to either party.
   
Other Events of Early Termination   Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in the Definitions or in the ISDA Form, if the Business Combination does not close and the Shares are redeemed pursuant to a SPAC liquidation, this Transaction shall automatically terminate as of the time when redemptions are first effected without any amounts or other obligations being owed by either party to the other hereunder except for the payment by Counterparty to Seller of any amounts owing pursuant to “Reimbursement of Legal Fees and Other Expenses” herein.
   
Termination Currency:   United States Dollars.
     
Additional Termination Events:   The occurrence of any of the following events, and only these events, shall constitute an Additional Termination Event in respect of which both parties will be Affected Parties.

 

  (a) The BCA is terminated pursuant to its terms prior to the closing of the Business Combination; and
     
  (b)  A material and uncured breach of the PIPE Subscription Agreement by Counterparty or Target; and
     
  (c) The Counterparty materially amends the BCA prior to the Closing Date (provided, however, that an amendment or waiver of the Acquiror Closing Cash Amount condition to closing set forth in Section 9.1(f) of the BCA to reduce such condition to closing of the Business Combination from $50 million shall not constitute a material amendment of the BCA if consented to in writing by Seller). Seller will not withhold consent to any amendments or waivers to BCA by Counterparty
     
  (d) If it is, or, as a consequence of a change in law, regulation or interpretation, it becomes or will become, unlawful for the Seller or the Counterparty to perform any of its obligations contemplated by the Transaction (this sub-section (d), a “Change in Law Additional Termination Event”).  

 

    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in the Definitions or in the ISDA Form, if an Early Termination Date is designated prior to the closing of the Business Combination as a result of an Additional Termination Event, then this Transaction will terminate as of such Early Termination Date without any amounts or other obligations being owed by either party to the other hereunder.
     
    Notwithstanding the foregoing, Counterparty’s obligations set forth under the captions, “Reimbursement of Legal Fees and Other Expenses,” and “Other Provisions — (d) Indemnification” shall survive any termination due to the occurrence of any of the foregoing Additional Termination Events.

 

Governing Law:   New York law (without reference to choice of law doctrine other than Sections 5-1401 and 5-1402 of the General Obligations Law).
   
Credit Support Provider:   With respect to Seller and Counterparty, None.
   
Local Business Days:   Seller specifies the following places for the purposes of the definition of Local Business Day as it applies to it: New York. Counterparty specifies the following places for the purposes of the definition of Local Business Day as it applies to it: New York.

 

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Representations, Warranties and Covenants

 

1. Each of Counterparty, Target and Seller represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with, the other as of the date on which it enters into the Transaction that (in the absence of any written agreement between the parties that expressly imposes affirmative obligations to the contrary for the Transaction) as follows.

 

(a) Non-Reliance. It is acting for its own account, and it has made its own independent decisions to enter into the Transaction and as to whether the Transaction is appropriate or proper for it based upon its own judgment and upon advice from such advisors as it has deemed necessary. It is not relying on any communication (written or oral) of the other party as investment advice or as a recommendation to enter into the Transaction, it being understood that information and explanations related to the terms and conditions of the Transaction will not be considered investment advice or a recommendation to enter into the Transaction. No communication (written or oral) received from the other party will be deemed to be an assurance or guarantee as to the expected results of the Transaction.

 

(b) Assessment and Understanding. It is capable of assessing the merits of and understanding (on its own behalf or through independent professional advice), and understands and accepts, the terms, conditions and risks of the Transaction. It is also capable of assuming, and assumes, the risks of the Transaction.

 

(c) Non-Public Information. It is in compliance with Section 10(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).

 

(d) Tender Offer Rules. Counterparty, Target and Seller each acknowledge that the Transaction has been structured, and all activity in connection with the Transaction has been undertaken to comply with the requirements of all tender offer regulations applicable to the Business Combination, including Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act.

 

(e) Authorization. The Transaction, including this Confirmation, has been entered into pursuant to authority granted by its board of directors or other governing authority. It has no internal policy, whether written or oral, that would prohibit it from entering into any aspect of the Transaction, including, but not limited to, the purchase of Shares to be made in connection therewith.

 

(f) Enforceability. The Transaction, including the Confirmation, when executed and delivered by each of the parties, will constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of each such party, enforceable against each of them in accordance with its terms, except (i) as limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance and any other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, or (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies.

 

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(g) Compliance with Other Instruments and Law. The execution, delivery and performance of this Transaction, including the Confirmation, and the consummation of the Transaction, will not result in any violation or default (i) of any provisions of its organizational documents, (ii) of any instrument, judgment, order, writ or decree to which it is a party or by which it is bound, (iii) under any note, indenture or mortgage to which it is a party or by which it is bound, (iv) under any lease, agreement, contract or purchase order to which it is a party or by which it is bound or (v) of any provision of any applicable federal or state statute, rule or regulation, in each case (other than clause (i)), which would have a material adverse effect on it or its ability to consummate the Transaction.
   
(h)

Affiliate Status. It is the intention of the parties hereto that Seller shall not be an “affiliate” (as such term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) of Target or Counterparty, including GFOR or PubCo, following the closing of the Business Combination, as a result of the transactions contemplated hereunder. 

 

2. Counterparty represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with, Seller as of the date on which it enters into the Transaction, that:

 

(a) Total Assets. GFOR expects to have as of the closing of the Business Combination, after giving effect to this transaction and the other transactions contemplated by the BCA, total assets of at least USD $5,000,001, which are, for the avoidance of doubt, measured on a consolidated basis. Furthermore, the condition to closing set forth in Section 9.03(f) of the BCA shall have been satisfied or waived on the Closing Date.

 

(b) Non-Reliance. Without limiting the generality of Section 13.1 of the Equity Definitions, Counterparty acknowledges that Seller is not making any representations or warranties or taking any position or expressing any view with respect to the treatment of the Transaction under any accounting standards.

 

(c) Solvency. Auditors to Counterparty will not deliver a going concern opinion at time of Business Combination.

 

(d) Public Reports. As of the Trade Date, Counterparty is in compliance in all material respects with its reporting obligations under the Exchange Act, and all reports and other documents filed by Counterparty with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act, when considered as a whole (with the most recent such reports and documents deemed to amend inconsistent statements contained in any earlier such reports and documents), do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or any omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

(e) No Distribution. Except with respect to any Shares that may be offered and sold pursuant to the Registration Statement, Counterparty is not entering into the Transaction to facilitate a distribution of the Shares (or any security that may be converted into or exercised or exchanged for Shares, or whose value under its terms may in whole or in significant part be determined by the value of the Shares) or in connection with any future issuance of securities, in each case, in violation of Regulation M or other federal securities laws.

 

(f) SEC Documents. The Counterparty shall comply with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s guidance, including Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation No. 166.01, for all relevant disclosure in connection with this Confirmation and the Transaction.

 

(g) Waiver. The Counterparty shall waive any violation of its “bulldog clause,” as set forth in Section 9.2(c) of the Certificate of Incorporation, and any other restrictions that would be caused by Seller entering into this Transaction.

 

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(h)

Disclosure. The Counterparty agrees to comply with applicable SEC guidance in respect of disclosure and the Counterparty shall preview with Seller all public disclosure relating to the Transaction and shall consult with Seller to ensure that such public disclosure, including the press release, Form 8-K or other filing that announces the Transaction adequately discloses the material terms and conditions of the Transaction and all material non-public information disclosed to Seller in connection with the Transaction, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Seller.

 

(i) Listing. The Counterparty agrees to use its reasonable best efforts to maintain the listing of the Pubco Shares on a national securities exchange; provided that if the PubCo Shares cease to be listed on a national securities exchange or upon the filing of a Form 25 (and, in each case, if the Counterparty fails to relist on such national securities exchange or list on a different national securities exchange within 10 calendar days) (following such 10 calendar day period, each a “Delisting Event”), Seller may accelerate the Valuation Date under this Confirmation by delivering notice to the Counterparty and shall be entitled to the Legal Fees and Other Expenses, which shall be due and payable immediately following the Valuation Date.

 

(j) Regulatory Filings. Counterparty covenants that it will make all regulatory filings that it is required by law or regulation to make with respect to the Transaction.

 

(k) Regulation M and Approvals. Counterparty is not on the Trade Date and agrees and covenants on behalf of itself and Target that it and Target will not be on any date Seller is purchasing shares that may be included in a Pricing Date Notice, engaged or engaging in a distribution, as such term is used in Regulation M under the Exchange Act, of any securities of Counterparty, other than a distribution meeting the requirements of the exception set forth in Rules 101(b)(10) and 102(b)(7) of Regulation M. Counterparty shall not and shall cause Target to not, until the second scheduled trading day immediately following dates referenced in the preceding sentence, engage in any such distribution.

 

(l) Investment Company Act. Counterparty is not and, after giving effect to the Transaction, will not be required to register as an “investment company” under, and as such term is defined in, the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

(m) Exclusivity. Counterparty and Target shall not enter into, negotiate or exchange terms with any other party for any other Share Forward Transaction or any other similar arrangement during the term of this Transaction without the prior written consent of Seller.

 

(n)

Lock-Up Provision. Counterparty covenants that both the Lockup Agreement substantially in the form described in the Definitive Proxy Statement Prospectus dated as of August 14, 2023 which is to be entered into by certain parties pursuant to the BCA other than those individuals for which entry into a Lockup Agreement has been waived by the parties to the BCA prior to the Closing Date, and the Sponsor Support and Lockup Agreement, dated as of April 14, 2023, by and among Graf Acquisition Partners IV LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, GFOR, Target and the persons set forth on Schedule I thereto, each providing for the restriction of the transfer of Shares of Counterparty by certain parties specified therein, will be in effect as of the Closing Date and at all times prior to the Valuation Date, subject to exceptions stated in such Lockup Agreement or Sponsor Support and Lockup Agreement. For the sake of clarity, the shares purchased pursuant to the PIPE Subscription Agreement shall not be subject to any lock-up. Seller will not withhold consent to any amendments or waivers to BCA by Counterparty.  

 

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3. Seller represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with, Counterparty and Target as of the date on which it enters into the Transaction, that:

 

(a) Regulatory Filings. Seller will make all regulatory filings that it is required by law or regulation to make with respect to the Transaction including, without limitation, as may be required by Section 13 or Section 16 (if applicable) under the Exchange Act and, assuming the accuracy of Counterparty’s Repurchase Notices (as described under “Repurchase Notices” below) any sales of the Recycled Shares and the Additional Shares will be in compliance therewith.

 

(b) Eligible Contract Participant. Seller is an “eligible contract participant” under, and as defined in, the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1a(18)) and CFTC regulations (17 CFR § 1.3).

 

(c) Tax Characterization. Seller shall treat the Transaction as a derivative financial contract for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and it shall not take any action or tax return filing position contrary to this characterization, except to the extent otherwise required by a “determination” within the meaning of Section 1313 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any similar provision of state, local or foreign law.

 

(d) Private Placement. Seller (i) is an “accredited investor” as such term is defined in Regulation D as promulgated under the Securities Act, (ii) is entering into the Transaction for its own account without a view to the distribution or resale thereof and (iii) understands that the assignment, transfer or other disposition of the Transaction has not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act.

 

Transactions by Seller in the Shares

 

(a) Seller hereby waives the redemption rights (“Redemption Rights”) set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation in connection with the Business Combination with respect to the Recycled Shares and the Additional Shares only during the term of this Confirmation. Subject to any restrictions set forth in this Confirmation, Seller may sell or otherwise transfer, loan or dispose of any of the Shares or any other shares or securities of the Counterparty in one or more public or private transactions at any time. Any Recycled Shares that are not Shortfall Sale Shares and Additional Shares sold by Seller during the term of the Transaction and included on an OET Notice will cease to be included in the Number of Shares.

 

(b) Unless specified in an OET Notice (or Shortfall Sale Notice pursuant to the section entitled Shortfall Sales), no sale of Shares by Seller shall terminate all or any portion of this Confirmation and provided that Seller complies with all of its other obligations hereunder nothing contained herein shall limit any of Seller’s purchases and sales of Shares.

 

Trust Account Waiver

 

Seller hereby waives any and all right, title and interest, or any claim of any kind they have or may have during the term of this Confirmation, in or to any monies held in the Counterparty’s Trust Account and agrees not to seek recourse against the Trust Account in each case, as a result of, or arising out of, this Transaction; provided, however, that nothing herein shall (x) serve to limit or prohibit Seller’s right to pursue a claim against the Counterparty for legal relief against assets held outside the Trust Account, for specific performance or other equitable relief, (y) serve to limit or prohibit any claims that the Seller may have in the future against the Counterparty’s assets or funds that are not held in the Trust Account (including any funds that have been released from the Trust Account and any assets that have been purchased or acquired with any such funds), (z) be deemed to limit Seller’s right, title, interest or claim to the Trust Account by virtue of such Seller’s record or beneficial ownership of securities of the Counterparty acquired by any means other than pursuant to this Transaction or (aa) serve to limit Seller’s redemption right with respect to any such securities of the Seller other than during the term of the Confirmation.

 

No Arrangements

 

Seller, Counterparty and Target each acknowledge and agree that: (i) there are no voting, hedging or settlement arrangements between or among Seller, Counterparty and Target with respect to any Shares or the Counterparty or Target, other than those set forth herein; (ii) Seller may hedge its risk under the Transaction in any way Seller determines (that does not otherwise violate the terms of this Confirmation), provided that Seller has no obligation to hedge with the purchase, sale or maintenance of any Shares or otherwise; (iii) Counterparty and Target will not be entitled to any voting rights in respect of any of the Shares underlying the Transaction; and (iv) Counterparty and Target will not seek to influence Seller with respect to the voting or disposition of any Shares.

 

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Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act

 

In connection with Section 739 of the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act of 2010 (“WSTAA”), the parties hereby agree that neither the enactment of WSTAA or any regulation under WSTAA, nor any requirement under WSTAA or an amendment made by WSTAA, nor any similar legal certainty provision in any legislation enacted, or rule or regulation promulgated, on or after the date of this Confirmation, shall limit or otherwise impair either party’s otherwise applicable rights to terminate, renegotiate, modify, amend or supplement this Confirmation or the ISDA Form, as applicable, arising from a termination event, force majeure, illegality, increased costs, regulatory change or similar event under this Confirmation, the Equity Definitions incorporated herein, or the ISDA Form.

 

Address for Notices

 

Notice to Seller:

 

Polar Multi-Strategy Master Fund

94 Solaris Avenue

Camana Bay, Grand Cayman

KY1-1108, Cayman Islands

 

With a copy to:

c/o Polar Asset Management Partners Inc.

16 York Street, Suite 2900

Toronto, Ontario M5J 0E6 Canada

Attn: Ravi Bhat, Jillian Bruce and Legal Department

Email: legal@polaramp.com; jbruce@polaramp.com; and rbhat@polaramp.com

 

Notice to Counterparty:

 

Graf Acquisition Corp. IV

1790 Hughes Landing Blvd., Suite 400

The Woodlands, Texas, 77380

Attn: James A. Graf and Tony Kuznik

E-mail: james@grafacq.com and tony@grafacq.com

 

With a copy to:

White & Case LLP

1221 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020-1095

Attn: James Hu and Elliott Smith

E-mail: james.hu@whitecase.com and elliott.smith@whitecase.com

 

Following the Closing of the Business Combination:

NKGen Biotech, Inc.

3001 Daimler Street

Santa Ana, CA 92705

Attn: Paul Song

E-mail: info@nkgenbiotech.com

 

With a copy to:

Cooley LLP

10265 Science Center Dr,

San Diego, CA 92121

Attn: Rama Padmanabhan and Ken Rollins

E-mail: padmanabhan@cooley.com and Krollins@cooley.com

 

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Other Provisions.

 

(a) Rule 10b-5.

 

  (i) Counterparty represents and warrants to Seller that Counterparty is not entering into the Transaction to create actual or apparent trading activity in the Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for the Shares) or to raise or depress or otherwise manipulate the price of the Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for the Shares) for the purpose of inducing the purchase or sale of such securities or otherwise in violation of the Exchange Act, and Counterparty represents and warrants to Seller that Counterparty has not entered into or altered, and agrees that Counterparty will not enter into or alter, any corresponding or hedging transaction or position with respect to the Shares, in each case, except for other forward purchase agreements.

 

  (ii) Counterparty acknowledges and agrees that Counterparty does not have, and shall not attempt to exercise, any influence over how, when or whether Seller effects any purchases of Shares in connection with the Transaction. Counterparty represents and warrants that it has consulted with its own advisors as to the legal aspects of its adoption and implementation of this Confirmation and the Transaction under the federal securities laws, including without limitation, the prohibitions on manipulative and deceptive devices under the Exchange Act.

 

  (iii) Counterparty acknowledges and agrees that any amendment, modification, waiver or termination of this Confirmation must be effected in accordance with the requirements for the amendment or termination of a written trading plan for trading securities. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Counterparty acknowledges and agrees that any such amendment, modification, waiver or termination shall be made in good faith and not as part of a plan or scheme to evade compliance with the federal securities laws, including without limitation the prohibition on manipulative and deceptive devises under the Exchange Act and no such amendment, modification or waiver shall be made at any time at which Counterparty or any officer, director, manager or similar person of Counterparty is aware of any material non-public information regarding Counterparty or the Shares.

 

(b) Repurchase Notices. Counterparty shall, on any day on which Counterparty effects any repurchase of Shares (other than in connection with a Counterparty equity compensation program (e.g., to fund taxes in connection with vested RSUs)), promptly give Seller a written notice of such repurchase (a “Repurchase Notice”), if following such repurchase, the number of outstanding Shares as determined on such day is (i) less than the number of Shares outstanding that would result in the percentage of total Shares outstanding represented by the number of Shares underlying the Transaction increasing by 0.10% (in the case of the first such notice) or (ii) thereafter more than the number of Shares that would need to be repurchased to result in the percentage of total Shares outstanding represented by the number of Shares underlying the Transaction increasing by a further 0.10% less than the number of Shares included in the immediately preceding Repurchase Notice; provided that Counterparty agrees that this information does not constitute material non-public information; provided further if this information shall be material non-public information, it shall publicly disclosed immediately. Counterparty agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Seller and its affiliates and their respective officers, directors, employees, affiliates, advisors, agents and controlling persons (each, an “Indemnified Person”) from and against any and all losses (including losses relating to Seller’s hedging activities as a consequence of remaining or becoming a Section 16 “insider” following the closing of the Business Combination, including without limitation, any forbearance from hedging activities or cessation of hedging activities and any losses in connection therewith with respect to the Transaction), claims, damages, judgments, liabilities and reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable and documented attorney’s fees), joint or several, which an Indemnified Person may become subject to, as a result of Counterparty’s failure to provide Seller with a Repurchase Notice on the day and in the manner specified in this paragraph, and to reimburse, within thirty days, upon written request, each of such Indemnified Persons for any reasonable and documented legal or other expenses incurred in connection with investigating, preparing for, providing testimony or other evidence in connection with or defending any of the foregoing; provided, however, for the avoidance of doubt, Counterparty has no indemnification or other obligations with respect to Seller becoming a Section 16 “insider” prior to the closing of the Business Combination. If any suit, action, proceeding (including any governmental or regulatory investigation), claim or demand shall be brought or asserted against the Indemnified Person as a result of Counterparty’s failure to provide Seller with a Repurchase Notice in accordance with this paragraph, such Indemnified Person shall promptly notify Counterparty in writing, and Counterparty, upon request of the Indemnified Person, shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person to represent the Indemnified Person and any others Counterparty may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and expenses of such counsel related to such proceeding. Counterparty shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding contemplated by this paragraph that is effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, Counterparty agrees to indemnify any Indemnified Person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. Counterparty shall not, without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Person, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding contemplated by this paragraph that is in respect of which any Indemnified Person is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such Indemnified Person, unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Person from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding on terms reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Person. If the indemnification provided for in this paragraph is unavailable to an Indemnified Person or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein, then Counterparty hereunder, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Person thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Person as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities. The remedies provided for in this paragraph are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available to any Indemnified Person at law or in equity. The indemnity and contribution agreements contained in this paragraph shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of the termination of the Transaction.

 

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(c)

Transfer or Assignment. The rights and duties under this Confirmation may not be transferred or assigned by any party hereto without the prior written consent of the other party, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, subject to the immediately following sentence. If at any time following the closing of the Business Combination at which (A) the Section 16 Percentage exceeds 9.9%, or (B) the Share Amount exceeds the Applicable Share Limit, if any applies (any such condition described in clause (A) or (B), an “Excess Ownership Position”), Seller is unable to effect a transfer or assignment of a portion of the Transaction to a third party on pricing terms reasonably acceptable to Seller and within a time period reasonably acceptable to Seller such that no Excess Ownership Position exists, then Seller may designate any Local Business Day as an Early Termination Date with respect to a portion of the Transaction (the “Terminated Portion”), such that following such partial termination no Excess Ownership Position exists. In the event that Seller so designates an Early Termination Date with respect to a portion of the Transaction, a portion of the Shares with respect to the Transaction shall be delivered to Counterparty as if the Early Termination Date was the Valuation Date in respect of a Transaction having terms identical to the Transaction and a Number of Shares equal to the number of Shares underlying the Terminated Portion. The “Section 16 Percentage” as of any day is the fraction, expressed as a percentage, as determined by Seller, (A) the numerator of which is the number of Shares that Seller and each person subject to aggregation of Shares with Seller under Section 13 or Section 16 of the Exchange Act and rules promulgated thereunder and all persons who may form a “group” (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) of the Exchange Act) with Seller directly or indirectly beneficially own (as defined under Section 13 or Section 16 of the Exchange Act and rules promulgated thereunder) (the “Seller Group” ) and (B) the denominator of which is the number of Shares outstanding.

 

The “Share Amount” as of any day is the number of Shares that Seller and any person whose ownership position would be aggregated with that of Seller and any group (however designated) of which Seller is a member (Seller or any such person or group, a “Seller Person”) under any law, rule, regulation, regulatory order or organizational documents or contracts of Counterparty that are, in each case, applicable to ownership of Shares (“Applicable Restrictions”), owns, beneficially owns, constructively owns, controls, holds the power to vote or otherwise meets a relevant definition of ownership under any Applicable Restriction, as determined by Seller in its sole discretion.

 

The “Applicable Share Limit” means a number of Shares equal to (A) the minimum number of Shares that could give rise to reporting (other than on Schedule 13D or 13G) or registration obligations or other requirements (including obtaining prior approval from any person or entity) of a Seller Person, or could result in an adverse effect on a Seller Person, under any Applicable Restriction, as determined by Seller in its sole discretion, minus (B) 0.1% of the number of Shares outstanding.

 

(d) Indemnification. Counterparty agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnified Person from and against any and all losses (but not including financial losses to an Indemnified Person relating to the economic terms of the Transaction provided that the Counterparty performs its obligations under this Confirmation in accordance with its terms), claims, damages and liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees), joint or several, incurred by or asserted against such Indemnified Person arising out of, in connection with, or relating to, and to reimburse, within thirty days, upon written request, each of such Indemnified Persons for any reasonable legal or other expenses incurred in connection with investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever, whether arising out of any action between any of the Indemnified Parties and the Counterparty or between any of the Indemnified Parties and any third party, or otherwise) to which they or any of them may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or any other statute or at common law or otherwise or under the laws of foreign countries, arising out of or based upon the Transaction, including the execution or delivery of this Confirmation, the performance by Counterparty of its obligations under the Transaction, any material breach of any covenant, representation or warranty made by Counterparty or Target in this Confirmation or the ISDA Form, regulatory filings and submissions made by or on behalf of the Counterparty related to the Transaction (other than as relates to any information provided in writing by or on behalf of Seller or its affiliates), or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Registration Statement or any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any registration statement, press release, filings or other document, or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Counterparty will not be liable under the foregoing indemnification provision to the extent that any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense is related to the manner in which Seller sells, or arising out of any sales by Seller of, any Shares, including the Recycled Shares and the Additional Shares or found in a nonappealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from Seller’s material breach of any covenant, representation or other obligation in this Confirmation or the ISDA Form or from Seller’s willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence in performing the services that are subject of the Transaction. If for any reason the foregoing indemnification is unavailable to any Indemnified Person or insufficient to hold harmless any Indemnified Person, then Counterparty shall contribute, to the maximum extent permitted by law, to the amount paid or payable by the Indemnified Person as a result of such loss, claim, damage or liability. In addition (and in addition to any other Reimbursement of Legal Fees and other Expenses contemplated by this Confirmation), Counterparty will reimburse any Indemnified Person for all reasonable, out-of-pocket, expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and expenses) as they are incurred in connection with the investigation of, preparation for or defense or settlement of any pending or threatened claim or any action, suit or proceeding arising therefrom, whether or not such Indemnified Person is a party thereto and whether or not such claim, action, suit or proceeding is initiated or brought by or on behalf of Counterparty. Counterparty also agrees that no Indemnified Person shall have any liability to Counterparty or any person asserting claims on behalf of or in right of Counterparty in connection with or as a result of any matter referred to in this Confirmation except to the extent that any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses incurred by Counterparty result from such Indemnified Person’s breach of any covenant, representation or other obligation in this Confirmation or the ISDA Form or from the gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith of the Indemnified Person or breach of any U.S. federal or state securities laws or the rules, regulations or applicable interpretations of the Commission. The provisions of this paragraph shall survive the completion of the Transaction contemplated by this Confirmation and any assignment and/or delegation of the Transaction made pursuant to the ISDA Form or this Confirmation shall inure to the benefit of any permitted assignee of Seller.

 

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(e) Amendments to Equity Definitions.

 

  (i) Section 12.6(a)(ii) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by (i) deleting from the fourth line thereof the word “or” after the word “official” and inserting a comma therefor, and (ii) deleting the semi-colon at the end of subsection (B) thereof and inserting the following words therefor “or (C) the occurrence of any of the events specified in Section 5(a)(vii)(1) through (9) of the ISDA Form with respect to that Issuer.”; and

 

  (ii) Section 12.6(c)(ii) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by replacing the words “the Transaction will be cancelled,” in the first line with the words “Seller will have the right, which it must exercise or refrain from exercising, as applicable, in good faith acting in a commercially reasonable manner, to cancel the Transaction,”;

 

(f) Waiver of Jury Trial. Each party waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any right it may have to a trial by jury in respect of any suit, action or proceeding relating to the Transaction. Each party (i) certifies that no representative, agent or attorney of either party has represented, expressly or otherwise, that such other party would not, in the event of such a suit, action or proceeding, seek to enforce the foregoing waiver and (ii) acknowledges that it and the other party have been induced to enter into the Transaction, as applicable, by, among other things, the mutual waivers and certifications provided herein.

 

(g) Attorney and Other Fees. Subject to clause (d) Indemnification (above), in the event of any legal action initiated by any party arising under or out of, in connection with or in respect of, this Confirmation or the Transaction, the prevailing party shall be entitled to reasonable and documented attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses incurred in such action, as determined and fixed by the court.

 

(h) Tax Disclosure. Effective from the date of commencement of discussions concerning the Transaction, Counterparty and each of its employees, representatives, or other agents may disclose to any and all persons, the tax treatment and tax structure of the Transaction and all materials of any kind (including tax analyses) that are provided to Counterparty relating to such tax treatment and tax structure.

 

(i) Securities Contract; Swap Agreement. The parties hereto intend for (i) the Transaction to be (a) a “securities contract” as defined in the Bankruptcy Code, in which case each payment and delivery made pursuant to the Transaction is a “termination value,” “payment amount” or “other transfer obligation” within the meaning of Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code and a “settlement payment,” within the meaning of Section 546 of the Bankruptcy Code, and (b) a “swap agreement” as defined in the Bankruptcy Code, with respect to which each payment and delivery hereunder or in connection herewith is a “termination value,” “payment amount” or “other transfer obligation” within the meaning of Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code and a “transfer,” as such term is defined in Section 101(54) of the Bankruptcy Code and a “payment or other transfer of property” within the meaning of Sections 362 and 546 of the Bankruptcy Code, and the parties hereto to be entitled to the protections afforded by, among other Sections, Sections 362(b)(6), 362(b)(17), 546(e), 546(g), 555 and 560 of the Bankruptcy Code, (ii) a party’s right to liquidate, terminate and accelerate the Transaction and to exercise any other remedies upon the occurrence of any Event of Default under the ISDA Form with respect to the other party to constitute a “contractual right” as described in the Bankruptcy Code, and (iii) each payment and delivery of cash, securities or other property hereunder to otherwise constitute a “margin payment” or “settlement payment” and a “transfer” as defined in the Bankruptcy Code.

 

(j) Process Agent. For the purposes of Section 13(c) of the ISDA Form:

 

Seller appoints as its Process Agent: None

 

Counterparty appoints as its Process Agent: None.

 

[Signature page follows]

 

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Please confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the terms of our agreement by executing a copy of this Confirmation and returning it to us at your earliest convenience.

 

 

  Very truly yours,
   
 

POLAR MULTI-STRATEGY MASTER FUND

By its investment advisor

Polar Asset Management Partners Inc.

 

   
  By: /s/ Andrew Ma
/s/ Aatifa Ibrahim
  Name: Andrew Ma/Aatifa Ibrahim
  Title: CCO/Legal Counsel

  

Agreed and accepted by:  
   
GRAF ACQUISITION CORP. IV    
   
By: /s/ James Graf  
Name: James Graf  
Title: Chief Executive Officer  

 

NKGEN BIOTECH, INC.  
   
By: /s/ Pierre Gagnon  
Name: Pierre Gagon  
Title: Chief Operating Officer  

  

(Signature Page to Forward Share Purchase Agreement)

 

 

SCHEDULE A

FORM OF PRICING DATE NOTICE

Date: [•], 2023

 

To: GRAF ACQUISITION CORP. IV (“Counterparty”)

 

Address: 1790 Hughes Landing Blvd., Suite 400, The Woodlands, Texas, 77380

 

Phone: (346) 442-0819

 

From: [●](collectively, “Seller”)

 

Re: OTC Equity Prepaid Forward Transaction

 

1. This Pricing Date Notice supplements, forms part of, and is subject to the Confirmation Re: OTC Equity Prepaid Forward Transaction dated as of [•] (the “Confirmation”) between Counterparty and Seller, as amended and supplemented from time to time. All provisions contained in the Confirmation govern this Pricing Date Notice except as expressly modified below.

 

2. The purpose of this Pricing Date Notice is to confirm certain terms and conditions of the Transaction entered into between Seller and Counterparty pursuant to the Confirmation.

 

Pricing Date: [•], 2023

 

Number of Recycled Shares: [•]

 

Number of Additional Shares: [•]

 

Number of Shares: [•]

 

Prepayment Date: [•]

 

 

 

Exhibit 10.5

 

SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT

 

This SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT (this “Subscription Agreement”) is entered into on September 28, 2023, by and between Graf Acquisition Corp. IV, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) and the undersigned subscriber (“Subscriber”).

 

WHEREAS, the Company, Austria Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“Merger Sub”), and NKGen Biotech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“NKGen”) have entered into that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated April 14, 2023 (as may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Business Combination Agreement”), pursuant to which, among other things, Merger Sub will merge with and into NKGen, with NKGen surviving the merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Merger”), and the Company will change its name to “NKGen Biotech, Inc.” and NKGen will change its name to “NKGen Operating Biotech, Inc.” (the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement, the “Transactions”);

 

WHEREAS, prior to the consummation of the Transactions, certain stockholders of the Company elected to redeem public shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), in connection with the special meeting of the stockholders of the Company to vote on the proposals relating to the Transactions set forth in the Definitive Proxy Statement/Prospectus, dated as of August 14, 2023 (the “Proxy Statement”), filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on August 14, 2023 (the total number of shares of Common Stock that are irrevocably and validly elected to be redeemed, the “Redeemed Shares”);

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, effective as of May 20, 2021, as amended by the Certificate of Amendment effective as of May 22, 2023, and as may be further amended from time to time (the “Certificate of Incorporation”), and as set forth in the Proxy Statement, the Company is, subject to certain exceptions, obligated to redeem (the “Redemption Obligation”) such Redeemed Shares from the Trust Account (as defined below) and to pay for such Redeemed Shares the amount specified in Section 9.2(a) of the Certificate of Incorporation (the “Redemption Price”);

 

WHEREAS, in connection with the Transactions and the transactions contemplated by the Forward Purchase Agreement (as defined below), Subscriber desires to subscribe for and purchase from the Company, prior to the Valuation Date, as defined in the Forward Purchase Agreement, (i) as Additional Shares, as defined in the Forward Purchase Agreement, that number of shares of Common Stock up to the Maximum Number of Shares as set forth in the Forward Purchase Agreement, less the number of Recycled Shares, as defined in the Forward Purchase Agreement (the “Additional Shares”), for a purchase price equal to the Redemption Price (the “Per Share Price” and the aggregate of such Per Share Price for all Additional Shares being referred to herein as the “Purchase Price”) and (ii) that number of Share Consideration Shares, as defined in the Forward Purchase Agreement, for no additional consideration (together with the Additional Shares, the “Subscribed Shares”); provided, however, that Subscriber shall not be required to purchase an amount of Subscribed Shares such that following the issuance of such Subscribed Shares, its ownership would exceed 9.9% ownership of the total shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such issuance unless Subscriber at its sole discretion waives such 9.9% ownership limitation, and the Company desires to issue and sell to Subscriber the Subscribed Shares in consideration of the payment of the Purchase Price by or on behalf of Subscriber to the Company, all on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein; and

 

 

 

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual representations, warranties and covenants, and subject to the conditions, herein contained, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

 

Section 1.   Subscription.

 

(a)    Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, Subscriber hereby agrees at the Closing (as defined below), to irrevocably subscribe for and purchase from the Company, and the Company hereby agrees to issue and sell to Subscriber, the Subscribed Shares (such subscription and issuance, the “Subscription”).

 

(b)    On the Closing Date (defined below), the Company shall deliver irrevocable instructions to its transfer agent to issue to the Subscriber, not later than 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Trading Day immediately following the Closing Date, a certificate or book-entry statement representing the Share Consideration Shares in the name of the Subscriber or its designee (in which case such designee name shall have been provided to the Company prior to the Closing Date), in consideration for the Subscriber's execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Forward Purchase Agreement. Such certificate or book-entry statement shall be delivered to the Subscriber by email or by overnight courier at its address set forth on the signature page hereto. For the avoidance of doubt, all of the Share Consideration Shares shall be fully earned as of the Closing Date.

 

Section 2.   Closing.

 

(a)    The consummation of the Subscription contemplated hereby (the “Closing”) shall occur on the closing date of the Transactions (the “Closing Date”) for those Subscribed Shares that the Forward Purchase Agreement provides will be purchased at such time, with such Closing occurring substantially concurrently with (but not before) the consummation of the Transactions and subject to the terms and conditions of this Subscription Agreement. The purchase of any additional Subscribed Shares as provided for by the Forward Purchase Agreement shall occur subsequently to the Closing Date following the delivery of a Pricing Date Notice.

 

(b)    At least one (1) Business Day before the anticipated Closing Date, the Company shall deliver written notice to Subscriber (the “Closing Notice”) specifying (i) the anticipated Closing Date and (ii) the wire instructions for delivery of the Purchase Price to the Escrow Account, as defined in the Forward Purchase Agreement. No later than one (1) Business Day prior to the anticipated Closing Date as set forth in the Closing Notice, Subscriber shall provide the Pricing Date Notice, as defined in the Forward Purchase Agreement, and deliver the Purchase Price (subject to adjustment as described below) for the Subscribed Shares by wire transfer of United States dollars in immediately available funds to the account specified in the Closing Notice, and such funds shall be held by Escrow Agent, as defined in the Forward Purchase Agreement, in escrow, segregated from and not comingled with the other funds of the Company (and in no event will such funds be held in the Trust Account (as defined below)). Upon satisfaction (or, if applicable, waiver) of the conditions set forth in this Section 2, the Company shall deliver to Subscriber (i) on the Closing Date, the Subscribed Shares in book entry form, free and clear of any liens or other restrictions (other than those arising under this Subscription Agreement, the organizational documents of the Company or applicable securities laws), in the name of Subscriber (or its nominee or custodian in accordance with its delivery instructions), and (ii) as promptly as practicable after the Closing, evidence from the Company’s transfer agent of the issuance to Subscriber of the Subscribed Shares on and as of the Closing Date.

 

(c)    In the event that the consummation of the Transactions does not occur within two Business Days after the anticipated Closing Date specified in the Closing Notice, unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the Company and Subscriber, the Company shall promptly (but in no event later than three Business Days after the anticipated Closing Date specified in the Closing Notice) return the funds so delivered by Subscriber by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account specified by Subscriber, and any book entries shall be deemed cancelled. Notwithstanding such return or cancellation (x) a failure to close on the anticipated Closing Date shall not, by itself, be deemed to be a failure of any of the conditions to Closing set forth in this Section 2 to be satisfied or waived on or prior to the Closing Date, and (y) unless and until this Subscription Agreement is terminated in accordance with Section 6 herein, Subscriber shall remain obligated to redeliver funds to the Escrow Account, as set forth in the Closing Notice, following the Company’s delivery to Subscriber of a new Closing Notice in accordance with this Section 2 and Subscriber and the Company shall remain obligated to consummate the Closing upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this Section 2 following the Company’s delivery to Subscriber of a new Closing Notice. For the purposes of this Subscription Agreement, “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday, or any other day on which banks located in New York, New York are required or authorized by law to be closed for of business.

 

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(d)    The obligations of Subscriber and the Company to consummate, or cause to be consummated, the transactions contemplated by this Subscription Agreement (including the Closing) are subject to the satisfaction or, if permitted by applicable law, waiver by the parties hereto, of the conditions that, on the Closing Date:

 

(i)no suspension of the listing of the Subscribed Shares on the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”), or, to the Company’s knowledge, initiation or threatening of any proceedings for any of such purposes, shall have occurred (except other than as a result of the Company moving its listing from the NYSE to the Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) or that will be cured by the effectiveness of a resale registration statement on Form S-1);

 

(ii)all conditions precedent to the closing of the Transactions set forth in Article IX of the Business Combination Agreement shall have been satisfied (as determined by the parties to the Business Combination Agreement) or waived in writing by the person(s) with the authority to make such waiver (other than those conditions which, by their nature, are to be satisfied at the closing of the Transactions pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement, but subject to the satisfaction of such conditions at such closing), and the closing of the Transactions shall be scheduled to occur substantially concurrently with the Closing;

 

(iii)all conditions precedent to the execution of the Confirmation of an OTC Equity Prepaid Forward Transaction entered into between the Company, NKGen and Subscriber on the date hereof (the “Forward Purchase Agreement”), have been satisfied or waived in writing by the person with the authority to make such waiver (other than those conditions which, by their nature, are to be satisfied at the closing of the Transactions pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement, but subject to the satisfaction of such conditions at such closing), and the transactions contemplated by the Forward Purchase Agreement shall be scheduled to commence concurrently with or immediately following the Closing;

 

(iv)no governmental authority shall have enacted, issued, promulgated, enforced or entered any judgment, order, law, rule or regulation (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) which is then in effect and has the effect of making the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby illegal or otherwise restraining or prohibiting consummation of the Subscription or the transactions contemplated hereby, and no governmental authority shall have instituted or threatened in writing a proceeding seeking to impose any such restraint or prohibition; and

 

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(v)the Company’s Common Stock (including the Subscribed Shares) shall be approved for listing on Nasdaq subject only to official notice of issuance.

 

(e)    The obligations of the Company to consummate, or cause to be consummated, the transactions contemplated by this Subscription Agreement (including the Closing) are subject to the satisfaction or, if permitted by applicable law, valid waiver in writing by the Company of the additional conditions that, on the Closing Date:

 

(i)all representations and warranties of Subscriber contained in this Subscription Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality or Subscriber Material Adverse Effect (as defined below), which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) at and as of the Closing Date (except to the extent that any such representation and warranty expressly speaks as of an earlier date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality or Subscriber Material Adverse Effect, which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) as of such earlier date), and consummation of the Closing shall constitute a reaffirmation by Subscriber of each of the representations, warranties and agreements of Subscriber contained in this Subscription Agreement as of the Closing Date, but without giving effect to consummation of the Transactions, or as of such earlier date, as applicable, except, in each case, where the failure of such representations and warranties to be true and correct (whether as of the Closing Date or such earlier date), taken as a whole, does not result in a Subscriber Material Adverse Effect; and

 

(ii)Subscriber shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with all covenants, agreements and conditions required by this Subscription Agreement to be performed, satisfied or complied with by it at or prior to the Closing.

 

(f)     The obligations of Subscriber to consummate, or cause to be consummated, the transactions contemplated by this Subscription Agreement (including the Closing) are subject to the satisfaction or, if permitted by applicable law, valid waiver in writing by Subscriber of the additional conditions that, on the Closing Date:

 

(i)all representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Subscription Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality or Company Material Adverse Effect (as defined below), which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) at and as of the Closing Date (except to the extent that any such representation or warranty expressly speaks as of an earlier date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality or Company Material Adverse Effect, which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) as of such earlier date), and consummation of the Closing shall constitute a reaffirmation by the Company of each of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company contained in this Subscription Agreement as of the Closing Date, but without giving effect to consummation of the Transactions, or as of such earlier date, as applicable, except, in each case, where the failure of such representations and warranties to be true and correct (whether as of the Closing Date or such earlier date), taken as a whole, does not result in a Company Material Adverse Effect;

 

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(ii)the Company shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with all covenants, agreements and conditions required by this Subscription Agreement to be performed, satisfied or complied with by it at or prior to the Closing;

 

(iii)except (A) for a waiver of Section 9.02(e) with respect to the Company delivering the Closing deliverable specified in Section 2.06(b)(ii), (B) for a waiver of Section 9.03(f) of the Business Combination Agreement, and (C) to the extent consented to in writing by Subscriber, the Business Combination Agreement shall not have been amended, modified, supplemented or waived in a manner that would reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the economic benefits that Subscriber would reasonably expect to receive under this Subscription Agreement;

 

(iv)the Lockup Agreement substantially in the form described in the Proxy Statement which is to be entered into by certain parties pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement, and the Sponsor Support and Lockup Agreement, dated as of April 14, 2023, by and among Graf Acquisition Partners IV LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, the Company, NKGen and the persons set forth on Schedule I thereto, each providing for the restriction of the transfer of shares of Common Stock of the Company by certain parties specified therein, will be in effect as of the Closing Date; and

 

(v)NKGen shall have (A) entered into a subscription agreement, side letter or other agreement (including convertible notes) with other investors associated with a private financing in one or a series of related transactions, not to exceed $85 million in the aggregate, and (B) consummated such private financing provided for thereby prior to the Closing of the Transactions.

 

(g)     Prior to or at the Closing, Subscriber shall deliver to the Company all such other information as is reasonably requested in order for the Company to issue the Subscribed Shares to Subscriber, including, without limitation, the legal name of the person in whose name the Subscribed Shares are to be issued (or Subscriber’s nominee in accordance with its delivery instructions) and a duly completed and executed Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or appropriate Form W-8.

 

(h)     The Subscribed Shares shall contain a legend, and each book entry position or certificate (if any) evidencing the Subscribed Shares shall be stamped or otherwise imprinted with a legend, in substantially the following form:

 

THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF THE SUBSCRIBED SHARES HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (“SECURITIES ACT”), OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE SUBSCRIBED SHARES MAY NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, PLEDGED, HEDGED, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED IN THE ABSENCE OF (A) AN EFFECTIVE AND AVAILABLE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SUBSCRIBED SHARES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND A CURRENT PROSPECTUS, (B) IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (C) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER APPLICABLE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. THE ISSUER OF THE SUBSCRIBED SHARES MAY REQUIRE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE ISSUER THAT SUCH OFFER, SALE, PLEDGE, HEDGE, TRANSFER OR ASSIGNMENT OTHERWISE COMPLIES WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.

 

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Section 3.  Company Representations and Warranties. For purposes of this Section 3, the term “Company” shall refer to (i) the Company as of the date hereof, and (ii) for purposes of the representations contained in subsections (e), (f), (h), (i) and (j) of this Section 3 and to the extent such representations and warranties are made as of the Closing Date, the combined company after giving effect to the Transactions as of the Closing Date. The Company represents and warrants to Subscriber that:

 

(a)    The Company (i) is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, (ii) has the requisite power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties, to carry on its business as it is now being conducted and to enter into and perform its obligations under this Subscription Agreement, and (iii) is duly licensed or qualified to conduct its business and, if applicable, is in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction (other than its jurisdiction of incorporation) in which the conduct of its business or the ownership of its properties or assets requires such license or qualification, except, with respect to the foregoing clause (iii), where the failure to be in good standing would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect. For purposes of this Subscription Agreement, a “Company Material Adverse Effect” means an event, change, development, occurrence, condition or effect with respect to the Company that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, financial condition, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company or its subsidiaries individually or taken as a whole, or materially affects the legal authority and ability of the Company to comply with the terms of this Subscription Agreement, including the issuance and sale of the Subscribed Shares, or the Transactions.

 

(b)    When issued pursuant to this Subscription Agreement, the Subscribed Shares will be duly authorized and, when issued and delivered to Subscriber (or its nominee or custodian in accordance with its delivery instructions) against full payment therefor in accordance with the terms of this Subscription Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, free and clear of all liens or other restrictions (but excluding the restrictions on transfer described in Section 4(e) of this Subscription Agreement with respect to the status of the Subscribed Shares as “restricted securities” pending their registration for resale under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”)), and will not have been issued in violation of, or subject to, any preemptive or similar rights created under the Company’s governing and organizational documents, the laws of the State of Delaware.

 

(c)    This Subscription Agreement has been duly authorized, validly executed and delivered by the Company, and assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of the same by Subscriber, this Subscription Agreement shall constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws affecting creditors generally and by the availability of equitable remedies.

 

(d)    Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of Subscriber set forth in Section 4 of this Subscription Agreement, the execution and delivery of this Subscription Agreement, the issuance and sale of the Subscribed Shares hereunder, the compliance by the Company with all of the provisions of this Subscription Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any of the property or assets of the Company pursuant to the terms of (i) any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease, license or other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company is subject, (ii) the organizational documents of the Company, or (iii) any statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties that, in the case of clauses (i) and (iii), would reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(e)    The Company is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other governmental authority, self-regulatory organization (including Nasdaq) or other person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of this Subscription Agreement (including, without limitation, the issuance of the Subscribed Shares), other than (i) filings required by Regulation D of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws, (ii) the filing of the Registration Statement (as defined below) pursuant to Section 5 below, (iii) filings required by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), (iv) filings required by Nasdaq, including with respect to obtaining stockholder approval, if applicable, (v) filings required to consummate the Transactions as provided under the Business Combination Agreement, (vi) the filing of notification under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, if applicable, and (vii) those filings, the failure of which to obtain would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect.

 

(f)     Except for such matters as have not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect, there is no (i) suit, action, proceeding or arbitration before a governmental authority or arbitrator pending, or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened in writing against the Company or (ii) judgment, decree, injunction, ruling or order of any governmental authority or arbitrator outstanding against the Company.

 

(g)    Assuming the accuracy of Subscriber’s representations and warranties set forth in Section 4 of this Subscription Agreement, no registration under the Securities Act or any state securities (or Blue Sky) laws is required for the offer and sale of the Subscribed Shares by the Company to Subscriber.

 

(h)    Neither the Company nor any person acting on its behalf has engaged or will engage in any form of general solicitation or general advertising (within the meaning of Regulation D) in connection with any offer or sale of the Subscribed Shares. The Subscribed Shares are not being offered in a manner involving a public offering under, or in a distribution in violation of, the Securities Act or any state securities laws. Neither the Company nor any person acting on the Company’s behalf has, directly or indirectly, at any time within the past six (6) months, made any offer or sale of any security or solicitation of any offer to buy any security under circumstances that would (i) eliminate the availability of the exemption from registration under Regulation D under the Securities Act in connection with the offer and sale by the Company of the Subscribed Shares as contemplated hereby or (ii) cause the offering of the Subscribed Shares pursuant to this Subscription Agreement to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of the Securities Act or any applicable stockholder approval provisions. Neither the Company nor any person acting on the Company’s behalf has offered or sold or will offer or sell any securities, or has taken or will take any other action, which would reasonably be expected to subject the offer, issuance or sale of the Subscribed Shares, as contemplated hereby, to the registration provisions of the Securities Act.

 

(i)     The Company is in compliance with all applicable laws and has not received any written communication from a governmental entity that alleges that the Company is not in compliance with or is in default or violation of any applicable law, except where such non-compliance, default or violation would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect. The Company is in all material respects in compliance with applicable provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder.

 

(j)     The Common Stock is eligible for clearing through The Depository Trust Company (the “DTC”), through its Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian (DWAC) system, and the Company is eligible and participating in the Direct Registration System (DRS) of DTC with respect to the Common Stock. The Company’s transfer agent (the “Transfer Agent”) is a participant in DTC’s Fast Automated Securities Transfer Program. The Common Stock is not, and has not been at any time, subject to any DTC “chill,” “freeze” or similar restriction with respect to any DTC services, including the clearing of shares of Common Stock through DTC.

 

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(k)    No broker or finder is entitled to any brokerage or finder’s fee or commission solely in connection with the sale of the Subscribed Shares to Subscriber.

 

(l)     As of their respective dates, each form, report, statement, schedule, prospectus, proxy, registration statement and other document required to be filed by the Company with the Commission prior to the date hereof (the “SEC Documents”) complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder, and none of the SEC Documents, when filed, or if amended prior to the date of this Subscription Agreement, as of the date of such amendment with respect to those disclosures that were amended, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Documents comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, year-end audit adjustments, and such consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (“GAAP”) (except as may be disclosed therein or in the notes thereto, and except that the unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP). A copy of each SEC Document is available to each Subscriber via the Commission’s EDGAR system. The Company has timely filed each report, statement, schedule, prospectus, and registration statement that the Company was required to file with the Commission since its initial registration of the Common Stock with the Commission and through the date hereof. There are no material outstanding or unresolved comments in comment letters from the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) of the Commission with respect to any of the SEC Documents as of the date hereof.

 

(m)    As of the date hereof, the authorized share capital of the Company consists of 400,000,000 shares of Common Stock and 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Preferred Shares”). As of the date hereof: (i) 10,373,875 shares of Common Stock and no Preferred Shares were issued and outstanding; (ii) 3,432,300 warrants, each exercisable to purchase one share of Common Stock at $11.50 per share, and 4,721,533 private placement warrants, each exercisable to purchase one share of Common Stock at $11.50 per share (together, “SPAC Warrants”), were issued and outstanding; and (iii) no Common Stock was subject to issuance upon exercise of outstanding options. No SPAC Warrants are exercisable on or prior to the Closing. All (A) issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are not subject to preemptive rights or similar and (B) outstanding SPAC Warrants have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and are not subject to preemptive or similar rights. As of the date hereof, except as set forth above and pursuant to (1) subscription agreements dated on or about the date hereof for the sale by the Company to certain investors of warrants (the “Warrant Subscription Agreements”), (2) the Backstop Agreement, dated as of April 14, 2023, by and between the Company and NKMAX Co., Ltd. (the “Backstop Agreement”), (3) the Business Combination Agreement, (4) a securities purchase agreement dated on or about the date hereof for the sale by the Company to certain investors of senior convertible notes and warrants (the “Notes Subscription Agreements”), (5) the Forward Purchase Agreement, or (6) as disclosed in the SEC Documents, there are no outstanding options, warrants or other rights to subscribe for, purchase or acquire from the Company any Common Stock or other equity interests in the Company (collectively, “Equity Interests”) or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Equity Interests. Except as set forth in the SEC Documents, as of the date hereof, the Company has no subsidiaries and does not own, directly or indirectly, interests or investments (whether equity or debt) in any person, whether incorporated or unincorporated. There are no stockholder agreements, voting trusts or other agreements or understandings to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound relating to the voting of any Equity Interests, other than as contemplated by (i) the Business Combination Agreement and (ii) that certain letter agreement, dated as of May 20, 2021, by and between the Company, Graf Acquisition Partners IV LLC and the other parties thereto (the “IPO Letter Agreement”). Except as described in the SEC Documents, there are no securities or instruments issued by or to which the Company is a party containing anti-dilution or similar provisions that will be triggered by the issuance of the Subscribed Shares.

 

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(n)    The issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and are listed for trading on NYSE under the symbol “GFOR.” There is no suit, action, proceeding or investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company by NYSE or the Commission with respect to any intention by such entity to deregister the shares of Common Stock or prohibit or terminate the listing of the shares of Common Stock on NYSE. The Company has taken no action that is designed to terminate the registration of the shares of Common Stock under the Exchange Act.

 

(o)    Upon consummation of the Transactions, the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock will continue to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and will be listed for trading on Nasdaq.

 

(p)    The Company is not, and immediately after receipt of payment for the Subscribed Shares and consummation of the Transactions, will not be, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

(q)     The Company has not entered into any subscription agreement, side letter or other agreement with any other investor in connection with such other investor’s direct or indirect investment in the Company other than (i) the Warrant Subscription Agreements, (ii) the Backstop Agreement, (iii) the IPO Letter Agreement, and (iv) the Notes Subscription Agreements.

 

(r)      Neither the Company nor anyone acting on its behalf has, directly or indirectly, offered the Subscribed Shares or any similar securities for sale to, or solicited any offer to buy the Subscribed Shares or any similar securities from, or otherwise approached or negotiated in respect thereof with, any person other than the Subscriber and a limited number of other “accredited investors” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act), each of which has been offered the Subscribed Shares at a private sale for investment. Neither the Company nor anyone acting on its behalf has taken, or will take, any action that would subject the issuance or sale of the Subscribed Shares to the registration requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act or to the registration requirements of any securities or blue sky laws of any applicable jurisdiction.

 

Section 4.   Subscriber Representations and Warranties. Subscriber represents and warrants to the Company that:

 

(a)     Subscriber (i) is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation or incorporation and (ii) has the requisite power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations under this Subscription Agreement.

 

(b)     This Subscription Agreement has been duly authorized, validly executed and delivered by Subscriber, and assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of the same by the Company, this Subscription Agreement shall constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of Subscriber, enforceable against Subscriber in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited or otherwise affected by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally and by the availability of equitable remedies.

 

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(c)    The execution, delivery and performance by Subscriber of this Subscription Agreement, the purchase of the Subscribed Shares hereunder, the compliance by Subscriber with all of the provisions of this Subscription Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any of the property or assets of Subscriber pursuant to the terms of (i) any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease, license or other agreement or instrument to which Subscriber is a party or by which Subscriber is bound or to which any of the property or assets of Subscriber is subject; (ii) the organizational documents of Subscriber; or (iii) any statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over Subscriber or any of its properties that in the case of clauses (i) and (iii), would have a Subscriber Material Adverse Effect. For purposes of this Subscription Agreement, a “Subscriber Material Adverse Effect” means an event, change, development, occurrence, condition or effect with respect to Subscriber that would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on Subscriber’s ability to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, including the purchase of the Subscribed Shares.

 

(d)    Subscriber (i) is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) or an institutional “accredited investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act), in each case, satisfying the applicable requirements set forth on Annex A hereto, (ii) is acquiring the Subscribed Shares only for its own account and not for the account of others, or if Subscriber is subscribing for the Subscribed Shares as a fiduciary or agent for one or more investor accounts, each owner of such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) or an “accredited investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act) and Subscriber has full investment discretion with respect to each such account, and the full power and authority to make the acknowledgements, representations, warranties and agreements herein on behalf of each owner of each such account, for investment purposes only, (iii) is not acquiring the Subscribed Shares with a view to, or for offer or sale in connection with, any distribution thereof in violation of the securities laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction and (iv) has provided the Company with the requested information on Annex A following the signature page hereto and the information contained therein is accurate and complete. The Subscriber is not an entity formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the Subscribed Shares.

 

(e)    Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that the Subscribed Shares are being offered in a transaction not involving any public offering within the meaning of the Securities Act and that the Subscribed Shares have not been registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction and that the Company is not required to register the Subscribed Shares except as set forth in Section 5 of this Subscription Agreement. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that the Subscribed Shares may not be offered, resold, transferred, pledged or otherwise disposed of by Subscriber absent an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, except (i) to the Company or a subsidiary thereof, (ii) pursuant to an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act (including without limitation a private resale pursuant to so called “Section 4(a)1½”), or (iii) in an ordinary course pledge such as a broker lien over account property generally, and, in each of clauses (i)-(iii), in accordance with any applicable securities laws of the states and other jurisdictions of the United States, and that any certificates or account entries representing the Subscribed Shares shall contain a restrictive legend to that effect. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that the Subscribed Shares will be subject to these securities law transfer restrictions, and as a result of these transfer restrictions, Subscriber may not be able to readily offer, resell, transfer, pledge or otherwise dispose of the Subscribed Shares and may be required to bear the financial risk of an investment in the Subscribed Shares for an indefinite period of time. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that the Subscribed Shares will not be immediately eligible for offer, resale, transfer, pledge or disposition pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act, as amended (“Rule 144”), until at least one year following the filing of certain required information with the Commission after the Closing Date. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that it has been advised to consult legal counsel prior to making any offer, resale, pledge or transfer of any of the Subscribed Shares.

 

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(f)     Subscriber understands and agrees that Subscriber is purchasing the Subscribed Shares directly from the Company. Subscriber further acknowledges that there have not been, and Subscriber hereby agrees that it is not relying on, any representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made to Subscriber by the Company, any of its affiliates or any control persons, officers, directors, employees, partners, agents or representatives, any other party to the Transactions or any other person or entity, expressly or by implication, other than those representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of the Company set forth in this Subscription Agreement.

 

(g)     In making its decision to purchase the Subscribed Shares, Subscriber represents that it has relied solely upon independent investigation made by Subscriber and the Company’s representations in Section 3 of this Subscription Agreement. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that Subscriber has received access to and has had an adequate opportunity to review such information as Subscriber deems necessary in order to make an investment decision with respect to the Subscribed Shares, including with respect to the Company, NKGen (and its subsidiaries, if any (collectively, the “Acquired Companies”)) and the Transactions, and made its own assessment and is satisfied concerning the relevant financial, tax and other economic considerations relevant to Subscriber’s investment in the Subscribed Shares. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Subscriber acknowledges that it has reviewed the Company’s filings with the Commission including the filings relating to the Transactions. Subscriber represents and agrees that Subscriber and Subscriber’s professional advisor(s), if any, received, reviewed and understood the offering materials made available to them in connection with the Subscription and the Transactions, have had the full opportunity to ask such questions, including on the financial information, receive such answers and obtain such information as Subscriber and Subscriber’s professional advisor(s), if any, have deemed necessary to make an investment decision with respect to the Subscribed Shares. Subscriber further acknowledges that the information provided to Subscriber was preliminary and subject to change, including in the Company’s filings with the Commission with respect the Transactions (which may include additional information about the Company, the Acquired Companies and the Transactions, including with respect to any financial statements or pro forma or other financial information), and that any changes to such information, including, without limitation, any changes based on updated information or changes in terms of the Transactions, shall in no way affect the Subscriber’s obligation to purchase the Subscribed Shares hereunder. The Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that, except for the representations and warranties made by the Company that are expressly set forth in Section 3 of this Subscription Agreement, neither the Company nor any of its affiliates nor any other person is making or has made any representations or warranties, expressed or implied, at law or in equity, with respect to or on behalf of the Company, its businesses, operations, assets, liabilities, financial condition, results of operations, future operating or financial results, estimates, projections, forecasts, plans or prospects (including the reasonableness of the assumptions underlying such estimates, projections, forecasts, plans or prospects) or the accuracy or completeness of any information regarding the Company or any other matter made available to the Subscriber or its representatives in expectation of, or in connection with, this Subscription Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. The Subscriber is not relying upon and specifically disclaims that it is relying upon or has relied upon any such other representations or warranties that may have been made by any person and acknowledges and agrees that the Company has specifically disclaimed any such other representations and warranties. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that none of the Acquired Companies or any of their affiliates or any of such person’s or its affiliate’s control persons, officers, directors, employees or other representatives, legal counsel, financial advisors, accountants or agents (collectively, “Representatives”) has provided Subscriber with any information or advice with respect to the Subscribed Shares nor is such information or advice necessary or desired. None of the Acquired Companies or any of their respective affiliates or Representatives has made or makes any representation as to the Company or the Acquired Companies or the quality or value of the Subscribed Shares.

 

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(h)     [Reserved]

 

(i)      Subscriber acknowledges that it is aware that there are substantial risks incident to the purchase and ownership of the Subscribed Shares, including those set forth in the SEC Documents. Subscriber is able to fend for itself in the transactions contemplated herein, has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of an investment in the Subscribed Shares, and Subscriber has had an opportunity to seek, and has sought, such accounting, legal, business and tax advice as Subscriber has considered necessary to make an informed investment decision. Subscriber (i) is an institutional account as defined in FINRA Rule 4512(c), (ii) is a sophisticated investor, experienced in investing in private equity transactions and capable of evaluating investment risks independently, both in general and with regard to all transactions and investment strategies involving a security or securities, and (iii) has exercised independent judgment in evaluating its participation in the purchase of the Subscribed Shares. Subscriber understands and acknowledges that the purchase and sale of the Subscribed Shares hereunder meets (i) the exemptions from filing under FINRA Rule 5123(b)(1)(A) and (ii) the institutional customer exemption under FINRA Rule 2111(b).

 

(j)     Subscriber has adequately analyzed and fully considered the risks of an investment in the Subscribed Shares and determined that the Subscribed Shares are a suitable investment for Subscriber and that Subscriber is able at this time and in the foreseeable future to bear the economic risk of a total loss of Subscriber’s investment in the Company. Subscriber acknowledges specifically that a possibility of total loss exists.

 

(k)    Subscriber understands and agrees that no federal or state agency has passed upon or endorsed the merits of the offering of the Subscribed Shares or made any findings or determination as to the fairness of this investment.

 

(l)     Subscriber is not (i) a person or entity named (a “Person”) on the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) or in any Executive Order issued by the President of the United States and administered by OFAC (“OFAC List”), or a person or entity prohibited by any OFAC sanctions program, (ii) owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, a person, that is named on an OFAC List, (iii) organized, incorporated, established, located, resident or born in, or a citizen, national, or the government, including any political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof, of, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the Crimea region of Ukraine, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic or any other country or territory embargoed or subject to substantial trade restrictions by the United States, (iv) a Designated National as defined in the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 515, or (v) a non-U.S. shell bank or providing banking services indirectly to a non-U.S. shell bank. Subscriber agrees to provide law enforcement agencies, if requested thereby, such records as required by applicable law, provided that Subscriber is permitted to do so under applicable law. If Subscriber is a financial institution subject to the Bank Secrecy Act (31 U.S.C. Section 5311 et seq.) (the “BSA”), as amended by the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 (the “PATRIOT Act”), and its implementing regulations (collectively, the “BSA/PATRIOT Act”), such Subscriber maintains policies and procedures reasonably designed to comply with applicable obligations under the BSA/PATRIOT Act. To the extent required, Subscriber maintains policies and procedures reasonably designed for the screening of its investors against the OFAC sanctions programs, including the OFAC List. To the extent required, Subscriber maintains policies and procedures reasonably designed to ensure that the funds held by Subscriber and used to purchase the Subscribed Shares were legally derived.

 

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(m)     No foreign person (as defined in 31 C.F.R. Part 800.224) in which the national or subnational governments of a single foreign state have a substantial interest (as defined in 31 C.F.R. Part 800.244) will acquire a substantial interest in the Company as a result of the purchase and sale of Subscribed Shares hereunder such that a declaration to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States would be mandatory under 31 C.F.R. Part 800.401.

 

(n)      If Subscriber is an employee benefit plan that is subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), a plan, an individual retirement account or other arrangement that is subject to section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) or an employee benefit plan that is a governmental plan (as defined in section 3(32) of ERISA), a church plan (as defined in section 3(33) of ERISA), a non-U.S. plan (as described in section 4(b)(4) of ERISA) or other plan that is not subject to the foregoing but may be subject to provisions under any other federal, state, local, non-U.S. or other laws or regulations that are similar to such provisions of ERISA or the Code, or an entity whose underlying assets are considered to include “plan assets” of any such plan, account or arrangement (each, a “Plan”) subject to the fiduciary or prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA or section 4975 of the Code, Subscriber represents and warrants that (i) it has not relied on the Company or any of its affiliates (the “Transaction Parties”) for investment advice or as the Plan’s fiduciary with respect to its decision to acquire and hold the Subscribed Shares, and none of the Transaction Parties shall at any time be relied upon as the Plan’s fiduciary with respect to any decision to acquire, continue to hold or transfer the Subscribed Shares and (ii) the acquisition and holding of the Subscribed Shares will not result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.

 

(o)      Subscriber at the Closing will have sufficient funds to pay the Purchase Price pursuant to Section 2.

 

(p)      Subscriber acknowledges that it is not relying upon, and has not relied upon, any statement, representation or warranty made by any person, firm or corporation (including, without limitation, the Company, NKGen or any of their respective affiliates or any of its or their respective control persons, officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives), other than the representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 3 of this Subscription Agreement, in making its investment or decision to invest in the Company.

 

(q)      No broker or finder has acted on behalf of the Subscriber in connection with the sale of the Subscribed Shares pursuant to this Subscription Agreement in such a way as to create any liability on the Company.

 

(r)       Subscriber hereby agrees that neither it, nor any person or entity acting on its behalf or pursuant to any understanding with the Subscriber, shall, directly or indirectly, engage in any hedging activities or execute any Short Sales with respect to the securities of the Company prior to the Closing Date or the earlier termination of this Subscription Agreement in accordance with its terms (other than pledges in the ordinary course of business as part of prime brokerage arrangements). “Short Sales” shall include, without limitation, all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act, and all types of direct and indirect stock pledges, forward sale contracts, options, puts, calls, swaps and similar arrangements (including on a total return basis), including through non-U.S. broker dealers or foreign regulated brokers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section 4(r) (i) shall restrict Subscriber’s ability to maintain bona fide hedging positions in respect of the SPAC Warrants held by the Subscriber as of the date hereof; (ii) shall prohibit any entities under common management or that share an investment advisor with Subscriber from entering into any short sales or engaging in other hedging transactions; and (iii) in the case of a Subscriber that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Subscriber’s assets, this Section 4(r) shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Subscription Amount covered by this Subscription Agreement.

 

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(s)     Except as expressly disclosed in a Schedule 13D or Schedule 13G (or amendments thereto) filed by Subscriber with the Commission with respect to the beneficial ownership of the Company’s outstanding securities prior to the date hereof, Subscriber is not currently (and at all times through the Closing Date will refrain from being or becoming) a member of a “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), including any group acting for the purpose of acquiring, holding or disposing of equity securities of the Company (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act).

 

(t)      Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that (i) the Commission Staff issued the “Staff Statement on Accounting and Reporting Considerations for Warrants Issued by Special Purpose Acquisition Companies” on April 12, 2021 (together with any subsequent guidance, statements or interpretations issued by the Commission or its staff relating thereto or other accounting matters related to initial public offerings, securities or expenses, the “Statement”), (ii) the Commission Staff have issued comments regarding the appropriate classification of public shares as permanent or temporary equity (the “Staff Comments”), (iii) on March 30, 2022, the SEC issued proposed rules with respect to the regulation of special purpose acquisition companies (the “SPAC Rule Proposals” and together with the Statement and Staff Comments, the “SEC Guidance”) relating to, among other items, disclosures in business combination transactions involving SPACs and private operating companies, the condensed financial statement requirements applicable to transactions involving shell companies, the use of projections by SPACs in SEC filings in connection with proposed business combination transactions, the potential liability of certain participants in proposed business combination transactions, and the extent to which SPACs could become subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, (iv) the Company continues to review the SEC Guidance and its implications, including on the financial statements and other information included in its filings with the Commission, including the SEC Documents, and (v) any restatement, revision or other modification of such filings relating to or arising from such review, any subsequent related agreements or other guidance from the Staff of the Commission shall be deemed not material for purposes of this Subscription Agreement.

 

(u)     Subscriber acknowledges that (i) the Company, NKGen, and any of their respective affiliates, control persons, officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives currently may have, and later may come into possession of, information regarding the Company and NKGen that is not known to Subscriber and that may be material to a decision to purchase the Subscribed Shares, (ii) Subscriber has determined to purchase the Subscribed Shares notwithstanding its lack of knowledge of such information, and (iii) none of the Company, NKGen, or any of their respective affiliates, control persons, officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives shall have liability to Subscriber, and Subscriber hereby to the extent permitted by law waives and releases any claims it may have against the Company, NKGen, and their respective affiliates, control persons, officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives, with respect to the nondisclosure of such information.

 

(v)     Subscriber acknowledges that it is aware that NKGen may enter into a subscription agreement, side letter or other agreement (including convertible promissory notes) with other investors associated with a private financing in one or a series of related transactions, not to exceed $85 million in the aggregate, and that such private financing, if pursued, will close prior to the closing of the Transactions. Subscriber further acknowledges that it is aware that the Company may enter into non-redemption and/or forward purchase agreements with other investors in an amount not to exceed $15 million in the aggregate without the consent of Investor, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. For the avoidance of doubt, any such subscription agreement, side letter or other agreement shall not be considered a subscription agreement, side letter or other agreement for purposes of Section 3(q).

 

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Section 5.    Registration of Subscribed Shares.

 

(a)    The Company agrees that, within fifteen (15) Business Days following the Closing Date (the “Filing Deadline”), the Company will file with the Commission (at the Company’s sole cost and expense) a registration statement registering the resale the Subscribed Shares (the “Registration Statement”), and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to have the Registration Statement declared effective as soon as reasonably practicable after the filing thereof, but in any event no later than forty-five (45) calendar days after the Filing Deadline (the “Effectiveness Deadline”); provided, that the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to ninety (90) calendar days after the Closing Date if the Registration Statement is reviewed by, and comments thereto are provided from, the Commission; provided, further, that the Company shall have the Registration Statement declared effective within ten (10) Business Days after the date the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the staff of the Commission that the Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review; provided, further, that (i) if the Effectiveness Deadline falls on a Saturday, Sunday or other day that the Commission is closed for business, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to the next Business Day on which the Commission is open for business and (ii) if the Commission is closed for operations due to a government shutdown, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended by the same number of Business Days that the Commission remains closed for. Upon Subscriber’s timely request, the Company shall provide a draft of the Registration Statement to the Subscriber for review at least two (2) Business Days in advance of the date of filing the Registration Statement with the Commission (the “Filing Date”), and Subscriber shall provide any comments on the Registration Statement to the Company no later than the one (1) Business Day immediately preceding the Filing Date. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the Subscriber prior to the filing of the Registration Statement, the Subscriber shall not be identified as a statutory underwriter in the Registration Statement; provided, that if the Commission requests that Subscriber be identified as a statutory underwriter in the Registration Statement, Subscriber will have the opportunity to withdraw from the Registration Statement upon its prompt written request to the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Commission prevents the Company from including any or all of the shares proposed to be registered under the Registration Statement due to limitations on the use of Rule 415 of the Securities Act for the resale of the Subscribed Shares by the applicable stockholders or otherwise, such Registration Statement shall register for resale such number of Subscribed Shares which is equal to the maximum number of Subscribed Shares as is permitted by the Commission. In such event, the number of Subscribed Shares or other shares to be registered for each selling stockholder named in the Registration Statement shall be reduced pro rata among all such selling stockholders and as promptly as practicable after being permitted to register additional shares under Rule 415 under the Securities Act, the Company shall amend the Registration Statement or file one or more new Registration Statement(s) (such amendment or new Registration Statement shall also be deemed to be a “Registration Statement” hereunder) to register such additional Subscribed Shares and cause such amendment or Registration Statement(s) to become effective as promptly as practicable after the filing thereof, but in any event no later than forty-five (45) calendar days after the filing of such Registration Statement (the “Additional Effectiveness Deadline”); provided, that the Additional Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to ninety (90) calendar days after the filing of such Registration Statement if such Registration Statement is reviewed by, and comments thereto are provided from, the Commission; provided, further, that the Company shall have such Registration Statement declared effective within ten (10) Business Days after the date the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the staff of the Commission that such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review; provided, further, that (i) if such day falls on a Saturday, Sunday or other day that the Commission is closed for business, the Additional Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to the next Business Day on which the Commission is open for business and (ii) if the Commission is closed for operations due to a government shutdown, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended by the same number of Business Days that the Commission remains closed for. Any failure by the Company to file a Registration Statement by the Effectiveness Deadline or Additional Effectiveness Deadline shall not otherwise relieve the Company of its obligations to file or effect a Registration Statement as set forth in this Section 5.

 

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(b)   The Company agrees that, except for such times as the Company is permitted hereunder to suspend the use of the prospectus forming part of a Registration Statement, the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to remain effective with respect to Subscriber, including to prepare and file any post-effective amendment to such Registration Statement or a supplement to the related prospectus such that the prospectus will not include any untrue statement or a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, until the earlier of (i) two (2) years from the effective date of the Registration Statement, (ii) the date on which all of the Subscribed Shares shall have been sold or (iii) on the first date on which the Subscriber can sell all of its Subscribed Shares (or shares received in exchange therefor) under Rule 144 of the Securities Act without limitation as to the manner of sale or the amount of such securities that may be sold and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144(c)(1) (or Rule 144(i)(2), if applicable) and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement as soon as reasonably practicable. For so long as the Registration Statement shall remain effective, the Company will use reasonable best efforts to file all reports, and provide all customary and reasonable cooperation, necessary to enable Subscriber to resell Subscribed Shares pursuant to the Registration Statement, qualify the Subscribed Shares for listing on the applicable stock exchange on which the Company’s Common Stock is then listed and update or amend the Registration Statement as necessary to include Subscribed Shares. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to, for so long as the Subscriber holds Subscribed Shares, make and keep public information available (as those terms are understood and defined in Rule 144) and file with the Commission in a timely manner all reports and other documents required of the Company under the Exchange Act so long as the Company remains subject to such requirements to enable the Subscriber to resell the Subscribed Shares pursuant to Rule 144. The Subscriber agrees to disclose its beneficial ownership, as determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3 of the Exchange Act, of Subscribed Shares to the Company (or its successor) upon reasonable request to assist the Company in making the determination described above.

 

(c)   The Company’s obligations to include the Subscribed Shares in the Registration Statement are contingent upon Subscriber furnishing in writing to the Company a completed selling stockholder questionnaire in customary form that contains such information regarding Subscriber, the securities of the Company held by Subscriber and the intended method of disposition of the Subscribed Shares as shall be reasonably requested by the Company to effect the registration of the Subscribed Shares, and Subscriber shall execute such documents in connection with such registration as the Company may reasonably request that are customary of a selling stockholder in similar situations, including providing that the Company shall be entitled to postpone and suspend the effectiveness or use of the Registration Statement (i) during any customary blackout or similar period or as permitted hereunder and (ii) as may be necessary in connection with the preparation and filing of a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement following the filing of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K; provided, that the Company shall request such information from Subscriber, including the selling stockholder questionnaire, at least five (5) Business Days prior to the anticipated Filing Date of the Registration Statement; and provided, further, under no circumstances shall Subscriber be required to sign any type of lock-up agreement. In the case of the registration effected by the Company pursuant to this Subscription Agreement, the Company shall, upon reasonable request, inform Subscriber as to the status of such registration. Subscriber shall not be entitled to use the Registration Statement for an underwritten offering of Subscribed Shares. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company may delay or postpone filing of such Registration Statement, and from time to time require Subscriber not to sell under the Registration Statement or suspend the use or effectiveness of any such Registration Statement if it determines in good faith that in order for the registration statement to not contain a material misstatement or omission, an amendment thereto would be needed, or if such filing or use would reasonably be expected to materially affect a bona fide business or financing transaction of the Company or would reasonably be expected to require premature disclosure of information that would materially adversely affect the Company (each such circumstance, a “Suspension Event”); provided, that, (w) the Company shall not so delay filing or so suspend the use of the Registration Statement for a period of more than sixty (60) consecutive days or more than two (2) times in any three hundred sixty (360) day period, and (x) the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to make such registration statement available for the sale by the Subscriber of such securities as soon as practicable thereafter.

 

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(d)     Upon receipt of any written notice from the Company (which notice shall not contain any material non-public information regarding the Company and which notice shall not be subject to any duty of confidentiality) of the happening of (i) an issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for such purpose, which notice shall be given no later than three (3) Business Days from the date of such event, (ii) any Suspension Event during the period that the Registration Statement is effective, which notice shall be given no later than three (3) Business Days from the date of such Suspension Event, or (iii) or if as a result of a Suspension Event the Registration Statement or related prospectus contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made (in the case of the prospectus) not misleading, the Subscriber agrees that (1) it will immediately discontinue offers and sales of the Subscribed Shares under the Registration Statement (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, sales conducted pursuant to Rule 144, if available at such time) until the Subscriber receives copies of a supplemental or amended prospectus (which the Company agrees to promptly prepare) that corrects the misstatement(s) or omission(s) referred to above and receives notice that any post-effective amendment has become effective or unless otherwise notified by the Company that it may resume such offers and sales, and (2) it will maintain the confidentiality of any information included in such written notice delivered by the Company unless otherwise required by law, subpoena or regulatory request or requirement. If so directed by the Company, the Subscriber will deliver to the Company or, in the Subscriber’s sole discretion destroy, all copies of the prospectus covering the Subscribed Shares in the Subscriber’s possession; provided, however, that this obligation to deliver or destroy all copies of the prospectus covering the Subscribed Shares shall not apply (w) to the extent the Subscriber is required to retain a copy of such prospectus (A) in order to comply with applicable legal, regulatory, self-regulatory or professional requirements or (B) in accordance with a bona fide pre-existing document retention policy or (x) to copies stored electronically on archival servers as a result of automatic data back-up.

 

(e)     Subscriber may deliver written notice (an “Opt-Out Notice”) to the Company requesting that Subscriber not receive notices from the Company otherwise required by this Section 5; provided, however, that Subscriber may later revoke any such Opt-Out Notice in writing. Following receipt of an Opt-Out Notice from Subscriber (unless subsequently revoked), (i) the Company shall not deliver any such notices to Subscriber and Subscriber shall no longer be entitled to the rights associated with any such notice and (ii) each time prior to Subscriber’s intended use of an effective Registration Statement, Subscriber will notify the Company in writing at least two (2) Business Days in advance of such intended use, and if a notice of a Suspension Event was previously delivered (or would have been delivered but for the provisions of this Section 5(e)) and the related suspension period remains in effect, the Company will so notify Subscriber, within one (1) Business Day of Subscriber’s notification to the Company, by delivering to Subscriber a copy of such previous notice of Suspension Event, and thereafter will provide Subscriber with the related notice of the conclusion of such Suspension Event promptly following its availability.

 

(f)      For purposes of this Section 5 of this Subscription Agreement, (i) “Subscribed Shares” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the Subscribed Shares (as defined in the recitals to this Subscription Agreement) and any other equity security issued or issuable with respect to the Subscribed Shares by way of stock split, dividend, distribution, recapitalization, merger, exchange, or replacement, and (ii) “Subscriber” shall include any person to which the rights under this Section 5 shall have been duly assigned.

 

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(g)    The Company shall, notwithstanding any termination of this Subscription Agreement, indemnify, defend and hold harmless Subscriber, (to the extent Subscriber is a seller under the Registration Statement), the officers, directors, members, managers, partners, agents and employees of Subscriber, each person who controls Subscriber (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act) and the officers, directors, members, managers, partners, agents and employees of each such controlling person, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, costs (including, without limitation, reasonable and documented attorneys’ fees) and expenses (collectively, “Losses”) arising out of or caused by or based upon (i) any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, any prospectus included in the Registration Statement or any form of prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus, or any omission or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of any prospectus or form of prospectus or supplement thereto, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, or (ii) any violation or alleged violation by the Company of the Securities Act, Exchange Act or any state securities law or any rule or regulation thereunder, in connection with the performance of its obligations under this Section 5, except, in each case, to the extent that such untrue statements, alleged untrue statements, omissions or alleged omissions are (1) based upon information regarding Subscriber furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of Subscriber expressly for use therein or Subscriber has omitted a material fact from such information or (2) result from or in connection with any offers or sales effected by or on behalf of Subscriber in violation of Section 5(d). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company’s indemnification obligations shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any Losses or action if such settlement is effected without the prior written consent of the Company (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed). Upon the request of Subscriber, the Company shall provide Subscriber with an update on any threatened or asserted proceedings arising from or in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Section 5 of which the Company receives notice in writing.

 

(h)    Subscriber shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, officers, members, managers, partners, agents and employees, each person who controls the Company (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, members, managers, partners, agents or employees of such controlling persons, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, from and against all Losses arising out of or based upon any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement, any prospectus included in the Registration Statement, or any form of prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus, or arising out of or relating to any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of any prospectus, or any form of prospectus or supplement thereto, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statements, alleged untrue statements, omissions or alleged omissions are based upon information regarding Subscriber furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of Subscriber expressly for use therein. In no event shall the liability of Subscriber be greater in amount than the dollar amount of the net proceeds received by Subscriber upon the sale of the Subscribed Shares giving rise to such indemnification obligation. Notwithstanding the forgoing, Subscriber’s indemnification obligation shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any Losses or action if such settlement is effected without the prior written consent of Subscriber (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) nor shall Subscriber be liable for any Losses to the extent they arise out of or are based upon a violation which occurs in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished by the Company.

 

(i)     Any person or entity entitled to indemnification herein shall (i) give prompt written notice to the indemnifying party of any claim with respect to which it seeks indemnification (provided that the failure to give prompt notice shall not impair any person’s or entity’s right to indemnification hereunder to the extent such failure has not prejudiced the indemnifying party) and (ii) unless in such indemnified party’s reasonable judgment a conflict of interest between such indemnified and indemnifying parties may exist with respect to such claim, permit such indemnifying party to assume the defense of such claim with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party. If such defense is assumed, the indemnifying party shall not be subject to any liability for any settlement made by the indemnified party without its consent (but such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed). An indemnifying party who is not entitled to, or elects not to, assume the defense of a claim shall not be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of more than one counsel for all parties indemnified by such indemnifying party with respect to such claim, unless in the reasonable judgment of any indemnified party a conflict of interest may exist between such indemnified party and any other of such indemnified parties with respect to such claim. No indemnifying party shall, without the consent of the indemnified party, consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which cannot be settled in all respects by the payment of money (and such money is so paid by the indemnifying party pursuant to the terms of such settlement), which settlement shall not include a statement or admission of fault and culpability on the part of such indemnified party, and which settlement shall include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such indemnified party of a release from all liability in respect to such claim or litigation.

 

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(j)    The indemnification provided for under this Subscription Agreement shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the indemnified party or any officer, director or controlling person or entity of such indemnified party and shall survive the transfer of the Subscribed Shares pursuant to this Subscription Agreement.

 

(k)   If the indemnification provided under this Section 5 from the indemnifying party is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any Losses, then the indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying the indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by the indemnified party as a result of such Losses in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party and the indemnified party, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations; provided, however, that the liability of Subscriber shall be limited to the net proceeds received by such Subscriber from the sale of Subscribed Shares giving rise to such indemnification obligation. The relative fault of the indemnifying party and indemnified party shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any action in question, including any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact, was made by (or not made by, in the case of an omission), or relates to information supplied by (or not supplied by, in the case of an omission), or on behalf of such indemnifying party or indemnified party, and the indemnifying party’s and indemnified party’s relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such action. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the Losses shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 5, any legal or other fees, charges or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with any investigation or proceeding. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution pursuant to this Section 5(k) from any person or entity who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in no event will any party be liable for punitive damages in connection with this Subscription Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

(l)    Subject to receipt from the Subscriber and its broker by the Company and the Transfer Agent of customary representations and other documentation reasonably acceptable to the Company and the Transfer Agent in connection therewith, the Subscriber may request that the Company remove any legend from the book entry position evidencing its Subscribed Shares and the Company will, if required by the Transfer Agent, use its reasonable best efforts to cause an opinion of the Company’s counsel to be provided, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Company and the Transfer Agent, to the effect that the removal of such restrictive legends in such circumstances may be effected under the Securities Act, following the earliest of such time as such Subscribed Shares (i) have been sold or transferred pursuant to an effective and available registration statement and current prospectus or (ii) have been sold pursuant to Rule 144. If restrictive legends are no longer required for such Subscribed Shares pursuant to the foregoing, the Company shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5(l) and within three (3) Trading Days (as defined below) of any request therefor from the Subscriber accompanied by such customary representations and other documentation of Subscriber and its broker referred to above establishing that restrictive legends are no longer required, deliver to the Transfer Agent irrevocable instructions that the Transfer Agent shall make a new, unlegended entry for such book entry Subscribed Shares. The Company shall be responsible for the fees of its Transfer Agent and all DTC fees associated with such issuance. As used herein, “Trading Day” means any day on which the Common Stock is traded on Nasdaq, or, if Nasdaq is not the principal trading market for the Common Stock, then on the principal securities exchange or securities market on which the Common Stock is then traded, provided that “Trading Day” shall not include any day on which the Common Stock is scheduled to trade on such exchange or market for less than 4.5 hours or any day that the Common Stock is suspended from trading during the final hour of trading on such exchange or market (or if such exchange or market does not designate in advance the closing time of trading on such exchange or market, then during the hour ending at 4:00:00 p.m., New York time).

 

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Section 6.     Termination. This Subscription Agreement shall terminate and be void and of no further force and effect, and all rights and obligations of the parties hereunder shall terminate without any further liability on the part of any party in respect thereof, upon the earliest to occur of (a) such date and time as the Business Combination Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms, (b) such date and time as the Forward Purchase Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms, (c) upon the mutual written agreement of the parties hereto to terminate this Subscription Agreement, and (d) the Termination Date (as such term is defined in the Business Combination Agreement), if the Closing has not occurred by such date other than as a result of a breach by Subscriber of its obligations hereunder; provided, that nothing herein will relieve any party from liability for any willful breach hereof prior to the time of termination, and each party will be entitled to any remedies at law or in equity to recover losses, liabilities or damages arising from such breach. The Company shall notify Subscriber of the termination of the Business Combination Agreement promptly after the termination thereof. Upon the termination hereof in accordance with this Section 6, any monies paid by Subscriber to the Company in connection herewith shall promptly (and in any event within one (1) Business Day) be returned in full to Subscriber by wire transfer of U.S. dollars in immediately available funds to the account specified by Subscriber, without any deduction for or on account of any tax withholding, charges or set-off, whether or not the Transactions shall have been consummated.

 

Section 7.    Trust Account Waiver. Subscriber hereby acknowledges that, as described in the Company’s prospectus relating to its initial public offering (the “IPO”) dated May 20, 2021 available at www.sec.gov, the Company has established a trust account (the “Trust Account”) containing the proceeds of IPO and from certain private placements occurring simultaneously with the IPO (including interest accrued from time to time thereon) for the benefit of the Company, its public stockholders and certain other parties (including the underwriters of the IPO). For and in consideration of the Company entering into this Subscription Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Subscriber hereby (a) agrees that it does not now and shall not at any time hereafter have any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the Trust Account or any distributions or payments therefrom, or upon the release to the Company of the funds held in the Trust Account upon consummation of the Closing and shall not make any claim against the Trust Account, arising out or as a result of, in connection with or relating in any way to this Subscription Agreement, and regardless of whether such claim arises based on contract, tort, equity or any other theory of legal liability (any and all such claims are collectively referred to hereafter as the “Released Claims”), (b) irrevocably waives any Released Claims that it may have against the Trust Account now or in the future as a result of, or arising out of, this Subscription Agreement, and (c) will not seek recourse against the Trust Account as a result of, in connection with or relating in any way to this Subscription Agreement; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 7 shall (i) serve to limit or prohibit Subscriber’s right to pursue a claim against the Company for legal relief against assets, monies or other properties of the Company held outside the Trust Account (so long as such claim would not affect the Company’s ability to fulfill its obligation to effectuate any redemption right with respect to any securities of the Company), for specific performance or other equitable relief, (ii) serve to limit or prohibit any claims that the Subscriber may have in the future against the Company’s assets or funds that are not held in the Trust Account (including any funds that have been released from the Trust Account and any assets that have been purchased or acquired with any such funds) (so long as such claim would not affect the Company’s ability to fulfill its obligation to effectuate any redemption right with respect to any securities of the Company) or (iii) be deemed to limit Subscriber’s right to distributions from the Trust Account in accordance with the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation in respect of any redemptions by Subscriber in respect of Common Stock acquired by any means other than pursuant to this Subscription Agreement or any other rights held as an stockholder of the Company.

 

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Section 8.      Miscellaneous.

 

(a)    All notices, requests, demands, claims, and other communications hereunder shall be in writing. Any notice, request, demand, claim, or other communication hereunder shall be deemed duly given (i) when delivered personally to the recipient, (ii) when sent by electronic mail, with no mail undeliverable or other rejection notice, on the date of transmission to such recipient, if sent on a Business Day prior to 5:00 p.m. New York City time, or on the Business Day following the date of transmission, if sent on a day that is not a Business Day or after 5:00 p.m. New York City time on a Business Day, (iii) one (1) Business Day after being sent to the recipient via overnight mail by reputable overnight courier service (charges prepaid), or (iv) four (4) Business Days after being mailed to the recipient by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested and postage prepaid, and, in each case, addressed to the intended recipient at its address specified on the signature page hereof or to such electronic mail address or address as subsequently modified by written notice given in accordance with this Section 8(a). A courtesy electronic copy of any notice sent by methods (i), (iii), or (iv) above shall also be sent to the recipient via electronic mail if an electronic mail address is provided in the applicable signature page hereof or to an electronic mail address as subsequently modified by written notice given in accordance with this Section 8(a).

 

(b)     Subscriber acknowledges that the Company and others, including after the Closing, NKGen, will rely on the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties of Subscriber contained in this Subscription Agreement; provided, however, that the foregoing clause of this Section 8(b) shall not give the Company or NKGen any rights other than those expressly set forth herein. Prior to the Closing, Subscriber agrees to promptly notify the Company if it becomes aware that any of the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties of Subscriber set forth herein are no longer accurate in all material respects. The Company acknowledges that Subscriber will rely on the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Subscription Agreement. Prior to the Closing, the Company agrees to promptly notify Subscriber if it becomes aware that any of the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties of the Company set forth herein are no longer accurate in all material respects.

 

(c)     Each of the Company and Subscriber is irrevocably authorized to produce this Subscription Agreement or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceeding or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.

 

(d)     Each party hereto shall pay all of its own expenses in connection with this Subscription Agreement and the transactions contemplated herein.

 

(e)     Neither this Subscription Agreement nor any rights that may accrue to Subscriber hereunder (other than the Subscribed Shares acquired hereunder and the rights set forth in Section 5) may be transferred or assigned by Subscriber. Neither this Subscription Agreement nor any rights that may accrue to the Company hereunder may be transferred or assigned by the Company without the prior written consent of Subscriber, other than in connection with the Transactions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Subscriber may assign all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Subscription Agreement to one or more of its affiliates (including other investment funds or accounts managed or advised by the investment manager who acts on behalf of Subscriber) upon written notice to the Company or, with the Company’s prior written consent, to another person; provided, that in the case of any such assignment, the assignee(s) shall become a Subscriber hereunder and have the rights and obligations and be deemed to make the representations and warranties of Subscriber provided for herein to the extent of such assignment and provided further that no such assignment shall relieve the assigning Subscriber of its obligations hereunder if any such assignee fails to perform such obligations, unless the Company has given its prior written consent to such relief.

 

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(f)     All the agreements, representations and warranties made by each party hereto in this Subscription Agreement shall survive the Closing.

 

(g)    The Company may request from Subscriber such additional information as the Company may reasonably deem necessary to evaluate the eligibility of Subscriber to acquire the Subscribed Shares and to register the Subscribed Shares for resale, and Subscriber shall promptly provide such information as may be reasonably requested, to the extent readily available and to the extent consistent with its internal policies and procedures; provided, that the Company agrees to keep any such information provided by Subscriber confidential, except (A) as required by the federal securities laws, rules or regulations and (B) to the extent such disclosure is required by other laws, rules or regulations, at the request of the staff of the Commission or regulatory agency or under the regulations of Nasdaq. Subscriber acknowledges that the Company may file a form of this Subscription Agreement with the Commission as an exhibit to a current or periodic report of the Company or a registration statement of the Company.

 

(h)    This Subscription Agreement may not be amended, modified or waived except by an instrument in writing, signed by each of the parties hereto.

 

(i)     This Subscription Agreement, including the eligibility representations made by the Subscriber on Annex A, constitutes the entire agreement, and supersedes all other prior agreements, understandings, representations and warranties, both written and oral, among the parties, with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 

(j)     Except as otherwise provided herein, this Subscription Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their heirs, executors, administrators, successors, legal representatives, and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other person. Except as set forth in Section 5, Section 8(b), Section 8(e), and this Section 8(j) with respect to the persons specifically referenced therein, this Subscription Agreement shall not confer any rights or remedies upon any person other than the parties hereto, and their respective successors and assigns.

 

(k)    The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that irreparable damage would occur in the event that any of the provisions of this Subscription Agreement were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached and that money or other legal remedies would not be an adequate remedy for such damage. It is accordingly agreed that the parties shall be entitled to equitable relief, including in the form of an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches or threatened breaches of this Subscription Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Subscription Agreement, this being in addition to any other remedy to which such party is entitled at law, in equity, in contract, in tort or otherwise. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the Company shall be entitled to specifically enforce Subscriber’s obligations to fund the Subscription and the provisions of the Subscription Agreement, in each case, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein. The parties hereto further acknowledge and agree: (x) to waive any requirement for the security or posting of any bond in connection with any such equitable remedy; (y) not to assert that a remedy of specific enforcement pursuant to this Section 8(k) is unenforceable, invalid, contrary to applicable law or inequitable for any reason; and (z) to waive any defenses in any action for specific performance, including the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

 

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(l)     If any provision of this Subscription Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Subscription Agreement shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and shall continue in full force and effect.

 

(m)   No failure or delay by a party hereto in exercising any right, power or remedy under this Subscription Agreement, and no course of dealing between the parties hereto, shall operate as a waiver of any such right, power or remedy of such party. No single or partial exercise of any right, power or remedy under this Subscription Agreement by a party hereto, nor any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce any such right, power or remedy, shall preclude such party from any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy hereunder. The election of any remedy by a party hereto shall not constitute a waiver of the right of such party to pursue other available remedies. No notice to or demand on a party not expressly required under this Subscription Agreement shall entitle the party receiving such notice or demand to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances or constitute a waiver of the rights of the party giving such notice or demand to any other or further action in any circumstances without such notice or demand.

 

(n)    This Subscription Agreement may be executed and delivered in one or more counterparts (including by electronic mail, in .pdf or other electronic submission) and by different parties in separate counterparts, with the same effect as if all parties hereto had signed the same document. All counterparts so executed and delivered shall be construed together and shall constitute one and the same agreement.

 

(o)    This Subscription Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to the principles of conflicts of laws that would otherwise require the application of the law of any other state.

 

(p)    EACH PARTY HEREBY WAIVES ITS RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OR RELATED TO THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR OTHER LITIGATION OF ANY TYPE BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ANY OTHER SUCH PARTY, WHETHER WITH RESPECT TO CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS OR OTHERWISE. THE PARTIES AGREE THAT ANY SUCH CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE TRIED BY A COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THE PARTIES FURTHER AGREE THAT THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IS WAIVED BY OPERATION OF THIS SECTION AS TO ANY ACTION, COUNTERCLAIM OR OTHER PROCEEDING WHICH SEEKS, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, TO CHALLENGE THE VALIDITY OR ENFORCEABILITY OF THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR ANY PROVISION HEREOF. THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT.

 

(q)    The parties agree that all disputes, legal actions, suits and proceedings arising out of or relating to this Subscription Agreement must be brought exclusively in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware and any state appellate court therefrom within the State of Delaware (or, if the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware declines to accept jurisdiction over a particular matter, any federal court within the State of Delaware or, in the event each federal court within the State of Delaware declines to accept jurisdiction over a particular matter, any state court within the State of Delaware) (collectively the “Designated Courts”). Each party hereby consents and submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Designated Courts. No legal action, suit or proceeding with respect to this Subscription Agreement may be brought in any other forum. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a final judgement in any such action may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Each party hereby irrevocably waives all claims of immunity from jurisdiction, and any objection which such party may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding in any Designated Court, including any right to object on the basis that any dispute, action, suit or proceeding brought in the Designated Courts has been brought in an improper or inconvenient forum or venue. Each of the parties also agrees that delivery of any process, summons, notice or document to a party hereof in compliance with Section 8(a) of this Subscription Agreement shall be effective service of process for any action, suit or proceeding in a Designated Court with respect to any matters to which the parties have submitted to jurisdiction as set forth above.

 

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(r)     This Subscription Agreement may only be enforced against, and any claim, action, suit or other legal proceeding based upon, arising out of, or related to this Subscription Agreement, or the negotiation, execution or performance of this Subscription Agreement, may only be brought against the entities that are expressly named as parties hereto.

 

(s)    The Company shall, by 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the first (1st) Business Day immediately following the date of this Subscription Agreement, file with the Commission a Current Report on Form 8-K (the “Disclosure Document”) disclosing all material terms of this Subscription Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, the Transactions and any other material, nonpublic information that the Company has provided to Subscriber or any of Subscriber’s affiliates, attorneys, agents or representatives at any time prior to the filing of the Disclosure Document and including as an exhibit to the Disclosure Document the form of this Subscription Agreement (without redaction). Upon the issuance of the Disclosure Document, to the Company’s knowledge, Subscriber and Subscriber’s affiliates, attorneys, agents and representatives shall not be in possession of any material, non-public information received from the Company or any of its affiliates, officers, directors, or employees or agents, and Subscriber shall no longer be subject to any confidentiality or similar obligations under any current agreement, whether written or oral with the Company or any of its affiliates. Notwithstanding anything in this Subscription Agreement to the contrary, the Company (i) shall not publicly disclose the name of Subscriber or any of its affiliates or advisers, or include the name of Subscriber or any of its affiliates or advisers in any press release, without the prior written consent of Subscriber and (ii) shall not publicly disclose the name of the Subscriber or any of its affiliates or advisers, or include the name of the Subscriber or any of its affiliates or advisers in any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency or trading market, without the prior written consent of Subscriber, except (A) as required by the federal securities laws, rules or regulations and (B) to the extent such disclosure is required by other laws, rules or regulations, at the request of the staff of the Commission or regulatory agency or under the regulations of Nasdaq, in which case of clause (A) or (B), the Company shall provide the Subscriber with prior written notice (including by e-mail) of such permitted disclosure, and shall reasonably consult with the Subscriber regarding such disclosure. Subscriber will promptly provide any information reasonably requested by the Company for any regulatory application or filing made or approval sought in connection with the Transactions (including filings with the Commission).

 

(t)     If any change in the shares of Common Stock shall occur between the date of this Subscription Agreement and the Closing by reason of any reclassification, recapitalization, stock split, reverse stock split, combination, exchange, or readjustment of shares, or any share dividend, in each case, other than in connection with the Transactions, the number of Subscribed Shares issued to Subscriber hereunder shall be appropriately adjusted to reflect such change.

 

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(u)       The obligations of Subscriber under this Subscription Agreement are several and not joint with the obligations of any other investor, and Subscriber shall not be responsible in any way for the performance of the obligations of any other investor. The decision of Subscriber to purchase Subscribed Shares pursuant to this Subscription Agreement has been made by Subscriber independently of any other investor and independently of any information, materials, statements or opinions as to the business, affairs, operations, assets, properties, liabilities, results of operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Company, NKGen or any of their respective affiliates or subsidiaries which may have been made or given by any other investor or by any agent or employee of any other investor, and neither Subscriber nor any of its agents or employees shall have any liability to any other investor (or any other person) relating to or arising from any such information, materials, statements or opinions. Nothing contained herein, and no action taken by Subscriber or any other investor pursuant hereto or by any other investor, shall be deemed to constitute Subscriber and any other investors as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that Subscriber and other investors are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by this Subscription Agreement. Subscriber acknowledges that no other person has acted as agent for Subscriber in connection with making its investment hereunder and no other person will be acting as agent of Subscriber in connection with monitoring its investment in the Subscribed Shares or enforcing its rights under this Subscription Agreement. Subscriber shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including without limitation the rights arising out of this Subscription Agreement, and it shall not be necessary for any other investor to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose.

 

(v)       The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Subscription Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof. The language used in this Subscription Agreement will be deemed to be the language chosen by the parties hereto to express their mutual intent, and no rules of strict construction will be applied against any party. Unless the context otherwise requires, (i) all references to Sections, Schedules or Exhibits are to Sections, Schedules or Exhibits contained in or attached to this Subscription Agreement, (ii) each accounting term not otherwise defined in this Subscription Agreement has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with GAAP, (iii) words in the singular or plural include the singular and plural and pronouns stated in either the masculine, the feminine or neuter gender shall include the masculine, feminine and neuter, (iv) the use of the word “including” in this Subscription Agreement shall be by way of example rather than limitation, and (v) the word “or” shall not be exclusive.

 

(w)      The Company shall be responsible for paying all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar taxes that arise from any payment or issuance made under, from the execution, delivery, performance or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Subscription Agreement.

 

[Signature pages follow.]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has accepted this Subscription Agreement as of the date first set forth above.

 

  GRAF ACQUISITION CORP. IV
     
     
  By: /s/ James Graf
    Name: James Graf
    Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

  Address for Notices:
     
  Graf Acquisition Corp. IV
  1790 Hughes Landing Blvd., Suite 400
  The Woodlands, Texas 77380
  Email: tony@grafacq.com
  Attention: Anthony Kuznik, EVP & General Counsel
     
  with a copy (not to constitute notice) to:
     
  White & Case LLP
  1221 Avenue of the Americas
  New York, New York 10020
  Email: joel.rubinstein@whitecase.com
    elliott.smith@whitecase.com
  Attention: Joel Rubinstein
    Elliott Smith

 

 

[Signature Page to Subscription Agreement]

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Subscriber has executed or caused this Subscription Agreement to be executed by its duly authorized representative as of the date set forth below.

 

Name of Subscriber:   State/Country of Formation or Domicile:
     

POLAR MULTI-STRATEGY MASTER FUND

By its investment advisor

Polar Asset Management Partners Inc.

 

   
By: /s/ Andrew Ma
/s/ Aatifa Ibrahim
     
Name: Andrew Ma/Aatifa Ibrahim      
Title: COO/Legal Counsel      
         
Name in which Subscribed Shares are to be registered (if different):   Date: September 29, 2023
     
Subscriber’s EIN:        
       
Entity Type (e.g., corporation, partnership, trust, etc.):      
       
Business Address-Street:   Mailing Address-Street (if different):
     
     
City, State, Zip:   City, State, Zip:
     
Attn:       Attn:  
         
Telephone No.:   Telephone No.:
Email for notices:   Email for notices (if different):
     
Number of Shares of Common Stock subscribed for: 1,000,000      
       
Aggregate Purchase Price: $10,441,524.87   Price Per Share:  Redemption Price

 

 

 

[Signature Page to Subscription Agreement]

 

 

Annex A

ELIGIBILITY REPRESENTATIONS OF SUBSCRIBER

 

This Annex A should be completed and signed by Subscriber
and constitutes a part of the Subscription Agreement.

 

1.QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS (Please check the box, if applicable)

 

xSubscriber is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) (a “QIB”)

 

¨We are subscribing for the Subscribed Shares as a fiduciary or agent for one or more investor accounts, and each owner of such account is a QIB.

 

**OR**

 

2.ACCREDITED INVESTOR STATUS (Please check the box)

 

¨Subscriber is an institutional “accredited investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act) or an entity in which all of the equity holders are accredited investors within the meaning of Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act, and has marked and initialed the appropriate box below indicating the provision under which it qualifies as an “accredited investor.”

 

**AND**

 

3.AFFILIATE STATUS
(Please check the applicable box)

 

SUBSCRIBER:

 

¨ is:

 

x is not:

 

an “affiliate” (as defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act) of the Company or acting on behalf of an affiliate of the Company.

 

Rule 501(a), in relevant part, states that an “accredited investor” shall mean any person who comes within any of the below listed categories, or who the issuer reasonably believes comes within any of the below listed categories, at the time of the sale of the securities to that person. Subscriber has indicated, by marking and initialing the appropriate box(es) below, the provision(s) below which apply to Subscriber and under which Subscriber accordingly qualifies as an institutional “accredited investor.”

 

¨Any bank, registered broker or dealer, insurance company, registered investment company, business development company, small business investment company, private business development company, or rural business investment company;

 

¨Any investment adviser registered pursuant to section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act or registered pursuant to the laws of a state;

 

¨Any investment adviser relying on the exemption from registering with the Commission under section 203(l) or (m) of the Investment Advisers Act;

 

 

 

¨Any plan established and maintained by a state, its political subdivisions, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or its political subdivisions, for the benefit of its employees, if such plan has total assets in excess of $5,000,000;

 

¨Any employee benefit plan within the meaning of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), if (i) the investment decision is made by a plan fiduciary, as defined in section 3(21) of ERISA, which is either a bank, a savings and loan association, an insurance company, or a registered investment adviser, (ii) the employee benefit plan has total assets in excess of $5,000,000 or, (iii) such plan is a self-directed plan, with investment decisions made solely by persons that are “accredited investors”;

 

¨ Any (i) corporation, limited liability company or partnership, (ii) Massachusetts or similar business trust, or (iii) organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, in each case that was not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities offered and that has total assets in excess of $5,000,000;

 

¨Any trust, with total assets in excess of $5,000,000, not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities offered, whose purchase is directed by a sophisticated person as described in Section 230.506(b)(2)(ii) of Regulation D under the Securities Act;

 

¨Any entity, other than an entity described in the categories of “accredited investors” above, not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities offered, owning investments in excess of $5,000,000;

 

¨Any “family office,” as defined under the Investment Advisers Act that satisfies all of the following conditions: (i) with assets under management in excess of $5,000,000, (ii) that is not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities offered, and (iii) whose prospective investment is directed by a person who has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters that such family office is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment;

 

¨Any “family client,” as defined under the Investment Advisers Act, of a family office meeting the requirements in the previous paragraph and whose prospective investment in the issuer is directed by such family office pursuant to the previous paragraph; or

 

¨Any entity in which all of the equity owners are “accredited investors”.

 

Specify which tests:

 

¨Any director, executive officer, or general partner of the issuer of the securities being offered or sold, or any director, executive officer, or general partner of a general partner of that issuer;

 

¨Any natural person whose individual net worth, or joint net worth with that person’s spouse or spousal equivalent, exceeds $1,000,000. For purposes of calculating a natural person’s net worth: (a) the person’s primary residence shall not be included as an asset; (b) indebtedness that is secured by the person’s primary residence, up to the estimated fair market value of the primary residence at the time of the sale of securities, shall not be included as a liability (except that if the amount of such indebtedness outstanding at the time of sale of securities exceeds the amount outstanding 60 days before such time, other than as a result of the acquisition of the primary residence, the amount of such excess shall be included as a liability); and (c) indebtedness that is secured by the person’s primary residence in excess of the estimated fair market value of the primary residence at the time of the sale of securities shall be included as a liability;

 

¨Any natural person who had an individual income in excess of $200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with that person’s spouse or spousal equivalent in excess of $300,000 in each of those years and has a reasonable expectation of reaching the same income level in the current year;

 

¨Any natural person holding in good standing one or more professional certifications or designations or credentials from an accredited educational institution that the Commission has designated as qualifying an individual for accredited investor status; or

 

¨Any natural person who is a “knowledgeable employee,” as defined in the Investment Company Act, of the issuer of the securities being offered or sold where the issuer would be an investment company, as defined in section 3 of such act, but for the exclusion provided by either section 3(c)(1) or section 3(c)(7) of such act.

 

This page should be completed and signed by Subscriber and constitutes a part of the Subscription Agreement.

 

 

 

 

 

  SUBSCRIBER:
  Print Name:

  

 

POLAR MULTI-STRATEGY MASTER FUND

By its investment advisor

Polar Asset Management Partners Inc. 

   
  By: /s/ Andrew Ma
/s/ Aatifa Ibrahim
  Name: Andrew Ma/Aatifa Ibrahim
  Title: COO/Legal Counsel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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