SECURITIESPURCHASE AGREEMENT

EX-10.1 2 a08-20225_1ex10d1.htm EX-10.1

Exhibit 10.1

 

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”), dated as of July 27, 2008, by and among  Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc., a Hawaiian corporation, with headquarters located at 120 Kane Street, P. O. Box 187, Kahului, Maui, Hawaii ###-###-#### (the “Company”), and the investors listed on the Schedule of Buyers attached hereto (individually, a “Buyer” and collectively, the “Buyers”).

 

WHEREAS:

 

A.            The Company and each Buyer is executing and delivering this Agreement in reliance upon the exemption from securities registration afforded by Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), and Rule 506 of Regulation D (“Regulation D”) as promulgated by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under the 1933 Act.

 

B.            The Company has authorized a new series of senior secured convertible notes of the Company, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Notes”), which Notes shall be convertible into the Company’s common stock, no par value per share (the “Common Stock”) (as converted, the “Conversion Shares”), in accordance with the terms of the Notes.

 

C.            Each Buyer wishes to purchase, and the Company wishes to sell, upon the terms and conditions stated in this Agreement, that aggregate principal amount of the Notes set forth opposite such Buyer’s name in column (3) on the Schedule of Buyers attached hereto (which aggregate amount for all Buyers shall be $40,000,000).

 

D.            Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the parties hereto are executing and delivering a Registration Rights Agreement, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company will agree to provide certain registration rights with respect to the Registrable Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) under the 1933 Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and applicable state securities laws.

 

E.             The Notes and the Conversion Shares collectively are referred to herein as the “Securities”.

 

F.             The Notes shall rank senior to all outstanding and future indebtedness secured by the Real Property Collateral (as defined in the Notes) of the Company and its Subsidiaries (as defined below) (other than Permitted Secured Indebtedness (as defined in the Notes)) and, will be secured by a security interest in certain assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, as evidenced by certain security documents, including without limitation (i) the Collateral Account Agreement (as defined below), (ii) the Mortgages (as defined below) and (iii) the guarantees of certain Subsidiaries of the Company in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C (as amended or modified from time to time in accordance with its terms, the “Guarantees” and, together with the Collateral Account Agreement and the Mortgages and any ancillary documents related thereto, collectively the “Security Documents”).

 



 

NOW, THEREFORE, the Company and each Buyer hereby agree as follows:

 

1.                                       PURCHASE AND SALE OF NOTES.

 

(a)           Purchase of Notes.  Subject to the satisfaction (or waiver) of the conditions set forth in Sections 6 and 7 below, the Company shall issue and sell to each Buyer, and each Buyer severally, but not jointly, agrees to purchase from the Company on the Closing Date (as defined below), a principal amount of Notes as is set forth opposite such Buyer’s name in column (3) on the Schedule of Buyers (the “Closing”).

 

(b)           Closing.  The date and time of the Closing (the “Closing Date”) shall be 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date hereof (or such later date as is mutually agreed to by the Company and each Buyer) after notification of satisfaction (or waiver) of the conditions to the Closing set forth in Sections 6 and 7 below at the offices of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, 919 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10022.

 

(c)           Purchase Price.  The aggregate purchase price for the Notes to be purchased by each such Buyer at the Closing (the “Purchase Price”) shall be the amount set forth opposite each Buyer’s name in column (4) of the Schedule of Buyers (less, in the case of RCG PB, Ltd and RCG Enterprise, Ltd (collectively, the “RCG Entities”), the amounts withheld pursuant to Section 4(g)).  Each Buyer shall pay $1,000 for each $1,000 of principal amount of Notes to be purchased by such Buyer at the Closing.

 

(d)           Form of Payment.  On the Closing Date, (i) each Buyer shall pay its respective Purchase Price (less, in the case of the RCG Entities, the amounts withheld pursuant to Section 4(g)) to the Company for the Notes to be issued and sold to such Buyer at the Closing by wire transfer of immediately available funds in accordance with the Company’s written wire instructions and (ii) the Company shall deliver to each Buyer the Notes (allocated in the principal amounts as such Buyer shall request) which such Buyer is then purchasing hereunder duly executed on behalf of the Company and registered in the name of such Buyer or its designee.

 

2.                                       BUYER’S REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.

 

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

 

(a)           No Public Sale or Distribution.  Such Buyer is (i) acquiring the Notes with its own funds and (ii) upon conversion of the Notes will acquire the Conversion Shares issuable upon conversion of the Notes, in each case, for its own account and not with a view towards, or for resale in connection with, the public sale or distribution thereof, except pursuant to sales registered or exempted under the 1933 Act; provided, however, that by making the representations herein, such Buyer does not agree to hold any of the Securities for any minimum or other specific term and reserves the right to dispose of the Securities at any time in accordance with or pursuant to a registration statement or an exemption under the 1933 Act.  Such Buyer is acquiring the Securities hereunder in the ordinary course of its business.  Such Buyer does not presently have any agreement or understanding, directly or indirectly, with any Person to distribute any of the Securities.  Such Buyer currently intends to hold the Notes until conversion into Conversion Shares or until the Maturity Date (as defined in the Notes); provided, that by making the foregoing representation, such Buyer does not agree to hold the Notes for any minimum or other specific term and reserves the right to dispose of the Notes at any time.

 

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(b)           Accredited Investor Status.  Such Buyer is an “accredited investor” as that term is defined in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D.

 

(c)           Reliance on Exemptions.  Such Buyer understands that the Securities are being offered and sold to it in reliance on specific exemptions from the registration requirements of United States federal and state securities laws and that the Company is relying in part upon the truth and accuracy of, and such Buyer’s compliance with, the representations, warranties, agreements, acknowledgments and understandings of such Buyer set forth herein in order to determine the availability of such exemptions and the eligibility of such Buyer to acquire the Securities.

 

(d)           Information.  Such Buyer and its advisors, if any, have been furnished with all materials relating to the business, finances and operations of the Company and materials relating to the offer and sale of the Securities that have been requested by such Buyer.  Such Buyer and its advisors, if any, have been afforded the opportunity to ask questions of the Company.  Neither such inquiries nor any other due diligence investigations conducted by such Buyer or its advisors, if any, or its representatives shall modify, amend or affect such Buyer’s right to rely on the Company’s representations and warranties contained herein.  Such Buyer understands that its investment in the Securities involves a high degree of risk.  Such Buyer has sought such accounting, legal and tax advice as it has considered necessary to make an informed investment decision with respect to its acquisition of the Securities.

 

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

 

(f)            Transfer or Resale.  Such Buyer understands that except as provided in the Registration Rights Agreement: (i) the Securities have not been and are not being registered under the 1933 Act or any state securities laws, and may not be offered for sale, sold, assigned or transferred unless (A) subsequently registered thereunder, (B) such Buyer shall have delivered to the Company an opinion of counsel, in a generally acceptable form, to the effect that such Securities to be sold, assigned or transferred may be sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to an exemption from such registration, or (C) such Buyer provides the Company with reasonable assurance that such Securities can be sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to Rule 144 or Rule 144A promulgated under the 1933 Act, as amended, (or a successor rule thereto) (collectively, “Rule 144”); (ii) any sale of the Securities made in reliance on Rule 144 may be made only in accordance with the terms of Rule 144 and further, if Rule 144 is not applicable, any resale of the Securities under circumstances in which the seller (or the Person (as defined in Section 3(s)) through whom the sale is made) may be deemed to be an underwriter (as that term is defined in the 1933 Act) may require compliance with some other exemption under the 1933 Act or the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder; and (iii) neither the Company nor any other Person is under any obligation to register the Securities under the 1933 Act or any state securities laws

 

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or to comply with the terms and conditions of any exemption thereunder.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Securities may be pledged in connection with a bona fide margin account or other loan or financing arrangement secured by the Securities and such pledge of Securities shall not be deemed to be a transfer, sale or assignment of the Securities hereunder, and no Buyer effecting a pledge of Securities shall be required to provide the Company with any notice thereof or otherwise make any delivery to the Company pursuant to this Agreement or any other Transaction Document (as defined below), including, without limitation, this Section 2(f).

 

(g)           Legends.  Such Buyer understands that the certificates or other instruments representing the Notes and, until such time as the resale of the Conversion Shares have been registered under the 1933 Act as contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement, the stock certificates representing the Conversion Shares, except as set forth below, shall bear any legend as required by the “blue sky” laws of any state and a restrictive legend in substantially the following form (and a stop-transfer order may be placed against transfer of such stock certificates):

 

[NEITHER THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THESE SECURITIES ARE CONVERTIBLE HAVE BEEN][THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN] REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “1933 ACT”), OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.  THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED (I) IN THE ABSENCE OF (A) AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER THE 1933 ACT, OR (B) AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, IN A GENERALLY ACCEPTABLE FORM, THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER SAID ACT (II) UNLESS SOLD OR TRANSFERRED TO A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE 1933 ACT OR (III) UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 OR RULE 144A UNDER SAID ACT.  NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN OR FINANCING ARRANGEMENT SECURED BY THE SECURITIES.

 

The legend set forth above shall be removed and the Company shall issue a certificate without such legend to the holder of the Securities upon which it is stamped or issue to such holder by electronic delivery at the applicable balance account at The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), if, unless otherwise required by state securities laws, (i) such Securities are registered for resale under the 1933 Act, (ii) in connection with a sale, assignment or other transfer, such holder provides the Company with an opinion of counsel, in a generally acceptable form, to the effect that such sale, assignment or transfer of the Securities may be made without registration under the applicable requirements of the 1933 Act, or (iii) such holder provides the Company with reasonable assurance that the Securities (x) are being (or have been) sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to Rule 144 or Rule 144A or (y) can be sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to Rule 144 or Rule 144A without the requirement to be in compliance with Rule 144(c)(1) and otherwise without restriction or limitation pursuant to Rule 144(c).  The Company shall be responsible for the fees of its transfer agent and all DTC fees associated with such issuance.

 

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

 

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

 

(j)            Transfer Limitations.  Without the prior written consent of the Company (which will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) each Buyer acknowledges and agrees that any Buyer’s Notes may not be transferred in increments less than the lesser of (x) $500,000 and (y) the amount then outstanding under such Notes (the “Minimum Transfer Amount”).

 

(k)           Prohibited Transactions.  Other than with respect to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated herein, since the time that such Buyer was first contacted by the Company or the Agents (as defined below) regarding the investment contemplated hereby, neither the Buyer nor any Affiliate (as defined by Rule 405 promulgated pursuant to the 1933 Act) of such Buyer which (x) had knowledge of the transactions contemplated hereby, (y) has or shares discretion relating to such Buyer’s investments or trading or information concerning such Buyer’s investments and (z) is subject to such Buyer’s review or input concerning such Affiliate’s investments or trading (collectively, “Trading Affiliates”) has directly or indirectly, nor has any Person acting on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with such Buyer or Trading Affiliate, effected or agreed to effect any transactions in the securities of the Company, or any transactions involving or relating to securities of the Company, including any derivative securities.  Such Buyer hereby covenants and agrees not to, and shall cause its Trading Affiliates not to, engage, directly or indirectly, in any transactions in the securities of the Company, or any transactions involving or relating to the Company’s securities, during the period from the date hereof until such time as (i) the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced as described in Section 4(i) hereof (provided the Company complies therewith) or (ii) this Agreement is terminated in full pursuant to Section 8 hereof.

 

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(l)            Residency.  Such Buyer is a resident of that jurisdiction specified below its address on the Schedule of Buyers.

 

(m)          Acknowledgements Regarding Placement Agent. Such Buyer acknowledges to the Agent (as defined below) that the Agent is acting as placement agent for the Securities being offered hereby and will be compensated by the Company for acting in such capacity.  Such Buyer further acknowledges that the Agent has acted solely as placement agent in connection with the offering of the Securities by the Company, that the information and data provided to such Buyer in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby have not been subjected to independent verification or investigation by the Agent, and that the Agent makes no representation or warranty with respect to the accuracy or completeness of such information, data or other related disclosure material, nor shall the Agent or any of its directors, officers, employees, representatives, controlling persons or agents be liable for any loss or damages of any kind resulting from the use of such information, data or related disclosure material except as set forth below.  Such Buyer further acknowledges that in making its decision to enter into this Agreement and purchase the Securities, it has not relied on information provided by the Agent but has conducted its own investigation and has relied on its own examination of the Company and the terms of, and consequences, of holding the Securities.  Such Buyer further acknowledges that the provisions of this Section 2(m) are for the benefit of, and may be enforced by, and only by, the Agent.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth above, the foregoing shall not be deemed to waive or limit such Buyer’s legal remedies as a result of the willful misconduct or fraud of the Agent or any of its directors, officers, employees, representatives, controlling persons or agents.

 

3.             REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.

 

The Company represents and warrants to each of the Buyers that, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date:

 

(a)           Organization and Qualification.  Each of the Company and its “Subsidiaries” (which for purposes of this Agreement means any joint venture or any entity in which the Company, directly or indirectly, owns 50% or more of the capital stock or an equity or similar interest) are entities duly organized and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which they are formed, and have the requisite power and authorization to own their properties and to carry on their business as now being conducted.  Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is duly qualified as a foreign entity to do business and is in good standing in every jurisdiction in which its ownership of property or the nature of the business conducted by it makes such qualification necessary, except to the extent that the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  As used in this Agreement, “Material Adverse Effect” means any material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets, operations, results of operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or on the transactions contemplated hereby or in the other Transaction Documents or by the agreements and instruments to be entered into in connection herewith or therewith, or on the authority or ability of the Company to perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents (as defined below).  The Company has no Subsidiaries except as set forth on Schedule 3(a).

 

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(b)           Authorization; Enforcement; Validity.  The Company has the requisite power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions (as defined below), the Registration Rights Agreement, the Notes, the Security Documents and each of the other agreements entered into by the parties hereto in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (collectively, the “Transaction Documents”) and to issue the Securities in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.  The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including, without limitation, the issuance of the Notes, the reservation for issuance and the issuance of the Conversion Shares issuable upon conversion of the Note and the granting of the Mortgages, the Guarantees and the security interest in the Real Property Collateral (as defined in the Notes) have been duly authorized by the Company’s Board of Directors and no further consent or authorization is required by the Company, its Board of Directors or its stockholders.  This Agreement and the other Transaction Documents have been duly executed and delivered by the Company, and constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity or applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation or similar laws relating to, or affecting generally, the enforcement of applicable creditors’ rights and remedies.

 

(c)           Issuance of Securities.  The issuance of the Notes are duly authorized and, upon issuance, shall be free from all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof.  As of the Closing, a number of shares of Common Stock shall have been duly authorized and reserved for issuance which equals or exceeds 120% of the aggregate of the maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes (without taking into account any limitations on the conversion of the Notes).  Upon conversion in accordance with the Notes, the Conversion Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free from all preemptive or similar rights, taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof, with the holders being entitled to all rights accorded to a holder of Common Stock. Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Buyers contained herein, the offer and issuance by the Company of the Securities is exempt from registration under the 1933 Act.

 

(d)           No Conflicts.  The execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (including, without limitation, the issuance of the Notes and the reservation for issuance and issuance of the Conversion Shares) will not (i) result in a violation of any certificate of incorporation, certificate of formation, any certificate of designations or other constituent documents of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or bylaws of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, any material agreement, indenture or instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party, or (iii) result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree (including federal and state securities laws and regulations and the rules and regulations of The New York Stock Exchange (the “Principal Market”) applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by which any property or asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound or affected.

 

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(e)           Consents.  Except as set forth on Schedule 3(e), neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is required to obtain any consent, authorization or order of, or make any filing or registration with, any court, governmental agency or any regulatory or self-regulatory agency or any other Person in order for it to execute, deliver or perform any of its obligations under or contemplated by the Transaction Documents, in each case in accordance with the terms hereof or thereof.  All consents, authorizations, orders, filings and registrations which the Company is required to obtain pursuant to the preceding sentence have been obtained or effected on or prior to the Closing Date and the Company and its Subsidiaries are unaware of any facts or circumstances that could reasonably be expected to prevent the Company from obtaining or effecting any of the registration, application or filings pursuant to the preceding sentence, except for (i) the filing with the SEC of one or more Registration Statements in accordance with the requirements of the Registration Rights Agreement, (ii) the filing of a notice of sale of securities on Form D with the SEC under Regulation D and any related state securities filings, and (iii) the 8-K Filing pursuant to Section 4(i).  The Company is not in violation of the listing requirements of the Principal Market and has no knowledge of any facts that could reasonably be expected to lead to delisting or suspension of the Common Stock in the foreseeable future.  The issuance by the Company of the Securities shall not have the effect of delisting or suspending the Common Stock from the Principal Market.

 

(f)            Acknowledgment Regarding Buyer’s Purchase of Securities.  The Company acknowledges and agrees that each Buyer is acting individually and solely in the capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and that no Buyer is (i) an officer or director of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) to the knowledge of the Company, an “affiliate” of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (as defined in Rule 144) or (iii) to the knowledge of the Company, a “beneficial owner” of more than 10% of the shares of Common Stock (as defined for purposes of Rule 13d-3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”)).  The Company further acknowledges that no Buyer is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, and any advice given by a Buyer or any of its representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby is merely incidental to such Buyer’s purchase of the Securities.  The Company further represents to each Buyer that the Company’s decision to enter into the Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent evaluation by the Company and its representatives.

 

(g)           No General Solicitation; Placement Agent’s Fees.  Neither the Company, nor any of its Subsidiaries or affiliates, nor any Person acting on its or their behalf, has engaged in any form of general solicitation or general advertising (within the meaning of Regulation D) in connection with the offer or sale of the Securities.  The Company shall be responsible for the payment of any placement agent’s fees, financial advisory fees, or brokers’ commissions (other than for persons engaged by any Buyer or its investment advisor) relating to or arising out of the transactions contemplated hereby.  The Company shall pay, and hold each Buyer harmless against, any liability, loss or expense (including, without limitation, attorney’s fees and out-of-pocket expenses) arising in connection with any such claim.  The Company acknowledges that it has engaged Banc of America Securities as placement agent (collectively, the “Agent”) in connection with the sale of the Securities.  Other than the Agent, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has engaged any placement agent or other agent in connection with the sale of the Securities.

 

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(h)           No Integrated Offering.  None of the Company, its Subsidiaries, any of their affiliates, and any Person acting on their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to buy any security, under circumstances that would require registration of any of the Securities under the 1933 Act, whether through integration with prior offerings or otherwise, or cause this offering of the Securities to require approval of stockholders of the Company for purposes of the 1933 Act or any applicable stockholder approval provisions, including, without limitation, under the rules and regulations of any exchange or automated quotation system on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or designated.  None of the Company, its Subsidiaries, their affiliates and any Person acting on their behalf will take any action or steps referred to in the preceding sentence that would (i) require registration of any of the Securities under the 1933 Act, (ii) cause the offering of the Securities to be integrated with other offerings in violation of the 1933 Act or (iii) cause the sale and issuance of the Securities to be subject to any stockholder approval requirement, including, without limitation, under the rules and regulations of any exchange or automated quotation system on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or designated.

 

(i)            Dilutive Effect.  The Company understands and acknowledges that the number of Conversion Shares issuable upon conversion of the Notes will increase in certain circumstances.  The Company further acknowledges that its obligation to issue the Conversion Shares upon conversion of the Notes in accordance with this Agreement and the Notes is absolute and unconditional regardless of the dilutive effect that such issuance may have on the ownership interests of other stockholders of the Company.

 

(j)            Application of Takeover Protections; Rights Agreement.  The Company and its Board of Directors have taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the Certificate of Incorporation or the laws of the State of Hawaii which is or could become applicable to any Buyer as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including, without limitation, the Company’s issuance of the Securities and any Buyer’s ownership of the Securities.  The Company and its Board of Directors have taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any stockholder rights plan or similar arrangement relating to accumulations of beneficial ownership of Common Stock or a change in control of the Company.

 

(k)           SEC Documents; Financial Statements.  Except as set forth on Schedule 3(k), during the two (2) years prior to the date hereof, the Company has timely filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by it with the SEC pursuant to the reporting requirements of the 1934 Act (all of the foregoing filed prior to the date hereof or prior to the date of the Closing, and all exhibits included therein and financial statements, notes and schedules thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein being hereinafter referred to as the “SEC Documents”).  The Company has made available to the Buyers or their respective representatives true, correct and complete copies of the SEC Documents not available on the EDGAR system.  As of their respective filing dates, the SEC Documents complied in all material respects with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the rules 

 

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and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to the SEC Documents, and none of the SEC Documents, at the time they were filed with the SEC, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.  As of their respective filing dates, the financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Documents complied as to form in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto.  Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied, during the periods involved (except (i) as may be otherwise indicated in such financial statements or the notes thereto, or (ii) in the case of unaudited interim statements, to the extent they may exclude footnotes or may be condensed or summary statements) and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company as of the dates thereof and the results of its operations and cash flows for the periods then ended (subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal year-end audit adjustments).

 

(l)            Absence of Certain Changes.  Except as disclosed in Schedule 3(l), since December 31, 2007, there has been no material adverse change in the business, properties, operations, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations or prospects of the Company or its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.  Except as disclosed in Schedule 3(l), since December 31, 2007, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has (i) declared or paid any dividends, (ii) sold any assets, individually or in the aggregate, in excess of $2,500,000 outside of the ordinary course of business or (iii) had capital expenditures, individually or in the aggregate, in excess of $2,500,000.  Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has taken any steps to seek protection pursuant to any bankruptcy law nor does the Company have any knowledge or reason to believe that its creditors intend to initiate involuntary bankruptcy proceedings or any actual knowledge of any fact which would reasonably lead a creditor to do so.  The Company and its Subsidiaries, individually and on a consolidated basis, are not as of the date hereof, and after giving effect to the transactions contemplated hereby to occur at the Closing, will not be Insolvent (as defined below).  For purposes of this Section 3(l), “Insolvent” means, with respect to any Person (as defined in Section 3(s)), (i) the present fair saleable value of such Person’s assets is less than the amount required to pay such Person’s total Indebtedness (as defined in Section 3(s)), (ii) such Person is unable to pay its debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and liabilities become absolute and matured, (iii) such Person intends to incur or believes that it will incur debts that would be beyond its ability to pay as such debts mature or (iv) such Person has unreasonably small capital with which to conduct the business in which it is engaged as such business is now conducted and is proposed to be conducted.

 

(m)          [Intentionally Omitted]

 

(n)           Conduct of Business; Regulatory Permits.  Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries is in violation of any term of or in default under any certificate of designations of any outstanding series of preferred stock of the Company, its Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws or their organizational charter or certificate of incorporation or bylaws, respectively.  Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any judgment, decree or order or any statute, ordinance, rule or regulation applicable to the Company or its Subsidiaries, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries will conduct its business in violation of any of the foregoing, except for possible violations which could not, individually or in the aggregate,

 

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reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company is not in violation of any of the rules, regulations or requirements of the Principal Market and has no knowledge of any facts or circumstances that would reasonably lead to delisting or suspension of the Common Stock by the Principal Market in the foreseeable future.  During the two (2) years prior to the date hereof, (i) the Common Stock has been designated for quotation or listed on the Principal Market, (ii) trading in the Common Stock has not been suspended by the SEC or the Principal Market and (iii) the Company has received no communication, written or oral, from the SEC or the Principal Market regarding the suspension or delisting of the Common Stock from the Principal Market.  For purposes of the foregoing sentence, “Principal Market” means the American Stock Exchange prior to April 1, 2008 and the New York Stock Exchange on and after April 1, 2008.  The Company and its Subsidiaries possess all certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate federal, state or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses, except where the failure to possess such certificates, authorizations or permits would not have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, and neither the Company nor any such Subsidiary has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such certificate, authorization or permit.

 

(o)           Foreign Corrupt Practices.  Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries nor any director, officer, agent, employee or other Person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has, in the course of its actions for, or on behalf of, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expenses relating to political activity; (ii) made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended; or (iv) made any unlawful bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee.

 

(p)           Sarbanes-Oxley Act.  The Company is in compliance with any and all applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that are effective as of the date hereof, and any and all applicable rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC thereunder that are effective as of the date hereof.

 

(q)           Transactions With Affiliates.  Except as set forth on Schedule 3(q), none of the officers, directors or employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is presently a party to any transaction with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than for ordinary course services as employees, officers or directors), including any contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any such officer, director or employee or, to the knowledge of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any corporation, partnership, trust or other entity in which any such officer, director, or employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee or partner.

 

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(r)            Equity Capitalization.  As of the date hereof, the authorized capital stock of the Company consists of 23,000,000 shares of Common Stock, of which as of the date hereof, 8,175,095 shares are issued and outstanding, 1,178,064 shares are reserved for issuance pursuant to the Company’s stock option and purchase plans and 164,083 shares are reserved for issuance pursuant to securities (other than the aforementioned options and the Notes) exercisable or exchangeable for, or convertible into, shares of Common Stock.  All of such outstanding shares have been, or upon issuance will be, validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable.  Except as disclosed in Schedule 3(r): (i) none of the Company’s capital stock is subject to preemptive rights or any other similar rights or any liens or encumbrances suffered or permitted by the Company; (ii) there are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip, rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, any shares of capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound to issue additional shares of capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or options, warrants, scrip, rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, any shares of capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (iii) there are no outstanding debt securities, notes, credit agreements, credit facilities or other agreements, documents or instruments evidencing Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which are convertible into or exchangeable for any shares of capital stock of the Company; (iv) there are no agreements or arrangements under which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is obligated to register the sale of any of their securities under the 1933 Act (except pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement); (v) there are no outstanding securities or instruments of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which contain any redemption or similar provisions (other than rights to purchase shares of Common Stock of employees in accordance with Approved Stock Plans (as defined in the Notes) and other agreements consistent with past practices), and there are no contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound to redeem a security of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (vi) there are no securities or instruments containing anti-dilution or similar provisions that will be triggered by the issuance of the Securities; and (vii) the Company does not have any stock appreciation rights or “phantom stock” plans or agreements or any similar plan or agreement.  The Company has made available to the Buyers true, correct and complete copies of the Company’s Articles of Association, as amended and as in effect on the date hereof (the “Certificate of Incorporation”), and the Company’s Bylaws, as amended and as in effect on the date hereof (the “Bylaws”), and the terms of all securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, shares of Common Stock and the material rights of the holders thereof in respect thereto.

 

(s)           Indebtedness and Other Contracts.  Except as disclosed in Schedule 3(s), neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (i) has any outstanding Indebtedness (as defined below) in excess of $100,000 or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound, (ii) is a party to any contract, agreement or instrument, the violation of which, or default under which, by the other party(ies) to such contract, agreement or instrument could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (iii) is in violation of any term of or in default under any contract, agreement or instrument relating to any Indebtedness, except where such violations and defaults would not result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect, or (iv) is a party to any contract, agreement or instrument relating to any Indebtedness, the performance of which, in the judgment of the Company’s officers, has or is expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  Except as disclosed in Schedule 3(r), (i) there are no financing statements securing Indebtedness in any material amounts, either singly or in the

 

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aggregate, filed in connection with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, excluding financing statements relating to capital lease obligations or purchase money security interests disclosed in the SEC Documents, and (ii) the Company and its Subsidiaries have no Indebtedness or other obligations required to be disclosed in the SEC Documents but not so disclosed in the SEC Documents, other than those incurred in the ordinary course of the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ respective businesses and which, individually or in the aggregate, do not or would not have a Material Adverse Effect.   For purposes of this Agreement:  (x) “Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication (A) all indebtedness for borrowed money, (B) all obligations issued, undertaken or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property or services, including, without limitation, “capital leases” in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles (other than trade payables entered into in the ordinary course of business), (C) all reimbursement or payment obligations with respect to letters of credit, surety bonds and other similar instruments, (D) all obligations evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or similar instruments, including obligations so evidenced incurred in connection with the acquisition of property, assets or businesses, (E) all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, or incurred as financing, in either case with respect to any property or assets acquired with the proceeds of such indebtedness (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or bank under such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property), (F) all monetary obligations under any leasing or similar arrangement which, in connection with generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied for the periods covered thereby, is classified as a capital lease, (G) all indebtedness referred to in clauses (A) through (F) above secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or other encumbrance upon or in any property or assets (including accounts and contract rights) owned by any Person, even though the Person which owns such assets or property has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such indebtedness, and (H) all Contingent Obligations in respect of indebtedness or obligations of others of the kinds referred to in clauses (A) through (G) above; (y) “Contingent Obligation” means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect liability, contingent or otherwise, of that Person with respect to any indebtedness, lease, dividend or other obligation of another Person if the primary purpose or intent of the Person incurring such liability, or the primary effect thereof, is to provide assurance to the obligee of such liability that such liability will be paid or discharged, or that any agreements relating thereto will be complied with, or that the holders of such liability will be protected (in whole or in part) against loss with respect thereto; and (z) “Person” means an individual, a limited liability company, a partnership, a joint venture, a corporation, a trust, an unincorporated organization and a government or any department or agency thereof.

 

(t)            Absence of Litigation.  There is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or by the Principal Market, any court, public board, government agency, self-regulatory organization or body pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the Common Stock or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or any of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ officers or directors, whether of a civil or criminal nature or otherwise, that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(u)                                 Insurance.  The Company and each of its Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as management of the Company believes to be prudent and customary in the businesses in which the Company and its Subsidiaries are engaged.  Neither the Company nor any such Subsidiary has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not have a Material Adverse Effect.  Notice is hereby given that the Company is not required to obtain insurance from or through any particular insurer, agent or broker as a condition to the purchase of the Notes.

 

(v)                                 Employee Relations.

 

(i)                                     Except as disclosed in Schedule 3(v), neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any collective bargaining agreement or employs any member of a union.  The Company and its Subsidiaries believe that their relations with their employees are good.  No executive officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (as defined in Rule 501(f) of the 1933 Act) has notified the Company or any such Subsidiary that such officer intends to leave the Company or any such Subsidiary or otherwise terminate such officer’s employment with the Company or any such Subsidiary.  No executive officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is, or is now expected to be, in violation of any material term of any employment contract, confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information agreement, non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or any restrictive covenant, and the continued employment of each such executive officer does not subject the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any liability with respect to any of the foregoing matters.

 

(ii)                                  The Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations respecting labor, employment and employment practices and benefits, terms and conditions of employment and wages and hours, except where failure to be in compliance would not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(iii)                               No pension or other benefit plan of the Company is a “multiemployer plan” (as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA) and neither the Company, its Subsidiaries nor any member of their Controlled Group has at any time sponsored or contributed to, or has or had any liability or obligation in respect of, any multiemployer plan.

 

(iv)                              Except as listed in Schedule 3(v)(iv), there are no (x) unfair labor practice charges, (y) any material (class-wide, potential class-wide or significant issues of Company policy) grievances or arbitrations, and/or (z) strikes or work stoppages  pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened in writing by or on behalf of any employee or group of employees of the Company.

 

(w)                               Title.  Except as disclosed in Schedule 3(w), the Company and its Subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to all real property and good and marketable title to all personal property owned by them which is material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and defects except such as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and any of its Subsidiaries.  Any real property and facilities held under lease by the Company and any of its Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with such exceptions as are not material and do not interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property and buildings by the Company and its Subsidiaries.

 

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(x)                                   Intellectual Property Rights.  The Company and its Subsidiaries own or possess adequate rights or licenses to use all trademarks, trade names, service marks, service mark registrations, service names, original works of authorship, patents, patent rights, copyrights, inventions, licenses, approvals, governmental authorizations, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights and all applications and registrations therefor (“Intellectual Property Rights”) necessary to conduct their respective businesses as now conducted.  None of the Company’s registered, or applied for, material Intellectual Property Rights has expired or terminated or have been abandoned, or are expected to expire or terminate or are expected to be abandoned, within three years from the date of this Agreement.  The Company does not have any knowledge of any infringement by the Company or its Subsidiaries of Intellectual Property Rights of others which, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding would have a Material Adverse Effect.  There is no claim, action or proceeding being made or brought, or to the knowledge of the Company or its Subsidiaries, being threatened, against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries regarding its Intellectual Property Rights.  Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is aware of any facts or circumstances which might give rise to any of the foregoing infringements or claims, actions or proceedings.  The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable security measures to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all of their Intellectual Property Rights.

 

(y)                                 Environmental Laws.  Except as set forth in Schedule 3(y), the Company and its Subsidiaries (i) are in compliance with any and all Environmental Laws (as hereinafter defined), (ii) have received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses and (iii) are in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or approval where, in each of the foregoing clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), the failure to so comply could be reasonably expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.  The term “Environmental Laws” means all federal, state, local or foreign laws relating to pollution or protection of human health or the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata), including, without limitation, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and other laws relating to emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, or toxic or hazardous substances or wastes (collectively, “Hazardous Materials”) into the environment, or otherwise relating to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials, as well as all authorizations, codes, decrees, demands or demand letters, injunctions, judgments, licenses, notices or notice letters, orders, permits, plans or regulations issued, entered, promulgated or approved thereunder.

 

(z)                                   Subsidiary Rights.  The Company or one of its Subsidiaries has the unrestricted right to vote, and (subject to limitations imposed by applicable law) to receive dividends and distributions on, all capital securities of its Subsidiaries as owned by the Company or such Subsidiary.

 

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(aa)                            Tax Status.  The Company and each of its Subsidiaries (i) has made or filed all federal, foreign and state income and all other tax returns, reports and declarations required by any jurisdiction to which it is subject, (ii) has paid all taxes and other governmental assessments and charges that are material in amount, shown or determined to be due on such returns, reports and declarations, except those being contested in good faith and (iii) has set aside on its books provision reasonably adequate for the payment of all taxes for periods subsequent to the periods to which such returns, reports or declarations apply.  There are no unpaid taxes in any material amount claimed to be due by the taxing authority of any jurisdiction, and the officers of the Company know of no basis for any such claim.

 

(bb)                          Internal Accounting and Disclosure Controls.  The Company and each of its Subsidiaries maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset and liability accountability, (iii) access to assets or incurrence of liabilities is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets and liabilities is compared with the existing assets and liabilities at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any difference.  The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15 under the 1934 Act) that are effective in ensuring that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the 1934 Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC, including, without limitation, controls and procedures designed in to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the 1934 Act is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including its principal executive officer or officers and its principal financial officer or officers, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.  During the twelve months prior to the date hereof neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have received any notice or correspondence from any accountant which has currently or previously been engaged by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries relating to any material weakness in any part of the system of internal accounting controls of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

(cc)                            Ranking of Notes.  Except as set forth on Schedule 3(cc), no Indebtedness of the Company is senior to or ranks pari passu with the Notes in right of payment, whether with respect of payment of redemptions, interest, damages or upon liquidation or dissolution or otherwise, other than Permitted Secured Indebtedness.

 

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

 

(ee)                            Form S-3 Eligibility.  The Company is eligible to register the Conversion Shares for resale by the Buyers using Form S-3 promulgated under the 1933 Act.

 

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(ff)                                Manipulation of Price.  The Company has not, and to its knowledge no one acting on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to cause or to result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the Securities, (ii) other than the Agent, sold, bid for, purchased, or paid any compensation for soliciting purchases of, any of the Securities, or (iii) paid or agreed to pay to any person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other securities of the Company.

 

(gg)                          Transfer Taxes.  On the Closing Date, all stock transfer or other taxes (other than income or similar taxes) which are required to be paid in connection with the sale and transfer of the Securities to be sold to each Buyer hereunder will be, or will have been, fully paid or provided for by the Company, and all laws imposing such taxes will be or will have been complied with.

 

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

 

(ii)                                  Acknowledgement Regarding Buyers’ Trading Activity.  It is understood and acknowledged by the Company that, except as otherwise provided in Section 2(k) above, (i) none of the Buyers have been asked to agree, nor has any Buyer agreed, to desist from purchasing or selling, long and/or short, securities of the Company, or “derivative” securities based on securities issued by the Company or to hold the Securities for any specified term; (ii) any Buyer, and counter-parties in “derivative” transactions to which any such Buyer is a party, directly or indirectly, presently may have a “short” position in the Common Stock, and (iii) to the knowledge of the Company, each Buyer shall not be deemed to have any affiliation with or control over any arm’s length counter-party in any “derivative” transaction.  The Company further understands and acknowledges that, except as otherwise provided in Section 2(k) above, one or more Buyers may engage in hedging and/or trading activities at various times during the period that the Securities are outstanding, including, without limitation, during the periods that the value of the Conversion Shares are being determined and (b) such hedging and/or trading activities, if any, can reduce the value of the existing stockholders’ equity interest in the Company both at and after the time the hedging and/or trading activities are being conducted.  The Company acknowledges that such aforementioned hedging and/or trading activities do not constitute a breach of this Agreement, the Notes or any of the documents executed in connection herewith.

 

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

 

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(kk)                            Shell Company Status. The Company is not, and has never been, an issuer identified in Rule 144(i)(1).

 

(ll)                                  Foreign Assets Control Regulations.  The use of proceeds from the sale of the Securities will not violate the Trading with the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. Section 1 et seq., as amended) (the “Trading with the Company Act”) or any of the foreign asset control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) (the “Foreign Assets Control Regulations”) or any enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto (which for the avoidance of doubt shall include, but shall not be limited to (a) Executive Order 13224 of September 21, 2001 Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism (66 Fed. Reg. 49079(2001)) (the “Executive Order”) and (b) the Uniting and Strengthening America by providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-56)). Furthermore, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or other affiliates (a) is or will become a “blocked person” as described in the Executive Order, the Trading with the Enemy Act or the Foreign Assets Control Regulations, or (b) engages or will engage in any dealings or transactions, or otherwise associated, with any such “blocked person”.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

(pp)                          Properties.

 

(i)                                     Except as noted in Schedule 3(pp), none of the Properties (as defined below) are subject to any material lease, sublease, license or similar agreement that grants to any other Person any right to acquire, lease, use or occupy such Properties or any part thereof.

 

(ii)                                  Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received, with respect to any Property, any written notice of any default under any lease, restrictive covenant, restriction or condition materially affecting any such Property and there has not occurred any event that with the lapse of time or the giving of notice or both would constitute such a default under any lease, restrictive covenant, restriction or condition by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the Company’s knowledge, any other party.

 

(iii)                               The Company has not received any written notice of any (i) violations of building codes and/or zoning ordinances or other governmental or regulatory laws affecting the Properties, or (ii) existing, pending or threatened condemnation proceedings or aboriginal rights title or treaty rights claims affecting the Properties or the improvements situated thereon or (iii) existing, pending or threatened zoning, building or other moratoria proceedings, restrictive allocations or similar matters, in any case, which could reasonably be expected to adversely affect use of the Properties or the improvements situated thereon for their current use.

 

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(iv)                              The Company is the legal and beneficial owner of the Real Property Collateral (as defined in the Notes).  MLP KB Partner, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, is the legal and beneficial owner of a 51% interest in Kapalua Bay Holdings, LLC and MLP RCK, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, is the legal and beneficial owner of a 16% interest in W2005 Kapalua / Gengate Hotel Holdings, LLC.

 

(qq)                          Disclosure.  The Company confirms that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any of the Buyers or their agents or counsel with any information that constitutes or could reasonably be expected to constitute material, nonpublic information, other than the terms of the transactions contemplated hereby, which shall be publicly disclosed pursuant to Section 4(i), and other than information that will be publicly disclosed prior to or concurrently with the disclosures made pursuant to Section 4(i).  The Company understands and confirms that each of the Buyers will rely on the foregoing representations in effecting transactions in securities of the Company.  All written disclosure provided to the Buyers regarding the Company, or any of its Subsidiaries, their business and the transactions contemplated hereby in any Transaction Documents, including the disclosure schedules to this Agreement, furnished by or on behalf of the Company is true and correct and does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.  Each press release issued by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries during the twelve (12) months preceding the date of this Agreement did not at the time of release contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.  No event or circumstance has occurred or information exists with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or its or their business, properties, prospects, operations or financial conditions, which, under applicable law, rule or regulation, requires public disclosure or announcement by the Company but which has not been so publicly announced or disclosed.  The Company acknowledges and agrees that no Buyer makes or has made any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in Section 2.

 

4.                                       COVENANTS.

 

(a)                                  Best Efforts.  Each party shall use its best efforts timely to satisfy each of the covenants and the conditions to be satisfied by it as provided in Sections 5, 6 and 7 of this Agreement.

 

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(b)                                 Form D and Blue Sky.  The Company agrees to file a Form D with respect to the Securities as required under Regulation D and to provide a copy thereof to each Buyer promptly after such filing.  The Company, on or before the Closing Date, shall take such action as the Company shall reasonably determine is necessary in order to obtain an exemption for or to qualify the Securities for sale to the Buyers at the Closing pursuant to this Agreement under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of the United States (or to obtain an exemption from such qualification), and shall provide evidence of any such action so taken to the Buyers on or prior to the Closing Date.  The Company shall make all filings and reports relating to the offer and sale of the Securities required under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of the United States following the Closing Date.

 

(c)                                  Reporting Status.  Until the earlier of (i) the date on which the Investors (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) shall have sold all the Conversion Shares and none of the Notes are outstanding and (ii) the date on which the Buyers may sell all of the Notes, Conversion Shares without restriction pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement to be in compliance with Rule 144(c)(1) (or any successor thereto) promulgated under the 1933 Act (the “Reporting Period”), the Company shall timely file all reports required to be filed with the SEC pursuant to the 1934 Act, and the Company shall not terminate its status as an issuer required to file reports under the 1934 Act even if the 1934 Act or the rules and regulations thereunder would no longer require or otherwise permit such termination, and the Company shall take all actions necessary to maintain its eligibility to register the Conversion Shares for resale by the Buyers on Form S-3.

 

(d)                                 Use of Proceeds.  The Company will use the proceeds from the sale of the Securities for (i) the repayment of Indebtedness as set forth on Schedule 4(d), (ii) the construction and development of the Kapalua Beach Club, Kapalua Spa, and Mauka infrastructure and (iii) general corporate purposes, including general and administrative expenses and not for (x) the repayment of any other outstanding Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (y) the redemption or repurchase of any of its or its Subsidiaries’ equity securities.

 

(e)                                  Financial Information.  The Company agrees to send the following to each Investor (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) during the Reporting Period (i) unless the following are filed with the SEC through EDGAR and are available to the public through the EDGAR system, within one (1) Business Day after the filing thereof with the SEC, a copy of its Annual Reports on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, any SEC filings including any interim reports or any consolidated balance sheets, income statements, stockholders’ equity statements and/or cash flow statements for any period other than annual, any Current Reports on Form 8-K and any registration statements (other than on Form S-8) or amendments filed pursuant to the 1933 Act, (ii) on the same day as the release thereof, facsimile copies or e-mailed copies of all press releases issued by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and (iii) copies of any notices and other information made available or given to the stockholders of the Company generally, contemporaneously with the making available or giving thereof to the stockholders.  As used herein, “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in The City of New York are authorized or required by law to remain closed.

 

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(f)                                    Listing.  The Company shall, promptly following the Closing, secure the listing of all of the Registrable Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) upon the  Principal Market (subject to official notice of issuance) and shall maintain such listing on the Principal Market or any Eligible Market of all Registrable Securities from time to time issuable under the terms of the Transaction Documents.  The Company shall maintain the authorization for quotation of the Common Stock on the Principal Market or any Eligible Market (as defined in the Notes).  Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall take any action which would be reasonably expected to result in the delisting or suspension of the Common Stock on the Principal Market.  The Company shall pay all fees and expenses in connection with satisfying its obligations under this Section 4(f).  Except as otherwise set forth in the Transaction Documents, each party to this Agreement shall bear its own expenses in connection with the sale of the Securities to the Buyers.

 

(g)                                 Fees.  The Company shall reimburse the RCG Entities or their designee(s) (in addition to any other expense amounts paid to any Buyer prior to the date of this Agreement) for all reasonable costs and expenses, incurred in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (including all reasonable legal fees and disbursements in connection therewith, documentation and implementation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and due diligence in connection therewith), including any amounts previously paid to any of the RCG Entities or any of their affiliates in accordance with the term sheet with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, which amount incurred prior to the Closing Date, up to a maximum reimbursement of $125,000 (split equally for each of the RCG Entities), may be withheld by such Buyers from their Purchase Price at the Closing and thereafter such other legal fees and expenses of the RCG Entities, not to exceed $25,000 in the aggregate, incurred in connection with the Company’s compliance with Section 4(s) below or with respect to the Security Documents shall be paid promptly upon receipt of a written invoice from either of the RCG Entities or their legal counsel, but in no event later than three (3) Business Days after such receipt.  The Company shall be responsible for the payment of any placement agent’s fees, financial advisory fees, or broker’s commissions (other than for Persons engaged by any Buyer) relating to or arising out of the transactions contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, any fees payable to the Agent.  The Company shall pay, and hold each Buyer harmless against, any liability, loss or expense (including, without limitation, reasonable attorney’s fees and out-of-pocket expenses) arising in connection with any claim relating to any such payment.

 

(h)                                 Pledge of Securities.  The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Securities may be pledged by an Investor in connection with a bona fide margin agreement or other loan or financing arrangement that is secured by the Securities.  The pledge of Securities shall not be deemed to be a transfer, sale or assignment of the Securities hereunder, and no Investor effecting a pledge of Securities shall be required to provide the Company with any notice thereof or otherwise make any delivery to the Company pursuant to this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, including, without limitation, Section 2(f) of this Agreement; provided that an Investor and its pledgee shall be required to comply with the provisions of Section 2(f) of this Agreement in order to effect a sale, transfer or assignment of Securities to such pledgee.  The Company hereby agrees to execute and deliver such documentation as a pledgee of the Securities may reasonably request in connection with a pledge of the Securities to such pledgee by an Investor.

 

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(i)                                     Disclosure of Transactions and Other Material Information.  The Company shall, on or before 8:30 a.m., New York City time, on July 28, 2008, issue a press release and, on or before 8:30 a.m., New York City time, on July 29, 2008, file a Current Report on Form 8-K describing the terms of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents in the form required by the 1934 Act, and attaching the material Transaction Documents (including, without limitation, this Agreement, the form of Registration Rights Agreement, the Form of Guarantee and the form of Note) as exhibits to such filing (including all attachments, the “8-K Filing”).  The Company shall file a copy of the Security Documents on a subsequent Form 8-K no later than four (4) Business Days after the execution of such Security Documents.  From and after the filing of the 8-K Filing with the SEC, no Buyer shall be in possession of any material, nonpublic information received from the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective officers, directors, employees or agents, that is not disclosed in the 8-K Filing.  The Company shall not, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries and its and each of their respective officers, directors, employees and agents, not to, provide any Buyer with any material, nonpublic information regarding the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from and after the filing of the 8-K Filing with the SEC without the prior express written consent of such Buyer.  If a Buyer has, or believes it has, received any such material, nonpublic information regarding the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective officers, directors, affiliates or agents, it may provide the Company with written notice thereof.  In the event of the disclosure of any material nonpublic information, the Company shall comply with its obligations under Regulation FD promulgated under the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act.  Subject to the foregoing, neither the Company, its Subsidiaries nor any Buyer shall issue any press releases or any other public statements with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby; provided, however, that the Company shall be entitled, without the prior approval of any Buyer, to make any press release or other public disclosure with respect to such transactions (i) in substantial conformity with the 8-K Filing and contemporaneously therewith and (ii) as is required by applicable law and regulations (provided that in the case of clause (i) each Buyer shall be consulted by the Company in connection with any such press release or other public disclosure prior to its release).  Without the prior written consent of any applicable Buyer, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or affiliates shall disclose the name of such Buyer in any filing, announcement, release or otherwise.

 

(j)                                     [Intentionally Omitted]

 

(k)                                  Additional Notes; Variable Securities; Dilutive Issuances.  So long as any Buyer beneficially owns any Notes, the Company will not issue any Notes (other than to the Buyers as contemplated hereby) and the Company shall not issue any other securities that would cause a breach or default under the Notes.  For so long as any Notes remain outstanding, the Company shall not, in any manner, issue or sell any rights, warrants or options to subscribe for or purchase Common Stock or directly or indirectly convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Common Stock at a price which varies or may vary with the market price of the Common Stock, including by way of one or more reset(s) to any fixed price unless the conversion, exchange or exercise price of any such security cannot be less than the then applicable Conversion Price (as defined in the Notes) with respect to the Common Stock into which any Note is convertible.  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, for so long as any Notes remain outstanding, the Company shall not take any action if the effect of such action would be to cause the number of Conversion Shares issuable upon conversion of the Notes (without respect to any limitation of conversion set forth therein) to exceed the Exchange Cap (as defined in the Notes), unless or until the Company shall have obtained the approval of the stockholders of the Company (the “Stockholder Approval”) for the issuance of all of the Securities as described in the Transaction Documents in accordance with applicable law and the rules and regulations of the Principal Market, including without limitation, New York Stock Exchange Rule 312.03(c).

 

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

 

(m)                               Reservation of Shares.  So long as any Buyer owns any Securities, the Company shall take all action necessary to at all times have authorized, and reserved for the purpose of issuance, no less than 120% of the sum of the number of shares of Common Stock (the “Required Reserved Amount) issuable upon conversion of the Notes pursuant to the terms of the Notes (without taking into account any limitations on the conversion of the Notes).  If at any time the number of shares of Common Stock authorized and reserved for issuance (“Authorized and Reserved Shares”) is not sufficient to meet the Required Reserved Amount, the Company will promptly take all corporate action necessary to authorize and reserve a sufficient number of shares, including, without limitation, calling a special meeting of stockholders to authorize additional shares to meet the Company’s obligations under this Section 4(m), in the case of an insufficient number of authorized shares, obtain stockholder approval of an increase in such authorized number of shares, and voting the management shares of the Company in favor of an increase in the authorized shares of the Company to ensure that the number of authorized shares is sufficient to meet the Required Reserved Amount.

 

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

 

(o)                                 Additional Issuances of Securities.

 

(i)                                     For purposes of this Section 4(o), the following definitions shall apply.

 

(2)                                   “Convertible Securities” means any stock or securities (other than Options) convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock.

 

(3)                                   “Options” means any rights, warrants or options to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock or Convertible Securities.

 

(4)                                   “Common Stock Equivalents” means, collectively, Options and Convertible Securities.

 

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(ii)                                  From the date hereof until the later of (x) ninety (90) calendar days after the date hereof and (y) the date that is thirty (30) Trading Days (as defined in the Notes) following the Initial Effective Date (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) (the “Trigger Date”), the Company will not, directly or indirectly, file any registration statement with the SEC other than the Registration Statement (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement).  From the date hereof until the Trigger Date, the Company will not, directly or indirectly, offer, sell, grant any option to purchase, or otherwise dispose of (or announce any offer, sale, grant or any option to purchase or other disposition of) any of its or its Subsidiaries’ equity or equity equivalent securities, including without limitation any debt, preferred stock or other instrument or security that is, at any time during its life and under any circumstances, convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents (any such offer, sale, grant, disposition or announcement being referred to as a “Subsequent Placement”).

 

(iii)                               From the date hereof until the second anniversary of the Closing Date, the Company will not, directly or indirectly, effect any Subsequent Placement unless the Company complies with this Section 4(o)(iii).  The Company may enter into a Subsequent Placement Agreement (as defined below) and close a Subsequent Placement prior to complying with this Section 4(o)(iii) so long as the Company publicly announces entering into any such Subsequent Placement Agreement in a manner compliant with Regulation FD and delivers the Offer Notice (as defined below) to each Buyer within one Business Day thereafter.

 

(2)                                  The Company shall deliver to each Buyer an irrevocable  written notice (the “Offer Notice”) of any proposed or intended issuance or sale or exchange (the “Offer”) of the securities being offered (the “Offered Securities”) in a Subsequent Placement, which Offer Notice shall (w) identify and describe the Offered Securities, (x) describe the price and other terms upon which they are to be issued, sold or exchanged, and the number or amount of the Offered Securities to be issued, sold or exchanged, (y) identify the persons or entities (if known) to which or with which the Offered Securities are to be offered, issued, sold or exchanged and (z) offer to issue and sell to or exchange with such Buyers at least thirty percent (30%) of the Offered Securities, allocated among such Buyers (a) based on such Buyer’s pro rata portion of the aggregate principal amount of Notes purchased hereunder (the “Basic Amount”), and (b) with respect to each Buyer that elects to purchase its Basic Amount, any additional portion of the Offered Securities attributable to the Basic Amounts of other Buyers as such Buyer shall indicate it will purchase or acquire should the other Buyers subscribe for less than their Basic Amounts (the “Undersubscription Amount”), which process shall be repeated until the Buyers shall have an opportunity to subscribe for any remaining Undersubscription Amount.

 

(3)                                  To accept an Offer, in whole or in part, such Buyer must deliver a written notice to the Company prior to the end of the fifth (5th) Business Day after such Buyer’s receipt of the Offer Notice (the “Offer Period”), setting forth the portion of such Buyer’s Basic Amount that such Buyer elects to purchase and, if such Buyer shall elect to purchase all of its Basic Amount, the Undersubscription Amount, if any, that such Buyer elects to purchase (in either case, the “Notice of Acceptance”).  If the Basic Amounts subscribed for by all Buyers are less than the total of all of the Basic Amounts, then each Buyer who has set forth an Undersubscription Amount in its Notice of Acceptance shall be entitled to purchase, in addition to the Basic Amounts subscribed for, the Undersubscription Amount it has subscribed for; provided, however, that if the

 

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

 

(4)                                  The Company shall have ten (10) Business Days from the expiration of the Offer Period above (i) to offer, issue, sell or exchange all or any part of such Offered Securities as to which a Notice of Acceptance has not been given by the Buyers (the “Refused Securities”) pursuant to a definitive agreement(s) (the “Subsequent Placement Agreement”), but only to the offerees described in the Offer Notice (if so described therein) and only upon terms and conditions (including, without limitation, unit prices and interest rates) that are not more favorable to the acquiring person or persons or less favorable to the Company than those set forth in the Offer Notice and (ii) to publicly announce (a) the execution of such Subsequent Placement Agreement, and (b) either (x) the consummation of the transactions contemplated by such Subsequent Placement Agreement or (y) the termination of such Subsequent Placement Agreement, which shall be filed with the SEC on a Current Report on Form 8-K with such Subsequent Placement Agreement and any material documents contemplated therein filed as exhibits thereto.

 

(5)                                  In the event the Company shall propose to sell less than all the Refused Securities (any such sale to be in the manner and on the terms specified in Section 4(o)(iii)(3) above), then each Buyer may, at its sole option and in its sole discretion, not later than two (2) Business Days following notice from the Company of such reduced amount, reduce the number or amount of the Offered Securities specified in its Notice of Acceptance to an amount that shall be not less than the number or amount of the Offered Securities that such Buyer elected to purchase pursuant to Section 4(o)(iii)(2) above multiplied by a fraction, (i) the numerator of which shall be the number or amount of Offered Securities the Company actually proposes to issue, sell or exchange (including Offered Securities to be issued or sold to Buyers pursuant to Section 4(o)(iii)(3) above prior to such reduction) and (ii) the denominator of which shall be the original amount of the Offered Securities.  In the event that any Buyer so elects to reduce the number or amount of Offered Securities specified in its Notice of Acceptance, the Company may not issue, sell or exchange more than the reduced number or amount of the Offered Securities unless and until such securities have again been offered to the Buyers in accordance with Section 4(o)(iii)(1) above.

 

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

 

(7)                                  Any Offered Securities not acquired by the Buyers or other persons in accordance with Section 4(o)(iii)(3) above may not be issued, sold or exchanged until they are again offered to the Buyers under the procedures specified in this Agreement.

 

(8)                                  The Company and the Buyers agree that if any Buyer elects to participate in the Offer, (x) neither the Subsequent Placement Agreement with respect to such Offer nor any other transaction documents related thereto (collectively, the “Subsequent Placement Documents”) shall include any term or provisions whereby any Buyer shall be required to agree to any restrictions in trading as to any securities of the Company owned by such Buyer prior to such Subsequent Placement (other than such restrictions on trading similar in all material respects to the restrictions on trading set forth in Section 2(k) above), and (y) such Buyer shall be entitled to registration rights in such Subsequent Placement Documents similar in all material respects to the registration rights contained in the Registration Rights Agreement.

 

(9)                                  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 4(o) and unless otherwise agreed to by the Buyers, the Company shall either confirm in writing to the Buyers that the transaction with respect to the Subsequent Placement has been abandoned or shall publicly disclose its intention to issue the Offered Securities, in either case in such a manner such that the Buyers will not be in possession of material non-public information, by the fifteenth (15th) Business Day following delivery of the Offer Notice.  If by the fifteenth (15th) Business Day following delivery of the Offer Notice no public disclosure regarding a transaction with respect to the Offered Securities has been made, and no notice regarding the abandonment of such transaction has been received by the Buyers, such transaction shall be deemed to have been abandoned and the Buyers shall not be deemed to be in possession of any material, non-public information with respect to the Company.  Should the Company decide to pursue such transaction with respect to the Offered Securities, the Company shall provide each Buyer with another Offer Notice and each Buyer will again have the right of participation set forth in this Section 4(o)(iii).  The Company shall not be permitted to deliver more than one such Offer Notice to the Buyers in any sixty (60) day period, excluding Offer Notices delivered to notify Buyers of any material modifications or amendments to a prior Offer Notice.

 

(iv)                              The restrictions contained in subsections (ii) and (iii) of this Section 4(o) shall not apply in connection with the issuance of any Excluded Securities (as defined in the Notes).

 

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(p)                                 Collateral Agent.  Each Buyer hereby (a) appoints Ramius Advisors, LLC, as the collateral agent hereunder, under the Notes and under the other Security Documents (in such capacity, the “Collateral Agent”), and (b) authorizes the Collateral Agent (and its officers, directors, employees and agents) to take such action on such Buyer’s behalf in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.  The Collateral Agent shall not have, by reason hereof or any of the other Transaction Documents, a fiduciary relationship in respect of any Buyer.  Neither the Collateral Agent nor any of its officers, directors, employees and agents shall have any liability to any Buyer for any action taken or omitted to be taken in connection hereof or any other Transaction Document except to the extent caused by its own gross negligence or willful misconduct, and each Buyer agrees to defend, protect, indemnify and hold harmless the Collateral Agent and all of its officers, directors, employees and agents (collectively, the “Indemnitees”) from and against any losses, damages, liabilities, obligations, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, fees, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses) incurred by such Indemnitee, whether direct, indirect or consequential, arising from or in connection with the performance by such Indemnitee of the duties and obligations of Collateral Agent pursuant hereto or any of the Transaction Documents.  The Collateral Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the instructions of at least 60% of the aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes (the “Required Holders”), and such instructions shall be binding upon all holders of Notes; provided, however, that the Collateral Agent shall not be required to take any action which, in the reasonable opinion of the Agent, exposes the Agent to liability or which is contrary to this Agreement or any other Transaction Document or applicable law.  The Collateral Agent shall be entitled to rely upon any written notices, statements, certificates, orders or other documents or any telephone message believed by it in good faith to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person, and with respect to all matters pertaining to this Agreement or any of the other Transaction Documents and its duties hereunder or thereunder, upon advice of counsel selected by it.

 

(q)                                 Successor Collateral Agent.

 

(i)                                             The Collateral Agent may resign from the performance of all its functions and duties hereunder and under the other Transaction Documents at any time by giving at least thirty (30) Business Days’ prior written notice to the Company and each holder of Notes.  Such resignation shall take effect upon the acceptance by a successor Collateral Agent of appointment pursuant to clauses (ii) and (iii) below or as otherwise provided below.

 

(ii)                                          Upon any such notice of resignation, the Required Holders of the Notes then outstanding shall appoint a successor collateral agent.  Upon the acceptance of any appointment as collateral agent hereunder by a successor agent, such successor collateral agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the collateral agent, and the Collateral Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents.  After the Collateral Agent’s resignation hereunder as the collateral agent, the provisions of this Section 4(s) shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was the Collateral Agent under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents.

 

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(iii)                                       If a successor collateral agent shall not have been so appointed within said thirty (30) Business Day period, the Collateral Agent shall then appoint a successor collateral agent who shall serve as the collateral agent until such time, if any, as the Required Holders of the Notes then outstanding appoint a successor collateral agent as provided above.

 

(r)                                    Public Information.  At any time during the period commencing on the six (6) month anniversary of the Closing Date and ending at such time that all of the Securities can be sold without the requirement to be in compliance with Rule 144(c)(1) and otherwise without restriction or limitation pursuant to Rule 144(c), including, if applicable, Rule 144(i), if a registration statement is not available for the resale of all of the Securities and the Company shall fail for any reason to satisfy the current public information requirement under Rule 144 (a “Public Information Failure”) then, as partial relief for the damages to any holder of Securities by reason of any such delay in or reduction of its ability to sell the Securities (which remedy shall not be exclusive of any other remedies available at law or in equity), the Company shall pay to each such holder an amount in cash equal to one percent (1.0%) of the aggregate Purchase Price of such holder’s Securities on every thirtieth day (pro rated for periods totaling less than thirty days) after a Public Information Failure until the earlier of (i) the date such Public Information Failure is cured and (ii) such time that such public information is no longer required pursuant to Rule 144.  The payments to which a holder shall be entitled pursuant to this Section 4(r) are referred to herein as “Public Information Failure Payments.”  Public Information Failure Payments shall be paid on the earlier of (I) the last day of the calendar month during which such Public Information Failure Payments are incurred and (II) the third Business Day after the event or failure giving rise to the Public Information Failure Payments is cured.  In the event the Company fails to make Public Information Failure Payments in a timely manner, such Public Information Failure Payments shall bear interest at the rate of 1.5% per month (prorated for partial months) until paid in full.

 

(s)                                  Post-Closing Covenants.   Unless the dates set forth below are extended with the written consent of the Collateral Agent:

 

(i)                                             Within 30 days following the Closing Date, the Company shall have entered into a collateral account security agreement (the “Collateral Account Agreement”, and such blocked account, the “Collateral Account”), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent with the Company and a commercial banking institution that is a member of the Federal Reserve System and has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $250,000,000 (the “Collateral Account Bank”), which is reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.

 

(ii)                                          Within 60 days following the Closing Date, the Company shall duly execute and deliver mortgages (the “Mortgages”) covering each of the real property described in Column (1)(A) of Schedule I attached to the Notes (the “Properties”), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and shall have paid any mortgage, transfer and/or other recording taxes related thereto, unless the failure to obtain the Mortgage with respect to Central Resort Property is not attributable to the actions or inactions of the Company, in which case, such period shall be extended for a reasonable period of time not to exceed 30 days.

 

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(iii)                                       Within 60 days following the Closing Date, the Company shall have delivered evidence to each Buyer that each of the Mortgages shall have been filed of record, in the applicable real property records of such applicable jurisdiction set forth in each such Mortgage and covering the Properties, unless the failure to deliver such evidence with respect to Central Resort Property is not attributable to the actions or inactions of the Company, in which case, such period shall be extended for a reasonable period of time not to exceed 30 days.

 

(iv)                                      Concurrently with the delivery of the Mortgages, the Company shall cause to be delivered to the Collateral Agent an opinion of the Company’s outside Hawaii counsel in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.

 

(v)                                         Within 60 days following the Closing Date, the Company shall have delivered to the Collateral Agent an ALTA mortgagee title insurance policy (the “Mortgage Policy”) (or, if such Property is in a state which does not permit the issuance of such ALTA policy, such form as shall be permitted in such state and reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent), issued by First American Title or another title insurance company satisfactory to the Collateral Agent (the “Title Insurance Company”) with respect to each of the Properties, in an amount satisfactory to the Collateral Agent with respect to each such Property, which amount shall not exceed the fair market value for such Property, or in the aggregate for all Properties, the aggregate principal amount of the Notes, assuring the Collateral Agent that each of the Mortgages create a valid and enforceable mortgage lien subject only to Permitted Liens (as defined in the Notes) on such Property, free and clear of all defects and encumbrances other than Permitted Liens (as defined in the Notes) and those which are usual and customary or permitted by the Collateral Agent in its reasonable discretion, which Mortgage Policy shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and containing such endorsements as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and for any other matters that the Collateral Agent may reasonably request, and providing affirmative insurance as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request, all of the foregoing in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.  In the event the Collateral Agent reasonably requests the deletion of any standard or printed exceptions, the Company shall provide customary affidavits, and other similar instruments as are reasonably required by the Title Insurance Company for the deletion of any standard or printed exceptions, in any title insurance policies issued pursuant thereto.  Without limiting the foregoing, the Company agrees to execute and deliver to the Title Insurance Company such agreements, assurances and indemnities as may be required by the Title Insurance Company to issue the Mortgage Policy without any exception for unrecorded leases and matters arising from or affecting the same and with specific coverage against priority of mechanic’s liens.

 

(vi)                                      Within 30 days following the Closing Date, the Company shall have delivered to the Collateral Agent a zoning report on each of the Properties, from the Planning and Zoning Resource Corporation, in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and confirming that the State land use classifications, development/general plan designations, and zoning classification for each of the Properties is as shown on Schedule I.

 

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(vii)                                   Within five days following the Closing Date, the Company shall have provided to the Collateral Agent copies from its files of all contracts and documents affecting each of the Properties that are in the Company’s possession.

 

(viii)                                Within 45 days following the Closing Date, the Company shall have obtained and delivered to the Collateral Agent a current survey for the Company’s headquarters in Kahului, Hawaii and for the Merriman’s restaurant parcel, all certified to the Title Insurance Company and the Collateral Agent and their successors and assigns, in form and content reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and prepared by a professional and properly licensed land surveyor reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent in accordance with the Accuracy Standards for ALTA/ACSM Land Title Surveys as adopted by ALTA, American Congress on Surveying & Mapping and National Society of Professional Surveyors in 2005.  Such surveys shall reflect the same legal description contained in the Mortgage Policy and shall include, among other things, a metes and bounds description of the real property comprising part of each of the Properties reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.  The surveyor’s seal shall be affixed to such survey and the surveyor shall provide a certification for such survey in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent.  Within 60 days following the Closing Date, unless the Title Insurance Company deletes all survey exceptions from the title insurance policy, the Company shall have obtained and delivered to the Collateral Agent an aerial survey for all Properties (other than for the Company’s headquarters in Kahului, Hawaii and for the Merrimac restaurant parcel), all certified to the Title Insurance Company and the Collateral Agent and their successors and assigns, in form and content reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and prepared by a professional and properly licensed land surveyor reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent in accordance with the Accuracy Standards for ALTA/ACSM Land Title Surveys as adopted by ALTA, American Congress on Surveying & Mapping and National Society of Professional Surveyors in 2005, subject to modification as provided in Item 15 from Table A to such Accuracy Standards if and to the extent acceptable to Collateral Agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the failure to deliver the aerial surveys is not attributable to the actions or inactions of the Company, the 60 day period may be extended by the Company for a reasonable period of time not to exceed 30 days.

 

(ix)                                        Within 60 days following the Closing Date, the Company shall obtained and delivered to the Collateral Agent evidence that the Collateral Agent has been named (i) as an additional insured, as its interests may appear, under all general liability insurance policies applicable to the Properties and (ii) as a loss payee, as its interest may appear, under all casualty insurance policies applicable to the Properties.

 

(x)                                           Within ten days following the Closing Date, in accordance with the terms of the Security Documents, the Company shall have delivered to the Collateral Agent appropriate financing statements on Form UCC-1 to be duly filed in such office or offices as may be necessary or, in the opinion of the Collateral Agent, desirable to perfect the liens and/or security interests purported to be created by each Security Document.

 

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(xi)                                        Within ten days following the Closing Date the Company shall have delivered or caused to be delivered to each Buyer (i) true copies of UCC search results, listing all effective financing statements which name as debtor the Company or any of its Subsidiaries filed in the prior five years to perfect an interest in any assets thereof, together with copies of such financing statements, none of which, except as otherwise agreed in writing by the Buyers, shall cover any of the Real Property Collateral (as defined in the Notes) other than Permitted Liens (as defined in the Notes) and the results of searches for any tax lien and judgment lien filed against such Person or its property, which results, except as otherwise agreed to in writing by the Buyers shall not show any such Liens (as defined in the Security Documents) other than Permitted Liens; and (ii) a perfection certificate, a form of which may be delivered by the Collateral Agent at or prior to Closing, duly completed and executed by the Company and each of its Subsidiaries, in form and substance satisfactory to the Buyers.

 

(xii)                                     Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, all premiums, fees, costs and expenses in connection with the Company’s compliance with this Section 4(s), including fees charged by the Title Insurance Company for any such title reports, title insurance policies and surveys, shall be borne wholly by the Company.

 

(xiii)                                  Within ten days of the Closing Date, the Company shall have delivered copies of any archeological studies, reports or the like that the Company has obtained with respect to the Properties or any portion thereof.

 

(t)                                    Closing Documents.  As soon as practicable following the Closing, the Company agrees to deliver, or cause to be delivered, to each Buyer and Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP a complete closing set of the Transaction Documents, Securities and any other document reasonably required to be delivered to any party pursuant to Section 7 hereof or otherwise.

 

5.                                       REGISTER; TRANSFER AGENT INSTRUCTIONS.

 

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

 

(b)                                 Transfer Agent Instructions.  The Company shall issue irrevocable instructions to its transfer agent, and any subsequent transfer agent, to issue certificates or credit shares to the applicable balance accounts at DTC, registered in the name of each Buyer or its respective nominee(s), for the Conversion Shares issued at the Closing or upon conversion of the Notes in such amounts as specified from time to time by each Buyer to the Company upon conversion of the Notes in the form of Exhibit D attached hereto (the “Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions”).  The Company warrants that no instruction other than the Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions referred to in this Section 5(b), and stop transfer instructions to give effect to Section 2(f) hereof, will be given by the Company to its transfer agent, and that the Securities shall otherwise be freely transferable on the books and records of the Company as and

 

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to the extent provided in this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents.  If a Buyer effects a sale, assignment or transfer of the Securities in accordance with Section 2(f), the Company shall permit the transfer and shall promptly instruct its transfer agent to issue one or more certificates or credit shares to the applicable balance accounts at DTC in such name and in such denominations as specified by such Buyer to effect such sale, transfer or assignment.  In the event that such sale, assignment or transfer involves Conversion Shares sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to an effective registration statement or pursuant to Rule 144, the transfer agent shall issue such Securities to the Buyer, assignee or transferee, as the case may be, without any restrictive legend.  The Company acknowledges that a breach by it of its obligations hereunder will cause irreparable harm to a Buyer.  Accordingly, the Company acknowledges that the remedy at law for a breach of its obligations under this Section 5(b) will be inadequate and agrees, in the event of a breach or threatened breach by the Company of the provisions of this Section 5(b), that a Buyer shall be entitled, in addition to all other available remedies, to an order and/or injunction restraining any breach and requiring immediate issuance and transfer, without the necessity of showing economic loss and without any bond or other security being required.

 

6.                                       CONDITIONS TO THE COMPANY’S OBLIGATION TO SELL.

 

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

 

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

 

(b)                                Such Buyer and each other Buyer shall have delivered to the Company the Purchase Price (less, in the case of the RCG Entities, the amounts withheld pursuant to Section 4(g)) for the Notes being purchased by such Buyer at the Closing by wire transfer of immediately available funds pursuant to the wire instructions provided by the Company.

 

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

 

7.                                       CONDITIONS TO EACH BUYER’S OBLIGATION TO PURCHASE.

 

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

 

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(a)                                 The Company shall have duly executed and delivered to such Buyer (i) each of the Transaction Documents and (ii) the Notes (allocated in such principal amounts as such Buyer shall request), being purchased by such Buyer at the Closing pursuant to this Agreement (allocated in such amounts as such Buyer shall request) being purchased by such Buyer at the Closing pursuant to this Agreement.

 

(b)                                Such Buyer shall have received the opinion of Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth the Company’s outside counsel (“Company Counsel”), dated as of the Closing Date, in substantially the form of Exhibit E-1 attached hereto.

 

(c)                                 The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a copy of the Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions, in the form of Exhibit D attached hereto, which instructions shall have been delivered to and acknowledged in writing by the Company’s transfer agent.

 

(d)                                The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a certificate evidencing the formation and good standing of the Company and each of its operating Subsidiaries that constitute “significant subsidiaries” under Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, in such corporation’s state of incorporation issued by the Secretary of State or comparable office of such state of incorporation as of a date within ten (10) days of the Closing Date.

 

(e)                                 The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a certificate evidencing the Company’s qualification as a foreign corporation and good standing issued by the Secretary of State (or comparable office) of each jurisdiction in which the Company conducts business and is required to so qualify, as of a date within ten (10) days of the Closing Date.

 

(f)                                   The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a certified copy of the Certificate of Incorporation as certified by the Secretary of State of the State of Hawaii.

 

(g)                                The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a certificate, executed by the Secretary of the Company and dated as of the Closing Date, as to (i) the resolutions consistent with Section 3(b) as adopted by the Company’s Board of Directors in a form reasonably acceptable to such Buyer, (ii) the Certificate of Incorporation and (iii) the Bylaws, each as in effect at the Closing, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit F.

 

(h)                                The representations and warranties of the Company shall be true and correct in all material respects (except for those representations and warranties that are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, which shall be true and correct in all respects) as of the as of the Closing Date as though made at that time (except for representations and warranties that speak as of a specific date, which shall be true and correct as of such specified date) and the Company shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with the covenants, agreements and conditions required by the Transaction Documents to be performed, satisfied or complied with by the Company at or prior to the Closing Date.  Such Buyer shall have received a certificate, executed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the foregoing effect and as to such other matters as may be reasonably requested by such Buyer in the form attached hereto as Exhibit G.

 

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(i)                                    The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a letter from the Company’s transfer agent certifying the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding as of a date within five days of the Closing Date.

 

(j)                                    The Common Stock (I) shall be designated for quotation or listed on the Principal Market and (II) shall not have been suspended, as of the Closing Date, by the SEC or the Principal Market from trading on the Principal Market nor shall suspension by the SEC or the Principal Market have been threatened, as of the Closing Date, either (A) in writing by the SEC or the Principal Market or (B) by falling below the minimum listing maintenance requirements of the Principal Market.

 

(k)                                 The Company shall have obtained all governmental, regulatory or third party consents and approvals, if any, necessary for the sale of the Securities.

 

(l)                                     The Company shall have delivered to each Buyer a lock-up agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit H executed and delivered by each director and executive officer of the Company (the “Lock-Up Agreements”).

 

(m)                               The Company shall have delivered evidence of flood insurance in form and substance reasonably acceptable to each Buyer.

 

(n)                                The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer such other documents relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as such Buyer or its counsel may reasonably request.

 

8.                                       TERMINATION.  In the event that the Closing shall not have occurred with respect to a Buyer on or before five (5) Business Days from the date hereof due to the Company’s or such Buyer’s failure to satisfy the conditions set forth in Sections 6 and 7 above (and the nonbreaching party’s failure to waive such unsatisfied condition(s)), the nonbreaching party shall have the option to terminate this Agreement with respect to such breaching party at the close of business on such date without liability of any party to any other party; provided, however, that if this Agreement is terminated pursuant to this Section 8, the Company shall remain obligated to reimburse the non-breaching Buyers for the expenses described in Section 4(g) above.

 

9.                                       MISCELLANEOUS.

 

(a)          Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Jury Trial.  All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdictions other than the State of New York.  Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in The City of New York, Borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein, and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum or that the venue of such suit, action or

 

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proceeding is improper.  Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof to such party at the address for such notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof.  Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any manner permitted by law.  EACH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE, AND AGREES NOT TO REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

 

(b)         Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in two or more identical counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party; provided that a facsimile signature shall be considered due execution and shall be binding upon the signatory thereto with the same force and effect as if the signature were an original, not a facsimile signature.

 

(c)          Headings.  The headings of this Agreement are for convenience of reference and shall not form part of, or affect the interpretation of, this Agreement.

 

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

 

(e)          Entire Agreement; Amendments.   This Agreement and the other Transaction Documents supersede all other prior oral or written agreements between the Buyers, the Company, their affiliates and Persons acting on their behalf with respect to the matters discussed herein, and this Agreement, the other Transaction Documents and the instruments referenced herein and therein contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the matters covered herein and therein and, except as specifically set forth herein or therein, neither the Company nor any Buyer makes any representation, warranty, covenant or undertaking with respect to such matters.  No provision of this Agreement may be amended or waived other than by an instrument in writing signed by the Company and the holders of at least 60% of the aggregate number of Registrable Securities issued and issuable hereunder and under the Notes, and any amendment or waiver to this Agreement made in conformity with the provisions of this Section 9(e) shall be binding on all Buyers and holders of Securities as applicable.  No such

 

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amendment shall be effective to the extent that it applies to less than all of the holders of the applicable Securities then outstanding.  No consideration shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of any of the Transaction Documents unless the same consideration also is offered to all of the parties to the Transaction Documents and the holders of Notes.  The Company has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreements with any Buyers relating to the terms or conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents except as set forth in the Transaction Documents.  Without limiting the foregoing, the Company confirms that, except as set forth in this Agreement, no Buyer has made any commitment or promise or has any other obligation to provide any financing to the Company or otherwise.

 

(f)            Notices.  Any notices, consents, waivers or other communications required or permitted to be given under the terms of this Agreement must be in writing and will be deemed to have been delivered:  (i) upon receipt, when delivered personally; (ii) upon receipt, when sent by facsimile (provided confirmation of transmission is mechanically or electronically generated and kept on file by the sending party); or (iii) one Business Day after deposit with an overnight courier service, in each case properly addressed to the party to receive the same.  The addresses and facsimile numbers for such communications shall be:

 

If to the Company:

 

Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc.
120 Kane Street
P. O. Box 187
Kahului, Maui, Hawaii ###-###-####

Telephone:

(808) 877-3351

Facsimile:

(808) 871-0953

Attention:

David Cole

 

With a copy to (for information purposes only):

 

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth
660 Newport Center Drive, Suite 1600
Newport Beach, CA 92660

Telephone:

(949) 725-4121

Facsimile:

(949) 823-5121

Attention:

Christopher Ivey, Esq.

 

If to the Transfer Agent:

 

BNY Mellon Shareholder Services LLC

525 Market Street - 35th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94105

Telephone:

(415) 951-4188

Facsimile:

(415) 951-4181

Attention:

Joshua P. McGinn

 

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If to a Buyer, to its address and facsimile number set forth on the Schedule of Buyers, with copies to such Buyer’s representatives as set forth on the Schedule of Buyers,

 

with a copy (for informational purposes only) to:

 

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
919 Third Avenue
New York, New York  10022

Telephone:

(212) 756-2000

Facsimile:

(212) 593-5955

Attention:

Eleazer N. Klein, Esq.

 

or to such other address, facsimile number and/or email address to the attention of such other Person as the recipient party has specified by written notice given to each other party five (5) days prior to the effectiveness of such change.  Written confirmation of receipt (A) given by the recipient of such notice, consent, waiver or other communication, (B) mechanically or electronically generated by the sender’s facsimile machine containing the time, date, recipient facsimile number and an image of the first page of such transmission or (C) provided by an overnight courier service shall be rebuttable evidence of personal service, receipt by facsimile or receipt from an overnight courier service in accordance with clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, respectively.

 

(g)         Successors and Assigns.  This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their respective successors and assigns, including any purchasers of the Notes.  The Company shall not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the holders of at least 60% of the aggregate number of Registrable Securities issued and issuable hereunder and under the Notes, including by way of a Fundamental Transaction (unless the Company is in compliance with the applicable provisions governing Fundamental Transactions set forth in the Notes).  No Buyer may assign some or all of its rights hereunder without the written consent of the Company, unless such Buyer assigns Notes having an aggregate principal balance greater than or equal to the applicable Minimum Transfer Amount, in which event such assignee shall be deemed to be a Buyer hereunder with respect to such assigned rights.

 

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

 

(i)             Survival.  Unless this Agreement is terminated under Section 8, the representations and warranties of the Company and the Buyers contained in Sections 2 and 3, the agreements and covenants set forth in Sections 4, 5 and 9 shall survive the Closing and the delivery and conversion of Securities.  Each Buyer shall be responsible only for its own representations, warranties, agreements and covenants hereunder.

 

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

 

(k)          Indemnification.  In consideration of each Buyer’s execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and acquiring the Securities thereunder and in addition to all of the Company’s other obligations under the Transaction Documents, the Company shall defend, protect, indemnify and hold harmless each Buyer and each other holder of the Securities and all of their stockholders, partners, members, officers, directors, employees and direct or indirect investors and any of the foregoing Persons’ agents or other representatives (including, without limitation, those retained in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement) (collectively, the “Indemnitees”) from and against any and all actions, causes of action, suits, claims, losses, costs, penalties, fees, liabilities and damages, and expenses in connection therewith (irrespective of whether any such Indemnitee is a party to the action for which indemnification hereunder is sought), and including reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements (the “Indemnified Liabilities”), incurred by any Indemnitee as a result of, or arising out of, or relating to (a) any misrepresentation or breach of any representation or warranty made by the Company in the Transaction Documents or any other certificate, instrument or document contemplated hereby or thereby, (b) any breach of any covenant, agreement or obligation of the Company contained in the Transaction Documents or any other certificate, instrument or document contemplated hereby or thereby or (c) any cause of action, suit or claim brought or made against such Indemnitee by a third party (including for these purposes a derivative action brought on behalf of the Company) and arising out of or resulting from (i) the execution, delivery, performance or enforcement of the Transaction Documents or any other certificate, instrument or document contemplated hereby or thereby, (ii) any transaction financed or to be financed in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, with the proceeds of the issuance of the Securities, (iii) any disclosure made by such Buyer pursuant to Section 4(i), or (iv) the status of such Buyer or holder of the Securities as an investor in the Company pursuant to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.  To the extent that the foregoing undertaking by the Company may be unenforceable for any reason, the Company shall make the maximum contribution to the payment and satisfaction of each of the Indemnified Liabilities that is permissible under applicable law.  Except as otherwise set forth herein, the mechanics and procedures with respect to the rights and obligations under this Section 9(k) shall be the same as those set forth in Section 6 of the Registration Rights Agreement.

 

(l)                                     No Strict Construction.  The language used in this Agreement will be deemed to be the language chosen by the parties to express their mutual intent, and no rules of strict construction will be applied against any party.

 

(m)                               Remedies.  Each Buyer and each holder of the Securities shall have all rights and remedies set forth in the Transaction Documents and all rights and remedies which such holders have been granted at any time under any other agreement or contract and all of the rights which such holders have under any law.  Any Person having any rights under any provision of this Agreement shall be entitled to enforce such rights specifically (without posting a bond or other security), to recover damages by reason of any breach of any provision of this Agreement and to exercise all other rights granted by law.  Furthermore, the Company

 

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recognizes that in the event that it fails to perform, observe, or discharge any or all of its obligations under the Transaction Documents, any remedy at law may prove to be inadequate relief to the Buyers.  The Company therefore agrees that the Buyers shall be entitled to seek temporary and permanent injunctive relief in any such case without the necessity of proving actual damages and without posting a bond or other security.

 

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

 

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

 

(p)                                 Independent Nature of Buyers’ Obligations and Rights.  The obligations of each Buyer under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Buyer, and no Buyer shall be responsible in any way for the performance of the obligations of any other Buyer under any Transaction Document.  Nothing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Buyer pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Buyers as, and the Company acknowledges that the Buyers do not so constitute, a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Buyers are in any way acting in concert or as a group, and the Company shall not assert any such claim with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and the Company acknowledges that the Buyers are not acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.  The Company acknowledges and each Buyer confirms that it has independently participated in the negotiation of the transaction contemplated hereby with the advice of its own counsel and advisors.  Each Buyer shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of any other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Buyer to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose.

 

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

 

 

 

COMPANY:

 

 

 

MAUI LAND & PINEAPPLE
COMPANY, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Robert I. Webber

 

 

Robert I. Webber

 

 

Chief Operating Officer, Chief
Financial Officer, and Executive Vice
President

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Adele H. Sumida

 

 

Adele H. Sumida

 

 

Controller and Secretary

 

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

 

 

 

BUYERS:

 

 

 

RCG PB, LTD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Owen Littman

 

 

Owen Littman

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

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

 

 

 

BUYERS:

 

 

 

RCG ENTERPRISE, LTD

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Owen Littman

 

 

Owen Littman

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

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

 

 

 

BUYERS:

 

 

 

HIGHBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL LLC

 

 

 

By:

HIGHBRIDGE CAPITAL

 

MANAGEMENT, LLC,

 

 

its Trading Manager

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Adam J. Chill

 

 

Adam J. Chill

 

 

Managing Director

 

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

 

 

 

BUYERS:

 

 

 

INTERLACHEN CONVERTIBLE
INVESTMENTS LIMITED

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Gregg T. Colburn

 

 

Gregg T. Colburn

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

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SCHEDULE OF BUYERS

 

(1)

 

(2)

Address and

 

(3)
Aggregate
Principal

 

(4)

Purchase

 

(5)

Legal Representative’s Address

Buyer

 

Facsimile Number

 

Amount of Notes

 

Price

 

and Facsimile Number

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RCG PB, Ltd

 

c/o Ramius LLC

 

$

10,950,000

 

$

10,950,000

 

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

 

 

599 Lexington Avenue, 20th Floor

 

 

 

 

 

919 Third Avenue

 

 

New York, NY 10022

 

 

 

 

 

New York, NY 10022

 

 

Attention: Jeffrey Smith

 

 

 

 

 

Attn: Eleazer Klein, Esq.

 

 

Owen Littman

 

 

 

 

 

Fax: (212) 593-5955

 

 

Facsimile:

 

 

 

 

 

Tel: (212 ###-###-####

 

 

Telephone

 

 

 

 

 

Email: ***@***

 

 

Residence: Cayman Islands

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RCG Enterprise, Ltd

 

c/o Ramius LLC

 

$

8,050,000

 

$

8,050,000

 

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

 

 

599 Lexington Avenue, 20th Floor

 

 

 

 

 

919 Third Avenue

 

 

New York, NY 10022

 

 

 

 

 

New York, NY 10022

 

 

Attention: Jeffrey Smith

 

 

 

 

 

Attn: Eleazer Klein, Esq.

 

 

Owen Littman

 

 

 

 

 

Fax: (212) 593-5955

 

 

Facsimile:

 

 

 

 

 

Tel: (212 ###-###-####

 

 

Telephone:

 

 

 

 

 

Email: ***@***

 

 

Residence: Cayman Islands

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highbridge International LLC

 

c/o Highbridge Capital Management, LLC

 

$

10,500,000

 

$

10,500,000

 

 

 

 

9 West 57th Street, 27th Floor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New York, New York 10019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Attention: Adam J. Chill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Facsimile:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Telephone:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Residence: Cayman Islands

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interlachen Convertible

 

c/o Interlachen Capital Group LP

 

$

10,500,000

 

$

10,500,000

 

 

Investments Limited

 

Attention: Gregg T. Colburn and Legal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

800 Nicollet Mall, Suite 2500

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minneapolis, MN 55402

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Facsimile:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Telephone:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Residence: Cayman Islands

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit A

Form of Note

Exhibit B

Registration Rights Agreement

Exhibit C

Form of Guaranty

Exhibit D

Form of Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions

Exhibit E-1

Form of Company Counsel Opinion

Exhibit E-2

Form of Hawaiian Counsel Mortgage Opinion

Exhibit F

Form of Secretary’s Certificate

Exhibit G

Form of Officer’s Certificate

Exhibit H

Form of Lock-Up Agreement

 

 

SCHEDULES

 

 

 

Schedule 3(e)

Consents

Schedule 3(k)

SEC Documents; Financial Statements

Schedule 3(l)

Absence of Certain Changes

Schedule 3(q)

Transactions with Affiliates

Schedule 3(r)

Equity Capitalization

Schedule 3(s)

Indebtedness and Other Contracts

Schedule 3(v)

Employee Relations

Schedule 3(w)

Title

Schedule 3(y)

Environmental Laws

Schedule 3(cc)

Ranking of Notes

Schedule 3(pp)

Properties