MTI MICROFUEL CELLS INC. Common Stock Warrant

 

 

 

     MTI MicroFuel Cells Inc. (the “Company”), for value received, hereby certifies that Counter Point Ventures Fund II, LP, or its registered assigns (the “Holder”), is entitled, subject to the terms set forth below, to purchase from the Company, at any time after the date hereof and on or before the Expiration Date (as defined in Section 6 below) shares of capital stock of the Company at an exercise price per share of $0.070 as set forth herein (subject to adjustment as set forth in the Purchase Agreement, defined below). This Commo n Stock Warrant (“Warrant”) is one of a series of Warrants containing substantially identical terms and conditions issued pursuant to that certain Common Stock and Warrant Purchase Agreement dated January 11, 2010 (the “Purchase Agreement”), as amended on February 9, 2011 (the “Amendment”). This Warrant is issued pursuant to, and is subject to the terms and conditions of, the Purchase Agreement.

 

     The shares purchasable upon exercise of this Warrant are hereinafter referred to as the “Warrant Stock”.

 

     1. Number and Type of Shares; Purchase Price. Subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, the Holder is entitled, upon surrender of this Warrant, to purchase from the Company a number of shares of Company Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), equal to 20% of the number of shares of Common Stock issued by the Company to the Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement on the Date of Issuance set forth above, rounded down to the nearest whole share, at a per share purchase price equal to the purchase price per share of such Common Stock issued to the Holder under the Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Price”).

 

     2. Exercise.

 

          (a) Manner of Exercise. This Warrant may be exercised by the Holder, in whole or in part, by surrendering this Warrant, with the purchase/exercise form appended hereto as Exhibit A duly executed by such Holder or by such Holder’s duly authorized attorney, at the principal office of the Compan y, or at such other office or agency as the Company may designate, accompanied by payment in full of the Purchase Price payable in respect of the number of shares of Warrant Stock purchased upon such exercise. The Purchase Price may be paid by cash, check, wire transfer, or by the surrender of promissory notes or other instruments representing indebtedness of the Company to the Holder.

 

          (b) Effective Time of Exercise. Each exercise of this Warrant shall be deemed to have been effected immediately prior to the close of business on the day on which this Warrant shall have been surrendered to the Company as provided in Section 2(a) above. At such time, the person or persons in whose name or names any certificates for Warrant Stock shall be issuable upon such exercise as provided in Section 2(d) below shall be deemed to have become the holder or holders of record of the Warrant Stock represented by such certificates.

 

          (c) Net Issue Exercise.

 

               (i) In lieu of exercising this Warrant in the manner provided above in Section 2(a), the Holder may elect to receive shares equal to the value of this Warrant (or the portion thereof being canceled) by surrender of this Warrant at the principal office of the Company together with notice of such election on the purchase/exercise form appended hereto as Exhibit A duly executed by such Holder or such Holder’s duly authorized attorney, in which event the Company shall issue to such Holder a number of shares of Warrant Stock computed using the following formula:

 

X = Y (A - B)       A

 

               (ii) For purposes of this Section 2(c), the fair market value of Warrant Stock on the date of calculation shall mean with respect to each share of Warrant Stock:

 

                    (A) if the exercise is in connection with an initial public offering of the Company’s Common Stock, and if the Company’s Registration Statement relating to such public offering has been declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission, then the fair market value shall be the product of (x) the initial “Price to Public” per share specified in the final prospectus with respect to the offering and (y) the number of shares of Common Stock into which each share of Warrant Stock is convertible at the date of calculation;

 

                    (B) if (A) is not applicable, the fair market value of Warrant Stock shall be at the highest price per share which the Company could obtain on the date of calculation from a willing buyer (not a current employee or director) for shares of Warrant Stock sold by the Company, from authorized but unissued shares, as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors, unless the Company is at such time subject to an acquisition as described in Section 6 below, in which case the fair market value of Warrant Stock shall be deemed to be the value received by the holders of such stock pursuant to such acquisition.

 

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          (d) Delivery to Holder. As soon as practicable after the exercise of this Warrant in whole or in part, and in any event within ten (10) days thereafter, the Company at its expense will cause to be issued in the name of, and delivered to, the Holder, or as such Holder (upon payment by such Holder of any applicable transfer taxes) may direct:

 

               (i) a certificate or certificates for the number of shares of Warrant Stock to which such Holder shall be entitled; and

 

               (ii) in case such exercise is in part only, a new warrant or warrants (dated the date hereof) of like tenor, calling in the aggregate on the face or faces thereof for the number of shares of Warrant Stock equal (without giving effect to any adjustment therein) to the number of such shares called for on the face of this Warrant minus the number of such shares purchased by the Holder upon such exercise as provided in Section 2(a) or 2(c) above.

 

     3. Adjustments.

 

               (a) Stock Splits and Dividends. If outstanding shares of the Company’s Common Stock shall be subdivided into a greater number of shares or a dividend in Common Stock shall be paid in respect of Common Stock, the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such subdivision or at the record date of such dividend shall simultaneously with the effectiveness of such subdivision or immediately after the record date of such dividend be proportiona tely reduced. If outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be combined into a smaller number of shares, the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such combination shall, simultaneously with the effectiveness of such combination, be proportionately increased. When any adjustment is required to be made in the Purchase Price, the number of shares of Warrant Stock purchasable upon the exercise of this Warrant shall be changed to the number determined by dividing (i) an amount equal to the number of shares issuable upon the exercise of this Warrant immediately prior to such adjustment, multiplied by the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such adjustment; by (ii) the Purchase Price in effect immediately after such adjustment.

 

               (b) Reclassification, Etc. In case there occurs any reclassification or change of the outstanding securities of the Company or of any reorganization of the Company (or any other corporation the stock or securities of which are at the time receivable upon the exercise of this Warrant) or any similar corporate reorganization on or after the date hereof, then and in each such case the Holder, upon the exercise hereof at any time after the consummation of such reclassification, change, or reorganization shall be entitled to receive, in lieu of the stock or other securities and property receivable upon the exercise hereof prior to such consummation, the stock or other securities or property to which such Holder would have been entitled upon such consummation if such Holder had exercised this Warrant immediately prior thereto, all subject to further adjustment pursuant to the provisions of this Section 3; provided, however, that the operation of this Section 3(b) shall not effect the termination of this Warrant upon a Change of Control (as defined in Section 6 below) pursuant to Section 6 below.

 

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          (c) Adjustment Certificate. When any adjustment is required to be made in the Warrant Stock or the Purchase Price pursuant to this Section 3, the Company shall promptly mail to the Holder a certificate setting forth (i) a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment; (ii) the Purchase Price after such adjustment; and (iii) the kind and amount of stock or other securities or property into which this Warrant shall be exercisable after such adjustment.

 

     4. Transfers.

 

          (a) Unregistered Security. Each holder of this Warrant acknowledges that this Warrant and the Warrant Stock of the Company have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and agrees not to sell, pledge, distribute, offer for sale, transfer o r otherwise dispose of this Warrant or any Warrant Stock issued upon its exercise in the absence of (i) an effective registration statement under the Act as to this Warrant or such Warrant Stock and registration or qualification of this Warrant or such Warrant Stock under any applicable U.S. federal or state securities law then in effect; or (ii) an opinion of counsel, satisfactory to the Company, that such registration and qualification are not required. Each certificate or other instrument for Warrant Stock issued upon the exercise of this Warrant shall bear a legend substantially to the foregoing effect.

 

          (b) Transferability. The Holder may not assign, pledge, or otherwise transfer this Warrant without the prior written consent of the Company. Subject to the preceding sentence, this Warrant may be transferred only upon surrender of the original Warrant for registration of transfer, duly endorsed, or accompanied by a duly executed written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company. Thereupon, a new warrant in substantially the form hereof will be issued to, and re gistered in the name of, the transferee.

 

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

 

     5. No Impairment. The Company will not, by amendment of its charter or through reorganization, consolidation, merger, dissolution, sale of assets or any other voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms of this Warrant, but will (subject to Section 14 below) at all times in good faith assist in the carrying out of all such terms and in the taking of all such action as may be necessary or appropriate in order to protect the rights of the holder of this Warrant a gainst impairment.

 

     6. Termination. This Warrant (and the right to purchase securities upon exercise hereof) shall automatically terminate upon the earliest to occur of the following (the “Expiration Date”): (a) t he five (5) year anniversary of the Date of Issuance of this Warrant; (b) immediately prior to a Change of Control; or (c) the closing of a firm commitment underwritten public offering pursuant to a registration statement under the Securities Act.

 

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     The term “Change of Control” shall mean the sale, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s property or business or the Company’s merger with or into or consolidation with any other corporation, limited liability company or other entity (other than a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company), provided that the term “Change of Control” shall not include a merger of the Company effected exclusively for the purpose of changing the domicile of the Company, to an equity financing in which the Company is the surviving corporation, or to a transaction in which the stockholders of the Company immediately prior to the transaction own 50% or more of the voting power of the s urviving corporation following the transaction.

 

     7. Notices of Certain Transactions. In case:

 

          (a) the Company shall take a record of the holders of its Common Stock (or other stock or securities at the time deliverable upon the exercise of this Warrant) for the purpose of entitling or enabling them to receive any dividend or other distribution, or to receive any right to subscribe for or purchase any shares of stock of any class or any other securities, or to receive any other right, to subscribe for or purchase any shares of stock of any class or any other securities, or to receive any other right;

 

          (b) of any capital reorganization of the Company, any reclassification of the capital stock of the Company, any consolidation or merger of the Company, any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into another corporation (other than a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the surviving entity), or any transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company;

 

          (c) of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding-up of the Company; or

 

          (d) of any redemption of the Common Stock;

 

then, and in each such case, the Company will mail or cause to be mailed to the Holder of this Warrant a notice specifying, as the case may be, (i) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution or right, and stating the amount and character of such dividend, distribution or right; or (ii) the effective date on which such reorganization, reclassification, consolidation, merger, transfer, dissolution, liquidation, winding-up, redemption or conversion is to take place, and the time, if any is to be fixed, as of which the holders of record of Common Stock (or such other stock or securities at the time deliverable upon such reorganization, reclassification, consolidation, merger, transfer, dissolution, liquidation, winding-up, redemption or conversion) are to be determined. Such notice shall be mailed at least ten (10) days prior to the record date or effective date for the event specified in such n otice.

 

     8. Reservation of Stock. The Company will at all times reserve and keep available, solely for the issuance and delivery upon the exercise of this Warrant, such shares of Warrant Stock and other stock, securities and property, as from time to time shall be issuable upon the exercise of this Warrant.

 

     9. Exchange of Warrants. Upon the surrender by the Holder of any Warrant or Warrants, properly endorsed, to the Company at the principal office of the Company, the Company will, subject to the provisions of Section 4 hereof, issue and deliver to or upon the order of such Holder, at the Company’s expense, a new Warrant or Warrants of like tenor, in the name of such Holder or as such Holder (upon payment by such Holder of any applicable transfer taxes) may direct, calling in the aggregate on the face or faces thereof for the number of shares of Warrant Stock called for on the face or faces of the Warrant or Warrants so surrendered.

 

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     10. Replacement of Warrants. Upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Warrant and (in the case of loss, theft or destruction) upon delivery of an indemnity agreement (with surety if reasonably required) in an amount reasonably satisfactory to the Company, or (in the case of mutilation) upon surrender and cancellation of this Warrant, the Company will issue, in lieu thereof, a new Warrant of like tenor.

 

     11. Mailing of Notices. Any notice required or permitted pursuant to this Warrant shall be in writing and shall be deemed sufficient upon receipt, when delivered personally or sent by courier, three days after deposit with an overnight delivery service, or confirmed facsimile, addressed (a) if to the Holder, to the address of the Holder most recently furnished in writing to the Company; and (b) if to the Company, to the address set forth below or subsequently modified by written notice to the Holder.

 

     12. No Rights as Stockholder. Until the exercise of this Warrant, the Holder of this Warrant shall not have or exercise any rights by virtue hereof as a stockholder of the Company.

 

     13. No Fractional Shares. No fractional shares of Warrant Stock will be issued in connection with any exercise hereunder. In lieu of any fractional shares which would otherwise be issuable, the Company shall pay cash equal to the product of such fraction multiplied by the fair market value of one share of Warrant Stock on the date of exercise, as determined in good faith by the Company’s Board of Directors.

 

     14. Amendment or Waiver. Any term of this Warrant may be amended or waived upon written consent of the Company and the holders of at least a majority of the Warrant Stock issuable upon exercise of outstanding warrants purchased pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. By acceptance hereof, the Holder acknowledges that in the event the required consent is obtained, any term of this Warrant may be amended or waived with or without the consent of the Holder; provided, however, that any amendment hereof that would materially adversely affect the Holder in a manner different from the holders of the remaining warrants issued pursuant to the Purchase Agreement shall also require the consent of Holder.

 

     15. Headings. The headings in this Warrant are for purposes of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning of any provision of this Warrant.

 

     16. Governing Law. This Warrant shall be governed, construed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to principles of conflicts of law.

 

     17. Counterparts. This Warrant may be executed in counterparts and by facsimile, each of which will be deemed to be an original and all of which together will constitute a single agreement.

 

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     This Common Stock Warrant was executed as of the date first above written.

 

COMPANY:

MTI MICROFUEL CELLS INC.

Peng K. Lim

Chief Executive Officer

Address:

 

 

AGREED TO AND ACCEPTED:
HOLDER:
COUNTER POINT VENTURES FUND II, LP
Walter L. Robb, General Partner
Address:		c/o Vantage Management, Inc.
		3000 Troy Schenectady Road
		Schenectady, NY 12309

 

EXHIBIT A

 

 

To: MTI MICROFUEL CELLS INC.

Dated:

 

     The undersigned, pursuant to the provisions set forth in the attached Warrant No. _______ , hereby irrevocably elects to (i) purchase __________ shares of the _________ Stock covered by such Warrant and herewith makes payment of $ __________ , representing the full purchase price for such shares at the price per share provided for in such Warrant; or (ii) exercise such Warrant for __________ shares purchasable under the Warrant pursuant to the Net Issue Exercise provisions of Section 2(c) of such Warrant.

 

     The undersigned acknowledges that it has reviewed the representations and warranties contained in Section 4 of the Purchase Agreement (as defined in the Warrant) and by its signature below hereby makes such representations and warranties to the Company. Defined terms contained in such representations and warranties shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Purchase Agreement, provided that the term “Purchaser” shall refer to the undersigned and the term “Securities” shall refer to the Warrant Stock and the Common Stock of the Company issuable upon conversion of the Warrant Stock, if applicable.

 

     The undersigned further acknowledges that it has reviewed the lock-up agreement set forth in Section 7 of the Purchase Agreement, and agrees to be bound by such provisions.

 

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