Warrant Indenture between Uranerz Energy Corporation and Corporate Stock Transfer, Inc. dated October 27, 2009
This agreement is between Uranerz Energy Corporation and Corporate Stock Transfer, Inc. It sets out the terms for issuing up to 10,000,000 warrants, each allowing the holder to buy one common share of Uranerz at a set price within 30 months. The agreement details how warrants are issued, transferred, exercised, and adjusted, and outlines the roles and responsibilities of the warrant agent. It also covers procedures for meetings of warrantholders and other administrative matters.
ARTICLE 1 | ||||
INTERPRETATION | ||||
Section 1.1 Definitions | 1 | |||
Section 1.2 Gender and Number | 5 | |||
Section 1.3 Interpretation not Affected by Headings, etc. | 5 | |||
Section 1.4 Day not a Business Day | 5 | |||
Section 1.5 Time of the Essence | 5 | |||
Section 1.6 Currency | 6 | |||
Section 1.7 Applicable Law | 6 | |||
ARTICLE 2 | ||||
ISSUE OF WARRANTS | ||||
Section 2.1 Issue of Warrants | 6 | |||
Section 2.2 Terms of Warrants | 6 | |||
Section 2.3 Warrantholder not a Shareholder | 6 | |||
Section 2.4 Warrants to Rank Pari Passu | 6 | |||
Section 2.5 Form of Warrants | 6 | |||
Section 2.6 Signing of Warrant Certificates | 7 | |||
Section 2.7 Certification by the Warrant Agent | 7 | |||
Section 2.8 Issue in Substitution for Warrant Certificates Lost, etc. | 7 | |||
Section 2.9 Exchange of Warrant Certificates | 8 | |||
Section 2.10 Transfer and Ownership of Warrants | 8 | |||
Section 2.11 Charges for Exchange or Transfer | 9 | |||
Section 2.12 Cancellation of Surrendered Warrants | 9 | |||
Section 2.13 Assumption by Transferee and Release of Transferor | 9 | |||
ARTICLE 3 | ||||
EXERCISE OF WARRANTS | ||||
Section 3.1 Exercise of Warrants by the Holder | 10 | |||
Section 3.2 Transfer Fees and Taxes | 11 | |||
Section 3.3 Warrant Agency | 11 | |||
Section 3.4 Effect of Exercise of Warrants | 11 | |||
Section 3.5 Partial Exercise of Warrants; Fractions | 12 | |||
Section 3.6 Expiration of Warrants | 12 | |||
Section 3.7 Accounting and Recording | 12 | |||
Section 3.8 Securities Restrictions | 13 | |||
Section 3.9 Cashless Exercise or Redemption of Warrants | 13 | |||
Section 3.10 Acceleration of Expiry Date by Corporation | 14 |
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ARTICLE 4 | ||||
ADJUSTMENT OF EXERCISE RIGHTS | ||||
Section 4.1 Adjustment of Exercise Rights | 14 | |||
Section 4.2 Adjustment Rules | 19 | |||
Section 4.3 Postponement of Subscription | 20 | |||
Section 4.4 Notice of Adjustment of Exercise Rights | 20 | |||
Section 4.5 No Action after Notice | 21 | |||
Section 4.6 No Duty to Inquire | 21 | |||
Section 4.7 Rights Issued in Respect of Underlying Securities on Exercise | 21 | |||
ARTICLE 5 | ||||
RIGHTS OF THE CORPORATION AND COVENANTS | ||||
Section 5.1 General Covenants | 22 | |||
Section 5.2 Warrant Agents Remuneration and Expenses | 23 | |||
Section 5.3 Performance of Covenants by Warrant Agent | 24 | |||
Section 5.4 Optional Purchases by the Corporation | 24 | |||
ARTICLE 6 | ||||
ENFORCEMENT | ||||
Section 6.1 Suits by Warrantholders | 24 | |||
Section 6.2 Immunity of Shareholders, etc. | 25 | |||
Section 6.3 Limitation of Liability | 25 | |||
Section 6.4 Waiver of Default | 25 | |||
ARTICLE 7 | ||||
MEETINGS OF WARRANTHOLDERS | ||||
Section 7.1 Right to Convene Meetings | 25 | |||
Section 7.2 Notice | 26 | |||
Section 7.3 Chairman | 26 | |||
Section 7.4 Quorum | 26 | |||
Section 7.5 Power to Adjourn | 26 | |||
Section 7.6 Show of Hands | 27 | |||
Section 7.7 Poll and Voting | 27 | |||
Section 7.8 Regulations | 27 | |||
Section 7.9 Corporation and Warrant Agent May be Represented | 28 | |||
Section 7.10 Powers Exercisable by Extraordinary Resolution | 28 | |||
Section 7.11 Meaning of Extraordinary Resolution | 29 | |||
Section 7.12 Powers Cumulative | 30 | |||
Section 7.13 Minutes | 30 | |||
Section 7.14 Instruments in Writing | 30 | |||
Section 7.15 Binding Effect of Resolutions | 30 | |||
Section 7.16 Holdings by Corporation Disregarded | 31 |
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ARTICLE 8 | ||||
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES | ||||
Section 8.1 Provision for Supplemental Indentures for Certain Purposes | 31 | |||
Section 8.2 Successor Corporations | 32 | |||
ARTICLE 9 | ||||
CONCERNING THE WARRANT AGENT | ||||
Section 9.1 Trust Indenture Legislation | 32 | |||
Section 9.2 Rights and Duties of Warrant Agent | 32 | |||
Section 9.3 Evidence, Experts and Advisers | 33 | |||
Section 9.4 Documents, Monies, etc. Held by Warrant Agent | 34 | |||
Section 9.5 Actions by Warrant Agent to Protect Interest | 34 | |||
Section 9.6 Warrant Agent Not Required to Give Security | 34 | |||
Section 9.7 Protection of Warrant Agent | 34 | |||
Section 9.8 Replacement of Warrant Agent; Successor by Merger | 35 | |||
Section 9.9 Conflict of Interest | 36 | |||
Section 9.10 Acceptance of Trust | 36 | |||
Section 9.11 Warrant Agent Not to be Appointed Receiver | 37 | |||
Section 9.12 Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Legislation | 37 | |||
Section 9.13 Accounts Opened for Corporation | 37 | |||
ARTICLE 10 | ||||
GENERAL | ||||
Section 10.1 Notice to the Corporation and the Warrant Agent | 37 | |||
Section 10.2 Notice to Warrantholders | 38 | |||
Section 10.3 Counterparts | 39 | |||
Section 10.4 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture | 39 | |||
Upon the earlier of: | 39 | |||
Section 10.5 Provisions of Indenture and Warrants for the Sole Benefit of Parties, Agent and Warrantholders | 39 | |||
Section 10.6 Warrants Owned by the Corporation or its Subsidiaries Certificate to be Provided | 39 | |||
Section 10.7 Evidence of Ownership | 40 | |||
Section 10.8 Privacy Laws | 40 | |||
Section 10.9 Assignment | 41 | |||
Section 10.10 No Waiver, etc. | 41 | |||
Section 10.11 Language | 41 | |||
Section 10.12 Further Assurances | 41 | |||
ADDENDA | ||||
SCHEDULE A |
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INTERPRETATION
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ISSUE OF WARRANTS
(1) | Each whole Warrant shall entitle the holder thereof, upon the exercise thereof prior to the Time of Expiry, to acquire one (1) Common Share (subject to adjustment in accordance with the terms hereof) on payment of the Exercise Price. | |
(2) | No fractional Warrants shall be issued or otherwise provided for hereunder. To the extent that any agreement, document or certificate evidences or purports to confer the right to be issued a fraction of a Warrant, such Warrants issued shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number without any compensation payable therefor. | |
(3) | The number of Common Shares which may be acquired pursuant to the exercise of Warrants shall be adjusted in the circumstances and in the manner specified in Article 4. |
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(1) | No Warrant Certificate shall be issued or, if issued, shall be valid for any purpose or entitle the holder to the benefit of this Indenture hereof until it has been certified by manual signature by or on behalf of the Warrant Agent by its authorized signing officers located in the City of Denver and such certification by the Warrant Agent upon any Warrant Certificate shall be conclusive evidence as against the Corporation that the Warrant Certificate so certified has been duly issued hereunder and that the holder is entitled to the benefits hereof. | |
(2) | The certification of the Warrant Agent on Warrant Certificates issued hereunder shall not be construed as a representation or warranty by the Warrant Agent as to the validity of this Indenture or the Warrant Certificates (except the due certification thereof) and the Warrant Agent shall in no respect be liable or answerable for the use made of the Warrant Certificates or any of them or of the consideration therefor except as otherwise specified herein. |
(1) | If any Warrant Certificate becomes mutilated or is lost, destroyed or stolen, the Corporation, subject to applicable law and to subsection (2), shall issue and thereupon the Warrant Agent shall certify and deliver, a new Warrant Certificate of like tenor as the one mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen in exchange for and in place of and upon cancellation of such mutilated Warrant Certificate, or in lieu of and in substitution for such lost, destroyed or stolen Warrant Certificate, and the substituted Warrant Certificate shall be in a form pursuant to the provisions of this Warrant Indenture and approved by the Warrant Agent and the Warrants evidenced thereby shall be entitled |
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to the benefits hereof and shall rank equally in accordance with its terms with all other Warrants issued or to be issued hereunder. | ||
(2) | The applicant for the issue of a new Warrant Certificate pursuant to this Section 2.8 shall bear the cost of the issue thereof and in case of loss, destruction or theft shall, as a condition precedent to the issue thereof, furnish to the Corporation and to the Warrant Agent such evidence of ownership and of the loss, destruction or theft of the Warrant Certificate so lost, destroyed or stolen as shall be satisfactory to the Corporation and to the Warrant Agent, in their sole discretion, and such applicant may also be required to furnish an indemnity and/or a surety bond in amount and form satisfactory to the Corporation and the Warrant Agent, in their sole discretion, and shall pay the reasonable charges of the Corporation and the Warrant Agent in connection therewith. |
(1) | Any one or more Warrant Certificates representing any number of Warrants may, upon compliance with the reasonable requirements of the Warrant Agent, be exchanged for one or more other Warrant Certificates representing the same aggregate number of Warrants as represented by the Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates tendered for exchange. | |
(2) | Warrant Certificates may be exchanged only at the Warrant Agency or at any other place that is designated by the Corporation with the approval of the Warrant Agent. Any Warrant Certificate tendered for exchange shall be cancelled by the Warrant Agent. | |
(3) | Warrant Certificates issued pursuant to this Section shall be in the same form and shall bear the same legends as those Warrant Certificates they are exchanged for. |
(1) | The Warrant Agent will cause to be kept (i) by and at the Warrant Agency, a register (or registers) of holders in which shall be entered in alphabetical order the names and addresses of the holders of Warrants and particulars of the Warrants held by them, respectively, and (ii) by and at the Warrant Agency, a register of transfers in which all transfers of Warrants and the date and other particulars of each transfer shall be entered. | |
(2) | The Warrants may only be transferred on the register referred to in subsection (1) by the holder or its legal representatives or its attorney duly appointed by an instrument in writing in form and execution satisfactory to the Warrant Agent with signatures guaranteed by Eligible Institutions only upon surrendering to the Warrant Agent the Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates representing the Warrants to be transferred, together with the duly completed Transfer Form (in the form annexed to the Warrant Certificate), and upon compliance with and, upon reasonable request of the Corporation or the Warrant Agent, satisfactory evidence of: |
(a) | the conditions set forth in this Indenture; |
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(b) | such reasonable requirements as the Warrant Agent may prescribe; and | ||
(c) | all applicable securities legislation and requirements of regulatory authorities. |
(3) | The Corporation and the Warrant Agent may deem and treat the registered owner of any Warrant as the beneficial owner thereof for all purposes and neither the Corporation nor the Warrant Agent shall be affected by any notice or knowledge to the contrary except as required by statute or court of competent jurisdiction. | |
(4) | Subject to the provisions of this Indenture and Applicable Legislation, the Warrantholders shall be entitled to the rights and privileges attaching to the Warrants free from all equities or rights of set off or counterclaims between the Corporation and the original and any intermediate holder of the Warrants. The issue of Common Shares by the Corporation upon the exercise or deemed exercise of Warrants in accordance with the terms and conditions herein contained shall discharge all responsibilities of the Corporation and the Warrant Agent with respect to such Warrants and neither the Corporation nor the Warrant Agent shall be bound to inquire into the title of any such holder. |
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EXERCISE OF WARRANTS
(1) | Subject to the terms hereof, including the provisions of Section 3.1, each holder of Warrants may exercise the right conferred on such holder to purchase one Common Share (subject to adjustment in accordance with the terms hereof) for each whole Warrant held by surrendering to the Warrant Agent at the Warrant Agency, after the Effective Date and prior to the Time of Expiry: |
(a) | the Warrant Certificate with a duly completed and executed Exercise Form in the form substantially set out in Schedule A; and | ||
(b) | a certified cheque, bank draft or money order in lawful money of the United States payable to or to the order of the Corporation at par in the city where such Warrant Certificate is surrendered in an amount equal to the Exercise Price multiplied by the number of Common Shares subscribed for. |
(2) | Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in this Indenture, no Warrantholder may exercise any Warrant at any time when no Registration Statement is effective, unless an exemption from the registration requirements to the U.S. Securities Act is available and such holder provides evidence of the availability of such exemption satisfactory to the Corporation and the Warrant Agent. If no Registration Statement is effective, such Warrantholder shall be notified forthwith by the Warrant Agent that such Warrantholder is entitled, at the sole option of the Corporation, to a redemption or cashless exercise of his or her Warrant, in whole or in part, in accordance with Section 3.9. | |
(3) | Any Exercise Form referred to in Section 3.1(1) shall be signed by the Warrantholder and shall specify: |
(a) | the number of Common Shares which the holder wishes to acquire (being not more than the number of Common Shares which the holder is entitled to acquire pursuant to the Warrant Certificate(s) surrendered); | ||
(b) | the person or persons in whose name or names such Common Shares are to be issued; |
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(c) | the address or addresses of such person or persons; and | ||
(d) | the number of Common Shares to be issued to each such person if more than one is so specified. |
(1) | Upon the exercise of Warrants pursuant to Section 3.1 and subject to Section 3.5, the Common Shares to be issued shall be deemed to have been issued and the person or persons to whom such Common Shares are to be issued shall be deemed to have become the holder or holders of record of such Common Shares on the Exercise Date unless the transfer registers of the Corporation shall be closed on such date, in which case the Underlying Securities shall be deemed to have been issued and such person |
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or persons deemed to have become the holder or holders of record of such Common Shares, on the date on which such transfer registers are reopened. | ||
(2) | The Corporation shall, upon receipt of the Warrant Certificate, the payment of the Exercise Price and the Exercise Form duly completed, as soon as practicable and in any event within three (3) Business Days after the Exercise Date, cause to be mailed to the person or persons in whose name or names the Warrant is registered or, if so specified in writing by the holder, cause to be delivered to such person or persons at the Warrant Agency where the Warrant Certificate was surrendered, a certificate or certificates for the appropriate number of Underlying Securities evidenced by the Warrant Certificate. In addition, if it is required by law, the Corporation shall cause to be delivered to any Warrantholder in whose name the Underlying Securities issuable upon exercise of the Warrants are to be issued a prospectus that complies with the U.S. Securities Act. |
(1) | The holder of any Warrants may exercise his right to acquire Common Shares in part and may thereby acquire a number of Common Shares less than the aggregate number which such holder is entitled to acquire pursuant to the surrendered Warrant Certificate(s). In the event of any exercise of a number of Warrants less than the number which the holder is entitled to exercise, the holder of the Warrants upon such exercise shall, in addition, be entitled to receive, without charge therefor, a new Warrant Certificate(s) in respect of the balance of the Warrants represented by the surrendered Warrant Certificate(s) and which were not then exercised. | |
(2) | Notwithstanding anything herein contained including any adjustment provided for in Article 4, the Corporation shall not be required, upon the exercise of any Warrants, to issue fractions of Underlying Securities or to distribute certificates or Warrants which evidence a fractional Underlying Security. In the event that a fractional share results upon the exercise of any Warrants, the issuance shall be rounded down to the nearest whole Common Share. If more than one Warrant shall be presented for exercise in full at the same time by the same Warrantholder, the number of Underlying Securities that shall be issuable upon the exercise thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate number of Underlying Securities purchasable on exercise of the Warrants so presented. |
(1) | The Warrant Agent shall promptly account to the Corporation with respect to Warrants exercised. Any securities or other instruments (including any property), |
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from time to time received by the Warrant Agent shall be received in trust for, and shall be segregated and kept apart by the Warrant Agent in trust for, the Warrantholders and the Corporation, as their interests may appear. | ||
(2) | The Warrant Agent shall record the particulars of Warrants exercised which particulars shall include the names and addresses of the persons who become holders of Common Shares and the Exercise Date in respect thereof. The Warrant Agent shall provide such particulars in writing to the Corporation within five Business Days of any request by the Corporation therefor. |
(1) | If the Registration Statement ceases to be effective, prior to the Time of Expiry and for so long as the Registration Statement is not effective, subject to applicable law, any holder of any Warrant may provide the Corporation with a notice of intent to exercise such Warrant by surrendering the certificate representing such Warrant at any time during such period to the Warrant Agent at the Warrant Agency, with a duly completed and executed notice of intent to exercise form (Notice of Intent to Exercise Form), upon which the holder shall indicate that he or she is exercising his or her right to exercise the Warrants. At such time of the receipt of the Notice of Intent to Exercise Form, the Warrant Agent at the Warrant Agency shall inform the Corporation of the Warrantholders intent to exercise. Within three business days of notice from the Warrant Agent at the Warrant Agency of the provision of a Notice of Intent to Exercise Form, the Corporation shall elect, at its sole discretion, to either (i) permit the redemption of the Warrants as provided in this section or (ii) permit the cashless exercise of the Warrants as provided in this section (Cashless Exercise). If the holder exercises the right provided for in this Section 3.9(1) in respect of a |
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lesser number of Warrants than the aggregate number of Warrants represented by the Warrant Certificate surrendered, the Warrantholder shall be entitled to receive a further Warrant Certificate in respect of the Warrants represented by the Warrant Certificates that have not been part of a cashless exercise or redeemed. | ||
(2) | Forthwith following the election of the Corporation to permit the exercise by a Warrantholder of the cashless exercise or redemption right in accordance with Section 3.9(1), the Warrant Agent shall deliver to the Corporation a notice setting out the particulars of the Warrants to be exercised or redeemed and the name and address of the Warrantholder, the number of Common Shares to be issued, if a cashless exercise, or the amount of money to be paid pursuant to the redemption right (Final Exercise Notice). | |
(3) | Within five Business Days of receipt of the Final Exercise Notice referred to in (2), the Corporation shall cause either (i) in the case of a redemption, a cheque in the amount of money determined by multiplying the number of Common Shares that would have been issued if the Warrants to be redeemed were exercised on the redemption date by the excess (if any) of the Current Market Price per Common Share on the Trading Day immediately preceding the redemption date over the Exercise Price on the redemption date or (ii) in the case of a cashless exercise, a certificate representing the number of Common Shares equal to the number of Common Shares which would, but for such Cashless Exercise, have been issuable (Total Share Number) less the number of Common Shares equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (a) the product of the Total Share Number and Exercise Price by (b) the Current Market Price of the Common Shares on the trading day immediately preceding the Cashless Exercise to be mailed to such Warrantholder at the address specified in such Notice of Intent to Exercise Form, or, if so specified in such Notice of Intent to Exercise Form, to be made available for pick-up by such Warrantholder at the Warrant Agency. |
ADJUSTMENT OF EXERCISE RIGHTS
(a) | If and whenever at any time prior to the Time of Expiry the Corporation shall: |
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(i) | issue, declare a dividend or make a distribution on its Common Shares in each case payable in Common Shares (or securities exchangeable for or convertible into Common Shares) at no additional cost to all or substantially all of the holders of Common Shares, or | ||
(ii) | subdivide, redivide or change its outstanding Common Shares into a greater number of Common Shares, or | ||
(iii) | reduce, combine or consolidate its outstanding Common Shares into a lesser number, |
(b) | If and whenever at any time prior to the Time of Expiry the Corporation shall fix a record date for the issuing of rights, options or warrants to all or substantially all of the holders of the Common Shares entitling them for a period expiring not more than 45 days after such record date (the Rights Period) to subscribe for or purchase Common Shares (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for Common Shares) at a price per share (or having a conversion or exchange price per share) which is less than 95% of the Current Market Price per Common Share on the record date for such issue (any of such events being called a Rights Offering), then effective immediately after the end of the Rights Period the Exercise Price shall be adjusted to a price determined by multiplying the applicable Exercise Price in effect at the end of the Rights Period by a fraction the numerator of which shall be the sum of: |
(i) | the number of Common Shares outstanding as of the record date for the Rights Offering, and | ||
(ii) | the number determined by dividing (A) either the product of (i) the number of Common Shares issued during the Rights Period upon exercise of the rights, warrants or options under the Rights Offering and (ii) the price at which such Common Shares are issued, or, as the case may be, the product of (iii) the number of Common Shares for or into which the convertible or exchangeable securities issued during the |
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Rights Period upon exercise of the rights, warrants or options under the Rights Offering are exchangeable or convertible and (iv) the exchange or conversion price of the convertible or exchangeable securities so issued, by (B) the Current Market Price per Common Share as of the record date for the Rights Offering, and |
(c) | If and whenever at any time prior to the Time of Expiry the Corporation shall fix a record date for the payment, issue or distribution to all or substantially all of the holders of the Common Shares of (i) a dividend, (ii) cash or assets (including evidences of the Corporations indebtedness), or (iii) rights, options, warrants or other securities (including securities convertible into or exchangeable for Common Shares), and such payment, issue or distribution does not constitute a Share Reorganization or a Rights Offering (any of such non-excluded events being herein called a Special Distribution), the Exercise Price shall be adjusted effective immediately after such record date to a price determined by multiplying the applicable Exercise Price in effect on such record date by a fraction: |
(i) | the numerator of which shall be: |
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(A) | the product of the number of Common Shares outstanding on such record date and the Current Market Price per Common Share on such record date; less | ||
(B) | the fair market value, as determined in good faith by action of the directors whose determination shall be conclusive, subject to any required Regulatory Approval, to the holders of the Common Shares of such cash, assets, rights, options, warrants or securities so paid, issued or distributed less the fair market value, as determined in good faith by action of the directors whose determination shall be conclusive, subject to any required Regulatory Approval, of the consideration, if any, received therefor by the Corporation, and |
(ii) | the denominator of which shall be the number of Common Shares outstanding on such record date multiplied by the Current Market Price per Common Share on such record date. |
(d) | If and whenever at any time prior to the Time of Expiry an issuer bid or a tender or exchange offer (other than an odd lot offer or a normal course issuer bid) made by the Corporation or a Subsidiary of the Corporation to all or substantially all of the Shareholders for all or any portion of the Common Shares where the cash and the value of any other consideration included in such payment per Common Share exceeds the Current Market Price per Common Share on the Trading Day immediately preceding the commencement of the issuer bid or tender or exchange offer (any such issuer bid or tender or exchange offer being called an Issuer Bid), the Exercise Price shall be adjusted to a price determined by multiplying the applicable Exercise Price in effect on the date of the completion of such Issuer Bid by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the product of (i) the number of Common Shares outstanding immediately prior to the completion of the Issuer Bid (without giving effect to any reduction in respect of any tendered or exchanged shares) and, (ii) the Current Market Price per Common Share on the Trading Day immediately preceding the commencement of the Issuer Bid, and the denominator of which shall be the sum of (i) the fair market value (determined in good faith by the board of directors of the Corporation whose determination shall be conclusive, subject to any required Regulatory Approval, and described in a resolution of the board of directors of the Corporation) of the aggregate consideration paid by the Corporation or subsidiary to holders of Common Shares upon the completion of such Issuer Bid, and (ii) the product of (A) the difference between the number of Common Shares outstanding immediately prior to the completion of the Issuer Bid (without giving effect to any reduction in respect of tendered or |
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exchanged shares) and the number of Common Shares actually purchased by the Corporation or Subsidiary of the Corporation pursuant to the Issuer Bid, and (B) the Current Market Price Per Common Share on the Trading Day immediately preceding the commencement of the Issuer Bid. | |||
(e) | If and whenever at any time prior to the Time of Expiry there shall be a reclassification of Common Shares outstanding at such time or change of the Common Shares into other shares or into other securities (other than a Share Reorganization, a Rights Offering or a Special Distribution), or a consolidation, amalgamation, arrangement or merger of the Corporation with or into any other corporation or other entity (other than a consolidation, amalgamation, arrangement or merger which does not result in any reclassification of the outstanding Common Shares or a change of the Common Shares into other shares), or a sale, conveyance or transfer of the undertaking or assets of the Corporation as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to another corporation or entity in which the holders of Common Shares are entitled to receive shares, other securities or property, including cash (other than transfers of the property or assets of the Corporation which do not result in any reclassification of the outstanding Common Shares or a change of the Common Shares into other shares) (any of such events being herein called a Capital Reorganization), and subject to any required Regulatory Approval, any holder who exercises his right to subscribe for and purchase Common Shares pursuant to the exercise of Warrants after the effective date of such Capital Reorganization shall be entitled to receive, and shall accept for the same aggregate consideration in lieu of the number of Common Shares to which such holder was theretofore entitled upon such exercise, the aggregate number of shares, other securities or other property which such holder would have received as a result of such Capital Reorganization had he exercised his right to acquire Underlying Securities immediately prior to the effective date or record date, as the case may be, of the Capital Reorganization and had he been the registered holder of such Underlying Securities on such effective date or record date, as the case may be, subject to adjustment thereafter in accordance with provisions the same, or nearly as may be possible, as those contained in Section 4.1(b) and Section 4.1(c) hereof. If determined appropriate by the directors, acting in good faith, appropriate adjustments shall be made as a result of any such Capital Reorganization in the application of the provisions set forth in this Section 4.1, with respect to the rights and interests thereafter of the holder of a Warrant to the end that the provisions set forth in this Section 4.1 shall thereafter correspondingly be made applicable as nearly as may be reasonably possible in relation to any shares, other securities or other property thereafter deliverable upon the exercise of the Warrant. Any such adjustment shall be made by and set forth in an agreement supplemental hereto approved by action of the directors, acting in good faith, and shall for all purposes be conclusively deemed to be an appropriate adjustment. |
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(f) | If and whenever at any time prior to the Time of Expiry there shall occur a Share Reorganization, a Rights Offering, a Special Distribution or an Issuer Bid and any such event results in an adjustment to the Exercise Price pursuant to the provisions of this Section 4.1, the number of Common Shares purchasable upon the exercise of each Warrant (at the adjusted Exercise Price) shall be adjusted contemporaneously with the adjustment of the Exercise Price by multiplying the number of Common Shares theretofore purchasable on the exercise thereof by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the applicable Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such adjustment and the denominator of which shall be the applicable Exercise Price resulting from such adjustment. | ||
(g) | In case the Corporation after the date of issue of the Warrants shall take any action affecting the Common Shares, other than action described in this Section 4.1, which in the opinion of the directors, acting reasonably, would materially adversely affect the rights of the Warrantholders, the Exercise Price or the number of Common Shares purchasable upon the exercise of each Warrant shall be adjusted in such manner, if any, and at such time, by action of the directors, acting reasonably, as they may determine to be equitable in the circumstances, but subject in all cases to any necessary regulatory approvals. |
(a) | all calculations shall be made to the nearest 1/100th of a Common Share; | ||
(b) | no adjustment to an Exercise Price shall be required unless such adjustment would result in a change of at least one per cent in the prevailing Exercise Price and no adjustment shall be made in the number of Common Shares which may be subscribed for upon exercise of the Warrant unless it would require a change of at least 1/100th of a Common Share; provided, however, that any adjustments which, except for the provisions of this Section 4.2(b) would otherwise have been required to be made shall be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment; | ||
(c) | if any question shall arise with respect to adjustments provided for in this Article 4, such question shall, absent manifest error, be conclusively determined by a firm of chartered accountants appointed by the Corporation (who may be the Corporations Auditors) and acceptable to the Warrant Agent, acting reasonably; such chartered accountants shall have access to all necessary records of the Corporation and such determination shall be binding on the Corporation, the Warrant Agent and the Warrantholders, absent manifest error. In the event that any such determination is made, the Corporation shall deliver a certificate to the Warrant Agent describing such determination and confirming such consent; |
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(d) | if the Corporation shall set a record date to determine the holders of its Common Shares for the purpose of entitling them to receive any dividend or distribution or any subscription or purchase rights, options or warrants and shall thereafter and before the distribution to such Shareholders of any such dividend, distribution or subscription or purchase rights legally abandon its plan to pay or deliver such dividend, distribution or subscription or purchase rights, then no adjustment in the Exercise Price or the number of Common Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Warrant shall be required by reason of the setting of such record date; and | ||
(e) | as a condition precedent to the taking of any action which would require any adjustment in any of the subscription rights pursuant to any of the Warrants, the Corporation shall take any corporate action which may, in the opinion of Counsel, be necessary in order that the Corporation has unissued and reserved in its authorized capital, and may validly and legally issue as fully paid and non-assessable, all of the Underlying Securities that the Warrantholders are entitled to receive on full exercise thereof in accordance with the provisions hereof. |
(a) | At least 14 days prior to the effective date or record date, as the case may be, of any event that requires or that may require an adjustment in any of the exercise rights pursuant to any of the Warrants, including the number of Underlying Securities that may be acquired upon the exercise thereof, the Corporation shall: |
(i) | file with the Warrant Agent a certificate of the Corporation specifying the particulars of such event (including the record date or the effective date for such event) and, if determinable, the required adjustment and the computation of such adjustment; and |
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(ii) | give notice to the Warrantholders of the particulars of such event (including the record date or the effective date for such event) and, if determinable, the required adjustment, in accordance with the provisions set out in Section 10.2. |
(b) | In case any adjustment for which a notice in Section 4.4(a) has been given is not then determinable, the Corporation shall promptly after such adjustment is determinable: |
(i) | file a certificate of the Corporation with the Warrant Agent showing how such adjustment was computed; and | ||
(ii) | give notice to the Warrantholders of the adjustment, in accordance with the provisions set out in Section 10.2. |
(c) | The Warrant Agent may act and rely for all purposes upon any certificates and any other documents filed by the Corporation pursuant to this Section 4.4. |
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RIGHTS OF THE CORPORATION AND COVENANTS
(a) | it will allot and reserve and keep available a sufficient number of Common Shares for the purpose of enabling it to satisfy its obligations to issue Common Shares upon the exercise of the Warrants; | ||
(b) | it will cause the Common Shares and the certificates representing the Common Shares from time to time acquired pursuant to the exercise of the Warrants to be duly issued and delivered in accordance with the Warrant Certificates and the terms hereof; | ||
(c) | upon payment of the Exercise Price, all Common Shares which shall be issued upon exercise of the rights to acquire provided for herein and in the Warrant Certificates shall be fully paid and non-assessable; | ||
(d) | it will maintain its corporate existence carry on and conduct its business in a proper, efficient and business-like manner and, in accordance with good business practice, keep or cause to be kept proper books of account in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting practice, and, if and whenever required in writing by the Warrant Agent, file with the Warrant Agent copies of all annual and interim financial statements of the Corporation furnished to its shareholders during the term of this Indenture; | ||
(e) | subject to a Capital Reorganization described in Section 4.1(e) above or a tender offer, it will use its reasonable best efforts to ensure that all Common Shares outstanding or issuable from time to time (including without limitation the Underlying Securities) continue to be or are listed and posted for trading on the Amex and the Toronto Stock Exchange; | ||
(f) | subject to a Capital Reorganization described in Section 4.1(e) above or a tender offer, it will use its reasonable efforts to maintain its status as a reporting issuer or equivalent in good standing under the federal securities laws of the United States and in each of the provinces of Canada, other than Quebec, and it will make all requisite filings to be made by it under applicable United States and Canadian securities legislation and stock exchange rules including without limitation to report the exercise of the rights to acquire Common Shares pursuant to Warrants or otherwise; | ||
(g) | if at any time no Registration Statement is effective, it will give notice to the Warrant Agent forthwith and will give notice, in accordance with the provisions set out in Article 10, together with a form for notice to exercise for the cashless exercise or redemption right set out in Section 3.9 to each Warrantholder shown on the register of holders of Warrants kept by the |
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Warrant Agent pursuant to this Indenture of such fact as soon as reasonably practicable, but in any event such notice must be sent within five Business Days, after learning that no Registration Statement is effective. Such notice must be sent by fax if possible to any securities depositary that is a registered holder; | |||
(h) | it will use reasonable best efforts to maintain the Registration Statement continuously effective under the U.S. Securities Act until the Expiry Date or exercise of all Warrants (provided, however, that nothing shall prevent the Corporations amalgamation, arrangement, merger or sale, including any take-over bid, and any associated delisting or deregistration or ceasing to be a reporting issuer, provided that, so long as the Warrants are still outstanding and represent a right to acquire securities of the acquiring company, the acquiring company shall assume our obligations under this Warrant Indenture); | ||
(i) | if, in the opinion of Counsel, any instrument is required to be filed with, or any permission, order or ruling is required to be obtained from any securities administrator, regulatory agency or governmental authority in Canada or the United States or any other step is required under any federal or provincial law of Canada or any federal or state law of the United States before the Underlying Securities may be issued or delivered to a Warrantholder, the Corporation will use its reasonable best efforts to file such instrument, obtain such permission, order or ruling or take all such other actions, at its expense, as are required; and | ||
(j) | generally, it will well and truly perform and carry out all of the acts or things to be done by it as provided in this Indenture. |
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ENFORCEMENT
(1) | No Warrantholder shall have any right to institute any action, suit or proceeding at law or in equity for the purpose of enforcing the execution of this Indenture or power hereunder or seeking the liquidation of the Corporation, its winding-up, composition of its debts under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, or reorganisation or relief of the debtors of the Corporation, or the seeking appointment of a receiver, receiver and manager, Warrant Agent, custodian or similar official for the Corporation or any substantial part of the Corporations property or assets unless (i) the Warrantholders by Extraordinary Resolution shall have made a request to the Warrant Agent and the Warrant Agent shall have been afforded reasonable opportunity to proceed or complete any action or suit for any such purpose whether or not in its own name; and (ii) the Warrantholders or any of them shall have furnished to the Warrant Agent, when so requested by the Warrant Agent, sufficient funds and security and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby; and (iii) the Warrant Agent shall have failed to act within a reasonable time or where the Warrant Agent shall have failed to have actively pursued any such action, suit or proceeding. |
(2) | Subject to the provisions of this Section and Section 7.10, all or any of the rights conferred upon a Warrantholder by the terms of a Warrant may be enforced by such Warrantholder by appropriate legal proceedings without prejudice to the right which is hereby conferred upon the Warrant Agent to proceed in its own name to enforce each and all of the provisions herein contained for the benefit of the Warrantholders from time to time. |
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(a) | the holders of greater than 50% of the Warrants then outstanding shall have the power (in addition to the powers exercisable by Extraordinary Resolution) by requisition in writing to instruct the Warrant Agent to waive any default hereunder and the Warrant Agent shall thereupon waive the default upon such terms and conditions as shall be prescribed in such requisition; or | ||
(b) | the Warrant Agent shall have power to waive any default hereunder upon such terms and conditions as the Warrant Agent may deem advisable, if, in the Warrant Agents opinion, the same shall have been cured or adequate provision made therefor; provided that no delay or omission of the Warrant Agent or of the Warrantholders to exercise any right or power accruing upon any default shall impair any such right or power or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such default or acquiescence therein and provided further that no act or omission either of the Warrant Agent or of the Warrantholders in the premises shall extend to or be taken in any manner whatsoever to affect any subsequent default hereunder of the rights resulting therefrom. |
MEETINGS OF WARRANTHOLDERS
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(a) | the setting of the record date for a meeting of Warrantholders for the purpose of determining Warrantholders entitled to receive notice of and to vote at the meeting; | ||
(b) | the issue of voting certificates by any bank, trust company or other depositary satisfactory to the Warrant Agent stating that the Warrant Certificates specified therein have been deposited with it by a named person and will remain on deposit until after the meeting, which voting certificate shall entitle the persons named therein to be present and vote at any such meeting and at any adjournment thereof or to appoint a proxy or proxies to represent them and vote for them at any such meeting and at any adjournment thereof in the same manner and with the same effect as though the persons so named in such voting certificates were the actual bearers of the Warrant Certificates specified therein; | ||
(c) | the deposit of voting certificates and instruments appointing proxies at such place and time as the Warrant Agent, the Corporation or the Warrantholders convening the meeting, as the case may be, may in the notice convening the meeting direct; |
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(d) | the deposit of voting certificates and instruments appointing proxies at some approved place or places other than the place at which the meeting is to be held and enabling particulars of such instruments appointing proxies to be mailed or telecopied before the meeting to the Corporation or to the Warrant Agent at the place where the same is to be held and for the voting of proxies so deposited as though the instruments themselves were produced at the meeting; | ||
(e) | the form of the instrument of proxy; and | ||
(f) | generally for the calling of meetings of Warrantholders and the conduct of business thereat. |
(a) | to agree to any modification, abrogation, alteration, compromise or arrangement of the rights of Warrantholders or the Warrant Agent in its capacity as Warrant Agent hereunder or on behalf of the Warrantholders against the Corporation whether such rights arise under this Indenture or the Warrant Certificates or otherwise; | ||
(b) | to amend, alter or repeal any Extraordinary Resolution previously passed or sanctioned by the Warrantholders; | ||
(c) | to direct or to authorize the Warrant Agent to enforce any of the covenants on the part of the Corporation contained in this Indenture or the Warrant Certificates or to enforce any of the rights of the Warrantholders in any manner specified in such Extraordinary Resolution or to refrain from enforcing any such covenant or right; | ||
(d) | to waive, and to direct the Warrant Agent to waive, any default on the part of the Corporation in complying with any provisions of this Indenture or the |
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Warrant Certificates either unconditionally or upon any conditions specified in such Extraordinary Resolution; | |||
(e) | to restrain any Warrantholder from taking or instituting any suit, action or proceeding against the Corporation for the enforcement of any of the covenants on the part of the Corporation in this Indenture or the Warrant Certificates or to enforce any of the rights of the Warrantholders; | ||
(f) | to direct any Warrantholder who, as such, has brought any suit, action or proceeding to stay or to discontinue or otherwise to deal with the same upon payment of the costs, charges and expenses reasonably and properly incurred by such Warrantholder in connection therewith; | ||
(g) | to assent to any change in or omission from the provisions contained in the Warrant Certificates and this Indenture or any ancillary or supplemental instrument which may be agreed to by the Corporation, and to authorize the Warrant Agent to concur in and execute any ancillary or supplemental indenture embodying the change or omission; and | ||
(h) | with the consent of the Corporation (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), to remove the Warrant Agent or its successor in office and to appoint a new Warrant Agent or Warrant Agents to take the place of the Warrant Agent so removed. |
(1) | The expression Extraordinary Resolution when used in this Indenture means, subject as hereinafter provided in this Section 7.11 and in Section 7.14, a resolution proposed at a meeting of Warrantholders duly convened for that purpose and held in accordance with the provisions of this Article 7 at which there are present in person or by proxy Warrantholders entitled to acquire at least 25% of the aggregate number of Common Shares which may be acquired pursuant to all the then outstanding Warrants and passed by the affirmative votes of not less than two-thirds of the votes cast upon such resolution. |
(2) | If, at the meeting at which an Extraordinary Resolution is to be considered, Warrantholders entitled to acquire at least 25% of the aggregate number of Common Shares which may be acquired pursuant to all the then outstanding Warrants are not present in person or by proxy within 30 minutes after the time appointed for the meeting, then the meeting, if convened by Warrantholders or on a Warrantholders Request, shall be dissolved; but in any other case it shall stand adjourned to such day, being not less than 15 or more than 60 days later, and to such place and time as may be appointed by the chairman. Not less than ten days prior notice shall be given of the time and place of such adjourned meeting in the manner provided for in Section 10.2. Such notice shall state that at the adjourned meeting the Warrantholders present in person or by proxy shall form a quorum but it shall not be necessary to set forth the purposes for which the meeting was originally called or any other particulars. At the adjourned meeting the Warrantholders present in person or by proxy shall form a quorum and may transact the business for which the meeting was |
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originally convened and a resolution proposed at such adjourned meeting and passed by the requisite vote as provided in Section 7.11(1) shall be an Extraordinary Resolution within the meaning of this Indenture notwithstanding that Warrantholders entitled to acquire at least 25% of the aggregate number of Common Shares which may be acquired pursuant to all the then outstanding Warrants are not present in person or by proxy at such adjourned meeting. | ||
(3) | Votes on an Extraordinary Resolution shall always be given on a poll and no demand for a poll on an Extraordinary Resolution shall be necessary. |
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SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
(a) | setting forth any adjustments resulting from the application of the provisions of Article 4; | ||
(b) | adding to the provisions hereof such additional covenants and enforcement provisions as, in the opinion of Counsel, are necessary or advisable in the premises, provided that the same are not in the opinion of the Warrant Agent prejudicial to the interests of the Warrantholders as a group; | ||
(c) | giving effect to any Extraordinary Resolution passed as provided in Article 7; | ||
(d) | making such provisions not inconsistent with this Indenture as may be necessary or desirable with respect to matters or questions arising hereunder or for the purpose of obtaining a listing or quotation of the Warrants on any stock exchange, provided that such provisions are not, in the opinion of the Warrant Agent, prejudicial to the interests of the Warrantholders; | ||
(e) | adding to or altering the provisions hereof in respect of the transfer of Warrants, making provision for the exchange of Warrant Certificates, and making any modification in the form of the Warrant Certificates which does not affect the substance thereof; | ||
(f) | modifying any of the provisions of this Indenture, including relieving the Corporation from any of the obligations, conditions or restrictions herein contained, provided that such modification or relief shall be or become operative or effective only if, in the opinion of the Warrant Agent, such modification or relief in no way prejudices any of the rights of the Warrantholders or of the Warrant Agent, and provided further that the Warrant Agent may in its sole discretion decline to enter into any such |
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supplemental indenture which in its opinion may not afford adequate protection to the Warrant Agent when the same shall become operative; and |
(g) | for any other purpose not inconsistent with the terms of this Indenture, including the correction or rectification of any ambiguities, defective or inconsistent provisions, errors, mistakes or omissions herein, provided that in the opinion of the Warrant Agent the rights of the Warrant Agent and of the Warrantholders are in no way prejudiced thereby. |
CONCERNING THE WARRANT AGENT
(1) | If and to the extent that any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with a mandatory requirement of Applicable Legislation, such mandatory requirement shall prevail. | |
(2) | The Corporation and the Warrant Agent agree that each will, at all times in relation to this Indenture and any action to be taken hereunder, observe and comply with and be entitled to the benefits of Applicable Legislation. |
(1) | In the exercise of the rights and duties prescribed or conferred by the terms of this Indenture, the Warrant Agent shall exercise that degree of care, diligence and skill that a reasonably prudent Warrant Agent and/or custodian would exercise in comparable circumstances. No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Warrant Agent from, or require any other person to indemnify the Warrant Agent against, liability for its own gross negligent action, its own gross negligent failure to act, or its own wilful misconduct or bad faith. | |
(2) | In addition to Section 6.1 above, the obligation of the Warrant Agent to commence or continue any act, action or proceeding for the purpose of enforcing any rights of the Warrant Agent or the Warrantholders hereunder shall be conditional upon the Warrantholders furnishing, when required by notice by the Warrant Agent, sufficient funds to commence or to continue such act, action or proceeding and an indemnity |
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reasonably satisfactory to the Warrant Agent to protect and to hold harmless the Warrant Agent against the costs, charges and expenses and liabilities to be incurred thereby and any loss and damage it may suffer by reason thereof. None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the Warrant Agent to expend or to risk its own funds or otherwise to incur financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers. | ||
(3) | The Warrant Agent may, before commencing or at any time during the continuance of any such act, action or proceeding, require the Warrantholders, at whose instance it is acting to deposit with the Warrant Agent the Warrants held by them, for which Warrants the Warrant Agent shall issue receipts. | |
(4) | Every provision of this Indenture that by its terms relieves the Warrant Agent of liability or entitles it to rely upon any evidence submitted to it is subject to the provisions of Applicable Legislation, of this Section 9.2 and of Section 9.3. | |
(5) | The Warrant Agent shall incur no liability and it shall be fully protected in acting or not acting in accordance with any opinion or instruction of counsel or other expert, whether retained or employed by the Corporation or the Warrant Agent, in relation to any matters arising in fulfilling its duties and obligations hereof. |
(1) | In addition to the reports, certificates, opinions and other evidence required by this Indenture, the Corporation shall furnish to the Warrant Agent such additional evidence of compliance with any provision hereof, and in such form, as may be prescribed by Applicable Legislation or as the Warrant Agent may reasonably require by written notice to the Corporation. | |
(2) | In the exercise of its rights and duties hereunder, the Warrant Agent may, if it is acting in good faith, rely as to the truth of the statements and the accuracy of the opinions expressed in statutory declarations, opinions, reports, written requests, consents, or orders of the Corporation, certificates of the Corporation or other evidence furnished to the Warrant Agent pursuant to a request of the Warrant Agent. | |
(3) | Whenever it is provided in this Indenture or under Applicable Legislation that the Corporation shall deposit with the Warrant Agent resolutions, certificates, reports, opinions, requests, orders or other documents, it is intended that the trust, accuracy and good faith on the effective date thereof and the facts and opinions stated in all such documents so deposited shall, in each and every such case, be conditions precedent to the right of the Corporation to have the Warrant Agent take the action to be based thereon. | |
(4) | Proof of the execution of an instrument in writing, including a Warrantholders Request, by any Warrantholder may be made by the certificate of a notary public, or other officer with similar powers, that the person signing such instrument acknowledged to it the execution thereof, or by an affidavit of a witness to such execution or in any other manner which the Warrant Agent may consider adequate. |
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(5) | The Warrant Agent may employ or retain such Counsel, accountants, appraisers or other experts or advisers as it may reasonably require for the purpose of discharging its duties hereunder and may pay reasonable remuneration for all services so performed by any of them, without taxation of costs of any Counsel, and shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such experts or advisers who have been appointed with due care by the Warrant Agent. All costs and expenses related to such employment or retention shall become and form part of the Warrant Agents remuneration as described in Section 5.2 above. |
(a) | the Warrant Agent shall not be liable for or by reason of any statements of fact or recitals in this Indenture or in the Warrant Certificates (except the representation contained in Section 9.9 or in the certificate of the Warrant Agent on the Warrant Certificates) or be required to verify the same, but all such statements or recitals are and shall be deemed to be made by the Corporation; | ||
(b) | nothing herein contained shall impose any obligation on the Warrant Agent to see to or to require evidence of the registration or filing (or renewal thereof) of this Indenture or any instrument ancillary or supplemental hereto; | ||
(c) | the Warrant Agent shall not be bound to give notice to any person or persons of the execution hereof; |
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(d) | the Corporation indemnifies and saves harmless the Warrant Agent and its officers from and against any and all liabilities, losses, costs, claims, actions, or demands whatsoever which may be brought against the Warrant Agent or which it may suffer or incur as a result of or arising out of the performance of its duties and obligations under this Indenture, save only in the event of the gross negligent failure to act, or the wilful misconduct or bad faith of the Warrant Agent. It is understood and agreed that this indemnification shall survive the termination or discharge of this Indenture or the resignation of the Warrant Agent; | ||
(e) | The Warrant Agent shall incur no liability with respect to the delivery or non-delivery of any certificate or certificates whether delivered by hand, mail or any other means; | ||
(f) | The Warrant Agent shall not be liable for any error in judgement or for any act performed or step taken or omitted by it in good faith for any mistake, in fact or in law, or for anything it may do or refrain from doing in connection herewith except arising out of its own gross negligence or wilful misconduct or bad faith; and | ||
(g) | The Warrant Agent will not be bound to give any notice or do or take any act, action or proceeding by virtue of the powers conferred on it by this Indenture until it has been required so to do under the terms of this Indenture. The Warrant Agent will not be required to take notice of any default under this Indenture unless and until notified in writing of such default which notice will specify the default desired to be brought to the attention of the Warrant Agent. In the absence of such notice, the Warrant Agent may for all purposes of this Indenture assume that no default has been made in the observance or performance of any of the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or conditions contained in this Indenture. Any such notice will in no way limit any discretion given to the Warrant Agent in this Indenture to determine whether or not to take action with respect to any default. |
(1) | The Warrant Agent may resign its trust and be discharged from all further duties and liabilities hereunder, subject to this Section 9.8, by giving to the Corporation not less than 60 days prior notice in writing or such shorter prior notice as the Corporation may accept as sufficient. The Warrantholders by Extraordinary Resolution shall have power at any time to remove the existing Warrant Agent and to appoint a new Warrant Agent. In the event of the Warrant Agent resigning or being removed as aforesaid or being dissolved, becoming bankrupt, going into liquidation or otherwise becoming incapable of acting hereunder, the Corporation shall forthwith appoint a new Warrant Agent unless a new Warrant Agent has already been appointed by the Warrantholders; failing such appointment by the Corporation, the retiring Warrant Agent or any Warrantholder may apply to a Court of the State of New York or a court of the Province of Ontario on such notice as such a justice of that Court may direct, for the appointment of a new Warrant Agent; but any new Warrant Agent so |
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appointed by the Corporation or by the Court shall be subject to removal as aforesaid by the Warrantholders. Any new Warrant Agent appointed under any provision of this Section 9.8 shall be a corporation authorized to carry on the business in its jurisdiction of incorporation. On any such appointment the new Warrant Agent shall be vested with the same powers, rights, duties and responsibilities as if it had been originally named herein as Warrant Agent hereunder. | ||
(2) | Upon the appointment of a successor Warrant Agent, the Corporation shall promptly notify the Warrantholders thereof in the manner provided for in Section 10.2 hereof. | |
(3) | Upon the payment by the Corporation to the retiring Warrant Agent of any and all outstanding fees or charges still properly owing to it, the retiring Warrant Agent shall undertake to transfer all requisite files, inventory and other records to the succeeding Warrant Agent upon request. | |
(4) | Any corporation into or with which the Warrant Agent may be merged or consolidated or amalgamated, or any corporation resulting therefrom to which the Warrant Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Warrant Agent shall be the successor to the Warrant Agent hereunder without any further act on its part or any of the parties hereto, provided that such corporation would be eligible for appointment as a successor Warrant Agent under Section 9.8(1). | |
(5) | Any Warrant Certificates certified but not delivered by a predecessor Warrant Agent may be certified by the successor Warrant Agent in the name of the predecessor or successor Warrant Agent. |
(1) | The Warrant Agent represents to the Corporation that at the time of execution and delivery hereof no material conflict of interest exists between its role as a Warrant Agent hereunder and its role in any other capacity and agrees that in the event of a material conflict of interest arising hereafter it will, within 90 days after ascertaining that it has such material conflict of interest, either eliminate the same or assign its trust hereunder to a successor Warrant Agent approved by the Corporation and meeting the requirements set forth in Section 9.8(1). Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 9.1(1), if any such material conflict of interest exists or hereafter shall exist, the validity and enforceability of this Indenture and the Warrant Certificate shall not be affected in any manner whatsoever by reason thereof. | |
(2) | Subject to Section 9.1(1), the Warrant Agent, in its personal or any other capacity, may buy, lend upon and deal in securities of the Corporation and generally may contract and enter into financial transactions with the Corporation or any Subsidiary of the Corporation without being liable to account for any profit made thereby. |
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GENERAL
(1) | Unless herein otherwise expressly provided, any notice to be given hereunder to the Corporation or the Warrant Agent shall be deemed to be validly given if delivered or if sent by registered letter, postage prepaid or if telecopied: |
If to the Corporation: | ||||
Uranerz Energy Corporation | ||||
Suite 1400, 800 West Pender Street | ||||
Vancouver, British Columbia | ||||
V6C 2V6 | ||||
Attention: | Sandra R. MacKay | |||
Corporate Secretary | ||||
Telecopier: (604)  ###-###-#### | ||||
With a copy to (which shall constitute notice hereunder): |
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Dorsey & Whiney LLP | ||||
370 17th Street, Suite 4700 | ||||
Denver, Colorado 80202 | ||||
Attention: | Jason K. Brenkert | |||
Telecopier: (303)  ###-###-#### | ||||
If to the Warrant Agent: | ||||
Corporate Stock Transfer Inc. | ||||
3200 Cherry Creek Drive South | ||||
Suite 430 | ||||
Denver, Colorado 80209 | ||||
Attention: | Carylyn Bell | |||
Telecopier: (303)  ###-###-#### |
(2) | The Corporation or the Warrant Agent, as the case may be, may from time to time notify the other in the manner provided in Section 10.1(1) of a change of address which, from the effective date of such notice and until changed by like notice, shall be the address of the Corporation or the Warrant Agent, as the case may be, for all purposes of this Indenture. | |
(3) | If, by reason of a strike, lockout or other work stoppage, actual or threatened, involving postal employees, any notice to be given to the Warrant Agent or to the Corporation hereunder could reasonably be considered unlikely to reach its destination, such notice shall be valid and effective only if it is delivered or sent by telecopier at the appropriate address or number provided in Section 10.1(1). |
(1) | Unless otherwise provided herein, any notice to the Warrantholders under the provisions of this Indenture shall be valid and effective if delivered or if sent by telecopier or letter or circular through the ordinary post addressed to such holders at their post office addresses appearing on the register hereinbefore mentioned and shall be deemed to have been effectively given on the date of delivery or, if mailed, five Business Days following actual posting of the notice, or if telecopied, the next Business Day after transmission provided that transmission has been completely and accurately transmitted. | |
(2) | If, by reason of a strike, lockout or other work stoppage, actual or threatened, involving postal employees, any notice to be given to the Warrantholders hereunder could reasonably be considered unlikely to reach its destination, such notice shall be |
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valid and effective only if it is delivered or sent by telecopier at the appropriate address or number. |
(a) | the date by which there shall have been delivered to the Warrant Agent for exercise or destruction all Warrant Certificates theretofore certified hereunder; or | ||
(b) | the Time of Expiry, |
Section 10.5 | Provisions of Indenture and Warrants for the Sole Benefit of Parties, Agent and Warrantholders. |
Section 10.6 | Warrants Owned by the Corporation or its Subsidiaries Certificate to be Provided |
(a) | the names (other than the name of the Corporation) of the registered holders of Warrants which, to the knowledge of the Corporation, are owned by or held for the account of the Corporation or any Subsidiary of the Corporation; and |
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(b) | the number of Warrants owned legally or beneficially by the Corporation or any Subsidiary of the Corporation, |
(1) | Upon receipt of a certificate of any bank, trust company or other depositary satisfactory to the Warrant Agent stating that the Warrants specified therein have been deposited by a named person with such bank, trust company or other depositary and will remain so deposited until the expiry of the period specified therein, the Corporation and the Warrant Agent may treat the person so named as the owner, and such certificate as sufficient evidence of the ownership by such person of such Warrant during such period, for the purpose of any requisition, direction, consent, instrument or other document to be made, signed or given by the holder of the Warrant so deposited. | |
(2) | The Corporation and the Warrant Agent may accept as sufficient evidence of the fact and date of the signing of any requisition, direction, consent, instrument or other document by any person: |
(a) | the signature of any officer of any bank, trust company, or other depositary satisfactory to the Warrant Agent as witness of such execution, the certificate of any notary public or other officer authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds to be recorded at the place where such certificate is made that the person signing acknowledged to him the execution thereof, | ||
(b) | a statutory declaration of a witness of such execution, or | ||
(c) | such other documentation as is satisfactory to the Warrant Agent. |
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URANERZ ENERGY CORPORATION | ||||
By: | /s/ Dennis Higgs | |||
Name: | Dennis Higgs | |||
Title: | Chairman of the Board | |||
By: | /s/ Ben Leboe | |||
Name: | Ben Leboe | |||
Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |||
CORPORATE STOCK TRANSFER INC. | ||||
By: | /s/ Carylyn Bell | |||
Name: Carylyn Bell | ||||
Title: President | ||||
URANERZ ENERGY CORPORATION
(Incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada)
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URANERZ ENERGY CORPORATION | ||||
By: | ||||
Name: | ||||
Title: | ||||
By: | ||||
Name: | ||||
Title: | ||||
COUNTERSIGNED: | ||
CORPORATE STOCK TRANSFER INC. | ||
Authorized Signatory |
(full name of Transferee) | (full address of Transferee) |
Signature Guaranteed | (Signature of Registered Warrantholder) |
1. | The signature of the Warrantholder must be the signature of the person appearing on the face of this Warrant Certificate. | |
2. | If the Transfer Form is signed by a Warrant Agent, executor, administrator, curator, guardian, attorney, officer of a corporation or any person acting in a judiciary or representative capacity, the certificate must be accompanied by evidence of authority to sign satisfactory to the Warrant Agent and the Corporation. | |
3. | The signature of the holder on the Transfer Form must be guaranteed by an authorized officer of a Canadian Schedule 1 chartered bank, a major trust company in Canada, a member of the Securities Transfer Association Medallion program, or a member of the Stock Exchange Medallion Program. | |
4. | Warrants shall only be transferable in accordance with applicable laws. | |
5. | In the United States, signature guarantees must be executed by members of a Medallion Signature Guarantee Program only. |
TO: | Uranerz Energy Corporation and Corporate Stock Transfer Inc. |
Signature Guaranteed | (Signature of Warrantholder) | |
(Print full name) |
1. | The registered holder may receive its Common Shares by completing this form and surrendering this form and the Warrant Certificate representing the Warrants to Corporate Stock Transfer Inc. at its principal office at Denver, Colorado. | |
2. | If the Exercise Form indicates that Common Shares are to be issued to a person or persons other than the registered holder of the Warrant Certificate, the signature of such holder on the Exercise Form must be guaranteed by an authorized officer of a Canadian Schedule 1 chartered bank, a major trust company in Canada, a member of the Securities Transfer Association Medallion program, or a member of the Stock Exchange Medallion Program. |
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3. | If the Exercise Form is signed by a Warrant Agent, executor, administrator, curator, guardian, attorney, officer of a corporation or any person acting in a judiciary or representative capacity, the certificate must be accompanied by evidence of authority to sign satisfactory to the Warrant Agent and the Corporation. | |
4. | In the United States, signature guarantees must be executed by members of a Medallion Signature Guarantee Program only. |