Void after August 31, 2003
This Warrant and any shares acquired upon the exercise of this
Warrant have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933. This Warrant
and such shares may not be sold or transferred in the absence of such
registration or an exemption therefrom under said Act and no transfer of this
Warrant or such shares shall be valid or effective unless and until such
conditions shall have been complied with.
ROLLING PIN KITCHEN EMPORIUM, INC.
COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT
ROLLING PIN KITCHEN EMPORIUM, INC. (the "Company"), having its
principal office at 0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxx X, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000
hereby certifies that, for value received, Spinnernet Financial Services, Ltd.
("Spinnernet") or assigns, is entitled, subject to the terms set forth below, to
purchase from the Company at any time on or from time to time after the
effective date of the Company's initial public offering and before 5:00 P.M.,
New York City time, on August 31, 2003 (the "Expiration Date") 4,500 fully paid
and non-assessable shares of Common Stock of the Company, at the price per share
of the Purchase Price. The number and character of such shares of Common Stock
and the Purchase Price as hereinafter defined are subject to adjustment as
provided herein.
This Warrant is one of the Common Stock Purchase Warrants (the
"Warrants") originally issued as of the Original Issue Date (as defined below)
and evidencing the right to purchase an aggregate of 4,500 shares of Common
Stock of the Company, subject to adjustment as provided herein.
As used herein the following terms, unless the context otherwise
requires, have the following respective meanings:
(a) The term "Company" includes any corporation which shall
succeed to or assume the obligations of the Company hereunder.
(b) The term "Common Stock" means the Class A Common Stock,
$.01 par value, of the Company and its successors.
(c) The "Original Issue Date" is August 12, 1998, the date as
of which the Warrant was first issued.
(d) The term "Other Securities" refers to any stock (other
than Common Stock) and other securities of the Company or any other person
(corporate or otherwise) which the holder of the Warrant at any time shall be
entitled to receive, or shall have received, upon the exercise of the Warrant,
in lieu of or in addition to Common Stock, or which at any time shall be
issuable or shall have been issued in exchange for or in replacement of Common
Stock or Other Securities pursuant to Section 6 or otherwise.
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(e) The term "Purchase Price" shall be 165% of the initial
price to the public pursuant to which the Company first sells $1 million or more
of Common Stock (taking into account gross proceeds, not net proceeds), as set
forth on the cover page of the prospectus contained in the registration
statement pertaining to such offering, as such price may be adjusted pursuant to
the terms hereof.
(f) The terms "registered" and "registration" refer to a
registration effected by filing a registration statement in compliance with the
Securities Act, to permit the disposition of Common Stock (or Other Securities)
issued or issuable upon the exercise of Warrants, and any post-effective
amendments and supplements filed or required to be filed to permit any such
disposition.
(g) The term "Registrable Securities" shall mean the shares of
Common Stock or Other Securities issuable upon exercise of the Warrants,
excluding Common Stock or other Securities that (a) have been registered under
the Securities Act pursuant to an effective registration statement filed
thereunder and disposed of in accordance with such registration statement or (b)
are eligible for sale under Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act, or have been
sold pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act.
(h) The term "Registration Period" shall mean the period
commencing concurrently with the closing of the Company's first public offering
of $1 million or more of securities registered under the Securities Act that
takes place after the Original Issue Date and ending on the earlier of the
second anniversary thereof and the Expiration Date.
(i) The term "Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933
as the same shall be in effect at the time.
1. Registration Rights.
1.1. Incidental Registration. During the Registration Period,
each holder of Registrable Securities will have a right to have its Registrable
Securities included in registration statements filed by the Company on general
registration forms under the Securities Act, except as otherwise provided
herein. The Company will notify each such holder in writing (the "Company
Notice") promptly after making the decision to file a registration statement
under the Securities Act with respect to the proposed sale of the Company's
equity securities (except with respect to registration statements filed on Forms
S-4 or S-8 or such others in similar form then in effect under the Securities
Act), specifying in the Company Notice the form of registration statement, the
number of shares of securities the Company proposes to register, the name of the
managing underwriter or underwriters (if any) and the general terms and
conditions of the
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proposed registration and sale. Subject to Section 1.6 and the remainder of this
Section 1.1, if requested by any holder of Registrable Securities in a writing
(the "Investor Notice"), delivered to the Company not later than 30 days after
the Company gives the Company Notice, to include in such registration statement
Registrable Securities (the "Requested Shares"), the Company will, unless
prohibited by the Underwriter, include the Requested Shares in the registration
statement, and, if the proposed sale is to be underwritten, to cause the
underwriters of securities to be sold by the Company in such registration
statement to purchase such Requested Shares. In the event that any registration
pursuant to this Section 1.1 shall be an underwritten offering of securities of
the Company, any request by such holders pursuant to this Section 1.1 to
register the Requested Shares, may, but need not, specify that such shares are
to be included in the underwriting on the same terms and conditions as the
securities, if any, otherwise being sold through underwriters under such
registration. In the event of an underwritten offering of securities of the
Company, such notice shall also specify as to whether such holder of Registrable
Securities desires that any of such Requested Shares to be included in any such
registration statement be subject to any over-allotment option granted the
underwriters of such offering. No holder shall be required to have its Requested
Shares be part of any underwritten offering and/or subject to any over-allotment
option granted any underwriter by the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if
the managing underwriter or underwriters shall inform the Company of its
opinion, at least 15 days prior to the date that the registration statement
becomes effective, that part or all of the Requested Shares be excluded from the
registration statement on the ground that the inclusion of such Requested Shares
will adversely affect the orderly sales and distribution of the Common Stock
being sold, the Company shall include all securities to be sold by holders,
including the Company, which have the right to require that their securities be
included in the registration on a pro rata basis. If the underwriters agree to
purchase any of the Requested Shares beneficially owned by any holder who has
agreed that such Requested Shares shall be sold pursuant to the underwritten
offering or pursuant to the exercise of any over-allotment option as described
above, such holders will enter into a reasonably customary underwriting
agreement with the underwriters and will sell such Requested Shares to the
underwriters unless, and except to the extent that, upon written notice to the
Company and the managing underwriter or underwriters at least two days prior to
the effective date of the registration statement, any such holder withdraws any
portion of such Requested Shares. If the underwriters elect to purchase less
than all the Requested Shares beneficially owned by holders who have agreed that
such Requested Shares shall be sold pursuant to the underwritten offering or
pursuant to the exercise of any over-allotment option, the underwriters shall
purchase such Requested Shares on a pro rata basis among the Requested Shares
that were included in the timely requests from holders of Registrable Securities
under this subsection and the Requested Shares requested to be included in the
registration statement by other stockholders holding registration rights and who
have requested that such shares be sold pursuant to the underwritten offering or
pursuant to the exercise of an over-allotment option. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the Company may withdraw any registration statement referred to in
this Section 1 without any liability to the holders of Registrable Securities.
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1.2. Market Standoff. Each holder of Registrable Securities
agrees that if the managing underwriter or underwriters of the offering
contemplated by Section 1.1 so request, such holder shall not effect any public
sale or distribution of any Registrable Securities being registered thereunder
or of any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for such
Registrable Securities being registered thereunder for a period equal to the
lesser of (x) the period management of the Company has agreed to lockup and (y)
90 days after the effective date of the registration statement filed in
connection with the public offering.
1.3. Obligations of the Company. When required under Section
1.1 effect the registration of any Registrable Securities, the Company shall, as
expeditiously as is reasonably possible:
(a) Prepare and file with the SEC a registration statement
with respect to such Registrable Securities and such amendments and supplements
to such registration statement and the prospectus used in connection therewith
as may be necessary to exercise the Company's best efforts to cause such
registration statement to become effective at the earliest practicable date and
to remain effective for a period of 90 days or until the holders and any
underwriter purchasing such Registrable Securities have sold or otherwise
disposed of the Registrable Securities registered in such registration
statement, whichever is earlier.
(b) Furnish to each holder selling Registrable Securities
such number of copies of conformed copies of such registration statement and of
each such amendment and supplement thereto (with all exhibits) and such number
of copies of the prospectus, including a preliminary prospectus, in conformity
with the requirements of the Securities Act, and such other documents as such
holder may reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of
Registrable Securities to be sold by such holder pursuant to such registration
statement.
(c) Exercise the Company's best efforts to register and
qualify the Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement under
other securities laws or State Securities Laws of such states or jurisdictions
where a self-executing exemption is not available and as any seller of such
Registrable Securities shall reasonably request; provided, however, that the
Company shall not be required in connection therewith or as a condition thereto
to qualify to do business or to file a general consent to service of process in
any such states or jurisdictions.
(d) Cause all securities covered by such registration
statement to be registered with or approved by such other federal or state
governmental agencies or authorities as may be necessary in the opinion of
counsel to the Company and counsel to the seller or sellers of securities to
enable the seller or sellers thereof to consummate the disposition of such
securities.
(e) Notify each seller of securities covered by such
registration statement at any time when a prospectus relating thereto is
required to be delivered under the Securities Act, upon discovery that, or upon
the happening of any event as a result of which, the prospectus included in such
registration statement, as then in effect, includes an untrue statement of a
material fact or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein
or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, and at the request of any such seller
promptly prepare and furnish to it a reasonable number of copies of a supplement
to or an amendment of such prospectus as may be necessary so that, as thereafter
delivered to the purchasers of such securities, such prospectus shall not
include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statement therein not
misleading in the light of the circumstances under which they were made.
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(f) Comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the
SEC, make timely filing of all reports pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended ("Exchange Act") at such time as the Company's securities
are registered under the Exchange Act, and make available to its securities
holders, as soon as reasonably practicable, an earnings statement covering the
period of at least twelve months, but not more than eighteen months, beginning
with the first full calendar month after the effective date of such registration
statement, which earnings statement shall satisfy the provisions of Section
11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 promulgated thereunder, and promptly
furnish to each such seller of securities a copy of such earnings statement.
(g) Use its best efforts to list all securities covered by
such registration statement on any national securities exchange on which
securities of the same class and, if applicable, series, covered by such
registration statement are then listed or on the Nasdaq Stock Market ("Nasdaq")
if the securities are reported on Nasdaq.
1.4. Information to be Furnished. It shall be a condition
precedent to the obligation of the Company to take any action pursuant to this
Section 1 that the holders of Registrable Securities promptly furnish to the
Company such information regarding them, the securities of the Company held by
them and the intended method of disposition of such securities as the Company
shall reasonably request and as shall be required in connection with the
Company's obligations under this Section 1.
1.5. Underwritten Offerings.
(a) Incidental Underwritten Offerings. If the Company
proposes to register any of its securities under the Securities Act as
contemplated by Section 1.1 and such securities are to be distributed by or
through one or more underwriters, the Company will, if requested by any holder
of Registrable Securities, use its best efforts to arrange for such underwriters
to include all the securities to be offered and sold by such requesting holder
among the securities of the Company to be distributed by such underwriters. The
holders of Registrable Securities to be distributed by such underwriters shall
be parties to the underwriting agreement between the Company and such
underwriters and may, at their option, require that any or all of the
representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the
Company to and for the benefit of such underwriters shall also be made to and
for the benefit of such holders of Registrable Securities and that any or all of
the conditions precedent to the obligations of such underwriters under such
underwriting agreement be conditions precedent to the obligations of such
holders of Registrable Securities. Any such requesting holder of Registrable
Securities shall not be required to make any representations or warranties to or
agreements with the Company other than representations, warranties or agreements
regarding such holder, such holder's securities and such holder's intended
method of distribution or any other representations required by applicable law.
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1.6. Notice. In connection with the preparation and filing of
each registration statement under the Securities Act pursuant to this Agreement,
the Company shall promptly notify the holders of Registrable Securities included
in the Registration Statement and their respective counsel of any stop order
issued or threatened by the SEC and take all reasonable actions required to
prevent the entry of such stop order or to remove it if entered.
1.7. Registration Expenses. All expenses incurred by the
Company and the holders of Registrable Securities in complying with this Section
1, including, without limitation, all registration, NASD and filing fees,
duplication and printing expenses, travel expenses, fees and disbursements of
counsel for the Company or its independent public accountants, reasonable fees
and disbursements of counsel for holders of securities included in a Company
registration statement and the expense of any special audits incident to or
required by any such registration shall be paid by the Company, except that each
holder of Registrable Securities shall pay underwriting discounts and
commissions attributable to such holder's shares, and transfer taxes on shares
held by such holder.
1.8. Indemnification. In the event any of the Common Stock of
a holder of Registrable Securities is included in a registration statement
pursuant to this Section 1:
(a) To the extent permitted by law, the Company will
indemnify and hold harmless each holder of Registrable Securities (and its
officers, directors, employees, partners and affiliates) selling Registrable
Securities, any underwriter (as defined in the Securities Act) with respect to
the Registrable Securities, and each person, if any, who controls such holder or
underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act, against any losses,
claims, damages or liabilities, to which they may become subject under the
Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or
liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any
untrue or allegedly untrue statement of any material fact contained in such
registration statement, including any preliminary prospectus or final prospectus
contained therein or any amendments or supplements thereto, or arise out of or
are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact
required to be stated therein or allegedly necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading; and will reimburse each such holder of Registrable
Securities (and its officers, directors, employees, partners and affiliates),
underwriter or controlling person for any legal or other expenses reasonably
incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss,
claim, damage, liability or action; provided, however, that the indemnity
agreement contained in this Section 1.8(a) shall not apply to amounts paid in
settlement of any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action if such
settlement is effected without the written consent of the Company, which shall
not be unreasonably withheld, nor shall the Company be liable under this Section
1.8(a) to such a holder, underwriter or controlling person for any such loss,
claim, damage, liability or action to the extent that it arises out of, or is
based upon, an untrue statement or allegedly untrue statement or omission or
alleged omission made in connection with such registration statement,
preliminary prospectus, final prospectus, or amendments or supplements thereto,
in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing
expressly for use in connection with such registration by such holder, the
Company will reimburse each such holder for any legal or other expenses
reasonably incurred by each such holder in connection with investigating or
defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action.
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(b) To the extent permitted by law, each holder selling
Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 1 will indemnify and hold
harmless the Company, each of its directors, officers and employees, each
person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Securities
Act, and any underwriter for the Company (within the meaning of the Securities
Act) against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which the Company or
any such person or underwriter may become subject, under the Securities Act or
otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in
respect thereto) arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue or allegedly untrue
statement of any material fact contained in such registration statement,
including any preliminary prospectus or final prospectus contained therein or
any amendments or supplements thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the
omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be
stated therein or allegedly necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading, in each case to the extent that such untrue statement or allegedly
untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in such registration
statement, preliminary prospectus, or amendments or supplements thereto in
reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing by such
holder expressly for use in connection with such registration; provided,
however, that the indemnity agreement contained in this Section 1.8(b) shall not
apply to amounts paid in settlement of any such loss, claim, damage, liability
or action if such settlement is effected without the written consent of such
holder, which shall not be unreasonably withheld; and each such holder will
reimburse the Company or any such person or underwriter for any legal or other
expenses reasonably incurred by the Company or any such person or underwriter in
connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage,
liability or action.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this
Section 1.8 of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party
will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against any indemnifying party
under this Section 1.8, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the
commencement thereof and generally summarize such action. The indemnifying party
shall have the right to participate in and to assume the defense thereof with
counsel mutually satisfactory to the parties; provided that each indemnified
party shall have the right to employ its own counsel in any such case, but the
fees and expense of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified
party unless the employment of such counsel shall have been authorized in
writing by the indemnifying party in connection with the defense of such action
or the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel to have charge of the
defense of such action or such indemnified party or the indemnified parties
shall have reasonably concluded that there may be defenses available to it or
them that are different from or additional to those available to the
indemnifying party (in which case the indemnifying party shall not have the
right to direct the defense of such action on behalf of the indemnified party or
parties) in any of which events the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be
borne by the indemnifying parties. The failure of any indemnified party to give
notice as provided herein shall not relieve the indemnifying party of its
obligations under this Section 1.8, except to the extent that the indemnifying
party is actually and materially prejudiced by such failure to give notice.
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2. Sale or Exercise Without Registration. If, at the time of any
exercise, transfer or surrender for exchange of a Warrant or Common Stock (or
Other Securities) previously issued upon the exercise of Warrants, such Warrant
or Common Stock (or Other Securities) shall not be registered under the
Securities Act, the Company may require, as a condition of allowing such
exercise, transfer or exchange, that the holder or transferee of such Warrant or
Common Stock (or Other Securities), as the case may be, furnish to the Company a
satisfactory opinion of counsel to the effect that such exercise, transfer or
exchange may be made without registration under the Securities Act, provided
that nothing contained in this Section 2 shall relieve the Company from
complying with any request for registration pursuant to Section 1 hereof.
3. Exercise of Warrant; Partial Exercise; Cashless Exercise.
3.1. Exercise in Full. Subject to the provisions hereof, this
Warrant may be exercised in full one year after the date hereof by the holder
hereof by surrender of this Warrant, with the form of subscription attached
hereto as Schedule I ("Subscription Form") duly executed by such holder, to the
Company at its principal office accompanied by payment, in cash or by certified
or official bank check payable to the order of the Company, in the amount
obtained by multiplying the number of shares of Common Stock called for on the
face of this Warrant, as adjusted herein, by the Purchase Price.
3.2. Partial Exercise. Subject to the provisions hereof, this
Warrant may be exercised in part one year after the date hereof by the holder
hereof by surrender of this Warrant in the manner and at the place provided in
Section 3.1 except that the amount payable by the holder upon any partial
exercise shall be the amount obtained by multiplying (a) the number of shares of
Common Stock, as adjusted herein, designated by the holder in the Subscription
Form, by (b) the Purchase Price. Upon any such partial exercise, the Company at
its expense will forthwith issue and deliver to or upon the order of the holder
hereof a new Warrant or Warrants of like tenor, in the name of the holder hereof
or as such holder (upon payment by such holder of any applicable transfer taxes)
may request, calling in the aggregate on the face or faces thereof for the
number of shares of Common 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 designated by the holder in the Subscription
Form.
3.3. Exercise by Surrender of Warrant. In addition to the
method of payment set forth in Sections 3.1 and 3.2 and in lieu of any cash
payment required thereunder, the holder of the Warrant shall have the right at
any time (one year after the date hereof) and from time to time to exercise the
Warrants in full or in part by surrendering the Warrant Certificate in the
manner and at the place specified in Section 3.1 as payment of the aggregate
Purchase Price. The number of shares subject to the portion of the Warrant to be
surrendered in payment of the aggregate Exercise Price for the shares to be
purchased shall be determined by multiplying the number of shares to be
purchased by the Purchase Price, and then dividing the product thereof by an
amount equal to the Market Price (as defined below). Upon any such partial
exercise, the Company, at its expense will forthwith issue and deliver to or
upon the order of the holder hereof a new Warrant of like tenor, in the name of
such holder or as such holder may designate (upon payment by such holder of any
applicable transfer taxes), calling in the aggregate on the face thereof for the
number of shares of Common Stock equal (without giving effect to any adjustment
therein) to (A) the number of shares called for on the face of this Warrant
minus (B) the sum of (i) the number of shares so surrendered by the holder
pursuant to this Section plus (ii) the number of shares issued in the exchange.
Solely for the purposes of this paragraph, Market Price shall be calculated as
the average of the Market Prices for each of the ten (10) trading days preceding
the date which the form of election attached hereto is deemed to have been sent
to the Company ("Notice Date").
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3.4. Definition of Market Price. As used herein, the phrase
"Market Price" at any date shall be deemed to be (i) if the principal trading
market for such securities is an exchange, the last reported sale price, as
officially reported on any consolidated tape, (ii) if the principal market for
such securities is the over-the-counter market, the closing bid price on such
date as reported by Nasdaq or, if there is no closing bid price reported on
Nasdaq or if the security is not quoted on Nasdaq, then the high bid price as
set forth in the National Quotation Bureau sheet listing such securities for
such day. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if there is no reported closing price
or high bid price, as the case may be, on the date next preceding the event
requiring an adjustment hereunder, then the Market Price shall be determined as
of the latest date prior to such day for which such closing price or high bid
price is available, or if the securities are not quoted on Nasdaq, as determined
in good faith by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company, based on
the best information available to it.
3.5. Company to Reaffirm Obligations. The Company will, at the
time of any exercise of this Warrant, upon the request of the holder hereof,
acknowledge in writing its continuing obligation to afford to such holder any
rights (including, without limitation, any right to registration of the shares
of Common Stock or Other Securities issued upon such exercise) to which such
holder shall continue to be entitled after such exercise in accordance with the
provisions of this Warrant, provided that if the holder of this Warrant shall
fail to make any such request, such failure shall not affect the continuing
obligation of the Company to afford such holder any such rights.
4. Delivery of Stock Certificates, etc., on Exercise. As soon as
practicable after the exercise of this Warrant in full or in part, and in any
event within 10 days thereafter, the Company at its expense (including the
payment by it of any applicable issue taxes) will cause to be issued in the name
of and delivered to the holder hereof, or as such holder (upon payment by such
holder of any applicable transfer taxes) may direct, a certificate or
certificates for the number of fully paid and non-assessable shares of Common
Stock (or Other Securities) to which such holder shall be entitled upon such
exercise, plus, in lieu of any fractional share to which such holder would
otherwise be entitled, cash equal to such fraction multiplied by the then
current Market Price of one full share, together with any other stock or other
securities and property (including cash, where applicable) to which such holder
is entitled upon such exercise pursuant to Section 5 or otherwise.
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5. Adjustment for Dividends in Other Stock, Property, etc.;
Reclassification, etc. In case at any time or from time to time after the
Original Issue Date the holders of Common Stock (or Other Securities) shall have
received, or (on or after the record date fixed for the determination of
stockholders eligible to receive) shall have become entitled to receive, without
payment therefor
(a) other or additional stock or other securities or property
(other than cash) by way of dividend, or
(b) other or additional (or less) stock or other securities or
property other than by way of spin-off, split-up, reclassification,
recapitalization, combination of shares or similar corporate rearrangement,
then, and in each such case, the holder of this Warrant, upon the exercise
hereof as provided in Section 3, shall be entitled to receive the amount of
stock and other securities and property which such holder would hold on the date
of such exercise if on the Original Issue Date he had been the holder of record
of the number of shares of Common Stock called for on the face of this Warrant
and had thereafter, during the period from the Original Issue Date to and
including the date of such exercise, retained such shares and all such other or
additional (or less) stock and other securities and property receivable by him
as aforesaid during such period, giving effect to all adjustments called for
during such period by Sections 6 and 7 hereof.
6. Reorganization, Consolidation, Merger, etc.
In case the Company after the Original Issue Date shall (a)
effect a reorganization, (b) consolidate with or merge into any other person, or
(c) transfer all or substantially all of its properties or assets to any other
person under any plan or arrangement contemplating the dissolution of the
Company, then, in each such case, the holder of this Warrant, upon the exercise
hereof as provided in Section 3 at any time after the consummation of such
reorganization, consolidation or merger or the effective date of such
dissolution, as the case may be, shall be entitled to receive (and the Company
shall be entitled to deliver), in lieu of the Common Stock (or Other Securities)
issuable upon such exercise prior to such consummation or such effective date,
the stock and other securities and property (including cash) to which such
holder would have been entitled upon such consummation or in connection with
such dissolution, as the case may be, if such holder had so exercised this
Warrant immediately prior thereto, all subject to further adjustment thereafter
as provided in Sections 5 and 7 hereof.
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In case the Company after the Original Issue Date shall (i)
subdivide the outstanding Common Stock, (ii) combine the outstanding Common
Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iii) issue any Other Securities by
reclassification of the Common Stock (including any such reclassification in
connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing
corporation), then the number and kind of shares of Common Stock and/or Other
Securities issuable, at the time of the effective date of such subdivision,
combination or reclassification shall be proportionately adjusted so that the
holder of this Warrant after such time shall be entitled to receive upon
exercise of its Warrant the aggregate number and kind of shares of Common Stock
and/or Other Securities which, if its Warrant had been exercised immediately
prior to such time, it would have owned upon such exercise and been entitled to
receive by virtue of such dividend, subdivision, combination or
reclassification, all subject to further adjustment thereafter as provided in
Sections 5 and 7 hereof.
7. Other Adjustments.
7.1. General. Except as provided in Section 7.4, in case the
Company shall issue or sell shares of its Common Stock after the Original Issue
Date for a consideration per share less than the Purchase Price in effect
pursuant to the terms of this Warrant at the time of issuance or sale of such
additional shares, then the Purchase Price in effect hereunder shall
simultaneously with such issuance or sale be reduced to a price determined by
dividing (1) an amount equal to (a) the total number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding immediately prior to such issuance or sale multiplied by the
Purchase Price in effect hereunder at the time of such issuance and sale, plus
(b) the consideration, if any, received by the Company upon such issuance or
sale, by (2) the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately
after such issuance or sale of such additional shares; and the number of shares
of Common Stock which may be purchased upon exercise of this Warrant shall be
increased so that the aggregate amount to be paid upon full exercise of this
Warrant, after giving effect to each reduction in the Purchase Price, shall not
be reduced.
7.2. Convertible Securities. Except as provided in Section
7.4, in case the Company shall issue or sell any securities convertible into
Common Stock of the Company ("Convertible Securities") after the Original Issue
Date, there shall be determined the price per share for which Common Stock is
issuable upon the conversion or exchange thereof, such determination to be made
by dividing (a) the total amount received or receivable by the Company as
consideration for the issue or sale of such Convertible Securities, plus the
minimum aggregate amount of additional consideration, if any, payable to the
Company upon the conversion or exchange thereof, by (b) the maximum number of
shares of Common Stock issuable upon the conversion or exchange of all of such
Convertible Securities.
If the price per share so determined shall be less than the
applicable Purchase Price, then such issue or sale shall be deemed to be an
issue or sale for cash (as of the date of issue or sale of such Convertible
Securities) of such maximum number of shares of Common Stock at the price per
share so determined, provided that, if such Convertible Securities shall by
their terms provide for an increase or increases, with the passage of time, in
the amount of additional consideration, if any, to the Company, or in the rate
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of exchange, upon the conversion or exchange thereof, the adjusted Purchase
Price shall, forthwith upon any such increase becoming effective, be readjusted
to reflect the same, and provided further, that upon the expiration of such
rights of conversion or exchange of such Convertible Securities, if any thereof
shall not have been exercised, the adjusted Purchase Price shall forthwith be
readjusted and thereafter be the price which it would have been had an
adjustment been made on the basis that the only shares of Common Stock so issued
or sold were issued or sold upon the conversion or exchange of such Convertible
securities, and that they were issued or sold for the consideration actually
received by the Company upon such conversion or exchange, plus the
consideration, if any, actually received by the Company for the issue or sale of
all of such Convertible Securities which shall have been converted or exchanged;
provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, no readjustment shall be
effectuated hereunder with respect to any shares of Common Stock already issued
upon exercise of the Warrant.
7.3. Rights and Options. Except as provided in Section 7.4, in
case the Company shall grant any rights or options to subscribe for, purchase or
otherwise acquire Common Stock after the Original Issue Date, there shall be
determined the price per share for which Common Stock is issuable upon the
exercise of such rights or options, such determination to be made by dividing
(a) the total amount, if any, received or receivable by the Company as
consideration for the granting of such rights or options, plus the minimum
aggregate amount of additional consideration payable to the Company upon the
exercise of such rights or options, by (b) the maximum number of shares of
Common Stock of the Company issuable upon the exercise of such rights or
options.
If the price per share so determined shall be less than the
applicable Purchase Price, then the granting of such rights or options shall be
deemed to be an issue or sale for cash (as of the date of the granting of such
rights or options) of such maximum number of shares of Common Stock at the price
per share so determined, provided that, if such rights or options shall by their
terms provide for an increase or increases, with the passage of time, in the
amount of additional consideration payable to the Company upon the exercise
thereof, the adjusted purchase price per share shall, forthwith upon any such
increase becoming effective, be readjusted to reflect the same, and provided,
further, that upon the expiration of such rights or options, if any thereof
shall not have been exercised, the adjusted Purchase Price shall forthwith be
readjusted and thereafter be the price which it would have been had an
adjustment been made on the basis that the only shares of Common Stock so issued
or sold were those issued or sold upon the exercise of such rights or options
and that they were issued or sold for the consideration actually received by the
Company upon such exercise, plus the consideration, if any, actually received by
the Company for the granting of all such rights or options, whether or not
exercised.
7.4. Exceptions. The provisions of Sections 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3
do not apply to (i) the exercise of any Warrant,(ii) the exercise of any right
or option with respect to which an adjustment shall have been made at the time
of the issuance of such right or option pursuant to Section 7.3, (iii)
conversion or exchange of any Convertible Security with respect to which an
adjustment shall have been made at the time of the issuance of such Convertible
Security pursuant to Section 7.2, (iv) any transaction with respect to which an
adjustment shall have been made pursuant to Sections 5 or 6, and (v) the
issuance or sale of any Common Stock pursuant to the exercise or conversion of
any option, right or Convertible Security that was issued on or prior to the
Original Issue Date.
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8. Further Assurances. The Company will take all such action as
may be necessary or appropriate in order that the Company may validly and
legally issue fully paid and non-assessable shares of stock upon the exercise of
the Warrants.
9. Accountants' Certificate as to Adjustments. In each case of
any adjustment or readjustment in the shares of Common Stock (or Other
Securities) issuable upon the exercise of the Warrant, the Company at its
expense will promptly cause the Company's regularly retained auditor to compute
such adjustment or readjustment in accordance with the terms of the Warrant and
prepare a certificate setting forth such adjustment or readjustment and showing
in detail the facts upon which such adjustment or readjustment is based, and the
number of shares of Common Stock outstanding or deemed to be outstanding. The
Company will forthwith mail a copy of each such certificate to the holder of
this Warrant.
10. Notices of Record Date, etc. In the event of
(a) any taking by the Company of a record of the holders of
any class of securities for the purpose of determining the holders thereof who
are entitled to receive any dividend (other than a cash dividend payable out of
earned surplus of the Company) or other distribution, or any right to subscribe
for, purchase or otherwise acquire any shares of stock of any class or any other
securities or property, or to receive any other right, or
(b) any capital reorganization of the Company, any
reclassification or recapitalization of the capital stock of the Company or any
transfer of all or substantially all the assets of the Company to or
consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other person, or
(c) any voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or
winding-up of the Company, or
(d) any proposed issue or grant by the Company of any shares
of stock of any class or any other securities, or any right or option to
subscribe for, purchase or otherwise acquire any shares of stock of any class or
any other securities (other than the issue of Common Stock on the exercise of
the Warrant),
then and in each such event the Company will mail or cause to be
mailed to each holder of the Warrant a notice specifying (i) the date on which
any such 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, (ii) the date on which any such reorganization, reclassification,
recapitalization, transfer, consolidation, merger, dissolution, liquidation or
winding-up is to take place, and the time, if any, as of which the holders of
record of Common Stock (or Other Securities) shall be entitled to exchange their
shares of Common Stock (or Other Securities) for securities or other property
deliverable upon such reorganization, reclassification, recapitalization,
transfer, consolidation, merger, dissolution, liquidation or winding-up, and
(iii) the amount and character of any stock or other securities, or rights or
options with respect thereto, proposed to be issued or granted, the date of such
proposed issue or grant and the persons or class of persons to whom such
proposed issue or grant is to be offered or made. Such notice shall be mailed at
least 20 days prior to the date therein specified.
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11. Reservation of Stock, etc., Issuable on Exercise of
Warrants. The Company will at all times reserve and keep available, solely for
issuance and delivery upon the exercise of the Warrant, all shares of Common
Stock (or Other Securities) from time to time issuable upon the exercise of the
Warrant.
12. Listing on Securities Exchanges; Registration. If the
Company at any time shall list any Common Stock on any national securities
exchange, or interdealer quotation system, and shall register such Common Stock
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (as then in effect, or any similar
statute then in effect), the Company will, at its expense, simultaneously list
on such exchange, upon official notice of issuance upon the exercise of the
Warrant, and maintain such listing of all shares of Common Stock from time to
time issuable upon the exercise of the Warrant; and the Company will so list on
any national securities exchange, will so register and will maintain such
listing of, any Other Securities if and at the time that any securities of like
class or similar type shall be listed on such national securities exchange by
the Company.
13. Exchange of Warrants. Subject to the provisions of Section 2
hereof, upon surrender for exchange of the Warrant, properly endorsed, to the
Company, the Company at its own expense will issue and deliver to or upon the
order of the holder thereof 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 Common Stock called for on the face or faces
of the Warrant or Warrants so surrendered.
14. Replacement of Warrant. Upon receipt of evidence reasonably
satisfactory to the Company of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of the
Warrant and, in the case of any such loss, theft or destruction, upon delivery
of an indemnity agreement reasonably satisfactory in form and amount to the
Company or, in the case of any such mutilation, upon surrender and cancellation
of the Warrant, the Company at its expense will execute and deliver, in lieu
thereof, a new Warrant of like tenor.
15. Warrant Agent. The Company may, by written notice to each
holder of a Warrant, appoint an agent having an office in New York, New York,
for the purpose of issuing Common Stock (or Other Securities) upon the exercise
of the Warrants pursuant to Section 3, exchanging Warrants pursuant to Section
13, and replacing Warrants pursuant to Section 14, or any of the foregoing, and
thereafter any such issuance, exchange or replacement, as the case may be, shall
be made at such office by such agent.
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16. Negotiability, etc. This Warrant is issued upon the
following terms, to all of which each holder or owner hereof by the taking
hereof consents and agrees:
(a) subject to the provisions hereof, title to this Warrant
may be transferred by endorsement (by the holder hereof executing the form of
assignment attached hereto as Schedule II) and delivery in the same manner as in
the case of a negotiable instrument transferable by endorsement and delivery;
(b) subject to the foregoing, any person in possession of this
Warrant properly endorsed is authorized to represent himself as absolute owner
hereof and is empowered to transfer absolute title hereto by endorsement and
delivery hereof to a bona fide purchaser hereof for value; each prior taker or
owner waives and renounces all of his equities or rights in this Warrant in
favor of each such bona fide purchaser and each such bona fide purchaser shall
acquire absolute title hereto and to all rights represented hereby; and
(c) until this Warrant is transferred on the books of the
Company, the Company may treat the registered holder hereof as the absolute
owner hereof for all purposes, notwithstanding any notice to the contrary.
17. Notices, etc. All notices and other communications from the
Company to the holder of this Warrant shall be mailed by first class registered
or certified mail, postage prepaid, at such address as may have been furnished
to the Company in writing by such holder, or, until an address is so furnished,
to and at the address of the last holder of this Warrant who has so furnished an
address to the Company.
18. Miscellaneous. This Warrant and any term hereof may be
changed, waived, discharged or terminated only by an instrument in writing
signed by the party against which enforcement of such change, waiver, discharge
or termination is sought. This Warrant is being delivered in the State of New
York and shall be construed and enforced in accordance with and governed by the
laws of such State. The headings in this Warrant are for purposes of reference
only, and shall not limit or otherwise affect any of the terms hereof.
19. Assignability. Subject to the transfer conditions referred
to in the legend endorsed hereon, this Warrant is fully assignable at any time
upon surrender of this Warrant with a properly executed Assignment (in the form
of Schedule II hereto) at the principal office of the Company.
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Dated: August 12, 1998
ROLLING PIN KITCHEN EMPORIUM, INC.
By:
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Chairman of the Board
[Corporate Seal]
Attest:
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Secretary
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SCHEDULE I
FORM OF SUBSCRIPTION
(To be signed only upon exercise or surrender of each Warrant)
To: ROLLING PIN KITCHEN EMPORIUM, INC.
The undersigned, the holder of the within Warrant, hereby irrevocably
elects to exercise the purchase right represented by such Warrant for, and to
purchase thereunder, _________ shares of Common Stock of ROLLING PIN KITCHEN
EMPORIUM, INC., and herewith [use version (a) in the event of the payment of
cash purchase price]
(a) makes payment of $_________ therefor, and requests that the certificates for
such shares be issued in the name of, and delivered to, __________ , whose
address is _________________________________.
or [use version (b) in the event of a cashless exercise]
(b) surrenders that portion of the Warrant representing ____ shares of Common
Stock, and requests that the certificates for such shares be issued in the name
of, and delivered to ___________________, whose address is
_________________________.
To the extent that the exercise hereunder is for less than all of the shares of
Common Stock represented by the Warrant, the undersigned hereby requests that a
new Warrant for the remaining amount of shares of Common Stock be issued to
__________________ whose address is _____________________________________.
Dated:
__________________________________________________
(Signature must conform in all respects to name
of holder as specified on the face of the Warrant)
(Address) __________________________
__________________________
Insert here the number of shares called for on the face of the Warrant (or, in
the case of a partial exercise, the portion thereof as to which the Warrant is
being exercised), in either case without making any adjustment for additional
Common Stock or any other stock or other securities or property or cash which,
pursuant to the adjustment provisions of the Warrant, may be deliverable upon
exercise.
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SCHEDULE II
FORM OF ASSIGNMENT
(To be signed only upon transfer of Warrant)
For value received, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto ______________ the right represented by the within Warrant to
purchase _____________shares of Common Stock of ROLLING PIN KITCHEN EMPORIUM,
INC., to which the within Warrant relates, and appoints
_________________________________ as attorney to transfer such right on the
books of ROLLING PIN KITCHEN EMPORIUM, INC. with full power of substitution in
the premises.
Dated:
___________________________________________________________
(Signature must conform in all respects to name of holder as
specified on the face of the Warrant)
(Address) ____________________________
____________________________
____________________________
_______________________________________
(Signature guaranteed by a Bank or Trust Company having its principal office in
New York City or by a Member Firm of the New York or American Stock Exchange)
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