SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form 8-A/A
(Amendment No. 6)
FOR REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN CLASSES OF SECURITIES
PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
LaserSight Incorporated
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
Delaware 65-0273162
(State of Incorporation) (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
3300 University Boulevard, Suite 140
Winter Park, Florida 32792
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(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
If this Form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to
Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General
Instruction A.(c), please check the following box. [ ]
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Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General
Instruction A.(d), please check the following box. [ X ]
Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of Class Name of exchange on which
to be so registered Each class is to be registered
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None Not applicable
Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
Common Stock, $.001 par value
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Title of class
LaserSight Incorporated, a Delaware corporation hereby amends and
restates the Registration Statement on Form 8-A/A (Amendment No. 5) relating to
its common stock, par value $.001 per share, as follows:
Item 1. Description of Registrant's Securities to be Registered.
Our certificate of incorporation, as amended, provides that our
authorized capital stock consists of 100,000,000 shares of common stock, $.001
par value, and 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $.001 par value, issuable
in series.
As of August 9, 2001, we had outstanding (1) 26,437,895 shares of
common stock (not including any shares of common stock issuable upon the
conversion of preferred stock or the exercise of outstanding options and
warrants to acquire common stock), and (2) 1,276,596 shares of Series F
Convertible Participating Preferred Stock, $.001 par value per share. No shares
of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock issued in January 1996, the Series B
Convertible Participating Preferred Stock issued in August 1997, the Series C
Convertible Participating Preferred Stock issued in June 1998, or the Series D
Convertible Participating Preferred Stock issued in June 1998 were outstanding
as of August 9, 2001.
The following description of our capital stock does not purport to be
complete and is subject in all respects to applicable Delaware law and to the
provisions of our certificate of incorporation and by-laws, in each case as
amended to date.
Common Stock
Holders of our common stock are entitled to one vote for each share
held on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders, subject to the rights
of holders of any outstanding preferred stock, and do not have cumulative voting
rights. Holders of a majority of the shares of capital stock entitled to vote in
any election of directors may elect all of the directors standing for election,
subject to the rights of holders of any outstanding preferred stock. Holders of
our common stock are entitled to share pro rata in such dividends and other
distributions as may be declared by our board of directors out of funds legally
available for that purpose, subject to any preferential dividend rights of
outstanding preferred stock. Upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of
LaserSight, the holders of common stock are entitled to share proportionally in
all assets available for distribution to such holders, subject to the rights and
preferences of any holders of outstanding preferred stock. Holders of common
stock have no preemptive, subscription, redemption or conversion rights. There
are no redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to the common stock. The
issued and outstanding shares of our common stock are fully paid and
nonassessable.
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Preferred Stock
Our certificate of incorporation authorizes our board of directors,
without further stockholder approval, to issue up to an aggregate of 10,000,000
shares of preferred stock in one or more series. The board of directors may fix
or alter the designations, preferences, rights and any qualifications,
limitations or restrictions of the shares of each series of preferred stock,
including:
o dividend rights;
o dividend rates;
o conversion rights;
o voting rights;
o terms of redemption;
o redemption price or prices; and
o liquidation preferences.
The rights, preferences and privileges of holders of our common stock
may be adversely affected by the rights of the holders of shares of any series
of preferred stock which we may designate and issue in the future. The issuance
of preferred stock could also, under some circumstances, have the effect of
making it more difficult for a third party to acquire, or discouraging a third
party from acquiring, a majority of our outstanding common stock or otherwise
adversely affect the market price of our common stock.
Our certificate of incorporation, as amended, is filed as Exhibit 1
hereto, and is incorporated herein by reference.
Series A, Series B, Series C and Series D Preferred Stock
All previously issued and outstanding shares of our series A preferred
stock, par value $.001 per share, series B preferred stock, par value $.001 per
share, series C preferred stock, $.001 per share, and series D preferred stock,
par value $.001 per share, have been converted, redeemed or repurchased.
Rights of Former Series C Preferred Stockholders
All previously issued and outstanding shares of our series C preferred
stock, par value $.001 per share, have been converted into shares of our common
stock.
The former series C preferred stockholders have the right to nominate
one candidate to stand for election to our board of directors. This nomination
right will continue for as long as the former series C preferred stockholders
own at least 7.5% of our outstanding common stock on the record date for a
meeting of stockholders at which directors will be elected.
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For as long as the former series C preferred stockholders own at least
5% of our outstanding common stock, such holders have the right, subject to the
exceptions noted below, to participate in any below-market equity financing
transaction so as to maintain their percentage ownership level of common stock
at the same level as immediately prior to the closing of any such financing.
This right to participate in certain below-market third party financings does
not include:
o the grant of options or warrants, or the issuance of
securities, under any employee or director stock option,
stock purchase or restricted stock plan,
o the issuance of common stock pursuant to any contingent
obligation existing as of June 5, 1998,
o the issuance of securities upon the exercise or conversion of
options, warrants or other convertible securities outstanding
as of June 5, 1998,
o the declaration of a rights dividend to holders of common
stock in connection with the adoption of a stockholder rights
plan,
o the issuance of securities in connection with a merger,
acquisition, joint venture or similar arrangement, or
o a public offering of our securities.
Series E Preferred Stock
Our board of directors designated 500,000 shares of our preferred stock
as series E junior participating preferred stock in connection with the adoption
of the stockholders rights agreement described below. Because of the nature of
the dividend, liquidation and voting rights of the series E preferred stock, the
value of each one one-thousandth interest in a share of series E preferred stock
purchasable upon exercise of a preferred share purchase right should approximate
the value of one share of common stock. The series E preferred stock purchasable
upon exercise of the preferred share purchase rights will not be redeemable.
Each share of series E preferred stock will be entitled to the greater of (1) a
preferential quarterly dividend payment of $1.00 per share, or (2) an aggregate
dividend of 1,000 times the dividend declared per share of common stock. In the
event of liquidation, the holders of the series E preferred stock will be
entitled to a preferential liquidation payment of $1,000 per share, plus an
amount equal to 1,000 times the aggregate amount to be distributed per share of
common stock. Each share of series E preferred stock will have 1,000 votes, and
will vote on all matters submitted to a vote of the holders of our common stock
except as otherwise required by law. Finally, in the event of any merger,
consolidation or other transaction in which shares of common stock are
exchanged, each share of series E preferred stock will be entitled to receive
1,000 times the amount of consideration received per share of common stock.
Stockholder Rights Agreement
Our board of directors adopted a rights agreement in July 1998 and
declared a dividend of one right on each outstanding share of common stock.
Subject to certain exceptions, each right, when exercisable, entitles the holder
thereof to purchase from LaserSight one-thousandth of a share of series E
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preferred stock of LaserSight at an exercise price of $20.00 per one-thousandth
of a preferred share, subject to adjustment. The terms of the rights are set
forth in the rights agreement between LaserSight and American Stock Transfer &
Trust Company, as the rights agent.
Until the first to occur of (1) 10 days following a public announcement
that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons has become an
"acquiring person"(as defined below), or (2) 10 business days (or such later
date as may be determined by action of our board of directors prior to such time
as any person or group becomes an acquiring person) following the commencement
of, or announcement of an intention to make, a tender offer or exchange offer
the consummation of which would result in a person or group becoming an
acquiring person (the earlier of such dates being called the "distribution
date"), the rights will be evidenced by common stock certificates.
Subject to certain exceptions, an "acquiring person" is a person or
group of affiliated or associated persons who have acquired beneficial ownership
of 15% or more of our outstanding common stock. In no event however, will
LaserSight, any subsidiary of LaserSight, or any employee benefit plan of
LaserSight or its subsidiaries be deemed to be an acquiring person. In addition,
no person shall become an acquiring person as the result of an acquisition of
common stock by LaserSight which by reducing the number of our common shares
outstanding increases the proportionate number of shares beneficially owned by
such person and its affiliates and associates to 15% or more of the common stock
then outstanding. If a person becomes the beneficial owner of 15% or more of the
common stock then outstanding by reason of share acquisitions by LaserSight and,
after such share acquisitions, (1) acquires beneficial ownership of an
additional number of shares of common stock which exceeds the lesser of 10,000
shares of common stock or 0.25% of the then-outstanding common stock, and (2)
beneficially owns after such acquisition 15% or more of the aggregate number of
common stock then outstanding, then such person shall be deemed to be an
acquiring person. Moreover, if our board of directors determines in good faith
that a person who would otherwise be an acquiring person has become such
inadvertently, and such person divests as promptly as practicable a sufficient
number of shares of common stock so that such person would no longer be an
acquiring person, then such person shall not be deemed to be an acquiring person
for any purposes of the rights agreement.
The rights are not exercisable until the distribution date. The rights
will expire on July 2, 2008, unless the Rights are earlier redeemed or exchanged
by LaserSight, as described below.
To prevent dilution the exercise price payable and the number of shares
of series E preferred stock or other securities or property issuable upon
exercise of the rights are subject to adjustment from time to time:
o in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision,
combination or reclassification of, the series E preferred
stock;
o upon the grant to holders of the series E preferred stock of
certain rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase series
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E preferred stock at a price, or securities convertible into
series E preferred stock with a conversion price, less than
the then-current market price of the series E preferred stock
or
o upon the distribution to holders of the series E preferred
stock of evidences of indebtedness, assets or capital stock
(excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of
earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in shares
of series E preferred stock) or of subscription rights or
warrants other than those referred to above.
With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the exercise price will be required
until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least 1% of such
exercise price. LaserSight will not be required to issue fractional shares of
common stock or series E preferred stock other than fractions which are integral
multiples of one-thousandth of a share of series E preferred Stock, which may,
at the election of LaserSight, be evidenced by depositary receipts. In lieu of
such issuance of fractional shares, an adjustment in cash may be made based on
the market price of common stock or series E preferred Stock on the last trading
day prior to the date of exercise.
Subject to certain exceptions described in the rights agreement, if any
person or group becomes an acquiring person, then each holder of a right will
have the right to receive upon exercise of such right that number of shares of
common stock or, in certain circumstances, cash, property or other securities of
LaserSight, having a market value of two times the exercise price of the right.
If at any time after the time that any person or group becomes an
acquiring person, LaserSight is acquired in a merger or other business
combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning
power are sold, proper provision will be made so that each holder of a right,
other than rights beneficially owned by the acquiring person, any associate or
affiliate thereof, and certain transferees thereof, which will be void, will
thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the
then-current exercise price of the right, that number of shares of common stock
of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction will have a
market value of two times the exercise price of the right.
At any time after the time that a person or group becomes an acquiring
person and prior to the acquisition by such person or group of 50% or more of
the outstanding common stock, our board of directors may exchange the rights,
subject to certain exceptions, in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one
share of common stock or one-thousandth of a share of series E preferred stock
per right.
At any time prior to the time that a person or group becomes an
acquiring person, our board of directors may redeem the rights in whole, but not
in part, at a price of $.01 per right, subject to adjustment which may at
LaserSight's option be paid in cash, common stock or other consideration deemed
appropriate by the board of directors. The redemption of the rights may be made
effective at such time, on such basis and with such conditions as the board of
directors in its sole discretion may establish; provided, however, that no
redemption will be permitted or required after the time that any person becomes
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an acquiring person. Immediately upon any redemption of the rights, the right to
exercise the rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of the
rights will be to receive the redemption price.
The terms of the rights may be amended by our board of directors
without the consent of the holders of the rights, except that from and after
such time as any person becomes an acquiring person no such amendment may make
the rights redeemable if the rights are not then redeemable in accordance with
the terms of the rights agreement or may adversely affect the interests of the
holders of the rights.
Until a right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no
rights as a LaserSight stockholder, including the right to vote or to receive
dividends. The rights will have anti-takeover effects. The rights, if exercised,
would cause substantial dilution to a person or group that attempts to acquire
LaserSight on terms not approved by our board of directors.
The stockholder rights agreement and amendments thereto are filed as
Exhibits 3, 4, 5 and 6 hereto, and are incorporated herein by reference.
Series F Preferred Stock
On July 6, 2001, we issued 1,276,596 shares of series F convertible
participating preferred stock. The series F preferred stock is convertible on a
share-for-share basis into common stock at the option of the holder at any time
until July 6, 2004. After July 6, 2004, all shares of series F preferred stock
then outstanding will automatically convert into an equal number of shares of
common stock. Subject to certain limited exceptions, the shares of series F
preferred stock are non-voting.
The series F preferred stockholders receive dividends only if dividends
are payable on our common stock. Each outstanding share of series F preferred
stock entitles its holder to a liquidation preference equal to $2.35.
Except as noted above, holders of our series F preferred stock have no
preemptive, subscription, redemption or conversion rights. There are no
redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to the series F preferred
stock. The issued and outstanding shares of our series F preferred stock are
fully paid and nonassessable.
The Certificate of Designation, Preferences and Rights of Series F
Convertible Participating Preferred Stock is filed as a part of Exhibit 1
hereto, and is incorporated herein by reference.
Series G Preferred Stock
In connection with the issuance of our series F preferred stock, we
have entered in to agreements with the purchasers of our series F preferred
stock for the issuance of our series G convertible participating preferred stock
upon the occurrence of certain events.
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If on or prior to October 1, 2001, LaserSight or one of our affiliates
receives a written notice from the United States Food and Drug Administration
(the "FDA") that our LaserScan LSX(R) excimer laser system has been approved or
is approvable by the FDA to treat myopic astigmatism (the "Astigmatism
Approval") and the three day volume weighted average price of our common stock
exceeds $2.75, we may elect, during the 10 day period following the Astigmatism
Approval, to sell 800,000 shares of our series G preferred stock to the
purchasers of our series F preferred stock. The per share purchase price for the
series G preferred stock shall be $2.50 (the "LaserSight Election Price").
Alternatively, if we receive the Astigmatism Approval but do not elect to sell
our series G preferred stock as described above, the purchasers of the series F
preferred stock, for a period of 30 days following the expiration of our
election period, may elect to purchase shares of series G preferred stock at a
per share purchase price of 85% of the ten day volume weighted average price
(the "Series F Purchaser Election Price") but limited to an aggregate purchase
price of $4,000,000.
Subject to certain anti-dilution adjustments, the shares of series G
preferred stock will be convertible into shares of our common stock on a share
for share basis. Subject to certain limited exceptions, the shares of series G
preferred stock will be are non-voting.
The series G preferred stockholders will receive dividends only if
dividends are payable on our common stock. Each outstanding share of series G
preferred stock will entitle its holder to a liquidation preference equal to
either the LaserSight Election Price or the Series F Purchaser Election Price,
as applicable.
Except as noted above, holders of our series G preferred stock have no
preemptive, subscription, redemption or conversion rights. There are no
redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to the series G preferred
stock.
Our series G preferred stock has been authorized and if and when issued
will be fully paid and nonassessable. However, we have not and will not be
required to file our series G certificate of designation, preferences and rights
of the series G preferred stock with the Delaware Secretary of State unless and
until we exercise our right to cause the purchasers of the series F preferred
stock to purchase the series G preferred stock or the purchasers of the series F
preferred stock exercise their right to purchase the series G preferred stock.
If the Astigmatism Approval is not obtained, if we do not exercise our right to
cause the purchasers of the series F preferred stock to purchase the series G
preferred stock or the purchasers of the series F preferred stock do not
exercise their right to purchase our series G preferred stock, the certificate
of designation, preferences and rights of the series G preferred stock will not
be filed with the Delaware Secretary of State, and the series G preferred stock
will not be issued.
Except as noted above, holders of our series G preferred stock will not
have any preemptive, subscription, redemption or conversion rights. There will
be no redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to the series F preferred
stock.
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Warrants and Other Agreements to Issue Shares
In connection with the establishment of our credit facility with
Foothill Capital Corporation in March 1997, we issued warrants to purchase
shares of LaserSight common stock to Foothill. We are required to make
anti-dilution adjustments to both the number of warrant shares and the warrant
exercise price if we issue securities at a price per share that is (or could be)
less than the fair market value of our common stock at the time of such sale (a
"below-market issuance"). To date, such anti-dilution adjustments have resulted
in (1) an increase in the number of Foothill warrants to approximately 598,418,
and (2) a reduction to the exercise price of the Foothill warrants to
approximately $4.91 per share from an initial exercise price of $6.06 per share.
Additional anti-dilution adjustments to the Foothill warrants could also result
from any future below-market issuance of common stock by us, including in
connection with this offering. The Foothill warrants may be exercised at any
time through March 31, 2002. On March 31, 2002, we are obligated to repurchase
from the holder of each unexercised Foothill warrant the number of shares of
common stock for which such warrant could be exercised at a price of $1.21 per
share (subject to certain anti-dilution adjustments). As of August 9, 2001
warrants for 101,414 shares of our common stock remain outstanding.
In connection with our sale of the series B preferred stock in August
1997, we issued warrants to purchase a total of 750,000 shares of common stock
at a price of $5.91 per share to the former holders of our series B preferred
stock. The series B warrants are exercisable at any time before August 29, 2002.
In connection with a March 1998 agreement whereby we obtained the option to
repurchase the series B preferred stock and a lock-up on conversions, the
exercise price of the series B warrant shares was reduced to $2.753 per share.
We are required to make anti-dilution adjustments to both the number of warrant
shares and the warrant exercise price in the event we make a below-market
issuance. To date, these anti-dilution adjustments and other agreements among
the former holders of the series B preferred stock and us have resulted in (1)
an increase in the number of outstanding series B warrants to approximately
825,132, and (2) a reduction to the exercise price of series B warrants to
approximately $2.46 per share. As of August 9, 2001, 140,625 of such warrants
had been exercised and 684,507 of such warrants remained outstanding. We are
obligated to maintain the effectiveness of the registration of the series B
warrant shares under the Securities Act.
We also issued warrants to purchase a total of 40,000 shares of common
stock at a price of $5.91 per share to four individuals associated with the
placement agent for the series B preferred stock. These warrants are exercisable
at any time before August 29, 2002. We are required to make anti-dilution
adjustments to both the number of warrant shares and the warrant exercise price
in the event we make a below-market issuance. To date, these anti-dilution
adjustments have resulted in (1) an increase in the number of warrants to
approximately 44,186, and (2) a reduction to the exercise price of the warrants
to approximately $5.28 per share. As of August 9, 2001, 8,589 of such warrants
had been exercised and 35,597 of such warrants remained outstanding.
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Based on previously-reported agreements entered into in 1993 in
connection with our acquisition of LaserSight Centers, and modified in July 1995
and March 1997, we may be obligated as follows:
o To issue up to 600,000 unregistered shares of common stock to
the former stockholders and option holders of LaserSight
Centers. These former stockholders and option holders include
two trusts related to our chairman of the board and certain of
our former officers and directors. These contingent shares
will be issued only if we achieve certain pre-tax operating
income levels through March 2002. Such income levels must be
related to our use of a fixed or mobile excimer laser to
perform certain specified types of laser surgery, the
arranging for the delivery of certain types of laser surgery
or receipt of license or royalty fees associated with patents
held by LaserSight Centers. The contingent shares are issuable
at the rate of one share per $4.00 of such operating income.
o To pay to a partnership whose partners include our chairman of
the board and certain of our former officers and directors a
royalty of up to $43 for each eye on which certain specified
types of laser surgery is performed on a fixed or mobile
excimer laser system owned or operated by LaserSight Centers
or its affiliates. This royalty may be paid either in cash or
in shares of common stock
o Royalties do not begin to accrue until the earlier of March
2002 or the delivery of all of the 600,000 contingent shares.
To date, we have not accrued any obligation to issue contingent shares
or royalty shares described above. We cannot be certain that any issuance of
contingent shares or royalty shares will be accompanied by an increase in our
per share operating results. We are not obligated to pursue strategies that may
result in the issuance of contingent shares or royalty shares and, in fact, late
in 2000 we abandoned the LaserSight Centers mobile laser strategy due to
industry conditions and our increased focus on development and commercialization
of our refractive products. It may be in the interest of our chairman of the
board for us to pursue business strategies that maximize the issuance of
contingent shares and royalty shares.
In connection with our sale of common stock in March 1999, we issued
the purchasers warrants to purchase a total of 225,000 shares of common stock at
an exercise price of $5.125 per share, the closing price of the our common stock
on March 22, 1999. The warrants have a term of five years. As of August 9, 2001,
45,000 of such warrants had been exercised and 180,000 of such warrants remained
outstanding.
On February 22, 1999, in connection with a consulting services
agreement that we entered into with an individual, we issued warrants to
purchase a total of 67,500 shares of our common stock at a price of $5.00 per
share. One-third of the warrants become exercisable each annual anniversary of
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the grant until all the warrants are exercisable. The warrants expire on
February 22, 2004. As of August 9, 2001, 45,000 of such warrants had become
exercisable and all such warrants remain outstanding.
In connection with the March 2001 loan agreement that we entered into
with Heller Healthcare Finance, Inc., we issued to Heller warrants to purchase a
total of 243,750 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $3.15 per share.
The warrant is exercisable during the period beginning on its date of issue and
ending March 12, 2004. As of August 9, 2001, all such warrants remained
outstanding.
Delaware Law and Certain Charter and By-law Provisions
Certain provisions of our certificate of incorporation, by-laws and
Delaware corporate law described in this section may delay, make more difficult
or prevent acquisitions or changes in control of LaserSight that are not
approved by our board of directors, including those attempts that might result
in a premium over the market price for the shares held by stockholders.
Section 203 of Delaware General Corporation Law
We are subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General
Corporation Law. Subject to certain exceptions, Section 203 prohibits a
publicly-held Delaware corporation from engaging in a "business combination"
with an "interested stockholder" for a period of three years after the date of
the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder, unless the
interested stockholder attained such status with the approval of the board of
directors or unless:
o the business combination is approved by the corporation's
board of directors prior to the date the interested
stockholder became an interested stockholder;
o the interested stockholder acquired at least 85% of the voting
stock of the corporation (other than stock held by directors
who are also officers or by certain employee stock plans) in
the transaction in which it becomes an interested stockholder;
or
o the business combination is approved by a majority of the
board of directors and by the affirmative vote of 66-2/3% of
the outstanding voting stock that is not owned by the
interested stockholder voting at an annual or special meeting
of stockholders and not by written consent.
A "business combination" includes mergers, consolidations, asset sales
and other transactions having an aggregate value in excess of 10% of the
consolidated assets of the corporation and certain transactions that would
increase the interested stockholder's proportionate share ownership in the
corporation. Subject to certain exceptions, an "interested stockholder" is a
person who, together with affiliates and associates, owns, or within three years
did own, 15% or more of the corporation's voting stock.
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Indemnification and Limitation of Liability
Our certificate of incorporation contains certain provisions that
eliminate a director's liability for monetary damages for a breach of fiduciary
duty, except in certain circumstances involving certain wrongful acts. These
acts include the breach of a director's duty of loyalty or acts or omissions
that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law.
Our certificate of incorporation also contains provisions indemnifying
the directors and officers of LaserSight to the fullest extent permitted by the
Delaware General Corporation Law. Our by-laws require that we advance the
expenses of an indemnified person defending a legal proceeding after we receive
an undertaking from the person to repay such advance if a court ultimately
determines that he or she is not entitled to indemnification. Our by-laws also
require us to pay any expenses of an indemnified person in connection with such
person enforcing their indemnification rights. We also maintain a directors and
officers liability insurance policy that provides for indemnification of our
directors and officers against certain liabilities incurred in their capacities
as such.
Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws
The Delaware General Corporation Law provides generally that the
affirmative vote of a majority of the shares entitled to vote on any matter is
required to amend a corporation's certificate of incorporation or by-laws,
unless a corporation's certificate of incorporation or by-laws, as the case may
be, requires a greater percentage. Our by-laws may, subject to the provisions of
Delaware General Corporation Law, be amended or repealed by a majority vote of
the board of directors or by two-thirds vote of stockholders entitled to vote on
such matter.
Advance Notice Requirements for Stockholder Proposals and Nomination of
Directors
Our by-laws provide that stockholders seeking to bring business before
an annual meeting of stockholders, or to nominate candidates for election as
directors at an annual meeting of stockholders, must provide timely notice in
writing. To be timely, a stockholder's notice must be delivered to or mailed and
received at our principal executive offices not less than 90 days nor more than
120 days prior to the anniversary date of the immediately preceding annual
meeting of stockholders. However, in the event that the annual meeting is called
for a date that is not within 30 days before or after such anniversary date,
notice by the stockholder in order to be timely must be received not later than
the close of business on the tenth day following the date on which notice of the
date of the annual meeting was publicly announced. Our by-laws also specify
requirements as to the form and content of a stockholder's notice.
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Special Meetings of Stockholders; Procedural Requirements for
Stockholder Action by Written Consent
Our by-laws provide that special meetings of our stockholders may be
called only by our chairman of the board, chief executive officer or by the
board of directors. In addition, our by-laws provide:
o procedures for setting a record date to determine which
stockholders may express written consent;
o that no written consent shall be effective unless, within 60
days of the record date, consents signed by holders of the
requisite minimum number of shares have been delivered to us;
and
o that no action by written stockholder consent could become
effective until the completion of a ministerial review of the
consents within five business days after delivery of the
requisite number of written consents.
Number of Directors, Stockholder Removal of Directors
Our by-laws provide that we have at least three directors on the board
of directors and currently provides that we have seven directors. The board of
directors may increase or decrease the number of directors, provided that the
board cannot decrease the number directors to fewer than three. The board has
decreased the number of directors to six. A majority of the directors remaining
in office generally can fill any vacancies on the board of directors.
Our by-laws provide that the stockholders can remove a member of the
board of directors only if the holders of at least a majority of the outstanding
shares of stock entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting
together as a single class, vote in favor of the removal.
Stockholder Rights Plan
In July 1998, our board of directors adopted a stockholder rights plan.
A stockholder rights plan typically creates dilution and other impediments that
would discourage persons seeking to gain control of LaserSight by means of a
merger, tender offer, proxy contest or otherwise if our board of directors
determines that such change in control is not in the best interests of our
stockholders.
Transfer Agent and Registrar
The transfer agent and registrar for our common stock is American Stock
Transfer & Trust Company.
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Item 2. Exhibits.
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Exhibit
Number Description
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1 Certificate of Incorporation of LaserSight Incorporated, as
amended.
2 Bylaws of LaserSight Incorporated, as amended (incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Company's Form 8-K filed on
December 20, 1999, Commission File No. 0-19671).
3 Rights Agreement, dated as of July 2, 1998, between LaserSight
Incorporated and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as
Rights Agent, which includes (1) as Exhibit A thereto the form
of Certificate of Designation of the Series E Junior
Participating Preferred Stock, (2) as Exhibit B thereto the
form of Right certificate (separate certificates for the
Rights will not be issued until after the Distribution Date)
and (3) as Exhibit C thereto the Summary of Stockholder Rights
Agreement. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the
Form 8-K filed by LaserSight on July 8, 1998, Commission File
No. 0-19671).
4 First Amendment, dated as of March 22, 1999, to Rights
Agreement, dated as of July 2, 1998 between LaserSight
Incorporated and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company as
Rights Agent (incorporated by reference to the Form 8-A/A
filed by LaserSight on March 29, 1999, Commission File
No. 0-19671).
5 Second Amendment, dated as of January 28, 2000, to Rights
Agreement, dated as of July 2, 1998 between LaserSight
Incorporated and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company as
Rights Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.6 to
Form 8-K filed by LaserSight on February 8, 2000, Commission
File No. 0-19671).
6 Third Amendment, dated as of June 29, 2001, to Rights
Agreement, dated as of July 2, 1998 between LaserSight
Incorporated and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company as
Rights Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.5 to
Form 8-K filed by LaserSight on July 18, 2001, Commission
File No. 0-19671).
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Pursuant to the requirements of Section 12 of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this amendment to the registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized.
LaserSight Incorporated
Date: August 10, 2001 By: /s/ Michael R. Farris
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Name: Michael R. Farris
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number Description
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1 Certificate of Incorporation of LaserSight Incorporated, as
amended.
2 Bylaws of LaserSight Incorporated, as amended (incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Company's Form 8-K filed on
December 20, 1999, Commission File No. 0-19671).
3 Rights Agreement, dated as of July 2, 1998, between LaserSight
Incorporated and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as
Rights Agent, which includes (1) as Exhibit A thereto the form
of Certificate of Designation of the Series E Junior
Participating Preferred Stock, (2) as Exhibit B thereto the
form of Right certificate (separate certificates for the
Rights will not be issued until after the Distribution Date)
and (3) as Exhibit C thereto the Summary of Stockholder Rights
Agreement. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the
Form 8-K filed by LaserSight on July 8, 1998, Commission File
No. 0-19671).
4 First Amendment, dated as of March 22, 1999, to Rights
Agreement, dated as of July 2, 1998 between LaserSight
Incorporated and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company as
Rights Agent (incorporated by reference to the Form 8-A/A
filed by LaserSight on March 29, 1999, Commission File
No. 0-19671).
5 Second Amendment, dated as of January 28, 2000, to Rights
Agreement, dated as of July 2, 1998 between LaserSight
Incorporated and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company as
Rights Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.6 to
Form 8-K filed by LaserSight on February 8, 2000, Commission
File No. 0-19671).
6 Third Amendment, dated as of June 29, 2001, to Rights
Agreement, dated as of July 2, 1998 between LaserSight
Incorporated and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company as
Rights Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.5 to
Form 8-K filed by LaserSight on July 18, 2001, Commission File
No. 0-19671).
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CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
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OF
Smal Incorporated
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The undersigned, a natural person, for the purpose of organizing a
corporation for conducting the business and promoting the purposes hereinafter
stated, under the provisions and subject to the requirements of the laws of the
State of Delaware (particularly Chapter 1, Title 8 of the Delaware Code and the
acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, and known, identified and
referred to as the "General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware"), hereby
certifies that:
FIRST: The name of the corporation (hereinafter called the "corporation")
is
Smal Incorporated
SECOND: The address, including street, number, city, and county, of the
registered office of the corporation in the State of Delaware is 229 South State
Street, City of Dover, County of Kent; and the name of the registered agent of
the corporation in the State of Delaware is The Prentice-Hall Corporation
System, Inc.
THIRD: The purpose of the corporation is to engage in any lawful act or
activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation
Law of the State of Delaware.
FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the corporation shall
have authority to issue is Three Thousand (3,000), all of which are without par
value. All such shares are of one class and are shares of Common Stock.
FIFTH: The name and the mailing address of the incorporator are as follows:
NAME MAILING ADDRESS
---- ---------------
T. M. Bonovich 229 South State Street, Dover, Delaware
SIXTH: The corporation is to have perpetual existence.
SEVENTH: Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this
corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this
corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable
jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary
way of this corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the
application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this corporation under
the provisions of section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code order a meeting of
the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of
stockholders of this corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such
manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing
three-fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the
stockholders or class of stockholders of this corporation, as the case may be,
agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this
corporation as consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said
compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by
the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the
creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of
stockholders, of this corporation, as the case may be, and also on this
corporation.
EIGHTH: For the management of the business and for the conduct of the
affairs of the corporation, and in further definition, limitation and regulation
of the powers of the corporation and of its directors and of its stockholders or
any class thereof, as the case may be, it is further provided:
1. The management of the business and the conduct of the affairs of
the corporation shall be vested in its Board of Directors. The number of
directors which shall constitute the whole Board of Directors shall be
fixed by, or in the manner provided in, the By-Laws. The phrase "whole
Board" and the phrase "total number of directors" shall be deemed to have
the same meaning, to wit, the total number of directors which the
corporation would have if there were no vacancies. No election of directors
need be by written ballot.
2. After the original or other By-Laws of the corporation have been
adopted, amended, or repealed, as the case may be, in accordance with the
provisions of Section 109 of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware, and, after the corporation has received any payment for any of
its stock, the power to adopt, amend, or repeal the By-Laws of the
corporation may be exercised by the Board of Directors of the corporation;
provided, however, that any provision for the classification of directors
of the corporation for staggered terms pursuant to the provisions of
subsection (d) of Section 141 of the General Corporation Law of the State
of Delaware shall be set forth in an initial By-Law or in a By-Law adopted
by the stockholders entitled to vote of the corporation unless provisions
for such classification shall be set forth in this certificate of
incorporation.
3. Whenever the corporation shall be authorized to issue only one
class of stock, each outstanding share shall entitle the holder thereof to
notice of, and the right to vote at, any meeting of stockholders. Whenever
the corporation shall be authorized to issue more than one class of stock,
no outstanding share of any class of stock which is denied voting power
under the provisions of the certificate of incorporation shall entitle the
holder thereof to the right to vote at any meeting of stockholders except
as the provisions of paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of section 242 of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware shall otherwise require;
provided, that no share of any such class which is otherwise denied voting
power shall entitle the holder thereof to vote upon the increase or
decrease in the number of authorized shares of said class.
NINTH: The personal liability of the directors of the corporation is hereby
eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by paragraph (7) of subsection (b)of
Section 102 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same
may be amended and supplemented.
TENTH: The corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by Section
145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same may be
amended and supplemented, indemnify any and all persons whom it shall have power
to indemnify under said section from and against any and all of the expenses,
liabilities or other matters referred to in or covered by said section, and the
indemnification provided for herein shall not be deemed exclusive of any other
rights to which those indemnified may be entitled under any By-Law, agreement,
vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action
in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such
office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director,
officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs,
executors and administrators of such a person.
ELEVENTH: From time to time any of the provisions of this certificate of
incorporation may be amended, altered or repealed, and other provisions
authorized by the laws of the State of Delaware at the time in force may be
added or inserted in the manner and at the time prescribed by said laws, and all
rights at any tie conferred upon the stockholders of the corporation by this
certificate of incorporation are granted subject to the provisions of this
Article ELEVENTH.
Signed on September 29, 1987.
/s/ T.M. Bonovich
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T. M. Bonovich
Incorporator
CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT OF CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
SMAL INCORPORATED
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It is hereby certified that:
1. The name of the corporation (hereinafter called the "corporation") is
Smal Incorporated.
2. The certificate of incorporation of the corporation is hereby amended by
striking out Article First thereof and by substituting in lieu of said Article
the following new Article:
1. The name of the corporation is Starwood Industries, Inc.
3. The corporation has not received any payment for any of its stock.
4. The amendment of the certificate of incorporation herein certified has
been duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Section 241 of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
EXECUTED as of this 28th day of May, 1991.
/s/ Jonnie R. Williams
---------------------------
Jonnie R. Williams, sole Director
CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT OF CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
STARWOOD INDUSTRIES, INC.
It is hereby certified that:
1. The name of the corporation (hereinafter called the "corporation") is
Starwood Industries, Inc. (formerly Smal Incorporated).
2. The certificate of incorporation of the corporation is hereby amended by
striking out Article First thereof and by substituting in lieu of said Article
the following new Article:
1. The name of the corporation is LaserSight Incorporated
3. The corporation has not received any payment for any of its stock.
4. The amendment of the certificate of incorporation herein certified has
been duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Section 241 of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
EXECUTED as of this 11th day of June, 1991.
/s/ Jonnie R. Williams
--------------------------
Jonnie R. Williams, sole Director
Certificate of Amendment of Certificate Of Incorporation
of
LaserSight Incorporated
-----------------------
Adopted in accordance with the provisions
of Section 242 of the General Corporation Law
of the State of Delaware
The undersigned, Chief Executive Officer, and Secretary of LaserSight
Incorporated, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Delaware,
does hereby certify as follows:
FIRST: The Certificate of Incorporation is amended to delete paragraph
"FOURTH:" in its entirety and to replace same with the following:
"FOURTH: The total number of Shares of stock which the Corporation
shall have the authority to issue is 15,000,000 Shares, par value one
cent (.01) per share. All such Shares are of one class, and all Shares
are Common Stock. The purpose of this amendment is to split the
Company's Common Stock on a 5,000-for-one basis."
SECOND: That such amendment has been duly adopted in accordance with the
provisions of Sections 228 and 242 of the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware by the written consent of the holders of not less than a
majority of the outstanding stock entitled to vote thereon and that written
notice of the corporate action has been given to those stockholders who
have not consented in writing, all in accordance with the provisions of
Section 228 of the General Corporation Law.
All of the rest and remainder of the corporation's Certificate of
Incorporation shall remain in full force and effect.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have signed this Certificate this 17th day of July,
1991.
ATTEST:
/s/ J.T. Lin /s/ J.T. Lin
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J.T. LIN J.T. LIN
Title: Assistant Secretary Title: Chief Executive Officer
Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation
of
LaserSight Incorporated
-----------------------
Adopted in accordance with the provisions
of Section 242 of the General Corporation Law
of the State of Delaware
The undersigned, Chief Executive Officer, and Assistant Secretary of
LaserSight Incorporated, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of
Delaware, does hereby certify as follows:
FIRST: The Certificate of Incorporation is amended to delete paragraph
"FOURTH:" in its entirety and to replace same with the following:
"FOURTH: The total number of Shares of stock which the Corporation
shall have the authority to issue is 10,000,000 Shares, par value one
cent (.01) per Share. All such Shares are of one class, and all Shares
are Common Stock. The purpose of this amendment is to effect a
two-for-three reverse split of the Corporation's Common Stock, and
adjust par value to remain at $.01 per Share. As a result of this
amendment, the number of Shares the Corporation shall have the
authority to issue shall be reduced from 15,000,000 to 10,000,000, and
the outstanding Shares shall be reduced from 1,505,000 to 1,003,333.
SECOND: That such amendment has been duly adopted in accordance with the
provisions of the Sections 228 and 242 of the General Corporation Law of
the State of Delaware by the written consent of the holders of not less
than a majority of the outstanding stock entitled to vote thereon and that
written notice of the corporate action has been given to those stockholders
who have not consented in writing, all in accordance with the provisions of
Section 228 of the General Corporation Law.
All of the rest and remainder of the corporation's Certificate of
Incorporation shall remain in full force and effect.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have signed this Certificate this second day of
September, 1991.
ATTEST:
/s/ J.T. Lin /s/ J.T. Lin
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J.T. LIN J.T. LIN
Title: Assistant Secretary Title: Chief Executive Officer
CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT OF CERTIFICATE
OF INCORPORATION OF LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
The undersigned, President and Secretary of LaserSight Incorporated, a
corporation existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, hereby certify as
follows:
FIRST: The Certificate of Incorporation is amended to delete Paragraph
"Fourth:" in its entirety and to replace the same with the following:
FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the corporation
shall have the authority to issue is 20,000,000 shares, par value one
tenth of one cent ($.001) per share. All such shares are of one class,
and all shares are common stock.
SECOND: That such Amendment has been duly adopted in accordance with the
provisions of Sections 228 and 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State
of Delaware by the duly authorized vote of the shareholders at a meeting called
for such purpose. Except as amended hereby, the rest and remainder of the
Corporation's Certificate of Incorporation shall be and remain in full force and
effect.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have signed this Certificate this 30th
day of June, 1993.
LaserSight Incorporated
By: /s/ J.T. Lin
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J.T. Lin, Ph.D., President
ATTEST:
/s/ Wen S. Dai
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Wen S. Dai, Secretary
CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
OF
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
The undersigned President and Secretary of LaserSight Incorporated, a
corporation existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, hereby certify as
follows:
1. The Certificate of Incorporation is amended to delete Paragraph Fourth
in its entirety and to replace the same with the following:
FOURTH: Number and Class of Shares Authorized; Par Value.
1. Authorized Stock. This corporation is authorized to issue the
following shares of capital stock:
(a) Common Stock. The aggregate number of shares of Common Stock
which the corporation shall have authority to issue is 20,000,000 with a
par value of $.001 per share.
(b) Preferred Stock. The aggregate number of shares of Preferred
Stock which the corporation shall have authority to issue is 10,000,000
with a par value of $.001 per share.
2. Description of Common Stock. Holders of Common Stock are entitled
to one vote for each share held of record on all matters submitted to a
vote of stockholders and may not cumulate their votes for the election of
directors. Shares of Common Stock are not redeemable, do not have any
conversion or preemptive rights, and are not subject to further calls or
assessments once fully paid.
Holders of Common Stock will be entitled to share pro rata in such
dividends and other distributions as may be declared from time to time by
the board of Directors out of funds legally available therefor, subject to
any prior rights accruing to any holders of preferred stock of the Company.
Upon liquidation or dissolution of the Company, holders of shares of Common
Stock will be entitled to share proportionally in all assets available for
distribution to such holders.
3. Description of Preferred Stock. The terms, preferences, limitations
and relative rights of the Preferred Stock are as follows:
(a) The Board of Directors is expressly authorized at any time and
from time to time to provide for the issuance of shares of Preferred Stock
in one or more series, with such voting powers, full or limited, but not to
exceed one vote per share, or without voting powers, and with such
designations, preferences and relative participating, optional or other
special rights, qualifications, limitations or restrictions, as shall be
fixed and determined in the resolution or resolutions providing for the
issuance thereof adopted by the Board of Directors, and as are not stated
and expressed in these Articles of Incorporation or any amendment hereto,
including (but without limiting the generality of the foregoing) the
following:
(i) the distinctive designation of such series and the
number of shares which shall constitute such series, which number may be
increased (except where otherwise provided by the Board of Directors in
creating such series) or decreased (but not below the number of shares
thereof then outstanding) from time to time by resolution by the Board of
Directors;
(ii) the rate of dividends payable on shares of such series,
the times of payment, whether dividends shall be cumulative, the conditions
upon which and the date from which such dividends shall be cumulative;
(iii) whether shares of such series can be redeemed, the
time or times when, and the price of prices at which shares of such series
shall be redeemable, the redemption price, terms and conditions of
redemption, and the sinking fund provisions, if any, for the purchase of
redemption of such shares;
(iv) the amount payable on shares of such series and the
rights of holders of such shares in the event of any voluntary of
involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the affairs of the
corporation;
(v) the rights, if any, of the holders of shares of such
series to convert such shares into, or exchange such shares for, shares of
Common Stock or shares of any other class or series of Preferred Stock and
the terms and conditions of such conversion or exchange; and
(vi) the rights, if any, of the holders of shares of such
series to vote.
(b) Except in respect of the relative rights and preferences that
may be provided by the Board of Directors as hereinbefore provided, all
shares of Preferred Stock shall be of equal rank and shall be identical,
and each share of a series shall be identical in all respects with the
other shares of the same series.
2. Such Amendment has been duly adopted in accordance with the provisions
of Sections 228 and 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware
by the duly authorized vote of the shareholders at a meeting called for such
purpose. Except as amended hereby, the rest and remainder of the Corporation's
Certificate of Incorporation shall be and remain in full force and effect.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have signed this Certificate this 2nd
day of June, 1995.
LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
By: /s/ Robert Qualls
------------------------
Robert Qualls, President
ATTEST:
/s/ Robert Qualls
----------------------------
Robert Qualls, Secretary
LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION RELATING
TO THE SERIES A CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK,
PAR VALUE OF $.001 PER SHARE,
OF LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
Pursuant to Section 151 of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware
LaserSight Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), hereby
certifies that pursuant to the authority contained in Article Fourth of the
Corporation's Certificate of Incorporation, as amended ("Certificate of
Incorporation"), and in accordance with the provisions of Section 151 of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, the following resolution was
duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Corporation ("Board"), creating a
series of its Preferred Stock designated as Series A Convertible Preferred
Stock:
RESOLVED, that there is hereby created and the Corporation be, and it
hereby is, authorized to issue 116 shares of a series of its Preferred Stock
designated Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (the "Series A Preferred") to
have the powers, preferences and rights and the qualifications, limitations or
restrictions thereof hereinafter set forth in this resolution:
1. Preference. The preferences of each share of Series A Preferred with respect
to dividend payments and distributions of the Corporation's assets upon
voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the
Corporation shall be equal to the preferences of every other share of 1995
Preferred (as defined in Section 12 hereof) from time to time outstanding in
every respect and prior in right to such preferences of all Common Stock of the
Corporation, whether now or hereafter authorized, except as approved in
accordance with the provisions of Section 11 hereof.
2. Voting Rights. The Holders of the Series A Preferred, by virtue of their
ownership thereof, will not have any voting rights, except as otherwise provided
herein, in the Certificate of Incorporation or by law. With respect to all
voting rights pursuant to Section 11 hereof or of any other certificate of
designation filed by the Corporation with respect to the 1995 Preferred, Holders
of Series A Preferred and Holders of 1995 Preferred shall vote together as a
single and separate class except as otherwise provided in the Certificate of
Incorporation, by law or by any other certificate of designation filed by the
Corporation with respect to a series of its Preferred Stock.
3. Liquidation Rights. If the Corporation shall be voluntarily or involuntarily
liquidated, dissolved or wound up, at any time when any shares of Series A
Preferred shall be outstanding, each then-outstanding share of Series A
Preferred shall entitle the Holder thereof to a preference against the Property
of the Corporation available for distribution to the Holders of the
Corporation's Stock equal to the sum of the Original Issue Price plus an amount
equal to all unpaid dividends accrued on such share to the date of payment.
Neither the consolidation nor merger of the Corporation into or with any
corporation or corporations, nor the sale nor transfer by the Corporation of all
or any part of its Property, nor any reduction of the authorized or issued
shares of the Stock of the Corporation of any class, whether now or hereafter
authorized, shall be deemed to be a liquidation of the Corporation within the
meaning of any of the provisions of this Section 3.
All of the preferential amounts to be paid to the Holders of 1995 Preferred as
provided in this Section 3 or in any other certificate of designation filed by
the Corporation with respect to the 1995 Preferred shall be paid or set apart
for payment before the payment or setting apart for payment of any amount for,
or the distribution of any Property of the Corporation to, the Holders of any
Common Stock of the Corporation, whether now or hereafter authorized, in
connection with such liquidation, dissolution or winding up. If upon such
liquidation, dissolution or winding-up, the assets of the Corporation
distributable as aforesaid to Holders of the Preferred Stock (including the 1995
Preferred) then outstanding shall be insufficient to permit the payment to them
of the aggregate amount of the liquidation preference applicable to such
Preferred Stock, the entire assets of the Corporation available for distribution
shall be distributed ratably among the Holders of the Preferred Stock (including
the 1995 Preferred) in accordance with the aggregate liquidation preference of
the Preferred Stock held by such Holders.
4. Dividends. Commencing the Closing Date, the Holders of Series A Preferred
shall be entitled to receive, when and as declared by the Board out of shares
legally available therefor, dividends payable in shares of Common (valued in
each case at the Market Price of the Common on the NASDAQ National Market on the
day prior to the dividend payment date) at a per share annual rate of 10% of the
Original Issue Price. Such dividends shall be payable on the effective date
applicable to a conversion, exchange or redemption of the Series A Preferred to
the holders thereof as of such effective date and shall be cumulative from the
date of issuance of the Series A Preferred and shall accrue until paid, whether
or not earned, whether or not declared by the Board and whether or not there are
shares legally available therefor on the date such dividends are payable.
5. Conversion.
(A) General. For the purposes of conversion, the Series A Preferred shall
be valued at the Original Issue Price. Subject to adjustment as provided in
Section 8 hereof, if converted, the Series A Preferred shall be converted into
Common at a price per share of Common (the "Conversion Price") equal to (i) the
lesser of (x) the Adjusted Strike Price (as defined in Section 12 hereof) or (y)
85% of the Market Price (as defined in Section 12 hereof) divided by (ii) the
Registration Factor (as defined in Section 12 hereof); provided, however, that
the Conversion Price as of any date shall not be less than the Minimum
Conversion Price (as defined in Section 12 hereof) determined as of such date.
(B) Right of Holders to Optional Conversion. Subject to the provisos to
this Section 5(B), the Holders of Series A Preferred shall have the right, at
their option, to convert such shares into Common at any time during the period
beginning 90 days after the Closing Date and ending two years after the Closing
Date; provided, however, that if the Conversion Price in effect at the time of
any optional conversion pursuant to this Section 5(B) is less than or equal to
the Cash Option Price (as defined in Section 12 hereof), the Corporation shall
have the right, but not the obligation, to redeem any or all of such shares of
Series A Preferred surrendered for conversion pursuant to this Section 5(B) for
cash in an amount equal to 115% of the aggregate Original Issue Price of the
shares of Series A Preferred to be so redeemed (such amount, the "Redemption
Amount"); and provided further, that the Corporation may at any time within two
business days after receipt of a notice of conversion pursuant to this Section
5(B), exercise any of its rights pursuant Section 6 hereof with respect to any
of the shares of Series A Preferred subject to such notice of conversion. Any
shares of Common issued pursuant to this Section 5(B) shall be valued at the
Market Price of the Common on the Effective Date (as defined in Section 5(C)
hereof).
(C) Method of Exercise; Payment; Issuance of Common; Transfer and Exchange.
The conversion right granted by Section 5(B) hereof may be exercised by a Holder
of Series A Preferred, in whole or in part, by telecopying a completed Notice
substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A and delivering such
Notice, together with the stock certificate or certificates representing the
Series A Preferred to be converted, duly executed for transfer or accompanied by
executed stock powers (such execution to be either (i) accompanied by a
signature guarantee by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, or (ii)
evidenced by a signature on behalf of such Investor without such a guarantee,
provided that the Investor has previously delivered to the Company a written
instrument that (x) authorizes the Company to rely upon such unguaranteed
signature for all purposes relating to the transfer or conversion of Preferred
Shares, (y) includes a specimen of such unguaranteed signature on which the
Company shall be entitled to rely without further investigation, and (z) holds
the Company harmless from any loss resulting from any unauthorized or fraudulent
signature purporting on its face to be an authorized signature so long as the
Company relies on such specimen signature without gross negligence (such
instrument, a "Specimen Signature Authorization")), by express courier to the
principal office of the Corporation (or at such other place as the Corporation
may from time to time designate in a written notice sent to the Holder by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, at its address shown on the books of the
Corporation) against delivery of (1) that number of whole shares of Common equal
to the quotient of (a) the aggregate Original Issue Price of the Series A
Preferred so surrendered, divided by (b) the Conversion Price in effect on the
Effective Date, or (2) if the Conversion Price in effect on the Effective Date
is less than or equal to the Cash Option Price and the Corporation shall have
exercised its right pursuant to Section 5(B) hereof to redeem any or all of such
Series A Preferred for cash, cash in an amount equal to the Redemption Amount,
together with that number of whole shares of Common, if any, equal to the
quotient of (a) the aggregate Original Issue Price of the shares of Series A
Preferred not so redeemed by the Company, divided by (b) the Conversion Price in
effect on the Effective Date. Any conversion or redemption pursuant to Section
5(B) hereof shall irrevocably become effective upon, and only upon, the date of
acceptance (the "Effective Date") by the Corporation (which date shall in no
event be more than two business days after the date of its receipt) of the duly
completed and executed Notice, certificates for all shares of Series A Preferred
being converted or redeemed, duly executed for transfer or accompanied by
executed stock powers (such execution to be either (i) accompanied by a
signature guarantee by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, or (ii) a
Specimen Signature Authorization), in accordance with this Section 5. In the
event of any exercise of the conversion and/or redemption rights granted by
Section 5(B) in accordance with the terms thereof, (i) stock certificates for
the shares of Common acquired by virtue of such exercise and/or cash (as
applicable) shall promptly (and in no event more than five business days after
the Effective Date) be sent to such Holder, and unless the Series A Preferred
has been fully converted or redeemed (as applicable), a new Series A Preferred
stock certificate, representing the Series A Preferred not so converted or
redeemed shall also be delivered to such Holder forthwith and (ii) any stock
certificates for the shares of Common so acquired shall be dated the Effective
Date and the Holder making such surrender shall be deemed for all purposes to be
the Holder of the shares of Common so acquired as of the Effective Date.
(D) Mandatory Conversion. All shares of Series A Preferred outstanding two
years after the Closing Date shall, without any further action by the Holders
thereof, be converted into Common (a "Mandatory Conversion") as of such date
(the "Mandatory Conversion Date"). The number of whole shares of Common to be
delivered to each Holder of Series A Preferred upon a Mandatory Conversion
pursuant to this Section 5(D) shall equal the quotient of 1) the aggregate
Original Issue Price of the Series A Preferred so surrendered divided by (2) the
Conversion Price in effect on the Mandatory Conversion Date. Upon the Mandatory
Conversion of the Series A Preferred pursuant to this Section 5(D), the
Corporation shall promptly (and in no event more than two business days after
the Mandatory Conversion Date) transmit to each Holder of Series A Preferred
notice thereof in reasonable detail. Upon receipt from each Holder of Series A
Preferred of the certificate or certificates representing such Holder's shares
of Series A Preferred so converted duly executed for transfer or accompanied by
executed stock powers (such execution to be either (i) accompanied by a
signature guarantee by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, or (ii) a
Specimen Signature Authorization), the Corporation shall promptly (and in no
event more than five business days after the date of such receipt) transmit
certificates representing the shares of Common issued to such Holder as a result
of the Mandatory Conversion. Such certificates shall be dated the Mandatory
Conversion Date, and such Holders shall be deemed for all purposes to be the
Holders of such Common as of the Mandatory Conversion Date.
(E) Stock Fully Paid; Reservation of Shares. All shares of Common which may
be issued upon conversion of Series A Preferred or as a dividend pursuant to
Section 4 hereof will, upon issuance, be duly issued, fully paid and
nonassessable and free from all taxes, liens, and charges with respect to the
issue thereof. At all times that any Series A Preferred is outstanding, the
Corporation shall have authorized, and shall have reserved for the purpose of
issuance upon such conversion, a sufficient number of shares of Common to
provide for (1) the conversion into Common of all Series A Preferred then
outstanding at the then-effective Conversion Price and (2) the payment of all
dividends payable with respect to the Series A Preferred pursuant to Section 4
hereof.
6. Redemption and Call for Exchange by the Corporation.
(A) During the periods specified below, the Corporation, by written notice
to the Holders of outstanding shares of 1995 Preferred, may (but is not required
to) either:
(1) during the period beginning on the 90th day after the Closing Date
and ending 24 months after the Closing date, redeem for cash each (but not
less than all) of the then-outstanding shares of 1995 Preferred at a
redemption price per share of 1995 Preferred equal to the Original Issue
Price multiplied by the Redemption Factor (as defined in Section 12 hereof)
determined as of the date of such notice of redemption; or
(2) during the period beginning on the first day after the first
anniversary of the Closing Date and ending two years after the Closing
Date, exchange each (but not less than all) of the then-outstanding shares
of 1995 Preferred for a number of shares of Common equal to the Original
Issue Price (i) multiplied by the Redemption Factor determined as of the
date of such notice of exchange and then (ii) divided by the Market Price
determined as of the date of such notice; provided that a Registration
Statement is then effective under the Securities Act.
(B) Any notice of an optional redemption or exchange of the Series A
Preferred pursuant to Section 6(A) hereof shall be promptly delivered by the
Corporation to each Holder of outstanding Series A Preferred and shall describe
such optional redemption or exchange in reasonable detail. All shares of Series
A Preferred outstanding on the date of such notice shall, without any further
action by the Holders thereof, be redeemed or exchanged (as applicable) in
accordance with this Section 6 effective as of the date of such notice. Upon
receipt from each Holder of Series A Preferred of the certificates representing
the Series A Preferred so redeemed or exchanged duly executed for transfer or
accompanied by executed stock powers (such execution to be either (i)
accompanied by a signature guarantee by a member firm of the New York Stock
Exchange, or (ii) a Specimen Signature Authorization), the Corporation shall
promptly (and in no event more than five business days after the date of such
receipt) transmit cash or certificates representing shares of Common (as
applicable) in accordance with this Section 6. Any such certificates
representing shares of Common shall be dated the date of the notice delivered by
the Corporation pursuant to this Section 6(B), and such Holders shall be deemed
for all purposes to be the Holders of such Common as of the date of such notice.
7. Payment of Accrued Dividends. At the time of any conversion, redemption or
exchange of a share of Series A Preferred pursuant to Sections 5 or 6 hereof, as
applicable, the Corporation shall pay in Common (valued at the Market Price of
the Common on the date of conversion, redemption or exchange, as applicable) to
the Holder thereof an amount equal to all unpaid dividends accrued thereon to
the date of conversion, redemption or exchange (as applicable), whether or not
declared by the Board. If the Corporation has insufficient shares legally
available on the date specified above to pay such accrued but unpaid dividends
pursuant to this Section 7 (whether due to restrictions imposed by regulatory
authorities or applicable law), then shares to the extent legally available
shall be used to pay such amount, in which case the shares of Common shall be
issuable pro rata to each Holder whose Preferred Stock is being converted,
redeemed or exchanged, as applicable. From time to time thereafter, whenever
additional shares of Common are legally available for the payment of dividends,
such shares shall be immediately used to pay the unpaid portion of any such
shares of Common issuable as accrued dividends.
8. Certain Adjustments. For purposes of Sections 5 and 6 hereof, the number of
shares of Common issuable upon the conversion or exchange of Series A Preferred,
the Adjusted Strike Price, and the Cash Option Price shall be appropriately
adjusted, as deemed equitable by the Corporation, from time to time upon the
happening of certain events, as follows:
(A) Reclassification, Consolidation or Merger. In case of any
reclassification or change of outstanding Common (other than a change in par
value, or from par value to no par value, or from no par value to par value, or
as a result of a subdivision or combination thereof), or in case of any
consolidation or merger of the Corporation with or into another corporation
(other than a merger with another corporation in which the Corporation is the
surviving corporation and which does not result in any reclassification or
change (other than a change in par value, or from par value to no par value, or
from no par value to par value, or as a result of a subdivision or combination
thereof) of outstanding Common, the rights of the Holders of the outstanding
Series A Preferred shall be adjusted in the manner described below:
(1) In the event that the Corporation is the surviving corporation,
the Series A Preferred shall, without payment of additional consideration
therefor, be deemed modified so as to provide that upon conversion or
exchange thereof the Holder of the Series A Preferred being converted or
exchanged, as applicable, shall procure, in lieu of each share of Common
theretofore issuable upon such conversion or exchange, the kind and amount
of shares of Stock, other securities, money and Property receivable upon
such reclassification, change, consolidation or merger by the Holder of
each share of Common had such conversion or exchange occurred immediately
prior to such reclassification, change, consolidation or merger. The
provisions of this clause (a) shall similarly apply to successive
reclassifications, changes, consolidations and mergers.
(2) In the event that the Corporation is not the surviving
corporation, the surviving corporation shall, without payment of any
additional consideration therefor, issue new Series A Preferred, providing
that upon conversion or exchange thereof, the Holder thereof shall procure
in lieu of each share of Common theretofore issuable upon conversion or
exchange, as applicable, of the Series A Preferred the kind and amount of
shares of Stock, other securities, money and Property receivable upon such
reclassification, change, consolidation or merger by the Holder of each
share of Common issuable upon conversion or exchange, as applicable,of the
Series A Preferred had such conversion or exchange, as applicable, occurred
immediately prior to such reclassification, change, consolidation or
merger. Such new Series A Preferred shall provide for adjustments which
shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments
provided for in this Section 8. The provisions of this clause (b) shall
similarly apply to successive reclassifications, changes, consolidations
and mergers.
(B) Subdivision or Combination of Shares. If the Corporation, at any time
while any of the Series A Preferred is outstanding, shall subdivide or combine
its Common, the Adjusted Strike Price, the Cash Option Price shall be
proportionately reduced, in case of subdivision of shares, as of the effective
date of such subdivision, or if the Corporation shall take a record of Holders
of its Common for the purpose of a subdividing, as of the close of business on
such record date, whichever is earlier, or shall be proportionately increased,
in the case of combination of shares, as of the effective date of such
combination or, if the Corporation shall take a record of Holders of its Common
for the purpose of so combining, as of the close of business on such record
date, whichever is earlier.
(C) Certain Dividends and Distributions. If the Corporation, at any time
while any of the Series A Preferred is outstanding, shall pay a dividend payable
in, or make any other distribution of, Common to all Holders of Common on a pro
rata basis, the Adjusted Strike Price and the Cash Option Price shall be
adjusted, as of the close of business on the date the Corporation shall take a
record of the Holders of its Common for the purpose of receiving such dividend
or other distribution (or if no such record is taken, as of the date of such
dividend or other distribution is paid), to that price determined by multiplying
each of the Adjusted Strike Price and the Cash Option Price by a fraction (a)
the numerator of which shall be the total number of shares of Common outstanding
immediately prior to the payment of such dividend or distribution and (2) the
denominator of which shall be the total number of shares of Common outstanding
immediately after the payment of such dividend or distribution (plus in the
event that the Corporation paid cash for fractional shares, the number of
additional shares which would have been outstanding had the Corporation issued
fractional shares in connection with said dividend or distribution). The number
of shares of Common at any time outstanding shall not include any shares thereof
then directly or indirectly owned or held by or for the account of the
Corporation or any Subsidiary.
9. Fractional Shares. No fractional shares of Common shall be issued in
connection with any conversion of Series A Preferred or dividend payable with
respect to the Series A Preferred, but in lieu of such fractional shares, the
Corporation shall make a cash payment therefor equal in amount to the product of
the applicable fraction, multiplied by either (1) the Conversion Price then in
effect (in the case of a conversion of Series A Preferred pursuant to Section 5
hereof) or (2) the Market Price then in effect (in the case of a dividend
payable pursuant to Section 4 hereof or an exchange pursuant to Section 6
hereof), in each case to the extent sufficient funds are legally available
therefore.
10. Status of Redeemed or Converted Series A Preferred. No shares of Series A
Preferred which have been redeemed for cash or converted into or exchanged for
Common shall be reissued by the Corporation.
11. Protective Provisions. So long as any shares of 1995 Preferred shall be
outstanding, the Corporation shall not, without the approval by the vote or
written consent of the Holders of at least a majority (or more if required by
law) of the then-outstanding shares of 1995 Preferred:
(A) Amend, waive or repeal any provisions of, or add any provision to,
(i) this Certificate of Designation, (ii) any other certificate of
designation filed by the Corporation with respect to the 1995 Preferred or
(iii) if such amendment, waiver, repeal or addition would have an adverse
effect upon the rights, preferences or priorities of the Holders of 1995
Preferred, any provision of the Corporation's Certificate of Incorporation
or of any other certificate of designation filed with the Secretary of
State of Delaware by the Corporation with respect to its Preferred Stock
(other than Parity Stock);
(B) Amend, waive or repeal any provisions of, or add any provision to,
the Corporation's By-Laws, if such amendment, waiver, repeal or addition
would have an adverse effect upon the rights, preferences or priorities of
the Holders of 1995 Preferred;
(C) Authorize, create, issue or sell any shares of Senior Stock;
(D) Enter into, or permit any Subsidiary to enter into, any agreement,
indenture or other instrument which contains any provisions restricting the
Corporation's obligation to pay dividends on the 1995 Preferred in
accordance with Section 4 hereof or of any other certificate of designation
filed by the Corporation with respect to the 1995 Preferred;
(E) Sell, lease, encumber, transfer, liquidate or otherwise dispose
of, in one transaction or a series of related transactions, all or
substantially all of the Property of the Corporation; or
(F) Dissolve the Corporation.
12. Definitions. As used in this Certificate of Designation, the following terms
have the following meanings:
"Adjusted Strike Price" shall mean 107% of the closing price of the Common
on the NASDAQ National Market on the trading day prior to the execution and
delivery of the Subscription Agreements.
"Cash Option Price" shall initially mean $10.00 per share of Common,
subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 8 hereof.
"Closing Date" shall mean the date on which Spencer Trask certifies in
writing to the Corporation that it has completed the distribution of all the
1995 Preferred to be issued pursuant to and in accordance with the Spencer Trask
Commitment Letter.
"Common" shall mean the Corporation's Common Stock, par value $.001 per
share, and any stock into which such stock may hereafter be changed.
"Conversion Price" shall have the meaning specified in Section 5(A) hereof,
as adjusted from time to time pursuant to Section 8 hereof.
"Effective Date" shall have the meaning specified in Section 5(C) hereof.
"Holders" shall mean, in respect of any Security, the Persons who shall,
from time to time, own of record such Security. The term "Holder" shall mean one
of the Holders.
"Mandatory Conversion" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(D)
hereof.
"Mandatory Conversion Date" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
5(D) hereof.
"Market Price" as of any date shall mean the average closing price of the
Common on the Nasdaq National Market during the five trading day period ending
on the trading day immediately preceding such date.
"Minimum Conversion Price" as of any date shall mean the highest price that
would, if all of the shares of 1995 Preferred then outstanding were converted at
such price, result in the issuance of a number of shares of Common that, when
added to the number of shares (if any) of Common issued in connection with all
previous conversions of shares of 1995 Preferred, would exceed the product of
(i) 1,401,016 shares (as such number may be equitably increased or decreased by
the Corporation from time to time to give effect to any subdivision or
combination, respectively, of the outstanding shares of Common) multiplied by
(ii) a fraction, the numerator of which is the Aggregate Issue Price of all
shares of 1995 Preferred theretofore issued (whether or not then outstanding)
and the denominator of which is $8,000,000.
"1995 Preferred" shall mean the Series A Preferred and any other series of
Preferred Stock of the Corporation issued in the aggregate amount of up to 116
shares pursuant to and in accordance with the Spencer Trask Commitment Letter.
"Original Issue Price" shall mean $50,000 per share of Series A Preferred
or 1995 Preferred, as applicable.
"Parity Stock" shall mean any shares of any class or series of Stock of the
Corporation having any preference or priority as to dividends or liquidation on
a parity with any such preference or priority of the 1995 Preferred and no
preference or priority as to dividends or liquidation superior to any such
preference or priority of the 1995 Preferred and any instrument or Security
convertible into or exchangeable for Parity Stock. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, a dividend rate, mandatory or optional sinking fund
payment amounts or schedules or optional redemption provisions, the existence of
a conversion right or the existence of a liquidation preference of up to 100% of
the original issue price thereof plus unpaid accrued dividends plus a premium of
up to the dividend rate or up to the percentage of the equity of the Corporation
represented by such Stock, with respect to any class or series of Stock,
differing from that of the 1995 Preferred, shall not prevent such class of Stock
from being Parity Stock.
"Person" shall mean an individual, a corporation, a partnership, a limited
liability company, a trust, an unincorporated organization or a government
organization or an agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Property" shall mean an interest in any kind of property or assets,
whether real, personal or mixed, or tangible or intangible.
"Redemption Amount" shall have the meaning specified in Section 5(B)
hereof.
"Redemption Factor" shall mean (i) during the period ending one year after
the Closing Date, 1.35 and (ii) during the period beginning on the first day
after the first anniversary of the Closing Date and ending two years after the
Closing Date (such period, the "Second Year Period"), the sum of 1.35 plus the
product of (x) the number of calendar days elapsed in the Second Year Period up
to and including the redemption date multiplied by (y) 0.30 divided by 365
(rounded to the nearest 0.0001).
"Registration Factor" shall mean (i) if the Corporation shall have filed
the Registration Statement with the SEC within 60 days after the Closing Date,
one (1.0), (ii) if the Corporation shall not have filed the Registration
Statement with the SEC (the "delay") within 60 days after the Closing Date, 1.01
(if the delay is for 7 or fewer days); 1.02 (if the delay is between 8 and 14
days); 1.03 (if the delay is between 15 and 21 days); 1.04 (if the delay is
between 22 and 28 days); 1.05 (if the delay is between 29 and 31 days); 1.06 (if
the delay is between 32 and 45 days); 1.06 plus 0.01 multiplied by the number of
full months that such delay extends beyond the 45th day.
"Registration Statement" shall mean a registration statement pursuant to
the Securities Act of 1933 to register the offer and sale of the shares of
Common issuable upon conversion of Series A Preferred.
"SEC" shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Securities" shall mean any debt or equity securities of a corporation,
whether now or hereafter authorized, and any instrument convertible into or
exchangeable for Securities or a Security. The term "Security" shall mean one of
the Securities.
"Senior Stock" shall mean any shares of any class or series of Stock of the
Corporation having any preference or priority as to dividends or Property
superior to any such preference or priority of the 1995 Preferred and any
instrument or Security convertible into or exchangeable for Senior Stock.
"Series A Preferred" shall mean the Corporation's Series A Convertible
Preferred Stock, $.001 par value per share, and any Stock into which such Stock
may hereafter be changed.
"Spencer Trask" shall mean Spencer Trask Securities Incorporated, a
Delaware corporation.
"Spencer Trask Commitment Letter" shall mean that certain commitment letter
dated December 12, 1995 between the Corporation and Spencer Trask relating to a
private placement of the 1995 Preferred.
"Stock" shall include any and all shares, interests or other equivalents
(however designated) of, or participations in, corporate stock.
"Subscription Agreements" shall mean the certain Subscription Agreements
between the Corporation and the person or persons named on the signature pages
thereof dated various dates and accepted by the Corporation on the date hereof
and relating to the purchase and sale of shares of Series A Preferred.
"Subsidiary" shall mean any corporation at least 50% of whose outstanding
Voting Securities and capital stock are owned directly or indirectly by the
Corporation or by one or more Subsidiaries or by the Corporation and one or more
Subsidiaries.
"Voting Securities" as applied to the Securities of any corporation, shall
mean Securities of any class or classes (however designated) having ordinary
voting power for the election of one or more members of the board of directors
(or other governing body) of such corporation, other than Securities having such
power only by reason of the happening of a contingency.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Certificate of
Designation to be duly executed this 10th day of January, 1996.
LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
By: /s/ Michael R. Farris
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Name: Michael R. Farris
Title: President
Attest:
/s/ Gregory L. Wilson
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Gregory L. Wilson, Secretary
CONVERSION NOTICE Exhibit A
(To be executed if Holder desires to make a conversion election pursuant to
Section 5(B))
To LaserSight Incorporated:
The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to convert ________ shares of
Series A Preferred Stock ("Preferred Shares") represented by the attached stock
certificate into shares of common stock, $.001 par value (such shares, the
"Common Shares") (or, if the Conversion Price in effect at the time of this
conversion is less than or equal to the Cash Option Price and you so elect, into
the right to receive cash at the election of the Corporation) pursuant to and in
accordance with Section 5 of the Certificate of Designation relating to the
Preferred Stock and requests that certificates for any such shares of Common
Stock be issued in the name of the undersigned.
If such number of Preferred Shares shall not be all the Preferred Shares
evidenced by the Series A Preferred Stock certificate, a new stock certificate
for the balance remaining of such shares shall be registered in the name of and
delivered to the undersigned.
The undersigned will not offer for sale, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer
the Common Shares except (i) in accordance with the plan of distribution
specified in the prospectus ("Prospectus") included in the registration
statement relating to the Common Shares filed or to be filed with the SEC (the
"Registration Statement") under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities
Act"), (ii) pursuant to SEC Rule 144 under the Securities Act, or (iii) pursuant
to another available exemption from registration requirements of the Securities
Act. The undersigned will deliver a Prospectus to the buyer of any Common Shares
sold pursuant to the Registration Statement. The undersigned will not sell any
Common Shares pursuant to the Registration Statement during the period, if any,
during which the undersigned's right to sell under the Registration Statement
has been suspended by the Company in accordance with the provisions of the
Subscription Agreement between the Corporation and the undersigned or the
undersigned's predecessor-in-interest.
Dated: ____________________, 199_
_______________________________
Signature Guaranteed (if required): Signature
Must be signed by registered holder(s) exactly as name(s) on certificate(s) of
Series A Preferred. Signatures must (such execution to be either (i) accompanied
by a signature guarantee by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, or
(ii) evidenced by a signature on behalf of such Investor without such a
guarantee, provided that the Investor has previously delivered to the Company a
written instrument that (x) authorizes the Company to rely upon such
unguaranteed signature for all purposes relating to the transfer or conversion
of Preferred Shares, (y) includes a specimen of such unguaranteed signature on
which the Company shall be entitled to rely without further investigation, and
(z) holds the Company harmless from any loss resulting from any unauthorized or
fraudulent signature purporting on its face to be an authorized signature so
long as the Company relies on such specimen signature without gross negligence).
If signature is by a trustee, executor, administrator, guardian,
attorney-in-fact, officer of a corporation or other person acting in a fiduciary
or representative capacity, please identify that person's full title.
First telefax this Conversion Notice to the Company on fax number (314)
576-1073; then return by air courier the original hard copy to the Company,
together with the original Preferred Share stock certificate by air courier to
LaserSight Incorporated, Attn: Chief Financial Officer, 12161 Lackland Road, St.
Louis, Missouri 63146.
CORRECTED CERTIFICATE
OF
DESIGNATIONS, PREFERENCES AND RIGHTS
OF
SERIES B CONVERTIBLE PARTICIPATING PREFERRED STOCK
OF
LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
I. DESIGNATION AND AMOUNT
The designation (this "Certificate of Designation") of this series, which
consists of 1600 shares of Preferred Stock of LaserSight Incorporated, a
Delaware corporation (the "Company"), is the Series B Convertible Participating
Preferred Stock (the "Preferred Stock") and the face amount shall be Ten
Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) per share (the "Face Amount").
II. DIVIDENDS
The Preferred Stock will bear no dividends except as provided in Section
IX(B).
III. CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
For purposes of this Certificate of Designation, the following terms shall
have the following meanings:
A. "Business Day" means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day on
which banks in New York, New York are permitted or required by law to be closed.
B. "Closing Bid Price" means, for any security as of any date, the closing
bid price of such security on the principal securities exchange or trading
market where such security is listed or traded as reported by Bloomberg
Financial Markets or a comparable reporting service of national reputation
selected by the Company and reasonably acceptable to registered holders of the
Preferred Stock (each, a "Holder") then holding a majority of the then
outstanding shares of a Preferred Stock ("Majority Holders") if Bloomberg
Financial Markets is not then reporting closing bid prices of such security
(collectively, "Bloomberg"), or if the foregoing does not apply, the last
reported sale price of such security in the over-the-counter market on the
electronic bulletin board of such security as reported by Bloomberg, or, if no
sale price is reported for such security by Bloomberg, the average of the bid
prices of any market makers for such security as reported in the "pink sheets"
by the National Quotation Bureau, Inc. If the Closing Bid Price cannot be
calculated for such security on such date on any of the foregoing bases, the
Closing Bid Price of such security on such date shall be the fair market value
as reasonably determined by an investment banking firm selected by the Company
and reasonably acceptable to the Majority Holders, with the costs of such
appraisal to be borne by the Company.
C. "Conversion Date" means, for any Optional Conversion, the date specified
in the notice of conversion (the "Notice of Conversion"), so long as such date
is a Business Day and the copy of the Notice of Conversion is faxed (or
delivered by other means resulting in notice) to the Company before 5:00 p.m.,
St. Louis time, on the Conversion Date indicated in the Notice of Conversion. If
the date specified in the Notice of Conversion is not a Business Day, or if the
Notice of Conversion is not so faxed or otherwise delivered before such time,
then the Conversion Date shall be the first Business Day after the date on which
the Holder faxes or otherwise delivers the Notice of Conversion to the Company.
The Conversion Date for the Required Conversion at Maturity shall be the
Maturity Date (as such terms are defined herein).
D. "Common Stock" means the common stock, $.001 par value, of the Company.
E. "Conversion Price" means, with respect to any Conversion Date, the lower
of the Fixed Conversion Price and the Variable Conversion Price, each as in
effect as of such date and subject to adjustment as provided herein; provided
that such price shall be multiplied by .93 if such Conversion Date occurs at a
time when the Common Stock a Holder receives upon conversion of the Preferred
Stock is not listed on the Nasdaq National Market ("Nasdaq"), the American Stock
Exchange or the New York Stock Exchange.
F. "Fixed Conversion Price" means $6.68 (130% of the average Closing Bid
Prices of the Common Stock for the five (5) consecutive trading days ending on
the trading day immediately preceding the Closing Date (subject to equitable
adjustment for any stock splits, stock dividends, reclassifications or similar
events during such five (5) trading day period)), and shall be subject to
adjustment as provided herein.
G. "Securities Purchase Agreement" means the Securities Purchase Agreement
dated as of August 29, 1997, among the Company and the purchasers named therein,
as amended from time to time in accordance with the term thereof.
H. "Variable Conversion Price" means, as of any Conversion Date, the
average of the three (3) lowest Closing Bid Prices per share of Common Stock
during the Lookback Period (as herein defined) (subject to equitable adjustment
for any stock splits, stock dividends, reclassifications or similar events
during the Lookback Period), subject to adjustment as provided herein. For
purposes hereof, the "Lookback Period" shall mean the period of twenty (20)
consecutive trading days ending on the trading day immediately preceding the
Conversion Date; provided, however, that in the event the average Closing Bid
Price of the Common Stock during the period of five (5) consecutive trading days
ending on the date one hundred eighty (180) days after the Closing Date is less
than the average Closing Bid Price of the Common Stock for the five (5)
consecutive trading days ending on the trading immediately preceding the Closing
Date, the Lookback Period shall be the period of thirty (30) consecutive trading
days ending on the trading day immediately preceding the Conversion Date.
I. "Warrants" means the stock purchase warrants to acquire shares of Common
Stock issued by the Company to the initial Holders in connection with the
transactions contemplated by the Securities Purchase Agreement.
IV. CONVERSION
A. Conversion at the Option of the Holder. Subject to the limitations on
conversions contained in Section IV.G, each Holder may, at any time and from
time to time after the Closing Date, convert (an "Optional Conversion") each of
its shares of Preferred Stock into a number of fully paid and nonassessable
shares of Common Stock determined by dividing the aggregate Face Amount of the
shares of Preferred Stock being converted by the Conversion Price.
B. Mechanics of Conversion. In order to effect an Optional Conversion, a
Holder shall: (x) fax (or otherwise deliver by other means resulting in notice)
a copy of the fully executed Notice of Conversion in the form of Exhibit A
hereto to the Company and (y) surrender or cause to be surrendered (or satisfy
the provisions of Section XIV.B, if applicable) the certificates representing
the Preferred Stock being converted (the "Preferred Stock Certificates")
accompanied by duly executed stock powers and the original executed version of
the Notice of Conversion as soon as practicable thereafter. Upon receipt by the
Company of the fax copy of a Notice of Conversion from a Holder, the Company
shall immediately send, via fax, a confirmation to such Holder stating that the
Notice of Conversion has been received, the date upon which the Company expects
to deliver the Common Stock issuable upon such conversion and the name and
telephone number of a contact person at the Company regarding the conversion.
C. Delivery of Common Stock Upon Conversion. Subject to Section IV.G, upon
the delivery of a Notice of Conversion, the Company shall, no later than the
later of (a) the third Business Day following the Conversion Date and (b) the
day that is the first Business Day (or the second Business Day in the event that
the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of such shares of Preferred Stock are
to be delivered outside of the United States or Canada) following the date of
the surrender of the Preferred Stock Certificates (or satisfaction of the
provisions of Section XIV.B, if applicable) and the original executed version of
the Notice of Conversion (the "Delivery Period"), issue and deliver to the
Holder (or at its direction) (x) that number of shares of Common Stock issuable
upon conversion of such shares of Preferred Stock being converted and (y) a
certificate representing the number of shares of Preferred Stock not being
converted, if any. The person or persons entitled to receive shares of Common
Stock issuable upon such conversion shall be treated for all purposes as the
record holder of such shares at the close of business on the Conversion Date.
D. Stamp, Documentary and Other Similar Taxes. The Company shall pay all
stamp, documentary, issuance and other similar taxes which may be imposed with
respect to the issuance and delivery of the shares of Common Stock pursuant to
conversion of the Preferred Stock; provided that the Company will not be
obligated to pay stamp, transfer or other taxes resulting from the issuance of
Common Stock to any person other than the registered holder of the Preferred
Stock.
E. No Fractional Shares. No fractional shares of Common Stock are to be
issued upon the conversion of Preferred Stock, but the Company shall pay a cash
adjustment in respect of any fractional share which would otherwise be issuable
in an amount equal to the same fraction of the Conversion Price of a share of
Common Stock (as determined for conversion of the Preferred Stock into whole
shares of Common Stock); provided that in the event that sufficient funds are
not legally available for the payment of such cash adjustment any fractional
shares of Common Stock shall be rounded up to the next whole number.
F. Conversion Disputes. In the case of any dispute with respect to a
conversion, the Company shall promptly issue such number of shares of Common
Stock as are not disputed in accordance with Sections IV.A and IV.C hereof. If
such dispute involves the calculation of the Conversion Price, the Company shall
submit the disputed calculations to a "Big Six" independent accounting firm
selected by the Company via facsimile within two (2) business days of receipt of
the Notice of Conversion. The accounting firm shall audit the calculations and
notify the Company and the Holder of the results no later than two (2) business
days from the date it receives the disputed calculations. The accounting firm's
calculation shall be deemed conclusive, absent manifest error. The Company shall
then issue the appropriate number of shares of Common Stock in accordance with
Sections IV.A and IV.C hereof.
G. Limitation on Conversions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set
forth herein, the conversion of shares of Preferred Stock shall be subject to
the following limitations (each of which limitations shall be applied
independently):
(i) Cap Amount. For so long as Common Stock is listed on the Nasdaq,
the American Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq Small Cap
Market, prior to Stockholder Approval (as herein defined), unless otherwise
permitted by the such market or exchange, in no event shall the total number of
shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Preferred Stock and
exercise of the Warrants (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement)
exceed the maximum number of shares of Common Stock that the Company can without
stockholder approval so issue pursuant to Nasdaq Rule 4460(i) (or any successor
rule) (the "Cap Amount"), which, as of the date of issuance of the Preferred
Stock, shall be 1,995,534 shares. The Cap Amount shall be allocated pro-rata to
the Holders as provided in Article XIV.C. In the event the Company is prohibited
from issuing shares of Common Stock as a result of the operation of this
subparagraph (i), the Company shall comply with Article VI.
(ii) Limitations Holdings. The Preferred Stock shall not be
convertible by a Holder to the extent (but only to the extent) that, if
converted by such Holder, the Holder would beneficially own in excess of 4.9%
(9.9% if the applicable box on the signature page of the Securities Purchase
Agreement for such Holder is marked) (the "Applicable Percentage") of the shares
of Common Stock. To the extent the foregoing limitation applies, the
determination of whether Preferred Stock shall be convertible (vis-a-vis other
securities owned by such Holder) and of which Preferred Stock shall be converted
shall be in the sole discretion of the Holder and submission of the Preferred
Stock for conversion shall be deemed to be the Holder's determination of whether
such Preferred Stock is convertible and of which Preferred Stock is convertible,
subject to such aggregate percentage limitation. No prior inability to convert
Preferred Stock pursuant to this Section shall have any effect on the
applicability of the provisions of this Section with respect to any subsequent
determination of convertibility. For the purposes of this Section, beneficial
ownership and all calculations, including without limitation, with respect to
calculations of percentage ownership shall be determined in accordance with
Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Regulation
13D-G thereunder. The provisions of this Section may be amended and/or
implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms of
this Section with the approval of the Board of Directors of the Company and the
Majority Holders: (i) with respect to any matter to cure any ambiguity herein,
to correct this subsection (or any portion thereof) which may be defective or
inconsistent with the intended Applicable Percentage beneficial ownership
limitation herein contained or to make changes or supplements necessary or
desirable to properly give effect to such Applicable Percentage limitation; and
(ii) with respect to any other matter, with the further consent of the holders
of majority of the then outstanding shares of Common Stock; the provisions of
this Section may be waived with the approval of the Majority Holders upon ninety
(90) days prior written notice from such Holders to the Company and all other
Holders. The limitations contained in this Section shall apply to a successor
Holder of Preferred Stock if, and to the extent, elected by such successor
Holder concurrently with its acquisition of such Preferred Stock, such election
to be promptly confirmed in writing to the Company (provided no transfer or
series of transfers to a successor Holder or Holders shall be used by a Holder
to evade the limitations contained herein).
H. Required Conversion at Maturity. Subject to the limitations set forth in
Section IV.G. and provided all shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion
of all outstanding shares of Preferred Stock are then (i) authorized and
reserved for issuance, (ii) registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Securities Act") for resale by all Holders of such shares of
Preferred Stock and (iii) eligible to be traded on either the Nasdaq, the Nasdaq
Small Cap Market, the New York Stock Exchange or the American Stock Exchange,
each share of Preferred Stock outstanding on the third anniversary of the
Closing Date (the "Maturity Date") (and any accrued and unpaid Conversion
Default Payments), automatically shall be converted into shares of Common Stock
on such date in accordance with the conversion formula set forth in Section IV.A
(the "Required Conversion at Maturity"). If a Required Conversion at Maturity
occurs, the Company and the Holders shall follow the applicable conversion
procedures set forth in this Article IV; provided, however, that a Notice of
Conversion shall be deemed to be delivered to the Company on the Maturity Date.
I. Electronic Transmission. In lieu of delivering physical certificates
representing the Common Stock issuable upon conversion, provided the Company's
transfer agent is participating in the Depository Trust Company ("DTC") Fast
Automated Securities Transfer program, upon request of a Holder who shall have
previously instructed such Holder's prime broker to confirm such request to the
Company's transfer agent, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable
efforts to cause its transfer agent to electronically transmit the Common Stock
issuable upon conversion to the Holder by crediting the account of Holder's
prime broker with DTC through its Deposit Withdrawal Agent Commission ("DWAC")
system.
V. RESERVATION OF AUTHORIZED SHARES OF COMMON STOCK
A. Reserved Amount. The Company shall have authorized and reserved and keep
available for issuance not less than 3,750,000 shares of Common Stock (the
"Reserved Amount") solely for the purpose of effecting the conversion of the
Preferred Stock and exercise of the warrants (the "Warrants"), in the form
attached to the Securities Purchase Agreement as Exhibit B, to acquire Common
Stock issued on the Closing Date pursuant to the terms of the Securities
Purchase Agreement. Subject to Section V.B and Article VI, the Company shall at
all times reserve and keep available out of its authorized but unissued shares
of Common Stock a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock to provide for the
full conversion of all outstanding Preferred Stock and issuance of the shares of
Common Stock in connection therewith and the full exercise of the Warrants and
issuance of the shares of Common Stock in connection therewith. The Reserved
Amount shall be allocated among the Holders as provided in Section XIV.C. The
Board of Directors of the Company shall, not later than sixty (60) days
following the date of Closing, solicit by proxy the authorization of a number of
shares of Common Stock sufficient to increase the Reserved Amount to two hundred
percent (200%) of the number of shares of Common Stock then issuable upon
conversion of the Preferred Stock and the exercise of the Warrants.
B. Increases to Reserved Amount. Without limiting any other provision of
this Article V, if the Reserved Amount for any three (3) consecutive trading
days (the last of such three (3) trading days being the "Authorization Trigger
Date") is less than one hundred seventy-five percent (175%) of the number of
shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock on such
trading days, without giving effect to the limitations set forth in Section
IV(G) hereof, the Company shall as soon as practicable notify the Holders of
such occurrence and shall as soon as practicable (and in any event in the case
of the initial authorization of additional shares of Common Stock, within the
period specified in Section VIII.A(viii)), take all necessary action (including,
if necessary, stockholder approval to authorize the issuance of additional
shares of Common Stock) to increase the Reserved Amount to two hundred percent
(200%) of the number of shares of Common Stock then issuable upon conversion of
the outstanding Preferred Stock.
VI. COMPLIANCE WITH CAP AMOUNT RESTRICTIONS
A. Share Authorization. The Board of Directors of the Company shall, not
later than 60 days following the date of the Closing, solicit by proxy the
authorization (the "Stockholder Approval") by the stockholders of the Company of
the issuance of shares of Common Stock upon conversion of shares of Preferred
Stock pursuant to the terms hereof in the aggregate in excess of twenty (20)
percent of the outstanding shares of Common Stock and to eliminate any
prohibitions under applicable law or the rules or regulations of any stock
exchange, interdealer quotation system or other self-regulatory organization
with jurisdiction over the Company or any of its securities on the Company's
ability to issue shares of Common Stock in excess of the Cap Amount and use its
best efforts to obtain the Stockholder Approval no later than 120 days following
the date of the Closing.
B. Obligation to Notify. If at any time after the date of issuance of the
Preferred Stock the then unissued portion of any Holder's Cap Amount becomes
less than one hundred seventy-five percent (175%) of the number of shares of
Common Stock then issuable upon conversion of such Holder's shares of Preferred
Stock without giving effect to the limitations set forth in Section IV(G) hereof
(a "Trading Market Trigger Event"), the Company shall notify the Holders of such
occurrence as soon as practicable.
VII. FAILURE TO SATISFY CONVERSIONS
A. Conversion Default Payments. If, at any time, (x) a Holder submits a
Notice of Conversion (or is deemed to submit such notice pursuant to Section
IV.H) and the Company fails for any reason (other than because such issuance
would exceed such Holder's allocated portion of the Reserved Amount or the Cap
Amount, for which failure the Holders shall have the remedies set forth in
Article VIII) to deliver, on or prior to the second Business Day following the
expiration of the Delivery Period for such conversion (said period of time being
the "Extended Delivery Period"), such number of freely tradeable shares of
Common Stock to which such Holder is entitled upon such conversion, or (y) the
Company provides notice (including by way of public announcement) to any Holder
at any time of its intention not to issue shares of Common Stock upon exercise
by any Holder of its conversion rights in accordance with the terms of this
Certificate of Designation (other than because such issuance would exceed such
Holder's allocated portion of the Reserved Amount or the Cap Amount) (each of
(x) and (y) being a "Conversion Default"), then the Company shall pay to the
affected Holder, in the case of a Conversion Default described in clause (x)
above, and to all Holders, in the case of a Conversion Default described in
clause (y) above, an amount equal to 1% of the Face Amount of the Preferred
Stock with respect to which the Conversion Default exists (which amount shall be
deemed to be the aggregate Face Amount of all outstanding Preferred Stock in the
case of a Conversion Default described in clause (y) above) for each day such
Conversion Default exists. The Company shall promptly provide each Holder with
notice of the occurrence of a Conversion Default with respect to any of the
other Holders.
The payments to which a Holder shall be entitled pursuant to this Section
VII.A are referred to herein as "Conversion Default Payments." A Holder may
elect to receive accrued Conversion Default Payments in cash or to convert all
or any portion of such accrued Conversion Default Payments, at any time, into
Common Stock at the lowest Conversion Price in effect during the period
beginning on the date of the Conversion Default through the Cure Date for such
Conversion Default. In the event a Holder elects to receive any Conversion
Default Payments in cash, it shall so notify the Company in writing. Such
payment shall be made in accordance with and be subject to the provisions of
Section XIV.E. In the event a Holder elects to convert all or any portion of the
Conversion Default Payments, the Holder shall indicate on a Notice of Conversion
such portion of the Conversion Default Payments which such Holder elects to so
convert and such conversion shall otherwise be effected in accordance with the
provisions of Article IV. "Cure Date" means (i) with respect to a Conversion
Default described in clause (x) of its definition, the date the Company effects
the conversion of the portion of the Preferred Stock submitted for conversion
and (ii) with respect to a Conversion Default described in clause (y) of its
definition, the date the Company undertakes in writing to issue Common Stock in
satisfaction of all conversions of Preferred Stock in accordance with the terms
of this Certificate of Designation.
B. Adjustment to Conversion Price. If a Holder has not received
certificates for all shares of Common Stock prior to the tenth (10th) day after
the expiration of the Extended Delivery Period with respect to a conversion of
Preferred Stock for any reason (other than because such issuance would exceed
such Holder's allocated portion of the Reserved Amount or the Cap Amount, for
which failure the Holders shall have the remedies set forth in Article VIII),
then the Fixed Conversion Price in respect of any shares of Preferred Stock held
by such Holder shall thereafter be the lesser of (i) the Fixed Conversion Price
on the Conversion Date specified in the Notice of Conversion which resulted in
the Conversion Default and (ii) the lowest Conversion Price in effect during the
period beginning on, and including, such Conversion Date through and including
the Cure Date. If there shall occur a Conversion Default of the type described
in clause (y) of Section VII.A, then the Fixed Conversion Price with respect to
any conversion thereafter shall be the lowest Conversion Price in effect at any
time during the period beginning on, and including, the date of the occurrence
of such Conversion Default through and including the Cure Date. The Fixed
Conversion Price shall thereafter be subject to further adjustment for any
events described in Section XI.
C. Buy-In Cure. Unless a Conversion Failure described in clause (y) of
Section VII.A has occurred, if (i) the Company fails for any reason to deliver
during the Delivery Period shares of Common Stock to a Holder upon a conversion
of shares of Preferred Stock in accordance with the terms of this Certificate of
Designation and (ii) after the applicable Delivery Period with respect to such
conversion, such Holder purchases (in an open market transaction or otherwise)
shares of Common Stock to make delivery in satisfaction of a sale by such Holder
of the shares of Common Stock (the "Sold Shares") which such Holder was entitled
to upon such conversion (a "Buy-In"), the Company shall pay such Holder (in
addition to any other remedies available to the Holder) the amount by which (x)
such Holder's total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for
the shares of Common Stock so purchased exceeds (y) the net proceeds received by
such Holder from the sale of the Sold Shares; provided, that such purchase
cannot be effected after the applicable Cure Date, if any, and both such
purchase and sale must be effected in a commercially reasonable manner under the
circumstances then facing the Holder to the extent such purchase and sale are
under the control of such Holder. For example, if a Holder purchases shares of
Common Stock having a total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with
respect to shares of Common Stock it sold for $10,000, the Company will be
required to pay the Holder $1,000. A Holder shall provide the Company written
notification indicating any amounts payable to such Holder pursuant to this
Section VII.C. The Company shall make any payments required pursuant to this
Section VII.C in accordance with and subject to the provisions of Section XIV.E.
VIII. REDEMPTION DUE TO CERTAIN EVENTS
A. Redemption Events. A "Redemption Event" means any one of the following
(after expiration of the applicable cure period in the case of the events
described in clauses (iv) and (vii)):
(i) the Common Stock (including any of the shares of Common Stock
issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock or upon exercise of the Warrants
or required from time to time to be reserved pursuant to this Certificate of
Designation or the Warrants) is suspended from trading on, or is not listed (and
authorized) for trading on, the Nasdaq, the Nasdaq Small Cap Market, the
American Stock Exchange, or the New York Stock Exchange for an aggregate of ten
(10) trading days in any twelve (12) month period;
(ii) the Company fails, and any such failure continues uncured for
seven (7) business days after the Company has been notified thereof in writing
by the Holder, to remove any restrictive legend on any certificate for any
shares of Common Stock issued to the Holders of Preferred Stock upon conversion
of the Preferred Stock or upon exercise of the Warrants as and when required by
this Certificate of Designation, the Warrants, the Securities Purchase
Agreement, or the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of August 29, 1997, by
and among the Company and the other signatories thereto (the "Registration
Rights Agreement");
(iii) the Company provides notice to any Holder, including by way of
public announcement, at any time, of its intention not to issue shares of Common
Stock to any Holder upon conversion in accordance with the terms of this
Certificate of Designation; except to the extent that the Company has provided
the Holders with prior notice that it intends not to effect a conversion or
exercise because such issuance would cause the Cap Amount or the Reserved Amount
to be exceeded, in which event the Holders shall have the rights and remedies
pursuant to clauses (viii) and (ix) of this Section VIII(A) and elsewhere in
this Certificate of Designation;
(iv) the Company breaches any material covenant or other material term
or condition of this Certificate of Designation, the Warrants, the Securities
Purchase Agreement or the Registration Rights Agreement, the breach of which
would have a material adverse effect on the Company or the rights of the Holder
with respect to any of the shares of Preferred Stock or the shares of Common
Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock or upon exercise of the
Warrants, and such breach continues for a period of ten (10) business days after
written notice thereof to the Company; provided, however, that if such breach
may be cured by the Company and the Company is using its best efforts to cure
such breach it shall not constitute a Redemption Event until such breach
continues for a period of thirty (30) days after written notice thereof to the
Company;
(v) any representation or warranty of the Company made in any
agreement, statement or certificate given in writing in connection with the
issuance of the Preferred Stock (including, without limitation, the Warrants,
the Securities Purchase Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement), shall
be false or misleading in any material respect when made and the breach of which
would have a material adverse effect on the Company or the rights of the Holder
with respect to any of the shares of Preferred Stock or the shares of Common
Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock or upon exercise of the
Warrants;
(vi) the Company fails: (x) to cause the registration statement
required pursuant to Section 2.1 of the Registration Rights Agreement to be
declared effective on or before the one hundred fiftieth (150th) day following
Closing in a manner which would allow the sale of all Registrable Securities (as
defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) to the fullest extent permitted
under Section 2.1 of the Registration Rights Agreement; or (y) to cause the
holders of Preferred Stock to be able to utilize such registration statement for
the resale of all of their Registrable Securities (as defined in the
Registration Rights Agreement), unless the Company is using its best efforts to
remedy such inability to utilize such registration statement, subject to the
Company's Board of Directors having determined in their good faith business
judgment by resolution that the continued effectiveness of such registration
statement would have a material adverse effect on the Company's ability to
consummate a financing, acquisition, merger or joint venture, the failure of
which to consummate would have a material adverse effect on the Company's
financial condition, results of operations or future prospects; provided that in
no event shall such failure exist for a total of more than forty-five (45) days
in any fifteen (15) month period.
(vii) the Company fails, and such failure continues uncured for five
(5) business days after the Company has been notified thereof in writing by the
Holder, for any reason to issue shares of Common Stock within ten (10) Business
Days after the expiration of the Extended Delivery Period with respect to any
conversion of Preferred Stock; except to the extent that the Company has
provided the Holders with prior notice that it intends not to effect a
conversion or exercise because such issuance would cause the Cap Amount or the
Reserved Amount to be exceeded, in which event the Holders shall have the rights
and remedies provided in clauses (viii) and (ix) of this Section VIII(A) and
elsewhere in this Certificate of Designation;
(viii) the Company fails to increase the Reserved Amount within one
hundred twenty (120) days following Closing and thereafter an Authorization
Trigger Date occurs;
(ix) the Company fails to eliminate the Cap Amount prohibitions or
other prohibitions described in Section VI.A within one hundred twenty (120)
days following the Closing and thereafter a Trading Market Trigger Event occurs;
(x) the Company fails to obtain the effectiveness of any amendment to
an existing registration statements within thirty (30) days or of any new
registration statement within ten (10) days after the shareholders meeting
required pursuant to Section V.A hereof and within thirty (30) days following
any other Registration Trigger Date (as defined in the Registration Rights
Agreement) as required by Section 3.2 of the Registration Rights Agreement; or
(xi) if there is a default under any agreement between Company or any
of its affiliates and Foothill Capital Corporation ("Foothill") which enables in
the acceleration of the maturity of the debt owed by Company to Foothill (or if
such debt is not repaid by Company to Foothill at Maturity).
B. Redemption By Holder. Upon the occurrence of a Redemption Event, each
Holder shall have the right to elect at any time and from time to time by
delivery of a Redemption Notice (as defined herein) to the Company while such
Redemption Event continues, to require the Company to purchase for cash for an
amount per share equal to the Redemption Amount (as defined herein), (i) in the
case of a Redemption Event described in clause (i) through (vii), any or all of
the then outstanding shares of Preferred Stock held by such Holder, (ii) in the
case of a Redemption Event described in clause (viii), a portion of the Holder's
Preferred Stock such that, after giving effect to such purchase, the Holder's
allocated portion of the Reserved Amount exceeds two hundred percent (200%) of
the total number of Common Stock issuable to such Holder upon conversion of its
Preferred Stock and exercise of its Warrants, (iii) in the case of a Redemption
Event described in clause (ix), a portion of the Holder's Preferred Stock such
that, after giving effect to such purchase, the Holder's allocated portion of
the Cap Amount exceeds two hundred percent (200%) of the total number of Common
Stock issuable to such Holder upon conversion of its Preferred Stock and
exercise of its Warrants and (iv) in the case of a Redemption Event described in
clause (x), a portion of the Holder's Preferred Stock such that, after giving
effect to such purchase, the Holder's allocated portion of the Registrable
Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) exceeds two hundred
percent (200%) of the total number of Common Stock issuable to such Holder upon
conversion of its Preferred Stock and exercise of its Warrants.
C. Definition of Redemption Amount. The "Redemption Amount" with respect to
a share of Preferred Stock means an amount equal to the greater of (i) 1.25
times the aggregate Face Amount of the Preferred Stock for which a demand is
being made and (ii) an amount determined by the following formula:
Face Amount
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( C P ) X M
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where:
"CP" means the Conversion Price in effect on the date of the Redemption
Notice; and
"M" means the highest closing bid price of the Company's Common Stock
during the period beginning on the date ten (10) trading days before the date of
the Redemption Notice and ending on the date five (5) trading days after the
date of the Redemption Notice, as reported on the principal securities exchange
or trading market on which the Common Stock is traded.
D. Redemption Defaults. If the Company fails to pay any Holder the
Redemption Amount with respect to any share of Preferred Stock within five (5)
business days of its receipt of a notice requiring such redemption (a
"Redemption Notice"), then the Holder delivering such Redemption Notice (i)
shall be entitled to interest on the Redemption Amount at a per annum rate equal
to the lower of (x) the sum of prime rate published from time to time by the
Wall Street Journal plus five percent (5%) and (y) the highest interest rate
permitted by applicable law from the date of the Redemption Notice until the
date of redemption hereunder, and (ii) shall have the right, at any time and
from time to time, to require the Company, upon written notice, to immediately
convert (in accordance with the terms of Section IV.A) all or any portion of the
Redemption Amount, plus interest as aforesaid, into shares of Common Stock at a
Conversion Price equal to the lower of (x) the Conversion Price in effect on the
date of the Redemption Notice and (y) the Conversion Price in effect on the date
that such Holder receives shares of Common Stock with respect to such Redemption
Amount. In the event the Company is not able to redeem all of the shares of
Preferred Stock subject to Redemption Notices, the Company shall redeem shares
of Preferred Stock from each Holder pro rata, based on the total number of
shares of Preferred Stock included by such Holder in the Redemption Notice
relative to the total number of shares of Preferred Stock in all of the
Redemption Notices. The interest provided for in this Section VIII.D shall not
be duplicative of the 1% per day payment provided for pursuant to Section VII.A
of this Certificate of Designation.
E. Additional Cap Amount Remedies. Upon a Redemption Event described in
clause (ix), any Holder who is so prohibited from converting its Preferred Stock
may elect one or both of the following: (i) require, with the consent of the
Majority Holders (including any shares of Preferred Stock held by the requesting
Holder), the Company to terminate the listing of its Common Stock on Nasdaq and
to cause its Common Stock to be listed on the Nasdaq Small Cap Market or on the
over-the-counter electronic bulletin board, at the option of the requesting
Holder; and (ii) require the Company to issue shares of Common Stock in
accordance with such holder's Notice of Conversion at a conversion price equal
to the Conversion Price in effect on the date of the Holder's written notice to
the Company of its election to receive shares of Common Stock pursuant to this
subparagraph (ii).
F. Partial Redemption Upon Sale or Licensing of Patent Rights.
(i) From time to time following the sale or license by the Company or
any subsidiary of the Company of patent rights pursuant to Section 12 of that
certain Patent Security Agreement dated as of August 29, 1997, and so long as no
Redemption Event shall have occurred and the Company is not in material
violation of any of its obligations under the Securities Purchase Agreement, the
Company shall have the right to redeem (a "Voluntary Redemption") Preferred
Stock having a Face Amount of up to $11,200,000 for an amount in cash paid by
wire transfer of immediately available funds equal to the Face Amount plus the
applicable Voluntary Redemption Premium (as defined below) of the Preferred
Stock so redeemed.
(ii) Any Voluntary Redemption pursuant to this Section VIII.F shall be
made ratably among Holders in proportion to the Face Amount of Preferred Stock
then outstanding and held by such Holders.
(iii) The "Voluntary Redemption Premium" shall be: (x) if the
aggregate Face Amount of Preferred Stock redeemed pursuant to this Section
VIII.F is equal to or less than $6,400,000, (A) with respect to Voluntary
Redemptions for which payment is made on or prior to October 28, 1997, 4.0%; (B)
with respect to Voluntary Redemptions for which payment is made after October
28, 1997 and on or prior to November 27, 1997, 6.75%; (C) with respect to
Voluntary Redemptions for which payment is made after November 27, 1997, and on
or prior to December 27, 1997, 10.0%; and (D) with respect to Voluntary
Redemptions for which payment is made after December 27, 1997 and on or prior to
January 26, 1998, 14.0%; and (y) if the aggregate Face Amount of Preferred Stock
redeemed pursuant to this Section VIII.F is greater than $6,400,000, (A) with
respect to Voluntary Redemptions for which payment is made on or prior to
September 28, 1997, 15.0%; (B) with respect to Voluntary Redemptions for which
payment is made after September 28, 1997 and on or prior to October 28, 1997,
20.0%; and (C) with respect to Voluntary Redemptions for which payment is made
after October 28, 1997 and on or prior to November 27, 1997, 30.0%; provided,
that if following one or more Voluntary Redemptions with respect to which a
Voluntary Redemption Premium determined pursuant to clause (x) above is paid, a
Voluntary Redemption is made which would cause the aggregate Face Amount of
Preferred Stock redeemed pursuant to this Section VIII.F to exceed $6,400,000,
then the Voluntary Redemption Premium for all of such prior Voluntary
Redemptions shall be recalculated pursuant to clause (y) above, and the
difference between the Voluntary Redemption Premium determined pursuant to
clause (y) with respect to each such previous Voluntary Redemption and the
Voluntary Redemption Premium paid as determined pursuant to clause (x) with
respect to such previous Voluntary Redemption shall be paid as additional
Voluntary Redemption Premium at the time of the Voluntary Redemption which
triggers the application of this provision.
(iv) No Voluntary Redemption may be made after November 27, 1997 if
the aggregate Face Amount of Preferred Stock redeemed pursuant to this Section
VIII.F would thereby be greater than $6,400,000. No Voluntary Redemption may be
made after January 26, 1998.
(v) The Company shall effect a Voluntary Redemption under this Section
VIII.F by giving prior written notice (the "Voluntary Redemption Notice"), which
notice may only be delivered on a business day on or after August 29, 1997 and
on or prior to January 12, 1998. The Voluntary Redemption Notice shall state the
Face Amount of Preferred Stock to be redeemed and the date on which the
Voluntary Redemption is to occur (which shall not be less than ten (10) business
days after the date of delivery of the Voluntary Redemption Notice) and shall be
delivered by the Company to the Holders at the address of such Holder appearing
on the register of the Company for the Preferred Stock.
Within seven (7) business days after the date of delivery of the
Voluntary Redemption Notice, each Holder shall provide the Company with
instructions as to the account to which payments associated with such Voluntary
Redemption should be deposited. On the date of the Voluntary Redemption,
provided for in the relevant Voluntary Redemption Notice, (x) the Company will
deliver the redemption amount via wire transfer to the account designated by the
Holders, (y) the Holders will deliver the certificates relating to that number
of shares of Preferred Stock being redeemed, duly executed for transfer or
accompanied by executed stock powers, in either case, transferring that number
of shares to be redeemed. Within five (5) business days after such Voluntary
Redemption the Company will deliver to the Holders new certificates representing
that number of shares held by the Holders after such Voluntary Redemption. Upon
the occurrence of the wire transfer (or, in the absence of a Holder designating
an account to which funds should be transferred, delivery of a certified check
in the amount due such Holder in connection with such Voluntary Redemption to
the address of such Holder appearing on the register of the Company for the
Preferred Stock), that number of shares to be redeemed pursuant to such
Voluntary Redemption as represented by the previously issued certificates will
be deemed no longer outstanding.
G. Capital Impairment. In the event that Section 160 of the Delaware
General Corporation Law ("GCL"), would be violated by the redemption of any
shares of Preferred Stock that are otherwise subject to redemption pursuant to
this Article VIII, the Company: (i) will redeem the greatest number of shares of
Preferred Stock possible without violation of said Section; (ii) the Company
thereafter shall use its best efforts to take all necessary steps permitted
pursuant to this Certificate of Designation and the agreements entered into in
connection with the issuance of Preferred Stock pursuant hereto in order to
remedy its capital structure in order to allow further redemptions without
violation of said Section; and (iii) from time to time thereafter as promptly as
possible the Company shall redeem shares of Preferred Stock at the request of
the Holders to the greatest extent possible without causing a violation of
Section 160 of the GCL. Any Holder shall have the right, at any time and from
time to time, to require the Company, upon written notice, to immediately
convert (in accordance with the terms of Section IV.A) all or any portion of the
Redemption Amount plus any interest or other charges which have accrued into
shares of Common Stock at a Conversion Price equal to the lowest Conversion
Price in effect during the period beginning on the date of the Redemption Notice
and ending on the Conversion Date with respect to the Conversion of such
Redemption Amount. In the event the Company is not able to redeem all the shares
of the stock subject to Redemption Notices, the Company shall redeem shares of
Preferred Stock from each Holder pro rata, based on the total number of shares
of Preferred Stock included by such Holder in the Redemption Notice relative to
the total number of Preferred Stock in all Redemption Notices. In addition, so
long as the Company is prevented from redeeming shares of Preferred Stock
pursuant to this Section VIII.G, the Company (i) will operate only in the
ordinary course of business and will not incur any expenditures outside of the
ordinary course of business, and (ii) will not enter into any acquisition,
merger or joint venture transactions.
IX. RANK; PARTICIPATION
A. Rank. All shares of the Preferred Stock shall rank (i) prior to the
Common Stock; (ii) prior to any class or series of capital stock of the Company
hereafter created (unless, with the consent of the Holders obtained in
accordance with Article XIII hereof, such class or series of capital stock
specifically, by its terms, ranks senior to or pari passu with the Preferred
Stock) (collectively, with the Common Stock, "Junior Securities"); (iii) pari
passu with any class or series of capital stock of the Company hereafter created
(with the consent of the Holders obtained in accordance with Article XIII
hereof) specifically ranking, by its terms, on parity with the Preferred Stock
(the "Pari Passu Securities"); and (iv) junior to any class or series of capital
stock of the Company hereafter created (with the consent of the Holders obtained
in accordance with Article XIII hereof) specifically ranking, by its terms,
senior to the Preferred Stock (the "Senior Securities"), in each case as to
distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the
Company, whether voluntary or involuntary.
B. Participation. Subject to the rights of the holders (if any) of Pari
Passu Securities and Senior Securities, the Holders shall, as such Holders, be
entitled to such dividends paid and distributions made to the holders of Common
Stock to the same extent as if such Holders had converted their shares of
Preferred Stock into Common Stock (without regard to any limitations on
conversion herein or elsewhere contained) and had been issued such Common Stock
on the day before the record date for said dividend or distribution. Payments
under the preceding sentence shall be made concurrently with the dividend or
distribution to the holders of Common Stock.
X. LIQUIDATION PREFERENCE
A. Liquidation of the Company. If the Company shall commence a voluntary
case under the U.S. Federal bankruptcy laws or any other applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency or similar law, or consent to the entry of an order for relief in an
involuntary case under any law or to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the
Company or of any substantial part of its property, or make an assignment for
the benefit of its creditors, or admit in writing its inability to pay its debts
generally as they become due, or if a decree or order for relief in respect of
the Company shall be entered by a court having jurisdiction in the premises in
an involuntary case under the U.S. Federal bankruptcy laws or any other
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law resulting in the appointment of
a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator (or other
similar official) of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or
ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and any such decree or
order shall be unstayed and in effect for a period of sixty (60) consecutive
days and, on account of any such event, the Company shall liquidate, dissolve or
wind up, or if the Company shall otherwise liquidate, dissolve or wind up (a
"Liquidation Event"), no distribution shall be made to the Holders of any shares
of capital stock of the Company (other than Senior Securities) upon liquidation,
dissolution or winding up unless prior thereto the Holders shall have received
the Liquidation Preference (as herein defined) with respect to each share. If,
upon the occurrence of a Liquidation Event, the assets and funds available for
distribution among the Holders and holders of Pari Passu Securities shall be
insufficient to permit the payment to such Holders of the preferential amounts
payable thereon, then the entire assets and funds of the Company legally
available for distribution to the Preferred Stock and the Pari Passu Securities
shall be distributed ratably among such shares in proportion to the ratio that
the Liquidation Preference payable on each such share bears to the aggregate
Liquidation Preference payable on all such shares.
B. Certain Acts Not a Liquidation. The purchase or redemption by the
Company of stock of any class, in any manner permitted by law, shall not, for
the purposes hereof, be regarded as a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of
the Company. Neither the consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any
other entity nor the sale or transfer by the Company of less than substantially
all of its assets shall, for the purposes hereof, be deemed to be a liquidation,
dissolution or winding up of the Company.
C. Definition of Liquidation Preference. The "Liquidation Preference" with
respect to a share of Preferred Stock means an amount equal to the Face Amount
thereof plus any other amounts that may be due from the Company with respect
thereto through the date of final distribution. The Liquidation Preference with
respect to any Pari Passu Securities shall be as set forth in the Certificate of
Designation filed in respect thereof.
XI. ADJUSTMENTS TO THE CONVERSION PRICE; CERTAIN PROTECTIONS
The Conversion Price shall be subject to adjustment from time to time as
follows:
A. Stock Splits, Stock Dividends, Etc. If at any time on or after the
Closing Date, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock is increased by a
stock split, stock dividend, combination, reclassification or other similar
event, the Fixed Conversion Price shall be proportionately reduced, or if the
number of outstanding shares of Common Stock is decreased by a reverse stock
split, combination or reclassification of shares, or other similar event, the
Fixed Conversion Price shall be proportionately increased. In such event, the
Company shall notify the Company's transfer agent of such change on or before
the effective date thereof.
B. Certain Public Announcements. In the event that (i) the Company makes a
public announcement that it intends to consolidate or merge with any other
entity (other than a merger in which the Company is the surviving or continuing
entity and its capital stock is unchanged and there is no distribution thereof))
or to sell or transfer all or substantially all of the assets of the Company or
(ii) any person, group or entity (including the Company) publicly announces a
tender offer to purchase 50% or more of the Common Stock (the date of the
announcement referred to in clause (i) or (ii) of this paragraph is hereinafter
referred to as the "Announcement Date"), then the Conversion Price shall,
effective upon the Announcement Date and continuing through the consummation of
the proposed tender offer or transaction or the Abandonment Date (as defined
below), be equal to the lesser of (x) the Conversion Price calculated as
provided in Article IV or (y) the Conversion Price which would have been
applicable for Conversion occurring on the Announcement Date. From and after the
Abandonment Date, as the case may be, the Conversion Price shall be determined
as set forth in Article IV. The "Abandonment Date" means with respect to any
proposed transaction or tender offer for which a public announcement as
contemplated by this paragraph has been made, the date which is seven trading
days after the date upon which the Company (in the case of clause (i) above or
the person, group or entity (in the case of clause (ii) above) publicly
announces the termination or abandonment of the proposed transaction or tender
offer which cause this paragraph to become operative, or such offer expires in
accordance with its terms.
C. Major Transactions. If the Company shall consolidate with or merge into
any corporation or reclassify its outstanding shares of Common Stock (other than
by way of subdivision or reduction of such shares) (each a "Major Transaction"),
then each Holder shall thereafter be entitled to receive consideration, in
exchange for each share of Preferred Stock held by it, equal to the greater of,
as determined in the sole discretion of such Holder: (i) the number of shares of
stock or securities or property of the Company, or of the entity resulting from
such consolidation or merger (the "Major Transaction Consideration"), to which a
Holder of the number of shares of Common Stock delivered upon conversion of such
shares of Preferred Stock would have been entitled upon such Major Transaction
had the Holder exercised its right of conversion (without regard to any
limitations on conversion herein contained) on the trading date immediately
preceding the public announcement of the transaction resulting in such Major
Transaction and had such Common Stock been issued and outstanding and had such
Holder been the holder of record of such Common Stock at the time of such Major
Transaction, and the Company shall make lawful provision therefor as a part of
such consolidation, merger or reclassification; and (ii) 125% of the Face Amount
of such shares of Preferred Stock in cash. No sooner than ten (10) days nor
later than five (5) days prior to the consummation of the Major Transaction, but
not prior to the public announcement of such Major Transaction, the Company
shall deliver written notice ("Notice of Major Transaction") to each Holder,
which Notice of Major Transaction shall be deemed to have been delivered one (1)
business day after the Company's sending such notice by telecopy (provided that
the Company sends a confirming copy of such notice on the same day by overnight
courier) of such Notice of Major Transaction. Such Notice of Major Transaction
shall indicate the amount and type of the Major Transaction Consideration which
such Holder would receive under clause (i) of this Section XI.B If the Major
Transaction Consideration does not consist entirely of United States dollars,
such Holder may elect to receive United States dollars in an amount equal to the
value, determined by a Big-6 accounting firm selected by the Company that is
reasonably acceptable to Holders of the Major Transaction Consideration in lieu
of the Major Transaction Consideration by delivering notice of such election to
the Company within five (5) days of the Holder's receipt of the Notice of Major
Transaction.
D. Adjustment Due to Distribution. If at any time after the Closing Date,
the Company shall declare or make any distribution of its assets (or rights to
acquire its assets) to holders of Common Stock as a partial liquidating
dividend, by way of return of capital or otherwise (including any dividend or
distribution to the Company's stockholders in cash or shares (or rights to
acquire shares) of capital stock of a subsidiary (i.e. a spin-off)) (a
"Distribution"), then the Fixed Conversion Price shall be equitably adjusted to
take account of such distribution.
E. Issuance of Other Securities With Variable Conversion Price. If, at any
time after the Closing Date the Company shall issue any securities which are
convertible into or exchangeable for Common Stock ("Convertible Securities") at
a conversion or exchange rate based on a discount from the market price of the
Common Stock at the time of conversion or exercise, then the Variable Conversion
Price in respect of any conversion of Preferred Stock after such issuance shall
be calculated utilizing the greatest percentage discount applicable to any such
Convertible Securities.
F. Purchase Rights. If at any time after the Closing Date, the Company
issues any Convertible Securities or rights to purchase stock, warrants,
securities or other property (the "Purchase Rights") pro rata to the record
holders of any class of Common Stock, then the Holders will be entitled to
acquire, upon the terms applicable to such Purchase Rights, the aggregate
Purchase Rights which such Holder could have acquired if such Holder had held
the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon complete conversion of the
Preferred Stock (without regard to any limitations on conversion or exercise
herein or elsewhere contained) immediately before the date on which a record is
taken for the grant, issuance or sale of such Purchase Rights, or, if no such
record is taken, the date as of which the record holders of Common Stock are to
be determined for the grant, issue or sale of such Purchase Rights.
G. Notice of Adjustments. Upon the occurrence of each adjustment or
readjustment of the Conversion Price pursuant to this Article XI, the Company,
at its expense, shall promptly compute such adjustment or readjustment and
prepare and furnish to each Holder a certificate setting forth such adjustment
or readjustment and showing in detail the facts upon which such adjustment or
readjustment is based. The Company shall, upon the written request at any time
of any Holder, furnish to such Holder a like certificate setting forth (i) such
adjustment or readjustment, (ii) the Conversion Price at the time in effect and
(iii) the number of shares of Common Stock and the amount, if any, of other
securities or property which at the time would be received upon conversion of a
share of Preferred Stock.
XII. VOTING RIGHTS
The holders of Preferred Stock shall have no voting power whatsoever,
except as otherwise provided by the Delaware General Corporation Law (the
"General Corporation Law"), in this Article XII and in Article XIII below.
Notwithstanding the above, the Company shall provide each Holder with prior
notification of any meeting of the stockholders (and copies of proxy materials
and all other information sent to stockholders). If the Company takes a record
of its stockholders for the purpose of determining stockholders entitled to (a)
receive payment of any dividend or other distribution, any right to subscribe
for, purchase or otherwise acquire (including by way of merger, consolidation or
recapitalization) any share of any class or any other securities or property, or
to receive any other right, or (b) to vote in connection with any proposed sale,
lease or conveyance of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, or
any proposed merger, consolidation, liquidation, dissolution or winding up of
the Company, the Company shall mail a notice to each Holder, at least twenty
(20) days prior to the record date specified therein (or thirty (30) days prior
to the consummation of the transaction or event, whichever is earlier, but in no
event earlier than public announcement of such proposed transaction), of the
date on which any such record is to be taken for the purpose of such vote,
dividend, distribution, right or other event, and a brief statement regarding
the amount and character of such vote, dividend, distribution, right or other
event to the extent known at such time.
To the extent that under the General Corporation Law the vote of the
holders of the Preferred Stock, voting separately as a class or series, as
applicable, is required to authorize a given action of the Company, the
affirmative vote or consent of the Holders of at least a majority of the shares
of the Preferred Stock represented at a duly held meeting at which a quorum is
present or by written consent of the Majority Holders (except as otherwise may
be required under the General Corporation Law) shall constitute the approval of
such action by the class. To the extent that under the General Corporation Law
Holders are entitled to vote on a matter with holders of Common Stock, voting
together as one class, each share of Preferred Stock shall be entitled to a
number of votes equal to the number of shares of Common Stock into which it is
then convertible using the record date for the taking of such vote of
stockholders as the date as of which the Conversion Price is to be calculated
for this purpose.
XIII. PROTECTION PROVISIONS
So long as any shares of Preferred Stock are outstanding, the Company shall
not, without first obtaining the approval of the Majority Holders: (a) alter or
change the rights, preferences or privileges of the Preferred Stock; (b) alter
or change the rights, preferences or privileges of any capital stock of the
Company so as to affect adversely the Preferred Stock; (c) create any Senior
Securities; (d) create any Pari Passu Securities; (e) increase the authorized
number of shares of Preferred Stock; (f) redeem, or declare or pay any cash
dividend or distribution in excess of __% per annum on, any Junior Securities;
or (g) do any act or thing not authorized or contemplated by this Certificate of
Designation which would result in any taxation with respect to the Preferred
Stock under Section 305 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any
comparable provision of the Internal Revenue Code as hereafter from time to time
amended, (or otherwise suffer to exist any such taxation as a result thereof).
If the Majority Holders agree to allow the Company to alter or change the
rights, preferences or privileges of the shares of Preferred Stock pursuant to
subsection (a) above, then the Company shall deliver notice of such approved
change to the Holders that did not agree to such alteration or change (the
"Dissenting Holders") and the Dissenting Holders shall have the right, for a
period of thirty (30) days after the date such notice was given by the Company,
to convert pursuant to the terms of this Certificate of Designation as they
existed prior to such alteration or change or to continue to hold their shares
of Preferred Stock.
XIV. MISCELLANEOUS
A. Cancellation of Preferred Stock. If any shares of Preferred Stock are
converted pursuant to Article IV, the shares so converted shall be canceled,
shall return to the status of authorized but unissued preferred stock of no
designated series, and shall not be issuable by the Company as Preferred Stock.
B. Lost or Stolen Certificates. Upon receipt by the Company of (i) evidence
of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of any Preferred Stock
Certificate(s) and (ii) (y) in the case of loss, theft or destruction, of
indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Company, or (z) in the case of
mutilation, upon surrender and cancellation of the Preferred Stock
Certificate(s), the Company shall execute and deliver new Preferred Stock
Certificate(s) of like tenor and date. However, the Company shall not be
obligated to reissue such lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated Preferred Stock
Certificate(s) if the Holder contemporaneously requests the Company to convert
such Preferred Stock.
C. Allocation of Cap Amount and Reserved Amount. The initial Cap Amount and
Reserved Amount shall be allocated among the Holders in the same proportion as
the number of shares of Preferred Stock initially held by such Holder bears to
the aggregate number of outstanding shares of Preferred Stock. Each increase to
the Cap Amount or Reserved Amount shall be allocated pro rata among the Holders
based on the number of shares of Preferred Stock held by each Holder at the time
of the increase in the Cap Amount or Reserved Amount, as the case may be. In the
event a Holder shall sell or otherwise transfer any of such Holder's shares of
Preferred Stock, each transferee shall be allocated a pro rata portion of such
transferor's Cap Amount and Reserved Amount. Any portion of the Cap Amount or
Reserved Amount which remains allocated to any person or entity which does not
hold any Preferred Stock shall be allocated among the remaining Holders, pro
rata based on the number of shares of Preferred Stock then held by such Holders.
D. Statements of Available Shares. Upon request, the Company shall deliver
to each Holder a written report notifying the Holders of any occurrence which
prohibits the Company from issuing Common Stock upon such conversion. The report
shall also specify (i) the total number of shares of Preferred Stock outstanding
as of the date of the request, (ii) the total number of shares of Common Stock
issued upon all conversions of Preferred Stock through the date of the request,
(iii) the total number of shares of Common Stock which are reserved for issuance
upon conversion of the Preferred Stock as of the date of the request, and (iv)
the total number of shares of Common Stock which may thereafter be issued by the
Company upon conversion of the Preferred Stock before the Company would exceed
the Cap Amount and Reserved Amount. The Company shall provide, within fifteen
(15) days after delivery to the Company of a written request by any Holder, all
of the information enumerated in clauses (i) - (iv) of this Section XIV.D.
E. Payment of Cash; Defaults. Whenever the Company is required to make any
cash payment to a Holder under this Certificate of Designation (as a Conversion
Default Payment, Redemption Amount or otherwise), such cash payment shall be
made to the Holder by the method (by certified or cashier's check or wire
transfer of immediately available funds) elected by such Holder. If such payment
is not delivered when due such Holder shall thereafter be entitled to interest
on the unpaid amount until such amount is paid in full to the Holder at a per
annum rate equal to the lower of (x) the sum of prime rate published from time
to time by the Wall Street Journal plus five percent (5%) and (y) the highest
interest rate permitted by applicable law. Payment of interest under this
Section XIV.E shall not be duplicative of the interest provided for in clause
(i) of Section VIII.D or the 1% per day payment provided for pursuant to Section
VII.A of this Certificate of Designation.
F. Remedies, Characterizations, Other Obligations, Breaches and Injunctive
Relief. The remedies provided in this Certificate of Designation shall be
cumulative and in addition to all other remedies available under this
Certificate of Designation, at law or in equity (including a decree of specific
performance and/or other injunctive relief), no remedy contained herein shall be
deemed a waiver of compliance with the provisions giving rise to such remedy and
nothing herein shall limit a Holder's right to pursue actual damages for any
failure by the Company to comply with the terms of this Certificate of
Designation. Company covenants to each Holder that there shall be no
characterization concerning this instrument other than as expressly provided
herein; provided, however, that the Company shall be entitled to prepare
summaries of this Certificate of Designation for purposes of complying with its
disclosure obligations and in connection with bona fide disputes as to the
operations of the provisions of this Certificate of Designation. Amounts set
forth or provided for herein with respect to payments, conversion and the like
(and the computation thereof) shall be the amounts to be received by the Holder
hereof and shall not, except as expressly provided herein or in the
Intercreditor Agreement entered into with Foothill Capital Corporation in
connection with the issuance of the Preferred Stock, be subject to any other
obligation of the Company (or the performance thereof). The Company acknowledges
that a breach by it of its obligations hereunder will cause irreparable harm to
the holders of Preferred Stock and that the remedy at law for any such breach
may he inadequate. The Company therefore agrees, in the event of any such breach
or threatened breach, the Holders shall be entitled, in addition to all other
available remedies, to an injunction restraining any breach, without the
necessity of showing economic loss and without any bond or other security being
required.
G. Specific Shall Not Limit General. No specific provision contained in
this Certificate of Designation shall limit or modify any more general provision
contained herein.
H. Failure or Indulgency Not Waiver. No failure or delay on the part of a
Holder in the exercise of any power, right or privilege hereunder shall operate
as a waiver thereof, not shall any single or partial exercise of any such power,
right or privilege preclude other or further exercise thereof or of any other
right, power or privilege.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Certificate of
Designation to be duly executed this 29th day of August, 1997.
LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
By: /s/ Michael R. Farris
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Name: Michael R. Farris
Title: President
Attest:
/s/ Gregory L. Wilson
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Gregory L. Wilson, Secretary
EXHIBIT A
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NOTICE OF CONVERSION
The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to convert (the "Conversion")
$__________ Face Amount of the Series B Convertible Participating Preferred
Stock (the "Preferred Stock") (i.e., $_________) plus all accrued and unpaid
Conversion Default Payments relating thereto (if any) (each defined term used
but not defined in this notice shall have the meaning assigned to it in the
Designation, Preferences and Rights of Series B Convertible Participating
Preferred Stock of LaserSight Incorporated (the "Certificate of Designation")),
into shares of common stock ("Common Stock") of Lasersight Incorporated (the
"Company") according to the conditions of the Certificate of Designation, as of
the date written below. If securities are to be issued in the name of a person
other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable
with respect thereto. No fee will be charged to the Holder for any conversion
except as provided herein.
The undersigned covenants that all offers and sales by the undersigned of the
securities issuable to the undersigned upon conversion of this Preferred Stock
shall be made pursuant to registration of the Common Stock under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), or pursuant to an exemption from
registration under the Act.
In the event of partial exercise, please reissue an appropriate Preferred
Stock(s) for the principal balance which shall not have been converted.
Date of Conversion:____________________________
Applicable Conversion Price:___________________
Amount of Conversion Default Payments
to be Converted, if any:_______________________
Number of Shares of
Common Stock to be Issued:_____________________
Signature:_____________________________________
Name:__________________________________________
Address:_______________________________________
ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED:
LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
BY:__________________________
NAME:________________________
TITLE:_______________________ DATE:________________________________
CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
TO
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
LaserSight Incorporated (the "Company"), a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, in order to amend its
Certificate of Incorporation (the "Certificate") pursuant to the provisions of
the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the "Act"), does hereby
certify as follows:
1. At a meeting duly called and held, the Board of Directors of the
Company unanimously adopted a resolution to submit to the shareholders of the
Company a proposal to amend Section 1(a) of Article IV of the Certificate to
increase the number of shares of common stock which the company is authorized to
issue from 20,000,000 to 40,000,000.
2. The full text of Section 1(a) of Article IV of the Certificate shall
be amended hereby to read as follows:
(a) Common Stock. The aggregate number of shares of Common
Stock which the corporation shall have authority to issue is
40,000,000, each with a par value of $.001 per share.
3. At a special meeting of the Company's stockholders duly called and
held upon notice in accordance with Section 222 of the Act, the foregoing
amendment to the Certificate was duly adopted by the holders of at least a
majority of the outstanding common stock of the Company entitled to vote thereon
in accordance with the provisions of Section 242 of the Act.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Certificate of
Amendment to be signed by its duly authorized officer this 27th day of February,
1998.
LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
By: /s/ Michael R. Farris
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Michael R. Farris
President
Attest: /s/ Gregory L. Wilson
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Gregory L. Wilson
Secretary
LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION, PREFERENCES
AND RIGHTS OF SERIES C CONVERTIBLE PARTICIPATING
PREFERRED STOCK
We, Michael R. Farris and Gregory L. Wilson, the President and
Secretary of LaserSight Incorporated, a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Corporation"), do hereby certify that,
pursuant to the authority confirmed upon the Board of Directors by the
Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, as amended and restated, the
Board of Directors on June 4, 1998, adopted the following resolution creating a
series of 2,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock designated as Series C Convertible
Participating Preferred Stock with a face amount of $4.00 per share:
RESOLVED, that pursuant to the authority vested in the Board of
Directors of the Corporation in accordance with the provisions of the
Corporation's Certificate of Incorporation, as amended and restated, a series of
Preferred Stock of the Corporation be and it hereby is created, and that the
designation and amount thereof and the voting powers, preferences and relative,
participating, optional and other special rights of the shares of such series,
and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof are as follows:
1. Designation and Number.
(a) There is hereby designated a series of Preferred Stock to
be known as "Series C Convertible Participating Preferred Stock." The number of
shares constituting the Series C Convertible Participating Preferred Stock (the
"Series C Preferred Stock") shall be 2,000,000, which number may not be
increased without the approval of the holders of a majority of the then
outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred Stock.
(b) The Series C Preferred Stock shall, with respect to
dividend rights and rights on liquidation, dissolution or winding up, (i) rank
senior to the Common Stock, par value $.001 per share, of the Corporation (the
"Common Stock"), (ii) senior to any capital stock of the Corporation ranking
junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up)
to the Series C Preferred Stock (the "Junior Stock"), (iii) pari passu with any
class or series of capital stock of the Corporation hereafter created
specifically ranking, by its terms, on parity with the Series C Preferred Stock
(the "Pari Passu Stock"), and (iv) junior to any class or series of capital
stock of the Corporation hereafter created (with the consent of the holders of a
majority of all shares of Series C Preferred Stock outstanding on the date of
such creation) specifically ranking, by its terms, senior to the Preferred Stock
(the "Senior Stock").
2. Dividends. The holders of the Series C Preferred Stock shall be
entitled to such dividends paid and distributions made to the holders of Common
Stock to the same extent as if the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock had
converted their shares of Series C Preferred Stock pursuant to the provisions of
Section 6 and had been issued such Common Stock on the day before the record
date for said dividend or distribution, provided that the holders of the Series
C Preferred Stock will not receive dividends or distributions which are payable
in Common Stock. Payments under the preceding sentence shall be made
concurrently with dividends and distributions to the holders of Common Stock.
3. Voting Rights. In addition to any voting rights provided by law, the
holder of each share of Series C Preferred Stock shall be entitled to vote upon
all matters upon which holders of the Common Stock have the right to vote, and
the shares of Series C Preferred Stock held by each such holder shall be
entitled to the number of votes equal to the largest number of full shares of
Common Stock into which such shares of Series C Preferred Stock could be
converted pursuant to the provisions of Section 6 at the record date for the
determination of the stockholders entitled to vote on such matters. Except as
required by law or as otherwise specifically set forth in this Certificate of
Designation, the holders of shares of Series C Preferred Stock and Common Stock
shall vote together as a single class and not as separate classes.
4. No Reissuance of Shares. Shares of Series C Preferred Stock
converted, purchased, or otherwise acquired by the Corporation in any manner
whatsoever shall be retired and canceled promptly after the conversion, purchase
or acquisition thereof. None of such shares of Series C Preferred Stock shall be
reissued by the Corporation.
5. Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding Up.
(a) In the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation,
distribution of assets (other than the payment of dividends), dissolution or
winding up of the Corporation (each, a "Liquidation"), the assets of the
Corporation available for distribution to the Corporation's stockholders shall
be paid or distributed in the following order: (i) first to satisfy all required
payments to holders of Senior Stock, (ii) second to pay the holders of the
Series C Preferred Stock the Preferred Amount Per Share (as defined in Section
11) and satisfy all required payments to the holders of Pari Passu Stock, and
(iii) third to satisfy any required payments to holders of Junior Stock. If,
upon any such Liquidation, whether voluntary or involuntary, the assets to be
distributed to the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock and holders of Pari
Passu Stock shall be insufficient to permit payment of the full amount required
to be paid to the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock and holders of Pari
Passu Stock, then the entire assets of the Corporation to be distributed among
the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock and the holders of Pari Passu Stock
shall be distributed ratably among such holders.
(b) Upon the completion of the distribution required by
Section 5(a), the remaining assets of the Corporation available for distribution
to shareholders shall be distributed among the holders of the Senior Stock,
Series C Preferred Stock, Pari Passu Stock and Junior Stock based on the number
of shares of Common Stock held by each (assuming conversion of all such Senior
Stock, Series C Preferred Stock, Pari Passu Stock and Junior Stock at the then
effective conversion price of each such security).
(c) After the payment to the holders of shares of the Series C
Preferred Stock and Pari Passu Stock of the full amount of any liquidating
distribution to which they are entitled under this Section 5, the holders of the
Series C Preferred Stock as such shall have no right or claim to any of the
remaining assets of the Corporation.
6. Conversion.
(a) Each holder of Series C Preferred Stock may, at any time
and from time to time, convert each of such holder's shares of Series C
Preferred Stock into a number of shares of Common Stock, equal to the quotient
of the Preferred Amount Per Share divided by the Conversion Price (such quotient
being referred to herein as the "Conversion Ratio").
(b) In order for a holder of Series C Preferred Stock to
effect a conversion of Series C Preferred Stock into shares of Common Stock such
holder shall: (i) fax a copy of the fully executed notice of conversion in the
form of Exhibit A hereto ("Notice of Conversion") to the Corporation, and (ii)
surrender or cause to be surrendered the certificates representing the Series C
Preferred Stock being converted accompanied by duly executed stock powers and
the original executed version of the Notice of Conversion as soon as practicable
thereafter.
(c) Within seven business days after the Corporation's receipt
of a Notice of Conversion, the Corporation shall require the Corporation's
transfer agent to promptly issue and deliver to the holder of Series C Preferred
Stock who provided the Notice of Conversion (i) that number of shares of Common
Stock issuable upon conversion of such shares of Series C Preferred Stock being
converted, and (ii) a certificate representing the number of shares of Series C
Preferred Stock not being converted, if any.
(d) The Corporation shall at all times reserve and keep
available for issuance upon the conversion of the Series C Preferred Stock, free
from any preemptive rights, such number of its authorized but unissued shares of
Common Stock as will from time to time be necessary to permit the conversion of
all outstanding shares of Series C Preferred Stock into shares of Common Stock,
and shall take all action required to increase the authorized number of shares
of Common Stock if necessary to permit the conversion of all outstanding shares
of Series C Preferred Stock.
(e) The Conversion Price shall be subject to adjustment from
time to time as follows:
(i) In case the Corporation shall at any time or from
time to time after the date hereof (A) pay any dividend, or make any
distribution, on the outstanding shares of Common Stock in shares of Common
Stock, (B) subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (C) combine the
outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares or (D) issue
by reclassification of the shares of Common Stock any shares of capital stock of
the Corporation, then, and in each such case, the Conversion Price in effect on
the record date therefor, if applicable, or the effective date thereof,
whichever is earlier, shall be adjusted so that the holder of any shares of
Series C Preferred Stock thereafter convertible into Common Stock pursuant to
this Certificate of Designation shall be entitled to receive the number and type
of shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Corporation which such
holder would have owned or have been entitled to receive after the happening of
any of the events described above, had such shares of Series C Preferred Stock
been converted into Common Stock immediately prior to the happening of such
event or the record date therefor, as applicable. An adjustment made pursuant to
this clause (i) shall become effective (x) in the case of any such dividend or
distribution, immediately after the close of business on the record date for the
determination of holders of shares of Common Stock entitled to receive such
dividend or distribution, or (y) in the case of such subdivision,
reclassification or combination, at the close of business on the day upon which
such corporate action becomes effective.
(ii) If the Corporation shall take a record of the
holders of its Common Stock for the purpose of entitling them to receive a
dividend or other distribution and shall thereafter, and before such dividend or
distribution is paid or delivered to stockholders entitled thereto, legally
abandon its plan to pay or deliver such dividend or distribution, then no
adjustment in the Conversion Price then in effect shall be made by reason of the
taking of such record, and any such adjustment previously made as a result of
the taking of such record shall be reversed.
(f) The issuance of certificates for shares of Common Stock
upon conversion of the Series C Preferred Stock shall be made without charge to
the holders thereof for any issuance tax in respect thereof, provided that the
Corporation shall not be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect
of any transfer involved in the issuance and delivery of any certificate in a
name other than that of the holder of the Series C Preferred Stock which is
being converted.
(g) The Corporation will at no time close its transfer books
against the transfer of any Series C Preferred Stock, or of any shares of Common
Stock issued or issuable upon the conversion of any shares of Series C Preferred
Stock in any manner which interferes with the timely conversion of such Series C
Preferred Stock, except as may otherwise be required to comply with applicable
securities laws.
(h) As used in this paragraph 6, the term "Common Stock" shall
mean and include the Corporation's authorized Common Stock, as constituted on
the date of filing of this Certificate of Designation, and shall also include
any capital stock of any class of the Corporation thereafter authorized which
shall neither be limited to a fixed sum or percentage in respect of the rights
of the holders thereof to participate in dividends nor be entitled to a
preference in the distribution of assets upon the voluntary or involuntary
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, provided that the
shares of Common Stock receivable upon conversion of shares of Series C
Preferred Stock shall include only shares designated as Common Stock of the
Corporation on the date of filing of this instrument, or in case of any
reorganization or reclassification of the outstanding shares thereof, the stock,
securities or assets to be issued in exchange for such Common Stock pursuant
thereto.
(i) In the case of a proposed reorganization of the
Corporation or a proposed reclassification or recapitalization of the capital
stock of the Corporation (except a transaction for which provision for
adjustment is otherwise made in this Section 6), each share of Series C
Preferred Stock shall thereafter be convertible into the number of shares of
stock or other securities or property to which a holder of the number of shares
of Common Stock of the Corporation deliverable upon conversion of such Series C
Preferred Stock would have been entitled upon such reorganization,
reclassification or recapitalization; and, in any such case, appropriate
adjustment (as determined in the reasonable discretion of the Corporation's
Board of Directors) shall be made in the application of the provisions herein
set forth with respect to the rights and interests thereafter of the holders of
the Series C Preferred Stock.
(j) No fractional shares of Common Stock or scrip shall be
issued upon conversion of shares of Series C Preferred Stock. If more than one
share of Series C Preferred Stock shall be surrendered for conversion at any one
time by the same holder, the number of full shares of Common Stock issuable upon
conversion thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate number of
shares of Series C Preferred Stock so surrendered.
7. Reports as to Adjustment. Upon any adjustment of the Conversion
Price pursuant to the provisions of Section 6, then, and in each such case, the
Corporation shall within 30 days after the occurrence of the event creating such
adjustment, deliver to each of the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock and
the Common Stock, a certificate signed by an officer of the Corporation setting
forth in reasonable detail the event requiring the adjustment, the method by
which such adjustment was calculated and the Conversion Price in effect
following such adjustment.
8. Certain Covenants. Any registered holder of Series C Preferred Stock
may proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of any other
holders of Series C Preferred Stock with any and all remedies available at law
or in equity.
9. Protective Provisions. So long as shares of Series C Preferred Stock
are outstanding, the Corporation shall not without first obtaining the approval
(by vote or written consent, as provided by law) of the holders of at least a
majority of the then outstanding shares of Series C Preferred Stock:
(a) alter or change the rights, preference or privileges of
the shares of Series C Preferred Stock or otherwise amend this Certificate of
Designation or the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the
Corporation so as to affect adversely the shares of Series C Preferred Stock; or
(b) increase the authorized number of shares of Series C
Preferred Stock or issue additional shares of Series C Preferred Stock.
10. Conversion at Maturity. Each share of Series C Preferred Stock
outstanding on the third anniversary of the Issue Date shall automatically be
converted into shares of Common Stock in accordance with the terms of Section 6
utilizing the Conversion Ratio then in effect.
11. Definitions. In addition to any other terms defined herein, for
purposes of this Certificate of Designation, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
"Conversion Price," determined as of any date, shall initially
equal $4.00 and shall be subject to adjustment as provided in paragraph (e) of
Section 6.
The term "distribution" shall include the transfer of cash or
property to the holders of a class of capital stock of the Corporation, without
consideration, whether by way of dividend or otherwise (except a dividend in
shares of such class of stock). The time of any distribution by way of dividends
shall be the date of declaration thereof.
"Issue Date" shall mean the date the Corporation first issues
a share of Series C Preferred Stock.
"Person" shall mean any individual, firm, corporation,
partnership or other entity, and shall include any successor (by merger or
otherwise) of such entity.
"Preferred Amount Per Share" shall mean, with respect to each
share of Series C Preferred Stock, $4.00 (as adjusted to reflect stock
dividends, stock splits, subdivisions, reclassifications or combinations
occurring after the Issue Date).
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have executed and subscribed this Certificate
this 5th day of June, 1998.
LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
By: /s/ Michael R. Farris
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Michael R. Farris
President and Chief Executive Officer
ATTEST:
/s/ Gregory L. Wilson
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Gregory L. Wilson
Secretary
SIGNATURE PAGE TO CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION
EXHIBIT A
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NOTICE OF CONVERSION
As of the date written below, the undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to
convert (the "Conversion") ________ shares of the Series C Convertible Preferred
Stock (the "Series C Preferred Stock") into shares of common stock, $.001 par
value ("Common Stock") of Lasersight Incorporated (the "Corporation") according
to the conditions of the Certificate of Designation, Preferences and Rights of
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock of the Corporation.
The undersigned covenants that all offers and sales by the undersigned of the
securities issuable to the undersigned upon conversion of this Series C
Preferred Stock shall be made pursuant to registration of the Common Stock under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), or pursuant to an exemption
from registration under the Act.
In the event of partial exercise, please reissue an appropriate Series C
Preferred Stock certificate(s) for the shares of Series C Preferred Stock which
shall not have been converted.
Date of Conversion:____________________________________
Applicable Conversion Price:___________________________
Number of Shares of
Common Stock to be Issued:_____________________________
Signature:_____________________________________________
Name:__________________________________________________
Address:_______________________________________________
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FORM OF
CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION, PREFERENCES AND RIGHTS
OF
SERIES D CONVERTIBLE PARTICIPATING PREFERRED STOCK
OF
LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
We, Michael R. Farris and Gregory L. Wilson, the President and
Secretary, respectively, of LaserSight Incorporated, a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Corporation"), do hereby
certify that, pursuant to the authority confirmed upon the Board of Directors by
the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, as amended and restated,
the Board of Directors on June 12, 1998, adopted the following resolution
creating a series of 2,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock designated as Series D
Convertible Participating Preferred Stock with a face amount of $4.00 per share:
RESOLVED, that pursuant to the authority vested in the Board of
Directors of the Corporation in accordance with the provisions of the
Corporation's Certificate of Incorporation, as amended and restated, a series of
Preferred Stock of the Corporation be and it hereby is created, and that the
designation and amount thereof and the voting powers, preferences and relative,
participating, optional and other special rights of the shares of such series,
and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof are as follows:
1. Designation and Number.
(a) There is hereby designated a series of Preferred Stock to
be known as "Series D Convertible Participating Preferred Stock." The number of
shares constituting the Series D Convertible Participating Preferred Stock (the
"Series D Preferred Stock") shall be 2,000,000, which number may not be
increased without the approval of the holders of a majority of the then
outstanding shares of the Series D Preferred Stock.
(b) The Series D Preferred Stock shall, with respect to
dividend rights and rights on liquidation, dissolution or winding up, (i) rank
senior to the Common Stock, par value $.001 per share, of the Corporation (the
"Common Stock"), (ii) rank senior to any capital stock of the Corporation
ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or
winding up) to the Series D Preferred Stock (the "Junior Stock"), (iii) rank
pari passu with the Corporation's Series C Convertible Participating Preferred
Stock and pari passu with any class or series of capital stock of the
Corporation hereafter created which specifically ranks, by its terms, on parity
with the Series D Preferred Stock (the "Pari Passu Stock"), and (iv) rank junior
to any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation hereafter created
(with the consent of the holders of a majority of all shares of Series D
Preferred Stock outstanding on the date of such creation) specifically ranking,
by its terms, senior to the Series D Preferred Stock (the "Senior Stock").
2. Dividends. The holders of the Series D Preferred Stock shall be
entitled to such dividends paid and distributions made to the holders of Common
Stock to the same extent as if the holders of the Series D Preferred Stock had
converted their shares of Series D Preferred Stock pursuant to the provisions of
Section 6 and had been issued such Common Stock on the day before the record
date for said dividend or distribution, provided that the holders of the Series
D Preferred Stock will not receive dividends or distributions which are
described in Section 6(e)(i) and payable in Common Stock. Payments under the
preceding sentence shall be made concurrently with dividends and distributions
to the holders of Common Stock.
3. Voting Rights.
(a) In addition to any voting rights provided by law and the
special voting rights provided in Section 3(b), the holder of each share of
Series D Preferred Stock shall be entitled to vote upon all matters upon which
holders of the Common Stock have the right to vote, and the shares of Series D
Preferred Stock held by each such holder shall be entitled to the number of
votes equal to the largest number of full shares of Common Stock into which such
shares of Series D Preferred Stock could be converted pursuant to the provisions
of Section 6 of this Certificate of Designation at the record date for the
determination of the stockholders entitled to vote on such matters, or if no
such record date is established, at the date such vote is taken or any written
consent of stockholders is solicited. Except as required by law or as otherwise
specifically set forth in this Certificate of Designation, the holders of shares
of Series D Preferred Stock and Common Stock shall vote together as a single
class and not as separate classes.
(b) Subject to the terms of Section 3(d), the holders of the
Series D Preferred Stock shall have, in addition to the other voting rights set
forth herein, the exclusive right, voting separately as a single class to elect
one director of the Corporation, with the remaining directors to be elected by
the other classes of stock entitled to vote therefore at each meeting of
stockholders held for the purpose of electing directors (the "Series D Preferred
Director"). The right of the holders of Series D Preferred Stock to vote for the
election of directors may be exercised at any annual meeting or at any special
meeting called for such purpose or at any adjournment thereof, or by the written
consent, delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation, of the holders of a
majority of all shares of Series D Preferred Stock outstanding as of the record
date of such written consent.
(c) With respect to the Series D Preferred Director, within
twenty-five (25) days after the Issue Date, the Board of Directors of the
Corporation shall call for a special meeting or written consent of the holders
of shares of Series D Preferred Stock to elect the Series D Preferred Director.
Any director elected pursuant to this Section 3, shall serve as a director until
his successor is elected and qualified. In the event of a vacancy in respect of
any directorship elected by the holders of shares of Series D Preferred Stock
pursuant to this clause (c), the Corporation agrees to call a special meeting of
the holders of shares of Series D Preferred Stock at the request of the majority
of the holders of outstanding Series D Preferred Stock, in order that the
holders of the Series D Preferred Stock may elect a successor director, and at
which meeting the holders of Series D Preferred Stock shall be entitled to the
same voting rights as provided in the first sentence of the prior paragraph.
(d) The voting rights with respect to the Series D Preferred
Director will terminate and thereafter be of no force or effect if on any date
the Corporation's Board of Directors fixes the record date for a meeting of the
Corporation's stockholders at which directors will be elected (the
"Determination Date"), that number of full shares of Common Stock into which all
then outstanding shares of Series D Preferred Stock, if any, could be converted
pursuant to Section 6 is less than 7.5% of all then outstanding shares of Common
Stock on the Determination Date. Upon termination of the voting rights with
respect to the Series D Preferred Director pursuant to the terms of this Section
3(d), the Series D Preferred Director then in office will serve until the date
of the Corporation's next meeting at which directors are elected.
4. No Reissuance of Shares. Shares of Series D Preferred Stock
converted, purchased, or otherwise acquired by the Corporation in any manner
whatsoever shall be retired and canceled promptly after the conversion, purchase
or acquisition thereof. None of such shares of Series D Preferred Stock shall be
reissued by the Corporation.
5. Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding Up.
(a) In the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation,
distribution of assets (other than the payment of dividends), dissolution or
winding up of the Corporation (each, a "Liquidation"), the assets of the
Corporation available for distribution to the Corporation's stockholders shall
be paid or distributed in the following order: (i) first to satisfy all required
payments to holders of Senior Stock, (ii) second to pay the holders of the
Series D Preferred Stock the Preferred Amount Per Share (as defined in Section
11) and satisfy all required payments to the holders of Pari Passu Stock, and
(iii) third to satisfy any required payments to holders of Junior Stock. If,
upon any such Liquidation, whether voluntary or involuntary, the assets to be
distributed to the holders of the Series D Preferred Stock and holders of Pari
Passu Stock shall be insufficient to permit payment of the full amount required
to be paid to the holders of the Series D Preferred Stock and holders of Pari
Passu Stock, then the entire assets of the Corporation to be distributed among
the holders of the Series D Preferred Stock and the holders of Pari Passu Stock
shall be distributed ratably among such holders.
(b) Upon the completion of the distribution required by
Section 5(a), the remaining assets of the Corporation available for distribution
to shareholders shall be distributed among the holders of the Senior Stock,
Series D Preferred Stock, Pari Passu Stock and Junior Stock based on the number
of shares of Common Stock held by each (assuming conversion of all such Senior
Stock, Series D Preferred Stock, Pari Passu Stock and Junior Stock at the then
effective conversion price of each such security).
(c) After the payment to the holders of shares of the Series D
Preferred Stock and Pari Passu Stock of the full amount of any liquidating
distribution to which they are entitled under this Section 5, the holders of the
Series D Preferred Stock as such shall have no right or claim to any of the
remaining assets of the Corporation.
6. Conversion.
(a) Each holder of Series D Preferred Stock may, at any time
and from time to time, convert each of such holder's shares of Series D
Preferred Stock into a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion
Ratio (as defined herein). For purposes hereof, the Conversion Ratio shall equal
either (i) the quotient of the Preferred Amount Per Share divided by the
Conversion Price, or (ii) in the event of a Dilutive Issuance (as defined in
Section 6(e)(ii)) the Conversion Ratio shall be that number calculated pursuant
to Section 6(e)(ii).
(b) In order for a holder of Series D Preferred Stock to
effect a conversion of Series D Preferred Stock into shares of Common Stock such
holder shall: (i) fax a copy of the fully executed notice of conversion in the
form of Exhibit A hereto ("Notice of Conversion") to the Corporation, and (ii)
surrender or cause to be surrendered the certificates representing the Series D
Preferred Stock being converted accompanied by duly executed stock powers and
the original executed version of the Notice of Conversion as soon as practicable
thereafter.
(c) As soon as reasonably possible, but in no event later than
seven days, after the Corporation's receipt of a Notice of Conversion, the
Corporation shall require the Corporation's transfer agent to promptly issue and
deliver to the holder of Series D Preferred Stock who provided the Notice of
Conversion (i) that number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of
such shares of Series D Preferred Stock being converted, and (ii) a certificate
representing the number of shares of Series D Preferred Stock not being
converted, if any.
(d) The Corporation shall at all times reserve and keep
available for issuance upon the conversion of the Series D Preferred Stock, free
from any preemptive rights, such number of its authorized but unissued shares of
Common Stock as will from time to time be necessary to permit the conversion of
all outstanding shares of Series D Preferred Stock into shares of Common Stock,
and shall take all action required to increase the authorized number of shares
of Common Stock if necessary to permit the conversion of all outstanding shares
of Series D Preferred Stock.
(e) The Conversion Price and Conversion Ratio shall be subject
to adjustment from time to time as follows:
(i) In case the Corporation shall at any time or from
time to time after the date hereof (A) pay any dividend, or make any
distribution, on the outstanding shares of Common Stock in shares of Common
Stock, (B) subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (C) combine the
outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares or (D) issue
by reclassification of the shares of Common Stock any shares of capital stock of
the Corporation, then, and in each such case, the Conversion Price in effect on
the record date therefor, if applicable, or the effective date thereof,
whichever is earlier, shall be adjusted so that the holder of any shares of
Series D Preferred Stock thereafter convertible into Common Stock pursuant to
this Certificate of Designation shall be entitled to receive the number and type
of shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Corporation which such
holder would have owned or have been entitled to receive after the happening of
any of the events described above, had such shares of Series D Preferred Stock
been converted into Common Stock immediately prior to the happening of such
event or the record date therefor, as applicable. An adjustment made pursuant to
this clause (i) shall become effective either (1) in the case of any such
dividend or distribution, immediately after the close of business on the record
date for the determination of holders of shares of Common Stock entitled to
receive such dividend or distribution, or (2) in the case of such subdivision,
reclassification or combination, at the close of business on the day upon which
such corporate action becomes effective.
(ii) Except with respect to Excluded Securities (as
defined in Section 11), if the Corporation issues or sells (a "Dilutive
Issuance") any shares of Common Stock (or a combination of Common Stock and
Common Stock Equivalents (as defined in Section 11)) after the Issue Date where
the Dilutive Issue Price (as defined herein) associated with such Dilutive
Issuance is less than $4.00 per share then effective immediately as of the date
of the Dilutive Issuance the Conversion Ratio shall be adjusted in accordance
with the following formula:
CR' = PS + ((AF x .1359) x NS)
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PS
where:
CR' = the adjusted Conversion Ratio;
PS = the number of shares of Series D Preferred Stock outstanding
immediately prior to the Dilutive Issuance;
AF = a fraction having a numerator of PS and a denominator of
2,000,000; and
NS = the number of shares resulting from dividing (i) Total
Receipts (as defined herein), by (ii) the Dilutive Issue
Price.
For purposes of this Section 6(e)(ii) the following definitions shall apply:
"Adjusted Total Receipts" shall mean Total Receipts
related to the relevant Dilutive Issuance as reduced by the Black-Scholes Amount
(as defined herein);
"Total Receipts" shall mean the cash consideration
received by the Corporation in connection with the Dilutive Issuance (before the
deduction of commissions or other expenses paid or incurred by the Corporation
in connection with the Dilutive Issuance);
"Dilutive Issue Price" shall mean the number
resulting from dividing Adjusted Total Receipts by the total number of shares of
Common Stock issued in connection with the Dilutive Issuance (treating for
purposes of this calculation all Common Stock Equivalents issued in connection
with such Dilutive Issuance as having been converted, exchanged or exercised in
accordance with the terms thereof utilizing the conversion price in effect as of
the date of the Dilutive Issuance), provided that for purposes of computing the
Dilutive Issue Price any warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock issued in
connection with the Dilutive Issuance shall not be deemed Common Stock
Equivalents and shall not be considered when calculating the Dilutive Issue
Price.
"Black-Scholes Amount" shall be an amount determined
by calculating the "Black-Scholes" value of all warrants to purchase share of
Common Stock issued in connection with the Dilutive Event as calculated by the
Corporation, using the following variable values: (i) the current market price
of the Common Stock equal to the closing trade price on the last trading day
before the date of the Dilutive Issuance; (ii) volatility of the Common Stock
equal to the volatility of the Common Stock during the 100 trading day period
immediately preceding the date of the Dilutive Issuance; (iii) a risk free rate
equal to the interest rate on the United States treasury bill or treasury note
with a maturity corresponding to the latest maturity of any of the warrants
issued in connection with the Dilutive Issuance; and (iv) an exercise price
equal to the exercise price of such warrant on the date of the Dilutive
Issuance.
Nothing contained in this Section 6(e)(ii) shall require the
Corporation to issue Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents in an amount which
would violate Rule 4460(i) of The NASDAQ Stock Market (the "Rule").
(iii) For purposes of paragraph (e)(i) of this
Section 6 of this Certificate of Designation, the number of shares of Common
Stock at any time outstanding shall mean the aggregate of all shares of Common
Stock then outstanding (other than any shares of Common Stock then owned or held
by or for the account of the Corporation) treating for purposes of this
calculation all Common Stock Equivalents then outstanding as having been
converted, exchanged or exercised.
(iv) If the Corporation shall take a record of the
holders of its Common Stock for the purpose of entitling them to receive a
dividend or other distribution and shall thereafter, and before such dividend or
distribution is paid or delivered to stockholders entitled thereto, legally
abandon its plan to pay or deliver such dividend or distribution, then no
adjustment in the Conversion Price then in effect shall be made by reason of the
taking of such record, and any such adjustment previously made as a result of
the taking of such record shall be reversed.
(f) The issuance of certificates for shares of Common Stock
upon conversion of the Series D Preferred Stock shall be made without charge to
the holders thereof for any issuance tax in respect thereof, provided that the
Corporation shall not be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect
of any transfer involved in the issuance and delivery of any certificate in a
name other than that of the holder of the Series D Preferred Stock which is
being converted.
(g) The Corporation will at no time close its transfer books
against the transfer of any Series D Preferred Stock, or of any shares of Common
Stock issued or issuable upon the conversion of any shares of Series D Preferred
Stock in any manner which interferes with the timely conversion of such Series D
Preferred Stock, except as may otherwise be required to comply with applicable
securities laws.
(h) As used in this paragraph 6, the term "Common Stock" shall
mean and include the Corporation's authorized Common Stock, as constituted on
the date of filing of this Certificate of Designation, and shall also include
any capital stock of any class of the Corporation thereafter authorized which
shall neither be limited to a fixed sum or percentage in respect of the rights
of the holders thereof to participate in dividends nor be entitled to a
preference in the distribution of assets upon the voluntary or involuntary
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, provided that the
shares of Common Stock receivable upon conversion of shares of Series D
Preferred Stock shall include only shares designated as Common Stock of the
Corporation on the date of filing of this instrument, or in case of any
reorganization or reclassification of the outstanding shares thereof, the stock,
securities or assets to be issued in exchange for such Common Stock pursuant
thereto.
(i) In the case of a Sale of the Corporation (as defined in
Section 11), proposed reorganization of the Corporation or a proposed
reclassification or recapitalization of the capital stock of the Corporation
(except a transaction for which provision for adjustment is otherwise made in
this Section 6), each share of Series D Preferred Stock shall thereafter be
convertible into the number of shares of stock or other securities or property
to which a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock of the Corporation
deliverable upon conversion of such Series D Preferred Stock would have been
entitled upon such Sale of the Corporation, reorganization, reclassification or
recapitalization; and, in any such case, appropriate adjustment (as determined
in the reasonable discretion of the Corporation's Board of Directors) shall be
made in the application of the provisions herein set forth with respect to the
rights and interests thereafter of the holders of the Series D Preferred Stock.
The Corporation shall not effect any Sale of the Corporation unless prior to or
simultaneously with the consummation thereof the successor corporation or
purchaser, as the case may be, shall assume by written instrument the obligation
to deliver to the holders of the Series D Preferred Stock such shares of stock,
securities or assets as, in accordance with the foregoing provisions, each such
holder is entitled to receive.
(j) No fractional shares of Common Stock or scrip shall be
issued upon conversion of shares of Series D Preferred Stock. If more than one
share of Series D Preferred Stock shall be surrendered for conversion at any one
time by the same holder, the number of full shares of Common Stock issuable upon
conversion thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate number of
shares of Series D Preferred Stock so surrendered.
(k) The Corporation will not, by amendment of its Articles of
Incorporation or through any reorganization, recapitalization, transfer of
assets, consolidation, merger, dissolution, issue or sale of securities or any
other voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of
any of the terms to be observed or performed hereunder by the Corporation, but
at all times in good faith carry out the Corporation's obligations under this
Section 6 and in the taking of all required actions as may be necessary or
appropriate in order to protect the conversion rights of the holders of the
Series D Preferred Stock.
7. Reports as to Adjustment. Upon any adjustment of the Conversion
Price pursuant to the provisions of Section 6, then, and in each such case, the
Corporation shall within 10 days after the occurrence of the event creating such
adjustment, deliver to Dawson Samberg Capital Management, Inc. ("DSCM") a
certificate signed by an officer of the Corporation setting forth in reasonable
detail the event requiring the adjustment, the method by which such adjustment
was calculated and the Conversion Price in effect following such adjustment.
8. Certain Covenants.
(a) The Corporation covenants that without the approval of a
majority of the holders of the then outstanding Series D Preferred Stock the
Corporation will not perform a Dilutive Issuance which would have the effect of
requiring the Corporation to adjust, pursuant to Section 6(e)(ii), the
Conversion Ratio to a level which could then result in the issuance of a number
of shares of Common Stock which would violate the Rule.
(b) If the Corporation breaches the covenant contained in
Section 8(a) then prior to consummating such Dilutive Issuance the Corporation
shall be obligated to repurchase (and such holders will be obligated to sell),
on a pro rata basis, from the holders of the Series D Preferred Stock that
number of shares of Series D Preferred Stock which would reduce the number of
shares of Series D Preferred Stock outstanding immediately prior to such
Dilutive Issuance to a level that would result, after considering the adjustment
to the Conversion Ratio pursuant to Section 6(e)(ii) resulting from such
Dilutive Issuance, in a potential issuance of a number of shares of Common Stock
which would be in compliance with the Rule. The purchase price for each share of
Series D Preferred Stock to be purchased pursuant to this Section 8(b) shall be
the greater of (i) $4.00 as increased by an annualized repurchase premium of 10%
calculated from the Issue Date through the date of repurchase pursuant to this
Section 8(b), or (ii) the current market price of the Common Stock equal to the
closing trade price on the trading day immediately preceding the repurchase
pursuant to this Section 8(b).
(c) Within 60 days after the Issue Date, the Corporation shall
prepare a written request to be sent to The NASDAQ Stock Market asking for a
written ruling as to whether the number of shares of Common Stock which could be
issuable pursuant to Section 6(e)(ii) is subject to the limitations contained in
the Rule. On or before the end of such 60 day period, the Corporation shall
supply DSCM with a draft of such written request. DSCM shall provide the
Corporation with comments on such draft, if any, within 15 days after receipt
thereof; within 10 days after the Corporation's receipt of such comments the
Corporation will submit such written request to The NASDAQ Stock Market. If the
NASDAQ Stock Market rules that the number of shares of Common Stock which may be
issuable pursuant to Section 6(e)(ii) is not limited by the Rule then (i) the
last sentence of Section 6(e)(ii) shall be of no further force or effect, and
(ii) the covenants, agreements, rights and obligations contained in Sections
8(a) and 8(b) shall thereafter be of no further force or effect.
(d) Any registered holder of Series D Preferred Stock may
proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of any other holders of
Series D Preferred Stock with any and all remedies available at law or in
equity.
9. Protective Provisions. So long as shares of Series D Preferred Stock
are outstanding, the Corporation shall not without first obtaining the approval
(by vote or written consent, as provided by law) of the holders of at least a
majority of the then outstanding shares of Series D Preferred Stock:
(a) alter or change the rights, preference or privileges of
the shares of Series D Preferred Stock or otherwise amend this Certificate of
Designation or the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the
Corporation so as to affect adversely the shares of Series D Preferred Stock;
(b) increase the authorized number of shares of Series D
Preferred Stock or issue additional shares of Series D Preferred Stock (except
pursuant to Section 6 hereof); or
(c) create or issue Senior Stock.
10. Conversion at Maturity. Each share of Series D Preferred Stock
outstanding on the third anniversary of the Issue Date shall automatically be
converted into shares of Common Stock in accordance with the terms of Section 6
utilizing the Conversion Ratio then in effect.
11. Definitions. In addition to any other terms defined herein, for
purposes of this Certificate of Designation, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
"Conversion Price," determined as of any date, shall initially
equal $4.00 and shall be subject to adjustment as provided in paragraph (e) of
Section 6.
"Common Stock Equivalent" shall mean securities convertible
into, or exchangeable or exercisable for, shares of Common Stock.
"Excluded Securities" shall mean (i) shares of the
Corporation's equity securities issued in connection with a public offering
thereof, (ii) the grant of options or warrants, or the issuance of securities,
under any employee or director stock option, stock purchase or restricted stock
plan of the Corporation, (iii) the issuance of Common Stock pursuant to any
contingent obligation described on Schedule 3.3 to the Securities Purchase
Agreement dated June 12, 1998, among the Corporation and the initial holders of
the Series D Preferred Stock, (iv) securities issued upon the exercise or
conversion of the Corporation's options, warrants or other Convertible
Securities outstanding as of the Issue Date, (v) declaration of a rights
dividend to holders of Common Stock in connection with the adoption of a
stockholder rights plan by the Corporation, and (vi) securities issued in
connection with a merger, acquisition, joint venture or similar arrangement
which is approved by a majority of the Corporation's Board of Directors that are
not then employees of the Corporation (the "Outside Directors"), and (vii)
securities issued in connection with the establishment of a strategic
relationship which is approved by a majority of the Outside Directors.
The term "distribution" shall include the transfer of cash or
property to the holders of a class of capital stock of the Corporation, without
consideration, whether by way of dividend or otherwise (except a dividend in
shares of such class of stock). The time of any distribution by way of dividends
shall be the date of declaration thereof.
"Issue Date" shall mean the date the Corporation first issues
a share of Series D Preferred Stock.
"Person" shall mean any individual, firm, corporation,
partnership or other entity, and shall include any successor (by merger or
otherwise) of such entity.
"Preferred Amount Per Share" shall mean, with respect to each
share of Series D Preferred Stock, $4.00 (as adjusted to reflect stock
dividends, stock splits, subdivisions, reclassifications or combinations
occurring after the Issue Date).
"Sale of the Corporation" shall mean consolidation or merger
of the Corporation with or into any other corporation or corporations, or a
sale, conveyance or disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the
Corporation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have executed and subscribed this Certificate
this 12th day of June, 1998.
LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
By: /s/ Michael R. Farris
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Michael R. Farris
President and Chief Executive Officer
ATTEST:
/s/ Gregory L. Wilson
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Gregory L. Wilson
Secretary
SIGNATURE PAGE TO CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION
EXHIBIT A
NOTICE OF CONVERSION
As of the date written below, the undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to
convert (the "Conversion")______ shares of the Series D Convertible Preferred
Stock (the "Series D Preferred Stock") into shares of common stock, $.001 par
value ("Common Stock") of Lasersight Incorporated (the "Corporation") according
to the conditions of the Certificate of Designation, Preferences and Rights of
Series D Convertible Preferred Stock of the Corporation.
The undersigned covenants that all offers and sales by the undersigned of the
securities issuable to the undersigned upon conversion of this Series D
Preferred Stock shall be made pursuant to registration of the Common Stock under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), or pursuant to an exemption
from registration under the Act.
In the event of partial exercise, please reissue an appropriate Series D
Preferred Stock certificate(s) for the shares of Series D Preferred Stock which
shall not have been converted.
Date of Conversion:_________________________
Applicable Conversion Price:________________
Number of Shares of
Common Stock to be Issued:__________________
Signature:__________________________________
Name:_______________________________________
Address:____________________________________
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CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
TO
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
LaserSight Incorporated (the "Company"), a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, in order to amend its
Certificate of Incorporation (the "Certificate") pursuant to the provisions of
the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the "Act"), does hereby
certify as follows:
1. At a meeting duly called and held, the Board of Directors of the
Company unanimously adopted a resolution to submit to the stockholders of the
Company a proposal to amend Section 1(a) of Article IV of the Certificate to
increase the number of shares of common stock which the Company is authorized to
issue from 40,000,000 to 100,000,000.
2. The full text of Section 1(a) of Article IV of the Certificate shall
be amended hereby to read as follows:
(a) Common Stock. The aggregate number of shares of Common Stock
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which the corporation shall have authority to issue is 100,000,000, each with a
par value of $.001 per share.
3. At the annual meeting of the Company's stockholders duly called and
held upon notice in accordance with Section 222 of the Act, the foregoing
amendment to the Certificate was duly adopted by the holders of at least a
majority of the outstanding common stock and preferred stock of the Company
entitled to vote thereon in accordance with the provisions of Section 242 of the
Act.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Certificate of
Amendment to be signed by its duly authorized officer this 9th day of June,
2000.
LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
By: /s/ Michael R. Farris
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Michael R. Farris
President and Chief Executive Officer
Attest: /s/ Gregory L. Wilson
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Gregory L. Wilson
Secretary
LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION, PREFERENCES
AND RIGHTS OF SERIES F CONVERTIBLE PARTICIPATING
PREFERRED STOCK
LaserSight Incorporated, a corporation organized and existing under the
laws of the State of Delaware (the "Corporation"), does hereby certify that,
pursuant to the authority confirmed upon the Board of Directors by the
Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, as amended and restated, the
Board of Directors on June 29, 2001, adopted the following resolution creating a
series of 1,276,596 shares of Preferred Stock designated as Series F Convertible
Participating Preferred Stock with a face amount of $2.35 per share:
RESOLVED, that pursuant to the authority vested in the Board of
Directors of the Corporation in accordance with the provisions of the
Corporation's Certificate of Incorporation, as amended and restated, a series of
Preferred Stock of the Corporation be and it hereby is created, and that the
designation and amount thereof and the voting powers, preferences and relative,
participating, optional and other special rights of the shares of such series,
and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof are as follows:
1. Designation and Number.
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(a) There is hereby designated a series of Preferred Stock to be
known as "Series F Convertible Participating Preferred Stock." The number of
shares constituting the Series F Convertible Participating Preferred Stock (the
"Series F Preferred Stock") shall be 1,276,596, which number may not be
increased without the approval of the holders of a majority of the then
outstanding shares of the Series F Preferred Stock.
(b) The Series F Preferred Stock shall, with respect to dividend
rights and rights on liquidation, dissolution or winding up, (i) rank senior to
the Common Stock, par value $.001 per share, of the Corporation (the "Common
Stock"), (ii) senior to any capital stock of the Corporation ranking junior
(either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the
Series F Preferred Stock (the "Junior Stock"), (iii) pari passu with any class
or series of capital stock of the Corporation hereafter created specifically
ranking, by its terms, on parity with the Series F Preferred Stock (the "Pari
Passu Stock"), and (iv) junior to any class or series of capital stock of the
Corporation hereafter created (with the consent of the holders of a majority of
all shares of Series F Preferred Stock outstanding on the date of such creation)
specifically ranking, by its terms, senior to the Preferred Stock (the "Senior
Stock").
2. Dividends. The holders of the Series F Preferred Stock shall be
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entitled to such dividends paid and distributions made to the holders of
Common Stock to the same extent as if the holders of the Series F Preferred
Stock had converted their shares of Series F Preferred Stock pursuant to the
provisions of Section 6 and had been issued such Common Stock on the day before
the record date for said dividend or distribution, provided that the holders of
the Series F Preferred Stock will not receive dividends or distributions which
are payable in Common Stock. Payments under the preceding sentence shall be made
concurrently with dividends and distributions to the holders of Common Stock.
3. Voting Rights. The holders of the Series F Preferred Stock, by
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virtue of their ownership thereof, will not have any voting rights, except as
otherwise provided in Section 9 or as required by the Delaware General
Corporation Law (the "General Corporation Law").
To the extent that under the General Corporation Law the vote of the
holders of the Series F Preferred Stock, voting separately as a class or series,
as applicable, is required to authorize a given action of the Corporation, the
affirmative vote or consent of the holders of at least a majority of the shares
of the Series F Preferred Stock represented at a duly held meeting at which a
quorum is present or by written consent of the holders of at least a majority of
the shares of the Series F Preferred Stock (except as otherwise may be required
under the General Corporation Law) shall constitute the approval of such action
by the class.
4. No Reissuance of Shares. Shares of Series F Preferred Stock
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converted, purchased, or otherwise acquired by the Corporation in any manner
whatsoever shall be retired and canceled promptly after the conversion, purchase
or acquisition thereof. None of such shares of Series F Preferred Stock shall be
reissued by the Corporation.
5. Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding Up.
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(a) In the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation,
distribution of assets (other than the payment of dividends), dissolution or
winding up of the Corporation (each, a "Liquidation"), the assets of the
Corporation available for distribution to the Corporation's stockholders shall
be paid or distributed in the following order: (i) first to satisfy all required
payments to holders of Senior Stock, (ii) second to pay the holders of the
Series F Preferred Stock the Preferred Amount Per Share (as defined in Section
11) and satisfy all required payments to the holders of Pari Passu Stock, and
(iii) third to satisfy any required payments to holders of Junior Stock. If,
upon any such Liquidation, whether voluntary or involuntary, the assets to be
distributed to the holders of the Series F Preferred Stock and holders of Pari
Passu Stock shall be insufficient to permit payment of the full amount required
to be paid to the holders of the Series F Preferred Stock and holders of Pari
Passu Stock, then the entire assets of the Corporation to be distributed among
the holders of the Series F Preferred Stock and the holders of Pari Passu Stock
shall be distributed ratably among such holders.
(b) Upon the completion of the distribution required by Section
5(a), the remaining assets of the Corporation available for distribution to
shareholders shall be distributed among the holders of the Senior Stock, Series
F Preferred Stock, Pari Passu Stock and Junior Stock based on the number of
shares of Common Stock held by each (assuming conversion of all such Senior
Stock, Series F Preferred Stock, Pari Passu Stock and Junior Stock at the then
effective conversion price of each such security).
(c) After the payment to the holders of shares of the Series F
Preferred Stock and Pari Passu Stock of the full amount of any liquidating
distribution to which they are entitled under this Section 5, the holders of the
Series F Preferred Stock as such shall have no right or claim to any of the
remaining assets of the Corporation.
6. Conversion.
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(a) Each holder of Series F Preferred Stock may, at any time and
from time to time, convert each of such holder's shares of Series F Preferred
Stock into a number of shares of Common Stock, equal to the quotient of the
Preferred Amount Per Share divided by the Conversion Price (such quotient being
referred to herein as the "Conversion Ratio"), provided, however, in no event
shall the Corporation honor any request by such holder, nor shall such holder be
entitled, to convert shares of Series F Preferred Stock in excess of that number
of shares Series F Preferred Stock which, upon giving effect to such conversion,
would cause the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by
the holder and its affiliates to exceed 4.99% of the outstanding shares of the
Common Stock following such conversion, provided, further, that a holder may
elect to waive this restriction upon not less than sixty-one (61) days prior
written notice to the Corporation; provided further that this restriction shall
not preclude the Corporation from issuing, or a holder from being entitled to,
shares in connection with the conversion of shares of Series F Preferred Stock
in accordance with Section 10. For purposes of this paragraph "beneficial
ownership" shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. For purposes of determining whether
the limitations set forth in this paragraph will be triggered by a holder's
request to convert shares of Series F Preferred Stock, the Corporation shall be
permitted to rely exclusively on such holder's most recent filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission or such written representations as may be
given by such holder at the time such holder requests conversion.
(b) In order for a holder of Series F Preferred Stock to effect a
conversion of Series F Preferred Stock into shares of Common Stock such holder
shall: (i) fax a copy of the fully executed notice of conversion in the form of
Exhibit A hereto ("Notice of Conversion") to the Corporation, and (ii) surrender
or cause to be surrendered the certificates representing the Series F Preferred
Stock being converted accompanied by duly executed stock powers and the original
executed version of the Notice of Conversion as soon as practicable thereafter.
(c) Within five business days after the Corporation's receipt of a
Notice of Conversion, the Corporation shall require the Corporation's transfer
agent to promptly issue and deliver to the holder of Series F Preferred Stock
who provided the Notice of Conversion (i) that number of shares of Common Stock
issuable upon conversion of such shares of Series F Preferred Stock being
converted, and (ii) a certificate representing the number of shares of Series F
Preferred Stock not being converted, if any. If within seven days after the
Corporation's receipt of a Notice of Conversion (the "Delivery Period") the
Corporation fails to issue to a holder of Series F Preferred Stock a certificate
for the number of shares of Common Stock to which such holder is entitled in
accordance with paragraph 3(a) above upon such holder's conversion of shares of
Series F Preferred Stock, and after the applicable Delivery Period with respect
to such conversion, such holder purchases shares of Common Stock to make
delivery in satisfaction of a sale by such holder of the shares of Common Stock
(the "Sold Shares") which such holder was entitled to upon such conversion (a
"Buy-In"), the Corporation shall pay such holder the amount by which (x) such
holder's total purchase price for the shares of Common Stock so purchased
exceeds (y) the net proceeds received by such holder from the sale of the Sold
Shares; provided, that such purchase and sale must be effected in a commercially
reasonable manner under the circumstances then facing holder. For example, if a
holder of Series F Preferred Stock purchases shares of Common Stock having a
total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to shares of
Common Stock it sold for $10,000, the Corporation will be required to pay such
holder $1,000. A holder of Series F Preferred Stock shall provide the
Corporation written notification indicating any amounts payable to such holder
pursuant to this paragraph.
(d) The Corporation shall at all times reserve and keep available
for issuance upon the conversion of the Series F Preferred Stock, free from any
preemptive rights, such number of its authorized but unissued shares of Common
Stock as will from time to time be necessary to permit the conversion of all
outstanding shares of Series F Preferred Stock into shares of Common Stock,
and shall take all action required to increase the authorized number of shares
of Common Stock if necessary to permit the conversion of all outstanding shares
of Series F Preferred Stock.
(e) The Conversion Price shall be subject to adjustment from time
to time as follows:
(i) In case the Corporation shall at any time or from time
to time after the date hereof (A) pay any dividend, or make any distribution, on
the outstanding shares of Common Stock in shares of Common Stock, (B) subdivide
the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (C) combine the outstanding shares of
Common Stock into a smaller number of shares or (D) issue by reclassification of
the shares of Common Stock any shares of capital stock of the Corporation, then,
and in each such case, the Conversion Price in effect on the record date
therefor, if applicable, or the effective date thereof, whichever is earlier,
shall be adjusted so that the holder of any shares of Series F Preferred Stock
thereafter convertible into Common Stock pursuant to this Certificate of
Designation shall be entitled to receive the number and type of shares of Common
Stock or other securities of the Corporation which such holder would have owned
or have been entitled to receive after the happening of any of the events
described above, had such shares of Series F Preferred Stock been converted into
Common Stock immediately prior to the happening of such event or the record date
therefor, as applicable. An adjustment made pursuant to this clause (i) shall
become effective (x) in the case of any such dividend or distribution,
immediately after the close of business on the record date for the determination
of holders of shares of Common Stock entitled to receive such dividend or
distribution, or (y) in the case of such subdivision, reclassification or
combination, at the close of business on the day upon which such corporate
action becomes effective.
(ii) If the Corporation shall take a record of the holders
of its Common Stock for the purpose of entitling them to receive a dividend or
other distribution and shall thereafter, and before such dividend or
distribution is paid or delivered to stockholders entitled thereto, legally
abandon its plan to pay or deliver such dividend or distribution, then no
adjustment in the Conversion Price then in effect shall be made by reason of the
taking of such record, and any such adjustment previously made as a result of
the taking of such record shall be reversed.
(f) The issuance of certificates for shares of Common Stock upon
conversion of the Series F Preferred Stock shall be made without charge to the
holders thereof for any issuance tax in respect thereof, provided that the
Corporation shall not be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect
of any transfer involved in the issuance and delivery of any certificate in a
name other than that of the holder of the Series F Preferred Stock which is
being converted.
(g) The Corporation will at no time close its transfer books
against the transfer of any Series F Preferred Stock, or of any shares of Common
Stock issued or issuable upon the conversion of any shares of Series F Preferred
Stock in any manner which interferes with the timely conversion of such Series F
Preferred Stock, except as may otherwise be required to comply with applicable
securities laws.
(h) As used in this paragraph 6, the term "Common Stock" shall
mean and include the Corporation's authorized Common Stock, as constituted on
the date of filing of this Certificate of Designation, and shall also include
any capital stock of any class of the Corporation thereafter authorized which
shall neither be limited to a fixed sum or percentage in respect of the rights
of the holders thereof to participate in dividends nor be entitled to a
preference in the distribution of assets upon the voluntary or involuntary
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, provided that the
shares of Common Stock receivable upon conversion of shares of Series F
Preferred Stock shall include only shares designated as Common Stock of the
Corporation on the date of filing of this instrument, or in case of any
reorganization or reclassification of the outstanding shares thereof, the stock,
securities or assets to be issued in exchange for such Common Stock pursuant
thereto.
(i) In the case of a proposed reorganization of the Corporation or
a proposed reclassification or recapitalization of the capital stock of the
Corporation (except a transaction for which provision for adjustment is
otherwise made in this Section 6), each share of Series F Preferred Stock shall
thereafter be convertible into the number of shares of stock or other securities
or property to which a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock of the
Corporation deliverable upon conversion of such Series F Preferred Stock would
have been entitled upon such reorganization, reclassification or
recapitalization; and, in any such case, appropriate adjustment (as determined
in the reasonable discretion of the Corporation's Board of Directors) shall be
made in the application of the provisions herein set forth with respect to the
rights and interests thereafter of the holders of the Series F Preferred Stock.
(j) No fractional shares of Common Stock or scrip shall be issued
upon conversion of shares of Series F Preferred Stock. If more than one share of
Series F Preferred Stock shall be surrendered for conversion at any one time by
the same holder, the number of full shares of Common Stock issuable upon
conversion thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate number of
shares of Series F Preferred Stock so surrendered.
7. Reports as to Adjustment. Upon any adjustment of the Conversion
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Price pursuant to the provisions of Section 6, then, and in each such case, the
Corporation shall within 30 days after the occurrence of the event creating such
adjustment, deliver to each of the holders of the Series F Preferred Stock and
the Common Stock, a certificate signed by an officer of the Corporation setting
forth in reasonable detail the event requiring the adjustment, the method by
which such adjustment was calculated and the Conversion Price in effect
following such adjustment.
8. Certain Covenants. Any registered holder of Series F Preferred
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Stock may proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of any
other holders of Series F Preferred Stock with any and all remedies
available at law or in equity.
9. Protective Provisions. So long as shares of Series F Preferred
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Stock are outstanding, the Corporation shall not without first obtaining the
approval (by vote or written consent, as provided by law) of the holders of at
least a majority of the then outstanding shares of Series F Preferred Stock:
(a) alter or change the rights, preference or privileges of the
shares of Series F Preferred Stock or otherwise amend this Certificate of
Designation or the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the
Corporation so as to affect adversely the shares of Series F Preferred Stock; or
(b) increase the authorized number of shares of Series F Preferred
Stock or issue additional shares of Series F Preferred Stock.
10. Conversion at Maturity. Each share of Series F Preferred Stock
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outstanding on the third anniversary of the Issue Date shall automatically be
converted into shares of Common Stock in accordance with the terms of Section 6
utilizing the Conversion Ratio then in effect.
11. Definitions. In addition to any other terms defined herein, for
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purposes of this Certificate of Designation, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
"Conversion Price," determined as of any date, shall initially
equal $2.35 and shall be subject to adjustment as provided in paragraph (e) of
Section 6.
The term "distribution" shall include the transfer of cash or
property to the holders of a class of capital stock of the Corporation, without
consideration, whether by way of dividend or otherwise (except a dividend in
shares of such class of stock). The time of any distribution by way of dividends
shall be the date of declaration thereof.
"Issue Date" shall mean the date the Corporation first issues a
share of Series F Preferred Stock.
"Person" shall mean any individual, firm, corporation, partnership
or other entity, and shall include any successor (by merger or otherwise) of
such entity.
"Preferred Amount Per Share" shall mean, with respect to each share
of Series F Preferred Stock, $2.35 (as adjusted to reflect stock dividends,
stock splits, subdivisions, reclassifications or combinations occurring after
the Issue Date).
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Certificate to be
duly executed this 6th day of July, 2001.
LASERSIGHT INCORPORATED
By: /s/Michael R. Farris
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Michael R. Farris
President and Chief Executive Officer
ATTEST:
/s/Billie R. Barnes
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Billie R. Barnes
Assistant Secretary
SIGNATURE PAGE TO SERIES F CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION
EXHIBIT A
NOTICE OF CONVERSION
As of the date written below, the undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to
convert _________(the "Conversion") shares of the Series F Convertible Preferred
Stock (the "Series F Preferred Stock") into shares of common stock, $.001 par
value ("Common Stock") of LaserSight Incorporated (the "Corporation") according
to the conditions of the Certificate of Designation, Preferences and Rights of
Series F Convertible Preferred Stock of the Corporation.
The undersigned covenants that all offers and sales by the undersigned of the
securities issuable to the undersigned upon conversion of this Series F
Preferred Stock shall be made pursuant to registration of the Common Stock under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), or pursuant to an exemption
from registration under the Act.
In the event of partial exercise, please reissue an appropriate Series F
Preferred Stock certificate(s) for the shares of Series F Preferred Stock which
shall not have been converted.
Date of Conversion:
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Applicable Conversion Price:
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Number of Shares of
Common Stock to be Issued:
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Signature:
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Name:
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Address:
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