Exhibit 4.11
INVESTOR RIGHTS AGREEMENT
This INVESTOR RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this "Agreement") is made as of July 29, 2003 by and among 8X8, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company") and (ii) the investors listed on Exhibit A hereto (collectively the "Investors")
WHEREAS, the Company desires to sell to the Investors, and the Investors desire to purchase up to an aggregate of 2,260,000 shares of Common Stock of the Company (the "Shares"), and three sets of 5-year warrants, exercisable to purchase up to an aggregate of (i) 2,260,000 shares of Common Stock at $0.60 per share (the "$.60 Warrants"), (ii) 565,000 shares of Common Stock at $0.75 per share (the "$.75 Warrants"), and (iii) 565,000 shares of Common Stock at $1.00 per share (the "$1.00 Warrants", and collectively with the $.60 Warrants and the $.75 Warrants, the "Purchased Warrants"), upon the terms and conditions set forth in that certain Unit Subscription Agreement, dated of even date herewith, between the Company and the Investors (the "Unit Subscription Agreement"); and
WHEREAS, the terms of the Unit Subscription Agreement provide that it shall be a condition precedent to the closing of the transactions thereunder for the Company and the Investors to execute and deliver this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual covenants contained herein, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
"Additional Shares" shall mean any additional shares of Common Stock which may be issued or become issuable from time to time upon the exercise of a Purchased Warrant, or a distribution with respect to, or in exchange for, or in replacement of a Purchased Warrant, as a result of anti- dilution provisions of a Purchased Warrant or otherwise.
"Board of Directors" shall mean the board of directors of the Company.
"Closing" shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Unit Subscription Agreement.
"Common Stock" shall mean the common stock, $.001 par value per share, of the Company.
"Convertible Securities" means (i) options to purchase or rights to subscribe for Common Stock, (ii) securities by their terms convertible into or exchangeable for Common Stock or (iii) options to purchase or rights to subscribe for such convertible or exchangeable securities.
"Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and all of the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
"Excluded Stock" shall mean shares of Common Stock issued by the Corporation (i) issued or issuable to employees, directors or consultants pursuant to any equity compensation plan approved by the Company's Board of Directors, (ii) to bona fide leasing companies, strategic partners, or major lenders, (iii) as the purchase price in a bona fide acquisition or merger (including reasonable fees paid in connection therewith) or (iv) upon issuance upon conversion or exercise of the Purchased Warrants.
"Majority Holders" shall mean, at the relevant time of reference thereto, those Investors holding more than fifty percent (50%) of the Registrable Shares held by all of the Investors.
"Other Securities" refers to any stock (other than Common Stock) and other securities of the Company or any other person (corporate or otherwise) which the Holders of the Purchased Warrants at any time shall be entitled to receive, or shall have received, upon the exercise of the Purchased Warrants, in lieu of or in addition to Common Stock, or which at any time shall be issuable or shall have been issued in exchange for or in replacement of Common Stock or Other Securities pursuant to Section 6 of the Purchased Warrants or otherwise.
"Registrable Shares" shall mean any Shares or any shares of Common Stock or Other Securities issued or issuable from time to time upon the exercise of a Purchased Warrant, or a distribution with respect to, in exchange for, or in replacement of a Purchased Warrant, including without limitation Additional Shares.
"Rule 144" shall mean Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act and any successor or substitute rule, law or provision.
"SEC" shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Securities Act" shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all of the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
(b) The Company agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement to become effective as soon as practicable after filing, but in no event later than one hundred twenty (120) days after filing.
(c) The Company shall be required to keep the Registration Statement, as amended, effective until such date that is the earlier of (i) two years after the Closing, (ii) the date when all of the Registrable Shares registered thereunder shall have been sold, or (iii) such time as all the Registrable Shares held by the Investors can be sold pursuant to Rule 144(k) and without compliance with the registration requirements of the Securities Act (such date is referred to herein as the "Mandatory Registration Termination Date"). Thereafter, the Company shall be entitled to withdraw the Registration Statement and the Investors shall have no further right to offer or sell any of the Registrable Shares pursuant to the Registration Statement (or any prospectus relating thereto).
(d) The Company shall not grant any registration rights that are pari
passu with or senior to the registration rights of the Investors under this
Agreement if such registration rights would adversely affect the Investors'
ability to sell Registrable Shares pursuant to the Registration Statement. The
Company represents that no stockholders other than the Investors have the right
to sell any Common Stock or other securities of the Company pursuant to the
Registration Statement.
(b) The Registration Statement will provide for a plan of distribution with respect to the Registrable Shares substantially as follows: The Registrable Shares may be sold from time to time by the Investors, or by pledgees, donees, transferees or other successors in interest. Such sales may be made on one or more exchanges or in the over-the-counter market, or otherwise at prices and at terms then prevailing or at prices related to the then-current market price, or in negotiated transactions. The Registrable Shares may be sold by one or more of the following: (a) a block trade in which the broker or dealer so engaged will attempt to sell the shares as agent but may position and resell a portion of the block as principal to facilitate the transaction; (b) purchases by a broker or dealer as principal and resale by such broker or dealer for its account pursuant to the resale registration statement; (c) an exchange distribution in accordance with the rules of such exchange; (d) ordinary brokerage transactions and transactions in which the broker solicits purchasers; and (e) transactions between sellers and purchasers without a broker/dealer. In addition, any securities covered by the Registration Statement which qualify for sale pursuant to Rule 144 may be sold under Rule 144 rather than pursuant to the Registration Statement. From time to time the selling Investors may engage in short sales, short sales versus the box, puts and calls and other transactions in securities of the issuer or derivatives thereof, and may sell and deliver the shares in connection therewith. In effecting sales, brokers or dealers engaged by the selling Investors may arrange for other brokers or dealers to participate. Brokers or dealers will receive commissions or discounts from selling Investors in amounts to be negotiated immediately prior to the sale.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 7 of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against any indemnifying party under this Section 7, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof and the indemnifying party shall have the right to participate in and, to the extent the indemnifying party desires, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly noticed, to assume at its expense the defense thereof with counsel mutually satisfactory to the indemnifying parties with the consent of the indemnified party which consent will not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed. In the event that the indemnifying party assumes any such defense, the indemnified party may participate in such defense with its own counsel and at its own expense, provided, however, that the counsel for the indemnifying party shall act as lead counsel in all matters pertaining to such defense or settlement of such claim and the indemnifying party shall only pay for such indemnified party's reasonable legal fees and expenses for the period prior to the date of its participation in such defense, and provided further, however, that the indemnified party (together with all indemnified parties which may be represented without conflict by one counsel) shall have the right to retain one separate counsel, with the fees and expenses to be paid by the indemnifying party, if the representation of the indemnified party by the counsel retained by the indemnifying party would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between the indemnified party and any other party represented by such counsel in such proceeding. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the indemnifying party shall not be obligated to pay the fees of more than one separate counsel. The failure to notify an indemnifying party of the commencement of any such action will not relieve such indemnifying party of any liability to the indemnified party under this Section 7 (except to the extent that such failure materially and adversely affects the indemnifying party's ability to defend such action), nor shall the omission so to notify an indemnifying party relieve such indemnifying party of any liability which it may have to any indemnified party otherwise other than under this Section 7. No indemnifying party shall, without the consent of the indemnified party, consent to entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such indemnified party of a release from all liability in respect to such claim or litigation and otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party.
(a) Updating the Prospectus.
(b) General. Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon receipt of any notice from the Company of (i) any request by the SEC or any other federal or state governmental authority during the period of effectiveness of the Registration Statement for amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or related prospectus or for additional information relating to the Registration Statement, (ii) the issuance by the SEC or any other federal or state governmental authority of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose, (iii) the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification or exemption from qualification of any of the Registrable Shares for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose, (iv) the happening of any event which makes any statement made in the Registration Statement or related prospectus or any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference untrue in any material respect or which requires the making of any changes in the Registration Statement or prospectus so that, in the case of the Registration Statement, it will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and that in the case of the prospectus, it will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading or (v) that, in the judgment of the Company's Board of Directors, it is advisable to suspend use of the prospectus for a discrete period of time due to pending corporate developments, public filings with the Commission or that there exists material nonpublic information about the Company that the Board of Directors, acting in good faith, determines not to disclose in a registration statement, then the Company may suspend use of the prospectus (each a "Suspension"), in which case the Company shall promptly so notify each Investor and each Investor shall not dispose of Registrable Shares covered by the Registration Statement or prospectus until copies of a supplemented or amended prospectus are distributed to the Investors or until the Investors are advised in writing by the Company that the use of the applicable prospectus may be resumed; provided, however, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may suspend use of the prospectus pursuant to Sections 9(a)(ii), 9(b)(iv) and 9(b)(v), and an Investor may be prohibited from selling or otherwise disposing of the Registrable Shares covered by the Registration Statement or prospectus, on not more than two occasions in total during any twelve-month period and for no more than ninety (90) days in the aggregate during any such twelve-month period. The Company shall use its best efforts to ensure the use of the prospectus may be resumed as soon as practicable. The Company shall use its best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, or the lifting of any suspension of the qualification (or exemption from qualification) of any of the securities for sale in any jurisdiction, at the earliest practicable moment. The Company shall, upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by clause (iv), prepare a supplement or post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or a supplement to the related prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to the purchasers of the Registrable Shares being sold thereunder, such prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(a) Amendments. This Agreement may not be amended, modified or terminated, and no rights or provisions may be waived, except with the written consent of the Majority Holders and the Company.
(b) Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably consents and submits to the jurisdiction of any New York State or United States Federal Court sitting in the State of New York, County of New York, over any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement and irrevocably consents to the service of any and all process in any such action or proceeding by registered mail addressed to such party at its address specified herein (or as otherwise noticed to the other party). Each party further waives any objection to venue in New York and any objection to an action or proceeding in such state and county on the basis of forum non conveniens. Each party also waives any right to trial by jury.
(c) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective heirs, personal representatives, successors or assigns. This Agreement shall also be binding upon and inure to the benefit of any transferee of any of the Registrable Shares. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, if at any time any Investor shall cease to own any Registrable Shares, all of such Investor's rights under this Agreement shall immediately terminate.
(d) Notices
8X8, Inc.
2445 Mission College Boulevard
Santa Clara, California 95054
Attention: Chief Executive Officer
Fax number: (408) 980-0432
with a copy to:
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
650 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, California 94304
Attention: John T. Sheridan, Esq.
Fax number: (650) 493-6811
(e) Injunctive Relief. The parties acknowledge and agree that in the event of any breach of this Agreement, remedies at law may be inadequate, and each of the parties hereto shall be entitled to seek specific performance of the obligations of the other parties hereto and such appropriate injunctive relief as may be granted by a court of competent jurisdiction.
(f) Attorney's Fees. If any action at law or in equity is necessary to enforce or interpret any of the terms of this Agreement, the prevailing party shall be entitled to reasonable attorneys' fees, costs and necessary disbursements in addition to any other relief to which such party may be entitled.
(g) Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable under applicable law, such provision shall be replaced with a provision that accomplishes, to the extent possible, the original business purpose of such provision in a valid and enforceable manner, and the balance of the Agreement shall be interpreted as if such provision were so modified and shall be enforceable in accordance with its terms.
(h) Aggregation of Shares. Registrable Shares held or acquired by affiliated entities or persons shall be aggregated together for the purpose of determining the availability of any rights under this Agreement.
(i) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in a number of counterparts, any of which together shall for all purposes constitute one Agreement, binding on all the parties hereto notwithstanding that all such parties have not signed the same counterpart.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Investor Rights Agreement as of the date and year first above written.
8X8, Inc.
By: ________________________
Name:
Title:
INVESTOR
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By: ________________________
Name:
Exhibit A
SCHEDULE OF INVESTORS
Orin Hirschman
1231 East 10th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11230
Hershel Berkowitz
441 Yeshiva Lane, Apt 1A
Baltimore, MD 21208
Richard Grossman
259 Oakford Street
West Hempstead, NY 11552
Joshua Hirsch
1 Longfelow Place
Suite 3407
Boston, MA 12114
James Kardon
c/o Hahn & Hessen LLP
488 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Bryan Martin
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Barry Andrews
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Huw Rees
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Marc Petit-Hugunein
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