BOTTOMLINE TECHNOLOGIES INC /DE/
10-K405, EX-10.31, 2000-09-28
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                                                                   Exhibit 10.31

           THIS WARRANT AND THE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK ISSUED UPON ITS
                   EXERCISE ARE SUBJECT TO THE RESTRICTIONS ON
                 TRANSFER SET FORTH IN SECTION 4 OF THIS WARRANT
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Date of Issuance: June 9, 2000                         Number of Shares: 307,882

                       BOTTOMLINE TECHNOLOGIES (DE), INC.
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                          Common Stock Purchase Warrant
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     Bottomline Technologies (de), Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"),
for value received, hereby certifies that Nevada Bond Investment Corp. II or its
registered assigns (the "Registered Holder"), is entitled, subject to the terms
and conditions set forth below, to purchase from the Company, at any time or
from time to time on or after the date of issuance and on or before (i) the
closing of a Sale of the Company (as defined in Section 2(e)) or (ii) the third
anniversary of the date of issuance of this Warrant, 307,882 shares of Common
Stock, $.001 par value per share, of the Company, at a purchase price of $38.00
per share. The shares purchasable upon exercise of this Warrant, and the
purchase price per share, each as adjusted from time to time pursuant to the
provisions of this Warrant, are hereinafter referred to as the "Warrant Shares"
and the "Purchase Price," respectively.

     1.   Exercise.
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          (a) This Warrant may be exercised by the Registered Holder, in whole
or in part, by surrendering this Warrant, with the purchase form appended hereto
as Exhibit I duly executed by the Registered Holder or by the Registered
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Holder's duly authorized attorney, at the principal office of the Company, or at
such other office or agency as the Company may designate, accompanied by payment
in full, in lawful money of the United States, of the Purchase Price payable in
respect of the number of Warrant Shares purchased upon such exercise.

          (b) The Registered Holder may, at its option, elect to pay some or all
of the Purchase Price payable upon an exercise of this Warrant by cancelling a
portion of this Warrant exercisable for such number of Warrant Shares as is
determined by dividing (i) the total Purchase Price payable in respect of the
number of Warrant Shares being purchased upon such exercise by (ii) the excess
of the Fair Market Value per share of Common Stock (as defined below) as of the
Exercise Date (as defined in subsection 1(c) below) over the Purchase Price per
share. If the Registered Holder wishes to exercise this Warrant pursuant to this
method of payment with respect to the maximum number of Warrant Shares
purchasable pursuant to this method, then the number of Warrant Shares so
purchasable shall be equal to the total number of Warrant Shares, minus the
product obtained by multiplying (x) the total number of Warrant Shares by

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(y) a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the Purchase Price per share and
the denominator of which shall be the Fair Market Value per share of Common
Stock as of the Exercise Date. The Fair Market Value per share of Common Stock
shall be determined as follows:

          (i) If the Common Stock is listed on a national securities exchange,
the Nasdaq National Market or another nationally recognized trading system as of
the Exercise Date, the Fair Market Value per share of Common Stock shall be
deemed to be the average of the high and low reported sale prices per share of
Common Stock thereon on the trading day immediately preceding the Exercise Date
(provided that if no such price is reported on such day, the Fair Market Value
per share of Common Stock shall be determined pursuant to clause (ii)).

          (ii) If the Common Stock is not listed on a national securities
exchange, the Nasdaq National Market or another nationally recognized trading
system as of the Exercise Date, the Fair Market Value per share of Common Stock
shall be deemed to be the amount most recently determined by the Board of
Directors to represent the fair market value per share of the Common Stock
(including without limitation a determination for purposes of granting Common
Stock options or issuing Common Stock under an employee benefit plan of the
Company); and, upon request of the Registered Holder, the Board of Directors (or
a representative thereof) shall promptly notify the Registered Holder of the
Fair Market Value per share of Common Stock. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if
the Board of Directors has not made such a determination within the three-month
period prior to the Exercise Date, then (A) the Board of Directors shall make a
determination of the Fair Market Value per share of the Common Stock within 15
days of a request by the Registered Holder that it do so, and (B) the exercise
of this Warrant pursuant to this subsection 1(b) shall be delayed until such
determination is made.

          (c) Each exercise of this Warrant shall be deemed to have been
effected immediately prior to the close of business on the day on which this
Warrant shall have been surrendered to the Company as provided in subsection
1(a) above (the "Exercise Date"). At such time, the person or persons in whose
name or names any certificates for Warrant Shares shall be issuable upon such
exercise as provided in subsection 1(d) below shall be deemed to have become the
holder or holders of record of the Warrant Shares represented by such
certificates.

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

          (i) a certificate or certificates for the number of full Warrant
Shares to which the Registered Holder shall be entitled upon such exercise plus,
in lieu of any

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fractional share to which the Registered Holder would otherwise be entitled,
cash in an amount determined pursuant to Section 3 hereof; and

          (ii) in case such exercise is in part only, a new warrant or warrants
(dated the date hereof) of like tenor, calling in the aggregate on the face or
faces thereof for the number of Warrant Shares equal (without giving effect to
any adjustment therein) to the number of such shares called for on the face of
this Warrant minus the sum of (a) the number of such shares purchased by the
Registered Holder upon such exercise plus (b) the number of Warrant Shares (if
any) covered by the portion of this Warrant cancelled in payment of the Purchase
Price payable upon such exercise pursuant to subsection 1(b) above.

     2.   Adjustments.
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          (a) Adjustment for Stock Splits and Combinations. If the Company shall
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at any time or from time to time after the date on which this Warrant was first
issued (the "Original Issue Date") effect a subdivision of the outstanding
Common Stock, the Purchase Price then in effect immediately before that
subdivision shall be proportionately decreased. If the Company shall at any time
or from time to time after the Original Issue Date combine the outstanding
shares of Common Stock, the Purchase Price then in effect immediately before the
combination shall be proportionately increased. Any adjustment under this
paragraph shall become effective at the close of business on the date the
subdivision or combination becomes effective.

          (b) Adjustment for Certain Dividends and Distributions. In the event
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the Company at any time, or from time to time after the Original Issue Date
shall make or issue, or fix a record date for the determination of holders of
Common Stock entitled to receive, a dividend or other distribution payable in
additional shares of Common Stock, then and in each such event the Purchase
Price then in effect immediately before such event shall be decreased as of the
time of such issuance or, in the event such a record date shall have been fixed,
as of the close of business on such record date, by multiplying the Purchase
Price then in effect by a fraction:

               (1) the numerator of which shall be the total number of shares of
          Common Stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the time of
          such issuance or the close of business on such record date, and

               (2) the denominator of which shall be the total number of shares
          of Common Stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the time
          of such issuance or the close of business on such record date plus the
          number of shares of Common Stock issuable in payment of such dividend
          or distribution;

provided, however, if such record date shall have been fixed and such dividend
is not fully paid or if such distribution is not fully made on the date fixed
therefor, the Purchase Price shall be recomputed accordingly as of the close of
business on such

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record date and thereafter the Purchase Price shall be adjusted pursuant to this
paragraph as of the time of actual payment of such dividends or distributions.

          (c) Adjustment in Number of Warrant Shares. When any adjustment is
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required to be made in the Purchase Price pursuant to subsections 2(a) or 2(b),
the number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon the exercise of this Warrant shall
be changed to the number determined by dividing (i) an amount equal to the
number of shares issuable upon the exercise of this Warrant immediately prior to
such adjustment, multiplied by the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to
such adjustment, by (ii) the Purchase Price in effect immediately after such
adjustment.

          (d) Adjustments for Other Dividends and Distributions. In the event
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the Company at any time or from time to time after the Original Issue Date shall
make or issue, or fix a record date for the determination of holders of Common
Stock entitled to receive, a dividend or other distribution payable in
securities of the Company (other than shares of Common Stock) or in cash or
other property (other than cash out of earnings or earned surplus, determined in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles), then and in each such
event provision shall be made so that the Registered Holder shall receive upon
exercise hereof, in addition to the number of shares of Common Stock issuable
hereunder, the kind and amount of securities of the Company and/or cash and
other property which the Registered Holder would have been entitled to receive
had this Warrant been exercised into Common Stock on the date of such event and
had the Registered Holder thereafter, during the period from the date of such
event to and including the Exercise Date, retained any such securities
receivable, giving application to all adjustments called for during such period
under this Section 2 with respect to the rights of the Registered Holder.

          (e) Adjustment for Mergers or Reorganizations, etc. If there shall
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occur any reorganization, recapitalization, consolidation or merger involving
the Company in which the Common Stock is converted into or exchanged for
securities, cash or other property (other than a Sale of the Company transaction
(as defined below) or a transaction covered by subsections 2(a), 2(b) or 2(d)),
then, following any such reorganization, recapitalization, consolidation or
merger, the Registered Holder shall receive upon exercise hereof the kind and
amount of securities, cash or other property which the Registered Holder would
have been entitled to receive if, immediately prior to such reorganization,
recapitalization, consolidation or merger, the Registered Holder had held the
number of shares of Common Stock subject to this Warrant. In any such case,
appropriate adjustment (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of
the Company) shall be made in the application of the provisions set forth herein
with respect to the rights and interests thereafter of the Registered Holder, to
the end that the provisions set forth in this Section 2 (including provisions
with respect to changes in and other adjustments of the Purchase Price) shall
thereafter be applicable, as nearly as reasonably may be, in relation to any
securities, cash or other property thereafter deliverable upon the exercise of
this Warrant. For the purposes hereof, a "Sale of the Company" shall mean (i)
the sale of all or substantially all of the assets or stock of the

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Company or (ii) the acquisition of the Company by means of a reorganization,
merger, consolidation or recapitalization unless the owners of the capital stock
of the Company before such transaction continue to own after such transaction
more than 50% of the capital stock of the acquiring or succeeding entity in
substantially the same proportions as held prior to such transaction.

          (f) Certificate as to Adjustments. Upon the occurrence of each
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adjustment or readjustment of the Purchase Price pursuant to this Section 2, the
Company at its expense shall promptly compute such adjustment or readjustment in
accordance with the terms hereof and furnish to the Registered Holder a
certificate setting forth such adjustment or readjustment (including the kind
and amount of securities, cash or other property for which this Warrant shall be
exercisable and the Purchase Price) 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 the Registered Holder, furnish or cause to be furnished
to the Registered Holder a certificate setting forth (i) the Purchase Price then
in effect and (ii) the number of shares of Common Stock and the amount, if any,
of other securities, cash or property which then would be received upon the
exercise of this Warrant.

     3.   Fractional Shares. The Company shall not be required upon the exercise
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of this Warrant to issue any fractional shares, but shall make an adjustment
therefor in cash on the basis of the Fair Market Value per share of Common
Stock, as determined pursuant to subsection1(b) above.

     4.   Requirements for Transfer.
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          (a) This Warrant and the Warrant Shares shall not be sold or
transferred unless either (i) they first shall have been registered under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), or (ii) the Company first shall
have been furnished with an opinion of legal counsel, reasonably satisfactory to
the Company (it being acknowledged that Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP shall be
deemed satisfactory), to the effect that such sale or transfer is exempt from
the registration requirements of the Act.

          (b) Each certificate representing Warrant Shares shall bear a legend
substantially in the following form:

               "The securities represented by this certificate have not been
               registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may
               not be offered, sold or otherwise transferred, pledged or
               hypothecated unless and until such securities are registered
               under such Act or an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the
               Company is obtained to the effect that such registration is not
               required."

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     The foregoing legend shall be removed from the certificates representing
any Warrant Shares, at the request of the holder thereof, at such time as they
become eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144(k) under the Act. The Company
shall cause the legend to be removed upon the registration of the Warrant Shares
pursuant to that certain Investor Rights Agreement dated of even date herewith
between the Company and the Registered Holder.

     5.   No Impairment. The Company will not, by amendment of its charter or
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through reorganization, 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 of this Warrant, but
will at all times in good faith assist in the carrying out of all such terms and
in the taking of all such action as may be necessary or appropriate in order to
protect the rights of the holder of this Warrant against impairment.

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

          (b) of any capital reorganization of the Company, any reclassification
of the Common Stock of the Company, any consolidation or merger of the Company
with or into another corporation (other than a consolidation or merger in which
the Company is the surviving entity and its Common Stock is not converted into
or exchanged for any other securities or property), or any transfer of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Company; or

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

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

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     7.   Reservation of Stock. The Company will at all times reserve and keep
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available, solely for issuance and delivery upon the exercise of this Warrant,
such number of Warrant Shares and other securities, cash and/or property, as
from time to time shall be issuable upon the exercise of this Warrant.

     8.   Exchange of Warrants. Upon the surrender by the Registered Holder,
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properly endorsed, to the Company at the principal office of the Company, the
Company will, subject to the provisions of Section 4 hereof, issue and deliver
to or upon the order of such Holder, at the Company's expense, a new Warrant or
Warrants of like tenor, in the name of the Registered Holder or as the
Registered Holder (upon payment by the Registered Holder of any applicable
transfer taxes) may direct, calling in the aggregate on the face or faces
thereof for the number of shares of Common Stock (or other securities, cash
and/or property) then issuable upon exercise of this Warrant.

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

     10.  Transfers, etc.
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          (a) The Company will maintain a register containing the name and
address of the Registered Holder of this Warrant. The Registered Holder may
change its or his address as shown on the warrant register by written notice to
the Company requesting such change.

          (b) Subject to the provisions of Section 4 hereof, this Warrant and
all rights hereunder are transferable, in whole or in part, upon surrender of
this Warrant with a properly executed assignment (in the form of Exhibit II
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hereto) at the principal office of the Company.

          (c) Until any transfer of this Warrant is made in the warrant
register, the Company may treat the Registered Holder as the absolute owner
hereof for all purposes; provided, however, that if and when this Warrant is
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properly assigned in blank, the Company may (but shall not be obligated to)
treat the bearer hereof as the absolute owner hereof for all purposes,
notwithstanding any notice to the contrary.

     11.  Mailing of Notices, etc. All notices and other communications from the
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Company to the Registered Holder shall be mailed by first-class certified or
registered mail, postage prepaid, to the address last furnished to the Company
in writing by the Registered Holder. All notices and other communications from
the Registered Holder or in connection herewith to the Company shall be mailed
by first-class certified or registered mail, postage prepaid, to the Company at
its principal office set forth below. If the Company should at any time change
the location of its principal office to a place

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other than as set forth below, it shall give prompt written notice to the
Registered Holder and thereafter all references in this Warrant to the location
of its principal office at the particular time shall be as so specified in such
notice.

     12.  No Rights as Stockholder. Until the exercise of this Warrant, the
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Registered Holder shall not have or exercise any rights by virtue hereof as a
stockholder of the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event (i) the
Company effects a split of the Common Stock by means of a stock dividend and the
Purchase Price of and the number of Warrant Shares are adjusted as of the date
of the distribution of the dividend (rather than as of the record date for such
dividend), and (ii) the Registered Holder exercises this Warrant between the
record date and the distribution date for such stock dividend, the Registered
Holder shall be entitled to receive, on the distribution date, the stock
dividend with respect to the shares of Common Stock acquired upon such exercise,
notwithstanding the fact that such shares were not outstanding as of the close
of business on the record date for such stock dividend.

     13.  Change or Waiver. Any term of this Warrant may be changed or waived
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only by an instrument in writing signed by the party against which enforcement
of the change or waiver is sought.

     14.  Section Headings. The section headings in this Warrant are for the
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convenience of the parties and in no way alter, modify, amend, limit or restrict
the contractual obligations of the parties.

     15.  Governing Law. This Warrant will be governed by and construed in
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accordance with the internal laws of the State of Delaware (without reference to
the conflicts of law provisions thereof).

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     EXECUTED as of the Date of Issuance indicated above.

                                              BOTTOMLINE TECHNOLOGIES (de), INC.

                                              By: /s/ Robert A. Eberle
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[Corporate Seal]                              Title:  Exec VP & CFO
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ATTEST:

  /s/ John R. Keller
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                                                                       EXHIBIT I

                                  PURCHASE FORM
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To:_________________                                          Dated:____________

     The undersigned, pursuant to the provisions set forth in the attached
Warrant (No. ___), hereby irrevocably elects to purchase (check applicable box):

     0    _____ shares of the Common Stock covered by such Warrant; or

     0    the maximum number of shares of Common Stock covered by such Warrant
          pursuant to the cashless exercise procedure set forth in Section 1(b).

     The undersigned herewith makes payment of the full purchase price for such
shares at the price per share provided for in such Warrant, which is $________.
Such payment takes the form of (check applicable box or boxes):

     0    $______ in lawful money of the United States; and/or

     0    the cancellation of such portion of the attached Warrant as is
          exercisable for a total of _____ Warrant Shares (using a Fair Market
          Value of $_____ per share for purposes of this calculation); and/or

     0    the cancellation of such number of Warrant Shares as is necessary, in
          accordance with the formula set forth in Section 1(b), to exercise
          this Warrant with respect to the maximum number of Warrant Shares
          purchasable pursuant to the cashless exercise procedure set forth in
          Section 1(b).

                                         Signature: _______________________

                                         Address:   _______________________

                                                    _______________________

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                                                                      EXHIBIT II

                                 ASSIGNMENT FORM

     FOR VALUE RECEIVED, ________________________________________ hereby sells,
assigns and transfers all of the rights of the undersigned under the attached
Warrant (No. ____) with respect to the number of shares of Common Stock covered
thereby set forth below, unto:

Name of Assignee                         Address                   No. of Shares
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Dated:_____________________           Signature:________________________________

Signature Guaranteed:

By: _______________________

The signature should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks,
stockbrokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions with membership in
an approved signature guarantee medallion program) pursuant to Rule 17Ad-15
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

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