Exhibit 4.4
Execution Version
WARRANT AGREEMENT
This Warrant Agreement (“Warrant Agreement”) is entered into on October 19, 2022, and effective as of October 7, 2022, by and between Dragonfly Energy Holdings Corp. (f/k/a Chardan NexTech Acquisition 2 Corp.), a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC (the “Warrant Agent”).
WHEREAS, as part of its initial public offering (the “Public Offering”), Chardan NexTech Acquisition 2 Corp. (“Chardan”) issued 12,650,000 units (the “Units”) of the Company (including 1,650,000 Units issued pursuant to the underwriters’ full exercise of their over-allotment option), each Unit consisting of one share of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”) and three-quarters of one warrant (each whole warrant, a “Public Warrant”), each Public Warrant entitling its holder to purchase one share of Common Stock (the “Public Warrant Shares”);
WHEREAS, the Company completed the private sale of 4,627,858 private placement warrants (including 266,402 issued pursuant to the underwriters’ full exercise of their over-allotment option) to Chardan NexTech 2 Warrant Holdings LLC (“Holdings”), pursuant to the Subscription Agreement, dated as of August 10, 2021 (the “Private Warrants”), each whole Private Warrant entitling its holder to purchase one share of Common Stock (together with the Public Warrant Shares, the “Warrant Shares”);
WHEREAS, the Company may issue additional warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock hereunder from time to time (the “Additional Warrants”, and together with the Public Warrants and Private Warrants, the “Warrants”), which shall have the same terms and be in the same form as the Private Warrants;
WHEREAS, the Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Registration Statement on Form S-1, No. 333-254010, as amended (the “Registration Statement”), for the registration, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”) of, among other securities, the Public Warrants;
WHEREAS, Chardan entered into that certain Business Combination Agreement dated as of May 15, 2022, as amended on July 12, 2022 (the “Business Combination Agreement”), by and among Chardan, Bronco Merger Sub Inc., a Nevada corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Chardan (“Merger Sub”), and Dragonfly Energy Corp., a Nevada corporation (“Dragonfly”), pursuant to which (i) Merger Sub merged with and into Dragonfly, with Dragonfly surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Chardan (the “Merger”) and (ii) Chardan changed its name to “Dragonfly Energy Holdings Corp.”;
WHEREAS, the Merger closed on October 7, 2022 and the transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement were duly consummated;
WHEREAS, the Company desires the Warrant Agent to act on behalf of the Company, and the Warrant Agent is willing to so act, in connection with the issuance, registration, transfer, exchange, redemption and exercise of the Warrants;