Certain identified information has been excluded from the exhibit because it is both not material and is the type that the registrant treats as private or confidential. THIS SHARE EXCHANGE AGREEMENT made as of the 26th day of April, 2018. AMONG:
Exhibit 2.3
Certain identified information has been excluded from the exhibit
because it is both not material and is the type that
the registrant treats as private or
confidential.
THIS SHARE EXCHANGE AGREEMENT made as of the 26th
day of April, 2018.
AMONG:
MM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY,
INC., a corporation existing
under the laws of the State of Nevada
(hereinafter called the “Corporation”)
OF THE FIRST PART
AND:
CARPINCHO CAPITAL
CORP., a corporation existing
under the federal laws of the Canada
(hereinafter called the “Acquiror”)
OF THE SECOND PART
AND:
ALL OF THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE CORPORATION AS SET OUT IN SCHEDULE
“A” HERETO
(hereinafter called the “Shareholders”)
WHEREAS the Shareholders wish to transfer, and the
Acquiror wishes to acquire from the Shareholders all of the
Acquired Corporation Shares (as defined below), for the
consideration and upon the terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement;
AND WHEREAS the parties intend that the Transaction will
constitute as a single integrated transaction qualifying for
tax-deferred treatment under Section 351 of the U.S. Internal Revenue
Code (“Code”)
and that, upon completion of the Transaction, the Acquiror shall be
treated as a U.S. domestic corporation for U.S. federal income tax
purposes under Section 7874(b) of the Code.
NOW THEREFORE THIS AGREEMENT
WITNESSES THAT in consideration
of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, and other
good and valuable consideration (the receipt and sufficiency of
which are hereby acknowledged), the parties hereto covenant and
agree as follows:
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ARTICLE 1
INTERPRETATION
1.1
Where
used herein or in any amendments or schedules hereto, the following
terms shall have the following meanings:
“Accounts
Receivable” means
accounts receivable, bills receivable, trade accounts, book debts
and insurance claims recorded as receivable in the Books and
Records and other amounts due or deemed to be due to the
Corporation including refunds and rebates receivable to the extent
reflected in the Financial Statements of the
Corporation;
“Acquiror Public Disclosure
Record” means the
Acquiror’s publically filed documents, as filed on the System
for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval
(SEDAR);
“Acquiror Shareholder
Approval” means the
approval by the shareholders of the Acquiror of the Transaction
Resolutions by unanimous written consent
resolution;
“Acquiror
Shares” means the common
shares in the capital of the Acquiror as currently
constituted;
“Acquiror Special
Warrants” means special
warrants to acquire Acquiror Shares;
“Acquired Corporation
Shares” means,
collectively, the 25,300,000 Corporation Shares and the 49,700,000
Corporation Non-Voting Shares to be held collectively by the
Shareholders as of the Closing Date, as set out in Schedule
“A” hereto;
“Acquisition
Price” has the meaning
ascribed to such team in Section 2.3 hereof;
“Acquisition
Proposal” means, other
than the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, any
bona fide
offer, proposal, expression of
interest, or inquiry from any Person (other than the Acquiror or
any of its affiliates) made after the date hereof relating
to:
(a)
any
acquisition or sale, direct or indirect, whether in a single
transaction or a series of related transactions, of: (i) assets of
the Corporation or the Acquiror, as the case may be, that
constitutes 50% or more of the fair market value of the assets of
the Corporation or the Acquiror, as the case may be; or (ii) 50% or
more of any voting or equity securities of the Corporation or the
Acquiror; or
(b)
any
plan of arrangement, merger, amalgamation, consolidation, share
exchange, business combination, reorganization, recapitalization,
liquidation, dissolution or other similar transaction involving the
Corporation or the Acquiror;
“Agreement” means this Agreement and all amendments
made hereto by written agreement signed by the parties and includes
the schedules hereto;
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“Amalco” means the company resulting from the
Amalgamation;
“Amalgamation” means the amalgamation of a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the Acquiror with Xxxxx, to be set out in an
agreement among Acquiror, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the
Acquiror, and Xxxxx, in connection with the completion of the
Transaction;
“Applicable
Laws” means, in relation
to any person or persons, applicable Securities Laws and all other
statutes, regulations, statutory rules, orders, by-laws, codes,
ordinances, decrees, the terms and conditions of any grant of
approval, permission, authority or licence, or any judgment, order,
decision, ruling, award, policy or guideline, of any Governmental
Entity that are applicable to such person or persons or its or
their business, undertaking, property or securities and emanate
from a Governmental Entity, having jurisdiction over the person or
persons or its or their business, undertaking, property or
securities;
“Assets” includes all assets of the Corporation,
including Intellectual Property, having a fair market value in
excess of $5,000, and includes, but is not limited to, all of the
assets to be described in the Financial Statements of the
Corporation;
“Authorizations”
means all required corporate, regulatory and shareholder approvals,
consents, authorizations and waivers relating to (i) the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement,
(ii) the Transaction, (iii) the Amalgamation; and (iv) the Stock
Exchange Listing, shall have been obtained on terms and conditions
satisfactory to the parties, acting reasonably;
“Books
and Records” means books
and records of the Corporation relating to the Corporation,
including financial, corporate, operations and sales books,
records, books of account, sales and purchase records, lists of
suppliers and customers, formulae, business reports, plans and
projections and all other documents, surveys, plans, files,
records, assessments, correspondence, and other data and
information, financial or otherwise, including all data,
information and databases stored on computer-related or other
electronic media;
“Brokered
Financing” means the
brokered financing of Xxxxx Subscription Receipts to be completed
prior to the Closing for gross proceeds of up to $25 million; the
net proceeds of which will be placed in escrow and released to
Xxxxx, and the Xxxxx Subscription Receipts will automatically be
converted into Xxxxx Units, on satisfaction of certain escrow
release conditions, and each Xxxxx Share will then be exchanged for
one Resulting Issuer Share and each Xxxxx Warrant will then be
exchanged for one Resulting Issuer Warrant, respectively, in
connection with the Transaction and the
Amalgamation;
“Business” means the business carried on by the
Corporation which involves the cultivation, extraction, production,
and sale of cannabis and cannabis-related products including
ancillary activities related thereto, as more particularly
described in the Listing Statement;
“Business Day” means any day which is not a Saturday,
Sunday or a statutory holiday in the Province of
Ontario;
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“CBCA” means the Canada Business Corporations
Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. C-44, as
amended and any legislation enacted in substitution
therefor;
“CSE” means the Canadian Securities
Exchange;
“Closing Date” has the meaning ascribed to such term in
Section 2.9 hereof; “Closing” has the meaning ascribed to such term in
Section 2.9 hereof; “Code” means the United States Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended;
“Consideration
Shares” means,
collectively, the Resulting Issuer Shares and the Restricted
Shares, all as more particularly set forth in Schedule
“A” hereto;
“Consolidation”
means the consolidation of the Acquiror Shares on the basis of
0.875 of a new Acquiror Share for every one existing Acquiror
Share;
“Copyright” means all rights, titles, interests and
benefits in and to (a) all copyright and neighbouring rights in the
Works, (b) all registrations for copyright and neighbouring rights,
pending applications for registrations of copyright and
neighbouring rights, and rights to file applications for
registrations of copyright and neighbouring rights for the Works,
and (c) all sui generis rights in the
Databases.
“Corporation
Board” means the board of
directors of the Corporation;
“Corporation
Nominee” means each
director of the Resulting Issuer who is nominated by the Acquiror,
on the recommendation of the Corporation, prior to the completion
of the Transaction;
“Corporation Non-Voting
Shares” means the class B
common non-voting shares in the capital of the
Corporation;
“Corporation Shareholder
Approval” means the
approval by the shareholders of the Corporation of the Corporation
Transaction Resolution by unanimous written consent
resolution;
“Corporation
Shares” means the class A
common voting shares in the capital of the
Corporation;
“Corporation Transaction
Resolution” means the
resolution of the Shareholders approving the
Transaction;
“Databases” has the meaning set out in the definition
of Works.
“Encumbrances” means any and all claims, liens, security
interests, mortgages, pledges, preemptive rights, charges, options,
equity interests, encumbrances, proxies, voting agreements, voting
trusts, leases, tenancies, easements or other interests of any
nature or kind whatsoever, howsoever created, but shall not
include: (i) an encumbrance for Taxes not yet due and delinquent;
(ii) inchoate or statutory encumbrances of contractors,
subcontractors, mechanics,
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workers, suppliers, materialmen, carriers and others in respect of
the construction, maintenance, repair or operation of the Assets,
provided that such encumbrances are related to obligations not due
or delinquent and in respect of which adequate holdbacks are being
maintained as required by Applicable Law; and (iii) the right
reserved to or vested in any Governmental Entity by any statutory
provision or by the terms of any lease, licence, franchise, grant
or permit of either Party, to terminate any such lease, licence,
franchise, grant or permit, or to require annual or other payments
as a condition of their continuance;
“Environmental
Laws” means all
applicable federal, provincial, state, local and foreign laws,
imposing liability or standards of conduct for, or relating to, the
regulation of activities, materials, substances or wastes in
connection with, or for, or to, the protection of human health,
safety, the environment or natural resources (including ambient
air, surface water, groundwater, wetlands, land surface or
subsurface strata, wildlife, aquatic species and
vegetation);
“Environmental
Liabilities” means, with
respect to any Person, all liabilities, remedial and removal costs,
investigation costs, capital costs, operation and maintenance
costs, losses, damages, (including punitive damages, property
damages, consequential damages and treble damages), costs and
expenses, fines, penalties and sanctions incurred as a result of,
or related to, any claim, suit, action, administrative order,
investigation, proceeding or demand by any Person, whether based in
contract, tort, implied or express warranty, strict liability,
criminal or civil statute or common law arising under, or related
to, any Environmental Laws, Environmental Permits, or in connection
with any Release or threatened Release or presence of a Hazardous
Substance whether on, at, in, under, from or about or in the
vicinity of any real or personal property;
“Environmental
Permits” means all
permits, licenses, written authorizations, certificates, approvals,
program participation requirements, sign-offs or registrations
required by or available with or from any Governmental Entity under
any Environmental Laws;
“Financial Statements of the
Corporation” means the
audited financial statements of the Corporation for the fiscal
years ended December 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016, consisting of
the balance sheet and the income statement, to be prepared in
accordance with Applicable Laws and the regulations of the CSE in
connection with the listing of the Resulting Issuer Shares and to
be filed in the listing statement of the Acqurior on SEDAR in
connection with the Transaction;
“Xxxxx” means 10653918 Canada Inc., a company
existing under the federal laws of Canada;
“Xxxxx
Financing” means,
collectively, the Brokered Financing and the Non-Brokered
Financing;
“Xxxxx
Shares” means common
shares in the authorized share capital of
Xxxxx;
“Xxxxx
Subscription Receipts”
means subscription receipts of Xxxxx issued in the Xxxxx Financing
at a price of $0.80 per subscription receipt, which will
automatically be converted into Xxxxx Units immediately prior to
the completion of the Transaction;
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“Xxxxx
Units” means the units of
Xxxxx to be issued on exercise or deemed exercise of the Xxxxx
Subscription Receipts, each such unit consisting of one (1) Xxxxx
Share and one-half of one Xxxxx Warrant;
“Xxxxx
Warrants” means the whole
share purchase warrants issued to holders of Xxxxx Subscription
Receipts upon satisfaction of certain escrow release conditions,
each whole such Xxxxx Warrant entitling the holder thereof to
purchase one (1) Xxxxx Share at a price of $1.40 per share for a
period of 24 months following the satisfaction of certain escrow
release conditions;
“Governmental
Entity” means any
applicable: (a) multinational, federal, provincial, state,
regional, municipal, local or other government, governmental or
public department, central bank, court, tribunal, arbitral body,
commission, board, bureau or agency, domestic or foreign; (b)
subdivision, agent, commission, board or authority of any of the
foregoing; (c) quasi-governmental or private body, including any
tribunal, commission, regulatory agency or self-regulatory
organization, exercising any regulatory, expropriation or taxing
authority under or for the account of any of the foregoing; or (d)
stock exchange, including the CSE;
“Hazardous
Substance” means any
pollutant, contaminant, waste or chemical or any toxic,
radioactive, ignitable, corrosive, reactive or otherwise hazardous
or deleterious substance, or material, including petroleum,
polychlorinated biphenyls, asbestos and urea-formaldehyde
insulation, and any other material or contaminant regulated or
defined under any Environmental Law;
“IFRS” means the International Financial
Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting
Standards Board;
“Information
Technology” means
computer hardware, software in source code and object code form
(including documentation, interfaces and development tools),
programs, websites for the Corporation, databases,
telecommunications equipment and facilities and other information
technology systems owned, used or held by the
Corporation;
“Intellectual
Property” means
intellectual property rights, whether registered or not, owned,
licensed or used, throughout the world,
including:
(c)
inventions,
algorithms, methods, procedures, techniques, instructions, guides,
manuals, samples, specifications, schematics, invention
disclosures, statutory invention registrations, trade secrets and
confidential business information, know-how, manufacturing and
product processes and techniques, research and development
information, records, financial, marketing and business data,
pricing and cost information, business and marketing plans and
customer and supplier lists and information, whether patentable or
non-patentable, whether copyrightable or non-copyrightable and
whether or not reduced to practice;
(d)
patents,
pending patent applications, utility models, design registrations
and certificates of invention and other governmental grants for the
protection of
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inventions
or industrial designs (including divisionals, reissues, renewals,
reexaminations, continuations, continuations-in-part and
extensions);
(e)
trade-marks
and service marks, trade dress, trade-names, corporate names,
business names, doing business designations, logos, slogans,
distinguishing guises, other indicia of origin and all
registrations and applications for registration thereof, common law
trademarks and service marks and all goodwill associated with the
foregoing;
(f)
all
rights, titles, interests and benefits in and to the Works,
including the Copyright and the moral rights and all waivers of
moral rights in the Works;
(g)
all
rights, titles, interests and benefits in and to the
Know-How;
(h)
industrial
designs and all registrations thereof;
(i)
Information
Technology and all registrations thereof;
(j)
mask
works, semiconductor topologies, integrated circuit topographies
and registrations and applications for registration thereof;
and
(k)
other
proprietary rights relating to any of the foregoing, whether
recognized by statutory law or common or civil law (including
remedies against infringement thereof and rights of protection of
interest therein under Applicable Laws);
(l)
income
and proceeds from any of the intellectual property listed in
paragraphs (c) to (k) above;
(m)
rights
to damages and profits by reason of the infringement of any of the
intellectual property described in items (c) to (k) above;
and
(n)
goodwill
associated with any of the foregoing;
“Know-How” means all know-how, trade secrets,
proprietary information, confidential information and information
of a sensitive nature used by the Corporation in the Business that
have value to the Business or relate to business opportunities for
the Corporation, in whatever form communicated, maintained or
stored, including (a) all formulae, recipes, algorithms, business
methods, technical processes, specifications, manuals, drawings,
prototypes, models, corporate plans, management systems and
techniques, (b) all information relating to the research,
development, manufacture, marketing, sales or post-sales activities
of any past, present or future goods or services, including lab
journals, notebooks, design documentation, engineering
documentation, manufacturing documentation, costing information,
advertising plans, pricing information, customer names, customer
lists and other details of customers, supplier names, supplier
lists and other details of suppliers, sales targets, sales
statistics, market share information, market research and survey
information;
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“Leased Real
Property” means lands
and/or premises which are used by the Corporation and which are
leased, subleased, licensed to or otherwise occupied by the
Corporation;
“Letter
Agreement” means the
letter agreement dated February 13, 2018 between the Acquiror and
Corporation, as amended on March 8, 2018;
“Licensed IP” means the Intellectual Property that is
necessary and material to the business of the Corporation as
presently conducted or as proposed to be conducted and that is
owned by any person other than the Corporation;
“Listing
Statement” means the
listing statement of the Acquiror in accordance with requirements
of the CSE in respect of the Transaction;
“Material Adverse
Change” means a change
with respect to a Person that would have a Material Adverse
Effect;
“Material Adverse
Effect” means, in respect
of any Person, any change, effect, event, circumstance, fact or
occurrence that individually or in the aggregate with other such
changes, effects, events, circumstances, facts or occurrences, is
or would reasonably be expected to be, material and adverse to the
business, condition (financial or otherwise), properties,
prospects, assets (tangible or intangible), liabilities (including
any contingent liabilities), operations or results of operations of
that Person and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, except any
change, effect, event, circumstance, fact or occurrence resulting
from or relating to: (i) the announcement of the execution of this
Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby; (ii) general
political, economic or financial conditions in Canada or the United
States of America; (iii) the state of securities or commodity
markets in general (provided that it does not have a materially
disproportionate effect on that Person relative to comparable
cannabis companies); (iv) any natural disaster or the commencement
or continuation of any war, armed hostilities or acts of terrorism
(provided that it does not have a materially disproportionate
effect on that Person relative to comparable cannabis companies);
or (v) any decrease in the trading price or any decline in the
trading volume of that Person’s common shares (it being
understood that the causes underlying such change in trading price
or trading volume (other than those in items (i) to (v) above) may
be taken into account in determining whether a Material Adverse
Effect has occurred);
“Material
Contract” is any contract
material to the business, prospects or affairs of the Corporation
and includes but is not limited to, those Material Contracts listed
in Schedule “B” attached hereto;
“Non-Brokered
Financing” means the
non-brokered financing of Xxxxx Subscription Receipts to be
completed prior to the Closing for gross proceeds of up to $5
million; the gross proceeds of which will be placed in escrow and
released to Xxxxx, and the Xxxxx Subscription Receipts will
automatically be converted into Xxxxx Units, on satisfaction of
certain escrow release conditions, and each Xxxxx Share will then
be exchanged for one Resulting Issuer Share and each Xxxxx Warrant
will then be exchanged for one Resulting Issuer Warrant,
respectively, in connection with the Transaction and the
Amalgamation;
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“Owned
Real Property” means real
property owned by the Corporation, and real property, other than
Leased Real Property, in which the Corporation has an ownership
interest;
“Permit” means any license, permit, certificate,
consent, order, grant, approval, classification, registration or
other authorization of and from any Governmental
Entity;
“Person” includes an individual, partnership,
association, unincorporated organization, trust and corporation and
a natural person acting in such person’s individual capacity
or in such person’s capacity as trustee, executor,
administrator, agent or other legal
representative;
“Personally Identifiable
Information” means any
information that alone or in combination with other information
held by the Corporation can be used to specifically identify a
person including but not limited to a natural person’s name,
street address, telephone number, e-mail address, photograph,
social insurance number, driver’s license number, passport
number, credit or debit card number or customer or financial
account number or any similar information that is treated as
“Personally Identifiable Information” under any
Applicable Laws;
“Real
Property Leases” means
contracts pursuant to which the Corporation uses or occupies the
Leased Real Property;
“Release” means any release, spill, emission,
leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, escape, injection,
deposit, disposal, discharge, dispersal, dumping, leaching or
migration of Hazardous Substance in the indoor or outdoor
environment, including the movement of Hazardous Substance through
or in the air, soil, surface water, groundwater or
property;
“Representatives”
means, collectively, in respect of a Person, (a) its directors,
officers, employees, agents, representatives and any financial
advisor, law firm, accounting firm or other professional firm
retained to assist the Person in connection with the transactions
contemplated in this Agreement, and (b) the Person’s
affiliates and subsidiaries and the directors, officers, employees,
agents and representatives and advisors
thereof;
“Restricted
Shares” means the Class A
Restricted Voting Shares in the capital of the Resulting Issuer
having the terms and conditions in substantially the form set out
in Schedule “C” hereto and to be received by the
Shareholders as set forth in Schedule “A”
hereto;
“Resulting
Issuer” means the
Acquiror following the Consolidation and the completion of the
Transaction, and to be renamed “Planet 13 Holdings
Inc.”, or such other name as determined by the directors of
the Acquiror;
“Resulting Issuer
Shares” means common
shares in the capital of the Resulting Issuer;
“Resulting Issuer
Warrant” means common
share purchase warrants to acquire Resulting Issuer
Shares;
“Securities
Authorities” means the
securities commissions or other securities regulatory authorities
in Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova
Scotia, Ontario, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Island, and Quebec, and each of the
other provinces and territories of Canada;
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“Securities
Act” means the
Securities
Act (Ontario) and the rules,
regulations and published policies made thereunder, as now in
effect and as they may be promulgated or amended from time to
time;
“Securities
Laws” means the
Securities Act, together with all applicable Canadian provincial
securities laws, rules and regulations and published policies
thereunder as now in effect and as they may be promulgated or
amended from time to time;
“Shareholders” means, collectively, the holders of an
aggregate of 25,300,000 Corporation Shares and 49,700,000
Corporation Non-Voting Shares, as listed in Schedule
“A”;
“Software” means all computer programs and all
updates, upgrades and all versions thereof owned or licensed, by
the Corporation and developed, sold, licensed to third parties,
marketed or supported by the Corporation in its normal course of
business, including but not limited to all computer software code,
applications, utilities, development tools, diagnostics, databases
and embedded systems, whether in source code, interpreted code or
object code form, program files, data files, computer related data,
field and data definitions and relationships, data definitions
specifications, data models, programs and systems logic,
interfaces, program modules, routines, sub-routines, algorithms,
program architecture, design concepts, system designs, program
structure, sequence and organization, screen displays and report
layouts;
“Stock
Exchange Listing” means
the conditional approval of CSE for the listing of the
Consideration Shares on the CSE;
“Tangible Personal
Property” means
machinery, equipment, furniture, furnishings, office equipment,
computer hardware, vehicles and tangible assets owned and currently
used by the Corporation, excluding all obsolete and non-functional
assets of the Corporation;
“Tax
Act” means the
Income Tax
Act (Canada), as amended from
time to time;
“Taxes” in respect of a Party means: any and all
taxes, imposts, levies, withholdings, duties, fees, premiums,
assessments and other charges of any kind, however denominated and
instalments in respect thereof, including any interest, penalties,
fines or other additions that have been, are or will become payable
in respect thereof, imposed by any Governmental Entity, including
for greater certainty all income or profits, taxes (including
federal, provincial, state, municipal and territorial income
taxes), payroll and employee withholding taxes, employment taxes,
unemployment insurance, disability taxes, social insurance taxes,
sales and use taxes, ad valorem taxes, excise taxes, goods and services taxes,
harmonized sales taxes, franchise taxes, gross receipts taxes,
capital taxes, business license taxes, alternative minimum taxes,
estimated taxes, abandoned or unclaimed (escheat) taxes, occupation taxes, real and personal
property taxes, stamp taxes, environmental taxes, transfer taxes,
severance taxes, workers’ compensation, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, and other government pension plan premiums
or contributions and other governmental charges, and other
obligations of the same or of a similar nature to any of the
foregoing, which such Party or any of its subsidiaries is required
to pay, withhold or collect, together with any interest, penalties
or other additions to tax that may
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become
payable in respect of such taxes, and any interest in respect of
such interest, penalties and additions whether disputed or
not;
“Technical
Information” means
know-how and related technical knowledge owned, used or held by the
Corporation, including: (a) trade secrets, confidential information
and other proprietary know-how; (b) public information and
non-proprietary know-how; (c) information of a scientific,
technical, financial or business nature regardless of its form; (d)
uniform resource locators, domain names, telephone, telecopy,
internet protocol and email addresses, and UPC consumer packaging
codes; and (e) documented research, forecasts, studies, marketing
plans, budgets, market data, developmental, demonstration or
engineering work, information that can be used to define a design
or process or procure, produce, support or operate material and
equipment, methods of production and procedures, all formulas and
designs and drawings, blueprints, patterns, plans, flow charts,
parts lists, manuals and records, specifications, and test
data;
“Technology” means Intellectual Property, Technical
Information and Information Technology;
“Termination
Date” has the meaning
ascribed to such term in Section 13.1(d)
hereof;
“Time of
Closing” has the meaning
ascribed to such term in Section 2.9 hereof;
“Transaction” means, together with the Amalgamation, the
exchange by the Shareholders of the Acquired Corporation Shares for
the Consideration Shares as contemplated in Sections 2.1 and 2.3,
and the liquidation of Amalco under Section
2.4;
“Transaction
Resolutions” has the
meaning set out in Section 6.1(a);
“U.S. Securities
Act” means the United
States Securities Act of 1933, as amended; and
“Works” means all works and subject matter used by
the Corporation in the Business, in which copyright, neighbouring
rights or moral rights subsist, including (a) all Software, (b) all
databases and database layouts (the “Databases”), (c) all documents and other works
relating to the Software or the Databases, (d) all other literary,
artistic, pictorial, graphic, musical, dramatic and audio-visual
works, (e) all performer’s performances, sound recordings,
and other neighbouring works, (f) all compilations of the
foregoing, and (g) all derivatives, enhancements and modifications
of the foregoing.
1.2
Parties
The Corporation, the Acquiror and each person or
entity that becomes a party hereto in accordance with the terms
hereof are collectively referred to as “Parties” and individually as a
“Party”.
1.3
Interpretation
Not Affected by Headings
The
division of this Agreement into Articles and Sections and the
insertion of headings are for convenience of reference only and
shall not affect in any way the meaning or
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interpretation
of this Agreement. Unless the contrary intention appears,
references in this Agreement to an Article, Section or Schedule by
number or letter or both refer to the Article, Section or Schedule,
respectively, bearing that designation in this
Agreement.
1.4
Number
and Gender
In this Agreement, unless the contrary intention
appears, words importing the singular include the plural and
vice
versa, and words importing
gender include all genders.
1.5
Date
for Any Action
If
the date on or by which any action is required or permitted to be
taken hereunder by a Party is not a Business Day, such action shall
be required or permitted to be taken on the next succeeding day
which is a Business Day.
1.6
Currency
Unless
otherwise stated, all references in this Agreement to sums of money
are expressed in lawful money of Canada and “$” refers
to Canadian dollars.
1.7
Accounting
Matters
Unless
otherwise stated, all accounting terms used in this Agreement shall
have the meanings attributable thereto under IFRS and all
determinations of an accounting nature required to be made shall be
made in a manner consistent with IFRS consistently
applied.
1.8
Knowledge
In
this Agreement, references to “the knowledge of the
Corporation” means the actual collective knowledge of Xxxxxx
X. Xxxxxxxxx and Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, in their respective capacities as
Co-Chief Executive Officers of the Corporation.
In
this Agreement, references to “the knowledge of the
Acquiror” means the actual knowledge of Xxxxxx Xxxxx in his
capacity as President, Chief Executive Officer, and acting Chief
Financial Officer of the Acquiror.
1.9
Schedules
The
following Schedules are annexed to this Agreement and are
incorporated by reference into this Agreement and form a part
hereof:
Schedule
“A”
Shareholders
of the Corporation
Schedule
“B”
Material
Contracts of the Corporation
Schedule
“C”
Restricted
Share Terms
Schedule
“D”
Consents
and Approvals
Schedule
“E”
Owned
and Leased Real Property
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ARTICLE 2
AGREEMENT TO EXCHANGE AND CANCEL
2.1
Subject
to the terms and conditions hereof, and immediately after the
completion of the Amalgamation, at the Time of Closing, and for
greater certainty, concurrently with the closing of the Transaction
and the Stock Exchange Listing, the Shareholders shall transfer to
the Acquiror, and the Acquiror shall accept from the Shareholders,
the Acquired Corporation Shares held by the Shareholders and the
Shareholders shall deliver to the Acquiror certificates
representing the Acquired Corporation Shares, duly endorsed in
blank for transfer, registered in the name of the Acquiror or
accompanied by duly executed powers of attorney in respect thereof
for the transfer of Acquired Corporation Shares to the
Acquiror.
2.2
U.S. Tax
Treatment. The parties to this
Agreement intend that the Transaction contemplated by this
Agreement shall constitute a single integrated transaction which
qualifies as tax-deferred exchange pursuant to Section 351 of the
Code. In connection with the Transaction and at all times from and
after the Closing, the parties agree to treat Resulting Issuer as a
United States domestic corporation for U.S. federal income tax
purposes pursuant to Section 7874(b) of the Code. No party shall
take any action, fail to take any action, cause any action to be
taken or cause any action to fail to be taken that could reasonably
be expected to prevent: (i) the Transaction from qualifying as a
tax-deferred transaction within the meaning of Section 351 of the
Code; or (ii) the Resulting Issuer from being treated as a United
States domestic corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes
pursuant to Section 7874(b) of the Code. Each party hereto agrees
to act in good faith, consistent with the intent of the parties and
the intended U.S. federal income tax treatment of the Transaction
as set forth in this Section 2.2 and Section 2.3. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, none of the Shareholders, the Acquiror, the
Corporation nor the Resulting Issuer makes any representation,
warranty or covenant to any other party or to any Shareholder
equity holder, Acquiror equity holder, Corporation equity holder or
Resulting Issuer equity holder (including, without limitation,
stock, membership interests, options, warrants, debt instruments or
other similar rights or instruments) regarding the U.S. tax
treatment of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement.
2.3
The acquisition price (the
“Acquisition
Price”) for the Acquired
Corporation Shares shall be paid and satisfied by the issuance and
delivery at the Time of Closing of the Consideration Shares by the
Acquiror to the Shareholders in accordance with Schedule
“A” hereto, and no other
consideration.
2.4
As
soon as reasonably practicable following the completion of the
Transaction, the Resulting Issuer shall take all such necessary and
reasonable steps required to effect a voluntary liquidation of
Amalco under the CBCA.
2.5
The
Parties acknowledge and agree that the maximum number of
Consideration Shares issuable in exchange for the Acquired
Corporation Shares pursuant to Section 2.1 shall be approximately
25,300,000 Resulting Issuer Shares and approximately 49,700,000
Restricted Shares. The Consideration Shares to be issued hereunder
shall be issued as fully paid and non-assessable shares in the
Resulting Issuer, free and clear of any and all
Encumbrances.
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2.6 The Shareholders acknowledge and agree with
the Acquiror that a portion of the Consideration
Shares to be issued as part of the Transaction will be subject to
escrow requirements of the CSE, resale restrictions under
applicable Securities Laws, the securities laws of the United
States and/or the policies of the CSE, and that any escrowed
Consideration Shares will not be transferable if such Consideration
Shares are subject to resale restrictions and CSE escrow
requirements, until the Consideration Shares are no longer subject
to escrow restrictions and are released from escrow.
2.7 Restricted Share Provisions.
The Restricted Shares of the Resulting
Issuer shall have the rights,
privileges, conditions and restrictions set forth in Schedule
“C”.
2.8 The Acquiror does not assume and shall not be
liable for any taxes under the Tax Act, the
Code or any other taxes whatsoever which may be or become payable
by the Shareholders including, without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, any taxes resulting from or arising as a consequence
of the sale by the Shareholders to the Acquiror of the Acquired
Corporation Shares herein contemplated, and the Shareholders shall
indemnify and save harmless the Acquiror from and against all such
taxes.
2.9 The Transaction shall be closed (the
“Closing”), at the offices of the
Corporation’s
Canadian counsel, Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Xxxxxxxxx LLP, at 8:30 a.m.
local time in Toronto, Ontario (the “Time of
Closing”) on the day that
all conditions contained in this Agreement have been met or waived
(the “Closing Date”).
2.10 Any cheque, document, instrument or thing
which is to be delivered by any Party hereto at the Closing shall
be tabled at a pre-Closing at the place of Closing referred to
above by the Party which is to deliver such cheque, document,
instrument or thing, and any cheque, document, instrument or thing
so tabled by a Party hereto shall be held in escrow by counsel for
such Party until the Time of Closing and released from escrow at
the Time of Closing provided all cheques, documents, instruments
and things which are to be delivered at the Closing are tabled in
accordance with this section at the Closing.
ARTICLE 3
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE CORPORATION
3.1 The Corporation hereby represents and
warrants to the Acquiror as at the date hereof and
as at the Closing Date and acknowledges and confirms that the
Acquiror is relying upon such representations and warranties in
connection with the acquisition by the Acquiror of the Acquired
Corporation Shares from the Shareholders as follows:
(a)
Organization and
Qualification. The Corporation
is a corporation duly incorporated and
validly existing under the Applicable Laws of the State of Nevada
and has all necessary corporate or legal power and capacity to own
its property and assets as now owned and to carry on its business
as it is now being conducted. A true and complete copy of the
constating documents of the Corporation has been provided to the
Acquiror. The Corporation is duly registered, licensed or otherwise
authorized and qualified to do business and is in good standing in
each jurisdiction in which
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the
character of its properties, owned, leased, licensed or otherwise
held, or the nature of its activities, makes such qualification
necessary, except where the failure to be so registered or in good
standing or to have such permits would not have a Material Adverse
Effect on the Corporation.
(b)
Authority Relative to
this Agreement. The Corporation
has all necessary corporate power, authority and capacity to enter
into this Agreement and all other agreements and instruments to be
executed by the Corporation as contemplated by this Agreement, and
to perform its obligations hereunder and under such agreements and
instruments. The execution and delivery of this Agreement by the
Corporation and the performance by the Corporation of its
obligations under this Agreement have been duly authorized by the
Corporation Board in the manner contemplated herein, and subject to
providing the Nevada Secretary of State under Chapter 78 of the
Nevada Revised Statues any records, information or other documents
required by it in connection with the Transaction, no other
corporate proceedings on its part are necessary to authorize this
Agreement. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by
the Corporation and constitutes a legal, valid and binding
obligation of the Corporation, enforceable against the Corporation
in accordance with its terms, subject to the qualification that
such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other laws of general application relating to or
affecting rights of creditors and that equitable remedies,
including specific performance, are discretionary and may not be
ordered.
(c)
No
Violation. Neither the
authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement by the
Corporation nor the completion of the Transaction, nor the
performance of its obligations herein, nor compliance by the
Corporation with any of the provisions hereof
will:
(i) result in a violation or breach of, constitute a
default (or an event which, with notice or lapse of time or both,
would become a default), require any consent or approval to be
obtained or notice to be given under, or give rise to any third
party right of termination, cancellation, suspension, acceleration,
penalty or payment obligation or right to acquire or sale under,
any provision of:
(A)
its
articles, charters or by-laws or other comparable organizational
documents;
(B)
any
Permit or Material Contract to which the Corporation is a party or
to which it, or any of its properties or assets, may be subject or
by which it is bound; or
(C)
any
laws, regulation, order, judgment or decree applicable to the
Corporation or any of its respective properties or
assets;
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(ii)
give
rise to any rights of first refusal or trigger any change in
control provisions, rights of first offer or first refusal or any
similar provisions or any restrictions or limitation under any
note, bond, mortgage, indenture, Material Contract, license,
franchise or Permit, except, to the extent that any of the
foregoing instruments are material to the Corporation, where
waivers to such rights have been obtained by the
Corporation;
(iii)
give
rise to any termination or acceleration of indebtedness, or cause
any third party indebtedness to come due before its stated maturity
or cause any available credit to cease to be
available;
(iv)
result
in the imposition of any Encumbrance upon any of the property or
assets of the Corporation or restrict, hinder, impair or limit the
ability of the Corporation to conduct the Business which would
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the
Corporation; or
(v)
result
in any material payment (including retention, severance,
unemployment compensation, golden parachute, bonus or otherwise)
becoming due to any director, officer or employee of the
Corporation, or increase any benefit payable to such director,
officer or employee by the Corporation, or result in the
acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any such
benefits.
Capitalization. The authorized
share capital of the Corporation consists of 50,000,000 Corporation
Shares with a par value of US$0.001 per Corporation Share, and
100,000,000 Corporation Non-Voting Shares with a par value of
US$0.001 per Corporation Non-Voting Share, of which a total of
25,300,000 Corporation Shares (and no more) and the 49,700,000
Corporation Non-Voting Shares (and no more) will be will be validly
issued and outstanding as fully paid and non-assessable shares in
the capital of the Corporation immediately prior to the Time of
Closing. As of the date hereof, there are 25,300,000 Corporation
Shares and 49,700,000 Corporation Non-Voting Shares issued and
outstanding Corporation Shares. There are no options, warrants,
conversion privileges or other rights, agreements, arrangements or
commitments (pre-emptive, contingent or otherwise) of any character
whatsoever requiring or which may require the issuance, sale or
transfer by the Corporation of any securities of the Corporation
(including Corporation Shares), or any securities or obligations
convertible into, or exchangeable or exercisable for, or otherwise
evidencing a right or obligation to acquire, any securities of the
Corporation (including Corporation Shares), provided, however,
there may be options exercisable into Corporation Shares (at an
exercise price not less than $0.80 per Corporation Share) and
restricted share units of the Corporation outstanding immediately
prior to the Closing Date. All outstanding Corporation Shares have
been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and
non-assessable. All securities of the Corporation (including the
Corporation Shares) have been issued in compliance with all
Applicable Laws and Securities Laws. There are no securities of the
Corporation outstanding which have the right to
vote
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generally
(or are convertible into or exchangeable for securities having the
right to vote generally) with the Shareholders on any matter. There
are no outstanding contractual or other obligations of the
Corporation to repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any of its
securities. There are no outstanding bonds, debentures or other
evidences of indebtedness of the Corporation having the right to
vote with the holders of the outstanding Corporation Shares on any
matters.
(d)
Ownership of
Subsidiaries. The Corporation
does not beneficially own, or exercise control or direction over,
10% or more of the outstanding voting shares of any company and
does not own any securities or, have any interest in any joint
venture entity or other Person.
(e)
Non-reporting
issuer. The Corporation is not
a reporting issuer, as that term is defined by Securities Laws,
there is no published market for the Acquired Corporation Shares
and the number of holders of common shares in the capital of the
Corporation as at the date hereof is not more than 50, exclusive of
holders who
(i) are
in the employment of the Corporation or an affiliate of the
Corporation, or
(ii) were
formerly in the employment of the Corporation or in the employment
of an entity that was an affiliate of the Corporation at the time
of that employment and who while in that employment were, and have
continued after that employment to be, security holders of the
Corporation.
(f)
Books and
Records. The financial books,
records and accounts of the Corporation: (i) have been maintained
in accordance with Applicable Laws; and (ii) are stated in
reasonable detail and accurately and fairly reflect the material
transactions, acquisitions and dispositions of the assets of the
Corporation.
(g)
Minute
Books. The corporate minute
books of the Corporation contain resolutions of the Corporation
Board and committees thereof, and shareholders or members, as
applicable, held according to Applicable Laws and are complete and
accurate in all material respects.
(h)
No
Proceedings. No proceedings
have been taken, instituted or are pending for the dissolution,
winding-up or liquidation of the Corporation and no board approvals
have been given to commence any such
proceedings.
(i)
No Undisclosed
Liabilities. At the time of
Closing, the Corporation shall have no outstanding indebtedness,
liability or obligation (including liabilities or obligations to
fund any operations or work, to give any guarantees or for Taxes
due), whether accrued, absolute, contingent or otherwise, and are
not party to or bound by any suretyship, guarantee, indemnification
or assumption agreement, or endorsement of, or any other similar
commitment with respect to the obligations, liabilities or
indebtedness of any Person which shall not be disclosed or
reflected in the Financial Statements of the Corporation, other
than those incurred in the ordinary course of
business.
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(j)
No Material
Change. Since March 31, 2018,
except as contemplated by this Agreement, or otherwise disclosed to
the Acquiror:
(i)
the
Corporation has conducted its business only in the ordinary and
regular course of business;
(ii)
there
has not occurred any event that constituted or with the passage of
time would constitute a Material Adverse Effect in respect of the
Corporation;
(iii)
other
than in the ordinary and regular course of business consistent with
past practice, there has not been any incurrence, assumption or
guarantee by the Corporation of any debt for borrowed money, any
creation or assumption by the Corporation of any Encumbrance or any
making by the Corporation of any loan, advance or capital
contribution to or investment in any other Person;
(iv)
there
has been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or
made by the Corporation on any Corporation Shares;
(v)
the
Corporation has not affected or passed any resolution to approve a
split, consolidation or reclassification of any of the outstanding
Corporation Shares; and
(vi)
there
has not been any material increase in or modification of the
compensation payable to or to become payable by the Corporation to
any of its directors, officers, employees or consultants or any
grant to any such director, officer, employee or consultant of any
increase in severance or termination pay or any increase or
modification of any bonus, pension, insurance or benefit
arrangement made to, for or with any of such directors, officers,
employees or consultants.
(k)
Litigation.
There is no claim, action, suit, grievance, complaint, proceeding
or investigation that has been commenced or, to the knowledge of
the Corporation, is threatened affecting the Corporation or
affecting any of its property or assets at law or in equity before
or by any Governmental Entity, including matters arising under
Environmental Laws, which, individually or in the aggregate, if
determined adversely to the Corporation, as the case may be, has or
could reasonably be expected to result in liability to the
Corporation. Neither the Corporation nor its respective assets or
properties is subject to any outstanding judgment, order, writ,
injunction or decree.
(l)
Accuracy of
Information. The Corporation
has made available to the Acquiror all material information
concerning the Corporation, and all such information as made
available
to the Acquiror is accurate, true and correct in all material
respects.
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(m)
No
Payments. There are no payments
required to be made to directors, officers and employees of the
Corporation as a result of the Transaction under any contract,
settlements, bonus plans, retention agreements, change of control
agreements and severance obligations (whether resulting from
termination, change of control or alteration of
duties).
(n)
Taxes.
(i)
Other than [REDACTED – COMMERCIALLY SENSITIVE INFORMATION],
the Corporation has filed, caused, or will cause to be filed all
returns required to be filed by Applicable Law on or before the
Closing Date. All such filed returns are correct and complete in
all material respects. Other than described above, the Corporation
has timely paid all material Taxes that are due and payable by the
Corporation, including all instalments on account of taxes for the
current year that are due and payable by the Corporation whether or
not assessed (or reassessed) by the appropriate Governmental
Entity, and has, as applicable, timely remitted such Taxes to the
appropriate Governmental Entity under Applicable Law. There are no
Encumbrances for Taxes upon any of the assets or properties of the
Corporation.
(ii)
There
is no material dispute or claim, including any audit, investigation
or examination by any Governmental Entity, actual, pending or, to
the knowledge of the Corporation, threatened, concerning any Tax
liability of the Corporation, no written notice of such an audit,
investigation, examination, material dispute or claim has been
received by the Corporation.
(iii)
The
Corporation has not requested, or entered into any agreement or
other arrangement, or executed any waiver providing for, any
extension of time within which:
(A)
the
Corporation is required to pay or remit any Taxes or amounts on
account of Taxes (which have not since been paid or remitted);
or
(B)
any
Governmental Entity may assess or collect Taxes for which the
Corporation is liable.
(iv)
Other than [REDACTED – COMMERCIALLY SENSITIVE INFORMATION],
the Corporation has duly and timely deducted, collected or withheld
from any amount paid or credited by it to or for the account or
benefit of any Person and has duly and timely remitted the same (or
is properly holding for such remittance) to the appropriate
Governmental Entity all Taxes and amounts it is required by
Applicable Law to so deduct or collect and remit. Any outstanding
tax liability will
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be
accurately reflected in the audited financial statements of the
Corporation for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2016 and 2017,
and the Corporation has a plan for payment of all outstanding tax
liabilities in place.
(v)
The
Corporation has not acquired property or services from, or disposed
of property or provided services to, any Person with whom it does
not deal at arm’s length for an amount that is other than the
fair market value of such property or services.
(vi)
No
written claim has ever been made by any Governmental Entity in a
jurisdiction where the Corporation does not file returns that the
Corporation is or may be subject to Taxes or is required to file
returns in that jurisdiction.
(vii)
There
are no rulings or closing agreements issued to the Corporation
which could affect the Corporation’s liability for Taxes for
any taxable period after the Closing Date other than rulings of
general application. The Corporation has not requested an advance
tax ruling from the Canada Revenue Agency or comparable rulings
from other taxing authorities.
(o)
Permits.
(i)
To
the knowledge of the Corporation, the Corporation has obtained and
is in material compliance with all material Permits required by
Applicable Laws, necessary to conduct its Business as now being
conducted and as proposed to be conducted in the next 12 month
period; and
(ii)
to
the knowledge of the Corporation, there are no facts, events or
circumstances that would reasonably be expected to result in a
failure to obtain or be in material compliance with such material
Permits as are necessary to conduct the Business;
(p)
Assets.
Except with respect to Technology of which the Corporation is not
the sole beneficial and registered owner and leased assets to be
described in the Financial Statements of the Corporation, the
Corporation is the beneficial owner of its Assets or interests
therein, has good and marketable title to all of its Assets, no
person has any contract or any right or privilege capable of
becoming a right to purchase any personal property from the
Corporation, and any and all agreements pursuant to which the
Corporation holds any such interest in its Assets are valid and
subsisting agreements in full force and effect, enforceable in
accordance with their respective terms, and the Corporation is not,
and will not be at the Time of Closing, in material default of any
of the provisions of any such agreement nor has any default been
alleged and, such Assets are in good standing under the applicable
statutes, rules,
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regulations,
licenses and permits of the jurisdiction in which they are situated
and all leases pursuant to which the Corporation derives its
interest in such Assets are in good standing and there has been no
default under any of such leases.
(q)
Condition of Certain
Assets. To the knowledge of the
Corporation, the Tangible Personal Property is in good condition,
repair and (where applicable) proper working order, reasonable wear
and tear excepted having regard to its use and age, subject to
normal maintenance and repair.
(r)
Collectability of
Accounts Receivable. To the
knowledge of the Corporation and the Shareholders, the Accounts
Receivable are good and collectible at the aggregate recorded
amounts within one hundred and eighty (180) days from the Closing
Date, except to the extent of any reserves and allowances for
doubtful accounts provided for such Accounts Receivable to be set
out in the Financial Statements of the Corporation, and are not
subject to any defence, counterclaim or set
off.
(s)
Qualification to do
Business. The Corporation is
registered, licensed or otherwise qualified to do business under
the Applicable Laws of Nevada and neither the character nor the
location of the properties and assets owned by the Corporation nor
the nature of the Business requires registration, licensing or
other qualification under the Applicable Laws of any other
jurisdiction, except where the failure to be so registered,
licensed or otherwise qualified to do business would not have a
Material Adverse Effect on the Corporation.
(t)
Sanctions.
neither the Corporation nor, to the knowledge of the Corporation,
any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the
Corporation, has had any sanctions administered by the Office of
Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department, the
Government of Canada or any other relevant sanctions authority
(collectively, “Sanctions”) imposed upon such Person, and the
Corporation is not in violation of any of the Sanctions or any law
or executive order relating thereto, or is conducting business with
any person subject to any Sanctions.
(u)
Compliance with
Anti-Corruption Laws. The
Corporation has not violated the Corruption of Foreign Public
Officials Act (Canada) or
the U.S.
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,
or the anti-corruption laws of any other jurisdiction where the
Business is carried on.
(v)
Anti-Money
Laundering. The operations of
the Corporation are and have been conducted at all times in
compliance with applicable financial record-keeping and reporting
requirements of the Proceeds of Crime (Money
Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (Canada), the United States Uniting and
Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to
Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act, and the money laundering statutes of all
applicable jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and
any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines issued,
administered or enforced by any Governmental Entity (collectively,
the “Money Laundering
Laws”) and no action,
suit or proceeding by or before any
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court
or Governmental Entity or any arbitrator involving the Corporation
with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the
best knowledge of the Corporation, threatened.
(w)
Intellectual
Property.
(i)
to
the best of the Corporation’s knowledge, the Corporation
owns, or have obtained valid and enforceable licenses for, or other
rights to use, the Intellectual Property; the Corporation has no
knowledge that the Corporation lacks or will be unable to obtain
any rights or licenses to use all Intellectual Property necessary
and material for the conduct of the business of the Corporation; to
the best of the Corporation’s knowledge, no third parties
have rights to any Intellectual Property of the Corporation, except
for the ownership rights of the owners of the Licensed IP or except
for any licenses of use granted by the Corporation therein; there
is no pending or, to the best of the Corporation’s knowledge,
threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging
the validity or enforceability of any Intellectual Property or the
Corporation’s rights in or to any Intellectual Property, the
Corporation has no knowledge of any facts which form a reasonable
basis for any such claim, and to the best of the
Corporation’s knowledge, there has been no finding of
unenforceability or invalidity of the Intellectual Property; to the
best of the Corporation’s knowledge, there is no patent or
published patent application that contains claims that interfere
with the issued or pending claims of any of the Intellectual
Property of the Corporation; and to the best of the
Corporation’s knowledge, there is no prior art that
necessarily renders any patent application owned by the Corporation
unpatentable that has not been disclosed to the US Patent and
Trademark Office or any similar office in any other
jurisdiction;
(ii)
to
the best of the Corporation’s knowledge, other than Licensed
IP, the Corporation is the legal and beneficial owners of, have
good and marketable title to, and own all right, title and interest
in all Intellectual Property free and clear of all Encumbrances or
adverse interests whatsoever, covenants, conditions, options to
acquire and restrictions or other adverse claims of any kind or
nature which could, individually or in the aggregate, have a
Material Adverse Effect, and the Corporation has no knowledge of
any claim of adverse ownership in respect thereof; other than the
Licensed IP, no consent of any person is necessary to make, use,
reproduce, license, sell, modify, update, enhance or otherwise
exploit any Intellectual Property and none of the Intellectual
Property of the Corporation comprises an improvement to Licensed IP
that would give any person any rights to any such Intellectual
Property, including, without limitation, rights to license any such
Intellectual Property;
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(iii)
the
Corporation has not received any notice or claim (whether written,
oral or otherwise) challenging the ownership or right to use of any
of the Intellectual Property or suggesting that any other person
has any claim of legal or beneficial ownership or other claim or
interest with respect thereto, nor is there a reasonable basis for
any claim that any person other than the Corporation have any claim
of legal or beneficial ownership or other claim or interest in any
of the Intellectual Property; and
(iv)
to
the best of the Corporation’s knowledge, the conduct of the
business of the Corporation (including, without limitation, the
sale of their respective services, or the use or other exploitation
of the Intellectual Property by the Corporation or any customers,
distributors or other licensees thereof) has not infringed,
violated, misappropriated or otherwise conflicted with any
Intellectual Property right of any person; there is no pending or
threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the
Corporation infringes or otherwise violates any Intellectual
Property of others, and the Corporation has no knowledge of any
facts which form a reasonable basis for any such
claim;
(x)
Material
Contracts. Each Material
Contract of the Corporation is set out in Schedule “B”
hereto and is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the
Corporation, enforceable against the Corporation in accordance with
its terms and neither the Corporation nor any other party to a
Material Contract is in default thereunder;
(y)
Owned Real
Property. The Owned Real
Property is accurately described in Schedule “E”
hereto.
(z)
Leased Real
Property.
(i)
The
Leased Real Property is accurately described in Schedule
“E” hereto;
(ii)
Except
as described in Schedule “E” hereto, the Real Property
Leases have not been altered or amended and are in full force and
effect. There are no Contracts between the landlord and tenant, or
sub-landlord and subtenant, or other relevant parties relating to
the use and occupation of the Leased Real Property, other than as
contained in the Real Property Leases; and
(iii)
The
Corporation has a good and valid leasehold interest in and to the
Leased Real Property of which it is a tenant, free and clear of all
Encumbrances.
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(aa) Environmental
Matters.
(i)
the
Corporation has carried on its Business and operations in
compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws and all terms and
conditions of all Environmental Permits;
(ii)
except
in compliance with Applicable Laws, the Corporation has not used
any of its property or facilities to generate, manufacture,
process, distribute, use, treat, store, dispose of, transport or
handle any Hazardous Substance in a manner that could, individually
or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect; except in compliance with Applicable Laws, the
Corporation has not caused or permitted the release, in any manner
whatsoever, of any Hazardous Substances on or from any of its
properties or assets or any such release on or from a facility
owned or operated by third parties but with respect to which the
Corporation is or may reasonably be alleged to have material
liability or has received any notice that it is potentially
responsible for a federal, state, municipal or local clean-up site
or corrective action under any Applicable Laws, statutes,
ordinances, bylaws, regulations or any orders, directions or
decisions rendered by any ministry, department or administrative
regulatory agency relating to the protection of the environment,
occupational health and safety or otherwise relating to or dealing
with Hazardous Substances in a manner that could, individually or
in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect;
(iii)
the
Corporation has not received any order, request or notice from any
Person alleging a material violation of any Environmental
Law;
(iv)
the
Corporation (i) is not a party to any litigation or administrative
proceeding, nor is any litigation or administrative proceeding
threatened against it or its property or assets, which in either
case (1) asserts or alleges that it violated any Environmental
Laws, (2) asserts or alleges that it is required to clean up,
remove or take remedial or other response action due to the Release
of any Hazardous Substances, or (3) asserts or alleges that it is
required to pay all or a portion of the cost of any past, present
or future cleanup, removal or remedial or other response action
which arises out of or is related to the Release of any Hazardous
Substances, and (ii) is not subject to any judgment, decree, order
or citation related to or arising out of applicable Environmental
Law and has not been named or listed as a potentially responsible
party by any Governmental Entity in a matter arising under any
Environmental Laws; and
(v)
is
not involved in remediation operations and does not know of any
facts, circumstances or conditions, including any release of
Hazardous
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Substance,
that would reasonably be expected to result in any Environmental
Liabilities.
(bb) Compliance with
Laws. The Corporation has
complied with and is not in violation of any Applicable Laws, other
than non-compliance or violations which would not, individually or
in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect on the
Corporation, with the exception of any U.S. federal laws, statutes,
and/or regulations which deal with the production, trafficking,
distribution, processing, extraction or sale of cannabis and
related substances, and it has not received any written notices or
other correspondence from any Governmental Entity regarding any
circumstances that have existed or currently exist which would lead
to a loss, suspension, or modification of, or a refusal to issue,
any material license, permit, authorization, approval, registration
or consent of a Governmental Entity relating to its activities
which would reasonably be expected to restrict, curtail, limit or
adversely affect the ability of the Corporation to operate its
Business in a manner proposed and which would have a Material
Adverse Effect on the Corporation.
(cc) Employment
Matters.
(i)
Other
than with respect to a written employment agreement between the
Corporation and Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxx, Vice-President of
Operations of the Corporation, and a written employment agreement
between the Corporation and Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Vice-President of Sales
of the Corporation, the Corporation is not:
(A)
a
party to any written or oral agreement, arrangement, plan,
obligation, policy or understanding providing for severance or
termination payments to, or any employment or consulting agreement
with, any director or officer of the Corporation;
(B)
a
party to any collective bargaining agreement nor, to the knowledge
of the Corporation, subject to any application for certification or
threatened or apparent union-organizing campaigns for employees not
covered under a collective bargaining agreement nor are there any
current, or to the knowledge of the Corporation, pending or
threatened strikes or lockouts at the Corporation; and
(C)
subject
to any claim for wrongful dismissal, constructive dismissal or any
other tort claim, actual or, to the knowledge of the Corporation,
threatened, or any litigation, actual or, to the knowledge of the
Corporation, threatened, relating to its employees or independent
contractors (including any termination of such
individuals).
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(ii)
The
Corporation has been and is now in compliance, in all material
respects, with all Applicable Laws with respect to employment and
labour and there are no current, or, to the knowledge of the
Corporation, pending or threatened proceedings before any
Governmental Entity with respect to any of the areas listed
herein.
(iii)
Other
than performance related employee bonus plans, employee healthcare
benefits, 401k matching contributions and an employee group
insurance plan, the Corporation has not and is not subject to any
present or future obligation or liability under, any pension plan,
deferred compensation plan, retirement income plan, stock option or
stock purchase plan, profit sharing plan, program policy or
practice, formal or informal, with respect to its
employees.
(dd) Related Party
Transactions. With the
exception of any contracts related to loans with officers and/or
directors of the Corporation, bonus payments paid or payable to
certain employees, senior executive officers or directors of the
Corporation, or as otherwise disclosed to the Acquiror, there are
no contracts or other transactions currently in place between the
Corporation, and: (i) any officer or director of the Corporation;
(ii) any holder of record or, to the knowledge of the Corporation,
beneficial owner of 10% or more of the Corporation Shares; and
(iii) any affiliate or associate of any such, officer, director,
holder of record or beneficial owner, on the other
hand.
(ee) Expropriation.
No part of the property or assets of the Corporation has been
taken, condemned or expropriated by any Governmental Entity nor has
any written notice or proceeding in respect thereof been given or
commenced nor does the Corporation know of any intent or proposal
to give such notice or commence any such
proceedings.
(ff)
Rights of Other
Persons. Except in respect of
the Acquiror’s interest in the Property, no Person has any
right of first refusal or option to acquire or any other right of
participation in any of the properties or assets owned by the
Corporation or any part thereof.
(gg) Restrictions on
Business Activities. There is
no arbitral award, judgment, injunction, constitutional ruling,
order or decree binding upon the Corporation that has or could
reasonably be expected to have the effect of prohibiting,
restricting, or impairing any business practice of the Corporation,
any acquisition or disposition of property by the Corporation, or
the conduct of the business by the Corporation as currently
conducted or as proposed, which could reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect on the
Corporation.
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(hh) Directors and Officers
of a Reporting Issuer. The
Corporation is not aware of any of the directors or officers of the
Corporation receiving any objection from securities regulatory
authorities to their serving in capacities as directors or officers
of a reporting issuer in any jurisdiction of
Canada.
(ii)
No
Violations. No filing or
registration with, or authorization, consent or approval of any
domestic or foreign public body or authority is necessary by the
Corporation in connection with the consummation of the Transaction,
except for such filings or registrations which, if not made, or for
such authorizations, consents or approvals, which, if not received,
would not have any Material Adverse Effect on the ability of
Corporation to consummate the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement or any other agreement in connection with the
Transaction, or operate its business in the ordinary course
following the completion of the Transaction.
(jj)
Authorizations and
Consents.
(i)
Except
for the approval of the CSE contemplated in Section 7.1(a), the
approval of the shareholders of the Corporation contemplated in
Section 7.1(d), and the approval of the Nevada Department of
Taxation contemplated in Section 7.1(e), no Authorization or
declaration or filing with any Governmental Entity on the part of
the Corporation is required for the valid execution, delivery and
performance of its obligations under this Agreement or the
completion of the Transaction pursuant to this
Agreement.
(ii)
Except
as set forth in Schedule “D”, no consent, approval or
waiver is required pursuant to the terms of any Material Contract,
agreement or instrument to which the Corporation is a party for the
valid execution, delivery and performance of its obligations under
this Agreement or the completion of the Transaction pursuant to
this Agreement.
(kk)
Fees.
Other than the agents to the Brokered Financing, no broker,
investment banker, financial advisor or other Person is entitled to
any broker’s, finder’s, financial advisor’s or
other similar fee or commission in connection with the transactions
contemplated hereby based upon arrangements made by or on behalf of
the Corporation.
(ll)
Benefits.
Except as disclosed to the Acqurior in writing, there are no plans
for retirement, bonus, stock purchase, profit sharing, stock
option, deferred compensation, severance or termination pay,
insurance, medical, hospital, dental, vision care, drug, sick
leave, disability, salary continuation, legal benefits,
unemployment benefits, vacation, incentive or otherwise contributed
to or required to be contributed to, by the Corporation for the
benefit of any current or former director, officer, employee or
consultant of the Corporation;.
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(mm) Royalty
Interests. no director,
officer, consultant, insider or other non-arm’s length party
to the Corporation (or any associate or affiliate thereof) has any
right, title or interest in (or the right to acquire any right,
title or interest in) any royalty interest, carried interest,
participation interest or any other interest whatsoever which are
based on revenue from or otherwise in respect of any assets of the
Corporation.
(nn) Escrow Release
Conditions. To the knowledge of
the Corporation, no event has occurred which is reasonably likely
to prevent the escrow release conditions in connection with the
Xxxxx Subscription Receipts from being satisfied on or before the
escrow release deadline relating to the Xxxxx Subscription
Receipts.
(oo) Insurance.
As of the date hereof, the Corporation has all insurance maintained
by the Corporation in full force and effect and in good standing
and is in amounts and in respect of such risks as are normal and
usual for companies of similar size and customary in the businesses
in which the Corporation is engaged.
(pp) Listing
Statement. The description of
the Corporation to be contained in the listing statement of the
Acqurior prepared in accordance with the regulations of the CSE in
connection with the listing of the Resulting Issuer Shares shall
not, at the time of filing thereof on SEDAR, fail to be true and
correct in any material respect or contain any untrue statement of
a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances
under which they are made, not misleading.
(qq) Data
Provided. To the knowledge of
the Corporation, any confidential information provided by or on
behalf of the Corporation to the Acquiror and its Representatives
is true and accurate in all material respects as of the respective
dates of such confidential information.
(rr) Licenced Cannabis
Company. The Corporation is a
licenced producer in the medical and recreational cannabis industry
in the State of Nevada, under Applicable Laws in the State of
Nevada, authorizing the Corporation to, among other things, grow,
produce, sell, possess, process, ship, transport, deliver and
destroy cannabis, dried cannabis and cannabis oil in the State of
Nevada, and all operations of the Corporation have been and
continue to be conducted in compliance with all Applicable Laws in
the State of Nevada.
(ss) Cannabis-related
Matters.
(i)
To
the knowledge of the Corporation, there is no legislation, or
proposed legislation to be published by a legislative body, which
it anticipates will materially and adversely affect the business,
affairs, operations, assets, liabilities (contingent or otherwise)
or prospects of the Corporation, with the exception of any U.S.
federal laws, statutes, and/or regulations which deal with the
production, trafficking, distribution, processing, extraction, or
sale of cannabis and related substances.
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(ii)The
execution and delivery of this Agreement and the performance
of
the
transactions contemplated hereby do not and will not result in a
breach of, and do not create a state of facts which, after notice
or lapse of time or both, will result in a breach of Nevada state
law related to cannabis nor the licenses, permits, authorizations,
certifications or consents issued to the Corporation by any Nevada
state or local governmental authority.
(tt) Compliance with
Healthcare Laws. The
Corporation: (A) is and at all times has
been in compliance in all material respects with
all applicable statutes, rules, regulations, ordinances, orders,
by-laws, decrees and guidances applicable to it under any
Applicable Laws relating in whole or in part to health and safety
and/or the environment, any implementing regulations pursuant to
any of the foregoing, and all similar or related federal, state,
provincial or local healthcare statutes, regulations and directives
applicable to the business of the Corporation, including but not
limited to Applicable Laws concerning fee-splitting, kickbacks,
corporate practice of medicine, disclosure of ownership, related
party requirements, survey, certification, licensing, civil
monetary penalties, self-referrals, or laws concerning the privacy
and/or security of personal health information and breach
notification requirements concerning personal health information
(collectively, “Applicable Healthcare
Laws”); (B) has not
received any correspondence or notice from any Governmental Entity
alleging or asserting material noncompliance with any Applicable
Healthcare Laws or any Permits required by any such Applicable
Healthcare Laws; (C) has not received notice of any pending or
threatened claim, suit, proceeding, charge, hearing, enforcement,
audit, inspection, investigation, arbitration or other action from
any Governmental Entity or third party alleging that any operation
or activity of the Corporation, or any of their directors, officers
and/or employees is in material violation of any Applicable
Healthcare Laws or Permit required by any such Applicable
Healthcare Laws, and the Corporation does not have any knowledge or
reason to believe that any such Governmental Entity or third party
is considering or would have reasonable grounds to consider any
such claim, suit, proceeding, charge, hearing, enforcement, audit,
inspection, investigation, arbitration or other action; and (D)
either directly has, or indirectly on its behalf has, filed,
declared, obtained, maintained or submitted all reports, documents,
forms, notices, applications, records, claims, submissions and
supplements or amendments as required by any Applicable Healthcare
Laws or Governmental Entity required by any such Applicable
Healthcare Laws in order to keep all Permits in good standing,
valid and in full force (except where the failure to so file,
declare, obtain, maintain or submit would not, individually or in
the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect on the Corporation), and all such reports, documents, forms,
notices, applications, records, claims, submissions and supplements
or amendments were complete and correct in all material respects on
the date filed (or were corrected or supplemented by a subsequent
submission).
(uu) Regulatory
Proceedings. Except for
ordinary course inquiries by any Governmental Entity, no
Governmental Entity is presently alleging or asserting, or, to
the
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Corporation’s
knowledge, threatening to allege or assert, noncompliance with any
applicable legal requirement or registration in respect of the
Corporation’s products.
(vv) Products.
The Corporation’s products are currently processed,
manufactured, tested, packaged and labeled at facilities which are
in compliance with good production practices prescribed by
Applicable Laws and such other regulatory requirements applicable
to the Corporation’s products.
(ww) Protection of Personal
Information. The Corporation
has security measures and safeguards in place to protect Personally
Identifiable Information it collects from customers and other
parties from illegal or unauthorized access or use by its personnel
or third parties or access or use by its personnel or third parties
in a manner that violates the privacy rights of third parties. The
Corporation has complied in all material respects with all
Applicable Laws relating to privacy and consumer protection and
neither has collected, received, stored, disclosed, transferred,
used, misused or permitted unauthorized access to any information
protected by Applicable Laws related to privacy, whether collected
directly or from third parties, in an unlawful manner. The
Corporation has taken all reasonable steps to protect Personally
Identifiable Information against loss or theft and against
unauthorized access, copying, use, modification, disclosure or
other misuse.
(xx) Investor
Presentation. The information
and statements contained in the investor presentation dated
February 2018 (the “Investor
Presentation”) as
prepared by the Corporation, and this Agreement, with respect to
the Corporation are true and correct and do not (i) contain any
untrue statement of a material fact in respect of the Corporation
or the affairs, prospects, operations or condition of the Corporation, or any
of its assets; or (ii) to the knowledge of the Corporation, omit
any statement of a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements in respect of the Corporation, the affairs,
prospects, operations or condition of the Corporation or its
assets contained herein or therein not misleading. There is no fact
known to the Corporation which materially and adversely affects the
affairs, prospects, operations or condition of the Corporation or
any of its assets which has not been set forth in this Agreement.
All forward-looking information and statements of the Corporation
contained in the Investor Presentation and the assumptions
underlying such information and statements, subject to any
qualifications contained therein, are to the knowledge of the
Corporation, reasonable in the circumstances as at the date on
which such assumptions were made.
3.2 The representations and warranties of the Corporation contained
in this Agreement shall survive
the execution and delivery of this Agreement and shall expire and
be terminated on the earlier of the Time of Closing and the date on
which this Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms.
Any investigation by the Acquiror and its Representatives shall not
mitigate, diminish or affect the representations and warranties of
the Corporation pursuant to this Agreement.
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ARTICLE 4
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE SHAREHOLDERS
4.1 Each of the Shareholders hereby severally represents and
warrants to the Acquiror and
acknowledges and confirms that the Acquiror is relying upon such
Shareholders’ representations and warranties in connection
with the purchase by the Acquiror of the Acquired Corporation
Shares to be transferred by the Shareholders to the Acquiror
pursuant to Section 2.1 of this Agreement and in connection with
the issuance of the Consideration Shares:
(a)
neither
the execution and delivery of this Agreement, or any other
agreements and instruments
executed in connection with the Transaction by the Shareholder nor
the performance by the Shareholder of its obligations hereunder and
thereunder will conflict with or result in:
(i)
a
violation, contravention or breach by the Shareholder of any of the
terms, conditions or provisions of any agreement or instrument to
which such the Shareholder is a party, or by which the Shareholder
is bound or constitute a default by the Shareholder thereunder, or,
to the knowledge of the Shareholder, after due inquiry, under any
statute, regulation, judgment, decree or law by which the
Shareholder is subject or bound, or result in the creation or
imposition of any mortgage, lien, charge or Encumbrance of any
nature whatsoever upon any of the Shareholder’s Acquired
Corporation Shares; or
(ii)
a
violation by the Shareholder of any law or regulation or any
applicable order of any court, arbitrator or governmental authority
having jurisdiction over the Shareholder, or require the
Shareholder, prior to the Closing or as a condition precedent
thereof, to make any governmental or regulatory filings, obtain any
consent, authorization, approval, clearance or other action by any
Person, or await the expiration of any applicable waiting
period;
(b)
no
Person has any agreement or option or any right or privilege
(whether pre-emptive
or contractual) capable of becoming an agreement or option for the
acquisition from the Shareholder of any of the Shareholder’s
Acquired Corporation Shares;
(c)
the
Shareholder has all necessary power, authority and capacity to
enter into theAgreement,
and all other agreements and instruments to be executed by it as
contemplated by the Agreement and to carry out its obligations
under the Agreement, and such other agreements and
instruments;
(d)
the
execution and delivery of the Agreement, and such other agreements
and instruments
and the consummation of the Transaction have been duly authorized
by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Shareholder as
may be required;
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(e)
the
Agreement constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the
Shareholderenforceable
against the undersigned in accordance with its terms subject,
however, to limitations with respect to enforcement imposed by law
in connection with bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other
laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to the extent
that equitable remedies such as specific performance and
injunctions are only available in the discretion of the court from
which they are sought;
(f)
the
Shareholder is the registered and legal beneficial owner of its
Acquired Corporation
Shares as set forth in Schedule “A” to the Agreement
and identified on the signature page hereto and has good and valid
title thereto free and clear of any Encumbrances;
(g)
the
Shareholder has the exclusive right and full power to transfer its
Acquired Corporation
Shares to the Acquiror as contemplated in the Agreement free and
clear of any Encumbrances;
(h)
there
is not pending or, to the knowledge of the Shareholder, after due
inquiry, threatened
or contemplated, any suit, action, legal proceeding, litigation or
governmental investigation of any sort which would:
(i)
in any manner restrain or prevent
the Shareholder from effectually or legally
transferring its Acquired Corporation Shares to the Acquiror in
accordance with the Agreement;
(ii)
cause
any Encumbrance to be attached to its Acquired Corporation
Shares;
(iii)
divest
title to its Acquired Corporation Shares; or
(iv)
make
the Acquiror or the Corporation liable for damages in connection
with the Transaction;
(i)
to
the knowledge of the undersigned, after due inquiry, there is not
pending, threatened
or contemplated, any suit, action, legal proceeding, litigation or
governmental investigation of any sort relating to the Shareholder,
its Acquired Corporation Shares or the Transaction, nor is there
any present state of facts or circumstances which can be reasonably
anticipated to be a basis for any such suit, action, legal
proceeding, litigation or governmental investigation nor is there
presently outstanding against the Shareholder, any judgment,
decree, injunction, rule or order of any court, governmental
department, commission, agency, instrumentality, or
arbitrator;
(j)
the
Shareholder has not entered into any agreement that would entitle
any person to any
valid claim against the Acquiror for a broker’s commission,
finder’s fee, or any like payment in respect of the
acquisition and sale of the Acquired Corporation Shares or any
other matters contemplated by the Agreement, and in the event
that
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any
Person acting or purporting to act for the undersigned establishes
a claim for any fee from the Acquiror, the Shareholder severally
covenants to indemnify and hold harmless the Acquiror with respect
thereto and with respect to all costs reasonably incurred in the
defence thereof;
(k)
the
Shareholder has had the opportunity to ask questions of and receive
answers from the Acquiror regarding the acquisition of the
Consideration Shares, and has received all the information
regarding Acquiror that it has requested;
(l)
the
Shareholder acknowledges that the Consideration Shares are highly
speculative in nature and that the Shareholder has such
sophistication and experience in business and financial matters as
to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the investment.
In connection with the delivery of the Consideration Shares, the
Shareholder has not relied upon the Acquiror for investment, legal
or tax advice, or other professional advice, and has in all cases
sought or elected not to seek the advice of his own personal
investment advisers, legal counsel and tax advisers. The
Shareholder is able, without impairing his financial condition, to
bear the economic risk of, and withstand a complete loss of the
investment and he can otherwise be reasonably assumed to have the
capacity to protect his own interests in connection with its
investment in the Consideration Shares;
(m)
the
Shareholder acknowledges that the Consideration Shares have not
been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act or
applicable state securities laws, and the Consideration Shares are
being offered and sold to the Shareholder in reliance upon Rule
506(b) of Regulation D and/or Section 4(a)(2) under the U.S.
Securities Act;
(n)
the
Shareholder is an “accredited investor” as defined in
Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the U.S. Securities
Act;
(o)
the
Shareholder acknowledges that it is not acquiring the Consideration
Shares as a result of “general solicitation” or
“general advertising” (as such terms are used in
Regulation D under the U.S. Securities Act), including without
limitation, advertisements, articles, notices or other
communications published in any newspaper, magazine or similar
media or on the internet, or broadcast over radio or television or
on the internet, or any seminar or meeting whose attendees have
been invited by general solicitation or general
advertising;
(p)
the
Shareholder acknowledges that the Consideration Shares are
“restricted securities”, as such term is defined under
Rule 144 of the Securities Act, and may not be offered, sold,
pledged, or otherwise transferred, directly or indirectly, without
prior registration under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable
state securities laws, or pursuant to an exemption from the
registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act;
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(q)
the
Shareholder understands that upon the issuance thereof, and until
such time as the same is no longer required under the applicable
requirements of the U.S. Securities Act or applicable U.S. state
laws and regulations, the certificates representing the
Consideration Shares will bear a legend in substantially the
following form:
“THE
SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE
REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE “U.S. SECURITIES ACT”). THESE SECURITIES
MAY BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (A) TO
THE CORPORATION, (B) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN COMPLIANCE WITH
RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT, (C) IN
COMPLIANCE WITH THE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144 THEREUNDER, IF
AVAILABLE, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS,
OR (D) IN A TRANSACTION THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE REGISTRATION UNDER
THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OR ANY APPLICABLE STATE LAWS, AND THE
HOLDER HAS, PRIOR TO SUCH SALE, FURNISHED TO THE CORPORATION AN
OPINION OF COUNSEL OR OTHER EVIDENCE OF EXEMPTION, IN EITHER CASE
REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE CORPORATION. DELIVERY OF THIS
CERTIFICATE MAY NOT CONSTITUTE “GOOD DELIVERY” IN
SETTLEMENT OF TRANSACTIONS ON STOCK EXCHANGES IN
CANADA.”,
provided,
that if the Consideration Shares are being sold under clause (B)
above, the legend set forth above may be removed by providing a
declaration to Acquiror’s registrar and transfer agent in
such form as the Resulting Issuer or its registrar and transfer
agent may prescribe from time to time, to the effect that the sale
of the securities is being made in compliance with Rule 904 of
Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act;
provided
further that if the Consideration Shares are being sold under
clauses (C) and (D) above, the legend may be removed by delivery to
the Resulting Issuer and its transfer agent of an opinion of
counsel of recognized standing in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Resulting Issuer to the effect that the legend
is no longer required under applicable requirements of the U.S.
Securities Act;
(r)
none
of the foregoing representations and warranties knowingly contains
any untrue statement of material fact or knowingly omits to state
any material fact necessary to make any such covenant, warranty or
representation not misleading to a prospective acquiror seeking
full information as to the Acquired Corporation Shares;
and
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(s)
to the knowledge of the Shareholder, none of the
representations and warranties made
by the Corporation in Section 3.1 of this Agreement is untrue or
inaccurate in any material respect.
ARTICLE 5
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE ACQUIROR
5.1The Acquiror represents and warrants to the Shareholders and the
Corporation as follows
as
at the date hereof and as at the Closing Date and acknowledges that
the Shareholders and the Corporation are relying upon such
representations and warranties in connection with the sale by the
Shareholders and the Corporation of the Acquired Corporation
Shares:
(a)
Authority Relative to
this Agreement. The Acquiror
has all necessary corporate power, authority and capacity to enter
into this Agreement and to perform its obligations hereunder. The
execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Acquiror and the
performance by the Acquiror of its obligations hereunder have been
duly authorized by its board of directors and no other corporate
proceedings on its part are necessary to authorize this Agreement
or the Transaction. This Agreement has been duly executed and
delivered by the Acquiror and constitutes a legal, valid and
binding obligation of the Acquiror, enforceable against the
Acquiror in accordance with its terms, subject to the qualification
that such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other laws of general application relating to or
affecting rights of creditors and that equitable remedies,
including specific performance, are discretionary and may not be
ordered.
(b)
Organization and
Qualification. The Acquiror is
a corporation duly incorporated and validly existing under the
federal laws of the Canada and has all necessary corporate or legal
power and capacity to own its property and assets as now owned and
to carry on its business as it is now being conducted. The Acquiror
(a) has all Permits necessary to conduct its business substantially
as now conducted, and (b) is duly registered, licensed or otherwise
authorized and qualified to do business and each is in good
standing in each jurisdiction in which the character of its
properties, owned, leased, licensed or otherwise held, or the
nature of its activities makes such qualification necessary, except
where the failure to be so registered or in good standing or to
have such Permits would not have a Material Adverse Effect on the
Acquiror.
(c)
Ordinary
Course. Since October 18, 2010,
the Acquiror has carried on no business other than activities as a
venture capital company seeking assets or businesses with good
growth potential to merge with or acquire.
(d)
No Material
Change. Since December 31,
2017, except as disclosed in the Acquiror Public Disclosure
Record:
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(ii)
there
has not occurred any event that constituted or with the passage of
time would constitute a Material Adverse Effect in respect of the
Acquiror;
(iii)
the
Acquiror has not effected or passed any resolution to approve a
split, consolidation or reclassification of any of the outstanding
Acquiror Shares;
(iv)
the
Acquiror has not effected any material change in its accounting
methods, principles or practices;
(v)
there
has been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or
made by the Acquiror on any the Acquiror Shares;
(vi)
there
has not occurred any event that constituted or with the passage of
time would constitute a Material Adverse Effect in respect of the
Acquiror and its subsidiaries taken as a whole;
(vii)
the
business and property of the Acquiror conform in all material
respects to the description thereof contained in the Acquiror
Public Disclosure Record;
(viii)
other
than in the ordinary and regular course of business consistent with
past practice, there has not been any incurrence, assumption or
guarantee by the Acquiror of any debt for borrowed money, any
creation or assumption by the Acquiror of any Encumbrance or any
making by the Acquiror or any of its subsidiaries of any loan,
advance or capital contribution to, or investment in, any other
Person.
(e)
No
Violations. Neither the
authorization, execution and delivery of this
Agreement by
the Acquiror nor the completion of the transactions contemplated by
the Agreement or the Transaction, nor the performance of its
obligations thereunder, nor compliance by the Acquiror with any of
the provisions hereof will:
(i)
result
in a violation or breach of, constitute a default (or an event
which, with
notice or lapse of time or both, would become a default), require
any consent or approval to be obtained or notice to be given under,
or give rise to any third party right of termination, cancellation,
suspension, acceleration, penalty or payment obligation or right to
acquire or sale under, any provision of: (A) the notice of
articles, articles of incorporation, or other constating documents
of the Acquiror or any of its subsidiaries, (B) any Permit or
material contract to which the Acquiror or any of its subsidiaries
is a party or to which any of them, or any of their respective
properties or assets, may be subject or by which the Acquiror or
any of its subsidiaries is bound, or (C) any law,
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regulation,
order, judgment or decree applicable to the Acquiror or any of its
subsidiaries or any of their respective properties or
assets.
(ii)
give
rise to any rights of first refusal or trigger any change in
control provisions, rights of first offer or first refusal or any
similar provisions or any restrictions or limitation under any
note, bond, mortgage, indenture, material contract, license,
franchise or Permit to which the Acquiror or any of its
subsidiaries is a party;
(iii)
give
rise to any termination or acceleration of indebtedness, or cause
any third party indebtedness to come due before its stated maturity
or cause any available credit to cease to be available;
or
(iv)
result
in the imposition of any Encumbrance upon any of the property or
assets of the Acquiror or any of its subsidiaries or restrict,
hinder, impair or limit the ability of the Acquiror or any of its
subsidiaries to conduct the business of the Acquiror or such
subsidiary as and where it is now being conducted which would,
individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect on the Acquiror.
No
consents, approvals and notices required from any third party under
any material contracts of the Acquiror or any of its subsidiaries
in order for the Acquiror to proceed with the execution and
delivery of this Agreement and the completion of the
Transaction.
(f)
Capitalization.
The authorized share capital of the Acquiror consists of an
unlimited number of Acquiror Shares. As at the date hereof,
5,000,000 Acquiror Shares were issued and outstanding, and an
aggregate of 1,000,000 Acquiror Shares are issuable upon the
exercise of the Acquiror Special Warrants, and, except for such
Acquiror Special Warrants, as of the date hereof, there are no
options, warrants, conversion privileges or other rights,
shareholder rights plans, agreements, arrangements or commitments
(pre-emptive, contingent or otherwise) of any character whatsoever
requiring or which may require the issuance, sale or transfer by
the Acquiror of any securities of the Acquiror (including the
Acquiror Shares), or any securities or obligations convertible
into, or exchangeable or exercisable for, or otherwise evidencing a
right or obligation to acquire, any securities of the Acquiror
(including the Acquiror Shares) or subsidiaries of the Acquiror.
All outstanding Acquiror Shares have been duly authorized and
validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable, and all the
Acquiror Shares issuable upon the exercise of the Acquiror Special
Warrants in accordance with their respective terms have been duly
authorized and, upon issuance, will be validly issued as fully paid
and non-assessable, and are not and will not be subject to, or
issued in violation of, any pre-emptive rights.
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(g)
Reporting Status and
Securities Laws Matters. The
Acquiror is a “reporting issuer” and not on the list of
reporting issuers in default under applicable Canadian provincial
Securities Laws applicable in the Provinces of Alberta, Ontario,
Quebec, Nova Scotia, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Island, and Newfoundland and
Labrador. The Acquiror Shares are not listed on any stock
exchange.
(h)
Public
Filings. Since October 18,
2010, the Acquiror has filed all documents required to be filed by
it in accordance with applicable Securities Laws with the
Securities Authorities to maintain the Acquiror’s status as a
reporting issuer not on the list of reporting issuers in default
under applicable Canadian provincial Securities Laws in the
Provinces of Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Island, Nova
Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador. All such documents and
information comprising the Acquiror Public Disclosure Record, as of
their respective dates (and the dates of any amendments thereto),
(1) did not contain any 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, in light of the circumstances in
which they were made, not misleading, and (2) complied in all
material respects with the requirements of applicable Securities
Laws, and any amendments to the Acquiror Public Disclosure Record
required to be made have been filed on a timely basis with the
Securities Authorities. The Acquiror has not filed any confidential
material change report with any Securities Authorities that at the
date of this Agreement remains confidential. There has been no
change in a material fact or a material change (as those terms are
defined under the Securities Act) in any of the information
contained in the Acquiror Public Disclosure Record, except for
changes in material facts or material changes that are reflected in
a subsequently filed document included in the Acquiror Public
Disclosure Record.
(i)
The Acquiror Financial
Statements. The
Acquiror’s audited financial statements as at and for the
years ended June 30, 2016 and 2017 (including the notes thereto and
related management’s discussion and analysis (the
“Acquiror
MD&A”) and the
Acquiror’s unaudited condensed interim financial statements
as at and for the six month period ended December 31, 2017
(collectively, the “Acquiror Financial
Statements”) were
prepared in accordance with IFRS, respectively, consistently
applied (except as otherwise indicated in such financial statements
and the notes thereto or in the related report of the
Acquiror’s independent auditors) and present fairly in all
material respects the financial condition, results of operations
and changes in financial position of the Acquiror as of the dates
thereof and for the periods indicated therein and reflect reserves
required by IFRS, as applicable, in respect of all material
contingent liabilities, if any, of the
Acquiror.
(j)
No Undisclosed
Liabilities. The Acquiror has
no outstanding indebtedness, liability or obligation (including
liabilities or obligations to fund any operations or work or
exploration program, to give any guarantees or for Taxes), whether
accrued, absolute, contingent or otherwise, and are not party to or
bound by any suretyship, guarantee, indemnification or assumption
agreement, or endorsement of, or any other similar commitment with
respect to the obligations, liabilities or
indebtedness
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of
any Person, other than those specifically disclosed in the Acquiror
Public Disclosure Record filed prior to the date of this Agreement,
specifically identified in the Acquiror Financial Statements, or
incurred in connection with the transactions contemplated herein or
maintaining the Acquiror’s status as a reporting issuer not
on the list of reporting issuers in default under applicable
Canadian provincial Securities Laws applicable in the Provinces of
Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Island, Nova Scotia, and
Newfoundland and Labrador.
(k)
Litigation.
There is no claim, action, suit, grievance, complaint, proceeding
or investigation that has been commenced or, to the knowledge of
the Acquiror, is threatened affecting the Acquiror or affecting any
of its property or assets at law or in equity before or by any
Governmental Entity, including matters arising under Environmental
Laws, which, individually or in the aggregate, if determined
adversely to the Acquiror, as the case may be, has or could
reasonably be expected to result in liability to the Acquiror.
Neither the Acquiror nor its respective assets or properties is
subject to any outstanding judgment, order, writ, injunction or
decree.
(l)
Taxes.
(i)
Since
October 18, 2010, the Acquiror has filed or caused or will cause to
be filed all returns required to be filed by Applicable Law on or
before the Closing Date. All such returns are correct and complete
in all material respects. The Acquiror has timely paid all material
Taxes that are due and payable by the Acquiror, including all
instalments on account of taxes for the current year that are due
and payable by the Acquiror whether or not assessed (or reassessed)
by the appropriate Governmental Entity, and has, as applicable,
timely remitted such Taxes to the appropriate Governmental Entity
under Applicable Law. There are no Encumbrances for Taxes upon any
of the assets or properties of the Acquiror.
(ii)
There
is no material dispute or claim, including any audit, investigation
or examination by any Governmental Entity, actual, pending or, to
the knowledge of the Acquiror, threatened, concerning any Tax
liability of the Acquiror, no written notice of such an audit,
investigation, examination, material dispute or claim has been
received by the Acquiror.
(iii)
The
Acquiror has not requested, or entered into any agreement or other
arrangement, or executed any waiver providing for, any extension of
time within which:
(A)
to
file any return (which has not since been filed) in respect of any
Taxes for which the Acquiror is or may be liable;
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(B)
to
file any elections, designations or similar filings relating to
Taxes (which have not since been filed) for which the Acquiror is
or may be liable;
(C)
the
Acquiror is required to pay or remit any Taxes or amounts on
account of Taxes (which have not since been paid or remitted);
or
(D)
any
Governmental Entity may assess or collect Taxes for which the
Acquiror is liable.
(iv)
Since
October 18, 2010, the Acquiror has duly and timely deducted,
collected or withheld from any amount paid or credited by it to or
for the account or benefit of any Person and has duly and timely
remitted the same (or is properly holding for such remittance) to
the appropriate Governmental Entity all Taxes and amounts it is
required by Applicable Law to so deduct or collect and
remit.
(v)
Since
October 18, 2010, the Acquiror has not acquired property or
services from, or disposed of property or provided services to, any
Person with whom it does not deal at arm’s length, within the
meaning of the Tax Act, for an amount that is other than the fair
market value of such property or services.
(vi)
Since
October 18, 2010, for all transactions between the Acquiror and any
Person who is not resident in Canada for purposes of the Tax Act
with whom the Acquiror was not dealing at arm’s length for
purposes of the Tax Act, the Acquiror has made or obtained records
or documents that meet the requirements of paragraphs 247(4)(a) to
(c) of the Tax Act.
(vii)
Since
October 18, 2010, no claim has been made by any Governmental Entity
in a jurisdiction where the Acquiror does not file returns that the
Acquiror is or may be subject to Taxes or is required to file
returns in that jurisdiction.
(viii)
There
are no rulings or closing agreements relating to the Acquiror which
could affect the Acquiror’s liability for Taxes for any
taxable period after the Closing Date. The Acquiror has not
requested an advance tax ruling from the Canada Revenue Agency or
comparable rulings from other taxing authorities.
(m)
Issuance of the
Acquiror Shares. The
Consideration Shares will, when issued pursuant to the Transaction,
be duly and validly issued as fully paid and non-assessable shares
in the capital of the Acquiror.
(n)
Expropriation.
No part of the property or assets of the Acquiror or any of its
material subsidiaries has been taken, condemned or expropriated by
any Governmental Entity nor has any written notice or proceeding in
respect thereof
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been
given or commenced nor does the Acquiror or any of its material
subsidiaries know of any intent or proposal to give such notice or
commence any such proceedings.
(o)
Rights of Other
Persons. No Person has any
right of first refusal or option to acquire or any other right of
participation in any of the material properties or assets owned by
the Acquiror, or any part thereof, except as disclosed in the
Acquiror Financial Statements.
(p)
Compliance with
Laws. The Acquiror has complied
with and is not in violation of any Applicable Laws, other than
non-compliance or violations which would not, individually or in
the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect on the Acquiror and
has not received any written notices or other correspondence from
any Governmental Entity regarding any circumstances that have
existed or currently exist which would lead to a loss, suspension,
or modification of, or a refusal to issue, any material license,
permit, authorization, approval, registration or consent of a
Governmental Entity relating to its activities which would
reasonably be expected to restrict, curtail, limit or adversely
affect the ability of the Acquiror to operate its businesses in a
manner which would have a Material Adverse Effect on the
Acquiror.
(q)
Related Party
Transactions. Other than as set
forth in the Acquiror Public Disclosure Record, there are no
contracts or other transactions currently in place between the
Acquiror or its subsidiaries, on the one hand, and: (i) any officer
or director of the Acquiror or its subsidiaries; (ii) any holder of
record or, to the knowledge of the Acquiror, beneficial owner of
10% or more of the Acquiror Shares; and (iii) any affiliate or
associate of any such, officer, director, holder of record or
beneficial owner, on the other hand.
(r)
Restrictions on
Business Activities. There is
no arbitral award, judgment, injunction, constitutional ruling,
order or decree binding upon the Acquiror or its subsidiaries that
has or could reasonably be expected to have the effect of
prohibiting, restricting, or impairing any business practice of any
of them, any acquisition or disposition of property by any of them,
or the conduct of the business by any of them as currently
conducted, which could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect on the Acquiror.
(s)
Authorizations and
Consents.
(i) Except for the approval of the CSE contemplated in
Section 7.1(a) and the approval of the shareholders of the Acquiror
contemplated in Section 7.1(d), no Authorization or declaration or
filing with any Governmental Entity on the part of the Acquiror is
required for the valid execution, delivery and performance of its
obligations under this Agreement or the completion of the
Transaction pursuant to this Agreement.
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(ii) No
consent, approval or waiver is required pursuant to the terms of
any Material
Contract to which the Acquiror is a party for the valid execution,
delivery and performance of its obligations under this Agreement or
the completion of the Transaction pursuant to this
Agreement.
(t)
No Cease
Trade. The Acquiror is not
subject to any cease trade or other order of any applicable
Securities Authority and, to the knowledge of the Acquiror, no
investigation or other proceedings involving the Acquiror which may
operate to prevent or restrict trading of any securities of the
Acquiror are currently in progress or pending before any applicable
Securities Authority.
(u)
Fees.
No broker, investment banker, financial advisor or other Person is
entitled to any broker’s, finder’s, financial
advisor’s or other similar fee or commission in connection
with the transactions contemplated hereby based upon arrangements
made by or on behalf of the Acquiror.
(v)
United States
Securities Laws. The Acquiror
is not registered, and is not required to be registered as, an
“investment company” under the United States Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended.
5.2 The representations
and warranties of the Acquiror contained in this Agreement shall
not
survive the completion of the Transaction and shall expire and be
terminated on the earlier of the Time of Closing and the date on
which this Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms.
Any investigation by the Shareholders and their Representatives
shall not mitigate, diminish or affect the representations and
warranties of the Acquiror pursuant to this Agreement.
ARTICLE 6
STOCK EXCHANGE LISTING, SHAREHOLDER APPROVALS,
TRANSACTION
MATTERS AND EXCHANGE ESCROW
6.1 Stock Exchange
Listing, Filings and Approvals
(a) Subject to Section 6.4 below, the Acquiror
covenants and agrees to take, in a timely
manner, all commercially reasonable actions and steps necessary in
order that: (i) prior to the completion of the Transaction, the
Acquiror will seek shareholder approval to: (a) effect the
Consolidation; (b) effect a change of its name to such name as may
be approved by the Corporation and acceptable to applicable
regulatory authorities; (c) amend its articles to create the
Restricted Shares; and (d) elect the Corporation Nominees to
replace the current slate directors of the Acquiror immediately
following the Closing of the Transaction (collectively, the
“Transaction
Resolutions”), in
accordance with Section 6.3 below; (ii) the Consideration Shares
issued to the Shareholders by the Resulting Issuer will be listed
and posted for trading on the CSE; (iii) when received, the
Acquiror shall provide the Corporation with copies of the final
approval regarding the listing and posting for trading of the
Resulting Issuer Shares on the CSE; and (iv)
the
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distribution
of the Consideration Shares to the Shareholders is exempt from
theprospectus
and registration requirements of applicable Securities
Laws.
(b) Subject to Section 6.4 below, the Corporation will
use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the Stock
Exchange Listing and thereafter fulfill the conditions of the CSE.
The Acquiror will provide the Corporation and its legal counsel
with reasonable advance notice and an opportunity to comment on the
content thereof, and to participate in, any communications or
submissions to the CSE and other securities regulatory
authorities.
6.2 Preparation of
Financial Statements
The Corporation shall be responsible for preparing, as required in
connection with the Transaction, the audited and interim financial
statements of the Corporation, and the pro forma financial
statements reflecting the combination of the Acquiror and the
Corporation (including Xxxxx), in each case in the form required by
the CSE and the relevant securities regulatory
authorities.
6.3 Shareholder
Approval
As soon as is practicable after the date hereof, the Acquiror shall
take all necessary steps to obtain shareholder approval in
connection with the Transaction Resolutions.
6.4 Transaction
Costs
The Acquiror will be responsible for the payment of up to $300,000
of expenses incurred by both the Acquiror and the Corporation (but
not the Shareholders) incurred in connection with the transactions
contemplated herein. These expenses will be funded from the
proceeds of Acquiror’s private placement of Acquiror Special
Warrants, which proceeds have been deposited into escrow and
Acquiror will have no liability for expenses hereunder other than
from the escrowed funds. Each party hereto shall thereafter be
responsible for its own costs and expenses incurred with respect to
the transactions contemplated herein including, without limitation,
all costs and expenses incurred prior to the date of this Agreement
and all reasonable legal and accounting fees and disbursements
relating to preparing the Transaction documents or otherwise
relating to the transactions contemplated herein. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the parties agree that the Corporation and its
counsel shall be primarily responsible for preparation of all
documentation and filings in connection with the Transaction and
the payment of all related costs and fees, including, without
limitation, this Agreement, all shareholder meetings and the
application to the CSE for the Stock Exchange Listing, while the
Acquiror and its counsel shall perform a review function and
cooperate and assist in the preparation of such documentation and
required filings; however, each party shall permit the other party
and its counsel to review the preparation of all documentation to
be sent to the shareholders of such party or otherwise used in
connection with the approval of the Transaction by the shareholders
of such party and the CSE.
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6.5 Exchange
Escrow
Each Shareholder shall comply with and be bound by, if applicable,
all escrow requirements imposed by the CSE on which the Resulting
Issuer Shares are listed or proposed to be listed and under
applicable Securities Laws.
ARTICLE 7
MUTUAL CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
7.1 The respective
obligations of the Acquiror and the Corporation to complete the
Transaction are subject to the fulfillment prior to or at the
Closing of each of the following conditions:
(a)
the
CSE shall have conditionally approved the Transaction and the
Acquiror shall have obtained the Stock Exchange Listing, subject
only to compliance with the usual requirements of the
CSE;
(b)
the
Brokered Financing shall have closed;
(c)
the
Amalgamation shall have occurred;
(d)
all
required Authorizations shall have been obtained on terms and
conditions satisfactory to the parties, acting
reasonably;
(e)
the
required approval of the Nevada Department of Taxation shall have
been received;
(f)
on
or before the Closing Date, there shall have been obtained all
regulatory approvals and all third party consents as may be
required to complete the Transaction, if any, in form and terms
satisfactory to the Acquiror and the Corporation, each acting
reasonably, unless otherwise provided for between the parties, or
if a failure to obtain such approvals or consents would not have a
Material Adverse Effect on the Acquiror or the Corporation or
materially impede the completion of the Transaction;
(g)
no
action shall have been taken by any court or governmental body
prohibiting or making illegal the execution and delivery of this
Agreement or any transaction contemplated by this Agreement;
and
(h)
this
Agreement shall not have been terminated pursuant to Article
13.
The conditions precedent in this Article 7 are for the mutual
benefit of the Acquiror and the Corporation and may be waived, in
whole or in part, at any time if waived by both the Acquiror and
the Corporation, such waiver being without prejudice to any other
right that any Party may have. In case any of the foregoing
conditions cannot be fulfilled on or before the Closing Date to the
satisfaction of the Acquiror and the Corporation, any of the
Acquiror and the Corporation may rescind this Agreement by notice
to the other Party and in such event each of the
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Corporation, the Shareholders and the Acquiror shall be released
from all obligations hereunder, other than in respect of liability
of a party for breach of any of the terms or conditions set forth
herein before such termination.
ARTICLE 8
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO ACQUIROR’S OBLIGATIONS
8.1 All obligations of the
Acquiror to acquire the Acquired Corporation Shares under this
Agreement are subject to the fulfillment prior to or at the Closing
of each of the following conditions:
(a)
the
representations and warranties made by the Corporation and the
Shareholders under this Agreement shall be true in all material
respects as of the Time of Closing (any breach of a representation
or warranty shall be determined without reference to any
materiality qualifier with respect thereto) and the Corporation
shall deliver a certificate signed by a senior officer, dated the
Closing Date in the form satisfactory to counsel to the Acquiror
confirming this and confirming that the Corporation has not
received notice of any inaccuracy in any of the Shareholders’
representations and warranties contained herein, and confirming
such other matters as may be reasonably requested by counsel to the
Acquiror;
(b)
no
Material Adverse Change shall have occurred in the business,
results of operations, assets, financial condition or affairs of
the Corporation, financial or otherwise, between the date of the
Letter Agreement and the completion of the
Transaction;
(c)
there
will be no debts or amounts owing to the Corporation by any of its
officers, former officers, directors, former directors,
shareholders, employees or former employees or any family member
thereof, or any Person with whom either the Corporation does not
deal at arm’s length, except for any amounts advanced to such
Person for expenses incurred on behalf of the Corporation, in the
ordinary course;
(d)
each
of the Shareholders and the Corporation shall have complied with
all covenants and agreements herein agreed to be performed or
caused to be performed by it;
(e)
the
Acquiror shall have received evidence in form satisfactory to the
Acquiror, acting reasonably, that all actions required to be taken
by the Corporation prior to Closing have been taken and all
consents and approvals, including, but not limited to, any consent,
approval or waiver required pursuant to the terms of any Material
Contract to which the Corporation is a party for the valid
execution, delivery and performance of its obligations under this
Agreement or the completion of the Transaction, orders and
authorizations required to be obtained by the Corporation for the
Closing have been obtained;
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(f)
no
action, suit or proceeding shall have been instituted and be
continuing by any Person to restrain, modify or prevent the
consummation of the Transaction as contemplated by this Agreement,
or to seek damages against the Shareholders in connection with such
Transaction, or that has been or is reasonably likely to have a
material adverse effect on the ability of any Party hereto to fully
consummate the Transaction as contemplated by this
Agreement;
(g)
no
change, fact or circumstance shall have occurred in the affairs,
operations, business or financial condition of the Corporation that
the directors of the Acquiror determine, in their sole discretion,
to have a Material Adverse Effect on such Party in proceeding with
the Transaction and except as is disclosed in this
Agreement;
(h)
the
Shareholders shall have delivered to the Acquiror the Acquired
Corporation Shares free and clear of any Encumbrances, in
accordance with the provisions of Section 2.1 hereto;
and
(i)
the
Financial Statements of the Corporation shall, in all material
respects, be consistent with the draft Financial Statements of the
Corporation delivered by the Corporation to the Acquiror on or
prior to the date hereof.
In case any of the foregoing conditions cannot be fulfilled on or
before the Closing Date to the satisfaction of the Acquiror, the
Acquiror may rescind this Agreement by notice to the Corporation
and in such event each of the Acquiror, the Shareholders and the
Corporation shall be released from all obligations hereunder other
than in respect of liability of a party for breach of any of the
terms or conditions set forth herein before such termination;
provided, however, that any such conditions may be waived in whole
or in part by the Acquiror without prejudice to its rights of
rescission in the event of the non-fulfillment of any other
condition or conditions, and that the Closing of the Transaction as
contemplated by the Agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of any
unfulfilled conditions.
ARTICLE 9
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO THE SHAREHOLDERS’ AND
THE
CORPORATION’S OBLIGATIONS
9.1 The obligations of the
Corporation and the Shareholders to complete the transactions
contemplated herein including, without limitation, the obligations
of the Shareholders to sell the Acquired Corporation Shares under
this Agreement, are subject to the fulfilment prior to or at the
Closing of each of the following conditions:
(a)
the
shareholders of the Acquiror shall have approved the Transaction,
if required by the CSE;
(b)
there
will be no debts or amounts owing to the Acquiror by any of its
officers, former officers, directors, former directors,
shareholders, employees or former employees or any family member
thereof, or any Person with whom either the
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Acquiror
does not deal at arm’s length, except for any amounts
advanced to such
Person
for expenses incurred on behalf of the Acquiror, in the ordinary
course;
(c)
the
representations and warranties made by the Acquiror under this
Agreement shall be true in all material respects as of the Time of
Closing (any breach of a representation or warranty shall be
determined without reference to any materiality qualifier with
respect thereto) and the Acquiror shall deliver to the Corporation
a certificate signed by a senior officer, dated the Closing Date in
the form satisfactory to counsel to the Corporation confirming this
and such other matters as may reasonably requested by counsel to
the Corporation;
(d)
no
Material Adverse Change shall have occurred in business, results of
operations assets, liabilities, financial condition or affairs of
the Acquiror, financial or otherwise, between the date of the
Letter Agreement and the completion of the
Transaction;
(e)
all
liabilities of the Acquiror showing on its unaudited December 31,
2017 balance sheet or incurred since that date shall have been
eliminated, other than liabilities incurred in connection with any
transaction contemplated by this Agreement or incurred following
the date thereof to maintain the Acqurior’s status as a
reporting issuer not in default under applicable Canadian
provincial Securities Laws applicable in the Provinces of Alberta,
Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Island, and
Newfoundland and Labrador;
(f)
the
Acquiror shall have complied with all covenants and agreements
herein agreed to be performed or caused to be performed by
it;
(g)
receipt
by the Corporation of a written resignation from each of the
officers and directors of the Acquiror, such resignations to be
effective at the Time of Closing;
(h)
the
CSE shall not have objected to the appointment of the Corporation
Nominees to the board of directors of the Resulting Issuer, or of
the management nominees of the Corporation to serve as officers of
the Resulting Issuer, each upon closing of the
Transaction;
(i)
no
action, suit or proceeding shall have been instituted and be
continuing by any Person to restrain, modify or prevent the
consummation of the Transaction as contemplated by this Agreement,
or to seek damages against the Acquiror in connection with such
Transaction, or that has been or is reasonably likely to have a
Material Adverse Effect on such Party to fully consummate the
Transaction as contemplated by this Agreement;
(j)
the
Acquiror shall pay and satisfy the Acquisition Price in accordance
with Section 2.3 of this Agreement and shall deliver to the
Shareholders and/or an escrow agent, as applicable, certificates,
in form reasonably satisfactory to counsel
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to
the Shareholders, representing the Consideration Shares to be
issued in accordance with Article 2 hereto registered in the names
of the Shareholders; and
(k) all
convertible securities of the Acquiror outstanding prior to the
Time of Closing shall have been converted and the Acquiror shall
not have outstanding (following such conversion), more than
5,250,000 Acquiror Shares.
In case any of the foregoing conditions cannot be fulfilled on or
before the Closing Date to the satisfaction of the Shareholders,
the Shareholders may rescind this Agreement by notice to the
Acquiror and in such event each of the Corporation, the
Shareholders and the Acquiror shall be released from all
obligations hereunder other than in respect of liability of a party
for breach of any of the terms or conditions set forth herein
before such termination, provided, however, that any such
conditions may be waived in whole or in part by the Shareholders
without prejudice to its rights of rescission in the event of the
non- fulfilment of any other condition or conditions, and that the
Closing of the Transaction as contemplated by the Agreement shall
be deemed to be a waiver of any unfulfilled
conditions.
ARTICLE 10
COVENANTS OF THE CORPORATION
10.1 The Corporation agrees that during the period commencing on
the date of this Agreement and continuing until Closing or the
earlier termination of this Agreement, the
Corporation:
(a)
subject
to the terms of this Agreement, agrees to prepare and circulate a
form of unanimous written consent resolution for the purpose of
obtaining the Corporation Shareholder Approval in accordance with
the Corporation’s articles, by-laws and Applicable Law, as
soon as reasonably practicable, and shall use its best efforts to
obtain the Corporation Shareholder Approval no later than April 30,
2018;
(b)
will
carry on its business in, and only in, the ordinary course in
substantially the same manner as heretofore conducted;
(c)
will
not issue, authorize or propose the issuance of, or acquire or
propose the acquisition of, any shares of its capital stock of any
class or securities convertible into, or rights, warrants or
options to acquire, any such shares or other convertible securities
other than those currently outstanding or upon exercise of existing
convertible securities or as otherwise contemplated
hereby;
(d)
will
not borrow any money or incur any indebtedness in an aggregate
amount in excess of US$200,000 (except for trade payables incurred
in the ordinary course), without the prior written consent of the
Acquiror;
(e)
will
not to declare or pay any dividends or distribute any of the
Corporation’s properties or Assets to shareholders of the
Corporation;
(f)
will
not to alter or amend the Corporation’s articles or by-laws
in any manner which may adversely affect the success of the
Transaction, except as is agreed to by the
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Acquiror
in writing or as strictly required to give effect to the matters
contemplated herein;
(g)
will
use its reasonable commercial efforts to obtain any third parties
approvals required in respect of the Transaction, including any
lenders or financial institutions, licensors and strategic
partners;
(h)
will
cooperate fully with the Acquiror and to use all reasonable
commercial efforts to assist the Acquiror in its efforts to acquire
all of the Acquired Corporation Shares, unless such cooperation and
efforts would subject the Corporation to liability or would be in
breach of applicable statutory and regulatory
requirements;
(i)
will
not sell, lease or otherwise dispose of a material portion of its
Assets, other than: (i) in the ordinary course; (ii) in connection
with a reorganization completed in connection with the transactions
contemplated herein; (iii) or with the prior written consent of the
Acquiror, such consent not to be unreasonably
withheld;
(j)
will
use its reasonable efforts to comply promptly with all requirements
which Applicable Law may impose on the Corporation with respect to
the Transaction;
(k)
will
cooperate and provide the Acquiror and its representatives with
full copies of and access to, all contracts, financial records and
statements, books, records, documents and other such information
regarding its previous businesses as they may require, as well as
access to the Acquiror’s auditors, technical personnel and to
such premises and personnel of the Acquiror, if any, as may be
reasonably requested;
(l)
will
promptly advise the Acquiror orally and in writing of any Material
Adverse Change of the Corporation; and
(m)
will
cooperate in obtaining all necessary and desirable consents and
regulatory approvals in connection with the
Transaction.
ARTICLE 11
COVENANTS OF THE ACQUIROR
11.1 The Acquiror covenants and agrees that until Closing or the
earlier termination of this Agreement it will:
(a)
subject
to the terms of this Agreement, the Acquiror agrees to circulate a
form of unanimous written consent resolution for the purpose of
obtaining the Acquiror Shareholder Approval in accordance with the
Acquiror’s articles, by-laws and Applicable Law, as soon as
reasonably practicable, and shall use its best efforts to obtain
the Acquiror Shareholder Approval no later than April 30,
2018;
(b)
not
issue any debt or equity or other securities without the prior
written consent of the Corporation, except as required to complete
the Amalgamation, or for the
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issuance
of Acquiror Shares upon the exercise of existing convertible
securities as contemplated hereunder;
(c)
not
carry on any business except as required to complete the
Transaction and retain its status as reporting issuer not in
default under applicable Canadian provincial Securities Laws
applicable in the Provinces of Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Nova
Scotia, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador, not
borrow any money or incur any indebtedness (except for trade
payables incurred in the ordinary course);
(d)
not
make loans, advances or other similar payments to any party,
excluding advances to the Corporation or third parties for expenses
reasonably necessary to carry out the terms of this
Agreement;
(e)
not
make any expenditures except those that are reasonably necessary to
carry out the terms of this Agreement, that are necessary to fulfil
the Acquiror’s obligations as a “public company”
or that are incurred to reimburse directors or officers for
reasonable expenses incurred for the foregoing
purposes;
(f)
not
declare or pay any dividends or distribute any of the
Acquiror’s property or assets to shareholders;
(g)
not
alter or amend the Acquiror’s articles or by-laws in any
manner which may adversely affect the success of the Transaction,
except as strictly required to give effect to the matters
contemplated herein, including, but not limited to, the creation of
the class of Restricted Shares, the Consolidation and the change of
name of the Corporation, as contemplated pursuant to Section
6.1(a);
(h)
not
enter into any transaction or material contract, except as
reasonably necessary to give effect to the matters contemplated
herein;
(i)
use
its reasonable commercial efforts to obtain any third parties
approvals required in respect of the Transaction, including any
lenders or financial institutions, licensors and strategic
partners;
(j)
cooperate
fully with the Corporation and to use all reasonable commercial
efforts to otherwise complete the Transaction, unless such
cooperation and efforts would subject the Acquiror to liability or
would be in breach of applicable statutory and regulatory
requirements;
(k)
promptly
advise the Corporation orally and in writing of any Material
Adverse Change with respect to the Acquiror;
(l)
cooperate
in obtaining all necessary consents and regulatory approvals in
connection with the Transaction;
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(m)
maintain its corporate status and comply with all applicable
securities requirements (including any applicable filing
requirements);
(n)
provide the Corporation with full copies of, and access to, all
contracts, financial records and statements, books, records,
documents and other such information regarding its previous
businesses as is available and they may require, as well as access
to the Acquiror’s auditors and to such premises and personnel
of the Acquiror, if any, as may be reasonably requested;
and
(o)
use its commercially reasonable best efforts to obtain CSE approval
of the Transaction as expeditiously as possible.
ARTICLE 12
ADDITIONAL COVENANTS
12.1 Non-Solicitation.
(a) Each
of the Acquiror and the Corporation agree that during the period
from the date hereof
until the earlier of the Closing Date and the Termination Date,
it:
(i)
shall
immediately cease and cause to be terminated any existing
discussions or negotiations or other proceedings initiated prior to
the date hereof by it, or its respective Representatives with
respect to all Acquisition Proposals; shall not amend, modify,
waive, release or otherwise forebear in the enforcement of, and
shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to enforce, any
confidentiality, non-solicitation or standstill or similar
agreements or provisions to which it and any third parties are
parties; and shall discontinue access to any of its confidential
information (and not establish or allow access to any of its
confidential information, or any data room, virtual or
otherwise);
(ii)
shall
not directly or indirectly, through any Representative, solicit,
initiate or knowingly encourage (including by way of furnishing
information), or cause or facilitate anyone else to solicit,
initiate or knowingly encourage, any Acquisition Proposal, or any
inquiries or the making of any proposal that constitutes or may
reasonably be expected to lead to an Acquisition Proposal, from any
Person, or engage in any discussion, negotiations or inquiries
relating thereto, provided however that the Acquiror may request
information from any Person who has made an Acquisition Proposal
for the sole purpose of clarifying the terms of such Acquisition
Proposal;
(iii)
shall
not provide information concerning its securities, assets or
business to any Person for or in furtherance of anything mentioned
in Sections 12.1(i)or (ii) other than as required by Applicable
Law;
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(iv)
shall
(i) immediately notify the Corporation if the Acquiror or any of
its Representatives receives any indications of interest, requests
for information or offers in respect of any Acquisition Proposal;
and (ii) provide full details to the Corporation of the terms of
any such indication, request or offers, subject to any contractual
obligations of confidentiality; and
(v)
shall
not accept, recommend, approve or enter into or propose to publicly
accept, recommend, approve or enter into an agreement to implement
an Acquisition Proposal.
ARTICLE 13
TERMINATION
13.1 This Agreement may, by notice given before or at the Closing,
be terminated by:
(a)
mutual
agreement of the Acquiror and the Corporation;
(b)
either
the Acquiror or the Corporation upon notice to the other in the
event that any condition set forth in this Agreement for their
benefit is not satisfied to the satisfaction of such Party prior to
the Closing Date or becomes incapable of being satisfied and such
Party does not waive such condition;
(c)
either
the Acquiror or the Corporation, if there shall be any Applicable
Law that makes consummation of the Transaction illegal or otherwise
prohibited, any applicable regulatory authority having notified in
writing either the Acquiror or the Corporation that it will not
permit the Transaction to proceed, or if any judgment, injunction,
order or decree of a competent governmental entity enjoining the
Acquiror or the Corporation from consummating the Transaction shall
be entered and such judgment, injunction, order or decree shall
have become final and non-appealable;
(d)
either
the Acquiror or the Corporation upon notice to the other in the
event that the Brokered Financing is not completed on or prior to
April 30, 2018 provided that if the lead agent for the Brokered
Financing has confirmed in writing prior to April 30, 2018 that
commitments for the full Brokered Financing have been received but
closing has not yet occurred, such date will be extended to May 6,
2018;
(e)
either the Acquiror or the Corporation upon notice
to the other in the event that the Transaction is not completed
before June 30, 2018 (the “Termination
Date”), or such other
date as the Acquiror and the Corporation may agree in
writing;
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(f) the
Corporation if:
(i)
the
Acquiror has breached any of its representations, warranties or
covenants in this Agreement in any material respect and such breach
is not curable or if curable, is not cured within five Business
Days after notice thereof has been received by the Party alleged to
be in breach;
(ii)
there
shall occur after the date hereof, any change, effect, event,
circumstance or fact that constitutes a Material Adverse Effect in
respect of the Acquiror;
(g) the
Acquiror if:
(i)
the
Corporation has breached any of its representations, warranties or
covenants in this Agreement in any material respect and such breach
is not curable or if curable, is not cured within five Business
Days after notice thereof has been received by the Corporation;
or
(ii)
there
shall occur after the date hereof, any change, effect, event,
circumstance or fact that constitutes a Material Adverse Effect in
respect of the Corporation.
13.2 Each Party’s right of termination under Section 13.1
hereto is in addition to any other rights it may have under this
Agreement or otherwise, and the exercise of such right of
termination will not be an election of remedies. If this Agreement
is terminated pursuant to Section 13.1 hereto, all obligations of
the Parties under this Agreement will terminate, except as provided
under Section 13.3 hereto; provided, however, that for greater
certainty if this Agreement is terminated by a Party because of the
breach of the Agreement by another Party or because one or more of
the conditions to the terminating Party’s obligations under
this Agreement is not satisfied as a result of any other
Party’s failure to comply with its obligations under this
Agreement, the terminating Party’s right to pursue all legal
remedies will survive such termination unimpaired.
13.3 Expenses and Reimbursement.
(a)
Subject
to Section 6.4, all fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection
with this Agreement shall be paid by the Party incurring such fees,
costs or expenses.
(b)
Nothing
in this Section 13.3 shall preclude a Party from seeking injunctive
relief to restrain any breach or threatened breach of the covenants
or agreements set forth in this Agreement or otherwise to obtain
specific performance of any such covenants or
agreements.
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ARTICLE 14
NOTICES
14.1 All notices, demands or other communications to be given or
delivered under or by reason of the provisions of this Agreement
shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been given when
delivered personally to the recipient or by email addressed to the
recipient. Such notices, demands and other communications shall be
delivered, mailed or sent electronically to the parties at the
respective addresses or email addresses indicated
below:
(a)
If
to the Corporation or the Shareholders, addressed as
follows:
MM
Development Company Inc.
0000
X. Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxx
Xxxxx, Xxxxxx 00000
Attention:
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx or Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Co-Chief Executive
Officers
E-mail:
xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx or xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
(b)
If to the Acquiror,
addressed as follows:
Carpincho Capital
Corp.
000
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
X0X 0X0
Attention: Xxxxxx
Xxxxx, Chief Executive Officer
E-mail:
xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xx
or to such other address as the Party to be notified shall have
furnished to the other parties in writing. Any notice given in
accordance with the foregoing shall be deemed to have been given
when delivered in person or on the next Business Day following the
date on which it shall have been sent electronically or
mailed.
ARTICLE 15
GENERAL
15.1 This Agreement:
(a)
shall
be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the
Province of Ontario; and
(b)
shall
enure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Acquiror, the
Shareholders and the Corporation and their respective executors,
administrators, legal representatives, successors and permitted
assigns, nothing in this Agreement, express or implied, being
intended to confer upon any other person any rights or remedies
hereunder.
15.2 This Agreement may be amended or modified only by a written
instrument executed by the parties affected thereby, or by their
respective successors and permitted assigns.
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15.3 This Agreement, the Schedules hereto and the documents
specifically referred to herein or executed and delivered
concurrently herewith or at the Closing constitute the entire
agreement, understanding, representations and warranties of the
parties hereto and supersede any prior agreement, understanding,
representation, warranty or documents relating to the subject
matter of this Agreement including, for greater certainty, the
Letter Agreement.
15.4 Time shall be of the essence hereof.
15.5 Each of the Parties hereto covenants and agrees that at any
time and from time to time after the Closing Date such Party will,
upon the request of any other Party, do, execute, acknowledge and
deliver all such further acts, documents and assurances as may be
reasonably required for the better carrying out of the terms of
this Agreement.
15.6 This Agreement may be executed by facsimile or PDF email and
in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be considered an
original but all of which together shall constitute one and the
same agreement.
15.7 The parties hereto agree to file in a timely manner all forms
required to be filed after the Closing Date by Applicable Law and
by the regulations and policies of all applicable securities
regulatory authorities in connection with the Transaction. The
parties acknowledge that a copy of this Agreement will be filed on
SEDAR.
15.8 Neither this Agreement nor any right or obligation hereunder
shall be assignable by any Party hereto without the prior written
consent of the other parties hereto, which consent may be
arbitrarily withheld.
15.9 Until immediately after the Time of Closing, all documents and
information exchanged or received hereunder by the Acquirors, the
Shareholders or the Corporation and their respective auditors and
solicitors shall be treated as confidential information except as
may be required by law, or regulation. Any press releases shall be
subject to joint approval of the Acquiror and the Corporation. The
parties acknowledge that a copy of this Agreement will be required
to be filed by Acquiror on SEDAR pursuant to applicable Securities
Laws.
[The remainder of this page has been left intentionally blank.
Signature page follows.]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties
hereto have duly executed this Agreement as of the date first above
written.
MM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, INC.
By: /s/ Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
Authorized Signatory
CARPINCHO CAPITAL CORP.
By: /s/Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
Authorized Signatory
PRMN INVESTMENTS LTD.
By: /s/ Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
Authorized Signatory
THIRTEEN, LLC
By: /s/ Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
Authorized Signatory
4 DEGREES HIGHER, LLC
By: /s/ Xxxxx
Xxxx
Authorized Signatory
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SCHEDULE “A”
SHAREHOLDERS OF CORPORATION
Name and Address of Registered Shareholder
|
Number of Corporation
Shares
|
Number of
Corporation Non-
Voting Shares
|
Number of
Consideration Shares to be Issued on Closing
|
PRMN
Investments Ltd.
000
X. Xxxxxxxxx Xx., Xxxxx X-000
Xxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxx
00000
|
11,891,000
|
23,359,000
|
11,891,000
Resulting
Issuer Shares and
23,359,000
Restricted Shares
|
Thirteen,
LLC
000
X. Xxxxxxxxx Xx., Xxxxx X-000
Xxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxx
00000
|
11,891,000
|
23,359,000
|
11,891,000
Resulting
Issuer Shares and
23,359,000
Restricted Shares
|
4
Degrees Higher, LLC
000
X. Xxxxxxxxx Xx., Xxxxx X-000
Xxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxx
00000
|
1,518,000
|
2,982,000
|
1,518,000
Resulting Issuer Shares and 2,982,000 Restricted
Shares
|
TOTAL:
|
25,300,000
|
49,700,000
|
25,300,000 Resulting Issuer Shares and 49,700,000 Restricted
Shares
|
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SCHEDULE “B”
MATERIAL CONTRACTS OF THE CORPORATION
1.
Exclusive
Services Agreement (Software) between Blackbird Logistics, Corp.
and the Corporation dated November 8, 2017;
2.
IT
Services Agreement between Intelligent Design I.T. Consulting and
the Corporation dated December 1, 2015;
3.
Marketing
Agreement between Artisans on Fire and the Corporation dated
January 24, 2018;
4.
Marketing
Agreement between Ghost Management Group, LLC and the Corporation
dated January 8, 2018;
5.
Professional
Services Agreement between On Scene Investigation & Security,
Inc. and the Corporation dated December 10, 2015;
6.
Software
License Installation Agreement between [REDACTED –
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION] and the Corporation (signed by the
Corporation on January 18, 2016);
7.
Software
Agreement between [REDACTED – CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION] and
the Corporation dated November 6, 2017;
8.
Microbulk
Products Sales Agreement between Airgas USA, LLC and the
Corporation dated August 12, 2015;
9.
Service
Agreement between Green Clean Commercial Cleaning Services and the
Corporation dated December 1, 2017;
10.
Proposal
for Pest Control presented by Pride Pest Control LLC dba Bears Pest
Control for Grow House Xxxxxx (undated);
11.
Pest
Control and Service Agreement between American Pest Control, Inc.
and the Corporation dated April 22, 2016;
12.
Rental
Service Agreement between Cintas Corporation and the Corporation
dated August 5, 2017;
13.
Decorator/Design
Services Agreement between Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, T Square Studio LLC, and
the Corporation dated November 16, 2017;
14.
Professional
Services Agreement between On Scene Investigation & Security,
Inc. and the Corporation dated December 10, 2015; and
15.
Credit
Facility between [REDACTED – CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION] and
the Corporation dated February 24, 2018.
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SCHEDULE “C”
RESTRICTED SHARE TERMS
[See Following Page]
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|
1.1 General
Definitions
In this Part, the following terms shall have the following meanings
unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) “1933 Act” means the United States Securities Act of
1933, as amended from time to time.
(b) “Common
Shares” means the common
shares in the capital of the Company.
(c) “Company” means “Planet 13 Holdings
Inc.”
(d) “Conversion
Notice” means a written
notice to the transfer agent of the Restricted Voting Shares, in
form and substance satisfactory to the Company and the transfer
agent, executed by a person registered in the records of the
Company or the transfer agent, as the case may be, as a holder of
the Restricted Voting Shares, or by his or her attorney duly
authorized in writing and specifying the number of Restricted
Voting Shares which the holder thereof desires to have converted
into Common Shares, and accompanied by:
(1)
if
share certificates were issued to such holder, the share
certificate or certificates representing the Restricted Voting
Shares which such holder desires to convert;
(2)
a
letter of transmittal, direction, transfer, power or attorney
and/or such other documentation as is specified by the Company or
the transfer agent for the Restricted Voting Shares, acting
reasonably, as being required to give full effect to the conversion
duly completed and executed by the person registered in the records
of the Company or the transfer agent, as the case may be, as the
holder of the Restricted Voting Shares to be converted or by his or
her attorney duly authorized in writing; and
(3)
a
duly completed and executed Residency Declaration or an opinion or
memorandum of counsel (which may be the Company's counsel), in form
and substance satisfactory to the Company and the transfer agent,
to the effect that the conversion of such Restricted Voting Shares
into Common Shares would not cause the Company to become a Domestic
Issuer.
(e) “Domestic
Issuer”' has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Rule 902(c) of Regulation S under the 1933
Act.
(f) “Exclusionary
Offer” means an offer to
purchase Restricted Voting Shares which must be made, by reason of
applicable securities legislation or by the rules or policies of a
stock exchange on which any shares or the Company are listed, to
all or substantially all of the holders or Restricted Voting
Shares.
(g) “Fundamental
Transaction” means a
reorganization, recapitalization, reclassification, merger or
amalgamation or any similar transaction involving the
Company.
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(h)
“Liquidation
Event” means a
distribution of assets of the Company to its shareholders arising
on the winding-up, liquidation or dissolution of the Company,
whether voluntary or involuntary, or any other distribution of its
assets for the purpose of winding up its affairs or
otherwise.
(i)
“Residency
Declaration” means (i) a
declaration by a person attesting that such person is not a
resident of the United States and (ii) any indemnity required by
the Company or the transfer agent in respect of such declaration in
favour of the Company from the person providing the declaration, in
each case in form approved by the Company from time to
time.
(j)
“Restricted Voting
Shares” means the Class A
Restricted Voting Shares in the capital of the
Company.
(k)
“United
States” means the United
States of America, its territories and possessions, any State of
the United States and the District of Columbia.
COMMON SHARES
1.2 Voting
Each Common Share entitles the holder to receive notice of and to
attend any meeting of shareholders and to exercise one vote for
each Common Share held at all meetings of shareholders of the
Company, other than meetings at which only the holders of another
class or series of shares are entitled to vote separately as a
class or series. Except as provided otherwise herein or as required
by law, holders of Common Shares and Restricted Voting Shares shall
vote as one class at all meetings of shareholders of the
Company.
1.3 Dividends
Subject to the Business Corporations Act, and subject to the rights
of the shares or any other class ranking senior to the Common
Shares with respect to priority in the payment or dividends, the
holders or Common Shares shall be entitled to receive dividends,
and the Company shall pay dividends thereon, as and when declared
by the Board out of moneys properly applicable to the payment of
dividends, pari passu with the holders of the Restricted Voting Shares
on a per share basis, in such amount and in such form as the Board
may from time to time determine; provided however that no dividend
on the Common Shares shall be declared unless contemporaneously
therewith the Board shall declare a dividend, payable at the same
time as such dividend on the Common Shares, on each Restricted
Voting Share. All dividends declared on the Common Shares and on
the Restricted Voting Shares shall be declared and paid in equal
amounts per share on all Common Shares and Restricted Voting Shares
at the time outstanding on the applicable record data for such
dividend. For purposes hereof, the payment of dividends by way of a
stock dividend in Common Shares on the Common Shares and in
Restricted Voting Shares on the Restricted Voting Shares in the
same number per share shall be considered to be a
pari passu
payment of
dividends.
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1.4 Liquidation Event
Subject to the rights of the shares of any other class ranking
senior to the Common Shares with respect to priority upon a
Liquidation Event, in the event of a Liquidation Event, the holders
of Common Shares and the holders of Restricted Voting Shares shall
participate rateably in equal amounts per share, without preference
or distinction, in the remaining assets of the
Company.
1.5 Changes to Common Shares
RESTRICTED VOTING SHARES
1.6 Voting
1.7 Limitation on Voting Rights
The Restricted Voting Shares carry no entitlement for the holder
thereof to vote for the election or removal of directors of the
Company.
1.8 Dividends
Subject to the Business Corporations Act, and subject to the rights
of the shares of any other class ranking senior to the Restricted
Voting Shares with respect to priority in the payment of dividends,
the holders of Restricted Voting Shares shall be entitled to
receive dividends, and the Company shall pay dividends thereon, as
and when declared by the Board out of moneys properly applicable to
the payment of dividends, pari passu with the holders of the Common Shares on a per
share basis, in such amount and in such form as the Board may from
time to time determine; provided however that no dividend on the
Restricted Voting Shares shall be declared unless contemporaneously
therewith the Board shall declare a dividend, payable at the same
time as such dividend on the Restricted Voting Shares, on each
Common Share. All dividends declared on the Common Shares and on
the Restricted Voting Shares shall be declared and paid in equal
amounts per share on all Common Shares and Restricted Voting Shares
at the time outstanding on the applicable record date for such
dividend. For purposes hereof, the payment of dividends by way of a
stock dividend in Common Shares on the Common Shares and
in
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Restricted Voting Shares on the Restricted Voting Shares in the
same number per share shall be considered to be a
pari passu
payment of
dividends.
1.9 Liquidation Event
1.10 Restrictions on Transfer
No Restricted Voting Share shall be transferred by any holder
thereof pursuant to an Exclusionary Offer unless, concurrently with
the Exclusionary Offer, an offer to acquire Common Shares is made
that is identical to the Exclusionary Offer in terms of price per
share, percentage of outstanding shares to be taken up (exclusive
of shares owned immediately before the Exclusionary Offer by the
offeror) and in all other material respects (except with respect to
any additional conditions that may be attached to the Exclusionary
Offer).
1.11 Conversion at the Option of the Holder
Each Restricted Voting Share may be converted into one Common
Share, without payment of additional consideration, at any time and
from time to time, at the option of the holder thereof, in
accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 1.12
hereof.
1.12 Conversion Procedure
A holder of Restricted Voting Shares may convert all or any number
of Restricted Voting Shares held by such holder into Common Shares
in accordance with Section 1.11 upon delivery by the holder of such
Restricted Voting Shares of a duly completed and executed
Conversion Notice and upon receipt by the transfer agent of the
Company of such notice and upon compliance with any requirements
the transfer agent or the Company may reasonably request, the
Company shall issue or cause to be issued the relevant number of
fully paid Common Shares. The effective time of conversion shall be
the close of business on the date of receipt of a valid Conversion
Notice by the transfer agent of the Company and the Common Shares
issuable upon conversion of such Restricted Voting Shares shall be
deemed to be issued and outstanding of record as of such
time.
1.13 Conversion at the Option of the Company
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conversion of such Restricted Voting Shares shall be deemed to be
issued and outstanding of record as of such time and the applicable
Restricted Voting Shares shall be cancelled at that
time.
1.14 Withdrawal of Conversion Notice
1.15 Fractional Common Shares
1.16 Dividend Entitlement
A holder of Restricted Voting Shares on the record date for the
determination of holders of Restricted Voting Shares entitled to
receive a dividend declared payable on the Restricted Voting Shares
will be entitled to such dividend notwithstanding that such share
is converted after such record date and before the payment date of
such dividend, and the holders of any Common Shares resulting from
any conversion shall be entitled to rank equally with the holders
of all other Common Shares in respect of all dividends declared
payable to holders of Common Shares of record on any date on or
after the date of conversion.
1.17 Adjustments
(1) If
there shall occur any Fundamental Transaction involving the Company
inwhich
the Common Shares (but not the Restricted Voting Shares) are
converted into or exchanged for securities, cash or other property
(other than a transaction otherwise covered by this Section 1.17)
then, following such Fundamental Transaction each Restricted Voting
Share shall thereafter be convertible, in lieu of the Common Share
into which it was convertible before such event, into the kind and
amount or securities, cash or other property which a holder of the
number of
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Common
Shares issuable upon conversion of one Restricted Voting Share
immediately before such Fundamental Transaction would have been
entitled to receive pursuant to such transaction; and, in such
case, appropriate adjustment (as determined by the Board) shall be
made in the application of the provisions of this subsection
1.17(1) with respect to the rights and interests thereafter of the
holders of the Restricted Voting Shares, to the end that the
provisions set forth in this subsection 1.17(1) shall thereafter be
applicable, as nearly as reasonably may be, in relation to any
securities or other property thereafter deliverable upon the
conversion of the Restricted Voting Shares.
(2) The
Restricted Voting Shares shall not be subdivided, consolidated,
reclassified or otherwise
changed unless, contemporaneously therewith, the Common Shares are
subdivided, consolidated, reclassified or otherwise changed in the
sameproportion and in the same manner as the Restricted Voting
Shares.
1.18 Public Distribution Requirements
Conversion of Restricted Voting Shares into Common Shares permitted
under this Article shall be subject to the Company meeting
applicable distribution requirements for public shareholders of the
exchange on which the Common Shares are then listed and posted for
trading.
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SCHEDULE “D”
CONSENTS AND APPROVALS
1.
Credit
Facility between [REDACTED – CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION] and
the Corporation dated February 24, 2018; and
2.
Dispensary
lease agreement [REDACTED – COMMERCIALLY SENSITIVE
INFORMATION].
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SCHEDULE “E”
OWNED AND LEASED REAL PROPERTY
Leases:
1. [REDACTED
– COMMERCIALLY SENSITIVE INFORMATION].
2. [REDACTED
– COMMERCIALLY SENSITIVE INFORMATION].
3. [REDACTED
– COMMERCIALLY SENSITIVE INFORMATION].
Real
Property Ownership:
1.
Xxx
County cultivation and production real estate and buildings at 000
Xxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx 00000, approximately 80 acres owned by
Corporation, with planning for significant capital outlay to expand
cultivation, APN #[REDACTED – CONFIDENTIAL
INFORMATION].
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