Contract
NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR THE SECURITIES FOR WHICH THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY. THIS SECURITY AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES.
$ ____ CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED NON-NEGOTIABLE PROMISSORY NOTE
Dated as of _____________, 2011
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the receipt and sufficiency whereof is hereby acknowledged, RCG Acquisition 1 Corp. (the “Maker”), a Delaware corporation having its principal executive office at 0000 X. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx XX 00000xxxxxxxx to pay to Xxxxxx Xxxxx (the “Payee”), upon the terms set forth below, the principal sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) without interest. This instrument is hereinafter sometime referred to as this “Note”.
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Payments.
a.
Unless this Note shall have been converted into shares of the Maker’s common stock, as hereinafter provided, this Note shall be paid in full 60 days after the Maker shall have acquired, in one or more transactions, not less than Five Million (S5,000,000) Dollars of cash and /or fair value assets, of any type or description.
b.
Except as otherwise set forth in this Note, the Maker may not prepay any portion of the principal amount of this Note without the 10 Business Day advance written notice to the Holder.
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Events of Default.
a.
“Event of Default”, wherever used herein, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court, or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
i. any default in the payment of the principal of this Note, as and when the same shall become due and payable;
ii. Maker shall fail to observe or perform any obligation or shall breach any term or provision of this Note and such failure or breach shall not have been remedied within ten (10) Business Days after the date on which notice of such failure or breach shall have been delivered;
iii. Maker shall fail to observe or perform any of its material obligations owed to the Payee or any other material covenant, agreement, representation or warranty contained in, or otherwise commit any material breach hereunder or in any other agreement executed in connection herewith;
iv. Maker shall commence, or there shall be commenced against the Maker a case under any applicable bankruptcy or insolvency laws as now or hereafter in effect or any successor thereto, or the Maker commences any other proceeding under any reorganization, arrangement, adjustment of debt, relief of debtors, dissolution, insolvency or liquidation or similar law of any jurisdiction whether now or hereafter in effect relating to the Maker, or there is commenced against the Maker any such bankruptcy, insolvency or other proceeding which remains undismissed for a period of sixty (60) days; or the Maker is adjudicated insolvent or bankrupt; or any order of relief or other order approving any such case or proceeding is entered; or the Maker suffers any appointment of any custodian or the like for it or any substantial part of its property which continues undischarged or unstayed for a period of 60 days; or the Maker makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or the Maker shall fail to pay, or shall state that it is unable to pay, or shall be unable to pay, its debts generally as they become due; or the Maker shall call a meeting of its creditors with a view to arranging a composition, adjustment or restructuring of its debts; or the Maker shall by any act or failure to act expressly indicate its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any of the foregoing; or any corporate or other action is taken by the Maker for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing;
v. Maker shall default in any of its respective obligations under any other Note or any mortgage, credit agreement or other facility, indenture agreement, factoring agreement or other instrument for borrowed money under which there may be issued, or by which there may be secured or evidenced any indebtedness for borrowed money or money due under any long term leasing or factoring arrangement of the Maker, whether such indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created and such default shall result in indebtedness aggregating more than $1,000,000 becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date on which it would otherwise become due and payable; or
b. If any Event of Default occurs and shall be continuing, the full principal amount of this Note, together with all accrued interest thereon, shall become, at the Payee’s election, immediately due and payable in cash.
c. The Payee need not provide and the Maker hereby waives any presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, and the Holder may immediately and without expiration of any grace period enforce any and all of its rights and remedies hereunder and all other remedies available to it under applicable law. Such declaration may be rescinded and annulled by the Payee at any time prior to
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payment hereunder. No such rescission or annulment shall affect any subsequent Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
3. Exchange of Note. The Payee of this Note shall have the option to exchange this Note, into 13,333 shares of the Maker’s restricted common stock, par value, 0.005 per share (the “Shares”).
4. Subordination. Payments of the principal shall be subject and subordinate to the rights of all commercial creditors of Maker and all other creditors for borrowed money. The Payee of this Note shall not seek and shall not accept payment of principal or interest on account of any obligation of the Maker at any time or times when such Holder has actual knowledge that the Maker is in default in the payment of performance of any of its obligations to any such creditor.
5. No Waiver of the Payee’s Rights. All payments of principal and interest shall be made without setoff, deduction or counterclaim. No delay or failure on the part of the Payee in exercising any of its options, powers or rights, nor any partial or single exercise of its options, powers or rights shall constitute a waiver thereof or of any other option, power or right, and no waiver on the part of the Payee of any of its options, powers or rights shall constitute a waiver of any other option, power or right. Maker hereby waives presentment of payment, protest, and all notices or demands in connection with the delivery, acceptance, performance, default or endorsement of this Note. Acceptance by the Payee of less than the full amount due and payable hereunder shall in no way limit the right of the Payee to require full payment of all sums due and payable hereunder in accordance with the terms hereof.
6. Modifications. No term or provision contained herein may be modified, amended or waived except by written agreement or consent signed by the party to be bound thereby.
7. Cumulative Rights and Remedies; Usury. The rights and remedies of the Holder expressed herein are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights and remedies otherwise available under this Note, or applicable law (including at equity). The election of the Payee to avail itself of any one or more remedies shall not be a bar to any other available remedies, which the Maker agrees the Payee may take from time to time. If it shall be found that any interest due hereunder shall violate applicable laws governing usury, the applicable rate of interest due hereunder shall be reduced to the maximum permitted rate of interest under such law.
8. Severability. If any provision of this Note is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be in any way invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the balance of this Note shall remain in effect, and if any provision is inapplicable to any person or circumstance, it shall nevertheless remain applicable to all other persons and circumstances. If it shall be found that any interest or other amount deemed interest due hereunder violates applicable laws governing usury, the applicable rate of interest due hereunder shall automatically be lowered to equal the maximum permitted rate of interest.
9. Successors and Assigns. This Note shall be binding upon the Maker and its successors and shall inure to the benefit of the Payee and its successors and assigns.
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The term “Payee” as used herein, shall also include any endorsee, assignee or other holder of this Note.
10. Lost or Stolen Promissory Note. If this Note is lost, stolen, mutilated or otherwise destroyed, the Maker shall execute and deliver to the Payee a new promissory note containing the same terms, and in the same form, as this Note. In such event, the Maker may require the Payee to deliver to the Maker an affidavit of lost instrument and customary indemnity in respect thereof as a condition to the delivery of any such new promissory note.
11. Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Note shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each of the Maker and the Payee agree that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of this Note shall be commenced in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, County of Westchester (the “New York Courts”). Each of the Maker and the Payee hereby irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the New York Courts for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder (including with respect to the enforcement of this Note), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is improper. Each of the Maker and the Payee hereby irrevocably waive personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to the other at the address in effect for notices to it under this Note and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any manner permitted by law. Each of the Maker and the Payeehereby irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Note or the transactions contemplated hereby.
12. Notice. Whenever notice is required to be given under this Note, unless otherwise provided herein, such notice shall be given in writing by delivery to the United States Postal Service, properly addressed, postage prepaid.
By:______________________________
Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: President
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