PURCHASE AND SALES SALE AGREEMENT
ROOTCHANGE
LIMITED
and
CLENERGEN
CORPORATION LIMITED
Dated:
April 1st
2009.
AGREEMENT:
BETWEEN:
ROOTCHANGE
LIMITED
(previously named MGS Development Company Limited) a company registered
in England and Wales whose registered office is situate at 00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX, XX (the Seller)
and
CLENERGEN
CORPORATION LIMITED a company registered in England and
Wales under registration number 06836120 whose registered office
is situate at Xxxx Xxxxx, 0 Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxx XX0X
0XX
(the
Buyer)
RECITALS:
(A)
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The
Seller has agreed to sell and transfer and the Buyer has agreed to
purchase the Assets. This Agreement records the terms and conditions upon
which the Assets shall be sold by the Seller and purchased by the
Buyer.
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IT IS
AGREED as follows:
1.
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Definitions
and Interpretation
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1.1
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In
this Agreement (which expression shall be deemed to include the Schedules
and Appendix hereto), unless the context otherwise requires, the following
expressions shall have the following
meanings:-
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Assets
the assets of the Business and the Seller agreed to be sold and purchased
pursuant to clause 2.1;
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Asset
Value the aggregate value as at the Completion Date of the Assets as shown
in the Appendix and apportioned between the Assets as shown
therein;
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Assigned
IP means all Intellectual Property Rights owned or used by the Seller and
connected persons in connection with (i) the matters and technologies set
out in Schedule 1, (ii) the Business or (iii) relating to the
Assets;
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Business
means the development, marketing and distribution of alternative fuels and
alternative fuel technologies and trading in offset and carbon credits and
any other business carried on by the Seller from time to
time;
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business
day means a day on which clearing banks generally are open for business in
the City of London;
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Completion
the completion of the sale and purchase of the Assets in accordance with
clause 4;
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Completion
Date has the same meaning given to it in clause
4.1;
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Conditions
means:
(a)
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no
subsisting or on going breach of
Warranty;
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(b)
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no
subsisting or ongoing breach of the terms of this Agreement by the Seller
in particular in relation to clause 4.4 of this
Agreement;
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Consideration
means the total purchase price paid by the Buyer to the Seller for the Business
and Assets as set out in clause 2.7;
Contracts
means all contracts, licences, options, royalties, undertakings, arrangements,
insurances, rights and engagements entered into by or on behalf of the Seller or
their associates or affiliates in connection with the Business or the Assets
(including inter alia those contracts, options and rights set out in Schedule 1)
and shall include any arrangements relating to the Business or the Assets which
are not in writing and which are wholly or partly unperformed or unexpired on
the Completion Date and together with all rights hereunder and a reference to
"Contract" shall mean any of them;
Encumbrance
means and includes any interest or equity of any person (including without
prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, any retention of title, right to
acquire, option, right of pre-emption or right of conversion) or any mortgage,
charge, pledge, lien or assignment or any other encumbrance, priority or
security interest, right of set-off or hypothecation for the purpose, or which
has the effect, of granting a security interest of any kind whatsoever and any
agreement, whether conditional or otherwise, to create any of the
foregoing;
Excluded
Assets means all Liabilities;
Goodwill
means the goodwill of the Business (including the goodwill attached to the
Assets) and the exclusive right of the Buyer or its assignee to carry on the
Business in succession to the Seller;
Intellectual
Property Rights means (whether registered or not) all inventions, patents,
patent rights derived from patents (including author certificates, utility
certificates, improvement patents, certificates of addition and all foreign
counterparts of them, divisional applications, continuations,
continuations-in-part, supplementary protection certificates and equivalent
protection rights in respect of any of them) Know-how, technical information,
rights of confidence or rights in confidential information, goodwill, the
benefit of all licences, options and permissions granted to the Seller, trade
marks and service marks (including any trade, brand or business names, look and
feel and trade dress), database rights, domain names, registered designs, design
rights, utility models, copyright (including all such rights in computer
software), moral rights, trade secrets, plant breeders rights and other
sui-generis rights, topography rights and any other rights of a similar nature;
in each case for the full period thereof and all extensions and renewals thereof
and including all
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other
intellectual property or industrial property rights in any part of the
world now known or arising after the date hereof, and all applications for
any of the foregoing;
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Know-how
means unpatented technical and other information in relation to the
Assigned IP which is not in the public domain regardless of how such
information is collected or recorded, and whether protected by any
copyright, design rights, or otherwise and including information
comprising or relating to inventions, data, designs, formulae, compounds,
methods, models, research plans, procedures, results of experimentation
and testing (including results of research or development), processes
(including manufacturing processes, specifications and techniques),
chemical, pharmacological, toxicological, clinical, analytical and quality
data, trial data, case report forms, data analyses, reports, manufacturing
data or summaries and information contained in any submission to ethical
committees and regulatory authorities; and for this purpose, the fact that
an item is known to the public shall not be taken to exclude the
possibility that a compilation including the item, and/or a development
relating to the item, is (and remains) not known to the
public;
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Liabilities
means all liabilities or obligations relating to the Assets or Business
outstanding on or accrued or referable to the period up to and including
the Completion Date or arising by virtue of the sale and purchase recorded
by this Agreement including but not limited to any and all liabilities in
respect of Taxation attributable to the Seller in respect of the Assets
and the Business in respect of, in the case of the Assets, the period
ending on the Completion Date;
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Materials
means any and all documents, photographs, inventions, specifications for
patents, works, materials, drawings, source materials, research or other
items of any nature recorded in writing or otherwise embodying any of the
Assigned IP in the possession or under the control of the
Assignor;
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Taxation
means all forms of taxation, VAT, PAYE, national insurance, duty, impost,
levy, charges and withholding of any nature whatsoever or wheresoever’s
imposed and all penalties, charges and interest relating
thereto;
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Warranties
means the warranties referred to in clause 5 and Schedule
2.
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1.2
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Reference
to any statute, directive or statutory provision includes a reference to
that statute, directive or statutory provision as from time to time
amended, extended or re-enacted and to any former statute or statutory
provision replaced (with or without modification) by the statute or
statutory provision referred to.
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1.3
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Unless
otherwise specified in a particular case, words importing the singular
number shall include the plural and vice versa, words importing any gender
shall include all other genders, words importing persons shall include
bodies corporate, unincorporated associations and partnerships and vice
versa and references to the whole shall include the part and vice
versa.
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1.4
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References
to clauses, the Appendix and other provisions are references to clauses,
the Appendix and other provisions of this Agreement and reference to any
sub-provision is, unless otherwise stated, a reference to a sub-provision
of the provision in which the reference
appears.
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1.5
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The
headings are for ease of reference only and shall not affect the
interpretation of this Agreement.
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1.6
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References
to "connected persons" for the purposes of this Agreement bears the
meaning given to it by section 839 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act
1988 and shall also include any person connected with a connected person
(in each case as so defined).
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1.7
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All
warranties, representations, indemnities, covenants, agreements and
obligations given or entered into by more than one person are given or
entered into jointly and severally unless otherwise
specified.
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1.8
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References
to "group" bear the meaning given to it by section 262(1) of the Companies
Xxx 0000.
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1.9
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References
to "subsidiary" and "holding company" bear the meanings given to them by
section 736 of the Companies Xxx
0000.
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2.
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Sale
and Purchase
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2.1
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The
Seller shall sell and assign with full title guarantee or to the extent
that it is not the owner shall procure the sale and assignment with full
title guarantee and the Buyer relying on the Warranties, representations
and undertakings in this Agreement shall purchase free from all claims,
liens, equities, Encumbrances, adverse rights of any description with
effect from the Completion Date:
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2.1.1
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the Assigned IP; |
2.1.2 |
the
benefit of the Contracts;
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2.1.3
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the
Goodwill;
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2.1.4
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the
Intellectual Property Rights in the Assigned IP and the Contracts
throughout the world, whether or not any of these is
registered
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2.1.5
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title
to and property in the Materials;
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2.1.6
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the
full right to apply for and prosecute and obtain patent and other
intellectual property or industrial property protection throughout the
world in respect of any of the Assigned
IP;
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2.1.7
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to
the extent permitted by applicable law the right to claim priority in any
country in the world from any of the existing applications for
registration of the Assigned IP;
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2.1.8
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any
rights in relation to infringement of the same and the right to claim and
xxx for damages and other remedies in respect of any infringements of the
Assigned IP and the Contracts;
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2.1.9
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all
other assets, property or rights of the Seller relating to or connected
with or belonging to or required for or used exclusively in the Business
and which are not described in the foregoing
sub-clauses;
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2.1.10
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all
the Seller's rights against third parties, including all rights under any
warranties, conditions, guarantees or indemnities relating to any of the
Assets referred to in sub-clauses 2.1.1 and 2.1.9
(inclusive).
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2.2
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Title
to each of the Assets will pass to the Buyer on
Completion.
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2.3
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The
Asset Values shall be apportioned between the Assets as shown in Appendix
1.
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2.4
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The
Liabilities are expressly excluded from the sale and purchase of the
Assets.
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2.5
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The
Seller shall on demand indemnify and keep indemnified the Buyer on a full
indemnity basis against all direct and indirect liabilities, losses,
damages, costs or expenses incurred by the Buyer or any of its connected
persons relating to or in connection with the Assets, in respect of the
period prior to the Completion Date or in relation to the period after the
Completion Date arising from a breach of any of the
Warranties.
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2.6
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The
Consideration referred to in clause 3.1.2 may be withheld or reduced on a
pro-rata basis in the event that the provisions of clause 2.5 become
applicable.
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2.7
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The
Buyer may request from the Seller all information required by it with
respect to the debts, obligations and liabilities relating to the assets,
property or rights which are the subject of the sale and purchase
hereunder and which are the subject of indemnification under clause 2.5
and the Seller undertake to provide such information as soon as is
reasonably practicable after any such request is received by
it.
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3.
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Consideration
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As
consideration for the Assets transferred from Rootchange Limited to
Clenergen Corporation Limited (as outlined under Schedule 1 of this
Agreement) Clenergen Corporation Limited shall vest 1,520 shares, of which
760 shares will be vested in the name of Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx and 760 shares
will be vested in the name of Xxxx
Xxxxx.
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It
is also agreed that Clenergen Corporation Limited will pay Rootchange
£423,604 in shares valued at 7 xxxxx per share (5,865,175 shares) as
consideration for the assets owned transferred from the acquisition of
Enhanced Biofuels and Technologies Limited
(EBT).
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4.
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Completion
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4.1
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Completion
shall take place immediately after the execution of this
Agreement
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4.2
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At
Completion the Seller shall deliver or make available to the
Buyer:
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4.2.1
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the
duly signed counterpart of this Agreement signed by the
Seller;
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4.2.2
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physical
possession of all the Assets capable of passing by delivery with the
intent that title in such Assets shall pass upon such
delivery;
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4.2.3 |
all
documents of title, certificates, deeds, licences, options, agreements and
other documents relating to the Business and Assets and all manuals,
drawings, plans, and other materials in connection
thereto;
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4.2.4
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all
certificates of registration evidencing any of the Assigned IP registered
at any patent office, trade
xxxx registry, domain name registry or other appropriate registry
in any part of the world.
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4.3
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At Completion the Buyer
shall:
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4.3.1
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pay the Seller the Consideration
referred to in clause 3.1.1
to an account notified to it by or on behalf of
the Seller;
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4.3.2
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deliver to the Seller a duly
signed counterpart of this Agreement signed by
it.
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4.4
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Following
Completion the Seller shall use their best endeavours
to:
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4.4.1
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give
the Buyer all assistance in connection with the Business and the Assets to
enable the Buyer to undertake the Business
effectively;
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4.4.2
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execute
such deeds or documents or do all such acts or things as may be necessary
or desirable to secure the vesting in the Buyer of the Assets, to enable
the Buyer to enjoy the full benefit of the rights hereby transferred and
assigned;
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4.4.3
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apply
for protection of the Assigned IP and/or to register the assignment of the
Assigned IP at any patent office, trade xxxx registry, domain name
registry or other appropriate registry in any part of the world and/or to
defend and take action against third parties in respect of the Assigned
IP;
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4.4.4
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procure
that any of the inventors or developers of the Assigned IP execute such
deeds or documents or shall do all such acts or things as may be necessary
or desirable to secure the vesting in the Assignee of the Assigned IP, to
enable the Assignee to enjoy the full benefit of the rights hereby
assigned and apply for protection of the Assigned IP and/or to register
the assignment of the Assigned 1P at any patent office, trade xxxx
registry, domain name registry or other appropriate registry in any part
of the world and/or to defend and take action against third parties in
respect of the Assigned IP.
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5.
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Warranties
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5.1
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The
Buyer enters into this Agreement on the basis of, and in reliance on, the
Warranties.
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5.2
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The
Seller warrant and represent to the Buyer that each Warranty is true and
not misleading on the date of this
Agreement.
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5.3
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Without
prejudice to the right of the Buyer to claim on any other basis or take
advantage of any other remedies available to it, if any Warranty is
breached or proves to be untrue or misleading the Seller undertake to pay
the Buyer on demand:
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5.3.1
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The
amount necessary to put the Buyer into the position it would have been in
if the Warranty had not been breached and had been true and not
misleading;
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5.3.2
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All
costs and expenses incurred by the Buyer as a result of the breach or of
the Warranty not being true or
misleading.
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6.
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VAT
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6.1
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The
parties intended that Section 49(1) of VAT and paragraph 5 of the Value
Added Tax (Special Provisions) Order 1995 applied to the sale of the
Business and Assets hereunder and the Buyer has used all reasonable
endeavours to procure that the sale of the Assets is treated as neither a
supply of goods nor a supply of services for the purposes of
VAT.
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6.2
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The
Consideration is inclusive of VAT.
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7.
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General
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7.1
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Costs
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Each
party shall pay its own costs and expenses incurred in relation to the
negotiation, preparation and implementation of this Agreement and of any
document referred to herein and everything ancillary or incidental
thereto.
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7.2
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Notices
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All
notices which are required to be given hereunder shall be in writing and
shall be sent to the address of the recipient set out in this Agreement or
to its registered office for the time being. Any such notice may be
delivered personally or by first class prepaid letter, telex or facsimile
transmission and shall be deemed to have been served if by personal
delivery when delivered, if by first class post 48 hours after posting and
if by telex or facsimile transmission when
despatched.
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7.3
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Successors
bound
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This
Agreement shall be binding on and shall endure for the benefit of the
successors and permitted assigns (as the case may be) of each of the
parties hereto.
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7.4
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Assignment
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Seller
shall be entitled to assign or otherwise transfer this Agreement or any of
its rights or obligations hereunder for a period of 6 months from the date
of signing this Agreement.
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7.5
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Further
Assurance
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The
parties shall, and shall use their respective reasonable endeavours to
procure that any necessary third parties shall, do, execute and perform
all such further deeds, documents, assurances, acts and things as any of
the parties may require by notice in writing to the others to carry the
provisions of this Agreement into in full force and
effect.
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7.6
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Entire
agreement
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This
Agreement (together with the documents referred to herein) constitutes the
entire agreement between the parties with respect to the matters dealt
with herein and supersedes any previous agreement between the parties in
relation to such matters. Each party hereby acknowledges that in entering
into this Agreement it has not relied on any representation, warranty or
undertaking save as expressly set out herein or in any document referred
to herein.
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7.7
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Variation
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No
variation of this Agreement or of any document in an agreed form (or any
executed version thereof) shall be valid or effective unless made by an
instrument in writing signed by such of the parties which would be
affected by such variation. Such instrument may consist of several
instruments in the like form each executed by or on behalf of one or more
of such parties.
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7.8
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Third
Parties
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A person who is not a party to this Agreement may not enforce any of its terms under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Xxx 0000. |
7.9
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Law
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This
Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English
law and the parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of
the English Courts.
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7.10
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Waiver
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The
failure by any party at any time to require performance by the other
parties or to claim a breach of any terms of this Agreement shall not be
deemed to be a waiver of any right under this
Agreement.
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7.11
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Severability
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Each
provision of this Agreement shall be construed separately and (save as
otherwise expressly provided herein) none of the provisions hereof shall
limit or govern the extent, application or construction of any other of
them and notwithstanding that any provision of this Agreement (or part
thereof) may prove to be illegal or unenforceable the other provisions of
this Agreement and the remainder of the provision in question shall
continue in full force and effect.
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7.12
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Counterparts
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This
Agreement may be executed in counterpart (or in more than one part),
whether original or facsimile, each of which when executed and delivered
shall be an original, but all the parts together shall constitute one and
the same instrument.
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EXECUTED
as a deed and delivered on the date set out at the head of this
Agreement.
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EXECUTION
PAGE
/s/ Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Executed and delivered as a Deed
by ROOTCHANGE
LIMITED
acting
by: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title:
Director
/s/ Xxxx
Xxxxx
Executed and delivered as a Deed by
CLENERGEN
CORPORATION LIMITED
acting
by: Xxxx Xxxxx
Title:
Director
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Schedule
1
1.
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All
rights of the Seller to license the Greenfuel's technology for use in
Saudi Arabia (and/or South Africa) and India as described in memorandums
of understanding (subject to contract) entered into by the Seller (or
connected persons) with Greenfuels Technologies Corporation on April 25"'
2006 (as amended from time to time) (the "Algae
Licences").
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2.
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All
rights of the Seller to license the GeTX emulsification technology for
exclusive use worldwide in the production of renewable emulsified diesel,
along with sub licensing rights for direct use by end users for the
emulsification of heavy oils and/or other offsite applications as
described in memorandums of understanding and draft licence agreements
(subject to contract) entered into by the Seller and/or the Company (or
connected persons) with Alchemie Technology on 4 July 2006 and 2 February
2006 (as amended from time to time) (the "GeTX Emulsification
Technology").
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3.
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Royalty
interests to the Jatropha Agri Extension program and other revenue earned
and/or arising from such assets
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4.
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All
ownership rights to the Algae R&D laboratory and intellectual property
rights to Algae cultures that the Seller have funded and developed to
date.
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5.
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All
equity interests held by the Seller (and or entities which are connected
persons in which he has a controlling interest) from current and future
joint venture arrangements or other ventures in
India.
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6.
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All
rights to the development of Bamboo and Paulownia as cultivated fee stocks
for the use as Feedstock’s along with research and development of
gasification technology for the purpose of generating
electricity.
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Schedule
2
The
Warranties
Information
1.
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All
information contained in this Agreement and all other information relating
to the Business and the Assets given by the Seller or its advisers to the
Buyer or its advisers are true, accurate and complete in every
respect.
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2.
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There
is no fact or matter relating to the Business and the Assets which is
known or ought to be known to the Seller which has not been disclosed to
the Buyer which renders any such matters or information untrue, incomplete
or misleading or the disclosure of which is material to be known by a
Buyer of the Assets.
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Assets
3.
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The
Assets comprise all assets now used in the Business and which are
necessary for the continuation of the Business as now carried on and the
Business does not depend on the use of assets which are not being acquired
under this Agreement.
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4.
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The
Seller have good and marketable title to, legally and beneficially own and
have in their possession and control all of the Assets which are sold free
of any licence, Encumbrances, or Liabilities. No person other than the
Seller has or claims any rights do relation to the Assets or any of them
or the proceeds of any sale of the Assets or any of them and the Assets
are not subject to or potentially subject to any floating charge or
guarantee given by the Seller or any connected
person.
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Contracts
5.
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All
of the Contacts are in full force and effect and have been duly complied
with and nothing has occurred whereby any of them is or could be subject
to early termination or which may give rise to any claim under any of them
by any party to them.
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Asset
Values
6.
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The
Asset Values contained in the Appendix and the information contained
therein is true, accurate and complete in all
respects.
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Litigation
7.
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Neither
the Seller or any connected person are engaged in or subject to any civil,
criminal or arbitration proceedings in relation o the Business or the
Assets or any of them and there are no such proceedings pending or
threatened by or against the Seller or any connected
person.
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Authorisations
8.
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All
legislation and all orders, provisions, directions and conditions relating
to the Assets or the conduct of the Business has been duly complied with
in all respects.
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9.
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All
necessary licences, consents, permits, agreements, arrangements and
authorities (public and private) have been obtained to enable the Seller
to carry on the Business or in connection with the ownership of the Assets
and all such licences, consents, permits, agreements, arrangements and
authorities are valid and
subsisting.
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Intellectual
Property
10.
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The
Seller is the sole legal and beneficial owners of the Assigned IP free
from all claims, liens, Encumbrances and adverse rights of any
description. The Assigned IP is not held jointly or in common with any
other person.
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11.
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None
of the Assigned IP is subject to any challenge or attack by a third party
or competent authority.
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12.
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All
the Assigned IP is valid and enforceable and neither the Seller nor any
other party is in breach of any of the Assigned IP and all such Assigned
1P is in full force and effect and will not terminate or be capable of
termination by reason of the execution and performance of this
Agreement.
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