As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 10, 2017
Registration No. 333-_________
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-1
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC.
(Name of Registrant in its Charter)
Nevada |
4822 |
65-1146821 |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
(Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
19206 Huebner Rd., Suite 202, San Antonio, TX 78258
Telephone: (210) 233-8980
(Address and telephone number of principal executive offices)
William H. Gray
Chief Executive Officer
19206 Huebner Rd., Suite 202
San Antonio, TX 78258
Telephone: (210) 233-8980
(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)
Copies to:
Mark J. Richardson, Esq.
Richardson & Associates
1453 Third Street Promenade, Suite 315
Santa Monica, California 90401
Approximate Date of Proposed Sale to the Public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this registration statement.
If any of the securities being registered on this form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. [X]
If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. [ ]
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. [ ]
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. [ ]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
Large accelerated filer |
[ ] |
Accelerated filer |
[ ] |
Non-accelerated filer |
[ ] |
Smaller reporting company |
[X] |
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Each Class of Securities to be Registered |
Amount to be Registered |
Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price per Security |
Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price (3) |
Amount of Registration Fee (4) |
Common Stock, $0.001 par value (1) |
865,552 |
$.001 (3) |
$865.552 |
$.10 |
Common Stock Purchase Warrants, $0.001 par value (2) |
1,731,104 |
$.001 (3) |
$1,731.04 |
$.20 |
Common Stock Issuable Upon Exercise of Warrants, $0.001 par value (2) |
1,731,104 |
$.001 (3) |
$1,731.04 |
$.20 |
TOTAL |
$4,327.63 |
$.50 |
(1) The number of shares of Wytec International, Inc. ("Wytec") common stock, par value $0.001 per share, being registered has been determined based upon the number of outstanding shares of Competitive Companies, Inc. ("CCI") common stock, par value $0.001 per share ("CCI Shares"), multiplied by 0.0026, which is the number of shares of Wytec common stock which will be distributed to the holders of CCI Shares for each CCI Share held by them as of the record date.
(2) The number of shares of Wytec common stock, par value $0.001 per share, being registered has been determined based upon the maximum number of shares of Wytec common stock described in footnote (1) multiplied by two, which is the number of common stock purchase warrants which will be distributed to the holders of CCI Shares.
(3) There is currently no market for Wytec's common stock. Estimated solely for the purpose of computing the amount of the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457 under the Securities Act of 1933.
(4) Calculated on the basis of $116.20 per million of the proposed maximum aggregate offering price.
In the event of a stock split, stock dividend, or similar transaction involving the common stock, the number of shares registered shall automatically be increased to cover the additional shares of common stock issuable pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act.
The registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said section 8(a), may determine.
The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. These securities may not be sold until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.
SUBJECT TO COMPLETION,
PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS DATED JANUARY 10, 2017
WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Common Stock (par value $0.001)
This prospectus is being furnished to you as a stockholder of Competitive Companies, Inc. ("CCI") in connection with the planned distribution (the "Spin-Off" or the "Distribution") by CCI to its stockholders of all the shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "Common Stock"), of Wytec International, Inc. ("Wytec," "we," "our," or the "Company") owned by CCI, and all of the common stock purchase warrants (the "Warrants") of Wytec owned by CCI immediately prior to the Spin-Off. Immediately prior to the time of the Distribution, CCI will hold approximately 81% of the outstanding shares of common stock and approximately 24% of the outstanding warrants of Wytec. Immediately following the Spin-Off, Wytec's businesses, assets and liabilities will consist of 100% ownership of Capaciti Networks, Inc., ownership of the WyQuote system, the ownership of five patents and one patent application pending relating to wireless millimeter wave data transmission technology, ownership of the LPN-16 technology, and three fully built "diamond ring" backhaul wireless transmission networks in Columbus, Ohio, San Antonio, Texas and Denver, Colorado, with equipment inventory. CCI will retain the remainder of its businesses, assets, and liabilities not held by us at the time of the Spin-Off, including Wireless Wisconsin, LLC, Innovation Capital Management, Inc. ("ICM, Inc.") and Innovation Capital Management, LLC ("ICM, LLC"), its wholly-owned subsidiaries.
At the time of the Spin-Off, CCI will distribute all of the outstanding shares of Common Stock and Warrants held by it on a pro rata basis to holders of CCI's common stock. Each share of CCI's common stock outstanding as of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a date to be determined by the board of directors of CCI, the record date for the Spin-Off (the "Record Date"), will entitle the holder thereof to receive approximately 0.0026 shares of Common Stock and two Warrants for every share of Common Stock issuable to the holder. The Distribution will be made in book-entry form by a distribution agent. Fractional shares of Common Stock and fractional Warrants will be rounded up to the nearest whole number.
The Spin-Off will be effective as of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a date to be determined by the board of directors of CCI (the "Distribution Date"). Immediately after the Spin-Off, Wytec is expected to be an independent public reporting company, and eventually a publicly traded company.
CCI's stockholders are not required to vote on or take any other action in connection with the Spin-Off. We are not asking you for a proxy, and we request that you do not send us a proxy . CCI stockholders will not be required to pay any consideration for the Common Stock or Warrants they receive in the Spin-Off, and they will not be required to surrender or exchange their shares of CCI's common stock or take any other action in connection with the Spin-Off.
CCI currently owns all of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, which are approximately 81% of the total outstanding shares of common stock of Wytec. Accordingly, there is currently no public market for our common stock. We anticipate, however, that trading in our common stock will begin on a date after the Distribution Date, to be determined. We intend to list our common stock on the OTC-QB Market or better under the symbol "WYTC."
In reviewing this prospectus, you should carefully consider the matters described in the section titled "Risk Factors" beginning on page 12 of this prospectus.
NEITHER THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION NOR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION HAS APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED OF THESE SECURITIES OR DETERMINED IF THIS PROSPECTUS IS TRUTHFUL OR COMPLETE. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE SPIN-OFF | 3 |
PROSPECTUS SUMMARY | 6 |
RISK FACTORS | 12 |
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT CONCERNING FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS | 19 |
THE SPIN-OFF | 20 |
MATERIAL U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES OF THE SPIN-OFF | 24 |
USE OF PROCEEDS | 26 |
DETERMINATION OF OFFERING PRICE | 27 |
DIVIDEND POLICY | 27 |
CAPITALIZATION | 27 |
MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATION | 28 |
BUSINESS | 33 |
MANAGEMENT | 42 |
DESCRIPTION OF OUR CAPITAL STOCK | 51 |
SHARES ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE | 54 |
INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL | 55 |
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC. FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 and 2015 (Unaudited) AND FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2015 and 2014 (Audited) | F-1 |
You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with information different from that which is contained in this prospectus. This prospectus may be used only where it is legal to sell these securities. The information in this prospectus may only be accurate on the date of this prospectus, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or of any sale of securities.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE SPIN-OFF
The following questions and answers briefly address some commonly asked questions about the Spin-Off. They may not include all the information that is important to you. We encourage you to read carefully this entire prospectus and the other documents to which we have referred you. We have included references in certain parts of this section to direct you to a more detailed discussion of each topic presented in this section.
Q: What is the Spin-Off?
A: The Spin-Off is the method by which we will separate from CCI. In the Spin-Off, CCI will distribute to holders of its common stock all of the outstanding shares of our Common Stock and Warrants owned by it. Following the Spin-Off, we expect to be an independent public reporting, publicly-traded company, and CCI will not retain any ownership interest in us.
Q: Can CCI decide not to complete the Spin-Off?
A: Yes. The Spin-Off is conditioned upon a number of matters, including the declaration of effectiveness of our Registration Statement on Form S-1, of which this prospectus is a part, by the Securities and Exchange Commission. See "Summary of the Spin-Off- Conditions to the Spin-Off" for a more detailed explanation of the conditions to completing the Spin-Off.
Q: Will the number of CCI shares of common stock I own change as a result of the Spin-Off?
A: No, the number of shares of CCI common stock you own will not change as a result of the Spin-Off.
Q: What are the reasons for the Spin-Off?
A: The CCI board of directors considered the following potential benefits in deciding to pursue the Spin-Off:
We believe the Spin-Off will enhance the ability of CCI and the Company to focus on their respective strategies.
Our near-term goals for our business include raising sufficient capital to build more "diamond ring" wireless transmission networks, commercializing our LPN-16 technology, and executing and sustaining a robust launch of our WyQuote internet Wi-Fi marketing, sales and provisioning system. Achieving these goals will require offerings of securities by us and may require acquisitions or mergers funded, in part, with outside capital and strategic alliances. Our business will be separate and distinct from CCI's business and, accordingly, we believe that pursuing such growth and capital funding opportunities will be greatly facilitated with a capital structure that is tailored for the Company's needs, separate from those of CCI.
The Spin-Off is expected to establish the Company as an independent publicly traded corporation, which we believe will meaningfully enhance its industry market perception, thereby providing greater growth opportunities for us than our consolidated operation as a division of CCI.
Q: Why is the separation of the Company structured as a spin-off?
A: CCI believes that a distribution of the Wytec Common Stock and Warrants is the most efficient way to separate our business from CCI in a manner that will achieve the benefits we expect.
Q: What will I receive in the Spin-Off?
A: As a holder of CCI common stock, you will receive a distribution of approximately 0.0026 shares of our Common Stock and two Warrants for every share of our Common Stock you receive on the Record Date (as defined below). The distribution agent will distribute only whole shares of our Common Stock in the
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Spin-Off. See "Questions and Answers About the Spin-Off-How will fractional shares be treated in the Distribution?" for more information on the treatment of the fractional share you may be entitled to receive in the Spin-Off. Your proportionate interest in CCI will not change as a result of the Spin-Off. For a more detailed description, see "The Spin-Off."
Q: What is being distributed to holders of CCI common stock in the Spin-Off?
A: CCI will distribute 865,552 shares of our Common Stock in the Spin-Off and 1,731,104 Warrants. The shares of our Common Stock and Warrants that CCI distributes will constitute approximately 81% of the issued and outstanding shares of our common stock and approximately 24% of our outstanding warrants, including the Warrants held by CCI immediately prior to the Spin-Off. For more information on the shares and Warrants being distributed in the Spin-Off, see "Description of Our Capital Stock."
Q: What is the record date for the Distribution?
A: CCI will designate the close of business as of _____, New York City time, on_______,_, 2017, which we refer to as the "Record Date," as the record ownership date for the Distribution.
Q: When will the Distribution to holders of CCI common stock occur?
A: The Distribution will be effective as of ________, New York City time, on ______________, 2016, which we refer to as the "Distribution Date." On or shortly after the Distribution Date, the whole shares of our Common Stock and Warrants will be credited in book-entry accounts for stockholders entitled to receive those shares and Warrants in the Distribution. See "Questions and Answers About the Spin-Off-How will CCI distribute shares of our Common Stock and Warrants?" for more information on how to access your book-entry account or your bank, brokerage or other account holding the Common Stock and Warrants you will receive in the Distribution.
Q: What do I have to do to participate in the Distribution?
A: You are not required to take any action, but we urge you to read this prospectus carefully. Holders of CCI common stock on the Record Date will not need to pay any cash or deliver any other consideration, including any shares of CCI common stock, in order to receive shares of our Common Stock in the Distribution. No stockholder approval of the Distribution is required. We are not asking you for a vote, and we request that you do not send us a proxy card.
Q: If I sell my shares of CCI common stock on or before the Distribution Date, will I still be entitled to receive shares of the Common Stock and Warrants in the Distribution?
A: If you hold shares of CCI common stock on the Record Date and decide to sell them on or before the Distribution Date, you may choose to sell your CCI common stock with or without your entitlement to our Common Stock or Warrants. You should discuss these alternatives with your bank, broker or other nominee. See "The Spin-Off-Trading Prior to the Distribution Date" for more information.
Q: How will CCI distribute shares of our Common Stock and Warrants?
A: Registered stockholders: If you are a registered stockholder (meaning you own your shares of CCI common stock directly through CCI's transfer agent, Island Stock Transfer, Inc.), our distribution agent will credit the whole shares of our Common Stock and Warrants you receive in the Distribution to a new book-entry account with our transfer agent on or shortly after the Distribution Date. Our transfer agent is expected to serve as our distribution agent for the Spin-Off. Our distribution agent will mail you a book-entry account statement that reflects the number of whole shares of our Common Stock and Warrants you own. You will be able to access information regarding your book-entry account holding our Common Stock and Warrants at Island Stock Transfer, Inc. "Street name" or beneficial stockholders: If you own your shares of CCI common stock beneficially through a bank, broker or other nominee, your bank, broker or other nominee will credit your account with the whole shares of our Common Stock and Warrants you receive in the Distribution on or shortly after the Distribution
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Date. Please contact your bank, broker or other nominee for further information about your account. We will not issue any physical stock certificates to any stockholders, even if requested. See "The Spin-Off-When and How You Will Receive Company Common Stock and Warrants" for a more detailed explanation.
Q: How will fractional shares be treated in the Distribution?
A: The distribution agent will round up fractional shares of our Common Stock in connection with the Spin-Off to the nearest whole number of shares of Common Stock. Accordingly, the Warrants will be treated the same way. See "The Spin-Off-Treatment of Fractional Shares" for a more detailed explanation of the treatment of fractional shares.
Q: What are the U.S. federal income tax consequences to me of the Distribution?
A: For U.S. federal income tax purposes, the Distribution is not expected to qualify for tax free treatment. Accordingly, gain or loss may be recognized by, or be includible in the income of, a U.S. Holder (as defined in "Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Spin-Off") as a result of the Distribution. In addition, the aggregate tax basis of the CCI common stock and our Common Stock and Warrants held by each U.S. Holder immediately after the Distribution will be the same as the aggregate tax basis of the CCI common stock held by the U.S. Holder immediately before the Distribution, allocated between the CCI common stock and our Common Stock and Warrants in proportion to their relative fair market values on the Distribution Date (subject to certain adjustments). See "Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Spin-Off" for more information regarding the potential tax consequences to you of the Spin-Off.
Q: Does the Company intend to pay cash dividends?
A: Following the Spin-Off, we do not anticipate paying any dividends on our Common Stock in the foreseeable future. See "Dividend Policy" for more information
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Q: How will the Common Stock trade?
A: Currently, there is no public market for our common stock. We intend to list our common stock on the OTC-QB Market or better under the symbol "WYTC." We expect that our common stock will begin trading on a trading day sometime after the Distribution Date, to be determined. We cannot predict the trading prices for our common stock when such trading begins.
Q: What will happen to the listing of CCI common stock?
A: The CCI common stock will continue to trade on the OTC-Pink Sheets Market following the Spin-Off.
Q: Will the Spin-Off affect the trading price of my CCI common stock?
A: We expect the trading price of shares of CCI common stock immediately following the Spin-Off to be lower than immediately prior to the Spin-Off because the trading price will no longer reflect the value of our business and our subsidiaries. Furthermore, until the market has fully analyzed the value of CCI without the Company and our subsidiaries, the trading price of shares of CCI common stock may fluctuate. We cannot assure you that, following the Spin-Off, the combined trading prices of the CCI common stock and our common stock will equal or exceed what the trading price of CCI common stock would have been in the absence of the Spin-Off. It is possible that after the Spin-Off, the combined equity value of CCI and the Company will be less than CCI's equity value before the Spin-Off.
Q: Do I have appraisal rights in connection with the Spin-Off?
A: No. Holders of CCI common stock are not entitled to appraisal rights in connection with the Spin-Off.
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Q: Who is the transfer agent and registrar for the Common Stock and Warrants?
A: Island Stock Transfer, Inc. is the transfer agent and registrar for the Common Stock. It is also expected to serve as the distribution agent.
Q: Are there risks associated with owning shares of the Common Stock and Warrants?
A: Yes. Our business faces both general and specific risks and uncertainties. Our business also faces risks relating to the Spin-Off. Following the Spin-Off, we may also face risks associated with being an independent publicly-traded company. Accordingly, you should read carefully the information set forth in the section titled "Risk Factors" in this prospectus.
Q: Are there any other classes of capital stock of the Company outstanding after the Spin-Off?
A: Yes. As of December 15, 2016, we have 1,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock outstanding which are owned by our chief executive officer, approximately 3,583,450 shares of Series B Preferred Stock outstanding which were issued to investors in a series of private placements and exchanges, and 3,360,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock outstanding which were issued in exchange for registered links previously purchased by outside buyers. We also have outstanding a total of 5,365,342 warrants to purchase Wytec common stock owned by holders other than CCI (in addition to the 1,731,104 Warrants covered by this prospectus which are currently owned by CCI), all of which expire on December 31, 2017. The exercise price of these other warrants range from $1.00 per share to $3.00 per share. See "Description of Our Capital Stock-Preferred Stock" for more information regarding the Series A Preferred Stock, the Series B Preferred Stock, and the Series C Preferred Stock.
Q: Where can I get more information?
A: Before the Spin-Off, if you have any questions relating to the Spin-Off, you should contact:
William H. Gray, Chief Executive Officer
Competitive Companies, Inc.
19206 Huebner Road, Suite 202
San Antonio, Texas 78258
whg@wytecintl.com
After the Spin-Off, if you have any questions relating to the Company, you should contact:
William H. Gray, Chief Executive Officer
Wytec International, Inc.
19206 Huebner Road, Suite 202
San Antonio, Texas 78258
whg@wytecintl.com
PROSPECTUS SUMMARY
This summary highlights information contained elsewhere in this prospectus. This summary does not contain all of the information you should consider before investing in our common stock. You should read the entire prospectus carefully, especially the "Risk Factors" section and our financial statements and the related notes appearing at the end of this, before deciding to invest in our common stock."
Our Company
Wytec International, Inc. ("Wytec," "we," "us," or the "Company"), a Nevada corporation, is a developer of wide area networks (we call the "Diamond Ring"), designed to serve the internet access needs of the small and medium business market ("SMB") utilizing the advanced benefits of millimeter wave technology.
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The Company has now developed three (3) of these networks located in San Antonio, Texas, Columbus, Ohio and Denver, Colorado. Wytec was incorporated in November of 2011 with the purchase of five (5) United States patents directly related to local multipoint distribution service ("LMDS"), utilized in broadband wireless access technology originally designed for digital television transmission (the "Patents"). In June 2014, we filed a provisional patent for our small cell ("Small Cell") infrastructure technology which we now call the "LPN-16." In March 2015, we filed an International Patent Cooperation Treaty ("PCT") application to expand our patent protection rights in multiple countries outside the United States. We are a subsidiary of Competitive Companies, Inc., a Nevada corporation ("CCI"), which is publicly traded on the OTC-Pink Sheets Market (symbol "CCOP").
In January 2016, in order to better facilitate the marketing of our services, we began the development of a proprietary online quoting system we now call "WyQuote". Wytec has developed four primary products/services offered through the WyQuote system. They are:
1) Fixed Wireless- Wytec offers this service on its millimeter wave network as a primary internet connection focused on the SMB market.
2) Fail-Over 4G- Wytec utilizes a wholesale contract from two primary carriers (Sprint/Verizon) to offer this service on a nationwide basis. Connection speeds are limited to average cellular speeds of approximately 15 Mbps.
3) Fail-Over 5G- Wytec utilizes its millimeter wave network to offer this service to the enterprise market. Connection speeds are up to 1 Gbps but new technology is providing even faster connections.
4) Internet Booster Plus (IB+)- Wytec utilizes its millimeter wave network to offer this service designed to service the SMB market for customers under a primary contract with an existing wired service such as cable. This service allows prospective customers to boost an upload only connection to better support new applications needing symmetrical connections to operate more efficiently.
WyQuote offers this online tool to an existing pool of approximately 100,000 telecom agents throughout the United States. Current online tools are deficient in allowing current agents to order services online for their clients. Typically, orders are generated by telephone and/or e-mails with other service ordering systems. The system is designed to allow independent agents to view our wireless products and services, evaluate the service and then purchase the service online. Management believes that this functionality will enable us to ramp-up our revenues rapidly and meet our five-year forecast. The WyQuote system is scheduled to go live in December 2016 utilizing three (3) callers who will be offering a 30-day free trial of both the 4G Fail-over and the IB+ service within the San Antonio market to determine successful sales metrics for future deployment planning. Assuming successful sales metrics are obtained, we expect to increase our telemarketing specialists by up to forty-five (45) callers in 15 markets by year-end 2017. We select new markets from market analytics derived from our digital marketing effort as well as our sales metrics.
Our multi-city development plan is a part of a "master plan" to prepare for the deployment of our patent pending LPN-16 Small Cell technology. Small Cell technology has most recently been defined by numerous studies as a primary solution to overcoming today's current data deficiencies in mobile carrier networks. Signals and Systems ("SNS") Research forecast that greater than 60% of today's mobile network data traffic will be supported by Small Cell technology by 2020 and account for $352 billion in mobile data service revenues. As our basic millimeter wave infrastructure continues to develop and expand with the use of the LPN-16, we believe Wytec will be an integral part of carrier "offloading" which SNS Research has already forecasted to exceed $15 billion by 2020 with more than $12 billion in the United States alone.
Though carrier-offloading services are extremely significant, the LPN-16 is capable of other services even larger than carrier offloading. These services include government and non-government services such as public safety, first responder and machine to machine ("M2M") or the "Internet of Things" services. International Data Corporation ("IDC") forecast the Internet of Things market to reach $7.1 trillion globally by 2020. We believe our LPN-16 Small Cell solution is ideal for supporting multiple sectors of this huge marketplace.
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Example Outdoor Distributed Antenna Systems and Microcells
We are also the sole owner of WyLink, Inc., a Texas corporation ("Wylink"), previously engaged in the business of preparing and filing with the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") Form 601-FCC Applications for Radio Service Authorization for the purpose of obtaining the use of "millimeter wave" spectrum in the 71-95 GHz bands on a shared basis with federal government initiatives. The FCC adopted a flexible and innovative regulatory framework for the 71-95 GHz bands that would not require traditional frequency coordination among non-federal government use. Rights with regard to specific links are established based upon the date and time of link registration. Once a "frequency" license has been obtained under Wylink's registered link program ("Link Program"), the license holder must register GPS coordinates on a point-to-point link ("Link") with an FCC certified database manager to receive FCC frequency protection under the Link registration. Frequency holders may register as many Links as desired, but must establish an "operating" link, determined by connecting proper radio equipment at each end of the Link, within one (1) year of registration. In consideration for a onetime payment by the customer, Wylink performed the license and registration of Links on behalf of Link holders. Wylink ceased the Link Program for third parties in January 2016 but retains its expertise, which is expected to be utilized on behalf of the Company to acquire Links it may need in the future for its planned new networks.
Corporate Information
Our executive offices are located at 19206 Huebner Road, Suite 202, San Antonio, Texas 78258 and our telephone number is (210) 233-8980. Our website address is www.wytecintl.com. We have not incorporated by reference into this prospectus the information included on or linked from our website and you should not consider it to be part of this prospectus.
Please see the "Risk Factors" section commencing on page 12 for more information concerning the risks of investing in us.
Summary of the Spin-Off
Distributing Company |
Competitive Companies, Inc., a Nevada corporation, which holds approximately 81% of our common stock issued and outstanding and approximately 24% of our outstanding warrants prior to the Distribution. After the Distribution, CCI will not own any shares of our common stock or any warrants, or any of our preferred stock. |
Distributed Company |
Wytec International, Inc., a Nevada corporation and a subsidiary of CCI. At the time of the Distribution, we will hold, directly or through our wholly owned subsidiaries, the assets and liabilities of our carrier-class wireless Wi-Fi network business. After the Spin-Off, we expect to be an independent publicly traded company. |
Distributed Securities |
All of the shares of our Common Stock and Warrants owned by CCI, which are approximately 81% of total common stock issued and outstanding and approximately 24% of our total issued and outstanding warrants immediately prior to the Distribution. This reflects a distribution ratio of approximately 0.0026 shares of Common Stock for every outstanding share of CCI common stock. A total of 865,552 shares of our Common Stock will be distributed. Applying the distribution ratio of two Warrants for every share of Common Stock distributed pursuant to the Spin-Off, approximately 1,731,104 Warrants will be distributed. |
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Trading and Market Symbol |
We intend to file an application to list our common stock on the OTC-QB Market or better under the symbol "WYTC." We do not expect that our common stock will trade on or before the Distribution Date. Trading of shares of our common stock is expected to begin on a date to be determined after the Distribution Date if and when our trading symbol application with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is approved. Our application to FINRA will be filed on or about the Record Date for the Spin-Off. We also anticipate that, as early as two trading days prior to the Record Date, there will be two markets in CCI common stock: (i) a "regular-way" market on which shares of CCI common stock will trade with an entitlement for the purchaser of CCI common stock to receive shares of our Common Stock and Warrants to be distributed in the Distribution, and (ii) an "ex-distribution" market on which shares of CCI common stock will trade without an entitlement for the purchaser of CCI common stock to receive shares of our Common Stock or Warrants. See "The Spin-Off-Trading Prior to the Distribution Date." |
Tax Consequences to CCI Stockholders |
For U.S. federal income tax purposes, gain or loss may be recognized by, or be includible in the income of, a U.S. Holder (as defined in "Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Spin-Off") as a result of the Distribution. In addition, the aggregate tax basis of the CCI common stock and our Common Stock and Warrants held by each U.S. Holder immediately after the Distribution will be the same as the aggregate tax basis of the CCI common stock held by the U.S. Holder immediately before the Distribution, allocated between the CCI common stock and our Common Stock and Warrants in proportion to their relative fair market values on the date of the Distribution (subject to certain adjustments). See "Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Spin-Off." We urge you to consult your tax advisor as to the specific tax consequences of the Distribution to you, including the effect of any U.S. federal, state, local or foreign tax laws and of changes in applicable tax laws. |
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Relationship with CCI After the Spin-Off |
We intend to enter into several agreements with CCI related to the Spin-Off, which will govern the relationship between CCI and us up to and after completion of the Spin-Off, and allocate between CCI and us various assets, liabilities, rights and obligations. These agreements include:
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Dividend Policy |
Following the Spin-Off, we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends on our Common Stock in the foreseeable future. See "Dividend Policy" for more information. |
Transfer Agent |
Island Stock Transfer, Inc. |
Risk Factors |
Our business faces both general and specific risks and uncertainties. Our business also faces risks relating to the Spin-Off. Following the Spin-Off, we may also face risks associated with being an independent publicly-traded company. Accordingly, you should read carefully the information set forth under "Risk Factors." |
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RISK FACTORS
You should carefully consider all of the information in this prospectus and each of the risks described below, which we believe are the principal risks that we face. Some of the risks relate to our business, others to the Spin-Off. Some risks relate principally to the securities markets and ownership of our Common Stock. The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones faced by us. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known or that are currently deemed immaterial may also impair our business operations. If any of the following risks occur, our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flows and the trading price of our common stock could be materially adversely affected.
Risks Relating to Our Business
We may be unable to execute our identified business opportunities successfully . Our business success is dependent upon several factors, including but not limited to the following:
Our ability to achieve market acceptance of our technology in the United States and overseas;
Our failure to adequately address any one or more of the above factors could have a significant adverse impact on our ability to execute our business plan. We constructed our first wireless network in Columbus, Ohio to include the installation of our millimeter wave equipment on selective rooftops and other structures (our Diamond Ring) pursuant to lease or license agreements, to send and receive wireless signals necessary for the operation of our network. We typically seek five year initial terms for our leases with three to five year renewal options. Such renewal options are generally exercisable at our discretion before the expiration of the current term. If these leases are terminated or if the owners of these structures are unwilling to continue to enter into leases or licenses with us in the future, or breach those agreements with us, we would be forced to seek alternative arrangements with other building owners or providers. If we are unable to continue to obtain, retain or renew such leases on satisfactory terms, our business would be harmed.
We have a history of operating losses and expect to continue incurring losses for the foreseeable future . Our current business was launched in 2011 and has incurred losses in each year of operation. We recorded a net loss in 2012 and 2013, a net loss of $3,370,297 in 2014 and $1,999,070 in 2015, and
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a net loss of $2,217,322 for the nine months ended September 30, 2016. We cannot anticipate when, if ever, our operations will become profitable. We expect to incur significant net losses as we invest in our technology, expand our markets and pursue our business strategy. We intend to invest significantly in our business before we expect cash flow from operations to be adequate to cover our operating expenses. If we are unable to execute our business strategy and grow our business, either as a result of the risks identified in this section or for any other reason, our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations will be adversely affected.
There is no assurance that Wytec's Link Program will be successful. Through January 2016, Wytec had been relying primarily on the sale of Links for revenue and working capital. Wytec terminated the offer and sale of Links in January 2016, except for two sales in July 2016. Since June 2016, Wytec has been offering to buy back Links in consideration for the issuance of its Series B Preferred Stock and warrants at $3.00 per unit (i.e. one share of Series B Preferred Stock and one warrant exercisable at $1.50 per share until December 31, 2017). As of November 30, 2016, we had repurchased all outstanding Links except 70 that currently remain with third party owners. We are generally retaining activated ("live") Links for our use that are repurchased by us, and letting pending Links lapse for the present. The previous sale of Links to third parties was not certain and selling costs were substantial. Once Links were sold, Wytec incurs substantial costs to provide equipment and make related lease payments. There is no assurance that Wytec will be able to realize alternative sources of revenue and cash flow in the future, or that the servicing of Links will not cause Wytec to incur operating deficits. In the absence of Link sale revenue, Wytec may not have sufficient funds to execute its business plan, materially adversely affecting its financial condition, operating results and business performance, or causing it to cease operations.
There is no assurance that we will be able to sell our internet access services through our WyQuote system or otherwise. Our revenue model in our business plan includes anticipated sales of our internet access services through a network of independent agents using the WyQuote online price quote system. The WyQuote system was only recently developed by us and its effectiveness has only been tested. There is no assurance that Wytec will be successful in selling and earning revenue from its 4G and eventually 5G internet access service offerings, or any other service or product. The availability of our service as primary access to the internet is currently limited to markets in which we have built a "diamond ring" transmission network. In all other markets, we would be selling service provided by the infrastructure of other carriers, which may be less profitable for us. Furthermore, customers for our internet access services generally must install special equipment, increasing the cost of our services and rendering it more challenging for us to be cost competitive.
Our success depends in part on the results of current and planned tests of our proprietary LPN-16 technology . Testing thus far has included environmental and radio frequency interference testing with our manufacturer and multiple speed tests utilizing an integrated 2.4GHz and 5GHz Qualcomm 802.11ac chipset which we completed in December of 2014. Additional tests will include proof of concept testing for network load balancing, public safety Band 14 and mobile network operator mobile data offloading, and WiFi and backhaul network testing. While we expect future tests of our LPN-16 to go well since preliminary testing of the technology in San Antonio, Texas, was positive, the LPN-16 may not work as we have currently designed and constructed it, causing us material delays and harm. If the LPN-16 fails the upcoming tests or the tests are materially delayed, it could have a material adverse impact on our financial condition, operating results, and business performance. The timing of the commencement of the launch of the LPN-16 product line is currently uncertain, and may be delayed until we have more capital to fund it. There is no assurance that our LPN-16 or any other proprietary technology that we develop will be successful, will work as planned, or can be commercialized or monetized profitably.
We must adapt quickly to changes in technology . Telecommunications technology is a rapidly evolving technology. We must keep abreast of this technological evolution. To do so, we must continually improve the performance, features and reliability of our equipment and related products. If we fail to maintain a competitive level of technological expertise, then we will not be able to compete in our market.
Our inability to respond timely to technological advances could have an adverse effect on our business . We must be able to respond to technological advances and emerging industry standards and practices on a cost-effective and timely basis. We can offer no assurance that we will be able to successfully use new technologies effectively or adapt our products and services in a timely manner to a competitive standard. If we are unable to adapt in a timely manner to changing technology, market conditions or customer requirements, then we may not be able to successfully compete in our market.
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We may not be able to withstand fluctuations in our industry because our business is not diverse . We have limited financial resources, so it is unlikely that we will be able to diversify our operations. Our probable inability to diversify our activities into more than one area will subject us to economic fluctuations within a particular industry and therefore increase the risks associated with our operations.
Our ability to protect our intellectual property is uncertain . We assigned our five Patents to our subsidiary, Wytec, LLC, which was managed and 50% owned by General Patent Corporation. General Patent Corporation ("GPC"), the oldest patent enforcement firm in the United States, represents clients on patent enforcement rights and licensing transactions on a contingency basis. GPC was the manager of Wytec, LLC until recently, when it assigned all of its rights in Wytec, LLC back to us. After extensive research and analysis, GPC elected not to assert infringement claims for the Patents on behalf of us and itself through Wytec, LLC. There is no assurance that these Patents are enforceable. We re-acquired the 50% of Wytec, LLC that we do not already own, and became the manager of it. In 2014, we filed a new provisional patent application for our proprietary LPN-16 data transmission technology, and we may apply for additional patents in the future. We cannot assure that these applications will be approved or that any other person will not challenge the Patents or future patents we obtain, if any, or attempt to infringe upon our proprietary rights. We will have limited resources to fight any infringements on our proprietary rights and if we are unable to protect our proprietary rights or if such rights infringe on the rights of others, our business would be materially adversely affected. The current manufacturer of our LPN-16 owns the intellectual property rights to certain software used in the device, for which our license is only exclusive for the first three years of sales, after which it is nonexclusive in perpetuity. This arrangement may enable our competitors to more readily enter the market for this type of equipment.
Our business may be adversely affected by competition . The telecommunications industry is highly competitive. Many of our current and potential competitors have financial, personnel and other resources, including brand name recognition, substantially greater than ours, as well as other competitive advantages over us. Certain competitors may be able to secure products from vendors on more favorable terms, devote greater resources to marketing and promotional campaigns, and adopt more aggressive pricing than we will. We cannot assure that we will be able to compete successfully against these competitors, which ultimately may have a materially adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and potential products in the future.
Our business is subject to government regulation . Our Registered Links are subject to and designed to comply with the regulations of the FCC. A change in those regulations or significant diminution of the right to access, use or license of the spectrum acquired in our Registered Link program would be expected to have a material adverse effect on our operating results, financial condition, and business prospects and performance. We are also subject to regulations applicable to businesses generally. The adoption of any additional laws or regulations may decrease the growth of our business, decrease the demand for services and increase our cost of doing business. Changes in tax laws also could have a significant adverse effect on our operating results and financial condition.
We cannot assure that we will achieve profitability . We cannot assure that we will be able to operate profitably in the future. Profitability, if any, will depend in part upon our ability to successfully develop and market our proprietary telecommunications technology, and other products and services. We may not be able to successfully transition from our current stage of business to a stabilized operation having sufficient revenues to cover expenses. While attempting to make this transition, we will be subject to all the risks inherent in a small business, including the need to adequately service and expand our customer base and to maintain and enhance our current services. Our Link Program may not achieve profitability for a number of reasons, including without limitation insufficient funds to obtain or have access to registered Links, or to install equipment, or to activate the Links, or to sell Link capacity. Our Link Program with individual customers purchasing Links and leasing a portion of their capacity to us may cause operating deficits because sale, installation and activation costs may exceed revenue, if any, from those Links. Our future profitability will be affected by all the risk factors described in this prospectus and inherent in our business.
We are exposed to various possible claims relating to our business and we may not have sufficient insurance to fully protect us. We cannot assure that we will not incur uninsured liabilities and losses as a result of the conduct of our business, even though we currently maintain insurance policies for liability and property insurance coverage, along with workmen's compensation and related insurance. Should uninsured losses occur, our investors could lose their invested capital.
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We may incur additional indebtedness . We cannot assure that we will not incur additional debt in the future, that we will have sufficient funds to repay our indebtedness or that we will not default on our debt, jeopardizing our business viability. Furthermore, we may not be able to borrow or raise additional capital in the future to meet our needs or to otherwise provide the capital necessary to conduct our business.
We expect to incur losses for the near future. We project that we will incur development and administrative expenses and operate at a loss for the foreseeable future unless we are able to generate substantial revenues from our planned proprietary products and services. We cannot be certain whether or when we will be able to achieve profitability because of the significant uncertainties with respect to our business.
We may incur cost overruns . We may incur substantial cost overruns in the development and deployment of our proprietary products and services. Management is not obligated to contribute capital to us. Unanticipated costs may force us to obtain additional capital or financing from other sources, or may cause us to lose our entire investment in our business if we are unable to obtain the additional funds necessary to implement our business plan. We cannot assure that we will be able to obtain sufficient capital to successfully implement our business plan. If a greater investment is required in the business because of cost overruns, the probability of earning a profit or a return on investment in us is diminished.
We could be subject to liens . If we fail to pay for materials and services for our business on a timely basis, our assets could be subject to material men's and workmen's liens. We may also be subject to bank liens in the event that we default on loans from banks, if any.
We may face litigation in the future . We may be involved in litigation in the future. The adverse resolution of such litigation to us could impair our ability to continue in business if judgment holders were to seek to liquidate our business through levy and execution. We may incur substantial legal fees and costs in connection with future litigation, if any. If we fail in our defense to future actions, if any, or become subject to a levy and execution on our assets and business, we could be forced to liquidate or to file for bankruptcy and be unable to continue in our business. There is also a risk that we could face litigation and regulatory claims that could have a material adverse affect on our financial condition, operating results, and business.
We may not have adequate funds to implement our business plan . We have limited capital available to us. Although we anticipate securing additional funding from the issuance of additional securities, we cannot assure that we will secure all or any of the funding we anticipate. If our entire original capital is fully expended and additional costs cannot be funded from borrowings or capital from other sources, then our financial condition, results of operations and business performance would be materially adversely affected. We cannot assure that we will have adequate capital or financing to conduct our business or to grow.
Our limited resources may prevent us from retaining key employees or inhibit our ability to hire and train a sufficient number of qualified management, professional, technical and regulatory personnel. Our success may also depend on our ability to attract and retain other qualified management and personnel familiar in telecommunications industry. Currently, we have a limited number of personnel that are required to perform various roles and duties as a result of our limited financial resources. We intend to use the services of independent consultants and contractors to perform various professional services, when appropriate to help conserve our capital. If and when we determine to acquire additional personnel, we will compete for such persons with other companies and other organizations, some of which have substantially greater capital resources than we do. We cannot provide any assurance that we will be successful in recruiting or retaining personnel of the requisite caliber or in adequate numbers to enable us to conduct our business.
The loss of the services of any or our management or key executives could adversely affect our business . Our success is substantially dependent on the performance of our executive officers and key employees. The loss of an officer or director could have a material adverse impact on us. We are generally dependent upon our primary executive officer, William H. Gray, for the direction, management and daily supervision of our operations. We do not currently have any employment agreements with any members of our management team.
The consideration being paid to management has not been determined at arm's-length . The common stock and cash consideration being paid by us to our management have not been determined based on arm's-length negotiation. We may grant stock options and other equity incentives to our executive
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officers and directors, which may further dilute our shareholders' ownership of us. While management believes that the consideration is fair for the work being performed, there is no assurance that the consideration to management reflects the true market value of its services.
Directors and officers have limited liability. As permitted by the Nevada General Corporation Law, our certificate of incorporation and by-laws limit the personal liability of our directors and officers and authorize our indemnification of them, but such provision does not eliminate or limit the liability of a director or officer in certain circumstances, such as for: (i) any breach of the director's or officer's duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders; (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law; (iii) under Section 174 of the Nevada General Corporate Law; or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. If we were called upon to perform under our indemnification agreement, then the portion of our assets expended for such purpose would reduce the amount otherwise available for our business.
After the Spin-Off, a majority of our voting capital stock will continue to be owned by our chief executive officer . Our chief executive officer is the holder of all 1,000 outstanding shares of our Series C Preferred Stock, by virtue of which he beneficially owns 51% of our outstanding voting capital stock. As a result of such stock ownership, our principal shareholder is able to control the election of the members of our board of directors, and generally exercise control over our affairs. Such concentration of voting power could also have the effect of delaying, deterring or preventing a change in control of us that might otherwise be beneficial to stockholders. We cannot assure that conflicts of interest will not arise with respect to such matters or that such conflicts will be resolved in a manner favorable to the Company.
Risks Relating to the Spin-Off
The Spin-Off could result in tax liability to CCI and its stockholders. The Distribution is not expected to qualify for non-recognition of gain and loss to CCI or its stockholders for federal income tax purposes. This conclusion does not address any U.S. state or local or foreign tax consequences of the Spin-Off, which could result in other tax liabilities. We will not have a tax opinion of counsel on this matter. Even if we had such an opinion, the opinion would not be binding on the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") or the courts. In this case, each CCI shareholder who receives our Common Stock and Warrants in the Spin-Off would generally be treated as receiving a distribution in an amount equal to the fair market value of our Common Stock and Warrants received, which could result in (i) a taxable dividend to the CCI shareholders to the extent of that CCI shareholder's pro rata share of CCI's current and accumulated earnings and profits (of which there are none, so no dividend is expected); (ii) a reduction in the CCI shareholder's basis (but not below zero) in CCI common stock to the extent the amount received exceeds the stockholder's share of CCI's earnings and profits; and (iii) a taxable gain to the extent the amount received exceeds the sum of the CCI shareholder's share of CCI's earnings and profits and its basis in its CCI common stock. CCI has no accumulated or current earnings and profits, which may mitigate the tax liability, if any, to the CCI shareholders. CCI would recognize gain in an amount up to the fair market value of our Common Stock and Warrants held by it immediately before the Spin-Off, likely offset by its net operating loss carry forward.
We may be unable to achieve some or all of the benefits that we expect to achieve from the Spin-Off. We believe that, as an independent publicly-traded company, we will be able to, among other things, better focus our financial and operational resources on our specific business, implement and maintain a capital structure designed to meet our specific needs, design and implement corporate strategies and policies that are targeted to our business, more effectively respond to industry dynamics and create effective incentives for our management and employees that are more closely tied to our business performance. There is no assurance that we will be granted a public trading symbol by FINRA to enable us to be publicly traded as an independent company after the Spin-Off. Furthermore, by separating from CCI, we may be more susceptible to market fluctuations and have less leverage with suppliers, and we may experience other adverse events. In addition, we may be unable to achieve some or all of the benefits that we expect to achieve as an independent company in the time we expect, if at all. The completion of the Spin-Off will also require significant amounts of our management's time and effort, which may divert management's attention from operating and growing our business.
We may be unable to make, on a timely or cost-effective basis, the changes necessary to operate as an independent publicly-traded company, and we may experience increased costs after the Spin-Off. CCI provided us with various corporate services until July 31, 2016, when on August 1, 2016, we commenced performing those services ourselves and directly incurring the payroll and other costs associated with them. Following the Spin-Off, CCI will have no obligation to provide us with assistance other than the transition services described under "Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions-Agreements with
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CCI." These services do not include every service that we have received from CCI in the past, and CCI is only obligated to provide these services for limited periods from the date of the Spin-Off. Accordingly, following the Spin-Off, we will need to provide internally or obtain from unaffiliated third parties the remaining services we currently receive from CCI. We may be unable to replace these services in a timely manner or on terms and conditions as favorable as those we receive from CCI. We may be unable to successfully establish the infrastructure or implement the changes necessary to operate independently or may incur additional costs. If we fail to obtain the services necessary to operate effectively or if we incur greater costs in obtaining these services, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be adversely affected.
We have no operating history as an independent publicly-traded company, and our historical financial information is not necessarily representative of the results we would have achieved as an independent publicly-traded company and may not be a reliable indicator of our future results. We derived the historical financial information included in this prospectus from CCI's consolidated financial statements, and this information does not necessarily reflect the results of operations and financial position we would have achieved as an independent publicly-traded company during the periods presented or those that we will achieve in the future. This is primarily because of the following factors:
Prior to the Spin-Off, we operated as part of CCI's broader corporate organization, and CCI performed various corporate functions for us. Our historical financial information reflects allocations of corporate expenses from CCI for these and similar functions. These allocations may not reflect the costs we will incur for similar services in the future as an independent publicly-traded company. We will enter into transactions with CCI that did not exist prior to the Spin-Off or modify our existing agreements with CCI, such as CCI's provision of transition services, which will cause us to incur new costs.
Our historical financial information does not reflect changes that we expect to experience in the future as a result of our separation from CCI, including changes in our cost structure, personnel needs, tax structure, financing and business operations. As part of CCI, we enjoyed certain benefits from CCI's operating diversity, and we will lose these benefits after the Spin-Off. As an independent entity, we may be unable to purchase goods, services and technologies, such as insurance and health care benefits and computer software licenses, or access capital markets on terms as favorable to us as those we obtained as part of CCI prior to the Spin-Off.
After the Spin-Off, Wytec and CCI will be parties to a revolving loan agreement pursuant to which Wytec has agreed (subject to its approval of each draw which it may withhold in its sole discretion), to lend up to $800,000 to CCI from time to time to enable CCI to pay its operating costs until it has adequate working capital. This agreement reflects management's belief that Wytec will more readily raise capital than CCI.
Following the Spin-Off, we will also be responsible for the additional costs associated with being an independent publicly-traded company, including costs related to corporate governance, investor and public relations and public reporting. In addition, certain costs incurred by CCI, including executive oversight, accounting, treasury, tax, legal, human resources, occupancy, procurement, information technology and other shared services, have historically been allocated to us by CCI, except for certain services assumed by us directly commencing on August 1, 2016. These allocations may not reflect the future level of these costs to us as we begin to provide these additional services ourselves. Therefore, our historical financial statements may not be indicative of our future performance as an independent publicly-traded company. We cannot assure you that our operating results will continue at a similar level when we are an independent publicly-traded company. For additional information about our past financial performance and the basis of presentation of our financial statements, see "Selected Historical Financial Data," "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and our historical financial statements and the notes thereto included elsewhere in this prospectus.
We may not be able to access the credit and capital markets at the times and in the amounts needed on acceptable terms. From time to time we may need to access the capital markets to obtain financing. Although we believe that the sources of capital in place at the time of the Spin-Off will permit us to finance our operations for the foreseeable future on acceptable terms and conditions, we have not previously accessed the capital markets as an independent public company. Our access to, and the availability of, financing on acceptable terms and conditions in the future will be impacted by many factors, including our financial performance, our absence of credit ratings, the liquidity of the overall capital markets and the state of the economy. We cannot assure you that we will have access to the capital markets at the times and in the amounts needed or on terms acceptable to us.
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Risks Relating to our Common Stock and the Securities Market
No market for the Common Stock currently exists, and an active trading market may not develop or be sustained after the Spin-Off. Following the Spin-Off, our stock price may fluctuate significantly. There is currently no public market for our common stock. We intend to apply to list our common stock on the OTC-QB Market or better. No trading of our common stock is expected before or on the Distribution Date. The common stock is expected to commence public trading when FINRA approves our trading symbol application (of which there is no assurance), which we will file on or about the Record Date. An active trading market for the Common Stock may not, however, develop as a result of the Spin-Off or may not be sustained in the future. The lack of an active market may make it more difficult for stockholders to sell our shares and could lead to our share price and trading volume being depressed or volatile. We cannot predict the prices at which our common stock may trade after the Spin-Off. The market price of the common stock may fluctuate widely and decline, depending on many factors, some of which may be beyond our control, including:
actual or anticipated fluctuations in our operating results due to factors related to our businesses;
success or failure of our business strategies;
our quarterly or annual earnings or those of other companies in our industries;
our ability to obtain financing as needed;
announcements by us or our competitors of significant acquisitions or dispositions;
changes in accounting standards, policies, guidance, interpretations or principles;
the failure of securities analysts to cover the Common Stock after the Spin-Off;
changes in earnings estimates by securities analysts or our ability to meet those estimates;
the operating and stock price performance of other comparable companies;
investor perception of our company and the internet infrastructure industry;
overall market fluctuations;
results from any material litigation or government investigation;
changes in laws and regulations (including tax laws and regulations) affecting our business;
changes in capital gains taxes and taxes on dividends affecting stockholders; and
general economic conditions and other external factors.
Furthermore, our business profile and market capitalization may not fit the investment objectives of some CCI stockholders and, as a result, these CCI stockholders may sell their shares of our Common Stock after the Spin-Off. See "Risk Factors-Substantial sales of the Common Stock may occur in connection with the Spin-Off, which could cause our stock price to decline." Low trading volume for the Common Stock, which may occur if an active trading market does not develop, among other reasons, would amplify the effect of the above factors on our stock price volatility. Stock markets in general have experienced volatility that has often been unrelated to the operating performance of a particular company. These broad market fluctuations could adversely affect the trading price of the Common Stock.
Substantial sales of the Common Stock may occur in connection with the Spin-Off, which could cause our stock price to decline. CCI stockholders receiving shares of Common Stock in the Spin-Off generally may sell those shares immediately in the public market, if and when a public market for our securities is established. Although we have no actual knowledge of any plan or intention of any significant stockholder to sell our Common Stock following the Spin-Off, it is likely that some CCI stockholders, possibly including some of its larger stockholders, will sell their shares received in the Spin-Off for reasons such as our business profile or market capitalization as an independent company, or because we do not fit their investment objectives, or, in the case of index funds, we are not a participant in the index in which they are investing. The sales of significant amounts of the Common Stock or the perception in the market that this will occur may decrease the market price of our common stock.
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The exercise price of the Warrants may be adjusted higher in the future, depending on the public trading price of our Common Stock after the Distribution. Accordingly, on July 30, 2017, the exercise price of the Warrants may be adjusted to be the greater of (i) $5.00 per share, or (ii) 85% of the average closing price of the Company's common stock quoted on the public securities trading market on which the Company's common stock is then trading with the highest trading volume, during the five (5) consecutive trading days immediately preceding July 30, 2017. If our common stock is not publicly traded by July 30, 2017, then the exercise price will remain at $5.00 per share.
The concentration of our capital voting stock ownership may limit our stockholders' ability to influence corporate matters and may involve other risks. William H. Gray, the chief executive officer of both CCI and us, is currently the beneficial owner of an aggregate (not subject to dilution) of approximately 51% of CCI's and Wytec's outstanding voting power. Upon completion of the Spin-Off, William H. Gray will continue to hold the same percentage of outstanding voting power of CCI and Wytec.
Your percentage ownership in us may be diluted in the future. Our board of directors has the authority to cause us to issue additional securities and convertible securities at such prices and on such terms as it determines in its discretion without the consent of the stockholders, including without limitation common stock, preferred stock, warrants, stock options, and convertible notes. Consequently, our shareholders are subject to the risk that their ownership in us will be substantially diluted in the future.
We may not pay dividends in the future. Any return on investment may be limited to the value of our common stock. We do not anticipate paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future. The payment of dividends on our common stock will depend on earnings, financial condition, and other business and economic factors affecting us at such time as our board of directors may consider relevant. Our current intention is to apply net earnings, if any, in the foreseeable future to increasing our capital base and marketing. Prospective investors seeking or needing dividend income should therefore not purchase our common stock. If we do not pay dividends, our common stock may be less valuable because a return on investment will only occur if our stock price appreciates.
Offers or availability for sale of a substantial number of shares of our common stock may cause the price of our common stock to decline. If our stockholders sell substantial amounts of our common stock in the public market, or upon the expiration of any statutory holding period under Rule 144, or issued upon the exercise of outstanding options or warrants, it could create a circumstance commonly referred to as an "overhang", in anticipation of which the market price of our common stock could fall. The existence of an overhang, whether or not sales have occurred or are occurring, also could make more difficult our ability to raise additional financing through the sale of equity or equity-related securities in the future at a time and price that we deem reasonable or appropriate.
Our stock price may be volatile. The market price of our common stock may be highly volatile and could fluctuate widely in price in response to various factors, many of which are beyond our control. In addition, the securities markets have from time to time experienced significant price and volume fluctuations that are unrelated to the operating performance of particular companies. These market fluctuations may also materially and adversely affect the market price of our common stock in general.
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT CONCERNING FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
Some of the statements in this prospectus and in the documents incorporated herein by reference contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"). These statements relate to future events or our future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond our ability to control or predict and that may cause our or our industry's actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. We intend such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "expects," "intends," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," "continue" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology.
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Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which we cannot predict with accuracy and some of which we might not even anticipate. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions at the time made, we can give no assurance that such expectations will be achieved. Actual events or results may differ materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. We have no duty to update or revise any forward-looking statements after the date of this prospectus or to conform them to actual results, new information, future events or otherwise.
The following factors, among others, could cause our and our industry's future results to differ materially from historical results or those anticipated:
adverse economic conditions;
potential fluctuation in quarterly results;
volatility or decline of our stock price;
the possibility we may be unable to manage our growth;
extensive competition;
loss of members of our senior management;
regulatory interpretations and changes;
our failure to earn revenues or profits;
inadequate capital and barriers to raising capital or to obtaining the financing needed to implement our business plans;
changes in demand for our products and services;
rapid and significant changes in technology and markets;
litigation with or legal claims and allegations by outside parties; and
insufficient revenues to cover operating costs.
Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Moreover, neither we nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of these forward-looking statements.
You should read these factors and the other cautionary statements made in this prospectus as being applicable to all related forward-looking statements wherever they appear in this prospectus. If one or more of these factors materialize, or if any underlying assumptions prove incorrect, our actual results, performance or achievements may vary materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
THE SPIN-OFF
Background
On November 17, 2016, CCI announced plans for the complete legal and structural separation of the Company from CCI. CCI will distribute all of its equity interest in us, consisting of approximately 81% of all of the outstanding shares of our common stock and approximately 24% of our outstanding warrants (including the Warrants held by CCI and the other Wytec warrants owned by holders other than CCI), to CCI's stockholders on a pro rata basis. Following the Spin-Off, CCI will not own any equity interest in us, and we will operate independently from CCI. CCI's common stockholders will not have any appraisal rights in connection with the Spin-Off.
The Spin-Off is subject to the satisfaction, or the CCI board of directors' waiver, of a number of conditions. In addition, CCI has the right not to complete the Spin-Off if, at any time, the CCI board determines, in its sole and absolute discretion, that the Spin-Off is not in the best interests of CCI or its stockholders or is otherwise not advisable. For a more detailed description, see "The Spin-Off-Conditions to the Spin-Off."
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Reasons for the Spin-Off
The CCI board of directors considered the following potential benefits in deciding to pursue the Spin-Off:
We believe the Spin-Off will enhance the ability of CCI and the Company to focus on their respective strategies.
Our near-term goals for our business include raising sufficient capital to build more "diamond ring" wireless transmission networks, commercializing our LPN-16 technology, and executing and sustaining a robust launch of our WyQuote internet Wi-Fi marketing, sales and provisioning system. Achieving these goals will require offerings of securities by us and may require acquisitions or mergers funded, in part, with outside capital and strategic alliances. Our business will be separate and distinct from CCI's business and, accordingly, we believe that pursuing such growth and capital funding opportunities will be greatly facilitated with a capital structure that is tailored for the Company's needs, separate from those of CCI.
The Spin-Off is expected to establish the Company as an independent publicly traded corporation, which we believe will meaningfully enhance its industry market perception, thereby providing greater growth opportunities for us than our consolidated operation as a division of CCI.
When and How You Will Receive Company Shares
CCI will distribute to its stockholders, as a pro rata distribution, approximately 0.0026 shares of our Common Stock for every share of CCI common stock outstanding as of ____________, 2017, the Record Date of the Distribution, and two Warrants for every share of Common Stock distributed to CCI's stockholders. The distribution ratio may change slightly to the extent of changes in the outstanding CCI shares on the Record Date, and the effect of rounding up all fractional shares. The number of shares of Common Stock (i.e., 865,552) and the number of Warrants (i.e. 1,731,104) will not change.
Prior to the Spin-Off, CCI will deliver all of the issued and outstanding shares of the Common Stock and Warrants owned by it to the distribution agent. Island Stock Transfer, Inc., the transfer agent for CCI, will serve as the distribution agent for the Distribution and as transfer agent and registrar for our Common Stock and Warrants.
If you own CCI common stock as of the close of business on _____________, 2017, the shares of our Common Stock and Warrants that you are entitled to receive in the Distribution will be issued to your account as follows:
Registered stockholders . If you own your shares of CCI common stock directly through CCI's transfer agent, Island Stock Transfer, Inc., you are a registered stockholder. In this case, the distribution agent will credit the whole shares of our Common Stock and Warrants you receive in the Distribution by way of direct registration in book-entry form to a new account with our transfer agent. Registration in book-entry form refers to a method of recording share ownership where no physical stock certificates are issued to stockholders, as is the case in the Distribution. You will be able to access information regarding your book-entry account holding our shares at Island Stock Transfer, Inc. Commencing on or shortly after the Distribution Date, the distribution agent will mail to you an account statement that indicates the number of whole shares of our Common Stock and Warrants that have been registered in book-entry form in your name. We expect it will take the distribution agent up to two weeks after the Distribution Date to complete the distribution of the shares of our Common Stock and Warrants and mail statements of holding to all registered stockholders.
"Street name" or beneficial stockholders . Most CCI stockholders own their shares of CCI common stock beneficially through a bank, broker or other nominee. In these cases, the bank, broker or other nominee holds the shares in "street name" and records your ownership on its books. If you own your shares of CCI common stock through a bank, broker or other nominee, your bank, broker or other nominee will credit your account with the whole shares of our Common Stock and Warrants that you receive in the Distribution on or shortly after the Distribution Date. We encourage you to communicate with your bank, broker or other nominee if you have any questions concerning the mechanics of having shares held in "street name."
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If you sell any of your shares of CCI common stock on or before the Distribution Date, the buyer of those shares may in some circumstances be entitled to receive the shares of our Common Stock and Warrants to be distributed in respect of the CCI shares you sold. See "The Spin-Off-Trading Prior to the Distribution Date" for more information.
We are not asking CCI stockholders to take any action in connection with the Spin-Off. The approval of the holders of CCI common stock to the Spin-Off was accomplished by the written consent of the holders of a majority of the outstanding voting shares of CCI on October 26, 2016. An Information Statement on Schedule 14C has accordingly been filed with the SEC. We are not asking you for a proxy and request that you not send us a proxy. We are also not asking you to make any payment or surrender or exchange any of your shares of CCI common stock for shares of our Common Stock. The number of outstanding shares of CCI common stock will not change as a result of the Spin-Off.
Number of Shares You Will Receive
On the Distribution Date, you will receive approximately 0.0026 shares of our Common Stock for every share of CCI common stock you hold on the Record Date, and two Warrants for every share of our Common Stock distributed to you on the Distribution Date.
Treatment of Fractional Shares
The distribution agent will not distribute any fractional shares of our Common Stock in connection with the Spin-Off. Instead, the distribution agent will round up fractional shares of our Common Stock to the nearest whole number of shares of Common Stock.
Results of the Spin-Off
After the Spin-Off, we expect to be an independent publicly-traded company. Immediately following the Spin-Off, we expect to have approximately 1,301 holders of shares of our Common Stock, approximately 1,320 holders of all of our outstanding common stock, and approximately 1,069,884 shares of our total common stock outstanding, based on the number of shares of Wytec common stock outstanding on November 30, 2016. The total number of shares of Wytec common stock outstanding after the Spin-Off would change if more outstanding Wytec warrants are exercised or Wytec preferred stock is converted into Wytec common stock before the distribution date. The number of shares of Common Stock and Warrants that CCI will distribute in the Spin-Off will not change. The Spin-Off will not affect the number of outstanding shares of CCI common stock or any rights of CCI stockholders, although we expect the trading price of shares of CCI common stock immediately following the Distribution to be lower than immediately prior to the Distribution because the trading price of CCI common stock will no longer reflect the value of the Company. Furthermore, until the market has fully analyzed the value of CCI without the Company, the trading price of shares of CCI common stock may fluctuate.
Before our separation from CCI, we have or intend to enter into a separation agreement and possibly other agreements with CCI related to the Spin-Off. These agreements will govern the relationship between us and CCI up to and after completion of the Spin-Off, and allocate between us and CCI various assets, liabilities, rights and obligations, including employee benefits, intellectual property and tax-related assets and liabilities. We describe these arrangements in greater detail under "Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions-Agreements with CCI."
Listing and Trading of the Common Stock
As of the date of this prospectus, we are a majority-owned subsidiary of CCI. Accordingly, no public market for our common stock currently exists. We intend to list our common stock on the OTC-QB Market or better under the symbol "WYTC." Following the Spin-Off, CCI common stock will continue to trade on the OTC-Pink Sheets Market under the symbol "CCOP."
Neither we nor CCI can assure you as to the trading price of CCI common stock or our common stock after the Spin-Off, or as to whether the combined trading prices of our common stock and the CCI common stock after the Spin-Off will be less than, equal to or greater than the trading prices of CCI common stock prior to the Spin-Off. The trading price of our common stock may fluctuate significantly following the Spin-Off. See "Risk Factors-Risks Relating to Our Common Stock and the Securities Market" for more detail.
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The shares of our Common Stock distributed to CCI stockholders will be freely transferable, including shares received by individuals who are our affiliates. Individuals who may be considered our affiliates after the Spin-Off include individuals who control, are controlled by or are under common control with us, as those terms generally are interpreted for federal securities law purposes. These individuals may include some or all of our directors and executive officers. Individuals who are our affiliates will be permitted to sell their shares of our Common Stock only pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, or an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, such as those afforded by Section 4(1) or Rule 144 of the Securities Act.
Trading Prior to the Distribution Date
We anticipate that, as early as two trading days prior to the Record Date and continuing up to and including the Distribution Date, there will be two markets in CCI common stock: a "regular-way" market and an "ex-distribution" market. Shares of CCI common stock that trade on the regular-way market will trade with an entitlement to receive shares of our Common Stock and Warrants in the Distribution. Shares that trade on the ex-distribution market will trade without an entitlement to receive shares of the Common Stock or Warrants in the Distribution. Therefore, if you sell shares of CCI common stock in the regular-way market up to and including the Distribution Date, you will be selling your right to receive shares of our Common Stock and Warrants in the Distribution. However, if you own shares of CCI common stock at the close of business on the Record Date and sell those shares on the ex-distribution market up to and including the Distribution Date, you will still receive the shares of our Common Stock that you would otherwise be entitled to receive in the Distribution. Following the Distribution Date on a date to be determined, we expect shares of our common stock to be listed on the OTC-QB Market or better under the trading symbol "WYTC."
Conditions to the Spin-Off
We expect that the separation will be effective on the Distribution Date, provided that the following conditions are satisfied or waived by CCI:
the CCI board of directors shall have authorized and approved the Distribution and not withdrawn such authorization and approval, and shall have declared the dividend of our Common Stock and Warrants to CCI stockholders;
the separation agreement and the ancillary agreements contemplated by the separation agreement shall have been executed by each party to those agreements;
the SEC shall have declared effective our Registration Statement on Form S-1, of which this prospectus is a part, under the Securities Act, and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of our Registration Statement shall be in effect and no proceedings for that purpose shall be pending before or threatened by the SEC;
no order, injunction or decree issued by any governmental authority of competent jurisdiction or other legal restraint or prohibition preventing consummation of the Distribution shall be in effect, and no other event outside the control of CCI shall have occurred or failed to occur that prevents the consummation of the Distribution;
no other events or developments shall have occurred prior to the Distribution Date that, in the judgment of the CCI Board, would result in the Spin-Off having a material adverse effect on CCI or its stockholders; and
prior to the Distribution Date, this prospectus shall have been mailed to the holders of CCI common stock as of the Record Date;.
Reasons for Furnishing this Prospectus
We are furnishing this prospectus solely to provide information to CCI's stockholders who will receive shares of our Common Stock and Warrants in the Distribution. You should not construe this prospectus as an inducement or encouragement to buy, hold or sell any of our securities or any securities of CCI. We believe that the information contained in this prospectus is accurate as of the date set forth on the cover. Changes to the information contained in this prospectus
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may occur after that date, and neither we nor CCI undertakes any obligation to update the information except in the normal course of our and CCI's public disclosure obligations and practices and except as required by applicable law.
MATERIAL U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES OF THE SPIN-OFF
Consequences to U.S. Holders of CCI Common Stock
The following is a summary of the material U.S. federal income tax consequences to holders of CCI common stock in connection with the Distribution. This summary is based on the Code, the Treasury Regulations promulgated under the Code and judicial and administrative interpretations of those laws, in each case as in effect and available as of the date of this prospectus, and all of which are subject to change at any time, possibly with retroactive effect. Any such change could affect the tax consequences described in this section of the prospectus.
This summary is limited to holders of CCI common stock that are U.S. Holders, as defined immediately below, that hold their CCI common stock as a capital asset. A "U.S. Holder" is a beneficial owner of CCI common stock that is, for U.S. federal income tax purposes:
an individual who is a citizen or a resident of the United States;
a corporation, or other entity taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, created or organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia;
an estate the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income taxation regardless of its source; or
a trust if a court within the United States is able to exercise primary jurisdiction over its administration and one or more U.S. persons have the authority to control all of its substantial decisions or, in the case of a trust that was treated as a domestic trust under law in effect before 1997, a valid election is in place under applicable Treasury Regulations.
This summary does not discuss all tax considerations that may be relevant to stockholders in light of their particular circumstances, nor does it address the consequences to stockholders subject to special treatment under the U.S. federal income tax laws, such as:
dealers or traders in securities or currencies;
tax-exempt entities;
banks, financial institutions or insurance companies;
real estate investment trusts, regulated investment companies or grantor trusts;
persons who acquired CCI common stock pursuant to the exercise of employee stock options or otherwise as compensation;
stockholders who own, or are deemed to own, 10% or more, by voting power or value, of CCI equity;
stockholders owning CCI common stock as part of a position in a straddle or as part of a hedging, conversion or other risk reduction transaction for U.S. federal income tax purposes;
certain former citizens or long-term residents of the United States;
stockholders who are subject to the alternative minimum tax; or
persons who own CCI common stock through partnerships or other pass-through entities.
This summary does not address any U.S. state or local or foreign tax consequences or any estate, gift or other non-income tax consequences.
If a partnership, or any other entity treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, holds CCI common stock, the tax treatment of a partner in that partnership will generally depend on the status of the partner and the activities of the partnership. Such a partner or partnership should consult its own tax advisor as to its tax consequences.
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YOU SHOULD CONSULT YOUR OWN TAX ADVISOR WITH RESPECT TO THE U.S. FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL AND FOREIGN TAX CONSEQUENCES OF THE DISTRIBUTION.
General
Subject to the qualifications and limitations set forth herein, management of the Company believes that for U.S. federal income tax purposes:
gain or loss may be recognized by, or be includible in the income of, a U.S. Holder as a result of the Distribution;
the aggregate tax basis of the CCI common stock, Common Stock, and Warrants held by each U.S. Holder immediately after the Distribution will be the same as the aggregate tax basis of the CCI common stock held by the U.S. Holder immediately before the Distribution, allocated between the CCI common stock and our Common Stock and Warrants in proportion to their relative fair market values on the date of the Distribution; and
the holding period of our Common Stock and Warrants received by each U.S. Holder will include the holding period of their CCI common stock, provided that such CCI common stock is held as a capital asset on the date of the Distribution.
U.S. Holders that have acquired different blocks of CCI common stock at different times or at different prices should consult their tax advisors regarding the allocation of their aggregate adjusted tax basis among, and the holding period of, shares of our Common Stock distributed with respect to such blocks of CCI common stock.
The conclusions do not address any U.S. state or local or foreign tax consequences of the Spin-Off. The conclusions assume that the Spin-Off will be completed according to the terms of the separation agreement and rely on the facts as stated in the separation agreement, this prospectus and a number of other documents. In addition, the conclusions are based on certain representations as to factual matters from, and certain covenants by, CCI and us. The conclusions cannot be relied on if any of the assumptions, representations or covenants are incorrect, incomplete or inaccurate or are violated in any material respect.
The conclusions are not binding on the IRS or the courts, and we cannot assure you that the IRS or a court will not take a contrary position.
The Distribution is not expected to qualify for non-recognition of gain and loss, and therefore U.S. Holders could be subject to tax. In this case, each U.S. Holder who receives our Common Stock and Warrants in the Distribution would generally be treated as receiving a distribution in an amount equal to the fair market value of our Common Stock and Warrants received, which would generally result in:
a taxable dividend to the U.S. Holder to the extent of that U.S. Holder's pro rata share of CCI's current and accumulated earnings and profits (which is zero, since CCI has no current or accumulated earnings and profits);
a reduction in the U.S. Holder's basis (but not below zero) in CCI common stock to the extent the amount received exceeds the stockholder's share of CCI's earnings and profits; and
a taxable gain to the extent the amount received exceeds the sum of the U.S. Holder's share of CCI's earnings and profits and the U.S. Holder's basis in its CCI common stock.
Backup Withholding and Information Statement
Treasury Regulations require each CCI stockholder who, immediately before the Distribution, owns 5% or more (by vote or value) of the total outstanding stock of CCI, to attach to such stockholder's U.S. federal income tax return for the year in which the Distribution occurs a statement setting forth certain information related to the Distribution.
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Consequences to CCI
The material U.S. federal income tax consequences to CCI in connection with the Spin-Off are relevant to holders of CCI common stock. Since the Distribution is not expected to qualify for non-recognition of gain and loss under Section 355 of the Code, then CCI would recognize gain in an amount up to the fair market value of our Common Stock and Warrants held by it immediately before the Distribution. CCI expects any such gain to be absorbed and offset by its accumulated net operating loss (NOL) carry forward.
USE OF PROCEEDS
We will not receive any proceeds from the Distribution of the Common Stock and Warrants in the Spin-Off. If the Warrant holders exercise their Warrants for cash in order to sell the underlying Shares under this prospectus, we will receive the proceeds of the exercise of the Warrants. If all of the Warrants are exercised for cash, we would receive gross proceeds of approximately $8,655,520, assuming an exercise price of $5.00 per share. Wytec proposes to expend these proceeds approximately as follows:
(1) Assumes all Warrants are exercised for cash.
(2) Assumes 75% of total potential Warrant proceeds are received by us.
(3) Assumes 50% of total potential Warrant proceeds are received by us.
(4) Assumes 25% of total potential Warrant proceeds are received by us.
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We believe the net proceeds we may receive pursuant to cash exercises of the Warrants will be sufficient to fund our operations for approximately one year, assuming all Warrants are exercised for cash and the proceeds are applied as outlined in the table. Revenues, if any, will extend the period over which the net proceeds from the exercise of Warrants will sustain our operations. We intend to use the net proceeds from cash exercises of the Warrants as and when received and accepted. Our board of directors reserves the right to reallocate the use of proceeds, if, in its judgment, such reallocation will best serve our needs in meeting changes, developments and unforeseen delays and difficulties. Pending use, the net proceeds will be invested in certificates of deposit, treasury bills, and similar short term, liquid investments with substantial safety of principal.
DETERMINATION OF OFFERING PRICE
No consideration will be paid for the shares of Common Stock and Warrants distributed in the Spin-Off.
DIVIDEND POLICY
We do not intend, following the Spin-Off, to pay cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. We expect to retain future earnings, if any, for reinvestment in our business. We will not be permitted to pay dividends on the Common Stock unless all dividends on any preferred stock that may be issued have been paid in full. Moreover, any credit agreements which we may enter into may restrict our ability to pay dividends. The payment of dividends in the future will be subject to the discretion of our board of directors and will depend, among other things, on our financial condition, results of operations, cash requirements, future prospects and any other factors our board of directors deems relevant.
CAPITALIZATION
The following table sets forth (i) our historical capitalization as of September 30, 2016 and (ii) our adjusted capitalization assuming the Spin-Off was effective on September 30, 2016. The table below should be read in conjunction with "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations", and our historical consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto included elsewhere in this prospectus.
Historical 9/30/2016 |
As Adjusted 9/30/2016 (1) |
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(Unaudited) |
(Unaudited) |
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Cash and cash equivalents |
$2,897,436 |
$2,915,708 |
Note receivable (payable) from (to) related party (2) |
56,996 |
1,096,056 |
Equity |
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Series A Preferred Stock |
3,360 |
3,360 |
Series B Preferred Stock |
3,225 |
3,225 |
Series C Preferred Stock |
1 |
1 |
Common Stock |
25,044 |
25,048 |
Additional paid in capital |
15,702,572 |
16,884,980 |
Treasury stock |
(5,229,042) |
(5,228,432) |
Accumulated (deficit) |
(9,529,879) |
(9,669,730) |
Total stockholders' equity |
975,281 |
2,018,452 |
Total capitalization |
$975,281 |
$2,018,452 |
(1) Includes the acquisition of 100% of the outstanding capital stock of Capaciti Networks, Inc. ("Capaciti") by Wytec from CCI on November 17, 2016, reflecting Capaciti's balance sheet as of September 30, 2016, and the issuance of 1,731,104 Warrants by Wytec to CCI on October 17, 2016.
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(2) These amounts are accounts receivable payable by CCI to Wytec. The $1,096,056 Wytec receivable from CCI reflects on a pro forma basis the impact of the acquisition of Capaciti by Wytec.
MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATION S
You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of our operations together with our financial statements and related notes appearing at the end of this prospectus. This discussion contains forward-looking statements reflecting our current expectations that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results and the timing of events may differ materially from those contained in these forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including those discussed in the section entitled "Risk Factors" beginning on page 12 and elsewhere in this prospectus.
Overview
On October 25, 2016, the board of directors of CCI authorized management to pursue a plan to spin-off to its stockholders common stock and warrants of a majority-owned subsidiary, Wytec. In the Spin-Off, record holders of each share of CCI common stock will receive approximately 0.0026 shares of Common Stock, rounded-up to the nearest whole share, and two Warrants for every share of Common Stock issuable to the holder. Following the Spin-Off, CCI will not own any equity interest in us, and we will operate independently from CCI.
The Spin-Off is subject to the satisfaction, or the CCI board of directors' waiver, of a number of conditions. In addition, CCI has the right not to complete the Spin-Off if, at any time, the CCI board of directors determines, in its sole and absolute discretion, that the Spin-Off is not in the best interests of CCI or its stockholders or is otherwise not advisable.
Our consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a stand-alone basis and are derived from the consolidated financial statements and accounting records of CCI. Our consolidated financial statements reflect our financial position, results of operations and cash flows as we were historically managed, in conformity with GAAP. Our financial statements include certain assets and liabilities that have historically been held at the CCI corporate level but are specifically identifiable or otherwise attributable to us.
All intercompany transactions between us and CCI have been included in our financial statements and are considered to be settled in our consolidated financial statements at the time the Spin-Off becomes effective. The total net effect of the settlement of these intercompany transactions is reflected in our consolidated statements of cash flow as a financing activity and in our consolidated balance sheets.
The historical costs and expenses reflected in our financial statements include an allocation for certain corporate shared service functions historically provided by CCI including executive oversight, accounting, treasury, tax, legal, human resources, occupancy, procurement, information technology and other shared services. These expenses have been allocated to us on the basis of direct usage when identifiable, with the remainder allocated on a pro rata basis based on sales, headcount, tangible assets or other measures considered to be a reasonable reflection of the historical utilization levels of these services.
We are involved in providing next generation fixed and mobile wireless broadband internet services nationally and eventually internationally to business customers, with a focus on the small and medium size businesses known as the "SMB" market. Wytec had originally intended to enter into 30 fixed wireless markets by year-end 2015. After further analysis and guidance given to us by Signals Analytics in its recent Valuation Report of Wytec, management has modified its business strategy to reduce market entry costs and enhance marketing capabilities with its WyQuote online platform. WyQuote is designed to be used by commissioned telecom agents, telemarketing agents and for direct sales to customers. Included in our market entry schedule are new products and services for the SMB market including our expansion strategies enabled by our patent pending LPN-16 microcell technology. Wytec's LPN-16 microcell technology incorporates
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the ability to utilize multiple spectrums without incurring frequency interference. It is potentially deployable on thousands of utility poles located in virtually every city in America at a modest monthly rental fee.
Our current business strategy incorporates the use of millimeter wave technology using wireless frequencies from 5GHz to 80GHz spectrum. We have used these spectrums in three (3) markets including San Antonio, Texas, Columbus, Ohio, and Denver, Colorado, and commercialized a broadband internet access service for the SMB customer in two of three markets. The initial focus of service is targeted to highly concentrated areas such as the Central Business District ("CBD") of each market with the ability to expand the service to high-density business zones outside of the CBD utilizing the LPN-16.
Numerous studies including those by the FCC have now been published indicating that the use of millimeter wave spectrum is a key component in the development of a 5G network and ultimately the development of a "Smart City." Smart Cities are designed to incorporate multiple mobile communications technologies to facilitate public safety, first responder, education, health care, machine to machine, and carrier offload services.
Currently our network design is capable of delivering bandwidth services of up to 1.5 gigabits per second to a wide range of customers including small, midsize and large corporate operations located in Tier One, Tier Two and Tier Three cities (the term "Tier" defines the population size of the Link location). Our millimeter wave networks are designed to serve as the core infrastructure for supporting our planned commercial broadband internet access services.
On December 18, 2015, we performed an outside beta test of our LPN-16 working prototype and produced performance speeds in excess of 375 Mbps to a smart phone and 600 Mbps to a laptop computer. Earlier speed tests and network demonstrations enabled us to consummate our first services agreement with the City of Columbus on July 7, 2014 and we have now substantially completed our footprint coverage of the CBD of Columbus, Ohio and San Antonio, Texas in preparation for our new marketing and sales strategy.
Overview of Current Operations
Our current operations have most recently begun to focus on developing and implementing our marketing platform consisting of three primary services. They are:
1) Internet Booster Plus (IB+) which consists of offering a service that provides an increase in "upload" speeds to a customer's primary internet service. This service is supported by Wytec's millimeter wave network configuration located in the Central Business District (CBD) of its current selected cities. Research has shown that in order for a business internet user to realize the full benefit of certain "non-connectivity" services such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), the user must have an upload speed of least 1-5 Mbps of stable and continuous throughput. Though business cable internet provides this upload speed, it is not considered stable and continuous. Over 90% of the SMB market utilizes cable as their primary internet connection. Management believes the IB+ service will be well accepted due to its ability to secure the upload speed for cable internet to the SMB market. This service improves rather than replaces existing cable service for customers.
2) Primary Wireless Internet consists of providing both the upload and download internet connection to the SMB market. Wytec's primary wireless internet access service is supported by its millimeter wave network configuration located in the Central Business District (CBD) of its current selected cities. Wytec has been offering its primary wireless internet services in its current markets on a word of mouth basis at competitive rates. Management believes this service will continue to be well accepted. Our primary challenge is overcoming existing long-term cable contracts preventing interested subscribers from avoiding the expense of breaking existing contracts. This challenge has been mitigated with the IB+ service.
3) Wireless Fail-Over Service. This service consists of providing a "fail-over" or "back-up" connection in the event the customer's primary connection fails. We believe that there is more than an 80% chance of a business internet connection failure occurring every month due to various uncontrollable causes, even with some of the largest primary internet service providers in the U.S. These unplanned connection failures cost U.S. businesses substantial dollars every year. Though the primary internet providers have begun to tout the benefit of their 4G LTE cellular network as a viable fail-over alternative, it still does not provide the connection speeds and reliability needed. Thus, Wytec's millimeter wave connection serves as a better fail over service with
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its low latency characteristics, rapid upload and download speeds (up to a gigabit and more), and as a full redundant backup service to both the SMB and enterprise marketplace.
All of these services are sold and marketed through Wytec's wholly owned subsidiary, Capaciti Networks, Inc., utilizing Wytec's proprietary online full service platform, "WyQuote", and now available to over 100,000 (estimated) direct telecom agents throughout the United States.
Our LPN-16 is our proprietary intellectual property for which management applied for U.S. patent protection in the second quarter of 2014, and is a significant part of our Intelligent Community Wi-Fi Network. We have filed an international patent application for this technology. Design and engineering of the LPN-16 have been completed with development of the first units being tested in an outdoor environment in San Antonio, Texas.
On June 9, 2012, we formed a wholly owned subsidiary, Wylink, Inc., a Texas corporation, to market and sell millimeter wave spectrum in the licensed 60 & 90 Gigahertz frequency channels. The Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") has developed a unique application program giving the ability for qualified applicants to own millimeter spectrum under a program known as the Registered Link Program. We sold point-to-point registered links ("Registered Links") as part of our backhaul solution in support of our 4G/5G Wi-Fi network. The cash received from the sale of our Registered Links is recorded as "deferred revenue" and will be recorded as revenue once the telecommunication equipment is installed for the link owners. Management closed the Wylink application program in January 2016.
Management now focuses its primary business on the development of Smart City broadband networks utilizing 5G fixed wireless and Wi-Fi technologies capable of delivering speeds that are many times faster than current cellular networks, and which can be utilized for a range of services for carriers, governmental and business applications.
Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations, including the discussion on liquidity and capital resources, are based upon our financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. On an ongoing basis, management re-evaluates its estimates and judgments, particularly those related to the determination of the estimated recoverable amounts of trade accounts receivable, impairment of long-lived assets, revenue recognition and deferred tax assets. We believe the following critical accounting policies require more significant judgment and estimates used in the preparation of the financial statements.
We maintain an allowance for doubtful accounts for estimated losses that may arise if any of our customers are unable to make required payments. Management specifically analyzes the age of customer balances, historical bad debt experience, customer credit-worthiness, and changes in customer payment terms when making estimates of the uncollectability of our trade accounts receivable balances. If we determine that the financial conditions of any of our customers deteriorated, whether due to customer specific or general economic issues, increases in the allowance may be made. Accounts receivable are written off when all collection attempts have failed.
We follow the provisions of Staff Accounting Bulletin ("SAB") 101, "Revenue Recognition in Financial Statements" for revenue recognition and SAB 104. Under Staff Accounting Bulletin 101, four conditions must be met before revenue can be recognized: (i) there is persuasive evidence that an arrangement exists, (ii) delivery has occurred or service has been rendered, (iii) the price is fixed or determinable, and (iv) collection is reasonably assured.
Income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability method. Under this method, to the extent that we believe that the deferred tax asset is not likely to be recovered, a valuation allowance is provided. In making this determination, we consider estimated future taxable income and taxable timing differences expected in the future. Actual results may differ from those estimates
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Result of Operations for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2016 and 2015
Revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 was $70,171, as compared to revenue of $10,658 for the nine months ended September 30, 2015. This increase in revenue of $59,513 or 558% was primarily due to increases in revenue from our network buildout services.
General and administrative expenses were $1,998,513 for the nine months ended September 30, 2016, as compared to $837,759 for the nine months ended September 30, 2015. This resulted in an increase of those expenses of $1,160,754 or 139% compared to the same period in 2015. The increase in our general and administrative expenses was largely a result of costs incurred for our private placement of our Series B Preferred Stock during the nine months ended September 30, 2016.
Research and development costs were $5,942 for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 compared to $156 for the nine months ended September 30, 2015. The increase of $5,786, or 3,709% was due to an increase in expenses related to the development of Wytec's LPN-16 and related patent application.
Salary and wage expenses were $131,010 for the nine months ended September 30, 2016, as compared to $-0- for the nine months ended September 30, 2015, which resulted in an increase of $131,010, or 100% compared to the same period in 2015. The increase in salary and wages is due to the Company hiring employees from CCI during the nine months ended September 30, 2016.
Interest expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 was $-0-, as compared to $123,360 for the nine months ended September 30, 2015. This resulted in a decrease of $123,360 or 100% compared to the same period in 2015. The decrease was primarily due to the retirement of convertible and nonconvertible debt.
Result of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 2015 and 2014
Revenue for the year ended December 31, 2015 was $15,228, as compared to revenue of $254,284 for the year ended December 31, 2014. This decrease in revenue of $239,056 or 94% was primarily due to decreases in revenue from registered link sales and from network buildout services.
Cost of sales for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015 was $38,188, a decrease of $59,332, or 61%, from $97,520 for the year ended December 31, 2014. Our cost of sales decreased primarily due to managing costs related to our registered link sales program.
General and administrative expenses were $1,623,109 for the year ended December 31, 2015, as compared to $3,053,400 for the year ended December 31, 2014. This resulted in a decrease of $1,430,291 or 47% compared to the same period in 2015. The decrease in our general and administrative expenses was largely a result of decreased Link program costs during the year ended December 31, 2015.
Research and development costs were $22,357 for the year ended December 31, 2015 compared to $368,933 for the year ended December 31, 2014. The decrease of $346,576, or 94% was due to a decrease in expenses related to the development of Wytec's LPN-16.
Interest expense for the year ended December 31, 2015 was $129,503, as compared to $73,252 for the year ended December 31, 2014. This resulted in an increase of $56,251 or 77% compared to the same period in 2014. The increase was primarily due to the incurrence of debt in 2014 that was not repaid until late 2015.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
While we have raised capital to meet our working capital and financing needs in the past, additional financing will be required in order to meet our current and projected cash requirements for operations. As of September 30, 2016, we had a working capital deficit of $48,859. As of September 30, 2016, $2,210,000 of our current liabilities is deferred revenue on Link sales that have been funded by the customer, for which obligations to the customer have not yet been completely performed.
As of September 30, 2016, all our outstanding convertible debentures have been retired.
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We anticipate that we will incur operating losses in the next twelve months. Our revenues are not expected to exceed our investment and operating costs in the next twelve months. Our prospects must be considered in light of the risks, expenses, and difficulties frequently encountered by companies in their early stage of operations. To address these risks, we must, among other things, seek growth opportunities through investment and acquisitions, implement and successfully execute our business strategy, respond to competitive developments, and attract, retain and motivate qualified personnel. We cannot assure that we will be successful in addressing such risks, and the failure to do so could have a material adverse effect on our business prospects, financial condition and results of operations.
Cash Flow from Operating Activities
Cash flows used in operating activities during the nine months ended September 30, 2016 were $2,051,365 compared to $641,502 during the nine months ended September 30, 2015. This increase of $1,409,863 was primarily due to the net operating loss for the period.
Cash flows used in operating activities during the year ended December 31, 2015 were $1,076,204 compared to $136,757 during the year ended December 31, 2014. This increase of $939,447 was primarily due to the reduced amount of deferred revenue from Link sales remaining at the end of 2015.
Cash Flow from Investing Activities
Our investing activities consist principally of revenue and expenses related to our Link program (Link sales ended in January 2016 but Link program costs continue), and the LPN-16.
Cash flows used in investing activities during the nine months ended September 30, 2016 were $242,990 compared to cash flows provided from investing activities of $52,353 during the nine months ended September 30, 2015. Capital expenditures totaled $72,245 and $-0- during the nine months ended September 30, 2016 and September 30, 2015, respectively.
Cash flows provided by investing activities during the year ended December 31, 2015 were $113,819 compared to cash flows used in investing activities of $346,849 during the year ended December 31, 2014. Capital expenditures totaled $-0- and $-0- during the year ended December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014, respectively.
Cash Flow from Financing Activities
Cash flows provided by financing activities during the nine months ended September 30, 2016 were $4,178,758 compared to $670,307 during the nine months ended September 30, 2015. These receipts represent proceeds from the sale of the Company's preferred stock.
Cash flows provided from financing activities during the year ended December 31, 2015 were $1,833,313 compared to $46,252 during the year ended December 31, 2014. These receipts represent proceeds from the sale of the Company's preferred stock.
Satisfaction of Our Cash Obligations for the Next 12 Months.
As of September 30, 2016, our cash balance was $2,897,436. Our plan for satisfying our cash requirements for the next twelve months is through sales-generated income, private placements of our capital stock, third party financing, and/or traditional bank financing. We anticipate sales-generated income during that same period of time, but do not anticipate generating sufficient revenue to meet our working capital requirements. Consequently, we intend to attempt to find sources of additional capital in the future to fund our growth and expansion through additional equity or debt financing or credit facilities. There is no assurance that we will be able to meet our working capital requirements through the private placement of equity or debt or from any other source.
Impact of Distribution by CCI on our Financial Statements
Following the Spin-Off, we may incur additional costs associated with being an independent company in connection with establishing, expanding and maintaining our own stand-alone corporate functions, including finance, human resources, information technology, facilities, accounting and legal for which we have
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received expense allocations from CCI. These allocations are included in operating expenses and totaled $517,878 and $196,261 for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 and September 30, 2015, respectively. For the years ended December 31, 2015, and December 31, 2014, the allocations totaled $438,755 and $452,073, respectively. See Note G to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus for further details related to corporate allocations.
Management considers the expense allocation methodology and results to be reasonable for all periods presented. Our financial statements do not, however, necessarily include all of the expenses that would have been incurred had we been a separate, stand-alone entity and may not necessarily reflect our results of operations, financial position and cash flows had we been a stand-alone company during the periods presented. Furthermore, we may also incur additional costs associated with being a stand-alone publicly listed company that were not included in the expense allocations and, therefore, would result in additional costs that are not reflected in our historical results of operations, financial position and cash flows. Nevertheless, we believe that cash flow from operations and investments will be sufficient to fund the anticipated increases in corporate expenses.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We do not have any off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources that are material to investors.
Recently Issued Accounting Standards
We have reviewed the updates issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") during the three month period ended September 30, 2016, and determined that the updates are either not applicable to us or will not have a material impact on us.
General
Wytec International, Inc. ("Wytec," "we," "us," or the "Company"), is a Nevada corporation and a subsidiary of Competitive Companies, Inc., a Nevada corporation ("CCI"), which is publicly traded on the OTC-Pink Sheets Market (symbol "CCOP"). Wytec develops, designs, and installs next-generation "carrier grade" citywide Wi-Fi networks utilizing point to point millimeter wave technology transmitted on the 71-86 GHz spectrum, and point to multi-point technology transmitted on 2.4 and 5 GHz frequencies, defined by the Company as its "Diamond Ring" backhaul network. Currently, Wytec markets and sells broadband internet services through its subsidiary operation, Capaciti Networks, Inc., to the small and medium business (SMB) marketplace in San Antonio, Texas, Columbus, Ohio, and Denver, Colorado. We offer a 30-day free trial to prospective subscribers for gathering valuable technical and sales metrics to assist us in future market entry determinations.
In January 2016, we began developing a proprietary online quoting system called WyQuote to assist in the sales of our wireless services. WyQuote will be utilized by an existing pool of approximately 100,000 independent telecom sales agents within the United States. WyQuote offers the agents online access to both 4G and 5G wireless services utilizing Wytec's millimeter wave network as well as 4G wireless services utilizing Wytec's current wholesale contracts with Verizon and Sprint. The system was designed to enable independent agents to view our wireless products and services and to execute online orders. Management believes that this functionality will enable us to ramp-up our revenues and meet our five-year forecast. The WyQuote system is scheduled to go live in January 2017 and to be utilized by up to three (3) or more independent business telemarketing specialists for testing WyQuote's viability. Assuming successful sales metrics, we expect to increase our telemarketing specialists by forty-five (45) callers in 15 markets by year-end 2017.
Overview of Business Lines
We have identified the following business segments for which we believe we can provide services profitably utilizing our current technology and our carrier wholesale agreements.
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Fixed Wireless Broadband Access.
A wireless radio infrastructure comprised of our "Diamond Ring" equipment, deployed within the heart of a city, that provides high speed wireless broadband access to businesses.
The infrastructure uses point-to-point and point-to-multipoint rooftop-mounted radios operating in the 5 GHz (microwave) and 60/70/80/90 GHz (millimeter wave) bands on a licensed and license-free basis.
The core offering is "access" in several different flavors including "primary access", "acceleration" (supplementing a less capable primary connection) and "business continuity" (proving a second infrastructure to ensure continuous connectivity).
4G LTE Access
4G LTE wireless services offered to Wytec under wholesale agreements as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), enable Wytec to offer such service to customers on a retail basis, leveraging the physical infrastructure of both Verizon and Sprint currently with additional carrier contracts in the future.
Wytec's Product Value Proposition
The primary product is a competitively priced "business continuity" solution. It ensures that the critical functions of a 21st century business will continue in the event of a loss of connectivity from the primary internet access provider.
The MNVO business model potentially enables Wytec to scale quickly without substantial capital investment. Wytec expects to leverage the substantial infrastructure investment of its host operators to deliver a set of niche services to business customers.
Business continuity protection for businesses with 1 to 9 employees.
Provides continuity in the event of a temporary loss of connectivity (typically via cable or DSL).
The concept includes primary internet connectivity to small businesses with minimal usage requirements (e.g. a retailer who only needs connectivity for processing credit card transactions).
The concept might also be extended (subject to appropriate technology enablers) to provide additional bandwidth for VoIP, since voice requires relatively little bandwidth and is of high value to the end user. We would need to be able to identify and route popular VoIP protocols (e.g. SIP).
Concept
- Leverage the widespread deployment of 4G LTE infrastructure by national mobile operators (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint).
- MVNO relationship enables flexible access to data and voice bandwidth.
- Multiple carrier relationships ensures high likelihood of coverage in any particular location.
Business Model
- Install a router in the customer premises that selects between two wide area networks (WANs).
- If the primary wired network experiences an outage then the LTE network provides instant seamless continuity, ensuring nearly 100% internet uptime.
- If the primary wired network becomes congested then the LTE network can provide "acceleration", carrying some traffic during peak periods.
- The low utilization associated with "backup" services contributes to margin because bundled plans are often not used.
Sources of Differentiation
- MVNO enabler partner (MVNE) provides a platform solution for provisioning services, billing, and fulfillment of SIM cards and customer premise equipment (CPE).
- Third party provides branded customer service.
- Cloud-based device management with reporting capabilities.
- High value service, resulting from CPE hardware and multiple operator relationships.
LPN-16 Hardware
A patent-pending neutral host radio access device.
The light pole node (LPN) with eight sections in each half (2x8=16) is designed to wrap around a telephone or light pole, providing high speed Wi-Fi and potentially cellular service to nearby pedestrians and businesses.
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The LPN-16 has been manufactured in small quantities and has been tested in San Antonio, Texas. In that city we have a millimeter wave radio backhaul (i.e. Diamond Ring) where the LPN-16 provided Wi-Fi data speeds of 174 Mbps in the downlink on an iOS smart phone and much faster speeds on an Android device.
The LPN-16 fits a trend of increasingly compact outdoor radio access infrastructure.
The amount of resources required to develop world-class radio infrastructure (e.g. what the industry calls "small cells") is significant.
Wytec can sell LPN-16 equipment to other network providers as a business, or develop the LPN-16 into a niche real estate play, locking up "pole-top" real estate within key cities. To do so would require a business focus in that area and a significant commitment of capital.
The LPN-16 can also compliment the fixed wireless infrastructure within a city, by providing street-level end-user access.
WyQuote (Multiple Operator Telecommunications Sales and Provisioning Platform).
Concept
- The vast majority of business-to-business broadband sales are done by agents via a provisioning platform, in most cases offering a single technology solution.
- The software platform extends an existing mainstream platform with approximately 100,000 agents nationwide.
- WyQuote enables the agent to provision wireless broadband solutions. These have historically been difficult to provision in real time because the sales person needs to verify that the customer is within the coverage footprint of the network.
- WyQuote can support multiple service providers, multiple services per operator, and multiple pricing plans per service.
Business Model
- Agents can use WyQuote.
- An internal sales team can use WyQuote.
Sources of Differentiation
- Uniquely designed to support wireless broadband offerings.
- Leverages an existing platform with a minimal learning curve.
- Ensures that Wytec, after building a network or creating an MVNO service, has the ability to quickly and cost-effectively sell that service.
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Wytec's fixed broadband wireless access network consists of one or more rooftop installations per city. A rooftop typically contains networking, battery backup, high availability point-to-point links for backhaul, and point-to-multipoint end-user access links.
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Market Strategy
Wytec is a provider of smart city telecommunications technologies and services that deliver value to the underserved small and medium business market (SMBs), which is the heart of both local and national economic growth. Smart cities or intelligent communities represent a global investment towards the massive integration of information and communications (ICT) technologies to better manage a city's assets as well as improve the quality of life for residents, which is becoming more difficult with the growth of urban/city centers. Groups like the Intelligent Community Forum and International Telecommunications Union note that this continued growth has put a strain on government infrastructure investment and public services. It is redefining how cities and businesses, especially small and medium businesses and cities, compete with each other across the globe.
The smart city market is expected to grow and encompass the immense growth in digital telecommunications network infrastructure and services with millions of deployed smart sensors, smart radios, smart phones, tablets, and emerging technology such as Cloud services, enhanced unified communications and machine to machine interaction. To support this massive growth in smart devices for a smart city/smart economy is the evolution from current third and fourth generation mobile networks and technologies (3G/4G) to the 5G network or fifth generation network. This high-capacity network will represent dramatic increases in download and upload speeds, manage millions of new smart devices and demand the incorporation of new radio spectrum with millimeter wave technology playing a key role. Within the smart city movement are the technology providers who offer the extensive platforms on which smart city operations are built, and the telecom network providers who deliver the wired and wireless 4G and emerging 5G network infrastructure. For reasons related to their current business structures and multibillion dollar technology investments in 3G and 4G technologies, these providers must primarily focus, in order to achieve ROI and profitability, on the multi-billion-dollar smart city municipal projects and/or large enterprise firms. Missing from this current smart city technology trend of government and enterprise level customers and projects is the critical backbone of the U.S. economy-the small and medium size business which receives limited attention in terms of services, but which accounts for approximately 50% of U.S. GDP. According to Amdocs and other industry telecom leaders and analysts, the SMB sector is significantly underserved when it comes to having choices and access to ICT:
". the SMB sector is currently significantly underserved in terms of ICT provision and therefore holds considerable potential for growth, the challenge is how to profitably unlock the potential in a sector that is effectively a hybrid of service providers' other two main targets - large businesses and consumer." Source: Amdocs, 2015. Selling to SMBs.
The U.S. Small Business Administration reports there are 7.5 million commercially located SMBs with approximately six million of them ranging in employee size from 1 to 49. These firms spend from $10,500 to $50,000 or more on ICT annually with business internet access representing the anchor service in determining how and what other technologies a SMB can purchase based on the costs, availability and performance characteristics.
Number and Percentage of US SMBs by Industry
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These SMBs cover a wide range of different types of businesses in terms of size, maturity, tech savvy, and industry-from the self-employed tradesman in a local market to a medium size tech firm with international customers, health care, finance, education, warehousing, and retail. Their requirements for communication services are highly varied and thus make them a difficult, and often unprofitable, market segment for large ICT service providers to pursue. As a byproduct, the SMB is lumped into the large provider's products and services designed for either the retail mass market or enterprise customer, which misses many of the SMB's needs.
Wytec's business focus and market strategy is to exploit gaps created by the current smart city technology trends and current marketing and sales operations for ICT products and services for SMBs. Wytec determined its markets by examining US Census Data for key SMB insights including examining 60,000 counties, 40,000 zip codes, 171 industry combinations, and analysis by product concept, competitive offerings, signal strength and number of employees per firm, and to the degree possible, utilizing industry data for annual ICT spend and business density per kilometer. Our research identified 180 markets meeting requirements for building new 5G millimeter wave networks with 71 of these markets representing our top choices for investment and customer acquisition for our near and mid-term financial forecast.
US Businesses Meeting Our Target Profiles
Revenue Sales and Marketing
Wytec expects to generate revenue by utilizing its own fixed wireless millimeter wave networks and through wholesale agreements with nation-wide 4G LTE wireless providers to create connectivity and non-connectivity service offerings. Business products and services will be marketed and sold through Wytec's subsidiary, Capaciti Networks, Inc. Capaciti represents an internal business focus separate from other potential Wytec smart city initiatives related to city governments. Capaciti will utilize Wytec's quoting platform, WyQuote, which provides quoting access to an already existing industry base of approximately 100,000 telecom agents and master agents who account for an estimated 60% of all US telecom sales, as well as enabling Capaciti's B2B telemarketing operations to assist SMBs to better find, evaluate and buy ICT services designed for their needs. In addition to improving order accuracy and customer order tracking, WyQuote is unique in that it is the only online quoting platform with real time ability to quote wireless services, such as our fixed wireless millimeter wave network. We anticipate WyQuote will increase our customer acquisition potential by dramatically reducing the time it takes for a prospect to obtain a quote (from days to near real-time), sign a contract (several days versus same day with WyQuote), and have the service installed. In many cases the time for a customer install is reduced from weeks to days and is based on the customer's schedule.
Capaciti's marketing and sales will launch with strategically designed services to take advantage of weaknesses in the current market offerings for broadband services, developing trends in technology use, and the need for higher upload speeds serving the demands of business applications that can benefit from the use of millimeter wave technology or 4G LTE wireless connectivity. These services are either a fixed wireless service or MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) and consist of:
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Internet Booster Plus (IB+)
4G LTE Failover
5G Primary internet connection
5G internet failover
Along with our extensive market research, the above services were designed using real customer market data from 20 of Capaciti's business class customers (R&D customers) of varying sizes and needs. Our R&D customers use considerably more data than delivered by a typical residential cable service. Capaciti will compete primarily against cable internet which is often a residential service re-marketed to SMBs as a business class service. Capaciti's initial competitive product is called the Internet Booster Plus (IB+). It is positioned to go directly at the weaknesses of cable business offerings and deliver critical connectivity factors such as faster upload speeds and lower latency, which is important for business applications like VoIP and Cloud.
IB+ vs Cable Service
Features |
Cable |
IB+ |
Low Cost |
* |
* |
High download |
* |
* |
High Upload |
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* up to 98 Mbps |
Latency |
Mid to High 35 milliseconds+ |
Low 9-15 milliseconds |
Monitored Service |
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* |
Failover/Redundancy |
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* the (+) failover and failback feature is built into the service |
One of the most challenging obstacles in customer acquisition is having to wait for a prospect's current service to expire. Capaciti's strategy is to leverage the IB+ service, fed by our millimeter wave network, to overcome this obstacle. The IB+ provides an immediate contract opportunity with an SMB who has an existing cable contract, so there is no delay in waiting for a cable customer's contract to expire. The IB+ plugs into the "current" cable service, "boosts" the cable internet speeds, especially the upload speed, and provides a critical internet service feature through automatic failover and failback features. Once an IB+ customer is ready to switch from their primary cable internet contract to Capaciti's primary internet service, we are able to remotely provision them without a secondary install action cost. Capaciti's 4G LTE Internet Failover service will initially be marketed to businesses outside of our 5G fixed-wireless coverage area, including for remote or temporary customer sites needing higher reliability. Capaciti will also market a unique 5G failover service, fed by our millimeter wave network, designed to work for both SMBs as well as enterprise customers needing a completely separate internet connection and avoiding the high cost of temporary fiber installation and time lags. Internet Failover is part of the disaster recovery and service market forecasted by Markets and Markets Research to be $11 billion by 2021. Capaciti plans to keep pace with smart city and 5G technology network trends by utilizing Wytec's patent pending LPN-16 microcell to rapidly and cost effectively expand network coverage and services to SMBs. The 5G network is forecasted to use a wide variety of radio spectrums. The LPN-16 is capable of housing up to 16 different radio frequency cards/radios and strengthens customer cell coverage areas, providing our customers with an ever-growing range of fixed, mobile and related connectivity and non-connectivity services.
Business Strategy
Our business strategy is essentially marketing focused with a dual objective. The initial and primary objective is to determine key metrics on both our 4G and 5G wireless services. To accomplish this objective, Wytec developed an online quoting system (WyQuote) to be utilized by both a telemarketing sales channel and by an existing direct telecom agents channel. Direct telecom agents consisting primarily of Value Added Resellers (VARS) are estimated to be approximately 100,000 in number and represent an estimated 60% of all telecom sales in the U.S., producing an estimated $60 billion in sales annually. We discovered early that the central tool that telecom agents desired was an easier and less expensive way to reach their existing customers and to expand their customer base with telecom services that would improve their business. This valuable information spurred us to develop the WyQuote system and focus on telecom products/services that could truly make an economic difference in the SMB market.
This led us to research the primary deficiencies in telecom services currently offered to the SMB market. We discovered that the SMBs wanted more choices in primary internet access and a service that was able to support the next generation of applications such as Voice over Internet (VoIP) and Cloud services.
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As VoIP continues to proliferate throughout the U.S., a major concern began to surface regarding the inability of cable (a predominate business internet service to the SMB) to support VoIP due to the limitations in its "upload" speed capabilities. This led Wytec to focus on the superior features of its millimeter wave fixed wireless services capable of providing symmetrical speeds, including a stand-alone upload connection, as a primary solution to the cable connection deficiencies. This product has become Wytec's first 30-day test service called the Internet Booster Plus ("IB+") service. IB+ has the ability to greatly enhance an existing cable connection while also providing a "fail-over" solution in the event the cable connection goes down. Wytec believes this will be its most popular service due to its lack of interference with an existing cable contract and its ability to provide connection insurance.
Wytec also has a second fail-over service available through its 4G LTE wholesale agreements with Verizon and Sprint collectively. Though this service offers less bandwidth speeds than the IB+ service, it secures coverage on a nationwide basis. This large footprint allows Wytec to introduce the fail-over service in both Wytec's existing footprint in its three (3) diamond ring cities and virtually any other market within the continental U.S. It becomes a significant business strategy for expanding our 5G footprint by introducing our second dual objective. Since both our 4G and 5G fail-over services utilize much of the same features and sales methodology, it allows Wytec to expand through customer upgrades rather than selling only to a new customer. Wytec believes it can rapidly expand its 5G footprint to meet its existing 4G fail-over customers without an additional sales expense. This is an advantage for us that we believe can facilitate rapid revenue expansion as we build more diamond rings and potentially deploy our LPN-16.
Revenue Model
Wytec's revenue model consists of integrating multiple wireless telecom services by utilizing the benefits of existing 4G carrier networks while strategically planning future 5G network development. This enables us to economically develop services (4G Fail-over) utilizing existing carrier networks (4G LTE) under attractive wholesale agreements while eventually migrating existing customers to a 5G planned network utilizing multiple other services without incurring normally associated high sales cost. The benefit of an existing nationwide network (4G) enables us to capture thousands of subscribers in preparation for moving them to our more robust 5G network, possibly without incurring a costly slow adoption rate. The significantly higher revenue within the 4G sales is indicative of generating sales on an existing nationwide footprint of over 3,000 U.S. cities compared to Wytec's 5G networks forecasted to reach 145 cities over the next five years.
Roadmap 2017-2020: Moving Toward the 5G Network
The current generation of mobile networks continues to transform the way we communicate and access information. These networks and the associated smart phones, tablets and wearable devices are, however, stressing current network capabilities and hitting capacity limits while endeavoring to achieve seamless machine-to-machine and immersive human interactions for a fully connected society-- business, healthcare, public safety and education, entertainment and more.
To achieve the 5G network, the entire landscape as well as ITU standards in the telecom industry must be redefined to support the substantial gains in network capacity needed for the huge number of smart devices expected to come online between now and 2030. The goal is that any application will be able to connect to anything at any time---driver-less vehicles, virtual reality, wearable devices, smart light poles, smart traffic lights, remote medial surgery and the ordering of goods and services. Industry experts forecast the 5G network will drive business, economic and societal growth in unimaginable ways with the massive transformation and convergence of information and communications technologies.
The 5G network will built upon certain portions of today's networks but will need to take advantage of innovations in new wireless radio access technologies and radio spectrums not previously considered in earlier mobile networks, and which can deliver data rates in the multiple gigabit per second range to any device. One of the radio spectrums identified as being a key part of the 5G network is the use of millimeter wave spectrum. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) locates the millimeter wave spectrum between 30GHz and 300GHz which sits between the microwave and infrared radio waves. This spectrum is now readily available for use in the latest WiFi standards (802.11ad) and operating in the 60GHz range. This spectrum and standard is seen by the FCC and researchers as an important means for bringing 5G by allocating more bandwidth to deliver faster, higher-quality video and multimedia content and services.
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5G is presently in its early stages with dozens of international standards bodies collaborating on the parameters for 5G speeds, network latency, equipment specifications and the identification of new radio spectrum to support enhanced mobile broadband. Several infrastructure, equipment and telecom providers have announced that they will conduct 5G network trials beginning in 2017 with 2020 being the first forecasted year of a large commercialized mobile 5G network service offering.
Wytec currently uses millimeter wave spectrum and technology for the construction of our fixed-wireless networks now built in three markets. Millimeter wave powers our IB+, 5G Failover and Primary Internet connection service which offer cost savings and speed benefits that we believe current cable and other fixed wireless providers do not or cannot offer.
Competition
The telecommunications industry is highly competitive, rapidly evolving, and subject to technology changes. Additionally, there are numerous telecommunications service companies that conduct extensive advertising campaigns to capture market share. We believe that the principal competitive factors affecting our business will be pricing levels and clear pricing policies, customer service, and the variety of services offered. Our ability to compete effectively will depend upon our continued ability to maintain high-quality, market-driven services at prices generally equal to or below those charged by competitors. To maintain a competitive posture, we believe that we must be in a position to reduce our prices in order to meet reductions in rates, if any, by others. Any such reductions could reduce profitability and make it cost prohibitive to continue as a going concern. Many of our current and potential competitors have more financial, personnel and other resources than Wytec, including brand name recognition as well as other competitive advantages.
Competition by Equipment . Our research, including the 2013 version of The Hetnet Bible issued by SNS Research, has identified 19 Small Cell vendors offering Small Cell equipment to network developers. Most, if not all of those vendors utilize the same chipset and provide nearly identical form factors (housing) with standard rooftop installations. We are unaware of a single manufacturer who has developed an outdoor small sell device capable of transmitting multiple frequencies on multiple channels from a single device at a single site location without interference like our LPN-16 Small Cell technology. We believe our LPN-16 Small Cell access point will set a new standard in the mobile broadband industry. Wytec is now listed in the updated HetNet Bible version 2014-2020 Report on Small Cells, Carrier WiFi, and DAS forecast as a SCaaS provider.
Competition by Service: Site Rental . On December 16, 2011, Crown Castle, the second largest independent operator of wireless communications tower sites with over 40,000 U.S. cell sites, purchased NextG Networks for $1.0 billion in cash. At the time, NextG was the largest U.S. provider of outdoor distributed antenna systems ("DAS") with over 7,000 nodes-on-air and with an additional 1,500 nodes under construction. The company provides network design, radio frequency engineering, and site development services and primarily derives its revenues from site rental and network services to mobile carriers. Carriers lease access from Crown Castle's DAS to install their own equipment for cellular distribution. Crown currently has 11,000 Small Cell nodes comprised mostly of DAS technology. Crown generated total revenues of $3.02 billion in 2013.
American Tower ("AMT") is the largest independent cell site operator in the United States with a portfolio of 67,418 domestically and 39,330 internationally owned towers along with 349 DAS networks providing seamless coverage for both in-building and outdoor wireless locations. AMT primarily contracts rooftop space on tall buildings and lease antenna nodes/sites to carriers, radio and television broadcast companies, wireless data providers, government agencies, municipalities and tenants in a number of other countries accounting for 98% of AMT's total revenues. AMT also provides network development services, which include site acquisition, zoning and permitting services and structural analysis, which support their site leasing business. AMT had $3.4 billion in 2013 revenues.
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I ntellectual Property
Wytec owns five (5) U.S. patents related to local multipoint distribution service ("LMDS") or millimeter technology. In April 2014, the Company filed a provisional patent representing the LPN-16 Small Cell device. In March 2015, the Company filed a Taiwanese Patent Application along with Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) application for Patent filings in additional countries. We cannot assure that we do not and will not infringe on the intellectual property rights of other parties, or that our Patents will be enforceable. We may be subject to legal proceedings and claims in the ordinary course of business and third parties may sue us for intellectual property infringement or initiate proceedings to invalidate our intellectual property. Moreover, should we be found liable for infringement, we may be required to enter into licensing agreements (if available on acceptable terms or at all), pay damages or curtail our product and service offerings. We may also need to redesign some of our products or services to avoid future infringement liability. Any of the foregoing could prevent us from competing effectively and could adversely affect our business.
G ov ernment Regulation
Wytec generally is subject to all of the governmental regulations that regulate businesses generally such as compliance with regulatory requirements of federal, state, and local agencies and authorities, including regulations concerning workplace safety, labor relations, and disadvantaged businesses. The adoption of any additional laws or regulations may decrease the growth of our business, decrease the demand for services and increase our cost of doing business. Changes in tax laws also could have a significant adverse effect on our operating results and financial condition.
Employees
As of November 30, 2016, we have ten (10) full-time employees. Prior to August 1, 2016, we utilized the services of those ten (10) full-time employees when they were employed by Wytec's parent company, CCI, including our executive officer.
Property
We currently share approximately 3,395 square feet of office space at 19206 Huebner Road, Suite 202, San Antonio, Texas 78258 with CCI for which we currently pay no share of the rent. CCI pays approximately $5,412 per month for rent for that office space. On November 1, 2016 it will increase to $5,520 per month and on November 1, 2017 it will increase to $5,630 per month until the lease expires on October 31, 2018. CCI has the ability to extend the lease on a month to month basis at the end of the current lease term. After the Spin-Off, we expect to continue to share the existing office space with CCI, with CCI continuing to be lessee until a new lease is made. CCI and Wytec intend to agree on a new allocation of rental expense in the near future.
Seasonality
Our operations are not expected to be materially affected by seasonality.
Executive Officers and Directors Following the Spin-Off
The following table provides information concerning each officer and director of Wytec. All directors hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders or until their successors have been elected and qualified.
Name | Age | Position |
William H. Gray | 65 | Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer, and Secretary |
Angus Davis | 45 | Director and Chief Strategy Officer |
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William H. Gray has been the chairman, chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, and secretary of Wytec since November 2011, a director of CCI since November 2008, and the chief executive officer, president, and chief financial officer of CCI since February 10, 2009. Mr. Gray was the secretary of CCI from February 2009 to April 2014, and again since July 2015. Mr. Gray has over 19 years of experience in the planning, development, and implementation of wide area networks in both wired and wireless infrastructures. As the president and chief executive officer of Wireless Wisconsin, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of CCI, he developed one of the first internet service providers ("ISPs") to enter into the internet industry by forming and developing a statewide telecommunications network in the state of Wisconsin starting in 1995. Wireless Wisconsin, LLC later became one of the first ISP's to become a competitive local exchange carrier ("CLEC") in the state of Wisconsin. Mr. Gray also structured one of the first joint venture relationships with an electric utility operation, Jackson Electric COOP, for offering internet access to utility customers. It produced an adoption rate of more than 1,500 subscribers within 30 days. Total subscribers exceeded 12,000. During the last 19 years, Mr. Gray has participated in negotiating numerous Tier One carrier contracts establishing a network extending beyond every major city in the United States. In addition to negotiating and executing carrier contracts, Mr. Gray has also negotiated and executed a pole attachment agreement with one of the largest utility pole owners in the United States, Excel Energy, which owns more than 1,000,000 utility poles. In 2011, as the chief executive officer of Wytec, Mr. Gray negotiated Wytec's acquisition of five patents involving high speed millimeter wave broadband transmission, setting the pace for Wytec's most recent patent application covering LPN-16 Small Cell technology, filed in July 2014. Subsequent to the filing, Mr. Gray negotiated and executed an agreement with Level 3 Communications, the largest CLEC in the United States, which provides Wytec with rooftop access to all Level 3 owned buildings in the United States. In addition to his experience in the telecommunications industry, Mr. Gray has held a Series 7 securities license working for one of the largest municipal bond houses in the United States, Underwood Newhaus, which was later acquired by Kemper Capital Markets, where he was marketing and managing more than $100M in investment grade securities to banks, insurance companies, and pension funds. Additionally, Mr. Gray is the founder of Innovation Capital Management, Inc. ("ICM"), a Nevada corporation formed in May 2008. ICM has been relatively dormant but plans to sponsor a financing facility in the future. ICM is also the owner of ICM LLC. Mr. Gray was also the president and chief executive officer of DiscoverNet, Inc. from May of 1997 until it entered into Chapter 7 bankruptcy in August 2009. DiscoverNet was a wholly owned subsidiary of CCI. Its assets were assumed by Wireless Wisconsin, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of CCI, in 2010. DiscoverNet, Inc. was a full service Internet Service Provider deploying wireless broadband internet throughout western Wisconsin and was incorporated in July 1996. Mr. Gray is also the chairman, chief executive officer, chief financial officer and secretary of WyLink, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Wytec formed in June 2012, and Capaciti Networks, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Wytec formed in June 2013. With this dual experience in both telecom and finance, Mr. Gray has been able to found and sustain the CCI group of companies through organic as well as merger and acquisition growth since 1995.
Mr. Gray's qualifications:
Leadership experience - Mr. Gray has been our chairman and chief executive officer of CCI since February 2009 and is the founder of Wytec International, Inc., WyLink, Inc., Innovation Capital Management, Inc., Innovation Capital Management LLC, Wireless Wisconsin, LLC and Capaciti Networks, Inc.
Finance experience - Mr. Gray has designed and developed multiple securities investment products and programs as well as complex financial projections and pro forma models. He has extensive knowledge with billing and accounting systems such as QuickBooks and Platypus. Additionally, he has substantial experience with industry billing systems and financial software integration. Mr. Gray has established the Company's accounting, billing and merchant integration systems for the Company.
Industry experience - Mr. Gray has more than 16 years of experience and been intricately involved in the internet industry since 1995.
Education experience - Mr. Gray attended Navarro Jr. College, Howard Payne University and Texas A&M University majoring in Psychology.
Angus Davis has been the chief strategy officer of Wytec since January 2014, a director of Wytec since April 2014, and was a key employee of Wytec from July 2012 to January 2014. Mr. Davis has also been a key employee of CCI since July 2012 and a director of CCI since April 2014. Mr. Davis has been a senior executive and advisor in strategic operational planning and process improvement for 15 years. Prior to joining CCI from July 2007 to July 2012, Mr. Davis worked for the Texas Division of Teen Challenge as vocational coordinator in charge of product development, manufacturing operations and personnel
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management. His area of expertise is in creating value, building high-performance teams, and leading sophisticated business transactions. Mr. Davis also worked as the senior principal strategist for Rainmaker Marketing Corporation, where he worked in the design and development of senior housing services and program management for private developers. Mr. Davis also led a project team of architects, attorneys, and specialized consultants in the first $200 million public bond float for a private developer in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. He helped design and implement the Americans Rebuilding America program which provides a multi-million dollar A-rated bonding facility for service-disabled veteran contractors. Mr. Davis is an army veteran with seven years of service in the United States Army and Army Reserve. Mr. Davis oversees our intelligent community strategy and public private partnership alliances and has a degree in business management from American Intercontinental University, which he received in October 2004.
Mr. Davis' qualifications:
Leadership experience - Mr. Davis has been our chief strategy officer since January 2014.
Industry experience - Mr. Davis has over 15 years of experience as a senior executive and advisor in strategic operational planning and process improvement.
Technology and education experience - Mr. Davis has a degree in business management from American Intercontinental University.
No officer or director is required to make any specific amount or percentage of his business time available to us. Each of our officers intends to devote such amount of his or her time to our affairs as is required or deemed appropriate by us.
Director Independence
Our board of directors currently consists of two directors. Neither of our directors is "independent" as defined in Rule 4200 of FINRA's listing standards. We plan to appoint additional independent directors to our board of directors in the future.
Committees of the Board of Directors
We plan to establish an audit committee, a compensation committee, and a nominating and governance committee. Until such committees are established, matters otherwise addressed by such committees will be acted upon by the whole board. The following is a brief description of our contemplated committees.
Audit Committee
We plan to establish an audit committee. The functions of the audit committee will include:
meeting with management periodically to consider the adequacy of our internal controls and the objectivity of our financial reporting;
engaging and pre-approving audit and non-audit services to be rendered by our independent auditors;
recommending to the board of directors the engagement of our independent auditors and oversight of the work of the independent auditors;
reviewing our financial statements and periodic reports and discussing the statements and reports with management, including any significant adjustments, management judgments and estimates, new accounting policies and disagreements with management;
establishing procedures for the receipt, retention and treatment of complaints received by our regarding accounting, internal accounting controls and auditing matters; and
administering and discussing with management and our independent auditors our code of ethics.
Compensation Committee
We plan to establish a compensation committee. The functions of our compensation committee will include:
reviewing and, as it deems appropriate, recommending to our board of directors, policies, practices and procedures relating to the compensation of our directors and executive officers and the establishment and administration of certain of our employee benefit plans;
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exercising authority under certain of our employee benefit plans; and
reviewing and approving executive officer and director indemnification and insurance matters.
Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee
We plan to establish a corporate governance and nominating committee. The functions of our corporate governance and nominating committee will include:
developing and recommending to our board of directors our corporate governance guidelines;
overseeing the evaluation of our board of directors;
identifying qualified candidates to become members of our board of directors;
selecting nominees for election of directors at the next annual meeting of shareholders (or special meeting of shareholders at which directors are to be elected); and
selecting candidates to fill vacancies on our board of directors.
Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation
Once established, no member of our compensation committee will serve as a member of the board of directors or the compensation committee of any entity that has one or more executive officers who serve on our board of directors or compensation committee. No interlocking relationship exists between our board of directors and the board of directors or compensation committee of any other company, nor has any interlocking relationship existed in the past.
Code of Conduct
We have adopted a code of conduct that applies to all of our directors, officers and employees. The text of the code of conduct has been posted on our internet website and can be viewed at http://www.Wytec International.com. Any waiver of the provisions of the Code of Conduct for executive officers and directors may be made only by the audit committee and, in the case of a waiver for members of the audit committee, by the board of directors. Any such waivers will be promptly disclosed to our shareholders.
Limitation of Liability and Indemnification of Officers and Directors
Our Certificate of Incorporation limits the liability of directors to the maximum extent permitted by Nevada law. Nevada law provides that directors of a corporation will not be personally liable for monetary damages for breach of their fiduciary duties as directors, except liability for:
any breach of their duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders;
acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;
unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions; or
any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.
Our bylaws provide that we will indemnify our directors, officers, employees and other agents to the fullest extent permitted by law. We believe that indemnification under our bylaws covers at least negligence and gross negligence on the part of indemnified parties. Our bylaws also permit us to secure insurance on behalf of any officer, director, employee or other agent for any liability arising out of his or her actions in connection with their services to us, regardless of whether our bylaws permit such indemnification.
We intend to enter into separate indemnification agreements with our directors and officers, in addition to the indemnification provided for in our bylaws. These agreements, among other things, will provide that we will indemnify our directors and officers for certain expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by a director or executive officer in any action or proceeding arising out of such person's services as one of our directors or
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officers, or rendering services at our request, to any of its subsidiaries or any other company or enterprise. We believe that these provisions and agreements are necessary to attract and retain qualified persons as directors and officers.
There is no pending litigation or proceeding involving any of our directors or officers as to which indemnification is required or permitted, and we are not aware of any threatened litigation or proceeding that may result in a claim for indemnification.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling us pursuant to the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Compensation Discussion and Analysis
The following Compensation Discussion and Analysis describes the material elements of compensation for our executive officers identified in the Summary Compensation Table ("Named Executive Officers"), and executive officers that we may hire in the future. As more fully described below, our board of directors makes all decisions for the total direct compensation of our executive officers, including the Named Executive Officers. We do not have a compensation committee, so all decisions with respect to management compensation are made by the whole board.
Compensation Program Objectives and Rewards
Our compensation philosophy is based on the premise of attracting, retaining, and motivating exceptional leaders, setting high goals, working toward the common objectives of meeting the expectations of customers and stockholders, and rewarding outstanding performance. Following this philosophy, in determining executive compensation, we consider all relevant factors, such as the competition for talent, our desire to link pay with performance in the future, the use of equity to align executive interests with those of our stockholders, individual contributions, teamwork and performance, and each executive's total compensation package. We strive to accomplish these objectives by compensating all executives with total compensation packages consisting of a combination of competitive base salary and, once we grow more and increase our staff, incentive compensation. Because of our small size and staff to date, we have not yet adopted a management equity incentive plan, nor have we yet used equity incentives as part of our management compensation policy.
While we have not hired at the executive level significantly since inception because our business has not grown sufficiently to justify increasing staff, we expect to grow and hire in the future. Our Named Executive Officers have been with us for many years and their compensation has basically been static, based primarily on levels at which we can afford to retain them, and their responsibilities and individual contributions. To date, we have not applied a formal compensation program to determine the compensation of the Named Executives. In the future, as we and our management team expand, our board of directors expects to add independent members, form a compensation committee comprised of independent directors, adopt a management equity incentive plan and apply the compensation philosophy and policies described in this section of the Registration Statement.
The primary purpose of the compensation and benefits described below is to attract, retain and motivate highly talented individuals when we do hire, who will engage in the behaviors necessary to enable us to succeed in our mission while upholding our values in a highly competitive marketplace. Different elements are designed to engender different behaviors, and the actual incentive amounts which may be awarded to each Named Executive Officer are subject to the annual review of the board of directors. The following is a brief description of the key elements of our planned executive compensation structure.
Base salary and benefits are designed to attract and retain employees over time.
Incentive compensation awards are designed to focus employees on the business objectives for a particular year.
Equity incentive awards, such as stock options and non-vested stock, focus executives' efforts on the behaviors within the recipients' control that they believe are designed to ensure our long-term success as reflected in increases to our stock prices over a period of several years, growth in our profitability and other elements.
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Severance and change in control plans are designed to facilitate a company's ability to attract and retain executives as it competes for talented employees in a marketplace where such protections are commonly offered. We currently have not given separation benefits to any of our Name Executive Officers.
Benchmarking
We have not yet adopted benchmarking but may do so in the future. When making compensation decisions, our board of directors may compare each element of compensation paid to our Named Executive Officers against a report showing comparable compensation metrics from a group that includes both publicly-traded and privately-held companies. Our board believes that while such peer group benchmarks are a point of reference for measurement, they are not necessarily a determining factor in setting executive compensation as each executive officer's compensation relative to the benchmark varies based on scope of responsibility and time in the position. We have not yet formally established our peer group for this purpose.
The Elements of Wytec's Compensation Program
Base Salary
Executive officer base salaries are based on job responsibilities and individual contribution. The board reviews the base salaries of our executive officers, including our Named Executive Officers, considering factors such as corporate progress toward achieving objectives (without reference to any specific performance-related targets) and individual performance experience and expertise. None of our Named Executive Officers have employment agreements with us. Additional factors reviewed by the board of directors in determining appropriate base salary levels and raises include subjective factors related to corporate and individual performance. For the year ended December 31, 2015, all executive officer base salary decisions were approved by the board of directors.
Our board of directors determines base salaries for the Named Executive Officers at the beginning of each fiscal year, and the board proposes new base salary amounts, if appropriate, based on its evaluation of individual performance and expected future contributions. We do not have a 401(k) Plan, but if we adopt one in the future, base salary would be the only element of compensation that would be used in determining the amount of contributions permitted under the 401(k) Plan.
Incentive Compensation Awards
Our executive officers have not been paid bonuses and our board of directors has not yet established a formal compensation policy for the determination of bonuses. If our revenue grows and bonuses become affordable and justifiable, we expect to use the following parameters in justifying and quantifying bonuses for our Named Executive Officers and other officers of Wytec: (1) the growth in our revenue, (2) the growth in our earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, as adjusted ("EBITDA"), and (3) our stock price. The board has not adopted specific performance goals and target bonus amounts for any of its fiscal years, but may do so in the future.
Equity Incentive Awards
Our board has not yet adopted a management equity incentive plan and no stock options or other equity incentive awards have yet been made to any of our Named Executives or other officers or employees of Wytec. As stated previously, in the future we plan to adopt a formal management equity incentive plan pursuant to which we plan to grant stock options and make restricted stock awards to members of management, which would not be assignable during the executive's life, except for certain gifts to family members or trusts that benefit family members. These equity incentive awards, we believe, would motivate our employees to work to improve our business and stock price performance, thereby further linking the interests of our senior management and our stockholders. The board will consider several factors in determining whether awards are granted to an executive officer, including those previously described, as well as the executive's position, his or her performance and responsibilities, and the amount of options or other awards, if any, currently held by the officer and their vesting schedule. Our policy will prohibit backdating options or granting them retroactively.
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Benefits and Prerequisites
At this stage of our business we have limited benefits and no prerequisites for our employees other than health insurance and vacation benefits that are generally comparable to those offered by other small private and public companies or as may be required by applicable state employment laws. We do not have a 401(k) Plan or any other retirement plan for our Named Executive Officers. We may adopt these plans and confer other fringe benefits for our executive officers in the future if our business grows sufficiently to enable us to afford them.
Separation and Change in Control Arrangements
We do not have any employment agreements with our Named Executive Officers or any other executive officer or employee of Wytec. None of them are eligible for specific benefits or payments if their employment or engagement terminates in a separation or if there is a change of control.
Our Anticipated Compensation Program Following This Distribution
We are currently in the process of determining the compensation programs we anticipate implementing for our senior executives, including our Named Executive Officers following the Distribution. We will include the additional disclosure in subsequent amendments to this prospectus.
Executive Compensation
The following table summarizes compensation paid or accrued by us for the years ended December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014 for services rendered in all capacities, by our chief executive officer and our other most highly compensated executive officers during the fiscal years ended December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014.
Summary Compensation Table
Name and Principal Position (1)(2) |
Year |
Salary |
Bonus |
Option Awards |
Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation |
Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Earnings |
All Other Compensation |
Total |
William H, Gray, | 2014 | $0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $0 |
Chief Executive Officer | 2015 | $0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $0 |
Angus Davis, President | 2014 | $0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $0 |
and Chief Operating Officer | 2015 | $0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $0 | |
Officers as a Group | 2014 | $0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $0 |
2015 | $0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $0 | |
(1) All officers serve at will without employment contracts.
(2)Wytec's executive officers were not paid any compensation by Wytec until July 16, 2016, when Wytec commenced paying Mr. Gray an annual salary of $175,000, and Mr. Davis an annual salary of $91,878. Prior to July 2016, these executive officers were paid these salaries by CCI.
Employment Agreements
We have not entered into any employment agreements with our executive officers to date, and do not intend to enter into employment agreements with them at this time. We may enter into employment agreements with them in the future.
Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year End
None of our executive officers received any equity awards during the year ended December 31, 2015.
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Employee Benefit Plans
We have not yet, but may in the future, establish a management equity incentive plan pursuant to which stock options and restricted stock awards may be authorized and granted to the executive officers, directors, employees and key consultants of Wytec. In the event we establish the equity incentive plan, we expect to authorize approximately 10,000,000 shares or more for future issuance.
Director Compensation
None of our directors received any compensation for their respective services rendered to us as directors during the year ended December 31, 2015.
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT
The following table provides information with respect to the expected beneficial ownership of our common stock after giving effect to the Spin-Off by (i) each person who we believe will be a beneficial owner of more than 5% of our outstanding common stock, (ii) each of our directors and our named executive officers, and (iii) all directors and executive officers as a group. We based the share amounts on each person's beneficial ownership of CCI common stock as of November 30, 2016, unless we indicate some other basis for the share amounts, and assuming a distribution ratio of 0.0026 shares of our Common Stock for each share of CCI common stock and two Warrants for each share of Common Stock. After the Spin-Off, CCI will not own any of our common stock or warrants.
To the extent our directors and officers own CCI common stock at the time of the Spin-Off, they will participate in the Spin-Off on the same terms as other holders of CCI common stock.
Unless otherwise indicated and subject to applicable community property laws, to our knowledge, each stockholder named in the following table possesses sole voting and investment power over their shares of common stock, except for those jointly owned with that person's spouse. Following the Spin-Off, we estimate that we will have outstanding an aggregate of approximately 1,069,884 shares of common stock, assuming no further exercise of outstanding Wytec warrants or conversion of outstanding Wytec preferred stock. The number of outstanding shares of Wytec common stock other than the 865,552 shares of Common Stock held by CCI is 204,332. These shares have been issued pursuant to the exercise of outstanding Wytec warrants other than the Warrants owned by CCI. Percentage of beneficial ownership is based on 1,069,884 outstanding shares of common stock, and does not reflect the potential conversion of 3,360,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock and 3,583,450 shares of Series B Preferred Stock outstanding as of November 30, 2016. Each share of Series A Preferred Stock and Series B Preferred Stock is owned by outside investors and is convertible at any time into one share of CCI common stock. The table also does not reflect our outstanding Series C Preferred Stock pursuant to which its holder has the equivalent of 51% of the total votes with respect to all matters submitted to a vote of the shareholders of the Company. Except as otherwise listed below, the address of each person is c/o Wytec International, Inc., 19206 Huebner Rd., Suite 202, San Antonio, Texas 78258.
Name, Title and Address |
Number of Shares Beneficially Owned (1)(2) |
Percentage Ownership (3) |
William H. Gray , Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chief Financial Officer |
20,800 (3) |
1.9% |
Angus Davis, Chief Strategy Officer and Director |
13,938 (4) |
1.3% |
All current directors and executive officers as a Group |
34,738 |
3.2% |
* Less than 1%.
(1) Does not reflect the potential conversion of 3,360,000 outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock into 3,360,000 shares of our common stock nor the potential conversion of 3,583,450 outstanding shares of Series B Preferred Stock into 3,583,450 shares of our common stock.
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(2) Does not include the potential exercise of the Warrants or of an additional 5,365,342 common stock purchase warrants currently outstanding which can be exercised into a total of 5,365,342 shares of our common stock.
(3) Percentages shown assume the exercise by such persons of all options and warrants to acquire shares of Wytec and CCI common stock that are exercisable within 60 days of November 30, 2016, and no exercise by any other person. Accordingly, reflects the assumed exercise of 8,000,000 outstanding stock options to purchase up to 8,000,000 shares of CCI common stock owned by Mr. Gray. Mr. Gray does not own any shares of Wytec common stock nor any warrants or stock options to acquire any Wytec common stock.
(4) Reflects 4,360,708 shares of CCI common stock owned by Mr. Davis and the assumed exercise of 1,000,000 outstanding stock options to purchase up to 1,000,000 shares of CCI common stock, also owned by Mr. Davis. Mr. Davis does not own any shares of Wytec common stock nor any warrants or stock options to acquire any Wytec common stock.
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
We believe that the transactions and agreements discussed below (including renewals of any existing agreements) between us and related third parties are at least as favorable to us as could have been obtained from unrelated parties at the time they were entered into.
Separation Agreement
We intend to enter into a Separation Agreement with CCI before the Distribution. The Separation Agreement will set forth our agreements with CCI regarding the principal actions to be taken in connection with the Spin-Off. It will also set forth other agreements that govern aspects of our relationship with CCI following the Spin-Off. We have not yet finalized all the terms of this agreement, and we intend to include additional details on the terms of this agreement in an amendment to this prospectus.
Ongoing Commercial Relationships . The Separation Agreement will contain provisions governing ongoing commercial relationships between us and CCI, including without limitation the ownership of specified assets and lines of business, and the assumption of specified liabilities.
Intercompany Arrangements . All agreements, arrangements, commitments and understandings, including most intercompany accounts payable or accounts receivable, between us, on the one hand, and CCI, on the other hand, will terminate effective as of the Distribution, except specified agreements and arrangements that are intended to survive the Distribution.
The Distribution . The Separation Agreement will govern CCI's and our respective rights and obligations regarding the proposed Distribution. Prior to the Distribution, CCI will deliver all the issued and outstanding shares of our Common Stock and the Warrants to the distribution agent. Following the Distribution Date, the distribution agent will electronically deliver the shares of our Common Stock and Warrants to CCI stockholders based on the distribution ratio. CCI's board of directors will have the sole and absolute discretion to determine the terms of, and whether to proceed with, the Distribution.
Conditions . The Separation Agreement will also provide that several conditions must be satisfied or waived by CCI in its sole and absolute discretion before the Distribution can occur. For further information about these conditions, see "The Spin-Off-Conditions to the Spin-Off." CCI's board of directors may, in its sole and absolute discretion, determine the Record Date, the Distribution Date and the terms of the Spin-Off and may at any time prior to the completion of the Spin-Off decide to abandon or modify the Spin-Off.
Exchange of Information . We and CCI will agree to provide each other with information reasonably necessary to comply with reporting, disclosure, filing or other requirements of any national securities exchange or governmental authority, for use in judicial, regulatory, administrative and other proceedings and to satisfy audit, accounting, litigation and other similar requests. We and CCI will also agree to use reasonable best efforts to retain such information in accordance with our respective record retention policies as in effect on the date of the Separation Agreement. Until the end of the first full fiscal year following the Distribution, each party will also agree to use its reasonable best efforts to assist the other with its financial reporting and audit obligations.
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Intellectual Property . The Separation Agreement will contain provisions governing our use of our trademarks and CCI's trademarks and other related matters following the Spin-Off.
Termination . CCI's board of directors, in its sole and absolute discretion, may terminate the Separation Agreement at any time prior to the Distribution.
Release of Claims . We and CCI will each agree to release the other and its affiliates, successors and assigns, and all persons that prior to the Distribution have been the other's stockholders, directors, officers, members, agents and employees, and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, from certain claims against any of them that arise out of or relate to events, circumstances or actions occurring or failing to occur or any conditions existing at or prior to the time of the Distribution.
Indemnification . We and CCI will each agree to indemnify the other and each of the other's current, former and future directors, officers and employees, and each of the heirs, administrators, executors, successors and assigns of any of them, against certain liabilities incurred in connection with the Spin-Off and our and CCI's respective businesses. The Separation Agreement will also specify procedures regarding claims subject to indemnification.
DESCRIPTION OF OUR CAPITAL STOCK
General . Our authorized capital stock consists of 495,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of which approximately 1,069,884 shares are issued and outstanding as of November 30, 2016. Our authorized capital stock also includes 20,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, par value $0.001, 4,100,000 of which have been designated as Series A Preferred Stock, 3,360,000 of which are issued and outstanding, 6,650,000 of which have been designated as Series B Preferred Stock, 3,583,450 of which are issued and outstanding as of November 30, 2016, and 1,000 of which have been designated as Series C Preferred Stock, all of which are issued and outstanding.
Common Stock. Holders of common stock are entitled to one vote per share held of record on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders. The holders of common stock do not have cumulative voting rights in the election of directors. Accordingly, the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock entitled to vote in any election of directors may elect all of the directors standing for election. Subject to preferential rights with respect to any series of preferred stock that may be issued, holders of the common stock are entitled to receive ratably such dividends as may be declared by the board of directors on the common stock out of funds legally available therefore and, in the event of a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of our affairs, are entitled to share equally and ratably in all of our remaining assets and funds.
Preferred Stock. We are authorized to issue 20,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, having such rights, preferences and privileges, and issued in such series, as are determined by our Board of Directors. We currently have 3,360,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock outstanding, 3,583,450 shares of Series B Preferred Stock outstanding as of November 30, 2016, and 1,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock outstanding.
Series A Preferred Stock
No Voting Rights . The Series A Preferred Stock is nonvoting capital stock, but may be converted into voting common stock of the Company.
Dividends . The holders of the Series A Preferred Stock are not entitled to any dividends unless and until the Series A Preferred Stock is converted into common stock.
Conversion . Each share of Series A Preferred Stock is convertible at the option of the holder at any time after issuance into one share of common stock, subject to adjustment from time to time in the event (i) Wytec subdivides or combines its outstanding common stock into a greater or smaller number of shares, including stock splits and stock dividends; or (ii) of a reorganization or reclassification of our common stock, the consolidation or merger of Wytec with or into another company, the sale, conveyance or other transfer of substantially all of our assets to another corporation or other similar event, whereby securities or other assets are issuable or distributable to the holders of our outstanding common stock upon the occurrence of any such event; or (iii) of the issuance by us to the
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holders of our common stock of securities convertible into, or exchangeable for, such shares of common stock. Each outstanding share of Series A Preferred Stock will automatically convert into one share of common stock (a) if Wytec common stock commences public trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market or better, (b) if the Series A Preferred Stockholder receives distributions from the Net Profits Pool equal to the original purchase price paid for their Registered Links, or (c) five years after the date of issuance of the Series A Preferred Stock. We do not have any other right to require a conversion of the Series A Preferred Stock into common stock.
Redemption . We do not have the option to redeem outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock.
Preemptive Rights . A holder of the Series A Preferred Stock has no preemptive rights to subscribe for any additional shares of any class of stock of Wytec or for any issue of bonds, notes or other securities convertible into any class of stock of Wytec.
Liquidation Preference . In the event of a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of Wytec, whether voluntary or otherwise, after payment of our debts and other liabilities, the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive from our remaining net assets, before any distribution to the holders of the common stock, the amount of $1.50 per share. After payment of the liquidation preference to the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock and payment of any other distributions that may be required with respect to any other series of Preferred Stock, our remaining assets, if any, will be distributed ratably to the holders of the common stock and the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock on an as-if converted basis.
Series B Preferred Stock
Voting Rights . On all matters submitted to a vote of the shareholders of Wytec, the holders of the Series B Preferred Stock will vote on an as-converted basis with the common stock. See "DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES - Series B Preferred Stock - Conversion."
Dividends . The holders of the Series B Preferred Stock are not entitled to any dividends unless and until the Series B Preferred Stock is converted into common stock.
Conversion . Each share of Series B Preferred Stock is convertible at the option of the holder at any time after issuance into one share of common stock, subject to adjustment from time to time in the event (i) Wytec subdivides or combines its outstanding common stock into a greater or smaller number of shares, including stock splits and stock dividends; or (ii) of a reorganization or reclassification of our common stock, the consolidation or merger of Wytec with or into another company, the sale, conveyance or other transfer of substantially all of our assets to another corporation or other similar event, whereby securities or other assets are issuable or distributable to the holders of our outstanding common stock upon the occurrence of any such event; or (iii) of the issuance by us to the holders of our common stock of securities convertible into, or exchangeable for, such shares of common stock. Each outstanding share of Series B Preferred Stock will automatically convert into one share of common stock at a conversion rate equal to the lesser of $3.00 per share or 75% of the average closing price of our common stock as quoted on the public securities trading market on which our common stock is then traded with the highest volume, for ten (10) consecutive trading days immediately after the first day of public trading of Wytec common stock if Wytec's common stock commences public trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market or better, but in any event no less than $2.50 per share or at $3.00 per share five years after the date of issuance of the Series B Preferred Stock. We do not have any other right to require a conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock into common stock.
Redemption . We do not have the option to redeem outstanding shares of Series B Preferred Stock.
Preemptive Rights . A holder of the Series B Preferred Stock has no preemptive rights to subscribe for any additional shares of any class of stock of Wytec or for any issue of bonds, notes or other securities convertible into any class of stock of Wytec.
Liquidation Preference . In the event of a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of Wytec, whether voluntary or otherwise, after payment of our debts and other liabilities, the holders of the Series B Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive from our remaining net assets, before any distribution to the holders of the common stock, and pari pasu with the payment of a liquidation preference of $1.50 per share to the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock, the amount of
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$3.00 per share. After payment of the liquidation preference to the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock and the Series B Preferred Stock, and payment of any other distributions that may be required with respect to any other series of Preferred Stock, our remaining assets, if any, will be distributed ratably to the holders of the common stock, the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock, and the holders of the Series B Preferred Stock on an as-if converted basis
Series C Preferred Stock
Voting Rights . For so long as any shares of the Series C Preferred Stock remain issued and outstanding, the holders thereof, voting separately as a class, shall have the right, on or after July 20, 2016, to vote in an amount equal to 51% of the total vote (representing a super majority voting power) with respect to all matters submitted to a vote of the shareholders of Wytec. Such vote shall be determined by the holder(s) of a majority of the then issued and outstanding shares of Series C Preferred Stock. For example, if there are 10,000 shares of our common stock issued and outstanding at the time of such shareholder vote, the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock, voting separately as a class, will have the right to vote an aggregate of 10,408 shares, out of a total number of 20,408 shares voting.
Additionally, the Company is prohibited from adopting any amendments to the Company's Bylaws or Articles of Incorporation, as amended, making any changes to the Certificate of Designation establishing the Series C Preferred Stock, or effecting any reclassification of the Series C Preferred Stock, without the affirmative vote of at least 66-2/3% of the outstanding shares of Series C Preferred Stock. The Company may, however, by any means authorized by law and without any vote of the holders of shares of Series C Preferred Stock, make technical, corrective, administrative or similar changes to such Certificate of Designation that do not, individually or in the aggregate, adversely affect the rights or preferences of the holders of shares of Series C Preferred Stock.
Dividends . The holders of the Series C Preferred Stock are not entitled to any dividends unless and until the Series B Preferred Stock is converted into common stock.
Conversion . Holders of the Series C Preferred Stock have no conversion rights.
Redemption . The shares of the Series C Preferred Stock shall be automatically redeemed by us at their par value on the first to occur of the following: (i) on the date that Mr. Gray ceases, for any reason, to serve as officer, director or consultant of Wytec, or (ii) on the date that our shares of common stock first trade on any national securities exchange provided that the listing rules of any such exchange prohibit preferential voting rights of a class of securities of Wytec, or listing on any such national securities exchange is conditioned upon the elimination of the preferential voting rights of the Series C Preferred Stock set forth in this Certificate of Designation.
Preemptive Rights . A holder of the Series C Preferred Stock has no preemptive rights to subscribe for any additional shares of any class of stock of Wytec or for any issue of bonds, notes or other securities convertible into any class of stock of Wytec.
Liquidation Preference . The holders of the Series C Preferred Stock are not entitled to any liquidation preference.
Warrants. Each Warrant is exercisable at any time until December 31, 2017 into one share of our common stock at an exercise price of $5.00 per share, subject to a possible one-time upward adjustment of the exercise price on a date 100 days after the Distribution Date (the "Measure Date") to be equal to the greater of (i) $5.00 per share, or (ii) 85% of the average closing price of the Wytec common stock on the public securities trading market where it then trades with the highest trading volume for the ten calendar day period immediately preceding the Measure Date. As of the date of this prospectus, we have a total of 5,365,342 common stock purchase warrants outstanding to purchase up to 5,365,342 shares of our common stock, exercisable until December 31, 2017, 4,094,342 of which are exercisable at an exercise price of $1.50 per share, 75,000 of which are exercisable at an exercise price of $1.45 per share, 446,000 of which are exercisable at an exercise price of $1.25 per share, and 750,000 of which are exercisable on a cashless basis at an exercise price of $1.00 per share.
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Transfer Agent and Registrar
The transfer agent and registrar for the Common Stock and the Warrants is Island Stock Transfer, Inc.
Listing
We intend to list our Common Stock on the OTC-QB Market or better under the symbol "WYTC."
SHARES ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE
Future sales of substantial amounts of our common stock in the public market, including shares issued upon the exercise of outstanding options or warrants, or the anticipation of these sales, could adversely affect market prices prevailing from time to time and could impair our ability to raise capital through sales of equity securities.
Upon completion of the Distribution, we estimate that we will have 1,069,884 outstanding shares of our Common Stock, assuming no further exercise of outstanding Wytec warrants or conversion of outstanding Series A or Series B Preferred Stock.
Sale of Restricted Securities
The shares of our Common Stock distributed to CCI stockholders and the shares of Wytec common stock underlying the Warrants distributed to CCI stockholders will be registered under the Securities Act or 1933, as amended, and therefore freely transferable, including for our affiliates. Individuals who may be considered our affiliates after the Spin-Off include individuals who control, are controlled by or are under common control with us, as those terms generally are interpreted for federal securities law purposes. These individuals may include some or all of our directors and executive officers. Individuals who are our affiliates will be permitted to sell their shares of our Common Stock only pursuant to our effective registration statement under the Securities Act, or an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, such as those afforded by Section 4(1) of the Securities Act or Rule 144 thereunder.
Rule 144
In general, under Rule 144 as currently in effect, a person (or persons whose shares are aggregated), including an affiliate, who beneficially owns "restricted securities" (i.e. securities that are not registered by an effective registration statement) of a "reporting company" may not sell these securities until the person has beneficially owned them for at least six months. Thereafter, affiliates may not sell within any three-month period a number of shares in excess of the greater of: (i) 1% of the then outstanding shares of Common Stock as shown by the most recent report or statement published by the issuer; and (ii) the average weekly reported trading volume in such securities during the four preceding calendar weeks.
Sales under Rule 144 by our affiliates will also be subject to restrictions relating to manner of sale, notice and the availability of current public information about us and may be affected only through unsolicited brokers' transactions.
Persons not deemed to be affiliates who have beneficially owned "restricted securities" for at least six months but for less than one year may sell these securities, provided that current public information about the Company is "available," which means that, on the date of sale, we have been subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act for at least 90 days and are current in our Exchange Act filings. After beneficially owning "restricted securities" for one year, our non-affiliates may engage in unlimited re-sales of such securities.
Shares received by our affiliates in the Distribution or upon exercise of stock options or upon vesting of other equity-linked awards may be "controlled securities" rather than "restricted securities." "Controlled securities" are subject to the same volume limitations as "restricted securities" but are not subject to holding period requirements.
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LEGAL MATTERS
The validity of the issuance of the shares of common stock covered by this prospectus will be passed upon for us by Richardson & Associates, special counsel to Wytec.
EXPERTS
Our financial statements for our fiscal years ending December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014 included in this prospectus and elsewhere in the registration statement have been audited by Akin, Doherty, Klein & Feuge, P.C., an independent registered public accounting firm, as indicated in their report with respect thereto, and are included herein in reliance upon the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting in giving said reports.
INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL
No named expert or counsel was hired on a contingent basis, will receive a direct or indirect interest in the issuer, or was a promoter, underwriter, voting trustee, director, officer, or employee of Wytec.
INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
Wytec's board of directors has selected Akin, Doherty, Klein & Feuge, P.C. as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ended December 31, 2016.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Before the date of this prospectus, we were not required to file reports with the SEC. This prospectus and all future materials we file with the SEC may be read and copied at the SEC's public reference room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the public reference room. The SEC maintains a website at http://www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy and registration statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC. We maintain a website at www.wytec.com. The information contained on or accessible through our website or the SEC's website shall not be deemed to be a part of this prospectus or the Registration Statement on Form S-1, of which this Prospectus is a part.
We have filed a Registration Statement on Form S-1 to register with the SEC the shares of our Common Stock, Warrants and shares of our Common Stock underlying the Warrants to be distributed in the Spin-Off. This document constitutes a part of that Registration Statement, together with all amendments, supplements, schedules and exhibits to the Registration Statement.
This prospectus does not contain all of the information in the Registration Statement. Each statement contained in this prospectus as to the contents of any contract, agreement or other document filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement is qualified in its entirety by reference to that exhibit for a more complete description of the matter involved.
You may request a copy of any of our filings with the SEC at no cost by writing us at the following address:
Wytec International, Inc.
19206 Huebner Road, Suite 202
San Antonio, Texas 78258
Attention: William H. Gray, Chief Executive Officer
We intend to furnish holders of our common stock with annual reports containing consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and audited and reported on by an independent registered public accounting firm.
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WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC.
FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 and 2015
AND
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2015 and 2014
CONTENTS
Balance Sheets at September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015 (Unaudited) | F-2 |
Statements of Operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 and 2015 (Unaudited) | F-4 |
Statements of Cash Flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 and 2015 (Unaudited) | F-5 |
Notes to Financial Statements | F-6 |
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm | 1 |
Balance Sheets at December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014 (Audited) | 2 |
Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 (Audited) | 4 |
Statement of Changes in Stockholders' Deficit for the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 (Audited) | 5 |
Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 (Audited) | 7 |
Notes to Financial Statements | 8 |
F-1
WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES | ||||||
Consolidated Balance Sheets | ||||||
September 30, | December 31, | |||||
2016 | 2015 | |||||
(Unaudited) | (Audited) | |||||
ASSETS | ||||||
Current Assets: | ||||||
Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 2,897,436 | $ | 1,013,033 | ||
Accounts receivable, net | 1,143 | - | ||||
Accounts receivable, related party | 56,996 | - | ||||
Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 1,700 | 1,100 | ||||
Total current assets | 2,957,275 | 1,014,133 | ||||
Property and equipment: | ||||||
Telecommunication equipment and computers | 1,097,677 | 1,027,677 | ||||
Construction in process | 357,890 | 359,900 | ||||
Total property and equipment | 1,455,567 | 1,387,577 | ||||
Less accumulated depreciation | (431,427) | (279,374) | ||||
Property and equipment, net | 1,024,140 | 1,108,203 | ||||
Total Assets | $ | 3,981,415 | $ | 2,122,336 | ||
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
F-2
WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES | ||||||
Consolidated Balance Sheets | ||||||
September 30, | December 31, | |||||
2016 | 2015 | |||||
(Unaudited) | (Audited) | |||||
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT) | ||||||
Current Liabilities: | ||||||
Accounts payable and accrued expenses | $ | 31,134 | $ | 158,715 | ||
Deferred revenue | 2,210,000 | 6,242,500 | ||||
Stock subscription payable | 765,000 | - | ||||
Total current liabilities | 3,006,134 | 6,401,215 | ||||
Stockholders' Equity (Deficit): | ||||||
Preferred stock 20,000,000 shares authorized: | ||||||
Series A convertible preferred stock, par $.001, 4,100,000 shares | 3,360 | 3,360 | ||||
designated, 3,360,000 issued and outstanding | ||||||
Series B convertible preferred stock, par $.001, 6,650,000 shares | ||||||
designated, 3,224,950 and 831,161 issued and outstanding | 3,225 | 831 | ||||
Series C convertible preferred stock, par $.001, 1,000 shares | ||||||
designated, 1,000 issued and outstanding | 1 | - | ||||
Common stock, $0.001 par value, 495,000,000 shares | ||||||
authorized, 25,044,000 and 25,005,000 issued | ||||||
and 241,966 and 475,611 outstanding | 25,044 | 25,005 | ||||
Additional paid-in capital | 15,702,572 | 7,976,628 | ||||
Treasury stock, 24,744,051 and 24,529,389 shares, at cost | (5,229,042) | (4,972,146) | ||||
Accumulated (deficit) | (9,529,879) | (7,312,557) | ||||
Total stockholders' equity (deficit) | 975,281 | (4,278,879) | ||||
Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity (Deficit) | $ | 3,981,415 | $ | 2,122,336 | ||
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
F-3
WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES | |||||
Consolidated Statements of Operations | |||||
For the Nine Months | |||||
Ended September 30, | |||||
2,016 | 2,015 | ||||
(Unaudited) | (Unaudited) | ||||
Net sales | $ | 70,171 | $ | 10,658 | |
Cost of goods sold | - | - | |||
Gross profit (loss) | 70,171 | 10,658 | |||
Operating expenses: | |||||
Selling, general and administrative | 1,998,513 | 837,759 | |||
Research and development | 5,942 | 156 | |||
Salaries and wages | 131,010 | - | |||
Depreciation and amortization | 152,053 | 150,886 | |||
Total operating expenses | 2,287,518 | 988,801 | |||
Operating (loss) | (2,217,347) | (978,143) | |||
Other income (expense): | |||||
Interest expense | - | (123,360) | |||
Interest income | 25 | 27 | |||
Other income (expense), net | 25 | (123,333) | |||
(Loss) before taxes | (2,217,322) | (1,101,476) | |||
Income tax expense | - | - | |||
Net (Loss) | $ | (2,217,322) | $ | (1,101,476) | |
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
F-4
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
F-5
WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Financial Statements
NOTE A - SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Description of Business: Wytec International, Inc. (Wytec), a Nevada corporation, designs, manufactures, and installs carrier-class Wi-Fi Solutions in the 70 and 80 gigahertz licensed frequency program to local government, Mobile Service Operations ("MSOs"), National Telecommunications Operators ("NTOs"), and corporate enterprises. Subsidiaries of the consolidated group include:
Wylink Inc. (Wylink), a Texas corporation and wholly owned subsidiary, has been engaged in the sale of Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") registered links participating in the 70 and 80 gigahertz licensed frequency program (the "Program"). The Program allows qualified individuals to own a segment of the "backhaul" infrastructure of Wytec's city-wide business deployment.
Wytec, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, formed September 7, 2012 and managed by General Patent Corporation (GPC), holds a partial ownership in patents focused on high capacity millimeter wave technology. On September 20, 2016, GPC, the Managing Partner of Wytec, LLC, assigned its partial ownership in the patents to Wytec, terminating the definitive agreement.
Collectively, Wytec and Wylink are referred to as "Company".
Basis of Accounting: The accompanying financial statements have been prepared by the Company's management in accordance with U. S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") and applied on a consistent basis.
Revenue Recognition: Revenue on sales of FCC register links is recognized once the link has been registered on behalf of the customer and the necessary equipment has been installed and is ready for use. Amounts collected prior to completion of all obligations to the customer are recorded as deferred revenue. Commission expense is recorded in the period in which the commission from the sale has been earned and paid, even though the revenue from the sale may not be recognized until a future period.
Cash and Cash Equivalents: The Company considers all bank deposits and short-term securities with a maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents.
Property and Equipment: Property and equipment are stated at cost. Depreciation is computed using the estimated useful lives of the related assets, generally ranging from five to ten years. Expenditures for repairs and maintenance are charged to costs and expensed as incurred, while expenditures for renewal and betterments are capitalized. Leasehold improvements are amortized over the remaining term of the lease. Upon retirement or replacement, the cost of capitalized assets and the related accumulated depreciation and amortization is eliminated with the resulting gain or loss recognized.
Depreciable assets are evaluated for impairment on at least an annual basis or upon significant change in the operating or macro-economic environment. In these circumstances, if an evaluation of the undiscounted cash flows indicate impairment, the asset is written down to its estimated fair value, which is generally based on discounted future cash flows. Useful lives are periodically evaluated to determine whether events or circumstances have occurred which indicate the need to revise the useful lives. No impairment charges were incurred as of September 30, 2016.
Deferred Revenue: Deferred revenue consists of amounts billed and collected before services have been completed.
F-6
WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Financial Statements
NOTE A - SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued
Income Taxes: The Company files an income tax return in the U.S. federal jurisdiction as part of the consolidated group of its majority shareholder, Competitive Companies Inc. The Company is also subject to state income taxes (including franchise, margin and business entity taxes) in several states and such taxes are reflected in income taxes on the Consolidated Statements of Operations. Management is not aware of any uncertain tax positions the Company has taken. The Company is subject to routine examinations by taxing authorities; however, there are currently no examinations for any tax periods in progress and its tax returns for the last four years remain open to examination by its significant taxing jurisdictions.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments: The Company's financial instruments include cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued expenses. The recorded values of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued expenses approximate their fair values based on their short-term nature.
Concentrations of Credit Risk: Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist principally of temporary cash investments. The Company maintains cash deposits with financial institutions and limits the amount of credit exposure to any one financial institution. Deposits with financial institutions may on occasion exceed the federally insured limits. The Company periodically assesses the financial institutions and believes the risk of any loss is minimal.
Government Regulations: The Company is subject to federal, state and local provisions regulating the discharge of materials into the environment. Management believes that its current practices and procedures for the control and disposition of such wastes comply with applicable federal, state and local requirements.
Subsequent Events: Subsequent events have been evaluated by management through the date of the independent auditor's review report. Material subsequent events, if any, are disclosed in a separate footnote to these financial statements.
New Accounting Pronouncements: In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued a new accounting pronouncement regarding revenue recognition effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018 (2017 for public companies). Management has not selected a transition method and is currently evaluating the effect the updated standard will have on the consolidated financial statements.
In February 2016, the FASB issued a new accounting pronouncement regarding lease accounting for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2019 (2018 for public companies) and for interim periods therein. Generally, leases with terms in excess of 12 months will be recognized on the balance sheet as an asset (right to use leased asset) and a liability (lease liability). The impact to operations is expected to be minimal. Management is currently evaluating the effect this pronouncement will have on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
Use of Estimates: The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
F-7
WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Financial Statements
NOTE B - GOING CONCERN
The consolidated financial statements are prepared using U.S. generally accepted accounting principles applicable to a going concern, which contemplate the realization of assets and liquidation of liabilities in the normal course of business. The Company has incurred continuous losses from operations, has an accumulated deficit of $9,529,879 and a working capital deficit of $48,859 at September 30, 2016, and reported cash used for operations of $2,051,365 for the nine months ended September 30, 2016. In addition, the Company expects to have ongoing requirements for capital investment to implement its business plan. Finally, the Company's ability to continue as a going concern must be considered in light of the problems, expenses and complications frequently encountered by entrance into established markets and the competitive environment in which it operates.
Since inception, operations have primarily been funded through private equity financing. Management expects to continue to seek additional funding through private or public equity sources and will seek debt financing. The Company's ability to continue as a going concern is ultimately dependent on its ability to generate sufficient cash from operations to meet cash needs and/or to raise funds to finance ongoing operations and repay debt. There can be no assurance that the Company will be successful in these efforts. These factors, among others, indicate that the Company may be unable to continue as a going concern for a reasonable period of time.
The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts, or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might be necessary should it be unable to continue as a going concern.
NOTE C - CONSTRUCTION IN PROCESS
Construction in process consists of equipment and materials that will be used to construct network, plant property and equipment. Equipment and materials related to links that have not gone live is a small portion of the value of this account and when installed for that purpose will be treated as cost of goods sold. Largely the value of this equipment and materials will be capitalized when each construction project is completed.
NOTE D - WARRANTS
The Company has common stock purchase warrants outstanding at September 30, 2016 to purchase 5,235,342 shares of common stock exercisable through various dates through December 31, 2017. The warrants are exercisable at the following amounts and rates: 3,949,342 at $1.50/share; 75,000 at $1.45/share; and 461,000 at$1.25/share; and 750,000 at $1.00/share.
F-8
WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Financial Statements
NOTE D - WARRANTS - continued
The following is a summary of activity and outstanding common stock warrants:
# of Warrants
|
|
Balance, January 1, 2015 |
3,261,525 |
Warrants granted |
1,055,292 |
Warrants exercised |
(5,000) |
Warrants expired |
(1,506,145) |
Balance, December 31, 2015 |
2,805,672 |
Warrants granted |
2,658,670 |
Warrants exercised |
(59,000) |
Warrants expired |
(170,000) |
Balance, September 30, 2016 |
5,235,342 |
Exercisable, September 30, 2016 |
5,235,342 |
NOTE E - STOCKHOLDERS' (DEFICIT)
Holders of common stock are entitled to one vote per share. The common stock does not have cumulative voting rights in the election of directors. Accordingly, the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock entitled to vote in any election of directors may elect all of the directors standing for election. Subject to preferential rights with respect to any series of preferred stock that may be issued, holders of the common stock are entitled to receive ratably such dividends as may be declared by the board of directors on the common stock out of funds legally available therefore and, in the event of liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of affairs, are entitled to share equally and ratably in all the remaining assets and funds.
Series A Preferred Stock is nonvoting capital stock but may be converted into voting common stock. Each share of Series A Preferred Stock is convertible at the option of the holder at any time after the issuance into one share of common stock, subject to adjustment from time to time in the event (i) the Company subdivides or combines its outstanding common stock into a greater or smaller number of shares, including stock splits and stock dividends; or (ii) of a reorganization or reclassification of common stock, the consolidation or merger with or into another company, the sale, conveyance or other transfer of substantially all of the Company assets to another corporation or other similar event, whereby securities or other assets are issuable or distributable to the holders of the outstanding common stock upon the occurrence of any such event; or (iii) of the issuance to the holders of Company common stock of securities convertible into, or exchangeable for, such shares of common stock.
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WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Financial Statements
NOTE E - STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT) - continued
Each outstanding share of Series A Preferred Stock will automatically convert into one share of common stock (a) if the common stock commences public trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market or better, (b) if the Series A Preferred Stockholder receives distributions from the Net Profits Pool equal to the original purchase price paid for their Registered Links, or (c) five years after the date of issuance of the Series A Preferred Stock. The Company does not have any other right to require a conversion of the Series A Preferred Stock into common stock. The Company does not have the option to redeem outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock. A holder of the Series A Preferred Stock has no preemptive rights to subscribe for any additional shares of any class of stock or for any issue of bonds, notes or other securities convertible into any class of stock. In the event of a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up whether voluntary or otherwise, after payment of debts and other liabilities, the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive from the remaining net assets, before any distribution to the holders of the common stock, the amount of $1.50 per share. After payment of the liquidation preference to the holders of Series A Preferred Stock and payment of any other distributions that may be required with respect to any other series of Preferred Stock, the remaining assets, if any, will be distributed ratably to the holders of the common stock and the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock on an as-if converted basis.
The Series B Preferred Stock is voting capital stock. The holders of the Series B Preferred Stock will vote on an as-converted basis with the common stock on all matters submitted to a vote of the shareholders. The holders of the Series B Preferred Stock are not entitled to any dividends unless and until the Series B Preferred Stock is converted into common stock. Each share of Series B Preferred Stock is convertible at the option of the holder at any time after issuance into one share of common stock, subject to adjustment from time to time in the event (i) the Company subdivides or combines into outstanding common stock into a greater or smaller number of shares, including stock splits and stock dividends; or (ii) of a reorganization or reclassification of common stock, the consolidation or merger with or into another company, the sale, conveyance or other transfer of substantially all of the Company assets to another corporation or other similar event, whereby securities or other assets are issuable or distributable to the holders of the outstanding common stock upon the occurrence of any such event; or (iii) of the issuance by us to the holders of common stock of securities convertible into, or exchangeable for, such shares of common stock.
Each outstanding share of Series B Preferred Stock will automatically convert into one share of common stock at a conversion rate equal to the lesser of $3.00 per share or 75% of the average closing price of the Company's common stock as quoted on the public securities trading market on which our common stock is then traded with the highest volume, for ten (10) consecutive trading days immediately after the first day of public trading of common stock if common stock commences public trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market or better, but in any event no less than $2.50 per share or at $3.00 per share five years after the date of issuance of the Series B Preferred Stock. In the event of a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up whether voluntary or otherwise, after payment of debts and other liabilities, the holders of the Series B Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive from the remaining net assets, before any distribution to the holders of the common stock, and pari pasu with the payment of a liquidation preference of $1.50 per share to the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock, the amount of $3.00 per share. After payment of the liquidation preference to the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock and the Series B Preferred Stock, and payment of any other distribution that may be required with respect to any other series of Preferred Stock, the remaining assets, if any, will be distributed ratably to the holders of the common stock, the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock, and the holders of the Series B Preferred Stock on an as-if converted basis.
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WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Financial Statements
NOTE F - INCOME TAXES
For the nine months ended September 30, 2016, the Company incurred a net operating losses and, accordingly, there is no provision of income taxes (federal or state). At December 31, 2015, the Company had approximately $15,000,000 of federal net operating loss carry forwards. The net operating loss carry forwards, if not utilized, will begin to expire in 2026.
The components of the Company's deferred tax asset are as follows at September 30, 2016:
Deferred tax assets: | ||
Net operating loss carry forwards | $ | 6,026,073 |
Less: Valuation allowance |
(6,026,073)
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Net deferred tax assets | $ |
-
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The federal income tax benefit expected by the application of a 35% corporate income tax rate to pre-tax net loss differs from the actual benefit recognized due to the valuation allowance recorded for the nine months ended September 30, 2016. Based on the available objective evidence, including the Company's history of losses, management believes it is more likely than not that the net deferred tax assets will not be fully realizable. Accordingly, the Company provided for a full valuation allowance of its net deferred tax asset as of September 30, 2016.
NOTE G - RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Shared Services: The Company has shared services agreements with its parent company, Competitive Companies. Inc., which requires either party to pay for its allocated share of employment and overhead costs. Wytec International, Inc. was charged an administrative net expense of $517,878 for the nine months ending September 30, 2016. These allocated costs are reflected in selling, general and administrative on the Consolidated Statement of Operations.
Related Party Receivable/Payable: From time to time the Company has transactions with its parent which may result in an outstanding receivable/payable. The Company determined to settle net receivables or payables with the Company's parent twice a year, on June 30 and December 31. At September 30, 2016 the net receivable from Competitive Companies, Inc. was $56,996. See Note H.
NOTE H - TREASURY STOCK
The Company, through negotiations with its parent, Competitive Companies Inc., entered into an agreement to purchase back shares of stock held by the parent in exchange for the amount of the outstanding receivable. For the nine months ended September 30, 2016, the Company purchased 214,662 shares of its common stock for $256,895.
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WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Financial Statements
NOTE I - LEASES
The Company has entered into multiple rooftop lease agreements for the placement of equipment used in the build out of the Company's Millimeter Wave Network. The monthly lease payments range from $100 to $575 per month and the leases expire from 2018 to 2024. Rent expense for these leases totaled approximately $46,685 for the nine months ended September 30, 2016.
Future minimum lease payments to third parties will require the following amounts:
Period Ended September 30, | Amount |
2017 |
84,916 |
2018 |
59,950 |
2019 |
47,835 |
2020 |
44,042 |
2021 |
40,959 |
Thereafter |
97,260 |
NOTE J - SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
In October 2016, the Company issued 58,500 shares of Wytec International, Inc. ("Wytec") common stock to six investors pursuant to a warrant exercise.
In October 2016, the Company issued 157,500 shares of Wytec. Series B Preferred Stock and 157,500 Wytec common stock purchase warrants to investors pursuant to Wytec's private placement made pursuant to Rule 506(c) of Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
In October 2016, the Company issued 170,000 shares of Wytec's Series B Preferred Stock and 170,000 Wytec common stock purchase warrants in exchange for 17 registered links that were included in deferred revenue.
In October 2016, the Company refunded two Registered Links for a total cash payment of $70,000 for the return of two link obligations.
In October 2016, the Company issued 1,731,104 warrants to its parent, Competitive Companies. Inc., with an exercise price of $5 and an expiration date of December 31, 2017.
In October 2016, the parent company, Competitive Companies, Inc. approved through shareholder approval the spin-off of the Company. Competitive Companies, Inc. currently owns 255,949 shares of the outstanding Wytec common stock and 1,731,104 Wytec common stock purchase warrants.
In November 2016, the Company issued 25,000 shares of Wytec International, Inc. ("Wytec") common stock to two investors pursuant to a warrant exercise.
In November 2016, the Company issued from treasury stock 609,603 common shares to the Company's parent, Competitive Companies. Inc., for the purchase of all outstanding shares of Capaciti Networks.
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WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Financial Statements
NOTE J - SUBSEQUENT EVENTS - Continued
In November 2016, the Company issued 21,000 shares of Wytec. Series B Preferred Stock and 21,000 Wytec common stock purchase warrants to investors pursuant to Wytec's private placement made pursuant to Rule506(c) of Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
In December 2016, the Company issued 10,000 shares of Wytec International, Inc. ("Wytec") common stock to one investor pursuant to a warrant exercise.
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WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
Audited Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2015
AKIN, DOHERTY, KLEIN & FUEGE, P.C.
Certifited Public Accountants
WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Table of Contents
December 31, 2015
Audited Consolidated Financial Statements |
Page |
Independent Auditor's Report | 1 |
Consolidated Balance Sheets | 2 |
Consolidated Statements of Operations | 4 |
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders' (Deficit) | 5 |
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows | 7 |
Notes to Audited Consolidated Financial Statements | 8 |
WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES | |||
Consolidated Balance Sheets | |||
December 31, 2015 and 2014 | |||
2015 | 2014 | ||
ASSETS | |||
Current Assets: | |||
Cash and cash equivalents | $ 1,013,033 | $ 142,105 | |
Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 1,100 | 1,100 | |
Total current assets | 1,014,133 | 143,205 | |
Property and Equipment: | |||
Telecommunication equipment and computers | 1,027,677 | 1,025,296 | |
Construction in process | 359,900 | 476,099 | |
Total property and equipment | 1,387,577 | 1,501,395 | |
Less accumulated depreciation | (279,374) | (78,192) | |
Property and equipment, net | 1,108,203 | 1,423,203 | |
Total Assets | $ 2,122,336 | $ 1,566,408 |
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WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES | |||
Consolidated Statements of Operations | |||
Years Ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 | |||
2015 | 2014 | ||
Net sales | $ 15,228 | $ 254,284 | |
Cost of goods sold | 38,188 | 97,520 | |
Gross profit (loss) | (22,960) | 156,764 | |
Operating expenses: | |||
Selling, general and administrative | 1,623,109 | 3,053,400 | |
Research and development | 22,357 | 368,933 | |
Depreciation and amortization | 201,181 | 95,692 | |
Total operating expenses | 1,846,647 | 3,518,025 | |
Operating (loss) | (1,869,607) | (3,361,261) | |
Other income (expense): | |||
Interest expense | (129,503) | (73,252) | |
Gain on sale of assets | - | 62,500 | |
Interest income | 40 | 216 | |
Other, net | - | 1,500 | |
Other income (expense), net | (129,463) | (9,036) | |
(Loss) before taxes | (1,999,070) | (3,370,297) | |
Income tax expense | - | - | |
Net (Loss) | $ (1,999,070) | $ (3,370,297) |
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WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES | |||||||
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders' (Deficit) | |||||||
Years Ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 | |||||||
Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | ||||||
Series A | Series B | ||||||
Shares | Amount | Shares | Amount | ||||
Balance at January 1, 2014 | - | $ - | - | $ - | |||
Issuance of warrants for extension of debts | - | - | - | - | |||
Issuance of warrants for services performed | - | - | - | - | |||
Issuance of preferred stock for liabilities, | |||||||
links and equipment | 3,360,000 | 3,360 | - | - | |||
Issuance of detachable warrants | - | - | - | - | |||
Exchange of related party receivable for | |||||||
23,532,049 shares of common stock | - | - | - | - | |||
Net (loss) | - | - | |||||
Balance at December 31, 2014 | 3,360,000 | 3,360 | - | - | |||
Issuance of preferred stock to satisfy | |||||||
subscription payable | - | - | 20,000 | 20 | |||
Issuance of series B preferred stock | - | - | 621,010 | 621 | |||
Issuance of series B preferred stock to satisfy | |||||||
notes payable | - | - | 190,151 | 190 | |||
Issuance of common stock | - | - | - | - | |||
Issuance of detachable warrants | - | - | - | - | |||
Exchange of related party receivable for | |||||||
997,340 shares of common stock | - | - | - | - | |||
Net (loss) | - | - | - | - | |||
Balance at December 31, 2015 | 3,360,000 | $ 3,360 | 831,161 | $ 831 |
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Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders' (Deficit) | ||||||||||
Years Ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 | ||||||||||
Common | Total | |||||||||
Stock | Additional | Treasury | Accumulated | Stockholders' | ||||||
Shares | Amount | Paid-In Capital | Stock | (Deficit) | (Deficit) | |||||
25,000,000 | $ 25,000 | $ 6,420 | $ - | $ (1,943,190) | $ (1,911,770) | |||||
- | - | 125,548 | - | - | 125,548 | |||||
- | - | 616,150 | - | - | 616,150 | |||||
- | - | 4,726,649 | - | - | 4,730,009 | |||||
- | - | 3,611 | - | - | 3,611 | |||||
- | - | - | (4,085,926) | - | (4,085,926) | |||||
- | - | - | - | (3,370,297) | (3,370,297) | |||||
25,000,000 | 25,000 | 5,478,378 | (4,085,926) | (5,313,487) | (3,892,675) | |||||
- | - | 59,980 | - | - | 60,000 | |||||
- | - | 1,862,419 | - | - | 1,863,040 | |||||
- | - | 570,267 | - | - | 570,457 | |||||
5,000 | 5 | 4,995 | - | - | 5,000 | |||||
- | - | 589 | - | - | 589 | |||||
- | - | - | (886,220) | - | (886,220) | |||||
- | - | - | - | (1,999,070) | (1,999,070) | |||||
25,005,000 | $ 25,005 | $ 7,976,628 | $ (4,972,146) | $ (7,312,557) | $ (4,278,879) |
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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows | |||
Years Ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 | |||
2015 | 2014 | ||
Operating Activities | |||
Net (loss) | $ (1,999,070) | $ (3,370,297) | |
Adjustments to reconcile (loss) to net | |||
cash (used) by operating activities: | |||
Warrants issued for services | - | 616,150 | |
Depreciation | 201,181 | 95,692 | |
(Gain) on sale of assets | - | (62,500) | |
Changes in operating assets and liabilities: | |||
Account receivables | - | 70,000 | |
Related party receivables | (817,395) | (1,084,114) | |
Accounts payable and accrued expenses | (18,420) | 42,792 | |
Deferred revenue | 1,557,500 | 3,555,520 | |
Net cash (used) by operating activities | (1,076,204) | (136,757) | |
Investing Activities | |||
Purchases of property and equipment | - | (346,849) | |
Exchange of equipment | 113,819 | - | |
Net cash provided (used) by investing activities | 113,819 | (346,849) | |
Financing Activities | |||
Payments on other term debt | (94,727) | - | |
Proceeds from borrowing on term debt | - | 46,252 | |
Proceeds from issuance of common stock | 5,000 | - | |
Proceeds from issuance of perferred stock | 1,923,040 | - | |
Net cash provided by financing activities | 1,833,313 | 46,252 | |
Change in cash and cash equivalents | 870,928 | (437,354) | |
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period | 142,105 | 579,459 | |
Cash and Cash Equivalents at End of Period | $ 1,013,033 | $ 142,105 | |
Supplemental Disclosures | |||
Interest paid in cash | $ 129,503 | $ 73,252 | |
Income taxes (Texas margin tax) paid in cash | - | - | |
Non-Cash Investing and Financing Activities | |||
Issuance of preferred stock in exchange for deferred revenue obligations | $ - | $ 4,280,000 | |
Issuance of preferred stock in exchange for registered links and equipment | - | 450,000 | |
Warrants issued for convertible debentures and accrued interest | - | 129,159 | |
Sale of property and equipment in exchange for deferred revenue obligations | - | 220,000 | |
Exchange of related party receivable for treasury stock | 886,220 | 4,085,926 | |
Issuance of Preferred Stock Series B in exchange for CCI Notes | 68,825 | - | |
Issuance of Preferred Stock Series B in exchange for convertible debentures | 271,252 | - | |
Issuance of Preferred Stock Series B in exchange for non-convertible debentures | 230,380 | - |
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WYTEC INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Audited Financial Statements
December 31, 2015 and 2014
NOTE A - SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Description of Business: Wytec International, Inc. (Wytec), a Nevada corporation, designs, manufactures, and installs carrier-class Wi-Fi Solutions in the 70 and 80 gigahertz licensed frequency program to local government, Mobile Service Operations ("MSOs"), National Telecommunications Operators ("NTOs"), and corporate enterprises. Subsidiaries of the consolidated group include:
Wylink Inc. (Wylink), a Texas corporation and wholly owned subsidiary, has been engaged in the sale of Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") registered links participating in the 70 and 80 gigahertz licensed frequency program (the "Program"). The Program allows qualified individuals to own a segment of the "backhaul" infrastructure of Wytec's city-wide business deployment.
Wytec, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, formed September 7, 2012 and managed by General Patent Corporation, holds a partial ownership in patents focused on high capacity millimeter wave technology.
Collectively, Wytec, Wylink and Wytec, LLC are referred to as "Company".
Basis of Accounting: The accompanying financial statements have been prepared by the Company's management in accordance with U. S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") and applied on a consistent basis.
Revenue Recognition: Revenue on sales of FCC register links is recognized once the link has been registered on behalf of the customer and the necessary equipment has been installed and is ready for use. Amounts collected prior to completion of all obligations to the customer are recorded as deferred revenue. Commission expense is recorded in the period in which the commission from the sale has been earned and paid, even though the revenue from the sale may not be recognized until a future period.
Cash and Cash Equivalents: The Company considers all bank deposits and short-term securities with a maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents.
Property and Equipment: Property and equipment are stated at cost. Depreciation is computed using the estimated useful lives of the related assets, generally ranging from five to ten years. Expenditures for repairs and maintenance are charged to costs and expensed as incurred, while expenditures for renewal and betterments are capitalized. Leasehold improvements are amortized over the remaining term of the lease. Upon retirement or replacement, the cost of capitalized assets and the related accumulated depreciation and amortization is eliminated with the resulting gain or loss recognized.
Depreciable assets are evaluated for impairment on at least an annual basis or upon significant change in the operating or macro-economic environment. In these circumstances, if an evaluation of the undiscounted cash flows indicate impairment, the asset is written down to its estimated fair value, which is generally based on discounted future cash flows. Useful lives are periodically evaluated to determine whether events or circumstances have occurred which indicate the need to revise the useful lives. No impairment charges were incurred in 2015 and 2014.
Deferred Revenue: Deferred revenue consists of amounts billed and collected before services have been completed.
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WYTEC INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Audited Financial Statements
December 31, 2015 and 2014
NOTE A - SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued
Income Taxes: The Company files an income tax return in the U.S. federal jurisdiction as part of the consolidated group of its majority shareholder, Competitive Companies Inc. The Company is also subject to state income taxes (including franchise, margin and business entity taxes) in several states and such taxes are reflected in income taxes on the Consolidated Statements of Operations. Management is not aware of any uncertain tax positions the Company has taken. The Company is subject to routine examinations by taxing authorities; however, there are currently no examinations for any tax periods in progress and its tax returns for the last four years remain open to examination by its significant taxing jurisdictions.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments: The Company's financial instruments include cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued expenses. The recorded values of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued expenses approximate their fair values based on their short-term nature.
Concentrations of Credit Risk: Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist principally of temporary cash investments. The Company maintains cash deposits with financial institutions and limits the amount of credit exposure to any one financial institution. Deposits with financial institutions may on occasion exceed the federally insured limits. The Company periodically assesses the financial institutions and believes the risk of any loss is minimal.
Government Regulations: The Company is subject to federal, state and local provisions regulating the discharge of materials into the environment. Management believes that its current practices and procedures for the control and disposition of such wastes comply with applicable federal, state and local requirements.
Subsequent Events: Subsequent events have been evaluated by management through the date of the independent auditor's review report. Material subsequent events, if any, are disclosed in a separate footnote to these financial statements.
New Accounting Pronouncements: In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued a new accounting pronouncement regarding revenue recognition effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018 (2017 for public companies). Management has not selected a transition method and is currently evaluating the effect the updated standard will have on the consolidated financial statements.
In February 2016, the FASB issued a new accounting pronouncement regarding lease accounting for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2019 (2018 for public companies) and for interim periods therein. Generally, leases with terms in excess of 12 months will be recognized on the balance sheet as an asset (right to use leased asset) and a liability (lease liability). The impact to operations is expected to be minimal. Management is currently evaluating the effect this pronouncement will have on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
Use of Estimates: The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with U. S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
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WYTEC INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Audited Financial Statements
December 31, 2015 and 2014
NOTE B - GOING CONCERN
The consolidated financial statements are prepared using U.S. generally accepted accounting principles applicable to a going concern, which contemplate the realization of assets and liquidation of liabilities in the normal course of business. The Company has incurred continuous losses from operations, has an accumulated deficit of $7,312,557 and a working capital deficit of $5,387,082 at December 31, 2015, and reported cash used for operations of $1,076,204 in 2015. In addition, the Company expects to have ongoing requirements for capital investment to implement its business plan. Finally, the Company's ability to continue as a going concern must be considered in light of the problems, expenses and complications frequently encountered by entrance into established markets and the competitive environment in which it operates.
Since inception, operations have primarily been funded through private equity financing. Management expects to continue to seek additional funding through private or public equity sources and will seek debt financing. The Company's ability to continue as a going concern is ultimately dependent on its ability to generate sufficient cash from operations to meet cash needs and/or to raise funds to finance ongoing operations and repay debt. There can be no assurance that the Company will be successful in these efforts. These factors, among others, indicate that the Company may be unable to continue as a going concern for a reasonable period of time.
The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts, or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might be necessary should it be unable to continue as a going concern.
NOTE C - CONSTRUCTION IN PROCESS
Construction in process consists of equipment and materials that will be used to construct network, plant property and equipment. Equipment and materials related to links that have not gone live is a small portion of the value of this account and when installed for that purpose will be treated as cost of goods sold. Largely the value of this equipment and materials will be capitalized when each construction project is completed.
NOTE D - CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURES
The Company has issued unsecured convertible promissory notes which totaled $596,968 at December 31, 2014. The notes bear interest at 12.5% and mature at various dates. During 2015 the Company converted $467,334 of the convertible promissory notes plus $34,298 of accrued interest into 167,210 shares of Series B Preferred Stock. The remaining notes were paid in full during 2015.
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WYTEC INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Audited Financial Statements
December 312, 2015 and 2014
NOTE E - WARRANTS
The Company has common stock purchase warrants outstanding at December 31, 2015 to purchase 2,805,672 shares of common stock exercisable through various dates through December 31, 2017. The warrants are exercisable at the following amounts and rates: 170,000 at $1.75/share; 1,310,672 at $1.50/share; 75,000 at $1.45/share; 500,000 at $1.25/share; and 750,000 at $1.00/share. During the year ended December 31, 2015, the Company issued 294,567 common stock purchase warrants for the settlement of convertible debentures and 760,725 common stock purchase warrants in conjunction with its sale of Series B Preferred stock.
The following is a summary of activity and outstanding common stock warrants:
# of Warrants | |||
Balance, January 1, 2014 | 2,011,100 | ||
Warrants granted | 2,250,380 | ||
Warrants exercised | - | ||
Warrants expired | (999,955) | ||
Balance, December 31, 2014 | 3,261,525 | ||
Warrants granted | 1,055,292 | ||
Warrants exercised | (5,000) | ||
Warrants expired | (1,506,145) | ||
Balance, December 31, 2015 | 2,805,672 | ||
Exercisable, December 31, 2015 | 2,805,672 | ||
NOTE F - STOCKHOLDERS' (DEFICIT)
Holders of common stock are entitled to one vote per share. The common stock does not have cumulative voting rights in the election of directors. Accordingly, the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock entitled to vote in any election of directors may elect all of the directors standing for election. Subject to preferential rights with respect to any series of preferred stock that may be issued, holders of the common stock are entitled to receive ratably such dividends as may be declared by the board of directors on the common stock out of funds legally available therefore and, in the event of liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of affairs, are entitled to share equally and ratably in all the remaining assets and funds.
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WYTEC INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Audited Financial Statements
December 31, 2015 and 2014
NOTE F - STOCKHOLDERS' (DEFICIT) - continued
Series A Preferred Stock is nonvoting capital stock but may be converted into voting common stock. Each share of Series A Preferred Stock is convertible at the option of the holder at any time after the issuance into one share of common stock, subject to adjustment from time to time in the event (i) the Company subdivides or combines its outstanding common stock into a greater or smaller number of shares, including stock splits and stock dividends; or (ii) of a reorganization or reclassification of common stock, the consolidation or merger with or into another company, the sale, conveyance or other transfer of substantially all of the Company assets to another corporation or other similar event, whereby securities or other assets are issuable or distributable to the holders of the outstanding common stock upon the occurrence of any such event; or (iii) of the issuance to the holders of Company common stock of securities convertible into, or exchangeable for, such shares of common stock.
Each outstanding share of Series A Preferred Stock will automatically convert into one share of common stock (a) if the common stock commences public trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market or better, (b) if the Series A Preferred Stockholder receives distributions from the Net Profits Pool equal to the original purchase price paid for their Registered Links, or (c) five years after the date of issuance of the Series A Preferred Stock. The Company does not have any other right to require a conversion of the Series A Preferred Stock into common stock. The Company does not have the option to redeem outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock. A holder of the Series A Preferred Stock has no preemptive rights to subscribe for any additional shares of any class of stock or for any issue of bonds, notes or other securities convertible into any class of stock. In the event of a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up whether voluntary or otherwise, after payment of debts and other liabilities, the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive from the remaining net assets, before any distribution to the holders of the common stock, the amount of $1.50 per share. After payment of the liquidation preference to the holders of Series A Preferred Stock and payment of any other distributions that may be required with respect to any other series of Preferred Stock, the remaining assets, if any, will be distributed ratably to the holders of the common stock and the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock on an as-if converted basis.
The Series B Preferred Stock is voting capital stock. The holders of the Series B Preferred Stock will vote on an as-converted basis with the common stock on all matters submitted to a vote of the shareholders. The holders of the Series B Preferred Stock are not entitled to any dividends unless and until the Series B Preferred Stock is converted into common stock. Each share of Series B Preferred Stock is convertible at the option of the holder at any time after issuance into one share of common stock, subject to adjustment from time to time in the event (i) the Company subdivides or combines into outstanding common stock into a greater or smaller number of shares, including stock splits and stock dividends; or (ii) of a reorganization or reclassification of common stock, the consolidation or merger with or into another company, the sale, conveyance or other transfer of substantially all of the Company assets to another corporation or other similar event, whereby securities or other assets are issuable or distributable to the holders of the outstanding common stock upon the occurrence of any such event; or (iii) of the issuance by us to the holders of common stock of securities convertible into, or exchangeable for, such shares of common stock.
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WYTEC INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Audited Financial Statements
December 31, 2015 and 2014
NOTE F - STOCKHOLDERS' (DEFICIT) - continued
Each outstanding share of Series B Preferred Stock will automatically convert into one share of common stock at a conversion rate equal to the lesser of $3.00 per share or 75% of the average closing price of the Company's common stock as quoted on the public securities trading market on which our common stock is then traded with the highest volume, for ten (10) consecutive trading days immediately after the first day of public trading of common stock if common stock commences public trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market or better, but in any event no less than $2.50 per share or at $3.00 per share five years after the date of issuance of the Series B Preferred Stock. In the event of a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up whether voluntary or otherwise, after payment of debts and other liabilities, the holders of the Series B Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive from the remaining net assets, before any distribution to the holders of the common stock, and pari pasu with the payment of a liquidation preference of $1.50 per share to the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock, the amount of $3.00 per share. After payment of the liquidation preference to the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock and the Series B Preferred Stock, and payment of any other distribution that may be required with respect to any other series of Preferred Stock, the remaining assets, if any, will be distributed ratably to the holders of the common stock, the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock, and the holders of the Series B Preferred Stock on an as-if converted basis.
NOTE G - INCOME TAXES
For the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, the Company incurred net operating losses and, accordingly, there is no provision of income taxes (federal or state. At December 31, 2015, the Company had approximately $15,000,000 of federal net operating loss carry forwards. The net operating loss carry forwards, if not utilized, will begin to expire in 2026.
The components of the Company's deferred tax asset are as follows:
2015 | 2014 | ||
Deferred tax assets: | |||
Net operating loss carry forwards | $ 5,250,000 | $ 4,250,000 | |
Less: Valuation allowance | (5,250,000) | (4,250,000) | |
Net deferred tax assets | $ - | $ - |
The federal income tax benefit expected by the application of a 35% corporate income tax rate to pre-tax net loss differs from the actual benefit recognized due to the valuation allowance recorded for 2015 and 2014. Based on the available objective evidence, including the Company's history of losses, management believes it is more likely than not that the net deferred tax assets will not be fully realizable. Accordingly, the Company provided for a full valuation allowance of its net deferred tax asset at December 31, 2015 and 2014.
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WYTEC INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Audited Financial Statements
December 31, 2015 and 2014
NOTE H - RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Shared Services: The Company has shared services agreements with its parent company, Competitive Companies Inc., which requires it to pay for its allocated share of employment and overhead costs. The Company was charged an administrative expense allocation of $438,755 and $452,073 for the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively. These costs are included in selling, general and administrative on the Consolidated Statement of Operations.
Related Party Receivable/Payable: From time to time the Company has transactions with its parent which may result in an outstanding receivable/payable. At December 31, 2015 and 2014 the net receivable from Competitive Companies, Inc. was exchanged for treasury shares. See Note I.
NOTE I - TREASURY STOCK
Subsequent to year end the Company, through negotiations with its parent, Competitive Companies Inc., entered into an agreement to purchase back shares of stock held by the parent. For the year ended December 31, 2015, the Company purchased 997,340 shares of its common stock for $886,132. For the year ended December 31, 2014, the Company purchased 23,532,049 shares of its common stock for $4,085,927.
NOTE J - LEASES
The Company has entered into multiple rooftop lease agreements for the placement of equipment used in the build out of the Company's Millimeter Wave Network. The monthly lease payments range from $100 to $575 per month and the leases expire from 2018 to 2024. Rent expense for these leases totaled approximately $78,000 in 2015 and $64,000 in 2014.
Future minimum lease payments to third parties will require the following amounts:
Year Ended December 31, | Amount | |
2016 | 73,716 | |
2017 | 67,733 | |
2018 | 57,356 | |
2019 | 44,661 | |
2020 | 43,836 | |
Thereafter | 127,260 |
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WYTEC INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Audited Financial Statements
December 31, 2015 and 2014
NOTE K - SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
On July 20, 2016, the Board of Directors authorized the issuance of 1,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock to the Company's Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, William H. Gray, upon the recording of the Certificate of Designation with the Secretary of State of Nevada. On July 26, 2016, a Certificate of Designation for the Company's Series C Preferred Stock was recorded with the Secretary of State of Nevada designating 1,000 shares of its authorized preferred stock as Series C Preferred Stock. The Series C Preferred Stock does not have a dividend rate or liquidation preference and is not convertible into shares of common stock. For so long as any shares of the Series C Preferred Stock remain issued and outstanding, the holders thereof, voting separately as a class, shall have the right to vote in an amount equal to 51% of the total vote (representing a super majority voting power) with respect to all matters submitted to a vote of the shareholders of the Company.
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PART II
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN THE PROSPECTUS
Item 13. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution
The following table sets forth the costs and expenses payable by us in connection with the offer of the common stock being registered. All amounts are estimates except the SEC registration fee.
SEC registration fee | $0.50 |
Legal fees and expenses | * |
Accounting fees and expenses | * |
Transfer agent and registrar fees and expenses | * |
Miscellaneous fees and expenses | * |
Total |
* |
*To be filed by amendment.
Item 14. Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Our articles of incorporation provide that our directors will not be personally liable for monetary damages to us for certain breaches of fiduciary duty as directors to the fullest extent allowable by Nevada law. Under Nevada law, subject to specified exceptions, or unless the articles of incorporation provide for greater individual liability, a director or officer is not individually liable to us or our stockholders or creditors for any damages as a result of any act or failure to act in his capacity as a director or officer unless it is proven that (a) his act or failure to act constituted a breach of his fiduciary duties as a director or officer and (b) his breach of those duties involved intentional misconduct, fraud, or a knowing violation of law. Under current Nevada law, directors and officers would remain liable for: (i) acts or omissions which constitute a breach of fiduciary duty and which involve intentional misconduct, fraud or a knowing violation of law, and (ii) approval of certain illegal dividends or redemptions. In appropriate circumstances, equitable remedies or non-monetary relief, such as an injunction, may remain available to a stockholder seeking redress from any such violation.
Insofar as an indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted for directors, officers or persons controlling us pursuant to the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission each indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.
Item 15. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
Set forth below in reverse chronological order is information regarding the number of shares of capital stock issued by us since November 15, 2013 that were not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").
On or about December 31, 2016, we completed a private placement of approximately 1,258,536 shares of Series B Preferred Stock and 1,258,536 common stock purchase warrants with an exercise price of $1.50 per share exercisable until December 31, 2017 for a purchase price of $3.00 per unit, each unit consisting of one share of Series B Preferred Stock and one common stock purchase warrant, raising total capital of $3,775,608 from 55 accredited investors. This issuance was made pursuant to Rule 506(c) of Regulation D of the Securities Act.
On or about October 17, 2016, we issued a total of 1,731,104 common stock purchase warrants with an exercise price of $5.00 per share exercisable until December 31, 2017 to stock to Competitive Companies, Inc. for a total purchase price of $20,773. This issuance was made pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D of the Securities Act.
From August 11, 2016 until October 31, 2016, we issued a total of 1,215,000 shares of Series B Preferred Stock and 1,215,000 common stock purchase warrants with an exercise price of $1.50 per share in exchange for 121.5 Links owned by 52 accredited and 13 non-accredited Link holders. This issuance was made pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D of the Securities Act.
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On or about July 20, 2016, we issued 1,000 shares of our Series C Preferred Stock to Mr. William H. Gray, our chief executive officer. This issuance was made pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D of the Securities Act.
On or about March 13, 2016, we completed a private placement of approximately 919,763 shares of our Series B Preferred Stock and 919,763 common stock purchase warrants with an exercise price of $1.50 per share exercisable until December 31, 2017 for a purchase price of $3.00 per unit, each unit consisting of one share of Series B Preferred Stock and one common stock purchase warrant, raising total capital of $2,759,289 from 47 accredited investors. Five of the investors received a total of 208,346 additional common stock purchase warrants for purchasing at least $100,000 of units and one of the investors received 31,250 additional common stock purchase warrants for purchasing $75,000 of units. This issuance was made pursuant to Rule 506(c) of Regulation D of the Securities Act.
On December 30, 2015, we issued 5,000 common stock purchase warrants at an exercise price of $1.50 per share exercisable until December 31, 2017 to one non accredited investor in consideration for services rendered to the Company. This issuance was made pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D of the Securities Act.
From June 30, 2015 to August 19, 2015, we issued a total 190,151 shares of our Series B Preferred Stock and 285,227 common stock purchase warrants with an exercise price of $1.50 per share exercisable until June 30, 2017 to 21 non-accredited investors in consideration for the cancellation of $570,457 of promissory notes, including principal and accrued but unpaid interest. This issuance was made pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D of the Securities Act.
From July 14, 2015 to August 28, 2015, we issued a total of 9,340 common stock purchase warrants with an exercise price of $1.50 per share exercisable until June 30, 2017 to three non-accredited investors in consideration for extension of the maturity date of $18,595 of promissory notes. This issuance was made pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D of the Securities Act.
Between June 30, 2015 and November 15, 2016, we issued a total of 127,500 shares of our common stock pursuant to the exercise of 127,500 common stock purchase warrants by 13 non-accredited investors, for which the Company received $175,250 of capital. This issuance was made pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D of the Securities Act.
On September 12, 2014, we issued 170,000 common stock purchase warrants at an exercise price of $1.75 per share exercisable until September 13, 2016 to one non-accredited investor in consideration for services rendered to the Company. This issuance was made pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D of the Securities Act.
On May 4, 2014, we issued 24,000,000 shares of our common stock to Competitive Companies, Inc. for its provision of management services to us. This issuance was made pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D of the Securities Act.
On April 1, 2014, we issued 500,000 common stock purchase warrants at an exercise price of $1.25 per share exercisable until December 31, 2016 to one non-accredited investor in consideration for services rendered to us. This issuance was made pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D of the Securities Act.
On April 1, 2014, we issued 500,000 common stock purchase warrants at an exercise price of $1.25 per share exercisable until December 31, 2015 to one non-accredited investor in consideration for services rendered to us. This issuance was made pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D of the Securities Act.
From January 27, 2014 until April 30, 2014, we issued a total of 3,360,000 shares of our Series A Preferred Stock in exchange for 168 Links owned by 51 accredited and 19 non-accredited Link holders. This issuance was made pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D of the Securities Act.
From November 15, 2013 to April 18, 2014, we issued a total of 1,087,777 common stock purchase warrants with exercise prices ranging from $1.00 to $1.50 per share exercisable until various dates ranging from October 18, 2015 to December 31, 2017 to six accredited investors in consideration for the extension of the maturity date of $457,500 of promissory notes. This issuance was made pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D of the Securities Act.
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Item 16. Exhibits
Exhibits
Exhibit Description
3.1 |
Articles of Incorporation, dated November 7, 2011 |
3.2 |
Amendment to Articles of Incorporation, dated January 14, 2014 |
3.3 |
Amendment to Articles of Incorporation, dated June 13, 2014 |
3.4 |
Bylaws |
3.5 |
Certificate of Designation for Series A Preferred Stock, dated February 14, 2014 |
3.6 |
Certificate of Designation for Series B Preferred Stock, dated June 13, 2014 |
3.7 |
Amendment to Certificate of Designation for Series B Preferred Stock, dated October 22, 2104 |
3.8 |
Amendment to Certificate of Designation for Series B Preferred Stock, dated March 4, 2015 |
3.9 |
Certificate of Designation for Series C Preferred Stock, dated July 26, 2016 |
4.1 |
Warrant distributed in Spin-Off |
5.1 |
Opinion of Richardson & Associates as to the legality of the securities being registered |
10.1 |
Separation and Distribution Agreement by and between Wytec International, Inc. and Competitive Companies, Inc. |
10.2 |
License Agreement by and between Wytec International, Inc. and Competitive Companies, Inc. |
10.3 |
Revolving Line of Credit Note by and between Wytec International, Inc. and Competitive Companies, Inc. |
10.4 |
Stock Purchase Agreement by and among Wytec International, Inc., Competitive Companies, Inc., and Capaciti Networks, Inc., dated November 17, 2016 |
14.1 |
Code of Conduct |
23.1 |
Consent of Akin, Doherty, Klein & Feuge, P.C. |
24.1 |
Power of Attorney (contained on Page II-5, hereof.) |
Item 17. Undertakings
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to:
(a)(1) File, during any period in which it offers or sells securities, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events which, individually or together, represent a fundamental change in the information in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective registration statement;
(iii) To include any additional or changed material information on the plan of distribution.
(2) For determining liability under the Securities Act, each post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement of the securities offered, and the offering of the securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering.
(3) File a post-effective amendment to remove from registration any of the securities that remain unsold at the end of the offering.
(4) For determining liability of the undersigned registrant under the Securities Act to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, the undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:
(i) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;
(ii) Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;
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(iii) The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and
(iv) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.
(b) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.
In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
(c) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act to any purchaser:
(1) If the registrant is relying on Rule 430B:
(i) Each prospectus filed by the undersigned registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and
(ii) Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by section 10(a) of the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date; or
(2) If the registrant is subject to Rule 430C,
Each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-1 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Antonio, State of Texas, on January 10, 2017.
WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC. | |
By: /s/ William H. Gray
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William H. Gray, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) | |
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS , that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Corey Park, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution and re-substitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming that said attorney-in-fact and agent or the substitute or substitutes of him, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
By: |
/s/ William H. Gray
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Dated: January 10, 2017 |
William H. Gray, Chairman of the Board and Chief | ||
Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer and Principal | ||
Accounting Officer) | ||
By: |
/s/ Angus Davis
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Dated: January 10, 2017 |
Angus Davis, Chief Strategy Officer and Director | ||
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EXHIBIT 3.1
EXHIBIT 3.2
EXHIBIT 3.3
EXHIBIT 3.4
EXHIBIT 3.5
EXHIBIT 3.6
EXHIBIT 3.7
EXHIBIT 3.8
EXHIBIT 3.9
EXHIBIT 4.1
EXHIBIT 5.1
[RICHARDSON & ASSOCIATES LETTERHEAD]
January 10, 2017
Wytec International, Inc.
19206 Huebner Road, Suite 202
San Antonio, Texas 78258
Re: Wytec International, Inc.-Validity of Issuance of Shares
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as special counsel to Wytec International, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the "Company"), in connection with the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the "Registration Statement"), relating to the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), of 2,596,656 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "Shares").
In connection with rendering the opinion set forth herein, we have examined and relied on originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such records of the Company and such agreements, certificates of public officials, certificates of officers or other representatives of the Company and others and such other documents, certificates and records as we have deemed necessary or appropriate as a basis for the opinions set forth herein.
In our examination, we have assumed the legal capacity of all natural persons, the genuineness of all signatures (including endorsements), the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as certified, conformed or photostatic copies and the authenticity of the originals of such documents. As to any facts material to the opinions expressed herein which we have not independently established or verified, we have relied upon statements and representations of the Company and its officers and other representatives and of public officials and others.
Based upon and subject to the foregoing, we are of the opinion that upon issuance, the Shares will be validly issued and fully paid and nonassessable.
For the purposes of this opinion, we are assuming that the appropriate certificates are duly filed and recorded in every jurisdiction in which such filing and recordation is required in accordance with the laws of such jurisdictions. We express no opinion herein as to any laws other than the General Corporation Law of the State of Nevada.
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. We also consent to the reference to our firm under the caption "Legal Matters" in the Registration Statement. We do not admit in providing such consent that we are included in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/Mark J. Richardson
Mark J. Richardson for
Richardson & Associates
EXHIBIT 10.1
SEPARATION AND DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
THIS SEPARATION AND DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT (the "Agreement"), is entered into as of this ____ day of ____ 2017, by and between Competitive Companies, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the "Company"), and Wytec International, Inc., a Nevada corporation ("Wytec"), with respect to the following facts:
WHEREAS the board of directors of the Company has determined that it is in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders to distribute its entire interest in its substantially owned subsidiary, Wytec, by way of a dividend of stock and common stock purchase warrants to be made to holders of the Company's common stock;
WHEREAS in furtherance of the foregoing, it is appropriate and desirable to effect the Spin-Off, as more fully described in this Agreement;
WHEREAS the Company and Wytec have prepared, and Wytec has filed with the Commission, the Form S-1 Registration Statement ("Form S-1"), which includes the Prospectus;
WHEREAS the Company and Wytec intend that the Distribution qualify for its Intended Tax Treatment; and
WHEREAS it is appropriate and desirable to set forth the principal corporate transactions required to effect the Spin-Off and certain other agreements that will govern certain matters relating to the Spin-Off and the relationship of the Company, Wytec and their respective Subsidiaries following the Distribution.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual representations, warranties and agreements set forth herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
" Action " means any claim, demand, action, suit, countersuit, arbitration, inquiry, proceeding or investigation by or before any Governmental Authority or any Federal, state, local, foreign or international arbitration or mediation tribunal.
" Affiliate " of any Person means a Person that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with such Person. As used herein, "control" of any entity means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such entity, whether through ownership of voting securities or other interests, by contract or otherwise; provided , however , that (i) Wytec and the other members of the Wytec Group shall not be considered Affiliates of the Company or any of the other members of the Company Group and (ii) the Company and the other members of the Company Group shall not be considered Affiliates of Wytec or any of the other members of the Wytec Group.
" Agent " means Island Stock Transfer, Inc., the distribution agent appointed by the Company to distribute to the Record Holders, pursuant to the Distribution, the shares of Wytec Common Stock and Warrants held by the Company.
" Agreement " means this Separation and Distribution Agreement, including the Schedules and Exhibits hereto.
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" Ancillary Agreements " means the License Agreement, Revolving Line of Credit Note, and any other instruments, assignments, documents and agreements executed in connection with the implementation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
" Assets " means all assets, properties and rights (including goodwill), wherever located (including in the possession of vendors or other third parties or elsewhere), whether real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, or accrued or contingent, in each case whether or not recorded or reflected or required to be recorded or reflected on the books and records or financial statements of any Person, including the following:
(a) all accounting and other books, records and files, whether in paper, microfilm, microfiche, computer tape or disc, magnetic tape, electronic recording or any other form;
(b) all apparatus, computers and other electronic data processing equipment, fixtures, machinery, furniture, office and other equipment, including hardware systems, circuits and other computer and telecommunication assets and equipment, automobiles, trucks, aircraft, motor vehicles and other transportation equipment, special and general tools, test devices, prototypes and models and other tangible personal property;
(c) all inventories of goods and products;
(d) all interests in real property of whatever nature, including easements, whether as owner, mortgagee or holder of a Security Interest in real property, lessor, sublessor, lessee, sublessee or otherwise;
(e) all interests in any capital stock or other equity interests of any Subsidiary or any other Person; all bonds, notes, debentures or other securities issued by any Subsidiary or any other Person; all loans, advances or other extensions of credit or capital contributions to any Subsidiary or any other Person; all other investments in securities of any Person; and all rights as a partner, joint venturer or participant;
(f) all license agreements, leases of personal property, open purchase orders for goods, products or services, unfilled orders for goods and products and other contracts, agreements or commitments and all rights arising thereunder;
(g) all deposits, letters of credit, performance bonds and other surety bonds;
(h) all written technical information, data, specifications, research and development information, operating and maintenance manuals and materials and analyses prepared by consultants and other third parties;
(i) all United States, state, multinational and foreign intellectual property, including patents, copyrights, trade names, trademarks, service marks, slogans, logos, trade dresses and other source indicators and the goodwill of the business symbolized thereby; all registrations, applications, recordings, disclosures, renewals, continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions, reissues, reexaminations, foreign counterparts and other legal protections and rights related to any of the foregoing; mask works, trade secrets, inventions and other proprietary information, including know-how, processes, formulae, techniques, technical data, designs, drawings, specifications, customer and supplier lists, pricing and cost information and business and marketing plans and proposals, discoveries, inventions, licenses from third parties granting the right to use any of the foregoing and all tangible embodiments of the foregoing in whatever form or medium;
(j) all computer applications, programs, software and other code (in object and source code form), including operating software, network software, firmware, middleware, design software, design tools, systems documentation, instructions, ASP, HTML, DHTML, SHTML and XML files, cgi and other scripts, APIs, web widgets, algorithms, models, methodologies, files, documentation related to any of the foregoing and all tangible embodiments of the foregoing in whatever form or medium now known or yet to be created;
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(k) all Internet URLs, domain names, social media handles and Internet user names;
(l) all websites, databases, content, text, graphics, images, audio, video, data and other copyrightable works or other works of authorship including all translations, adaptations, derivations and combinations thereof;
(m) all cost information, sales and pricing data, customer prospect lists, supplier records, customer and supplier lists, subscriber, customer and vendor data, correspondence and lists, product literature and other advertising and promotional materials, artwork, design and development files, vendor and customer drawings, formulations and specifications, server and traffic logs, quality records and reports and other books, records, studies, surveys, reports, plans, business records and documents;
(n) all prepaid expenses, trade accounts and other accounts and notes receivable (whether current or non-current);
(o) all claims or rights against any Person arising from the ownership of any other Asset, all rights in connection with any bids or offers, all claims, causes in action, lawsuits, judgments or similar rights, all rights under express or implied warranties, all rights of recovery and all rights of setoff of any kind and demands of any nature, in each case whether accrued or contingent, whether in tort, contract or otherwise and whether arising by way of counterclaim or otherwise;
(p) all rights under insurance policies and all rights in the nature of insurance, indemnification or contribution;
(q) all licenses (including radio and similar licenses), permits, approvals and authorizations that have been issued by any Governmental Authority and all pending applications therefor;
(r) Cash, bank accounts, lock boxes and other deposit arrangements;
(s) interest rate, currency, commodity or other swap, collar, cap or other hedging or similar agreements or arrangements; and
(t) all goodwill as a going concern and other intangible properties.
" Company Assets " means (i) all Assets of the Company Group, including the Assets listed or described on Schedule 1(e), (ii) all interests in the capital stock of, or other equity interests in, the members of the Company Group (other than the Company) and all other equity, partnership, membership, joint venture and similar interests set forth on Schedule 1(d), (iii) any Assets held by a member of the Wytec Group determined by Company, in good faith prior to the Distribution Date, to be primarily related to or used primarily in connection with the business or operations of the Company Business, and (iv) the rights related to the Company Portion of any Shared Contract. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company Assets shall not include the Wytec Assets.
" Company Business " means the business and operations conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries other than the Wytec Business.
" Company Common Stock " means the common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company.
" Company Disclosure Sections " means all information set forth in or omitted from the Form S-1 to the extent relating to (a) the Company Group, (b) the Company Liabilities, (c) the Company Assets or (d) the substantive disclosure set forth in the Form S-1 relating to the Company's board of directors' consideration of the Spin-Off, including the section entitled "Reasons for the Spin-Off".
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" Company Group " means the Company and each of its Subsidiaries, including the entities set forth on Schedule 1(d) under the caption "Subsidiaries."
" Company Liabilities " means (i) all Liabilities of the Company Group, (ii) the Company Retained Liabilities, (iii) any obligations related to the Company Portion of any Shared Contract and any other Liabilities relating to the acts or omissions of the Company Group relating to any Shared Contract, or (iv) any Liabilities determined by Company, in good faith, to be primarily related to the business or operations of the Company Business (unless otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company Liabilities shall not include the Wytec Liabilities.
" Company Portion " has the meaning set forth in Section 2.04.
" Company Retained Liabilities " means the Liabilities to be retained by the Company Group set forth on Schedule 1(f).
" Cash " means cash, cash equivalents, bank deposits and marketable securities, whether denominated in United States dollars or otherwise.
" Commission " means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
" Consents " means any consents, waivers or approvals from, or notification requirements to, any Person other than a member of either Group.
" Distribution " means the distribution by Company to the Record Holders, on a pro rata basis, of all of the outstanding shares of Wytec Common Stock and Warrants owned by Company on the Distribution Date.
" Distribution Date " means the date, determined by Company in accordance with Section 5.04, on which the Distribution occurs.
" Exchange Act " means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, together with the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
" Form S-1 " means the registration statement on Form S-1 filed by Wytec with the Commission to effect the registration of the distribution of the Wytec Common Stock and Warrants pursuant to the Securities Act in connection with the Distribution, as such registration statement may be amended or supplemented from time to time.
" Governmental Approvals " means any notices, reports or other filings to be given to or made with, or any Consents, registrations or permits to be obtained from, any Governmental Authority.
" Governmental Authority " means any Federal, state, local, foreign or international court, government, department, commission, board, bureau, agency, official or other legislative, judicial, regulatory, administrative or governmental authority.
" Information " means information, whether or not patentable, copyrightable or protectable as a trade secret, in written, oral, electronic or other tangible or intangible forms, stored in any medium now known or yet to be created, including studies, reports, records, books, contracts, instruments, surveys, discoveries, ideas, concepts, know-how, techniques, designs, specifications, drawings, blueprints, diagrams, models, prototypes, samples, flow charts, data, computer data, disks, diskettes, tapes, computer programs or other software, marketing plans, customer names, communications by or to attorneys (including attorney-client
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privileged communications), memos and other materials prepared by attorneys or under their direction (including attorney work product) and other technical, financial, employee or business information or data, documents, correspondence, materials and files.
" Intercompany Accounts " has the meaning set forth in Section 2.03(a).
" Intercompany Agreements " has the meaning set forth in Section 2.03(a).
" Law " means any statute, law, regulation, ordinance, rule, judgment, rule of common law, order, decree, government approval, concession, grant, franchise, license, agreement, directive, guideline, policy, requirement or other governmental restriction or any similar form of decision of, or determination by, or any interpretation or administration of any of the foregoing by, any Governmental Authority, whether now or hereinafter in effect and, in each case, as amended.
" Liabilities " means any and all claims, debts, demands, actions, causes of action, suits, damages, obligations, accruals, accounts payable, reckonings, bonds, indemnities and similar obligations, agreements, promises, guarantees, make-whole agreements and similar obligations, and other liabilities and requirements, including all contractual obligations, whether absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, accrued or unaccrued, known or unknown, whenever arising, and including those arising under any Law, Action, threatened or contemplated Action or any award of any arbitrator or mediator of any kind, and those arising under any contract, commitment or undertaking, including those arising under this Agreement, in each case, whether or not recorded or reflected or required to be recorded or reflected on the books and records or financial statements of any Person.
" License Agreement " means the License Agreement to be entered into as of the Distribution Date by and between the Company and Wytec.
" Litigation Conditions " has the meaning set forth in Section 6.05(b).
" LOC " means the revolving line of credit note to be entered into as of the Distribution Date by and between the Company and Wytec.
" Party " means either party hereto, and " Parties " means both parties hereto.
" Pass-Through Cost " with respect to any service provided by Company to Wytec or by Wytec to the Company, means the sum of (i) the direct cost to Service Provider of providing such service plus (ii) an allocation of the related employee overhead (including compensation and benefit costs) calculated in good faith based on reasonable and rational methodologies chosen by the Service Provider, which methodologies shall be provided to the Recipient upon such request from the Recipient.
" Payables Transactions " means the intercompany payables transactions to be settled as set forth on Schedule 1(g).
" Person " means an individual, a general or limited partnership, a corporation, a trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated organization, a limited liability company, any other entity and any Governmental Authority.
" Prospectus " means the prospectus contained in the Form S-1.
" Record Date " means the close of business on the date to be determined by the Company board of directors as the record date for determining the shares of Company Common Stock in respect of which shares of Wytec Common Stock and Warrants will be distributed pursuant to the Distribution.
" Record Holders " has the meaning set forth in Section 5.01(b).
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" Security Interest " means any mortgage, security interest, pledge, lien, charge, claim, option, right to acquire, voting or other restriction, right-of-way, covenant, condition, easement, encroachment, restriction on transfer or other encumbrance of any nature whatsoever.
" Separation " means (a) the Internal Transactions, (b) any actions to be taken pursuant to Article II and (c) any other transfers of Assets and assumptions of Liabilities, in each case, between a member of one Group and a member of the other Group, provided for in this Agreement or in any Ancillary Agreement.
" Shared Contract " means any contract or agreement of any member of either Group that relates in any material respect to both the Wytec Business and the Company Business; provided that the Parties may, by mutual consent, elect to include in, or exclude from, this definition any contract or agreement.
" Spin-Off " means the Separation and the Distribution.
" Subsidiary " of any Person means any corporation or other organization whether incorporated or unincorporated of which at least a majority of the securities or interests having by the terms thereof ordinary voting power to elect at least a majority of the board of directors or others performing similar functions with respect to such corporation or other organization, is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such Person or by any one or more of its Subsidiaries, or by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries.
" Termination Event " has the meaning set forth in Section 9.05(c).
" Third-Party Claim " means any assertion by a Person (including any Governmental Authority) who is not a member of the Company Group or the Wytec Group of any claim, or the commencement by any such Person of any Action, against any member of the Company Group or the Wytec Group.
" Third-Party Proceeds " has the meaning set forth in Section 6.04(a).
" Warrants " means the Wytec common stock purchase warrants owned by the Company exercisable at an exercise price of $5.00 per share (subject to a possible one-time upward adjustment) until December 31, 2017.
" Wytec Assets " means, without duplication, the following Assets:
(a) all Assets held by the Wytec Group;
(b) all interests in the capital stock of, or other equity interests in, the members of the Wytec Group (other than Wytec) and all other equity, partnership, membership, joint venture and similar interests set forth on Schedule 1(a);
(c) all Assets reflected on the Wytec Business Balance Sheet, and all Assets acquired after the date of the Wytec Business Balance Sheet that, had they been acquired on or before such date and owned as of such date, would have been reflected on the Wytec Business Balance Sheet if prepared in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis, subject to any dispositions of such Assets subsequent to the date of the Wytec Business Balance Sheet;
(d) the Assets listed or described on Schedule 1(b);
(e) the rights related to the Wytec Portion of any Shared Contract;
(f) all other Assets that are expressly provided by this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement as Assets to be assigned to or retained by, or allocated to, any member of the Wytec Group; and
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(g) all Assets held by a member of the Company Group that are determined by the Company, in good faith prior to the Distribution Date, to be primarily related to or used or held for use primarily in connection with the business or operations of the Wytec Business.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Wytec Assets shall not include (i) the rights related to the Company Portion of Shared Contracts and (ii) any Assets determined by the Company, in good faith prior to the Distribution Date, to arise primarily from the business or operations of the Company Business (unless otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement).
" Wytec Business " means the business conducted and proposed to be conducted by Wytec and its Subsidiaries as described in the Form S-1.
" Wytec Business Balance Sheet " means the audited balance sheet of the Wytec Business, including the notes thereto included in the Form S-1.
" Wytec Common Stock " means the common stock, $0.001 par value per share, of Wytec.
" Wytec Entities " means the entities, the equity, partnership, membership, joint venture or similar interests of which are set forth on Schedule 1(a).
" Wytec Group " means (a) Wytec, (b) each Person that will be a Subsidiary of Wytec immediately prior to the Distribution, including the entities set forth on Schedule 1(a) under the caption "Subsidiaries", and (c) each Person that becomes a Subsidiary of Wytec after the Distribution, including in each case any Person that is merged or consolidated with and into Wytec or any Subsidiary of Wytec.
" Wytec Liabilities " means, without duplication, the following Liabilities:
(a) all Liabilities of the Wytec Group and the Wytec Entities;
(b) all Liabilities to the extent relating to, arising out of or resulting from:
(i) the operation or conduct of the Wytec Business as conducted at any time prior to the Distribution (including any Liability to the extent relating to, arising out of or resulting from any act or failure to act by any director, officer, employee, agent or representative (whether or not such act or failure to act is or was within such Person's authority), which act or failure to act relates to the Wytec Business);
(ii) the operation or conduct of the Wytec Business or any other business conducted by Wytec or any other member of the Wytec Group at any time after the Distribution (including any Liability relating to, arising out of or resulting from any act or failure to act by any director, officer, employee, agent or representative (whether or not such act or failure to act is or was within such Person's authority));
(iii) any terminated, divested or discontinued businesses or operations of the Wytec Business; or
(iv) the Wytec Assets;
(c) all Liabilities reflected as liabilities or obligations on the Wytec Business Balance Sheet, and all Liabilities arising or assumed after the date of the Wytec Business Balance Sheet that, had they arisen or been assumed on or before such date and been existing obligations as of such date, would have been reflected on the Wytec Business Balance Sheet if prepared in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis, subject to any discharge of such Liabilities subsequent to the date of the Wytec Business Balance Sheet;
(d) the Liabilities listed or described on Schedule 1(c);
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(e) the obligations related to the Wytec Portion of any Shared Contract and any other Liabilities relating to the acts or omissions of the Wytec Group relating to any Shared Contract;
(f) all other Liabilities that are expressly provided by this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement as Liabilities to be assumed or retained by, or allocated to, any member of the Wytec Group; and
(g) all Liabilities to the extent relating to, arising out of or resulting from any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, with respect to all information contained in, or incorporated by reference into, the Form S-1 and any other documents filed with the Commission in connection with the Spin-Off or as contemplated by this Agreement, other than with respect to the Company Disclosure Sections.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Wytec Liabilities shall not include (i) any Company Retained Liabilities, (iii) any obligations related to the Company Portion of any Shared Contract or (iv) any Liabilities determined by the Company, in good faith prior to the Distribution Date, to be primarily related to the business or operations of the Company Business (unless otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement).
" Wytec Portion " has the meaning set forth in Section 2.04.
ARTICLE
II
THE SEPARATION
2.01 Transfer of Assets and Assumption of Liabilities.
(a) Subject to Section 2.01(d), prior to the Distribution, the Parties shall, and shall cause their respective Group members to, execute such instruments of assignment and transfer and take such other corporate actions as are necessary to (i) transfer and convey to one or more members of the Wytec Group all of the right, title and interest of the Company Group in, to and under all Wytec Assets not already owned by the Wytec Group, (ii) transfer and convey to one or more members of the Company Group all of the right, title and interest of the Wytec Group in, to and under all Company Assets not already owned by the Company Group, (iii) cause one or more members of the Wytec Group to assume all of the Wytec Liabilities to the extent such Liabilities would otherwise remain obligations of any member of the Company Group and (iv) cause one or more members of the Company Group to assume all of the Company Liabilities to the extent such Liabilities would otherwise remain obligations of any member of the Wytec Group. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, neither Party shall be required to transfer any Information except as required by Article VI.
(b) In the event that it is discovered after the Distribution that there was an omission of (i) the transfer or conveyance by Wytec (or a member of the Wytec Group) or the acceptance or assumption by Company (or a member of the Company Group) of any Company Asset or Company Liability, as the case may be, (ii) the transfer or conveyance by Company (or a member of the Company Group) or the acceptance or assumption by Wytec (or a member of the Wytec Group) of any Wytec Asset or Wytec Liability, as the case may be, or (iii) the transfer or conveyance by one Party (or any other member of its Group) to, or the acceptance or assumption by, the other Party (or any other member of its Group) of any Asset or Liability, as the case may be, that, had the Parties given specific consideration to such Asset or Liability prior to the Distribution, would have otherwise been so transferred, conveyed, accepted or assumed, as the case may be, pursuant to this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements, the Parties shall use reasonable best efforts to promptly effect such transfer, conveyance, acceptance or assumption of such Asset or Liability. Any transfer, conveyance, acceptance or assumption made pursuant to this Section 2.01(b) shall be treated by the Parties for all purposes as if it had occurred immediately prior to the Distribution, except as otherwise required by applicable Law or a Determination.
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(c) In the event that it is discovered after the Distribution that there was a transfer or conveyance (i) by Wytec (or a member of the Wytec Group) or the acceptance or assumption by the Company (or a member of the Company Group) of any Wytec Asset or Wytec Liability, as the case may be, or (ii) by Company (or a member of the Company Group) and the acceptance or assumption by Wytec (or a member of the Wytec Group) of any Company Asset or Company Liability, the Parties shall use reasonable best efforts to promptly transfer or convey such Asset or Liability back to the transferring or conveying Party or to rescind any acceptance or assumption of such Asset or Liability, as the case may be. Any transfer or conveyance made or acceptance or assumption rescinded pursuant to this Section 2.01(c) shall be treated by the Parties for all purposes as if such Asset or Liability had never been originally transferred, conveyed, accepted or assumed, as the case may be, except as otherwise required by applicable Law or a Determination.
(d) In the event that after the Distribution (i) Company (or a member of the Company Group) receives any funds properly belonging to Wytec (or a member of the Wytec Group), or (ii) Wytec (or a member of the Wytec Group) receives any funds properly belonging to Company (or a member of the Company Group), the Parties shall use reasonable best efforts to promptly advise the other party, segregate and hold such funds in trust for the benefit of such other Party and promptly deliver such funds, together with any interest earned thereon, to an account or accounts designated in writing by such other Party.
(f) To the extent that any transfer or conveyance of any Asset or acceptance or assumption of any Liability required by this Agreement to be so transferred, conveyed, accepted or assumed shall not have been completed prior to the Distribution, the Parties shall use reasonable best efforts to effect such transfer, conveyance, acceptance or assumption as promptly following the Distribution as shall be practicable. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to require the transfer or conveyance of any Assets or the acceptance or assumption of any Liabilities which by their terms or operation of Law cannot be so transferred, conveyed, accepted or assumed; provided, however, that the Parties shall use reasonable best efforts to obtain any necessary Consents for the transfer, conveyance, acceptance or assumption (as applicable) of all Assets and Liabilities required by this Agreement to be so transferred, conveyed, accepted or assumed. In the event that any such transfer, conveyance, acceptance or assumption (as applicable) has not been completed effective as of and after the Distribution, the Party retaining such Asset or Liability shall thereafter hold such Asset for the use and benefit of the Party entitled thereto (at the expense of the Party entitled thereto) and retain such Liability for the account, and at the expense, of the Party by whom such Liability should have been assumed or accepted pursuant to this Agreement, and take such other actions as may be reasonably requested by the Party to which such Asset should have been transferred or conveyed, or by whom such Liability should have been assumed or accepted, as the case may be, in order to place such Party, insofar as reasonably possible, in the same position as would have existed had such Asset or Liability been transferred, conveyed, accepted or assumed (as applicable) as contemplated by this Agreement, including possession, use, risk of loss, potential for gain and control over such Asset or Liability. As and when any such Asset or Liability becomes transferable, the Parties shall use reasonable best efforts to promptly effect such transfer, conveyance, acceptance or assumption (as applicable). Any transfer, conveyance, acceptance or assumption made pursuant to this Section 2.01(d) shall be treated by the Parties for all purposes as if it had occurred immediately prior to the Distribution, except as otherwise required by applicable Law or a Determination.
(h) The Party retaining any Asset or Liability due to the deferral of the transfer and conveyance of such Asset or the deferral of the acceptance and assumption of such Liability pursuant to this Section 2.01 or otherwise shall not be obligated by this Agreement, in connection with this Section 2.01, to expend any money or take any action that would require the expenditure of money unless and to the extent the Party entitled to such Asset or the Party intended to assume such Liability advances or agrees to reimburse it for the applicable expenditures.
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2.02. Certain Matters Governed Exclusively by Ancillary Agreements. Each of the Company and Wytec agrees on behalf of itself and the members of its Group that, except as explicitly provided in this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, (i) the LOC shall exclusively govern all matters relating to revolving line of credit to be provided by Wytec to the Company and (ii) the License Agreement shall exclusively govern all matters relating to the use of copyrights, trademarks, and patents by Wytec and the Company.
2.03. Termination of Agreements.
(a) Except as set forth in Section 2.03(b), in furtherance of the releases and other provisions of Section 6.01, effective as of the Distribution, Wytec and each other member of the Wytec Group, on the one hand, and Company and each other member of the Company Group, on the other hand, hereby agree they will terminate any and all agreements, arrangements, commitments and understandings, oral or written (" Intercompany Agreements "), including all intercompany accounts payable or accounts receivable (" Intercompany Accounts "), between such parties and in effect or accrued as of the Distribution and including the agreements set forth on Schedule 2.03. No such terminated Intercompany Agreement or Intercompany Account (including any provision thereof that purports to survive termination) shall be of any further force or effect after the Distribution. Each Party shall, at the reasonable request of the other Party, take, or cause to be taken, such other actions as may be necessary to effect the foregoing. The Parties, on behalf of the members of their respective Groups, hereby waive any advance notice provision or other termination requirements with respect to any Intercompany Agreement.
(b) The provisions of Section 2.03(a) shall not apply to any of the following Intercompany Agreements or Intercompany Accounts (or to any of the provisions thereof): this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements (and each other Intercompany Agreement or Intercompany Account expressly contemplated by this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement to be entered into by either Party or any other member of its Group).
2.04. Shared Contracts. The Parties shall, and shall cause the members of their respective Groups to, use their respective reasonable best efforts to work together (and, if necessary and desirable, to work with the third party to such Shared Contract) in an effort to divide, partially assign, modify and/or replicate (in whole or in part) the respective rights and obligations under and in respect of any Shared Contract, such that (a) a member of the Wytec Group is the beneficiary of the rights and is responsible for the obligations related to that portion of such Shared Contract relating to the Wytec Business (the " Wytec Portion "), which rights shall be a Wytec Asset and which obligations shall be a Wytec Liability and (b) a member of the Company Group is the beneficiary of the rights and is responsible for the obligations related to such Shared Contract not relating to the Wytec Business (the " Company Portion "), which rights shall be a Company Asset and which obligations shall be a Company Liability. If the Parties, or their respective Group members, as applicable, are not able to enter into an arrangement to formally divide, partially assign, modify and/or replicate such Shared Contract prior to the Distribution as contemplated by the previous sentence, then the Parties shall, and shall cause their respective Group members to, cooperate in any lawful arrangement to provide that, following the Distribution and until the earlier of five years after the Distribution Date and such time as the formal division, partial assignment, modification and/or replication of such Shared Contract as contemplated by the previous sentence is effected, a member of the Wytec Group shall receive the interest in the benefits and obligations of the Wytec Portion under such Shared Contract and a member of the Company Group shall receive the interest in the benefits and obligations of the Company Portion under such Shared Contract.
2.05. Disclaimer of Representations and Warranties. Each of Company (on behalf of itself and each other member of the Company Group) and Wytec (on behalf of itself and each other member of the Wytec Group) understands and agrees that, except as expressly set forth in this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, no party to this Agreement, any Ancillary Agreement or any other agreement or document contemplated by this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement is representing or warranting in any way as to any Assets or Liabilities transferred or assumed as contemplated hereby or thereby, as to the sufficiency of the Assets
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or Liabilities transferred or assumed hereby or thereby for the conduct and operations of the Wytec Business or the Company Business, as applicable, as to any Governmental Approvals or other Consents required in connection therewith or in connection with any past transfers of the Assets or assumptions of the Liabilities, as to the value or freedom from any Security Interests of, or any other matter concerning, any Assets or Liabilities of such party, or as to the absence of any defenses or rights of setoff or freedom from counterclaim with respect to any claim or other Asset, including any accounts receivable, of any such Party, or as to the legal sufficiency of any assignment, document or instrument delivered hereunder to convey title to any Asset or thing of value upon the execution, delivery and filing hereof or thereof. Except as may expressly be set forth herein, any such Assets are being transferred on an "as is", "where is" basis and the respective transferees shall bear the economic and legal risks that (a) any conveyance shall prove to be insufficient to vest in the transferee good and marketable title, free and clear of any Security Interest, and (b) any necessary Governmental Approvals or other Consents are not obtained or there is not compliance with any requirements of Laws or judgments.
ARTICLE
III
ACTIONS PENDING DISTRIBUTION
3.01. Actions Prior to the Distribution.
(a) Subject to the conditions specified in Section 3.02 and subject to Section 4.03, Company and Wytec shall use reasonable best efforts to consummate the Distribution. Such efforts shall include taking the actions specified in this Section 3.01.
(b) Prior to the Distribution, Company shall mail the Prospectus to the Record Holders.
(c) Wytec shall prepare, file with the Commission and use its reasonable best efforts to cause to become effective any registration statements or amendments thereto required to effect the establishment of, or amendments to, any employee benefit and other plans necessary or appropriate in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements.
(d) The Company and Wytec shall take all such action as may be necessary or appropriate under the securities or blue sky laws of the states or other political subdivisions of the United States or of other foreign jurisdictions in connection with the Distribution.
(e) Wytec shall prepare and file, and shall use reasonable best efforts to have approved prior to the Distribution, an application for the listing of the Wytec Common Stock, and the Wytec Common Stock underlying the Warrants to be distributed in the Distribution on the OTC-QB Market, subject to official notice of distribution.
(f) Prior to the Distribution, Company shall have duly elected members of the Wytec board of directors, and such individuals shall be the members of the Wytec board of directors effective as of immediately after the Distribution; provided , however , that to the extent required by any Law or requirement of the OTC-QB Market or any other national securities exchange, as applicable, one independent director shall be appointed prior to the date on which "when-issued" trading of the Wytec Common Stock begins on the OTC-QB Market and begin his or her term prior to the Distribution and shall serve on Wytec's Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee.
(g) The Company and Wytec shall, subject to Section 4.03, take all reasonable steps necessary and appropriate to cause the conditions set forth in Section 3.02 to be satisfied and to effect the Distribution on the Distribution Date.
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3.02. Conditions Precedent to Consummation of the Distribution. Subject to Section 4.03, as soon as practicable after the date of this Agreement, the Parties shall use reasonable best efforts to satisfy the following conditions prior to the consummation of the Distribution. The obligations of the Parties to consummate the Distribution shall be conditioned on the satisfaction, or waiver by Company, of the following conditions:
(a) The board of directors of Company shall have authorized and approved the Spin-Off and not withdrawn such authorization and approval, and shall have declared the dividend of Wytec Common Stock and Warrants to Company stockholders.
(b) Each Ancillary Agreement shall have been executed by each party to such agreements.
(e) The Commission shall have declared effective the Form S-1, of which the Prospectus is a part, under the Securities Act of 1933, and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Form S-1 shall be in effect and no proceedings for that purpose shall be pending before or threatened by the Commission.
(f) The Wytec Common Stock shall have been accepted for listing on the OTC-QB or another national securities exchange approved by Company, subject to official notice of issuance.
(i) No order, injunction or decree issued by any Governmental Authority of competent jurisdiction or other legal restraint or prohibition preventing the consummation of the Spin-Off shall be in effect, and no other event outside the control of Company shall have occurred or failed to occur that prevents the consummation of the Spin-Off.
(j) No other events or developments shall have occurred prior to the Distribution Date that, in the judgment of the board of directors of Company, would result in the Spin-Off having a material adverse effect on Company or its stockholders.
(k) Prior to the Distribution Date, the Prospectus shall have been mailed to the holders of Company Common Stock.
The foregoing conditions are for the sole benefit of Company and shall not give rise to or create any duty on the part of Company or the Company board of directors to waive or not waive such conditions or in any way limit the right of Company to terminate this Agreement as set forth in Article X or alter the consequences of any such termination from those specified in such Article. Any determination made by the Company board of directors prior to the Distribution concerning the satisfaction or waiver of any or all of the conditions set forth in this Section 3.02 shall be conclusive.
ARTICLE IV
THE DISTRIBUTION
4.01 The Distribution.
(a) Wytec shall cooperate with Company to accomplish the Distribution and shall, at the direction of Company, use its reasonable best efforts to promptly take any and all actions necessary or desirable to effect the Distribution. Company or Wytec, as the case may be, will provide, or cause the applicable member of its Group to provide, to the Agent all share certificates and any information required in order to complete the Distribution.
(b) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, (i) after completion of the Internal Transactions and on or prior to the Distribution Date, for the benefit of and distribution to the holders of Company Common Stock as of the Record Date (the " Record Holders "), Company will deliver
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to the Agent all of the issued and outstanding shares of Wytec Common Stock then owned by Company or any other member of the Company Group and book-entry authorizations for such shares and (ii) on the Distribution Date, Company shall instruct the Agent to distribute, by means of a pro rata dividend based on the aggregate number of shares of Company Common Stock held by each applicable Record Holder, to each Record Holder (or such Record Holder's bank or brokerage firm on such Record Holder's behalf) electronically, by direct registration in book-entry form, the number of shares of Wytec Common Stock to which such Record Holder is entitled based on a distribution ratio to be determined by Company in its sole discretion. The Distribution shall be effective at 12:01 a.m. New York City time on the Distribution Date. On or as soon as practicable after the Distribution Date, the Agent will mail to each Record Holder an account statement indicating the number of shares of Wytec Common Stock that have been registered in book-entry form in the name of such Record Holder.
4.02. Fractional Shares. The Agent will not distribute any fractional shares of Wytec Common Stock to the Record Holders. Instead, the Agent will round up fractional shares of Wytec Common Stock to the nearest whole number of shares of Wytec Common Stock.
4.03. Sole Discretion of Company. The Company shall, in its sole and absolute discretion, determine the Record Date, the Distribution Date and all terms of the Distribution, including the form, structure and terms of any transactions and/or offerings to effect the Distribution and the timing of and conditions to the consummation thereof. In addition and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth below, the Company may at any time and from time to time until the Distribution decide to abandon the Distribution including by accelerating or delaying the timing of the consummation of all or part of the Distribution or modifying or changing the terms of the Distribution if, at any time, the Company's board of directors determines, in its sole and absolute discretion, that the Distribution is not in the best interests of the Company or its stockholders or is otherwise not advisable.
ARTICLE
V
MUTUAL RELEASES
5.01. Release of Pre-Distribution Claims.
(a) Except as provided in Section 5.01(c) or elsewhere in this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements, effective as of the Distribution, Wytec does hereby, for itself and each other member of the Wytec Group, their respective Affiliates, to the extent it may legally do so, successors and assigns, and all Persons who at any time on or prior to the Distribution have been stockholders, directors, officers, agents or employees of any member of the Wytec Group (in each case, in their respective capacities as such), remise, release and forever discharge the Company and the other members of the Company Group, their respective Affiliates, successors and assigns, and all Persons who at any time on or prior to the Distribution have been stockholders, directors, officers, agents or employees of any member of the Company Group (in each case, in their respective capacities as such), and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, from any and all Wytec Liabilities whatsoever, whether at Law or in equity (including any right of contribution), whether arising under any contract or agreement, by operation of Law or otherwise, existing or arising from any acts or events occurring or failing to occur or alleged to have occurred or to have failed to occur or any conditions existing or alleged to have existed on or before the Distribution, including in connection with the Spin-Off and all other activities to implement the Spin-Off.
(b) Except as provided in Section 5.01(c) or elsewhere in this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements, effective as of the Distribution, the Company does hereby, for itself and each other member of the Company Group, their respective Affiliates, to the extent it may legally do so, successors and assigns, and all Persons who at any time on or prior to the Distribution have been stockholders, directors, officers, agents or employees of any member of the
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Company Group (in each case, in their respective capacities as such), remise, release and forever discharge Wytec, the other members of the Wytec Group, their respective Affiliates, successors and assigns, and all Persons who at any time on or prior to the Distribution have been stockholders, directors, officers, agents or employees of any member of the Wytec Group (in each case, in their respective capacities as such), and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, from any and all Company Liabilities whatsoever, whether at Law or in equity (including any right of contribution), whether arising under any contract or agreement, by operation of Law or otherwise, existing or arising from any acts or events occurring or failing to occur or alleged to have occurred or to have failed to occur or any conditions existing or alleged to have existed on or before the Distribution, including in connection with the Spin-Off and all other activities to implement the Spin-Off.
(c) Nothing contained in Section 5.01(a) or (b) shall impair any right of any Person to enforce this Agreement, any Ancillary Agreement or any Intercompany Agreement or Intercompany Account that is specified in Section 2.03(b) not to terminate as of the Distribution, in each case in accordance with its terms. Nothing contained in Section 5.01(a) or (b) shall release any Person from:
(i) any Liability provided in or resulting from any agreement among any members of the Company Group or the Wytec Group that is specified in Section 2.03(b) as not terminating as of the Distribution, or any other Liability specified in such Section 2.03(b) as not to terminate as of the Distribution;
(ii) any Liability, contingent or otherwise, assumed, transferred, assigned or allocated to the Group of which such Person is a member in accordance with, or any other Liability of any member of any Group under, this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement;
(iii) any Liability provided in or resulting from any other agreement or understanding that is entered into after the Distribution between one Party (and/or a member of such Party's Group), on the one hand, and the other Party (and/or a member of such Party's Group), on the other hand;
(iv) any Liability that the Parties may have with respect to indemnification or contribution pursuant to this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement for claims brought against the Parties, the members of their respective Groups or any of their respective directors, officers, employees or agents, by third Persons, which Liability shall be governed by the provisions of this Article V or, if applicable, the appropriate provisions of the relevant Ancillary Agreement; or
(v) any Liability the release of which would result in the release of any Person not otherwise intended to be released pursuant to this Section 5.01.
(d) Wytec shall not make, and shall not permit any other member of the Wytec Group to make, any claim or demand, or commence any Action asserting any claim or demand, including any claim of contribution or any indemnification, against the Company or any other member of the Company Group, or any other Person released pursuant to Section 5.01(a), with respect to any Liabilities released pursuant to Section 5.01(a). The Company shall not make, and shall not
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permit any other member of the Company Group to make, any claim or demand, or commence any Action asserting any claim or demand, including any claim of contribution or any indemnification against Wytec or any other member of the Wytec Group, or any other Person released pursuant to Section 5.01(b), with respect to any Liabilities released pursuant to Section 5.01(b).
(e) It is the intent of each of the Company and Wytec, by virtue of the provisions of this Section 5.01, to provide for a full and complete release and discharge of all Liabilities existing or arising from all acts and events occurring or failing to occur or alleged to have occurred or to have failed to occur and all conditions existing or alleged to have existed on or before the Distribution Date, between or among Wytec or any other member of the Wytec Group, on the one hand, and the Company or any other member of the Company Group, on the other hand (including any contractual agreements or arrangements existing or alleged to exist between or among any such members on or before the Distribution Date), except as set forth in Section 5.01(c) or elsewhere in this Agreement or in any Ancillary Agreement. At any time, at the request of the other Party, each Party shall cause each member of its respective Group to execute and deliver releases reflecting the provisions hereof.
ARTICLE
VI
ACCESS TO INFORMATION; LITIGATION; CONFIDENTIALITY
6.01. Agreement for Exchange of Information; Archives.
(a) Except in the case of an adversarial Action or threatened adversarial Action by either the Company or Wytec or a Person or Persons in its Group against the other Party or a Person or Persons in its Group, and subject to Section 6.01(b), each of the Company and Wytec, on behalf of its respective Group, shall provide, or cause to be provided, to the other Party, at any time after the Distribution, as soon as reasonably practicable after written request therefor, any Information relating to time periods on or prior to the Distribution Date in the possession or under the control of such respective Group, which the Company or Wytec, or any member of its respective Group, as applicable, reasonably needs (i) to comply with reporting, disclosure, filing or other requirements imposed on the Company or Wytec, or any member of its respective Group, as applicable (including under applicable securities laws), by any national securities exchange or any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Company or Wytec, or any member of its respective Group, as applicable, (ii) for use in any other judicial, regulatory, administrative or other proceeding or in order to satisfy audit, accounting, regulatory, litigation or other similar requirements or (iii) to comply with its obligations under this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement. The receiving Party shall use any Information received pursuant to this Section 6.01(a) solely to the extent reasonably necessary to satisfy the applicable obligations or requirements described in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of the immediately preceding sentence.
(b) In the event that either the Company or Wytec determines that the exchange of any Information pursuant to Section 6.01(a) could violate any Law or agreement or waive or jeopardize any attorney-client privilege or attorney work product protection, such Party shall not be required to provide access to or furnish such Information to the other Party; provided , however , that both the Company and Wytec shall take all commercially reasonable measures to permit the compliance with Section 6.01(a) in a manner that avoids any such harm or consequence. Both the Company and Wytec intend that any provision of access to or the furnishing of Information pursuant to this Section 6.01 that would otherwise be within the ambit of any legal privilege shall not operate as waiver of such privilege.
(c) Each of Wytec and the Company agrees, on behalf of itself and each member of the Group of which it is a member, not to disclose or otherwise waive any privilege or protection attaching to any privileged Information relating to a member of the other Group or relating to or arising in connection with the relationship between the Groups prior to the Distribution, without providing prompt written notice to and obtaining the prior written consent of the other (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).
(d) The Company and Wytec each agree that it will only process personal data provided to it by the other Group in accordance with all applicable privacy and data protection law obligations and will implement and maintain at all times appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect such personal data against unauthorized or unlawful processing and accidental loss, destruction, damage, alteration and disclosure. In addition, each Party agrees to provide reasonable assistance to the other Party in respect of any obligations under privacy and data protection legislation affecting the disclosure of such personal data to the other Party and will not knowingly process such personal data in such a way to cause the other Party to violate any of its obligations under any applicable privacy and data protection legislation.
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6.02. Ownership of Information. Any Information owned by one Group that is provided to the requesting Party hereunder shall be deemed to remain the property of the providing Party. Except as specifically set forth herein, nothing herein shall be construed as granting or conferring rights of license or otherwise in any such Information.
6.03. Compensation for Providing Information. The Company and Wytec shall reimburse each other for the reasonable costs, if any, in complying with a request for Information pursuant to this Article VI. Except as may be otherwise specifically provided elsewhere in this Agreement, such costs shall be computed in accordance with Wytec's or the Company's, as applicable, standard methodology and procedures.
6.04. Record Retention. To facilitate the possible exchange of Information pursuant to this Article VI and other provisions of this Agreement, each Party shall use its reasonable best efforts to retain all Information in such Party's possession relating to the other Party or its businesses, Assets or Liabilities, this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements (the " Retained Information ") in accordance with its respective record retention policy as in effect on the date hereof or such longer or shorter period as required by Law, this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements.
6.05. Accounting Information. Without limiting the generality of Section 6.01 but subject to Section 6.01(b):
(a) Until the end of the first full fiscal year of the Company occurring after the Distribution Date (and for a reasonable period of time afterwards as required by Law for the Company to prepare consolidated financial statements or complete a financial statement audit for any period during which the financial results of the Wytec Group were consolidated with those of the Company), Wytec shall use its reasonable best efforts to enable the Company to meet its timetable for dissemination of its financial statements and to enable the Company's auditors to timely complete their annual audit and quarterly reviews of financial statements. As part of such efforts, to the extent reasonably necessary for the preparation of financial statements or completing an audit or review of financial statements or an audit of internal control over financial reporting, (i) Wytec shall authorize and direct its auditors to make available to the Company's auditors, within a reasonable time prior to the date of the Company's auditors' opinion or review report, both (x) the personnel who performed or will perform the annual audits and quarterly reviews of Wytec and (y) work papers related to such annual audits and quarterly reviews, to enable the Company's auditors to perform any procedures they consider reasonably necessary to take responsibility for the work of Wytec's auditors as it relates to the Company's auditors' opinion or report and (ii) until all governmental audits or other inquiries are complete, Wytec shall provide reasonable access during normal business hours for the Company's internal auditors, counsel and other designated representatives to (x) the premises of Wytec and its Subsidiaries and all Information (and duplicating rights) within the knowledge, possession or control of Wytec and its Subsidiaries, (y) the officers and employees of Wytec and its Subsidiaries, so that the Company may conduct reasonable audits relating to the financial statements provided by Wytec and its Subsidiaries, and (z) the IT systems of Wytec, so that the Company may conduct reasonable testing of such IT systems in connection with the audits of financial statements; provided , however , that such access shall not be unreasonably disruptive to the business and affairs of the Wytec Group.
(b) Until the end of the first full fiscal year of Wytec occurring after the Distribution Date (and for a reasonable period of time afterwards or as required by Law), the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to enable Wytec to meet its timetable for dissemination of its financial statements and to enable Wytec's auditors to timely complete their annual audit and quarterly reviews of financial statements. As part of such efforts, to the extent reasonably necessary for the preparation of financial statements or completing an audit or review of financial statements or an audit of internal control over financial reporting, (i) the Company
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shall authorize and direct its auditors to make available to Wytec's auditors, within a reasonable time prior to the date of Wytec's auditors' opinion or review report, both (x) the personnel who performed or will perform the annual audits and quarterly reviews of Company and (y) work papers related to such annual audits and quarterly reviews, to enable Wytec's auditors to perform any procedures they consider reasonably necessary to take responsibility for the work of the Company's auditors as it relates to Wytec's auditors' opinion or report and (ii) until all governmental audits or other inquires are complete, the Company shall provide reasonable access during normal business hours for Wytec's internal auditors, counsel and other designated representatives to (x) the premises of the Company and its Subsidiaries and all Information (and duplicating rights) within the knowledge, possession or control of the Company and its Subsidiaries and (y) the officers and employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries, so that Wytec may conduct reasonable audits relating to the financial statements provided by the Company and its Subsidiaries, and (z) the IT systems of the Company, so that Wytec may conduct reasonable testing of such IT systems in connection with the audits of financial statements; provided , however , that such access shall not be unreasonably disruptive to the business and affairs of the Company Group.
(c) In order to enable the principal executive officer(s) and principal financial officer(s) (as such terms are defined in the rules and regulations of the Commission) of the Company to make any certifications required of them under Section 302 or 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Wytec shall, within a reasonable period of time following a request from the Company in anticipation of filing such reports, cause its principal executive officer(s) and principal financial officer(s) to provide the Company with certifications of such officers in support of the certifications of the Company's principal executive officer(s) and principal financial officer(s) required under Section 302 or 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 with respect to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with respect to the fiscal quarter during which the Distribution Date occurs (unless such quarter is the fourth fiscal quarter), each subsequent fiscal quarter through the third fiscal quarter of the year in which the Distribution Date occurs and the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with respect to the fiscal year during which the Distribution Date occurs. Such certifications shall be provided in substantially the same form and manner as such Wytec officers provided prior to the Distribution (reflecting any changes in certifications necessitated by the Spin-Off or any other transactions related thereto) or as otherwise agreed upon between Company and Wytec.
6.06. Limitations of Liability. Neither the Company nor Wytec shall have any Liability to the other Party in the event that any Information exchanged or provided pursuant to this Agreement that is an estimate or forecast, or that is based on an estimate or forecast, is found to be inaccurate in the absence of wilful misconduct by the providing Person. Neither the Company nor Wytec shall have any Liability to the other Party if any Information is destroyed after reasonable best efforts by Wytec or the Company, as applicable, to comply with the provisions of Section 6.04.
6.07. Conduct of Pending Litigation Matters. Wytec and the Company shall enter into one or more joint defense agreements, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, with respect to litigation matters pending as of the date hereof that involve members of both the Company Group and the Wytec Group.
6.08. Production of Witnesses; Records; Cooperation.
(a) After the Distribution Date and until the third anniversary thereof, except in the case of an adversarial Action or threatened adversarial Action by either the Company or Wytec or a Person or Persons in its Group against the other Party or a Person or Persons in its Group, each of Company and Wytec shall take all reasonable steps to make available, upon written request, the former, current and future directors, officers, employees, other personnel and agents of the Persons in its respective Group (whether as witnesses or otherwise) and any books, records or other documents within its control or that it otherwise has the ability to make available, to the extent that such Person (giving consideration to business demands of such directors, officers, employees, other personnel and agents) or books, records or other documents may reasonably be required in connection with any Action or threatened or contemplated Action (including preparation for such Action) in which the Company or Wytec, as applicable, may from time to time be involved, regardless of whether such Action is a matter with respect to which indemnification may be sought hereunder. The requesting Party shall bear all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses in connection therewith.
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(b) Without limiting the foregoing, the Company and Wytec shall use their reasonable best efforts to cooperate and consult to the extent reasonably necessary with respect to any Actions or threatened or contemplated Actions, other than an adversarial Action against the other Group.
(c) The obligation of the Company and Wytec to make available former, current and future directors, officers, employees and other personnel and agents or provide witnesses and experts pursuant to this Section 6.08 is intended to be interpreted in a manner so as to facilitate cooperation and shall include the obligation to make available employees and other officers without regard to whether such individual or the employer of such individual could assert a possible business conflict (subject to the exception set forth in the first sentence of Section 6.08(a)). Without limiting the foregoing, each of the Company and Wytec agrees that neither it nor any Person or Persons in its respective Group will take any adverse action against any employee of its Group based on such employee's provision of assistance or information to each other pursuant to this Section 6.08.
(d) Upon the reasonable request of the Company or Wytec, in connection with any Action contemplated by this Article VI, Company and Wytec will enter into a mutually acceptable common interest agreement so as to maintain to the extent practicable any applicable attorney-client privilege or work product immunity of any member of either Group.
6.09. Confidential Information.
(a) Each of the Company and Wytec, on behalf of itself and each Person in its respective Group, shall hold, and cause its respective directors, officers, employees, agents, accountants, counsel and other advisors and representatives to hold, in strict confidence and not release or disclose, with at least the same degree of care, but no less than a reasonable degree of care, that it applies to its own confidential and proprietary information pursuant to policies in effect as of the Distribution Date, all Information concerning the other Group or its business that is either in its possession (including Information in its possession prior to the Distribution) or furnished by the other Group or its respective directors, officers, employees, agents, accountants, counsel and other advisors and representatives at any time pursuant to this Agreement, and shall not use any such Information other than for such purposes as shall be expressly permitted hereunder, except, in each case, to the extent that such Information is (i) in the public domain through no fault of any member of the Company Group or the Wytec Group, as applicable, or any of its respective directors, officers, employees, agents, accountants, counsel and other advisors and representatives, (ii) later lawfully acquired from other sources by any of Company, Wytec or its respective Group, employees, directors or agents, accountants, counsel and other advisors and representatives, as applicable, which sources are not themselves bound by a confidentiality obligation to the knowledge of any of the Company, Wytec or Persons in its respective Group, as applicable, (iii) independently generated without reference to any proprietary or confidential Information of the Company Group or the Wytec Group, as applicable, or (iv) required to be disclosed by Law; provided , however , that the Person required to disclose such Information gives the applicable Person prompt, and to the extent reasonably practicable, prior notice of such disclosure and an opportunity to contest such disclosure and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cooperate, at the expense of the requesting Person, in seeking any reasonable protective arrangements requested by such Person. In the event that such appropriate protective order or other remedy is not obtained, the Person that is required to disclose such Information shall furnish, or cause to be furnished, only that portion of such Information that is legally required to be disclosed and shall take commercially reasonable steps to ensure that confidential treatment is accorded such Information. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each of the Company and Wytec may release or disclose, or permit to be released or disclosed, any such Information concerning the other Group (x) to their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, accountants, counsel and other advisors and representatives who need to know such Information (who shall be advised of the obligations hereunder with respect to such Information), and (y) to any nationally recognized statistical rating organization as it reasonably deems necessary, solely for the purpose of obtaining a rating of securities or other debt instruments upon normal terms and conditions; provided , however , that the Party whose Information is being disclosed or released to such rating organization is promptly notified thereof.
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(b) Without limiting the foregoing, when any Information concerning the other Group or its business is no longer needed for the purposes contemplated by this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, each of the Company and Wytec will, promptly after request of the other Party, either return all Information in a tangible form (including all copies thereof and all notes, extracts or summaries based thereon) or certify to the other Party, as applicable, that it has destroyed such Information (and used commercially reasonable efforts to destroy all such Information electronically preserved or recorded within any computerized data storage device or component (including any hard-drive or database)).
ARTICLE VII
FURTHER ASSURANCES AND ADDITIONAL COVENANTS
7.01. Further Assurances.
(a) In addition to the actions specifically provided for elsewhere in this Agreement, each of the Parties shall use reasonable best efforts, prior to, on and after the Distribution Date, to take, or cause to be taken, all actions, and to do, or cause to be done, all things, reasonably necessary, proper or advisable under applicable Laws and agreements to consummate and make effective the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(b) Without limiting the foregoing, prior to, on and after the Distribution Date, each Party shall cooperate with the other Party, without any further consideration, but at the expense of the requesting Party, (i) to execute and deliver, or use reasonable best efforts to execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, all instruments, including any instruments of conveyance, assignment and transfer as such Party may reasonably be requested to execute and deliver by the other Party, (ii) to make, or cause to be made, all filings with, and to obtain, or cause to be obtained, all Consents of any Governmental Authority or any other Person under any permit, license, agreement, indenture or other instrument, (iii) to obtain, or cause to be obtained, any Governmental Approvals or other Consents required to effect the Spin-Off and (iv) to take, or cause to be taken, all such other actions as such Party may reasonably be requested to take by the other Party from time to time, consistent with the terms of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements, in order to effectuate the provisions and purposes of this Agreement and any transfers of Assets or assignments and assumptions of Liabilities hereunder and the other transactions contemplated hereby.
(c) On or prior to the Distribution Date, the Company and Wytec, in their respective capacities as direct and indirect stockholders of their respective Subsidiaries, shall each ratify any actions that are reasonably necessary or desirable to be taken by Wytec or any other Subsidiary of the Company, as the case may be, to effectuate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(d) Prior to the Distribution, if either Party identifies any commercial or other service that is needed to ensure a smooth and orderly transition of its business in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, and that is not otherwise governed by the provisions of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, the Parties will cooperate in determining whether there is a mutually acceptable arm's-length basis on which the other Party will provide such service.
(e) The Company and Wytec shall settle the Payables Transactions in accordance with Schedule 1(g). As soon as reasonably possible following the Distribution Date, the Parties agree to determine and settle the final amounts of the Payables Transactions to the extent such amounts have not previously been settled.
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ARTICLE VIII
TERMINATION
8.01. Termination. This Agreement may be terminated by the Company at any time, in its sole discretion, prior to the Distribution.
8.02. Effect of Termination. In the event of any termination of this Agreement prior to the Distribution, neither Party (nor any of its directors or officers) shall have any Liability or further obligation to the other Party under this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements.
ARTICLE
IX
MISCELLANEOUS
9.01 Entire Agreement . This Agreement, and any instruments and agreements to be executed pursuant to this Agreement, set forth the entire understanding of the parties hereto with respect to the Agreement's subject matter, merges and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous understandings with respect to its subject matter and may not be waived or modified, in whole or in part, except by a writing signed by each of the parties hereto. No waiver of any provision of this Agreement in any instance shall be deemed to be a waiver of the same or any other provision in any other instance. Failure of any party to enforce any provision of this Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of its rights under such provision.
9.02 Governing Law and Venue . This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, excluding its choice of law rules. The parties consent to jurisdiction in the Federal and state courts of Texas shall for all actions arising under or in connection with this Agreement.
9.03. Assignability. Neither this Agreement nor any of the rights, interests or obligations under this Agreement shall be assigned, in whole or in part, by operation of Law or otherwise by either Party without the prior written consent of the other Party. Any purported assignment without such consent shall be void. Subject to the preceding sentences, this Agreement will be binding upon, inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable by, the Parties and their respective successors and assigns. No assignment permitted by this Section 11.03 shall release the assigning Party from liability for the full performance of its obligations under this Agreement.
9.04. Third-Party Beneficiaries. The provisions of this Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Parties hereto and are not intended to confer upon any Person except the Parties hereto any rights or remedies hereunder and There are no third-party beneficiaries of this Agreement and this Agreement shall not provide any third person with any remedy, claim, liability, reimbursement, cause of action or other right in excess of those existing without reference to this Agreement.
9.05 Notice . All communications, notices, requests, consents or demands given or required under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given when delivered to, or received by prepaid registered or certified mail or recognized overnight courier addressed to, or upon receipt of a facsimile sent to, the party for whom intended, as follows, or to such other address or facsimile number as may be furnished by such party by notice in the manner provided herein:
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Competitive Companies, Inc. 19206 Huebner Road, Suite 202 San Antonio, Texas 78258 Attention: William H. Gray, Chief Executive Officer Telephone: (210) 233-8980 Facsimile: (210) |
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If to Wytec:
Wytec International, Inc. 19206 Huebner Road, Suite 202 San Antonio, Texas 78258 Attention: William H. Gray, Chief Executive Officer Telephone: (210) 233-8980 Facsimile: (210) |
9.06 Severability . If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, this Agreement shall be interpreted and enforceable as if such provision were severed or limited, but only to the extent necessary to render such provision and this Agreement enforceable.
9.07. Publicity. Each of the Company and Wytec shall consult with the other, and shall, subject to the requirements of Section 6.09, provide the other Party the opportunity to review and comment upon, any press releases or other public statements in connection with the Spin-Off or any of the other transactions contemplated hereby and any filings with any Governmental Authority or national securities exchange with respect thereto, in each case prior to the issuance or filing thereof, as applicable (including the Form S-1, the Parties' respective Current Reports on Form 8-K to be filed on the Distribution Date, the Parties' respective Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with respect to the fiscal quarter during which the Distribution Date occurs, or if such quarter is the fourth fiscal quarter, the Parties' respective Annual Reports on Form 10-K filed with respect to the fiscal year during which the Distribution Date occurs (each such Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q or Annual Report on Form 10-K, a " First Post-Distribution Report ")). Each Party's obligations pursuant to this Section 9.07 shall terminate on the date on which such Party's First Post-Distribution Report is filed with the Commission.
9.08. Expenses. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement or in any Ancillary Agreement, all third-party fees, costs and expenses paid or incurred in connection with the Spin-Off will be paid by the Party incurring such fees or expenses, whether or not the Distribution is consummated, or as otherwise agreed by the Parties. Subject to the preceding sentence, Company shall bear the costs and expenses in connection with the Distribution.
9.09. Headings. The article, section and paragraph headings contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.
9.10. Survival of Covenants. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, the covenants in this Agreement and the liabilities for the breach of any obligations in this Agreement shall survive the Spin-Off and shall remain in full force and effect.
9.11. Waivers of Default. No failure or delay of any Party (or the applicable member of its Group) in exercising any right or remedy under this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such right or power, or any course of conduct, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. Waiver by any Party of any default by the other Party of any provision of this Agreement shall not be deemed a waiver by the waiving Party of any subsequent or other default.
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11.12. Specific Performance. Notwithstanding the procedures set forth in Article VIII, in the event of any actual or threatened default in, or breach of, any of the terms, conditions and provisions of this Agreement, the affected Party shall have the right to specific performance and injunctive or other equitable relief of its rights under this Agreement, in addition to any and all other rights and remedies at Law or in equity, and all such rights and remedies shall be cumulative. The other Party shall not oppose the granting of such relief on the basis that money damages are an adequate remedy. The Parties agree that the remedies at Law for any breach or threatened breach hereof, including monetary damages, are inadequate compensation for any loss and that any defense in any action for specific performance that a remedy at Law would be adequate is waived. Any requirements for the securing or posting of any bond with such remedy are waived.
11.13. Amendments. No provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed waived, amended, supplemented or modified by any Party, unless such waiver, amendment, supplement or modification is in writing and signed by the authorized representative of each Party.
11.14. Interpretation. Words in the singular shall be held to include the plural and vice versa and words of one gender shall be held to include the other gender as the context requires. The terms "hereof," "herein" "and "herewith" and words of similar import, unless otherwise stated, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement as a whole (including all of the Schedules hereto) and not to any particular provision of this Agreement. Article, Section or Schedule references are to the articles, sections and schedules of or to this Agreement unless otherwise specified. Any capitalized terms used in any Schedule to this Agreement or to any Ancillary Agreement but not otherwise defined therein shall have the meaning as defined in this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreement to which such Schedule is attached, as applicable. Any reference herein to this Agreement, unless otherwise stated, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, as permitted by Section 9.13. The word "including" and words of similar import when used in this Agreement shall mean "including, without limitation," unless the context otherwise requires or unless otherwise specified. The word "or" shall not be exclusive.
11.15 Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in multiple counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties hereto has executed this Agreement as of the date first set forth above.
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SCHEDULE 1(a)
WYTEC EQUITY INTERESTS
1. 100% of equity in Capaciti Networks, Inc.
2. 100% of equity in Wylink, Inc.
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SCHEDULE 1(b)
WYTEC ASSESTS
1. The WyQuote system and technology and intellectual property.
2. All of the equipment sales and deployment business, and the equipment inventory.
3. The LPN-16 technology and manufacturing agreement.
4. The built "diamond ring" transmission networks in Columbus, Ohio, San Antonio, Texas and Denver, Colorado.
5. Registered Links.
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WYTEC LIABILITIES
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SCHEDULE 1(d)
COMPANY EQUITY INTERESTS
1. 100% of equity in Wireless Wisconsin, LLC, Innovation Capital Management, Inc. and Innovation Capital Management, LLC.
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SCHEDULE 1(e)
COMPANYASSESTS
1. Marketing business for internet Wi-Fi provisioning services in less densely populated markets.
2. Eventually providing financing and financing services for customers of the Company and Wytec.
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SCHEDULE 1(f)
COMPANY RETAINED LIABILITIES
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PAYABLES TRANSACTIONS
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EXHIBIT 10.2
LICENSE AGREEMENT
This License Agreement ("Agreement") is made and entered into this ____ day of ____ 2017 by and between Wytec International, Inc., a Nevada corporation ("Licensor") and Competitive Companies, Inc., a Nevada corporation ("Licensee").
REC IT ALS
WHEREAS , Licensor owns the exclusive license to the proprietary rights, copyrights, potential tradenames and trademarks, and related intellectual property rights covering the online price quote system invented by the Licensor ("Inventor") known as "WyQuote", including but not limited to patent, tradename and trademark applications pending, as more thoroughly described in Exhibit A to this Agreement (collectively, the "Properties").
WHEREAS, the Properties include but are not limited to the registered or to be registered tradenames and copyrights described in Exhibit A to this Agreement.
WHEREAS , Licensor desires to license to Licensee, and Licensee desires to license from Licensor, the Properties on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
NOW THEREFORE , in consideration of their mutual promises herein as well as other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, Licensor and Licensee agree in good faith as follows:
TERMS
1. LICENSE
a. Grant of License. Licensor grants to Licensee, pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, a nonexclusive, nontransferable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use the Properties solely for commercial use for rural and other smaller markets having populations of 250,000 or less (the "Markets"). Licensee will obtain Licenser's prior written consent to proposed Markets.
b. Derivatives. From time to time either the Licensor or the Licensee may develop derivatives of the Properties, which may result in related Properties (collectively, the "Derivatives"). All Derivatives will be owned exclusively by the Licensor, as provided in Section 3 of this Agreement, and may be patented by the Licensor or otherwise confirmed as owned exclusively by the Licensor at Licensor's expense and in its sole and absolute discretion. The Licensee shall have, during the Term (as hereinafter defined in Section 9(a)) of this Agreement, the worldwide (for Markets only), nonexclusive, perpetual, royalty free right and license to practice, utilize and sublicense all such Derivatives, subject to all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
c. Restrictions on Use.
(i) The License to Licensee is only for uses designated in Section 1(a) and, subject to further mutual agreement by Licensor and Licensee, Section 1(b) of this Agreement.
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(ii) Licensee does not have the right to sublicense, assign or otherwise permit the use of the Properties to or by any third party without the specific prior written consent of the Licensor.
2. CONSIDERATION
a. License Fee. In consideration for the License granted by Licensor under this Agreement, Licensee has paid or shall pay to Licensor a license fee in the amount of one dollar ("License Fee").
b. Taxes. Licensee shall, in addition to the other amounts payable under this Agreement, pay all sales, use, value added or other taxes, federal, state or otherwise, however designated, which are levied or imposed by reason of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
3. OWNERSHIP
Licensee and Licensor acknowledge and agree that all proprietary rights, including but not limited to trade secret, trademark, and other proprietary rights in the Properties and the Derivatives are owned by Licensor, and by signing this Agreement Licensee does not obtain any such ownership rights. Licensee's rights herein are only a privilege and license during the Term of this Agreement to utilize the Properties according to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
4. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
Licensee acknowledges that during the Term of this Agreement Licensor may disclose to Licensee and its affiliates, agents and others, proprietary information, including but not limited to data, business information (including customer lists and prospects), formulae, test results, chemical processes, technical information, computer programs and documentation, programs, files, specifications, drawings, sketches, models, Derivatives, samples, tools or other data, whether in oral, written, digital or other form, that is the exclusive property of Licensor ("Confidential Information"). During the period this Agreement is in effect and at all times after its termination, Licensee and its employees, consultants, agents, licensees and distributors shall maintain the confidentiality of the Confidential Information and not sell, license, sublicense, publish, display, distribute, disclose or otherwise make available the Confidential Information to any third party nor use such information except as authorized by this Agreement, or as expressly authorized by the Licensor in writing prior to such proposed disclosure or use. Licensee shall not disclose or give access to the Confidential Information to its employees, consultants, agents, licensees or distributors except on a need-to-know basis, and not until such persons execute written agreements consistent with the terms of this Section 4. In addition, Licensee shall not, without the prior written consent of Licensor, disclose or give access to the Confidential Information to persons not an employee, consultant, agent, licensee or distributor of Licensee. Licensee agrees to notify Licensor immediately of any unauthorized use or disclosure of the Confidential Information. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Confidential Information shall not include information or data which (a) was in the public domain prior to being furnished to the Licensee; (b) was known to the Licensee prior to its disclosure to
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the Licensee by the Licensor; (c) is disclosed to the Licensee by a third party (without any breach of any confidentiality agreement with or obligation to the Licensor) who did not unlawfully acquire or receive such information on a confidential basis from the Licensor; (d) after being furnished to the Licensee, entered the public domain through no act or failure to act on the part of the Licensee; or (e) is independently developed by the Licensee without any breach of this Agreement. Disclosure of Confidential Information will not be precluded by this Agreement if such disclosure is (i) necessary to establish rights under this Agreement, or (ii) required by law or regulation or in response to a valid order of a court or other governmental body of a country or political subdivision thereof, provided that the Licensee notifies the Licensor of such order on a timely basis and if possible prior to such disclosure; provided, however, that the foregoing is subject to the Licensee's obligation, at its expense, to make a good faith attempt to obtain a protective order prior to such disclosure.
5. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE PARTIES
a. Legal Authorization. Each party warrants and represents that it is legally authorized to enter into this Agreement, that by doing so it does not violate any other agreements to which it is a party, and that it has not previously and will not during the term of this Agreement grant any rights to any third party that are inconsistent with the rights granted by that party to the other party in this Agreement.
b. Person Executing Agreement. Each party warrants and represents that the person executing this Agreement on its behalf is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Agreement on its behalf.
c. Employee, Agents, Independent Contractor Confidentiality. Each party warrants and represents that its obligations will be performed by employees, agents or independent contractors who have signed confidentiality agreement(s) that require such parties to comply with confidentiality obligations substantially similar to those imposed by this Agreement, including, but not limited to, Section 4 of this Agreement.
d. Warranty of Title. Licensor warrants that it has full power and authority to grant the License granted by this Agreement to Licensee and that, to the best of Licensor's knowledge, information, and belief, this License will in no way constitute an infringement or other violation of any copyright, trade secret, trademark, patent or other proprietary right of any third party.
e. Disclaimer of Any Other Warranty. The limited warranties set forth in this section 5 are in lieu of all other warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The parties hereto confirm and acknowledge that no other warranties, express or implied, have been made or exist with respect to the subject matter of this agreement.
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6. NO CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
Licensor shall not be liable to Licensee for indirect, special, incidental, exemplary or consequential damages including without limitation, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information, and the like arising out of this Agreement from any cause of action whatsoever, including contract, warranty, strict liability, or negligence, or the use of the Properties or the Derivatives, even if Licensor has been notified of the possibility of such damages.
7. LIM IT ATION ON RECOVERY
Under no circumstances shall the liability of Licensor to Licensee exceed the amounts paid by Licensee to Licensor under this Agreement.
8. INDEMNIFICATION
Licensee shall indemnify and hold harmless Licensor from and against any liability or claims, including reasonable legal fees and expenses, based upon Licensee's promotion, distribution, licensing, or use of the Properties or the Derivatives, including but not limited to claims of liability for false advertising, trademark infringement, service performance or fraudulent marketing practices. Licensor agrees to cooperate fully with Licensee during such proceedings. Licensee shall defend and settle at its sole expense all proceedings arising out of the foregoing.
9. TERMS AND TERMINATION
a. Effective Date. This Agreement and the License granted hereunder shall take effect upon the date that the License Fee is paid to Licensor (the "Effective Date") and will remain in full force and effect for a period of one year from the Effective Date unless sooner terminated by either party pursuant to the terms of this Agreement (the "Term"). Thereafter, this Agreement will automatically be renewed for consecutive one (1) year periods unless either party provides the other party with written notification, at least thirty (30) days prior to the expiration of the then current Term of this Agreement, of its intention not to renew this Agreement.
b. Termination for Failure to Perform. Licensor has the right to terminate this Agreement if Licensee has not paid its License Fee to Licensor as required by Section 2.
c. Default. Each party shall have the right to terminate this Agreement and the License granted herein, subject to the right to cure as set forth in Section 9(d), upon the occurrence of any of the following events (an "Event of Default"): (i) In the event the other party commits a material violation of any provision of this Agreement; or (ii) in the event the other party: (A) terminates or suspends its business; (B) becomes subject to any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding under Federal or state statute; (C) becomes insolvent or subject to direct control by a trustee, receiver or similar authority; or (D) has wound up, dissolved or
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liquidated, voluntarily or otherwise; or (iii) in the event of a change of control of Licensee, whereby a majority of the outstanding shares of voting stock of Licensee is conveyed to parties other than the current shareholders.
d. Notice and Opportunity to Cure. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, the non-defaulting party may deliver to the defaulting party a Notice of Intent to Terminate that identifies in detail the Event of Default. If such Event of Default remains uncured for thirty (30) days, the non-defaulting party may terminate this Agreement and the License granted herein by delivering to the defaulting party a Notice of Termination that identifies the effective date of the termination, which date shall not be less than thirty (30) days after the date of delivery of the Notice of Intent to Terminate.
e. Procedure. Within ten (10) days after termination of this Agreement and the License granted hereunder, Licensee shall return to Licensor, at Licensee's expense, all materials which contain the Properties or the Derivatives, and deliver to Licensor a certification, in writing signed by an officer of Licensee, that all materials containing the technology, the unregistered or registered trademarks and copyrights, and the products or the derivatives derived from the rights licensed under this Agreement, have been returned and their use discontinued.
f. No Waiver. A party who alleges that the other party to this Agreement has committed a breach of this Agreement will not waive any of its rights, claims or remedies against the other party resulting from the breach by exercising its right to terminate pursuant to Section 9 of this Agreement. Furthermore, a termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 9 herein will not relieve either party of fulfilling any of its duties, obligations or covenants which arose prior to the effective date of the termination.
g. Survival. Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 12 shall survive any termination of this Agreement. Any sublicenses properly granted by Licensee in compliance with this Agreement as of the effective date of termination will not be affected by any termination of this Agreement and will remain in full force and effect, subject to Section 10(g) of this Agreement.
10. COVENANTS OF PARTIES
a. Use of Properties and Derivatives . Licensee agrees to use the Properties and, if applicable, Derivatives only in the form and manner and with the appropriate legends as prescribed from time to lime by Licensor. Upon expiration or termination of this Agreement, Licensor may, if Licensee does not do so, execute in Licensee's name and on Licensee's behalf, any and all documents necessary in Licensor's reasonable judgment to end and cause the discontinuance of Licensee's use of the Properties and Derivatives, and Licensor is hereby irrevocably appointed and designated as Licensee's attorney in fact to do so.
b. Defense of Properties and Derivatives . In the event that Licensor or Licensee receives notice, or is informed of any claim, suit or demand against either of them on account of any alleged infringement, unfair competition or similar matter relating to the Properties or Derivatives, they shall promptly notify the other of any such claim, suit or demand. At Licensor's direction and with its approval, Licensee shall defend, compromise or settle any such claim, at Licensee's sole cost and expense using attorneys of its own choosing, and Licensor agrees to cooperate fully with Licensee in connection with the defense of any such claim.
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Licensor has the right at any time, in its sole discretion, to elect to assume the defense and to defend, compromise or settle any such claim at its expense, and if it does so, its decision with regard thereto shall be final.
c. Prosecution of Infringing Party . In the event that Licensor or Licensee shall receive notice or is informed or learns that any third party, which either of them believes to be unauthorized to use the Properties or Derivatives, is using them or any potentially infringing variant of either or both of them, they shall promptly notify the other of the facts relating to such alleged infringing use. Thereupon, upon direction and subject to the approval of Licensor, Licensee shall at its expense take action against any such third person on account of such alleged infringement. Licensor shall have the right at any time to itself make a demand against any such infringing party and to prosecute a claim against such alleged infringing party for or on account of such infringement.
d. Modification of Properties or Derivatives. From time to time Licensor may modify the Properties or Derivatives. Licensee shall accept and use the Properties and, if applicable, Derivatives as so modified in accordance with the written directives reasonably issued by Licensor to Licensee.
e. No Derogation . Licensee acknowledges and agrees that the Properties are the exclusive property of Licensor, and Licensee asserts no claim and will hereafter assert no claim to any ownership thereof by virtue of Licensee's licensed use thereof, or otherwise. Licensee agrees that it will not do or permit any act or thing to be done in derogation of any of the rights of Licensor in connection with the Properties and, if applicable, Derivatives, either during the Term of this Agreement or thereafter, and that it will use and sublicense the use of the Properties, and, if applicable, Derivatives, only for the uses and in the manner permitted in this Agreement.
f. Prohibition of Dispute. Licensee agrees that it will not, during or after the Term of this Agreement, in any way dispute or impugn the validity of the Properties and Derivatives licensed hereunder, or the rights of the Licensor thereto, or the rights of Licensor to use the same, both during the term of this Agreement and after its expiration.
g. Sublicensing. Licensee may not grant sublicenses to use the Properties without the express prior written consent of the Licensor.
11. NOTICES
All notices under this Agreement are to be delivered by: (i) depositing the notice in the mail, using registered mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the address below or to any other address as the party may designate by providing written notice; (ii) sending the notice by facsimile or email using the facsimile number or email address set forth below or any other facsimile number or email address as the party may designate by providing written notice; (iii) overnight delivery service addressed to the address below or to any other address as the party may designate by providing written notice; or (iv) hand delivery to the individual designated below or to any other individual as the party may designate by providing written notice. The notice shall be deemed delivered: (i) if by registered mail,
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four (4) days after the notice's deposit in the mail; (ii) if by facsimile or email, on the date the notice is delivered; (iii) if by overnight delivery service, on the day of delivery; and (iv) if by hand delivery, on the date of hand delivery.
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Wytec International, Inc. | Competitive Companies, Inc. | |
19206 Huebner Road, Suite 202 | 19206 Huebner Road, Suite 202 | |
San Antonio, Texas 78258 | San Antonio, Texas 78258 | |
Telephone No: (210) 233-8980 | Telephone No: (210) 233-8980 | |
Email: whg@wytecintl.com | Email: whg@cci-us.com |
12. GENERAL PROVISIONS
a . Limitation on Use of Trademarks. Licensee will obtain Licensor's prior written approval of Licensee's use of Licensor's name or any trade name or trademark of Licensor or its affiliates, unless such use is directly in connection with the use by Licensee of the Properties and, if applicable, the Derivatives.
b. Public Communications. The parties to this Agreement will confer and agree upon all press releases or public statements relating to this Agreement or the matters contained herein. Neither party will make any public statements without the expressed written approval of the other party.
c. Complete Agreement. The parties agree that this Agreement is the complete and exclusive statement of the agreement between the parties, which supersedes and merges all prior proposals, understandings and all other agreements, oral or written, between the parties relating to this Agreement.
d. Amendment. This Agreement may not be modified, altered or amended except by written instrument duly executed by both parties.
e. Waiver. The waiver or failure of either party to exercise in any respect any right provided for in this Agreement shall not be deemed a waiver of any further right under this Agreement.
f. Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is invalid, illegal or unenforceable under any applicable statute or rule of law, it is to that extent to be deemed omitted. The remainder of the Agreement shall be valid and enforceable to the maximum extent possible.
g. Governing Law and Venue. This Agreement will be governed by the laws of California without giving effect to applicable conflict of laws provisions. With respect to any litigation arising out of or relating to this Agreement, each party agrees that it will be filed in and heard by the state or federal courts with jurisdiction to hear such suits located in Bexar County, Texas.
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h. Read and Understood. Each party acknowledges that it has read and understands this Agreement and agrees to be bound by its terms.
i. Assignment. Licensor shall have the right to assign this Agreement, and all of its rights and privileges hereunder to any other person, firm or corporation without Licensee's prior consent. Neither Licensee's interest in this Agreement nor any of its rights or privileges hereunder shall be assigned, transferred, shared or divided, voluntarily or involuntarily, by operation of law or otherwise, in any manner, without the prior written consent of Licensor. Licensor's consent to any assignment of this Agreement shall in no event constitute a novation, or change Licensee's liability hereunder. Licensee shall not in any event have the right to pledge, encumber, hypothecate or otherwise give any third party a security interest in this Agreement in any manner.
j. Further Action. The parties hereto shall execute and deliver all documents, provide all information and take or forbear from all such action as may be necessary or appropriate to achieve the purposes of this Agreement.
k. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in several counterparts and all so executed shall constitute one Agreement, binding on the parties hereto even though the parties are not signatories to the original or the same counterpart.
l. Facsimile Signatures. Facsimile transmission of any signed original document, and the retransmission of any signed facsimile transmission, shall be the same as delivery of the original signed document. At the request of any party, a party shall confirm documents with a facsimile transmitted signature by signing an original document.
m. Parties in Interest. Nothing herein shall be construed to be to the benefit of any third party, nor is it intended that any provision shall be for the benefit of any third party.
n. Force Majeure. Neither party shall be in default or otherwise liable for any delay in or failure of its performance under this Agreement if such delay or failure arises by any reason beyond its reasonable control, including any act of God, the elements, earthquakes, floods, fires, epidemics, riots, failures or delay in transportation or communications, or any act or failure to act by the other party or such other party's employees, agents or contractors; provided, however , that lack of funds shall not be deemed to be a reason beyond a party's reasonable control. The parties will promptly inform and consult with each other as to any of the above causes which in their judgment may or could be the cause of a delay in the performance of this Agreement.
o. Headings. All section and paragraph titles or captions contained in this Agreement are for convenience only and shall not be deemed part of the context nor affect the interpretation of this Agreement.
p. Independent Contractors. The parties to this Agreement are independent contractors and not partners or joint venture partners and nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to the contrary.
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q. Export Restrictions. The Properties are of U.S. origin. Licensee agrees to comply with all applicable U.S. and international laws that apply to the Properties, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations, as well as end user, end use and destination restrictions issued by the U.S. and other national governments.
r. Rights Cumulative. All rights and remedies under this Agreement are cumulative and none is intended to be exclusive of another. No delay or omission in insisting upon the strict observance or performance of any provision of this Agreement, or in exercising any right or remedy, shall be construed as a waiver or relinquishment of such provision, nor shall it impair such right or remedy.
s. Attorneys' Fees and Costs. In the event that either party must resort to legal action in order to enforce the provisions of this Agreement or to defend such action, the prevailing party shall be entitled to receive reimbursement from the nonprevailing party for all reasonable attorneys' fees and all other costs incurred in commencing or defending such action, or in enforcing this Agreement, including but not limited to post judgment costs.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date written below their respective signatures.
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EXHIBIT A
DESCRIPTION OF LICENSED PROPERTIES
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASSETS
The below tables contain a complete and accurate list along with brief descriptions of all Intellectual Property Assets utilized, or which will be utilized upon final development thereof, in the provision of products and services under the WYQUOTE brand, whether owned or licensed business, including:
(a) the assumed name and brand "WYQUOTE" (and all derivatives thereof), all fictional business names, trade names, registered and unregistered trademarks, common law marks, service marks and applications ("Trademarks");
(b) all patents, patent applications, and inventions and discoveries that are or may be patentable ("Patents");
(c) all copyrights in both published works and unpublished works ("Copyrights");
(d) all know-how, trade secrets, confidential information, customer lists, technical information, data, process technology, plans, drawings, and blue prints, owned, used or licensed in the provision of products and services under the WYQUOTE brand.
Wytec International, Inc. is the sole creator and owner of all right, title, and interest in and to each of the Intellectual Property Assets, free and clear of all encumbrances, and has the sole and undiminished right to the use of the Intellectual Property Assets without any liability for royalties or other payments to a third party. No Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Trade Secret or other Intellectual Property Asset has been or is now involved in any challenge, interference, reissue, reexamination, or legal proceeding, nor to Wytec International, Inc.'s knowledge, is there any basis for any legal proceeding or claim against Wytec International, Inc. with respect to the Intellectual Property Assets. To Wytec International, Inc.'s knowledge, no Intellectual Property Assets violates or infringes upon any rights of any person or entity, nor has any person or entity infringed upon or violated any rights of Wytec International, Inc. in and to any Intellectual Property Assets. The Intellectual Property Assets used or necessary for use in connection with the ability to provide products and services under the WYQUOTE brand are now owned by Wytec International, Inc.
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EXHIBIT 10.3
REVOLVING LINE OF CREDIT NOTE
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San Antonio, Texas
FOR VALUE RECEIVED , Competitive Companies, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the "Borrower" or the "Maker"), hereby promises to pay to the order of Wytec International, Inc., a Nevada corporation ("Lender") at San Antonio, Texas, the principal sum equal to the amount outstanding from time to time indicated on Schedule A of this note (the "Note") reflecting advances made by the Lender to the Maker under this Note, not to exceed eight hundred dollars ($800,000), bearing simple interest on outstanding principal at the rate of five percent (5%) per annum, computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in a year of 365 days, with all principal and all accrued but unpaid interest due and payable in full on demand (the "Maturity Date"). Repayments on this Note will be applied first to amounts owed pursuant to Section 6 of this Note, if any, then to accrued but unpaid interest, then to outstanding principal.
The following is a statement of the rights of Lender and the conditions to which this Note is subject, and to which Lender, by acceptance of this Note, agrees:
1. Advances Under This Note . Maker has the right to draw on this Note and make borrowings from the Lender in accordance with its terms and conditions, up to a maximum of $800,000 of principal, by giving two (2) business days prior written notice to the Lender of a request for borrowings, subject to the express written agreement of the Lender, which Lender may give or decline to give in its sole and absolute discretion, for any reason or no reason. The principal amount outstanding on this Note from time to time is set forth on Schedule A hereto, which will be updated by the Lender as advances under this Note are made and outstanding amounts owed are repaid.
2. Right of Prepayment . Borrower may prepay all or any portion of the principal, interest and any other amount due under this Note prior to the Maturity Date without premium or penalty.
3. Default . Any of the following shall constitute an "Event of Default" under this Note:
Unless waived in writing by Lender, the failure of Borrower to make any payment of principal or interest required hereunder within ten (10) days of the due date for such payment;
Any material representation, warranty or statement made or furnished by the Borrower in this Note shall be false or misleading in any material respect on the date made;
The failure of Borrower to fully observe or perform any other term, condition, covenant, obligation, condition or agreement contained in this Note and (i) such failure shall continue for fifteen (15) days after the Borrower receives written notice thereof from Lender, or (ii) if such failure is not curable within such 15-day period but is reasonably capable of cure, the Borrower shall not have commenced a cure in a manner reasonably satisfactory to Lender within the initial 15-day period or at any time thereafter ceases to use commercially practicable efforts to effect such cure;
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A material default or material event of default (subject to any grace or cure period provided in the applicable agreement, document or instrument) shall occur under any other material agreement, lease, loan, document or instrument to which the Borrower is obligated to Lender;
The Borrower shall (i) apply for or consent to the appointment of, or the taking of possession by, a receiver, trustee, liquidator or custodian of itself or of all or a substantial part of its property, (ii) be unable, or admit in writing its inability, to pay its debts generally as they mature, (iii) cease operations of its business as presently conducted, (iv) make a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, (v) be dissolved or liquidated, (vi) commence a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to itself or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or consent to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession of its property by any official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, (vii) be adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent, (viii) file a petition seeking to take advantage of any other law providing for the relief of debtors, or (ix) take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing; or
The commencement of proceedings for the appointment of a receiver, trustee, liquidator or custodian of the Borrower or of all or a substantial part of the property thereof, or an involuntary case or other proceedings seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to the Borrower or the debts thereof under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect shall be commenced and an order for relief entered or such proceeding shall not be dismissed or discharged within sixty (60) days of commencement.
4. Notice of Events of Default; Rights of Lender Upon Default . The Borrower shall furnish to Lender, promptly upon the occurrence thereof, written notice of the occurrence of any Event of Default hereunder. Immediately upon the occurrence or existence of any Event of Default and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such Event of Default, unless such Event of Default has been waived by Lender in writing, all outstanding obligations payable by the Borrower hereunder shall be immediately due and payable without presentment, demand, protest, notice of default, nonpayment or dishonor, or any other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived, anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding. Upon an Event of Default, all unpaid obligations under this Note shall bear interest at the default rate of twelve percent (12%) per annum. In addition to the foregoing remedies, upon the occurrence or existence of any Event of Default, unless such Event of Default has been waived by Lender in writing, Lender may exercise any other right, power or remedy permitted to it by law, either by suit in equity or by action at law, or both.
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5. Representations and Warranties of the Borrower . The Borrower represents and warrants to Lender that:
Organization, Good Standing, Corporate Power and Qualification . The Borrower is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Nevada and has all requisite corporate power and authority to carry on its business as presently conducted. The Borrower is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the failure to so qualify would have a material adverse effect.
Authority . The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of this Note and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (i) are within the power of the Borrower; and (ii) have been duly authorized by all necessary actions on the part of the Borrower.
Enforceability . This Note has been, or will be, duly executed and delivered by the Borrower and constitutes, or will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower, enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with its terms, except as limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or other laws of general application relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and general principles of equity.
Non-Contravention . The execution and delivery by the Borrower of this Note and the performance and consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do not and will not: (i) violate the Borrower's Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws (the "Charter Documents") or any material judgment, order, writ, decree, statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Borrower; (ii) violate, in any material respect, any provision of, or result in the breach or the acceleration of, or entitle any other person to accelerate (whether after the giving of notice or lapse of time or both), any mortgage, indenture, agreement, instrument or contract to which the Borrower is a party or by which it is bound; (iii) result in the creation or imposition of any lien upon any property, asset or revenue of the Borrower or the suspension, revocation, impairment, forfeiture, or nonrenewal of any permit, license, authorization or approval applicable to the Borrower, its business or operations, or any of its assets or properties; or (iv) violate or breach any obligations of the Company providing any right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to participate in the transactions contemplated by this Note.
Disclosure . The Borrower has made available to Lender all of the information reasonably available to the Borrower that Lender has requested for deciding whether to purchase this Note. No representation or warranty of the Borrower contained in this Note or in any information provided by the Borrower to Lender contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained herein or therein not misleading in light of the circumstances under which they were made.
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6. Costs of Collections . Lender shall be entitled to collect reasonable attorney's fees and costs from the Borrower, as well as other costs and expenses reasonably incurred, in curing any default or attempting collection of any payment due on this Note.
7. Payment . This Note shall be payable in lawful money of the United States.
8. Place of Payment . All payments on this Note are to be made or given to Lender at the address provided to the Borrower or to such other place as Lender may from time to time direct by written notice to the Borrower.
9. Waiver . The Borrower, for itself and its successors, transfers and assigns, waives presentment, dishonor, protest, notice of protest, demand for payment and dishonor in nonpayment of this Note, bringing of suit or diligence of taking any action to collect any sums owing hereunder or in proceeding against any of the rights and properties securing payment hereunder.
10. Severability . If any provision of this Note or the application thereof to any persons or entities or circumstances shall, to any extent, be invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of this Note shall not be deemed affected thereby and every provision of this Note shall be valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.
11. No Partner . Lender shall not become or be deemed to be a partner or joint venturer with Borrower by reason of any provision of this Note. Nothing herein shall constitute Borrower and Lender as partners or joint venturers or require Lender to participate in or be responsible or liable for any costs, liabilities, expenses or losses of Borrower.
12. No Waiver . The failure to exercise any rights herein shall not constitute a waiver of the right to exercise the same or any other right at any subsequent time in respect of the same event or any other event.
13. Nonrecourse . In the event that the Borrower defaults on this Note, Lender shall look solely to the Borrower for repayment and none of the members, officers, directors or affiliates of the Borrower shall have any personal liability for payment hereunder
14. Governing Law and Venue . This Note shall be governed by and construed solely in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas without giving effect to applicable conflict of laws provisions. Borrower and Lender agree that the sole jurisdiction and venue for any litigation arising out of the Note involving Borrower or Lender shall be in the appropriate federal or state court located in Bexar County, Texas.
15. Entire Agreement . This Note contains the entire understanding and agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter herein and may not be altered or amended except by the written agreement of the parties.
16. Counterparts. This Note may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Facsimile executions of this Note shall be deemed original.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF , Borrower has executed this Note as of the date first hereinabove written.
COMPETITIVE COMPANIES, INC.,
a Nevada Corporation
By:
William H. Gray, Chief Executive Officer
Acknowledged and Agreed:
Wytec International, Inc.,
A Nevada corporation
By:
William H. Gray, Chief Executive Officer
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EXHIBIT 10.4
STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT
This Stock Purchase Agreement (the "Agreement") is made and entered into as of the 17th day of November 2016 by Capaciti Networks, Inc., a Texas corporation ("Capaciti"), which has a mailing address of 19206 Huebner Road, Suite 202, San Antonio, Texas 78258, Competitive Companies, Inc. ("CCI", "Seller" or "Capaciti Shareholder") a Nevada corporation that owns 100% of Capaciti, and Wytec International, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the "Buyer" or "Company"), with respect to the following facts:
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A. Seller owns 100% of the total issued and outstanding capital stock of Capaciti.
B. Capaciti is engaged in the business of selling commercial Internet services from the Company's "Diamond Ring" backhaul network ("Capaciti Business") along with other products and services.
C. The Company desires to acquire from Seller and Seller desires to sell to the Company 100% of the total issued and outstanding stock of Capaciti in exchange for 609,603 shares of the Company's common stock.
NOW, THEREFORE , for good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged by the parties to this Agreement, and in light of the above recitals to this Agreement, the parties to this Agreement hereby agree as follows:
1. Sale and Purchase
1.1 Sale and Purchase of Stock . In consideration for the Purchase Price (as defined in Section 1.2 of this Agreement) and the other covenants of the Company in this Agreement, Seller agrees to sell to the Buyer, and the Buyer agrees to purchase from Seller, on the Closing Date (as defined in Section 4.1 of this Agreement) 1,000,000 shares of the common stock of Capaciti, representing 100% of the total issued and outstanding capital stock and equity ownership interest in Capaciti (the "Capaciti Stock").
1.2 Purchase Price . As consideration for the sale by Seller of the shares of Capaciti Stock to the Company on the Closing Date, the Company will pay to Seller 609,603 shares (the "Shares") of the Company's common stock (the "Stock Payment"), issuable as provided in Section 1.2 of this Agreement. The Stock Payment will be made as follows: At the Closing, Seller will be issued a total of 609,603 Shares of the Company's common stock as part of the Purchase Price, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. The certificates evidencing the Shares will bear the following legend:
"THE SHARES EVIDENCED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, AND MAY NOT BE SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF UNLESS THEY HAVE BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THAT ACT OR AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE."
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2. Covenants.
2.1 Transition Period. Seller shall assist the Company with the transfer for 120 days after Closing at no cost to the Company.
2.2 Capaciti Board of Directors. At or prior to the Closing, to be effective on the Closing, the parties will execute all documents, resolutions, resignations, appointments and acceptances in order to cause the Capaciti Board of Directors to consist of one member, William H. Gray, at the Closing.
2.3 Capaciti Officers. At or prior to the Closing, to be effective on the Closing, the parties will execute all documents, resolutions, resignations, appointments and acceptances in order to cause the executive officers of Capaciti to be as follows at the Closing: William H. Gray will be the Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary.
3. Closing and Further Acts.
3.1 Time and Place of Closing . Upon satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 6 of this Agreement, the closing of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the "Closing") will take place at 19206 Huebner Rd., Suite 202, San Antonio, Texas 78258 at 11:00 a.m. (local time) on the date that the parties may mutually agree in writing, but in no event later than November 17, 2016 (the "Closing Date"), unless extended by mutual written agreement of the parties.
3.2 Actions at Closing . At the Closing, the following actions will take place:
(a) Buyer will pay to Seller the Purchase Price as provided in Section 1.2 of this Agreement by delivery of a stock certificate evidencing the Stock Payment.
(b) Seller will tender to the Company certificates and any other documents (including all historical records up to the Closing Date) evidencing the Capaciti Stock.
(c) Seller will deliver to Buyer copies of necessary resolutions of the Board of Directors of Seller authorizing the execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement and the other agreements contemplated by this Agreement, which resolutions have been certified by an officer of Seller as being valid and in full force and effect.
(d) Buyer will deliver to Seller copies of corporate resolutions of the Board of Directors of Buyer authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other agreements contemplated by this Agreement, which resolutions have been certified by an officer of Buyer as being valid and in full force and effect.
(e) Capaciti will deliver to the Buyer true and complete copies of Capaciti's Certificate of Incorporation and a Certificate of Good Standing from the appropriate official of Capaciti's jurisdiction of incorporation, which Certificates of Incorporation and Certificate of Good Standing are dated not more than 30 days prior to the Closing Date.
(g) Delivery of appropriate resignations, appointments acceptances and resolutions relating to the Capaciti Board of Directors as contemplated in Section 2.2 of this Agreement.
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(h) Delivery of any additional documents or instruments as a party may reasonably request or as may be necessary to evidence and effect the sale, assignment, transfer and delivery of the Capaciti Stock by Seller to the Buyer.
3.3 Actions Post Closing . After the Closing the Buyer will have the following authority:
(a) All management oversight of Capaciti.
(b) All Capaciti funding requirements, including but not limited to supplying short-term capital needs should cash flow shortages arise.
(c) All legal issues.
(d) Receive all records and documents for review by the Buyer.
4. Representations and Warranties of Capaciti and Seller .
Capaciti and Seller represent and warrant to Buyer as follows:
4.1 Power and Authority; Binding Nature of Agreement . Capaciti and Seller have full power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to perform their obligations hereunder. The execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement by each of Seller and Capaciti have been duly authorized by all necessary action on its part. Assuming that this Agreement is a valid and binding obligation of each of the other parties hereto, this Agreement is a valid and binding obligation of Capaciti, and Seller.
4.2 Subsidiaries . There is no corporation, general partnership limited partnership, joint venture, association, trust or other entity or organization that Capaciti directly or indirectly control or in which Capaciti directly or indirectly owns any equity or other interest.
4.3 Good Standing . Capaciti (i) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is incorporated, (ii) has all necessary power and authority to own its assets and to conduct its business as it is currently being conducted, and (iii) is duly qualified or licensed to do business and is in good standing in every jurisdiction (both domestic and foreign) where such qualification or licensing is required.
4.4 Charter Documents and Corporate Records . Capaciti has delivered to Buyer complete and correct copies or provided Buyer with the right to inspect true and complete copies of all (i) the articles of incorporation, bylaws and other charter or organizational documents of Capaciti, including all amendments thereto, (ii) the stock records of Capaciti, and (iii) the minutes and other records of the meetings and other proceedings of the shareholders and directors of Capaciti. Capaciti is not in violation or breach of (i) any of the provisions of its articles of incorporation, bylaws or other charter or organizational documents, or (ii) any resolution adopted by its shareholders or directors. There have been no meetings or other proceedings of the shareholders or directors of Capaciti that are not fully reflected in the appropriate minute books or other written records of Capaciti.
4.5 Financial Statements . Capaciti has delivered to Buyer the following financial statements relating to Capaciti prior to the Closing (the "Capaciti Financial Statements"): (i) the unaudited balance sheet of Capaciti as of December 31, 2015 and 2014 and the unaudited balance sheet as of September 30, 2016, and (ii) the unaudited statements of income for the years ended December 31,
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2014 and 2015 and the unaudited statements of income for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 and the unaudited statements of retained earnings and shareholders' equity as of September 30, 2016. Except as stated therein or in the notes thereto, the Capaciti Financial Statements: (a) present fairly the financial position of Capaciti as of the respective dates thereof and the results of operations and changes in financial position of Capaciti for the respective periods covered thereby; and (b) have been prepared in accordance with Capaciti's normal business practices applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods covered.
4.6 Capitalization . The authorized capital stock of Capaciti consists of 10,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of which 1,000,000 shares are issued and outstanding, and 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share, none of which are issued or outstanding. All of the outstanding shares of the capital stock of Capaciti are validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, and have been issued in full compliance with all applicable federal, state, local and foreign securities laws and other laws.
4.7 Absence of Changes . Except as otherwise disclosed to Buyer in writing prior to the Closing, since September 30, 2016:
(a) There has not been any material adverse change in the business, condition, assets, operations or prospects of Capaciti and no event has occurred or, to Capaciti's knowledge, is expected to occur after the Closing that might have a material adverse effect on the business, condition, assets, operations or prospects of Capaciti.
(b) Capaciti has not (i) declared, set aside or paid any dividend or made any other contribution in respect of any shares of capital stock, nor (ii) repurchased, redeemed or otherwise reacquired any shares of capital stock or other securities.
(c) Capaciti has not sold or otherwise issued any shares of capital stock or any other securities.
(d) Capaciti has not amended its articles of incorporation, bylaws or other charter or organizational documents, nor has it effected or been a party to any merger, recapitalization, reclassification of shares, stock split, reverse stock split, reorganization or similar transaction.
(e) Capaciti has not formed any subsidiary or contributed any funds or other assets to any subsidiary.
(f) Capaciti has not purchased or otherwise acquired any assets, nor has it leased any assets from any other person, except in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice.
(g) Capaciti has not made any capital expenditure outside the ordinary course of business or inconsistent with past practice, or in an amount exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000) singly or in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in the aggregate, without Buyer's consent.
(h) Capaciti has not sold or otherwise transferred any assets to any other person, except in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and at a price equal to the fair market value of the assets transferred.
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(i) There has not been any loss, damage or destruction to any of the properties or assets of Capaciti (whether or not covered by insurance).
(j) Capaciti has not written off as uncollectible any indebtedness or accounts receivable, except for write offs that were made in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and that involved less than $5,000 singly and less than $10,000 in the aggregate.
(k) Capaciti has not leased any assets to any other person except in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and at a rental rate equal to the fair rental value of the leased assets.
(l) Capaciti has not mortgaged, pledged, hypothecated or otherwise encumbered any assets, except in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice.
(m) Capaciti has not entered into any contract, or incurred any debt, liability or other obligation (whether absolute, accrued, contingent or otherwise), except for (i) contracts that were entered into in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and that have terms of less than six months and do not contemplate payments by or to Capaciti which will exceed, over the term of the contract, ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in the aggregate, and (ii) current liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with the past practice.
(n) Capaciti has not made any loan or advance to any other person, except for advances that have been made to customers in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and that have been properly reflected as "accounts receivables."
(o) Other than annual raises or bonuses paid or provided consistent with past business practices, Capaciti has not paid any bonus to, or increased the amount of the salary, fringe benefits or other compensation or remuneration payable to, any of the directors, officers or employees of Capaciti.
(p) No contract or other instrument to which Capaciti is or was a party or by which Capaciti or any of its assets are or were bound has been amended or terminated, except in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice.
(q) Capaciti has not discharged any lien or discharged or paid any indebtedness, liability or other obligation, except for current liabilities that (i) are reflected in the Capaciti Financial Statements as of September 30, 2016 or have been incurred since September 30, 2016 in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, and (ii) have been discharged or paid in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice.
(r) Capaciti has not forgiven any debt or otherwise released or waived any right or claim, except in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice.
(s) Capaciti has not changed its methods of accounting or its accounting practices in any respect.
(t) Capaciti has not entered into any transaction outside the ordinary course of business or inconsistent with past practice.
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(u) Capaciti has not agreed or committed (orally or in writing) to do any of the things described in clauses (b) through (t) of this Section 4.7.
4.8 Absence of Undisclosed Liabilities . Capaciti has no debt, liability or other obligation of any nature (whether due or to become due and whether absolute, accrued, contingent or otherwise) that is not reflected or reserved against in the Capaciti Financial Statements as of September 30, 2016, except for obligations incurred since September 30, 2016 in the ordinary and usual course of business consistent with past practice.
4.9 Capaciti Assets .
(a) The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not result in a breach of the terms and conditions of, or result in a loss of rights under, or result in the creation of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon, any of the assets of the Capaciti Business.
(b) Capaciti has good and marketable title to all of its assets, free and clear of all mortgages, liens, leases, pledges, charges, encumbrances, equities or claims, except as expressly disclosed in writing by Capaciti to Buyer prior to the Closing Date.
(c) Capaciti's assets are not subject to any material liability, absolute or contingent, which has not been disclosed by Capaciti to Buyer in writing prior to the Closing Date nor is Capaciti subject to any liability, absolute or contingent, which has not been disclosed to and acknowledged by Buyer in writing prior to the Closing Date.
(d) Capaciti has provided to Buyer in writing an accurate description of all of the assets of Capaciti or used in the business of Capaciti.
(e) Capaciti has provided to Buyer in writing a list of all contracts, agreements, licenses, leases, arrangements, commitments and other undertakings to which Capaciti is a party or by which it or its property is bound. Except as specified by Capaciti to Buyer in writing prior to the Closing Date, all of such contracts, agreements, leases, licenses and commitments are valid, binding and in full force and effect.
4.10 Compliance with Laws; Licenses and Permits . Capaciti is not in violation of, nor has it failed to conduct its business in full compliance with, any applicable federal, state, local or foreign laws, regulations, rules, treaties, rulings, orders, directives or decrees. Capaciti has delivered to Buyer a complete and accurate list and provided Buyer with the right to inspect true and complete copies of all of the licenses, permits, authorizations and franchises to which Capaciti is subject and all said licenses, permits, authorizations and franchises are valid and in full force and effect. Said licenses, permits, authorizations and franchises constitute all of the licenses, permits, authorizations and franchises necessary to permit Capaciti to conduct its business in the manner in which it is now being conducted, and Capaciti is not in violation or breach of any of the terms, requirements or conditions of any of said licenses, permits, authorizations or franchises.
4.11 Taxes . Except as disclosed herein, Capaciti has accurately and completely filed with the appropriate United States state, local and foreign governmental agencies all tax returns and reports required to be filed (subject to permitted extensions applicable to such filings), and has paid or accrued in full all taxes, duties, charges, withholding obligations and other governmental liabilities as well as any interest, penalties, assessments or deficiencies, if any, due to, or claimed to be due by, any governmental
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authority (including taxes on properties, income, franchises, licenses, sales and payroll). (All such items are collectively referred to herein as "Taxes"). The Capaciti Financial Statements fully accrue or reserve all current and deferred taxes. Capaciti is not a party to any pending action or proceeding, nor is any such action or proceeding threatened by any governmental authority for the assessment or collection of Taxes. No liability for taxes has been incurred other than in the ordinary course of business. There are no liens for Taxes except for liens for property taxes not yet delinquent. Capaciti is not a party to any Tax sharing, Tax allocation, Tax indemnity or statute of limitations extension or waiver agreement and in the past year has not been included on any consolidated combined or unitary return with any entity other than Capaciti. Capaciti has duly withheld from each payment made to each person from whom such withholding is required by law the amount of all Taxes or other sums (including but not limited to United States federal income taxes, any applicable state or municipal income tax, disability tax, unemployment insurance contribution and Federal Insurance Contribution Act taxes) required to be withheld therefore and has paid the same to the proper tax authorities prior to the due date thereof. To the extent any Taxes withheld by Capaciti have not been paid as of the Closing Date because such Taxes were not yet due, such Taxes will be paid to the proper tax authorities in a timely manner. All Tax returns filed by Capaciti are accurate and comply with and were prepared in accordance with applicable statutes and regulations.
4.12 Environmental Compliance Matters . To the best of the knowledge of Seller and Capaciti, without conducting any study or independent investigation, Capaciti has at all relevant times with respect to its business been in material compliance with all environmental laws, and has not received any potentially responsible party notices or similar notices from any governmental agencies or private parties concerning releases or threatened releases of any "hazardous substance" as that term is defined under 42 U.S.C. 960(1) (14).
4.13 Compensation . Since September 30, 2016, Capaciti has not paid or committed to pay to or for the benefit of any of its officers or directors any compensation of any kind other than wages, salaries and benefits at times and rates in effect on September 30, 2016. Capaciti does not have any bonus plan or obligations with respect to any bonus plan. Capaciti has provided Buyer with a full and complete list of all officers, directors, employees and consultants of Capaciti as of the date hereof, specifying their names and job designations, their dates of hire, the total amount paid or payable as wages, salaries or other forms of direct compensation, and the basis of such compensation, whether fixed or commission or a combination thereof.
4.14 No Default .
(a) Each of the contracts, agreements or other instruments of Capaciti and each of the standard Customer Agreements or contracts of Capaciti is a legal, binding and enforceable obligation by or against Capaciti, subject to the effect of applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar federal or state laws affecting the rights of creditors and the effect or availability of rules of law governing specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies (regardless of whether any such remedy is considered in a proceeding at law or in equity). No party with whom Capaciti has an agreement or contract is in default there under or has breached any terms or provisions thereof which is material to the conduct of Capaciti's business.
(b) Capaciti has performed, or is now performing, the obligations of, and Capaciti is not in material default (or would by the late of time and/or the giving of notice be in material default) in respect of, any contract, agreement or commitment binding upon it or its assets or properties and material to the conduct of its Business. No third party has raised any claim, dispute or controversy with respect to any of the executed contracts of Capaciti, nor has Capaciti
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received notice of warning of alleged nonperformance, delay in delivery or other noncompliance by Capaciti with respect to its obligations under any of those contracts, nor are there any facts which exist indicating that any of those contracts may be totally or partially terminated or suspended by the other parties thereto.
4.15 Product Warranties . Except as otherwise disclosed in writing to Buyer prior to the Closing and for warranties under applicable law, (a) there are no warranties, express or implied, written or oral, with respect to the products of Capaciti, (b) there are no pending or threatened claims with respect to any such warranty, and (c) Capaciti has no, and after the Closing Date, will have no, liability with respect to any such warranty, whether known or unknown, absolute, accrued, contingent, or otherwise and whether due or to become due, other than customary returns in the ordinary course of business that are fully reserved against in the Capaciti Financial Statements.
4.16 Proprietary Rights .
(a) Capaciti has provided Buyer in writing a complete and accurate list and provided Buyer with the right to inspect true and complete copies of all software, patents and applications for patents, trademarks, trade names, service marks, and copyrights, and applications therefore, owned or used by Capaciti or in which it has any rights or licenses, except for software used by Capaciti and generally available on the commercial market. Capaciti has provided Buyer with a complete and accurate description of all agreements or provided Buyer with the right to inspect true and complete copies of all agreements of Capaciti with each officer, employee or consultant of Capaciti providing Capaciti with title and ownership to patents, patent applications, trade secrets and inventions developed or used by Capaciti in its business. To Capaciti's knowledge, all of such agreements are valid, enforceable and legally binding, subject to the effect or availability of rules of law governing specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies (regardless of whether any such remedy is considered in a proceeding at law or in equity).
(b) Capaciti owns or possesses licenses or other rights to use all computer software, software programs, patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, trade secrets, service marks, trade names, copyrights, inventions, drawings, designs, customer lists, propriety know-how or information, or other rights with respect thereto (collectively referred to as "Proprietary Rights"), used in the business of Capaciti, and the same are sufficient to conduct Capaciti's business as it has been and is now being conducted.
(c) To Capaciti's knowledge, the operations of Capaciti do not conflict with or infringe, and no one has asserted to Capaciti that such operations conflict with or infringe on any Proprietary Rights owned, possessed or used by any third party. There are no claims, disputes, actions, proceedings, suits or appeal pending against Capaciti with respect to any Proprietary Rights, and to the knowledge of the management of Capaciti none has been threatened against Capaciti. To the best knowledge of the management of Capaciti there are no facts or alleged fact which would reasonably serve as a basis for any claim that Capaciti does not have the right to use, free of any rights or claims of others, all Proprietary Rights in the development, manufacture, use, sale or other disposition of any or all products or services presently being used, furnished or sold in the conduct of the business of Capaciti as it has been and is now being conducted.
(e) No employee of Capaciti is in violation of any term of any employment contract, proprietary information and inventions agreement, non-competition agreement, or any other
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contract or agreement relating to the relationship of any such employee with Capaciti or any previous employer.
4.17 Insurance . Capaciti has provided Buyer with a complete and accurate list of all policies of insurance and provided Buyer with the right to inspect true and complete copies of all policies of insurance to which Capaciti is a party or is a beneficiary or named insured as of the Closing Date. Capaciti has in full force and effect, with all premiums due thereon paid the policies of insurance set forth therein. All the insurable properties of Capaciti are insured in amounts and coverage and against risks and losses which are adequate and usually insured against by persons holding or operating similar properties in similar businesses. There were no claims in excess of $10,000 asserted or currently outstanding under any of the insurance policies of Capaciti in respect of all motor vehicle, general liability, errors and omissions, workers compensation, and medical claims during the calendar year ending on December 31, 2015 or the ten months ending October 31, 2016.
4.18 Labor Relations . None of the employees of Capaciti are represented by any union or are parties to any collective bargaining arrangement, and no attempts are being made to organize or unionize any of Capaciti's employees. Except as disclosed in writing to Buyer prior to the Closing, there is not presently pending or existing, and there is not presently threatened, any (a) strike, slowdown, picketing, work stoppage or employee grievance process, or (b) action, arbitration, audit, hearing, investigation, litigation, or suit (whether civil, criminal, administrative, investigative, or informal) against or affecting Capaciti relating to the alleged violation of any legal requirement pertaining to labor relations or employment matters. Capaciti is in compliance with all applicable laws respecting employment and employment practices, terms and conditions of employment, wages and hours, occupational safety and health and is not engaged in any unfair labor practices. Capaciti is in compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
4.19 Corporation Status. Capaciti is identified as a "C" corporation prior to Closing.
4.20 Condition of Premises. All real property leased by Capaciti is in good condition and repair, ordinary wear and tear excepted.
4.21 No Distributor Agreements. Except as disclosed in writing to Buyer prior to the Closing, Capaciti is not a party to, nor is the property of Capaciti bound by, any distributors' or manufacturer's representative or agency agreement.
4.22 Conflict of Interest Transactions. No past or present shareholder, director, officer or employee of Capaciti or any of their affiliates (i) is indebted to, or has any financial, business or contractual relationship or arrangement with Capaciti, or (ii) has any direct or indirect interest in any property, asset or right which is owned or used by Capaciti or pertains to the business of Capaciti with the exception of outstanding shareholder loans which will be satisfied upon closing.
4.23 Litigation . There is no action, suit, proceeding, dispute, litigation, claim, complaint or investigation by or before any court, tribunal, governmental body, governmental agency or arbitrator pending or threatened against or with respect to Capaciti which (i) if adversely determined would have an adverse effect on the business, condition, assets, operations or prospects of Capaciti, or (ii) challenges or would challenge any of the actions required to be taken by Capaciti under this Agreement. There exists no basis for any such action, suit, proceeding, dispute, litigation, claim, complaint or investigation.
4.24 Non-Contravention . Neither (a) the execution and delivery of this Agreement, nor (b) the performance of this Agreement will: (i) contravene or result in a violation of any of the provisions of
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the organizational documents of Capaciti; (ii) contravene or result in a violation of any resolution adopted by the shareholders or directors of Capaciti; (iii) result in a violation or breach of, or give any person the right to declare (whether with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under or to terminate, any agreement or other instrument to which Capaciti is a party or by which Capaciti or any of its assets are bound; (iv) give any person the right to accelerate the maturity of any indebtedness or other obligation of Capaciti; (v) result in the loss of any license or other contractual right of Capaciti; (vi) result in the loss of, or in a violation of any of the terms, provisions or conditions of, any governmental license, permit, authorization or franchise of Capaciti; (vii) result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge, encumbrance or restriction on any of the assets of Capaciti; (viii) result in the reassessment or revaluation of any property of Capaciti; by any taxing authority or other governmental authority; (ix) result in the imposition of, or subject Capaciti; to any liability for, any conveyance or transfer tax or any similar tax; or (x) result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, treaty, ruling, directive, order, arbitration award, judgment or decree to which Capaciti or any of its assets or any limited liability interests are subject.
4.25 Approvals . Capaciti has provided Buyer with a complete and accurate list of all jurisdictions in which Capaciti is authorized to do business. No authorization, consent or approval of, or registration or filing with, any governmental authority is required to be obtained or made by Capaciti in connection with the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement, including the conveyance to Buyer of the Business.
4.26 Brokers . Capaciti has not agreed to pay any brokerage fees, finder's fees or other fees or commissions with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and, to Capaciti's knowledge, no person is entitled, or intends to claim that it is entitled, to receive any such fees or commissions in connection with such transaction.
4.27 Special Government Liabilities. Capaciti has no existing or pending liabilities, obligations or deferred payments due to any federal, state or local government agency or entity in connection with its business or with any program sponsored or funded in whole or in part by any federal, state or local government agency or entity, nor is Capaciti or Seller aware of any threatened action or claim or any condition that could support an action or claim against Capaciti or the Capaciti Business for any of said liabilities, obligations or deferred payments.
4.28 Full Disclosure . Neither this Agreement (including the exhibits hereto) nor any statement, certificate or other document delivered to Buyer by or on behalf of Capaciti contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary to make the representations and other statements contained herein and therein not misleading.
4.29 Representations True on Closing Date . The representations and warranties of Capaciti set forth in this Agreement are true and correct on the date hereof, and will be true and correct on the Closing Date as though such representations and warranties were made as of the Closing Date. Buyer's knowledge will not act as a waiver of any breach of the representations and warranties contained herein by Capaciti or Seller.
4.30 Tax Advice . Capaciti and Seller hereby represent and warrant that they have sought their own independent tax advice regarding the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and neither Capaciti nor Seller have relied on any representation or statement made by Buyer, the Company, or their representatives regarding the tax implications of such transactions.
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5. Representations and Warranties of Buyer.
Buyer represents and warrants to Capaciti and Seller as follows:
5.1 Power and Authority; Binding Nature of Agreement . Buyer has full power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to perform its obligations hereunder. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by Buyer have been duly authorized by all necessary action on its part. Assuming that this Agreement is a valid and binding obligation of the other party hereto, this Agreement is a valid and binding obligation of Buyer.
5.2 Approvals . To Buyer's knowledge, no authorization, consent or approval of, or registration or filing with, any governmental authority or any other person is required to be obtained or made by Buyer in connection with the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement.
5.3 Representations True on Closing Date . To the Buyer's knowledge, the representations and warranties of Buyer set forth in this Agreement are true and correct on the date hereof, and will be true and correct on the Closing Date as though such representations and warranties were made as of the Closing Date.
5.4 Non-Distributive Intent . The shares of Capaciti Stock being purchased by the Company pursuant to this Agreement are not being acquired by the Buyer with a view to the public distribution of them.
5.5 Non Contravention . To the Company's knowledge neither the execution nor delivery of this Agreement, nor the performance of this Agreement will contravene or result in a material violation of any of the provisions of any other agreement or obligation of the Buyer.
6. Conditions to Closing.
6.1 Conditions Precedent to Buyer's Obligation to Close . Buyer's obligation to close the stock purchase as contemplated in this Agreement is conditioned upon the occurrence or waiver by Buyer of the following:
(a) Seller shall have delivered to the Company all certificates evidencing the Capaciti Stock and ownership of 100% of the capital stock of Capaciti.
(b) All representations and warranties of Capaciti and Seller made in this Agreement or in any exhibit or schedule hereto delivered by Capaciti and Seller must be true and correct as of the Closing Date with the same force and effect as if made on and as of that date.
(c) Capaciti must have performed and complied with all agreements, covenants and conditions required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by Capaciti prior to or at the Closing Date.
6.2 Conditions Precedent to Seller's Obligation to Close . Seller's obligation to close the stock purchase as contemplated in this Agreement is conditioned upon the occurrence or waiver by Seller of the following:
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(a) All representations and warranties of Buyer made in this Agreement or in any exhibit hereto delivered by Buyer must be true and correct on and as of the Closing Date with the same force and effect as if made on and as of that date.
(b) Buyer must have performed and complied with all agreements and conditions required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by Buyer prior to or at the Closing Date.
7. Survival of Representations and Warranties.
All representations and warranties made by each of the parties hereto will survive the Closing for a period after the Closing Date equal to the applicable statute of limitations for such matters under applicable state law.
8. Indemnification.
8.1 Indemnification by Capaciti and Seller. Capaciti and Seller agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Buyer and its affiliates against any and all claims, demands, losses, costs, expenses, obligations, liabilities and damages, including interest, penalties and attorney's fees and costs, incurred by Buyer or any of its affiliates arising, resulting from, or relating to any and all liabilities of Capaciti incurred prior to the Closing or relating to the Capaciti Stock, any misrepresentation of a material fact or omission to disclose a material fact made by Capaciti or Seller in this Agreement, in any exhibits to this Agreement or in any other document furnished or to be furnished by Capaciti or Seller under this Agreement, or any breach of, or failure by Capaciti or Seller to perform, any of their representations, warranties, covenants or agreements in this Agreement or in any exhibit or other document furnished or to be furnished by Capaciti or Seller under this Agreement.
8.2 Indemnification by Buyer . Buyer agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Capaciti and Seller against any and all claims, demands, losses, costs, expenses, obligations, liabilities and damages, including interest, penalties and attorneys' fees and costs incurred by Capaciti or Seller arising, resulting from or relating to any breach of, or failure by Buyer to perform, any of its representations, warranties, covenants or agreements in this Agreement or in any exhibit or other document furnished or to be furnished by Buyer under this Agreement.
8.3 Procedure for Indemnification Claims.
(a) Whenever any parties become aware that a claim (an "Underlying Claim") has arisen entitling them to seek indemnification under Section 8 of this Agreement, such parties (the "Indemnified Parties") shall promptly send a notice ("Notice") to the parties liable for such indemnification (the "Indemnifying Parties") of the right to indemnification (the "Indemnity Claim"); provided, however, that the failure to so notify the Indemnifying Parties will relieve the Indemnifying Parties from liability under this Agreement with respect to such Indemnity Claim only if, and only to the extent that, such failure to notify the Indemnifying Parties results in the forfeiture by the Indemnifying Parties of rights and defenses otherwise available to the Indemnifying Parties with respect to the Underlying Claim. Any Notice pursuant to this Section 8.3(a) shall set forth in reasonable detail, to the extent then available, the basis for such Indemnity Claim and an estimate of the amount of damages arising therefore.
(b) If an Indemnity Claim does not result from or arise in connection with any Underlying Claim or legal proceedings by a third party, the Indemnifying Parties will have thirty
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(30) calendar days following receipt of the Notice to issue a written response to the Indemnified Parties, indicating the Indemnifying Parties' intention to either (i) contest the Indemnity Claim or (ii) accept the Indemnity Claim as valid. The Indemnifying Parties' failure to provide such a written response within such thirty (30) day period shall be deemed to be an acceptance of the Indemnity Claim as valid. In the event that an Indemnity Claim is accepted as valid, the Indemnifying Parties shall, within fifteen (15) Business Days thereafter, pay the damages incurred by the Indemnified Parties in respect of the Underlying Claim in cash by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account or accounts specified by the Indemnified Parties. To the extent appropriate, payments for indemnifiable damages made pursuant to this Agreement will be treated as adjustments to the Purchase Price.
(c) In the event an Indemnity Claim results from or arises in connection with any Underlying Claim or legal proceedings by a third party, the Indemnifying Parties shall have fifteen (15) calendar days following receipt of the Notice to send a Notice to the Indemnified Parties of their election to, at their sole cost and expense, assume the defense of any such Underlying Claim or legal proceeding; provided that such Notice of election shall contain a confirmation by the Indemnifying Parties of their obligation to hold harmless the Indemnified Parties with respect to damages arising from such Underlying Claim. The failure by the Indemnifying Parties to elect to assume the defense of any such Underlying Claim within such fifteen (15) day period shall entitle the Indemnified Parties to undertake control of the defense of the Underlying Claim on behalf of and for the account and risk of the Indemnifying Parties in such manner as the Indemnified Parties may deem appropriate, including, but not limited to, settling the Underlying Claim. The parties controlling the defense of the Underlying Claim shall not, however, settle or compromise such Underlying Claim without the prior written consent of the other parties, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. The non-controlling parties shall be entitled to participate in (but not control) the defense of any such action, with their own counsel and at their own expense.
(d) The Indemnifying Parties and the Indemnified Parties will cooperate reasonably, fully and in good faith with each other, at the sole expense of the Indemnifying Parties, in connection with the defense, compromise or settlement of any Underlying Claim including, without limitation, by making available to the other parties all pertinent information and witnesses within their reasonable control.
9. Equitable Relief.
9.1 Damages Inadequate . Each party acknowledges that it would be impossible to measure in money the damages to the other party if there is a failure to comply with any covenants and provisions of this Agreement, and agrees that in the event of any breach of any covenant or provision, the other party to this Agreement will not have an adequate remedy at law.
9.2 Equitable Relief . It is therefore agreed that the other party to this Agreement who is entitled to the benefit of the covenants and provisions of this Agreement which have been breached, in addition to any other rights or remedies which they may have, will be entitled to immediate injunctive or other equitable relief to enforce such covenants and provisions, and that in the event that any such action or proceeding is brought in equity to enforce them, the defaulting or breaching party will not urge a defense that there is an adequate remedy at law.
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10. Further Assurances.
Following the Closing, Seller shall furnish to Buyer such instruments and other documents as Buyer may reasonably request for the purpose of carrying out or evidencing the transactions contemplated hereby.
11. Fees and Expenses.
Each party hereto shall pay all fees, costs and expenses that it incurs in connection with the negotiation and preparation of this Agreement and in carrying out the transactions contemplated hereby (including, without limitation, all fees and expenses of its counsel and accountant).
12. Waivers.
If any party at any time waives any rights hereunder resulting from any breach by the other party of any of the provisions of this Agreement, such waiver is not to be construed as a continuing waiver of other breaches of the same or other provisions of this Agreement. Resort to any remedies referred to herein will not be construed as a waiver of any other rights and remedies to which such party is entitled under this Agreement or otherwise.
13. Successors and Assigns.
Each covenant and representation of this Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon each of the parties, their personal representatives, assigns and other successors in interest.
14. Entire and Sole Agreement.
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes all other agreements, representations, warranties, statements, promises and undertakings, whether oral or written, with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement. This Agreement may be modified or amended only by a written agreement signed by the parties against whom the amendment is sought to be enforced. The parties acknowledge that as of the date of the execution of this Agreement, that any and all other agreements either written or verbal will be terminated and be of no further force or effect.
15. Governing Law.
This Agreement will be governed by the laws of Texas without giving effect to applicable conflict of law provisions. With respect to any litigation arising out of or relating to this Agreement, each party agrees that it will be filed in and heard by the state or federal courts with jurisdiction to hear such suits located in Bexar County, Texas.
16. Counterparts.
This Agreement may be executed simultaneously in any number of counterparts, each of which counterparts will be deemed to be an original, and such counterparts will constitute but one and the same instrument.
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17. Assignment.
Except in the case of an affiliate of the Buyer, this Agreement may not be assignable by any party without prior written consent of the other parties.
18. Remedies.
Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, none of the remedies set forth in this Agreement are intended to be exclusive, and each party will have all other remedies now or hereafter existing at law, in equity, by statute or otherwise. The election of any one or more remedies will not constitute a waiver of the right to pursue other available remedies.
19. Section Headings.
The section headings in this Agreement are included for convenience only, are not a part of this Agreement and will not be used in construing it.
20. Severability.
In the event that any provision or any part of this Agreement is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, such illegality, invalidity or unenforceability will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision or part of this Agreement.
21. Notices.
Each notice or other communication hereunder must be in writing and will be deemed to have been duly given on the earlier of (i) the date on which such notice or other communication is actually received by the intended recipient thereof, or (ii) the date five (5) days after the date such notice or other communication is mailed by registered or certified mail (postage prepaid) to the intended recipient at the following address (or at such other address as the intended recipient will have specified in a written notice given to the other parties hereto):
If to Capaciti and Seller
Capaciti Networks, Inc.
19206 Huebner Rd., Suite 202
San Antonio, Texas 78258
Attn: William H. Gray, Chief Executive Officer
Telephone: (210) 233-8980
Facsimile: (210) 404-9022
If to Buyer:
Wytec International, Inc.
19206 Huebner Rd., Suite 202
San Antonio, Texas 78258
Attention: William H. Gray, Chief Executive Officer
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Telephone: (210) 233-8980
Facsimile: (210) 404-9022
22. Publicity.
Except as may be required in order for a party to comply with applicable laws, rules, or regulations or to enable a party to comply with this Agreement, or necessary for the Buyer to prepare and disseminate any private or public placements of its securities or to communicate with its shareholders, no press release, notice to any third party or other publicity concerning the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will be issued, given or otherwise disseminated without the prior approval of each of the parties hereto; provided, however, that such approval will not be unreasonably withheld.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF , this Agreement has been entered into as of the date first above written.
Capaciti: | CAPACITI NETWORKS, INC. , a Texas corporation | |
By: /s/ William H. Gray
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William H. Gray, Chief Executive Officer | ||
Seller: | COMPETITIVE COMPANIES, INC ., a Nevada corporation | |
By: /s/ William H. Gray
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William H. Gray, Chief Executive Officer | ||
Company/Buyer: | WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Nevada corporation | |
By: /s/ William H. Gray
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William H. Gray, Chief Executive Officer |
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EXHIBIT 14.1
WYTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC.
CODE OF ETHICS FOR SENIOR FINANCIAL OFFICERS
Wytec International, Inc. (the "Corporation") believes that senior financial officers, including, but not limited to the Corporation's chief executive officer, principal financial officer, controller or principal accounting officer, and persons who perform similar functions (collectively, the "Senior Financial Officers"), hold an important and elevated role in corporate governance. The Corporation vests Senior Financial Officers with both the responsibility and authority to protect, balance, and preserve the interests of all persons involved with the Corporation, including but not limited to shareholders, customers, employees, and suppliers. Senior Financial Officers fulfill this responsibility by prescribing and enforcing the policies and procedures employed in the operation of the Corporation's finance department.
The Corporation shall consistently enforce its Code of Ethics through appropriate means of discipline. Violations of the Code of Ethics shall be promptly reported to the Corporation's Audit Committee. Pursuant to procedures adopted by it, the Audit Committee shall determine whether violations of the Code of Ethics have occurred and, if so, shall determine the disciplinary measures to be taken against any Senior Financial Officer or member of the Corporation's finance department who has so violated this Code of Ethics.
The disciplinary measures, which may be invoked at the discretion of the Audit Committee, include, but are not limited to, counseling, oral or written reprimands, warnings, probation or suspension without pay, demotions, reductions in salary, termination of employment, and restitution.
Persons subject to disciplinary measures shall include, in addition to the violator, others involved in the wrongdoing such as (i) persons who fail to use reasonable care to detect a violation, (ii) persons who if requested to divulge information withhold material information regarding a violation, and (iii) supervisors who approve or condone the violations or attempt to retaliate against employees or agents for reporting violations or violators.
I. Honest and Ethical Conduct
Senior Financial Officers will exhibit and promote the highest standards of honesty and ethical conduct through the establishment and operation of policies and procedures that:
Encourage and reward professional integrity in all aspects of the finance department, by eliminating inhibitions and barriers to responsible behavior, such as coercion, fear of reprisal, or alienation from the finance department or the Corporation itself.
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Prohibit and eliminate the appearance or occurrence of conflicts between what is in the best interest of the Corporation and what could result in material personal gain for a member of the finance department, including Senior Financial Officers. Such conflicts may include (i) employment by a competitor, or potential competitor, regardless of the nature of the employment, while employed by the Corporation, (ii) acceptance of gifts, payment, or services from those seeking to do business with the Corporation, (iii) placement of business with a firm owned or controlled by an officer, director or employee of the Corporation or his/her family, (iv) ownership of, or substantial interest in, a company that is a competitor, client or supplier of the Corporation, (v) acting as a consultant to a customer, client or supplier of the Corporation, or (vi) seeking the services or advice of an accountant or attorney who has provided services to the Corporation. Members of the finance department, including Senior Financial Officers, are under a continuing obligation to disclose any situation that presents the possibility of a conflict or disparity of interest between the member and the Corporation. Disclosure of any potential conflict is the key to remaining in full compliance with this Code of Ethics.
Provide a mechanism for members of the finance department to inform senior management promptly of deviations in practice from policies and procedures governing honest and ethical behavior.
Ensure that the Corporation's proprietary information not be disclosed to anyone without proper authorization.
Demonstrate their personal support for such policies and procedures through periodic communication reinforcing these ethical standards throughout the finance department.
II. Financial Records and Periodic Reports
Senior Financial Officers will establish and manage the Corporation's transaction and reporting systems and procedures to ensure that:
Business transactions are properly authorized and completely and accurately recorded on the Corporation's books and records in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP") and established Corporation financial policy.
The retention or proper disposal of Corporation records shall be in accordance with established industry financial policies and applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
Periodic financial communications and reports will be delivered in a manner that facilitates the highest degree of clarity of content and meaning so that readers and users will quickly and accurately determine their significance and consequence.
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III. Compliance with Applicable Laws, Rules and Regulations
Senior Financial Officers will establish and maintain mechanisms to:
Educate members of the finance department about any federal, state or local statute, regulation or administrative procedure that affects the operation of the finance department and the Corporation generally, including but not limited to prohibitions against insider trading.
Monitor the compliance of the finance department with any applicable federal, state or local statute, regulation or administrative rule.
Identify, report, and correct in a swift and certain manner any detected deviations from applicable federal, state or local statute or regulation.
Ensure that disclosure in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and in other public communications is full, fair, accurate, timely, and understandable.
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EXHIBIT 23.1
We consent to the use, in the registration statement on Form S-1 of Wytec International, Inc., a Nevada corporation, and in all subsequent amendments, including post effective amendments, and supplements to the Registration Statement (including the prospectus contained therein) of our report dated July 28, 2016 on our audit of the financial statements of Wytec International, Inc., a Nevada corporation, as of December 31, 2015 and the related statements of operations, stockholders' equity and cash flows for the period ended December 31, 2015 and our report dated July 28, 2016 on our audit of the financial statements of Wytec International, Inc., a Nevada corporation, as of December 31, 2014 and the related statements of operations, stockholders' equity and cash flows for the period ended December 31, 2014, and the reference to us under the caption "Experts."
Very truly yours,
/s/ Akin, Dohert, Klein & Feuge, P.C.
Akin, Doherty, Klein & Feuge, P.C.
Certified Public Accountants
January 10, 2017
San Antonio, Texas