UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF

THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 22, 2020

 

Resonate Blends, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Nevada   000-21202   58-1588291

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

 

26565 Agoura Road, Suite 200

Calabasas, CA

 

 

91302

(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 571-888-0009

 

 

 

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

[  ] Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17CFR 230.425)
   
[  ] Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
   
[  ] Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
   
[  ] Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class   Trading Symbol(s)   Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock   KOAN   OTCQB

 

Emerging growth company [  ]

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. [  ]

 

 

 

 

 

 

SECTION 1 - REGISTRANT’S BUSINESS AND OPERATIONS

 

ITEM 1.01 - ENTRY INTO A MATERIAL DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT

 

On May 22, 2020, Resonate Blends, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) with Wais Asefi, Nick Miniello, Juleon Asefi, and Curt Byers (collectively, the “Asefi Group”) to sell to the Asefi Group its subsidiary, Textmunication, Inc., a California corporation (“Textmunication”). Textmunication operates the Company’s SMS business activities. The Company will retain its cannabis operations based in Calabasas, California.

 

The consideration for the sale of Textmuinication consists of the cancellation by the Asefi Group of 4,822,029 shares of common stock (the “Shares”) of the Company. The Shares have a market value of $337,542, based on our last sales price of $0.07 per share as of May 26, 2020. Upon the cancellation of the Shares, the Company agreed to execute a general release in favor of Mr. Asefi.

 

Also on May 22, 2020, the Company entered into a Separation and Release Agreement (the “Separation Agreement”) with Wais Asefi. Pursuant to the Separation Agreement, Mr. Asefi agreed to separate from all officer positions and as a director of the Company and to further accept the payment of $200,000 from the Company’s future fundraising as consideration of all debts outstanding under Mr. Asefi’s employment agreement with the Company. Mr. Asefi further agreed to cancel his 4,000,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock and to transfer his 2,000,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock to Geoffrey Selzer, the Company’s current CEO and Director. Mr. Asefi further released the Company of all claims.

 

Also on May 22, 2020, Mr. Selzer signed a Voting Agreement and agreed to vote his newly acquired 2,000,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock in favor of the sale of Textmunication to the Asefi Group.

 

The foregoing description of the terms of the SPA, the Separation Agreement and the Voting Agreement does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the provisions of the SPA, the Separation Agreement and the Voting Agreement, copies of which are filed as Exhibits 2.1, 10.2 and 10.3 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

SECTION 2 - FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Item 2.03 – Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation

 

The information set forth in Items 1.01 is incorporated into this Item 2.03 by reference.

 

SECTION 9 – Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.   Description
2.1   SPA, dated May 22, 2020
10.1   Separation Agreement, dated May 22, 2020
10.2   Voting Agreement, dated May 22, 2020

 

 

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Resonate Blends, Inc.  
   
/s/ Geoffrey Selzer  
Geoffrey Selzer  
Chief Executive Officer  
Date: July 20, 2020  

 

 

 

Exhibit 2.1

 

STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) made as of this 22nd day of May, 2020, by and between Resonate Blends, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “Seller”), and Wais Asefi (“Asefi”), Nick Miniello, Juleon Asefi, and Curt Byers (each a “Buyer”, and collectively, the “Buyers”).

 

WITNESSETH:

 

WHEREAS, the Seller owns one hundred percent (100%) of the outstanding common stock (the “Shares”), of Textmunication, Inc., a California corporation (the “Company”), and the Buyers desire to purchase from the Seller, and Seller desires to sell, the Shares upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth herein.

 

WHEREAS, simultaneously with the execution and delivery hereof and subject to the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the Seller and Asefi are entering into the Separation Agreement and Release (the “Termination Agreement”), in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and promises herein contained and upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE I

PURCHASE AND SALE OF SHARES.

 

Upon the terms and conditions herein contained, at the Closing (as hereinafter defined), the Seller will sell, assign and transfer to the Buyers and the Buyers will purchase from the Seller all rights of the Seller in and to the Shares (the “Sale”), free and clear of all liens, claims, pledges, mortgages, restrictions, obligations, security interests and encumbrances of any kind, nature and description. The Shares shall be allocated among the Buyers as set forth in Annex A hereto.

 

ARTICLE II

CONSIDERATION

 

In consideration for the Shares, the Buyer shall deliver to the Seller for cancellation 4,822,029 shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of Seller (the “KOAN Shares”).

 

ARTICLE III

CLOSING

 

The closing of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Closing”) shall take place at the offices of the Company, at 10:00 a.m. (local time) on the date that is two business days following the satisfaction or waiver of each of the conditions set forth in Article 8 unless Buyers and Seller agree otherwise.

 

ARTICLE IV

SELLER REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.

 

Seller hereby represents and warrants to Buyers, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date as though made at the Closing Date, subject to such exceptions as are specifically disclosed in writing (with reference to a specific section of this Agreement to which each such exception applies; provided, however, that if any section of the Seller Disclosure Letter, as defined below, discloses an item or information in such a way as to make its relevance to the disclosure required by another section reasonably apparent based upon the substance of such disclosure, the matter shall be deemed to have been disclosed in such other section of the Seller Disclosure Letter, notwithstanding the omission of an appropriate cross-reference to such other section) in a disclosure letter supplied by Seller to the Buyers, dated as of the date hereof and certified by a duly authorized officer of Seller (the “Seller Disclosure Letter”), as follows:

 

4.1 Organization and Qualification.

 

(a) Each of Seller, the Company and the Company’s subsidiaries is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the respective jurisdiction of its incorporation and has the requisite corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its assets and properties and to carry on its business as it is now being conducted. Each of the Company and its subsidiaries is in possession of all franchises, grants, authorizations, licenses, permits, easements, consents, certificates, approvals and orders (“Approvals”) necessary to own, lease and operate the properties it purports to own, operate or lease and to carry on its business as it is now being conducted, except where the failure to have such Approvals would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect (as defined in Section 11.3(c)) on the Company or its subsidiaries. Each of the Company and its subsidiaries is duly qualified or licensed as a foreign corporation to do business, and is in good standing, in each jurisdiction where the character of the properties owned, leased or operated by it or the nature of its activities makes such qualification or licensing necessary, except for such failures to be so duly qualified or licensed and in good standing that would not, either individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company or its subsidiaries.

 

     
 

 

(b) The Company has no subsidiaries except for the entities identified in Section 4.1(b) of the Seller Disclosure Letter. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has agreed, is obligated to make, or is bound by, any written, oral or other agreement, contract, sub-contract, lease, binding understanding, instrument, note, option, warranty, purchase order, license, sub-license, insurance policy, benefit plan, commitment, or undertaking of any nature, as of the date hereof or as may hereafter be in effect under which it may become obligated to make, any future investment in or capital contribution to any other entity. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries directly or indirectly owns any equity or similar interest in or any interest convertible, exchangeable or exercisable for, any equity or similar interest in, any corporation, partnership, joint venture or other business, association or entity.

 

4.2 Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws. The Company and each of its subsidiaries has previously furnished to the Buyers a complete and correct copy of its Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws or any equivalent organizational documents, as amended to date. Such Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws and equivalent organizational documents of the Company and each of its subsidiaries are in full force and effect. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of any of the provisions of its Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws or equivalent organizational documents.

 

4.3 Capitalization.

 

(a) The authorized capital stock of the Company consists of ten million (10,000,000) shares of common stock, no par value, of which only the Shares are issued and outstanding. The Shares have been duly authorized and are validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable. Except as set forth in Section 4.3 (a) of the Seller Disclosure Letter, the Company owns all of the issued and outstanding shares of its subsidiaries, which shares have been duly authorized and are validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable. The Shares and all outstanding shares of capital stock of each subsidiary of the Company have been issued and granted in compliance with (i) all applicable securities laws and other applicable federal, state, local, municipal, foreign or other law, statute, constitution, principle of common law, resolution, ordinance, code, edict, decree, rule, regulation, ruling or requirement issues, enacted, adopted, promulgated, implemented or otherwise put into effect by or under the authority of any Governmental Entity (as defined below) and (ii) all requirements set forth in applicable contracts, agreements, and instruments.

 

(b) Seller owns the Shares free and clear of all liens, pledges, hypothecations, charges, mortgages, security interests, encumbrances, claims, infringements, interferences, options, right of first refusals, preemptive rights, community property interests or restriction of any nature (including any restriction on the voting of any security, any restriction on the transfer of any security or other asset, any restriction on the possession, exercise or transfer of any other attribute of ownership of any asset) directly or indirectly through one or more subsidiaries, as of the date of this Agreement, there are no equity securities, partnership interests or similar ownership interests of any class of equity security of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company, or any security exchangeable or convertible into or exercisable for such equity securities, partnership interests or similar ownership interests, issued, reserved for issuance or outstanding. There are no subscriptions, options, warrants, equity securities, partnership interests or similar ownership interests, calls, rights (including preemptive rights), commitments or agreements of any character to which Seller, the Company or any of their subsidiaries is a party or by which they are bound obligating Seller, the Company or any of their subsidiaries to issue, deliver or sell, or cause to be issued, delivered or sold, or repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire, or cause the repurchase, redemption or acquisition of, any shares of capital stock, partnership interests or similar ownership interests of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or obligating the Company or any of its subsidiaries to grant, extend, accelerate the vesting of or enter into any such subscription, option, warrant, equity security, call, right, commitment or agreement. As of the date of this Agreement, there are no registration rights and there is, no voting trust, stockholders’ agreement, proxy, rights plan, antitakeover plan or other agreement or understanding to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which they are bound with respect to any equity security of any class of Company or with respect to any equity security, partnership interest or similar ownership interest of any class of any of its subsidiaries.

 

     
 

 

4.4 Authority. Seller has all necessary corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the Termination Agreement and to perform its respective obligations hereunder and thereunder and, subject to obtaining the approval of the stockholders of Seller of the Sale, to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. The execution and delivery of each of this Agreement and the Termination Agreement by Seller and the consummation by Seller of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly and validly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of Seller and no other corporate proceedings on the part of Seller are necessary to authorize this Agreement or the Termination Agreement or to consummate the transactions so contemplated (other than, with respect to the Sale, the approval and adoption of this Agreement and the approval of the Sale by holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Seller’s capital stock in accordance with Nevada Law and Seller’s Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws). Each of this Agreement and the Termination Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by Seller and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery by other party or partis thereto, constitutes legal and binding obligations of Seller, enforceable against Seller in accordance with their respective terms.

 

4.5 No Conflict; Required Filings and Consents.

 

(a) The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Termination Agreement by Seller does not, and the performance of this Agreement by Seller will not, (i) conflict with or violate the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws or equivalent organizational documents of Seller or any of its subsidiaries, (ii) subject to obtaining the approval of Seller’s stockholders in favor of approval and adoption of this Agreement and approval of the Sale, and obtaining the consents, approvals, authorizations and permits and making registrations, filings and notifications set forth in Section 4.5(b) hereof (or Section 4.5(b) of the Seller Disclosure Letter), to the best of Seller’s knowledge, conflict with or violate any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree applicable to Seller, the Company or any of their respective subsidiaries or by which any of their respective properties is bound or affected, or (iii) result in any breach of or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or impair the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries rights or alter the rights or obligations of any third party under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, or result in the creation of a lien or encumbrance on any of the properties or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to, any material note, bond, mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement, lease, license, permit, franchise or other instrument or obligation to which Seller, the Company or any of their subsidiaries is a party or by which Seller, the Company, any of their subsidiaries or any of their respective properties are bound or affected, except in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), to the extent such conflict, violation, breach, default, impairment or other effect could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company or its subsidiaries.

 

(b) The execution and delivery of each of this Agreement and the Termination Agreement by Seller does not, and the performance of each of this Agreement and the Termination Agreement by Seller will not, require any consent, approval, authorization or permit of, or registration, filing with or notification to, any court, administrative agency, commission, governmental or regulatory authority, domestic or foreign (each, a “Governmental Entity” and, collectively, “Governmental Entities”), except for, in the case of this Agreement, (i) applicable requirements, if any, of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), state securities laws (“Blue Sky Laws”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) where the failure to obtain such consents, approvals, authorizations or permits, or to make such filings or notifications, (A) would not prevent consummation of the Sale or otherwise prevent Seller from performing its obligations under this Agreement or the Termination Agreement, or (B) could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company or its subsidiaries.

 

     
 

 

4.6 SEC Filings. Seller has made available to the Buyers a correct and complete copy of each report, schedule, registration statement and definitive proxy statement filed by Seller with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on or after January 1, 2018 and prior to the date of this Agreement (the “Seller SEC Reports”), which are all the forms, reports and documents required to be filed by Seller with the SEC since such date. The Seller SEC Reports (i) were prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as the case may be, and (ii) did not at the time they were filed (or if amended or superseded by a filing prior to the date of this Agreement then on the date of such filing) contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is required to file any reports or other documents with the SEC.

 

4.7 Compliance; Permits.

 

(a) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in conflict with, or in default or violation of, (i) any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree applicable to the Company or any of its subsidiaries or by which its or any of their properties is bound or affected, or (ii) any material note, bond, mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement, lease, license, permit, franchise or other instrument or obligation to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries or its or any of their respective properties is bound or affected, except for any conflicts, defaults or violations that (individually or in the aggregate) would not have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company or its subsidiaries. No investigation or review by any governmental or regulatory body or authority is pending or, to the knowledge of Seller, threatened against the Company or its subsidiaries, nor has any governmental or regulatory body or authority indicated an intention to conduct the same, other than, in each such case, those the outcome of which could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company or its subsidiaries.

 

(b) The Company and its subsidiaries hold all permits, licenses, variances, exemptions, orders and approvals from Governmental Entities which are material to the operation of the business of the Company and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company Permits”). The Company and its subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with the terms of the Company Permits.

 

4.8 No Undisclosed Liabilities; Controls.

 

(a) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has any liabilities (absolute, accrued, contingent or otherwise) of a nature required to be disclosed on a balance sheet or in the related notes to the consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP, which are, individually or in the aggregate, material to the business, results of operations, financial condition or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole except (i) liabilities reflected in the Seller Disclosure Letter, or (ii) liabilities of the Company or its subsidiaries incurred thereby following the date hereof in the ordinary course of business.

 

(b) Except as stated in the Seller SEC Reports, the Company and its subsidiaries maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with United States generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. Except as stated in the Seller SEC Reports, the and its subsidiaries have established disclosure controls and procedures and designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that material information relating thereto, including the its subsidiaries, is made known to the executive officers and directors of the Company by others within those entities. The Seller has made available to the Buyers copies of, all written descriptions of, and all policies, manuals and other documents promulgating, such disclosure controls and procedures. The books, records and accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries accurately and fairly reflect, in reasonable detail, the transactions in, and dispositions of, the assets of, and the results of operations of, the Company and its subsidiaries all to the extent required by generally accepted accounting principles.

 

     
 

 

4.9 Absence of Certain Changes or Events. Since the date of the last filed Seller SEC Report, there has not been: (i) any Material Adverse Effect on the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (ii) any declaration, setting aside or payment of any dividend on, or other distribution (whether in cash, stock or property) in respect of, any of the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ capital stock, or any purchase, redemption or other acquisition by Seller or the Company of any of the Company’s capital stock or any other securities of the Company or its subsidiaries or any options, warrants, calls or rights to acquire any such shares or other securities, (iii) any split, combination or reclassification of any of the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ capital stock, (iv) any granting by the Company or any of its subsidiaries of any increase in compensation or fringe benefits, except for normal increases of cash compensation in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, or any payment by the Company or any of its subsidiaries of any bonus, except for bonuses made in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, or any granting by the Company or any of its subsidiaries of any increase in severance or termination pay or any entry by the Company or any of its subsidiaries into any currently effective employment, severance, termination or indemnification agreement or any agreement the benefits of which are contingent or the terms of which are materially altered upon the occurrence of a transaction involving Seller of the nature contemplated hereby, (v) entry by the Company or any of its subsidiaries into any sale, licensing or other agreement with regard to the acquisition or disposition of any Intellectual Property (as defined in Section 4.18 hereof) or other property thereof, other than licenses in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, and other than any licenses disclosed on Section 4.18(j) of the Seller Disclosure Letter, (vi) any material change by the Company in its accounting methods, principles or practices, except as required by concurrent changes in GAAP, (vii) any revaluation by the Company or any of its subsidiaries of any of its or their assets, including, without limitation, writing down the value of capitalized inventory or writing off notes or accounts receivable, or (viii) any sale of assets of the Company or its subsidiaries other than in the ordinary course of business.

 

4.10 Absence of Litigation. Except as set forth in Section 4.10 of the Seller Disclosure Letter, there are no claims, actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of Seller, threatened (or, to the knowledge of Seller, any governmental or regulatory investigation pending or threatened) against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any properties or rights of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, before any Governmental Entity.

 

4.11 Employee Benefit Plans.

 

(a) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has at any time ever maintained, established, sponsored, participated in, or contributed to, any employee compensation, incentive, fringe or benefit plans, programs, policies, commitments or other arrangements (whether or not set forth in a written document and including, without limitation, all “employee benefit plans” (within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”)) covering (i) any active or former employee, director or consultant of the Company, (ii) any subsidiary of the Company, or (iii) any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) which is a member of a controlled group or which is under common control with the Company within the meaning of Section 414 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), or with respect to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries has or, to Seller’s knowledge, may in the future have liability.

 

(b) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has at any time ever maintained, established, sponsored, participated in, or contributed to any plan subject to Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code and at no time has Seller or any of its subsidiaries contributed to or been requested to contribute to any “multiemployer plan,” as such term is defined in ERISA or to any plan described in Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither the Company, any of its subsidiaries, nor any officer or director of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject to any liability or penalty under Section 4975 through 4980B of the Code or Title I of ERISA. There are no audits, inquiries or proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of Seller, threatened by the Internal Revenue Service or Department of Labor with respect to any employee benefit plan of the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

 

(c) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has in any material respect, violated any of the health continuation requirements of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (“COBRA”), the requirements of Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, as amended, the requirements of the Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act, as amended, the requirements of the Newborns’ and Mothers’ Health Protection Act of 1996, as amended, or any similar provisions of state law applicable to employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

 

     
 

 

(d) Except as otherwise provided in the Termination Agreement, neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will result in any payment (including severance, unemployment compensation, golden parachute, bonus or otherwise) becoming due to any stockholder, director or employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

 

4.12 Labor Matters. (i) There are no controversies pending or, to the knowledge of Seller, threatened, between the Company or any of its subsidiaries and any of their respective employees; (ii) as of the date of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to any collective bargaining agreement or other labor union contract applicable to persons employed by the Company or its subsidiaries nor does the Company or its subsidiaries know of any activities or proceedings of any labor union to organize any such employees; and (iii) as of the date of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has any knowledge of any strikes, slowdowns, work stoppages or lockouts, or threats thereof, by or with respect to any employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries. There is no pending or, to the knowledge of Seller, threatened labor dispute involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries and any group of its employees nor has the Company or any of its subsidiaries experienced any labor interruptions over the past three (3) years, and the Company and its subsidiaries consider their relationships with their employees to be good. The Company and its subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations regarding employment, employment practices, terms and conditions of employment and wages and hours.

 

4.13 Restrictions on Business Activities. There is no agreement, commitment, judgment, injunction, order or decree binding upon the Company or any of its subsidiaries or to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or any of its subsidiaries which has or could reasonably be expected to have the effect, in any material respect, of prohibiting or impairing any present business practice of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, any acquisition of property by the Company or any of its subsidiaries or the conduct of business by the Company or any of its subsidiaries as currently conducted.

 

4.14 Title to Property. Except as set forth on Section 4.14 of the Seller Disclosure Letter, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries owns any material real property. Except as set forth on Section 4.14 of the Seller Disclosure Letter, the Company and each of its subsidiaries have good and defensible title to all of their material real and personal properties and assets, free and clear of all liens, charges and encumbrances except liens for taxes not yet due and payable and such liens or other imperfections of title, if any, as do not materially detract from the value of or interfere with the present use of the property affected thereby; and all leases pursuant to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries lease from others material amounts of real or personal property are in good standing, valid and effective in accordance with their respective terms, and there is not, under any of such leases, any existing material default or event of default (or any event which with notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute a material default and in respect of which the Company or subsidiary has not taken adequate steps to prevent such default from occurring). All the plants, structures and equipment owned by or being acquired under a capital lease by the Company and its subsidiaries, except such as may be under construction, are in good operating condition and repair, in all material respects, subject to normal wear and tear.

 

4.15 Taxes.

 

(a) Definition of Taxes. For all purposes of and under this Agreement, “Tax” or “Taxes” refers to any and all federal, state, local and foreign taxes, assessments and other governmental charges, duties, impositions and liabilities relating to taxes, including taxes based upon or measured by gross receipts, income, profits, sales, use and occupation, and value added, ad valorem, transfer, franchise, withholding, payroll, recapture, employment, excise and property taxes, together with all interest, penalties and additions imposed with respect to such amounts and any obligations under any agreements or arrangements with any other person with respect to such amounts and including any liability for taxes of a predecessor entity.

 

(b) Tax Returns and Audits.

 

(i) The Company and each of its subsidiaries have timely filed all federal, state, local and foreign returns, estimates, information statements and reports (“Company Returns”) relating to Taxes required to be filed by the Company and each of its subsidiaries with any Tax authority, except such Returns which are not material to the Company or which are for taxes being contested. Such Company Returns are true and correct in all material respects, have been completed in accordance with applicable law, and all Taxes shown to be due on such Company Returns have been paid. There are no liens for Taxes (other than Taxes not yet due and payable) upon any assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

 

     
 

 

(ii) The Company and each of its subsidiaries as of the Closing Date will have withheld with respect to its employees all federal and state income taxes, Taxes pursuant to the Federal Insurance Contribution Act (“FICA”), Taxes pursuant to the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (“FUTA”) and other Taxes required to be withheld.

 

(iii) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has been delinquent in the payment of any material Tax nor is there any material Tax deficiency outstanding, proposed or assessed against the Company or any of its subsidiaries, nor has the Company or any of its subsidiaries executed any unexpired waiver of any statute of limitations on or extending the period for the assessment or collection of any Tax.

 

(iv) No audit or other examination of any Company Return by any Tax authority is presently in progress, nor has the Seller, the Company or any of its subsidiaries been notified of any request for such an audit or other examination.

 

(v) No adjustment relating to any Company Returns filed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries has been proposed in writing formally or informally by any Tax authority to the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any representative thereof.

 

(vi) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has any liability for any unpaid Taxes, contingent or otherwise, which could be deemed to be material to the Company or its subsidiaries, other than any liability for unpaid Taxes that may have accrued since the date of the latest financial statements of the Seller included in the Seller SEC Reports in connection with the operation of the business of the Company and its subsidiaries in the ordinary course.

 

(vii) There is no contract, agreement, plan or arrangement to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party as of the date of this Agreement, including but not limited to the provisions of this Agreement, covering any employee or former employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries that, individually or collectively, would reasonably be expected to give rise to the payment of any amount that would not be deductible pursuant to Sections 280G, 404 or 162(m) of the Code. There is no contract, agreement, plan or arrangement to which Seller is a party or by which it is bound to compensate any individual for excise taxes paid pursuant to Section 4999 of the Code.

 

(viii) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has filed any consent agreement under Section 341(f) of the Code or agreed to have Section 341(f)(2) of the Code apply to any disposition of a subsection (f) asset (as defined in Section 341(f)(4) of the Code) owned by the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

 

(ix) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is party to or has any obligation under any tax-sharing, tax indemnity or tax allocation agreement or arrangement.

 

(x) None of the Company’s or its subsidiaries’ assets are tax exempt use property within the meaning of Section 168(h) of the Code.

 

(xi) Neither the Company nor any subsidiary of the Company has participated as either a “distributing corporation” or a “controlled corporation” in a distribution of stock qualifying for tax-free treatment under Section 355 of the Code.

 

4.16 Environmental Matters. Except as set forth on Section 4.16 of the Seller Disclosure Letter, the operations of the Company and each of its subsidiaries are and have been in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Environmental Laws (as defined below), which compliance includes obtaining, maintaining in good standing and complying in all material respects with all Environmental Permits (as defined below) and no action or proceeding is pending or threatened to revoke, modify or terminate any such Environmental Permit, and, to the knowledge of Seller, no facts, circumstances or conditions currently exist that could adversely affect such continued compliance with Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits or require currently unbudgeted capital expenditures to achieve or maintain such continued compliance with Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits.

 

     
 

 

Environmental Law” means any law, as now or hereafter in effect, in any way relating to the protection of human health and safety, the environment or natural resources including the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq. ), the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. App. § 1801 et seq. ), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq. ), the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq. ), the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq. ) the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq. ), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. § 136 et seq. ), and the Occupational Safety and Health Act (29 U.S.C. § 651 et seq. ), as each has been or may be amended and the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.

 

Environmental Permit” means any permit required by Environmental Laws for the operation of such company.

 

4.17 Brokers. Seller has not incurred, nor will it incur, directly or indirectly, any liability for brokerage or finders fees or agent’s commissions or any similar charges in connection with this Agreement or any transaction contemplated hereby.

 

4.18 Intellectual Property.

 

(a) For the purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the following definitions:

 

(i) “Intellectual Property” means any or all of the following and all rights in, arising out of, or associated therewith: (i) all United States, international and foreign patents and applications therefor and all reissues, divisions, renewals, extensions, provisionals, continuations and continuations-in-part thereof; (ii) all inventions (whether patentable or not), invention disclosures, improvements, trade secrets, proprietary information, know how, technology, technical data and customer lists, and all documentation relating to any of the foregoing; (iii) all copyrights, copyrights registrations and applications therefor, and all other rights corresponding thereto throughout the world; (iv) all mask works, mask work registrations and applications therefor, and any equivalent or similar rights in semiconductor masks, layouts, architectures or topology; (v) domain names, uniform resource locators and other names and locators associated with the Internet, (vi) all computer software, including all source code, object code, firmware, development tools, files, records and data, and all media on which any of the foregoing is recorded; (vii) all industrial designs and any registrations and applications therefor throughout the world; (viii) all trade names, logos, common law trademarks and service marks, trademark and service mark registrations and applications therefor throughout the world; (ix) all databases and data collections and all rights therein throughout the world; (x) all moral and economic rights of authors and inventors, however denominated, throughout the world, and (xi) any similar or equivalent rights to any of the foregoing anywhere in the world.

 

(ii) “Company Intellectual Property” shall mean any Intellectual Property that is owned by, or exclusively licensed to, the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

 

(iii) “Registered Intellectual Property” means all United States, international and foreign: (i) patents and patent applications (including provisional applications); (ii) registered trademarks, applications to register trademarks, intent-to-use applications, or other registrations or applications related to trademarks; (iii) registered copyrights and applications for copyright registration; and (iv) any other Intellectual Property that is the subject of an application, certificate, filing, registration or other document issued, filed with, or recorded by any state, government or other public legal authority.

 

(iv) “Company Registered Intellectual Property” means all of the Registered Intellectual Property owned by, or filed in the name of, the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

 

(b) Section 4.18(b) of the Seller Disclosure Letter contains a complete and accurate list of (i) all Company Registered Intellectual Property and specifies, where applicable, the jurisdictions in which each such item of Company Registered Intellectual Property has been issued or registered, and (ii) all proceedings or actions before any court or tribunal (including the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the “PTO”) or equivalent authority anywhere else in the world) related to any of Company Registered Intellectual Property.

 

     
 

 

(c) Section 4.18(c) of the Seller Disclosure Letter contains a complete and accurate list (by name and version number) of all products, software or service offerings of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (collectively, “Company Products”) that have been sold, distributed or otherwise disposed of in the five (5)-year period preceding the date hereof or which the Company or any of its subsidiaries currently intends to sell, distribute or otherwise dispose of in the future, including any products or service offerings under development.

 

(d) No Company Intellectual Property or Company Product is subject to any proceeding or outstanding decree, order, judgment, contract, license, agreement, or stipulation restricting in any manner the use, transfer, or licensing thereof by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or which may affect the validity, use or enforceability of such Company Intellectual Property or Company Product.

 

(e) Each item of Company Registered Intellectual Property is valid and existing, all necessary registration, maintenance and renewal fees currently due in connection with such Company Registered Intellectual Property have been made and all necessary documents, recordations and certificates in connection with such Company Registered Intellectual Property have been filed with the relevant patent, copyright, trademark or other authorities in the United States or foreign jurisdictions, as the case may be, for the purposes of prosecuting, maintaining or perfecting such Company Registered Intellectual Property.

 

(f) Section 4.18(f) of the Seller Disclosure Letter contains a complete and accurate list of all actions that are required to be taken by the Company within ninety (90) days of the date hereof with respect to any of Company Registered Intellectual Property.

 

(g) The Company owns and has good and exclusive title to each item of Company Intellectual Property owned by it, free and clear of any lien or encumbrance (excluding non-exclusive licenses and related restrictions granted in the ordinary course). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (i) to the knowledge of Seller, the Company or its subsidiaries are the exclusive owner of all trademarks and trade names used in connection with the operation or conduct of the business of the Company and its subsidiaries, including the sale, distribution or provision of any Company Products by the Company or any of its subsidiaries , (ii) the Company or its subsidiaries own exclusively, and have good title to, all copyrighted works that are included or incorporated into Company Products or which the Company or any of its subsidiaries otherwise purports to own, and (iii) to the knowledge of the Seller, the manufacture, sale or use of Company Products does not infringe any patents.

 

(h) To the extent that any technology, software or Intellectual Property has been developed or created independently or jointly by a third party for the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or is incorporated into any of Company Products, the Company and its subsidiaries have a written agreement with such third party with respect thereto and the Company and its subsidiaries thereby either (i) have obtained ownership of, and are the exclusive owner of, or (ii) have obtained perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide non-terminable licenses (sufficient for the conduct of its business as currently conducted and as proposed to be conducted) to all such third party’s Intellectual Property in such work, material or invention by operation of law or by valid assignment or license, to the fullest extent it is legally possible to do so.

 

(i) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has transferred ownership of, or granted any exclusive license with respect to, any Intellectual Property that is or was Company Intellectual Property, to any third party, or knowingly permitted the Company’s rights in such Company Intellectual Property to lapse or enter the public domain other than for trademarks for Company Products no longer sold by the Company for which the Company has let the applicable trademark rights become abandoned in the Company’s ordinary course of business.

 

(j) Other than “shrink wrapped” and similar widely available commercial end-user licenses, Section 4.18(j) of the Seller Disclosure Letter contains a complete and accurate list of all contracts, licenses and agreements to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party (i) with respect to Company Intellectual Property licensed or transferred to any third party, or (ii) pursuant to which a third party has licensed or transferred any material Intellectual Property to the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

 

     
 

 

(k) All contracts, licenses and agreements relating to either (i) Company Intellectual Property or (ii) Intellectual Property of a third party licensed to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, are, to the knowledge of Seller, in full force and effect. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Termination Agreement will neither violate nor result in the breach, modification, cancellation, termination, suspension of, or acceleration of any payments with respect to, such contracts, licenses and agreements. Each of the Company and its subsidiaries is in compliance with, and has not breached any term of any such contracts, licenses and agreements and, to the knowledge of Seller, all other parties to such contracts, licenses and agreements are in compliance with, and have not breached any term of, such contracts, licenses and agreements. Following the Closing Date, the Buyers will be permitted to exercise all of the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ rights under such contracts, licenses and agreements to the same extent the Company and its subsidiaries would have been able to had the transactions contemplated by this Agreement not occurred and without the payment of any additional amounts or consideration other than ongoing fees, royalties or payments which the Company or any of its subsidiaries would otherwise be required to pay. Following the Closing Date, the Buyers will be permitted to exercise all of the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ rights under such contracts, licenses and agreements to the same extent as the Company and its subsidiaries would have been able to had the transactions contemplated by this Agreement not occurred and without being required to pay any additional amounts or consideration other than fees, royalties or payments which the Company or its subsidiaries would otherwise be required to pay had such transactions contemplated hereby not occurred.

 

(l) The operation of the business of the Company and its subsidiaries as such business currently is conducted, including (i) the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ design, development, manufacture, distribution, reproduction, marketing or sale of the products, software or services of the Company and its subsidiaries (including Company Products), and (ii) the Company’s use of any product, device or process, to the knowledge of Seller, has not, does not and will not infringe or misappropriate the Intellectual Property of any third party or, to its knowledge, constitute unfair competition or trade practices under the laws of any jurisdiction.

 

(m) Company Intellectual Property constitutes all the Intellectual Property owned by the Company or exclusively licensed to the Company and used in and/or necessary to the conduct of the business of the Company and its subsidiaries as it currently is conducted, and as it is currently planned or contemplated to be conducted by the Company and its subsidiaries, including, without limitation, the design, development, manufacture, use, import and sale of products, technology and performance of services (including Company Products).

 

(n) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received notice from any third party that the operation of the business of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any act, product or service of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, infringes or misappropriates the Intellectual Property of any third party or constitutes unfair competition or trade practices under the laws of any jurisdiction.

 

(o) To the knowledge of Seller, no person has or is infringing or misappropriating any Company Intellectual Property.

 

(p) The Company and each of its subsidiaries has taken reasonable steps to protect the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ rights in the Company’s confidential information and trade secrets that it wishes to protect or any trade secrets or confidential information of third parties provided to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, and, without limiting the foregoing, each of the Company and its subsidiaries has and enforces a policy requiring each employee and contractor to execute a proprietary information/confidentiality agreement substantially in the form provided to the Buyers and all current and former employees and contractors of the Company and any of its subsidiaries have executed such an agreement, except where the failure to do so is not reasonably expected to be material to the Company.

 

4.19 Agreements, Contracts and Commitments.

 

(a) Except as set forth on Section 4.19(a) of the Seller Disclosure Letter, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to or is bound by:

 

(i) any employment or consulting agreement, contract or commitment with any officer or director or higher level employee or member of the Company’s Board of Directors, other than those that are terminable by the Company or any of its subsidiaries on no more than thirty (30) days’ notice without liability or financial obligation to the Company;

 

     
 

 

(ii) any agreement or plan, including, without limitation, any stock option plan, stock appreciation right plan or stock purchase plan, any of the benefits of which will be increased, or the vesting of benefits of which will be accelerated, by the occurrence of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Termination Agreement or the value of any of the benefits of which will be calculated on the basis of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Termination Agreement;

 

(iii) any agreement of indemnification or any guaranty other than any agreement of indemnification entered into in connection with the sale, license, distribution, reselling or other transfer of software products in the ordinary course of business or in connection with the provision of services in the ordinary course of business;

 

(iv) any agreement, contract or commitment containing any covenant limiting in any respect the right of the Company or any of its subsidiaries to engage in any line of business presently conducted by the Company or any subsidiary, or to compete with any person or granting any exclusive distribution rights;

 

(v) any agreement, contract or commitment currently in force relating to the disposition or acquisition by the Company or any of its subsidiaries after the date of this Agreement of a material amount of assets not in the ordinary course of business or pursuant to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries has any material ownership interest in any corporation, partnership, joint venture or other business enterprise other than the Company’s subsidiaries;

 

(vi) any dealer, distributor, joint marketing or development agreement currently in force under which the Company or any of its subsidiaries have continuing material obligations to jointly market any product, technology or service and which may not be canceled without penalty upon notice of sixty (60) days or less, or any material agreement pursuant to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries have continuing material obligations to jointly develop any intellectual property that will not be owned, in whole or in part, by Seller or any of its subsidiaries and which may not be canceled without penalty upon notice of sixty (60) days or less;

 

(vii) any agreement, contract or commitment currently in force to provide source code to any third party for any product or technology that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole;

 

(viii) any agreement, contract or commitment currently in force to license any third party to manufacture or reproduce any Company Products, service or technology or any agreement, contract or commitment currently in force to sell or distribute any Company Products, services or technology, except agreements with distributors or sales representative in the normal course of business cancelable without penalty upon written notice of ninety (90) days or less;

 

(ix) any mortgages, indentures, guarantees, loans or credit agreements, security agreements or other agreements or instruments relating to the borrowing of money or extension of credit;

 

(x) any material settlement agreement entered into within three (3) years prior to the date of this Agreement; or

 

(xi) any other material agreement, contract or commitment currently in force that is outside the ordinary course of business or that has a value of $50,000 or more within a twelve (12) month period in any individual case.

 

(b) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, nor to Seller’s knowledge any other party to a Company Contract (as defined below), is in breach, violation or default under, and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received written notice that it has breached, violated or defaulted under, any of the terms or conditions of any of the agreements, contracts or commitments to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which it is bound that are required to be set forth in the Seller Disclosure Letter (any such agreement, contract or commitment, a “Company Contract”) in such a manner as would permit any other party to cancel or terminate any such Company Contract, or would permit any other party to seek material damages or other remedies (for any or all of such breaches, violations or defaults, in the aggregate).

 

     
 

 

4.20 Insurance. The Company maintains insurance policies and fidelity bonds covering the assets, business, equipment, properties, operations, employees, officers and directors of the Company and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Insurance Policies”) which are of the type and in amounts customarily carried by persons conducting businesses similar to those of the Company and its subsidiaries. There is no material claim by the Company or any of its subsidiaries pending under any of the Insurance Policies as to which coverage has been questioned, denied or disputed by the underwriters of such policies or bonds. The Company is not aware of, and has not received notice under any Insurance Policies of, (i) an insurer’s intention or threat to cancel or terminate any of the Insurance Policies, (ii) an insurer’s intention or threat to increase the premiums due under any of the Insurance Policies.

 

4.21 Board Approval. The Board of Directors of Seller has, as of the date of this Agreement, (i) approved this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, subject to stockholder approval, (ii) determined that the Sale is fair to and in the best interests of the stockholders of Seller, and (iii) recommended that the stockholders of Seller approve and adopt this Agreement and approve the Sale.

 

4.22 Political Contributions; Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

 

(a) Neither the Company nor any of the any subsidiary thereof has, and no person or entity acting on behalf or at the request of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has, at any time during the last five years (i) made any unlawful contribution to any candidate for foreign office or failed to disclose fully any contribution in violation of law, or (ii) made any payment to any federal or state governmental officer or official, or other person charged with similar public or quasi-public duties, other than payments required or permitted by the laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction.

 

(b) No officer, director or affiliate of the Company or any of the subsidiaries thereof, has been, within the five years ending on the Closing Date, a party to any bankruptcy petition against such person or against any business of which such person was affiliated; convicted in a criminal proceeding or subject to a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses); subject to any order, judgment or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction, permanently or temporarily enjoining, barring, suspending or otherwise limiting their involvement in any type of business, securities or banking activities; or found by a court of competent jurisdiction in a civil action, by the SEC or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to have violated a federal or state securities or commodities law, and the judgment has not been reversed, suspended or vacated.

 

(c) Neither the Company or any of subsidiaries thereof, nor, to the best knowledge of the Seller, any director, officer, agent, employee, or other person associated with, or acting on behalf of, the Company or any of the subsidiaries thereof, has, directly or indirectly: used any corporate funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment, or other unlawful expenses relating to political activity; made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds; violated any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended; or made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback, or other unlawful payment. The Company’s internal accounting controls and procedures are sufficient to cause the Company and each subsidiaries thereof to comply in all respects with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

 

4.23 Vote Required. The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Seller’s common stock, $.0001 par value (“Seller Common Stock”) and Series C Preferred Stock, is the only vote of the holders of any class or series of Seller’s capital stock necessary to approve and adopt this Agreement and approve the Sale.

 

     
 

 

ARTICLE V

 

BUYER REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.

 

Each Buyer, severally, but not jointly, hereby represents and warrants to Seller, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date as though made at the Closing Date, subject to such exceptions as are specifically disclosed in writing (with reference to the specific sections of this Agreement to which each such exception applies; provided, however, that if any section of the Buyer Disclosure Letter, as defined below, discloses an item or information in such a way as to make its relevance to the disclosure required by another section reasonably apparent based upon the substance of such disclosure, the matter shall be deemed to have been disclosed in such other section of the Buyer Disclosure Letter, notwithstanding the omission of an appropriate cross-reference to such other section) in the disclosure letter supplied by the Buyers to Seller, dated as of the date hereof (the “Buyer Disclosure Letter”), as follows:

 

5.1 Authority Relative to this Agreement.

 

(a) Such Buyer has all necessary power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement, and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder, to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. The execution and delivery of this Agreement by such Buyer and the consummation by such Buyer of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly and validly authorized by all necessary action on the part of such Buyer and no other proceedings on the part of such Buyer are necessary to authorize this Agreement or to consummate the transactions so contemplated. This Agreement have been duly and validly executed and delivered by such Buyer and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery by Seller, constitute legal and binding obligations of such Buyer, enforceable against such Buyer in accordance with their respective terms.

 

(b) Each Buyer is an individual who has reached the age majority in his state of residence and has all necessary requisite power and authority, and all necessary consents, authorizations, approvals, orders, licenses, certificates, and permits of and from, and declarations and filings with, all federal, state, local, and other governmental authorities and all courts and other tribunals, to own, lease, license, and use his properties and assets and to carry on the business in which he is now engaged and the businesses in which he contemplates engaging.

 

5.2 No Conflict; Required Filings and Consents.

 

(a) The execution and delivery of this Agreement by such Buyer does not, and the performance of this Agreement by such Buyer will not, to the best of such Buyer’s knowledge, conflict with or violate any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree applicable to such Buyer or by which his respective properties are bound or affected, or result in any breach of or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or impair such Buyer’s or any such subsidiary’s rights or alter the rights or obligations of any third party under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, or result in the creation of a lien or encumbrance on any of the properties or assets of such Buyer or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to, any material note, bond, mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement, lease, license, permit, franchise or other instrument or obligation to which such Buyer is a party or by which such Buyer or its or any of his respective properties are bound or affected.

 

(b) The execution and delivery of this Agreement by such Buyer does not, and the performance of this Agreement by such Buyer will not, require any consent, approval, authorization or permit of, or registration, filing with or notification to, any Governmental Entity, except for (i) applicable requirements, if any, of applicable Federal and state securities laws, and foreign Governmental Entities and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and where the failure to obtain such consents, approvals, authorizations or permits, or to make such filings or notifications, (i) would not prevent consummation of the Sale or otherwise prevent such Buyer from performing his obligations under this Agreement, or (B) could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on such Buyer or the Buyers taken as a whole.

 

5.3 Information Statement. None of the information supplied or to be supplied by such Buyer for inclusion or incorporation by reference in Seller’s Information Statement on Form 14C relating to the Sale will, on the date the Information Statement is mailed to the stockholders of Seller and as of the date of the Sale, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.

 

5.4 Brokers. Such Buyer has not incurred, nor will it incur, directly or indirectly, any liability for brokerage or finders fees or agent’s commissions or any similar charges in connection with this Agreement or any transaction contemplated hereby.

 

     
 

 

5.5 Investment Representations. Such Buyer is an “accredited investor” as such term is defined in Rule 501 of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act, as well as a sophisticated investor. Such is purchasing the Shares for its own account, for investment purposes only and has no current arrangements or understandings for the resale or distribution to others and has no present intent of distributing or reselling the Shares acquired thereby in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law. Such Buyer acknowledges that the offer and sale of the Shares have not been registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction, and that the Shares are being offered and sold pursuant to an exemption from registration contained in the Securities Act, and cannot be disposed of unless they are subsequently registered under the Securities Act and any applicable state laws or an exemption from such registration is available. Such Buyer understands and agrees that the Shares will bear a legend substantially similar to the legend set forth below in addition to any other legend that may be required by applicable law:

 

THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE DISPOSED OF EXCEPT (A) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, OR (B) IN A TRANSACTION WHICH IS EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY TO SUCH EFFECT.

 

5.6 Patriot Act Compliance. Such Buyer hereby represents and warrants that such Buyer is not, nor is it acting as an agent, representative, intermediary or nominee for, a person identified on the list of blocked persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of Treasury.

 

5.7 Access to Information. By virtue of such Buyer’s position, he has access to the same kind of information which would be available in a registration statement filed under the Securities Act.

 

ARTICLE VI

CONDUCT PRIOR TO THE CLOSING

 

6.1 Conduct of Business by Seller.

 

(a) During the period commencing with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and continuing until the earlier to occur of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to its terms or the Closing Date, the Seller, the Company, and each of their respective subsidiaries shall, except to the extent that the other parties shall otherwise consent in writing, carry on its business, in the usual, regular and ordinary course, in substantially the same manner as heretofore conducted and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, pay its debts and taxes when due subject to good faith disputes over such debts or taxes, pay or perform other material obligations when due, and use its commercially reasonable efforts consistent with past practices and policies to (i) preserve intact its present business organization, (ii) keep available the services of its present officers and employees and (iii) preserve its relationships with customers, suppliers, distributors, licensors, licensees, and others with which it has business dealings. In addition, the parties will promptly notify each other of any material event involving its business or operations.

 

(b) Except as permitted or required by the terms of this Agreement, during the period commencing with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and continuing until the earlier of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to its terms or the Closing Date, Seller shall not do any of the following, and shall not permit any of its subsidiaries to do any of the following, except to the extent that the other party shall otherwise consent in writing:

 

(i) purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, any shares of capital stock, except repurchases of unvested shares at cost in connection with the termination of the employment relationship with any employee pursuant to stock option or purchase agreements in effect on the date hereof;

 

(ii) acquire or agree to acquire by merging or consolidating with, or by purchasing any equity interest in or a portion of the assets of, or by any other manner, any business or any corporation, limited liability company, general or limited partnership, business trust, unincorporated association or other business organization, entity or division thereof, or otherwise acquire or agree to acquire all or substantially all of the assets of any of the foregoing, or enter into any joint ventures, strategic partnerships or similar alliances;

 

     
 

 

(iii) incur or enter into any agreement, contract or other commitment or arrangement requiring such party or any of its subsidiaries to make payments in excess of $50,000 in any individual case, or $100,000 in the aggregate;

 

(v) engage in any action with the intent to, directly or indirectly, adversely impact or materially delay the consummation of the Sale or any of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement; or

 

(vi) agree in writing or otherwise to take any of the actions described in Section 6.1(b)(i) through Section 6.1(b)(v) , inclusive.

 

(c) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Article VI, it is expressly agreed and understood that any action which might otherwise fall within the description of Section 6.1(a) or 6.1(b), but which could not be reasonably expected to materially affect the business, operations or value of such party, shall not be prohibited by Article VI; provided, however, that prompt notice of any such actions shall be provided by the party taking such action to the other.

 

ARTICLE VII

ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS

 

7.1 Information Statement. As promptly as practicable after the execution of this Agreement, Seller shall take all action necessary in accordance with Nevada Law, its Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws and the Exchange Act to solicit a majority of the stockholders of Seller to act by written consent to approve this Agreement and the Sale. Thereafter, Seller shall as promptly as practicable prepare and file with the SEC an information statement to be delivered to the stockholders of Seller in connection with the Sale (the “Information Statement”). Each Buyer shall promptly provide to Seller all information concerning its business and financial statements and affairs as reasonably may be required or appropriate for inclusion in the Information Statement, or in any amendments or supplements thereto, and to cause its counsel and auditors to cooperate with Seller’s counsel and auditors in the preparation of the Information Statement. Seller shall promptly respond to any comments of the SEC, and shall use its best reasonable efforts to have the Information Statement cleared by the SEC as promptly as practicable after such filing. Seller shall cause the Information Statement to be mailed to its stockholders at the earliest practicable time after it is cleared by the SEC. As promptly as practicable after the date of this Agreement, Seller and each Buyer shall prepare and file any other filings required to be filed by it under the Exchange Act, the Securities Act or any other Federal, foreign, state “blue sky” or related laws relating to the Sale and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Other Filings”). Seller shall promptly supply upon the receipt of any comments from the SEC or its staff or any other government officials and of any request by the SEC or its staff or any other government officials for amendments or supplements to the Information Statement or any Other Filing, or for additional information and shall supply the other with copies of all correspondence between such party or any of its representatives, on the one hand, and the SEC or its staff or any other government officials, on the other hand, with respect to the Information Statement, the Sale or any Other Filing. Seller and each Buyer shall cause all documents that it is responsible for filing with the SEC or other regulatory authorities under this Section 7.1(a) to comply in all material respects with all applicable requirements of law and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. Whenever any event occurs that is required to be set forth in an amendment or supplement to the Information Statement or any Other Filing, Seller or any Buyer, as the case may be, shall promptly inform the other of such occurrence and cooperate in filing with the SEC or its staff or any other government officials, and/or mailing to the stockholders of Seller and any Buyer, such amendment or supplement.

 

7.2 Access to Information. During the period commencing with the execution and delivery of this Agreement until the earlier to occur of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to its terms and the Closing Date, Seller shall afford each Buyer and its and the Company’s accountants, counsel and other representatives reasonable access during normal business hours to the properties, books, records and personnel of Seller to obtain all information concerning the business of the Company and its subsidiaries, including, without limitation, the status of its product development efforts, properties, results of operations and personnel, as any Buyer may reasonably request. No information or knowledge obtained by any Buyer during the course of any investigation conducted pursuant to this Section 7.5 shall affect, or be deemed to modify in any respect any representation or warranty contained herein or the conditions to the obligations of the parties to consummate the Sale contained herein.

 

     
 

 

7.3 No Solicitation.

 

(a) During the period commencing with the execution and delivery of this Agreement until the earlier to occur of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to its terms and the Closing Date, Seller, the Company, and their respective subsidiaries shall not, nor will they authorize any of their respective officers, directors, affiliates or employees or any investment banker, attorney or other advisor or representative retained by any of them to, directly or indirectly, (i) solicit, initiate, encourage or induce the making, submission or announcement of any Acquisition Proposal (as defined in Section 7.3(b) hereof), (ii) participate in any discussions or negotiations regarding, or furnish to any person any information with respect to, or take any other action to facilitate any inquiries or the making of any proposal that constitutes or may reasonably be expected to lead to, any Acquisition Proposal, (iii) engage in discussions or negotiations with any person with respect to any Acquisition Proposal, except as to the existence of these provisions, (iv) approve, endorse or recommend any Acquisition Proposal, or (v) enter into any letter of intent or similar document or any contract agreement or commitment contemplating or otherwise relating to any Acquisition Proposal.

 

(b) For all purposes of and under this Agreement, the term “Acquisition Proposal” shall mean any transaction or series of related transactions, other than the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, involving (i) any acquisition or purchase from Seller by any person or “group” (as defined under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder) of more than a twenty-five percent (25%) interest in the total outstanding voting securities of Seller or any of its subsidiaries, or any tender offer or exchange offer that if consummated would result in any person or “group” (as defined under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder) beneficially owning five percent (5%) or more of the total outstanding voting securities of Seller or any of its subsidiaries, or any sale, consolidation, business combination or similar transaction involving Seller pursuant to which the stockholders of Seller immediately preceding such transaction would hold less than ninety five percent (95%) of the equity interests in the surviving or resulting entity of such transaction; (ii) any sale, lease (other than in the ordinary course of business), exchange, transfer, license (other than in the ordinary course of business), acquisition or disposition of more than five percent (5%) of the assets of Seller; (iii) any liquidation or dissolution of Seller; or (iv) any sale, lease (other than in the ordinary course of business), exchange, transfer, license (other than in the ordinary course of business), acquisition or disposition of any of the assets or securities of Seller.

 

(c) In addition to the obligations of Seller set forth in Section 7.3(a) hereof, Seller shall advise the Buyers, as promptly as practicable, and in any event within twenty-four (24) hours, orally, of (i) any request for information which Seller reasonably believes could lead to an Acquisition Proposal or, (ii) any Acquisition Proposal, or (iii) any inquiry with respect to or which Seller reasonably should believe could lead to any Acquisition Proposal, the (iv) material terms and conditions of any such request, Acquisition Proposal or inquiry, and (v) the identity of the person or group making any such request, Acquisition Proposal or inquiry. Seller shall keep the Buyers informed in all material respects of the status and details (including material amendments or proposed amendments) of any such request, Acquisition Proposal or inquiry.

 

7.4 Public Disclosure. The Buyers and the Seller shall consult with each other, and to the extent practicable, agree, before issuing any press release or otherwise making any public statement with respect to this Agreement, the Sale or an Acquisition Proposal, and shall not issue any such press release or make any such public statement prior to such consultation, except as may be required by applicable law or any listing agreement with a national securities exchange. The parties hereto have agreed to the text of the joint press release announcing the signing of this Agreement.

 

     
 

 

7.5 Reasonable Efforts; Notification.

 

(a) Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, each of the parties hereto shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions, and to do, or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with the other parties hereto in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable to consummate and make effective, in the most expeditious manner practicable, the Sale and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including, without limitation, using reasonable efforts to accomplish the following: (i) the taking of all reasonable actions necessary to cause the conditions precedent set forth in Article VI hereof to be satisfied, (ii) the obtaining of all necessary actions or nonactions, waivers, consents, approvals, orders and authorizations from Governmental Entities, and the making of all necessary registrations, declarations and filings (including registrations, declarations and filings with Governmental Entities, if any), and the taking of all reasonable steps as may be necessary to avoid any suit, claim, action, investigation or proceeding by any Governmental Entity, (iii) the obtaining of all necessary consents, approvals or waivers from third parties which may be required or desirable as a result of, or in connection with, the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (iv) the defending of any suits, claims, actions, investigations or proceedings, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, seeking to have any stay or temporary restraining order entered by any court or other Governmental Entity vacated or reversed, and (v) the execution or delivery of any additional certificates, instruments and other documents necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by, and to fully carry out the purposes of, this Agreement. In connection with and without limiting the foregoing, each Buyer and the Seller and its Board of Directors shall, if any state takeover statute or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to the Sale, this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, use all commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the Sale and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated by this Agreement and otherwise to minimize the effect of such statute or regulation on the Sale, this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to require any Buyer or the Seller or any subsidiary or affiliate thereof to agree to any divestiture by itself or any of its affiliates of shares of capital stock or of any business, assets or property, or the imposition of any material limitation on the ability of any of them to conduct their businesses or to own or exercise control of such assets, properties and stock.

 

(b) Seller shall give prompt notice to the Buyers upon becoming aware that any representation or warranty made by Seller in this Agreement has become untrue or inaccurate, or that Seller has failed to comply with or satisfy in any material respect any covenant, condition or agreement to be complied with or satisfied by it under this Agreement, in each case, such that the conditions set forth in Section 8.3(a) or Section 8.3(b) hereof would not be satisfied, provided, however, that no such notification shall affect the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements of Seller, or the conditions to the obligations of the parties under this Agreement.

 

(c) Such Buyer shall give prompt notice to Seller upon becoming aware that any representation or warranty made by such Buyer in this Agreement has become untrue or inaccurate, or that such Buyer has failed to comply with or satisfy in any material respect any covenant, condition or agreement to be complied with or satisfied by it under this Agreement, in each case, such that the conditions set forth in Section 8.2(a) or Section 8.2(b) hereof would not be satisfied, provided, however, that no such notification shall affect the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements of such Buyer, or the conditions to the obligations of the parties under this Agreement.

 

7.6 Third Party Consents. As soon as practicable following the date hereof, each Buyer and the Seller shall each use its respective commercially reasonable best efforts to obtain any consents, waivers and approvals under any of its or its subsidiaries’ respective agreements, contracts, licenses or leases required to be obtained in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

ARTICLE VIII

CONDITIONS TO THE SALE

 

8.1 Conditions to Obligations of Each Party to Effect the Sale. The respective obligations of each party to this Agreement to effect the Sale shall be subject to the satisfaction or fulfillment, at or prior to the Closing Date, of the following conditions:

 

(a) Stockholder Approval. This Agreement shall have been duly approved and adopted, and the Sale shall have been duly approved, by the requisite vote under Nevada Law, by the stockholders of Seller.

 

(b) Pricing Analysis. Seller shall have obtained a Broker Opinion of Value through Pricing Analysis from an independent firm.

 

(c) Information Statement Cleared. Seller shall have cleared all comments from the SEC with respect to the Information Statement, the Information Statement shall have been mailed by Seller to its stockholders, and in accordance with the Exchange Act, twenty (20) days shall have elapsed since such mailing date. All Other Filings shall have been approved or declared effective and no stop order shall have been issued and no proceeding shall have been initiated to revoke any such approval or effectiveness.

 

 

 

 

(d) No Order. No Governmental Entity shall have enacted, issued, promulgated, enforced or entered any statute, rule, regulation, executive order, decree, injunction or other order (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) which is in effect and which has the effect of making the Sale illegal or otherwise prohibiting consummation of the Sale.

 

8.2 Additional Conditions to Obligations of Seller. The obligation of Seller to consummate and effect the Sale shall be subject to the satisfaction or fulfillment, at or prior to the Closing Date, of each of the following conditions, any of which may be waived, in writing, exclusively by Seller:

 

(a) Representations and Warranties. Each representation and warranty of Buyer contained in this Agreement (i) shall have been true and correct in all material respects as of the date of this Agreement and (ii) shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Closing Date with the same force and effect as if made on the Closing Date, except for those representations and warranties which address matters only as of a particular date, which representations and warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects as of such particular date; provided, however, that in all cases where a representation or warranty contains a materiality or Material Adverse Effect qualifier, such representation or warranty shall be true and correct in all respects as of the dates set forth above. Seller shall have received a certificate with respect to the foregoing signed on behalf of each Buyer by duly authorized officer thereof.

 

(b) Agreements and Covenants. Each Buyer shall have performed or complied in all material respects with all agreements and covenants required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by them on or prior to the Closing Date, and Seller shall have received a certificate to such effect signed on behalf of the Buyers by a duly authorized officer thereof.

 

(c) Material Adverse Effect. No Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Buyers shall have occurred since the date of this Agreement.

 

8.3 Additional Conditions to the Obligations of Buyer. The obligations of Buyer to consummate and effect the Sale shall be subject to the satisfaction or fulfillment, at or prior to the Closing Date, of each of the following conditions, any of which may be waived, in writing, exclusively by Buyer:

 

(a) Representations and Warranties. Each representation and warranty of Seller contained in this Agreement (i) shall have been true and correct in all material respects as of the date of this Agreement and (ii) shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Closing Date with the same force and effect as if made on the Closing Date, except for those representations and warranties which address matters only as of a particular date, which representations and warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects as of such particular date; provided, however, that in all cases where a representation or warranty contains a materiality or Material Adverse Effect qualifier, such representation or warranty shall be true and correct in all respects as of the dates set forth above. Buyer shall have received a certificate with respect to the foregoing signed on behalf of Seller by a duly authorized officer thereof.

 

(b) Agreements and Covenants. Seller shall have performed or complied in all material respects with all agreements and covenants required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by it at or prior to the Closing Date, and Buyer shall have received a certificate to such effect signed on behalf of Seller by a duly authorized officer thereof.

 

(c) Material Adverse Effect. No Material Adverse Effect with respect to Seller and its subsidiaries shall have occurred since the date of this Agreement.

 

(d) Unconditional Releases. Upon the Closing Date and after Buyer delivers its shares for cancellation, the Seller shall execute and deliver to each Buyer a full and unconditional release in the form of Exhibit 8.2(d) hereto.

 

 

 

 

(e) Termination Agreement. The Seller and Wais Asefi shall have entered into the Termination Agreement.

 

(f) Voting Agreement. Each officer and director of Seller and each Buyer shall have entered into a voting agreement, pursuant to which they shall agree to vote in favor of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Termination Agreement.

 

ARTICLE IX

TERMINATION, AMENDMENT AND WAIVER

 

9.1 Termination. This Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to the Closing Date, whether before or after the requisite approval of the stockholders of Seller has been obtained in respect of this Agreement and the Sale:

 

(a) by mutual written consent of the Buyers and the Seller, duly authorized by the Board of Directors of the Seller;

 

(b) by either the Buyers or Seller if the Sale shall not have been consummated by the date that is two (2) months following the date of this Agreement for any reason; provided, however, that the right to terminate this Agreement under this Section 9.1(b) shall not be available to any party whose action or failure to act has been a principal cause of or resulted in the failure of the Sale to occur on or before such date, and such action or failure to act constitutes a breach of this Agreement;

 

(c) by either the Buyers or Seller if a Governmental Entity shall have issued an order, decree or ruling or taken any other action, in any case having the effect of permanently restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting the Sale, which order, decree, ruling or other action is final and nonappealable;

 

(d) by either the Buyers or Seller if the requisite approval of the stockholders of Seller contemplated by this Agreement shall not have been obtained by reason of the failure to obtain the requisite vote at a meeting of the stockholders of Seller, duly convened therefor or at any adjournment or postponement thereof; provided, however, that the right to terminate this Agreement under this Section 9.1(d) shall not be available to Seller in the event that the failure to obtain the requisite approval of the stockholders of Seller shall have been caused by the action or failure to act of Seller, and such action or failure to act constitutes a breach of Section 8.1 of this Agreement;

 

 

 

 

(e) by Seller, upon a breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement on the part of Buyer set forth in this Agreement, or if any representation or warranty of Buyer shall have become untrue, in either case such that the conditions set forth in Section 8.2(a) or Section 8.2(b) hereof would not be satisfied as of the time of such breach or as of the time such representation or warranty shall have become untrue; provided, however, that if such inaccuracy in Buyer’s representations and warranties or breach by Buyer is curable by Buyer through the exercise of its commercially reasonable efforts, then Seller may not terminate this Agreement under this Section 9.1(e) for fifteen (15) calendar days following the delivery of written notice from Seller to Buyer of such breach, provided Buyer continues to exercise commercially reasonable efforts to cure such breach (it being understood that Seller may not terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.1(e) if such breach by Buyer is cured during such thirty (30) calendar day period);

 

(f) by Buyer, upon a breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement on the part of Seller set forth in this Agreement, or if any representation or warranty of Seller shall have become untrue, in either case such that the conditions set forth in Section 8.3(a) or Section 8.3(b) hereof would not be satisfied as of the time of such breach or as of the time such representation or warranty shall have become untrue; provided, however, that if such inaccuracy in Seller’s representations and warranties or breach by Seller is curable by Seller through the exercise of its commercially reasonable efforts, then Buyer may not terminate this Agreement under this Section 9.1(f) for fifteen (15) calendar days following the delivery of written notice from Buyer to Seller of such breach, provided Seller continues to exercise commercially reasonable efforts to cure such breach (it being understood that Buyer may not terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.1(f) if such breach by Seller is cured during such thirty (30) calendar day period); or

 

(g) by Seller if a Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Buyer shall have occurred since the date of this Agreement; provided, however, that if such Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Buyer is curable by Buyer through the exercise of its commercially reasonable efforts, then Seller may not terminate this Agreement under this Section 9.1(h) for fifteen (15) calendar days following the occurrence of such Material Adverse Effect, provided Buyer continues to exercise commercially reasonable efforts to cure such Material Adverse Effect (it being understood that Seller may not terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.1(h) if such Material Adverse Effect is cured during such thirty (30) calendar day period.

 

9.2 Notice of Termination; Effect of Termination. Any termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 9.1 hereof shall be effective immediately upon the delivery of written notice of the terminating party to the other party or parties hereto. In the event of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 9.1 hereof, this Agreement shall be of no further force or effect, except (i) as set forth in this Section 9.2, and as set forth in Section 9.3 and Article X (General Provisions) hereof, each of which shall survive the termination of this Agreement, and (ii) nothing herein shall relieve any party hereto from any liability for any willful breach of this Agreement.

 

9.3 Fees and Expenses. Except as otherwise provided in this Section 9.3, all fees and expenses incurred in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be paid by the party incurring such fees and expenses, whether or not the Sale is consummated.

 

9.4 Amendment. Subject to applicable law, this Agreement may be amended by the parties hereto at any time by execution of an instrument in writing, signed on behalf of each of the parties hereto by a duly authorized officer thereof.

 

9.5 Extension; Waiver. At any time prior to the Closing Date, any party hereto may, to the extent legally allowed, (i) extend the time for the performance of any of the obligations or other acts of the other parties hereto, (ii) waive any inaccuracies in the representations and warranties made to such party contained herein or in any document delivered pursuant hereto, and (iii) waive compliance with any of the agreements or conditions for the benefit of such party contained herein. Any agreement on the part of a party hereto to any such extension or waiver shall be valid only if set forth in an instrument in writing signed on behalf of such party. Any delay in exercising any right under this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right.

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE IX

INDEMNIFICATION

 

10.1 Indemnification.

 

(a) By Seller. Subject to the other terms and conditions of this Article X, Seller hereby agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Buyer and its employees, counsel, agents, and stockholders, in each case past, present, or as they may exist at any time after the date of this Agreement, and each person, if any, who controls, controlled, or will control any of them within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20(a) of the Exchange Act (each a “Buyer Indemnified Party”) against any and all losses, liabilities, damages, and expenses whatsoever (which shall include, for all purposes of this Section 7.7, but not be limited to, counsel fees and any and all expenses whatsoever incurred in investigating, preparing, or defending against any litigation, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever, and any and all amounts paid in settlement of any claim or litigation) (“Claims”) as and when incurred arising out of, based upon, or in connection with (a) any breach of any representation, warranty, covenant, or agreement of Seller contained in this Agreement, (b) if the Closing takes place, any act or alleged omission occurring at or prior to the Closing (including without limitation any which arise out of, are based upon, or are in connection with any of the transactions contemplated hereby) which subjects any Buyer to damages related to the intentional act or intentional omission, (c) the products and operations of the Company, if any, prior to Closing, and (d) the existence of actual, contingent, or potential undisclosed liabilities of the Company and the subsidiaries thereof. The foregoing agreement to indemnify shall be in addition to any liability Seller may otherwise have, including liabilities arising under this Agreement.

 

(b) By Buyer. Subject to the other terms and conditions of this Article X, Buyer shall indemnify and hold harmless Seller and its officers, directors and stockholders (each an “Seller Indemnified Party”), from and against any and all Claims suffered by such Seller Indemnified Party resulting from or arising out of any: (i) inaccuracy in or breach of any of the representations or warranties made by Buyer in this Agreement; or (ii) breach or nonfulfillment of any covenants or agreements made by Buyer in this Agreement.

 

10.2 Indemnification Procedures for Third-Party Claims. In making a claim under this Article X, the party making a claim is referred to as the “Indemnified Party,” and the party against whom such claims are asserted is referred to as the “Indemnifying Party.”.

 

(a) Upon obtaining knowledge of any Claim by a third party that has given rise to, or is expected to give rise to, a claim for indemnification hereunder, the Indemnified Party shall give prompt written notice (“Notice of Claim”) of such claim or demand to the Indemnifying Party, specifying in reasonable detail such information as the Indemnified Party may have with respect to such indemnification claim (including copies of any summons, complaint or other pleading that may have been served on it and any written claim, demand, invoice, billing or other document evidencing or asserting the same). Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 10.2 hereof, no failure or delay by an Indemnified Party in the performance of the foregoing shall reduce or otherwise affect the obligation of the Indemnifying Party to indemnify and hold the Indemnified Party harmless, except to the extent that such failure or delay shall have actually materially adversely affected the Indemnifying Party’s ability to defend against, settle or satisfy any Claims for which the Indemnified Party is entitled to indemnification hereunder.

 

(b) If the claim or demand set forth in the Notice of Claim given by an Indemnified Party pursuant to Section 10.2(a) hereof is a claim or demand asserted by a third party, the Indemnifying Party shall have fifteen (15) Business Days after the date on which the Notice of Claim is delivered to notify the Indemnified Party in writing of its election to defend such third party claim or demand on behalf of the Indemnified Party. If the Indemnifying Party elects to defend such third party claim or demand, the Indemnified Party shall make available to the Indemnifying Party and its agents and representatives all records and other materials that are reasonably required in the defense of such third party claim or demand and shall otherwise cooperate with, and assist the Indemnifying Party in the defense of, such third party claim or demand, and so long as the Indemnifying Party is defending such third party claim in good faith, the Indemnified Party shall not pay, settle or compromise such third party claim or demand. If the Indemnifying Party elects to defend such third party claim or demand the Indemnified Party shall have the right to participate in the defense of such third party claim or demand at the Indemnified Party’s expense. In the event, however, that such Indemnified Party reasonably determines that representation by counsel to the Indemnifying Party of both the Indemnifying Party and such Indemnified Party could reasonably be expected to present counsel with a conflict of interest, then the Indemnified Party may employ separate counsel to represent or defend it in any such action or proceeding and the Indemnifying Party shall be liable for the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel. If the Indemnifying Party does not elect to defend such third party claim or demand or does not defend such third party claim or demand in good faith, the Indemnified Party shall have the right, in addition to any other right or remedy it may have hereunder, at the Indemnifying Party’s expense, to defend such third party claim or demand; provided, however, that: (i) such Indemnified Party shall not have any obligation to participate in the defense of or defend any such third party claim or demand; (ii) such Indemnified Party’s defense of or its participation in the defense of any such third party claim or demand shall not in any way diminish or lessen the obligations of the Indemnifying Party under the agreements of indemnification set forth in this Article X; and (iii) such Indemnified Party may not settle any claim without the consent of the Indemnifying Party, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.

 

 

 

 

(c) Except for third party claims being defended in good faith, the Indemnifying Party shall satisfy its obligations under this Article X in respect of a valid claim for indemnification hereunder that is not contested by the Indemnified Party in good faith by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Indemnified Party within thirty (30) days after the date on which Notice of Claim is delivered to the Indemnified Party.

 

10.3 Indemnification Procedures for Non-Third Party Claims. In the event any Indemnified Party should have an indemnification claim against the Indemnifying Party under this Agreement that does not involve a claim by a third party, the Indemnified Party shall promptly deliver notice of such claim to the Indemnifying Party in writing and in reasonable detail and shall cooperate with, answers questions and make available to the Indemnifying Party the information relied upon by the Indemnified Party to substantiate the claim. The failure by any Indemnified Party to so notify the Indemnifying Party shall not relieve the Indemnifying Party from any liability that it may have to such Indemnified Party, except to the extent that Indemnifying Party have been actually materially prejudiced by such failure. If the Indemnifying Party does not notify the Indemnified Party within fifteen (15) Business Days following its receipt of such notice that the Indemnifying Party dispute such claim, such claim specified by the Indemnified Party in such notice shall be conclusively deemed a liability of the Indemnifying Party under this Article X and the Indemnifying Party shall pay the amount of such liability to the Indemnified Party on demand, or in the case of any notice in which the amount of the claim is estimated, on such later date when the amount of such claim is finally determined. If the Indemnifying Party disputes its liability with respect to such Claim in a timely manner, the Indemnifying Party and the Indemnified Party shall proceed in good faith to negotiate a resolution of such dispute and, if not resolved through negotiations, such dispute shall be submitted to a court of law.

 

10.4 Damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, neither party shall be liable to the other for any consequential, indirect, exemplary or punitive damages.

 

10.5 Release from Claim. The Indemnifying Party shall not, without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened Claim in respect of which any Indemnified Party is or could have been a party and indemnification could have been sought hereunder by such Indemnified Party, unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such indemnification.

 

ARTICLE XI

GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

11.1 Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of Seller and Buyer contained in this Agreement shall survive the Closing for a period of two (2) years.

 

11.2 Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given if delivered personally or by commercial delivery service, or sent via telecopy (receipt confirmed) to the parties at the following addresses or telecopy numbers (or at such other address or telecopy numbers for a party as shall be specified by like notice):

 

  (a) if to the Buyers, to:

 

WAIS ASEFI

1940 Contra Costa Blvd.

Pleasant Hill, CA 94523

 

 

 

 

(b) if to Seller, to:

 

RESONATE BLENDS, INC.

Attn: Geoffrey Selzer, CEO

26565 Agoura Road, Suite 200

Calabasas, CA 91302

 

11.3 Interpretation; Knowledge.

 

(a) When a reference is made in this Agreement to exhibits, such reference shall be to an exhibit to this Agreement unless otherwise indicated. When a reference is made in this Agreement to sections, such reference shall be to a section of this Agreement. Unless otherwise indicated the words “include,” “includes” and “including” when used herein shall be deemed in each case to be followed by the words “without limitation.” The table of contents and headings contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement. When reference is made herein to “the business of” an entity, such reference shall be deemed to include the business of all direct and indirect subsidiaries of such entity. Reference to the subsidiaries of an entity shall be deemed to include all direct and indirect subsidiaries of such entity.

 

(b) For purposes of this Agreement the term “knowledge” means with respect to a party hereto, with respect to any matter in question, that any of the executive officers of such party has actual knowledge of such matter or knowledge that such individual could reasonably be expected to obtain upon reasonable investigation or inquiry into such matter.

 

(c) For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Material Adverse Effect” when used in connection with an entity means any change, event, violation, inaccuracy, circumstance or effect that is materially adverse to the business, assets (including intangible assets), prospects, capitalization, financial condition or results of operations of such entity and its subsidiaries taken as a whole. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “person” shall mean any individual, corporation (including any non-profit corporation), general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, joint venture, estate, trust, company (including any limited liability company or joint stock company), firm or other enterprise, association, organization, entity or Governmental Entity.

 

11.4 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when one or more counterparts have been signed by each of the parties and delivered to the other party, it being understood that all parties need not sign the same counterpart.

 

11.5 Entire Agreement; Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement and the documents and instruments and other agreements among the parties hereto as contemplated by or referred to herein, including the Seller Disclosure Letter and the Buyer Disclosure Letter (i) constitute the entire agreement among the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, both written and oral, among the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof; and (ii) are not intended to confer upon any other person any rights or remedies hereunder.

 

11.6 Severability. In the event that any provision of this Agreement or the application thereof, becomes or is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of this Agreement will continue in full force and effect and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances will be interpreted so as reasonably to effect the intent of the parties hereto. The parties further agree to replace such void or unenforceable provision of this Agreement with a valid and enforceable provision that will achieve, to the extent possible, the economic, business and other purposes of such void or unenforceable provision.

 

11.7 Other Remedies; Specific Performance. Except as otherwise provided herein, any and all remedies herein expressly conferred upon a party will be deemed cumulative with and not exclusive of any other remedy conferred hereby, or by law or equity upon such party, and the exercise by a party of any one remedy will not preclude the exercise of any other remedy. The parties hereto agree that irreparable damage would occur in the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached. It is accordingly agreed that the parties shall be entitled to seek an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions hereof in any court of the United States or any state having jurisdiction, this being in addition to any other remedy to which they are entitled at law or in equity.

 

 

 

 

11.8 Governing Law. This Agreement, and all claims or causes of action (whether at law, in contract or in tort) that may be based upon, arise out of or relate to this Agreement or the negotiation, execution or performance hereof, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Nevada, without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of Nevada or any other jurisdiction) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Nevada. Each of the parties hereto (i) consents to submit itself to the personal jurisdiction of the District Court of the State of Nevada in the event any dispute arises out of this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated hereby, and, in connection with any such matter, to service of process by notice as otherwise provided herein, (ii) agrees that it will not attempt to deny or defeat such personal jurisdiction by motion or other request for leave from any such court and (iii) agrees that it will not bring any action relating to this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated hereby in any court other than the District Court of the State of Nevada. Any party may make service on another party by sending or delivering a copy of the process to the party to be served at the address and in the manner provided for the giving of notices in Section 11.2.

 

11.9 Rules of Construction. The parties hereto agree that they have been represented by counsel during the negotiation and execution of this Agreement and, therefore, waive the application of any law, regulation, holding or rule of construction providing that ambiguities in an agreement or other document will be construed against the party drafting such agreement or document.

 

11.10 Assignment. No party may assign either this Agreement or any of its rights, interests, or obligations hereunder without the prior written approval of the other parties. Subject to the preceding sentence, this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns.

 

11.11 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH OF BUYER AND SELLER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE ACTIONS OF BUYER OR SELLER IN THE NEGOTIATION, ADMINISTRATION, PERFORMANCE AND ENFORCEMENT HEREOF.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

 

SELLER  
   
Resonate Blends, Inc.  
     
     
By: Geoffrey Selzer  
Its: CEO  
   
BUYERS:  
   
 
Wais Asefi  
   
 
Nick Miniello  
   
 
Juleon Asefi  
   
 
Curt Byers  

 

 

 

 

Annex A

 

Textmunication, Inc. Shares to Buyers

 

Shareholder   Number of Shares
Wais Asefi    
Nick Miniello    
Juleon Asefi    
Curt Byers    

 

 

 

Exhibit 10.1

 

SEPARATION AGREEMENT AND RELEASE

 

This Separation Agreement and Release (“Agreement”) is made as of May 22, 2020, by and between Wais Asefi (“Employee”) and Resonate Blends, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “Company”). Employee and the Company shall collectively be referred to herein as the “Parties”, and each individually as a “Party.”

 

RECITALS

 

WHEREAS, Employee was employed by the Company, among other positions, as its Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director;

 

WHEREAS, Employee and the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiary executed an Employment Agreement dated on or about December 17, 2013 (the “Employment Agreement”);

 

WHEREAS, Employee ceased to be an employee and officer of the Company, effective on or before January 20, 2020 (the “Separation Date”);

 

WHEREAS, simultaneously with execution and delivery hereof, the Company, Employee and a number of other entities are entering into the Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (the “SPA”), pursuant to which the Company intends to transfer to Employee and such other entities all of the outstanding securities in Textmunication, Inc., a California corporation, in exchange for certain securities of the Company held thereby; and

 

WHEREAS, the Parties wish to resolve any and all disputes, claims, complaints, grievances, charges, actions, petitions, and demands that the Employee may have against the Company and any of the Releasees (as defined below), including, but not limited to, any and all claims arising out of or in any way related to the Employment Agreement and Employee’s employment with or separation from the Company.

 

AGREEMENT

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises made herein, the Company and Employee hereby agree as follows:

 

1. Departure. Employee hereby acknowledges and agrees that he ceased to be (a) an employee of Company, (b) an officer of Company and (c) a director of the Company, in each case, effective as of the Separation Date.

 

2. Termination of Employment Agreement and Return and Transfer of Shares.

 

(a) The Parties acknowledge and agree that upon receipt of the fully executed counterparts of this Agreement and receipt by Employee of the Indebtedness Payment (described below), the obligations under the Employment Agreement shall terminate and be of no further force or effect.

 

   

 

 

(b) Employee agrees to return his 4,000,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock to the Company for cancellation and to transfer 2,000,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock in the Company to Geoffrey Selzer (collectively, the “Shares”) upon the execution of this Agreement. To accomplish this, effective upon execution of this Agreement, Employee hereby irrevocably appoints Mr. David Thielen as his representative and attorney-in-fact with full power and authority to act on Employee’s behalf to accomplish the cancellation and transfer of the Shares on the books and records of the Company.

 

3. Payment. In full satisfaction of all amounts due Employee and for the cancellation and transfer of the Shares, the Company agrees to pay Employee the total sum of $200,000 (“Indebtedness Payment”) from monies raised by the Company following execution of the Agreement as follows:

 

  $12,500 when the initial $250,000 is raised by the Company;
  $12,500 when a total of $500,000 is raised by the Company;
  $10,000 when a total of $750,000 is raised by the Company;
  $35,000 when a total of $1,750,000 is raised by the Company;
  $35,000 when a total of $2,750,000 is raised by the Company;
  $35,000 when a total of $3,750,000 is raised by the Company;
  $35,000 when a total of $4,750,000 is raised by the Company; and
  $25,000 when a total of $5,750,000 is raised by the Company;

 

The payments are not tied to any specific date; rather, the aforementioned payments will be made from proceeds from the Company’s future fundraising efforts, if and when raised, based on the schedule above.

 

4. Payment of Salary and Receipt of All Benefits. Except for the Indebtedness Payment, Employee acknowledges and represents that the Company has paid or provided all salary, wages, bonuses, accrued vacation/paid time off, premiums, leaves, housing allowances, relocation costs, interest, severance, outplacement costs, fees, reimbursable expenses, commissions, stock, stock options, vesting, and any and all other benefits and compensation due to Employee through the Separation Date.

 

5. Release of Claims. Employee agrees that the Indebtedness Payment represents settlement in full of all outstanding obligations owed to Employee by the Company and its current and former officers, directors, employees, agents, investors, attorneys, shareholders, administrators, affiliates, benefit plans, plan administrators, insurers, trustees, divisions, and subsidiaries, and predecessor and successor corporations and assigns (collectively, the “Releasees”), other than those obligations of the Company under the SPA and the agreements executed pursuant thereto, and in connection therewith (the “Excluded Obligations”). Except for the Excluded Obligations, Employee, on his own behalf and on behalf of his respective heirs, family members, executors, agents, and assigns, hereby and forever voluntarily releases the Releasees from, and agrees not to sue concerning, or in any manner to institute, prosecute, or pursue, any claim, complaint, charge, duty, obligation, demand, or cause of action relating to any matters of any kind, whether presently known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, that Employee may possess against any of the Releasees arising from any omissions, acts, facts, or damages that have occurred up until and including the Effective Date of this Agreement, including, without limitation:

 

   

 

 

(a) any and all claims relating to:

 

  (i) ownership of the Shares or other Company securities held by Employee;
  (ii) fiduciary duties of Releasees; or
  (iii) breach of any agreement by or between/among Releasees and Employee other than this Agreement and the Excluded Obligations

 

(b) any and all claims relating to or arising from Employee’s employment relationship with the Company and the termination of that relationship;

 

(c) any and all claims relating to, or arising from, Employee’s right to purchase, or actual purchase or sale of the Shares and of shares of stock of the Company, including, any claims for fraud, misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of duty under applicable state corporate law, and securities fraud under any state or federal law;

 

(d) any and all claims for wrongful discharge of employment; termination in violation of public policy; discrimination; harassment; retaliation; breach of contract, both express and implied; breach of covenant of good faith and fair dealing, both express and implied; promissory estoppel; negligent or intentional infliction of emotional distress; fraud; negligent or intentional misrepresentation; negligent or intentional interference with contract or prospective economic advantage; unfair business practices; defamation; libel; slander; negligence; personal injury; assault; battery; invasion of privacy; false imprisonment; conversion; and disability benefits;

 

(e) any and all claims for violation of any federal, state, or municipal statute, including, but not limited to, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Civil Rights Act of 1991; the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; the Equal Pay Act; the Fair Labor Standards Act; the Fair Credit Reporting Act; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act; the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974; the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act; the Family and Medical Leave Act; the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; the Immigration Control and Reform Act;

 

(f) any and all claims for violation of the federal or any state constitution;

 

(g) any and all claims arising out of any other laws and regulations relating to employment or employment discrimination;

 

(h) any claim for any loss, cost, damage, or expense arising out of any dispute over the nonwithholding or other tax treatment of any of the proceeds received by Employee as a result of this Agreement or other compensation received by Employee;

 

(i) any and all claims airing under the Employment Agreement and/or its termination; and

 

(j) any and all claims for attorneys’ fees and costs.

 

   

 

 

Employee acknowledges and agrees that the facts in respect to which this release is given may turn out to be other than or different than expected, and expressly, knowingly and voluntarily waives any and all benefits and rights granted pursuant to Section 1542 of the Civil Code of the State of California with which section it is familiar and which section reads as follows:

 

A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM, MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.”

 

Employee agrees that the release set forth in this section shall be and remain in effect in all respects as a complete general release as to the matters released. However, this release does not extend to any obligations incurred under this Agreement or the Excluded Obligations. This release does not release claims that cannot be released as a matter of law, including, but not limited to, Employee’s right to file a charge with or participate in a charge by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or any other local, state, or federal administrative body or government agency that is authorized to enforce or administer laws related to employment, against the Company (with the understanding that any such filing or participation does not give Employee the right to recover any monetary damages against the Company; Employee’s release of claims herein bars Employee from recovering such monetary relief from the Company). Employee represents that he has made no assignment or transfer of any right, claim, complaint, charge, duty, obligation, demand, cause of action, or other matter waived or released by this Section.

 

6. Acknowledgment of Waiver of Claims under ADEA. Employee acknowledges that he is waiving and releasing any rights he may have under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (“ADEA”), and that this waiver and release is knowing and voluntary. Employee acknowledges that the consideration given for this waiver and release is in addition to anything of value to which Employee was already entitled. Employee further acknowledges that he has been advised by this writing that: (a) he should consult with an attorney prior to executing this Agreement; (b) he has twenty-one (21) days within which to consider this Agreement; (c) he has seven (7) days following his execution of this Agreement to revoke this Agreement; (d) this Agreement shall not be effective until after the revocation period has expired; and (e) nothing in this Agreement prevents or precludes Employee from challenging or seeking a determination in good faith of the validity of this waiver under the ADEA, nor does it impose any condition precedent, penalties, or costs for doing so, unless specifically authorized by federal law. In the event Employee signs this Agreement and returns it to the Company in less than the 21-day period identified above, Employee hereby acknowledges that he has freely and voluntarily chosen to waive the time period allotted for considering this Agreement.

 

7. Employee’s Acknowledgment of Tax Liability. Employee hereby acknowledges and agrees as follows: (a) nothing in this Agreement constitutes tax advice; (b) the Company does not take any responsibility, or have any liability to Employee with respect to Employee’s tax liability and/or Employee’s personal tax reporting; (c) Employee has been given the opportunity and encouraged to consult with Employee’s own attorney and to seek professional tax advice prior to execution of this Agreement; and (d) Employee agrees to indemnify the Company and hold it harmless from any liability for his taxes, interest or penalties that may be imposed as a result of under-payment or non-payment of income taxes on any amounts paid Employee under the terms of this Agreement.

 

   

 

 

8. No Pending or Future Lawsuits. Employee represents that he has no lawsuits, claims, or actions pending in his name, or on behalf of any other person or entity, against the Company or any of the other Releasees. Employee also represents that he does not, at the date hereof, intend to bring any claims on his own behalf or on behalf of any other person or entity against the Company or any of the other Releasees.

 

9. Non-Disparagement. Each Party shall at all times refrain from taking actions or making statements, written or oral, that denigrate, disparage, or defame the goodwill or reputation of the other Party. Employee further agrees not to make any negative statement to third parties or Company employees relating to the Employee’s employment or any aspect of the business of the Company and not to make any statements to third parties or Company employees about the circumstances of the termination of Employee’s employment, or about Releasees, except as may be required by a court or governmental authorities. Employee shall direct any inquiries by potential future employers to the Company’s human resources department.

 

10. No Admission of Liability. Employee understands and acknowledges that this Agreement constitutes a compromise and settlement of any and all actual or potential disputed claims by Employee. No action taken by the Company hereto, either previously or in connection with this Agreement, shall be deemed or construed to be (a) an admission of the truth or falsity of any actual or potential claims or (b) an acknowledgment or admission by the Company of any fault or liability whatsoever to Employee or to any third party.

 

11. Costs. The Parties shall each bear their own costs, attorneys’ fees, and other fees incurred in connection with the preparation of this Agreement.

 

12. Authority. The Company represents and warrants that the undersigned has the authority to act on behalf of the Company and to bind the Company and all who may claim through it to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Employee represents and warrants that he has the capacity to act on his own behalf and on behalf of all who might claim through him to bind them to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Each Party warrants and represents that there are no liens or claims of lien or assignments in law or equity or otherwise of or against any of the claims or causes of action released herein.

 

13. No Representations. Employee represents that he has had an opportunity to consult with an attorney, and has carefully read and understands the scope and effect of the provisions of this Agreement. Employee has not relied upon any representations or statements made by the Company that are not specifically set forth in this Agreement.

 

14. Severability. In the event that any provision or any portion of any provision hereof or any surviving agreement made a part hereof becomes or is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction or arbitrator to be illegal, unenforceable, or void, this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect without said provision or portion of provision.

 

   

 

 

15. Attorneys’ Fees. Except with regard to a legal action challenging or seeking a determination in good faith of the validity of the waiver herein under the ADEA, in the event that either Party brings an action to enforce or effect its rights under this Agreement, the prevailing Party shall be entitled to recover its costs and expenses, including the costs of mediation, arbitration, litigation, court fees, and reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred in connection with such an action.

 

16. Entire Agreement. This Agreement represents the entire agreement and understanding between the Company and Employee concerning the subject matter of this Agreement and Employee’s employment with and separation from the Company and the events leading thereto and associated therewith, and supersedes and replaces any and all prior agreements and understandings concerning the subject matter of this Agreement and Employee’s relationship with the Company.

 

17. No Oral Modification. This Agreement may only be amended in a writing signed by Employee and the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.

 

18. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Nevada, without regard for choice-of-law provisions. Employee consents to personal and exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the State of Nevada.

 

19. Effective Date. Employee understands that: a) this Agreement shall be null and void if not executed by him within twenty one (21) days; and b) Employee may revoke this agreement within seven days following his execution of it. This Agreement will become effective on the eighth (8th) day after Employee signs this Agreement, so long as it has been signed by the Parties and has not been revoked by either Party before that date (the “Effective Date”). If Employee declines to sign this agreement or revokes it within 7 days of his execution, this Agreement shall be null and void, and Employee shall return the Indebtedness Payment to the Company if and to the extent paid to Employee prior to such date.

 

20. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts and by facsimile, and each counterpart and facsimile shall have the same force and effect as an original and shall constitute an effective, binding agreement on the part of each of the undersigned.

 

21. Breach by Employee. Employee specifically agrees that the Company’s payments to Employee under this Agreement are made in return for Employee’s obligations set forth in this Agreement.

 

22. Voluntary Execution of Agreement. Employee understands and agrees that he executed this Agreement voluntarily, without any duress or undue influence on the part or behalf of the Company or any third party, with the full intent of releasing all of his/her claims against the Company and any of the other Releasees, except as otherwise provided herein. Employee acknowledges that: (a) he has read this Agreement; (b) he has been represented in the preparation, negotiation, and execution of this Agreement by legal counsel of his/her own choice or has elected not to retain legal counsel; (c) he understands the terms and consequences of this Agreement and of the releases it contains; and (d) he is fully aware of the legal and binding effect of this Agreement.

 

   

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have executed this Agreement on the date first set forth above.

 

RESONATE BLENDS, INC.

 

     
By: Geoffrey Selzer  
Its: Chief Executive Officer  

 

   
Wais Asefi  

 

   

 

 

Exhibit 10.2

 

VOTING AGREEMENT

 

To induce the parties to the Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 22, 2020 (the “Purchase Agreement”), among Resolate Blends, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “Seller”), and the buyers named therein (the “Buyers”), to enter into and perform the Purchase Agreement, the undersigned stockholder of the Seller whose name, address and signature appear below (the “Undersigned”), hereby agrees to vote all voting securities of the Seller owned beneficially and of record thereby (the “Subject Securities”) in favor of the Purchase Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby.

 

If the Seller shall in any manner split, subdivide or combine its any of its voting securities, the definition of Subject Securities for purposes of this Voting Agreement shall be deemed amended such that this Voting Agreement be deemed to be an agreement to vote the number of voting securities of the Seller owned beneficially and of record by the Undersigned following such stock split, subdivision or combination that relate back to the original Subject Securities.

 

The Undersigned hereby revokes any proxy heretofore given to vote with respect of the Subject Securities.

 

This Voting Agreement shall be effective until June 30, 2020.

 

     
  Name: Geoffrey Selzer
  Address:

 

 

Dated: May 22, 2020