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Note 8 - Commitments and Contingencies

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Note 8 - Commitments and Contingencies
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
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Note 8 - Commitments and Contingencies

NOTE 8- COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

 

Employment Agreement

 

The Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Dahl, is serving under the terms of an employment agreement dated December 16, 2011 as amended August 11, 2016. Under the agreement, Mr. Dahl serves as CEO for one year terms, subject to automatic renewal, unless either party terminates the Agreement on sixty days’ notice prior to the expiration of the term of the agreement. Mr. Dahl is compensated as follows: he receives an annual base salary of $240,000. In addition, Mr. Dahl is entitled to monthly bonus compensation equal to 2% of the Company’s revenue, but only to the extent that such bonus amount exceeds his base salary for the month in question. In addition, Mr. Dahl will be entitled to warrants having an exercise price of $.25 per share, upon the attainment of specified milestones as follows: 1) Warrants for 500,000 shares upon identification of bio-active agents in the Company’s product and filing of a patent with respect thereto, 2) Warrants for 500,000 shares upon entering into a business contract under which the Company receives at least $500,000 in cash payments, 3) Warrants for 1,000,000 shares upon the Company entering into a co-development agreement with a research company to develop medicinal or pharmaceutical applications (where the partner provides at least $2 million in cash or in-kind outlays), 4) Warrants for 1,000,000 shares upon the Company entering into a co-development agreement for nutraceutical or dietary supplement applications (where the partner provides at least $2 million in cash or in-kind outlays), 5) Warrants for 1,000,000 shares upon the Company entering into a pharmaceutical development agreement. Further, as it relates to Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, WellMetris, LLC (“WellMetris”), in the event the Company ceases to own a controlling interest in WellMetris for any reason whatsoever, the Company shall cause WellMetris to grant Mr. Dahl warrants to purchase a seven percent (7%) equity interest in WellMetris at the time outside funding is closed and/or at the time an event occurs whereby the Company relinquishes majority control of WellMetris. Such Warrant shall be priced at the per-unit or per-share price at the time of the applicable closing or change of control with respect to WellMetris. As of March 31, 2018, none of the milestones referred to had been achieved and there has been no notice of contract termination.

 

Investment Banking, M&A and Corporate Advisory Agreement

 

On January 17, 2017 the Company entered into a one year agreement with an Investment Banking, Merger and Acquisition (M&A) and Corporate Advisory firm ("Firm"). Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, if the Company did not terminate the engagement prior to April 18, 2017, it was required to issue 1,875,000 shares of its common stock. As of April 18, 2017, the Company had not terminated the agreement and therefore became obligated to issue the aforementioned shares. The Company considers this to be a Type I Subsequent Event and recorded the expense in Professional Fees and Consulting Expenses in the amount of $131,250 on its Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations for the three months ended March 31, 2017 and in Accrued Liabilities in its Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet as of March 31, 2017. In addition to the contract fee, the Company could potentially be required to obligated to pay an 8% M&A transaction fee (as defined in the Agreement) payable in shares of the Company’s common stock (reduced by the value of the previously issued shares). On January 17, 2018, this agreement expired with no additional costs to the Company.

 

On February 21, 2018 the Company entered into a one year agreement with an Investment Banking, Merger and Acquisition (M&A) and Corporate Advisory firm ("Firm"). Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, issued a warrant to purchase 2,326,504 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $.10 for a term of five years. The warrants were valued at $245,039 using the Black Scholes pricing model relying on the following assumptions: volatility 177.09%; annual rate of dividends 0%; discount rate 2.69%. In addition to the contract fee, the Company could potentially be obligated to pay up to an 8% M&A transaction fee (as defined in the Agreement) plus a warrant to purchase shares of common stock equal to between 0.5% to 1% of the post financing fully shares outstanding at an exercise price equal to the valuation / share price of the financing.

 

Change of Control Provisions

 

Effective as of February 9, 2018, the Board of Directors extended to December 31, 2018 the Change in Control Agreements (the “Agreements”) with both of its executive officers. The Agreements with each of the executive officers provide that if a Change of Control (as defined in the Agreements) occurs and the participant is not offered substantially equivalent employment with the successor corporation or the participant’s employment is terminated without Cause (as defined in the Agreements) during the three month period prior to the Change of Control or the 24 month period following the Change of Control, then 100% of such participant’s unvested options will be fully vested and the restrictions on his restricted shares will lapse. The Agreements also provide for severance payments of 500% of base salary and target bonus in such event. The Agreements terminate on December 31, 2018, with the provision that if a Change of Control occurs prior to the termination date, the obligations of the Agreements will remain in effect until they are satisfied or have expired.

 

Legal Contingencies

 

We may become a party to litigation in the normal course of business. In the opinion of management, there are no legal matters involving us that would have a material adverse effect upon our financial condition, results of operation or cash flows.

 

Workers’ Compensation

 

The Company does not carry workers’ compensation insurance, which covers on the job injury.