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Exhibit 10.2
CONSULTING AGREEMENT, dated as
of September 4, 2007, (this “Agreement”) by and between
ELITE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., a Delaware corporation with its
principal place of business located at 165 Ludlow Avenue,
Northvale, NJ 07467 (the “Company”), on the one hand,
and Bridge Ventures, Inc., a Florida corporation, with offices
located at 1241 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Sarasota, Florida 34228
(“Bridge”), and Saggi Capital Inc., a Florida
corporation, with offices located at 500 West Highway 316, Citra,
Florida 32113 (“Saggi”, together with Bridge, the
“Consultants”), on the other hand.
WHEREAS, the Consultants have relationships with various
financial institutions and organizations, as well as with venture
capital sources, companies, and/or individuals that seek to invest
in emerging growth companies, including those in the pharmaceutical
sector, and have developed certain expertise in advising public
companies in connection with investor relations matters;
and
WHEREAS, the Company desires to obtain the services and
advice of the Consultants and the Consultants desires to render
such services and advice to the Company.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the
covenants and agreements contained herein, and for other good and
valuable consideration, the parties agree as follows:
1. S ERVICES
The Consultants agree to perform such consulting and
advisory services as may be requested by the Chief Executive
Officer of the Company or his designee and as the Company and the
Consultants shall agree from time to time, including without
limitation, the introduction of potential contacts and investors,
the attraction of investment capital and providing investor
relations services and to generate investor interest in the
Company. The Consultants shall render such services either in
person (at the Company’s facilities or at such other location
as is reasonably acceptable to the Company and the Consultants) or
by telephone, as the Company may reasonably request. The parties
hereto agree that Harris Freedman (“ Freedman ”) and Sharon
Will (“ Will
”, and together with Freedman, the
“ Consultant
Representatives ”) shall
deliver all of the services on behalf of the Consultants
hereunder.
2. T ERM
The term of this Agreement shall commence on the date
hereof and continue for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days
from the date hereof (the “Term”), subject to earlier
termination by the Company under Section 4(e) hereof.
3. C OMPENSATION
3.1. Cash
Compensation
During
the Term, the Company will pay the Consultants, collectively,
consulting fees in the amount of Ten Thousand Dollars (US$10,000)
per calendar month (“ Monthly
Consulting Fee ”) and shall
reimburse the reasonable out of pocket expenses approved by the
Company and necessarily incurred by the Consultants in connection
with the performance of its services hereunder. The Consultants
will invoice the Company for consulting fees and expenses on a
monthly basis, in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Company,
and the Company agrees to pay such invoices on a monthly basis
after receipt thereof. Consulting fees for any partial period shall
be prorated. The Monthly Consulting Fee shall be payable by the
Company to Bridge and Bridge shall forward to Saggi the agreed-upon
portion of the Monthly Consulting Fee payable to Saggi under this
Agreement, as may be agreed to by Bridge and Saggi from time to
time.
3.2. Equity
Compensation
Upon the execution of this Agreement, the
Company shall grant to the Consultants five-year warrants (the
“ Warrants
”) to purchase, in the aggregate, up to
one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) shares (the “
Warrant Shares ”) of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the
Company (the “ Common
Stock ”). The Warrants shall be
in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A and shall be
issued to the Consultants in the amount set forth below:
| Warrant Holder |
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Warrant Shares |
| Bridge
Ventures, Inc. |
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75,000 |
| Saggi
Capital Inc. |
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75,000 |
4. P ROPRIETARY I NFORMATION
(a) The Consultants and the Consultant
Representatives agree that all information, whether or not in
writing, of a private, secret or confidential nature concerning the
Company’s products, business, business relationships or
financial affairs (collectively, “Proprietary
Information”) is and shall be the exclusive property of the
Company. By way of illustration, but not limitation, Proprietary
Information may include inventions, products, processes, methods,
techniques, formulas, compositions, compounds, projects,
developments, plans, research data, clinical data, financial data,
personnel data, computer programs, customer and supplier lists and
contacts at or knowledge of customers or prospective customers of
the Company. The Consultants and the Consultant Representatives
will not disclose any Proprietary Information to any person or
entity other than employees of the Company or use the same for any
purposes (other than in the performance of its duties as a
consultant of the Company) without written approval by an officer
of the Company, either during or after the Term.
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(b) The Consultants and the Consultant
Representatives agree that all files, letters, memoranda, reports,
records, data, sketches, drawings, laboratory notebooks, program
listings or other written, photographic or other tangible material
containing Proprietary Information, whether created by the
Consultants, the Consultant Representatives or others, which shall
come into its custody or possession, shall be and are the exclusive
property of the Company to be used by the Consultants and the
Consultant Representatives only in the performance of its duties
for the Company.
(c) The Consultants’ and the Consultant
Representatives’ obligations under this Section 4 shall not
apply to any information that (i) is generally known to the public
at the time of disclosure or becomes generally known without the
Consultants or the Consultant Representatives violating this
Agreement, (ii) is in the Consultants’ or the Consultant
Representatives’ possession at the time of disclosure without
the Consultants or the Consultant Representatives violating this
Agreement, (iii) becomes known to the Consultants or the Consultant
Representatives through disclosure by sources other than the
Company without such sources violating any confidentiality
obligations to the Company, or (iv) is independently developed by
the Consultants or the Consultant Representatives without reference
to or reliance upon the Company’s Proprietary
Information.
(d) Upon termination of this Agreement or at any
other time upon request of the Company, the Consultants and the
Consultant Representatives shall promptly deliver to the Company
all records, files, memoranda, notes, designs, data, reports, price
lists, customer lists, drawings, plans, computer programs,
software, software documentation, sketches, laboratory and research
notebooks and other documents (and all copies or reproductions of
such materials) containing or relating to Proprietary Information
of the Company. After such delivery, the Consultants and the
Consultant Representatives shall not retain any such materials or
copies thereof.
(e) The Consultants and the Consultant
Representatives acknowledge that any breach of the provisions of
this Section 4 shall result in serious and irreparable injury to
the Company for which the Company cannot be adequately compensated
by monetary damages alone. The Consultants and the Consultant
Representatives agree, therefore, that, in addition to any other
remedy it may have, the Company shall be entitled to enforce the
specific performance of this Agreement by the Consultants and the
Consultant Representatives and to seek both temporary and permanent
injunctive relief (to the extent permitted by law). The Company may
terminate this Agreement, effective immediately upon the giving of
written notice, if the Consultants or the Consultant
Representatives breaches or threatens to breach any provision of
this Section 4.
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5. R EPRESENTATIONS AND W
ARRANTIES
5.1. Representations and Warranties of
the Company .
The Company hereby represents and warrants as of the date
hereof to the Consultants as follows:
(a) The Company is duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization
with full right, corporate or partnership power and authority to
enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder. The
execution, delivery and performance by such Consultant of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate or similar action on the part
of such Consultant. This Agreement constitutes the valid and
legally binding obligation of such Consultant, enforceable against
it in accordance with its terms.
5.2. Representations and Warranties of
the Consultants .
Each Consultant and each Consultant Representative hereby
represents and warrants as of the date hereof to the Company as
follows:
(a)
Such Consultant, if an entity, is duly organized, validly existing
and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its
organization with full rig
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