Exhibit 10.8
PETROALGAE INC.
GUARANTY
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New York, New
York
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July 24, 2009
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, and in
consideration of note purchases from, loans made or to be made or
credit otherwise extended or to be extended by PetroTech Holdings,
Corp. (“PetroTech”) to or for the account of PA LLC
(f/k/a PetroAlgae, LLC), a Delaware limited liability company (the
“ Company ”), from time to time and at any time
and for other good and valuable consideration and to induce
PetroTech, in its discretion, to purchase such notes, make such
loans or other extensions of credit and to make or grant such
renewals, extensions, releases of collateral or relinquishments of
legal rights as the Creditor Parties (as defined below) may deem
advisable, PetroAlgae Inc. (“ Guarantor ” or
“ the undersigned ”) unconditionally guaranties
to the Creditor Parties, their successors, endorsees and assigns
the prompt payment when due (whether by acceleration or otherwise)
of all present and future obligations and liabilities of any and
all kinds of the Company to the Creditor Parties and of all
instruments of any nature evidencing or relating to any such
obligations and liabilities upon which the Company or one or more
parties and the Company is or may become liable to the Creditor
Parties, whether incurred by the Company as maker, endorser,
drawer, acceptor, guarantor, accommodation party or otherwise, and
whether due or to become due, secured or unsecured, absolute or
contingent, joint or several, and however or whenever acquired by
the Creditor Parties, whether arising under, out of, or in
connection with that certain (i) Second Amended and Restated
Secured Term Note dated as of the date hereof, issued by the
Company to PetroTech (as further amended, restated, modified and/or
supplemented from time to time, the “ PetroTech Term
Note ”) which amends and restates and combines that
certain (a) Amended and Restated Demand Note issued as of
August 25, 2008 (and dated August 21, 2008) by the
Company to PetroTech which further amended and restated that Demand
Note dates August 21, 2008 made by the Company in favor of
PetroTech (as amended, restated, modified and/or supplemented from
time to time) (b) Demand Note dated as of September 3,
2008 issued by Company to PetroTech (as amended, restated, modified
and/or supplemented from time to time), (c) Demand Note dated
as of September 18, 2008 issued by the Company to PetroTech
(as amended, restated, modified and/or supplemented from time to
time), (d) Demand Note dated as of September 25, 2008
issued by the Company to PetroTech (as amended, restated, modified
and/or supplemented from time to time), (ii) Amended and
Restated Secured Convertible Note dated as of the date hereof
issued by the Company to PetroTech (as further amended, restated,
modified and/or supplemented from time to time, the “
PetroTech Convertible Note ” and together with the
PetroTech Term Note, the “ PetroTech Notes ”)
which amends and restates and combines that certain
(a) Convertible Demand Note dated as of April 24, 2009
issued by the Company to PetroTech (as amended, restated, modified
and/or supplemented from time to time) and (b) Secured
Convertible Demand Note dated as of May 11, 2009 issued by the
Company to PetroTech (as amended, restated, modified and/or
supplemented from time to time), (iii) that certain Promissory
Note dated June 12, 2008 and effective as of
September 22, 2006 issued by Company in favor of XL Techgroup,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ XLT ”) and
assigned in full by XLT to PetroTech (as amended, restated,
modified and/or supplemented from time to time, the “
Promissory Note ”) (iv) that certain Amended and
Restated Master Security Agreement dated as of the date hereof by
the Company in favor of Agent (as defined below) (as further
amended, restated, modified and/or supplemented from time to time,
the “ PetroTech Master Security Agreement ”)
which amends
and restates that certain Master Security
Agreement dated as of August 21, 2008 by the Company in favor
of the Agent on behalf of PetroTech (as amended, restated, modified
and/or supplemented from time to time) and together with the
PetroTech Notes, the Promissory Note and all other guarantees,
security agreements, other agreements, instruments and documents
executed and/or delivered in connection therewith, collectively and
as the same may be amended or otherwise modified from time to time,
the “ Documents ”) between Company and LV
Administrative Services, Inc., as administrative and collateral
agent to the PetroTech (the “ Agent ” and
together with PetroTech and its assigns, the “ Creditor
Parties ”; and each a “ Creditor Party
”) and any documents, instruments or agreements relating to
or executed in connection with the Documents or any documents,
instruments or agreements referred to therein or otherwise, or any
other indebtedness, obligations or liabilities of the Company to
the Creditor Parties, whether now existing or hereafter arising,
direct or indirect, liquidated or unliquidated, absolute or
contingent, due or not due and whether under, pursuant to or
evidenced by a note, agreement, guaranty, instrument or otherwise
(all of which are herein collectively referred to as the “
Obligations ”), and irrespective of the genuineness,
validity, regularity or enforceability of such Obligations, or of
any instrument evidencing any of the Obligations or of any
collateral therefor or of the existence or extent of such
collateral, and irrespective of the allowability, allowance or
disallowance of any or all of the Obligations in any case commenced
by or against the Company under Title 11, United States Code,
including, without limitation, obligations or indebtedness of the
Company for post-petition interest, fees, costs and charges that
would have accrued or been added to the Obligations but for the
commencement of such case. Terms not otherwise defined herein shall
have the meaning assigned such terms in the Documents, as
applicable. In furtherance of the foregoing, the undersigned hereby
agrees as follows:
1. No Impairment . The
Creditor Parties may at any time and from time to time, either
before or after the maturity thereof, without notice to or further
consent of the undersigned, extend the time of payment of, exchange
or surrender any collateral for, renew or extend any of the
Obligations or increase or decrease the interest rate thereon, or
any other agreement with the Company or with any other party to or
person liable on any of the Obligations, or interested therein, for
the extension, renewal, payment, compromise, discharge or release
thereof, in whole or in part, or for any modification of the terms
thereof or of any agreement between any Creditor Party and the
Company or any such other party or person, or make any election of
rights the Creditor Parties may deem desirable under the United
States Bankruptcy Code, as amended, or any other federal or state
bankruptcy, reorganization, moratorium or insolvency law relating
to or affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights
generally (any of the foregoing, an “ Insolvency Law
”) without in any way impairing or affecting this Guaranty.
This Guaranty shall be effective regardless of the subsequent
incorporation, merger or consolidation of the Company, or any
change in the composition, nature, personnel or location of the
Company and shall extend to any successor entity to the Company,
including a debtor in possession or the like under any Insolvency
Law.
2. Guaranty Absolute .
Subject to Section 5(c) hereof, each of the undersigned
guarantees that the Obligations will be paid strictly in accordance
with the terms of the Documents and/or any other document,
instrument or agreement creating or evidencing the Obligations,
regardless of any law, regulation or order now or hereafter in
effect in any jurisdiction affecting any of such terms or the
rights of the Company with respect thereto. Guarantor hereby
knowingly accepts the full range of risk encompassed within a
contract of
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“continuing guaranty” which risk
includes the possibility that the Company will contract additional
indebtedness, obligations and liabilities for which Guarantor may
be liable hereunder after the Company’s financial condition
or ability to pay its lawful debts when they fall due has
deteriorated, whether or not the Company has properly authorized
incurring such additional indebtedness, obligations and
liabilities. The undersigned acknowledge that (i) no oral
representations, including any representations to extend credit or
provide other financial accommodations to the Company, have been
made by any Creditor Party to induce the undersigned to enter into
this Guaranty and (ii) any extension of credit to the Company
shall be governed solely by the provisions of the Documents. The
liability of the undersigned under this Guaranty shall be absolute
and unconditional, in accordance with its terms, and shall remain
in full force and effect without regard to, and shall not be
released, suspended, discharged, terminated or otherwise affected
by, any circumstance or occurrence whatsoever, including, without
limitation: (a) any waiver, indulgence, renewal, extension,
amendment or modification of or addition, consent or supplement to
or deletion from or any other action or inaction under or in
respect of the Documents or any other instruments or agreements
relating to the Obligations or any assignment or transfer of any
thereof, (b) any lack of validity or enforceability of any
Document or other documents, instruments or agreements relating to
the Obligations or any assignment or transfer of any thereof,
(c) any furnishing of any additional security to the Creditor
Parties or their assignees or any acceptance thereof or any release
of any security by the Creditor Parties or their assignees,
(d) any limitation on any party’s liability or
obligation under the Documents or any other documents, instruments
or agreements relating to the Obligations or any assignment or
transfer of any thereof or any invalidity or unenforceability, in
whole or in part, of any such document, instrument or agreement or
any term thereof, (e) any bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, composition, adjustment, dissolution, liquidation
or other like proceeding relating to the Company, or any action
taken with respect to this Guaranty by any trustee or receiver, or
by any court, in any such proceeding, whether or not the
undersigned shall have notice or knowledge of any of the foregoing,
(f) any exchange, release or nonperfection of any collateral,
or any release, or amendment or waiver of or consent to departure
from any guaranty or security, for all or any of the Obligations or
(g) any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a
defense available to, or a discharge of, the undersigned. Any
amounts due from the undersigned to the Creditor Parties shall bear
interest until such amounts are paid in full at the highest rate
then applicable to the Obligations. Obligations include
post-petition interest whether or not allowed or
allowable.
3. Waivers .
(a) This Guaranty is a guaranty of
payment and not of collection. The Creditor Parties shall be under
no obligation to institute suit, exercise rights or remedies or
take any other action against the Company or any other person or
entity liable with respect to any of the Obligations or resort to
any collateral security held by it to secure any of the Obligations
as a condition precedent to the undersigned being obligated to
perform as agreed herein and the Guarantor hereby waives any and
all rights which it may have by statute or otherwise which would
require the Creditor Parties to do any of the foregoing. The
Guarantor further consents and agrees that the Creditor Parties
shall be under no obligation to marshal any assets in favor of
Guarantor, or against or in payment of any or all of the
Obligations. The undersigned hereby waives all suretyship defenses
and any rights to interpose any defense, counterclaim or offset of
any nature and
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description which the undersigned
may have or which may exist between and among any Creditor Party,
the Company and/or the undersigned with respect to the
undersigned’s obligations under this Guaranty, or which the
Company may assert on the underlying debt, including but not
limited to failure of consideration, breach of warranty, fraud,
payment (other than cash payment in full of the Obligations),
statute of frauds, bankruptcy, infancy, statute of limitations,
accord and satisfaction, and usury.
(b) The undersigned further waives
(i) notice of the acceptance of this Guaranty, of the making
of any such loans or extensions of credit, and of all notices and
demands of any kind to which the undersigned may be entitled,
including, without limitation, notice of adverse change in the
Company’s financial condition or of any other fact which
might materially increase the risk of the undersigned and
(ii) presentment to or demand of payment from anyone
whomsoever liable