EXECUTION COPY
COMMERCIAL TERM LOAN
AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
MBRO CAPITAL, LLC
AND
BONDS.COM GROUP,
INC.
March 31, 2009
This Commercial Term Loan
Agreement and related Disclosure Schedule have been included as an
exhibit to this Annual Report on Form 10-K pursuant to SEC
requirements and to provide investors and security holders with
information regarding their terms. It is not intended to provide
any other factual information about the Bonds.com Group, Inc. or
its subsidiaries or affiliates. The representations, warranties,
covenants and disclosures contained in the agreement and schedules
were made only for purposes of such this agreement and as of
specific dates, were solely for the benefit of the parties to this
agreement, and are subject to limitations agreed upon by the
contracting parties. The representations, warranties and
disclosures may have been made for the purposes of allocating
contractual risk between the parties to the agreement instead of
establishing these matters as facts, and may be subject to
standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that
differ from those applicable to investors. Investors are not
third-party beneficiaries under the this agreement or the
disclosures and should not rely on the representations, warranties,
covenants or disclosures as characterizations of the actual state
of facts or condition of the company, the investor or any of their
respective subsidiaries or affiliates. Moreover, information
concerning the subject matter of the representations and warranties
may change after the date of the agreement, which subsequent
information may or may not be fully reflected in the
company’s public disclosures. Accordingly, the
representations, warranties and disclosures contained in the
Commercial Term Loan Agreement and related Disclosure Schedule
should not be viewed or relied upon as statements of actual facts
or the actual state of affairs of the company or its subsidiaries
or affiliates.
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$1,000,000
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Schedule
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COMMERCIAL TERM LOAN
AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT dated March 31, 2009, among BONDS.COM GROUP,
INC., a Delaware corporation with an office at 1515 South
Federal Highway, Suite 212, Boca Raton, Florida 33432 (the “
Borrower ”) and MBRO CAPITAL, LLC , a
Connecticut limited liability company with an address at 991 Ponus
Ridge, New Canaan, Connecticut 06840 (the “ Lender
”).
Recitals
A. The
Borrower has requested that the Lender extend to the Borrower a
$1,000,000 term loan facility.
B. The
Borrower’s indebtedness under the foregoing facility will be
secured inter alia by a pledge of four million five hundred
thousand (4,500,000) shares of Common Stock of the Borrower (the
“ Shares ”) by Siesta Capital, LLC (the “
Pledgor ”) pursuant to the Pledge Agreement (as
defined herein).
C. The
Borrower and the Lender intend that the Pledgor’s pledge of
the Shares set forth above will secure repayment of the Loan and
payment and performance of all indebtedness, liabilities and
obligations of the Borrower to the Lender of every kind of
description, whenever and however arising.
D. The
Borrower and the Lender agree that the representations, warranties
and covenants contained in this Agreement apply to the
Loan.
Agreement
In consideration of the Recitals, which are
incorporated by reference, the terms and conditions contained
herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are acknowledged, the Borrower and the Lender,
intending to be bound legally, agree as follows:
1.01
Defined Terms
..01
Defined Terms . As used herein the following
terms shall have the following meanings:
(a) "
Account " shall have the meaning given to it in the Uniform
Commercial Code in effect in the State of Connecticut.
(b) "
Affiliate ", as applied to any Person, means any other
Person directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries
controlling, controlled by, or under common control with, that
Person. For the purposes of this definition, "control"
(including with correlative meanings, the terms "controlling",
"controlled by" and "under common control with"), as applied to any
Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power
to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of
the Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or
by contract or otherwise.
(c) "
Agreement " means this Commercial Term Loan Agreement, as
the same from time to time may be amended, supplemented or
modified.
(d) “
Borrower’s Counsel ” means Rele & Becker
LLC.
(e) “
Business Day ” means a day in which commercial banks
settle payments in New Canaan, Connecticut.
(f) "
Change of Control " means the transfer, sale, assignment, or
pledge, in any manner whatsoever, which has the effect of
transferring fifty percent (50%) or more of the voting stock of the
Borrower to any Person who is not a member or stockholder (or an
Affiliate of such member or stockholder) of the Borrower as of the
date of this Agreement.
(g) “
Closing Date ” means March 31, 2009.
(h) “
Corporate Guarantor ” means Bonds.com Holdings,
Inc.
(i) "
Debt " of any Person means at any date, without
duplication:
(i) all
obligations of such Person for borrowed money;
(ii) all
obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds (other than
performance bonds), debentures, notes or other similar
instruments;
(iii) all
obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of
property or services;
(iv) all
Debt of others secured by a lien on any asset of such Person
whether or not such Debt is assumed by such Person; and
(vi) all
Debt of others guarantied by such Person or entity.
(j) "
Default(s) " means any of the events specified in Section
8.01 below, whether or not any requirement for the giving of
notice, the lapse of time, or both, has been satisfied.
(k) "
Dollars " and " $ " means lawful currency of the
United States of America.
(l) "
Environmental Laws " means all present and future laws,
statutes, ordinances, rules, regulations, orders, codes, licenses,
permits, decrees, judgments, directives or the equivalent of or by
any Governmental Authority relating to or addressing the protection
of the environment or human health.
(m) "
ERISA " means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974 and all rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, as
amended from time to time.
(n) "
Event(s) of Default " means any of the events specified in
Section 8.01 below, provided that any requirement for the giving of
notice, the lapse of time, or both, or any other condition, has
been satisfied.
(o) “
Financial Statements ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 5(t).
(p) "
GAAP " means generally accepted accounting principals
applied in a manner consistent with that employed in the
preparation of the financial statements described in Section 6.01
below.
(q) "
Governmental Authority " means any nation or government, any
state or other political subdivision thereof, any entity exercising
executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative
functions of or pertaining to government, and any corporation or
other entity owned or controlled (through stock or capital
ownership or otherwise) by any of the foregoing.
(r) “
Guaranty Agreements ” means (i) the Guaranty, dated as
of the date hereof, issued by Bonds.com Holdings, Inc. for the
benefit of the Lender, and (ii) the Limited Guaranty, dated as of
the date hereof, issued by the Pledgor for the benefit of the
Lender.
(s) "
Hazardous Materials " means any material or substance that,
whether by its nature or use, is now or hereafter defined as
hazardous waste, hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant
under any Environmental Laws which is toxic, explosive, corrosive,
flammable, infectious, radioactive, carcinogenic, mutagenic or
otherwise hazardous and which is now or hereafter regulated under
any Environmental Laws, or which is or contains petroleum,
gasoline, diesel fuel or another petroleum hydrocarbon
product.
(t) "
Indebtedness " means all obligations that in accordance with
GAAP should be classified as liabilities upon the Borrower’
balance sheet or to which reference should be made by footnotes
thereto other than accounts payable arising in the ordinary course
of business.
(u)
Intentionally Omitted .
(v) “
Lender’s Counsel ” means Diserio Martin
O’Connor & Castiglioni LLP.
(w) "
Lien " means any mortgage, pledge, security interest,
hypothecation, assignment, encumbrance, or other security agreement
or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever
(including, without limitation, any conditional sale or other title
retention agreement, any financing lease having substantially the
same economic effect as any of the foregoing, and the filing of any
financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code or comparable
law or any jurisdiction).
(x) "
Loan " means the term loan made by the Lender to the
Borrower hereunder.
(y) "
Loan Document(s) " means this Agreement, the Note, the
Warrant, the Pledge Agreement and all other documents or agreements
executed in connection herewith, together with any amendments,
supplements or modifications hereto or thereto.
(z) “
Material Adverse Effect ” means (i) a material adverse
effect upon the business, operations, property, profits or
financial condition of the Borrower taken as a whole or (ii) a
material impairment of the ability of the Borrower to perform their
obligations under this Agreement or of the Lender to enforce,
against the Borrower, or collect, any of the Borrower’
Obligations.
(aa) "
Maturity Date " means March 31, 2010.
(bb) "
Note " means the Commercial Term Promissory Note of even
date from the Borrower to the Lender.
(cc) "
Obligations " means and includes all loans, advances,
interest, indebtedness, liabilities, obligations, guaranties,
covenants and duties at any time owing by the Borrower to the
Lender of every kind and description, whether or not evidenced by
any note or other instrument, whether or not for the payment of
money, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or
to become due, now existing or hereafter arising, including but not
limited to the indebtedness, liabilities and obligations arising
under this Agreement, the Note and the other Loan Documents, and
all costs, expenses, fees, charges, expenses and attorneys',
paralegals' and professionals' fees incurred in connection with any
of the foregoing, or in any way connected with, involving or
related to the preservation, enforcement, protection and defense of
this Agreement, the Note, the other Loan Documents, any related
agreement, document or instrument, any Lien in favor of the Lender,
and the rights and remedies hereunder or thereunder.
(dd) "
Person " means any individual, corporation, partnership,
joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization or any other
juridical entity, or a government or state or any agency or
political subdivision thereof.
(ee) "
Plan " means any plan of a type described in Section 4021(a)
of ERISA in respect of which either Borrower is an "employer" as
defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
(ff) “
Pledge Agreement ” means the Pledge and Security
Agreement of even date between Siesta Capital, LLC and the
Lender.
(gg) "
Reportable Event " means any of the events set forth in
Section 4043(b) of ERISA or the regulations thereunder.
(hh)
" Subsidiary or Subsidiaries " of any Person means any
corporation or corporations of which the Person or one or more of
its Subsidiaries, owns, directly or indirectly, at least a majority
of the securities having ordinary voting power for the election of
directors.
(ii) “
Warrant ” means the Warrant of even date from the
Borrower to the Lender.
1.02
Accounting Terms ..02 Accounting Terms
. Except as otherwise specifically set forth in this
Agreement, each accounting term used in this Agreement shall have
the meaning given to it under GAAP. Any dispute or
disagreement between the Borrower and the Lender relating to the
determination of GAAP shall, in the absence of manifest error, be
conclusively resolved for all purposes hereof by the written
opinion with respect thereto, delivered to the Lender, of
independent Accountants selected by the Borrower and approved by
the Lender for the purposes of auditing the periodic financial
statements of the Borrower.
2.01
Loan ..02 Term Loan . Subject to the
terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, and relying upon
the representations and warranties set forth in this Agreement, the
Lender is extending to the Borrower a $1,000,000 term loan facility
as evidenced by the Commercial Term Promissory Note of this date
from the Borrower to the Lender, a copy of which is attached hereto
as Exhibit A (the " Term Note ").
(a) In
the event that, after the date hereof, any enactment of or change
in applicable law, regulation, condition, directive or
interpretation thereof (including any request, guideline or policy
whether or not having the force of law and including, without
limitation, Regulation D promulgated by the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System as now and from time to time hereafter
in effect) by any authority charged with the administration or
interpretation thereof:
(i) subjects
the Lender to a tax with respect to any Loan (other than any tax
measured by or based upon the overall net income of the Lender or
any branch or office thereof, imposed by the United States of
America or by any other jurisdiction in which the Lender is
qualified to do business or any political subdivision or taxing
authority therein); or
(ii) changes
the basis of taxation or payment to the Lender of principal of or
interest on the Loan or any commitment hereunder or any other
amounts payable hereunder (other than any tax measured by or based
upon the overall net income of the Lender or any branch or office
thereof, imposed by the United States of America or by any other
jurisdiction in which the Lender is qualified to do business or any
political subdivision or taxing authority therein); or
(iii) imposes,
modifies or deems applicable any reserve or deposit requirements
against any assets held by, deposits with or for the account of, or
loans or commitments by, an office of the Lender in connection with
payments by the Lender hereunder; or
(iv) imposes
upon the Lender any other condition with respect to any amount paid
or payable to or by the Lender pursuant to this
Agreement;
and the result
of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to the Lender of
making the payment or maintaining its commitment or to reduce the
amount of the payment receivable by the Lender hereunder or to
require the Lender to make the payment on or calculated by
reference to the gross amount of the sum received by it pursuant
hereto, in each case by an amount which the Lender in its
reasonable judgment deems material, then:
(A) the
Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower in writing of the
happening of such event;
(B) the
Lender shall promptly deliver to the Borrower a certificate stating
the change which has occurred or the reserve requirements or other
conditions which have been imposed on the Lender or the request,
direction or requirement with which it has complied, together with
the date thereof, the amount of such increased cost, reduction or
payment and the way in which such amount has been calculated;
and
(C) the
Borrower shall pay to the Lender within thirty (30) days after
delivery of the certificate referred to in clause (B) above, such
an amount or amounts as will reasonably compensate the Lender for
such additional cost, reduction or payment.
(b) No
failure on the part of the Lender to demand compensation under
subsection (a) above on any one occasion shall constitute a waiver
of its right to demand such compensation on any other occasion and
no failure on the part of the Lender to deliver any certificate in
a timely manner shall in any way reduce any obligations of the
Borrower to the Lender under this Section 2.02.
III.
INTEREST, TERMS AND FEES .
3.01
Interest Rate ..01 Interest Rate .
(a)
Note Rate . The Note shall bear, and the Borrower
promises to pay, interest on the indebtedness on the terms and
conditions set forth in the Note.
(b)
Lawful Interest . It is the intent of the parties
that the rate of interest and all other charges to the Borrower be
lawful. If for any reason the payment of a portion of
interest, fees or charges as required by this Agreement would
exceed the limit established by applicable law which a commercial
lender such as the Lender may charge to a commercial borrower such
as the Borrower, then the obligation to pay interest or charges
shall automatically be reduced to such limit and, if any amounts in
excess of such limits shall be paid, then such amounts shall be
applied to the unpaid principal amount of the Obligations of the
Borrower to the Lender or refunded so that under no circumstances
shall the interest or charges required hereunder exceed the maximum
rate allowed by law.
3.02
Term and Termination . Unless payment is accelerated as a
result of the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Loan shall be
repaid as set forth in the Note and shall be due and payable in
full on the Maturity Date.
.02
Term and Termination .
3.03
Repayments ..03 Repayments . Any
payments made by the Borrower to the Lender shall be credited first
to late charges, costs and expenses, then to accrued and unpaid
interest and then to the outstanding principal balance due in the
inverse order of maturity.
3.04
Prepayments ..04 Prepayments . The
Borrower may prepay any Loan, in whole or in part, subject to the
terms and conditions set forth in the Note.
3.05
Intentionally Omitted .
3.06
Default Interest Rate . Following an Event of
Default, and until paid in full, outstanding principal will bear
interest at a rate of five percent (5.0%) above the Note Rate as
defined in the Note or the maximum allowed by law.
3.07
Manner of Payment . Each payment and prepayment
of principal and interest shall be made in U.S. Dollars, or in
other immediately available funds.
IV.
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT .
The obligation of the Lender to enter into the
Loan is subject to the following conditions precedent:
4.01
Loan Documents . The Lender will have received on
or before the Closing Date executed originals of the following
documents, each dated as of the Closing Date, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Lender:
(b) Commercial
Term Promissory Note;
(d) Pledge
and Security Agreement;
(f) Such
other documents as the Lender or Lender’s Counsel
require.
4.02
Supporting Documents . The Lender will have
received on or before the Closing Date the following supporting
documents all in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender and
the Lender’s Counsel in their sole discretion, reasonably
exercised:
(a) Certified
copy of all corporate action taken by the Borrower and the
Corporate Guarantor to authorize the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement, the Note, the other Loan Documents,
and the borrowings to be made hereunder, together with copies of
each of the Borrower’s and Corporate Guarantor’s
Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws, all amendments thereto,
and such other papers and documents as the Lender or the
Lender’s Counsel may require;
(b) Certificate
of Good Standing for the Borrower and the Corporate Guarantor,
issued by the Secretary of State of the state in which each was
incorporated or organized and of any state in which each Borrower
is qualified to do business; and
(c) Such
other documents and information as may reasonably be required by
the Lender and the Lender’s Counsel to carry out the
transactions contemplated by the Loan.
V.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES .
The Borrower represents and warrants to the
Lender that:
(a)
Good Standing and Qualification . The Borrower
is a corporation, duly incorporated, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of its state of incorporation.
The Borrower has all requisite company power and
authority to own and operate its properties and to carry on each of
its business as presently conducted and is qualified to do business
as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction wherein the character
of the properties owned or leased by each of it therein or in which
the transaction of its business therein makes such qualification
necessary.
(b)
Corporate Authority . The Borrower has full company
power and authority to enter into and perform the obligations under
this Agreement, to make the borrowings contemplated herein, to
execute and deliver the Note and the other Loan Documents and to
incur the obligations provided for herein and therein, all of which
have been duly authorized by all necessary and proper corporate
action. No other consent or approval or the taking of
any other action in respect of members or of any public authority
is required as a condition to the validity or enforceability of
this Agreement, the Notes or any of the other Loan
Documents. The execution and delivery of this Agreement
is for valid corporate purposes and will not violate the
Borrower’s Certificate of Incorporation or
By-Laws.
(c)
Stock . The Borrower’s issued and
outstanding shares of capital stock are duly authorized, validly
issued, fully paid and non-assessable.
(d)
Binding Agreements . This Agreement constitutes, and the
Note and the other Loan Documents delivered in connection herewith
shall constitute, valid and legally binding obligations of the
Borrower, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms,
except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or
similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights
generally.
(e)
Litigation . Except as set forth on Schedule
5(e) , there are no actions, suits, proceedings or
investigations pending or, to the knowledge of the officers of the
Borrower, threatened against the Borrower before any court or
administrative agency, which either in any case or in the
aggregate, if adversely determined, would have a Material Adverse
Effect, or which question the validity of this Agreement, the Note,
or any of the other Loan Document, or any action to be taken in
connection with the transaction contemplated hereby.
(f)
No Conflicting Law or Agreements . The execution, delivery
and performance by the Borrower of this Agreement, the Note and the
other Loan Documents (i) does not violate any provision of the
Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws of the Borrower, (ii) does
not violate any order, decree or judgment, or any provision of any
statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Borrower, (iii) does
not violate or conflict with, result in a breach of or constitute
(with notice or lapse of time, or both) a default under any
shareholder agreement, stock preference agreement, mortgage,
indenture or contract to which the Borrower is a party, or by which
any of its properties are bound, and (iv) does not result in the
creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance of any
nature whatsoever upon any property or assets of the Borrower
except as contemplated herein.
(g)
Taxes
.
With respect to all taxable periods of the Borrower, the Borrower
has filed all tax returns required to be filed by it and has paid
all federal, state, municipal, franchise and other taxes shown on
such filed returns has reserved against the same, as required by
GAAP, and neither Borrower knows of any unpaid assessments against
it.
(h)
Existence of Assets and Title Thereto . The
Borrower has good and marketable title to its properties and
assets, including the properties and assets reflected in the
financial statements referred to above. These properties
and assets are not subject to any mortgage, pledge, lien, lease,
security interest, encumbrance, restriction or charge except those
permitted under the terms of this Agreement (including but
not