SHARE PURCHASE AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is made and entered into
effective this 27th day
of April, 2009, by and between
and among Pickford Minerals Inc., a Nevada
corporation, ("Purchaser"), Novagen Solar (Canada) Ltd., a
Canadian corporation
("Novagen"), and each of the undersigned shareholders
of Novagen (collectively
referred herein as "Shareholders").
RECITALS
A. Shareholders are the
legal and beneficial owners of 6,000,000 Common
shares without par value in the capital of Novagen, such shares
being all of the
issued and outstanding voting shares
in the capital of the Company; and
B. The Shareholders have agreed
to sell to the Purchaser and the Purchaser
has agreed to purchase from the Shareholders all of the
Shareholders' respective
legal and beneficial interests in the shares in
the capital of the Company on
the terms and conditions as
hereinafter set forth.
NOW THEREFORE in consideration of the
premises and the mutual agreements and
covenants herein contained, the
parties hereto hereby covenant and agree as
follows:
ARTICLE 1 - INTERPRETATION
1.1 DEFINED TERMS.
In this Agreement and in the schedules hereto, unless there
is something in the
subject matter or context
inconsistent therewith, the following terms
and
expressions will have the following
meanings:
"AFFILIATE" of any person means any corporation which,
directly or indirectly,
is controlled by, controls or is under direct or
indirect common control with
such person;
"ARM'S LENGTH" will have the meaning ascribed to such term
under the Income Tax
Act, S.C. 1970-71-72, c. 63
(Canada);
"FINANCIAL STATEMENTS" means the unaudited financial statements of
Novagen as at
and for the period ended March
31, 2009, consisting of a balance sheet, an
income statement, a statement of changes in financial position, and
statement of
retained earnings and deficit, a copy of which is attached hereto
as Schedule A,
all prepared in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles,
consistently applied;
"STATEMENTS DATE" means the date
of the Financial Statements;
"BUSINESS" means the business carried on by Novagen which primarily
involves the
sale of photovoltaic products;
"BUSINESS DAY" means any day other than a day which is a Saturday,
a Sunday or a
statutory holiday in Toronto, Ontario;
"CLOSING DATE" means July 10, 2009, or such other
date upon which the parties
may agree;
"CLOSING TIME" means 9:00 p.m. in Toronto, Ontario, on the
Closing Date or such
other time on the Closing Date
as the parties hereto may agree
upon;
"CONDITION" of Novagen means the
condition of the assets, liabilities,
operations, activities, earnings, prospects,
affairs or financial position of
Novagen;
"CONTROL" means, with respect to any corporation, the ownership of
more than 50%
of the voting shares of that corporation, including any
shares which are voting
only upon the occurrence of a contingency where
such contingency has occurred
and is continuing;
"ENCUMBRANCES" means mortgages, charges,
pledges, security interests, liens,
encumbrances, actions, claims, demands and equities of any
nature whatsoever or
howsoever arising and any rights or privileges
capable of becoming any of the
foregoing;
"GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES" means
the accounting principles so
described and promulgated by the Canadian
Institute of Chartered Accountants
which are applicable as at the date on which any
calculation made hereunder is
to be effective or as at
the date of any financial statements referred to
herein, as the case may be;
"INTERIM PERIOD" means the period from and including the date
of this Agreement
to and including the Closing
Date;
"LEASED PREMISES" means all premises
leased by Novagen under the Leases;
"LICENCES" means all of the licences,
registrations and qualifications to do
business held by Novagen;
"PERSON" means and includes any
individual, corporation, partnership, firm,
joint venture, syndicate, association, trust, government,
governmental agency or
board or commission or authority, and any other form of
entity or organization;
"PURCHASE PRICE" means the aggregate consideration paid by
the Purchaser to the
Shareholders for all of the
Purchased Shares, as provided herein;
"PURCHASED SHARES" means all the issued and outstanding shares in
the capital of
Novagen being sold by the Shareholders and purchased by the
Purchaser hereunder;
"WARRANTY CLAIM" means a claim made by either the Purchaser
or the Shareholders
based on or with respect to the inaccuracy or non-performance
or non-fulfilment
or breach of any representation or warranty made by the other party
contained in
this Agreement or contained in any document
or certificate given in order to
carry out the transactions
contemplated hereby.
1.2 BEST OF KNOWLEDGE.
Any reference herein to "the best of the knowledge" of the
Shareholders will be
deemed to mean the actual knowledge of the Shareholders and
the knowledge which
they would have had if they had conducted a diligent
inquiry into the relevant
subject matter.
1.3 SCHEDULES.
The schedules which are attached to this
Agreement are incorporated into this
Agreement by reference and are
deemed to be part hereof.
1.4 CURRENCY.
Unless otherwise indicated, all dollar amounts referred to in this
Agreement are
in lawful money of the United
States of America.
1.5 CHOICE OF LAW
AND ATTORNMENT.
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of
the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable
therein. The parties
agree that the courts of the
Province of Ontario will have
exclusive
jurisdiction to determine all disputes and claims
arising between the parties.
1.6 INTERPRETATION NOT
AFFECTED BY HEADINGS OR PARTY
DRAFTING.
The division of this Agreement into articles, sections,
paragraphs, subsections
and clauses and the insertion of headings are for convenience
of reference only
and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of
this Agreement. The
terms "this Agreement", "hereof", "herein", "hereunder" and
similar expressions
refer to this Agreement and the
schedules hereto and not to any particular
article, section, paragraph, clause
or other portion hereof and include any
agreement or instrument supplementary or ancillary
hereto. The parties hereto
acknowledge that their respective legal counsel have
reviewed and participated
in settling the terms of this Agreement, and the
parties hereby agree that any
rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguity is to
be resolved against
the drafting party shall not be
applicable in the interpretation of this
Agreement.
1.7 NUMBER AND GENDER.
In this Agreement, unless there is something in
the subject matter or context
inconsistent therewith:
(a) words in the singular number
include the plural and such words shall be
construed as if the plural had
been used;
(b) words in the
plural include the singular and such
words shall be
construed as if the singular
had been used, and
(c) words importing the
use of any gender shall include all genders where
the context or party referred to so requires, and the rest of the
sentence shall
be construed as if the necessary grammatical and terminological
changes had been
made.
1.8 TIME OF ESSENCE.
Time shall be of the essence
hereof.
1.9 JOINT AND SEVERAL
OBLIGATIONS.
The Shareholders' obligations hereunder
are joint and several.
ARTICLE 2 - PURCHASE AND SALE
2.1 PURCHASED SHARES.
On the terms and subject to the fulfilment of the conditions
hereof, the Vendors
will sell, assign and transfer to the Purchaser, and the Purchaser
will purchase
and accept from the Shareholders,
the Purchased Shares.
2.2 PURCHASE PRICE.
The Purchase Price payable by
the Purchaser to the Shareholders for
the
Purchased Shares will be the
aggregate of 6,000,000 fully paid
and
non-assessable voting common shares in the
capital stock of the Purchaser, at
the price of $0.01 per share
(the "Pickford Shares").
2.3 PAYMENT OF PURCHASE
PRICE.
The Purchase Price will be paid
as follows:
(1) At the Closing
Time, Purchaser shall issue one
fully paid and
non-assessable common share in the capital stock of the Purchaser
to each of the
Shareholders in exchange for each
of their shares of Novagen.
(2) Fahrinsland Capital
LLC, as one of the Shareholders, shall have
the
right, but not the obligation, to receive a convertible
debenture issued by the
Purchaser in an amount equal to the aggregate
price of the Pickford Shares to
which it is entitled hereunder
(the "Debenture"). The Debenture will
be
non-interest bearing, convertible at the rate of $0.01
per share at the option
of the holder, and substantially
in the form annexed hereto as Schedule H.
ARTICLE 3 - REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES
3.1 REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES BY THE SHAREHOLDERS.
The Shareholders hereby jointly and
severally represent and warrant to the
Purchaser as follows, and confirm
that the Purchaser is relying upon the
accuracy of each of such representations and warranties
in connection with the
purchase of the Purchased Shares and the
completion of the other transactions
hereunder:
(1) CORPORATE AUTHORITY AND BINDING
OBLIGATION. The Shareholders have good
right, full corporate power and absolute authority to enter
into this Agreement
and to sell, assign and transfer the Purchased
Shares to the Purchaser in the
manner contemplated herein and to perform all of the
Shareholders' obligations
under this Agreement. Each of Novagen and the Shareholders
and their respective
shareholders and boards of directors
have taken all necessary or desirable
actions, steps and corporate and
other proceedings to approve or authorize,
validly and effectively, the entering
into, and the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement and the sale and transfer of
the Purchased Shares
by the Shareholders to the
Purchaser. This Agreement is a legal, valid and
binding obligation of the
Shareholders, enforceable against each of them in
accordance with its terms subject
to:
(a) bankruptcy, insolvency,
moratorium, reorganization and other
laws
relating to or affecting the enforcement of
creditors' rights generally, and
(b) the fact that
equitable remedies, including the remedies of specific
performance and injunction, may only be granted
in the discretion of a court.
(2) NO OTHER PURCHASE
AGREEMENTS. No person has any agreement,
option,
understanding or commitment, or any
right or privilege (whether by law,
pre-emptive or contractual) capable
of becoming an agreement, option
or
commitment, including convertible
securities, warrants or convertible
obligations of any nature, for:
(a) the purchase,
subscription, allotment or issuance of, or
conversion
into, any of the unissued shares in the capital of Novagen or
any securities of
Novagen;
(b) the purchase from the
Shareholders of any of the Purchased Shares; or
(c) the purchase or
other acquisition from Novagen of
any of its
undertaking, property or assets,
other than in the ordinary course of the
Business.
(3) CONTRACTUAL AND
REGULATORY APPROVALS. Neither Novagen
nor the
Shareholders is under any obligation, contractual
or otherwise, to request or
obtain the consent of any person, and
no permits, licenses, certifications,
authorizations or approvals of, or notifications
to, any federal, provincial,
municipal or local government or
governmental agency, board, commission or
authority are required to be
obtained by Novagen or the
Shareholders:
(a) in connection with
the execution, delivery or
performance by the
Shareholders or Novagen of this
Agreement or the completion of any of the
transactions contemplated herein;
(b) to avoid the
loss of any permit, licence,
certification or other
authorization, or
(c) in order that the authority
of Novagen to carry on the Business in the
ordinary course and in the same manner as
presently conducted remains in good
standing and in full force and effect as of
and following the closing of the
transactions contemplated hereunder.
Complete and correct copies of
any agreements under which Novagen or the
Shareholders is obligated to request
or obtain any such consent have been
provided to the Purchaser.
(4) STATUS, CONSTATING
DOCUMENTS AND LICENCES.
(a) Novagen is a corporation duly
incorporated and validly subsisting in all
respects under the laws of Canada. Novagen is a "private company",
as defined in
the Securities Act, R.S.O. 1990,
c.S.5 (Ontario). Novagen has all necessary
corporate power to own its properties and to carry on its
business as it is now
being conducted.
(b) The articles, by-laws
and other constating documents of Novagen, as
amended to the date hereof, are
listed in Schedule B attached hereto, and
complete and correct copies of each of those
documents have been delivered to
the Purchaser.
(c) Novagen is duly licensed,
registered and qualified as a corporation to
do business, is up-to-date in the filing of all
required corporate returns and
other notices and filings and is otherwise in good standing
in all respects, in
each jurisdiction in which:
(i) it owns or
leases property, or
(ii) the nature or
conduct of its business or any part thereof, or
the
nature of the property of Novagen or any part thereof, makes
such qualification
necessary or desirable to enable the Business to be carried
on as now conducted
or to enable the property and assets of Novagen to be owned, leased
and operated
by it.
All of Novagen's Licences are listed in Schedule C attached hereto
and are valid
and subsisting. Complete and correct copies of the Licences
have been delivered
to the Purchaser. Novagen is in compliance with all terms and
conditions of the
Licences. There are no proceedings in progress, pending
or, to the best of the
knowledge of the Shareholders, threatened, which could result in
the revocation,
cancellation or suspension of any
of the Licences.
(5) COMPLIANCE WITH
CONSTATING DOCUMENTS, AGREEMENTS AND
LAWS. The
execution, delivery and performance
of this Agreement and each of the other
agreements contemplated or referred to herein by the
Shareholders and Novagen,
and the completion of the transactions contemplated hereby,
will not constitute
or result in a violation or
breach of or default under, or
cause the
acceleration of any obligations of
Novagen under:
(a) any term or
provision of any of the
articles, by-laws or other
constating documents of Novagen;
(b) the terms of any agreement
(written or oral), indenture, instrument or
understanding or other obligation or restriction
to which the Novagen or the
Shareholders is a party or by
which either of them is bound;
or
(c) any term or provision of any of
the Licences or any order of any court,
governmental authority or regulatory
body or any law or regulation of any
jurisdiction in which the Business
is carried on.
(6) CORPORATE RECORDS.
The corporate records and minute books of Novagen,
all of which have been provided to the Purchaser, contain
complete and accurate
minutes of all meetings of the directors and shareholders of
Novagen held since
its incorporation, and original signed
copies of all resolutions and by-laws
duly passed or confirmed by the directors or shareholders of
Novagen other than
at a meeting. All such meetings
were duly called and held. The
share
certificate books, register of security
holders, register of transfers and
register of directors and any similar corporate records of
Novagen are complete
and accurate. All exigible security
transfer tax or similar tax payable in
connection with the transfer of any securities of
Novagen has been duly paid.
(7) AUTHORIZED AND ISSUED
CAPITAL. The authorized capital of
Novagen
consists of an unlimited number of common shares and
preferred shares, of which
6,000,000 common shares have been duly issued and are
outstanding as fully paid
and non-assessable shares. No shares or other
securities of Novagen have been
issued in violation of any laws, the articles of incorporation,
by-laws or other
constating documents of Novagen or the terms of any
shareholders' agreement or
any agreement to which Novagen
is a party or by which it is bound.
The
Shareholders own all of the issued
and outstanding shares of Novagen as the
shareholder of record and as the
beneficial owner, with good and marketable
title thereto, free and clear
of any and all Encumbrances.
(8) SHAREHOLDERS' AGREEMENTS,
ETC. There are no shareholders' agreements,
pooling agreements, voting trusts or other
similar agreements with respect to
the ownership or voting of any
of the shares of Novagen.
(9) FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
(a) The Financial Statements have been
prepared in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles, are true, correct and
complete in all material
respects and present fairly the consolidated financial
condition of Novagen as
of March 31, 2009, including the consolidated assets and
liabilities of Novagen
as of March 31, 2009, and the consolidated revenues, expenses and
results of the
operations of Novagen for the
fiscal year ended on March 31,
2009.
(b) The financial
condition of Novagen is now at least
as good as the
financial condition reflected in the
Financial Statements.
(10) FINANCIAL RECORDS. All material
financial transactions of Novagen have
been recorded in the financial books and records of
Novagen in accordance with
good business practice, and such
financial books and records:
(a) accurately reflect in all
material respects the basis for the financial
condition and the revenues, expenses and results of
operations of Novagen shown
in the Financial Statements, and
(b) together with all disclosures made in
this Agreement or in the Schedules
hereto, present fairly in all material respects the financial
condition and the
revenues, expenses and results of the
operations of Novagen as of and to the
date hereof.
No information, records or systems pertaining to the operation or
administration
of the Business are in the possession of,
recorded, stored, maintained by or
otherwise dependent upon any other
person.
(11) LIABILITIES OF
NOVAGEN. Except as listed in Schedule D, there are no
liabilities (contingent or otherwise) of
Novagen of any kind whatsoever, and
there is no basis for assertion against Novagen of any
liabilities of any kind,
other than:
(a) liabilities disclosed or
reflected in or provided for in the Financial
Statements or the Interim Financial
Statements;
(b) liabilities incurred
since the Statements Date which were incurred in
the ordinary course of the routine daily
affairs of the Business and, in the
aggregate, are not materially adverse
to the Business, and
(c) other liabilities
disclosed in this Agreement or in the
schedules
attached hereto.
(12) INDEBTEDNESS. Except as
disclosed in the Financial Statements, Novagen
has no bonds, debentures, mortgages,
promissory notes or other indebtedness
maturing more than one year
after the date of their original creation or
issuance, and is not under any
obligation to create or issue any bonds,
debentures, mortgages, promissory notes or other indebtedness
maturing more than
one year after the date of
their original creation or issuance.
(13) ABSENCE OF CERTAIN
CHANGES OR EVENTS. Since the Statements
Date,
Novagen has not:
(a) incurred any
obligation or liability (fixed or
contingent), except
normal trade or business obligations
incurred in the ordinary course of the
Business, none of which is
materially adverse to Novagen;
(b) paid or satisfied
any obligation or liability (fixed or contingent),
except:
(i) current liabilities
included in the Financial Statements;
(ii) current liabilities incurred
since the Statements Date in the ordinary
course of the Business, and
(iii) scheduled payments
pursuant to obligations under loan agreements or
other contracts or commitments described in this
Agreement or in the schedules
hereto.
(c) created any Encumbrance upon any
of its properties or assets, except as
described in this Agreement or
in the schedules hereto;
(d) sold, assigned, transferred,
leased or otherwise disposed of any of its
properties or assets, except in
the ordinary course of the
Business;
(e) purchased, leased or otherwise acquired
any properties or assets, except
in the ordinary course of the
Business;
(f) waived, cancelled or written-off any
rights, claims, accounts receivable
or any amounts payable to
Novagen, except in the ordinary course of
the
Business;
(g) entered into any transaction,
contract, agreement or commitment, except
in the ordinary course of the
Business;
(h) terminated, discontinued,
closed or disposed of any plant, facility or
business operation;
(i) had any supplier terminate,
or communicate to Novagen the intention or
threat to terminate its relationship
with Novagen, or the intention to
substantially reduce the quantity of products or
services it sells to Novagen,
except in the case of suppliers
whose sales to Novagen are not, in the
aggregate, material to the Business
or the Condition of Novagen;
(j) had any customer terminate,
or communicate to Novagen the intention or
threat to terminate, its relationship
with Novagen, or the intention to
substantially reduce the quantity of
products or services it purchases from
Novagen, or its dissatisfaction with the products or
services sold by Novagen,
except in the case of customers whose
purchases from Novagen are not, in the
aggregate, material to the Business
or the Condition of Novagen;
(k) made any material
change in the method of billing customers or
the
credit terms made available by
Novagen to its customers;
(l) made any material
change with respect to any method of
management,
operation or accounting in respect
of the Business;
(m) suffered any damage,
destruction or loss (whether or not covered by
insurance) which has materially adversely affected or could
materially adversely
affect the Business or the
Condition of Novagen;
(n) increased any form
of compensation or other benefits payable or
to
become payable to any of the employees of Novagen, except
increases made in the
ordinary course of the Business
which do not exceed five per cent, in the
aggregate, of the amount of the aggregate salary compensation
payable to all of
Novagen's employees prior to such
increase;
(o) suffered any
extraordinary loss relating to the
Business;
(p) made or incurred any material change
in, or become aware of any event or
condition which is likely to result in a material change in, the
Business or the
Condition of Novagen or its
relationships with its customers, suppliers or
employees, or
(q) authorized, agreed or
otherwise become committed to do any of
the
foregoing.
(14) COMMITMENTS FOR CAPITAL
EXPENDITURES. Novagen is not committed to make
any capital expenditures, nor have any capital
expenditures been authorized by
Novagen at any time since the Statements Date, except
for capital expenditures
made in the ordinary course of the routine daily affairs of
the Business which,
in the aggregate, do not exceed
$1,000.
(15) DIVIDENDS AND
DISTRIBUTIONS. Since the Statements Date, Novagen
has
not declared or paid any dividend or made any other
distribution on any of its
shares of any class, or redeemed or purchased or
otherwise acquired any of its
shares of any class, or reduced its
authorized capital or issued capital, or
agreed to any of the foregoing.
(16) TAX MATTERS.
(a) For purposes of this
Agreement, the term "Governmental Charges" means
and includes all taxes, customs
duties, rates, levies, assessments,
reassessments and other charges, together with all penalties,
interest and fines
with respect thereto, payable to any federal,
provincial, municipal, local or
other government or governmental agency, authority, board, bureau
or commission,
domestic or foreign.
(b) Novagen has duly
and on a timely basis prepared and filed
all tax
returns and other documents required
to be filed by it in respect of all
Governmental Charges and such returns and
documents are complete and correct.
Complete and correct copies of all such
returns and other documents filed in
respect of the three fiscal years of
Novagen ending prior to the date hereof
have been provided to the
Purchaser.
(c) Novagen has paid all
Governmental Charges which are due and payable by
it on or before the date hereof. Adequate
provision was made in the Financial
Statements for all Governmental Charges for the periods covered by
the Financial
Statements, respectively. Novagen has
no liability for Governmental Charges
other than those provided for in the Financial
Statements and those arising in
the ordinary course of the operation of the Business since
the Statements Date.
(d) Canadian federal and provincial
income tax assessments have been issued
to Novagen covering all past periods up to and
including the fiscal year ended
March 31, 2009. There are no
actions, suits, proceedings, investigations,
enquiries or claims now pending or made or, to the best of
the knowledge of the
Shareholders, threatened against Novagen in
respect of Governmental Charges.
(e) There are no agreements, waivers or
other arrangements providing for any
extension of time with respect to the filing of any tax return or
other document
or the payment of any Governmental
Charges by Novagen or the period for any
assessment or reassessment of Governmental
Charges. Only the fiscal years of
Novagen subsequent to March 31, 2009 remain open for reassessment
for additional
taxes.
(f) Novagen has withheld from each amount
paid or credited to any person the
amount of Governmental Charges
required to be withheld therefrom and
has
remitted such Governmental Charges to
the proper tax or other receiving
authorities within the time required
under applicable legislation.
(17) LITIGATION. There
are no actions, suits or proceedings, judicial or
administrative (whether or not
purportedly on behalf of Novagen
or the
Shareholders) pending or, to the best
of the knowledge of the Shareholders,
threatened, by or against or affecting Novagen, at law
or in equity, or before
or by any court or any federal,
provincial, municipal or other governmental
department, commission, board, bureau, agency or
instrumentality, domestic or
foreign. There are no grounds
on which any such action, suit or proceeding
might be commenced with any
reasonable likelihood of success.
(18) TITLE TO ASSETS.
Novagen is the owner of and has good and marketable
title to all of its properties and assets,
including, without limitation, all
properties and assets reflected in the Financial
Statements and all properties
and assets acquired by Novagen after the Statements Date,
free and clear of all
Encumbrances whatsoever, except for:
(a) the properties and assets
disposed of, utilized or consumed by Novagen
since the Statements Date in
the ordinary course of the
Business;
(b) the Encumbrances disclosed
or reflected in the Financial Statements or
the Interim Financial Statements; and
(c) liens for taxes
not yet due and payable.
No other person owns any assets which are being used in the
Business, except for
the Leased Premises and personal
property leased by Novagen. There are no
agreements or commitments to purchase property or assets by
Novagen, other than
in the ordinary course of the
Business.
(20) DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS AND SAFE
DEPOSIT BOXES OF NOVAGEN. Novagen does not
have any deposit accounts or
safe deposit boxes.
(21) SUBSIDIARIES AND OTHER
INTERESTS. Novagen has no subsidiaries and does
not own any securities issued by, or any equity
or ownership interest in, any
other person. Novagen is not subject to any obligation to make any
investment in
or to provide funds by way of loan, capital
contribution or otherwise to any
person.
(22) PARTNERSHIPS OR
JOINT VENTURES. Novagen is not
a partner or
participant in any partnership, joint
venture, profit-sharing arrangement or
other association of any kind and is
not party to any agreement under which
Novagen agrees to carry on