Exhibit
4.6
SECURITY
AGREEMENT
THIS SECURITY AGREEMENT
(the “ Agreement
”), is entered into and made
effective as of January 5, 2006, by and between IGNIS
PETROLEUM GROUP, INC., a Nevada corporation (the “
Company ”), and the BUYER(S) listed
on Schedule I attached to the Securities Purchase Agreement dated
the date hereof (the “ Secured
Party ”).
WHEREAS, the Company shall issue and sell to the Secured
Party, as provided in the Securities Purchase Agreement of even
date herewith between the Company and the Secured Party (the
“ Securities Purchase Agreement ”), and the
Secured Party shall purchase up to Five Million Dollars
($5,000,000) of secured convertible debentures (the “
Convertible Debentures ”), which shall be convertible
into shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001
(the “ Common Stock ”) (as converted, the
“ Conversion Shares ”) in the respective amounts
set forth opposite each Buyer(s) name on Schedule I attached to the
Securities Purchase Agreement;
WHEREAS, to induce the Secured Party to enter into the
transaction contemplated by the Securities Purchase Agreement, the
Convertible Debentures, the Investor Registration Rights Agreement
of even date herewith between the Company and the Secured Party
(the “ Investor Registration Rights Agreement
”), the Pledge and Escrow Agreement of even date herewith
among the Company, the Secured Party and David Gonzalez, Esq. (the
“ Pledge Agreement ”), the Escrow Agreement of
even date herewith among the Company, the Secured Party, and David
Gonzalez, Esq. (the “ Escrow Agreement ”), and
the Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions among the Company, the
Secured Party, Transfer Agent, and David Gonzalez, Esq. (the
“ Transfer Agent Instructions ”) (collectively
referred to as the “ Transaction Documents ”),
the Company hereby grants to the Secured Party a security interest
in and to the pledged property identified on Exhibit A
hereto (collectively referred to as the “ Pledged
Property ”) until the satisfaction of the Obligations, as
defined herein below.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and the mutual
covenants herein contained, and for other good and valuable
consideration, the adequacy and receipt of which are hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as
follows:
ARTICLE
1.
DEFINITIONS AND
INTERPRETATIONS
The above recitals are true and correct and are
incorporated herein, in their entirety, by this
reference.
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Section
1.2.
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Interpretations .
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Nothing herein expressed or implied is intended
or shall be construed to confer upon any person other than the
Secured Party any right, remedy or claim under or by reason
hereof.
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Section
1.3.
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Obligations
Secured .
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The obligations secured hereby are any and all
obligations of the Company now existing or hereinafter incurred to
the Secured Party, whether oral or written and whether arising
before, on or after the date hereof including, without limitation,
those obligations of the Company to the Secured Party under this
Agreement, the Transaction Documents, and any other amounts now or
hereafter owed to the Secured Party by the Company thereunder or
hereunder (collectively, the “ Obligations
”).
ARTICLE
2.
PLEDGED PROPERTY,
ADMINISTRATION OF COLLATERAL
AND TERMINATION OF
SECURITY INTEREST
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Section
2.1.
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Pledged
Property .
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(a) Company hereby
pledges to the Secured Party, and creates in the Secured Party for
its benefit, a security interest for such time until the
Obligations are paid in full, in and to all of the property of the
Company as set forth in Exhibit “A” attached
hereto and the products thereof and the proceeds of all such items
(collectively, the “ Pledged Property
”):
(b) Simultaneously
with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Company
shall make, execute, acknowledge, file, record and deliver to the
Secured Party any documents reasonably requested by the Secured
Party to perfect its security interest in the Pledged Property.
Simultaneously with the execution and delivery of this Agreement,
the Company shall make, execute, acknowledge and deliver to the
Secured Party such documents and instruments, including, without
limitation, financing statements, certificates, affidavits and
forms as may, in the Secured Party’s reasonable judgment, be
necessary to effectuate, complete or perfect, or to continue and
preserve, the security interest of the Secured Party in the Pledged
Property, and the Secured Party shall hold such documents and
instruments as secured party, subject to the terms and conditions
contained herein.
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Section
2.2.
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Rights;
Interests; Etc.
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(a) So long as no
Event of Default (as hereinafter defined) shall have occurred and
be continuing:
(i) the Company shall
be entitled to exercise any and all rights pertaining to the
Pledged Property or any part thereof for any purpose not
inconsistent with the terms hereof; and
(ii) the Company shall be
entitled to receive and retain any and all payments paid or made in
respect of the Pledged Property.
(b) Upon the
occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of
Default:
(i) All rights of the
Company to exercise the rights which it would otherwise be entitled
to exercise pursuant to Section 2.2(a)(i) hereof and to receive
payments which it would otherwise be authorized to receive and
retain pursuant to Section 2.2(a)(ii) hereof shall be suspended,
and all such rights shall thereupon become vested in the Secured
Party who shall thereupon have the sole right to exercise such
rights and to receive and hold as Pledged Property such payments;
provided, however , that if the Secured Party shall become
entitled and shall elect to exercise its right to realize on the
Pledged Property pursuant to Article 5 hereof, then all cash sums
received by the Secured Party, or held by Company for the benefit
of the Secured Party and paid over pursuant to Section 2.2(b)(ii)
hereof, shall be applied against any outstanding Obligations;
and
(ii) All interest, dividends,
income and other payments and distributions which are received by
the Company contrary to the provisions of Section 2.2(b)(i) hereof
shall be received in trust for the benefit of the Secured Party,
shall be segregated from other property of the Company and shall be
forthwith paid over to the Secured Party; or
(iii) The Secured Party in its
sole discretion shall be authorized to sell any or all of the
Pledged Property at public or private sale in order to recoup all
of the outstanding principal plus accrued interest owed pursuant to
the Convertible Debenture as described herein
(c) An “
Event of Default ” shall be deemed to have occurred
under this Agreement upon an Event of Default under the Convertible
Debentures.
Section 2.3. Termination of
Security Interest . Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein, upon full payment of all Obligations due to the
Secured Party under the Convertible Debentures, by repayment or
conversion in accordance with the terms of the Convertible
Debentures, this Agreement and Secured Party’s security
interest and rights in and to the Pledged Property shall terminate
and Secured Party shall cooperate with the Company to effectuate
the release of any liens created hereby. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the Company shall not formally terminate the Secured
Party’s security interest with obtaining the Secured
Party’s consent.
ARTICLE
3.
ATTORNEY-IN-FACT;
PERFORMANCE
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Section
3.1.
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Secured
Party Appointed Attorney-In-Fact .
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Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, the
Company hereby appoints the Secured Party as its attorney-in-fact,
with full authority in the place and stead of the Company and in
the name of the Company or otherwise, from time to time in the
Secured Party’s discretion to take any action and to execute
any instrument which the Secured Party may reasonably deem
necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement, including,
without limitation, to receive and collect all instruments made
payable to the Company representing any payments in respect of the
Pledged Property or any part thereof and to give full discharge for
the same. The Secured Party may demand, collect, receipt for,
settle, compromise, adjust, sue for, foreclose, or realize on the
Pledged Property as and when the Secured Party may determine. To
facilitate collection, the Secured Party may notify account debtors
and obligors on any Pledged Property to make payments directly to
the Secured Party.
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Section
3.2.
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Secured
Party May Perform .
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If the Company fails to perform any agreement
contained herein, the Secured Party, at its option, may itself
perform, or cause performance of, such agreement, and the expenses
of the Secured Party incurred in connection therewith shall be
included in the Obligations secured hereby and payable by the
Company under Section 8.3.
ARTICLE
4.
REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES
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Section
4.1.
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Authorization; Enforceability
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Each of the parties hereto represents and
warrants that it has taken all action necessary to authorize the
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the
transactions contemplated hereby; and upon execution and delivery,
this Agreement shall constitute a valid and binding obligation of
the respective party, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium and similar laws affecting
creditors’ rights or by the principles governing the
availability of equitable remedies.
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Section
4.2.
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Ownership of
Pledged Property .
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The Company warrants and represents that it is
the legal and beneficial owner of the Pledged Property free and
clear of any lien, security interest, option or other charge or
encumbrance except for the security interest created by this
Agreement.
ARTICLE
5.
DEFAULT; REMEDIES;
SUBSTITUTE COLLATERAL
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Section
5.1.
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Default and
Remedies .
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(a) If an Event of
Default occurs, then in each such case the Secured Party may
declare the Obligations to be due and payable immediately, by a
notice in writing to the Company, and upon any such declaration,
the Obligations shall become immediately due and
payable.
(b) Upon the
occurrence of an Event of Default, the Secured Party shall: (i) be
entitled to receive all distributions with respect to the Pledged
Property, (ii) to cause the Pledged Property to be transferred into
the name of the Secured Party or its nominee, (iii) to dispose of
the Pledged Property, and (iv) to realize upon any and all rights
in the Pledged Property then held by the Secured Party.
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Section
5.2.
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Method of
Realizing Upon the Pledged Property: Other Remedies
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Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, in
addition to any rights and remedies available at law or in equity,
the following provisions shall govern the Secured Party’s
right to realize upon the Pledged Property:
(a) Any item of the
Pledged Property may be sold for cash or other value in any number
of lots at brokers board, public auction or private sale and may be
sold without demand, advertisement or notice (except that the
Secured Party shall give the Company ten (10) days’ prior
written notice of the time and place or of the time after which a
private sale may be made (the “ Sale Notice ”)),
which notice period is hereby agreed to be commercially reasonable.
At any sale or sales of the Pledged Property, the Company may bid
for and purchase the whole or any part of the Pledged Property and,
upon compliance with the terms of such sale, may hold, exploit and
dispose of the same without further accountability to the Secured
Party. The Company will execute and deliver, or cause to be
executed and delivered, such instruments, documents, assignments,
waivers, certificates, and affidavits and supply or cause to be
supplied such further information and take such further action as
the Secured Party reasonably shall require in connection with any
such sale.
(b) Any cash being
held by the Secured Party as Pledged Property and all cash proceeds
received by the Secured Party in respect of, sale of, collection
from, or other realization upon all or any part of the Pledged
Property shall be applied as follows:
(i) to the payment of
all amounts due the Secured Party for the expenses reimbursable to
it hereunder or owed to it pursuant to Section 8.3
hereof;
(ii) to the payment of the
Obligations then due and unpaid.
(iii) the balance, if any, to
the person or persons entitled thereto, including, without
limitation, the Company.
(c) In addition to all
of the rights and remedies which the Secured Party may have
pursuant to this Agreement, the Secured Party shall have all of the
rights and remedies provided by law, including, without limitation,
those under the Uniform Commercial Code.
(i) If the Company
fails to pay such amounts due upon the occurrence of an Event of
Default which is continuing, then the Secured Party may institute a
judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and
unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree
and may enforce the same against the Company and collect the monies
adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out
of the property of Company, wherever situated.
(ii) The Company agrees that
it shall be liable for any reasonable fees, expenses and costs
incurred by the Secured Party in connection with enforcement,
collection and preservation of the Transaction Documents,
including, without limitation, reasonable legal fees and expenses,
and such amounts shall be deemed included as Obligations secured
hereby and payable as set forth in Section 8.3 hereof.
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Section
5.3.
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Proofs of
Claim .
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In case of the pendency of any receivership,
insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relating to
the Company or the property of the Company or of such other obligor
or its creditors, the Secured Party (irrespective of whether the
Obligations shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or
by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Secured
Party shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment of
the Obligations), subject to the rights of Previous Security
Holders, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
proceeding or otherwise:
(i) to file and prove
a claim for the whole amount of the Obligations and to file such
other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order
to have the claims of the Secured Party (including any claim for
the reasonable legal fees and expenses and other expenses paid or
incurred by the Secured Party permitted hereunder and of the
Secured Party allowed in such judicial proceeding), and
(ii) to collect and receive
any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such
claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver,
assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar
official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by
the Secured Party to make such payments to the Secured Party and,
in the event that the Secured Party shall consent to the making of
such payments directed to the Secured Party, to pay to the Secured
Party any amounts for expenses due it hereunder.
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Section
5.4.
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Duties
Regarding Pledged Property .
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The Secured Party shall have no duty as to the
collection or protection of the Pledged Property or any income
thereon or as to the preservation of any rights pertaining thereto,
beyond the safe custody and reasonable care of any of the Pledged
Property actually in the Secured Party’s
possession.
ARTICLE
6.
AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS
The Company covenants and agrees that, from the
date hereof and until the Obligations have been fully paid and
satisfied, unless the Secured Party shall consent otherwise in
writing (as provided in Section 8.4 hereof):
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Section
6.1.
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Existence,
Properties, Etc.
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(a) The Company shall
do, or cause to be done, all things, or proceed with due diligence
with any actions or courses of action, that may be reasonably
necessary (i) to maintain Company’s due organization, valid
existence and good standing under the laws of its state of
incorporation, and (ii) to preserve and keep in full force and
effect all qualifications, licenses and registrations in
thos