SHAREHOLDERS AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT dated December 6, 2006 is made
among Safe-com GmbH & Co. KG (“ Safe-Com
”), SELLCELL.NET (“ SellCell ”) and
Glucotel Scientific Inc. (the “Company” )
and WITNESSES THAT WHEREAS:
A. The
Company was incorporated under Nevada law on December 1, 2006;
B.
Pursuant to a technology transfer agreement
dated the 6th day of December, 2006 (the “ Technology
Transfer Agreement ”), Safe-com sold to the Company all
Technology (as described in the Technology Transfer Agreement), in
exchange for 100 Common shares in the capital of the Company;
C.
On December 6 SellCell subscribed for and was issued 100 Common
shares in the capital of the Company for the Subscription
Price;
D. SellCell
agrees to invest US$1,250,000 on the closing date of this
agreement. The Shareholders and the Company agree that
US$265,000.00 of this investment will be paid by the Company to
Safe-com in accordance with Section 3.2 of this Agreement and the
balance of the investment will be deposited in the Company’s
bank account;
E. SellCell
has agreed to invest up to an additional US$1,250,000.00 in the
Business of the Company upon the satisfaction of certain conditions
pursuant to Section 3.3 of this Agreement;
F. Safe-Com
and SellCell are the owners of all of the issued and outstanding
Shares of the Company; and
G. The
Shareholders wish to enter into this Agreement to provide for
certain matters of mutual interest with respect to the Company and
to define their respective rights and obligations with regard to
the Company,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements
set forth in this Agreement (including without limitation the
investment by SellCell as described in Section 3.3) and for other
good and valuable consideration (the receipt and sufficiency of
which are hereby acknowledged), the parties hereby agree as
follows:
1.
INTERPRETATION
1.1 Wherever
used in this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, the
following words and terms will have the respective meanings
ascribed to them as follows:
(a) “Auditors”
means the auditors of the Company from time to time or where the
Company does not have auditors, its external accountants;
(b) “Articles”
means the Articles of Incorporation of the Company as may be
amended from time to time;
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(c) “Board”
means the board of directors of the Company;
(d) “Business”
means the Business of the Company being the development and
commercialization of GlucoTel TM
, the glucose measurement device originally developed by Safe-Com,
and any other Business which the Company may engage in accordance
with this Agreement and the Articles;
(e) “Business Day”
means any day except Saturday, Sunday or statutory holidays in
British Columbia;
(f) “Company”
means Glucotel Scientific Inc.;
(g) “Control” and
the related terms “Controlling” and
“Controlled by” , where used in connection with
a corporation, means:
(i) the
right to exercise a majority of the votes which may be voted at a
general meeting of such corporation; or
(ii) the right to elect or appoint
directly or indirectly a majority of the directors of such
corporation or other persons who have the right to manage or
supervise the management of the affairs and business of the
corporation;
(h)
“Default” means an event where a
Shareholder:
(i) fails
to observe, perform or carry out any of its obligations hereunder
and such failure continues for days after the non-defaulting
Shareholder has in writing demanded that such failure be cured;
(ii) fails to take reasonable actions
to prevent or defend assiduously any action or proceeding in
relation to any of its Interest for seizure, execution or
attachment or which claims possession, sale, foreclosure, the
appointment of a receiver or receiver-manager of its assets, or
forfeiture or termination, of or against any of the Interest of the
Defaulting Shareholder and such failure continues for days after
the non-defaulting Shareholder has in writing demanded that the
same be taken or the Defaulting Shareholder fails to defend
successfully any such action or proceeding;
(iii) becomes a bankrupt or commits an
act of bankruptcy or if a receiver or a receiver-manager of his,
her or its assets is appointed or makes a proposal or an assignment
for the benefit of creditors or otherwise; or
(iv) fails to maintain in good
standing with the Registrar of Companies and such failure continues
for 10 days after the non-defaulting Shareholder has in writing
demanded that such failure be cured;
(i)
“Defaulting Shareholder” means any Shareholder
who is in Default;
(j) “Encumbrance”
means, whether or not registered or recorded, any and
all:
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(i) mortgages,
assignments of rent, liens, licenses, leases, charges, security
interests, hypothecs, and pledges whether fixed or floating against
property (whether real, personal, mixed, tangible or intangible),
or conditional sales contracts or title retention agreements or
equipment trusts or financing leases relating thereto, or any
subordination to any right or claim of others in respect
thereof;
(ii) adverse claims existing, pending
or, to the knowledge of the applicable Person, threatened;
(iii) claims, interests and estates
against or in property (whether real, personal, mixed, tangible or
intangible) including easements, rights-of-way, servitudes or other
similar rights in property granted to or reserved or taken by any
Person or any Governmental Authority;
(iv) any option or other right to
acquire, or acquire any interest in, any property; and
(v) any other security interest, lien,
charge or encumbrance of whatsoever nature and kind and whether
known or unknown;
(k)
“Governmental Authority” means any domestic or
foreign government, whether federal, provincial, state,
territorial, local, regional, municipal or other political
jurisdiction, and any agency or authority, instrumentality, court,
tribunal, board, commission, bureau, arbitrator, arbitration
tribunal or other tribunal, or any quasi-governmental or other
entity, insofar as it exercises a legislative, judicial,
regulatory, administrative, expropriation or taxing power or
function of or pertaining to government;
(l) “ Holdco ” has
the meaning ascribed to such term by Section 4.2;
(m) “ Indemnitor ”
has the meaning ascribed to such term by Section 3.6;
(n) “Interest”
means all the right, title and interest of a Shareholder in and to
any of the Shares, any Shareholder Loans and any accrued interest
thereon, any other right or claim a Shareholder may have against
the Company as a shareholder and the Shareholder’s Interest
in and to this Agreement;
(o) “ notice ” has
the meaning ascribed to such term by Section 9.1;
(p) “Person” means
an individual, corporation, limited liability company, firm,
unincorporated organization, general or limited partnership, joint
venture, trust, Governmental Authority or other entity or
organization, whether or not recognized as a legal entity;
(q) “Prime Rate”
means that certain annual variable rate of interest published or
declared by the Company’s main bank, or such other bank as
may be appointed by the Shareholders from time to time as the
Company’s main bank from time to
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time, at its main
branch in Las Vegas which is used to determine the interest rate it
will charge for United States dollar loans made in the United
States, and is designated by the Company’s main bank, or such
other bank as may be appointed by the Shareholders from time to
time as the Company’s main bank, as its Prime Rate;
(r) “Pro Rata”
means in accordance with the percentage Share ownership of each
Shareholder determined by dividing the number of Shares held by
each Shareholder respectively, by the total number of Shares held
by all Shareholders;
(s) “ Safe-Com ”
means Safe-com GmbH & Co. KG;
(t) “ SellCell ”
means SELLCELL.NET;
(u) “Shareholders”
, at any time, means the Persons who are, at that time, the
registered owners of one or more Shares as indicated in the
Company’s central securities register and have become a party
to this Agreement, and “ Shareholder ” means any
one of them;
(v) “Shareholder
Loans” means at the relevant time any amounts advanced by
a Shareholder together with any accrued but unpaid interest on an
amount to the Company and which remains outstanding at such
time;
(w) “Shares” means
the shares set out in Schedule A, together with all Shares
issued by the Company in exchange or substitution therefor or in
addition thereto;
(x) “ Subscription Price
” means US$1,250,000.00;
(y) “Subsidiary”
means a corporation that a parent corporation Controls;
(z) “ Technology Transfer
Agreement ” has the meaning ascribed to such term by
Recital B;
(aa) “Third Party” means
any Person other than those parties to this Agreement; and
(bb) “Transfer”
includes:
(i) any
direct or indirect sale, exchange, assignment, gift, bequest,
disposition or other arrangement by which possession, legal title
or beneficial ownership passes from one Person to another, or to
the same Person in a different capacity other than a disposition by
way of Encumbrance, or
(ii) any disposition by way of option,
right or privilege capable of becoming an agreement or
option,
whether or not
voluntarily and whether or not for value, and any agreement to
effect any of the foregoing, and the words
“Transferred” ,
“Transferring” and similar words have
corresponding meanings.
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1.2 The
terms “this Agreement”, “hereof”,
“herein”, “hereby”, “hereto”,
and similar terms refer to this Agreement, including the Schedules
hereto and any amendments hereto, and not to any particular
Section, or other part of this Agreement. References to
particular Sections are to Sections of this Agreement unless
another document is specified.
1.3 Unless
otherwise provided, all dollar amounts referred to in this
Agreement are in lawful money of the United States.
1.4 All
accounting terms not defined in this Agreement will have those
meanings generally ascribed to them in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles, consistently applied.
1.5 The
headings appearing in this Agreement have been inserted for
convenience of reference only and in no way define, limit, or
enlarge the scope or meaning of the provisions of this
Agreement. All references to any party, whether a party to
this Agreement or not, will be read with such changes in number and
gender as the context or reference requires.
2.
CONDUCT OF THE AFFAIRS OF THE COMPANY
2.1 The
Shareholders will vote their Shares so that the Board will be
comprised of two directors and so that one nominee of each of the
Shareholders is a director of the Company. Subject to Section
2.2, if a position on the Board is open for any reason whatsoever,
the Shareholder whose nominee formerly occupied such position will
be entitled to nominate a new director to fill such
vacancy.
2.2 If
a Shareholder is a Defaulting Shareholder or a Shareholder’s
director nominee fails to vote and act as a director to ensure that
the Company carries out its obligations under this Agreement, then
the Shareholders will exercise their right as shareholders of the
Company in accordance with the Articles and applicable laws and
regulations to remove such Shareholder’s nominee from the
Board and, at the option of the remaining directors, will
either:
(a) appoint
or elect another individual in his or her place and such individual
need not be a nominee of the Shareholder whose director nominee was
removed in accordance with this Section 2.2; or
(b) reduce the number of directors by
one position and reduce the quorum required for a meeting of
directors by one director.
2.3 Each
Shareholder will vote or cause to be voted the Shares held or
Controlled by it so as to give full effect to the provisions of
this Agreement.
2.4 Unless
otherwise provided herein, the conduct of the affairs of the
Company will be governed in accordance with the Articles. A
quorum required for the transaction of Business at a meeting of the
Board will be two directors. If a quorum of directors is not
present at a meeting of the Board, such meeting will be adjourned
until the same time the following week and such number of directors
who attend the succeeding meeting will constitute a quorum for the
purposes of such meeting.
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2.5 The
officers will hold office at the pleasure of the directors.
2.6 The
Shareholders agree that any major decisions involving the Company
will be decided by consultation and unanimous resolution of all the
directors of the Company. Where a Shareholder is required by
law to pass a resolution to give effect to a major decision of the
directors, the Shareholders will consent to such written
resolutions or vote their Shares in favor of such resolution in
meetings of shareholders, as the case may be, to give effect to the
decision of the directors on such major decisions. For the purposes
of this Section 2.6, major decisions are:
(a) the
winding up or liquidation of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries;
(b) the
Transfer or other disposition of the undertaking of the Company, or
any substantial part thereof, or any of its Subsidiaries;
(c) any increase or reduction
in the authorized share structure or the issued capital of the
Company;
(d) the consolidation, merger or
amalgamation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with any
other company, undertaking, association, partnership or entity;
(e) the approval of the
Company’s budget, a review of which will undertaken on a
quarterly basis;
(f) any material deviation from the
Company’s budget;
(g) any single capital expenditure of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which is not included in the
Company’s budget in excess of US$6,250.00;
(h) any borrowing in excess of
US$10,000.00 by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(i) any loan in excess of US$10,000.00
by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any Person;
(j) any transaction out of the
ordinary course of the Business of the Company;
(k) any contract, or amendment
thereof, between the Company and any Shareholder or the spouse
and/or children of such Shareholder and any other Person with whom
the Shareholder does not deal with at “arm’s
length” as that term is defined by applicable laws and
regulations;
(l) any agreement by the Company which
restricts or purports to restrict, or which permits any other party
to accelerate or demand the payment of any indebtedness of the
Company upon, the sale, Transfer or other disposition by a
Shareholder of any of its Interest;
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(m) the
requirement of any further capital contributions from the
Shareholders beyond those set out in Section 3.1;
(n) the
requirement of any Shareholder Loans pursuant to
Section 3.4 ;
(o) the appointment and
removal of Auditors;
(p) any material change in the
Business;
(q) the creation of a Subsidiary;
(r) any payment to the Shareholders,
except as otherwise provided for in this Agreement; and
(s) any other decision as may be
designated as a major decision by the Shareholders by special
resolution from time to time,
provided that nothing in this
Section 2.6 will be construed so as to fetter the
discretion of the Board or require any director to act in a
particular manner with respect to any of the foregoing matters.
2.7 The
Shareholders will cause the Company to keep complete and accurate
books of account and other records of the Company showing assets,
liabilities, costs, expenditures, receipts, profits and losses of
the Company, all in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles, consistently applied, which books and records will
include and provide such other matters as the Shareholders may
determine or as the Auditors may deem reason
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