EXECUTION COPY
SHAREHOLDERS’
AGREEMENT
THIS SHAREHOLDERS’ AGREEMENT (“
Agreement ”), is entered into and is effective as of
November 21, 2006, by and among Motorsports & Entertainment of
Tennessee, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “
Corporation ”), and the individuals and entities who
have signed the signature page(s) to this Agreement (referred to
individually as a “ Shareholder ” and
collectively as the “ Shareholders
”).
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Corporation is authorized to issue
Fifty-Five Million (55,000,000) shares of Common Stock, par value
$0.01 per share (collectively the “ Common Stock
”).
WHEREAS, the Corporation shall issue One
Thousand (1,000) Shares to the Shareholders upon the execution of
this Agreement, and the issued and outstanding shares of Common
Stock owned by Shareholders will be owned as set forth on the stock
ledger of the Company and listed on Schedule A attached herein (the
“ Shares ”).
WHEREAS, upon execution of the Agreement, the
only issued and outstanding securities of the Corporation are the
shares of Common Stock owned by the Shareholders, as set forth on
Schedule A.
WHEREAS, the parties desire to enter into
certain agreements to set forth certain rights and obligations
among themselves and with the Corporation pertaining to the
management, direction and operation of the Corporation.
WHEREAS, the parties have agreed that, upon the
occurrence of certain events, as specified in this Agreement, that
certain Shareholders or the Corporation shall have the right or be
obligated to purchase the Shares of certain other Shareholders, and
in connection therewith that certain limitations and restrictions
should be placed upon the sale, transfer and/or encumbrance of the
Shares owned by Shareholders.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the aforesaid
premises and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties do hereby
covenant and agree as follows:
1. RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER OF SHARES.
1.1.
Restrictions
. Except as hereinafter expressly
permitted by this Agreement (in Section 2 or otherwise) and subject
to the terms hereof, no Shareholder shall, without the prior
written consent of the Board of Directors,
directly or indirectly, exchange, sell, bequeath, pledge, mortgage,
hypothecate, encumber, distribute, transfer (including any transfer
pursuant to any foreclosure, assignment or default by a Shareholder
under any financing agreement), give, assign or in any other manner
whatsoever dispose or attempt to dispose of any Shares or any
interest in Shares held by such Shareholder at any time; provided,
however, that such prohibition shall be inapplicable with respect
to purchases of Shares by the Corporation under the terms of any
restricted stock purchase or similar agreements to which the
Corporation and a Shareholder may be parties. Any transaction which
violates the provisions of this Section 1 and which does not fully
comply with the terms of this Agreement, shall be void and
ineffective. A copy of this Agreement shall be kept at the
principal place of business of the Corporation.
No Shareholder shall sell, transfer (including
any transfer pursuant to any foreclosure, assignment or the default
by any Shareholder under any financing agreement) or encumber any
Shares, unless such Shareholder first provides notice to the
Corporation of the manner and circumstances of the proposed
transfer in reasonable detail, and a written opinion of counsel to
the Corporation or other legal counsel who shall be reasonably
satisfactory to the Corporation, addressed to the Corporation and
reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the
Corporation’s counsel, to the effect that the proposed
transfer of the Shares may be effected without registration under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities
Act ”) and applicable state securities laws, or other
evidence acceptable to the Board of Directors that registration is
not necessary. No Shareholder shall transfer any Shares to any
person or entity of such person or entity or any of its Affiliates
is reasonably believed by the Board of Directors to be a competitor
of the Corporation.
1.2.
Stock Certificates
. Upon the execution of this
Agreement, the Corporation shall imprint upon each stock
certificate representing Shares the following legend:
THIS
CERTIFICATE IS SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE SHAREHOLDERS’
AGREEMENT, DATED NOVEMBER 21, 2006, BY AND AMONG THE CORPORATION
AND ITS SHAREHOLDERS NAMED THEREIN, THE ORIGINAL OF WHICH IS ON
FILE AT THE OFFICES OF THE CORPORATION.
Additionally, unless and until the Corporation
has registered its stock under applicable securities law, or
otherwise complied with applicable federal, state and/or local laws
as to the sale or transfer of securities, each stock certificate
issued or to be issued shall bear the following additional
legend:
THE SHARES
REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, AND MAY NOT BE SOLD,
TRANSFERRED, ASSIGNED, OR HYPOTHECATED IN THE ABSENCE OF AN
EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THESE SHARES FILED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR AN
OPINION OF COUNSEL REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE CORPORATION. TO
THE EFFECT THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER SUCH SECURITIES
LAWS.
The parties
hereto agree that all Shares of the Corporation not presently owned
by the Shareholders, but hereafter issued to or acquired by the
Shareholders, shall be subject to this Agreement and shall have
endorsed thereon the above legends.
2. RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL.
A Shareholder may sell or transfer all, or any
portion, of such Shareholder’s Shares to any person or entity
(the “ Transferee ”) pursuant to a bona fide,
written, all cash offer (an “ Offer ”) without
obtaining the consents set forth in this Section 2 if such transfer
complies in all respects with this Section 2 and any other transfer
requirement set forth in this Agreement. Such Shareholder (the
“ Transferring Shareholder ”) shall deliver
written notice (the “ Transfer Notice ”) to the
Corporation and the other Shareholders (the “ Remaining
Shareholders ”). The Transfer Notice shall set forth the
exact terms of the Offer and the number of Shares which the
Transferring Shareholder wishes to sell pursuant to the Offer (the
“ Offered Shares ”), together with a copy of the
Offer, and a statement of the desire of the Transferring
Shareholder to sell the Offered Shares pursuant to the terms and
conditions of the Offer. Thereafter, the Corporation, and if the
Corporation fails to act as specified in this Section 2, the
Remaining Shareholders, shall have the right and option to purchase
all, or any portion, of the Offered Shares on the terms specified
in the Offer and at the price equal the price specified in the
Offer. If the Corporation desires to exercise its option, it shall
give notice (the “ Counter Notice ”) to that
effect to the Transferring Shareholder with a copy to the Remaining
Shareholders within ten (10) days after receipt of the Transfer
Notice. Any Counter Notice which is delivered after the expiration
of such period shall be ineffective. Such Counter Notice shall set
forth a date, not later than ten (10) days from the service of the
Counter Notice, on which the Closing (as hereinafter defined) shall
be held. By delivering a Counter Notice, the Corporation shall be
deemed to have irrevocably agreed to purchase all of the Offered
Shares. The Corporation’s rights under this Section 2 shall
be assignable.
If the Corporation does not deliver a Counter
Notice within such twenty (20) days, it shall give rise to an
identical option in favor of the Remaining Shareholders to
purchase, on the terms and at the price previously available to the
Corporation, all, or any portion, of the Offered Shares. If a
Remaining Shareholder desires to exercise such Remaining
Shareholder’s option, such Remaining Shareholder shall have a
period of twenty (20) days from the expiration of the time in which
the Shareholders’ Counter Notice could have been served, to
give such Remaining Shareholder’s Counter Notice (the “
Shareholder Counter Notice ”) to the Shareholders and
the Corporation. Any Shareholder Counter Notice which is delivered
after the expiration of such period shall be ineffective. The
Shareholder Counter Notice shall set forth a date, not later than
thirty (30) days from the service of such Shareholder Counter
Notice, on which the Closing shall be held. By delivering a
Shareholder Counter Notice, a Remaining Shareholder shall be deemed
to have irrevocably agreed to purchase a pro rata number of Offered
Shares so that all Remaining Shareholders delivering a Shareholder
Counter Notice shall maintain their relative proportion of Share
ownership as among themselves. If more than one Remaining
Shareholder delivers a timely Shareholder Counter Notice, then such
Remaining Shareholders shall purchase the Offered Shares at a
Closing on the latest date specified in any such Shareholder
Counter Notice. The Remaining Shareholders may purchase all of the
Offered Shares but may not individually or together purchase less
than all of the Offered Shares.
In the event that none of the Remaining
Shareholders or the Corporation exercises his, her or its
respective option to purchase all of the Offered Shares as set
forth above or timely deliver notice of their intention to do so,
then, within sixty (60) days from the expiration of the Shareholder
Counter Notice option period, the Offered Shares may be sold,
assigned or transferred by the Transferring Shareholder in
accordance with the terms of the Offer; provided that (i) the
Shares of the Transferring Shareholder shall in the hands of the
Transferee remain subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement and (ii) the Offered Shares may not be transferred to any
person or entity that the Board of Directors in good faith deems to
be a competitor of the Corporation. If for any reason no such
transfer shall take place within such sixty (60) day period, the
Offered Shares shall remain subject to this Agreement and any
further offer or sale must be made in accordance with the
provisions of this Agreement.
Notwithstanding the terms of this Section 2,
except with the consent of the Board of Directors, no Shareholder
shall be permitted to be a Transferring Shareholder if any Common
Stock held by him, her of it is subject to a right of repurchase
under a restricted stock purchase or similar agreement between such
Shareholder and the Corporation. Notwithstanding the terms of this
Section 2, the provisions of this Section 2
shall be inapplicable with respect to any sale or transfer by any
Shareholder under Section 3 who is “tagging along” or
being “dragged along.”
3. TAG ALONG; DRAG ALONG.
3.1.
Tag Along . If any Transferring Shareholder elects to sell
such Shareholder’s Shares under Section 3 to an unaffiliated
third party and neither the Corporation nor any Remaining
Shareholder is the purchaser and such shares represent more than
fifty percent (50%) of the
Corporation’s outstanding shares, then all of the
Shareholders shall have the right and option to sell all of their
Shares which are not then subject to a right of repurchase under a
restricted stock purchase or similar agreement at the same price
per share and on the same terms on which the Transferring
Shareholder sells such Transferring Shareholder’s Shares
under this Section 3; and in such case, no Transferring Shareholder
may sell any of such Transferring Shareholder’s Shares under
this Section 3, unless all Shareholders have the right and option
to sell all of their Shares which are not then subject to a right
of repurchase under a restricted stock purchase or similar
agreement at the same price per Share and on the same terms and
conditions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the terms of this
Section 3.1 shall be inapplicable to any transfer under Section 2
to a Shareholder or the Corporation. The Transferring Shareholder
shall provide to the other Shareholders complete definitive
documentation of such a proposed sale at least twenty (20) business
days prior to any such sale; and the other Shareholders may only
exercise such right and option by delivering irrevocable and
unconditional notice of their intent to do so within ten (10)
business days prior to such sale. In any such event, all
Shareholders shall vote in favor of such transaction and enter into
all agreements necessary to effectuate the same and act in all
other respects in order to effectuate the same, and not assert any
dissenters’ or similar rights. Notwithstanding anything
herein to the contrary, in the event of a sale under this Section,
no Shareholder shall be required to provide indemnification which
(i) is not several in nature, or (ii) allows liability in excess of
the amount of net proceeds actually received by such
Shareholder.
4. INVOLUNTARY TRANSFERS.
Upon any Involuntary Transfer (as hereinafter
defined) of any Shares by any Shareholder, (i) such Shareholder
shall be deemed to have as
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