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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

 

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): November 29, 2023

 

ATLAS LITHIUM CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Nevada   001-41552   39-2078861

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

 

Rua Buenos Aires, 10 – 14th Floor

Sion, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 30.315-570

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

 

(833) 661-7900

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
   
Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
   
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
   
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c)

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of Each Class   Trading Symbol(s)   Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered
Common Stock, $0.001 par value   ATLX   The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter). Emerging growth company ☐

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

 

 

 

     

 

Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

Registered Offering

 

Atlas Lithium Corporation (the “Company”) entered into two securities purchase agreements dated November 29, 2023 (the “Purchase Agreements”), with certain accredited investors (the “Investors”) pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell and issue 167,954 shares of its common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Registered Shares”) to each Investor in a registered direct offering (the “Registered Offering”) at a purchase price of $29.77 per share. The proceeds from the Registered Offering are expected to be $10,000,000.00.

 

The Registered Shares were offered pursuant to a prospectus supplement dated December 1, 2023, and a base prospectus dated September 18, 2023, which is part of a registration statement (“Registration Statement”) on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-274223) that was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on September 18, 2023. Copies of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the Registered Shares may be obtained for free by visiting the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

 

The Purchase Agreements are filed as Exhibit 10.1 and Exhibit 10.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and are incorporated herein and into the Registration Statement by this reference. The Company anticipates closing of the Registered Offering is expected to take place on or before December 6, 2023.

 

The Investors in the Registered Offering were also the Buyers under the Offtake Agreements, as further discussed in this Current Report on Form 8-K.

 

This Current Report on Form 8-K does not constitute an offer to sell any securities or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of any securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

 

Offtake and Sales Agreements

 

On November 29, 2023, the Company (hereinafter the “Seller”) entered into Offtake and Sales Agreements (the “Offtake Agreements”) with each of Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group Co., Ltd. and Sheng Wei Zhi Yuan International Limited. a subsidiary of Shenzhen Chengxin Lithium Group Co., Ltd. (each individually, a “Buyer”), pursuant to which the Seller agreed, for a period of five (5) years, to sell to each Buyer 60,000 dry metric tonnes of lithium concentrate (the “Product”) per year, subject to Seller’s authority to increase or decrease such quantity by up to ten percent (10%) each year. The price for the Product is determined according to a formula as set forth in the Offtake Agreements.

 

Each Buyer agreed to pre-pay to Seller $20.0 million (each, a “Pre-Payment Amount”) for future deliveries of the Product after Seller obtains customary licenses. Each Pre-Payment Amount will be used to offset against such Buyer’s future payment obligations for the Product.

 

The Offtake Agreements are terminable (i) by Seller in the event of a change in control of Seller during the term of such agreements, or (ii) by the non-defaulting party in an event of default under such agreements.

 

The foregoing description of the terms of the Offtake Agreements does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Offtake Agreements, which are attached to this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 10.3 and Exhibit 10.4 and are incorporated herein and into the Registration Statement by reference. Unless the context otherwise indicates, references to the “Company” are to Atlas Lithium Corporation and/or its subsidiaries.

 

 

 

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit No.

  Description
10.1†   Securities Purchase Agreement dated November 29, 2023, by and between the Company and Chengyi Lithium International Limited
10.2†   Securities Purchase Agreement dated November 29, 2023, by and between the Company and Yahua International Investment and Development Co., Ltd.
10.3†   Offtake and Sales Agreement dated November 29, 2023, by and between the Company and Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group Co., Ltd.
10.4†   Offtake and Sales Agreement dated November 29, 2023, by and between the Company and Sheng Wei Zhi Yuan International Limited
104   Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded with the Inline XRBL document)

 

† Certain portions of the exhibit have been omitted in accordance with Item 601(b)(10)(iv) of Regulation S-K. The Company agrees to furnish on a supplemental basis an unredacted copy of the exhibit and its materiality and privacy or confidentiality analyses to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon its request.

 

     

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

  ATLAS LITHIUM CORPORATION
     
Dated: December 1, 2023 By: /s/ Marc Fogassa
  Name: Marc Fogassa
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

     

 

EX-10.1 2 ex10-1.htm

 

Exhibit 10.1

 

CERTAIN INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENT, MARKED BY [●], HAS BEEN OMITTED BECAUSE IT IS BOTH NOT MATERIAL AND IS THE TYPE THAT THE REGISTRANT TREATS AS PRIVATE OR CONFIDENTIAL.

 

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

This Securities Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated as of November 29, 2023 between ATLAS LITHIUM CORPORATION, a publicly traded company listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market (NASDAQ: ATLX) (the “Company”), and CHENGYI LITHIUM INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (the “Purchaser”).

 

WHEREAS the Company is seeking to develop a lithium project in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil (the “Project”), from which it or its Affiliates will produce lithium spodumene concentrate (the “Product”);

 

WHEREAS the Purchaser desires to purchase the Product from the Company, and the Company has the intention to sell the Product to a Person (as defined below) interested in investing into the Project;

 

WHEREAS, in attention to the above, the Purchaser has agreed to invest in the Company the Subscription Amount (as defined below), pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, being such undertaking a material inducement for the Company entering into a certain Offtake and Sales Agreement with the Purchaser, which is being executed concurrently with this Agreement (the “Offtake Agreement”); and

 

WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act (as defined below), the Company desires to issue and sell to the Purchaser, and the Purchaser, desires to purchase from the Company, securities of the Company as more fully described in this Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and the Purchaser agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS

 

1.1 Definitions. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, for all purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings set forth in this Section 1.1:

 

“Affiliate” means any Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person as such terms are used in and construed under Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

 

“Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company.

 

“Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in The City of New York are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided, however, for clarification, commercial banks shall not be deemed to be authorized or required by law to remain closed due to “stay at home”, “shelter-in-place”, “non-essential employee” or any other similar orders or restrictions or the closure of any physical branch locations at the direction of any governmental authority so long as the electronic funds transfer systems (including for wire transfers) of commercial banks in The City of New York generally are open for use by customers on such day.

 

 

 

“Closing” means the closing of the purchase and sale of the Shares pursuant to Section 2.1.

 

“Closing Date” means the Trading Day on which all of the Transaction Documents have been executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto, and all conditions precedent to (i) the Purchaser’s obligations to pay the Subscription Amount and (ii) the Company’s obligations to deliver the Shares, in each case, have been satisfied or waived, but in no event later than the [●] Trading Day following the date hereof.

 

“Commission” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

“Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share, and any other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or changed.

 

“Common Stock Equivalents” means any securities of the Company which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock, including, without limitation, preferred stock, or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Common Stock.

 

“Company Counsel” means DLA Piper LLP (US), with offices located at 500 Eighth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20004.

 

“Disclosure Time” means, (i) if this Agreement is signed on a day that is not a Trading Day or after 9:00 a.m. (New York City time) and before midnight (New York City time) on any Trading Day, 9:01 a.m. (New York City time) on the Trading Day immediately following the date hereof, and (ii) if this Agreement is signed between midnight (New York City time) and 9:00 a.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, no later than 9:01 a.m. (New York City time) on the date hereof.

 

“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

“Liens” means a lien, charge, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, right of first refusal, preemptive right or other restriction.

 

“Material Adverse Effect” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(a).

 

“Nasdaq” means the Nasdaq Capital Markets.

 

“Per Share Purchase Price” equals $29.77, subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement.

 

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“Person” means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind.

 

“Proceeding” means an action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding.

 

“Prospectus” means the final prospectus filed for the Registration Statement.

 

“Prospectus Supplement” means the supplement to the Prospectus complying with Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act that is filed with the Commission and delivered by the Company to each Purchaser at the Closing.

 

“Registration Statement” means the effective registration statement on Form S-3 with Commission file No. 333-274223 which registers the sale of the Shares to the Purchasers.

 

“Required Approvals” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(d).

 

“Rule 144” means Rule 144 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Rule.

 

“Rule 424” means Rule 424 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Rule.

 

“SEC Reports” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(g).

 

“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

“Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issued or issuable to the Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement.

 

“Short Sales” means all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act (but shall not be deemed to include locating and/or borrowing shares of Common Stock).

 

“Stock Incentive Plan” means the Company’s 2023 Stock Incentive Plan as duly adopted by the Board of Directors and approved by a majority of the voting power of the Company’s issued and outstanding voting capital stock pursuant to which consultants, employees, officers or directors of the Company have been or may be granted from time to time shares of Common Stock, options and/or other securities of the Company exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into shares of Common Stock for services rendered to the Company.

 

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“Subscription Amount” means, as to the Purchaser, the aggregate amount to be paid for Shares purchased hereunder, in United States dollars and in immediately available funds. The Subscription Amount shall be equivalent to USD 5,000,000.

 

“Trading Day” means a day on which the principal Trading Market is open for trading.

 

“Trading Market” means any of the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE American, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange, OTCQB or OTCQX (or any successors to any of the foregoing).

 

“Transaction Documents” means this Agreement and all exhibits and schedules thereto and hereto and any other documents or agreements executed concurrently with or in connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder.

 

“Transfer Agent” means VStock Transfer, LLC, the current transfer agent of the Company, with a mailing address of 18 Lafayette Place, Woodmere, NY 11598, and any successor transfer agent of the Company.

 

ARTICLE II. PURCHASE AND SALE

 

2.1 Closing. On the Closing Date, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, the Company agrees to sell, and the Purchaser agrees to purchase, an aggregate of $5,000,000 of Shares. The Purchaser’s Subscription Amount shall be delivered by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account nominated by the Company pursuant to Section 2.2(a)(ii) below. The Company shall deliver to the Purchaser the Shares as determined pursuant to Section 2.2(a), and the Company and the Purchaser shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.2 deliverable at the Closing. The Company shall issue the Shares and cause the Shares to be delivered by the Transfer Agent to a designee of the Purchaser via DWAC (as defined below). Upon satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set forth in Sections 2.2 and 2.3, the Closing shall occur virtually at the offices of the Company Counsel or such other location as the parties shall mutually agree. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Purchaser, through, and including the time immediately prior to, and during, the Closing (the “Pre-Settlement Period”), shall not be entitled to sell to any Person all, or any portion, of any Shares to be issued hereunder to the Purchaser at the Closing (collectively, the “Pre-Settlement Shares”).

 

2.2 Deliveries.

 

(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Purchaser the following:

 

(i) this Agreement duly executed by the Company;

 

(ii) the Company’s wire instructions, on Company letterhead and executed by the Chief Executive Officer or Chief Financial Officer;

 

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(iii) provided that the condition in Section 2.2(b), items (i) and (ii), were fulfilled, a copy of the irrevocable instructions to the Transfer Agent instructing the Transfer Agent to deliver on an expedited basis via The Depository Trust Company Deposit or Withdrawal at Custodian system (“DWAC”) Shares equal to the Purchaser’s Subscription Amount divided by the Per Share Purchase Price, registered in the name of the Purchaser or the Purchaser’s designee; and

 

(iv) the Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement (which may be delivered in accordance with Rule 172 under the Securities Act).

 

(b) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Purchaser shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Company the following:

 

(i) this Agreement duly executed by the Purchaser; and

 

(ii) the Purchaser’s Subscription Amount, which shall be delivered by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Company’s bank account set forth on the Company’s wire transfer instructions referenced in Section 2.2(a)(ii) above.

 

2.3 Closing Conditions.

 

(a) The obligations of the Company hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:

 

(i) the accuracy in all material respects (or, to the extent representations or warranties are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, in all respects) when made and on the Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Purchaser contained herein (unless as of a specific date therein in which case they shall be accurate as of such date);

 

(ii) all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Purchaser required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed; and

 

(iii) the delivery by the Purchaser of the items set forth in Section 2.2(b) of this Agreement.

 

(b) The respective obligations of the Purchaser hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:

 

(i) the accuracy in all material respects (or, to the extent representations or warranties are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, in all respects) when made and on the Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein (unless as of a specific date therein in which case they shall be accurate as of such date);

 

(ii) all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Company required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed;

 

(iii) the delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section 2.2(a) of this Agreement;

 

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(iv) there shall have been no Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company since the date hereof; and

 

(v) from the date hereof to the Closing Date, trading in the Common Stock shall not have been suspended by the Commission or the Company’s principal Trading Market, and, at any time prior to the Closing Date, trading in securities generally as reported by Bloomberg L.P. shall not have been suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall not have been established on securities whose trades are reported by such service, or on any Trading Market, nor shall a banking moratorium have been declared either by the United States or New York State authorities nor shall there have occurred any material outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or international calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any material adverse change in, any financial market which, in each case, in the reasonable judgment of the Purchaser, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Shares at the Closing.

 

ARTICLE III. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

3.1 Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company hereby makes the following representations and warranties to the Purchaser as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date:

 

(a) Organization and Qualification. The Company is an entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, with the requisite power and authority to own and use its properties and assets and to carry on its business as currently conducted. The Company is neither in violation nor default of any of the provisions of its respective certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents. The Company is duly qualified to conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other entity in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property owned by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, could not have or reasonably be expected to result in: (i) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document, (ii) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, or business of the Company, or (iii) a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to perform in any material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any Transaction Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Material Adverse Effect”).

 

(b) Authorization; Enforcement. The Company has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Company and no further action is required by the Company, the Board of Directors or the Company’s stockholders in connection herewith or therewith other than in connection with the Required Approvals. This Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which it is a party has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by the Company and, when delivered in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, will constitute the valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.

 

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(c) No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, the issuance and sale of the Shares and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do not and will not (i) conflict with or violate any provision of the Company’s certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents, or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of the Company, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, anti-dilution or similar adjustments, acceleration or cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing a Company debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which the Company is a party or by which any property or asset of the Company is bound or affected, or (iii) subject to the Required Approvals, conflict with or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment, injunction, decree or other restriction of any court or governmental authority to which the Company is subject (including federal and state securities laws and regulations), or by which any property or asset of the Company is bound or affected; except in the case of each of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(d) Filings, Consents and Approvals. The Company is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other governmental authority or other Person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, other than any notices required to be filed with Nasdaq in connection with the issuance of the Shares and: (i) the filings required pursuant to Section 4.4 of this Agreement, (ii) the filing with the Commission of the Prospectus Supplement, and (iii) such filings as are required to be made under applicable federal and state securities laws (collectively, the “Required Approvals”).

 

(e) Issuance of the Shares. The Shares are duly authorized and, when issued and paid for in accordance with the applicable Transaction Documents, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company. The Company has reserved from its duly authorized capital stock the maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to this Agreement. The Company has prepared and filed the Registration Statement in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act, which became effective on September 18, 2023 (the “Effective Date”), including the Prospectus, and such amendments and supplements thereto as may have been required to the date of this Agreement. The Registration Statement is effective under the Securities Act and no stop order preventing or suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or suspending or preventing the use of the Prospectus has been issued by the Commission and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, are threatened by the Commission. The Company, if required by the rules and regulations of the Commission, shall file the Prospectus with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b). At the time the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto became effective, at the date of this Agreement and at the Closing Date, the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto conformed and will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, at the time the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto was issued and at the Closing Date, conformed and will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and did not and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

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(f) Capitalization. The Company has not issued any capital stock since its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act, other than pursuant to the exercise of employee stock options and/or the issuance of shares of Common Stock to qualified participants pursuant to the Company’s Stock Incentive Plan and pursuant to the conversion and/or exercise of Common Stock Equivalents outstanding as of the date of the most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act. No Person has any right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to participate in the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Except pursuant to the Stock Incentive Plan, there are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or obligations convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right to subscribe for or acquire, any shares of Common Stock or contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company is or may become bound to issue additional shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents. The issuance and sale of the Shares will not obligate the Company to issue shares of Common Stock or other securities to any Person (other than the Purchaser). There are no outstanding securities or instruments of the Company with any provision that adjusts the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price of such security or instrument upon an issuance of securities by the Company. There are no outstanding securities or instruments of the Company that contain any redemption or similar provisions, and there are no contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company is or may become bound to redeem a security of the Company. All of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in compliance with all federal and state securities laws, and none of such outstanding shares was issued in violation of any preemptive rights or similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities. No further approval or authorization of any stockholder, the Board of Directors or others is required for the issuance and sale of the Shares. There are no stockholders agreements, voting agreements or other similar agreements with respect to the Company’s capital stock to which the Company is a party or, to the knowledge of the Company, between or among any of the Company’s stockholders.

 

(g) SEC Reports; Financial Statements. The Company has filed or furnished all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof, and other applicable securities laws, since January 10, 2023 (the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, together with the Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement, being collectively referred to herein as the “SEC Reports”) on a timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of filing and has filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration of any such extension. As of their respective dates, the SEC Reports complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The Company has never been an issuer subject to Rule 144(i) under the Securities Act. The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing. Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (“GAAP”), except as may be otherwise specified in such financial statements or the notes thereto and except that unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP, and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial, year-end audit adjustments.

 

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(h) Registration Rights. No Person has any right to cause the Company to effect the registration under the Securities Act of any securities of the Company.

 

(i) Listing and Maintenance Requirements. The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act, and the Company has taken no action designed to, or which to its knowledge is likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission is contemplating terminating such registration. The Company has not, in the twelve (12) months preceding the date hereof, received notice from any Trading Market on which the Common Stock is or has been listed or quoted to the effect that the Company is not in compliance with the listing or maintenance requirements of such Trading Market.

 

(j) Application of Takeover Protections. The Company and the Board of Directors have taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the Company’s certificate of incorporation (or similar charter documents) or the laws of its state of incorporation that is or could become applicable to the Purchaser as a result of the Purchaser and the Company fulfilling their obligations or exercising their rights under the Transaction Documents, including without limitation as a result of the Company’s issuance of the Shares and the Purchaser’s ownership of the Shares.

 

(k) Disclosure. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company confirms that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any of the Purchasers or their agents or counsel with any information that it believes constitutes or might constitute material, non-public information which is not otherwise disclosed in the Prospectus Supplement. The Company understands and confirms that the Purchasers will rely on the foregoing representation in effecting transactions in securities of the Company. All of the disclosure furnished by or on behalf of the Company to the Purchasers regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries, their respective businesses and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Disclosure Schedules to this Agreement, is true and correct and does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The Company acknowledges and agrees that no Purchaser makes or has made any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in Section 3.2 hereof.

 

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(l) No Integrated Offering. Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.2, neither the Company, nor any of its Affiliates, nor any Person acting on its or their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to buy any security, under circumstances that would cause this offering of the Securities to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of any applicable shareholder approval provisions of any Trading Market on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or designated.

 

(m) Acknowledgment Regarding Purchaser’s Purchase of Shares. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Purchaser is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby. The Company further acknowledges that the Purchaser is not acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby and any advice given by the Purchaser or any of its representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby is merely incidental to the Purchaser’s purchase of the Shares. The Company further represents to the Purchaser that the Company’s decision to enter into this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Company and its representatives.

 

3.2 Representations and Warranties of the Purchaser. The Purchaser hereby represents and warrants as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date to the Company as follows (unless as of a specific date therein, in which case they shall be accurate as of such date):

 

(a) Organization; Authority. The Purchaser is either an individual or an entity duly incorporated or formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or formation with full right, corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and performance by the Purchaser of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar action, as applicable, on the part of the Purchaser. Each Transaction Document to which it is a party has been duly executed by the Purchaser, and when delivered by the Purchaser in accordance with the terms hereof, will constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of the Purchaser, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.

 

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(b) Understandings or Arrangements. The Purchaser is acquiring the Shares as principal for its own account and has no direct or indirect arrangement or understandings with any other persons to distribute or regarding the distribution of such Shares (this representation and warranty not limiting the Purchaser’s right to sell the Shares or otherwise in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws). The Purchaser is not acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby. The Purchaser’s decision to enter into this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Purchaser and its representatives.

 

(c) Experience of The Purchaser. The Purchaser, either alone or together with its representatives, has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in business and financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment in the Shares, and has so evaluated the merits and risks of such investment. The Purchaser is able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the Shares and, at the present time, is able to afford a complete loss of such investment.

 

(d) Regulation S Representations. Purchaser is not a United States Person as defined in Rule 902(k) of Regulation S under the Securities Act (a “U.S. Person”). The offer and sale of the Shares to the Purchaser was made in an offshore transaction (as defined in Rule 902(h) of Regulation S), no directed selling efforts (as defined in Rule 902(c) of Regulation S) were made in the United States, and the Purchaser is not acquiring the Shares for the account or benefit of any U.S. Person.

 

(e) General Solicitation. The Purchaser is not purchasing the Shares as a result of any advertisement, article, notice or other communication regarding the Shares published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over television or radio or presented at any seminar or, to the Purchaser’s knowledge, any other general solicitation or general advertisement.

 

(f) Access to Information. The Purchaser acknowledges that it has had the opportunity to review the Transaction Documents (including all exhibits and schedules thereto) and the SEC Reports and has been afforded, (i) the opportunity to ask such questions as it has deemed necessary of, and to receive answers from, representatives of the Company concerning the terms and conditions of the offering of the Shares and the merits and risks of investing in the Shares; (ii) access to information about the Company and its financial condition, results of operations, business, properties, management and prospects sufficient to enable it to evaluate its investment; and (iii) the opportunity to obtain such additional information that the Company possesses or can acquire without unreasonable effort or expense that is necessary to make an informed investment decision with respect to the investment.

 

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(g) Certain Transactions and Confidentiality. Other than consummating the transactions contemplated hereunder, the Purchaser has not, nor has any Person acting on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with the Purchaser, directly or indirectly executed any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of the securities of the Company during the period commencing as of the time that the Purchaser first received a term sheet (written or oral) from the Company or any other Person representing the Company setting forth the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereunder and ending immediately prior to the execution hereof. Other than to other Persons party to this Agreement or to the Purchaser’s representatives, including, without limitation, its officers, directors, partners, legal and other advisors, employees, agents and Affiliates, the Purchaser has maintained the confidentiality of all disclosures made to it in connection with this transaction (including the existence and terms of this transaction). Notwithstanding the foregoing, for the avoidance of doubt, nothing contained herein shall constitute a representation or warranty, or preclude any actions, with respect to locating or borrowing shares in order to effect Short Sales or similar transactions in the future.

 

ARTICLE IV. OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES

 

4.1 Integration. The Company shall not sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Shares for purposes of the rules and regulations of any Trading Market such that it would require shareholder approval prior to the closing of such other transaction unless shareholder approval is obtained before the closing of such subsequent transaction.

 

4.2 Securities Laws Disclosure; Publicity. The Company shall (a) by the Disclosure Time, issue a press release disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby, and (b) file a Current Report on Form 8-K, including the Transaction Documents required to be filed as exhibits thereto, with the Commission within the time required by the Exchange Act. The Purchaser shall not issue any such press release nor otherwise make any such public statement without the prior consent of the Company, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed, except if such disclosure is required by law, in which case the disclosing party shall promptly provide the other party with prior notice of such public statement or communication.

 

4.3 Indemnification of the Parties. Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.3, each party to this Agreement (the “Indemnitor”) will indemnify and hold the other parties to this agreement (the “Indemnitee”) and its directors, officers, shareholders, members, partners, employees and agents (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each Person who controls such Indemnitee (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, shareholders, agents, members, partners or employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling persons (each, a “Indemnitee Party”) harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, obligations, claims, contingencies, damages, costs and expenses, including all judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation that any such Indemnitee Party may suffer or incur as a result of or relating to (a) any breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by the Indemnitor in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents or (b) any action instituted against the Indemnitee Parties in any capacity, or any of them or their respective Affiliates, by any stockholder of the Indemnitor who is not an Affiliate of such Indemnitee Party, with respect to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (unless such action is solely based upon a material breach of such Indemnitee Party’s representations, warranties or covenants under the Transaction Documents or any agreements or understandings such Indemnitee Party may have with any such stockholder or any violations by such Indemnitee Party of state or federal securities laws or any conduct by such Indemnitee Party which is finally judicially determined to constitute fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct). If any action shall be brought against any Indemnitee Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement, such Indemnitee Party shall promptly notify the Indemnitor in writing, and the Indemnitor shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Indemnitee Party. Any Indemnitee Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Indemnitee Party except to the extent that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Indemnitor in writing, (ii) the Indemnitor has failed after a reasonable period of time to assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action there is, in the reasonable opinion of counsel, a material conflict on any material issue between the position of the Indemnitor and the position of such Indemnitee Party, in which case the Indemnitor shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than one such separate counsel. The Indemnitor will not be liable to any Indemnitee Party under this Agreement (y) for any settlement by an Indemnitee Party effected without the Indemnitor’s prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (z) to the extent, but only to the extent that a loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to any Indemnitee Party’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by such Indemnitee Party in the Transaction Documents. The indemnification required by this Section 4.3 shall be made by periodic payments of the amount thereof during the course of the investigation or defense, as and when bills are received or are incurred. The indemnity agreements contained herein shall be in addition to any cause of action or similar right of any Indemnitee Party against the Indemnitor or others and any liabilities the Indemnitor may be subject to pursuant to law.

 

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4.4 Reservation of Common Stock. As of the date hereof, the Company has reserved and the Company shall continue to reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to issue the Shares pursuant to this Agreement.

 

ARTICLE V. MISCELLANEOUS

 

5.1 Fees and Expenses. Except as expressly set forth in the Transaction Documents to the contrary, each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses incurred by such party incident to the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement. The Company shall pay all Transfer Agent fees (including, without limitation, any fees required for same-day processing of any instruction letter delivered by the Company and any exercise notice delivered by a Purchaser), stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of any Shares to the Purchaser.

 

5.2 Entire Agreement. The Transaction Documents, together with the exhibits and schedules thereto, the Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and schedules.

 

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5.3 Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of: (a) the time of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number or email attachment at the email address as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto at or prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the time of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number or email attachment at the email address as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the second (2nd) Trading Day following the date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service or (d) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given. The address for such notices and communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto.

 

5.4 Amendments; Waivers. No provision of this Agreement may be waived, modified, supplemented or amended except in a written instrument signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Company and the Purchaser. No waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right.

 

5.5 Headings. The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.

 

5.6 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns. The Company may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Purchaser (other than by merger). The Purchaser may assign any or all of its rights under this Agreement to any Person to whom the Purchaser assigns or transfers any Shares, provided that such transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with respect to the transferred Shares, by the provisions of the Transaction Documents that apply to the “Purchaser”.

 

5.7 Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of the Transaction Documents shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Nevada, as applied to agreements among Nevada residents to be performed entirely within Nevada, without regard to the conflicts of law of such jurisdiction. Each party agrees that all legal Proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, partners, members, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in Carson City. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in Carson City for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any Proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such Proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such Proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such Proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. If any party shall commence a Proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction Documents, then, in addition to the obligations of the Company under Section 4.3, the prevailing party in such Proceeding shall be reimbursed by the non-prevailing party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such Proceeding.

 

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5.8 Survival. The representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the Closing and the delivery of the Shares.

 

5.9 Execution. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to each other party, it being understood that the parties need not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an original thereof.

 

5.10 Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.

 

5.11 Replacement of Certificates. If any certificate or instrument evidencing any Shares is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof (in the case of mutilation), or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction. The applicant for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable third-party costs (including customary indemnity) associated with the issuance of such replacement Shares.

 

5.12 Remedies. In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, the Purchaser and the Company will be entitled to specific performance under the Transaction Documents. The parties agree that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of obligations contained in the Transaction Documents and hereby agree to waive and not to assert in any Proceeding for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

 

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5.13 Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, etc. If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not be a Business Day, then such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding Business Day.

 

5.14 Construction. The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel have reviewed and had an opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the normal rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation of the Transaction Documents or any amendments thereto. In addition, each and every reference to share prices and shares of Common Stock in any Transaction Document shall be subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement.

 

5.15 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING IN ANY JURISDICTION BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY, THE PARTIES EACH KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY, TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HEREBY ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY, IRREVOCABLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES FOREVER TRIAL BY JURY.

 

(Signature Pages Follow)

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

ATLAS LITHIUM CORPORATION   Address for Notice:
      [●]
By: /s/ Marc Fogassa     
Name:  Marc Fogassa   E-Mail: [●]
Title: CEO    

 

CHENGYI LITHIUM INTERNATIONAL LIMITED   Address for Notice:
      [●]
By: /s/ Deng Weijun          
Name:  Deng Weijun   E-Mail: [●]
Title: Director    

 

 

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EX-10.2 3 ex10-2.htm

 

Exhibit 10.2

 

CERTAIN INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENT, MARKED BY [●], HAS BEEN OMITTED BECAUSE IT IS BOTH NOT MATERIAL AND IS THE TYPE THAT THE REGISTRANT TREATS AS PRIVATE OR CONFIDENTIAL.

 

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

This Securities Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated as of November 29, 2023 between Atlas Lithium Corporation, a publicly traded company listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market) (the “Company”), and Yahua International Investment and Development Co., Ltd., a company incorporated under the laws of Hongkong, China (the “Purchaser”).

 

WHEREAS the Company is seeking to develop a lithium project in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil (the “Project”), from which it or its Affiliates will produce lithium spodumene concentrate (the “Product”);

 

WHEREAS the Purchaser desires to purchase the Product from the Company, and the Company has the intention to sell the Product to a Person (as defined below) interested in investing into the Project;

 

WHEREAS, in attention to the above, the Purchaser has agreed to invest in the Company the Subscription Amount (as defined below), pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, being such undertaking a material inducement for the Company entering into a certain Offtake and Sales Agreement with the Purchaser, which is being executed comcomitantly with this Agreement (the “Offtake Agreement”); and

 

WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act (as defined below), the Company desires to issue and sell to the Purchaser, and the Purchaser, desires to purchase from the Company, securities of the Company as more fully described in this Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and the Purchaser agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS

 

1.1 Definitions. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, for all purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings set forth in this Section 1.1:

 

“Affiliate” means any Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person as such terms are used in and construed under Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

 

“Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company.

 

“Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in The City of New York are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided, however, for clarification, commercial banks shall not be deemed to be authorized or required by law to remain closed due to “stay at home”, “shelter-in-place”, “non-essential employee” or any other similar orders or restrictions or the closure of any physical branch locations at the direction of any governmental authority so long as the electronic funds transfer systems (including for wire transfers) of commercial banks in The City of New York generally are open for use by customers on such day.

 

 

 

“Closing” means the closing of the purchase and sale of the Shares pursuant to Section 2.1.

 

“Closing Date” means the Trading Day on which all of the Transaction Documents have been executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto, and all conditions precedent to (i) the Purchaser’s obligations to pay the Subscription Amount and (ii) the Company’s obligations to deliver the Shares, in each case, have been satisfied or waived, but in no event later than the [●] Trading Day following the date hereof.

 

“Commission” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

“Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share, and any other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or changed.

 

“Common Stock Equivalents” means any securities of the Company which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock, including, without limitation, preferred stock, or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Common Stock.

 

“Company Counsel” means DLA Piper LLP (US), with offices located at 500 Eighth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20004.

 

“Disclosure Time” means, (i) if this Agreement is signed on a day that is not a Trading Day or after 9:00 a.m. (New York City time) and before midnight (New York City time) on any Trading Day, 9:01 a.m. (New York City time) on the Trading Day immediately following the date hereof, and (ii) if this Agreement is signed between midnight (New York City time) and 9:00 a.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, no later than 9:01 a.m. (New York City time) on the date hereof.

 

“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

“Liens” means a lien, charge, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, right of first refusal, preemptive right or other restriction.

 

“Material Adverse Effect” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(a).

 

“Nasdaq” means the Nasdaq Capital Markets.

 

“Per Share Purchase Price” equals $29.77, subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement.

 

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“Person” means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind.

 

“Proceeding” means an action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding.

 

“Prospectus” means the final prospectus filed for the Registration Statement.

 

“Prospectus Supplement” means the supplement to the Prospectus complying with Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act that is filed with the Commission and delivered by the Company to each Purchaser at the Closing.

 

“Registration Statement” means the effective registration statement on Form S-3 with Commission file No. 333-274223 which registers the sale of the Shares to the Purchasers.

 

“Required Approvals” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(d).

 

“Rule 144” means Rule 144 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Rule.

 

“Rule 424” means Rule 424 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Rule.

 

“SEC Reports” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(g).

 

“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

“Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issued or issuable to the Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement.

 

“Short Sales” means all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act (but shall not be deemed to include locating and/or borrowing shares of Common Stock).

 

“Stock Incentive Plan” means the Company’s 2023 Stock Incentive Plan as duly adopted by the Board of Directors and approved by a majority of the voting power of the Company’s issued and outstanding voting capital stock pursuant to which consultants, employees, officers or directors of the Company have been or may be granted from time to time shares of Common Stock, options and/or other securities of the Company exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into shares of Common Stock for services rendered to the Company.

 

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“Subscription Amount” means, as to the Purchaser, the aggregate amount to be paid for Shares purchased hereunder, in United States dollars and in immediately available funds. The Subscription Amount shall be equivalent to USD 5,000,000.00.

 

“Trading Day” means a day on which the principal Trading Market is open for trading.

 

“Trading Market” means any of the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE American, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange, OTCQB or OTCQX (or any successors to any of the foregoing).

 

“Transaction Documents” means this Agreement and all exhibits and schedules thereto and hereto and any other documents or agreements executed in connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder.

 

“Transfer Agent” means means VStock Transfer, LLC, the current transfer agent of the Company, with a mailing address of [●], and any successor transfer agent of the Company.

 

ARTICLE II. PURCHASE AND SALE

 

2.1 Closing. On the Closing Date, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, the Company agrees to sell, and the Purchaser agrees to purchase, an aggregate of $5,000,000 of Shares. The Purchaser’s Subscription Amount shall be delivered by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account nominated by the Company pursuant to Section 2.2(a)(ii) below. The Company shall deliver to the Purchaser the Shares as determined pursuant to Section 2.2(a), and the Company and the Purchaser shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.2 deliverable at the Closing. The Company shall issue the Shares and cause the Shares to be delivered by the Transfer Agent to the Purchaser or a designee of the Purchaser via DWAC (as defined below). Upon satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set forth in Sections 2.2 and 2.3, the Closing shall occur virtually at the offices of the Company Counsel or such other location as the parties shall mutually agree. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Purchaser, through, and including the time immediately prior to, and during the, the Closing (the “Pre-Settlement Period”), shall not be entitled to sell to any Person all, or any portion, of any Shares to be issued hereunder to the Purchaser at the Closing (collectively, the “Pre-Settlement Shares”).

 

2.2 Deliveries.

 

(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Purchaser the following:

 

(i)this Agreement duly executed by the Company;

 

(ii)the Company’s wire instructions, on Company letterhead and executed by the Chief Executive Officer or Chief Financial Officer;

 

(iii)provided that the condition in Section 2.2(b), items (i) and (ii), were fulfilled, a copy of the irrevocable instructions to the Transfer Agent instructing the Transfer Agent to deliver on an expedited basis via The Depository Trust Company Deposit or Withdrawal at Custodian system (“DWAC”) Shares equal to the Purchaser’s Subscription Amount divided by the Per Share Purchase Price, registered in the name of the Purchaser.

 

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(iv) the Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement (which may be delivered in accordance with Rule 172 under the Securities Act).

 

(b) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Purchaser shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Company the following:

 

(i)this Agreement duly executed by the Purchaser; and

 

(ii)the Purchaser’s Subscription Amount, which shall be delivered by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Company’s bank account set forth on the Company’s wire transfer instructions referenced in Section 2.2(a)(ii) above.

 

2.3 Closing Conditions.

 

(a) The obligations of the Company hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:

 

(i)the accuracy in all material respects (or, to the extent representations or warranties are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, in all respects) when made and on the Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Purchaser contained herein (unless as of a specific date therein in which case they shall be accurate as of such date);

 

(ii)all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Purchaser required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed; and

 

(iii)the delivery by the Purchaser of the items set forth in Section 2.2(b) of this Agreement.

 

(b) The respective obligations of the Purchaser hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:

 

(i)the accuracy in all material respects (or, to the extent representations or warranties are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, in all respects) when made and on the Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein (unless as of a specific date therein in which case they shall be accurate as of such date);

 

(ii)all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Company required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed;

 

(iii)the delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section 2.2(a) of this Agreement;

 

(iv)there shall have been no Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company since the date hereof; and

 

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(v)from the date hereof to the Closing Date, trading in the Common Stock shall not have been suspended by the Commission or the Company’s principal Trading Market, and, at any time prior to the Closing Date, trading in securities generally as reported by Bloomberg L.P. shall not have been suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall not have been established on securities whose trades are reported by such service, or on any Trading Market, nor shall a banking moratorium have been declared either by the United States or New York State authorities nor shall there have occurred any material outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or international calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any material adverse change in, any financial market which, in each case, in the reasonable judgment of the Purchaser, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Shares at the Closing.

 

ARTICLE III. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

3.1 Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company hereby makes the following representations and warranties to the Purchaser as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date:

 

(a) Organization and Qualification. The Company is an entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, with the requisite power and authority to own and use its properties and assets and to carry on its business as currently conducted. The Company is neither in violation nor default of any of the provisions of its respective certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents. The Company is duly qualified to conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other entity in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property owned by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, could not have or reasonably be expected to result in: (i) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document, (ii) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, or business of the Company, or (iii) a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to perform in any material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any Transaction Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Material Adverse Effect”).

 

(b) Authorization; Enforcement. The Company has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Company and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Company and no further action is required by the Company, the Board of Directors or the Company’s stockholders in connection herewith or therewith other than in connection with the Required Approvals. This Agreement has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by the Company and, when delivered in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, will constitute the valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.

 

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(c) No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement, the issuance and sale of the Shares and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby do not and will not (i) conflict with or violate any provision of the Company’s certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents, or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of the Company, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, anti-dilution or similar adjustments, acceleration or cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing a Company debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which the Company is a party or by which any property or asset of the Company is bound or affected, or (iii) subject to the Required Approvals, conflict with or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment, injunction, decree or other restriction of any court or governmental authority to which the Company is subject (including federal and state securities laws and regulations), or by which any property or asset of the Company is bound or affected; except in the case of each of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(d) Filings, Consents and Approvals. The Company is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other governmental authority or other Person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, other than any notices required to be filed with Nasdaq in connection with the issuance of the Shares and: (i) the filings required pursuant to Section 4.4 of this Agreement, (ii) the filing with the Commission of the Prospectus Supplement, and (iii) such filings as are required to be made under applicable federal and state securities laws (collectively, the “Required Approvals”).

 

(e) Issuance of the Shares. The Shares are duly authorized and, when issued and paid for in accordance with the applicable Transaction Documents, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company. The Company has reserved from its duly authorized capital stock the maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to this Agreement. The Company has prepared and filed the Registration Statement in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act, which became effective on September 18, 2023 (the “Effective Date”), including the Prospectus, and such amendments and supplements thereto as may have been required to the date of this Agreement. The Registration Statement is effective under the Securities Act and no stop order preventing or suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or suspending or preventing the use of the Prospectus has been issued by the Commission and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, are threatened by the Commission. The Company, if required by the rules and regulations of the Commission, shall file the Prospectus with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b). At the time the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto became effective, at the date of this Agreement and at the Closing Date, the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto conformed and will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, at the time the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto was issued and at the Closing Date, conformed and will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and did not and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

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(f) Capitalization. The Company has not issued any capital stock since its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act, other than pursuant to the exercise of employee stock options and/or the issuance of shares of Common Stock to qualified participants pursuant to the Company’s Stock Incentive Plan and pursuant to the conversion and/or exercise of Common Stock Equivalents outstanding as of the date of the most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act. No Person has any right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to participate in the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Except pursuant to the Stock Incentive Plan, there are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or obligations convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right to subscribe for or acquire, any shares of Common Stock or contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company is or may become bound to issue additional shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents. The issuance and sale of the Shares will not obligate the Company to issue shares of Common Stock or other securities to any Person (other than the Purchaser). There are no outstanding securities or instruments of the Company with any provision that adjusts the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price of such security or instrument upon an issuance of securities by the Company. There are no outstanding securities or instruments of the Company that contain any redemption or similar provisions, and there are no contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company is or may become bound to redeem a security of the Company. All of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in compliance with all federal and state securities laws, and none of such outstanding shares was issued in violation of any preemptive rights or similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities. No further approval or authorization of any stockholder, the Board of Directors or others is required for the issuance and sale of the Shares. There are no stockholders agreements, voting agreements or other similar agreements with respect to the Company’s capital stock to which the Company is a party or, to the knowledge of the Company, between or among any of the Company’s stockholders.

 

(g) SEC Reports; Financial Statements. The Company has filed or furnished all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof, and other applicable securities laws, since January 10, 2023 (the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, together with the Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement, being collectively referred to herein as the “SEC Reports”) on a timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of filing and has filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration of any such extension. As of their respective dates, the SEC Reports complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The Company has never been an issuer subject to Rule 144(i) under the Securities Act. The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing. Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (“GAAP”), except as may be otherwise specified in such financial statements or the notes thereto and except that unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP, and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial, year-end audit adjustments.

 

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(h) Registration Rights. No Person has any right to cause the Company to effect the registration under the Securities Act of any securities of the Company.

 

(i) Listing and Maintenance Requirements. The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act, and the Company has taken no action designed to, or which to its knowledge is likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission is contemplating terminating such registration. The Company has not, in the twelve (12) months preceding the date hereof, received notice from any Trading Market on which the Common Stock is or has been listed or quoted to the effect that the Company is not in compliance with the listing or maintenance requirements of such Trading Market.

 

(j) Application of Takeover Protections. The Company and the Board of Directors have taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the Company’s certificate of incorporation (or similar charter documents) or the laws of its state of incorporation that is or could become applicable to the Purchaser as a result of the Purchaser and the Company fulfilling their obligations or exercising their rights under the Transaction Documents, including without limitation as a result of the Company’s issuance of the Shares and the Purchaser’s ownership of the Shares.

 

(k) Acknowledgment Regarding Purchaser’s Purchase of Shares. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Purchaser is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby. The Company further acknowledges that the Purchaser is not acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby and any advice given by the Purchaser or any of its representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby is merely incidental to the Purchaser’s purchase of the Shares. The Company further represents to the Purchaser that the Company’s decision to enter into this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Company and its representatives.

 

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3.2 Representations and Warranties of the Purchaser. The Purchaser hereby represents and warrants as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date to the Company as follows (unless as of a specific date therein, in which case they shall be accurate as of such date):

 

(a) Organization; Authority. The Purchaser is either an individual or an entity duly incorporated or formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or formation with full right, corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and performance by the Purchaser of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar action, as applicable, on the part of the Purchaser. Each Transaction Document to which it is a party has been duly executed by the Purchaser, and when delivered by the Purchaser in accordance with the terms hereof, will constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of the Purchaser, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.

 

(b) Understandings or Arrangements. The Purchaser is acquiring the Shares as principal for its own account and has no direct or indirect arrangement or understandings with any other persons to distribute or regarding the distribution of such Shares (this representation and warranty not limiting the Purchaser’s right to sell the Shares or otherwise in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws). The Purchaser is acquiring the Shares hereunder in the ordinary course of its business. The Purchaser is not acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby. The Purchaser’s decision to enter into this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Purchaser and its representatives.

 

(c) Purchaser Status. At the time the Purchaser was offered the Shares, it was, and as of the date hereof it is, an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3), (a)(7), (a)(8), (a)(9), (a)(12) or (a)(13) under the Securities Act or (ii) a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A(a) under the Securities Act.

 

(d) Experience of The Purchaser. The Purchaser, either alone or together with its representatives, has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in business and financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment in the Shares, and has so evaluated the merits and risks of such investment. The Purchaser is able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the Shares and, at the present time, is able to afford a complete loss of such investment.

 

(e) Regulation S Representations. Purchaser is not a United States Person as defined in Rule 902(k) of Regulation S under the Securities Act (a “U.S. Person”). The offer and sale of the Shares to the Purchaser was made in an offshore transaction (as defined in Rule 902(h) of Regulation S), no directed selling efforts (as defined in Rule 902(c) of Regulation S) were made in the United States, and the Purchaser is not acquiring the Shares for the account or benefit of any U.S. Person.

 

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(f) General Solicitation. The Purchaser is not purchasing the Shares as a result of any advertisement, article, notice or other communication regarding the Shares published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over television or radio or presented at any seminar or, to the Purchaser’s knowledge, any other general solicitation or general advertisement.

 

(g) Access to Information. The Purchaser acknowledges that it has had the opportunity to review the Transaction Documents (including all exhibits and schedules thereto) and the SEC Reports and has been afforded, (i) the opportunity to ask such questions as it has deemed necessary of, and to receive answers from, representatives of the Company concerning the terms and conditions of the offering of the Shares and the merits and risks of investing in the Shares; (ii) access to information about the Company and its financial condition, results of operations, business, properties, management and prospects sufficient to enable it to evaluate its investment; and (iii) the opportunity to obtain such additional information that the Company possesses or can acquire without unreasonable effort or expense that is necessary to make an informed investment decision with respect to the investment.

 

(h) Certain Transactions and Confidentiality. Other than consummating the transactions contemplated hereunder, the Purchaser has not, nor has any Person acting on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with the Purchaser, directly or indirectly executed any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of the securities of the Company during the period commencing as of the time that the Purchaser first received a term sheet (written or oral) from the Company or any other Person representing the Company setting forth the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereunder and ending immediately prior to the execution hereof. Other than to other Persons party to this Agreement or to the Purchaser’s representatives, including, without limitation, its officers, directors, partners, legal and other advisors, employees, agents and Affiliates, the Purchaser has maintained the confidentiality of all disclosures made to it in connection with this transaction (including the existence and terms of this transaction). Notwithstanding the foregoing, for the avoidance of doubt, nothing contained herein shall constitute a representation or warranty, or preclude any actions, with respect to locating or borrowing shares in order to effect Short Sales or similar transactions in the future.

 

ARTICLE IV. OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES

 

4.1 Integration. The Company shall not sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Shares for purposes of the rules and regulations of any Trading Market such that it would require shareholder approval prior to the closing of such other transaction unless shareholder approval is obtained before the closing of such subsequent transaction.

 

4.2 Securities Laws Disclosure; Publicity. The Company shall (a) by the Disclosure Time, issue a press release disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby, and (b) file a Current Report on Form 8-K, including the Transaction Documents required to be filed as exhibits thereto, with the Commission within the time required by the Exchange Act. The Purchaser shall not issue any such press release nor otherwise make any such public statement without the prior consent of the Company, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed, except if such disclosure is required by law, in which case the disclosing party shall promptly provide the other party with prior notice of such public statement or communication.

 

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4.3 Indemnification of the Parties. Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.3, each party to this Agreement (the “Indemnitor”) will indemnify and hold the other parties to this agreement (the “Indemnitee”) and its directors, officers, shareholders, members, partners, employees and agents (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each Person who controls such Indemnitee (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, shareholders, agents, members, partners or employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling persons (each, a “Indemnitee Party”) harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, obligations, claims, contingencies, damages, costs and expenses, including all judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation that any such Indemnitee Party may suffer or incur as a result of or relating to (a) any breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by the Indemnitor in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents or (b) any action instituted against the Indemnitee Parties in any capacity, or any of them or their respective Affiliates, by any stockholder of the Indemnitor who is not an Affiliate of such Indemnitee Party, with respect to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (unless such action is solely based upon a material breach of such Indemnitee Party’s representations, warranties or covenants under the Transaction Documents or any agreements or understandings such Indemnitee Party may have with any such stockholder or any violations by such Indemnitee Party of state or federal securities laws or any conduct by such Indemnitee Party which is finally judicially determined to constitute fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct). If any action shall be brought against any Indemnitee Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement, such Indemnitee Party shall promptly notify the Indemnitor in writing, and the Indemnitor shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Indemnitee Party. Any Indemnitee Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Indemnitee Party except to the extent that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Indemnitor in writing, (ii) the Indemnitor has failed after a reasonable period of time to assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action there is, in the reasonable opinion of counsel, a material conflict on any material issue between the position of the Indemnitor and the position of such Indemnitee Party, in which case the Indemnitor shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than one such separate counsel. The Indemnitor will not be liable to any Indemnitee Party under this Agreement (y) for any settlement by an Indemnitee Party effected without the Indemnitor’s prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (z) to the extent, but only to the extent that a loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to any Indemnitee Party’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by such Indemnitee Party in the Transaction Documents. The indemnification required by this Section 4.3 shall be made by periodic payments of the amount thereof during the course of the investigation or defense, as and when bills are received or are incurred. The indemnity agreements contained herein shall be in addition to any cause of action or similar right of any Indemnitee Party against the Indemnitor or others and any liabilities the Indemnitor may be subject to pursuant to law.

 

4.4 Reservation of Common Stock. As of the date hereof, the Company has reserved and the Company shall continue to reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to issue Shares pursuant to this Agreement.

 

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ARTICLE V. MISCELLANEOUS

 

5.1 Fees and Expenses. Except as expressly set forth in the Transaction Documents to the contrary, each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses incurred by such party incident to the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement. The Company shall pay all Transfer Agent fees (including, without limitation, any fees required for same-day processing of any instruction letter delivered by the Company and any exercise notice delivered by a Purchaser), stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of any Shares to the Purchaser.

 

5.2 Entire Agreement. The Transaction Documents, together with the exhibits and schedules thereto, the Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and schedules.

 

5.3 Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of: (a) the time of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number or email attachment at the email address as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto at or prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the time of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number or email attachment at the email address as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the second (2nd) Trading Day following the date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service or (d) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given. The address for such notices and communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto.

 

5.4 Amendments; Waivers. No provision of this Agreement may be waived, modified, supplemented or amended except in a written instrument signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Company and the Purchaser. No waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right.

 

5.5 Headings. The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.

 

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5.6 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns. The Company may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Purchaser (other than by merger). The Purchaser may assign any or all of its rights under this Agreement to any Person to whom the Purchaser assigns or transfers any Shares, provided that such transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with respect to the transferred Shares, by the provisions of the Transaction Documents that apply to the “Purchaser”.

 

5.7 Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of the Transaction Documents shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Nevada, as applied to agreements among Nevada residents to be performed entirely within Nevada, without regard to the conflicts of law of such jurisdiction. Each party agrees that all legal Proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, partners, members, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in Carson City. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in Carson City for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any Proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such Proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such Proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such Proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. If any party shall commence a Proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction Documents, then, in addition to the obligations of the Company under Section 4.3, the prevailing party in such Proceeding shall be reimbursed by the non-prevailing party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such Proceeding.

 

5.8 Survival. The representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the Closing and the delivery of the Shares.

 

5.9 Execution. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to each other party, it being understood that the parties need not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an original thereof.

 

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5.10 Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.

 

5.11 Replacement of Certificates. If any certificate or instrument evidencing any Shares is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof (in the case of mutilation), or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction. The applicant for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable third-party costs (including customary indemnity) associated with the issuance of such replacement Shares.

 

5.12 Remedies. In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, the Purchaser and the Company will be entitled to specific performance under the Transaction Documents. The parties agree that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of obligations contained in the Transaction Documents and hereby agree to waive and not to assert in any Proceeding for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

 

5.13 Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, etc. If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not be a Business Day, then such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding Business Day.

 

5.14 Construction. The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel have reviewed and had an opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the normal rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation of the Transaction Documents or any amendments thereto. In addition, each and every reference to share prices and shares of Common Stock in any Transaction Document shall be subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement.

 

5.15 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING IN ANY JURISDICTION BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY, THE PARTIES EACH KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY, TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HEREBY ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY, IRREVOCABLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES FOREVER TRIAL BY JURY.

 

(Signature Pages Follow)

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

Atlas Lithium Corporation Address for Notice: [●]
     
By: /s/ Marc Fogassa   
Name: Marc Fogassa Email: [●]
Title: CEO  

 

Yahua International Investment and Development Co., Ltd. Address for Notice: [●]
     
By: /s/ Meng Yan   
Name: Meng Yang Email: [●]
Title: Director  

 

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EX-10.3 4 ex10-3.htm

 

Exhibit 10.3

 

CERTAIN INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENT, MARKED BY [•], HAS BEEN OMITTED BECAUSE IT IS BOTH NOT MATERIAL AND IS THE TYPE THAT THE REGISTRANT TREATS AS PRIVATE OR CONFIDENTIAL.

 

OFFTAKE AND SALES AGREEMENT

 

This Offtake and Sales Agreement is made on November 29, 2023 (the “Execution Date”), by and between:

 

(1) ATLAS LÍTIO BRASIL LTDA., [●] (the “Seller”); and

 

(2) Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group Co., Ltd., [●] (the “Buyer”).

 

WHEREAS:

 

(A) The Seller is seeking to develop a lithium project in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil (the “Project”), from which it or its Affiliates will produce Product (as defined below);

 

(B) The Seller and its Affiliates have or will have the rights to conduct mining operations and sell the Product from the Project;

 

(C) The Buyer desires to purchase the Product from Seller, and the Seller has the intention to sell the Product to a buyer that is interested in investing into the Project;

 

(D) In attention to the above, the Buyer has agreed to make available to the Seller the Pre-payment Amount (as defined below), under the terms and conditions set forth herein, as well as to invest in Seller’s parent company, Atlas Lithium Corporation (“Atlas Corp”) the Investment Amount (as defined below), pursuant to the terms of the Securities Purchase Agreement (as defined below), being such undertakings a material inducement for the Seller entering into this Agreement,

 

NOW, THEREFORE, the Parties agree as follows:

 

1. INTERPRETATION

 

1.1. Definitions.

 

The following definitions apply in this Agreement:

 

“Actual Delay” has the meaning given in Clause 18.3.

 

“Affected Obligations” has the meaning given in Clause 18.2.

 

“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person: (a) any other Person that directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, Controls, is controlled by, or is under common Control with, such Person, (b) a company in which the Person beneficially owns at least 50% of the shares in that company;

 

“Agreement” means this agreement.

 

“Applicable Law” means: (a) any domestic or foreign statute, law (including common and civil law), treaty, code, ordinance, rule, regulation, restriction of by-law (zoning or otherwise); (b) any judgment, order, writ, injunction, decision, ruling, decree or award; (c) any regulatory policy, practice, request, guideline or directive; or (d) any franchise, licence, qualification, authorization, consent, exemption, waiver, right, permit or other approval of any governmental authority, binding on or affecting the Person referred to in the context in which the term is used or binding on or affecting the property of that Person, in each case whether or not having the force of law.

 

“Benchmark Price” means [●].

 

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“Bill of Lading” means the bill of lading signed by the carrier of the Shipment that evidences receipt of the Shipment at the Port of Loading for delivery to the Port of Discharge.

 

“Business Day” means:

 

(a) for receiving notices under this Agreement, a day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday or bank holiday in the place where the notice is sent;

 

(b) for making any payments under this Agreement, a day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday or bank holiday in Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil; and

 

(c) for all other purposes, a day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday or bank holiday in Sao Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil and in the City of New York, State of New York, USA.

 

“Buyer’s Certificate of Analysis” has the meaning set out in Schedule 2.

 

“Certificate of Analysis” has the meaning given in Clause 2(b) of Schedule 2.

 

“Certificate of Origin” means the document attesting that the Product the subject of the Shipment has been wholly obtained, produced, or processed in Brazil.

 

“Certificate of Spodumene Readiness” means a letter provided by the Seller stating that the quantity and quality of Spodumene at the Port of Shipment is ready for shipment.

 

“Certificate of Weight” has the meaning given in Clause 1(a) of Schedule 2.

 

“Change in Control of the Seller” means the occurrence of any of the following, in one transaction or a series of related transactions: (a) any Person acquires beneficial ownership, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Seller that ensures to such Person Control over the Seller; (b) a consolidation, securities exchange, reorganization, arrangement or amalgamation of the Seller resulting in the shareholders of the Seller immediately prior to such event not owning the Control of the resulting entity’s securities outstanding immediately following such event; (c) the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all the assets of the Seller (other than a transfer of financial assets made in the ordinary course of business for the purpose of securitization or other ordinary course activities); (d) a liquidation or dissolution of the Seller or (e) any similar event deemed by the board of directors of Seller to constitute a change in Control of the Seller.

 

“Confidential Information” means all information relating to a Party that is not in the public domain (other than as a result of breach of this Agreement), including but not limited to trade secrets, know-how, scientific, technical, product, market or pricing information relating to:

 

  (a) the Product;
     
  (b) the Project;
     
  (c) a Party’s business; or
     
  (d) this Agreement.

 

“Consequential Loss” means any loss, damage, cost, expense or liability suffered or incurred by any person (including under an indemnity) whether arising in contract, tort (including for negligence), under statute or on any other basis in law or equity which is indirect or consequential including, without limitation and without being limited by the meaning of “indirect or consequential”, loss of revenue, loss of contract, loss of production, loss of goodwill, loss of use, loss of business opportunity, loss of profit, loss of anticipated profit or any similar loss or cost.

 

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“Contract Year” means a period of twelve (12) consecutive Months during the Term beginning on January 1st and ending on the immediately following December 31st, with the first Contract Year of the Term beginning on notification from the Seller that Product is ready for Shipment.

 

“Control” in respect of an entity means an entity controls a second entity if the first entity has the capacity to determine the outcome of decisions about the second entity’s financial and operating policies. In determining whether the first entity has this capacity:

 

  (a) the practical influence the first entity can exert (rather than the rights it can enforce) is the issue to be considered; and
     
  (b) any practice or pattern of behaviour affecting the second entity’s financial or operating policies is to be taken into account (even if it involves a breach of an agreement or a breach of trust).

 

“Dispute” means a dispute, difference, controversy or claim between the Parties arising out of or in relation to or in connection with this Agreement, including any dispute, difference, controversy or claim as to the formation, validity, existence, or termination of this Agreement.

 

“DMT” means dry metric tonnes without moisture.

 

“Event of Default” has the meaning given in Clause 17.1.

 

“Final Invoice” has the meaning given in Clause 7.3.

 

“Final Invoice Benchmark Price” has the meaning given in Clause 7.3.

 

“Final Invoice Notice” has the meaning given in Clause 7.3.

 

“FOB” means Free Onboard.

 

“Force Majeure” has the meaning given in Clause 18.1.

 

“Incoterms 2020” means the International Chamber of Commerce rules for the use of domestic and international trade terms.

 

“Independent Umpire” means the analyst selected in accordance with Clause 5 of Schedule 2.

 

“Independent Testing Agency” means SGS or such other independent industry recognised testing agency determined by the Seller (acting reasonably).

 

“Insolvency Event” in respect of a Party means:

 

  (a) it informs the other Party in writing or its creditors generally that it is insolvent or is financially unable to proceed with this Agreement;
     
  (b) a receiver, trustee, controller or administrator is appointed to it;
     
  (c) an application is made to a court for its winding up and not stayed or discontinued within ten (10) Business Days;
     
  (d) a winding up order is made in respect of it;
     
  (e) a resolution is made that it be wound up;
     
  (f) any analogous or equivalent event to any of the events described in paragraphs (a) to (e) happens in any jurisdiction; or

 

“Investment Amount” means the total number of common stocks to be purchased by the Buyer under the Securities Purchase Agreement, which in aggregate represent a total investment of five million US Dollars (USD 5,000,000.00) in Atlas Lithium Corporation.

 

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“Letter of Credit” means an irrevocable letter of credit issued by the Buyer in accordance with the requirements set out in Clause 10 and in the form of Schedule 3.

 

“Li2O” means lithium oxide.

 

“Minimum Quantity” means the minimum quantity of the Product to be supplied in each Contract Year as specified in Clause 3.1.

 

“Month” means a calendar month.

 

“Notice” has the meaning given in Clause 22.1.

 

“Parties” means both the Buyer and the Seller and Party means either one of them.

 

“Permitted Tolerance” has the meaning given in Clause 3.1.

 

“Port of Discharge” means [●] Port or such other Port as notified by the Buyer to the Seller with at least 30 days in advance.

 

“Port of Loading” means the [●], Brazil or such other Port as notified by the Seller to the Buyer with at least 30 days in advance.

 

“PPAI” means the amount to be deducted from each Shipment Invoice or Final Invoice, as applicable, for the purpose of offsetting and repaying the Pre-payment Amount, until the Pre-payment Amount is fully repaid. Each PPAI shall be equivalent to the lowest amount between [●]% of the Pre-payment Amount or [●]% of the Shipment Invoice or the Final Invoice, as applicable.

 

“Precluded Extent” has the meaning given in Clause 18.2.

 

“Pre-payment Amount” means the amount of twenty million US Dollars (USD 20,000,000.00).

 

“Price Coefficient” means the coefficient to be used in the calculation of the Benchmark Price, as per the definition attributable to it in Schedule 2.

 

“Product” means lithium spodumene concentrate produced at the Project.

 

“Prohibited Resale Act” has the meaning given in Clause 11.5.

 

“Project” has the meaning given in Whereas (A).

 

“Provisional Shipment Payment” has the meaning given in Clause 10.1(b).

 

“Ready Date Notice” has the meaning given in Clause 8.2.

 

“Sanctions” means any Applicable Law governing transactions in controlled goods or technologies or dealings with countries, entities, organizations, or individuals subject to economic, financial or trade sanctions or restrictions and similar measures administered or enforced by applicable governments, including, without limitation, the United States, the United Nations, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Taiwan, China, or Singapore.

 

“Sanctioned Person” means any Person that is: (a) designated under, listed on, or owned or controlled by a Person designated under or listed on, or acting directly or indirectly on behalf of a Person designated under or listed on, any list of Persons who are subject to Sanctions under Applicable Law that is binding on the Buyer or the Seller or any of their respective subsidiaries and Affiliates; (b) located in, incorporated under the laws of, or owned or controlled (directly or indirectly) by, or acting on behalf of a Person located in or organized under the laws of a country or territory that is the target of country-wide or territory-wide Sanctions; or (c) with whom the Buyer or the Seller would not be permitted to make a loan, continue to make a loan or provide financial accommodation to pursuant to any Sanctions.

 

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“Securities Purchase Agreement” means the SPA agreement entered into between the Buyer and Atlas Lithium Corporation on or about the date of this agreement whereby the Buyer agreed to purchase and Atlas Lithium Corporation agreed to sell its common stock to the Buyer, under the terms and conditions therein.

 

“Seller’s Certificate of Analysis” has the meaning set out in Schedule 2.

 

“Shipment” means the shipment of Product described in Clause 3.1.

 

“Shipment Invoice” has the meaning given in Clause 7.2.

 

“Shipment Quantity” has the meaning given in Clause 7.2.

 

“Shipment Invoice Benchmark Price” has the meaning given in Clause 7.2.

 

“Shipment Payment” has the meaning given in Clause 7.2.

 

“Shipment Schedule” has the meaning given in Clause 6.1.

 

“SIAC Arbitration Rules” has the meaning given in Clause 19.1.

 

“Specifications” means the specifications for the Product.

 

“Stable Production” means when the Project reaches a stable production of the Product, i.e., (a) after obtaining all licenses and permits required to produce and market the Product, and (b) upon reaching a stable production output equivalent to at least sixty-five percent (65%) of the nameplate capacity of the Project for a minimum sixty (60) consecutive days.

 

“Target Specifications” means the target Specifications set out in Schedule 1.

 

“Term” has the meaning given in Clause 4.1.

 

“Umpire Analysis” means the analysis undertaken by the Independent Umpire in accordance with Clause 5 of Schedule 2.

 

“US Dollar”, “USD” and “$” means the lawful currency of the United States of America.

 

“Vessel” means the vessel, arranged by Buyer, to transport a Shipment from the Port of Loading to the Port of Discharge.

 

“Vessel Arrival Date” has the meaning given in Clause 8.2.

 

“WMT” means a wet metric tonne.

 

1.2. Interpretation.

 

In this Agreement, unless the context requires otherwise:

 

  (a) headings are for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of this Agreement;
     
  (b) words written in their singular form include the plural and vice versa;
     
  (c) words referring to a gender include any gender;
     
  (d) a reference to anything (including, but not limited to, any right) includes a part of that thing;
     
  (e) a reference to a right includes a power, authority, discretion, benefit, or remedy conferred on a Party by this Agreement or any Applicable Law;

 

 

 

  (f) an expression referring to a natural “person” or “Person” includes any company, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, or other body corporate and any government agency;
     
  (g) a reference to a clause, Party, attachment, exhibit, or schedule is a reference to a clause of, and a Party, attachment, exhibit, and schedule to, this Agreement and reference to this Agreement includes any attachment, exhibit, and schedule;
     
  (h) a reference to a law, statute, regulation, proclamation, ordinance, or by-law includes all laws, statutes, regulations, proclamations, ordinances, or by-laws amending, consolidating, or replacing it, whether passed by the same or another governmental agency with legal power to do so, and includes all regulations, proclamations, ordinances, and by-laws issued under that statute;
     
  (i) a reference to a party to a document includes that party’s successors and permitted assigns;
     
  (j) no rule of construction applies to the disadvantage of a Party solely because that Party was responsible for the preparation of this Agreement or any part of it;
     
  (k) a reference to time is to the time in Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil; and
     
  (l) a reference to currency is to be construed as references to US Dollars and unless otherwise specifically provided all amounts which are required to be paid under this Agreement shall be paid in US Dollars.

 

1.3. Contract Years of less than 365 days

 

1.3.1. Any quantity or obligation expressed in this Agreement which is applied to or by reference to a Contract Year will, in the case of a Contract Year comprising less than three hundred and sixty-five (365) days, be reduced on a pro rata basis based on the number of days in that Contract Year.

 

2. SALE AND PURCHASE

 

2.1. The Seller shall sell the Product to the Buyer at the Benchmark Price and the Buyer shall purchase that Product at the Benchmark Price in accordance with this Agreement.

 

3. QUANTITY

 

3.1. The Seller shall sell and deliver to the Buyer, and the Buyer shall purchase and take delivery of a minimum quantity of sixty thousand (60,000) DMT of Product for each Contract Year (the “Minimum Quantity”).
   
3.2. The Seller may elect, at its absolute discretion, to increase or decrease the Minimum Quantity up to ten percent (10%) of Product in each Contract Year, and such increase or decrease will not constitute a breach or require any remediation under this Agreement, and thus the Minimum Quantity for such Contract Year shall be deemed adjusted accordingly (“Permitted Tolerance”).
     
3.3. Where the sale and purchase of the Product commences on a date that is not the beginning of a Contract Year then the Minimum Quantity shall be pro-rated in proportion to the time left in that Contract Year.

 

4. TERM

 

4.1. This Agreement commences on the Execution Date and, unless terminated earlier in accordance with this Agreement, ends on the fifth (5) anniversary following the Execution Date (the “Term”).
     
4.2. In the event that there is a Change in Control of the Seller during the Term of this Agreement, the Seller shall be entitled to terminate this Agreement (the “CiC Termination”).

 

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4.2.1. The Seller shall be entitled to elect for a CiC Termination at any time after the Change in Control of the Seller is approved at its shareholders’ meeting, including prior to closing of the transaction that will lead to the Change in Control of the Seller. To exercise a CiC Termination, Seller shall deliver a written notice to the Buyer informing the Change in Control of the Seller and its intention to a CiC Termination.

 

4.2.2. In the event the Seller notifies the Buyer for a CiC Termination, the Seller shall remain obliged to deliver Products to the Buyer for the Shipments that are scheduled to take place during the three (3)-month period immediately after the date of the CiC Termination notice, subject to the variations permitted in this Agreement. For such purpose, the Parties shall consider the latest Rolling Forecast issued prior to the CiC Termination notice. The Seller shall not be subject to any additional supply obligation and this Agreement shall be deemed automatically terminated upon the elapsing of the three (3)-month period referred in this Clause.

 

4.2.3. The CiC Termination will not constitute a breach or require any remediation under this Agreement, and neither of the Parties shall be entitled to any indemnification as a result of the CiC Termination.

 

4.2. The expiration of the Term will not affect any accrued rights, obligations or liabilities of either Party existing at such time.

 

5. SPECIFICATIONS

 

5.1. The Seller must use reasonable endeavours to ensure that Product sold and delivered to the Buyer in accordance with this Agreement meets the Target Specifications, and the Product shall not be mixed with domestic garbage and other waste rocks.
   
5.2. If the Shipment does not meet the Target Specifications following a determination in accordance with Clause 9, Schedule 1 and Schedule 2:

 

  (a) If the Li2O content of the Product is greater than or equal to [●], the Buyer will not be entitled to reject the Shipment however the Benchmark Price will be adjusted in accordance with Schedule 2 where applicable. In such case, the Seller’s liability for failure to deliver Product conforming to the Target Specifications is limited to an adjustment to the Benchmark Price as provided for in Schedule 2 and the Buyer’s right to a Benchmark Price adjustment under that Clause is, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the sole and exclusive remedy of the Buyer for such non-conformance; or
     
  (b) If Li2O content of the Product is lower than [●], the Buyer may reject the Product, with title reverting back to the Seller without any further liability or obligation from either the Buyer or the Seller except that the Buyer must return the Product to the Seller upon which the Seller will refund to the Buyer the Pre-payment if already paid by the Buyer. Alternatively, the Buyer may accept the Product delivered by the Seller at a price to be renegotiated by Parties. If the Buyer ultimately chooses to reject the Products, the Seller shall bear the sea freight, port loading and unloading fee, testing fee and other expenses paid by the Buyer.
     
  (c) If the Li2O content, Fe2O3 content, and K2O content of the Product cannot meet the target specifications in Schedule 1 in three consecutive Shipments, the Buyer shall be entitled to terminate this Agreement.

 

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6. SHIPMENT SCHEDULE

 

6.1. No later than thirty (30) days prior to the start of a Contract Year, the Seller shall determine an annual shipment schedule in order to meet the Minimum Quantity requirements in such Contract Year in accordance with Clause 3.1, with due observance to the Permitted Tolerance (the “Shipment Schedule”). Such Shipment Schedule shall include:

 

  (a) the number of Shipments which the Seller will provide to the Buyer in the relevant Contract Year on a FOB basis;
     
  (b) the quantity of Product to be contained in each Shipment and loaded on board each Vessel in accordance with FOB delivery requirements; and
     
  (c) the proposed delivery dates for each Shipment.

 

6.1.1. The Shipment Schedule, including the relevant quantities and shipments information for the first Contract Year shall be finalized up to [●].

 

6.2. The Shipment Schedule for the first Contract Year shall be prepared considering that the Seller shall reach a Stable Production on [●]. If, for any reason, the Seller cannot reach a Stable Production to such date, the Seller shall be entitled to postpone and adjust the Shipment Schedule accordingly, provided that the Seller informs about such postponement with at least three (3) months in advance and such postponement does not exceed twelve (12) months. Such postponement will be considered permitted postponement by the Parties and will not constitute a breach or require any remediation under this Agreement.
   
6.3. Without prejudice to the above, no later than on the first Business Day of each month of a Contract Year (“M”), Seller shall provide Buyer with a rolling forecast for the 3 following calendar months, i.e., for the first (“M+1”), the second (“M+2”) and the third (“M+3”) following M (the “Rolling Forecast”).
   
6.4. If the quantities of Product defined in the Rolling Forecast is no more or less than 15% of the monthly quantities set forth in the Shipment Schedule, the Rolling Forecast shall be binding upon the Parties.
   
6.5. On the other hand, if the quantities of Product defined in the Rolling Forecast exceed the range of more or less fifteen percent (15%) of the quantities set forth in the Shipment Schedule, the Rolling Forecast shall be subject to Buyer’s approval, which shall not be unreasonably denied. In the event of a Rolling Forecast not approved by Buyer pursuant this Section, the Parties shall discuss in good faith and agree on the best alternative to accommodate the quantities of Product out of the range set forth above.
   
6.6. Without prejudice to the above, within any given Contract Year, the Seller shall sell and deliver and the Buyer shall purchase and take delivery of the Minimum Quantity, subject to the Permitted Tolerance only.
   
6.7. The Buyer and Seller acknowledge that there will be a more or less ten percent (10%) shipping tolerance that applies to each Shipment (which the Buyer and Seller acknowledge is not in addition to the tolerance referred to in Clause 3.1 or Clause 6.3).

 

7. PAYMENT TERMS

 

7.1. Pre-payment.

 

  (a) The Buyer irrevocably undertakes and agrees to pay the Pre-payment Amount as directed by the Seller on the terms and conditions of this Clause 7.1. The Buyer and the Seller agree that the payment of the Pre-payment Amount is a fundamental term of this Agreement and a material inducement for the Seller entering into this Agreement. The Pre-payment will be made after the completion of the equity investment payment under the Securities Purchase Agreement between the Buyer and Atlas Corp.

 

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  (b) The Pre-payment will be within fifteen (15) Business Days, counted as of the date the Seller informs the Buyer about the obtainment of the Mining Licenses required for the mining and processing of the ore that will be used to produce the Products and the Environmental Permits required for the construction of the processing plant are obtained. The payment shall be made to the bank account nominated below by wire transfer in immediately available funds (provided that Seller may change the bank account details that will receive the funds up to five (5) Business Days in advance to the payment date):
     
[●]
     
  (c) The Buyer shall provide the Seller with a transfer receipt on the same Business Day on which the Buyer makes the transfer above.
     
  (d) The Pre-payment Amount shall be used in the payments due for the Products to be purchased under this Agreement, and the Pre-payment Amount will be fully deducted from the Shipment Invoices and/or Final Invoices, as applicable, pursuant to the PPAI mechanism, which will be completed within six months after the commencement of the first shipment. The Pre-payment Amount shall be deducted on a pro rata basis based on the PPAI deductions from the Shipment Invoices and/or the Final Invoices, as applicable, pursuant to the mechanisms set forth in Clauses 7.2 and 7.3.
     
  (e) The Seller shall pay to the Buyer a financing fee calculated on the Pre-payment Amount from the date of Pre-payment to the date of Pre-payment deduction, with a fixed interest rate of 3% per annum.
     
  (f) The Seller shall regularly notify the Buyer of the progress of the Project on a monthly basis. If the Project is ultimately unsuccessful, the Seller shall refund the full Pre-payment amount to the Buyer within fifteen (15) Business Days after receiving the Buyer’s notice.
     
  (g) If the actual time of the first shipment is more than three months beyond the first shipment schedule agreed in accordance with Clause 6, the Seller shall refund the full Pre-payment amount and interest to the Buyer.
     
  (h) Within 11 months from the date after the Pre-payment is paid by the Buyer, the Seller must complete the first shipment of the Products. If the Seller fails to complete the first shipment of the Products for any reason (except force majeure), the Seller shall fully refund the Pre-payment amount and interest in the twelfth month from the date of Pre-payment.

 

7.2. Shipment Invoice.

 

  (a) The Seller shall provide a shipment invoice to the Buyer after obtaining the Certificate of Analysis issued by the Independent Testing Agency and the Bill of Lading with the outstanding payment amount for the Product (which is to be paid by the Buyer) (the “Shipment Invoice”).
     
  (b) The Shipment Invoice shall set forth an amount calculated as follows: Product quantity indicated in the Bill of Lading and the Certificate of Weight (the “Shipment Quantity”) multiplied by the Benchmark Price available at the date of issuance of the Bill of Lading less the PPAI (the “Shipment Invoice Benchmark Price”).

 

For reference:

 

SIBP (USD)=SQ(DMT)x SBP(USD)-PPAI(USD)

 

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Where:

 

“SIBP” means the Shipment Invoice Benchmark Price, expressed in US dollars.

 

“SQ” means the Shipment Quantity, expressed in DMT.

 

“SBP” means the Benchmark Price available at the date of issuance of the Bill of Lading, expressed in US dollars.

 

“PPAI” means the amount to be deducted for the purpose of offsetting and repaying the Pre-payment Amount, as defined in this Agreement.

 

  (c) If applicable, the Shipment Invoice Benchmark Price may be adjusted according to the “Benchmark Price Adjustment” formula provided in Schedule 2 (Clause 8) of this Agreement.
     
  (d) The Seller shall submit to the Buyer the Shipment Invoice Benchmark Price for confirmation in a maximum of two (2) business days before issuing the Shipment Invoice; if not confirmed within this period, Seller will carry on with the issuance of the Shipment Invoice.
     
  (e) The Seller will be entitled to drawdown the amount equivalent to the Shipment Invoice Benchmark Price from the Letter of Credit immediately after obtaining the Certificate of Analysis issued by the Independent Testing Agency and the Bill of Lading and the submission to the Buyer by the Seller with the original and copy of the Certificate of Weight, Certificate of Analysis, Certificate of Origin and Bill of Lading (the “Shipment Payment”).

 

7.3. Final Invoice.

 

  (a) The Seller shall provide a final invoice to the Buyer after five (5) Business Days beginning on the Sixty-first (61st) day after the date of issuance of the Bill of Lading with the amount outstanding for the Product (which is to be paid by the Buyer) (the “Final Invoice”).
     
  (b) The Seller shall provide a final invoice to the Buyer after five (5) Business Days beginning on the Sixty-first (61st) day after the date of issuance of the Bill of Lading for an amount calculated as follows: Shipment Quantity multiplied by the Benchmark Price during each day of the Final Pricing Period less the PPAI less the Shipment Payment (the “Final Invoice Benchmark Price”). And the “Final Pricing Period” will be the Five (5)-Business Day period beginning on the Sixty-first (61) day after the date of issuance of the Bill of Lading.

 

For reference:

 

FIBP (USD)=SQ(DMT)x FBP(USD)-PPAI(USD)-SP(USD)

 

Where:

 

“FIBP” means the Final Invoice Benchmark Price, expressed in US dollars.

 

“SQ” means the Shipment Quantity, expressed in DMT.

 

“FBP” means the average of the Benchmark Price during the Final Pricing Period, expressed in US dollars.

 

“PPAI” means the amount to be deducted for the purpose of offsetting and repaying the Pre-payment Amount, as defined in this Agreement.

 

“SP” means the Shipment Payment.

 

  (c) The Seller shall submit to the Buyer the Final Invoice Benchmark Price for confirmation in a maximum of two (2) Business Days before issuing the Final Invoice; if not confirmed within this period, Seller will carry on with the issuance of the Final Invoice.

 

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(i) For the avoidance of doubt, if the Final Invoice Benchmark Price is lower than 0, then the Seller needs to pay the buyer by T.T. an amount equal to the Final Invoice Benchmark Price within ten (10) Business Days; if the Final Invoice Benchmark Price is higher than 0, then the buyer needs to pay the seller by T.T. an amount equal to the Final Invoice Benchmark Price within ten (10) Business Days.

 

7.4. The following documents must be provided to the Buyer by the Seller as soon as practicable after the Bill of Lading date for the Shipment:

 

  (i) the Certificate of Weight;
     
  (ii) the Certificate of Analysis;
     
  (iii) the Certificate of Origin; and
     
  (iv) the Bill of Lading;
     
  (v) additional copy of the Final Invoice.

 

7.5. Both the Shipment Invoice and the Final Invoice must be denominated, and all payments must be made, in USD.
   
7.6 If in any transaction, when the market changes cause one Party to materially lose while the other Party materially gains, the Parties should agree to temporarily adjust the pricing scheme to correct this unfair situation. When the market continues to change and this situation disappears or reduces to regular market variability, the original pricing scheme will continue to be effective.

 

8. EMPLOYMENT OF VESSELS AND LOADING REQUIREMENTS

 

8.1. Buyer to provide Vessel

 

  (a) The Buyer is, as between the Buyer and the Seller, responsible for providing the Vessels onto which the Shipments will be loaded. The Shipments are to be loaded by the Seller on to the Vessel at the Port of Loading on a FOB basis at the Seller’s time, risk and expense, considering FOB standards.
     
  (b) Each Vessel must comply with all Applicable Laws and regulations at the Port of Loading and is to be/have:

 

  (i) suitable in all respects for the transportation of the Product;
     
  (ii) suitable in all respects for the nominated Port of Loading and Port of Discharge the requirements of which in each case shall be the responsibility of the Buyer;
     
  (iii) a maximum of twenty (20) years old unless otherwise agreed to by the Seller;
     
  (iv) compliant with all relevant requirements for trading to/from the Port of Loading and the Port of Discharge; and
     
  (v) entered for Protection and Indemnity (P&I) risks with a P&I Club member of the International Group of P&I Clubs.

 

In furtherance of what is stated above, upon the Buyer having provided the Seller with information referred to in Clause 8.2 below the Seller shall be permitted to reject the relevant Vessel on written notice to the Buyer should it reasonably believe that same will be unsuitable or non-compliant as contemplated above. The Buyer shall be bound by any such rejection and shall be obliged to propose an alternative Vessel. Notwithstanding the above, any acceptance by the Seller of a Vessel shall in no way be deemed to be a representation by the Seller that the Vessel is suitable or compliant with the requirements of this Clause 8.1(b) nor shall it absolve the Buyer from its obligations in terms of this clause, which obligations shall remain the sole responsibility of the Buyer.

 

 

 

(c) All consequences and related expenses arising as a result of:

 

(i) all delays due to a Vessel being unable to proceed to the discharge berth at the Port of Loading or to be loaded or unloaded;

 

(ii) any delays in the Vessel proceeding to the discharge berth at the Port of Loading or in loading or unloading; and/or

 

(iii) a failure by the Buyer to comply with the provisions of this Clause 8.1.,

 

will be solely for the Buyer’s account. The Buyer furthermore agrees to indemnify the Seller in full against any and all loss, damages and/or expenses incurred by the Seller as a result of any of the above and to reimburse such amounts to the Seller forthwith upon receipt of a demand and corresponding invoice therefor. But if the Vessel incurs demurrage and other expenses at the Port of Loading due to the Seller’s reasons, the expenses will be borne by the Seller.

 

8.2. Notification of Vessel

 

  (a) For the Shipment, the Seller will notify the Buyer at least fourteen (14) days prior to the intended shipping date that the Shipment is ready for delivery (the “Ready Date Notice”). The Buyer must nominate the Vessel no later than fourteen (14) days after receipt of the Ready Date Notice and the Vessel must commence its voyage to the Port of Loading no later than ten (10) days thereafter.
     
  (b) The Buyer will notify the Seller at least twelve (12) days before the anticipated arrival date of the Vessel at the Port of Loading (the “Vessel Arrival Date”) with the following details:

 

  (i) Vessel name, flag of registry, year built; and
     
  (ii) Vessel description (and accompanying photographs) including:
     
  (ii.1) summer salt water draft;
     
  (ii.2) length overall (LOA);
     
  (ii.3) beam;
     
  (ii.4) number of hatches/holds;
     
  (ii.5) type of hatchcovers and dimensions of same;
     
  (ii.6) gross and net registered tonnages;
     
  (ii.7) cargo gear;
     
  (ii.8) intended stow plan; and
     
  (ii.9) intended itinerary and estimated time of arrival at the Port of Loading.

 

  (c) The Buyer must give notice to the Seller (which may be given via the nominated port agents), at the following intervals, of the Vessel’s arrival at the Port of Loading: seven (7) days, five (5) days, three (3) days, two (2) days and one (1) day.
     
  (d) The Buyer must notify the Seller in writing (which may be given via the Buyer’s nominated port agents), as soon as possible, of any significant change in the estimated time of arrival of the Vessel at the Port of Loading. In the event that the Seller incurs any expenses whatsoever as a result of any delay by the Buyer’s Vessel in arriving at the Port of Loading timeously, the Buyer shall reimburse such expenses in full upon receipt of a demand and corresponding invoice therefor from the Seller.
     
  (e) The Buyer’s nominated carrier may provide the notices required to be provided by the Buyer under this Clause 8.2 to the Seller on the Buyer’s behalf.

 

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9. WEIGHING, SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS

 

9.1. The Seller and the Buyer will comply with the procedures set out in Schedule 2 for the weighing, sampling and analysis of Product at the Port of Loading.

 

10. LETTER OF CREDIT REQUIREMENTS

 

10.1. Letter of Credit

 

  (a) The Buyer shall provide a signed Letter of Credit to the order of the Seller at its bank (as notified in written by the Seller to the Buyer) within ten (10) Business Days after the Seller provides the Certificate of Spodumene Readiness for loading of the relevant Shipment for one hundred and ten percent (110%) of the Provisional Shipment Payment. It is understood and agreed that the loading of the Product at the Port of Loading shall not commence unless and until the Seller has received the Letter of Credit as aforesaid.
     
  (b) The “Provisional Shipment Payment” shall be determined based on (i) the quantity of Product informed in the Certificate of Spodumene Readiness times (ii) the Benchmark Price available at the date of issuance of the Certificate of Spodumene Readiness and then less PPAI, expressed in US dollars.
     
  (c) The Letter of Credit must be:

 

  (i) in USD;
     
  (ii) in favour of the Seller as beneficiary capable of being drawn down by the Seller on the basis of an invoice addressed to the Buyer;
     
  (iii) valid for a minimum of forty-five (45) days after loading of the Shipment;
     
  (iv) with a bank having a Standard & Poor’s long-term credit rating of at least A- (or its equivalent from Moody’s) or other acceptable banks agreed upon by the Parties;
     
  (v) governed by the laws of the United States of America or another jurisdiction acceptable to the Seller;
     
  (vi) for the amount of one hundred and ten percent (110%) of the Provisional Shipment Payment; and
     
  (vii) substantially in the form set out in Schedule 3.

 

  (d) The Buyer is deemed to have complied with its obligation to pay both the Shipment Invoice and the Final Invoice under this Agreement when the Seller has received the full proceeds of the Letter of Credit in immediately available funds, provided that if the Seller fails to receive any or all proceeds of such Letter of Credit in immediately available funds is due to reasons attributable to the Seller, the Buyer shall not be deemed as breaching its obligations under this Agreement.
     
  (e) The Buyer must arrange for its bank to provide the Seller with a copy of the Letter of Credit by email or facsimile on the day on which it is opened. All charges in respect of opening the Letter of Credit will be borne by the Buyer. The Buyer agrees that it will amend the Letter of Credit to: increase its amount; extend the period of its validity; and/or make any other appropriate modifications as is necessary to provide for payment in full of any amount which may become due to the Seller in respect of any Shipment under this Agreement as determined by the Shipment Invoice or the Final Invoice, if the original Letter of Credit becomes inadequate at any relevant point in time for any reason. The Buyer must at its cost provide the amended or supplemented Letter of Credit to the Seller within five (5) days of receipt of a request from the Seller.

 

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  (f) The Seller has no obligation to deliver any Product to the Buyer if the Seller does not receive the Pre-payment Amount in accordance with Clause 7.1 or if the Seller does not receive the Letter of Credit in accordance with Clause 10.1(a).
     
  (g) If the Buyer fails to pay the Pre-payment Amount, open a Letter of Credit for or accept a Shipment or otherwise prevents or delays a Shipment from occurring:

 

    (i) the Seller may choose in its absolute discretion to delay or cancel the Shipment by written notice to the Buyer, and the Seller has no obligation to make good the Shipment at any time;
       
    (ii) the Buyer remains liable for payment in respect of the Shipment notwithstanding the subsequent delay or cancellation by the Seller under this clause; and
       
    (iii) the Buyer indemnifies the Seller against all costs incurred by the Seller as a result of the delay or cancellation of any Shipment due to the failure of the Buyer.

 

  (h) In the event of any Dispute regarding the Shipment Invoice Benchmark Price, the Seller will be entitled to immediately draw down the Letter of Credit for the full value whilst the Dispute between the Parties is resolved in accordance with Clause 19.
     
  (g) This Clause 10.1(g) shall survive termination of this Agreement.

 

11. DELIVERY, TITLE AND RISK

 

11.1. The Seller delivers the Product when the Seller makes the Product available to the Buyer FOB at the Port of Loading, in accordance with Incoterms 2020. If there is any inconsistency between Incoterms 2020 and the terms of this Agreement, this Agreement will prevail.
   
11.2. Risk in the Product passes from the Seller to the Buyer on the Product being delivered (by being placed on board the Vessel at the Port of Loading) and upon issuance of the Bill of Lading.
   
11.3. Title in the Product in the Shipment will pass from the Seller to the Buyer upon full clear payment of the Final Invoice.
   
11.4. The Buyer acknowledges that it is acquiring the Product from the Seller for its own or its Affiliates use. The Buyer covenants in favor of Seller that it will not sell, offer to sell, agree to sell or enter into any transaction relating to the resale or other disposal of the Product (collectively a “Prohibited Resale Act”) without the prior written consent of the Seller (which consent may be withheld at its absolute discretion). The Buyer acknowledges that a Prohibited Resale Act could cause loss and damage to the Seller and its business, and the covenants given by the Buyer in this Clause are fundamental terms of this Agreement and are an inducement to the Seller to sell the Product to the Buyer. In addition to any action for loss and damage or any other rights or remedies that the Seller may pursue against the Buyer, a breach of, or a reasonable expectation by the Seller that the Buyer may breach this clause entitles the Seller to (a) seek injunctive relief to prevent such a breach; or (b) terminate this Agreement with immediate effect.

 

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12. EXPORT & IMPORT LICENSES

 

12.1. The Seller is responsible for obtaining all export licenses required to export the Product under this Agreement and the Buyer is responsible for obtaining all import licenses required to import the Product under this Agreement.

 

13. SANCTIONS

 

13.1. The Buyer warrants that it is not, and is not owned, Controlled or in any way affiliated with, any Sanctioned Person and is not subject to any Sanctions.
   
13.2. Subject to Clause 15.1 of this Agreement, the Buyer indemnifies the Seller against any loss or damage arising in connection with a breach of this Clause 13.1.

 

14. REPRESENTATIONS & WARRANTIES

 

14.1. Each of the Parties represents and warrants that:

 

  (a) it is a corporation validly in existence;
     
  (b) it has full legal capacity and power, and holds necessary authorisations to enter into this Agreement and carry out relevant functions and perform relevant obligations under this Agreement; and
     
  (c) it has not suffered an Insolvency Event.

 

14.2. The Seller represents and warrants to the Buyer that:

 

  (a) it has the exclusive right to sell the Product; and
     
  (b) the Product in the Shipment will be transferred to the Buyer free and clear from any encumbrance on title created by through or under the Seller.
     
  (c) The Seller must use reasonable endeavours to ensure that Product sold and delivered to the Buyer in accordance with this Agreement meets the Target Specifications.

 

14.3. The Buyer represents and warrants and undertakes to the Seller that:

 

  (a) it will timeously accept delivery of all quantities of the Product sold to it in terms of this Agreement and, accordingly, will ensure that all Vessels arrive at the Port of Loading timeously and in the agreed upon condition; and
     
  (b) it will make timeous payment in terms of this Agreement for all Product sold and delivered to it in terms of this Agreement.

 

14.4. All other representations and warranties of the Seller not expressly stated in this Agreement are excluded to the extent permitted by the Applicable Law.

 

15. LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY

 

15.1. Other than as expressly provided in this Agreement, under no circumstances will either Party be liable to the other Party for Consequential Loss of any nature.
   
15.2. Each Party will defend, indemnify and hold the other Party harmless from and against any loss or damage arising from:

 

  (a) fines and penalties;
     
  (b) personal injury to, or damage to the property of, third persons (including the indemnified Party’s employees),

 

incurred by or claimed against the indemnified Party, to the extent any such loss or damage is caused by the other Party’s negligence, wilful misconduct or violation of law in the performance or non-performance of its obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement.

 

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15.3. The exclusion of liability under Clause 15.1 will not apply to amounts recoverable by a Party under Clauses 7, and 23.
   
15.4 This Clause 15 survives termination of this Agreement.

 

16. ASSIGNMENT

 

16.1. Except as provided in this Clause 16, neither Party may assign its rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the other Party.
   
16.2. The Seller may:

 

  (a) transfer its rights and obligations to a third party that is the purchaser or transferee of the Project with the consent of the Buyer; and
     
  (b) grant security (whether by way of charge, mortgage or otherwise) over all or any part of its right, title and interest in and to this Agreement (and all proceeds to be received under it) in favour of a financier (or a security trustee or agent on behalf of one or more financiers).

 

17. DEFAULT AND TERMINATION

 

17.1. For the purposes of this Agreement, the following events each constitute an event of default (each an “Event of Default”):

 

  (a) the Buyer or Seller is in breach of a material covenant, agreement or obligation under this Agreement (other than non-payment) and fails to remedy the breach within thirty (30) days of written notice from the non-defaulting of them specifying the breach and requiring it to be remedied;
     
  (b) the Buyer or Seller suffers an Insolvency Event;
     
  (c) a delay by the Buyer in making any payment when due of any sum payable under this Agreement and such delay exceeds five (5) Business Days. For clarity, this includes the payment by the Buyer of both the Shipment Invoice and the Final Invoice;
     
  (d) the Buyer fails to take delivery of the Shipment by the latest date specified for the Shipment;
     
  (e) in relation to the Seller, the Shipment of Products is more than four (4) months behind the Shipment Schedule in the Rolling Forecast by its own and exclusive absence of performance in the case of duly proven fraud, serious misconduct, wilful misconduct or gross negligence other than where the Seller is excused from making Shipments under the Shipment Schedule under the terms of this Agreement;
     
  (f) the Buyer does not deliver the Letter of Credit to the Seller as contemplated in Clause 10.1; and
     
  (g) in the event that the Buyer has breached any of its obligations under this Clause 33 or is subject to Sanctions.

 

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17.2. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default by the Buyer or Seller, in addition to any other rights or remedies the non-defaulting Party may have at common law, equity or otherwise, the non-defaulting Party may terminate this Agreement by written notice to the other Party.
   
17.3. Upon the occurrence of an event of default of the kind referred to in Clause 17.1(c) in respect of the Buyer, the Seller may, in addition to any other rights or remedies it may have at law, equity or otherwise repossess any Product which has been delivered but has not been paid for.
   
17.4. The termination of this Agreement for any reason whatsoever will be without prejudice to any obligations or rights on the part of a Party which have accrued prior to such termination and will not affect or prejudice any provision of this Agreement which is expressly or by implication provided to come into effect on, or continue in effect after such termination.

 

18. FORCE MAJEURE

 

18.1. For the purposes of this Clause 18, “Force Majeure” means any act, event or cause beyond the reasonable control of the Buyer or Seller claiming relief under this clause which is not due to the fault or negligence of that Party and which that Party is not reasonably able to prevent or overcome and which includes (but is not limited to):

 

  (a) (provided that they meet the aforementioned requirements) acts of God, pandemic, epidemic, terrorism, perils of sea, war, sabotage, riot, cyclone, earthquake, landslide, explosion, fire, strike and other labour difficulties or expropriation;
     
  (b) significant change of government policies regulating the import and export of Product, compliance with any demand, order, direction or requirement of any government agency or authority, restraint by or of any government agency or authority;
     
  (c) insufficient Product being available for the Shipment due to an event of force majeure under any mining or crushing contract entered into by or on behalf of the Seller under which operations are carried out on all or part of the Project; and
     
  (d) inability to load or ship the Shipment due to blockage of the access channel at the Port of Loading, blockage of the access channel at the Port of Discharge.

 

18.2. If the Buyer or Seller is or reasonably expects to be prevented from performing any of its obligations under this Agreement as a result of Force Majeure, after having knowledge of the act, event or cause constituting Force Majeure it must promptly give to the other Party notice of the nature of the Force Majeure, which obligations the notifying Party is precluded from performing (the “Affected Obligations”), the extent to which the Force Majeure precludes the notifying Party from performing its obligations (the “Precluded Extent”) and the likely duration of the disability resulting therefrom and must further notify the other Party forthwith upon cessation of any such disability.
   
18.3. The affected Party’s obligation to perform the Affected Obligations will, to the Precluded Extent, be suspended for the duration of the actual delay arising directly out of the Force Majeure (the “Actual Delay”).
   
18.4. The other Party’s obligations to perform any obligations dependent on the Affected Obligations will be suspended until the affected Party resumes performance.
   
18.5. A Party notifying Force Majeure must use reasonable endeavours to overcome such Force Majeure or remedy their disability resulting therefrom as promptly as possible provided that a Party will not be obliged to settle any strike or other labour difficulty upon terms which are not satisfactory to that Party (in its absolute discretion). The notifying Party must resume performance of its obligations under this Agreement without delay when such Force Majeure event is removed.

 

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18.6. If the Buyer is the affected Party and is unable to accept the Shipment as a consequence of the event of Force Majeure:

 

  (a) the Seller may sell to a third party any Product otherwise required to be delivered to the Buyer under this Agreement during the period of the suspension; and
     
  (b) the Buyer will forgo its entitlement to any Product sold by the Seller to a third party under this clause.

 

18.7. If Force Majeure continues for a consecutive period of more than one hundred and eighty (180) days, then the Party not affected may, at any time until the Force Majeure ends, terminate this Agreement by notice to the affected Party.
   
18.8. The foregoing provisions of this Clause 18 will not apply to excuse performance by a Party in the case of failure of any Party in performing any obligation to pay money when due under this Agreement, except that the Buyer will be relieved of its obligation to pay for Product not taken to the extent the Buyer is relieved from its obligation to take Product under this Clause 18.

 

19. ARBITRATION

 

19.1. If any Dispute arises between the Parties, then the Parties agree to negotiate in good faith for a period of not less than thirty (30) days from the date of notification of the Dispute to attempt to resolve the Dispute. If the Parties are unable to resolve the Dispute within that period, any Party may refer the matter in Dispute to binding arbitration. The arbitration will be administered in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC Arbitration Rules”) in force at the time of commencement of the arbitration (which rules are deemed to be incorporated by reference in this clause) by three arbitrators appointed in accordance with those rules, except as may otherwise be agreed by the Parties. The seat of arbitration will be Singapore. The language of the arbitration will be English.
   
19.2. The decision of the arbitration will be final and binding on the Parties and may be enforced by the courts of any relevant country. Each Party may be legally represented at the arbitration.
   
19.3. The costs of the arbitration must be borne by the unsuccessful Party, however the arbitral tribunal may apportion costs amongst the Parties under the SIAC Arbitration Rules.
   
19.4. During the period when a Dispute is being resolved, the Parties must in all respects other than the issue(s) in Dispute, continue their performance of this Agreement.

 

20. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

 

20.1. Unless otherwise agreed by the disclosing Party, all Confidential Information must be kept confidential and must not be used or disclosed except as required pursuant to this Agreement or:

 

  (a) with the prior written consent of the Party to whom the information relates;
     
  (b) to an Affiliate to the extent necessary;
     
  (c) to the extent required pursuant to an Applicable Law or the rules of a recognised stock exchange, having first given opportunity to the disclosing party to review the proposed disclosure;
     
  (d) to bona fide potential assignees; and
     
  (e) to independent consultants, advisers, prospective financiers or investors, contractors and employees of the Parties whose duties reasonably require such disclosure.

 

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20.2. Clause 20.1 will not apply to information which:

 

  (a) is or hereafter becomes publicly known through no breach of an obligation arising under this Agreement;
     
  (b) was known to the recipient at the time the information was made known;
     
  (c) becomes known to the recipient from a source other than a Party without a breach of this Agreement; or
     
  (d) is required to be disclosed pursuant to an Applicable Law or the rules of a recognised stock exchange.

 

20.3. Each Party agrees not to issue any press release or otherwise make any public disclosure with respect to this Agreement without the prior written approval of the other Party, unless, and only to the extent, required pursuant to Applicable Law or the rules of a recognised stock exchange (in which case, to the extent practicable, the Party intending to make such disclosure shall give reasonable advance notice thereof to the other Party and give effect to any changes reasonably requested by the other Party).
   
20.4. This Clause 20 survives termination of this Agreement.

 

21. EXCLUSION OF VIENNA CONVENTION

 

21.1. The Parties agree and acknowledge that the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods shall not apply to this Agreement or to the sale and purchase of Product pursuant to this Agreement, now and at all times hereafter.

 

22. NOTICE

 

22.1. Any notice or other communication in connection with this Agreement (“Notice”) is to be in writing, signed by the Party giving it and it may be:

 

  (a) left at the address of the addressee by hand or courier;
     
  (b) sent by facsimile to the facsimile number of the addressee; or
     
  (c) sent by e-mail to the email address of the addressee,

 

the particulars of which are as follows:

 

Seller

 

Address: [●]
Attention: [●]
E-mail: [●]

 

Buyer

 

Address: [●]
Attention: [●]
E-mail: [●]

 

or any other address or number which is notified by one Party to the other Party in writing.

 

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22.2. A Notice given in accordance with Clause 22.1 takes effect when taken to be received (or at a later time specified in it), and is taken to be received:

 

  (a) if hand delivered, on delivery;
     
  (b) if sent by prepaid post, on delivery;
     
  (c) if sent by email:

 

    (i) at the time shown in the delivery confirmation report generated by the sender’s email system; or
       
    (ii) if the sender’s email system does not generate a delivery confirmation report within twelve (12) hours of the time the email is sent, unless the sender receives a return email notification that the email was not delivered, undeliverable or similar, at the time which is twelve (12) hours from the time the email was sent,

 

but if the delivery, receipt or transmission is not on a Business Day or is after 5.00pm on a Business Day, the Notice is taken to be received at 9.00am on the next Business Day.

 

23. TAXES, DUTIES ETC

 

23.1. The Seller is responsible for payment of all taxes, duties, excise, charges and imposts whether now or in the future levied or charged on the Seller’s activities or the Product sold under this Agreement up to when risk in the Product passes to the Buyer.
   
23.2. The Buyer is responsible for payment of all taxes, duties, excise, charges and imposts whether now or in the future levied or charged on the Buyer’s activities or the Product sold under this Agreement at the time or after risk in the Product passes to the Buyer.
   
23.3. All and all payments by the Buyer to the Seller under or pursuant to this Agreement or on account of any obligation hereunder shall be made free and clear and without reduction for withholding for any taxes, provided that if the Buyer is required by Applicable Law (as determined in the good faith discretion of the Buyer) to deduct or withhold any taxes from such payments then (a) the amount payable by the Buyer shall be increased so that after making all required deductions or withholdings the Seller receives an amount equal to the amount it would have received had no such deductions or withholdings been made and (b) the Buyer shall make such deductions, timely pay the full amount deducted to the relevant governmental authority in accordance with Applicable Law and provide the Seller with official receipts or other evidence satisfactory to the Seller of each such payment.

 

24. GOVERNING LAW

 

24.1. This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England or Wales.

 

25. ENTIRE AGREEMENT

 

25.1. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the Parties with respect to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement replaces all previous agreements and understandings among the Parties with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 

26. VARIATION

 

26.1. No modification of this Agreement will be made except by mutual agreement of the Buyer and Seller in writing.
   
26.2. The exercise of a right partially or on one occasion does not prevent any further exercise of that right in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Neither a forbearance to exercise a right nor a delay in the exercise of a right operates as an election between rights or a variation of the terms of this Agreement.

 

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27. RELATIONSHIP

 

27.1. This Agreement does not create a relationship of employment, agency, joint venture, legal representation, or partnership between the Parties.

 

28. FURTHER ASSURANCES

 

28.1. Each Party must do all things and execute all further documents necessary to give full effect to this Agreement and their obligations under it.

 

29. SEVERABILITY

 

29.1. Any provision of, or the application of any provision of, this Agreement or any right, power, authority, discretion or remedy conferred by this Agreement that is prohibited in any jurisdiction is, in that jurisdiction, ineffective only to the extent of that prohibition.
   
29.2. Any provision of, or the application of any provision of, this Agreement that is void, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction does not affect the validity, legality or enforceability of that provision in any other jurisdiction or of the remaining provisions in that or any other jurisdiction.

 

30. COUNTERPARTS

 

30.1. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts (including by way of electronic signature), each of which shall be deemed for all purposes to be an original and all such counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument. A copy of a signed counterpart:

 

  (a) shall be treated as an original counterpart;
     
  (b) is sufficient evidence of execution of the original; and
     
  (c) may be produced in evidence for all purposes in place of the original.

 

31. LIABILITY FOR EXPENSES

 

31.1. Each Party must pay its own expenses incurred in negotiating, and executing this Agreement.

 

32. ENGLISH AS GOVERNING LANGUAGE

 

32.1. This Agreement was prepared in the English and Chinese. The English version of this Agreement is the governing version. In the event of any deviations between the English and the Chinese version of this Agreement the English version will prevail.

 

33. ANTI-BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION

 

33.1. The Buyer represents and warrants to the Seller as follows:

 

  (a) that it will not engage in or tolerate any form of bribery or corruption whatsoever whether direct or indirect, including, without limitation, the making of (or authorisation of) an offer, payment or promise to pay anything of value to unlawfully influence any person, including in the form of money, property, gifts, promises to give, or anything else of value;
     
  (b) that it will not do, or omit to do, anything that may cause the Seller to be in breach of any Applicable Laws related to anti-bribery and anti-corruption or, for avoidance of doubt, subject to or in violation of Sanctions;
     
  (c) that from time to time, as required by the Seller, the Buyer will provide such information as reasonably required to establish that the Buyer has complied, and is complying, with all Applicable Laws related to anti-bribery and anti-corruption;
     
  (d) that it will otherwise comply with the Seller’s anti-bribery and corruption policy as advised from time to time; and

 

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33.2. The Buyer will:

 

  (a) maintain adequate internal controls over all transactions in relation to this Agreement, or made on behalf of the Seller;
     
  (b) properly record all transactions in relation to this Agreement or made on behalf of the Seller; and
     
  (c) maintain accurate books and records in relation to each transaction for a period of no less than seven (7) years from the date of such transaction.

 

34. THIRD PARTY RIGHTS

 

34.1. This Agreement shall not create any right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 2001 (2020 Revised Edition) of Singapore which is enforceable by any person which is not a Party.

 

35. NO WAIVER

 

35.1. Save as otherwise expressly provided herein, no waiver by any Party of any defaults by the other in the performance of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall operate or be construed as a waiver of any other or further default or defaults whether of a like or different character.
   
35.2. No failure or delay by either Party in exercising any right, power or privilege under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single partial exercise by that Party of any right, power or privilege preclude any further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege.

 

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SCHEDULE 1

 

Target Specifications

 

1. Chemical content:

 

[●]

 

The heavy metal content of the product (RoSH test report) shall not exceed the standard.

 

Except for the Li2O below [●] that shall allow Buyer to reject the Products or for Li2O, Fe2O3 or K2O that allow price adjustment, all other contents and specifications contained herein are merely informative and not applicable for assessment of Product.

 

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SCHEDULE 2

 

Weighing, Sampling and Analysis

 

1. Weight determination

 

  (a) The Independent Testing Agency will determine the weight of each delivery of Product at the Port of Loading. The Independent Testing Agency will issue a weight certificate (“Certificate of Weight”) for delivered Product on a wet basis (i.e. without deducting free moisture) and on a dry basis by deducting free moisture loss at the appropriate temperature having analysed the moisture content in the relevant sample.
     
  (b) The Parties may, at its own expense, have their representatives present at the time of such determination. The Seller must ensure that the Buyer’s representatives receive reasonable advance notice of any weight determination.
     
  (c) The Certificate of Weight issued under Clause 1(a) of this Schedule is final and binding for determining the DMT of that Shipment of Product.

 

2. Sampling and analysis

 

(a) The Independent Testing Agency will take representative samples of the Shipment of Product at the Port of Loading. The sample must be divided into at least eight parts:

 

    (i) two to be dispatched to the Buyer;
       
    (ii) two to be dispatched to the Seller;
       
    (ii) two to be used by the Independent Testing Agency; and
       
    (iii) two to be reserved for Umpire Analysis.

 

  (b) The Independent Testing Agency will analyse its sample for chemical and physical composition and for free moisture content and issue a certificate to the Seller and the Buyer (“Certificate of Analysis”) certifying the results of that analysis. It should indicate the Li2O, Fe2O3, K2O, mica, P2O5, MgO and moisture content of the Shipment.
     
  (c) Subject to Clause 5 of this Schedule, the Certificate of Analysis issued under Clause 2(b) of this Schedule is final and binding for chemical and physical specifications, mica content and the free moisture content of the Shipment of Product.

 

3. Sampling and analysis by the Buyer and Seller

 

  (a) The Parties may, at its own expense, perform (or procure the performance of) analysis on the sample provided by the Independent Testing Agency pursuant to Clause 2(a) of this Schedule.
     
  (b) The Buyer may analyse the Independent Testing Agency’s sample for chemical and physical composition, mica content and free moisture content. If the difference between the analysis conducted by the Buyer and the Independent Testing Agency is greater than the limits in Clause 4 of this Schedule, the Buyer must promptly forward to the Seller and the Independent Testing Agency a certificate showing the percentage of chemical contents, the mica content, the percentage of free moisture loss and the relevant screen analysis (“Buyer’s Certificate of Analysis”).
     
  (c) The Seller may analyse the Independent Testing Agency’s sample for chemical and physical composition, mica content and free moisture content. If the difference between the analysis conducted by the Seller and the Independent Testing Agency is greater than the limits in Clause 4 of this Schedule, the Seller must promptly forward to the Buyer and the Independent Testing Agency a certificate showing the percentage of chemical contents, the mica content, the percentage of free moisture loss and the relevant screen analysis (“Seller’s Certificate of Analysis”).

 

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(c) If:

 

    (i) the Parties elects not to procure analysis in accordance with this Clause 3 of this Schedule;
       
    (ii) the difference between the analysis conducted by the Buyer and the analysis conducted by the Independent Testing Agency is less than the limits in Clause 4 of this Schedule; or
       
    (iii) the Buyer’s Certificate of Analysis or the Seller’s Certificate of Analysis in accordance with Clause 3(b) of this Schedule is not received within thirty (30) days after the date on which the Buyer receives the sample,

 

then subject to Clause 5 of this Schedule, the Certificate of Analysis issued by the Independent Testing Agency in accordance with Clause 2(b) of this Schedule will be regarded as final and binding.

 

4. Analysis difference

 

  (a) If the difference in the analysis of samples by the Independent Testing Agency pursuant to Clause 2(b) of this Schedule, and the Buyer or the Seller pursuant to Clause 3 of this Schedule, is more than the limits set out in the following table, the Buyer and Seller must consult to reconcile such difference.

 

Specification   Limit for difference in analysis
Li2O   Greater than 0.2%

 

  (b) If, after consultation, the difference cannot be reconciled, then, the final analysis will be determined by an Independent Umpire and the determination of the Independent Umpire will be final and binding on the Buyer and Seller.

 

5. Umpire Analysis

 

  (a) The Independent Umpire, being an independent testing laboratory, must be chosen by the Buyer and Seller. If the Buyer and Seller fail to agree on the Independent Umpire, the Independent Umpire will be nominated by the Seller.
     
  (b) The Umpire Analysis must conduct its analysis as soon as possible.
     
  (c) The certified Umpire Analysis will be averaged with whichever of the Seller’s or the Buyer’s analysis is closer to the Umpire Analysis and the average so obtained will be accepted as final and binding by both the Buyer and Seller.
     
  (d) The cost of the Umpire Analysis will be borne equally between the Buyer and Seller.
     
  (e) Each Party may, at its own expense, have its representatives present during the Umpire Analysis conducted pursuant to this Clause 5 of this Schedule.

 

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6. Buyer’s representative may be present

 

The Buyer may nominate a representative as (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) to be present at the Port of Loading to witness the weighing, sampling and analysis performed by the Independent Test Agency under this Schedule. For the avoidance of doubt, the Seller’s representative may also be present.

 

7. Standards

 

All sampling and analysis under this Agreement must be carried out in accordance with a method mutually acceptable to the Buyer and Seller or failing agreement in accordance with internationally accepted industry standards effective on the date of Shipment.

 

8. Adjustment to Benchmark Price

 

As provided in Clause 5.2 of the Agreement, in the event the Buyer’s or Seller’s analysis conducted pursuant to this Schedule 2 or the Umpire’s analysis conducted pursuant to this Schedule 2 is different than the Independent Testing Agency’s analysis which prompts an adjustment to the Benchmark Price, the Benchmark Price shall be adjusted as follows:

 

 

Where:

 

“A” (Li2O/DMT) is the Li2O content per DMT for that shipment.

 

“Benchmark Price” means [●].

 

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SCHEDULE 3

 

Form of Letter of Credit

 

OPENING BANK: ● [an internationally recognized and reputable bank]

 

ADVISING BANK: ●

 

CONFIRMATION INSTRUCTION: Unconfirmed

 

FORM OF DOCUMENTARY CREDIT: Irrevocable, transferable, without Recourse

 

APPLICABLE RULES: UCP latest version

 

DATE AND PLACE OF EXPIRY: forty-five (45) days after first day of ten (10) day Lay/Can at the country of applicant

 

APPLICANT’S NAME AND ADDRESS:

 

 

 

BENEFICIARY’S NAME AND ADDRESS:

 

AMOUNT: US Dollar ●

 

LATEST DATE FOR SHIPMET: thirty (30) days after first day of ten (10) day Lay/Can at the country of beneficiary

 

PORT OF LOADING: ●

 

PORT OF DISCHAEGE: ●

 

PARTIAL SHIPMENTS: Allowed

 

TRANSHIPMENT: Prohibited

 

DESCRIPTION OF GOODS

 

Commodity: ●

 

Total Shipment Quantity: ● DMT

 

Total Goods Amount: USD ●

 

Price Term: ●

 

Packing: In Bulk

 

DOCUMENT REQUIRED:

 

(1) Singed invoice indicating L/C number
   
(2) Full set of clean on-board ocean bill of lading made out to order, blank endorsed, and marked freight “prepaid” and notify

 

 

(3) Certificate of weight
   
(4) Certificate of analysis
   
(5) Certificate of origin
   
(6) full set of insurance policy

 

PRESENTATION PERIOD: Within thirty (30) days after B/L date

 

SPECIAL CONDITIONS:

 

(1) T.T. Reimbursement is “prohibited”
   
(2) All banking charges outside China are for account of beneficiary
   
(3) Discrepancy charges incurred in China are for account of “applicant”, and discrepancy charges incurred outside China are for account of “beneficiary”.
   
(4) Charter party B/L is allowed.

 

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[Signature page of the Offtake and Sales Agreement between Atlas and Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group Co., Ltd., dated November 29, 2023]

 

EXECUTED by Atlas Lítio Brasil Ltda. by its duly authorised representative:   EXECUTED by Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group Co., Ltd. by its duly authorised representative:
     
/s/ Marc Fogassa   /s/ Meng Yan
Signature of Authorised Representative: Marc Fogassa   Signature of Authorised Representative: Meng Yan
     
Signature of Witness    
     
     
Name    
     
     
Name    

 

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EX-10.4 5 ex10-4.htm

 

Exhibit 10.4

 

CERTAIN INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENT, MARKED BY [●], HAS BEEN OMITTED BECAUSE IT IS BOTH NOT MATERIAL AND IS THE TYPE THAT THE REGISTRANT TREATS AS PRIVATE OR CONFIDENTIAL.

 

OFFTAKE AND SALES AGREEMENT

 

This Offtake and Sales Agreement is made on November 29, 2023 (the “Execution Date”), by and between:

 

(1) ATLAS LÍTIO BRASIL LTDA., a company incorporated under the laws of [●], with offices at [●] (the “Seller”); and

 

(2) SHENG WEI ZHI YUAN INTERNATIONAL LLIMITED, a company incorporated under the laws of [●], with offices at [●] (the “Buyer”).

 

WHEREAS:

 

(A) The Seller is seeking to develop a lithium project in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil (the “Project”), from which it or its Affiliates will produce Product (as defined below);

 

(B) The Seller and its Affiliates have or will have the rights to conduct mining operations and sell the Product from the Project;

 

(C) The Buyer desires to purchase the Product from Seller, and the Seller has the intention to sell the Product to a buyer that is interested in investing into the Project;

 

(D) In attention to the above, the Buyer has agreed to make available to the Seller the Pre-payment Amount (as defined below), under the terms and conditions set forth herein, as well as to invest in Seller’s parent company, Atlas Lithium Corporation (“Atlas Corp”) the Investment Amount (as defined below), pursuant to the terms of the Securities Purchase Agreement (as defined below), being such undertakings a material inducement for the Seller entering into this Agreement,

 

NOW, THEREFORE, the Parties agree as follows:

 

1. INTERPRETATION

 

1.1. Definitions.

 

The following definitions apply in this Agreement:

 

“Actual Delay” has the meaning given in Clause 18.3.

 

“Affected Obligations” has the meaning given in Clause 18.2.

 

“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person: (a) any other Person that directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, Controls, is controlled by, or is under common Control with, such Person, or (b) a company in which the Person beneficially owns at least 50% of the shares in that company.

 

“Agreement” means this agreement.

 

“Applicable Law” means: (a) any domestic or foreign statute, law (including common and civil law), treaty, code, ordinance, rule, regulation, restriction of by-law (zoning or otherwise); (b) any judgment, order, writ, injunction, decision, ruling, decree or award; (c) any regulatory policy, practice, request, guideline or directive; or (d) any franchise, licence, qualification, authorization, consent, exemption, waiver, right, permit or other approval of any governmental authority, binding on or affecting the Person referred to in the context in which the term is used or binding on or affecting the property of that Person, in each case whether or not having the force of law.

 

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“Benchmark Price” has the meaning given in Schedule 2 of this Agreement.

 

“Bill of Lading” means the bill of lading signed by the carrier of the Shipment that evidences receipt of the Shipment at the Port of Loading for delivery to the Port of Discharge.

 

“Business Day” means:

 

(a) for receiving notices under this Agreement, a day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday or bank holiday in the place where the notice is sent and the place where the notice is received;

 

(b) for making any payments under this Agreement, a day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday or bank holiday in Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in Hong Kong, and in Mainland China; and

 

(c) for all other purposes, a day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday or bank holiday in Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the City of New York, State of New York, USA, in [●].

 

“Buyer’s Certificate of Analysis” has the meaning set out in Schedule 2.

 

“Certificate of Analysis” has the meaning given in Clause 2(b) of Schedule 2.

 

“Certificate of Origin” means the document attesting that the Product the subject of the Shipment has been wholly obtained, produced, or processed in Brazil.

 

“Certificate of Spodumene Readiness” means a letter provided by the Seller stating that the quantity and quality of Product at the Port of Shipment is ready for shipment.

 

“Certificate of Weight” has the meaning given in Clause 1(a) of Schedule 2.

 

“Change in Control of the Seller” means the occurrence of any of the following, in one transaction or a series of related transactions: (a) any Person acquires beneficial ownership, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Seller that ensures to such Person Control over the Seller; (b) a consolidation, securities exchange, reorganization, arrangement or amalgamation of the Seller resulting in the shareholders of the Seller immediately prior to such event not owning the Control of the resulting entity’s securities outstanding immediately following such event; (c) the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all the assets of the Seller (other than a transfer of financial assets made in the ordinary course of business for the purpose of securitization or other ordinary course activities); (d) a liquidation or dissolution of the Seller; or (e) any similar event deemed by the board of directors of Seller in good faith to constitute a change in Control of the Seller.

 

“Confidential Information” means all information relating to a Party that is not in the public domain (other than as a result of breach of this Agreement), including but not limited to trade secrets, know-how, scientific, technical, product, market or pricing information relating to:

 

(a) the Product;

 

(b) the Project;

 

(c) a Party’s business; or

 

(d) this Agreement.

 

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“Consequential Loss” means any loss, damage, cost, expense or liability suffered or incurred by any person (including under an indemnity) whether arising in contract, tort (including for negligence), under statute or on any other basis in law or equity which is indirect or consequential including, without limitation and without being limited by the meaning of “indirect or consequential”, loss of revenue, loss of contract, loss of production, loss of goodwill, loss of use, loss of business opportunity, loss of profit, loss of anticipated profit or any similar loss or cost.

 

“Contract Year” means a period of twelve (12) consecutive Months during the Term beginning on January 1st and ending on the immediately following December 31st, with the first Contract Year of the Term beginning on notification from the Seller that Product is ready for Shipment.

 

“Control” in respect of an entity means an entity controls a second entity if the first entity has the capacity to determine the outcome of decisions about the second entity’s financial and operating policies. In determining whether the first entity has this capacity:

 

(a) the practical influence the first entity can exert (rather than the rights it can enforce) is the issue to be considered; and

 

(b) any practice or pattern of behaviour affecting the second entity’s financial or operating policies is to be taken into account (even if it involves a breach of an agreement or a breach of trust).

 

“Dispute” means a dispute, difference, controversy or claim between the Parties arising out of or in relation to or in connection with this Agreement, including any dispute, difference, controversy or claim as to the formation, validity, existence, or termination of this Agreement.

 

“DMT” means dry metric tonnes.

 

“Event of Default” has the meaning given in Clause 17.1.

 

“Final Invoice” has the meaning given in Clause 7.3.

 

“Final Invoice Benchmark Price” has the meaning given in Clause 7.3.

 

“Final Invoice Notice” has the meaning given in Clause 7.3.

 

“FOB” means Free Onboard.

 

“Force Majeure” has the meaning given in Clause 18.1.

 

“Incoterms 2020” means the International Chamber of Commerce rules for the use of domestic and international trade terms.

 

“Independent Umpire” means the analyst selected in accordance with Clause 5 of Schedule 2.

 

“Independent Testing Agency” means SGS or such other internationally independent industry recognised testing agency of similar level determined (i) by the Seller (acting reasonably) as regards the tests to be made at Port of Loading or (ii) by the Buyer (acting reasonably) as regards the tests to be made at Port of Discharge.

 

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“Insolvency Event” in respect of a Party means:

 

(a) it informs the other Party in writing or its creditors generally that it is insolvent or is financially unable to proceed with this Agreement;

 

(b) execution is levied against it by a creditor and is not stayed or discharged within twenty (20) Business Days;

 

(c) it fails to comply with, or have set aside, a statutory demand within ten (10) Business Days of the time for compliance;

 

(d) a meeting of creditors is called with a view to the Party entering a compromise or arrangement with its creditors;

 

(e) it enters a deed of company arrangement with its creditors;

 

(f) a receiver, trustee, controller or administrator is appointed to it;

 

(g) an application is made to a court for its winding up and not stayed or discontinued within ten (10) Business Days;

 

(h) a winding up order is made in respect of it;

 

(i) a resolution is made that it be wound up;

 

(j) any analogous or equivalent event to any of the events described in paragraphs (a) to (i) happens in any jurisdiction; or

 

(k) any of the things described in paragraphs (a) to (j) happens to an Affiliate of the Party.

 

“Investment Amount” means the total number of common stocks to be purchased by the Buyer under the Securities Purchase Agreement, which in aggregate represent a total investment of USD 5,000,000 (five million US Dollars) in Atlas Lithium Corporation.

 

“Letter of Credit” means an irrevocable letter of credit issued by the Buyer in accordance with the requirements set out in Clause 10 and in the form of Schedule 3.

 

“Li2O” means lithium oxide.

 

“Minimum Quantity” means the minimum quantity of the Product to be supplied in each Contract Year as specified in Clause 3.1.

 

“Month” means a calendar month.

 

“Notice” has the meaning given in Clause 22.1.

 

“Parties” means both the Buyer and the Seller and Party means either one of them.

 

“Port of Discharge” means [●] or such other Port as notified by the Buyer to the Seller with at least ninety (90) days in advance.

 

“Port of Loading” means [●] or such other Port as notified by the Seller to the Buyer with at least ninety (90) days in advance.

 

“PPAI” means the amount to be deducted from each Shipment Invoice or Final Invoice, as applicable, for the purpose of offsetting and repaying the Pre-payment Amount and the interest incurred during the corresponding period (from the Seller’s receipt of such Pre-payment Amount to the deduction date), until the Pre-payment Amount and the interest fully repaid. Each PPAI shall be equivalent to the lowest amount among (i) [●] percent of the Pre-payment Amount, (ii) [●] percent of the Shipment Invoice or the Final Invoice, as applicable, or (iii) the remaining amount of Pre-payment Amount and the interest. Unless otherwise indicated in this Agreement, the interest of the Pre-payment Amount will be calculated at the rate of [●] per annum.

 

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“Precluded Extent” has the meaning given in Clause 18.2.

 

“Pre-payment Amount” means the amount of twenty million US Dollars (USD 20,000,000.00).

 

“Product” means lithium spodumene concentrate produced at the Project.

 

“Prohibited Resale Act” has the meaning given in Clause 11.5.

 

“Project” has the meaning given in Whereas (A).

 

“Provisional Shipment Payment” has the meaning given in Clause 10.1(b).

 

“Ready Date Notice” has the meaning given in Clause 8.2.

 

“Sanctions” means any Applicable Law governing transactions in controlled goods or technologies or dealings with countries, entities, organizations, or individuals subject to economic, financial or trade sanctions or restrictions and similar measures administered or enforced by applicable governments, including, without limitation, the United States, the United Nations, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Taiwan, China, or Singapore.

 

“Sanctioned Person” means any Person that is: (a) designated under, listed on, or owned or controlled by a Person designated under or listed on, or acting directly or indirectly on behalf of a Person designated under or listed on, any list of Persons who are subject to Sanctions under Applicable Law that is binding on the Buyer or the Seller or any of their respective subsidiaries and Affiliates; (b) located in, incorporated under the laws of, or owned or controlled (directly or indirectly) by, or acting on behalf of a Person located in or organized under the laws of a country or territory that is the target of country-wide or territory-wide Sanctions; or (c) with whom the Buyer or the Seller would not be permitted to make a loan, continue to make a loan or provide financial accommodation to pursuant to any Sanctions.

 

“Securities Purchase Agreement” means the agreement entered into between the Buyer and Atlas Lithium Corporation on or about the date of this agreement whereby the Buyer agreed to purchase and Atlas Lithium Corporation agreed to sell its common stock to the Buyer, under the terms and conditions therein.

 

“Seller’s Certificate of Analysis” has the meaning set out in Schedule 2.

 

“Shipment” means the shipment of Product described in Clause 3.1.

 

“Shipment Invoice” has the meaning given in Clause 7.2.

 

“Shipment Quantity” has the meaning given in Clause 7.2.

 

“Shipment Invoice Benchmark Price” has the meaning given in Clause 7.2.

 

“Shipment Payment” has the meaning given in Clause 7.2.

 

“Shipment Schedule” has the meaning given in Clause 6.1.

 

“SIAC Arbitration Rules” has the meaning given in Clause 19.1.

 

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“Specifications” means the specifications for the Product.

 

“Stable Production” means when the Project reaches a stable production of the Product, i.e., (a) after obtaining all licenses and permits required to produce and market the Product, and (b) upon reaching a stable production output equivalent to at least sixty-five percent (65%) of the nameplate capacity of the Project for a minimum sixty (60) consecutive days. The estimated nameplate capacity of the Project will be one hundred and twenty thousand (120,000) tonnes per annum.

 

“Target Specifications” means the target Specifications set out in Schedule 1, including “Target Specifications 1” and “Target Specifications 2” specified therein.

 

“Term” has the meaning given in Clause 4.1.

 

“Umpire Analysis” means the analysis undertaken by the Independent Umpire in accordance with Clause 5 of Schedule 2.

 

“US Dollar”, “USD” and “$” means the lawful currency of the United States of America.

 

“Vessel” means the vessel, arranged by Buyer, to transport a Shipment from the Port of Loading to the Port of Discharge.

 

“Vessel Arrival Date” has the meaning given in Clause 8.2.

 

“WMT” means a wet metric tonne.

 

1.2. Interpretation.

 

In this Agreement, unless the context requires otherwise:

 

(a) headings are for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of this Agreement;

 

(b) words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa;

 

(c) words importing a gender include any gender;

 

(d) a reference to anything (including, but not limited to, any right) includes a part of that thing;

 

(e) a reference to a right includes a power, authority, discretion, benefit, or remedy conferred on a Party by this Agreement or any Applicable Law;

 

(f) an expression importing a natural “person” or “Person” includes any company, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, or other body corporate and any government agency;

 

(g) a reference to a clause, Party, attachment, exhibit, or schedule is a reference to a clause of, and a Party, attachment, exhibit, and schedule to, this Agreement and reference to this Agreement includes any attachment, exhibit, and schedule;

 

(h) a reference to a law, statute, regulation, proclamation, ordinance, or by-law includes all laws, statutes, regulations, proclamations, ordinances, or by-laws amending, consolidating, or replacing it, whether passed by the same or another governmental agency with legal power to do so, and includes all regulations, proclamations, ordinances, and by-laws issued under that statute;

 

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(i) a reference to a party to a document includes that party’s successors and permitted assigns;

 

(j) no rule of construction applies to the disadvantage of a Party solely because that Party was responsible for the preparation of this Agreement or any part of it;

 

(k) a reference to time is to the time in Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil; and

 

(l) a reference to currency is to be construed as references to US Dollars and unless otherwise specifically provided all amounts which are required to be paid under this Agreement shall be paid in US Dollars.

 

1.3. Contract Years of less than 365 days

 

1.3.1. Any quantity or obligation expressed in this Agreement which is applied to or by reference to a Contract Year will, in the case of a Contract Year comprising less than three hundred and sixty-five (365) days, be reduced on a pro rata basis based on the number of days in that Contract Year.

 

2. Sale and purchase

 

2.1. The Seller will sell the Product to the Buyer at the Benchmark Price and the Buyer will purchase that Product for that Benchmark Price in accordance with this Agreement.

 

3. QUANTITY

 

3.1. The Seller shall sell and deliver to the Buyer, and the Buyer shall purchase and take delivery of, or pay for if not taken (unless otherwise provided in this Agreement), a minimum quantity of [●] DMT of Product for the first Contract Year and sixty thousand (60,000) DMT of Product for each subsequent Contract Year (the “Minimum Quantity”). Notwithstanding the Rolling Forecast and the shipping tolerance in Clause 6 of this Agreement, the quantities sold and delivered by the Seller to the Buyer in a certain Contract Year shall not exceed the range of more or less ten percent (10%) of the Minimum Quantity for that Contract Year, within which the variance may be established at Seller’s election (without prejudice to the Buyer’s approval required according to this Agreement for Rolling Forecast), shall amend the Minimum Quantity accordingly and shall not be deemed a breach of the Agreement. If the Buyer reject or refuse the Shipment in accordance with this Agreement, the Seller agrees to further arrange another Shipments or increase the quantity of the other Shipments within the same Contract Year to ensure that Minimum Quantity of the Contract Year will be delivered to the Buyer, subject to adjustments and tolerance agreed in this Agreement.

 

3.2. Where the sale and purchase of the Product commences on a date that is not the beginning of a Contract Year then the Minimum Quantity shall be pro-rated in proportion to the time left in that Contract Year.

 

4. TERM

 

4.1. This Agreement commences on the Execution Date and, unless terminated earlier in accordance with this Agreement, ends within five (5) years, counted as of the date of first Shipment (the “Term”). The term of this Agreement can be extended subject to both Parties’ agreement (the “Extended Term”).

 

4.2. In the event that there is a Change in Control of the Seller during the Term of this Agreement, the Seller shall be entitled to terminate this Agreement (the “CiC Termination”).

 

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4.2.1. The Seller shall be entitled to elect for a CiC Termination at any time after the Change in Control of the Seller is approved at its shareholders’ meeting, including prior to closing of the transaction that will lead to the Change in Control of the Seller. To exercise a CiC Termination, Seller shall deliver a written notice to the Buyer informing the Change in Control of the Seller and its intention to a CiC Termination.

 

4.2.2. In the event the Seller notifies the Buyer for a CiC Termination, the Seller shall remain obliged to deliver Products to the Buyer for the Shipments that are scheduled to take place during the three (3)-month period immediately after the date of the CiC Termination notice, subject to the variations permitted in this Agreement. For such purpose, the Parties shall consider the latest Rolling Forecast issued prior to the CiC Termination notice. The Seller shall not be subject to any additional supply obligation and this Agreement shall be deemed automatically terminated upon the elapsing of the three (3)-month period referred in this Clause.

 

4.2.3. The CiC Termination will not constitute a breach or require any remediation under this Agreement, and neither of the Parties shall be entitled to any indemnification as a result of the CiC Termination.

 

4.3. If, at the time the CiC Termination notice is delivered, no Shipment has been made under this Agreement, the Buyer is not obliged to pay to the Seller the remaining tranche of the Pre-payment, if any, and the Seller shall return to the Buyer all the Pre-payment received within twenty (20) Business Days plus interest incurred during the corresponding period calculated at the rate of [●].

 

4.4. The expiration of the Term or the Extended Term, as applicable, will not affect any accrued rights, obligations or liabilities of either Party existing at such time.

 

5. SPECIFICATIONS

 

5.1. The Seller must use reasonable endeavours to ensure that Product sold and delivered to the Buyer in accordance with this Agreement meets the Target Specifications 2. However, if the Product meets the Target Specifications 1, but does not meet the Target Specifications 2 entirely, Buyer shall not be entitled to reject the Product.

 

5.2. Before the first Shipment of the First Contract Year, the Seller shall notify the Buyer as soon as it realizes or should have realized that the Products shall never meet the Target Specifications 1 once Stable Production is reached and during the Term of this Agreement, or it is very likely that the Products shall never meet the Target Specifications 1 once Stable Production is reached and during the Term of This Agreement (“Product Incompatibility”). If the Buyer also believes that, after the Stable Production is reached, there will be a Product Incompatibility since the first Shipment, the Buyer may notify Seller with the evidence showing that it has reasonable grounds to believe that there will be a Product Incompatibility before the first Shipment occurs. If Seller does not agree with Buyer’s assessment, the Product shall be subject to the determination mechanism set forth in Clause 9 and Schedule 2. The Buyer is entitled to terminate this Agreement (i) upon receiving such notice from Seller informing a Product Incompatibility, or (ii) upon final determination that there is a Product Incompatibility, should this procedure be started by the Buyer. In any case, the Buyer’s right to terminate this Agreement shall be exercised within a maximum of thirty (30) days, counted as of the date items (i) or (ii) have occurred. If the Buyer elect to terminate this Agreement, the Seller shall return to the Buyer all the Pre-payment received within twenty (20) Business Days plus interest incurred during the corresponding period calculated at the rate of [●].

 

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5.3. If any of the Shipment does not meet the Target Specifications 1 following a determination in accordance with Clause 9 and Schedule 2, the Buyer is entitled to (i) reject the Shipment without making any payment to the Seller, or (ii) accept the Shipment while the Benchmark Price shall be adjusted in accordance with Schedule 2 where applicable. The Seller shall reimburse the Buyer all the expenses incurred in relation to arranging the transportation of such Shipment within twenty (20) Business Days since the determination is made.

 

5.4. If three consecutive Shipments do not meet the Target Specifications 1 following a determination in accordance with Clause 9 and Schedule 2, the Buyer is entitled to terminate this Agreement the Seller shall return to the Buyer all the Pre-payment not deducted within twenty (20) Business Days plus interest incurred during the corresponding period calculated at the rate of [●].

 

5.5. If the Shipment meets the Target Specifications 1 but does not meet the Target Specifications 2 following a determination in accordance with Clause 9 and Schedule 2:

 

  (a) the Buyer will not be entitled to reject the Shipment however the Benchmark Price will be adjusted in accordance with Schedule 2 where applicable; and
     
  (b) the Seller’s liability for failure to deliver Product conforming to the Target Specifications is limited to an adjustment to the Benchmark Price as provided for in Schedule 2 and the Buyer’s right to a Benchmark Price adjustment under that Clause is, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the sole and exclusive remedy of the Buyer for such non-conformance.

 

5.6. For the avoidance of doubt, the Product/Shipment does not meet the Target Specifications if the product content of such Product/Shipment is below the threshold set in the Target Specifications, or if the impurity content of such Product/Shipment is higher than the threshold set in the Target Specifications.

 

6. SHIPMENT SCHEDULE

 

6.1. No later than thirty (30) days prior to the start of a Contract Year, the Seller and the Buyer shall together determine an annual shipment schedule in order to meet the Minimum Quantity requirements in each Contract Year in accordance with Clause 3.1 (the “Shipment Schedule”). Such Shipment Schedule shall be determined on the principle that, with non-substantial adjustments, the Minimum Quantity will be split evenly among every month of that Contract Year. Such Shipment Schedule shall include:

 

(a) the number of Shipments which the Seller will provide to the Buyer in the relevant Contract Year on a FOB basis;

 

(b) the quantity of Product to be contained in each Shipment and loaded on board each Vessel in accordance with FOB delivery requirements; and

 

(c) the proposed delivery dates for each Shipment.

 

  6.1.1. The Shipment Schedule for the first Contract Year shall be finalized up to March 31, 2024.

 

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6.2. The Shipment Schedule for the first Contract Year shall be prepared considering that the Seller shall reach a Stable Production on [●]. If, for any reason, the Seller cannot reach a Stable Production to such date, the Seller shall be entitled to postpone and adjust the Shipment Schedule accordingly (only to the extent to reflect such delay), provided that the Seller informs about such postponement with at least three (3) months in advance and such postponement does not exceed twelve (12) months. Such postponement will be considered permitted postponement by the Parties and will not constitute a breach or require any remediation under this Agreement, except that the interest rate applicable to the Pre-payment since [●] to the corresponding date the Stable Production is reached will be [●]. If the Seller is not able to reach a Stable Production after such twelve (12) months postponement, the Buyer is entitled to terminate this Agreement and the Seller shall return to the Buyer all the Pre-payment received within twenty (20) Business Days plus interest incurred during the corresponding period (for the avoidance of doubt, from the date of receipt of the Pre-payment) calculated at the rate of [●].

 

6.3. Without prejudice to the above, no later than on the first Business Day of each month of a Contract Year (“M”), Seller shall provide Buyer with a rolling forecast for the 3 following calendar months, i.e., for the first (“M+1”), the second (“M+2”) and the third (“M+3”) following M (the “Rolling Forecast”).

 

6.4. If the quantities of Product defined in the Rolling Forecast is no more or less than 15% of the monthly quantities set forth in the Shipment Schedule, the Rolling Forecast shall be binding upon the Parties.

 

6.5. On the other hand, if the quantities of Product defined in the Rolling Forecast exceed the range of more or less fifteen percent (15%) of the quantities set forth in the Shipment Schedule, the Rolling Forecast shall be subject to Buyer’s approval, which shall not be unreasonably denied. In the event of a Rolling Forecast not approved by Buyer pursuant this Section, the Parties shall discuss in good faith and agree on the best alternative to accommodate the quantities of Product out of the range set forth above.

 

6.6. Without prejudice to the above, within any given Contract Year, the Seller shall sell and deliver and the Buyer shall purchase and take delivery of, or pay for if not taken (unless otherwise provided in this Agreement), the Minimum Quantity.

 

6.7. The Buyer and Seller acknowledge that there will be a more or less ten percent (10%) shipping tolerance that applies to each Shipment (which the Buyer and Seller acknowledge is not in addition to the tolerance referred to in Clause 6.3).

 

7. PAYMENT TERMS

 

7.1. Pre-payment.

 

(a) The Buyer irrevocably undertakes and agrees to pay the Pre-payment Amount as directed by the Company on the terms and conditions of this Clause 7.1. The Buyer and the Seller agree that the payment of the Pre-payment Amount is a fundamental term of this Agreement and a material inducement for the Seller entering into this Agreement.

 

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(b) The Buyer shall pay the Seller 100% of the Pre-payment Amount within five (5) Business Days since receiving the notice from the Seller that the licenses listed in Schedule 4 are obtained. The Seller shall provide to the Buyer copies of relevant licenses and permits obtained when sending the notice to the Buyer. The payments shall be made to the bank account nominated below by wire transfer in immediately available funds (provided that Seller may change the bank account details and/or the entity of Seller’s group that will receive the funds up to five (5) Business Days in advance to the payment date):

 

[●]

 

(c) The Buyer shall provide the Seller with a transfer receipt on the same Business Day on which the Buyer makes the transfer above.

 

(d) The Pre-payment Amount shall be used in the payments due for the Products to be purchased under this Agreement and shall be deducted on a pro rata basis from the Shipment Invoices and/or the Final Invoices, as applicable, pursuant to the mechanisms set forth in Clauses 7.2 and 7.3.

 

(e) If no Shipment has been delivered to the Buyer before the termination of this Agreement, the Seller shall return to the Buyer all the Pre-payment received within twenty (20) Business Days. If the termination is not attributed to the fault of the Buyer, the Seller shall return to the Buyer all the Pre-payment received within twenty (20) Business Days plus interest incurred from the corresponding period calculated at the rate of [●].

 

7.2. Shipment Invoice.

 

(a) The Seller shall provide a shipment invoice to the Buyer after obtaining the Certificate of Analysis issued by the Independent Testing Agency and the Bill of Lading with the outstanding payment amount for the Product (which is to be paid by the Buyer) (the “Shipment Invoice”).

 

(b) The Shipment Invoice shall set forth an amount calculated as follows: Product quantity indicated in the Bill of Lading and the Certificate of Weight (the “Shipment Quantity”) multiplied by the Benchmark Price available at the date of issuance of the Bill of Lading less the PPAI (the “Shipment Invoice Benchmark Price”).

 

For reference:

 

SIBP (USD) = SQ (DMT)x SBP(USD) - PPAI(USD)

 

Where:

 

“SIBP” means the Shipment Invoice Benchmark Price, expressed in US dollars.

 

“SQ” means the Shipment Quantity, expressed in DMT.

 

“SBP” means the Benchmark Price available at the date of issuance of the Bill of Lading, expressed in US dollars.

 

“PPAI” means the amount to be deducted for the purpose of offsetting and repaying the Pre-payment Amount, as defined in this Agreement.

 

(c) If applicable, the Shipment Invoice Benchmark Price may be adjusted according to the “Benchmark Price Adjustment” formula provided in Schedule 2 (Clause 8) of this Agreement.

 

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(d) The Seller shall submit to the Buyer the Shipment Invoice Benchmark Price for confirmation in a maximum of two (2) Business Days before issuing the Shipment Invoice; if not confirmed within this period, Seller will carry on with the issuance of the Shipment Invoice.

 

(e) The Seller will be entitled to drawdown the amount equivalent to the Shipment Invoice Benchmark Price from the Letter of Credit immediately after obtaining the Certificate of Analysis issued by the Independent Testing Agency and the Bill of Lading and the submission to the Buyer by the Seller with the original and copy of the Certificate of Weight, Certificate of Analysis, Certificate of Origin and Bill of Lading (the “Shipment Payment”).

 

7.3. Final Invoice.

 

(a) The Seller shall provide a final invoice to the Buyer within five (5) Business Days of the first calendar month after the date of such Shipment’s arrival of the Port of Discharge (the “Final Invoice”).

 

(b) The amount indicated in the Final Invoice shall be calculated as follows: Shipment Quantity multiplied by the average of Benchmark Price available each date of the calendar month during which the Shipment arrives the Port of Discharge less the PPAI less the Shipment Payment (the “Final Invoice Benchmark Price”).

 

For reference:

 

FIBP (USD) = SQ(DMT)x FBP(USD) - PPAI(USD) - SP(USD)

 

Where:

 

“FIBP” means the Final Invoice Benchmark Price, expressed in US dollars.

 

“SQ” means the Shipment Quantity, expressed in DMT.

 

“FBP” means the average of Benchmark Price available each date of the arrival month of the Shipment expressed in US dollars.

 

“PPAI” means the amount to be deducted for the purpose of offsetting and repaying the Pre-payment Amount, as defined in this Agreement.

 

“SP” means the Shipment Payment.

 

(c) The Seller shall submit to the Buyer the Final Invoice Benchmark Price for confirmation in a maximum of two (2) Business Days before issuing the Final Invoice; if not confirmed within this period, Seller will carry on with the issuance of the Final Invoice.

 

(i) For the avoidance of doubt, if the Final Invoice Benchmark Price is lower than 0, then the Seller needs to pay the Buyer by T.T. an amount equal to the Final Invoice Benchmark Price within five (5) Business Days; if the Final Invoice Benchmark Price is higher than 0, then the Buyer needs to pay the Seller by T.T. an amount equal to the Final Invoice Benchmark Price within five (5) Business Days.

 

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7.4. The following documents must be provided to the Buyer by the Seller as soon as practicable after the Bill of Lading date for the Shipment:

 

(i) the Certificate of Weight;

 

(ii) the Certificate of Analysis;

 

(iii) the Certificate of Origin; and

 

(iv) the Bill of Lading;

 

(v) additional copy of the Final Invoice.

 

7.5. Both the Shipment Invoice and the Final Invoice must be denominated, and all payments must be made, in USD.

 

8. EMPLOYMENT OF VESSELS AND LOADING REQUIREMENTS

 

8.1. Buyer to provide Vessel

 

(a) The Buyer is, as between the Buyer and the Seller, responsible for providing the Vessels onto which the Shipments will be loaded. The Shipments are to be loaded by the Seller on to the Vessel at the Port of Loading on a FOB basis at the Seller’s time, risk and expense, considering FOB standards.

 

(b) Each Vessel must comply with all Applicable Laws and regulations at the Port of Loading and is to be/have:

 

(i) suitable in all respects for the transportation of the Product;

 

(ii) suitable in all respects for the nominated Port of Loading and Port of Discharge the requirements of which in each case shall be the responsibility of the Buyer;

 

(iii) a maximum of twenty (20) years old unless otherwise agreed to by the Seller;

 

(iv) compliant with all relevant requirements for trading to/from the Port of Loading and the Port of Discharge; and

 

(v) entered for Protection and Indemnity (P&I) risks with a P&I Club member of the International Group of P&I Clubs.

 

In furtherance of what is stated above, upon the Buyer having provided the Seller with information referred to in Clause 8.2 below the Seller shall be permitted to reject the relevant Vessel on written notice to the Buyer should it show to the Buyer reasonable evidence that same will be unsuitable or non-compliant as contemplated above. The Buyer shall be bound by any such rejection and shall be obliged to propose an alternative Vessel. Notwithstanding the above, any acceptance by the Seller of a Vessel shall in no way be deemed to be a representation by the Seller that the Vessel is suitable or compliant with the requirements of this Clause 8.1(b) nor shall it absolve the Buyer from its obligations in terms of this clause, which obligations shall remain the sole responsibility of the Buyer.

 

8.2. Notification of Vessel

 

(a) For the Shipment, the Seller will notify the Buyer at least fourteen (14) days prior to the intended shipping date that the Shipment is ready for delivery (the “Ready Date Notice”). The Buyer must nominate the Vessel no later than fourteen (14) days after receipt of the Ready Date Notice and the Vessel must commence its voyage to the Port of Loading no later than ten (10) days thereafter.

 

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(b) The Buyer will notify the Seller at least twelve (12) days before the anticipated arrival date of the Vessel at the Port of Loading (the “Vessel Arrival Date”) with the following details:

 

(i) Vessel name, flag of registry, year built; and

 

(ii) Vessel description (and accompanying photographs) including:

 

  (ii.1) summer salt water draft;
     
  (ii.2) length overall (LOA);
     
  (ii.3) beam;
     
  (ii.4) number of hatches/holds;
     
  (ii.5) type of hatchcovers and dimensions of same;
     
  (ii.6) gross and net registered tonnages;
     
  (ii.7) cargo gear;
     
  (ii.8) intended stow plan; and
     
  (ii.9) intended itinerary and estimated time of arrival at the Port of Loading.

 

(c) The Buyer must give notice to the Seller (which may be given via the nominated port agents), at the following intervals, of the Vessel’s arrival at the Port of Loading: seven (7) days, five (5) days, three (3) days, two (2) days and one (1) day.

 

(d) The Buyer must notify the Seller in writing (which may be given via the Buyer’s nominated port agents), as soon as possible, of any significant change in the estimated time of arrival of the Vessel at the Port of Loading. In the event that the Seller incurs any expenses whatsoever as a result of any delay by the Buyer’s Vessel in arriving at the Port of Loading timeously, the Buyer shall reimburse such expenses in full upon receipt of a demand and corresponding invoice therefor from the Seller.

 

(e) The Buyer’s nominated carrier may provide the notices required to be provided by the Buyer under this Clause 8.2 to the Seller on the Buyer’s behalf.

 

9. WEIGHING, SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS

 

9.1. The Seller and the Buyer will comply with the procedures set out in Schedule 2 for the weighing, sampling and analysis of Product at the Port of Loading.

 

10. LETTER OF CREDIT REQUIREMENTS

 

10.1. Letter of Credit

 

(a) The Buyer shall provide a signed Letter of Credit to the order of the Seller at its bank (as notified in written by the Seller to the Buyer) within ten (10) Business Days after the Seller provides the Certificate of Spodumene Readiness for loading of the relevant Shipment for one hundred and ten percent (110%) of the Provisional Shipment Payment. It is understood and agreed that the loading of the Product at the Port of Loading shall not commence unless and until the Seller has received the Letter of Credit as aforesaid.

 

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(b) The “Provisional Shipment Payment” shall be determined based on (i) the quantity of Product informed in the Certificate of Spodumene Readiness times (ii) the Benchmark Price available at the date of issuance of the Certificate of Spodumene Readiness, expressed in US dollars.

 

(c) The Letter of Credit must be:

 

(i) in USD;
     
(ii) in favour of the Seller as beneficiary capable of being drawn down by the Seller on the basis of an invoice addressed to the Buyer;
     
(iii) valid for a minimum of forty-five (45) days after loading of the Shipment;
     
(iv) with a bank having a Standard & Poor’s long-term credit rating of at least A- (or its equivalent from Moody’s) or which is acceptable to the Seller;
     
(v) governed by the laws of the United States of America or another jurisdiction acceptable to the Seller;
     
(vi) for the amount of one hundred and ten percent (110%) of the Provisional Shipment Payment; and
     
(vii) substantially in the form set out in Schedule 3.

 

(d) The Buyer is deemed to have complied with its obligation to pay both the Shipment Invoice and the Final Invoice under this Agreement when the Seller has received the full proceeds of the Letter of Credit in immediately available funds, provided that if the Seller fails to receive any or all proceeds of such Letter of Credit in immediately available funds is due to reasons attributable to the Seller, the Buyer shall not be deemed as breaching its obligations under this Agreement.

 

(e) The Buyer must arrange for its bank to provide the Seller with a copy of the Letter of Credit by email or facsimile on the day on which it is opened. All charges in respect of opening the Letter of Credit will be borne by the Buyer. The Buyer agrees that it will amend the Letter of Credit to: increase its amount; extend the period of its validity; and/or make any other appropriate modifications as is necessary to provide for payment in full of any amount which may become due to the Seller in respect of any Shipment under this Agreement as determined by the Shipment Invoice or the Final Invoice, if the original Letter of Credit becomes inadequate at any relevant point in time for any reason. The Buyer must at its cost provide the amended or supplemented Letter of Credit to the Seller within five (5) days of receipt of a request from the Seller.

 

(f) The Seller has no obligation to deliver any Product to the Buyer if the Seller does not receive the Pre-payment Amount in accordance with Clause 7.1 or if the Seller does not receive the Letter of Credit in accordance with Clause 10.1(a).

 

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(g) If the Buyer fails to pay the Pre-payment Amount, open a Letter of Credit for or accept a Shipment (unless the Buyer is entitled to according to this Agreement) or otherwise prevents or delays a Shipment from occurring:

 

  (i) the Seller may choose in its absolute discretion to delay or cancel the Shipment by written notice to the Buyer, and the Seller has no obligation to make good the Shipment at any time;
     
  (ii) the Buyer remains liable for payment in respect of the Shipment notwithstanding the subsequent delay or cancellation by the Seller under this clause; and
     
  (iii) the Buyer indemnifies the Seller against all costs incurred by the Seller as a result of the delay or cancellation of any Shipment due to the failure of the Buyer.

 

(h) In the event of any Dispute regarding the Shipment Invoice Benchmark Price, the Seller will be entitled to immediately draw down the Letter of Credit for the full value whilst the Dispute between the Parties is resolved in accordance with Clause 19.

 

(g) This Clause 10.1(g) shall survive termination of this Agreement.

 

11. DELIVERY, TITLE AND RISK

 

11.1. The Seller delivers the Product when the Seller makes the Product available to the Buyer FOB at the Port of Loading, in accordance with Incoterms 2020. If there is any inconsistency between Incoterms 2020 and the terms of this Agreement, this Agreement will prevail.

 

11.2. Risk in the Product passes from the Seller to the Buyer on the Product being delivered (by being placed on board the Vessel at the Port of Loading) and upon issuance of the Bill of Lading.

 

11.3. Title in the Product in the Shipment will pass from the Seller to the Buyer upon the successful drawdown by the Seller according to Clause 7.2(e) of this Agreement.

 

11.4. The Buyer shall not be permitted to reject and/or refuse the Shipment tendered for delivery in terms of this Agreement, unless otherwise provided in this Agreement. In the event that the Buyer fails and/or refuses, for any reason other than reasons provided in this Agreement, to accept delivery of the Shipment, the Buyer shall nevertheless be obliged to effect payment to the Seller for such shipment in full and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.

 

11.5. The Buyer acknowledges that it is acquiring the Product from the Seller for its own use (including using the Product to manufacture downstream products for sale). For the avoidance of doubt, the use of the Product by the Buyer’s Affiliates also constitutes the Buyer’s own use. The Buyer covenants in favor of Seller that it will not sell, offer to sell, agree to sell or enter into any transaction relating to the resale or other disposal of the Product (collectively a “Prohibited Resale Act”) without the prior written consent of the Seller (which consent may be withheld at its absolute discretion), unless such sale or transaction is between the Buyer and the Buyer’s Affiliate and for the sole purpose of using the Product to manufacture downstream products for sale. The Buyer acknowledges that a Prohibited Resale Act could cause loss and damage to the Seller and its business, and the covenants given by the Buyer in this Clause are fundamental terms of this Agreement and are an inducement to the Seller to sell the Product to the Buyer. In addition to any action for loss and damage or any other rights or remedies that the Seller may pursue against the Buyer, a breach of, or a reasonable expectation by the Seller that the Buyer may breach this clause entitles the Seller to (a) seek injunctive relief to prevent such a breach; or (b) terminate this Agreement with immediate effect.

 

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12. EXPORT & IMPORT LICENSES

 

12.1. The Seller is responsible for obtaining all export licenses required to export the Product under this Agreement and the Buyer is responsible for obtaining all import licenses required to import the Product under this Agreement.

 

13. SANCTIONS

 

13.1. Each Party warrants to the other Party that it is not, and is not owned, Controlled or in any way affiliated with, any Sanctioned Person and is not subject to any Sanctions.

 

13.2. Each Party indemnifies the other Party against any loss or damage arising in connection with its breach of this Clause 13.1.

 

14. REPRESENTATIONS & WARRANTIES

 

14.1. Each of the Parties represents and warrants that:

 

(a) it is a corporation validly in existence;

 

(b) it has full legal capacity and power, and holds necessary authorisations to enter into this Agreement and carry out relevant functions and perform relevant obligations under this Agreement; and

 

(c) it has not suffered an Insolvency Event.

 

14.2. The Seller represents and warrants to the Buyer that:

 

(a) it has the good and marketable title and exclusive right to sell the Product; and

 

(b) the Product in the Shipment will be transferred to the Buyer free and clear from any encumbrance on title created by through or under the Seller.

 

14.3. The Buyer represents and warrants and undertakes to the Seller that:

 

(a) it will timeously accept delivery of all quantities of the Product sold to it in terms of this Agreement and, accordingly, will ensure that all Vessels arrive at the Port of Loading timeously and in the agreed upon condition; and

 

(b) it will make timeous payment in terms of this Agreement for all Product sold and delivered to it in terms of this Agreement.

 

14.4. All other representations and warranties of the Seller not expressly stated in this Agreement are excluded to the extent permitted by the Applicable Law.

 

15. LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY

 

15.1. Other than as expressly provided in this Agreement, under no circumstances will either Party be liable to the other Party for Consequential Loss of any nature.

 

15.2. Each Party will defend, indemnify and hold the other Party harmless from and against any loss or damage arising from:

 

(a) fines and penalties;

 

(b) personal injury to, or damage to the property of, third persons (including the indemnified Party’s employees),

 

incurred by or claimed against the indemnified Party, to the extent any such loss or damage is caused by the other Party’s negligence, wilful misconduct or violation of law in the performance or non-performance of its obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement.

 

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15.3. The exclusion of liability under Clause 15.1 will not apply to amounts recoverable by a Party under Clauses 7, and 23.

 

15.4 This Clause 15 survives termination of this Agreement.

 

16. ASSIGNMENT

 

16.1. Except as provided in this Clause 16, neither Party may assign its rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the other Party.

 

16.2. The Seller may:

 

(a) transfer its rights and obligations to a third party that is the purchaser or transferee of the Project without the consent of the Buyer; and

 

(b) grant security (whether by way of charge, mortgage or otherwise) over all or any part of its right, title and interest in and to this Agreement (and all proceeds to be received under it) in favour of a financier (or a security trustee or agent on behalf of one or more financiers).

 

17. DEFAULT AND TERMINATION

 

17.1. For the purposes of this Agreement, the following events each constitute an event of default (each an “Event of Default”):

 

(a) the Buyer or Seller is in breach of a material covenant, agreement or obligation under this Agreement (other than non-payment) and fails to remedy the breach within thirty (30) days of written notice from the non-defaulting of them specifying the breach and requiring it to be remedied;

 

(b) the Buyer or Seller suffers an Insolvency Event;

 

(c) a delay by the Buyer in making any payment when due of any sum payable under this Agreement and such delay exceeds two (2) Business Days. For clarity, this includes the payment by the Buyer of both the Shipment Invoice and the Final Invoice;

 

(d) the Buyer fails to take delivery of, or pay for if not taken, the Shipment by the latest date specified for the Shipment, unless otherwise provided in this Agreement;

 

(e) in relation to the Seller, the Shipment of Products is more than two (2) months behind the Shipment schedule in the Rolling Forecast by its own and exclusive absence of performance in the case of evidenced fraud, wilful misconduct or gross negligence other than where the Seller excused from making Shipments under the Shipment schedule under the terms of this Agreement;

 

(f) the Buyer does not deliver the Letter of Credit to the Seller as contemplated in Clause 10.1; and

 

  (g) as provided in Clause 33.3.

 

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17.2. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default by the Buyer or Seller, in addition to any other rights or remedies the non-defaulting Party may have at common law, equity or otherwise, the non-defaulting Party may terminate this Agreement by written notice to the other Party.

 

17.3. Upon the occurrence of an event of default of the kind referred to in Clause 17.1(c) in respect of the Buyer, the Seller may, in addition to any other rights or remedies it may have at law, equity or otherwise repossess any Product which has been delivered but has not been paid for.

 

17.4. The termination of this Agreement for any reason whatsoever will be without prejudice to any obligations or rights on the part of a Party which have accrued prior to such termination and will not affect or prejudice any provision of this Agreement which is expressly or by implication provided to come into effect on, or continue in effect after such termination.

 

18. FORCE MAJEURE

 

18.1. For the purposes of this Clause 18, “Force Majeure” means any act, event or cause beyond the reasonable control of the Buyer or Seller claiming relief under this clause which is not due to the fault or negligence of that Party and which that Party is not reasonably able to prevent or overcome and which includes (but is not limited to):

 

(a) (provided that they meet the aforementioned requirements) acts of God, pandemic, epidemic, terrorism, perils of sea, war, sabotage, riot, cyclone, earthquake, landslide, explosion, fire, strike and other labour difficulties or expropriation;

 

(b) significant change of government policies regulating the import and export of Product, compliance with any demand, order, direction or requirement of any government agency or authority, restraint by or of any government agency or authority;

 

(c) insufficient Product being available for the Shipment including due to unavailability of equipment or transport, blockade, an event of force majeure under any mining or crushing contract entered into by or on behalf of the Seller under which operations are carried out on all or part of the Project; and

 

(d) inability to load or ship the Shipment, including due to blockage of the access channel at the Port of Loading, blockage of the access channel at the Port of Discharge or an event of force majeure under any haulage, stevedoring or port access contract entered into by the Seller.

 

18.2. If the Buyer or Seller is or reasonably expects to be prevented from performing any of its obligations under this Agreement as a result of Force Majeure, after having knowledge of the act, event or cause constituting Force Majeure it must promptly give to the other Party notice of the nature of the Force Majeure, which obligations the notifying Party is precluded from performing (the “Affected Obligations”), the extent to which the Force Majeure precludes the notifying Party from performing its obligations (the “Precluded Extent”) and the likely duration of the disability resulting therefrom and must further notify the other Party forthwith upon cessation of any such disability.

 

18.3. The affected Party’s obligation to perform the Affected Obligations will, to the Precluded Extent, be suspended for the duration of the actual delay arising directly out of the Force Majeure (the “Actual Delay”).

 

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18.4. The other Party’s obligations to perform any obligations dependent on the Affected Obligations will be suspended until the affected Party resumes performance.

 

18.5. A Party notifying Force Majeure must use reasonable endeavours to overcome such Force Majeure or remedy their disability resulting therefrom as promptly as possible provided that a Party will not be obliged to settle any strike or other labour difficulty upon terms which are not satisfactory to that Party (in its absolute discretion). The notifying Party must resume performance of its obligations under this Agreement without delay when such Force Majeure event is removed.

 

18.6. If the Buyer is the affected Party and is unable to accept the Shipment as a consequence of the event of Force Majeure fifteen (15) days after the Shipment’s arrival of the nominated Port of Discharge:

 

(a) the Seller may sell to a third party any Product otherwise required to be delivered to the Buyer under this Agreement during the period of the suspension; and

 

(b) the Buyer will forgo its entitlement to any Product sold by the Seller to a third party under this clause, and the Buyer is not obliged to pay for the Product delivered by such Shipment.

 

18.7. If Force Majeure continues for a consecutive period of more than one hundred and eighty (180) days, then the Party not affected may, at any time until the Force Majeure ends, terminate this Agreement by notice to the affected Party.

 

18.8. The foregoing provisions of this Clause 18 will not apply to excuse performance by a Party in the case of failure of any Party in performing any obligation to pay money when due under this Agreement, except that the Buyer will be relieved of its obligation to pay for Product not taken to the extent the Buyer is relieved from its obligation to take Product under this Agreement.

 

19. ARBITRATION

 

19.1. If any Dispute arises between the Parties, then the Parties agree to negotiate in good faith for a period of not less than thirty (30) days from the date of notification of the Dispute to attempt to resolve the Dispute. If the Parties are unable to resolve the Dispute within that period, any Party may refer the matter in Dispute to binding arbitration. The arbitration will be administered in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC Arbitration Rules”) in force at the time of commencement of the arbitration (which rules are deemed to be incorporated by reference in this clause) by three arbitrators appointed in accordance with those rules, except as may otherwise be agreed by the Parties. The seat of arbitration will be Singapore. The language of the arbitration will be English.

 

19.2. The decision of the arbitration will be final and binding on the Parties and may be enforced by the courts of any relevant country. Each Party may be legally represented at the arbitration.

 

19.3. The costs of the arbitration must be borne by the unsuccessful Party, however the arbitral tribunal may apportion costs amongst the Parties under the SIAC Arbitration Rules.

 

19.4. During the period when a Dispute is being resolved, the Parties must in all respects other than the issue(s) in Dispute, continue their performance of this Agreement.

 

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20. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

 

20.1. Unless otherwise agreed by the disclosing Party, all Confidential Information must be kept confidential and must not be used or disclosed except as required pursuant to this Agreement or:

 

(a) with the prior written consent of the Party to whom the information relates;

 

(b) to an Affiliate;

 

(c) to the extent required pursuant to an Applicable Law, or the rules of a recognised stock exchange, or the requirements by other administrative or judicial authorities, having first given opportunity to the disclosing party to review the proposed disclosure (where possible having regard to those laws or rules) if not prohibited by such Applicable Law, rules of a recognized stock exchange, or relevant authorities;

 

(d) to bona fide potential assignees; and

 

(e) to independent consultants, advisers, prospective financiers or investors, contractors and employees of the Parties whose duties reasonably require such disclosure.

 

20.2. Clause 20.1 will not apply to information which:

 

(a) is or hereafter becomes publicly known through no breach of an obligation arising under this Agreement;

 

(b) was known to the recipient at the time the information was made known;

 

(c) becomes known to the recipient from a source other than a Party without a breach of this Agreement; or

 

(d) is required to be disclosed pursuant to an Applicable Law or the rules of a recognised stock exchange.

 

20.3. Each Party agrees not to issue any press release or otherwise make any public disclosure with respect to this Agreement without the prior written approval of the other Party, unless, and only to the extent, required pursuant to Applicable Law or the rules of a recognised stock exchange (in which case, to the extent practicable, the Party intending to make such disclosure shall give reasonable advance notice thereof to the other Party and give effect to any changes reasonably requested by the other Party).

 

20.4. This Clause 20 survives termination of this Agreement.

 

21. EXCLUSION OF VIENNA CONVENTION

 

21.1. The Parties agree and acknowledge that the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods shall not apply to this Agreement or to the sale and purchase of Product pursuant to this Agreement, now and at all times hereafter.

 

22. NOTICE

 

22.1. Any notice or other communication in connection with this Agreement (“Notice”) is to be in writing, signed by the Party giving it and it may be:

 

(a) left at the address of the addressee by hand or courier;

 

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(b) sent by prepaid registered post (airmail if posted to or from a place outside Australia) to the address of the addressee;

 

(c) sent by facsimile to the facsimile number of the addressee; or

 

(d) sent by e-mail to the email address of the addressee,

 

the particulars of which are as follows:

 

Seller

 

  Address: [●]
     
  Attention: [●]
     
  E-mail: [●]

 

Buyer

 

  Address: [●]
     
  Attention: [●]
     
  E-mail: [●]

 

or any other address or number which is notified by one Party to the other Party.

 

22.2. A Notice given in accordance with Clause 22.1 takes effect when taken to be received (or at a later time specified in it), and is taken to be received:

 

(a) if hand delivered, on delivery;

 

(b) if sent by prepaid post, on the second (2nd) Business Day after the date of posting (or on the seventh (seventh) Business Day after the date of posting if posted to or from a place outside Brazil);

 

(c) if sent by email:

 

(i) at the time shown in the delivery confirmation report generated by the sender’s email system; or

 

(ii) if the sender’s email system does not generate a delivery confirmation report within twelve (12) hours of the time the email is sent, unless the sender receives a return email notification that the email was not delivered, undeliverable or similar, at the time which is twelve (12) hours from the time the email was sent,

 

but if the delivery, receipt or transmission is not on a Business Day or is after 5.00pm on a Business Day, the Notice is taken to be received at 9.00am on the next Business Day.

 

23. TAXES, DUTIES ETC

 

23.1. The Seller is responsible for payment of all taxes, duties, excise, charges and imposts whether now or in the future levied or charged on the Seller’s activities or the Product sold under this Agreement up to when risk in the Product passes to the Buyer.

 

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23.2. The Buyer is responsible for payment of all taxes, duties, excise, charges and imposts whether now or in the future levied or charged on the Buyer’s activities or the Product sold under this Agreement at the time or after risk in the Product passes to the Buyer.

 

23.3. All and all payments by the Buyer to the Seller under or pursuant to this Agreement or on account of any obligation hereunder shall be made free and clear and without reduction for withholding for any taxes, provided that if the Buyer is required by Applicable Law (as determined in the good faith discretion of the Buyer) to deduct or withhold any taxes from such payments then (a) the amount payable by the Buyer shall be increased so that after making all required deductions or withholdings the Seller receives an amount equal to the amount it would have received had no such deductions or withholdings been made and (b) the Buyer shall make such deductions, timely pay the full amount deducted to the relevant governmental authority in accordance with Applicable Law and provide the Seller with official receipts or other evidence satisfactory to the Seller of each such payment.

 

24. GOVERNING LAW

 

24.1. This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

 

25. ENTIRE AGREEMENT

 

25.1. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the Parties with respect to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement replaces all previous agreements and understandings among the Parties with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 

26. VARIATION

 

26.1. No modification of this Agreement will be made except by mutual agreement of the Buyer and Seller in writing.

 

26.2. The exercise of a right partially or on one occasion does not prevent any further exercise of that right in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Neither a forbearance to exercise a right nor a delay in the exercise of a right operates as an election between rights or a variation of the terms of this Agreement.

 

27. RELATIONSHIP

 

27.1. This Agreement does not create a relationship of employment, agency, joint venture, legal representation, or partnership between the Parties.

 

28. FURTHER ASSURANCES

 

28.1. Each Party must do all things and execute all further documents necessary to give full effect to this Agreement and their obligations under it.

 

29. SEVERABILITY

 

29.1. Any provision of, or the application of any provision of, this Agreement or any right, power, authority, discretion or remedy conferred by this Agreement that is prohibited in any jurisdiction is, in that jurisdiction, ineffective only to the extent of that prohibition.

 

29.2. Any provision of, or the application of any provision of, this Agreement that is void, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction does not affect the validity, legality or enforceability of that provision in any other jurisdiction or of the remaining provisions in that or any other jurisdiction.

 

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30. COUNTERPARTS

 

30.1. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts (including by way of electronic signature), each of which shall be deemed for all purposes to be an original and all such counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument. A copy of a signed counterpart:

 

(a) shall be treated as an original counterpart;

 

(b) is sufficient evidence of execution of the original; and

 

(c) may be produced in evidence for all purposes in place of the original.

 

31. LIABILITY FOR EXPENSES

 

31.1. Each Party must pay its own expenses incurred in negotiating, and executing this Agreement.

 

32. ANTI-BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION

 

32.1. Each Party represents and warrants to the other Party as follows:

 

(a) that it will comply with all Applicable Laws;

 

(b) that it will not engage in or tolerate any form of bribery or corruption whatsoever whether direct or indirect, including, without limitation, the making of (or authorisation of) an offer, payment or promise to pay anything of value to unlawfully influence any person, including in the form of money, property, gifts, promises to give, or anything else of value;

 

(c) that it will not do, or omit to do, anything that may cause the other Party to be in breach of any Applicable Laws or, for avoidance of doubt, subject to or in violation of Sanctions;

 

(d) that from time to time, as required by the other Party, it will provide such information as reasonably required to establish that it has complied, and is complying, with all Applicable Laws;

 

(e) that it will otherwise comply with the other Party’s anti-bribery and corruption policy as advised from time to time; and

 

32.2. Each Party will:

 

(a) maintain adequate internal controls over all transactions in relation to this Agreement, or made on behalf of the other Party;

 

(b) properly record all transactions in relation to this Agreement or made on behalf of the other Party; and

 

(c) maintain accurate books and records in relation to each transaction in relation to this Agreement for a period of no less than seven (7) years from the date of such transaction.

 

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32.3. In the event that the Seller reasonably believes that the Buyer has breached any of its obligations under this Clause 33 or is subject to Sanctions, the Seller may terminate this Agreement (without prejudice to any other remedy available to the Seller) by written notice to the Buyer, provided that such notice has specified reasonable evidence which makes the Seller to have such belief, and thirty (30) days period is provided for the Buyer to rebut the evidence, however the Buyer fails to do so, in which case this Agreement will be terminated on the expiration of such thirty (30) days period. In the event of such termination, the Buyer shall not be entitled to receive any compensation in respect of the termination, other than the Pre-payment which hasn’t been deducted shall be returned to the Buyer within five (5) Business Days of termination. For the avoidance of doubt, any breach of any of obligations under this clause by the Buyer shall be deemed to be incapable of remedy.

 

33. THIRD PARTY RIGHTS

 

33.1. This Agreement shall not create any right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 2001 (2020 Revised Edition) of Singapore which is enforceable by any person which is not a Party.

 

34. NO WAIVER

 

34.1. Save as otherwise expressly provided herein, no waiver by any Party of any defaults by the other in the performance of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall operate or be construed as a waiver of any other or further default or defaults whether of a like or different character.

 

34.2. No failure or delay by either Party in exercising any right, power or privilege under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single partial exercise by that Party of any right, power or privilege preclude any further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege.

 

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SCHEDULE 1

 

Target Specifications

 

Target Specifications 1

 

[●]

 

Target Specifications 2

 

[●]

 

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SCHEDULE 2

 

Weighing, Sampling and Analysis

 

1. Weight determination

 

(a) The Independent Testing Agency will determine the weight of each delivery of Product at the Port of Loading and at the port of Discharge. The Independent Testing Agency will issue a weight certificate (“Port of Loading Certificate of Weight”) for delivered Product on a wet basis (i.e. without deducting free moisture) and on a dry basis by deducting free moisture loss at the appropriate temperature having analysed the moisture content in the relevant sample. All fees and charges of the Independent Testing Agency in regard to such weighing at the Port of Loading shall be borne by the Seller.

 

(b) Upon arrival of the relevant Vessel at the Port of Discharge, a second Independent Testing Agency shall re-weigh the shipment of the Product and issue a weight certificate (“Port of Discharge Certificate of Weight”) for delivered Product on a wet basis (i.e. without deducting free moisture) and on a dry basis (by deducting free moisture loss at the appropriate temperature having analysed the moisture content in the relevant sample). All fees and charges of the Independent Testing Agency in regard to such weighing at the Port of Discharge shall be borne by the Buyer.

 

(c) The Buyer and Seller may, at their own expense, have their representatives present at the time of weighing at both the Port of Loading as well as the Port of Discharge. In this regard each Party must ensure that the other Party’s representatives as nominated by the other Party from time to time receive reasonable advance notice of any weight determination.

 

(d) In the event of a discrepancy in the dry weights of the Product between the Port of Loading Certificate of Weight and the Port of Discharge Certificate of Weight which exceeds 1.00%, the Parties agree that the final dry weight of the relevant shipment shall be deemed to be the average of the dry weights between the two certificates which average shall be final and binding upon them. Should such discrepancy be less than 1.00%, however, it is agreed that the weights as stipulated in the Port of Loading Certificate of Weight shall be final and binding for determining the dry weight tonnage of that shipment of the Product.

 

2. Sampling and analysis

 

(a) The Independent Testing Agency will take representative samples of the Shipment of Product at the Port of Loading. The sample must be divided into at least eight parts:

 

(i) two to be dispatched to the Buyer;

 

(ii) two to be dispatched to the Seller;

 

(ii) two to be used by each Independent Testing Agency; and

 

(iii) two to be reserved for Umpire Analysis.

 

(b) The Independent Testing Agency will analyse its sample for chemical and physical composition and for free moisture content and issue a certificate to the Seller and the Buyer (“Certificate of Analysis”) certifying the results of that analysis. It should indicate the Li2O, Fe2O3, K2O, mica and moisture content of the Shipment.

 

(c) Subject to Clause 5 of this Schedule, the Certificate of Analysis issued under Clause 2(b) of this Schedule is final and binding for chemical and physical specifications, mica content and the free moisture content of the Shipment of Product.

 

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3. Sampling and analysis by the Buyer and Seller

 

(a) The Parties may, at its own expense, perform (or procure the performance of) analysis on the sample provided by the Independent Testing Agency pursuant to Clause 2(a) of this Schedule.

 

(b) The Buyer may analyse the Independent Testing Agency’s sample for chemical and physical composition, mica content and free moisture content. If the difference between the analysis conducted by the Buyer and the Independent Testing Agency is greater than the limits in Clause 4 of this Schedule, the Buyer must promptly forward to the Seller and the Independent Testing Agency a certificate showing the percentage of chemical contents, the mica content, the percentage of free moisture loss and the relevant screen analysis (“Buyer’s Certificate of Analysis”).

 

(c) The Seller may analyse the Independent Testing Agency’s sample for chemical and physical composition, mica content and free moisture content. If the difference between the analysis conducted by the Seller and the Independent Testing Agency is greater than the limits in Clause 4 of this Schedule, the Seller must promptly forward to the Buyer and the Independent Testing Agency a certificate showing the percentage of chemical contents, the mica content, the percentage of free moisture loss and the relevant screen analysis (“Seller’s Certificate of Analysis”).

 

(c) If:

 

(i) the Parties elects not to procure analysis in accordance with this Clause 3 of this Schedule;

 

(ii) the difference between the analysis conducted by the Buyer and the analysis conducted by the Independent Testing Agency is less than the limits in Clause 4 of this Schedule; or

 

(iii) the Buyer’s Certificate of Analysis or the Seller’s Certificate of Analysis in accordance with Clause 3(b) of this Schedule is not received within thirty (30) days after the date on which the Buyer receives the sample,

 

then subject to Clause 5 of this Schedule, the Certificate of Analysis issued by the Independent Testing Agency in accordance with Clause 2(b) of this Schedule will be regarded as final and binding.

 

4. Analysis difference

 

(a) If the difference in the analysis of samples by the Independent Testing Agency pursuant to Clause 2(b) of this Schedule, and the Buyer or the Seller pursuant to Clause 3 of this Schedule, is more than the limits set out in the following table, the Buyer and Seller must consult to reconcile such difference.

 

Specification   Limit for difference in analysis
Li2O, Fe2O3, K2O   Greater than 0.2% difference (separately for each content)

 

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(b) If, after consultation, the difference cannot be reconciled, then, the final analysis will be determined by an Independent Umpire and the determination of the Independent Umpire will be final and binding on the Buyer and Seller.

 

5. Umpire Analysis

 

(a) The Independent Umpire, being an independent testing laboratory, must be chosen by the Buyer and Seller. If the Buyer and Seller fail to agree on the Independent Umpire, the Independent Umpire will be nominated by the Seller.

 

(b) The Umpire Analysis must conduct its analysis as soon as possible.

 

(c) The certified Umpire Analysis will be averaged with whichever of the Seller’s or the Buyer’s analysis is closer to the Umpire Analysis and the average so obtained will be accepted as final and binding by both the Buyer and Seller.

 

(d) The cost of the Umpire Analysis will be borne equally between the Buyer and Seller.

 

(e) Each Party may, at its own expense, have its representatives present during the Umpire Analysis conducted pursuant to this Clause 5 of this Schedule.

 

6. Buyer’s representative may be present

 

The Buyer may nominate a representative as (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) to be present at the Port of Loading to witness the weighing, sampling and analysis performed by the Independent Test Agency under this Schedule. For the avoidance of doubt, the Seller’s representative may also be present.

 

7. Standards

 

All sampling and analysis under this Agreement must be carried out in accordance with a method mutually acceptable to the Buyer and Seller or failing agreement in accordance with internationally accepted industry standards effective on the date of Shipment.

 

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8. Adjustment to Benchmark Price

 

As provided in Clause 5.5 of the Agreement, in the event the Buyer’s or Seller’s analysis conducted pursuant to this Schedule 2 or the Umpire’s analysis conducted pursuant to this Schedule 2 is different than the Independent Testing Agency’s analysis which prompts an adjustment to the Benchmark Price, the Benchmark Price shall be adjusted as follows:

 

 

Where:

 

“A” (Li2O/DMT) is the Li2O content per DMT for that shipment.

 

“Benchmark Price” means the result of the following calculation: [●].

 

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SCHEDULE 3

 

Form of Letter of Credit

 

OPENING BANK: ● [an internationally recognized and reputable bank]

 

ADVISING BANK: ●

 

CONFIRMATION INSTRUCTION: Unconfirmed

 

FORM OF DOCUMENTARY CREDIT: Irrevocable, transferable, without Recourse

 

APPLICABLE RULES: UCP latest version

 

DATE AND PLACE OF EXPIRY: forty-five (45) days after first day of ten (10) day Lay/Can at the country of applicant

 

APPLICANT’S NAME AND ADDRESS:

 

 

 

BENEFICIARY’S NAME AND ADDRESS:

 

AMOUNT: US Dollar ●

 

LATEST DATE FOR SHIPMET: thirty (30) days after first day of ten (10) day Lay/Can at the country of beneficiary

 

PORT OF LOADING: ●

 

PORT OF DISCHAEGE: ●

 

PARTIAL SHIPMENTS: Allowed

 

TRANSHIPMENT: Prohibited

 

DESCRIPTION OF GOODS

 

Commodity: ●

 

Total Shipment Quantity: ● DMT

 

Total Goods Amount: USD ●

 

Price Term: ●

 

Packing: In Bulk

 

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DOCUMENT REQUIRED:

 

(1) Singed invoice indicating L/C number

 

(2) Full set of clean on-board ocean bill of lading made out to order, blank endorsed, and marked freight “prepaid” and notify

 

 

(3) Certificate of weight

 

(4) Certificate of analysis

 

(5) Certificate of origin

 

(6) full set of insurance policy

 

PRESENTATION PERIOD: Within thirty (30) days after B/L date

 

SPECIAL CONDITIONS:

 

(1) T.T. Reimbursement is “prohibited”

 

(2) All banking charges outside ● are for account of beneficiary

 

(3) Discrepancy charges incurred in ● are for account of “applicant”, and discrepancy charges incurred outside ● are for account of “beneficiary”.

 

(4) Charter party B/L is allowed.

 

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SCHEDULE 4

 

List of Licenses

 

[●]

 

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[Signature page of the Offtake and Sales Agreement between Atlas Lítio Brasil Ltda. and Sheng Wei Zhi Yuan International Limited, dated November 29, 2023]

 

EXECUTED by Atlas Lítio Brasil Ltda. by its duly authorised representative:   EXECUTED by Sheng Wei Zhi Yuan International Limited by its duly authorised representative:
     
/s/ Marc Fogassa   /s/ Deng Weijun
Signature of Authorised Representative:   Signature of Authorised Representative:

Marc Fogassa

CEO

  Deng Weijun
     
Signature of Witness    
     
     
Name    
     
/s/ Liu Yuedan    
Name    

 

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