Loan Agreement dated November 24, 2009 with Providence Wealth Management Ltd

 

 

 

THIS AGREEMENT dated for reference the 24th day of November, 2009 and made,

 

BETWEEN:

 

PANGLOBAL BRANDS INC., a company incorporated under the laws of Delaware, having an office at 2853 E. Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90023;

 

(the “Borrower”)

 

AND:

 

Providence Wealth Management Ltd, a company incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, with an address c/o Mr. Karim Khoury, Chabrier & Partners (Reed Smith), 3 rue du Mont-Blanc P.O. Box 1363 CH - 1211 Geneva 1 Switzerland;

 

(the “Lenders”)

 

WITNESSES THAT WHEREAS:

 

A.          The Borrower has applied to the Lender for a loan in the aggregate principal amount of US$290,000 (the “Loan”) to be utilized by the Borrower for the purposes described in Section 3.

 

B.           Lender have agreed to make the Loan available to Borrower provided they are secured by assignment of the trademark “Scrapbook” of the Company; and

 

C.           The parties wish to provide for the terms and conditions upon which the Loan will be made available to the Borrower.

 

THEREFORE in consideration of the premises and of the mutual covenants and agreements hereinafter set forth, the Lender and the Borrower warrant and represent to and covenant and agree with each other as set forth below.

 

1.	DEFINITIONS; INTERPRETATION

 

1.1                      For the purpose of this Agreement, the following words and phrases will have meanings set forth below unless the parties or the context otherwise require(s):

 

(a)

“Advance” means an advance or readvance on account of the Loan, as the context requires;

 

(b)

“Affiliate” has the meaning give to it in the Securities Act;

 

(c)

“Agreement” and “this Agreement” means this agreement and all schedules hereto as the same may be amended, modified, replaced or restated from time to time;

 

(d)

“Borrower’s Indebtedness” means all present and future indebtedness and liability, direct and indirect, of the Borrower to the Lender arising under and pursuant to the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, at any point in time the principal amount outstanding under the Loan, all unpaid accrued interest thereon, liquidated damages, and all fees and costs and expenses then payable in connection therewith);

 

(e)

“Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday or a Sunday, on which commercial banks in California are required to be open for business;

 

(f)

“Conditions Precedent” means the conditions precedent described in Article 8 hereof;

 

(g)

“Event of Default” means any of the events specified in Section 12, and “Default” mean any of such events, whether or not any such requirement has been satisfied;

 

(h)

“GAAP” means United States generally accepted accounting principles, as applied on a consistent basis;

 

(i)

“Interest Payment Date” means 30 days after advance of the Loan and, if the Loan is extended beyond the Maturity Date, each 30 days thereafter.

 

(j)

“Interest Rate” means nine percent (9 %) per annum calculated as herein provided;

 

(k)

“Lien” means, with respect to any Person, any mortgage, lien, pledge, hypothecation, charge(whether fixed or floating), security interest (including, without limitation, any assignment, notice or security interest filed pursuant to applicable federal, state or other laws) or other encumbrance, or any interest or title of any vendor, lessor, or lender to or other secured party of such Person under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, upon or with respect to any property, asset or undertaking of such Person, including any agreement to create any of the foregoing, and whether arising under any statute, law, contract or otherwise;

 

(l)

“Loan” means the loan facility of US$290,000 established by the Lender in favour of the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement;

 

(m)

“Loan Documents” means this Agreement, the Priority Agreement and the Security Documents;

 

(n)

“material adverse effect” in respect of the Borrower means a material adverse effect on:

 

(i)

the business, operations, affairs, financial condition, property, assets or undertakings of the Borrower, or

 

(ii)

the validity, priority or enforceability of any Loan Document to which that Borrower is a party or by which any of its property, assets and undertakings are bound;

 

(o)

“material” means, in respect of the Borrower, material in relation to the business, operations, affairs, financial condition, assets, properties, or prospects of the Borrower;

 

(p)

“Maturity Date” has the meaning set out in Section 5 of this Agreement;

 

(q)

“Person” means and includes an individual, a partnership, a joint venture, a corporation, a limited liability company, a trust, an unincorporated organization and a government or any department or agency thereof;

 

(r)

“Priority Claim” means a claim of a Person  pursuant to a Lien which, in the opinion of the Lender or its solicitors, acting reasonably, ranks or could rank pari passu with or in priority to any Lien that the Lender may have pursuant to the Security Documents;

 

(s)

“Prior Convertible Loan” means the loans from certain lenders represented by Chelsea Capital Corporation for the principal amount of US$2,187,500;

 

(t)

“Prior Convertible Loan Lenders” means Chelsea Capital Corporation. and other lenders represented by Chelsea Capital Corporation.;

 

(u)

“Prior Factor” means a Person in the business of factoring accounts receivable who is approved by the Lender for the purpose of financing the Borrower’s accounts receivable in whole or in part; such approval not to be unreasonably or arbitrarily withheld;

 

(v)

“Prior Factor’s Loan” means the loan made by the Prior Factor to the Borrower for the purposes of factoring the Borrower’s accounts receivables in whole or in part;

 

(w)

“Prior Factor’s Lien” means the Lien in favour of the Prior Factor over the Borrower’s accounts receivable which have been assigned to the Prior Factor for the repayment of the Prior Factor’s Loan and interest;

 

(x)

“Prior Permitted Liens” means:

 

(i)

the Prior Factor’s Lien;

 

(ii)

Liens in favour of the Prior Convertible Loan Lenders;

 

(iii)

any other Lien from time to time agreed to as such by the Lender in writing;

 

(iv)

Liens incidental to the conduct of Borrower’s business as the ownership of its property; and

 

(v)

Liens granted to factors over specific accounts receivable which the said factor is collecting on behalf of the Company.

 

(y)

“Securities Act” means the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended or replaced from time to time;

 

(z)

“Security Documents” means the security documents set out in Section 11 to this Agreement and any other security document(s) from time to time taken by the Lender from the Borrower or any other Person as security for the payment, observance and performance of the Borrower’s Indebtedness in whole or in part;

 

(aa)

“Subsidiary” has the meaning give to it in the Securities Act;

 

(bb)

“Priority Agreement” means the agreement of the Prior Convertible Loan Lenders to grant priority to the claim of the Lender to the trademark “Scrapbook” of the Borrower;

 

(cc)

“UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the applicable jurisdiction; and

 

(dd)

“US$” means lawful currency of the United States.

 

2.

LOAN

 

2.1                      Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Lender hereby establishes and agrees to make the Loan available to the Borrower.

 

3.

PURPOSE

 

3.1                      The Loan will be made available to the Borrower for its payroll accounts and to pay other outstanding accounts.

 

4.	AVAILABILITY AND SUBORDINATION

 

4.1                      The Loan will be available by advance on the day of execution of this Agreement.

 

4.2                      The Loan will be subordinated to a Prior Factor who is arranged by the Borrower, so long as the borrowings of the Borrower from the Prior Factor do not exceed 90% of the Borrower’s accounts receivable and security granted to such Prior Factor are limited to an assignment of such accounts receivable collected by the Prior Factor.

 

4.3                      The Loan will be subordinated to the Prior Convertible Loan, so long as the Prior Convertible Loan Lenders grant to the Lender priority over security on the trademark “Scrapbook” of the Borrower pursuant to the Priority Agreement.

 

5.

TERM

 

5.1                      Subject to the provisions of Section 7, the Borrower will pay the Borrower’s Indebtedness to the Lender in full thirty (30) days after advance, unless sooner prepaid or accelerated upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default (the “Maturity Date”), or unless extended by the Lender for such period as is agreed in writing by the Lender.

 

6.

INTEREST

 

6.1                      The outstanding principal balance of the Loan will bear interest at the Interest Rate.

 

6.2                      Interest at the Interest Rate will be calculated monthly, not in advance, as well as before maturity, default, demand and judgment.

 

6.3                      All overdue and unpaid interest and all fees, costs, and other amounts payable by the Borrower hereunder or under any of the Loan Documents will be added to the principal balance of the Loan and will bear interest at the Interest Rate until paid in full.

 

6.4                      If Interest calculated under the laws of the State of California is determined to be in excess of the maximum interest rate permitted by law, the parties agree to reduce the Interest  payable to such rate of interest as is 0.1% below the maximum permitted by California law and to reduce Interest otherwise paid or payable to such adjusted rate.  Any excess amount of Interest received by a Lender shall be first applied to any unpaid principal balance owed by the Borrower, and if the then remaining excess amount is greater than the previously unpaid principal balance, the Lender shall promptly refund such excess amount to the Borrower.

 

7.

REPAYMENT

 

7.1                      On each Interest Payment Date, the Borrower will pay the Lender all interest which has accrued on account of the outstanding balance of the Lender’s Loan and then remains unpaid.

 

7.2                      On the Maturity Date the Borrower will pay to the Lender the Borrower’s Indebtedness then outstanding in full, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Lender.

 

7.3                      The Borrower will be entitled to prepay the whole or any portion of the Borrower’s Indebtedness at any time and from time to time, without notice, bonus or penalty.

 

7.4                      All amounts payable by the Borrower under this Agreement will be paid without set-off or counterclaim, and without any deductions or withholdings whatsoever.

 

7.5                      Subject to the provisions hereof, all payments received by the Lender on account of the Borrower’s Indebtedness will be applied first in payment of outstanding interest and secondly in reduction of the principal balance of the Loan then outstanding.  If any payment is received at any time while an Event of Default remains outstanding or after demand has been made for the repayment of the Borrower’s Indebtedness, the Lender may appropriate such payment to such part or parts of the Borrower’s Indebtedness as the Lender in its sole discretion may determine and the Lender may from time to time revoke and change any such appropriation.

 

7.6                      The Lender is hereby authorized to open and maintain books of account and other books and records evidencing all advances under the Loan, interest accruing thereon, fees, charges, and other amounts from time to time charged to the Borrower under the Loan Documents; and amounts from time to time owing, paid, or repaid by the Borrower under this Agreement.  All such books, accounts, and records will constitute prima facie evidence of the amount owing by the Borrower under the Loan Documents; but the failure to make any entry or recording in such books, accounts, and records will not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of the Borrower under the Loan Documents.

 

7.7                      Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, any payment of principal of or interest on the Borrower’s Indebtedness that is due on a date other than a Business Day will be made on the next succeeding Business Day.  If the date for any payment on the Borrower’s Indebtedness is extended to the next succeeding Business Day by reason of the preceding sentence, the period of such extension will not be included in the computation of the interest payable on such Business Day.

 

8.	CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

 

8.1                      The Lender’s obligation to make any Advance is subject to the following conditions precedent having been met to the Lender’s sole satisfaction or waived by the Lender in writing at the time of that Advance, namely:

 

(a)

the Borrower’s representations and warranties contained herein and in the Security Documents then in effect then being true and correct in all material respects;

 

(b)

the Security Documents being registered against the Borrower in the state of California;

 

(c)

there then being no outstanding Default or Event of Default; and

 

(d)

the Prior Convertible Loan Lenders have signed the Priority Agreement.

 

9.	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

9.1                      The Borrower represents and warrants as follows:

 

(a)

it is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of Delaware;

 

(b)

it has the (corporate) power and capacity to carry on business as currently conducted by it, own property or interests therein, borrow and lend money, grant security, make, keep, observe and perform representations, warranties, covenants and agreements and incur obligations and liabilities, all as contemplated hereby;

 

(c)

except as disclosed to the Lender there is no action, suit, investigation or proceeding outstanding or pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against it or any of its property, assets or undertakings by or before any court, arbitrator or administrative or governmental body which would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect;

 

(d)

it has not agreed or consented to, nor has it agreed to cause or permit in the future (upon the happening of a contingency or otherwise), any of its property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, to be subject to a Lien other than Prior Permitted Liens; and

 

(e)

the execution and delivery by it of this Agreement and the Security Documents and the performance by it of its obligations hereunder and thereunder, do not and will not conflict with or result in a material breach of any of the terms, conditions, or provisions of:

 

(i)

its organizational documents,

 

(ii)

any law, regulation, or decree applicable or binding on it or any of its property, assets and undertaking, or

 

(iii)

any material agreement or instrument binding to which it or any of its property assets or undertakings is a party or bound, the breach of which could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect or result in, or require or permit the imposition of any Lien in or with respect to the property, assets and undertakings now owned or hereafter acquired by it.

 

10.

COVENANTS

 

10.1                      The Borrower will:

 

(a)

comply with all applicable laws, ordinances or governmental rules or regulations to which it or any of its property, assets and undertaking are subject;

 

(b)

obtain and maintain in effect all licenses, certificates, permits, franchises and other governmental authorizations necessary to the ownership of its property, assets and undertakings or to the conduct of its businesses, in each case to the extent necessary to ensure that non-compliance with such applicable laws, ordinances or governmental rules or regulations or failures to obtain or maintain in effect such licenses, certificates, permits, franchises and other governmental authorizations could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect; and

 

(c)

maintain and keep, or cause to be maintained and kept, its property, assets and undertakings in good repair, working order and condition (other than ordinary wear and tear), so that the business(es) carried on by it may be properly conducted at all times, provided that this section will not prevent the Borrower from discontinuing the operation and the maintenance of any of its property, assets and undertakings if such discontinuance is desirable in the conduct of its business and such the Borrower has concluded that such discontinuance could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect.

 

10.2                      So long as this Agreement remains in effect, the Borrower will not, without the prior written consent of the Lender, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld:

 

(a)

incur any further indebtedness of either a direct or indirect nature to any party other than the Lender, the Prior Factor and the Prior Convertible Loan Lenders except in the normal course of business;

 

(b)

grant or allow any further Lien to be registered against it or exist on any of its property, assets and undertaking, save and except for security in favour of the Lender and Prior Permitted Liens;

 

(c)

make any advances or loan to, or any investment in, or provide any guarantees on behalf of, any Person, other than the endorsement of checks in the ordinary course;

 

(d)

become a party to any transaction whereby all or a substantial part of its property assets and undertakings or of any of its subsidiaries would become the property of any other Person, whether by way of reconstruction, reorganization, amalgamation, merger, transfer, sale, lease or otherwise;

 

(e)

in any fiscal year of the Borrower or any of its subsidiaries, pay dividends on any class or kind of its shares, repurchase or redeem any of its shares, or reduce its capital in any way whatsoever.

 

10.3                      So long as this Agreement remains in effect, the Borrower will provide the Lender with the following information:

 

(a)

within 90 days of each fiscal year end of the Borrower, consolidated and non consolidated financial statements of the Borrower prepared by an independent public accountant approved by the Lender (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld) on a review engagement basis, which statements must include a balance sheet, an income statement, a statement of retained earnings, and a statement of changes in financial position, and must be prepared in accordance with GAAP applied on a basis consistent with the statements for the previous fiscal year and be approved and signed by two directors of the Borrower;

 

(b)

within 20 days of each calendar month end, management prepared monthly financial statements and aged payables and receivables for the Borrower;

 

(c)

within 20 days of each calendar month end, an aged list of the Borrower’s accounts receivable; and

 

(d)

at the written request of the Lender, such other reports, certificates, projections of income and cash flow or other matters affecting its business affairs or financial condition as the Lender may reasonably request from time to time.

 

11.

SECURITY

 

11.1                      As security for payment, observance and performance of the Borrower’s Indebtedness, the Borrower agrees to execute and deliver an assignment of the trademark “Scrapbook” and a priority agreement from the Prior Convertible Loan Lenders (collectively, the “Security Documents”) in a form and manner satisfactory to the Lender and the Lender’s attorneys.

 

11.2                      Each Security Document is given as additional, concurrent and collateral security to the remainder of the Security Documents and will not operate to merge, novate or discharge the Borrower’s Indebtedness or any of the other Security Documents.  The execution and delivery of each Security Document will not in any way suspend or affect the present or future rights and remedies of the Lender in respect of the Borrower’s Indebtedness, or the other Security Documents.  No action or judgment taken by the Lender in respect of any of the Security Documents or with respect to the Borrower’s Indebtedness will affect the liability of the Borrower hereunder and nothing but the actual payment in full by the Borrower to the Lender of the Borrower’s Indebtedness will discharge the Borrower or any of the Security Documents.

 

12.	EVENTS OF DEFAULT

 

12.1                      Notwithstanding and without prejudice to the demand nature of the Loan, at the option of the Lender, the Borrower’s Indebtedness will immediately become due and payable and this Agreement and the Security Documents will become enforceable upon the happening of any one or more of the following events:

 

(a)

if the Borrower:

 

(i)

fails to make any payment of principal, interest, or other money payable by it hereunder or under any of the Security Documents when the same becomes due hereunder or thereunder which failure continues unremediated for more than Five (5) days, or

 

(ii)

fails to observe or perform any covenant contained in this Agreement or any of the Security Documents and upon notice by the Lender, the Borrower fails to cure the same within Thirty (30) days of the Borrower’s receipt of such notice;

 

(b)

if any representation or warranty given by or on behalf of the Borrower is untrue in any material respect;

 

(c)

if an order is made or a resolution is passed for the winding-up of the Borrower, or if a petition is filed for the winding-up of the Borrower;

 

(d)

if the Borrower commits or threatens to commit any act of bankruptcy; becomes insolvent; or makes an assignment or proposal under applicable federal, state or other legislation in any jurisdiction, a general assignment in favour of its creditors, or a bulk sale of its assets; or if a bankruptcy petition is filed or presented against the Borrower;

 

(e)

if a receiver, receiver and manager, or receiver-manager, or any person with like powers, is appointed for all or any of the property, assets and undertakings of the Borrower;

 

(f)

if the Borrower permits any sum which has been admitted as due by it, or is not disputed to be due by it, and which forms or is capable of being made a charge upon any of its property, assets and undertakings in priority to any charge created by any of the Security Documents, to remain unpaid for 30 days after proceedings have been taken to enforce the same;

 

(g)

if the Borrower ceases to carry on any material aspect of its business;

 

(h)

if the Borrower makes default in payment of any of the Borrower’s Indebtedness or liability to the Lender, whether secured by the Security Documents or not;

 

(i)

if the holder (other than the Lender) of any Lien against the property, assets and undertakings of the Borrower, any subsidiary of the Borrower, does anything to enforce or realize on such Lien, and if, in the reasonable opinion of the Lender, such enforcement or realization would have a material adverse effect on the security for the Borrower’s Indebtedness or on the Borrower’s ability to repay the Borrower’s Indebtedness;

 

(j)

if, without the prior written consent of the Lender, the Borrower transfers its property, assets or undertakings or any material part thereof to any other Person;

 

(k)

if any execution, sequestration, extent, or any other process of any kind is levied upon or enforced against any part of the property, assets or undertakings  of the Borrower, any subsidiary of the Borrower and remains unsatisfied for a period of Thirty (30) days as to personal property, unless such process is disputed in good faith and, in the reasonable opinion of the Lender, does not jeopardize or impair the security constituted by the Security Documents in any material way;

 

(l)

if a distress or analogous process is levied upon the any of the property, assets or undertakings of the Borrower, any subsidiary of the Borrower, or any part thereof, unless the process is disputed in good faith and adequate security is given to pay the amount claimed in full; and

 

(m)

if, without the prior written consent of the Lender, the Borrower grants a Lien against any of its property, assets or undertakings other than in favour of the Lender or the holder of a Prior Permitted Lien.

 

13.

WAIVER

 

13.1                      The Lender may waive any breach by the Borrower of any of the provisions contained in this Agreement or in the Security Documents or any default by the Borrower in the observance or performance of any covenant or condition required to be observed or performed by the Borrower under the terms of this Agreement or any of the Security Documents; but any waiver by the Lender of such breach or default, or any failure to take any action to enforce its rights hereunder or under any of the Security Documents, will not extend to or be taken in any manner whatsoever to affect any subsequent breach or default or the rights resulting therefrom.

 

14.	REMEDIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT AND THE SECURITY DOCUMENTS

 

14.1                      Any Event of Default by the Borrower under this Agreement or under any of the Security Documents will constitute an Event of Default under the remainder of the Security Documents.

 

14.2                      All rights and remedies stipulated for the Lender hereunder or in any of the Security Documents will be deemed to be in addition to and not restrictive of the right and remedies which the Lender might be entitled to at law or in equity; and the Lender may realize on the Security Documents or any part thereof in any manner and in such order as it may be advised, and any such realization by any means will not bar realization of any other security or any part or parts thereof, nor will any single or partial exercise of any right or remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof, nor will any failure on the part of the Lender to exercise, or any delay in exercising any rights under this Agreement or any of the Security Documents operate as a waiver.

 

14.3                      The acceptance by the Lender of any further security or of any payment of or on account of any of the Borrower’s Indebtedness after a Default or of any payment on account of any past Default will not be construed to be a waiver of any right in respect of any future default or of any past default not completely cured thereby; and the Lender may, in its uncontrolled discretion, exercise any and all rights, powers, remedies and recourses available to it in accordance with this Agreement and the Security Documents concurrently or individually without the necessity of any election.

 

15.	LAPSE AND CANCELLATION PERIODIC REVIEW

 

15.1                      If, in the opinion of the Lender, any material adverse change in risk occurs or if the Borrower fails to comply with the conditions herein, then the Lender’s obligations to continue to make Advances hereunder may, at the option of the Lender, be withdrawn or cancelled.

 

16.                      MISCELLANEOUS

 

16.1                      If for the purpose of obtaining or enforcing any judgment on any matter under this Agreement in any court in any jurisdiction, it becomes necessary to convert into any other currency (such other currency being hereinafter called the “Judgment Currency”) an amount due in respect of the Borrower’s Indebtedness, then the conversion shall be made at the option of the Lender at the Rate of Exchange prevailing either on the Business Day before the date of default or on the Business Day before the day on which the judgment is given (the date as of which such conversion is made being hereinafter called the “Currency Conversion Date”).  If there is a change between the Rate of Exchange in effect on the Conversion Date (or any other date which shall be specified in any judgment or judicial award) and the Rate of Exchange in effect on the date of payment, then the Borrower covenants and agrees to pay such additional amounts, if any, but in any event not a lesser amount, as may be necessary, together with the amount paid in the Judgment Currency converted at the Rate of Exchange in effect on the date of payment, to produce the amount in the currency of the said amount due in respect of the Borrower’s Indebtedness which could have been purchased with the amount of Judgment Currency stipulated in the judgment or judicial award at the Rate of Exchange in effect on the Currency Conversion Date or such other date as specified in such judgment or judicial award.  Any amount due under this clause shall be due as a separate and independent debt and shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for amounts otherwise due under or in respect of the Borrower’s Indebtedness.  For the purposes of this clause, “Rate of Exchange” means, for any relevant date and currency, the spot rate at which any large commercial bank, in accordance with its normal practice, is able on the relevant date to purchase such currency with the Judgment Currency and includes premiums and costs of exchange payable in connection with such purchase.

 

16.2                      Each of the parties hereto will forthwith at all times, and from time to time, at the Borrower’s sole cost and expense, do, execute, acknowledge and deliver, or cause to be done, executed, acknowledged and delivered, all such further acts, deeds, documents and assurances which, in the opinion of a Lender, acting reasonably, are necessary or advisable for the better accomplishing and effecting of the intent of this Agreement.

 

16.3                      The Borrower will pay all legal costs, registration fees and other costs incurred by the Lender in investigating title, preparing this Agreement and the Security Documents and in perfecting the security for the Borrower’s Indebtedness

 

16.4                      None of the execution and delivery of the Security Documents, the registration of the Security Documents and making of any Advance will in any way merge or extinguish this Agreement or the terms and conditions hereof, which will continue in full force and effect.

 

16.5                      In the event of any inconsistency or conflict between any of the provisions of this Agreement and any of the provisions of the Security Documents, the provisions of this Agreement will prevail; but the omission from this Agreement of any covenant, agreement, term, or condition contained in any of the Security Documents will not be considered to be an inconsistency or a conflict.

 

16.6                      Neither this Agreement nor any benefits hereunder may be transferred, assigned or otherwise disposed of by the Borrower to any Person without the prior written consent of the Lender.

 

16.7                      No amendment, waiver or modification of, or agreement collateral to, this Agreement or any of the Security Documents will be enforceable against the Lender unless it is by a formal instrument in writing expressed to be a modification of this Agreement or the Security Documents, as the case may be, and executed in the same fashion as this Agreement.

 

16.8                      All covenants and other agreements in this Agreement contained by or on behalf of any of the parties hereto will bind and enure to the benefit of the respective successors and assigns of the parties hereto (including, without limitation, any transferee) whether so expressed or not; provided, however, that the Borrower may not assign its rights or obligations hereunder to any Person.

 

16.9                      Any notice required or permitted to be given under this Agreement will be in writing and may be given by delivering, sending by electronic facsimile transmission or other means of electronic communication capable of producing a printed copy, or sending by prepaid registered mail posted in Canada or the United States, as the case may be, the notice to the following address or number:

 

(a)

If to the Borrower:

 

2853 E. Pico Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90023 USA

 

Attention:         Charles Lesser

 

Facsimile No.:   ###-###-####

email: ***@***

 

with a copy to (which does not constitute notice):

 

800 – 885 West Georgia Street

Vancouver, BC  V6C 3H1

Canada

 

Attention:        Bernard Pinsky

 

Facsimile No.:   ###-###-####

 

(b)

If to the Lender:

 

c/o Mr. Karim Khoury, Chabrier & Partners (Reed Smith),

3 rue du Mont-Blanc

P.O. Box 1363 CH - 1211

Geneva 1 Switzerland;

 

Attention: Charles Shaker

 

Fax Number: 1 ###-###-####

Email: ***@***

 

(or to such other address or number as any party may specify by notice in writing to another party).

 

Any notice delivered or sent by electronic facsimile transmission or other means of electronic communication capable of producing a printed copy on a business day will be deemed conclusively to have been effectively given on the day the notice was delivered, or the transmission was sent successfully to the number set out above, as the case may be.  Any notice sent by prepaid registered mail will be deemed conclusively to have been effectively given on the third business day after posting; but if at the time of posting or between the time of posting and the third business day thereafter there is a strike, lockout, or other labour disturbance affecting postal service, then the notice will not be effectively given until actually delivered.

 

16.10                      The descriptive headings of the several sections of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and do not constitute a part of this Agreement.

 

16.11                      This Agreement will be construed and enforced in accordance with, and the rights of the parties will be governed by the laws of the State of California and applicable federal laws thereto.  The Lender and the Borrower hereby attorn to the courts of competent jurisdiction located in the County of Los Angeles, State of California in any proceedings hereunder.

 

16.12                      The Lender acknowledges that it has consulted with and is represented by separate legal counsel.

 

16.13                      This Agreement may be executed simultaneously in two or more counterparts, each of which will be deemed an original, and it will not be necessary in making proof of this Agreement to produce or account for more than one such counterpart.  This Agreement may be executed by delivery of executed signature pages by fax or other form of electronic transmission and such transmission will be effective for all purposes.

 

16.14                      This Agreement, the schedules attached hereto and the Security Documents contain the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior arrangements and understandings, both written and oral, expressed or implied, with respect thereto.  Any preceding correspondence is expressly superseded and terminated by this Agreement.

 

 

16.15                      All covenants hereunder will be given independent effect so that if a particular action or condition is prohibited by any one of such covenants, the fact that it would be permitted by an exception to, or otherwise be in compliance within the limitations of, another covenant will not avoid the occurrence of a Default or Event of Default if such action is taken or such condition exists.

 

16.16                      Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions of this Agreement, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall (to the full extent permitted by law) not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

 

16.17                      At such time as the Loan is repaid in full, Lender shall promptly release and discharge the Security Documents to the Borrower (or its designee), and release all security interests which are granted to Lender pursuant hereto.  Under such circumstances, the Lender shall, upon the Borrower’s request, promptly return to the Borrower all original copies of this Agreement and the Security Agreement, and shall promptly execute such termination statements and other documents as may be required by Borrower to evidence the same.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized on the 24th day of November, 2009.

 

 

Per:           /s/ Charles Lesser

Authorized Signatory

 

 

Per:           /s/ signed

Authorized Signatory

 

This is page 3 of an agreement entitled LOAN AGREEMENT dated for reference November 24, 2009 made by PANGLOBAL BRANDS INC. in favour of Providence Wealth Management Ltd  in connection with loan(s) aggregating US$290,000.00