2014 CREDIT FACILITY AGREEMENT

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EX-10.2 4 v393339_ex10-2.htm EXHIBIT 10.2

 

Exhibit 10.2

 

2014 CREDIT FACILITY AGREEMENT

 

AGREEMENT by and between Protalex, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) and Niobe Ventures, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Niobe”), dated as of November 4, 2014.

 

WHEREAS, the Company is seeking a credit facility of $5.0 million;

 

WHEREAS, Niobe is the holder of a Consolidated, Amended and Restated Promissory Note in the principal amount of $9,219,366 issued by the Company on October 11, 2013 (the “Outstanding Note”); and

 

WHEREAS, Niobe wishes to make an additional $5.0 million credit facility available to the Company;

 

NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereby agree as follows:

 

1.Credit Facility.

 

(a) Niobe hereby agrees that it will make available to the Company up to $5.0 million in the form of secured loans at the request of the Company made at any time prior to December 31, 2015 (the “Expiration Date”) as follows:

 

(i) up to $300,000 on November 4, 2014;

 

(ii) up to $400,000 on November 28, 2014;

 

(iii) up to $600,000 on January 15, 2015; and

 

(iv) up to $300,000 on the last business day of each calendar month thereafter provided that (a) there shall have been no material adverse development in the Company’s clinical testing of PRTX-100 (a “Material Adverse Event”), and (b) with giving effect to the proposed draw down, the Company shall have current working capital in an amount equal to the average monthly burn-rate (actual expenses incurred) for the three months preceding the draw-down notice, multiplied by six (e.g., if the average monthly burn rate for the three months preceding the draw-down notice was $150,000, then the Company will be required to have $900,000 of working capital on hand (including the draw-down amount) in order to qualify for that draw-down). The foregoing is referred to herein as the “Working Capital Funding Threshold”.

 

(b) Niobe shall only be obligated to make loans to the Company hereunder to the extent that the conditions set forth herein are met.

 

(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary that may be contained herein, in no event shall Niobe be required to loan the Company more than $5.0 million hereunder, or to make any loan at any time after the Expiration Date.

 

2.Request for Loans.

 

At any time prior to the Expiration Date, the Company may request that Niobe make a loan to the Company by submitting to Niobe a written request therefor (a “Loan Request”), which Loan Request must contain: (i) the amount of the loan requested to be made; (ii) a certification that no Material Adverse Event has occurred; (iii) if applicable, documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Lender that the Working Capital Funding Threshold is met; and (iv) the aggregate principal amount of all loans made to the Company by Niobe pursuant to this Agreement prior to such request. Such Loan Request must be accompanied by a written certification signed by an executive officer of the Company certifying that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under any outstanding note of the Company.

 

 
 

  

3.Loans.

 

(a) Within ten (10) days of the receipt of such Loan Request, Niobe shall make a loan to the Company in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) the amount sought in such Loan Request, or (ii) $5 million less the aggregate amount of all loans previously made to the Company by Niobe pursuant to this Agreement (the “Available Amount”);

 

(b) If the amount sought in such Loan Request is in excess of the Available Amount, Niobe, in its sole and absolute discretion, may (but shall not be required to) make a loan to the Company for all or any portion of such excess.

 

(c) Each loan made to the Company by Niobe shall be represented by a Senior Secured Promissory Note in the form of Exhibit A annexed hereto (a “Note”).

 

(d) The obligations of the Company pursuant to each Note shall be secured by a first priority perfected security interest in all of the assets of the Company pursuant to the Second Consolidated, Amended and Restated Security Agreement in the form of Exhibit B annexed hereto.

 

4.Notices.

 

All notices or other communications which are required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and sufficient if delivered personally or sent by nationally-recognized overnight courier or by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested or by facsimile, with confirmation as provided above addressed as follows:

 

If to Company:

 

Protalex, Inc.

131 Columbia Turnpike, Suite 1

Florham Park, NJ 07932

Attention: Chief Financial Officer

 

With copies to

 

Morse, Zelnick, Rose & Lander LLP

825 Third Avenue, 16th Floor

New York, NY 10022

Attention: Kenneth S. Rose, Esq.

Fax: 212 ###-###-####

 

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If to Niobe:

 

Niobe Ventures, LLC

c/o Arnold P. Kling

410 Park Avenue, 17th Floor

New York, NY 10022

Attention: Arnold P. Kling, Manager

Fax: 212 ###-###-####

 

 

5.Governing Law.

 

All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement, and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Agreement, the relationship of the parties, and/or the interpretation and enforcement of the rights and duties of the parties hereunder shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, employees or agents) shall be commenced in the state or federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan (the “New York Courts”). Each party hereto hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the New York Courts for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein, and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, or such New York Courts are improper or inconvenient venue for such proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or 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 manner permitted by law. Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. If either party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of this Agreement, then the prevailing party in such action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its attorney’s fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding.

 

6.Waiver.

 

Any waiver by the Company or Niobe of a breach of any provision of this Agreement shall not operate as or be construed to be a waiver of any other breach of such provision or of any breach of any other provision of this Agreement.

 

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7.Severability.

 

If any provision of this Agreement is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the balance of this Agreement shall remain in effect, and if any provision is inapplicable to any person or circumstance, it shall nevertheless remain applicable to all other persons and circumstances.

 

  PROTALEX, INC.
     
  By:  
    Kirk M. Warshaw
    Chief Financial Officer
     
     
  NIOBE VENTURE, LLC
     
  By:  
    Arnold P. Kling
    Manager

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

[Exhibit Intentionally Omitted]

 

 
 

 

EXHIBIT B

 

[Exhibit Intentionally Omitted]