THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS RESTATED CONVERTIBLE LOAN AND OPTION AGREEMENT HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 AND MAY NOT BE SOLD OR TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF A REGISTRATION STATEMENT COVERING THIS RESTATED CONVERTIBLE LOAN AND OPTION AGREEMENT OR AN OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE COMPANY THAT SUCH REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED. THIS PROMISSORY NOTE IS NOT A SUITABLE INVESTMENT FOR PERSONS WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO BEAR THE TOTAL LOSS OF THIS INVESTMENT AND HAS ADEQUATE FINANCIAL RESOURCES TO PROVIDE AND MEET ITS FINANCIAL NEEDS
3.1.1 | Acceptable Stock Exchange | means either AIM or the ASX, or such other stock exchange in respect of which AIMS has provided its written consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; |
3.1.2 | Additional Loan Facility | means the loan facility to be made available by AIMS to EGSA pursuant to clause 6; |
3.1.3 | Additional Loan Facility Amount | means an amount equal to all amounts outstanding under the Investec Loan Agreement, subject to a maximum amount of R93 000 000 (ninety three million Rand); |
3.1.4 | Affiliate | means, with respect to AIMS, any other person that controls or is controlled by or is under common control with AIMS; |
3.1.5 | Agreement | means this restated convertible loan and option agreement; |
3.1.6 | AIM | means the Alternative Investment Market, being a division of the London Stock Exchange; |
3.1.7 | ASX | means the Australian Stock Exchange; |
3.1.8 | Business Day | means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday in the RSA, within the meaning of the Public Holidays Act, 1994 (South Africa ); |
3.1.9 | Companies Act | means the Companies Act, 1973 (South Africa ); |
3.1.10 | Completion Date | means the date on which all of the Suspensive Conditions are fulfilled or waived, as the case may be; |
3.1.11 | Conversion Date | means the earlier of: (a) such Business Day as AIMS may determine by way of notice in writing to EGSA (provided that AIMS has given EGSA sufficient notice to secure such regulatory consents as may be necessary in relation to such conversion pursuant to clause 8.2); or (b) the date on which the Listing is approved by the listing authority of the stock exchange concerned; |
3.1.12 | Conversion Shares | means such number of shares in the Issuer as will, after their issue, equal 40% (forty percent) of the entire issued share capital of the Issuer; |
3.1.13 | Convertible Loan Agreement | the Convertible Loan Agreement entered into between EGSA, AIMS and the Phoenix Gold Fund on 31 March 2008, as amended by way of letter agreement, dated 27 March 2009, as more fully described in clause 2.1; |
3.1.14 | Eastern Goldfields Group | means some or all of EGI and its subsidiaries and shall include any new entity that may be incorporated for the purpose of the Listing; |
3.1.15 | Initial Loan | the amount of R 32,000,000 (thirty two million Rand) advanced by AIMS and the Phoenix Gold Fund to EGSA pursuant to the Convertible Loan Agreement, the amount of which (as at the Signature Date) is reflected in clause 5.1; |
3.1.16 | Interest Rate | means the publicly quoted prime overdraft rate from time to time of The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited, evidenced by a certificate of any manager of that institution whose designation it shall not be necessary to prove and whose determination shall constitute prima facie evidence of that rate; |
3.1.17 | Investec | means Investec Bank Limited, a limited liability company duly registered and incorporated in accordance with the company laws of the RSA under registration number 1969/004763/06); |
3.1.18 | Investec Loan | means the loan in the amount of R80 000 000 (eighty million Rand) advanced by Investec to EGSA in terms of the Investec Loan Agreement; |
3.1.19 | Investec Loan Agreement | means the Loan Agreement pursuant to which the Investec Loan was advanced to EGSA, which agreement was entered into between Investec and EGSA on 30 May 2008 and was amended by the First Amending Agreement to the Loan Agreement, entered into between Investec and EGSA on 28 November 2008; |
3.1.20 | Issuer | means either: (a) EGSA; or (b) subject to written agreement between EGSA and AIMS (both Parties being required to act reasonably and in good faith), such other member of the Eastern Goldfields Group as may currently exist or may be utilised for the purposes of the Listing; |
3.1.21 | JSE | means JSE Limited, a company duly registered and incorporated with limited liability under the company laws of the RSA with registration number 2005/022939/06, licensed as an exchange in terms of the Securities Services Act, 2004 (South Africa); |
3.1.22 | Listing | means the listing of the Eastern Goldfields Group on an Acceptable Stock Exchange; |
3.1.23 | Listing Date | means the date on which the Eastern Goldfields Group is admitted to trading on an Acceptable Stock Exchange; |
3.1.24 | Loan | means the aggregate of the outstanding amount of the Initial Loan (plus accrued interest) and the outstanding amount of the Additional Loan; |
3.1.25 | Option | means the option granted by EGSA to AIMS pursuant to clause 11; |
3.1.26 | Option Fee | means an amount of US$1 300 000 (one million three hundred thousand United States Dollars) payable by AIMS to EGSA in consideration for the Option pursuant to clause 11.2; |
3.1.27 | Option Shares | means such number of shares in the Issuer as will, after their issue, equal 10% (ten percent) of the entire issued share capital of the Issuer; |
3.1.28 | Parties | means the parties to this Agreement set out in clause 1 and their permitted assignees and successors-in-title, or any one of them as the context may require; |
3.1.29 | Phoenix Gold Fund | means the Phoenix Gold Fund, a fund domiciled in the British Virgin Islands and administered in Hong Kong by HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Asia) Limited; |
3.1.30 | R or Rand | means Rand, the lawful currency of the RSA; |
3.1.31 | RSA | means the Republic of South Africa; |
3.1.32 | Signature Date | means the date on which the last Party signs this Agreement; |
3.1.33 | Subscription Price | means an amount of US$3 700 000 (three million seven hundred thousand United States Dollars) payable by AIMS to EGSA in the event that AIMS elects (or is deemed to have elected) to exercise the Option; |
3.1.34 | Suspensive Conditions | means the suspensive conditions set out in clause 4.1; and |
3.1.35 | US$ | means United States Dollars, being the lawful currency of the United States. |
For the avoidance of doubt, it is not the Parties’ intention that the Eastern Goldfields Group shall be precluded from issuing additional shares prior to the Conversion Shares described in clause 8 or undertaking any other corporate action that may affect its share capital. It is possible that the Eastern Goldfields Group might wish to issue additional ordinary shares in order to facilitate the acquisition of other assets that may enhance the value of the Eastern Goldfields Group. In such circumstances, the Parties agree that they will revise the percentage of the issued capital of the Issuer envisaged by clause 8 above to take into account any such changes to the share capital of the Eastern Goldfields Group. Such a revision will be agreed by the Parties in writing not less than 30 days prior to the Conversion Date and failing their agreement, the revision shall be determined by the auditors of the Eastern Goldfields Group (whose determination shall, in the absence of manifest error, be final and binding on the Parties).
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