CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PERSON TRANSACTIONS
The following is a description of each transaction since January 1, 2020 and each currently proposed transaction in which:
• | we have been or are to be a participant; |
• | the amounts involved exceeded or will exceed the lesser of $120,000 or 1% of the average of the Company’s total assets at year end for the last two completed fiscal years; and |
• | any of our directors, executive officers or holders of more than 5% of our capital stock, or an affiliate or immediate family member of the foregoing persons, had or will have a direct or indirect material interest. |
Other than as described below, there have not been, nor are there any currently proposed, transactions or series of similar transactions to which we have been or will be a party other than compensation arrangements, which are described where required under the section entitled “Executive Compensation” and “Director Compensation Table.”
Office Space Sublease and Storage Space
We sub-let approximately 2,000 square feet of office space and purchase certain printed marketing collateral and stationery items from a company owned by Larry Scheffler, one of our Co-CEOs. Amounts paid by us for rent for the years ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 equaled $16,027, and $24,040, respectively. Amounts paid by us for printed marketing collateral and stationery items for the years ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, equaled $450,692, and $170,009, respectively. As at December 31, 2021, there was $133,560 included in accounts payable that was owed to this related party.
From November 2020 to April 2021, we leased a 25,000 square foot cultivation facility from an entity owned by both our Co-CEOs. Rents paid by us for this facility for the years ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, equaled $301,894 and $339,688, respectively. On April 30, 2021, our Co-CEOs sold this building to an arm’s length third party who assumed the lease.
A company owned by Mr. Scheffler, one of our Co-CEOs, leases storage space from us. Amounts paid to us for the storage space were $171,895 and $62,720 for the years ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively.
WCDN Acquisition
On July 17, 2020, we entered into an asset purchase agreement (the “WCDN Asset Acquisition Agreement”) with West Coast Development Nevada, LLC (“WCDN”), W The Brand, LLC, and R. Scott Coffman, pursuant to which we, through MMDC, acquired cannabis inventory, equipment and tenant improvements located in a 25,000 square feet facility at 4801 West Bell Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada 89118 (the “WCDN Acquisition Facility”), which has the ability to expand to 45,000 square feet (the “WCDN Acquisition”). Concurrent with the first closing of the WCDN Acquisition, RX Land LLC (“RX Land”), an entity that was owned by our Co-CEOs, acquired the WCDN Acquisition Facility for US$3.3 million and entered into a lease agreement with WCDN in respect of such facility (the “West Bell Lease”). In accordance with the terms of the WCDN Asset Acquisition Agreement and approvals by our independent directors, WCDN assigned the West Bell Lease to MMDC on November 25, 2020, and MMDC subsequently entered into an amending agreement with RX Land on November 27, 2020, to amend certain terms of such lease agreement including increasing the lease payments, extending the duration of the lease and, if desired, allowing for second floor installation by MMDC without a corresponding lease rate increase due to an increase in facility size. In April 2021, RX Land was sold to an arm’s length third party.
Related Person Transaction Policy
We have adopted a written related person transactions policy that provides that our executive officers, directors, nominees for election as a director, beneficial owners of more than 5% of any class of our voting securities, and any members of the immediate family of the foregoing persons, are not permitted to enter into a material related person transaction with us without the review and approval of our Audit Committee. The policy provides that any request for us to enter into a transaction with an executive officer, director, nominee for election as a director, beneficial owner of more than 5% of our common stock or with any of their immediate family members or affiliates in which the amount involved exceeds $120,000 will be presented to our Audit Committee for review, consideration and approval, subject to exceptions for certain transaction for which there is standing pre-approval as described in the