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by which the Company agreed to pay approximately $330,000, representing the principal award plus accrued interest.
−Removed: As of the time of this
−Removed: filing, the Company has paid approximately $187,000 toward the settlement amount.
+Added: As of the time of
+Added: this filing, the Company has paid approximately $187,000 toward the settlement amount.
The remaining balance of approximately $171,000
is to be paid no later than March 1, 2023, and accrues interest of 10% per annum until paid.
−Removed: Since July 2017 the Company has been engaged in
−Removed: litigation with a former director, Robert Kopple, relating to more than $13 million and the current equivalent of the approximately 23
+Added: Since July 2017 the Company has been engaged
+Added: in litigation with a former director, Robert Kopple, relating to more than $13 million and the current equivalent of the approximately
23 million warrants, exercisable for seven years at a price of $0.10 per share, which Mr.
Kopple and his affiliated entities (collectively
−Removed: the “Kopple Parties”) claimed should have been originally issued to them pursuant to various agreements with the Company entered
−Removed: to between 2013-2016.
−Removed: In March 2022, the Company reached a settlement with the Kopple Parties that resolves all claims asserted against
−Removed: the Company without any admission, concession or finding of any fault, liability or wrongdoing on the part of the Company.
−Removed: Under the terms
−Removed: of the settlement, we have agreed to pay an aggregate amount of $10 million over a period of seven years;
−Removed: $3 million of which was originally
−Removed: to be paid in June 2022, and subsequently amended to extend the initial installment to November 2022, after which, interest will accrue
−Removed: on the unpaid balance at a rate of 6%, compounded annually.
−Removed: All amounts, including all accrued interest, are to be paid no later than
−Removed: eight years from the date of the initial payment.
−Removed: The Kopple Parties have also received seven-year warrants to purchase up to an aggregate
−Removed: of approximately 3.3 million shares of our common stock at a price of $0.85 per share.
−Removed: The settlement also provides for standard mutual
−Removed: general release provisions and includes customary representations, warranties, and covenants, including certain increases in the amount
−Removed: payable to the Kopple Parties and the right of such parties to enter judgment against the Company if the Company remains in uncured default
−Removed: in its payment obligations under the settlement.
−Removed: As of the date of this report, the Company has not yet paid the full $3,000,000 installment
−Removed: due to Kopple;
+Added: the “Kopple Parties”) claimed should have been originally issued to them pursuant to various agreements with the Company
+Added: entered to between 2013-2016.
+Added: In March 2022, the Company reached a settlement with the Kopple Parties that resolves all claims asserted
+Added: against the Company without any admission, concession or finding of any fault, liability or wrongdoing on the part of the Company.
+Added: the terms of the settlement, we have agreed to pay an aggregate amount of $10 million over a period of seven years;
+Added: $3 million of which
+Added: was originally to be paid in June 2022, and subsequently amended to extend the initial installment to January 2023, after which, interest
+Added: will accrue on the unpaid balance at a rate of 6%, compounded annually.
+Added: All amounts, including all accrued interest, are to be paid no
+Added: later than eight years from the date of the initial payment.
+Added: The Kopple Parties have also received seven-year warrants to purchase up
+Added: to an aggregate of approximately 3.3 million shares of our common stock at a price of $0.85 per share.
+Added: The settlement also provides for
+Added: standard mutual general release provisions and includes customary representations, warranties, and covenants, including certain increases
+Added: in the amount payable to the Kopple Parties and the right of such parties to enter judgment against the Company if the Company remains
+Added: in uncured default in its payment obligations under the settlement.
+Added: As of the date of this report, the Company has not yet paid the full
+Added: $3,000,000 installment due to Kopple;
having made a partial payment of $150,000 in June 2022.
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common stock.
−Removed: Because of the refusal by not only the removed directors but also Aura’s prior management to recognize the legal effectiveness
−Removed: of the consents, in April 2019 the stockholders filed suit in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware pursuant to Section 225
−Removed: of the Delaware General Corporations Law, seeking an order confirming the validity of the consents.
−Removed: On July 8, 2019 the Court of Chancery
−Removed: entered final judgment in favor of the stockholder plaintiffs, confirming that (a) Ronald Buschur, Si Ryong Yu and William Anderson had
−Removed: been validly removed by the holders of a majority of the Company’s outstanding stock acting by written consent (b) Ms.
−Removed: Lempert had been validly elected by the holders of a majority of the Company’s outstanding stock acting by written
−Removed: consent, and (c) the Company’s Board of Directors validly consists of Cipora Lavut, David Mann, Robert Lempert, Gary Douglas and
−Removed: Salvador Diaz-Versón, Jr.
−Removed: As a result of prior management’s unsuccessful opposition to this stockholders’ action filed
−Removed: in the Court of Chancery, such stockholders may be potentially entitled to recoup their litigation costs from the Company under Delaware’s
−Removed: corporate benefit doctrine and/or other legal provisions.
−Removed: To date, no final determination has been made as to the amount of recoupment,
−Removed: if any, to which such stockholders may be entitled.
+Added: Because of the refusal by not only the removed directors but also Aura’s prior management to recognize the legal
+Added: effectiveness of the consents, in April 2019 the stockholders filed suit in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware pursuant
+Added: to Section 225 of the Delaware General Corporations Law, seeking an order confirming the validity of the consents.
+Added: On July 8, 2019
+Added: the Court of Chancery entered final judgment in favor of the stockholder plaintiffs, confirming that (a) Ronald Buschur, Si Ryong Yu
+Added: and William Anderson had been validly removed by the holders of a majority of the Company’s outstanding stock acting by written
+Added: consent (b) Ms.
+Added: Lempert had been validly elected by the holders of a majority of the Company’s outstanding
+Added: stock acting by written consent, and (c) the Company’s Board of Directors validly consists of Cipora Lavut, David Mann, Robert
+Added: Lempert, Gary Douglas and Salvador Diaz-Versón, Jr.
+Added: As a result of prior management’s unsuccessful opposition to this stockholders’
+Added: action filed in the Court of Chancery, such stockholders may be potentially entitled to recoup their litigation costs from the Company
+Added: under Delaware’s corporate benefit doctrine and/or other legal provisions.
+Added: To date, no final determination has been made as to
+Added: the amount of recoupment, if any, to which such stockholders may be entitled.
In June 2022, Melvin
Gagerman, the Company’s former CEO and CFO whose employment with Aura was permanently terminated in July 2019, brought suit against
−Removed: the Company for repayment of an allegedly unsecured demand promissory note presumably in the principal amount of $82,000 which he claims
−Removed: was entered into in April 2014 and bears interest at a rate of 10% per annum.
−Removed: Despite the fact that, based on Gagerman’s allegations,
−Removed: the note was issued during a period when he was the Company’s CEO, CFO, Corporate Secretary and Chairman of Aura’s Board of
−Removed: Directors, Gagerman has stated that he does not possess a copy of the alleged promissory note.
−Removed: The Company disputes that any amount is
−Removed: presently owed to Gagerman and has filed a cross-complaint against him for, among things, conversion, violation of California Business
−Removed: & Professions Code §17200, and various breaches of fiduciary duty that the Company believes Gagerman committed against Aura,
−Removed: including without limitation, Gagerman’s actions in opposing the valid 2019 stockholder consent action.
+Added: the Company for repayment of an allegedly unsecured demand promissory note in the principal amount of $82,000 which he claims was entered
+Added: into in April 2014 and bears interest at a rate of 10% per annum.
+Added: Despite the fact that, based on Gagerman’s allegations, the note
+Added: was issued during a period when he was the Company’s CEO, CFO, Corporate Secretary and Chairman of Aura’s Board of Directors,
+Added: Gagerman has stated that he does not possess a copy of the alleged promissory note.
+Added: The Company disputes that any amount is presently
+Added: owed to Gagerman and has filed a cross-complaint against him for, among things, conversion, violation of California Business& Professions
+Added: Code §17200, and various breaches of fiduciary duty that the Company believes Gagerman committed against Aura, including without
+Added: limitation, Gagerman’s actions in opposing the valid 2019 stockholder consent action.
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