Exhibit 10.1

 

Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc.

 

DIRECTOR’S
CONVERTIBLE PROMISSORY NOTE
(Amended and Restated Effective May 12, 2016)

 

Principal Amount US$500,000.00

 

Oxnard, California

 

 

April 11 2016

 

For value received, the undersigned Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (“Maker”), promises to pay to Lon E. Bell, Ph.D (“Payee”), or order,
the principal sum of 500 Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00), together with
interest at the rate hereinafter provided for on the unpaid principal balance of
this promissory note (this “Note”) from time to time outstanding until paid in
full.

 

Interest shall accrue on the unpaid and outstanding principal balance of this
Note commencing on the date hereof and continuing until repayment of this Note
in full at a rate per annum equal to Eight Percent (8.00%). The principal, along
with any accrued but unpaid interest shall be due and payable in full on
September 30, 2017 (the “Maturity Date”). This Note shall bear no prepayment
penalty.

 

Maker shall make all payments hereunder to Payee in lawful money of the United
States and in immediately available funds. Payments shall be applied first to
accrued and unpaid interest, then to principal.

 

Payee shall have the right to convert the principal balance of this Note and any
accrued interest thereon at any time before payment by written notice exercising
his optional right to convert the principal balance and any accrued interest
into the common stock of Maker at a conversion price of $0.71 per share (subject
to adjustment for stock splits, reverse stock splits, and similar adjustments)
(the “Conversion Price”).  Maker shall have the right to mandatorily convert the
principal balance of this Note plus any accrued interest into the common stock
of Maker at the Conversion Price upon the earlier of the Maturity Date and the
closing of a Liquidity Event if, and only if, the Conversion Price is less than
the average closing price of Maker’s common stock for the five consecutive
trading days ending on the trading day immediately preceding the date Maker
exercises its conversion rights hereunder.  A Liquidity Event shall be defined
as a strategic investment in Maker or a public stock offering by Maker.

 

The maturity of this Note may be accelerated by Payee upon the occurrence of any
one or more of the following:

 

(a)                                 A breach or default by Maker of any of the
terms, conditions or covenants of this Note or any other agreement of Maker with
Payee or its affiliates;

 

(b)                                 The institution by Maker of proceedings to
be adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to institution of
bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it or the filing by it of a
petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or release under the
federal Bankruptcy Act, or the consent by it to the filing of any such
proceeding; or

 

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(c)                                  If, within sixty (60) days after the
commencement of an action against Maker (and service of process in connection
therewith on Maker) seeking any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
liquidation, dissolution or similar relief under any present or future statute,
law or regulation, such action shall not have been resolved in favor of Maker or
all orders or proceedings thereunder affecting the operations or the business of
Maker stayed, or if the stay of any such order or proceeding shall thereafter be
set aside, or if, within sixty (60) days after the appointment without the
consent or acquiescence of Maker of any trustee, receiver or liquidator of Maker
or of all or any substantial part of the properties of Maker, such appointment
shall not have been vacated.

 

Maker waives presentment, demand, notice of demand, protest, notice of protest
or notice of nonpayment in connection with the delivery, acceptance,
performance, default or enforcement of this Note or of any document or
instrument evidencing any security for payment of this Note.

 

Failure at any time to exercise any of the rights of Payee hereunder shall not
constitute a waiver of such rights and shall not be a bar to exercise of any of
such rights at a later date.

 

Maker agrees to pay all reasonable costs of collection and enforcement of this
Note, including but not limited to reasonable attorney’s fees and disbursements,
whether or not any lawsuit or other legal action is instituted to enforce this
Note, including without limitation if Payee seeks the advice or assistance of an
attorney as a result of or in connection with any default, or if Maker becomes
the debtor or otherwise becomes the subject of any bankruptcy, insolvency or
other proceeding for the readjustment of indebtedness.

 

No addition to or amendment of this Note shall be admissible, enforceable or
effective unless it is set forth in a writing duly executed by the party against
whom the addition or amendment is sought to be enforced.

 

Nothing contained in this Note shall be deemed to require the payment of
interest or other charges by Maker or any other person in excess of the amount
which the Payee may lawfully charge under the applicable usury laws. In the
event that Payee shall collect moneys which are deemed to constitute interest
which would increase the effective interest rate to a rate in excess of that
permitted to be charged by applicable law, all such sums deemed to constitute
interest in excess of the legal rate shall be credited against the principal
balance of this Note then outstanding, and any excess shall be returned to
Maker.

 

This Note will be governed by and construed under the laws of the State of
California. In any action brought under or arising out of this Note, the Maker
hereto hereby consents to the jurisdiction of any competent court within the
State of California and consents to service of process by any means authorized
by the laws of the State of California.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Note to be duly executed in
California.

 

 

Maker:

 

 

 

CLEAN DIESEL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ David Shea

 

 

Name: David Shea

 

 

Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

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