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Exhibit 10.3

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

 

THIS REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made and entered into as of the 17th day of May, 2012 by and among SEFE, INC., a Nevada corporation (the “Company”), and RIVERBEND LLC (“Holder”).

 

W I T N E S S E T H:

 

WHEREAS, the Holder is the owner of twenty five thousand (25,000) warrants, (“Warrants”) each to purchase one share of common stock of the Company, par value $.001 per share (‘Common Stock”); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company and the Holder desire to enter into this Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:

 

1.  Registration Rights.

 

1.1  Definitions.  As used herein:

 

(a)  The terms “register,” “registered” and “registration” refer to a registration effected by preparing and filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a registration statement pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), and the declaration or order of effectiveness of such registration statement.

 

(b)  For the purposes hereof the term “Registerable Securities” means the Common Stock issued or issuable upon exercise of the Warrants together with shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon exercise of the Warrants as a result of a stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization or combination, which have not been sold to the public.

 

(c)  The term “Holder” means Riverbend LLC.

 

1.2  Incidental Registration.

 

(a)  If the Company at any time proposes to register any of its securities under the Act, whether of its own accord or at the demand of any holder of such securities pursuant to an agreement with respect to the registration thereof (provided such agreement does not prohibit third parties from including additional securities in such registration), and if the form of registration statement proposed to be used may be used for the registration of Registerable Securities, the Company will give notice to Holder not less than 10 days nor more than 30 days prior to the filing of such registration statement of its intention to proceed with the proposed registration (the “Incidental Registration”), and, upon written request of the Holder made within ten (10) days after the receipt of any such notice (which request will specify the Registerable Securities intended to be disposed of by the Holder and state the intended method of disposition thereof), the Company will use its best efforts to cause all Registerable Securities of Holder as to which registration has been requested to be registered under the Act, provided that if such registration is in connection with an underwritten public offering, Holder’s Registerable Securities to be included in such registration shall be offered upon the same terms and conditions as apply to any other securities included in such registration.  Notwithstanding anything contained in this Section 1.2 to the contrary, the Company shall have no obligation to cause Registerable Securities to be registered with respect to any Registerable Securities which shall be eligible for resale without limitation under Rule 144 of the Securities Act.

  

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(b)  If an Incidental Registration is a primary registration on behalf of the Company and is in connection with an underwritten public offering, and if the managing underwriters advise the Company in writing that in their opinion the amount of securities requested to be included in such registration (whether by the Company, the Holder, or other holders of the Company’s securities pursuant to any other rights granted by the Company to demand inclusion of any such securities in such registration) exceeds the amount of such securities which can be successfully sold in such offering, the Company will include in such registration the amount of securities requested to be included which in the opinion of such underwriters can be sold, in the following order (A) first, all of the securities the Company proposes to sell, and (B) second, any other securities requested to be included in such registration, pro rata among the holders thereof on the basis of the amount of such securities then owned by such holders.

 

(c)  If an Incidental Registration is a secondary registration on behalf of holders of securities of the Company and is in connection with an underwritten public offering, and if the managing underwriters advise the Company in writing that in their opinion the amount of securities requested to be included in such registration (whether by such holders, by the Holder, or by holders of the Company’s securities pursuant to any other rights granted by the Company to demand inclusion of securities in such registration) exceeds the amount of such securities which can be sold in such offering, the Company will include in, such registration the amount of securities requested to be included which in the opinion of such underwriters can be sold, in the following order (A) first, all of the securities requested to be included by holders demanding or requesting such registration, and (B) second, any other securities requested to be included in such registration, pro rata among the holders thereof on the basis of the amount of such securities then owned by such holders.

 

1.3  Registration Procedures.  The Company will advise the Holder in writing as to the effective date of the registration and as to the completion thereof.  At its expense the Company will:

 

(a)  keep the registration effective for a period of days or until the Holder has completed the distribution described in the registration statement relating thereto, whichever first occurs; and

 

(b)  furnish such number of prospectuses and any other documents incident thereto as the Holder from time to time may reasonably request.

 

1.4  Indemnification.  (a) To the extent permitted by law, the Company will indemnify the Holder against all claims, losses, expenses, damages and liabilities (or actions in respect thereto) arising out of or based on any untrue statement (or alleged untrue statement) of a material fact contained in any prospectus, offering circular or other document (including any related registration statement, notification or the like) incident to any such registration, or based on any omission (or alleged omission) to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in light of the circumstances in which they were made, or any violation by the Company of any rule or regulation promulgated under the Act or any state securities law applicable to the Company in connection with any such registration, and will reimburse the Holder for any reasonable legal and any other expenses incurred in connection with investigating, defending or settling any such claim, loss, damage, liability or action, provided that the indemnity contained in this Section shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any such claim, loss, damage, liability or action if such settlement is effected without the consent of the Company (which consent will not be reasonably withheld) and provided further that the Company will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such claim, loss, damage or liability arises out of or is based on any untrue statement or omission based upon written information furnished to the Company by the Holder relating to Holder.

  

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(b) To the extent permitted by law, the Holder will indemnify the Company against all claims, losses, expenses, damages and liabilities (or actions in respect thereto) arising out of or based on any untrue statement (or alleged untrue statement) of a material fact contained in any prospectus, offering circular or other document (including any related registration statement, notification or the like) incident to any such registration, or based on any omission (or alleged omission) to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in light of the circumstances in which they were made, or any violation by the Holder of any rule or regulation promulgated under the Act or any state securities law applicable to the Holder in connection with any such registration, and will reimburse the Company for any reasonable legal and any other expenses incurred in connection with investigating, defending or settling any such claim, loss, damage, liability or action, provided that the indemnity contained in this Section shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any such claim, loss, damage, liability or action if such settlement is effected without the consent of the Holder (which consent will not be reasonably withheld) and provided further that the Holder will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such claim, loss, damage or liability arises out of or is based on any untrue statement or omission based upon written information furnished to the Holder by the Company relating to the Company.

 

1.5  Information by Holder.  The Holder shall promptly furnish to the Company in writing such information regarding the Holder as the Company may request in writing and as shall be required in connection with any registration referred to herein.

 

1.6  Rule 144 Reporting.  With a view to making available to Holder the benefits of certain rules and regulations of the SEC which may permit the sale of the Registerable Securities to the public without registration, the Company agrees at all times during the period commencing on the date hereof and ending upon the termination of the registration rights of Holder pursuant to Section 1.8, to:

 

(a)  make and keep public information available, as those terms are understood and defined in SEC Rule 144

 

(b)  use its best efforts to file with the SEC in a timely manner all reports and other documents required of the Company under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; and

 

(c)  so long as Holder owns any Registerable Securities, to furnish to each Holder forthwith upon Holder’s request a written statement by the Company as to its compliance with the reporting requirements of said Rule 144, a copy of the most recent annual or quarterly report of the Company, and such other reports and documents so filed by the Company as each Holder may reasonably request in availing itself of any rule or regulation of the SEC allowing Holder to sell any such securities without registration.

 

1.7  “Market Standoff” Agreement.  Holder agrees that, if requested by the Company and an underwriter of Securities (or other securities) of the Company, not to sell or otherwise transfer or dispose of any Securities (or other securities) of the Company held by Holder during a period of up to 120 days as agreed to between the Company and the underwriters following the effective date of a registration statement of the Company filed under the Act covering the offer and sale of common stock or other securities of the Company.  The Company may impose stock transfer restrictions with respect to the Registerable Securities until the end of said 120-day period, provided that:

 

(a)  such agreement shall only apply to the first registration statement of the Company including Securities (or other securities) to be sold on its behalf to the public in an underwritten offering; and

  

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(b)  all officers and directors of the Company enter into similar agreements.

 

Such agreement shall be confirmed in writing in the form satisfactory to the Company and such underwriter.  The Company may impose stop-transfer instructions with respect to the Securities (or other securities) subject to the foregoing restriction until the end of said lock-up period.

 

1.8  Termination of Registration Rights.  The registration rights granted pursuant to this Section 1 shall terminate as to each Holder at such time as all Registerable Securities of the Holder can, in the opinion of counsel to the Company (which opinion shall be concurred in by counsel to the Holders), be sold within a given three-month period pursuant to Rule 144 or other applicable exemption.

 

1.9  Delay of Registration.  No Holder shall have any right to take any action to restrain, enjoin or otherwise delay any registration as the result of any controversy that may arise with respect to the interpretation or implementation of this Section 1.

 

1.10  Legend Requirement.  Each stock certificate representing the Registerable Securities shall bear a legend in, or substantially in, the following form and any other legend required by any applicable state securities or Blue Sky laws:

 

“The shares represented by this certificate have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be sold, pledged or otherwise transferred without an effective registration under said Act or unless the Company shall have received an opinion satisfactory to the Company of counsel satisfactory to the Company than an exemption from registration under such Act is then available.

 

1.11  Prospectus Requirements.  Holder hereby covenants with the Company that he will promptly advise the Company of any changes in the information concerning Holder contained in a registration statement filed hereunder and that Holder will not make any sale of Registerable Securities pursuant to any registration statement without complying with the prospectus delivery requirements of the 1933 Act.  Holder acknowledges that occasionally there may be times when the Company must temporarily suspend the use of the prospectus forming a part of any such registration statement until such time as an amendment to such registration statement has been filed by the Company and declared effective by the SEC, the relevant prospectus supplemented by the Company or until such time as the Company has filed an appropriate report with the SEC pursuant to the 1934 Act.  During any period in which sales are suspended and upon notice of such suspension from the Company, Holder agrees not to sell any such Registerable Securities pursuant to any such prospectus.  Holder covenants that he will not sell Registerable Securities pursuant to any such prospectus during the period commencing at the time at which the Company gives Holder notice of the suspension of the use of said prospectus and ending at the time the Company gives notice that Holder may thereafter effect sales pursuant to said prospectus.

 

2.  Miscellaneous.

 

2.1  Assignment.  This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of any subsequent transferee or assignee of the Securities covered by this Agreement.

 

2.2  Entire Agreement.  This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements, representations, warranties, statements, promises and understandings, whether oral or written, with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 

2.3  Governing Law.  All questions concerning the construction, validity and interpretation of this Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Nevada.

  

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

SEFE, INC.

 

By: /s/ Donald C. Johnson

Donald C. Johnston

Chief Executive Officerex10-23.htm

Exhibit 10.23

 

SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE

 

BLAST ENERGY SERVICES, INC.

 

THIS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE (this “Agreement”) is entered into as of the date of mutual execution by and among Blast Energy Services, Inc., a Texas corporation (“BLAST” or the “Company”) on one hand, and Trident Partners Ltd (“Trident”) and Brian Schantz and Edward Flynn (Schantz and Flynn collectively referred to as the (“Trident Members”) on the other hand.  This Agreement is entered into with reference to the following facts:

 

R E C I T A L S

 

A.        On November 15, 2010, the Company and Trident entered into a placement engagement agreement (“Placement Agent Agreement”);

 

B.         In connection with the Placement Agent Agreement, on December 19, 2011 the affiliated broker dealers of Trident, namely Brian Schantz, Edward Flynn, Brian Frank, and Lewis Mason (collectively the “Allocation Group”) were issued warrants to purchase One Million Two Hundred Thousand (1,200,000) shares of Common Stock of the Company at $0.01 per share (the “Warrants”) as compensation for previous placement agent services under the Placement Agent Agreement, which may or may not have be received by the Trident Members as members of the Allocation Group.

 

C.          Differences have arisen between BLAST , the Allocation Group and Trident, as to what other compensation BLAST owes to Trident and/or the Allocation Group under the Placement Agent Agreement.

 

E.           BLAST on the one hand, and the Trident Members and Trident on the other, wish to settle all differences between them which arise out of or which in any way are connected with or related to fees or compensation payable under the Placement Agent Agreement.

 

F.           Without acknowledging the validity of BLAST’s, the Allocation Group’s or Trident’s differences, and in order for BLAST on the one hand, and the Trident Members and Trident on the other, to settle all differences between them related to fees payable under the Placement Agent Agreement, and in consideration of the mutual covenants, agreements and promises set forth in this Agreement, and other good and valuable consideration, each party to this Agreement agrees as follows:

 

SETTLEMENT TERMS

 

1. The foregoing Recitals shall be part of this Agreement.

 

2. Effective the date of mutual execution hereof by all parties hereto (the “Effective Date”), the Placement Agent Agreement is hereby terminated; and shall no longer any further full force or effect.

 

3. Blast shall, within ten (10) business days after the Effective Date, (i) pay by wire transfer or check transfer in immediately available funds to Trident the amount of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000), and (ii) reissue the warrants to the Trident Members as detailed in paragraph 4 below.

 

  

  

  

4. The Trident Members hereby agree that Warrants under the previously Original Warrant Agreement in the amount of One Hundred and Twenty Thousand each to Brian Schantz and Edward Flynn is rescinded and hereby amended and restated in its entirety and attached hereto as Exhibit A and Exhibit B, respectively.

 

5. Upon the consummation of the payment to Trident described in paragraph 3 above, the parties hereby acknowledge that:

 

a. Neither Trident nor the Trident Members shall be entitled to any other future payments pursuant the Placement Agent Agreement, now or in the future.

 

b. Except for any obligations imposed by this Agreement, each of the Trident Members, Trident, and BLAST, and, as applicable, each of their respective agents, successors, predecessors, parent companies, affiliated companies, related companies, partners, officers, directors, managers, shareholders, members, representatives, employees, attorneys, insurance companies, assigns and heirs, and each of them, past and present, hereby release and forever discharge the other party and each of its respective agents, successors, predecessors, parent companies, affiliated companies, related companies, partners, officers, directors, shareholders, representatives, employees, attorneys, insurance companies, assigns and heirs, and each of them, past and present, with respect to any and all claims, demands, liabilities, obligations, debts, attorneys’ fees, costs, accounts, actions, or causes of action which the Trident Members, BLAST or Trident now have, claim to have or at anytime hereafter may have or claim to have, in law or equity, whether known or unknown, which pertain to or which arise out of the Placement Agent Agreement.

 

c. As a condition of this Agreement and in furtherance of the release provisions set forth in this Agreement, the Trident Members, BLAST and Trident expressly waive any and all rights and benefits conferred upon them by the provisions of section 1542 of the Civil Code of the State of California with respect to any of the matters described or set forth in this Agreement.  Section 1542 of the Civil Code of the State of California states:

A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.

 

d. Except for matters expressly represented or recited in this Agreement, the facts and law in relation to this matter and the claims released by the terms of this Agreement may turn out to be different from the facts or law as now known to each party and/or its agents and/or representatives, including its counsel.  Each party expressly assumes the risk of the existence of different or presently unknown facts or law and agrees that this Agreement shall in all respects be effective and binding as to each party despite the possibility of the existence of different or new facts or law.

 

  

  

  

e. Each of the parties represents and warrants that it has not heretofore assigned, transferred or subrogated, or purported to assign, transfer or subrogate, to any person or entity, any of the claims released in this Agreement.  Each of the parties agrees that it shall indemnify each of the other parties, including with respect to any attorneys’ fees and costs, and hold each of the other parties harmless from and against any claims based on or arising from any such assignment, transfer or subrogation, or any attempted assignment, transfer or subrogation, of any of the claims released in this Agreement.

 

f. Each of the parties agrees to execute and deliver to each other party all necessary documents and to take such additional action as may be necessary or reasonably required to effectuate the terms, conditions, provisions, and intent of this Agreement.

 

g. Each party executing this Agreement and/or any other documents related to the settlement between the parties represents and warrants that he or it has been duly authorized to execute this Agreement and any such other related documents.

 

For clarification and notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary other than as expressed stipulated in paragraph 4 above, all forms of equity previously issued by BLAST to the Trident Members and/or Trident, or their successors, assigns or transferees, in connection with services performed under the Placement Agent Agreement, including but not limited to issuances of stock and/or unexercised warrants, shall continue to remain outstanding and/or exercisable in accordance with their respective terms, and remain in full force and effect.

 

6. Each of the parties acknowledges that it has carefully read this Agreement and knows and understands the contents and effect of this Agreement, and each of the parties further acknowledges that it is signing this Agreement based on its own free act.

 

7. Each of the parties acknowledges that it has been advised to seek legal counsel in connection with this matter and the provisions and execution of this Agreement, and each of the parties acknowledges that it either has consulted with its own legal counsel or has had a full opportunity to consult with its own legal counsel in connection with the settlement between the parties, the terms, conditions, and provisions of this Agreement, and the execution of this Agreement.

 

8. This Agreement has been entered into in the State of California, and all of the terms, conditions and provisions of this Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of California.

 

9. If any term, condition or provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid, void or unenforceable, the remaining terms, conditions and provisions of this Agreement nevertheless shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated.

 

10. This Agreement and all of its terms, conditions and provisions shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of each of the parties and each of the parties’ respective heirs, successors and assigns.

 

  

  

  

11. The prevailing party in any proceeding to enforce the provisions of this Agreement shall be entitled to recover all costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, from the non-prevailing party.

 

12. This Agreement contains the entire agreement and understanding concerning the settlement between the parties and replaces any prior negotiations or agreements between the parties, whether written and/or oral.

 

13. Each of the parties agrees that no particular party or parties to this Agreement shall be deemed to be the author of this Agreement or any particular term, provision or condition of this Agreement.  Each of the parties further agrees that any ambiguities in this Agreement shall be resolved, and the terms, provisions and conditions of this Agreement shall be construed and interpreted, without regard to which party or parties may have suggested, drafted, revised, or otherwise authored this Agreement or any of its particular terms, provisions or conditions.  Each of the parties further agrees that this Agreement shall be construed and interpreted as if drafted jointly by all of the parties.

 

14. It is understood that this Agreement is entered into in compromise of disputed claims and that neither the settlement between the parties nor the performance of any of the terms, provisions, or conditions of this Agreement shall be construed or interpreted as an admission of liability on the part of any of the parties to this Agreement.

 

15. Any disputes arising under this Agreement shall be resolved in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas in the city of Houston.

 

16. This Agreement may not be changed, altered or modified except in a writing signed by each of the parties and/or duly authorized representatives of each of the parties.

 

17. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, including facsimile counterparts, and all such executed counterparts, including with facsimile signatures, together shall constitute one original Agreement which shall be binding on all of the parties to this Agreement notwithstanding that all of the parties are not signatory to the original or the same counterparts.

 

18. If the release granted to any released party by any releasing party in this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be void or unenforceable, then the release given by that released party to that releasing party shall also be deemed void and unenforceable.

 

 

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