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Exhibit 10.1

 

AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO

AMENDED AND RESTATED STOCKHOLDERS AGREEMENT

 

THIS AMENDMENT NO. 2 (this “Amendment”) to the Amended and Restated Stockholders Agreement, dated as of February 15, 2012, as amended by that certain Amendment No. 1 on January 14, 2013 (the “Stockholders Agreement”), by and among GSE Holding, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Code Hennessy & Simmons IV LP, CHS Associates IV and the other stockholders named therein, is made and entered into as of this 10th day of July, 2013. Capitalized terms used herein and not defined shall have the meanings specified in the Stockholders Agreement.

 

WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 8 of the Stockholders Agreement, the parties hereto wish to amend the Stockholders Agreement as provided herein.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the terms and conditions contained in this Amendment and other good and valuable consideration, the mutual receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

 

1.  Removal of Stockholders.  Each of Mark C. Arnold, Michael G. Evans, Richard E. Goodrich, Robert C. Griffin and Charles A. Sorrentino is hereby released and removed as a party to the Stockholders Agreement and shall cease to be entitled to any rights, or be subject to any obligations, thereunder.

 

2.  No Other Amendments.  Except as expressly amended hereby, the provisions of the Stockholders Agreement are and shall continue to be in full force and effect and are hereby in all respects ratified and confirmed. Any reference in the Stockholders Agreement to “this Agreement,” “herein,” “hereof,” “hereunder” or words of similar import, and any other document, instrument or agreement that refers to the Stockholders Agreement, shall be deemed to refer to the Stockholders Agreement as amended by this Amendment. This Amendment shall be effective as of the date hereof.

 

3.  Governing Law.  This Amendment shall be governed and controlled as to validity, enforcement, interpretation, construction, effect and in all other respects by the internal laws of the State of Delaware applicable to contracts made in that State.

 

4.  WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.  THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVE THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CAUSE OF ACTION, CLAIM, COUNTERCLAIM OR CROSS COMPLAINT IN CONNECTION WITH ANY ACTION OR OTHER PROCEEDING BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY HERETO AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY OR PARTIES HERETO WITH RESPECT TO ANY MATTER ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH OR RELATED TO THIS AMENDMENT OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WHETHER BASED UPON CONTRACTUAL, STATUTORY, TORTIOUS OR OTHER THEORIES OF LIABILITY. EACH PARTY REPRESENTS THAT IT HAS CONSULTED WITH COUNSEL REGARDING THE MEANING AND EFFECT OF THE FOREGOING WAIVER OF ITS RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL.

 

  

  

  

5.  Counterparts.  This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts, and by facsimile, photo or other electronic means, each of which shall be effective only upon delivery and thereafter shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which shall be taken to be one and the same instrument with the same effect as if each of the parties hereto had signed the same signature page.

 

[Signature Pages Follow]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Amendment to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

	 	
GSE HOLDING, INC.

	 	  
	 	  
	 	
By:

	
/s/ Charles A. Sorrentino

	 	
Name:

	
Charles A. Sorrentino

	 	
Title:

	
Interim President & Chief Executive Officer

	 	  
	 	  
	 	
CODE HENNESSY & SIMMONS IV LP

	 	  
	 	  
	 	
By:

	
CHS Management IV LP

	 	
Its:

	
General Partner

	 	  	  
	 	
By:

	
CHS Capital LLC

	 	
Its:

	
General Partner

	 	  
	 	  
	 	
By:

	
/s/ Marcus J. George

	 	
Name:

	
Marcus J. George

	 	
Title:

	
Partner

	 	  
	 	  
	 	
CHS ASSOCIATES IV

	 	  
	 	  
	 	
By:

	
CHS Capital LLC

	 	
Its:

	
General Partner

	 	  
	 	  
	 	
By:

	
/s/ Marcus J. George

	 	
Name:

	
Marcus J. George

	 	
Title:

	
Partner

	 	  
	 	  
	 	  
	 	  
	 	
By:

	
/s/ Michael G. Evans

	 	
Name:

	
Michael G. Evans

 

  

[Signature Page to Amendment No. 2 to Amended and Restated Stockholders Agreement]

  

 

	 	
By:

	
/s/ Richard E. Goodrich

	 	
Name:

	
Richard E. Goodrich

	 	  
	 	  
	 	  
	 	  
	 	
By:

	
/s/ Robert C. Griffin

	 	
Name:

	
Robert C. Griffin

	 	  
	 	  
	 	  
	 	  
	 	
By:

	
/s/ Charles A. Sorrentino

	 	
Name:

	
Charles A. Sorrentino

	 	  
	 	  
	 	  
	 	  
	 	
By:

	
/s/ Mark C. Arnold

	 	
Name:

	
Mark C. Arnold

 

 

 

[Signature Page to Amendment No. 2 to Amended and Restated Stockholders Agreement]ex10-1.htm

EXHIBIT 10.1

AMENDMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED LOAN AGREEMENT and NOTE

 

BY AND BETWEEN

 

ISRAMCO, INC.

as Borrower,

 

and

 

J.O.E.L. JERUSALEM OIL EXPLORATION, LTD.

 

 

Effective as of June 30, 2013

 

  

  

  

 

AMENDMENT TO LOAN AGREEMENTS and NOTES

 

This AMENDMENT TO LOAN AGREEMENT and NOTE (this “Amendment”) executed effective as of June 30, 2013 (the “Effective Date”), is between ISRAMCO, INC., a corporation formed under the laws of the State of Delaware (“Borrower”), and J.O.E.L. JERUSALEM OIL EXPLORATION, LTD., an Israeli limited company (together with its successors and assigns “Lender”).

 

R E C I T A L S:

 

A. Borrower and Lender are parties to a certain Amended and Restated Loan Agreement dated May 25, 2008 (the “Loan Agreement”) in the original principal amount of $48,900,000.00, which restated, consolidated and superseded the following prior loan agreements dated with the original principal amounts as follows:

 

a.  February 15, 2008 - $24.00 million;

 

b.  March 26, 2008 - $19.50 million;

 

c.  May 10, 2008 - $5.40 million;

 

pursuant to which Lender agreed to make loans to and extensions of credit on behalf of Borrower; and

 

B.           Borrower and Lender desire to amend the existing Loan Agreement and Note between the parties in the particulars hereinafter provided.

 

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

 

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

 

Terms Defined in Loan Agreement.  Each term defined in the Loan Agreement and used herein without definition shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Loan Agreement, unless expressly provided to the contrary.

 

ARTICLE II

AMENDMENTS TO LOAN AGREEMENT

 

Borrower and Lender agree that the Loan Agreement and respective note are hereby amended, effective as of the Effective Date, in the following particulars.

 

Maturity Date: shall mean, unless the Note is sooner accelerated pursuant to the loan Agreement, June 30, 2017.

 

Payment:

 

Interest: All accrued interest shall be due and payable on June 30 of each year with the first payment due June 30, 2015 and a similar interest only payment due June 30, 2016, and finally June 30, 2017.

 

  

  

  

 

Principal:  The Principal (as of the date of this Agreement) will be paid in three (3) installments paid as follows:  (i) Nine Million Seven Hundred Thousand Nine Hundred Twenty-One and No/100 U.S. Dollars ($9,700,921.00 USD) will be paid June 30, 2015; (ii) Seventeen Million and No/100 U.S. Dollars ($17,000,000.00) will be paid on June 30, 2016; and (iii) Seventeen Million and No/100 U.S. Dollars ($17,000,000.00) will be paid on June 30, 2017.

 

Maturity:  The Maturity of the Loan Agreement and Note will be changed to June 30, 2017.

 

Any provision in either the Loan Agreement or the Note of any of the amended agreements that are not in agreement with the above provisions of this Article II are hereby amended to be in conformity with these maturity date, payment of interest, payment of principal provisions.

 

ARTICLE III

CONDITIONS

 

The enforceability of this Amendment against Lender is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:

 

Loan Documents.  Lender shall have received multiple original counterparts, as requested by Lender, of this Amendment executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of Borrower and Lender.

 

Representations and Warranties.  Except as affected by the transactions contemplated in the Loan Agreement and this Amendment, each of the representations and warranties made by Borrower in or pursuant to the Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects as of the Effective Date, as if made on and as of such date.

 

No Default.  No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing as of the Effective Date.

 

No Change.  No event shall have occurred since the Closing Date, which, in the reasonable opinion of Lender, could have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

Security Instruments.  All of the Security Instruments shall be in full force and effect and provide to Lender the security intended thereby to secure the Indebtedness, as amended and supplemented hereby.

 

Other Instruments or Documents.  Lender or counsel to Lender shall receive such other instruments or documents as they may reasonably request.

 

ARTICLE IV

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Adoption, Ratification and Confirmation of Loan Agreement.  Each of Borrower and Lender does hereby adopt, ratify and confirm the Loan Agreement, as amended hereby, and acknowledges and agrees that the Loan Agreement, as amended hereby, is and remains in full force and effect.

 

Successors and Assigns.  This Amendment shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted pursuant to the Loan Agreement.

 

  

  

  

 

Counterparts; Electronic Delivery of Signature Pages.  This Amendment may be executed by one or more of the parties hereto in any number of separate counterparts, and all of such counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute the same instrument and shall be enforceable as of the Effective Date upon the execution of one or more counterparts hereof by Borrower, and Lender.  In this regard, each of the parties hereto acknowledges that a counterpart of this Amendment containing a set of counterpart executed signature pages reflecting the execution of each party hereto shall be sufficient to reflect the execution of this Amendment by each necessary party hereto and shall constitute one instrument.  Delivery of an executed signature page of this Amendment by facsimile or e-mail shall be effective as delivery of an original executed signature page of this Amendment.

 

Number and Gender.  Whenever the context requires, reference herein made to the single number shall be understood to include the plural; and likewise, the plural shall be understood to include the singular.  Words denoting sex shall be construed to include the masculine, feminine and neuter, when such construction is appropriate; and specific enumeration shall not exclude the general but shall be construed as cumulative.  Definitions of terms defined in the singular or plural shall be equally applicable to the plural or singular, as the case may be, unless otherwise indicated.

 

Entire Agreement.  This Amendment constitutes the entire agreement among the parties hereto with respect to the subject hereof.  All prior understandings, statements and agreements, whether written or oral, relating to the subject hereof are superseded by this Amendment.

 

Invalidity.  In the event that any one or more of the provisions contained in this Amendment shall for any reason be held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision of this Amendment.

 

Titles of Articles, Sections and Subsections.  All titles or headings to Articles, Sections, subsections or other divisions of this Amendment or the exhibits hereto, if any, are only for the convenience of the parties and shall not be construed to have any effect or meaning with respect to the other content of such Articles, Sections, subsections, other divisions or exhibits, such other content being controlling as the agreement among the parties hereto.

 

Governing Law.  This Amendment shall be deemed to be a contract made under and shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Texas.

 

This Amendment, the Loan Agreement, as amended hereby, the Note, and the other Loan Documents represent the final agreement between the parties and may not be contradicted by evidence of prior, contemporaneous, or subsequent oral agreements of the parties.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be duly executed and delivered by their proper and duly authorized officers as of the Effective Date.

 

	
BORROWER:

 

	  	
ISRAMCO, INC.

	  	  	
By:                                                                        

Haim Tsuff, Chief Executive Officer

	  	  	  

	
LENDER:

 

 

	  	
JERUSALEM OIL EXPLORATION, LTD.

 

By:                                                                             

 

 

By:  _________________________________

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