EX-10.5 6 p0329_ex10-5.htm BRIDGE NOTE

EXHIBIT 10.5

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION HEREOF HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE OR UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED. THE SECURITIES ARE RESTRICTED AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS PERMITTED UNDER THE ACT PURSUANT TO REGISTRATION OR EXEMPTION OR SAFE HARBOR THEREFROM.

ISSUE DATE: March 16, 2016

PRINCIPAL AMOUNT: $90,000

INTEREST RATE: 10%

Original Issue Discount (OID): 10%

EL CAPITAN PRECIOUS METALS, INC.

CONVERTIBLE PROMISSORY NOTE DUE MARCH 16, 2017

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the Company promises to pay to RIVER NORTH EQUITY LLC, the registered holder hereof (the "Holder"), the principal sum of ninety thousand and 00/100 Dollars ($90,000) on March 16, 2017 (the “Maturity Date”). The principal of this Note is payable in United States dollars, at the address last appearing on the Note Register of the Company as designated in writing by the Holder. The Company will pay the outstanding principal amount of this Note in cash on the Maturity Date to the registered holder of this Note. The forwarding of such wire transfer shall constitute a payment hereunder and shall satisfy and discharge the liability for principal on this Note to the extent of the sum represented by such check or wire transfer plus any amounts so deducted. This Note may be prepaid in full or in part at any time, or from time to time, at the sole option of the Company.

This Note is subject to the following additional provisions:

1. The Note is exchangeable for an equal aggregate principal amount of Notes of different authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same. No service charge will be made for such registration or transfer or exchange.

2. Subject to Section 3 and the other terms and conditions set forth in this Note, at any time after 180 days following the date of the Note, or earlier upon the occurrence of an Event of Default that remains uncured, the Holder of this Note shall be entitled, any time thereafter to convert all or a portion of the principal amount of this Note into shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”) at a conversion price for each share of Common Stock equal to sixty percent (60%) of the Current Market Price (the “Conversion Price”). “Current Market Price” means the lowest closing bid price for the Common Stock as reported by Bloomberg, LP for the ten (10) trading days ending on the trading day immediately before the relevant Conversion Date (as defined below). The number of Shares issuable pursuant to a conversion shall equal the principal amount (or portion thereof) of the Note to be converted, divided by the Conversion Price.

3. Conversion shall be effectuated by surrendering the Note to the Company, accompanied by or preceded by email or other delivery to the Company of the form of conversion notice attached hereto as Exhibit A (a “Conversion Notice”), executed by the Holder evidencing such Holder's intention to convert a specified portion hereof. No fractional shares of Common Stock or scrip representing fractions of shares will be issued on conversion, but the number of shares issuable shall be rounded to the nearest whole share. The date on which Conversion Notice is given (the "Conversion Date") shall be deemed to be the date on which the Holder emails or otherwise delivers the Conversion Notice, duly executed, to the Company. Certificates representing Common Stock upon conversion will be delivered within three (3) business days from the Conversion Date (“Delivery Date”).

At least two (2) Trading Days (as such term is defined in that certain Equity Purchase Agreement (the “Equity Purchase Agreement”) prior to delivering a Conversion Notice to the Transfer Agent, Holder shall provide written notice to the Company of its intention to do so (a “Preliminary Notice”) that specifies the portion of the outstanding principal amount of the Note to be converted (the “Proposed Conversion Amount”). Holder shall not deliver a Conversion Notice to the Transfer Agent, and shall not convert any portion of this Note, if prior to the expiration of such two (2) Trading Day period the Company either (i) prepays the Proposed Conversion Amount, or (ii) delivers a Put Notice to Holder in the amount of sixty percent (60%) of the Proposed Conversion Amount and agrees to use fifteen percent (15%) of the proceeds from the sale of the corresponding Put Shares to prepay a portion of the outstanding principal amount of the Note. Holder may not deliver a Preliminary Notice within twelve (12) Trading Days following any Put Date (as such term is defined in the Equity Purchase Agreement).

The Company shall pay any payments required under this Section in immediately available funds upon demand as the Holder’s remedy for such delay. Furthermore, in addition to any other remedies which may be available to the Holder, in the event that the Company fails for any reason to effect delivery of the Shares by close of business on the Delivery Date, unless such failure is due to causes beyond the Company’s reasonable control or that of its Transfer Agent, the Holder will be entitled to revoke the relevant Conversion Notice by delivering a notice to such effect to the Company, whereupon the Company and the Holder shall each be restored to their respective positions immediately prior to delivery of such Conversion Notice; provided, however, that an amount equal to any payments contemplated by this Section which have accrued through the date of such revocation notice shall remain due and owing to the Converting Holder notwithstanding such revocation.

If, by the relevant Delivery Date, the Company fails, unless such failure is due to causes beyond the Company’s reasonable control or that of its Transfer Agent, for any reason to deliver the Shares and after such Delivery Date, the Holder of the Note being converted (a “Converting Holder”) purchases, in an arm’s-length open market transaction, shares of Common Stock (the “Covering Shares”) in order to make delivery in satisfaction of a sale of Common Stock by the Converting Holder (the “Sold Shares”), which delivery such Converting Holder anticipated to make using the Shares to be issued upon such conversion (a “Buy-In”), the Converting Holder shall have the right, to require the Company to pay to the Converting Holder, in addition to and not in lieu of the amounts due hereunder (but in addition to all other amounts contemplated in other provisions of the Transaction Agreements, and not in lieu of any such other amounts), the Buy-In Adjustment Amount (as defined below). The “Buy-In Adjustment Amount” is the amount equal to the excess, if any, of (x) the Converting Holder's total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the Covering Shares over (y) the net proceeds (after brokerage commissions, if any) received by the Converting Holder from the sale of the Sold Shares. The Company shall pay the Buy-In Adjustment Amount to the Company in immediately available funds immediately upon demand by the Converting Holder. By way of illustration and not in limitation of the foregoing, if the Converting Holder purchases shares of Common Stock having a total purchase price (including brokerage commissions) of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to shares of Common Stock it sold for net proceeds of $10,000, the Buy-In Adjustment Amount which Company will be required to pay to the Converting Holder will be $1,000.

In lieu of delivering physical certificates representing the Shares issuable upon conversion, provided the Company’s Transfer Agent is participating in the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) Fast Automated Securities Transfer program, upon request of the Holder and its compliance with the provisions contained in this paragraph, so long as the certificates therefor do not bear a legend and the Holder thereof is not obligated to return such certificate for the placement of a legend thereon, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause its transfer agent to electronically transmit the Common Stock issuable upon conversion to the Holder by crediting the account of Holder’s Prime Broker with DTC through its Deposit Withdrawal Agent Commission system.

The Holder of the Note shall be entitled to exercise its conversion privilege with respect to the Note notwithstanding the commencement of any case under 11 U.S.C. §101 et seq. (the “Bankruptcy Code”). In the event the Company is a debtor under the Bankruptcy Code, the Company hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted, any rights to relief it may have under 11 U.S.C. §362 in respect of such holder’s conversion privilege. The Company hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted, any rights to relief it may have under 11 U.S.C. §362 in respect of the conversion of the Note. This Note has been issued subject to investment representations of the original purchaser hereof and may be transferred or exchanged only in compliance with the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), and other applicable state and foreign securities laws. In the event of any proposed transfer of this Note, the Company may require, prior to issuance of a new Note in the name of such other person, that it receive reasonable transfer documentation including legal opinions that the issuance of the Note in such other name does not and will not cause a violation of the Act or any applicable state or foreign securities laws. Prior to due presentment for transfer of this Note, the Company and any agent of the Company may treat the person in whose name this Note is duly registered on the Company's Note Register as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payment as herein provided and for all other purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

4. No provision of this Note shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of this Note at the time, place, and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed. This Note is a direct obligation of the Company.

5. The Holder of the Note, by acceptance hereof, agrees that this Note is being acquired for investment and that such Holder will not offer, sell or otherwise dispose of this Note or the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion thereof except under circumstances which will not result in a violation of the Act or any applicable state Blue Sky or foreign laws or similar laws relating to the sale of securities.

6. This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois. Each of the parties consents to the jurisdiction of the federal courts whose districts encompass any part of the City of Chicago or the state courts of the State of Illinois sitting in the City of Chicago in connection with any dispute arising under this Note and hereby waives, to the maximum extent permitted by law, any objection, including any objection based on forum non coveniens, to the bringing of any such proceeding in such jurisdictions. Each of the parties hereby waives the right to a trial by jury in connection with any dispute arising under this Note.

7. The following shall constitute an "Event of Default":

a. The Company shall default in the payment of principal on this Note and same shall continue for a period of five (5) days; or

b. Any of the representations or warranties made by the Company herein, in any certificate or financial or other written statements heretofore or hereafter furnished by the Company in connection with the execution and delivery of this Note shall be false or misleading in any material respect at the time made; or

c. The Company shall fail to perform or observe, in any material respect, any other covenant, term, provision, condition, agreement or obligation of any Note and such failure shall continue uncured for a period of five (5) days after written notice from the Holder of such failure; or

d. The Company shall fail to use at least 15% of the proceeds from each sale of Put Shares (as such term is defined in the Equity Purchase Agreement dated as of the date hereof by and between the Company and the Holder) to prepay this Note; or

e. The Company shall (1) make an assignment for the benefit of creditors or commence proceedings for its dissolution; or (2) apply for or consent to the appointment of a trustee, liquidator or receiver for its or for a substantial part of its property or business; or

f. A trustee, liquidator or receiver shall be appointed for the Company or for a substantial part of its property or business without its consent and shall not be discharged within sixty (60) days after such appointment; or

g. Any governmental agency or any court of competent jurisdiction at the instance of any governmental agency shall assume custody or control of the whole or any substantial portion of the properties or assets of the Company and shall not be dismissed within sixty (60) days thereafter; or

h. Any money judgment, writ or warrant of attachment, or similar process in excess of one hundred thousand ($100,000) dollars in the aggregate shall be entered or filed against the Company or any of its properties or other assets and shall remain unpaid, unvacated, unbonded or unstayed for a period of thirty (30) days or in any event later than five (5) days prior to the date of any proposed sale thereunder; or

i. Bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency or liquidation proceedings or other proceedings for relief under any bankruptcy law or any law for the relief of debtors shall be instituted by or against the Company and, if instituted against the Company, shall not be dismissed within sixty (60) days after such institution or the Company shall by any action or answer approve of, consent to, or acquiesce in any such proceedings or admit the material allegations of, or default in answering a petition filed in any such proceeding; or

j. The Company shall have its Common Stock suspended from trading or delisted such that it is no longer listed or quoted on any securities exchange or quotation system, in either event for in excess of fifteen consecutive trading days.

k. The Company shall fail to file a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission registering the resale of the Put Shares by the forty-fifth (45^th) day following the date of this Note.

Then, or at any time thereafter, and in each and every such case, unless such Event of Default shall have been waived in writing by the Holder (which waiver shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any subsequent default) at the option of the Holder and in the Holder's sole discretion, the Holder may consider all obligations under this Note immediately due and payable within five (5) days of notice, without presentment, demand, protest or notice of any kinds, all of which are hereby expressly waived, anything herein or in any note or other instruments contained to the contrary notwithstanding, and the Holder may immediately enforce any and all of the Holder's rights and remedies provided herein or any other rights or remedies afforded by law.

8. The Holder may not convert this Note to the extent such conversion would result in the Holder, together with any affiliate thereof, beneficially owning (as determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules promulgated thereunder) in excess of 9.99% of the then issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock held by such Holder after application of this Section. Since the Holder will not be obligated to report to the Company the number of shares of Common Stock it may hold at the time of a conversion hereunder, unless the conversion at issue would result in the issuance of shares of Common Stock in excess of 9.99% of the then outstanding shares of Common Stock without regard to any other shares which may be beneficially owned by the Holder or an affiliate thereof, the Holder shall have the authority and obligation to determine whether the restriction contained in this Section will limit any particular conversion hereunder and to the extent that the Holder determines that the limitation contained in this Section applies, the determination of which portion of the principal amount of Note are convertible shall be the responsibility and obligation of the Holder. If the Holder has delivered a Conversion Notice for a principal amount of Note that would result in the issuance of in excess of the permitted amount hereunder, without regard to any other shares that the Holder or its affiliates may beneficially own, the Company shall notify the Holder of this fact and shall honor the conversion for the maximum principal amount permitted to be converted on such Conversion Date and, at the option of the Holder, either retain any principal amount tendered for conversion in excess of the permitted amount hereunder for future conversions or return such excess principal amount to the Holder. The provisions of this Section may be waived by a Holder (but only as to itself and not to any other Holder) upon not less than thirty (30) days prior notice to the Company. Other Holders shall be unaffected by any such waiver.

9. Nothing contained in this Note shall be construed as conferring upon the Holder the right to vote or to receive dividends or to consent or receive notice as a shareholder in respect of any meeting of shareholders or any rights whatsoever as a shareholder of the Company, unless and to the extent converted in accordance with the terms hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed by an officer thereunto duly authorized.

Dated: March 16, 2016

EL CAPITAN PRECIOUS METALS, INC.


By:	/s/ Charles C. Mottley

ATTESTOR



By:	/s/ Steve Antol

EXHIBIT A – CONVERSION NOTICE

The undersigned hereby elects to convert principal under the Note due March 16, 2017 of EL CAPITAN PRECIOUS METALS, INC., a Nevada corporation (the “Company”), into shares of common stock (the “Common Stock”), of the Company according to the conditions hereof, as of the date written below. If shares of Common Stock are to be issued in the name of a person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect thereto and is delivering herewith such certificates and opinions as reasonably requested by the Company to ensure that the issuance of shares, and any transfer thereof, is and has been made in compliance with the United Stated federal and state securities laws. No fee will be charged to the holder for any conversion, except for such transfer taxes, if any.

By the delivery of this Conversion Notice the undersigned represents and warrants to the Company that its ownership of the Common Stock does not exceed the amounts specified under Section 8 of this Note, as determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act.

Conversion Calculations:	______________________________________________________

Date to Effect Conversion:	______________________________________________________

Principal Amount of Debenture to be converted:	______________________________________________________

Signature:	______________________________________________________

Name:	______________________________________________________

Shares to be issued to:	______________________________________________________

EIN:	______________________________________________________

Address for Delivery of Common Stock Certificate(s):	______________________________________________________

OR

DWAC Instructions:	______________________________________________________

Broker Number:	______________________________________________________

Account Number:	______________________________________________________