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PUT OPTION LIABILITY
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2011
PUT OPTION LIABILITY

NOTE 11 –PUT OPTION LIABILITY

 

On February 15, 2008, the Company entered into a stock purchase agreement with Ecolab pursuant to which Ecolab agreed to purchase and Linkwell Tech agreed to sell 888,889 of its shares, or 10% of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Linkwell Tech for $2,000,000. On May 31, 2008, the Company, Linkwell Tech and Ecolab entered into a Stockholders Agreement (“Stockholders Agreement”), whereby both the Company and Ecolab are subject to, and the beneficiaries of, certain pre-emptive rights, transfer restrictions and take along rights relating to the shares of Linkwell Tech that the Company and Ecolab each hold.

 

Pursuant to the terms of the Stockholders Agreement, Ecolab has an option (“Put Option”) to sell the 888,889 shares (“Shares”) of common stock, par value $0.001, of Linkwell Tech that Ecolab purchased under the Stock Purchase Agreement back to Linkwell Tech in exchange for, as determined by Linkwell Tech, cash in the amount of $2,400,000 or the lesser of (a) 10,000,000 shares of Linkwell common stock, or (b) such number of shares of Linkwell common stock as is determined by dividing 3,500,000 by the average daily closing price of Linkwell common stock for the twenty days on which Linkwell shares of common stock were traded on the OTC Bulletin Board prior to the date the Put Option is exercised (“Put Shares”). The Put Option is exercisable during the period between the second and fourth anniversaries of May 30, 2008, or upon the occurrence of certain events including material breach by Linkwell Tech or its subsidiaries, of the Consulting Agreement, Distributor Agreements or Sales Representative Agreement entered into in connection with the Stock Purchase Agreement.

 

Under the Stockholders Agreement, Ecolab also has a call option (“Call Option”), exercisable if Linkwell is subject to a change of control transaction, to require the Company to sell to Ecolab all of the equity interests in Linkwell Tech, or any of Linkwell Tech’s subsidiaries, then owned by the Company. The Company recognized the maximum expenses of the Put Option and the Call Option described above as $2,400,000 put option liability.