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Related Parties
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Parties

On July 11, 2018, the Company entered into a consulting agreement (the “Consulting Agreement”) with Ascentaur, LLC (“Ascentaur”). Sebastian Giordano is the Chief Executive Officer of Ascentaur. Mr. Giordano has served on the board of directors of the Company since February 2013 and served as the Company’s Interim Chief Executive Officer from August 2013 through April 2016 and as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer from April 2016 through January 2018.

 

Pursuant to the terms of the Consulting Agreement, Ascentaur has agreed to provide advisory services with respect to the strategic development and growth of the Company, including advising the Company on market strategy and overall Company strategy, advising the Company on the sale of the Company’s Suisun City Operations, providing assistance to the Company in identifying and recruiting prospective employees, customers, business partners, investors and advisors that offer desirable administrative, financing, investment, technical, marketing and/or strategic expertise, and performing such other services pertaining to the Company’s business as the Company and Ascentaur may from time to time mutually agree. The term of the Consulting Agreement commenced on July 11, 2018 and terminated on April 9, 2019. During the three months ended March 31, 2019, the Company recorded $30,400 as loss from operations of discontinued component related to this consulting agreement. As of December 31, 2019, the balance in accounts payable was $0.

 

Palladium Capital Advisors (“Palladium”), an advisor to the Company and AYRO, has provided investment banking services to the Company and in connection with the December 6, 2019 Series H-5 Preferred Stock transaction received $200,000 and 243,054 H-5 Warrants.

 

On December 5, 2019, the Company entered into a placement agent and merger advisory agreement with Palladium whereby the Company shall pay to Palladium a cash fee equal to 8% of the aggregate gross proceeds raise in closing of each financing transaction and warrants to purchase that number of shares of common stock of the Company equal to 7% of the aggregate number of shares of common stock sold in each offering. The warrants will be identical to any warrants issued to investors at such closing, provide for a cashless exercise, have an exercise price equal to the offering price per share in the closing, and expire on the five year anniversary at such closing. In addition, the Company shall pay Palladium compensation for advisory services in connection with a possible business combination of the Company with an unaffiliated third party whereby the Company shall issue the number of shares of common stock of the post-merger entity immediately after the merger that represents 2.5% of the outstanding shares of common stock in any surviving post-merger entity.