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Note 8 - Note purchase agreement and consulting agreement with G FarmaLabs Limited

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Note 8 - Note purchase agreement and consulting agreement with G FarmaLabs Limited
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
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Note 8 - Note purchase agreement and consulting agreement with G FarmaLabs Limited

Note 8 - Note purchase agreement and consulting agreement with G FarmaLabs Limited

 

On March 17, 2017, the Company entered into a Notes Purchase Agreement with G FarmaLabs Limited (“G Farma”), a Nevada corporation. Under the Agreement the Company purchased two secured promissory notes from G Farma in an aggregate principal amount of $500,000, both of which bore interest at 7.42% per annum, with monthly payments beginning on April 15, 2017, and maturity on April 15, 2022. The two G Farma notes, as amended by subsequent addenda, are secured by all property, real and personal, tangible or intangible of G Farma and are guaranteed by GF Brands, Inc. and two majority shareholders of G Farma. Effective as of March 4, 2019, the Company and G Farma had executed eight addenda subsequent to the original agreement.

 

The latest addendum, Addendum VIII, was effective as of March 4, 2019. Addendum II through Addendum VIII, increased the aggregate principal face amount of the working capital note to $990,000 and increased the monthly payments on the working capital note to $10,239 per month beginning March 15, 2019. The maturity date remained the same resulting in a total balloon payment on the working capital note of approximately $800,008 at maturity. G Farma has not made scheduled payments on the notes receivable since February 19, 2019.

 

On September 6, 2018, as a result of an Equity Purchase and Issuance Agreement, certain entities were obligated to deliver to Mentor equity interests equal to 3.75% of G Farma and its affiliates’ (“G Farma Equity Entities”) in exchange for Mentor relinquishing its contingent equity rights under the Rights Agreement, increasing the working capital loan by $79,000, and leasing $171,000 of additional equipment to G Farma through Partner I. At December 31, 2018, Mentor had estimated the fair value of the 3.75% equity interest in the G Farma Equity Entities Mentor was supposed to receive, based on then licensed operations of the G Farma Equity Entities, at $41,600. On March 4, 2019, Addendum VIII increased the working capital note by $31,000 and the Company obtained from G Farma an obligation to issue an additional 0.093% interest in the G Farma Equity Enities, resulting in a total 3.843% equity interest in the G Farma Equity Entities and included the addition of Goya Ventures, LLC as a party to the Equity Purchase and Issuance Agreement. However, due to the uncertain financial position of the G Farma Entities, following the closure of its Corporate office and impoundment of certain Mentor assets leased to G Farma, described in Notes 1 and 10, the Company fully impaired its equity interests in G Farma Equity Entities and recorded a loss on investments of $41,600 in the quarter ended March 31, 2019.

 

In addition, on March 17, 2017, the Company entered into a Consulting Agreement with G Farma whereby the Company was to receive a monthly consulting fee in arrears of $1,400 per month. This monthly consulting fee was increased proportionately with Addendum II and Addenda IV through VII resulting in a required fee of $2,741 per month as of December 31, 2018. Addendum VIII increased the required consulting fee to $2,828, effective March 15, 2019; however consulting fees have not been remitted by G Farma since February 19, 2019 and recognition of consulting fee revenue was suspended, effective April 1, 2019. Consulting fee revenue was $8,310 and $30,343 for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.

 

G Farma has not made scheduled payments on the finance lease receivable or the notes receivable since February 19, 2019, and the Company feels that it is unlikely it can recover the full amounts due. Because G Farma did not fulfill their obligations under the Master Equipment Lease and failed to operate in compliance with local and state cannabis laws, approximately $427,804 worth of Partner I equipment under lease to G Farma was impounded by the Corona Police on or around February 22, 2019. The Company learned of the equipment impoundment on April 24, 2019. Additionally, G Farma continued to hold approximately $792,425 worth of Mentor Partner I, LLC’s leased equipment in breach of the Master Equipment Lease which required the immediate return of Mentor Partner I, LLC’s equipment in the event of default. See also Notes, 9, 11, and 21 to the condensed consolidated financial statements. Subsequent to year-end, on January 22, 2020, the Superior Court of California in the County of Marin granted Mentor Capital, Inc.’s and Mentor Partner I, LLC’s motion for writ of possession and preliminary injunction prohibiting the G Farma Entities defendants from retaining control of or selling leased property and allowed the Company to repossess its leased equipment under G Farma’s control. See note 25.

 

All arrangements with G Farma, have been placed on non-accrual basis effective April 1, 2019. Accrual of interest on notes receivable and finance leases, as well as consulting revenue, was suspended April 1, 2019.

 

As described in Note 1, on February 22, 2019, the City of Corona Building Department closed access to G Farma’s corporate location and posted a notice preventing entry to the facility; the Company was not informed by G Farma of this incident until March 14, 2019. The notice cited unpermitted modifications to electrical, mechanical and plumbing, including all undetermined building modifications, as the reason for closure. On April 24, 2019, the Company was notified that certain G Farma assets at the corporate location, including equipment valued at approximately $427,804 leased to G Farma from Partner I, were impounded by the Corona Police. This event has significantly impacted G Farma’s financial position and its ability to make future payments under the finance leases receivable and notes receivable due the Company.

 

Company management is uncertain that G Farma will be able to perform under its obligations to the Company. Based on our analysis of current conditions, our investments in G Farma notes receivable were fully impaired in the first quarter of 2019. The Company recorded an impairment of loss on notes receivable of $1,045,051, for the year ended December 31, 2019, which is included in loss on investments in the condensed consolidated statement of income. On May 28, 2019, Mentor Capital, Inc. filed a complaint in the Superior Court of California in the County of Marin for, among other things, breach of contract against G Farma, its affiliates, and the guarantors of the various G Farma agreements, see Note 21.

 

Notes receivable from G Farma consists of the following at December 31, 2019 and 2018:

 

 

 

2019

 

2018

Real estate note

$

111,009

$

111,843

Working capital note

 

934,042

 

909,507

Impairment recorded

 

(1,045,051)

 

-

Note receivable discount

 

-

 

(7,591)

Accrued interest

 

-

 

3,067

 

 

-

 

1,016,826

Less current portion

 

-

 

(45,173)

Long term portion of notes receivable

$

-

$

971,653