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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

 

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 13, 2024

 

ALPHA MODUS HOLDINGS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware   001-40775   86-3386030

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

20311 Chartwell Center Dr., #1469

Cornelius, NC 28031

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (704) 252-5050

 

Insight Acquisition Corp.

333 East 91st Street

New York, NY 10128

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
 
Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
 
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
 
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class  

Trading Symbol(s)

 

Name of each exchange on which registered

Class A Common Stock, par value

$0.0001 per share

  AMOD   The Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC

Redeemable Warrants, each whole

warrant exercisable for one share of

Class A Common Stock at an

exercise price of $11.50

  AMODW   The Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

 

Emerging growth company

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.

 

 

 

 

 

 

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

 

On December 13, 2024 (the “Closing Date”), Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) (f/k/a Insight Acquisition Corp. (“IAC”)), consummated the previously announced merger (the “Closing”) pursuant to that certain Business Combination Agreement, dated October 13, 2023, and as amended by the First Amendment to the Business Combination Agreement, dated as of June 21, 2024 (as so amended, the “Business Combination Agreement”), by and among IAC, IAC Merger Sub Inc., a Florida corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of IAC (“Merger Sub”), and Alpha Modus, Corp., a Florida corporation (“Legacy Alpha Modus,” or “Alpha Modus” where applicable). IAC’s stockholders approved the Transactions (as defined below) at a special meeting of stockholders held on October 29, 2024 (the “Special Meeting”).

 

Pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement, Merger Sub merged with and into Legacy Alpha Modus (the “Merger” and, together with the other transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement, the “Transactions”), with Legacy Alpha Modus continuing as the surviving corporation in the Merger and the wholly-owned subsidiary of IAC. On the Closing Date, the registrant changed its name from Insight Acquisition Corp. to Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc.

 

Conversion of Securities and Merger Consideration

 

Immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger (the “Effective Time”), by virtue of the Merger and without any action on the part of IAC, Merger Sub, Legacy Alpha Modus or the holders of any of the following securities, each share of Legacy Alpha Modus common stock (other than the Dissenting Shares and the Cancelled Shares, as such terms are defined in the Business Combination Agreement) converted into (i) the contingent right to receive Earnout Shares (as defined below) (which may be zero) following the Closing, and (ii) one share of IAC Class A common stock; and each share of Legacy Alpha Modus preferred stock (other than the Dissenting Shares and the Cancelled Shares) converted into (i) the contingent right to receive Earnout Shares (as defined below) (which may be zero) following the Closing, and (ii) one share of IAC Series C Preferred Stock (collectively the “Merger Consideration”).

 

Earnout Merger Consideration

 

Up to an additional 2,200,000 contingent shares of Class A common stock in the aggregate (“Earnout Shares”) are payable to each holder of Legacy Alpha Modus common stock and/or Legacy Alpha Modus preferred stock receiving consideration in the Merger, pro rata in proportion to their ownership of Alpha Modus common stock and preferred stock (considered together as a single class) at the Closing. The Earnout Shares will be earned and issued in one-third (1/3) increments (of approximately 733,333 shares) if, for any twenty (20) trading days within any thirty (30)-consecutive trading day period beginning at least 180 days after the Closing Date and on or prior to the 5-year anniversary of the Closing, the volume-weighted average price (“VWAP”) of the Company’s common stock equals or exceeds $13.00 per share, $15.00 per share and $18.00 per share (as equitably adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, combinations, recapitalizations and the like after the Closing), respectively, with all remaining Earnout Shares earned and issued upon certain changes of control of the Company at or prior to the 5-year anniversary of the Closing.

 

Additionally, at the Closing, IAC’s sponsor, Insight Acquisition Sponsor LLC (the “Sponsor”) deposited 750,000 shares of Company Class A common stock into escrow (the “Sponsor Earnout Shares”), and the Sponsor Earnout Shares will be released to the Sponsor according to the same milestones and timelines applicable to the Earnout Shares described above. The Sponsor also forfeited and cancelled an additional 750,000 shares of IAC Class A common stock.

 

Securities Purchase Agreement

 

As previously disclosed in the Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on October 23, 2024, and December 12, 2024, on October 23, 2024, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “SPA”) with Streeterville Capital, LLC (the “Investor”), an entity controlled by John M. Fife, pursuant to which the Company would sell, and the Investor would purchase, a secured convertible promissory note in the original principal amount of $2,890,000 (the “Note”) for a net purchase price of $2,600,000 (after deducting an original issue discount of $260,000, and payment of $30,000 for the Investor’s legal, accounting, due diligence, asset monitoring, and other transaction expenses), which was anticipated to close and fund at the Closing, and on December 12, 2024, the Company amended the SPA to provide for revised terms in the Note to be issued under the SPA (the “Amended SPA”).

 

The SPA included customary representations, warranties and covenants by the Company and customary closing conditions. The SPA granted the Investor (i) the right to fund up to an additional $5,000,000 to the Company, with the Company’s consent, through the date that is six months following repayment of the Note in full (the “Reinvestment Right”), and (ii) the exclusive right, on customary market terms, to enter into an equity line of credit or other similar financing arrangement with the Company for at least $20,000,000, through the date that is one year following the Purchase Price Date (defined below). Pursuant the SPA, Legacy Alpha Modus is required to guarantee all of the Company’s obligations under the Note and related transaction documents pursuant to a guaranty agreement (the “Guaranty”), and the Note will also be secured by security agreements (the “Security Agreements”) by and between the Investor and both the Company and Legacy Alpha Modus, granting the Investor first priority security interests in all assets of the Company, as well as all assets of Legacy Alpha Modus, including all of Legacy Alpha Modus’ intellectual property (and including Legacy Alpha Modus’ patent portfolio) pursuant to a separate intellectual property security agreement (the “IP Security Agreement”). Additionally, the Company and Legacy Alpha Modus (collectively the “Borrowers”), and William Alessi, his entity, Janbella Group, LLC, and the trusts deemed to be beneficially owned by Mr. Alessi (each a “Capital Party” and collectively the “Capital Parties”), are required to execute at closing a subordination and voting agreement (the “Subordination Agreement”) pursuant to which (i) all of the Borrowers’ indebtedness and obligations to each Capital Party will be subordinated to Investor, (ii) all security interests of any Capital Party will be subordinate to Investor’s security interests, (iii) the Borrowers will not make any payments to any Capital Party, (iv) none of the Capital Parties will accelerate any subordinated debt or equity, (v) and no Capital Party will convert or exchange their preferred stock of the Company into Common Stock, until such time as the Investor has been fully paid and all financing agreements between the Investor and the Borrowers are terminated.

 

 

 

 

The Note matures 18 months following the date the purchase price is delivered to the Company (the “Purchase Price Date”), accrues interest of 10% per annum, is prepayable (after providing five trading days’ notice) at a 20% premium to the then-outstanding balance of the Note, and is convertible into Class A common stock (“Common Stock”) of the Company as described below. Within 30 days of the Purchase Price Date, the Company is obligated to file a registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) registering a number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Note in an amount no less than two times the number of shares of Common Stock necessary to convert the outstanding balance under the Note in full as of the date the Company files the registration statement. If the registration statement is not declared effective by the SEC within 120 days of the Purchase Price Date, the outstanding balance under the Note will automatically increase by one percent and will continue increasing by one percent every 30 days thereafter until the registration statement is declared effective or the Investor is able to sell shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Note pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. If by the date that 50% of the shares registered under the registration statement have been issued to Investor (such date, the “Trigger Date”) the Note has not yet been repaid in full, the Company is obligated to file an additional registration statement registering additional shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Note within 30 days of the Trigger Date. If that additional registration statement is not declared effective by the SEC within 120 days of the Trigger Date, the outstanding balance under the Note will automatically increase by one percent and will continue increasing by one percent every 30 days thereafter until the additional registration statement is declared effective.

 

The Note is convertible at the election of the Investor into shares of Common Stock at any time at a conversion price equal to 90% multiplied by the lowest daily volume-weighted average price during the five trading days preceding conversion, subject to a $4.00 per share floor price (such that the conversion price will not be lower than $4.00/share), and provided that (i) the Investor may not convert the Note into shares of Common Stock to the extent that such conversion would result in the Investor’s beneficial ownership of Common Stock being in excess of 4.99% (or 9.99% if the Company’s market capitalization is less than $10 million), and provided that (ii) the Note is not convertible into a total cumulative number of shares of Common Stock in excess of the number of shares of Common Stock permitted by Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635 (the “Exchange Cap”). Pursuant to the terms of the Note, the Company will, within 120 days of the Purchase Price Date, seek shareholder approval of the Note and the issuance of shares of Common Stock, issuable upon conversion of the Note and pursuant to the Reinvestment Right, in excess of the Exchange Cap (the “Shareholder Approvals”). If such shareholder approval is not obtained within 120 days, the Company will continue to seek shareholder approval every three months thereafter until shareholder approval is obtained. Pursuant to the Subordination Agreement, each Capital Party is required to vote all of their shares of Company stock in favor of the Shareholder Approvals. Under the SPA, the Company is required to initially reserve 7,500,000 shares of its Common Stock for issuance to the Investor under the Note, and the Company is required to add additional shares to the reserve in increments of 100,000 shares when requested by the Investor if at the time of the request the number of shares being held in reserve is less than three times the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the outstanding balance under the Note divided by the applicable conversion price at that time.

 

If the closing bid price of Company’s common stock is less than the $4.00 per share floor price for ten consecutive trading days, the Company is required to commence repayment of the Note on the date that is 90 days following the Purchase Price Date, and the Investor has agreed not to foreclose on the Company’s assets for twelve months following the Purchase Price Date.

 

The foregoing descriptions of each of the Business Combination Agreement, the SPA, the Amended SPA, the Guaranty, Security Agreements, IP Security Agreement, Subordination Agreement, and Note, do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the agreements, copies of which, in the case of the Business Combination Agreement, First Amendment to Business Combination Agreement, SPA, and Amended SPA, are filed as Exhibits 2.1, 2.2, 10.1 and 10.2 (and the form of which, in the case of the Guaranty, Security Agreements, IP Security Agreement, and Subordination Agreement are attached as exhibits to Exhibit 10.1, and the form of which, in the case of the Note, is attached as an exhibit to Exhibit 10.2), to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.

 

Related Agreements

 

Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of the Business Combination Agreement, (i) IAC and certain Legacy Alpha Modus stockholders entered into the Company Support Agreement; (ii) IAC, the Sponsor and certain other IAC shareholders parties thereto, Legacy Alpha Modus, and certain Legacy Alpha Modus stockholders entered into an Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, which became effective as of Closing; (iii) certain Legacy Alpha Modus stockholders entered into a Confidentiality and Lock-up Agreement with IAC, each of which became effective as of Closing; (iv) IAC, Sponsor, and Legacy Alpha Modus entered into Sponsor Lock-Up Agreement; and (v) the Sponsor, IAC, and Legacy Alpha Modus entered into a Stockholder Support Agreement, copies of which are filed as Exhibits 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7, respectively, to this Report, and incorporated herein by reference.

 

As previously disclosed in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 12, 2024, Polar Multi-Strategy Master Fund (“Polar”), one of the Company’s investors and the holder of 1,000,000 shares of Legacy Alpha Modus common stock prior to the Closing, agreed to forfeit 850,000 of its shares of Alpha Modus, Corp. common stock, such that prior to Closing, Polar would only hold 150,000 shares of Legacy Alpha Modus common stock and Legacy Alpha Modus would only have 5,295,000 shares of common stock outstanding in the aggregate, instead of 6,145,000 shares of common stock outstanding, pursuant to a Forfeiture Agreement dated December 12, 2024 (the “Forfeiture Agreement”).

 

The foregoing description of the Forfeiture Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Forfeiture Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.

 

Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Current Report on Form 8-K (the “Report”) have the meanings set forth in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus filed by the Company on September 19, 2024, as supplemented on October 23, 2024.

 

Item 1.01.Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

The disclosure set forth in the “Introductory Note” above and in Item 5.02 is incorporated by reference into this Item 1.01.

 

On the Closing Date, the Company entered into the Guaranty, Security Agreements, IP Security Agreement, and Subordination Agreement, and issued the Note to the Investor. The proceeds of Note were used to pay transaction costs associated with the Business Combination and will be used for working capital.

 

Effective as of the Closing Date, the Company settled its outstanding payables with its counsel, Loeb & Loeb LLP (“Loeb”), in excess of $1,100,000, by paying Loeb $425,000 in cash and issuing Loeb a promissory note (the “Loeb Note”) in the principal amount of $325,000, with outstanding principal generally required to be repaid $25,000 per month. The outstanding balance accrues no interest and is convertible after such time that the Company is no longer subject to the Investor’s variable rate transaction prohibition or the Investor has otherwise consented to conversion, provided that Loeb may not convert the note into shares of Common Stock to the extent that such conversion would result in Loeb’s beneficial ownership of Common Stock being in excess of 4.99%. The conversion price will be 90% of the 5-day VWAP of the Common Stock at the time of conversion, and the Company is required to register shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the note provided the Note has become convertible.

 

 

 

 

The foregoing description of the Loeb Note does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Loeb Note, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.8 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.

 

Item 2.01.Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.

 

The disclosure set forth in the “Introductory Note” above is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.01.

 

As previously disclosed in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 31, 2024, at the Special Meeting, IAC’s stockholders approved the Business Combination Agreement, the Transactions and the other related proposals presented in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus. On December 13, 2024, the parties to the Business Combination Agreement consummated the Transactions.

 

Holders of an aggregate of 426,136 shares of IAC Class A common stock sold in IAC’s initial public offering (the “Public Shares”) properly exercised their right to have such shares redeemed for a full pro rata portion of the trust account holding the proceeds from IAC’s initial public offering, which was approximately $11.29 per share, or $4.8 million in the aggregate (426,135 shares for aggregate redemption payments of $4.8 million at a redemption price of approximately $11.29 per share on or about December 3, 2024, and 1 share at a redemption price of approximately $12.49 per share on or about December 13, 2024).

 

As a result of the Business Combination, each share of Legacy Alpha Modus common stock outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the Business Combination was converted into the right to receive 1 share of the Company’s Class A common stock, and each share of Legacy Alpha Modus Series C Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the Business Combination was converted into the right to receive 1 share of the Company’s Series C Preferred Stock.

 

Immediately following consummation of the Transactions, including the redemption of public shares as described above, there were 12,455,252 shares of the Company’s common stock (all Class A common stock) issued and outstanding, and 7,500,000 shares of the Company’s Series C Preferred Stock issued and outstanding.

 

The Company’s Class A common stock and warrants commenced trading on the Nasdaq Global Market (“Nasdaq”) under the symbols “AMOD” and “AMODW,” respectively, on December 16, 2024.

 

As noted above, an aggregate of approximately $4.8 million was paid from the Company’s trust account to holders that properly exercised their right to have public shares redeemed, and the remaining balance in the trust account immediately prior to the Closing was approximately $1.16 million. The remaining balance in the trust account was used released to the Company at Closing and primarily used to fund expenses incurred by Legacy Alpha Modus and IAC in connection with the Business Combination, with the remaining amount used for general corporate purposes of the Company following the Business Combination.

 

FORM 10 INFORMATION

 

Item 2.01(f) of Form 8-K states that if the registrant was a “shell company” (as such term is defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), as the Company was immediately before the Business Combination, then the registrant must disclose the information that would be required if the registrant were filing a general form for registration of securities on Form 10. Accordingly, the Company is providing below the information that would be included in a Form 10 if it were to file a Form 10. Please note that the information provided below relates to the combined company after the consummation of the Business Combination, unless otherwise specifically indicated or the context otherwise requires.

 

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

 

Certain statements contained in this Report may constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as “estimate,” “plan,” “project,” “forecast,” “intend,” “will,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “seek,” “target,” “designed to” or other similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters. The Company cautions readers of this Report that these forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the Company’s control, that could cause the actual results to differ materially from the expected results. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding estimates and forecasts of financial and performance metrics, projections of market opportunity and market share, potential benefits and the commercial attractiveness to customers of the Company’s products and services, the potential success of the Company’s marketing and growth strategies, potential benefits of the Business Combination (including with respect to shareholder value). These statements are based on various assumptions, whether or not identified in this Report, and on the current expectations of the Company’s management and are not predictions of actual performance. These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as, and must not be relied on by any investor as, a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Actual events and circumstances are difficult or impossible to predict and will differ from assumptions. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including:

 

the Company’s inability to achieve or sustain profitability;

 

the viability of the Company’s intellectual property;

 

changes in applicable laws or regulations;

 

the possibility that the Company’s business or the combined company may be adversely affected by other economic business, changing technology, evolving industry standards, and/or competitive factors;

 

 

 

 

the ability of the Company to obtain, maintain, and protect its intellectual property, and other risks related to enforcement of the Company’s intellectual property rights;

 

● failure to realize the anticipated benefits of the Business Combination;

 

risks related to future market adoption of the Company’s technology;

 

● risks related to the Company’s marketing and growth strategies;

 

● the effects of competition on the Company’s future business;

 

● the ability of the Company to issue equity or equity-linked securities in the future;

 

● the Company’s ability to raise funding on reasonable terms as necessary to develop its products in the timeframe contemplated by its business plan;

 

● the Company’s ability to execute its business plans and strategy;

 

● the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against the Company related to Business Combination; and

 

● other risks and uncertainties described in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus in the section entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 31 thereof, which are incorporated herein by reference

 

If any of these risks materialize or any of the Company’s assumptions prove incorrect, actual results could differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements. There may be additional risks that the Company is not presently aware of or that the Company currently believe are immaterial that could also cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements. In addition, forward-looking statements reflect the Company’s expectations, plans or forecasts of future events and views as of the date of this Report. The Company anticipates that subsequent events and developments will cause the Company’s assessments to change. However, while the Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company’s assessments as of any date subsequent to the date of this Report. Accordingly, undue reliance should not be placed upon the forward-looking statements. Actual results, performance or achievements may, and are likely to, differ materially, and potentially adversely, from any projections and forward-looking statements and the assumptions on which those forward-looking statements were based. There can be no assurance that the data contained herein is reflective of future performance to any degree. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a predictor of future performance as projected financial information and other information are based on estimates and assumptions that are inherently subject to various significant risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond the Company’s control.

 

Business

 

The business of the Company is described in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus in the section entitled “Information About Alpha Modus” beginning on page 155 thereof, and that information is incorporated herein by reference.

 

On November 12, 2024, Legacy Alpha Modus filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Brookshire Grocery Co. alleging infringement of several Alpha Modus patents pertaining to its ‘571 patent portfolio, ‘825 patent portfolio, ‘672 patent portfolio, ‘890 patent portfolio and ‘880 patent portfolio, which encompass retail marketing and advertising data-driven technologies to enhance consumers’ in-store experience at the point of decision. The complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

 

Risk Factors

 

The risks associated with the Company’s business are described in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus in the section entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 31 thereof and are incorporated herein by reference. A summary of the risks associated with the Company’s business is included on pages 20-22 of the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus under the heading “Summary Risk Factors” and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Financial Information

 

The financial information of IAC is described in (i) the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus in the sections entitled “Selected Financial and Other Data of IAC” and “IAC’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” beginning on pages 25 and 142 thereof, respectively, which are incorporated herein by reference, and (ii) the Quarterly Report of the Company filed on November 18, 2024, in the section entitled “Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” beginning on page 29 thereof, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

The financial information of Legacy Alpha Modus is described in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus in the sections entitled “Selected Financial and Other Data of Alpha Modus” and “Alpha Modus’ Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” beginning on pages 28 and 161 thereof, respectively, which are incorporated herein by reference.

 

Reference is made to the disclosure set forth in Item 9.01 of this Report relating to financial information of IAC and Legacy Alpha Modus, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

 

 

 

LEGACY ALPHA MODUS’ MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

References in this section to “we,” “our,” “us,” and “Alpha Modus” generally refer to Alpha Modus, Corp. and its consolidated subsidiaries prior to the Business Combination and to the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries after giving effect to the Business Combination. The following discussion and analysis of our results of operations and financial condition should be read in conjunction with the other information included elsewhere in this Report. This discussion contains forward-looking statements based upon our current expectations, estimates and projections that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements due to, among other considerations, the matters discussed under “Risk Factors” and “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.

 

Percentage amounts included in this Report have not in all cases been calculated on the basis of such rounded figures, but on the basis of such amounts prior to rounding. For this reason, percentage amounts in this Report may vary from those obtained by performing the same calculations using the figures in our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this proxy statement/prospectus. Certain other amounts that appear in this proxy statement/prospectus may not sum due to rounding.

 

Plan of Operation

 

Alpha Modus offers technology as a service. Its core technologies have been deployed on IBM’s Bluemix platform and earned a Beacon Award by IBM 2016 for Best New Application on IBM Cloud from an Entrepreneur. Alpha Modus has been recognized by IBM Watson as a thought leader in technology. As technological innovation is at the core of the company, Alpha Modus has developed comprehensive end-to-end patented solutions for retailers and consumer brands to bring innovation to consumers and enhance their experience at the point of sale.

 

On January 11, 2024, Alpha Modus entered into a license agreement with GZ6G Technologies Corp. (“GZ6G”), which gives GZ6G the right to use Alpha Modus’ patented intellectual property, and pertains to GZ6G’s promotional, advertising, and operational functions, including co-development arrangements with Alpha Modus for AI-driven advertising solutions for stadiums and event management. Alpha Modus intends to deploy services under the license by the end of 2024, expand event venue service offerings in late 2025, and expand service offerings in additional industries in 2024.

 

On January 16, 2024, Alpha Modus initiated a patent infringement action against The Kroger Company alleging patent infringement of several Alpha Modus patents encompassing retail marketing and advertising data-driven technologies to enhance consumer’s in-store experience at the point of decision. On November 12, 2024, Alpha Modus initiated a patent infringement lawsuit against Brookshire Grocery Co. alleging infringement of several Alpha Modus patents pertaining to its ‘571 patent portfolio, ‘825 patent portfolio, ‘672 patent portfolio, ‘890 patent portfolio and ‘880 patent portfolio, which encompass retail marketing and advertising data-driven technologies to enhance consumers’ in-store experience at the point of decision.

 

On April 10, 2024, Alpha Modus entered into a license agreement with Xalles Holdings Inc. and its subsidiary, CashXAI Inc. (“CashX”), which gives CashX the exclusive right to use all of Alpha Modus’ patented intellectual property in connection with CashX’s promotional, advertising, and operational functions, including co-development arrangements with Alpha Modus, within the Exclusive Industry. The “Exclusive Industry” means the industry relating to self-service kiosks located in retail food, drug and convenience stores for the purpose of serving Unbanked and Underbanked consumers, by offering banking, phone and insurance solutions to the consumer. An “Unbanked” consumer means a person that does not have a checking or savings account with an FDIC-insured institution, and an “Underbanked” consumer means a person that has or had a checking or savings account with an FDIC-insured institution, but regularly uses non-traditional banks such as Venmo or the Cash App, or lenders such as a check cashing company or payday lender. Alpha Modus intends to deploy services under the license by the end of 2024.

 

Alpha Modus intends to continue its intellectual property licensing and enforcement efforts throughout 2025. No assurances can be given that any of these plans will come to fruition or that, if implemented, they will necessarily yield positive results.

 

 
 

 

Off-balance Sheet Arrangements

 

We do not have any off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources that are material to investors.

 

Results of Operations

 

For the three months ended September 30, 2024, compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023

 

Revenue

 

Alpha Modus had no revenue during the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023.

 

Operating Expenses

 

Alpha Modus had operating expenses of $286,131 for the three months ended September 30, 2024, compared to $5,900 for the three months ended September 30, 2023. The increase was primarily due to the reclassification of expenses for a related party of $208,433 during the three months ended September 30, 2023. These expenses were charged directly against additional paid-in capital instead of an expense to Alpha Modus.

 

Other Income/Expenses

 

Alpha Modus had total other expense of $29,615 for the three months ended September 30, 2024, $29,618 of which was interest expense, as compared to total other expense of $22,089 and interest expense of $22,090 during the three months ended September 30, 2023.

 

Net Loss

 

Alpha Modus had a net loss of $315,746 for the three months ended September 30, 2024, compared to $27,989 of net loss for the three months ended September 30, 2023. The increase in net loss during the three months ended September 30, 2024, as compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023, was primarily due to the reclassification of expenses for a related party of $208,433 during the three months ended September 30, 2023, described above.

 

For the nine months ended September 30, 2024, compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023

 

Revenue

 

Alpha Modus had no revenue during the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023.

 

Operating Expenses

 

Alpha Modus had operating expenses of $597,595 for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, compared to $177,519 for the nine months ended September 30, 2023. The increase was primarily due to the reclassification of expenses for a related party of $208,433 during the nine months ended September 30, 2023. These expenses were charged directly against additional paid-in capital instead of an expense to Alpha Modus. Professional fees also increased by $164,979 during the nine months ended September 30, 2024.

 

Other Income/Expenses

 

Alpha Modus had total other expense of $127,884 for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, $127,892 of which was interest expense, as compared to total other expense of $57,470 and interest expense of $57,474 during the nine months ended September 30, 2023.

 

 
 

 

Net Loss

 

Alpha Modus had a net loss of $725,479 for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, compared to $234,989 of net loss for the nine months ended September 30, 2023. The increase in net loss during the nine months ended September 30, 2024, as compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023, was primarily due to the reclassification of expenses for a related party of $208,433 and professional fees as described above.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

As of September 30, 2024, Alpha Modus had cash of $66,011. We do not have sufficient resources to effectuate our business. We expect to incur expenses during the next twelve months of operations. We estimate that these expenses will be comprised primarily of general expenses including overhead, legal and accounting fees. To maintain our plan of growth, we believe we will need to raise a minimum of an additional $2,500,000. These factors, along with the lack of current Company revenues, raise substantial doubts about Alpha Modus’s ability to continue as a going concern.

 

Operations used cash of $541,826 for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, compared to $304,620 for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.

 

We had net cash provided by financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, of $501,028, compared to $397,042 for the same period in 2023.

 

We will have to raise funds to pay for our expenses. We may have to borrow money from shareholders or issue debt or equity or enter into a strategic arrangement with a third party. There can be no assurance that additional capital will be available to us. We currently have no arrangements or understandings with any person to obtain funds through bank loans, lines of credit or any other sources. Since we have no such arrangements or plans currently in effect, our inability to raise funds for our operations will have a severe negative impact on our ability to remain a viable company.

 

Emerging Growth Company Status

 

Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can choose not to take advantage of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies, and any such election to not take advantage of the extended transition period is irrevocable.

 

IAC is an “emerging growth company” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act and has elected to take advantage of the benefits of the extended transition period for new or revised financial accounting standards. Following the consummation of the Business Combination, Alpha Modus expects to remain an emerging growth company at least through the end of the 2023 fiscal year and to continue to take advantage of the benefits of the extended transition period, although it may decide to early adopt such new or revised accounting standards to the extent permitted by such standards. This may make it difficult or impossible to compare Alpha Modus’ financial results with the financial results of another public company that is either not an emerging growth company or is an emerging growth company that has chosen not to take advantage of the extended transition period exemptions because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.

 

Subject to certain conditions set forth in the JOBS Act, if, as an emerging growth company, we intend to rely on such exemptions, we are not required to, among other things: (i) provide an auditor’s attestation report on our system of internal controls over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; (ii) provide all of the compensation disclosure that may be required of non-emerging growth public companies under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; (iii) comply with any requirement that may be adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board regarding mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor’s report providing additional information about the audit and the financial statements (auditor discussion and analysis); and (iv) disclose certain executive compensation-related items such as the correlation between executive compensation and performance and comparisons of the Chief Executive Officer’s compensation to median employee compensation.

 

We will remain an emerging growth company under the JOBS Act until the earliest of (i) the last day of our first fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of the IAC IPO, (ii) the last date of our fiscal year in which we have total annual gross revenue of at least $1.07 billion, (iii) the date on we are deemed to be a “large accelerated filer” under the rules of the SEC with at least $700.0 million of outstanding common equity held by non-affiliates, or (iv) the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities during the previous three years.

 

 

 

 

Properties

 

The facilities of the Company are described in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus in the section entitled “Information About Alpha” beginning on page 155 thereof and that information is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management

 

The following table sets forth information known to the Company regarding the beneficial ownership of the Company’s common stock and preferred stock immediately following consummation of the Transactions by:

 

  each person who is known by the Company to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock or preferred stock;

 

  each of the Company’s named executive officers and directors; and

 

  all of the Company’s executive officers and directors as a group.

 

Beneficial ownership is determined according to the rules of the SEC, which generally provide that a person has beneficial ownership of a security if he, she or it possesses sole or shared voting or investment power over that security, which includes the power to dispose of or to direct the disposition of the security or has the right to acquire such powers within 60 days. In computing the number of shares of the Company’s common stock beneficially owned by a person or entity and the percentage ownership, the Company deemed outstanding shares of its common stock subject to options and warrants held by that person or entity that are currently exercisable or exercisable within 60 days of the Closing Date. The Company did not deem these shares outstanding, however, for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person or entity.

 

Unless otherwise noted, the address of each beneficial owner is c/o Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc., 20311 Chartwell Center Dr., #1469, Cornelius, North Carolina, 28031.

 

The beneficial ownership of the Company’s stock is based on 12,455,252 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock, and 7,500,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock, issued and outstanding immediately following consummation of the Transactions, including the redemption of Public Shares as described above.

 

Name and Address
of Beneficial
Owner
  Number of
Shares of
Class A
Common Stock
   %   Number of
Shares of
Series C
Preferred
Stock
   % 
Directors and Executive Officers                    
William Alessi   4,342,308(1)   34.9%   7,500,000(2)   100.0%
Rodney Sperry   -    -    -    - 
Chris Chumas   81,000(3)   0.7%   -    - 
Michael Garel   20,400    0.2%   -    - 
Gregory Richter   36,000(4)   0.3%   -    - 
Scott Wattenberg   -    -    -    - 
William Ullman   -    -    -    - 
All Directors and Executive Officers as a Group   4,479,708    36.0%   7,500,000    100.0%
                     
Other Five Percent Holders                    
Alex Haase (5)   1,092,308    8.8%   -    - 
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. (6)   1,050,000(7)   7.8%   -    - 
Odeon Capital Group, LLC (8)   450,000(9)   3.5%   -    - 
Insight Acquisition Sponsor LLC (10)   12,074,997(11)   60.5%   -    - 
Michael Singer (12)   12,199,997(13)   61.1%   -    - 

 

(1)Includes (i) 139,784 shares of Class A common stock held in the name of The Alessi 2023 Irrevocable Trust, (ii) 200,000 shares of Class A common stock held in the name of The WRA 2023 Irrevocable Trust, (iii) 200,000 shares of Class A common stock held in the name of The Janet Alessi 2023 Irrevocable Trust, (iv) 200,000 shares of Class A common stock held in the name of The Isabella Alessi 2023 Irrevocable Trust, (v) 200,000 shares of Class A common stock held in the name of The Kim Alessi Richter Irrevocable Trust, (vi) 610,216 shares of Class A common stock held in the name of the Alessi Revocable Trust, and (vii) 2,792,308 shares of Class A common stock held in the name of Janbella Group, LLC. William Alessi’s spouse, Sonia Alessi, is the trustee of each of the preceding trusts, and Mr. Alessi is deemed to be the beneficial owner of shares held in the name of each of the trusts. Mr. Alessi has voting and investment discretion with respect to shares held by Janbella Group, LLC, and is deemed to be the beneficial owner of shares held in the name of Janbella Group, LLC.

 

 

 

 

(2)Includes (i) 4,300,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock held in the name of The Alessi 2023 Irrevocable Trust, (ii) 800,000 shares of Alpha Modus Series C Preferred Stock held in the name of The WRA 2023 Irrevocable Trust, (iii) 800,000 shares of Alpha Modus Series C Preferred Stock held in the name of The Janet Alessi 2023 Irrevocable Trust, (iv) 800,000 shares of Alpha Modus Series C Preferred Stock held in the name of The Isabella Alessi 2023 Irrevocable Trust, and (v) 800,000 shares of Alpha Modus Series C Preferred Stock held in the name of The Kim Alessi Richter Irrevocable Trust.
(3)Includes (i) 75,000 shares of Class A common stock held in the name of Chris Chumas, and (ii) 6,000 shares of Class A common stock held in the name of Mr. Chumas’s spouse, Amanda Chumas.
(4)Includes (i) 20,000 shares of Class A common stock held in the name of Gregory Richter, and (ii) 16,000 shares of Class A common stock held in the name of Mr. Richter’s spouse, Kim Alessi Richter.
(5)The address of Alex Haase is 17408 Lynx Den Ct., Cornelius, NC 28036.
(6)The address of Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. (“Cantor”) is 110 East 59th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10022.
(7)Consists of (i) 210,000 shares of Class A common stock issued to Cantor at Closing as part of the Transactions, and (ii) 840,000 shares of Class A common stock issuable under the private placement warrants held by Cantor, which are deemed to be beneficially owned by Cantor since the warrants are exercisable within 60 days of the date of the Closing.
(8)The address of Odeon Capital Group, LLC (“Odeon”) is 750 Lexington Ave., 27th Floor, New York, NY 10022.
(9)Consists of (i) 90,000 shares of New IAC common stock issued to Odeon at Closing as part of the Transactions, and (ii) 360,000 shares of common stock issuable under the private placement warrants held by Odeon, which are deemed to be beneficially owned by Cantor since the warrants are exercisable within 60 days of the date of the Closing.
(10)The address of the Sponsor is 333 East 91st Street, New York, NY 10128.
(11)Includes (i) 4,574,997 shares of Class A common stock held in the name of the Sponsor after the Closing (after cancellation of 750,000 shares by the Sponsor at Closing), and (ii) 7,500,000 shares of Class A common stock issuable under the private placement warrants held by the Sponsor, which are deemed to be beneficially owned by the Sponsor since the warrants are exercisable within 60 days of the date of the Closing. Michael Singer, the former Executive Chairman and CEO of the Company, and Jeffrey Gary, the Company’s former CEO and CFO, are the managing members of the Sponsor, and share voting and investment discretion with respect to the common stock held of record by the Sponsor, and Mr. Singer and Mr. Gary are therefore each deemed to be beneficial owners of securities held in the name of the Sponsor.
(12)The address of Michael Singer is 333 East 91st Street, New York, NY 10128.
(13)Includes (i) 125,000 shares of Class A common stock issued to Michael Singer at Closing as part of the Transactions, (ii) 4,574,997 shares of Class A common stock held in the name of the Sponsor after the Closing (after cancellation of 750,000 shares by the Sponsor at Closing), and (iii) 7,500,000 shares of Class A common stock issuable under the private placement warrants held by the Sponsor, which are deemed to be beneficially owned by the Sponsor since the warrants are exercisable within 60 days of the date of the Closing. Michael Singer is deemed to beneficially own securities held in the name of the Sponsor (see note 11 above).

 

Directors and Executive Officers

 

In connection with the Closing, Michael Singer resigned as Executive Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and as a director of the Company, David Brosgol and Victor Pascucci, III, resigned as directors of the Company, William Alessi was appointed as Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company, Rodney Sperry was appointed as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, Chris Chumas was appointed as Chief Sales Officer of the Company, Gregory Richter, Michael Garel, and Scott Wattenberg were appointed as directors of the Company, and William Ullman continued as a director, in each case, as described in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus in the section entitled “Management After the Business Combination” beginning on 186 thereof, and that information is incorporated herein by reference.

 

On December 13, 2024, Scott Wattenberg was designated to serve as a Class A Director of the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”), with his term expiring at the first annual meeting of the stockholders following the Closing. William Ullman and Michael Garel were designated to serve as Class B Directors, with their terms expiring at the second annual meeting of the stockholders following the Closing. William Alessi and Gregory Richter were designated to serve as Class C Directors with their terms expiring at the third annual meeting of the stockholders following the Closing. Biographical information for these individuals is set forth in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus in the section titled “Management After the Business Combination” beginning on page 186 thereof, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Independence of Directors

 

Nasdaq listing standards require that a majority of the Board be independent. An “independent director” is defined generally as a person other than an officer or employee of the company or its subsidiaries or any other individual having a relationship which in the opinion of the Board, would interfere with the director’s exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director. The Board has determined that William Ullman, Michael Garel, and Scott Wattenberg are “independent directors” as defined in the Nasdaq listing standards and applicable SEC rules. Our independent directors will have regularly scheduled meetings at which only independent directors are present.

 

Director Compensation

 

The Company expects to pay each of our non-employee directors $100,000 in common stock per annum, payable quarterly on the first day of each fiscal quarter and valued based on the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the date of the Closing of the Business Combination. In addition, each non-employee director will receive a cash annual retainer of $25,000 for their service on the Board, payable in quarterly installments. The Company intends to continue evaluating the compensation to be provided to its non-employee directors.

 

 

 

 

Committees of the Board of Directors

 

The standing committees of the Board consist of an audit committee (the “Audit Committee”), a compensation committee (the “Compensation Committee”) and a nominating and corporate governance committee (the “Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee”). Each of the committees reports to the Board.

 

The Board appointed William Ullman, Michael Garel, and Scott Wattenberg to serve on each of these three committees, with Scott Wattenberg the Chairman of the Audit Committee, Michael Garel the Chairman of the Compensation Committee, and William Ullman the Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

 

Executive Compensation

 

The executive compensation of the Company’s named executive officers and directors is described in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus in the section entitled “Executive and Director Compensation of Alpha Modus” beginning on page 192 thereof, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

The description therein of the compensation of the Company’s executive officers is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the employment agreements of William Alessi, Rodney Sperry, and Chris Chumas, copies of which are attached hereto as Exhibit 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11, respectively, and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

 

None of our executive officers serves as a member of the Board or Compensation Committee (or other committee performing equivalent functions) of any entity that has one or more executive officers serving on the Board or Compensation Committee.

 

Certain Relationships and Related Person Transactions

 

Certain relationships and related person transactions are described in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus in the sections entitled “Certain IAC Relationships and Related Person Transactions” and “Certain Alpha Modus/ Relationships and Related Person Transactions” beginning on pages 152 and 195 thereof, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

Risk Oversight

 

Our risk management oversight is described in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus in the section entitled “Management After the Business Combination—Role of the New IAC Board in Risk Oversight/Risk Committee” beginning on page 188 thereof, and that information is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Legal Proceedings

 

From time to time, the Company may be involved in litigation relating to claims arising out of commercial operations in the normal course of business. As of the Closing Date, there were no pending or threatened lawsuits that could reasonably be expected to have a material effect on the Company’s results of operations except as set forth below.

 

On January 16, 2024, Legacy Alpha Modus filed a patent infringement lawsuit against The Kroger Company alleging patent infringement of several Alpha Modus patents pertaining to the Company’s ‘571 patent portfolio encompassing retail marketing and advertising data-driven technologies to enhance consumer’s in-store experience at the point of decision. The complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (case no. 2:2024cv00022), and the case is currently in discovery.

 

On November 12, 2024, Legacy Alpha Modus filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Brookshire Grocery Co. alleging infringement of several Alpha Modus patents pertaining to its ‘571 patent portfolio, ‘825 patent portfolio, ‘672 patent portfolio, ‘890 patent portfolio and ‘880 patent portfolio, which encompass retail marketing and advertising data-driven technologies to enhance consumers’ in-store experience at the point of decision. The complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (case no. 2:2024cv00919), and the case is still in its initial pleading stage.

 

Market Price of and Dividends on the Registrant’s Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters

 

The market price of and dividends on IAC’s common equity, warrants and units and related stockholder matters is described in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus in the Section entitled “Market Price and Dividend Information” beginning on page 30 thereof, and that information is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Prior to the Closing, IAC’s publicly traded units, Class A common stock and warrants were listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbols “INAQU,” “INAQ,” and “INAQW,” respectively. Upon the Closing, the Company’s common stock and warrants were listed on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbols “AMOD” and “AMODW,” respectively. Publicly traded units automatically separated into their component securities upon the Closing, and as a result, no longer trade as a separate security and were delisted from the Nasdaq Capital Market.

 

The Company has not paid any cash dividends on shares of its common stock to date. The payment of cash dividends in the future will be dependent upon the Company’s revenue and earnings, if any, capital requirements and general financial condition. The payment of any cash dividends will be within the discretion of the Board.

 

 

 

 

Holders of Record

 

As of the Closing and following the completion of the Transactions, including the redemption of Public Shares as described above, the Company had 12,455,252 shares of common stock outstanding held of record by 98 holders, and 7,500,000 shares of preferred stock outstanding held of record by 5 holders. Such amounts do not include DTC participants or beneficial owners holding shares through nominee names.

 

Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans

 

No shares are reserved for issuance under equity compensation or incentive plans, and the Company has not adopted any incentive plan.

 

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

 

Reference is made to the disclosure set forth under Item 3.02 of this Report relating to the issuance of the Company’s common stock in connection with the Transactions, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Description of Registrant’s Securities to be Registered

 

The Company’s securities are described in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus in the section entitled “Description of Securities of IAC” beginning on page 165 thereof, and that information is incorporated herein by reference. As described below, the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “A&R Charter”) was approved by IAC’s stockholders at the Special Meeting and became effective on December 13, 2024, in connection with the consummation of the Transactions.

 

Indemnification of Directors and Officers

 

The indemnification of our directors and officers is described in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus in the section entitled “Management After the Business Combination—Limitation on Liability and Indemnification of Directors and Officers” beginning on page 191 thereof, and that information is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

 

The disclosure set forth in Item 4.01 of this Report is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

 

The information set forth in Item 9.01 of this Report is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 3.02.Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

 

The disclosure set forth in the “Introductory Note” above and Item 2.01 is incorporated by reference into this Item 3.02.

 

As part of the Transactions effective as of the Closing, the Company issued (i) Janbella Group, LLC shares of Class A common stock, (ii) Michael Singer 125,000 shares of Class A common stock, (iii) Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. 210,000 shares of Class A common stock, and (iv) Odeon Capital Group, LLC 90,000 shares of Class A common stock. The Company issued the foregoing securities under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and/or Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act, as a transaction not requiring registration under Section 5 of the Securities Act. The parties receiving the securities represented their intentions to acquire the securities for investment only and not with a view to or for sale in connection with any distribution, and appropriate restrictive legends were affixed to the certificates representing the securities (or reflected in restricted book entry with the Company’s transfer agent). The parties also had adequate access, through business or other relationships, to information about the Company.

 

Item 3.03.Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders.

 

The information set forth in Item 5.03 of this Report is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 4.01.Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant.

 

(a) Dismissal of independent registered public accounting firm.

 

On December 18, 2024, the Company informed WithumSmith+Brown, PC (“Withum”), the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm prior to the Transactions, of its dismissal as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm. The Company’s Audit Committee participated in and approved the determination to dismiss Withum. The report of Withum on IAC’s financial statements as of and for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainties, audit scope or accounting principles.

 

During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, and the subsequent period through December 18, 2024, there were no disagreements with Withum on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosures or audited scope or procedures, which disagreements if not resolved to Withum’s satisfaction would have caused Withum to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreement in connection with its report. During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, and the subsequent period through December 18, 2024, there were no reportable events as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K under the Exchange Act, other than the material weaknesses in internal controls identified by IAC’s management, in consultation with its advisors, related to the Company’s inability to timely file periodic reports, the manner in which an amount due to shareholders was accounted for, the over withdrawal of trust funds, the incorrect transfer of funds to the Sponsor’s account, and restatement of prior period financial statements, as described in Item 9A. Controls and Procedures in IAC’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2023, filed with the SEC on May 14, 2024, and Item 4. Controls and Procedures of the Company’s subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. The Company has authorized Withum to respond fully to the inquiries of the successor accountant.

 

 

 

 

The Company provided Withum with a copy of the foregoing disclosures prior to the filing of this Report and requested that Withum furnish a letter addressed to the SEC, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 16.1, stating whether it agrees with such disclosures, and, if not, stating the respects in which is does not agree.

 

(b) Engagement of New Certifying Accountant.

 

On December 18, 2024, the Audit Committee approved the engagement of MaloneBailey, LLP (“MaloneBailey”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm to audit the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2024. MaloneBailey served as the independent registered public accounting firm of Legacy Alpha Modus prior to the Transactions. During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, and prior to December 18, 2024, IAC did not consult with MaloneBailey with respect to (i) the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed, the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on IAC’s financial statements, and neither a written report nor oral advice was provided to IAC that MaloneBailey concluded was an important factor considered by IAC in reaching a decision as to any accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue, or (ii) any other matter that was the subject of a disagreement or a reportable event (each as defined above).

 

Item 5.01. Changes in Control of the Registrant.

 

The information set forth above under the “Introductory Note” above and in the section entitled “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management” in Item 2.01 of this Report is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Holders of uncertificated shares of IAC Class A common stock and IAC Class B common stock immediately prior to the Closing have continued as holders of uncertificated shares of the Company’s Class A common stock. Holders of IAC Class A common stock who have filed reports under the Exchange Act with respect to those shares should indicate in their next filing, or any amendment to a prior filing, filed on or after the Closing Date that the Company is the successor to IAC.

 

Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

 

The information set forth above in the sections titled “Directors and Executive Officers,” “Director Compensation,” “Committees of the Board of Directors,” “Executive Compensation,” “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions” and “Indemnification of Directors and Officers” in Item 2.01 of this Report is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Reference is made to the disclosure in the section titled “Executive and Director Compensation of Alpha Modus” beginning on page 192 of the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus, which is incorporated herein by reference. On the Closing Date, the Company entered into the employment agreements with William Alessi, Rodney Sperry, and Chris Chumas described therein. The description of the employment agreements is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the employment agreements, copies of which are attached hereto as Exhibit 10.9, Exhibit 10.10, and Exhibit 10.11, respectively, and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 5.03. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

 

Amendments to Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws

 

On December 13, 2024, in connection with the consummation of the Transactions, the Company’s A&R Charter, and Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “A&R Bylaws”) were approved by IAC’s stockholders at the Special Meeting and became effective.

 

Copies of the A&R Charter and the A&R Bylaws are attached as Exhibit 3.1 and Exhibit 3.2, respectively, to this Report, and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

The material terms of each of the A&R Charter and the A&R Bylaws and the general effect upon the rights of holders of the Company’s capital stock are included in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus under the sections titled “The Amended and Restated Charter Proposal (Proposal 2),” “Description of Securities of IAC” and “Comparison of Stockholder Rights” beginning on pages 123, 165, and 176 of the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus, respectively, which are incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 5.06. Change in Shell Company Status.

 

The disclosure set forth in the “Introductory Note” above is incorporated by reference into this Item 5.06.

 

As a result of the Business Combination, the Company ceased to be a shell company. Reference is made to the disclosure in Item 2.01 of this Report and the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus in the sections entitled “The Business Combination Proposal (Proposal 1)” beginning on page 186 thereof, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

 

 

 

Item 9.01. Financial Statement and Exhibits.

 

(a) Financial Statements of Businesses Acquired.

 

The unaudited interim  financial statements of Legacy Alpha Modus as of and for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, and 2023, and the related notes thereto, are attached as Exhibit 99.2 hereto and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

The consolidated financial statements of Legacy Alpha Modus as of and for the years ended December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, and the related notes thereto, are included in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus beginning on page F-85 of the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

(b) Pro forma financial information.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2023, as of September 30, 2024, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, are filed as Exhibit 99.3 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(d) Exhibits.

 

        Incorporated By Reference
Exhibit No.   Description   Form   Exhibit   Filing Date
2.1   Business Combination Agreement, dated as of October 13, 2023, by and among Insight Acquisition Corp., IAC Merger Sub Inc. and Alpha Modus, Corp.*   8-K   2.1   10/17/2023
2.2   First Amendment to the Business Combination Agreement, dated as of June 21, 2024, by and among Insight Acquisition Corp., IAC Merger Sub Inc. and Alpha Modus, Corp.*   8-K   2.1   6/24/2024
3.1   Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation            
3.2   Amended and Restated Bylaws            
10.1   Securities Purchase Agreement, dated October 23, 2024, by and between Insight Acquisition Corp. and Streeterville Capital, LLC   8-K   10.1   10/23/2024
10.2   Amendment to Securities Purchase Agreement, dated December 12, 2024, by and between Insight Acquisition Corp. and Streeterville Capital, LLC   8-K   10.1   12/12/2024
10.3   Stockholder Support Agreement, dated as of October 13, 2023, by and among Insight Acquisition Corp., Alpha Modus, Corp. and The Alessi 2020 Irrevocable Trust   8-K   10.2   10/17/2023
10.4   Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of October 13, 2023, by and among Insight Acquisition Corp., Alpha Modus, Corp., Insight Acquisition Sponsor LLC and IPO underwriters of Insight Acquisition Corp.   8-K   10.5   10/17/2023
10.5   Confidentiality and Lock-Up Agreement, dated as of October 13, 2023, by and among Alpha Modus, Corp., Insight Acquisition Corp., and the Stockholder Parties   8-K   10.4   10/17/2023
10.6   Lock-Up Agreement, dated as of October 13, 2023, by and among Alpha Modus, Corp., Insight Acquisition Corp. and Insight Acquisition Sponsor LLC   8-K   10.3   10/17/2023
10.7   Stockholder Support Agreement, dated as of October 13, 2023, by and among Insight Acquisition Corp., Alpha Modus, Corp. and Insight Acquisition Sponsor LLC   8-K   10.1   10/17/2023
10.8   Promissory Note issued by Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc. to Loeb & Loeb LLP            
10.9++   Employment Agreement, dated December 13, 2024, by and between Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc. and William Alessi            
10.10++   Employment Agreement, dated December 13, 2024, by and between Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc. and Rodney Sperry            
10.11++   Employment Agreement, dated December 13, 2024, by and between Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc. and Chris Chumas            
10.12   Subscription Agreement, dated August 30, 2023, by and among Insight Acquisition Corp., Insight Acquisition Sponsor, LLC and Polar Multi-Strategy Master Fund   10-Q   10.10   10/25/2023
10.13   Amendment to Subscription Agreement, dated May 15, 2024, by and among Insight Acquisition Corp., Insight Acquisition Sponsor, LLC and Polar Multi-Strategy Master Fund   10-Q   10.15   6/6/2024
10.14   Subscription Agreement, dated April 26, 2024, and accepted by Alpha Modus, Corp. on May 16, 2024, by and among Alpha Modus, Corp. and Polar Multi-Strategy Master Fund   S-4/A   10.15   7/3/2024
10.15   Extension Agreement, dated March 29, 2024, by and among Alpha Modus, Corp. and Janbella Group, LLC   S-4/A   10.16   7/3/2024
10.16   Intellectual Property License Agreement, dated January 8, 2024, by and among Alpha Modus, Corp. and GZ6G Technologies Corp   S-4/A   10.17   7/31/2024
10.16   Intellectual Property License Agreement, dated April 10, 2024, by and among Alpha Modus, Corp., Xalles Holdings Inc., and CashXAI Inc.   S-4/A   10.18   7/31/2024
10.17   Fee Waiver Agreement, dated June 21, 2024, among Insight Acquisition Corp., Insight Acquisition Sponsor LLC and Michael Singer   8-K   10.1   6/24/2024
10.18   Settlement Agreement, dated June 20, 2024, by and among Odeon Capital Group LLC and Insight Acquisition Corp.   8-K   1.2   6/24/2024
10.19   Fee Modification Agreement, dated June 20, 2024, among Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Insight Acquisition Corp., and Alpha Modus, Corp.   8-K   1.1   6/24/2024
16.1   Letter from Withum to the SEC, dated December 19, 2024            
21.1   List of Subsidiaries            
99.1   Forfeiture Agreement, dated December 12, 2024, by and between Alpha Modus, Corp. and Polar Multi-Strategy Master Fund   8-K   99.1   12/12/2024
99.2   Unaudited interim financial statements of Alpha Modus, Corp. as of and for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, and 2023, and the related notes thereto            
99.3   Unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information for the year ended December 31, 2023, as of September 30, 2024, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2024            
104   Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)            

 

++ Indicates a management or compensatory plan.

 

* Certain exhibits and schedules to these exhibits have been omitted in accordance with Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K. The Company agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of any omitted exhibit or schedule to the SEC upon its request.

 

 

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

  ALPHA MODUS HOLDINGS, INC.
     
Date: December 19, 2024 By: /s/ William Alessi
  Name: William Alessi
  Title: President and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 3.1

 

 

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

INSIGHT ACQUISITION CORP.

 

December 13, 2024

 

Insight Acquisition Corp., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Corporation”), DOES HEREBY CERTIFY AS FOLLOWS:

 

  1. The name of the Corporation is “Insight Acquisition Corp.” The original certificate of incorporation of the Corporation was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on April 20, 2021 and was amended on July 29, 2021. An amended and restated certificate of incorporation was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on September 1, 2021 and was amended on March 6, 2023, September 6, 2023, and June 6, 2024 (the “Amended and Restated Certificate”).
     
  2. This Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Second Amended and Restated Certificate”), which both restates and amends the provisions of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, was duly adopted in accordance with Sections 228, 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as amended from time to time (the “DGCL”).
     
  3. This Second Amended and Restated Certificate shall become effective on the date of filing with the Secretary of State of Delaware.
     
  4. Certain capitalized terms used in this Second Amended and Restated Certificate are defined where appropriate herein.
     
  5. The text of the Amended and Restated Certificate is hereby restated and amended in its entirety to read as follows:

 

ARTICLE I
NAME

 

The name of the corporation (the “Corporation”) is “Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc.”

 

ARTICLE II
PURPOSE

 

The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”) as it now exists or may hereafter be amended and supplemented.

 

ARTICLE III
REGISTERED AGENT

 

The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is 251 Little Falls Drive, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, State of Delaware, 19808, and the name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is Corporation Service Company.

 

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ARTICLE IV
CAPITALIZATION

 

The total number of shares of capital stock that the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 228,500,000, each with a par value of $0.0001 per share. The total number of shares of Common Stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is (a) 200,000,000 shares of Class A common stock (the “Common Stock”), (b) 20,000,000 shares of Class B common stock, and (c) 8,500,000 shares of preferred stock (the “Preferred Stock”). Each share of Class B common stock outstanding shall automatically be converted into one share of Class A common stock at closing of the business combination transaction (the “Business Combination”) contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement, dated as of October 13, 2023, as amended by the First Amendment to the Business Combination Agreement, dated as of June 21, 2024, by and among the Corporation, IAC Merger Sub Inc., a Florida corporation, and Alpha Modus, Corp., a Florida corporation.

 

ARTICLE V
CAPITAL STOCK

 

Except as otherwise provided in any certificate of designations of any series of Preferred Stock, the number of authorized shares of the class of Common Stock or Preferred Stock may from time to time be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares of such class outstanding) by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority in voting power of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation irrespective of the provisions of Section 242(b)(2) of the DGCL.

 

The powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof in respect of each class of capital stock of the Corporation are as follows:

 

A. COMMON STOCK.

 

1. General. The voting, dividend, liquidation and other rights and powers of the Common Stock are subject to and qualified by the rights, powers and preferences of any series of Preferred Stock as may be designated by the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board of Directors”) and outstanding from time to time.

 

2. Voting.

 

a. Except as otherwise provided herein or expressly required by law, each holder of Common Stock, as such, shall be entitled to vote on each matter properly submitted to a vote of stockholders of the Corporation and shall be entitled to one vote for each share of Common Stock held of record by such holder as of the record date for determining stockholders entitled to vote on such matter. Except as otherwise required by law, holders of Common Stock, as such, shall not be entitled to vote on any amendment to this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including any Certificate of Designation (as defined below)) that relates solely to the rights, powers, preferences (or the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof) or other terms of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock if the holders of such affected series are entitled, either separately or together with the holders of one or more other such series, to vote thereon pursuant to this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including any Certificate of Designation) or pursuant to the DGCL.

 

b. Subject to the rights of any holders of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock, the number of authorized shares of Common Stock may be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of all of the then outstanding shares of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote, irrespective of the provisions of Section 242(b)(2) of the DGCL.

 

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3. Dividends. Subject to applicable law and the rights and preferences of any holders of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock, the holders of Common Stock, as such, shall be entitled to the payment of dividends and other distributions on the Common Stock when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors from time to time out of assets or funds of the Corporation legally available therefor, in accordance with applicable law.

 

4. Liquidation. Subject to the rights and preferences of any holders of any shares of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock, in the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, the funds and assets of the Corporation that may be legally distributed to the Corporation’s stockholders shall be distributed among the holders of the then outstanding Common Stock on an equal priority, pro rata in accordance with the number of shares of Common Stock held by each such holder.

 

B. PREFERRED STOCK.

 

1. Shares of Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series, each of such series to have such terms as stated or expressed herein and in the resolution or resolutions providing for the creation and issuance of such series adopted by the Board of Directors as hereinafter provided.

 

2. Authority is hereby expressly granted to the Board of Directors from time to time to issue any or all of the unissued and undesignated shares of the Preferred Stock in one or more series, and in connection with the creation of any such series, by adopting a resolution or resolutions providing for the issuance of the shares thereof and by filing a certificate of designation relating thereto in accordance with the DGCL (a “Certificate of Designation”), to determine and fix the number of shares of such series and such voting powers, full or limited, or no voting powers, and such designations, preferences and relative participating, optional or other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, including without limitation thereof, dividend rights, conversion rights, redemption privileges and liquidation preferences, and to increase or decrease (but not below the number of shares of such series then outstanding) the number of shares of any series as shall be stated and expressed in such resolutions, all to the fullest extent now or hereafter permitted by the DGCL. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the resolution or resolutions providing for the creation and issuance of any series of Preferred Stock may provide that such series shall be superior or rank equally or be junior to any other series of Preferred Stock to the extent permitted by law and this Second Amended and Restated Certificate (including any Certificate of Designation). Except as otherwise required by law, holders of any series of Preferred Stock shall be entitled only to such voting rights, if any, as shall expressly be granted thereto by this Second Amended and Restated Certificate (including any Certificate of Designation).

 

3. Series C Preferred Stock.

 

a. Designation and Amount. A series of Preferred Stock is hereby designated as the Corporation’s Series C Preferred Stock, par value of $0.0001 per share (the “Series C Preferred Stock”), the number of shares of which so designated are 7,500,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock; which Series C Preferred Stock will not be subject to increase without any consent of the holders of the Series C Preferred Stock (each a “Holder” and collectively, the “Holders”) that may be required by applicable law.

 

b. Ranking and Voting.

 

i. Ranking. The Series C Preferred Stock will, with respect to dividend rights and rights upon liquidation, winding-up or dissolution, rank: (a) senior to the Corporation’s Common Stock; (b) senior to any other series or class of Preferred Stock; and (c) junior to all existing and future indebtedness of the Corporation. Without the prior written consent of the Holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Series C Preferred Stock (voting separately as a single class), the Corporation may not issue any additional shares of Series C Preferred Stock, or any other Preferred Stock that is pari passu or senior to the Series C Preferred Stock with respect to any rights.

 

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ii. Voting. On any matter presented to the stockholders of the Corporation for their action or consideration at any meeting of stockholders of the Corporation (or by written consent of stockholders in lieu of meeting), each holder of outstanding shares of Series C Preferred Stock shall be entitled to cast one vote for each share of Series C Preferred Stock held. Except as provided by law or by the other provisions of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate, holders of Series C Preferred Stock shall vote together with the holders of Common Stock as a single class.

 

c. Dividends. The Series C Preferred Stock shall be treated (a) senior with respect to any other series or class of Preferred Stock, and (b) pari passu with the Common Stock except that the dividend on each share of Series C Preferred Stock shall be equal to the amount of the dividend declared and paid on each share of Common Stock multiplied by the Face Value and then divided by the deemed Conversion Price as if the Series C Preferred Stock was converted into Common Stock on the declaration date in accordance with Section V.B.3.g herein.

 

d. Protective Provisions.

 

i. So long as any shares of Series C Preferred Stock are outstanding, the Corporation will not, without the affirmative approval of the Holders of a majority of the shares of the Series C Preferred Stock then outstanding (voting separately as one class), (i) alter or change adversely the powers, preferences or rights given to the Series C Preferred Stock or alter or amend this Second Amended and Restated Certificate, (ii) authorize or create any class of stock ranking as to distribution of dividends senior to the Series C Preferred Stock, (iii) amend its certificate of incorporation or other charter documents in breach of any of the provisions hereof, (iv) increase the authorized number of shares of Series C Preferred Stock, or (v) enter into any agreement with respect to the foregoing.

 

ii. A “Deemed Liquidation Event” will mean: (a) a merger or consolidation in which the Corporation is a constituent party or a subsidiary of the Corporation is a constituent party and the Corporation issues shares of its capital stock pursuant to such merger or consolidation, except (i) any such merger or consolidation involving the Corporation or a subsidiary in which the Corporation is the surviving or resulting corporation, (ii) any merger effected exclusively to change the domicile of the Corporation, (iii) any transaction or series of transactions in which the holders of the voting securities of the Corporation outstanding immediately prior to such transaction continue to retain more than 50% of the total voting power of such surviving entity, or (iv) the Merger; (b) the Corporation issues convertible or equity securities that are senior to the Series C Preferred Stock in any respect; (c) Holder does not receive the number of Conversion Shares stated in a Conversion Notice within 5 Trading Days of the Notice Time, due to the occurrence of an event that is solely within the control of the Corporation and excluding any event that is not solely within the control of the Corporation; (d) trading of the Common Stock is halted or suspended by the Trading Market or any U.S. governmental agency for 10 or more consecutive trading days, due to the occurrence of an event that is solely within the control of the Corporation and excluding any event that is not solely within the control of the Corporation; or (e) the sale, lease, transfer, exclusive license or other disposition, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, by the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation of all or substantially all the assets of the Corporation and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, or the sale or disposition (whether by merger or otherwise) of one or more subsidiaries of the Corporation if substantially all of the assets of the Corporation and its subsidiaries taken as a whole are held by such subsidiary or subsidiaries, except where one or more Holders initiate consideration of and vote upon a proposal for such sale, lease, transfer, exclusive license or other disposition, or it is to a wholly owned subsidiary of the Corporation, other than the Merger and except otherwise agreed to by holders holding a majority of the then outstanding Series C Preferred Stock.

 

iii. The Corporation will not have the power to close or effect a voluntary Deemed Liquidation Event unless the agreement or plan of merger or consolidation for such transaction provides that the consideration payable to the stockholders of the Corporation will be allocated among the holders of capital stock of the Corporation in accordance with Section V.B.3.e, and the required amount is paid to Holder prior to or upon closing, effectuation or occurrence of the Deemed Liquidation Event.

 

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e. Liquidation.

 

i. Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, after payment or provision for payment of debts and other liabilities of the Corporation, prior to any distribution or payment made to the holders of other Preferred Stock (that is not Series C Preferred Stock) or Common Stock by reason of their ownership thereof, the Holders of Series C Preferred Stock will be entitled to be paid out of the assets of the Corporation available for distribution to its stockholders an amount with respect to each share of Series C Preferred Stock equal to $10.00 (the “Face Value”), plus an amount equal to any accrued but unpaid dividends thereon (collectively with the Face Value, the “Liquidation Value”).

 

ii. If, upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, the amounts payable with respect to the shares of Series C Preferred Stock are not paid in full, the holders of shares of Series C Preferred Stock shall be paid 100% of the amounts payable to the Corporation’s equity holders in such liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation.

 

iii. If, upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, the assets of the Corporation will be insufficient to make payment in full to all Holders, then the assets distributable to the Holders will be distributed among the Holders at the time outstanding, ratably in proportion to the full amounts to which they would otherwise be respectively entitled.

 

f. Redemption.

 

i. Mandatory Redemption. If the Corporation determines to liquidate, dissolve or wind-up its business and affairs, or upon closing or occurrence of any Deemed Liquidation Event or Trigger Event (as defined below), the Corporation will redeem all of the Series C Preferred Stock for cash, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account designated by Holder, in an amount equal to the Liquidation Value. Notwithstanding any other provision, the Corporation will not be required to redeem any shares of Series C Preferred Stock for cash solely because the Corporation does not have sufficient authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock to issue upon receipt of a Conversion Notice, or for any other reason that is not solely within the control of the Corporation. All amounts that are required or permitted to be paid in cash pursuant to this Second Amended and Restated Certificate will be paid by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account designated by Holder.

 

ii. Mechanics of Redemption. In order to redeem any of the Holders’ Series C Preferred Stock then outstanding, the Corporation must deliver written notice (each a “Redemption Notice”) to each Holder setting forth (a) the number of shares of Series C Preferred Stock that the Corporation is redeeming, (b) the Liquidation Value, and (c) the amount paid. Upon receipt of full payment in cash for a complete redemption, each Holder will promptly submit to the Corporation such Holder’s Series C Preferred Stock certificates. The Redemption Notice will be delivered at least 30 Trading Days prior to payment. For the avoidance of doubt, the delivery of a Redemption Notice will not affect Holder’s rights under Section V.B.3.g until after receipt of cash payment by Holder at the required time.

 

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g. Conversion.

 

i. Mechanics of Conversion.

 

(a) One or more shares of the Series C Preferred Stock may be converted, in part or in whole, into shares of Common Stock, at any time or times after the date of the issuance of any shares of Series C Preferred Stock (each respectively an “Issuance Date”), in the sole and absolute discretion of Holder by delivery of one or more written notices to the Corporation or its transfer agent (each a “Conversion Notice”) of the Holder’s election to convert any or all of its shares of Series C Preferred Stock, subject to the following limitations: the Holder shall not convert any of its Series C Preferred Stock during the 18 months following the closing of the Merger, and provided that such limitation shall not apply following the occurrence of any Trigger Event (as defined below).

 

(b) Each Conversion Notice will set forth the number of shares of Series C Preferred Stock being converted, the applicable Conversion Price, the number of Conversion Shares to be delivered as of the time the Conversion Notice is given (the “Notice Time”), and the calculation thereof.

 

(c) As soon as practicable, and in any event within 1 Trading Day of the Notice Time, time being of the essence, the Corporation will do all of the following: (i) transmit the Conversion Notice by electronic mail to the Corporation’s transfer agent (the “Transfer Agent”) with instructions to comply with the Conversion Notice, copying the Holder; (ii) either (A) if the Corporation is approved through The Depository Trust Corporation (“DTC”), authorize and instruct the credit by the Transfer Agent of the aggregate number of Conversion Shares set forth in the Conversion Notice, to Holder’s or its designee’s balance account with the DTC Fast Automated Securities Transfer (FAST) Program, through its Deposit/Withdrawal at Custodian (DWAC) system, or (B) only if the Corporation is not approved through DTC, issue and surrender to a common carrier for overnight delivery to the address as specified in the Conversion Notice a certificate registered in the name of Holder or its designee, for the number of Conversion Shares set forth in the Conversion Notice, bearing no restrictive legend unless a registration statement covering the Conversion Shares is not effective and neither Corporation nor Holder provides an opinion of counsel to the effect that Conversion Shares may be issued without restrictive legend; and (iii) if it contends that the Conversion Notice is in any way incorrect, a through explanation of why and its own calculation, or the Conversion Notice will conclusively be deemed correct for all purposes. The Corporation will at all times diligently take or cause to be taken all actions reasonably necessary to cause the Conversion Shares to be issued as soon as practicable.

 

(d) If the Corporation for any reason, other than not having sufficient authorized and unissued shares, solely within the control of the Corporation and excluding any event that is not solely within the control of the Corporation, does not issue or cause to be issued to the Holder within 3 Trading Days after the date of a Conversion Notice, the number of Conversion Shares stated in the Conversion Notice, then, in addition to all other remedies available to the Holder, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, the Corporation will pay in cash to the Holder on each day after such third Trading Day that the issuance of such Conversion Shares is not timely effected an amount equal to 2% of the product of (i) the aggregate number of Conversion Shares not issued to the Holder on a timely basis and to which the Holder is entitled, and (ii) the highest Closing Price of the Common Stock between the date on which the Corporation should have issued such shares to the Holder and the actual date of receipt of Conversion Shares by Holder. It is intended that the foregoing will serve to reasonably compensate Holder for any delay in delivery of Conversion Shares, and not as punishment for any breach by the Corporation. The Corporation acknowledges that the actual damages likely to result from delay in delivery are difficult to estimate and would be difficult for Holder to prove.

 

(e) Notwithstanding any other provision herein, all of the requirements of Section V.B.3.f and this Section V.B.3.g are each independent covenants; if it has sufficient authorized and unissued shares, the Corporation’s obligations to issue and deliver Conversion Shares upon any Conversion Notice are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable; any breach or alleged breach of any representation or agreement, or any violation or alleged violation of any law or regulation, by any party or any other person will not excuse full and timely performance of any of the Corporation’s obligations under these sections; and under no circumstances may the Corporation seek or obtain any temporary, interim or preliminary injunctive or equitable relief to prevent or interfere with any issuance of Conversion Shares to Holder.

 

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(f) If for any reason whatsoever, other than not having sufficient authorized and unissued shares, Holder does not timely receive the number of Conversion Shares stated in any Conversion Notice, Holder will be entitled to a compulsory remedy of immediate specific performance, temporary, interim and, preliminary and final injunctive relief requiring Corporation and its transfer agent, attorneys, officers and directors to immediately issue and deliver the number of Conversion Shares stated by Holder, which requirement will not be stayed for any reason, without the necessity of posting any bond, and which Corporation may not seek to stay or appeal.

 

(g) No fractional shares of Common Stock are to be issued upon conversion of Series C Preferred Stock, but rather the Corporation will issue to Holder scrip or warrants registered on the books of the Corporation (certificated or uncertificated) which will entitle Holder to receive a full share upon the surrender of such scrip or warrants aggregating a full share. The Holder will not be required to deliver the original certificates for the Series C Preferred Stock in order to effect a conversion hereunder. The Corporation will pay any and all taxes which may be payable with respect to the issuance and delivery of any Conversion Shares.

 

ii. Holder Conversion. In the event of a conversion of any Series C Preferred Stock pursuant to a Conversion Notice, the Corporation will issue to the Holder of such Series C Preferred Stock a number of Conversion Shares equal to (i) the Face Value, multiplied by (ii) the number of such Series C Preferred Stock subject to the Holder Conversion Notice, divided by (iii) the applicable Conversion Price with respect to such Series C Preferred Stock; all in accordance with the procedures and limitations set forth in Section V.B.3.g.i.

 

h. Miscellaneous Provisions.

 

i. Stock Splits. If the Corporation at any time on or after the filing of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate subdivides (by any stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization or otherwise) one or more classes of its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a greater number of shares, the applicable Face Value, Conversion Price, and other share based metrics in effect immediately prior to such subdivision will be proportionately reduced and the number of shares of Common Stock issuable will be proportionately increased. If the Corporation at any time on or after such Issuance Date combines (by combination, reverse stock split or otherwise) one or more classes of its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, the applicable Conversion Price, and other share based metrics in effect immediately prior to such combination will be proportionately increased and the number of Conversion Shares will be proportionately decreased. Any adjustment under this Section will become effective at the close of business on the date the subdivision or combination becomes effective.

 

ii. Rights. In addition to any adjustments pursuant to Section V.B.3.h.i, if at any time the Corporation grants, issues or sells any options, convertible securities or rights to purchase stock, warrants, securities or other property pro rata to the record holders of any class of shares of Common Stock (the “Purchase Rights”), then Holder will be entitled to acquire, upon the terms applicable to such Purchase Rights, the aggregate Purchase Rights which Holder could have acquired if Holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon conversion of all Preferred Stock held by Holder immediately before the date on which a record is taken for the grant, issuance or sale of such Purchase Rights, or, if no such record is taken, the date as of which the record holders of shares of Common Stock are to be determined for the grant, issue or sale of such Purchase Rights.

 

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iii. Notices. The holders of shares of Series C Preferred Stock are entitled to the same rights as the holders of Common Stock with respect to rights to receive notices, reports and audited accounts from the Corporation and with respect to attending stockholder meetings. Any and all notices to the Corporation will be addressed to the Corporation’s Chief Executive Officer at the Corporation’s principal place of business on file with the Secretary of State of the State of Florida. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries to be provided by the Corporation to any Holder hereunder will be in writing and delivered personally, by electronic mail or facsimile, sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier service addressed to each Holder at the electronic mail, facsimile telephone number or address of such Holder appearing on the books of the Corporation, or if no such electronic mail, facsimile telephone number or address appears, at the principal place of business of the Holder. Any notice or other communication or deliveries hereunder will be deemed given and effective on the earliest of (1) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile or electronic mail prior to 5:30 p.m. Eastern time, (2) the date after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile or electronic mail later than 5:30 p.m. but prior to 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on such date, (3) the second business day following the date of mailing, if sent by nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (4) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given, regardless of how sent.

 

iv. Lost or Mutilated Preferred Stock Certificate. Upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Corporation (an affidavit of the registered Holder will be satisfactory) of the ownership and the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of any certificate evidencing shares of Series C Preferred Stock, and in the case of any such loss, theft or destruction upon receipt of indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Corporation (provided that if the Holder is a financial institution or other institutional investor its own agreement will be satisfactory) or in the case of any such mutilation upon surrender of such certificate, the Corporation will, at its expense, execute and deliver in lieu of such certificate a new certificate of like kind representing the number of shares of such class represented by such lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated certificate and dated the date of such lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated certificate.

 

v. Headings. The headings contained herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate and will not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.

 

i. Definitions. The following terms will have the following meanings:

 

i. “Closing Price” means, for any security as of any date, the last closing bid price for such security on the Trading Market, or, if the Trading Market begins to operate on an extended hours basis and does not designate the closing bid price, then the last bid price of such security prior to 4:00 p.m., Eastern time, or, if the Trading Market is not the principal securities exchange or trading market for such security, the last closing bid price of such security on the principal securities exchange or trading market where such security is listed or traded, or if the foregoing do not apply, the last closing bid price of such security in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin board for such security, or, if no closing bid price is reported for such security, the average of the bid prices of any market makers for such security as reported in the “pink sheets” by OTC Markets Group Inc.

 

ii. “Conversion Price” means a price per share of Common Stock equal to, the lesser of (i) the Face Value, or (ii) if there has never been a Trigger Event (as defined below), (A) 100% of the average of the 5 lowest Closing Prices of the Common Stock on the Trading Market during the applicable Measurement Period, not to exceed 100% of the lowest sales price on the last day of such Measurement Period, or (B) following any Trigger Event, 50.0% of the average of the lowest Closing Prices of the Common Stock on the Trading Market during the applicable Measurement Period, not to exceed 50.0% of the lowest sales price on the last day of such Measurement Period. In no event will the Conversion Price be below the par value per share applicable to the Common Stock. It is intended that all adjustments made following a Trigger Event will serve to reasonably compensate Holder for the consequences and increased risk following a Trigger Event, and not as a penalty or punishment for any breach by the Corporation. The Corporation acknowledges that the actual damages likely to result from a Trigger Event are difficult to estimate and would be difficult for Holder to prove.

 

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iii. “Conversion Shares” means all shares of Common Stock that are required to be or may be issued upon conversion of Series C Preferred Stock.

 

iv. “Measurement Period” means the 10 Trading Days prior to the Notice Time.

 

v. “Merger” means any combination, through any sale of securities or merger, between the Corporation or its affiliates and Alpha Modus, Corp., a Florida corporation.

 

vi. “Trading Day” means any day on which the Common Stock is traded on the Trading Market.

 

vii. “Trading Market” means the Nasdaq Global Market or whatever is at the applicable time the principal U.S. trading exchange or market for the Common Stock. All Trading Market data will be measured as provided by the appropriate function of the Bloomberg Professional service of Bloomberg Financial Markets or its successor performing similar functions.

 

viii.”Trigger Event” means the occurrence of any one or more of the following:

 

(a) Holder does not timely receive the number of Conversion Shares stated in any Conversion Notice pursuant to this Second Amended and Restated Certificate or any other agreement with Holder for any reason whatsoever, time being of the essence, including without limitation the issuance of restricted shares if counsel for Corporation or Holder provides a legal opinion that shares may be issued without restrictive legend;

 

(b) Any violation of or failure to timely perform any covenant or provision of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate, or any other agreement with Holder, related to payment of cash, registration or delivery of Conversion Shares, time being of the essence;

 

(c) Any violation of or failure to perform any covenant or provision of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate, or any other agreement with Holder, which in the case of a default that is curable, is not related to payment of cash, registration or delivery of Conversion Shares, and has not occurred before, and is not cured within 5 Trading Days of written notice thereof;

 

(d) Any representation or warranty made in any other agreement with Holder will be untrue, incorrect, or misleading in any material respect as of the date when made or deemed made;

 

(e) After the Corporation’s Common Stock first becomes listed on the Trading Market, the suspension from trading or the failure of the Common Stock to be trading or listed on the Trading Market;

 

(f) The Corporation notifies Holder, including without limitation, by way of public announcement or through any of its attorneys, agents or representatives, of its intention not to comply, as required, with a Conversion Notice pursuant to this Second Amended and Restated Certificate or any other agreement with Holder, at any time, including without limitation any objection or instruction to its transfer agent not to comply with any notice from Holder;

 

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(g) Bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or liquidation proceedings or other proceedings for the relief of debtors will be instituted by or against the Corporation or any subsidiary, and, if instituted against the Corporation or any subsidiary by a third party, an order for relief is entered or the proceedings are not dismissed within 30 days of their initiation;

 

(h) The appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, or other similar official of the Corporation or any subsidiary or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the execution of a composition of debts, or the occurrence of any other similar federal, state or foreign proceeding, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, the taking of corporate action by the Corporation or any subsidiary in furtherance of any such action or the taking of any action by any person to commence a foreclosure sale or any other similar action under any applicable law;

 

(i) A final judgment or judgments for the payment of money aggregating in excess of $500,000 are rendered against the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries and are not stayed or satisfied within 30 days of entry;

 

(j) The Corporation does not for any reason timely comply with the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the regulations promulgated thereunder, including without limitation timely filing when first due all periodic reports;

 

(k) Any regulatory, administrative or enforcement proceeding is initiated against Corporation or any subsidiary (except to the extent an adverse determination would not have a material adverse effect on the Corporation’s business, properties, assets, financial condition or results of operations or prevent the performance by the Corporation of any material obligation under this Second Amended and Restated Certificate); or

 

(l) Any material provision of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate shall at any time for any reason, other than pursuant to the express terms thereof, cease to be valid and binding on or enforceable against the parties thereto, or the validity or enforceability thereof will be contested by any party thereto, or a proceeding will be commenced by the Corporation or any subsidiary or any governmental authority having jurisdiction over any of them, seeking to establish the invalidity or unenforceability thereof, or the Corporation or any subsidiary denies that it has any liability or obligation purported to be created under this Second Amended and Restated Certificate.

 

j. Issuance Limitations.

 

i. Principal Market Regulation. The Corporation will not issue any Conversion Shares under this Second Amended and Restated Certificate if the issuance would exceed the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock the Corporation may issue without breaching any obligations it may have under Nasdaq, NYSE American, or similar securities exchange rules, except that such limitation will not apply following stockholder approval in accordance with the requirements of the Nasdaq or other relevant securities exchange rules, or a waiver from the securities exchange.

 

ii. Limitation on Conversion. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate, available authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock will be a limit and cap on the maximum number of common shares that could be potentially issuable with respect to all conversions of Series C Preferred Stock and other events that are not solely within the control of the Corporation. The Corporation will at all times use its best efforts to authorize sufficient shares. The number of shares required to settle the excess obligation is fixed on the date that net share settlement occurs. All provisions of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate will be interpreted so that net share settlement is within the control of the Corporation.

 

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ARTICLE VI
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

For the management of the business and for the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation it is further provided that:

 

A. Except as otherwise expressly provided by the DGCL, this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or the bylaws of the Corporation (as such bylaws may be amended from time to time, the “Bylaws”), the business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors.

 

B. The number of directors that shall constitute the whole Board of Directors shall be fixed exclusively by one or more resolutions adopted from time to time by the Board of Directors in accordance with the Bylaws. The directors, other than those who may be elected by the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, shall be classified, with respect to the term for which they severally hold office, into three classes, hereby designated Class I, Class II and Class III. The initial Class I Director of the Corporation shall be Scott Wattenberg; the initial Class II Directors of the Corporation shall be William Ullman and Michael Garel; and the initial Class III Directors of the Corporation shall be William Alessi and Gregory Richter. The Class I Director shall serve for a term expiring at the first annual meeting of the stockholders following the filing of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate, the Class II Directors, when appointed in accordance with this Second Amended and Restated Certificate and the Bylaws, shall serve for a term expiring at the second annual meeting of the stockholders following the filing of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate, and the initial Class III Directors shall serve for a term expiring at the third annual meeting of the stockholders following the filing of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate. At each annual meeting of stockholders, directors elected to succeed those directors whose terms expire shall be elected for a term of office to expire at the third succeeding annual meeting of stockholders after their election. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the directors elected to each class shall hold office until their successors are duly elected and qualified or until their earlier resignation, retirement, disqualification, death or removal.

 

C. Subject to the special rights of the holders of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock to elect directors, the Board of Directors or any individual director may be removed from office only (i) with cause and (ii) only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of the voting power of all of the then outstanding shares of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class.

 

D. Subject to the special rights of the holders of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock to elect directors, except as otherwise provided by law, any vacancies on the Board of Directors resulting from death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, removal or other causes and any newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the number of directors shall, unless the Board of Directors determines by resolution that any such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by the stockholders and except as otherwise provided by applicable law, be filled exclusively by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office, even though less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director (other than any directors elected by the separate vote of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock), and shall not be filled by the stockholders. Any director appointed in accordance with the preceding sentence shall hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until such director’s successor is elected and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, or removal.

 

E. In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred upon it by law or statute, the Board of Directors is expressly authorized to adopt, amend, alter or repeal the Bylaws by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Directors then in office. The stockholders of the Corporation shall also have the power to adopt, amend or repeal the Bylaws by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the voting power of all the then-outstanding shares of capital stock entitled to vote on such adoption, amendment or repeal, voting together as a single class; provided, however, that no Bylaws hereafter adopted by the stockholders of the Corporation shall invalidate any prior act of the Board that would have been valid if such Bylaws had not been adopted.

 

G. The directors of the Corporation need not be elected by written ballot unless the Bylaws so provide.

 

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ARTICLE VII
NO ACTION BY WRITTEN CONSENT; SPECIAL MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS;

 

A. Any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Corporation must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation (and may not be taken by consent of the stockholders in lieu of a meeting). Notwithstanding the foregoing, any action required or permitted to be taken by the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, voting separately as a series or separately as a class with one or more other such series, may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, to the extent expressly so provided by the applicable Certificate of Designation relating to such series of Preferred Stock, if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the holders of outstanding shares of the relevant series of Preferred Stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present and voted and shall be delivered to the Corporation in accordance with the applicable provisions of the DGCL.

 

B. Subject to the special rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, and to the requirements of applicable law, special meetings of the stockholders of the Corporation may be called for any purpose or purposes, at any time only by or at the direction of the Board of Directors, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer or President, in each case, in accordance with the Bylaws, and shall not be called by any other person or persons. Any such special meeting so called may be postponed, rescheduled or cancelled by the Board of Directors or other person calling the meeting.

 

C. Advance notice of stockholder nominations for the election of directors and of other business proposed to be brought by stockholders before any meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation shall be given in the manner provided in the Bylaws. Any business transacted at any special meeting of stockholders shall be limited to matters relating to the purpose or purposes identified in the notice of meeting.

 

ARTICLE VIII
LIMITED LIABILITY

 

To the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as the same exists or as may hereafter be amended, no director or officer of the Corporation shall have any personal liability to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer, except to the extent such exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted under the DGCL as the same exists or hereafter may be amended. Any amendment, repeal or modification of this Article VIII, or the adoption of any provision of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with this Article VIII, shall not adversely affect any right or protection or increase the liability of any director or officer of the Corporation with respect to any act or omission occurring prior to such amendment, repeal, modification or adoption. If the DGCL is amended after approval by the stockholders of this Article VIII to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors or officers, then the liability of a director or officer of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL as so amended.

 

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ARTICLE IX
ANTITAKEOVER

 

The Corporation hereby expressly elects not to be governed by Section 203 of the DGCL.

 

ARTICLE X
INDEMNIFICATION

 

A. The Corporation shall indemnify its directors and officers to the fullest extent authorized or permitted by applicable law, as now or hereafter in effect, and such right to indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director or officer of the Corporation and shall inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors and personal and legal representatives; provided, however, that, except for proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification, the Corporation shall not be obligated to indemnify any director or officer (or his or her heirs, executors or personal or legal representatives) in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person unless such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized or consented to by the Board. The right to indemnification conferred by this Article X shall include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in defending or otherwise participating in any proceeding in advance of its final disposition upon receipt by the Corporation of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director or officer receiving advancement to repay the amount advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation under this Article X. The Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the Board, provide rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses to employees and agents of the Corporation similar to those conferred in this Article X to directors and officers of the Corporation. The rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses conferred in this Article X shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under this Second Amended and Restated Certificate, the Bylaws, any statute, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise. Any repeal or modification of this Article X shall only be prospective and shall not adversely affect any rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses of a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation (collectively, the “Covered Persons”) existing at the time of such repeal or modification with respect to any acts or omissions occurring prior to such repeal or modification.

 

B. The Corporation hereby acknowledges that certain Covered Persons may have rights to indemnification and advancement of expenses (directly or through insurance obtained by any such entity) provided by one or more third parties (collectively, the “Other Indemnitors”), and which may include third parties for whom such Covered Person serves as a manager, member, officer, employee or agent. The Corporation hereby agrees and acknowledges that notwithstanding any such rights that a Covered Person may have with respect to any Other Indemnitor(s), (i) the Corporation is the indemnitor of first resort with respect to all Covered Persons and all obligations to indemnify and provide advancement of expenses to Covered Persons, (ii) the Corporation shall be required to indemnify and advance the full amount of expenses incurred by the Covered Persons, to the fullest extent required by law, the terms of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate, the Bylaws, any agreement to which the Corporation is a party, any vote of the stockholders or the Board, or otherwise, without regard to any rights the Covered Persons may have against the Other Indemnitors and (iii) to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Corporation irrevocably waives, relinquishes and releases the Other Indemnitors from any and all claims for contribution, subrogation or any other recovery of any kind in respect thereof. The Corporation further agrees that no advancement or payment by the Other Indemnitors with respect to any claim for which the Covered Persons have sought indemnification from the Corporation shall affect the foregoing and the Other Indemnitors shall have a right of contribution and/or be subrogated to the extent of any such advancement or payment to all of the rights of recovery of the Covered Persons against the Corporation. These rights shall be a contract right, and the Other Indemnitors are express third party beneficiaries of the terms of this paragraph. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the obligations of the Corporation under this paragraph shall only apply to Covered Persons in their capacity as Covered Persons.

 

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ARTICLE XI
EXCLUSIVE FORUM FOR CERTAIN LAWSUITS

 

A. Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (the “Chancery Court”) (or, if and only if the Chancery Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction, any state court located within the State of Delaware or, if and only if all such state courts lack subject matter jurisdiction, the federal district court for the District of Delaware) and any appellate court thereof shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the sole and exclusive forum for the following claims or causes of action under the Delaware statutory or common law: (i) any derivative action, suit or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation, (ii) any action, suit or proceeding asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any current or former director, officer or other employee of the Corporation to the Corporation or the Corporation’s stockholders, (iii) any action, suit or proceeding against the Corporation or any current or former director, officer or other employee of the Corporation arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL or this Second Amended and Restated Certificate or the Bylaws (as each may be amended from time to time), (iv) any claim or cause of action seeking to interpret, apply, enforce or determine the validity of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate or the Bylaws (as each may be amended from time to time, including any right, obligation, or remedy thereunder), (v) any action, suit or proceeding as to which the DGCL confers jurisdiction on the Chancery Court, or (vi) any action, suit or proceeding asserting a claim against the Corporation or any current or former director, officer or other employee of the Corporation governed by the internal affairs doctrine or otherwise related to the Corporation’s internal affairs, in all cases to the fullest extent permitted by law and subject to the court having personal jurisdiction over the indispensable parties named as defendants. If any action the subject matter of which is within the scope of the immediately preceding sentence is filed in a court other than the courts in the State of Delaware (a “Foreign Action”) in the name of any stockholder, such stockholder shall be deemed to have consented to (a) the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts in the State of Delaware in connection with any action brought in any such court to enforce the provisions of the immediately preceding sentence and (b) having service of process made upon such stockholder in any such action by service upon such stockholder’s counsel in the Foreign Action as agent for such stockholder.

 

B. Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the federal district courts of the United States of America shall be the exclusive forum for the resolution of any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

C. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions of this Article XII shall not apply to any claim or action arising under the Exchange Act or any other claim for which the federal courts of the United States have exclusive jurisdiction.

 

D. Any person or entity holding, owning, purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in any security of the Corporation shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to this Article XII.

 

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ARTICLE XII
AMENDMENT

 

A. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Second Amended and Restated Certificate to the contrary or any provision of law which might otherwise permit a lesser vote or no vote, in addition to any vote required by applicable law or by this Second Amended and Restated Certificate, the following provisions in this Second Amended and Restated Certificate may be amended, altered, repealed or rescinded, in whole or in part, or any provision inconsistent therewith or herewith may be adopted, only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least sixty-six and two thirds percent (66 2/3%) of the voting power of all the then outstanding shares of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon, voting together as a single class: Article V(B), Article VI, Article VII, Article VIII, Article IX, Article X, Article XI and this Article XII.

 

B. If any provision or provisions of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable as applied to any circumstance for any reason whatsoever, then, to the fullest extent permitted by law: (i) the validity, legality and enforceability of such provisions in any other circumstance and of the remaining provisions of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate (including, without limitation, each portion of any paragraph of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable that is not itself held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) and the application of such provision to other circumstances shall not, to the fullest extent permitted by law, in any way be affected or impaired thereby and (ii) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the provisions of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate (including, without limitation, each such portion of any paragraph of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall be construed so as to permit the Corporation to protect its directors, officers, employees and agents from personal liability in respect of their good faith service to or for the benefit of the Corporation to the fullest extent permitted by law.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Insight Acquisition Corp. has caused this Second Amended and Restated Certificate to be duly executed and acknowledged in its name and on its behalf by an authorized officer as of the date first set forth above.

 

  INSIGHT ACQUISITION CORP.
     
  /s/ Michael Singer
  Name: Michael Singer
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

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Exhibit 3.2

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS

OF

ALPHA MODUS HOLDINGS, INC.

 

Article I — Corporate Offices

 

1.1 Registered Office. The address of the registered office of Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc. (the “Corporation,” which was formerly known as Insight Acquisition Corp.) in the State of Delaware, and the name of its registered agent at such address, shall be as set forth in the Corporation’s certificate of incorporation, as the same may be amended and/or restated from time to time (the “Certificate of Incorporation”).

 

1.2 Other Offices. The Corporation may have additional offices at any place or places, within or outside the State of Delaware, as the Corporation’s board of directors (the “Board”) may from time to time establish or as the business of the Corporation may require.

 

Article II — Meetings of Stockholders

 

2.1 Place of Meetings. Meetings of stockholders shall be held at any place within or outside the State of Delaware, designated by the Board. The Board may, in its sole discretion, determine that a meeting of stockholders shall not be held at any place, but may instead be held solely by means of remote communication as authorized by Section 211(a)(2) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”). In the absence of any such designation or determination, stockholders’ meetings shall be held at the Corporation’s principal executive office.

 

2.2 Annual Meeting. The Board shall designate the date and time of the annual meeting. At the annual meeting, directors shall be elected and other proper business properly brought before the meeting in accordance with Section 2.4 of these Bylaws may be transacted. The Board may postpone, reschedule or cancel any previously scheduled annual meeting of stockholders.

 

2.3 Special Meeting. Special meetings of the stockholders may be called, postponed, rescheduled or cancelled only by such persons and only in such manner as set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation. No business may be transacted at any special meeting of stockholders other than the business specified in the notice of such meeting.

 

2.4 Notice of Business to be Brought before a Meeting.

 

(i) At an annual meeting of the stockholders, only such business shall be conducted as shall have been properly brought before the meeting. To be properly brought before an annual meeting, business must be (a) specified in a notice of meeting given by or at the direction of the Board, (b) if not specified in a notice of meeting, otherwise brought before the meeting by the Board or the Chairperson of the Board or (c) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by a stockholder present in person who (1) was a record owner of shares of the Corporation both at the time of giving the notice provided for in this Section 2.4 and at the time of the meeting, (2) is entitled to vote at the meeting, and (3) has complied with this Section 2.4 in all applicable respects. The foregoing clause (c) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to propose business to be brought before an annual meeting of the stockholders. For purposes of this Section 2.4, “present in person” shall mean that the stockholder proposing that the business be brought before the annual meeting of the Corporation, or a qualified representative of such proposing stockholder, appear at such annual meeting. A “qualified representative” of such proposing stockholder shall be a duly authorized officer, manager or partner of such stockholder or any other person authorized by a writing executed by such stockholder or an electronic transmission delivered by such stockholder to act for such stockholder as proxy at the meeting of stockholders and such person must produce such writing or electronic transmission, or a reliable reproduction of the writing or electronic transmission, at the meeting of stockholders. Stockholders seeking to nominate persons for election to the Board must comply with Section 2.5 and Section 2.6 and this Section 2.4 shall not be applicable to nominations except as expressly provided in Section 2.5 and Section 2.6.

 

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(ii) Without qualification, for business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder, the stockholder must (a) provide Timely Notice (as defined below) thereof in writing and in proper form to the Secretary of the Corporation and (b) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Section 2.4. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice must be delivered to, or mailed and received at, the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than 90 days nor more than 120 days prior to the one-year anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting; provided, however, that if the date of the annual meeting is more than 30 days before or more than 60 days after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered, or mailed and received, not later than the 90th day prior to such annual meeting or, if later, the 10th day following the day on which public disclosure of the date of such annual meeting was first made by the Corporation (such notice within such time periods, “Timely Notice”). In no event shall any adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting or the announcement thereof commence a new time period for the giving of Timely Notice as described above.

 

(iii) To be in proper form for purposes of this Section 2.4, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary shall set forth:

 

(a) As to each Proposing Person (as defined below), (1) the name and address of such Proposing Person (including, if applicable, the name and address that appear on the Corporation’s books and records); and (2) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation that are, directly or indirectly, owned of record or beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (as so amended and inclusive of such rules and regulations, the “Exchange Act”)) by such Proposing Person, except that such Proposing Person shall in all events be deemed to beneficially own any shares of any class or series of the Corporation as to which such Proposing Person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (1) and (2) are referred to as “Stockholder Information”);

 

(b) As to each Proposing Person, (1) the full notional amount of any securities that, directly or indirectly, underlie any “derivative security” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(c) under the Exchange Act) that constitutes a “call equivalent position” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(b) under the Exchange Act) (“Synthetic Equity Position”) and that is, directly or indirectly, held or maintained by such Proposing Person with respect to any shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation; provided that, for the purposes of the definition of “Synthetic Equity Position,” the term “derivative security” shall also include any security or instrument that would not otherwise constitute a “derivative security” as a result of any feature that would make any conversion, exercise or similar right or privilege of such security or instrument becoming determinable only at some future date or upon the happening of a future occurrence, in which case the determination of the amount of securities into which such security or instrument would be convertible or exercisable shall be made assuming that such security or instrument is immediately convertible or exercisable at the time of such determination; and, provided, further, that any Proposing Person satisfying the requirements of Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act (other than a Proposing Person that so satisfies Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act solely by reason of Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(E)) shall not be deemed to hold or maintain the notional amount of any securities that underlie a Synthetic Equity Position held by such Proposing Person as a hedge with respect to a bona fide derivatives trade or position of such Proposing Person arising in the ordinary course of such Proposing Person’s business as a derivatives dealer, (2) any rights to dividends on the shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such Proposing Person that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (3) any material pending or threatened legal proceeding in which such Proposing Person is a party or material participant involving the Corporation or any of its officers or directors, or any affiliate of the Corporation, (4) any other material relationship between such Proposing Person, on the one hand, and the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation, on the other hand, (5) any direct or indirect material interest in any material contract or agreement of such Proposing Person with the Corporation or any affiliate of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement), (6) a representation that such Proposing Person intends or is part of a group which intends to deliver a proxy statement or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the proposal or otherwise solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal and (7) any other information relating to such Proposing Person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies or consents by such Proposing Person in support of the business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (1) through (7) are referred to as “Disclosable Interests”); provided, however, that Disclosable Interests shall not include any such disclosures with respect to the ordinary course business activities of any broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee who is a Proposing Person solely as a result of being the stockholder directed to prepare and submit the notice required by these Bylaws on behalf of a beneficial owner; and

 

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(c) As to each item of business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting, (1) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting and any material interest in such business of each Proposing Person, (2) the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), and (3) a reasonably detailed description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings (x) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (y) between or among any Proposing Person and any other record or beneficial holder(s) or persons(s) who have a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation or any other person or entity (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; and (4) any other information relating to such item of business that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies in support of the business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act; provided, however, that the disclosures required by this paragraph (iii) shall not include any disclosures with respect to any broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee who is a Proposing Person solely as a result of being the stockholder directed to prepare and submit the notice required by these Bylaws on behalf of a beneficial owner.

 

For purposes of this Section 2.4, the term “Proposing Person” shall mean (i) the stockholder providing the notice of business proposed to be brought before an annual meeting, (ii) the beneficial owner or beneficial owners, if different, on whose behalf the notice of the business proposed to be brought before the annual meeting is made, and (iii) any participant (as defined in paragraphs (a)(ii)-(vi) of Instruction 3 to Item 4 of Schedule 14A) with such stockholder in such solicitation.

 

(iv) A Proposing Person shall update and supplement its notice to the Corporation of its intent to propose business at an annual meeting, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice pursuant to this Section 2.4 shall be true and correct as of the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting and as of the date that is 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, and such update and supplement shall be delivered to, or mailed and received by, the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than five business days after the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of such record date), and not later than eight business days prior to the date for the meeting or, if practicable, any adjournment or postponement thereof (and, if not practicable, on the first practicable date prior to the date to which the meeting has been adjourned or postponed) (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof). For the avoidance of doubt, the obligation to update and supplement as set forth in this paragraph or any other Section of these Bylaws shall not limit the Corporation’s rights with respect to any deficiencies in any notice provided by a stockholder, extend any applicable deadlines hereunder or enable or be deemed to permit a stockholder who has previously submitted notice hereunder to amend or update any proposal or to submit any new proposal, including by changing or adding matters, business or resolutions proposed to be brought before a meeting of the stockholders.

 

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(v) Notwithstanding anything in these Bylaws to the contrary, no business shall be conducted at an annual meeting that is not properly brought before the meeting in accordance with this Section 2.4. The presiding officer of the meeting shall, if the facts warrant, determine that the business was not properly brought before the meeting in accordance with this Section 2.4, and if he or she should so determine, he or she shall so declare to the meeting and any such business not properly brought before the meeting shall not be transacted.

 

(vi) This Section 2.4 is expressly intended to apply to any business proposed to be brought before an annual meeting of stockholders other than any proposal made in accordance with Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act and included in the Corporation’s proxy statement. In addition to the requirements of this Section 2.4 with respect to any business proposed to be brought before an annual meeting, each Proposing Person shall comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act with respect to any such business. Nothing in this Section 2.4 shall be deemed to affect the rights of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act.

 

(vii) For purposes of these Bylaws, “public disclosure” shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by a national news service, in a document publicly filed by the Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Sections 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or by such other means as is reasonably designed to inform the public or securityholders of the Corporation in general of such information including, without limitation, posting on the Corporation’s investor relations website.

 

2.5 Notice of Nominations for Election to the Board of Directors.

 

(i) Subject in all respects to the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation, nominations of any person for election to the Board at an annual meeting or at a special meeting (but only if the election of directors is a matter specified in the notice of meeting given by or at the direction of the person calling such special meeting) may be made at such meeting only (a) by or at the direction of the Board, including by any committee or persons authorized to do so by the Board or these Bylaws, or (b) by a stockholder present in person (1) who was a record owner of shares of the Corporation both at the time of giving the notice provided for in this Section 2.5 and at the time of the meeting, (2) is entitled to vote at the meeting, and (3) has complied with this Section 2.5 and Section 2.6 as to such notice and nomination. For purposes of this Section 2.5, “present in person” shall mean that the stockholder proposing that the business be brought before the meeting of the Corporation, or a qualified representative of such stockholder, appear at such meeting. A “qualified representative” of such proposing stockholder shall be a duly authorized officer, manager or partner of such stockholder or any other person authorized by a writing executed by such stockholder or an electronic transmission delivered by such stockholder to act for such stockholder as proxy at the meeting of stockholders and such person must produce such writing or electronic transmission, or a reliable reproduction of the writing or electronic transmission, at the meeting of stockholders. The foregoing clause (b) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make any nomination of a person or persons for election to the Board at an annual meeting or special meeting.

 

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(ii) Without qualification, for a stockholder to make any nomination of a person or persons for election to the Board at an annual meeting, the stockholder must (a) provide Timely Notice thereof in writing and in proper form to the Secretary of the Corporation, (b) provide the information, agreements and questionnaires with respect to such stockholder and its candidate for nomination as required to be set forth by this Section 2.5 and Section 2.6 and (c) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Section 2.5 and Section 2.6.

 

(a) Without qualification, if the election of directors is a matter specified in the notice of meeting given by or at the direction of the person calling a special meeting in accordance with the Certificate of Incorporation, then for a stockholder to make any nomination of a person or persons for election to the Board at a special meeting, the stockholder must (1) provide timely notice thereof in writing and in proper form to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation, (2) provide the information with respect to such stockholder and its candidate for nomination as required by this Section 2.5 and Section 2.6 and (3) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Section 2.5. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice for nominations to be made at a special meeting must be delivered to, or mailed and received at, the principal executive offices of the Corporation not earlier than the 120th day prior to such special meeting and not later than the 90th day prior to such special meeting or, if later, the 10th day following the day on which public disclosure of the date of such special meeting was first made.

 

(b) In no event shall any adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting or special meeting or the announcement thereof commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above.

 

(c) In no event may a Nominating Person provide notice with respect to a greater number of director candidates than are subject to election by stockholders at the applicable meeting. If the Corporation shall, subsequent to such notice, increase the number of directors subject to election at the meeting, such notice as to any additional nominees shall be due on the later of (1) the conclusion of the time period for Timely Notice, (2) the date set forth in Section 2.5(ii)(a), or (3) the tenth day following the date of public disclosure of such increase.

 

(iii) To be in proper form for purposes of this Section 2.5, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary shall set forth:

 

(a) As to each Nominating Person (as defined below), the Stockholder Information (as defined in Section 2.4(iii)(a), except that for purposes of this Section 2.5 the term “Nominating Person” shall be substituted for the term “Proposing Person” in all places it appears in Section 2.4(iii)(a));

 

(b) As to each Nominating Person, any Disclosable Interests (as defined in Section 2.4(iii)(b), except that for purposes of this Section 2.5 the term “Nominating Person” shall be substituted for the term “Proposing Person” in all places it appears in Section 2.4(iii)(b) and the disclosure with respect to the business to be brought before the meeting in Section 2.4(iii)(b) shall be made with respect to the election of directors at the meeting);

 

(c) As to each Nominating Person, (1) a representation that the Nominating Person is a holder of record of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at such meeting and intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to propose such nomination, and (2) a representation as to whether the Nominating Person intends or is part of a group which intends to deliver a proxy statement and solicit the holders of shares representing at least 67% of the voting power of shares entitled to vote on the election of directors in support of director nominees other than the Corporation’s nominees in accordance with Rule 14a-19 promulgated under the Exchange Act; and

 

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(d) As to each candidate whom a Nominating Person proposes to nominate for election as a director, (1) all information with respect to such candidate for nomination that would be required to be set forth in a stockholder’s notice pursuant to this Section 2.5 and Section 2.6 if such candidate for nomination were a Nominating Person, (2) all information relating to such candidate for nomination that is required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14(a) under the Exchange Act (including such candidate’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected), (3) a description of any direct or indirect material interest in any material contract or agreement between or among any Nominating Person, on the one hand, and each candidate for nomination or his or her respective associates or any other participants in such solicitation, on the other hand, including, without limitation, all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 under Regulation S-K if such Nominating Person were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the candidate for nomination were a director or executive officer of such registrant (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (1) through (3) are referred to as “Nominee Information”), and (4) a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement as provided in Section 2.6(i).

 

For purposes of this Section 2.5, the term “Nominating Person” shall mean (i) the stockholder providing the notice of the nomination proposed to be made at the meeting, (ii) the beneficial owner or beneficial owners, if different, on whose behalf the notice of the nomination proposed to be made at the meeting is made, and (iii) any other participant in such solicitation.

 

(iv) A stockholder providing notice of any nomination proposed to be made at a meeting shall further update and supplement such notice, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice pursuant to this Section 2.5 shall be true and correct as of the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting and as of the date that is 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, and such update and supplement shall be delivered to, or mailed and received by, the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than five business days after the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of such record date), and not later than eight business days prior to the date for the meeting or, if practicable, any adjournment or postponement thereof (and, if not practicable, on the first practicable date prior to the date to which the meeting has been adjourned or postponed) (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof). For the avoidance of doubt, the obligation to update and supplement as set forth in this paragraph or any other Section of these Bylaws shall not limit the Corporation’s rights with respect to any deficiencies in any notice provided by a stockholder, extend any applicable deadlines hereunder or enable or be deemed to permit a stockholder who has previously submitted notice hereunder to amend or update any nomination or to submit any new nomination.

 

(v) In addition to the requirements of this Section 2.5 with respect to any nomination proposed to be made at a meeting, each Nominating Person shall comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act with respect to any such nominations.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.5, unless otherwise required by law, if any Nominating Person giving notice provided by this Section 2.5 provides notice pursuant to Rule 14a-19(b) promulgated under the Exchange Act and subsequently fails to comply with the requirements of Rule 14a-19(a)(2) and Rule 14a-19(a)(3) promulgated under the Exchange Act, then the Corporation shall disregard any proxies or votes solicited for the Nominating Person’s nominee. Upon request by the Corporation, if any Nominating Person provides notice pursuant to Rule 14a-19(b) promulgated under the Exchange Act, such Nominating Person shall deliver to the Corporation, no later than five (5) business days prior to the applicable meeting, reasonable evidence that it has met the requirements of Rule 14a-19(a)(3) promulgated under the Exchange Act.

 

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2.6 Additional Requirements for Valid Nomination of Candidates to Serve as Director and, if Elected, to be Seated as Directors.

 

(i) To be eligible to be a candidate for election as a director of the Corporation at an annual or special meeting, a candidate must be nominated in the manner prescribed in Section 2.5 and the candidate for nomination, whether nominated by the Board or by a stockholder of record, must have previously delivered (in accordance with the time period prescribed for delivery in a notice to such candidate given by or on behalf of the Board), to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation, (a) a completed written questionnaire (in a form provided by the Corporation) with respect to the Stockholder Information (as defined in Section 2.4(iii)(a)), except that for purposes of this Section 2.6 the term “proposed nominee” shall be substituted for the term “Proposing Person” in all places it appears in Section 2.4(iii)(a)), background (including name, age, business address and residence address, without limitation), qualifications (including principal occupation or employment, without limitation), stock ownership, and independence of such proposed nominee, and such additional information with respect to such proposed nominee as would be required to be provided by the Corporation pursuant to Schedule 14A if such proposed nominee were a participant in the solicitation of proxies by the Corporation in connection with such annual or special meeting and (b) a written representation and agreement (in form provided by the Corporation) that such candidate for nomination (1) is not and, if elected as a director during his or her term of office, will not become a party to (A) any agreement, arrangement or understanding with, and has not given and will not give any commitment or assurance to, any person or entity as to how such proposed nominee, if elected as a director of the Corporation, will act or vote on any issue or question (a “Voting Commitment”) or (B) any Voting Commitment that could limit or interfere with such proposed nominee’s ability to comply, if elected as a director of the Corporation, with such proposed nominee’s fiduciary duties under applicable law; (2) is not, and will not become a party to, any agreement, arrangement or understanding with any person or entity other than the Corporation with respect to any direct or indirect compensation or reimbursement for service as a director that has not been disclosed therein or to the Corporation, (3) if elected as a director of the Corporation, will comply with all applicable corporate governance, conflict of interest, confidentiality, stock ownership and trading and other policies and guidelines of the Corporation applicable to directors and in effect during such person’s term in office as a director (and, if requested by any candidate for nomination, the Secretary of the Corporation shall provide to such candidate for nomination all such policies and guidelines then in effect), (4) if elected as director of the Corporation, intends to serve the entire term until the next meeting at which such candidate would face re-election, (5) consents to being named as a nominee in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-4(d) under the Exchange Act and any associated proxy card of the Corporation and agrees to serve if elected as a director and (6) if elected as a director of the Corporation, acknowledging that as a director of the Corporation, the nominee will owe fiduciary duties under Delaware law with respect to the Corporation and all its stockholders.

 

(ii) The Board may also require any proposed candidate for nomination as a Director to furnish such other information as may reasonably be requested by the Board in writing prior to the meeting of stockholders at which such candidate’s nomination is to be acted upon in order for the Board to determine the eligibility of such candidate for nomination to be an independent director of the Corporation in accordance with the Corporation’s Corporate Governance Guidelines as adopted and modified from time to time.

 

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(iii) A candidate for nomination as a director shall further update and supplement the materials delivered pursuant to this Section 2.6, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided pursuant to this Section 2.6 shall be true and correct as of the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting and as of the date that is 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, and such update and supplement shall be delivered to, or mailed and received by, the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation (or any other office specified by the Corporation in any public announcement) not later than five business days after the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of such record date), and not later than eight business days prior to the date for the meeting or, if practicable, any adjournment or postponement thereof (and, if not practicable, on the first practicable date prior to the date to which the meeting has been adjourned or postponed) (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof). For the avoidance of doubt, the obligation to update and supplement as set forth in this paragraph or any other Section of these Bylaws shall not limit the Corporation’s rights with respect to any deficiencies in any notice provided by a stockholder, extend any applicable deadlines hereunder or enable or be deemed to permit a stockholder who has previously submitted notice hereunder to amend or update any proposal or to submit any new proposal, including by changing or adding nominees, matters, business or resolutions proposed to be brought before a meeting of the stockholders.

 

(iv) No candidate shall be eligible for nomination as a director of the Corporation unless such candidate for nomination and the Nominating Person seeking to place such candidate’s name in nomination has complied with Section 2.5 and this Section 2.6, as applicable. The presiding officer at the meeting shall, if the facts warrant, determine that a nomination was not properly made in accordance with Section 2.5 and this Section 2.6, and if he or she should so determine, he or she shall so declare such determination to the meeting, the defective nomination shall be disregarded and any ballots cast for the candidate in question (but in the case of any form of ballot listing other qualified nominees, only the ballots cast for the nominee in question) shall be void and of no force or effect.

 

(v) Notwithstanding anything in these Bylaws to the contrary, no candidate for nomination shall be eligible to be seated as a director of the Corporation unless nominated and elected in accordance with Section 2.5 and this Section 2.6.

 

2.7 Notice of Stockholders’ Meetings. Unless otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the notice of any meeting of stockholders shall be sent or otherwise given in accordance with Section 8.1 of these Bylaws not less than 10 nor more than 60 days before the date of the meeting to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting. The notice shall specify the place, if any, date and time of the meeting, the means of remote communication, if any, by which stockholders and proxy holders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such meeting, and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called.

 

2.8 Quorum. Unless otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the holders of a majority in voting power of the stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote, present in person, or by remote communication, if applicable, or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at all meetings of the stockholders. A quorum, once established at a meeting, shall not be broken by the withdrawal of enough votes to leave less than a quorum. If, however, a quorum is not present or represented at any meeting of the stockholders, then either (i) the person presiding over the meeting or (ii) a majority in voting power of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, present in person, or by remote communication, if applicable, or represented by proxy, shall have power to recess the meeting or adjourn the meeting from time to time in the manner provided in Section 2.9 of these Bylaws until a quorum is present or represented. At any recessed or adjourned meeting at which a quorum is present or represented, any business may be transacted that might have been transacted at the meeting as originally noticed.

 

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2.9 Adjourned Meeting; Notice. When a meeting is adjourned to another time or place, unless these Bylaws otherwise require, notice need not be given of the adjourned meeting if the time, place, if any, thereof, and the means of remote communications, if any, by which stockholders and proxy holders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such adjourned meeting are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken. At any adjourned meeting, the Corporation may transact any business which might have been transacted at the original meeting. If the adjournment is for more than 30 days, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting. If after the adjournment a new record date for determination of stockholders entitled to vote is fixed for the adjourned meeting, the Board shall fix as the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of such adjourned meeting the same or an earlier date as that fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to vote at the adjourned meeting, and shall give notice of the adjourned meeting to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting as of the record date so fixed for notice of such adjourned meeting.

 

2.10 Conduct of Business. At every meeting of the stockholders, the Chairperson of the Board, or, in the Chairperson’s absence, a person designated by the Chairperson, or, in the absence of such designation, a person chosen by the Board, shall act as chair and preside over the meeting. The Secretary of the Corporation or, in his or her absence or inability to act, the person whom the chair of the meeting shall appoint a secretary of the meeting, shall act as secretary of such meeting and keep the minutes thereof. The date and time of the opening and the closing of the polls for each matter upon which the stockholders will vote at a meeting shall be announced at the meeting by the person presiding over the meeting. The Board may adopt by resolution such rules and regulations for the conduct of the meeting of stockholders as it shall deem appropriate. Except to the extent inconsistent with such rules and regulations as adopted by the Board, the person presiding over any meeting of stockholders shall have the right and authority to convene and (for any or no reason) to recess and/or adjourn the meeting, to prescribe such rules, regulations and procedures (which need not be in writing) and to do all such acts as, in the judgment of such presiding person, are appropriate for the proper conduct of the meeting. Such rules, regulations or procedures, whether adopted by the Board or prescribed by the person presiding over the meeting, may include, without limitation, the following: (i) the establishment of an agenda or order of business for the meeting; (ii) rules and procedures for maintaining order at the meeting and the safety of those present (including, without limitation, rules and procedures for removal of disruptive persons from the meeting); (iii) limitations on attendance at or participation in the meeting to stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, their duly authorized and constituted proxies or such other persons as the person presiding over the meeting shall determine; (iv) restrictions on entry to the meeting after the time fixed for the commencement thereof; and (v) limitations on the time allotted to questions or comments by participants. The presiding person at any meeting of stockholders, in addition to making any other determinations that may be appropriate to the conduct of the meeting (including, without limitation, determinations with respect to the administration and/or interpretation of any of the rules, regulations or procedures of the meeting, whether adopted by the Board or prescribed by the person presiding over the meeting), shall, if the facts warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that a matter of business was not properly brought before the meeting and if such presiding person should so determine, such presiding person shall so declare to the meeting and any such matter or business not properly brought before the meeting shall not be transacted or considered. Unless and to the extent determined by the Board or the person presiding over the meeting, meetings of stockholders shall not be required to be held in accordance with the rules of parliamentary procedure.

 

2.11 Voting. Except as may be otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation, these Bylaws or the DGCL, each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of capital stock entitled to vote held by such stockholder.

 

Except as otherwise provided by the Certificate of Incorporation, at all duly called or convened meetings of stockholders at which a quorum is present, for the election of directors, a plurality of the votes cast shall be sufficient to elect a director. For purposes of the preceding sentence, a “plurality of the votes cast” shall mean that the individuals with the highest number of votes cast by the holders of shares entitled to vote in the election at the meeting are elected as Directors up to the maximum number of directors to be elected. Unless otherwise required by the Certificate of Incorporation, or as otherwise determined by the Chairperson of the Board, the election of directors shall be by written ballot. If authorized by the Board, such requirement of a written ballot shall be satisfied by a ballot submitted by electronic transmission, provided that any such electronic transmission must either set forth or be submitted with information from which it can be determined that the electronic transmission was authorized by the stockholder or proxy holder. Except as otherwise provided by the Certificate of Incorporation, these Bylaws, the rules or regulations of any stock exchange applicable to the Corporation, or applicable law or pursuant to any regulation applicable to the Corporation or its securities, each other matter presented to the stockholders at a duly called or convened meeting at which a quorum is present shall be decided by the affirmative vote of the majority of shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting (excluding abstentions and broker non-votes) and entitled to vote on such matter.

 

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2.12 Record Date for Stockholder Meetings and Other Purposes. In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board, and which record date shall, unless otherwise required by law, not be more than 60 days nor less than 10 days before the date of such meeting. If the Board so fixes a date, such date shall also be the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at such meeting unless the Board determines, at the time it fixes such record date, that a later date on or before the date of the meeting shall be the date for making such determination. If no record date is fixed by the Board, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be the close of business on the next day preceding the day on which notice is first given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held. A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board may fix a new record date for determination of stockholders entitled to vote at the adjourned meeting; and in such case shall also fix as the record date for stockholders entitled to notice of such adjourned meeting the same or an earlier date as that fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to vote in accordance herewith at the adjourned meeting.

 

In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment or any rights or the stockholders entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of capital stock, or for the purposes of any other lawful action, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted, and which record date shall be not more than 60 days prior to such action. If no record date is fixed, the record date for determining stockholders for any such purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board adopts the resolution relating thereto.

 

2.13 Proxies. Each stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder by proxy, including authorizing the proxy to receive, or to waive, notice of any stockholders meetings within the effective period of such proxy. Each stockholder may appoint a proxy to vote or otherwise act for the stockholder by signing an appointment form, either personally or by the stockholder’s attorney-in-fact or by transmitting or authorizing the transmission of an electronic submission to the person who will be the holder of the proxy, a proxy solicitation firm or a proxy support service organization or similar agency authorized by the person who will be the holder of the proxy to receive the electronic submission; provided that such electronic submission either contains or is accompanied by information from which it can be determined that the electronic submission was transmitted or authorized by the stockholder. No such proxy shall be voted or acted upon after three years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period. A copy, facsimile telecommunication or other reliable reproduction of a writing or electronic submission authorized by this Section 2.13 may be used instead of the original writing or electronic submission for any and all purposes for which the original writing or electronic submission could be used, provided that such copy, facsimile telecommunication or other reproduction shall be a complete copy of the entire original writing or electronic submission. An appointment of a proxy is effective when received by the Secretary or other officer or agent authorized to tabulate votes. The proxy’s authority may be limited to a particular meeting or may be general and authorize the proxy to represent the stockholder at any meeting of stockholders held within the time provided in the appointment form. The revocability of a proxy that states on its face that it is irrevocable shall be governed by the provisions of Section 212 of the DGCL. A stockholder may revoke any proxy that is not irrevocable by attending the meeting and voting in person or by delivering to the Secretary a revocation of the proxy or a new proxy bearing a later date. The presence of a stockholder who has filed a proxy at a meeting shall not of itself constitute a revocation of such proxy. Any stockholder directly or indirectly soliciting proxies from other stockholders must use a proxy card color other than white, which shall be reserved for the exclusive use by the Board.

 

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2.14 List of Stockholders Entitled to Vote. The Corporation shall prepare, at least 10 days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting (provided, however, that if the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote is less than 10 days before the date of the meeting, the list shall reflect the stockholders entitled to vote as of the tenth day before the meeting date), arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. The Corporation shall not be required to include electronic mail addresses or other electronic contact information on such list. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting for a period of at least 10 days prior to the meeting: (i) on a reasonably accessible electronic network, provided that the information required to gain access to such list is provided with the notice of the meeting, or (ii) during ordinary business hours, at the Corporation’s principal executive office. In the event that the Corporation determines to make the list available on an electronic network, the Corporation may take reasonable steps to ensure that such information is available only to stockholders of the Corporation. Such list shall presumptively determine the identity of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting and the number of shares held by each of them. Except as otherwise provided by law, the stock ledger shall be the only evidence as to who are the stockholders entitled to examine the list of stockholders required by this Section 2.14 or to vote in person or by proxy at any meeting of stockholders.

 

2.15 Inspectors of Election. Before any meeting of stockholders, the Corporation shall appoint an inspector or inspectors of election to act at the meeting or its adjournment and make a written report thereof. The Corporation may designate one or more persons as alternate inspectors to replace any inspector who fails to act. If any person appointed as inspector or any alternate fails to appear or fails or refuses to act, then the person presiding over the meeting shall appoint a person to fill that vacancy.

 

Such inspectors shall:

 

(i) determine the number of shares outstanding and the voting power of each, the number of shares represented at the meeting and the validity of any proxies and ballots;

 

(ii) count all votes or ballots;

 

(iii) count and tabulate all votes;

 

(iv) determine and retain for a reasonable period a record of the disposition of any challenges made to any determination by the inspector(s); and

 

(v) certify its or their determination of the number of shares represented at the meeting and its or their count of all votes and ballots.

 

Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of inspector, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspection with strict impartiality and according to the best of such inspector’s ability. Any report or certificate made by the inspectors of election is prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein. The inspectors of election may appoint such persons to assist them in performing their duties as they determine.

 

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2.16 Delivery to the Corporation. Whenever this Article II requires one or more persons (including a record or beneficial owner of stock) to deliver a document or information to the Corporation or any officer, employee or agent thereof (including any notice, request, questionnaire, revocation, representation or other document or agreement), such document or information shall be in writing exclusively (and not in an electronic transmission) and shall be delivered exclusively by hand (including, without limitation, overnight courier service) or by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, and the Corporation shall not be required to accept delivery of any document not in such written form or so delivered. For the avoidance of doubt, the Corporation expressly opts out of Section 116 of the DGCL with respect to the delivery of information and documents to the Corporation required by this Article II.

 

Article III — Directors

 

3.1 Powers. Except as otherwise provided by the Certificate of Incorporation or the DGCL, the business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board.

 

3.2 Number of Directors. Subject to the Certificate of Incorporation, the total number of directors constituting the Board shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the Board. No reduction of the authorized number of directors shall have the effect of removing any director before that director’s term of office expires.

 

3.3 Election, Qualification and Term of Office of Directors. Except as provided in Section 3.4 of these Bylaws, and subject to the Certificate of Incorporation, each director, including a director elected to fill a vacancy or newly created directorship, shall hold office until the next annual meeting and until such director’s successor is elected and qualified or until such director’s earlier death, resignation, disqualification or removal in accordance with the Certificate of Incorporation. Directors need not be stockholders. The Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws may prescribe qualifications for directors.

 

3.4 Resignation and Vacancies. Any director may resign at any time upon notice given in writing or by electronic transmission to the Corporation. The resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein or upon the happening of an event specified therein, and if no time or event is specified, at the time of its receipt. When one or more directors so resigns and the resignation is effective at a future date or upon the happening of an event to occur on a future date, a majority of the directors then in office, including those who have so resigned, shall have power to fill such vacancy or vacancies, the vote thereon to take effect when such resignation or resignations shall become effective, and each director so chosen shall hold office as provided in Section 3.3.

 

Unless otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, vacancies resulting from the death, resignation, disqualification or removal of any director, and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors shall be filled only by a majority of the directors then in office, although less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director.

 

3.5 Place of Meetings; Meetings by Telephone. The Board may hold meetings, both regular and special, either within or outside the State of Delaware.

 

Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, members of the Board, or any committee designated by the Board, may participate in a meeting of the Board, or any committee, by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and such participation in a meeting pursuant to this Bylaw shall constitute presence in person at the meeting.

 

3.6 Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board may be held within or outside the State of Delaware and at such time and at such place as which has been designated by the Board and publicized among all directors, either orally or in writing, by telephone, including a voice-messaging system or other system designed to record and communicate messages, facsimile, telegraph or telex, or by electronic mail or other means of electronic transmission. No further notice shall be required for regular meetings of the Board.

 

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3.7 Special Meetings; Notice. Special meetings of the Board for any purpose or purposes may be called at any time by the Chairperson of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Secretary or a majority of the total number of directors constituting the Board.

 

Notice of the time and place of special meetings shall be:

 

(i) delivered personally by hand, by courier or by telephone;

 

(ii) sent by United States first-class mail, postage prepaid;

 

(iii) sent by facsimile or electronic mail; or

 

(iv) sent by other means of electronic transmission,

 

directed to each director at that director’s address, telephone number, facsimile number or electronic mail address, or other address for electronic transmission, as the case may be, as shown on the Corporation’s records.

 

If the notice is (i) delivered personally by hand, by courier or by telephone, (ii) sent by facsimile or electronic mail, or (iii) sent by other means of electronic transmission, it shall be delivered or sent at least 24 hours before the time of the holding of the meeting. If the notice is sent by U.S. mail, it shall be deposited in the U.S. mail at least four days before the time of the holding of the meeting. The notice need not specify the place of the meeting (if the meeting is to be held at the Corporation’s principal executive office) nor the purpose of the meeting.

 

3.8 Quorum. At all meetings of the Board, unless otherwise provided by the Certificate of Incorporation, a majority of the total number of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The vote of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board, except as may be otherwise specifically provided by statute, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws. If a quorum is not present at any meeting of the Board, then the directors present thereat may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present.

 

3.9 Board Action without a Meeting. Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board or committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if the action is taken by all members of the Board or such committee. The action must be evidenced by one (1) or more written consents describing the action taken, signed by each Director, and delivered in any manner permitted by Section 116 of the DGCL. After an action is taken, the consent or consents relating thereto shall be filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board or committee in accordance with the DGCL. A consent signed under this Section 3.9 shall have the same effect as a unanimous meeting vote of all members of the Board or committee thereof and may be described as such in any document.

 

3.10 Participation by Conference Telephone. The Board or committee thereof may permit any or all Directors to participate in a regular or special meeting by, or through the use of, any means of communication, such as conference telephone or video conference, by which all Directors participating may simultaneously hear each other during the meeting. A Director participating in a meeting by such means shall be deemed to be present in person at the meeting.

 

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3.11 Fees and Compensation of Directors. Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the Board shall have the authority to fix the compensation, including fees and reimbursement of expenses, of directors for services to the Corporation in any capacity.

 

Article IV — Committees

 

4.1 Committees of Directors. The Board may designate one or more committees, each committee to consist, of one or more of the directors of the Corporation. The Board may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee. In the absence or disqualification of a member of a committee, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not such member or members constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the Board or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers that may require it; but no such committee shall have the power or authority to (i) approve or adopt, or recommend to the stockholders, any action or matter expressly required by the DGCL to be submitted to stockholders for approval, or (ii) adopt, amend or repeal any Bylaw of the Corporation.

 

4.2 Meetings and Actions of Committees. Meetings and actions of committees shall be governed by, and held and taken in accordance with, the provisions of:

 

(i) Section 3.5 (place of meetings; meetings by telephone);

 

(ii) Section 3.6 (regular meetings);

 

(iii) Section 3.7 (special meetings; notice);

 

(iv) Section 3.9 (board action without a meeting); and

 

(v) Section 7.14 (waiver of notice),

 

with such changes in the context of those Bylaws as are necessary to substitute the committee and its members for the Board and its members. However:

 

(i) the time of regular meetings of committees may be determined as set forth in the charter of the applicable committee;

 

(ii) special meetings of committees may also be called by resolution of the Board or the chairperson of the applicable committee; and

 

(iii) the Board may adopt rules for the governance of any committee to override the provisions that would otherwise apply to the committee pursuant to this Section 4.2, provided that such rules do not violate the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation or applicable law.

 

4.3 Subcommittees. Unless otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation, these Bylaws, the resolutions of the Board designating the committee or the charter of such committee adopted by the Board, a committee may create one or more subcommittees, each subcommittee to consist of one or more members of the committee, and delegate to a subcommittee any or all of the powers and authority of the committee.

 

Article V — Officers

 

5.1 Officers. The officers of the Corporation shall include a Chief Executive Officer, a President and a Secretary. The Corporation may also have, at the discretion of the Board, a Chairperson of the Board, a Vice Chairperson of the Board, a Chief Financial Officer, a Treasurer, one or more Vice Presidents, one or more Assistant Vice Presidents, one or more Assistant Treasurers, one or more Assistant Secretaries, and any such other officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of these Bylaws. Any number of offices may be held by the same person. No officer need be a stockholder or director of the Corporation.

 

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5.2 Appointment of Officers. The Board shall appoint the officers of the Corporation, except such officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.3 of these Bylaws.

 

5.3 Subordinate Officers. The Board may appoint, or empower the Chief Executive Officer or, in the absence of a Chief Executive Officer, the President, to appoint, such other officers and agents as the business of the Corporation may require. Each of such officers and agents shall hold office for such period, have such authority, and perform such duties as are provided in these Bylaws or as the Board may from time to time determine.

 

5.4 Removal and Resignation of Officers. Subject to the rights, if any, of an officer under any contract of employment, any officer may be removed, either with or without cause, by the Board or, except in the case of an officer chosen by the Board, by any officer upon whom such power of removal may be conferred by the Board.

 

Any officer may resign at any time by giving written notice to the Corporation. Any resignation shall take effect at the date of the receipt of that notice or at any later time specified in that notice. Unless otherwise specified in the notice of resignation, the acceptance of the resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective. Any resignation is without prejudice to the rights, if any, of the Corporation under any contract to which the officer is a party.

 

5.5 Vacancies in Offices. Any vacancy occurring in any office of the Corporation shall be filled as provided in Section 5.2 or Section 5.3, as applicable.

 

5.6 Representation of Shares of Other Corporations. The Chairperson of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President of this Corporation, or any other person authorized by the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President, is authorized to vote, represent and exercise on behalf of this Corporation all rights incident to any and all shares or voting securities of any other corporation or other person standing in the name of this Corporation. The authority granted herein may be exercised either by such person directly or by any other person authorized to do so by proxy or power of attorney duly executed by such person having the authority.

 

5.7 Authority and Duties of Officers. All officers of the Corporation shall respectively have such authority and perform such duties in the management of the business of the Corporation as may be provided herein or designated from time to time by the Board and, to the extent not so provided, as generally pertain to their respective offices, subject to the control of the Board.

 

5.8 Compensation. The compensation of the officers of the Corporation for their services as such shall be fixed from time to time by or at the direction of the Board. An officer of the Corporation shall not be prevented from receiving compensation by reason of the fact that he or she is also a director of the Corporation.

 

Article VI — Records

 

A stock ledger consisting of one or more records in which the names of all of the Corporation’s stockholders of record, the address and number of shares registered in the name of each such stockholder, and all issuances and transfers of stock of the corporation are recorded in accordance with Section 224 of the DGCL shall be administered by or on behalf of the Corporation. Any records administered by or on behalf of the Corporation in the regular course of its business, including its stock ledger, books of account, and minute books, may be kept on, or by means of, or be in the form of, any information storage device, or method, or one or more electronic networks or databases (including one or more distributed electronic networks or databases), provided that the records so kept can be converted into clearly legible paper form within a reasonable time and, with respect to the stock ledger, that the records so kept (i) can be used to prepare the list of stockholders specified in Sections 219 and 220 of the DGCL, (ii) record the information specified in Sections 156, 159, 217(a) and 218 of the DGCL, and (iii) record transfers of stock as governed by Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code as adopted in the State of Delaware.

 

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Article VII — General Matters

 

7.1 Execution of Corporate Contracts and Instruments. The Board, except as otherwise provided in these Bylaws, may authorize any officer or officers, or agent or agents, to enter into any contract or execute any instrument in the name of and on behalf of the Corporation; such authority may be general or confined to specific instances.

 

7.2 Stock Certificates. The shares of the Corporation may be issued in book-entry form or represented by certificates. Certificates for the shares of stock, if any, shall be in such form as is consistent with the Certificate of Incorporation and applicable law. Every holder of stock represented by a certificate shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by, or in the name of the Corporation by, any two officers authorized to sign stock certificates representing the number of shares registered in certificate form. The Chairperson or Vice Chairperson of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Corporation shall be specifically authorized to sign stock certificates. Any or all of the signatures on the certificate may be a facsimile. In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate has ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as if he or she were such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue.

 

The Corporation may issue the whole or any part of its shares as partly paid and subject to call for the remainder of the consideration to be paid therefor. Upon the face or back of each stock certificate issued to represent any such partly paid shares, or upon the books and records of the Corporation in the case of uncertificated partly paid shares, the total amount of the consideration to be paid therefor and the amount paid thereon shall be stated. Upon the declaration of any dividend on fully paid shares, the Corporation shall declare a dividend upon partly paid shares of the same class, but only upon the basis of the percentage of the consideration actually paid thereon.

 

7.3 Special Designation of Certificates. If the Corporation is authorized to issue more than one class of stock or more than one series of any class, then the powers, the designations, the preferences and the relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights shall be set forth in full or summarized on the face or on the back of the certificate that the Corporation shall issue to represent such class or series of stock (or, in the case of uncertificated shares, set forth in a notice provided pursuant to Section 151 of the DGCL); provided, however, that except as otherwise provided in Section 202 of the DGCL, in lieu of the foregoing requirements, there may be set forth on the face of back of the certificate that the Corporation shall issue to represent such class or series of stock (or, in the case of any uncertificated shares, included in the aforementioned notice) a statement that the Corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests the powers, the designations, the preferences and the relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights.

 

7.4 Lost Certificates. Except as provided in this Section 7.4, no new certificates for shares shall be issued to replace a previously issued certificate unless the latter is surrendered to the Corporation and cancelled at the same time. The Corporation may issue a new certificate of stock or uncertificated shares in the place of any certificate theretofore issued by it, alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, and the Corporation may require the owner of the lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, or such owner’s legal representative, to give the Corporation a bond sufficient to indemnify it against any claim that may be made against it on account of the alleged loss, theft or destruction of any such certificate or the issuance of such new certificate or uncertificated shares.

 

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7.5 Shares Without Certificates. The Corporation may adopt a system of issuance, recordation and transfer of its shares of stock by electronic or other means not involving the issuance of certificates, provided the use of such system by the Corporation is permitted in accordance with applicable law.

 

7.6 Construction; Definitions. Unless the context requires otherwise, the general provisions, rules of construction and definitions in the DGCL shall govern the construction of these Bylaws. Without limiting the generality of this provision, the singular number includes the plural and the plural number includes the singular.

 

7.7 Dividends. The Board, subject to any restrictions contained in either (i) the DGCL or (ii) the Certificate of Incorporation, may declare and pay dividends upon the shares of its capital stock. Dividends may be paid in cash, in property or in shares of the Corporation’s capital stock.

 

The Board may set apart out of any of the funds of the Corporation available for dividends a reserve or reserves for any proper purpose and may abolish any such reserve. Such purposes shall include but not be limited to equalizing dividends, repairing or maintaining any property of the Corporation, and meeting contingencies.

 

7.8 Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be fixed by resolution of the Board and may be changed by the Board.

 

7.9 Seal. The Corporation may adopt a corporate seal, which shall be adopted and which may be altered by the Board. The Corporation may use the corporate seal by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or in any other manner reproduced.

 

7.10 Transfer of Stock. Transfer of shares of the Corporation shall be made on the books of the Corporation by the holder of record thereof, or by the stockholder’s attorney thereunto duly authorized in writing and filed with the Secretary of the Corporation or any of its transfer agents, and on surrender of the certificate or certificates (if any) representing such shares, with such evidence of the authenticity of such endorsement or execution, transfer, authorization and other matters as the Corporation may reasonably require, and accompanied by all necessary stock transfer stamps. No transfer of stock shall be valid as against the Corporation for any purpose until it shall have been entered in the stock records of the Corporation by an entry showing the names of the persons from and to whom it was transferred.

 

7.11 Stock Transfer Agreements. The Corporation shall have power to enter into and perform any agreement with any number of stockholders of any one or more classes or series of stock of the Corporation to restrict the transfer of shares of stock of the Corporation of any one or more classes owned by such stockholders in any manner not prohibited by the DGCL or other applicable law.

 

7.12 Registered Stockholders. The Corporation:

 

(i) shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive right of a person registered on its books as the owner of shares to receive dividends and to vote as such owner; and

 

(ii) shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of another person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise provided by the laws of the State of Delaware.

 

7.13 Transfer Agents and Registrars. The Corporation and its transfer agents and registrars, shall be entitled to treat the holder of record of any share or shares as the holder in fact and absolute owner thereof for all purposes, and accordingly shall not be bound to recognize any legal, equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of any other person whether or not it or they shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise expressly provided by the statutes of the State of Delaware.

 

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7.14 Waiver of Notice. Whenever notice is required to be given under any provision of the DGCL, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, a written waiver, signed by the person entitled to notice, or a waiver by electronic transmission by the person entitled to notice, whether before or after the time of the event for which notice is to be given, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance of a person at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the person attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the stockholders need be specified in any written waiver of notice or any waiver by electronic transmission unless so required by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws.

 

Article VIII — Notice

 

8.1 Delivery of Notice; Notice by Electronic Transmission. Without limiting the manner by which notice otherwise may be given effectively to stockholders, any notice to stockholders given by the Corporation under any provisions of the DGCL, the Certificate of Incorporation, or these Bylaws may be given in writing directed to the stockholder’s mailing address (or by electronic transmission directed to the stockholder’s electronic mail address, as applicable) as it appears on the records of the Corporation and shall be given (i) if mailed, when the notice is deposited in the U.S. mail, postage prepaid, (ii) if delivered by courier service, the earlier of when the notice is received or left at such stockholder’s address or (iii) if given by electronic mail, when directed to such stockholder’s electronic mail address unless the stockholder has notified the Corporation in writing or by electronic transmission of an objection to receiving notice by electronic mail. A notice by electronic mail must include a prominent legend that the communication is an important notice regarding the Corporation.

 

Without limiting the manner by which notice otherwise may be given effectively to stockholders, any notice to stockholders given by the Corporation under any provision of the DGCL, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws shall be effective if given by a form of electronic transmission consented to by the stockholder to whom the notice is given. Any such consent shall be revocable by the stockholder by written notice or electronic transmission to the Corporation. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph, the Corporation may give a notice by electronic mail in accordance with the first paragraph of this section without obtaining the consent required by this paragraph.

 

Any notice given pursuant to the preceding paragraph shall be deemed given:

 

(a) if by facsimile telecommunication, when directed to a number at which the stockholder has consented to receive notice;

 

(b) if by a posting on an electronic network together with separate notice to the stockholder of such specific posting, upon the later of (1) such posting and (2) the giving of such separate notice; and

 

(c) if by any other form of electronic transmission, when directed to the stockholder.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, a notice may not be given by an electronic transmission from and after the time that (A) the Corporation is unable to deliver by such electronic transmission two consecutive notices given by the Corporation and (B) such inability becomes known to the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation or to the transfer agent, or other person responsible for the giving of notice; provided, however, the inadvertent failure to discover such inability shall not invalidate any meeting or other action.

 

An affidavit of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or of the transfer agent or other agent of the Corporation that the notice has been given shall, in the absence of fraud, be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.

 

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Article IX — Indemnification

 

9.1 Right to Indemnification. Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved in any action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative (a “proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director or an officer of the Corporation or, while a director or officer of the Corporation, is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee, agent, or trustee of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust, or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan (an “indemnitee”), whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, employee, agent, or trustee or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, employee, agent, or trustee, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than such law permitted the Corporation to provide prior to such amendment), against all expense, liability, and loss (including attorneys’ fees and expenses, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties, and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such indemnitee in connection therewith; provided, however, that, except as provided in Section 9.03 with respect to proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification or advancement of expenses or with respect to any compulsory counterclaim brought by such indemnitee, the Corporation shall indemnify any such indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such indemnitee only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board.

 

9.2 Right to Advancement of Expenses. In addition to the right to indemnification conferred in Section 9.1, an indemnitee shall also have the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses (including attorney’s fees and expenses) incurred in defending or participating as a witness in any proceeding to such indemnitee in advance of its final disposition or in connection with a proceeding brought to establish or enforce a right to indemnification or advancement of expenses under this Article (which shall be governed by Section 9.3) (any such payment, an “advancement of expenses”); provided, however, that an advancement of expenses incurred by an indemnitee in such indemnitee’s capacity as a director or officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such indemnitee, including service to an employee benefit plan) shall, subject to applicable provisions of the DGCL, be made solely upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking, by or on behalf of such indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal (a “final adjudication”) that such indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified or entitled to advancement of expenses under Sections 9.1 and 9.2 or otherwise.

 

9.3 Right of Indemnitee to Bring Suit. If an indemnitee’s claim under Section 9.1 or 9.2 is not paid in full by the Corporation within (i) sixty (60) days after a written claim for indemnification has been received by the Corporation or (ii) twenty (20) days after a written claim for advancement of expenses has been received by the Corporation, the indemnitee may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim or to obtain advancement of expenses, as applicable. To the fullest extent permitted by law, if successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the indemnitee shall be entitled to be paid also the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit. In (a) any suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification under this Article (but not in a suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to an advancement of expenses), it shall be a defense that, and (b) any suit brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the Corporation shall be entitled to recover such expenses upon a final adjudication that, the indemnitee has not met any applicable standard for indemnification set forth in Delaware law or these Bylaws. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its directors who are not parties to such action, a committee of such directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that indemnification of the indemnitee is proper in the circumstances because the indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including its directors who are not parties to such action, a committee of such directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) that the indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of conduct shall create a presumption that the indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct or, in the case of such a suit brought by the indemnitee, be a defense to such suit. In any suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification or to an advancement of expenses under this Article or by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the burden of proving that the indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified or to such advancement of expenses, as the case may be, under this Article or otherwise shall be on the Corporation.

 

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9.4 Indemnification Not Exclusive. The provision of indemnification to or the advancement of expenses and costs to any indemnitee under this Article, or the entitlement of any indemnitee to indemnification or advancement of expenses and costs under this Article, shall not limit or restrict in any way the power of the Corporation to indemnify or advance expenses and costs to such indemnitee in any other way permitted by law or be deemed exclusive of, or invalidate, any right to which any indemnitee seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses and costs may be entitled under any law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise, both as to action in such indemnitee’s capacity as an officer, director, employee, or agent of the Corporation and as to action in any other capacity.

 

9.5 Nature of Rights. The rights conferred upon indemnitees in this Article shall be contract rights, and such rights shall continue as to an indemnitee who has ceased to be a director, officer, or trustee and shall inure to the benefit of the indemnitee’s heirs, executors, and administrators. Any amendment, alteration, or repeal of this Article that adversely affects any right of any indemnitee or any of its successors shall be prospective only and shall not limit, eliminate, or impair any such right with respect to any proceeding involving any occurrence or alleged occurrence of any action or omission to act that took place prior to such amendment or repeal.

 

Article X — Amendments

 

The Board is expressly authorized to adopt, amend or repeal the Bylaws of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Directors then in office. The stockholders of the Corporation shall also have power to adopt, by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the voting power of all the then-outstanding shares of capital stock entitled to vote on such adoption, amendment or repeal, voting together as a single class; provided, however, that no Bylaws hereafter adopted by the stockholders of the Corporation shall invalidate any prior act of the Board that would have been valid if such Bylaws had not been adopted.

 

Article XI — Definitions

 

As used in these Bylaws, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

 

An “electronic transmission” means any form of communication, not directly involving the physical transmission of paper, including the use of, or participation in, one or more electronic networks or databases (including one or more distributed electronic networks or databases), that creates a record that may be retained, retrieved and reviewed by a recipient thereof, and that may be directly reproduced in paper form by such a recipient through an automated process.

 

An “electronic mail” means an electronic transmission directed to a unique electronic mail address (which electronic mail shall be deemed to include any files attached thereto and any information hyperlinked to a website if such electronic mail includes the contact information of an officer or agent of the Corporation who is available to assist with accessing such files and information).

 

An “electronic mail address” means a destination, commonly expressed as a string of characters, consisting of a unique user name or mailbox (commonly referred to as the “local part” of the address) and a reference to an internet domain (commonly referred to as the “domain part” of the address), whether or not displayed, to which electronic mail can be sent or delivered.

 

The term “person” means any individual, general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, corporation, trust, business trust, joint stock company, joint venture, unincorporated association, cooperative or association or any other legal entity or organization of whatever nature, and shall include any successor (by merger or otherwise) of such entity.

 

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Exhibit 10.8

 

PROMISSORY NOTE

 

Principal Amount: $325,000 Issue Date: November __, 2024

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation formerly known as Insight Acquisition Corp. (the “Issuer”), issues this convertible promissory note (the “Note”) and promises to pay to Loeb & Loeb LLP or its assigns (the “Holder”) the principal amount of $325,000 (the “Principal Sum”), plus any other fees according to the terms herein. This Note will become effective only upon execution by both parties.

 

The maturity date (the “Maturity Date”) of this promissory note is the earlier of (i) 12 months from the issue date referenced above (the “Issue Date”), or (ii) the date that is 10 business days following the date that the Issuer repays Streeterville Capital, LLC (the “Lender”) in full, and the Maturity Date is the date upon which the Principal Sum, as well as any unpaid interest and other fees hereunder, shall be due and payable.

 

1. Interest; Monthly Payment; Additional Payments. Interest shall not accrue on the Principal Sum except as set forth elsewhere herein. The Issuer shall make monthly payments of $25,000 beginning December 1, 2024. Additionally, the Issuer shall use at least 50% of the proceeds from any capital raise in excess of $1,000,000 following completion of the Issuer’s Business Combination with Alpha Modus, Corp. to pay any remaining balance under the Note

 

2. Conversion. If the Issuer is no longer subject to the Lender’s variable rate transaction prohibition or the Lender has consented to conversion of this promissory note as set forth herein, the Holder shall have the right, at its election, to convert all or part of the outstanding and unpaid Principal Sum, as well as any other fees pursuant to the terms hereof but not including interest, into shares of fully paid and non-assessable shares of the Issuer’s common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “Conversion Shares”) as per the following conversion formula: number of shares receivable upon conversion equals the dollar conversion amount divided by the Conversion Price (as defined hereinafter). The “Conversion Price” shall equal 90% of the 5-day volume-weighted average price (“VWAP”) of the Issuer’s common stock at the time of conversion as reported by Bloomberg L.P. Unless otherwise agreed in writing by both parties, at no time will the Holder convert any amount of the Note into common stock that would result in the Holder owning more than 4.99% of the common stock outstanding of the Issuer. Conversion Shares may be delivered to the Issuer by method of the Holder’s choice (including but not limited to email, facsimile, mail, overnight courier, or personal delivery). If no objection is delivered from the Issuer to the Holder regarding any variable or calculation of the conversion notice within 24 hours of delivery of the conversion notice, the Issuer shall have been thereafter deemed to have irrevocably confirmed and irrevocably ratified such notice of conversion and waived any objection thereto. The Issuer shall deliver the Conversion Shares from any conversion to the Holder (in any name directed by the Holder) within three (3) business days of conversion notice delivery.

 

3. Registration Rights. Provided this Note has become convertible pursuant to Section 2, the Issuer represents, warrants and agrees that with respect to the Conversion Shares, the Holder will have registration rights identical to the registration rights provided to Insight Acquisition Sponsor LLC in the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of October 13, 2023, including, but not limited to the following: (i) two demand registrations of the sale of the Conversion Shares at the Company’s expense, and (ii) unlimited “piggyback” registration rights for a period of five (5) years after the Issue Date at the Company’s expense. The Company shall execute and deliver the Joinder Agreement, attached hereto as Exhibit A. In the event the registration statement covering the Conversion Shares is not effective within 120 days of the Issue Date, then the principal amount due the Note will increase by one and one-half percent (1.5%) and will continue to increase by one and one-half percent (1.5%) for each thirty (30) day period such registration statement is not declared effective.

 

4. Default. The following are events of default under this Note: (i) the Issuer shall fail to pay any shares upon a conversion of this Note when due and payable hereunder; or (ii) a receiver, trustee or other similar official shall be appointed over the Issuer or a material part of its assets and such appointment shall remain uncontested for twenty (20) days or shall not be dismissed or discharged within sixty (60) days; or (iii) the Issuer shall become insolvent or generally fails to pay, or admits in writing its inability to pay, its debts as they become due, subject to applicable grace periods, if any; or (iv) the Issuer shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or (v) the Issuer shall file a petition for relief under any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law (domestic or foreign); or (vi) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or filed against the Issuer; or (vii) the Issuer shall lose its status as “DTC Eligible,” or the Issuer’s shareholders shall lose the ability to deposit (either electronically or by physical certificates, or otherwise) shares into the DTC System; or (viii) the Issuer shall become delinquent in its filing requirements as a fully-reporting issuer registered with the SEC.

 

 

 

 

5. Remedies. In the event of any default, the outstanding principal amount of this Note, plus accrued but unpaid interest, liquidated damages, fees and other amounts owing in respect thereof through the date of acceleration, shall become, at the Holder’s election, immediately due and payable in cash at the Mandatory Default Amount. The “Mandatory Default Amount” means the greater of (i) the outstanding principal amount of this Note, plus all accrued and unpaid interest, liquidated damages, fees and other amounts hereon, divided by the Conversion Price on the date the Mandatory Default Amount is either demanded or paid in full, whichever has a lower Conversion Price, multiplied by the VWAP on the date the Mandatory Default Amount is either demanded or paid in full, whichever has a higher VWAP, or (ii) the outstanding principal amount of this Note, plus 100% of accrued and unpaid interest, liquidated damages, fees and other amounts hereon. Commencing five (5) days after the occurrence of any event of default that results in the eventual acceleration of this Note, the interest rate on this Note shall accrue at an interest rate equal to the lesser of 22% per annum or the maximum rate permitted under applicable law. In connection with such acceleration described herein, the Holder need not provide, and the Issuer hereby waives, any presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, and the Holder may immediately and without expiration of any grace period enforce any and all of its rights and remedies hereunder and all other remedies available to it under applicable law. Such acceleration may be rescinded and annulled by the Holder at any time prior to payment hereunder and the Holder shall have all rights as a holder of the note until such time, if any, as the Holder receives full payment pursuant to this Section 7. No such rescission or annulment shall affect any subsequent event of default or impair any right consequent thereon. Nothing herein shall limit the Holder’s right to pursue any other remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief with respect to the Issuer’s failure to timely deliver certificates representing shares of Common Stock upon conversion of the Note as required pursuant to the terms hereof.

 

6. No Shorting. The Holder agrees that so long as this Note from the Issuer to the Holder remains outstanding, the Holder will not enter into or effect “short sales” of the common stock of the Issuer or hedging transactions which establish a net short position with respect to the common stock of the Issuer. The Issuer acknowledges and agrees that upon delivery of a conversion notice by the Holder, the Holder immediately owns the shares of common stock described in the conversion notice, and any sale of those shares issuable under such conversion notice would not be considered short sales.

 

7. Assignability. The Issuer may not assign this Note. This Note will be binding upon the Issuer and its successors and will inure to the benefit of the Holder and its successors and assigns and may be assigned by the Holder without the Issuer’s approval.

 

8. Governing Law. This Note will be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to the conflict of laws principles thereof. Any action brought by either party against the other concerning the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall be brought only in the state courts of Delaware or in the federal courts located in the State of Delaware. Both parties and the individuals signing this Agreement agree to submit to the jurisdiction of such courts.

 

9. Delivery of Process by the Holder to the Issuer. In the event of any action or proceeding by the Holder against the Issuer, and only by the Holder against the Issuer, service of copies of summons and/or complaint and/or any other process which may be served in any such action or proceeding may be made by the Holder via U.S. Mail, overnight delivery service such as FedEx or UPS, email, fax, or process server, or by mailing or otherwise delivering a copy of such process to the Issuer at its last known address as set forth in its most recent SEC filing.

 

10. Attorney Fees. If any attorney is employed by either party with regard to any legal or equitable action, arbitration or other proceeding brought by such party for enforcement of this Note or because of an alleged dispute, breach, default or misrepresentation in connection with any of the provisions of this Note, the prevailing party will be entitled to recover from the other party reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred, in addition to any other relief to which the prevailing party may be entitled.

 

11. Notices. Any notice required or permitted hereunder (including Conversion Notices) must be in writing and either personally served, sent by facsimile or email transmission, or sent by overnight courier. Notices will be deemed effectively delivered at the time of transmission if by facsimile or email, and if by overnight courier the business day after such notice is deposited with the courier service for delivery.

 

THE ISSUER:   THE HOLDER:
         
Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc.   Loeb & Loeb LLP
         
/s/ William Alessi    
Name: William Alessi   Name: Mitchell Nussbaum
Title: Chief Executive Officer   Title: Co-Chair

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT A

 

JOINDER AGREEMENT

TO THE

AMENDED AND RESTATED REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT,

 

November __, 2024

 

Reference is made to that certain Promissory Note, dated as of November __, 2024 (the “Note”), by and among Loeb & Loeb LLP (“Holder”) and Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”), pursuant to which Holder shall be entitled to acquire securities of the Company. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Note.

 

By executing this joinder, Holder hereby agrees, as of the date first set forth above, and provided that the Note has become convertible pursuant to Section 2 of the Note, that Holder shall become a party to that certain Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of October 13, 2023, by and among Insight Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“IAC”), Insight Acquisition Sponsor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Odeon Capital Group, LLC and together with Sponsor, Cantor, and Odeon, the “Initial Holders”), Alpha Modus, Corp., a Florida corporation (“Alpha Modus”) as it exists on the date of the Note (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), and shall be bound by the terms and provisions of the Registration Rights Agreement as a Holder (as defined therein) and entitled to the rights of a Holder under the Registration Rights Agreement and the Conversion Shares (together with any other equity security of the Company issued or issuable with respect to any such Conversion Shares by way of a share dividend or share subdivision or in connection with a combination of shares, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or reorganization) shall be “Registrable Securities” thereunder.

 

For the purposes of clarity, it is expressly understood and agreed that each provision contained in the Registration Rights Agreement is between the Company and Holder, solely, and not between and among Holder and the other stockholders of the Company signatory to the Registration Rights Agreement.

 

This joinder may be executed in two or more counterparts, and by facsimile, all of which shall be deemed an original and all of which together shall constitute one instrument.

 

Company:Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc.

 

By:    
Name: William Alessi  
Title: Chief Executive Officer  

 

Holder:Loeb & Loeb LLP

 

By:    
Name: Mitchell S. Nussbaum  
Title: Co-Chair  

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 10.9

 

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

This Employment Agreement (this “Agreement”) is entered into as of December 13, 2024 (the “Effective Date”) by and between Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) and William Alessi (the “Employee”).

 

RECITALS

 

A. The Company desires to obtain the services of Employee under the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.

 

B. Employee desires to provide his services to the Company upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises and covenants contained in this Agreement and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Employee and the Company hereby covenant and agree as follows:

 

1. Defined Terms. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in Exhibit A attached to this Agreement.

 

2. Employment.

 

(a) The Company agrees to employ Employee as Chief Executive Officer, as of the Effective Date and for the period set forth in Section 2(c) below, unless Employee’s employment is terminated sooner in accordance with this Agreement.

 

(b) Employee accepts employment and agrees to devote his full time and attention to the performance of his duties as determined by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”) and to operate within the guidelines, plans and policies as may be established or approved by the Company from time to time. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, during his employment, the Employee shall not serve on the boards of directors of any for-profit entity without the prior consent of the Board.

 

(c) Employee shall commence his duties hereunder as of the Effective Date and continue in the employ of the Company until the third (3rd) anniversary of the Effective Date (the “Initial Term”) or until his employment is terminated sooner as provided in this Agreement. Upon expiration of the Initial Term, this Agreement may be extended by the Company for an additional one (1) year period (the “Renewal Term”), by providing written notice to Employee not less than forty-five (45) days prior to the expiration of the Initial Term.

 

(d) Employee’s place of employment shall be in Charlotte, NC area. Employee may also be required to engage in reasonable travel to other locations on Company business consistent with Employee’s position.

 

3. Compensation.

 

(a) The Company shall pay to Employee an annual base salary of $500,000 (“Base Salary”), which amount shall be prorated for any partial year and paid in accordance with the Company’s payroll practices related to salaried employees. If Employee’s employment is terminated as provided herein prior to the expiration of the Initial or the Renewal Term (if applicable), then the Company shall pay to Employee any amount of Base Salary due to Employee up to and including the date of such termination.

 

 
 

 

(b) Commencing with calendar year 2024, Employee shall be eligible to receive a performance-based cash bonus of up to 110% of Employee’s base salary, based on the Employee’s personal performance and the Company’s ability to achieve certain EBITDA and financial goals, each as determined by the Board (“Annual Bonus”). The Board shall have the sole discretion whether to make any such award. Employee shall only be entitled to receive any Annual Bonus payment if Employee remains an employee in good standing with the Company as of the date such Annual Bonus is payable.

 

(c) Employee will be eligible to receive annual grants of long-term incentive awards under and subject to the terms of the Company’s equity or other long-term incentive plan (including any applicable award agreement) as in effect from time to time. The target value of the awards granted will equal $650,000 or approximately 130% of Employee’s Base Salary. Employee recognizes and acknowledges that the award of equity compensation is not guaranteed or promised in any way.

 

(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Company shall have the right in its sole discretion to defer payment of cash compensation due to the Employee under this Agreement until the Company shall have raised an aggregate of $10,000,000 in funding after the Effective Date.

 

4. Payment or Reimbursement of Expenses. Subject to compliance by Employee with such policies regarding expenses and expense reimbursements as may be adopted from time to time by the Company, Employee shall be paid or reimbursed for reasonable expenses actually incurred in connection with the performance of his duties under this Agreement and in the furtherance of the business and affairs of the Company. Any such reimbursement shall be made within a reasonable period after presentation by Employee of an itemized account of such expenses, accompanied by appropriate receipts satisfactory to the Company. In no event shall any expense be paid or reimbursed, unless properly accounted for to the extent necessary to substantiate the Company’s federal income tax deduction under the applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), and the regulations promulgated thereunder or any similar state or federal law or regulation.

 

5. Additional Benefits.

 

(a) Employee shall be eligible to participate in or receive benefits under any employee benefit plan or arrangement now or in the future made available by the Company generally to its executive employees, subject to and on a basis consistent with the terms, conditions and overall administration of such plans and arrangements. Nothing in this Agreement shall affect the Company’s right to change insurance carriers and to adopt, amend, terminate, or modify such plans and arrangements from time to time, provided that such changes apply to all Employee employees generally.

 

(b) Employee shall be entitled to take 30 days of paid vacation during each 12-month period. No paid vacation may be carried forward from one 12-month period to another. The other terms and conditions of such vacation and all other forms of leave, including accrual rates and payout, shall be as set forth in the Company’s vacation and leave policies, as they may exist and be amended from time to time. Employee shall also be entitled to all paid holidays given by the Company in accordance with the Company’s regular paid holiday policy, as it may exist and be amended from time to time.

 

6. Termination. This Agreement and the Company’s obligations hereunder shall terminate as provided in Section 2(c) unless terminated earlier pursuant to this Section 6 as follows:

 

(a) In the event of the death or Total Disability of Employee, this Agreement shall automatically terminate as of the date of such death or Total Disability.

 

(b) Employee may terminate his employment at any time upon thirty (30) days’ advance written notice delivered to the Company.

 

(c) The Company may terminate Employee’s employment at any time, effective immediately, with or without Cause.

 

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7. Severance.

 

(a) If the Company terminates Employee’s employment with the Company without Cause in accordance with Section 6(c) prior to the expiration of the Initial Term, the Company shall pay Employee a severance payment an amount equal to twelve months of Employee’s Base Salary as in effect on the date of termination, subject to subsections (c) and (d).

 

(b) If during the Term of this Agreement there is a CC Termination, then the Employee will be entitled to a severance payment (in addition to any other rights and other amounts payable to the Employee under Company plans in which Employee is a participant, but without duplication for any amounts due to Employee pursuant to Section 7(a)) payable in a lump sum in cash in an amount equal to the sum of: (i) twelve months of Employee’s Base Salary in effect on date of such CC Termination (or, if greater, the highest Base Salary in effect during the three year period ending on the date of such CC Termination), and (ii) the Employee’s Average Annual Bonus, subject to subsections (c) and (d).

 

(c) Any severance payment payable to Employee pursuant to this Section 7 (a “Severance Payment”) will be made in a lump sum within sixty (60) days after the date Employee’s employment is terminated giving rise to such Severance Payment pursuant to Section 7(a) or (b); provided that Employee executes and delivers the release contemplated by Section 7(d) and such release becomes effective and irrevocable. If such sixty (60) day period spans two calendar years, the Severance Payment will be made in the second calendar year. However, if Employee is a “specified employee” as defined in regulations under Section 409A of the Code and the Severance Payment constitutes “nonqualified deferred compensation” that is subject to Section 409A of the Code, the Severance Payment will be made on the Company’s first payroll payment date that is more than six (6) months the Severance Payment is otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement.

 

(d) Employee acknowledges and agrees the Severance Payment to which the Employee is entitled under this Section 7 is conditioned upon and subject to the Employee’s executing and delivering the general release of claims in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B by the 45th day following the Employee’s separation from service and not revoking the release within the seven (7) days after executing and delivering the release. If such forty-five (45) day period plus the seven (7) day revocation period spans two calendar years, the Severance Payment will be paid in the second calendar year. Employee’s right to the Severance Payment is further conditioned upon Employee’s continued compliance with Sections 8-11 of this Agreement. If Employee breaches any of his obligations in Sections 8-11 of this Agreement, he will immediately return to the Company any portion of the Severance Payment that has been paid to him pursuant to Section 7.

 

8. Covenant Not to Compete.

 

(a) During Employee’s employment with the Company and for an additional period of two years following the termination of Employee’s employment with the Company for any reason (the “Restricted Period”), Employee covenants and agrees that, with respect to the entire United States of America and Canada (the “Restricted Area”), Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, for his own benefit or to the detriment of the Company or any of its Affiliates:

 

(i) Compete with the Company in the Business in any manner or capacity (e.g., through any form of ownership, lending relationship, or as an advisor, principal, investor, agent, partner, officer, director, manager, employee, employer, independent contractor, consultant, member of any association or otherwise, whether or not for compensation or gain) by working for, becoming employed by, engaging in, carrying on, or providing services to any business involving the Business;

 

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(ii) Own, manage, operate, join or control, or participate in the ownership, management, operation or control of, a business (however structured) that carries on or engages in any manner in the Business;

 

(iii) Perform services of the type he or she performs for the Company for any Person engaged in the Business, whether as an employee, independent contractor, consultant or otherwise; or

 

(iv) Solicit, induce or otherwise contact customers or suppliers of the Company for any purpose or manner detrimental to the Company.

 

The parties agree that each of the foregoing prohibitions is intended to constitute a separate restriction. Accordingly, should any such prohibition be declared invalid or unenforceable, such prohibition shall be deemed severable from and shall not affect the remainder thereof. The Parties further agree that the foregoing restrictions are reasonable in both time and scope.

 

(b) Ownership by Employee, as a passive investment, in the aggregate of less than one percent (1%) of the outstanding equity securities of any corporation or other entity listed on a national securities exchange or publicly traded on any nationally recognized over-the-counter market shall not constitute a breach of Section 8(a) of this Agreement.

 

9. Confidential Information.

 

(a) Employee hereby acknowledges that Employee may be exposed to trade secrets and confidential and proprietary information of the Company and its Affiliates, including, without limitation, all design drawings, blueprints, plans, designs, calculations, technical specifications, construction notes or other works of authorship, inventions, writings, information, data, formulas, models, photographs, and design concepts, and the like, and all other documentation developed for or relating to the Company and its Affiliates and other technical information (including functional and technical specifications, designs, drawings, analysis, research, processes, procedures, manuals, computer programs, methods, ideas, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Rights, “know how” and the like), business information (development and acquisition prospects, reserve reports, materials, plans, accounting and financial information, pricing information, customer and supplier information, completion studies, expansion or acquisition opportunities, personnel records and the like) and other information designated as confidential expressly or by the circumstances in which it is provided (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information does not include (i) information already known or independently developed by a third party recipient without the use of Confidential Information; (ii) information in the public domain through sources free of any confidentiality restriction and without any wrongful act of the recipient, or (iii) information received by the recipient from another third party who was free to disclose it.

 

(b) Employee hereby agrees, while employed by the Company or at any time thereafter, to keep strictly confidential and not disclose, use, divulge, publish, or otherwise reveal, directly or through any other Person, any Confidential Information of the Company and its Affiliates, except as may be necessary for Employee to perform his duties and obligations in conjunction with his employment with the Company. Employee further agrees that, upon expiration or termination of his employment with the Company for any reason, Employee will not, without the prior written consent of the Company’s Board, take any Confidential Information of the Company or its Affiliates.

 

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(c) All written or electronic materials, records and documents made by Employee or in the possession of Employee during his employment with the Company concerning the business or affairs of the Company or its Affiliates or otherwise containing Confidential Information, or other items or property held by or for Employee, but owned or used by the Company or its Affiliates, shall be the sole property of the Company or its Affiliate, as the case may be, and, upon termination of Employee’s employment with the Company or upon the request of the Company or any of its Affiliates, Employee shall promptly deliver all of such materials, records, documents or other items of property that are then in his possession.

 

(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, nothing in this Agreement shall (i) prohibit the Employee from making reports of possible violations of federal law or regulations to any governmental agency or entity in accordance with the provisions of and the rules promulgated under Section 21F of the Exchange Act or Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, or of any other whistleblower protection provisions of state or federal law or regulations, (ii) require notification or prior approval by the Company of any reporting described in clause (i), or (iii) limit Employee’s right to receive an award for information reported to any government agency or entity as described in clause (i).

 

10. Non-Solicitation of Employees. During the Restricted Period, Employee will not under any circumstances within the Restricted Area, without the express written consent of the Board, employ, solicit the employment or engagement of, or assist any other entity in employing or soliciting the employment or engagement of, any Protected Person (as defined below), recommend the employment or engagement of any Protected Person to any other business or encourage any Protected Person to terminate his or her employment relationship with the Company or any of its Affiliates. A “Protected Person” means any person who was employed by the Company or any of its Affiliates at or after the Effective Date and prior to the termination of Employee’s employment with the Company.

 

11. Ownership of Inventions and Other Intellectual Property.

 

(a) Company’s Ownership of Inventions and Other IP: Assignment. All Discovered IP Rights shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company without additional compensation to Employee. Employee forever and irrevocably assigns to Company, without any reservation for royalties or other reservations, and free and clear of all liens, claims and encumbrances of any kind whatsoever, any Discovered IP Rights. Employee shall disclose promptly to the Company or its nominee any and all Discovered IP. Without in any way limiting the Company’s rights or Employee’s obligations under the foregoing, to the extent that a work may be deemed a “work made for hire”, Employee and the Company agree that such work (regardless of whether such work is created or authored solely by Employee or is created or authored jointly with, or with the assistance, participation or involvement of one or more other Persons) shall be a “work made for hire” and Employee hereby assigns to the Company, without any reservation for royalties or other reservations, and free and clear of all liens, claims and encumbrances of any kind whatsoever, the entire present and future right, title, claim and interest in and to all Intellectual Property Rights to such work.

 

(b) Employee’s Further Assurances. Whenever requested to do so by the Company, Employee shall execute, without further compensation to Employee, but at the expense of the Company, any and all applications, assignments, oaths, certifications, declarations, statements, affidavits or other instruments which the Company shall deem necessary to grant to, vest in or perfect for the Company or its nominee the right, title, claim and interest in and to the Discovered IP Rights to enable the Company or its nominee to apply for, obtain, procure, register, maintain, renew, defend and enforce Intellectual Property Rights in and to the Discovered IP, whether in the United States, Canada or any foreign country, or to otherwise protect Company’s or its nominee’s interest therein. These obligations shall continue beyond the termination of employment and shall be binding upon Employee’s assigns, executors, administrators, heirs and other legal representatives. Employee represents and warrants, and, throughout Employee’s employment with the Company, continues to represent and warrant, that Employee has not heretofore assigned, licensed or granted any right, title, claim or interest in and to the Discovered IP Rights to any other Person or entered into any agreement, commitment or undertaking in conflict with this Agreement; and that Employee shall never assign, license, or grant any right, title, claim or interest of any kind to the Discovered IP Rights or enter into any agreement, commitment or undertaking in conflict with this Agreement save and except as expressly authorized by the Company in writing. Without limiting the Company’s rights or Employee’s obligations under the foregoing, whenever requested to do so by the Company, Employee shall, without further compensation to Employee, but at the expense of the Company, do the following with respect to, for, arising out of or related to any of the Discovered IP Rights: (1) cooperate with the Company in the filing, application, procurement, prosecution, maintenance, enforcement and defense of each and every domestic or foreign patent application or application for invention or industrial rights (including, without limitation, each and every provisional, original, divisional, continuation or continuation in part patent application); patent or invention certificate (including, without limitation, any proceedings for the reissue, reexamination, renewal or extension of a patent); interference proceeding, opposition or cancellation proceeding, priority contest or public use proceedings; trade secret, trade dress, trademark or other right or benefit; (2) appear before or assist in preparations for any and all hearings, depositions or other proceedings related to any of the foregoing; and, (3) take such further actions as reasonably requested by the Company so that the Company enjoys the full extent of the assignment granted under, or other rights arising under, this Agreement. Employee represents and warrants that Employee shall never disclose to the Company, or use for the benefit of the Company, any trade secrets or other confidential information learned or obtained from Employee’s previous employers or other Persons if such disclosure or use would violate the trade secret rights or other rights of such previous employers or other Persons.

 

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(c) Employee’s Indemnification of Company. Employee shall indemnify, defend and hold the Company and its Affiliates, and each of the foregoing’s directors, officers, shareholders, members, managers, employees and agents, harmless from any and all claims, demands, suits, causes of action, damages (including, without limitation, consequential damages), liabilities, losses, costs, expenses and fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fee and investigatory fees) for or arising out of or from Employee’s breach, misrepresentation or otherwise failure to fully perform, satisfy, comply and observe all of Employee’s agreements, covenants, representations, warranties, commitments, obligations or other undertakings arising under this Section 11.

 

(d) Employee’s Assignment of Prior Rights. Employee hereby assigns to the Company any and all Intellectual Property and/or Intellectual Property Rights related to the operations of the Company that may have inured to Employee’s benefit prior to the Effective Date.

 

12. Non-Disparagement. During his employment and following termination of his employment, whatever the cause, Employee agrees not to disparage, and to cause Employee’s Affiliates not to disparage, either orally or in writing, any of the Company or its Affiliates or the foregoing Persons’ business, products, services or practices, or any of the Company’s or its Affiliates’ directors, officers, agents, representatives, stockholders, partners, members, employees, or managers.

 

13. Reasonable Limits. Employee acknowledges that the agreement of the Employee not to engage in the activities prohibited herein for the period of time and in the areas agreed upon herein is a substantial consideration for his employment with the Company. Employee hereby acknowledges that the above covenants are manifestly reasonable on their face and expressly agrees that they are also reasonable as to time and territorial scope and otherwise and that same are no greater than is required for the protection of the respective interests of the parties.

 

14. Compliance with Section 409A of the Code. The Company and Employee intend that any amounts or benefits payable or provided under this Agreement comply with the provisions of Section 409A of the Code and the Treasury Regulations relating thereto so as not to subject Employee to the payment of the tax, interest and any tax penalty which may be imposed under Section 409A; provided, however, that nothing in this Agreement shall be interpreted or construed to transfer any liability for any tax (including a tax or penalty due as a result of a failure to comply with Section 409A) from the Employee to the Company or to any other individual or entity. Any payment to the Employee that is subject to Section 409A and that is contingent on a termination of employment is contingent on a “separation from service” within the meaning of Section 409A. Each payment shall be considered to be a separate payment for purposes of Section 409A. The provisions of this Agreement shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with such intent. In furtherance thereof, to the extent that any provision hereof would otherwise result in Employee being subject to payment of tax, interest and tax penalty under Section 409A, the Company and Employee agree to amend this Agreement in a manner that brings this Agreement into compliance with Section 409A and preserve to the maximum extent possible the economic value of the relevant payment or benefit under this Agreement to Employee. Any taxable reimbursement shall be paid no later than December 31 of the year after the year in which the expense is incurred and shall comply with Treas. Reg. § 1.409A-3(i)(1)(iv).

 

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15. No Violation of Third Party Rights. Employee hereby represents, warrants and covenants to the Company that Employee: (a) shall not, during his employment with the Company, infringe upon or violate any proprietary rights of any third party (including, without limitation, any third party confidential relationships, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, Intellectual Property or other proprietary rights); (b) is not a party to any agreement with a third party that prevents him from fulfilling the terms of employment and the obligations of this Agreement or which would be breached as a result of Employee’s execution of this Agreement or performance of his employment duties; and (c) agrees to respect any and all valid obligations which Employee may now have to prior employers or to others relating to confidential information, inventions or discoveries which are the property of those prior employers or others, as the case may be.

 

16. Resignation from All Positions. Upon the termination of the Employee’s employment with the Company for any reason, Employee shall be deemed to have resigned, as of the date of such termination, from all positions he then holds as an officer, director, employee and member of the Board (and any committee thereof) and the boards of all of its subsidiaries.

 

17. Notices. All notices, requests, demands and other communications provided for by this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given when delivered in person, by nationally recognized overnight courier, or mailed by United States certified mail, return receipt required, postage prepaid, or sent by electronic mail addressed as follows:

 

  If to the Company to: Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc.
    20311 Chartwell Center Drive, #1469
    Cornelius, NC 28031
    Contact@alphamodus.com

 

  If to Employee to: William Alessi
    20311 Chartwell Center Drive, #1469
    Cornelius, NC 28031
    balessi@alphamodus.com

 

18. Governing Law. The provisions of this Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the substantive local law of the State of Delaware, without consideration of the conflicts of law provisions thereof.

 

19. Remedies. Each party acknowledges that the other party will have no adequate remedy at law if the first party violates certain of the terms of this Agreement, and that the other party shall have the right, to the extent permitted by applicable law, in addition to any other rights or remedies it may have, to obtain from any court of competent jurisdiction, injunctive relief to restrain any breach or threatened breach hereof or otherwise to specifically enforce the provisions hereof.

 

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20. Waiver. No waiver of any obligation, right or remedy under this Agreement shall be effective, unless such waiver is made in writing, specifying the terms of this Agreement. Any such waiver by either party of any of its rights or remedies hereunder on any occasion shall not be a bar to the exercise of the same right or remedy on any subsequent occasion or of the exercise of any other right or remedy at any time.

 

21. Integration and Amendments. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes any prior agreement or understanding, whether written or oral, relating to such subject matter. No modification or amendment to this Agreement shall be effective or binding unless in writing, specifying such modification or amendment, executed by both of the parties hereto.

 

22. Severability. If any provision, paragraph or subparagraph of this Agreement is adjudged by any court to be void or unenforceable, in whole or in part, such an adjudication shall not be deemed to affect the validity of the remainder of the Agreement, and all other provisions, sections and subsections of this Agreement shall be severable from every other provision, section or subsection and each constitutes a separate and distinct covenant.

 

23. Court Modification for Enforcement. In the event a court determines that any provisions of this Agreement are overbroad, excessive or unenforceable in any respect including but not limited to the Restricted Period, the Restricted Area, or the nature of the restrictions, then in such an event the parties agree that the court shall be permitted to modify this Agreement in order to make the restrictions more narrow and to make this Agreement enforceable in order to provide each party with the maximum restriction or restrictions allowed by law.

 

24. Reimbursement for Expenses. If litigation or other action is commenced between the parties concerning any dispute arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the prevailing party in the action will be entitled, in addition to any other award that may be made, to recover all court costs or other official costs and all reasonable expenses associated with the action, including without limitation reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses.

 

25. Survival of Certain Provisions. The rights and obligations of Employee and Company under Sections 7-12 of this Agreement shall survive the expiration or termination of this Agreement.

 

26. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument, respectively. Executed copies of the signature pages of this Agreement sent by facsimile or transmitted electronically in Portable Document Format (“PDF”) shall be treated as originals, fully binding and with full legal force and effect, and the Parties waive any rights they may have to object to such treatment. Any party delivering an executed counterpart of this Agreement by facsimile or PDF also may deliver a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement, but the failure to deliver a manually executed counterpart shall not affect the validity, enforceability, and binding effect of this Agreement.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Employment Agreement effective as of the Effective Date above.

 

  Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc.
     
  By: /s/ William Alessi
    William Alessi
    President and Chief Executive Officer
     
  EMPLOYEE:
     
  /s/ William Alessi
  Name: William Alessi

 

 
 

 

EXHIBIT A

DEFINED TERMS

 

The following terms, as used in this Agreement and in any correspondence or other communications between the parties in performing or in connection with this Agreement, shall have the meaning ascribed as follows:

 

(a) “Affiliates” means with respect to any Person, (a) any Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with such Person; (b) any Person owning or controlling fifty percent (50%) or more of the outstanding voting securities or interests of such Person; (c) any officer, director, member, manager, trustee or (limited or general) partner of such Person or of any Person specified in (a) or (b) above; and (d) any Person in which any officer, director, member, manager, trustee or (limited or general) partner of any Person specified in (c) above is an officer, director, member, manager, trustee, or (limited or general) partner. For purposes of this definition, “control” (including, with correlative meaning, controlled by and under common control with) of a Person means the direct or indirect possession of the power to direct or cause the direction of management or policies of such Person through any means.

 

(b) “Average Annual Bonus” means (a) if the CC Termination occurs before the Annual Bonus is paid for the Employee’s first year of employment, 110% of the Employee’s Base Salary as in effect on the Effective Date, or (b) otherwise, the average Annual Bonus paid pursuant to Section 3(b) for the preceding three years (or such lesser number of years as the Employee may have been employed).

 

(c) “Business” means the business of Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc. and all activities related thereto.

 

(d) “Cause,” shall mean by reason of such Employee’s: (A) conviction of, or plea of nolo contendere to, any felony or to any crime or offense causing substantial harm to the Company or its Affiliates or involving acts of theft, fraud, dishonesty, embezzlement, moral turpitude, or similar conduct, (B) repeated intoxication by alcohol or drugs during the performance of such Employee’s duties in a manner that materially and adversely affects the Employee’s performance of such duties, (C) malfeasance, in the conduct of such Employee’s duties, including, but not limited to, (1) misuse or diversion of funds of the Company or its Affiliates, (2) embezzlement, or (3) misrepresentations or concealments on any written reports submitted to or on behalf of the Company or its Affiliates, (D) violation of any provision of this Agreement, or (E) failure to perform the duties of such Employee’s employment or service relationship with the Company or its Affiliates after the Employee shall have been informed, in writing, of such material failure and given a period of not less than 30 days to remedy the same, or (F) failure to follow or comply with the reasonable and lawful written directives or policies of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company by which such Employee is employed or in a service relationship with.

 

(e) “CC Termination” means any of the following: (a) the Employee’s employment is terminated by the Company without Cause following a Change of Control; (b) the Employee resigns as a result of a material diminution in the Employee’s authority, duties, or responsibilities, a material reduction in the Employee’s then current Base Salary or a material reduction in the Employee’s then current benefits as provided in Sections 3-4, a relocation of more than 50 miles from the Employee’s then current place of employment being required by the Board, or a material breach by the Company under this Agreement; or (c) the Employee resigns in connection with a Change in Control as a result of the Company’s failure to obtain the assumption of this Agreement, without limitation or reduction, by any successor to the Company or any parent corporation of the Company.

 

 
 

 

(f) “Change in Control” shall mean that any one of the following applies:

 

(i) The acquisition by any Person of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) of 40% or more of the combined voting power of the then-outstanding voting securities of the Company entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (the Outstanding Company Voting Securities”). For purposes of this paragraph (i) the following acquisitions by a Person will not constitute a Change in Control: (A) any acquisition directly from the Company; (B) any acquisition by the Company; or (C) any acquisition by any employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained by the Company or any entity controlled by the Company.

 

(ii) If William Alessi ceases to be an officer or director of the Company.

 

(iii) The consummation of a reorganization, merger, consolidation or sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company (a “Business Combination”), unless following such Business Combination: (i) the individuals and entities who were the beneficial owners, respectively, of the outstanding common stock of the Company and Outstanding Company Voting Securities immediately prior to such Business Combination beneficially own, directly or indirectly, more than 60% of, respectively, the then-outstanding shares of common stock and the combined voting power of the then-outstanding voting securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, as the case may be, of the entity resulting from such Business Combination (including, without limitation, a corporation that as a result of such transaction owns the Company or all or substantially all of the Company’s assets either directly or through one or more subsidiaries) in substantially the same proportions to one another as their ownership, immediately prior to such Business Combination of the Outstanding Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities, as the case may be, (ii) no Person (excluding any entity resulting from such Business Combination or any employee benefit plan (or related trust) of the Company or such entity resulting from such Business Combination) beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, 40% or more of, respectively, the then-outstanding shares of common stock of the entity resulting from such Business Combination or the combined voting power of the then-outstanding voting securities of such entity except to the extent that such ownership existed prior to the Business Combination and (iii) at least a majority of the members of the Board of the corporation resulting from such Business Combination were members of the Incumbent Board at the time of the execution of the initial agreement, or of the action of the Board, providing for such Business Combination; or

 

(iv) The approval by the stockholders of the Company of a complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company.

 

(g) “Discover” means create, invent, originate, author, devise, engineer, formulate, develop, prototype, improve, compile, design, conceive, reduce to practice, discover, make, produce, generate or otherwise identify or document; and, other grammatical forms of the term “Discover” shall have the grammatical meaning of such form (for example, but not in limitation, “Discovered” means created, invented, etc., and “Discovery” means creation, invention, etc.).

 

(h) “Discovered IP” means the Intellectual Property in any way Discovered by Employee (regardless of whether such Discovery is made solely by Employee or is made jointly with, or with the assistance, participation or involvement of one or more other Persons) wherein such Discovery occurs during, in conjunction with, in relation to or preparatory to, or otherwise arises out of, Employee’s course and scope of employment with Company (regardless of whether or not such Discovery occurs or otherwise arises with or without the use or benefit of Company’s equipment, facilities or other resources; and, further, regardless of whether or not such Discovery occurs or arises during company time, Employee’s free or personal time or otherwise).

 

 
 

 

(i) “Discovered IP Rights” means the Intellectual Property Rights for the Discovered IP.

 

(j) “Intellectual Property” means, whether or not patentable, each and all of the following: ideas, inventions, concepts, developments, improvements, discoveries, designs, compounds, substances or other materials, formulations, compilations, designs, applets, scripts, databases, or other computer programs, firmware or software, manuals, documentation, test procedures or techniques, training materials, systems materials, other materials, reports, creations, other works of authorship, machines, apparatus, technology, prototypes, confidential information, know-how, show-how, trade secrets, methods (whether technological, business or otherwise), processes, marks, symbols, slogans, emblems, business plans and strategies or other proprietary things or information.

 

(k) “Intellectual Property Rights” means all worldwide rights (including, without limitation, all rights to, and to apply for, register, own, license and otherwise exploit, as well as all rights to any now or hereinafter pending applications for, issued, registered, registrations for, or otherwise existing, United States or foreign patents, industrial rights, invention certificates, copyrights, rights of authorship, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade dress, trade secrets or other proprietary or intellectual property rights) in and to the Intellectual Property; and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term “Intellectual Property Rights” also includes all present or future applied for, claimed, pending, registered or issued United States or foreign patents and all applications therefor, including, without limitation, all original, provisional, divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part and continued prosecution applications and, including, without limitation, all reissues or extensions thereof.

 

(l) “Person” means and includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association, limited liability company, trust, estate, joint venture, or other entity.

 

(m) “Total Disability” or “Totally Disabled” with respect to Employee, means he is unable to perform, on a full-time basis the regular activities of his employment for a period of (i) six (6) consecutive months or (ii) a total of 26 weeks during any period of 12 consecutive months; provided that authorized vacations or other leaves of absence shall not be counted. The date of Total Disability shall be the date on which the earlier of the requirements stated in (i) or (ii) of this definition are satisfied.

 

 
 

 

EXHIBIT B

 

FORM OF RELEASE

 

This Release (this “Release”) is made effective as of __________________ (the “Effective Date”), by William Alessi (“Employee”).

 

RECITALS

 

A. Employee and Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) are parties to that certain Employment Agreement, dated effective as of [_________], 20__ (the “Employment Agreement”).

 

B. This Release is delivered pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Employment Agreement.

 

C. Employee acknowledges that the execution and delivery of this Release is a condition to receiving the Severance Payment pursuant to Section 7 of the Employment Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, and intending to be legally bound, in order to induce Purchaser to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement, Seller and Members hereby agree as follows:

 

Section 1 Terms. Capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined shall have their respective meanings set forth in the Employment Agreement.

 

Section 2 Releases.

 

(a) Employee hereby irrevocably and unconditionally releases, acquits and forever discharges the Company and its Affiliates and their respective officers, directors, members, managers, successors and assigns (the “Released Parties”) from any and all claims, demands, proceedings, causes of action, orders, obligations, debts and liabilities whether known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, both at law and in equity, which Employee now has or has ever had against the Released Parties arising on or prior to the Effective Date, whether pursuant to contract or otherwise and whether or not relating to claims pending on, or asserted after, the Effective Date, including, but not limited to any and all claims arising out of or related to Employee’s employment with the Company, including any alleged violation under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq., Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000(e) et seq.; the Civil Rights Act of 1866, as amended by the Civil Rights Act of 1991,42 U.S.C. §1981,; the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended; Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (except for vested benefits under any tax qualified benefit plan), as amended, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq.; the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq.; the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.; the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, the Equal Pay Act; Executive Order 11246; Executive Order 11141; and any other statutory claim, employment or other contract claim, or common or civil law claim for wrongful discharge, defamation, or invasion of privacy arising out of or in any way connected with or involving any employment relationship of Employee with any Released Party, the termination or resignation of Employee’s employment with any Released Party, or any continuing effects of his employment with any Released Party, including, but not limited to, any claim for severance pay other than Severance Pay required pursuant to Section 7 of the Employment Agreement, bonus, salary, sick leave, holiday pay, vacation pay, life insurance, health or medical insurance or any other fringe benefit, workers’ compensation, or disability.

 

(b)(1) Employee acknowledges that the Company is not obligated to provide the Severance Payment pursuant to Section 7 of the Employment Agreement and that the Company has agreed to provide such consideration in exchange for the Release. Employee further acknowledges that neither payment by the Company of the Severance Payment, nor any term or condition contained in the Release or the Employment Agreement, shall be construed as an admission of liability or wrongdoing by the Company.

 

 
 

 

(2) Employee acknowledges that he was given a period of forty-five (45) days to consider and execute the Release. Further, Employee acknowledges that he has a right to revoke this Release within a period of seven (7) days following his signing the Release. Employee also understands that the Release shall not become effective or enforceable until the seven–day period has ended and he has not revoked the Release.

 

(3) Employee understands that if he does not sign the Release within forty-five (45) days, or if he revokes the Agreement within the seven (7) day revocation period, he will not receive the Severance Payment.

 

Section 3 Representations and Warranties. Employee represents and warrants to the Released Parties that he has not assigned or otherwise transferred any right or interest in any claims released pursuant to Section 2 hereof. Employee also represents that he has read and fully understands the Release and acknowledges that he had the right and full opportunity to review this Release with an attorney of his choice and was encouraged to do so. Employee further represents has signed this Release freely and voluntarily, with full knowledge that he is waiving all claims against the Company through the date of this Release.

 

Section 4 Covenants. Employee hereby irrevocably and perpetually covenants as follows:

 

(a) Employee will refrain from, directly or indirectly, asserting any claims released pursuant to Section 2 hereof, or commencing, instituting or causing to be commenced, any proceeding of any kind against the Released Parties, based upon any matter purported to be released hereby.

 

(b) Employee will not assign or transfer any right or interest in any claims released pursuant to Section 2 hereof.

 

Section 5 Miscellaneous.

 

(a) The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this Release shall not affect the other provisions hereof, and this Release shall be construed in all respects as if such invalid or unenforceable provisions were omitted.

 

(b) This Release shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware without regard to any applicable principles of conflicts of law.

 

(c) This Release shall not be amended or modified except by a written instrument duly executed by Employee and the Company.

 

(d) Captions and headings of the sections and paragraphs of this Release are intended solely for convenience and no provision of this Release is to be construed by reference to the caption or heading of any section or paragraph.

 

(e) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, nothing in this Release shall (i) prohibit the Employee from making reports of possible violations of federal law or regulations to any governmental agency or entity in accordance with the provisions of and the rules promulgated under Section 21F of the Exchange Act or Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, or of any other whistleblower protection provisions of state or federal law or regulations, (ii) require notification or prior approval by the Company of any reporting described in clause (i), or (iii) limit Employee’s right to receive an award for information reported to any government agency or entity as described in clause (i).

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed and delivered this Release effective as of the Effective Date above.

 

EMPLOYEE:  
   
   
  William Alessi

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 10.10

 

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

This Employment Agreement (this “Agreement”) is entered into as of December 13, 2024 (the “Effective Date”) by and between Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) and Rodney Sperry (the “Employee”).

 

RECITALS

 

A. The Company desires to obtain the services of Employee under the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.

 

B. Employee desires to provide his services to the Company upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises and covenants contained in this Agreement and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Employee and the Company hereby covenant and agree as follows:

 

1. Defined Terms. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in Exhibit A attached to this Agreement.

 

2. Employment.

 

(a) The Company agrees to employ Employee as Chief Financial Officer, as of the Effective Date and for the period set forth in Section 2(c) below, unless Employee’s employment is terminated sooner in accordance with this Agreement.

 

(b) Employee accepts employment and agrees to devote his full time and attention to the performance of his duties as determined by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”) and to operate within the guidelines, plans and policies as may be established or approved by the Company from time to time. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, during his employment, the Employee shall not serve on the boards of directors of any for-profit entity without the prior consent of the Board.

 

(c) Employee shall commence his duties hereunder as of the Effective Date and continue in the employ of the Company until the third (3rd) anniversary of the Effective Date (the “Initial Term”) or until his employment is terminated sooner as provided in this Agreement. Upon expiration of the Initial Term, this Agreement may be extended by the Company for an additional one (1) year period (the “Renewal Term”), by providing written notice to Employee not less than forty-five (45) days prior to the expiration of the Initial Term.

 

(d) Employee’s place of employment shall be in Salt Lake City Utah area. Employee may also be required to engage in reasonable travel to other locations on Company business consistent with Employee’s position.

 

3. Compensation.

 

(a) The Company shall pay to Employee an annual base salary of $48,000 (“Base Salary”), which amount shall be prorated for any partial year and paid in accordance with the Company’s payroll practices related to salaried employees. If Employee’s employment is terminated as provided herein prior to the expiration of the Initial or the Renewal Term (if applicable), then the Company shall pay to Employee any amount of Base Salary due to Employee up to and including the date of such termination.

 

 
 

 

(b) Commencing with calendar year 2024, Employee shall be eligible to receive a performance-based cash bonus of up to 110% of Employee’s base salary, based on the Employee’s personal performance and the Company’s ability to achieve certain EBITDA and financial goals, each as determined by the Board (“Annual Bonus”). The Board shall have the sole discretion whether to make any such award. Employee shall only be entitled to receive any Annual Bonus payment if Employee remains an employee in good standing with the Company as of the date such Annual Bonus is payable.

 

(c) Employee will be eligible to receive annual grants of long-term incentive awards under and subject to the terms of the Company’s equity or other long-term incentive plan (including any applicable award agreement) as in effect from time to time. The target value of the awards granted will equal $62,400 or approximately 130% of Employee’s Base Salary. Employee recognizes and acknowledges that the award of equity compensation is not guaranteed or promised in any way.

 

(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Company shall have the right in its sole discretion to defer payment of cash compensation due to the Employee under this Agreement until the Company shall have raised an aggregate of $10,000,000 in funding after the Effective Date.

 

4. Payment or Reimbursement of Expenses. Subject to compliance by Employee with such policies regarding expenses and expense reimbursements as may be adopted from time to time by the Company, Employee shall be paid or reimbursed for reasonable expenses actually incurred in connection with the performance of his duties under this Agreement and in the furtherance of the business and affairs of the Company. Any such reimbursement shall be made within a reasonable period after presentation by Employee of an itemized account of such expenses, accompanied by appropriate receipts satisfactory to the Company. In no event shall any expense be paid or reimbursed, unless properly accounted for to the extent necessary to substantiate the Company’s federal income tax deduction under the applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), and the regulations promulgated thereunder or any similar state or federal law or regulation.

 

5. Additional Benefits.

 

(a) Employee shall be eligible to participate in or receive benefits under any employee benefit plan or arrangement now or in the future made available by the Company generally to its executive employees, subject to and on a basis consistent with the terms, conditions and overall administration of such plans and arrangements. Nothing in this Agreement shall affect the Company’s right to change insurance carriers and to adopt, amend, terminate, or modify such plans and arrangements from time to time, provided that such changes apply to all Employee employees generally.

 

(b) Employee shall be entitled to take 30 days of paid vacation during each 12-month period. No paid vacation may be carried forward from one 12-month period to another. The other terms and conditions of such vacation and all other forms of leave, including accrual rates and payout, shall be as set forth in the Company’s vacation and leave policies, as they may exist and be amended from time to time. Employee shall also be entitled to all paid holidays given by the Company in accordance with the Company’s regular paid holiday policy, as it may exist and be amended from time to time.

 

6. Termination. This Agreement and the Company’s obligations hereunder shall terminate as provided in Section 2(c) unless terminated earlier pursuant to this Section 6 as follows:

 

(a) In the event of the death or Total Disability of Employee, this Agreement shall automatically terminate as of the date of such death or Total Disability.

 

(b) Employee may terminate his employment at any time upon thirty (30) days’ advance written notice delivered to the Company.

 

(c) The Company may terminate Employee’s employment at any time, effective immediately, with or without Cause.

 

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7. Severance.

 

(a) If the Company terminates Employee’s employment with the Company without Cause in accordance with Section 6(c) prior to the expiration of the Initial Term, the Company shall pay Employee a severance payment an amount equal to twelve months of Employee’s Base Salary as in effect on the date of termination, subject to subsections (c) and (d).

 

(b) If during the Term of this Agreement there is a CC Termination, then the Employee will be entitled to a severance payment (in addition to any other rights and other amounts payable to the Employee under Company plans in which Employee is a participant, but without duplication for any amounts due to Employee pursuant to Section 7(a)) payable in a lump sum in cash in an amount equal to the sum of: (i) the Employee’s Base Salary in effect on date of such CC Termination (or, if greater, the highest Base Salary in effect during the three year period ending on the date of such CC Termination), and (ii) the Employee’s Average Annual Bonus, subject to subsections (c) and (d).

 

(c) Any severance payment payable to Employee pursuant to this Section 7 (a “Severance Payment”) will be made in a lump sum within sixty (60) days after the date Employee’s employment is terminated giving rise to such Severance Payment pursuant to Section 7(a) or (b); provided that Employee executes and delivers the release contemplated by Section 7(d) and such release becomes effective and irrevocable. If such sixty (60) day period spans two calendar years, the Severance Payment will be made in the second calendar year. However, if Employee is a “specified employee” as defined in regulations under Section 409A of the Code and the Severance Payment constitutes “nonqualified deferred compensation” that is subject to Section 409A of the Code, the Severance Payment will be made on the Company’s first payroll payment date that is more than six (6) months the Severance Payment is otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement.

 

(d) Employee acknowledges and agrees the Severance Payment to which the Employee is entitled under this Section 7 is conditioned upon and subject to the Employee’s executing and delivering the general release of claims in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B by the 45th day following the Employee’s separation from service and not revoking the release within the seven (7) days after executing and delivering the release. If such forty-five (45) day period plus the seven (7) day revocation period spans two calendar years, the Severance Payment will be paid in the second calendar year. Employee’s right to the Severance Payment is further conditioned upon Employee’s continued compliance with Sections 8-11 of this Agreement. If Employee breaches any of his obligations in Sections 8-11 of this Agreement, he will immediately return to the Company any portion of the Severance Payment that has been paid to him pursuant to Section 7.

 

8. Covenant Not to Compete.

 

(a) During Employee’s employment with the Company and for an additional period of two years following the termination of Employee’s employment with the Company for any reason (the “Restricted Period”), Employee covenants and agrees that, with respect to the entire United States of America and Canada (the “Restricted Area”), Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, for his own benefit or to the detriment of the Company or any of its Affiliates:

 

(i) Compete with the Company in the Business in any manner or capacity (e.g., through any form of ownership, lending relationship, or as an advisor, principal, investor, agent, partner, officer, director, manager, employee, employer, independent contractor, consultant, member of any association or otherwise, whether or not for compensation or gain) by working for, becoming employed by, engaging in, carrying on, or providing services to any business involving the Business;

 

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(ii) Own, manage, operate, join or control, or participate in the ownership, management, operation or control of, a business (however structured) that carries on or engages in any manner in the Business;

 

(iii) Perform services of the type he or she performs for the Company for any Person engaged in the Business, whether as an employee, independent contractor, consultant or otherwise; or

 

(iv) Solicit, induce or otherwise contact customers or suppliers of the Company for any purpose or manner detrimental to the Company.

 

The parties agree that each of the foregoing prohibitions is intended to constitute a separate restriction. Accordingly, should any such prohibition be declared invalid or unenforceable, such prohibition shall be deemed severable from and shall not affect the remainder thereof. The Parties further agree that the foregoing restrictions are reasonable in both time and scope.

 

(b) Ownership by Employee, as a passive investment, in the aggregate of less than one percent (1%) of the outstanding equity securities of any corporation or other entity listed on a national securities exchange or publicly traded on any nationally recognized over-the-counter market shall not constitute a breach of Section 8(a) of this Agreement.

 

9. Confidential Information.

 

(a) Employee hereby acknowledges that Employee may be exposed to trade secrets and confidential and proprietary information of the Company and its Affiliates, including, without limitation, all design drawings, blueprints, plans, designs, calculations, technical specifications, construction notes or other works of authorship, inventions, writings, information, data, formulas, models, photographs, and design concepts, and the like, and all other documentation developed for or relating to the Company and its Affiliates and other technical information (including functional and technical specifications, designs, drawings, analysis, research, processes, procedures, manuals, computer programs, methods, ideas, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Rights, “know how” and the like), business information (development and acquisition prospects, reserve reports, materials, plans, accounting and financial information, pricing information, customer and supplier information, completion studies, expansion or acquisition opportunities, personnel records and the like) and other information designated as confidential expressly or by the circumstances in which it is provided (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information does not include (i) information already known or independently developed by a third party recipient without the use of Confidential Information; (ii) information in the public domain through sources free of any confidentiality restriction and without any wrongful act of the recipient, or (iii) information received by the recipient from another third party who was free to disclose it.

 

(b) Employee hereby agrees, while employed by the Company or at any time thereafter, to keep strictly confidential and not disclose, use, divulge, publish, or otherwise reveal, directly or through any other Person, any Confidential Information of the Company and its Affiliates, except as may be necessary for Employee to perform his duties and obligations in conjunction with his employment with the Company. Employee further agrees that, upon expiration or termination of his employment with the Company for any reason, Employee will not, without the prior written consent of the Company’s Board, take any Confidential Information of the Company or its Affiliates.

 

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(c) All written or electronic materials, records and documents made by Employee or in the possession of Employee during his employment with the Company concerning the business or affairs of the Company or its Affiliates or otherwise containing Confidential Information, or other items or property held by or for Employee, but owned or used by the Company or its Affiliates, shall be the sole property of the Company or its Affiliate, as the case may be, and, upon termination of Employee’s employment with the Company or upon the request of the Company or any of its Affiliates, Employee shall promptly deliver all of such materials, records, documents or other items of property that are then in his possession.

 

(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, nothing in this Agreement shall (i) prohibit the Employee from making reports of possible violations of federal law or regulations to any governmental agency or entity in accordance with the provisions of and the rules promulgated under Section 21F of the Exchange Act or Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, or of any other whistleblower protection provisions of state or federal law or regulations, (ii) require notification or prior approval by the Company of any reporting described in clause (i), or (iii) limit Employee’s right to receive an award for information reported to any government agency or entity as described in clause (i).

 

10. Non-Solicitation of Employees. During the Restricted Period, Employee will not under any circumstances within the Restricted Area, without the express written consent of the Board, employ, solicit the employment or engagement of, or assist any other entity in employing or soliciting the employment or engagement of, any Protected Person (as defined below), recommend the employment or engagement of any Protected Person to any other business or encourage any Protected Person to terminate his or her employment relationship with the Company or any of its Affiliates. A “Protected Person” means any person who was employed by the Company or any of its Affiliates at or after the Effective Date and prior to the termination of Employee’s employment with the Company.

 

11. Ownership of Inventions and Other Intellectual Property.

 

(a) Company’s Ownership of Inventions and Other IP: Assignment. All Discovered IP Rights shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company without additional compensation to Employee. Employee forever and irrevocably assigns to Company, without any reservation for royalties or other reservations, and free and clear of all liens, claims and encumbrances of any kind whatsoever, any Discovered IP Rights. Employee shall disclose promptly to the Company or its nominee any and all Discovered IP. Without in any way limiting the Company’s rights or Employee’s obligations under the foregoing, to the extent that a work may be deemed a “work made for hire”, Employee and the Company agree that such work (regardless of whether such work is created or authored solely by Employee or is created or authored jointly with, or with the assistance, participation or involvement of one or more other Persons) shall be a “work made for hire” and Employee hereby assigns to the Company, without any reservation for royalties or other reservations, and free and clear of all liens, claims and encumbrances of any kind whatsoever, the entire present and future right, title, claim and interest in and to all Intellectual Property Rights to such work.

 

(b) Employee’s Further Assurances. Whenever requested to do so by the Company, Employee shall execute, without further compensation to Employee, but at the expense of the Company, any and all applications, assignments, oaths, certifications, declarations, statements, affidavits or other instruments which the Company shall deem necessary to grant to, vest in or perfect for the Company or its nominee the right, title, claim and interest in and to the Discovered IP Rights to enable the Company or its nominee to apply for, obtain, procure, register, maintain, renew, defend and enforce Intellectual Property Rights in and to the Discovered IP, whether in the United States, Canada or any foreign country, or to otherwise protect Company’s or its nominee’s interest therein. These obligations shall continue beyond the termination of employment and shall be binding upon Employee’s assigns, executors, administrators, heirs and other legal representatives. Employee represents and warrants, and, throughout Employee’s employment with the Company, continues to represent and warrant, that Employee has not heretofore assigned, licensed or granted any right, title, claim or interest in and to the Discovered IP Rights to any other Person or entered into any agreement, commitment or undertaking in conflict with this Agreement; and that Employee shall never assign, license, or grant any right, title, claim or interest of any kind to the Discovered IP Rights or enter into any agreement, commitment or undertaking in conflict with this Agreement save and except as expressly authorized by the Company in writing. Without limiting the Company’s rights or Employee’s obligations under the foregoing, whenever requested to do so by the Company, Employee shall, without further compensation to Employee, but at the expense of the Company, do the following with respect to, for, arising out of or related to any of the Discovered IP Rights: (1) cooperate with the Company in the filing, application, procurement, prosecution, maintenance, enforcement and defense of each and every domestic or foreign patent application or application for invention or industrial rights (including, without limitation, each and every provisional, original, divisional, continuation or continuation in part patent application); patent or invention certificate (including, without limitation, any proceedings for the reissue, reexamination, renewal or extension of a patent); interference proceeding, opposition or cancellation proceeding, priority contest or public use proceedings; trade secret, trade dress, trademark or other right or benefit; (2) appear before or assist in preparations for any and all hearings, depositions or other proceedings related to any of the foregoing; and, (3) take such further actions as reasonably requested by the Company so that the Company enjoys the full extent of the assignment granted under, or other rights arising under, this Agreement. Employee represents and warrants that Employee shall never disclose to the Company, or use for the benefit of the Company, any trade secrets or other confidential information learned or obtained from Employee’s previous employers or other Persons if such disclosure or use would violate the trade secret rights or other rights of such previous employers or other Persons.

 

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(c) Employee’s Indemnification of Company. Employee shall indemnify, defend and hold the Company and its Affiliates, and each of the foregoing’s directors, officers, shareholders, members, managers, employees and agents, harmless from any and all claims, demands, suits, causes of action, damages (including, without limitation, consequential damages), liabilities, losses, costs, expenses and fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fee and investigatory fees) for or arising out of or from Employee’s breach, misrepresentation or otherwise failure to fully perform, satisfy, comply and observe all of Employee’s agreements, covenants, representations, warranties, commitments, obligations or other undertakings arising under this Section 11.

 

(d) Employee’s Assignment of Prior Rights. Employee hereby assigns to the Company any and all Intellectual Property and/or Intellectual Property Rights related to the operations of the Company that may have inured to Employee’s benefit prior to the Effective Date.

 

12. Non-Disparagement. During his employment and following termination of his employment, whatever the cause, Employee agrees not to disparage, and to cause Employee’s Affiliates not to disparage, either orally or in writing, any of the Company or its Affiliates or the foregoing Persons’ business, products, services or practices, or any of the Company’s or its Affiliates’ directors, officers, agents, representatives, stockholders, partners, members, employees, or managers.

 

13. Reasonable Limits. Employee acknowledges that the agreement of the Employee not to engage in the activities prohibited herein for the period of time and in the areas agreed upon herein is a substantial consideration for his employment with the Company. Employee hereby acknowledges that the above covenants are manifestly reasonable on their face and expressly agrees that they are also reasonable as to time and territorial scope and otherwise and that same are no greater than is required for the protection of the respective interests of the parties.

 

14. Compliance with Section 409A of the Code. The Company and Employee intend that any amounts or benefits payable or provided under this Agreement comply with the provisions of Section 409A of the Code and the Treasury Regulations relating thereto so as not to subject Employee to the payment of the tax, interest and any tax penalty which may be imposed under Section 409A; provided, however, that nothing in this Agreement shall be interpreted or construed to transfer any liability for any tax (including a tax or penalty due as a result of a failure to comply with Section 409A) from the Employee to the Company or to any other individual or entity. Any payment to the Employee that is subject to Section 409A and that is contingent on a termination of employment is contingent on a “separation from service” within the meaning of Section 409A. Each payment shall be considered to be a separate payment for purposes of Section 409A. The provisions of this Agreement shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with such intent. In furtherance thereof, to the extent that any provision hereof would otherwise result in Employee being subject to payment of tax, interest and tax penalty under Section 409A, the Company and Employee agree to amend this Agreement in a manner that brings this Agreement into compliance with Section 409A and preserve to the maximum extent possible the economic value of the relevant payment or benefit under this Agreement to Employee. Any taxable reimbursement shall be paid no later than December 31 of the year after the year in which the expense is incurred and shall comply with Treas. Reg. § 1.409A-3(i)(1)(iv).

 

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15. No Violation of Third Party Rights. Employee hereby represents, warrants and covenants to the Company that Employee: (a) shall not, during his employment with the Company, infringe upon or violate any proprietary rights of any third party (including, without limitation, any third party confidential relationships, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, Intellectual Property or other proprietary rights); (b) is not a party to any agreement with a third party that prevents him from fulfilling the terms of employment and the obligations of this Agreement or which would be breached as a result of Employee’s execution of this Agreement or performance of his employment duties; and (c) agrees to respect any and all valid obligations which Employee may now have to prior employers or to others relating to confidential information, inventions or discoveries which are the property of those prior employers or others, as the case may be.

 

16. Resignation from All Positions. Upon the termination of the Employee’s employment with the Company for any reason, Employee shall be deemed to have resigned, as of the date of such termination, from all positions he then holds as an officer, director, employee and member of the Board (and any committee thereof) and the boards of all of its subsidiaries.

 

17. Notices. All notices, requests, demands and other communications provided for by this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given when delivered in person, by nationally recognized overnight courier, or mailed by United States certified mail, return receipt required, postage prepaid, or sent by electronic mail addressed as follows:

 

  If to the Company to: Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc.
    20311 Chartwell Center Drive, #1469
    Cornelius, NC 28031
    Contact@alphamodus.com

 

  If to Employee to: Rodney Sperry
    __________________
    __________________
    __________________
    __________________

 

18. Governing Law. The provisions of this Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the substantive local law of the State of Delaware, without consideration of the conflicts of law provisions thereof.

 

19. Remedies. Each party acknowledges that the other party will have no adequate remedy at law if the first party violates certain of the terms of this Agreement, and that the other party shall have the right, to the extent permitted by applicable law, in addition to any other rights or remedies it may have, to obtain from any court of competent jurisdiction, injunctive relief to restrain any breach or threatened breach hereof or otherwise to specifically enforce the provisions hereof.

 

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20. Waiver. No waiver of any obligation, right or remedy under this Agreement shall be effective, unless such waiver is made in writing, specifying the terms of this Agreement. Any such waiver by either party of any of its rights or remedies hereunder on any occasion shall not be a bar to the exercise of the same right or remedy on any subsequent occasion or of the exercise of any other right or remedy at any time.

 

21. Integration and Amendments. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes any prior agreement or understanding, whether written or oral, relating to such subject matter. No modification or amendment to this Agreement shall be effective or binding unless in writing, specifying such modification or amendment, executed by both of the parties hereto.

 

22. Severability. If any provision, paragraph or subparagraph of this Agreement is adjudged by any court to be void or unenforceable, in whole or in part, such an adjudication shall not be deemed to affect the validity of the remainder of the Agreement, and all other provisions, sections and subsections of this Agreement shall be severable from every other provision, section or subsection and each constitutes a separate and distinct covenant.

 

23. Court Modification for Enforcement. In the event a court determines that any provisions of this Agreement are overbroad, excessive or unenforceable in any respect including but not limited to the Restricted Period, the Restricted Area, or the nature of the restrictions, then in such an event the parties agree that the court shall be permitted to modify this Agreement in order to make the restrictions more narrow and to make this Agreement enforceable in order to provide each party with the maximum restriction or restrictions allowed by law.

 

24. Reimbursement for Expenses. If litigation or other action is commenced between the parties concerning any dispute arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the prevailing party in the action will be entitled, in addition to any other award that may be made, to recover all court costs or other official costs and all reasonable expenses associated with the action, including without limitation reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses.

 

25. Survival of Certain Provisions. The rights and obligations of Employee and Company under Sections 7-12 of this Agreement shall survive the expiration or termination of this Agreement.

 

26. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument, respectively. Executed copies of the signature pages of this Agreement sent by facsimile or transmitted electronically in Portable Document Format (“PDF”) shall be treated as originals, fully binding and with full legal force and effect, and the Parties waive any rights they may have to object to such treatment. Any party delivering an executed counterpart of this Agreement by facsimile or PDF also may deliver a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement, but the failure to deliver a manually executed counterpart shall not affect the validity, enforceability, and binding effect of this Agreement.

 

(Signature Page Follows)

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Employment Agreement effective as of the Effective Date above.

 

  Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc.
     
  By: /s/ William Alessi
    William Alessi
    President and Chief Executive Officer
     
  EMPLOYEE:
     
  /s/ Rodney Sperry
  Name: Rodney Sperry

 

 
 

 

EXHIBIT A

DEFINED TERMS

 

The following terms, as used in this Agreement and in any correspondence or other communications between the parties in performing or in connection with this Agreement, shall have the meaning ascribed as follows:

 

(a) “Affiliates” means with respect to any Person, (a) any Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with such Person; (b) any Person owning or controlling fifty percent (50%) or more of the outstanding voting securities or interests of such Person; (c) any officer, director, member, manager, trustee or (limited or general) partner of such Person or of any Person specified in (a) or (b) above; and (d) any Person in which any officer, director, member, manager, trustee or (limited or general) partner of any Person specified in (c) above is an officer, director, member, manager, trustee, or (limited or general) partner. For purposes of this definition, “control” (including, with correlative meaning, controlled by and under common control with) of a Person means the direct or indirect possession of the power to direct or cause the direction of management or policies of such Person through any means.

 

(b) “Average Annual Bonus” means (a) if the CC Termination occurs before the Annual Bonus is paid for the Employee’s first year of employment, 110% of the Employee’s Base Salary as in effect on the Effective Date, or (b) otherwise, the average Annual Bonus paid pursuant to Section 3(b) for the preceding three years (or such lesser number of years as the Employee may have been employed).

 

(c) “Business” means the business of Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc. and all activities related thereto.

 

(d) “Cause,” shall mean by reason of such Employee’s: (A) conviction of, or plea of nolo contendere to, any felony or to any crime or offense causing substantial harm to the Company or its Affiliates or involving acts of theft, fraud, dishonesty, embezzlement, moral turpitude, or similar conduct, (B) repeated intoxication by alcohol or drugs during the performance of such Employee’s duties in a manner that materially and adversely affects the Employee’s performance of such duties, (C) malfeasance, in the conduct of such Employee’s duties, including, but not limited to, (1) misuse or diversion of funds of the Company or its Affiliates, (2) embezzlement, or (3) misrepresentations or concealments on any written reports submitted to or on behalf of the Company or its Affiliates, (D) violation of any provision of this Agreement, or (E) failure to perform the duties of such Employee’s employment or service relationship with the Company or its Affiliates after the Employee shall have been informed, in writing, of such material failure and given a period of not less than 30 days to remedy the same, or (F) failure to follow or comply with the reasonable and lawful written directives or policies of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company by which such Employee is employed or in a service relationship with.

 

(e) “CC Termination” means any of the following: (a) the Employee’s employment is terminated by the Company without Cause following a Change of Control; (b) the Employee resigns as a result of a material diminution in the Employee’s authority, duties, or responsibilities, a material reduction in the Employee’s then current Base Salary or a material reduction in the Employee’s then current benefits as provided in Sections 3-4, a relocation of more than 50 miles from the Employee’s then current place of employment being required by the Board, or a material breach by the Company under this Agreement; or (c) the Employee resigns in connection with a Change in Control as a result of the Company’s failure to obtain the assumption of this Agreement, without limitation or reduction, by any successor to the Company or any parent corporation of the Company.

 

 
 

 

(f) “Change in Control” shall mean that any one of the following applies:

 

(i) The acquisition by any Person of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) of 40% or more of the combined voting power of the then-outstanding voting securities of the Company entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (the Outstanding Company Voting Securities”). For purposes of this paragraph (i) the following acquisitions by a Person will not constitute a Change in Control: (A) any acquisition directly from the Company; (B) any acquisition by the Company; or (C) any acquisition by any employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained by the Company or any entity controlled by the Company.

 

(ii) If Rodney Sperry ceases to be an officer or director of the Company.

 

(iii) The consummation of a reorganization, merger, consolidation or sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company (a “Business Combination”), unless following such Business Combination: (i) the individuals and entities who were the beneficial owners, respectively, of the outstanding common stock of the Company and Outstanding Company Voting Securities immediately prior to such Business Combination beneficially own, directly or indirectly, more than 60% of, respectively, the then-outstanding shares of common stock and the combined voting power of the then-outstanding voting securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, as the case may be, of the entity resulting from such Business Combination (including, without limitation, a corporation that as a result of such transaction owns the Company or all or substantially all of the Company’s assets either directly or through one or more subsidiaries) in substantially the same proportions to one another as their ownership, immediately prior to such Business Combination of the Outstanding Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities, as the case may be, (ii) no Person (excluding any entity resulting from such Business Combination or any employee benefit plan (or related trust) of the Company or such entity resulting from such Business Combination) beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, 40% or more of, respectively, the then-outstanding shares of common stock of the entity resulting from such Business Combination or the combined voting power of the then-outstanding voting securities of such entity except to the extent that such ownership existed prior to the Business Combination and (iii) at least a majority of the members of the Board of the corporation resulting from such Business Combination were members of the Incumbent Board at the time of the execution of the initial agreement, or of the action of the Board, providing for such Business Combination; or

 

(iv) The approval by the stockholders of the Company of a complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company.

 

(g) “Discover” means create, invent, originate, author, devise, engineer, formulate, develop, prototype, improve, compile, design, conceive, reduce to practice, discover, make, produce, generate or otherwise identify or document; and, other grammatical forms of the term “Discover” shall have the grammatical meaning of such form (for example, but not in limitation, “Discovered” means created, invented, etc., and “Discovery” means creation, invention, etc.).

 

(h) “Discovered IP” means the Intellectual Property in any way Discovered by Employee (regardless of whether such Discovery is made solely by Employee or is made jointly with, or with the assistance, participation or involvement of one or more other Persons) wherein such Discovery occurs during, in conjunction with, in relation to or preparatory to, or otherwise arises out of, Employee’s course and scope of employment with Company (regardless of whether or not such Discovery occurs or otherwise arises with or without the use or benefit of Company’s equipment, facilities or other resources; and, further, regardless of whether or not such Discovery occurs or arises during company time, Employee’s free or personal time or otherwise).

 

 
 

 

(i) “Discovered IP Rights” means the Intellectual Property Rights for the Discovered IP.

 

(j) “Intellectual Property” means, whether or not patentable, each and all of the following: ideas, inventions, concepts, developments, improvements, discoveries, designs, compounds, substances or other materials, formulations, compilations, designs, applets, scripts, databases, or other computer programs, firmware or software, manuals, documentation, test procedures or techniques, training materials, systems materials, other materials, reports, creations, other works of authorship, machines, apparatus, technology, prototypes, confidential information, know-how, show-how, trade secrets, methods (whether technological, business or otherwise), processes, marks, symbols, slogans, emblems, business plans and strategies or other proprietary things or information.

 

(k) “Intellectual Property Rights” means all worldwide rights (including, without limitation, all rights to, and to apply for, register, own, license and otherwise exploit, as well as all rights to any now or hereinafter pending applications for, issued, registered, registrations for, or otherwise existing, United States or foreign patents, industrial rights, invention certificates, copyrights, rights of authorship, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade dress, trade secrets or other proprietary or intellectual property rights) in and to the Intellectual Property; and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term “Intellectual Property Rights” also includes all present or future applied for, claimed, pending, registered or issued United States or foreign patents and all applications therefor, including, without limitation, all original, provisional, divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part and continued prosecution applications and, including, without limitation, all reissues or extensions thereof.

 

(l) “Person” means and includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association, limited liability company, trust, estate, joint venture, or other entity.

 

(m) “Total Disability” or “Totally Disabled” with respect to Employee, means he is unable to perform, on a full-time basis the regular activities of his employment for a period of (i) six (6) consecutive months or (ii) a total of 26 weeks during any period of 12 consecutive months; provided that authorized vacations or other leaves of absence shall not be counted. The date of Total Disability shall be the date on which the earlier of the requirements stated in (i) or (ii) of this definition are satisfied.

 

 
 

 

EXHIBIT B

 

FORM OF RELEASE

 

This Release (this “Release”) is made effective as of __________________ (the “Effective Date”), by Rodney Sperry (“Employee”).

 

RECITALS

 

A. Employee and Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) are parties to that certain Employment Agreement, dated effective as of [_________], 20__ (the “Employment Agreement”).

 

B. This Release is delivered pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Employment Agreement.

 

C. Employee acknowledges that the execution and delivery of this Release is a condition to receiving the Severance Payment pursuant to Section 7 of the Employment Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, and intending to be legally bound, in order to induce Purchaser to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement, Seller and Members hereby agree as follows:

 

Section 1 Terms. Capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined shall have their respective meanings set forth in the Employment Agreement.

 

Section 2 Releases.

 

(a) Employee hereby irrevocably and unconditionally releases, acquits and forever discharges the Company and its Affiliates and their respective officers, directors, members, managers, successors and assigns (the “Released Parties”) from any and all claims, demands, proceedings, causes of action, orders, obligations, debts and liabilities whether known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, both at law and in equity, which Employee now has or has ever had against the Released Parties arising on or prior to the Effective Date, whether pursuant to contract or otherwise and whether or not relating to claims pending on, or asserted after, the Effective Date, including, but not limited to any and all claims arising out of or related to Employee’s employment with the Company, including any alleged violation under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq., Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000(e) et seq.; the Civil Rights Act of 1866, as amended by the Civil Rights Act of 1991,42 U.S.C. §1981,; the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended; Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (except for vested benefits under any tax qualified benefit plan), as amended, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq.; the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq.; the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.; the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, the Equal Pay Act; Executive Order 11246; Executive Order 11141; and any other statutory claim, employment or other contract claim, or common or civil law claim for wrongful discharge, defamation, or invasion of privacy arising out of or in any way connected with or involving any employment relationship of Employee with any Released Party, the termination or resignation of Employee’s employment with any Released Party, or any continuing effects of his employment with any Released Party, including, but not limited to, any claim for severance pay other than Severance Pay required pursuant to Section 7 of the Employment Agreement, bonus, salary, sick leave, holiday pay, vacation pay, life insurance, health or medical insurance or any other fringe benefit, workers’ compensation, or disability.

 

(b)(1) Employee acknowledges that the Company is not obligated to provide the Severance Payment pursuant to Section 7 of the Employment Agreement and that the Company has agreed to provide such consideration in exchange for the Release. Employee further acknowledges that neither payment by the Company of the Severance Payment, nor any term or condition contained in the Release or the Employment Agreement, shall be construed as an admission of liability or wrongdoing by the Company.

 

 
 

 

(2) Employee acknowledges that he was given a period of forty-five (45) days to consider and execute the Release. Further, Employee acknowledges that he has a right to revoke this Release within a period of seven (7) days following his signing the Release. Employee also understands that the Release shall not become effective or enforceable until the seven–day period has ended and he has not revoked the Release.

 

(3) Employee understands that if he does not sign the Release within forty-five (45) days, or if he revokes the Agreement within the seven (7) day revocation period, he will not receive the Severance Payment.

 

Section 3 Representations and Warranties. Employee represents and warrants to the Released Parties that he has not assigned or otherwise transferred any right or interest in any claims released pursuant to Section 2 hereof. Employee also represents that he has read and fully understands the Release and acknowledges that he had the right and full opportunity to review this Release with an attorney of his choice and was encouraged to do so. Employee further represents has signed this Release freely and voluntarily, with full knowledge that he is waiving all claims against the Company through the date of this Release.

 

Section 4 Covenants. Employee hereby irrevocably and perpetually covenants as follows:

 

(a) Employee will refrain from, directly or indirectly, asserting any claims released pursuant to Section 2 hereof, or commencing, instituting or causing to be commenced, any proceeding of any kind against the Released Parties, based upon any matter purported to be released hereby.

 

(b) Employee will not assign or transfer any right or interest in any claims released pursuant to Section 2 hereof.

 

Section 5 Miscellaneous.

 

(a) The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this Release shall not affect the other provisions hereof, and this Release shall be construed in all respects as if such invalid or unenforceable provisions were omitted.

 

(b) This Release shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware without regard to any applicable principles of conflicts of law.

 

(c) This Release shall not be amended or modified except by a written instrument duly executed by Employee and the Company.

 

(d) Captions and headings of the sections and paragraphs of this Release are intended solely for convenience and no provision of this Release is to be construed by reference to the caption or heading of any section or paragraph.

 

(e) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, nothing in this Release shall (i) prohibit the Employee from making reports of possible violations of federal law or regulations to any governmental agency or entity in accordance with the provisions of and the rules promulgated under Section 21F of the Exchange Act or Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, or of any other whistleblower protection provisions of state or federal law or regulations, (ii) require notification or prior approval by the Company of any reporting described in clause (i), or (iii) limit Employee’s right to receive an award for information reported to any government agency or entity as described in clause (i).

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed and delivered this Release effective as of the Effective Date above.

 

EMPLOYEE:  
   
   
  Rodney Sperry

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 10.11

 

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

This Employment Agreement (this “Agreement”) is entered into as of December 13, 2024 (the “Effective Date”) by and between Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) and Chris Chumas (the “Employee”).

 

RECITALS

 

A. The Company desires to obtain the services of Employee under the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.

 

B. Employee desires to provide his services to the Company upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises and covenants contained in this Agreement and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Employee and the Company hereby covenant and agree as follows:

 

1. Defined Terms. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in Exhibit A attached to this Agreement.

 

2. Employment.

 

(a) The Company agrees to employ Employee as Chief Sales Officer, as of the Effective Date and for the period set forth in Section 2(c) below, unless Employee’s employment is terminated sooner in accordance with this Agreement.

 

(b) Employee accepts employment and agrees to devote his full time and attention to the performance of his duties as determined by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”) and to operate within the guidelines, plans and policies as may be established or approved by the Company from time to time. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, during his employment, the Employee shall not serve on the boards of directors of any for-profit entity without the prior consent of the Board.

 

(c) Employee shall commence his duties hereunder as of the Effective Date and continue in the employ of the Company until the third (3rd) anniversary of the Effective Date (the “Initial Term”) or until his employment is terminated sooner as provided in this Agreement. Upon expiration of the Initial Term, this Agreement may be extended by the Company for an additional one (1) year period (the “Renewal Term”), by providing written notice to Employee not less than forty-five (45) days prior to the expiration of the Initial Term.

 

(d) Employee’s place of employment shall be in Charlotte, NC area. Employee may also be required to engage in reasonable travel to other locations on Company business consistent with Employee’s position.

 

3. Compensation.

 

(a) The Company shall pay to Employee an annual base salary of $250,000 (“Base Salary”), which amount shall be prorated for any partial year and paid in accordance with the Company’s payroll practices related to salaried employees. If Employee’s employment is terminated as provided herein prior to the expiration of the Initial or the Renewal Term (if applicable), then the Company shall pay to Employee any amount of Base Salary due to Employee up to and including the date of such termination.

 

 
 

 

(b) Commencing with calendar year 2024, Employee shall be eligible to receive a performance-based cash bonus of up to 110% of Employee’s base salary, based on the Employee’s personal performance and the Company’s ability to achieve certain EBITDA and financial goals, each as determined by the Board (“Annual Bonus”). The Board shall have the sole discretion whether to make any such award. Employee shall only be entitled to receive any Annual Bonus payment if Employee remains an employee in good standing with the Company as of the date such Annual Bonus is payable.

 

(c) Employee will be eligible to receive annual grants of long-term incentive awards under and subject to the terms of the Company’s equity or other long-term incentive plan (including any applicable award agreement) as in effect from time to time. The target value of the awards granted will equal $227,500 or approximately 130% of Employee’s Base Salary. Employee recognizes and acknowledges that the award of equity compensation is not guaranteed or promised in any way.

 

(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Company shall have the right in its sole discretion to defer payment of cash compensation due to the Employee under this Agreement until the Company shall have raised an aggregate of $10,000,000 in funding after the Effective Date.

 

4. Payment or Reimbursement of Expenses. Subject to compliance by Employee with such policies regarding expenses and expense reimbursements as may be adopted from time to time by the Company, Employee shall be paid or reimbursed for reasonable expenses actually incurred in connection with the performance of his duties under this Agreement and in the furtherance of the business and affairs of the Company. Any such reimbursement shall be made within a reasonable period after presentation by Employee of an itemized account of such expenses, accompanied by appropriate receipts satisfactory to the Company. In no event shall any expense be paid or reimbursed, unless properly accounted for to the extent necessary to substantiate the Company’s federal income tax deduction under the applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), and the regulations promulgated thereunder or any similar state or federal law or regulation.

 

5. Additional Benefits.

 

(a) Employee shall be eligible to participate in or receive benefits under any employee benefit plan or arrangement now or in the future made available by the Company generally to its executive employees, subject to and on a basis consistent with the terms, conditions and overall administration of such plans and arrangements. Nothing in this Agreement shall affect the Company’s right to change insurance carriers and to adopt, amend, terminate, or modify such plans and arrangements from time to time, provided that such changes apply to all Employee employees generally.

 

(b) Employee shall be entitled to take 30 days of paid vacation during each 12-month period. No paid vacation may be carried forward from one 12-month period to another. The other terms and conditions of such vacation and all other forms of leave, including accrual rates and payout, shall be as set forth in the Company’s vacation and leave policies, as they may exist and be amended from time to time. Employee shall also be entitled to all paid holidays given by the Company in accordance with the Company’s regular paid holiday policy, as it may exist and be amended from time to time.

 

6. Termination. This Agreement and the Company’s obligations hereunder shall terminate as provided in Section 2(c) unless terminated earlier pursuant to this Section 6 as follows:

 

(a) In the event of the death or Total Disability of Employee, this Agreement shall automatically terminate as of the date of such death or Total Disability.

 

(b) Employee may terminate his employment at any time upon thirty (30) days’ advance written notice delivered to the Company.

 

(c) The Company may terminate Employee’s employment at any time, effective immediately, with or without Cause.

 

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7. Severance.

 

(a) If the Company terminates Employee’s employment with the Company without Cause in accordance with Section 6(c) prior to the expiration of the Initial Term, the Company shall pay Employee a severance payment an amount equal to twelve months of Employee’s Base Salary as in effect on the date of termination, subject to subsections (c) and (d).

 

(b) If during the Term of this Agreement there is a CC Termination, then the Employee will be entitled to a severance payment (in addition to any other rights and other amounts payable to the Employee under Company plans in which Employee is a participant, but without duplication for any amounts due to Employee pursuant to Section 7(a)) payable in a lump sum in cash in an amount equal to the sum of: (i) twelve months of Employee’s Base Salary in effect on date of such CC Termination (or, if greater, the highest Base Salary in effect during the three year period ending on the date of such CC Termination), and (ii) the Employee’s Average Annual Bonus, subject to subsections (c) and (d).

 

(c) Any severance payment payable to Employee pursuant to this Section 7 (a “Severance Payment”) will be made in a lump sum within sixty (60) days after the date Employee’s employment is terminated giving rise to such Severance Payment pursuant to Section 7(a) or (b); provided that Employee executes and delivers the release contemplated by Section 7(d) and such release becomes effective and irrevocable. If such sixty (60) day period spans two calendar years, the Severance Payment will be made in the second calendar year. However, if Employee is a “specified employee” as defined in regulations under Section 409A of the Code and the Severance Payment constitutes “nonqualified deferred compensation” that is subject to Section 409A of the Code, the Severance Payment will be made on the Company’s first payroll payment date that is more than six (6) months the Severance Payment is otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement.

 

(d) Employee acknowledges and agrees the Severance Payment to which the Employee is entitled under this Section 7 is conditioned upon and subject to the Employee’s executing and delivering the general release of claims in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B by the 45th day following the Employee’s separation from service and not revoking the release within the seven (7) days after executing and delivering the release. If such forty-five (45) day period plus the seven (7) day revocation period spans two calendar years, the Severance Payment will be paid in the second calendar year. Employee’s right to the Severance Payment is further conditioned upon Employee’s continued compliance with Sections 8-11 of this Agreement. If Employee breaches any of his obligations in Sections 8-11 of this Agreement, he will immediately return to the Company any portion of the Severance Payment that has been paid to him pursuant to Section 7.

 

8. Covenant Not to Compete.

 

(a) During Employee’s employment with the Company and for an additional period of two years following the termination of Employee’s employment with the Company for any reason (the “Restricted Period”), Employee covenants and agrees that, with respect to the entire United States of America and Canada (the “Restricted Area”), Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, for his own benefit or to the detriment of the Company or any of its Affiliates:

 

(i) Compete with the Company in the Business in any manner or capacity (e.g., through any form of ownership, lending relationship, or as an advisor, principal, investor, agent, partner, officer, director, manager, employee, employer, independent contractor, consultant, member of any association or otherwise, whether or not for compensation or gain) by working for, becoming employed by, engaging in, carrying on, or providing services to any business involving the Business;

 

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(ii) Own, manage, operate, join or control, or participate in the ownership, management, operation or control of, a business (however structured) that carries on or engages in any manner in the Business;

 

(iii) Perform services of the type he or she performs for the Company for any Person engaged in the Business, whether as an employee, independent contractor, consultant or otherwise; or

 

(iv) Solicit, induce or otherwise contact customers or suppliers of the Company for any purpose or manner detrimental to the Company.

 

The parties agree that each of the foregoing prohibitions is intended to constitute a separate restriction. Accordingly, should any such prohibition be declared invalid or unenforceable, such prohibition shall be deemed severable from and shall not affect the remainder thereof. The Parties further agree that the foregoing restrictions are reasonable in both time and scope.

 

(b) Ownership by Employee, as a passive investment, in the aggregate of less than one percent (1%) of the outstanding equity securities of any corporation or other entity listed on a national securities exchange or publicly traded on any nationally recognized over-the-counter market shall not constitute a breach of Section 8(a) of this Agreement.

 

9. Confidential Information.

 

(a) Employee hereby acknowledges that Employee may be exposed to trade secrets and confidential and proprietary information of the Company and its Affiliates, including, without limitation, all design drawings, blueprints, plans, designs, calculations, technical specifications, construction notes or other works of authorship, inventions, writings, information, data, formulas, models, photographs, and design concepts, and the like, and all other documentation developed for or relating to the Company and its Affiliates and other technical information (including functional and technical specifications, designs, drawings, analysis, research, processes, procedures, manuals, computer programs, methods, ideas, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Rights, “know how” and the like), business information (development and acquisition prospects, reserve reports, materials, plans, accounting and financial information, pricing information, customer and supplier information, completion studies, expansion or acquisition opportunities, personnel records and the like) and other information designated as confidential expressly or by the circumstances in which it is provided (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information does not include (i) information already known or independently developed by a third party recipient without the use of Confidential Information; (ii) information in the public domain through sources free of any confidentiality restriction and without any wrongful act of the recipient, or (iii) information received by the recipient from another third party who was free to disclose it.

 

(b) Employee hereby agrees, while employed by the Company or at any time thereafter, to keep strictly confidential and not disclose, use, divulge, publish, or otherwise reveal, directly or through any other Person, any Confidential Information of the Company and its Affiliates, except as may be necessary for Employee to perform his duties and obligations in conjunction with his employment with the Company. Employee further agrees that, upon expiration or termination of his employment with the Company for any reason, Employee will not, without the prior written consent of the Company’s Board, take any Confidential Information of the Company or its Affiliates.

 

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(c) All written or electronic materials, records and documents made by Employee or in the possession of Employee during his employment with the Company concerning the business or affairs of the Company or its Affiliates or otherwise containing Confidential Information, or other items or property held by or for Employee, but owned or used by the Company or its Affiliates, shall be the sole property of the Company or its Affiliate, as the case may be, and, upon termination of Employee’s employment with the Company or upon the request of the Company or any of its Affiliates, Employee shall promptly deliver all of such materials, records, documents or other items of property that are then in his possession.

 

(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, nothing in this Agreement shall (i) prohibit the Employee from making reports of possible violations of federal law or regulations to any governmental agency or entity in accordance with the provisions of and the rules promulgated under Section 21F of the Exchange Act or Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, or of any other whistleblower protection provisions of state or federal law or regulations, (ii) require notification or prior approval by the Company of any reporting described in clause (i), or (iii) limit Employee’s right to receive an award for information reported to any government agency or entity as described in clause (i).

 

10. Non-Solicitation of Employees. During the Restricted Period, Employee will not under any circumstances within the Restricted Area, without the express written consent of the Board, employ, solicit the employment or engagement of, or assist any other entity in employing or soliciting the employment or engagement of, any Protected Person (as defined below), recommend the employment or engagement of any Protected Person to any other business or encourage any Protected Person to terminate his or her employment relationship with the Company or any of its Affiliates. A “Protected Person” means any person who was employed by the Company or any of its Affiliates at or after the Effective Date and prior to the termination of Employee’s employment with the Company.

 

11. Ownership of Inventions and Other Intellectual Property.

 

(a) Company’s Ownership of Inventions and Other IP: Assignment. All Discovered IP Rights shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company without additional compensation to Employee. Employee forever and irrevocably assigns to Company, without any reservation for royalties or other reservations, and free and clear of all liens, claims and encumbrances of any kind whatsoever, any Discovered IP Rights. Employee shall disclose promptly to the Company or its nominee any and all Discovered IP. Without in any way limiting the Company’s rights or Employee’s obligations under the foregoing, to the extent that a work may be deemed a “work made for hire”, Employee and the Company agree that such work (regardless of whether such work is created or authored solely by Employee or is created or authored jointly with, or with the assistance, participation or involvement of one or more other Persons) shall be a “work made for hire” and Employee hereby assigns to the Company, without any reservation for royalties or other reservations, and free and clear of all liens, claims and encumbrances of any kind whatsoever, the entire present and future right, title, claim and interest in and to all Intellectual Property Rights to such work.

 

(b) Employee’s Further Assurances. Whenever requested to do so by the Company, Employee shall execute, without further compensation to Employee, but at the expense of the Company, any and all applications, assignments, oaths, certifications, declarations, statements, affidavits or other instruments which the Company shall deem necessary to grant to, vest in or perfect for the Company or its nominee the right, title, claim and interest in and to the Discovered IP Rights to enable the Company or its nominee to apply for, obtain, procure, register, maintain, renew, defend and enforce Intellectual Property Rights in and to the Discovered IP, whether in the United States, Canada or any foreign country, or to otherwise protect Company’s or its nominee’s interest therein. These obligations shall continue beyond the termination of employment and shall be binding upon Employee’s assigns, executors, administrators, heirs and other legal representatives. Employee represents and warrants, and, throughout Employee’s employment with the Company, continues to represent and warrant, that Employee has not heretofore assigned, licensed or granted any right, title, claim or interest in and to the Discovered IP Rights to any other Person or entered into any agreement, commitment or undertaking in conflict with this Agreement; and that Employee shall never assign, license, or grant any right, title, claim or interest of any kind to the Discovered IP Rights or enter into any agreement, commitment or undertaking in conflict with this Agreement save and except as expressly authorized by the Company in writing. Without limiting the Company’s rights or Employee’s obligations under the foregoing, whenever requested to do so by the Company, Employee shall, without further compensation to Employee, but at the expense of the Company, do the following with respect to, for, arising out of or related to any of the Discovered IP Rights: (1) cooperate with the Company in the filing, application, procurement, prosecution, maintenance, enforcement and defense of each and every domestic or foreign patent application or application for invention or industrial rights (including, without limitation, each and every provisional, original, divisional, continuation or continuation in part patent application); patent or invention certificate (including, without limitation, any proceedings for the reissue, reexamination, renewal or extension of a patent); interference proceeding, opposition or cancellation proceeding, priority contest or public use proceedings; trade secret, trade dress, trademark or other right or benefit; (2) appear before or assist in preparations for any and all hearings, depositions or other proceedings related to any of the foregoing; and, (3) take such further actions as reasonably requested by the Company so that the Company enjoys the full extent of the assignment granted under, or other rights arising under, this Agreement. Employee represents and warrants that Employee shall never disclose to the Company, or use for the benefit of the Company, any trade secrets or other confidential information learned or obtained from Employee’s previous employers or other Persons if such disclosure or use would violate the trade secret rights or other rights of such previous employers or other Persons.

 

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(c) Employee’s Indemnification of Company. Employee shall indemnify, defend and hold the Company and its Affiliates, and each of the foregoing’s directors, officers, shareholders, members, managers, employees and agents, harmless from any and all claims, demands, suits, causes of action, damages (including, without limitation, consequential damages), liabilities, losses, costs, expenses and fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fee and investigatory fees) for or arising out of or from Employee’s breach, misrepresentation or otherwise failure to fully perform, satisfy, comply and observe all of Employee’s agreements, covenants, representations, warranties, commitments, obligations or other undertakings arising under this Section 11.

 

(d) Employee’s Assignment of Prior Rights. Employee hereby assigns to the Company any and all Intellectual Property and/or Intellectual Property Rights related to the operations of the Company that may have inured to Employee’s benefit prior to the Effective Date.

 

12. Non-Disparagement. During his employment and following termination of his employment, whatever the cause, Employee agrees not to disparage, and to cause Employee’s Affiliates not to disparage, either orally or in writing, any of the Company or its Affiliates or the foregoing Persons’ business, products, services or practices, or any of the Company’s or its Affiliates’ directors, officers, agents, representatives, stockholders, partners, members, employees, or managers.

 

13. Reasonable Limits. Employee acknowledges that the agreement of the Employee not to engage in the activities prohibited herein for the period of time and in the areas agreed upon herein is a substantial consideration for his employment with the Company. Employee hereby acknowledges that the above covenants are manifestly reasonable on their face and expressly agrees that they are also reasonable as to time and territorial scope and otherwise and that same are no greater than is required for the protection of the respective interests of the parties.

 

14. Compliance with Section 409A of the Code. The Company and Employee intend that any amounts or benefits payable or provided under this Agreement comply with the provisions of Section 409A of the Code and the Treasury Regulations relating thereto so as not to subject Employee to the payment of the tax, interest and any tax penalty which may be imposed under Section 409A; provided, however, that nothing in this Agreement shall be interpreted or construed to transfer any liability for any tax (including a tax or penalty due as a result of a failure to comply with Section 409A) from the Employee to the Company or to any other individual or entity. Any payment to the Employee that is subject to Section 409A and that is contingent on a termination of employment is contingent on a “separation from service” within the meaning of Section 409A. Each payment shall be considered to be a separate payment for purposes of Section 409A. The provisions of this Agreement shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with such intent. In furtherance thereof, to the extent that any provision hereof would otherwise result in Employee being subject to payment of tax, interest and tax penalty under Section 409A, the Company and Employee agree to amend this Agreement in a manner that brings this Agreement into compliance with Section 409A and preserve to the maximum extent possible the economic value of the relevant payment or benefit under this Agreement to Employee. Any taxable reimbursement shall be paid no later than December 31 of the year after the year in which the expense is incurred and shall comply with Treas. Reg. § 1.409A-3(i)(1)(iv).

 

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15. No Violation of Third Party Rights. Employee hereby represents, warrants and covenants to the Company that Employee: (a) shall not, during his employment with the Company, infringe upon or violate any proprietary rights of any third party (including, without limitation, any third party confidential relationships, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, Intellectual Property or other proprietary rights); (b) is not a party to any agreement with a third party that prevents him from fulfilling the terms of employment and the obligations of this Agreement or which would be breached as a result of Employee’s execution of this Agreement or performance of his employment duties; and (c) agrees to respect any and all valid obligations which Employee may now have to prior employers or to others relating to confidential information, inventions or discoveries which are the property of those prior employers or others, as the case may be.

 

16. Resignation from All Positions. Upon the termination of the Employee’s employment with the Company for any reason, Employee shall be deemed to have resigned, as of the date of such termination, from all positions he then holds as an officer, director, employee and member of the Board (and any committee thereof) and the boards of all of its subsidiaries.

 

17. Notices. All notices, requests, demands and other communications provided for by this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given when delivered in person, by nationally recognized overnight courier, or mailed by United States certified mail, return receipt required, postage prepaid, or sent by electronic mail addressed as follows:

 

  If to the Company to: Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc.
    20311 Chartwell Center Drive, #1469
    Cornelius, NC 28031
    Contact@alphamodus.com

 

  If to Employee to: Chris Chumas
    ____________________
    ____________________
    ____________________
    ____________________

 

18. Governing Law. The provisions of this Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the substantive local law of the State of Delaware, without consideration of the conflicts of law provisions thereof.

 

19. Remedies. Each party acknowledges that the other party will have no adequate remedy at law if the first party violates certain of the terms of this Agreement, and that the other party shall have the right, to the extent permitted by applicable law, in addition to any other rights or remedies it may have, to obtain from any court of competent jurisdiction, injunctive relief to restrain any breach or threatened breach hereof or otherwise to specifically enforce the provisions hereof.

 

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20. Waiver. No waiver of any obligation, right or remedy under this Agreement shall be effective, unless such waiver is made in writing, specifying the terms of this Agreement. Any such waiver by either party of any of its rights or remedies hereunder on any occasion shall not be a bar to the exercise of the same right or remedy on any subsequent occasion or of the exercise of any other right or remedy at any time.

 

21. Integration and Amendments. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes any prior agreement or understanding, whether written or oral, relating to such subject matter, including the prior offer letter between the Employee and the Company’s subsidiary, Alpha Modus, Corp. No modification or amendment to this Agreement shall be effective or binding unless in writing, specifying such modification or amendment, executed by both of the parties hereto.

 

22. Severability. If any provision, paragraph or subparagraph of this Agreement is adjudged by any court to be void or unenforceable, in whole or in part, such an adjudication shall not be deemed to affect the validity of the remainder of the Agreement, and all other provisions, sections and subsections of this Agreement shall be severable from every other provision, section or subsection and each constitutes a separate and distinct covenant.

 

23. Court Modification for Enforcement. In the event a court determines that any provisions of this Agreement are overbroad, excessive or unenforceable in any respect including but not limited to the Restricted Period, the Restricted Area, or the nature of the restrictions, then in such an event the parties agree that the court shall be permitted to modify this Agreement in order to make the restrictions more narrow and to make this Agreement enforceable in order to provide each party with the maximum restriction or restrictions allowed by law.

 

24. Reimbursement for Expenses. If litigation or other action is commenced between the parties concerning any dispute arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the prevailing party in the action will be entitled, in addition to any other award that may be made, to recover all court costs or other official costs and all reasonable expenses associated with the action, including without limitation reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses.

 

25. Survival of Certain Provisions. The rights and obligations of Employee and Company under Sections 7-12 of this Agreement shall survive the expiration or termination of this Agreement.

 

26. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument, respectively. Executed copies of the signature pages of this Agreement sent by facsimile or transmitted electronically in Portable Document Format (“PDF”) shall be treated as originals, fully binding and with full legal force and effect, and the Parties waive any rights they may have to object to such treatment. Any party delivering an executed counterpart of this Agreement by facsimile or PDF also may deliver a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement, but the failure to deliver a manually executed counterpart shall not affect the validity, enforceability, and binding effect of this Agreement.

 

(Signature Page Follows)

 

8
 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Employment Agreement effective as of the Effective Date above.

 

  Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc.
     
  By: /s/ William Alessi
    William Alessi
    President and Chief Executive Officer
     
  EMPLOYEE:
     
  /s/ Chris Chumas
  Name: Chris Chumas

 

 
 

 

EXHIBIT A

DEFINED TERMS

 

The following terms, as used in this Agreement and in any correspondence or other communications between the parties in performing or in connection with this Agreement, shall have the meaning ascribed as follows:

 

(a) “Affiliates” means with respect to any Person, (a) any Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with such Person; (b) any Person owning or controlling fifty percent (50%) or more of the outstanding voting securities or interests of such Person; (c) any officer, director, member, manager, trustee or (limited or general) partner of such Person or of any Person specified in (a) or (b) above; and (d) any Person in which any officer, director, member, manager, trustee or (limited or general) partner of any Person specified in (c) above is an officer, director, member, manager, trustee, or (limited or general) partner. For purposes of this definition, “control” (including, with correlative meaning, controlled by and under common control with) of a Person means the direct or indirect possession of the power to direct or cause the direction of management or policies of such Person through any means.

 

(b) “Average Annual Bonus” means (a) if the CC Termination occurs before the Annual Bonus is paid for the Employee’s first year of employment, 110% of the Employee’s Base Salary as in effect on the Effective Date, or (b) otherwise, the average Annual Bonus paid pursuant to Section 3(b) for the preceding three years (or such lesser number of years as the Employee may have been employed).

 

(c) “Business” means the business of Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc. and all activities related thereto.

 

(d) “Cause,” shall mean by reason of such Employee’s: (A) conviction of, or plea of nolo contendere to, any felony or to any crime or offense causing substantial harm to the Company or its Affiliates or involving acts of theft, fraud, dishonesty, embezzlement, moral turpitude, or similar conduct, (B) repeated intoxication by alcohol or drugs during the performance of such Employee’s duties in a manner that materially and adversely affects the Employee’s performance of such duties, (C) malfeasance, in the conduct of such Employee’s duties, including, but not limited to, (1) misuse or diversion of funds of the Company or its Affiliates, (2) embezzlement, or (3) misrepresentations or concealments on any written reports submitted to or on behalf of the Company or its Affiliates, (D) violation of any provision of this Agreement, or (E) failure to perform the duties of such Employee’s employment or service relationship with the Company or its Affiliates after the Employee shall have been informed, in writing, of such material failure and given a period of not less than 30 days to remedy the same, or (F) failure to follow or comply with the reasonable and lawful written directives or policies of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company by which such Employee is employed or in a service relationship with.

 

(e) “CC Termination” means any of the following: (a) the Employee’s employment is terminated by the Company without Cause following a Change of Control; (b) the Employee resigns as a result of a material diminution in the Employee’s authority, duties, or responsibilities, a material reduction in the Employee’s then current Base Salary or a material reduction in the Employee’s then current benefits as provided in Sections 3-4, a relocation of more than 50 miles from the Employee’s then current place of employment being required by the Board, or a material breach by the Company under this Agreement; or (c) the Employee resigns in connection with a Change in Control as a result of the Company’s failure to obtain the assumption of this Agreement, without limitation or reduction, by any successor to the Company or any parent corporation of the Company.

 

 
 

 

(f) “Change in Control” shall mean that any one of the following applies:

 

(i) The acquisition by any Person of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) of 40% or more of the combined voting power of the then-outstanding voting securities of the Company entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (the Outstanding Company Voting Securities”). For purposes of this paragraph (i) the following acquisitions by a Person will not constitute a Change in Control: (A) any acquisition directly from the Company; (B) any acquisition by the Company; or (C) any acquisition by any employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained by the Company or any entity controlled by the Company.

 

(ii) If Chris Chumas ceases to be an officer or director of the Company.

 

(iii) The consummation of a reorganization, merger, consolidation or sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company (a “Business Combination”), unless following such Business Combination: (i) the individuals and entities who were the beneficial owners, respectively, of the outstanding common stock of the Company and Outstanding Company Voting Securities immediately prior to such Business Combination beneficially own, directly or indirectly, more than 60% of, respectively, the then-outstanding shares of common stock and the combined voting power of the then-outstanding voting securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, as the case may be, of the entity resulting from such Business Combination (including, without limitation, a corporation that as a result of such transaction owns the Company or all or substantially all of the Company’s assets either directly or through one or more subsidiaries) in substantially the same proportions to one another as their ownership, immediately prior to such Business Combination of the Outstanding Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities, as the case may be, (ii) no Person (excluding any entity resulting from such Business Combination or any employee benefit plan (or related trust) of the Company or such entity resulting from such Business Combination) beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, 40% or more of, respectively, the then-outstanding shares of common stock of the entity resulting from such Business Combination or the combined voting power of the then-outstanding voting securities of such entity except to the extent that such ownership existed prior to the Business Combination and (iii) at least a majority of the members of the Board of the corporation resulting from such Business Combination were members of the Incumbent Board at the time of the execution of the initial agreement, or of the action of the Board, providing for such Business Combination; or

 

(iv) The approval by the stockholders of the Company of a complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company.

 

(g) “Discover” means create, invent, originate, author, devise, engineer, formulate, develop, prototype, improve, compile, design, conceive, reduce to practice, discover, make, produce, generate or otherwise identify or document; and, other grammatical forms of the term “Discover” shall have the grammatical meaning of such form (for example, but not in limitation, “Discovered” means created, invented, etc., and “Discovery” means creation, invention, etc.).

 

(h) “Discovered IP” means the Intellectual Property in any way Discovered by Employee (regardless of whether such Discovery is made solely by Employee or is made jointly with, or with the assistance, participation or involvement of one or more other Persons) wherein such Discovery occurs during, in conjunction with, in relation to or preparatory to, or otherwise arises out of, Employee’s course and scope of employment with Company (regardless of whether or not such Discovery occurs or otherwise arises with or without the use or benefit of Company’s equipment, facilities or other resources; and, further, regardless of whether or not such Discovery occurs or arises during company time, Employee’s free or personal time or otherwise).

 

 
 

 

(i) “Discovered IP Rights” means the Intellectual Property Rights for the Discovered IP.

 

(j) “Intellectual Property” means, whether or not patentable, each and all of the following: ideas, inventions, concepts, developments, improvements, discoveries, designs, compounds, substances or other materials, formulations, compilations, designs, applets, scripts, databases, or other computer programs, firmware or software, manuals, documentation, test procedures or techniques, training materials, systems materials, other materials, reports, creations, other works of authorship, machines, apparatus, technology, prototypes, confidential information, know-how, show-how, trade secrets, methods (whether technological, business or otherwise), processes, marks, symbols, slogans, emblems, business plans and strategies or other proprietary things or information.

 

(k) “Intellectual Property Rights” means all worldwide rights (including, without limitation, all rights to, and to apply for, register, own, license and otherwise exploit, as well as all rights to any now or hereinafter pending applications for, issued, registered, registrations for, or otherwise existing, United States or foreign patents, industrial rights, invention certificates, copyrights, rights of authorship, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade dress, trade secrets or other proprietary or intellectual property rights) in and to the Intellectual Property; and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term “Intellectual Property Rights” also includes all present or future applied for, claimed, pending, registered or issued United States or foreign patents and all applications therefor, including, without limitation, all original, provisional, divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part and continued prosecution applications and, including, without limitation, all reissues or extensions thereof.

 

(l) “Person” means and includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association, limited liability company, trust, estate, joint venture, or other entity.

 

(m) “Total Disability” or “Totally Disabled” with respect to Employee, means he is unable to perform, on a full-time basis the regular activities of his employment for a period of (i) six (6) consecutive months or (ii) a total of 26 weeks during any period of 12 consecutive months; provided that authorized vacations or other leaves of absence shall not be counted. The date of Total Disability shall be the date on which the earlier of the requirements stated in (i) or (ii) of this definition are satisfied.

 

 
 

 

EXHIBIT B

 

FORM OF RELEASE

 

This Release (this “Release”) is made effective as of __________________ (the “Effective Date”), by Chris Chumas (“Employee”).

 

RECITALS

 

A. Employee and Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) are parties to that certain Employment Agreement, dated effective as of [_________], 20__ (the “Employment Agreement”).

 

B. This Release is delivered pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Employment Agreement.

 

C. Employee acknowledges that the execution and delivery of this Release is a condition to receiving the Severance Payment pursuant to Section 7 of the Employment Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, and intending to be legally bound, in order to induce Purchaser to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement, Seller and Members hereby agree as follows:

 

Section 1 Terms. Capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined shall have their respective meanings set forth in the Employment Agreement.

 

Section 2 Releases.

 

(a) Employee hereby irrevocably and unconditionally releases, acquits and forever discharges the Company and its Affiliates and their respective officers, directors, members, managers, successors and assigns (the “Released Parties”) from any and all claims, demands, proceedings, causes of action, orders, obligations, debts and liabilities whether known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, both at law and in equity, which Employee now has or has ever had against the Released Parties arising on or prior to the Effective Date, whether pursuant to contract or otherwise and whether or not relating to claims pending on, or asserted after, the Effective Date, including, but not limited to any and all claims arising out of or related to Employee’s employment with the Company, including any alleged violation under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq., Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000(e) et seq.; the Civil Rights Act of 1866, as amended by the Civil Rights Act of 1991,42 U.S.C. §1981,; the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended; Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (except for vested benefits under any tax qualified benefit plan), as amended, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq.; the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq.; the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.; the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, the Equal Pay Act; Executive Order 11246; Executive Order 11141; and any other statutory claim, employment or other contract claim, or common or civil law claim for wrongful discharge, defamation, or invasion of privacy arising out of or in any way connected with or involving any employment relationship of Employee with any Released Party, the termination or resignation of Employee’s employment with any Released Party, or any continuing effects of his employment with any Released Party, including, but not limited to, any claim for severance pay other than Severance Pay required pursuant to Section 7 of the Employment Agreement, bonus, salary, sick leave, holiday pay, vacation pay, life insurance, health or medical insurance or any other fringe benefit, workers’ compensation, or disability.

 

(b)(1) Employee acknowledges that the Company is not obligated to provide the Severance Payment pursuant to Section 7 of the Employment Agreement and that the Company has agreed to provide such consideration in exchange for the Release. Employee further acknowledges that neither payment by the Company of the Severance Payment, nor any term or condition contained in the Release or the Employment Agreement, shall be construed as an admission of liability or wrongdoing by the Company.

 

 
 

 

(2) Employee acknowledges that he was given a period of forty-five (45) days to consider and execute the Release. Further, Employee acknowledges that he has a right to revoke this Release within a period of seven (7) days following his signing the Release. Employee also understands that the Release shall not become effective or enforceable until the seven–day period has ended and he has not revoked the Release.

 

(3) Employee understands that if he does not sign the Release within forty-five (45) days, or if he revokes the Agreement within the seven (7) day revocation period, he will not receive the Severance Payment.

 

Section 3 Representations and Warranties. Employee represents and warrants to the Released Parties that he has not assigned or otherwise transferred any right or interest in any claims released pursuant to Section 2 hereof. Employee also represents that he has read and fully understands the Release and acknowledges that he had the right and full opportunity to review this Release with an attorney of his choice and was encouraged to do so. Employee further represents has signed this Release freely and voluntarily, with full knowledge that he is waiving all claims against the Company through the date of this Release.

 

Section 4 Covenants. Employee hereby irrevocably and perpetually covenants as follows:

 

(a) Employee will refrain from, directly or indirectly, asserting any claims released pursuant to Section 2 hereof, or commencing, instituting or causing to be commenced, any proceeding of any kind against the Released Parties, based upon any matter purported to be released hereby.

 

(b) Employee will not assign or transfer any right or interest in any claims released pursuant to Section 2 hereof.

 

Section 5 Miscellaneous.

 

(a) The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this Release shall not affect the other provisions hereof, and this Release shall be construed in all respects as if such invalid or unenforceable provisions were omitted.

 

(b) This Release shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware without regard to any applicable principles of conflicts of law.

 

(c) This Release shall not be amended or modified except by a written instrument duly executed by Employee and the Company.

 

(d) Captions and headings of the sections and paragraphs of this Release are intended solely for convenience and no provision of this Release is to be construed by reference to the caption or heading of any section or paragraph.

 

(e) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, nothing in this Release shall (i) prohibit the Employee from making reports of possible violations of federal law or regulations to any governmental agency or entity in accordance with the provisions of and the rules promulgated under Section 21F of the Exchange Act or Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, or of any other whistleblower protection provisions of state or federal law or regulations, (ii) require notification or prior approval by the Company of any reporting described in clause (i), or (iii) limit Employee’s right to receive an award for information reported to any government agency or entity as described in clause (i).

 

(Signature Page Follows)

 

 
 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed and delivered this Release effective as of the Effective Date above.

 

EMPLOYEE:  
   
   
  Chris Chumas

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 16.1

 

December 19, 2024

 

Office of the Chief Accountant

Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, NE

Washington, DC 20549

United States of America

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We have read the statements made by Alpha Modus, Corp (formerly Insight Acquisition Corp.) under Item 4.01(a) of its Form 8-K dated December 13, 2024 and are in agreement with the statements concerning our Firm contained therein; we are not in a position to agree or disagree with other statements contained in any other section in the Form 8-K.

 

Very truly yours,

 

/s/ WithumSmith+Brown, PC

 

New York, New York

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 21.1

 

List of Subsidiaries of Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc.

 

Alpha Modus, Corp., a Florida corporation

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.2

 

Alpha Modus Corp.

Financial Statements

As of and for the Three and Nine Months ended September 30, 2024

 

 
 

 

ALPHA MODUS CORP.

Balance Sheets

As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023

(Unaudited)

 

  

September 30,

2024

  

December 31,

2023

 
ASSETS          
Current assets          
Cash  $66,011   $106,809 
Other receivables   -    15,000 
Total current assets   66,011    121,809 
Total assets  $66,011   $121,809 
           
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT          
Current liabilities          
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities  $60,706   $11,844 
Accrued liabilities to related party   74,124    88,350 
Accrued interest payable to related party   65,331    22,064 
Payable to related party, net of discount   1,475,691    964,125 
Total current liabilities   1,675,852    1,086,383 
Total liabilities   1,675,852    1,086,383 
           
Commitments and contingencies (see Note 5)   -    - 
           
Stockholders’ deficit          
Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value, 10,000,000 shares authorized          
Series A preferred stock, $0.0001 par value, 5,100,000 shares authorized, 0 shares issued and outstanding   -    - 
Series B preferred stock, $0.0001 par value, 10 shares authorized, 0 shares issued and outstanding   -    - 
Common stock, $0.0001 par value, 490,000,000 shares authorized, 13,645,000 and 11,000,000 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively   1,365    1,100 
Additional paid-in capital   2,762,992    2,697,132 
Accumulated deficit   (4,374,198)   (3,662,806)
Total stockholders’ deficit   (1,609,841)   (964,574)
Total liabilities and stockholders’ deficit  $66,011   $121,809 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited financial statements.

 

 
 

 

ALPHA MODUS CORP.
Statements of Operations

(Unaudited)

 

   For the Three Months Ended   For the Nine Months Ended 
  

September 30,

2024

  

September 30,

2023

  

September 30,

2024

  

September 30,

2023

 
       (Restated)       (Restated) 
Revenue  $-   $-   $-   $- 
                     
Operating expenses                    
Professional fees   124,800    124,336    311,637    146,658 
General and administrative expenses   161,331    (118,436)   285,958    30,861 
Total operating expenses   286,131    5,900    597,595    177,519 
Operating loss   (286,131)   (5,900)   (597,595)   (177,519)
                     
Other income (expenses)                    
Interest income   3    1    8    4 
Interest expense   (29,618)   (22,090)   (127,892)   (57,474)
Total other income (expense)   (29,615)   (22,089)   (127,884)   (57,470)
Net loss  $(315,746)  $(27,989)  $(725,479)  $(234,989)
                     
Net loss per common share – basic and diluted  $(0.02)  $(0.00)  $(0.06)  $(0.08)
Weighted average number of shares of common stock – basic and diluted   13,645,000    6,453,851    12,575,566    2,946,677 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited financial statements.

 

 
 

 

ALPHA MODUS CORP.
Statement of Changes in Stockholders’ Deficit
For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 (Restated)

(Unaudited)

 

   Preferred Stock   Common Stock   Additional       Total 
   Series A   Series B           Paid-in   Accumulated   Stockholders’ 
   Shares   Amount   Shares   Amount   Shares   Amount   Capital   Deficit   Deficit 
Balance, December 31, 2023          -   $          -               -   $            -    11,000,000   $1,100   $2,697,132   $(3,662,806)  $          (964,574)
Imputed interest discounts on related party notes   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    4,824    4,824 
Shares issued for note extension with related party   -    -    -    -    1,400,000    140    34,860    -    35,000 
Net loss for the period   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    (222,696)   (222,696)
Balance, March 31, 2024   -    -    -    -    12,400,000    1,240    2,731,992    (3,880,678)   (1,147,446)
Imputed interest discounts on related party notes   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    9,263    9,263 
Shares issued for cash and financing incentive   -    -    -    -    1,000,000    100    24,900    -    25,000 
Shares issued for services   -    -    -    -    245,000    25    6,100    -    6,125 
Net loss for the period   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    (187,037)   (187,037)
Balance, June 30, 2024   -    -    -    -    13,645,000    1,365    2,762,992    (4,058,452)   (1,294,095)
Net loss for the period   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    (315,746)   (315,746)
Balance, September 30, 2024   -   $-    -   $-    13,645,000   $1,365   $2,762,992   $(4,374,198)  $(1,609,841)

 

   Preferred Stock   Common Stock   Additional       Total 
   Series A   Series B           Paid-in   Accumulated   Stockholders’ 
   Shares   Amount   Shares   Amount   Shares   Amount   Capital   Deficit   Deficit 
Balance, December 31, 2022   5,100,000   $510    10   $        -    1,197,208   $120   $3,047,035   $(3,205,587)  $        (157,922)
Return of Common shares for cancellation   -    -    -    -    (36,400)   (4)   (140,996)   -    (141,000)
Net loss for the period   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    (167,856)   (167,856)
Balance, March 31, 2023   5,100,000    510    10    -    1,160,808    116    2,906,039    (3,373,443)   (466,778)
Net loss for the period   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    (39,144)   (39,144)
Balance, June 30, 2023 (Restated)   5,100,000    510    10    -    1,160,808    116    2,906,039    (3,412,587)   (505,922)
Conversion of Series A into common stock   (5,100,000)   (510)   -    -    5,100    1    509    -    - 
Conversion of Series B into common stock   -    -    (10)   -    100,000,000    10,000    (10,000)   -    - 
Return of Common shares for cancellation   -    -    -    -    (90,165,908)   (9,017)   (199,416)   -    (208,433)
Imputed interest discounts on related party notes   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    27,272    27,272 
Net loss for the period   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    (27,989)   (27,989)
Balance, September 30, 2023 (Restated)   -   $-    -   $-    11,000,000   $1,100   $2,697,132   $(3,413,304)  $(715,072)

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited financial statements.

 

 
 

 

ALPHA MODUS CORP.
Statements of Cash Flows

(Unaudited)

 

   For the Nine Months Ended 
  

September 30,

2024

  

September 30,

2023

 
Cash flows from operating activities:        (Restated) 
Net loss  $(725,479)  $(234,989)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:          
Amortization of debt discount   84,625    57,474 
Stock issued for services   6,125    - 
Change in assets and liabilities:          
Other receivables   15,000    - 
Accounts payable and accrued expenses   48,862    - 
Accrued liabilities - related party   (14,226)   (127,105)
Accrued interest payable - related party   43,267    - 
Net cash used in operating activities   (541,826)   (304,620)
           
Cash flows from investing activities:          
Net cash provided by investing activities   -    - 
           
Cash flows from financing activities:          
Proceeds from note payable   -    - 
Proceeds from related party loan   500,000    600,000 
Repayment of notes payable to related parties   (23,972)   (61,958)
Proceeds from sale of common stock   25,000    - 
Repurchase of common stock to cancel   -    (141,000)
Net cash provided by financing activities   501,028    397,042 
Net change in cash   (40,798)   92,422 
           
Cash at beginning of period   106,809    3,006 
Cash at end of period  $66,011   $95,428 
           
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:          
Cash paid for interest  $-   $- 
Cash paid for taxes  $-   $- 
           
Supplemental non-cash information          
Return of common shares for cancellation  $-   $208,433 
Renegotiated notes payable  $453,750   $75,000 
Common shares issued for note incentive  $35,000   $- 
Discounts on notes payable applied directly against accumulated deficit  $14,087   $27,272 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited financial statements.

 

 
 

 

ALPHA MODUS CORP.
Notes to the Financial Statements
September 30, 2024

(Unaudited)

 

NOTE 1 — NATURE OF OPERATIONS

 

Company Background

 

Alpha Modus Corp. (the “Company,” “we,” “us,” “our,” or “Alpha Modus”), was incorporated in the State of Florida on July 11, 2014.

 

Nature of Operations

 

Alpha Modus was founded as an artificial intelligence software as a service provider. As of January 2020, Alpha Modus abandoned its software and deemed it not technologically feasible. Since that time, the Company has focused on developing its patents. Alpha Modus was awarded US Patent No. 10,360,571 (the “571 Patent”) on July 23, 2019. Since August 2019, Alpha Modus has focused on research and development to expand claims of the 571 Patent. The Company intends to begin commercialization efforts of the 571 Patent family in 2024.

 

NOTE 2 — SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

 

Basis of Presentation

 

The accompanying unaudited financial statements are presented in U.S. dollars in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with Article 8 of Regulation S-X and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC. Accordingly, certain disclosures included in the annual financial statements have been omitted from these financial statements as they are not required for interim financial statements. In the opinion of Management, the unaudited financial statements reflect all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments necessary for the fair statement of the balances and results for the periods presented. Operating results for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected through December 31, 2024 or any future period.

 

The accompanying unaudited financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and notes thereto included in the Annual Report on Form S-4/A filed by the Company with the SEC on September 13, 2024.

 

The Company follows the accrual basis of accounting in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America and has a year-end of December 31st.

 

Management further acknowledges that it is solely responsible for adopting sound accounting practices, establishing and maintaining a system of internal accounting control and preventing and detecting fraud. The Company’s system of internal accounting control is designed to assure, among other items, that 1) recorded transactions are valid; 2) valid transactions are recorded; and 3) transactions are recorded in the proper period in a timely manner to produce financial statements which present fairly the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Company for the respective periods being presented.

 

Business Segments

 

The Company operates in one segment and therefore segment information is not present.

 

 
 

 

Liquidity and Going Concern

 

We have incurred recurring losses since inception and expect to continue to incur losses since the Company does not have any revenue stream. On September 30, 2024, we had $66,011 in cash. Our net loss incurred for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 was $725,479. The working capital deficit was $1,609,841 on September 30, 2024. As a result, there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. In the event that we are unable to generate sufficient cash from our operating activities or raise additional funds, we may be required to delay, reduce or severely curtail our operations or otherwise impede our on-going business efforts, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, financial condition and long-term prospects. The Company expects to seek to obtain additional funding through increased revenues and future financings. There can be no assurance as to the availability or terms upon which such financing and capital might be available. The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern.

 

Use of Estimates

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and disclosure of contingent liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

Cash

 

Cash is comprised of cash balances. Cash is held at major financial institutions and is subject to credit risk to the extent that those balances exceed applicable Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) insurance amounts of $250,000. From time to time, the Company has certain cash balances, including restricted cash, that may exceed insured limits. The Company utilizes large banking institutions that are reputable, therefore mitigating the risks.

 

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

 

The book values of cash approximate its respective fair values due to the short-term nature of these instruments. The fair value hierarchy under GAAP distinguishes between assumptions based on market data (observable inputs) and an entity’s own assumptions (unobservable inputs).

 

The hierarchy consists of three levels

 

  Level one — Quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;
     
  Level two — Inputs other than level one inputs that are either directly or indirectly observable; and
     
  Level three — Unobservable inputs developed using estimates and assumptions, which are developed by the reporting entity and reflect those assumptions that a market participant would use.

 

Determining which category an asset or liability falls within the hierarchy requires significant judgment. We evaluate our hierarchy disclosures each quarter.

 

Net Loss Per Share

 

Net loss per common share is computed by dividing net loss by the weighted average common shares outstanding during the period as defined by FASB, ASC Topic 260, Earnings per Share. Basic earnings per common share (“EPS”) calculations are determined by dividing net income by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per common share calculations are determined by dividing net income by the weighted average number of common shares and dilutive common share equivalents outstanding. The Company does not have any dilutive shares of common stock as of September 30, 2024 or 2023.

 

Income Taxes

 

The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with FASB ASC 740, Income Taxes. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to temporary differences between the financial statements carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and loss carryforwards and their respective tax basis.

 

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income (loss) in the periods in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled.

 

 
 

 

The effect of a change in tax rules on deferred tax assets and liabilities is recognized in operations in the period of change. A valuation allowance is recorded when it is “more likely-than-not” that a deferred tax asset will not be realized.

 

Tax benefits of uncertain tax positions are recognized only if it is more likely than not that the Company will be able to sustain a position taken on an income tax return. The Company has no liability for uncertain tax positions as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023. Interest and penalties if any, related to unrecognized tax benefits would be recognized as interest expense. The Company does not have any accrued interest or penalties associated with unrecognized tax benefits, nor was any significant interest expense recognized during the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023.

 

Notes payable

 

The Company issued various notes payable to related parties. These notes payable included original issue discounts and debt issuance costs.

 

Original issue discounts. The Company accounts for the original issue discounts in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) No. 835-30, Interest and Imputation of Interest, which requires the Company to record the discount as a contra-liability and amortize it over the term of the underlying note using the interest method.

 

Debt issuance costs. The Company accounts for debt issuance costs in accordance with ASC No. 470-20, Debt, which requires the Company to recognize a contra-liability for costs incurred with the issuance of debt instruments. These contra-liabilities are amortized over the term of the underlying note payable using the interest method.

 

Related Parties

 

In accordance with ASC 850 “Related Party Disclosure”, a party is considered to be related to the Company if the party directly or indirectly or through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the Company. Related parties also include principal owners of the Company, its management, members of the immediate families of principal owners of the Company and its management and other parties with which the Company may deal with if one party controls or can significantly influence the management or operating policies of the other to an extent that one of the transacting parties might be prevented from fully pursuing its own separate interests. Transactions involving related parties cannot be presumed to be carried out on an arm’s-length basis, as the requisite conditions of competitive, free market dealings may not exist. Representations about transactions with related parties, if made, shall not imply that the related party transactions were consummated on terms equivalent to those that prevail in arm’s-length transactions unless such representations can be substantiated.

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by FASB that are adopted by the Company as of the specified effective date. If not discussed, management believes that the impact of recently issued standards, which are not yet effective, will not have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements upon adoption.

 

NOTE 3 — RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

In 2021, William Alessi (“Alessi”), an officer and director of the Company, loaned the Company $89,929 and received a payment of $4,000, for a net of $85,929. The loan is informal, unsecured, due on demand and bears 10% interest. The accrued interest as of December 31, 2023 was $3,612. The accrued interest as of September 30, 2024 was $5,436. In 2023, the Company made payments of $61,958 towards the balance of the loan. On April 17, 2024, the Company paid the remaining balance of $23,972. As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the balance was $0 and $23,972, respectively.

 

 
 

 

On January 17, 2023, the Company and Janbella Group, LLC (“Janbella”), which is controlled by Alessi, entered into a secured convertible promissory note for $412,500. The note included the $75,000 balance as of December 31, 2022, an additional $300,000, and an OID of $37,500. The note matures on January 17, 2024. The OID of $37,500 was recorded as a debt discount and was being amortized over the life of the original note ending on January 17, 2024. On August 31, 2023, the Company and Janbella entered into an Amended and Restated 12% Senior Secured Promissory Note for $453,750. This note was a modification of the $412,500 note dated January 17, 2023. The Company treated this as a modification of debt. All assets of the Company are collateral for the note. In the event of a Qualified Offering prior to the maturity date, at the option of Janbella, for every dollar received in a Qualified Offering, Janbella would receive $0.50, until the outstanding principal and interest are paid. Janbella is managed by Alessi. The note is convertible at a conversion price of $1.00. In the event of a merger or consolidation, the payment due to Janbella is 200% of the principal. During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company amortized $35,753 of this discount. As of December 31, 2023, there is a remaining balance of $1,747 left of the OID. During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company amortized the remaining balance of $1,747 of this discount. There was a one-time interest charge of 10%, or $41,250, which was recorded as original interest discount and is being amortized over the life of the original note ending on January 17, 2024. During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company amortized $39,329 of this discount. As of December 31, 2023, there was a balance remaining of $1,921. During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company amortized the remaining balance of $1,921 of this discount. On March 29, 2024, the Company extended this note to June 7, 2024 and issued 1,400,000 shares of common stock to the JanBella. The stock was valued at $0.025 per share for a total value of $35,000. The Company recorded the charge of $35,000 as a debt discount and amortized $35,000 as debt discount interest expense during the nine months ended September 30, 2024. As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the balance was $453,750 and $453,750, with accrued interest $18,452 and $59,895, respectively.

 

On August 31, 2023, the Company and Janbella entered into an 0% Senior Secured Promissory Note for $300,000. The note matures on August 31, 2024. There is no interest. An imputed interest discount was calculated for this note of $27,272, which was recorded directly to the accumulated deficit balance. This discount is being amortized over the life of the original note ending on August 31, 2024. During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company amortized $9,116 of this discount. As of December 31, 2023, the balance of this discount was $18,157. During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company amortized $18,157 of this discount. As of September 30, 2024, the balance of this discount was $0. All assets of the Company are collateral for the note. As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the balance on this note was $300,000.

 

On November 6, 2023, the Company and Janbella entered into an 0% Senior Secured Promissory Note for $221,941. The note matures on August 31, 2024. There is no interest. An imputed interest discount was calculated for this note of $16,804, which was recorded directly to the accumulated deficit balance. This discount is being amortized over the life of the original note ending on August 31, 2024. During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company amortized $3,091 of this discount. As of December 31, 2023, the balance of this discount was $13,713. During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company amortized $13,713 of this discount. As of September 30, 2024, the balance of this discount was $0. All assets of the Company are collateral for the note. As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the balance on this note was $221,941.

 

On February 28, 2024, the Company and Janbella entered into a verbal agreement for a $100,000 0% Senior Secured Promissory Note. On May 17, 2024, the Company and Janbella formalized the February 28, 2024 verbal agreement by entering into an 0% Senior Secured Promissory Note for $400,000 and JanBella funded an additional $300,000. The note matures on August 31, 2024. There is no interest. An imputed interest discount was calculated for this note of $14,087, which was recorded directly to the accumulated deficit balance. This discount is being amortized over the life of the original note ending on August 31, 2024. During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company amortized $14,087 of this discount. As of September 30, 2024, the balance of this discount was $0. All assets of the Company are collateral for the note. On September 24, 2024, the Company and Janbella entered into a verbal agreement for an additional $100,000 0% Senior Secured Promissory Note. As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the balance on this note was $500,000 and $0, respectively.

 

During the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023, the Company agreed to reimburse Mr. Alessi $208,433 for the cancellation of 90,165,908 shares and the potential acquisition of Alpha Modus Corp. by Insight Acquisition Corp. Payments of $120,083 had been made during 2023, leaving a balance due to Mr. Alessi of $88,350 as of December 31, 2023. During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company made payments of $14,226, leaving a balance due of $74,124.

 

 
 

 

NOTE 4 — STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

Preferred Stock

 

Alpha Modus was incorporated on July 11, 2014, under the laws of the state of Florida with 10,000,000 authorized shares of preferred stock with $0.0001 par value.

 

Series A Preferred Stock

 

On March 8, 2021, the Board of Directors of the Company amended the Series A preferred stock with a par value of $0.0001 per share. As amended, each share of the Series A preferred stock is entitled to one vote and each ten shares of Series A preferred stock is convertible into one share of common stock.

 

On April 27, 2021, the Company filed an amended Certificate of Designation (the “Series A Amendment”) regarding the rights associated with the Company’s shares of Series A preferred stock (the “Series A Preferred Shares”). The Series A Amendment modified the conversion entitlements associated with the Series A Preferred Shares. The conversion entitlements were increased from one share of common for ten shares of Series A Preferred Shares to one share of common for 1,000 shares of Series A Preferred Shares. The conversion change was to the detriment of the shareholder.

 

As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the Company had 0 shares of Series A preferred stock issued and outstanding.

 

Series B Preferred Stock

 

On November 26, 2018, the Board of Directors of the Company authorized 10 shares of Series B preferred stock with no par value. Each share of Series B preferred stock is entitled to ten million votes and is not convertible into shares of common stock.

 

On March 8, 2021, the Company filed an amended Certificate of Designation (the “Series B Amendment”) regarding the rights associated with the Company’s shares of Series B preferred stock (the “Series B Preferred Shares”). The Series B Amendment modified the conversion entitlements associated with the Series B Preferred Shares. The conversion entitlements were increased from no conversion into common stock to 10,000,000 shares of common stock for 1 share of Series B Preferred Shares.

 

The modification of preferred stock rights that included adding a substantive conversion option required the modification to be treated as a redemption of the preferred shares and any difference between the fair value of the modified preferred shares and the carrying amount of the preferred shares be subtracted (or added) to net income (loss) to arrive at income (loss) available to common shareholders in accordance with ASC 260-10-S99-2. Consequently, the Company has recognized a deemed dividend in determining net income or loss attributable to common shareholders as reported in the Statement of Operations and utilized in computing earnings or loss per common share. The Company, at the time of the Series B Amendment, has not yet commercialized the 571 Patent family therefore, the value of the Company was 0. The Company had not sold any shares of common stock from the date of the Series B Amendment in more than two years. Therefore, the value of the change in conversion rights at the time of the Series B Amendment was 0.

 

As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the Company had 0 shares of Series B preferred stock issued and outstanding.

 

Common Stock

 

Alpha Modus was incorporated on July 11, 2014, under the laws of the state of Florida with 490,000,000 authorized shares of common stock with $0.0001 par value. The shareholders have one vote per share of common stock.

 

On March 29, 2024, the Company issued 1,400,000 shares of common stock to JanBella, a related party, as part of the note extension for the note that had matured on January 17, 2024. The shares of common stock were valued at $0.025 per share for a total value of $35,000. The Company recorded the charge of $35,000 as a debt discount and amortized $35,000 as debt discount interest expense during the nine months ended September 30, 2024.

 

 
 

 

On April 11, 2024, the Company entered into an agreement to retain Maxim Group LLC (“Maxim”) to provide capital market advisory and investment banking services to the Company. The Company shall issue to Maxim (or its designees) an aggregate of 50,000 shares of common stock, which shall be converted into shares of the surviving publicly traded entity (the “Capital Markets Advisory Fee Stock”). The Capital Markets Advisory Fee Stock issued to Maxim shall be registered in the Company’s S-4 Registration Statement (in connection with the De-SPAC Transaction), unrestricted and freely tradeable. In connection with the closing of the De-SPAC Transaction, the Company shall pay to Maxim a non-refundable advisory fee of $300,000, payable upon the Company or its successor’s first capital raise (including any self-directed capital raises) after the closing of the De-SPAC Transaction (the “Advisory Fee”). The 50,000 shares of common stock have been valued at $0.025 per share for a total value of $1,250.

 

On May 14, 2024, the Company entered into an agreement with Pickwick Capital Partners, LLC (“Pickwick”). The Company and Pickwick previously entered into a certain letter agreement dated March 7, 2023, pursuant to which Pickwick would provide the Company corporate finance and strategic advisory services, and would be compensated for those services (the “Letter Agreement”). During the term of the Letter Agreement, Pickwick introduced the Company to Insight Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company (“Insight”), and the Company and Insight have entered into a business combination agreement (the “Business Combination”), thereby entitling Pickwick to payment of a success fee under the Letter Agreement. This agreement determined the value of the success fee and method of payment. In accordance with this agreement, the Company issued 195,000 shares of common stock to Pickwick. These shares were valued at $0.025 per share for a total value of $4,875.

 

On May 16, 2024, the Company entered into a subscription agreement with Polar Multi-Strategy Master Fund (“Polar”), in which Polar agrees to purchase 1,000,000 shares of common stock for $25,000. These shares have been valued at $0.025 per share for a total value of $25,000.

 

As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the Company had 13,645,000 and 11,000,000 shares of common stock issued and outstanding, respectively.

 

NOTE 5 — COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

 

The Company is subject, from time to time, to claims by third parties under various legal disputes. The defense of such claims, or any adverse outcome relating to any such claims, could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s liquidity, financial condition and cash flows.

 

Certain conditions may exist as of the date the unaudited financial statements are issued, which may result in a loss to the Company, but which will only be resolved when one or more future events occur or fail to occur. The Company’s management and its legal counsel assess such contingent liabilities, and such assessment inherently involves an exercise of judgment. In assessing loss contingencies related to legal proceedings that are pending against the Company or unasserted claims that may result in such proceedings, the Company’s legal counsel evaluates the perceived merits of any legal proceedings or unasserted claims as well as the perceived merits of the amount of relief sought or expected to be sought therein.

 

If the assessment of a contingency indicates that it is probable that a material loss has been incurred and the amount of the liability can be estimated, then the estimated liability would be accrued in the Company’s unaudited financial statements. If the assessment indicates that a potentially material loss contingency is not probable but is reasonably possible, or is probable but cannot be estimated, then the nature of the contingent liability, together with an estimate of the range of possible loss if determinable and material, would be disclosed.

 

Loss contingencies considered remote are generally not disclosed unless they involve guarantees, in which case the nature of the guarantee would be disclosed.

 

 
 

 

NOTE 6 — RESTATEMENTS

 

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023

 

The Company has restated the unaudited financial statements for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 as originally presented.

 

These unaudited financial statements have been prepared to:

 

a)Restate the unaudited financial statements for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 to correct accounting errors;

 

b)Restate results for the above noted changes to the unaudited financial statements

 

The restatements are being made in accordance with ASC 250, “Accounting Changes and Error Corrections.” The disclosure provision of ASC 250 requires a company that corrects an error to disclose that its previously issued financial statements have been restated, a description of the nature of the error, the effect of the correction on each financial statement line item and any per share amount affected for each prior period presented, and the cumulative effect on retained earnings (deficit) in the statement of financial position as of the beginning of each period presented.

 

The table below sets forth the changes to the balance sheet as of September 30, 2023:

 

  

As Previously

Reported

   Adjustments   As Restated 
ASSETS  $95,423   $5   $95,428(1)
                
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT               
Current liabilities               
Accrued liabilities to related party  $81,327    -   $81,327 
Payable to related party, net of discount   713,174    15,999    729,173(1)(3)
Total current liabilities   794,501    15,999    810,500 
Total liabilities   794,501    15,999    810,500 
                
Commitments and contingencies (see Note 5)   -    -    - 
                
Stockholders’ deficit               
Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value, 10,000,000 shares authorized               
Series A preferred stock, $0.0001 par value, 5,100,000 shares authorized, 0 shares issued and outstanding   -    -    - 
Series B preferred stock, $0.0001 par value, 10 shares authorized, 0 shares issued and outstanding   -    -    - 
Common stock, $0.0001 par value, 490,000,000 shares authorized, 13,645,000 and 11,000,000 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively   1,100    -    1,100 
Additional paid-in capital   3,037,548    (340,416)   2,697,132(2)
Treasury stock   (131,983)   131,983    -(2)
Accumulated deficit   (3,605,743)   192,439    (3,413,304)(3)(4)
Total stockholders’ deficit   (699,078)   (15,994)   (715,072)
Total liabilities and stockholders’ deficit  $95,423   $5   $95,428 

 

(1)Reclassifying accrued liabilities to accrued liabilities to related parties and general and administrative expenses from penalties and settlement expense;

 

(2)Reclassifying the repurchase of common shares from shareholders from penalties and settlement expense to equity;

 

(3)Reclassifying interest expense into debt discount and the appropriate amortization expense during the nine months ended September 30, 2023.

 

(4)Reclassifying expense paid by company for related party to equity.

 

 
 

 

The table below sets forth the changes to the statement of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2023:

 

  

Originally

Reported

  

Restatement

Adjustment

   As Restated 
Revenue  $-   $-   $- 
                
Operating expenses               
Professional fees   255,854    (109,196)   146,658(4)
General and administrative expenses   18,051    12,810    30,861(1)(3)(4)
Total operating expenses   273,905    (96,386)   177,519 
Operating loss   (273,905)   96,386    (177,519)
                
Other income (expenses)               
Interest income   -    4    4(4)
Interest expense   (41,250)   (16,224)   (57,474)(3)
Penalties and settlement   (85,000)   85,000    -(1)(2)
Total other income (expense)   (126,250)   68,780    (57,470)
Net loss  $(400,155)  $165,166   $(234,989)
                
Net loss per common share – basic and diluted  $(0.14)  $0.06   $(0.08)
Weighted average number of shares of common stock – basic and diluted   2,946,405    272    2,946,677 

 

(1)Reclassifying accrued liabilities to accrued liabilities to related parties and general and administrative expenses from penalties and settlement expense;

 

(2)Reclassifying the repurchase of common shares from shareholders from penalties and settlement expense to equity;

 

(3)Reclassifying interest expense into debt discount and the appropriate amortization expense during the nine months ended September 30, 2023;

 

(4)Reclassifying expenses that were incorrectly categorized into the proper expenses.

 

The table below sets forth the changes to the statement of stockholders’ deficit for the nine months ended September 30, 2023:

 

   Common Shares 
  

As Previously

Reported

   Adjustments   As Restated 
Balance, December 31, 2022   1,162,808    34,400    1,197,208(1)
Return of common shares for cancellation   -    (36,400)   (36,400)(1)
Conversion of series A into common stock   5,100    -    5,100 
Conversion of series B into common stock   100,000,000    -    100,000,000 
Purchase of treasury stock that was cancelled   (90,167,908)   2,000    (90,165,908)(1)
Net loss for the period   -    -    - 
Balance, September 30, 2023   11,000,000    -    11,000,000 

 

 
 

 

   Common Shares 
  

As Previously

Reported

   Adjustments   As Restated 
Balance, December 31, 2022  $116   $4   $120(1)
Return of common shares for cancellation   -    (4)   (4)(1)
Conversion of series A into common stock   1    -    1 
Conversion of series B into common stock   10,000    -    10,000 
Purchase of treasury stock that was cancelled   (9,017)   -    (9,017)
Net loss for the period   -    -    - 
Balance, September 30, 2023  $1,100   $-   $1,100 

 

   Treasury Stock 
  

As Previously

Reported

   Adjustments   As Restated 
Balance, December 31, 2022  $-   $-   $           - 
Purchase of treasury stock   (141,000)   141,000    -(1)
Return of common stock to treasury   9,017    (9,017)   -(1)
Net loss for the period   -    -    - 
Balance, September 30, 2023  $(131,983)   131,983   $- 

 

   Additional Paid-in Capital 
  

As Previously

Reported

   Adjustments   As Restated 
Balance, December 31, 2022  $3,047,039   $(4)  $3,047,035(1)
Return of common shares for cancellation   -    (140,996)   (140,996)(1)
Conversion of series A into common stock   509    -    509 
Conversion of series B into common stock   (10,000)   -    (10,000)
Purchase of treasury stock that was cancelled   -    (199,416)   (199,416)(1)(3)
Net loss for the period   -    -    -
Balance, September 30, 2023  $3,037,548    (340,416)  $2,697,132 

 

   Accumulated Deficit 
  

As Previously

Reported

   Adjustments   As Restated 
Balance, December 31, 2022  $(3,205,588)  $1   $(3,205,587)(1)
Imputed interest discount on related party notes   -    27,272    27,272(2)
Net loss for the period   (400,155)   165,166    (234,989)
Balance, September 30, 2023  $(3,605,743)  $192,439   $(3,413,304)

 

(1)Reclassifying the repurchase of common shares from shareholders from penalties and settlement expense to equity.

 

(2)Reclassifying interest expense into debt discount and the appropriate amortization expense during the nine months ended September 30, 2023.

 

(3)Reclassifying expense paid by company for related party to equity.

 

 
 

 

The table below sets forth the changes to the statement of cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2023:

 

  

Originally

Reported

  

Restatement

Adjustment

   As Restated 
Cash flows from operating activities:               
Net loss  $(400,155)  $165,166   $(234,989)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:               
Amortization of debt discount   -    57,474    57,474(3)
Change in assets and liabilities:               
Accounts payable and accrued expenses   81,327    (81,327)   -(1)
Accrued liabilities - related party   -    (127,105)   (127,105)(1)
Net cash used in operating activities   (318,828)   14,208    (304,620)
                
Cash flows from investing activities:               
Net cash provided by investing activities   -    -    - 
                
Cash flows from financing activities:               
Proceeds from related party loan   651,408    (51,408)   600,000(3)
Repayment of notes payable to related parties   (99,163)   37,205    (61,958)(3)
Repurchase of common stock to cancel   (141,000)   -    (141,000)
Net cash provided by financing activities   411,245    (14,203)   397,042 
Net change in cash   92,417    5    92,422 
                
Cash at beginning of period   3,006    -    3,006 
Cash at end of period  $95,423   $5   $95,428 
                
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:               
Cash paid for interest  $-   $-   $- 
Cash paid for taxes  $-   $-   $- 
                
Supplemental non-cash information               
Renegotiated notes payable  $-   $75,000   $75,000(4)
Expenses paid by Company for related party  $-   $208,433   $208,433(2)
Discounts on notes payable applied directly against accumulated deficit  $-   $27,272   $27,272(3)

 

(1)Reclassifying accrued liabilities to accrued liabilities to related parties and general and administrative expenses from penalties and settlement expense;

 

(2)Reclassifying the repurchase of common shares from shareholders from penalties and settlement expense to equity;

 

(3)Reclassifying interest expense into debt discount and the appropriate amortization expense during the nine months ended September 30, 2023.

 

(4)Amount was not disclosed in the original filing.

 

NOTE 7 — SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

The Company has evaluated subsequent events through the date the unaudited financial statements were issued. The Company has determined that there are no other such events that warrant disclosure or recognition in the financial statements other than as set forth below.

 

On December 13, 2024, the Company, Insight Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“IAC”), and IAC Merger Sub Inc., a Florida corporation wholly owned by IAC (“Merger Sub”), completed the business combination agreement and plan of merger (the “BCA”) pursuant to which Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation in the merger and becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of IAC. Each share of Company common stock will be converted into (i) the right to receive Earnout Shares, and (ii) a certain number of shares of IAC Class A Common Stock (“Common Shares”) equal to (x) $110,000,000 divided by the total number of shares of Company capital stock outstanding on a fully diluted basis as of the date of closing, divided by (y) $10 (the “Merger Consideration”), with the maximum aggregate Merger Consideration being 11,000,000 Common Shares issuable to Company common stockholders in the merger. IAC common stock and warrants issued and outstanding immediately prior to the consummation of the merger will continue to be outstanding after the closing of the merger, except that all shares of IAC Class B Common Stock outstanding as of the closing will be converted into the same number of shares of IAC Class A Common Stock as of the closing.

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.3

 

UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Defined terms included below shall have the same meaning as terms defined and included elsewhere in this Current Report on Form 8-K (the “Form 8-K”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”.)

 

Introduction

 

The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information presents the combination of financial information of IAC and Alpha Modus, adjusted to give effect to the Business Combination and related transactions. The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S-X as amended by the final rule, Release No. 33-10786 “Amendments to Financial Disclosures about Acquired and Disposed Businesses” to depict the accounting for the transaction (“Transaction Accounting Adjustments”) and present the reasonably estimable synergies and other transaction effects that have occurred or are reasonably expected to occur (“Management’s Adjustments”). IAC has elected not to present Management’s Adjustments and will only be presenting Transaction Accounting Adjustments in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information.

 

The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of September 30, 2024, assumes that the Business Combination occurred on September 30, 2024. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, and for the year ended December 31, 2023, assume that the Business Combination occurred on January 1, 2023.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements have been presented for illustrative purposes only and do not necessarily reflect what the Post-Combination Company’s financial condition or results of operations would have been had the Business Combination occurred on the dates indicated. Further, the pro forma condensed combined financial information also may not be useful in predicting the future financial condition and results of operations of the Post-Combination Company. The actual financial position and results of operations of the Post-Combination Company may differ significantly from the pro forma amounts reflected herein due to a variety of factors.

 

The historical financial information of IAC was derived from the unaudited financial statements of IAC as of and for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, and the audited financial statements of IAC for the year ended December 31, 2023, which are incorporated by reference. The historical financial information of Alpha Modus was derived from the unaudited financial statements of Alpha Modus as of and for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, and the audited financial statements of Alpha Modus for the year ended December 31, 2023, which are incorporated by reference. This information should be read together with IAC’s and Alpha Modus’ unaudited and audited financial statements, and related notes, the sections titled “IAC Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and “Alpha Modus’ Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and other financial information incorporated by reference.

 

Description of the Business Combination

 

Effective as of October 13, 2023, IAC, Merger Sub, and Alpha Modus, entered into a Business Combination Agreement pursuant to which Merger Sub would merge with and into Alpha Modus with Alpha Modus as the surviving corporation and becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of IAC, and the Business Combination Agreement was amended on June 21, 2024. The Business Combination was closed on December 13, 2024.

 

Each share of Alpha Modus common stock (other than the Dissenting Shares and the Cancelled Shares (as such terms are defined in the Business Combination Agreement)) was converted into (i) the right to receive Earnout Shares (which may be zero), and (ii) one share of New IAC common stock. Each share of Alpha Modus Series C preferred stock (other than the Dissenting Shares and the Cancelled Shares (as such terms are defined in the Business Combination Agreement)) was converted into (i) the right to receive Earnout Shares (which may be zero), and (ii) one share of New IAC Series C Preferred Stock. Alpha Modus had no outstanding options, warrants or other convertible securities outstanding, so no IAC warrants, options or stock were issued to any Alpha Modus convertible security holders in the Merger.

 

 
 

 

IAC common stock and warrants issued and outstanding immediately prior to the consummation of the Merger continue to be outstanding after the closing of the Merger, except that all shares of IAC Class B Common Stock outstanding as of the Closing were converted into the same number of shares of IAC Class A Common Stock as of the Closing (on a 1-for-1 basis). Although the IAC Charter provides for an anti-dilutive adjustment to the IAC Class B-to-IAC Class A common stock conversion ratio (to a ratio greater than 1-for-1) if the number of shares of IAC Class A common stock issued or deemed issued in connection with the Business Combination is in excess of the number of shares of IAC Class A common stock originally issued in the IAC IPO, that anti-dilutive adjustment was not triggered at the Closing since less than 24,000,000 shares of IAC Class A common stock (the number of shares of IAC Class A common stock issued in the IAC IPO) were issued in connection with the Business Combination.

 

The stockholders of Alpha Modus may be issued up to 2,200,000 additional Earnout Shares. The Alpha Modus Earnout Shares will be earned and issued in one-third (1/3) increments (of approximately 733,333 shares) if, for any twenty (20) Trading Days within any thirty (30)-consecutive Trading Day period beginning at least 180 days after the Closing Date and on or prior to the 5-year anniversary of the Closing Date, the VWAP of the Common Shares equals or exceeds $13.00 per share, $15.00 per share and $18.00 per share (as equitably adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, combinations, recapitalizations and the like after the Closing), respectively, with all remaining Alpha Modus Earnout Shares earned and issued upon a Change of Control of IAC at or prior to the 5-year anniversary of the Closing Date. Earnout Shares will be issued pro rata to holders of Alpha Modus common stock and Alpha Modus preferred stock, with a holder of a share of Alpha Modus common stock being treated equally with, and entitled to the same number of Earnout Shares as, a holder of a share of Alpha Modus preferred stock.

 

Management believes that the Earnout Shares is contingent consideration subject to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) rule ASC 805, Business Combinations. The guidance in ASC 815-40-15 requires a two-step approach first evaluating an instrument’s contingent exercise provisions and then settlement provisions to determine the classification of such instrument. The guidance as required under step 2 of ASC 815-40-15 is often referred to as the “fixed-for-fixed” rule and states that an instrument meets such criteria if the strike price and the notional of the instrument are fixed. In addition, if there is a change of control, all of the Earnout Shares will be issued regardless of the stock price. As a result, it appears the change of control provision does impact the settlement amount and the number of Earnout Shares issuable varies based on whether there is a change in control, which is not an input into a fixed-for-fixed valuation model. Therefore, the change in control provision appears to represent a settlement provision that precludes indexation to a company’s stock under step 2 of ASC 815-40-15-7. As such, management determined that they should be classified as liability.

 

At the Closing, the Sponsor deposited 750,000 Common Shares into escrow. The Sponsor Earnout Shares will be released to the Sponsor according to the same milestones and timelines applicable to the Alpha Modus Earnout Shares described above as such management determined that they should be classified as liability.

 

At the Closing, (i) the combined company repaid $1,000,000 to Polar and issued 150,000 shares to Polar, (ii) the combined company issued to Janbella 1,392,308 Common Shares, (iii) the combined company issued to Michael Singer 125,000 Common Shares, (iv) the combined company issued to Cantor 210,000 Common Shares, and (v) the combined company issued to Odeon 90,000 Common Shares.

 

Other Related Events in connection with the Business Combination

 

On October 23, 2024, IAC entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “SPA”) with Streeterville Capital, LLC (the “Streeterville”), pursuant to which, upon the consummation of the Business Combination, IAC sold, and Streeterville purchased, a secured convertible promissory note in the original principal amount of $2,890,000 (the “SPA Note”) for a net purchase price of $2,600,000 (after deducting an original issue discount of $260,000, and payment of $30,000 for the Streeterville’s legal, accounting, due diligence, asset monitoring, and other transaction expenses).

 

 
 

 

The SPA Note will mature 18 months following the date the purchase price is delivered to IAC (the “Purchase Price Date”), will accrue interest of 10% per annum, will be prepayable (after providing five trading days’ notice) at a 20% premium to the then-outstanding balance of the SPA Note, and will be convertible into Class A common stock of IAC as described below. Within 30 days of the Purchase Price Date, IAC will be obligated to file a registration statement on Form S-1 with the SEC registering a number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the SPA Note in an amount no less than two times the number of shares of Common Stock necessary to convert the outstanding balance under the SPA Note in full as of the date IAC files the registration statement. If the registration statement is not declared effective by the SEC within 120 days of the Purchase Price Date, the outstanding balance under the SPA Note will automatically increase by one percent and will continue increasing by one percent every 30 days thereafter until the registration statement is declared effective or Streeterville is able to sell shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the SPA Note pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. If by the date that 50% of the shares registered under the registration statement have been issued to Streeterville (such date, the “Trigger Date”) the SPA Note has not yet been repaid in full, IAC will be obligated to file an additional registration statement registering additional shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the SPA Note within 30 days of the Trigger Date. If that additional registration statement is not declared effective by the SEC within 120 days of the Trigger Date, the outstanding balance under the SPA Note will automatically increase by one percent and will continue increasing by one percent every 30 days thereafter until the additional registration statement is declared effective.

 

On December 12, 2024, IAC amended the SPA to provide for revised terms in the SPA Note to be issued under the SPA (the “Amended SPA”). Specifically, the revised terms of the SPA Note provide (i) that the floor price on the Conversion Price is now $4.00, (ii) if the closing bid price of IAC’s common stock is less than the floor price for ten consecutive trading days, IAC shall be obligated to commence repayment of the SPA Note on 90 days following delivery of the Purchase Price Date, and (iii) Streeterville shall not foreclose on IAC’s assets for twelve months following the Purchase Price Date.

 

Management is still evaluating the accounting for such SPA Note.

 

On December 17, New IAC entered into a waiver agreement (“Waiver Agreement”), effective as of the Closing, with the Sponsor, pursuant to which, the parties determined to waive and release entirely any amounts owed under the related party transactions.

 

The following table summarizes the number of shares of New IAC Common Stock outstanding following the consummation of the Business Combination(1):

 

Equity Capitalization Summary  Shares   % 
Alpha Modus Stockholders(2)   6,687,308    53.7%
William Alessi and Affiliates(3)   4,342,308    34.9%
Other Alpha Modus Stockholders   2,345,000    18.8%
IAC Public Stockholders   92,944    0.7%
Sponsor(4)   4,199,990    33.7%
Anchor Investors(5)   1,050,010    8.4%
Underwriters(6)   300,000    2.4%
Michael Singer(7)   125,000    1.1%
Total common stock   12,455,252    100.0%

 

 

 

(1) This table does not include the 12,000,000 shares underlying IAC Public Warrants, the 8,700,000 shares underlying IAC Private Placement Warrants, or the 2,200,000 Earnout Shares that may be issued to the stockholders of Alpha Modus upon meeting certain milestones. Additionally, the table does not include any shares of common stock that may be issued upon conversion of the Series C Preferred Stock issued at Closing of the Business Combination, as the shares of Series C Preferred Stock issued at Closing are generally not convertible into IAC Class A common stock until 18 months following Closing. Each share of IAC Class B common stock outstanding prior to Closing the Business Combination were converted into IAC Class A common stock in accordance with the IAC Charter on a 1-for-1 basis. Although the IAC Charter provides for an anti-dilutive adjustment to the IAC Class B-to-IAC Class A common stock conversion ratio (to a ratio greater than 1-for-1) if the number of shares of IAC Class A common stock issued or deemed issued in connection with the Business Combination is in excess of the number of shares of IAC Class A common stock originally issued in the IAC IPO, that anti-dilutive adjustment was not triggered at the Closing since less than 24,000,000 shares of IAC Class A common stock (the number of shares of IAC Class A common stock issued in the IAC IPO) were issued in connection with the Business Combination.

 

 
 

 

(2) Includes 1,392,308 shares of IAC Class A common stock issued by IAC to Janbella at Closing and 5,295,000 shares of IAC Class A common stock issued by IAC to Alpha Modus’ stockholders in the Business Combination as Merger Consideration. Prior to Closing, Janbella owned 1,400,000 shares of Alpha Modus common stock, and Polar owned 150,000 shares of Alpha Modus common stock, such that the 5,295,000 shares of IAC Class A common stock issued to Alpha Modus’ stockholders as Merger Consideration includes 1,400,000 shares of IAC Class A common stock issued to Janbella as Merger Consideration, and 150,000 shares of IAC Class A common stock issued to Polar as Merger Consideration. Janbella Group, LLC is controlled by William Alessi, the current CEO and principal stockholder of Alpha Modus, who is also the combined company’s CEO and principal stockholder.

 

(3) Includes 2,792,308 shares of IAC Class A common stock held by Janbella following Closing, as well as 1,550,000 shares of IAC Class A common stock held by the following other affiliates of Mr. Alessi following Closing: (i) 139,784 shares held in the name of The Alessi 2023 Irrevocable Trust, (ii) 200,000 shares held in the name of The WRA 2023 Irrevocable Trust, (iii) 200,000 shares held in the name of The Janet Alessi 2023 Irrevocable Trust, (iv) 200,000 shares held in the name of The Isabella Alessi 2023 Irrevocable Trust, (v) 200,000 shares held in the name of The Kim Alessi Richter Irrevocable Trust, and (vi) 610,216 shares of Alpha Modus common stock held in the name of the Alessi Revocable Trust. William Alessi’s spouse, Sonia Alessi, is the trustee of each of the preceding trusts, and Mr. Alessi is deemed to be the beneficial owner of shares held in the name of each of the trusts.

 

(4) The shares held by Sponsor at Closing reflect the forfeiture and cancellation of 750,000 shares by the Sponsor at Closing, but include 750,000 shares that will be transferred to escrow upon the Closing (which will still be deemed to be beneficially owned by the Sponsor since it will retain voting power with respect to the shares transferred to escrow), which will be released to the Sponsor according to the same milestones and timelines applicable to the Alpha Modus Earnout Shares described above.

 

(5) The Anchor Investors are not affiliated with the Sponsor.

 

(6) Includes 210,000 shares of IAC Class A common stock issued by IAC to Cantor at Closing, and 90,000 shares of IAC Class A common stock issued by IAC to Odeon at Closing.

 

(7) Includes 125,000 shares of IAC Class A common stock issued by IAC to Mr. Singer at Closing, but does not include shares of IAC Class A common stock deemed to be owned by Mr. Singer as a result of his voting and dispositive power over the Sponsor (as such shares are included in the Sponsor’s ownership in the table).

 

Accounting Treatment

 

The Business Combination was accounted for as a reverse recapitalization in accordance with GAAP. Under this method of accounting, although IAC acquired all of the outstanding equity interests of Alpha Modus in the Business Combination, IAC was treated as the “acquired” company and Alpha Modus was treated as the accounting acquirer for financial statement reporting purposes. Accordingly, the Business Combination was treated as the equivalent of Alpha Modus issuing stock for the net assets of IAC, accompanied by a recapitalization. The net assets of IAC were stated at historical cost, with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded. Operations prior to the Business Combination were those of Alpha Modus.

 

Alpha Modus was determined to be the accounting acquirer based on evaluation of the following facts and circumstances:

 

● The Alpha Modus’ stockholders have the greatest voting interest in the Post-Combination Company;

 

● The Alpha Modus’ stockholders have the ability to control decisions regarding election and removal of directors and officers of the Post-Combination Company;

 

● Alpha Modus comprises the ongoing operations of the Post-Combination Company; and

 

● Alpha Modus’ existing senior management is the senior management of the Post-Combination Company.

 

The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of September 30, 2024, and the unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, and for the year ended December 31, 2023, are based on the unaudited and audited historical financial statements of IAC and Alpha Modus. The unaudited pro forma adjustments are based on information currently available, and assumptions and estimates underlying the unaudited pro forma adjustments are described in the accompanying notes. Actual results may differ materially from the assumptions used to present the accompanying unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information and include immaterial rounding differences.

 

 
 

 

UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED BALANCE SHEET
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
(in thousands, except share and per share data)

 

   (1)
Alpha
Modus
(Historical)
   (2)
IAC
(Historical)
   Transaction
Accounting
Adjustments
      Pro Forma
Combined
 
Assets:                       
Current assets:                       
Cash  $66   $12   $(12)  (B)  $620 
              1,161   (D)     
              (2,207)  (F)     
              (1,000)  (G)     
              2,600   (O)     
Prepaid expenses       84    142   (F)   226 
Due from related party       145    (145)  (P)    
Due from Sponsor       140    (140)  (P)    
Total current assets   66    381    399       846 
Investments held in Trust Account       5,941    (4,810)  (A)    
              12   (B)     
              18   (C)     
              (1,161)  (D)     
Total Assets  $66   $6,322   $(5,542)     $846 
                        
Liabilities, Class A Common Stock Subject to Possible Redemption and Stockholders’ Deficit                       
Current liabilities:                       
Accounts payable  $61   $459   $(266)  (F)  $254 
Accrued expenses       884    (791)  (F)   93 
Accrued liabilities to related party   74               74 
Accrued interest payable to related party   65        (65)  (G)    
Payable to related party, net of discount   1,476        (1,476)  (G)    
Loan payable       108    (108)  (G)    
Due to related party       777    (777)  (P)    
Due to investor, net of debt discount       975    (975)  (G)    
Vendor promissory note           325   (F)   325 
Income tax payable       49           49 
Excise tax payable       2,403           2,403 
Total current liabilities   1,676    5,655    (4,133)      3,198 
Convertible note – related party       35           35 
Deferred underwriting commissions in connection with the Initial Public Offering       6,600    (6,600)  (E)    
Earnout Shares liability           19,861   (M)   19,861 
Sponsor Earnout Shares liability           6,771   (N)   6,771 
SPA Note           2,600   (O)   2,600 
Deferred tax liability       5           5 
Derivative liabilities       1,035           1,035 
Total Liabilities   1,676    13,330    18,499       33,505 
IAC Class A common stock subject to possible redemption, $0.0001 par value, 519,080 shares at redemption value       5,850    (4,810)  (A)    
              12   (B)     
              18   (C)     
              (1,070)  (J)     

 

 
 

 

UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED BALANCE SHEET
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
(in thousands, except share and per share data) — (Continued)

 

   (1)
Alpha
Modus
(Historical)
   (2)
IAC
(Historical)
   Transaction
Accounting
Adjustments
      Pro Forma
Combined
 
Stockholders’ Deficit                       
IAC preferred stock, $0.0001 par value; 1,000,000 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding                   
IAC Series C preferred stock           1   (G)   1 
IAC Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value; 200,000,000 shares authorized; 5,100,000 non-redeemable shares issued and outstanding       1       (E)   2 
              1   (G)     
                 (H)     
                 (J)     
                 (K)     
                 (L)     
IAC Class B common stock, $0.0001 par value; 20,000,000 shares authorized; 900,000 shares issued and outstanding              (K)    
Alpha Modus series A preferred stock, $0.0001 par value; 5,100,000 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding                   
Alpha Modus series B preferred stock, $0.0001 par value; 10 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding                   
Alpha Modus common stock, $0.0001 par value; 490,000,000 shares authorized; 13,645,000 shares issued and outstanding   1        (1)  (G)    
Additional paid-in capital   2,763    1,350    (12)  (B)    
              6,395   (E)     
              (535)  (F)     
              1,623   (G)     
              10,772   (H)     
              (25,574)  (I)     
              1,070   (J)     
                 (L)     
              (19,861)  (M)     
              (6,771)  (N)     
                     

492

    (P)        
              28,288   (Q)     
Accumulated deficit   (4,374)   (14,209)   205   (E)   (32,662)
              (798)  (F)     
              (10,772)  (H)     
              25,574   (I)     
              (28,288)  (Q)     
Total stockholders’ deficit   (1,610)   (12,858)   (18,191)      (32,659)
Total Liabilities, Class A Common Stock Subject to Possible Redemption and Stockholders’ Deficit  $66   $6,322   $(5,542)     $846 

 

 
 

 

UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
(in thousands, except share and per share data)

 

   (1)
Alpha
Modus
(Historical)
   (2)
IAC
(Historical)
   Transaction
Accounting
Adjustments
      Pro Forma
Combined
 
Revenue  $   $   $      $ 
Operating expenses                       
General and administrative expenses   286    902           1,188 
Franchise tax expenses       77           77 
Professional fees   312               312 
Total operating expenses   598    979           1,577 
                        
Loss from operations   (598)   (979)          (1,577)
                        
Other income (expense):                       
Change in fair value of derivative liabilities       (412)          (412)
Stock compensation expense       (1,109)          (1,109)
Gain on investments held in Trust Account       357    (357)  (AA)    
Interest expense   (128)   (456)   584   (DD)   (242)
              (242)  (HH)     
Total other expense, net   (128)   (1,620)   (15)      (1,763)
Loss before income tax expense   (726)   (2,599)   (15)      (3,340)
Income tax expense       (59)          (59)
Net loss  $(726)  $(2,658)  $(15)     $(3,399)
Loss per share – basic and fully diluted  $(0.06)                  
Basic and diluted net loss per common share, Class A Redeemable common stock       $(0.39)             
Basic and diluted net loss per common share, Class A Non-Redeemable common stock       $(0.39)             
Basic and diluted net loss per common share, Class B common stock       $(0.39)             
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding, basic and diluted                     12,455,252 
Net loss per common share, basic and diluted                    $(0.27)

 

 
 

 

UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2023
(in thousands, except share and per share data)

 

   (1)
Alpha
Modus
(Historical)
   (2)
IAC
(Historical)
   Transaction
Accounting
Adjustments
      Pro Forma
Combined
 
Revenue  $   $   $      $ 
Operating expenses                       
General and administrative expenses   43    2,419    889   (CC)   14,123 
              10,772   (FF)     
General and administrative expenses – related party       300    (300)  (BB)    
Franchise tax expenses       143           143 
Professional fees   349               349 
Total operating expenses   392    2,862    11,361       14,615 
                        
Loss from operations   (392)   (2,862)   (11,361)      (14,615)
                        
Other income (expense):                       
Change in fair value of derivative liabilities       (538)          (538)
Change in fair value of Forward Purchase Agreement Liability       86           86 
Gain on investments held in Trust Account       3,118    (3,118)  (AA)    
Gain on forgiveness of deferred underwriting fee payable       273    205   (EE)   478 
Gain on settlement of vendor payable           91   (GG)   91 
Interest expense   (109)   (112)   221   (DD)   (482)
              (482)  (HH)     
Total other (expense) income, net   (109)   2,827    (3,083)      (365)
Loss before income tax expense   (501)   (35)   (14,444)      (14,980)
Income tax expense       (615)          (615)
Net loss  $(501)  $(650)  $(14,444)     $(15,595)
Loss per share – basic and fully diluted  $(0.10)                  
Basic and diluted net loss per common share, Class A Redeemable common stock       $(0.05)             
Basic and diluted net loss per common share, Class A Non-Redeemable common stock       $(0.05)             
Basic and diluted net loss per common share, Class B common stock       $(0.05)             
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding, basic and diluted                     12,455,252 
Net loss per common share, basic and diluted                    $(1.25)

 

 
 

 

NOTES TO UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

1. Basis of Presentation

 

The Business Combination was accounted for as a reverse recapitalization in accordance with GAAP as Alpha Modus was determined to be the accounting acquirer, primarily due to the fact that Alpha Modus’ stockholders continue to control the Post-Combination Company. Under this method of accounting, although IAC acquired all of the outstanding equity interests of Alpha Modus in the Business Combination, IAC was treated as the “acquired” company for financial reporting purposes. Accordingly, the Business Combination was treated as the equivalent of Alpha Modus issuing stock for the net assets of IAC, accompanied by a recapitalization. The net assets of IAC were stated at historical cost, with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded. Operations prior to the Business Combination were those of Alpha Modus.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of September 30, 2024, assumes that the Business Combination and related transactions occurred on September 30, 2024. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, and for the year ended December 31, 2023, presents pro forma effect to the Business Combination as if it had been completed on January 1, 2023.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of September 30, 2024, has been prepared using, and should be read in conjunction with, the following:

 

IAC’s unaudited balance sheet as of September 30, 2024 and the related notes for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, incorporated by reference; and

 

● Alpha Modus’ unaudited consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2024 and the related notes for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, incorporated by reference.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, has been prepared using, and should be read in conjunction with, the following:

 

● IAC’s unaudited statement of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, and the related notes, incorporated by reference; and

 

● Alpha Modus’ unaudited consolidated statement of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, and the related notes, incorporated by reference.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2023, has been prepared using, and should be read in conjunction with, the following:

 

● IAC’s audited statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2023, and the related notes, incorporated by reference; and

 

● Alpha Modus’ audited consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2023, and the related notes, incorporated by reference.

 

As the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared based on these preliminary estimates, the final amounts recorded may differ materially from the information presented.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information does not give effect to any anticipated synergies, operating efficiencies, tax savings or cost savings that may be associated with the Business Combination.

 

 
 

 

The pro forma adjustments reflecting the consummation of the Business Combination are based on certain currently available information and certain assumptions and methodologies that IAC believes are reasonable under the circumstances. The unaudited condensed pro forma adjustments, which are described in the accompanying notes, may be revised as additional information becomes available and is evaluated. Therefore, it is likely that the actual adjustments will differ from the pro forma adjustments and it is possible the difference may be material. IAC believes that its assumptions and methodologies provide a reasonable basis for presenting all of the significant effects of the Business Combination based on information available to management at this time and that the pro forma adjustments give appropriate effect to those assumptions and are properly applied in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information is not necessarily indicative of what the actual results of operations and financial position of the Post-Combination Company would have been had the Business Combination taken place on the dates indicated, nor are they indicative of the future consolidated results of operations or financial position of the Post-Combination Company. They should be read in conjunction with the historical financial statements and notes thereto of IAC and Alpha Modus.

 

2. Accounting Policies

 

Upon consummation of the Business Combination, management of the Post-Combination Company performed a comprehensive review of the two entities’ accounting policies. As a result of the review, management of the Post-Combination Company did not identify differences between the accounting policies of the two entities which have a material impact on the financial statements of the Post-Combination Company. Based on its analysis, management of the Post-Combination Company did not identify any differences that would have a material impact on the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information. As a result, the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information does not assume any differences in accounting policies.

 

3. Adjustments to Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared to illustrate the effect of the Business Combination and has been prepared for informational purposes only.

 

The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S-X as amended by the final rule, Release No. 33-10786 “Amendments to Financial Disclosures about Acquired and Disposed Businesses” to depict the Transaction Accounting Adjustments and present the Management’s Adjustments. IAC has elected not to present Management’s Adjustments and is only presenting Transaction Accounting Adjustments in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information. The historical financial statements have been adjusted in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information to include all necessary Transaction Accounting Adjustments pursuant to Article 11 of Regulation S-X, including those that are not expected to have a continuing impact.

 

The audited historical financial statements have been adjusted in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information to give pro forma effect to Transaction Accounting Adjustments that reflect the accounting for the transaction under GAAP. Alpha Modus and IAC have not had any historical relationship prior to the Business Combination. Accordingly, no pro forma adjustments were required to eliminate activities between the companies.

 

The pro forma combined statement of operations does not reflect a provision for income taxes or any amounts that would have resulted had the Post-Combination Company filed consolidated income tax returns during the periods presented. The pro forma condensed combined balance sheet does not reflect the deferred taxes of the Post-Combination Company as a result of the Business Combination. Since it is likely that the Post-Combination Company will record a valuation allowance against the total U.S. and state deferred tax assets given the net operating losses as the recoverability of the tax assets is uncertain, the tax provision is zero.

 

 
 

 

Transaction Accounting Adjustments to Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Balance Sheet

 

The Transaction Accounting Adjustments included in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of September 30, 2024 are as follows:

 

(A) Reflects (i) the redemption of 426,135 IAC Class A ordinary shares for aggregate redemption payments of $4.8 million at a redemption price of approximately $11.29 per share on December 3, 2024, and (2) the redemption of 1 IAC Class A common stock at a redemption price of approximately $12.49 per share on December 13, 2024.

 

(B) Reflects the deposit of $0.01 million to the Trust Account in connection with the Extension and the accretion of $0.01 million to the IAC Class A Common Stock subject to possible redemption.

 

(C) Reflects the interest income earned in the Trust Account subsequent to September 30, 2024.

 

(D) Reflects the transfer of investments held in the Trust Account to cash.

 

(E) Reflects the settlement of the deferred underwriting commissions by issuance of a total of 300,000 shares of IAC Class A Common Stock to the Underwriters upon the Closing of the Business Combination.

 

(F) Represents transaction costs incurred by IAC and Alpha Modus of approximately $2.0 million and $0.6 million, respectively. These costs are accounted for a reduction in the combined cash account with a corresponding reduction in additional paid-in capital or accumulated deficit consistent with the treatment described in SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 5.A. These transaction costs will not recur in the Post-Combination Company’s income beyond 12 months after the transaction.

 

For the IAC transaction costs, $1.0 million has been accrued as of the pro forma balance sheet date. $0.1 million are recorded as prepayment for D&O insurance policy. The remaining amount of $0.9 million is reflected as an adjustment to accumulated losses. Additionally, IAC issued a vendor promissory note in the principal amount of $0.3 million and paid cash of $0.4 million to settle the $0.8 million balance owed to such vendor as of the pro forma balance sheet date. A settlement gain of $0.1 million was recorded as of the pro forma balance sheet date. The IAC estimated transaction costs exclude the deferred underwriting commissions included in (E) above.

 

For the Alpha Modus transaction costs, $0.1 million has been accrued as of the pro forma balance sheet date. The remaining amount of $0.5 million is included as an adjustment to additional paid-in capital.

 

(G) Represents the issuance of 5,295,000 shares of IAC Class A Common Stock and 7,500,000 IAC Series C preferred stock and the payment of $1.0 million to the existing Alpha Modus’ stockholders and debt holders.

 

(H) Represents the issuance of 1,392,308 shares of IAC Class A Common Stock to Janbella and 125,000 shares of IAC Class A Common Stock to Michael Singer upon the Closing of the Business Combination.

 

(I) Reflects the elimination of IAC’s historical accumulated deficit after recording the settlement of deferred underwriting commissions by stock as described in Adjustment (E) above, the transaction costs as described in (F) above, and the issuance of stock as described in Adjustment (H) above.

 

(J) Reflects reclassification of 92,944 shares of IAC Class A common stock subject to possible redemption to permanent equity.

 

(K) Reflects the conversion of 900,000 shares of IAC Class B Common Stock into the same number of IAC Class A Common Stock at the Business Combination.

 

(L) Reflects the forfeiture and cancellation of 750,000 shares of IAC Common Stock by the Sponsor at the Business Combination.

 

(M) Reflects the obligation to issue Earnout Shares to Alpha Modus stockholders upon meeting milestones. The Earnout Shares were valued with a Monte Carlo Model simulation. The Monte Carlo Model simulation included 100,000 iterations and simulated the stock price and the change of control probabilities (at 3 and 4 years). The fair value was the discounted cash flow from the sale of the securities at the time the restrictions terminated.

 

 
 

 

(N) Reflects the obligation to issue Sponsor Earnout Shares to Sponsor upon meeting milestones. The Earnout Shares were valued with a Monte Carlo Model simulation. The Monte Carlo Model simulation included 100,000 iterations and simulated the stock price and the change of control probabilities (at 3 and 4 years). The fair value was the discounted cash flow from the sale of the securities at the time the restrictions terminated.

 

(O) Reflects the cash proceeds received in accordance with the SPA executed on October 23, 2024 and the amended SPA executed on December 12, 2024.

 

(P) Reflects the waiver of any amounts owed under the related party transactions pursuant to the Waiver Agreement effective as of the Closing.

 

(Q) Reflects the reclassification under equity to avoid negative additional paid-in capital.

 

Transaction Accounting Adjustments to Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statements of Operations

 

The Transaction Accounting Adjustments included in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and the year ended December 31, 2023 are as follows:

 

(AA) Represents an adjustment to eliminate interest earned on investments held in the Trust Account after giving effect to the Business Combination as if it had occurred on January 1, 2023.

 

(BB) Represents an adjustment to eliminate administrative service fees that will be ceased paying at the Business Combination.

 

(CC) Represents an adjustment to eliminate the effect of the pro forma balance sheet adjustment presented in (F) above in the aggregate amount of $0.9 million for the direct, incremental costs of the Business Combination incurred by IAC, assuming those adjustments were made as of the beginning of the fiscal year presented. As these costs are directly related to the Business Combination, they are not expected to recur in the income of the Post-Combination Company beyond 12 months after the Business Combination.

 

(DD) Represents an adjustment to eliminate interest expense after giving effect to the conversion of debt at the Business Combination as if it had occurred on January 1, 2023.

 

(EE) Reflects the settlement of the deferred underwriting commissions by issuance of a total of 300,000 shares of IAC Class A Common Stock to the Underwriters upon the Closing of the Business Combination.

 

(FF) Represents the issuance of 1,392,308 shares of IAC Class A Common Stock to Janbella and 125,000 shares of IAC Class A Common Stock to Michael Singer upon the Closing of the Business Combination.

 

On June 21, 2024, IAC, Alpha Modus and Merger Sub entered into an amendment to the Alpha Modus BCA (the “BCA Amendment”). The BCA Amendment requires the combined company to issue 1,392,308 shares to Janbella and 125,000 shares to Michael Singer upon the Closing of the Business Combination. The difference between the fair value of the shares and the book value of the related party payables due to Michael Singer has been recorded as additional compensation expense under ASC 718. The management evaluated the shares issuable to Janbella under ASC 815 and concluded that the shares are indexed to the stock as a change in control or merger of the issuer as contemplated by the BCA Amendment agreement is representative of an exercise contingency that does not preclude equity classification in accordance with ASC 815-40-15-7A. Furthermore, management determined that the shares issuable to Janbella meet the additional equity classification considerations listed within ASC 815-40-25-10. As a result of the conclusions listed above, the Company has concluded that it will recognize and measure the issuance of shares at fair value as of the acquisition date.

 

 
 

 

(GG) Reflects the settlement of vendor payable by issuance of a convertible promissory note upon the Closing of the Business Combination.

 

(HH) Reflects the interest expense accrued on the SPA Note as if the Business Combination had closed on January 1, 2023.

 

4. Net Loss per Share

 

Represents the net loss per share calculated using the historical weighted average shares outstanding, and the issuance of additional shares in connection with the Business Combination, assuming the shares were outstanding since January 1, 2023. As the Business Combination and related transactions are being reflected as if they had occurred at the beginning of January 1, 2023, the calculation of weighted average shares outstanding for basic and diluted net loss per share assumes that the shares issuable relating to the Business Combination have been outstanding for the entire periods presented.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared with the actual redemptions by IAC Public Stockholders of shares of IAC Class A common stock for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and for the year ended December 31, 2023:

 

(in thousands, except share and per share data) 

Nine Months

Ended

September 30,

2024

  

Year Ended

December 31,

2023

 
Net loss  $(3,399)  $(15,595)
Weighted average shares outstanding of common stock(1)   12,455,252    12,455,252 
Net loss per common share, basic and diluted  $(0.27)  $(1.25)

 

 

 

(1) For the purposes of calculating diluted earnings per share, all outstanding 12,000,000 shares of IAC Public Warrants and 8,700,000 shares of IAC Private Placement Warrants should have been assumed to have been exercised, and all 7,500,000 shares of IAC Series C Preferred Stock should have assumed to have been converted. However, since this results in anti-dilution, the effect of such exercise/conversion was not included in calculation of diluted loss per share.

 

 

 

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