Under the Technology License Agreement, dated as of December 15, 2008, we have, through our subsidiary, Terra Insight Services, Inc., an exclusive, worldwide renewable license for a 30-year term from December 2008 for the commercial use of all of the technology of the Institute, which has as its focus the exploration, sustainable development and management of the Earths resources and the monitoring of the environment. Pursuant to the license, the Institute will be entitled to compensation certain project payments generated from the use of the Institutes technology in an amount to be determined on orders for our services, provided that such project payments shall not exceed 10% over the Institutes costs. Such project payments are not duplicative of any services fees payable by Terra Insight Services, Inc. to the Institute under the Services Agreement. Under the license agreement, Terra
Insight Services, Inc. has an exclusive option to purchase from the Institute its mapping technology, to terminate on the earlier of (i) June 30, 2012 or (ii) the termination of the license agreement.
In connection with the Technology License Agreement, our subsidiary, Terra Insight Services, Inc., also entered into a Services Agreement, dated as of December 15, 2008, with the Institute for a 30-year term from December 15, 2008, to render services to us, and to refer all inquiries for commercial contract services to us. In connection with services provided by the Institute, the Institute will be entitled to a service fee in an amount to be determined on orders for our services, provided that the Institute shall not charge a fee at the rate of more than 10% over its cost.
Transactions with Directors and Officers
In 2006 through March 2007, we subleased executive office facilities on a month-to-month basis pursuant to an oral agreement with Dan Brecher, a former officer, former director, and a present minority stockholder, of our company. The rent was $2,250 per month through March 2006, $4,500 per month through August, 2006, and was $8,000 per month through March 31, 2007. The rent represented the actual cost being charged to Mr. Brecher by the lessor for the facilities utilized by our company. The increases in rent were due to occupancy of additional space. As of April 1, 2007, we leased from the third party substantially reduced office space.
In 2007, Dan Brecher, Dmitry Vilbaum, Ivan Raylyan, each who were an officer or director at the time, loaned the Company an aggregate of $407,409, and a related party has loaned $39,968 to the Company. The loans are unsecured and non-interest bearing and have no specific repayment terms. In December 2007, Mr. Brecher agreed to defer the repayment of monies advanced by him to the Company, totaling approximately $295,322 through September 30, 2007, and Mr. Raylyan agreed to defer the repayment of monies advanced by him to the Company, totaling approximately $105,000 through December 12, 2007, until the earlier of June 1, 2008 or such time that monies become available, out of future monies either raised by the Company and its affiliated entities or monies received as revenue at the rate of 8% of such monies raised or received until fully repaid.
At various times since 2005 to the present, certain of our present or former officers or directors, Dan Brecher and Kenneth Oh, and other employees of our company, have worked for our attorneys, Law Offices of Dan Brecher, and may continue to do so. Mr. Brecher and Mr. Oh are practicing attorneys who have devoted a majority of their time to Law Offices of Dan Brecher. The law firm, the proprietor of which is an attorney is a former director and officer, and a present minority stockholder, of our company, provides certain legal services to us. We paid the law firm or accrued legal fees for years ended December 31, 2008 and 2007 of $309,644 and $367,881, respectively. In December 2007, the law firm agreed to waive legal fees in the amount of $477,953.
On May 19, 2008, we entered into a consulting agreement with Elena Palgova to serve as a legal consultant, for a term through April 2009. Pursuant to the agreement, she received $10,000 for the initial month of services, is entitled to a monthly fee of $5,000 thereafter, and stock options to purchase 1,000,000 shares of the Companys common stock, exercisable, subject to vesting at various times between August 1, 2008 and May 1, 2009, for two years at $0.11 per share.
On March 27, 2009, we sold to each of Dmitry Vilbaum, the Companys Chief Executive Officer, and an entity controlled by Dr. Alexandre Agaian, the Companys President, the following securities: 10,000,000 shares of the Companys common stock and 10,000,000 common stock purchase warrants that are exercisable until March 27, 2012 at $0.05 per share, for the price of $100,000.
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On April 1, 2009, we entered into a consulting agreement with Roman Rozenberg, a new director, pursuant to which we issued him warrants to purchase 3,000,000 shares of common stock, exercisable for three years at $0.05 per share.
Transactions involving Esterna Ltd. and Other Parties
On December 27, 2007, we entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with Esterna Ltd., a Cypriot limited company, for the sale of securities consisting of 5,000,000 shares of Series A preferred stock, and warrants exercisable over a two-year period to purchase 20,000,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock for the aggregate purchase price of $1 million. A closing for one-half of the securities occurred on December 27, 2007, and a final closing for the remainder of the securities occurred April 23, 2008. In connection with the transaction, the Company designated 25 million shares as Series A Preferred Stock.
Each share of Series A preferred stock is convertible into one share of common stock. Each share of Series A preferred stock is entitled to three votes for each vote afforded to a share of common stock. Upon conversion, exchange or other transaction with the Company of more than 50% of the originally issued Series A Preferred Stock, such that less than 50% of the originally issued Series A Preferred Stock becomes outstanding at any time, the remaining outstanding Series A Preferred Stock shall automatically convert into shares of common stock. Except as required by law, the holders of the Series A preferred stock are entitled to vote on an as-converted basis on all matters in which the holders of common stock are entitled to vote, including the election of directors. For so long as at least 50% of the Series A preferred stock remain outstanding, the holders of the Series A preferred stock have the exclusive
right to elect a majority of the Companys board of directors. Such directors may only be removed and may be removed from time to time by the holders of the Series A preferred stock.
Additionally, for so long as at least 50% of the aggregate number of originally-issued shares of Series A preferred stock remain outstanding, consent of the holders of at least 66 2/3% of then outstanding shares of Series A preferred stock voting together as a class are required for certain corporate actions, such as: (i) any action that creates any new class or series of equity securities or any other security convertible into equity securities ranking on par with the Series A Preferred Stock with respect to redemption, voting, dividends, or upon liquidation, (ii) the amendment, alteration or repeal of any provision of the Articles of Incorporation or the Bylaws of the Company so as adversely to affect the relative rights, preferences, qualifications, limitations or restrictions of the Series A Preferred Stock, (iii) the declaration or payment of any dividend or distribution on any securities of the Company
other than the Series A Preferred Stock pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of this Certificate of Designation for the Series A Preferred Stock, or the authorization of the repurchase of any securities of the Company, (iv) the approval of any event constituting a liquidation preference, (v) the carrying on by the Company of any business other than the business of the Company similar to the business conducted by the Company or any affiliate to date, (vi) the creation (through reclassification, issuance or otherwise) any shares of preferred stock (regardless of rights, privileges, powers or preferences; (vii) the issuance of any additional shares of preferred stock other than the shares of Series A Preferred Stock sold pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement; (viii) the merger or consolidation into or with any other entity (other than a merger or consolidation where the Company is the survivor or continuing corporation of such merger or consolidation and the
Companys stockholders as constituted immediately prior to such merger or consolidation will, immediately after such merger or consolidation hold a majority of the voting power of the Company), sell all or substantially all of the Companys assets or effect a liquidation of the assets of the Company; (ix) the entering into, directly or indirectly, or permitting of any Subsidiary to enter into, directly or indirectly, any debt or lease transaction where the aggregate value of any such transaction exceeds $1 million; (x) changing the size of, or election procedure of, the Companys Board of Directors; (xi) increasing the number of shares reserved under any plan adopted by the Company for issuance of equity to employees, non-employee directors and consultants; (xii) entering into or permitting any sale, transfer, assignment, conveyance, lease or other disposition or any series of related dispositions of any assets, business or operations of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, where the value of the assets, business or operations so disposed during the immediately preceding 12 months exceeds the lesser of (A) $1 million or (B) 10% of the Company's total consolidated assets; provided, however, that such restriction shall not apply to inventory sales and other sales in the ordinary course of business; (xiii) entering into or permitting any subsidiary to enter into, any transaction, including, without limitation, any purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property, the rendering of any service or the payment of any management, advisory or similar fees, with any affiliates, directors, officers, employees or stockholders of the Company or any subsidiary where the aggregate value
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of any such transaction exceeds $25,000; (xiv) entering into or permitting any sale, transfer, encumbrance, other disposition or any series of related dispositions of any key technology or intangible, license or otherwise transfer the rights to technology or intangibles necessary or material to its operations; (xv) hiring, terminating or replacing the Companys Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Financial Officer or President or any person performing functions equivalent to those of such offices; or (xvi) engaging in any transaction that is material or could reasonably be expected to be a material matter to the assets or operations of the Company.
The holders of Series A Preferred Stock are entitled to notices of the following corporate actions: (i) any taking by the Company of a record of the holders of any class of securities for the purpose of determining the holders thereof who are entitled to receive any dividend or other distribution, or any right to subscribe for, purchase or otherwise acquire any shares of stock of any class or any other securities or property, or to receive any other right; (ii) any capital reorganization of the Company, any reclassification or recapitalization of the capital stock of the Company, any consolidation or merger involving the Company and any other person or any transfer of all or substantially all the assets of the Company to any other person; (iii) any voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding-up of the Company; and (iv) any plan or proposal by the Company to register shares of the Common Stock
with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In connection with the transaction, Esterna nominated Mikhail Gamzin and Evgeny Roytman to the Companys board of directors, and they joined the board of directors on April 23, 2008. On July 24, 2008, a nominee of Esterna, Dmitry Moiseev, was appointed to the Companys Board of Directors.
In April 2008, River Universal Trading Limited consummated a transaction with Ivan Raylyan, an affiliate of the Company, whereby Mr. Raylyan acquired a 50% interest in River Universal Trading Limited in consideration of his transfer of 28,775,483 shares of the Companys common stock to River Universal Trading Limited. In connection with the transaction, Mr. Raylyan joined Messrs. Gamzin and Roytman on the Boards of Directors of River Universal Trading Limited and Esterna Ltd. As of March 18, 2009, Esterna was the record holder of 500,000 shares of the Companys common stock, 5,000,000 shares of Series A preferred stock, and 20,000,000 Series A preferred stock purchase warrants, and River Universal Trading Limited was the record holder of 28,775,483 shares of the Companys common stock.
On March 27, 2009, Sergey Sulgin purchased 10,000,000 shares of the Companys common stock and 10,000,000 common stock purchase warrants that are exercisable until March 27, 2012 at $0.05 per share, for the aggregate price of $300,000. As conditions to the investment, the investor required, among other things, that: the Companys Board of Directors shall initially consist of five persons, Alexandre Agaian, Dmitry Vilbaum, one individual nominated by Esterna Ltd., and two nominees of the investor; Esterna shall have exchanged all of its 5,000,000 shares of the Companys preferred stock into 5,000,000 shares of common stock and all of its 20,000,000 preferred stock purchase warrants into 20,000,000 common stock purchase warrants; and each of the Companys two principal officers, Alexandre Agaian and Dmitry Vilbaum, shall have made an equity investment of $100,000 for 10,000,000 shares of
common stock and 10,000,000 common stock purchase warrants.
In connection with recent sales of securities in March 2009, effective March 27, 2009, Esterna converted its 5,000,000 shares of the Companys preferred stock into 5,000,000 shares of the Companys common stock and exchanged its 20,000,000 preferred stock purchase warrants that are exercisable until December 27, 2009 at $0.30 per share into 20,000,000 common stock purchase warrants that are exercisable until March 27, 2012 at $0.05 per share.
In connection therewith, two directors, Evgeny Roytman and Dmitri Moiseyev, who served on the Companys Board of Directors as nominees of Esterna resigned, and two nominees of the investor, Sergey Sulgin and Roman Rozenberg, were appointed to serve on the Companys Board of Directors.
Based upon information previously provided by Esterna, the Company was informed that River Universal Trading Limited intended to transfer its ownership of the Companys shares to Esterna.
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Esterna, River Universal Trading Limited, Sergey Sulgin, Balance Capital LLC, an entity owned by Alexandre Agaian, and Dmitry Vilbaum are parties to an agreement, effective as of March 27, 2008 for a period of up to three years, pursuant to which the parties agreed, among other things, subject to the terms and conditions of the agreement, to vote for: a director nominee of Esterna as long as Esterna is the owner, directly or indirectly, of at least 25% of the Companys common stock entitled to vote on the election of directors; two director nominees of Sulgin as long as Sulgin is the owner, directly or indirectly, of at least 8,500,000 shares, subject to adjustment, of the Companys common stock entitled to vote on the election of directors; Agaian as a director as long as he is an executive officer of the Company; and Vilbaum as a director as long as Vilbaum is an executive officer of the Company.
Director Independence
Our Board currently consists of five members, each of whom, other than our Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Vilbaum, and our President, Dr. Agaian, are non-employee members of our Board. As all of our Board members are officers or nominees of a substantial stockholder who may not be deemed independent, the Board has deemed that none of our non-employees members of the Board are independent. In determining independence, we are applying the independence standards of the American Stock Exchange. Reference is made to Item 10 of Part III of this Report on Form 10-K for additional information about our Board.
ITEM 14.
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PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
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Audit Fees
Fees for audit services provided by Kempisty & Company, Certified Public Accountants, P.C. (Kempisty & Company), our current principal independent registered public accounting firm, during the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2007 were $76,000 and $72,500, respectively. Audit fees consist of the aggregate fees billed for the audits of our annual financial statements, the reviews of our quarterly financial statements included in the Companys Form 10-QSBs, and services that are normally provided in connection with statutory and regulatory filings or engagements for those fiscal years.
Audit-Related Fees
Fees for audit-related services provided by Kempisty & Company, our current principal independent registered public accounting firm, during the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2007 were $0. Audit-related fees consist of fees billed for assurance and related services that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit or review of our financial statements outside of those fees disclosed above under the caption Audit Fees.
Tax Fees
Fees for tax services provided by Kempisty & Company, our current principal independent registered public accounting firm, during the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2007 were $0. Tax fees consist of fees billed for tax compliance, tax advice, and tax planning.
All Other Fees
There were no other fees billed for services by Kempisty & Company or Rosen Seymour Shapss Martin & Company LLP for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2007.
Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures
Our Board of Directors has a policy that requires pre-approval of all audit, audit-related, tax services, and other services, including non-audit services, performed by our independent registered public accounting firm. All services performed by our current and former principal independent registered public accounting firms in our fiscal years ended December 31, 2008 and 2007 were pre-approved. We do not have a separate audit committee of the Board of Directors.
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ITEM 15.
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EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
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(a)
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List of documents filed as a part of this report:
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(1)
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Index to Consolidated Financial Statements
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2008 and 2007
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 2008 and 2007
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 2008 and 2007
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders Equity for the Years Ended
December 31, 2008 and 2007
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
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Index to Financial Statement Schedules
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Not required.
Exhibit
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Description
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3(i)(1)
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Certificate of Incorporation of Terra Energy & Resource Technologies, Inc. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(i)(1) of Form 8-K, filed on November 15, 2006)
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3(i)(2)
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Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation of Terra Energy & Resource Technologies, Inc. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(i)(2) of Form 8-K, filed on November 15, 2006)
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3(i)(3)
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Certificate of Designation (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(i) of Form 8-K filed on January 4, 2008)
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3(ii)(1)
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Bylaws of Terra Energy & Resource Technologies, Inc., as amended December 27, 2007 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(ii) of Form 8-K filed on January 4, 2008)
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10.1
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Second Amended and Restated Technology License Agreement (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K, filed on July 24, 2007)
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10.2
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Second Amended and Restated Services Agreement (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of Form 8-K, filed on July 24, 2007)
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10.3
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Agreement of waiver of fees with the Institute (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2) of Form 8-K filed on January 4, 2008)
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10.4*
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Termination Agreement
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10.5*
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Technology License Agreement
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10.6*
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Services Agreement
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10.7+
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Employment Agreement with Dmitry Vilbaum (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of Form 8-K filed on July 6, 2005)
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10.8+
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Addendum to Employment Agreement with Dmitry Vilbaum (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.16 to Registration Statement on Form SB-2, No. 333-127815 filed on August 24, 2005)
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10.9+
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Addendum to Employment Agreement, Dmitry Vilbaum, December 2005 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of Form 8-K filed on January 4, 2006)
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10.10+
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Agreement of waiver of compensation with Vilbaum (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 of Form 8-K filed on January 4, 2008)
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10.11+
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Agreement of termination of employment agreement with Vilbaum (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 of Form 8-K filed on January 4, 2008)
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10.12+
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Employment Agreement with Dmitry Vilbaum (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K, filed on April 28, 2008)
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10.13+
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Employment Agreement with Alexandre Agaian (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K, filed on September 2, 2008)
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10.14+
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Letter modification to Agaian employment agreement (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 of Form 8-K filed on April 2, 2009)
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10.15+
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Agreement of waiver of compensation with Raylyan (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of Form 8-K filed on January 4, 2008)
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10.16
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Agreement of deferral of loans with Raylyan (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 of Form 8-K filed on January 4, 2008)
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10.17+
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Agreement of termination of employment agreement with Brecher (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 of Form 8-K filed on January 4, 2008)
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10.18
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Agreement of deferral of loans with Brecher (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 of Form 8-K filed on January 4, 2008)
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10.19
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Agreement of waiver of fees (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 of Form 8-K filed on January 4, 2008)
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10.20+
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2005 Stock Incentive Plan, as Restated (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K, filed on November 15, 2006)
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10.21+
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Form of Stock Warrant issued to employees on September 25, 2006 and October 27, 2006 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10 of Form 10-QSB filed on December 18, 2006)
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10.22
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Securities Purchase Agreement with Jan Arnett, dated as of February 15, 2007 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.21 of Form 10-KSB, filed on April 18, 2007)
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10.23+
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Form of Stock Options dated August 13, 2007 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K, filed on August 20, 2007)
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10.24+
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Form of Stock Options dated October 1, 2007 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K, filed on October 5, 2007)
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10.25
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Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of December 27, 2007 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K filed on January 4, 2008)
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10.26*+
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Form of Consulting Agreement with Elena Palgova
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10.27
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Form of Securities Purchase Agreement with officers (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of Form 8-K filed on April 2, 2009)
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10.28
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Exchange Agreement (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of Form 8-K filed on April 2, 2009)
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10.29
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Securities Purchase Agreement with investor (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K filed on April 2, 2009)
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10.30
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Form of warrant issued March 2009 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 of Form 8-K filed on April 2, 2009)
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10.31
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Form of Consulting Agreement with Roman Rozenberg (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 of Form 8-K filed on April 2, 2009)
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10.32*
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Agreement regarding voting matters
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Statement re: computation of per share earnings is hereby incorporated by reference to Part II, Item 8 of this report
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21*
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Subsidiaries of the Registrant
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31.1*
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Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a)
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31.2*
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Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a)
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32.1*
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Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350
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32.2*
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Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350
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* Filed herewith
+ Represents executive compensation plan or agreement
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
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TERRA ENERGY & RESOURCE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
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By:
/s/ Dmitry Vilbaum
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Dmitry Vilbaum
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Chief Executive Officer
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Dated: April 15, 2009
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature
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Title
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Date
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/s/ Dmitry Vilbaum
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Chief Executive Officer and Director
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April 15, 2009
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Dmitry Vilbaum
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/s/ Dr. Alexandre Agaian
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President, Principal Financial Officer and Director
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April 15, 2009
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Dr. Alexandre Agaian
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/s/ Roman Rozenberg
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Director
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April 15, 2009
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Roman Rozenberg
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/s/ Sergey Sulgin
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Director
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April 15, 2009
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Sergey Sulgin
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