-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, HfvL3hbZlSD5/smWqXQUljBbPSn2ZaLqvBja8Dl1FODgTduab88SK3zTrJU56gXL U+6pbkGNds1TwiM9I/g+SQ== 0000903423-01-500114.txt : 20010528 0000903423-01-500114.hdr.sgml : 20010528 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000903423-01-500114 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20010430 FILED AS OF DATE: 20010524 SUBJECT COMPANY: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BATTERY TECHNOLOGIES INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000910654 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: MISCELLANEOUS ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES [3690] IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-22244 FILM NUMBER: 1647732 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 30 POLLARD ST STREET 2: RICHMOND HILL CITY: ONTARIO CANADA STATE: A6 COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: MERITA BANK PLC NEW YORK BRANCH CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001141330 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: [] OWNER FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 437 MADISON AVENUE CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10022 4 1 merfrm4.txt FORM 4 OMB APPROVAL --------------------------- OMB NUMBER: 3235-0287 Expires: Decembber 31, 2001 Estimated average burden hours per response.....0.5 U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [_] Check box if no longer subject of Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b). ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Merita Bank Plc, New York Branch ("Merita-NY") - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Last) (First) (Middle) 437 Madison Avenue - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Street) New York New York 10022 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (City) (State) (Zip) ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol Name: Battery Technologies Inc. ("BTI") Ticker Symbol: (BTIOF) ________________________________________________________________________________ 3. IRS Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an Entity (Voluntary) ________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Statement for Month/Year 4/01 ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year) ================================================================================ 6. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer (Check all applicable) [_] Director [X] 10% Owner [_] Officer (give title below) [_] Other (specify below) ________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check applicable line) [X] Form filed by one Reporting Person [ ] Form filed by more than one Reporting Person ________________________________________________________________________________ ================================================================================ Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned ================================================================================
6. 4. 5. Owner- Securities Acquired (A) or Amount of ship 3. Disposed of (D) Securities Form: 7. Transaction (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) Beneficially Direct Nature of 2. Code ------------------------------- Owned at End (D) or Indirect 1. Transaction (Instr. 8) (A) of Month Indirect Beneficial Title of Security Date ------------ Amount or Price (Instr. 3 (I) Ownership (Instr. 3) (mm/dd/yy) Code V (D) and 4) (Instr.4) (Instr. 4) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Shares 3/27/01 S 238,382 D U.S.$0.237 per share D - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Shares 3/30/01 S 26,000 D U.S.$0.207 per share D - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Shares 4/24/01 S 35,000 D U.S.$0.189 16,014,000 per share D ====================================================================================================================================
Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly. * If the Form is filed by more than one Reporting Person, see Instruction 4(b)(v). FORM 4 (continued) Table II -- Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities) ================================================================================
10. 9. Owner- Number ship of Form 2. Deriv- of Conver- 5. 7. ative Deriv- 11. sion Number of Title and Amount Secur- ative Nature or Derivative 6. of Underlying 8. ities Secur- of Exer- 4. Securities Date Securities Price Bene- ity: In- cise 3. Trans- Acquired (A) Exercisable and (Instr. 3 and 4) of ficially Direct direct Price Trans- action or Disposed Expiration Date ---------------- Deriv- Owned (D) or Bene- 1. of action Code of(D) (Month/Day/Year) Amount ative at End In- ficial Title of Deriv- Date (Instr. (Instr. 3, ---------------- or Secur- of direct Owner- Derivative ative (Month/ 8) 4 and 5) Date Expira- Number ity Month (I) ship Security Secur- Day/ ------ ------------ Exer- tion of (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. 3) ity Year) Code V (A) (D) cisable Date Title Shares 5) 4) 4) 4) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Warrants Cdn$0.57 Immed. 2/7/02 Common 20,391,728 20,391,728 D Shares ====================================================================================================================================
Explanation of Responses: Merita-NY sold BTI Common Shares for cash denominated in Canadian currency in all three of the transactions reported herein. Conversion of the sales price for each of the transactions, from Canadian to U.S. dollars, is based on the noon buying rates of 1.5693, 1.5784 and 1.5490 Canadian per U.S. dollars as reported by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for 3/27/01, 3/30/01, and 4/24/01, respectively. Merita Bank Plc, New York Branch /s/ Charles Lansdown 05/24/01 - --------------------------------------------- ----------------------- **Signature of Reporting Person Date ** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space provided is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure. Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained in this form are not required to respond unless the form displays a currently valid OMB number. -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----