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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
Series E Preferred Stock
On January 5, 2024, Esports Entertainment Group, Inc. (the “Company”), entered into a Subscription and Investment Representation Agreement with the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, who is an accredited investor (the “Purchaser”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell one hundred (100) shares of the Company’s new Series E Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Series E Preferred Stock”), to the Purchaser for $10.00 per share in cash, or $1,000 in the aggregate. The sale closed on January 5, 2024.
On January 5, 2024, the Company filed a certificate of designations (the “Certificate of Designations”) with the Secretary of State of Nevada, effective as of the time of filing, designating the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions of the shares of Series E Preferred Stock. The Certificate of Designations provides that one hundred (100) shares of Series E Preferred Stock will have 6,000,000 votes each and will vote together with the outstanding shares of the Common Stock as a single class exclusively with respect to any proposal of an amendment to the Company’s articles of incorporation to increase the authorized shares of Common Stock (the “Authorized Share Increase Proposal”) or any proposal to adjourn the annual or special meeting related to the Authorized Share Increase Proposal, if applicable. The Series E Preferred Stock will be voted, without action by the holder, on any such proposals in the same proportion as shares of Common Stock are voted. The Series E Preferred Stock otherwise has no voting rights except as otherwise required by the Nevada Revised Statutes.
The Series E Preferred Stock is not convertible into, or exchangeable for, shares of any other class or series of stock or other securities of the Company. The Series E Preferred Stock has no rights with respect to any distribution of assets of the Company, including upon a liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, merger, acquisition, sale, dissolution or winding up of the Company, whether voluntarily or involuntarily. The holder of the Series E Preferred Stock will not be entitled to receive dividends of any kind.
The outstanding shares of Series E Preferred Stock shall be redeemed in whole, but not in part, at any time (i) if such redemption is ordered by the Board of Directors in its sole discretion or (ii) automatically upon the effectiveness of the Authorized Share Increase Proposal. Upon such redemption, the holder of the Series E Preferred Stock will receive consideration of $10 per share in cash, or $1,000 in the aggregate.
The foregoing description of the Subscription and Investment Representation Agreement and the Certificate of Designations do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the Subscription and Investment Representation Agreement and Certificate of Designations, which are filed as Exhibits 10.1 and 3.1, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.
Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities
The disclosure required by this Item is included in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference. Based in part upon the representations of the Purchaser in the Subscription Agreement, the offering and sale of the Series E Preferred Stock was exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Item 3.03 Material Modifications to Rights of Security Holders
The disclosure required by this Item and included in Item 1.01 of this Current Report is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
(b) Director not Standing for Reelection
On January 3, 2024, Chul Woong Lim, a director of the Company, notified the Company that he would be resigning as a director of the Company and would therefore not be standing for reelection to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Stockholders (the “2023 Annual Meeting”). Mr. Lim’s resignation from the Board and the Audit Committee and the Compensation, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will be effective on the day of the 2023 Annual Meeting. Mr. Lim’s decision to resign was not the result of any disagreement between Mr. Lim and the Company.
Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year
The disclosure required by this Item and included in Item 1.01 of this Current Report is incorporated herein by reference.
(d) Exhibits.
| Number | Description | |
| 3.1 | Certificate of Designations of Series E Preferred Stock | |
| 10.1 | Subscription and Investment Representation Agreement, dated January 5, 2024 | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within Inline XBRL document) |
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Date: January 9, 2024 | ||
| ESPORTS ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, INC. | ||
| By: | /s/ Michael Villani | |
| Name: | Michael Villani | |
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |