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SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

13. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

Credit Facility Agreement with HWH

 

On April 14, 2025, the Company entered into an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Credit Facility Agreement with HWH International Inc. dated April 24, 2024, pursuant to which the Company provided HWH a line of credit facility (the “Credit Facility”) which provides a maximum, aggregate credit line of up to $1,000,000. Under the terms of the Amendment, the date upon which each advance made under the Credit Facility and all accrued but unpaid interest shall be due and payable was extended from April 24, 2025 to April 14, 2026. Further, pursuant to the Amendment, HWH released Alset International Limited from its obligations under its Letter of Continuing Financial Support to HWH dated March 28, 2025. The terms of the Company’s Letter of Continuing Financial Support to HWH were not altered by the Amendment.

 

Stock Compensation

 

On April 15, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company awarded Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Chan Heng Fai 1,000,000 restricted shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Shares”). The Shares were granted to Mr. Chan as compensation for services rendered to the Company pursuant to the Company’s 2025 Incentive Compensation Plan, as adopted on March 17, 2025. Under the terms and conditions of the award, the Shares may not be sold, assigned, transferred, pledged, encumbered or otherwise disposed of until April 15, 2026. The Shares are not part of Mr. Chan’s regular annual compensation and will not be awarded on a regularly recurring basis. As of the date of the issuance of the Shares, the fair value thereof was $840,000.

 

Loan to SHRG

 

On April 17, 2025, HWH International Inc. (“HWH”) entered into a Loan Agreement (the “Loan Agreement”) with Sharing Services Global Corp., an affiliate of the Company (“SHRG”), under which HWH provided a loan to SHRG in the amount of $250,000. The maturity date of the Loan Agreement is April 17, 2026. The Loan Agreement bears an 8% interest rate. Additionally, upon execution SHRG incurred a commitment fee representing 5% of the loan principal, $12,500.

 

Sale of IBO Shares

 

Between April 1, 2025 and April 4, 2025, the Company and its subsidiaries Alset International Limited and Global Biomedical Pte. Ltd. collectively sold the Company’s entire equity interest in Impact Biomedical Inc. (NYSE: IBO) (“Impact”) consisting of 4,268,165 shares of Impact’s common stock. The disposition of the Impact stock was made through several sales on the market through a broker. Chan Heng Fai, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, is a director of Impact.

 

Planned Acquisition of New Energy Asia Pacific Inc.

 

On December 13, 2023, the Company entered into a term sheet with Chan Heng Fai (the “Seller”), the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and largest stockholder of the Company. The Company had agreed to purchase from the Seller all of the issued and outstanding shares of New Energy Asia Pacific Inc. (“NEAPI”), a corporation incorporated in the State of Nevada, for the consideration of $103,750,000, to be paid in the form of a convertible promissory note to be issued to the Seller. NEAPI owns 41.5% of the issued and outstanding shares of New Energy Asia Pacific Limited (“New Energy”), a Hong Kong corporation.

 

The parties have now mutually agreed to revise this agreement, and on May 8, 2025, the Company and the Seller entered into an Amended Term Sheet (the “Amended Term Sheet”). Under the terms of the Amended Term Sheet, the Company agreed to purchase from the Seller all of the outstanding shares of NEAPI through a stock purchase agreement for a purchase price of $83,000,000 in the form of a promissory note convertible into newly issued shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Convertible Note”). The Convertible Note shall have an interest rate of 1% per annum. Under the terms of the Convertible Note, the Seller may convert any outstanding principal and interest into shares of the Company’s common stock at $3.00 per share upon ten (10) days’ notice prior to maturity of the Convertible Note five (5) years from the date of the Term Sheet, and upon maturity of the Convertible Note any outstanding principal and accrued interest accrued thereunder will automatically be converted into shares of the Company’s common stock at the conversion rate.

 

The Company anticipates entering into definitive agreements in the immediate future reflecting the terms set forth in the Amended Term Sheet. The closing of the transaction contemplated by the Amended Term Sheet will be subject to certain closing conditions, including receiving consent of the stockholders holding a majority of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares.

 

Notice from NASDAQ

 

On May 13, 2025, the Company received a letter from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC indicating that the Company’s common stock had closed below the minimum $1.00 per share bid price requirement for 30 consecutive business days, and that the Company is therefore not in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2). The notification has no immediate effect on the listing of the Company’s common stock, and the Company has 180 calendar days to regain compliance with the minimum bid price requirement.