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2. Transactions with Affliliates
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
2. Transactions with Affliliates

Mr. Ernest M. Stern, the Company’s outside U.S. counsel, is both a director of the Company and was a partner in Akerman LLP, the firm retained in 2016 and 2015 as legal counsel by the Company. Fees paid to the law firm in the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, amounted to E63 and E30, respectively. Mr. Stern resigned from the firm Akerman LLP and became a partner in the law firm of Culhane Meadows PLLC as of March 1, 2017. Culhane Meadows PLLC is the Company’s legal councel effective March 1, 2017.

 

Two of the Company’s major shareholders have granted secured convertible notes and short term convertible notes, which have a total carrying amount of E45,486, including interest due to date. Conversion prices on the Euro-denominated convertible debt have been fixed to a fixed Euro/US dollar exchange rate.

 

The details of these notes and other loans are as follows at December 31, 2016:

 

                          Fixed  
                      Conversion   Rate  
Lender   1st-Issue     Principal   Duration   Interest   Price   EUR/USD  
Price   Date     Amount   (Note)   Rate   (US$ stated)   Conversion  
                             
Eardley Holding A.G. (1)   06/23/2006     E 181   (2 ) 10% pa   $ 0.10   N/A  
Anglo Irish Bank S.A.(3)   10/01/2007     E 500   (2 ) 10% pa   $ 0.50   1.4090  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   12/10/2007     E 1,500   (2 ) 10% pa   $ 0.50   1.4429  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   01/22/2008     E 1,500   (2 ) 10% pa   $ 0.50   1.4629  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   04/25/2008     E 2,000   (2 ) 10% pa   $ 0.50   1.5889  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   06/30/2008     E 1,500   (2 ) 10% pa   $ 0.50   1.5380  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   11/17/2008     E 1,200   (2 ) 10% pa   $ 0.50   1.2650  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   02/06/2009     E 1,500   (2 ) 10% pa   $ 0.50   1.2940  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   06/15/2009     E 5,500   (2,4 ) 10% pa   $ 0.80   1.4045  
Eardley Holding A.G.   06/15/2009     E 100   (2,4 ) 10% pa   $ 0.80   1.4300  
Von Meyenburg   08/03/2009     E 200   (2 ) 10% pa   $ 0.80   1.4400  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   10/13/2009     E 2,000   (2 ) 5% pa   $ 0.25   1.4854  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   12/18/2009     E 2,200   (2 ) 5% pa   $ 0.25   1.4338  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   08/04/2011     E 1,141   (5,6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.034   N/A  
Eardley Holding A.G.   08/04/2011     E 285   (5,6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.034   N/A  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   11/08/2011     E 400   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.034   1.3787  
Eardley Holding A.G.   11/08/2011     E 100   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.034   1.3787  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   02/10/2012     E 1,000   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.034   1.3260  
Eardley Holding A.G.   02/14/2012     E 200   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.034   1.3260  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   04/19/2012     E 321   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.034   1.3100  
Eardley Holding A.G.   04/19/2012     E 81   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.034   1.3100  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   05/04/2012     E 480   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.034   1.3152  
Eardley Holding A.G.   05/04/2012     E 120   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.034   1.3152  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   09/03/2012     E 200   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.034   1.2576  
Eardley Holding A.G.   09/03/2012     E 50   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.034   1.2576  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   11/04/2012     E 500   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.034   1.2718  
Eardley Holding A.G.   12/06/2012     E 125   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.034   1.3070  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   01/16/2013     E 240   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.034   1.3318  
Eardley Holding A.G.   01/16/2013     E 60   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.034   1.3318  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   03/25/2013     E 400   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.037   1.2915  
Eardley Holding A.G.   04/14/2013     E 150   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.034   1.3056  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   04/14/2013     E 600   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.034   1.3056  
Eardley Holding A.G.   05/15/2013     E 170   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.037   1.2938  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   05/15/2013     E 680   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.037   1.2938  
Eardley Holding A.G.   06/24/2013     E 60   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.025   1.3340  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   06/24/2013     E 240   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.025   1.3340  
Eardley Holding A.G.   08/05/2013     E 80   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.018   1.3283  
Round Enterprises Ltd.   08/05/2013     E 320   (6 ) 10% pa   $ 0.018   1.3283  
Total Short Term Principal Amounts         E 27,884                    
   Accrued Interest         E 17,950                    
                                 
TOTAL LOANS AND NOTES         E 45,834                    

 

(1) Private investment company of Dr. Thomas Staehelin, member of the Board of Directors and of the Audit Committee of the Company. Face value is stated in U.S. dollars at $190.

 

(2) This maturity date is automatically prolonged for periods of three months, unless called for repayment.

 

(3) Renamed Hyposwiss Private Bank Geneve S.A. and acting on behalf of Round Enterprises Ltd. which is a major shareholder.

 

(4) The loan is secured against 2/3rds of the IP assets of Bestewil Holding BV and against all property of the Company.

 

(5) The face values of the loans are stated in U.S. dollars at $1,200 and $300, respectively.

 

(6) This maturity date is automatically prolonged for periods of three months, unless called for repayment. The conversion price per share is determined by the lower of (i) reducing by 10% the price per share of the Company’s common stock paid by the investors in connection with an investment in the Company of not less than US$20,000, or (ii) at the stated conversion price using a fixed exchange rate which are noted in the table above.