On January 31, 2014, pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger executed on December 31, 2013, the Company completed the acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of each of Tacoma Wings, LLC, Jantzen Beach Wings, LLC and Oregon Owl’s Nest, LLC, which owned and operated the Hooters restaurant locations in Tacoma, Washington and Portland, Oregon, respectively. The Hooters Entities were purchased from Hooters of Washington, LLC and Hooters of Oregon Partners, LLC (collectively, the “Hooters Sellers”) for a total purchase price of 680,272 Company units, with each unit consisting of one share of the Company’s common stock and one five-year warrant to purchase a share of the Company’s common stock. Half of the warrants are exercisable at $5.50 and half of the warrants are exercisable at $7.00. As part of this transaction, the Hooters Sellers were granted registration rights with respect to the Company’s common stock issued and underlying the warrants, and franchise rights and leasehold rights to the locations were transferred to the Company.

 

Also on January 31, 2014, pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger executed on January 14, 2014, the Company completed the acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of Dallas Spoon, LLC and Dallas Spoon Beverage, LLC from Express Restaurant Holdings, LLC and Express Restaurant Holdings Beverage, LLC. The purchase price of 195,000 Company units was paid to Express Working Capital, LLC (“EWC”); the units consist of one share of the Company’s common stock and one five-year warrant to purchase a share of the Company’s common stock. Half of the warrants are exercisable at $5.50 and half of the warrants are exercisable at $7.00. As part of this transaction, EWC was granted registration rights with respect to the Company’s common stock issued and underlying the warrants, and all leaseholds and other rights were transferred to the Company.

 

The financial statements of the acquirees in the preceding two paragraphs are not practicable to prepare at the time of filing due to the acquirees being privately held. The initial accounting for the business combinations are not yet complete and we are still performing procedures to determine the appropriate accounting. As such, we are unable to make the following disclosures, (i) pro forma data, (ii) purchase price allocation, (iii) expenses of the acquisition, and (iv) revenue and earnings of the acquires since the acquisition date.

 

On January 31, 2014, at a special meeting of stockholders of the Company, the Company’s stockholders approved the Chanticleer Holdings, Inc. 2014 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2014 Plan”) and approved the increase of available Company shares from 20,000,000 to 45,000,000.  The 2014 Plan, under which awards can be granted until February 3, 2024 or the 2014 Plan’s earlier termination, provides for the grant of incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights (“SARs”), restricted awards in the form of restricted stock awards and restricted stock units, performance awards in the form of performance shares and performance units, phantom stock awards and other stock-based awards to selected employees, directors and independent contractors of the Company and its affiliates.

 

The maximum number of shares issuable under the 2014 Plan is 4,000,000 shares, and no more than 4,000,000 shares may be issued under the 2014 Plan pursuant to the grant of incentive stock options.  In addition, under the 2014 Plan, in any 12-month period, (i) no participant may be granted options and SARs that are not related to an option for more than 500,000 shares of common stock (or the equivalent value thereof based on the fair market value per share of the common stock on the date of grant of an award); and (ii) no participant may be granted awards other than options or SARs that are settled in shares of common stock for more than 500,000 shares of common stock (or the equivalent value thereof based on the fair market value per share of the common stock on the date of grant of an award). The share and award limitations are subject to adjustment for anti-dilution purposes as provided in the 2014 Plan.