NOTE 11 – COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Executive Employment Agreements –Gerald Easterling

On April 1, 2015, the Company entered into an employment agreement with Gerald Easterling at the time as the Company’s President, effective as of April 1, 2015 (the “Employment Agreement”).

The Employment Agreement is terminable at will and each provide for a base annual salary of $96,000. On May 4, 2021, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a salary for Mr. Easterling of $180,000 per annum. In addition, the Employment Agreement provides that the employee is entitled, at the sole and absolute discretion of the Company’s Board of Directors, to receive performance bonuses. Mr. Easterling will also be entitled to certain benefits including health insurance and monthly allowances for cell phone and automobile expenses.

The Employment Agreement provides that in the event the employee is terminated without cause or resigns for good reason (as defined in their Employment Agreement), the employee will receive, as severance the employee’s base salary for a period of 60 months following the date of termination. In the event of a change of control of the Company, the employee may elect to terminate the Employment Agreement within 30 days thereafter and upon such termination would receive a lump sum payment equal to 500% of the employee’s base salary.

The Employment Agreement contains certain restrictive covenants relating to non-competition, non-solicitation of customers and non-solicitation of employees for a period of one year following termination of the employee’s Employment Agreement.

Merger Agreement

On October 24, 2022, the Company entered into a Merger Agreement (as it may be amended, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Company, Yotta Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Yotta”), and Yotta Merger Sub, Inc., a Nevada corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Yotta (“Merger Sub”). The Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby (the “Transactions”) were approved by the Board of Directors of each of the Company, Yotta, and Merger Sub.

The Merger Agreement provided, among other things, that Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company, with the Company as the surviving company (the “Surviving Company”) in the merger and, after giving effect to such merger, the Company was to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yotta (the “Merger”). In addition, Yotta was to be renamed “NaturalShrimp, Incorporated” or such other name as shall be designated by the Company.

On July 20, 2023, the Company sent Yotta notice of the Company’s termination of the Merger Agreement pursuant to Section 10.2(b) thereof based on breaches by Yotta of certain representations in the Merger Agreement that would render impossible the satisfaction of certain conditions to the Company’s obligations to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement. In particular, Yotta will not be able to comply with the provision of its Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation that prohibits Yotta from consummating an initial business combination unless it has net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 upon consummation of such initial business combination. This conflicts with Yotta’s representation in the Merger Agreement that its consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement will not conflict with its organizational documents. The Company also cited delays in the SEC registration process that are attributable to Yotta, which breached its covenant pursuant to the Merger Agreement to use its reasonable best efforts to take all actions reasonably necessary or advisable to consummate the transactions contemplated by Merger Agreement as promptly as reasonably practicable. Per the Merger Agreement, if one of the parties validly terminates the Merger Agreement there will be a Breakup Fee of $3,000,000 to be paid to them by the other party. The Breakup Fee is not intended to be a penalty, but instead is liquidated damages to compensate the party which requests the termination, to not have any further liability with respect to the Merger Agreement. As of this filing date, Yotta has not responded to the Company’s notice of termination and the Company has not sought payment of the Breakup Fee beyond the July 20^th notice.  

In the current nine months ending December 31, 2023, as a result of the termination of the Merger Agreement the related Deferred offering costs in current assets of $1,394,366 was expensed in professional fees.