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Can you say BUBBLE!!!!! Read all the way through this post. – from Bob Tillman – member Gerbsman Partners Board of Intellectual Capital

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on August 17, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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Just got back from China and ready to share my thoughts with you.

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Yours truly,
Captain Hoff (a.k.a. Steve Hoffman)

Running Fast in China

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I just returned from a marathon business trip to China, and here are some thoughts…

▪ Chinese food in America sucks!

▪ Traffic in Beijing makes Hwy 101 look like the Autobahn

▪ Smog is out of control, so the government is making cleantech a top priority

▪ Stock market reacts like a yoyo with each new government policy

▪ Big city Chinese need to own real estate to get into the right school districts

▪ Home prices in major cities are sky high, but if you don’t own property, no mother will let her daughter marry you!

▪ Many Chinese own 3 or more condos, and they don’t even rent them out because rental prices are so low

▪ Real estate prices have peaked and are falling, so owners are cashing out and investing in startups

▪ This has precipitated a startup boom

▪ The government is fueling the boom by laying out big subsidies for startups and incubators

▪ If you want free space for your startup, China has plenty of it

▪ Valuations are sky high, as investors compete to get into the hottest startups

▪ Chinese investors prefer startup founders 30+ years old – they don’t trust the kids with their cash

▪ High tech wages now rival those in the US – the days of cheap labor are gone!

▪ Traditional businesses are on the decline

▪ Factories that were once off-shored to China are moving to Southeast Asia in search of cheaper labor

▪ The buzz word in China is “innovation” and the entire country feels they must move up the value chain to compete

▪ Copying has become a dirty word, as China pushes to develop its own intellectual property

▪ Intellectual property rights will be enforced more strictly moving forward because China needs to reward innovation

▪ The Chinese government is focused on bringing the best technologies from around the world to China

▪ Chinese work harder than anyone I know: even government officials come to work on weekends (imagine that!)

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Successful “Date Certain M&A” of Raydiance, Inc., its Assets and Intellectual Property -Gerbsman Partners

Posted in "Date Certain M&A Process", Blog of Intellectual Capital, Board Of Intellectual Capital, Date Certain M&A, Distressed Intellectual Property, Distressed IP, Inetellectual Property, Intellectual capital, Investments, Steven R. Gerbsman, Technology, tagged , , , , on July 27, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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San Francisco, July, 2015
Successful “Date Certain M&A” of Raydiance, Inc., its Assets and Intellectual Property
Steven R. Gerbsman, Principal of Gerbsman Partners, Kenneth Hardesty and James Skelton, members of Gerbsman Partners Board of Intellectual Capital, announced today their success in maximizing stakeholder value for a venture capital and venture lending backed manufacturer of precision solutions enabled by femtosecond laser technology.

Gerbsman Partners provided Crisis Management and Investment Banking leadership, facilitated the sale of the business unit’s assets and its associated Intellectual Property. Due to market conditions, the board of directors made the strategic decision to maximize the value of the business unit and Intellectual Property. Gerbsman Partners provided leadership to the company with:

1.  Crisis Management and technology domain expertise in developing the strategic action plans for maximizing value of the business unit, Intellectual Property and assets;
2.  Domain expertise in maximizing the value of the business unit and Intellectual Property through a Gerbsman Partners targeted and proprietary “Date Certain M&A Process”;
3.  The ability to “Manage the Process” among potential Acquirers, Lawyers, Creditors Management and Advisors;
4.  The ability to Communicate with the Board of Directors, senior management, senior lender, creditors, vendors and all stakeholders in interest.
About Gerbsman Partners

Gerbsman Partners focuses on maximizing enterprise value for stakeholders and shareholders in under-performing, under-capitalized and under-valued companies and their Intellectual Property. Since 2001, Gerbsman Partners has been involved in maximizing value for 89 Technology, Medical Device, Life Science, Solar; Digital Marketing and Social Commerce and Fuel Cell companies and their Intellectual Property and has restructured/terminated over $810 million of real estate executory contracts and equipment lease/sub-debt obligations. Since inception in 1980, Gerbsman Partners has been involved in over $2.3 billion of financings, restructuring and M&A transactions.

Gerbsman Partners has offices and strategic alliances in San Francisco, Boston, New York, Orange County, Washington, DC, McLean, VA, Europe and Israel.

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Email: steve@gerbsmanpartners.com
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BLOG of Intellectual Capital: blog.gerbsmanpartners.com

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7/22 Update -“Date Certain M&A” and “Advantages of EDGEhome/Green Edge Technologies Intellectual Property/Patents for the Home Automation market”

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on July 22, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Good afternoon.

The Gerbsman Partners team will be following up this week and next week with all potential interested parties to review and discuss the “Bidding Process” for the Assets and IP/Patents of GreenEdge Technologies.

Bids are due on or before Friday, July 31, 2015. Per below, the Asset Purchase Agreement (“APA”) is attached and we encourage all interested parties to review the APA with their counsel and with counsel to GreenEdge, Robert O’Connor, Esq.

Subject to a signed NDA, Gerbsman Partners will make the GreenEdge due diligence room available to interested parties.

The Gerbsman Partners team looks forward to assisting you in the Bidding Process.

The Update to the Bidding Process for “EDGEhome/GreenEdge Technologies – Patent & Product Competitive Advantages ” and “Asset Purchase Agreement”

Further to Gerbsman Partners previous e-mails and sales letter of June & July, 2015, regarding the sale of certain assets of GreenEdge Technologies, Inc., (GreenEdge), GreenEdge has outlined below the “advantages of why companies in the home automation market should be reviewing and acquiring the GreenEdge IP/Patents.

I also attach the form of agreement (“APA”) that we will be requesting the bidders for certain Assets and Intellectual Property of GreenEdge execute and deliver in connection with such transaction. The GreenEdge Assets have been previously supplied, as outlined in the GreenEdge sales letter.

Gerbsman Partners has been retained by GreenEdge Technologies, Inc. to solicit interest for the acquisition of all or substantially all of GreenEdge’s assets, including its Intellectual Property (“IP”), in whole or in part (collectively, the “GreenEdge Assets”).

Any and all the assets of GreenEdge will be sold on an “as is, where is” basis and will be subject to “The Bidding Process for Interested Buyers”, outlined below.

Prior to the bid date of July 31, 2015., I would encourage all interested parties to have their counsel speak with Robert O’Connor, Esq. of Wilson Sonsini. He is available to discuss any questions or comments of a legal nature relating to the transactions contemplated by the APA. 415 947 2099 office, 415 279 6579 cell roconnor@wsgr.com

 

“Advantages of why companies in the home automation market should be reviewing and acquiring the GreenEdge IP/Patents”

1) If you are a company with legacy/low tech products and you want to make smart products, you will be interested in EDGEhome’s assets because:
EDGEhome’s patents will give you offensive and defensive smart home/IoT IP opportunities
EDGEhome’s mature iOS and Android user interface and cloud service give you a fast track to market with excellent usability and rich features
EDGEhome’s wireless transceiver module allows you to quickly make almost any device smart
If you make regular lighting / switch / outlet devices and you need smart devices, or if you want to go in this direction but you don’t have these devices, EDGEhome allows you to quickly and efficiently deliver them to market without developing them yoursel
2) If you are a company that makes smart switches, lighting controls, and/or outlets, or you are a company that wants to develop these types of devices, you would be interested in EDGEhome’s assets because:
EDGEhome’s patents protect valuable use cases including electronic tamper-resistant outlets, dimmable outlets, and outlets that intelligently switch things off to save electricity. These provide a potential significant royalty generation opportunity, and significant defense against litigious competitors in the smart home / home automation / IoT marketplace.
EDGEhome’s devices all measure electricity usage point-by-point and control individual outlet plugs individually, enabling energy monitoring and energy savings in a compact package
California Title 24 compliance for plug-load intelligent control provides powerful and valuable use cases for commercial, hotel, and industrial customers in California and beyond
EDGEhome’s devices are designed to be low cost with high capability, giving you a potential cost advantage and opportunity for high gross margins
3) If you are a large, established home automation system provider, you will be interested in EDGEhome’s assets because:
EDGEhome’s patents provide offensive and defensive opportunities and potential royalties versus other established competitors in the home automation space, including historically litigious competitors. Patents protecting electronic tamper resistance for electrical outlets, dimmable outlets, and outlets that control plugs individually will be of particular interest.
EDGEhome’s market-tested, complete, turnkey, electrician installed, cost-effective, and extensible smart home system gives you an instant mid-tier offering that opens up the mass market and base-feature opportunity in new homes, without cannibalizing your established brand.
EDGEhome can easily inter-operate with your existing systems and devices.
EDGEhome’s energy monitoring and point-by-point control gives you the opportunity to get demand-response revenue from electric utilities, revenue from big-data, and California Title-24 compliance required for businesses, hotels, and industrial buildings.
4) If you are an established consumer electronics manufacturer who has not yet delivered a smart home / IoT system, you will be interested in EDGEhome’s IP because:
EDGEhome’s patents give you offensive and defensive smart home / IoT capabilities to slow competitor actions, to deliver unique capabilities, to defend yourself against smart home competitors with a larger patent portfolio, and to generate revenue from royalties
EDGEhome’s turnkey, complete, easy to use, and extensible system can jump-start your entry into the smart home / smart building market without having to develop the system and devices yourself
EDGEhome’s modular transceiver allows you to quickly integrate your devices into the system
EDGEhome’s temperature, energy usage, and voltage/current waveform sensors enable powerful use cases of safety & security and convenience when coupled with your existing devices
5) If you are an existing smart device provider, and you want to deploy a system or want to add smart lighting and electrical devices to your portfolio, you will be interested in EDGEhome because:
EDGEhome’s smart lighting controls, smart switches, and smart outlets allow you to quickly deploy a powerful, energy monitoring, extensible, desirable, and cost effective lighting/outlet system which puts powerful sensors in each device. With EDGEhome’s modular wireless protocol support, you can easily support your protocol in EDGEhome’s devices or use EDGEhome’s protocol
EDGEhome’s patents give you offensive and defensive capabilities to protect unique competitive advantages including electronic tamper resistant outlets which provide tamper resistance required by the national electric code in a smaller and less expensive package than can be achieved through mechanical means, and allows your to provide one-of-a-kind capabilities like dimmable electrical outlets or smart control of devices plugged in out outlets.
EDGEhome’s point-by-point control and real-time electrical monitoring capability in each device enable valuable and powerful consumer value propositions to satisfy California Title-24 for hotels and businesses, to enable revenue from electrical utilities for demand-response capability, and the opportunity for rebates from electrical utilities due to EDGEhome’s energy reduction capabilities.
EDGEhome’s room temperature monitoring capability in every smart outlet and smart switch enable an in-building temperature profile and thermostat capabilities which are unmatched by any competitors.
6) If you are a smart thermostat provider, or you are a legacy thermostat provider who wants to create a smart thermostat offering, you will be interested in EDGEhome’s IP because:
EDGEhome’s smart outlets and switches each monitor room temperature in real-time, throughout a house or building. This enables thermostat and climate control capabilities which are unmatched by any competitor.
EDGEhome’s patents include a pending patent that allows distributed temperature sensors to be used along with a temperature-compensation routine that subtracts out self-generated device heat to provide accurate temperature profile throughout a building.
EDGEhome’s turnkey, easy to use, and extensible system and user interface was designed to support low cost, powerful, and intuitive temperature reporting and thermostat capability that can be linked with lighting and electrical control. This along with EDGEhome’s secure, modular, and low cost wireless protocol allows you to quickly deploy a smart thermostat to the market quickly and efficiently.

The Bidding Process for Interested Buyer

Interested and qualified parties will be expected to sign a nondisclosure agreement (attached hereto as Exhibit A) to have access to key members of the management and intellectual capital teams and the due diligence “war room” documentation (the “Due Diligence Access”). Each interested party, as a consequence of the Due Diligence Access granted to it, shall be deemed to acknowledge and represent (i) that it is bound by the bidding procedures described herein; (ii) that it has an opportunity to inspect and examine the Green Edge Assets and to review all pertinent documents and information with respect thereto; (iii) that it is not relying upon any written or oral statements, representations, or warranties of Gerbsman Partners or Green Edge, or their respective staff, agents, or attorneys; and (iv) all such documents and reports have been provided solely for the convenience of the interested party, and Green Edge and Gerbsman Partners (and their respective, staff, agents, or attorneys) do not make any representations as to the accuracy or completeness of the same.

Following an initial round of due diligence, interested parties will be invited to participate with a sealed bid, for the acquisition of the Green Edge Assets. Sealed bids must be submitted so that they are actually received by Gerbsman Partners no later than Friday, July 31, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time (the “Bid Deadline”) at Green Edge office, located at 15333 Avenue of Science, Suite 110, San Diego, CA 92128. Please also email steve@gerbsmanpartners.comwith any bid.

Bids should identify those assets being tendered for in a specific and identifiable way.

Any person or other entity making a bid must be prepared to provide independent confirmation that they possess the financial resources to complete the purchase where applicable. All bids must be accompanied by a refundable deposit check in the amount of $250,000 (the refundable deposit will be held in Green Edge’s legal counsel trust account.). The winning bidder will be notified within 3 business days of the Bid Deadline. Unsuccessful bidders will have their deposits returned to them within 3 business days of notification that they are an unsuccessful bidder.

Green Edge reserves the right to, in its sole discretion, accept or reject any bid, or withdraw any or all of the assets from sale. Interested parties should understand that it is expected that the highest and best bid submitted will be chosen as the winning bidder and bidders may not have the opportunity to improve their bids after submission.

Green Edge will require the successful bidder to close within a 7 day period. Any or all of the assets of Green Edge will be sold on an “as is, where is” basis, with no representation or warranties whatsoever.

All sales, transfer, and recording taxes, stamp taxes, or similar taxes, if any, relating to the sale of the Green Edge Assets shall be the sole responsibility of the successful bidder and shall be paid Green Edge at the closing of each transaction. For additional information, please see below and/or contact:

For additional information, please see below and/or contact:

Steven R. Gerbsman
Gerbsman Partners
(415) 456- 0628
steve@gerbsmanpartners.com

Kenneth Hardesty
Gerbsman Partners
(408) 591-7528
ken@gerbsmanpartners.com

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The Update to the Bidding Process for “EDGEhome/GreenEdge Technologies – Patent & Product Competitive Advantages ” and “Asset Purchase Agreement” – Gerbsman Parters

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on July 15, 2015| Leave a Comment »

The Update to the Bidding Process for “EDGEhome/GreenEdge Technologies – Patent & Product Competitive Advantages ” and “Asset Purchase Agreement”

Further to Gerbsman Partners previous e-mails and sales letter of June & July, 2015, regarding the sale of certain assets of GreenEdge Technologies, Inc., (GreenEdge), GreenEdge has outlined below the “advantages of why companies in the home automation market should be reviewing and acquiring the GreenEdge IP/Patents.

I also attach the form of agreement (“APA”) that we will be requesting the bidders for certain Assets and Intellectual Property of GreenEdge execute and deliver in connection with such transaction. The GreenEdge Assets have been previously supplied, as outlined in the GreenEdge sales letter.

Gerbsman Partners has been retained by GreenEdge Technologies, Inc. to solicit interest for the acquisition of all or substantially all of GreenEdge’s assets, including its Intellectual Property (“IP”), in whole or in part (collectively, the “GreenEdge Assets”).

Any and all the assets of GreenEdge will be sold on an “as is, where is” basis and will be subject to “The Bidding Process for Interested Buyers”, outlined below.

Prior to the bid date of July 31, 2015., I would encourage all interested parties to have their counsel speak with Robert O’Connor, Esq. of Wilson Sonsini. He is available to discuss any questions or comments of a legal nature relating to the transactions contemplated by the APA. 415 947 2099 office, 415 279 6579 cell roconnor@wsgr.com

 

“Advantages of why companies in the home automation market should be reviewing and acquiring the GreenEdge IP/Patents”
1) If you are a company with legacy/low tech products and you want to make smart products, you will be interested in EDGEhome’s assets because:
a.  EDGEhome’s patents will give you offensive and defensive smart home/IoT IP opportunities
b.  EDGEhome’s mature iOS and Android user interface and cloud service give you a fast track to market with excellent usability and rich features
c.  EDGEhome’s wireless transceiver module allows you to quickly make almost any device smart
d.  If you make regular lighting / switch / outlet devices and you need smart devices, or if you want to go in this direction but you don’t have these devices, EDGEhome allows you to quickly and efficiently deliver them to market without developing them yourself
2) If you are a company that makes smart switches, lighting controls, and/or outlets, or you are a company that wants to develop these types of devices, you would be interested in EDGEhome’s assets because:
a.  EDGEhome’s patents protect valuable use cases including electronic tamper-resistant outlets, dimmable outlets, and outlets that intelligently switch things off to save electricity. These provide a potential significant royalty generation opportunity, and significant defense against litigious competitors in the smart home / home automation / IoT marketplace.
b.  EDGEhome’s devices all measure electricity usage point-by-point and control individual outlet plugs individually, enabling energy monitoring and energy savings in a compact package
California Title 24 compliance for plug-load intelligent control provides powerful and valuable use cases for commercial, hotel, and industrial customers in California and beyond
c.  EDGEhome’s devices are designed to be low cost with high capability, giving you a potential cost advantage and opportunity for high gross margins
3) If you are a large, established home automation system provider, you will be interested in EDGEhome’s assets because:
a.  EDGEhome’s patents provide offensive and defensive opportunities and potential royalties versus other established competitors in the home automation space, including historically litigious competitors. Patents protecting electronic tamper resistance for electrical outlets, dimmable outlets, and outlets that control plugs individually will be of particular interest.
b.  EDGEhome’s market-tested, complete, turnkey, electrician installed, cost-effective, and extensible smart home system gives you an instant mid-tier offering that opens up the mass market and base-feature opportunity in new homes, without cannibalizing your established brand.
c.  EDGEhome can easily inter-operate with your existing systems and devices.
d.  EDGEhome’s energy monitoring and point-by-point control gives you the opportunity to get demand-response revenue from electric utilities, revenue from big-data, and California Title-24 compliance required for businesses, hotels, and industrial buildings.
4) If you are an established consumer electronics manufacturer who has not yet delivered a smart home / IoT system, you will be interested in EDGEhome’s IP because:
a.  EDGEhome’s patents give you offensive and defensive smart home / IoT capabilities to slow competitor actions, to deliver unique capabilities, to defend yourself against smart home competitors with a larger patent portfolio, and to generate revenue from royalties
b.  EDGEhome’s turnkey, complete, easy to use, and extensible system can jump-start your entry into the smart home / smart building market without having to develop the system and devices yourself
c.  EDGEhome’s modular transceiver allows you to quickly integrate your devices into the system
d.  EDGEhome’s temperature, energy usage, and voltage/current waveform sensors enable powerful use cases of safety & security and convenience when coupled with your existing devices
5) If you are an existing smart device provider, and you want to deploy a system or want to add smart lighting and electrical devices to your portfolio, you will be interested in EDGEhome because:
a.  EDGEhome’s smart lighting controls, smart switches, and smart outlets allow you to quickly deploy a powerful, energy monitoring, extensible, desirable, and cost effective lighting/outlet system which puts powerful sensors in each device. With EDGEhome’s modular wireless protocol support, you can easily support your protocol in EDGEhome’s devices or use EDGEhome’s protocol
b.  EDGEhome’s patents give you offensive and defensive capabilities to protect unique competitive advantages including electronic tamper resistant outlets which provide tamper resistance required by the national electric code in a smaller and less expensive package than can be achieved through mechanical means, and allows your to provide one-of-a-kind capabilities like dimmable electrical outlets or smart control of devices plugged in out outlets.
c.  EDGEhome’s point-by-point control and real-time electrical monitoring capability in each device enable valuable and powerful consumer value propositions to satisfy California Title-24 for hotels and businesses, to enable revenue from electrical utilities for demand-response capability, and the opportunity for rebates from electrical utilities due to EDGEhome’s energy reduction capabilities.
d.  EDGEhome’s room temperature monitoring capability in every smart outlet and smart switch enable an in-building temperature profile and thermostat capabilities which are unmatched by any competitors.
6) If you are a smart thermostat provider, or you are a legacy thermostat provider who wants to create a smart thermostat offering, you will be interested in EDGEhome’s IP because:
a.  EDGEhome’s smart outlets and switches each monitor room temperature in real-time, throughout a house or building. This enables thermostat and climate control capabilities which are unmatched by any competitor.
b.  EDGEhome’s patents include a pending patent that allows distributed temperature sensors to be used along with a temperature-compensation routine that subtracts out self-generated device heat to provide accurate temperature profile throughout a building.
c.  EDGEhome’s turnkey, easy to use, and extensible system and user interface was designed to support low cost, powerful, and intuitive temperature reporting and thermostat capability that can be linked with lighting and electrical control. This along with EDGEhome’s secure, modular, and low cost wireless protocol allows you to quickly deploy a smart thermostat to the market quickly and efficiently.
The Bidding Process for Interested Buyer

Interested and qualified parties will be expected to sign a nondisclosure agreement (attached hereto as Exhibit A) to have access to key members of the management and intellectual capital teams and the due diligence “war room” documentation (the “Due Diligence Access”). Each interested party, as a consequence of the Due Diligence Access granted to it, shall be deemed to acknowledge and represent (i) that it is bound by the bidding procedures described herein; (ii) that it has an opportunity to inspect and examine the Green Edge Assets and to review all pertinent documents and information with respect thereto; (iii) that it is not relying upon any written or oral statements, representations, or warranties of Gerbsman Partners or Green Edge, or their respective staff, agents, or attorneys; and (iv) all such documents and reports have been provided solely for the convenience of the interested party, and Green Edge and Gerbsman Partners (and their respective, staff, agents, or attorneys) do not make any representations as to the accuracy or completeness of the same.

Following an initial round of due diligence, interested parties will be invited to participate with a sealed bid, for the acquisition of the Green Edge Assets. Sealed bids must be submitted so that they are actually received by Gerbsman Partners no later than Friday, July 31, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time (the “Bid Deadline”) at Green Edge office, located at 15333 Avenue of Science, Suite 110, San Diego, CA 92128. Please also email steve@gerbsmanpartners.comwith any bid.

Bids should identify those assets being tendered for in a specific and identifiable way.

Any person or other entity making a bid must be prepared to provide independent confirmation that they possess the financial resources to complete the purchase where applicable. All bids must be accompanied by a refundable deposit check in the amount of $250,000 (the refundable deposit will be held in Green Edge’s legal counsel trust account.). The winning bidder will be notified within 3 business days of the Bid Deadline. Unsuccessful bidders will have their deposits returned to them within 3 business days of notification that they are an unsuccessful bidder.

Green Edge reserves the right to, in its sole discretion, accept or reject any bid, or withdraw any or all of the assets from sale. Interested parties should understand that it is expected that the highest and best bid submitted will be chosen as the winning bidder and bidders may not have the opportunity to improve their bids after submission.

Green Edge will require the successful bidder to close within a 7 day period. Any or all of the assets of Green Edge will be sold on an “as is, where is” basis, with no representation or warranties whatsoever.

All sales, transfer, and recording taxes, stamp taxes, or similar taxes, if any, relating to the sale of the Green Edge Assets shall be the sole responsibility of the successful bidder and shall be paid Green Edge at the closing of each transaction. For additional information, please see below and/or contact:

For additional information, please see below and/or contact:

Steven R. Gerbsman
Gerbsman Partners
(415) 456- 0628
steve@gerbsmanpartners.com

Kenneth Hardesty
Gerbsman Partners
(408) 591-7528
ken@gerbsmanpartners.com

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The Update to the Bidding Process for “EDGEhome/GreenEdge Technologies – Patent & Product Competitive Advantages ” and “Asset Purchase Agreement” – Gerbsman Partners

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on July 6, 2015| Leave a Comment »

The Update to the Bidding Process for “EDGEhome/GreenEdge Technologies – Patent & Product Competitive Advantages ” and “Asset Purchase Agreement”

Further to Gerbsman Partners previous e-mails and sales letter of June, 2015, regarding the sale of certain assets of GreenEdge Technologies, Inc., (GreenEdge), I attach the form of agreement (“APA”) that we will be requesting the bidders for certain Assets and Intellectual Property of GreenEdge execute and deliver in connection with such transaction. The GreenEdge Assets have been previously supplied, as outlined in the GreenEdge sales letter.

Gerbsman Partners has been retained by GreenEdge Technologies, Inc. to solicit interest for the acquisition of all or substantially all of GreenEdge’s assets, including its Intellectual Property (“IP”), in whole or in part (collectively, the “GreenEdge Assets”).

Any and all the assets of GreenEdge will be sold on an “as is, where is” basis and will be subject to “The Bidding Process for Interested Buyers”, outlined below.

Prior to the bid date of July 31, 2015., I would encourage all interested parties to have their counsel speak with Robert O’Connor, Esq. of Wilson Sonsini. He is available to discuss any questions or comments of a legal nature relating to the transactions contemplated by the APA. 415 947 2099 office, 415 279 6579 cell roconnor@wsgr.com

Good afternoon

I have attached an update from EDGEhome, an outline the “EDGEhome Patent & Product Competitive Advantages”, along with an NDA, for your further review and consideration of the opportunity. This is not a confidential document and can be used to evaluate the quality and advantages of the EDGEhome Intellectual Property.

Please utilize this information in conjunction with the Sales Letter describing EDGEhome, its Assets and Intellectual Property Portfolio that was previously sent, and the “Date Certain M&A” Bidding Process below.

The Bidding Process for Interested Buyer

Interested and qualified parties will be expected to sign a nondisclosure agreement (attached hereto as Exhibit A) to have access to key members of the management and intellectual capital teams and the due diligence “war room” documentation (the “Due Diligence Access”). Each interested party, as a consequence of the Due Diligence Access granted to it, shall be deemed to acknowledge and represent (i) that it is bound by the bidding procedures described herein; (ii) that it has an opportunity to inspect and examine the Green Edge Assets and to review all pertinent documents and information with respect thereto; (iii) that it is not relying upon any written or oral statements, representations, or warranties of Gerbsman Partners or Green Edge, or their respective staff, agents, or attorneys; and (iv) all such documents and reports have been provided solely for the convenience of the interested party, and Green Edge and Gerbsman Partners (and their respective, staff, agents, or attorneys) do not make any representations as to the accuracy or completeness of the same.

Following an initial round of due diligence, interested parties will be invited to participate with a sealed bid, for the acquisition of the Green Edge Assets. Sealed bids must be submitted so that they are actually received by Gerbsman Partners no later than Friday, July 31, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time (the “Bid Deadline”) at Green Edge office, located at 15333 Avenue of Science, Suite 110, San Diego, CA 92128. Please also email steve@gerbsmanpartners.comwith any bid.

Bids should identify those assets being tendered for in a specific and identifiable way.

Any person or other entity making a bid must be prepared to provide independent confirmation that they possess the financial resources to complete the purchase where applicable. All bids must be accompanied by a refundable deposit check in the amount of $250,000 (the refundable deposit will be held in Green Edge’s legal counsel trust account.). The winning bidder will be notified within 3 business days of the Bid Deadline. Unsuccessful bidders will have their deposits returned to them within 3 business days of notification that they are an unsuccessful bidder.

Green Edge reserves the right to, in its sole discretion, accept or reject any bid, or withdraw any or all of the assets from sale. Interested parties should understand that it is expected that the highest and best bid submitted will be chosen as the winning bidder and bidders may not have the opportunity to improve their bids after submission.

Green Edge will require the successful bidder to close within a 7 day period. Any or all of the assets of Green Edge will be sold on an “as is, where is” basis, with no representation or warranties whatsoever.

All sales, transfer, and recording taxes, stamp taxes, or similar taxes, if any, relating to the sale of the Green Edge Assets shall be the sole responsibility of the successful bidder and shall be paid Green Edge at the closing of each transaction. For additional information, please see below and/or contact:

For additional information, please see below and/or contact:

Steven R. Gerbsman
Gerbsman Partners
(415) 456- 0628
steve@gerbsmanpartners.com

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