UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
DC 20549
FORM
8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
PURSUANT
TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date
of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 14, 2016
MENDOCINO
BREWING COMPANY, INC.
(Exact
Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
California
(State
or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
0-22524 |
68-0318293 |
(Commission
File No.) |
(IRS
Employer Identification Number) |
1601
Airport Road, Ukiah, California |
95482 |
(Address
of Principal Executive Offices) |
(Zip
Code) |
(707)
463-2087
(Registrant’s
Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
N/A
(Former
Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
Check
the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant
under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):
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Item
1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
On
March 14, 2016, Mendocino Brewing Company, Inc. a California corporation, (the “Company”) issued a promissory
note (the “Note”) to Catamaran Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Catamaran”) in the
principal amount of $325,000. The Company previously issued four promissory notes to Catamaran on January 22, 2014, April 24,
2014, February 5, 2015 and June 30, 2015 (the “Prior Notes”). Such Prior Notes are in the principal amount
of $500,000 each and on substantially the same terms as the Note. The Prior Notes have been disclosed in the Company’s current
reports on Form 8-K filed on January 28, 2014, April 24, 2014, February 11, 2015 and July 7, 2015, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q
filed on May 15, 2014, August 14, 2014, November 14, 2014, May 15, 2015, August 14, 2015 and November 16, 2015 and annual reports
on Form 10-K filed on March 31, 2014 and March 31, 2015 (all of which are incorporated by reference herein to the extent they
refer to such Prior Notes).
Catamaran
Holdings, Ltd., the sole shareholder of Catamaran (“Holdings”), has directors in common with Inversiones Mirabel
S.A., (“Inversiones”), one of the major shareholders of the Company. The indirect beneficial owner of Inversiones
is United Breweries (Holdings) Limited (“UBHL”). UBHL is the Company’s indirect majority shareholder.
Dr. Vijay Mallya, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of UBHL.
Pursuant
to the terms of the Note, the Company promises to pay the principal sum of $325,000 with accrued interest, as described below,
to Catamaran within six months following the date of the Note, subject to the receipt by the Company of a bridge loan from its
majority shareholder (the “Shareholder Loan”) in an amount sufficient either (a) to pay the Note through Permitted
Payments, as defined below, or (b) to pay both the Note and certain existing obligations of the Company to MB Financial Bank,
an Illinois banking corporation, successor in interest to Cole Taylor Bank, N.A. (“MB Financial”) in full pursuant
to that certain Credit and Security Agreement dated as of June 23, 2011, as amended by that certain First Amendment, dated as
of March 29, 2013, among Cole Taylor Bank, N.A., the Company and Releta Brewing Company LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“Releta”), and that certain Second Amendment, effective June 21,
2015, among MB Financial, the Company and Releta (collectively, the “Credit Agreement”). “Permitted Payments”
on the Note are payments made from the portion of a Shareholder Loan that is in excess of $600,000.
If
the Company is not able to satisfy its obligations on the Note within the six month period following the date of the Note, the
Note shall be automatically extended for additional six month terms until a Shareholder Loan sufficient to satisfy the Note is
received or the Note is otherwise paid. Interest shall accrue from the date of the Note on the unpaid principal at a rate equal
to the lesser of (i) one and one-half percent (1.5%) per annum above the prime rate offered from time to time by the Bank of America
Corporation in San Francisco, California, or (ii) ten percent (10%) per annum, until the principal is fully paid.
The
Note may be prepaid without penalty at the option of the Company; however, no payments on the Note may be made unless such payment
is a Permitted Payment or certain existing obligations of the Company to MB Financial pursuant to the Credit Agreement have been
satisfied in full. The Note may not be amended without the prior written consent of MB Financial.
The
foregoing is not intended to be a complete description of the Note and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full
text of the Note which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this current report on Form 8-K.
Item
2.03. Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.
See
Item 1.01 above.
Item
8.01. Other Events
On
March 16, 2016, the Company received a letter from MB Financial permitting the Company to obtain loans in an aggregate amount
not exceed $400,000 (including the Note) subject to certain conditions, including that no portion of such loans would be payable
until either (a) certain obligations of the Company to MB Financial pursuant to the Credit Agreement were satisfied in full, or
(b) or the repayment is a Permitted Payment.
Item
9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d)
Exhibits
Exhibit
Number |
Description |
|
|
10.1
|
Promissory
Note of Mendocino Brewing Company, Inc. in favor of Catamaran Services, Inc. dated March 14, 2016. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf
by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
|
MENDOCINO
BREWING COMPANY, INC. |
|
(Registrant) |
|
|
|
Date:
March 18, 2016 |
By: |
/s/
Mahadevan Narayanan |
|
|
Mahadevan
Narayanan |
|
|
Chief
Financial Officer & Corporate Secretary |
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