Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

ACQUISITIONS

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ACQUISITIONS
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022
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ACQUISITIONS
NOTE J – ACQUISITIONS

In April 2021, the Company acquired Agribody Technologies, Inc., (“ATI”) a private agricultural biotechnology company. The transaction was accomplished by acquiring a 100% controlling interest in ATI in an all-stock transaction for a total fair value of approximately $5 million. In consideration for the shares of ATI, the Company issued 830,526 unregistered shares of common stock at an approximate fair value of $6.02 per share. The primary reason for the combination was to leverage the expertise of ATI to speed the development of novel camelina varieties for SusOils. The Company will continue to monetize the pre-acquisition ATI revenue contracts.
 
In November 2021, the Company acquired Entira, Incorporated, an agriculture business and marketing consulting firm (“Entira”), to bolster SusOils’ camelina production strategy and the roll-out of its camelina development program. As consideration for the purchase of Entira, the Company issued a total of 407,150 unregistered shares of common stock, which were valued at $6.05 per share and assumed liabilities for a total purchase price of approximately $2.5 million. In addition, the Company issued 71,850 unregistered shares to certain employees as post acquisition compensation.  Entira had been engaged as a consulting firm to GCEH for over 10 years and had extensive knowledge of our camelina development program. The Company hired five people from Entira to join our team. Entira has been integrated into SusOils.
 
 
In December 2021 the Company acquired Camelina Company Espana, S.L., a private limited company (“CCE”). Based in Madrid, Spain, CCE is Europe’s largest camelina crop innovator and seed producer. The Company acquired CCE for a total purchase price of €7.3 million (approximately $8.3 million USD at that time), which price was paid by the delivery of (i) €0.7 million ($0.8 million USD) in cash, (ii) €0.7 million ($0.8 million USD) in one-year, unsecured interest-free promissory notes, and (iii) 1,353,951 unregistered shares of our common stock, valued at $4.957 per share, or an aggregate of €5.9 million ($6.7 million USD). In addition, the Company issued 67,314 unregistered shares to certain employees as post acquisition compensation. CCE leads our initiatives to expand our camelina operations into Europe and South America.
 
GCEH acquired goodwill in each of the acquisitions it completed in 2021 for a total of $10.3 million. This goodwill represents the acquired assembled workforce and synergies and none of this goodwill is deductible for tax purposes
.
The Company had no acquisitions during the year ended December 31, 2022.
Below is a table that shows the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed by the Company as a result of the 2021 transactions.
The purchase price allocation below for CCE was preliminary as of December 31, 2021 and was finalized as of December 31, 2022.

Assets
 
Agribody
Technologies, Inc.
as of April 15,
2021
 
 
Entira, Inc. as of
November 17,
2021
 
 
Camelina
Company
Espana, S.L. as
of December 29,
2021
 
 
Total of
Acquisitions
 
Cash and cash equivalents
 
$
263,755
 
 
$
2,100
 
 
$
151,188
 
 
$
417,043
 
Accounts receivable
 
 
-
 
 
 
-
 
 
 
1,094,894
 
 
 
1,094,894
 
Prepaid expense and other current assets
 
 
-
 
 
 
-
 
 
 
1,094,894
 
 
 
1,094,894
 
Property, plant, and equipment
 
 
185,445
 
 
 
33,000
 
 
 
598,619
 
 
 
817,064
 
Patents
 
 
3,450,000
 
 
 
-
 
 
 
-
 
 
 
3,450,000
 
Developed seed variant technology
 
 
-
 
 
 
-
 
 
 
5,679,500
 
 
 
5,679,500
 
Trade name
 
 
90,000
 
 
 
-
 
 
 
-
 
 
 
90,000
 
Goodwill
 
 
2,345,569
 
 
 
2,858,930
 
 
 
3,572,941
 
 
 
8,777,440
 
Liabilities
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
 
 
(344,277
)
 
 
(300,000
)
 
 
(1,687,947
)
 
 
(2,332,224
)
Long term liabilities
 
 
-
 
 
 
-
 
 
 
(619,293
)
 
 
(619,293
)
Deferred tax liabilities
 
 
(990,492
)
 
 
(130,723
)
 
 
(1,623,599
)
 
 
(2,744,814
)
Total fair value of net assets acquired
 
 
5,000,000
 
 
 
2,463,307
 
 
 
8,261,197
 
 
 
15,724,504
 
Less: Cash acquired
 
 
(263,755
)
 
 
(2,100
)
 
 
(151,188
)
 
 
(417,043
)
Total fair value of consideration transferred, net of cash acquired
 
$
4,736,245
 
 
$
2,461,207
 
 
$
8,110,009
 
 
$
15,307,461
 
 
During the first quarter of 2022, the Company finalized the purchase price allocation, which required adjustments to the preliminary fair value estimates of assets acquired and liabilities assumed for CCE as of the acquisition date as noted in the table below:
 
Assets
 
 
Preliminary
 
 
 
Adjustments
 
 
 
As adjusted
 
Cash and cash equivalents
 
$
151,188
 
 
$
-
 
 
$
151,188
 
Accounts receivable
 
 
1,094,894
 
 
 
(680,340
)
 
 
414,554
 
Prepaid expense and other current assets
 
 
1,094,894
 
 
 
-
 
 
 
1,094,894
 
Property, plant, and equipment
 
 
598,619
 
 
 
-
 
 
 
598,619
 
Patents
 
 
-
 
 
 
-
 
 
 
-
 
Developed seed variant technology
 
 
5,679,500
 
 
 
-
 
 
 
5,679,500
 
Trade name
 
 
-
 
 
 
-
 
 
 
-
 
Goodwill
 
 
3,572,941
 
 
 
1,547,459
 
 
 
5,120,400
 
Liabilities
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
 
 
(1,687,947
)
 
 
(867,119
)
 
 
(2,555,066
)
Long term liabilities
 
 
(619,293
)
 
 
-
 
 
 
(619,293
)
Deferred tax liabilities
 
 
(1,623,599
)
 
 
-
 
 
 
(1,623,599
)
Total fair value of net assets acquired
 
 
8,261,197
 
 
 
-
 
 
 
8,261,197
 
Less: Cash acquired
 
 
(151,188
)
 
 
-
 
 
 
(151,188
)
Total fair value of consideration transferred, net of cash acquired
 
$
8,110,009
 
 
$
-
 
 
$
8,110,009