Item 405 of
Regulation S-B contained in this form, and no disclosure will be contained,
to
the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information
statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-KSB
or any amendment to this Form 10-KSB. o
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in
Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes x
No o
The
issuer did not generate any revenue for the year ended December 31,
2007.
The
issuer is not aware of any reported transactions in the issuer’s common stock
within the past 60 days from which the aggregate market value of the voting
and
non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the issuer can be determined.
As of December 31, 2007, it is believed that 1,075,133,570 shares of
the issuer’s common stock, $.0001 par value, were outstanding, of which
approximately 272,655,453 shares were held by non-affiliates of the issuer.
See
the discussion set forth in this report under the heading “Description of
Business - Litigation Regarding Stock Certificates” and “Legal Proceedings -
Stock Certificate” for information regarding the issuer’s outstanding
common stock.
BANCORP
INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
(formerly
March Indy International, Inc.)
FORM 10-KSB
For
the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2007
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
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PART I
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Item
1.
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Description
of Business
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Item
2.
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Description
of Property
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Item
3.
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Legal
Proceedings
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Submission
of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
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PART II
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Item
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Market
for Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters and Small Business
Issuers Purchases of Equity Securities
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Management’s
Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation
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Financial
Statements
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8.
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Changes
in and Disagreements with Accountants and Financial
Disclosure
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Item
8A(T).
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Controls
and Procedures
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Item
8B.
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Other
Information
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PART III
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Item
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Directors,
Executive Officers, Promoters and Controlled Persons; Compliance
with
Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act
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Item
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Executive
Compensation
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Item
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Security
Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related
Stockholder Matters
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Item
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Certain
Relationships and Related Transactions
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Exhibits
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Item
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Principal
Accountant Fees and Services
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CAUTIONARY
STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION
Certain
statements in this report constitute “forward-looking statements” within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Certain,
but not necessarily all, of such forward-looking statements can be identified
by
the use of forward-looking terminology such as “anticipates,” “believes,”
“expects,” “may,” “will,” or “should” or other variations thereon, or by
discussions of strategies that involve risks and uncertainties. The actual
results or industry results may be materially different from any future results
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
Throughout
this report the first personal plural pronoun in the nominative case form “we”
and its objective case form “us,” its possessive and the intensive case forms
“our” and “ourselves” and its reflexive form “ourselves” refer collectively to
Bancorp International Group, Inc., its subsidiaries and executive officers
and directors.
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Overview
N.E.C.
Properties, Inc. (“NEC”) was incorporated on September 16, 1995, under
the laws in the State of Nevada. NEC was organized as a blank check company
with
no operations or plan of business. On September 30, 1995, NEC had 25,000
shares at no par value authorized and 18,600 shares outstanding, which were
issued for $1,860 in cash. On November 19, 1998, the amended and restated
Articles of Incorporation were filed with the Secretary of State of Nevada
that
increased NEC’s authorized common shares from 25,000 to 25,000,000, and
established a par value of $.001 per share. In November 1998, the NEC
stockholders approved two forward stock splits. The first was a 100 for 1 split
increasing the number of the outstanding common shares to 1,860,000 and the
second was a 1.77 for 1 stock split resulting in 3,292,200 common shares
outstanding.
On
November 10, 1999, NEC acquired all of the outstanding stock of
March Indy International, Inc. (“March”), in exchange for 7,706,575
shares of NEC (the “Share Exchange”). March was incorporated in Delaware on
November 24, 1998 (“inception”). For accounting purposes, the transaction
was accounted for as a reverse acquisition under the purchase method for
business combinations, and accordingly the transaction was treated as a
recapitalization of March, with March having acquired NEC.
On
June 17, 2000, March declared a one-for-three reverse stock split,
effective September 26, 2000. This reverse stock split reduced the number
of our outstanding common stock shares from 12,090,234 to
4,030,078.
From
the
Share Exchange through September 30, 2000, we were in the preliminary
stages of engaging in the business of designing, building and racing cars for
Formula One, Cart and Indy competition both in the United States and abroad.
We
also planned to develop an internet website to offer and sell merchandise
products related to our racing efforts. In October 2000, because of our
inability to successfully organize an Indy car race team and our failure to
compete in the Indianapolis 500, we discontinued our racing and related
promotional activities.
In
2001,
we changed our name from March to Bancorp International
Group, Inc.
In
September 2005, we entered into a non-binding joint venture agreement with
an
oil export concern pursuant to which we would acquire rights to sell and market
the oil and natural gas production from the petroleum reserves of Papua, New
Guinea. The conditions to this joint venture were not satisfied by the other
party, and the prospective joint venture did not become effective.
On
August 19, 2005, our Board of Directors approved and adopted the
Certificate of Designation Preferences and Right of Preferred Stock
(“Certificate of Designation”). The Certificate of Designation sets forth the
preferences and rights of our 15,000,000 authorized shares of preferred stock,
$.0001 par value, designated as the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock
(“Series A Preferred Stock”).
On
August 19, 2005, our stockholders voted to amend our Articles of
Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock from
25,000,000 at a par value of $.001 to 500,000,000 at a par value of $.0001.
In a
second amendment on August 19, 2005, effective January 6, 2006, our
stockholders approved another amendment to our Articles of Incorporation that
increased the number of our authorized shares of common stock from 500,000,000
at $.0001 par value to 2,000,000,000 at $.0001 par value.
On
January 11, 2006, in accordance with a Settlement Agreement relating to a
lawsuit brought by us against certain parties, the Company issued 244,748,000
shares of our common stock. The lawsuit and resulting Settlement Agreement
are
discussed under “Legal Proceedings.” These shares were issued in accordance with
the registration exemption afforded under Section 3(a)(10) of the
Securities Act of 1933.
In
June
2006, we entered into a letter of intent with a Midwestern oil company in effort
to enable us to acquire the working interest in producing wells and proven
non-developed reserves. The conditions to the letter of intent were not
satisfied by the oil company, and the letter of intent was
abandoned.
As
of
December 31, 2007, management intends to pursue potential oil and gas
exploration and development opportunities outside the United States,
particularly in Papua, New Guinea. See "Recent Events."
Litigation
Regarding Common Stock Certificates
We
filed
a lawsuit on April 11, 2007, against approximately 1,500 purported shareholders
alleging that they hold improperly issued stock certificates (the “Invalid
Certificates”). We believe that, as of December 31, 2007, of the total
1,075,133,570 shares of our common stock believed to be issued and outstanding,
a total of 525,035,229 shares of our common stock were validly issued. This
amount does not include the shares of common stock purportedly represented
by
the Invalid Certificates. See “Legal Proceedings - Stock Certificate” for a
discussion of the lawsuit.
On
February 25, 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filed a civil
action in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, styled
SEC
v. Mario A. Pino,
Civil
Action No. 08-CV-353, against Mario A. Pino (“Pino”) for violating the antifraud
and securities registration provisions of the federal securities laws. The
complaint alleges that beginning in early 2005, Pino usurped our “corporate
identity” by fabricating, issuing and trading fraudulently issued shares of our
common stock. The complaint also alleges that Pino issued false press releases
relating to our business, between May 2, 2005 and July 13, 2005, and issued
millions of fraudulent shares of our common stock to himself and others. The
complaint alleges Pino sold 175,005,000 shares of our common stock, through
which he earned profits of $269,033, in unregistered, non-exempt transactions
into the resulting inflated market.
The
SEC’s
complaint alleges that Pino violated Sections 5(a), 5(c), and 17(a) of the
Securities Act and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5
thereunder. The SEC seeks a permanent injunction against Pino, disgorgement,
including pre- and post-judgment interest, third tier civil penalties, an
officer and director bar, and a penny stock bar.
According
to the Offer of Settlement issued by the SEC on February 25, 2008, Pamela J.
Thompson, acting as an outside chief financial officer to Carter Care, Inc.
(“Carter Care”), a privately held nursing care company, assisted in the attempt
to use our shell company status in a reverse merger to take Carter Care public.
In addition, in April 2005, Ms. Thompson prepared and faxed false documents
to
the Nevada Secretary of State that purported to change our registered agent
and
corporate officers. Subsequently, Ms. Thompson assisted with the issuance of
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certificates representing over 249,000,000 shares of our common stock, which
included 20,000,000 shares to Ms. Thompson. Throughout this period, Ms. Thompson
was aware of information demonstrating that another individual was our actual
president. In anticipation of the institution of a civil action by the SEC
against Ms. Thompson for violations of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
and
the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
Ms.
Thompson submitted an Offer of Settlement to the SEC, which the SEC accepted
on
February 25, 2008. According to the Offer of Settlement, Ms. Thompson (a) shall
cease and desist from committing or causing any violations and any future
violations of Sections 5(a), 5(c), 17(a)(2) and 17(a)(3) of the Securities
Act
and Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act and Rule 17Ac2-1 thereunder,
(b)
is barred from association with any transfer agent, with the right to reapply
for association after three (3) years to the appropriate self-regulatory
organization, and (c) shall pay disgorgement of $7,632 and prejudgment
interest of $830.82 to the United State Treasury
Due
to
the existence of the Invalid Certificates and the actions of Mario A. Pino
and
Pamela J. Thompson, we cannot be certain that 1,075,133,570 shares of our common
stock are the only shares of our common stock presently outstanding, or that
the
calculation of such 1,075,133,570 shares does not include duplicative shares.
We
believe that stock certificates likely exist that represent shares of our common
stock of which we are not aware. As a result, the actual number of shares of
our
common stock outstanding may be greater or less than 1,075,133,570. We currently
intend to seek shareholder approval for a reverse stock split at the anticipated
ratio of 1 for 200. We believe that the reverse stock split, if approved and
completed, will reduce the number of our outstanding shares of common stock,
which will assist us in identifying the shares of our common stock remaining
outstanding. Although there are no assurances that there are not greater or
fewer shares of our common stock outstanding, this report assumes and all
references to our outstanding common stock refer to the 1,075,133,570 shares
noted above.
Employees
As
of the
date of this report, we have one employee, Thomas Megas, our Chief Executive
Officer and President, who does not receive any form of compensation or
remuneration for his services.
Recent
Events
We
currently intend to seek shareholder approval to undertake a reverse stock
split in which all of the issued shares of our common stock, whether validly
or
invalidly issued, referred to as “old common stock,” will be combined and
reconstituted as a smaller number of shares of common stock, referred to as
“new
common stock.” The ratio of the reverse stock split is expected to
be 1-for-200. The reverse stock split would give the Board of Directors
authority to implement the reverse stock split at any time it determined prior
to June 30, 2008, and the authority to decline to implement a reverse stock
split prior to such date or at all.
We
are
unable, without costly and protracted litigation (which our current and very
limited resources are unable to fund) to effectively identify the shares of
our outstanding common stock that were lawfully issued by us. The purpose of
the
reverse stock split is to decrease the number of shares of old common stock
in
order to assist in enabling us to identify and recognize all new common stock
as
validly issued and outstanding.
Management
also believes the reverse stock split is necessary in order to decrease the
number of outstanding shares of old common stock so that we will have enough
authorized but unissued shares of common stock to enable the holders of our
Series A Preferred Stock to convert such preferred stock into shares of common
stock. As previously described, there are 15,000,000 shares of Series A
Preferred Stock outstanding which are convertible into 1,500,000,000 shares
of
common stock at the option of the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock.
Accordingly, assuming that a total of approximately 1,075,000,000 shares of
our
common stock are issued and outstanding of the total 2,000,000,000 shares
authorized, if the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock were to convert
all 15,000,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock into shares of common stock,
the shares issuable upon such conversion would exceed our authorized common
stock by 575,000,000 shares.
Management
believes that reducing the number of shares of our outstanding common stock
resulting from the reverse stock split and the recognition of all new common
stock as validly issued and outstanding will enable us to qualify our common
stock for trading utilizing the clearing services of the Depository Trust
Company (“DTC”). We have been advised that DTC terminated its trading services
with respect to our common stock due to our inability to specify which shares
of
our common stock are validly issued. We currently recognize the aggregate
550,049,408 outstanding shares that we are unable to confirm are validly
issued. Therefore, following the reverse stock split, if implemented by our
Board of Directors, we intend to apply for approval of DTC to reinstate its
clearing services for our common stock. We do not know whether the DTC will
consider such actions sufficient for the DTC to resume clearing transactions
in
our common stock.
In
addition to the reverse stock split, Management desires to amend our Restated
Certificate of Incorporation to change our name from “Bancorp International
Group, Inc.” to “Energy Source, Inc.” The reason for such change being that
management intends to pursue oil and gas exploration and development
opportunities outside the United States, particularly in Papua, New Guinea,
and
believes changing our name to “Energy Source, Inc.” is appropriate to reflect
our current intentions to pursue such energy opportunities.
Management
intends to present to our shareholders of
record for approval the proposed reverse stock split and the proposed name
change. Currently, we expect that the annual meeting of our stockholders,
at which such proposals are expected to be considered, will be held on April
29,
2008.
RISK
FACTORS
The
following factors and the matters discussed below and elsewhere in this report
should be considered when evaluating our business operations and strategies.
Additionally, there may be other risks and uncertainties that we are not aware
of or that we currently deem immaterial, which may become material factors
affecting our operations and business success. Many of the factors are not
within our control. We provide no assurance that one or more of these factors
will not adversely affect us:
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market price of our common stock;
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any
business activities undertaken in the
future;
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outside
market factors that affect our financial condition;
and
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sales
of additional stock or other equity securities on terms that are
highly
dilutive to our shareholders.
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We
have
not realized any revenue from our operations and have incurred substantial
losses resulting in an accumulated deficit at December 31, 2007, of
$4,913,670. In addition, we will continue to incur losses attributable to the
administrative costs associated with a “blank check, publicly-held shell
company.” See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis and Plan of
Operation.”
If
we do not obtain additional capital resources, we will be unable to fund any
business activities undertaken.
To
date,
we have not pursued additional sources of capital resources; however, our
ability to fund a future business enterprise is directly related to our ability
to obtain capital resources through the sale or syndication of some or all
of
our interests through a public offering or mergers with other viable business
entities. If we are unsuccessful and capital resources do not become available
on terms acceptable to us, we will not be able to undertake the business
enterprise or, if undertaken, to continue the business enterprise. This lack
of
capital resources may ultimately result in the loss of an investment in our
common stock.
We
may undertake other startup business activities pursuant to sharing arrangements
that do not result in the anticipated benefits.
If
we
identify and undertake a business enterprise, such as oil and gas exploration
and development outside the United States, we may enter into various
cost and revenue sharing arrangements, including joint ventures and
partnerships, intended to complement or expand the business activities. We
may
not realize the anticipated benefits offered by these arrangements. The costs
of
obtaining these sharing arrangements may increase our invested cost in the
business activities without providing a correlating increase in the revenues;
thus, adversely affecting the financial potential of the business
activities.
Any
business activities or enterprise undertaken outside of the United States will
involve inherently greater risks.
We
currently intend to pursue such oil and gas exploration and development
opportunities outside of the Unite States. As with any business operation and
activities outside of the United States, there are a number of inherent risks,
many of which are beyond our control, including:
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in the laws and policies affecting trade, investment and taxes (including
laws and policies relating to the repatriation of funds and withholding
taxes);
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degrees of protection of property
rights;
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of foreign currencies, economies and
governments;
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barriers; and
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and acts of terrorism.
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Any
of
these factors could have a material adverse effect on our ability to commence
and continue the business enterprise undertaken, which may adversely affect
the
financial potential and success of the undertaken business
enterprise.
If
a market develops for our common stock, the market price of our common stock
may
be highly volatile in the market place.
There
is
currently no market for our common stock. Although a market for our common
stock
shares previously existed, the trading volume has always been very low.
Furthermore, we have been delinquent in our reporting obligations under Exchange
Act and the Depository Trust Company has currently suspended clearing
transactions on our common stock. If a market redevelops, the market price
of
our common stock may be subject to certain fluctuations in response
to:
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in quarterly operating results of the
enterprise,
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in earnings estimates by analysts,
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of competition within the industry,
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stock market conditions.
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Our
common stock may trade in the over-the-counter market and that market is highly
volatile and affected by competitive forces outside of our
control.
Upon
bringing the Company filings current and if the DTC lifts its suspension on
transactions on our common stock, then the common stock may trade on the
over-the-counter market. The over-the-counter market’s volatility is
characterized as follows:
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over-the-counter
securities are subject to substantial and sudden price increases
and
decreases,
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times the price (bid and ask) information for the securities may
not be
available,
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if
there is an insufficient number of market makers, there is a risk
that the
dealers or group of dealers may control the market in our common
stock and
set prices that are not based on competitive forces,
and
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available offered price may be substantially below the quoted bid
price.
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Our
common stock is subject to the penny stock trading rules which may
adversely affect the ability to resell the stock.
Our
common stock is subject to the “penny stock” rules. A “penny stock” is generally
a stock that:
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only listed in “pink sheets” or on the NASD OTC Bulletin
Board,
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the
high bid price for the common stock is less than $5.00, and less
than two
market makers are currently displaying bid and ask quotations at
specified
prices, or
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issued by a company with net tangible assets of less than $5 million
(or
after having been in existence for more than three years, less than
$2
million), or
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has
average revenues during the previous three years of less than $6
million.
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The
penny
stock trading rules impose additional duties and responsibilities upon
broker-dealers and salespersons recommending the purchase a penny stock or
the
sale of a penny stock. Required compliance with these rules will materially
limit or restrict:
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ability to resell our common stock,
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liquidity typically associated with other publicly traded stocks
may not
exist.
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Our
Chief Executive Officer has voting control and may exercise this control in
the
election of our Directors and other stockholder matters.
Thomas
Megas, who is our Chief Executive Officer, President and a member of our Board
of Directors, beneficially owns 1,001,964,751 shares of our common stock, which
includes 750,000,000 shares that Mr. Megas may acquire upon conversion of
7,500,000 shares of our Series A Preferred Stock. Such 7,500,000 shares of
Series A Preferred Stock is entitled to 100 votes per share, or 750,000,000
votes. This amount represents approximately 44.9% of our voting stock and
enables him to control matters that are subject to the approval of our
stockholders. Although Mr. Megas, in his capacity as a Director and our
Chief Executive Officer has a fiduciary duty to our stockholders, Mr. Megas
may exercise his voting control in a manner personally beneficial to him and
to
the detriment or disadvantage of our other stockholders.
Loss
of Key Personnel
Our
success depends to a significant degree upon the efforts, contributions and
abilities of our Chief Executive Officer and President, Mr. Megas. The loss
of
the services of Mr. Megas could have a material adverse effect on our ability
to
engage in future business activities. We do not maintain any insurance covering
the disability or life of our executive officer or directors.
Going
Concern
We
have
experienced net losses since our inception. We have not generated revenues
from
operations since inception, and currently have not undertaken
any business enterprise. Without additional capital or financing, we will
not be able to meet our working capital needs. These factors raise
substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.
Although
management intends to pursue oil and gas exploration and development
opportunities outside the United States, no such business has been undertaken,
and our stockholders are unable to currently ascertain the merits or risks
of any particular business’ operation or plan of operation.
If
we
begin to pursue oil and gas exploration and development opportunities
outside the United States or any other business enterprise, we may complete
a
business combination with a financially unstable company or an entity in its
development stage, and we may be affected by numerous risks inherent in the
business operations of those entities. Although our management will endeavor
to
evaluate the risks inherent in a particular prospective business opportunity,
if
any, we cannot assure you that we will properly ascertain or assess all of
the
significant risk factors, or that we will have adequate time to complete due
diligence.
Members
of our management may allocate their time to other businesses, thereby causing
conflicts of interests in their determination as to how much time to devote
to
our affairs. This may have a negative impact on our ability to identify or
undertake a business enterprise.
Our
officer and directors are not required to, and will not, commit their full
time
to our affairs, which may result in a conflict of interest in allocating their
time between our operations and other businesses. This could have a negative
impact on our ability to identify and/or undertake a business enterprise or
other business activity. Each member of our management is engaged in other
business endeavors and is not obligated to contribute any specific number of
hours per week to our affairs. We cannot assure you that these conflicts will
be
resolved in our favor.
Our
outstanding Series A Preferred Stock may have an adverse effect on the market
price of common stock and make it more difficult to effect a business
combination.
We
have
outstanding 15,000,000 shares of our Series A Preferred Stock, which is
convertible into 1,500,000,000 shares of our common stock. The Series A
Preferred Stock is currently held by Mr. Megas (7,500,000 shares) and Mr.
Stewart Sytner (7,500,000 shares). To the extent we issue shares of common
stock
to effect a business combination or other acquisition, the potential for the
issuance of substantial numbers of additional shares of common stock upon
conversion of the Series A Preferred Stock could make us a less attractive
partner or constituent in the eyes of a target business as such securities,
when
converted, will increase the number of issued and outstanding shares of our
common stock. Accordingly, our Series A Preferred Stock may make it more
difficult to undertake a business enterprise or may increase the cost of a
target business. Additionally, the sale, or even the possibility of sale, of
the
shares of common stock underlying the Series A Preferred Stock could have an
adverse effect on the market price for our securities. If, and to the extent
the
Series A Preferred Stock is converted, our shareholders may experience dilution
to their holdings.
Actions
taken and expenses incurred by our officers and directors on our behalf will
not
be subject to “independent” review.
Each
of
our directors owns shares of our common stock and, although no salary or other
compensation which will be paid to them for services unless and until we
undertake a business enterprise or other business activity, they along with
a
substantial shareholder, Mr. Sytner, may receive reimbursement for out-of-pocket
expenses incurred by them in connection with activities on our behalf, such
as
attempting to identifying potential business enterprise opportunities and
performing due diligence with respect to such opportunities. There is no limit
on the amount of these out-of-pocket expenses, and there will be no review
of
the reasonableness of the expenses by anyone other than our board of directors,
which includes persons who may seek reimbursement, or a court of competent
jurisdiction if such reimbursement is challenged. Although we believe that
all
actions taken by our directors and substantial shareholders on our behalf will
be in our best interests, we cannot assure you that this will be the case.
If
actions are taken, or expenses are incurred that are not in our best interests,
it could have a material adverse effect on our ability to undertake a business
enterprise. See “Certain Relationships and Related Party
Transactions.”
Facilities
Our
corporate office is located at 3126 South Blvd., Suite 264, Edmond,
Oklahoma 73013. The office space is leased without charge on a year to year
basis. If, and when, we undertake a business development enterprise, we intend
to relocate our office to facilities that will then serve our needs, both in
location and facility size.
Pino
Litigation
In
August
2005, management became aware of the unauthorized issuance of approximately
243,842,000 shares of our common stock (the “Wrongfully Issued Shares”) to
various entities and individuals for services and gifts, whereupon these
entities and individuals attempted to sell the Wrongfully Issued Shares in
the
open market. Our current officers and directors had no relationship with the
entities and individuals that issued the Wrongfully Issued Shares.
In
September 2005, we filed a civil action (the “Pino Litigation”) in the
District Court of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, styled Bancorp
International Group, Inc. v. Mario A. Pino, an individual, Sam Deeb, an
individual, Jean Carlos Medina, an individual, Charles Weller, an individual,
Barkev Kibarian, an individual, Felica Morales, an individual,
Clearstock, Inc., a Texas corporation, DealFlo, L.L.C., a New York Limited
Liability Company, The Grace Trust, a foreign trust, Global Consulting Group,
a
Maryland corporation, Intelligent Message Distributors, a Nevada corporation,
and Wall Street Group, L.L.C., a Arizona limited liability
company
(the
“Defendants”), Case No. CJ-2005-7459 (the “Civil Litigation”), seeking the
return of the Wrongfully Issued Shares and the Defendants’ receipt of proceeds
from the sale of those shares.
In
the
Civil Litigation we alleged that Mr. Pino individually and through various
affiliated entities and co-conspirators, including the Wall Street Group,
L.L.C., prepared or possessed 20 or more common stock certificates purportedly
representing 235,000,000 shares of our common stock, the previously referred
to
Wrongfully Issued Shares that were distributed to various individuals and
entities, including the other Defendants. We could not determine if, in addition
to the 235,000,000 shares, any additional shares were wrongfully
issued.
Capital
Growth Financial, L.L.C. and JH Darbie & Co., holders of our common
stock, intervened in the Civil Litigation (the “Interveners”) and alleged that
we negligently hired the Defendants and negligently supervised their actions
and
activities, and asserted Oklahoma and federal securities fraud and
failure-to-register claims against the Defendants and us.
In
conjunction with the Civil Litigation, we reached an agreement with JH
Darbie & Co., under which we delivered 25,025,000 common stock shares
to JH Darbie & Co. to be held pending settlement or conclusion of the
Civil Litigation. These shares were delivered to JH Darbie & Co. to
satisfy the requirements of DTC until common stock shares eligible to be resold
without restriction could be delivered by JH Darbie & Co. to cover its
short position in our common stock. Furthermore, JH Darbie & Co. placed
in trust $72,500 to be used to pay the costs incurred by us in the
litigation.
On
January 11, 2006, the Court entered an Order Approving Settlement Agreement
(the “Order”). As a result of issuance of the Order, a settlement agreement (the
“Settlement Agreement”) became binding upon the Company and the Defendants Mario
Pino, Barkev Kibarian, Juan Carlos Medina, Wall Street Group, L.L.C.,
Clearstock, Inc., Sam Deeb, Global Consulting Group., DealFlo, L.L.C., and
Intelligent Message Distributors (the “Settling Defendants”) and the Interveners
with an effective date of December 8, 2005.
In
accordance with the Settlement Agreement, our claims against the Settling
Defendants and the claims of the Settling Defendants against us were resolved
by
the exchange of releases of claims, a release of the Wrongfully Issued Shares
and payments to us in the aggregate sum of $171,546 from funds held at Capital
Growth Financial, L.L.C. and the further agreement to pay an additional $277,093
by Capital Growth. Furthermore, the claims of the Interveners against us were
released for the issuance of 25,025,000 shares of our common stock to JH
Darbie & Co. and 219,723,000 shares of our common stock to Capital
Growth Financial, L.L.C. for an aggregate sum of 244,748,000 common stock shares
(the “Newly Issued Shares”). These shares were required to be deposited with DTC
by JH Darbie & Co. and Capital Growth Financial, L.L.C. in satisfaction
of their short positions with companies through which securities purchase and
sale transactions are cleared on behalf of JH Darbie & Co. and Capital
Growth Financial, L.L.C. The Newly Issued Shares were issued in accordance
with
the registration exemption afforded under Section 3(a)(10) of the
Securities Act.
In
addition, Defendants Pino, Medina, Kibarian, Global Consulting Group,
Intelligent Message Distributors and Wall Street Group, L.L.C. agreed to
indemnify and hold harmless the Company against all actions, suits, proceedings,
demands, and assessments brought by any past, present or future holder of our
common stock in connection with the Settlement Agreement and our various claims
settled in the Settlement Agreement and any associated judgments, attorney’s
fees, costs and expenses.
Stock
Certificate Litigation
We
filed
a lawsuit (the “Stock Certificate Litigation”) on April 11, 2007, against
approximately 1,500 shareholders alleging that they hold invalid stock
certificates (the “Invalid Certificates”) that were wrongfully issued and
distributed by Mr. Pino and others, which represent the remaining outstanding
Wrongfully Issued Shares that we are currently able to identify from the Pino
Litigation. The style of the lawsuit was Bancorp
International Group, Inc. v. Michael W. Cannan, et al.,
Case No.
CJ-2007-3181, District Court of Oklahoma County, State of Oklahoma. The lawsuit
requests the court to rule that the stock certificates held by the defendants
representing the Wrongfully Issued Shares be declared void and that we be
awarded damages and attorney’s fees and costs in connection with the Stock
Certificate Litigation. It was our intent that the Stock Certificate Litigation
would determine which certificates and related shares of common stock are valid
and which are not valid.
In
May
2007, the Company dismissed the lawsuit without prejudice because the Board
of
Directors determined that continuing the litigation would be cost prohibitive
the Company recognized the additional shares as outstanding common stock and
charged Paid in Capital for the par value of the shares.
No
matters were submitted to a vote of our stockholders during the fourth quarter
of 2007.