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Related Party Transactions
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2018
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

NOTE 11 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

Certain related party transactions were incurred by the legacy business that was sold in February 2018, including reimbursement of home office expenditures to the Company’s former President and CEO, employment of the Company’s former President and CEO’s wife, and legal and business advisory services provided by one of the Company’s directors.

 

Conversion Labs PR utilizes BV Global Fulfillment, owned by the father of Mr. Schreiber, the Company’s current Chief Executive Officer, and incurred $93,045 and $181,244 for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, for services. For the three months ended September 30, 2018, the Company has incurred $32,582 and $138,687, respectively, for these services.

 

Taggart International Trust (“Taggart”), a shareholder of the Company, provides credit card processing services through one or more merchant banks. Taggart did not receive any compensation for these services.

 

JLS Ventures LLC, owned by our current CEO, provides credit card processing services through one or more merchant banks. JLS Ventures LLC did not receive any compensation for these services. In July 2017, the Company and JLS Ventures, an entity owned by the Company’s current Chief Executive Officer, entered into a second amendment to a Service Agreement effective July 1, 2017. As compensation, the Company issued 900,000 shares of common stock valued at $432,000. The Company is recognizing the expense over the term of the agreement. For the nine months ending September 30, 2018 and 2017, $72,000 and $0, respectively, has been expensed and included in compensation and related expenses on the consolidated statement of operations. In May 2018, the Company issued 1,000,000 shares of common stock valued at $230,000 to JLS Ventures, LLC, a company controlled by our CEO, Justin Schreiber, for services. The Company also committed to issue an additional 1,000,000 shares of common stock on January 1, 2019 valued in the aggregate amount of $230,000 if JLS Ventures met the service requirement specified in the agreement. These 2,000,000 shares serve as the compensation for Mr. Schreiber for his services as CEO of the Company. The Company is recognizing the expense for the issuances over the twenty-four month term of the agreement. For the nine months ending September 30, 2018, $172,500 has been expensed and included in compensation and related expenses on the consolidated statement of operations.

 

JSDC, Inc., owned by our current CEO, provides credit card processing services through one or more merchant banks. JSDC, Inc. did not receive any compensation for these services.

 

Conversion Labs PR utilizes office space in Puerto Rico which is subleased from Mr. Schreiber, our current CEO, and incurs expense of approximately $4,000 a month for this office space.

 

In December 2017, Conversion Labs PR received two working capital loans from Robert Kalkstein, the Company’s CFO, and from Mr. Schreiber, the Company’s CEO, for $50,000 and $75,000, respectively. These loans accrue at 2% interest per month and mature in February 2018. Accrued interest relating to the loans were $1,867 as of December 31, 2017. In February 2018, these loans were repaid in full.

 

During 2017, the Company issued a total of 1,319,211 shares of common stock to Mr. Schreiber pursuant to a conversion of Conversion Labs PR equity contributions of $303,419 into equity of the Company.

 

On November 20, 2017, the Company entered into an agreement (the “Agreement”) with JOJ Holdings, LLC (“JOJ”). Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, the Company purchased 2,000,000 shares (post-split from a 2:1 forward split on January 16, 2018) of Blockchain Industries, Inc. (“BCII”) from JOJ. The Agreement was amended on December 8, 2017 and again on March 9, 2018. In consideration for the purchase, the Company agreed to issue one (1) share of the Company’s common stock to JOJ for every dollar the Company realizes from gross proceeds on the sale of shares of BCII purchased pursuant to the Agreement, up to a total maximum aggregate amount of 5,000,000 shares. The Company has 3 years to sell the shares of BCII and has agreed not to sell more than 20% of the 30-day average daily trading volume of BCII. Justin Schreiber, the Company’s President and CEO, is the President and owner of JOJ. The transaction was determined not to meet the criteria for recognition as an exchange transaction, therefore no asset or liability has been recorded in the financial statements.