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Acquisition of 374Water, Inc. f/k/a PowerVerde Inc.

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2021

Acquisition Of 374water Inc. Fka Powerverde Inc.

Acquisition of 374Water, Inc. f/k/a PowerVerde Inc.

Note 4 – Acquisition of 374Water, Inc. f/k/a PowerVerde Inc.

Agreement and Plan of Merger

In connection with the Merger, PowerVerde closed on a private placement of 440,125 shares of Series D Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Preferred Stock”) with a par value of $.0001, yielding gross proceeds of $6,551,745 (the “Private Placement”). The Private Placement proceeds will be used for working capital, primarily for development, manufacture and commercialization of 374Water Inc.’s Air SCWO Nix systems. The Preferred Stock has a stated value of $15 per share, is convertible into common stock at $.30 per share and has voting rights based on the underlying shares of common stock. Upon liquidation of the Company, the Preferred Stockholders have liquidation preference before any assets can be distributed to common stockholders. The current liquidation value is $6,601,735. All of the Preferred Stock was sold pursuant to an exemption from registration requirements under Regulation D and/or Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

As a result of the Merger, the issuance of the Preferred Stock, the former 374Water shareholders own 65.8% of 374Water Inc’s issued and outstanding common stock and 53.8% of 374Water Inc.’s issued and outstanding voting stock (which includes the Preferred Stock on an as converted basis).

Also as a result of the Merger, 374Water Inc. entered into two-year employment agreements with 374Water founders Yaacov (Kobe) Nagar and Marc Deshusses, Ph. D. Mr. Nagar will serve as the Company’s CEO, replacing Richard H. Davis, who resigned upon closing of the Merger. Mr. Nagar will receive an annual salary of $200,000. Dr. Deshusses will serve as the Company’s Head of Technology on a part-time basis at a salary of $60,000 per year.

Pursuant to the Merger, Messrs. Nagar and Deshusses were appointed to the Company’s Board of Directors, joining Mr. Davis, who remains as a Director.

The patented technology underlying 374Water’s supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) units, which was developed principally through the efforts of Messrs. Nagar and Deshusses at the facilities of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (“Duke”), where Dr. Deshusses is a professor, is licensed to 374Water pursuant to a worldwide license agreement with Duke executed on April 16, 2021 (the “License Agreement”). In connection with the License Agreement, 374Water also executed an equity transfer Agreement with Duke pursuant to which Duke received a small block of shares of common stock (see Note 5).

As a result of the Merger Agreement, for financial statement reporting purposes, the business combination between 374Water Inc. and 374Water was treated as a reverse acquisition and recapitalization for accounting purposes with 374Water deemed the accounting acquirer and 374Water Inc. deemed the accounting acquiree under the acquisition method of accounting in accordance with FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Section 805-10-55.

The following assets and liabilities were assumed in the transaction:


Cash	$	29,354
Prepaid expense		14,485
Accounts Receivable		1,000
Total assets acquired		45,019

Accounts payable		(46,150	)
Accrued expenses		(83,094	)
Total liabilities assumed	$	(129,244	)

Net liabilities assumed	$	(84,225	)