Naked Brand Group Inc. (NASDAQ:NAKD) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain OfficersItem 5.02
Effective as March 26, 2018 (the “Effective Date”), Naked Brand Group Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Juliana L. Daley as its temporary Chief Financial Officer and principal accounting officer.
Ms. Daley, age 30, is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) with over six years of accounting, controller, and financial reporting experience. Since October 2015, Ms. Daley has been providing accounting and financial reporting services, through her position with ACM Management Inc., a provider of financial report and accounting services, to public companies in a variety of industries, both in the United States and Canada. From 2011 until 2015, Ms. Daley was employed at the Company where she worked in the Company’s accounting department, including serving as the Company’s Controller from August 2013 through April 2015.
Ms. Daley’s services to the Company as temporary Chief Financing Officer and principal accounting officer are being provided to an engagement letter (the “Agreement”), dated March 11, 2018, between the Company and ACM Management Inc. (“ACM”). In addition to the provision of Ms. Daley’s services to act as temporary Chief Financial Officer and principal accounting officer of the Company, the Agreement provides that ACM will, among other things, assist the Company with (i) preparing its regulatory disclosures and filings, including its annual, quarterly and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, (ii) preparing the Company’s financial statements and records and (iii) coordinating the Company’s annual audits with the Company’s outside audit firm.
As consideration for the provision of the services described in the Agreement, excluding the services provided by Ms. Daley as the Company’s temporary Chief Financial Officer principal accounting officer, the Company has agreed to pay ACM on a monthly retainer basis of CDN $10,000 a month. As consideration for the provision of the services provided by Ms. Daley as the Company’s temporary Chief Financial Officer and principal accounting officer, the Company agreed to pay ACM CDN $5,000 per month.
The term of the Company’s engagement of ACM under the Agreement commenced on March 26, 2018 and will continue until February 28, 2019, provided that Ms. Daley’s service as the Company’s temporary Chief Financial Officer and principal accounting officer will terminate upon completion of the Company’s previously disclosed anticipated business combination with Bendon Limited and Bendon Group Holdings Limited. The Company or ACM may terminate the Agreement immediately for failure of the other party to meet its obligations thereunder.
The Agreement contains customary covenants running during the term of the Agreement and for three years thereafter prohibiting the Company from soliciting ACM’s customers, personnel, employees or independent contractor and from making any disparaging remarks about ACM or any of its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants or advisors. The Agreement also contains provisions relating to protection of the Company’s proprietary, trade secret and confidential information.
The Agreement also includes various other covenants and provisions customary for an agreement of this nature, including certain indemnification obligations and limitations on liability in favor of ACM.
On March 26, 2018, the Company and Ms. Daley entered into an Indemnification Agreement (the “Indemnification Agreement”) to which, among other things, the Company is required, subject to certain exceptions and satisfaction of the applicable standard of conduct (where applicable) as set forth in the Indemnification Agreement, to indemnify Ms. Daley to the fullest extent permitted by Nevada law against any and all Losses (as defined in the Indemnification Agreement) if Ms. Daley was or is or becomes a party to or participant in, or is threatened to be made a party to or participant in, any Claim (as defined in the Indemnification Agreement) by reason of or arising in part out of any Indemnifiable Event (as defined in the Indemnification Agreement). In addition, subject to certain exceptions and repayment conditions, Ms. Daley shall have the right to advancement by the Company of all indemnifiable expenses actually and reasonably paid or incurred by Ms. Daley in connection with any such Claim.
The foregoing summary of the Agreement and Indemnification Agreement is not intended to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Agreement and Indemnification Agreement, copies of which are attached as Exhibits 10.1 and 10.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and are incorporated by reference herein.
Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
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About Naked Brand Group Inc. (NASDAQ:NAKD)
Naked Brand Group Inc. is an apparel and lifestyle brand company. The Company is focused on innerwear products for women and men. The Company designs, manufactures and sells men’s and women’s underwear, intimate apparel, loungewear and sleepwear under Naked brand name. The Company sells its products through retail partners and direct to consumer through its online retail store www.wearnaked.com. The Company offers a range of innerwear products for men, including boxer briefs, trunks, briefs, undershirts, t-shirts, lounge pants, lounge shorts and robes. Its primary men’s collections include Luxury, Active and Essential. Its women’s collections include a range of products, such as boyshorts, hipsters, lounge pants and tops, camisoles, tank tops, pajamas, chemises and sleepshirts. The Company also makes French Terry robes, as well as Double Gauze woven cotton sleepwear.