On May 31, 2002, The Keg Royalties Income Fund (the "Fund"), through its subsidiary The Keg Rights Limited Partnership (the "Partnership"), purchased the Keg trademarks and related property (collectively, the "Keg Rights") from Keg Restaurants Ltd. ("KRL"). The Partnership, in turn, granted KRL an exclusive licence to use the Keg Rights for a term of 99 years pursuant to a licence and royalty agreement. This agreement obligates KRL to make a monthly royalty payment equal to 4% of the gross sales of Keg restaurants in Canada and the United States.
Annually, on January 1st, the pool of Keg restaurants on which KRL pays a royalty to the Partnership (the "Royalty Pool") will be adjusted to include the gross sales from new Keg restaurants opened on or before October 2nd of the prior year, less gross sales from any Keg restaurants that have permanently closed during the year. In return for adding these net sales to the Royalty Pool, KRL will receive the right to indirectly acquire additional Fund units (the "Additional Entitlement"). The Additional Entitlement is calculated as 92.5% of the royalty revenue added to the Royalty Pool, divided by the yield of the Fund units, divided by the weighted average unit price of the Fund units. KRL receives 80% of the Additional Entitlement initially, with the balance received when the actual full year performance of the new restaurants are known with certainty.
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