THE COMPANY BELIEVES IT HAS VIOLATED DELAWARE STATE LAW
The Company's Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, currently authorizes the issuance of up to 50 million shares of VAOM Common Stock. It has come to the Company's attention that, as a result of the conversion of the VAOM Debentures into VAOM Common Stock coupled with the decrease in the trading price of VAOM Common Stock, investors were entitled to more shares of VAOM Common Stock than authorized. As a result, as of August 28, 2003, the Company has 61,110,595 shares of VAOM Common Stock issued, which exceeds the number of shares authorized. Under the state law of Delaware, the issuance of VAOM Common Stock in excess of the amount authorized may be voidable, but can be cured. It may be possible to cure the overissuance by having the Company's board of directors approve an amendment to the Company's Certificate of Incorporation so long as the Company's stockholders agree. If this cannot be accomplished, the Company may be liable to the holders of the VAOM Common Stock issued in excess of the authorized amount in an amount equal to 11,110,595 shares (the number of shares issued in excess of the amount authorized) multiplied by the price each such share was issued for (which ranged from approximately $.084 to $.0001 per share). The overissuance, together with the Company's inability to increase its authorized number of shares has practically eliminated the Company's ability to raise capital. The Company believes it will not be able to continue trading VAOM Common Stock, increase its capital resources or engage in a business combination transaction until the overissuance is cured and the Company increases the authorized number of shares of VAOM Common Stock.
Section 271 of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides that a corporation may at a meeting of its board of directors sell all or substantially all of its property and assets when and as authorized by a resolution adopted by the holders of a majority of the outstanding stock of the corporation entitled to vote on such a matter. On March 20, 2002, Braulio Gutierrez, who was then President and a director of the Company, and Braulio Gutierrez's sister, Patricia Gutierrez, who was then Vice President, Treasurer and a director of the Company, resigned from the Company. Subsequently, the Company assigned to Braulio Gutierrez the Encore Builders Common Stock held by the Company. This assignment may be deemed a sale of substantially all of the Company's property and assets and may have required the approval of the Company's stockholders. By not attaining stockholder approval, the Company may have violated Delaware state law. If so, the transaction could be challenged by the Company's stockholders who could seek to undo the transaction and compel the Company to obtain the assigned Encore Builders Common Stock. It is, however, unclear given its value whether the Encore Builders Common Stock is worth any legal expense. If the Company's stockholders did file a derivative suit on behalf of the Company, the Company would also have to bear the costs of such a suit. Any such action could have a substantial impact on the Company's liquidity, and as the Company currently has no revenues, could substantially and negatively impact the Company's capital resources. The Company intends to seek stockholder approval to, among other things, ratify the assignment and provide a related information statement on Schedule 14C to its stockholders shortly after the Company is satisfied it has resolved any of the SEC's comments on such Schedule 14C.
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