History
Pinnacle Resources, a South African minerals explorer, sold its mining assets and became Iron Eagle Group, but its construction acquisitions Delta Mechanical and Tru-Val were both handed back.
2000-2009: Minerals and a sale of assets
The company, then called Pinnacle Resources, completed the purchase of Vanadium and Magnetite Exploration and Development (V-MED) on June 1, 2000. V-MED held a 30-year mineral lease over five farms covering 17,188 acres, next to Pinnacle's platinum-palladium properties near Potgietersrus in South Africa. Pinnacle paid with 4,000,000 restricted shares, lifting shares outstanding from 5,890,000 to 9,890,000. V-MED itself was tiny, with total assets of $3,148.
The record then goes quiet until 2007, when Pinnacle sold assets. Golden Star exercised its option in April 2007 and took Pinnacle's Ghana subsidiary, Orovi Ghana, for $362,855, plus $37,145 for cancelling a 10% net profits interest. In January 2007 Pinnacle also agreed to sell 93 1/3% of VanMag, its South African vanadium subsidiary, to Golden Falls Trading 565 for US$9 million. It had received $200,000 and $3.2 million, with $1.6 million held in escrow and a further $4 million due on conversion of the mining right.
In June 2009 Pinnacle issued 9,000,000 restricted shares to investors in exchange for 180,000 shares of The Saint James Company, valued at $180,000. It was paying for its own stock with another small company's stock, and existing holders were diluted.
2010: Becoming Iron Eagle
By mid-2010 the company was Iron Eagle Group, Inc. It had agreed a share exchange to issue 373,491,825 shares to the holders of Iron Eagle Group (Nevada), held in escrow until it bought construction or infrastructure businesses with at least $1.8 million of annual earnings (EBITDA). Management itself saw significant uncertainty about meeting that test. The company also hired new executives and issued shares to an investor-relations firm and others.
On August 24, 2010 it agreed to buy the assets of Farache Enterprises, a Florida site development firm, for $3,385,000, subject to funding and other conditions. Two days later the last performance obligation under the share exchange was satisfied, and the escrowed shares were released. The filing did not say whether the earnings test had been met.
2011: Delta Mechanical rises and falls
In early 2011 Iron Eagle paid consultants and investor-relations firms largely in shares, and took small loans from insiders, including a $250,000 note to CEO Jason Shapiro. On January 21, 2011 it bought Delta Mechanical Contractors with a seller note of about $9.0M, later cut to $8.8M. An 8-for-1 reverse split took effect in August 2011, and the company reported $23.3M of revenue for the first half and planned a public offering of up to 3 million shares at $5.00 to repay the note.
The money was not raised. After the note went unpaid by September 16, Delta's former owner, Bruce Bookbinder, took back 100% of the business on September 23, 2011, extinguishing the note. Iron Eagle blamed market conditions and was left without an operating business.
2012-2013: York River and Tru-Val
On July 19, 2012 Iron Eagle agreed to buy York River Electric for $8.5M in cash, its debts, and $3M in restricted shares; the filings did not say how the cash would be funded. In July 2012 it also said its 2011 quarterly statements could not be relied on, because $615,250 of compensation expense had been left out of the first quarter.
On August 28, 2012 it completed the purchase of Tru-Val Electric Corp., paying with assumed debt, 6,011,984 common shares and 2,638 preferred shares. Other share issues went to directors, consultants and for debt conversions, and shares on issue reached 7,780,568 by the end of 2012.
On June 4, 2013 Iron Eagle handed Tru-Val back to its seller, Chris Totaro, who agreed to return his shares. Iron Eagle gave him an $81,688 note, payable within seven days of raising more than $250,000. As of that date the company had no confirmed operating business, and the York River closing remained unconfirmed.
Written from the 13 story beats below (2001 to 4 June 2013), which come from the company's own announcements and filings.