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Mar. 31, 2017
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14. EQUITY

 

In 2017, the Company closed on three equity offerings raising gross proceeds of $12.2 million. The details are as follows:

 

  On January 6, 2017, the Company completed a registered direct public offering, or the Second Registered Direct Offering, to sell 630,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $6.81 per share to certain institutional investors, which resulted in gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $4.2 million.
     
  On January 25, 2017, the Company completed a registered direct public offering, or the Third Registered Direct Offering, to sell 855,000 shares of its common stock and a concurrent private placement of warrants to purchase 855,000 shares of its common stock, or the Warrants, to the same investors participating in the Third Registered Direct Offering, (the Private Placement). The Warrants and the shares of the Company’s common stock issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants were not registered under the Securities Act and were sold pursuant to the exemption provided in Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act and Rule 506(b) of Regulation D promulgated thereunder. The shares of common stock sold in the Third Registered Direct Offering and the Warrants issued in the concurrent Private Placement were issued separately but sold together at a combined purchase price of $4.69 per share of common stock and accompanying Warrant. The Third Registered Direct Offering and the Private Placement together resulted in gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $4 million. The Company also used approximately $1.0 million to satisfy the obligations due to five former senior executives. See Note 6- Severance. The fair value of these warrants issued was determined using the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model and amounted to $1,668,290. The warrants do not include any cash settlement provisions and accordingly are not liability classified. As a result, the Company is not required to revalue the warrants at each reporting date. The following table sets forth the assumptions used in the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model to estimate the fair value of the warrants upon issuance:

 

 
Market Price   $ 4.33  
         
Exercise Price   $ 4.69  
         
Risk-free interest rate     1.95 %
         
Expected volatility     124.02 %
         
Expected life in years     5.0  
         
Expected dividend yield     0.00 %

 

  On February 8, 2017, the Company completed an underwritten, confidentially marketed public offering, or the CMPO, to sell 1,200,000 shares of our common stock at a price of $3.00 per share. In addition, we granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 9% of the total number of shares of common stock sold by us in the CMPO, solely for the purpose of covering over-allotments, if any. The underwriters exercised the over-allotment option in full. The CMPO resulted in gross proceeds to us of approximately $3.9 million.

 

On March 23, 2017, the Company entered into the Exchange Agreement with the Investor. Prior to the Company entering into the Exchange Agreement, the Investor acquired that certain Non-Negotiable Subordinated Secured Promissory Note, dated as of October 31, 2014, as amended (the “RedPath Note”), issued by the Company and the Company’s subsidiary, Interpace, LLC, in favor of RedPath Equityholder Representative, LLC (the “RedPath Equityholder Representative”) on behalf of the former equityholders of RedPath. The RedPath Note, which was entered into in connection with the Company’s acquisition of RedPath Integrated Pathology, Inc., in October 2014, had an aggregate principal amount of $9.34 million outstanding and was acquired by the Investor for $8.87 million. The RedPath Equityholder Representative assigned all of its rights, title and interest in the RedPath Note to the Investor, including, but not limited to, its security interest in all of the assets of the Company and the assets of the Company’s subsidiaries.

 

Pursuant to the Exchange Agreement, the Company and the Investor agreed to exchange the RedPath Note for (i) a senior secured convertible note in the aggregate principal amount of $5.32 million (the “Exchanged Convertible Note”), which was convertible into shares of the Company’s common stock, in accordance with its terms, and (ii) a senior secured non-convertible note with an aggregate principal amount of $3.55 million (the “Exchanged Non-Convertible Note” and collectively, the “Exchanged Notes”), for a combined aggregate principal amount of $8.87 million. The Exchanged Notes ranked senior to all of the Company’s outstanding and future indebtedness, other than the indebtedness in favor of the Company’s credit line lender and were secured by a perfected security interest in all of the existing and future assets of the Company and those of the Company’s subsidiaries. Upon the reduction of 55% of the aggregate principal amount of each of the Exchanged Notes, the Investor would release its security interest in its entirety.

 

The Exchanged Notes matured at 125% of the face value on the fifteenth month anniversary of the closing date, or June 22, 2018, and bore interest quarterly at one and one hundredth percent (1.01%) per annum (as may be adjusted from time to time). As of March 30, 2017, the Investor had converted approximately 80% of the Exchanged Convertible Note to common stock, converting $4.2 million of the Exchanged Convertible Note into 1,730,534 shares of common stock. On April 18, 2017 the Company and the Investor agreed to exchange the Exchanged Non-Convertible Note for a new convertible note in the same principal amount of $3.55 million. The Investor then converted the new convertible note into 1.61 million shares of the Company’s Common Stock at $2.20 per share. Accordingly, the security interest has been terminated and the liens will be released upon proper termination filings.

 

On, March 22, 2017, the Company entered into a Termination Agreement with the RedPath Equityholder Representative. Under the terms of the Termination Agreement, RedPath Equityholder Representative agreed to terminate all royalty and milestone rights under the contingent consideration agreement. In exchange for terminating the royalty and milestone right entered into with RedPath, the Company agreed to issue 5 year warrants to acquire an aggregate of 100,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at a fixed price of $4.69 per share. The fair value of the warrants issued was determined using the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model and amounted to $193,037. The warrants do not include any cash settlement provisions and accordingly are not liability classified. As a result, the Company is not required to revalue the warrants at each reporting date. The following table sets forth the assumptions used in the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model to estimate the fair value of the warrants upon issuance:

 

Market Price   $ 2.37  
Exercise Price   $ 4.69  
Risk-free interest rate     1.95 %
Expected volatility     125.58 %
Expected life in years     5.5  
Expected dividend yield     0.00 %