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10.
Subsequent
Events
July
2012 Private Placement
In
early July 2012, the Company entered into Securities
Purchase Agreements (collectively, the “Purchase
Agreement”) with certain investors (the
“Investors”) for the private placement of
shares of the Company’s common stock and warrants to
purchase shares of the Company’s common stock, at a
purchase price of $1.10 per unit (the
“Financing Transaction”). Each unit
consisted of one share of common stock and a warrant (an
“Investor Warrant”) to purchase one-half share
of common stock. The pricing for the Financing
Transaction was set by the Company on June 25, 2012. As
part of the Financing Transaction, the Company also entered
into Registration Rights Agreements with the Investors
(collectively, the “Registration Rights
Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to
file a registration statement with the SEC covering the
resale of the shares of common stock issued to the
Investors under the Purchase Agreement and the shares of
common stock that are issuable to the Investors upon
exercise of the Investor Warrants. The Company filed
that registration statement on August 13, 2012.
In
the Financing Transaction, the Company sold to the
Investors approximately 5.5 million shares of common stock,
together with Investor Warrants to purchase approximately
2.7 million shares of common stock, for aggregate gross
proceeds of $6,000,000. Each Investor Warrant is
exercisable for five years from the date of issuance and
has an exercise price of $1.45 per share, subject to
adjustment as provided therein. Non-employee
directors of the Company invested a total of $269,980 in
the Financing Transaction. The Company’s placement
agent for the Financing Transaction, and its sub-placement
agents, earned commissions of approximately $480,000 as
well as warrants to purchase approximately 0.4 million
shares of the Company’s common stock (the
“Placement Agent Warrants”). The Placement
Agent Warrants have the same terms and conditions as the
Investor Warrants, except that the Placement Agent Warrants
have an exercise price of $1.10 per share. In connection
with the Financing Transaction, the Company entered into
registration rights agreements with the Investors pursuant
to which the Company agreed to prepare and file a
registration statement with the SEC under the Securities
Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”) covering the
resale of the shares of common stock and the shares of
common stock underlying the warrants that we issued in the
financing. The Company will bear the costs,
including legal and accounting fees, associated with the
registration of those shares. Once the
registration statement is filed, the Company will be
required to use commercially reasonable efforts to have the
registration statement declared effective as soon as
practicable. In the event the registration
statement is not filed on or prior to the filing deadline
set forth in the registration rights agreements, the
registration statement is not declared effective by the SEC
on or prior to the effectiveness deadline set forth in the
registration rights agreements, or if the Company fails to
continuously maintain the effectiveness of the registration
statement (with certain permitted exceptions), the Company
will incur certain liquidated damages to the Investors, up
to a maximum amount of 6% of the investor’s
investment in the Financing Transaction.
At
June 30, 2012, the Company had received funds from
prospective investors in the Financing Transaction totaling
$989,520 associated with the Financing Transaction.
However, the Company and these investors did not enter into
a Securities Purchase Agreement until early July
2012. Therefore, the $989,520 was reflected in
the cash and cash equivalents balance and as a current
liability classified as deposits in the Company’s
June 30, 2012 condensed balance sheet. The table
below reflects, on a pro forma basis, the impact of the
Financing Transaction on the Company’s condensed
balance sheet as if it had occurred on June 30,
2012:
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13.
Subsequent Events
2011Unit
Offering (Note 8)
On
February 24, 2012, the Company ended its unit offering. In
the unit offering, the Company sold approximately
54.3 units in the aggregate, of which approximately
38 units were sold subsequent to December 31,
2011. In connection with the approximately 38 units
sold subsequent to year-end, the Company issued 2011 Unit
Offering Notes in the aggregate principal amount of
$3,805,500 and warrants to purchase 1,902,750 shares of
common stock.
Modification
of Terms of BSC Notes (Note 6)
Effective
February 2, 2012, the Company entered into a loan
modification with BSC pursuant to which (i) interest
accrued under each of the BSC Notes as of February 2,
2012 was added to the principal balance of the note,
(ii) beginning February 2, 2012, the interest
rate of each of the BSC Notes was reduced from 10% per
annum to 0%, and (iii) the maturity date of each of
the BSC Notes was extended by three years (until October
through December 2014). As such, relying upon guidance in
ASC 470-10, the outstanding aggregate loan balance and
the related accrued interest, as of December 31, 2011 have
been classified as long-term liabilities in the
accompanying balance sheets. As of February 2, 2012,
the outstanding aggregate loan balance, including principal
and interest, owed to Boston Scientific was
$4,338,601.
Modification
of Terms of BSC Neuro Agreement (Note 5)
In
connection with the February 2012 modification of the BSC
Notes, the Company and BSC Neuro also amended the terms of
the BSC Neuro Agreement. The amended BSC Neuro Agreement
reduces the aggregate future milestone-based payments the
Company could receive from $1,600,000 to $800,000, and it
reduces the prospective royalty payments the Company could
receive on net sales of licensed products. In addition, the
amended BSC Neuro Agreement requires the Company to meet
certain net working capital targets, be current on its
payroll obligations, and not suffer an event of default
under any indebtedness for borrowed money, in each case
while the BSC Notes remain outstanding. If the Company does
not meet those requirements while the BSC Notes are
outstanding, the Company will be required to assign certain
patents and patent applications to BSC Neuro. However, upon
any such assignment to BSC Neuro, BSC Neuro will grant to
the Company an exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual worldwide
license to the same patents and patent applications in all
fields of use other than neuromodulation and implantable
medical leads for cardiac applications.
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