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Note 17. Subsequent Events
The Company has evaluated subsequent events from the balance sheet date through March 31, 2023, the date at which the financial statements were available to be issued as follows:
Continuing Operations
On January 4, 2023, the Company announced that it had engaged LifeSci Capital as its financial advisor to assist in exploring a range of strategic alternatives focused on enhancing shareholder value. There can be no assurance that this review process will result in any changes to the Company’s current business plans or lead to any specific action or transaction.
The Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) approved a plan on January 31, 2023 to preserve the Company’s cash to be able to continue to pursue a satisfactory strategic alternative for the purpose of maximizing the value of the Company’s business while also having sufficient cash to adequately fund an orderly wind down of the Company’s operations (the “Cash Preservation Plan”) in the event it is unable to secure a satisfactory strategic alternative. As part of the Cash Preservation Plan, the Company implemented a reduction in force which included the Company’s former President and Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Scientific Officer. The Company will record a charge of $954K thousand in 2023 related to termination benefits which will be paid in 2023 for these employees.
On March 9, 2023, the Company terminated its January 2022, San Diego office and laboratory lease agreement. The effective date of the termination is March 31, 2023. The landlord is retaining approximately $45 thousand as an early termination fee. This lease termination will result in a $1.2 million reduction in future operating lease payments.
On March 7, 2023, the Company sold its equipment in its San Diego laboratory to a third party and received $200,000 in consideration for such sale.
On March 24, 2023 the Company terminated its (a) Equity Distribution Agreement, dated April 8, 2022, by and between the Company and Canaccord Genuity LLC, regarding the issue and sale, from time to time, of shares of the Company’s common stock for an aggregate offering price of up to $20,000,000, and (b) Purchase Agreement, dated March 28, 2022, by and between the Company and Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC, regarding the issue and sale, from time to time, of shares of the Company’s common stock for an aggregate offering price of up to $15,000,000.
Further, on March 24, 2023, the Company filed post-effective amendments to certain of its registration statements previously filed with the SEC, including post-effective amendments to each of: (i) Registration Statement Nos. 333-249513, 333-252628, 333-239497, and 333-218229 on Form S-3; (ii) Registration Statement Nos. 333-191520, 333-191521, 333-196198, 333-205903, 333-256225 and 333-214599 on Form S-8; and (ii) Registration Statement No. 333-215284 and 333-264595 on Form S-1 (such post-effective amendments, collectively the “Post-Effective Amendments” and such registration statements, collectively the “Registration Statements”). In accordance with undertakings made by the Company in each of the Registration Statements to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any and all securities of the Company that were registered for issuance that remain unsold at the termination of the offerings, the Company removed from registration any and all securities of the Company registered but unsold under each of the Registration Statements. As a result of this deregistration, no securities remain registered for sale pursuant to the Registration Statements.
On March 29, 2023, the Company entered into a commitment to renew certain expiring insurance policies for a premium of $1.7 million.
Discontinuing Operations
To complete the disposition of the Company’s former vivoPharm business and to resolve certain issues that had arisen with the Buyer, on March 13, 2023, the Company sold vivoPharm to the Buyer for a nominal sum. As part of the sale of vivoPharm to Buyer, the Company provided that vivoPharm had cash of at least $200 thousand and the Company assumed certain specific vivoPharm liabilities, principally liabilities directly associated with the proposed Phase 2 Donepezil clinical trial in Australia (which the Company has placed on hold as it evaluates its strategic alternatives) and certain vivoPharm tax liabilities through the transaction’s closing. The transaction was consummated effective March 13, 2023. |