Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

7. Notes Payable

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7. Notes Payable
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Notes Payable

The Company and its subsidiaries are party to a number of loans with affiliates and unrelated parties. At December 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, notes payable consisted of the following:

 

Notes Payable – Third Parties

 

    December 31, 2016     December 31, 2015  
Loan payable under prepaid forward purchase contract   $ 5,000,000     $  
                 
Loan payable to TCA Global Master Fund, LP ("TCA") in the principal amount of $3,000,000 at 16% interest, with interest only payments through September 11, 2016 (the "TCA Debenture"). Principal and interest payments due monthly from October 11, 2016 through September 11, 2017.     3,000,000       3,000,000  
                 
Notes payable to CommerceNet and Jay Tenenbaum in the original principal amount of $500,000, bearing interest at 6% per annum (the "Tegal Notes"). Principal and interest payments are made annually from July 12, 2015 through July 12, 2017     341,612       341,612  
                 
Loan payable to former shareholder of Epinex Diagnostics Laboratories, Inc. in the original principal amount of $400,000, at 0% interest, with principal payments due in periodic installments of $100,000 from November 26, 2014 through February 26, 2016 (the "Epinex Note")           100,000  
                 
Other convertible notes payable     440,000        
                 
Unamortized discount on TCA Debenture           (453,025 )
Unamortized discount on Epinex Note           (1,775 )
Unamortized discount on other convertible notes     (179,889 )      
Derivative liability associated with the TCA Debenture, at fair value     409,524       186,117  
      9,011,247       3,172,929  
Less current portion     (9,011,247 )     (269,031 )
Notes payable - third parties, net of current portion   $     $ 2,903,898  

 

On September 15, 2016, the Company entered into an agreement with two investors whereby the Company sold to the investors convertible notes in the aggregate principal amount of $0.4 million (the “September 2016 Notes”). The September 2016 Notes are convertible into shares of the Company’s common stock at a conversion price of $7.50 per share. In conjunction with the sale of the September 2016 Notes, the Company issued warrants to purchase an aggregate of 66,667 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $12.00 per share. Based on the allocation of the net proceeds from the September 2016 Notes to the fair value of the warrants, and the resulting beneficial conversion features, the Company recognized a discount for the entire face value of the September 2016 Notes, which is being accreted through the notes’ maturity date of March 15, 2017. The Company has determined that the warrants issued in this transaction do not qualify for equity treatment in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. As a result, the Company recognized a derivative liability associated with these warrants, the fair value of which is $0.1 million as of December 31, 2016. On March 13, 2017, the September 2016 Notes, along with the accompanying warrants, were exchanged for 400,000 shares of the Company’s common stock (see note 18).

 

On March 31, 2016, the Company entered into an agreement to pledge certain of its accounts receivable as collateral against a prepaid forward purchase contract whereby the Company received consideration in the amount of $5.0 million. The receivables had an estimated collectable value of $8.7 million which had been adjusted down to approximately $4.3 million on the Company’s balance sheet as of March 31, 2016 and $0 as of December 31, 2016. In exchange for the consideration received, the counterparty received the right to: (i) a 20% per annum investment return from the Company on the consideration, with a minimum repayment term of six months and minimum return of $0.5 million, (ii) all payments recovered from the accounts receivable up to $5.25 million, if paid in full within six months, or $5.5 million, if not paid in full within six months, and (iii) 20% of all payments of the accounts receivable in excess of amounts received in (i) and (ii). On March 31, 2017, to the extent that the counterparty has not been paid $6.0 million, the Company is required to pay the difference. To date, the Company has not recovered any payments against the accounts receivable. As of December 31, 2016, the Company has accrued $0.75 million for the Counterparty’s required investment return, which is reflected in accrued expenses in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet, and $6.0 million is due to the counterparty on March 31, 2017. The Company does not have the financial resources to repay this obligation.

 

Christopher Diamantis, a director of the Company, guaranteed the Company's payment obligation of up to $6.0 million. For providing the guarantee, and to the extent that the counterparty receives amounts payable under clause (ii) above exceeding $5.0 million, Mr. Diamantis will be paid a fee by the counterparty equal to the amount by which the amount received under clause (ii) above exceeds $5.0 million ($250,000 or $500,000, depending on the timing of payment). In addition, the Company agreed to pay Mr. Diamantis $0.5 million in connection with his providing the guarantee. This amount was settled in August of 2016 with the issuance of shares of the Company’s common stock and warrants to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock (see note 10).

 

Effective September 11, 2015, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with TCA, pursuant to which TCA purchased the TCA Debenture. The TCA Debenture has a maturity date of September 11, 2017 (the “Maturity Date”) and bears interest at a rate of sixteen percent (16%) per annum. The Company was required to make monthly interest payments for the first 12 months and monthly payments of principal and interest and for the second 12 months until the Maturity Date. As of December 31, 2016, the debenture is secured by substantially all of the assets of the Company except for those of CollbRx and of Scott County Community Hospital, Inc. (see note 18). The Company did not make the required monthly principal and interest payments due under the TCA Debenture for the period from October 2016 through March 2017. On November 3, 2016, the Company received a Notice of Default from TCA. At December 31, 2016, the Company has accrued interest on the TCA Debenture of $0.2 million, which reflects interest at the default rate of 22% per annum retroactive to October 1, 2016 and monthly late fees in accordance with the terms of the TCA Debenture. On February 2, 2017, the Company made a payment to TCA in the amount of $0.4 million which was applied to accrued and unpaid interest and fees as of the date of payment. On March 21, 2017, the Company entered into a letter agreement with TCA under which the foregoing defaults were waived and the Company made an additional payment to TCA in the amount of $0.75 million (see note 18).

 

The Company did not make the principal payments under the Tegal Notes that were due on July 12, 2016. On November 3, 2016, the Company received a default notice from the holders of the Tegal Notes demanding immediate repayment of the outstanding principal and accrued interest aggregating to $0.4 million. On December 7, 2016 the Company received a breach of contract complaint with a request for entry of a default judgment (see note 13). To date, the Company has yet to repay this amount.

 

Notes Payable – Related Parties

 

    December 31, 2016     December 31, 2015  
Convertible debenture dated December 31, 2014 which bears interest at 10% per annum and was due December 31, 2016 (the "D&D Debenture")   $     $ 3,000,000  
                 
Loan payable to Alcimede LLC, bearing interest at 6% per annum, with all principal and interest due on February 2, 2017     218,500       500,000  
                 
Loan payable to Christopher Diamantis           1,600,000  
                 
Other advances from related parties     110,000        
                 
Unamortized discount on D&D Debenture           (2,236,112 )
Derivative liabilities associated with the D&D Debenture, at fair value           2,270,000  
Total notes payable, related parties     328,500       5,133,888  

 

On December 31, 2014, the Company borrowed $3.0 million from D&D Funding II, LLC (“D&D”) and issued the D&D Debenture. Mr. Diamantis is the manager and 50% owner of D&D. In January 2016, the Company temporarily repaid the $3.0 million due under the D&D Debenture. In addition to the principal amount, the Company paid $0.3 million in cash for interest for 2015. In March 2016, the Company re-borrowed 100% of the principal amount repaid in January 2016, repaid $2.25 million in April 2016 using the proceeds from the accounts receivable pledge agreement described above, and repaid the remaining $750,000 in July 2016. The D&D Debenture was convertible into the Company’s Common Stock at a 25% discount to the trailing ten-day average closing price at any time prior to the repayment. In the event of conversion, the holder of the D&D Debenture was also entitled to receive a number of warrants to purchase the Company’s Common Stock equal to the number of shares issued upon conversion with exercise prices equal to the trailing ten-day average closing price of our Common Stock. These two features are derivative instruments that are re-valued quarterly and are reflected in the table above as of December 31, 2015. As a result of the repayment of the D&D Debenture in 2016, the associated derivative liability has been reclassified into stockholders’ equity.

 

On February 3, 2015, the Company borrowed $3.0 million from Alcimede LLC (“Alcimede”). Seamus Lagan, the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, is the sole manager of Alcimede. The note has an interest rate of 6% and was originally due on February 2, 2016. On June 29, 2015, Alcimede exercised options granted in October 2012 to purchase one million shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $2.50 per share, and the loan outstanding was reduced in satisfaction of the aggregate exercise price of $2.5 million. In February 2016, Alcimede agreed to extend the maturity date of the loan to February 2, 2017, and the maturity date has since been extended to August 2, 2017. In August of 2016, $0.3 million was repaid by the Company through the issuance of shares of common stock (see note 10), and the remaining balance due on this loan as of December 31, 2016 was $0.2 million. On February 27, 2015, the Company borrowed $30,000 from Alcimede LLC. The loan was repaid on April 15, 2015.

 

In the fourth quarter of 2015, the Company borrowed $1.6 million from Mr. Diamantis, which was due January 7, 2016. In January 2016, the Company repaid the $1.6 million due Mr. Diamantis, along with $0.1 million in cash for interest. During the year ended December 31, 2016, the Company received additional short-term advances from Mr. Diamantis, payable on demand and aggregating $5.7 million, all of which was repaid prior to December 31, 2016. In connection with these advances, the Company agreed to pay Mr. Diamantis interest in the amount of $0.4 million, as well as interest of 10% per annum for all advances made subsequent to September 30, 2016, and these amounts are reflected in accrued expenses in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2016. Also during the year ended December 31, 2016, the Company received short-term advances from three principal stockholders aggregating approximately $1.2 million, $1.1 million of which was repaid during the year. These remaining advances outstanding are payable on demand.