Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Equity Transactions

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Equity Transactions
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2020
Equity [Abstract]  
Equity Transactions
12. EQUITY TRANSACTIONS

 

The Company’s Common Stock activity for the six months ended June 30, 2020 is as follows:

 

Common Stock

 

Shares Issued as Part of the Company’s Private Placement

 

On February 5, 2020, the Company initiated a private placement, which is for the sale and issuance of up to five million shares of its Common Stock at a per-share price of $1.20, which amount represents a 20% discount to the $1.50 closing price of the Company’s Common Stock on that day.

 

The Company’s private placement is exempt from the registration requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), in reliance on Section 4(a)(2) thereof and/or Rule 506 of Regulation D and Regulation S thereunder, each as promulgated by the SEC. The Company’s private placement was managed by the Company; however, in connection with the closings, the Company paid a non-U.S. based consultant (i) as a cash fee, an aggregate amount of $499,000 (or 10% of the gross proceeds of the closings), (ii) as a non-accountable expense allowance, an aggregate of $100,000 (or 2% of the gross proceeds of the closings), (iii) five-year warrants, exercisable for an aggregate of up to 416,199 shares of the Company’s Common stock at a cash-only exercise price of $1.92 per share, and (iv) 100,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock. The Company made the above-referenced payments only in respect of that portion of the gross proceeds from the closings for investors introduced to the Company by the consultant. In addition, the Company also incurred various expenses totaling $42,000 that are directly related to this private placement.

 

As a result of this private placement, from February through April 2020, a total of 4,237,833 shares of Common Stock were sold in exchange for cash proceeds of $4,444,000, net of direct fees and expenses in the aggregate of $641,000.

 

In preparation for this private placement offering, the Company separately negotiated with certain Series A stockholders to waive their rights in order not to ratchet down the conversion price of their Series A preferred shares (see Note 9). In return for the waiver, the Company granted these Series A stockholders warrants to purchase 2,303,861 shares of Common Stock. The warrants are exercisable in August 2020, expire in 5 years and are exercisable at $1.20 per share, as adjusted. The exercise price is subject to certain customary adjustments, including subsequent equity sales and rights offerings. In addition, the warrants also included a fundamental transaction provision that could give rise to an obligation to pay cash to the warrant holder. As a result of this fundamental transaction provision, the warrants were accounted as derivative liability with a fair value upon issuance of $3,951,000 upon issuance. The Company accounted the fair value of $3,951,000 as a deemed dividend since if the down round provision of the Series A preferred shares had occurred, it would have been accounted as a deemed dividend due to it providing additional value to the Series A stockholders.

  

Shares Issued for Services

 

During the six months ended June 30, 2020, the Company issued 669,050 shares of Common Stock to vendors for services rendered and to be rendered with a fair value of $895,000. These shares of Common Stock were valued based on the market value of the Company’s Common Stock price at the issuance date or the date the Company entered into the agreement related to the issuance. As previously discussed, the Company also issued an additional 100,000 shares of common stock to a consultant for services rendered as a result of a private placement offering in February through April 2020.