INTEREST OF CERTAIN PERSONS IN MATTERS TO BE ACTED UPON
None of the directors or executive officers of the Company, none of the persons who have been directors or executive officers of the Company at any time since January 1, 2023, none of the proposed nominees for election as a director of the Company and none of the associates or affiliates of any of the foregoing has any material interest, direct or indirect, by way of beneficial ownership of securities or otherwise, in any matter scheduled to be acted upon at the Meeting, other than the election of directors (Item 1).
INTEREST OF RELATED PERSONS IN TRANSACTIONS
Except as described below, for the last two completed fiscal years, no director, proposed director, executive officer, or immediate family member of a director, proposed director or executive officer nor, to the knowledge of our directors or executive officers, after having made reasonable inquiry, any person or company who beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, Shares carrying more than 5% of the voting rights attached to all Shares outstanding at the date hereof, or any immediate family member thereof, had any material interest, direct or indirect, in any transaction or proposed transaction of the Company which involves an amount exceeding the lesser of $120,000 or one percent of the average of the Company’s total assets at year-end for the last two completed fiscal years, other than compensation arrangements which are described under “Executive Compensation” and “Director Compensation” as of this Proxy Statement.
All persons listed below are persons who beneficially own, directly or indirectly, Shares carrying more than 5% of the voting rights attached to all Shares outstanding at the Record Date.
On February 3, 2023 and February 28, 2023, the Company issued unsecured notes in the aggregate principal amount of $1.0 million to Greybrook Health (the “February 2023 Notes”).
On August 1, 2023, the Company issued an unsecured subordinated note in an aggregate principal amount of $1.0 million to Greybrook Health (the “August 2023 Note”). As additional consideration for the purchase of the August 2023 Note, the Company issued to Greybrook Health 250,000 warrants each exercisable for one Share at an exercise price equal to (a) 85.0% of the volume-weighted average trading price of the Shares on Nasdaq (or, if not listed on Nasdaq, then such other trading market on which the Shares are principally traded, based upon daily share volume) for the five trading days immediately preceding the exercise date, or (b) if the Shares are not listed on any trading market at the time of exercise, a per share price based on fair market value, as determined by the Board, in each case subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments.
Both the February 2023 Notes and the August 2023 Notes were exchanged for Subordinated Convertible Notes on August 28, 2023. Greybrook Health separately purchased an additional $500,000 aggregate principal amount of Subordinated Convertible Notes on August 15, 2023. The February 2023 Notes, the August 2023 Notes and the Subordinated Convertible Notes all bear interest at a rate consistent with the Company’s Credit Agreement. There has been no payment on the principal of the Subordinated Convertible Notes.
Greybrook Health also participated in a private placement of Shares on March 23, 2023 (the “2023 Private Placement”), purchasing 2,272,727 Shares at an aggregate subscription price of approximately $1.25 million.
On July 14, 2022, the Company entered into the Credit Agreement with Madryn and has entered since into amendments to the Credit Agreement, whereby Madryn and its affiliated entities have extended additional term loans to the Company. During Fiscal 2023, the Company recognized $10.0 million in interest expense related to the Credit Agreement. All advances under the Credit Agreement accrue interest at a rate equal to 9.0% plus the 3-month Term Secured Overnight Financing Rate (subject to a floor of 1.5%) plus 0.10%. As of May 3, 2024, the aggregate principal outstanding under the Credit Agreement is $99 million. Approximately $7.4 million of the aggregate principal outstanding under the Credit Agreement may be converted into Shares at an exercise price of $1.90.
In the third and fourth quarter of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 Madryn purchased an aggregate of $4.5 million in Subordinated Convertible Notes from the Company. The Subordinated Convertible Notes all bear interest at a rate consistent with the Company’s Credit Agreement and there has been no payment on the principal of the Subordinated Convertible Notes.