Subsequent Events
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Sep. 30, 2014
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Subsequent Events |
14. Subsequent Events
On October 23, 2014, the Company commenced an issuer tender offer with respect to certain warrants to purchase common stock of the Company in order to provide the holders thereof with the opportunity to amend and exercise their warrants upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Company's tender offer statement on Schedule TO and the related exhibits included therein (the Offering Materials) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) on October 23, 2014.
The Company is offering to amend, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offering Materials, warrants to purchase an aggregate of 30,300,000 shares of common stock of the Company (the Offer to Amend and Exercise), consisting of outstanding warrants to purchase 30,300,000 shares of the Company's common stock (the Warrant Shares) at an exercise price of $2.00 per share, issued to investors participating in the Company's private placement financing with respect to which closings occurred on January 15, 2014, January 29, 2014 and February 6, 2014 (the PPO Warrants).
Pursuant to the Offer to Amend and Exercise, the PPO Warrants of holders who elect to participate in the Offer to Amend and Exercise will be amended (the Amended Warrants) to: (i) reduce the exercise price to $1.00 per share of common stock in cash, (ii) shorten the exercise period so that they expire concurrently with the expiration of the Offer to Amend and Exercise at 9:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) on November 20, 2014, as such expiration date may be extended by the Company in its sole discretion (the Expiration Date), (iii) delete any price-based anti-dilution provisions; (iv) restrict the ability of the holder of shares issuable upon exercise of the Amended Warrants to sell, make any short sale of, loan, grant any option for the purchase of, or otherwise dispose of any of such shares without the prior written consent of the Company for a period of fifty (50) days after the Expiration Date (the Lock-Up Period); and (v) provide that a holder, acting alone or with others, will agree not to effect any purchases or sales of any securities of the Company in any short sales as defined in Rule 200 promulgated under Regulation SHO under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), or any type of direct and indirect stock pledges, forward sale contracts, options, puts, calls, short sales, swaps, put equivalent positions (as defined in Rule 16a-1(h) under the Exchange Act) or similar arrangements, or sales or other transactions through non-U.S. broker dealers or foreign regulated brokers through the expiration of the Lock-Up Period.
The purpose of the Offer to Amend and Exercise is to encourage the amendment and exercise of the PPO Warrants by significantly reducing both the exercise price and the exercise period of the PPO Warrants in order to help the Company reduce its outstanding warrant liability and to provide funds to support the Company's operations.
The Company believes the Offer to Amend and Exercise will help the Company reduce the warrant liability recorded by the Company on its financial statements, which is an impediment to the Company's longer term goal to pursue a listing of its common stock on a national securities exchange. Due to the price-based weighted-average anti-dilution provisions contained in the PPO Warrants, the Company is required to record a derivative liability on its balance sheet each fiscal quarter for these warrants for so long as they are not exercised and have not expired. In addition, the Company is required to record any change in the value of the warrants on a quarterly basis. The warrant liability is primarily affected by changes in the Company's stock price, which causes the warrant liability to fluctuate as the market price of the Company's stock fluctuates. The warrant liability required to be recorded by the Company may have the adverse effect of substantially reducing the Company's stockholders' equity. The initial listing standards applicable to the Company for both the NYSE MKT and NASDAQ require that a company meet minimum stockholders' equity requirements.
The Company plans to use the net proceeds from the Offer to Amend and Exercise to fund its ongoing operations, including the Company's efforts to accelerate adoption of its Ekso TM in the medical rehabilitation market, to develop its medical product offerings for use outside the rehabilitation environment, and to explore opportunities in able-bodied exoskeleton applications on its own or with partners.
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