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−Removed: August 12, 2020, the Company granted to Thomas K.
−Removed: Equels, Chief Executive Officer, consistent with his employment agreement, 300,000
−Removed: ten-year options to purchase common stock with an exercise price of $3.07 per share which vest in one year.
−Removed: The Company also granted
−Removed: William Mitchell and Stewart Appelrouth, as compensation for their services as members of committees of the board of directors,
−Removed: each 50,000 ten-year options to purchase common stock with an exercise price of $2.77 per share which vest in one year.
−Removed: November 10, 2020, we entered into a five year employment agreement with Thomas Equels (the “Employment Agreement”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the Employment Agreement, Mr.
−Removed: Equels will continue to serve as our President, CEO and will serve as our Executive
−Removed: Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors.
−Removed: Equels will receive an annual base salary of $850,000 and is entitled to a year-end
−Removed: target bonus of $350,000 based upon performance goals established by the Board’s Compensation Committee.
−Removed: To incentivize Mr.
−Removed: Equels to advance our long term objectives, each year he will receive options (“Long Term Options”) to purchase 300,000
−Removed: shares of our common stock, the first such Long Term Options to be issued on November 30, 2021.
−Removed: The exercise price of these options
−Removed: will be the closing price of our common stock on the NYSE American on the trading date immediately preceding the date of the award
−Removed: The Long Term Options will vest one year after their issuance.
−Removed: Equels will be entitled to awards (“Event Awards”) equal to 3% of the “Gross Proceeds”
−Removed: from specific licensing
−Removed: agreements or individual acquisitions of a “therapeutic indication”
−Removed: (each, an “Event”).
−Removed: Gross Proceeds
−Removed: means those cash amounts paid to us by the other parties for each licensing agreement and specific therapeutic indication acquisition,
−Removed: and “specific therapeutic indication means a specific target organ pathologically recognized as a cancer indication, a vaccine
−Removed: enhancer for a specific infectious target, broad spectrum antiviral indications, or a medical entity associated with persistent
−Removed: severe fatigue.
−Removed: Equels also will be entitled to an award (an “Acquisition Award”) equal to 3% of the Gross Proceeds,
−Removed: upon the sale of our company or substantially all of our assets (an “Acquisition”).
−Removed: An Event Award or Acquisition
−Removed: Award shall be paid in cash within 90 days of our receipt of the Gross Proceeds.
−Removed: Equels will receive customary allowances and fringe benefits as set forth in the Employment Agreement.
−Removed: The Employment Agreement
−Removed: runs for five years and, thereafter, automatically renews for three year periods unless either party informs the other in writing
−Removed: at least 180 days prior to the end of the then term of the Employment Agreement, that it does not intend to renew the Employment
−Removed: In the event of a change in control of our company (excluding any Acquisition), the term of the Employment Agreement
−Removed: shall be extended for three years on the date of change in control.
−Removed: may terminate Mr.
−Removed: Equels’
−Removed: employment with or without “Cause”.
−Removed: “Cause”
−Removed: means the willful engaging
−Removed: Equels in illegal conduct, gross misconduct or gross violation of our Code of Ethics and Business Conduct, which is demonstrably
−Removed: and materially injurious to us.
−Removed: Equels shall not be deemed to have been terminated for Cause unless he receives notice that
−Removed: a majority of our Directors believes that he should be terminated for Cause.
−Removed: The matter shall be adjudicated by a retired Florida
−Removed: judge or a Florida certified mediator mutually acceptable to our Board and Mr.
−Removed: Equels, before whom Mr.
−Removed: Equels has been given the
−Removed: opportunity to be heard, and requires a finding that he was guilty of intentional and material misconduct according to the foregoing
−Removed: standards and utilizing the legal standard of beyond all reasonable doubt.
−Removed: Upon termination for Cause, Mr.
−Removed: Equels shall be entitled
−Removed: to his salary, bonus and Long Term Options through the last day of his actual employment by us subsequent to the foregoing proceeding.
−Removed: If we terminate him without Cause, Mr.
−Removed: Equels shall be entitled to his compensation through the last day of the then current term
−Removed: of the Employment Agreement.
−Removed: In the event Mr.
−Removed: Equels’
−Removed: employment is terminated due to his death or disability, we shall
−Removed: pay to him or his estate, at the time of such termination, his base salary, applicable benefits, and all unvested Long Term Options
−Removed: shall immediate vest.
−Removed: In the event of his permanent disability, we will provide an additional two years of base salary.
−Removed: Compensation Committee, after reviewing a report from a compensation advisor, determined that Mr.
−Removed: Equels’
−Removed: compensation was
−Removed: below that of certain peer pharmaceutical/biotechnology companies in certain compensation categories and noted that, due to substantial
−Removed: financial constraints, Mr.
−Removed: Equels had not received an increase in base salary in four years.
−Removed: The Compensation Committee also noted
−Removed: that, under Mr.
−Removed: Equels’
−Removed: leadership, we had recovered from a distressed situation, which included insufficient funds for
−Removed: drug development, no adequate reserves of experimental drug product and the consequent inability to conduct clinical trials and
−Removed: a high burn rate.
−Removed: Under his tenure we have substantially reduced our burn rate through a series of moves to eliminate waste and
−Removed: inefficiency, raised significant capital to provide an operating reserve, initiated an oncology clinical program which now has
−Removed: multiple oncology clinical trials at academic centers underway, initiated a COVID-19 R&D program with clinical trials imminent
−Removed: and initiated multiple provisional Ampligen utility patent applications in COVID-19, oncology, endometriosis, and manufacturing.
−Removed: To compensate Mr.
−Removed: Equels for these accomplishments, we awarded him 300,000 options with the same terms as the Long Term Options.
−Removed: above summaries of the Employment Agreement is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of
−Removed: the agreement, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1 and incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: 10, 2020 employment agreement with Thomas K.
−Removed: July 1, 2020, Material Transfer and Research Agreement with the Japanese National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Shionogi & Co., Ltd.
−Removed: (Portions of this Agreement have been redacted in compliance with Regulation S-K Item 601(b)(10))**
−Removed: July 6, 2020, Clinical Trial Agreement with Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.
+Added: May 13, 2021, we completed our re-purchase of our New Brunswick, New Jersey facility pursuant to the repurchase option in the
+Added: facility lease for $4,661,400.
+Added: April 19, 2021 Purchase and Sale Agreement with Phoenix Equipment Corporation, Branford Auctions, LLC and Perry Videx LLC .*
+Added: Material Transfer and Research agreement with Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center executed on April 14, 2021 (Portions of this Agreement have been redacted in compliance with Regulation S-K Item 601(b)(10)).*
+Added: May 1, 2021 extension of April 1, 2020 Material Transfer and Research Agreement with Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited.*
+Added: Material Transfer And Research Agreement with the University of Cagliari Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell’Ambiente executed on April 5, 2021 (Portions of this Agreement have been redacted in compliance with Regulation S-K Item 601(b)(10)).*
+Added: May 12, 2021 Amendment to the Renewed Sales, Marketing, Distribution and Supply Agreement with GPPharm.
(Portions of this Agreement have been redacted in compliance with Regulation S-K Item 601(b)(10))*
−Removed: August 6, 2020, Project Work Order with Amarex Clinical Research LLC.
+Added: January 11, 2021 Sponsor Agreement with Centre for Human Drug Research.
(Portions of this Agreement have been redacted in compliance with Regulation S-K Item 601(b)(10))**
−Removed: Certification pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 from the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.*
−Removed: Certification pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 from the Company’s Chief Financial Officer.*
−Removed: Certification pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 from the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.*
−Removed: Certification pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 from the Company’s Chief Financial Officer.*
+Added: March 24, 2021 employment agreement with Peter Rodino.**
+Added: March 24, 2021 employment agreement with Ellen Lintal.**
+Added: Certification
+Added: pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 from the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.*
+Added: Certification
+Added: pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 from the Company’s Chief Financial Officer.*
+Added: Certification
+Added: pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 from the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.*
+Added: Certification
+Added: pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 from the Company’s Chief Financial Officer.*
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Filed herewith.
−Removed: Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period
−Removed: ended June 30, 2020 filed August 14, 2020 and is hereby incorporated by reference.
−Removed: Pursuant to Rule 406T of Regulation S-T, these interactive data files are deemed not filed or part of a registration statement
−Removed: or prospectus for purposes of Sections 11 or 12 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or Section 18 of the Securities and
−Removed: Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and otherwise are not subject to liability under those sections.
−Removed: to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf
−Removed: by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
+Added: Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
+Added: December 31, 2020 filed March 31, 2021 and is hereby incorporated by reference.
+Added: Pursuant to Rule 406T of Regulation S-T, these interactive data files are deemed not filed or part of a registration statement or prospectus
+Added: for purposes of Sections 11 or 12 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or Section 18 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934,
+Added: as amended and otherwise are not subject to liability under those sections.
+Added: to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by
+Added: the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
IMMUNOTECH INC.
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−Removed: November 12, 2020
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