−Removed: Legal Proceedings.
−Removed: are, and from time to time may become, subject to litigation and various legal proceedings that involve claims for substantial amounts
−Removed: of money or for other relief or that might necessitate changes to our business or operations.
−Removed: Please see Note 16 “Contingencies”
−Removed: to the consolidated financial statements included in Part II, “Item 8.
−Removed: Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of this
−Removed: Annual Report.
−Removed: litigation is inherently unpredictable, assessing contingencies related to litigation is a complex process involving highly subjective
−Removed: judgment about potential outcomes of future events.
−Removed: When evaluating litigation contingencies, we may be unable to provide a meaningful
−Removed: estimate due to a number of factors, including the procedural status of the matter in question, the availability of appellate remedies,
−Removed: insurance coverage related to the claim or claims in question, the presence of complex or novel legal theories, and the ongoing discovery
−Removed: and development of information important to the matter.
−Removed: In addition, damage amounts claimed in litigation against us may be unsupported,
−Removed: exaggerated, or unrelated to possible outcomes, and as such are not meaningful indicators of our potential liability or financial exposure.
−Removed: Accordingly, we review the adequacy of accruals and disclosures each quarter in consultation with legal counsel, and we assess the probability
−Removed: and range of possible losses associated with contingencies for potential accrual in the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: However, the ultimate resolution of litigated claims may differ from our current estimates.
−Removed: In the normal course of business, there are various claims in process,
−Removed: matters in litigation, and other contingencies, certain of which are covered by insurance policies.
−Removed: While it is not possible to predict
−Removed: the outcome of these suits, legal proceedings, and claims with certainty, management is of the opinion that adequate provision for potential
−Removed: losses associated with these matters has been made in the financial statements and that the ultimate resolution of any one of these matters
−Removed: will not have a material adverse effect on our financial position and results of operations.
−Removed: A significant increase in the number of these
−Removed: claims, or one or more successful claims resulting in greater liabilities than the we currently anticipate, could materially and adversely
−Removed: affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
−Removed: Biopharma, Inc (n/ka) AIM Immunotech vs BioLife Plasma Services,
−Removed: No 1711391858 ( Phila CCP)
−Removed: commenced an action in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in 2017 against Biolife Plasma Services, LP related to the defendants’
−Removed: breach of a contract requiring the defendant to supply certain blood related products used by and necessary to us in the manufacture
−Removed: of our products, including the loss profits associated with the defendants’ breaches.
−Removed: The Defendant asserted defenses, including a counterclaim
−Removed: asserting our failure to have paid invoices billed for the product in the amount of $96,676 following the Defendant’s notification that
−Removed: it would not be fulfilling the terms of the contract.
−Removed: trial court issued a ruling in March 2023 on cross Motions for Summary Judgment in which it denied all of our motions and granted defendant’s
−Removed: Motion to exclude evidence of future loss of profit damages.
−Removed: The ruling specified that we had properly pled, and the Court was specifically
−Removed: allowing our damages theory to proceed on reliance damages.
−Removed: We sought reconsideration of the ruling based on its internal inconsistency
−Removed: with the contemporaneously issued Order which allowed only the counterclaims to proceed.
−Removed: In July 2023, we sought appellate review of
−Removed: the inconsistent lower Court pretrial rulings.
−Removed: In September 2023, the Court issued an Order in response to our Motion for Reconsideration
−Removed: granting the Motion, vacating its prior Order on summary judgment, and issued a new Order and Opinion.
−Removed: new Order and Opinion again denied our motion for summary judgment, and granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment.
−Removed: of the Order was to again allow only the defendant’s counterclaim to proceed.
−Removed: The Order mooted the pending appellate review.
−Removed: 6, 2023, we petitioned the Superior (appellate) Court to allow immediate appeal.
−Removed: The Superior Court has not ruled on the Petition.
−Removed: parties have twice mediated the matter with no resolution achieved.
−Removed: No estimate can be made of when the trial court and appellate court
−Removed: will address the pending matters.
−Removed: No estimate of the outcome can be made at this time pending determination of the Petition and the underlying
−Removed: issues presented in the appeal.
−Removed: ImmunoTech, Inc.
−Removed: Tudor., Case No.
−Removed: 2021-CA-393 (Marion County, FL)
−Removed: August 13, 2021, the Marion County Circuit Court entered an Agreed Order Granting Joint Motion for Entry of Stipulated Injunction (“Injunction”),
−Removed: which precluded Tudor from contacting any of our business relations.
−Removed: We are currently pursuing enforcement of the Injunction against
−Removed: Tudor, who recently violated the Injunction.
−Removed: We are not seeking damages against Tudor.
−Removed: We intend on filing a motion to enforce the Injunction
−Removed: and will seek to recover its attorney’s fees and costs, along with any other sanction necessary to preclude Tudor from violating
−Removed: the injunction again.
AIM ImmunoTech, Inc.
2022-0669-LWW (Del.
−Removed: On July 29, 2022, Jonathan Jorgl (“Jorgl”) filed a complaint
−Removed: against us and the then-members of our Board of Directors in the Delaware Court of Chancery (the “Jorgl Action”).
+Added: July 29, 2022, Jonathan Jorgl (“Jorgl”) filed a complaint against the Company and the then-members of its Board of Directors,
+Added: Thomas Equels, William Mitchell, and Stewart Appelrouth, in the Delaware Court of Chancery (the “Jorgl Action”).
The complaint
−Removed: challenged the decision of our Board of Directors to reject Jorgl’s notice of intent to nominate two candidates for election to
−Removed: the our Board of Directors on the basis that the notice failed to comply with our bylaws.
−Removed: The Complaint sought a declaration that Jorgl’s
−Removed: nomination was valid and effective and complied with our bylaws and that the we must list Jorgl’s candidates in our proxy materials,
−Removed: as well as a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, and permanent injunction enjoining defendants from taking any action
−Removed: to prevent Jorgl from exercising his alleged nomination rights and from making any statements that disparage Jorgl’s candidates
−Removed: prior to or during our annual meeting of stockholders.
−Removed: August 15, 2022, the Court denied Jorgl’s motion for temporary restraining order, granted the motion to expedite, and scheduled
−Removed: a hearing on Jorgl’s preliminary injunction motion.
−Removed: After expedited discovery and briefing, the Court issued an opinion on October
−Removed: 28, 2022, denying Jorgl’s motion for preliminary injunction.
−Removed: On November 1, 2022, Jorgl and the other participants in his nomination
−Removed: efforts and attempted proxy contest announced in a press release that they did not plan to proceed to trial or seek an appeal of the
−Removed: Court’s ruling denying the motion for preliminary injunction and that the proxies they solicited would not be voted at our annual
−Removed: meeting of stockholders.
−Removed: We held our annual meeting of stockholders on November 3, 2022, and the stockholders re-elected Thomas Equels,
−Removed: William Mitchell, and Stewart Appelrouth as directors.
−Removed: April 20, 2023, Jorgl filed a motion to dismiss the Jorgl Action.
−Removed: On June 20, 2023, the Court entered an order dismissing the Jorgl Action
−Removed: and retaining jurisdiction to adjudicate any related fee disputes.
+Added: challenged the decision of the Company’s Board of Directors to reject Jorgl’s notice of intent to nominate two candidates
+Added: for election to the Company’s Board of Directors on the basis that the notice failed to comply with the Company’s bylaws.
+Added: The Complaint sought a declaration that Jorgl’s nomination was valid and effective and complied with the bylaws and that the Company
+Added: must list Jorgl’s candidates in its proxy materials, as well as a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, and permanent
+Added: injunction enjoining defendants from taking any action to prevent Jorgl from exercising his alleged nomination rights and from making
+Added: any statements that disparage Jorgl’s candidates prior to or during the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders.
+Added: Anderson was counsel to all the defendants in the Jorgl Action.
+Added: On August 15, 2022, the Court denied Jorgl’s motion for temporary
+Added: restraining order, granted the motion to expedite, and scheduled a hearing on Jorgl’s preliminary injunction motion.
+Added: After expedited
+Added: discovery and briefing, the Court issued an opinion on October 28, 2022, denying Jorgl’s motion for preliminary injunction.
+Added: November 1, 2022, Jorgl and the other participants in his nomination efforts and attempted proxy contest announced in a press release
+Added: that they did not plan to proceed to trial or seek an appeal of the Court’s ruling denying the motion for preliminary injunction
+Added: and that the proxies they solicited would not be voted at the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders.
+Added: AIM held its annual meeting
+Added: of stockholders on November 3, 2022, and the stockholders re-elected Thomas Equels, William Mitchell, and Stewart Appelrouth as directors.
+Added: On April 20, 2023, Jorgl filed a motion to dismiss the Jorgl Action.
+Added: On June 20, 2023, the Court entered an order dismissing the Jorgl
+Added: Action and retaining jurisdiction to adjudicate any related fee disputes.
July 20, 2023, defendants filed a motion to shift all litigation fees they incurred in connection with the Jorgl Action to Jorgl on the
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The Delaware Court of Chancery
−Removed: ruled on certain discovery motions in October 2023 pertaining to the AIM Fee Motion, and on March 25, 2024, ordered the parties to provide
−Removed: a joint status report regarding the AIM Fee Motion and the Jorgl Fee Motion within 30 days.
−Removed: We anticipate that the parties will negotiate
−Removed: a schedule to complete briefing on the motions.
−Removed: ImmunoTech, Inc.
−Removed: Tudor, et al., Case 5:22-cv-00323 (M.D.
−Removed: Florida 2022)
−Removed: On July 15, 2022, we filed suit against Franz Tudor, Todd Deutsch, Ted
−Removed: Kellner, Jonathan Jorgl, Walter Lautz, Robert Chioini, and Michael Rice (collectively, the “Tudor Group”) for injunctive relief
−Removed: arising from the Tudor Group’s alleged violations of the Securities Exchange Act for failing to register as a group and provide
−Removed: required disclosures.
−Removed: On July 8, 2022, Jorgl served a notice of intent to nominate two director candidates from the Tudor Group for election
−Removed: at our 2022 annual meeting.
−Removed: We rejected the notice because we believed the notice did not comply with the bylaws, federal law, or Delaware
−Removed: We allege the notice is missing critical information required by the bylaws and made material misrepresentations and omissions.
−Removed: believe the Tudor Group was acting in concert to appoint the nominees and sued these individuals to enjoin them from violating our bylaws
−Removed: and federal law.
−Removed: On July 10, 2023, the court dismissed the complaint.
−Removed: We filed a motion for reconsideration, which the trial court denied.
−Removed: We filed an appeal of the dismissal, which is pending and referenced below.
−Removed: The defendants have filed motions for sanctions seeking to
−Removed: recover their legal costs from the inception of the case, which total hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to the defendants, and
−Removed: additional sums, also not quantified, to act as a deterrent.
−Removed: On December 19, 2023, the court heard oral argument on the motions.
−Removed: submitted post-hearing briefs, and the matter is pending before the Court.
+Added: ruled on certain discovery motions in October 2023 pertaining to the AIM Fee Motion.
+Added: Subsequently, at the parties’ request, the
+Added: Court directed the parties to file a joint status report within 21 days of the Delaware Supreme Court issuing a decision in the Kellner
+Added: action (described below).
+Added: On August 2, 2024, after the parties submitted the joint status report, the Court entered a stipulated
+Added: scheduling order for the remaining briefing on the fee motions, which briefing was completed on September 24, 2024.
+Added: On February 3, 2025,
+Added: the Court entered a letter ruling denying the AIM Fee Motion and the Jorgl Fee Motion.
+Added: The case is now concluded.
ImmunoTech, Inc.
−Removed: Tudor, et al., Case No.
−Removed: 0:2023prici13576 (11th Cir.
−Removed: filed a notice of appeal of the order of dismissal and the order denying its motion for reconsideration that were entered in AIM ImmunoTech,
−Removed: Tudor, et al., Case 5:22-cv-00323 (M.D.
−Removed: 2022) (above).
−Removed: The appellate deadlines are stayed until the lower court rules on
−Removed: the pending motions.
+Added: Tudor, et al., in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Ocala Division, Case No.
+Added: 5:2022cv00323.
+Added: April 22, 2024, the District Court issued an order granting-in-part Lautz and Jorgl’s Rule 59(e) and Rule 11 motions, respectively.
+Added: The court entered an order finding Jorgl and Lautz were entitled to recover attorney’s fees and costs and entered judgment on behalf
+Added: of Jorgl for $216,936, and on behalf of Lautz for $76,473.
+Added: AIM has appealed these judgments to the United States Court of Appeals for
+Added: the Eleventh Circuit, and secured a stay of the enforcement of the judgment spending the 11th Circuit Appeal.
+Added: AIM’s appeal does
+Added: not seek damages.
+Added: AIM filed its initial brief on September 4, 2024.
+Added: The parties attended mediation on November 5, 2024.
+Added: The parties did
+Added: not reach an agreement, and mediation impassed.
+Added: After mediation, Appellees filed answer briefs and Jorgl and Lautz filed motions for
+Added: sanctions seeking reimbursement of appellants Attorney’s fees.
+Added: The appeal and Appellees ‘motions are fully briefed.
+Added: The appellate
+Added: court has not yet issued a ruling.
+Added: June 18, 2024, The Carlyle Appellate Law firm was engaged for the above referenced appeal.
+Added: The Carlyle Appellate Law firm has since filed
+Added: a notice of appearance in that matter.
+Added: AIM is exposed in this matter for the amount of those Judgments (which have been bonded by AIM),
+Added: interest on those judgements, as well as potentially paying attorney’s fees in the event the appeal is unsuccessful.
AIM ImmunoTech Inc.
−Removed: 2023-0879-LWW (Del.
−Removed: August 25, 2023, Ted D.
−Removed: Kellner (“Kellner”) filed a complaint against us and the four current members of our Board of Directors
−Removed: in the Delaware Court of Chancery (the “Kellner Action”).
−Removed: The complaint challenged (1) our adoption of amendments to the
−Removed: advance notice provision of our bylaws;
−Removed: and (2) the decision of our Board of Directors to reject Kellner’s notice of intent to
−Removed: nominate himself and two other candidates’ election to our Board of Directors at our 2023 annual meeting of stockholders on the
−Removed: basis that the nomination notice failed to comply with our amended bylaws.
−Removed: The complaint seeks, among other things, a declaration that
−Removed: (1) the amendments to our Bylaws were unlawful;
−Removed: and/or (2) the Board’s application of the amended bylaws to reject Kellner’s
−Removed: nomination notice was unlawful or inequitable.
−Removed: On September 11, 2023, defendants in the Kellner Action filed an answer responding to
−Removed: Kellner’s complaint and we filed a counterclaim.
−Removed: Our counterclaim seeks a declaration that (1) our bylaw amendments are lawful
−Removed: and (2) Kellner’s nomination notice did not comply with our bylaws.
−Removed: completion of expedited discovery and briefing, the Court held trial in the Kellner Action from October 30, 2023, to November 1, 2023.
−Removed: Court of Chancery issued an opinion on December 28, 2023, that declared (1) the Board’s rejection of Kellner’s nomination
−Removed: notice was lawful and equitable, (2) certain of our bylaw amendments were valid, and (3) certain of the our bylaw amendments were invalid.
−Removed: Kellner has appealed the court’s ruling concerning the Board’s rejection of his nomination notice, and the bylaw amendments
−Removed: the court ruled were valid.
−Removed: The Defendants have appealed the court’s ruling as to the bylaw amendments the court ruled were invalid.
−Removed: The parties agreed to, and the Delaware Supreme Court ordered, expedited briefing, which is now complete.
−Removed: Oral argument is scheduled
−Removed: for April 10, 2024.
−Removed: Kellner is not presently seeking monetary relief from us in the Kellner Action, he has reserved the right to seek reimbursement of certain
−Removed: legal fees and expenses from us if the Delaware Supreme Court upholds the invalidation of certain bylaws.
−Removed: Mine Safety Disclosures.
+Added: et al., in the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware, Case No.
+Added: January 16, 2024, the Delaware Supreme Court granted-in-part Kellner’s motion to expedite and scheduled oral argument before the
+Added: en banc Delaware Supreme Court for April 10, 2024.
+Added: On April 10, 2024, the en banc Delaware Supreme Court heard oral argument from AIM
+Added: and Kellner in this matter and took the matter under consideration.
+Added: On July 11, 2024, the Delaware Supreme Court issued a decision affirming
+Added: in part and reversing in part the Court of Chancery’s December 28, 2023 opinion, and not remanding the matter to the Court of Chancery.
+Added: The Supreme Court held that certain of the bylaws adopted by the board were legally invalid and inequitable.
+Added: The board has subsequently
+Added: revised the bylaws to address and correct said deficiencies.
+Added: The Delaware Supreme Court also held that No further action was required
+Added: with respect to Kellner’s rejected nominations.
+Added: July 26, 2024, Kellner filed a Motion for Reargument, requesting the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware to reconsider certain aspects
+Added: of its ruling and requesting clarification that the trial court retains jurisdiction for any fee applications.
+Added: By order dated July 29,
+Added: 2024, the Supreme Court denied Kellner’s Motion for Reargument, directed that the case be closed, and specifically ruled that “The
+Added: case is not remanded for an award of attorneys’ fees and costs” and deemed that the “this Case is Closed.”
+Added: August 27, 2024, counsel to Kellner delivered to us a demand for certain books and records under Section 220 of the DGCL, and a letter
+Added: requesting that we reimburse him for his fees and expenses incurred in the Kellner litigation.
+Added: In the request for fee reimbursement letter,
+Added: Kellner stated that he was prepared to file an action in the Delaware Court of Chancery to require AIM to pay his fees and expenses if
+Added: the matter could not be resolved without court intervention.
+Added: By letter dated, November 8, 2024, AIM, through its counsel, denied the
+Added: request, noting, among other things, that the Delaware Supreme Court issued an order on July 29, 2024, denying Kellner’s Motion
+Added: for Reargument of the appeal in the Kellner litigation, directing that the case be closed, and specifically ruling that “[t]he
+Added: case is not remanded for an award of attorneys’ fees and costs.”
+Added: September 6, 2024, the parties filed a Stipulation with the Court dismissing the counterclaims, without prejudice, in order to allow
+Added: the Superior Court (appellate) to consider the Appeal issues without the need for duplicate trials.
+Added: The Stipulation was accepted by the
+Added: Court on October 17, 2024 dismissing the counterclaims.
+Added: On October 7 we perfected our Appeal in the Superior Court.
+Added: On November 7, 2024,
+Added: we served our Concise Statement of Matters Complained of on Appeal.
+Added: The Superior Court issued a briefing schedule that required that
+Added: our opening brief is due on January 21, 2025 and Appellee’s response is due 30 days thereafter.
+Added: We filed our Answer.
+Added: Appellee requested
+Added: and was granted a 30 day extension.
+Added: The Appellee sought and was granted an extension to file its Appellee’s Brief until March 24,
+Added: On March 24, 2025, Appellee filed its brief.
+Added: Now our Reply Brief is due two weeks thereafter.
+Added: Although we requested oral argument,
+Added: the Superior Court has not yet indicated whether oral argument would be granted or issued an argument schedule on the matters to be considered
+Added: No estimate can be made at this time regarding the scheduling or ultimate determination of the matters
+Added: set forth in the Petition and the underlying issues presented in the appeal.
+Added: judgement can be made at this time of the likelihood of the Company prevailing on its claims.
+Added: Safety Disclosures.
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