−Removed: Controls and Procedures
+Added: and Procedures
of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K, we carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with
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of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in the Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e))
−Removed: (the “Exchange Act”).
+Added: (the “Exchange Act”).
Based on the foregoing evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have
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our internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: Management’s
Annual Report on Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting
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accepted accounting principles.
−Removed: Our internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records
−Removed: that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect our transactions and dispositions of our assets;
−Removed: (2) provide reasonable
−Removed: assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of the consolidated financial statements in accordance
−Removed: with generally accepted accounting principles, and that our receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations
−Removed: of our management and directors;
−Removed: and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized
−Removed: acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Our internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of
+Added: records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect our transactions and dispositions of our assets;
+Added: reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of the consolidated financial statements
+Added: in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that our receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance
+Added: with authorizations of our management and directors;
+Added: and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection
+Added: of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on the consolidated financial
of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.
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in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
−Removed: In connection with the preparation of our
−Removed: annual consolidated financial statements, management, including, our Principal Executive and Financial Officer, has undertaken
−Removed: an assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2019, based on the
−Removed: criterial established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
−Removed: of the Treadway Commission (COSO).
−Removed: Management’s assessment included an evaluation of the design of our internal control over
−Removed: financial reporting and testing of the operational effectiveness of those controls.
+Added: connection with the preparation of our annual consolidated financial statements, management, including, our Principal Executive
+Added: and Financial Officer, has undertaken an assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of
+Added: December 31, 2020, based on the criterial established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee
+Added: of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).
+Added: Management’s assessment included an evaluation of the design
+Added: of our internal control over financial reporting and testing of the operational effectiveness of those controls.
on this evaluation, management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31,
−Removed: Our independent registered public accounting
−Removed: firm, Friedman, LLP, has expressed an opinion on our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2019 in the audit
−Removed: report which is included herein.
−Removed: REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC
−Removed: ACCOUNTING FIRM
−Removed: To the Board of Directors and
−Removed: Stockholders of CorMedix Inc.
−Removed: Opinion on Internal Control over Financial
−Removed: We have audited CorMedix Inc.’s (the
−Removed: “Company’s”) internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2019, based on criteria established
−Removed: in Internal Control—Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway
−Removed: Commission (COSO).
−Removed: In our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial
−Removed: reporting as of December 31, 2019, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework (2013) issued
−Removed: We also have audited, in accordance with
−Removed: the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets and the
−Removed: related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss, stockholders’
−Removed: equity, and cash flows for the two years
−Removed: in the period ended December 31, 2019, and our report dated March 16, 2020, expressed an unqualified opinion on the consolidated
−Removed: financial statements.
−Removed: Basis for Opinion
−Removed: The Company’s management is responsible
−Removed: for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control
−Removed: over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
−Removed: appearing under item 9A.
−Removed: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting
−Removed: based on our audit.
−Removed: We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to
−Removed: the Company in accordance with the U.S.
−Removed: federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and
−Removed: Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
−Removed: We conducted our audit in accordance with
−Removed: the standards of the PCAOB.
−Removed: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether
−Removed: effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.
−Removed: Our audit of internal control over
−Removed: financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a
−Removed: material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed
−Removed: Our audit also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances.
−Removed: We believe that
−Removed: our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
−Removed: Definition and Limitations of Internal
−Removed: Control over Financial Reporting
−Removed: A company’s internal control over
−Removed: financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and
−Removed: the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
−Removed: A company’s
−Removed: internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records
−Removed: that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company;
−Removed: reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with
−Removed: generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with
−Removed: authorizations of management and directors of the company;
−Removed: and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely
−Removed: detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the
−Removed: financial statements.
−Removed: Because of its inherent limitations, internal
−Removed: control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.
−Removed: Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness
−Removed: to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree
−Removed: of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
−Removed: /s/ Friedman LLP
−Removed: March 16, 2020
−Removed: Other Information
−Removed: Directors, Executive Officers, and Corporate Governance
+Added: Executive Officers, and Corporate Governance
have adopted a written Code of Conduct and Ethics that applies to our directors, executive officers and all employees.
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This code of ethics and business conduct can be
−Removed: found in the “Investors - Corporate Governance”
−Removed: section of our website, www.cormedix.com .
+Added: found in the “Investors - Corporate Governance” section of our website, www.cormedix.com .
Section 16(a) Reports
−Removed: Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires
−Removed: our directors, executive officers and holders of more than 10% of our common stock to file with the SEC initial reports of ownership
−Removed: and reports of changes in the ownership of our common stock and other equity securities.
−Removed: Such persons are required to furnish
−Removed: us copies of all Section 16(a) filings.
−Removed: Based solely upon a review of the copies of the forms furnished to us, we believe that
−Removed: our officers, directors and holders of more than 10% of our common stock complied with all applicable filing requirements during
−Removed: the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, with the exception of the Form 3 for Dr.
−Removed: Mounts, which was due on May 13, 2019 and filed
−Removed: on May 24, 2019.
+Added: 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires our directors, executive officers and holders of more than 10% of our common stock to file
+Added: with the SEC initial reports of ownership and reports of changes in the ownership of our common stock and other equity securities.
+Added: Such persons are required to furnish us copies of all Section 16(a) filings.
+Added: Based solely upon a review of the copies of the forms
+Added: furnished to us, we believe that our officers, directors and holders of more than 10% of our common stock complied with all applicable
+Added: filing requirements during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020.
following table sets forth the name, age and position of each of our directors as of December 31, 2020:
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Director and Chief Executive Officer
+Added: September 2020
+Added: November 2020
February 2019
−Removed: Chairman of the Board
+Added: Director and Chairman of the Board
Steven Lefkowitz
−Removed: Khoso Baluch joined our Board
−Removed: in October 2016 upon his appointment as our Chief Executive Officer.
−Removed: As of February 1, 2020, he is serving as our acting Principal
−Removed: Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer.
−Removed: Baluch previously served as Senior Vice President and President Europe,
−Removed: Middle East & Africa of UCB, SA, or UCB, from January 2015 to April 2016, Senior Vice President and President of the European
−Removed: Region of UCB from February 2013 to December 2014, and Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of UCB from January 2010
−Removed: to February 2013.
+Added: Baluch joined our Board in October 2016 upon his appointment as our Chief Executive Officer.
+Added: Baluch previously served
+Added: as Senior Vice President and President Europe, Middle East & Africa of UCB, SA, or UCB, from January 2015 to April 2016, Senior
+Added: Vice President and President of the European Region of UCB from February 2013 to December 2014, and Senior Vice President and
+Added: Chief Marketing Officer of UCB from January 2010 to February 2013.
Prior to joining UCB, Mr.
−Removed: Baluch worked for Eli Lilly and Company for 24 years, holding international positions
−Removed: spanning Europe, the Middle East and the United States in general management, business development, market access and product leadership.
−Removed: He has served as an independent director of Poxel SA, a French publicly traded biotech company, since 2013, and chairs its compensation
−Removed: He also serves as a member of the business development and scientific committees of Poxel SA.
−Removed: Baluch holds a BSc
−Removed: in Aeronautical Engineering from City University London and a Masters of Business Administration from Cranfield School of Management.
+Added: Baluch worked for Eli Lilly and Company
+Added: for 24 years, holding international positions spanning Europe, the Middle East and the United States in general management, business
+Added: development, market access and product leadership.
+Added: He has served as an independent director of Poxel SA, a French publicly traded
+Added: biotech company, since 2013, and chairs its compensation committee.
+Added: He also serves as a member of the business development and
+Added: scientific committees of Poxel SA.
+Added: Baluch holds a BSc in Aeronautical Engineering from City University London and a Masters
+Added: of Business Administration from Cranfield School of Management.
Among other qualifications, attributes and skills, Mr.
−Removed: Baluch’s business expertise and significant executive management experience
−Removed: in the pharmaceutical industry led to the conclusion of our Board that he should serve as a director of our Company in light of
−Removed: our business and structure.
−Removed: Janet Dillione has been
−Removed: a director of CorMedix since August 2015.
−Removed: From May 2014 until May 2019, Ms.
−Removed: Dillione served as the Chief Executive Officer of
−Removed: Bernoulli Enterprise (formerly known as Cardiopulmonary Corp.), a leader in medical device connectivity for EMR integration, and
−Removed: integrated clinical applications and workflows for over 25 years.
−Removed: Previously, she was at Nuance Communications, Inc., a leading
−Removed: provider of voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers around the world, having joined Nuance in April 2010 as
−Removed: Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Healthcare Division and serving as an executive officer from March 2010 until
+Added: business expertise and significant executive management experience in the pharmaceutical industry led to the conclusion of our
+Added: Board that he should serve as a director of our Company in light of our business and structure.
+Added: Costa has been a director of CorMedix since September 2020.
+Added: Costa previously served as President and Chief Executive
+Added: Officer of Novartis U.S.
+Added: Corporation, from October 2005 to August 2008.
+Added: Prior to his work at Novartis U.S.
+Added: Corporation, Mr.
+Added: was President and Chief Executive Officer of Novartis Pharmaceuticals, U.S.
+Added: from July 1999 to September 2005.
+Added: Prior to joining
+Added: Novartis, Mr.
+Added: Costa spent 30 years at Johnson & Johnson, including as President of Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc.
+Added: 2009 to August 2012, Mr.
+Added: Costa served as Chairman of the Board of Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc, a commercial stage biopharma company,
+Added: until its sale to Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca in a $7 billion transaction in 2012.
+Added: Costa currently serves as Chairman
+Added: of the Board of MacroGenics, Inc., a public late stage biopharma company focused on oncology, and as a director of two privately
+Added: held life science companies.
+Added: Costa received his undergraduate degree from São Paulo School of Business Administration
+Added: and earned a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.
+Added: Among other experience, qualifications,
+Added: attributes and skills, Mr.
+Added: Costa’s significant depth of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including service as
+Added: a director and executive of pharmaceutical companies, led to the conclusion of our Board that he should serve as a director of
+Added: our Company in light of our business and structure.
+Added: Dillione has been a director of CorMedix since August 2015.
+Added: Since November 2020, Ms.
+Added: Dillione currently serves as the
+Added: Chief Executive Officer of Contact America, a nationally recognized leader in comprehensive telehealth and remote patient
+Added: monitoring solutions.
+Added: Prior to joining Contact America, she served as Chief Executive Officer of Bernoulli Enterprise, Inc.
+Added: since May 2014, a real-time connected healthcare information technology company.
+Added: Previously, she was at Nuance
+Added: Communications, Inc., a leading provider of voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers around the world,
+Added: having joined Nuance in April 2010 as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Healthcare Division and serving as
+Added: an executive officer from March 2010 until May 2014.
From June 2000 to March 2010, Ms.
−Removed: Dillione held several senior level management positions at Siemens Medical Solutions,
−Removed: a global leader in medical imaging, laboratory diagnostics, and healthcare information technology, including President and CEO
−Removed: of the global healthcare IT division.
+Added: Dillione held several senior level
+Added: management positions at Siemens Medical Solutions, a global leader in medical imaging, laboratory diagnostics, and healthcare
+Added: information technology, including President and CEO of the global healthcare IT division.
Dillione received her B.A.
−Removed: from Brown University in 1981 and completed the Executive
−Removed: Program at The Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania in 1998.
−Removed: She has over 25 years of experience leading
−Removed: global teams in the development and delivery of healthcare technology and services.
−Removed: She is a member of the board of CortiCare,
−Removed: a private U.S.
+Added: Brown University in 1981 and completed the Executive Program at The Wharton School of Business of the University of
+Added: Pennsylvania in 1998.
+Added: She has over 25 years of experience leading global teams in the development and delivery of healthcare
+Added: technology and services.
+Added: She is a member of the board of CortiCare, a private U.S.
based company.
−Removed: Among other qualifications, attributes and skills, Ms.
−Removed: Dillione’s financial expertise and
−Removed: significant executive management experience with medical device and healthcare companies led to the conclusion of our Board that
−Removed: she should serve as a director of our Company in light of our business and structure.
−Removed: been a director of CorMedix since March 2019.
−Removed: Dunton founded Danerius, LLC, a biotechnology and pharmaceutical consulting
+Added: Among other qualifications,
+Added: attributes and skills, Ms.
+Added: Dillione’s financial expertise and significant executive management experience with medical
+Added: device and healthcare companies led to the conclusion of our Board that she should serve as a director of our Company in
+Added: light of our business and structure.
+Added: Duncan has been a director of CorMedix since November 2020.
+Added: Duncan currently serves as the Chairman and CEO of Virios
+Added: Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing innovative antiviral therapies to treat
+Added: diseases associated with a viral triggered abnormal immune response, such as fibromyalgia (FM), and has served since April 2020.
+Added: From 2014 and prior to joining his current company earlier this year, Mr.
+Added: Duncan served as President and CEO of Celtaxsys, a privately
+Added: held biotechnology company focused on cystic fibrosis and other rare, inflammatory diseases.
+Added: Duncan has spent the majority
+Added: of his career in senior leadership roles in commercial stage pharmaceutical companies.
+Added: From 2007 to 2013, he served as a senior
+Added: executive at UCB, including as President of its North America business.
+Added: Prior to his roles with UCB, Mr.
+Added: Duncan spent approximately
+Added: 18 years at Pfizer where he gained significant experience across sales and marketing functions including serving as SVP of US
+Added: Marketing and later as President of Pfizer’s Latin America business from 2005 to 2007.
+Added: Duncan received his undergraduate
+Added: degree from the State University of New York, Albany, and earned an MBA degree from Emory University.
+Added: Among other experience,
+Added: qualifications, attributes and skills, Mr.
+Added: Duncan’s significant depth of experience in the pharmaceutical industry led to
+Added: the conclusion of our Board that he should serve as a director of our Company in light of our business and structure.
+Added: has been a director of CorMedix since March 2019.
+Added: Dunton founded Danerius, LLC, a biotechnology
+Added: and pharmaceutical consulting business.
From November 2015 through March 2018, Dr.
−Removed: Dunton was the Head/Senior Vice President of Research, Development and Regulatory
−Removed: Affairs of Purdue Pharma L.P., a private pharmaceutical company.
−Removed: From January 2007 through March 2009, Dr.
−Removed: Dunton served as President
−Removed: and Chief Executive Officer of Panacos Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
−Removed: From 2003 until 2006, Dr.
−Removed: Dunton was the President and Chief Executive
−Removed: Officer of Metaphore Pharmaceuticals, Inc., until it merged with ActivBiotics.
−Removed: He was also President and Managing Director of the
−Removed: Janssen Research Foundation, the research and development and regulatory arm of the pharmaceuticals division at Johnson & Johnson.
−Removed: Dunton received his Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry, magna cum laude, from State University of New York at Buffalo,
−Removed: and received his M.D.
+Added: Dunton was the Head/Senior Vice President of
+Added: Research, Development and Regulatory Affairs of Purdue Pharma L.P., a private pharmaceutical company.
+Added: From January 2007 through
+Added: March 2009, Dr.
+Added: Dunton served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Panacos Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
+Added: From 2003 until 2006,
+Added: Dunton was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Metaphore Pharmaceuticals, Inc., until it merged with ActivBiotics.
+Added: He was also President and Managing Director of the Janssen Research Foundation, the research and development and regulatory arm
+Added: of the pharmaceuticals division at Johnson & Johnson.
+Added: Dunton received his Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry,
+Added: magna cum laude, from State University of New York at Buffalo, and received his M.D.
from New York University School of Medicine.
In addition to CorMedix, Dr.
−Removed: Dunton currently serves on the
−Removed: boards of two public companies, Palatin Technologies, Inc.
−Removed: and Oragenics, Inc.
+Added: Dunton currently serves on the boards of two public companies, Palatin Technologies, Inc.
+Added: and Oragenics,
and chairs the compensation committees of both companies.
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Additionally, Dr.
−Removed: Dunton is a member of the board of Cytogel
−Removed: Pharma LLC, a private bio-pharmaceutical development company focused on acquiring promising early-stage programs, and Regeneus,
−Removed: Ltd., an Austrian public company listed on the ASX.
−Removed: Among other qualifications, Dr.
−Removed: Dunton’s significant depth of experience
−Removed: in the pharmaceutical industry, including service as a director of public pharmaceutical companies, led to the conclusion of our
−Removed: Board that he should serve as a director of our Company in light of our business and structure.
−Removed: Myron Kaplan became
−Removed: a director of CorMedix in April 2016.
−Removed: He is a founding partner of Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen, P.C., a New York City general
−Removed: practice law firm, where he has practiced corporate and securities law for more than forty years.
−Removed: Kaplan became a
−Removed: trustee of the Lehman Brothers Plan Holding Trust.
−Removed: Previously, he served as a member of the board of directors of SAirGroup Finance
−Removed: (USA) Inc., a subsidiary of SAirGroup that had publicly issued debt securities, Trans World Airlines, Inc.
+Added: Dunton is a member of the board of Cytogel Pharma LLC, a private bio-pharmaceutical development company focused
+Added: on acquiring promising early-stage programs, and Regeneus, Ltd., an Austrian public company listed on the ASX.
+Added: Among other qualifications,
+Added: Dunton’s significant depth of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including service as a director of public pharmaceutical
+Added: companies, led to the conclusion of our Board that he should serve as a director of our Company in light of our business and structure.
+Added: Kaplan became a director of CorMedix in April 2016.
+Added: He is a founding partner of Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen,
+Added: P.C., a New York City general practice law firm, where he has practiced corporate and securities law for more than forty years.
+Added: Kaplan became a trustee of the Lehman Brothers Plan Holding Trust.
+Added: Previously, he served as a member of the board
+Added: of directors of SAirGroup Finance (USA) Inc., a subsidiary of SAirGroup that had publicly issued debt securities, Trans World
+Added: Airlines, Inc.
and Kitty Hawk, Inc.
Among his business and civic involvements, Mr.
−Removed: Kaplan currently serves on the boards of directors of a number of private companies
−Removed: and has been active for many years on the boards of trustees and various board committees of The Children’s Museum of Manhattan
−Removed: and JBI International (formerly The Jewish Braille Institute of America).
−Removed: Kaplan graduated from Columbia College and holds
−Removed: a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.
−Removed: Among other experience, qualifications, attributes and skills, Mr.
−Removed: Kaplan’s experience
−Removed: in a broad range of corporate and securities matters and service as a director of public companies led to the conclusion of our
−Removed: Board that he should serve as a director of our Company in light of our business and structure.
−Removed: Mehmood Khan, M.D.
−Removed: a director of CorMedix in June 2017.
−Removed: Since March 2019, Dr.
−Removed: Khan has been the Chief Executive Officer of Life Biosciences Inc.
−Removed: March 2019, Dr.
−Removed: Khan served as Vice Chairman (from January 2015) and Chief Scientific Officer of Global Research and Development
−Removed: (from December 2007) for PepsiCo, Inc., where he led global R&D and oversaw the company’s 2025 sustainability agenda,
−Removed: which includes plans for the further transformation of its current food and beverage portfolio as well as expansion of offerings
−Removed: containing positive nutrition with a focus on reaching more underserved communities and consumers with healthier choices.
−Removed: positions at PepsiCo included Chief Executive Officer, Global Nutrition Group from January 2011 to September 2013.
−Removed: Khan served as Head of Medical Affairs and then President of Takeda Pharmaceuticals’
−Removed: Global Research & Development
−Removed: Center from January 2002 to December 2007.
−Removed: Earlier in his career Dr.
−Removed: Khan was a faculty member at the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Medical
−Removed: School in Rochester, Minnesota, serving as Director of the Diabetes, Endocrine and Nutritional Trials Unit in the division of endocrinology.
−Removed: Prior to the Mayo Clinic, Dr.
−Removed: Khan spent nine years leading programs in diabetes, endocrinology, metabolism, and nutrition for
−Removed: the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.
−Removed: His practice included extensive work with patients with diabetes requiring hemodialysis
−Removed: as well as parenteral nutrition.
−Removed: Khan also currently serves as a member of the board of directors of one public company, Reckitt
−Removed: Benckiser Group PLC, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
−Removed: Khan also currently serves as a member of the board of directors
−Removed: for several private companies, HemoShear Therapeutics, LLC, Indigo Ag, Inc., Life Biosciences Inc.
−Removed: and Spectrum Health System.
−Removed: Khan serves as a member of the compensation committee of the board of directors for Indigo Ag, Inc.
−Removed: and a member of the audit
−Removed: committee of the board of directors for both of Indigo Ag, Inc.
−Removed: and Spectrum Health System.
−Removed: He earned his medical degree from the
−Removed: University of Liverpool Medical School, England.
−Removed: Among other qualifications, attributes and skills, Dr.
−Removed: Khan’s business expertise
−Removed: and significant executive management experience, as well as his medical background and pharmaceutical company experience led to
−Removed: the conclusion of our Board that he should serve as a director of our Company in light of our business and structure.
−Removed: Steven Lefkowitz was a director
−Removed: of CorMedix from August 2011 to June 2016.
+Added: Kaplan currently serves on the boards of directors
+Added: of a number of private companies and has been active for many years on the boards of trustees and various board committees of
+Added: The Children’s Museum of Manhattan and JBI International (formerly The Jewish Braille Institute of America).
+Added: graduated from Columbia College and holds a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.
+Added: Among other experience, qualifications, attributes
+Added: and skills, Mr.
+Added: Kaplan’s experience in a broad range of corporate and securities matters and service as a director of public
+Added: companies led to the conclusion of our Board that he should serve as a director of our Company in light of our business and structure.
+Added: Lefkowitz was a director of CorMedix from August 2011 to June 2016.
He was reappointed to the Board in June 2017.
−Removed: He also served as our
−Removed: acting Chief Financial Officer from August 2013 to July 2014.
−Removed: Lefkowitz has been the President and Founder of Wade Capital
−Removed: Corporation, a financial advisory services company, since June 1990.
−Removed: Lefkowitz has been a director of both public and private
+Added: served as our acting Chief Financial Officer from August 2013 to July 2014.
+Added: Lefkowitz has been the President and Founder of
+Added: Wade Capital Corporation, a financial advisory services company, since June 1990.
+Added: Lefkowitz has been a director of both public
+Added: and private companies.
Lefkowitz received his A.B.
from Dartmouth College in 1977 and his M.B.A.
−Removed: from Columbia University in 1985.
+Added: from Columbia University
Among other experience, qualifications, attributes and skills, Mr.
−Removed: Lefkowitz’s education, experience and financial expertise
−Removed: led to the conclusion of our Board that he should serve as a director of our Company in light of our business and structure.
−Removed: Board Independence
−Removed: Our Board has undertaken a review of the
−Removed: independence of our directors and has determined that (i) all current directors except Khoso Baluch are independent within the
−Removed: meaning of Section 803A(2) of the NYSE American Rules, (ii) all members of our Audit Committee meet the additional test for independence
−Removed: for audit committee members imposed by SEC regulation and Section 803B(2) of the NYSE American Rules, (iii) all of the members
−Removed: of our Compensation Committee are independent within the meaning of Section 805(c) of the NYSE American Rules, and (iv) all of
−Removed: the members of our Nominating and Governance Committee are independent within the meaning of Section 805(c) of the NYSE American
−Removed: Board Committees
−Removed: Our Board has established an Audit Committee,
−Removed: Compensation Committee and Nominating and Governance Committee.
−Removed: Our Audit Committee currently consists of Mr.
−Removed: Lefkowitz (Chair),
−Removed: Dunton and Ms.
−Removed: Our Compensation Committee currently consists of Ms.
+Added: Lefkowitz’s education, experience and financial
+Added: expertise led to the conclusion of our Board that he should serve as a director of our Company in light of our business and structure.
+Added: Our Board has undertaken
+Added: a review of the independence of our directors and has determined that (i) all current directors except Khoso Baluch are independent
+Added: within the meaning of Section 5605(b) of the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules, (ii) all members of our Audit Committee meet the additional
+Added: test for independence for audit committee members imposed by SEC regulation and Section 5605(c) of the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules,
+Added: (iii) all of the members of our Compensation Committee are independent within the meaning of Section 5605(d) of the Nasdaq Marketplace
+Added: Rules, and (iv) all of the members of our Nominating and Governance Committee are independent within the meaning of Section 5605(e)
+Added: of the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules.
+Added: Our Board has
+Added: established an Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Nominating and Governance Committee.
+Added: Audit Committee currently consists of Mr.
+Added: Lefkowitz (Chair), Dr.
+Added: Dunton and Mr.
+Added: Our Compensation Committee currently
+Added: consists of Ms.
Dillione (Chair), Dr.
Dunton and Mr.
−Removed: Our Nominating and Governance Committee currently consists of Dr.
−Removed: Khan (Chair) and Mr.
−Removed: The membership of these Committees
−Removed: may be changed after the annual meeting.
−Removed: Each of the above-referenced committees
−Removed: operates pursuant to a formal written charter.
−Removed: The charters for each committee, which have been adopted by our Board, contain a
−Removed: detailed description of the respective committee’s duties and responsibilities and are available on our website at www.cormedix.com
−Removed: under the “Investor Relations—Corporate Governance”
−Removed: Audit Committee
−Removed: The Audit Committee monitors our corporate
−Removed: financial statements and reporting and our external audits, including, among other things, our internal controls and audit functions,
−Removed: the results and scope of the annual audit and other services provided by our independent registered public accounting firm and
−Removed: our compliance with legal matters that have a significant impact on our financial statements.
−Removed: The Audit Committee also consults
−Removed: with our management and our independent registered public accounting firm prior to the presentation of financial statements to
−Removed: stockholders and, as appropriate, initiates inquiries into aspects of our financial affairs.
−Removed: The Audit Committee is responsible
−Removed: for establishing procedures for the receipt, retention and treatment of complaints regarding accounting, internal accounting controls
−Removed: or auditing matters, and for the confidential, anonymous submission by our employees of concerns regarding questionable accounting
−Removed: or auditing matters.
−Removed: In addition, the Audit Committee is directly responsible for the appointment, retention, compensation and
−Removed: oversight of the work of our independent registered public accounting firm, including approving services and fee arrangements.
+Added: Our Nominating and Governance Committee currently consists of
+Added: Costa (Chair), Mr.
+Added: Kaplan and Ms.
+Added: The membership of these Committees may be changed after our next annual
+Added: of the above-referenced committees operates pursuant to a formal written charter.
+Added: The charters for each committee, which have
+Added: been adopted by our Board, contain a detailed description of the respective committee’s duties and responsibilities and
+Added: are available on our website at www.cormedix.com under the “Investor Relations—Corporate Governance” tab.
+Added: Audit Committee monitors our corporate financial statements and reporting and our external audits, including, among other things,
+Added: our internal controls and audit functions, the results and scope of the annual audit and other services provided by our independent
+Added: registered public accounting firm and our compliance with legal matters that have a significant impact on our financial statements.
+Added: The Audit Committee also consults with our management and our independent registered public accounting firm prior to the presentation
+Added: of financial statements to stockholders and, as appropriate, initiates inquiries into aspects of our financial affairs.
+Added: Committee is responsible for establishing procedures for the receipt, retention and treatment of complaints regarding accounting,
+Added: internal accounting controls or auditing matters, and for the confidential, anonymous submission by our employees of concerns
+Added: regarding questionable accounting or auditing matters.
+Added: In addition, the Audit Committee is directly responsible for the appointment,
+Added: retention, compensation and oversight of the work of our independent registered public accounting firm, including approving services
+Added: and fee arrangements.
All related party transactions will be approved by the Audit Committee before we enter into them.
−Removed: Both our independent registered public
−Removed: accounting firm and internal financial personnel regularly meet with, and have unrestricted access to, the Audit Committee.
−Removed: The Board has determined that each of Mr.
+Added: our independent registered public accounting firm and internal financial personnel regularly meet with, and have unrestricted
+Added: access to, the Audit Committee.
+Added: Board has determined that each of Mr.
Lefkowitz, Dr.
−Removed: Dunton and Ms.
−Removed: Dillione qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert”
−Removed: as that term is defined in
−Removed: the rules and regulations of the SEC.
+Added: Dunton and Mr.
+Added: Duncan qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert”
+Added: as that term is defined in the rules and regulations of the SEC.
The designation of each of Mr.
Lefkowitz, Dr.
−Removed: Dunton and Ms.
−Removed: Dillione as an “audit
−Removed: committee financial expert”
−Removed: does not impose on them any duties, obligations or liability that are greater than those that
−Removed: are generally imposed on them as a member of the Audit Committee and the Board, and their designation as an “audit committee
−Removed: financial expert”
−Removed: pursuant to this SEC requirement does not affect the duties, obligations or liability of any other member
−Removed: of the Audit Committee or the Board.
−Removed: Compensation Committee
−Removed: The Compensation Committee reviews and
−Removed: approves our compensation policies and all forms of compensation to be provided to our executive officers and directors, including,
−Removed: among other things, annual salaries, bonuses, and other incentive compensation arrangements.
−Removed: In addition, the Compensation Committee
−Removed: administers our stock option and employee stock purchase plans, including granting stock options to our executive officers and
−Removed: The Compensation Committee also reviews and approves employment agreements with executive officers and other compensation
−Removed: policies and matters.
−Removed: Since 2016, we have periodically engaged
−Removed: Cook & Co., an independent compensation consultant, for input on the compensation of our Named Executive Officers
−Removed: and directors.
+Added: Dunton and Mr.
+Added: Duncan as an “audit committee financial expert” does not impose on them any duties, obligations or liability that
+Added: are greater than those that are generally imposed on them as a member of the Audit Committee and the Board, and their designation
+Added: as an “audit committee financial expert” pursuant to this SEC requirement does not affect the duties, obligations
+Added: or liability of any other member of the Audit Committee or the Board.
+Added: Compensation Committee reviews and approves our compensation policies and all forms of compensation to be provided to our executive
+Added: officers and directors, including, among other things, annual salaries, bonuses, and other incentive compensation arrangements.
+Added: In addition, the Compensation Committee administers our stock option and employee stock purchase plans, including granting stock
+Added: options to our executive officers and directors.
+Added: The Compensation Committee also reviews and approves employment agreements with
+Added: executive officers and other compensation policies and matters.
+Added: Since 2016, we have
+Added: periodically engaged Frederic W.
+Added: Cook & Co., an independent compensation consultant, for input on the compensation of our
+Added: Named Executive Officers and directors.
The Compensation Committee assessed the independence of Frederic W.
−Removed: Cook & Co., considering the factors required
−Removed: by the NYSE American Rules and concluded that no conflict of interest exists that would prevent Frederic W.
−Removed: independently representing our Company.
−Removed: In the future, we, or the Compensation Committee, may engage or seek the advice of Frederic
+Added: Cook & Co., considering
+Added: the factors required by the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules and concluded that no conflict of interest exists that would prevent Frederic
+Added: from independently representing our Company.
+Added: In the future, we, or the Compensation Committee, may engage or
+Added: seek the advice of Frederic W.
Cook & Co., or another compensation consultant.
−Removed: Each member of the Compensation Committee
−Removed: is a non-employee director, as defined pursuant to Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act, and an outside director, as defined
−Removed: pursuant to Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue of 1986, as amended (the “Code”).
−Removed: Nominating and Governance Committee
−Removed: The Nominating and Governance Committee
−Removed: identifies, evaluates and recommends nominees to the Board and committees of the Board, conducts searches for appropriate directors
−Removed: and evaluates the performance of the Board and of individual directors.
−Removed: The Nominating and Governance Committee also is responsible
−Removed: for reviewing developments in corporate governance practices, evaluating the adequacy of our corporate governance practices and
−Removed: reporting and making recommendations to the Board concerning corporate governance matters.
−Removed: Executive Officers
−Removed: The following table sets forth information
−Removed: concerning our current executive officers:
+Added: member of the Compensation Committee is a non-employee director, as defined pursuant to Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange
+Added: Act, and an outside director, as defined pursuant to Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue of 1986, as amended (the “Code”).
+Added: and Governance Committee
+Added: Nominating and Governance Committee identifies, evaluates and recommends nominees to the Board and committees of the Board, conducts
+Added: searches for appropriate directors and evaluates the performance of the Board and of individual directors.
+Added: The Nominating and
+Added: Governance Committee also is responsible for reviewing developments in corporate governance practices, evaluating the adequacy
+Added: of our corporate governance practices and reporting and making recommendations to the Board concerning corporate governance matters.
+Added: following table sets forth information concerning our current executive officers:
Position(s) with CorMedix
Chief Executive Officer
+Added: Matthew David
+Added: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Phoebe Mounts
4 unchanged sentences
Executive Vice President and Head of Clinical Operations
−Removed: See the biography for Khoso Baluch
−Removed: under “Directors.”
−Removed: Phoebe Mounts became our Executive
−Removed: Vice President and General Counsel and Head of Regulatory, Compliance and Legal in May 2019.
+Added: the biography for Khoso Baluch under “Directors.”
+Added: became our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in May 2020.
+Added: David joins CorMedix after
+Added: serving as Head of Strategy at Ovid Therapeutics Inc, a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on developing treatments
+Added: for rare neurological disorders, where he was responsible for financing strategy and investor relations, and joined in October
+Added: Prior to Ovid, Dr.
+Added: David was a Strategic Advisor to Frequency Therapeutics, advising on financing, investor relations and
+Added: strategic initiatives from 2017 to early 2019.
+Added: Prior to Frequency, Dr.
+Added: David spent the majority of his career as an investment
+Added: banker specialized in the life sciences sectors, including at Piper Jaffray, Thomas Weisel Partners, Ferghana Partners and most
+Added: recently at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
+Added: As part of his experience as an investment banker, Dr.
+Added: David has advised on a broad
+Added: range of capital raising and strategic transactions.
+Added: Earlier in his career, Dr.
+Added: David was part of the equity research team at
+Added: Lehman Brothers, focusing on Large Pharma.
+Added: David began his career as a surgical resident at Beth Israel Hospital, after receiving
+Added: from NYU School of Medicine.
+Added: David earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry, magna cum laude, from Dartmouth
+Added: Mounts, PhD, Esq.
+Added: became our Executive Vice President and General Counsel and Head of Regulatory, Compliance and Legal
Prior to her employment with us, Dr.
−Removed: Mounts was a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, where she provided legal counsel to life sciences companies for over 20
+Added: Mounts was a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, where she provided
+Added: legal counsel to life sciences companies for over 20 years.
As part of her work at Morgan Lewis, Dr.
−Removed: Mounts had been providing us legal services as outside counsel since 2013, with
−Removed: responsibility for developing our FDA regulatory strategies for Neutrolin.
−Removed: Prior to graduating from Georgetown University Law Center,
−Removed: Mounts was on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health for 16 years, specializing in molecular biology
−Removed: and infectious disease.
+Added: Mounts had been providing
+Added: us legal services as outside counsel since 2013, with responsibility for developing our FDA regulatory strategies for Neutrolin.
+Added: Prior to graduating from Georgetown University Law Center, Dr.
+Added: Mounts was on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School
+Added: of Public Health for 16 years, specializing in molecular biology and infectious disease.
She received her Ph.D.
−Removed: in molecular biology from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
−Removed: John Armstrong became our
−Removed: Executive Vice President for Technical Operations in March 2017.
−Removed: Prior to that, he was employed by us as a consultant beginning
−Removed: in November 2014, performing the same services that he now performs as our Executive Vice President for Technical Operations.
−Removed: has over 45 years’
−Removed: experience in the pharmaceutical industry with broad senior level cross functional experience and has
−Removed: held a number of general management positions.
−Removed: Most recently, from August 2010 to January 2013, he was President, Operations for
−Removed: Correvio, a private pharmaceutical company supplying product to over 50 countries, and prior positions include President/CEO of
−Removed: Genaera Corporation, Sr.
−Removed: Vice President of Urocor Corporation, CEO of Mills Biopharma, President of Oread CMO, President of Endo
−Removed: Laboratories (subsidiary of DuPont Merck), President of World-wide Manufacturing for DuPont Merck Pharmaceuticals, Vice President
−Removed: Operations for Marion/ Marion Merrill Dow, and he has held varied roles in manufacturing, quality assurance, and integrated business
−Removed: systems development for three companies, as well as having expertise in business development.
+Added: in molecular biology
+Added: from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
+Added: Armstrong became our Executive Vice President for Technical Operations in March 2017.
+Added: Prior to that, he was employed by
+Added: us as a consultant beginning in November 2014, performing the same services that he now performs as our Executive Vice President
+Added: for Technical Operations.
+Added: Jack has over 45 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry with broad senior level cross
+Added: functional experience and has held a number of general management positions.
+Added: Most recently, from August 2010 to January 2013,
+Added: he was President, Operations for Correvio, a private pharmaceutical company supplying product to over 50 countries, and prior
+Added: positions include President/CEO of Genaera Corporation, Sr.
+Added: Vice President of Urocor Corporation, CEO of Mills Biopharma, President
+Added: of Oread CMO, President of Endo Laboratories (subsidiary of DuPont Merck), President of World-wide Manufacturing for DuPont Merck
+Added: Pharmaceuticals, Vice President Operations for Marion/ Marion Merrill Dow, and he has held varied roles in manufacturing, quality
+Added: assurance, and integrated business systems development for three companies, as well as having expertise in business development.
Armstrong holds a B.S.
−Removed: College and an executive M.B.A.
+Added: from Juniata College and an executive M.B.A.
from Century University.
−Removed: He is also a CPIM (Certified in Production and Inventory Management).
−Removed: Elizabeth Masson-Hurlburt
−Removed: became our Executive Vice President and Head of Clinical Operations in March 2018.
−Removed: Prior to her employment, Ms.
−Removed: Masson-Hurlburt
−Removed: had been providing us clinical operations expertise as a consultant since late November 2017.
−Removed: Before she began her consulting career,
−Removed: she held several progressive management roles in clinical operations, most recently at Gemphire Therapeutics, as a Senior Director,
−Removed: Clinical Operations from April 2015 to October 2016, then as Vice President, Clinical Operations from October 2016 to March 2018.
+Added: He is also a CPIM (Certified
+Added: in Production and Inventory Management).
+Added: Masson-Hurlburt became our Executive Vice President and Head of Clinical Operations in March 2018.
+Added: Prior to her employment,
+Added: Masson-Hurlburt had been providing us clinical operations expertise as a consultant since late November 2017.
+Added: Before she began
+Added: her consulting career, she held several progressive management roles in clinical operations, most recently at Gemphire Therapeutics,
+Added: as a Senior Director, Clinical Operations from April 2015 to October 2016, then as Vice President, Clinical Operations from October
+Added: 2016 to March 2018.
Masson-Hurlburt received her B.A.
in Leadership and Organizational Management from Bay Path College.
−Removed: Executive Compensation
−Removed: DIRECTOR COMPENSATION
−Removed: Director Compensation in Fiscal 2019
−Removed: The following table shows the compensation
−Removed: earned by each non-employee director of our company for the year ended December 31, 2019.
−Removed: Awards (1) (3)
+Added: Compensation in Fiscal 2020
+Added: following table shows the compensation earned by each non-employee director of our company for the year ended December 31, 2020.
+Added: Paulo Costa (3)
+Added: Greg Duncan (5)
+Added: Mehmood Khan (6)
Steven Lefkowitz
−Removed: The amounts included in this column are the dollar amounts representing the full grant date fair value of each stock option award or restricted stock unit award calculated in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718 and do not represent the actual value that may be recognized by the directors upon option exercise or payment of restricted stock units.
−Removed: For information on the valuation assumptions used in calculating these amounts, see Note 8 to our audited financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
−Removed: (2) As of December 31, 2019, the number of shares underlying
−Removed: options held by each non-employee director was as follows:
−Removed: 60,000 shares for Ms.
−Removed: 27,500 shares for Dr.
+Added: amounts included in this column are the dollar amounts representing the full grant date fair value of each stock option award
+Added: or restricted stock unit award calculated in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718 and do not represent the actual value that may
+Added: be recognized by the directors upon option exercise or payment of restricted stock units.
+Added: For information on the valuation assumptions
+Added: used in calculating these amounts, see Note 8 to our audited financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
+Added: of December 31, 2020, the number of shares underlying options held by each non-employee
+Added: director was as follows:
23,750 shares for Mr.
−Removed: 38,000 shares for Dr.
−Removed: and 38,000 shares for Mr.
−Removed: (3) As of December 31, 2019, the number of restricted stock
−Removed: units held by each non-employee director was as follows:
75,000 shares for Ms.
−Removed: 730 shares for Dr.
−Removed: 709 shares for
+Added: 22,500 for Mr.
42,500 shares for Dr.
−Removed: and 500 shares for Mr.
−Removed: (4) Includes fees of $36,500 for Ms.
+Added: 56,000 shares for Mr.
+Added: 53,000 shares for Mr.
+Added: Costa became a director on September 15, 2020.
+Added: fees of $62,250 for Ms.
Dillione that were deferred.
−Removed: See “Director Compensation Plan”
−Removed: below for a description of the deferral plan pursuant to which the deferrals were
−Removed: Director Compensation Plan
−Removed: In July 2014, we adopted a Deferred Compensation
−Removed: Plan for Directors, pursuant to which our non-employee directors may defer all of their cash director fees and restricted stock
−Removed: Any cash fees due a participating director will be converted into a number of shares of our common stock by dividing the
−Removed: dollar amount of fees payable by the closing price of our common stock on the date such fees would be payable, and the director’s
−Removed: unfunded account would be credited with the shares.
−Removed: The shares that accumulate in a director’s account will be paid to the
−Removed: director on the tenth business day in January following the year in which the director’s service terminates for whatever
−Removed: reason, other than death, in which case the account will be paid within 30 days of the date of death.
−Removed: In the event of a change
−Removed: in control of our Company, the director would receive cash in an amount equal to the number of shares in the account multiplied
−Removed: by the fair market value of our common stock on the change in control date, and the payment would be accelerated to five business
−Removed: days after the effective date of the change in control.
−Removed: In late 2016 and again in late 2018, with
−Removed: the assistance of Frederic W.
−Removed: Cook & Co., the Compensation Committee reviewed a peer group of 14 public companies, which group
−Removed: was used by Frederic W.
+Added: See “Director Compensation
+Added: Plan” below for a description of the deferral plan pursuant to which the deferrals
+Added: Duncan became a director on November 2, 2020.
+Added: Khan resigned as a director on October 30, 2020 and unvested stock options as of his resignation date with respect to 5,000 shares were forfeited.
+Added: Compensation Plan
+Added: July 2014, we adopted a Deferred Compensation Plan for Directors, pursuant to which our non-employee directors may defer all of
+Added: their cash director fees and restricted stock units.
+Added: Any cash fees due a participating director will be converted into a number
+Added: of shares of our common stock by dividing the dollar amount of fees payable by the closing price of our common stock on the date
+Added: such fees would be payable, and the director’s unfunded account would be credited with the shares.
+Added: The shares that accumulate
+Added: in a director’s account will be paid to the director on the tenth business day in January following the year in which the
+Added: director’s service terminates for whatever reason, other than death, in which case the account will be paid within 30 days
+Added: of the date of death to the designated beneficiaries, if any.
+Added: If there are no designated beneficiaries, the account will be paid
+Added: out the same as with any other termination of service.
+Added: In the event of a change in control of our Company, the director would
+Added: receive cash in an amount equal to the number of shares in the account multiplied by the fair market value of our common stock
+Added: on the change in control date, and the payment would be accelerated to five business days after the effective date of the change
+Added: late 2018, with the assistance of Frederic W.
+Added: Cook & Co., the Compensation Committee reviewed a peer group of 14 public companies,
+Added: which group was used by Frederic W.
to conduct a compensation study for purposes of establishing director compensation.
−Removed: composition of the peer group was based on the following criteria:
−Removed: (i) companies operating in a similar industry sector, (ii) publicly
−Removed: traded companies, (iii) companies of similar size, and (iv) companies of similar business operation and stage of research and development.
−Removed: The Compensation Committee also used this data in various combinations in an effort to establish director compensation that reflects
−Removed: our particular facts and circumstances.
−Removed: In February 2017, based upon the information
−Removed: provided by Frederic W.
−Removed: in late 2016, we adopted a cash and equity compensation program for non-employee directors.
−Removed: In December 2018, as a result of the 2018
−Removed: compensation study provided by Frederic W.
−Removed: Cook & Co., we determined that our non-employee director compensation program was
−Removed: significantly below market.
−Removed: Accordingly, we increased compensation levels effective January 1, 2019 to bring non-employee director
−Removed: compensation closer to our peer group.
−Removed: Effective as of July 1, 2019, we implemented Board committee fees (differentiating fees
−Removed: between heads of committees and committee members) to recognize the substantial work done by our Board committees.
−Removed: As of January
−Removed: 1, 2020, we will discontinue granting restricted stock units to non-employee directors and will correspondingly increase the cash
−Removed: retainers, in order to bring the compensation program more in line with the forms of payment provided by peer companies and to
−Removed: minimize dilution.
+Added: The composition of the peer group was based on the following criteria:
+Added: (i) companies operating in a similar industry sector, (ii)
+Added: publicly traded companies, (iii) companies of similar size, and (iv) companies of similar business operation and stage of research
+Added: and development.
+Added: The Compensation Committee also used this data in various combinations in an effort to establish director compensation
+Added: that reflects our particular facts and circumstances.
+Added: We continue to grant stock options to our non-employee directors.
+Added: December 2018, as a result of the 2018 compensation study provided by Frederic W.
+Added: Cook & Co., we determined that our non-employee
+Added: director compensation program was significantly below market.
+Added: Accordingly, we increased compensation levels effective January
+Added: 1, 2019 to bring non-employee director compensation closer to our peer group.
+Added: Effective as of July 1, 2019, we implemented Board
+Added: committee fees (differentiating fees between heads of committees and committee members) to recognize the substantial work done
+Added: by our Board committees.
+Added: As of January 1, 2020, we discontinued granting restricted stock units to non-employee directors and
+Added: correspondingly increased the cash retainers, in order to bring the compensation more in line with the forms of payment provided
+Added: by peer companies and to minimize dilution.
Each of the 2020 and 2021 compensation programs are set forth below in the table.
−Removed: All equity awards are subject to
−Removed: continued service on the Board through the vesting date.
−Removed: The exercise price per share of each stock option granted to our non-employee
−Removed: directors is equal to the fair market value of our common stock as determined in good faith by our Board on the date of the grant.
−Removed: Effective January 1, 2019 to December 31,
+Added: All equity awards are subject to continued service on the Board through the vesting date.
+Added: The exercise price per share of each
+Added: stock option granted to our non-employee directors is equal to the fair market value of our common stock as determined in good
+Added: faith by our Board on the date of the grant.
Effective January 1, 2020
+Added: Effective January 1, 2021
First Election to Board
Annual Grant, Prorated in First Year Following Election to the Board
−Removed: Lesser of 2,500 units or $30,000 divided by stock price on grant date (2)
Additional Annual Fee - Board Chair
−Removed: Lesser of 3,000 units or $30,000 divided by stock price on grant date (2)
Additional Annual Fee - Audit Chair
−Removed: Lesser of 1,500 units or $15,000 divided by stock price on grant date (2)
Additional Annual Fee - Compensation Chair
−Removed: Lesser of 1,000 units or $10,000 divided by stock price on grant date (2)
Additional Annual Fee - Nomination and Governance Chair
−Removed: Lesser of 600 units or $6,000 divided by stock price on grant date (2)
−Removed: Additional Annual Fee - Strategic Finance Committee has two Co-Chairs (4)
−Removed: Lesser of 2,000 units or $10,000 divided by stock price on grant date (2)
−Removed: $20,000 each (if continued after its current expiration date of December 31, 2019)
−Removed: Annual Fee - Audit Committee Non-Chair Members (4)
−Removed: Annual Fee - Compensation Committee Non-Chair Members (4)
−Removed: Annual Fee - Nomination and Governance Committee Non-Chair Members (4)
−Removed: (1) Vest one third each on
−Removed: the date of grant and the first and second anniversary date of grant.
−Removed: (2) Vest monthly over one year
−Removed: after the grant date.
−Removed: (3) Increased from $5,000 effective
−Removed: July 1, 2019.
−Removed: (4) Effective July 1, 2019.
−Removed: EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
−Removed: Components of Compensation
−Removed: The key components of our executive compensation
−Removed: package are cash compensation (salary and annual bonuses), long-term equity incentive awards and change in control and other severance
−Removed: These components are administered with the goal of providing total compensation that recognizes meaningful differences
−Removed: in individual performance, is competitive, varies the opportunity based on individual and corporate performance, and is valued
−Removed: by our Named Executive Officers.
−Removed: For 2019, our Named Executive officers were Khoso Baluch, Phoebe Mounts, John Armstrong,
−Removed: Elizabeth Masson-Hurlburt and our former Chief Financial Officer, Robert W.
−Removed: Cook, who served in such capacity until January 31,
−Removed: It is the Compensation Committee’s
−Removed: objective to set a competitive rate of annual base salary for each Named Executive Officer.
−Removed: The Compensation Committee believes
−Removed: competitive base salaries are necessary to attract and retain top quality executives, since it is common practice for public companies
−Removed: to provide their named executive officers with a guaranteed annual component of compensation that is not subject to performance
−Removed: The Compensation Committee, on its own or with outside consultants, may establish salary ranges for the Named Executive
−Removed: Officers, with minimum to maximum opportunities that cover the normal range of market variability.
−Removed: The actual base salary for
−Removed: each Named Executive Officer is then derived from those salary ranges based on his or her responsibility, tenure and past performance
−Removed: and market comparability.
−Removed: Annual base salaries for the Named Executive Officers are reviewed and approved by the Compensation
−Removed: Committee in the first quarter following the end of the previous performance year.
−Removed: Changes in base salary are based on the scope
−Removed: of an individual’s current job responsibilities, individual performance in the previous performance year, target pay position
−Removed: relative to the peer group, and our salary budget guidelines.
−Removed: The Compensation Committee reviews established goals and objectives
−Removed: and determines an individual’s achievement of those goals and objectives and considers the recommendations provided by the
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer to assist it in determining appropriate salaries for the Named Executive Officers other than the Chief
+Added: Additional Annual Fee - Audit Committee Non-Chair Members
+Added: Additional Annual Fee - Compensation Committee Non-Chair Members
+Added: Additional Annual Fee – Nomination and Governance Committee Non-Chair Members
+Added: Additional Annual Fee – Strategic Committee Members
+Added: Additional Annual Fee – Strategic Finance Committee Two Co-Chairs
+Added: Vest one third each
+Added: on the date of grant and the first and second anniversary date of grant.
+Added: Vest monthly over
+Added: one year after the grant date.
+Added: June 30, 2020.
+Added: of Compensation
+Added: key components of our executive compensation package are cash compensation (salary and annual bonuses), long-term equity incentive
+Added: awards and change in control and other severance agreements.
+Added: These components are administered with the goal of providing total
+Added: compensation that recognizes meaningful differences in individual performance, is competitive, varies the opportunity based on
+Added: individual and corporate performance, and is valued by our Named Executive Officers.
+Added: For 2020, our Named Executive Officers were
+Added: Khoso Baluch, Phoebe Mounts, John Armstrong and Elizabeth Masson-Hurlburt.
+Added: In addition, Robert W.
+Added: Cook served as our Chief Financial
+Added: Officer until January 31, 2020, and Matthew David served as our Chief Financial Officer starting May 11, 2020.
+Added: is the Compensation Committee’s objective to set a competitive rate of annual base salary for each Named Executive Officer.
+Added: The Compensation Committee believes competitive base salaries are necessary to attract and retain top quality executives, since
+Added: it is common practice for public companies to provide their named executive officers with a guaranteed annual component of compensation
+Added: that is not subject to performance risk.
+Added: The Compensation Committee, on its own or with outside consultants, may establish salary
+Added: ranges for the Named Executive Officers, with minimum to maximum opportunities that cover the normal range of market variability.
+Added: The actual base salary for each Named Executive Officer is then derived from those salary ranges based on his or her responsibility,
+Added: tenure and past performance and market comparability.
+Added: Annual base salaries for the Named Executive Officers are reviewed and approved
+Added: by the Compensation Committee in the first quarter following the end of the previous performance year.
+Added: Changes in base salary
+Added: are based on the scope of an individual’s current job responsibilities, individual performance in the previous performance
+Added: year, target pay position relative to the peer group, and our salary budget guidelines.
+Added: The Compensation Committee reviews established
+Added: goals and objectives, and determines an individual’s achievement of those goals and objectives and considers the recommendations
+Added: provided by the Chief Executive Officer to assist it in determining appropriate salaries for the Named Executive Officers other
+Added: than the Chief Executive Officer.
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2020 and the three month period ended March 31, 2021, with the
+Added: advice of outside consultants, including Frederic W.
+Added: Cook & Co., the Compensation Committee increased the salaries of certain
+Added: of our Named Executive Officers, to account for adjustments in the market.
+Added: The base salary information
+Added: for our Named Executive Officers for 2019 and 2020 is set forth in the Summary Compensation Table below.
+Added: In September 2019, February
+Added: 2017, May 2020, March 2019, April 2020 and March 2021, respectively, we entered into an employment agreement with each of Khoso
+Added: Baluch, our Chief Executive Officer, Robert Cook, our Chief Financial Officer (at such time), Matthew David, our Executive Vice
+Added: President and Chief Financial Officer, Phoebe Mounts, our Executive Vice President and General Counsel and Head of Regulatory,
+Added: Compliance and Legal, John Armstrong, our Executive Vice President for Technical Operations, and Elizabeth Masson-Hurlburt, our
+Added: Executive Vice President and Head of Clinical Operations.
+Added: These agreements provide for a salary for each Named Executive Officer
+Added: and are described under the caption “Employment Agreements.”
+Added: part of their compensation package, our Named Executive Officers generally have the opportunity to earn annual non-equity incentive
+Added: Annual non-equity bonuses are designed to reward superior executive performance while reinforcing our short-term strategic
+Added: operating goals.
+Added: The Compensation Committee establishes each year a corporate target award for the Named Executive Officers based
+Added: on a percentage of base salary and any applicable terms in any individual employment agreements.
+Added: Annual bonus targets as a percentage
+Added: of salary increase with executive rank so that for the more senior executives, a greater proportion of their total cash compensation
+Added: is contingent upon annual performance.
+Added: the beginning of the performance year, the Named Executive Officers, in conjunction with the Chief Executive Officer, establish
+Added: annual corporate goals and objectives.
+Added: Actual bonus awards for each Named Executive Officer are based on the achievement of the
+Added: pre-established corporate goals.
+Added: For any given performance year, proposed annual bonuses may range from 0% to 100% of target,
+Added: or higher under certain circumstances, based solely on the achievement of corporate objectives.
+Added: Corporate performance has a significant
+Added: impact on the annual bonus amounts because the Compensation Committee believes it is a precise measure of how the Named Executive
+Added: Officer contributed to business results.
+Added: to their respective employment agreements, Messrs.
+Added: Baluch and Armstrong, Dr.
+Added: Mounts and Ms.
+Added: Masson-Hurlburt are each
+Added: eligible for an annual bonus, which may equal up to 80%, 35%, 30%, 30% and 30%, respectively, of his or her base salary then in
+Added: effect, as determined by our Board or Compensation Committee.
+Added: In determining such bonus, our Board or Compensation Committee will
+Added: take into consideration the achievement of specified Company objectives, predetermined by the Board in consultation with the Chief
Executive Officer.
−Removed: The base salary information for our Named
−Removed: Executive Officers for 2018 and 2019 is set forth in the Summary Compensation Table below.
−Removed: In September 2019, February 2017, March
−Removed: 2019, March 2017 and March 2018, respectively, we entered into an employment agreement with each of Khoso Baluch, our Chief Executive
−Removed: Officer, Robert Cook, our Chief Financial Officer (at such time), Phoebe Mounts, our Executive Vice President and General Counsel
−Removed: and Head of Regulatory, Compliance and Legal, John Armstrong, our Executive Vice President for Technical Operations, and Elizabeth
−Removed: Masson-Hurlburt, our Executive Vice President and Head of Clinical Operations.
−Removed: These agreements provide for a salary for each Named
−Removed: Executive Officer and are described under the caption “Employment Agreements.”
−Removed: Annual Bonuses
−Removed: As part of their compensation package,
−Removed: our Named Executive Officers generally have the opportunity to earn annual non-equity incentive bonuses.
−Removed: Annual non-equity bonuses
−Removed: are designed to reward superior executive performance while reinforcing our short-term strategic operating goals.
−Removed: The Compensation
−Removed: Committee establishes each year a corporate target award for the Named Executive Officers based on a percentage of base salary
−Removed: and any applicable terms in any individual employment agreements.
−Removed: Annual bonus targets as a percentage of salary increase with
−Removed: executive rank so that for the more senior executives, a greater proportion of their total cash compensation is contingent upon
−Removed: annual performance.
−Removed: At the beginning of the performance year,
−Removed: the Named Executive Officers, in conjunction with the Chief Executive Officer, establish annual corporate goals and objectives.
−Removed: Actual bonus awards for each Named Executive Officer are based on the achievement of the pre-established corporate goals.
−Removed: any given performance year, proposed annual bonuses may range from 0% to 100% of target, or higher under certain circumstances,
−Removed: based solely on the achievement of corporate objectives.
−Removed: Corporate performance has a significant impact on the annual bonus amounts
−Removed: because the Compensation Committee believes it is a precise measure of how the Named Executive Officer contributed to business
−Removed: Pursuant to their respective employment
−Removed: agreements, Messrs.
−Removed: Baluch and Armstrong, Ms.
−Removed: Masson-Hurlburt and Dr.
−Removed: Mounts are each eligible for an annual bonus, which may
−Removed: equal up to 80%, 30%, 35%, 30% and 30%, respectively, of his or her base salary then in effect, as determined by our Board or
−Removed: Compensation Committee.
−Removed: In determining such bonus, our Board or Compensation Committee will take into consideration the achievement
−Removed: of specified Company objectives, predetermined by the Board in consultation with the Chief Executive Officer.
−Removed: Long-Term Incentive Equity Awards
−Removed: We believe that long-term performance is
−Removed: achieved through an ownership culture that encourages high performance by our Named Executive Officers through the use of stock-based
−Removed: Our 2006 Plan and our 2013 Plan were each established to provide our employees, including our Named Executive Officers,
−Removed: with incentives to help align employees’
−Removed: interests with the interests of our stockholders.
−Removed: Effective upon the approval by
−Removed: our stockholders of our 2013 Plan and 2019 Plan, we were no longer able to issue any award under the 2006 Plan and 2013 Plan,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: The compensation committee believes that the use of stock-based awards offers the best approach to achieving our
−Removed: compensation goals.
−Removed: We have historically elected to use stock options as the primary long-term equity incentive vehicle;
−Removed: the compensation committee has used restricted stock in the past and may in the future utilize restricted stock as part of our
−Removed: long-term incentive program.
−Removed: We have selected the Black-Scholes method of valuation for share-based compensation.
−Removed: Due to the early
−Removed: stage of our business and our desire to preserve cash, we may provide a greater portion of total compensation to our Named Executive
−Removed: Officers through stock options and restricted stock grants than through cash-based compensation.
−Removed: The Compensation Committee generally
−Removed: oversees the administration of our 2006 Plan and our 2013 Plan and 2019 Plan.
−Removed: Stock Options
−Removed: Our 2019 Omnibus Stock Incentive Plan approved
−Removed: by the shareholders on November 26, 2019, (and formerly our 2013 and 2006 Stock Plans) authorizes us to grant options to purchase
−Removed: shares of common stock to our employees, directors and consultants.
−Removed: The Compensation Committee reviews and approves
−Removed: stock option awards to Named Executive Officers based upon a review of competitive compensation data, its assessment of individual
−Removed: performance, a review of each Named Executive Officer’s existing long-term incentives, and retention considerations.
−Removed: stock option grants are made at the discretion of the Compensation Committee to eligible employees and, in appropriate circumstances,
−Removed: the Compensation Committee considers the recommendations of our Chief Executive Officer.
−Removed: Stock options granted to employees have
−Removed: an exercise price equal to the fair market value of our common stock on the day of grant, typically vest over a time or upon the
−Removed: achievement of certain performance-based milestones and are based upon continued employment, and generally expire 10 years after
−Removed: the date of grant.
−Removed: The fair value of the options granted to the Named Executive Officers in the Summary Compensation Table is determined
−Removed: in accordance with the Black-Scholes method of valuation for share-based compensation.
−Removed: Incentive stock options also include certain
−Removed: other terms necessary to ensure compliance with the Code.
+Added: Incentive Equity Awards
+Added: We believe that long-term performance is achieved through an
+Added: ownership culture that encourages high performance by our Named Executive Officers through the use of stock-based awards.
+Added: Our long-term
+Added: incentive plans were established to provide our employees, including our Named Executive Officers, with incentives to help align
+Added: employees’ interests with the interests of our stockholders.
+Added: The Compensation Committee believes that the use of stock-based
+Added: awards offers the best approach to achieving our compensation goals.
+Added: We have historically elected to use stock options as the primary
+Added: long-term equity incentive vehicle;
+Added: however, the Compensation Committee has used restricted stock in the past and may in the future
+Added: utilize restricted stock or other forms of equity grant as part of our long-term incentive program.
+Added: We have selected the Black-Scholes
+Added: method of valuation for share-based compensation.
+Added: Due to the early stage of our business and our desire to preserve cash, we may
+Added: provide a greater portion of total compensation to our Named Executive Officers through stock options and other equity grants than
+Added: through cash-based compensation.
+Added: The Compensation Committee generally oversees the administration of our equity plans.
+Added: Our 2019 Omnibus Stock Incentive Plan (the 2019 Plan), which
+Added: was approved by the shareholders on November 26, 2019 authorizes us to grant options to purchase shares of common stock and other
+Added: equity awards to our employees, directors and consultants.
+Added: In 2020, we granted stock options to the Named Executive Officers.
+Added: The Compensation Committee reviews and approves stock option
+Added: awards to Named Executive Officers based upon a review of competitive compensation data, its assessment of individual performance,
+Added: a review of each Named Executive Officer’s existing long-term incentives, and retention considerations.
+Added: Periodic stock option
+Added: grants are made at the discretion of the Compensation Committee to eligible employees and, in appropriate circumstances, the Compensation
+Added: Committee considers the recommendations of our Chief Executive Officer.
+Added: Stock option grants made to Named Executive Officers are
+Added: approved by the Board, based on the Compensation Committee’s recommendation.
+Added: options granted to employees have an exercise price equal to the fair market value of our common stock on the day of grant,
+Added: typically vest over a time period or upon the achievement of certain performance-based milestones and are based upon
+Added: continued employment, and generally expire 10 years after the date of grant.
+Added: The fair value of the options granted to the
+Added: Named Executive Officers in the Summary Compensation Table is determined in accordance with the Black-Scholes method of
+Added: valuation for share-based compensation.
+Added: Incentive stock options also include certain other terms necessary to ensure
+Added: compliance with the Code.
expect to continue to use stock options as a long-term incentive vehicle because:
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In determining the number of stock options to be granted to our Named
−Removed: Executive Officers, we take into account the individual’s position, scope of responsibility,
−Removed: ability to affect profits and stockholder value and the individual’s historic and
+Added: Executive Officers, we take into account the individual’s position, scope of responsibility,
+Added: ability to affect profits and stockholder value and the individual’s historic and
recent performance and the value of stock options in relation to other elements of the
−Removed: individual Named Executive Officer’s total compensation.
−Removed: Restricted Stock
−Removed: Our 2019 Omnibus Stock Incentive Plan (and
−Removed: formerly our 2013 and 2006 Stock Plans) authorizes us to grant restricted stock.
−Removed: In order to implement our long-term incentive
−Removed: goals, we may grant shares of restricted stock in the future.
−Removed: Executive Benefits and Perquisites
−Removed: Our Named Executive Officers are parties
−Removed: to employment agreements, as described below.
−Removed: In addition, consistent with our compensation philosophy, we intend to continue to
−Removed: maintain our current benefits for our Named Executive Officers, including medical, dental and life insurance and the ability to
−Removed: contribute to a 401(k) plan;
−Removed: however, the Compensation Committee in its discretion may revise, amend or add to the officer’s
−Removed: executive benefits if it deems it advisable.
−Removed: We believe these benefits are currently comparable to benefit levels for comparable
−Removed: Employment Agreements
−Removed: Employment Agreements with Current Named Executive Officers
−Removed: On September 27, 2016, we entered into
−Removed: an employment agreement with Khoso Baluch, our Chief Executive Officer, which, upon its expiration in September 2019, was
−Removed: replaced with a new agreement, dated September 26, 2019, that is nearly identical to the old agreement (except as noted
−Removed: On March 1, 2017, we entered into an employment agreement with John Armstrong to serve as our Executive Vice
−Removed: President for Technical Operations.
−Removed: On March 19, 2018, we entered into an employment agreement with Elizabeth Masson-Hurlburt
−Removed: to serve as our Executive Vice President and Head of Clinical Operations.
−Removed: On March 19, 2019, we entered into an
−Removed: employment agreement with Phoebe Mounts to serve as our Executive Vice President and General Counsel effective May 1,
−Removed: After the initial three-year term of each
−Removed: employment agreement, the agreement will automatically renew for additional successive one-year periods, unless either party notifies
−Removed: the other in writing at least 90 days before the expiration of the then current term that the agreement will not be renewed.
−Removed: On January 30, 2017, we entered into an
−Removed: employment agreement, effective February 1, 2017, with Robert Cook to serve as our Chief Financial Officer.
−Removed: On November 6, 2019,
+Added: individual Named Executive Officer’s total compensation.
+Added: Benefits and Perquisites
+Added: Named Executive Officers are parties to employment agreements as described below.
+Added: In addition, consistent with our compensation
+Added: philosophy, we intend to continue to maintain our current benefits for our Named Executive Officers, including medical, dental
+Added: and life insurance and the ability to contribute to a 401(k) plan;
+Added: however, the Compensation Committee in its discretion may revise,
+Added: amend, or add to the officer’s executive benefits if it deems it advisable.
+Added: We believe these benefits are currently comparable
+Added: to benefit levels for comparable companies.
+Added: Agreements with Current Named Executive Officers
+Added: On September 27, 2016,
+Added: we entered into an employment agreement with Khoso Baluch, our Chief Executive Officer, which, upon its expiration in September
+Added: 2019, was replaced with a new agreement, dated September 26, 2019, that is nearly identical to the old agreement (except as noted
+Added: On March 1, 2017, we entered into an employment agreement with John Armstrong to serve as our Executive Vice President
+Added: for Technical Operations, which upon its expiration in March 2020, was replaced with a new agreement dated April 17, 2020.
+Added: March 19, 2018, we entered into an employment agreement with Elizabeth Masson-Hurlburt to serve as our Executive Vice President
+Added: and Head of Clinical Operations, which upon its expiration in March 2021, was replaced with a new agreement dated March 10, 2021.
+Added: On March 19, 2019, we entered into an employment agreement with Phoebe Mounts to serve as our Executive Vice President and General
+Added: Counsel effective May 1, 2019.
+Added: On May 11, 2020 we entered into an employment agreement with Matthew David to serve as our Chief
+Added: Financial Officer.
+Added: After the initial three-year term of each employment agreement, the agreement will automatically renew for
+Added: additional successive one-year periods, unless either party notifies the other in writing at least 90 days before the expiration
+Added: of the then current term that the agreement will not be renewed.
+Added: to their respective agreements, Mr.
+Added: Baluch receives an annual salary of $425,000, Mr.
+Added: Armstrong an annual salary of $325,000,
+Added: Masson-Hurlburt an annual salary of $315,000 (effective March 2021), Dr.
+Added: Mounts an annual salary of $350,000 (amended to
+Added: $375,000 in January 2021) and Dr.
+Added: David an annual salary of $330,000, which cannot be decreased unless all officers and/or
+Added: members of our executive management team experience an equal or greater percentage reduction in base salary and/or total
+Added: compensation, provided that any reduction in an executive’s salary may be no greater than 25%.
+Added: Each executive will be
+Added: eligible for an annual bonus, which may equal up to 80% for Mr.
+Added: Baluch (the target amount is 80%, but the bonus may exceed
+Added: that amount), up to 35% for Mr.
+Added: Armstrong, up to 30% for Ms.
+Added: Masson-Hurlburt, up to 30% for Dr.
+Added: Mounts and up to 30% for Dr.
+Added: David, of his or her base salary then in effect, as determined by our Board or the Compensation Committee.
+Added: In determining
+Added: such bonus, our Board or the Compensation Committee will take into consideration the achievement of specified Company
+Added: objectives, predetermined by our Board or the Compensation Committee and Chief Executive Officer, and such other factors as
+Added: our Board or the Compensation Committee deems appropriate, and approved by the Board or the Compensation Committee.
+Added: executive must be employed through December 31 of a given year to be eligible to earn that year’s annual bonus.
+Added: On January 30, 2017,
+Added: we entered into an employment agreement, effective February 1, 2017, with Robert Cook to serve as our Chief Financial Officer.
+Added: On November 6, 2019, Mr.
Cook and the Company mutually agreed not to renew his employment agreement, which expired on January 31,
−Removed: assist the Company in transitioning his responsibilities.
−Removed: Pursuant to their respective agreements,
−Removed: Baluch receives an annual salary of $375,000 (amended to $425,000 in September 2019), Mr.
−Removed: Armstrong an annual salary
−Removed: of $310,000, Ms.
−Removed: Masson-Hurlburt an annual salary of $280,000, and Dr.
−Removed: Mounts an annual salary of $350,000, which cannot be decreased
−Removed: unless all officers and/or members of our executive management team experience an equal or greater percentage reduction in base
−Removed: salary and/or total compensation, provided that any reduction in an executive’s salary may be no greater than 25%.
−Removed: executive will be eligible for an annual bonus, which may equal up to 80% for Mr.
−Removed: Baluch (effective September 2019, pursuant to
−Removed: Baluch’s new agreement, the target amount is 80%, but the bonus may exceed that amount), up to 35% for Mr.
−Removed: up to 30% for Ms.
−Removed: Masson-Hurlburt, and up to 30% for Dr.
−Removed: Mounts, of his or her base salary then in effect, as determined by our
−Removed: Board or the Compensation Committee.
−Removed: In determining such bonus, our Board or the Compensation Committee will take into consideration
−Removed: the achievement of specified Company objectives, predetermined by our Board and Chief Executive Officer, in the case of Mr.
−Removed: and by our Chief Executive Officer in the case of Mr.
−Removed: Armstrong, Ms.
−Removed: Masson-Hurlburt, and Dr.
−Removed: Mounts, and approved by the Board
−Removed: or the Compensation Committee, and personal objectives, for each executive.
−Removed: For fiscal year 2018, Ms.
−Removed: Masson-Hurlburt’s
−Removed: bonus was prorated, and for fiscal year 2019, Dr.
−Removed: Mounts’
−Removed: bonus was contingent upon each meeting performance objectives.
−Removed: Each executive must be employed through December 31 of a given year to be eligible to earn that year’s annual bonus.
−Removed: The following provisions of the
−Removed: employment agreements with Messrs.
−Removed: Baluch and Armstrong, Ms.
−Removed: Masson-Hurlburt and Dr.
−Removed: Mounts are identical except where noted.
−Removed: If we terminate the executive’s employment
−Removed: for Cause (as defined below), the executive will be entitled to receive only the accrued compensation due to him or
−Removed: her as of the date of such termination, rights to indemnification and directors’
−Removed: and officers’
−Removed: liability insurance,
−Removed: and as otherwise required by law.
−Removed: All unvested equity awards then held by any executive, as well as, in the case of Mr.
−Removed: any vested equity awards granted after September 26, 2019, will be forfeited to us as of such date.
−Removed: If we terminate the executive’s
−Removed: employment other than for Cause, death, or disability, other than by notice of nonrenewal, or if the executive resigns for Good
−Removed: Reason (as defined below) (each such termination, a “Qualifying Termination”), including in each case within 24 months
−Removed: of a Change of Control (as defined in the agreement, which is the same definition as in our 2013 Plan), the executive will receive
−Removed: the following benefits:
−Removed: (i) payment of any accrued compensation and any unpaid bonus for the prior year, as well as rights to
−Removed: indemnification and directors’
−Removed: and officers’
−Removed: liability insurance and any rights or privilege otherwise required by
−Removed: (ii) we will continue to pay his or her base salary and benefits for a period of twelve months in the case of Mr.
−Removed: and nine months for the other executives following the effective date of the termination of employment;
−Removed: (iii) payment on
−Removed: a prorated basis for any target bonus for the year of termination based on the actual achievement of the specified bonus objectives;
−Removed: (iv) if the executive timely elects continued health insurance coverage under COBRA, then we will pay the premium to continue
−Removed: such coverage for him or her and his or her eligible dependents in an amount equal to the portion paid for by us during the executive’s
−Removed: employment until the conclusion of the time when he or she is receiving continuation of base salary payments or until
−Removed: he or she becomes eligible for group health insurance coverage under another employer’s plan, whichever occurs first, provided
−Removed: however that we have the right to terminate such payment of COBRA premiums on behalf of the executive and instead pay him a lump
−Removed: sum amount equal to the COBRA premium times the number of months remaining in the specified period if we determine in our discretion
−Removed: that continued payment of the COBRA premiums is or may be discriminatory under Section 105(h) of the Code;
−Removed: and (v) in the case
−Removed: Baluch, all restricted shares and time-based stock options, and in the case of Ms.
−Removed: Masson-Hurlburt, all unvested time-based
−Removed: stock options that are scheduled to vest on or before the next succeeding anniversary of the date of termination shall be accelerated
−Removed: and deemed to have vested as of the termination date.
−Removed: The separation benefits set forth above are conditioned upon the executive
−Removed: executing a release of claims against us, our parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and each such entities’
−Removed: officers, directors,
−Removed: employees, agents, successors, and assigns in a form acceptable to us, within a time specified therein, which release is not revoked
−Removed: within any time period allowed for revocation under applicable law.
−Removed: For purposes of the agreement,
−Removed: “Cause”
−Removed: is defined as:
−Removed: (i) the willful failure, disregard, or refusal by the executive to perform his or her material
−Removed: duties or obligations under the agreement (other than as a result of executive’s mental incapacity or illness, as confirmed
−Removed: by medical evidence provided by a physician selected by us) that, in the case of Mr.
−Removed: Armstrong, and Ms.
−Removed: Masson-Hurlburt, is not
−Removed: cured, to the extent subject to cure, by the executive to our reasonable satisfaction within 30 days after we gave written notice
−Removed: thereof to executive;
−Removed: (ii) any willful, intentional, or grossly negligent act by the executive having the effect of materially
−Removed: injuring (whether financially or otherwise) our business or reputation or any of our affiliates;
−Removed: (iii) executive’s conviction
−Removed: of any felony involving moral turpitude (including entry of a guilty or nolo contendere plea);
−Removed: (iv) the executive’s qualification
−Removed: as a “bad actor,”
−Removed: as defined by 17 CFR 230.506(a);
−Removed: (v) the good faith determination by the Board, after a reasonable
−Removed: and good-faith investigation by us that the executive engaged in some form of harassment or discrimination prohibited by law (including,
−Removed: without limitation, harassment on the basis of age, sex or race) unless the executive’s actions were specifically directed
−Removed: by the Board;
−Removed: (vi) any material misappropriation or embezzlement by the executive of our or our affiliates’
−Removed: (whether or not a misdemeanor or felony);
−Removed: or (vii) material breach by the executive of the agreement that is not cured, to the
−Removed: extent subject to cure, by executive to our reasonable satisfaction within 30 days after we give written notice thereof to the
−Removed: executive (20 days in the case of Mr.
−Removed: For purposes of the agreement, “Good
−Removed: Reason”
−Removed: is defined as:
+Added: Cook and the Company entered into a consulting agreement.
+Added: following provisions of the employment agreements with Messrs.
+Added: Baluch, Armstrong, Ms.
+Added: Masson-Hurlburt, Dr.
+Added: Mounts and Dr.
+Added: are identical except where noted.
+Added: If we terminate the executive’s employment for Cause (as
+Added: defined below), the executive will be entitled to receive only the accrued compensation due to him or her as of the date of such
+Added: termination, rights to indemnification and directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, and as otherwise required
+Added: All unvested equity awards then held by the executive in the case of Mr.
+Added: Armstrong, Dr.
+Added: David and Ms.
+Added: Masson-Hurlburt,
+Added: any vested equity awards granted after September 26, 2019, April 17, 2020, May 11, 2020 and March 20, 2021, respectively, will
+Added: be forfeited to us as of such date.
+Added: If we terminate the
+Added: executive’s employment other than for Cause, death, or disability, other than by notice of nonrenewal, or if the executive
+Added: resigns for Good Reason (as defined below), including in each case within 24 months of a Corporation Transaction (as defined in
+Added: the agreement, which is the same definition as in our 2019 Plan), the executive will receive the following benefits:
+Added: of any accrued compensation and any unpaid bonus for the prior year, as well as rights to indemnification and directors’
+Added: and officers’ liability insurance and any rights or privilege otherwise required by law;
+Added: (ii) we will continue to pay his
+Added: or her base salary and benefits for a period of twelve months in the case of Mr.
+Added: Baluch and nine months for the other executives
+Added: following the effective date of the termination of employment;
+Added: (iii) payment on a prorated basis for any target bonus for the year
+Added: of termination based on the actual achievement of the specified bonus objectives;
+Added: (iv) if the executive timely elects continued
+Added: health insurance coverage under COBRA, then we will pay the premium to continue such coverage for him or her and his or her eligible
+Added: dependents in an amount equal to the portion paid for by us during the executive’s employment until the conclusion of the
+Added: time when he or she is receiving continuation of base salary payments or until he or she becomes eligible for group health insurance
+Added: coverage under another employer’s plan, whichever occurs first, provided however that we have the right to terminate such
+Added: payment of COBRA premiums on behalf of the executive and instead pay him or her a lump sum amount equal to the COBRA premium times
+Added: the number of months remaining in the specified period if we determine in our discretion that continued payment of the COBRA premiums
+Added: is or may be discriminatory under Section 105(h) of the Code;
+Added: (v) unvested equity awards that are scheduled to vest on or before
+Added: the next succeeding anniversary of the date of termination shall be accelerated and deemed to have vested as of the termination
+Added: provided that any performance based equity awards or stock options whose vesting requirements have not been successfully
+Added: met as of the date of termination of employment or resignation with Good Reason will not accelerate;
+Added: and (vi) in the event of a
+Added: Corporate Transaction all equity awards and stock options shall become fully vested and exercisable;
+Added: and (vii) vested stock options
+Added: will remain exercisable for a specified period of time following termination or resignation or, if earlier, the expiration date
+Added: of the stock option.
+Added: The separation benefits set forth above are conditioned upon the executive executing a release of claims against
+Added: us, our parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and each such entities’ officers, directors, employees, agents, successors,
+Added: and assigns in a form acceptable to us, within a time specified therein, which release is not revoked within any time period allowed
+Added: for revocation under applicable law.
+Added: For purposes of the agreement, “Cause” is defined
+Added: (i) the willful failure, disregard, or refusal by the executive to perform his or her material duties or obligations under
+Added: the agreement (other than as a result of executive’s mental incapacity or illness, (ii) any willful, intentional, or grossly
+Added: negligent act by the executive having the effect of materially injuring (whether financially or otherwise) our business or reputation
+Added: or any of our affiliates;
+Added: (iii) executive’s conviction of any felony involving moral turpitude (including entry of a guilty
+Added: or nolo contendere plea);
+Added: (iv) the executive’s qualification as a “bad actor,” as defined by 17 CFR 230.506(a);
+Added: (v) the good faith determination by the Board, after a reasonable and good-faith investigation by us that the executive engaged
+Added: in some form of harassment or discrimination prohibited by law (including, without limitation, harassment on the basis of age,
+Added: sex or race) unless the executive’s actions were specifically directed by the Board;
+Added: (vi) any material misappropriation or
+Added: embezzlement by the executive of our or our affiliates’ property (whether or not a misdemeanor or felony);
+Added: or (vii) material
+Added: breach by the executive of the agreement that is not cured, to the extent subject to cure, by executive to our reasonable satisfaction.
+Added: For purposes of the agreement, “Good Reason” is
(i) any material breach of the agreement by us;
−Removed: (ii) any material diminution by us of the executive’s
−Removed: duties, responsibilities, or authority;
−Removed: (iii) a material reduction in the executive’s annual base salary unless all
−Removed: officers and/or members of our executive management team experience an equal or greater percentage reduction in annual base salary
−Removed: and/or total compensation, provided that, for Mr.
−Removed: Baluch, any reduction may be no greater than 25%;
−Removed: (iv) in the case
−Removed: Armstrong, a required relocation of the primary place of performance of the executive’s duties to a location
−Removed: more than 50 miles from our then location in Bedminster, New Jersey, provided that a change in the location of the primary place
−Removed: of performance of the executive’s duties will not constitute Good Reason if such change occurs prior to a change in control
−Removed: and we only require the executive to physically work at that new location two days or less per workweek and provide reimbursement
−Removed: of the executive’s reasonable travel expenses in commuting to such new location;
−Removed: or (v) a material reduction in the executive’s
−Removed: target bonus level unless all officers and/or members of our executive management team experience an equal or greater percentage
−Removed: reduction related to target bonus levels, provided that, for Mr.
−Removed: Baluch, any reduction may be no greater than 25%.
−Removed: If the executive terminates his
−Removed: or her employment by written notice of termination or if the executive or we terminate his or her employment by providing a notice
−Removed: of nonrenewal at least 90 days before the agreement is set to expire, the executive will not be entitled to receive any payments
−Removed: or benefits other than any accrued compensation, any unpaid prior year’s bonus, rights to indemnification and directors’
−Removed: and officers’
−Removed: liability insurance, and as otherwise required by law.
−Removed: If the executive’s employment is
−Removed: terminated as a result of his or her death or disability, we will pay him or her or his or her estate, as applicable, any accrued
−Removed: compensation and any unpaid prior year’s bonus.
+Added: (ii) any material diminution by us of the executive’s duties,
+Added: responsibilities, or authority;
+Added: (iii) a material reduction in the executive’s annual base salary unless all officers and/or
+Added: members of our executive management team experience an equal or greater percentage reduction in annual base salary and/or total
+Added: compensation, provided that any reduction may be no greater than 25%;
+Added: or (iv) a material reduction in the executive’s target
+Added: bonus level unless all officers and/or members of our executive management team experience an equal or greater percentage reduction
+Added: related to target bonus levels, provided that any reduction may be no greater than 25%.
+Added: the executive terminates his or her employment by written notice of termination or if the executive or we terminate his or her
+Added: employment by providing a notice of nonrenewal at least 90 days before the agreement is set to expire, the executive will not
+Added: be entitled to receive any payments or benefits other than any accrued compensation, any unpaid prior year’s bonus, rights
+Added: to indemnification and directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, and as otherwise required by law.
+Added: the executive’s employment is terminated as a result of his or her death or disability, we will pay him or her or his or
+Added: her estate, as applicable, any accrued compensation and any unpaid prior year’s bonus.
Our agreements with Messrs.
−Removed: Armstrong, Ms.
−Removed: Masson-Hurlburt and Dr.
−Removed: Mounts each contain a non-compete provision that provides that during the term of each
−Removed: agreement and the 12-month period immediately following the executive’s separation from employment for any reason, the executive
−Removed: is prohibited from engaging in any business involving the development or commercialization of a preventive anti-infective product
−Removed: that would be a direct competitor of Neutrolin or a product containing taurolidine or any other product being actively developed
−Removed: or produced by us within the United States and the European Union (in the case of Mr.
−Removed: Baluch, worldwide, effective September 2019,
−Removed: pursuant to his new agreement) on the date of termination of his or her employment.
−Removed: Tax and Accounting Considerations
−Removed: federal income tax generally limits
−Removed: the tax deductibility of compensation we pay to our Named Executive Officers to $1.0 million each in the year the compensation
−Removed: becomes taxable to the executive officers.
−Removed: Although deductibility of compensation is preferred, tax deductibility is not a primary
−Removed: objective of our compensation programs.
−Removed: Rather, we seek to maintain flexibility in how we compensate our executive officers
−Removed: so as to meet a broader set of corporate and strategic goals and the needs of stockholders, and as such, we may be limited in our
−Removed: ability to deduct amounts of compensation from time to time.
−Removed: Accounting rules require us to expense the cost of our stock
−Removed: option grants.
−Removed: Because of option expensing and the impact of dilution on our stockholders, we pay close attention to, among
−Removed: other factors, the type of equity awards we grant and the number and value of the shares underlying such awards.
−Removed: Pension Benefits
−Removed: We do not maintain any qualified or non-qualified
−Removed: defined benefit pension plans.
−Removed: As a result, none of our Named Executive Officers participate in or have benefits under qualified
−Removed: or non-qualified defined benefit pension plans sponsored by us.
−Removed: Our Compensation Committee may elect to adopt qualified or non-qualified
−Removed: benefit plans in the future if it determines that doing so is in our best interests.
−Removed: Nonqualified Deferred Compensation
−Removed: None of our Named Executive Officers participate
−Removed: in our have account balances in nonqualified defined contribution plans or other non-qualified deferred compensation plans maintained
+Added: Baluch, Armstrong, Ms.
+Added: Masson-Hurlburt,
+Added: Mounts and Dr.
+Added: David each contain a non-compete provision that provides that during the term of each agreement and the 12-month
+Added: period immediately following the executive’s separation from employment for any reason, the executive is prohibited from
+Added: engaging in any business involving the development or commercialization of a preventive anti-infective product that would be a
+Added: direct competitor of Neutrolin or a product containing taurolidine or any other product being actively developed or produced by
+Added: us within the United States and the European Union (in the case of Mr.
+Added: Masson-Hurlburt and Mr.
+Added: worldwide) on the date of termination of his or her employment.
+Added: and Accounting Considerations
+Added: federal income tax generally limits the tax deductibility of compensation we pay to our Named Executive Officers and certain
+Added: other officers to $1.0 million each in the year the compensation becomes taxable to the executive officers.
+Added: deductibility of compensation is preferred, tax deductibility is not a primary objective of our compensation programs.
+Added: Rather, we seek to maintain flexibility in how we compensate our executive officers so as to meet a broader set of corporate
+Added: and strategic goals and the needs of stockholders, and as such, we may be limited in our ability to deduct amounts of
+Added: compensation from time to time.
+Added: Accounting rules require us to expense the cost of our stock option grants.
+Added: Because of option
+Added: expensing and the impact of dilution on our stockholders, we pay close attention to, among other factors, the type of equity
+Added: awards we grant and the number and value of the shares underlying such awards.
+Added: do not maintain any qualified or non-qualified defined benefit pension plans.
+Added: As a result, none of our Named Executive
+Added: Officers participate in or have benefits under qualified or non-qualified defined benefit pension plans sponsored by us.
+Added: Compensation Committee may elect to adopt qualified or non-qualified defined benefit plans in the future if it determines
+Added: that doing so is in our best interests.
+Added: Deferred Compensation
+Added: None of our Named Executive
+Added: Officers participate in nonqualified defined contribution plans or other non-qualified deferred compensation plans maintained
Our Compensation Committee may elect to provide our officers and other employees with non-qualified defined contribution
or other non-qualified deferred compensation benefits in the future if it determines that doing so is in our best interests.
−Removed: Summary Compensation Table
−Removed: The following table sets forth information
−Removed: with respect to compensation earned by our Named Executive Officers in the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018:
+Added: Compensation Table
+Added: following table sets forth information with respect to compensation earned by our Named Executive Officers in the years ended
+Added: December 31, 2020 and 2019:
Name and Principal Position
−Removed: Restricted Stock Units Awards (1)
−Removed: Non-equity Incentive Plan Compensation
+Added: Stock Units Awards (1)
+Added: Incentive Plan Compensation
All Other Compensation ($)
Chief Executive Officer
+Added: Matthew David (2)
Chief Financial Officer
5 unchanged sentences
Executive Vice President and Head of Clinical Operations
−Removed: (1) The amounts included in this column are the dollar amounts
−Removed: representing the full grant date fair value of each award calculated in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718 and do not represent
−Removed: the actual value that may be recognized by the Named Executive Officers upon option exercise.
−Removed: Cook and the Company mutually agreed not to renew his
−Removed: employment agreement which expired on January 31, 2020.
−Removed: Mounts became our Executive Vice President and General Counsel and Head of Regulatory, Compliance and Legal on May 1, 2019.
−Removed: Masson-Hurlburt became our Executive Vice President
−Removed: and Head of Clinical Operations on March 19, 2018.
−Removed: Her salary for 2018 included fees as a consultant.
−Removed: (5) The non-equity incentive plan bonuses reflected in 2019
−Removed: were for the performance for the year 2019 which were accrued in 2019 but will be paid in 2020.
−Removed: The non-equity incentive bonuses
−Removed: reflected in 2018 were for the performance for the year 2018 which were accrued in 2018 and paid in 2019.
−Removed: (6) Consists of health benefits, 401(k) employer match, and
−Removed: reimbursed commuter expenses.
−Removed: (7) Consists of health benefits, 401(k) employer match and
−Removed: reimbursed moving expenses.
−Removed: (8) Consists of health benefits and 401(k) employer match.
−Removed: (9) Consists of health benefits.
−Removed: Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End 2019
−Removed: The following table contains certain information
−Removed: concerning unexercised options for the Named Executive Officers as of December 31, 2019.
−Removed: Number of Shares Underlying Unexercised Options (#) –
−Removed: Number of Shares Underlying Unexercised Options (#) –
−Removed: Unexercisable
−Removed: Equity Incentive Plan Awards:
+Added: amounts included in this column are the dollar amounts representing the full grant date
+Added: fair value of each award calculated in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718 and do not
+Added: represent the actual value that may be recognized by the Named Executive Officers upon
+Added: option exercise.
+Added: David became our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer on May 11, 2020.
+Added: Mounts became our Executive Vice President and General Counsel and Head of Regulatory,
+Added: Compliance and Legal on May 1, 2019.
+Added: salary increases effective February 25, 2020.
+Added: non-equity incentive plan bonuses reflected in 2020 were for the performance for the
+Added: year 2020 which were accrued in 2020 but will be paid in 2021.
+Added: The non-equity incentive
+Added: bonuses reflected in 2019 were for the performance for the year 2019 which were accrued
+Added: in 2019 and paid in 2020.
+Added: of health benefits, 401(k) employer match, and reimbursed commuter expenses.
+Added: of health benefits and 401(k) employer match.
+Added: of health benefits.
+Added: Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End 2020
+Added: following table contains certain information concerning unexercised options for the Named Executive Officers as of December 31,
+Added: Number of Shares Underlying Unexercised Options (#) – Exercisable
+Added: of Shares Underlying Unexercised Options (#) – Unexercisable (1)
+Added: Incentive Plan Awards:
Number of Shares Underlying Unexercised Unearned Options # (2)
1 unchanged sentence
Option Expiration Date
+Added: Matthew David
Phoebe Mounts
1 unchanged sentence
Elizabeth Masson-Hurlburt
−Removed: Cook and the Company mutually agreed not to renew his employment agreement, which expired on January 31, 2020.
−Removed: 31,250 of his unvested stock options were forfeited upon termination of his employment.
−Removed: His vested options may be exercised until 90 days following his cessation of transition services to the Company.
−Removed: Option Repricings
−Removed: We did not engage in any repricings or other
−Removed: modifications to any of our Named Executive Officers’
−Removed: outstanding options during the year ended December 31, 2019.
−Removed: Potential Payments on a Qualifying Termination
−Removed: If the severance payments called for in
−Removed: our agreements for Mr.
+Added: (1) Options vest based on continued employment over three or
+Added: (2) Options vest based on achievement of specific milestones
+Added: and continued employment, and become exercisable if and when a milestone is achieved.
+Added: did not engage in any repricings or other modifications to any of our Named Executive Officers’ outstanding options
+Added: during the year ended December 31, 2020.
+Added: Payments on a Qualifying Termination
+Added: the severance payments called for in our employment agreements for Mr.
Armstrong and Ms.
−Removed: Masson-Hurlburt had been triggered on December 31,
−Removed: 2019, we would have been obligated to make the following payments:
+Added: Masson-Hurlburt had been triggered on December 31, 2020, we would have been obligated to make the following
+Added: Severance Payment
per month) and
2 unchanged sentences
of months paid) (1)
−Removed: Number of Options
that would vest) and
market value) (2)
+Added: Matthew David
Phoebe Mounts
1 unchanged sentence
Elizabeth Masson-Hurlburt
−Removed: (1) The market value equals the difference the fair market
−Removed: value of the shares that could be acquired based on the closing sale price per share of our common stock on the NYSE American
−Removed: on December 31, 2019, which was $7.28, and the exercise prices of the applicable stock options.
−Removed: (2) Represents severance based on monthly base salary, payable
−Removed: for 12 months.
+Added: Consists of COBRA and 401(k) employer match.
+Added: The market value equals the difference between the fair market value of the shares that could be acquired based on the closing sale price per share of our common stock on the NYSE American on December 31, 2020, which was $7.43, and the exercise prices of the applicable stock options.
+Added: Represents severance based on monthly base salary, payable for 12 months.
Any bonus for the year of termination based on performance would also be paid.
−Removed: (3) Represents severance based on monthly base salary, payable
−Removed: for 9 months.
+Added: Represents severance based on monthly base salary, payable for 9 months.
Any bonus for the year of termination based on performance would also be paid.
−Removed: (4) Represents severance based on monthly base salary, payable
−Removed: for 9 months.
+Added: Represents severance based on monthly base salary, payable for 9 months.
Any bonus for the year of termination based on performance would also be paid.
−Removed: (5) Represents severance based on monthly base salary, payable
−Removed: for 9 months.
+Added: Represents severance based on monthly base salary, payable for 9 months.
Any bonus for the year of termination based on performance would also be paid.
−Removed: (6) Represents severance based on monthly base salary, payable
−Removed: for 9 months.
+Added: Represents severance based on monthly base salary, payable for 9 months.
Any bonus for the year of termination based on performance would also be paid.
−Removed: Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
−Removed: Principal Stockholders
−Removed: The following table
−Removed: shows the number of shares of our common stock beneficially owned as of December 31, 2019 by:
−Removed: each person known by us to own beneficially more than 5% of the outstanding shares of our common stock;
+Added: Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
+Added: following table shows the number of shares of our common stock beneficially owned as of March 15, 2021 by:
+Added: person known by us to own beneficially more than 5% of the outstanding shares of our common stock;
each director;
−Removed: each of our Named Executive Officers and our current executive officers;
−Removed: all of our current directors and executive officers as a group.
−Removed: This table is based upon the information
−Removed: supplied by our Named Executive Officers, directors and principal stockholders and from Schedules 13D and 13G filed with the SEC.
−Removed: Except as indicated in footnotes to this table, the persons named in this table have sole voting and investment power with respect
−Removed: to all shares of common stock shown, and their address is c/o CorMedix Inc., 400 Connell Drive, Suite 5000, Berkeley Heights, New
−Removed: Jersey 07922.
−Removed: As December 31, 2019, we had 25,665,350 shares of common stock outstanding.
−Removed: Beneficial ownership in each case also
−Removed: includes shares issuable upon exercise of outstanding options that can be exercised within 60 days after December 31, 2019 for
−Removed: purposes of computing the percentage of common stock owned by the person named.
−Removed: Options owned by a person are not included for
−Removed: purposes of computing the percentage owned by any other person.
−Removed: Name and Address of Beneficial Owner
+Added: each of our Named
+Added: Executive Officers and our current executive officers;
+Added: all of our current
+Added: directors and executive officers as a group.
+Added: This table is based
+Added: upon the information supplied by our Named Executive Officers, directors and principal stockholders and from Schedules 13D and
+Added: 13G filed with the SEC.
+Added: Except as indicated in footnotes to this table, the persons named in this table have sole voting and investment
+Added: power with respect to all shares of common stock shown, and their address is c/o CorMedix Inc., 300 Connell Drive, Suite 4200,
+Added: Berkeley Heights, New Jersey 07922.
+Added: As March 15, 2021, we had 38,024,194 shares of common stock outstanding.
+Added: Beneficial ownership
+Added: in each case also includes shares issuable upon exercise of outstanding options that can be exercised within 60 days after March
+Added: 15, 2021 for purposes of computing the percentage of common stock owned by the person named.
+Added: Options owned by a person are not
+Added: included for purposes of computing the percentage owned by any other person.
Beneficially Owned (1)
+Added: Name and Address of Beneficial Owner
5% or Greater Stockholders
1 unchanged sentence
BlackRock, Inc.
−Removed: and Named Executive Officers:
+Added: Directors and Named Executive Officers:
Khoso Baluch (4)
−Removed: Robert Cook (5)
+Added: Matthew David (5)
Phoebe Mounts (6)
1 unchanged sentence
Elizabeth Masson-Hurlburt (8)
+Added: Paulo Costa (9)
+Added: Dillione (10)
+Added: Greg Duncan (11)
Alan Dunton (12)
Myron Kaplan (13)
−Removed: Mehmood Khan (12)
Steven Lefkowitz (14)
All executive officers and directors as a group (11 persons) (1.5)
−Removed: * Less than 1%
−Removed: (1) Based upon 25,665,350 shares of our common stock outstanding
−Removed: on December 31, 2019 and, with respect to each individual holder, rights to acquire our common stock exercisable within 60 days
−Removed: of December 31, 2019.
−Removed: (2) Based solely on information contained in a Schedule 13D
−Removed: filed with the SEC on September 10, 2019 by Elliott Associates, L.P.
−Removed: (“Elliott Associates”), Elliott International,
−Removed: (“Elliott International”) and Elliott International Capital Advisors Inc.
−Removed: (“Elliott International Capital
−Removed: Advisors”, and together with Elliott Associates and Elliott International, the “Elliott Reporting Entities”),
−Removed: the investment manager of Elliott International, and other information known to us.
−Removed: Due to the Ownership Limitation (as defined
−Removed: below), the Elliott Reporting Entities may be deemed to collectively beneficially own 1,303,411 shares of our common stock through
−Removed: securities held by Elliott Associates and Elliott International.
+Added: Based upon 38,024,194 shares of our common stock outstanding on March 15, 2021 and, with respect to each individual holder, rights to acquire our common stock exercisable within 60 days of March 15, 2021.
+Added: Based solely on information contained in Amendment No.
+Added: 1 to the Statement on Schedule 13D filed with the SEC on February 11, 2021 by Elliott Associates, L.P.
+Added: (“Elliott Associates”), Elliott International, L.P.
+Added: (“Elliott International”) and Elliott International Capital Advisors Inc.
+Added: (“Elliott International Capital Advisors”, and together with Elliott Associates and Elliott International, the “Elliott Reporting Entities”), the investment manager of Elliott International, and other information known to us.
+Added: Due to the Ownership Limitation (as defined below), the Elliott Reporting Entities may be deemed to collectively beneficially own 1,303,411 shares of our common stock through securities held by Elliott Associates and Elliott International.
Elliott Associates beneficially holds:
−Removed: (i) 464,706 shares of
−Removed: our common stock, (ii) 32,480 shares of Series G preferred stock convertible into 1,805,932 shares of our common stock (subject
−Removed: to the Ownership Limitation) and (iii) 89,623 shares of our Series E preferred stock convertible into 391,953 shares of our common
−Removed: stock (subject to the Ownership Limitation).
−Removed: Elliott International beneficially holds (i) 368,668 shares of our common stock and
−Removed: (ii) 67,520 shares of Series G preferred stock convertible into 3,754,205 shares of our common stock (subject to the Ownership
−Removed: In accordance with Rule 13d-4 under the Exchange Act, the number of shares of our common stock into which the Series
−Removed: E and Series G preferred stock are convertible into, as applicable, are limited pursuant to the terms of the convertible securities
−Removed: to that number of shares of our common stock which would result in the Elliott Reporting Entities having aggregate beneficial
−Removed: ownership of not more than 4.99% of the total issued and outstanding shares of our common stock (the “Ownership Limitation”).
−Removed: The Elliott Reporting Entities disclaim beneficial ownership of any and all shares of our common stock issuable upon any conversion
−Removed: of the convertible securities if such conversion would cause the Elliott Reporting Entities aggregate beneficial ownership of
−Removed: our common stock to exceed or remain above the Ownership Limitation (as is currently the case).
−Removed: Therefore, the Elliott Reporting
−Removed: Entities disclaim beneficial ownership of any shares of our common stock, issuable upon any conversion of the Series E preferred
−Removed: stock and the Series G preferred stock, which conversion would be prohibited by the Ownership Limitation.
−Removed: The Ownership Limitation
−Removed: does not prevent the Elliott Reporting Entities or their affiliates from voting the shares of Series E and Series G preferred
−Removed: stock held by Elliott Associates and Elliott International.
−Removed: Accordingly, the shares of Series E preferred stock and Series G preferred
−Removed: stock, as of the record date, will be entitled to an aggregate of 2,918,776 votes.
−Removed: The business address of Elliott Associates
−Removed: is 40 West 57th Street, 30th Floor, New York, New York 10019.
−Removed: The business address of Elliott International is c/o Maples &
+Added: (i) 464,706 shares of our common stock, (ii) 32,383 shares of Series G preferred stock convertible into 1,800,539 shares of our common stock (subject to the Ownership Limitation) and (iii) 89,623 shares of our Series E preferred stock convertible into 391,953 shares of our common stock (subject to the Ownership Limitation).
+Added: Elliott International beneficially holds (i) 368,668 shares of our common stock and (ii) 67,617 shares of Series G preferred stock convertible into 3,759,599 shares of our common stock (subject to the Ownership Limitation.
+Added: In accordance with Rule 13d-4 under the Exchange Act, the number of shares of our common stock into which the Series E and Series G preferred stock are convertible into, as applicable, are limited pursuant to the terms of the convertible securities to that number of shares of our common stock which would result in the Elliott Reporting Entities having aggregate beneficial ownership of not more than 4.99% of the total issued and outstanding shares of our common stock (the “Ownership Limitation”).
+Added: The Elliott Reporting Entities disclaim beneficial ownership of any and all shares of our common stock issuable upon any conversion of the convertible securities if such conversion would cause the Elliott Reporting Entities aggregate beneficial ownership of our common stock to exceed or remain above the Ownership Limitation (as is currently the case).
+Added: Therefore, the Elliott Reporting Entities disclaim beneficial ownership of any shares of our common stock, issuable upon any conversion of the Series E preferred stock and the Series G preferred stock, which conversion would be prohibited by the Ownership Limitation.
+Added: The Ownership Limitation does not prevent the Elliott Reporting Entities or their affiliates from voting the shares of Series E and Series G preferred stock held by Elliott Associates and Elliott International.
+Added: Accordingly, the shares of Series E preferred stock and Series G preferred stock, as of the record date, will be entitled to an aggregate of 2,918,776 votes.
+Added: The business address of Elliott Associates is 40 West 57th Street, 30th Floor, New York, New York 10019.
+Added: The business address of Elliott International is c/o Maples & Calder, P.O.
Box 309, Ugland House, South Church Street, George Town, Cayman Islands, British West Indies.
−Removed: (3) Based solely on information contained in a statement
−Removed: on Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 7, 2020 by BlackRock, Inc.
+Added: Based solely on information contained in Amendment No.
+Added: 1 to the Statement on Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on January 29, 2021 by BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock, Inc.
−Removed: has the sole voting power with respect
−Removed: to 1,693,926 shares of our common stock and the sole dispositive power with respect to 1,712,901 shares of our common stock.
−Removed: business address of BlackRock, Inc.
+Added: has the sole voting power with respect to 1,969,743 shares of our common stock and the sole dispositive power with respect to 1,995,193 shares of our common stock.
+Added: The business address of BlackRock, Inc.
is 55 East 52 nd Street, New York, New York 10055.
−Removed: (4) Consists of (i) 52,575 shares of our common stock held in a joint account with Mr.
−Removed: Baluch’s spouse, and (ii) 263,100 shares of our common stock
−Removed: issuable upon exercise of stock options.
−Removed: (5) Consists of (i) 27,517 shares of our common stock, and
−Removed: (ii) 58,800 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options.
−Removed: (6) Consists of 1,425 shares of our common stock.
−Removed: (7) Consists of (i) 69,378 shares of our common stock, of which 23,606 shares are directly owned by Mr.
−Removed: Armstrong’s
−Removed: spouse, and (ii) 57,855 shares of our common stock
−Removed: issuable upon exercise of stock options.
−Removed: (8) Consists of (i) 8,000 shares of our common stock, and
−Removed: (ii) 42,780 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options.
−Removed: (9) Consists of (i) 53,181 shares of our common stock, (ii)
−Removed: 60,000 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options, and (iii) 292 shares of our common stock upon issuance
−Removed: of restricted stock units.
−Removed: (10) Consists of (i) 520 shares of our common stock, (ii) 17,708 shares of our common stock issuable
−Removed: upon exercise of stock options.
−Removed: and (iii) 208 shares of our common stock upon issuance of restricted stock units.
−Removed: (11) Consists of (i) 109,025 shares of our common stock, and (ii) 41,000 shares of our common stock
−Removed: issuable upon exercise of stock options, and (iii) 709 shares of our common stock upon issuance of restricted stock
−Removed: (12) Consists of (i) 132,758 shares of our common stock, and (ii) 38,000 shares of our common stock
−Removed: issuable upon exercise of stock options, and (iii) 259 shares of our common stock upon issuance of restricted stock
−Removed: (13) Consists of (i) 83,928 shares of our common stock, of which 24,963 shares are held for the benefit of Mr.
−Removed: Lefkowitz’s
−Removed: minor son and 2,000 shares are directly owned by Mr.
−Removed: Lefkowtiz’s spouse, (ii) 38,000 shares of our common stock
−Removed: issuable upon exercise of stock options, (iii) 4,500 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of warrants, and (iv)
−Removed: 3,000 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of warrants through Wade Capital Corporation Money Purchase Plan, an
−Removed: entity for which Mr.
−Removed: Lefkowitz has voting and investment control, and (v) 500 shares of our common stock upon issuance of
−Removed: restricted stock units.
−Removed: (14) Consists
−Removed: of (i) the following held by our directors and executive officers (A) 538,307 shares of our common stock, (B) 590,579 shares of
−Removed: our common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options, (C) 7,500 shares of our common stock upon exercise of warrants, and
−Removed: (D) 1,968 shares of our common stock upon issuance of restricted stock units, as referenced in footnotes 9 through 13.
−Removed: Stock Performance Graph
−Removed: The following performance graph shall not
−Removed: be deemed to be “soliciting material”
−Removed: or “filed”
−Removed: or incorporated by reference in future filings with the
−Removed: SEC, or subject to the liabilities of Section 18 of the Exchange Act except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference
−Removed: in such filing.
−Removed: The performance graph compares the performance of our common stock to the NASDAQ Composite Index and the NASDAQ
−Removed: Biotechnology Index.
+Added: Consists of (i) 60,905 shares of our common stock, and (ii) 492,915 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options.
+Added: Consists of (i) 1,150 shares of our common stock, and (ii) 95,834 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options.
+Added: Consists of (i) 7,200 shares of our common stock, and (ii) 118,882
+Added: shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options.
+Added: Consists of (i) 96,878 shares of our common stock, and (ii) 126,024 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options.
+Added: Consists of (i) 8,000 shares of our common stock, and (ii) 130,862 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options.
+Added: Consists of 15,516 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options.
+Added: Consists of (i) 53,473 shares of our common stock, and (ii) 85,000 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options.
+Added: Consists of 14,580 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options.
+Added: Consists of (i) 6,250 shares of our common stock, and (ii) 52,500 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options.
+Added: Consists of (i) 150,034 shares of our common stock, and (ii) 66,000 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options.
+Added: Consists of (i) 60,498 shares of our common stock held directly, (ii) 2,000 shares of our common stock held by Mr.
+Added: Lefkowitz’s wife, (iv) 30,152 shares of our common stock held by Wade Capital Corporation Money Purchase Plan, an entity for which Mr.
+Added: Lefkowitz has voting and investment control, and (v) 63,000 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options.
+Added: Consists of the following held by our directors and executive
+Added: officers (A) 476,540 shares of our common stock, and (B) 1,261,113 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options.
+Added: Performance Graph
+Added: following performance graph shall not be deemed to be “soliciting material” or “filed” or incorporated
+Added: by reference in future filings with the SEC, or subject to the liabilities of Section 18 of the Exchange Act except as shall be
+Added: expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
+Added: The performance graph compares the performance of our common stock to
+Added: the NASDAQ Composite Index and the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index.
The graph covers the most recent five-year period ended December
−Removed: The graph assumes that the
−Removed: value of the investment in our common stock and each index was $100.00 at December 31, 2014, and that all dividends are reinvested.
−Removed: On March 26, 2019, we effected a 1-for-5
−Removed: reverse stock split of our issued and outstanding shares of common stock, par value $0.001, per share, by combining, reclassifying
−Removed: and changing each authorized and outstanding five shares of “old”
−Removed: common stock into one share of “new”
−Removed: common stock.
−Removed: No fractional shares were issued, and, in lieu thereof, where applicable, one whole share was issued.
−Removed: the reverse stock split, reclassification, combination and change, proportional adjustments were also made to our number of shares
−Removed: of common stock issuable upon conversion of outstanding preferred shares and the convertible note payable, warrants and options
−Removed: and other equity awards.
−Removed: The reverse stock split did not affect the par value per share of our common stock (which remains at $0.001
−Removed: per share) or the total number of shares of common stock that are authorized to be issued pursuant to our Amended and Restated
−Removed: Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, which remains at 160 million shares.
−Removed: All issued and outstanding share and per share amounts
−Removed: included in the accompanying consolidated financial statements and in this report have been adjusted to reflect the reverse stock
−Removed: split, reclassification, combination and change for all periods presented.
−Removed: Cumulative Total Return
+Added: The graph assumes that the value of the investment in our common stock and each index was $100.00 at December 31, 2015,
+Added: and that all dividends are reinvested.
CorMedix Inc.
NASDAQ Biotechnology
−Removed: Certain Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence
−Removed: Related Party Transactions
−Removed: On September 6, 2019, we consummated a
−Removed: securities exchange agreement (the “Exchange Agreement”), dated as of August 14, 2019, with Elliott Associates,
−Removed: Elliott International, and Manchester Securities Corp.
−Removed: (together “Elliott”), pursuant to which we exchanged
−Removed: certain of our outstanding securities (the “Exchanged Securities”) together with an aggregate cash payment of
−Removed: $2,000,000 for 100,000 shares of Series G Preferred Stock.
−Removed: The Exchanged Securities, which in the aggregate were exercisable
−Removed: or convertible for 5,017,769 shares of common stock, consisted of (i) all of the shares of our Series C-2 Preferred Stock,
−Removed: Series D Preferred Stock and Series F Preferred Stock held by Elliott, (ii) all of the warrants held by Elliott, and (iii)
−Removed: all of the 10% Senior Secured Convertible Notes issued on December 31, 2018 held by Elliott, with an aggregate principal
−Removed: amount of $7,879,688, including accrued interest compounded quarterly of $379,688.
−Removed: The Exchanged Securities, other than the
−Removed: Series E Warrants, were cancelled upon delivery of such Exchanged Securities to us and the issuance of the Series G Preferred
−Removed: Stock to the holders.
−Removed: No shares of Series G Preferred Stock were issued in exchange for the surrender and cancellation
−Removed: of the Series E Warrants owned by Elliott, which were cancelled upon delivery to the Company.
−Removed: Additionally, our Series E
−Removed: Preferred Stock, which is owned by Elliott, was amended to conform certain of the restrictive covenants to those in the
−Removed: Series G Preferred Stock, and to provide the shares of Series E Preferred Stock with similar rights to vote on an
−Removed: as-converted basis.
−Removed: Additionally, on September 6, 2019, in connection
−Removed: with the closing of the transactions under the Exchange Agreement, we also amended and restated the Registration Rights Agreement,
−Removed: dated as of November 9, 2017, by and between us and Elliott, in order to include the shares of common stock currently held by Elliott,
−Removed: and the shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Series G Preferred Stock and the Series E Preferred Stock as registrable
−Removed: securities thereunder.
−Removed: Procedures for Review and
−Removed: Approval of Transactions with Related Persons
−Removed: Pursuant to the Audit Committee Charter,
−Removed: the Audit Committee is responsible for reviewing and approving all related party transactions as defined under Item 404 of Regulation
−Removed: S-K, after reviewing each such transaction for potential conflicts of interests and other improprieties.
−Removed: Our policies and procedures
−Removed: for review and approval of transactions with related persons are in writing in our Code of Conduct and Ethics available on our
−Removed: website at www.cormedix.com under the “Investor Relations—Corporate Governance”
−Removed: The information on Board independence is
−Removed: found in Item 10 of this Report under the heading “Board Independence.”
−Removed: Principal Accounting Fees and Services
−Removed: Fees Paid to the Independent Registered Public Accounting
−Removed: The following table sets forth fees billed
−Removed: to us by Friedman LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, for services
+Added: Copyright©
+Added: 2021 Russell Investment Group.
+Added: All rights reserved.
+Added: Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence
+Added: Party Transactions
+Added: September 6, 2019, we consummated a securities exchange agreement (the “Exchange Agreement”), dated as of August 14,
+Added: 2019, with Elliott Associates, Elliott International, and Manchester Securities Corp.
+Added: (together “Elliott”), pursuant
+Added: to which we exchanged certain of our outstanding securities (the “Exchanged Securities”) together with an aggregate
+Added: cash payment of $2,000,000 for 100,000 shares of Series G Preferred Stock.
+Added: The Exchanged Securities, which in the aggregate were
+Added: exercisable or convertible for 5,017,769 shares of common stock, consisted of (i) all of the shares of our Series C-2 Preferred
+Added: Stock, Series D Preferred Stock and Series F Preferred Stock held by Elliott, (ii) all of the warrants held by Elliott, and (iii)
+Added: all of the 10% Senior Secured Convertible Notes issued on December 31, 2018 held by Elliott, with an aggregate principal amount
+Added: of $7,879,688, including accrued interest compounded quarterly of $379,688.
+Added: The Exchanged Securities, other than the Series E
+Added: Warrants, were cancelled upon delivery of such Exchanged Securities to us and the issuance of the Series G Preferred Stock to
+Added: No shares of Series G Preferred Stock were issued in exchange for the surrender and cancellation of the Series E
+Added: Warrants owned by Elliott, which were cancelled upon delivery to the Company.
+Added: Additionally, our Series E Preferred Stock, which
+Added: is owned by Elliott, was amended to conform certain of the restrictive covenants to those in the Series G Preferred Stock, and
+Added: to provide the shares of Series E Preferred Stock with similar rights to vote on an as-converted basis.
+Added: Additionally, on September
+Added: 6, 2019, in connection with the closing of the transactions under the Exchange Agreement, we also amended and restated the Registration
+Added: Rights Agreement, dated as of November 9, 2017, by and between us and Elliott, in order to include the shares of common stock currently
+Added: held by Elliott, and the shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Series G Preferred Stock and the Series E Preferred
+Added: Stock as registrable securities thereunder.
+Added: for Review and Approval of Transactions with Related Persons
+Added: to the Audit Committee Charter, the Audit Committee is responsible for reviewing and approving all related party transactions
+Added: as defined under Item 404 of Regulation S-K, after reviewing each such transaction for potential conflicts of interests and other
+Added: improprieties.
+Added: Our policies and procedures for review and approval of transactions with related persons are in writing in our
+Added: Code of Conduct and Ethics available on our website at www.cormedix.com under the “Investor Relations—Corporate Governance”
+Added: information on Board independence is found in Item 10 of this Report under the heading “Board Independence.”
+Added: Accounting Fees and Services
+Added: Paid to the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
+Added: following table sets forth fees billed to us by Friedman LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm for the years
+Added: ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, for services relating to:
auditing our annual financial statements;
−Removed: reviewing our financial statements included in our quarterly reports on
+Added: reviewing our financial
+Added: statements included in our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q;
reviewing registration statements during 2020 and 2019;
−Removed: financing activities in 2019 and 2018;
−Removed: and services rendered
−Removed: in connection with tax compliance, tax advice and tax planning, and all other fees for services rendered.
+Added: financing activities
+Added: in 2020 and 2019;
+Added: and services rendered in connection with tax compliance, tax advice and tax planning, and all other fees for
+Added: services rendered.
Audit Related Fees
All Other Fees
−Removed: Audit Committee Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures
−Removed: Pursuant to its charter, the Audit
−Removed: Committee is responsible for reviewing and approving in advance any audit and any permissible non-audit engagement or
−Removed: relationship between us and our independent registered public accounting firm.
−Removed: The Audit Committee may delegate to one or
−Removed: more designated members of the Audit Committee the authority to grant pre-approvals, provided such approvals are presented to
−Removed: the Audit Committee at a subsequent meeting.
+Added: Committee Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures
+Added: to its charter, the Audit Committee is responsible for reviewing and approving in advance any audit and any permissible non-audit
+Added: engagement or relationship between us and our independent registered public accounting firm.
+Added: The Audit Committee may delegate
+Added: to one or more designated members of the Audit Committee the authority to grant pre-approvals, provided such approvals are presented
+Added: to the Audit Committee at a subsequent meeting.
If the Audit Committee elects to establish pre-approval policies and procedures
−Removed: regarding non-audit services, the Audit Committee must be informed of each non-audit service provided by our independent
−Removed: registered public accounting firm.
−Removed: Audit Committee pre-approval of audit and non-audit services will not be required if the
−Removed: engagement for the services is entered into pursuant to pre-approval policies and procedures, provided the policies and
−Removed: procedures are detailed as to the particular service, the Audit Committee is informed of each service provided and such
−Removed: policies and procedures do not include delegation of the Audit Committee’s responsibilities under the Exchange Act to
−Removed: our management.
−Removed: Audit Committee pre-approval of non-audit services (other than review and attestation services) also will not
−Removed: be required if such services fall within available exceptions established by the SEC.
−Removed: All services performed by our
−Removed: independent registered public accounting firm during 2019 were pre-approved by the Audit Committee.
−Removed: Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules
−Removed: (a) List of documents filed as part of this report:
−Removed: Financial Statements:
−Removed: The financial statements
−Removed: of the Company and the related reports of the Company’s independent registered public accounting firms thereon have been
−Removed: filed under Item 8 hereof.
+Added: regarding non-audit services, the Audit Committee must be informed of each non-audit service provided by our independent registered
+Added: public accounting firm.
+Added: Audit Committee pre-approval of audit and non-audit services will not be required if the engagement for
+Added: the services is entered into pursuant to pre-approval policies and procedures, provided the policies and procedures are detailed
+Added: as to the particular service, the Audit Committee is informed of each service provided and such policies and procedures do not
+Added: include delegation of the Audit Committee’s responsibilities under the Exchange Act to our management.
+Added: Audit Committee pre-approval
+Added: of non-audit services (other than review and attestation services) also will not be required if such services fall within available
+Added: exceptions established by the SEC.
+Added: All services performed by our independent registered public accounting firm during 2020 were
+Added: pre-approved by the Audit Committee.
Financial Statement Schedules
−Removed: Exhibit Index
−Removed: The following is a
−Removed: list of exhibits filed as part of this Form 10-K:
+Added: of documents filed as part of this report:
+Added: financial statements of the Company and the related reports of the Company’s independent registered public accounting firms
+Added: thereon have been filed under Item 8 hereof.
+Added: Statement Schedules:
+Added: following is a list of exhibits filed as part of this Form 10-K:
Exhibit Number
Description of Document
−Removed: Registrant’s Form
+Added: Registrant’s Form
Exhibit Number
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Riley FBR, Inc.
+Added: Amended and Restated At Market Issuance Sales Agreement, dated November 27, 2020, by and among CorMedix Inc., B.
+Added: Riley Securities, Inc.
+Added: and Needham & Company LLC
Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation.
Certificate of Amendment to Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, dated February 24, 2010.
−Removed: Form of Amended and Restated Bylaws as amended April 19, 2016.
+Added: Second Amended and Restated Bylaws as amended October 8, 2020.
Certificate of Amendment to Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, dated December 3, 2012.
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issued on May 3, 2017.
−Removed: Form of Underwriter’s Warrant to Purchase Common Stock of CorMedix Inc., issued May 3, 2017.
+Added: Form of Underwriter’s Warrant to Purchase Common Stock of CorMedix Inc., issued May 3, 2017.
Description of Capital Stock of CorMedix Inc.
8 unchanged sentences
Release of Claims and Severance Modification, dated July 17, 2015, between Randy Milby and CorMedix Inc.
+Added: Executive Employment Agreement, dated as of September 26, 2019, between CorMedix Inc.
+Added: and Khoso Baluch
+Added: Executive Employment Agreement, dated and effective May 11, 2020, between CorMedix Inc.
+Added: and Matthew David.
Exhibit Number
Description of Document
−Removed: Registrant’s Form
+Added: Registrant’s Form
Exhibit Number
Filed Herewith
−Removed: Executive Employment Agreement, dated as of September 26, 2019, between CorMedix Inc.
−Removed: and Khoso Baluch
−Removed: Employment Agreement, effective February 1, 2017, between CorMedix Inc.
−Removed: and Robert Cook.
−Removed: Employment Agreement, effective March 1, 2017, between CorMedix Inc.
+Added: Executive Employment Agreement, dated and effective April 17, 2020, between CorMedix Inc.
and John Armstrong.
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and the investor named therein.
−Removed: Employment Agreement, effective March 19, 2018, between CorMedix Inc.
+Added: Executive Employment Agreement, dated and effective March 10, 2021, between CorMedix Inc.
and Elizabeth Masson-Hurlburt
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The following materials from CorMedix Inc.
−Removed: Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, formatted in Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL):
−Removed: (i) Balance Sheets at December 31, 2019 and 2018, (ii) Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, (iii) Statements of Changes in Stockholders’
−Removed: Equity for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, (iv) Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 and (v) Notes to the Financial Statements.**
−Removed: * Confidential treatment has been granted for portions
−Removed: of this document.
−Removed: The omitted portions of this document have been filed separately with the SEC.
−Removed: Form 10-K Summary
−Removed: Not applicable.
−Removed: Pursuant to the requirements
−Removed: of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned
−Removed: thereunto duly authorized.
−Removed: CORMEDIX INC.
+Added: Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, formatted
+Added: in Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL):
+Added: (i) Balance Sheets at December 31, 2020 and 2019, (ii) Statements of Operations
+Added: for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, (iii) Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity for the years ended
+Added: December 31, 2020 and 2019, (iv) Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 and (v) Notes to the
+Added: Financial Statements.
+Added: treatment has been granted for portions of this document.
+Added: The omitted portions of this document have been filed separately with
+Added: Portions of the exhibit have been omitted in reliance on Item 601(b)(10)(iv) of Regulation S-K.
+Added: Indicates management contract or compensation plan.
+Added: to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf
+Added: by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
March 30, 2021
/s/ Khoso Baluch
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer
−Removed: (Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial
−Removed: and Accounting Officer)
−Removed: Pursuant to the requirements
−Removed: of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant
−Removed: and in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
−Removed: /s/ Khoso Baluch
+Added: Executive Officer
+Added: Executive Officer)
+Added: March 30, 2021
+Added: /s/ Matthew David
+Added: Matthew David
+Added: Financial Officer
+Added: Financial and Accounting Officer)
+Added: to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf
+Added: of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
Chief Executive Officer and Director
March 30, 2021
−Removed: (Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
−Removed: /s/ Myron Kaplan
−Removed: Chairman of the Board and Director
+Added: (Principal Executive Officer)
+Added: Chief Financial Officer
March 30, 2021
−Removed: /s/ Janet Dillione
+Added: Matthew David
+Added: (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
+Added: Director and Chairman of the Board
March 30, 2021
+Added: March 30, 2021
+Added: March 30, 2021
Janet Dillione
−Removed: /s/ Alan Dunton
March 30, 2021
−Removed: /s/ Mehmood Khan
March 30, 2021
−Removed: /s/ Steven Lefkowitz
+Added: Steven Lefkowitz
March 30, 2021
Steven Lefkowitz
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARY
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
Statements Index
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Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss) Years Ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’
−Removed: Equity Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity Years Ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
+Added: Statements of Cash Flows Years Ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
−Removed: the Board of Directors and
+Added: To the Board of Directors and
Stockholders of CorMedix Inc.
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balance sheets of CorMedix Inc.
−Removed: and subsidiary (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, and the related
−Removed: consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss, stockholders’
−Removed: equity, and cash flows for each of the years
−Removed: in the two-year period ended December 31, 2019, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial
−Removed: statements”).
−Removed: In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial
−Removed: position of the Company as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the
−Removed: years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2019, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United
−Removed: States of America.
−Removed: We also have audited, in accordance with
−Removed: the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”), the Company’s internal
−Removed: control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2019, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated
−Removed: Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), and our report dated
−Removed: March 16, 2020, expressed an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: and Subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, and the related
+Added: consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss), changes in stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for
+Added: each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2020, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated
+Added: financial statements”).
+Added: In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the
+Added: financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each
+Added: of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2020, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the
+Added: United States of America.
Basis for Opinion
These consolidated financial statements
−Removed: are the responsibility of the Company’s management.
−Removed: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated
+Added: are the responsibility of the Company’s management.
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated
financial statements based on our audits.
−Removed: We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent
−Removed: with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
−Removed: federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the
−Removed: Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
+Added: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight
+Added: Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
+Added: securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with
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the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
−Removed: Our audits included performing
−Removed: procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud,
−Removed: and performing procedures that respond to those risks.
−Removed: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding
−Removed: the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles
−Removed: used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial
−Removed: We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
+Added: The Company is not required
+Added: to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: As part of our audits, we are
+Added: required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion
+Added: on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
+Added: Our audits included performing procedures
+Added: to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing
+Added: procedures that respond to those risks.
+Added: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and
+Added: disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant
+Added: estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
+Added: Critical Audit Matter
+Added: The critical audit matters communicated
+Added: below are matters arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that were communicated or required
+Added: to be communicated to the audit committee and that:
+Added: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated
+Added: financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments.
+Added: The communication of critical
+Added: audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not,
+Added: by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts
+Added: or disclosures to which they relate.
+Added: Critical Audit Matter
+Added: During the year ended December
+Added: 31, 2020, the Company recorded stock-based compensation expense of $2.5 million.
+Added: As discussed in Note 8 to the consolidated financial
+Added: statements, the Company issues various types of equity awards, including stock options and restricted stock units.
+Added: Auditing the Company’s accounting
+Added: for stock-based compensation required complex auditor judgment due to the number and variety of equity awards outstanding, the
+Added: inclusion of performance vesting criteria in certain awards, and the subjectivity of assumptions used to value stock-based awards.
+Added: In particular, judgment was required to evaluate the nature of the performance conditions, as well as to assess the satisfaction
+Added: of the performance targets.
+Added: How We Addressed
+Added: the Matter in Our Audit
+Added: To test stock based compensation
+Added: expense, we performed audit procedures that included, among others, obtaining an understanding of the Company’s controls
+Added: over stock-based compensation, assessing the completeness of the awards granted and evaluating the methodologies used to estimate
+Added: the fair value of these awards.
+Added: We also tested the accuracy of the data used in measuring the awards by agreeing the underlying
+Added: inputs, such as grant date, grant price, performance targets and vesting terms, among others, back to source documents, such as
+Added: compensation meeting minutes or award letters and testing the clerical accuracy of the calculation of the expense recorded.
+Added: determined whether milestone targets were satisfied in accordance with the contractual conditions and recalculated grant date fair
+Added: We also evaluated the adequacy of the Company’s stock-based compensation disclosures included in Note 8 in relation
+Added: to these matters.
/s/ Friedman LLP
−Removed: We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2014.
−Removed: Marlton, New Jersey
+Added: We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2014.
March 30, 2021
−Removed: And Subsidiary
+Added: And Subsidiaries
BALANCE SHEETS
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Security deposit
−Removed: Other prepaid expenses and current
+Added: Other prepaid expenses and current assets
Total current assets
Property and equipment, net
−Removed: LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’
+Added: Operating lease right-of-use assets
+Added: LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current liabilities
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Accrued expenses
+Added: Operating lease liabilities, short-term
Deferred revenue
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Operating lease liabilities, net of current portion
−Removed: Convertible note, related party,
TOTAL LIABILITIES
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (Note 7)
−Removed: STOCKHOLDERS’
+Added: STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Preferred stock - $ 0.001 par value:
2,000,000 shares authorized;
−Removed: 241,623 and 419,585 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2019 and 2018
+Added: 241,623 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2020 and 2019
Common stock - $ 0.001 par value:
−Removed: shares authorized at December 31, 2019;
−Removed: 25,665,350 and 21,775,173 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2019 and 2018,
+Added: 160,000,000 shares authorized at December 31, 2020 and 2019;
+Added: 33,558,096 and 25,665,350 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively
Accumulated other comprehensive gain
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( 195,421,172 )
−Removed: TOTAL STOCKHOLDERS’
−Removed: TOTAL LIABILITIES
−Removed: AND STOCKHOLDERS’
+Added: TOTAL STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
+Added: TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
accompanying notes are integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: and Subsidiary
+Added: and Subsidiaries
STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
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Selling, general and administrative
+Added: ( 13,877,944 )
+Added: ( 9,865,005 )
Total operating expenses
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Foreign exchange transaction loss
−Removed: Interest expense including amortization
−Removed: of debt discount
+Added: Interest expense including amortization of debt discount
Total other income (expense)
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Other Comprehensive Income (Loss):
−Removed: Unrealized gain from investments
−Removed: Foreign currency translation (loss)
−Removed: Total other comprehensive (loss)
−Removed: Comprehensive
+Added: Unrealized gain (loss) from investments
+Added: Foreign currency translation gain
+Added: Total other comprehensive income
+Added: Comprehensive Loss
$ ( 22,022,934 )
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Deemed dividend as a result of warrant modification
−Removed: Deemed dividend as a result of
−Removed: exchange of convertible note and Series C-2, Series D and Series F preferred stock, related party
+Added: Deemed dividend as a result of exchange of convertible note and Series C-2, Series D and Series F preferred stock, related party
( 26,733,098 )
−Removed: Net Loss Attributable
−Removed: to Common Shareholders
+Added: Net Loss Attributable to Common Shareholders
( 22,027,683 )
( 43,535,672 )
−Removed: Common Share –
−Removed: Basic and Diluted
−Removed: Weighted Average
−Removed: Common Shares Outstanding –
−Removed: Basic and Diluted
+Added: Net Loss Per Common Share – Basic and Diluted
+Added: Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding – Basic and Diluted
accompanying notes are integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARY
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Years Ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Preferred Stock –
−Removed: C-2, C-3, Series D, Series E, Series F and Series G
−Removed: Other Comprehensive
−Removed: Total Stockholders’
−Removed: Balance at December 31, 2017
+Added: Stock – Series C-2, C-3, Series D, Series E, Series F and Series G
+Added: Other Comprehen-sive Gain
+Added: Stockholders’
+Added: at December 31, 2018
$ 183,803,636
$ ( 178,988,098 )
−Removed: Stock issued in connection with ATM sale of common stock,
−Removed: Value of warrants related to convertible note
−Removed: Beneficial conversion feature related to convertible
−Removed: Stock issued in connection with warrants exercised
−Removed: Stock issued in connection with warrants cashless exercised
−Removed: Stock issued in connection with stock options exercised
−Removed: Issuance of restricted stock
−Removed: Stock issued for payment of deferred fees
+Added: Stock issued in connection
+Added: with ATM sale of common stock, net
+Added: Stock issue in connection
+Added: with warrants exercised
+Added: Exchange of convertible
+Added: note for Series G preferred stock, net, related party
+Added: Exchange of Series
+Added: C-2, Series D and Series F preferred stock for Series G preferred stock, related party
+Added: Issuance of Series
+Added: G preferred stock, related party
+Added: Stock issued in connection
+Added: with stock options exercised
+Added: Conversion of Series
+Added: C-3 non-voting preferred stock to common stock
+Added: Issuance of vested
+Added: restricted stock
+Added: Issuance of common
+Added: stock as a result of reverse stock split rounding
Stock-based compensation
−Removed: Cumulative effect of adoption of ASC 606
−Removed: Other comprehensive gain
+Added: Other comprehensive
( 16,433,074 )
( 16,433,074 )
−Removed: Balance at December 31, 2018
+Added: at December 31, 2019
( 195,421,172 )
−Removed: Stock issued in connection with ATM sale of common stock,
−Removed: Stock issue in connection with warrants exercised
−Removed: Exchange of convertible note for Series G preferred stock,
−Removed: net, related party
−Removed: Exchange of Series C-2, Series D and Series F preferred
−Removed: stock for Series G preferred stock, related party
−Removed: Issuance of Series G preferred stock, related party
−Removed: Stock issued in connection with stock options exercised
−Removed: Conversion of Series C-3 non-voting preferred stock to
−Removed: Issuance of vested restricted stock
−Removed: Issuance of common stock as a result of reverse stock
−Removed: split rounding
+Added: Stock issued in connection
+Added: with public offering, net
+Added: Stock issued in connection
+Added: with ATM sale of common stock, net
+Added: Stock issue in connection
+Added: with warrants exercised
+Added: Issuance of vested
+Added: restricted stock
Stock-based compensation
−Removed: Other comprehensive loss
+Added: Other comprehensive
( 22,027,683 )
( 22,027,683 )
−Removed: Balance at December 31, 2019
+Added: at December 31, 2020
$ 261,536,061
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accompanying notes are integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARY
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
−Removed: Years Ended December
−Removed: 31, 2019 and 2018
+Added: Ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
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Non-cash interest expense
+Added: Non-cash lease expense
Inventory reserve
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
−Removed: Decrease in trade receivables
+Added: (Increase) decrease in trade receivables
Decrease in inventory
−Removed: (Increase) decrease in prepaid expenses and other current assets
+Added: Increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets
Increase (decrease) in accounts payable
−Removed: Increase (decrease) in accrued expenses
+Added: ( 1,564,381 )
+Added: Decrease in accrued expenses
+Added: ( 1,883,149 )
Decrease in deferred revenue
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( 8,549,758 )
−Removed: Sale of short-term investments
+Added: ( 14,106,369 )
+Added: Maturity of short-term investments
Purchase of equipment
−Removed: Net cash used in (provided by) investing activities
+Added: Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities
( 12,020,459 )
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Proceeds from sale of common stock from at-the-market program, net
−Removed: Proceeds from senior convertible note
−Removed: Payment of debt issuance costs in connection with senior convertible note
+Added: Proceeds from the public offering, net
Proceeds from exchange agreement, related party
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Foreign exchange effects on cash
−Removed: NET (DECREASE) INCREASE IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
−Removed: CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH –
−Removed: BEGINNING OF YEAR
−Removed: CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH –
+Added: NET INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
+Added: ( 1,270,136 )
+Added: CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH – BEGINNING OF YEAR
+Added: CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH – END OF YEAR
Cash paid for interest
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Deemed dividend as a result of exchange of convertible note, Series C-2, Series D and Series F convertible preferred shares, related party
−Removed: Non-cash portion of debt discount on senior convertible notes
Issuance of common stock for vested restricted stock units
−Removed: Issuance of common stock for payment of deferred fees
Right-of-use asset and lease liability recognized under ASC 842
+Added: Unrealized gain (loss) from investments
Conversion of preferred stock to common stock
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accompanying notes are integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
+Added: CORMEDIX INC.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
1 — Organization, Business and Basis of Presentation:
and Business:
−Removed: (“CorMedix”
−Removed: or the “Company”) was incorporated in the State of Delaware on July 28, 2006.
+Added: (“CorMedix” or the “Company”) was incorporated in the State of Delaware on July 28, 2006.
is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing therapeutic products for the prevention and treatment
of infectious and inflammatory diseases.
−Removed: In 2013, the Company formed a wholly-owned subsidiary, CorMedix Europe GmbH.
−Removed: The Company’s primary focus is to
−Removed: develop its lead product candidate, Neutrolin ®
−Removed: , for potential commercialization in the United States (“U.S.”)
−Removed: and other key markets.
−Removed: The Company has in-licensed the worldwide rights to develop and commercialize Neutrolin, which is a novel
−Removed: anti-infective solution (a formulation of 1.35% taurolidine, 3.5% citrate and 1000 u/ml heparin) intended for the reduction and
−Removed: prevention of catheter-related infections and thrombosis in patients requiring central venous catheters in clinical settings such
−Removed: as hemodialysis, critical/intensive care, and oncology.
−Removed: In late 2013, the Company met with the
−Removed: Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) to determine the pathway for U.S.
−Removed: marketing approval of Neutrolin.
−Removed: launched the Phase 3 clinical trial in patients with hemodialysis catheters in the U.S.
−Removed: in December 2015.
+Added: In 2013, the Company formed a wholly-owned subsidiary, CorMedix Europe GmbH and in May
+Added: 2020, the Company formed a wholly-owned Spanish subsidiary, CorMedix Spain, S.L.U.
+Added: The Company’s
+Added: primary focus is to develop its lead product candidate, DefenCath™, for potential commercialization in the United States
+Added: (“U.S.”) and other key markets.
+Added: The Company has in-licensed the worldwide rights to develop and commercialize DefenCath/Neutrolin®,
+Added: which is a novel anti-infective solution (a formulation of taurolidine 1.35% and heparin 1000 u/ml) intended for the reduction
+Added: and prevention of catheter-related infections and thrombosis in patients requiring central venous catheters in clinical settings
+Added: such as hemodialysis, total parenteral nutrition, and oncology.
+Added: The name DefenCath is the U.S.
+Added: proprietary name conditionally approved
+Added: Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), while the name Neutrolin is currently used in the European Union
+Added: (“EU”) and other territories where the Company has received CE-Mark approval for the commercial distribution of Neutrolin
+Added: as a catheter lock solution (“CLS”) regulated as a medical device.
+Added: January 2015, the FDA designated DefenCath as a Qualified Infectious Disease Product (“QIDP”) for prevention of catheter-related
+Added: blood stream infections in patients with end stage renal disease receiving hemodialysis through a central venous catheter.
+Added: Catheter-related
+Added: blood stream infections and clotting can be life-threatening.
+Added: The QIDP designation provides five years of market exclusivity in
+Added: addition to the five years granted for a New Chemical Entity upon approval of a New Drug Application (“NDA”).
+Added: in January 2015, the FDA granted Fast Track designation to DefenCath Catheter Lock Solution, a designation intended to facilitate
+Added: development and expedite review of drugs that treat serious and life-threatening conditions so that the approved drug can reach
+Added: the market expeditiously.
+Added: The Fast Track designation of DefenCath provides us with the opportunity to meet with the FDA on a more
+Added: frequent basis during the development process, and also ensures eligibility to request priority review of the marketing application.
+Added: December 2015, the Company launched its Phase 3 Prospective, Multicenter, Double-blind, Randomized, Active Control Study to Demonstrate
+Added: Safety & Effectiveness of DefenCath/Neutrolin in Preventing Catheter-related Bloodstream Infection in Subjects on Hemodialysis
+Added: for End Stage Renal Disease (“LOCK-IT-100”), in patients with hemodialysis catheters in the U.S.
The clinical trial
−Removed: named Phase 3 Prospective, Multicenter, Double-blind, Randomized, Active Control Study to Demonstrate Safety and Effectiveness
−Removed: of Neutrolin in Preventing Catheter-related Bloodstream Infection in Subjects on Hemodialysis for End Stage Renal Disease (“LOCK-IT-100”),
−Removed: was a prospective, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, active control trial which aimed to demonstrate the efficacy and safety
−Removed: of Neutrolin in preventing catheter-related bloodstream infections (“CRBSI”), in subjects receiving hemodialysis therapy
−Removed: as treatment for end stage renal disease.
−Removed: The primary endpoint for the trial was time to CRBSI.
−Removed: The trial evaluated Neutrolin
−Removed: relative to the active control heparin by documenting the incidence of CRBSI and the time until the occurrence of CRBSI
−Removed: for each study subject.
−Removed: Secondary endpoints were catheter patency, which was defined as required use of tissue plasminogen activating
−Removed: factor (“tPA”), or removal of catheter due to dysfunction, and removal of catheter for any reason.
−Removed: The Company established the Clinical Adjudication
−Removed: Committee (“CAC”), to critically and independently assess CRBSI while being blinded to treatment assignment.
−Removed: 2018, the CAC reviewed potential cases of CRBSI in the Company’s LOCK-IT-100 study that occurred through early December
−Removed: 2017 and identified 28 such cases.
−Removed: An interim efficacy analysis was performed when the first 28 CRBSIs were identified.
−Removed: 2018, the independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (“DSMB”), had completed its review of the interim analysis of the
−Removed: data from the LOCK-IT-100 study.
−Removed: Based on the first 28 cases, there was a highly statistically significant 72% reduction in CRBSI
−Removed: relative to the control (p=0.0034).
−Removed: Because the pre-specified level of statistical significance was reached for the primary endpoint
−Removed: and efficacy had been demonstrated with no safety concerns, the DSMB recommended the study be terminated early.
−Removed: Following discussions with the FDA, the
−Removed: Company proceeded with an orderly termination of LOCK-IT-100.
−Removed: Although the FDA usually requires two pivotal clinical trials to
−Removed: provide substantial evidence of safety and effectiveness for approval of an NDA, the FDA will in some cases accept one adequate
−Removed: and well-controlled trial, where it is a large multicenter trial with a broad range of subjects and investigation sites with procedures
−Removed: to include trial quality that has demonstrated a clinically meaningful and statistically very persuasive effect on prevention
−Removed: of a disease with potentially serious outcome.
−Removed: The Company plans to proceed with submission of the NDA for Neutrolin®
−Removed: on the results of LOCK-IT-100.
−Removed: Whether data from LOCK-IT-100 are sufficient will be a review issue with the FDA.
−Removed: The FDA has agreed that the Neutrolin NDA
−Removed: is eligible for both priority review and for submission under rolling review.
−Removed: In January 2020, the FDA granted the request for
−Removed: rolling review.
−Removed: A determination on priority review will not be made until the submitted NDA is reviewed by the FDA to determine
−Removed: the acceptance for filing.
−Removed: The FDA informs the applicant of a Priority Review designation within sixty days of the receipt of
−Removed: the complete original application, if it determines the criteria have been met.
−Removed: Priority Review designation would mean FDA’s
−Removed: goal is to take action on an application within 6 months, compared to a standard review period of ten months.
−Removed: FDA also agreed that the Company could request consideration of Neutrolin for approval under the Limited Population Pathway for
−Removed: Antibacterial and Antifungal Drugs (“LPAD”).
−Removed: LPAD, passed as part of the 21 st Century Cures Act, is a new
−Removed: program intended to expedite the development and approval of certain antibacterial and antifungal drugs to treat serious or life-threatening
−Removed: infections in limited populations of patients with unmet needs.
−Removed: Given that the LPAD pathway provides for a streamlined clinical
−Removed: development program for a limited population that may involve smaller, shorter, or fewer clinical trials, the Company believes
−Removed: that LPAD will provide additional flexibility for the FDA to approve Neutrolin to prevent CRBSIs in the limited population of
−Removed: patients with end-stage renal disease receiving hemodialysis through a central venous catheter.
−Removed: the European Union (“EU”), Neutrolin is regulated as a Class 2 medical device.
−Removed: In July 2013, the Company received
−Removed: CE Mark approval for Neutrolin.
−Removed: In December 2013, the Company started commercial sales of Neutrolin in Germany for the prevention
−Removed: of CRBSI, and maintenance of catheter patency in hemodialysis patients using a tunneled, cuffed central venous catheter for vascular
−Removed: To date, Neutrolin is registered and may be sold in certain EU and Middle Eastern countries for such treatment.
−Removed: September 2014, the TUV-SUD and The Medicines Evaluation Board of the Netherlands (“MEB”), granted a label expansion
−Removed: for Neutrolin for these same expanded indications for the EU.
−Removed: In December 2014, the Company received approval from the Hessian
−Removed: District President in Germany to expand the label to include use in oncology patients receiving chemotherapy, IV hydration and
−Removed: IV medications via central venous catheters.
−Removed: The expansion also adds patients receiving medication and IV fluids via central venous
−Removed: catheters in intensive or critical care units (cardiac care unit, surgical care unit, neonatal critical care unit, and urgent
−Removed: care centers).
−Removed: An indication for use in total parenteral nutrition was also approved.
−Removed: addition to Neutrolin, the Company is sponsoring a pre-clinical research collaboration for the use of taurolidine as a possible
+Added: was designed to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of DefenCath compared to the standard of care CLS, Heparin, in preventing
+Added: The primary endpoint for the trial assessed the incidence of CRBSI and time to CRBSI for each study subject.
+Added: endpoints were catheter patency, which was defined as required use of tissue plasminogen activating factor, or tPA, or removal
+Added: of catheter due to dysfunction, and removal of catheter for any reason.
+Added: previously agreed with the FDA, an interim efficacy analysis was performed when the first 28 potential CRBSI cases were identified
+Added: in our LOCK-IT-100 study that occurred through early December 2017.
+Added: Based on these first 28 cases, there was a highly statistically
+Added: significant 72% reduction in CRBSI by DefenCath relative to the active control of heparin (p=0.0034).
+Added: Because the pre-specified
+Added: level of statistical significance was reached for the primary endpoint and efficacy had been demonstrated with no safety concerns,
+Added: the LOCK-IT-100 study was terminated early.
+Added: The study continued enrolling and treating subjects until study termination, and the
+Added: final analysis was based on a total of 795 subjects.
+Added: In a total of 41 cases, there was a 71% reduction in CRBSI by DefenCath relative
+Added: to heparin, which was highly statistically significant (p=0.0006), with a good safety profile.
+Added: The FDA granted the
+Added: Company’s request for a rolling submission and review of the NDA which is designed to expedite the approval process for products
+Added: being developed to address an unmet medical need.
+Added: Although the FDA usually requires two pivotal clinical trials to provide substantial
+Added: evidence of safety and effectiveness for approval of an NDA, the FDA will in some cases accept one adequate and well-controlled
+Added: trial, where it is a large multicenter trial with a broad range of subjects and investigation sites with procedures to include
+Added: trial quality that has demonstrated a clinically meaningful and statistically very persuasive effect on prevention of a disease
+Added: with potentially serious outcome.
+Added: In March 2020,
+Added: the Company began the modular submission process for the NDA for DefenCath for the prevention of CRBSI in hemodialysis
+Added: patients, and in August 2020, the FDA accepted for filing the DefenCath NDA.
+Added: The FDA also granted the Company’s request
+Added: for priority review, which provides for a six-month review period instead of the standard ten-month review period.
+Added: Company announced in March 2021, the FDA informed the Company that it will not approve the NDA for DefenCath in its present
+Added: The FDA noted concerns at the third-party manufacturing facility after a review of records requested by the FDA and
+Added: provided by the manufacturing facility.
+Added: The Company is working with the manufacturing facility to develop plans for
+Added: resolution of the deficiencies.
+Added: Additionally, the FDA is requiring a manual extraction study to demonstrate that the labeled
+Added: volume can be consistently withdrawn from the vials despite an existing in-process control to demonstrate fill volume within
+Added: specifications.
+Added: The Company expects to be able to complete this requirement expeditiously.
+Added: Satisfactory resolution of these
+Added: issues is required for approval of the DefenCath NDA by a pre-approval inspection and/or adequate manufacturing facility
+Added: responses addressing these concerns.
+Added: If an inspection is required, the Company may encounter delays in obtaining FDA approval
+Added: because the FDA is currently facing a backlog due to the pandemic and is actively working to define an approach for
+Added: scheduling outstanding inspections once safe travel may resume.
+Added: The Company will request a meeting with the FDA, which the
+Added: Company estimates will occur in mid-April, to obtain agreement with the FDA on the proposed resolutions of the
+Added: deficiencies.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued)
+Added: FDA did not request additional clinical data and did not identify any deficiencies related to the data submitted on the efficacy
+Added: or safety of DefenCath from LOCK-IT-100.
+Added: In draft labeling discussed with the FDA, the FDA added that the initial approval will
+Added: be for the limited population of patients with kidney failure receiving chronic hemodialysis through a central venous catheter.
+Added: This is consistent with our request for approval pursuant to the Limited Population Pathway for Antibacterial and Antifungal Drugs
+Added: LPAD, passed as part of the 21 st Century Cures Act, is a new program intended to expedite the
+Added: development and approval of certain antibacterial and antifungal drugs to treat serious or life-threatening infections in limited
+Added: populations of patients with unmet needs.
+Added: LPAD provides for a streamlined clinical development program involving smaller, shorter,
+Added: or fewer clinical trials and is intended to encourage the development of safe and effective products that address unmet medical
+Added: needs of patients with serious bacterial and fungal infections.
+Added: We believe that LPAD will provide additional flexibility for the
+Added: FDA to approve DefenCath to reduce CRBSIs in the limited population of patients with kidney failure receiving hemodialysis through
+Added: a central venous catheter.
+Added: The Company intends
+Added: to pursue additional indications for DefenCath use as a CLS in populations with an unmet medical need that also represent a significant
+Added: market opportunity.
+Added: For example, the Company intends to pursue marketing authorization in the U.S.
+Added: for use as a CLS to reduce CRBSIs
+Added: in oncology and total parenteral nutrition patients using a central venous catheter.
+Added: addition to DefenCath, the Company is sponsoring a pre-clinical research collaboration for the use of taurolidine as a possible
treatment for rare orphan pediatric tumors.
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filed in several indications, including wound closure, surgical meshes, and wound management.
−Removed: The FDA regards taurolidine as a new chemical
−Removed: entity and therefore, it is currently an unapproved new drug.
−Removed: The Company might in the future pursue product candidates that would
−Removed: involve devices impregnated with taurolidine, and the Company believes that at the current time such products would be combination
−Removed: products subject to device premarket submission requirements (while subject also, under review by the FDA, to the standards for
−Removed: drug approvability).
−Removed: Consequently, given that there is no appropriate predicate medical device currently marketed in the U.S.
−Removed: on which a 510(k) approval process could be based and that taurolidine is not yet approved in any application, the Company anticipates
−Removed: that it would be required to submit a premarket approval application (“PMA”) for marketing authorization for any medical
−Removed: device indications that we may pursue for devices containing taurolidine.
−Removed: In the event that an NDA for Neutrolin is approved by
−Removed: the FDA, the regulatory pathway for these medical device product candidates may be revisited with the FDA.
−Removed: Although there may
−Removed: be no appropriate predicate, de novo Class II designation can be proposed, based on a risk assessment and a reasonable assurance
−Removed: of safety and effectiveness.
+Added: The Company was granted
+Added: a deferral by the FDA under the Pediatric Research Equity Act (“PREA”), that requires sponsors to conduct pediatric
+Added: studies for NDAs for a new active ingredient, such as taurolidine in DefenCath, unless a waiver or deferral is obtained from the
+Added: A deferral acknowledges that a pediatric assessment is required but permits the applicant to submit the pediatric assessment
+Added: after the submission of an NDA.
+Added: The Company has made a commitment to conduct the pediatric study after approval of the NDA for
+Added: use in adult hemodialysis patients.
+Added: Pediatric studies for an approved product conducted under PREA may qualify for pediatric exclusivity,
+Added: which if granted would provide an additional six months of marketing exclusivity.
+Added: DefenCath would then have the potential to receive
+Added: a total marketing exclusivity period of 10.5 years, including exclusivity pursuant to NCE and QIDP.
+Added: FDA regards taurolidine as a new chemical entity and therefore, it is currently an unapproved new drug.
+Added: The Company might in the
+Added: future pursue product candidates that would involve devices impregnated with taurolidine, and the Company believes that at the
+Added: current time such products would be combination products subject to device premarket submission requirements (while subject also,
+Added: under review by the FDA, to the standards for drug approvability).
+Added: Consequently, given that there is no appropriate predicate
+Added: medical device currently marketed in the U.S.
+Added: on which a 510(k) approval process could be based and that taurolidine is not yet
+Added: approved in any application, the Company anticipates that it would be required to submit a premarket approval application (“PMA”)
+Added: for marketing authorization for any medical device indications that we may pursue for devices containing taurolidine.
+Added: that an NDA for DefenCath is approved by the FDA, the regulatory pathway for these medical device product candidates may be revisited
+Added: with the FDA.
+Added: Although there may be no appropriate predicate, de novo Class II designation can be proposed, based on a risk assessment
+Added: and a reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness.
+Added: In the European Union
+Added: (“EU”), Neutrolin is regulated as a Class 3 medical device.
+Added: In July 2013, the Company received CE Mark approval for
+Added: In December 2013, the Company commercially launched Neutrolin in Germany for the prevention of CRBSI, and maintenance
+Added: of catheter patency in hemodialysis patients using a tunneled, cuffed central venous catheter for vascular access.
+Added: To date, Neutrolin
+Added: is registered and may be sold in certain European Union and Middle Eastern countries for such treatment.
+Added: In September 2014,
+Added: the TUV-SUD and The Medicines Evaluation Board of the Netherlands (“MEB”), granted a label expansion for Neutrolin
+Added: to include use in oncology patients receiving chemotherapy, intravenous (“IV”) hydration and IV medications via CVC
+Added: In December 2014, the Company received approval from the Hessian District President in Germany to expand the label
+Added: for these same expanded indications.
+Added: The expansion also adds patients receiving medication and IV fluids via CVC in intensive or
+Added: critical care units (cardiac care unit, surgical care unit, neonatal critical care unit, and urgent care centers).
+Added: An indication
+Added: for use in total parenteral nutrition was also approved.
+Added: In September 2019,
+Added: the Company’s registration with the Saudi Arabia Food and Drug Administration, or the SFDA, expired.
+Added: As a result, the Company
+Added: cannot sell Neutrolin in Saudi Arabia.
+Added: The Company intends to complete the documentation required to renew its registration with
+Added: the SFDA, however, the Company cannot predict how long the renewal process will take.
+Added: There is no assurance that the registration
+Added: will be renewed by the SFDA.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued )
March 26, 2019, the Company effected a 1-for-5 reverse stock split of its issued and outstanding shares of common stock, par value
−Removed: $0.001, per share (“Common Stock”), by combining, reclassifying and changing each authorized and outstanding five
−Removed: shares of “old”
−Removed: common stock into one share of “new”
−Removed: common stock.
+Added: $0.001, per share (“Common Stock”), by combining, reclassifying and changing each authorized and outstanding five
+Added: shares of “old” common stock into one share of “new” common stock.
No fractional shares were issued, and,
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for all periods presented.
−Removed: The Company is using its current cash resources
−Removed: for the preparation and submission of the NDA for Neutrolin and for certain pre-launch activities.
−Removed: Commercial preparations are
−Removed: dependent on the Company’s ability to raise sufficient additional funds through various potential sources, such as equity,
−Removed: debt financings, and/or strategic relationships and potential strategic transactions.
−Removed: The Company can provide no assurances that
−Removed: financing or strategic relationships will be available on acceptable terms, or at all, to complete its clinical development program
−Removed: for Neutrolin.
+Added: Company is using its current cash resources for certain pre-launch activities.
+Added: Commercial preparations are dependent on the Company’s
+Added: ability to raise sufficient additional funds through various potential sources, such as equity, debt financings, and/or strategic
+Added: relationships and potential strategic transactions.
+Added: The Company can provide no assurances that financing or strategic relationships
+Added: will be available on acceptable terms, or at all, to complete its clinical development program for DefenCath.
+Added: The novel coronavirus
+Added: has been declared a pandemic and has spread to multiple global regions.
+Added: The outbreak and government measures taken in response
+Added: have also had a significant impact, both direct and indirect, on businesses and commerce, as worker shortages have occurred;
+Added: chains have been disrupted;
+Added: facilities and production have been suspended;
+Added: and demand for certain goods and services, such as medical
+Added: services and supplies, has spiked, while demand for other goods and services, such as travel, has fallen.
+Added: In response to the COVID-19
+Added: outbreak, “shelter in place” orders and other public health guidance measures have been implemented across much of
+Added: the United States, Europe and Asia, including in the locations of the Company’s offices, clinical trial sites, key vendors
+Added: and partners.
+Added: The Company’s program timelines may be negatively affected by COVID-19, which could materially and adversely
+Added: affect its business, financial conditions and results of operations.
2 — Liquidity and Uncertainties:
−Removed: The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with
−Removed: generally accepted accounting principles which contemplate continuation of the Company as a going concern.
−Removed: To date, the Company’s
−Removed: commercial operations have not generated sufficient revenues to enable profitability.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2019, the Company had
−Removed: an accumulated deficit of $195.4 million, and incurred net losses of $16.4 million and $26.8 million for the years ended December
−Removed: 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: Based on the Company’s current development plans for Neutrolin in both the U.S.
−Removed: markets and its other operating requirements, the Company’s existing cash and cash equivalents at December 31, 2019 are expected
−Removed: to fund its operations into the second quarter of 2021, after taking into consideration the net proceeds received through March
−Removed: 12, 2020 from the At-the-Market Issuance Sales Agreement (the “ATM program”) of $2.5 million and the exercise of warrants
−Removed: of $0.4 million (see Note 11).
−Removed: The Company’s continued operations will depend on its
−Removed: ability to raise additional capital through various potential sources, such as equity and/or debt financings, strategic relationships,
−Removed: potential strategic transactions or out-licensing of its products in order to undertake a second Phase 3 clinical trial, if required
−Removed: by the FDA, commercially launch Neutrolin upon NDA approval and until profitability is achieved, if ever.
−Removed: Management can provide
−Removed: no assurances that such financing or strategic relationships will be available on acceptable terms, or at all.
−Removed: As of the filing
−Removed: date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the Company has approximately $2.1 million available under its current ATM program and
−Removed: $30.3 million available under its current shelf registration for the issuance of equity, debt or equity-linked securities unrelated
−Removed: to the current ATM program.
−Removed: Company’s operations are subject to a number of other factors that can affect its operating results and financial condition.
+Added: The consolidated financial
+Added: statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles which contemplate continuation of the
+Added: Company as a going concern.
+Added: To date, the Company’s commercial operations have not generated sufficient revenues to enable
+Added: profitability.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $ 217.4 million, and incurred net losses of $ 22.0
+Added: million and $ 16.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: Based on the Company’s current development
+Added: plans for DefenCath/Neutrolin in both the U.S.
+Added: and foreign markets and its other operating requirements, the Company’s existing
+Added: cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments at December 31, 2020 are expected to fund its operations for at least twelve
+Added: months after the filing date of this report after taking into consideration the $ 41.5 million of net proceeds received in January
+Added: and February 2021 from the At-the-Market Issuance Sales Agreement (the “ATM program”) (see Note 11) and the costs
+Added: for the initial preparations for the commercial launch for DefenCath.
+Added: The Company’s
+Added: continued operations will depend on its ability to raise additional capital through various potential sources, such as equity and/or
+Added: debt financings, strategic relationships, potential strategic transactions or out-licensing of its products in order to commercially
+Added: launch DefenCath upon NDA approval and until profitability is achieved, if ever.
+Added: Management can provide no assurances that such
+Added: financing or strategic relationships will be available on acceptable terms, or at all.
+Added: As of the filing date of this Annual Report
+Added: on Form 10-K, the Company has no available balance under its ATM program and has $50.0 million available under its current shelf
+Added: registration for the issuance of equity, debt or equity-linked securities (see Note 8).
+Added: Company’s operations are subject to a number of other factors that can affect its operating results and financial condition.
Such factors include, but are not limited to:
−Removed: the results of clinical testing and trial activities of the Company’s product
−Removed: the ability to obtain regulatory approval to market the Company’s products;
+Added: the results of clinical testing and trial activities of the Company’s product
+Added: the ability to obtain regulatory approval to market the Company’s products;
ability to manufacture successfully;
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the price of, and demand for, Company products;
−Removed: the Company’s ability to negotiate favorable licensing or other manufacturing and marketing agreements for its products;
−Removed: and the Company’s ability to raise capital to support its operations.
+Added: the Company’s ability to negotiate favorable licensing or other manufacturing and marketing agreements for its products;
+Added: and the Company’s ability to raise capital to support its operations.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued)
3 — Summary of Significant Accounting Policies:
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of Consolidation
−Removed: consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and CorMedix Europe GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary.
−Removed: significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
+Added: consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company, CorMedix Europe GmbH and CorMedix Spain, S.L.U.
+Added: owned subsidiaries.
+Added: All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash and cash equivalents
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following table is the reconciliation of the accounting standard that modifies certain aspects of the recognition, measurement,
−Removed: presentation and disclosure of financial instruments as shown on the Company’s consolidated statement of cash flows:
+Added: presentation and disclosure of financial instruments as shown on the Company’s consolidated statement of cash flows:
Cash and cash equivalents
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at December 31, 2020 or 2019.
−Removed: Company’s marketable securities are highly liquid and consist of U.S.
+Added: Company’s marketable securities are highly liquid and consist of U.S.
government agency securities, high-grade corporate
obligations and commercial paper with original maturities of more than 90 days.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2019 and 2018, all of the Company’s
+Added: As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, all of the Company’s
investments had contractual maturities which were less than one year.
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gains and losses and the fair value at December 31, 2020 and 2019:
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued)
+Added: Gross Unrealized
+Added: December 31, 2020:
Money Market Funds and Cash Equivalents
−Removed: Government Agency Securities
Corporate Securities
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December 31, 2019:
−Removed: Money Market Funds
+Added: Money Market Funds and Cash Equivalents
+Added: Government Agency Securities
+Added: Corporate Securities
+Added: Commercial Paper
Total December 31, 2019
Value Measurements
−Removed: Company’s financial instruments recorded in the consolidated balance sheets include cash and cash equivalents, accounts
+Added: Company’s financial instruments recorded in the consolidated balance sheets include cash and cash equivalents, accounts
receivable, investment securities, accounts payable and accrued expenses.
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values based upon the short-term nature of their maturity dates.
−Removed: The Company’s senior secured convertible note (prior
−Removed: to its extinguishment in August 2019) falls into the Level 3 category within the fair value level hierarchy.
−Removed: The fair value was
−Removed: determined using market data for valuation.
+Added: The Company’s senior secured convertible note (prior to
+Added: its extinguishment in August 2019) falls into the Level 3 category within the fair value level hierarchy.
+Added: The fair value was determined
+Added: using market data for valuation.
Company categorizes its financial instruments into a three-level fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation
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input that is significant to the fair value measurement of the instrument.
−Removed: 1 inputs—Observable inputs that reflect quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets.
−Removed: 2 inputs—
−Removed: Significant other observable inputs (e.g., quoted prices for similar items in active markets, quoted prices for
+Added: 1 inputs—Observable inputs that reflect quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets.
+Added: 2 inputs— Significant other observable inputs (e.g., quoted prices for similar items in active markets, quoted prices for
identical or similar items in markets that are not active, inputs other than quoted prices that are observable such as interest
rate and yield curves, and market-corroborated inputs).
−Removed: 3 inputs—Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability, which are supported by little or no market activity and are valued
−Removed: based on management’s estimates of assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability.
−Removed: following table provides the carrying value and fair value of the Company’s financial assets measured at fair value as of
+Added: 3 inputs—Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability, which are supported by little or no market activity and are valued
+Added: based on management’s estimates of assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued)
+Added: following table provides the carrying value and fair value of the Company’s financial assets measured at fair value as of
December 31, 2020 and 2019:
−Removed: December 31, 2019 :
Carrying Value
+Added: December 31, 2020:
Money Market Funds and Cash Equivalents
−Removed: Government Agency Securities
Corporate Securities
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December 31, 2019:
−Removed: Money Market Funds
+Added: Money Market Funds and Cash
+Added: Government Agency Securities
+Added: Corporate Securities
+Added: Commercial Paper
Total December 31, 2019
Currency Translation and Transactions
−Removed: consolidated financial statements are presented in U.S.
+Added: The consolidated financial
+Added: statements are presented in U.S.
Dollars (USD), the reporting currency of the Company.
−Removed: For the financial
−Removed: statements of the Company’s foreign subsidiary, whose functional currency is the EURO, foreign currency asset and liability
−Removed: amounts, if any, are translated into USD at end-of-period exchange rates.
−Removed: Foreign currency income and expenses are translated
−Removed: at average exchange rates in effect during the year.
+Added: For the financial statements of the Company’s
+Added: foreign subsidiaries, whose functional currency is the EURO, foreign currency asset and liability amounts, if any, are translated
+Added: into USD at end-of-period exchange rates.
+Added: Foreign currency income and expenses are translated at average exchange rates in effect
+Added: during the year.
Translation gains and losses are included in other comprehensive income (loss).
−Removed: The Company had a foreign currency translation gain of $467 in 2019 and a loss of $1,911 in 2018.
+Added: The Company had a foreign currency
+Added: translation gain of $ 6,020 in 2020 and a gain of $ 467 in 2019.
currency exchange transaction gain (loss) is the result of re-measuring transactions denominated in a currency other than the
functional currency of the entity recording the transaction.
−Removed: following table summarizes the segment and geographic information:
+Added: following table summarizes the geographic information:
Reported revenues
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Total assets located in the United States, with the remainder in the European Union
−Removed: As of December 31, 2019 and 2018 the Company
−Removed: has restricted cash in connection with the patent and utility model infringement proceedings against TauroPharm (see Note 7).
−Removed: Company was required by the District Court Mannheim to provide a security deposit of approximately €110,000 to cover legal
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued )
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, and 2019 the Company has restricted
+Added: cash in connection with the patent and utility model infringement proceedings against TauroPharm (see Note 7).
+Added: The Company was
+Added: required by the District Court Mannheim to provide a security deposit of approximately $ 135,000 (€ 110,000 ) to cover legal
fees in the event TauroPharm is entitled to reimbursement of these costs.
−Removed: The Company furthermore had to provide a deposit
−Removed: in the amount of €36,000 and €10,000 for the first and second instances, respectively, in connection with the unfair
−Removed: competition proceedings in Cologne.
+Added: The Company furthermore had to provide a deposit in the
+Added: amount of $ 44,000 (€ 36,000 ) and $ 12,000 (€ 10,000 ) for the first and second instances, respectively, in connection with
+Added: the unfair competition proceedings in Cologne.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company reimbursed TauroPharm approximately
+Added: $ 30,000 for the costs in connection with the utility model infringement proceedings.
+Added: In January 2021, approximately $ 48,000 (€ 40,000 )
+Added: was released by the court to the Company’s account which will be deducted from the restricted cash.
Research and Development and Other Prepaid Expenses
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Inventories consist of raw materials (including
−Removed: labeling and packaging), work-in-process, and finished goods, if any, for the Neutrolin product.
+Added: labeling and packaging), work-in-process, and finished goods, if any, for the DefenCath product.
Inventories consist of the following:
Raw materials
−Removed: Work in process
Finished goods
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related assets.
−Removed: Leasehold improvements are amortized using the straight-line method over the remaining lease term or
−Removed: the life of the asset, whichever is shorter.
−Removed: Property and equipment, as of December 31, 2019 and 2018 were $126,820
−Removed: and $160,860, respectively, net of accumulated depreciation of $244,328 and $218,948, respectively.
−Removed: Depreciation and amortization
−Removed: of property and equipment is included in selling, general and administrative expenses.
−Removed: equipment and furniture
−Removed: Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception.
−Removed: Operating leases are included in operating lease right-of-use (“ROU”)
−Removed: assets, current portion of operating lease liabilities (included in accrued expenses), and operating lease liabilities, net of
−Removed: current portion, on the consolidated balance sheet.
+Added: Leasehold improvements are amortized using the straight-line method over the remaining lease term or the life
+Added: of the asset, whichever is shorter.
+Added: Property and equipment, as of December 31, 2020 and 2019 were $ 111,499 and $ 122,130 , respectively,
+Added: net of accumulated depreciation of $ 303,279 and $ 244,328 , respectively.
+Added: Depreciation and amortization of property and equipment
+Added: is included in selling, general and administrative expenses.
+Added: Office equipment and furniture
+Added: Leasehold improvements
+Added: Computer equipment
+Added: Computer software
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued )
+Added: The Company determines
+Added: if an arrangement is a lease at inception.
+Added: Operating leases are included in operating lease right-of-use (“ROU”) assets,
+Added: current portion of operating lease liabilities (included in accrued expenses), and operating lease liabilities, net of current
+Added: portion, on the consolidated balance sheet (see Note 10).
lease ROU assets and operating lease liabilities are recognized based on the present value of the future minimum lease payments
over the lease term at commencement date.
−Removed: As the Company’s leases do not provide an implicit rate, the Company uses its
+Added: As the Company’s leases do not provide an implicit rate, the Company uses its
incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of future
−Removed: The Company’s lease terms may include options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that
+Added: The Company’s lease terms may include options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that
the Company will exercise that option.
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Company has elected, as an accounting policy, not to apply the recognition requirements in ASC 842 to short-term leases.
−Removed: leases are leases that have a term of 12 months or less and do not include an option to purchase the underlying asset that
−Removed: the Company is reasonably certain to exercise.
+Added: leases are leases that have a term of 12 months or less and do not include an option to purchase the underlying asset that the
+Added: Company is reasonably certain to exercise.
The Company recognizes the lease payments for short-term leases on a straight-line
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Manufacturing development related
−Removed: Product development
−Removed: In December 2015, the
−Removed: Company entered into a Master Service Agreement and Work Orders (the “Master Service Agreement”) with a clinical research
−Removed: organization (“CRO”) to help the Company conduct its LOCK-IT-100 Phase 3 multicenter, double-blind, randomized active
−Removed: control study to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of Neutrolin in preventing catheter-related bloodstream infections and
−Removed: blood clotting in subjects receiving hemodialysis therapy as treatment for end stage renal disease.
−Removed: During 2018, the
−Removed: Company contested a substantial amount of the unpaid clinical trial expense accrued during 2018 due to the unexpected delay and
−Removed: additional costs the Company incurred in preparing for the interim analysis of the LOCK-IT-100 study.
−Removed: Negotiations with the CRO
−Removed: concluded in November 2018 with the signing of a confidential settlement agreement.
−Removed: In parallel with the settlement agreement,
−Removed: a new work order under the Master Service Agreement was executed specifying certain services the CRO will continue to provide to
−Removed: the Company related to the closeout of the study.
−Removed: The budgeted amount of the new work order was approximately $1.4 million, of
−Removed: which $1.4 million was incurred through December 31, 2019.
−Removed: Through December
−Removed: 31, 2019, approximately $30.0 million of clinical trial expense has been recorded in connection with the Master Service Agreement
−Removed: and new work orders, of which approximately $27.4 million has been paid.
−Removed: During the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, the
−Removed: Company recognized $1.5 and $7.7 million, respectively, in research and development expense related to this agreement.
−Removed: 31, 2019, the Company had accrued approximately $2.4 million in accounts payable and accrued expenses related to the settlement
−Removed: agreement and the new work order.
−Removed: The Company uses Accounting Standards Codification
−Removed: (“ASC”) 606, “
−Removed: Revenue from Contracts with Customers,”
−Removed: issued by the Financial Accounting Standards
−Removed: Board (“FASB”), that prescribes a five-step model for recognizing revenue which includes (i) identifying contracts
−Removed: with customers;
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued)
+Added: Company uses Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 606, “ Revenue from Contracts with Customers,”
+Added: issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”), that prescribes a five-step model for recognizing
+Added: revenue which includes (i) identifying contracts with customers;
(ii) identifying performance obligations;
−Removed: (iii) determining the transaction price;
−Removed: (iv) allocating the transaction
+Added: (iii) determining the
+Added: transaction price;
+Added: (iv) allocating the transaction price;
and (v) recognizing revenue.
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by ASC 606 outlined above.
−Removed: August 2014, the Company entered into an exclusive distribution agreement (the “Wonik Agreement”) with Wonik Corporation,
−Removed: a South Korean company, to market, sell and distribute Neutrolin for hemodialysis and oncolytic patients upon receipt of regulatory
−Removed: approval in South Korea.
−Removed: Upon execution, Wonik paid the Company a non-refundable $50,000 payment and will pay an additional $50,000
−Removed: upon receipt of the product registration necessary to sell Neutrolin in South Korea (the “Territory”).
−Removed: the Wonik Agreement commenced on August 8, 2014 and will continue for three years after the first commercial sale of Neutrolin
−Removed: in the Territory.
−Removed: The non-refundable up-front payment has been recorded as deferred revenue and will be recognized as revenue
−Removed: on a straight-line basis over the contractual term of the Agreement.
−Removed: Deferred revenue related to this agreement at December 31,
−Removed: 2019 and 2018 amounted to approximately $2,000 and $11,000, respectively.
+Added: In August 2014, the
+Added: Company entered into an exclusive distribution agreement (the “Wonik Agreement”) with Wonik Corporation, a South Korean
+Added: company, to market, sell and distribute Neutrolin for hemodialysis and oncolytic patients upon receipt of regulatory approval in
+Added: Upon execution, Wonik paid the Company a non-refundable $ 50,000 payment and will pay an additional $ 50,000 upon receipt
+Added: of the product registration necessary to sell Neutrolin in South Korea (the “Territory”).
+Added: The term of the Wonik Agreement
+Added: commenced on August 8, 2014 and will continue for three years after the first commercial sale of Neutrolin in the Territory.
+Added: non-refundable up-front payment has been recorded as deferred revenue and will be recognized as revenue on a straight-line basis
+Added: over the contractual term of the Agreement.
+Added: Deferred revenue related to this agreement was fully amortized at December 31, 2020.
Per Common Share
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in the earnings of the entity.
−Removed: Company’s outstanding shares of Series E preferred stock entitle the holders to receive dividends on a basis equivalent to the
−Removed: dividends paid to holders of common stock.
−Removed: As a result, the Series E preferred stock meet the definition of participating securities
−Removed: requiring the application of the two-class method.
−Removed: Under the two-class method, earnings available to common shareholders, including
−Removed: both distributed and undistributed earnings, are allocated to each class of common stock and participating securities according
−Removed: to dividends declared and participating rights in undistributed earnings, which may cause diluted earnings per share to be more
−Removed: dilutive than the calculation using the treasury stock method.
−Removed: No loss has been allocated to these participating securities since
−Removed: they do not have contractual obligations that require participation in the Company’s losses.
+Added: Company’s outstanding shares of Series E preferred stock entitle the holders to receive dividends on a basis equivalent
+Added: to the dividends paid to holders of common stock.
+Added: As a result, the Series E preferred stock meet the definition of participating
+Added: securities requiring the application of the two-class method.
+Added: Under the two-class method, earnings available to common shareholders,
+Added: including both distributed and undistributed earnings, are allocated to each class of common stock and participating securities
+Added: according to dividends declared and participating rights in undistributed earnings, which may cause diluted earnings per share
+Added: to be more dilutive than the calculation using the treasury stock method.
+Added: No loss has been allocated to these participating securities
+Added: since they do not have contractual obligations that require participation in the Company’s losses.
the Company has only incurred losses, basic and diluted loss per share are the same as potentially dilutive shares have been excluded
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Series C non-voting preferred stock
−Removed: Series D non-voting preferred stock
Series E voting preferred stock
−Removed: Series F non-voting preferred stock
Series G voting preferred stock
−Removed: Shares issuable upon conversion of convertible debt
Restricted stock units
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Total potentially dilutive shares
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued )
compensation cost is measured at grant date, based on the estimated fair value of the award using the Black-Scholes option pricing
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and development costs are charged to expense as incurred.
−Removed: Research and development includes fees associated with operational consultants,
+Added: Research and development include fees associated with operational consultants,
contract clinical research organizations, contract manufacturing organizations, clinical site fees, contract laboratory research
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that some or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.
−Removed: Issuance Costs
−Removed: Company accounts for debt issuance costs as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of the respective debt liability, consistent
−Removed: with debt discounts.
−Removed: The Company amortizes the debt discount, including debt issuance costs over the term of the associated debt
−Removed: using the effective interest method.
−Removed: Recently Adopted Authoritative Pronouncements
−Removed: In June 2018, the Financial Accounting Standards
−Removed: Board (“FASB”) issued new guidance which expands the scope of the FASB’s Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”)
−Removed: 718, to include share-based payment transactions for acquiring goods and services from nonemployees.
−Removed: Early adoption is permitted
−Removed: and the Company elected to adopt the guidance effective in the first quarter of fiscal year 2019.
−Removed: This adoption on January 1, 2019
−Removed: did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: In July 2017, the FASB issued new guidance
−Removed: which changes the classification analysis of certain equity-linked financial instruments (or embedded features) with down round
−Removed: features and recharacterizes the indefinite deferral of certain provisions within the guidance for distinguishing liabilities from
−Removed: Early adoption is permitted and the Company elected to adopt the guidance effective in the first quarter of fiscal year
−Removed: This adoption on January 1, 2019 did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: In February 2016, the FASB issued new guidance
−Removed: related to how an entity should recognize lease assets and lease liabilities.
−Removed: The guidance specifies that an entity who is a lessee
−Removed: under lease agreements should recognize lease assets and lease liabilities for those leases classified as operating leases
−Removed: under previous FASB guidance.
−Removed: The Company adopted the standard on January 1, 2019 using the transition method provided by the FASB.
−Removed: Under this transition method, the Company applied the new requirements to only those leases that exist as of January 1, 2019, rather
−Removed: than at the earliest comparative period presented in the financial statements.
−Removed: Prior periods will be presented under existing lease
−Removed: Upon transition, the Company applied the package of practical expedients permitted under ASC 842 transition guidance.
−Removed: As a result, the Company did not reassess (1) whether expired or existing contracts contain leases under the new definition of
−Removed: a lease, including whether an existing or expired contract contains an embedded lease, (2) lease classification for expired or
−Removed: existing leases and (3) any initial direct costs of existing leases.
−Removed: As a result of the adoption, the Company recorded right-of-use
−Removed: assets and lease liabilities of approximately $6,000 each.
−Removed: Adoption of the standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s
−Removed: consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss or cash from or used in operating, investing or financing activities
−Removed: on its consolidated statements of cash flows.
−Removed: Recent Authoritative Pronouncements
−Removed: In June 2016, the FASB issued new guidance
−Removed: which replaces the incurred loss impairment methodology in current GAAP with a methodology that reflects expected credit losses
−Removed: and requires consideration of a broader range of reasonable and supportable information to inform credit loss estimates.
−Removed: has assessed the impact of adopting this guidance and the adoption on January 1, 2020 will not have a significant impact on its
−Removed: consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: In August 2018, the FASB issued a new guidance
−Removed: which modifies the disclosure requirements on fair value measurements.
−Removed: The guidance is effective for the Company beginning in the
−Removed: first quarter of fiscal year 2020.
−Removed: Early adoption is permitted.
−Removed: The Company assessed the impact of adopting this guidance and the
−Removed: adoption on January 1, 2020 will not have a significant impact on its consolidated financial statements
−Removed: In November 2018, the FASB issued new guidance
−Removed: to clarify the interaction between the authoritative guidance for collaborative arrangements and revenue from contracts with customers.
−Removed: The new guidance clarifies that, when the collaborative arrangement participant is a customer in the context of a unit-of-account,
−Removed: revenue from contracts with customers guidance should be applied, adds unit-of-account guidance to collaborative arrangements guidance,
−Removed: and requires, that in a transaction with a collaborative arrangement participant who is not a customer, presenting the transaction
−Removed: together with revenue recognized under contracts with customers is precluded.
−Removed: The guidance is effective for the Company beginning
−Removed: in the first quarter of fiscal year 2020.
−Removed: Early adoption is permitted.
−Removed: The Company has assessed the impact of adopting this guidance
−Removed: and the adoption on January 1, 2020 will not have a significant impact on its consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: In November 2019, the FASB issued new guidance
−Removed: which requires that an entity measure and classify share-based payment awards granted to a customer by applying the guidance in
−Removed: The guidance is effective for the Company beginning in the first quarter of fiscal year 2020.
−Removed: Early adoption is permitted.
−Removed: The Company has assessed the impact of adopting this guidance and the adoption on January 1, 2020 will not have a significant impact
−Removed: on its consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: In December 2019, the FASB issued new
−Removed: guidance which removes certain exceptions to the general principles of the accounting for income taxes and also improves
−Removed: consistent application of and simplification of other areas when accounting for income taxes.
−Removed: The guidance is effective for
−Removed: the Company beginning in the first quarter of fiscal year 2021.
+Added: Adopted Authoritative Pronouncements
+Added: June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued new guidance which replaces the incurred loss
+Added: impairment methodology in current GAAP with a methodology that reflects expected credit losses and requires consideration of a
+Added: broader range of reasonable and supportable information to inform credit loss estimates.
+Added: This adoption on January 1, 2020 did
+Added: not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
+Added: August 2018, the FASB issued new guidance which modifies the disclosure requirements on fair value measurements.
+Added: was effective for the Company beginning in the first quarter of fiscal year 2020.
+Added: This adoption on January 1, 2020 did not have
+Added: a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
+Added: November 2018, the FASB issued new guidance to clarify the interaction between the authoritative guidance for collaborative arrangements
+Added: and revenue from contracts with customers.
+Added: The new guidance clarifies that, when the collaborative arrangement participant is
+Added: a customer in the context of a unit-of-account, revenue from contracts with customers guidance should be applied, adds unit-of-account
+Added: guidance to collaborative arrangements guidance, and, in a transaction with a collaborative arrangement participant who is not
+Added: a customer, precludes presenting the transaction together with revenue recognized under contracts with customers.
+Added: was effective for the Company beginning in the first quarter of fiscal year 2020.
+Added: This adoption on January 1, 2020 did not have
+Added: a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued)
+Added: November 2019, the FASB issued new guidance which requires that an entity measure and classify share-based payment awards granted
+Added: to a customer by applying the guidance in FASB ASC 718.
+Added: The guidance was effective for the Company beginning in the first quarter
+Added: of fiscal year 2020.
+Added: This adoption on January 1, 2020 did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial
+Added: Authoritative Pronouncements
+Added: December 2019, the FASB issued new guidance which removes certain exceptions to the general principles of the accounting for income
+Added: taxes and also improves consistent application of and simplification of other areas when accounting for income taxes.
+Added: is effective for the company beginning in the first quarter of fiscal year 2021.
Early adoption is permitted.
−Removed: The Company is assessing the
−Removed: impact of adopting this guidance on its consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Note 4 —
+Added: The Company is assessing
+Added: the impact of adopting this guidance on its consolidated financial statements.
4 — Related Party Transactions:
−Removed: On August 14, 2019, the Company entered
−Removed: into an exchange agreement (the “Exchange Agreement”) with Manchester Securities Corp.
−Removed: (“Manchester”),
−Removed: an existing institutional investor and a wholly owned subsidiary of Elliott Associates, L.P.
−Removed: (together with Manchester, “Elliott”),
−Removed: who collectively beneficially own the largest portion of the Company’s common stock, pursuant to which Elliott agreed to
−Removed: exchange all of its outstanding warrants, its 10% senior secured convertible note and its shares of Series C-2 preferred stock,
−Removed: Series D preferred stock and Series F preferred stock, and make a cash payment of $2.0 million to the Company, for 100,000 shares
−Removed: of Series G preferred stock (see Notes 6 and 8).
−Removed: On September 6, 2019, the Company completed the transactions contemplated by the
−Removed: Exchange Agreement.
−Removed: On December 31, 2018, the Company entered
−Removed: into a securities purchase agreement with Elliott, for the purchase and sale of a 10% senior secured convertible note in the aggregate
−Removed: principal amount of $7,500,000 and a warrant to purchase up to an aggregate of 90,000 shares of the Company’s common stock,
−Removed: for gross proceeds of $7,500,000 (see Note 6).
−Removed: The warrant with a grant date fair value of $433,365, is immediately exercisable,
−Removed: has an exercise price of $7.50 per share, subject to adjustment in the event of stock dividends and distributions, stock splits,
−Removed: stock combinations, or reclassifications affecting our common stock, and has a term of five years.
−Removed: The note has a conversion price
−Removed: of $7.50 per share.
−Removed: The conversion price is subject to appropriate adjustment in the event of stock dividends and distributions,
−Removed: stock splits, stock combinations, or reclassifications affecting our common stock.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2019, this note is no longer
−Removed: outstanding as a result of the Exchange Agreement (see Notes 6 and 8).
−Removed: In May 2013, the Company issued a warrant to purchase up to
−Removed: 100,000 shares of the Company’s common stock to Elliott.
−Removed: The warrant had an expiration date of May 30, 2019.
−Removed: to allow the Company and Elliott time to discuss and possibly conclude the Exchange Agreement, the Company extended the expiration
−Removed: date of the warrant to July 1, 2019, which was subsequently extended to August 16, 2019.
−Removed: The warrant, which was canceled in connection
−Removed: with the terms of the Exchange Agreement, had an exercise price of $0.005 (see Note 6).
−Removed: The incremental value of the warrant extended
−Removed: was immaterial.
−Removed: Note 5 —
+Added: August 14, 2019, the Company entered into an exchange agreement (the “Exchange Agreement”) with Manchester Securities
+Added: (“Manchester”), an existing institutional investor and a wholly owned subsidiary of Elliott Associates, L.P.
+Added: (together with Manchester, “Elliott”), who collectively beneficially own the largest portion of the Company’s
+Added: common stock, pursuant to which Elliott agreed to exchange all of its outstanding warrants, its 10% senior secured convertible
+Added: note and its shares of Series C-2 preferred stock, Series D preferred stock and Series F preferred stock, and make a cash payment
+Added: of $2.0 million to the Company, for 100,000 shares of Series G preferred stock (see Notes 6 and 8).
+Added: On September 6, 2019, the
+Added: Company completed the transactions contemplated by the Exchange Agreement.
+Added: December 31, 2018, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement with Elliott, for the purchase and sale of a 10 % senior
+Added: secured convertible note in the aggregate principal amount of $ 7,500,000 and a warrant to purchase up to an aggregate of 90,000
+Added: shares of the Company’s common stock, for gross proceeds of $ 7,500,000 (see Note 6).
+Added: The warrant with a grant date fair
+Added: value of $ 433,365 , is immediately exercisable, has an exercise price of $ 7.50 per share, subject to adjustment in the event of
+Added: stock dividends and distributions, stock splits, stock combinations, or reclassifications affecting our common stock, and has
+Added: a term of five years.
+Added: The note has a conversion price of $7.50 per share.
+Added: The conversion price is subject to appropriate adjustment
+Added: in the event of stock dividends and distributions, stock splits, stock combinations, or reclassifications affecting our common
+Added: As of December 31, 2019, this note is no longer outstanding as a result of the Exchange Agreement (see Notes 6 and 8).
+Added: May 2013, the Company issued a warrant to purchase up to 100,000 shares of the Company’s common stock to Elliott.
+Added: had an expiration date of May 30, 2019.
+Added: In May 2019, to allow the Company and Elliott time to discuss and possibly conclude the
+Added: Exchange Agreement, the Company extended the expiration date of the warrant to July 1, 2019, which was subsequently extended to
+Added: August 16, 2019.
+Added: The warrant, which was canceled in connection with the terms of the Exchange Agreement, had an exercise price
+Added: of $ 0.005 (see Note 6).
+Added: The incremental value of the warrant extended was immaterial.
5 — Income Taxes:
−Removed: The Company’s U.S.
−Removed: and foreign loss
−Removed: before income taxes are set forth below:
+Added: Company’s U.S.
+Added: and foreign loss before income taxes are set forth below:
United States
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$ ( 21,493,852 )
−Removed: There were no current or deferred income
−Removed: tax provision for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 because the Company has incurred operating losses since inception.
−Removed: The Company’s deferred tax assets
−Removed: consist of the following:
−Removed: Net operating loss carryforwards –
−Removed: Net operating loss carryforwards –
−Removed: Net operating loss carryforwards –
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued)
+Added: were no current or deferred income tax provision for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 because the Company has incurred
+Added: operating losses since inception.
+Added: Company’s deferred tax assets consist of the following:
+Added: Net operating loss carryforwards – Federal
+Added: Net operating loss carryforwards – State
+Added: Net operating loss carryforwards – Foreign
Capitalized licensing fees
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Deferred tax assets
−Removed: The Company had the following potentially
−Removed: utilizable net operating loss tax carryforwards:
−Removed: $ 155,400,000
+Added: Company had the following potentially utilizable net operating loss tax carryforwards:
$ 185,650,000
$ 155,400,000
−Removed: The net operating loss tax generated before
−Removed: January 1, 2019 carryforwards will start to expire in 2027 for Federal purposes and have already begun to expire for state purposes.
−Removed: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the “Act”) limits the net operating loss deduction to 80% of taxable income for
−Removed: losses arising in tax years beginning after December 31, 2017.
+Added: The net operating losses
+Added: generated will start to expire in 2026 for Federal purposes whereas the operating losses for state purposes will begin expiring
+Added: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the “Act”) limits the net operating loss deduction to 80 % of taxable income
+Added: for losses arising in tax years beginning after December 31, 2017.
However, the net operating losses now have an indefinite carryforward
−Removed: as opposed to the current 20-year carryforward.
+Added: as opposed to the former 20-year carryforward.
The foreign net operating loss tax carryforwards do not expire.
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state operating loss carryforwards include windfall tax deductions from stock option exercises.
−Removed: The utilization of the Company’s net
−Removed: operating losses may be subject to a substantial limitation due to the “change of ownership provisions”
−Removed: under Section
−Removed: 382 of the Internal Revenue Code and similar state provisions.
−Removed: Such limitation may result in the expiration of the net operating
−Removed: loss carryforwards before their utilization.
−Removed: The Company’s foreign earnings are
−Removed: derived from its German subsidiary.
−Removed: The Company does not expect any foreign earnings to be repatriated in the U.S.
−Removed: The Company’s effective tax rate varied
−Removed: from the statutory rate as follows:
+Added: utilization of the Company’s net operating losses may be subject to a substantial limitation due to the “change of
+Added: ownership provisions” under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code and similar state provisions.
+Added: Such limitation may result
+Added: in the expiration of the net operating loss carryforwards before their utilization.
+Added: Company’s foreign earnings are derived from its German subsidiary.
+Added: The Company does not expect any foreign earnings to be
+Added: repatriated in the U.S.
+Added: in the near future.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued )
+Added: Company’s effective tax rate varied from the statutory rate as follows:
Statutory federal tax rate
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Effective tax rate
−Removed: In assessing the realizability of deferred
−Removed: tax assets, management considers whether it is more-likely-than-not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not
−Removed: The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income of the appropriate
−Removed: character during the periods in which those temporary differences become deductible and the loss carryforwards are available to
−Removed: reduce taxable income.
−Removed: In making its assessment, the Company considered all sources of taxable income including carryback potential,
−Removed: future reversals of existing deferred tax liabilities, prudent and feasible tax planning strategies, and lastly, objectively verifiable
−Removed: projections of future taxable income exclusive of reversing temporary differences and carryforwards.
−Removed: At December 31, 2019 and 2018,
−Removed: the Company maintained a full valuation allowance against its net deferred tax assets.
−Removed: The Company will continue to assess all
−Removed: available evidence during future periods to evaluate the realization of its deferred tax assets.
−Removed: The following table presents the changes
−Removed: in the deferred tax asset valuation allowance for the periods indicated:
+Added: assessing the realizability of deferred tax assets, management considers whether it is more-likely-than-not that some portion
+Added: or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.
+Added: The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the
+Added: generation of future taxable income of the appropriate character during the periods in which those temporary differences become
+Added: deductible and the loss carryforwards are available to reduce taxable income.
+Added: In making its assessment, the Company considered
+Added: all sources of taxable income including carryback potential, future reversals of existing deferred tax liabilities, prudent and
+Added: feasible tax planning strategies, and lastly, objectively verifiable projections of future taxable income exclusive of reversing
+Added: temporary differences and carryforwards.
+Added: At December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company maintained a full valuation allowance against
+Added: its net deferred tax assets.
+Added: The Company will continue to assess all available evidence during future periods to evaluate the
+Added: realization of its deferred tax assets.
+Added: following table presents the changes in the deferred tax asset valuation allowance for the periods indicated:
Balance at Beginning of Year
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December 31, 2019
−Removed: Accounting for uncertainty in income
−Removed: taxes requires uncertain tax positions to be classified as non-current income tax liabilities unless they are expected to be
−Removed: paid within one year.
−Removed: The Company has concluded that there are no uncertain tax positions requiring recognition in its
−Removed: consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2019 and 2018.
−Removed: The Company recognizes interest and penalties related to
−Removed: uncertain tax positions if any as a component of income tax expense.
−Removed: The Company files income tax returns in
+Added: for uncertainty in income taxes requires uncertain tax positions to be classified as non-current income tax liabilities unless
+Added: they are expected to be paid within one year.
+Added: The Company has concluded that there are no uncertain tax positions requiring recognition
+Added: in its consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2020 and 2019.
+Added: The Company recognizes interest and penalties related
+Added: to uncertain tax positions if any as a component of income tax expense.
+Added: Company files income tax returns in the U.S.
federal, state and foreign jurisdictions.
−Removed: Tax years 2014 to 2018 remain open to examination for both the U.S.
−Removed: and state jurisdictions.
+Added: Tax years 2014 to 2018 remain open to examination
+Added: for both the U.S.
+Added: federal and state jurisdictions.
Tax years 2015 to 2018 remain open for Germany.
−Removed: In April 2019, the Company sold a portion
−Removed: of its unused net operating losses (“NOL”) carryforwards through the State of New Jersey’s Economic Development
−Removed: Authority (“NJEDA”) Technology Business Tax Certificate Transfer program which allowed the Company to sell $5,413,000
−Removed: of its total $6,085,000 in available NOL tax benefits for the state fiscal year 2018.
−Removed: The Company realized net proceeds of $5,061,000
−Removed: from the sale of its NOL.
−Removed: Note 6 —
−Removed: Secured Convertible Note, Related Party:
+Added: the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company received net proceeds of $ 5,169,395 and $ 5,060,778 , respectively, from
+Added: the sale of most of its remaining unused New Jersey net operating losses (“NOL”) eligible for sale under the State
+Added: of New Jersey’s Economic Development Authority’s New Jersey Technology Business Tax Certificate Transfer program (“NJEDA
+Added: The NJEDA Program allowed the Company to sell $ 5,529,000 of its total $ 6,018,000 in available NOL tax benefits
+Added: for the state fiscal year 2019 and $ 5,413,000 of its total $ 6,085,000 for the state fiscal year 2018.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued )
+Added: 6 — Senior Secured Convertible Note, Related Party:
On December 31, 2018,
the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement with Elliott for the purchase and sale of a 10 % senior secured convertible
−Removed: note in the aggregate principal amount of $7,500,000 and a warrant to purchase up to an aggregate of 90,000 shares of the Company’s
+Added: note in the aggregate principal amount of $ 7,500,000 and a warrant to purchase up to an aggregate of 90,000 shares of the Company’s
common stock, for gross proceeds of $ 7,500,000 .
−Removed: The senior secured convertible note and warrant to purchase up to an aggregate
−Removed: of 90,000 shares of the Company’s common stock were cancelled in connection with the terms of the Exchange Agreement.
−Removed: The note was a
−Removed: senior obligation, secured by all of the Company’s assets.
−Removed: The note bore interest at a rate of 10.0% per annum, compounded
−Removed: Interest was first payable on January 2, 2019, and on the first trading day of each month thereafter, until its cancellation.
−Removed: The note was to mature on December 30, 2021.
−Removed: Any accrued but unpaid interest for the applicable interest period was added to the
−Removed: principal outstanding under the notes.
−Removed: The note had a conversion price of $7.50 per share.
−Removed: The conversion price was subject to
−Removed: appropriate adjustment in the event of stock dividends and distributions, stock splits, stock combinations, or reclassifications
−Removed: affecting the Company’s common stock.
−Removed: The noteholder was able to convert its outstanding note principal amount, and
−Removed: any accrued and unpaid interest, at any time into shares of common stock at the conversion rate.
−Removed: Additionally, the note would automatically
−Removed: convert into shares of common stock if, prior to the maturity date, the average closing sale price of the Company’s common
−Removed: stock for any 20 trading days during any consecutive 30 trading days equals or exceeds 150% of the conversion price.
−Removed: held the right to pay any accrued interest in cash for any calendar month during which the average closing sale price of its common
−Removed: stock averaged at least 150% of the conversion price of the notes.
−Removed: On or after July 1, 2020, the Company was able to prepay any
−Removed: principal amount outstanding on the notes in amounts of $2,000,000 (or in full, if less than $2,000,000), provided that if the
−Removed: prepayment occurs between July 2, 2020 and March 30, 2021, the prepayment amount would have equaled 110% of the principal amount
−Removed: being repaid and if the prepayment occurs after March 31, 2021, the prepayment amount would have equaled 105% of the principal
−Removed: amount being repaid.
−Removed: For year ended December 31, 2019, approximately $462,000 was recognized as interest expense on the consolidated
−Removed: statement of operations and comprehensive loss.
−Removed: The senior secured convertible note, including accrued interest, was exchanged
−Removed: as a result of the Exchange Agreement.
−Removed: The warrant was
−Removed: immediately exercisable, had an exercise price of $7.50 per share, subject to adjustment in the event of stock dividends and distributions,
−Removed: stock splits, stock combinations, or reclassifications affecting our common stock, and had a term of five years.
−Removed: The closing of
−Removed: the note and warrant sale and purchase occurred simultaneously with entry into the securities purchase agreement.
−Removed: agent or underwriter was involved in the offering.
−Removed: On the same date,
−Removed: and in connection with the sale of the note and warrant, the Company amended and restated the following warrants held by Elliott
−Removed: and its affiliates to reduce the exercise price of each warrant to $0.005 per share:
−Removed: warrants issued in May 2013 to purchase up
−Removed: to an aggregate of 100,000 shares of the Company’s common stock with a pre-amendment exercise price of $3.25 per share and
−Removed: an expiration date of May 30, 2019, which was subsequently extended to August 16, 2019 (the “May 30, 2019 Warrants”),
−Removed: (see Note 4);
−Removed: and warrants issued in October 2013 to purchase up to an aggregate of 150,000 shares of the Company’s common
−Removed: stock with a pre-amendment exercise price of $4.50 per share and an expiration date of October 22, 2019 (the “October 22,
−Removed: 2019 Warrants”).
+Added: For year ended December 31, 2019, $ 462,000 was recognized as interest expense on
+Added: the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss.
+Added: The senior secured convertible note, including accrued interest,
+Added: and warrant to purchase up to an aggregate of 90,000 shares of the Company’s common stock were cancelled in connection with
+Added: the terms of the Exchange Agreement.
+Added: the same date, and in connection with the sale of the note and warrant, the Company amended and restated the following warrants
+Added: held by Elliott and its affiliates to reduce the exercise price of each warrant to $0.005 per share:
+Added: warrants issued in May 2013
+Added: to purchase up to an aggregate of 100,000 shares of the Company’s common stock with a pre-amendment exercise price of $3.25
+Added: per share and an expiration date of May 30, 2019, which was subsequently extended to August 16, 2019 (the “May 30, 2019
+Added: Warrants”), (see Note 4);
+Added: and warrants issued in October 2013 to purchase up to an aggregate of 150,000 shares of the Company’s
+Added: common stock with a pre-amendment exercise price of $4.50 per share and an expiration date of October 22, 2019 (the “October
+Added: 22, 2019 Warrants”).
These warrants were subsequently cancelled in connection with the Exchange Agreement, (see Note 8).
−Removed: conjunction with the December 2018 securities purchase agreement, the Company and Elliott and certain of its affiliates that
−Removed: hold shares of various series of the Company’s preferred stock and warrants to purchase shares of the Company’s
−Removed: common stock agreed to waive any rights of conversion or exercise for all of the shares of its Series C-2, D, E and F
−Removed: preferred stock and shares issuable upon the exercise of certain warrants (collectively with the shares of Series C-2, D, E,
−Removed: and F preferred stock, the “Elliott Derivative Securities”), until the earliest to occur of (i) the
−Removed: effective date on which the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation is amended to increase the number of authorized
−Removed: shares of common stock, (ii) the effective date on which the Company effects a reverse stock split of its common stock, (iii)
−Removed: one business day immediately prior to the consummation of a fundamental transaction (as defined in the instruments governing
−Removed: the applicable Elliott Derivative Securities), and (iv) April 30, 2019.
−Removed: The 1-for-5 reverse stock split that was
−Removed: effective on March 26, 2019 satisfied this condition, however, with the exception of the Series E preferred stock, the Elliot
−Removed: Derivative Securities were cancelled in connection with the Exchange Agreement.
−Removed: The Company was
−Removed: required to have a majority of the Series C-2, Series D, Series E and Series F non-voting preferred stock consent to any indebtedness
−Removed: other than trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, and letters of credit incurred
−Removed: in an aggregate amount of $3,000,000 at any point in time.
−Removed: At the time of the securities purchase agreement, Elliott was the holder
−Removed: of all of the shares of the Series C-2, Series D, Series E and Series F non-voting preferred stock and implicitly consented
−Removed: to the convertible note financing.
−Removed: Elliott is currently the holder of all of the shares of the Series E and Series G preferred
−Removed: The $7,500,000
−Removed: in gross proceeds, along with the legal fees of approximately $267,000, were allocated between the senior secured convertible note
−Removed: and warrants based on their relative fair values.
+Added: in conjunction with the December 2018 securities purchase agreement, the Company and Elliott and certain of its affiliates that
+Added: hold shares of various series of the Company’s preferred stock and warrants to purchase shares of the Company’s common
+Added: stock agreed to waive any rights of conversion or exercise for all of the shares of its Series C-2, D, E and F preferred stock
+Added: and shares issuable upon the exercise of certain warrants (collectively with the shares of Series C-2, D, E, and F preferred stock,
+Added: the “Elliott Derivative Securities”), until the earliest to occur of (i) the effective date on which the Company’s
+Added: Certificate of Incorporation is amended to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock, (ii) the effective date on
+Added: which the Company effects a reverse stock split of its common stock, (iii) one business day immediately prior to the consummation
+Added: of a fundamental transaction (as defined in the instruments governing the applicable Elliott Derivative Securities), and (iv)
+Added: April 30, 2019.
+Added: The 1-for-5 reverse stock split that was effective on March 26, 2019 satisfied this condition, however, with the
+Added: exception of the Series E preferred stock, the Elliot Derivative Securities were cancelled in connection with the Exchange Agreement.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued)
+Added: Company was required to have a majority of the Series C-2, Series D, Series E and Series F non-voting preferred stock consent
+Added: to any indebtedness other than trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, and letters
+Added: of credit incurred in an aggregate amount of $ 3,000,000 at any point in time.
+Added: At the time of the securities purchase agreement,
+Added: Elliott was the holder of all of the shares of the Series C-2, Series D, Series E and Series F non-voting preferred stock and
+Added: implicitly consented to the convertible note financing.
+Added: Elliott is currently the holder of all of the shares of the Series E and
+Added: Series G preferred stock.
+Added: $ 7,500,000 in gross proceeds, along with the legal fees of approximately $ 267,000 , were allocated between the senior secured convertible
+Added: note and warrants based on their relative fair values.
The portion of the proceeds allocated to the warrants of approximately
$ 396,000 , net of allocated fees of approximately $ 6,000 , was accounted for as additional paid-in capital.
−Removed: The remainder of the proceeds of
−Removed: approximately $7,000,000, net of allocated fees of approximately $103,000 was allocated to the senior convertible note, with the
−Removed: fair value of the warrants resulting in a debt discount.
−Removed: In addition, the incremental cost of approximately $710,000 associated
−Removed: with the warrant modification was recorded as a debt discount.
−Removed: An additional debt discount of approximately $143,000 was recorded
−Removed: as a beneficial conversion feature as the stock price was greater than the effective conversion price (after allocation of the
−Removed: total proceeds) on the measurement date.
−Removed: The debt discount
−Removed: was being amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method in accordance with ASC 835 over the term of the agreement.
−Removed: For the year ended December 31, 2019, approximately $313,000 was recognized as amortization of debt discount and is included in
−Removed: interest expense on the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss.
−Removed: The Company used
−Removed: a hybrid valuation model to determine the fair value of the senior secured convertible note.
+Added: The remainder of the
+Added: proceeds of approximately $ 7,000,000 , net of allocated fees of approximately $ 103,000 was allocated to the senior convertible
+Added: note, with the fair value of the warrants resulting in a debt discount.
+Added: In addition, the incremental cost of approximately $ 710,000
+Added: associated with the warrant modification was recorded as a debt discount.
+Added: An additional debt discount of approximately $ 143,000
+Added: was recorded as a beneficial conversion feature as the stock price was greater than the effective conversion price (after allocation
+Added: of the total proceeds) on the measurement date.
+Added: debt discount was being amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method in accordance with ASC 835 over the
+Added: term of the agreement.
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2019, approximately $ 313,000 was recognized as amortization of debt discount
+Added: and is included in interest expense on the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss.
+Added: Company used a hybrid valuation model to determine the fair value of the senior secured convertible note.
The hybrid model incorporated
−Removed: both a present value analysis and the use of the Black Scholes option pricing model to reflect the senior secured convertible note’s
−Removed: conversion feature.
−Removed: The Black-Scholes option pricing model was also used to determine the fair value of the warrants in order
−Removed: to allocate the gross proceeds based on relative fair values (see Note 1).
−Removed: ASC 820, “Fair Value Measurements,”
+Added: both a present value analysis and the use of the Black Scholes option pricing model to reflect the senior secured convertible
+Added: note’s conversion feature.
+Added: The Black-Scholes option pricing model was also used to determine the fair value of the warrants
+Added: in order to allocate the gross proceeds based on relative fair values (see Note 1).
+Added: ASC 820, “Fair Value Measurements,”
states that the reporting entity should use the valuation technique(s) appropriate for the measurement, considering the availability
−Removed: of data with which to develop inputs that represent the assumptions that market participants would use when pricing the asset or
+Added: of data with which to develop inputs that represent the assumptions that market participants would use when pricing the asset
+Added: or liability.
Market participants price options based on expected volatility, not historical volatility.
−Removed: In estimating
−Removed: the expected volatility of the Company’s common stock, the Company followed the guidance of ASC 820 and considered a number
−Removed: of factors - including the implied volatility of put and call options on the Company’s common stock that are traded over
+Added: In estimating the expected
+Added: volatility of the Company’s common stock, the Company followed the guidance of ASC 820 and considered a number of factors
+Added: - including the implied volatility of put and call options on the Company’s common stock that are traded over the counter.
summary of the assumptions used in the Black Scholes pricing model are as follows:
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Risk-free interest rate
−Removed: of the Exchange Agreement, the senior secured convertible note, along with certain warrants and the Series C-2, Series D and Series
−Removed: F preferred stock, and the payment of $2,000,000, was exchanged for 100,000 shares of Series G preferred stock.
−Removed: As a result of
−Removed: this transaction, the Company recognized a deemed dividend of $26,733,098 on its consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive
−Removed: loss for the year ended December 31, 2019 (see Note 8).
−Removed: Note 7 —
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued)
+Added: part of the Exchange Agreement, the senior secured convertible note, along with certain warrants and the Series C-2, Series D
+Added: and Series F preferred stock, and the payment of $2,000,000, was exchanged for 100,000 shares of Series G preferred stock.
+Added: a result of this transaction, the Company recognized a deemed dividend of $26,733,098 on its consolidated statement of operations
+Added: and comprehensive loss for the year ended December 31, 2019 (see Note 8).
7 — Commitments and Contingencies:
−Removed: Contingency Matters
−Removed: On September 9, 2014, the Company filed
−Removed: in the District Court of Mannheim, Germany, a patent infringement action against TauroPharm GmbH and Tauro-Implant GmbH as well
−Removed: as their respective CEOs (the “Defendants”) claiming infringement of the Company’s European Patent EP 1 814
−Removed: 562 B1, which was granted by the European Patent Office (the “EPO”) on January 8, 2014 (the “Prosl European
−Removed: Patent”).
−Removed: The Prosl European Patent covers the formulation of taurolidine and citrate with low dose heparin in a catheter
−Removed: lock solution for maintaining patency and preventing infection in hemodialysis catheters.
−Removed: In this action, the Company claims that
−Removed: the Defendants infringe on the Prosl European Patent by manufacturing and distributing catheter locking solutions to the extent
−Removed: they are covered by the claims of the Prosl European Patent.
−Removed: The Company believes that its patent is sound and is
−Removed: seeking injunctive relief and raising claims for information, rendering of accounts, calling back, destruction and damages.
−Removed: TauroPharm has filed an opposition with the EPO against the Prosl European Patent alleging that it lacks novelty and inventive
−Removed: The Company cannot predict what other defenses the Defendants may raise, or the ultimate outcome of either of
−Removed: these related matters.
−Removed: At present, the EPO has revoked the Prosl European Patent as invalid, and the Company has filed an appeal,
−Removed: which is currently pending.
−Removed: In the same complaint against the same Defendants,
−Removed: the Company also alleged an infringement (requesting the same remedies) of ND Partners’
−Removed: utility model DE 20 2005 022 124
−Removed: U1 (the “Utility Model”), which the Company believes is fundamentally identical to the Prosl European Patent in its
−Removed: main aspects and claims.
−Removed: The Court separated the two proceedings and the Prosl European Patent and the Utility Model claims are
−Removed: now being tried separately.
−Removed: TauroPharm has filed a cancellation action against the Utility Model before the German Patent and Trademark
−Removed: Office (the “German PTO”) based on the similar arguments as those in the opposition against the Prosl European Patent.
−Removed: On March 27, 2015, the District Court held
−Removed: a hearing to evaluate whether the Utility Model has been infringed by TauroPharm in connection with the manufacture, sale and distribution
−Removed: of its TauroLock-HEP100 TM and TauroLock-HEP500 TM products.
−Removed: A hearing before the same court was held on January
−Removed: 30, 2015 on the separate, but related, question of infringement of the Prosl European Patent by TauroPharm.
−Removed: The Court issued its decisions on May 8,
−Removed: 2015, staying both proceedings.
−Removed: In its decisions, the Court found that the commercialization by TauroPharm in Germany of its TauroLock
−Removed: catheter lock solutions Hep100 and Hep500 infringes both the Prosl European Patent and the Utility Model and further that
−Removed: there is no prior use right that would allow TauroPharm to continue to make, use or sell its product in Germany.
−Removed: However, the Court
−Removed: declined to issue an injunction in favor of the Company that would preclude the continued commercialization by TauroPharm based
−Removed: upon its finding that there is a sufficient likelihood that the EPO, in the case of the Prosl European Patent, or the German PTO,
−Removed: in the case of the Utility Model, may find that such patent or utility model is invalid.
−Removed: Specifically, the Court noted the possible
−Removed: publication of certain instructions for product use that may be deemed to constitute prior art.
−Removed: As such, the District Court determined
−Removed: that it will defer any consideration of the request by the Company for injunctive and other relief until such time as the EPO or
−Removed: the German PTO made a final decision on the underlying validity of the Prosl European Patent and the Utility Model.
−Removed: to assume that the complaint regarding the infringement of the Utility Model will be dismissed now that the German PTO has voided
−Removed: the Utility Model (see below).
−Removed: This does, however, not have a direct effect on the infringement proceedings concerning the Prosl
−Removed: European Patent.
−Removed: The opposition proceeding against the Prosl
−Removed: European Patent before the EPO is ongoing.
−Removed: The EPO held a hearing in the opposition proceeding on November 25, 2015.
−Removed: In its preliminary
−Removed: consideration of the matter, the EPO (and the German PTO) had regarded the patent as not inventive or novel due to publication
−Removed: of prior art.
−Removed: However, the EPO did not issue a decision at the end of the hearing but adjourned the matter due to the fact that
−Removed: the panel was of the view that Claus Herdeis, one of the managing directors of TauroPharm, has to be heard as a witness in a further
−Removed: hearing in order to close some gaps in the documentation presented by TauroPharm as regards the publication of the prior art.
−Removed: The German PTO held a hearing in the validity
−Removed: proceedings relating to the Utility Model on June 29, 2016, at which the panel affirmed its preliminary finding that the Utility
−Removed: Model was invalid based upon prior publication of a reference to the benefits that may be associated with adding heparin to a
−Removed: taurolidine based solution.
+Added: September 9, 2014, the Company filed in the District Court of Mannheim, Germany, a patent infringement action against TauroPharm
+Added: GmbH and Tauro-Implant GmbH as well as their respective CEOs (the “Defendants”) claiming infringement of the Company’s
+Added: European Patent EP 1 814 562 B1, which was granted by the European Patent Office (the “EPO”) on January 8, 2014 (the
+Added: “Prosl European Patent”).
+Added: The Prosl European Patent covers the formulation of taurolidine and citrate with low dose
+Added: heparin in a catheter lock solution for maintaining patency and preventing infection in hemodialysis catheters.
+Added: In this action,
+Added: the Company claims that the Defendants infringe on the Prosl European Patent by manufacturing and distributing catheter locking
+Added: solutions to the extent they are covered by the claims of the Prosl European Patent.
+Added: The Company believes that its patent is sound
+Added: and is seeking injunctive relief and raising claims for information, rendering of accounts, calling back, destruction and damages.
+Added: Separately, TauroPharm has filed an opposition with the EPO against the Prosl European Patent alleging that it lacks novelty and
+Added: inventive step.
+Added: The Company cannot predict the ultimate outcome of either of these related matters.
+Added: At present, the EPO has revoked
+Added: the Prosl European Patent as invalid, and the Company has filed an appeal, which is currently pending.
+Added: the same complaint against the same Defendants, the Company also alleged an infringement (requesting the same remedies) of ND
+Added: Partners’ utility model DE 20 2005 022 124 U1 (the “Utility Model”), which the Company believes is fundamentally
+Added: identical to the Prosl European Patent in its main aspects and claims.
+Added: The Court separated the two proceedings and the Prosl European
+Added: Patent and the Utility Model claims were tried separately.
+Added: TauroPharm has filed a cancellation action against the Utility Model
+Added: before the German Patent and Trademark Office (the “German PTO”) based on the similar arguments as those in the opposition
+Added: against the Prosl European Patent.
+Added: Court issued its decisions on May 8, 2015, staying both proceedings.
+Added: In its decisions, the Court found that the commercialization
+Added: by TauroPharm in Germany of its TauroLock catheter lock solutions Hep100 and Hep500 infringes both the Prosl European Patent and
+Added: the Utility Model and further that there is no prior use right that would allow TauroPharm to continue to make, use or sell its
+Added: product in Germany.
+Added: However, the Court declined to issue an injunction in favor of the Company that would preclude the continued
+Added: commercialization by TauroPharm based upon its finding that there is a sufficient likelihood that the EPO, in the case of the
+Added: Prosl European Patent, or the German PTO, in the case of the Utility Model, may find that such patent or utility model is invalid.
+Added: Specifically, the Court noted the possible publication of certain instructions for product use that may be deemed to constitute
+Added: As such, the District Court determined that it will defer any consideration of the request by the Company for injunctive
+Added: and other relief until such time as the EPO or the German PTO made a final decision on the underlying validity of the Prosl European
+Added: Patent and the Utility Model.
+Added: opposition proceeding against the Prosl European Patent before the EPO is ongoing.
+Added: The EPO held a hearing in the opposition proceeding
+Added: on November 25, 2015.
+Added: However, the EPO did not issue a decision at the end of the hearing but adjourned the matter due to the
+Added: fact that the panel was of the view that Claus Herdeis, one of the managing directors of TauroPharm, had to be heard as a witness
+Added: in a further hearing in order to close some gaps in the documentation presented by TauroPharm as regards the publication of the
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued )
+Added: German PTO held a hearing in the validity proceedings relating to the Utility Model on June 29, 2016, at which the panel affirmed
+Added: its preliminary finding that the Utility Model was invalid based upon prior publication of a reference to the benefits that may
+Added: be associated with adding heparin to a taurolidine based solution.
The Company filed an appeal against the ruling on September
−Removed: An oral hearing was held on September
−Removed: 17, 2019 in which the German Federal Patent affirmed the first instance decision that the Utility Model was invalid.
−Removed: has only a declaratory effect, as the Utility Model had expired in November 2015.
−Removed: In October 2016, TauroPharm submitted a
−Removed: further writ to the EPO requesting a date for the hearing and bringing forward further arguments, in particular in view of the
−Removed: June 2016 decision of the German PTO on the invalidity of the utility model.
−Removed: On November 22, 2017, the EPO in Munich, Germany held
−Removed: a further oral hearing in this matter.
−Removed: At the hearing, the panel held that the Prosl European Patent would be invalidated because
−Removed: it did not meet the requirements of novelty based on a technical aspect of the European intellectual property law.
−Removed: disagrees with this decision and, after the written opinion was issued by the Opposition Division in September 2018, has appealed
−Removed: the decision.
−Removed: The Company continues to believe that the Prosl European Patent is indeed novel and that its validity should be maintained.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that the Company will prevail in this matter.
−Removed: In addition, the ongoing Unfair Competition litigation
−Removed: brought by the Company against TauroPharm is not affected and will continue.
−Removed: On January 16, 2015, the Company filed a
−Removed: complaint against TauroPharm GmbH and its managing directors in the District Court of Cologne, Germany.
−Removed: complaint, the Company alleges violation of the German Unfair Competition Act by TauroPharm for the unauthorized use of its proprietary
−Removed: information obtained in confidence by TauroPharm.
−Removed: The Company alleges that TauroPharm is improperly and unfairly using
−Removed: its proprietary information relating to the composition and manufacture of Neutrolin, in the manufacture and sale of TauroPharm’s
−Removed: products TauroLock TM , TauroLock-HEP100 and TauroLock-HEP500.
−Removed: The Company seeks a cease and desist order against
−Removed: TauroPharm from continuing to manufacture and sell any product containing taurolidine (the active pharmaceutical ingredient (“API”)
−Removed: of Neutrolin) and citric acid in addition to possible other components, damages for any sales in the past and the removal
−Removed: of all such products from the market.
−Removed: An initial hearing in the District Court of Cologne, Germany was held on November 19, 2015
−Removed: to consider the Company’s claims.
−Removed: In this hearing, the presiding judge explained that the court needed more information with
−Removed: regard to several aspects of the case.
−Removed: As a consequence, the court issued an interim decision in the form of a court order outlining
−Removed: several issues of concern that relate primarily to the court's interest in clarifying the facts and reviewing any and all available
−Removed: documentation, in particular with regard to the question which specific know-how was provided to TauroPharm by whom and when.
−Removed: Company's legal team has prepared the requested reply and produced the respective documentation.
−Removed: TauroPharm has also filed another
−Removed: writ within the same deadline and both parties have filed further writs at the end of April 2016 setting out their respective argumentation
−Removed: in more detail.
+Added: An oral hearing was held on September 17, 2019 in which the German Federal Patent Court affirmed the first instance decision
+Added: that the Utility Model was invalid.
+Added: The decision has only a declaratory effect, as the Utility Model had expired in November 2015.
+Added: On April 28, 2020, the Company filed a withdrawal of the complaint on the German utility model, thereby waiving its claims on
+Added: these proceedings.
+Added: November 22, 2017, the EPO in Munich, Germany held a further oral hearing in this matter.
+Added: At the hearing, the panel held that
+Added: the Prosl European Patent would be invalidated because it did not meet the requirements of novelty based on a technical aspect
+Added: of the European intellectual property law.
+Added: The Company disagrees with this decision and has appealed the decision.
+Added: continues to believe that the Prosl European Patent is indeed novel and that its validity should be maintained.
+Added: There can be no
+Added: assurance that the Company will prevail in this matter.
+Added: In addition, the ongoing Unfair Competition litigation brought by the
+Added: Company against TauroPharm is not affected and will continue.
+Added: January 16, 2015, the Company filed a complaint against TauroPharm GmbH and its managing directors in the District Court of Cologne,
+Added: In the complaint, the Company alleges violation of the German Unfair Competition Act by TauroPharm for the unauthorized
+Added: use of its proprietary information obtained in confidence by TauroPharm.
+Added: The Company alleges that TauroPharm is improperly and
+Added: unfairly using its proprietary information relating to the composition and manufacture of Neutrolin, in the manufacture and sale
+Added: of TauroPharm’s products TauroLock TM , TauroLock-HEP100 and TauroLock-HEP500.
+Added: The Company seeks a cease and desist
+Added: order against TauroPharm from continuing to manufacture and sell any product containing taurolidine (the active pharmaceutical
+Added: ingredient (“API”) of Neutrolin) and citric acid in addition to possible other components, damages for any sales in
+Added: the past and the removal of all such products from the market.
+Added: An initial hearing in the District Court of Cologne, Germany was
+Added: held on November 19, 2015 to consider the Company’s claims.
+Added: In this hearing, the presiding judge explained that the court
+Added: needed more information with regard to several aspects of the case.
+Added: As a consequence, the Court issued an interim decision in
+Added: the form of a court order outlining several issues of concern that relate primarily to the court’s interest in clarifying
+Added: the facts and reviewing any and all available documentation, in particular with regard to the question which specific know-how
+Added: was provided to TauroPharm by whom and when.
A further oral hearing in this matter was held on November 15, 2016.
−Removed: In this hearing, the court heard arguments
−Removed: from CorMedix and TauroPharm concerning the allegations of unfair competition.
−Removed: The court made no rulings from the bench and indicated
−Removed: that it is prepared to further examine the underlying facts of the Company's allegations.
−Removed: On March 7, 2017, the court issued another
−Removed: interim decision in the form of a court order outlining again several issues relating to the argumentation of both sides in the
−Removed: In particular the court requested the Company to further specify its requests and to further substantiate in even
−Removed: more detail which know-how was provided by Biolink (the company who developed Neutrolin that was acquired by ND Partners) to TauroPharm
−Removed: by whom and when.
−Removed: The court also raised the question whether the know-how provided at the time to TauroPharm could still be considered
−Removed: to be secret know-how or may have become public in the meantime.
−Removed: The court granted both sides the opportunity to reply to this
−Removed: court order and provide additional facts and evidence until May 15, 2017.
−Removed: Both parties have submitted further writs in this matter
−Removed: and the court scheduled a further hearing on May 8, 2018.
−Removed: After having been rescheduled several times, the hearing took place on
−Removed: November 20, 2018.
−Removed: A decision was rendered by the court on December 11, 2018, dismissing the complaint in its entirety.
−Removed: the Company intends to continue to pursue this matter, and still believes firmly that its claims are well-founded.
−Removed: therefore appealed in January 2019 and filed its grounds of appeal in March 2019.
−Removed: An oral hearing was held on September 6, 2019
−Removed: in which the legal counsel of the Company brought forward further arguments for the fact that the manufacturing process of the
−Removed: respective catheter locking solution is indeed protectable as a trade secret.
−Removed: In view of these new arguments, the court issued
−Removed: an evidentiary order on September 27, 2019 ordering an expert opinion.
−Removed: Next steps will be taken after the receipt of the expert
−Removed: In connection with the aforementioned
−Removed: patent and utility model infringement and unfair competition proceedings against TauroPharm, the Company was required by the
−Removed: District Courts of Mannheim and Cologne to provide security deposits of an aggregate of approximately $170,000, to cover
−Removed: legal fees in the event TauroPharm is entitled to reimbursement of these costs.
−Removed: The Company recorded the deposits as
−Removed: restricted cash on the consolidated balance sheets.
−Removed: In 2008, the Company entered into a License
−Removed: and Assignment Agreement (the “NDP License Agreement”) with ND Partners, LLP (“NDP”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the NDP
−Removed: License Agreement, NDP granted the Company exclusive, worldwide licenses for certain antimicrobial catheter lock solutions, processes
−Removed: for treating and inhibiting infections, a biocidal lock system and a taurolidine delivery apparatus, and the corresponding United
−Removed: States and foreign patents and applications (the “NDP Technology”).
−Removed: The Company acquired such licenses and patents
−Removed: through its assignment and assumption of NDP’s rights under certain separate license agreements by and between NDP and Dr.
+Added: In this hearing,
+Added: the court heard arguments from CorMedix and TauroPharm concerning the allegations of unfair competition.
+Added: On March 7, 2017, the
+Added: Court issued another interim decision in the form of a court order outlining again several issues relating to the argumentation
+Added: of both sides in the proceedings.
+Added: Both parties have submitted further writs in this matter and the Court scheduled a further hearing
+Added: on May 8, 2018.
+Added: After having been rescheduled several times, the hearing took place on November 20, 2018.
+Added: A decision was rendered
+Added: by the court on December 11, 2018, dismissing the complaint in its entirety.
+Added: However, the Company intends to continue to pursue
+Added: this matter, and still believes firmly that its claims are well-founded.
+Added: The Company therefore appealed in January 2019 and filed
+Added: its grounds of appeal in March 2019.
+Added: An oral hearing was held on September 6, 2019 in which the legal counsel of the Company brought
+Added: forward further arguments for the fact that the manufacturing process of the respective catheter locking solution is indeed protectable
+Added: as a trade secret.
+Added: In view of these new arguments, the Court issued an evidentiary order on September 27, 2019 ordering an expert
+Added: The expert opinion was not in the Company’s favor but the Company has filed a response to the expert opinion in
+Added: reaction to which the Court asked the expert to supplement his opinion to address the issues brought forward in the Company’s
+Added: In the supplementary expert opinion, the expert confirmed his view.
+Added: The Company has filed a response and an oral hearing
+Added: has been scheduled for February 5, 2021 but was postponed to June 18, 2021 due to the COVID19 situation in Germany.
+Added: connection with the aforementioned patent and utility model infringement and unfair competition proceedings against TauroPharm,
+Added: the Company was required by the District Courts of Mannheim and Cologne to provide security deposits to cover legal fees in the
+Added: event TauroPharm is entitled to reimbursement of these costs.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, the aggregate deposit was approximately
+Added: $ 191,000 , which the Company recorded as restricted cash on the consolidated balance sheets.
+Added: During the year ended December 31,
+Added: 2020, costs in connection with the utility model infringement proceedings of approximately $ 30,000 was reimbursed to TauroPharm .
+Added: In January 2021, approximately $ 48,000 was released by the court to the Company’s account which will be deducted from
+Added: restricted cash.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued)
+Added: 2008, the Company entered into a License and Assignment Agreement (the “NDP License Agreement”) with ND Partners,
+Added: Pursuant to the NDP License Agreement, NDP granted the Company exclusive, worldwide licenses for certain
+Added: antimicrobial catheter lock solutions, processes for treating and inhibiting infections, a biocidal lock system and a taurolidine
+Added: delivery apparatus, and the corresponding United States and foreign patents and applications (the “NDP Technology”).
+Added: The Company acquired such licenses and patents through its assignment and assumption of NDP’s rights under certain separate
+Added: license agreements by and between NDP and Dr.
Hans-Dietrich Polaschegg, Dr.
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Johannes Reinmueller.
−Removed: As consideration in part for the rights to the NDP Technology,
−Removed: the Company paid NDP an initial licensing fee of $325,000 and granted NDP a 5% equity interest in the Company, consisting of 7,996
−Removed: shares of the Company’s common stock.
−Removed: The Company is required to make payments
−Removed: to NDP upon the achievement of certain regulatory and sales-based milestones.
−Removed: Certain of the milestone payments are to be made
−Removed: in the form of shares of common stock currently held in escrow for NDP, and other milestone payments are to be paid in cash.
−Removed: maximum aggregate number of shares issuable upon achievement of milestones is 29,109 shares.
−Removed: In 2014, a certain milestone was achieved
−Removed: resulting in the release of 7,277 shares held in escrow.
−Removed: The number of shares held in escrow as of December 31, 2019 is 21,832
−Removed: shares of common stock.
−Removed: The maximum aggregate amount of cash payments due upon achievement of milestones is $3,000,000 with the
−Removed: balance being $2,500,000 as of December 31, 2019 and 2018.
−Removed: Events that trigger milestone payments include but are not limited to
−Removed: the reaching of various stages of regulatory approval and upon achieving certain worldwide net sales amounts.
−Removed: There were no milestones
−Removed: achieved during the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018.
−Removed: The NDP License Agreement may be terminated
−Removed: by the Company on a country-by-country basis upon 60 days prior written notice.
−Removed: If the NDP License Agreement is terminated by either
−Removed: party, the Company’s rights to the NDP Technology will revert back to NDP.
−Removed: In September 2017, the Company entered
−Removed: into a sublease agreement for approximately 6,960 square feet of office space in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, which sublease
−Removed: runs from September 15, 2017 to June 29, 2020.
−Removed: This sublease is rent-free to the Company.
−Removed: A notice of an intention not to
−Removed: renew the Company’s current lease has been received and as a result, the Company is actively seeking for a new space to
−Removed: lease that will meet its current needs.
−Removed: Note 8 —
−Removed: Stockholders’
−Removed: Common Stock:
−Removed: The Company had a prior sales agreement
−Removed: Riley for its ATM program, which expired on April 16, 2018, under which the Company could issue and sell up to an aggregate
−Removed: of $60.0 million of shares of its common stock.
+Added: As consideration
+Added: in part for the rights to the NDP Technology, the Company paid NDP an initial licensing fee of $ 325,000 and granted NDP a 5 % equity
+Added: interest in the Company, consisting of 7,996 shares of the Company’s common stock.
+Added: Company is required to make payments to NDP upon the achievement of certain regulatory and sales-based milestones.
+Added: the milestone payments are to be made in the form of shares of common stock currently held in escrow for NDP, and other milestone
+Added: payments are to be paid in cash.
+Added: The maximum aggregate number of shares issuable upon achievement of milestones is 29,109 shares.
+Added: In 2014, a certain milestone was achieved resulting in the release of 7,277 shares held in escrow.
+Added: The number of shares held in
+Added: escrow as of December 31, 2020 is 21,832 shares of common stock.
+Added: The maximum aggregate amount of cash payments due upon achievement
+Added: of milestones is $ 3,000,000 with the balance being $ 2,500,000 as of December 31, 2020 and 2019.
+Added: Events that trigger milestone
+Added: payments include but are not limited to the reaching of various stages of regulatory approval and upon achieving certain worldwide
+Added: net sales amounts.
+Added: There were no milestones achieved during the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.
+Added: NDP License Agreement may be terminated by the Company on a country-by-country basis upon 60 days prior written notice.
+Added: NDP License Agreement is terminated by either party, the Company’s rights to the NDP Technology will revert back to NDP.
+Added: The Company entered
+Added: into a seven-year operating lease agreement in March 2020 for an office space at 300 Connell Drive, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
+Added: The lease agreement, with a monthly average of approximately $ 17,000 commenced on September 16, 2020.
+Added: The Company’s
+Added: sublease on its previous premises at 400 Connell Drive, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey 07922 terminated on November 30, 2020 (see
+Added: 8 — Stockholders’ Equity:
+Added: On July 30, 2020, the
+Added: Company completed an underwritten public offering of its common stock, par value $ 0.001 per share, which yielded net proceeds of
+Added: approximately $ 21.3 million.
+Added: The public offering was made pursuant to an underwriting agreement with SunTrust Robinson Humphrey,
+Added: and JMP Securities LLC (collectively, the “Underwriters”), relating to the issuance and sale of an aggregate of
+Added: 5,111,110 shares of common stock, including 666,666 shares of common stock pursuant to the full exercise of the Underwriters’
+Added: option to purchase additional shares, at a public offering price of $ 4.50 per share.
+Added: The offering was made pursuant to the Company’s
+Added: effective registration statement on Form S-3 Registration Statement No.
+Added: 333-223562 previously filed with and declared effective
+Added: by the SEC and a prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus filed with the SEC.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued )
+Added: The Company had a prior sales agreement with FBR Securities, Inc., (formerly known as B.
+Added: Riley FBR, Inc.) (“B.
+Added: for its ATM program, which expired on April 16, 2018, under which the Company could issue and sell up to an aggregate of $60.0
+Added: million of shares of its common stock.
On March 9, 2018, the Company entered into a new agreement with B.
−Removed: Riley for the
−Removed: sale of up to $14.7 million of the Company’s common stock under the ATM program, pursuant to a registration statement filed
−Removed: on March 9, 2018 for an aggregate of $70 million of the Company’s securities, which became effective on April 16, 2018.
−Removed: new ATM agreement replaced a prior sales agreement with B.
+Added: Riley for the sale of
+Added: up to $14.7 million of the Company’s common stock under the ATM program, pursuant to a registration statement filed on March
+Added: 9, 2018 for an aggregate of $70 million of the Company’s securities, which became effective on April 16, 2018.
+Added: agreement replaced a prior sales agreement with B.
Riley that expired on April 16, 2018.
−Removed: The ATM program amount was increased
−Removed: by $25.0 million in November 2018.
−Removed: Under the ATM program, the Company may issue and sell common stock from time to time through
+Added: The ATM program amount was increased by
+Added: $25.0 million in November 2018.
+Added: Under the ATM program, the Company may issue and sell common stock from time to time through B.
Riley acting as agent, subject to limitations imposed by the Company and subject to B.
−Removed: Riley’s acceptance, such as the
−Removed: number or dollar amount of shares registered under the registration statement to which the offering relates.
−Removed: Riley is entitled
−Removed: to a commission of up to 3% of the gross proceeds from the sale of common stock sold under the ATM program.
−Removed: During the years ended
−Removed: December 31, 2019 and 2018, the Company sold 1,768,012 and 7,177,755 shares of common stock under the new and expired ATM programs,
−Removed: respectively, and realized net proceeds of approximately $15.2 million and $22.0 million during the years ended December 31, 2019
−Removed: and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: At December 31, 2019, the Company has approximately $4.6 million available under its current ATM program
−Removed: and $30.3 million available under its current shelf registration for the issuance of equity, debt or equity-linked securities unrelated
−Removed: to the current ATM program (see note 11 for subsequent event sales under ATM).
−Removed: Restricted Stock Units
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2019
−Removed: and 2018, the Company granted an aggregate of 24,850 and 18,900 restricted stock units (“RSUs”) to its officers and
−Removed: directors under its 2013 Stock Incentive Plan with a weighted average grant date fair value of $8.33 and $3.50 per share, respectively.
−Removed: The fair value of each RSU was estimated to be the closing price of the Company’s common stock on each date of grant.
−Removed: RSUs vest monthly over one year after grant date, subject to continued service on the board through the vesting date.
−Removed: year ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, compensation expense recorded for these RSUs was $198,000 and $93,000, respectively.
−Removed: compensation expense as of December 31, 2019 and 2018 was $11,000 and $23,000, respectively.
−Removed: The expected weighted average period
−Removed: for the expense to be recognized is 0.19 years.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2019, 2,830 RSU’s were forfeited and no
−Removed: RSUs were forfeited during the year ended December 31, 2018.
−Removed: At December 31, 2019, there were 2,490 RSUs outstanding to vest.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2019,
−Removed: the Company issued an aggregate of 25,346 shares of its common stock upon the vesting of restricted stock units issued to the Company’s
−Removed: board of directors.
−Removed: Preferred Stock
−Removed: The Company is authorized to issue up to
−Removed: 2,000,000 shares of preferred stock in one or more series without stockholder approval.
−Removed: The Company’s board of directors
−Removed: has the discretion to determine the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions, including voting rights, dividend rights,
−Removed: conversion rights, redemption privileges and liquidation preferences, of each series of preferred stock.
−Removed: Of the 2,000,000 shares
−Removed: of preferred stock authorized, the Company’s board of directors has designated (all with par value of $0.001 per share) the
+Added: Riley’s acceptance, such as the number
+Added: or dollar amount of shares registered under the registration statement to which the offering relates.
+Added: Riley is entitled to a
+Added: commission of up to 3% of the gross proceeds from the sale of common stock sold under the ATM program.
+Added: During the years ended December
+Added: 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company sold 1,854,970 and 1,768,012 shares of common stock under the new and expired ATM programs, respectively,
+Added: and realized net proceeds of approximately $11.4 million and $15.2 million during the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: At December 31, 2020, this current ATM program and the current shelf registration for the issuance of equity, debt or equity-linked
+Added: securities has been exhausted.
+Added: November 2020, the Company filed a new registration statement, under which the Company could issue and sell up to an aggregate
+Added: of $100.0 million of shares of its common stock, $0.001 par value per share.
+Added: On November 27, 2020, the Company entered into an
+Added: Amended and Restated At Market Issuance Sales Agreement (“Amended Sales Agreement”) with B.
+Added: Riley and Needham &
+Added: Company, LLC (“Needham”), together with B.
+Added: Riley, acting as sales agents (“Sales Agent”).
+Added: Sales Agreement relates to the sale of shares of up to $25.0 million of the Company’s common stock under its ATM program, of which the Company
+Added: may issue and sell common stock from time to time through the Sales Agent, subject to limitations imposed by the Company and subject
+Added: to Sales Agent’s acceptance, such as the number or dollar amount of shares registered under the registration statement to
+Added: which the offering relates.
+Added: Sales Agent is entitled to a commission of up to 3% of the gross proceeds from the sale of common
+Added: stock sold under the ATM program.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company sold 832,676 shares of common stock under
+Added: the Amended Sales Agreement at the weighted average price of $8.69 per share and realized net proceeds of approximately $7.0 million.
+Added: At December 31, 2020, the Company had approximately $17.8 million available under the Amended Sales Agreement and $75.0 million
+Added: available under its current shelf registration for the issuance of equity, debt or equity-linked securities unrelated to the Amended
+Added: Sales Agreement.
+Added: During the year ended
+Added: December 31, 2020 the Company did not grant any restricted stock units (“RSUs”) and granted an aggregate of 24,850
+Added: RSUs during the year ended December 31, 2019 to its officers and directors under its 2013 Stock Incentive Plan with a weighted
+Added: average grant date fair value of $ 8.33 per share.
+Added: The fair value of each RSU was estimated to be the closing price of the Company’s
+Added: common stock on each date of grant.
+Added: These RSUs vest monthly over one year after grant date, subject to continued service on the
+Added: board through the vesting date.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, compensation expense recorded for these RSUs
+Added: was $ 11,000 and $ 198,000 , respectively.
+Added: There was no unrecognized compensation expense as of December 31, 2020 as all RSU’s
+Added: outstanding had vested.
+Added: At December 31, 2020, there are no RSUs outstanding.
+Added: the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company issued an aggregate of 2,490 and 25,346 shares of its common stock upon
+Added: the vesting of restricted stock units issued to the Company’s board of directors, respectively.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued)
+Added: Company is authorized to issue up to 2,000,000 shares of preferred stock in one or more series without stockholder approval.
+Added: Company’s board of directors has the discretion to determine the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions, including
+Added: voting rights, dividend rights, conversion rights, redemption privileges and liquidation preferences, of each series of preferred
+Added: Of the 2,000,000 shares of preferred stock authorized, the Company’s board of directors has designated (all with
+Added: par value of $ 0.001 per share) the following:
As of December 31, 2020
As of December 31, 2019
−Removed: On November 9, 2017, the Company entered
−Removed: into a securities purchase agreement which, on November 16, 2017, resulted in the Company selling $2.0 million of its Series F
−Removed: preferred stock (“Series F Stock”) at $1,000 per share.
−Removed: Based on the terms of the Series F Stock, the conversion price
−Removed: The conversion price of the Series F Stock was subject to anti-dilution adjustment for customary recapitalization events
−Removed: such as stock splits, as well as full ratchet anti-dilution protection in the event that the Company did not obtain the subordination
−Removed: of the Series C-3 preferred stock to that of the Series F Stock or obtain stockholder approval, if required by NYSE American rules,
−Removed: of the issuance of common stock that exceeds NYSE American rules.
−Removed: All outstanding shares of Series F Stock were cancelled in connection
−Removed: with the terms of the Exchange Agreement, as described below.
−Removed: On August 14, 2019, the Company entered
−Removed: into the Exchange Agreement with Elliott, pursuant to which Elliott agreed to exchange all of its outstanding warrants, its 10%
−Removed: senior secured convertible note and its shares of Series C-2 preferred stock, Series D preferred stock and Series F preferred stock,
−Removed: and make a cash payment of $2.0 million to the Company, for 100,000 shares of Series G preferred stock, with an aggregate liquidation
−Removed: preference of $18,736,452, which are convertible into an aggregate of 5,560,138 shares of the Company’s common stock at a
−Removed: conversion price of $3.37 per share.
−Removed: Elliott retained the shares of the Company’s common stock and Series E preferred
−Removed: stock that it held at the time of the consummation of the Exchange Agreement.
−Removed: Other than with respect to conversion
−Removed: price and liquidation preference, the Series G preferred stock has substantially the same terms as the Company’s outstanding
−Removed: Series E preferred stock, including the restrictive covenants contained therein as modified as set forth in the Exchange Agreement.
−Removed: However, Elliott is prohibited from converting the Series G preferred stock into shares of the Company’s common stock to
−Removed: the extent that, as a result of such conversion, Elliott would own more than 4.99% of the total number of shares of the Company’s
−Removed: common stock then issued and outstanding.
−Removed: The shares of Series G preferred stock are entitled to vote on an as-converted basis
−Removed: with respect to the number of shares of common stock into which they are convertible, based upon an assumed conversion price, solely
−Removed: for the purpose of the voting rights, equal to $7.93, the closing price of the Company’s common stock on August 14, 2019,
+Added: Shares Outstanding
+Added: Liquidation Preference
+Added: Shares Outstanding
+Added: Liquidation Preference
+Added: On November 9, 2017,
+Added: the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement which, on November 16, 2017, resulted in the Company selling $ 2 .0 million
+Added: of its Series F preferred stock (“Series F Stock”) at $ 1,000 per share.
+Added: All outstanding shares of Series F Stock were
+Added: cancelled in connection with the terms of the Exchange Agreement, as described below.
+Added: August 14, 2019, the Company entered into the Exchange Agreement with Elliott, pursuant to which Elliott agreed to exchange all
+Added: of its outstanding warrants, its 10 % senior secured convertible note and its shares of Series C-2 preferred stock, Series D preferred
+Added: stock and Series F preferred stock, and make a cash payment of $ 2 .0 million to the Company, for 100,000 shares of Series G preferred
+Added: stock, with an aggregate liquidation preference of $ 18,736,452 , which are convertible into an aggregate of 5,560,138 shares of
+Added: the Company’s common stock at a conversion price of $ 3.37 per share.
+Added: Elliott retained the shares of the Company’s
+Added: common stock and Series E preferred stock that it held at the time of the consummation of the Exchange Agreement.
+Added: Other than with
+Added: respect to conversion price and liquidation preference, the Series G preferred stock has substantially the same terms as the Company’s
+Added: outstanding Series E preferred stock, including the restrictive covenants contained therein as modified as set forth in the Exchange
+Added: However, Elliott is prohibited from converting the Series G preferred stock into shares of the Company’s common
+Added: stock to the extent that, as a result of such conversion, Elliott would own more than 4.99 % of the total number of shares of the
+Added: Company’s common stock then issued and outstanding.
+Added: The shares of Series G preferred stock are entitled to vote on an as-converted
+Added: basis with respect to the number of shares of common stock into which they are convertible, based upon an assumed conversion price,
+Added: solely for the purpose of the voting rights, equal to $ 7.93 , the closing price of the Company’s common stock on August 14,
2019, and the Series E preferred stock was modified to provide for similar rights to vote on an as-converted basis.
−Removed: The Company filed
−Removed: the Certificate of Designation of the Series G preferred stock and the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Designation of
−Removed: the Series E preferred stock with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on September 5, 2019.
−Removed: On September 6, 2019, the
−Removed: Company closed this transaction and issued the Series G preferred stock.
−Removed: Pursuant to the terms of the Exchange Agreement,
−Removed: the exchange of the Series C-2 preferred stock, Series D preferred stock, Series F preferred stock and the 10% senior secured convertible
−Removed: note was considered an extinguishment.
−Removed: As a result, the difference between the fair value allocated to the Series G preferred stock
−Removed: and the carrying value of the Series C-2 preferred stock, Series D preferred stock, Series F preferred stock and the 10% senior
−Removed: secured convertible note is being treated as a deemed dividend and is added to net loss to arrive at loss available to common stockholders.
−Removed: The Series G preferred stock was valued
−Removed: using the Black Scholes option pricing model.
−Removed: The Black-Scholes option pricing model was also used to determine the fair value
−Removed: of the warrants and the Series C-2 preferred stock, Series D preferred stock and Series F preferred stock.
−Removed: These fair values, along
−Removed: with the fair value of the 10% senior secured convertible note were utilized to allocate the fair value of the Series G preferred
−Removed: stock based on relative fair values.
−Removed: ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements, states that the reporting entity should use the valuation
−Removed: technique(s) appropriate for the measurement, considering the availability of data with which to develop inputs that represent
−Removed: the assumptions that market participants would use when pricing the asset or liability.
−Removed: Market participants price options
−Removed: based on expected volatility, not historical volatility.
−Removed: In estimating the expected volatility of the Company’s common
−Removed: stock, the Company followed the guidance of ASC 820 and considered a number of factors - including the implied volatility of the
−Removed: Company’s listed warrant contracts.
−Removed: A summary of the assumptions used in the
−Removed: Black Scholes pricing model are as follows:
+Added: filed the Certificate of Designation of the Series G preferred stock and the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Designation
+Added: of the Series E preferred stock with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on September 5, 2019.
+Added: On September 6, 2019,
+Added: the Company closed this transaction and issued the Series G preferred stock.
+Added: to the terms of the Exchange Agreement, the exchange of the Series C-2 preferred stock, Series D preferred stock, Series F preferred
+Added: stock and the 10 % senior secured convertible note was considered an extinguishment.
+Added: As a result, the difference between the fair
+Added: value allocated to the Series G preferred stock and the carrying value of the Series C-2 preferred stock, Series D preferred stock,
+Added: Series F preferred stock and the 10 % senior secured convertible note is being treated as a deemed dividend and is added to net
+Added: loss to arrive at loss available to common stockholders.
+Added: Series G preferred stock was valued using the Black Scholes option pricing model.
+Added: The Black-Scholes option pricing model was also
+Added: used to determine the fair value of the warrants and the Series C-2 preferred stock, Series D preferred stock and Series F preferred
+Added: These fair values, along with the fair value of the 10 % senior secured convertible note were utilized to allocate the fair
+Added: value of the Series G preferred stock based on relative fair values.
+Added: ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements, states that the reporting
+Added: entity should use the valuation technique(s) appropriate for the measurement, considering the availability of data with which
+Added: to develop inputs that represent the assumptions that market participants would use when pricing the asset or liability.
+Added: participants price options based on expected volatility, not historical volatility.
+Added: In estimating the expected volatility of the
+Added: Company’s common stock, the Company followed the guidance of ASC 820 and considered a number of factors - including the
+Added: implied volatility of the Company’s listed warrant contracts.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued )
+Added: summary of the assumptions used in the Black Scholes pricing model are as follows:
Expected term, years
1 unchanged sentence
Risk-free interest rate
−Removed: As a result of the Exchange Agreement,
−Removed: the Company recognized a deemed dividend of $26,733,098.
−Removed: The deemed dividend was comprised of (1) a beneficial conversion
−Removed: related to the 10% secured senior convertible note recognized at extinguishment;
−Removed: (2) the difference between the allocated
−Removed: fair value of the Series G Preferred Stock issued and the carrying values of the 10% secured senior convertible note, the
−Removed: Series C-2 Preferred Stock, Series D Preferred Stock and Series F Preferred Stock;
−Removed: (3) the difference between the fair value
−Removed: of the exchanged warrants before and after the Exchange Agreement;
+Added: a result of the Exchange Agreement, the Company recognized a deemed dividend of $ 26,733,098 .
+Added: The deemed dividend was comprised
+Added: of (1) a beneficial conversion related to the 10% secured senior convertible note recognized at extinguishment;
+Added: (2) the difference
+Added: between the allocated fair value of the Series G Preferred Stock issued and the carrying values of the 10% secured senior convertible
+Added: note, the Series C-2 Preferred Stock, Series D Preferred Stock and Series F Preferred Stock;
+Added: (3) the difference between the fair
+Added: value of the exchanged warrants before and after the Exchange Agreement;
and (4) the difference between the fair value and the
−Removed: carrying value of Series E Preferred Stock, less the fair value of the Series E warrants that were cancelled as part of the
−Removed: Exchange Agreement.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2019,
−Removed: the Company issued 104,000 shares of its common stock upon conversion of 52,000 shares of Series C-3 non-voting preferred stock.
−Removed: The following rights, privileges, terms
−Removed: and condition apply to the outstanding preferred stock at December 31, 2019:
−Removed: Series C-3 Non-Voting Preferred Stock
−Removed: The Series C-3 non-voting
−Removed: preferred stock will rank senior to our common stock;
−Removed: senior to any class or series of capital stock created after
−Removed: the issuance of the Series C-3 non-voting preferred stock;
−Removed: and junior to the Series E voting convertible preferred stock in each
−Removed: case, as to dividends or distributions of assets upon our liquidation, dissolution or winding up whether voluntarily or involuntarily.
−Removed: Each share of
−Removed: Series C-3 preferred stock is convertible into 2 shares of our common stock (subject to adjustment in the event of stock dividends
−Removed: and distributions, stock splits, stock combinations, or reclassifications affecting our common stock) at a per share price of
−Removed: $5.00 at any time at the option of the holder, except that a holder will be prohibited from converting shares of Series C-3 preferred
−Removed: stock into shares of common stock if, as a result of such conversion, such holder, together with its affiliates, would beneficially
−Removed: own more than 9.99% of the total number of shares of our common stock then issued and outstanding.
−Removed: Liquidation Preference .
−Removed: the event of our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, holders of Series C-3 preferred stock will receive a payment equal to
−Removed: $10.00 per share of Series C-3 preferred stock before any proceeds are distributed to the holders of our common stock.
−Removed: payment of this preferential amount, and subject to the rights of holders of any class or series of our capital stock hereafter
−Removed: created specifically ranking by its terms senior to the Series C-3 preferred stock and holders of Series C-3 preferred stock will
−Removed: participate ratably in the distribution of any remaining assets with the common stock and any other class or series of our capital
−Removed: stock hereafter created that participates with the common stock in such distributions.
−Removed: Voting Rights .
−Removed: Series C-3 preferred stock will generally have no voting rights, except as required by law and except that the consent of holders
−Removed: of two thirds of the outstanding Series C-3 preferred Stock will be required to amend the terms of the Series C-3 preferred stock
−Removed: or the certificate of designation for the Series C-3 preferred stock.
−Removed: Holders of Series
−Removed: C-3 preferred stock are entitled to receive, and we are required to pay, dividends on shares of the Series C-3 preferred stock
−Removed: equal (on an as-if-converted-to-common-stock basis) to and in the same form as dividends (other than dividends in the form of common
−Removed: stock) actually paid on shares of the common stock when, as and if such dividends (other than dividends in the form of common stock)
−Removed: are paid on shares of the common stock.
−Removed: We are not obligated
−Removed: to redeem or repurchase any shares of Series C-3 preferred stock.
−Removed: Shares of Series C-3 preferred stock are not otherwise entitled
−Removed: to any redemption rights, or mandatory sinking fund or analogous fund provisions.
−Removed: There is no established
−Removed: public trading market for the Series C-3 preferred stock, and we do not expect a market to develop.
−Removed: In addition, we do not intend
−Removed: to apply for listing of the Series C-3 preferred stock on any national securities exchange or trading system.
−Removed: Fundamental Transactions .
−Removed: If, at any time that shares of Series C-3 preferred stock are outstanding, we effect a merger or other change of control transaction,
−Removed: as described in the certificate of designation and referred to as a fundamental transaction, then a holder will have the right
−Removed: to receive, upon any subsequent conversion of a share of Series C-3 preferred stock (in lieu of conversion shares) for each issuable
−Removed: conversion share, the same kind and amount of securities, cash or property as such holder would have been entitled to receive upon
−Removed: the occurrence of such fundamental transaction if such holder had been, immediately prior to such fundamental transaction, the
−Removed: holder of a share of common stock.
−Removed: Series E Voting Convertible Preferred Stock
−Removed: The Series E voting preferred
−Removed: stock will rank senior to our common stock;
−Removed: senior to any class or series of capital stock created after the issuance of the Series
+Added: carrying value of Series E Preferred Stock, less the fair value of the Series E warrants that were cancelled as part of the Exchange
+Added: following rights, privileges, terms and condition apply to the outstanding preferred stock at December 31, 2020:
+Added: C-3 Non-Voting Preferred Stock
+Added: The Series C-3 non-voting preferred stock will rank senior to our common stock;
+Added: senior to any class or series of capital stock
+Added: created after the issuance of the Series C-3 non-voting preferred stock;
+Added: and junior to the Series E voting convertible preferred
+Added: stock in each case, as to dividends or distributions of assets upon our liquidation, dissolution or winding up whether voluntarily
+Added: or involuntarily.
+Added: Each share of Series C-3 preferred stock is convertible into 2 shares of our common stock (subject to adjustment in the event
+Added: of stock dividends and distributions, stock splits, stock combinations, or reclassifications affecting our common stock) at a
+Added: per share price of $ 5.00 at any time at the option of the holder, except that a holder will be prohibited from converting shares
+Added: of Series C-3 preferred stock into shares of common stock if, as a result of such conversion, such holder, together with its affiliates,
+Added: would beneficially own more than 9.99 % of the total number of shares of our common stock then issued and outstanding.
+Added: In the event of our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, holders of Series C-3 preferred stock will receive
+Added: a payment equal to $ 10.00 per share of Series C-3 preferred stock before any proceeds are distributed to the holders of our common
+Added: After the payment of this preferential amount, and subject to the rights of holders of any class or series of our capital
+Added: stock hereafter created specifically ranking by its terms senior to the Series C-3 preferred stock and holders of Series C-3 preferred
+Added: stock will participate ratably in the distribution of any remaining assets with the common stock and any other class or series
+Added: of our capital stock hereafter created that participates with the common stock in such distributions.
+Added: Shares of Series C-3 preferred stock will generally have no voting rights, except as required by law and except that
+Added: the consent of holders of two thirds of the outstanding Series C-3 preferred Stock will be required to amend the terms of the
+Added: Series C-3 preferred stock or the certificate of designation for the Series C-3 preferred stock.
+Added: Holders of Series C-3 preferred stock are entitled to receive, and we are required to pay, dividends on shares of the Series
+Added: C-3 preferred stock equal (on an as-if-converted-to-common-stock basis) to and in the same form as dividends (other than dividends
+Added: in the form of common stock) actually paid on shares of the common stock when, as and if such dividends (other than dividends
+Added: in the form of common stock) are paid on shares of the common stock.
+Added: We are not obligated to redeem or repurchase any shares of Series C-3 preferred stock.
+Added: Shares of Series C-3 preferred stock
+Added: are not otherwise entitled to any redemption rights, or mandatory sinking fund or analogous fund provisions.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued )
+Added: There is no established public trading market for the Series C-3 preferred stock, and we do not expect a market to develop.
+Added: In addition, we do not intend to apply for listing of the Series C-3 preferred stock on any national securities exchange or trading
+Added: Transactions .
+Added: If, at any time that shares of Series C-3 preferred stock are outstanding, we effect a merger or other change
+Added: of control transaction, as described in the certificate of designation and referred to as a fundamental transaction, then a holder
+Added: will have the right to receive, upon any subsequent conversion of a share of Series C-3 preferred stock (in lieu of conversion
+Added: shares) for each issuable conversion share, the same kind and amount of securities, cash or property as such holder would have
+Added: been entitled to receive upon the occurrence of such fundamental transaction if such holder had been, immediately prior to such
+Added: fundamental transaction, the holder of a share of common stock.
E Voting Convertible Preferred Stock
−Removed: senior to the Series C-3 non-voting convertible preferred stock;
+Added: The Series E voting preferred stock will rank senior to our common stock;
+Added: senior to any class or series of capital stock created
+Added: after the issuance of the Series E voting convertible preferred stock;
+Added: senior to the Series C-3 non-voting convertible preferred
+Added: and on parity with the Series G voting convertible preferred stock in each case, as to dividends or distributions of assets
+Added: upon our liquidation, dissolution or winding up whether voluntarily or involuntarily.
+Added: Each share of Series E preferred stock is convertible into 4.3733 shares of our common stock (subject to adjustment as provided
+Added: in the certificates of designation for the Series E preferred stock) at a per share price of $ 3.75 at any time at the option of
+Added: the holder, except that a holder will be prohibited from converting shares of Series E preferred stock into shares of common stock
+Added: if, as a result of such conversion, such holder, together with its affiliates, would beneficially own more than 4.99 % of the total
+Added: number of shares of our common stock then issued and outstanding.
+Added: In the event of our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, holders of Series E preferred stock will receive a
+Added: payment equal to $ 49.20 per share of Series E preferred stock on parity with the payment of the liquidation preference due the
+Added: Series G preferred stock, but before any proceeds are distributed to the holders of common stock, and the Series C-3 non-voting
+Added: convertible preferred stock.
+Added: After the payment of this preferential amount, holders of Series E preferred stock will participate
+Added: ratably in the distribution of any remaining assets with the common stock and any other class or series of our capital stock that
+Added: participates with the common stock in such distributions.
+Added: Shares of Series E preferred stock are entitled to vote on an as-converted basis, based upon an assumed conversion
+Added: price of $ 7.93 .
+Added: Holders of Series E preferred stock are entitled to receive, and we are required to pay, dividends on shares of the Series
+Added: E preferred stock equal (on an as-if-converted-to-common-stock basis) to and in the same form as dividends (other than dividends
+Added: in the form of common stock) actually paid on shares of the common stock when, as and if such dividends (other than dividends
+Added: in the form of common stock) are paid on shares of the common stock.
+Added: We are not obligated to redeem or repurchase any shares of Series E preferred stock.
+Added: Shares of Series E preferred stock are
+Added: not otherwise entitled to any redemption rights, or mandatory sinking fund or analogous fund provisions.
+Added: There is no established public trading market for the Series E preferred stock, and we do not expect a market to develop.
+Added: In addition, we do not intend to apply for listing of the Series E preferred stock on any national securities exchange or trading
+Added: Transactions.
+Added: If, at any time that shares of Series E preferred stock are outstanding, we effect a merger or other change
+Added: of control transaction, as described in the certificate of designation and referred to as a fundamental transaction, then a holder
+Added: will have the right to receive, upon any subsequent conversion of a share of Series E preferred stock (in lieu of conversion shares)
+Added: for each issuable conversion share, the same kind and amount of securities, cash or property as such holder would have been entitled
+Added: to receive upon the occurrence of such fundamental transaction if such holder had been, immediately prior to such fundamental
+Added: transaction, the holder of a share of common stock.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued )
+Added: As long as any of the Series E preferred stock is outstanding, we cannot create, incur, guarantee, assume or
+Added: suffer to exist any indebtedness, other than (i) trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
+Added: practice, and (ii) up to $10 million aggregate principal amount of indebtedness with a maturity less than twelve months outstanding
+Added: at any time, which amount may include up to $5 million of letters of credit outstanding at any time.
+Added: In addition to the debt restrictions above, as long as any of the Series E preferred stock is outstanding, we cannot,
+Added: among others things:
+Added: create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any encumbrances on any of our assets or property;
+Added: redeem, repurchase
+Added: or pay any cash dividend or distribution on any of our capital stock (other than as permitted, which includes the dividends on
+Added: the Series E preferred stock and Series G preferred stock);
+Added: redeem, repurchase or prepay any indebtedness (other than as permitted);
+Added: or engage in any material line of business substantially different from our current lines of business.
+Added: In the event we issue any options, convertible securities or rights to purchase stock or other securities pro rata
+Added: to the holders of common stock, then a holder of Series E preferred stock will be entitled to acquire, upon the same terms a pro
+Added: rata amount of such stock or securities as if the Series E preferred stock had been converted to common stock.
+Added: G Voting Convertible Preferred Stock
+Added: The Series G voting convertible preferred stock will rank senior to our common stock;
+Added: senior to any class or series of capital
+Added: stock created after the issuance of the Series G voting convertible preferred stock;
+Added: junior to the Series C-3 non-voting convertible
+Added: preferred stock, pending the consent of the holders of such series to the subordination thereof;
and on parity with the Series
−Removed: G voting convertible preferred stock in each case, as to dividends or distributions of assets upon our liquidation, dissolution
+Added: E voting convertible preferred stock in each case, as to dividends or distributions of assets upon our liquidation, dissolution
or winding up whether voluntarily or involuntarily.
−Removed: Each share of Series
−Removed: E preferred stock is convertible into 4.3733 shares of our common stock (subject to adjustment as provided in the certificates
−Removed: of designation for the Series E preferred stock) at a per share price of $3.75 at any time at the option of the holder, except
−Removed: that a holder will be prohibited from converting shares of Series E preferred stock into shares of common stock if, as a result
−Removed: of such conversion, such holder, together with its affiliates, would beneficially own more than 4.99% of the total number of shares
−Removed: of our common stock then issued and outstanding.
−Removed: Liquidation Preference.
−Removed: of our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, holders of Series E preferred stock will receive a payment equal to $49.20 per share
−Removed: of Series E preferred stock on parity with the payment of the liquidation preference due the Series G preferred stock, but before
−Removed: any proceeds are distributed to the holders of common stock, and the Series C-3 non-voting convertible preferred stock.
−Removed: payment of this preferential amount, holders of Series E preferred stock will participate ratably in the distribution of any remaining
−Removed: assets with the common stock and any other class or series of our capital stock that participates with the common stock in such
−Removed: distributions.
−Removed: Voting Rights.
−Removed: Shares of Series E
−Removed: preferred stock are entitled to vote on an as-converted basis, based upon an assumed conversion price of $7.93.
−Removed: Holders of Series E preferred
−Removed: stock are entitled to receive, and we are required to pay, dividends on shares of the Series E preferred stock equal (on an as-if-converted-to-common-stock
−Removed: basis) to and in the same form as dividends (other than dividends in the form of common stock) actually paid on shares of the common
−Removed: stock when, as and if such dividends (other than dividends in the form of common stock) are paid on shares of the common stock.
−Removed: We are not obligated
−Removed: to redeem or repurchase any shares of Series E preferred stock.
−Removed: Shares of Series E preferred stock are not otherwise entitled to
−Removed: any redemption rights, or mandatory sinking fund or analogous fund provisions.
−Removed: There is no established
−Removed: public trading market for the Series E preferred stock, and we do not expect a market to develop.
−Removed: In addition, we do not intend
−Removed: to apply for listing of the Series E preferred stock on any national securities exchange or trading system.
−Removed: Fundamental Transactions.
−Removed: any time that shares of Series E preferred stock are outstanding, we effect a merger or other change of control transaction, as
−Removed: described in the certificate of designation and referred to as a fundamental transaction, then a holder will have the right to
−Removed: receive, upon any subsequent conversion of a share of Series E preferred stock (in lieu of conversion shares) for each issuable
−Removed: conversion share, the same kind and amount of securities, cash or property as such holder would have been entitled to receive upon
−Removed: the occurrence of such fundamental transaction if such holder had been, immediately prior to such fundamental transaction, the
−Removed: holder of a share of common stock.
−Removed: Debt Restriction.
−Removed: As long as any
−Removed: of the Series E preferred stock is outstanding, we cannot create, incur, guarantee, assume or suffer to exist any indebtedness,
−Removed: other than (i) trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, and (ii) up to $10 million
−Removed: aggregate principal amount of indebtedness with a maturity less than twelve months outstanding at any time, which amount may include
−Removed: up to $5 million of letters of credit outstanding at any time.
−Removed: Other Covenants.
−Removed: In addition to the
−Removed: debt restrictions above, as long as any of the Series E preferred stock is outstanding , we cannot, among others things:
−Removed: incur, assume or suffer to exist any encumbrances on any of our assets or property;
−Removed: redeem, repurchase or pay any cash dividend
−Removed: or distribution on any of our capital stock (other than as permitted, which includes the dividends on the Series E preferred stock
−Removed: and Series G preferred stock);
−Removed: redeem, repurchase or prepay any indebtedness (other than as permitted);
−Removed: or engage in any material
−Removed: line of business substantially different from our current lines of business.
−Removed: Purchase Rights.
−Removed: In the event we
−Removed: issue any options, convertible securities or rights to purchase stock or other securities pro rata to the holders of common stock,
−Removed: then a holder of Series E preferred stock will be entitled to acquire, upon the same terms a pro rata amount of such stock or securities
−Removed: as if the Series E preferred stock had been converted to common stock.
−Removed: Series G Voting Convertible Preferred Stock
−Removed: The Series G voting convertible
−Removed: preferred stock will rank senior to our common stock;
−Removed: senior to any class or series of capital stock created after the issuance
−Removed: of the Series G voting convertible preferred stock;
−Removed: junior to the Series C-3 non-voting convertible preferred stock, pending the
−Removed: consent of the holders of such series to the subordination thereof;
−Removed: and on parity with the Series E voting convertible preferred
−Removed: stock in each case, as to dividends or distributions of assets upon our liquidation, dissolution or winding up whether voluntarily
−Removed: or involuntarily.
−Removed: Each share of Series
−Removed: G preferred stock is convertible into approximately 55.5978 shares of our common stock (subject to adjustment as provided in the
−Removed: certificate of designation for the Series G preferred stock) at a per share price of $3.37 at any time at the option of the holder,
−Removed: except that a holder will be prohibited from converting shares of Series G preferred stock into shares of common stock if, as a
−Removed: result of such conversion, such holder, together with its affiliates, would beneficially own more than 4.99% of the total number
−Removed: of shares of our common stock then issued and outstanding.
−Removed: Liquidation Preference .
−Removed: of our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, holders of Series E preferred stock will receive a payment equal to $187.36452 per
−Removed: share of Series G preferred stock on parity with the payment of the liquidation preference due the Series E preferred stock, but
−Removed: before any proceeds are distributed to the holders of Series C-3 preferred stock (pending the consent of the holders of such series
−Removed: to the subordination thereof) and any proceeds are distributed to the holders of common stock.
−Removed: After the payment of this preferential
−Removed: amount, holders of Series G preferred stock will participate ratably in the distribution of any remaining assets with the common
−Removed: stock and any other class or series of our capital stock that participates with the common stock in such distributions.
−Removed: Voting Rights .
−Removed: Shares of Series G
−Removed: preferred stock are entitled to vote on an as-converted basis, based upon an assumed conversion price of $7.93.
−Removed: Holders of Series G Preferred
−Removed: stock are entitled to receive, and we are required to pay, dividends on shares of the Series G preferred stock equal (on an as-if-converted-to-common-stock
−Removed: basis) to and in the same form as dividends (other than dividends in the form of common stock) actually paid on shares of the common
−Removed: stock when, as and if such dividends (other than dividends in the form of common stock) are paid on shares of the common stock.
−Removed: We are not obligated
−Removed: to redeem or repurchase any shares of Series G preferred stock.
−Removed: Shares of Series G preferred stock are not otherwise entitled to
−Removed: any redemption rights, or mandatory sinking fund or analogous fund provisions.
−Removed: There is no established
−Removed: public trading market for the Series G preferred stock, and we do not expect a market to develop.
−Removed: In addition, we do not intend
−Removed: to apply for listing of the Series G preferred stock on any national securities exchange or trading system.
−Removed: Fundamental Transactions .
−Removed: any time that shares of Series G preferred stock are outstanding, we effect a merger or other change of control transaction, as
−Removed: described in the certificate of designation and referred to as a fundamental transaction, then a holder will have the right to
−Removed: receive, upon any subsequent conversion of a share of Series G preferred stock (in lieu of conversion shares) for each issuable
−Removed: conversion share, the same kind and amount of securities, cash or property as such holder would have been entitled to receive upon
−Removed: the occurrence of such fundamental transaction if such holder had been, immediately prior to such fundamental transaction, the
−Removed: holder of a share of common stock.
−Removed: Debt Restriction .
−Removed: As long as any
−Removed: of the Series G preferred stock is outstanding, we cannot create, incur, guarantee, assume or suffer to exist any indebtedness,
−Removed: other than (i) trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, and (ii) up to $10 million
−Removed: aggregate principal amount of indebtedness with a maturity less than twelve months outstanding at any time, which amount may include
−Removed: up to $5 million of letters of credit outstanding at any time.
−Removed: Other Covenants .
−Removed: In addition to the
−Removed: debt restrictions above, as long as any of the Series G preferred stock is outstanding, we cannot, among others things:
−Removed: incur, assume or suffer to exist any encumbrances on any of our assets or property;
−Removed: redeem, repurchase or pay any cash dividend
−Removed: or distribution on any of our capital stock (other than as permitted, which includes the dividends on the Series E preferred stock
−Removed: and the Series G preferred stock);
+Added: Each share of Series G preferred stock is convertible into approximately 55.5978 shares of our common stock (subject to adjustment
+Added: as provided in the certificate of designation for the Series G preferred stock) at a per share price of $ 3.37 at any time at the
+Added: option of the holder, except that a holder will be prohibited from converting shares of Series G preferred stock into shares of
+Added: common stock if, as a result of such conversion, such holder, together with its affiliates, would beneficially own more than 4.99 %
+Added: of the total number of shares of our common stock then issued and outstanding.
+Added: In the event of our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, holders of Series E preferred stock will receive a
+Added: payment equal to $ 187.36452 per share of Series G preferred stock on parity with the payment of the liquidation preference due
+Added: the Series E preferred stock, but before any proceeds are distributed to the holders of Series C-3 preferred stock (pending the
+Added: consent of the holders of such series to the subordination thereof) and any proceeds are distributed to the holders of common
+Added: After the payment of this preferential amount, holders of Series G preferred stock will participate ratably in the distribution
+Added: of any remaining assets with the common stock and any other class or series of our capital stock that participates with the common
+Added: stock in such distributions.
+Added: Shares of Series G preferred stock are entitled to vote on an as-converted basis, based upon an assumed conversion
+Added: price of $ 7.93 .
+Added: Holders of Series G Preferred stock are entitled to receive, and we are required to pay, dividends on shares of the Series G preferred
+Added: stock equal (on an as-if-converted-to-common-stock basis) to and in the same form as dividends (other than dividends in the form
+Added: of common stock) actually paid on shares of the common stock when, as and if such dividends (other than dividends in the form
+Added: of common stock) are paid on shares of the common stock.
+Added: We are not obligated to redeem or repurchase any shares of Series G preferred stock.
+Added: Shares of Series G preferred stock are not
+Added: otherwise entitled to any redemption rights, or mandatory sinking fund or analogous fund provisions.
+Added: There is no established public trading market for the Series G preferred stock, and we do not expect a market to develop.
+Added: we do not intend to apply for listing of the Series G preferred stock on any national securities exchange or trading system.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued )
+Added: Transactions .
+Added: If, at any time that shares of Series G preferred stock are outstanding, we effect a merger or other change
+Added: of control transaction, as described in the certificate of designation and referred to as a fundamental transaction, then a holder
+Added: will have the right to receive, upon any subsequent conversion of a share of Series G preferred stock (in lieu of conversion shares)
+Added: for each issuable conversion share, the same kind and amount of securities, cash or property as such holder would have been entitled
+Added: to receive upon the occurrence of such fundamental transaction if such holder had been, immediately prior to such fundamental
+Added: transaction, the holder of a share of common stock.
+Added: Restriction .
+Added: As long as any of the Series G preferred stock is outstanding, we cannot create, incur, guarantee, assume or
+Added: suffer to exist any indebtedness, other than (i) trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
+Added: practice, and (ii) up to $10 million aggregate principal amount of indebtedness with a maturity less than twelve months outstanding
+Added: at any time, which amount may include up to $5 million of letters of credit outstanding at any time.
+Added: In addition to the debt restrictions above, as long as any of the Series G preferred stock is outstanding, we cannot,
+Added: among others things:
+Added: create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any encumbrances on any of our assets or property;
+Added: redeem, repurchase
+Added: or pay any cash dividend or distribution on any of our capital stock (other than as permitted, which includes the dividends on
+Added: the Series E preferred stock and the Series G preferred stock);
redeem, repurchase or prepay any indebtedness (other than as permitted);
−Removed: or engage in any material
−Removed: line of business substantially different from our current lines of business.
−Removed: Purchase Rights .
−Removed: In the event we
−Removed: issue any options, convertible securities or rights to purchase stock or other securities pro rata to the holders of common stock,
−Removed: then a holder of Series G preferred stock will be entitled to acquire, upon the same terms a pro rata amount of such stock or securities
−Removed: as if the Series G preferred stock had been converted to common stock.
−Removed: Stock Options:
−Removed: The Company’s 2013 Stock Incentive
−Removed: Plan (the “2013 Plan”) was approved by the shareholders in July 2013.
−Removed: The 2013 Plan provides for the issuance of equity
−Removed: grants in the form of options, restricted stock, stock awards and other forms of equity compensation.
−Removed: Awards under the 2013 Plan
−Removed: may be made to directors, officers, employees and consultants.
−Removed: Initially, an aggregate of 1,000,000 shares of the Company’s
−Removed: common stock was reserved for issuance under the 2013 Plan.
−Removed: On January 19, 2016, the shareholders approved an increase of the shares
−Removed: issuable under the 2013 Plan from 1,000,000 to 1,600,000 and on June 13, 2016 from 1,600,000 to 2,200,000.
−Removed: On November 26, 2019, the Company’s
+Added: or engage in any material line of business substantially different from our current lines of business.
+Added: In the event we issue any options, convertible securities or rights to purchase stock or other securities pro rata
+Added: to the holders of common stock, then a holder of Series G preferred stock will be entitled to acquire, upon the same terms a pro
+Added: rata amount of such stock or securities as if the Series G preferred stock had been converted to common stock.
+Added: On November 26, 2019, the Company’s
shareholders approved the CorMedix Inc.
−Removed: 2019 Omnibus Stock Incentive Plan (the “2019 Plan”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the 2019 Plan
−Removed: and subject to certain adjustments as described below, the Company may issue up to 3,000,000 shares of its common stock, plus any
−Removed: shares that remain available for grant under its 2013 Plan as of the effective date (up to a maximum carry-forward of 522,606 shares
−Removed: plus any outstanding options under the 2013 Plan that were canceled, forfeited and expired after the approval of the 2019 Plan),
−Removed: as long-term equity incentives to the Company’s employees, consultants, and directors.
−Removed: The long-term incentives may be in
−Removed: the form of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, dividend equivalent rights, or
−Removed: other rights or benefits (collectively, stock rights) to employees, consultants, and directors of the Company or a related entity
−Removed: (collectively, participants).
−Removed: The Company believes that the effective use of long- term equity incentives is essential to attract,
−Removed: motivate, and retain employees, consultants and directors, to further align participants’
−Removed: interests with those of the Company’s
−Removed: stockholders, and to provide participants incentive compensation opportunities that are competitive with those offered by other
−Removed: companies in the same industry and locations as the Company.
−Removed: The 2019 Plan is a new equity compensation
−Removed: plan for the Company’s employees, consultants, and directors which replaced the 2013 Plan.
+Added: 2019 Omnibus Stock Incentive Plan (the “2019 Plan”).
+Added: Pursuant to the 2019 Plan and
+Added: subject to certain adjustments as described below, the Company may issue up to 3,000,000 shares of its common stock, plus any shares that
+Added: remain available for grant under its 2013 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2013 Plan”) as of the effective date (up to a maximum
+Added: carry-forward of 522,606 shares plus any outstanding options under the 2013 Plan that were canceled, forfeited and expired after the approval
+Added: of the 2019 Plan), as long-term equity incentives to the Company’s employees, consultants, and directors.
+Added: The long-term incentives
+Added: may be in the form of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, dividend equivalent rights,
+Added: or other rights or benefits (collectively, stock rights) to employees, consultants, and directors of the Company or a related entity (collectively,
+Added: participants).
+Added: The Company believes that the effective use of long- term equity incentives is essential to attract, motivate, and retain
+Added: employees, consultants and directors, to further align participants’ interests with those of the Company’s stockholders, and
+Added: to provide participants incentive compensation opportunities that are competitive with those offered by other companies in the same industry
+Added: and locations as the Company.
+Added: The 2019 Plan is a new equity
+Added: compensation plan for the Company’s employees, consultants, and directors which replaced the 2013 Plan.
The 2013 Plan and the Amended
−Removed: and Restated 2006 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2006 Plan”) are referred to collectively as the “Prior Plans”.
−Removed: No further awards will be granted under the Prior Plans after the approval of the 2019 Plan.
−Removed: Awards outstanding under the Prior
−Removed: Plans will remain outstanding in accordance with their terms and the Prior Plans.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2019,
−Removed: the Company granted ten-year qualified and non-qualified stock options to its officers, directors, employees and consultants covering
−Removed: an aggregate of 496,300 shares of the Company’s common stock under the 2013 Plan.
−Removed: The weighted average exercise price of
−Removed: these options is $7.64 per share.
−Removed: During the years ended December 31, 2019
−Removed: and 2018, total compensation expense for stock options issued to employees, directors, officers and consultants was $2,242,000
−Removed: and $1,018,000, respectively.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2019, there was $1,856,000 total unrecognized compensation expense related to
−Removed: unvested stock options granted which expense is expected to be recognized over an expected remaining weighted average period of
−Removed: All share-based awards are recognized on a straight-line method, assuming all awards granted will vest.
−Removed: of share-based awards are recognized in the period in which they occur.
−Removed: The fair value at grants dates of the grants
−Removed: issued subject to service and performance-based vesting conditions were determined using the Black-Scholes option pricing model
−Removed: with the following assumptions:
+Added: and Restated 2006 Stock Incentive Plan are referred to collectively as the “Prior Plans”.
+Added: No further awards will be granted
+Added: under the Prior Plans after the approval of the 2019 Plan.
+Added: Awards outstanding under the Prior Plans will remain outstanding in accordance
+Added: with their terms and the Prior Plans.
+Added: the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company granted ten-year qualified and non-qualified stock options to its officers, directors,
+Added: employees and consultants covering an aggregate of 1,111,984 shares of the Company’s common stock under the 2019 Plan.
+Added: weighted average exercise price of these options is $ 5.11 per share.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued)
+Added: the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company granted ten-year qualified and non-qualified stock options to its officers, directors,
+Added: employees and consultants covering an aggregate of 496,300 shares of the Company’s common stock under the 2013 Plan.
+Added: weighted average exercise price of these options is $ 7.64 per share.
+Added: During the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, total compensation
+Added: expense for stock options issued to employees, directors, officers and consultants was $2,489,000 and $2,242,000, respectively.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, there was $ 3,284,000 total unrecognized compensation expense related to unvested stock options granted
+Added: which expense is expected to be recognized over an expected remaining weighted average period of 1.7 years.
+Added: All share-based awards
+Added: are recognized on a straight-line method, assuming all awards granted will vest.
+Added: Forfeitures of share-based awards are recognized
+Added: in the period in which they occur.
+Added: fair value at grants dates of the grants issued subject to service and performance-based vesting conditions were determined using
+Added: the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
Year Ended December 31,
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Expected volatility
+Added: 102.7 % - 107.9 %
+Added: 103 % - 110 %
Expected term (years)
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Weighted-average grant date fair value of options granted during the period
−Removed: The Company estimated the expected term
−Removed: of the stock options granted based on anticipated exercises in future periods.
−Removed: The expected term of the stock options granted to
−Removed: consultants is based upon the full term of the respective option agreements.
−Removed: The expected stock price volatility for the Company’s
−Removed: stock options is calculated based on the historical volatility since the initial public offering of the Company’s common
−Removed: stock in March 2010.
−Removed: The expected dividend yield of 0.0% reflects the Company’s current and expected future policy for dividends
−Removed: on the Company’s common stock.
−Removed: To determine the risk-free interest rate, the Company utilized the U.S.
−Removed: Treasury yield curve
−Removed: in effect at the time of grant with a term consistent with the expected term of the Company’s awards which is 5 years for
−Removed: employees and 10 years for non-employees.
−Removed: The following table summarizes
−Removed: the Company’s stock options activity and related information for the year ended December 31, 2019:
+Added: Company estimated the expected term of the stock options granted based on anticipated exercises in future periods.
+Added: term of the stock options granted to consultants is based upon the full term of the respective option agreements.
+Added: stock price volatility for the Company’s stock options is calculated based on the historical volatility since the initial
+Added: public offering of the Company’s common stock in March 2010.
+Added: The expected dividend yield of 0.0 % reflects the Company’s
+Added: current and expected future policy for dividends on the Company’s common stock.
+Added: To determine the risk-free interest rate,
+Added: the Company utilized the U.S.
+Added: Treasury yield curve in effect at the time of grant with a term consistent with the expected term
+Added: of the Company’s awards which is 5 years for employees and 10 years for non-employees.
+Added: following table summarizes the Company’s stock options activity and related information for the year ended December 31,
Shares Underlying Stock Options
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Expected to vest in the future
−Removed: The total intrinsic value of stock options
−Removed: exercised during the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 was $154,589 and $42,400, respectively.
−Removed: The aggregate intrinsic value
−Removed: is calculated as the difference between the exercise prices of the underlying options and the quoted closing price of the common
−Removed: stock of the Company at the end of the reporting period for those options that have an exercise price below the quoted closing
−Removed: The following table is the summary of warrant
+Added: No stock options were exercised during the year ended December
+Added: 31, 2020 and for the year ended December 31, 2019, the total intrinsic value of stock options exercised was $ 154,589 .
+Added: The aggregate
+Added: intrinsic value is calculated as the difference between the exercise prices of the underlying options and the quoted closing price
+Added: of the common stock of the Company at the end of the reporting period for those options that have an exercise price below the quoted
+Added: closing price.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued)
+Added: following table is the summary of warrant activities:
Shares Underlying Warrants
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Outstanding at December 31, 2019
−Removed: Canceled in connection with the Exchange Agreement
Outstanding at December 31, 2020
−Removed: On December 31, 2018, the Company sold
−Removed: to Elliott a senior secured convertible note in the aggregate principal amount of $7,500,000 and a warrant to purchase up to
−Removed: an aggregate of 90,000 shares of common stock, for gross proceeds of $7,500,000.
−Removed: The warrant is immediately exercisable, has
−Removed: an exercise price of $7.50 per share, subject to adjustment in the event of stock dividends and distributions, stock splits,
−Removed: stock combinations, or reclassifications affecting the Company’s common stock, and has a term of five years (see Note
−Removed: On December 31, 2018, the Company amended and restated the following warrants held by Elliott and its affiliates to
−Removed: reduce the exercise price of each warrant to $0.001 per share:
+Added: December 31, 2018, the Company sold to Elliott a senior secured convertible note in the aggregate principal amount of $7,500,000
+Added: and a warrant to purchase up to an aggregate of 90,000 shares of common stock, for gross proceeds of $7,500,000.
+Added: The warrant is
+Added: immediately exercisable, has an exercise price of $7.50 per share, subject to adjustment in the event of stock dividends and distributions,
+Added: stock splits, stock combinations, or reclassifications affecting the Company’s common stock, and has a term of five years
+Added: (see Note 6).
+Added: On December 31, 2018, the Company amended and restated the following warrants held by Elliott and its affiliates
+Added: to reduce the exercise price of each warrant to $0.001 per share:
warrants issued in May 2013 to purchase up to an aggregate of
−Removed: 100,000 shares of the Company’s common stock with a pre-amendment exercise price of $3.25 per share and an expiration
−Removed: date of May 30, 2019 (the “May 30, 2019 Warrants”);
−Removed: and warrants issued in October 2013 to purchase up to an
−Removed: aggregate of 150,000 shares of common stock with a pre-amendment exercise price of $4.50 per share and an expiration date of
−Removed: October 22, 2019 (the “October 22, 2019 Warrants”).
−Removed: The incremental cost of approximately $710,000 associated
−Removed: with the warrant modification was recorded as a debt discount.
−Removed: The senior secured convertible note and warrant to purchase up
−Removed: to an aggregate of 90,000 shares of the Company’s common stock were cancelled in connection with the terms of the
−Removed: Exchange Agreement.
−Removed: The fair value of the warrant was determined
−Removed: using a Black-Scholes option pricing model using the following assumptions at the grant date of the warrant:
−Removed: Expected Term
+Added: 100,000 shares of the Company’s common stock with a pre-amendment exercise price of $3.25 per share and an expiration date
+Added: of May 30, 2019 (the “May 30, 2019 Warrants”);
+Added: and warrants issued in October 2013 to purchase up to an aggregate
+Added: of 150,000 shares of common stock with a pre-amendment exercise price of $4.50 per share and an expiration date of October 22,
+Added: 2019 (the “October 22, 2019 Warrants”).
+Added: The incremental cost of approximately $710,000 associated with the warrant
+Added: modification was recorded as a debt discount.
+Added: The senior secured convertible note and warrant to purchase up to an aggregate of
+Added: 90,000 shares of the Company’s common stock were cancelled in connection with the terms of the Exchange Agreement.
+Added: fair value of the warrant was determined using a Black-Scholes option pricing model using the following assumptions at the grant
+Added: date of the warrant:
Dividend yield
Exercise Price
−Removed: Risk-free interest rate
+Added: Risk-free interest
September 25, 2019, the Company entered into Letter Agreements with Holders of Series B Warrants.
Pursuant to each Letter Agreement,
−Removed: the Company agreed to reduce the exercise price of each Holder’s Series B Warrants from $5.25 to $4.00, provided that the
+Added: the Company agreed to reduce the exercise price of each Holder’s Series B Warrants from $ 5.25 to $ 4.00 , provided that the
Holder exercised its Warrant for cash at the time of entry into such Letter Agreement.
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in full and the Company issued an aggregate of 1,224,263 shares of Common Stock to them.
−Removed: The Company received net proceeds of approximately
−Removed: As a result of the modification of the exercise price of these warrants, the Company recognized an incremental value
−Removed: of $369,500, which was recorded as a deemed dividend on the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss for the
−Removed: year ended December 31, 2019, using the Black-Scholes pricing model with the following assumptions:
+Added: The Company received net proceeds of
+Added: approximately $ 4,900,000 .
+Added: As a result of the modification of the exercise price of these warrants, the Company recognized an incremental
+Added: value of $ 369,500 , which was recorded as a deemed dividend on the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss
+Added: for the year ended December 31, 2019, using the Black-Scholes pricing model with the following assumptions:
Expected term
1 unchanged sentence
Risk-free interest rate
−Removed: During the year ended
−Removed: December 31, 2019, the expiration date of a warrant to purchase up to 100,000 shares of the Company’s common stock was extended
−Removed: from May 30, 2019 to August 16, 2019, then subsequently canceled in connection with the Exchange Agreement transaction (see Note
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued )
+Added: the year ended December 31, 2019, the expiration date of a warrant to purchase up to 100,000 shares of the Company’s common
+Added: stock was extended from May 30, 2019 to August 16, 2019 , then subsequently canceled in connection with the Exchange Agreement
+Added: transaction (see Note 6).
The warrant had an exercise price of $ 0.005 .
The incremental value of the warrant extended was immaterial.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2019,
−Removed: the Company issued an aggregate of 1,948,207 shares of its common stock upon exercise of warrants, resulting in net proceeds of
−Removed: Stock-based Deferred Compensation Plan for Non-Employee
−Removed: In 2014, the Company established an unfunded
−Removed: stock-based deferred compensation plan, providing non-employee directors the opportunity to defer up to one hundred percent of
−Removed: fees and compensation, including restricted stock units.
−Removed: The amount of fees and compensation deferred by a non-employee director
−Removed: is converted into stock units, the number of which is determined based on the closing price of the Company’s common stock
−Removed: on the date such compensation would have otherwise been payable.
−Removed: At all times, the plan participants are one hundred percent
−Removed: vested in their respective deferred compensation accounts.
−Removed: On the tenth business day of January in the year following a director’s
−Removed: termination of service, the director will receive a number of common shares equal to the number of stock units accumulated in the
−Removed: director’s deferred compensation account.
−Removed: The Company accounts for this plan as stock-based compensation under ASC
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, the amount of compensation that was deferred under this plan was $36,500
−Removed: and $30,000, respectively.
−Removed: Note 9 —
+Added: the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company issued an aggregate of 91,500 shares of its common stock upon exercise of warrants,
+Added: resulting in net proceeds of approximately $ 412,000 .
+Added: Deferred Compensation Plan for Non-Employee Directors
+Added: 2014, the Company established an unfunded stock-based deferred compensation plan, providing non-employee directors the opportunity
+Added: to defer up to one hundred percent of fees and compensation, including restricted stock units.
+Added: The amount of fees and compensation
+Added: deferred by a non-employee director is converted into stock units, the number of which is determined based on the closing price
+Added: of the Company’s common stock on the date such compensation would have otherwise been payable.
+Added: At all times, the plan participants
+Added: are one hundred percent vested in their respective deferred compensation accounts.
+Added: On the tenth business day of January in the
+Added: year following a director’s termination of service, the director will receive a number of common shares equal to the number
+Added: of stock units accumulated in the director’s deferred compensation account.
+Added: The Company accounts for this plan as stock-based
+Added: compensation under ASC 718.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, the amount of compensation that was deferred under
+Added: this plan was $ 62,250 and $ 36,500 , respectively.
9 — Concentrations:
−Removed: At December 31, 2019 and 2018, no net accounts
−Removed: receivable was due from a customer that exceeded 10%.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company had revenue from four
−Removed: customers that exceeded 10% of its total sales (42%, 18%, 17% and 12%) and the Company had revenue from a single customer that
−Removed: exceeded 10% of its total sales (70%) for the year ended December 31, 2018.
−Removed: Note 10 —
−Removed: The Company entered into an operating lease
−Removed: for office space in Germany that began in July 2017.
−Removed: The rental agreement has a three-month term which automatically renews and
−Removed: includes a monthly cost of 400 Euros.
−Removed: The Company elected to apply the short-term practical expedient to the office lease.
−Removed: Company also has an operating lease for office equipment.
−Removed: Prior to the adoption of ASC 842, operating
−Removed: lease expense of approximately $6,000 was recognized in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive
−Removed: loss for the year ended December 31, 2019.
−Removed: Operating lease expense in the Company’s
−Removed: consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss for the year ended December 31, 2019 was approximately $6,000, which
−Removed: includes costs associated with leases for which ROU assets have been recognized as well as short-term leases.
−Removed: At December 31, 2019, the Company has a
−Removed: total operating lease liability of $4,000.
−Removed: Approximately $2,000 each are included in accrued expenses and operating lease liabilities,
−Removed: net of current portion on the consolidated balance sheet.
−Removed: Operating ROU assets as of December 31, 2019 is $5,000 and is included
−Removed: in property and equipment, net on the consolidated balance sheet.
−Removed: For the year ended December 31, 2019, cash
−Removed: paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities in operating cash flows from operating leases was $6,000.
−Removed: The weighted average remaining lease term
−Removed: and weighted average discount rate for operating leases were 2.8 years and 10%, respectively, as of December 31, 2019.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2019, maturities of lease
−Removed: liabilities were as follows:
+Added: December 31, 2020 and 2019, one customer exceeded 10 % of the Company’s accounts receivable ( 95 %) and at December 31, 2019,
+Added: no customer exceeded 10 % of the Company’s accounts receivable.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company had
+Added: revenue from two customers that exceeded 10 % of its total sales ( 58 % and 12 %) and the Company had revenue from four customers
+Added: that exceeded 10 % of its total sales ( 42 %, 18 %, 17 % and 12 %) for the year ended December 31, 2019.
+Added: Company entered into a seven-year operating lease agreement in March 2020 for an office space at 300 Connell Drive, Berkeley Heights,
+Added: New Jersey 07922.
+Added: The lease agreement, with a monthly average cost of approximately $ 17,000 commenced on September 16, 2020.
+Added: Company’s sublease on its previous premises at 400 Connell Drive, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey 07922 terminated on November
+Added: Company entered into an operating lease for office space in Germany that began in July 2017.
+Added: The rental agreement has a three-month
+Added: term which automatically renews and includes a monthly cost of 400 Euros.
+Added: The Company elected to apply the short-term practical
+Added: expedient to the office lease.
+Added: The Company also has an operating lease for office equipment.
+Added: lease expense in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss for the year ended December
+Added: 31, 2020 and 2019 was approximately $ 66,000 and $ 6,000 , respectively, which includes costs associated with leases for which ROU
+Added: assets have been recognized as well as short-term leases.
+Added: December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company has a total operating lease liability of $ 1,033,000 and $ 4,000 , respectively.
+Added: 31, 2020, approximately $ 109,000 and $ 924,000 were classified as operating lease liabilities, short-term and operating lease liabilities,
+Added: net of current portion, respectively, on the consolidated balance sheet.
+Added: At December 31, 2019, approximately $ 2,000 was included
+Added: in each operating lease liabilities, short-term and operating lease liabilities, net of current portion on the consolidated balance
+Added: Operating ROU assets as of December 31, 2020 and 2019 are $ 1,015,000 and $ 5,000 , respectively.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, (Continued)
+Added: the year ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities in operating
+Added: cash flows from operating leases was $ 48,000 and $ 6,000 , respectively.
+Added: of December 31, 2020 and 2019, the weighted average remaining lease term were 6.8 years and 2.8 years, respectively and the weighted
+Added: average discount rate of 9% and 10% at December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: of December 31, 2020, maturities of lease liabilities were as follows:
+Added: 2026 and thereafter
Total future minimum lease payments
Less imputed interest
−Removed: Note 11 —
11 — Subsequent Events:
−Removed: During January
−Removed: 2020, the Company sold an aggregate of 368,144 shares of its common stock under the at-the-market program and realized net proceeds
−Removed: of approximately $2.5 million.
−Removed: In January 2020,
−Removed: the Company issued an aggregate of 91,500 shares of its common stock upon exercise of warrants, resulting in net proceeds of approximately
+Added: On February 5, 2021,
+Added: the Company allocated to its ATM program an additional $25.0 million of the remaining $75.0 million available under its shelf
+Added: registration statement.
+Added: Giving effect to the additional $25.0 million, plus the $17.8 million available at December 31, 2020,
+Added: the Company had a total of $42.8 million available under the ATM program.
+Added: During January and February 2021, the Company sold an
+Added: aggregate of 3,737,862 shares of its common stock under the ATM program and realized net proceeds of approximately $41.5 million.
+Added: As of the filing of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the Company has no available balance under its ATM program and it has $50.0
+Added: million available under its current shelf registration for the issuance of equity, debt or equity-linked securities.
+Added: first quarter of 2021, the Company issued an aggregate of 92,167 shares of its common stock upon cashless exercise of 95,286 warrants
+Added: and cash exercise of 21,898 warrants, resulting in net proceeds of $115,000.
+Added: During the first quarter of 2021,
+Added: the Company issued an aggregate of 656,069 shares of its common stock upon conversion of 10,001 Series G preferred shares by Elliott and
+Added: 50,000 Series C-3 preferred shares by an unrelated party.
+Added: As previously announced, the NJEDA
+Added: has approved the Company’s application to participate in the NJEDA Program for the state fiscal year 2020.
+Added: The approval will
+Added: allow the Company to sell approximately $1.3 million of the total $1.3 million in available tax benefits to an unrelated, profitable New
+Added: Jersey corporation in return for approximately $1.3 million in cash.
+Added: Closing is subject to NJEDA’s typical closing conditions, which
+Added: are in process of completion.
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