Legal Proceedings.
−Removed: Currently there are no material legal proceedings pending or threatened
−Removed: However, from time to time, we may become involved in various lawsuits and legal proceedings which arise in the ordinary course
−Removed: Litigation is subject to inherent uncertainties, and an adverse result in any such matter may harm our business.
+Added: In 2014, Avra Surgical Robotics, Inc., a Delaware
+Added: corporation (“ Avra Surgical ”), of which Barry F.
+Added: Cohen, our Chief Operating Officer – Americas and a director,
+Added: was Chief Executive Officer, a director and a principal stockholder, got into a dispute with the law firm of Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart &
+Added: Sullivan LLP (“ Quinn Emmanuel ”) over legal fees allegedly due Quinn Emmanuel.
+Added: Avra Surgical, which was seeking to develop
+Added: a robotic surgery system using certain technology developed in Germany by then had ceased operations.
+Added: These events occurred prior to the
+Added: formation of the Company as Avra Medical Robotics, Inc.
+Added: Other than the facts that both Avra Surgical and our Company shared the Avra name
+Added: Cohen was an officer, director and principal stockholder of both companies, there was no relationship between the two companies.
+Added: On May 26, 2020, Quinn Emmanuel filed a petition
+Added: in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County against Avra Surgical, the Company (then known as Avra Medical Robotics,
+Added: Inc.), Barry F.
+Added: Cohen, Jared B.
+Added: Stamell, an attorney affiliated with Avra Surgical and various individuals who at that time were or had
+Added: been affiliated with Avra Surgical and or the Company (collectively, “ Respondents ”).
+Added: The petition sought to recover
+Added: the legal fees from the Respondents on the basis that they were “alter egos” of Avra Surgical.
+Added: Other than the commonality
+Added: of the Avra name and Mr.
+Added: Cohen having been an officer, director and principal stockholder of both companies, there was no relationship
+Added: between the two companies.
+Added: As the Company and Mr.
+Added: Cohen never received notice
+Added: of filing of the petition or of subsequent proceedings (although Quinn Emmanuel filed affidavits with the Court stating that they had
+Added: been duly served), neither the Company nor Mr.
+Added: Cohen entered an appearance in the matter.
+Added: The Company recently learned from a third party
+Added: that in November 2020, the Court had rendered a decision holding that the Company and Messrs.
+Added: Cohen and Stamell were “alter egos”
+Added: of Avra Surgical and therefore were liable for payment of the Quinn Emmanuel legal fees.
+Added: In addition, the Company also recently learned
+Added: that in December 2023, the Court ordered the entry of a judgment against Avra Surgical, the Company and Messrs.
+Added: Cohen and Stamell in the
+Added: amount of $296,000 plus interest from November 2020.
+Added: The Company is currently evaluating its legal
+Added: options with respect to the matter.
+Added: Notwithstanding the foregoing, Mr.
+Added: Cohen and the Company have entered into an Indemnification Agreement,
+Added: pursuant to which Mr.
+Added: Cohen has agreed to fully indemnify the Company for any damages and costs (including legal fees) it incurs in connection
+Added: with the action.
+Added: Other than the foregoing, there are no legal proceedings
+Added: currently pending or threatened against us.
+Added: However, from time to time, we may become involved in various lawsuits and legal proceedings
+Added: which arise in the ordinary course of business.
+Added: Litigation is subject to inherent uncertainties, and an adverse result in any such matter
+Added: may harm our business.
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