−Removed: regarding the Company’s risk factors appears in “Part I.
−Removed: Risk Factors”
−Removed: of our Annual Report
−Removed: on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, filed with the SEC on March 30, 2020.
−Removed: Below are material changes from
−Removed: the risk factors previously disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019.
+Added: regarding the Company’s risk factors appears in Part I, Item 1A, Risk Factors of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for
+Added: the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, filed with the SEC on March 30, 2020.
+Added: Below are material changes from the risk factors
+Added: previously disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019.
+Added: Related to Pharmaceutical Development Segment
pandemic is highly dynamic in the United States and throughout the world and may adversely affect our operations and financial
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conditions in the United States and across most of the globe continue to change rapidly.
−Removed: In the last two weeks in March and through
−Removed: the date of this filing, our Pharmaceutical Development segment has seen a reduction in its productivity as well as delays in
−Removed: receiving some of its needed supplies as a direct result of the pandemic and the impact on key vendors.
−Removed: This slow-down is likely
−Removed: to continue in the near term until such time as certain restrictions that have been imposed on us and our suppliers are lifted.
−Removed: Such events may result in business disruption and reduced revenues, any of which could materially affect our business, financial
−Removed: condition and results of operations.
+Added: The COVID-19 outbreak may disrupt our
+Added: operations through its impact on our employees, our partner companies and their businesses, and certain industries in which our
+Added: partner companies operate.
+Added: In the last two weeks in March and through the date of this filing, our Pharmaceutical Development
+Added: segment has seen a reduction in its productivity as well as delays in receiving some of its needed supplies as a direct result
+Added: of the pandemic and the impact on key vendors.
+Added: This slow-down is likely to continue in the near term until such time as certain
+Added: restrictions that have been imposed on us and our suppliers are lifted.
+Added: Such events may result in business disruption and reduced
+Added: revenues, any of which could materially affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
state and local jurisdictions have imposed, and others in the future may impose, “shelter-in-place”
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or “stay at home”
−Removed: orders restricting non-essential activities, travel and
−Removed: business operations for an indefinite period of time, subject to certain exceptions for necessary activities.
−Removed: Such orders or restrictions
−Removed: have resulted in our Pharmaceutical Development segment significantly reducing activities at its manufacturing facility, thereby
−Removed: negatively impacting our operations.
−Removed: Other disruptions or potential disruptions include restrictions on our personnel and personnel
−Removed: of our customers and suppliers to travel and access customers;
+Added: orders restricting non-essential activities, travel
+Added: and business operations for an indefinite period of time, subject to certain exceptions for necessary activities.
+Added: July 2020, the governor of New Jersey began a phased re-opening of the state’s economy, though much non-essential activities
+Added: remain limited, which continues to impact operations.
+Added: Such orders or restrictions have resulted in our Pharmaceutical Development
+Added: segment significantly reducing activities at its manufacturing facility, thereby negatively impacting our operations.
+Added: Other disruptions
+Added: or potential disruptions include restrictions on our personnel and personnel of our customers and suppliers to travel and access
delays in product development efforts;
−Removed: and additional government
−Removed: requirements or other incremental mitigation efforts that may further impact our business.
+Added: and additional government requirements or other incremental mitigation efforts
+Added: that may further impact our business.
the potential economic impact brought by, and the duration of, COVID-19 may be difficult to assess or predict, the widespread
pandemic has resulted in, and may continue to result in, significant disruption of global financial markets and a recession or
−Removed: market correction that could materially affect our business and the value of our common stock.
−Removed: We are continuously monitoring
−Removed: our own operations and intend to take appropriate actions to mitigate the risks arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, but there
−Removed: can be no assurances that we will be successful in doing so.
−Removed: To the extent we are able to obtain information about and maintain
−Removed: communications with our customers, suppliers, vendors and other business partners, we will seek to minimize disruptions to our
−Removed: Pharmaceutical Development segment’s supply chain.
−Removed: The ultimate extent of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on us is
−Removed: highly uncertain and will depend on future developments which cannot be predicted.
+Added: market correction that could materially affect our business, including the ability of our borrowers or the marketers of products
+Added: upon which we derive our royalty income to raise capital in order to fund their operations during the pandemic, and the value
+Added: of our common stock.
+Added: COVID-19 outbreak may disrupt our operations through its impact on our employees, our portfolio companies and their businesses,
+Added: and certain industries in which our portfolio companies operate.
+Added: Disruptions to our portfolio companies may impair their ability
+Added: to fulfill their obligations to us and could result in increased risk of delinquencies, defaults, declining collateral values
+Added: associated with our existing loans, and impairments or losses on our loans.
+Added: are continuously monitoring our own operations and intend to take appropriate actions to mitigate the risks arising from the COVID-19
+Added: pandemic, but there can be no assurances that we will be successful in doing so.
+Added: To the extent we are able to obtain information
+Added: about and maintain communications with our customers, suppliers, vendors and other business partners, we will seek to minimize
+Added: disruptions to our Pharmaceutical Development segment’s supply chain.
+Added: The ultimate extent of the effects of the COVID-19
+Added: pandemic on us is highly uncertain and will depend on future developments which cannot be predicted.
+Added: Related to Finance Receivables Segment
+Added: we have a limited number of assets, which subjects our aggregate returns, and the value of our common stock, to a greater risk
+Added: of significant loss if any of our debt or equity securities declines in value or if any of our royalty investments substantially
+Added: underperforms our expectations.
+Added: total investment in companies may be significant individually or in the aggregate.
+Added: A consequence of our currently limited number
+Added: of assets in our Finance Receivables segment is that the aggregate returns we realize may be significantly adversely affected
+Added: if one or more of our significant partner company investments perform poorly or if we need to write down the value of any one
+Added: significant investment, which may be more severe than if we had made smaller investments in more companies.
+Added: Our financial
+Added: results could be materially adversely affected if these portfolio companies or any of our other significant portfolio companies
+Added: encounter financial difficulty and fail to repay their obligations or to perform as expected.
+Added: Related to Our Business and Structure
+Added: dependent upon our key management personnel for our future success.
+Added: depend on the diligence, skill and network of business contacts of our senior management and their access to the investment professionals
+Added: and the information and deal flow generated by these investment professionals in the course of their investment and portfolio
+Added: management activities.
+Added: Our senior management team evaluates, negotiates, structures, closes, monitors and services our investments.
+Added: Our success depends to a significant extent on the continued service of this senior management team, in particular, Winston L.
+Added: Black, Chief Executive Officer.
+Added: His departure could have a material adverse effect on our ability to achieve our business objectives.
+Added: In addition, we have very few employees, so the loss of any employee could be disruptive to our business.
+Added: In addition, if members
+Added: of our key management team were to be affected by COVID-19, this could significantly impair our ability to execute our business.
+Added: We are taking precautions to protect the safety and well-being of our employees, including enhancing our standard operating procedures
+Added: at Enteris to provide for additional cleaning and hygiene measures, as well as, social distancing.
+Added: However, no assurance can be
+Added: given that the steps being taken will be adequate or deemed to be appropriate, nor can we predict the level of disruption
+Added: which will occur to our employees’
+Added: ability to service the finance receivables portfolio or Enteris’
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