Payment, if and when paid to the Company, plus the Option Premium, defined below, less the aggregate amount of all Royalty payments received by Buyer as of the Option Exercise Date. The exercise of the Option may only occur if the Common Stock maintains a20-day volume-weighted average price on Nasdaq of $5.00 per share (adjusted for any stock splits, reverse splits, or similar arrangements) on each trading day between the Option Notice Date and the Repurchase Date “Option Premium” means an amount accruing daily on (x) the Upfront Purchase Price plus the Milestone Payment, if and when paid to Company as of such day, less (y) the aggregate amount of all Royalty payments received by Buyer as of such day, at a rate of 10% per annum, compounded quarterly. For purposes of calculating the Option Premium, in the event of a Company Trigger Event, the rate of accrual following the occurrence of such Company Trigger Event shall be increased to 20% per annum.
Potential Future Warrants
As part of the consideration to BVF for providing the funding under the Funding Agreement, the Company agreed to issue warrants in the future to BVF if the Company issued and sold shares of Common Stock to third parties above a specified threshold and below a specified price.
The Funding Agreement provides that, for so long as the Company has not exercised its Option, (a) if, during the36-month period following the Closing Date, the Company issues and sells in the aggregate more than 8,554,345 shares of Common Stock (including options, warrants, convertible stock, convertible debt and other common-stock equivalents) (the “Warrant Threshold”), and (b) any shares are issued in excess of the Warrant Threshold with consideration to Company of less than $3.75 per share (as adjusted for any stock splits, reverse stock splits or other similar recapitalization events) (the “Threshold Price”), then the Company shall be obligated to issue to BVF warrants to purchase a number of shares of Common Stock equal to 50% of the number of shares of Common Stock issued and sold by Company in excess of the Warrant Threshold, with any such Warrants having an exercise price equal to 1.5 times the price per share of such shares issued in excess of the Warrant Threshold.
Certain issuances of Common Stock are excluded from the calculation of the Warrant Threshold, including the grant, exercise, or vesting of options or awards granted pursuant to Company’s stock incentive plans or stock purchase plans. Once the Warrant Threshold has been met, the requirement to issue warrants does not apply to certain issuances of Common Stock, including the grant, exercise, or vesting of options or awards granted pursuant to Company’s stock incentive plans or stock purchase plans and, subject to certain limitations, the issuance of shares of common stock in connection with a transaction with an unaffiliated third party that includes a debt financing or a bona fide commercial relationship or any acquisition of assets, merger with, or acquisition of another entity.
Servicing Requirements
The Company, on behalf of the Buyer, will perform certain servicing, management and administrative functions on behalf of Buyer with respect to the Transferred Assets, subject to standards set forth in the Funding Agreement. The Company may resign as Servicer, and the Buyer may, under certain conditions, remove the Company as servicer and retain a replacement third-party servicer. The Company will be paid by the Buyer a servicing fee equal to $1,000 per year in arrears.
Additional Customary Terms
The Funding Agreement contains other customary terms and conditions, including representations and warranties, conditions precedent, indemnities and covenants, including covenants that, among other things, require the Company to provide certain information to the Buyer with respect to the License Agreement and the Licensed Product and to cooperate with the Buyer, at the Buyer’s expense, to take certain actions under the License Agreement and otherwise with respect to the Licensed Product to protect the Buyer’s rights to receive the Royalty payments. These covenants are subject to a number of important exceptions and qualifications.
In addition to exercise of the Option, the Funding Agreement may be terminated by mutual written agreement of the Company and the Buyer.
The above description of the Funding Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Funding Agreement, which the Company intends to file as an exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019.