The Company held discussions with more than 20 potential financing sources, and after thoroughly evaluating multiple proposals received and carefully considering various financing alternatives, the Board unanimously approved the Equity Investment and the Term Loan Facility.
Additional Information
Further details regarding the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Loan Agreement and the termination of the Blue Torch Term Loan Agreement will be contained in MiMedx’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 or a Current Report on Form 8-K that the Company will be filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). This filing will be available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov and in the Investors section of the Company’s corporate website at www.mimedx.com.
J.P. Morgan is acting as sole placement agent and Sidley Austin LLP is serving as legal counsel to the Company.
About EW Healthcare Partners
With close to $4 billion raised since inception, EW Healthcare Partners is one of the largest and oldest private healthcare investment firms and seeks to make growth equity investments in fast growing commercial-stage healthcare companies in the pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics, and technology-enabled services sectors in the United States and in Europe. Since its founding in 1985, EW Healthcare Partners has maintained its singular commitment to the healthcare industry and has been a long-term investor in over 150 healthcare companies, ranging across sectors, stages and geographies. The team is comprised of over 20 senior investment professionals with offices in Palo Alto, Houston, New York, and London. For more information, visit www.ewhealthcare.com.
About William A. Hawkins, III
Mr. Hawkins is the retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Medtronic, Inc. and has had a long and distinguished career in the medical devices industry. Mr. Hawkins is a Senior Advisor to EW Healthcare Partners and currently serves on several public, private and non-profit boards. He is a director of Biogen, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB); Avanos Medical, Inc. (NYSE: AVNS); Virtue Labs; Baebies, Inc.; AskBio; Immucor, Inc. Cereius, Inc.; and Cirtec Medical. He is also Chairman of the Board of Bioventus, LLC and 4Tech, a cardiology startup in Ireland. Mr. Hawkins is the former Chairman and Co-Founder of the Medical Device Innovation Consortium and a past-president of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (“AIMBE”). He was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering and is an AIMBE Fellow. Mr. Hawkins was elected to the Duke University Board of Trustees in 2011 and currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board. Mr. Hawkins is also Chair of the Board of the Duke University Health System. He is a member of the NC Biotech board and serves on the Board of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation Society. Mr. Hawkins has a dual B.S.E.E. degree in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and an MBA from the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.
About Martin P. Sutter
Martin P. Sutter is the Co-Founder and a Managing Director of EW Healthcare Partners, previously known as Essex Woodlands Health Ventures. Mr. Sutter has been directly involved with more than 30 EW Healthcare Partners’ portfolio company investments and has served on numerous past Boards of Directors of public and private companies, including ATS Medical, which was acquired by Medtronic, Inc., BioForm Medical, which was acquired by Merz GmbH & Co KGaA, LifeCell, which was acquired by Kinetic Concepts, Inc., St. Francis Medical, which was acquired by Kyphon, Inc./Medtronic, Inc., Confluent Surgical, which was acquired by Tyco International/Covidien and Rinat Neurosciences, which was acquired by Pfizer, Inc. Mr. Sutter currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Abiomed, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABMD), Bioventus LLC, and Prolacta Bioscience. Mr. Sutter is a former Trustee of The Culinary Institute of America. Mr. Sutter holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Louisiana State University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Houston.