Accounting for Shared-Based Payments | 9 Months Ended |
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6. Accounting for Shared-Based Payments |
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ASC Topic 718 “Compensation—Stock Compensation” requires companies to measure the cost of employee services received in exchange for the award of equity instruments based on the estimated fair value of the award at the date of grant. The expense is to be recognized over the period during which an employee is required to provide services in exchange for the award. |
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ContraVir accounts for stock options issued to non-employees based on the fair value of the stock option, if that value is more reliably measurable than the fair value of the consideration or services received. The Company accounts for stock options issued and vesting to non-employees in accordance with ASC Topic 505-50 “Equity -Based Payment to Non-Employees” and accordingly the value of the stock compensation to non-employees is based upon the measurement date as determined at either a) the date at which a performance commitment is reached, or b) at the date at which the necessary performance to earn the equity instruments is complete. Accordingly the fair value of these options is being “marked to market” quarterly until the measurement date is determined. |
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ASC Topic 718 requires that cash flows resulting from tax deductions in excess of the cumulative compensation cost recognized for options exercised (excess tax benefits) be classified as cash inflows from financing activities and cash outflows from operating activities. Due to ContraVir’s accumulated deficit position, no excess tax benefits have been recognized. ContraVir accounts for stock options granted to employees and non-employees based on the fair market value of the instrument, using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on assumptions for expected stock price volatility, term of the option, risk-free interest rate and expected dividend yield, at the grant date. |
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On June 3, 2013, ContraVir adopted the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). Stock options granted under the Plan typically will vest after three years of continuous service from the grant date and will have a contractual term of ten years. ContraVir has reserved 1,500,000 shares of common stock issuable pursuant to the Plan. During the quarter ended March 31, 2014 the Company issued 642,270 options over the authorized number of options in the Plan. As per ASC Topic 815-40, the options have been accounted for as liabilities and recorded at fair value with the changes in fair value being recorded in the Company’s statement of operations. Once stockholder approval is obtained to increase the number of authorized shares, the liability will then be reversed into additional paid in capital. The Company has recorded the $14,373 liability for this amount in accrued expenses. |
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A summary of stock option activity and of changes in stock options outstanding under the Plan is presented below: |
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| | Number of | | Exercise Price | | Weighted Average | | Intrinsic | | Weighted Average | |
Options | Per Share | Exercise Price | Value | Remaining |
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Balance outstanding, July 1, 2013 | | — | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | — | | — | |
Granted (1) | | 2,142,270 | | $ | 0.11- $2.37 | | $ | 1.58 | | — | | 9.9 years | |
Exercised | | — | | — | | — | | — | | — | |
Forfeited | | — | | — | | — | | — | | — | |
Balance outstanding, March 31,2014 | | 2,142,270 | | $ | 0.11- $2.37 | | $ | 1.58 | | $ | 1,526,960 | | 9.90 years | |
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Exercisable at March 31, 2014 | | 230,000 | | $ | 0.37 | | $ | 0.37 | | $ | 432,400 | | 9.82 years | |
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(1) Includes 1,000,000 options granted to James Sapirstein, the Company’s newly hired Chief Executive Officer. These options vest over 4 years from March 19, 2014, expire on March 19, 2024 and have an exercise price of $2.31 per share. The fair value of this option at the date of grant was $1,873,074, which will be expensed over the 4 year vesting period. |
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The following weighted-average assumptions were used in the Black-Scholes valuation model to estimate fair value of stock option awards during the periods indicated. |
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Stock price | | $0.11-$2.36 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Risk-free interest rate | | 1.89% — 2.40 | % | | | | | | | | | | | |
Dividend yield | | — | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expected volatility | | 88%-90 | % | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expected term (in years) | | 5 - 9.8 years | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Stock Price — Effective February 27, 2014, stock price is the closing market price of the Company’s common stock. Prior to that date, there was no public market for the stock. Management believes that the best alternative indication of stock value is what Synergy paid for the FV-100 Product, in an arms-length transaction, to BMS on August 17, 2012, or $1,000,000. Thus $1,000,000 divided by the 9,000,000 shares then outstanding resulted in a stock price of $0.11 per share. |
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Risk-free interest rate —Based on the daily yield curve rates for U.S. Treasury obligations with maturities which correspond to the expected term of the Company’s stock options. |
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Dividend yield —ContraVir has not paid any dividends on common stock since its inception and does not anticipate paying dividends on its common stock in the foreseeable future. |
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Expected volatility — Because ContraVir has a limited trading history in its common stock, the Company based expected volatility on that of comparable public development stage biotechnology companies. |
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Expected term — ContraVir has had no stock options exercised since inception. The expected option term represents the period that stock-based awards are expected to be outstanding based on the simplified method provided in Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) No. 107, Share-Based Payment , (“SAB No. 107”), which averages an award’s weighted-average vesting period and expected term for “plain vanilla” share options. Under SAB No. 107, options are considered to be “plain vanilla” if they have the following basic characteristics: (i) granted “at-the-money”; (ii) exercisability is conditioned upon service through the vesting date; (iii) termination of service prior to vesting results in forfeiture; (iv) limited exercise period following termination of service; and (v) options are non-transferable and non-hedgeable. |
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In December 2007, the SEC issued SAB No. 110, Share-Based Payment, (“SAB No. 110”). SAB No. 110 was effective January 1, 2008 and expresses the views of the Staff of the SEC with respect to extending the use of the simplified method, as discussed in SAB No. 107, in developing an estimate of the expected term of “plain vanilla” share options in accordance with ASC Topic 718. The Company will use the simplified method until it has the historical data necessary to provide a reasonable estimate of expected life in accordance with SAB No. 107, as amended by SAB No. 110. For the expected term, the Company has “plain-vanilla” stock options, and therefore used a simple average of the vesting period and the contractual term for options granted as permitted by SAB No. 107. |
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Forfeitures —ASC Topic 718 requires forfeitures to be estimated at the time of grant and revised, if necessary, in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates. ContraVir estimated future unvested option forfeitures based on the historical experience of its former parent. |
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The unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested stock options outstanding at March 31, 2014, net of expected forfeitures, was approximately $3.1 million to be recognized over a weighted-average remaining vesting period of approximately 3.5 years. |
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On January 23, 2014 the Company entered into a three year consulting agreement with Chris McGuigan, Ph.D. for scientific and technical advisory services. Dr. McGuigan is a director of the Company and was instrumental in the early development of the Company’s FV-100 drug candidate. His total compensation under the agreement is a grant of 250,000 common stock options, at an exercise price of $0.37 per share, vesting over three years. This stock option is being accounted for in accordance with ASC Topic 505-50 “Equity -Based Payment to Non-Employees” and the fair value of these options is being “marked to market” quarterly until the measurement date is determined. As of March 31, 2014 approximately $505,000 of this grants fair value remained to be recognized over the remaining option vesting period. |