In June 2024, the Company began making principal payments related to that certain loan and security agreement (the “Loan and Security Agreement”) with Avenue Capital Management II, L.P. and related entities (together, “Avenue”) in the amount of $833,333 per month plus interest.
During the three months ended September 30, 2024, the Company recorded interest expense of $602,109, of which $598,188 (including amortization of debt discount of $184,207) was related to the Avenue loan and $3,921 was related to the D&O Loan. During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company recorded interest expense of $1,954,768, of which $1,939,650 was related to the Loan and Security Agreement (including amortization of debt discount of $552,620) and $15,118 was related to the D&O Loan.
Note 8 – Commitments and Contingencies
Defective Clinical Supply
During the third quarter of 2023, a certain portion of clinical supply product sold by the Company to Bausch + Lomb was determined to be defective. On April 23, 2024, the Company and Bausch + Lomb executed a letter agreement (the “Side Letter”) pursuant to which the Company and Bausch + Lomb agreed that the Company would pay approximately $0.5 million to Bausch + Lomb related to the defective clinical supply. Accordingly, the Company recorded an estimated charge equal to $0.4 million, which was included within other income (expense) during the year ended December 31, 2023, because the original sales to the licensee were recorded on that line item. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company recorded no additional charge and a $0.1 million charge, respectively, to other income (expense).
Bausch License Agreements
On October 9, 2020, the Company entered into a license agreement (the Bausch License Agreement”), pursuant to which Bausch + Lomb was permitted to develop and commercialize the Bausch Licensed Product (as defined in the Bausch License Agreement) in the United States and Canada (the “Licensed Territory”). Bausch + Lomb could terminate the Bausch License Agreement, with respect to the Bausch Licensed Product to either country in the Licensed Territory, at any time for convenience upon 90 days’ written notice.
On January 12, 2024, the Company and Bausch + Lomb entered into a mutual termination and reassignment agreement (the “Letter Agreement”), pursuant to which Eyenovia reacquired the rights to the Bausch Licensed Product. The terms of the agreement include the immediate transfer of the rights and the subsequent transfer of certain assets relating to the Bausch Licensed Product from Bausch + Lomb to the Company in exchange for cash and common stock consideration. In addition, under the terms of the Letter Agreement, the Company agreed to pay Bausch + Lomb a low single-digit royalty on its net sales of the Bausch Licensed Product in the United States and Canada for a period of ten years from the date of the first commercial sale by the Company (or its affiliates or licensees) of the Bausch Licensed Product in the United States. Under the Letter Agreement, (i) the Company will re-acquire any and all licenses and other rights granted by the Company to Bausch + Lomb under the original Bausch License Agreement, (ii) any and all licenses and other rights granted by Bausch + Lomb to the Company under the License Agreement are terminated, other than as set forth in the Letter Agreement, and (iii) other than as set forth in the Letter Agreement, Bausch + Lomb is released from all of their ongoing obligations under the License Agreement, including development and commercialization obligations.
Pursuant to the Letter Agreement, the Company paid Bausch + Lomb an upfront payment of $2.0 million in cash on January 22, 2024. The Company recorded this amount as an operating expense. In connection with the entry into the Letter Agreement, the Company also agreed to issue Bausch + Lomb $3.0 million in shares of the Company’s common stock, following the Regulatory Transfer Date (the “Transfer Date”). On April 11, 2024, the Transfer Date, the transfer of the rights and certain assets relating to the CHAPERONE trial from Bausch + Lomb to the Company, was completed. On May 3, 2024, the Company issued Bausch + Lomb 2,299,397 shares of the Company’s common stock (calculated pursuant to the Letter Agreement at $3.0 million using a thirty-day volume-weighted average price on April 11, 2024, but valued at $2.3 million on the May 3, 2024 settlement date, resulting in a $0.7 million change in fair value of the equity consideration payable), in satisfaction of its obligations pursuant to the Letter Agreement.
Pursuant to the Side Letter described above (see Defective Clinical Supply), the Company agreed to pay approximately $0.5 million to Bausch + Lomb related to the defective clinical supply. It was also agreed that the Company will receive approximately $0.25 million from Bausch + Lomb to fund the vendor hold back liability that will be due upon completion of the CHAPERONE study. The Company