RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS | NOTE 11 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS The Company has historically maintained an intercompany balance due to/from related parties that relates to cash advances for investments, loan repayments, charges for services provided to the Company by IDT Corporation, or IDT, and payroll costs for the Company’s personnel that were paid by IDT. The Company also receives rental income from various companies under common control to IDT. The Company recorded expense of approximately $90 thousand in related party services to IDT, of which approximately $29 thousand is included in due to related parties at January 31, 2021. IDT leases approximately 80,000 square feet of office space plus parking at 520 Broad Street, Newark, NJ and approximately 3,600 square feet of office space in Jerusalem, Israel. IDT paid the Company approximately $460 thousand for office rent and parking during each of the three months ended January 31, 2021 and 2020. As of January 31, 2021 and 2020, IDT owed the Company approximately $30 thousand and $24 thousand, respectively, for office rent and parking. The Company provides Rafael Pharmaceuticals with administrative, finance, accounting, tax and legal services. Howard S. Jonas serves as a Chairman of the Board of Rafael Pharmaceuticals and owns an equity interest in Rafael Pharmaceuticals. The Company billed Rafael Pharmaceuticals $120,000 for the three months ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, and $240,000 for the six months ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. As of January 31, 2021 and July 31, 2020, Rafael Pharmaceuticals owed the Company $360,000 and $118,000, respectively, included in due from Rafael Pharmaceuticals. On January 29, 2020, in connection with the vesting of certain restricted shares of Class B common stock held by an officer of the Company, the Company withheld 5,238 shares to pay for the payroll taxes on the officer’s behalf, totaling approximately $116,000. On September 8, 2020, Levco Pharmaceuticals Ltd (“Levco”) entered into a research and development consulting agreement with Dr. Alberto Gabizon for a two year period. Under the agreement, in exchange for the services provided, Levco will pay Dr. Gabizon $3,000 per month and issue to him common shares representing up to 5% of common stock outstanding. Additionally, Levco will provide a lab grant in the amount of $120,000 to support the project. On September 8, 2020, Levco entered into a Sponsored Research Agreement with a company for a research program related to patent applications with payments totaling $120,000 plus value-added tax. The research period is over thirteen months, with two additional twelve-month options to extend. On December 10, 2020, a controlled subsidiary of the Company, Farber Partners LLC (“Farber”), reached an agreement with Princeton University to in-license certain patents and related information related to the serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) inhibitor program developed by the laboratory of Dr. Joshua D. Rabinowitz at Princeton. Farber will pay Princeton a minimum annual royalty payment of $50 thousand, in addition to percentage royalties and a percentage of any sublicense revenue. Additionally, there are development milestone payments which Farber will pay Princeton for the first three products developed by Farber, or any sublicensees or affiliates. On January 5, 2021, in connection with the vesting of certain restricted shares of Class B common stock held by an officer of the Company, the Company withheld 5,405 shares to pay for the payroll taxes on the officer’s behalf, totaling approximately $123,000. On January 28, 2021, Pharma Holdings partially exercised the Warrant and purchased 7.3 million shares of Rafael Pharmaceuticals’ Series D Preferred Stock for $9.1 million, of which $0.9 million was contributed by the holder of a minority interest in Pharma Holdings. The Company leases space to related parties which represented approximately 62% and 43% of the Company’s total revenue for the three months ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, and 59% and 43% for the six months ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. See Note 16 for future minimum rent payments from related parties and other tenants. The Company has recognized approximately $96 thousand and $0 in income from its ownership interests of 37.5% in RP Finance for the three months ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, and $192 thousand and $0 in income from its ownership interests of 37.5% in RP Finance for the six months ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively (see Note 5). In December 2020, two entities, on whose Boards of Directors Howard Jonas, the Registrant’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board serves, each purchased 218,245 shares of Class B common stock for consideration of $5 million each. In connection with the purchases, each purchaser was granted warrants (the “Issued Warrants”) to purchase twenty percent (20%) of the shares of Class B common stock purchased by such purchaser. The Issued Warrants have an exercise price of $22.91 per share and expire on June 6, 2022. The shares and Issued Warrants were issued in reliance on the exemption from registration provided for under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. |