Stockholders' Equity | Note 8: Stockholders’ Equity (a) Preferred Stock The Company is authorized to issue 5,000,000 shares of $0.01 par value preferred stock with such designations, rights and preferences as may be determined by the Board of Directors. There were no Preferred Shares issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017. (b) Common Stock The Company’s stockholders approved an amendment to the Company’s corporate Charter at the Annual Shareholder Meeting held in Philadelphia, PA in 2011. This amendment increased the Company’s authorized shares from 200,000,000 to 350,000,000 with specific limitations and restrictions on the usage of 75,000,000 of the 150,000,000 newly authorized shares. In September 2015, the Company’s stockholders removed the limitations and restrictions on 67,000,000 shares. The Company’s stockholders approved up to an additional 60,000,000 shares for use in capital raising transactions and 7,000,000 shares for use in the Equity Plan of 2009. In August 2016, the Company effected a 12 to 1 reverse stock split of the outstanding shares, in order to become compliant with the NYSE regulations. This did not affect the number of authorized shares. In September 2016, the Company entered into Securities Purchase Agreements with certain investors for the sale by the Company of 3,333,334 shares of its common stock at a purchase price of $1.50 per share and sold warrants to purchase 2,500,000 shares of Common Stock for aggregate net proceeds of $4,520,000 after deducting certain fees due to the placement agent and the Company’s transaction expenses. The net proceeds received by the Company from the Security Purchase Agreement provided funds for preparation for technology transfer opportunities, expenses related to Ampligen manufacturing, working capital and general corporate purposes. Subject to certain ownership limitations, the warrants were initially exercisable six-months after issuance at an exercise price equal to $2.00 per share of Common Stock, subject to adjustments as provided under the terms of the warrants. The warrants are exercisable for five years from the initial exercise date. In June 2017, pursuant to an offer to the holders of the foregoing warrants (the “Exchange Transaction”), the exercise price of the foregoing warrants was changed to $0.50. As a result, the warrant holders exercised these warrants and purchased 2,370,000 shares of company common stock. As part of the Exchange Transaction, the Company issued 2,370,000 series A warrants with an exercise price of $0.60 per share, an initial exercise date of December 1, 2017 and expiring March 6, 2022 and 7,584,000 series B warrants with an exercise price of $0.60, an initial exercise date December 1, 2017 per share and expiring March 1, 2018, which were exercised as described below. The Company received net proceeds from the foregoing transaction of approximately $1,055,000, after deducting certain fees due to the placement agent and the Company’s transaction expenses. In July 2017, the warrant holders exercised the remaining 130,000 warrants issued in September 2016 and purchased 130,000 shares of common stock. The Company realized additional net proceeds of $65,000 from this exercise. In conjunction with the foregoing the Company issued an additional 130,000 series A warrants and 416,000 series B warrants with an exercise price of $0.60 and an initial exercise date of January 10, 2018. The net proceeds received by the Company from these offerings provided funds for preparation for technology transfer opportunities, expenses related to Ampligen manufacturing, working capital and general corporate purposes. The 2,800,000 warrants with an expiration date of March 1, 2018 and an exercise price on $0.45 were exercised in January and February 2018. The Company realized proceeds of $1,260,000 from these exercises. Pursuant to an engagement agreement, the Company paid its placement agent an aggregate fee equal to 7% and 10.5%, respectively, of the gross proceeds received by the Company from the sale of the securities in the offerings and granted to its placement agent or its designees warrants to purchase up to 5% of the aggregate number of shares sold in the transactions amounting to 166,667 and 107,759, respectively, unregistered warrants. The placement agent warrants have substantially the same terms as the investor warrants, except that the 166,667 placement agent warrants issued in September 2017 will expire September 1, 2021 and have an exercise price equal to $1.875 per share of common stock and the 107,759 placement agent warrants issued in June 2017 will expire June 1, 2022 and have an exercise price of $0.625. In August 2017, the Holders of the series A warrants and series B warrants exchanged all of their warrants for new warrants (respectively, the “Series A Exchange Warrants” and the “Series B Exchange Warrants” and, collectively, the “Exchange Warrants”) identical to the series A warrants and series B warrants except as follows: the exercise price of both Exchange Warrants is $0.45 per share, subject to adjustment therein, and the number of Series B Exchange Warrants issued was proportionately reduced so that all Exchange Warrants in the Exchange Transaction do not exceed 19.9% of the number of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock as of May 31, 2017, the date of the Exchange Transaction offer letters. The issuance of the Exchange Warrants by the Company and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Exchange Warrants is exempt from registration pursuant to Sections 3(a)(9) and 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). In February 2017, the Company entered into Securities Purchase Agreements (each, a “February Purchase Agreement”) with certain investors for the sale by us of 1,818,185 shares of its common stock at a purchase price of $0.55 per share. Concurrently with the sale of the common stock, pursuant to the February Purchase Agreement, the Company also sold unregistered warrants to purchase 1,363,639 shares of common stock for aggregate net proceeds of approximately $875,000. The warrants have an exercise price of $0.75 per share, are exercisable six months after issuance, and will expire five years from the initial exercise date. Pursuant to an engagement agreement, the Company paid its placement agent an aggregate fee equal to 7% of the gross proceeds received by the Company from the sale of the securities in the offering and granted to its placement agent or its designees warrants to purchase up to 5% of the aggregate number of shares sold in the transactions amounting to 90,910 unregistered warrants. The placement agent warrants have substantially the same terms as the investor warrants, except that the placement agent warrants will expire on February 1, 2,022 and have an exercise price equal to $0.6875 per share of common stock. The common stock issued in the above referenced September 6, 2016 and February 1, 2017 offerings were offered and sold by the Company pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3, which was initially filed with the SEC in June 2015 and subsequently declared effective on August 4, 2015 (Registration No. 333-205228) and the base prospectus dated as of August 4, 2015 contained therein. The Company filed a prospectus supplements related to these offerings with the SEC on September 1, 2016 and February 3, 2017, respectively, in connection with the sale of the common stock. The common stock issued pursuant to the above June 1, 2017 exercise of warrants were issued pursuant to an effective registration statement on Form S-1, which was initially filed with the SEC in May 2017 as subsequently amended and declared effective on May 23, 2017 (Registration No. 333-217671) and the prospectus supplement filed with the SEC on May 23, 2017. On July 23, 2012, the Company entered into an equity distribution agreement with Maxim (the “EDA”) pursuant to which it could sell up to $75,000,000 worth of our shares of common stock from time to time through Maxim, as sales agent. Under the EDA, Maxim is entitled to a fixed commission rate of 4.0% of the gross sales price of shares sold under the EDA, up to aggregate gross proceeds of $10,000,000, and thereafter, at a fixed commission rate of 3.0% of the gross sales price of shares sold under the EDA. The Company has no obligation to sell any of the shares and may at any time suspend offers under the EDA or terminate the EDA. Sales under the EDA were suspended on April 20, 2018 for a period of 60 days. On November 27, 2017, the Company reactivated the EDA. During the three months ended March 31, 2018, the Company sold an aggregate of 1,325,288 shares under the EDA for proceeds of $609,000 net of $18,000 in commissions. Pursuant to a prospectus supplement dated February 7, 2018, the Company was able to sell up to 6,549,157 of its common stock (inclusive of shares already sold under the prospectus supplement) under the EDA. The actual number of shares that the Company can sell and the proceeds to be received there from are dependent upon the market price of its common stock. On March 24, 2018, the Company sold 1,250,000 shares of common stock. The Company realized net proceeds of $475,000 from this stock offering. As of March 31, 2018 and December 31, 2016, there were 39,219,368 and 32,884,786 shares outstanding, respectively. The Equity Incentive Plan of 2009, effective June 24, 2009, as amended, authorizes the grant of non-qualified and incentive stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock and other stock awards. A maximum of 22,000,000 shares of common stock is reserved for potential issuance pursuant to awards under the Equity Incentive Plan of 2009. Unless sooner terminated, the Equity Incentive Plan of 2009 will continue in effect for a period of 10 years from its effective date. For the three months ended March 31, 2018, there were 1,336,505 options granted by the Company. |