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Borrowing Arrangements
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2016
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Borrowing Arrangements
5. Borrowing Arrangements
 
On September 23, 2014, the Company entered into a Share Purchase Agreement with Joseph W. Beyers, the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue Mr. Beyers up to 23,364 shares of our common stock, at a purchase price of $21.40 per share for aggregate consideration to us of up to $500,000. Pursuant to the terms of such agreement and concurrently with the execution of the agreement, Mr. Beyers made an initial payment of $300,000 to the Company towards the aggregate purchase price. The shares were only to be issued if we did not obtain $6 million or more in debt financing within 10 business days of the execution of the agreement. As a result of the Fortress Agreement the Company was required to return the $300,000 in cash previously prepaid by Mr. Beyers and the Company will not issue any securities as a result of the Share Purchase Agreement. During the year ended December 31, 2015, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the application of $100,000 of this amount towards the purchase of shares of the Company’s common stock at a price per share equal to the greater of $4.60 per share or a 15% premium to the market price. As a result, on June 26, 2015, the Company sold 21,740 shares of previously unissued common stock at a price of $4.60 per share to the Chief Executive Officer. As of June 30, 2016, repayments of $150,000 have been made to the Chief Executive Officer and the remaining balance of $50,000 was canceled and credited to additional paid-in capital as of June 30, 2016.
 
On October 1, 2014 the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Inventergy, Inc., entered into the Revenue Sharing and Note Purchase Agreement with entities affiliated with Fortress Investment Group, LLC, including a Note Purchaser (as defined below) who also serves as collateral agent (the “Collateral Agent”) and a Revenue Participant (as defined below). On February 25, 2015, the Company, Inventergy, Inc. and Fortress entered into the Amended and Restated Revenue Sharing and Note Purchase Agreement (the “Amended Fortress Agreement”). Pursuant to the Fortress Agreement, the Company issued an aggregate of $12,199,500 in notes (the “Original Fortress Notes”) to the purchasers identified in the Fortress Agreement (the “Note Purchasers”). As a result of the issuance of the Original Fortress Notes and the sale of the Fortress Shares (as defined below), after the payment of all purchaser-related fees and expenses relating to the issuance of the Original Fortress Notes and Fortress Shares, the Company received net proceeds of $11,137,753 (less issuance costs of $476,868). The Company used the net proceeds to pay off the Secured Convertible Notes and other indebtedness and for general working capital purposes. The unpaid principal amount of the Fortress Notes bears cash interest equal to LIBOR plus 7%. In addition, a 3% per annum paid-in-kind (“PIK”) interest will be paid by increasing the principal amount of the Fortress Notes by the amount of such interest. The PIK interest shall be treated as principal of the Fortress Notes for all purposes of interest accrual or calculation of any premium payment. In connection with the execution of the Fortress Agreement, on October 1, 2014, the Company paid to the Note Purchasers a structuring fee equal to $385,000. This was accounted for as a discount on notes payable.
 
The principal of the Fortress Notes and all unpaid interest thereon or other amounts owing hereunder are due in full in cash by the Company on September 30, 2017 (the “Maturity Date”). The Company may prepay the Fortress Notes in whole or in part. In addition, upon the earlier of the date on which all obligations of the Fortress Notes are paid in full or become due, the Company will pay to the Note Purchasers a termination fee equal to $853,965. This was accounted for as a discount on notes payable. As of September 30, 2016, the Company has repaid $3,787,016 of the Fortress Notes.
 
Upon receipt of any revenues generated from the monetization of the Patents (the “Monetization Revenue”) from the patents identified in the Fortress Agreement (the “Patents”), the Company is required to apply, towards its obligations pursuant to the Fortress Notes, 100% of the difference between (a) any revenues generated from the Monetization Revenue less (b) any litigation or licensing related third party expenses (including fees paid to the original patent owners) reasonably incurred by the Company to earn Monetization Revenue, subject to certain limits (such difference defined as “Monetization Net Revenues”). 
 
Pursuant to the Amended Fortress Agreement, the Company granted to the purchasers identified in the Fortress Agreement (the “Revenue Participants”) a right to receive a portion of the Company’s Monetization Revenues totaling $11,284,538 (the “Revenue Stream”). The Revenue Participants will not receive any portion of the Revenue Stream until all obligations under the Original Fortress Notes are paid in full. Following payment in full of the Original Fortress Notes, the Company will pay to the Revenue Participants their proportionate share of the Monetization Net Revenues. The Revenue Participant’s proportionate share is equal to 75% of Monetization Net Revenues until $5,000,000 has been paid to the Revenue Participants, then 50% of Monetization Net Revenues until the remaining $6,284,538 has been paid to the Revenue Participants. All Revenue Stream Payments will be payable on a monthly basis in arrears. The rights of the Revenue Participants to the Revenue Stream are secured by all of the Company’s current patent assets and the Cash Collateral Account, in each case junior in priority to the rights of the Note Purchasers. In connection with the Revenue Participants’ right to receive a portion of the Company’s Monetization Revenues, the Company has recorded a net liability of $3,948,153, which represents the amount of the expected Monetization Revenues, discounted 18% over the expected life of the revenue share agreement. In conjunction with an amendment to the Amended Fortress Agreement dated March 1, 2016, the Company determined that the change in expected cash flows was greater than 10% as compared to the previous agreement and, therefore, a debt extinguishment was deemed to have occurred. When recording the new present value of the debt and revenue share, which was computed using a discount rate of 18%, a gain on debt extinguishment of $2,434,661 was recognized in the three-month period ended March 31, 2016.
 
As part of the Fortress Agreement, the Company and the Collateral Agent entered into a Patent License Agreement (the “Patent License Agreement”) under which the Company agreed to grant to the Collateral Agent a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to certain of its Patents (the “Licensed Patents”), which can only be used by the Collateral Agent following an occurrence and during the continuance of an event of default of the Fortress Agreement. When the Original Fortress Notes and Revenue Stream are paid in full, the Patent License Agreement will terminate.
 
As part of the transaction, the Company granted the Note Purchasers and Revenue Participants a first priority security interest in all of the Company’s currently owned patent assets and all proceeds thereof, as well as a general security interest in all of the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries. The Note Purchasers and Revenue Participants do not have a security interest in any future patent purchases made by the Company.
 
Under the Fortress Agreement, the Company is required to make monthly amortization payments (the “Amortization Payments”) in an amount equal to (x) the then outstanding principal amount divided by (y) the number of months left until the Maturity Date. Such Amortization Payments were originally due to commence on the last business day of October 2015, but were deferred to October 30, 2016 by various amendments to the Fortress Agreement, as more fully described below. In addition, under the Fortress Agreement, the Company is required to maintain a minimum of $1,000,000 in cash reserves. Failure to maintain that minimum cash balance constitutes an event of default under the Fortress Agreement. If we were to default under the Fortress Agreement and were unable to obtain a waiver for such a default, interest on the obligations would accrue at an increased rate. In the case of a default, Fortress could accelerate our obligations under the Fortress Agreement. On each of March 29, 2016, August 17, 2016 and September 26, 2016, the Company and Fortress entered into additional amendments to the Fortress Agreement (the “Third Amendment”, “Fourth Amendment” and “Fifth Amendment,” respectively), pursuant to which, among other terms, Amortization Payments were not required until October 30, 2016, and the requirement to maintain a minimum in cash reserves was suspended until October 30, 2016. In addition, the Fourth Amendment provides financial incentives to the Company if the Revenue Stream is paid in full on or prior to December 31, 2016. In consideration for the Fourth Amendment, the Company issued to Fortress 1,000,000 warrants for the purchase of common stock at an exercise price of $2.005 per share. In conjunction with the Fifth Amendment, the Company and Fortress entered into a non-binding letter of intent (the “LOI”) under which the Fortress Notes and Revenue Stream would be eliminated and replaced with a new patent monetization program funded by Fortress. Under the terms of the LOI, net monetization revenues from this program would be shared with Fortress to receive 70% and the Company to receive 30% of revenues (the “Revenue Sharing”), with such Revenue Sharing to be effectuated following reimbursement to Fortress for monetization expenses and the sum of $30.5 million. The Company and Fortress are working to finalize this new definitive agreement, which they aim to complete by November 21, 2016.
 
Future debt payments owed under the Fortress Agreement are as follows:
 
Years ending December 31:
 
 
 
 
2016
 
$
2,275,772
 
2017
 
 
6,931,526
 
Total
 
$
9,207,298
 
 
Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.
 
In connection with the execution of the Fortress Agreement, the Company issued 50,000 shares of its common stock at $20.00 per share to the Revenue Participants (the “Fortress Shares”) for an aggregate purchase price of $1,000,000. The Fortress Shares were issued pursuant to a subscription agreement dated October 1, 2014. The shares were issued by the Company under an exemption from registration afforded by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and Regulation D promulgated thereunder, as they were issued to accredited investors, without a view to distribution, and were not issued through any general solicitation or advertisement. In addition, the Company issued to Fortress seven-year warrants for the purchase of 50,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $11.40 per share. As part of an amendment to the Fortress Agreement dated November 30, 2015, the exercise price of these warrants was changed to $2.54 per share.
 
In connection with the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Fortress Agreement, the Company paid a closing fee of $330,000. As discussed in Note 6, the Company also issued a five-year warrant to purchase 24,750 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $20.00 to National Securities Corporation, who acted as advisor to the Company with respect to the transaction. The warrant meets the requirements to be accounted for as an equity warrant. The Company estimated the fair value of the warrant to be $153,759, using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. The fair value of the warrant as of November 1, 2014 was estimated using the following assumptions:
 
Expected volatility
 
60
%
Risk free rate
 
1.62
%
Dividend yield
 
0
%
Expected term (in years)
 
5.00
 
 
The assumptions utilized were derived in a similar manner as discussed in Note 7 related to the fair value of stock options.