SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

6 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

12.

SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

Acquisition

On May 1, 2019, the Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Oriole Toxicology Services LLC (the “ Smithers Avanza Purchaser”), acquired (the “Smithers Avanza Acquisition”) from Smithers Avanza Toxicology Services LLC (the “Smithers Avanza Seller”), a consulting-based contract research laboratory located in Gaithersburg, Maryland, substantially all of the assets used by the Smithers Avanza Seller in connection with the performance of in-vivo mammalian toxicology CRO services for pharmaceuticals (small molecules and biologics), vaccines, agro and industrial chemicals, under the terms and conditions of an Asset Purchase Agreement, dated May 1, 2019, among the Smithers Avanza Purchaser, the Company, the Smithers Avanza Seller and the member of the Smithers Avanza Seller (the “Smithers Avanza Purchase Agreement”). The consideration for the Acquisition consisted of $1,271 in cash, subject to certain adjustments and an indemnity escrow of $125, 200 of the Company’s common shares and an unsecured promissory note in the initial principal amount of $810 made by the Smithers Avanza Purchaser and guaranteed by the Company. The Company funded the cash portion of the purchase price for the Acquisition with cash on hand and the net proceeds from the refinancing of its credit arrangements with FIB, as described below.

The Smithers Avanza Purchase Agreement contains customary representations, warranties, covenants (including non-competition requirements applicable to the selling parties for a 5-year period) and indemnification provisions. As contemplated by the Smithers Avanza Purchase Agreement, on May 1, 2019 the Smithers Avanza Purchaser assumed amended lease arrangements for certain premises in Gaithersburg, Maryland (the “Lease Arrangements”). Under the Lease Arrangements, the Smithers Avanza Purchaser agreed to lease the premises for a term of 5 years and 8 months, with two 5 year extensions at the Smithers Avanza Purchaser’s option. Annual minimum rental payments under the initial term of the Lease Arrangements range from $400 to $800, provided that the Lease Arrangements provide the Smithers Avanza Purchaser with the option to purchase the premises. The Lease Arrangements include customary rights upon a default by landlord or tenant.

Amendment to Credit Arrangements

In connection with the Second Acquisition, on May 1, 2019 the Company and FIB entered into a fourth amendment (the “Fourth Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement by and between the parties dated June 23, 2017, as previously amended July 2, 2018, September 6, 2018 and September 28, 2018 (as amended, the “Credit Agreement”) to (i) extend the term of the Company’s $3,500 revolving credit facility to June 30, 2020, (ii) provide the Company with an additional term loan (the “New Term Loan”) in the amount of $1,271, the proceeds of which were used to fund the cash consideration for the Acquisition, and (iii) provide for an additional line of credit in the principal amount of $1,100 (the “Capex Line”), which the Company may borrow from time to time, subject to the terms of the Credit Agreement. The New Term Loan and the Capex Line mature November 1, 2025 and June 30, 2020, respectively.

Amounts outstanding under the New Term Loan bear interest at a fixed per annum rate of 4.63%, while interest accrues on the principal balance of the Capex Line at a floating per annum rate equal to the sum of the Prime Rate plus Fifty Basis Points (0.5%), which rate shall change concurrently with the Prime Rate. Commencing June 1, 2019, the New Term Loan requires monthly interest only payments until December 1, 2019, from which time payments of principal and interest in monthly installments of $20 become due, with all accrued but unpaid interest, cost and expenses due and payable at the maturity date. The Company is required to pay accrued but unpaid interest on the Capex Line on a monthly basis commencing on June 1, 2019, until June 30, 2020, at which time the entire balance of the Capex Line, together with accrued but unpaid interest, costs and expenses, shall be due and payable in full.

Following its amendment, the Company’s obligations under the Credit Agreement are guaranteed by BAS Evansville, Inc. (“BASEV”), Seventh Wave Laboratories, LLC (“Seventh Wave”), as well as the Smithers Avanza Purchaser, each a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The Company’s obligations under the Credit Agreement and BASEV’s, Seventh Wave’s and the Smithers Avanza Purchaser’s obligations under their respective Guaranties are secured by first priority security interests in substantially all of the assets of the Company, BASEV, Seventh Wave and the Smithers Avanza Purchaser respectively, as well as mortgages on the Company’s and BASEV’s facilities in West Lafayette, Indiana and Evansville, Indiana, respectively, and pledges of the Company’s ownership interests in its subsidiaries.

The various restrictive covenants under the Credit Agreement remain consistent, provided that the parties agreed (i) to modify the computation of the minimum debt service coverage ratio and lower the ratio itself during certain periods to 1.15 to 1.0 or 1.20 to 1.0 to appropriately reflect relevant aspects of the Smithers Avanza Acquisition and (ii) to suspend application of the cash flow coverage ratio through the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2019, with the ratio of the Company’s total funded debt (as defined in the Credit Agreement) as of the last day of each fiscal quarter to its EBITDA (as defined in the Credit Agreement) for the 12 months ended as of March 31, 2020 and June 30, 2020 not to exceed 5.00 to 1.00 and 4.50 to 1.00, respectively. The Company also agreed to obtain a life insurance policy in an amount not less than $2,000 for its President and Chief Executive Officer and to provide FIB an assignment of such life insurance policy as collateral.