13. Warrants

On March 22, 2013, SafeStitch entered into a stock purchase agreement with approximately 17 investors (the “2013 PIPE Investors”) pursuant to which the 2013 PIPE Investors purchased an aggregate of approximately 2,420,000 shares of common stock at a price of $1.25 per share for aggregate consideration of approximately $3.0 million. Included in this private placement was the issuance of warrants to purchase approximately 1,209,600 common shares, representing one warrant for every two common shares purchased, with an exercise price of $1.65 per share and five year expiration. Among the 2013 PIPE Investors purchasing shares were related parties who purchased 1.28 million shares and received 640,000 warrants. There were approximately 1.2 million warrants outstanding that were assumed as of the Merger. None of these warrants were exercised during the nine months ended September 30, 2017.

On January 17, 2012, TransEnterix Surgical entered into the original Loan Agreement with the Prior Lenders. Pursuant to such agreement, TransEnterix Surgical issued preferred stock warrants to the Prior Lenders on January 17, 2012 and December 21, 2012, respectively, to purchase shares of TransEnterix Surgical preferred stock. The preferred stock warrants expire 10 years from the issue date. The preferred stock warrants were remeasured immediately prior to the Merger. As of the Merger, the preferred stock warrants converted to common stock warrants, adjusted based on a Merger exchange ratio of 1.1533, and the preferred stock warrant liability was reclassified to additional paid-in capital. These warrants are exercisable for an aggregate of approximately 279,588 shares of common stock, with an exercise price of $1.45 per share. During the year ended December 31, 2013, 139,794 of these warrants were exercised in a cashless transaction for 112,766 shares of common stock. None of these warrants were exercised during the nine months ended September 30, 2017.

On September 26, 2014, the Company entered into an amendment to its SVB Loan Agreement with the Prior Lenders. In connection with the first tranche borrowings under such amendment, the Company issued 38,324 common stock warrants to the Prior Lenders to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock, with an exercise price of $4.015 per share. The warrants expire seven years from their respective issue date. The Company concluded that the warrants are considered equity instruments. The warrants were recognized at the relative fair value on the issuance date as a debt discount and will be amortized using the effective interest method from issuance to the maturity of the term loans. None of these warrants were exercised during the nine months ended September 30, 2017.

On August 14, 2015, in connection with an amendment to the SVB Loan Agreement and first tranche borrowings thereunder, the Company issued 112,903 common stock warrants to the Prior Lenders to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock, with an exercise price of $3.10 per share. The warrants expire seven years from their respective issue date. The Company concluded that the warrants are considered equity instruments. The warrants were recognized at the relative fair value on the issuance date as a debt discount and will be amortized using the effective interest method from issuance to the maturity of the note. None of these warrants were exercised during the nine months ended September 30, 2017.

13. Warrants (Continued)

On April 28, 2017, the Company sold 24.9 million Units, each consisting of one share of Common Stock, a Series A Warrant to purchase one share of Common Stock with an exercise price of $1.00 per share, and a Series B Warrant to purchase 0.75 shares of Common Stock with an exercise price of $1.00 per share at an offering price of $1.00 per Unit. Each Series A Warrant may be exercised at any time beginning on the date of issuance, and from time to time thereafter, through and including the first anniversary of the issuance date, unless terminated earlier as provided in the Series A Warrant. Receipt of Section 510(k) clearance for the Senhance System on October 13, 2017, triggered the acceleration of the expiration date of the Series A Warrants to October 31, 2017 (see Note 19).

Each Series B Warrant has an initial exercise price of $1.00 per share and may be exercised at any time beginning on the date of issuance and from time to time thereafter through and including the fifth anniversary of the issuance date (see Note 19).

The exercise prices and the number of shares issuable upon exercise of each of the Warrants are subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events, including, but not limited to, stock splits or dividends, business combinations, sale of assets, similar recapitalization transactions, or other similar transactions. The Warrants are subject to adjustment in the event that the Company issues or is deemed to issue shares of Common Stock for less than the then applicable exercise prices of each of the Warrants. The exercisability of the Warrants may be limited if, upon exercise, the holder or any of its affiliates would beneficially own more than 4.99% of the Common Stock. If, at any time Warrants are outstanding, any fundamental transaction occurs, as described in the Warrants and generally including any consolidation or merger into another corporation, the consummation of a transaction whereby another entity acquires more than 50% of the Company’s outstanding voting stock, or the sale of all or substantially all of its assets, the successor entity must assume in writing all of the obligations to the Warrant holders. Additionally, in the event of a fundamental transaction, each Warrant holder will have the right to require the Company, or its successor, to repurchase the Warrants for an amount of cash equal to the Black-Scholes value of the remaining unexercised portion of such Warrants. As of September 30, 2017, 5,204,495 and 0 Series A warrants and Series B warrants, respectively, were exercised.

On May 10, 2017, in connection with the Innovatus Loan Agreement, the Company issued warrants to the Lender to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock. The warrants are issued on the funding date of each tranche and will expire five (5) years from such issue date. The warrant issued in connection with funding of the first tranche will entitle the Lender to purchase up to 1,244,746 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $1.00 per share. None of these warrants were exercised as of September 30, 2017.

On September 12, 2017, the Company entered into a service agreement with a third party vendor. In connection with the service agreement, the Company issued 950,000 common stock warrants (“Service Warrants”) to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock, with an exercise price of $1.00 per share. The Service Warrants vest as follow: (a) twenty-five percent (25%) on the date of execution of the services agreement; (b) fifty percent (50%) upon completion of hiring the sales team; and (c) the remaining twenty-five percent (25%) upon achieving cumulative product revenue of $15.0 million. The Service Warrants expire ten years from their issue date. The Company concluded that the Service Warrants are considered equity instruments. The fair value of the Service Warrants on the issuance date was determined using a Black-Scholes Merton model. The initial expense of $0.6 was recognized as of September 30, 2017. The fair value of the remaining Service Warrants will be updated each reporting period and the expense will be recorded over the service period. None of these warrants were exercised as of September 30, 2017.

						Weighted
				Weighted		Average
				Average		Remaining		Weighted
	Number of			Exercise		Contractual		Average
	Warrants			Price		Life (in years)		Fair Value
Outstanding at December 31, 2016		1,426,622		$	1.81		2.20	$	1.54
Granted		45,769,746			1.00		2.76		0.22
Exercised		(5,204,495	)		1.00		—		—
Outstanding at September 30, 2017		41,991,873		$	1.03		2.72	$	0.27