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Note 9 - Earn-out Merger Consideration
3 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2018
Notes to Financial Statements  
Earn-out Stock Compensation Plan [Text Block]
9.
Earn-Out
 Merger Consideration
 
             Pursuant to the Amended and Restated Agreement and Plan of Merger dated
January 26, 2016,
as amended on
May 
31,
2016
and
December 2016 (
collectively the "The Merger Agreement"), AEON was merged into a newly formed acquisition subsidiary of Aeon Global Health Corp. (the "Aeon Acquisition").  The original Merger Agreement included, among other things, certain earn-out consideration (the “Earn-out”) and the assumption of certain liabilities. The Earn-out required the achievement of certain earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”) levels that were automatically adjusted upon the change of reimbursement rates adopted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Upon achievement of the EBITDA level for the
three
calendar years ending
December 31, 2018 (
“2018
Earn-out”), the Former Members would receive additional shares of the Company’s common stock so that the total number of shares of the Company’s common stock issued to the Former Members pursuant to the Merger Agreement would equal
85%
of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock on a post-issuance and fully-diluted (as defined in the Merger Agreement) basis. In addition, the Merger agreement provided that upon achievement of the EBITDA level for the
four
calendar years ending
December
31,2019
(
“2019
Earn-out”), the Former Members would receive additional shares of the Company’s common stock so that the total number of shares of the Company’s common stock issued to them pursuant to the Merger Agreement would equal
90%
of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock on a post-issuance and fully-diluted (as defined in the Merger Agreement) basis. The Former Members were also granted certain registration rights pursuant to the Merger Agreement (the “Registration Rights”), which remain outstanding. Achievement of the maximum amount of Earn-Out would have resulted in the issuance of over
70,000,000
shares of the Company’s common stock.
 
Subsequently, in connection with the Merger, the parties expressed differences of opinion on the interpretation of certain provisions of the Merger Agreement, the calculation of the number of shares of common stock issued pursuant to the initial tranches of the Earn-out under the Merger Agreement, and the assumption of income tax liabilities for undistributed income earned by AEON prior to the Merger. The Company has also incurred negative cash flow for the calendar years
2016
and
2017,
necessitating the loan of approximately
$760,000
by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer in addition to an amount of
$591,613,
including accrued interest, previously loaned by an entity owned by certain Former Members (collectively the “Loans”), which Loans have been extended on multiple occasions. The Loans were due and payable on
March 20, 2019
and are convertible into common stock at
$1.20
per share (currently
1,126,235
shares). In addition, the Chief Executive Officer and certain of the Former Members reduced their cash compensation as employees to
zero
and have been accepting restricted stock units of the Company as sole compensation.
 
The Company, AEON and the Former Members reached an agreement to resolve these matters and entered into the Settlement Agreement in order to: (i) provide a source of working capital to the Company to sustain operations and reduce the additional dilution which could have been caused by the conversion of the Loans; (ii) remove the uncertainty as to the number of shares which
may
be issued pursuant to the
2018
and
2019
Earn-outs by replacing percentages with fixed share amounts; (iii) agree that all share calculations for the Earn-outs are to be based on actual shares outstanding rather than on a “Fully-diluted” basis to provide additional certainty and reduce the potential issuances on account of the Merger from approximately
70,000,000
shares of common stock to approximately
1,200,000
shares of common stock; (iv) provide clarity as to the relationship between the
2018
Earn-out and
2019
Earn-out; (v) reduce the maximum percentage ownership of the Former Members; (vi) avoid the expense of a demand registration statement; and (vii) otherwise resolve all outstanding disagreements among the parties arising out of the Merger Agreement.
 
The parties also resolved all interpretative issues relating to the Merger Agreement and clarified the amount and terms of the Earn-outs as described below.
 
With respect to
2018
Earn-out, the parties agreed that the
2018
Earn-out, as adjusted according to the Merger Agreement, shall be
$21,483,749
of EBITDA for the
three
calendar years ending
December 31, 2018.
If the
2018
Earn-out target is achieved, then on
October 1, 2019,
subject to the completion of the audited financial statements of AEON for the calendar year ending
December 31, 2018,
the Company shall issue the Former Members a fixed amount of
3,000,000
shares of the Company’s common stock; provided, however, that if AEON does
not
achieve the
2018
Earn-out target, but achieves EBITDA for the
three
calendar years ending
December 31, 2018
of at least
75%
of the
2018
Earn-out target, then on
October 1, 2019,
subject to the completion of the audited financial statements of AEON for the calendar year ending
December 31, 2018,
the Company shall issue the Former Members a fixed amount of
2,250,000
shares of the Company’s common stock.
 
With respect to the
2019
Earn-out, the parties agreed that the
2019
Earn-out, as adjusted according to the Merger Agreement, shall be
$32,600,530
of EBITDA for the
four
calendar years ending
December 31, 2019.
If the
2019
Earn-out target is achieved, then within
three
business days following the completion of the audited financial statements of AEON for the calendar years ending
December
31,2019,
the Company shall issue the Former Members a fixed amount of
4,000,000
shares of the Company’s common stock. If AEON fails to achieve the
2019
Earn-out target, but achieves EBITDA for the calendar years ending
December 31, 2019
of at least
75%
of the
2019
Earn-out target, then within
three
business days following the completion of the audited financial statements of AEON for the calendar year ending
December 31, 2019,
the Company shall issue the Former Members a fixed amount of
3,000,000
shares of the Company’s common stock.
 
The parties also agreed that if the
2019
Earn-out target is achieved the Former Members would be entitled to an “earn-out credit” equal to the amount by which such target is exceeded. If AEON did
not
achieve the
2018
Earn-out target (or the adjusted
2018
Earn-out Target), the earn-out credit would be applied to its EBITDA for the
2018
Earn-out and then the determination of whether the
2018
Earn-out was achieved (at either the full or the
75%
level) will be recomputed. If the addition of the earn-out credit results in AEON achieving the
2018
Earn-out (at either level) then several additional shares of common stock shall be issued to the Former Members in accordance with the terms of the Settlement Agreement.
 
The Company also agreed that in consideration of the restructuring of the consideration due to the Former Members under the Merger Agreement, it shall issue an aggregate of
2,500,000
shares of the Company’s common stock to the Former Members. Such additional shares shall be issued to the Former Members
pro rata
based on their respective percentage ownership of AEON prior to the Merger and shall be deemed earned and issued on
February 28, 2019.
 
As additional consideration to the Company under the Settlement Agreement, the Former Members agreed: (i) to relinquish all demand registration rights; (ii) that the arrangements set forth in the Settlement Agreement fully resolved any and all claims arising out of the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby; and (iii) to a general release of claims as against the Company.