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Asset Sale to Healgen
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Asset Sale to Healgen  
Asset Sale to Healgen

Note I – Asset Sale to Healgen

 

Over the last several years, the Company has retained financial consultants to seek out alternative solutions; most recently in early Fiscal 2022. The consultants were seeking solutions including but not limited to potential mergers, acquisitions, investment in the Company, and strategic relationships. Simultaneously, the Company’s management was seeking alternative solutions and began discussions with Healgen. With the current financial condition of the Company, the Company was not able to find a suitable alternative apart from the Asset Sale to Healgen.

 

After carefully weighing the facts and circumstances associated with the Asset Sale to Healgen as well as alternative courses of action, the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) unanimously concluded that the proposed sale of substantially all of the Company’s assets was the best available alternative to maximize value for shareholders.

The Board believes the Company’s status as a fully reporting public company is an asset which may be sufficiently attractive to induce others to enter into business combinations with the Company. The Company is exploring strategic transactions which may result in entering into a new line of business (subject to specific competitive limitations under the Asset Sale to Healgen). The Company believes strategic acquisitions using the Company’s publicly traded stock as transaction consideration could enhance shareholder value. Nonetheless, the Board may later determine to dissolve the Company and distribute any remaining assets to the Company’s shareholders if the Company is unable to make any strategic acquisitions or enter into any strategic transactions.

 

On December 19, 2022, the Company entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (“APA”) with Healgen, pursuant to which the Company agreed, subject to the approval of its shareholders, to sell substantially all of the Company’s operating assets (excluding its cash, accounts receivables arising prior to the closing date, and certain other assets). The Company submitted the Asset Sale to Healgen to a shareholder vote via a preliminary Proxy Statement filed on December 22, 2022. On January 5, 2023, the Company filed an amendment to its Preliminary Proxy Statement and on January 11, 2023, the Company filed its Definitive Proxy Statement with the SEC.

 

On February 15, 2023, the Company held the 2023 Special Meeting of Shareholders (the “Special Meeting”) at the Company’s corporate offices in Kinderhook, New York, at which a quorum (27,863,899 shares of common stock of the 47,098,476 shares of common stock outstanding) was present in person or represented by proxy.

 

Approval of the Asset Sale to Healgen required the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock (par value $0.01). 26,381,832, or 54.84% of the total outstanding shares of the Company, voted in favor of the Asset Sale to Healgen. 1,476,077, or 3.06% of the total outstanding shares, voted against the Asset Sale to Healgen. 5,990, or 0.01% of the total shares outstanding, withheld voting on the Asset Sale to Healgen. Given the majority of total outstanding shares voted in favor of the Asset Sale to Healgen, the Asset Sale to Healgen was approved.

 

On February 28, 2023, the Company completed the Asset Sale to Healgen and disposition of substantially all of the Company’s assets. In connection with the closing of the Asset Sale to Healgen, and in accordance with the terms of the Asset Purchase Agreement, Healgen paid an aggregate purchase price of $3 million (“Purchase Price”). $300,000 of the Purchase Price is being held back in a retention fund to cover potential indemnification claims during the six months following the close. Net proceeds in the amount of $247,000 were received by the Company after satisfaction of 1) a loan with Healgen in the amount of $965,000, 2) the Cherokee LSA, (totaling $1,031,000 for principal and interest through February 27, 2023), 3) the 2019 Cherokee Term Loan (totaling $252,000 for principal and interest through February 27, 2023), 4) delinquent property related taxes in the amount of $193,000 and 5) $12,000 for current property related taxes.