U.S. Stem Cell, Inc. - Quarter Report: 2009 March (Form 10-Q)
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
(Mark One)
þ | QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2009
OR
o | TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the transition period from to
Commission File Number: 001-33718
BIOHEART, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Florida (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
65-0945967 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
13794 NW 4th Street, Suite 212, Sunrise, Florida 33325
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(954) 835-1500
(Registrants telephone number, including area code)
(Registrants telephone number, including area code)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed
by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or
for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been
subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes þ No o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its
corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted
pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T(§232.045 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or
for such shorter period that the registrant was
required to submit and post such files). Yes o No o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated
filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See definitions of large
accelerated filer, accelerated filer and smaller reporting company in Rule 12b-2 of the
Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer o | Accelerated filer o | Non-accelerated filer o (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) | Smaller reporting company þ |
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of
the Exchange Act). Yes o No þ
As of May 8, 2009 there were 17,007,850 outstanding shares of the registrants common stock,
par value $0.001 per share.
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PART I FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Financial Statements
Bioheart, Inc. and Subsidiaries
(A development stage enterprise)
(A development stage enterprise)
Consolidated Balance Sheets
March 31, | December 31, | |||||||
2009 | 2008 | |||||||
(Unaudited) | ||||||||
ASSETS |
||||||||
Current assets |
||||||||
Cash and cash equivalents |
$ | 171,073 | $ | 50,091 | ||||
Receivables |
62,492 | 57,258 | ||||||
Inventory |
337,587 | 395,034 | ||||||
Prepaid expenses and other current assets |
312,747 | 723,882 | ||||||
Total current assets |
883,899 | 1,226,265 | ||||||
Property and equipment, net |
235,811 | 281,107 | ||||||
Deferred loan costs, net |
227,903 | 278,945 | ||||||
Other assets |
68,854 | 68,854 | ||||||
Total assets |
$ | 1,416,467 | $ | 1,855,171 | ||||
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS DEFICIT |
||||||||
Current liabilities |
||||||||
Accounts payable |
$ | 2,220,834 | $ | 1,700,841 | ||||
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities |
5,457,958 | 4,970,518 | ||||||
Deferred revenue |
465,286 | 465,286 | ||||||
Notes payable current |
5,412,853 | 7,898,960 | ||||||
Total current liabilities |
13,556,931 | 15,035,605 | ||||||
Deferred rent |
8,571 | 11,141 | ||||||
Subordinated related party loan |
3,000,000 | | ||||||
Note payable long term |
530,579 | 1,044,472 | ||||||
Total liabilities |
17,096,081 | 16,091,218 | ||||||
Commitments and contingencies |
||||||||
Shareholders deficit |
||||||||
Preferred stock ($0.001 par value) 5,000,000
shares authorized; none issued and outstanding |
| | ||||||
Common stock ($0.001 par value) 75,000,000
shares authorized; 16,395,610 and 15,739,196
shares issued and outstanding as of March 31,
2009 and December 31, 2008, respectively |
16,396 | 15,739 | ||||||
Additional paid-in capital |
82,904,942 | 82,532,746 | ||||||
Deficit accumulated during the development stage |
(98,600,952 | ) | (96,784,532 | ) | ||||
Total shareholders deficit |
(15,679,614 | ) | (14,236,047 | ) | ||||
Total liabilities and shareholders deficit |
$ | 1,416,467 | $ | 1,855,171 | ||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements
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Bioheart, Inc. and Subsidiaries
(A development stage enterprise)
(A development stage enterprise)
Consolidated Statements of Operations
Cumulative | ||||||||||||
Period from | ||||||||||||
August 12, | ||||||||||||
1999 (date of | ||||||||||||
For the Three-Month Period | inception) to | |||||||||||
Ended March 31, | March 31, | |||||||||||
2009 | 2008 | 2009 | ||||||||||
(Unaudited) | (Unaudited) | |||||||||||
Revenues |
$ | 109,090 | $ | 25,995 | $ | 893,963 | ||||||
Cost of sales |
49,297 | 3,125 | 374,658 | |||||||||
Gross profit |
59,793 | 22,870 | 519,305 | |||||||||
Development revenues |
| 61,500 | 117,500 | |||||||||
Expenses: |
||||||||||||
Research and development |
626,363 | 1,358,057 | 63,493,747 | |||||||||
Marketing, general and
administrative |
646,882 | 1,072,269 | 29,151,686 | |||||||||
Depreciation and amortization |
45,296 | 45,628 | 662,302 | |||||||||
Total expenses |
1,318,541 | 2,475,954 | 93,307,735 | |||||||||
Loss from operations |
(1,258,748 | ) | (2,391,584 | ) | (92,670,930 | ) | ||||||
Interest income |
10 | 33,946 | 762,263 | |||||||||
Interest expense |
(557,682 | ) | (933,410 | ) | (6,692,285 | ) | ||||||
Net interest expense |
(557,672 | ) | (899,464 | ) | (5,930,022 | ) | ||||||
Loss before income taxes |
(1,816,420 | ) | (3,291,048 | ) | (98,600,952 | ) | ||||||
Income taxes |
| | | |||||||||
Net loss |
$ | (1,816,420 | ) | $ | (3,291,048 | ) | $ | (98,600,952 | ) | |||
Loss per share basic and diluted |
$ | (0.11 | ) | $ | (0.24 | ) | ||||||
Weighted average shares
outstanding basic and diluted |
15,931,615 | 13,854,830 | ||||||||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements
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Bioheart, Inc. and Subsidiaries
(A development stage enterprise)
(A development stage enterprise)
Consolidated Statement of Shareholders Deficit
(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
Deficit | ||||||||||||||||||||
Accumulated | ||||||||||||||||||||
Additional | During the | |||||||||||||||||||
Common Stock | Paid-in | Development | ||||||||||||||||||
Shares | Amount | Capital | Stage | Total | ||||||||||||||||
Balance as of December 31, 2008 |
15,739,196 | $ | 15,739 | $ | 82,532,746 | $ | (96,784,532 | ) | $ | (14,236,047 | ) | |||||||||
Exercise of stock options |
40,000 | 40 | 31,960 | | 32,000 | |||||||||||||||
Stock-based compensation |
| | (95,047 | ) | | (95,047 | ) | |||||||||||||
Common stock issued in
exchange for services |
45,000 | 45 | 45,855 | | 45,900 | |||||||||||||||
Common stock issued in
connection with the
issuance of note payable |
200,000 | 200 | 189,800 | | 190,000 | |||||||||||||||
Common stock issued upon
the conversion of note
payable |
371,414 | 372 | 199,628 | | 200,000 | |||||||||||||||
Net loss |
| | | (1,816,420 | ) | (1,816,420 | ) | |||||||||||||
Balance as of March 31, 2009 |
16,395,610 | $ | 16,396 | $ | 82,904,942 | $ | (98,600,952 | ) | $ | (15,679,614 | ) | |||||||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements
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Bioheart, Inc. and Subsidiaries
(A development stage enterprise)
(A development stage enterprise)
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Cumulative | ||||||||||||
Period from | ||||||||||||
August 12, 1999 | ||||||||||||
For the Three-Month Period Ended | (date of inception) | |||||||||||
March 31, | to March 31, | |||||||||||
2009 | 2008 | 2009 | ||||||||||
(Unaudited) | (Unaudited) | |||||||||||
Cash flows from operating activities |
||||||||||||
Net loss |
$ | (1,816,420 | ) | $ | (3,291,048 | ) | $ | (98,600,952 | ) | |||
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in
operating activities: |
||||||||||||
Depreciation and amortization |
45,296 | 45,628 | 662,302 | |||||||||
Bad debt expense |
| | 165,000 | |||||||||
Discount on convertible debt |
200,000 | | 200,000 | |||||||||
Amortization of warrants issued in exchange for
licenses and intellectual property |
| | 5,413,156 | |||||||||
Amortization of warrants issued in connection with
notes payable |
37,725 | 456,540 | 3,209,033 | |||||||||
Amortization of loan costs |
39,247 | 159,482 | 967,987 | |||||||||
Warrants issued in exchange for services |
| | 285,659 | |||||||||
Equity instruments issued in connection with settlement
agreement |
| | 3,381,629 | |||||||||
Common stock issued in exchange for services |
45,900 | | 1,322,917 | |||||||||
Common stock issued in exchange for distribution rights
and intellectual property |
| | 99,997 | |||||||||
Stock-based compensation |
(95,047 | ) | 212,415 | 8,824,668 | ||||||||
Changes in assets and liabilities |
||||||||||||
Receivables |
(5,234 | ) | 28,037 | (62,492 | ) | |||||||
Inventory |
57,447 | (18,020 | ) | (337,587 | ) | |||||||
Prepaid expenses and other current assets |
411,135 | (2,521,129 | ) | (312,747 | ) | |||||||
Other assets |
40,000 | 2,294 | (28,854 | ) | ||||||||
Accounts payable |
494,064 | 258,800 | 2,185,211 | |||||||||
Accrued expenses and deferred rent |
444,869 | 264,002 | 5,804,314 | |||||||||
Deferred revenue |
| (61,500 | ) | 465,287 | ||||||||
Net cash used in operating activities |
(101,018 | ) | (4,464,499 | ) | (66,355,472 | ) | ||||||
Cash flows from investing activities |
||||||||||||
Acquisitions of property and equipment |
| (17,560 | ) | (898,112 | ) | |||||||
Net cash used in investing activities |
| (17,560 | ) | (898,112 | ) | |||||||
Cash flows from financing activities |
||||||||||||
Proceeds from (payments for) initial public offering
of common stock, net |
| 4,266,581 | 1,447,828 | |||||||||
Proceeds from private placements of common stock, net |
| | 57,612,553 | |||||||||
Proceeds from exercise of stock options |
32,000 | | 292,116 | |||||||||
Proceeds from notes payable |
190,000 | | 11,390,000 | |||||||||
Proceeds from subordinated related party loan |
3,000,000 | 3,000,000 | ||||||||||
Payment of notes payable |
(3,000,000 | ) | (397,971 | ) | (5,256,568 | ) | ||||||
Payment of loan costs |
| (94,919 | ) | 1,061,272 | ||||||||
Net cash provided by financing activities |
222,000 | 3,773,691 | 67,424,657 | |||||||||
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash
equivalents |
120,982 | (708,368 | ) | 171,073 | ||||||||
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period |
50,091 | 5,492,157 | | |||||||||
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period |
$ | 171,073 | $ | 4,783,789 | $ | 171,073 | ||||||
Disclosures of cash flow information: |
||||||||||||
Interest paid |
$ | 3,429 | $ | 146,879 | $ | 860,543 | ||||||
Income taxes paid |
$ | | $ | | $ | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements
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Bioheart, Inc. and Subsidiaries
(A development stage enterprise)
(A development stage enterprise)
Notes to Consolidated Interim Financial Statements
(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
1. Organization and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Organization and Business
Bioheart, Inc. (the Company) is committed to delivering intelligent devices and biologics
that help monitor, diagnose and treat heart failure and cardiovascular diseases. Its goals are to
improve a patients quality of life and reduce health care costs and hospitalizations. Specific to
biotechnology, the Company is focused on the discovery, development and, subject to regulatory
approval, commercialization of autologous cell therapies for the treatment of chronic and acute
heart damage. MyoCell® is an innovative clinical muscle-derived cell therapy designed to populate
regions of scar tissue within a patients heart with new living cells for the purpose of improving
cardiac function in chronic heart failure patients. The Companys pipeline includes multiple
product candidates for the treatment of heart damage, including Bioheart Acute Cell Therapy, an
autologous, adipose tissue-derived cell treatment for acute heart damage, and MyoCell® SDF-1, a
therapy utilizing autologous cells that are genetically modified to express additional potentially
therapeutic growth proteins. The Company was incorporated in Florida on August 12, 1999.
Development Stage
The Company has operated as a development stage enterprise since its inception by devoting
substantially all of its effort to raising capital, research and development of products noted
above, and developing markets for its products. Accordingly, the financial statements of the
Company have been prepared in accordance with the accounting and reporting principles prescribed by
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 7, Accounting and Reporting by Development
Stage Enterprises (SFAS No. 7), issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).
Prior to marketing its products in the United States, the Companys products must undergo
rigorous preclinical and clinical testing and an extensive regulatory approval process implemented
by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other regulatory authorities. There can be no
assurance that the Company will not encounter problems in clinical trials that will cause the
Company or the FDA to delay or suspend clinical trials. The Companys success will depend in part
on its ability to successfully complete clinical trials, obtain necessary regulatory approvals,
obtain patents and product license rights, maintain trade secrets, and operate without infringing
on the proprietary rights of others, both in the United States and other countries. There can be no
assurance that patents issued to or licensed by the Company will not be challenged, invalidated, or
circumvented, or that the rights granted thereunder will provide proprietary protection or
competitive advantages to the Company. The Company will require substantial future capital in order
to meet its objectives. The Company currently has no committed sources of capital. The Company will
need to seek substantial additional financing through public and/or private financing, and
financing may not be available when the Company needs it or may not be available on acceptable
terms.
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying unaudited consolidated interim financial statements have been prepared
pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) for
reporting of interim financial information. Pursuant to such rules and regulations, certain
information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in
accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States have been condensed
or omitted.
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Bioheart, Inc. and Subsidiaries
(A development stage enterprise)
(A development stage enterprise)
Notes to Consolidated Interim Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited consolidated interim financial
statements of the Company contain all adjustments (consisting of only normal recurring adjustments)
necessary to present fairly the financial position of the Company as of March 31, 2009, the results
of its operations for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2009 and 2008 and its cash flows for
the three-month periods ended March 31, 2009 and 2008. The results of operations and cash flows for
the three-month period ended March 31, 2009 are not necessarily indicative of the results of
operations or cash flows which may be reported for future periods or for the year ending December
31, 2009.
The accompanying unaudited consolidated interim financial statements include the accounts of
Bioheart, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All intercompany transactions are eliminated in
consolidation.
The accompanying unaudited consolidated interim financial statements and notes thereto should
be read in conjunction with Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results
of Operations contained in this report and the audited financial statements for the year ended
December 31, 2008 and the notes thereto included in the Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 2008.
Reverse Stock Split
On August 31, 2007, the Companys Board of Directors approved a 1-for-1.6187 reverse stock
split of the Companys capital stock, which became effective on September 27, 2007. All share
numbers and per share amounts contained in the consolidated financial statements have been
retroactively adjusted to reflect the reverse stock split. In lieu of issuing fractional shares of
stock resulting from the reverse stock split, the number of shares held by each shareholder
following the reverse stock split was rounded up to the nearest whole share.
Initial Public Offering
On February 22, 2008 (the Closing Date) the Company completed its initial public offering of
common stock (the IPO) pursuant to which it sold 1,100,000 shares of common stock at a price per
share of $5.25, for net proceeds of approximately $1.45 million after deducting underwriter
discounts of approximately $400,000 and offering costs of approximately $3.92 million. The
Companys common stock commenced trading on February 19, 2008 on the NASDAQ Global Market under the
symbol BHRT and subsequently transferred to the NASDAQ Capital Market in June 2008.
The Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the quarter ended March 31, 2008 reflects the
Companys receipt of approximately $4.27 million of Proceeds from (payments for) initial public
offering of common stock, net. The $4.27 million cash proceeds figure is approximately $2.82
million higher than the $1.45 million IPO net proceeds figure identified above due to payment of
$2.82 million of various offering expenses prior to January 1, 2008.
The net cash proceeds from the IPO were primarily used for commencement of full-scale
enrollment in a planned clinical trial of MyoCell, milestone payments due under licensing
agreements, repayment of a portion of certain debt obligations and general corporate purposes.
On the Closing Date, the Company issued to Dawson James Securities, Inc. a warrant to purchase
77,000 shares of its common stock with an exercise price of $6.5625 per share. Dawson James
Securities, Inc. acted as the representative of the several underwriters of the IPO. The warrant,
which became exercisable on the first anniversary of the date of issuance, expires on October 2,
2012.
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Bioheart, Inc. and Subsidiaries
(A development stage enterprise)
(A development stage enterprise)
Notes to Consolidated Interim Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
NASDAQ Delisting
On October 15, 2008, the Company received notification from The NASDAQ Stock Market indicating
that the Company was not in compliance with certain of the NASDAQ Capital Market continued listing
requirements, including a minimum $35 million market value of its listed securities. The Company
was permitted until November 14, 2008, to regain compliance with the minimum market value of listed
securities requirement. On November 17, 2008, the Company received a NASDAQ Staff Determination
indicating that the Company had failed to regain compliance with the $35 million minimum market
value of listed securities requirement, and that the Companys securities were, therefore, subject
to delisting from The NASDAQ Capital Market. The Company appealed the Staff Determination and
requested a hearing before a NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel (the Panel) to review the Staff
Determination. This stayed the delisting of the Companys securities pending the Panels decision.
On February 25, 2009, the Company received notification from The NASDAQ Stock Market of its
determination to discontinue the Companys NASDAQ listing effective February 27, 2009. On May 13,
2009, the Companys common stock was approved for quotation on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally
accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that
affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and the disclosure of contingent assets and
liabilities as of the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and
expenses during the reporting periods. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
Fair value estimates, assumptions and methods used to estimate the fair value of the Companys
financial instruments are made in accordance with the requirements of SFAS No. 107, Disclosures
about Fair Value of Financial Instruments. The Company has used available information to derive
its estimates. However, because these estimates are made as of a specific point in time, they are
not necessarily indicative of amounts the Company could realize currently. The use of different
assumptions or estimating methods may have a material effect on the estimated fair value amounts.
The fair value of cash equivalents, receivables, accounts payable and short term debt approximate
their carrying amounts due to their short term nature. The carrying value of long-term debt
consisting of a note payable approximated fair value as of March 31, 2009 and December 31, 2008,
based on the time to maturity, interest rate environment and borrowing rates available to the
Company.
Inventory
Inventory consists of raw materials and finished product. Finished product consists primarily
of finished catheters. Cost of finished product, consisting of raw materials and contract
manufacturing costs, is determined by the first-in, first-out (FIFO) method for valuing
inventories. Costs of raw materials are determined using the FIFO method. Inventory is stated at
the lower of costs or market (estimated net realizable value).
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Bioheart, Inc. and Subsidiaries
(A development stage enterprise)
(A development stage enterprise)
Notes to Consolidated Interim Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
Inventory consisted of the following at March 31, 2009 and December 31, 2008:
March 31, | December 31, | |||||||
2009 | 2008 | |||||||
Finished product |
$ | 280,833 | $ | 338,280 | ||||
Raw materials |
56,754 | 56,754 | ||||||
Total inventory |
$ | 337,587 | $ | 395,034 | ||||
Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets
Prepaid expenses and other current assets primarily consist of upfront payments under an
agreement with the contract research organization that the Company is utilizing for its MARVEL
clinical trial and payments on corporate insurance policies. At March 31, 2009 and December 31,
2008, prepaid expenses included approximately $32,000 and $416,000, respectively, in upfront
payments to the contract research organization. These upfront payments will be applied as payment
toward the final invoices from the contract research organization at which time the amounts will be
expensed. Any unused amount will be refunded to the Company upon completion of the services or
termination of the agreement.
Deferred Loan Costs
Deferred loan costs consist principally of legal and loan origination fees incurred to obtain
$10 million in loans in June 2007 and the fair value of warrants issued in connection with the
loans. These deferred loan costs are being amortized to interest expense over the terms of the
respective loans using the effective interest rate method. At March 31, 2009 and December 31, 2008,
the Company had net deferred loan costs of $227,903 and $278,945, respectively. For the three
months ended March 31, 2009 and for the three months ended March 31, 2008, the Company recorded
$276,973 and $616,022, respectively, of interest expense related to the amortization of deferred
loan costs, which included $237,726 and $456,540, respectively, related to the fair value of
warrants issued in connection with the loans.
Stock Options and Warrants
On January 1, 2006, the Company adopted the provisions of SFAS No. 123 (revised 2004),
Share-Based Payment (SFAS No. 123R) using the modified prospective transition method. SFAS No.
123R requires the Company to measure all share-based payment awards granted after January 1, 2006,
including those with employees, at fair value. Under SFAS No. 123R, the fair value of stock options
and other equity-based compensation must be recognized as expense in the statements of operations
over the requisite service period of each award.
Share-based awards granted subsequent to January 1, 2006 are valued using the fair value
method and compensation expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the vesting period of
the awards. Beginning January 1, 2006, the Company also began recognizing compensation expense
under SFAS No. 123R for the unvested portions of outstanding share-based awards previously granted
under its stock option plans, over the periods these awards continue to vest.
The Company accounts for certain share-based awards, including warrants, with non-employees in
accordance with SFAS No. 123R and related guidance, including EITF Issue No. 96-18, Accounting for
Equity Instruments That Are Issued to Other Than Employees for Acquiring, or in Conjunction with
Selling Goods or Services. The Company estimates the fair value of such awards using the
Black-Scholes valuation model at each reporting period and expenses the fair value over the vesting
period of the share-based award, which is generally the period in which services are provided.
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Bioheart, Inc. and Subsidiaries
(A development stage enterprise)
(A development stage enterprise)
Notes to Consolidated Interim Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
Loss Per Share
Loss per share has been computed based on the weighted average number of shares outstanding
during each period, in accordance with SFAS No. 128, Earnings per Share. The effect of outstanding
stock options and warrants, which could result in the issuance of 5,337,540 and 4,488,877 shares of
common stock at March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively, is antidilutive. As a result, diluted loss
per share data does not include the assumed exercise of outstanding stock options and warrants and
has been presented jointly with basic loss per share.
2. Going Concern
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared and are presented
assuming the Companys ability to continue as a going concern. The Company has incurred significant
operating losses over the past several years and has a deficit accumulated during the development
stage of $98.6 million as of March 31, 2009. In addition, as of March 31, 2009, the Companys
current liabilities exceed current assets by $12.7 million. Current liabilities include notes
payable of $5.4 million. As discussed in Note 6, the Company also has an obligation of $3 million
to the Companys Chairman and spouse. The Company does not have sufficient cash to support its
operations through December 2009. The Company will need to secure significant additional sources of
capital in June 2009 to develop its business and product candidates as planned.
The Company currently has no commitments or arrangements from third parties for any additional
financing to fund research and development and/or other operations. The Company is seeking
substantial additional financing through public and/or private financing, which may include equity
and/or debt financings, research grants, and through other arrangements, including collaborative
arrangements. As part of such efforts, the Company may seek loans from certain of our executive
officers, directors and/or current shareholders. However, financing may not be available to the
Company or on terms acceptable to the Company. The Companys inability to obtain additional
financing would have a material adverse effect on its financial condition and ability to continue
operations. Accordingly, the Company could be forced to significantly curtail or suspend
operations, default on its debt obligations, file for bankruptcy or seek to sell some or all of its
assets. As such, the Companys continuation as a going concern is uncertain.
Due to the Companys financial condition, the report of the Companys independent registered
public accounting firm on the Companys December 31, 2008 consolidated financial statements
includes an explanatory paragraph indicating that these conditions raise substantial doubt about
the Companys ability to continue as a going concern. The accompanying consolidated financial
statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of
asset carrying amounts or the amount and classification of liabilities that might be necessary
should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.
3. Collaborative License and Research/Development Agreements
The Company has entered into a number of contractual relationships for technology licenses and
research and development projects. The following provides a summary of the Companys significant
contractual relationships:
In February 2000, the Company entered into a license agreement (the Original License
Agreement) with Cell Transplants International, LLC (CTI). Pursuant to the Original License
Agreement, among other things, CTI granted the Company a license to certain patents related to
heart muscle regeneration and angiogenesis for the life of the patents. In July 2000, the Company
and CTI, together with Dr. Peter K. Law, executed an
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(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
addendum to the Original License Agreement, which amended or superseded a number of terms of
the Original License Agreement (the License Addendum).
More specifically, the License Addendum provided, among other things:
| The parties agreed that the Company would issue, and the Company did issue, to CTI a five-year warrant exercisable for 1.2 million shares of the Companys common stock at an exercise price of $8.00 per share instead of, as originally contemplated under the Original License Agreement, issuing to CTI or Dr. Law 600,000 shares of the Companys common stock and options to purchase 600,000 shares of the Companys common stock at an exercise price of $1.80 per share. These share amounts and exercise prices do not take into account any subsequent recapitalizations or reverse stock splits. | ||
| The parties agreed that the Companys obligation to pay CTI a $3.0 million milestone payment would be triggered upon the Companys commencement of a bona fide U.S. Phase II human clinical trial study that utilizes technology claimed under U.S. Patent No. 5,130,141 with FDA approval in the United States, instead of, as originally contemplated under the Original License Agreement, upon initiation of an FDA approved human clinical trial study of such technology in the United States. |
In addition, if the Company obtains FDA approval of a method of heart muscle regeneration
utilizing the patented technology licensed under the Original License Agreement, the Company will
be required to pay CTI $5 million. Further, the Company would be obligated to pay CTI a royalty of
5% of gross sales of products and services that directly read upon the claims of the licensed
patents. During the course of certain litigation initiated by Dr. Law against the Company, see Note
9, the Company learned that CTI, a Tennessee limited liability company, was administratively
dissolved by the Secretary of State of Tennessee in 2004.
In February 2006, the Company entered into an exclusive license agreement with The Cleveland
Clinic Foundation for various patents to be used in connection with the MyoCell SDF-1 product
candidate. In exchange for the license, the Company 1) paid $250,000 upon the closing of the
agreement; 2) paid $1,250,000 in 2006; 3) paid $150,000 in 2008; 4) will pay a maintenance fee of
$150,000 per year for the duration of the license; 5) will be required to make various milestone
payments; and 6) will pay a 5% royalty on the net sales of products and services that directly rely
upon the claims of the patents for the first $300,000,000 of annual net sales and a 3% royalty for
any annual net sales over $300,000,000. The royalty percentage shall be reduced by 0.5% for each
1.0% of license fees paid to any other entity. However, the royalty percentage shall not be reduced
to less than 2.5%.
Bioheart has signed two amendments associated with the license agreement with The Cleveland
Clinic Foundation. The amended agreement states that if Bioheart does not complete each milestone
activity by the expected completion date then the license will terminate. As part of the original
license agreement, Bioheart gained access to multiple product lines. The amended agreement
states that if these products are not included in a Bioheart sponsored clinical trial prior to
December 31, 2010, Bioheart will lose the rights to those products.
In December 2006, the Company entered into an agreement with Tissue Genesis, Inc. (Tissue
Genesis) for exclusive distribution rights to Tissue Genesis products and a license for various
patents to be used in connection with the Bioheart Acute Cell Therapy and TGI 1200 product
candidates. In exchange for the license, the Company agreed to do the following: 1) issue 13,006
shares of the Companys common stock at a price of $7.69 per share; and 2) issue a warrant
exercisable for 1,544,450 shares of the Companys common stock to Tissue Genesis at an exercise
price of $7.69 per share, which warrant expires on December 31, 2026.
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(A development stage enterprise)
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(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
This warrant shall vest in three parts as follows: i) 617,780 shares vesting only upon the
Companys successful completion of human safety testing of the licensed technology, ii) 463,335
shares vesting only upon the Company exceeding net sales of $10 million or net profit of $2 million
from the licensed technology, and iii) 463,335 shares vesting only upon the Company exceeding net
sales of $100 million or net profit of $20 million from the licensed technology. Since the vesting
of this warrant is contingent upon the achievement of the specific milestones, the fair value of
this warrant at the time the milestones are met will be expensed to research and development. In
the event of an acquisition (or merger) of the Company by a third party, all unvested shares of
common stock subject to the warrant shall immediately vest prior to such event. In addition, the
Company will pay a 2% royalty of net sales of licensed products.
4. Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following as of March 31, 2009
and December 31, 2008:
March 31, | December 31, | |||||||
2009 | 2008 | |||||||
License and royalty fees |
$ | 3,722,500 | $ | 3,670,000 | ||||
Fees and interest payable to the
Guarantors of the Companys loan
agreement with Bank of America |
1,237,560 | 926,628 | ||||||
Interest payable on notes payable |
121,492 | 262,950 | ||||||
Other |
376,406 | 110,940 | ||||||
$ | 5,457,958 | $ | 4,970,518 | |||||
5. Notes Payable
Notes payable were comprised of the following as of March 31, 2009 and December 31, 2008:
March 31, | December 31, | |||||||
2009 | 2008 | |||||||
Bank of America note payable. Terms described below |
$ | 2,000,000 | $ | 5,000,000 | ||||
BlueCrest Capital Finance note payable. Monthly
payments of principal and interest as described
below |
2,943,432 | 2,943,432 | ||||||
Short-term note payable. Terms described below |
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | ||||||
5,943,432 | 8,943,432 | |||||||
Less current portion |
(5,412,853 | ) | (7,898,960 | ) | ||||
Notes payable long term |
$ | 530,579 | $ | 1,044,472 | ||||
Notes payable at March 31, 2009 mature as follows:
2009 |
$ | 5,412,853 | ||
2010 |
530,579 | |||
$ | 5,943,432 | |||
Bank of America Note Payable
On June 1, 2007, the Company entered into a loan agreement with Bank of America, N.A. for an
eight month, $5.0 million term loan, to be used for working capital purposes. The loan bears
interest at the annual rate of the prime rate plus 1.5%. The prime rate was 3.25% and 7.25% at
December 31, 2008 and 2007, respectively. As consideration for the loan, the Company paid Bank of
America a fee of $100,000. Effective as
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(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
of January 31, 2008, the maturity date of the loan was extended until June 1, 2008. As
consideration for this extension of the maturity date of the loan, the Company paid Bank of America
a fee of $50,000. Effective as of June 1, 2008, Bank of America agreed to extend the maturity date
of the loan until January 5, 2009. As consideration for this extension of the maturity date of the
loan, the Company paid Bank of America a fee of $75,000. Effective January 5, 2009, Bank of America
agreed to extend the maturity date of the loan until July 6, 2009. As consideration for this
extension of the maturity date of the loan, the Company owes Bank of America a fee of $50,000 that
is payable upon the maturity date of the loan. Under the terms of the loan, Bank of America is
entitled to receive a semi-annual payment of interest and all outstanding principal and accrued
interest by the maturity date.
The Company has provided no collateral for the loan. On June 1, 2007, for the Companys
benefit, the Companys Chairman of the Board and his spouse, certain other members of the Companys
Board of Directors and one of the Companys shareholders (the Guarantors) provided collateral to
guarantee the loan. Except for a $1.1 million personal guaranty (backed by collateral) provided by
the Companys Chairman and his spouse, these guarantees are limited to the collateral each provided
to the lender.
The Company and Bank of America have agreed with BlueCrest Capital Finance, L.P., the lender
of the BlueCrest Loan (defined below), that the Company will not individually make any payments due
under the Bank of America loan while the BlueCrest Loan is outstanding. For the Companys benefit,
the Guarantors agreed to provide Bank of America in the aggregate up to $5.5 million of funds
and/or securities to make these payments.
The Company has agreed to reimburse the Guarantors with interest at an annual rate of the
prime rate plus 5.0% for any and all payments made by them under the Bank of America loan as well
as to pay them certain cash fees in connection with their provision of collateral to guarantee the
loan. Upon entering into the loan agreement, the Company issued to each Guarantor warrants to
purchase 3,250 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $7.69 per share for each $100,000 of
principal amount of the loan guaranteed by such Guarantor. The warrants have a ten-year term and
became exercisable one year following the date the warrants
were issued. Warrants to purchase an aggregate of 216,095 shares of common stock were issued
to the Guarantors. These warrants had an aggregate fair value of $1,437,638, which amount was
accounted for as additional paid in capital and reflected as a component of deferred loan costs and
amortized as interest expense over the initial term of the loan using the effective interest
method. As discussed below, certain of these Guarantors were replaced in September 2007. The
unamortized fair value of the warrants issued to the Guarantors that were replaced, which was
previously reflected as a component of deferred loan costs, was recorded as interest expense in
September 2007.
In September 2007, a member of the Companys Board of Directors and two of the Companys
shareholders agreed to provide collateral valued at $750,000, $600,000 and $500,000, respectively,
to secure the loan. The collateral provided by these new Guarantors fully replaced the collateral
originally provided by one of the members of the Companys Board of Directors and partially
replaced the collateral originally provided by another member of the Companys Board of Directors
whose collateral now secures $400,000 of the loan. In consideration for providing the collateral,
the Company issued to the new Guarantors warrants to purchase 3,250 shares of common stock at an
exercise price of $7.69 per share for each $100,000 of principal amount of the loan guaranteed by
such new Guarantor. The warrants have a ten-year term and became exercisable one year following the
date the warrants were issued. Warrants to purchase an aggregate of 60,118 shares of the Companys
common stock were issued to the new Guarantors. These warrants had an aggregate fair value of
$380,482, which was accounted for as additional paid in capital and reflected as a component of
deferred loan costs and amortized as interest expense over the initial term of the loan using the
effective interest method.
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Notes to Consolidated Interim Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
In accordance with the provisions of the warrants issued to the Guarantors, the aggregate
number of shares of common stock underlying such warrants increased on September 30, 2007 as the
Bank of America loan remained outstanding at that date. The additional 38,861 warrant shares had an
aggregate fair value of $244,463. The portion of this amount attributed to the Guarantors that were
replaced in September 2007 was accounted for as additional paid in capital and immediately recorded
as interest expense with the remainder accounted for as additional paid in capital and reflected as
a component of deferred loan costs and amortized as interest expense over the initial term of the
loan using the effective interest method.
In October 2007, the Companys Chairman and his spouse agreed to provide an additional $2.2
million limited personal guarantee of the loan and pledged securities accounts to backup this
limited personal guarantee. The additional collateral provided by the Companys Chairman and his
spouse fully replaced the collateral provided by one of the original Guarantors. Accordingly, the
Companys Chairman and his spouse personally guaranteed an aggregate of $3.3 million of the loan.
The Companys agreement with the Companys Chairman and his spouse with respect to the additional
collateral is substantially similar to the Companys agreement with them in connection with the
$1.1 million personal guarantee they originally provided in June 2007. In consideration for
providing the collateral, the Company issued to the Companys Chairman and his spouse, a warrant to
purchase 81,547 shares of the Companys common stock at an exercise price of $7.69 per share. The
warrant has a ten-year term and became exercisable one year following the date the warrant was
issued. The warrant had a fair value of $516,193, which was accounted for as additional paid in
capital and reflected as a component of deferred loan costs and amortized as interest expense over
the initial term of the loan using the effective interest method.
As a result of this replacement of the collateral originally provided by one of the original
Guarantors in October 2007, the unamortized fair value of the warrant to purchase 81,548 shares of
the Companys common stock at an exercise price of $7.69 per share issued to that Guarantor was
recorded as interest expense in October 2007. In October 2007, the Company cancelled the warrant
previously issued to such original Guarantor, which warrant included the adjustment provisions
discussed above, and, in exchange, issued to them a warrant to purchase 101,934 shares of the
Companys common stock at an exercise price of $7.69 per share, which new warrant does not contain
the adjustment provisions discussed above. The additional 20,386 warrant shares had an aggregate
fair value of $128,228, which was accounted for as additional paid in capital and immediately
recorded as interest expense.
In accordance with the provisions of the warrants issued to the Guarantors, the aggregate
number of shares of common stock underlying such warrants increased on June 1, 2008 as the Bank of
America loan remained outstanding at that date. The additional 78,773 warrant shares had an
aggregate fair value of $168,387. The portion of this amount attributed to the Guarantors that were
replaced in September 2007 was accounted for as additional paid in capital and immediately recorded
as interest expense with the remainder accounted for as additional paid in capital and reflected as
a component of deferred loan costs to be amortized as interest expense over the term of the loan
using the effective interest method. In the event that as of the second anniversary and third
anniversary of the closing date of the loan, the Company has not reimbursed the Guarantors in full
for payments made by them in connection with the loan, the number of shares subject to the warrants
will further increase.
In March 2009, the Companys Chairman and his spouse repaid $3.0 million of principal and a
pro rata portion of accrued interest on behalf of the Company. The Company now owes this $3.0
million to the Companys Chairman and his spouse. This liability is reflected on the Companys
consolidated balance sheet on a separate line titled Due to related parties. In accordance with
the provisions discussed above, this amount will accrue interest at an annual rate of the prime
rate plus 5.0%.
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(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
The amount of interest expense on the principal amount of the loan for the three-month periods
ended March 31, 2009 and 2008 totaled approximately $68,000 and $98,000, respectively. Fees and
interest earned by the Guarantors, which are recorded as interest expense, for the three-month
periods ended March 31, 2009 and 2008 totaled approximately $88,000 and $77,000, respectively.
Interest due on the principal amount of the loan has been paid by the Guarantors. As of March 31,
2009 and December 31, 2008, the amount of interest paid by the Guarantors on behalf of the Company
totaled approximately $616,000 and $432,000, respectively, and was included in accrued expenses at
those dates.
BlueCrest Capital Finance Note Payable
On June 1, 2007, the Company closed on a $5.0 million senior loan from BlueCrest Capital
Finance, L.P. with a term of 36 months which bears interest at an annual rate of 12.85% (the
BlueCrest Loan). The first three months required payment of interest only with equal principal
and interest payments over the remaining 33 months. As consideration for the loan, the Company
issued to BlueCrest Capital Finance, L.P. a warrant to purchase 65,030 shares of common stock at an
exercise price of $7.69 per share. The warrant, which became exercisable one year following the
date the warrant was issued, has a ten year term. This warrant had a fair value of $432,635, which
was accounted for as additional paid in capital and reflected as a component of
deferred loan costs and is being amortized as interest expense over the term of the loan using
the effective interest method. The Company also paid the lender a fee of $100,000 to cover
diligence and other costs and expenses incurred in connection with the loan. On August 31, 2007,
BlueCrest Capital Finance, L.P. assigned its rights, liabilities, duties and obligations under the
BlueCrest Loan and warrant to BlueCrest Venture Finance Master Fund Limited (BlueCrest).
The loan may be prepaid in whole but not in part. However, the Company is subject to a
prepayment penalty equal to 2% of the outstanding principal if prepaid during the second year of
the loan and 1% of the outstanding principal if prepaid during the third year of the loan. As
collateral to secure its repayment obligations under the loan, the Company granted BlueCrest a
first priority security interest in all of the Companys assets, excluding intellectual property
but including the proceeds from any sale of any of the Companys intellectual property. The loan
has certain restrictive terms and covenants including among others, restrictions on the Companys
ability to incur additional senior or pari-passu indebtedness or make interest or principal
payments on other subordinate loans.
In the event of an uncured event of default under the loan, all amounts owed to BlueCrest are
immediately due and payable and BlueCrest has the right to enforce its security interest in the
assets securing the loan. During the continuance of an event of default, all outstanding amounts
under the loan will bear interest (payable on demand) at an annual rate of the 14.85%. In
addition, any unpaid amounts are subject, until paid, to a service charge in an amount equal to two
percent (2%) of the unpaid amount. Events of default include, among others, the Companys failure
to timely make payments of principal when due, the Companys uncured failure to timely pay any
other amounts owing to BlueCrest under the loan, the Companys material breach of the
representations and warranties contained in the loan agreement and the Companys default in the
payment of any debt to any of its other lenders in excess of $100,000 or any other default or
breach under any agreement relating to such debt, which gives the holders of such debt the right to
accelerate the debt.
The amount of interest expense on the principal amount of the BlueCrest Loan for the
three-month periods ended March 31, 2009 and 2008 totaled approximately $95,000 and $140,000,
respectively.
On January 2, 2009, the Company failed to make the monthly payment of principal and interest
of approximately $181,000 due on such date. On January 28, 2009, the Company received from
BlueCrest notice
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(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
of this event of default (the Default Notice) under the BlueCrest Loan. By reason of the
stated event, BlueCrest demanded payment of a 2% late fee of approximately $3,600, together with
the principal and interest payment of approximately $181,000. On February 2, 2009, the Company
received from BlueCrest notice of acceleration of the outstanding principal amount of the BlueCrest
Loan and demanded repayment in full of all outstanding principal and accrued interest on the loan,
including late fees, in the aggregate amount of $2,947,045. (The acceleration notice, together with
the Default Notice, are referred to as the Notices).
The Company and BlueCrest entered into an amendment to the BlueCrest Loan as of April 2, 2009
(the BlueCrest Loan Amendment), that, among other things, includes BlueCrests agreement to
forbear from exercising any of its rights or remedies regarding the defaults described in Notices
(the Forbearance) as long as there are no new defaults under the BlueCrest Loan, as amended.
The BlueCrest Loan Amendment, (a) increases the amount of permitted unsecured indebtedness of
the Company, (b) amended the amortization schedule for the Loan to provide for interest-only
payments until July 1, 2009, at which time monthly principal and interest payments of $262,692 will
commence, and (c) prohibits the Company from granting any lien against its intellectual property
and grants to BlueCrest a lien against the Companys intellectual property that will become
effective in the event of a default. In addition, the Company issued BlueCrest a warrant to
purchase 1,315,542 shares of the Companys common stock at $0.53 per share.
In connection with the BlueCrest Loan Amendment the Company paid BlueCrest accrued interest in
the aggregate amount of $126,077. The Company also paid BlueCrest a fee of $15,000.
Short-term Note Payable
On August 20, 2008, the Company borrowed $1.0 million from a third party pursuant to the terms
of an unsecured Promissory Note and Agreement. Outstanding principal and interest on the loan,
which accrues at the rate of 13.5% per annum, is payable in one balloon payment upon the Companys
repayment of the BlueCrest Loan, which is scheduled to mature in May 2010. In the event the Company
completes a private placement of its common stock and/or securities exercisable for or convertible
into its common stock which generates at least $19.0 million of gross proceeds, the Company may
prepay, without penalty, all outstanding principal and interest due under the loan using the same
type of securities issued in the subject private placement. Because repayment of the loan could
occur within 12 months from the date of the balance sheet, the Company has classified this loan as
short term. Subject to certain conditions, at the end of each calendar quarter during the time the
loan is outstanding, the Company may, but is not required to, pay all or any portion of the
interest accrued but unpaid as of such date with shares of its common stock.
The amount of interest expense on the principal amount of the loan for the period ended March
31, 2009 was approximately $34,000. The Company has not paid any of the interest accrued to date
on the principal amount of the loan.
Convertible Debt
In February 2009, Bruce Meyers and Robert Seguso (jointly, the Lenders) funded the remaining
$100,000 of a total $200,000 loan to the Company. The funds were delivered, net of original issue
discount in the amount of $10,000, pursuant to a terms sheet provided by Bruce Meyers, for a
convertible debt financing to be provided to the Company (the Loan). Although the terms sheet
provided that the Lenders would be provided a complete set of loan documentation, the Lenders
delivered to the Company the entire net proceeds of the Loan, in the amount of $190,000, in advance
of receiving any documentation. The initial funding of $100,000 was made to the Company on January
21, 2009. However, the Company determined that it would
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(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
not proceed with the Loan unless and until the Lenders funded the balance of the net proceeds
which was completed on February 3, 2009 and provided that the Board of Directors of the Company
approved the Loan, which approval was obtained on February 11, 2009.
The Loan was in the nature of convertible debt and was evidenced by an unsecured promissory
note (the Note), that was convertible into common stock of the Company at a price that was 22.5%
less than the average of the closing bid prices for the Companys shares for the five (5) days
prior to the Lenders election to exercise their conversion right under the Note. The Note was to
bear interest at the rate of 10% per annum, with interest payable due at maturity. The terms sheet
provides that all unpaid interest (and principal) will be due and payable on the date that is the
earlier to occur of the first anniversary of the closing date of the Loan or the closing of a
financing in an amount that is equal to or greater than $3.0 million that will satisfy the
Companys obligation under its loan with BlueCrest. However, the Lenders already elected to
convert the entire amount of the Loan to shares of the Companys common stock.
In addition to the Note, the Company issued to the Lenders 200,000 unregistered and restricted
shares of the Companys common stock. The relative fair value of these shares was calculated to be
approximately $84,000 and was immediately recorded as interest expense. Using the effective
conversion price of the Note, which considered the conversion discount and fair value of the shares
issued the Lenders, a beneficial conversion amount of approximately $106,000 was calculated and
immediately recorded as interest expense.
Prior to funding the balance of the Loan, the Lenders delivered to the Company, on January 26,
2009, a notice electing to convert $100,000 of the Loan into shares of the Companys common stock.
The price per share for such election was $0.50995. This required the issuance to the Lenders of
196,098 unregistered and restricted shares of the Companys common stock.
On February 3, 2009, contemporaneously with the funding of the remainder of the Loan, the
Lenders delivered to the Company notice of their election to convert the remainder of the Loan into
shares of the Companys common stock at a price per share of $0.5704. This required the issuance to
the Lenders of 175,316 unregistered and restricted shares of the Companys common stock.
Accordingly, the aggregate number of unregistered and restricted shares of the Companys
common stock issued in connection with, and as a result of the conversion of, the Loan was 571,414
shares. The Company will have no obligation to file any registration statement with respect to the
shares, except that the Lenders will have customary piggyback registration rights.
6. Related Party Transactions
Pursuant to a clinical registry supply agreement entered into in August 2007 with BHK, Inc.,
the Company received an upfront payment of $103,000. As of December 31, 2007, the Company had not
completed all of the cell-culturing services required by the agreement. Based on the amount of
cell-culturing services completed as of December 31, 2007, the Company recorded $82,000 of the
upfront payment as deferred revenue at December 31, 2007. Of this amount, $61,500 was recognized as
revenue in the three months ended March 31, 2008 upon completion of additional cell-culturing
services. In February 2005, the Company entered into a joint venture agreement with Bioheart Korea,
Inc., BHKs predecessor entity, pursuant to which the Company and BHK agreed to create a joint
venture company now known as Bioheart Manufacturing, Inc. As of December 31, 2008, the Company
owned an 18% equity interest in Bioheart Manufacturing, Inc. In February 2009, the Companys
ownership interest in Bioheart Manufacturing, Inc. was reduced from 18% to approximately 6% as a
result of an investment in Bioheart Manufacturing, Inc. by a third party.
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(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
As discussed in Note 5, the Companys Chairman and his spouse had provided collateral to
guarantee the Bank of America loan. In March 2009, these individuals repaid $3.0 million of
principal and a pro rata portion of accrued interest on behalf of the Company. The Company now owes
this $3.0 million to the Companys Chairman and his spouse. This liability is reflected on the
Companys consolidated balance sheet on a separate line titled Subordinated related party loan.
This amount will also accrue interest at an annual rate of the prime rate plus 5.0%.
A cousin of the Companys Chairman is an officer of the Company. The amounts paid to this
individual as salary for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2009 and 2008 were $25,000 and
$32,500, respectively. In addition, the Company utilized a printing entity controlled by this
individual and paid this entity $0 and $2,780 for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2009 and
2008, respectively.
The sister-in-law of the Companys Chairman is an officer of the Company. The amounts paid to
this individual as salary for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2009 and 2008 were $16,600
and $21,500, respectively.
The son of one of the Companys directors was an officer of the Company during 2008 until the
termination of his employment in July 2008. The amount paid to this individual as salary for the
three-month period ended March 31, 2008 was $32,500.
7. Shareholders Equity
As further discussed in Note 1, on February 22, 2008 the Company completed its IPO pursuant to
which it sold 1,100,000 shares of common stock at a price per share of $5.25 for net proceeds of
approximately $1.45 million after deducting underwriter discounts of approximately $400,000 and
offering costs of approximately $3.92 million. The Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the
quarter ended March 31, 2008 reflects the Companys receipt of approximately $4.27 million of
Proceeds from (payments for) initial public offering of common stock, net. The $4.27 million
cash proceeds figure is approximately $2.82 million higher than the $1.45 million net proceeds
figure identified above due to payment of $2.82 million of various offering expenses prior to
January 1, 2008.
8. Stock Options and Warrants
Stock Options
In July 2008, the Board of Directors approved, subject to shareholder approval, the
establishment of the Bioheart Omnibus Equity Compensation Plan (the Omnibus Plan). The
establishment of the Omnibus Plan was approved by the Companys shareholders at the Annual Meeting
of Shareholders held on July 30, 2008. Pursuant to the Omnibus Plan, the Company may grant
restricted stock, incentive stock options, non-statutory stock options, stock appreciation rights,
deferred stock, stock awards, performance shares, and other stock-based awards consisting of cash,
restricted stock or unrestricted stock in various combinations to the Companys employees,
directors and consultants. 5,000,000 shares of common stock have been reserved for issuance under
the Omnibus Plan. As of March 31, 2009, no instruments had been issued under the Omnibus Plan.
In December 1999, the Company adopted two stock option plans; an employee stock option plan
and a directors and consultants stock option plan (collectively referred to as the Stock Option
Plans), under which a total of 1,235,559 shares of common stock were reserved for issuance upon
exercise of options granted by the Company. In 2001, the Company amended the Stock Option Plans to
increase the total shares of common
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(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
stock reserved for issuance to 1,698,894. In 2003, the Company approved an increase of 308,890
shares, making the total 2,007,784 shares available for issuance under the Stock Option Plans. In
2006, the Company approved an increase of 1,081,114 shares, making the total 3,088,898 shares
available for issuance under the Stock Option Plans. The Stock Option Plans provide for the
granting of incentive and non-qualified options. The terms of stock options granted under the Stock
Option Plans are determined by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors at the time of
grant, including the exercise price, vesting provisions and contractual term of such options. The
exercise price of incentive stock options must equal at least the fair value of the common stock on
the date of grant, and the exercise price of non-qualified stock options may be no less than the
per share par value. The options have terms of up to ten years after the date of grant and become
exercisable as determined upon grant, typically over either three or four year periods from the
date of grant. Certain outstanding options vested over a one-year period and some vested
immediately. As of March 31, 2009, 567,430 shares remain available for issuance under the Stock
Option Plans.
A summary of options at March 31, 2009 and activity during the three-month period then ended
is presented below:
Weighted- | ||||||||||||||||
Weighted- | Average | |||||||||||||||
Average | Remaining | Aggregate | ||||||||||||||
Exercise | Contractual | Intrinsic | ||||||||||||||
Shares | Price | Term (in years) | Value (1) | |||||||||||||
Options outstanding at January 1, 2009 |
2,279,619 | $ | 5.11 | |||||||||||||
Granted |
350,374 | $ | 0.73 | |||||||||||||
Exercised |
(40,000 | ) | $ | 0.80 | ||||||||||||
Forfeited |
(203,471 | ) | $ | 5.58 | ||||||||||||
Options outstanding at March 31, 2009 |
2,386,522 | $ | 4.49 | 5.3 | $ | | ||||||||||
Options exercisable at March 31, 2009 |
1,982,839 | $ | 5.02 | 4.4 | $ | | ||||||||||
Available for grant at March 31, 2009 |
5,567,430 | |||||||||||||||
(1) | The aggregate intrinsic value represents the amount by which the fair market value of the Companys common stock exceeds the exercise price of options at March 31, 2009. At March 31, 2009, the exercise price of all options was less than the fair market value of the Companys common stock. |
The weighted average fair value of options granted in the three-month periods ended March 31,
2009 and 2008 was $0.46 and $3.34 per share, respectively. The total intrinsic value of options
exercised in the three-month period ended March 31, 2009 was $6,000. There were no options
exercised in the three-month period ended March 31, 2008.
For the three month period ended March 31, 2009, the Company recognized a net reversal of
$95,047 in stock-based compensation. This amount consisted of $25,387 in stock-based compensation
that was included in research and development expenses, which was offset by a net reversal of
$120,434 of previously recognized stock-based compensation that was included in marketing, general
and administrative expenses. For the three-month period ended March 31, 2008, the Company
recognized $212,415 in stock-based compensation costs of which approximately $46,894 represented
research and development expense and the remaining amount was marketing, general and administrative
expense. No tax benefits were attributed to the stock-based compensation expense because a
valuation allowance was maintained for all net deferred tax
assets. The Company elected to adopt the alternative method of calculating the historical pool
of windfall tax benefits as permitted by FSP No. SFAS 123R-c, Transition Election Related to
Accounting for the Tax Effects of Share-Based Payment Awards. This is a simplified method to
determine the pool of windfall tax benefits
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(A development stage enterprise)
(A development stage enterprise)
Notes to Consolidated Interim Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
that is used in determining the tax effects of stock compensation in the results of operations and
cash flow reporting for awards that were outstanding as of the adoption of SFAS No. 123R. At March
31, 2009, the Company had approximately $370,000 of unrecognized compensation costs related to
non-vested options that is expected to be recognized over the next three years.
The following information applies to options outstanding and exercisable at March 31, 2009:
Options Outstanding | Options Exercisable | |||||||||||||||||||
Weighted- | ||||||||||||||||||||
Average | Weighted- | Weighted- | ||||||||||||||||||
Remaining | Average | Average | ||||||||||||||||||
Contractual | Exercise | Exercise | ||||||||||||||||||
Shares | Term | Price | Shares | Price | ||||||||||||||||
$0.71 $1.28 |
640,568 | 5.6 | $ | 1.02 | 314,552 | $ | 1.23 | |||||||||||||
$2.83 $4.11 |
51,701 | 2.5 | $ | 3.08 | 41,701 | $ | 2.83 | |||||||||||||
$5.25 $5.67 |
1,531,190 | 5.3 | $ | 5.60 | 1,495,796 | $ | 5.61 | |||||||||||||
$7.69 |
59,529 | 6.5 | $ | 7.69 | 48,151 | $ | 7.69 | |||||||||||||
$8.47 |
103,534 | 3.6 | $ | 8.47 | 82,639 | $ | 8.47 | |||||||||||||
2,386,522 | 5.3 | $ | 4.49 | 1,982,839 | $ | 5.02 | ||||||||||||||
The Company uses the Black-Scholes valuation model to determine the fair value of options on
the date of grant. This model derives the fair value of options based on certain assumptions
related to expected stock price volatility, expected option life, risk-free interest rates and
dividend yield. The Companys expected volatility is based on the historical volatility of other
publicly traded development stage companies in the same industry. Prior to January 1, 2008, the
Company estimated the expected term for stock option grants by review of similar data from a peer
group of companies. The Company adopted SAB 110 effective January 1, 2008 and will apply the
simplified method in SAB 107 until enough historical experience is readily available to provide a
reasonable estimate of the expected term for stock option grants. The risk-free interest rate
assumption is based upon the U.S. Treasury yield curve appropriate for the term of the expected
life of the options.
For the three-month periods ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, the fair value of each option grant
was estimated on the date of grant using the following weighted-average assumptions.
For the three-month | ||||||||
periods ended March 31, | ||||||||
2009 | 2008 | |||||||
Expected dividend yield |
00.0 | % | 00.0 | % | ||||
Expected price volatility |
75.0 | % | 100.0 | % | ||||
Risk free interest rate |
2.0 | % | 3.0 | % | ||||
Expected life of options in years |
5.5 | 6.25 |
Stock Warrants
The Company does not have a formal plan in place for the issuance of stock warrants. However,
at times, the Company will issue warrants to non-employees or in connection with financing
transactions. The exercise price, vesting period, and term of these warrants is determined by the
Companys Board of Directors at the time of issuance. A summary of warrants at March 31, 2009 and
activity during the three-month period then ended is presented below:
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(A development stage enterprise)
(A development stage enterprise)
Notes to Consolidated Interim Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
Weighted- | ||||||||||||||||
Average | ||||||||||||||||
Weighted- | Remaining | |||||||||||||||
Average | Contractual | Aggregate | ||||||||||||||
Exercise | Term | Intrinsic | ||||||||||||||
Shares | Price | (in years) | Value | |||||||||||||
Outstanding at January 1, 2009 |
2,951,018 | $ | 6.65 | |||||||||||||
Issued |
| | ||||||||||||||
Exercised |
| | ||||||||||||||
Forfeited |
| | ||||||||||||||
Outstanding at March 31, 2009 |
2,951,018 | $ | 6.65 | 12.1 | $ | | ||||||||||
Exercisable at March 31, 2009 |
1,003,159 | $ | 6.87 | 7.1 | $ | | ||||||||||
In the three-month period ended March 31, 2008, the Company issued a warrant to purchase
77,000 shares of its common stock to the representative of the several underwriters of the
Companys IPO, as discussed in Note 1.
For the three-month periods ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, no warrants were issued in
transactions that resulted in the recognition of expense. When warrants are issued in transactions
that require the recognition of expense, the Company uses the Black-Scholes valuation model to
determine the fair value of warrants on the date of issuance. The Companys expected volatility is
based on the historical volatility of other publicly traded development stage companies in the same
industry. The expected life of the warrants is based primarily on the contractual life of the
warrants. The risk-free interest rate assumption is based upon the U.S. Treasury yield curve
appropriate for the term of the expected life of the warrants.
The following information applies to warrants outstanding and exercisable at March 31, 2009:
Warrants Outstanding | Warrants Exercisable | |||||||||||||||||||
Weighted- | ||||||||||||||||||||
Average | Weighted- | Weighted- | ||||||||||||||||||
Remaining | Average | Average | ||||||||||||||||||
Contractual | Exercise | Exercise | ||||||||||||||||||
Shares | Term | Price | Shares | Price | ||||||||||||||||
$1.09 |
5,000 | 4.7 | $ | 1.09 | | $ | | |||||||||||||
$1.90 $2.60 |
393,409 | 2.5 | $ | 2.08 | | $ | | |||||||||||||
$3.60 $4.93 |
105,000 | 4.4 | $ | 4.87 | 100,000 | $ | 4.93 | |||||||||||||
$5.67 $7.69 |
2,447,609 | 14.0 | $ | 7.47 | 903,159 | $ | 7.09 | |||||||||||||
2,951,018 | 12.1 | $ | 6.65 | 1,003,159 | $ | 6.87 | ||||||||||||||
Between April 1, 2009 and May 8, 2009, the Company issued warrants to purchase an aggregate of
2,150,211 shares of its common stock at a weighted average exercise price of $0.54 per share. These
warrants consisted of the following:
| a warrant to purchase 1,315,542 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.53. This warrant was issued in connection with the BlueCrest Loan Amendment discussed in Note 5. The warrant vested immediately upon issuance and expires on the tenth anniversary of the issuance date. | ||
| a warrant to purchase 451,043 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.53. This warrant was issued in connection with the BlueCrest Loan Amendment discussed in Note 5. The warrant vested immediately upon issuance and expires on the tenth anniversary of the issuance date. |
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(A development stage enterprise)
(A development stage enterprise)
Notes to Consolidated Interim Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
| a warrant to purchase 173,638 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.53. This warrant was issued in connection with the BlueCrest Loan Amendment discussed in Note 5. The warrant vested immediately upon issuance and expires on the tenth anniversary of the issuance date. | ||
| a warrant to purchase 183,672 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.59. This warrant was issued in connection with the private placement discussed in Note 11. The warrant vests six months following issuance and expires on the third year anniversary of the date of issuance. | ||
| a warrant to purchase 26,316 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.68. This warrant was issued in connection with the private placement discussed in Note 11. The warrant vests six months following issuance and expires on the third year anniversary of the date of issuance. |
9. Legal Proceedings
On March 13, 2009, Judge Bernice Bouie Donald of the United States District Court for the
Western District of Tennessee issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order in litigation brought against
Bioheart by Dr. Peter K. Law and Cell Transplants Asia Limited (CTAL) (collectively, the
Plaintiffs), captioned Peter K. Law, et al. v. Bioheart, Inc., No. 2:07-cv-2177 (the Action).
The Action, which has been the subject of previous disclosures by the Company, was commenced on
March 9, 2007, and asserted claims against the Company and Howard J. Leonhardt, individually, with
respect to a license agreement entered into between Bioheart, Inc. and Cell Transplants
International, LLC (CTI) on February 7, 2000 (the Original License Agreement). Pursuant to the
Original License Agreement, among other things, CTI granted the Company a license to certain
patents related to heart muscle regeneration and angiogenesis for the life of the patents. In
July 2000, Bioheart and CTI, together with Dr. Law, executed an addendum to the Original License
Agreement, which amended or superseded a number of the terms of the Original License Agreement (the
License Addendum).
In their amended complaint, Dr. Law and CTAL asserted 14 breach of contract and related claims
pertaining to the Original License Agreement and License Addendum, including, among others, claims
that the Company had breached obligations to provide shares of Bioheart common stock to Dr. Law,
pay royalties on gross sales of MyoCell, pay a $3 million milestone payment due upon Biohearts
commencement of a bona fide Phase II human clinical trial study that utilizes technology claimed
under U.S. Patent No. 5,130,141 with FDA approval in the United States, and to refrain from
sublicensing Plaintiffs patents. Plaintiffs also sought a declaratory judgment that the License
Addendum was unenforceable due to a lack of consideration and/or economic duress. At the outset of
the Action, the individual claim against Mr. Leonhardt was dismissed along with Plaintiffs claim
for civil conspiracy, leaving 12 claims to be adjudicated.
The Company denied the material allegations of the amended complaint, denied it had any
liability to Plaintiffs, and asserted a number of defenses to Plaintiffs claims, as well as
counterclaims seeking a declaration that the License Addendum was a legally valid and binding
agreement and asserting that Dr. Law and/or CTI had breached various obligations in the parties
agreements.
Following the completion of discovery, the Action was tried to the Court, without a jury, from
September 22-25, 2008.
On March 13, 2009, the Court rendered its decision in the Action, dismissing the amended
complaint after finding that Plaintiffs had failed to establish any of their 12 remaining claims. With respect to Plaintiffs claim
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(A development stage enterprise)
(A development stage enterprise)
Notes to Consolidated Interim Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
for the $3 million milestone payment, the Court found that the
payment was payable only to CTI, not the Plaintiffs, and that CTI, a dissolved Tennessee limited
liability company, had never been made a party to the Action and therefore was not properly before
the Court. The Court also found that, even assuming Plaintiffs could assert a claim for the
milestone payment on behalf of CTI, the payment was not due because Biohearts MyoCell process
does not utilize technology claimed under the 141 patent. In addition, the Court found that
Bioheart owed no royalties because it has not yet made any gross sales of MyoCell.
The Court found in Biohearts favor on its counterclaim seeking a declaration that the License
Addendum was a valid and enforceable agreement and its counterclaim that Dr. Law breached his
obligation under the License Addendum to provide Bioheart with all pertinent and critical
information related to our filing of an IND application with the FDA. The Court awarded Bioheart
nominal damages of $1.00 on the latter counterclaim, and dismissed Biohearts other counterclaims.
Judgment upon the Memorandum Opinion and Order was entered on March 18, 2009.
Subsequent to the Court rendering its decision in the Action, the Plaintiffs filed a motion
with the Court seeking reconsideration of its decision. The Companys response was filed on April
20, 2009, and the Courts decision is pending. The parties will have 30 days from entry of a
decision on Plaintiffs motion for reconsideration to file a notice of appeal with the United
States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
There is a risk that the Court may find in favor of the Plaintiffs upon reconsideration or
appeal. The Companys current cash reserves are not sufficient to satisfy a significant money
judgment in favor of the Plaintiffs. The entry of such a judgment would also likely constitute a
default under the BlueCrest Loan and Bank of America Loan and have a significant adverse impact on
the Companys financial condition, results of operations and MyoCell commercialization efforts.
Due to the uncertainty related to these proceedings, any potential loss cannot presently be
determined.
As previously disclosed, on October 24, 2007, the Company completed the MyoCell implantation
procedure on the first patient in its MARVEL Trial. As a result of the claim set forth in the
litigation discussed above, the Company recorded an accrual for $3 million in the fourth quarter of
2007, which was included in accrued expenses as of March 31, 2009 and December 31, 2008.
Other
The Company is subject to other legal proceedings that arise in the ordinary course of
business. In the opinion of management, as of March 31, 2009, the amount of ultimate liability with
respect to such matters, if any, in excess of applicable insurance coverage, is not likely to have
a material impact on the Companys business, financial position, results of operations or
liquidity. However, as the outcome of litigation and other claims is difficult to predict,
significant changes in the estimated exposures could occur.
10. Contingency
The Company believes that it may have issued options to purchase common stock to certain of
its employees, directors and consultants in California in violation of the registration or
qualification provisions of applicable California securities laws. As a result, the Company intends
to make a rescission offer to these persons. The Company will make this offer to all persons who
have a continuing right to rescission, which it believes to include two persons. In the rescission
offer, in accordance with California law, the Company will offer to repurchase all unexercised
options issued to these persons at 77% of the option exercise price multiplied by the number of
option shares, plus interest at the rate of 7% from the date the options were
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(A development stage enterprise)
(A development stage enterprise)
Notes to Consolidated Interim Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
(Unaudited)
granted. Based upon the number of options that were subject to rescission as of March 31,
2009, assuming that all such options are tendered in the rescission offer, the Company estimated
that its total rescission liability would be up to approximately $377,000 However, as the Company
believes there is only a remote likelihood the rescission offer will be accepted by any of these
persons in an amount that would result in a material expenditure by the Company, no liability was
recorded as of March 31, 2009 or December 31, 2008.
11. Subsequent Events
Private Placement Common Stock and Warrants
In April 2009, the Company sold, in a private placement, an aggregate of 612,240 shares of the
Companys common stock and warrants to purchase 183,672 shares of the Companys common stock for
aggregate gross cash proceeds of $300,000. The warrants are (i) exercisable solely for cash at an
exercise price of $0.59 per share, (ii) non-transferable for six months following issuance and
(iii) exercisable, in whole or in part, at any time during the period commencing on the date that
is six months and one day following the date of issuance and ending on the third year anniversary
of the date of issuance.
In May 2009, the Company sold, in a private placement, an aggregate of 202,940 shares of the
Companys common stock and warrants to purchase 60,882 shares of the Companys common stock for
aggregate gross cash proceeds of $138,000. The warrants are (i) exercisable solely for cash at an
exercise price of $0.82 per share, (ii) non-transferable for six months following issuance and
(iii) exercisable, in whole or in part, at any time during the period commencing on the date that
is six months and one day following the date of issuance and ending on the third year anniversary
of the date of issuance.
In May 2009, the Company made the decision to partition the MARVEL Study into 2 stages:
MARVEL-1 and MARVEL-2. MARVEL-1 will consist of the first 20 treated patients, enrolled-to-date.
We currently anticipate that we will file with the FDA an amendment to the clinical protocol for
the MARVEL-2 Trial by the end of June 2009 to, among other things, seek to use, as part of the
patient protocol, mobile cardiac telemetry monitor recorders.
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Item 2. Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Unless otherwise indicated, references in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q to we, us
and our are to the Company. The following discussion and analysis by our management of our
financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our unaudited
consolidated interim financial statements and the accompanying related notes included in this
quarterly report and our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes and
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations included in
our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, as amended by Amendment No. 1
on Form 10-K/A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This report may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), and we intend that such forward-looking
statements be subject to the safe harbors created thereby. These forward-looking statements are
based on our managements beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to our
management. Any such forward-looking statements would be contained principally in Managements
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and Risk Factors.
Forward-looking statements include information concerning our possible or assumed future results of
operations, business strategies, financing plans, competitive position, industry environment,
potential growth opportunities and the effects of regulation. Forward-looking statements include
all statements that are not historical facts and can be identified by terms such as anticipates,
believes, could, estimates, expects, hopes, intends, may, plans, potential,
predicts, projects, should, will, would or similar expressions.
The forward-looking statements in this report may include, among other things, statements
about:
| our ability to obtain additional financing; | ||
| our ability to control and reduce our expenses; | ||
| our ability to meet our obligations on our outstanding indebtedness, certain of which indebtedness imposes restrictions on how we conduct our business and is secured by all of our assets except our intellectual property; | ||
| our ability to timely and successfully initiate and complete our clinical trials; | ||
| our estimates regarding future revenues and timing thereof, expenses, capital requirements and needs for additional financing; | ||
| our ongoing and planned discovery programs, preclinical studies and additional clinical trials; and | ||
| the timing of and our ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approvals for our product candidates; |
Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors
which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any
future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.
We discuss certain of these risks in greater detail in Part II, Item 1A. Risk Factors. Given
these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Also,
forward-looking statements represent our managements beliefs and assumptions only as of the date
of this report. You should read this report and the documents that we reference in this report and
have filed as exhibits to the report completely and with the understanding that our actual future
results may be materially different from what we expect. Except as required by law, we assume no
obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual
results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if
new information becomes available in the future.
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Additional information concerning these and other risks and uncertainties is contained in our
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the section entitled Risk Factors
in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, as amended by Amendment No.
1 on Form 10-K/A.
Our Ability To Continue as a Going Concern
Our independent registered public accounting firm issued its report dated April 7, 2009 in
connection with the audit of our consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2008 that
included an explanatory paragraph describing the existence of conditions that raise substantial
doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. Our consolidated financial statements as
of March 31, 2009 have been prepared under the assumption that we will continue as a going concern.
If we are not able to continue as a going concern, it is likely that holders of our common stock
will lose all of their investment. Our consolidated financial statements do not include any
adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
Overview
We are committed to delivering intelligent devices and biologics that help monitor, diagnose
and treat heart failure and cardiovascular diseases. Our goals are to improve a patients quality
of life and reduce health care costs and hospitalizations.
Biotechnology Product Candidates
Specific to biotechnology, we are focused on the discovery, development and, subject to
regulatory approval, commercialization of autologous cell therapies for the treatment of chronic
and acute heart damage. Our MyoCell product candidate is an innovative clinical muscle-derived cell
therapy designed to populate regions of scar tissue within a patients heart with new living cells
for the purpose of improving cardiac function in chronic heart failure patients. Our most recent
clinical trials of MyoCell include the SEISMIC Trial, a completed 40-patient, randomized,
multicenter, controlled, Phase II-a study conducted in Europe and the MYOHEART Trial, a completed
20-patient, multicenter, Phase I dose-escalation trial conducted in the United States. We have been
cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the FDA) to proceed with a 330-patient,
multicenter Phase II/III trial of MyoCell in North America and Europe (the MARVEL Trial). We
completed the MyoCell implantation procedure on the first patient in the MARVEL Trial on October
24, 2007. If the results of the MARVEL Trial demonstrate statistically significant evidence of the
safety and efficacy of MyoCell, we anticipate having a basis to ask the FDA to consider the MARVEL
Trial a pivotal trial. The SEISMIC, MYOHEART and MARVEL Trials have been designed to test the
safety and efficacy of MyoCell in treating patients with severe, chronic damage to the heart. Upon
regulatory approval of MyoCell, we intend to generate revenue from the sale of MyoCell
cell-culturing services for treatment of patients by interventional cardiologists.
We are currently in the process of evaluating our development timeline for MyoCell and the
MARVEL Trial. To date, approximately 50 patients have been enrolled in the MARVEL Trial. We
currently anticipate that we will file with the FDA an amendment to the clinical protocol for the
MARVEL Trial by the end of June 2009 to, among other things, seek to use, as part of the patient
protocol, mobile cardiac telemetry monitor recorders. Provided that the protocol amendment is
approved by the end of July 2009 and we are able to secure $5.0 million of additional capital by
the end of June 2009, we currently intend to seek to enroll and treat approximately 150 patients in
the MARVEL Trial by the end of the fourth quarter of 2009. If we meet that timeline, we would
expect interim trial data for these 150 patients to be available in the second quarter of 2010. If
we are unable to secure additional capital by the end of June 2009, we expect to explore our
strategic options, including potentially suspending or slowing down enrollment in the MARVEL Trial.
As part of this evaluation process, we expect that we would analyze whether to focus resources
towards the development, commercialization and/or distribution of certain of our other product
candidates, including, but not limited to MyoCell® SDF-1, a therapy utilizing autologous cells
genetically modified to express additional potentially
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therapeutic growth proteins and certain
intelligent devices. In the event we make a determination to suspend
or slow enrollment in the MARVEL Trial, we anticipate that we would continue to use our
resources, to the extent available, to collect follow-up data on the patients treated to date in
the MARVEL Trial.
In our pipeline, we have multiple product candidates for the treatment of heart damage,
including Bioheart Acute Cell Therapy, an autologous, adipose cell treatment for acute heart damage
designed to be used in connection with the TGI 1200 tissue processing system, and MyoCell® SDF-1.
Tissue Genesis, Inc., the entity from whom we have obtained the worldwide right to sell or lease
the TGI 1200 announced on November 13, 2008 that the TGI 1200 had been certified with a CE
Marking, thus making the system available throughout the European marketplace. Additionally, Tissue
Genesis has been seeking 510(k) approval of the TGI 1200 for laboratory use from the FDA. Tissue
Genesis was recently informed by the FDA that it does not believe the use of the TGI 1200 as a
laboratory device is eligible for the 510(k) regulatory pathway. We understand that Tissue Genesis
is in the process of evaluating the regulatory pathway that should be pursued for the TGI 1200
device. We hope to demonstrate that our various product candidates are safe and effective
complements to existing therapies for chronic and acute heart damage.
Intelligent Devices Distribution Agreements
Effective as of October 30, 2008, we entered into a distribution agreement with Monebo
Technologies, Inc. (Monebo) pursuant to which we were granted non-exclusive rights to distribute
Monebos CardioBelt system throughout North America and Western Europe. This system provides ECG
monitoring to heart patients from the comfort of their own home. We are required to meet certain
annual minimum purchase commitments under the distribution agreement. The agreement has an initial
term of two years and is subject to automatic renewal for additional one-year periods unless either
party indicates an intent to terminate the agreement prior to the end of the then current term.
The distribution agreement may be terminated by either party upon 180 days notice for any reason or
by either party immediately upon the other partys uncured default. In addition, Monebo may
terminate the agreement in the event we do not satisfy our annual minimum purchase commitment. We
intend to commence distribution of the CardioBelt system during 2009.
In connection with the distribution agreement, we also entered into a Master Software License
Agreement with Monebo pursuant to which Monebo granted us a non-exclusive, non-sublicensable,
non-transferable license to certain software and algorithms to be used in connection with the
CardioBelt system. We paid Monebo an upfront cash fee for this license and will be required to
pay certain additional fees upon installation. We will also be required to pay to Monebo royalty
fees per patient and software maintenance fees.
Effective as of April 3, 2008, we entered into a distribution agreement with RTX Healthcare
A/S (Denmark) (RTX) pursuant to which we secured worldwide, non-exclusive distribution rights to
the Bioheart 3370 Heart Failure Monitor, an interactive and simple-to-use at-home intelligent
device designed specifically to improve available healthcare to patients outside hospitals who are
suffering from heart failure. The device, manufactured by RTX, has 510(k) market clearance from the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration for marketing in the United States and CE mark approval for
marketing in Europe and other countries that follow this mark. The compact Bioheart 3370 Heart
Failure Monitor engages patients through personalized daily interactions and questions, while
collecting vital signs and transmitting the information directly into a database. The data are
regularly monitored by a remotely located medical professional, who watches for any abnormal
readings that may signal a change in the patients health status. These changes are reported back
to the treating physician. We do not have any minimum purchase commitment under the agreement.
However, the per unit purchase price payable by us is inversely related to the number of units we
purchase per annum. The distribution agreement has an initial term of two years and is subject to
automatic renewal for additional one-year periods unless either party indicates an intent to
terminate the agreement prior to the end of the then current term. The distribution agreement may
be terminated by either party upon the other partys default.
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We conduct operations in one business segment. We may organize our business into more discrete
business units when and if we generate significant revenue from the sale of our product candidates.
Substantially all of our revenue since inception has been generated in the United States, and
the majority of our long-lived assets are located in the United States.
Critical Accounting Policies
Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations is based upon
our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States. The preparation of these financial statements
requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets,
liabilities, revenues and expenses. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various
other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which
form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are
not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under
different assumptions or conditions. We believe the following policies are important to
understanding and evaluating our reported financial results:
Share-Based Compensation
On January 1, 2006, we adopted the provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
No. 123R, Share-Based Payment (SFAS No. 123R) using the modified prospective transition method.
SFAS No. 123R requires us to measure all share-based payment awards granted after January 1, 2006,
including those with employees, at fair value. Under SFAS No. 123R, the fair value of stock options
and other share-based compensation must be recognized as expense in the statements of operations
over the requisite service period of each award.
The fair value of share-based awards granted subsequent to January 1, 2006 is determined using
the Black-Scholes valuation model and compensation expense is recognized on a straight-line basis
over the vesting period of the awards. Beginning January 1, 2006, we also began recognizing
compensation expense under SFAS No. 123R for the unvested portions of outstanding share-based
awards previously granted under our stock option plans, over the periods these awards continue to
vest. Our future share-based compensation expense will depend on the number of equity instruments
granted and the estimated value of the underlying common stock at the date of grant.
We account for certain share-based awards, including warrants, with non-employees in
accordance with SFAS No. 123R and related guidance, including EITF Issue No. 96-18, Accounting for
Equity Instruments That Are Issued to Other Than Employees for Acquiring, or in Conjunction with
Selling Goods or Services. We estimate the fair value of such awards using the Black-Scholes
valuation model at each reporting period and expense the fair value over the vesting period of the
share-based award, which is generally the period in which services are provided.
Revenue Recognition
Since inception, we have not generated any material revenues from our lead product candidate.
In accordance with Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 101, Revenue Recognition in Financial Statements,
as amended by SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 104, Revenue Recognition, our revenue policy is to
recognize revenues from product sales and service transactions generally when persuasive evidence
of an arrangement exists, the price is fixed or determined, collection is reasonably assured and
delivery of product or service has occurred.
We initially recorded payments received by us pursuant to our agreements with Advanced
Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. (ACS), originally a subsidiary of Guidant Corporation and now d/b/a
Abbott Vascular, a
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division of Abbott Laboratories, as deferred revenue. Revenues are recognized on a pro rata
basis as the catheters are delivered pursuant to those agreements.
We initially recorded payments received by us pursuant to a clinical supply agreement entered
into in August 2007 with BHK, Inc. (BHK) as deferred revenue. Revenues are recognized on a pro
rata basis as the cell-culturing services are provided and are shown in development revenues. The
costs associated with earning these revenues are expensed as incurred and are included in research
and development expenses in our statements of operations. In February 2005, we entered into a joint
venture agreement with Bioheart Korea, Inc., BHKs predecessor entity, pursuant to which we and BHK
agreed to create a joint venture company now known as Bioheart Manufacturing, Inc. As of December
31, 2008, the Company owned an 18% equity interest in Bioheart Manufacturing, Inc. In February
2009, the Companys ownership interest in Bioheart Manufacturing, Inc. was reduced from 18% to
approximately 6% as a result of an investment in Bioheart Manufacturing, Inc. by a third party.
Research and Development Activities
Research and development expenditures, including payments to collaborative research partners,
are charged to expense as incurred. We expense amounts paid to obtain patents or acquire licenses
as the ultimate recoverability of the amounts paid is uncertain.
Results of Operations
We are a development stage company and our MyoCell product candidate has not received
regulatory approval or generated any material revenues and is not expected to until 2010, if ever.
We have generated substantial net losses and negative cash flow from operations since inception and
anticipate incurring significant net losses and negative cash flows from operations for the
foreseeable future as we continue clinical trials, undertake new clinical trials, apply for
regulatory approvals, make capital expenditures, add information systems and personnel, make
payments pursuant to our license agreements upon our achievement of certain milestones, continue
development of additional product candidates using our technology, establish sales and marketing
capabilities and incur the additional cost of operating as a public company.
Revenues
We recognized revenues of $109,000 in the three-month period ended March 31, 2009 compared to
revenues of $26,000 in the three-month period ended March 31, 2008. In both periods, all revenue
was generated from the shipment of MyoCath catheters to parties other than ACS.
Development Revenues
In the three-month period ended March 31, 2008, we recognized $61,500 in development revenues
from cell-culturing services provided pursuant to the clinical supply agreement entered with BHK,
Inc. No such revenues were recognized in the three-month period ended March 31, 2009.
Cost of Sales
Cost of sales was $49,000 in the three-month period ended March 31, 2009 compared to $3,000 in
the three months ended March 31, 2008. The cost per catheter sold in the three-month periods ended
March 31, 2009 and 2008 were approximately the same. However, a portion of the catheters sold in
2008 had no inventory cost as they had been written off in prior years.
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Research and Development
Research and development expenses were $626,000 for the three-month period ended March 31,
2009 compared to $1.4 million in the three-month period ended March 31, 2008, a decrease of
$732,000. The decrease was primarily attributable to a reduction in the amount of sponsored
research and a reduction in costs related to our SEISMIC, MYOHEART and MARVEL Trials.
The timing and amount of our planned research and development expenditures is dependent on our
ability to obtain additional financing.
Marketing, General and Administrative
Marketing, general and administrative expenses were $647,000 for the three-month period ended
in March 31, 2009, compared to $1.1 million in the three-month period ended March 31, 2008, a
decrease of $425,000. The decrease in marketing, general and administrative expenses is
attributable, to a decrease in stock-based compensation expense, salaries & wages, legal fees and
accounting fees.
Interest Income
Interest income consists of interest earned on our cash and cash equivalents. Interest income
was $10 in the three months ended March 31, 2009 compared to interest income of $34,000 in the
three-month period ended March 31, 2008. The decrease in interest income was primarily attributable
to lower cash balances in the three-month period ended March 31, 2009, compared to the three-month
period ended March 31, 2008.
Interest Expense
Interest expense primarily consists of interest incurred on the principal amount of the
BlueCrest and the Bank of America Loans, accrued fees and interest earned by the guarantors of the
Bank of America Loan, the amortization of related deferred loan costs and the amortization of the
fair value of warrants issued in connection with the BlueCrest and Bank of America Loans. The fair
value of the warrants originally issued in connection with the Bank of America Loan was amortized
by the end of January 2008. Our debt carries interest rates ranging from 4.75% to 13.50% as of
March 31, 2009.
Interest expense was $558,000 in the three-month period ended March 31, 2009 compared to
$933,000 in the three-month period ended March 31, 2008. Interest incurred on the principal amount
of our outstanding loans and interest and fees earned by the guarantors totaled $277,000 and
$315,000 in the three-month periods ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Amortization of
deferred loan costs and amortization of the fair value of warrants issued in connection with the
BlueCrest and Bank of America Loans totaled $77,000 and $616,000 in the three-month periods ended
March 31, 2009 and 2008. The three-month period ended March 31, 2009 also includes $200,000 of
interest expense related to the discount associated with the convertible debt issued and converted
during the period.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
In 2009, we continue to finance our considerable operational cash needs with cash generated
from financing activities.
Operating Activities
Net cash used in operating activities was $101,000 in the three months ended March 31, 2009 as
compared to $4.5 million of cash used in the three months ended March 31, 2008
Our use of cash for operations in the three months ended March 31, 2009 reflected a net loss
generated during the period of $1.8 million. However, our net loss was significantly offset by a
decrease in prepaid
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expenses and other current assets of $441,000, an increase in accounts payable
of $494,000 and an increases in
accrued expenses of $445,000. The decrease in prepaid expenses and other current assets was
due to the refund of upfront payments under an agreement with the contract research organization
that we are utilizing for the MARVEL Trial. Accounts payable increased as we have sought to
conserve cash until significant additional financing is obtained.
Our use of cash for operations in the three months ended March 31, 2008 reflected a net loss
generated during the period of $3.3 million and an increase in prepaid expenses and other current
assets of $2.5 million. The increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets was due to
upfront payments under an agreement with the contract research organization that we are utilizing
for the MARVEL Trial. Partially offsetting these uses of cash were amortization of the fair value
of warrants granted in connection with the BlueCrest Loan and Bank of America Loan of $457,000, an
increase in accrued expenses and deferred rent of $264,000, an increase in accounts payable of
$259,000, stock-based compensation of $212,000 and amortization of loan costs incurred in
connection with the BlueCrest Loan and Bank of America Loan of $159,000.
Investing Activities
No cash was used in investing activities in the three-month period ended March 31, 2009. Net
cash used in investing activities was $18,000 in the three-month period ended March 31, 2008. All
of the cash utilized in investing activities in the three-month period ended March 31, 2008 related
to our acquisition of property and equipment.
Financing Activities
Net cash provided by financing activities was $222,000 in the three-month period ended March
31, 2009 compared to $3.8 million in the three-month period ended March 31, 2008.
In the three-month period ended March 31, 2009, we received net proceeds of $190,000 in
connection with the issuance of convertible debt and shares of common stock. The lenders converted
the convertible debt to shares of common stock during the three-month period ended March 31, 2009.
In the three-month period ended March 31, 2009, we also received $32,000 from the exercise of stock
options.
On February 22, 2008 we completed our IPO of common stock pursuant to which we sold 1,100,000
shares of common stock at a price per share of $5.25 for net proceeds of $1.45 million. The
Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the three months period ended March 31, 2008 reflects our
receipt of approximately $4.27 million of Proceeds from initial public offering of common stock,
net. The $4.27 million cash proceeds figure is approximately $2.82 million higher than the $1.45
million IPO net proceeds figure identified above due to our payment of $2.82 million of various
offering expenses prior to January 1, 2008.
In the three-month period ended March 31, 2008, we repaid $398,000 of principal on the
BlueCrest Loan and paid $95,000 of costs incurred in connection with the extension of the maturity
date of the Bank of America Loan.
Existing Capital Resources and Future Capital Requirements
Our MyoCell product candidate has not received regulatory approval or generated any material
revenues. We do not expect to generate any material revenues or cash from sales of our MyoCell
product candidate until 2010, if ever. We have generated substantial net losses and negative cash
flow from operations since inception and anticipate incurring significant net losses and negative
cash flows from operations for the foreseeable future. Historically, we have relied on proceeds
from the sale of our common stock and our incurrence of debt to provide the funds necessary to
conduct our research and development activities and to meet our other cash needs.
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At March 31, 2009, we had cash and cash equivalents totaling $171,000; however, our working
capital deficit as of such date was $12.7 million. Our independent registered public accounting
firm issued its report dated April 7, 2009 in connection with the audit of our consolidated
financial statements as of December 31, 2008 that included an explanatory paragraph describing the
existence of conditions that raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going
concern.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We do not have any off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a
current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or
expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources that are
material to investors.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Refer to Note 1. Organization and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies in the notes to
our consolidated interim financial statements for a discussion of recent accounting pronouncements.
Effects of Being a Public Company
In October 2007, we became subject to the periodic reporting requirements of the Exchange Act
and the other rules and regulations of the SEC. We are also subject to various other regulatory
requirements, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
We continue to work with our legal and accounting advisors to identify those areas in which
changes should be made to our financial and management control systems to manage our growth and our
obligations as a public company. These areas include corporate governance, corporate control,
internal audit, disclosure controls and procedures and financial reporting and accounting systems.
We have made, and will continue to make, changes in these and other areas, including our internal
control over financial reporting.
In addition, compliance with reporting and other requirements applicable to public companies
will create additional costs for us and will require the time and attention of management. We
cannot estimate with reasonable certainty the amount of the additional costs we may incur, the
timing of such costs or the degree of impact that our managements attention to these matters will
have on our business.
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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Interest Rate Risk
Our primary market risk exposure with respect to interest rates is changes in short-term
interest rates in the U.S., particularly because certain of our debt arrangements represent
floating rate debt and we are subject to interest rate risk. We do not use any interest rate risk
management contracts to manage our fixed-to-floating ratio. The impact on our results of operations
from a hypothetical 10% change in interest rates would not be significant.
The majority of our investments are expected to be in short-term debt securities. The primary
objective of our investment activities is to preserve principal while at the same time maximizing
the income we receive without significantly increasing risk. To reduce risk, we maintain our cash
and cash equivalents in short-term interest-bearing instruments, including certificates of deposit
and overnight funds. We do not have any derivative financial investments in our investment
portfolio.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We have established disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that material information
relating to us is made known to the officer who certifies our financial reports, as well as to
other members of senior management and the Board of Directors.
We carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our
management, including our Principal Executive Officer, as well as our Principal Financial and
Accounting Officer, of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is
defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act as of the end of the period covered
by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Based on such evaluation, our Principal Executive Officer,
as well as our Principal Financial and Accounting Officer concluded that, as of March 31, 2009, our
disclosure controls and procedures were effective. The controls that management sought to identify
and evaluate were those processes designed by, or under the supervision of, the Companys principal
financial officer, or persons performing similar functions, and implemented by our board of
directors, management and other personnel, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the
reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external
purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and includes those policies
and procedures that:
(1) pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect
the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company;
(2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit
preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles,
and that receipts and expenditures of the issuer are being made only in accordance with
authorizations of management and directors of the Company; and
(3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized
acquisition, use or disposition of the issuers assets that could have a material effect on the
financial statements.
Inherent Limitations in Control Systems
Our controls and procedures were designed at the reasonable assurance level. However, because
of inherent limitations, any system of controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and
operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance of achieving the desired objectives
of the control system. In addition, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there
are resource constraints, and management must apply its judgment in evaluating the benefits of
controls relative to their costs. Further, no
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evaluation of controls and procedures can provide
absolute assurance that all errors, control issues and
instances of fraud will be prevented or detected. The design of any system of controls and
procedures is also based in part on certain assumptions regarding the likelihood of future events,
and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all
potential future conditions.
Changes In Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as such term is
defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the quarter ended March 31,
2009 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal
control over financial reporting. The Companys Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of
Financial Operations resigned during the quarter ended March 31, 2009. We have not yet determined
whether or not other internal controls over financial reporting will be sufficient so as to avoid
any material affect.
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PART II OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
On March 13, 2009, Judge Bernice Bouie Donald of the United States District Court for the
Western District of Tennessee issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order in litigation brought against
us by Dr. Peter K. Law and Cell Transplants Asia Limited (CTAL) (collectively, the Plaintiffs),
captioned Peter K. Law, et al. v. Bioheart, Inc., No. 2:07-cv-2177 (the Action). The Action,
which has been the subject of previous disclosures by us, was commenced on March 9, 2007, and
asserted claims against us and Howard J. Leonhardt, individually, with respect to a license
agreement entered into between Bioheart, Inc. and Cell Transplants International, LLC (CTI) on
February 7, 2000 (the Original License Agreement). Pursuant to the Original License Agreement,
among other things, CTI granted us a license to certain patents related to heart muscle
regeneration and angiogenesis for the life of the patents. In July 2000, we and CTI, together
with Dr. Law, executed an addendum to the Original License Agreement, which amended or superseded a
number of the terms of the Original License Agreement (the License Addendum).
In their amended complaint, Dr. Law and CTAL asserted 14 breach of contract and related claims
pertaining to the Original License Agreement and License Addendum, including, among others, claims
that we had breached obligations to provide shares of Bioheart common stock to Dr. Law, pay
royalties on gross sales of MyoCell, pay a $3 million milestone payment due upon our
commencement of a bona fide Phase II human clinical trial study that utilizes technology claimed
under U.S. Patent No. 5,130,141 with FDA approval in the United States, and to refrain from
sublicensing Plaintiffs patents. Plaintiffs also sought a declaratory judgment that the License
Addendum was unenforceable due to a lack of consideration and/or economic duress. At the outset of
the Action, the individual claim against Mr. Leonhardt was dismissed along with Plaintiffs claim
for civil conspiracy, leaving 12 claims to be adjudicated.
We denied the material allegations of the amended complaint, denied we had any liability to
Plaintiffs, and asserted a number of defenses to Plaintiffs claims, as well as counterclaims
seeking a declaration that the License Addendum was a legally valid and binding agreement and
asserting that Dr. Law and/or CTI had breached various obligations in the parties agreements.
Following the completion of discovery, the Action was tried to the Court, without a jury, from
September 22-25, 2008.
On March 13, 2009, the Court rendered its decision in the Action, dismissing the amended
complaint after finding that Plaintiffs had failed to establish any of their 12 remaining claims.
With respect to Plaintiffs claim for the $3 million milestone payment, the Court found that the
payment was payable only to CTI, not the Plaintiffs, and that CTI, a dissolved Tennessee limited
liability company, had never been made a party to the Action and therefore was not properly before
the Court. The Court also found that, even assuming Plaintiffs could assert a claim for the
milestone payment on behalf of CTI, the payment was not due because Biohearts MyoCell process
does not utilize technology claimed under the 141 patent. In addition, the Court found that we
owed no royalties because we have not yet made any gross sales of MyoCell.
The Court found in our favor on our counterclaim seeking a declaration that the License
Addendum was a valid and enforceable agreement and our counterclaim that Dr. Law breached his
obligation under the License Addendum to provide Bioheart with all pertinent and critical
information related to our filing of an IND application with the FDA. The Court awarded us nominal
damages of $1.00 on the latter counterclaim, and dismissed our other counterclaims. Judgment upon
the Memorandum Opinion and Order was entered on March 18, 2009.
Subsequent to the Court rendering its decision in the Action, the Plaintiffs filed a motion
with the Court seeking reconsideration of its decision. Our response was filed on April 20, 2009,
and the Courts decision is
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pending. The parties will have 30 days from entry of a decision on Plaintiffs motion for
reconsideration to file a notice of appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth
Circuit.
There is a risk that the Court may find in favor of the Plaintiffs upon reconsideration or
appeal. Our current cash reserves are not sufficient to satisfy a significant money judgment in
favor of the Plaintiffs. The entry of such a judgment would also likely constitute a default under
the BlueCrest Loan and Bank of America Loan and have a significant adverse impact on our financial
condition, results of operations and MyoCell commercialization efforts.
Due to the uncertainty related to these proceedings, any potential loss cannot presently be
determined.
As previously disclosed, on October 24, 2007, we completed the MyoCell implantation procedure
on the first patient in our MARVEL Trial. As a result of the claim set forth in the litigation
discussed above, we recorded an accrual for $3 million in the fourth quarter of 2007, which was
included in accrued expenses as of March 31, 2009 and December 31, 2008.
Except as described above, we are not presently engaged in any material litigation and are
unaware of any threatened material litigation. However, the biotechnology and medical device
industries have been characterized by extensive litigation regarding patents and other intellectual
property rights. In addition, from time to time, we may become involved in litigation relating to
claims arising from the ordinary course of our business.
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Item 1A. Risk Factors
Except as set forth below, there have been no material changes in our risk factors from those
disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, as amended
by Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-K/A.
The risks and uncertainties described below and disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, as amended by Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-K/A, are not
the only ones facing us. Other events that we do not currently anticipate or that we currently deem
immaterial also may affect our results of operations and financial condition. If any events
described in the risk factors actually occur, our business, operating results, prospects and
financial condition could be materially harmed. In connection with the forward-looking statements
that appear elsewhere in this quarterly report, you should also carefully review the cautionary
statement referred to under Part I. Item 2 Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking
Statements.
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Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
Private Placement Convertible Debt
In February 2009, Bruce Meyers and Robert Seguso (jointly, the Lenders) funded the remaining
$100,000 of a total $200,000 loan to the Company. The funds were delivered, net of original issue
discount in the amount of $10,000, pursuant to a terms sheet provided by Bruce Meyers, for a
convertible debt financing to be provided to the Company (the Loan). Although the terms sheet
provided that the Lenders would be provided a complete set of loan documentation, the Lenders
delivered to the Company the entire net proceeds of the Loan, in the amount of $190,000, in advance
of receiving any documentation. The initial funding of $100,000 was made to the Company on January
21, 2009. However, the Company determined that it would not proceed with the Loan unless and until
the Lenders funded the balance of the net proceeds which was completed on February 3, 2009 and
provided that the Board of Directors of the Company approved the Loan, which approval was obtained
on February 11, 2009.
The Loan was in the nature of convertible debt and was evidenced by an unsecured promissory
note (the Note), that was convertible into common stock of the Company at a price that was 22.5%
less than the average of the closing bid prices for the Companys shares for the five (5) days
prior to the Lenders election to exercise their conversion right under the Note. The Note was to
bear interest at the rate of 10% per annum, with interest payable due at maturity. The terms sheet
provides that all unpaid interest (and principal) will be due and payable on the date that is the
earlier to occur of the first anniversary of the closing date of the Loan or the closing of a
financing in an amount that is equal to or greater than $3 million that will satisfy the Companys
obligation under its loan with BlueCrest. However, the Lenders already elected to convert the
entire amount of the Loan to shares of the Companys common stock.
In addition to the Note, the Company issued to the Lenders 200,000 unregistered and restricted
shares of the Companys common stock. We believe that the offer and sale of the securities is made
only to accredited investors and, accordingly, is exempt from registration under Section 4(2) of
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Prior to funding the balance of the Loan, the Lenders delivered to the Company, on January 26,
2009, a notice electing to convert $100,000 of the Loan into shares of the Companys common stock.
The price per share for such election was $0.50995. This required the issuance to the Lenders of
196,098 unregistered and restricted shares of the Companys common stock.
On February 3, 2009, contemporaneously with the funding of the remainder of the Loan, the
Lenders delivered to the Company notice of their election to convert the remainder of the Loan into
shares of the Companys common stock at a price per share of $0.5704. This required the issuance to
the Lenders of 175,316 unregistered and restricted shares of the Companys common stock.
Accordingly, the aggregate number of unregistered and restricted shares of the Companys
common stock issued in connection with, and as a result of the conversion of, the Loan was 571,414
shares. The Company will have no obligation to file any registration statement with respect to the
shares, except that the Lenders will have customary piggyback registration rights.
Private Placement Common Stock and Warrants
In April 2009, the Company sold, in a private placement, an aggregate of 612,240 shares of the
Companys common stock and warrants to purchase 183,672 shares of the Companys common stock for
aggregate gross cash proceeds of $300,000. The warrants are (i) exercisable solely for cash at an
exercise price of $0.59 per share, (ii) non-transferable for six months following issuance and
(iii) exercisable, in whole
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or in part, at any time during the period commencing on the date that is six months and one
day following the date of issuance and ending on the third year anniversary of the date of
issuance.
In May 2009, the Company sold, in a private placement, an aggregate of 202,940 shares of the
Companys common stock and warrants to purchase 60,882 shares of the Companys common stock for aggregate gross cash proceeds of $138,000. The warrants are (i) exercisable
solely for cash at an exercise price of $0.82 per share, (ii) non-transferable for six months following issuance and (iii) exercisable, in whole or in part, at any time during the period
commencing on the date that is six months and one day following the date of issuance and ending on the third year anniversary of the date of issuance.
Item 5. Other Information
On October 15, 2008, we received notification from The NASDAQ Stock Market indicating that we
were not in compliance with certain of the NASDAQ Capital Market continued listing requirements,
including a minimum $35 million market value of our listed securities. We were permitted until
November 14, 2008, to regain compliance with the minimum market value of listed securities
requirement. On November 17, 2008, we received a NASDAQ Staff Determination indicating that we had
failed to regain compliance with the $35 million minimum market value of listed securities
requirement, and that our securities were, therefore, subject to delisting from The NASDAQ Capital
Market. We appealed the Staff Determination and requested a hearing before a NASDAQ Listing
Qualifications Panel (the Panel) to review the Staff Determination. This stayed the delisting of
our securities pending the Panels decision.
On February 25, 2009, we received notification from The NASDAQ Stock Market of its
determination to discontinue our NASDAQ listing effective February 27, 2009. On May 13, 2009, our
common stock was approved for quotation on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board.
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Item 6. Exhibits
Exhibit No. | Exhibit Description | |
3.1(6)
|
Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of the registrant, as amended | |
3.2(9)
|
Articles of Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation of the registrant | |
3.3(8)
|
Amended and Restated Bylaws | |
4.1(5)
|
Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of May 31, 2007 by and between BlueCrest Capital Finance, L.P. and the registrant | |
4.2(12)
|
Notice of Event of Default, from BlueCrest Venture Finance Master Fund Limited to the Company, dated January 28, 2009 | |
4.3(12)
|
Notice of Acceleration, from BlueCrest Venture Finance Master Fund Limited to the Company, dated February 2, 2009 | |
4.4(13)
|
Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, between the Company and BlueCrest Venture Finance Master Fund Limited, dated as of April 2, 2009 | |
4.5(13)
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Grant of Security Interest (Patents), between the Company and BlueCrest Venture Finance Master Fund Limited, dated as of April 2, 2009 | |
4.6(13)
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Security Agreement (Intellectual Property), between the Company and BlueCrest Venture Finance Master Fund Limited, dated as of April 2, 2009 | |
4.7(13)
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Subordination Agreement, by Hunton & Williams, LLP in favor of BlueCrest Venture Finance Master Fund Limited, entered into and effective April 2, 2009 | |
4.8(13)
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Amended and Restated Promissory Note, dated April 2, 2009, by the Company to BlueCrest Venture Finance Master Fund Limited | |
4.9(13)
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Warrant to purchase 1,315,542 shares of the registrants common stock, dated April 2, 2009, issued to BlueCrest Venture Finance Master Fund Limited | |
4.10(14)
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Warrant to purchase 451,043 shares of the registrants common stock, dated April 2, 2009, issued to Rogers Telecommunications Limited | |
4.11(14)
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Warrant to purchase 173,638 shares of the registrants common stock, dated April 2, 2009, issued to Hunton & Williams, LLP | |
10.1**(1)
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1999 Officers and Employees Stock Option Plan | |
10.2**(1)
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1999 Directors and Consultants Stock Option Plan | |
10.3(1)
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Form of Option Agreement under 1999 Officers and Employees Stock Option Plan | |
10.4(3)
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Form of Option Agreement under 1999 Directors and Consultants Stock Option Plan | |
10.5**(4)
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Employment Letter Agreement between the registrant and Scott Bromley, dated August 24, 2006. | |
10.6(1)
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Lease Agreement between the registrant and Sawgrass Business Plaza, LLC, as amended, dated November 14, 2006. | |
10.7(1)
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Asset Purchase Agreement between the registrant and Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc., dated June 24, 2003. | |
10.8(4)
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Conditionally Exclusive License Agreement between the registrant, Dr. Peter Law and Cell Transplants International, LLC, dated February 7, 2000, as amended. | |
10.9(4)
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Loan Guarantee, Payment and Security Agreement, dated as of June 1, 2007, by and between the registrant, Howard J. Leonhardt and Brenda Leonhardt | |
10.10(4)
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Loan Guarantee, Payment and Security Agreement, dated as of June 1, 2007, by and between the registrant and William P. Murphy Jr., M.D. | |
10.11(4)
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Loan Agreement, dated as of June 1, 2007, by and between the registrant and Bank of America, N.A. | |
10.12(4)
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Warrant to purchase shares of the registrants common stock issued to Howard J. Leonhardt and Brenda Leonhardt | |
10.13(4)
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Warrant to purchase shares of the registrants common stock issued to Howard J. Leonhardt |
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and Brenda Leonhardt | ||
10.14(4)
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Warrant to purchase shares of the registrants common stock issued to William P. Murphy Jr., M.D. | |
10.15(4)
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Warrant to purchase shares of the registrants common stock issued to the R&A Spencer Family Limited Partnership | |
10.16(4)
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Supply and License Agreement, dated June 7, 2007, by and between the registrant and BioLife Solutions, Inc.*** | |
10.17(5)
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Warrant to purchase shares of the registrants common stock issued to BlueCrest Capital Finance, L.P. | |
10.18(6)
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Loan Guarantee, Payment and Security Agreement, dated as of September 12, 2007, by and between the registrant and Samuel S. Ahn, M.D. | |
10.19(6)
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Loan Guarantee, Payment and Security Agreement, dated as of September 12, 2007, by and between the registrant and Dan Marino | |
10.20(6)
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Warrant to purchase shares of the registrants common stock issued to Samuel S. Ahn, M.D. | |
10.21(6)
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Loan Guarantee, Payment and Security Agreement, dated as of September 19, 2007, by and between the registrant and Jason Taylor | |
10.22(7)
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Loan Guarantee, Payment and Security Agreement, dated as of October 10, 2007, by and between the registrant and Howard and Brenda Leonhardt | |
10.23(7)
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Warrant to purchase shares of the registrants common stock issued to Howard and Brenda Leonhardt | |
10.24(7)
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Second Amendment to Loan Guarantee, Payment and Security Agreement, dated as of October 10, 2007, by and between the registrant and Howard and Brenda Leonhardt | |
10.25(7)
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Second Amendment to Loan Guarantee, Payment and Security Agreement, dated as of October 10, 2007, by and between the registrant and William P. Murphy, Jr., M.D. | |
10.26**(10)
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Bioheart, Inc. Omnibus Equity Compensation Plan | |
10.27(11)
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Form of Warrant Agreement for October 2008 Private Placement | |
10.28(11)
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Form of Registration Rights Agreement for October 2008 Private Placement | |
31.1*
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Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, As Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | |
32.1*
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Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, As Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 |
* | Filed herewith | |
** | Indicates management contract or compensatory plan. | |
(1) | Incorporated by reference to the Companys Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 13, 2007 | |
(2) | Reserved | |
(3) | Incorporated by reference to Amendment No. 2 to the Companys Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 12, 2007 | |
(4) | Incorporated by reference to Amendment No. 3 to the Companys Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 9, 2007 | |
(5) | Incorporated by reference to Amendment No. 4 to the Companys Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 6, 2007 | |
(6) | Incorporated by reference to Amendment No. 5 to the Companys Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 1, 2007 | |
(7) | Incorporated by reference to Post-effective Amendment No. 1 to the Companys Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 11, 2007 | |
(8) | Incorporated by reference to the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 3, 2008 |
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(9) | Incorporated by reference to the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 8, 2008 | |
(10) | Incorporated by reference to the Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 14, 2008 | |
(11) | Incorporated by reference to the Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 14, 2008 | |
(12) | Incorporated by reference to the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 3, 2009 | |
(13) | Incorporated by reference to the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 8, 2009 | |
(14) | Incorporated by reference to the Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 15, 2009 |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly
caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
Bioheart, Inc. |
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Date: May 20, 2009 | By: | /s/ Howard J. Leonhardt | ||
Howard J. Leonhardt | ||||
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer (Principal Executive Officer, Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) |
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