CareDx, Inc. Debt Disclosure

10. DEBT

The Company did not have any outstanding debt as of December 31, 2018.

Debt consisted of the following (in thousands):

 

    

Unamortized debt discount and issuance costs as of December 31, 2017 were $4.6 million. Total interest accrued on debt as of December 31, 2017was  $0.3 million.  The long-term accrued interest balance of $0.2 million as of December 31, 2017, was recorded in accrued and other liabilities and in other liabilities long-term in the consolidated balance sheet.

Perceptive Credit Agreement

On April 17, 2018, the Company entered into a the Perceptive Credit Agreement for an initial term loan of $15.0 million (“Tranche A Term Loan”) with a second tranche of $10.0 million that would have been available at the Company’s option, subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions (the “Tranche B Term Loan” and, together with the “Tranche A Term Loan”, the “Term Loam”).  Approximately $11.1 million of the proceeds of the Tranche A Term Loan were used to fully repay the Company’s outstanding indebtedness, including accrued interest, with FastPartner AB, Mohammed Al Amoudi and Danske Bank A/S (“Danske”) on April 17, 2018.

The Term Loan was secured by substantially all of the Company’s assets and a pledge of 65% of the equity interests of CareDx International AB.  The Term Loan accrued interest per annum at 9.00% (the “Applicable Margin”) plus the greater of the one-month LIBOR or 1.5%.

The Company paid a fee of $0.3 million to Perceptive in its capacity as the administrative agent under the Security Agreement. In addition, on April 17, 2018, the Company issued to Perceptive the Perceptive Tranche A Warrant to purchase up to 140,000 shares of common stock of the Company at an initial exercise price of $8.60. The Perceptive Tranche A Warrant was exercised in full on October 22, 2018 on a cashless basis. Perceptive received 91,705 shares in connection with this transaction.

The Perceptive Credit Agreement contained financial covenants related to minimum cash balance and trailing twelve month revenue. As of November 20, 2018 (the repayment date of the Perceptive Credit Agreement), the Company was in compliance with the financial covenants.

The following table summarizes the Company’s carrying value of the Perceptive Credit Agreement (in thousands) on April 17, 2018, the issuance date (in thousands):

On November 20, 2018, the Company paid off all obligations owing under, and terminated, the Perceptive Credit Agreement.  The secured interests were terminated in connection with the Company’s payoff of all of its obligations. In connection with the repayment of the Perceptive Credit Agreement, the Company incurred a $1.2 million prepayment penalty and a $0.4 million exit fee; the unamortized debt discount of $1.6 million and the embedded derivative liability of $0.2 million were extinguished.  The Perceptive Credit Agreement debt extinguishment resulted in a $3.0 million loss that was included in debt extinguishment expenses, in the consolidated statements of operations.

JGB Debt

On March 15, 2017, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”) with JGB pursuant to which the Company issued to JGB debentures (the “Debentures”) with an aggregate principal amount of $27.8 million and warrants to purchase 1,250,000 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “JGB Warrants”) for net proceeds of $24.0 million (the “Financing”).  The Company used $11.2 million of the net proceeds from the Financing to repay its existing indebtedness under the Loan Agreement with East West Bank and was required to maintain restricted cash of $9.4 million.

Under the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Debentures would have matured on February 28, 2020, accrued interest at 9.5% per year and were convertible into an aggregate of approximately 6,092,105 shares of the Company’s common stock at a price of $4.56 per share (the “Conversion Price”), subject to adjustment for accrued and unpaid interest and upon the occurrence of certain transactions, at the holder’s option.

Additionally, after September 1, 2017, upon the satisfaction of certain conditions, including the volume weighted-average price of the Company’s common stock exceeding 250% of the Conversion Price for twenty consecutive trading days, the Company could have required that the Debentures be converted into shares of the Company’s common stock, subject to certain limitations. Commencing on March 1, 2018, each of the holders of the Debentures had the right, at its option, to require the Company to redeem up to $937,500 of the outstanding principal amount of its Debenture per month.  The Company was required to promptly, but in any event no more than one trading day after the holder delivers a redemption notice to the Company, pay the applicable redemption amount in cash or, at the Company’s election and subject to certain conditions, in shares of the Company’s common stock.  If the Company elected to pay the redemption amount in shares of the Company’s common stock, then the shares would have been delivered based on a price equal to the lowest of (a) 88% of the average of the three lowest volume weighted-average prices of the Company’s common stock over the prior 20 trading days, (b) 88% of the prior trading day’s volume weighted-average price, or (c) the Conversion Price.

After either a change of control transaction, as defined in the Debentures, or February 28, 2018, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, the Company could have redeemed all of the then outstanding principal amount of the Debentures for cash by paying the outstanding principal balance, accrued and unpaid interest, and a payment premium.  The payment premium would have been calculated by multiplying the outstanding balance and the following percentage: (i) 15% if the Debentures were prepaid on or prior to March 1, 2018, (ii) 8% if the Debentures were prepaid after March 1, 2018 but prior to March 1, 2019, and (iii) 5% if the Debentures were prepaid on or after March 1, 2019.

The Company’s obligations under the Debentures could have been accelerated upon the occurrence of certain events of default as specified in the agreement.  In the event of default and acceleration of the Company’s obligations, the Company would have been required to pay (i) 115% of all amounts of principal and interest then outstanding under the Debentures in cash if the Debenture is accelerated prior to March 1, 2018, (ii) 108% of all amounts of principal and interest then outstanding under the Debentures in cash if the Debentures were accelerated after March 1, 2018, but prior to March 1, 2019, and (iii) 105% of all amounts of principal and interest then outstanding under the Debentures in cash if the Debentures were accelerated after March 1, 2019.  The Company’s obligations under the Debentures were secured under a Security Agreement by a senior lien on all of the Company’s assets, other than its interest in CareDx International AB (formerly known as Allenex AB), which was subject to a negative pledge prohibiting the incurrence of additional or replacement debt.

The Debentures contained customary affirmative and restrictive covenants and representations and warranties, including financial reporting obligations, a restriction on the Company’s ability to pay cash dividends on its common stock and limitations on indebtedness, liens, investments, distributions, transfers, corporate changes, deposit accounts and subsidiaries.  The Company was also required to maintain a minimum cash amount at all times, achieve commercialization of AlloSure by a certain date and achieve certain gross profit targets for sales of its AlloMap product.

In connection with the Financing, on March 15, 2017, the Company and the Purchasers entered into a Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) pursuant to which, among other things, the Company agreed to prepare and file one or more registration statements with the SEC for the purpose of registering for resale any shares of Common Stock that may be issued by the Company upon the conversion or redemption of the Debentures or the exercise of the JGB Warrants.

The Debentures included certain embedded derivatives that require bifurcation, including settlement and penalty provisions.  The embedded derivatives were remeasured at each reporting period and the change in fair value was recognized in the consolidated statements of operations. See also Note 4, Fair Value Measurements.

The following table summarizes the Company’s carrying value of the JGB Debt (in thousands) on the March 15, 2017 issuance date:

 

As a result of the issuance of 1,022,544 shares of the Company’s common stock issued at a price per share equal to $1.12 pursuant to the amendments to the Conditional Share Purchase Agreements, the conversion price of the Debentures decreased from $4.56 per share to $4.40 per share, effective July 3, 2017, as described in Note 13.

As a result of the 2017 Public Offering in accordance with the anti-dilution provisions in the JGB Warrants and the Debentures, effective October 5, 2017, the conversion price of the Debentures decreased from $4.40 per share to $4.34 per share. On October 5, 2017, JGB elected to convert $1.3 million of outstanding principal under the Debentures into shares of common stock.  Accordingly, the Company issued 288,022 shares of common stock to JGB at a price per share of $4.34.  As a result of the sale of the 651,240 shares of common stock pursuant to the underwriters’ full exercise of their option to purchase additional shares in accordance with the anti-dilution provisions in the JGB Warrants and the Debentures, effective October 10, 2017, the conversion price of the Debentures was decreased from $4.34 per share to $4.33 per share.  As of December 31, 2017, the JGB Debt had an outstanding principal balance of $26.5 million.

On March 1, 2018, the Company notified JGB of its intent to prepay on April 13, 2018 in full the outstanding principal and interest under the Debentures. Pursuant to the terms of the Debentures, on April 13, 2018, the Company would have been obligated to pay the full amount of the outstanding principal balance of the Debentures, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon and a prepayment premium equal to 8% of the outstanding principal balance in cash.  In February and March 31, 2018, JGB converted the remaining $26.7 million of principal and accrued interest of the JGB Debt into an aggregate of 6,161,331 shares of the Company’s common stock.  In connection with these conversions in the three months ended March 31, 2018, the Company recognized $6,000 to common stock and $38.8 million to additional paid in capital; the unamortized debt discount of $2.7 million was extinguished; and the compound derivative liability of $12.1 million was also extinguished.  The JGB Debt conversion resulted in a $2.8 million loss recorded as debt extinguishment expenses in the consolidated statements of operations.

Danske Bank Term Loan and Credit Facility

On June 25, 2013, Allenex entered into the Term Loan Facility with Danske in an aggregate principal amount of up to SEK 71,000,000 (approximately $7.8 million).  The Term Loan Facility was available for utilization in advances of a minimum of SEK 5,000,000 (approximately $0.5 million in U.S. dollars) and if more, integral multiples of SEK 1,000,000 (approximately $0.1 million).  The interest rate applicable to each advance shall be the percentage rate per annum calculated as the aggregate of (i) Stockholm Interbank Offered Rate (“STIBOR”) (as defined in the Term Loan Facility) and (ii) the Margin (as described in the Term Loan Facility) at 3% conditional on the fulfillment of certain criteria.  In March 2015, Allenex entered into a first amendment to the Term Loan Facility, pursuant to which additional loans were granted.  In August 2015, Allenex entered into a second amendment to the Term Loan Facility, pursuant to which the term of the Term Loan Facility was extended. In December 2015, Allenex entered into a waiver and amendment agreement relating to the Term Loan Facility, pursuant to which the change of control provision was waived and amended.  In March 2016, Allenex entered into another amendment to the Term Loan Facility, which modified the repayment schedule for advances under the Term Loan Facility.

On June 18, 2015, Allenex also entered into a short term credit facility with Danske with total available credit of SEK 8,000,000 (approximately $0.9 million).  As of August 4, 2016, the available credit under the short term credit facility with Danske was increased to SEK 10,000,000 (approximately $1.2 million).

A quarterly debt covenant in the Term Loan Facility with Danske was violated on March 31, 2017, June 30, 2017, and September 30, 2017.  The Company obtained a waiver for these violations.  The waiver was conditional upon, among other things, the Company making a principal repayment of SEK 6,000,000 (approximately $0.7 million) by October 31, 2017.  This amount was paid on October 31, 2017. The Company was not in compliance with certain debt covenants as of December 31, 2017 or March 31, 2018.  The Company repaid the full outstanding amount of SEK 47,000,000 (approximately $5.6 million) plus accrued interest of SEK 142,000 (approximately $17,000), under the Danske Term Loan and Credit Facility on April 17, 2018.

FastPartner Subordinated Promissory Notes

On June 28, 2013, Allenex issued a SEK 9,400,000 (approximately $1.0 million) subordinated promissory note to FastPartner, which had an interest rate of 10.00%.  On December 29, 2015, Allenex issued a SEK 2,000,000 (approximately $0.2 million) subordinated promissory note to FastPartner, which had an annual interest rate of 10.00%.

On March 7, 2016, Allenex issued a SEK 4,000,000 (approximately $0.4 million) subordinated promissory note to FastPartner, which had an annual interest rate of 10.00%.  Pursuant to an intercreditor agreement, until the Term Loan Facility with Danske is repaid, FastPartner may not demand or receive payment of its subordinated promissory note, or foreclose on any collateral securing Allenex’s obligations under the subordinated promissory note, without Danske’s prior written consent. Allenex’s obligations under the promissory note are secured by a pledge of Allenex shares to FastPartner.  The full amount of the subordinated promissory note was due July 1, 2017.

On July 1, 2017, the Company entered into a note agreement with FastPartner (the “FastPartner Note Agreement”) pursuant to which, among other things, Allenex and FastPartner agreed that all amounts owed under the above subordinated promissory notes would be governed by the FastPartner Note Agreement and to defer repayment of the principal outstanding amount of SEK 15,400,000 (approximately $1.9 million) plus accrued interest of $0.5 million until March 31, 2019.  Interest began accruing on such amount at a rate of 10% per annum, and in the event the Company makes any cash amortization repayments to JGB of the JGB Debt, or any replacement debt, Allenex will repay in cash a portion of the amount outstanding under the FastPartner Note Agreement equal to 8% of any such cash amortization repayment. As of each of March 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017, the principal outstanding amount remained at SEK 19,757,000 (approximately $2.4 million).  The Company repaid the full amount outstanding of SEK 21,300,000 (approximately $2.5 million), including accrued interest of SEK 1,600,000 (approximately $0.2 million), under the FastPartner Note Agreement on April 17, 2018.

Mohammed Al Amoudi Subordinated Promissory Note

On June 28, 2013, Allenex issued a SEK 10,600,000 (approximately $1.2 million) subordinated promissory note to Mohammed Al Amoudi, which provides for an annual interest rate of 10.00%.  Pursuant to an intercreditor agreement, until the Term Loan Facility with Danske is repaid, Mohammed Al Amoudi may not demand or receive payment of his subordinated promissory note, or foreclose on any collateral securing Allenex’s obligations under the subordinated promissory note, without Danske’s prior written consent.  Allenex’s obligations under the promissory note are secured by a pledge of Allenex shares to Mohammed Al Amoudi.  The full amount of the subordinated promissory note was due July 1, 2017.

On July 1, 2017, the Company entered into a note agreement with Mohammed Al Amoudi (the “Al Amoudi Note Agreement”) pursuant to which, among other things, Allenex and Mohammed Al Amoudi agreed to defer repayment of the principal outstanding amount of SEK 10,600,000 (approximately $1.3 million) plus accrued interest of $0.5 million until March 31, 2019. Interest began accruing on such amount at a rate of 10% per annum, and in the event the Company makes any cash amortization repayments to JGB of the JGB Debt, or any replacement debt, Allenex will repay in cash a portion of the amount outstanding under the Al Amoudi Note Agreement equal to 6% of any such cash amortization repayment.  As of each of March 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017, the principal outstanding amount remained at SEK 14,575,000 (approximately $1.7 million).  The Company repaid the full amount outstanding of SEK 15,700,000 (approximately $1.9 million), including accrued interest of SEK 1,200,000 (approximately $0.1 million) under the Al Amoudi Note Agreement on April 17, 2018.

Loan Agreement with SSP Primers Aktieboulag

On February 25, 2015, Allenex entered into a SEK 14,000,000 (approximately $1.5 million) loan agreement with SSP Primers Aktieboulag, pursuant to which SEK 4,000,000 (approximately $0.4 million) was paid on March 7, 2016. The loan amount outstanding as of December 31, 2017 was SEK 10,000,000 (approximately $1.2 million) plus accrued interest of SEK 650,000 (approximately $0.1 million) and was fully paid on February 26, 2018.