UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 40-F

 

x Registration statement pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

or

 

¨ Annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

     
For the fiscal year ended __________   Commission File Number __________

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Ontario, Canada   8093   98-1512724

(Province or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(Primary Standard Industrial

Classification Code Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer Identification

Number) 

 

890 Yonge Street, 7th Floor

Toronto, Ontario

Canada M4W 3P4

(416) 322-9700

 

(Address and telephone number of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

8401 Greensboro Drive, Suite 425

Tysons Corner, Virginia

22102

(416) 322-9700

 

(Name, address (including zip code) and telephone number

(including area code) of agent for service in the United States)

 

Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class   Trading symbol(s)   Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Shares, no par value   GBNH   The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC

 

Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

 

Securities for which there is a reporting obligation pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Act: None

 

For annual reports, indicate by check mark the information filed with this Form:

 

¨ Annual information form   ¨ Audited annual financial statements

 

Indicate the number of outstanding shares of each of the issuer’s classes of capital or common stock as of the close of the period covered by the annual report: N/A

 

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act 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. N/A

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to submit such files). N/A

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Emerging growth company x

 

If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards† provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨

 

The term “new or revised financial accounting standard” refers to any update issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to its Accounting Standards Codification after April 5, 2012.

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. ¨

 

 

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Company” or the “Registrant”) is a Canadian issuer eligible to file its registration statement pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), on Form 40-F pursuant to the multi-jurisdictional disclosure system of the Exchange Act. The Company is a “foreign private issuer” as defined in Rule 3b-4 under the Exchange Act. Equity securities of the Company are accordingly exempt from Sections 14(a), 14(b), 14(c), 14(f) and 16 of the Exchange Act pursuant to Rule 3a12-3.

 

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

This Registration Statement contains “forward-looking information” within the meaning of applicable securities laws in Canada and the United States. Forward-looking information may relate to our future financial outlook and anticipated events or results and may include information regarding the Registrant’s business, financial position, results of operations, business strategy, growth plans and strategies, technological development and implementation, budgets, operations, financial results, taxes, dividend policy, plans and objectives. Particularly, information regarding the Registrant’s expectations of future results, performance, achievements, prospects or opportunities or the markets in which the Registrant operates is forward-looking information. In some cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “outlook”, “forecasts”, “projection”, “prospects”, “strategy”, “intends”, “anticipates”, “does not anticipate”, “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will”, “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, intentions, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not facts but instead represent expectations, estimates and projections by management of the Registrant regarding future events or circumstances.

 

Forward-looking information in this Registration Statement and in the documents incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement includes, among other things, statements relating to:

 

· the Registrant’s expectations regarding revenue, expenses and operations;

 

· changes in laws and regulations affecting the Registrant and the regulatory environments in which the Registrant operates;

 

· the Registrant’s expectations regarding the potential market opportunity for the delivery of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy;

 

· the Registrant’s expectations regarding growth rates and growth plans and strategies, including expectations regarding future growth of the TMS market;

 

· potential expansion of additional therapeutic indications approved for TMS therapy by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”);

 

· the Registrant’s business plans and strategies;

 

· the Registrant’s expectations regarding the implementation of the Spravato® pilot program;

 

· changes in reimbursement rates by insurance payors;

 

· the Registrant’s expectations regarding the outcome of litigation and payment obligations in respect of prior settlements;

 

· the Registrant’s ability to attract and retain medical practitioners and qualified technicians at the Registrant’s TMS Centers (as defined in the 2019 Annual Information Form (as defined below));

 

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· the Registrant’s competitive position in its industry and its expectations regarding competition;

 

· anticipated trends and challenges in the Registrant’s business and the markets in which it operates;

 

· access to capital and the terms relating thereto;

 

· technological changes in the Registrant’s industry;

 

· the Registrant’s expectations regarding geographic expansions;

 

· the Registrant’s expectations regarding new TMS Center openings and the timing thereof;

 

· successful execution of internal plans;

 

· anticipated costs of capital investments;

 

· the Registrant’s intentions with respect to the implementation of new accounting standards; and

 

· the impact of COVID-19 on the Registrant’s business.

 

This forward-looking information and other forward-looking information are based on the Registrant’s opinions, estimates and assumptions in light of its experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that the Registrant currently believes are appropriate and reasonable in the circumstances. Despite a careful process to prepare and review the forward-looking information, there can be no assurance that the underlying opinions, estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct.

 

The forward-looking information in this Registration Statement and in the documents incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement is necessarily based on a number of opinions, estimates and assumptions that the Registrant considered appropriate and reasonable as of the date such statements were made. It is also subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including the following risk factors and those described in greater detail under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Registrant’s Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31, 2019, which is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.20 of this Registration Statement (the “2019 Annual Information Form”), and under the heading “Risks and Uncertainties” in the Registrant’s management’s discussion and analysis for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019, which is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.4 of this Registration Statement (the “Q3 2020 MD&A”):

 

· successful execution of the Registrant’s growth strategies;

 

· inability to attract key managerial and other non-medical personnel;

 

· risks related to changes in reimbursement rates by commercial insurance plans, Medicare and other non-Medicare government insurance plans;

 

· reduction in reimbursement rates by higher-paying commercial insurance providers;

 

· dependency on referrals from physicians and failure to attract new patients;

 

· failure to recruit and retain sufficient qualified psychiatrists;

 

· ability to obtain TMS Devices (as defined in the 2019 Annual Information Form) from the Registrant’s suppliers on a timely basis at competitive costs could suffer as a result of deterioration or changes in supplier relationships or events that adversely affect the Registrant’s suppliers or cause disruption to their businesses;

 

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· failure to reduce operating expenses and labor costs in a timely manner;

 

· inability to achieve or sustain profitability in the future or an inability to secure additional financing to fund losses;

 

· risks related to the use of partnerships and other management services frameworks;

 

· risks associated with leasing space and equipment for the TMS Centers;

 

· inability to successfully open and operate new TMS Centers profitably or at all;

 

· risks associated with geographic expansion in regions which may have lower awareness of the Registrant’s brand or TMS therapy in general;

 

· claims made by or against the Registrant, which may result in litigation;

 

· risks associated with professional malpractice liability claims;

 

· reduction in demand for the Registrant’s services as a result of new drug development and/or technological changes within the Registrant’s industry;

 

· impact of uncertainty related to potential changes to U.S. healthcare laws;

 

· risks associated with anti-kickback, fraud and abuse laws;

 

· risks associated with compliance with laws relating to the practice of medicine;

 

· the constantly evolving nature of the regulatory framework in which the Registrant operates;

 

· costs associated with compliance with U.S. federal and state regulations and risks associated with failure to comply;

 

· assessments for additional taxes, which could affect the Registrant’s operating results;

 

· inability to manage the Registrant’s operations at its current size;

 

· the Registrant’s competitive industry and the size and resources of some of its competitors;

 

· the labor-intensive nature of the Registrant’s business being adversely affected if the Registrant is unable to maintain satisfactory relations with its employees or the occurrence of union attempts to organize its employees;

 

· insurance-related risks;

 

· complications associated with the Registrant’s billing and collections systems;

 

· material disruptions in or security breaches affecting the Registrant’s information technology systems;

 

· disruptions to the operations at the Registrant’s head office locations;

 

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· upgrade or replacement of core information technology systems;

 

· changes in accounting standards and subjective assumptions, estimates and judgments by management related to complex accounting matters;

 

· inability to maintain effective controls over financial reporting;

 

· risks associated with dilution of equity ownership;

 

· volatility in the market price for the Registrant’s common shares;

 

· prolonged decline in the price of the Registrant’s common shares reducing the Registrant’s ability to raise capital;

 

· significant influence of Greybrook Health Inc.;

 

· increases to indebtedness levels causing a reduction in financial flexibility;

 

· future sales of the Registrant’s securities by existing shareholders causing the market price for the Registrant’s common shares to decline;

 

· impact of future offerings of debt securities on dividend and liquidation distributions;

 

· no cash dividends for the foreseeable future;

 

· an active, liquid and orderly trading market for the Registrant’s common shares failing to develop;

 

· different shareholder protections in Canada as compared to the United States and elsewhere;

 

· treatment of the Registrant as a U.S. domestic corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes;

 

· any issuance of preferred shares may hinder another person’s ability to acquire the Registrant;

 

· the Registrant’s trading price and volume could decline if analysts do not publish research or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about the Registrant or its business;

 

· increases to costs as a result of operating as a U.S. public company; and

 

· the Registrant’s potential to incur significant additional costs if it loses “foreign private issuer” status in the future.

 

If any of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or if the opinions, estimates or assumptions underlying the forward-looking information prove incorrect, actual results or future events might vary materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking information.  

 

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Various assumptions or factors are typically applied in drawing conclusions or making the forecasts or projections set out in forward-looking information. Those assumptions and factors are based on information currently available to the Registrant, including information obtained from third-party industry analysts and other third-party sources. In some instances, material assumptions and factors are presented or discussed elsewhere in this Registration Statement or in the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement in connection with the statements or disclosure containing the forward-looking information. Readers are cautioned that the following list of material factors and assumptions is not exhaustive. The factors and assumptions include, but are not limited to:

 

· no unforeseen changes in the legislative and operating framework for the Registrant’s business;

 

· no unforeseen changes in the prices for the Registrant’s services in markets where prices are regulated;

 

· no unforeseen changes in the reimbursement rates of commercial, Medicare and other non-Medicare government insurance plans;

 

· no unforeseen changes in the regulatory environment for the Registrant’s services;

 

· a stable competitive environment; and

 

· no significant event occurring outside the ordinary course of business.

 

During Q4 2020 the Registrant's management and independent auditors identified a material weakness in the Registrant's internal control over financial reporting. A material weakness is a significant deficiency, or a combination of significant deficiencies, in internal controls over financial reporting such that it is reasonably possible that a material misstatement of the annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. The material weakness that management and independent auditors of the Registrant believe they may have identified relates to a lack of documentation of the Registrant’s business process controls and evidence of review and approval of journal entries. As a result, the Registrant intends to implement a remediation plan that involves a third-party software solution to formalize the documentation and evidence of the Registrant’s review and approval of all entries in its financial reporting system. The plan will include the involvement of management and sufficient training of all personnel. The Registrant will take all measures necessary to address and cure the underlying causes of this potential issue, regardless of whether it constitutes a material weakness in internal controls over financial reporting. Once implemented, the Registrant’s remediation plan may take significant time and expense to be fully implemented and may require significant management attention, and the Registrant’s efforts may not prove to be successful in remediating the potential material weakness and the Registrant does not guarantee that it will not suffer additional material weaknesses and/or significant deficiencies in the future.

 

Although the Registrant has attempted to identify important risk factors that could cause actual results or future events to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other risk factors not presently known to the Registrant or that the Registrant presently believes are not material that could also cause actual results or future events to differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking information. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information, which speaks only to opinions, estimates and assumptions as of the date made. The forward-looking information contained in this Registration Statement or in the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement represents the Registrant’s expectations as of the respective dates of such document (or as of the date they are otherwise stated to be made) and are subject to change after such date. The Registrant disclaims any intention or obligation or undertaking to update or revise any forward-looking information whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under applicable laws in Canada and the United States.

 

All of the forward-looking information contained in this Registration Statement and in the documents incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement is expressly qualified by the foregoing cautionary statements.

 

DIFFERENCES IN UNITED STATES AND CANADIAN REPORTING PRACTICES

 

The Registrant is permitted, under a multijurisdictional disclosure system adopted by the United States, to prepare reports it files with the SEC in accordance with Canadian disclosure requirements, which are different from those of the United States. The Registrant currently prepares its financial statements, which are filed as Exhibits to this Registration Statement on Form 40-F in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, and as a result, they may differ from financial statements filed by United States companies.

 

PRINCIPAL DOCUMENTS

 

In accordance with General Instruction B.(1) of Form 40-F, the Registrant hereby incorporates by reference Exhibits 99.1 through 99.60, inclusive, as set forth in the Exhibit Index attached hereto.

 

In accordance with General Instruction D.(9) of Form 40-F, the Registrant has filed the written consent of certain experts named in the foregoing Exhibits as Exhibit 99.60, as set forth in the Exhibit Index attached hereto.

 

TAX MATTERS

 

Purchasing, holding, or disposing of securities of the Registrant may have tax consequences under the laws of the United States and Canada that are not described in this Registration Statement on Form 40-F.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF COMMON SHARES

 

The required disclosure is included under the heading “Description of Share Capital – Common Shares” in the 2019 Annual Information Form, attached hereto as Exhibit 99.20.

 

NASDAQ CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

 

A foreign private issuer that follows home country practices in lieu of certain provisions of the Nasdaq Stock Market Rules must disclose the ways in which its corporate governance practices differ from those followed by domestic companies. As required by Nasdaq Rule 5615(a)(3), the Registrant will disclose on its website, as of the listing date, each requirement of the Nasdaq Stock Market Rules that it does not follow and describe the home country practice followed in lieu of such requirements.

 

We intend to follow the listing rules of the Toronto Stock Exchange in respect of private placements instead of Nasdaq requirements to obtain shareholder approval for certain dilutive events (such as issuances that will result in a change of control, certain transactions other than a public offering involving issuances of a 20% or greater interest in us and certain acquisitions of the shares or assets of another company).

 

UNDERTAKING

 

The Registrant undertakes to make available, in person or by telephone, representatives to respond to inquiries made by the Commission staff, and to furnish promptly, when requested to do so by the Commission staff, information relating to: the securities registered pursuant to Form 40-F; the securities in relation to which the obligation to file an annual report on Form 40-F arises; or transactions in said securities.

 

CONSENT TO SERVICE OF PROCESS

 

The Registrant has concurrently filed a Form F-X in connection with the class of securities to which this Registration Statement relates.

 

Any change to the name or address of the Registrant’s agent for service shall be communicated promptly to the Commission by amendment to the Form F-X referencing the file number of the Registrant.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Exchange Act, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form 40-F and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereto duly authorized.

 

 

    GREENBROOK TMS INC.
   
  By: /s/ Bill Leonard
    Name: Bill Leonard
    Title:   Chief Executive Officer

 

Date: March 10, 2021

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

The following documents are being filed with the Commission as Exhibits to this Registration Statement:

 

Exhibit No. Description
99.1 Articles of Amendment, effective February 1, 2021
99.2 Articles of Amendment, effective January 12, 2021
99.3 By-Law No. 1A
99.4 Management's discussion and analysis for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019
99.5 Condensed interim consolidated financial statements (unaudited) for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019
99.6 Certification of CEO in respect of interim filings for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019
99.7 Certification of CFO in respect of interim filings for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019
99.8 Management's discussion and analysis for the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
99.9 Condensed interim consolidated financial statements (unaudited) for the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
99.10 Certification of CEO in respect of interim filings for the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
99.11 Certification of CFO in respect of interim filings for the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
99.12 Management's discussion and analysis for the three-month periods ended March 30, 2020 and 2019
99.13 Condensed interim consolidated financial statements (unaudited) for the three-month periods ended March 30, 2020 and 2019
99.14 Certification of CEO in respect of interim filings for the three-month periods ended March 30, 2020 and 2019
99.15 Certification of CFO in respect of interim filings for the three-month periods ended March 30, 2020 and 2019
99.16 Management's discussion and analysis for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018
99.17 Consolidated financial statements for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018
99.18 Certification of CEO in respect of annual filings for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018
99.19 Certification of CFO in respect of annual filings for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018
99.20 Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31, 2019
99.21 Notice of Special Meeting dated November 6, 2020
99.22 Management Information Circular, dated December 4, 2020
99.23 Report of voting results in respect of Special Meeting of Shareholders held on January 12, 2021
99.24 Notice of Annual General Meeting, dated May 4, 2020
99.25 Management Information Circular, dated May 19, 2020
99.26 Report of voting results in respect of Annual Meeting of Shareholders held on June 29, 2020
99.27 Agency Agreement dated as of May 15, 2020, by and among Greenbrook TMS Inc. and the agents party thereto
99.28 Credit and Security Agreement, by and among Oxford Finance LLC, as Agent, the lenders party thereto, Greenbrook TMS Inc., as parent, TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc., as borrower, and the other credit parties thereto, dated as of December 31, 2020
99.29 Material change report, dated February 2, 2021
99.30 Material change report, dated January 11, 2021
99.31 Material change report, dated May 21, 2020
99.32 News release, dated February 23, 2021
99.33 News release, dated February 1, 2021
99.34 News release, dated January 27, 2021
99.35 News release, dated January 15, 2021
99.36 News release, dated January 12, 2021

 

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99.37 News release, dated December 31, 2020
99.38 News release, dated December 7, 2020
99.39 News release, dated December 4, 2020
99.40 News release, dated November 18, 2020
99.41 News release, dated November 10, 2020
99.42 News release, dated November 5, 2020
99.43 News release, dated October 20, 2020
99.44 News release, dated September 17, 2020
99.45 News release, dated September 15, 2020
99.46 News release, dated August 4, 2020
99.47 News release, dated July 21, 2020
99.48 News release, dated June 29, 2020
99.49 News release, dated June 17, 2020
99.50 News release, dated May 21, 2020
99.51 News release, dated May 12, 2020
99.52 News release, dated May 5, 2020
99.53 News release, dated May 6, 2020
99.54 News release, dated April 30, 2020
99.55 News release, dated April 23, 2020
99.56 News release, dated March 25, 2020
99.57 News release, dated March 10, 2020
99.58 News release, dated February 4, 2020
99.59 News release, dated January 14, 2020
99.60 Consent of KPMG LLP

 

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Exhibit 99.1

Exhibit 1.4 For Ministry Use Only À l'usage exclusif du ministère Ontario Corporation Number Numéro de la société en Ontario Form 3 Business Corporations Act Formule 3 Loi sur les sociétés par actions ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT STATUTS DE MODIFICATION 1.The name of the corporation is: (Set out in BLOCK CAPITAL LETTERS) 2.The name of the corporation is changed to (if applicable ): (Set out in BLOCK CAPITAL LETTERS) Nouvelle dénomination sociale de la société (s'il y a lieu) (écrire en LETTRES MAJUSCULES SEULEMENT) : 3.Date of incorporation/amalgamation: Date de la constitution ou de la fusion : (Year, Month, Day) (année, mois, jour) 4.Complete only if there is a change in the number of directors or the minimum / maximum number of directors. Il faut remplir cette partie seulement si le nombre d’administrateurs ou si le nombre minimal ou maximal d’administrateurs a changé. Number of directors is/are:minimum and maximum number of directors is/are: Nombre d'administrateurs :nombres minimum et maximum d'administrateurs : Number Nombre minimum and maximum minimum et maximum or ou 5.The articles of the corporation are amended as follows: Les statuts de la société sont modifiés de la façon suivante :

 

 

 6.The amendment has been duly authorized as required by sections 168 and 170 (as applicable) of the Business Corporations Act. La modification a ete dOment autorisee conformement aux articles 168 et 170 (selon le cas) de la Loi sur les societes par actions. 7.The resolution authorizing the amendment was approved by the shareholders/directors (as applicable) of the corporation on Les actionnaires ou les administrateurs (selon le cas) de la societe ont approuve la resolution autorisant la modification le 2021/01/12 (Year, Month, Day) (annee, mois, jour) These articles are signed in duplicate. Les presents statuts sont signes en double exemplaire. GREENBROOK TMS INC. (Print name of corporation from Article 1 on page 1) (Veuillez ecrir le nom de la societe de l'article un a la page une). By/ Par : (Signature) (Signature) William Leonard President and Chief Executive Officer (Description of Office) (Fonction)

 

 

Exhibit 99.2

30310-3_CERTIFICATE AND ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT_PAGE001.JPG For Ministry Use Only A l'usage exclusif du ministerMinistry of Government .andConsumerServices Ontario CERTIFICATE This Is to certify 1ha1 1hese article& are eltectt v e on Ministl!re des Services gouvernemenlaux el des Services aux consommateurs CERTIFICAT Cec1 cert1!1e que 1es prt!sents statuts entrent en vigueur le Ontario Corporation Number Numero de la soc iete en Ontario 2619814 ......Y.....t..?.... NY..ts.8". Q .1 4at:® D1rec1or I D1rectnce Business Corporations Act I Loi sur les.soci6tes par actions Form 3 Business Corporations Act Formule 3 Loi sur /es societes par actions ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT STATUTS DE MODIFICATION The name of the corporation is: (Set out in BLOCK CAPITAL LETTERS) Denomination sociale actuelle de la societe (ecrire en LETTRES MAJUSCULES SEULEMENT) : G R E E N B R 0 0 KT M sI N c The name of the corporation is changed to (if applicable): (Set out in BLOCK CAPITAL LETTERS) Nouvelle denomination sociale de la societe (s'il ya lieu) (ecrire en LETTRES MAJUSCULES SEULEMENT): Date of incorporation/amalgamation: Date de la constitution ou de la fusion : 2018/02/09 (Year, Month, Day) (annee, mois, jour) Complete only if there is a change in the number of directors or the minimum I maximum number of directors. II faut remplir cette partie seulement si le nombre d'administrateurs ou si le nombre minimal ou maximal d'administrateurs a change. Number of directors is/are: Nombre d'administrateurs : minimum and maximum number of directors is/are: nombres minimum et max imum d'administrateurs : Number Nombre minimumand maximum minimumetmaximum or OU The articles of the corporation are amended as follows: Les statuts de la societe sont modifies de la fai;on suivante : See attached page IA.

 

 

30310-3_CERTIFICATE AND ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT_PAGE002.JPG 1A The Articles of the Corporation are amended to delete Article 9 in its entirety and substitute therefor: "The directors may appoint one or more additional directors to hold office for a term expiring not later than the close of the next annual shareholders meeting, but the total number of directors so appointed may not exceed one-third of the number of directors elected at the previous annual shareholders meeting."

 

 

30310-3_CERTIFICATE AND ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT_PAGE003.JPG  The amendment has been duly authorized as required by sections 168 and 170 (as applicable) of the Business Corporations Act. La modification a ete dOment autorisee conformement aux articles 168et170 (selon le cas) de la Loi sur /es societes par actions. The resolution authorizing the amendment was approved by the shareholders/directors (as applicable) of the corporation on Les actionnaires ou les administrateurs (selon le cas) de la societe ont approuve la resolution autorisant la modification le 2021/01/12 (Year, Month, Day) (annee, mois, jour) These articles are signed in duplicate. Les presents statuts sont signes en double exemplaire. GREENBROOK TMS INC. (Print name of corporation from Article 1 on page 1) (Veuillez ecrir le nom de la societe de !'article un a la page une). By/ Par: (Signature) (Signature) President and Chief Executive Officer (Description of Office) (Fonction)

 

 

Exhibit 99.3

 

BY-LAW NO. 1A

 

of

 

GREENBROOK TMS INC.
(the “Corporation”)

 

1.                  INTERPRETATION

 

1.1                            Expressions used in this By-law shall have the same meanings as corresponding expressions in the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) (the “Act”).

 

2.                  CORPORATE SEAL

 

2.1                            The directors may, but need not, adopt a corporate seal, and may change a corporate seal that is adopted.

 

3.                  FINANCIAL YEAR

 

3.1                           The financial year of the Corporation shall end on such date in each year as shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the directors.

 

4.                  DIRECTORS

 

4.1                            Number. The number of directors shall be not fewer than the minimum and not more than the maximum number of directors provided for in the articles. At each election of directors, the number elected shall be the number of directors then in office unless the directors or shareholders otherwise determine.

 

4.2                            Quorum. A quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of directors shall be a majority of the number of directors or such greater or lesser number of directors as the directors or shareholders may from time to time determine or the Act may require.

 

4.3                            Calling of Meetings. Meetings of the directors shall be held at such time and place within or outside Ontario as the chairman of the board, the president and chief executive officer or any two directors may determine. A majority of meetings of directors need not be held within Canada in any financial year.

 

4.4                            Notice of Meetings. Notice of the time and place of each meeting of directors shall be given to each director by telephone not less than 48 hours before the time of the meeting or by written notice not less than ten days before the date of the meeting, provided that the first meeting immediately following a meeting of shareholders at which directors are elected may be held without notice if a quorum is present. Meetings may be held without notice if the directors waive or are deemed to waive notice.

 

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4.5                            Meeting by Telephonic or Electronic Facility. A meeting of directors or of a committee of directors may be held by means of a telephonic, electronic or other communication facility that permits all persons participating in the meeting to communicate adequately with each other, and a director participating in a meeting by such means is deemed to (a) consent to such meeting format and (b) be present at that meeting.

 

4.6                            Chairman. The chairman of the board, or in his or her absence the lead independent director, if any, or in his or her absence, the president and chief executive officer if a director, or in his or her absence or if the president and chief executive officer is not a director, a director chosen by the directors at the meeting, shall be chairman of any meeting of directors.

 

4.7                            Voting at Meetings. At meetings of directors, each director shall have one vote and questions shall be decided by a majority of votes. In case of an equality of votes, the chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.

 

4.8                            Committees. Unless otherwise determined by the directors, each committee of directors shall have the power to fix its quorum and to regulate its procedures.

 

5.                  OFFICERS

 

5.1                            General. The directors may from time to time appoint a chairman of the board, a president and chief executive officer, a chief financial officer, one or more vice-presidents, a secretary, a treasurer and such other officers as the directors may determine from time to time.

 

5.2                            Chairman of the Board. The chairman of the board, if any, shall be appointed from among the directors, shall, when present, be chair of the meetings of directors and shareholders and shall have such other powers and duties as the directors may determine from time to time.

 

5.3                            President and Chief Executive Officer. Unless the directors otherwise determine, the president shall be appointed by the directors and shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation and shall have general supervision of its business and affairs.

 

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5.4                            Vice-President. A vice-president shall have such powers and duties as the directors or the president and chief executive officer may determine from time to time.

 

5.5                            Secretary. The secretary shall give required notices to shareholders, directors, auditors and members of committees, act as secretary of meetings of directors and shareholders when present, keep and enter minutes of such meetings, maintain the corporate records of the Corporation, have custody of the corporate seal, if any, and shall have such other powers and duties as the directors or the president and chief executive officer may determine from time to time.

 

5.6                            Treasurer. The treasurer shall keep proper accounting records in accordance with the Act, have supervision over the safekeeping of securities and the deposit and disbursement of funds of the Corporation, report as required on the financial position of the Corporation, and have such other powers and duties as the directors or the president and chief executive officer may determine from time to time.

 

5.7                            Other Officers. Any other officer shall have such powers and duties as the directors or the president and chief executive officer may determine from time to time.

 

5.8                            Assistants. Any of the powers and duties of an officer to whom an assistant has been appointed may be exercised and performed by such assistant unless the directors or the president and chief executive officer otherwise direct.

 

5.9                            Variation of Powers and Duties. The directors may, from time to time, vary, add to or limit the powers and duties of any officer.

 

5.10                          Term of Office. Each officer shall hold office until his successor is elected or appointed, provided that the directors may at any time remove any officer from office but such removal shall not affect the rights of such officer under any contract of employment with the Corporation.

 

6.                  INDEMNIFICATION AND INSURANCE

 

6.1                            Indemnification of Directors and Officers. The Corporation shall indemnify a director or officer, a former director or officer or a person who acts or acted at the Corporation’s request as a director or officer, or in a similar capacity of another entity, and the heirs and legal representative of such a person to the extent permitted by the Act.

 

6.2                            Insurance. The Corporation shall purchase and maintain insurance for the benefit of any person referred to in the preceding section to the extent permitted by the Act.

 

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7.                  SHAREHOLDERS

 

7.1                            Quorum. A quorum for the transaction of business at a meeting of shareholders shall be one person present and entitled to vote at the meeting that holds or represents by proxy not less than 33 1/3% of the votes attached to the outstanding shares of the Corporation entitled to vote at the meeting.

 

7.2                            Casting Vote. In case of an equality of votes at a meeting of shareholders, the chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.

 

7.3                            Meeting by Telephonic or Electronic Facility. A meeting of shareholders may be held by telephonic, electronic or other communication facility that permits all persons participating in the meeting to communicate adequately, and a shareholder who, through those means, votes at a meeting or establishes a communications link to a meeting shall be deemed to be present at that meeting.

 

7.4                            Scrutineers. The chairman at any meeting of shareholders may appoint one or more persons (who need not be shareholders) to act as scrutineer or scrutineers at the meeting.

 

7.5                            Certificates for Shares. The shares of stock of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates, or shall be uncertificated shares that may be evidenced by a book-entry system (including a non-certificated inventory system) maintained by the registrar of such stock, or a combination of both. To the extent that shares are represented by certificates, such certificates shall be in such form as shall be approved by the directors. The certificates representing shares of stock of each class shall be signed by, or in the name of, the Corporation by the chairman of the board, the president and chief executive officer, the chief financial officer, or any director. Any or all such signatures may be facsimiles. Although any director, officer, transfer agent or registrar whose manual or facsimile signature is affixed to such a certificate ceases to be such director, officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate has been issued, it may nevertheless be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as if such director, officer, transfer agent or registrar were still such at the date of its issue.

 

The stock ledger and blank share certificates shall be kept by the secretary or by a transfer agent or by a registrar or by any other officer or agent designated by the directors.

 

7.6                            Replacement of Share Certificates. Where the owner of a share certificate claims that the share certificate has been lost, apparently destroyed or wrongfully taken, the Corporation shall issue or cause to be issued a new certificate in place of the original certificate if the owner (i) so requests before the Corporation has notice that the share certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser; (ii) files with the Corporation an indemnity bond (unless not required to do so by the Corporation) sufficient in the Corporation’s opinion to protect the Corporation and any transfer agent, registrar or other agent of the Corporation from any loss that it or any of them may suffer by complying with the request to issue a new share certificate; and (iii) satisfies any other reasonable requirements imposed from time to time by the Corporation.

 

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8.                  DIVIDENDS AND RIGHTS

 

8.1                            Declaration of Dividends. Subject to the Act, the directors may from time to time declare dividends payable to the shareholders according to their respective rights and interests in the Corporation.

 

8.2                            Wire Transfers or Cheques. A dividend payable in money shall be paid, at the Corporation’s option, by (a) wire transfer, or (b) cheque to the order of each registered holder of shares of the class or series in respect of which it has been declared, and (i) sent, if by wire transfer, to such registered holder as per the wire instructions provided by such holder in the Corporation’s securities register, or (ii) mailed by prepaid ordinary mail, if by cheque, to such registered holder at the address of such holder in the Corporation’s securities register, unless such holder otherwise directs. In the case of joint holders, the wire transfer or cheque shall, unless such joint holders otherwise direct, be made payable to the order of all of such joint holders and transferred to them as per the wire instructions, or mailed to them at their address, in the Corporation’s securities register. The issuance of the wire transfer or the mailing of such cheque as aforesaid, unless the same is not paid on due presentation, shall satisfy and discharge the liability for the dividend to the extent of the sum represented thereby plus the amount of any tax which the Corporation is required to and does withhold.

 

8.3                            Non-Receipt of Wire Transfers or Cheques. In the event of non-receipt of any dividend wire transfer or cheque by the person to whom it is sent as aforesaid, the Corporation shall issue to such person a wire transfer or a cheque for a like amount on such terms as to indemnity, reimbursement of expenses and evidence of non-receipt and of title as the directors may from time to time prescribe, whether generally or in any particular case.

 

8.4                            Unclaimed Dividends. To the extent permitted by applicable law, any dividends unclaimed after a period of six years from the date on which the same has been declared to be payable shall be forfeited and shall revert to the Corporation.

 

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9.                  EXECUTION OF INSTRUMENTS

 

9.1                            Execution of Instruments. Contracts, deeds, mortgages, hypothecs, charges, conveyances, transfers, assignments or other documents or instruments in writing requiring the signature of the Corporation may be signed by any one director or officer of the Corporation, and all contracts, documents or instruments in writing so signed shall be binding upon the Corporation without any further authorization or formality. The directors are authorized from time to time by resolution to appoint any one or more officers or other persons on behalf of the Corporation either to sign contracts, documents or instruments in writing generally or to sign specific contracts, documents or instruments in writing.

 

10.              NOTICE

 

10.1                          General. A notice mailed to a shareholder, director, auditor or member of a committee shall be deemed to have been received at the time it would be delivered in the ordinary course of mail unless there are reasonable grounds for believing that the shareholder or director did not receive the notice or the document at that time or at all.

 

10.2                          Electronic Delivery. Provided the addressee has consented in writing or electronically in accordance with the Act and the regulations thereunder, the Corporation may satisfy the requirement to send any notice or document referred to in section 10.1 by creating and providing an electronic document in compliance with the Act and the regulations under the Act. An electronic document is deemed to have been received when it enters the information system designated by the addressee or, if the document is posted on or made available through a generally accessible electronic source, when the addressee receives notice in writing of the availability and location of that electronic document, or, if such notice is sent electronically, when it enters the information system designated by the addressee.

 

10.3                          Omissions and Errors. Accidental omission to give any notice to any shareholder, director, auditor or member of a committee or non-receipt of any notice or any error in a notice not affecting the substance thereof shall not invalidate any action taken at any meeting held pursuant to such notice.

 

11.              ADVANCE NOTICE PROVISIONS

 

11.1                                  For purposes of this Section 11:

 

Applicable Securities Laws” means (i) the applicable securities legislation of each relevant province and territory of Canada, as amended from time to time, the rules, regulations and forms made or promulgated under any such statute and the published national instruments, multilateral instruments, policies, bulletins and notices of the securities commission and similar regulatory authority of each province and territory of Canada; and (ii) any applicable U.S. securities laws, rules and regulations, which may include the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 and the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, in each case, as amended from time to time, and including the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and any other applicable U.S. Federal or state securities laws, rules and regulations;

 

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public announcement” means disclosure in a press release reported by a national news service in Canada and/or the United States (as applicable), or in a document publicly filed by the Corporation under its profile on the System of Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval at www.sedar.com and/or on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR website at www.sec.gov (or any other successor site(s)), as applicable; and

 

Representatives” of a person means the affiliates and associates of such person, all persons acting jointly or in concert with any of the foregoing, and the affiliates and associates of any of such persons acting jointly or in concert, and “Representative” means any one of them.

 

11.2                          Subject only to the Act and Section 11.9, and for so long as the Corporation is a distributing corporation, only persons who are nominated in accordance with the following procedures shall be eligible for election as directors of the Corporation. Nominations of persons for election to the board may be made at any annual meeting of shareholders, or at any special meeting of shareholders if one of the purposes for which the special meeting was called was the election of directors:

 

11.2.1       by or at the direction of the board, including pursuant to a notice of meeting;

 

11.2.2       by or at the direction or request of one or more shareholders pursuant to a proposal made in accordance with the provisions of the Act or a requisition of the shareholders made in accordance with the provisions of the Act; or

 

11.2.3       by any person (a “Nominating Shareholder”):

 

(i) who, at the close of business in Toronto, Ontario on the date of the giving of the notice provided for below in this Section 11 and at the close of business in Toronto, Ontario on the record date for notice of such meeting of shareholders, is entered in the securities register of the Corporation as a holder of one or more shares carrying the right to vote at such meeting or who beneficially owns shares that are entitled to be voted at such meeting; and

 

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(ii) who complies with the notice procedures set forth below in this Section 11.

 

11.3                          In addition to any other applicable requirements, for a nomination to be made by a Nominating Shareholder, such person must have given timely notice thereof (in accordance with Section 11.4 below) in proper written form to the board (in accordance with Section 11.5 below).

 

11.4                         To be timely, a Nominating Shareholder’s notice to the board must be made:

 

11.4.1    in the case of an annual meeting of shareholders (which includes an annual and special meeting), not less than 30 days prior to the date of the annual meeting of shareholders; provided, however, that in the event that the annual meeting of shareholders is to be held on a date that is less than 50 days after the date (the “Notice Date”) on which the first public announcement of the date of the annual meeting was made, notice by the Nominating Shareholder may be made not later than the close of business in Toronto, Ontario on the tenth (10th) day following the Notice Date; and

 

11.4.2    in the case of a special meeting (which is not also an annual meeting) of shareholders called for the purpose of electing directors (whether or not called for other purposes as well), not later than the close of business in Toronto, Ontario on the fifteenth (15th) day following the day on which the first public announcement of the date of the special meeting of shareholders was made.

 

11.4.3    in the event of any adjournment or postponement of a meeting of shareholders, or an announcement thereof, the required time periods for the giving of a Nominating Shareholder’s notice as described above shall apply using the date of the adjourned or postponed meeting, or the date of announcement thereof, as the case may be. This means that a Nominating Shareholder who failed to deliver a timely Nominating Shareholder’s notice in proper written form to the directors for purposes of the originally scheduled shareholders’ meeting shall nonetheless be entitled to provide a Nominating Shareholder’s notice for purposes of any adjourned or postponed meeting of shareholders as the determination as to whether a Nominating Shareholder’s notice is timely is to be determined based off of the adjourned or postponed shareholders’ meeting date and not the original shareholders’ meeting date.

 

11.5                         To be in proper written form, a Nominating Shareholder’s notice to the board must set forth the following information, all of which the Corporation believes to be necessary information to be included in a dissident proxy circular, or is necessary to enable to board and shareholders to determine director nominee qualifications, relevant experience, shareholding or voting interest in the Corporation or independence, all in the same manner as would be required for nominees of the Corporation:

 

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11.5.1       as to each person whom the Nominating Shareholder proposes to nominate for election as a director (each, a “Proposed Nominee”): (A) the name, age, business address and residential address of the person; (B) the principal occupation or employment of the person for the past five years; (C) the status of such person as a “resident Canadian” (as such term is defined in the Act); (D) the class or series and number of shares in the capital of the Corporation which are controlled or which are owned beneficially or of record by the person as of the record date for the meeting of shareholders (if such date shall then have been made publicly available and shall have occurred) and as of the date of such notice; and (E) any other information relating to the person that would be required to be disclosed in a dissident’s proxy circular in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors pursuant to the Act and Applicable Securities Laws; and

 

11.5.2       as to each Nominating Shareholder giving the notice, any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding or relationship pursuant to which such Nominating Shareholder has a right vote any shares of the Corporation and any other information relating to such Nominating Shareholder that would be required to be made in a dissident’s proxy circular in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors pursuant to the Act and Applicable Securities Laws.

 

11.6                         The Corporation may require that any Proposed Nominee furnish such other information as may be required to be contained in a dissident proxy circular or by applicable law or regulation to determine the independence of the Proposed Nominee or the eligibility of such Proposed Nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation or a member of any committee of the board. Such information, if received, will generally be summarized in the Corporation’s information circular.

 

11.7                          All information to be provided in a timely notice pursuant to Section 11.5 above shall be provided as of the record date for determining shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting (if such date shall then have been publicly announced) and as of the date of such notice. The Nominating Shareholder shall update such information forthwith if there are any material changes in the information previously disclosed.

 

11.8                         Subject to Section 11.9, no person shall be eligible for election as a director of the Corporation unless such person has been nominated in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 11 shall be deemed to preclude discussion by a shareholder (as distinct from the nomination of directors) at a meeting of shareholders of any matter in respect of which such shareholder would have been entitled to submit a proposal pursuant to the Act. The chairman of the applicable meeting shall have the power and duty to determine whether a nomination was made in accordance with the procedures set forth in the foregoing provisions and, if any proposed nomination is not in compliance with such foregoing provisions, to declare that such defective nomination shall be disregarded.

 

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11.9                          Notwithstanding the foregoing, the board may, in its sole discretion, waive all or any of the requirements in this Section 11.

 

12.              FORUM SELECTION

 

12.1                         Forum of Adjudication of Certain Disputes. Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Superior Court of Justice of the Province of Ontario, Canada and the appellate Courts therefrom (or, failing such court, any other “court” (as defined in the Act) having jurisdiction and the appellate Courts therefrom), shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation; (ii) any action or proceeding asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer, or other employee of the Corporation to the Corporation; (iii) any action or proceeding asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the Act or the articles or the by-laws of the Corporation (as either may be amended from time to time); or (iv) any action or proceeding asserting a claim otherwise related to the “affairs” (as defined in the Act) of the Corporation. If any action or proceeding the subject matter of which is within the scope of the preceding sentence is filed in a Court other than a Court located within the Province of Ontario (a “Foreign Action”) in the name of any securityholder, such securityholder shall be deemed to have consented to (a) the personal jurisdiction of the provincial and federal Courts located within the Province of Ontario in connection with any action or proceeding brought in any such Court to enforce the preceding sentence and (b) having service of process made upon such securityholder in any such action or proceeding by service upon such securityholder’s counsel in the Foreign Action as agent for such securityholder.

 

13.              EFFECTIVE DATE

 

13.1                          Effective Date. This by-law shall come into force when made by the directors in accordance with the Act.

 

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14.              REPEAL

 

14.1                          Repeal. All previous by-laws of the Corporation are repealed as of the coming into force of this by-law. Such repeal shall not affect the validity of any act done or right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired or incurred under, or the validity of any contract or agreement made pursuant to, or the validity of any articles or predecessor charter documents of the Corporation obtained pursuant to, any such by-laws prior to its repeal. All officers and persons acting under any by-law so repealed shall continue to act as if appointed under the provisions of this by-law and all resolutions of the shareholders or the board or a committee of the board with continuing effect passed under any repealed by-law shall continue in full force and effect except to the extent inconsistent with this by-law and until amended or repealed.

 

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RESOLVED THAT the foregoing by-law is made a by-law of the Corporation by the signatures hereto of all the directors of the Corporation pursuant to the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) this 4th day of September, 2020.

 

“Brian P. Burke”   “Colleen Campbell”
Brian P. Burke   Colleen Campbell
     
“Sasha Cucuz”   “Adrienne Graves”
Sasha Cucuz   Adrienne Graves, Ph.D.
     
“William Leonard”   “Adele C. Oliva”
William Leonard   Adele C. Oliva
     
“Frank Tworecke”   “Elias Vamvakas”
Frank Tworecke   Elias Vamvakas

 

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I, William Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Corporation”), hereby certify that the foregoing by-law was duly approved and confirmed by the votes of a majority of the common shares of the Corporation present in person or represented by proxy at a special meeting of shareholders held on January 12, 2021.

 

      By: “William Leonard”
       

Name:

William Leonard

        Title: President and Chief Executive Officer

 

Exhibit 99.4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

For the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019

 

November 10, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

BASIS OF PRESENTATION 3
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING NON-IFRS MEASURES AND INDUSTRY METRICS 3
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION 4
BUSINESS OVERVIEW 5
FACTORS AFFECTING OUR PERFORMANCE 6
SEGMENTS 6
COMPONENTS OF OUR RESULTS OF OPERATIONS AND TRENDS AFFECTING OUR BUSINESS 6
FACTORS AFFECTING THE COMPARABILITY OF OUR RESULTS 8
KEY HIGHLIGHTS AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 9
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS 11
ANALYSIS OF RESULTS FOR Q3 2020 AND YTD 2020 12
QUARTERLY FINANCIAL INFORMATION 16
EBITDA AND ADJUSTED EBITDA 17
RECONCILIATION OF LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE COMMON SHAREHOLDERS OF GREENBROOK TO EBITDA AND ADJUSTED EBITDA 17
FINANCIAL CONDITION, LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES 17
INDEBTEDNESS 19
OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS 19
SHARE INFORMATION 19
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS 19
RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES 20
DISCLOSURE CONTROLS & PROCEDURES AND INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING 22
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES AND JUDGMENTS 22
RISK FACTORS 23
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 23

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

The following Management’s Discussion and Analysis (“MD&A”) provides information concerning the financial condition and results of operations of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Company”, “Greenbrook”, “us” or “we”). This MD&A should be read in conjunction with our unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, including the related notes thereto, and our audited consolidated financial statements, including the related notes thereto, for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 and the related MD&A.

 

BASIS OF PRESENTATION

 

Our unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with International Accounting Standard (“IAS”) 34 – Interim Financial Reporting, as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”). Our fiscal year is the 12-month period ending December 31. The next fiscal year will occur in the 12-month period ending December 31, 2020 (“Fiscal 2020”).

 

All references in this MD&A to “Q3 2020” are to our fiscal quarter for the three-month period ended September 30, 2020 and all references to “Q3 2019” are to our fiscal quarter for the three-month period ended September 30, 2019. All references in this MD&A to “Q2 2020” are to our fiscal quarter for the three-month period ended June 30, 2020 and all references to “Q2 2019” are to our fiscal quarter for the three-month period ended June 30, 2019. All references in this MD&A to “Q1 2020” are to our fiscal quarter for the three-month period ended March 31, 2020. All references in this MD&A to “YTD 2020” or “year-to-date 2020” are to the nine-month period ended September 30, 2020 and all references to “YTD 2019” or “year-to-date 2019” are to the nine-month period ended September 30, 2019. All references in this MD&A to “Fiscal 2019” are to our fiscal year ended December 31, 2019.

 

Amounts stated in this MD&A are in United States dollars, unless otherwise indicated.

 

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING NON-IFRS MEASURES AND INDUSTRY METRICS

 

This MD&A makes reference to certain non-International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) measures including certain metrics specific to the industry in which we operate. These measures are not recognized measures under IFRS, do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and, therefore, may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. Rather, these measures are provided as additional information to complement those IFRS measures by providing further understanding of our results of operations from management’s perspective. Accordingly, these measures are not intended to represent, and should not be considered as alternatives to, loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook or other performance measures derived in accordance with IFRS as measures of operating performance or operating cash flows or as a measure of liquidity. In addition to our results determined in accordance with IFRS, we use non-IFRS measures including, “EBITDA” and “Adjusted EBITDA”. This MD&A also refers to “Same-Region Sales Growth”, which is an operating metric used in the industry in which we operate but may be calculated differently by other companies. These non-IFRS measures, including industry metrics, are used to provide investors with supplemental measures of our operating performance and thus highlight trends in our core business that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on IFRS measures. We also believe that securities analysts, investors and other interested parties frequently use non-IFRS measures, including industry metrics, in the evaluation of issuers. Our management also uses non-IFRS measures, including industry metrics, to facilitate operating performance comparisons from period to period, to prepare annual operating budgets and forecasts and to determine components of management compensation.

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We define such non-IFRS measures, including industry metrics, as follows:

 

Adjusted EBITDA” is defined as net income (loss) before amortization, depreciation, interest expenses, interest income and income taxes, adjusted for share-based compensation expenses, center development costs, and non-recurring expenses. We believe our Adjusted EBITDA metric is a meaningful financial metric as it measures the ability of our current TMS Center (as defined below) operations to generate earnings while eliminating the impact of costs incurred related to our TMS Center growth plans and share-based compensation expenses, neither of which has an impact on the operating performance of our existing TMS Center network.

 

EBITDA” is defined as net income (loss) before amortization, depreciation, interest expenses, interest income and income taxes.

 

Same-Region Sales Growth” is a metric used to compare the percentage change in sales derived from established management regions in a certain period as compared to the sales from the same management regions in the same period of the prior year and functions as an indicator of organic growth. We monitor our business on a regional basis to focus on increasing patient volume within a management region in addition to assessing individual TMS Center locations on a standalone basis. As a result, we will from time to time establish a TMS Center that may, over the short term, negatively impact the patient volume at another TMS Center, but which is expected to add incremental patient volume to the management region as a whole in an economically beneficial manner. We believe our Same-Region Sales Growth metric helps quantify our sales growth within regional management areas and the related growth opportunities associated with adding TMS Center density within established management regions. Same-Region Sales Growth is calculated based on management regions containing open TMS Centers that have performed billable TMS services for a period of at least one full year prior to each of the comparable periods. Our Same-Region Sales Growth is unique to our financial management strategy and may be calculated differently compared to other companies.

 

See “Reconciliation of Loss Attributable to the Common Shareholders of Greenbrook to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA” for a reconciliation of certain of the foregoing non-IFRS measures to their most directly comparable measures calculated in accordance with IFRS.

 

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION

 

Some of the information contained in this MD&A, including the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic (“COVID-19”) and the Company’s response thereto, the proposed debt financing, and the anticipated listing of our common shares on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC, constitutes forward-looking information. This information is based on management’s reasonable assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently available to us and is current as of the date of this MD&A. Actual results and the timing of events may differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking information contained in this MD&A as a result of various factors.

 

Particularly, information regarding our expectations of future results, performance, growth, achievements, prospects or opportunities or the markets in which we operate is forward-looking information. In some cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “outlook”, “forecasts”, “projection”, “prospects”, “strategy”, “intends”, “anticipates”, “does not anticipate”, “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “should”, “might”, “will”, “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, intentions, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events or circumstances.

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Many factors could cause our actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements or future events or developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, the factors discussed in the “Risks and Uncertainties” section of this MD&A. Additional risks and uncertainties are discussed in the Company’s materials filed with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities from time to time, including the Company’s annual information form dated March 10, 2020 in respect of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect us; however, these factors should be considered carefully.

 

The purpose of the forward-looking information is to provide the reader with a description of management’s current expectations regarding the Company’s financial performance and may not be appropriate for other purposes; readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information contained herein. To the extent any forward-looking information in this MD&A constitutes future-oriented financial information or financial outlook, within the meaning of applicable securities laws, such information is being provided to demonstrate the potential of the Company and readers are cautioned that this information may not be appropriate for any other purpose. Future-oriented financial information and financial outlook, as with forward-looking information generally, are based on current assumptions and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors. Furthermore, unless otherwise stated, the forward-looking statements contained in this MD&A are made as of the date of this MD&A and we have no intention and undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable securities law. The forward-looking statements contained in this MD&A are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.

 

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

 

We are a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy in the United States for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (“MDD”) and other mental health disorders. The predecessor to the Company, TMS NeuroHealth Centers, Inc. (“TMS US”) was established in 2011 to take advantage of the opportunity created through the paradigm-shifting technology of TMS, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of MDD. Our business model takes advantage of the opportunity for a new, differentiated service channel for the delivery of TMS – a patient-focused, centers-based service model to make TMS treatment easily accessible to all patients while maintaining a high standard of care.

 

After opening our first center in 2011 in Tysons Corner in Northern Virginia, we have grown to control and operate a network of outpatient mental health service centers that specialize in TMS treatment across the United States (each, a “TMS Center”). The Company offers TMS treatment facilities in convenient locations to provide easy access to patients and physicians. As of September 30, 2020, and as of the date of this MD&A, the Company owned and operated 125 TMS Centers in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Connecticut, Florida, Texas, Michigan, Alaska, Oregon and California.

 

Our regional model seeks to develop leading positions in key regional markets, leveraging operational efficiencies by combining smaller local TMS treatment centers that are strategically located within a single region for convenient patient and physician access, with regional management infrastructure in place to support center operations. Management regions typically cover a specific metropolitan area that meets a requisite base population threshold. The management region is typically defined by a manageable geographic area in terms of size, which facilitates the use of regional staff working across the various TMS Center locations within the management region, and which resides within a marketing capture area that allows for efficiencies in advertising cost. Management regions often have similar economic characteristics and are not necessarily defined by state lines, other geographic borders, or differentiating methods of services delivery, but rather are defined by a functional management area.

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FACTORS AFFECTING OUR PERFORMANCE

 

We believe that our performance and future success depend on a number of factors that present significant opportunities for us. These factors are also subject to a number of inherent risks and challenges, some of which are discussed below. See also the “Risks and Uncertainties” section of this MD&A.

 

Number of TMS Centers

 

We have a meaningful opportunity to continue to grow the number of our TMS Centers in the United States through organic in-region growth, establishing new regions and potential future acquisitions. The opening and success of new TMS Centers is subject to numerous factors, including our ability to locate the appropriate space, finance the operations, build relationships with physicians, and negotiate suitable lease terms and local payor arrangements, and other factors, some of which are beyond our control.

 

Competition

 

The market for TMS is becoming more competitive. We compete principally on the basis of our reputation and brand, the location of our centers and the quality of our TMS services and the reputation of our partner physicians. In the markets in which we are operating, or anticipate operating in the future, competition predominantly consists of individual psychiatrists that have a TMS device, an FDA-regulated medical device specifically manufactured to transmit the magnetic pulses required to stimulate the cortical areas in the brain to effectively treat MDD and other mental health disorders (each, a “TMS Device”), in their office and who can offer TMS therapy directly to their patients. We also face competition from a limited number of multi-location psychiatric practices or behavioral health groups that offer TMS therapy as part of their overall practice, as well as a few other specialist TMS providers.

 

Industry Trends

 

Our revenue is impacted by changes to United States healthcare laws, our partners’ and contractors’ healthcare costs, the ability to secure favorable pricing structures with device manufacturers and payors’ reimbursement criteria and associated rates.

 

Technology

 

Our revenues are affected by the availability of, and reimbursement for, new TMS indications, new technology or other novel treatment modalities and our ability to incorporate the new technology into our TMS Centers.

 

SEGMENTS

 

We evaluate our business and report our results based on organizational units used by management to monitor performance and make operating decisions on the basis of one operating and reportable segment: Outpatient Mental Health Service Centers. We currently measure this reportable operating segment’s performance based on revenues and regional operating income.

 

COMPONENTS OF OUR RESULTS OF OPERATIONS AND TRENDS AFFECTING OUR BUSINESS

 

In assessing our results of operations and trends affecting our business, we consider a variety of financial and operating measures that affect our operating results.

 

Total Revenue

 

Total revenue consists of service revenue attributable to the performance of TMS treatments. In circumstances where the net patient fees have not yet been received, the amount of revenue recognized is estimated based on an expected value approach where management considers such variables as the average of previous net patient fees received by the applicable payor and fees received by other patients for similar services and management’s best estimate leveraging industry knowledge and expectations of third-party payors’ fee schedules. Third party payors include federal and state agencies (under the Medicare programs), managed care health plans and commercial insurance companies.

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Regional Operating Income (Loss) and Direct Center and Regional Costs

 

Regional operating income (loss) is calculated as total revenue less direct center and regional costs. Direct center and regional costs consist of direct center and patient care costs, regional employee compensation, regional marketing expenses, and depreciation. These costs encapsulate all costs (other than incentive compensation such as share-based compensation granted to senior regional employees) associated with the center and regional management infrastructure, including the cost of the delivery of TMS treatments to patients and the cost of our regional patient acquisition strategy. Beginning Q1 2020, the Company has excluded amortization from regional operating income (loss) based on the nature of the expense as it is not associated with center and regional infrastructure. We have retrospectively updated our quarterly financial information below to reflect this change (see “Quarterly Financial Information” below).

 

Center Development Costs, Capital Expenditure and Working Capital Investment

 

Center development costs represent direct expenses associated with developing new TMS Centers, including small furnishings and fittings, wiring and electrical and, in some cases, the cost of minor space alterations. However, the main cash requirement for center development relates to working capital investment. This includes rental deposits or other non-capital costs required to open TMS Centers and the cost of TMS treatment delivery while collections initially lag until payor contracting, credentialing and enrollment processes are completed.

 

Corporate Employee Compensation

 

Corporate employee compensation represents compensation incurred to manage the centralized business infrastructure of the Company, including annual base salary, annual cash bonuses and other non-equity incentives.

 

Corporate Marketing Expenses

 

Corporate marketing expenses represent costs incurred that impact the Company on an overall basis including investments in website functionality and brand management activities.

 

Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses

 

Other corporate, general and administrative expenses represent expenses related to the corporate infrastructure required to support our ongoing business including insurance costs, professional and legal costs and costs incurred related to our corporate offices.

 

We have invested in this area to support the growing volume and complexity of our business and anticipate continuing to do so in the future. We have already started to scale into our centralized business infrastructure and leverage these fixed costs as we continue to expand our TMS Center network.

 

Transaction Costs

 

Transaction costs represent accounting, legal and professional fees incurred as part of significant transactions, including the acquisition of Achieve TMS Centers, LLC and Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC (collectively, “Achieve TMS”) in Q3 2019 (the “Achieve TMS Acquisition”). See “Factors Affecting the Comparability of Our Results – Acquisition of Achieve TMS” below.

 

Earn-Out Consideration

 

A portion of the purchase price payable in respect of the Achieve TMS Acquisition (see “Factors Affecting the Comparability of Our Results – Acquisition of Achieve TMS” below) is subject to an earn-out based on the earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization achieved by Achieve TMS during the twelve-month period following September 26, 2019, the closing date of the Achieve TMS Acquisition (the “Earn-Out”). 70% of the Earn-Out consideration will be settled in cash and the remainder will be settled through the issuance of common shares of the Company (“Common Shares”) to the vendors, subject to applicable regulatory and stock exchange approvals. The amount recognized as at September 30, 2020 is based on management’s best estimate of the Earn-Out payable and is subject to estimation uncertainty.

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Share-Based Compensation

 

Share-based compensation represents stock options granted as consideration in exchange for employee and similar services to align personnel performance with the Company’s long-term goals.

 

Amortization

 

Amortization relates to the reduction in useful life of the Company’s intangible assets that were realized as part of the Achieve TMS Acquisition.

 

Interest

 

Interest expense relates to interest incurred on loans and lease liabilities. Interest income relates to income realized as a result of investing excess funds into investment accounts.

 

Adjusted EBITDA and Non-Recurring Expenses

 

Adjusted EBITDA is a non-IFRS measure that deducts non-recurring expenses, which represent one-time costs incurred for purposes of enhancing the performance of the business and to achieve our TMS Center growth. This includes the recognition of a one-time cost with respect to the Earn-Out payable in connection with the Achieve TMS Acquisition. This also includes one-time professional and legal fees incurred in connection with the anticipated listing of our Common Shares on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“NASDAQ”). The listing of our Common Shares on NASDAQ remains subject to the approval of NASDAQ and the satisfaction of all applicable listing and regulatory requirements, including the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) declaring the Form 20-F Registration Statement effective.

 

FACTORS AFFECTING THE COMPARABILITY OF OUR RESULTS

 

COVID-19

 

While all of our active TMS Centers are open, and are expected to remain open going forward, we experienced a temporary decline in both patient visits/treatments and new patient starts in YTD 2020 as a result of the restrictions imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (see “Key Highlights and Recent Developments – COVID-19 Business Impact” and “Risks and Uncertainties” below).

 

Acquisition of Achieve TMS

 

On September 26, 2019, we, through our wholly-owned subsidiary, TMS US, completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding membership interests of each of Achieve TMS Centers, LLC and Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC for a purchase price of $10,596,912 (net of Achieve TMS’ cash), of which $2,611,044 of the purchase price was satisfied through the issuance of an aggregate of 1,431,736 Common Shares to the vendors and the remainder was settled in cash, less deferred and contingent consideration of $1,274,402. Achieve TMS currently operates 22 active TMS Centers, with an additional TMS Center in development, in California, Oregon and Alaska. Achieve TMS has a particular focus on deep TMS therapy. We believe that the Achieve TMS Acquisition will allow us to accelerate our expansion in the western United States in future periods.

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A portion of the purchase price payable in respect to the Achieve TMS Acquisition is subject to the Earn-Out. 70% of the Earn-Out consideration will be settled in cash and the remainder will be settled through the issuance of Common Shares to the vendors. See “Components of Our Results of Operations and Trends Affecting Our Business – Earn-Out Consideration” above.

 

Regional Development Activity

 

Our regional model seeks to develop leading positions in key markets, and to leverage operational efficiencies by combining smaller local TMS treatment centers within a region under a single shared regional management infrastructure. Part of our core strategy is to continue to develop new TMS Centers within our existing regions as well as in new management regions, in each case, organically or through acquisitions of existing centers or businesses, which may affect comparability of results.

 

KEY HIGHLIGHTS AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

 

During Q3 2020, despite the challenging operating environment imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we achieved our second highest quarterly revenue results to date and marked our return to strong regional operating income. We showed resilient performance through the COVID-19 pandemic, as we delivered strong year-over-year revenue growth of 43% compared to YTD 2019 and 42% compared to Q3 2019, respectively. We also experienced record monthly highs in new patient starts throughout Q3 2020, which we anticipate will be a catalyst for accelerated future growth (see “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information” above).

 

Disciplined cost containment strategies remained in place through Q3 2020 and we also added one new active TMS Center during the quarter, while an additional 11 TMS Centers remain in development. Our current total TMS network is comprised of 125 TMS Centers.

 

Growth in Total Revenue

 

Despite the impact of COVID-19, consolidated revenue increased by 42% to $12.0 million in Q3 2020 (Q3 2019: $8.5 million) representing our second highest quarterly revenue results to date. Furthermore, consolidated revenue increased by 43% during YTD 2020 to $33.2 million (YTD 2019: $23.1 million) and 23% as compared to Q2 2020 (Q2 2020: $9.8 million).

 

With an additional 11 TMS Centers in development as at the end of Q3 2020, coupled with a new record high in new patient starts in Q3 2020, we believe that we are well positioned for accelerated future growth as COVID-19 related market conditions and patient sentiment improves (see “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information” above).

 

COVID-19 Business Impact

 

All of the Company’s active TMS Centers remained open despite the COVID-19 pandemic to both current and new patients (including as “essential businesses”) and are expected to continue to remain open going forward. However, as a result of an initial decline in treatments and new patient starts earlier in Fiscal 2020 due to the pandemic, we took the following measures in order to control costs:

 

approximately 20% of the Company’s employees were furloughed as of May 1, 2020. During the period of furlough, Greenbrook paid 100% of employer and employee medical premiums;

 

a Company-wide hiring freeze was implemented;

 

each member of the Company’s executive management team agreed to a 10% salary deferral; and

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budgeted discretionary expenses are expected to be reduced by approximately $2 million for Fiscal 2020 (of which $1.7 million was realized during YTD 2020 as compared to our plan to date).

 

As operating conditions and volumes of patient treatments began to normalize, the Company re-instated furloughed employees to match increased mental health treatment demand, removed the Company-wide hiring freeze and ended the salary deferral for the Company’s executive management team. The Company, however, continues to reduce discretionary spending. Our entire team continues to work tirelessly to deliver the highest quality of care at all of our TMS Centers, while at the same time taking all possible steps to safeguard the health and well-being of our patients, employees and physician partners. We see these challenging operating conditions as temporary and we are starting to see a positive change in sentiment. However, as we navigate through this unprecedented and challenging period, we will continue to assess the need for additional measures to control costs. See “Risks and Uncertainties”.

 

Regional Operating Income

 

Q3 2020 resulted in strong regional operating income despite the challenging operating environment caused by COVID-19. We realized regional operating income of $1.0 million in Q3 2020 as compared to regional operating loss of $0.2 million in Q2 2020. Regional operating income for Q3 2020 increased by 26% (Q3 2019: $0.8 million) and decreased by 38% to $1.5 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $2.4 million). The increase in Q3 2020 is primarily attributable to an increase in patient starts and a decrease in discretionary budgeted spending during the period. This is despite the inclusion of one newly active TMS Center and 11 TMS Centers in development, which will take time to generate positive regional operating income.

 

Investment in the Centralized Business Infrastructure and Rationalization of Aggregate Corporate Costs

 

Aggregate corporate costs (including corporate employee compensation, corporate marketing expenses and other corporate, general and administrative expenses and excluding non-recurring expenses) increased by 22% to $3.3 million for Q3 2020 (Q3 2019: $2.7 million) and by 30% to $10.4 million in YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $7.9 million). Aggregate corporate costs increased by 7% compared to Q2 2020 (Q2 2020: $3.1 million). This is the result of investments in our business infrastructure as market conditions stabilized, offset by disciplined measures implemented to control costs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

As anticipated, the Q3 2020 and YTD 2020 aggregate corporate costs growth rate has decreased significantly as compared to Fiscal 2019 as we continue to scale into our centralized business infrastructure. This is further highlighted by the growth in revenue of 42% in Q3 2020 and 43% during YTD 2020, eclipsing the growth rate in aggregate corporate costs of 22% in Q3 2020 and 30% during YTD 2020.

 

Continued Development of our TMS Center Network

 

We added one active TMS Center during Q3 2020 with an additional 11 TMS Centers in development as at September 30, 2020. This brings our total network to 125 TMS Centers, which is an increase of 18% from Q3 2019.

 

We believe our development pipeline remains robust and primed for further expansion. We have, however, temporarily curtailed development activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

 

May 2020 Offering

 

On May 21, 2020, the Company completed a public offering of 9,093,940 Common Shares at an aggregate offering price of C$1.65 per Common Share for aggregate gross proceeds of C$15,005,001 (the “Offering”). The Company is using the net proceeds from the Offering to fund operating activities and for other working capital and general corporate purposes.

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Proposed Debt Financing

 

On November 10, 2020, the Company entered into a non-binding term sheet with a third party lender in respect of a secured term loan facility in an aggregate amount of up to $30 million (the “Proposed Debt Financing”). Completion of the Proposed Debt Financing remains subject to customary conditions, including completion of due diligence and negotiation of definitive documentation; however, there can be no assurances that the Proposed Debt Financing will be completed on the terms set forth in the non-binding term sheet, or at all. See “Financial Condition, Liquidity and Capital Resources”.

 

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

Selected Financial Information

 

The following table summarizes our results of operations for the periods indicated. The selected consolidated financial information set out below have been derived from our unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements and related notes.

 

(US$)  

Q3 2020

(unaudited)

   

Q3 2019

(unaudited)

   

YTD 2020

(unaudited)

   

YTD 2019

(unaudited)

 
Total revenue     12,006,570       8,459,103       33,215,627       23,148,860  
                                 
Direct center and patient care costs     5,473,759       4,267,769       16,521,201       11,655,616  
Regional employee compensation     2,569,958       1,670,037       7,419,487       4,460,213  
Regional marketing expenses     1,584,426       742,482       3,539,227       1,881,054  
Depreciation     1,410,843       1,008,002       4,253,530       2,751,998  
Total direct center and regional costs     11,038,986       7,688,290       31,733,445       20,748,881  
Regional operating income     967,584       770,813       1,482,182       2,399,979  
Center development costs     65,291       496,509       435,659       1,176,180  
Corporate employee compensation     2,555,515       1,420,069       7,577,540       4,336,220  
Corporate marketing expenses     202,435       578,330       806,120       1,210,219  
Transaction costs           378,407             378,407  
Other corporate, general and administrative expenses     780,402       748,297       2,165,361       2,395,084  
Share-based compensation     171,056       117,112       455,908       573,426  
Amortization     115,832             347,498        
Interest expense     708,665       513,138       2,060,707       1,316,795  
Interest income     (8,857 )     (116,035 )     (18,418 )     (140,144 )
Earn-out consideration     4,045,000             9,295,000        
Loss before income taxes     (7,667,755 )     (3,365,014 )     (21,643,193 )     (8,846,208 )
Income tax expense                        
Loss for the period and comprehensive loss     (7,667,755 )     (3,365,014 )     (21,643,193 )     (8,846,208 )
(Loss) income attributable to non-controlling interest     (31,623 )     65,995       (371,283 )     29,315  
Loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook     (7,636,132 )     (3,431,009 )     (21,271,910 )     (8,875,523 )
Net loss per share (basic and diluted)     (0.11 )     (0.06 )     (0.34 )     (0.17 )

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Selected Financial Position Data

 

The following table provides selected financial position data for the years and periods indicated:

 

(US$)   As at September 30,     As at
December 31,
 
   

2020

(unaudited)

   

2019

(unaudited)

    2019  
Cash     9,170,131       11,569,134       7,947,607  
Current assets (excluding cash)     14,122,145       13,550,697       12,003,831  
Total assets     60,813,316       62,667,384       56,964,106  
Current liabilities     25,657,532       11,524,502       13,183,677  
Non-current liabilities     23,385,217       21,200,222       20,834,296  
Total liabilities     49,042,749       32,724,724       34,017,973  
Non-controlling interests     (70,378 )     523,380       444,405  
Shareholders’ equity     11,770,567       29,942,660       22,946,133  

 

Selected Operating Data

 

The following table provides selected operating data for the years and periods indicated:

 

    As at September 30,     As at
December 31,
 

(unaudited)

  2020     2019     2019  
Number of active TMS Centers(1)     114       94       102  
Number of TMS Centers-in-development(2)     11       12       17  
Total TMS Centers     125       106       119  
Number of management regions     13       13       13  
Number of TMS Devices installed     191       164       178  
Number of regional personnel     286       253       273  
Number of shared-services / corporate personnel(3)     47       36       44  
Number of TMS providers(4)     113       102       109  
Number of consultations performed     7,718       5,560       8,039  
Number of patient starts     4,017       2,888       4,080  
Number of TMS treatments performed     141,584       104,096       155,343  
Average revenue per TMS treatment   $ 235     $ 222     $ 230  

 

 

Notes: 

(1) Active TMS Centers represent TMS Centers that have performed billable TMS services.

(2) TMS Centers-in-development represents TMS Centers that have committed to a space lease agreement and the development process is substantially complete.

(3) Shared-services / corporate personnel is disclosed on a full-time equivalent basis. The Company utilizes part-time staff and consultants as a means of managing costs.

(4) Represents physician partners that are involved in the provision of TMS therapy services from our TMS Centers.

 

Analysis of Results for Q3 2020 and YTD 2020

 

The following section provides an overview of our financial performance during Q3 2020 compared to Q3 2019 and during YTD 2020 compared to YTD 2019.

 

Total Revenue

 

Despite the impact of COVID-19, consolidated revenue increased by 42% to $12.0 million in Q3 2020 (Q3 2019: $8.5 million) representing our second highest quarterly revenue results to date. Furthermore, consolidated revenue increased by 43% during YTD 2020 to $33.2 million (YTD 2019: $23.1 million). This growth was primarily attributable to a strong bounce back from the initial onset of COVID-19 with record monthly highs in new patient starts throughout Q3 2020. Key efforts to provide greater access to patients virtually, through the expanded use of online platforms, focused marketing efforts on the safety and accessibility of our TMS Centers, coupled with the Achieve TMS Acquisition, were key contributors to our revenue growth. We also believe that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased demand for mental health services (including TMS therapy), which we believe will continue to promote growth as operating conditions normalize.

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Same-Region Sales Growth was 2% in Q3 2020 and 2% in YTD 2020. As operating conditions continue to normalize, we believe this metric will revert back to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels (see “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information” and “Cautionary Note Regarding Non-IFRS Measures and Industry Metrics” above).

 

Average revenue per treatment increased by 5% to $235 in Q3 2020 (Q3 2019: $222 and by 6% to $235 during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $222). This increase was predominantly attributable to our expansion into more favorable reimbursement jurisdictions, including as a result of the Achieve TMS Acquisition.

 

Accounts Receivable

 

Accounts receivable increased by $2.1 million to $12.2 million in Q3 2020 (Fiscal 2019: $10.1 million) and increased by $1.3 million compared to Q2 2020 ($10.9 million) primarily due to the significant quarter-over-quarter increase in revenue in Q3 2020 and slightly slower reimbursement timelines experienced from payors due to the disruption caused by COVID-19. We expect accounts receivable to stabilize throughout the balance Fiscal 2020 and into 2021. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

 

Regional Operating Income and Direct Center and Regional Costs

 

Regional operating income for Q3 2020 increased by 26% to $1.0 million (Q3 2019: $0.8 million) and decreased by 38% to $1.5 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $2.4 million). The increase in regional operating income in Q3 2020 compared to Q3 2019 is primarily attributable to an increase in patient starts and a decrease in discretionary budgeted spending during the period, offset by the inclusion of one newly active TMS Center and 11 TMS Centers in development, which will take time to generate positive regional operating income. Compared to YTD 2019, the decrease in YTD 2020 regional operating income is primarily attributable to the impact of COVID-19 on revenue. The regional operating income margin was 8.1% in Q3 2020 as compared to 9.1% in Q3 2019. The regional operating income margin was 4.5% in YTD 2020 compared to 10.4% in YTD 2019, primarily due to the impact of COVID-19.

 

Direct center and regional costs increased by 44% to $11.0 million in Q3 2020 (Q3 2019: $7.7 million) and by 53% to $31.7 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $20.7 million). The increase in direct center and regional costs was primarily due to the addition of regional employee costs and regional marketing costs associated with the addition of new regions and the Achieve TMS Acquisition, offset slightly by the cost containment measures implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (see “Key Highlights and Recent Developments – COVID-19 Business Impact”).

 

Center Development Costs, Capital Expenditures and Working Capital Investment

 

Center development costs decreased by 87% to $0.1 million in Q3 2020 (Q3 2019: $0.5 million) and by 63% to $0.4 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $1.2 million) predominantly as a result of the curtailment of development activity, which started in late Q1 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Average cash investment to establish new TMS Centers (including center development costs, capital expenditures and working capital investment) remained relatively consistent at $0.16 million in Q3 2020 and YTD 2020 (Q3 2019 and YTD 2019: $0.17 million).

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Corporate Employee Compensation

 

Corporate employee compensation incurred to manage the centralized business infrastructure of the Company increased by 80% to $2.6 million in Q3 2020 (Q3 2019: $1.4 million) and by 75% to $7.6 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $4.3 million). The increase was primarily due to significant increases in staffing in respect of our shared-services functions in addition to employees inherited in connection with the Achieve TMS Acquisition.

 

As anticipated, the Q3 2020 corporate employee compensation growth rate has decreased significantly as compared to the Fiscal 2019 corporate employee compensation growth rate of 171% as we are starting to scale into our centralized business infrastructure and leverage these fixed costs as we continue to expand our TMS Center network.

 

Corporate Marketing Expenses

 

Corporate marketing expenses decreased by 65% to $0.2 million in Q3 2020 (Q3 2019: $0.6 million) and by 33% to $0.8 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $1.2 million). The decrease was a result of the cost containment measures implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (see “Key Highlights and Recent Developments – COVID-19 Business Impact”).

 

Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses

 

Other corporate, general and administrative expenses remained relatively consistent at $0.8 million in Q3 2020 (Q3 2019: $0.7 million) and decreased by 10% to $2.2 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $2.4 million). The decrease was primarily a result of cost containment measures implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (see “Key Highlights and Recent Developments – COVID-19 Business Impact”).

 

As anticipated, the other corporate, general and administrative expenses growth rate has decreased as compared to the Fiscal 2019 growth rate of 72% (after excluding non-recurring expenses). We expect that the other corporate, general and administrative expenses growth rate will continue to normalize throughout Fiscal 2020 and that we will be able to scale our investments and leverage fixed costs as we expand our TMS Center network in the future. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

 

Earn-Out Consideration

 

The estimated Earn-Out consideration increased by $4.0 million in Q3 2020 and $9.3 million during YTD 2020 (Q3 2019 and YTD 2019: nil). The increase is a result of the Company’s estimate of the purchase price payable with respect of the Earn-Out, with strong performance from Achieve TMS, specifically in Alaska. See “Factors Affecting the Comparability of our Results – Acquisition of Achieve TMS”. The amount recognized is based on management’s best estimate of the Earn-Out payable and is still subject to estimation uncertainty until a final determination is made.

 

Share-Based Compensation

 

Share-based compensation increased by 46% to $0.2 million in Q3 2020 (Q3 2019: $0.1 million) and decreased by 20% to $0.5 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $0.6 million), predominantly due to the timing of stock options granted to key personnel to ensure retention and long-term alignment with the goals of the Company.

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Amortization

 

Amortization increased by $0.1 million in Q3 2020 (Q3 2019: nil) and by $0.3 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: nil). The increase was a result of the intangible assets acquired as part of the Achieve TMS Acquisition, which occurred at the end of Q3 2019.

 

Interest

 

Interest expense increased by 38% to $0.7 million in Q3 2020 (Q3 2019: $0.5 million) and by 56% to $2.1 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $1.3 million). The increase in interest expense is primarily due to the addition of new lease liabilities in line with the execution of our regional growth strategy.

 

Interest income decreased by 92% to $0.01 million in Q3 2020 (Q3 2019: $0.12 million) and by 87% to $0.02 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $0.14 million) as a result of a decrease in the amount of excess funds invested.

 

Loss for the Period and Comprehensive Loss and Loss for the Period Attributable to the Common Shareholders of Greenbrook

 

The loss for the period and comprehensive loss, excluding the Earn-Out consideration, increased by 8% to $3.6 million in Q3 2020 (Q3 2019: $3.4 million) and by 40% to $12.3 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $8.8 million). The loss for the period and comprehensive loss, including the Earn-Out consideration, increased by 128% to $7.7 million in Q3 2020 (Q3 2019: $3.4 million) and by 145% to $21.6 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $8.8 million). This increase is primarily a result of the impact of COVID-19, the increase in Earn-Out consideration estimated with respect to the Achieve TMS Acquisition, the inclusion of one newly active TMS Center and 11 TMS Centers in development (which will take time to generate positive regional operating income), as well as marginally higher corporate costs due to investments in the centralized business infrastructure as outlined in “Regional Operating Income and Direct Center and Regional Costs”, “Corporate Employee Compensation” and “Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses” in this MD&A.

 

The loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook, excluding the Earn-Out consideration, increased by 5% to $3.6 million in Q3 2020 (Q3 2019: $3.4 million) and by 35% to $12.0 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $8.9 million). The loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook, including the Earn-Out consideration, increased by 123% to $7.6 million in Q3 2020 (Q3 2019: $3.4 million) and by 140% to $21.3 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $8.9 million). This increase is primarily a result of the impact of COVID-19, the increase in Earn-Out consideration estimated with respect to the Achieve TMS Acquisition, the inclusion of one newly active TMS Center and 11 TMS Centers in development (which will take time to generate positive regional operating income), as well as higher corporate costs due to investments in the centralized business infrastructure as outlined in “Regional Operating Income and Direct Center and Regional Costs”, “Corporate Employee Compensation” and “Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses” in this MD&A.

 

Adjusted EBITDA and Non-Recurring Expenses

 

The Adjusted EBITDA loss position decreased by 9% to $0.9 million in Q3 2020 (Q3 2019: $1.0 million). However, the Adjusted EBITDA loss position increased by 51% to $4.3 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $2.8 million) predominately due to the impact of COVID-19, the inclusion of one newly active TMS Center and 11 TMS Centers in development (which will take time to generate positive regional operating income) and slightly higher corporate costs as outlined in “Corporate Employee Compensation”, “Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses”, “Regional Operating Income and Direct Center and Regional Costs” in this MD&A.

 

Due to their nature, the Earn-Out consideration with respect to the Achieve TMS Acquisition as well as other one time professional and legal fees are non-recurring expenses incurred during Q3 2020 and YTD 2020 and were therefore excluded from Adjusted EBITDA. One-time professional and legal fees incurred in Q3 2020 in connection with the anticipated listing of our Common Shares on NASSDAQ have also been excluded from Adjusted EBITDA due to their non-recurring nature. The listing of our Common Shares on NASDAQ remains subject to the approval of NASDAQ and the satisfaction of all applicable listing and regulatory requirements, including the SEC declaring the Form 20-F Registration Statement effective. In Q3 2019 and YTD 2019, transaction costs included professional and legal fees associated with the Achieve TMS Acquisition which are non-recurring in nature and therefore excluded from Adjusted EBITDA. Our TMS Center development costs relate to our TMS Center growth and, accordingly, have also been excluded from Adjusted EBITDA.

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QUARTERLY FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

The following table summarizes the results of our operations for the eight most recently completed fiscal quarters.

 

(US$)   Q3 2020     Q2 2020     Q1 2020     Q4 2019     Q3 2019     Q2 2019     Q1 2019    

Q4 2018(2)

 
(unaudited)                                                                
Revenue     12,006,570       9,788,555       11,420,502       12,536,671       8,459,103       8,082,559       6,607,198       7,092,455  
Regional operating income (loss)(1)     967,584       (225,198 )     739,796       2,056,836       770,813       1,002,166       627,000       1,418,347  
Net loss attributable to shareholders of Greenbrook     (7,636,132 )     (9,477,504 )     (4,158,274 )     (7,034,356 )     (3,431,009 )     (2,874,092 )     (2,570,422 )     (949,031 )
Adjusted EBITDA     (937,073 )     (1,665,671 )     (1,648,053 )     (1,296,201 )     (1,033,876 )     (957,428 )     (827,557 )     (865,210 )
Net loss per share – Basic     (0.11 )     (0.15 )     (0.08 )     (0.13 )     (0.06 )     (0.06 )     (0.05 )     (0.01 )
Net loss per share – Diluted     (0.11 )     (0.15 )     (0.08 )     (0.13 )     (0.06 )     (0.06 )     (0.05 )     (0.01 )


 

 

Notes: 

(1) Regional operating income for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2019 has been updated to exclude amortization (see “Components of our results of our operations and trends affecting our business” above).

(2) The Company adopted IFRS 16, Leases (“IFRS 16”) effective as at January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective approach. As a result of this approach, the prior period figures were not adjusted.

 

Robust performance, despite the impact of COVID-19, resulted in consolidated revenue increasing by 23% to $12.0 million in Q3 2020 (Q2 2020: $9.8 million).

 

We experienced regional operating income in the amount of $1.0 million in Q3 2020 as compared to a regional operating loss of $0.2 million in Q2 2020, predominantly attributable to an increase in patient starts and a decrease in discretionary budgeted spending during the period (see “Key Highlights and Recent Developments – COVID-19 Business Impact”).

 

The loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook, excluding the Earn-Out consideration, decreased by 15% to $3.6 million in Q3 2020 (Q2 2020: $4.2 million). The loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook, including the Earn-Out consideration, decreased by 19% to $7.6 million in Q3 2020 (Q2 2020: $9.5 million). The decrease in the loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook was predominately due to an incremental adjustment to the estimated Earn-Out consideration with respect to the Achieve TMS Acquisition that was smaller in Q3 2020 relative to the prior quarter.

 

The Adjusted EBITDA loss position decreased by 44% to $0.9 million in Q3 2020 (Q2 2020: $1.7 million) despite the impact of COVID-19. This was primarily due to record monthly highs in patient starts in the period and continued implementation of cost containment measures to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on revenue.

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EBITDA AND ADJUSTED EBITDA

 

The table below illustrates our EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA for the periods presented:

 

(US$)  

Q3 2020

(unaudited)

   

Q3 2019

(unaudited)

   

YTD 2020

(unaudited)

   

YTD 2019

(unaudited)

 
EBITDA     (5,409,649 )     (2,025,904 )     (14,628,593 )     (4,946,874 )
Adjusted EBITDA     (937,073 )     (1,033,876 )     (4,250,797 )     (2,818,861 )

 

See “Cautionary Note Regarding Non-IFRS Measures and Industry Metrics” in this MD&A.

 

RECONCILIATION OF LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE COMMON SHAREHOLDERS OF GREENBROOK TO EBITDA AND ADJUSTED EBITDA

 

The table below illustrates a reconciliation of loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA for the periods presented:

 

(US$)  

Q3 2020

(unaudited)

   

Q3 2019

(unaudited)

   

YTD 2020

(unaudited)

   

YTD 2019

(unaudited)

 
Loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook     (7,636,132 )     (3,431,009 )     (21,271,910 )     (8,875,523 )
Add the impact of:                                
Interest expense     708,665       513,138       2,060,707       1,316,795  
Amortization     115,832             347,498        
Depreciation     1,410,843       1,008,002       4,253,530       2,751,998  
Less the impact of:                                
Interest income     (8,857 )     (116,035 )     (18,418 )     (140,144 )
EBITDA     (5,409,649 )     (2,025,904 )     (14,628,593 )     (4,946,874 )
Add the impact of:                                
Share-based compensation     171,056       117,112       455,908       573,426  
TMS Center development costs     65,291       496,509       435,659       1,176,180  
Add transaction costs:                                
Acquisition related legal and professional fees           378,407             378,407  
Add other non-recurring expenses:                                
Earn-out consideration     4,045,000             9,295,000        
NASDAQ listing related professional and legal fees     191,229             191,229        
Adjusted EBITDA     (937,073 )     (1,033,876 )     (4,250,797 )     (2,818,861 )

 

FINANCIAL CONDITION, LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

 

Overview

 

The Company’s primary uses of capital are to finance operations, finance new TMS Center development costs, increase non-cash working capital and fund investments in its centralized business infrastructure. The Company’s objectives when managing capital are to ensure that the Company will continue to have enough liquidity to provide services to its customers and provide returns to its shareholders.

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The Company, as part of its annual budgeting process, evaluates its estimated annual cash requirements to fund planned expansion activities and working capital requirements of existing operations. As a result of the negative impact of COVID-19 on the Company’s business, the Company has had to revise its annual budget, estimated annual cash requirements and working capital requirements. Based on this updated cash budget and considering its anticipated cash flows from regional operations, the cost containment measures implemented by the Company as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its holdings of cash, the Company believes that it has sufficient capital to meet its future operating expenses, capital expenditures and future debt service requirements for approximately the next 6 months. However, our ability to fund operating expenses, capital expenditures and future debt service requirements will depend on, among other things, our future operating performance, which will be affected by the velocity of our regional development strategy and general economic, financial and other factors, including factors beyond our control such as COVID-19. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”, “Risks and Uncertainties” and “Factors Affecting our Performance” in this MD&A.

 

On April 21, 2020, Greenbrook entered into a promissory note with U.S. Bank National Association (the “Lender”), evidencing an unsecured loan in the amount of $3,080,760 (the “Loan”) made to the Company under the United States Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”). The PPP is a program organized by the U.S. Small Business Administration established under the recently-enacted Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”). The Loan bears interest at a fixed rate of 1.0% per annum with a maturity date of two years from the date of the Loan. Payments are deferred for the first six months under the Loan, and the Loan may be forgiven in its entirety provided that the proceeds from the Loan are used by Greenbrook to cover payroll costs, rent and utilities.

 

On November 10, 2020, we entered into a non-binding term sheet with a third party lender in respect of the Proposed Debt Financing. See “Key Highlights and Recent Developments – Proposed Debt Financing”.

 

Analysis of Cash Flows for YTD 2020

 

The following table presents our cash flows for each of the periods presented:

 

(US$)  

YTD 2020

   

YTD 2019

 
Net cash used in operating activities     (6,234,922 )     (7,131,681 )
Net cash generated from financing activities     7,681,848       16,940,015  
Net cash used in investing activities     (224,402 )     (7,620,800 )
Increase in cash     1,222,524       2,187,534  

 

Cash Flows used in Operating Activities

 

For YTD 2020, cash flows used in operating activities (which includes the full cost of developing new TMS Centers) totaled $6.2 million, as compared to $7.1 million in YTD 2019. The decrease in cash flows used in operating activities is primarily attributable to the cost containment measures implemented as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic (see “Key Highlights and Recent Developments – COVID-19 Business Impact”) as well as enhanced collection activity.

 

Cash Flows generated from Financing Activities

 

For YTD 2020, cash flows generated from financing activities amounted to $7.7 million as compared to $16.9 million in YTD 2019. This change is largely driven by the difference in net proceeds received by the Company in connection with the Offering in Q2 2020 and the PPP compared to the net proceeds received by the Company in connection with the public offering and concurrent private placement of Common Shares completed during Q2 2019.

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Cash Flows used in Investing Activities

 

For YTD 2020, cash flows used in investing activities totaled $0.2 million as compared to $7.6 million in YTD 2019, which primarily relates to the Achieve TMS Acquisition which occurred in Q3 2019.

 

INDEBTEDNESS

 

During Fiscal 2018, the Company assumed loans from four separate banking institutions that were previously extended for the purchase of TMS Devices to non-controlling interest holder partners. The device loans were assumed as part of partnerships with local physicians, behavioral health groups or other investors, which own minority interests in certain TMS Center subsidiaries. These device loans bear an average interest rate of 10% with average monthly blended interest and capital payments of $1,575 and mature or matured, as applicable, during the years ended December 31, 2019 to December 31, 2023. There are no significant financial covenants associated with these loans. The loans related to one of the banking institutions were repaid during Fiscal 2019.

 

During Fiscal 2019, the Company assumed loans from two separate banking institutions that were previously extended for the purchase of TMS Devices to non-controlling interest holder partners. The device loans were assumed as part of partnerships with local physicians, behavioral health groups or other investors, which own minority interests in certain TMS Center subsidiaries. These device loans bear an average interest rate of 13% with average monthly blended interest and capital payments of $1,756 and mature during the year ended December 31, 2021. There are no significant financial covenants associated with these loans.

 

During YTD 2020, the Company was released from its obligations pertaining to one of the bank loans assumed during Fiscal 2019 as a result of the disposal of the related TMS Device.

 

On April 21, 2020, Greenbrook entered into a promissory note with the Lender, evidencing the Loan made to the Company under the PPP. See “Financial Condition, Liquidity and Capital Resources” above.

 

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

The Company has not engaged in any off-balance sheet financing transactions.

 

Share Information

 

The Company is authorized to issue an unlimited number of Common Shares and an unlimited number of preferred shares, issuable in series. As of September 30, 2020, there were 67,512,383 Common Shares and nil preferred shares issued and outstanding. In addition, there were 3,795,668 stock options and 564,540 broker warrants, each representing a right to acquire one Common Share, issued and outstanding. As of the date of this MD&A, assuming exercise and exchange of all outstanding options and broker warrants, there are 71,872,591 equity securities of the Company issued and outstanding on a fully-diluted basis.

 

Related Party Transactions

 

Compensation of key management personnel

 

The Company transacts with key individuals from management who have authority and responsibility to plan, direct, and control the activities of the Company. Key management personnel are defined as the executive officers of the Company, including the President and Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), the Chief Marketing Officer and the Chief Medical Officer.

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Transactions with significant shareholder – Greybrook Health Inc.

 

As at September 30, 2020, $0.1 million was included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities related to payables for management services and other overhead costs rendered by Greybrook Health Inc. (“Greybrook Health”) to the Company in the ordinary course of business under the MSA (as defined below) (December 31, 2019: $0.1 million).

 

During Q3 2020 and YTD 2020, the Company recognized $0.1 million and $0.3 million in corporate, general and administrative expenses, respectively (Q3 2019 and YTD 2019: $0.1 million and $0.4 million, respectively) related to transactions with the significant shareholder.

 

On January 1, 2015, we entered into a management and consulting services agreement (the “MSA”) with our significant shareholder, Greybrook Health, pursuant to which Greybrook Health provides us and our subsidiaries with certain incidental services, including financial advisory services, business development advisory services and business and operating consulting services (collectively, the “Services”). More specifically, these Services include: (i) the provision of office space for our head office in Toronto, Ontario, and (ii) compensation for our chief financial officer, chief operating officer and twelve other employees consisting of our general counsel and, ten full-time employees and one part-time employee that, together, provide customary administrative, finance and accounting services to the Company and one part-time employee that provides customary IT infrastructure services to the Company. All of the Services provided by Greybrook Health are provided on a cost basis whereby the Company reimburses Greybrook Health for costs incurred in connection with the provision of such Services. There is no mark-up charged by Greybrook Health for the provision of the Services. The MSA will expire on January 1, 2021 or earlier if either party provides the other with at least 30 days’ notice of termination.

 

Subsequent to September 30, 2019, compensation for all employees noted above, except for the Chief Operating Officer and the part time employee that provides customary IT infrastructure services to the Company, is no longer being provided by Greybrook Health and is being paid directly by the Company.

 

Risks and Uncertainties

 

We are exposed to a variety of financial risks in the normal course of our business, including interest rate, credit, currency and liquidity risk. Our overall risk management program and business practices seek to minimize any potential adverse effects on our consolidated financial performance.

 

Risk management is carried out under practices approved by our Board of Directors (the “Board”). This includes identifying, evaluating and hedging financial risks based on the requirements of our organization. Our Board provides guidance for overall risk management, covering many areas of risk including interest rate risk, credit risk, currency risk, and liquidity risk.

 

COVID-19

 

In December 2019, the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 surfaced in Wuhan, China. The World Health Organization (declared a global emergency on January 30, 2020 with respect to the outbreak and then characterized it as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The outbreak has spread globally, causing companies and various international jurisdictions to impose restrictions, such as quarantines, closures, cancellations and travel restrictions. While these effects are expected to be temporary and may be relaxed or rolled back if and when COVID-19 abates, the actions may be reinstated as the pandemic continues to evolve and in response to actual or potential resurgences. The duration of the resulting business disruptions and related financial impact cannot be reasonably estimated at this time. While all of our TMS Centers remain open, and are expected to remain open, during the pandemic, we experienced a temporary decline in both patient visits/treatments and new patient treatment starts in YTD 2020 as a results of the restrictions imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This decline negatively impacted our business, and it is likely that the Company’s consolidated results for Fiscal 2020, and potentially for future periods, will be negatively impacted by this event.

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The Company relies on third-party suppliers and manufacturers for its TMS devices. This outbreak has resulted in the extended shutdown of certain businesses around the globe, which may in turn result in disruptions or delays to the Company’s supply chain. These may include disruptions from the temporary closure of third-party supplier and manufacturer facilities, interruptions in TMS device supply or restrictions on the export or shipment of TMS devices. Any disruption to the Company’s suppliers and their contract manufacturers will likely impact the Company’s revenue and operating results. The outbreak of COVID-19 may also impact patient visits due to various “stay at home” and/or “shelter in place” orders, the availability of key TMS device components, logistics flows and the availability of other resources to support critical operations.

 

A local, regional, national or international outbreak of a contagious disease, including, but not limited to, COVID-19, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, H1N1 influenza virus, avian flu or any other similar illness, or a fear of any of the foregoing, could adversely impact the Company by causing operating delays and disruptions, labor shortages and shutdowns (including as a result of government regulation and prevention measures). If the Company is unable to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on its operations, the Company’s costs may increase, and its revenue could decrease. It is unknown whether and how the Company may be affected if such an epidemic persists for an extended period of time. A widespread health crisis could adversely affect the global economy, resulting in an economic downturn that could impact demand for the services the Company provides.

 

The future impact of the outbreak is highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, and there is no assurance that the outbreak will not have a material adverse impact on the future results of the Company. The extent of the impact will depend on future developments, including actions taken to contain COVID-19.

 

Interest Rate Risk

 

We are exposed to changes in interest rates on our cash and long-term debt. Debt issued at variable rates exposes us to cash flow interest rate risk. Debt issued at fixed rates exposes us to fair value interest rate risk. As of September 30, 2020, we only have fixed interest rate debt. The impact of future interest rate expense resulting from future changes in interest rates will depend largely on the gross amount of our borrowings at such time.

 

Credit Risk

 

Credit risk is the risk of an unexpected loss if a customer or counterparty to a financial instrument fails to meet its contractual obligations. The Company’s financial instruments that are exposed to concentrations of credit risk are primarily cash and accounts receivable. The Company limits its exposure to credit risk with respect to cash by dealing with large creditworthy financial institutions. The Company’s accounts receivable consist primarily of receivables from large creditworthy medical insurance companies and government-backed health plans. Collectability of the receivables is reviewed regularly and an allowance is established as necessary.

 

Currency Risk

 

Currency risk is the risk to our earnings that arises from fluctuations in foreign exchange rates and the degree of volatility of those rates. We have minimal exposure to currency risk as substantially all of our revenue, expenses, assets and liabilities are denominated in U.S. dollars.

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Liquidity Risk

 

Liquidity risk is the risk that we cannot meet a demand for cash or fund our obligations as they come due. We manage liquidity risk by continuously monitoring actual and projected cash flows, taking into account our revenues, income and working capital needs. See “Critical Accounting Estimates and Judgments – COVID-19” below regarding the impact of COVID-19 on our liquidity.

 

DISCLOSURE CONTROLS & PROCEDURES AND INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING

 

Disclosure Controls & Procedures

 

Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining a system of disclosure controls and procedures to provide reasonable assurance that all material information relating to the Company is gathered and reported to senior management, including the CEO and the CFO, on a timely basis so that appropriate decisions can be made regarding public disclosure.

 

There has been no change in the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures that occurred during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 that has materially affected, or is reasonable likely to materially affect, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures.

 

Internal Controls over Financial Reporting

 

Management is also responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal controls over financial reporting (“ICFR”) to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial reports for external purposes in accordance with IFRS. In designing such controls, it should be recognized that, due to inherent limitations, any controls, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives and may not prevent or detect misstatements. Additionally, management is required to use judgment in evaluating controls and procedures.

 

There has been no change in the Company’s ICFR that occurred during the three months ended September 30, 2020 that has materially affected, or is reasonable likely to materially affect, the Company’s ICFR.

 

Critical Accounting Estimates and Judgments

 

There have been no changes to the Company’s critical accounting estimates and judgments since the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, except as noted below.

 

Government Grants

 

Interest free or less than market interest government loans or government-backed loans are measured at amortized cost using the effective interest rate method. The interest rate used is based on the market rate for a comparable instrument with a similar term. The difference between the fair value at inception and the loan proceeds received is recorded as a government grant. The grant portion is presented separately as deferred grant income on the condensed interim consolidated statement of financial position. It is amortized over the useful life of the loan and is deducted against the related interest expense on the condensed interim consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss.

 

COVID-19

 

The uncertainties around the outbreak of COVID-19 require the use of judgements and estimates. The future impact of COVID-19 uncertainties could generate, in future reporting periods, a significant risk of material adjustment to the carrying amounts of the following: goodwill and intangible assets impairment, leases, business combinations, provisions, litigations and claims.

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The Company has experienced losses since inception and has negative cash flow from operating activities of $6.2 million for the nine-months ended September 30, 2020 ($7.1 million – nine-months ended September 30, 2019) and negative working capital as at September 30, 2020. Given the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic, including the related government-imposed social distancing and “shelter-in-place” measures, has had on the overall volumes of patient treatments, the overall cash flows of the Company have been negatively impacted. Although the Company anticipates that it will have positive cash flow from operating activities in the future, the Company anticipates that its overall cash flows may continue to be negatively impacted until the global economic impact of COVID-19 subsides. The Company expects it will require additional financing to fund its operating and investing activities and such additional financing is required in order for the Company to repay its short-term obligations. These conditions indicate the existence of a material uncertainty that may cast significant doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The Company also has strong supportive shareholders and a proven track record of successfully raising capital when required. The failure to raise such capital when required could result in the delay or indefinite postponement of current business objectives and additional financing may not be available on favorable terms or at all.

 

The condensed interim consolidated financial statements do not reflect adjustments that would be necessary if the going concern assumptions were not appropriate. If the going concern basis was not appropriate for the condensed interim consolidated financial statements, then adjustments would be necessary to the carrying value of assets and liabilities, the reported expenses, and the condensed interim consolidated statements of financial position classification used.

 

Changes in Significant Accounting Policies

 

There are no recent accounting pronouncements that are applicable to the Company or that are expected to have a significant impact on the Company.

 

RISK FACTORS

 

For a detailed description of risk factors associated with the Company, refer to the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s annual information form dated March 10, 2020 for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, and the “Risks and Uncertainties” section in this MD&A.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

 

Additional information relating to the Company, including the Company’s annual information form, is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. The Company’s Common Shares are listed for trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “GTMS”.

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Exhibit 99.5

 

  Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements
  (Expressed in U.S. dollars)
   
  Greenbrook TMS Inc.
   
  Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019
  (Unaudited)

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Condensed Interim Consolidated Statements of Financial Position

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

(Unaudited)

 

    September 30,
2020
    December 31,
2019
 
             
Assets                
                 
Current assets:                
Cash   $ 9,170,131     $ 7,947,607  
Accounts receivable, net     12,216,955       10,091,087  
Prepaid expenses and other     1,905,190       1,912,744  
      23,292,276       19,951,438  
                 
Property, plant and equipment (note 6)     1,693,700       1,666,331  
Intangible assets (note 7)     5,860,233       6,207,731  
Goodwill (note 5)     3,707,650       3,707,650  
Right-of-use assets (note 8)     26,259,457       25,430,956  
                 
    $ 60,813,316     $ 56,964,106  
                 
Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity (Deficit)                
                 
Current liabilities:                
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities (note 9)   $ 8,163,001     $ 7,011,849  
Loans payable (note 10(a))     1,757,301       101,107  
Deferred grant income (note 11)     168,909        
Lease liabilities (note 8)     5,148,244       4,707,853  
Non-controlling interest loans (note 10(b))     75,077       69,674  
Provisions (note 12)           18,792  
Deferred and contingent consideration (note 5)     10,345,000       1,274,402  
      25,657,532       13,183,677  
                 
Long-term portion of loans payable (note 10(a))     1,239,045       150,392  
Long-term portion of deferred grant income (note 11)     99,281        
Long-term portion of lease liabilities (note 8)     22,046,891       20,683,904  
      49,042,749       34,017,973  
Shareholders’ equity (deficit):                
Common shares (note 13)     60,340,975       50,185,756  
Contributed surplus (note 14)     3,213,160       2,757,252  
Deficit     (51,713,190 )     (30,441,280 )
      11,840,945       22,501,728  
Non-controlling interest (note 22)     (70,378 )     444,405  
      11,770,567       22,946,133  
Basis of presentation and going concern (note 2) Contingencies (note 15)                
                 
    $ 60,813,316     $ 56,964,106  

 

See accompanying notes to condensed interim consolidated financial statements.

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Condensed Interim Consolidated Statements of Net Loss and Comprehensive Loss

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

(Unaudited)

 

    Three months ended     Nine months ended  
    September 30,
2020
    September 30,
2019
    September 30,
2020
    September 30,
2019
 
                         
Revenue:                                
Service revenue   $ 12,006,570     $ 8,459,103     $ 33,215,627     $ 23,148,860  
                                 
Expenses:                                
Direct center and patient care costs     5,473,759       4,267,769       16,521,201       11,655,616  
Other regional and center support costs (note 23)     4,154,384       2,412,519       10,958,714       6,341,267  
Depreciation (notes 6 and 8)     1,410,843       1,008,002       4,253,530       2,751,998  
      11,038,986       7,688,290       31,733,445       20,748,881  
                                 
Regional operating income     967,584       770,813       1,482,182       2,399,979  
                                 
Center development costs     65,291       496,509       435,659       1,176,180  
Corporate, general and administrative expenses (note 23)     3,538,352       3,125,103       10,549,021       8,319,930  
Share-based compensation     171,056       117,112       455,908       573,426  
Amortization (note 7)     115,832             347,498        
Interest expense     708,665       513,138       2,060,707       1,316,795  
Interest income     (8,857 )     (116,035 )     (18,418 )     (140,144 )
Earn-out consideration (note 5)     4,045,000             9,295,000        
                                 
Loss before income taxes     (7,667,755 )     (3,365,014 )     (21,643,193 )     (8,846,208 )
                                 
Income tax expense (note 17)                        
                                 
Loss for the period and comprehensive loss   $ (7,667,755 )   $ (3,365,014 )   $ (21,643,193 )   $ (8,846,208 )
                                 
(Loss) income for the period attributable to:                                
Non-controlling interest (note 22)   $ (31,623 )   $ 65,995     $ (371,283 )   $ 29,315  
Common shareholders of Greenbrook TMS     (7,636,132 )     (3,431,009 )     (21,271,910 )     (8,875,523 )
                                 
    $ (7,667,755 )   $ (3,365,014 )   $ (21,643,193 )   $ (8,846,208 )
                                 
Net loss per share (note 21):                                
Basic   $ (0.11 )   $ (0.06 )   $ (0.34 )   $ (0.17 )
Diluted     (0.11 )     (0.06 )     (0.34 )     (0.17 )
                                 

 

See accompanying notes to condensed interim consolidated financial statements.

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Greenbrook tms Inc.

Condensed Interim Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity (Deficit)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

(Unaudited)

 

                            Non-     Total  
    Common Shares     Contributed           controlling     equity  
Nine months ended September 30, 2019   Number     Amount     surplus     Deficit     interest     (deficit)  
                                     
Balance, December 31, 2018     47,524,375     $ 26,882,622     $ 1,745,079     $ (14,531,401 )   $ 544,465     $ 14,640,765  
Loss for the period and comprehensive loss                       (8,875,523 )     29,315       (8,846,208 )
Issuance of common shares - financing     9,409,000       20,604,207       355,660                   20,959,867  
Issuance of common shares – acquisition (note 5)     1,431,736       2,611,044                         2,611,044  
Exercise of stock options     53,332       87,883       (33,717 )                 54,166  
Share-based compensation (note 14)                 573,426                   573,426  
Payments to non-controlling interest                             (315,400 )     (315,400 )
Non-controlling interest subsidiary investment                             265,000       265,000  
                                                 
Balance, September 30, 2019     58,418,443     $ 50,185,756     $ 2,640,448     $ (23,406,924 )   $ 523,380     $ 29,942,660  

 

                            Non-     Total  
    Common Shares     Contributed           controlling     equity  
Nine months ended September 30, 2020   Number     Amount     surplus     Deficit     interest     (deficit)  
                                     
Balance, December 31, 2019     58,418,443     $ 50,185,756     $ 2,757,252     $ (30,441,280 )   $ 444,405     $ 22,946,133  
Loss for the period and comprehensive loss                       (21,271,910 )     (371,283 )     (21,643,193 )
Issuance of common shares (note 13)     9,093,940       10,155,219                         10,155,219  
Share-based compensation (note 14)                 455,908                   455,908  
Payments to non-controlling interest                             (143,500 )     (143,500 )
                                                 
Balance, September 30, 2020     67,512,383     $ 60,340,975     $ 3,213,160     $ (51,713,190 )   $ (70,378 )   $ 11,770,567  

 

See accompanying notes to condensed interim consolidated financial statements.

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Condensed Interim Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

(Unaudited)

 

    Nine months ended
    September 30,
2020
  September 30,
2019
         
Cash provided by (used in)                
                 
Operating activities:                
Loss for the period   $ (21,643,193 )   $ (8,846,208 )
Adjusted for:                
Amortization     347,498        
Depreciation     4,253,530       2,751,998  
Interest expense     2,060,707       1,316,795  
Interest income     (18,418 )     (140,144 )
Share-based compensation     455,908       573,426  
Transaction costs           378,407  
Earn-out consideration     9,295,000        
Change in non-cash operating working capital:                
Accounts receivable     (2,125,868 )     (3,839,345 )
Prepaid expenses and other     7,554       (112,447 )
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities     1,151,152       785,837  
Provisions     (18,792 )      
      (6,234,922 )     (7,131,681 )
                 
Financing activities:                
Net proceeds on issuance of common shares (note 13)     10,155,219       20,604,207  
Net proceeds on exercise of stock options           355,660  
Options exercised           54,166  
Bank loans advanced     3,080,760       84,096  
Bank loans repaid     (63,475 )     (96,030 )
Lease liabilities repaid     (5,352,559 )     (3,734,149 )
Net non-controlling interest loans advanced (repaid)     5,403       (12,535 )
Distribution to non-controlling interest     (143,500 )     (315,400 )
      7,681,848       16,940,015  
                 
Investing activities:                
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired           (7,095,790 )
Purchase of property, plant and equipment           (525,010 )
Deferred and contingent consideration paid (note 5)     (224,402 )      
      (224,402 )     (7,620,800 )
                 
Increase in cash     1,222,524       2,187,534  
                 
Cash, beginning of period     7,947,607       9,381,600  
                 
Cash, end of period   $ 9,170,131     $ 11,569,134  

 

See accompanying notes to condensed interim consolidated financial statements.

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

1. Reporting entity:

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Company”), an Ontario corporation along with its subsidiaries, controls and operates a network of outpatient mental health services centers that specialize in the provision of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy for the treatment of depression and related psychiatric services.

 

Our head and registered office is located at 890 Yonge Street, 7th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4W 3P4. Our United States corporate headquarters is located at 8405 Greensboro Drive, Suite 120, Tysons Corner, Virginia, USA, 22102.

 

2. Basis of preparation:

 

(a) Going concern:

 

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 have been prepared in accordance with IAS 34 – Interim Financial Reporting, as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”) and the basis of presentation outlined in note 2(b) on the assumption that the Company is a going concern and will continue in operation for the foreseeable future and will be able to realize its assets and discharge its liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business.

 

The Company has experienced losses since inception, has negative cash flow from operating activities for the nine-months ended September 30, 2020 of $6.2 million (2019 - $7.1 million) and negative working capital at September 30, 2020. Given the impact that the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic (“COVID-19”), including the related government-imposed social distancing and “shelter-in-place” measures, has had on the overall volumes of patient treatments, the overall cash flows of the Company have been negatively impacted. Although the Company anticipates that it will have positive cash flow from operating activities in the future, the Company anticipates that its overall cash flows may continue to be negatively impacted until the global economic impact of COVID-19 subsides. The Company expects it will require additional financing to fund its operating and investing activities and such additional financing is required in order for the Company to repay its short-term obligations. These conditions indicate the existence of a material uncertainty that may cast significant doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The Company also has strong supportive shareholders and a proven track record of successfully raising capital when required. The failure to raise such capital when required could result in the delay or indefinite postponement of current business objectives and additional financing may not be available on favorable terms or at all.

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

2. Basis of preparation (continued):

 

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements do not reflect adjustments that would be necessary if the going concern assumptions were not appropriate. If the going concern basis was not appropriate for these condensed interim consolidated financial statements, then adjustments would be necessary to the carrying value of assets and liabilities, the reported expenses, and the condensed interim consolidated statements of financial position classification used, and these adjustments may be material.

 

(b) Statement of compliance:

 

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 have been prepared in accordance with IAS 34 – Interim Financial Reporting, as issued by the IASB. The disclosures contained in these condensed interim consolidated financial statements do not include all of the requirements of International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) for annual consolidated financial statements. The condensed interim consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company as at and for the year ended December 31, 2019.

 

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements comprise the accounts of Greenbrook TMS Inc., the parent company, and its subsidiaries. The Company accounts for its controlled subsidiaries using the consolidation method of accounting from the date that control commences and is deconsolidated from the date control ceases. All intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated on consolidation.

 

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) and authorized for issue by the Board on November 10, 2020.

 

3. Significant accounting policies:

 

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared using the significant accounting policies consistent with those applied in the Company’s December 31, 2019 audited consolidated financial statements, except as described below relating to the application of IAS 20, Accounting for Government Grants and Disclosure of Government Assistance.

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

3. Significant accounting policies (continued):

 

(a) Government grants:

 

Interest free or less than market interest government loans or government-backed loans are measured at amortized cost using the effective interest rate method. The interest rate used is based on the market rate for a comparable instrument with a similar term. The difference between the fair value at inception and the loan proceeds received is recorded as a government grant. The grant portion is presented separately as deferred grant income on the condensed interim consolidated statements of financial position. It is amortized over the useful life of the loan and is deducted against the related interest expense on the condensed interim consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss.

 

The uncertainties around the outbreak of COVID-19 required the use of judgements and estimates. The future impact of COVID-19 uncertainties could generate, in future reporting periods, a significant risk of material adjustment to the carrying amounts of the following: goodwill and intangible assets impairment, leases, business combinations, provisions, litigation and claims.

 

4. Recent accounting pronouncements:

 

There are no recent accounting pronouncements that are applicable or that are expected to have a significant impact on the Company.

 

5. Business acquisition:

 

On September 26, 2019, the Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, TMS NeuroHealth Centers, Inc. (“TMS US”), completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding membership interests of each of Achieve TMS Centers, LLC and Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC (collectively, “Achieve TMS”) for a purchase price of $10,596,912 (net of Achieve TMS’ cash), of which $2,611,044 of the purchase price was satisfied through the issuance of an aggregate of 1,431,736 common shares of the Company to the vendors and the remainder was settled in cash, less deferred and contingent consideration of $1,274,402 (the “Acquisition”).

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

  

5. Business acquisition (continued):

 

In addition, a portion of the purchase price payable in respect of the Acquisition is subject to an earn-out based on the earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) achieved by Achieve TMS during the twelve-month period following the closing of the Acquisition. As at September 30, 2020, the Company estimates the purchase price payable in respect of the earn-out to be $9,295,000 (December 31, 2019 - nil) of which $6,506,500 of this estimated amount would be settled in cash and the remainder would be settled through the issuance of common shares of the Company to the vendors, subject to regulatory and stock exchange approval. The common shares will be issued based on a price per common share equal to the volume-weighted average trading price of the Company’s common shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange for the five trading days ending two trading days prior to the payment date. The amount recognized for the earn-out is recorded as earn-out consideration in the condensed interim consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss. The amount recognized as at September 30, 2020 is based on management’s best estimate of the earn-out payable and is subject to estimation uncertainty.

 

Achieve TMS operates TMS centers in California, Oregon and Alaska, with a particular focus on deep TMS therapy. The Acquisition provided the Company with a national footprint of over 100 TMS centers and a platform for further West Coast expansion through excellent brand recognition, physician reputation and high visibility within the West Coast TMS community.

 

The Acquisition has been accounted for using the acquisition method of accounting. The allocation of the purchase price consideration for the Acquisition is final and is comprised as follows:

 

         
Purchase consideration:        
         
Cash   $ 6,886,812  
Share issuance     2,611,044  
Deferred and contingent consideration     1,274,402  
         
    $ 10,772,258  
         
Net assets acquired:        
         
Cash   $ 175,346  
Current assets     886,392  
Capital and other assets     6,321,730  
Current liabilities     (1,233,400 )
Long-term liabilities     (5,415,460 )
Covenants not to compete     310,000  
Management services agreement     6,020,000  
         
    $ 7,064,608  
         
Goodwill   $ 3,707,650  

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

5. Business acquisition (continued):

 

The goodwill is primarily attributable to the ability to expand the Company’s national footprint and the synergies expected to result from combining Achieve TMS’ operations with the Company. Goodwill is deductible for tax purposes.

 

During the nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company paid $224,402 in deferred and contingent consideration (December 31, 2019 – nil). The remaining deferred and contingent consideration payable balance, excluding the earn-out, as at September 30, 2020 is $1,050,000 (December 31, 2019 – $1,274,402) and the related cash is being held in an escrow account subject to finalization of the escrow conditions.

 

6. Property, plant and equipment:

 

    Furniture and
equipment
  Leasehold
improvements
  TMS devices   Total
                 
Cost                                
                                 
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 175,416     $ 183,103     $ 1,792,984     $ 2,151,503  
Additions                 304,831       304,831  
Asset disposal                 (50,093 )     (50,093 )
                                 
Balance, September 30, 2020   $ 175,416     $ 183,103     $ 2,047,722     $ 2,406,241  
                                 
Accumulated depreciation                                
                                 
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 83,408     $ 5,291     $ 396,473     $ 485,172  
Depreciation     21,769       19,194       190,819       231,782  
Asset disposal                 (4,413 )     (4,413 )
                                 
Balance, September 30, 2020   $ 105,177     $ 24,485     $ 582,879     $ 712,541  
                                 
Net book value                                
                                 
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 92,008     $ 177,812     $ 1,396,511     $ 1,666,331  
Balance, September 30, 2020     70,239       158,618       1,464,843       1,693,700  
                                 

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

7. Intangible assets:

 

    Management
service agreement
  Covenant not
to complete
  Total
             
Cost                        
                         
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 6,020,000     $ 310,000     $ 6,330,000  
Additions                  
                         
Balance, September 30, 2020   $ 6,020,000     $ 310,000     $ 6,330,000  
                         
Accumulated amortization                        
                         
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 105,907     $ 16,362     $ 122,269  
Amortization     300,999       46,499       347,498  
                         
Balance, September 30, 2020   $ 406,906     $ 62,861     $ 469,767  
                         
Net book value                        
                         
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 5,914,093     $ 293,638     $ 6,207,731  
Balance, September 30, 2020     5,613,094       247,139       5,860,233  
                         

 

8. Right-of-use assets and leases liabilities:

 

The Company enters into lease agreements related to TMS devices and center locations. These lease agreements range from one year to eight years in length.

 

Right-of-use assets are initially measured at cost, which comprises the initial amount of the lease liability adjusted for any lease payments made at or before the commencement date, plus any initial direct costs incurred.

 

         
Right-of-use assets, December 31, 2019   $ 25,430,956  
Additions to right-of-use assets     5,155,080  
Disposals to right-of-use assets     (304,831 )
Depreciation on right-of-use assets     (4,021,748 )
         
Right-of-use assets, September 30, 2020   $ 26,259,457  

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

8. Right-of-use assets and leases liabilities (continued):

 

Lease liabilities have been measured by discounting future lease payments using a rate implicit in the lease or the Company’s incremental borrowing rate at January 1, 2019. The Company’s incremental borrowing rate applied during the period ended September 30, 2020 is 10% (December 31, 2019 - 10%).

 

         
Lease liabilities, December 31, 2019   $ 25,391,757  
Additions to lease liabilities     5,147,063  
Interest expense on lease liabilities     2,008,874  
Payments of lease liabilities     (5,352,559 )
Lease liabilities, September 30, 2020     27,195,135  
         
Less: current portion of lease liabilities     5,148,244  
         
Long-term portion of lease liabilities   $ 22,046,891  

 

9. Accounts payable and accrued liabilities:

 

The accounts payable and accrued liabilities are as follows:

 

    September 30,
2020
  December 31,
2019
         
Accounts payable   $ 5,317,023     $ 4,639,924  
Accrued liabilities     2,845,978       2,371,925  
                 
    $ 8,163,001     $ 7,011,849  

 

10. Loans payable:

 

(a) Bank loans:

 

    September 30,
2020
  December 31,
2019
         
Bank loans   $ 2,996,346     $ 251,499  
Less: current portion of loans payable     1,757,301       101,107  
                 
Long-term portion of loans payable   $ 1,239,045     $ 150,392  

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

10. Loans payable (continued):

 

(i) During the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company assumed loans from four separate banking institutions that were previously extended for the purchase of TMS devices to non-controlling interest holder partners. The TMS device loans were assumed as part of partnerships with local physicians, behavioral health groups or other strategic investors, which own minority interests in certain center subsidiaries. These TMS device loans bear an average interest rate of 10% with average monthly blended interest and capital payments of $1,575 and mature (or matured, as applicable) during the years ended December 31, 2019 to December 31, 2023. There are no covenants associated with these loans.

 

(ii) During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company assumed loans from two separate banking institutions that were previously extended for the purchase of TMS devices to non-controlling interest holder partners. The TMS device loans were assumed as part of partnerships with local physicians, behavioral health groups or other investors, which own minority interests in certain center subsidiaries. These TMS device loans bear an average interest rate of 13% with average monthly blended interest and capital payments of $1,756 and mature during the year ended December 31, 2021.

 

During the nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company was released from its obligations pertaining to one of the bank loans assumed during the year ended December 31, 2019 of $45,680 as a result of the disposal of the related TMS device. During this period, the Company also repaid TMS device loans totalling $63,475.

 

(iii) During the nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company entered into a promissory note with U.S. Bank National Association, evidencing an unsecured loan in the amount of $3,080,760 (the “Loan”) made to the Company under the United States Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”). The PPP is a program organized by the U.S. Small Business Administration established under the recently-enacted Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”). The Loan bears interest at a fixed rate of 1.0% per annum with average monthly blended interest and capital payments of $172,145 with a maturity during the year ended December 31, 2022. Payments are deferred for the first six months under the Loan.

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

10. Loans payable (continued):

 

The effective interest rate used to measure the fair value of the loan is 10% and the benefit of the interest rate concession is a grant which gives the Company economic benefits over the term of the Loan and recorded as deferred grant income (see note 11). The undiscounted face value of the Loan as at September 30, 2020 is $3,080,760 (December 31, 2019 - nil) and the carrying amount is $2,859,002 (December 31, 2019 - nil).

 

As federal authorities continue to update relevant policies and guidelines regarding the PPP, including some that may have retroactive effect, the Company is monitoring these developments and assessing any changes in the Company’s eligibility for the PPP or any other subsidies or support mechanisms under the CARES Act.

 

(b) Non-controlling interest loans:

 

    September 30,
2020
    December 31,
2019
 
                 
Non-controlling interest loans   $ 75,077     $ 69,674  
                 

 

The non-controlling interest holder partners of the Company, from time to time, provide additional capital contributions in the form of capital loans to the Company’s subsidiaries. These loans bear interest at a rate of 10%, compounded on a monthly basis. The loans are unsecured and are repayable subject to certain liquidity and solvency requirements and are classified as current liabilities.

 

11. Deferred grant income:

 

    September 30,
2020
    December 31,
2019
 
         
Deferred grant income   $ 268,190     $  
Less: current portion of deferred grant income     168,909        
                 
Long-term portion of deferred grant income   $ 99,281     $  

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

12. Provisions:

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company provided for $18,792 relating to the planned restructuring of its billing department. The restructuring was a direct result of ongoing efforts to optimize the Company’s billing and reimbursement process subsequent to system conversions. This amount was paid in full during the nine months ended September 30, 2020.

 

13. Common shares:

 

The Company is authorized to issue an unlimited number of common shares and an unlimited number of preferred shares, issuable in series. As at December 31, 2019 and September 30, 2020, there were nil preferred shares issued and outstanding.

 

    Number     Total
amount
 
         
December 31, 2019       58,418,443     $ 50,185,756  
                   
Common shares issuances       9,093,940       10,155,219  
                   
September 30, 2020       67,512,383     $ 60,340,975  

 

On May 21, 2020, the Company completed a public offering of 9,093,940 common shares at an offering price of C$1.65 per common share for aggregate gross proceeds of $10,767,589 (C$15,005,001) and incurred transaction costs of $612,370.

 

14. Contributed surplus:

 

Contributed surplus is comprised of share-based compensation and broker warrants.

 

(a) Share-based compensation – stock options:

 

The Company operates an equity-settled, stock options-based payment compensation plan, under which the Company pays equity instruments of the Company as consideration in exchange for employee and similar services. The plan is open to employees, directors, officers and consultants of the Company and its affiliates.

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

14. Contributed surplus (continued):

 

The fair value of the grant of the options is recognized as an expense in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss. The total amount to be expensed is determined by the fair value of the options granted. The total expense is recognized over the vesting period which is the period over which all of the service vesting conditions are satisfied. The vesting period is determined at the discretion of the Board and has ranged from immediate vesting to over three years. The maximum number of common shares reserved for issuance, in the aggregate, under the Company’s option plan (and under any other share-based compensation arrangements of the Company) is 10% of the aggregate number of common shares outstanding. As at September 30, 2020, this represented 6,751,238 common shares.

 

The options have an expiry date of ten years from the applicable date of issue.

 

    September 30, 2020   December 31, 2019
    Number
of stock
options
    Weighted
average
exercise
price
    Number
of stock
options
    Weighted
average
exercise
price
 
                 
Outstanding, beginning of period       2,998,168     $ 1.36       2,670,000     $ 1.17  
Granted       797,500       1.89       385,000       2.63  
Exercised                   (53,332 )     1.02  
Cancelled                   (3,500 )     1.00  
                                   
Outstanding, end of period       3,795,668     $ 1.47       2,998,168     $ 1.36  

 

The weighted average remaining contractual life of the outstanding options as at September 30, 2020 was 6.8 years (December 31, 2019 - 6.8 years).

 

The total number of stock options exercisable as at September 30, 2020 was 2,721,833 (December 31, 2019 - 2,059,001).

 

During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company recorded a total share-based options compensation expense of $171,056 and $455,908, respectively (September 30, 2019 – $117,112 and $573,426, respectively).

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

14. Contributed surplus (continued):

 

The following stock options were granted during the nine months ended September 30, 2020:

 

(i) The fair value of the stock options granted on February 3, 2020 was estimated to be $1.10 per option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 46.12% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of ten years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 2.02%.

 

The following stock options were granted during the year ended December 31, 2019:

 

(i) The fair value of the stock options granted on June 28, 2019 was estimated to be $1.13 per option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 45.74% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of 4.5 years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 1.46%.

 

(ii) The fair value of the stock options granted on May 9, 2019 was estimated to be $1.46 per option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 46.48% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of ten years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 1.68%.

 

(iii) The fair value of the stock options granted on March 27, 2019 was estimated to be $1.44 per option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 47.88% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of ten years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 1.62%.

 

As at September 30, 2020, the total compensation cost not yet recognized related to options granted is approximately $714,220 (September 30, 2019 - $400,281) and will be recognized over the remaining average vesting period of 0.67 years (December 31, 2019 – 0.44 years).

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

14. Contributed surplus (continued):

 

(b) Broker warrants:

 

    September 30, 2020   December 31, 2019
    Number
of broker
warrants
    Weighted
average
exercise
price
    Number
of broker
warrants
    Weighted
average
exercise
price
 
                 
Outstanding, beginning of period       1,068,186     $ 2.22       503,646     $ 2.00  
Granted                   564,540       2.41  
Expired       (503,646 )     2.00              
                                   
Outstanding, end of period       564,540     $ 2.41       1,068,186     $ 2.22  

 

There were no broker warrants issued during the nine months ended September 30, 2020.

 

The following broker warrants were issued during the year ended December 31, 2019:

 

(i) On May 17, 2019, in connection with the public offering and concurrent private placement of common shares, the Company issued 241,500 and 323,040 broker warrants, respectively, to the underwriters of such transactions. Each broker warrant vested upon issuance thereof and entitles the holder to acquire one common share of the Company at an exercise price of C$3.25 and expires two years from the date of issue.

 

The fair value of the broker warrants granted on May 17, 2019 was estimated to be $0.63 per broker warrant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 44.83% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of 2.0 years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 1.69%.

 

The aggregate fair value of the issued broker warrants granted on May 17, 2019 of $355,660 is recognized as part of the transaction costs in respect of the public offering and concurrent private placement described above, which is reflected in the common shares equity reserve. Each broker warrant vests immediately upon the issuance thereof and has a term to expiry of two years from the date of issue.

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

14. Contributed surplus (continued):

 

The weighted average contractual life of the outstanding broker warrants as at September 30, 2020 was 0.6 years (December 31, 2019 – 0.8 years).

 

The total number of broker warrants exercisable as at September 30, 2020 was 564,540 (December 31, 2019 – 1,068,186).

 

The aggregate fair value of the broker warrants granted during the nine months ended September 30, 2020 was nil (September 30, 2019 – $355,660).

 

15. Contingencies:

 

The Company may be involved in certain legal matters arising from time to time in the normal course of business. The Company records provisions that reflect management’s best estimate of any potential liability relating to these matters. The resolution of these matters is not expected to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

 

16. Pensions:

 

The Company has adopted a defined contribution pension plan for its employees whereby the Company matches contributions made by participating employees up to a maximum of 3.5% of such employees’ annual salaries. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, contributions, which were recorded as expenses within direct center and patient care costs, other regional and center support costs and corporate, general and administrative expenses, amounted to $87,994 and $245,298, respectively (September 30, 2019 – $55,386 and $152,504, respectively).

 

17. Income taxes:

 

During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, there were no significant changes to the Company’s tax position.

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

18. Risk management arising from financial instruments:

 

In the normal course of business, the Company is exposed to risks related to financial instruments that can affect its operating performance. These risks, and the actions taken to manage them, are as follows:

 

(a) Fair value:

 

The carrying value of cash, accounts receivable and accounts payable and accrued liabilities approximates their fair value given their short-term nature.

 

The carrying value of the loans payable, lease liabilities and deferred and contingent consideration approximates their fair value given the difference between the discount rates used to recognize the liabilities in the consolidated balance sheets and the market rates of interest is insignificant.

 

(b) Credit risk:

 

Credit risk arises from the potential that a counterparty will fail to perform its obligations. The Company is exposed to credit risk from patients and third-party payors including federal and state agencies (under the Medicare programs), managed care health plans and commercial insurance companies. The Company’s exposure to credit risk is mitigated in large part due to the majority of the accounts receivable balance being receivable from large, creditworthy medical insurance companies and government-backed health plans. The Company recognizes loss allowances for expected credit losses on financial assets measured at amortized cost when necessary. Loss allowances for accounts receivable are always measured at an amount equal to the expected credit losses for the subsequent 12-month period.

 

(c) Liquidity risk:

 

Liquidity risk is the risk that the Company may encounter difficulty in raising funds to meet its financial commitments or can only do so at excessive cost. The Company ensures there is sufficient liquidity to meet its short-term business requirements, taking into account its anticipated cash flows from operations, its holdings of cash and its ability to raise capital from existing or new investors and/or lenders (see note 2(a)).

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

18. Risk management arising from financial instruments (continued):

 

(d) Currency risk:

 

Currency risk is the risk to the Company’s earnings that arises from fluctuations in foreign exchange rates and the degree of volatility of those rates. The Company has minimal exposure to currency risk as substantially all of the Company’s revenue, expenses, assets and liabilities are denominated in U.S. dollars. The Company pays certain vendors and payroll costs in Canadian dollars from time to time, but due to the limited size and nature of these payments it does not give rise to significant currency risk.

 

(e) Interest rate risk:

 

Interest rate risk is the risk that the fair value of future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes in market interest rates. The Company does not have financial instruments that result in material exposure given the fixed rate nature of the Company’s loans.

 

19. Capital management:

 

The Company’s objective is to maintain a capital structure that supports its long-term growth strategy, maintains creditor and customer confidence, and maximizes shareholder value.

 

The capital structure of the Company consists of its shareholders’ equity (deficit), including contributed surplus and deficit, as well as loans payable.

 

The Company’s primary uses of capital are to finance operations, finance new center start-up costs, increase non-cash working capital and capital expenditures. The Company’s objectives when managing capital are to ensure the Company will continue to have enough liquidity so it can provide its services to its customers and returns to its shareholders. The Company, as part of its annual budgeting process, evaluates its estimated annual cash requirements to fund planned expansion activities and working capital requirements of existing operations. Based on this cash budget and taking into account its anticipated cash flows from operations and its holdings of cash, the Company validates whether it has the sufficient capital or needs to obtain additional capital.

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

20. Related party transactions:

 

Transactions with significant shareholder – Greybrook Health Inc.:

 

As at September 30, 2020, $68,263 is included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities for amounts payable for management services rendered and other overhead costs incurred by Greybrook Health Inc. in the ordinary course of business (December 31, 2019 – $58,954). These amounts were recorded at their exchange amount, being the amount agreed to by the parties.

 

During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company recognized $97,407 and $288,585 in corporate, general and administrative expenses, respectively (September 30, 2019 – $98,410 and $397,257, respectively) related to transactions with the significant shareholder.

 

21. Basic and diluted loss per share:

 

    Three months ended   Nine months ended
    September 30,     September 30,     September 30,     September 30,  
    2020     2019     2020     2019  
                 
Net loss attributable to the shareholders of:                                
Greenbrook TMS   $ (7,636,132 )   $ (3,431,009 )   $ (21,271,910 )   $ (8,875,523 )
                                 
                                 
Weighted average common shares outstanding:                                
Basic and diluted     67,512,383       54,625,927       62,815,513       52,276,149  
                                 
                                 
Loss per share:                                
Basic and diluted   $ (0.11 )   $ (0.06 )   $ (0.34 )   $ (0.17 )
                                 

 

For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, the effect of 3,795,668 (September 30, 2019 – 2,988,168) options have been excluded from the diluted calculations because this effect would be anti-dilutive. In addition, the earn-out consideration could result in the issuance of additional common shares (see note 5).

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

22. Non-controlling interest:

 

As a result of operating agreements with each of the Company’s non-wholly owned entities, the Company has control over these entities under IFRS, as the Company has power over all significant decisions made by these entities and thus 100% of the financial results of these subsidiaries are included in the Company’s consolidated financial results.

 

The following table summarizes the Company’s non-wholly owned entities incorporated during the reporting or comparative period:

 

    Year     Ownership  
Name   incorporated     interest  
             
Greenbrook TMS Central Florida LLC   2019     90 %
Greenbrook TMS North Detroit LLC   2019     90 %
Greenbrook TMS St. Petersburg LLC   2019     90 %
Greenbrook TMS South Carolina LLC   2019     90 %
             

 

During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 there were no changes to the ownership interests in any non-wholly owned entities.

 

The following tables summarize the aggregate financial information for non-wholly owned entities for the periods indicated:

 

    September 30,
2020
    December 31,
2019
 
                 
Cash   $ 1,170,497     $ 1,033,584  
Accounts receivable     7,525,481       6,389,384  
Prepaid expenses and other     357,165       448,550  
Property, plant and equipment     932,330       889,798  
Right of use assets     9,843,194       10,348,295  
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities     1,364,419       1,237,548  
Loans payable     7,490,364       5,280,287  
Lease liabilities     10,100,399       10,167,498  
Profit attributable to the shareholders of Greenbrook TMS     943,864       1,979,874  
Profit (deficit) attributable to non-controlling interest     (66,039 )     305,244  
Distributions paid to non-controlling interest     (1,010,130 )     (866,630 )
Subsidiary investment by non-controlling interest           405,000  
Historical subsidiary investment by non-controlling interest     1,005,791       600,791  
                 

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

22. Non-controlling interest (continued):

 

    Three months ended     Nine months ended  
    September 30,     September 30,     September 30,     September 30,  
    2020     2019     2020     2019  
                         
Revenue   $ 5,706,774     $ 5,722,964     $ 15,811,013     $ 15,900,492  
Net loss attributable to the shareholders of Greenbrook TMS     (378,517 )     (110,783 )     (1,953,439 )     (695,487 )
Net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interest     (31,623 )     65,995       (371,283 )     29,315  
                                 

 

23. Expenses by nature:

 

The components of the Company’s other regional and center support costs include the following:

 

    Three months ended     Nine months ended  
    September 30,     September 30,     September 30,     September 30,  
    2020     2019     2020     2019  
                         
Salaries and bonuses   $ 2,569,958     $ 1,670,037     $ 7,419,487     $ 4,460,213  
Marketing expenses     1,584,426       742,482       3,539,227       1,881,054  
                                 
Total   $ 4,154,384     $ 2,412,519     $ 10,958,714     $ 6,341,267  

 

The components of the Company’s corporate, general and administrative expenses include the following:

 

    Three months ended     Nine months ended  
    September 30,     September 30,     September 30,     September 30,  
    2020     2019     2020     2019  
                         
Salaries and bonuses   $ 2,555,515     $ 1,420,069     $ 7,577,540     $ 4,336,220  
Professional and legal fees     530,969       338,620       1,048,902       1,042,963  
Marketing expenses     202,435       578,330       806,120       1,210,219  
Computer supplies and software     190,088       156,885       585,392       414,092  
Travel, meals and entertainment     12,305       67,748       142,716       282,059  
Transaction costs           378,407             378,407  
Other     47,040       185,044       388,351       655,970  
                                 
Total   $ 3,538,352     $ 3,125,103     $ 10,549,021     $ 8,319,930  

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Exhibit 99.6

 

FORM 52-109F2

 

CERTIFICATION OF INTERIM FILINGS

 

FULL CERTIFICATE

 

I, William Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer of Greenbrook TMS Inc., certify the following:

 

1. Review: I have reviewed the interim financial report and interim MD&A (together, the "interim filings") of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the "issuer") for the interim period ended September 30, 2020.

 

2. No misrepresentations: Based on my knowledge, having exercised reasonable diligence, the interim filings do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated or that is necessary to make a statement not misleading in light of the circumstances under which it was made, with respect to the period covered by the interim filings.

 

3. Fair presentation: Based on my knowledge, having exercised reasonable diligence, the interim financial report together with the other financial information included in the interim filings fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, financial performance and cash flows of the issuer, as of the date of and for the periods presented in the interim filings.

 

4. Responsibility: The issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (DC&P) and internal control over financial reporting (ICFR), as those terms are defined in National Instrument 52-109 Certification of Disclosure in Issuers' Annual and Interim Filings, for the issuer.

 

5. Design: Subject to the limitations, if any, described in paragraphs 5.2 and 5.3, the issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I have, as at the end of the period covered by the interim filings:

 

(a) designed DC&P, or caused it to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance that:

 

(i) material information relating to the issuer is made known to us by others, particularly during the period in which the interim filings are being prepared; and

 

(ii) information required to be disclosed by the issuer in its annual filings, interim filings or other reports filed or submitted by it under securities legislation is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in securities legislation; and

 

 

 

 

(b) designed ICFR, or caused it to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with the issuer's GAAP.

 

5.1 Control framework: The control framework the issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I used to design the issuer's ICFR is the framework established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) (COSO framework published by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).

 

5.2 ICFR — material weakness relating to design: N/A

 

5.3 Limitation on scope of design: N/A

 

6. Reporting changes in ICFR: The issuer has disclosed in its interim MD&A any change in the issuer's ICFR that occurred during the period beginning on July 1, 2020 and ended on September 30, 2020 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the issuer's ICFR.

 

Date: November 10, 2020

 

    (signed) "Bill Leonard "  
William Leonard  
President and Chief Executive Officer  

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.7

 

FORM 52-109F2

 

CERTIFICATION OF INTERIM FILINGS

 

FULL CERTIFICATE

 

I, Erns Loubser, Chief Financial Officer of Greenbrook TMS Inc., certify the following:

 

1. Review: I have reviewed the interim financial report and interim MD&A (together, the "interim filings") of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the "issuer") for the interim period ended September 30, 2020.

 

2. No misrepresentations: Based on my knowledge, having exercised reasonable diligence, the interim filings do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated or that is necessary to make a statement not misleading in light of the circumstances under which it was made, with respect to the period covered by the interim filings.

 

3. Fair presentation: Based on my knowledge, having exercised reasonable diligence, the interim financial report together with the other financial information included in the interim filings fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, financial performance and cash flows of the issuer, as of the date of and for the periods presented in the interim filings.

 

4. Responsibility: The issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (DC&P) and internal control over financial reporting (ICFR), as those terms are defined in National Instrument 52-109 Certification of Disclosure in Issuers' Annual and Interim Filings, for the issuer.

 

5. Design: Subject to the limitations, if any, described in paragraphs 5.2 and 5.3, the issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I have, as at the end of the period covered by the interim filings:

 

(a) designed DC&P, or caused it to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance that:

 

(i) material information relating to the issuer is made known to us by others, particularly during the period in which the interim filings are being prepared; and

 

(ii) information required to be disclosed by the issuer in its annual filings, interim filings or other reports filed or submitted by it under securities legislation is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in securities legislation; and

 

 

 

 

(b) designed ICFR, or caused it to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with the issuer's GAAP.

 

5.1 Control framework: The control framework the issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I used to design the issuer's ICFR is the framework established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) (COSO framework published by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).

 

5.2 ICFR — material weakness relating to design: N/A

 

5.3 Limitation on scope of design: N/A

 

6. Reporting changes in ICFR: The issuer has disclosed in its interim MD&A any change in the issuer's ICFR that occurred during the period beginning on July 1, 2020 and ended on September 30, 2020 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the issuer's ICFR.

 

Date: November 10, 2020

 

    (signed) "Erns Loubser"  
Erns Loubser  
Chief Financial Officer  

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.8

 

 

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

For the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2020 and 2019

 

August 4, 2020

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

BASIS OF PRESENTATION 3
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING NON-IFRS MEASURES AND INDUSTRY METRICS 3
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION 4
BUSINESS OVERVIEW 5
FACTORS AFFECTING OUR PERFORMANCE 5
COMPONENTS OF OUR RESULTS OF OPERATIONS AND TRENDS AFFECTING OUR BUSINESS 6
FACTORS AFFECTING THE COMPARABILITY OF OUR RESULTS 8
KEY HIGHLIGHTS AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 9
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS 11
ANALYSIS OF RESULTS FOR Q2 2020 AND YTD 2020 12
QUARTERLY FINANCIAL INFORMATION 16
EBITDA AND ADJUSTED EBITDA 17
RECONCILIATION OF LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE COMMON SHAREHOLDERS OF GREENBROOK TO EBITDA AND ADJUSTED EBITDA 17
FINANCIAL CONDITION, LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES 17
INDEBTEDNESS 19
OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS 19
SHARE INFORMATION 19
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS 20
RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES 20
DISCLOSURE CONTROLS & PROCEDURES AND INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING 22
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES AND JUDGMENTS 22
RISK FACTORS 23
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 23

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

The following Management’s Discussion and Analysis (“MD&A”) provides information concerning the financial condition and results of operations of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Company”, “Greenbrook”, “us” or “we”). This MD&A should be read in conjunction with our unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements for the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, including the related notes thereto, and our audited consolidated financial statements, including the related notes thereto, for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 and the related MD&A.

 

BASIS OF PRESENTATION

 

Our unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with International Accounting Standard (“IAS”) 34 – Interim Financial Reporting, as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”). Our fiscal year is the 12-month period ending December 31. The next fiscal year will occur in the 12-month period ending December 31, 2020 (“Fiscal 2020”).

 

All references in this MD&A to “Q2 2020” are to our fiscal quarter for the three-month period ended June 30, 2020 and all references to “Q2 2019” are to our fiscal quarter for the three-month period ended June 30, 2019. All references in this MD&A to “Q1 2020” are to our fiscal quarter for the three-month period ended March 31, 2020. All references in this MD&A to “YTD 2020” or “year-to-date 2020” are to the six-month period ended June 30, 2020 and all references to “YTD 2019” or “year-to-date 2019” are to the six-month period ended June 30, 2019. All references in this MD&A to “Fiscal 2019” are to our fiscal year ended December 31, 2019.

 

Amounts stated in this MD&A are in United States dollars, unless otherwise indicated.

 

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING NON-IFRS MEASURES AND INDUSTRY METRICS

 

This MD&A makes reference to certain non-International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) measures including certain metrics specific to the industry in which we operate. These measures are not recognized measures under IFRS, do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and, therefore, may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. Rather, these measures are provided as additional information to complement those IFRS measures by providing further understanding of our results of operations from management’s perspective. Accordingly, these measures are not intended to represent, and should not be considered as alternatives to, loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook or other performance measures derived in accordance with IFRS as measures of operating performance or operating cash flows or as a measure of liquidity. In addition to our results determined in accordance with IFRS, we use non-IFRS measures including, “EBITDA” and “Adjusted EBITDA”. This MD&A also refers to “Same-Region Sales Growth”, which is an operating metric used in the industry in which we operate but may be calculated differently by other companies. These non-IFRS measures, including industry metrics, are used to provide investors with supplemental measures of our operating performance and thus highlight trends in our core business that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on IFRS measures. We also believe that securities analysts, investors and other interested parties frequently use non-IFRS measures, including industry metrics, in the evaluation of issuers. Our management also uses non-IFRS measures, including industry metrics, to facilitate operating performance comparisons from period to period, to prepare annual operating budgets and forecasts and to determine components of management compensation.

 

We define such non-IFRS measures, including industry metrics, as follows:

 

Adjusted EBITDA” is defined as net income (loss) before amortization, depreciation, interest expenses, interest income and income taxes, adjusted for share-based compensation expenses, center development costs (as outlined in the unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto), and non-recurring expenses. We believe our Adjusted EBITDA metric is a meaningful financial metric as it measures the ability of our current TMS Center (as defined below) operations to generate earnings while eliminating the impact of costs incurred related to our TMS Center growth plans and share-based compensation expenses, neither of which has an impact on the operating performance of our existing TMS Center network.

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EBITDA” is defined as net income (loss) before amortization, depreciation, interest expenses and income taxes.

 

Same-Region Sales Growth” is a metric used to compare the percentage change in sales derived from established management regions in a certain period as compared to the sales from the same management regions in the same period of the prior year and functions as an indicator of organic growth. We monitor our business on a regional basis to focus on increasing patient volume within a management region in addition to assessing individual TMS Center locations on a standalone basis. As a result, we will from time to time establish a TMS Center that may, over the short term, negatively impact the patient volume at another TMS Center, but which is expected to add incremental patient volume to the management region as a whole in an economically beneficial manner. We believe our Same-Region Sales Growth metric helps quantify our sales growth within regional management areas and the related growth opportunities associated with adding TMS Center density within established management regions. Same-Region Sales Growth is calculated based on management regions containing open TMS Centers that have performed billable TMS services for a period of at least one full year prior to each of the comparable periods. Our Same-Region Sales Growth is unique to our financial management strategy and may be calculated differently compared to other companies.

 

See “Reconciliation of Loss Attributable to the Common Shareholders of Greenbrook to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA” for a reconciliation of certain of the foregoing non-IFRS measures to their most directly comparable measures calculated in accordance with IFRS.

 

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION

 

Some of the information contained in this MD&A, including the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic (“COVID-19”) and the Company’s response thereto, contains forward-looking information. This information is based on management’s reasonable assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently available to us and is current as of the date of this MD&A. Actual results and the timing of events may differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking information contained in this MD&A as a result of various factors.

 

Particularly, information regarding our expectations of future results, performance, growth, achievements, prospects or opportunities or the markets in which we operate is forward-looking information. In some cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “outlook”, “forecasts”, “projection”, “prospects”, “strategy”, “intends”, “anticipates”, “does not anticipate”, “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “should”, “might”, “will”, “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, intentions, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events or circumstances.

 

Many factors could cause our actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements or future events or developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, the factors discussed in the “Risks and Uncertainties” section of this MD&A. Additional risks and uncertainties are discussed in the Company’s materials filed with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities from time to time, including the Company’s annual information form dated March 10, 2020 in respect of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect us; however, these factors should be considered carefully.

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The purpose of the forward-looking information is to provide the reader with a description of management’s current expectations regarding the Company’s financial performance and may not be appropriate for other purposes; readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information contained herein. To the extent any forward-looking information in this MD&A constitutes future-oriented financial information or financial outlook, within the meaning of applicable securities laws, such information is being provided to demonstrate the potential of the Company and readers are cautioned that this information may not be appropriate for any other purpose. Future-oriented financial information and financial outlook, as with forward-looking information generally, are based on current assumptions and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors. Furthermore, unless otherwise stated, the forward-looking statements contained in this MD&A are made as of the date of this MD&A and we have no intention and undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable securities law. The forward-looking statements contained in this MD&A are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.

 

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

 

We are a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy in the United States for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (“MDD”) and other mental health disorders. The predecessor to the Company, TMS NeuroHealth Centers, Inc. (“TMS US”) was established in 2011 to take advantage of the opportunity created through the paradigm-shifting technology of TMS, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of MDD. Our business model takes advantage of the opportunity for a new, differentiated service channel for the delivery of TMS – a patient-focused, centers-based service model to make TMS treatment easily accessible to all patients while maintaining a high standard of care.

 

After opening our first center in 2011 in Tysons Corner in Northern Virginia, we have grown to control and operate a network of outpatient mental health service centers that specialize in TMS treatment across the United States (each, a “TMS Center”). The Company offers TMS treatment facilities in convenient locations to provide easy access to patients and physicians. As of June 30, 2020, and as of the date of this MD&A, the Company owned and operated 125 TMS Centers in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Connecticut, Florida, Texas, Michigan, Alaska, Oregon and California.

 

Our regional model seeks to develop leading positions in key regional markets, leveraging operational efficiencies by combining smaller local TMS treatment centers that are strategically located within a single region for convenient patient and physician access, with regional management infrastructure in place to support center operations. Management regions typically cover a specific metropolitan area that meets a requisite base population threshold. The management region is typically defined by a manageable geographic area in terms of size, which facilitates the use of regional staff working across the various TMS Center locations within the management region, and which resides within a marketing capture area that allows for efficiencies in advertising cost. Management regions often have similar economic characteristics and are not necessarily defined by state lines, other geographic borders, or differentiating methods of services delivery, but rather are defined by a functional management area.

 

FACTORS AFFECTING OUR PERFORMANCE

 

We believe that our performance and future success depend on a number of factors that present significant opportunities for us. These factors are also subject to a number of inherent risks and challenges, some of which are discussed below. See also the “Risks and Uncertainties” section of this MD&A.

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Number of TMS Centers

 

We have a meaningful opportunity to continue to grow the number of our TMS Centers in the United States through organic in-region growth, establishing new regions and potential future acquisitions. The opening and success of new TMS Centers is subject to numerous factors, including our ability to locate the appropriate space, finance the operations, build relationships with physicians, and negotiate suitable lease terms and local payor arrangements, and other factors, some of which are beyond our control.

 

Competition

 

The market for TMS is becoming more competitive. We compete principally on the basis of our reputation and brand, the location of our centers and the quality of our TMS services and the reputation of our partner physicians. In the markets in which we are operating, or anticipate operating in the future, competition predominantly consists of individual psychiatrists that have a TMS device, an FDA-regulated medical device specifically manufactured to transmit the magnetic pulses required to stimulate the cortical areas in the brain to effectively treat MDD and other mental health disorders (each, a “TMS Device”), in their office and who can offer TMS therapy directly to their patients. We also face competition from a limited number of multi-location psychiatric practices or behavioral health groups that offer TMS therapy as part of their overall practice, as well as a few other specialist TMS providers.

 

Industry Trends

 

Our revenue is impacted by changes to United States healthcare laws, our partners’ and contractors’ healthcare costs, the ability to secure favourable pricing structures with device manufacturers and payors’ reimbursement criteria and associated rates.

 

Technology

 

Our revenues are affected by the availability of, and reimbursement for, new TMS indications, new technology or other novel treatment modalities and our ability to incorporate the new technology into our TMS Centers.

 

Segments

 

We evaluate our business and report our results based on organizational units used by management to monitor performance and make operating decisions on the basis of one operating and reportable segment: Outpatient Mental Health Service Centers. We currently measure this reportable operating segment’s performance based on revenues and regional operating income.

 

COMPONENTS OF OUR RESULTS OF OPERATIONS AND TRENDS AFFECTING OUR BUSINESS

 

In assessing our results of operations and trends affecting our business, we consider a variety of financial and operating measures that affect our operating results.

 

Total Revenue

 

Total revenue consists of service revenue attributable to the performance of TMS treatments. In circumstances where the net patient fees have not yet been received, the amount of revenue recognized is estimated based on an expected value approach where management considers such variables as the average of previous net patient fees received by the applicable payor and fees received by other patients for similar services and management’s best estimate leveraging industry knowledge and expectations of third-party payors’ fee schedules. Third party payors include federal and state agencies (under the Medicare programs), managed care health plans and commercial insurance companies.

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Regional Operating Income (Loss) and Direct Center and Regional Costs

 

Regional operating income (loss) is calculated as total revenue less direct center and regional costs. Direct center and regional costs consist of direct center and patient care costs, regional employee compensation, regional marketing expenses, and depreciation. These costs encapsulate all costs (other than incentive compensation such as share-based compensation granted to senior regional employees) associated with the center and regional management infrastructure, including the cost of the delivery of TMS treatments to patients and the cost of our regional patient acquisition strategy. Beginning Q1 2020, the Company has excluded amortization from regional operating income (loss) based on the nature of the expense as it is not associated with center and regional infrastructure. We have retrospectively updated our quarterly financial information below to reflect this change (see “Quarterly Financial Information” below).

 

Center Development Costs, Capital Expenditure and Working Capital Investment

 

Center development costs represent direct expenses associated with developing new TMS Centers, including small furnishings and fittings, wiring and electrical and, in some cases, the cost of minor space alterations. However, the main cash requirement for center development relates to working capital investment. This includes rental deposits or other non-capital costs required to open TMS Centers and the cost of TMS treatment delivery while collections initially lag until payor contracting, credentialing and enrollment processes are completed.

 

Corporate Employee Compensation

 

Corporate employee compensation represents compensation incurred to manage the centralized business infrastructure of the Company, including annual base salary, annual cash bonuses and other non-equity incentives.

 

Corporate Marketing Expenses

 

Corporate marketing expenses represent costs incurred that impact the Company on an overall basis including investments in website functionality and brand management activities.

 

Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses

 

Other corporate, general and administrative expenses represent expenses related to the corporate infrastructure required to support our ongoing business including insurance costs, professional and legal costs and costs incurred related to our corporate offices.

 

We have invested in this area to support the growing volume and complexity of our business and anticipate continuing to do so in the future. We have already started to scale into our centralized business infrastructure and leverage these fixed costs as we continue to expand our TMS Center network.

 

Transaction Costs

 

Transaction costs represent accounting, legal and professional fees incurred as part of significant transactions, including the acquisition of Achieve TMS Centers, LLC and Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC (collectively, “Achieve TMS”) in the third quarter of 2019 (the “Achieve TMS Acquisition”). See “Factors Affecting the Comparability of our Results – Acquisition of Achieve TMS” below.

 

Earn-Out Consideration

 

A portion of the purchase price payable in respect of the Achieve TMS Acquisition (see “Factors Affecting the Comparability of our Results – Acquisition of Achieve TMS” below) is subject to an earn-out based on the earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization achieved by Achieve TMS during the twelve-month period following the closing of the Achieve TMS Acquisition (the “Earn-Out”). 70% of the Earn-Out consideration will be settled in cash and the remainder will be settled through the issuance of common shares of the Company (“Common Shares”) to the vendors, subject to applicable regulatory and stock exchange approvals. The amount recognized as at June 30, 2020 is based on management’s best estimate of the Earn-Out payable and is subject to estimation uncertainty given the economic environment as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Share-Based Compensation

 

Share-based compensation represents stock options granted as consideration in exchange for employee and similar services to align personnel performance with the Company’s long-term goals.

 

Amortization

 

Amortization relates to the reduction in useful life of the Company’s intangible assets that were realized as part of the Achieve TMS Acquisition.

 

Interest

 

Interest expense relates to interest incurred on loans and lease liabilities. Interest income relates to income realized as a result of investing excess funds into investment accounts.

 

Adjusted EBITDA and Non-Recurring Expenses

 

Adjusted EBITDA and non-recurring expenses represent additional disclosures pertaining to one-time costs incurred for purposes of enhancing the performance of the business. This includes the recognition of a one-time cost with respect to the Earn-Out payable in connection with the Achieve TMS Acquisition which relates to our TMS Center growth.

 

FACTORS AFFECTING THE COMPARABILITY OF OUR RESULTS

 

COVID-19

 

While all of our TMS Centers are open, and are expected to remain open, we experienced a temporary decline in both patient visits/treatments and new patient treatment starts as a result of the restrictions imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (see “Risks and Uncertainties”). We have, however, experienced a record monthly high in new patient treatment starts in June 2020 which we anticipate will be a catalyst for growth in the third quarter of 2020 as we recover from the impacts of COVID-19 (see “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information” above).

 

Acquisition of Achieve TMS

 

On September 26, 2019, we, through our wholly-owned subsidiary, TMS US, completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding membership interests of each of Achieve TMS Centers, LLC and Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC for a purchase price of $10,596,912 (net of Achieve TMS’ cash and subject to customary working capital adjustments), of which $2,611,044 of the purchase price was satisfied through the issuance of an aggregate of 1,431,736 Common Shares to the vendors and the remainder was settled in cash. Achieve TMS currently operates 22 active TMS Centers, with an additional TMS Center in development, in California, Oregon and Alaska. Achieve TMS has a particular focus on deep TMS therapy. The Achieve TMS Acquisition will allow us to accelerate our expansion in the western United States in future periods.

 

A portion of the purchase price payable in respect to the Achieve TMS Acquisition is subject to the Earn-Out. 70% of the Earn-Out consideration will be settled in cash and the remainder will be settled through the issuance of Common Shares to the vendors.

 

Regional Development Activity

 

Our regional model seeks to develop leading positions in key markets, and to leverage operational efficiencies by combining smaller local TMS treatment centers within a region under a single shared regional management infrastructure. Part of our core strategy is to continue to develop new TMS Centers within our existing regions as well as in new management regions, in each case, organically or through acquisitions of existing centers or businesses, which may affect comparability of results.

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KEY HIGHLIGHTS AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

 

During Q2 2020, despite the challenging operating environment imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we showed resilient performance and sustained strong year-over-year revenue growth compared to YTD 2019 and Q2 2019. Our efforts to expand patient interactions virtually and the corresponding increased usage of these platforms by both patients and physicians contributed to this positive result. We believe that access to TMS therapy is now more essential than ever and our disciplined measures to control costs allowed us to maintain our trend of strong historical performance. We established three new active TMS Centers during Q2 2020, with an additional 12 TMS Centers in development, bringing our total network to 125 TMS Centers. We also experienced a record monthly high in new patient treatment starts in June 2020 which supports a strong positive trend following the initial onset of COVID-19 and we anticipate will be a catalyst for accelerated future growth (see “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information” above).

 

Growth in Total Revenue

 

Despite the impact of COVID-19, consolidated revenue increased by 21% to $9.8 million in Q2 2020 (Q2 2019: $8.1 million), significantly exceeding our previously disclosed guidance of 10% year-over-year revenue growth. On a YTD 2020 basis, consolidated revenue increased by 44% to $21.2 million (YTD 2019: $14.7 million). Furthermore, Q2 2020 consolidated revenue of $9.8 million represented a decrease of only 14% as compared to Q1 2020 (Q1 2020: $11.4 million), exceeding our previously disclosed guidance of an expected 20-25% decrease in consolidated revenue period-over-period.

 

With an additional 12 TMS Centers in development as at the end of Q2 2020, coupled with a new record high in new patient starts in June 2020, we believe that we are well positioned for accelerated future growth as COVID-19 related market conditions and patient sentiment continue to improve (see “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information” above).

 

COVID-19 Business Impact

 

All of the Company’s active TMS Centers remained open throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to both current and new patients (including as “essential businesses”) and are expected to continue to remain open going forward. However, as a result of a decline in treatments and new patient starts in Q1 2020 as a result of the governmental restrictions imposed in response to COVID-19 and related patient sentiment, and the corresponding anticipated decline in revenue projected during Q1 2020 and Q2 2020, we took the following measures in order to control costs:

 

approximately 20% of the Company’s employees were furloughed as of May 1, 2020. During the period of furlough, Greenbrook paid 100% of employer and employee medical premiums;

 

a Company-wide hiring freeze was implemented;

 

each member of the Company’s executive management team agreed to a 10% salary deferral; and

 

budgeted discretionary expenses are expected to be reduced by approximately $2 million for Fiscal 2020 (a decrease of 58%, or $1.2 million, was realized during Q2 2020 as compared to our plan and a decrease of 41%, or $0.6 million, as compared to Q1 2020).

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As operating conditions begin to normalize, we have and will continue to re-instate furloughed employees to match increased mental health treatment demand as the entire team works tirelessly to continue to deliver the highest quality of care at all of our TMS Centers, while at the same time taking all possible steps to safeguard the health and well-being of our patients, employees and physician partners. We see these challenging operating conditions as temporary and we are starting to see a positive change in sentiment. We continue to see an increase in patient inquiries along with a growing number of our current and new patients visiting our TMS Centers to receive treatment (including a record high in new patient starts in June 2020). However, as we navigate through this unprecedented and challenging period, we will continue to assess the need for additional measures to control costs. See “Risks and Uncertainties”.

 

Paycheck Protection Program Loan

 

On April 21, 2020, Greenbrook entered into a promissory note with U.S. Bank National Association (the “Lender”), evidencing an unsecured loan in the amount of $3,080,760 (the “Loan”) made to the Company under the United States Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”). The PPP is a program organized by the U.S. Small Business Administration established under the recently-enacted Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”). The Loan bears interest at a fixed rate of 1.0% per annum with a maturity date of two years from the date of the Loan. Payments are deferred for the first six months under the Loan, and the Loan may be forgiven in its entirety provided that the proceeds from the Loan are used by Greenbrook to cover payroll costs, rent and utilities.

 

As federal authorities continue to update relevant policies and guidelines regarding the PPP, including some that have retroactive effect, Greenbrook is monitoring these developments and assessing any changes in the Company’s eligibility for the PPP or any other subsidies or support mechanisms under the CARES Act.

 

Regional Operating Income (Loss)

 

We incurred a regional operating loss for Q2 2020 of $0.2 million as compared to regional operating income of $1.0 million in Q2 2019. Regional operating income decreased 68% to $0.5 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $1.6 million). This is primarily attributable to a reduction in patient treatments during the period as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Investment in the Centralized Business Infrastructure and Rationalization of Aggregate Corporate Costs

 

Aggregate corporate costs (including corporate employee compensation, corporate marketing expenses and other corporate, general and administrative expenses and excluding non-recurring expenses) increased by 9% to $3.1 million for Q2 2020 (Q2 2019: $2.9 million) and by 35% to $7.0 million in YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $5.2 million). Aggregate corporate costs decreased by 19% compared to Q1 2020 (Q1 2020: $3.9 million). This is the result of investments in our business infrastructure and increased staffing of our shared-services functions in Fiscal 2019 coupled with the Achieve TMS Acquisition, offset by disciplined measures implemented to control costs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

As anticipated, the Q2 2020 and YTD 2020 aggregate corporate costs growth rate has decreased significantly as compared to Fiscal 2019 as we continue to scale into our centralized business infrastructure. This is further highlighted by the growth in revenue eclipsing the growth rate in aggregate corporate costs in Q2 2020 and YTD 2020.

 

Continued Development of our TMS Center Network

 

We added three active TMS Centers during Q2 2020 with an additional 12 TMS Centers in development as at June 30, 2020. This brings our total network to 125 TMS Centers, which is an increase of 62% from Q2 2019.

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Our development pipeline remains robust and primed for further expansion. We have, however, temporarily curtailed development activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

 

The Offering

 

On May 21, 2020, the Company completed a public offering of 9,093,940 Common Shares at an aggregate offering price of C$1.65 per Common Share for aggregate gross proceeds of C$15,005,001 (the “Offering”). The Company is using the net proceeds from the Offering to fund operating activities and for other working capital and general corporate purposes.

 

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

Selected Financial Information

 

The following table summarizes our results of operations for the periods indicated. The selected consolidated financial information set out below have been derived from our unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements and related notes.

 

(US$)  

Q2 2020

(unaudited)

   

Q2 2019

(unaudited)

   

YTD 2020

(unaudited)

   

YTD 2019

(unaudited)

 
Total revenue     9,788,555       8,082,559       21,209,057       14,689,757  
                                 
Direct center and patient care costs     5,166,153       3,931,231       11,047,442       7,387,847  
Regional employee compensation     2,323,340       1,538,755       4,849,530       2,790,176  
Regional marketing expenses     1,087,698       674,531       1,954,800       1,138,572  
Depreciation     1,436,562       935,876       2,842,687       1,743,996  
Total direct center and regional costs     10,013,753       7,080,393       20,694,459       13,060,591  
Regional operating income (loss)     (225,198 )     1,002,166       514,598       1,629,166  
Center development costs     140,861       414,975       370,368       679,671  
Corporate employee compensation     2,398,594       1,456,050       5,022,025       2,916,151  
Corporate marketing expenses     298,237       427,543       603,685       631,889  
Other corporate, general and administrative expenses     437,342       978,892       1,384,959       1,646,787  
Share-based compensation     175,447       162,155       284,852       456,314  
Amortization     115,833             231,666        
Interest expense     694,208       405,817       1,352,042       803,657  
Interest income     (1,078 )     (2,159 )     (9,561 )     (24,109 )
Earn-Out consideration     5,250,000             5,250,000        
Loss before income taxes     (9,734,642 )     (2,841,107 )     (13,975,438 )     (5,481,194 )
Income tax expense                       -  
Loss for the period and comprehensive loss     (9,734,642 )     (2,841,107 )     (13,975,438 )     (5,481,194 )
Loss attributable to non-controlling interest     (257,137 )     32,985       (339,660 )     (36,680 )
Loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook     (9,477,505 )     (2,874,092 )     (13,635,778 )     (5,444,514 )
Net loss per share (basic and diluted)     (0.15 )     (0.06 )     (0.23 )     (0.11 )

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Selected Financial Position Data

 

The following table provides selected financial position data for the years and periods indicated:

 

(US$)  

As at June 30,

   

As at December 31,

 
   

2020

(unaudited)

   

2019

(unaudited)

   

2019

 
Cash     13,594,274       23,256,303       7,947,607  
Current assets (excluding cash)     12,931,325       11,071,416       12,003,831  
Total assets     65,508,189       54,567,161       56,964,106  
Current liabilities     21,309,121       9,642,569       13,183,677  
Non-current liabilities     24,930,054       14,222,724       20,834,296  
Total liabilities     46,239,175       23,865,293       34,017,973  
Non-controlling interests     (38,755 )     579,735       444,405  
Shareholders’ equity     19,269,014       30,701,868       22,946,133  

 

Selected Operating Data

 

The following table provides selected operating data for the years and periods indicated:

 

   

As at June 30,

   

As at December 31,

 

(unaudited)

 

2020

   

2019

   

2019

 
Number of active TMS Centers(1)     113       67       102  
Number of TMS Centers-in-development(2)     12       10       17  
Total TMS Centers     125       77       119  
Number of management regions     13       10       13  
Number of TMS Devices installed     189       127       178  
Number of regional personnel     275       199       273  
Number of shared-services / corporate personnel(3)     44       30       44  
Number of TMS providers(4)     112       64       109  
Number of consultations performed     4,435       3,383       8,039  
Number of patient starts     2,544       1,839       4,080  
Number of TMS treatments performed     90,551       66,206       155,343  
Average revenue per TMS treatment   $ 234     $ 222     $ 230  

 

 

Notes: 

(1) Active TMS Centers represent TMS Centers that have performed billable TMS services.

(2) TMS Centers-in-development represents TMS Centers that have committed to a space lease agreement and the development process is substantially complete.

(3) Shared-services / corporate personnel is disclosed on a full-time equivalent basis. The Company utilizes part-time staff and consultants as a means of managing costs.

(4) Represents physician partners that are involved in the provision of TMS therapy services from our TMS Centers.

 

Analysis of Results for Q2 2020 and YTD 2020

 

The following section provides an overview of our financial performance during Q2 2020 compared to Q2 2019 and during YTD 2020 compared to YTD 2019.

 

Total Revenue

 

Despite the impact of COVID-19, consolidated revenue increased by 21% to $9.8 million in Q2 2020 (Q2 2019: $8.1 million), significantly exceeding our previously disclosed guidance of 10% year-over-year revenue growth. On a YTD 2020 basis, consolidated revenue increased by 44% to $21.2 million (YTD 2019: $14.7 million). This growth was primarily attributable to increased efforts to provide greater access to patients virtually, through the expanded use of online platforms, focused marketing efforts on the safety and accessibility of our TMS Centers and through the continued development of our TMS Center network by adding three active TMS Centers, coupled with the Achieve TMS Acquisition. We also believe that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased demand for mental health services (including TMS therapy), which we believe will continue to promote growth as operating conditions normalize.

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Same-Region Sales Growth was negative 19% in Q2 2020 but remained positive at 2% in YTD 2020. The negative growth experienced in Q2 2020 is directly attributable to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. As operating conditions continue to normalize, we believe this metric will revert back to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels (see “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information” and “Cautionary Note Regarding Non-IFRS Measures and Industry Metrics” above).

 

Average revenue per treatment increased by 5% to $230 in Q2 2020 (Q2 2019: $220) and by 5% to $234 during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $222). This increase was predominantly attributable to an increase in reimbursement rates from certain payors with which we have had long-standing relationships in our established regions and expansion to more favorable reimbursement jurisdictions, including as a result of the Achieve TMS Acquisition.

 

Accounts Receivable

 

Accounts receivable increased by $0.8 million to $10.9 million in Q2 2020 (Q4 2019: $10.1 million) and decreased by $0.1 million compared to Q1 2020 ($11.0 million). The Company has already started to realize the benefits of the enhancements made to the billing and reimbursement systems in Fiscal 2019 despite the continued number of new TMS Centers where the effects of payor contracting and billing system setup impacts the normal cash conversion cycle, and slightly slower reimbursement timelines experienced from payors due to the disruption caused by COVID-19. We expect accounts receivable to continue to stabilize throughout Fiscal 2020. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

 

Regional Operating Income (Loss) and Direct Center and Regional Costs

 

The Company experienced a regional operating loss of $0.2 million in Q2 2020 as compared to regional operating income of $1.0 million in Q2 2019, representing a decrease of $1.2 million, or 122%. Regional operating income decreased 68% to $0.5 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $1.6 million). This decrease is primarily attributable to the impact of COVID-19 on revenue and the inclusion of three newly active TMS Centers and 12 TMS Centers in-development, which will take time to generate positive regional operating income. The regional operating loss margin was 2.3% in Q2 2020 as compared to a regional operating income margin of 12.4% in Q2 2019. The regional operating income margin was 2.4% in YTD 2020 compared to 11.1% in YTD 2019, primarily due to the impact of COVID-19.

 

Direct center and regional costs increased by 41% to $10.0 million in Q2 2020 (Q2 2019: $7.1 million) and by 58% to $20.7 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $13.1 million). The increase in direct center and regional costs was primarily due to the addition of regional employee costs and regional marketing costs associated with the addition of new regions and the Achieve TMS Acquisition, offset slightly by the cost containment measures implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (see “Key Highlights and Recent Developments – COVID-19 Business Impact”).

 

Center Development Costs, Capital Expenditures and Working Capital Investment

 

Center development costs decreased by 66% to $0.1 million in Q2 2020 (Q2 2019: $0.4 million) and by 46% to $0.4 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $0.7 million) predominantly as a result of the curtailment of development activity, which started in late Q1 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Average cash investment to establish new TMS Centers (including center development costs, capital expenditures and working capital investment) remained consistent at $0.16 million in Q2 2020 and YTD 2020 (Q2 2019 and YTD 2019: $0.16 million).

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Corporate Employee Compensation

 

Corporate employee compensation incurred to manage the centralized business infrastructure of the Company increased by 65% to $2.4 million in Q2 2020 (Q2 2019: $1.5 million) and by 72% to $5.0 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $2.9 million). The increase was primarily due to significant increases in staffing in respect of our shared-services functions in addition to employees inherited in connection with of the Achieve TMS Acquisition subsequent to Q2 2019. Recruitment activity throughout Fiscal 2019 included recruitment in the business development, sales, marketing, human resources, legal and finance areas.

 

As anticipated, the Q2 2020 corporate employee compensation growth rate has decreased significantly as compared to the Fiscal 2019 corporate employee compensation growth rate of 171% as we are starting to scale into our centralized business infrastructure and leverage these fixed costs as we continue to expand our TMS Center network. We expect continued slowing of corporate recruitment throughout Fiscal 2020 as a result of a Company-wide hiring freeze. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

 

Corporate Marketing Expenses

 

Corporate marketing expenses decreased by 30% to $0.3 million in Q2 2020 (Q2 2019: $0.4 million) and by 4% to $0.6 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $0.6 million). The decrease was a result of the cost containment measures implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (see “Key Highlights and Recent Developments – COVID-19 Business Impact”).

 

Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses

 

Other corporate, general and administrative expenses decreased by 55% to $0.4 million in Q2 2020 (Q2 2019: $1.0 million) and by 16% to $1.4 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $1.6 million). The decrease was primarily a result of the cost containment measures implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (see “Key Highlights and Recent Developments – COVID-19 Business Impact”).

 

As anticipated, the other corporate, general and administrative expenses growth rate has decreased as compared to the Fiscal 2019 other corporate, general and administrative expenses growth rate of 72% (after excluding non-recurring expenses). We expect that the other corporate, general and administrative expenses growth rate will continue to normalize throughout Fiscal 2020 and that we will be able to scale our investments and leverage fixed costs as we expand our TMS Center network in the future. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

 

Earn-Out Consideration

 

The estimated Earn-Out consideration increased by $5.3 million in Q2 2020 and YTD 2020 (Q2 2019 and YTD 2019: nil). The increase is a result of the Company’s estimate of the purchase price payable with respect of the Earn-Out, with strong performance from Achieve TMS, specifically in Alaska. See “Factors Affecting the Comparability of our Results – Acquisition of Achieve TMS”. The amount recognized is based on management’s best estimate of the Earn-Out payable and is subject to estimation uncertainty given the economic environment as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Share-Based Compensation

 

Share-based compensation increased by 8% to $0.2 million in Q2 2020 (Q2 2019: $0.2 million) and decreased by 38% to $0.3 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $0.5 million), predominantly due to the timing of stock options granted to key personnel to ensure retention and long-term alignment with the goals of the Company.

 

Amortization

 

Amortization increased by $0.1 million in Q2 2020 (Q2 2019: nil) and by $0.2 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: nil). The increase was a result of the intangible assets acquired as part of the Achieve TMS Acquisition in the second half of Fiscal 2019.

 

Interest

 

Interest expense increased by 71% to $0.7 million in Q2 2020 (Q2 2019: $0.4 million) and by 68% to $1.4 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $0.8 million). The increase in interest expense is primarily due to the addition of new lease liabilities in line with the execution of our regional growth strategy.

 

Interest income decreased by 50% to $0.001 million in Q2 2020 (Q2 2019: $0.002 million) and by 60% to $0.01 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $0.02 million) as a result of a decrease in the amount of excess funds invested.

 

Loss for the Period and Comprehensive Loss and Loss for the Period Attributable to the Common Shareholders of Greenbrook

 

The loss for the period and comprehensive loss, excluding the Earn-Out consideration, increased by 58% to $4.5 million in Q2 2020 (Q2 2019: $2.8 million) and by 59% to $8.7 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $5.5 million). The loss for the period and comprehensive loss, including the Earn-Out consideration, increased by 243% to $9.7 million in Q2 2020 (Q2 2019: $2.8 million) and by 155% to $14.0 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $5.5 million). This increase is primarily a result of the impact of COVID-19, the increase in Earn-Out consideration estimated with respect to the Achieve TMS Acquisition, the inclusion of three newly active TMS Centers and 12 TMS Centers in development which will take time to generate positive regional operating income as well as marginally higher corporate costs due to investments in the centralized business infrastructure as outlined in “Regional Operating Income (Loss) and Direct Center and Regional Costs”, “Corporate Employee Compensation” and “Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses” in this MD&A.

 

The loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook, excluding the Earn-Out consideration, increased by 47% to $4.2 million in Q2 2020 (Q2 2019: $2.9 million) and by 54% to $8.4 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $5.4 million). The loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook, including the Earn-Out consideration, increased by 230% to $9.5 million in Q2 2020 (Q2 2019: $2.9 million) and by 150% to $13.6 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $5.4 million). This increase is primarily a result of the impact of COVID-19, the increase in Earn-Out consideration estimated with respect to the Achieve TMS Acquisition, the inclusion of three newly active TMS Centers and 12 TMS Centers in development which will take time to generate positive regional operating income as well as higher corporate costs due to investments in the centralized business infrastructure as outlined in “Regional Operating Income (Loss) and Direct Center and Regional Costs”, “Corporate Employee Compensation” and “Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses” in this MD&A.

 

Adjusted EBITDA and Non-Recurring Expenses

 

The Adjusted EBITDA loss position increased by 74% to $1.7 million in Q2 2020 (Q2 2019: $1.0 million) and by 86% to $3.3 million during YTD 2020 (YTD 2019: $1.8 million). This increase in the Adjusted EBITDA loss position was predominately due to the impact of COVID-19, the inclusion of three newly active TMS Centers and 12 TMS Centers in development which will take time to generate positive regional operating income and higher corporate costs as outlined in “Corporate Employee Compensation”, “Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses”, “Regional Operating Income (Loss) and Direct Center and Regional Costs” in this MD&A.

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The Earn-Out consideration with respect to the Achieve TMS Acquisition is a non-recurring expense incurred during Q2 2020 and YTD 2020 due to its nature and therefore excluded from Adjusted EBITDA. There were no other non-recurring expenses incurred during Q2 2019 or YTD 2019.

 

QUARTERLY FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

The following table summarizes the results of our operations for the eight most recently completed fiscal quarters.

 

(US$)   Q2 2020     Q1 2020     Q4 2019     Q3 2019     Q2 2019     Q1 2019    

Q4 2018(2)

   

Q3 2018(2)

 
(unaudited)                                                                
Revenue     9,788,555       11,420,502       12,536,671       8,459,103       8,082,559       6,607,198       7,092,455       5,338,364  
Regional operating income (loss)(1)     (225,198 )     739,796       2,056,836       770,813       1,002,166       627,000       1,418,347       476,556  
Net loss attributable to shareholders of Greenbrook     (9,477,505 )     (4,158,274 )     (7,034,356 )     (3,431,009 )     (2,874,092 )     (2,570,422 )     (949,031 )     (1,480,489 )
Adjusted EBITDA     (1,665,672 )     (1,648,053 )     (1,296,201 )     (1,033,876 )     (957,428 )     (827,557 )     (865,210 )     (840,374 )
Net loss per share – Basic     (0.15 )     (0.08 )     (0.13 )     (0.06 )     (0.06 )     (0.05 )     (0.01 )     (0.04 )
Net loss per share – Diluted     (0.15 )     (0.08 )     (0.13 )     (0.06 )     (0.06 )     (0.05 )     (0.01 )     (0.04 )

 

 

Notes:

(1) Regional operating income for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2019 has been updated to exclude amortization (see “Components of our results of our operations and trends affecting our business” above).

(2) The Company adopted IFRS 16, Leases (“IFRS 16”) effective as at January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective approach. As a result of this approach, the prior period figures were not adjusted.

 

Robust performance, despite the impact of COVID-19, resulted in consolidated revenue for Q2 2020 significantly exceeding previously disclosed guidance and decreased by 14% to $9.8 million in Q2 2020 (Q1 2020: $11.4 million) as compared to an expected decrease of between 20-25%. This was primarily attributable to increased efforts to expand patient interactions virtually and the corresponding increased usage of these platforms by both patients and physicians. With an anticipated increased need for access to mental health treatment (including TMS therapy) as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and disciplined measures to control costs, we managed to maintain our trend of strong historical performance. We established three newly active TMS Centers during Q2 2020, with an additional 12 TMS Centers in development, bringing our total network to 125 TMS Centers. We also established a record monthly high in new patient treatment starts in June 2020 which supports a strong positive trend following the initial onset of COVID-19 and we anticipate will be a catalyst for accelerated future growth (see “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information” above).

 

We experienced a regional operating loss in the amount of $0.2 million in Q2 2020 as compared to regional operating income of $0.7 million in Q1 2020, representing a decrease of 130%, predominantly due to the impact of COVID-19 on revenue, offset slightly by cost containment measures implemented as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic (see “Key Highlights and Recent Developments – COVID-19 Business Impact”).

 

The loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook, excluding the Earn-Out consideration, increased by 2% to $4.2 million in Q2 2020 (Q1 2020: $4.2 million). The loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook, including the Earn-Out consideration, increased by 128% to $9.5 million in Q2 2020 (Q1 2020: $4.2 million). The decrease in the loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook was predominately due to an increase in the estimated Earn-Out consideration with respect to the Achieve TMS Acquisition.

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The Adjusted EBITDA loss position remained substantially the same at $1.7 million in Q2 2020 (Q1 2020: $1.6 million) despite the impact of COVID-19. This was managed through the successful implementation of cost containment measures to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on revenue.

 

EBITDA AND ADJUSTED EBITDA

 

The table below illustrates our EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA for the periods presented:

 

(US$)  

Q2 2020

(unaudited)

   

Q2 2019

(unaudited)

   

YTD 2020

(unaudited)

   

YTD 2019

(unaudited)

 
EBITDA     (7,231,980 )     (1,534,558 )     (9,218,944 )     (2,920,970 )
Adjusted EBITDA     (1,665,672 )     (957,428 )     (3,313,724 )     (1,784,985 )

 

See “Cautionary Note Regarding Non-IFRS Measures and Industry Metrics” in this MD&A.

 

RECONCILIATION OF LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE COMMON SHAREHOLDERS OF GREENBROOK TO EBITDA AND ADJUSTED EBITDA

 

The table below illustrates a reconciliation of loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA for the periods presented:

 

(US$)  

Q2 2020

(unaudited)

   

Q2 2019

(unaudited)

   

YTD 2020

(unaudited)

   

YTD 2019

(unaudited)

 
Loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook     (9,477,505 )     (2,874,092 )     (13,635,778 )     (5,444,514 )
Add the impact of:                                
Interest expense     694,208       405,817       1,352,042       803,657  
Amortization     115,833             231,666        
Depreciation     1,436,562       935,876       2,842,687       1,743,996  
Less the impact of:                                
Interest income     (1,078 )     (2,159 )     (9,561 )     (24,109 )
EBITDA     (7,231,980 )     (1,534,558 )     (9,218,944 )     (2,920,970 )
Add the impact of:                                
Share-based compensation     175,447       162,155       284,852       456,314  
TMS Center development costs     140,861       414,975       370,368       679,671  
Add other non-recurring expenses:                                
Earn-Out consideration     5,250,000             5,250,000        
Adjusted EBITDA     (1,665,672 )     (957,428 )     (3,313,724 )     (1,784,985 )

 

FINANCIAL CONDITION, LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

 

Overview

 

The Company’s primary uses of capital are to finance operations, finance new TMS Center development costs, increase non-cash working capital and fund investments in its centralized business infrastructure. The Company’s objectives when managing capital are to ensure that the Company will continue to have enough liquidity to provide services to its customers and provide returns to its shareholders.

 

The Company, as part of its annual budgeting process, evaluates its estimated annual cash requirements to fund planned expansion activities and working capital requirements of existing operations.

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As a result of the negative impact of COVID-19 on the Company’s business, the Company has had to revise its annual budget, estimated annual cash requirements and working capital requirements. Based on this updated cash budget and considering its anticipated cash flows from regional operations, the cost containment measures implemented by the Company as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its holdings of cash, the Company believes that it has sufficient capital to meet its future operating expenses, capital expenditures and future debt service requirements for approximately the next 18 months. However, our ability to fund operating expenses, capital expenditures and future debt service requirements will depend on, among other things, our future operating performance, which will be affected by the velocity of our regional development strategy and general economic, financial and other factors, including factors beyond our control such as COVID-19. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”, “Risks and Uncertainties” and “Factors Affecting our Performance” in this MD&A.

 

On April 21, 2020, Greenbrook entered into a promissory note with the Lender, evidencing the Loan made to the Company under the PPP. The PPP is a program organized by the U.S. Small Business Administration established under the recently-enacted CARES Act. The Loan bears interest at a fixed rate of 1.0% per annum with a maturity date of two years from the date of the Loan. Payments are deferred for the first six months under the Loan, and the Loan may be forgiven in its entirety provided that the proceeds from the Loan are used by Greenbrook to cover payroll costs, rent and utilities during the eight-week period following the Loan origination date.

 

As federal authorities continue to update relevant policies and guidelines regarding the PPP, including some that have retroactive effect, Greenbrook is monitoring these developments and assessing any changes in the Company’s eligibility for the PPP or any other subsidies or support mechanisms under the CARES Act.

 

We also continue to evaluate all financing strategies, including minimally dilutive sources of capital, which remain available to the Company.

 

Analysis of Cash Flows for YTD 2020

 

The following table presents our cash flows for each of the periods presented:

 

(US$)  

YTD 2020

   

YTD 2019

 
Net cash used in operating activities     (3,674,550 )     (4,038,355 )
Net cash generated from financing activities     9,545,619       18,247,658  
Net cash used in investing activities     (224,402 )     (334,600 )
Increase in cash     5,646,667       13,874,703  

 

Cash Flows used in Operating Activities

 

For YTD 2020, cash flows used in operating activities (which includes the full cost of developing new TMS Centers) totaled $3.7 million, as compared to $4.0 million in YTD 2019. The decrease in cash flows used in operating activities is primarily attributable to the cost containment measures implemented as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic (see “ Key Highlights and Recent Developments – COVID-19 Business Impact”) and enhanced collection activity as outlined in “Analysis of Results for Q2 2020 and YTD 2020 – Accounts Receivable” in this MD&A.

 

Cash Flows generated from Financing Activities

 

For YTD 2020, cash flows generated from financing activities amounted to $9.5 million as compared to $18.2 million in YTD 2019. This change is largely driven by the difference in net proceeds received by the Company in connection with the Offering in Q2 2020 as compared to the net proceeds received by the Company in connection with the public offering and concurrent private placement of Common Shares completed during Q2 2019.

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Cash Flows used in Investing Activities

 

For YTD 2020, cash flows used in investing activities totaled $0.2 million as compared to $0.3 million in YTD 2019, which primarily relates to the payment of deferred and contingent consideration in respect of the Achieve TMS Acquisition paid in Q1 2020.

 

INDEBTEDNESS

 

During Fiscal 2018, the Company assumed loans from four separate banking institutions that were previously extended for the purchase of TMS Devices to non-controlling interest holder partners. The device loans were assumed as part of partnerships with local physicians, behavioral health groups or other investors, which own minority interests in certain TMS Center subsidiaries. These device loans bear an average interest rate of 10% with average monthly blended interest and capital payments of $1,575 and mature or matured, as applicable, during the years ended December 31, 2019 to December 31, 2023. There are no significant financial covenants associated with these loans. The loans related to one of the banking institutions were repaid during Fiscal 2019.

 

During Fiscal 2019, the Company assumed loans from two separate banking institutions that were previously extended for the purchase of TMS Devices to non-controlling interest holder partners. The device loans were assumed as part of partnerships with local physicians, behavioral health groups or other investors, which own minority interests in certain TMS Center subsidiaries. These device loans bear an average interest rate of 13% with average monthly blended interest and capital payments of $1,756 and mature during the year ended December 31, 2021. There are no significant financial covenants associated with these loans.

 

During YTD 2020, the Company was released from its obligations pertaining to one of the bank loans assumed during Fiscal 2019 as a result of the disposal of the related TMS Device.

 

On April 21, 2020, Greenbrook entered into a promissory note with the Lender, evidencing the Loan made to the Company under the PPP. See “Key Highlights and Recent Developments – Paycheck Protection Program Loan” above.

 

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

The Company has not engaged in any off-balance sheet financing transactions.

 

Share Information

 

The Company is authorized to issue an unlimited number of Common Shares and an unlimited number of preferred shares, issuable in series. As of June 30, 2020, there were 67,512,383 Common Shares and nil preferred shares issued and outstanding. In addition, there were 3,795,668 stock options and 564,540 broker warrants, each representing a right to acquire one Common Share, issued and outstanding. As of the date of this MD&A, assuming exercise and exchange of all outstanding options and broker warrants, there are 71,872,591 equity securities of the Company issued and outstanding on a fully-diluted basis.

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Related Party Transactions

 

Compensation of key management personnel

 

The Company transacts with key individuals from management who have authority and responsibility to plan, direct, and control the activities of the Company. Key management personnel are defined as the executive officers of the Company, including the President and Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), the Chief Marketing Officer and the Chief Medical Officer.

 

Transactions with significant shareholder – Greybrook Health Inc.

 

As at June 30, 2020, $0.03 million was included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities related to payables for management services and other overhead costs rendered by Greybrook Health Inc. (“Greybrook Health”) to the Company in the ordinary course of business under the MSA (as defined below) (December 31, 2019: $0.1 million).

 

On January 1, 2015, we entered into a management and consulting services agreement (the “MSA”) with our significant shareholder, Greybrook Health, pursuant to which Greybrook Health provides us and our subsidiaries with certain incidental services, including financial advisory services, business development advisory services and business and operating consulting services (collectively, the “Services”). More specifically, these Services include: (i) the provision of office space for our head office in Toronto, Ontario, and (ii) compensation for our chief financial officer, chief operating officer and twelve other employees consisting of our general counsel and, ten full-time employees and one part-time employee that, together, provide customary administrative, finance and accounting services to the Company and one part-time employee that provides customary IT infrastructure services to the Company. All of the Services provided by Greybrook Health are provided on a cost basis whereby the Company reimburses Greybrook Health for costs incurred in connection with the provision of such Services. There is no mark-up charged by Greybrook Health for the provision of the Services. The MSA will expire on January 1, 2021 or earlier if either party provides the other with at least 30 days’ notice of termination.

 

Subsequent to September 30, 2019, compensation for all employees noted above, except for the Chief Operating Officer and the part time employee that provides customary IT infrastructure services to the Company, is no longer being provided by Greybrook Health and is being paid directly by the Company.

 

Risks and Uncertainties

 

We are exposed to a variety of financial risks in the normal course of our business, including interest rate, credit, currency and liquidity risk. Our overall risk management program and business practices seek to minimize any potential adverse effects on our consolidated financial performance.

 

Risk management is carried out under practices approved by our Board of Directors (the “Board”). This includes identifying, evaluating and hedging financial risks based on the requirements of our organization. Our Board provides guidance for overall risk management, covering many areas of risk including interest rate risk, credit risk, currency risk, and liquidity risk.

 

COVID-19

 

In December 2019, the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) surfaced in Wuhan, China. The World Health Organization declared a global emergency on January 30, 2020 with respect to the outbreak, then characterized it as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The outbreak has spread throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East, causing companies and various international jurisdictions to impose restrictions, such as quarantines, closures, cancellations and travel restrictions. While these effects are expected to be temporary, the duration of the business disruptions internationally and related financial impact cannot be reasonably estimated at this time. At this point, the extent to which the coronavirus may impact the Company’s results is uncertain, however, it is possible that the Company’s consolidated results in 2020 may be negatively impacted by this event. The impacts of the outbreak are unknown and rapidly evolving. See “Key Highlights and Recent Developments – COVID-19 Business Impact”.

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The Company relies on third-party suppliers and manufacturers for its TMS Devices. This outbreak has resulted in the extended shutdown of certain businesses around the globe, which may in turn result in disruptions or delays to the Company’s supply chain. These may include disruptions from the temporary closure of third-party supplier and manufacturer facilities, interruptions in TMS Device supply or restrictions on the export or shipment of TMS Devices. Any disruption to the Company’s suppliers and their contract manufacturers will likely impact the Company’s revenue and operating results. The outbreak of COVID-19 may also impact patient visits due to various “shelter in place” orders, the availability of key TMS Device components, logistics flows and the availability of other resources to support critical operations.

 

A local, regional, national or international outbreak of a contagious disease, including, but not limited to, COVID-19, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, H1N1 influenza virus, avian flu or any other similar illness, or a fear of any of the foregoing, could adversely impact the Company by causing operating delays and disruptions, labor shortages and shutdowns (including as a result of government regulation and prevention measures). If the Company is unable to mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on its operations, the Company’s costs may increase, and its revenue could decrease. It is unknown whether and how the Company may be affected if such an epidemic persists for an extended period of time. A widespread health crisis could adversely affect the global economy, resulting in an economic downturn that could impact demand for the services the Company provides.

 

The future impact of the outbreak is highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, and there is no assurance that the outbreak will not have a material adverse impact on the future results of the Company. The extent of the impact, if any, will depend on future developments, including actions taken to contain COVID-19.

 

Interest Rate Risk

 

We are exposed to changes in interest rates on our cash and long-term debt. Debt issued at variable rates exposes us to cash flow interest rate risk. Debt issued at fixed rates exposes us to fair value interest rate risk. As of June 30, 2020, we only have fixed interest rate debt. The impact of future interest rate expense resulting from future changes in interest rates will depend largely on the gross amount of our borrowings at such time.

 

Credit Risk

 

Credit risk is the risk of an unexpected loss if a customer or counterparty to a financial instrument fails to meet its contractual obligations. The Company’s financial instruments that are exposed to concentrations of credit risk are primarily cash and accounts receivable. The Company limits its exposure to credit risk with respect to cash by dealing with large creditworthy financial institutions. The Company’s accounts receivable consist primarily of receivables from large creditworthy medical insurance companies and government-backed health plans. Collectability of the receivables is reviewed regularly and an allowance is established as necessary.

 

Currency Risk

 

Currency risk is the risk to our earnings that arises from fluctuations in foreign exchange rates and the degree of volatility of those rates. We have minimal exposure to currency risk as substantially all of our revenue, expenses, assets and liabilities are denominated in U.S. dollars.

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Liquidity Risk

 

Liquidity risk is the risk that we cannot meet a demand for cash or fund our obligations as they come due. We manage liquidity risk by continuously monitoring actual and projected cash flows, taking into account our revenues, income and working capital needs.

 

DISCLOSURE CONTROLS & PROCEDURES AND INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING

 

Disclosure Controls & Procedures

 

Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining a system of disclosure controls and procedures to provide reasonable assurance that all material information relating to the Company is gathered and reported to senior management, including the CEO and the CFO, on a timely basis so that appropriate decisions can be made regarding public disclosure.

 

There has been no change in the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures that occurred during the three and six months ended June 30, 2020 that has materially affected, or is reasonable likely to materially affect, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures.

 

Internal Controls over Financial Reporting

 

Management is also responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal controls over financial reporting (“ICFR”) to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial reports for external purposes in accordance with IFRS. In designing such controls, it should be recognized that, due to inherent limitations, any controls, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives and may not prevent or detect misstatements. Additionally, management is required to use judgment in evaluating controls and procedures.

 

There has been no change in the Company’s ICFR that occurred during the three and six months ended June 30, 2020 that has materially affected, or is reasonable likely to materially affect, the Company’s ICFR.

 

Critical Accounting Estimates and Judgments

 

There have been no changes to the Company’s critical accounting estimates and judgments since the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, except as noted below.

 

Government Grants

 

Interest free or less than market interest government loans or government-backed loans are measured at amortized cost using the effective interest rate method. The interest rate used is based on the market rate for a comparable instrument with a similar term. The difference between the fair value at inception and the loan proceeds received is recorded as a government grant. The grant portion is presented separately as deferred grant income on the condensed interim consolidated statement of financial position. It is amortized over the useful life of the loan and is deducted against the related interest expense on the condensed interim consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss.

 

COVID-19

 

The uncertainties around the outbreak of COVID-19 required the use of judgements and estimates. The future impact of COVID-19 uncertainties could generate, in future reporting periods, a significant risk of material adjustment to the carrying amounts of the following: goodwill and intangible assets impairment, leases, business combinations, provisions, litigations and claims.

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The Company has experienced losses since inception and has negative cash flow from operating activities. More recently, given the impact that the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic (“COVID-19”), including the related government-imposed social distancing and “shelter-in-place” measures, has had on the overall volumes of patient treatments, the overall cash flows of the Company have been negatively impacted. Although the Company anticipates that it will have positive cash flow from operating activities in the future, the Company anticipates that its overall cash flows may continue to be negatively impacted until the global economic impact of COVID-19 subsides. These conditions indicate the existence of a material uncertainty that may cast significant doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The Company has implemented a number of mitigation strategies to address the impacts of COVID-19, including: a furlough of approximately 20% of the Company’s employees; a Company-wide hiring freeze; a 10% salary deferral by the Company’s executive management team; and a reduction in discretionary spending. The Company also has strong supportive shareholders and a proven track record of successfully raising capital when required. The failure to raise such capital when required could result in the delay or indefinite postponement of current business objectives and additional financing may not be available on favorable terms or at all.

 

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements do not reflect adjustments that would be necessary if the going concern assumptions were not appropriate. If the going concern basis was not appropriate for these condensed interim consolidated financial statements, then adjustments would be necessary to the carrying value of assets and liabilities, the reported expenses, and the condensed interim consolidated statements of financial position classification used.

 

Changes in Significant Accounting Policies

 

There are no recent accounting pronouncements that are applicable to the Company or that are expected to have a significant impact on the Company.

 

RISK FACTORS

 

For a detailed description of risk factors associated with the Company, refer to the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s annual information form dated March 10, 2020 for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, and the “Risks and Uncertainties” section in this MD&A.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

 

Additional information relating to the Company, including the Company’s annual information form, is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. The Company’s Common Shares are listed for trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “GTMS”.

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Exhibit 99.9

 

Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements

(Expressed in U.S. dollars)

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Condensed Interim Consolidated Statements of Financial Position

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

(Unaudited)

    June 30,
2020
    December 31,
2019
 
             
Assets                
                 
Current assets:                
Cash   $ 13,594,274     $ 7,947,607  
Accounts receivable, net     10,867,513       10,091,087  
Prepaid expenses and other     2,063,812       1,912,744  
      26,525,599       19,951,438  
                 
Property, plant and equipment (note 6)     1,733,418       1,666,331  
Intangible assets (note 7)     5,976,065       6,207,731  
Goodwill (note 5)     3,707,650       3,707,650  
Right-of-use assets (note 8)     27,565,457       25,430,956  
                 
    $ 65,508,189     $ 56,964,106  
                 
Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity (Deficit)                
                 
Current liabilities:                
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities (note 9)   $ 8,307,337     $ 7,011,849  
Loans payable (note 10(a))     1,391,125       101,107  
Deferred grant income (note 11)     166,406        
Lease liabilities (note 8)     5,071,022       4,707,853  
Non-controlling interest loans (note 10(b))     73,231       69,674  
Provisions (note 12)           18,792  
Deferred and contingent consideration (note 5)     6,300,000       1,274,402  
      21,309,121       13,183,677  
                 
Long-term portion of loans payable (note 10(a))     1,558,719       150,392  
Long-term portion of deferred grant income (note 11)     142,792        
Long-term portion of lease liabilities (note 8)     23,228,543       20,683,904  
      46,239,175       34,017,973  
Shareholders’ equity (deficit):                
Common shares (note 13)     60,342,723       50,185,756  
Contributed surplus (note 14)     3,042,104       2,757,252  
Deficit     (44,077,058 )     (30,441,280 )
      19,307,769       22,501,728  
Non-controlling interest (note 22)     (38,755 )     444,405  
      19,269,014       22,946,133  
Contingencies (note 15)                
                 
    $ 65,508,189     $ 56,964,106  

 

See accompanying notes to condensed interim consolidated financial statements.

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Condensed Interim Consolidated Statements of Net Loss and Comprehensive Loss

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

(Unaudited)

 

    Three months ended     Six months ended  
    June 30, 2020     June 30, 2019     June 30, 2020     June 30, 2019  
                         
Revenue:                                
Service revenue   $ 9,788,555     $ 8,082,559     $ 21,209,057     $ 14,689,757  
                                 
Expenses:                                
Direct center and patient care costs     5,166,153       3,931,231       11,047,442       7,387,847  
Other regional and center support costs (note 23)     3,411,038       2,213,286       6,804,330       3,928,748  
Depreciation (notes 6 and 8)     1,436,562       935,876       2,842,687       1,743,996  
      10,013,753       7,080,393       20,694,459       13,060,591  
                                 
Regional operating income (loss)     (225,198 )     1,002,166       514,598       1,629,166  
                                 
Center development costs     140,861       414,975       370,368       679,671  
Corporate, general and administrative expenses (note 23)     3,134,173       2,862,485       7,010,669       5,194,827  
Share-based compensation     175,447       162,155       284,852       456,314  
Amortization (note 7)     115,833             231,666        
Interest expense     694,208       405,817       1,352,042       803,657  
Interest income     (1,078 )     (2,159 )     (9,561 )     (24,109 )
Earn-out consideration (note 5)     5,250,000             5,250,000        
                                 
Loss before income taxes     (9,734,642 )     (2,841,107 )     (13,975,438 )     (5,481,194 )
                                 
Income tax expense (note 17)                        
                                 
Loss for the period and comprehensive loss   $ (9,734,642 )   $ (2,841,107 )   $ (13,975,438 )   $ (5,481,194 )
                                 
(Loss) income for the period attributable to:                                
Non-controlling interest (note 22)   $ (257,137 )   $ 32,985     $ (339,660 )   $ (36,680 )
Common shareholders of Greenbrook TMS     (9,477,505 )     (2,874,092 )     (13,635,778 )     (5,444,514 )
                                 
    $ (9,734,642 )   $ (2,841,107 )   $ (13,975,438 )   $ (5,481,194 )
                                 
Net loss per share (note 21):                                
Basic   $ (0.15 )   $ (0.06 )   $ (0.23 )   $ (0.11 )
Diluted     (0.15 )     (0.06 )     (0.23 )     (0.11 )

 

See accompanying notes to condensed interim consolidated financial statements.

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Greenbrook tms Inc.

Condensed Interim Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity (Deficit)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

(Unaudited)

 

    Common Shares     Contributed           Non-controlling     Total equity  
Six months ended June 30, 2019   Number     Amount     surplus     Deficit     interest     (deficit)  
                                     
Balance, December 31, 2018     47,524,375     $ 26,882,622     $ 1,745,079     $ (14,531,401 )   $ 544,465     $ 14,640,765  
Loss for the period and comprehensive loss                       (5,444,514 )     (36,680 )     (5,481,194 )
Issuance of common shares (note 13)     9,409,000       20,604,207       355,660                   20,959,867  
Exercise of stock options (note 14)     53,332       87,883       (33,717 )                 54,166  
Share-based compensation (note 14)                 456,314                   456,314  
Payments to non-controlling interest                             (173,050 )     (173,050 )
Non-controlling interest subsidiary investment                             245,000       245,000  
                                                 
Balance, June 30, 2019     56,986,707     $ 47,574,712     $ 2,523,336     $ (19,975,915 )   $ 579,735     $ 30,701,868  

 

    Common Shares     Contributed           Non-controlling     Total equity  
Six months ended June 30, 2020   Number     Amount     surplus     Deficit     interest     (deficit)  
                                     
Balance, December 31, 2019     58,418,443     $ 50,185,756     $ 2,757,252     $ (30,441,280 )   $ 444,405     $ 22,946,133  
Loss for the period and comprehensive loss                       (13,635,778 )     (339,660 )     (13,975,438 )
Issuance of common shares (note 13)     9,093,940       10,156,967                         10,156,967  
Share-based compensation (note 14)                 284,852                   284,852  
Payments to non-controlling interest                             (143,500 )     (143,500 )
Balance, June 30, 2020     67,512,383     $ 60,342,723     $ 3,042,104     $ (44,077,058 )   $ (38,755 )   $ 19,269,014  

 

See accompanying notes to condensed interim consolidated financial statements.

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Condensed Interim Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

(Unaudited)

    Six months ended  
    June 30, 2020     June 30, 2019  
             
Cash provided by (used in)                
                 
Operating activities:                
Loss for the period   $ (13,975,438 )   $ (5,481,194 )
Adjusted for:                
Amortization     231,666        
Depreciation     2,842,687       1,743,996  
Interest expense     1,352,042       803,657  
Interest income     (9,561 )     (24,109 )
Share-based compensation     284,852       456,314  
Earn-out consideration     5,250,000        
Change in non-cash operating working capital:                
Accounts receivable     (776,426 )     (2,333,502 )
Prepaid expenses and other     (151,068 )     (230,771 )
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities     1,295,488       1,027,254  
Provisions     (18,792 )      
      (3,674,550 )     (4,038,355 )
                 
Financing activities:                
Net proceeds on issuance of common shares (note 13)     10,156,967       20,959,867  
Net proceeds on exercise of stock options           54,166  
Bank loans advanced     3,080,760       84,096  
Bank loans repaid     (42,317 )     (74,424 )
Lease liabilities repaid     (3,509,848 )     (2,588,815 )
Net non-controlling interest loans advanced (repaid)     3,557       (14,182 )
Distribution to non-controlling interest     (143,500 )     (173,050 )
      9,545,619       18,247,658  
                 
Investing activities:                
Purchase of property, plant and equipment           (334,600 )
Deferred and contingent consideration (note 5)     (224,402 )      
      (224,402 )     (334,600 )
                 
Increase in cash     5,646,667       13,874,703  
                 
Cash, beginning of period     7,947,607       9,381,600  
                 
Cash, end of period   $ 13,594,274     $ 23,256,303  

 

See accompanying notes to condensed interim consolidated financial statements.

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

1. Reporting entity:

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Company”), an Ontario corporation along with its subsidiaries, controls and operates a network of outpatient mental health services centers that specialize in the provision of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy for the treatment of depression and related psychiatric services.

 

Our head and registered office is located at 890 Yonge Street, 7th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4W 3P4. Our United States corporate headquarters is located at 8405 Greensboro Drive, Suite 120, Tysons Corner, Virginia, USA, 22102.

 

2. Basis of preparation:

 

(a) Going concern:

 

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”) and the basis of presentation outlined in note 2(b) on the assumption that the Company is a going concern and will continue in operation for the foreseeable future and will be able to realize its assets and discharge its liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business.

 

The Company has experienced losses since inception and has negative cash flow from operating activities. More recently, given the impact that the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic (“COVID-19”), including the related government-imposed social distancing and “shelter-in-place” measures, has had on the overall volumes of patient treatments, the overall cash flows of the Company have been negatively impacted. Although the Company anticipates that it will have positive cash flow from operating activities in the future, the Company anticipates that its overall cash flows may continue to be negatively impacted until the global economic impact of COVID-19 subsides. These conditions indicate the existence of a material uncertainty that may cast significant doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The Company has implemented a number of mitigation strategies to address the impacts of COVID-19, including: a furlough of approximately 20% of the Company’s employees; a Company-wide hiring freeze; a 10% salary deferral by the Company’s executive management team; and a reduction in discretionary spending. The Company also has strong supportive shareholders and a proven track record of successfully raising capital when required. The failure to raise such capital when required could result in the delay or indefinite postponement of current business objectives and additional financing may not be available on favorable terms or at all.

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

2. Basis of preparation (continued):

 

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements do not reflect adjustments that would be necessary if the going concern assumptions were not appropriate. If the going concern basis was not appropriate for these condensed interim consolidated financial statements, then adjustments would be necessary to the carrying value of assets and liabilities, the reported expenses, and the condensed interim consolidated statements of financial position classification used.

 

(b) Statement of compliance:

 

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020 have been prepared in accordance with IAS 34 – Interim Financial Reporting, as issued by the IASB. The disclosures contained in these condensed interim consolidated financial statements do not include all of the requirements of IFRS for annual consolidated financial statements. The condensed interim consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company as at and for the year ended December 31, 2019.

 

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements comprise the accounts of Greenbrook TMS Inc., the parent company, and its subsidiaries. The Company accounts for its controlled subsidiaries using the consolidation method of accounting from the date that control commences and is deconsolidated from the date control ceases. All intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated on consolidation.

 

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) and authorized for issue by the Board on August 4, 2020.

 

3. Significant accounting policies:

 

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared using the significant accounting policies consistent with those applied in the Company’s December 31, 2019 audited consolidated financial statements, except as described below relating to the application of IAS 20, Accounting for Government Grants and Disclosure of Government Assistance.

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

3. Significant accounting policies (continued):

 

(a)   Government grants:

 

Interest free or less than market interest government loans or government-backed loans are measured at amortized cost using the effective interest rate method. The interest rate used is based on the market rate for a comparable instrument with a similar term. The difference between the fair value at inception and the loan proceeds received is recorded as a government grant. The grant portion is presented separately as deferred grant income on the condensed interim consolidated statements of financial position. It is amortized over the useful life of the loan and is deducted against the related interest expense on the condensed interim consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss.

 

The uncertainties around the outbreak of COVID-19 required the use of judgements and estimates. The future impact of COVID-19 uncertainties could generate, in future reporting periods, a significant risk of material adjustment to the carrying amounts of the following: goodwill and intangible assets impairment, leases, business combinations, provisions, litigations and claims.

 

4. Recent accounting pronouncements:

 

There are no recent accounting pronouncements that are applicable or that are expected to have a significant impact on the Company.

 

5. Business acquisition:

 

On September 26, 2019, the Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, TMS NeuroHealth Centers, Inc. (“TMS US”), completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding membership interests of each of Achieve TMS Centers, LLC and Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC (collectively, “Achieve TMS”) for a purchase price of $10,596,912 (net of Achieve TMS’ cash), of which $2,611,044 of the purchase price was satisfied through the issuance of an aggregate of 1,431,736 common shares of the Company to the vendors and the remainder was settled in cash (the “Acquisition”).

 

In addition, a portion of the purchase price payable in respect of the Acquisition is subject to an earn-out based on the earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) achieved by Achieve TMS during the twelve-month period following the closing of the Acquisition. As at June 30, 2020, the Company estimates the purchase price payable in respect of the earn-out to be $5,250,000 (December 31, 2019 – nil) of which $3,675,000 of this estimated amount would be settled in cash and the remainder would be settled through the issuance of common shares of the Company to the vendors, subject to regulatory and stock exchange approval. The amount recognized as at June 30, 2020 is based on management’s best estimate of the earn-out payable and is subject to estimation uncertainty given the economic environment as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

5. Business acquisition (continued):

 

Achieve TMS operates TMS centers in California, Oregon and Alaska, with a particular focus on deep TMS therapy. The Acquisition provided the Company with a national footprint of over 100 TMS centers and a platform for further West Coast expansion through excellent brand recognition, physician reputation and high visibility within the West Coast TMS community.

 

The Acquisition has been accounted for using the acquisition method of accounting. The allocation of the purchase price consideration for the Acquisition is preliminary and is comprised as follows:

 

         
Purchase consideration:        
         
Cash   $ 6,886,812  
Share issuance     2,611,044  
Deferred and contingent consideration     1,274,402  
         
    $ 10,772,258  
         
Net assets acquired:        
         
Cash   $ 175,346  
Current assets     886,392  
Capital and other assets     6,321,730  
Current liabilities     (1,233,400 )
Long-term liabilities     (5,415,460 )
Covenants not to compete     310,000  
Management services agreement     6,020,000  
         
    $ 7,064,608  
         
Goodwill   $ 3,707,650  

 

The purchase price allocation is considered to be preliminary and subsequent adjustments during the measurement period may occur as the Company finalizes the purchase price in respect of deferred consideration held in escrow. The Company expects to finalize this determination during the three months ended September 30, 2020. The goodwill is primarily attributable to the ability to expand the Company’s national footprint and the synergies expected to result from combining Achieve TMS’ operations with the Company. Goodwill is deductible for tax purposes.

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

5. Business acquisition (continued):

 

During the six months ended June 30, 2020, the Company paid $224,402 in deferred and contingent consideration (December 31, 2019 – nil). The remaining deferred and contingent consideration payable balance, excluding the earn-out, as at June 30, 2020 is $1,050,000 (December 31, 2019 – $1,274,402). The related cash is being held in an escrow account subject to finalization of the escrow conditions.

 

6. Property, plant and equipment:

 

    Furniture and equipment     Leasehold improvements     TMS devices     Total  
Cost                        
                         
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 175,416     $ 183,103     $ 1,792,984     $ 2,151,503  
Additions                 264,911       264,911  
Asset disposal                 (50,093 )     (50,093 )
                                 
Balance, June 30, 2020   $ 175,416     $ 183,103     $ 2,007,802     $ 2,366,321  
                                 
Accumulated depreciation                                
                                 
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 83,408     $ 5,291     $ 396,473     $ 485,172  
Depreciation     14,771       12,796       124,577       152,144  
Asset disposal                 (4,413 )     (4,413 )
                                 
Balance, June 30, 2020   $ 98,179     $ 18,087     $ 516,637     $ 632,903  
                                 
Net book value                                
                                 
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 92,008     $ 177,812     $ 1,396,511     $ 1,666,331  
Balance, June 30, 2020     77,237       165,016       1,491,165       1,733,418  
                                 

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

7. Intangible assets:

 

    Management service agreement     Covenant not to complete     Total  
                   
Cost                  
                   
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 6,020,000     $ 310,000     $ 6,330,000  
Additions                  
                         
Balance, June 30, 2020   $ 6,020,000     $ 310,000     $ 6,330,000  
                         
Accumulated amortization                        
                         
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 105,907     $ 16,362     $ 122,269  
Amortization     200,666       31,000       231,666  
                         
Balance, June 30, 2020   $ 306,573     $ 47,362     $ 353,935  
                         
Net book value                        
                         
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 5,914,093     $ 293,638     $ 6,207,731  
Balance, June 30, 2020     5,713,427       262,638       5,976,065  
                         

 

8. Right-of-use assets and leases liabilities:

 

The Company enters into lease agreements related to TMS devices and center locations. These lease agreements range from one year to eight years in length.

 

Right-of-use assets are initially measured at cost, which comprises the initial amount of the lease liability adjusted for any lease payments made at or before the commencement date, plus any initial direct costs incurred.

 

       
Right-of-use assets, December 31, 2019   $ 25,430,956  
Additions to right-of-use assets     5,089,955  
Disposals to right-of-use assets     (264,911 )
Depreciation on right-of-use assets     (2,690,543 )
         
Right-of-use assets, June 30, 2020   $ 27,565,457  

 

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

8. Right-of-use assets and leases liabilities (continued):

 

Lease liabilities have been measured by discounting future lease payments using a rate implicit in the lease or the Company’s incremental borrowing rate at January 1, 2019. The Company’s incremental borrowing rate applied during the period ended June 30, 2020 is 10% (December 31, 2019 – 10%).

 

       
Lease liabilities, December 31, 2019   $ 25,391,757  
Additions to lease liabilities     5,088,949  
Interest expense on lease liabilities     1,328,707  
Payments of lease liabilities     (3,509,848 )
Lease liabilities, June 30, 2020     28,299,565  
         
Less: current portion of lease liabilities     5,071,022  
         
Long-term portion of lease liabilities   $ 23,228,543  

  

9. Accounts payable and accrued liabilities:

 

The accounts payable and accrued liabilities are as follows:

 

    June 30, 2020     December 31, 2019  
             
Accounts payable   $ 6,432,363     $ 4,639,924  
Accrued liabilities     1,874,974       2,371,925  
                 
    $ 8,307,337     $ 7,011,849  

 

10. Loans payable:

 

(a) Bank loans:

 

    June 30, 2020     December 31, 2019  
             
Bank loans   $ 2,949,844     $ 251,499  
Less: Short-term portion of loans payable     1,391,125       101,107  
                 
Long-term portion of loans payable   $ 1,558,719     $ 150,392  

 

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

10. Loans payable (continued):

 

(i) During the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company assumed loans from four separate banking institutions that were previously extended for the purchase of TMS devices to non-controlling interest holder partners. The TMS device loans were assumed as part of partnerships with local physicians, behavioural health groups or other strategic investors, which own minority interests in certain center subsidiaries. These TMS device loans bear an average interest rate of 10% with average monthly blended interest and capital payments of $1,575 and mature (or matured, as applicable) during the years ended December 31, 2019 to December 31, 2023. There are no covenants associated with these loans.

 

(ii) During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company assumed loans from two separate banking institutions that were previously extended for the purchase of TMS devices to non-controlling interest holder partners. The TMS device loans were assumed as part of partnerships with local physicians, behavioural health groups or other investors, which own minority interests in certain center subsidiaries. These TMS device loans bear an average interest rate of 13% with average monthly blended interest and capital payments of $1,756 and mature during the year ended December 31, 2021.

 

During the six months ended June 30, 2020, the Company was released from its obligations pertaining to one of the bank loans assumed during the year ended December 31, 2019 of $45,680 as a result of the disposal of the related TMS device. During this period, the Company also repaid TMS device loans totalling $42,317.

 

(iii) During the six months ended June 30, 2020, the Company entered into a promissory note with U.S. Bank National Association, evidencing an unsecured loan in the amount of $3,080,760 (the “Loan”) made to the Company under the United States Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”). The PPP is a program organized by the U.S. Small Business Administration established under the recently-enacted Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”). The Loan bears interest at a fixed rate of 1.0% per annum with average monthly blended interest and capital payments of $172,145 with a maturity during the year ended December 31, 2022. Payments are deferred for the first six months under the Loan.

 

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

10. Loans payable (continued):

 

The effective interest rate used to measure the fair value of the loan is 10% and the benefit of the interest rate concession is a grant which gives the Company economic benefits over the term of the Loan and recorded as deferred grant income (see note 11). The undiscounted face value of the Loan as at June 30, 2020 is $3,080,760 (December 31, 2019 – nil) and the carrying amount is $2,791,342 (December 31, 2019 – nil).

 

As federal authorities continue to update relevant policies and guidelines regarding the PPP, including some that may have retroactive effect, the Company is monitoring these developments and assessing any changes in the Company’s eligibility for the PPP or any other subsidies or support mechanisms under the CARES Act.

 

(b) Non-controlling interest loans:

 

      June 30, 2020     December 31 2019  
               
Non-controlling interest loans   $ 73,231   $ 69,674  
               

 

The non-controlling interest holder partners of the Company, from time to time, provide additional capital contributions in the form of capital loans to the Company’s subsidiaries. These loans bear interest at a rate of 10%, compounded on a monthly basis. The loans are unsecured and are repayable subject to certain liquidity and solvency requirements and are classified as current liabilities.

 

11. Deferred grant income:

 

  June 30, 2020     December 31, 2019  
             
Deferred grant income   $ 309,198     $  
Short-term portion of deferred grant income     166,406        
                 
Long-term portion of deferred grant income   $ 142,792     $  

 

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

12. Provisions:

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company provided for $18,792 relating to the planned restructuring of its billing department. The restructuring is a direct result of ongoing efforts to optimize the Company’s billing and reimbursement process subsequent to system conversions. This amount was paid in full during the six months ended June 30, 2020.

 

13. Common shares:

 

The Company is authorized to issue an unlimited number of common shares and an unlimited number of preferred shares, issuable in series. As at December 31, 2019 and June 30, 2020, there were nil preferred shares issued and outstanding.

 

      Number     Total amount  
               
December 31, 2019       58,418,443     $ 50,185,756  
                   
Common shares issuances       9,093,940       10,156,967  
                   
June 30, 2020       67,512,383     $ 60,342,723  

 

On May 21, 2020, the Company completed a public offering of 9,093,940 common shares at an offering price of C$1.65 per common share for aggregate gross proceeds of $10,767,589 (C$15,005,001) and incurred transaction costs of $610,622.

 

14. Contributed surplus:

 

Contributed surplus is comprised of share-based compensation and broker warrants.

 

(a) Share-based compensation – stock options:

 

The Company operates an equity-settled, stock options-based payment compensation plan, under which the Company pays equity instruments of the Company as consideration in exchange for employee and similar services. The plan is open to employees, directors, officers and consultants of the Company and its affiliates.

 

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

14. Contributed surplus (continued):

 

The fair value of the grant of the options is recognized as an expense in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss. The total amount to be expensed is determined by the fair value of the options granted. The total expense is recognized over the vesting period which is the period over which all of the service vesting conditions are satisfied. The vesting period is determined at the discretion of the Board and has ranged from immediate vesting to over three years. The maximum number of common shares reserved for issuance, in the aggregate, under the Company’s option plan (and under any other share-based compensation arrangements of the Company) is 10% of the aggregate number of common shares outstanding. As at June 30, 2020, this represented 6,751,238 common shares.

 

The options have an expiry date of ten years from the applicable date of issue.

 

      June 30, 2020     December 31, 2019  
      Number of stock options     Weighted average exercise price     Number of stock options     Weighted average exercise price  
                           
Outstanding, beginning of period       2,998,168     $ 1.36       2,670,000     $ 1.17  
Granted       797,500       1.89       385,000       2.63  
Exercised                   (53,332 )     1.02  
Cancelled                   (3,500 )     1.00  
                                   
Outstanding, end of period       3,795,668     $ 1.47       2,998,168     $ 1.36  

 

The weighted average remaining contractual life of the outstanding options as at June 30, 2020 was 6.3 years (December 31, 2019 – 6.8 years).

 

The total number of stock options exercisable as at June 30, 2020 was 2,699,333 (December 31, 2019 – 2,059,001).

 

During the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, the Company recorded a total share-based options compensation expense of $175,447 and $284,852, respectively (June 30, 2019 – $162,155 and $456,314, respectively).

 

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

14. Contributed surplus (continued):

 

The following stock options were granted during the six months ended June 30, 2020:

 

(iv) The fair value of the stock options granted on February 3, 2020 was estimated to be $1.10 per option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 46.12% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of ten years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 2.02%.

 

The following stock options were granted during the year ended December 31, 2019:

 

(i) The fair value of the stock options granted on June 28, 2019 was estimated to be $1.13 per option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 45.74% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of 4.5 years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 1.46%.

 

(ii) The fair value of the stock options granted on May 9, 2019 was estimated to be $1.46 per option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 46.48% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of ten years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 1.68%.

 

(iii) The fair value of the stock options granted on March 27, 2019 was estimated to be $1.44 per option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 47.88% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of ten years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 1.62%.

 

As at June 30, 2020, the total compensation cost not yet recognized related to options granted is approximately $885,104 (June 30, 2019 - $539,615) and will be recognized over the remaining average vesting period of 0.77 years (December 31, 2019 – 0.44 years).

 

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

14. Contributed surplus (continued):

 

(b) Broker warrants:

 

      June 30, 2020     December 31, 2019  
      Number of broker Warrants     Weighted average exercise price     Number of broker warrants     Weighted average exercise
price
 
                           
Outstanding, beginning of period       1,068,186     $ 2.22       503,646     $ 2.00  
Granted                   564,540       2.41  
Expired       (503,646 )     2.00              
                                   
Outstanding, end of period       564,540     $ 2.41       1,068,186     $ 2.22  

 

There were no broker warrants issued during the six months ended June 30, 2020.

 

The following broker warrants were issued during the year ended December 31, 2019:

 

(i) On May 17, 2019, in connection with the public offering and concurrent private placement of common shares, the Company issued 241,500 and 323,040 broker warrants, respectively, to the underwriters of such transactions. Each broker warrant vested upon issuance thereof and entitles the holder to acquire one common share of the Company at an exercise price of C$3.25 and expires two years from the date of issue.

 

The fair value of the broker warrants granted on May 17, 2019 was estimated to be $0.63 per broker warrant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 44.83% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of 2.0 years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 1.69%.

 

The aggregate fair value of the issued broker warrants granted on May 17, 2019 of $355,660 is recognized as part of the transaction costs in respect of the public offering and concurrent private placement described above, which is reflected in the common shares equity reserve. Each broker warrant vests immediately upon the issuance thereof and has a term to expiry of two years from the date of issue.

 

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

14. Contributed surplus (continued):

 

The weighted average contractual life of the outstanding broker warrants as at June 30, 2020 was 0.9 years (December 31, 2019 – 0.8 years).

 

The total number of broker warrants exercisable as at June 30, 2020 was 564,540 (December 31, 2019 – 1,068,186).

 

The aggregate fair value of the broker warrants granted during the six months ended June 30, 2020 was nil (June 30, 2019 – $355,660).

 

15. Contingencies:

 

The Company may be involved in certain legal matters arising from time to time in the normal course of business. The Company records provisions that reflect management’s best estimate of any potential liability relating to these matters. The resolution of these matters is not expected to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

 

16. Pensions:

 

The Company has adopted a defined contribution pension plan for its employees whereby the Company matches contributions made by participating employees up to a maximum of 3.5% of such employees’ annual salaries. During the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, contributions, which were recorded as expenses within direct center and patient care costs, other regional and center support costs and corporate, general and administrative expenses, amounted to $70,099 and $157,304, respectively (June 30, 2019 – $49,259 and $97,119, respectively).

 

17. Income taxes:

 

During the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, there were no significant changes to the Company’s tax position.

 

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

18. Risk management arising from financial instruments:

 

In the normal course of business, the Company is exposed to risks related to financial instruments that can affect its operating performance. These risks, and the actions taken to manage them, are as follows:

 

(a) Fair value:

 

The carrying value of cash, accounts receivable and accounts payable and accrued liabilities approximates their fair value given their short-term nature.

 

The carrying value of the loans payable, lease liabilities and deferred and contingent consideration approximates their fair value given the difference between the discount rates used to recognize the liabilities in the consolidated balance sheets and the market rates of interest is insignificant.

 

(b) Credit risk:

 

Credit risk arises from the potential that a counterparty will fail to perform its obligations. The Company is exposed to credit risk from patients and third-party payors including federal and state agencies (under the Medicare programs), managed care health plans and commercial insurance companies. The Company’s exposure to credit risk is mitigated in large part due to the majority of the accounts receivable balance being receivable from large, creditworthy medical insurance companies and government-backed health plans. The Company recognizes loss allowances for expected credit losses on financial assets measured at amortized cost when necessary. Loss allowances for accounts receivable are always measured at an amount equal to the expected credit losses for the subsequent 12-month period.

 

(c) Liquidity risk:

 

Liquidity risk is the risk that the Company may encounter difficulty in raising funds to meet its financial commitments or can only do so at excessive cost. The Company ensures there is sufficient liquidity to meet its short-term business requirements, taking into account its anticipated cash flows from operations, its holdings of cash and its ability to draw on committed funds from its existing shareholders or to raise funds from external shareholders.

 

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

18. Risk management arising from financial instruments (continued):

 

(d) Currency risk:

 

Currency risk is the risk to the Company’s earnings that arises from fluctuations in foreign exchange rates and the degree of volatility of those rates. The Company has minimal exposure to currency risk as substantially all of the Company’s revenue, expenses, assets and liabilities are denominated in U.S. dollars. The Company pays certain vendors and payroll costs in Canadian dollars from time to time, but due to the limited size and nature of these payments it does not give rise to significant currency risk.

 

(e) Interest rate risk:

 

Interest rate risk is the risk that the fair value of future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes in market interest rates. The Company does not have financial instruments that result in material exposure given the fixed rate nature of the Company’s loans.

 

19. Capital management:

 

The Company’s objective is to maintain a capital structure that supports its long-term growth strategy, maintains creditor and customer confidence, and maximizes shareholder value.

 

The capital structure of the Company consists of its shareholders’ equity (deficit), including contributed surplus and deficit, as well as loans payable.

 

The Company’s primary uses of capital are to finance operations, finance new center start-up costs, increase non-cash working capital and capital expenditures. The Company’s objectives when managing capital are to ensure that the Company will continue to have enough liquidity so it can provide its services to its customers and returns to its shareholders. The Company, as part of its annual budgeting process, evaluates its estimated annual cash requirements to fund planned expansion activities and working capital requirements of existing operations. Based on this cash budget and taking into account its anticipated cash flows from operations and its holdings of cash, the Company validates that it has the sufficient capital or the ability to draw the required funds from shareholder commitments.

 

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

20. Related party transactions:

 

Transactions with significant shareholder – Greybrook Health Inc.:

 

As at June 30, 2020, $29,827 is included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities for amounts payable for management services rendered and other overhead costs incurred by Greybrook Health Inc. in the ordinary course of business (December 31, 2019 – $58,954). These amounts were recorded at their exchange amount, being the amount agreed to by the parties.

 

21. Basic and diluted loss per share:

 

    Three months ended     Six months ended  
    June 30,     June 30,     June 30,     June 30,  
    2020     2019     2020     2019  
                         
Net loss attributable to the shareholders of:                                
Greenbrook TMS   $ (9,477,505 )   $ (2,874,092 )   $ (13,635,778 )   $ (5,444,514 )
                                 
                                 
Weighted average common shares outstanding:                                
Basic and diluted     62,460,194       52,133,145       60,428,153       49,828,760  
                                 
                                 
Loss per share:                                
Basic and diluted   $ (0.15 )   $ (0.06 )   $ (0.23 )   $ (0.11 )
                                 

 

For the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, the effect of 3,795,668 (June 30, 2019 – 2,988,168) options have been excluded from the diluted calculations because this effect would be anti-dilutive. In addition, the earn-out consideration could result in the issuance of additional common shares (see note 5).

 

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

22. Non-controlling interest:

 

As a result of operating agreements with each of the following non-wholly owned entities, the Company has control over these entities under IFRS, as the Company has power over all significant decisions made by these entities and thus 100% of the financial results of these subsidiaries are included in the Company’s consolidated financial results.

 

Name   Year incorporated     Ownership interest  
             
Greenbrook TMS Arlington LLC     2018       70 %
Greenbrook TMS Austin Central LLC     2018       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Cary LLC     2016       75 %
Greenbrook TMS Central Florida LLC     2019       90 %
Greenbrook TMS Chapel Hill LLC     2017       90 %
Greenbrook TMS Christiansburg LLC     2018       70 %
Greenbrook TMS Cleveland LLC     2018       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Connecticut LLC     2018       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Easton LLC     2017       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Fairfax LLC     2016       60 %
Greenbrook TMS Greensboro LLC     2017       70 %
Greenbrook TMS Houston LLC     2018       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Lynchburg LLC     2017       70 %
Greenbrook TMS Midlothian LLC     2016       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Mooresville LLC     2018       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Newport News, LLC     2016       75 %
Greenbrook TMS North Detroit LLC     2019       90 %
Greenbrook TMS North Raleigh LLC     2016       75 %
Greenbrook TMS Roanoke LLC     2017       70 %
Greenbrook TMS St. Louis LLC     2018       60 %
Greenbrook TMS South Carolina LLC     2019       90 %
Greenbrook TMS West Hartford LLC     2018       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Wilmington LLC     2017       70 %
Greenbrook TMS Winston-Salem LLC     2018       80 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Ashburn, LLC     2015       51 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Charlottesville, LLC     2014       65 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Frederick, LLC     2015       75 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Glen Burnie, LLC     2015       70 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Greenbelt, LLC     2014       75 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Reston, LLC     2014       51 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Richmond, LLC     2014       65 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Rockville, LLC     2014       51 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Virginia Beach, LLC     2015       70 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Woodbridge, LLC     2016       70 %
                 

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

22. Non-controlling interest (continued):

 

The following tables summarize the aggregate financial information for the above-noted entities for the periods indicated:

 

    June 30, 2020     December 31, 2019  
             
Cash   $ 531,769     $ 1,033,584  
Accounts receivable     6,713,503       6,389,384  
Prepaid expenses and other     429,672       448,550  
Property, plant and equipment     986,279       889,798  
Right of use assets     10,533,496       10,348,295  
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities     1,336,672       1,237,548  
Loans payable     6,954,169       5,280,287  
Lease liabilities     10,720,950       10,167,498  
Profit attributable to the shareholders of Greenbrook TMS     221,684       1,979,874  
Profit (deficit) attributable to non-controlling interest     (34,416 )     305,244  
Distributions paid to non-controlling interest     (1,010,130 )     (866,630 )
Subsidiary investment by non-controlling interest           405,000  
Historical subsidiary investment by non-controlling interest     1,005,791       600,791  
                 

 

    Three months ended     Six months ended  
    June 30, 2020     June 30, 2019     June 30, 2020     June 30, 2019  
                         
Revenue   $ 4,379,233     $ 5,604,704     $ 10,104,239     $ 10,177,528  
Net loss attributable to the shareholders of  Greenbrook TMS     (941,891 )     (226,479 )     (1,574,922 )     (584,704 )
Net income (loss) attributable to  non-controlling interest     (257,137 )     32,985       (339,660 )     (36,680 )
                                 

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

23. Expenses by nature:

 

The components of the Company’s other regional and center support costs include the following:

 

    Three months ended     Six months ended  
    June 30, 2020     June 30, 2019     June 30, 2020     June 30, 2019  
                         
Salaries and bonuses   $ 2,323,340     $ 1,538,755     $ 4,849,530     $ 2,790,176  
Marketing expenses     1,087,698       674,531       1,954,800       1,138,572  
                                 
Total   $ 3,411,038     $ 2,213,286     $ 6,804,330     $ 3,928,748  

 

The components of the Company’s corporate, general and administrative expenses include the following:

 

    Three months ended     Six months ended  
    June 30, 2020     June 30, 2019     June 30, 2020     June 30, 2019  
                         
Salaries and bonuses   $ 2,398,594     $ 1,456,050     $ 5,022,025     $ 2,916,151  
Marketing expenses     298,237       427,543       603,685       631,889  
Professional and legal fees     115,322       508,519       517,934       704,343  
Computer supplies and software     181,920       146,724       395,304       257,207  
Travel, meals and entertainment     4,799       70,599       130,411       214,311  
Other     135,301       253,050       341,310       470,926  
                                 
Total   $ 3,134,173     $ 2,862,485     $ 7,010,669     $ 5,194,827  

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Exhibit 99.10 

 

FORM 52-109F2

 

CERTIFICATION OF INTERIM FILINGS

 

FULL CERTIFICATE

 

I, William Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer of Greenbrook TMS Inc., certify the following:

 

1. Review: I have reviewed the interim financial report and interim MD&A (together, the "interim filings") of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the "issuer") for the interim period ended June 30, 2020.

 

2. No misrepresentations: Based on my knowledge, having exercised reasonable diligence, the interim filings do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated or that is necessary to make a statement not misleading in light of the circumstances under which it was made, with respect to the period covered by the interim filings.

 

3. Fair presentation: Based on my knowledge, having exercised reasonable diligence, the interim financial report together with the other financial information included in the interim filings fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, financial performance and cash flows of the issuer, as of the date of and for the periods presented in the interim filings.

 

4. Responsibility: The issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (DC&P) and internal control over financial reporting (ICFR), as those terms are defined in National Instrument 52-109 Certification of Disclosure in Issuers' Annual and Interim Filings, for the issuer.

 

5. Design: Subject to the limitations, if any, described in paragraphs 5.2 and 5.3, the issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I have, as at the end of the period covered by the interim filings:

 

(a) designed DC&P, or caused it to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance that:

 

(i) material information relating to the issuer is made known to us by others, particularly during the period in which the interim filings are being prepared; and

 

(ii) information required to be disclosed by the issuer in its annual filings, interim filings or other reports filed or submitted by it under securities legislation is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in securities legislation; and

 

 

 

 

(b) designed ICFR, or caused it to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with the issuer's GAAP.

 

5.1 Control framework: The control framework the issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I used to design the issuer's ICFR is the framework established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) (COSO framework published by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).

 

5.2 ICFR — material weakness relating to design: N/A

 

5.3 Limitation on scope of design: N/A

 

6. Reporting changes in ICFR: The issuer has disclosed in its interim MD&A any change in the issuer's ICFR that occurred during the period beginning on April 1, 2020 and ended on June 30, 2020 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the issuer's ICFR.

 

Date: August 4, 2020

 

    (signed) Bill Leonard  
William Leonard  
President and Chief Executive Officer  

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.11 

 

FORM 52-109F2

 

CERTIFICATION OF INTERIM FILINGS

 

FULL CERTIFICATE

 

I, Erns Loubser, Chief Financial Officer of Greenbrook TMS Inc., certify the following:

 

1. Review: I have reviewed the interim financial report and interim MD&A (together, the "interim filings") of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the "issuer") for the interim period ended June 30, 2020.

 

2. No misrepresentations: Based on my knowledge, having exercised reasonable diligence, the interim filings do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated or that is necessary to make a statement not misleading in light of the circumstances under which it was made, with respect to the period covered by the interim filings.

 

3. Fair presentation: Based on my knowledge, having exercised reasonable diligence, the interim financial report together with the other financial information included in the interim filings fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, financial performance and cash flows of the issuer, as of the date of and for the periods presented in the interim filings.

 

4. Responsibility: The issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (DC&P) and internal control over financial reporting (ICFR), as those terms are defined in National Instrument 52-109 Certification of Disclosure in Issuers' Annual and Interim Filings, for the issuer.

 

5. Design: Subject to the limitations, if any, described in paragraphs 5.2 and 5.3, the issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I have, as at the end of the period covered by the interim filings:

 

(a) designed DC&P, or caused it to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance that:

 

(i) material information relating to the issuer is made known to us by others, particularly during the period in which the interim filings are being prepared; and

 

(ii) information required to be disclosed by the issuer in its annual filings, interim filings or other reports filed or submitted by it under securities legislation is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in securities legislation; and

 

 

 

 

(b) designed ICFR, or caused it to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with the issuer's GAAP.

 

5.1 Control framework: The control framework the issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I used to design the issuer's ICFR is the framework established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) (COSO framework published by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).

 

5.2 ICFR — material weakness relating to design: N/A

 

5.3 Limitation on scope of design: N/A

 

6. Reporting changes in ICFR: The issuer has disclosed in its interim MD&A any change in the issuer's ICFR that occurred during the period beginning on April 1, 2020 and ended on June 30, 2020 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the issuer's ICFR.

 

Date: August 4, 2020

 

    (signed) Erns Loubser  
Erns Loubser  
Chief Financial Officer  

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.12

 

 

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

For the three-month periods ended March 31, 2020 and 2019

 

May 12, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

BASIS OF PRESENTATION 3
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING NON-IFRS MEASURES AND INDUSTRY METRICS 3
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION 4
BUSINESS OVERVIEW 5
FACTORS AFFECTING OUR PERFORMANCE 5
COMPONENTS OF OUR RESULTS OF OPERATIONS AND TRENDS AFFECTING OUR BUSINESS 6
FACTORS AFFECTING THE COMPARABILITY OF OUR RESULTS 8
KEY HIGHLIGHTS AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 9
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS 11
ANALYSIS OF RESULTS FOR Q1 2020 12
QUARTERLY FINANCIAL INFORMATION 15
EBITDA AND ADJUSTED EBITDA 16
RECONCILIATION OF LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE COMMON SHAREHOLDERS OF GREENBROOK TO EBITDA AND ADJUSTED EBITDA 16
FINANCIAL CONDITION, LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES 16
INDEBTEDNESS 18
OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS 18
SHARE INFORMATION 18
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS 18
RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES 19
DISCLOSURE CONTROLS & PROCEDURES AND INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING 20
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES AND JUDGMENTS 21
RISK FACTORS 22
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 22

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

The following Management’s Discussion and Analysis (“MD&A”) provides information concerning the financial condition and results of operations of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Company”, “Greenbrook”, “us” or “we”). This MD&A should be read in conjunction with our unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, including the related notes thereto, and our audited consolidated financial statements, including the related notes thereto, for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 and the related MD&A.

 

BASIS OF PRESENTATION

 

Our unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with International Accounting Standard (“IAS”) 34 – Interim Financial Reporting, as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”). Our fiscal year is the 12-month period ending December 31. The next fiscal year will occur in the 12-month period ending December 31, 2020 (“Fiscal 2020”).

 

All references in this MD&A to “Q1 2020” are to our fiscal quarter for the three-month period ended March 31, 2020 and all references to “Q1 2019” are to our fiscal quarter for the three-month period ended March 31, 2019. All references in this MD&A to “Q4 2019” are to our fiscal quarter for the three-month period ended December 31, 2019 and all references in this MD&A to “Fiscal 2019” are to our fiscal year ended December 31, 2019.

 

Amounts stated in this MD&A are in United States dollars, unless otherwise indicated.

 

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING NON-IFRS MEASURES AND INDUSTRY METRICS

 

This MD&A makes reference to certain non-International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) measures including certain metrics specific to the industry in which we operate. These measures are not recognized measures under IFRS, do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and, therefore, may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. Rather, these measures are provided as additional information to complement those IFRS measures by providing further understanding of our results of operations from management’s perspective. Accordingly, these measures are not intended to represent, and should not be considered as alternatives to, loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook or other performance measures derived in accordance with IFRS as measures of operating performance or operating cash flows or as a measure of liquidity. In addition to our results determined in accordance with IFRS, we use non-IFRS measures including, “EBITDA” and “Adjusted EBITDA”. This MD&A also refers to “Same-Region Sales Growth”, which is an operating metric used in the industry in which we operate but may be calculated differently by other companies. These non-IFRS measures, including industry metrics, are used to provide investors with supplemental measures of our operating performance and thus highlight trends in our core business that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on IFRS measures. We also believe that securities analysts, investors and other interested parties frequently use non-IFRS measures, including industry metrics, in the evaluation of issuers. Our management also uses non-IFRS measures, including industry metrics, to facilitate operating performance comparisons from period to period, to prepare annual operating budgets and forecasts and to determine components of management compensation.

 

We define such non-IFRS measures, including industry metrics, as follows:

 

Adjusted EBITDA” is defined as net income (loss) before amortization, depreciation, interest expenses, interest income and income taxes, adjusted for share-based compensation expenses, center development costs (as outlined in the unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto), and non-recurring expenses. We believe our Adjusted EBITDA metric is a meaningful financial metric as it measures the ability of our current TMS Center (as defined below) operations to generate earnings while eliminating the impact of costs incurred related to our TMS Center growth plans and share-based compensation expenses, neither of which has an impact on the operating performance of our existing TMS Center network.

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EBITDA” is defined as net income (loss) before amortization, depreciation, interest expenses and income taxes.

 

Same-Region Sales Growth” is a metric used to compare the percentage change in sales derived from established management regions in a certain period as compared to the sales from the same management regions in the same period of the prior year and functions as an indicator of organic growth. We monitor our business on a regional basis to focus on increasing patient volume within a management region in addition to assessing individual TMS Center locations on a standalone basis. As a result, we will from time to time establish a TMS Center that may, over the short term, negatively impact the patient volume at another TMS Center, but which is expected to add incremental patient volume to the management region as a whole in an economically beneficial manner. We believe our Same-Region Sales Growth metric helps quantify our sales growth within regional management areas and the related growth opportunities associated with adding TMS Center density within established management regions. Same-Region Sales Growth is calculated based on management regions containing open TMS Centers that have performed billable TMS services for a period of at least one full year prior to each of the comparable periods. Our Same-Region Sales Growth is unique to our financial management strategy and may be calculated differently compared to other companies.

 

See “Reconciliation of Loss Attributable to the Common Shareholders of Greenbrook to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA” for a reconciliation of certain of the foregoing non-IFRS measures to their most directly comparable measures calculated in accordance with IFRS.

 

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION

 

Some of the information contained in this MD&A, including the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic (“COVID-19”) and the Company’s response thereto and the intended use by the Company of the net proceeds of the Offering (as defined below), contains forward-looking information. This information is based on management’s reasonable assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently available to us and is current as of the date of this MD&A. Actual results and the timing of events may differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking information contained in this MD&A as a result of various factors.

 

Particularly, information regarding our expectations of future results, performance, growth, achievements, prospects or opportunities or the markets in which we operate is forward-looking information. In some cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “outlook”, “forecasts”, “projection”, “prospects”, “strategy”, “intends”, “anticipates”, “does not anticipate”, “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “should”, “might”, “will”, “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, intentions, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events or circumstances.

 

Many factors could cause our actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements or future events or developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, the factors discussed in the “Risks and Uncertainties” section of this MD&A. Additional risks and uncertainties are discussed in the Company’s materials filed with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities from time to time, including the Company’s annual information form dated March 10, 2020 in respect of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect us; however, these factors should be considered carefully.

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The purpose of the forward-looking information is to provide the reader with a description of management’s current expectations regarding the Company’s financial performance and may not be appropriate for other purposes; readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information contained herein. To the extent any forward-looking information in this MD&A constitutes future-oriented financial information or financial outlook, within the meaning of applicable securities laws, such information is being provided to demonstrate the potential of the Company and readers are cautioned that this information may not be appropriate for any other purpose. Future-oriented financial information and financial outlook, as with forward-looking information generally, are based on current assumptions and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors. Furthermore, unless otherwise stated, the forward-looking statements contained in this MD&A are made as of the date of this MD&A and we have no intention and undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable securities law. The forward-looking statements contained in this MD&A are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.

 

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

 

We are a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy in the United States for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (“MDD”) and other mental health disorders. The predecessor to the Company, TMS NeuroHealth Centers, Inc. (“TMS US”) was established in 2011 to take advantage of the opportunity created through the paradigm-shifting technology of TMS, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of MDD. Our business model takes advantage of the opportunity for a new, differentiated service channel for the delivery of TMS – a patient-focused, centers-based service model to make TMS treatment easily accessible to all patients while maintaining a high standard of care.

 

After opening our first center in 2011 in Tysons Corner in Northern Virginia, we have grown to control and operate a network of outpatient mental health service centers that specialize in TMS treatment across the United States (each, a “TMS Center”). The Company offers TMS treatment facilities in convenient locations to provide easy access to patients and physicians. As of March 31, 2020 and as of the date of this MD&A, the Company owned and operated 124 TMS Centers in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Connecticut, Florida, Texas, Michigan, Alaska, Oregon and California.

 

Our regional model seeks to develop leading positions in key regional markets, leveraging operational efficiencies by combining smaller local TMS treatment centers that are strategically located within a single region for convenient patient and physician access, with regional management infrastructure in place to support center operations. Management regions typically cover a specific metropolitan area that meets a requisite base population threshold. The management region is typically defined by a manageable geographic area in terms of size, which facilitates the use of regional staff working across the various TMS Center locations within the management region, and which resides within a marketing capture area that allows for efficiencies in advertising cost. Management regions often have similar economic characteristics and are not necessarily defined by state lines, other geographic borders, or differentiating methods of services delivery, but rather are defined by a functional management area.

 

FACTORS AFFECTING OUR PERFORMANCE

 

We believe that our performance and future success depend on a number of factors that present significant opportunities for us. These factors are also subject to a number of inherent risks and challenges, some of which are discussed below. See also the “Risks and Uncertainties” section of this MD&A.

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Number of TMS Centers

 

We have a meaningful opportunity to continue to grow the number of our TMS Centers in the United States through organic in-region growth, establishing new regions and potential future acquisitions. The opening and success of new TMS Centers is subject to numerous factors, including our ability to locate the appropriate space, finance the operations, build relationships with physicians, and negotiation of suitable lease terms and local payor arrangements, and other factors, some of which are beyond our control.

 

Competition

 

The market for TMS is becoming more competitive. We compete principally on the basis of our reputation and brand, the location of our centers and the quality of our TMS services and the reputation of our partner physicians. In the markets in which we are operating, or anticipate operating, competition predominantly consists of individual psychiatrists that have a TMS device, an FDA-regulated medical device specifically manufactured to transmit the magnetic pulses required to stimulate the cortical areas in the brain to effectively treat MDD and other mental health disorders (each, a “TMS Device”), in their office and who can offer TMS therapy directly to their patients. We also face competition from a limited number of multi-location psychiatric practices or behavioral health groups that offer TMS therapy as part of their overall practice, as well as a few other specialist TMS providers.

 

Industry Trends

 

Our revenue is impacted by changes to United States healthcare laws, our partners’ and contractors’ healthcare costs, the ability to secure favourable pricing structures with device manufacturers and payors’ reimbursement criteria and associated rates.

 

Technology

 

Our revenues are affected by the availability of, and reimbursement for, new TMS indications, new technology or other novel treatment modalities and our ability to incorporate the new technology into our TMS Centers.

 

Segments

 

We evaluate our business and report our results based on organizational units used by management to monitor performance and make operating decisions on the basis of one operating and reportable segment: Outpatient Mental Health Service Centers. We currently measure this reportable operating segment’s performance based on revenues and regional operating income.

 

COMPONENTS OF OUR RESULTS OF OPERATIONS AND TRENDS AFFECTING OUR BUSINESS

 

In assessing our results of operations and trends affecting our business, we consider a variety of financial and operating measures that affect our operating results.

 

Total Revenue

 

Total revenue consists of service revenue attributable to the performance of TMS treatments. In circumstances where the net patient fees have not yet been received, the amount of revenue recognized is estimated based on an expected value approach where management considers such variables as the average of previous net patient fees received by the applicable payor and fees received by other patients for similar services and management’s best estimate leveraging industry knowledge and expectations of third-party payors’ fee schedules. Third party payors include federal and state agencies (under the Medicare programs), managed care health plans and commercial insurance companies.

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Regional Operating Income and Direct Center and Regional Costs

 

Regional operating income is calculated as total revenue less direct center and regional costs. Direct center and regional costs consist of direct center and patient care costs, regional employee compensation, regional marketing expenses, and depreciation. These costs encapsulate all costs (other than incentive compensation such as share-based compensation granted to senior regional employees) associated with the center and regional management infrastructure, including the cost of the delivery of TMS treatments to patients and the cost of our regional patient acquisition strategy. Beginning Q1 2020, the Company has excluded amortization from regional operating income based on the nature of the expense as it not associated with center and regional infrastructure. We have retrospectively updated our quarterly financial information below to reflect this change (see “Quarterly Financial Information” below).

 

Center Development Costs, Capital Expenditure and Working Capital Investment

 

Center development costs represent direct expenses associated with developing new centers, including small furnishings and fittings, wiring and electrical and in some cases the cost of minor space alterations. However, the main cash requirement for center development relates to working capital investment. This includes rental deposits or other non-capital costs required to open centers and the cost of TMS treatment delivery while collections initially lag until payor contracting, credentialing and enrollment processes are completed.

 

Corporate Employee Compensation

 

Corporate employee compensation represents compensation incurred to manage the centralized business infrastructure of the Company, including annual base salary, annual cash bonuses and other non-equity incentives.

 

Corporate Marketing Expenses

 

Corporate marketing expenses represent costs incurred that impact the Company on an overall basis including investments in website functionality and brand management activities.

 

Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses

 

Other corporate, general and administrative expenses represent expenses related to the corporate infrastructure required to support our ongoing business including insurance costs, professional and legal costs and costs incurred related to our corporate offices.

 

We have invested heavily in this area to support the growing volume and complexity of our business and anticipate continuing to do so in the future. As we continue to grow, we anticipate that we will be able to scale our investments and leverage our fixed costs.

 

Transaction Costs

 

Transaction costs represent accounting, legal and professional fees incurred as part of significant transactions, including the acquisition of Achieve TMS Centers, LLC and Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC (collectively, “Achieve TMS”) in the third quarter of 2019 (see “Factors Affecting the Comparability of our Results – Acquisition of Achieve TMS” below).

 

Share-Based Compensation

 

Share-based compensation represents stock options granted as consideration in exchange for employee and similar services to align personnel performance with the Company’s long-term goals.

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Amortization

 

Amortization relates to the reduction in useful life of the Company’s intangible assets.

 

Interest

 

Interest expense relates to interest incurred on loans and lease liabilities. Interest income relates to income realized as a result of investing excess funds into investment accounts.

 

Adjusted EBITDA and Non-Recurring Expenses

 

Adjusted EBITDA and non-recurring expenses represent additional disclosures pertaining to one-time costs incurred to enhance the performance of the business.

 

FACTORS AFFECTING THE COMPARABILITY OF OUR RESULTS

 

COVID-19

 

While all of our TMS Centers are open, and are expected to remain open, we have experienced a decline in both patient visits/treatments and new patient treatment starts as result of the restrictions imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. See “Risks and Uncertainties”.

 

Acquisition of Achieve TMS

 

On September 26, 2019, we, through our wholly-owned subsidiary, TMS US, completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding membership interests of each of Achieve TMS Centers, LLC and Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC for a purchase price of $10,596,912 (net of Achieve TMS’ cash and subject to customary working capital adjustments), of which $2,611,044 of the purchase price was satisfied through the issuance of an aggregate of 1,431,736 common shares of the Company (“Common Shares”) to the vendors and the remainder was settled in cash (the “Achieve TMS Acquisition”). Achieve TMS currently operates 22 TMS Centers in California, Oregon and Alaska, with a particular focus on deep TMS therapy. The Achieve TMS Acquisition will allow us to accelerate our expansion in the western United States in future periods.

 

Regional Development Activity

 

Our regional model seeks to develop leading positions in key markets, and to leverage operational efficiencies by combining smaller local TMS treatment centers within a region under a single shared regional management infrastructure. Part of our core strategy is to continue to develop new centers within our existing regions as well as in new management regions, in each case, organically or through acquisitions of existing centers or businesses, which may affect comparability of results.

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KEY HIGHLIGHTS AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

 

During Q1 2020, we sustained robust year-over-year revenue growth despite the challenging operating environment imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic late in the quarter. We continued to develop our TMS Center network increasing our network by eight active TMS Centers, with an additional 14 TMS Centers in development, which will provide a foundation for growth in Fiscal 2020. However, as a result of the current impact of and future uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, we have slowed down development activity and do not expect to sustain the current year-over-year growth rate in the next quarter. It is, however, evident that a significant impact of the pandemic is an increased need for mental health treatment. With access to TMS therapy now more essential than ever, Greenbrook will continue to serve our patients across the United States both during this global crisis and beyond and expects to see a return to strong treatment growth when operating conditions normalize (see “COVID-19 Business Impact” below and “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information” above).

 

Growth in Total Revenue

 

Despite the impact of COVID-19, consolidated revenue for Q1 2020 increased by 73% to $11.4 million (Q1 2019: $6.6 million). This reflects an acceleration in our year-over-year growth rate realized in Fiscal 2019, enabled by the continued execution of our regional expansion strategy paired with strong organic growth. As expected, the TMS Centers acquired through the Achieve TMS Acquisition continued to contribute significantly to our growth.

 

COVID-19 Business Impact

 

All of the Company’s active TMS Centers remain open to both current and new patients and are expected to continue to remain open as essential businesses. The Company is, however, experiencing a decline in treatments and new patient starts as result of the governmental restrictions imposed in response to COVID-19. As a result, the Company expects that its revenues for the quarter ending June 30, 2020 (“Q2 2020”) will decrease by between 20% and 25% as compared to Q1 2020. Based on this decline, Greenbrook expects Q2 2020 revenue growth to be approximately 10% on a year-over-year basis. As a result of the anticipated decline in revenue, we have taken the following measures to control costs:

 

approximately 20-25% of the Company’s employees have been furloughed as of May 1, 2020. During the period of furlough, Greenbrook will pay 100% of employer and employee medical premiums, through May 31, 2020;

 

a Company-wide hiring freeze has been implemented;

 

each member of the Company’s executive management team has agreed to a 10% salary deferral; and

 

budgeted discretionary expenses are expected to be reduced by approximately $2 million for Fiscal 2020.

 

As we navigate through this unprecedented and challenging period, we are taking all possible steps to safeguard the health and well-being of our patients, employees and physician partners, while our entire team works tirelessly to continue to deliver the highest quality of care at all of our TMS Centers.

 

We do see these challenging operating conditions as temporary and we are starting to see a positive change in sentiment. We are seeing an increase in patient inquiries along with a growing number of our current and new patients visiting our TMS Centers to receive treatment. We have continued to expand our ability to interact with patients and potential patients virtually and have seen increasing usage of these platforms by both patients and, more significantly, by physicians to manage and refer patients. See “Risks and Uncertainties”.

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Paycheck Protection Program Loan

 

Greenbrook ended Q1 2020 with approximately $3.2 million in cash on hand. On April 21, 2020, Greenbrook entered into a promissory note with U.S. Bank National Association (the “Lender”), evidencing an unsecured loan in the amount of $3,080,760 (the “Loan”) made to the Company under the United States Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”). The PPP is a program organized by the U.S. Small Business Administration established under the recently-enacted Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”). The Loan bears interest at a fixed rate of 1.0% per annum with a maturity date of two years from the date of the Loan. Interest payments are deferred for the first six months under the Loan, and the Loan will be forgiven in its entirety provided that the proceeds from the Loan are used by Greenbrook to cover payroll costs, rent and utilities during the eight-week period following the Loan origination date.

 

As federal authorities continue to update relevant policies and guidelines regarding the PPP, including some that have retroactive effect, Greenbrook is monitoring these developments and assessing any changes in the Company’s eligibility for the PPP or any other subsidies or support mechanisms under the CARES Act.

 

Growth in Regional Operating Income

 

Regional operating income for Q1 2020 increased by 18% to $0.7 million (Q1 2019: $0.6 million). This is despite the inclusion of eight newly active TMS Centers and 14 TMS Centers in-development, which will take time to generate positive regional operating income, and the material impact of COVID-19 on revenue.

 

Investment in the Centralized Business Infrastructure

 

Significant investments in our business infrastructure and increased staffing of our shared-services functions in Fiscal 2019 coupled with the Achieve TMS Acquisition, increased aggregate corporate costs (including corporate employee compensation, corporate marketing expenses and other corporate, general and administrative expenses and excluding non-recurring expenses) by 66% to $3.9 million for Q1 2020 (Q1 2019: $2.3 million). We expect that these investments will promote efficient integration and effective management of our growing TMS Center network.

 

As anticipated, the Q1 2020 aggregate corporate costs growth rate has decreased significantly as compared to the Fiscal 2019 aggregate corporate costs growth rate of 123% as we are starting to scale into our centralized business infrastructure. This is further highlighted by the growth in revenue eclipsing the growth rate in aggregate corporate costs in Q1 2020. We expect that the corporate, general and administrative expenses growth rate will continue to normalize throughout Fiscal 2020. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

 

Continued Development of our TMS Center Network

 

We added eight active TMS Centers during Q1 2020 with an additional 14 TMS Centers in development as at March 31, 2020. This brings our total network to 124 TMS Centers, which is an increase of 85% from Q1 2019.

 

Our development pipeline remains robust and primed for further expansion. We have, however, temporarily curtailed development activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

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The Offering

 

On May 6, 2020, the Company announced that it had priced its previously announced overnight marketed offering of Common Shares for gross proceeds of a minimum of approximately C$14,000,000 and a maximum of approximately C$18,000,000 (the “Offering”). The Company intends on using the net proceeds from the Offering to fund operating activities and for other working capital and general corporate purposes.

 

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

Selected Financial Information

 

The following table summarizes our results of operations for the periods indicated. The selected consolidated financial information set out below have been derived from our unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements and related notes.

 

(US$)  

Q1 2020

(unaudited)

   

Q1 2019

(unaudited)

 
Total revenue     11,420,502       6,607,198  
                 
Direct center and patient care costs     5,881,290       3,456,616  
Regional employee compensation     2,526,190       1,251,421  
Regional marketing expenses     867,102       464,041  
Depreciation     1,406,124       808,120  
Total direct center and regional costs     10,680,706       5,980,198  
Regional operating income     739,796       627,000  
Center development costs     229,507       264,696  
Corporate employee compensation     2,623,430       1,460,101  
Corporate marketing expenses     305,448       204,346  
Other corporate, general and administrative expenses     947,618       667,895  
Share-based compensation     109,405       294,159  
Amortization     115,833        
Interest expense     657,834       397,840  
Interest income     (8,482 )     (21,950 )
Loss before income taxes     (4,240,797 )     (2,640,087 )
Income tax expense            
Loss for the period and comprehensive loss     (4,240,797 )     (2,640,087 )
Loss attributable to non-controlling interest     (82,523 )     (69,665 )
Loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook     (4,158,274 )     (2,570,422 )
Net loss per share (basic and diluted)     (0.08 )     (0.05 )

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Selected Financial Position Data

 

The following table provides selected financial position data for the years and periods indicated:

 

(US$)  

As at March 31,

   

As at December 31,

 
   

2020

(unaudited)

   

2019

(unaudited)

   

2019

 
Cash     3,212,676       5,035,183       7,947,607  
Current assets (excluding cash)     12,922,535       10,354,202       12,003,831  
Total assets     54,063,670       33,192,017       56,964,106  
Current liabilities     13,752,847       8,279,566       13,183,677  
Non-current liabilities     21,639,582       12,691,364       20,834,296  
Total liabilities     35,392,429       20,970,930       34,017,973  
Non-controlling interests     218,382       401,050       444,405  
Shareholders’ equity     18,671,241       12,221,087       22,946,133  

 

Selected Operating Data

 

The following table provides selected operating data for the years and periods indicated:

 

   

As at March 31,

   

As at December 31,

 

(unaudited)

 

2020

   

2019

   

2019

 
Number of active TMS Centers(1)     110       57       102  
Number of TMS Centers-in-development(2)     14       10       17  
Total TMS Centers     124       67       119  
Number of management regions     13       9       13  
Number of TMS Devices installed     189       118       178  
Number of regional personnel     302       155       273  
Number of shared-services / corporate personnel(3)     47       27       44  
Number of TMS providers(4)     117       55       109  
Number of consultations performed     2,360       1,441       8,039  
Number of patient starts     1,326       840       4,080  
Number of TMS treatments performed     47,970       29,387       155,343  
Average revenue per TMS treatment   $ 238     $ 225     $ 230  

 

 

Notes: 

(1) Active TMS Centers represent TMS Centers that have performed billable TMS services.

(2) TMS Centers-in-development represents TMS Centers that have committed to a space lease agreement and the development process is substantially complete.

(3) Shared-services / corporate personnel is disclosed on a full-time equivalent basis. The Company utilizes part-time staff and consultants as a means of managing costs.

(4) Represents physician partners that are involved in the provision of TMS therapy services from our TMS Centers.

 

Analysis of Results for Q1 2020

 

The following section provides an overview of our financial performance during Q1 2020 compared to Q1 2019.

 

Total Revenue

 

Despite the impact of COVID-19, consolidated revenue increased by 73% to $11.4 million in Q1 2020 (Q1 2019: $6.6 million). This growth was enabled by the continued execution of our regional expansion strategy, including the Achieve TMS Acquisition, paired with strong organic growth. Our ability to systematically add in-region density to strengthen our network reach and strong market growth yielded Same-Region Sales Growth of 29%, which is an increase from our Q4 2019 results.

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Average revenue per treatment increased by 6% to $238 in Q1 2020 (Q1 2019: $225). This increase was predominantly attributable to an increase in reimbursement rates from certain payors with which we have had long-standing relationships in our established regions and expansion to more favourable reimbursement jurisdictions, including as a result of the Achieve TMS Acquisition.

 

Accounts Receivable

 

Due to the continued velocity of development, accounts receivable increased by $0.9 million to $11 million in Q1 2020 (Q4 2019: $10.1 million). The Company has already started to realize the benefits of the enhancements made to the billing and reimbursement systems in Fiscal 2019 despite the continued number of new TMS Centers where the effects of payor contracting and billing system setup impacts the normal cash conversion cycle. We expect accounts receivable to continue to stabilize throughout Fiscal 2020. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

 

Regional Operating Income and Direct Center and Regional Costs

 

Regional operating income increased by 18% to $0.7 million in Q1 2020 (Q1 2019: $0.6 million) despite the inclusion of eight newly active TMS Centers and 14 TMS Centers in development, which provided downward pressure on our regional operating income and will take time to generate positive regional operating income, as well as the impact of COVID-19 on revenue. The regional operating income margin was 6.5% in Q1 2020 as compared to 9.5% in Q1 2019.

 

Direct center and regional costs increased by 79% to $10.7 million in Q1 2020 (Q1 2019: $6.0 million). The increase in direct center and regional costs was primarily due to the addition of regional employee costs and regional marketing costs associated with the addition of new regions and the Achieve TMS Acquisition.

 

Center Development Costs, Capital Expenditures and Working Capital Investment

 

Center development costs decreased by 13% to $0.2 million in Q1 2020 (Q1 2019: $0.3 million) predominantly as a result of the curtailment of development activity late in Q1 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Average cash investment to establish new TMS Centers (including center development costs, capital expenditures and working capital investment) remained consistent at $0.16 million in Q1 2020 (Q1 2019: $0.16 million).

 

Corporate Employee Compensation

 

Corporate employee compensation incurred to manage the centralized business infrastructure of the Company increased by 80% to $2.6 million in Q1 2020 (Q1 2019: $1.5 million). The increase was primarily due to significant increases in staffing in respect of our shared-services functions in addition to employees inherited in connection with of the Achieve TMS Acquisition subsequent to Q1 2019. Recruitment activity throughout Fiscal 2019 included recruitment in the business development, sales, marketing, human resources, legal and finance areas.

 

As anticipated, the Q1 2020 corporate employee compensation growth rate has decreased significantly as compared to the Fiscal 2019 corporate employee compensation growth rate of 171% as we are starting to scale into our centralized business infrastructure and leverage these fixed costs as we continue to expand our TMS Center network. We expect the slowing of organic corporate recruitment throughout Fiscal 2020 as a result of a Company-wide hiring freeze. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

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Corporate Marketing Expenses

 

Corporate marketing expenses increased by 49% to $0.3 million in Q1 2020 (Q1 2019: $0.2 million). The increase was primarily due to the enhancement of our marketing strategy implemented by our new Chief Marketing Officer hired during the three-month period ended June 30, 2019.

 

Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses

 

Other corporate, general and administrative expenses increased by 42% to $0.9 million in Q1 2020 (Q1 2019: $0.7 million). As anticipated, the other corporate, general and administrative expenses growth rate of 42% in Q1 2020 has decreased as compared to the Fiscal 2019 other corporate, general and administrative expenses growth rate of 72% (after excluding non-recurring expenses). We expect that the other corporate, general and administrative expenses growth rate will continue to normalize throughout Fiscal 2020 and that we will be able to scale our investments and leverage fixed costs as we expand our TMS Center network in the future. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

 

Share-Based Compensation

 

Share-based compensation decreased by 63% to $0.1 million in Q1 2020 (Q1 2019: $0.3 million). The decrease was predominantly due to the timing of stock options granted to key personnel to ensure retention and long-term alignment with goals of the Company.

 

Amortization

 

Amortization increased by $0.1 million to $0.1 million in Q1 2020 (Q1 2019: nil). The increase was a result of the intangible assets acquired as part of the Achieve TMS Acquisition in the second half of Fiscal 2019.

 

Interest

 

Interest expense increased by $0.3 million to $0.7 million in Q1 2020 (Q1 2019: $0.4 million). The increase in interest expense is primarily due to the addition of new lease liabilities in line with the execution of our regional growth strategy.

 

Interest income decreased by 61% to $0.01 million in Q1 2020 (Q1 2019: $0.02 million) as a result of a decrease amount of excess funds invested.

 

Loss for the Period and Comprehensive Loss and Loss for the Period Attributable to the Common Shareholders of Greenbrook

 

The loss for the period and comprehensive loss increased by 61% to $4.2 million in Q1 2020 (Q1 2019: $2.6 million). This increase is primarily a result of lower regional operating income margins due to the impact of COVID-19 on revenue, the inclusion of eight newly active TMS Centers and 14 TMS Centers in development which will take time to generate positive regional operating income as well as higher corporate costs due to investments in the centralized business infrastructure as outlined in “Regional Operating Income and Direct Center and Regional Costs”, “Corporate Employee Compensation” and “Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses” in this MD&A.

 

The loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook increased by 62% to $4.2 million in Q1 2020 (Q1 2019: $2.6 million). This increase is primarily a result of lower regional operating income margins due to the impact of COVID-19 on revenue, the inclusion of eight newly active TMS Centers and 14 TMS Centers in development which will take time to generate positive regional operating income as well as higher corporate costs due to investments in the centralized business infrastructure as outlined in “Regional Operating Income and Direct Center and Regional Costs”, “Corporate Employee Compensation” and “Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses” in this MD&A.

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Adjusted EBITDA and Non-Recurring Expenses

 

The Adjusted EBITDA loss position increased by 99% to $1.6 million in Q1 2020 (Q1 2019: $0.8 million). The increase in the Adjusted EBITDA loss position was primarily a result of lower regional operating income margins and higher corporate costs as outlined in “Corporate Employee Compensation”, “Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses”, “Regional Operating Income (Loss) and Direct Center and Regional Costs” in this MD&A.

 

There were no non-recurring expenses incurred during Q1 2020 or Q1 2019.

 

QUARTERLY FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

The following table summarizes the results of our operations for the eight most recently completed fiscal quarters.

 

(US$)   Q1 2020     Q4 2019     Q3 2019     Q2 2019     Q1 2019    

Q4 2018(2)

   

Q3 2018(2)

   

Q2 2018(2)

 
(unaudited)                                                                
Revenue     11,420,502       12,536,671       8,459,103       8,082,559       6,607,198       7,092,455       5,338,364       4,926,625  
Regional operating income(1)     739,796       2,056,836       770,813       1,002,166       627,000       1,418,347       476,556       697,293  
Net loss attributable to shareholders of Greenbrook     (4,158,274 )     (7,034,356 )     (3,431,009 )     (2,874,092 )     (2,570,422 )     (949,031 )     (1,480,489 )     (1,372,984 )
Adjusted EBITDA     (1,648,053 )     (1,296,201 )     (1,033,876 )     (957,428 )     (827,557 )     (865,210 )     (840,374 )     (448,762 )
Net loss per share – Basic     (0.08 )     (0.13 )     (0.06 )     (0.06 )     (0.05 )     (0.01 )     (0.04 )     (0.04 )
Net loss per share – Diluted     (0.08 )     (0.13 )     (0.06 )     (0.06 )     (0.05 )     (0.01 )     (0.04 )     (0.04 )


 

 

Notes: 

(1) Regional operating income for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2019 has been updated to exclude amortization (see “Components of our results of our operations and trends affecting our business” above).

(2) The Company adopted IFRS 16, Leases (“IFRS 16”) effective as at January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective approach. As a result of this approach, the prior period figures were not adjusted.

 

Consolidated revenue decreased by 9% to $11.4 million in Q1 2020 (Q4 2019: $12.5 million) due to seasonal factors, which were expected to negatively impact revenue growth consistent with previous years, in addition to the impact of COVID-19.

 

Regional operating income decreased by 64% to $0.7 million in Q1 2020 (Q4 2019: $2.1 million) predominantly due to the decrease in revenue as well as the continued execution of our regional expansion strategy, which provided downward pressure on our regional operating income.

 

The loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook decreased by 41% to $4.2 million in Q1 2020 (Q4 2019: $7.0 million). The decrease in the loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook was predominately due to transaction costs associated with the Achieve TMS Acquisition, and non-recurring costs incurred including one-time expenses associated with the implementation of IFRS 16, acquisition-related professional fees in connection with the Achieve TMS Acquisition, development of our corporate compliance program and billing migration costs including the restructuring of our billing department and bad debt, which were incurred in Q4 2019, compared to no transaction or non-recurring costs incurred in Q1 2020.

 

The Adjusted EBITDA loss position increased by 27% to $1.6 million in Q1 2020 (Q4 2019: $1.3 million). This increase in the Adjusted EBITDA loss position was predominately due to the reduction in the regional operating income margin in the seasonally slower first fiscal quarter, paired with the inclusion of eight newly active TMS Centers and 14 TMS Centers in development, which will take time to generate positive regional operating income, paired with the impact of COVID-19 as outlined in “Corporate Employee Compensation” and “Regional Operating Income and Direct Center and Regional Costs”.

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EBITDA AND ADJUSTED EBITDA

 

The table below illustrates our EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA for the periods presented:

 

(US$)  

Q1 2020

(unaudited)

   

Q1 2019

(unaudited)

 
EBITDA     (1,986,965 )     (1,386,412 )
Adjusted EBITDA     (1,648,053 )     (827,557 )

 

See “Cautionary Note Regarding Non-IFRS Measures and Industry Metrics” in this MD&A.

 

RECONCILIATION OF LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE COMMON SHAREHOLDERS OF GREENBROOK TO EBITDA AND ADJUSTED EBITDA

 

The table below illustrates a reconciliation of loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA for the periods presented:

 

(US$)  

Q1 2020

(unaudited)

   

Q1 2019

(unaudited)

 
Loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook     (4,158,274 )     (2,570,422 )
Add the impact of:                
Interest expense     657,834       397,840  
Amortization     115,833        
Depreciation     1,406,124       808,120  
Less the impact of:                
Interest income     (8,482 )     (21,950 )
EBITDA     (1,986,965 )     (1,386,412 )
Add the impact of:                
Share-based compensation     109,405       294,159  
TMS Center development costs     229,507       264,696  
Adjusted EBITDA     (1,648,053 )     (827,557 )

 

FINANCIAL CONDITION, LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

 

Overview

 

The Company’s primary uses of capital are to finance operations, finance new TMS Center development costs, increase non-cash working capital and fund investments in its centralized business infrastructure. The Company’s objectives when managing capital are to ensure that the Company will continue to have enough liquidity to provide services to its customers and provide returns to its shareholders.

 

The Company, as part of its annual budgeting process, evaluates its estimated annual cash requirements to fund planned expansion activities and working capital requirements of existing operations. As a result of the negative impact of COVID-19 on the Company’s business, the Company has had to revise its annual budget, estimated annual cash requirements and working capital requirements. Based on this updated cash budget and considering its anticipated cash flows from regional operations, the cost containment measures implemented by the Company as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, its holdings of cash and assuming the successful closing of the Offering, the Company believes that it has sufficient capital to meet its future operating expenses, capital expenditures and future debt service requirements for approximately the next 18-24 months. However, our ability to fund operating expenses, capital expenditures and future debt service requirements will depend on, among other things, our future operating performance, which will be affected by the velocity of our regional development strategy and general economic, financial and other factors, including factors beyond our control such as COVID-19. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”, “Risks and Uncertainties” and “Factors Affecting our Performance” in this MD&A.

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On April 21, 2020, Greenbrook entered into a promissory note with the Lender, evidencing the Loan made to the Company under the PPP. The PPP is a program organized by the U.S. Small Business Administration established under the recently-enacted CARES Act. The Loan bears interest at a fixed rate of 1.0% per annum with a maturity date of two years from the date of the Loan. Interest payments are deferred for the first six months under the Loan, and the Loan will be forgiven in its entirety provided that the proceeds from the Loan are used by Greenbrook to cover payroll costs, rent and utilities during the eight-week period following the Loan origination date.

 

As federal authorities continue to update relevant policies and guidelines regarding the PPP, including some that have retroactive effect, Greenbrook is monitoring these developments and assessing any changes in the Company’s eligibility for the PPP or any other subsidies or support mechanisms under the CARES Act.

 

We also continue to evaluate all financing strategies, including minimally dilutive sources of capital, which remain available to the Company.

 

Analysis of Cash Flows for Q1 2020

 

The following table presents our cash flows for each of the periods presented:

 

(US$)  

Q1 2020

   

Q1 2019

 
Net cash used in operating activities     (2,554,425 )     (3,165,728 )
Net cash used in financing activities     (1,956,104 )     (1,042,269 )
Net cash used in investing activities     (224,402 )     (138,420 )
Decrease in cash and cash equivalents     (4,734,931 )     (4,346,417 )

 

Cash Flows used in Operating Activities

 

For Q1 2020, cash flows used in operating activities (which includes the full cost of developing new TMS Centers) totaled $2.6 million, as compared to $3.2 million in Q1 2019. The decrease in cash flows used in operations is primarily attributable to enhanced collection activity as outlined in “Accounts Receivable” in this MD&A.

 

Cash Flows used in Financing Activities

 

For Q1 2020, cash flows generated from financing activities amounted to $2.0 million as compared to $1.0 million in Q1 2019. This change is largely driven by lease liabilities repayments due to the increase in lease liabilities as a result of the continued execution of our regional growth strategy.

 

Cash Flows used in Investing Activities

 

For Q1 2020, cash flows used in investing activities totaled $0.2 million as compared to $0.1 million in Q1 2019, which primarily relates to the payment of deferred and contingent consideration in respect of the Achieve TMS Acquisition.

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INDEBTEDNESS

 

During Fiscal 2018, the Company assumed loans from four separate banking institutions that were previously extended for the purchase of TMS Devices to non-controlling interest holder partners. The device loans were assumed as part of partnerships with local physicians, behavioural health groups or other investors, which own minority interests in certain center subsidiaries. These device loans bear an average interest rate of 10% with average monthly blended interest and capital payments of $1,575 and mature during the years ended December 31, 2019 to December 31, 2023. There are no significant financial covenants associated with these loans. The loans related to one of the banking institutions were repaid during Fiscal 2019.

 

During Fiscal 2019, the Company assumed loans from two separate banking institutions that were previously extended for the purchase of TMS Devices to non-controlling interest holder partners. The device loans were assumed as part of partnerships with local physicians, behavioural health groups or other investors, which own minority interests in certain center subsidiaries. These device loans bear an average interest rate of 13% with average monthly blended interest and capital payments of $1,756 and mature during the year ended December 31, 2021. There are no significant financial covenants associated with these loans.

 

During Q1 2020, the Company was released from its obligations pertaining to one of the bank loans assumed during Fiscal 2019 as a result of the disposal of the related TMS Device.

 

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

The Company has not engaged in any off-balance sheet financing transactions.

 

Share Information

 

The Company is authorized to issue an unlimited number of Common Shares and an unlimited number of preferred shares, issuable in series. As of March 31, 2020, there were 58,418,443 Common Shares and nil preferred shares issued and outstanding. In addition, there were 3,795,668 stock options and 604,266 broker warrants, each representing a right to acquire one Common Share, issued and outstanding. As of the date of this MD&A, assuming exercise and exchange of all outstanding options and broker warrants, there are 62,818,377 equity securities of the Company issued and outstanding on a fully-diluted basis. See “Key Highlights and Recent Developments – The Offering”.

 

Related Party Transactions

 

Compensation of key management personnel

 

The Company transacts with key individuals from management who have authority and responsibility to plan, direct, and control the activities of the Company. Key management personnel are defined as the executive officers of the Company, including the President and Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), the Chief Operating Officer (“COO”), the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), the Chief Marketing Officer and the Chief Medical Officer.

 

Transactions with significant shareholder – Greybrook Health Inc.

 

As at March 31, 2020, $0.1 million was included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities related to payables for management services and other overhead costs rendered by Greybrook Health Inc. (“Greybrook Health”) to the Company in the ordinary course of business under the MSA (as defined below) (December 31, 2019: $0.1 million).

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On January 1, 2015, we entered into a management and consulting services agreement (the “MSA”) with our significant shareholder, Greybrook Health, pursuant to which Greybrook Health provides us and our subsidiaries with certain incidental services, including financial advisory services, business development advisory services and business and operating consulting services (collectively, the “Services”). More specifically, these Services include: (i) the provision of office space for our head office in Toronto, Ontario, and (ii) compensation for our chief financial officer, chief operating officer and twelve other employees consisting of our general counsel and, ten full-time employees and one part-time employee that, together, provide customary administrative, finance and accounting services to the Company and one part-time employee that provides customary IT infrastructure services to the Company. All of the Services provided by Greybrook Health are provided on a cost basis whereby the Company reimburses Greybrook Health for costs incurred in connection with the provision of such Services. There is no mark-up charged by Greybrook Health for the provision of the Services. The MSA will expire on January 1, 2021 or earlier if either party provides the other with at least 30 days’ notice of termination.

 

Subsequent to September 30, 2019, compensation for all employees noted above, except for the Chief Operating Officer and the part time employee that provides customary IT infrastructure services to the Company, is no longer being provided by Greybrook Health and is being paid directly by the Company.

 

Risks and Uncertainties

 

We are exposed to a variety of financial risks in the normal course of our business, including interest rate, credit, currency and liquidity risk. Our overall risk management program and business practices seek to minimize any potential adverse effects on our consolidated financial performance.

 

Risk management is carried out under practices approved by our Board of Directors (the “Board”). This includes identifying, evaluating and hedging financial risks based on the requirements of our organization. Our Board provides guidance for overall risk management, covering many areas of risk including interest rate risk, credit risk, currency risk, and liquidity risk.

 

COVID-19

 

In December 2019, the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) surfaced in Wuhan, China. The World Health Organization declared a global emergency on January 30, 2020 with respect to the outbreak then characterized it as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The outbreak has spread throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East, causing companies and various international jurisdictions to impose restrictions, such as quarantines, closures, cancellations and travel restrictions. While these effects are expected to be temporary, the duration of the business disruptions internationally and related financial impact cannot be reasonably estimated at this time. At this point, the extent to which the coronavirus may impact the Company’s results is uncertain, however, it is possible that the Company’s consolidated results in 2020 may be negatively impacted by this event. The impacts of the outbreak are unknown and rapidly evolving. See “Key Highlights and Recent Developments – COVID-19 Business Impact”.

 

The Company relies on third-party suppliers and manufacturers for its TMS Devices. This outbreak has resulted in the extended shutdown of certain businesses around the globe, which may in turn result in disruptions or delays to the Company’s supply chain. These may include disruptions from the temporary closure of third-party supplier and manufacturer facilities, interruptions in TMS Device supply or restrictions on the export or shipment of TMS Devices. Any disruption to the Company’s suppliers and their contract manufacturers will likely impact the Company’s revenue and operating results. The outbreak of COVID-19 may also impact patient visits due to various “shelter in place” orders, the availability of key TMS Device components, logistics flows and the availability of other resources to support critical operations.

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A local, regional, national or international outbreak of a contagious disease, including, but not limited to, COVID-19, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, H1N1 influenza virus, avian flu or any other similar illness, or a fear of any of the foregoing, could adversely impact the Company by causing operating delays and disruptions, labor shortages and shutdowns (including as a result of government regulation and prevention measures). If the Company is unable to mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on its operations, the Company’s our costs may increase, and its revenue could decrease. It is unknown whether and how the Company may be affected if such an epidemic persists for an extended period of time. A widespread health crisis could adversely affect the global economy, resulting in an economic downturn that could impact demand for the services the Company provides.

 

The future impact of the outbreak is highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, and there is no assurance that the outbreak will not have a material adverse impact on the future results of the Company. The extent of the impact, if any, will depend on future developments, including actions taken to contain COVID-19.

 

Interest Rate Risk

 

We are exposed to changes in interest rates on our cash and long-term debt. Debt issued at variable rates exposes us to cash flow interest rate risk. Debt issued at fixed rates exposes us to fair value interest rate risk. As of March 31, 2020, we only have fixed interest rate debt. The impact of future interest rate expense resulting from future changes in interest rates will depend largely on the gross amount of our borrowings at such time.

 

Credit Risk

 

Credit risk is the risk of an unexpected loss if a customer or counterparty to a financial instrument fails to meet its contractual obligations. The Company’s financial instruments that are exposed to concentrations of credit risk are primarily cash and accounts receivable. The Company limits its exposure to credit risk with respect to cash by dealing with large creditworthy financial institutions. The Company’s accounts receivable consist primarily of receivables from large creditworthy medical insurance companies and government backed health plans. Collectability of the receivables is reviewed regularly and an allowance is established as necessary.

 

Currency Risk

 

Currency risk is the risk to our earnings that arises from fluctuations in foreign exchange rates and the degree of volatility of those rates. We have minimal exposure to currency risk as substantially all of our revenue, expenses, assets and liabilities are denominated in U.S. dollars.

 

Liquidity Risk

 

Liquidity risk is the risk that we cannot meet a demand for cash or fund our obligations as they come due. We manage liquidity risk by continuously monitoring actual and projected cash flows, taking into account our revenues, income and working capital needs.

 

DISCLOSURE CONTROLS & PROCEDURES AND INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING

 

Disclosure Controls & Procedures

 

Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining a system of disclosure controls and procedures to provide reasonable assurance that all material information relating to the Company is gathered and reported to senior management, including the CEO and the CFO, on a timely basis so that appropriate decisions can be made regarding public disclosure.

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There has been no change in the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures that occurred during the three-month period ended March 31, 2020 that has materially affected, or is reasonable likely to materially affect, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures.

 

Internal Controls over Financial Reporting

 

Management is also responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal controls over financial reporting (“ICFR”) to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial reports for external purposes in accordance with IFRS. In designing such controls, it should be recognized that due to inherent limitations, any controls, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives and may not prevent or detect misstatements. Additionally, management is required to use judgment in evaluating controls and procedures.

 

There has been no change in the Company’s ICFR that occurred during the three months ended March 31, 2020 that has materially affected, or is reasonable likely to materially affect, the Company’s ICFR.

 

Critical Accounting Estimates and Judgments

 

There have been no changes to the Company’s critical accounting estimates and judgments since the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 except as noted below.

 

The uncertainties around the outbreak of COVID-19 required the use of judgments and estimates which resulted in no material impacts for the period ended March 31, 2020. The future impact of COVID-19 uncertainties could generate, in future reporting periods, a significant risk of material adjustment to the carrying amounts of the following: goodwill and intangible assets impairment, leases, business combinations, provisions, litigations and claims.

 

The Company has experienced losses since inception and has negative cash flow from operating activities. More recently, given the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic, including the related government-imposed social distancing and “shelter-in-place” measures, has had on the overall volume of patient treatments, the overall cash flows of the Company have been negatively impacted.  Although the Company anticipates that it will have positive cash flow from operating activities in the future, it expects it will require additional financing to fund its operating and investing activities until the global economic impact of COVID-19 subsides and the quantum of patient treatments return to pre-COVID-19 levels.  Such financing is expected to be required in order for the Company to repay its short-term obligations. These conditions indicate the existence of a material uncertainty that may cast significant doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The Company has implemented a number of mitigation strategies to address the impacts of COVID-19 as outlined above (see “Key Highlights and Recent Developments – COVID-19 Business Impact”). The Company also has strong supportive shareholders and a proven track record of successfully raising capital when required. The failure to raise such capital could result in the delay or indefinite postponement of current business objectives and additional financing may not be available on favorable terms or at all.

 

The condensed interim consolidated financial statements do not reflect adjustments that would be necessary if the going concern assumptions were not appropriate. If the going concern basis was not appropriate for the condensed interim consolidated financial statements, then adjustments would be necessary to the carrying value of assets and liabilities, the reported expenses, and the condensed interim consolidated statement of financial position classification used.

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Changes in Significant Accounting Policies

 

There are no recent accounting pronouncements that are applicable to the Company or that are expected to have a significant impact on the Company.

 

RISK FACTORS

 

For a detailed description of risk factors associated with the Company, refer to the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s annual information form dated March 10, 2020 for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, and the “Risks and Uncertainties” section in this MD&A.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

 

Additional information relating to the Company, including the Company’s annual information form, is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. The Company’s Common Shares are listed for trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “GTMS”.

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Exhibit 99.13

 

Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements

(Expressed in U.S. dollars)

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020

(Unaudited)

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Condensed Interim Consolidated Statements of Financial Position

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

(Unaudited)

 

    March 31,
2020
    December 31,
2019
 
             
Assets                
                 
Current assets:                
Cash   $ 3,212,676     $ 7,947,607  
Accounts receivable, net     10,956,475       10,091,087  
Prepaid expenses and other     1,966,060       1,912,744  
      16,135,211       19,951,438  
                 
Property, plant and equipment (note 6)     1,716,532       1,666,331  
Intangible assets (note 7)     6,091,898       6,207,731  
Goodwill (note 5)     3,707,650       3,707,650  
Right-of-use assets (note 8)     26,412,379       25,430,956  
                 
    $ 54,063,670     $ 56,964,106  
                 
Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity (Deficit)                
                 
Current liabilities:                
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities (note 9)   $ 7,355,003     $ 7,011,849  
Loans payable (note 10(a))     80,762       101,107  
Lease liabilities (note 8)     5,195,652       4,707,853  
Non-controlling interest loans (note 10(b))     71,430       69,674  
Provisions (note 11)           18,792  
Deferred and contingent consideration (note 5)     1,050,000       1,274,402  
      13,752,847       13,183,677  
                 
Long-term portion of loans payable (note 10(a))     98,899       150,392  
Long-term portion of lease liabilities (note 8)     21,540,683       20,683,904  
      35,392,429       34,017,973  
                 
Shareholders’ equity (deficit):                
Common shares (note 12)     50,185,756       50,185,756  
Contributed surplus (note 13)     2,866,657       2,757,252  
Deficit     (34,599,554 )     (30,441,280 )
      18,452,859       22,501,728  
Non-controlling interest (note 21)     218,382       444,405  
      18,671,241       22,946,133  
                 
Contingencies (note 14)                
Subsequent events (note 23)                
                 
    $ 54,063,670     $ 56,964,106  

 

See accompanying notes to condensed interim consolidated financial statements.

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Condensed Interim Consolidated Statements of Net Loss and Comprehensive Loss

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

(Unaudited)

 

    Three months ended  
    March 31,
2020
    March 31,
2019
 
             
Revenue:                
Service revenue   $ 11,420,502     $ 6,607,198  
                 
Expenses:                
Direct center and patient care costs     5,881,290       3,456,616  
Other regional and center support costs (note 22)     3,393,292       1,715,462  
Depreciation (notes 6 and 8)     1,406,124       808,120  
      10,680,706       5,980,198  
                 
Regional operating income     739,796       627,000  
                 
Center development costs     229,507       264,696  
Corporate, general and administrative expenses (note 22)     3,876,496       2,332,342  
Share-based compensation     109,405       294,159  
Amortization (note 7)     115,833        
Interest expense     657,834       397,840  
Interest income     (8,482 )     (21,950 )
                 
Loss before income taxes     (4,240,797 )     (2,640,087 )
                 
Income tax expense (note 16)            
                 
Loss for the year and comprehensive loss   $ (4,240,797 )   $ (2,640,087 )
                 
Loss for the period attributable to:                
Non-controlling interest (note 21)   $ (82,523 )   $ (69,665 )
Common shareholders of Greenbrook TMS     (4,158,274 )     (2,570,422 )
                 
    $ (4,240,797 )   $ (2,640,087 )
                 
Net loss per share (note 20):                
Basic   $ (0.08 )   $ (0.05 )
Diluted     (0.08 )     (0.05 )
                 

 

See accompanying notes to condensed interim consolidated financial statements.

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Greenbrook tms Inc.

Condensed Interim Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity (Deficit)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

(Unaudited)

 

    Common shares     Contributed           Non-controlling     Total
equity
 
Three months ended March 31, 2019   Number     Amount     surplus     Deficit     interest     (deficit)  
                                     
Balance, December 31, 2018     47,524,375     $ 26,882,622     $ 1,745,079     $ (14,531,401 )   $ 544,465     $ 14,640,765  
Net comprehensive loss for the period                       (2,570,422 )     (69,665 )     (2,640,087 )
Share-based compensation (note 13)                 294,159                   294,159  
Payments to non-controlling interest                                 (138,750 )     (138,750 )
Non-controlling interest subsidiary investment                             65,000       65,000  
                                                 
Balance, March 31, 2019     47,524,275     $ 26,882,622     $ 2,039,238     $ (17,101,823 )   $ 401,050     $ 12,221,087  

 

    Common shares     Contributed           Non-controlling     Total
equity
 
Three months ended March 31, 2020   Number     Amount     surplus     Deficit     interest     (deficit)  
                                     
Balance, December 31, 2019     58,418,443     $ 50,185,756     $ 2,757,252     $ (30,441,280 )   $ 444,405     $ 22,946,133  
Net comprehensive loss for the period                       (4,158,274 )     (82,523 )     (4,240,797 )
Share-based compensation (note 13)                 109,405                   109,405  
Payments to non-controlling interest                             (143,500 )     (143,500 )
                                                 
Balance, March 31, 2020     58,418,443     $ 50,185,756     $ 2,866,657     $ (34,599,554 )   $ 218,382     $ 18,671,241  

 

See accompanying notes to condensed interim consolidated financial statements.

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Condensed Interim Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

(Unaudited)

 

    Three months ended  
    March 31,
2020
    March 31,
2019
 
                 
Cash (used in) provided by                
                 
Operating activities:                
Loss for the period   $ (4,240,797 )   $ (2,640,087 )
Adjusted for:                
Amortization     115,833        
Depreciation     1,406,124       808,120  
Interest expense     657,834       397,840  
Interest income     (8,482 )     (21,950 )
Share-based compensation     109,405       294,159  
Change in non-cash operating working capital:                
Accounts receivable     (865,388 )     (1,878,566 )
Prepaid expenses and other     (53,316 )     (148,496 )
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities     343,154       23,252  
Provisions     (18,792 )      
      (2,554,425 )     (3,165,728 )
                 
Financing activities:                
Bank loans advanced           84,096  
Bank loans repaid     (26,158 )     (52,594 )
Lease liabilities repaid     (1,788,202 )     (919,152 )
Net non-controlling interest loans advanced     1,756       (15,869 )
Distribution to non-controlling interest     (143,500 )     (138,750 )
      (1,956,104 )     (1,042,269 )
                 
Investing activities:                
Purchase of property, plant and equipment           (138,420 )
Deferred and contingent consideration (note 5)     (224,402 )      
      (224,402 )     (138,420 )
                 
Decrease in cash     (4,734,931 )     (4,346,417 )
                 
Cash, beginning of year     7,947,607       9,381,600  
                 
Cash, end of year   $ 3,212,676     $ 5,035,183  

 

See accompanying notes to condensed interim consolidated financial statements.

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

 

1. Reporting entity:

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Company”), an Ontario corporation along with its subsidiaries, controls and operates a network of outpatient mental health services centers that specialize in the provision of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy for the treatment of depression and related psychiatric services.

 

Our head and registered office is located at 890 Yonge Street, 7th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4W 3P4. Our United States corporate headquarters is located at 8405 Greensboro Drive, Suite 120, Tysons Corner, Virginia, USA, 22102.

 

2. Basis of preparation:

 

(a) Going concern:

 

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”) and the basis of presentation outlined in note 2(b) on the assumption that the Company is a going concern and will continue in operation for the foreseeable future and will be able to realize its assets and discharge its liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business.

 

The Company has experienced losses since inception and has negative cash flow from operating activities. More recently, given the impact that the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic (“COVID-19”), including the related government-imposed social distancing and “shelter-in-place” measures, has had on the overall volumes of patient treatments, the overall cash flows of the Company have been negatively impacted. Although the Company anticipates that it will have positive cash flow from operating activities in the future, it expects it will require additional financing to fund its operating and investing activities until the global economic impact of COVID-19 subsides and the quantum of patient treatments return to pre-COVID-19 levels. Such financing is expected to be required in order for the Company to repay its short-term obligations. These conditions indicate the existence of a material uncertainty that may cast significant doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The Company has implemented a number of mitigation strategies to address the impacts of COVID-19, including: a furlough of approximately 20-25% of the Company’s employees; a Company-wide hiring freeze; a 10% salary deferral by the Company’s executive management team; and a reduction in discretionary spending, as further noted in note 23. The Company also has strong supportive shareholders and a proven track record of successfully raising capital when required. The failure to raise such capital could result in the delay or indefinite postponement of current business objectives and additional financing may not be available on favorable terms or at all.

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

 

2. Basis of preparation (continued):

  

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements do not reflect adjustments that would be necessary if the going concern assumptions were not appropriate. If the going concern basis was not appropriate for these condensed interim consolidated financial statements, then adjustments would be necessary to the carrying value of assets and liabilities, the reported expenses, and the condensed interim consolidated statement of financial position classification used.

 

(b) Statement of compliance:

 

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2020 have been prepared in accordance with IAS 34 – Interim Financial Reporting, as issued by the IASB. The disclosures contained in these condensed interim consolidated financial statements do not include all of the requirements of IFRS for annual consolidated financial statements. The condensed interim consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company as at and for the year ended December 31, 2019.

 

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements comprise the accounts of Greenbrook TMS Inc., the parent company, and its subsidiaries. The Company accounts for its controlled subsidiaries using the consolidation method of accounting from the date that control commences and is deconsolidated from the date control ceases. All intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated on consolidation.

 

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) and authorized for issue by the Board on May 12, 2020.

 

3. Significant accounting policies:

 

These condensed interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared using the significant accounting policies consistent with those applied in the Company’s December 31, 2019 audited consolidated financial statements.

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

 

3. Significant accounting policies (continued):

 

The uncertainties around the outbreak of COVID-19 required the use of judgements and estimates which resulted in no material impacts for the period ended March 31, 2020. The future impact of COVID-19 uncertainties could generate, in future reporting periods, a significant risk of material adjustment to the carrying amounts of the following: goodwill and intangible assets impairment, leases, business combinations, provisions, litigations and claims.

 

4. Recent accounting pronouncements:

 

There are no recent accounting pronouncements that are applicable or that are expected to have a significant impact on the Company.

 

5. Business acquisition:

 

On September 26, 2019, the Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, TMS NeuroHealth Centers, Inc. (“TMS US”), completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding membership interests of each of Achieve TMS Centers, LLC and Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC (collectively, “Achieve TMS”) for a purchase price of $10,596,912 (net of Achieve TMS’ cash), of which $2,611,044 of the purchase price was satisfied through the issuance of an aggregate of 1,431,736 common shares of the Company to the vendors and the remainder was settled in cash (the “Acquisition”).

 

In addition, a portion of the purchase price payable in respect of the Acquisition is subject to an earn-out based on the earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) achieved by Achieve TMS during the twelve-month period following the closing of the Acquisition. As at March 31, 2020, the Company estimates the purchase price payable in respect of the earn out to be nil (December 31, 2019 – nil).

 

Achieve TMS operates TMS centers in California, Oregon and Alaska, with a particular focus on deep TMS therapy. The Acquisition provided the Company with a national footprint of over 100 TMS centers and a platform for further West Coast expansion through excellent brand recognition, physician reputation and high visibility within the West Coast TMS community.

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

 

5. Business acquisition (continued):

 

The Acquisition has been accounted for using the acquisition method of accounting. The allocation of the purchase price consideration for the Acquisition is preliminary and is comprised as follows:

 

         
Purchase consideration:        
         
Cash   $ 6,886,812  
Share issuance     2,611,044  
Deferred and contingent consideration     1,274,402  
         
    $ 10,772,258  
         
Net assets acquired:        
         
Cash   $ 175,346  
Current assets     886,392  
Capital and other assets     6,321,730  
Current liabilities     (1,233,400 )
Long-term liabilities     (5,415,460 )
Covenants not to compete     310,000  
Management services agreement     6,020,000  
         
    $ 7,064,608  
         
Goodwill   $ 3,707,650  

 

The purchase price allocation is considered to be preliminary and subsequent adjustments during the measurement period may occur as the Company finalizes the purchase price in respect of deferred consideration held in escrow. The Company expects to finalize this determination during the three months ended September 30, 2020. The goodwill is primarily attributable to the ability to expand the Company’s national footprint and the synergies expected to result from combining Achieve TMS’ operations with the Company. Goodwill is deductible for tax purposes.

 

During the three months ended March 31, 2020, the Company paid $224,402 in deferred and contingent consideration (December 31, 2019 – nil). The remaining deferred and contingent consideration payable balance as at March 31, 2020 is $1,050,000 (December 31, 2019 – $1,274,402). The related cash is being held in an escrow account subject to finalization of the escrow conditions.

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GREENBROOK TMS INC.

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)
(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)

 

 

 

6. Property, plant and equipment:

 

    Furniture and
equipment
    Leasehold
improvements
    TMS devices     Total  
                         
Cost                                
                                 
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 175,416     $ 183,103     $ 1,792,984     $ 2,151,503  
Additions                 169,294       169,294  
Asset disposal                 (50,093 )     (50,093 )
                                 
Balance, March 31, 2020   $ 175,416     $ 183,103     $ 1,912,185     $ 2,270,704  
                                 
Accumulated depreciation                                
                                 
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 83,408     $ 5,291     $ 396,473     $ 485,172  
Depreciation     7,773       6,398       59,242       73,413  
Asset disposal                 (4,413 )     (4,413 )
                                 
Balance, March 31, 2020   $ 91,181     $ 11,689     $ 451,302     $ 554,172  
                                 
Net book value                                
                                 
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 92,008     $ 177,812     $ 1,396,511     $ 1,666,331  
Balance, March 31, 2020     84,235       171,414       1,460,883       1,716,532  
                                 

 

7. Intangible assets:

 

    Management
service agreement
    Covenant not
to complete
    Total  
                   
Cost                        
                         
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 6,020,000     $ 310,000     $ 6,330,000  
Additions                  
                         
Balance, March 31, 2020   $ 6,020,000     $ 310,000     $ 6,330,000  
                         
Accumulated amortization                        
                         
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 105,907     $ 16,362     $ 122,269  
Amortization     100,333       15,500       115,833  
                         
Balance, March 31, 2020   $ 206,240     $ 31,862     $ 238,102  
                         
Net book value                        
                         
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 5,914,093     $ 293,638     $ 6,207,731  
Balance, March 31, 2020     5,813,760       278,138       6,091,898  
                         

9

 

GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

8. Right-of-use assets and leases liabilities:

 

The Company enters into lease agreements related to TMS devices and center locations. These lease agreements range from one year to eight years in length.

 

Right-of-use assets are initially measured at cost, which comprises the initial amount of the lease liability adjusted for any lease payments made at or before the commencement date, plus any initial direct costs incurred.

 

         
Right-of-use assets, December 31, 2019   $ 25,430,956  
Additions to right-of-use assets     2,483,428  
Disposals to right-of-use assets     (169,294 )
Depreciation on right-of-use assets     (1,332,711 )
         
Right-of-use assets, March 31, 2020   $ 26,412,379  

 

Lease liabilities have been measured by discounting future lease payments using a rate implicit in the lease or the Company’s incremental borrowing rate at January 1, 2019. The Company’s incremental borrowing rate applied during the period ended March 31, 2020 is 10% (December 31, 2019 – 10%).

 

         
Lease liabilities, December 31, 2019   $ 25,391,757  
Additions to lease liabilities     2,476,703  
Interest expense on lease liabilities     656,077  
Payments of lease liabilities     (1,788,202 )
Lease liabilities, March 31, 2020     26,736,335  
         
Less: current portion of lease liabilities     5,195,652  
         
Long-term portion of lease liabilities   $ 21,540,683  

10

GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

  

9. Accounts payable and accrued liabilities:

 

The accounts payable and accrued liabilities are as follows:

 

    March 31,  
2020
    December 31,  
2019
 
                 
Accounts payable   $ 5,827,349     $ 4,639,924  
Accrued liabilities     1,527,654       2,371,925  
                 
Total   $ 7,355,003     $ 7,011,849  

 

10. Loans payable:

 

(a) Bank loans:

 

    March 31,  
2020
    December 31,  
2019
 
                 
Bank loans   $ 179,661     $ 251,499  
Short-term portion of loans payable     80,762       101,107  
                 
Long-term portion of loans payable   $ 98,899     $ 150,392  

 

During the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company assumed loans from four separate banking institutions that were previously extended for the purchase of TMS devices to non-controlling interest holder partners. The TMS device loans were assumed as part of partnerships with local physicians, behavioural health groups or other strategic investors, which own minority interests in certain center subsidiaries. These TMS device loans bear an average interest rate of 10% with average monthly blended interest and capital payments of $1,575 and mature (or matured, as applicable) during the years ended December 31, 2019 to December 31, 2023. There are no covenants associated with these loans.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company assumed loans from two separate banking institutions that were previously extended for the purchase of TMS devices to non-controlling interest holder partners. The TMS device loans were assumed as part of partnerships with local physicians, behavioural health groups or other investors, which own minority interests in certain center subsidiaries. These TMS device loans bear an average interest rate of 13% with average monthly blended interest and capital payments of $1,756 and mature during the year ended December 31, 2021.

11

GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

  

10. Loans payable (continued):

 

During the three months ended March 31, 2020, the Company was released from its obligations pertaining to one of the bank loans assumed during the year ended December 31, 2019 of $45,680 as a result of the disposal of the related TMS device. During this period, the Company also repaid TMS device loans totalling $26,158.

 

(b) Non-controlling interest loans:

 

    March 31,  
2020
    December 31,  
2019
 
                 
Non-controlling interest loans   $ 71,430     $ 69,674  
                 

 

The non-controlling interest holder partners of the Company, from time to time, provide additional capital contributions in the form of capital loans to the Company’s subsidiaries. These loans bear interest at a rate of 10%, compounded on a monthly basis. The loans are unsecured and are repayable subject to certain liquidity and solvency requirements and are classified as current liabilities.

 

11. Provisions:

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company provided for $18,792 relating to the planned restructuring of its billing department. The restructuring is a direct result of ongoing efforts to optimize the Company’s billing and reimbursement process subsequent to system conversions. This amount was paid in full during the three months ended March 31, 2020.

12

GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

  

12. Common shares:

 

The Company is authorized to issue an unlimited number of common shares and an unlimited number of preferred shares, issuable in series. As at December 31, 2019 and March 31, 2020, there were nil preferred shares issued and outstanding.

 

    Number     Total  
amount
 
                 
December 31, 2019     58,418,443     $ 50,185,756  
                 
Common shares issuances     –        –   
                 
March 31, 2020     58,418,443     $ 50,185,756  

 

13. Contributed surplus:

 

Contributed surplus is comprised of share-based compensation and broker warrants.

 

(a) Share-based compensation – stock options:

 

The Company operates an equity-settled, stock options-based payment compensation plan, under which the Company pays equity instruments of the Company as consideration in exchange for employee and similar services. The plan is open to employees, directors, officers and consultants of the Company and its affiliates.

 

The fair value of the grant of the options is recognized as an expense in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss. The total amount to be expensed is determined by the fair value of the options granted. The total expense is recognized over the vesting period which is the period over which all of the service vesting conditions are satisfied. The vesting period is determined at the discretion of the Board and has ranged from immediate vesting to over three years. The maximum number of common shares reserved for issuance, in the aggregate, under the Company’s option plan (and under any other share-based compensation arrangements of the Company) is 10% of the aggregate number of common shares outstanding. As at March 31, 2020, this represented 5,841,844 common shares.

13

GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

  

13. Contributed surplus (continued):

 

The options have an expiry date of ten years from the applicable date of issue.

 

      March 31, 2020     December 31, 2019  
      Number
of stock
options
    Weighted  
average  
exercise  
price
    Number
of stock
options
    Weighted
average
exercise
price
 
                                   
Outstanding, beginning of period       2,998,168     $ 1.36       2,670,000     $ 1.17  
Granted       797,500       1.89       385,000       2.63  
Exercised       –        –        (53,332 )     1.02  
Cancelled       –        –        (3,500 )     1.00  
                                   
Outstanding, end of period       3,795,668     $ 1.47       2,998,168     $ 1.36  

   

The weighted average contractual life of the outstanding options as at March 31, 2020 was 6.5 years (December 31, 2019 – 6.8 years).

 

The total number of stock options exercisable as at March 31, 2020 was 2,676,833 (December 31, 2019 – 2,059,001).

 

During the three months ended March 31, 2020, the Company recorded a total share-based options compensation expense of $109,405 (March 31, 2019 – $294,159).

 

The following stock options were granted during the three months ended March 31, 2020:

 

(i) The fair value of the stock options granted on February 3, 2020 was estimated to be $1.10 per option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 46.12% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of ten years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 2.02%.

14

GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

  

13. Contributed surplus (continued):

 

The following stock options were granted during the year ended December 31, 2019:

 

(i) The fair value of the stock options granted on June 28, 2019 was estimated to be $1.13 per option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 45.74% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of 4.5 years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 1.46%.

 

(ii) The fair value of the stock options granted on May 9, 2019 was estimated to be $1.46 per option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 46.48% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of ten years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 1.68%.

 

(iii) The fair value of the stock options granted on March 27, 2019 was estimated to be $1.44 per option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 47.88% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of ten years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 1.62%.

 

As at March 31, 2020, the total unvested compensation related to the options granted is approximately $1,060,551 (December 31, 2019 –$292,877) and will vest over the remaining average period of 0.86 years (December 31, 2019 – 0.44 years).

 

(b) Broker warrants:

 

      March 31, 2020     December 31, 2019  
      Number
of broker
warrants
    Weighted  
average  
exercise  
price
    Number
of broker
warrants
    Weighted
average
exercise
price
 
                                   
Outstanding, beginning of period       1,068,186     $ 2.22       503,646     $ 2.00  
Granted       –        –        564,540       2.41  
Expired       (463,920 )     2.00       –        –   
                                   
Outstanding, end of period       604,266     $ 2.39       1,068,186     $ 2.22  

15

GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

  

13. Contributed surplus (continued):

 

There were no broker warrants issued during the three months ended March 31, 2020.

 

The following broker warrants were issued during the year ended December 31, 2019:

 

(i) On May 17, 2019, in connection with the public offering and concurrent private placement of common shares, the Company issued 241,500 and 323,040 broker warrants, respectively, to the underwriters of such transactions. Each broker warrant vested upon issuance thereof and entitles the holder to acquire one common share of the Company at an exercise price of C$3.25 and expires two years from the date of issue.

 

The fair value of the broker warrants granted on May 17, 2019 was estimated to be $0.63 per broker warrant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 44.83% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of 2.0 years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 1.69%.

 

The aggregate fair value of the issued broker warrants granted on May 17, 2019 of $355,660 is recognized as part of the transaction costs in respect of the public offering and concurrent private placement described above, which is reflected in the common shares equity reserve. Each broker warrant vests immediately upon the issuance thereof and has a term to expiry of two years from the date of issue.

 

The weighted average contractual life of the outstanding broker warrants as at March 31, 2020 was 1.1 years (December 31, 2019 – 0.8 years).

 

The total number of broker warrants exercisable as at March 31, 2020 was 604,266 (December 31, 2019 – 1,068,186).

 

The aggregate fair value of the broker warrants granted during the three months ended March 31, 2020 was nil (March 31, 2019 – nil).

16

GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

  

14. Contingencies:

 

The Company may be involved in certain legal matters arising from time to time in the normal course of business. The Company records provisions that reflect management’s best estimate of any potential liability relating to these matters. The resolution of these matters is not expected to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

 

15. Pensions:

 

The Company has adopted a defined contribution pension plan for its employees whereby the Company matches contributions made by participating employees up to a maximum of 3.5% of such employees’ annual salaries. During the three months ended March 31, 2020, contributions, which were recorded as expenses within direct center and patient care costs, other regional and center support costs and corporate, general and administrative expenses, amounted to $260,689 (March 31, 2019 – $47,860).

 

16. Income taxes:

 

During the three months ended March 31, 2020, there were no significant changes to the Company’s tax position.

 

17. Risk management arising from financial instruments:

 

In the normal course of business, the Company is exposed to risks related to financial instruments that can affect its operating performance. These risks, and the actions taken to manage them, are as follows:

 

(a) Fair value:

 

The carrying value of cash, accounts receivable and accounts payable and accrued liabilities approximates their fair value given their short-term nature.

 

The carrying value of the loans payable, lease liabilities and deferred and contingent consideration approximates their fair value given the difference between the discount rates used to recognize the liabilities in the consolidated balance sheets and the market rates of interest is insignificant.

17

GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

  

17. Risk management arising from financial instruments (continued):

 

(b) Credit risk:

 

Credit risk arises from the potential that a counterparty will fail to perform its obligations. The Company is exposed to credit risk from patients and third-party payors including federal and state agencies (under the Medicare programs), managed care health plans and commercial insurance companies. The Company’s exposure to credit risk is mitigated in large part due to the majority of the accounts receivable balance being receivable from large, creditworthy medical insurance companies and government-backed health plans. The Company recognizes loss allowances for expected credit losses on financial assets measured at amortized cost when necessary. Loss allowances for accounts receivable are always measured at an amount equal to the expected credit losses for the subsequent 12-month period.

 

(c) Liquidity risk:

 

Liquidity risk is the risk that the Company may encounter difficulty in raising funds to meet its financial commitments or can only do so at excessive cost. The Company ensures there is sufficient liquidity to meet its short-term business requirements, taking into account its anticipated cash flows from operations, its holdings of cash and its ability to draw on committed funds from its existing shareholders or to raise funds from external shareholders.

 

(d) Currency risk:

 

Currency risk is the risk to the Company’s earnings that arises from fluctuations in foreign exchange rates and the degree of volatility of those rates. The Company has minimal exposure to currency risk as substantially all of the Company’s revenue, expenses, assets and liabilities are denominated in U.S. dollars. The Company pays certain vendors and payroll costs in Canadian dollars from time to time, but due to the limited size and nature of these payments it does not give rise to significant currency risk.

 

(e) Interest rate risk:

 

Interest rate risk is the risk that the fair value of future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes in market interest rates. The Company does not have financial instruments that result in material exposure.

18

GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

  

18. Capital management:

 

The Company’s objective is to maintain a capital structure that supports its long-term growth strategy, maintains creditor and customer confidence, and maximizes shareholder value.

 

The capital structure of the Company consists of its shareholders’ equity (deficit), including contributed surplus and deficit, as well as loans payable.

 

The Company’s primary uses of capital are to finance operations, finance new center start-up costs, increase non-cash working capital and capital expenditures. The Company’s objectives when managing capital are to ensure the Company will continue to have enough liquidity so it can provide its services to its customers and returns to its shareholders. The Company, as part of its annual budgeting process, evaluates its estimated annual cash requirements to fund planned expansion activities and working capital requirements of existing operations. Based on this cash budget and taking into account its anticipated cash flows from operations and its holdings of cash, the Company validates that it has the sufficient capital or the ability to draw the required funds from shareholder commitments.

 

19. Related party transactions:

 

Transactions with significant shareholder – Greybrook Health Inc.:

 

As at March 31, 2020, $98,505 is included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities for amounts payable for management services rendered and other overhead costs incurred by Greybrook Health Inc. in the ordinary course of business (December 31, 2019 – $58,954). These amounts were recorded at their exchange amount, being the amount agreed to by the parties.

19

GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

  

20. Basic and diluted loss per share:

 

    Three months ended  
    March 31,     March 31,  
    2020     2019  
             
Net loss attributable to the shareholders of:                
Greenbrook TMS   $ (4,158,274 )   $ (2,570,422 )
                 
                 
Weighted average common shares outstanding:                
Basic and diluted     53,828,597       47,524,375  
                 
                 
Loss per share:                
Basic and diluted   $ (0.08 )   $ (0.05 )
                 

 

For the three months ended March 31, 2020, the effect of 3,795,668 options (March 31, 2019 – 2,831,500) have been excluded from the diluted calculation because this effect would be anti-dilutive.

20

GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

  

21. Non-controlling interest:

 

As a result of operating agreements with each of the following non-wholly owned entities, the Company has control over these entities under IFRS, as the Company has power over all significant decisions made by these entities and thus 100% of the financial results of these subsidiaries are included in the Company’s consolidated financial results.

 

    Year     Ownership  
Name   incorporated     interest  
             
Greenbrook TMS Arlington LLC     2018       70 %
Greenbrook TMS Austin Central LLC     2018       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Cary LLC     2016       75 %
Greenbrook TMS Central Florida LLC     2019       90 %
Greenbrook TMS Chapel Hill LLC     2017       90 %
Greenbrook TMS Christiansburg LLC     2018       70 %
Greenbrook TMS Cleveland LLC     2018       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Connecticut LLC     2018       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Easton LLC     2017       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Fairfax LLC     2016       60 %
Greenbrook TMS Greensboro LLC     2017       70 %
Greenbrook TMS Houston LLC     2018       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Lynchburg LLC     2017       70 %
Greenbrook TMS Midlothian LLC     2016       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Mooresville LLC     2018       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Newport News, LLC     2016       75 %
Greenbrook TMS North Detroit LLC     2019       90 %
Greenbrook TMS North Raleigh LLC     2016       75 %
Greenbrook TMS Roanoke LLC     2017       70 %
Greenbrook TMS St. Louis LLC     2018       60 %
Greenbrook TMS St. Petersburg LLC     2019       90 %
Greenbrook TMS South Carolina LLC     2019       90 %
Greenbrook TMS West Hartford LLC     2018       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Wilmington LLC     2017       70 %
Greenbrook TMS Winston-Salem LLC     2018       80 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Ashburn, LLC     2015       51 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Charlottesville, LLC     2014       65 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Frederick, LLC     2015       75 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Glen Burnie, LLC     2015       70 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Greenbelt, LLC     2014       75 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Reston, LLC     2014       51 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Richmond, LLC     2014       65 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Rockville, LLC     2014       51 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Virginia Beach, LLC     2015       70 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Woodbridge, LLC     2016       70 %

21

GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

  

21. Non-controlling interest (continued):

 

The following table summarizes the aggregate financial information for the above-noted entities, as at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019:

 

    March 31,     December 31,  
    2020     2019  
             
Cash   $ 624,737     $ 1,033,584  
Accounts receivable, net     7,310,303       6,389,384  
Prepaid expenses and other     443,496       448,550  
Property, plant and equipment     985,387       889,798  
Right-of-use assets     10,282,819       10,348,295  
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities     1,399,652       1,237,548  
Lease liabilities     10,295,218       10,167,498  
Loans payable     6,597,578       5,280,287  
Profit attributable to the shareholders of Greenbrook TMS     1,135,913       1,979,874  
Profit attributable to non-controlling interest     222,721       305,244  
Distributions paid to non-controlling interest     (1,010,130 )     (866,630 )
Subsidiary investment by non-controlling interest           405,000  
Historical subsidiary investment by non-controlling interest     1,005,791       600,791  
                 

 

    March 31,     March 31,  
    2020     2019  
             
Revenue   $ 4,240,797     $ 4,572,824  
Net loss attributable to the shareholders of Greenbrook TMS     (633,031 )     (358,225 )
Net loss attributable to non-controlling interest     (82,523 )     (69,665 )
                 

22

GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

  

22. Expenses by nature:

 

The components of the Company’s other regional and center support costs include the following:

 

    Three months ended  
    March 31,     March 31,  
    2020     2019  
             
Salaries and bonuses   $ 2,526,190     $ 1,251,421  
Marketing expenses     867,102       464,041  
                 
Total   $ 3,393,292     $ 1,715,462  

 

The components of the Company’s corporate, general and administrative expenses include the following:

 

    Three months ended  
    March 31,     March 31,  
    2020     2019  
             
Salaries and bonuses   $ 2,623,430     $ 1,460,101  
Marketing expenses     305,448       204,346  
Professional and legal fees     402,612       195,824  
Computer supplies and software     213,384       110,483  
Travel, meals and entertainment     125,612       143,712  
Other     206,010       217,876  
                 
Total   $ 3,876,496     $ 2,332,342  

 

23. Subsequent events:

 

(a) COVID-19 business impact:

 

In response to the business impact of COVID-19, the Company has implemented a number of mitigation strategies to address the impacts of COVID-19, including: a furlough of approximately 20-25% of the Company’s employees; a Company-wide hiring freeze; a 10% salary deferral by the Company’s executive management team; and a reduction in discretionary spending.

23

GREENBROOK TMS INC.  

Notes to Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019

(Unaudited)

 

 

  

23. Subsequent events (continued):

 

(b) Paycheck protection program loan:

 

On April 21, 2020, the Company entered into a promissory note with U.S. Bank National Association (the “Lender”), evidencing an unsecured loan in the amount of $3,080,760 (the “Loan”) made to the Company under the United States Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”). The PPP is a program organized by the U.S. Small Business Administration established under the recently-enacted Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”). The Loan bears interest at a fixed rate of 1.0% per annum with a maturity date of two years from the date of the Loan. Interest payments are deferred for the first six months under the Loan, and the Loan will be forgiven in its entirety provided that the proceeds from the Loan are used by the Company to cover payroll costs, rent and utilities during the eight-week period following the Loan origination date.

 

As federal authorities continue to update relevant policies and guidelines regarding the PPP, including some that have retroactive effect, the Company is monitoring these developments and assessing any changes in the Company’s eligibility for the PPP or any other subsidies or support mechanisms under the CARES Act.

 

(c) Public offering of common shares:

 

On May 5, 2020, the Company announced that it had launched an overnight marketed offering on a “best efforts” basis (the “Offering”) of common shares of the Company (the “Offered Shares”). On May 6, 2020, the Company announced that it had completed pricing of the Offering, pursuant to which the Company intends to issue a minimum of 8,484,849 Offered Shares and a maximum of 10,909,091 Offered Shares at a price of C$1.65 per Offered Share for gross proceeds of a minimum of approximately C$14,000,000 and a maximum of approximately C$18,000,000. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering to fund operating activities and for other working capital and general corporate purposes. Closing of the Offering is subject to raising gross proceeds of a minimum of approximately C$14,000,000 and a number of customary conditions, including, without limitation, receipt of all regulatory and stock exchange approvals.

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Exhibit 99.14 

 

FORM 52-109F2

CERTIFICATION OF INTERIM FILINGS
FULL CERTIFICATE

 

I, William Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer of Greenbrook TMS Inc., certify the following:

 

1. Review: I have reviewed the interim financial report and interim MD&A (together, the "interim filings") of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the "issuer") for the interim period ended March 31, 2020.

 

2. No misrepresentations: Based on my knowledge, having exercised reasonable diligence, the interim filings do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated or that is necessary to make a statement not misleading in light of the circumstances under which it was made, with respect to the period covered by the interim filings.

 

3. Fair presentation: Based on my knowledge, having exercised reasonable diligence, the interim financial report together with the other financial information included in the interim filings fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, financial performance and cash flows of the issuer, as of the date of and for the periods presented in the interim filings.

 

4. Responsibility: The issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (DC&P) and internal control over financial reporting (ICFR), as those terms are defined in National Instrument 52-109 Certification of Disclosure in Issuers' Annual and Interim Filings, for the issuer.

 

5. Design: Subject to the limitations, if any, described in paragraphs 5.2 and 5.3, the issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I have, as at the end of the period covered by the interim filings:

 

(a) designed DC&P, or caused it to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance that:

 

(i) material information relating to the issuer is made known to us by others, particularly during the period in which the interim filings are being prepared; and

 

(ii) information required to be disclosed by the issuer in its annual filings, interim filings or other reports filed or submitted by it under securities legislation is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in securities legislation; and

 

 

 

 

(b) designed ICFR, or caused it to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with the issuer's GAAP.

 

5.1 Control framework: The control framework the issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I used to design the issuer's ICFR is the framework established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) (COSO framework published by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).

 

5.2 ICFR — material weakness relating to design: N/A

 

5.3 Limitation on scope of design: N/A

 

6. Reporting changes in ICFR: The issuer has disclosed in its interim MD&A any change in the issuer's ICFR that occurred during the period beginning on January 1, 2020 and ended on March 31, 2020 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the issuer's ICFR.

 

Date: May 12, 2020

 

(signed) "Bill Leonard "

 

William Leonard

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.15 

 

FORM 52-109F2

CERTIFICATION OF INTERIM FILINGS
FULL CERTIFICATE

 

I, Erns Loubser, Chief Financial Officer of Greenbrook TMS Inc., certify the following:

 

1. Review: I have reviewed the interim financial report and interim MD&A (together, the "interim filings") of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the "issuer") for the interim period ended March 31, 2020.

 

2. No misrepresentations: Based on my knowledge, having exercised reasonable diligence, the interim filings do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated or that is necessary to make a statement not misleading in light of the circumstances under which it was made, with respect to the period covered by the interim filings.

 

3. Fair presentation: Based on my knowledge, having exercised reasonable diligence, the interim financial report together with the other financial information included in the interim filings fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, financial performance and cash flows of the issuer, as of the date of and for the periods presented in the interim filings.

 

4. Responsibility: The issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (DC&P) and internal control over financial reporting (ICFR), as those terms are defined in National Instrument 52-109 Certification of Disclosure in Issuers' Annual and Interim Filings, for the issuer.

 

5. Design: Subject to the limitations, if any, described in paragraphs 5.2 and 5.3, the issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I have, as at the end of the period covered by the interim filings:

 

(a) designed DC&P, or caused it to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance that:

 

(i) material information relating to the issuer is made known to us by others, particularly during the period in which the interim filings are being prepared; and

 

(ii) information required to be disclosed by the issuer in its annual filings, interim filings or other reports filed or submitted by it under securities legislation is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in securities legislation; and

 

 

 

 

(b) designed ICFR, or caused it to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with the issuer's GAAP.

 

5.1 Control framework: The control framework the issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I used to design the issuer's ICFR is the framework established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) (COSO framework published by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).

 

5.2 ICFR — material weakness relating to design: N/A

 

5.3 Limitation on scope of design: N/A

 

6. Reporting changes in ICFR: The issuer has disclosed in its interim MD&A any change in the issuer's ICFR that occurred during the period beginning on January 1, 2020 and ended on March 31, 2020 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the issuer's ICFR.

 

Date: May 12, 2020

 

(signed) "Erns Loubser"

 

Erns Loubser

Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.16

 

 

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

For the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018

 

March 10, 2020

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

BASIS OF PRESENTATION 3
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING NON-IFRS MEASURES AND INDUSTRY METRICS 3
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION 4
BUSINESS OVERVIEW 5
FACTORS AFFECTING OUR PERFORMANCE 6
COMPONENTS OF OUR RESULTS OF OPERATIONS AND TRENDS AFFECTING OUR BUSINESS 6
FACTORS AFFECTING THE COMPARABILITY OF OUR RESULTS 8
KEY HIGHLIGHTS AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 8
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS 10
Analysis of Results for FISCAL 2019 and FISCAL 2018 12
ANALYSIS OF RESULTS FOR Q4 2019 15
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA 16
Reconciliation of Loss Attributable to the Common Shareholders of Greenbrook to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA 16
Pre-IFRS 16 Reconciliation 17
Financial Condition, Liquidity and Capital Resources 17
INDEBTEDNESS 19
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements 20
Share Information 20
Related Party Transactions 20
Risks and Uncertainties 21
DISCLOSURE CONTROLS & PROCEDURES AND INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING 21
Critical Accounting Estimates and Judgments 22
Changes in Significant Accounting Policies 28
RISK FACTORS 29
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 30

 

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

The following Management’s Discussion and Analysis (“MD&A”) provides information concerning the financial condition and results of operations of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Company”, “Greenbrook”, “us” or “we”). This MD&A should be read in conjunction with our audited consolidated financial statements, including the related notes thereto, for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018.

 

BASIS OF PRESENTATION

 

Our audited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”). Our fiscal year is the 12-month period ending December 31.

 

The Company was incorporated under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) on February 9, 2018 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of TMS NeuroHealth Centers, Inc. (“TMS US”). On March 29, 2018, each shareholder of TMS US exchanged its shares of common stock of TMS US for common shares of the Company (“Common Shares”) on a one-for-one basis. As a result of this exchange, the shareholders of TMS US became the shareholders of the Company in the same proportions as their previous shareholdings in TMS US, and TMS US became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, carrying on business through its operating subsidiaries (the “Reorganization”). The Reorganization did not result in any changes in the management, operations or assets of TMS US or its operating subsidiaries. Financial information presented in this MD&A reflects the consolidated financial condition, performance and cash flows of the operating business of which TMS US was the holding company through March 29, 2018 and Greenbrook TMS Inc. became the holding company effective as of March 29, 2018.

 

All references in this MD&A to “Fiscal 2018”, “Fiscal 2019” and “Fiscal 2020” are to the year ended (or ending) December 31, 2018, December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2020, respectively. All references in this MD&A to “Q4 2018” and “Q4 2019” are to the three-month periods ended (or ending) December 31, 2018 and December 31, 2019, respectively. All references in this MD&A to “Q3 2019” and “Q1 2020” are to the three-month periods ended September 30, 2019 and March 31, 2020 respectively.

 

Amounts stated in this MD&A are in United States dollars, unless otherwise indicated.

 

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING NON-IFRS MEASURES AND INDUSTRY METRICS

 

This MD&A makes reference to certain non-IFRS measures including certain metrics specific to the industry in which we operate. These measures are not recognized measures under IFRS, do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and, therefore, may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. Rather, these measures are provided as additional information to complement those IFRS measures by providing further understanding of our results of operations from management’s perspective. Accordingly, these measures are not intended to represent, and should not be considered as alternatives to, loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook or other performance measures derived in accordance with IFRS as measures of operating performance or operating cash flows or as a measure of liquidity. In addition to our results determined in accordance with IFRS, we use non-IFRS measures including, “EBITDA” and “Adjusted EBITDA”. This MD&A also refers to “Same-Region Sales Growth”, which is an operating metric used in the industry in which we operate but may be calculated differently by other companies. These non-IFRS measures, including industry metrics, are used to provide investors with supplemental measures of our operating performance and thus highlight trends in our core business that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on IFRS measures. We also believe that securities analysts, investors and other interested parties frequently use non-IFRS measures, including industry metrics, in the evaluation of issuers. Our management also uses non-IFRS measures, including industry metrics, to facilitate operating performance comparisons from period to period, to prepare annual operating budgets and forecasts and to determine components of management compensation.

 

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We define such non-IFRS measures, including industry metrics, as follows:

 

Adjusted EBITDA” is defined as net income (loss) before amortization, depreciation, interest expenses, interest income and income taxes, adjusted for share-based compensation expenses, center development costs (as outlined in the audited consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto), and non-recurring expenses. We believe our Adjusted EBITDA metric is a meaningful financial metric as it measures the ability of our current TMS Center (as defined below) operations to generate earnings while eliminating the impact of costs incurred related to our TMS Center growth plans and share-based compensation expenses, neither of which has an impact on the operating performance of our existing TMS Center network.

 

EBITDA” is defined as net income (loss) before amortization, depreciation, interest expenses, interest income and income taxes.

 

Same-Region Sales Growth” is a metric used to compare the percentage change in sales derived from established management regions in a certain period as compared to the sales from the same management regions in the same period of the prior year and functions as an indicator of organic growth. We monitor our business on a regional basis to focus on increasing patient volume within a management region in addition to assessing individual TMS Center locations on a standalone basis. As a result, we will from time to time establish a TMS Center that may, over the short term, negatively impact the patient volume at another TMS Center, but which is expected to add incremental patient volume to the management region as a whole in an economically beneficial manner. We believe our Same-Region Sales Growth metric helps quantify our sales growth within regional management areas and the related growth opportunities associated with adding TMS Center density within established management regions. Same-Region Sales Growth is calculated based on management regions containing open TMS Centers that have performed billable TMS services for a period of at least one full year prior to each of the comparable periods. Our Same-Region Sales Growth is unique to our financial management strategy and may be calculated differently compared to other companies.

 

See “Reconciliation of Loss Attributable to the Common Shareholders of Greenbrook to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA” for a reconciliation of certain of the foregoing non-IFRS measures to their most directly comparable measures calculated in accordance with IFRS.

 

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION

 

Some of the information contained in this MD&A, including with respect to the Company’s ability to proceed with debt financing on terms acceptable to the company or at all, contains forward-looking information. This information is based on management’s reasonable assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently available to us and is current as of the date of this MD&A. Actual results and the timing of events may differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking information contained in this MD&A as a result of various factors.

 

Particularly, information regarding our expectations of future results, performance, growth, accelerated expansion, achievements, prospects or opportunities or the markets in which we operate is forward-looking information. In some cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “outlook”, “forecasts”, “projection”, “prospects”, “strategy”, “intends”, “anticipates”, “does not anticipate”, “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “should”, “might”, “will”, “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, intentions, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events or circumstances.

 

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Many factors could cause our actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements or future events or developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, the factors discussed in the “Risks and Uncertainties” section of this MD&A. Additional risks and uncertainties are discussed in the Company’s materials filed with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities from time to time, including the Company’s annual information form dated March 10, 2020 in respect of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect us; however, these factors should be considered carefully.

 

The purpose of the forward-looking information is to provide the reader with a description of management’s current expectations regarding the Company’s financial performance and may not be appropriate for other purposes; readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information contained herein. To the extent any forward-looking information in this MD&A constitutes future-oriented financial information or financial outlook, within the meaning of applicable securities laws, such information is being provided to demonstrate the potential of the Company and readers are cautioned that this information may not be appropriate for any other purpose. Future-oriented financial information and financial outlook, as with forward-looking information generally, are based on current assumptions and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors. Furthermore, unless otherwise stated, the forward-looking statements contained in this MD&A are made as of the date of this MD&A and we have no intention and undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable securities law. The forward-looking statements contained in this MD&A are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.

 

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

 

We are a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy in the United States for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (“MDD”) and other mental health disorders. The predecessor to the Company, TMS US, was established in 2011 to take advantage of the opportunity created through the paradigm-shifting technology of TMS, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of MDD. Our business model takes advantage of the opportunity for a new, differentiated service channel for the delivery of TMS – a patient-focused, centers-based service model to make TMS treatment easily accessible to all patients while maintaining a high standard of care.

 

After opening our first center in 2011 in Tysons Corner in Northern Virginia, we have grown to control and operate a network of outpatient mental health service centers that specialize in TMS treatment across the United States (each, a “TMS Center”). The Company offers TMS treatment facilities in convenient locations to provide easy access to patients and physicians. As of December 31, 2019, the Company owned and operated 119 TMS Centers in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Connecticut, Florida, Texas, Michigan, Alaska, Oregon and California. Subsequent to December 31, 2019, our TMS Center network further expanded with 2 additional TMS Centers in the States of Michigan and Oregon. As of the date of this MD&A, the Company owns and operates 121 TMS Centers across the United States.

 

Our regional model seeks to develop leading positions in key regional markets, leveraging operational efficiencies by combining smaller local TMS treatment centers that are strategically located within a single region for convenient patient and physician access, with regional management infrastructure in place to support center operations. Management regions typically cover a specific metropolitan area that meets a requisite base population threshold. The management region is typically defined by a manageable geographic area in terms of size, which facilitates the use of regional staff working across the various TMS Center locations within the management region, and which resides within a marketing capture area that allows for efficiencies in advertising cost. Management regions often have similar economic characteristics and are not necessarily defined by state lines, other geographic borders, or differentiating methods of services delivery, but rather are defined by a functional management area.

 

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FACTORS AFFECTING OUR PERFORMANCE

 

We believe that our performance and future success depend on a number of factors that present significant opportunities for us. These factors are also subject to a number of inherent risks and challenges, some of which are discussed below. See also the “Risks and Uncertainties” section of this MD&A.

 

Number of TMS Centers

 

We have a meaningful opportunity to continue to grow the number of our TMS Centers in the United States through organic in-region growth, establishing new regions and potential future acquisitions. The opening and success of new TMS Centers is subject to numerous factors, including our ability to locate the appropriate space, finance the operations, build relationships with physicians, and negotiation of suitable lease terms and local payor arrangements, and other factors, some of which are beyond our control.

 

Competition

 

The market for TMS is becoming more competitive. We compete principally on the basis of our reputation and brand, the location of our centers and the quality of our TMS services and the reputation of our partner physicians. In the markets in which we are operating, or anticipate operating, competition predominantly consists of individual psychiatrists that have a TMS device, an FDA-regulated medical device specifically manufactured to transmit the magnetic pulses required to stimulate the cortical areas in the brain to effectively treat MDD and other mental health disorders (each, a “TMS Device”), in their office and who can offer TMS therapy directly to their patients. We also face competition from a limited number of multi-location psychiatric practices or behavioural health groups that offer TMS therapy as part of their overall practice, as well as a few other specialist TMS providers.

 

Industry Trends

 

Our revenue is impacted by changes to United States healthcare laws, our partners’ and contractors’ healthcare costs, the ability to secure favourable pricing structures with device manufacturers and payors’ reimbursement criteria and associated rates.

 

Technology

 

Our revenues are affected by the availability of, and reimbursement for, new TMS indications, new technology or other novel treatment modalities and our ability to incorporate the new technology into our TMS Centers.

 

Segments

 

We evaluate our business and report our results based on organizational units used by management to monitor performance and make operating decisions on the basis of one operating and reportable segment: Outpatient Mental Health Service Centers. We currently measure this reportable operating segment’s performance based on revenues and regional operating income.

 

COMPONENTS OF OUR RESULTS OF OPERATIONS AND TRENDS AFFECTING OUR BUSINESS

 

In assessing our results of operations and trends affecting our business, we consider a variety of financial and operating measures that affect our operating results.

 

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Total Revenue

 

Total revenue consists of service revenue attributable to the performance of TMS treatments. In circumstances where the net patient fees have not yet been received, the amount of revenue recognized is estimated based on an expected value approach where management considers such variables as the average of previous net patient fees received by the applicable payor and fees received by other patients for similar services and management’s best estimate leveraging industry knowledge and expectations of third-party payors’ fee schedules. Third party payors include federal and state agencies (under the Medicare programs), managed care health plans and commercial insurance companies.

 

Regional Operating Income (Loss) and Direct Center and Regional Costs

 

Regional operating income (loss) is calculated as total revenue less direct center and regional costs. Direct center and regional costs consist of direct center and patient care costs, regional employee compensation, regional marketing expenses, amortization and depreciation. These costs encapsulate all costs (other than incentive compensation such as share-based compensation granted to senior regional employees) associated with the center and regional management infrastructure, including the cost of the delivery of TMS treatments to patients and the cost of our regional patient acquisition strategy.

 

Center Development Costs and Working Capital Investment

 

Center development costs represent direct expenses associated with developing new centers, including small furnishings and fittings, wiring and electrical and in some cases the cost of minor space alterations. However, the main cash requirement for center development relates to working capital investment. This includes rental deposits or other non-capital costs required to open centers and the cost of TMS treatment delivery while collections initially lag until payor contracting, credentialing and enrollment processes are completed.

 

Corporate Employee Compensation

 

Corporate employee compensation represents compensation incurred to manage the centralized business infrastructure of the Company, including annual base salary, annual cash bonuses and other non-equity incentives.

 

Corporate Marketing Expenses

 

Corporate marketing expenses represent costs incurred that impact the Company on an overall basis including investments in website functionality and brand management activities.

 

Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses

 

Other corporate, general and administrative expenses represent expenses related to the corporate infrastructure required to support our ongoing business including insurance costs, legal and accounting costs and costs incurred related to our corporate offices. We anticipate an increase to accounting, legal and professional fees associated with operating as a public company that will be reflected in our corporate, general and administrative expenses.

 

We expect our corporate, general and administrative expenses to increase as we continue to open new TMS Centers. We have invested heavily in this area to support the growing volume and complexity of our business and anticipate continuing to do so in the future. As we continue to grow, we anticipate that we will be able to scale our investments and leverage our fixed costs.

 

Transaction Costs

 

Transaction costs represent accounting, legal and professional fees incurred as part of significant transactions. In Fiscal 2019, transaction costs were recognized in connection with the acquisition of Achieve TMS Centers, LLC and Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC (collectively, “Achieve TMS”).

 

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Share-Based Compensation

 

Share-based compensation represents stock options granted as consideration in exchange for employee and similar services to align personnel performance with the Company’s long-term goals.

 

Interest

 

Interest expense relates to interest incurred on loans and lease liabilities. Interest income relates to income realized as a result of investing excess funds into investment accounts.

 

Adjusted EBITDA and Non-Recurring Expenses

 

Adjusted EBITDA and non-recurring expenses represent additional disclosures pertaining to one-time costs incurred to enhance the performance of the business. These include acquisition-related professional fees incurred in connection with the Achieve TMS Acquisition (as defined below) which relate to our TMS Center growth. They also include costs related to the development of our corporate compliance program, billing migration costs, including the restructuring of our billing department and bad debts, and one-time professional fees associated with the implementation of IFRS 16, Leases (“IFRS 16”) which are excluded from Adjusted EBITDA as the Company expects these to be non-recurring.

 

FACTORS AFFECTING THE COMPARABILITY OF OUR RESULTS

 

Acquisition of Achieve TMS

 

On September 26, 2019, we, through our wholly-owned subsidiary, TMS US, completed the Achieve TMS Acquisition. Achieve TMS currently operates 22 TMS Centers in California, Oregon and Alaska, with a particular focus on deep TMS therapy. In connection with the Achieve TMS Acquisition, we incurred certain non-recurring professional fees. Achieve TMS contributed to revenue during Q4 2019 and we expect it will allow us to accelerate our expansion in the western United States in future periods.

 

Regional Development Activity

 

Our regional model seeks to develop leading positions in key markets, and to leverage operational efficiencies by combining smaller local TMS treatment centers within a region under a single shared regional management infrastructure. Part of our core strategy is to continue to develop new centers within our existing regions as well as in new management regions, in each case, organically or through acquisitions of existing centers or businesses, which may affect comparability of results.

 

Public Company Expenses

 

As a public company, we have implemented and will continue to implement additional procedures and processes for the purpose of addressing the standards and requirements applicable to reporting issuers. As such, we expect to incur additional annual expenses, including additional directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, director fees, public company reporting costs, transfer agent fees, additional accounting fees, administrative expenses, increased auditing and legal fees and similar expenses that were not incurred in periods prior to becoming a public company.

 

Implementation of IFRS 16

 

The Company adopted IFRS 16 effective as at January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective approach. As a result of this approach, the prior year figures were not adjusted. See “Changes in Significant Accounting Policies (a) Adoption of IFRS 16, Leases” and “Pre-IFRS 16 Reconciliation”.

 

KEY HIGHLIGHTS AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

 

During Fiscal 2019, we sustained strong revenue growth as we continued to rapidly expand our TMS Center network. We also completed the acquisition of Achieve TMS, which, combined with our existing TMS Center network, provides us with a national footprint of over 100 TMS Centers and a platform for further expansion. The acquisition also provides excellent brand recognition, physician reputation and high visibility in the TMS community of the western United States. See “Acquisition of Achieve TMS” below for further details.

 

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Achieve TMS represents our first acquisition, which, together with our organic in-region and new regional development strategy, will form one of the core pillars for our long-term sustained growth. As part of our planned expansion strategy for 2019, we added 55 active TMS Centers during Fiscal 2019, with an additional 17 in development as at December 31, 2019. With 119 TMS Centers as at December 31, 2019, we have completed our business objective established at the time of our initial public offering of 100 TMS Centers prior to the second half of 2020. As at the date of this MD&A we now have 121 TMS Centers, which is almost double the number of centers compared to this time last year.

 

Growth in Total Revenue

 

Annual consolidated revenue for Fiscal 2019 increased by 68% to $35.7 million (Fiscal 2018: $21.3 million), while increasing by 77% to $12.5 million in Q4 2019 as compared to $7.1 million in Q4 2018. This reflects an acceleration in our year-over-year growth rate through Fiscal 2019 enabled by the continued execution of our regional expansion strategy, strong organic growth and the acquisition of Achieve TMS.

 

During Fiscal 2019, the Company added 55 active TMS Centers, with an additional 17 TMS Centers in development, which will provide the foundation for organic growth in Fiscal 2020.

 

Consistent with Fiscal 2019, the typical seasonal factors in Q1 2020 are expected to have a negative impact on revenue growth in Q1 2020. Q4 2019 to Q1 2020 growth is therefore likely to be slightly negative, which is consistent with historical periods. However, we expect the year-over-year growth rate to be substantially sustained.

 

Growth in Regional Operating Income

 

Regional operating income increased by 54% to $4.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2019 (Fiscal 2018: $2.8 million). This is predominantly due to the inclusion of 55 newly active TMS Centers and 17 TMS Centers in-development across nine new regions in development, which will take time to generate positive regional operating income.

 

Please refer to “Changes in Significant Accounting Policies”.

 

Acquisition of Achieve TMS

 

On September 26, 2019, we, through our wholly-owned subsidiary, TMS US, completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding membership interests of each of Achieve TMS Centers, LLC and Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC for a purchase price of $10,596,912 (net of Achieve TMS’ cash and subject to customary working capital adjustments), of which $2,611,044 of the purchase price was satisfied through the issuance of an aggregate of 1,431,736 common shares of the Company to the vendors and the remainder was settled in cash (the “Achieve TMS Acquisition”). In addition, a portion of the purchase price payable in respect of the Achieve TMS Acquisition is subject to an earn-out based on the EBITDA achieved by Achieve TMS during the twelve-month period following the closing of the Achieve TMS Acquisition. As at December 31, 2019, the Company has estimated that the purchase price payable in respect of the earn out will be nil.

 

We expect that the Achieve TMS Acquisition will provide us with a national footprint with high visibility in the West Coast TMS community, a foundation for future growth in the area and the ability to realize operational synergies. The Achieve TMS Acquisition comes with robust payor contracts, excellent brand recognition and physician reputation and a strong management team. From the date of the acquisition up to and including December 31, 2019, the Achieve TMS Acquisition has contributed service revenues and net profit of $3,089,205 and $762,441, respectively.

 

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Investment in the Centralized Business Infrastructure

 

Significant investments in our business infrastructure and increased staffing of our shared-services functions in Fiscal 2019, coupled with the Achieve TMS Acquisition, increased aggregate corporate costs (including corporate employee compensation, corporate marketing expenses and other corporate, general and administrative expenses and excluding non-recurring expenses) by 123% to $12.5 million for Fiscal 2019 (Fiscal 2018: $5.6 million). Excluding aggregate corporate costs relating to the operations of Achieve TMS of $0.5 million, aggregate corporate costs increased by 114% to $12.0 million, which is consistent with the growth rate from Fiscal 2018.

 

We expect that these investments will promote efficient integration and effective management of our growing TMS Center network. As anticipated, the Q4 2019 aggregate corporate costs growth rate of 68% has decreased as compared to the Fiscal 2019 aggregate corporate costs growth rate. We expect that the corporate, general and administrative expenses growth rate will continue to normalize throughout Fiscal 2020 and that we will be able to scale our investments and leverage these fixed costs as we expand our TMS Center network. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

 

Continued Development of our TMS Center Network

 

We added 55 active TMS Centers during Fiscal 2019 with an additional 17 in development as at December 31, 2019. As at the date of this MD&A, we now have 121 TMS Centers, which is almost double the number of centers compared to this time last year.

 

Our development pipeline remains robust and primed for further expansion in Fiscal 2020. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

 

Billing Enhancements, Staffing Restructuring and Related Billing Migration Costs

 

In order to support future growth, we have transitioned our billing platform to a more scalable solution. During the second half of 2019, we moved away form our legacy billing systems, which were inadequate for the planned scale of the future business and presented significant risks to our operations. As part of our planned transition, we implemented a new billing platform which involved multiple re-credentialing processes across our payor population. Although billing migration costs were larger than anticipated ($3.0 million in total), such costs are expected to be non-recurring and we now have a scalable billing platform that has already reduced the average number of days that accounts receivable are outstanding. Of the $3.0 million in billing migration costs, $2.9 million relates to the write off of accounts receivables that was were identified during the migration to a scalable billing and reimbursement platform completed during Fiscal 2019 and the remainder are implementation-related professional fees.

 

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

Selected Financial Information

 

The following table summarizes our recent results of operations for the periods indicated. The selected consolidated financial information set out below have been derived from our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes.

 

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(US$) (audited)   2019     2018     2017  
Total Revenue     35,685,531       21,259,015       13,776,929  
                         
Direct center and patient care costs     17,368,894       13,348,011       8,948,442  
Regional employee compensation     7,122,556       3,075,725       1,736,278  
Regional marketing expenses     2,705,891       1,946,580       1,341,393  
Amortization     122,269       -       -  
Depreciation     4,031,375       76,902       25,212  
Total direct center and regional costs     31,350,985       18,447,218       12,051,325  
Regional Operating Income     4,334,546       2,811,797       1,725,604  
Center development costs     1,466,119       530,068       274,881  
Corporate employee compensation     7,063,682       2,607,803       1,632,077  
Corporate marketing expenses     1,934,227       961,094       381,683  
Transaction costs     385,674       467,375       -  
Other corporate, general and administrative expenses     6,987,763       2,486,384       960,263  
Share-based compensation     690,230       467,627       400,390  
Interest expense     1,822,442       81,725       250,805  
Interest income     (163,302 )     (81,462 )     -  
Loss before income taxes     (15,852,289 )     (4,709,287 )     (2,174,495 )
                         
Income tax expense     -       -       -  
Loss for the year and comprehensive loss     (15,852,289 )     (4,709,287 )     (2,174,495 )
Income attributable to non-controlling interest     57,590       248,756       198,650  
Loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook     (15,909,879 )     (4,958,043 )     (2,373,145 )
Loss for the year attributable to:                        
Non-controlling interest     57,590       248,756       198,650  
Common shareholders of Greenbrook     (15,909,879 )     (4,958,043 )     (2,373,145 )
Net loss per share (basic and diluted)     (0.30 )     (0.12 )     (0.06 )

 

Selected Financial Position Data

 

The following table provides selected financial position data for the years and periods indicated:

 

    As at December 31,     As at December 31,     As at December 31,  
(US$) (audited)   2019     2018     2017  
Cash     7,947,607       9,381,600       1,532,580  
Current assets (excluding cash)     12,003,831       8,740,114       2,985,814  
Total assets     56,964,106       19,062,463       4,694,664  
Current liabilities (excluding shareholder loans)     13,183,677       4,238,426       2,251,095  
Non-current liabilities     20,834,296       183,272       -  
Shareholder loans     -       -       3,101,342  
Total liabilities     34,017,973       4,421,698       5,352,437  
Non-controlling interests     444,405       544,465       (399,104 )
Shareholders’ equity     22,946,133       14,640,765       (657,773 )

 

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Selected Operating Data

 

The following table provides selected operating data for the years and periods indicated:

 

    As at December 31,     As at December 31,     As at December 31,  
(unaudited)   2019     2018     2017  
Number of active TMS Centers(1)     102       47       25  
Number of TMS Centers-in-development(2)     17       10       5  
Total TMS Centers     119       57       30  
Number of management regions     13       8       3  
Number of TMS Devices installed     178       108       65  
Number of regional personnel     273       132       80  
Number of shared-services / corporate personnel(3)     44       17       11  
Number of TMS providers(4)     109       46       27  
Number of consultations performed     8,039       4,211       2,781  
Number of patient starts     4,080       2,626       1,807  
Number of TMS treatments performed     155,343       95,621       65,126  
Average revenue per TMS treatment   $ 230     $ 222     $ 212  

 

 

Notes:

 

(1) Active TMS Centers represent TMS Centers that have performed billable TMS services.
(2) TMS Centers-in-development represents TMS Centers that have committed to a space lease agreement and the development process is substantially complete.
(3) Shared-services / corporate personnel is disclosed on a full-time equivalent basis. The Company utilizes part-time staff and consultants as a means of managing costs.
(4) Represents physician partners that are involved in the provision of TMS therapy services from our TMS Centers.

 

Analysis of Results for FISCAL 2019 and FISCAL 2018

 

The following section provides an overview of our financial performance during Fiscal 2019 compared to Fiscal 2018.

 

Total Revenue

 

Annual consolidated revenue for Fiscal 2019 increased by 68% to $35.7 million (Fiscal 2018: $21.3). This growth was enabled by the continued execution of our regional expansion strategy, including the Achieve TMS Acquisition, paired with strong organic growth. Our ability to systematically add in-region density to strengthen our network reach and strong market growth yielded Same-Region Sales Growth of 24%, which is consistent with our Q3 2019 results.

 

During Fiscal 2019, the Company added 55 active TMS Centers, with an additional 17 TMS Centers in development, which is expected to provide the foundation for growth in Fiscal 2020. Consistent with Fiscal 2019, the typical seasonal factors in the first quarter of Fiscal 2020 are expected to have a negative impact on revenue growth in Q1 2020. Q4 2019 to Q1 2020 growth is therefore likely to be slightly negative, which is consistent with historical trends. However, we expect the year-over-year growth rate to be substantially sustained. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

 

Average revenue per treatment increased by 4% to $230 in Fiscal 2019 (Fiscal 2018: $222). This increase was predominantly attributable to an increase in reimbursement rates from certain payors with which we have had long-standing relationships in our established regions. As a result of the Achieve TMS Acquisition, we expect the average revenue per treatment to increase due to generally favourable reimbursement rates in the relevant jurisdiction. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

 

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Accounts Receivable

 

Accounts receivable increased by $3.0 million to $10.1 million in Fiscal 2019 (Fiscal 2018: $7.1 million). The increase to accounts receivable was due to the continued velocity of development, enhancements to our billing and reimbursement systems and the Achieve TMS Acquisition and was offset by $3.0 million in billing migration costs, of which $2.9 million relates to the write off of accounts receivables that was were identified during the migration to a scalable billing and reimbursement platform completed during Fiscal 2019 and the remainder are implementation-related professional fees. See “Key Highlights and Recent Developments – Billing Enhancements, Staffing Restructuring and Related Billing Migration Costs”.

 

Regional Operating Income (Loss) and Direct Center and Regional Costs

 

Regional operating income increased by 54% to $4.3 million in Fiscal 2019 (Fiscal 2018: $2.8 million) despite the inclusion of 55 newly active TMS Centers and 17 TMS Centers in development across nine new regions in development, which provided downward pressure on our regional operating income and will take time to generate positive regional operating income. The regional operating margin was 12.1% in Fiscal 2019 as compared to 13.2% in Fiscal 2018.

 

Direct center and regional costs increased by 70% to $31.4 million in Fiscal 2019 (Fiscal 2018: $18.4 million). The increase in direct center and regional costs was primarily due to the addition of regional employee costs and regional marketing costs associated with the addition of 55 active TMS Center locations during Fiscal 2019 and as well as establishing nine new management regions.

 

Please refer to “Changes in Significant Accounting Policies” for the accounting implications resulting from the adoption of IFRS 16 and to “Pre-IFRS 16 Reconciliation” for Fiscal 2019 results before adjusting for the effects of IFRS 16.

 

Center Development Costs, Capital Expenditures and Working Capital Investment

 

Center development costs increased by 177% to $1.5 million in Fiscal 2019 (Fiscal 2018: $0.5 million) as a result of increased development activity. Average cash investment to establish new TMS Centers (including center development costs, capital expenditures and working capital investment) remained consistent between Fiscal 2019 and Fiscal 2018 at $0.16 million.

 

Corporate Employee Compensation

 

Corporate employee compensation incurred to manage the centralized business infrastructure of the Company increased by 171% to $7.1 million in Fiscal 2019 (Fiscal 2018: $2.6 million). The increase was primarily due to significant increases in staffing in respect of our shared-services functions in addition to employees inherited as part of the Achieve TMS Acquisition. Recruitment activity in the second half of Fiscal 2018 into Fiscal 2019 included recruitment in the business development, sales, marketing, human resources, legal and finance areas. We expect the slowing of organic corporate recruitment in Fiscal 2020 and that we will be able to scale our investments and leverage these fixed costs as we continue to expand our TMS Center network. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

 

Corporate Marketing Expenses

 

Corporate marketing expenses increased by 101% to $1.9 million in Fiscal 2019 (Fiscal 2018: $1.0 million). The increase was primarily due to the enhancement of our marketing strategy including certain experimental campaigns implemented by our new Chief Marketing Officer hired during the three month period ended June 30, 2019.

 

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Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses

 

Other corporate, general and administrative expenses increased by 181% to $7.0 million in Fiscal 2019 (Fiscal 2018: $2.5 million). The increase was primarily due to one-time costs (see “Adjusted EBITDA and Non-Recurring Expenses” below) and professional fees associated with our billing and reimbursement systems. After excluding non-recurring expenses, other corporate, general and administrative expenses increased by 72% to $3.5 million (Fiscal 2018: 2.0 million).

 

As anticipated, the other corporate, general and administrative expenses growth rate of 54% in Q4 2019 has decreased as compared to the Fiscal 2019 other corporate, general and administrative expenses growth rate. We expect that the other corporate, general and administrative expenses growth rate will continue to normalize throughout Fiscal 2020 and that we will be able to scale our investments and leverage fixed costs as we expand our TMS Center network. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

 

Share-Based Compensation

 

Share-based compensation increased by 48% to $0.7 million in Fiscal 2019 (Fiscal 2018: $0.5 million). The increase was predominantly due to stock options granted to key personnel to ensure retention and long-term alignment with goals of the Company.

 

Interest

 

Interest expense increased by $1.7 million to $1.8 million in Fiscal 2019 (Fiscal 2018: $0.1 million). The increase in interest expense is primarily due to the adoption of IFRS 16 (see “Changes in Significant Accounting Policies” and “Pre-IFRS 16 Reconciliation” in this MD&A).

 

Interest income increased by 100% to $0.2 million in Fiscal 2019 (Fiscal 2018: $0.1 million) as a result of an increased amount of excess funds invested.

 

Loss for the Period and Comprehensive Loss and Loss for the Period Attributable to the Common Shareholders of Greenbrook

 

The loss for the period and comprehensive loss increased by 237% to $15.9 million in Fiscal 2019 (Fiscal 2018: $4.7 million). This increase is primarily a result of lower regional operating margins due to the nine new management regions in development, which will take time to generate positive regional operating income, higher corporate costs due to investments in the centralized business infrastructure, transaction costs associated with the Achieve TMS Acquisition and other non-recurring costs as outlined in “Regional Operating Income (Loss) and Direct Center and Regional Costs”, “Corporate Employee Compensation”, “Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses” and “Adjusted EBITDA and Non-Recurring Expenses” in this MD&A.

 

The loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook increased by 221% to $15.9 million in Fiscal 2019 (Fiscal 2018: $5.0 million). This increase is primarily a result of lower regional operating margins due to nine new management regions in development, which will take time to generate positive regional operating income, higher corporate costs due to investments in the centralized business infrastructure, transaction costs associated with the Achieve TMS Acquisition and other non-recurring costs. See “Regional Operating Income (Loss) and Direct Center and Regional Costs”, “Corporate Employee Compensation”, “Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses” and “Adjusted EBITDA and Non-Recurring Expenses” in this MD&A.

 

Adjusted EBITDA and Non-Recurring Expenses

 

The Adjusted EBITDA loss position increased by 38% to $4.1 million in Fiscal 2019 (Fiscal 2018: $3.0 million). The increase in the Adjusted EBITDA loss position was primarily a result of lower regional operating margins and higher corporate costs as outlined in “Corporate Employee Compensation”, “Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses”, “Regional Operating Income (Loss) and Direct Center and Regional Costs” in addition to transaction costs related to the Achieve TMS Acquisition outlined below.

 

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Non-recurring expenses included one-time expenses associated with the implementation of IFRS 16, acquisition-related professional fees incurred in connection with the Achieve TMS Acquisition, development of our corporate compliance program and billing transition costs including the restructuring of our billing department and bad debt.

 

Please refer to “Changes in Significant Accounting Policies” for the accounting implications resulting from the adoption of IFRS 16 and to “Pre-IFRS 16 Reconciliation” for Fiscal 2019 results before adjusting for the effects of IFRS 16.

 

QUARTERLY FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

The following table summarizes the results of our operations for the eight most recently completed fiscal quarters:

 

(US$)
(unaudited)
  Q4 2019     Q3 2019     Q2 2019     Q1 2019     Q4 2018     Q3 2018     Q2 2018     Q1 2018  
Revenue     12,536,671       8,459,103       8,082,559       6,607,198       7,092,455       5,338,364       4,926,625       3,901,571  
Regional Operating Income     1,934,567       770,813       1,002,166       627,000       1,418,347       476,556       697,293       219,601  
Net income (loss) attributable to shareholders of Greenbrook     (7,034,356 )     (3,431,009 )     (2,874,092 )     (2,570,422 )     (949,031 )     (1,480,489 )     (1,372,984 )     (1,155,539 )
Adjusted EBITDA     (1,296,201 )     (1,033,876 )     (957,428 )     (827,55/7 )     (865,210 )     (840,374 )     (448,762 )     (837,746 )
Net income (loss) per share – Basic     (0.13 )     (0.06 )     (0.06 )     (0.05 )     (0.01 )     (0.04 )     (0.04 )     (0.03 )
Net income (loss) per share – Diluted     (0.13 )     (0.06 )     (0.06 )     (0.05 )     (0.01 )     (0.04 )     (0.04 )     (0.03 )

 

ANALYSIS OF RESULTS FOR Q4 2019

 

Consolidated revenue increased to $12.5 million in Q4 2019 representing a 48% quarter-over-quarter increase (Q3 2019: $8.5 million) and a 77% year-over-year increase (Q4 2018: $7.1 million). This growth was enabled by the continued execution of our regional expansion strategy, including the Achieve TMS Acquisition, which contributed to revenue for an entire quarter in Q4 2019 and which we expect will allow us to accelerate our expansion in the western United States in future periods, and strong organic growth.

 

Regional operating income increased to $1.9 million in Q4 2019 representing a 151% quarter-over-quarter increase (Q3 2019: $0.8 million) and an 36% year-over-year increase (Q4 2018: $1.4 million), respectively, predominantly as a result of investments in new regions.

 

The loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook increased to $7.0 million in Q4 2019 representing a 105% quarter-over-quarter increase (Q3 2019: $3.4 million) and a 641% year-over-year increase (Q4 2018: $0.9 million). The increase in the loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook was due to increased corporate costs, transaction costs realized as part of the Achieve TMS Acquisition and non-recurring costs realized as outlined in “Adjusted EBITDA and Non-Recurring Expenses”, “Corporate Employee Compensation” and “Regional Operating Income (Loss) and Direct Center and Regional Costs”. After excluding non-recurring costs, the loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook increased by 365% to $3.6 million in Q4 2019 (Q4 2018: $0.8 million).

 

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The Adjusted EBITDA loss position increased to $1.3 million in Q4 2019, representing a 25% quarter-over-quarter decrease (Q3 2019: $1.0 million) and a 50% year-over-year increase (Q4 2018: $0.9 million). This increase in the Adjusted EBITDA loss position was primarily due to the inclusion of 55 newly active TMS Centers and 17 TMS Centers in development across nine new management regions in development, which will take time to generate positive regional operating income and increased corporate costs as outlined in “Adjusted EBITDA and Non-Recurring Expenses”, “Corporate Employee Compensation” and “Regional Operating Income (Loss) and Direct Center and Regional Costs”.

 

Please refer to “Changes in Significant Accounting Policies” for the accounting implications resulting from the adoption of IFRS 16 and to “Pre-IFRS 16 Reconciliation” for Fiscal 2019 results before adjusting for the effects of IFRS 16.

 

EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA

 

The table below illustrates our EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA for the periods presented:

 

(US$)   Fiscal 2019     Fiscal 2018  
EBITDA     (10,097,095 )     (4,880,878 )
Adjusted EBITDA     (4,115,062 )     (2,992,092 )

 

 

Note:

 

(1) The Company adopted IFRS 16 effective as at January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective approach. As a result of this approach the prior year figures were not adjusted. See “Changes in Significant Accounting Policies (a) Adoption of IFRS 16, Leases” and “Pre-IFRS 16 Reconciliation” for further details

 

See “Cautionary Note Regarding Non-IFRS Measures and Industry Metrics” in this MD&A.

 

Reconciliation of Loss Attributable to the Common Shareholders of Greenbrook to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA

 

The table below illustrates a reconciliation of loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA for the periods presented:

 

    Fiscal 2019
(unaudited)
    Fiscal 2018
(unaudited) (1)
 
Loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook     (15,909,879 )     (4,958,043 )
Add the impact of:                
Interest expense     1,822,442       81,725  
Amortization     122,269       -  
Depreciation     4,031,375       76,902  
Less the impact of:                
Interest income     (163,302 )     (81,462 )
EBITDA     (10,097,095 )     (4,880,878 )
Add the impact of:                
Share-based compensation     690,230       467,627  
TMS Center development costs     1,466,119       530,068  
Add transaction costs:                
Initial public offering related professional and legal fees     -       467,375  
Acquisition related legal and professional fees     385,674       -  
Add other non-recurring expenses:                
IT implementation costs     -       52,012  
Public company transition costs     -       306,215  
Legal fees related to TMS Center growth     -       65,489  
Significant acquisition reporting costs     235,099       -  
Compliance program development costs     113,512          
IFRS 16 implementation fees     48,306       -  
Billing migration costs     3,043,093       -  
Adjusted EBITDA     (4,115,062 )     (2,992,092 )

 

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Note:

 

(1) The Company adopted IFRS 16 effective as at January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective approach. As a result of this approach the prior year figures were not adjusted. See “Changes in Significant Accounting Policies (a) Adoption of IFRS 16, Leases” and “Pre-IFRS 16 Reconciliation” for further details

 

Non-recurring expenses represent additional disclosures pertaining to one-time costs incurred to enhance the performance of the business. These include acquisition-related professional fees incurred in connection with the Achieve TMS Acquisition which relate to our TMS Center growth. They also include costs related to the development of our corporate compliance program, billing migration costs, including the restructuring of our billing department and bad debts, and one-time professional fees associated with the implementation of IFRS 16 which are excluded from Adjusted EBITDA as the Company expects these to be non-recurring.

 

Pre-IFRS 16 Reconciliation

 

The table below illustrates our Pre-IFRS 16 Reconciliation for the periods presented:

 

(US$)   Fiscal 2019
(unaudited)
    Fiscal 2018
(unaudited)
 
Regional Operating Income     4,334,546       2,811,797  
Impact of pre-IFRS 16 adjustments:                
Rental and device expense     (4,749,798 )     -  
IFRS 16 depreciation     3,840,781       -  
Pre IFRS 16 Regional Operating Income     3,425,529       2,811,797  
                 
EBITDA     (10,097,095 )     (4,880,878 )
Impact of pre-IFRS 16 adjustments:                
Rental and device expense     (4,888,417 )     -  
Pre IFRS 16 EBITDA     (14,985,512 )     (4,880,878 )
                 
Adjusted EBITDA     (4,115,062 )     (2,992,092 )
Impact of pre-IFRS 16 adjustments:                
Rental and device expense     (4,888,417 )     -  
Pre IFRS 16 Adjusted EBITDA     (9,003,479 )     (2,992,092 )

 

Financial Condition, Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

Overview

 

The Company’s primary uses of capital are to finance operations, finance new TMS Center development costs, increase non-cash working capital and fund investments in its centralized business infrastructure. The Company’s objectives when managing capital are to ensure that the Company will continue to have enough liquidity to provide services to its customers and provide returns to its shareholders.

 

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The Company, as part of its annual budgeting process, evaluates its estimated annual cash requirements to fund planned expansion activities and working capital requirements of existing operations. Based on this cash budget and considering its anticipated cash flows from regional operations, its holdings of cash and its ability to draw funds from shareholder commitments or new financings, the Company believes that it has sufficient capital to meet its future operating expenses, capital expenditures and future debt service requirements for approximately the next 18 months. However, our ability to fund operating expenses, capital expenditures and future debt service requirements will depend on, among other things, our future operating performance, which will be affected by the velocity of our regional development strategy and general economic, financial and other factors, including factors beyond our control. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”, “Risks and Uncertainties” and “Factors Affecting our Performance” in this MD&A.

 

In order to provide more flexibility for expansion and to take advantage of appealing acquisition opportunities to accelerate our expansion, we have been exploring non-dilutive financing options and have received non-binding indicative terms sheets from several investors with respect to a potential debt financing. The completion of a debt financing remains subject to the negotiation of definitive agreements, the approval of our Board of Directors and receipt of all other necessary regulatory approvals. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that we will proceed with any debt financing on terms set out in the non-binding indicative terms sheets, or at all.

 

Cash Flows

 

The following table presents our cash flows for each of the periods presented:

 

(US$)   Fiscal 2019     Fiscal 2018  
Net cash generated from (used in) operating activities     (8,553,577 )     (7,399,461 )
Net cash generated from (used in) financing activities     15,253,801       16,060,579  
Net cash generated from (used in) investing activities     (8,134,217 )     (812,098 )
Increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents     (1,433,993 )     7,849,020  

 

Analysis of Cash Flows for Fiscal 2019

 

For Fiscal 2019, cash flows used in operating activities (which includes the full cost of developing new TMS Centers) totaled $8.6 million, as compared to $7.4 million in Fiscal 2018. The increase in cash flows used in operations is primarily attributable to expansion activity and the growth of our business, as outlined in “Total Revenue”, “Regional Operating Income (Loss) and Direct Center and Regional Costs”, “Corporate Employee Compensation”, “Other Corporate, General and Administrative Expenses” and “Adjusted EBITDA and Non-Recurring Expenses” in this MD&A.

 

Cash Flows used in/from Financing Activities

 

For Fiscal 2019, cash flows generated from financing activities amounted to $15.3 million as compared to cash flows generated of $16.1 million in Fiscal 2018. This change is largely driven by the public offering of 4,025,000 common shares of the Company (the “Public Offering”) and concurrent private placement of 5,384,000 common shares of the Company (the “Private Placement”) completed in Fiscal 2019, which yielded greater proceeds than the special warrant offerings completed in connection with the Company’s initial public offering in Fiscal 2018.

 

Cash Flows used in/from Investing Activities

 

For Fiscal 2019, cash flows used in investing activities totaled $8.1 million as compared to $0.8 million in Fiscal 2018, which primarily relates to the costs incurred as part of the Achieve TMS Acquisition in addition to an increase in the number of TMS Devices purchased by the Company upon completion of their respective lease terms as compared to the prior period.

 

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Use of Proceeds

 

The Company has used the proceeds obtained as part of the Public Offering and the Private Placement in Fiscal 2019 as follows:

 

 

 

Anticipated Use of Proceeds (excluding funds allocated for working capital)     Estimated
Allocation
      Actual
Allocation
 
Development of new TMS Centers and related working capital   C$ 12.1 million     C$ 9.8 million  
Potential acquisitions   C$ 12.1 million     C$ 10.8 million  
Unused portion     -     C$ 3.6 million  
Total   C$ 24.2 million     C$ 24.2 million  

 

As the Company paid for a portion of the Achieve TMS Acquisition through the issuance of common shares of the Company, additional funds were allocated to the development of new TMS Centers which has allowed us to continue to rapidly expand our TMS Center network. With 119 TMS Centers as at December 31, 2019, we have completed our business objective established at the time of in our initial public offering of 100 TMS Centers prior to the second half of 2020. See “Total Revenue”, “Regional Operating Income (Loss) and Direct Center and Regional Costs” in this MD&A.

 

Our development pipeline remains robust and primed for further expansion in Fiscal 2020 and we expect to use the unused portion of the proceeds for this purpose. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information”.

 

INDEBTEDNESS

 

During Fiscal 2018, the Company assumed loans from four separate banking institutions that were previously extended for the purchase of TMS Devices to non-controlling interest holder partners. The device loans were assumed as part of partnerships with local physicians, behavioural health groups or other investors, which own minority interests in certain center subsidiaries. These device loans bear an average interest rate of 10% with average monthly blended interest and capital payments of $1,575 and mature during the years ended December 31, 2019 to December 31, 2023. There are no significant financial covenants associated with these loans. The loans related to one of the banking institutions were repaid during Fiscal 2019.

 

During Fiscal 2019, the Company assumed loans from two separate banking institutions that were previously extended for the purchase of TMS Devices to non-controlling interest holder partners. The device loans were assumed as part of partnerships with local physicians, behavioural health groups or other investors, which own minority interests in certain center subsidiaries. These device loans bear an average interest rate of 13% with average monthly blended interest and capital payments of $1,756 and mature during the year ended December 31, 2021. There are no significant financial covenants associated with these loans.

 

See “Related Party Transactions” for a description for our additional indebtedness.

 

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Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

The Company has not engaged in any off-balance sheet financing transactions. Please refer to “Changes in Significant Accounting Policies” and “Pre-IFRS 16 Reconciliation” for the accounting implications resulting from the adoption of IFRS 16.

 

Share Information

 

The Company is authorized to issue an unlimited number of Common Shares and an unlimited number of preferred shares, issuable in series. As of December 31, 2019, there were 58,418,443 Common Shares and nil preferred shares issued and outstanding. In addition, there were 2,988,168 stock options and 1,068,186 broker warrants, each representing a right to acquire one Common Share, issued and outstanding. As of the date of this MD&A, assuming exercise and exchange of all outstanding options and broker warrants, there are 63,272,297 equity securities of the Company issued and outstanding on a fully-diluted basis.

 

Related Party Transactions

 

Compensation of key management personnel

 

The Company transacts with key individuals from management who have authority and responsibility to plan, direct, and control the activities of the Company. Key management personnel are defined as the executive officers of the Company, including the President and Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), the Chief Operating Officer (“COO”), the Chief Marketing Officer and the Chief Medical Officer.

 

    Year ended December 31,  
    2019     2018  
    (audited)     (audited)  
Salaries and bonuses   $ 1,619,150     $ 990,720  
Share-based compensation     105,896       158,538  
Total   $ 1,725,046     $ 1,149,258  

 

Transactions with significant shareholder – Greybrook Health Inc. 

 

As at December 31, 2019, $0.1 million was included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities related to payables for management services and other overhead costs rendered by Greybrook Health Inc. (“Greybrook Health”) to the Company in the ordinary course of business under the MSA (as defined below) (December 31, 2018: $0.1 million).

 

On January 1, 2015, we entered into a management and consulting services agreement (the “MSA”) with our significant shareholder, Greybrook Health, pursuant to which Greybrook Health provides us and our subsidiaries with certain incidental services, including financial advisory services, business development advisory services and business and operating consulting services (collectively, the “Services”). More specifically, these Services include: (i) the provision of office space for our head office in Toronto, Ontario, and (ii) compensation for our chief financial officer, chief operating officer and twelve other employees consisting of our general counsel and, ten full-time employees and one part-time employee that, together, provide customary administrative, finance and accounting services to the Company and one part-time employee that provides customary IT infrastructure services to the Company. All of the Services provided by Greybrook Health are provided on a cost basis whereby the Company reimburses Greybrook Health for costs incurred in connection with the provision of such Services. There is no mark-up charged by Greybrook Health for the provision of the Services. The MSA will expire on January 1, 2021 or earlier if either party provides the other with at least 30 days’ notice of termination.

 

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Subsequent to September 30, 2019, compensation for all employees noted above, except for the chief operating officer and the part time employee that provides customary IT infrastructure services to the Company, is no longer being provided by Greybrook Health and is being paid directly by the Company.

 

Risks and Uncertainties

 

We are exposed to a variety of financial risks in the normal course of our business, including interest rate, credit, and liquidity risk. Our overall risk management program and business practices seek to minimize any potential adverse effects on our consolidated financial performance.

 

Risk management is carried out under practices approved by our board of directors (the “Board”). This includes identifying, evaluating and hedging financial risks based on the requirements of our organization. Our Board provides guidance for overall risk management, covering many areas of risk including interest rate risk, credit risk, and liquidity risk.

 

Interest Rate Risk

 

We are exposed to changes in interest rates on our cash and long-term debt. Debt issued at variable rates exposes us to cash flow interest rate risk. Debt issued at fixed rates exposes us to fair value interest rate risk. As of December 31, 2019, we only have fixed interest rate debt. The impact of future interest rate expense resulting from future changes in interest rates will depend largely on the gross amount of our borrowings at such time.

 

Credit Risk

 

Credit risk is the risk of an unexpected loss if a customer or counterparty to a financial instrument fails to meet its contractual obligations. The Company’s financial instruments that are exposed to concentrations of credit risk are primarily cash and accounts receivable. The Company limits its exposure to credit risk with respect to cash by dealing with large creditworthy financial institutions. The Company’s accounts receivable consist primarily of receivables from large creditworthy medical insurance companies and government backed health plans. Collectability of the receivables is reviewed regularly and an allowance is established as necessary.

 

Liquidity Risk

 

Liquidity risk is the risk that we cannot meet a demand for cash or fund our obligations as they come due. We manage liquidity risk by continuously monitoring actual and projected cash flows, taking into account our revenues, income and working capital needs. Our shareholder loans are also used to maintain liquidity.

 

DISCLOSURE CONTROLS & PROCEDURES AND INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING

 

Disclosure Controls & Procedures

 

Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining a system of disclosure controls and procedures to provide reasonable assurance that all material information relating to the Company is gathered and reported to senior management, including the CEO and the CFO, on a timely basis so that appropriate decisions can be made regarding public disclosure. Management, under the oversight of the CEO and CFO, has evaluated the design and effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2019 and, based upon this evaluation, the CEO and the CFO have concluded that these disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in National Instrument 52-109 – Certification of Disclosure in Issuers’ Annual and Interim Filings, are effective for the purposes set out above.

 

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Internal Controls over Financial Reporting

 

Management is also responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal controls over financial reporting (“ICFR”) to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial reports for external purposes in accordance with IFRS. In designing such controls, it should be recognized that due to inherent limitations, any controls, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives and may not prevent or detect misstatements. Additionally, management is required to use judgment in evaluating controls and procedures.

 

Management, under the oversight of the CEO and CFO, has used the criteria established in the 2013 Internal Control – Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission to assess the effectiveness of the Company’s ICFR. Based on this evaluation, the CEO and CFO have concluded that its ICFR, as defined by National Instrument 52-109 – Certification of Disclosure in Issuers’ Annual and Interim Filings, was effective as at December 31, 2019 based on the applicable criteria.

 

There has been no change in the Company’s ICFR that occurred during the three- and 12-month periods ended December 31, 2019 that has materially affected, or is reasonable likely to materially affect, the Company’s ICFR.

 

Critical Accounting Estimates and Judgments

 

The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with IFRS. The preparation of our financial statements requires management to make estimates and judgments 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 are reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. While our significant accounting policies are more fully described in the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements, we believe that the following accounting policies and estimates are critical to our business operations and understanding our financial results.

 

The following are the key judgments and sources of estimation uncertainty that we believe could have the most significant impact on the amounts recognized in our consolidated financial statements.

 

Property and equipment

 

Property and equipment are recorded at cost less accumulated depreciation and accumulated impairment losses. Depreciation is recognized over the estimated useful lives of the assets on a straight-line basis, unless stated otherwise, as follows:

 

Computer equipment 5 years
Furniture and equipment 5 years
Leasehold improvements Lesser of 5 years or remaining lease term
TMS Devices 10 years

 

The estimated useful lives of the assets and their terminal values are assessed on an annual basis based on historical experience, industry practice and management’s expectations.

 

Expenditures for maintenance and repairs are charged to operations as incurred.

 

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Impairment of non-financial assets

 

The Company assesses, at each reporting date, whether there is an indication that a non-financial asset may be impaired. If any indication exists, the Company estimates the recoverable amount. The recoverable amount of an asset is the higher of its fair value, less costs to sell, and its value in use.

 

Fair value less costs to sell is the amount obtainable from the sale of an asset in an arm's length transaction between knowledgeable, willing parties, less the costs of disposal. Costs of disposal are incremental costs directly attributable to the disposal of an asset and related income tax expense.

 

In assessing value in use, the estimated future cash flows are discounted to their present value using a pre-tax discount rate that reflects current market assessments of the time value of money and the risks specific to the asset.

 

If the carrying amount of an asset exceeds its recoverable amount, an impairment charge is recognized immediately in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss by the amount by which the carrying amount of the asset exceeds the recoverable amount. Where an impairment loss subsequently reverses, the carrying amount of the asset is increased to the lesser of the revised estimate of the recoverable amount, and the carrying amount that would have been recorded had no impairment loss been recognized previously.

 

Operating segments

 

Operating segments are reported in a manner consistent with the internal reporting provided to the chief operating decision maker. The chief operating decision maker, which is responsible for allocating resources and assessing performance of the operating segments, has been identified as the executive committee consisting of the CEO, the CFO, COO, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Medical Officer. The Company has one reportable segment, which is outpatient mental health service centers.

 

Revenue recognition and accounts receivable

 

Service fee revenue is recognized upon the performance of services under contracts with customers and represents the consideration the Company expects to receive. Service fee revenue is measured at the net patient fees received or receivable which includes contractual allowances and discounts. In circumstances where the net patient fees have not yet been received, the amount of revenue recognized is estimated based on an expected value approach where management considers such variables as the average of previous net patient fees received by the applicable payor and fees received by other patients for similar services and management's best estimate leveraging industry knowledge and expectations of third-party payors’ fee schedules. Third-party payors include federal and state agencies (under the Medicare programs), managed care health plans and commercial insurance companies.

 

A key determinant of IFRS 15, Revenue from contracts with customers (“IFRS 15”), is estimating the transaction price when variable consideration may arise. IFRS 15 allows for the transaction price with variable consideration to be estimated using either the expected value method or the most-likely value method. The Company’s estimates are calculated using the expected value method when using the sum of probability-weighted amounts in a range of possible consideration amounts.

 

Accounts receivable are non-interest bearing, unsecured obligations due from patients and third-party payors. The Company makes an implicit allowance for potentially uncollectible amounts to arrive at net receivables through its revenue recognition policy. In accordance with IFRS 9, Financial instruments (“IFRS 9”) the Company evaluates the credit risk on accounts receivable and measures a loss allowance at an amount equal to the expected credit losses for the subsequent 12-month period.

 

The methodology to arrive at net receivables is reviewed by management periodically. The balance of accounts receivable represents management’s estimate of the net realizable value of receivables after discounts and contractual adjustments.

 

The Company performs an estimation and review process periodically to identify instances on a timely basis where such estimates need to be revised to accurately assess the amount of expected revenues.

 

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Earnings per share

 

Basic earnings per common share (“EPS”) is calculated by dividing the net earnings available to common shareholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the year. Diluted EPS is calculated by adjusting the net earnings available to common shareholders and the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the effects of all dilutive instruments.

 

Income taxes

 

Income tax expense comprises current and deferred tax. Income tax expense (recovery) is recognized in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss. Current income tax expense represents the amount of income taxes payable based on tax law that is enacted or substantively enacted at the reporting date and is adjusted for changes in estimates of tax expense recognized in prior periods. A current tax liability or asset is recognized for income taxes payable, or paid but recoverable, in respect of all years to date.

 

The Company uses the deferred tax method of accounting for income taxes. Accordingly, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the deferred tax consequences attributable to differences between the consolidated financial statements' carrying amounts of assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted or substantively enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the periods in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect of a change in tax rates on deferred tax assets and liabilities is recognized in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss in the year in which the enactment or substantive enactment occurs. A deferred tax asset is recognized for unused tax losses, tax credits and deductible temporary differences, to the extent that it is more likely than not that future taxable income will be available to utilize such amounts. Deferred tax assets are reviewed at each reporting date and are adjusted to the extent that it is no longer probable that the related tax benefits will be realized. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset when they relate to income taxes levied by the same tax authority and the Company intends to settle its current tax assets and liabilities on a net basis.

 

In determining the amount of current and deferred taxes, the Company takes into account the impact of uncertain tax positions and whether additional taxes and interest may be due. The Company believes that its tax liabilities for uncertain tax positions are adequate for all open tax years based on its assessment of many factors, including interpretations of tax law and prior experience. The assessment relies on estimates and assumptions and may involve a series of judgements about future events. New information may become available that causes the Company to change its judgement regarding the adequacy of existing tax liabilities; such changes to tax liabilities will impact tax expense in the period that such a determination is made.

 

Financial instruments

 

The Company initially measures its financial assets and financial liabilities at fair value and classifies them as financial assets or liabilities at fair value through profit or loss. After initial measurement, financial assets (which include cash and accounts receivable) and liabilities (which include accounts payable and accrued liabilities, lease liabilities, bank loans payable, non-controlling interest loans payable and deferred and contingent consideration) are subsequently measured at amortized cost using the effective interest rate method, with any resulting premium or discount from the face value being amortized to the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss. Amortization is recorded using the effective interest rate method.

 

The Company recognizes loss allowances for expected credit losses on financial assets measured at amortized cost. Loss allowances for accounts receivables are always measured at an amount equal to the expected credit losses for the subsequent 12-month period. A financial asset carried at amortized cost is considered credit-impaired if objective evidence indicates that one or more events have had a negative effect on the estimated future cash flows of that asset that can be estimated reliably. Individually significant financial assets are tested for credit-impairment on an individual basis.

 

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An impairment loss in respect of a financial asset measured at amortized cost is calculated as the difference between its carrying amount and the present value of the estimated future cash flows discounted at the asset’s original effective interest rate.

 

Losses are recognized in the statements of net loss and comprehensive loss. When a subsequent event causes the amount of impairment loss to decrease, the decrease in impairment loss is reversed through the statements of comprehensive loss.

 

Leases

 

On January 1, 2019, the Company adopted IFRS 16.

 

At inception of a contract, the Company assesses whether that contract is, or contains, a lease. A contract is, or contains, a lease if the contract conveys the right to control the use of an identified asset for the period of time in exchange for consideration. To assess whether a contract conveys the right to control the use of an identified asset, the Company assesses whether (i) the contract involves the use of an identified asset, (ii) the Company has the right to obtain substantially all of the economic benefits from the use of the identified asset throughout the period of use, and (iii) the Company has the right to direct the use of the identified asset.

 

The right of use asset is initially measured at cost, which comprises the initial amount of the lease liability adjusted for any lease payments made at or before the commencement date, plus any initial direct costs incurred and an estimate of costs to dismantle and remove the underlying asset or to restore the underlying asset or the site on which it is located, less any lease incentives received.

 

The right of use asset is subsequently depreciated using the straight-line method from the commencement date to the end of the lease term, including periods covered by an option to extend the lease if the Company is reasonably certain to exercise that option. If the Company expects to obtain ownership of the leased asset at the end of the lease, the Company will depreciate the asset over the underlying asset’s estimated useful life.

 

The lease liability is initially measured at the present value of the lease payments that are due to be paid at the commencement date. The lease payments are discounted using the implicit interest rate in the lease. If the rate cannot be readily determined, the Company’s incremental borrowing rate is used. The lease liability is measured at amortized cost using the effective interest method. It is remeasured when there is a change in future lease payments arising from a change in rate, if there is a change in the Company’s estimate of the amount expected to be payable under a residual value guarantee, or if the Company changes its assessment of whether it will exercise a purchase, extension or termination option.

 

Variable lease payments that are not included in the measurement of the lease liability are recognized as an operating expense in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss.

 

The Company has elected not to recognize right of use assets and lease liabilities in respect of short-term leases that have a lease term of less than 12 months and leases in respect of low-value assets. The Company recognizes the lease payments associated with these leases as an operating expense in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

 

The Company makes estimates when considering the length of the lease term, including considering facts and circumstances that can create an economic incentive to exercise an extension option. The Company makes certain qualitative and quantitative assumptions when deriving the value of the economic incentive. Periodically, the Company will reassess whether it is reasonably certain to exercise extension options and will account for any changes at the date of reassessment.

 

The Company makes judgements in determining whether a contract contains an identified asset and in determining whether or not the Company has the right to control the use of the underlying asset. The Company also makes judgements in determining the incremental borrowing rate used to measure its lease liability in respect of each lease contract. As there are currently no market participants of a similar size and scale as the Company, the incremental borrowing rate is reflective of the interest rate applied historically on loans advanced.

 

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Prior to the adoption of IFRS 16, leases of TMS devices and centers were recognized as finance leases if the Company obtained substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership of the underlying assets. All other leases were classified as operating leases for which the Company recognized an operating lease expense in operating costs on the consolidated statements of net loss on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease.

 

Defined contribution pension plan

 

A defined contribution pension plan is a post-employment benefit plan under which an entity pays fixed contributions to a separate entity and will have no legal or constructive obligation to pay future amounts. Obligations for contributions to defined contribution pension plans are expensed in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss in the periods during which services are rendered by employees.

 

Share capital

 

Common shares are classified as shareholders’ equity (deficit). Incremental transaction costs directly attributable to the issue of common shares and share purchase options are recognized as a deduction from shareholders equity (deficit), net any of tax effects.

 

When share capital recognized as equity is repurchased, the amount of the consideration paid, including directly attributable costs, is recognized as a deduction from shareholders’ equity (deficit).

 

Dividends are discretionary and are recognized as distributions within equity upon approval by the Board.

 

Share-based compensation

 

The Company offers a share option plan. The plan is open to employees, directors, officers and consultants of the Company and its affiliates. For employees, the value of equity settled options is measured by reference to the fair value of the equity instrument on the date which they are granted. The fair value is recognized as an expense with a corresponding increase in contributed surplus over the vesting period. The Board shall have the discretion to establish the vesting period for share options granted.

 

Non-market vesting conditions are taken into account by adjusting the number of equity instruments expected to vest at each reporting date so that, ultimately, the cumulative amount recognized over the vesting period is based on the number of options that eventually vest. Fair value is calculated using the Black Scholes option pricing model, which requires the input of highly subjective assumptions, including the volatility of share prices, forfeiture rate and expected life and changes in subjective input assumptions that can materially affect the fair value estimate. The Company estimates the expected forfeiture rate of equity-settled share-based compensation based on historical experience and management’s expectation.

 

Consideration received upon the exercise of stock options is credited to share capital, at which time the related contributed surplus is transferred to share capital.

 

Business Combinations

 

The Company accounts for business combinations using the acquisition accounting method. The total purchase price is allocated to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on fair values as at the date of acquisition. Goodwill as at the date of acquisition is measured as the excess of the aggregate of the consideration transferred and the amount of any non-controlling interests in the acquired company over the net of the acquisition date fair values of the identifiable assets acquired and the liabilities assumed. Any non-controlling interest in the acquired company are measured at the non-controlling interests’ proportionate share of the identifiable assets and liabilities of the acquired business.

 

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Best estimates and assumptions are used in the purchase price allocation process to accurately value assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the business combination date. These estimates and assumptions are inherently uncertain and subject to refinement. As a result, during the measurement period, which may be up to one year from the business combination date, the Company may record adjustments to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed, with the corresponding offset to goodwill. On conclusion of the measurement period or final determination of the values of the assets acquired or liabilities assumed, whichever comes first, any subsequent adjustments are recorded in the consolidated statement of net loss and comprehensive loss in the period in which the adjustments were determined.

 

Any deferred and contingent consideration is measured at fair value at the date of acquisition. If an obligation to pay contingent consideration that meets the definition of a financial instrument is classified as equity, then it is not remeasured and the settlement is accounted for within equity. Otherwise, other contingent consideration is remeasured at fair value at each reporting date and subsequent changes in the fair value of the contingent consideration is recognized as part of the statement of net loss and comprehensive loss in the period in which the adjustments were determined.

 

Intangibles assets

 

The Company classifies intangible assets, obtained through acquisitions, as definite lived assets. Intangible assets consist of covenants not to compete and a management service agreement with a professional organization. These intangible assets are recorded at cost and are amortized over their estimated useful lives, as follows:

 

     
Covenants not to compete   5 years
Management services agreement   15 years

 

The Company reviews the appropriateness of the amortization period relating to the definite lived intangible assets annually.

 

Provisions

 

Provisions are recognized when the Company has a present legal or constructive obligation as a result of past events, it is more likely than not that an outflow of resources will be required to settle the obligation, and the amount can be reliably estimated. Provisions are measured based on management’s best estimate of the expenditure required to settle the obligation at the end of the reporting period and are discounted to their present value where the effect is material.

 

Finance income and finance costs

 

Finance income comprises interest income on cash equivalents recognized in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss as it accrues, using the effective interest method. Finance costs comprise interest expense on borrowings and lease liabilities that are recognized in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss.

 

Contingencies

 

Contingent liabilities are possible obligations whose existence will be confirmed only on the occurrence or non-occurrence of uncertain future events outside the Company’s control, or present obligations that are not recognized because it is not probable that an outflow of economic benefit would be required to settle the obligation or the amount cannot be measured reliably.

 

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Contingent liabilities are not recognized but are disclosed in the notes to the consolidated financial statements, including an estimate of their potential financial effect and uncertainties relating to the amount or timing of any outflow, unless the possibility of settlement is remote. In assessing loss contingencies related to legal proceedings that are pending against the Company or unasserted claims that may result in such proceedings, the Company, with assistance from its legal counsel, evaluates the perceived merits of any legal proceedings or unasserted claims as well as the perceived merits of the amount of relief sought or expected to be sought.

 

Fair value measurement

 

Fair value is the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date, regardless of whether that price is directly observable or estimated using another valuation technique. In estimating the fair value of an asset or a liability, the Company takes into account the characteristics of the asset or liability if market participants would take those characteristics into account when pricing the asset or liability at the measurement date.

 

The Company categorizes its financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value into one of three different levels depending on the observability of the inputs used in the measurement.

 

· Level 1 – This level includes assets and liabilities measured at fair value based on unadjusted quoted prices for identical assets and liabilities in active markets that are accessible at the measurement date.

 

· Level 2 – This level includes valuations determined using directly or indirectly observable inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1. Derivative instruments in this category are valued using models or other standard valuation techniques derived from observable market inputs.

 

· Level 3 – This level includes valuations based on inputs which are less observable, unavailable or where the observable data does not support a significant portion of the instruments’ fair value.

 

Accrued liabilities

 

The measurement of accrued liabilities requires management to make estimates based only on the best information available at the reporting date. As additional information becomes available, management will assess and revise the accrued liabilities amounts and such differences could be material.

 

Changes in Significant Accounting Policies

 

Adoption of IFRS 16, Leases:

 

IFRS 16 has replaced IAS 17, Leases (“IAS 17”). IFRS 16 introduces a single accounting model for lessees and for all leases with a term of more than 12 months, unless the underlying asset is of low value. A lessee will be required to recognize a right of use asset, representing its right to use the underlying asset, and a lease liability, representing its obligation to make lease payments. The accounting treatment for lessors will remain largely the same as under IAS 17. The standard was effective for the Company as of January 1, 2019.

 

The Company has applied IFRS 16 using the modified retrospective approach, under which the cumulative effect of the initial application is recognized in net assets at January 1, 2019. The prior year figures were not adjusted.

 

Prior to adopting IFRS 16, the operating lease commitments as at December 31, 2018 were $14,604,498. The difference between the total of the minimum lease payments set out in Note 9 of the 2018 audited consolidated financial statements and the total lease liabilities recognized on transition was a result of the inclusion of lease payments beyond minimum commitments relating to reasonably certain renewal periods or extension options that had not yet been exercised as at December 31, 2018, partially offset by the effect of discounting on the minimum lease payments.

 

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When applying IFRS 16 to leases previously classified as operating leases, practical expedients were available to the Company. The Company applied a single discount rate to a portfolio of leases with similar characteristics and used hindsight in determining the lease term where the contract contains purchase, terminations or extension options. Additionally, the Company relied upon the assessment of whether leases were onerous under the requirements of IAS 37, Provisions, contingent liabilities and contingent assets as at December 31, 2018 as an alternative to reviewing the right-of-use assets for impairment.

 

The Company does not have any contracts for which they are the lessor.

 

Adjusted opening balance as at December 31, 2018 using the modified retrospective approach:

 

    December 31,           January 1,  
    2018     IFRS 16     2019  
    (Pre-IFRS 16)     Adjustments     (Post-IFRS 16)  
Assets                        
Cash   $ 9,381,600     $     $ 9,381,600  
Accounts receivable     7,131,661             7,131,661  
Prepaid expenses and other     1,637,736       (507,257 )     1,130,479  
Property, plant and equipment     911,466             911,466  
Right of use assets           14,477,970       14,477,970  
                         
Restated balance, December 31, 2018   $ 19,062,463     $ 13,970,713     $ 33,033,176  
                         
Equity and Liabilities                        
                         
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities   $ 4,059,398     $ (301,509 )   $ 3,757,889  
Lease liability loans payable           14,272,222       14,272,222  
Loans payable     281,130             281,130  
Non-controlling interest loans     81,170             81,170  
Common shares     26,882,622             26,882,622  
Contributed Surplus     1,745,079             1,745,079  
Retained earnings     (14,531,401 )           (14,531,401 )
Non-controlling interest     544,465             544,465  
                         
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 19,062,463     $ 13,970,713     $ 33,033,176  

 

Recent accounting pronouncements not yet adopted

 

Certain pronouncements were issued by the IASB that are mandatory for accounting periods after December 31, 2019. There are no recent accounting pronouncements that are applicable or that are expected to have a significant impact on the Company.

 

RISK FACTORS

 

For a detailed description of risk factors associated with the Company, refer to the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s annual information form dated March 10, 2020 for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

 

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

 

Additional information relating to the Company, including the Company’s annual information form, is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. The Company’s Common Shares are listed for trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “GTMS”.

 

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Exhibit 99.17

 

Consolidated Financial Statements

(Expressed in U.S. dollars)

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

kpmg LLP

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Independent auditors’ Report

 

To Shareholders of Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Opinion

 

We have audited the consolidated financial statements of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Entity”), which comprise:

 

· the consolidated statements of financial position as at December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

· the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss for the years then ended

 

· the consolidated statements of changes in equity (deficit) for the years then ended

 

· the consolidated statements of cash flows for the years then ended

 

· and notes to the consolidated financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies

 

(hereinafter referred to as the “financial statements”).

 

In our opinion, the accompanying financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Entity as at December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, and its consolidated financial performance and its consolidated cash flows for the years then ended in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

 

Basis for Opinion

 

We conducted our audit in accordance with Canadian generally accepted auditing standards. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors’ Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements section of our auditors’ report.

 

We are independent of the Entity in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in Canada and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements.

 

We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

 

KPMG LLP, is a Canadian limited liability partnership and a member firm of the KPMG network of independent

member firms affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity.

KPMG Canada provides services to KPMG LLP.

 

 

 

 

 

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Emphasis of Matter

 

We draw attention to Note 3(j) and 4 to the financial statements which indicated that the Entity has changed its accounting policy for leases, as a result of the adoption of IFRS 16, Leases, and has applied that change using the modified retrospective method.

 

Our opinion is not modified in respect of this matter.

 

Other Information

 

Management is responsible for the other information. Other information comprises:

 

· the information included in Management’s Discussion and Analysis filed with the relevant Canadian securities regulatory authorities.

 

Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not and will not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

 

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information identified above and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit and remain alert for indicators that the other information appears to be materially misstated.

 

We obtained the information included in Management’s Discussion and Analysis, filed with the relevant Canadian securities regulatory authorities, as at the date of this auditors’ report. If, based on the work we have performed on this other information, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact in the auditors’ report.

 

We have nothing to report in this regard.

 

Responsibilities of Management and Those Charged with Governance for the Financial Statements

 

Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in accordance with IFRS, and for such internal control as management determines is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

 

In preparing the financial statements, management is responsible for assessing the Entity’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless management either intends to liquidate the Entity or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.

 

Those charged with governance are responsible for overseeing the Entity’s financial reporting process.

 

 

 

 

 

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Auditors’ Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements

 

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditors report that includes our opinion.

 

Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with Canadian generally accepted auditing standards will always detect a material misstatement when it exists.

 

Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of the financial statements.

 

As part of an audit in accordance with Canadian generally accepted auditing standards, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticism throughout the audit.

 

We also:

 

· Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

 

The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.

 

· Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Entity’s internal control.

 

· Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made by management.

 

· Conclude on the appropriateness of management’s use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Entity’s ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our auditors report to the related disclosures in the financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditors report. However, future events or conditions may cause the Entity to cease to continue as a going concern.

 

 

 

 

 

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· Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financial statements, including the disclosures, and whether the financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.

 

· Communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.

 

· Provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethical requirements regarding independence, and communicate with them all relationships and other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, related safeguards.

 

/s/ KPMG LLP

 

Chartered Professional Accountants, Licensed Public Accountants

 

The engagement partner on the audit resulting in this auditors’ report is Stephen Hills.

 

Vaughan, Canada

 

March 10, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc. 

Consolidated Statements of Financial Position 

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

    December 31,     December 31,  
    2019     2018  
Assets                
                 
Current assets:                
Cash   $ 7,947,607     $ 9,381,600  
Accounts receivable, net     10,091,087       7,131,661  
Prepaid expenses and other     1,912,744       1,637,736  
    19,951,438       18,150,997   
                 
Property, plant and equipment (note 6)     1,666,331       911,466  
Intangible assets (note 7)     6,207,731        
Goodwill (note 5)     3,707,650        
Right-of-use assets (note 8)     25,430,956        
    $ 56,964,106      $ 19,062,463   

 

Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity (Deficit)                
Current liabilities:                
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities (note 9)   $ 7,011,849     $ 4,059,398  
Loans payable (note 10(a))     101,107       97,858  
Lease liabilities (note 8)     4,707,853        
Non-controlling interest loans (note 10(b))     69,674       81,170  
Provisions (note 11)     18,792        
Deferred and contingent consideration (note 5)     1,274,402        
      13,183,677       4,238,426  
                 
Long-term portion of loans payable (note 10(a))     150,392       183,272  
Long-term portion of lease liabilities (note 8)     20,683,904        
      34,017,973       4,421,698  
Shareholders’ equity (deficit):                
Common shares (note 12)     50,185,756       26,882,622  
Contributed surplus (note 13)     2,757,252       1,745,079  
Deficit     (30,441,280 )     (14,531,401 )
      22,501,728       14,096,300  
Non-controlling interest (note 21)     444,405       544,465  
      22,946,133       14,640,765  
Contingencies (note 14)                
Subsequent event (note 23)                
                 
    $ 56,964,106     $ 19,062,463  

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

On behalf of the Board:

 

“Sasha Cucuz” Director  
     
“Bill Leonard” Director  

 

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Net Loss and Comprehensive Loss

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

    December 31,     December 31,  
      2019       2018  
Revenue :                
Service revenue   $ 35,685,531     $ 21,259,015  
                 
Expenses:                
Direct center and patient care costs     17,368,894       13,348,011  
Other regional and center support costs     9,828,447       5,022,305  
Amortization     122,269        
Depreciation     4,031,375       76,902  
      31,350,985       18,447,218  
                 
Regional operating income     4,334,546       2,811,797  
                 
Center development costs     1,466,119       530,068  
Corporate, general and administrative expenses (note 22)     16,371,346       6,523,126  
Share-based compensation     690,230       467,627  
Interest expense     1,822,442       81,725  
Interest income     (163,302 )     (81,462 )
Loss before income taxes     (15,852,289 )     (4,709,287 )
                 
Income tax expense (note 16)            
Loss for the year and comprehensive loss   $ (15,852,289 )   $ (4,709,287 )
                 
Income (loss) for the year attributable to:                
Non-controlling interest (note 21)   $ 57,590     $ 248,756  
Common shareholders of Greenbrook TMS     (15,909,879 )     (4,958,043 )
    $ (15,852,289 )   $ (4,709,287 )
                 
Net loss per share (note 20):                
Basic   $ (0.30 )   $ (0.12 )
Diluted     (0.30 )     (0.12 )

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

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Greenbrook tms Inc. 

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity (Deficit) 

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

                                    Non-     Total  
    Common shares   Contributed             controlling     equity  
Year ended December 31, 2018   Number     Amount     surplus     Deficit     interest     (deficit)  
                                      (note 17)          
Balance, December 31, 2017     37,524,375     $ 8,208,448     $ 976,228     $ (9,443,345 )   $ (399,104 )   $ (657,773 )
Net comprehensive loss for the year                       (4,958,043 )     248,756       (4,709,287 )
Issuance of common shares     10,000,000       18,674,174       215,724                   18,889,898  
Share-based compensation (note 13)                 553,127                   553,127  
Distributions to non-controlling interest                             (35,300 )     (35,300 )
Acquisition of subsidiary non-controlling interest (note 21)                       (130,013 )     130,013        
Non-controlling interest subsidiary investment (note 21)                             600,100       600,100  
Balance, December 31, 2018     47,524,375     $ 26,882,622     $ 1,745,079     $ (14,531,401 )   $ 544,465     $ 14,640,765  

 

                                    Non-     Total  
    Common shares   Contributed             controlling     equity  
Year ended December 31, 2019   Number     Amount     surplus     Deficit     interest     (deficit)  
                                      (note 17)        
Balance, December 31, 2018     47,524,375     $ 26,882,622     $ 1,745,079     $ (14,531,401 )   $ 544,465     $ 14,640,765  
Net comprehensive loss for the year                       (15,909,879 )     57,590       (15,852,289 )
Issuance of common shares - financing
(note 12)
    9,409,000       20,604,207       355,660                   20,959,867  
Issuance of common shares - acquisition
(notes 5 and 12)
    1,431,736       2,611,044                         2,611,044  
Exercise of stock options (note 12)     53,332       87,883       (33,717 )                 54,166  
Share-based compensation (note 13)                 690,230                   690,230  
Distributions to non-controlling interest                           (562,650 )     (562,650 )
Non-controlling interest subsidiary
investment (note 21)
                            405,000       405,000  
Balance, December 31, 2019     58,418,443     $ 50,185,756     $ 2,757,252     $ (30,441,280 )   $ 444,405     $ 22,946,133  

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

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Greenbrook TMS Inc. 

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows 

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

    December 31,     December 31,  
      2019       2018  
Cash provided by (used in)                
Operating activities:                
Loss for the year   $ (15,852,289 )   $ (4,709,287 )
Adjusted for:                
Amortization     122,269        
Depreciation     4,031,375       76,902  
Interest expense     1,822,442       81,725  
Interest income     (163,302 )     (81,462 )
Share-based compensation     690,230       467,627  
Transaction costs     385,674        
Non-cash transaction costs     268,215       85,500  
Change in non-cash operating working capital:                
Accounts receivable     (2,959,426 )     (5,026,915 )
Prepaid expenses and other     129,992       (156,568 )
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities     2,952,451       1,863,017  
Provisions     18,792        
      (8,553,577 )     (7,399,461 )
Financing activities:                
Net proceeds on issuance of common shares (note 12)     20,604,207        
Net proceeds on issuance of special warrants     355,660       18,889,898  
Options exercised     54,166        
Net shareholder loans repaid (note 19(c))           (3,101,605 )
Bank loans advanced     89,096       273,779  
Bank loans repaid     (118,727 )     (6,420 )
Lease liabilities repaid     (5,156,455 )      
Net non-controlling interest loans (repaid) advanced     (11,496 )     40,227  
Distribution to non-controlling interest     (562,650 )     (35,300 )
      15,253,801       16,060,579  
Investing activities:                
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired     (7,298,086 )      
Purchase of property, plant and equipment     (836,131 )     (812,098 )
      (8,134,217 )     (812,098 )
Increase (decrease) in cash     (1,433,993 )     7,849,020  
Cash, beginning of year     9,381,600       1,532,580  
Cash, end of year   $ 7,947,607     $ 9,381,600  

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated) 

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

1. Reporting entity:

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Company”), an Ontario corporation along with its subsidiaries, controls and operates a network of outpatient mental health services centers that specialize in the provision of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy for the treatment of depression and related psychiatric services.

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc. was incorporated under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) on February 9, 2018 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of TMS NeuroHealth Centers, Inc. (“TMS US”). On March 29, 2018, each shareholder of TMS US exchanged its shares of common stock of TMS US for common shares of Greenbrook TMS Inc. on a one-for-one basis. As a result of this exchange, the shareholders of TMS US became the shareholders of Greenbrook TMS Inc. in the same proportions as their previous shareholdings in TMS US and TMS US became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Greenbrook TMS Inc., carrying on business through its operating subsidiaries (the “Reorganization”). The Reorganization did not result in any changes in the management, operations or assets of TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. or its operating subsidiaries.

 

Financial information presented within the consolidated financial statements reflects the consolidated financial condition, performance and cash flows of the operating business of which TMS US was the holding company up to March 29, 2018 and of which Greenbrook TMS Inc. was the holding company for the remaining period.

 

2. Basis of preparation:

 

(a) Statement of compliance:

 

The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”).

 

The significant accounting policies described below have been applied consistently to all periods presented, with the exception due to the adoption of IFRS 16, Leases (“IFRS 16”), effective January 1, 2019 (note 4(a)).

 

These consolidated financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors (the “Board”) and authorized for issue by the Board on March 10, 2020.

 

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued) 

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

2. Basis of preparation (continued):

 

(b) Basis of measurement:

 

These consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a historic cost basis except for financial instruments classified as fair value through profit or loss, which are stated at their fair value. Other measurement bases are described in the applicable notes.

 

Presentation of the consolidated statements of financial position differentiates between current and non-current assets and liabilities. The consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss is presented using the function classification of expense.

 

(c) Basis of consolidation:

 

The consolidated financial statements comprise the accounts of Greenbrook TMS Inc., the parent company, and its subsidiaries. The Company accounts for its controlled subsidiaries using the consolidation method of accounting from the date that control commences and is deconsolidated from the date control ceases. Consolidated financial statements are prepared using uniform accounting policies for like transactions and other events in similar circumstances.

 

Control is achieved when the Company is exposed, or has rights, to variable returns from its involvement with the investee and has the ability to affect those returns through its power over the investee. Specifically, the Company controls an investee if and only if the Company has all of the following:

 

(i) power over the investee;

 

(ii) exposure, or rights, to variable returns from its involvement with the investee; and

 

(iii) the ability to use its power over the investee to affect the amount of the investor’s returns.

 

All transactions and balances between the Company and its subsidiaries are eliminated on consolidation, including unrealized gains and losses on transactions between companies.

 

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued) 

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

2. Basis of preparation (continued):

 

When the Company has control over a subsidiary but does not own 100%, this gives rise to non-controlling interest. Non-controlling interest arises from partnerships with local physicians, behavioural health groups or other strategic investors, which own minority interests in certain center subsidiaries.

 

Changes in the Company’s interest in a subsidiary that does not result in a loss of control are accounted for as equity transactions.

 

(d) Use of estimates and judgments:

 

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with IFRS requires management to make judgments, estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting year. Actual results could differ from those estimates. As additional information becomes available or actual amounts are determinable, the recorded estimates are revised and reflected in operating results in the period in which they are determined.

 

Significant estimates in connection with these consolidated financial statements includes the measurement and determination of the transaction price in the estimation of revenue, estimated useful life of property, plant and equipment; estimated useful life of intangible assets; amounts recorded as accrued liabilities, deferred income taxes provisions; goodwill; inputs used in the valuation of stock options granted; and the estimate of lease terms.

 

Significant judgments in connection with these consolidated financial statements include assessment of control of subsidiaries; determination of functional currency; determination of whether a contract is or contains a lease; and determination of the incremental borrowing rate used to measure lease liabilities.

 

(e) Functional and reporting currency:

 

The functional and reporting currency of the Company and its subsidiaries is the U.S. dollar. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the rates of exchange prevailing at the consolidated statement of financial position dates. Non-monetary assets and liabilities are translated at rates prevailing at the dates of acquisition. Expenses are translated at the average rate of exchange in effect during the month the transaction occurred.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued) 

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

3. Significant accounting policies:

 

(a) Cash:

 

Cash includes cash on hand and cash held with financial institutions.

 

(b) Property, plant and equipment:

 

Property, plant and equipment are recorded at cost less accumulated depreciation and accumulated impairment losses. Depreciation is recognized over the estimated useful lives of the assets on a straight-line basis, unless stated otherwise, as follows:

 

Computer equipment   5 years
Furniture and equipment   5 years
Leasehold improvements   Lesser of 5 years or remaining lease term
TMS devices   10 years

 

The estimated useful lives of the assets and their terminal values are assessed on an annual basis based on historical experience, industry practice and management’s expectations.

 

Expenditures for maintenance and repairs are charged to operations as incurred.

 

(c) Impairment of non-financial assets:

 

The Company assesses, at each reporting date, whether there is an indication that a non-financial asset may be impaired. If any indication exists, the Company estimates the recoverable amount. The recoverable amount of an asset is the higher of its fair value, less costs to sell, and its value in use.

 

Fair value less costs to sell is the amount obtainable from the sale of an asset in an arm’s-length transaction between knowledgeable, willing parties, less the costs of disposal. Costs of disposal are incremental costs directly attributable to the disposal of an asset and related income tax expense.

 

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued) 

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

3. Significant accounting policies (continued):

 

In assessing value in use, the estimated future cash flows are discounted to their present value using a pre-tax discount rate that reflects current market assessments of the time value of money and the risks specific to the asset.

 

If the carrying amount of an asset exceeds its recoverable amount, an impairment charge is recognized immediately in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss by the amount by which the carrying amount of the asset exceeds the recoverable amount. Where an impairment loss subsequently reverses, the carrying amount of the asset is increased to the lesser of the revised estimate of the recoverable amount, and the carrying amount that would have been recorded had no impairment loss been recognized previously.

 

(d) Operating segments:

 

Operating segments are reported in a manner consistent with the internal reporting provided to the chief operating decision maker. The chief operating decision maker, which is responsible for allocating resources and assessing performance of the operating segments, has been identified as the executive committee consisting of the President and Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Marketing Officer and the Chief Medical Officer. The Company has one reportable segment, which is outpatient mental health service centers.

 

(e) Revenue recognition and accounts receivable:

 

Service fee revenue is recognized upon the performance of services under contracts with customers and represents the consideration the Company expects to receive. Service fee revenue is measured at the net patient fees received or receivable which includes contractual allowances and discounts. In circumstances where the net patient fees have not yet been received, the amount of revenue recognized is estimated based on an expected value approach where management considers such variables as the average of previous net patient fees received by the applicable payor and fees received by other patients for similar services and management’s best estimate leveraging industry knowledge and expectations of third-party payors’ fee schedules. Third-party payors include federal and state agencies (under the Medicare programs), managed care health plans and commercial insurance companies.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued) 

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

3. Significant accounting policies (continued):

 

A key determinant of IFRS 15, Revenue from contracts with customers (“IFRS 15”), is estimating the transaction price when variable consideration may arise. IFRS 15 allows for the transaction price with variable consideration to be estimated using either the expected value method or the most-likely value method. The Company’s estimates are calculated using the expected value method when using the sum of probability-weighted amounts in a range of possible consideration amounts.

 

(f) Accounts receivable:

 

Accounts receivable are non-interest bearing, unsecured obligations due from patients and third-party payors. The Company makes an implicit allowance for potentially uncollectible amounts to arrive at net receivables through its revenue recognition policy. In accordance with IFRS 9, Financial instruments (“IFRS 9”) the Company evaluates the credit risk on accounts receivable and measures a loss allowance at an amount equal to the expected credit losses for the subsequent 12-month period.

 

The methodology to arrive at net receivables is reviewed by management periodically. The balance of accounts receivable represents management’s estimate of the net realizable value of receivables after discounts and contractual adjustments.

 

The Company performs an estimation and review process periodically to identify instances on a timely basis where such estimates need to be revised to accurately assess the amount of expected revenues.

 

(g) Earnings per share:

 

Basic earnings per common share (“EPS”) is calculated by dividing the net earnings available to common shareholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the year. Diluted EPS is calculated by adjusting the net earnings available to common shareholders and the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the effects of all dilutive instruments.

 

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

3. Significant accounting policies (continued):

 

(h) Income taxes:

 

Income tax expense comprises current and deferred tax. Income tax expense (recovery) is recognized in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss. Current income tax expense represents the amount of income taxes payable based on tax law that is enacted or substantively enacted at the reporting date and is adjusted for changes in estimates of tax expense recognized in prior periods. A current tax liability or asset is recognized for income taxes payable, or paid but recoverable, in respect of all years to date.

 

The Company uses the deferred tax method of accounting for income taxes. Accordingly, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the deferred tax consequences attributable to differences between the consolidated financial statements’ carrying amounts of assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted or substantively enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the periods in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect of a change in tax rates on deferred tax assets and liabilities is recognized in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss in the year in which the enactment or substantive enactment occurs. A deferred tax asset is recognized for unused tax losses, tax credits and deductible temporary differences, to the extent that it is more likely than not that future taxable income will be available to utilize such amounts. Deferred tax assets are reviewed at each reporting date and are adjusted to the extent that it is no longer probable that the related tax benefits will be realized. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset when they relate to income taxes levied by the same tax authority and the Company intends to settle its current tax assets and liabilities on a net basis.

 

In determining the amount of current and deferred taxes, the Company takes into account the impact of uncertain tax positions and whether additional taxes and interest may be due. The Company believes that its tax liabilities for uncertain tax positions are adequate for all open tax years based on its assessment of many factors, including interpretations of tax law and prior experience. The assessment relies on estimates and assumptions and may involve a series of judgments about future events. New information may become available that causes the Company to change its judgment regarding the adequacy of existing tax liabilities; such changes to tax liabilities will impact tax expense in the period that such a determination is made.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

3. Significant accounting policies (continued):

 

(i) Financial instruments:

 

The Company initially measures its financial assets and financial liabilities at fair value and classifies them as financial assets or liabilities at fair value through profit or loss. After initial measurement, financial assets (which include cash and accounts receivable) and liabilities (which include accounts payable and accrued liabilities, lease liabilities, bank loans payable, non-controlling interest loans payable and deferred and contingent consideration) are subsequently measured at amortized cost using the effective interest rate method, with any resulting premium or discount from the face value being amortized to the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss. Amortization is recorded using the effective interest rate method.

 

The Company recognizes loss allowances for expected credit losses on financial assets measured at amortized cost. Loss allowances for accounts receivables are always measured at an amount equal to the expected credit losses for the subsequent 12-month period. A financial asset carried at amortized cost is considered credit-impaired if objective evidence indicates that one or more events have had a negative effect on the estimated future cash flows of that asset that can be estimated reliably. Individually significant financial assets are tested for credit-impairment on an individual basis.

 

An impairment loss in respect of a financial asset measured at amortized cost is calculated as the difference between its carrying amount and the present value of the estimated future cash flows discounted at the asset’s original effective interest rate.

 

Losses are recognized in the statements of net loss and comprehensive loss. When a subsequent event causes the amount of impairment loss to decrease, the decrease in impairment loss is reversed through the statements of net loss and comprehensive loss.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

3. Significant accounting policies (continued):

 

(j) Leases:

 

On January 1, 2019, the Company adopted IFRS 16 (see note 4(a)).

 

At inception of a contract, the Company assesses whether that contract is, or contains, a lease. A contract is, or contains, a lease if the contract conveys the right to control the use of an identified asset for the period of time in exchange for consideration. To assess whether a contract conveys the right to control the use of an identified asset, the Company assesses whether (i) the contract involves the use of an identified asset, (ii) the Company has the right to obtain substantially all of the economic benefits from the use of the identified asset throughout the period of use, and (iii) the Company has the right to direct the use of the identified asset.

 

The right-of-use asset is initially measured at cost, which comprises the initial amount of the lease liability adjusted for any lease payments made at or before the commencement date, plus any initial direct costs incurred and an estimate of costs to dismantle and remove the underlying asset or to restore the underlying asset or the site on which it is located, less any lease incentives received.

 

The right-of-use asset is subsequently depreciated using the straight-line method from the commencement date to the end of the lease term, including periods covered by an option to extend the lease if the Company is reasonably certain to exercise that option. If the Company expects to obtain ownership of the leased asset at the end of the lease, the Company will depreciate the asset over the underlying asset’s estimated useful life.

 

The lease liability is initially measured at the present value of the lease payments that are due to be paid at the commencement date. The lease payments are discounted using the implicit interest rate in the lease. If the rate cannot be readily determined, the Company’s incremental borrowing rate is used. The lease liability is measured at amortized cost using the effective interest method. It is remeasured when there is a change in future lease payments arising from a change in rate, if there is a change in the Company’s estimate of the amount expected to be payable under a residual value guarantee, or if the Company changes its assessment of whether it will exercise a purchase, extension or termination option.

 

Variable lease payments that are not included in the measurement of the lease liability are recognized as an operating expense in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

3. Significant accounting policies (continued):

 

The Company has elected not to recognize right-of-use assets and lease liabilities in respect of short-term leases that have a lease term of less than 12 months and leases in respect of low-value assets. The Company recognizes the lease payments associated with these leases as an operating expense in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

 

The Company makes estimates when considering the length of the lease term, including considering facts and circumstances that can create an economic incentive to exercise an extension option. The Company makes certain qualitative and quantitative assumptions when deriving the value of the economic incentive. Periodically, the Company will reassess whether it is reasonably certain to exercise extension options and will account for any changes at the date of reassessment.

 

The Company makes judgments in determining whether a contract contains an identified asset and in determining whether or not the Company has the right to control the use of the underlying asset. The Company also makes judgments in determining the incremental borrowing rate used to measure its lease liability in respect of each lease contract. As there are currently no market participants of a similar size and scale as the Company, the incremental borrowing rate is reflective of the interest rate applied historically on loans advanced.

 

Prior to the adoption of IFRS 16:

 

Prior to the adoption of IFRS 16, leases of TMS devices and centers were recognized as finance leases if the Company obtained substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership of the underlying assets. All other leases were classified as operating leases for which the Company recognized an operating lease expense in operating costs on the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease.

 

(k) Defined contribution pension plan:

 

A defined contribution pension plan is a post-employment benefit plan under which an entity pays fixed contributions to a separate entity and will have no legal or constructive obligation to pay future amounts. Obligations for contributions to defined contribution pension plans are expensed in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss in the periods during which services are rendered by employees.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

3. Significant accounting policies (continued):

 

(l) Share capital:

 

Common shares are classified as shareholders’ equity (deficit). Incremental transaction costs directly attributable to the issue of common shares and share purchase options are recognized as a deduction from shareholders’ equity (deficit), net any of tax effects.

 

When share capital recognized as equity is repurchased, the amount of the consideration paid, including directly attributable costs, is recognized as a deduction from shareholders’ equity (deficit).

 

Dividends are discretionary and are recognized as distributions within equity upon approval by the Board.

 

(m) Stock-based compensation:

 

The Company offers a share option plan. The plan is open to employees, directors, officers and consultants of the Company and its affiliates. For employees, the value of equity settled options is measured by reference to the fair value of the equity instrument on the date which they are granted. The fair value is recognized as an expense with a corresponding increase in contributed surplus over the vesting period. The Board shall have the discretion to establish the vesting period for share options granted.

 

Non-market vesting conditions are taken into account by adjusting the number of equity instruments expected to vest at each reporting date so that, ultimately, the cumulative amount recognized over the vesting period is based on the number of options that eventually vest. Fair value is calculated using the Black Scholes option pricing model, which requires the input of highly subjective assumptions, including the volatility of share prices, forfeiture rate and expected life and changes in subjective input assumptions that can materially affect the fair value estimate. The Company estimates the expected forfeiture rate of equity-settled share-based compensation based on historical experience and management’s expectation.

 

Consideration received upon the exercise of stock options is credited to share capital, at which time the related contributed surplus is transferred to share capital.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

3. Significant accounting policies (continued):

 

(n) Business combinations:

 

The Company accounts for business combinations using the acquisition accounting method. The total purchase price is allocated to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on fair values as at the date of acquisition. Goodwill as at the date of acquisition is measured as the excess of the aggregate of the consideration transferred and the amount of any non-controlling interests in the acquired company over the net of the acquisition date fair values of the identifiable assets acquired and the liabilities assumed. Any non-controlling interest in the acquired company are measured at the non-controlling interests’ proportionate share of the identifiable assets and liabilities of the acquired business.

 

Best estimates and assumptions are used in the purchase price allocation process to accurately value assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the business combination date. These estimates and assumptions are inherently uncertain and subject to refinement. As a result, during the measurement period, which may be up to one year from the business combination date, the Company may record adjustments to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed, with the corresponding offset to goodwill. On conclusion of the measurement period or final determination of the values of the assets acquired or liabilities assumed, whichever comes first, any subsequent adjustments are recorded in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss in the period in which the adjustments were determined.

 

Any deferred and contingent consideration is measured at fair value at the date of acquisition. If an obligation to pay contingent consideration that meets the definition of a financial instrument is classified as equity, then it is not remeasured and the settlement is accounted for within equity. Otherwise, other contingent consideration is remeasured at fair value at each reporting date and subsequent changes in the fair value of the contingent consideration is recognized as part of the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss in the period in which the adjustments were determined.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

3. Significant accounting policies (continued):

 

(o) Intangible assets:

 

The Company classifies intangible assets, obtained through acquisitions, as definite lived assets. Intangible assets consist of covenants not to compete and a management service agreement with a professional organization. These intangible assets are recorded at cost and are amortized over their estimated useful lives, as follows:

 

         
Covenants not to compete     5 years  
Management services agreement          15 years  
         

 

The Company reviews the appropriateness of the amortization period relating to the definite lived intangible assets annually.

 

(p) Provisions:

 

Provisions are recognized when the Company has a present legal or constructive obligation as a result of past events, it is more likely than not that an outflow of resources will be required to settle the obligation, and the amount can be reliably estimated. Provisions are measured based on management’s best estimate of the expenditure required to settle the obligation at the end of the reporting period and are discounted to their present value where the effect is material.

 

(q) Finance income and finance costs:

 

Finance income comprises interest income on cash equivalents recognized in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss as it accrues, using the effective interest method. Finance costs comprise interest expense on borrowings and lease liabilities that are recognized in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

3. Significant accounting policies (continued):

 

(r) Contingencies:

 

Contingent liabilities are possible obligations whose existence will be confirmed only on the occurrence or non-occurrence of uncertain future events outside the Company’s control, or present obligations that are not recognized because it is not probable that an outflow of economic benefit would be required to settle the obligation or the amount cannot be measured reliably.

 

Contingent liabilities are not recognized but are disclosed in the notes to the consolidated financial statements, including an estimate of their potential financial effect and uncertainties relating to the amount or timing of any outflow, unless the possibility of settlement is remote. In assessing loss contingencies related to legal proceedings that are pending against the Company or unasserted claims that may result in such proceedings, the Company, with assistance from its legal counsel, evaluates the perceived merits of any legal proceedings or unasserted claims as well as the perceived merits of the amount of relief sought or expected to be sought.

 

(s) Fair value measurement:

 

Fair value is the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date, regardless of whether that price is directly observable or estimated using another valuation technique. In estimating the fair value of an asset or a liability, the Company takes into account the characteristics of the asset or liability if market participants would take those characteristics into account when pricing the asset or liability at the measurement date.

 

The Company categorizes its financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value into one of three different levels depending on the observability of the inputs used in the measurement.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

3. Significant accounting policies (continued):

 

· Level 1 - This level includes assets and liabilities measured at fair value based on unadjusted quoted prices for identical assets and liabilities in active markets that are accessible at the measurement date.

 

· Level 2 - This level includes valuations determined using directly or indirectly observable inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1. Derivative instruments in this category are valued using models or other standard valuation techniques derived from observable market inputs.

 

· Level 3 - This level includes valuations based on inputs which are less observable, unavailable or where the observable data does not support a significant portion of the instruments’ fair value.

 

4. Recent accounting pronouncements:

 

(a) Adoption of IFRS 16:

 

IFRS 16 has replaced IAS 17, Leases (“IAS 17”). IFRS 16 introduces a single accounting model for lessees and for all leases with a term of more than 12 months, unless the underlying asset is of low value. A lessee will be required to recognize a right-of-use asset, representing its right to use the underlying asset, and a lease liability, representing its obligation to make lease payments. The accounting treatment for lessors will remain largely the same as under IAS 17. The standard was effective for the Company as of January 1, 2019.

 

The Company has applied IFRS 16 using the modified retrospective approach, under which the cumulative effect of the initial application is recognized in net assets at January 1, 2019. The prior year figures were not adjusted.

 

Prior to adopting IFRS 16, the operating lease commitments as at December 31, 2018 were $14,604,498. The difference between the total of the minimum lease payments set out in Note 9 of the 2018 audited consolidated financial statements and the total lease liabilities recognized on transition was a result of the inclusion of lease payments beyond minimum commitments relating to reasonably certain renewal periods or extension options that had not yet been exercised as at December 31, 2018, partially offset by the effect of discounting on the minimum lease payments.

 

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

4. Recent accounting pronouncements (continued):

 

When applying IFRS 16 to leases previously classified as operating leases, practical expedients were available to the Company. The Company applied a single discount rate to a portfolio of leases with similar characteristics and used hindsight in determining the lease term where the contract contains purchase, terminations or extension options. Additionally, the Company relied upon the assessment of whether leases were onerous under the requirements of IAS 37, Provisions, contingent liabilities and contingent assets as at December 31, 2018 as an alternative to reviewing the right-of-use assets for impairment.

 

The Company does not have any contracts for which they are the lessor.

 

Adjusted opening balance as at January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective approach:

 

    December 31,           January 1,  
    2018     IFRS 16     2019  
Assets                  
                   
Cash   $ 9,381,600     $     $ 9,381,600  
Accounts receivable     7,131,661             7,131,661  
Prepaid expenses and other     1,637,736       (507,257 )     1,130,479  
Property, plant and equipment     911,466             911,466  
Right-of-use assets           14,477,970       14,477,970  
                         
Total Assets   $ 19,062,463     $ 13,970,713     $ 33,033,176  
                         
Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity (Deficit)                        
                         
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities   $ 4,059,398     $ (301,509 )   $ 3,757,889  
Lease liability loans payable           14,272,222       14,272,222  
Loans payable     281,130             281,130  
Non-controlling interest loans     81,170             81,170  
Common shares     26,882,622             26,882,622  
Contributed Surplus     1,745,079             1,745,079  
Retained earnings     (14,531,401 )           (14,531,401 )
Non-controlling interest     544,465             544,465  
Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity (Deficit)   $ 19,062,463     $ 13,970,713     $ 33,033,176  

 

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

4. Recent accounting pronouncements (continued):

 

 

(b) Recent accounting pronouncements not yet adopted:

 

Certain pronouncements were issued by the IASB that are mandatory for accounting periods after December 31, 2019. There are no recent accounting pronouncements that are applicable or that are expected to have a significant impact on the Company.

 

5. Business acquisitions:

 

On September 26, 2019, the Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, TMS US, completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding membership interests of each of Achieve TMS Centers, LLC and Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC (collectively “Achieve TMS”) for a purchase price of $10,596,912 (net of Achieve TMS’ cash), of which $2,611,044 of the purchase price was satisfied through the issuance of an aggregate of 1,431,736 common shares of the Company to the vendors and the remainder was settled in cash (the “Acquisition”). The common shares issued as partial consideration for the purchase price were valued at C$2.42 per common share, based on a price per common share equal to the volume-weighted average trading price of the Company’s common shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange for the five trading days ending two trading days prior to the closing of the Acquisition.

 

In addition, a portion of the purchase price payable in respect of the Acquisition is subject to an earn-out based on the earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) achieved by Achieve TMS during the twelve-month period following the closing of the Acquisition. As at December 31, 2019, the Company estimates the purchase price payable in respect to the earn out to be nil.

 

Achieve TMS operates TMS Centers in California, Oregon and Alaska, with a particular focus on deep TMS therapy. The Acquisition provides the Company with a national footprint of over 100 TMS Centers and a platform for further West Coast expansion through excellent brand recognition, physician reputation and high visibility within the West Coast TMS community.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

5. Business acquisitions (continued):

 

The Acquisition has been accounted for using the acquisition method of accounting. The allocation of the purchase price consideration for the Acquisition is preliminary and is comprised as follows:

 

Purchase consideration:      
Cash   $ 6,886,812  
Share issuance     2,611,044  
Deferred and contingent consideration     1,274,402  
    $ 10,772,258  
Net assets acquired:        
Cash     175,346  
Current assets     886,392  
Capital and other assets     6,321,730  
Current liabilities     (1,233,400 )
Long-term liabilities     (5,415,460 )
Covenants not to compete     310,000  
Management services agreement     6,020,000  
      7,064,608  
         
Goodwill   $ 3,707,650  

 

During the year ended December 31, 2016, Achieve TMS entered into a management services agreement (the “MSA”) with a professional organization owned by the two Medical Directors of California. Pursuant to the MSA, the Company provides the professional corporation with management, administration and support services. All of the services provided by the Company are on a cost basis whereby the professional corporation reimburses the Company for costs incurred in connection with the provision of such services. There is no mark-up charged by the professional corporation for the provision of the services. This MSA is the key intangible asset identified as part of the Acquisition and drives the value of the business. The MSA is valued using the multi-period excess earnings method.

 

The Acquisition purchase agreement included a covenant not to compete for the sellers. Pursuant to this covenant, the sellers are not allowed to compete with Achieve TMS for a period of 5 years from the date of the Acquisition. This intangible asset is valued using the with-and-without method.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

5. Business acquisitions (continued):

 

From the date of the Acquisition up to and including December 31, 2019, Achieve TMS has contributed service revenues and profit of $3,089,205 and $762,441, respectively.

 

The purchase price allocation is considered to be preliminary and subsequent adjustments during the measurement period will occur as the Company finalizes the purchase price payable in respect of the earn-out, if any. Goodwill is primarily attributable to the ability to expand the Company’s national footprint and the synergies expected to result from combining Achieve TMS’ operations with the Company. Goodwill is deductible for tax purposes.

 

For the year ended December 31, 2019, $385,674 of Acquisition-related costs have been incurred and are included in corporate, general and administrative expenses on the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss.

 

6. Property, plant and equipment:

 

    Computer
equipment
    Furniture and
equipment
    Leasehold
improvements
    TMS devices     Total  
Cost                                        
Balance, December 31, 2017   $ 11,491     $ 48,952     $ 53,139     $ 345,794     $ 459,376  
Additions           154,366       3,100       654,632       812,098  
Asset disposal     (11,491 )           (52,535 )           (64,026 )
                                         
Balance, December 31, 2018           203,318       3,704       1,000,426       1,207,448  
Additions                 179,399       847,883       1,027,282  
Asset disposal           (27,902 )           (55,325 )     (83,227 )
                                         
Balance, December 31, 2019   $     $ 175,416     $ 183,103     $ 1,792,984     $ 2,151,503  
                                         
Accumulated depreciation                                        
                                         
Balance, December 31, 2017   $ 11,491     $ 38,832     $ 52,535     $ 180,248     $ 283,106  
Depreciation           15,853       604       60,445       76,902  
Asset disposal     (11,491 )           (52,535 )           (64,026 )
                                         
Balance, December 31, 2018           54,685       604       240,693       295,982  
Depreciation           28,723       4,687       157,184       190,594  
Asset disposal                       (1,404 )     (1,404 )
                                         
Balance, December 31, 2019   $     $ 83,408     $ 5,291     $ 396,473     $ 485,172  
                                         
Net book value                                        
                                         
Balance, December 31, 2018   $     $ 148,633     $ 3,100     $ 759,733     $ 911,466  
Balance, December 31, 2019           92,008       177,812       1,396,511       1,666,331  

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

7. Intangible assets:

 

    Management
service agreement
    Covenant not
to complete
    Total  
Cost                        
                         
Balance, December 31, 2018   $     $     $  
Additions (note 5)     6,020,000       310,000       6,330,000  
                         
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 6,020,000     $ 310,000     $ 6,330,000  
                         
Accumulated amortization                        
                         
Balance, December 31, 2018   $     $     $  
Amortization     105,907       16,362       122,269  
                         
Balance, December 31, 2019   $ 105,907     $ 16,362     $ 122,269  
                         
Net book value                        
                         
Balance, December 31, 2018   $     $     $  
Balance, December 31, 2019     5,914,093       293,638       6,207,731  

 

8. Right-of-use assets and leases liabilities:

 

The Company enters into lease agreements related to TMS devices and center locations. These lease agreements range from a year to eight years in length.

 

Right-of-use assets are initially measured at cost, which comprises the initial amount of the lease liability adjusted for any lease payments made at or before the commencement date, plus any initial direct costs incurred.

 

Right-of-use assets, January 1, 2019   $ 14,477,970  
Additions to right-of-use assets     14,793,767  
Depreciation on right-of-use assets     (3,840,781 )
         
Right-of-use assets, December 31, 2019   $ 25,430,956  

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

8. Right-of-use assets and leases liabilities (continued):

 

Lease liabilities have been measured by discounting future lease payments using a rate implicit in the lease or the Company’s incremental borrowing rate at January 1, 2019. The Company’s incremental borrowing rate applied upon transition and during the year ended December 31, 2019 is 10%.

 

Lease liabilities, January 1, 2019   $ 14,272,222  
Additions to lease liability     14,459,526  
Interest expense on lease liabilities     1,816,464  
Payments of lease liabilities     (5,156,455 )
         
Lease liabilities, December 31, 2019   $ 25,391,757  
Less: current portion of lease liabilities     4,707,853  
         
Long term portion of lease liabilities   $ 20,683,904  

 

9. Accounts payable and accrued liabilities:

 

The accounts payable and accrued liabilities are as follows:

 

    December 31,     December 31,  
    2019     2018  
Accounts payable   $ 4,639,924     $ 1,865,296  
Accrued liabilities     2,371,925       2,194,102  
                 
Total   $ 7,011,849     $ 4,059,398  

 

10. Loans payable:

 

(a) Bank loans:

 

    December 31,     December 31,  
    2019     2018  
Bank loans   $ 251,499     $ 281,130  
Short-term portion of loans payable     101,107       97,858  
                 
Long-term portion of loans payable   $ 150,392     $ 183,272  

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

10. Loans payable (continued):

 

During the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company assumed loans from four separate banking institutions that were previously extended for the purchase of TMS devices to non-controlling interest holder partners. The device loans were assumed as part of partnerships with local physicians, behavioural health groups or other strategic investors, which own minority interests in certain center subsidiaries. These device loans bear an average interest rate of 10% with average monthly blended interest and capital payments of $1,575 and mature during the years ended December 31, 2019 - December 31, 2023. There are no covenants associated with these loans.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company assumed loans from two separate banking institutions that were previously extended for the purchase of TMS devices to non-controlling interest holder partners. The device loans were assumed as part of partnerships with local physicians, behavioural health groups or other investors, which own minority interests in certain center subsidiaries. These device loans bear an average interest rate of 13% with average monthly blended interest and capital payments of $1,756 and mature during the year ended December 31, 2021.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company repaid TMS device loans totalling $118,727.

 

(b) Non-controlling interest loans:

 

    December 31,
2019
    December 31
2018
 
Non-controlling interest loans   $ 69,674     $ 81,170  

 

The non-controlling interest holder partners of the Company, from time to time, provide additional capital contributions in the form of capital loans to the Company’s subsidiaries. These loans bear interest at a rate of 10%, compounded on a monthly basis. The loans are unsecured and are repayable subject to certain liquidity and solvency requirements and are classified as current liabilities.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

11. Provisions:

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company provided for $18,792 (December 31, 2018 - nil) relating to the planned restructuring of its billing department. The restructuring is a direct result of ongoing efforts to optimize the Company’s billing and reimbursement process subsequent to system conversions which were completed during the year ended December 31, 2019.

 

12. Common shares:

 

The Company is authorized to issue an unlimited number of common shares and an unlimited number of preferred shares, issuable in series. As at December 31, 2019 and 2018, there were nil preferred shares issued and outstanding.

 

          Total  
    Number     amount  
December 31, 2018     47,524,375     $ 26,882,622  
Common shares issuances:                
Public offering     4,025,000       8,720,540  
Private placement     5,384,000       11,883,667  
Acquisition purchase price consideration     1,431,736       2,611,044  
Option exercise     53,332       87,883  
December 31, 2019     58,418,443     $ 50,185,756  

 

On May 17, 2019, the Company issued a total of 4,025,000 common shares at an offering price of C$3.25 per common share on a “bought deal” public offering basis for aggregate gross proceeds of $9,735,246 (C$13,081,250) (the “Public Offering”) and incurred transaction costs of $1,014,706, of which $152,145 related to broker warrants (see note 13(b)).

 

Concurrent with the Public Offering, the Company issued a total of 5,384,000 common shares at an offering price of C$3.25 per common share on a “bought deal” private placement basis for aggregate gross proceeds of $13,022,252 (C$17,498,000) (the “Private Placement”) and incurred transaction costs of $1,138,585 of which $203,515 related to broker warrants (see note 13(b)).

 

On September 26, 2019, the Company completed the Acquisition (see note 5). As part of the purchase consideration, $2,611,044 was satisfied by the issuance of 1,431,736 common shares of the Company at a value of C$2.42 per common share.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

13. Contributed surplus:

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company issued a total of 53,332 common shares upon the exercise of vested stock options (see note 13(a)).

 

Contributed surplus is comprised of share-based compensation and broker warrants.

 

(a) Share-based compensation - options:

 

The Company operates an equity-settled, stock options-based payment compensation plan, under which the Company pays equity instruments of the Company as consideration in exchange for employee and similar services. The plan is open to employees, directors, officers and consultants of the Company and its affiliates.

 

The fair value of the grant of the options is recognized in the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss as an expense. The total amount to be expensed is determined by the fair value of the options granted. The total expense is recognized over the vesting period which is the period over which all of the service vesting conditions are satisfied. The vesting period is determined at the discretion of the Board and has ranged from immediate vesting to over three years. The maximum number of common shares reserved for issuance, in the aggregate, under the Company’s option plan (and under any other share compensation arrangements of the Company) is 10% of the aggregate number of common shares outstanding. As at December 31, 2019, this represented 5,841,844 common shares.

 

The options have an expiry date of ten years from the date of issue.

 

    December 31, 2019     December 31, 2018  
          Weighted           Weighted  
    Number     average     Number     average  
    of stock     exercise     of stock     exercise  
    options     price     options     price  
Outstanding, beginning of year     2,670,000     $ 1.17       2,219,500     $ 1.00  
Granted     385,000       2.63       450,500       1.97  
Exercised     (53,332 )     1.02              
Cancelled     (3,500 )     1.00              
Outstanding, end of year     2,998,168     $ 1.36       2,670,000     $ 1.17  

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

13. Contributed surplus (continued):

 

The total number of stock options exercisable as at December 31, 2019 was 2,059,001 (December 31, 2018 - 1,382,667).

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company recorded a total share-based options compensation expense of $690,230 (December 31, 2018 - $467,627).

 

The following stock options were granted during the year ended December 31, 2019:

 

(i) The fair value of the stock options granted on June 28, 2019 was estimated to be $1.13 per option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 45.74% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of 4.5 years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 1.46%.

 

(ii) The fair value of the stock options granted on May 9, 2019 was estimated to be $1.46 per option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 46.48% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of ten years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 1.68%.

 

(iii) The fair value of the stock options granted on March 27, 2019 was estimated to be $1.44 per option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 47.88% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of ten years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 1.62%.

 

The following stock options were granted during the year ended December 31, 2018:

 

(i) The fair value of the stock options granted on November 12, 2018 was estimated to be $1.60 per option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 52.27% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of ten years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 2.09%.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

13. Contributed surplus (continued):

 

(ii) The fair value of the stock options granted on October 3, 2018 was estimated to be $1.26 per option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 51.86% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of ten years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 2.09%.

 

(iii) The fair value of the stock options granted on March 31, 2018 was estimated to be $0.95 per option using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 52.47% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of ten years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 2.09%.

 

As at December 31, 2019, the total compensation cost not yet recognized related to options granted is approximately $292,877 (December 31, 2018 - $503,400) and will be recognized over the remaining average vesting period of 0.44 years (December 31, 2018 - 0.8 years).

 

(b) Broker warrants:

 

    December 31, 2019     December 31, 2018  
          Weighted           Weighted  
    Number     average     Number     average  
    of broker     exercise     of broker     exercise  
    warrants     price     warrants     price  
Outstanding, beginning of year     503,646     $ 2.00           $  
Granted     564,540       2.41       503,646       2.00  
Outstanding, end of year     1,068,186     $ 2.22       503,646     $ 2.00  

 

The following broker warrants were issued during the year ended December 31, 2019:

 

(i) On May 17, 2019, in connection with the Public Offering and the Private Placement, the Company issued 241,500 and 323,040 broker warrants, respectively, to the agents of such transactions. Each broker warrant vested upon issuance thereof and entitles the holder to acquire one common share of the Company at an exercise price of C$3.25 and expires two years from the date of issue.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

13. Contributed surplus (continued):

 

(ii) The fair value of the broker warrants granted on May 17, 2019 was estimated to be $0.63 per broker warrant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 44.83% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of 2.0 years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 1.69%.

 

The aggregate fair value of the issued broker warrants granted of $355,660 is recognized as part of the transaction costs in respect of the Public Offering and the Private Placement which is reflected in the common shares equity reserve. Each broker warrant vests immediately upon the issuance thereof and has a term to expiry of two years from the date of issue.

 

The following broker warrants were issued during the year ended December 31, 2018:

 

In connection with an offering by the Company, on a private placement basis, of special warrants on March 16, 2018 and June 7, 2018, the Company issued 313,920 and 39,726 broker warrants, respectively, that vested immediately to the agent in respect of the special warrants offering. Each broker warrant entitles the agent to acquire one common share of the Company at an exercise price of $2.00 and expires two years from the date of issue.

 

(i) The fair value of the broker warrants granted on March 16, 2018 was estimated to be $0.61 per broker warrant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 52.46% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of 2.0 years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 2.14%.

 

(ii) The fair value of the broker warrants granted on June 7, 2018 was estimated to be $0.61 per broker warrant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 52.16% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of 2.0 years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 2.27%.

 

The aggregate fair value of the issued broker warrants granted for the year ended December 31, 2018 of $215,724 is recognized as part of the transaction costs of the special warrant offering which is reflected in the common shares equity reserve. The vesting period for the broker warrant is immediate.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

13. Contributed surplus (continued):

 

In addition, on June 29, 2018, the Company issued 150,000 broker warrants, that vested immediately, to the agent of the special warrants offering in connection with certain advisory services provided to the Company. Each broker warrant entitles the agent to acquire one common share of the Company at an exercise price of $2.00 per broker warrant until March 16, 2020. The fair value of these issued broker warrants recorded as a corporate, general and administrative expense during the year ended December 31, 2018 was $85,500.

 

The fair value of the broker warrants granted on June 29, 2018 was estimated to be $0.57 per broker warrant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: volatility of 52.66% calculated based on a comparable company; remaining life of 1.7 years; expected dividend yield of 0%; forfeiture rate of 0% and an annual risk-free interest rate of 2.17%.

 

The weighted average contractual life of the outstanding broker warrants as at December 31, 2019 was 0.8 years (December 31, 2018 - 1.2 years).

 

The total number of broker warrants exercisable as at December 31, 2019 was 1,068,186 (December 31, 2018 - 503,646).

 

The aggregate fair value of the broker warrants granted during the year ended December 31, 2019 was $656,884 (December 31, 2018 - $301,224).

 

14. Contingencies:

 

The Company may be involved in certain legal matters arising from time to time in the normal course of business. The Company records provisions that reflect management’s best estimate of any potential liability relating to these matters. The resolution of these matters is not expected to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

15. Pensions:

 

The Company has adopted a defined contribution pension plan for its employees whereby the Company matches contributions made by participating employees up to a maximum of 3.5% of such employees’ annual salaries. During the year ended December 31, 2019, contributions, which were recorded as expenses within direct center and patient care costs, other regional and center support costs and corporate, general and administrative expenses, amounted to $218,207 (December 31, 2018 – nil).

 

16. Income taxes:

 

(a) Numerical reconciliation of income tax expense:

 

At December 31, 2019, the Company has approximately $23,500,000 of U.S. non-capital loss carry-forward available to reduce future years’ taxable income which will expire between 2033 and 2039.

 

The Company’s provision for income taxes is reconciled as follows:

 

    December 31,     December 31,  
    2019     2018  
Accounting net loss before income tax   $ (15,852,289 )   $ (4,709,287 )
                 
Income tax provision at statutory rate – 25.95% (December 31, 2018 - 39%)   $ (4,113,669 )   $ (1,222,060 )
Non-controlling interest     (14,945 )     (64,552 )
Non-deductible expenses and other permanent differences     119,258       26,041  
Future rate differential     (81,857 )     (48,275 )
Change in unrecognized deferred tax assets     4,091,213       1,308,846  
                 
Income tax expense at effective rate   $     $  

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

16. Income taxes (continued):

 

(b) Deferred tax asset/liability:

 

Deferred tax assets and liabilities recognized in the statements of financial position relate to the following:

 

    December 31,     December 31,  
    2019     2018  
Book value in excess of tax costs   $ (220,302 )   $ (151,918 )
Property, plant and equipment     220,302       151,918  
                 
Unrecognized total deferred tax assets   $     $  

 

The following temporary differences have not been recognized in the Company’s consolidated financial statements:

 

    December 31,     December 31,  
    2019     2018  
Property, plant and equipment   $     $  
Non-capital loss carry-forward     23,511,648       9,572,112  
Other, including stock-based compensation     1,993,179       1,214,881  
Intangible assets     263,732        
                 
Unrecognized total deferred tax assets   $ 25,768,559     $ 10,786,993  

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

17. Risk management arising from financial instruments:

 

In the normal course of business, the Company is exposed to risks related to financial instruments that can affect its operating performance. These risks, and the actions taken to manage them, are as follows:

 

(a) Fair value:

 

The carrying value of cash, accounts receivable and accounts payable and accrued liabilities approximates their fair value given their short-term nature.

 

The carrying value of the non-current portion of loans payable, finance lease obligations and deferred and contingent consideration approximates their fair value given the difference between the discount rates used to recognize the liabilities in the consolidated balance sheets and the market rates of interest is insignificant.

 

Financial instruments are classified into one of the following categories: financial assets or financial liabilities.

 

The following table summarizes information regarding the carrying value of the Company’s financial instruments:

 

    December 31,     December 31,  
    2019     2018  
Cash   $ 7,947,607     $ 9,381,600  
Accounts receivable     10,091,087       7,131,661  
                 
Items classified as financial assets   $ 18,038,694     $ 16,513,261  
                 
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities   $ 7,011,849     $ 4,059,398  
Short-term portion of loans payable     101,107       97,858  
Non-controlling interest loans     69,674       81,170  
Long-term portion of loans payable     150,392       183,272  
Current portion of lease liabilities     4,707,853        
Long-term portion of lease liabilities     20,683,904        
Deferred and contingent consideration     1,274,402        
                 
Items classified as financial liabilities   $ 33,999,181     $ 4,421,698  

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

17. Risk management arising from financial instruments (continued):

 

(b) Credit risk:

 

Credit risk arises from the potential that a counterparty will fail to perform its obligations. The Company is exposed to credit risk from patients and third-party payors including federal and state agencies (under the Medicare programs), managed care health plans and commercial insurance companies. The Company’s exposure to credit risk is mitigated in large part due to the majority of the accounts receivable balance being receivable from large, creditworthy medical insurance companies and government-backed health plans. The Company recognizes loss allowances for expected credit losses on financial assets measured at amortized cost when necessary. Loss allowances for accounts receivables are always measured at an amount equal to the expected credit losses for the subsequent 12-month period.

 

(c) Liquidity risk:

 

Liquidity risk is the risk that the Company may encounter difficulty in raising funds to meet its financial commitments or can only do so at excessive cost. The Company ensures there is sufficient liquidity to meet its short-term business requirements, taking into account its anticipated cash flows from operations, its holdings of cash and its ability to draw on committed funds from its existing shareholders or to raise funds from external shareholders.

 

(d) Currency risk:

 

Currency risk is the risk to the Company’s earnings that arises from fluctuations in foreign exchange rates and the degree of volatility of those rates. The Company has minimal exposure to currency risk as substantially all of the Company’s revenue, expenses, assets and liabilities are denominated in U.S. dollars. The Company pays certain vendors and payroll costs in Canadian dollars from time to time, but due to the limited size and nature of these payments it does not give rise to significant currency risk.

 

(e) Interest rate risk:

 

Interest rate risk is the risk that the fair value of future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes in market interest rates. The Company does not have financial instruments that result in material exposure.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

18. Capital management:

 

The Company’s objective is to maintain a capital structure that supports its long-term growth strategy, maintains creditor and customer confidence, and maximizes shareholder value.

 

The capital structure of the Company consists of its shareholders’ equity (deficit), including contributed surplus and deficit, as well as loans payable.

 

The Company’s primary uses of capital are to finance operations, finance new center start-up costs, increase non-cash working capital and capital expenditures. The Company’s objectives when managing capital are to ensure the Company will continue to have enough liquidity so it can provide its services to its customers and returns to its shareholders. The Company, as part of its annual budgeting process, evaluates its estimated annual cash requirements to fund planned expansion activities and working capital requirements of existing operations. Based on this cash budget and taking into account its anticipated cash flows from operations and its holdings of cash, the Company validates that it has the sufficient capital or the ability to draw the required funds from shareholder commitments.

 

19. Related party transactions:

 

(a) Compensation of key management personnel:

 

The Company transacts with key individuals from management who have authority and responsibility to plan, direct, and control the activities of the Company. Key management personnel are defined as the executive officers of the Company, including the President and Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Marketing Officer and the Chief Medical Officer.

 

    December 31,     December 31,  
    2019     2018  
Salaries and bonuses   $ 1,619,150     $ 990,720  
Stock-based compensation     105,896       158,538  
Total   $ 1,725,046     $ 1,149,258  

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

19. Related party transactions (continued):

 

(b) Transactions with significant shareholder - Greybrook Health Inc.:

 

As at December 31, 2019, $58,954 is included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities for amounts payable for management services rendered and other overhead costs incurred by Greybrook Health Inc. in the ordinary course of business (December 31, 2018 - $96,144). These amounts were recorded at their exchange amount, being the amount agreed to by the parties.

 

(c) Loan from significant shareholder - Greybrook Health Inc.:

 

The significant shareholder Greybrook Health Inc. extended loans to the Company from time to time in order to fund ongoing expansion activities and operating losses. As at December 31, 2019, the balance of the loan was nil (December 31, 2018 - nil).

 

20. Basic and diluted loss per share:

 

    December 31,     December 31,  
    2019     2018  
Net loss attributable to the shareholders of:                
Greenbrook TMS   $ (15,909,879 )   $ (4,958,043 )
                 
Weighted average common shares
outstanding:
               
Basic and diluted     53,828,597       40,209,697  
                 
Loss per share:                
Basic and diluted   $ (0.30 )   $ (0.12 )

 

For the year ended December 31, 2019, the effect of 2,988,168 (December 31, 2018 - 2,670,000) options have been excluded from the diluted calculation because this effect would be anti-dilutive.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

21. Non-controlling interest:

 

As a result of operating agreements with each of the following non-wholly owned entities, the Company has control over these entities under IFRS, as the Company has power over all significant decisions made by these entities and thus 100% of the financial results of these subsidiaries are included in the Company’s consolidated financial results.

 

Name   Year
incorporated
    Ownership
interest
 
Greenbrook TMS Arlington LLC     2018       70 %
Greenbrook TMS Austin Central LLC     2018       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Cary LLC     2016       75 %
Greenbrook TMS Central Florida LLC     2019       90 %
Greenbrook TMS Chapel Hill LLC     2017       90 %
Greenbrook TMS Christiansburg LLC     2018       70 %
Greenbrook TMS Cleveland LLC     2018       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Connecticut LLC     2018       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Easton LLC     2017       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Fairfax LLC     2016       60 %
Greenbrook TMS Greensboro LLC     2017       70 %
Greenbrook TMS Houston LLC     2018       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Lynchburg LLC     2017       70 %
Greenbrook TMS Midlothian LLC     2016       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Mooresville LLC     2018       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Newport News, LLC     2016       75 %
Greenbrook TMS North Detroit LLC     2019       90 %
Greenbrook TMS North Raleigh LLC     2016       75 %
Greenbrook TMS Roanoke LLC     2017       70 %
Greenbrook TMS St. Louis LLC     2018       60 %
Greenbrook TMS St. Petersburg LLC     2019       90 %
Greenbrook TMS South Carolina LLC     2019       90 %
Greenbrook TMS West Hartford LLC     2018       80 %
Greenbrook TMS Wilmington LLC     2017       70 %
Greenbrook TMS Winston-Salem LLC     2018       80 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Ashburn, LLC     2015       51 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Charlottesville, LLC     2014       65 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Frederick, LLC     2015       75 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Glen Burnie, LLC     2015       70 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Greenbelt, LLC     2014       75 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Reston, LLC     2014       51 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Richmond, LLC     2014       65 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Rockville, LLC     2014       51 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Virginia Beach, LLC     2015       70 %
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Woodbridge, LLC     2016       70 %

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

21. Non-controlling interest (continued):

 

On May 5, 2018, the Company acquired a non-controlling ownership interest in TMS NeuroHealth Centers Kensington, LLC for $130,013. As a result, as at December 31, 2018, TMS NeuroHealth Centers Kensington, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company.

 

The following table summarizes the aggregate financial information for the above-noted entities, as at December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018:

 

    December 31,
2019
    December 31,
2018
 
Cash   $ 1,033,584     $ 1,367,644  
Accounts receivable, net     6,389,384       5,281,387  
Prepaid expenses and other     448,550       773,987  
Property, plant and equipment     889,798       775,857  
Right-of-use assets     10,348,295        
Account payable and accrued liabilities     1,237,548       1,035,544  
Lease liabilities     10,167,498        
Loans payable     5,280,287       5,304,284  
Profit attributable to the shareholders of Greenbrook TMS     1,979,874       1,314,582  
Profit attributable to non-controlling interest     305,244       247,654  
Distributions paid to non-controlling interest     (866,630 )     (303,980 )
Subsidiary investment by non-controlling interest     405,000       600,100  
Historical subsidiary investment by non-controlling interest     600,791       691  

 

    December 31,
2019
    December 31,
2018
 
Revenue   $ 22,450,327     $ 14,579,995  
Net income attributable to the shareholders of Greenbrook TMS     732,500       438,753  
Net income attributable to non-controlling interest     57,590       248,756  

 

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

22. Expenses by nature:

 

The components of the Company’s other regional and center support costs include the following:

 

    December 31,
2019 
    December 31,
2018
 
Salaries and bonuses   $ 7,122,556     $ 3,075,724  
Marketing expenses     2,705,891       1,946,581  
Total   $ 9,828,447     $ 5,022,305  

 

The components of the Company’s corporate, general and administrative expenses include the following:

 

    December 31,
2019
    December 31,
 2018
 
Salaries and bonuses   $ 7,063,682     $ 2,607,823  
Bad debt expense     2,894,989        
Marketing expenses     1,934,227       961,094  
Professional and legal fees     2,336,835       744,917  
Computer supplies and software     629,176       720,665  
Transaction costs     385,674       467,375  
Travel, meals and entertainment     404,893       267,533  
Other     721,870       753,719  
Total   $ 16,371,346     $ 6,523,126  

 

Bad debt expense relates to the write off of accounts receivables that were identified during the migration to a scalable billing and reimbursement platform completed during the year ended December 31, 2019 (December 31, 2018 - nil).

 

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Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

(Expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise stated)

 

Years ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

 

 

23. Subsequent event:

 

Stock option grant:

 

On February 3, 2020, 797,500 stock options were approved for issuance to certain key employees and consultants of the Company. The stock options will have an exercise price equal to the closing price of the common shares of the Company on the Toronto Stock Exchange on March 31, 2020, a life of 10 years from the grant date and are subject to the terms and conditions of the stock option plan of the Company.

 

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Exhibit 99.18

 

FORM 52-109F1

CERTIFICATION OF ANNUAL FILINGS
FULL CERTIFICATE

 

I, William Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer of Greenbrook TMS Inc., certify the following:

 

1. Review: I have reviewed the AIF, annual financial statements and annual MD&A, including, for greater certainty, all documents and information that are incorporated by reference in the AIF (together, the "annual filings") of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the "issuer") for the financial year ended December 31, 2019.

 

2. No misrepresentations: Based on my knowledge, having exercised reasonable diligence, the annual filings do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated or that is necessary to make a statement not misleading in light of the circumstances under which it was made, for the period covered by the annual filings.

 

3. Fair presentation: Based on my knowledge, having exercised reasonable diligence, the annual financial statements together with the other financial information included in the annual filings fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, financial performance and cash flows of the issuer, as of the date of and for the periods presented in the annual filings.

 

4. Responsibility: The issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (DC&P) and internal control over financial reporting (ICFR), as those terms are defined in National Instrument 52-109 Certification of Disclosure in Issuers' Annual and Interim Filings, for the issuer.

 

5. Design: Subject to the limitations, if any, described in paragraphs 5.2 and 5.3, the issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I have, as at the financial year end:

 

(a) designed DC&P, or caused it to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance that:

 

(i) material information relating to the issuer is made known to us by others, particularly during the period in which the annual filings are being prepared; and

 

 

 

 

(ii) information required to be disclosed by the issuer in its annual filings, interim filings or other reports filed or submitted by it under securities legislation is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in securities legislation; and

 

(b) designed ICFR, or caused it to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with the issuer's GAAP.

 

5.1 Control framework: The control framework the issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I used to design the issuer's ICFR is the framework established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) (COSO framework published by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).

 

5.2 ICFR — material weakness relating to design: N/A

 

5.3 Limitation on scope of design: N/A

 

6. Evaluation: The issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I have:

 

(a) evaluated, or caused to be evaluated under our supervision, the effectiveness of the issuer's DC&P at the financial year end and the issuer has disclosed in its annual MD&A our conclusions about the effectiveness of DC&P at the financial year end based on that evaluation; and

 

(b) evaluated, or caused to be evaluated under our supervision, the effectiveness of the issuer's ICFR at the financial year end and the issuer has disclosed in its annual MD&A:

 

(i) our conclusions about the effectiveness of ICFR at the financial year end based on that evaluation; and

 

(ii) for each material weakness relating to operation existing at the financial year end:

 

(A) a description of the material weakness;

 

(B) the impact of the material weakness on the issuer's financial reporting and its ICFR; and

 

(C) the issuer's current plans, if any, or any actions already undertaken, for remediating the material weakness.

 

7. Reporting changes in ICFR: The issuer has disclosed in its annual MD&A any change in the issuer's ICFR that occurred during the period beginning on January 1, 2019 and ended on December 31, 2019 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the issuer's ICFR.

 

 

 

 

8. Reporting to the issuer's auditors and board of directors or audit committee: The issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of ICFR, to the issuer's auditors, and the board of directors or the audit committee of the board of directors any fraud that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the issuer's ICFR.

 

Date: March 10, 2020

 

(Signed) "William Leonard"

William Leonard

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.19

 

FORM 52-109F1

CERTIFICATION OF ANNUAL FILINGS
FULL CERTIFICATE

 

I, Erns Loubser, Chief Financial Officer of Greenbrook TMS Inc., certify the following:

 

1. Review: I have reviewed the AIF, annual financial statements and annual MD&A, including, for greater certainty, all documents and information that are incorporated by reference in the AIF (together, the "annual filings") of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the "issuer") for the financial year ended December 31, 2019.

 

2. No misrepresentations: Based on my knowledge, having exercised reasonable diligence, the annual filings do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated or that is necessary to make a statement not misleading in light of the circumstances under which it was made, for the period covered by the annual filings.

 

3. Fair presentation: Based on my knowledge, having exercised reasonable diligence, the annual financial statements together with the other financial information included in the annual filings fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, financial performance and cash flows of the issuer, as of the date of and for the periods presented in the annual filings.

 

4. Responsibility: The issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (DC&P) and internal control over financial reporting (ICFR), as those terms are defined in National Instrument 52-109 Certification of Disclosure in Issuers' Annual and Interim Filings, for the issuer.

 

5. Design: Subject to the limitations, if any, described in paragraphs 5.2 and 5.3, the issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I have, as at the financial year end:

 

(a) designed DC&P, or caused it to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance that:

 

(i) material information relating to the issuer is made known to us by others, particularly during the period in which the annual filings are being prepared; and

 

 

 

 

(ii) information required to be disclosed by the issuer in its annual filings, interim filings or other reports filed or submitted by it under securities legislation is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in securities legislation; and

 

(b) designed ICFR, or caused it to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with the issuer's GAAP.

 

5.1 Control framework: The control framework the issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I used to design the issuer's ICFR is the framework established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) (COSO framework published by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).

 

5.2 ICFR — material weakness relating to design: N/A

 

5.3 Limitation on scope of design: N/A

 

6. Evaluation: The issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I have:

 

(a) evaluated, or caused to be evaluated under our supervision, the effectiveness of the issuer's DC&P at the financial year end and the issuer has disclosed in its annual MD&A our conclusions about the effectiveness of DC&P at the financial year end based on that evaluation; and

 

(b) evaluated, or caused to be evaluated under our supervision, the effectiveness of the issuer's ICFR at the financial year end and the issuer has disclosed in its annual MD&A:

 

(i) our conclusions about the effectiveness of ICFR at the financial year end based on that evaluation; and

 

(ii) for each material weakness relating to operation existing at the financial year end:

 

(A) a description of the material weakness;

 

(B) the impact of the material weakness on the issuer's financial reporting and its ICFR; and

 

(C) the issuer's current plans, if any, or any actions already undertaken, for remediating the material weakness.

 

7. Reporting changes in ICFR: The issuer has disclosed in its annual MD&A any change in the issuer's ICFR that occurred during the period beginning on January 1, 2019 and ended on December 31, 2019 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the issuer's ICFR.

 

 

 

 

8. Reporting to the issuer's auditors and board of directors or audit committee: The issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of ICFR, to the issuer's auditors, and the board of directors or the audit committee of the board of directors any fraud that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the issuer's ICFR.

 

Date: March 10, 2020

 

(Signed) "Erns Loubser"

Erns Loubser

Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.20

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS INC.

 

ANNUAL INFORMATION FORM

 

Year ended December 31, 2019

 

March 10, 2020

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Page

  

MEANING OF CERTAIN REFERENCES 1
FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION 1
MARKET AND INDUSTRY DATA 5
THE COMPANY 5
Industry Overview 6
business of the company 14
General Development of the Business 26
RISK FACTORS 28
DIVIDEND POLICY 47
DESCRIPTION OF SHARE CAPITAL 47
MARKET FOR SECURITIES 49
DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS 49
SECURITIES SUBJECT TO CONTRACTUAL RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER 55
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AND REGULATORY ACTIONS 55
PROMOTER 55
INTEREST OF MANAGEMENT AND OTHERS IN MATERIAL TRANSACTIONS 55
AUDITOR, TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR 55
MATERIAL CONTRACTS 56
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 56
Appendix A: AUDIT COMMITTEE CHARTER A-1

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MEANING OF CERTAIN REFERENCES

 

Unless otherwise noted or the context requires: (a) all references in this Annual Information Form to the “Company”, “Greenbrook”, “we”, “us” or “our” refer to Greenbrook TMS Inc. together with our subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, as of the date hereof; (b) all references to “federal” refer to the departments and agencies of the federal government of the United States of America; and (c) the defined terms below shall have the following meanings, respectively:

 

Fiscal 2017” means the financial year ended December 31, 2017 of the Company.

 

Fiscal 2018” means the financial year ended December 31, 2018 of the Company.

 

Fiscal 2019” means the financial year ended December 31, 2019 of the Company.

 

We present our financial statements in United States dollars and disclose certain financial information in this Annual Information Form in United States dollars. In this Annual Information Form, references to “$”, “US$” or “U.S. dollars” are to United States dollars and references to “C$” are to Canadian dollars. Certain totals, subtotals and percentages throughout this Annual Information Form may not reconcile due to rounding.

 

This Annual Information Form includes references to trademarks and trade names of other companies, which trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners. This Annual Information Form also includes references to certain of our trademarks and trade names which are protected under applicable intellectual property laws and are our property. See “Business of the Company – Intellectual Property”. Solely for convenience, trademarks and trade names referred to in this Annual Information Form may appear without the ® or TM symbol, but such references are not intended to indicate, in any way, that we or the applicable owner of such intellectual property rights will not assert, to the fullest extent under applicable law, our or their rights to these trademarks and trade names.

 

FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION

 

This Annual Information Form contains “forward-looking information” within the meaning of applicable securities laws in Canada. Forward-looking information may relate to our future financial outlook and anticipated events or results and may include information regarding our business, financial position, results of operations, business strategy, growth plans and strategies, technological development and implementation, budgets, operations, financial results, taxes, dividend policy, plans and objectives. Particularly, information regarding our expectations of future results, performance, achievements, prospects or opportunities or the markets in which we operate is forward-looking information. In some cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “outlook”, “forecasts”, “projection”, “prospects”, “strategy”, “intends”, “anticipates”, “does not anticipate”, “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will”, “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, intentions, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events or circumstances.

 

Discussions containing forward-looking information may be found, among other places, under “Industry Overview”, “Business of the Company”, “Dividend Policy” and “Risk Factors”.

 

Forward-looking information in this Annual Information Form includes, among other things, statements relating to:

 

our expectations regarding our revenue, expenses and operations;

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changes in laws and regulations affecting the Company and the regulatory environments in which we operate;

 

our expectations regarding the potential market opportunity for the delivery of TMS therapy;

 

our expectations regarding our growth rates and growth plans and strategies, including expectations regarding future growth of the TMS market;

 

potential expansion of additional therapeutic indications approved for TMS therapy by the FDA (as defined below);

 

our business plans and strategies;

 

changes in reimbursement rates by insurance payors;

 

our expectations regarding the outcome of litigation and payment obligations in respect of prior settlements;

 

our ability to attract and retain medical practitioners and qualified technicians at our TMS Centers (as defined below);

 

our competitive position in our industry and our expectations regarding competition;

 

anticipated trends and challenges in our business and the markets in which we operate;

 

access to capital and the terms relating thereto;

 

technological changes in our industry;

 

our expectations regarding geographic expansions;

 

our expectations regarding new TMS Center openings;

 

successful execution of internal plans;

 

anticipated costs of capital investments; and

 

our intentions with respect to the implementation of new accounting standards.

 

This forward-looking information and other forward-looking information are based on our opinions, estimates and assumptions in light of our experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that we currently believe are appropriate and reasonable in the circumstances. Despite a careful process to prepare and review the forward-looking information, there can be no assurance that the underlying opinions, estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct.

 

The forward-looking information in this Annual Information Form is necessarily based on a number of opinions, estimates and assumptions that we considered appropriate and reasonable as of the date such statements were made. It is also subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including the following risk factors described in greater detail under the heading “Risk Factors”:

 

successful execution of our growth strategies;

 

inability to attract key managerial and other non-medical personnel;

 

risks related to changes in reimbursement rates by commercial, Medicare and other non-Medicare government insurance plans;

 

reduction in reimbursement rates by higher-paying commercial insurance providers;

 

dependency on referrals from physicians and failure to attract new patients;

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failure to recruit and retain sufficient qualified psychiatrists;

 

ability to obtain TMS Devices (as defined below) from our suppliers on a timely basis at competitive costs could suffer as a result of deterioration or changes in supplier relationships or events that adversely affect our suppliers or cause disruption to their businesses;

 

failure to reduce operating expenses and labor costs in a timely manner;

 

inability to achieve or sustain profitability in the future or an inability to secure additional financing to fund losses;

 

risks related to the use of partnerships and other management services frameworks;

 

risks associated with leasing space and equipment for our TMS Centers;

 

inability to successfully open and operate new TMS Centers profitably or at all;

 

risks associated with geographic expansion in regions which may have lower awareness of our brand or TMS therapy in general;

 

claims made by or against us, which may result in litigation;

 

risks associated with professional malpractice liability claims;

 

reduction in demand for our services as a result of new drug development and/or technological changes within our industry;

 

impact of uncertainty related to potential changes to U.S. healthcare laws;

 

risks associated with anti-kickback, fraud and abuse laws;

 

risks associated with compliance with laws relating to the practice of medicine;

 

the constantly evolving nature of the regulatory framework in which we operate;

 

costs associated with compliance with U.S. federal and state regulations and risks associated with failure to comply;

 

assessments for additional taxes, which could affect our operating results;

 

inability to manage our operations at our current size;

 

our competitive industry and the size and resources of some of our competitors;

 

the labor-intensive nature of our business being adversely affected if we are unable to maintain satisfactory relations with our employees or the occurrence of union attempts to organize our employees;

 

insurance-related risks;

 

complications associated with our billing and collections systems;

 

material disruptions in or security breach affecting our information technology systems;

 

disruptions to the operations at our head office locations;

 

upgrade or replacement of core information technology systems;

 

changes in accounting standards and subjective assumptions, estimates and judgments by management related to complex accounting matters;

 

inability to maintain effective controls over financial reporting;

 

risks associated with dilution of equity ownership;

 

volatility in the market price for the common shares of the Company;

 

prolonged decline in the price of the Common Shares reducing our ability to raise capital;

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significant influence of Greybrook Health Inc. (“Greybrook Health”);

 

increases to indebtedness levels causing a reduction in financial flexibility;

 

future sales of our securities by existing shareholders causing the market price for Common Shares to decline;

 

impact of future offerings of debt securities on dividend and liquidation distributions;

 

no cash dividends for the foreseeable future;

 

an active, liquid and orderly trading market for Common Shares failing to develop;

 

different shareholder protections in Canada as compared to the United States and elsewhere;

 

treatment of the Company as a U.S. domestic corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes;

 

any issuance of preferred shares may hinder another person’s ability to acquire us;

 

our trading price and volume could decline if analysts do not publish research or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about us or our business; and

 

risks related to forward-looking information contained in this Annual Information Form.

 

If any of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or if the opinions, estimates or assumptions underlying the forward-looking information prove incorrect, actual results or future events might vary materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking information. The opinions, estimates or assumptions referred to above and described in greater detail in “Risk Factors” should be considered carefully by readers.

 

Various assumptions or factors are typically applied in drawing conclusions or making the forecasts or projections set out in forward-looking information. Those assumptions and factors are based on information currently available to us, including information obtained from third-party industry analysts and other third party sources. In some instances, material assumptions and factors are presented or discussed elsewhere in this Annual Information Form in connection with the statements or disclosure containing the forward-looking information. Readers are cautioned that the following list of material factors and assumptions is not exhaustive. The factors and assumptions include, but are not limited to:

 

no unforeseen changes in the legislative and operating framework for our business;

 

no unforeseen changes in the prices for our services in markets where prices are regulated;

 

no unforeseen changes in the reimbursement rates of commercial, Medicare and other non-Medicare government insurance plans;

 

no unforeseen changes in the regulatory environment for our services;

 

a stable competitive environment; and

 

no significant event occurring outside the ordinary course of business such as a natural disaster or other calamity.

 

Although we have attempted to identify important risk factors that could cause actual results or future events to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other risk factors not presently known to us or that we presently believe are not material that could also cause actual results or future events to differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking information. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information, which speaks only to opinions, estimates and assumptions as of the date made. The forward-looking information contained in this Annual Information Form represents our expectations as of the date of this Annual Information Form (or as of the date they are otherwise stated to be made) and are subject to change after such date. We disclaim any intention or obligation or undertaking to update or revise any forward-looking information whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under applicable laws in Canada.

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All of the forward-looking information contained in this Annual Information Form is expressly qualified by the foregoing cautionary statements.

 

MARKET AND INDUSTRY DATA

 

Market and industry data presented throughout this Annual Information Form were obtained from third party sources, industry reports, journals, studies and publications, websites and other publicly available information, as well as industry and other data prepared by us or on our behalf on the basis of our knowledge of the health care industry, markets and economies (including our opinions, estimates and assumptions relating to such industry, markets and economies based on that knowledge). Certain statistical information and market research contained in this Annual Information Form, such as the results of studies or surveys, are based on surveys or studies conducted by independent third parties. We believe that the industry, market and economic data presented throughout this Annual Information Form is accurate and, with respect to data prepared by us or on our behalf, that our opinions, estimates and assumptions are currently appropriate and reasonable, but there can be no assurance as to the accuracy or completeness thereof. The accuracy and completeness of the industry, market and economic data presented throughout this Annual Information Form are not guaranteed. Actual outcomes may vary materially from those forecast in such reports or publications, and the prospect for material variation can be expected to increase as the length of the forecast period increases. Although we believe it to be reliable, we have not independently verified any of the data from third party sources referred to in this Annual Information Form, analyzed or verified the underlying studies or surveys relied upon or referred to by such sources, or ascertained the underlying industry, market, economic and other assumptions relied upon by such sources. Industry, market and economic data is subject to variations and cannot be verified due to limits on the availability and reliability of data inputs, the voluntary nature of the data gathering process and other limitations and uncertainties inherent in any statistical survey.

 

THE COMPANY

 

TMS NeuroHealth Inc. was incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware on March 29, 2011. On June 28, 2011, TMS NeuroHealth Inc. filed a certificate of amendment to change its name to “TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.” (“TMS US”).

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc. was incorporated under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) (the “OBCA”) on February 9, 2018 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of TMS US. On March 29, 2018, the Company and TMS US completed a corporate reorganization pursuant to which all of the holders of common stock of TMS US exchanged their holdings of common stock of TMS US for common shares of Greenbrook (“Common Shares”), resulting in TMS US becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of Greenbrook (the “Reorganization”). In connection with the Reorganization, a total of 37,524,375 shares of common stock of TMS US were exchanged for 37,524,375 Common Shares. On September 28, 2018 in connection with the IPO (as defined below), Greenbrook filed articles of amendment to increase the minimum and maximum size of the board of directors, to remove the transfer restrictions on the Common Shares and to remove certain other private company restrictions.

 

Our head and registered office is located at 890 Yonge Street, 7th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4W 3P4. Our United States corporate headquarters is located at 8405 Greensboro Drive, Suite 120, Tysons Corner, Virginia, USA, 22102.

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The following chart identifies our material subsidiaries, their governing jurisdictions and the percentage of their voting securities which are beneficially owned, or controlled or directed, directly or indirectly, by Greenbrook:

 

 

 

Note: 

(1) Our 121 TMS Center locations are operated through individual operating limited liability companies existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the States of Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, Texas, Connecticut, Florida, South Carolina, Michigan, Illinois, Alaska, Oregon and California. In certain circumstances, the Company partners with local physicians, behavioral health groups or other strategic investors, which own minority interests in certain of our TMS Center operating limited liability companies. We currently have 68 wholly-owned TMS Centers and 53 TMS Centers in which we have a controlling interest, each through the applicable TMS Center Operating LLCs.

 

Industry Overview

 

Depression – Disease Overview

 

Major Depressive Disorder (“MDD”) is a mood disorder characterized by the presence of one or both of two major diagnostic criteria: (1) a depressed mood, and/or (2) a loss of interest in pleasure that continues for at least two weeks. The presence of at least one of these diagnostic symptoms is typically accompanied by one or more of the following additional symptoms: sleep disturbance, changes in appetite, sexual dysfunction, anxiety, fatigue, concentration difficulties and suicidal thoughts. (Source: American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition, or DSM-5)

 

MDD is often a recurrent disease and follows a fluctuating course over an individual’s lifetime, with alternating periods of remission and relapse. Experiencing one episode of MDD places the individual at an estimated 50% greater risk of experiencing an additional episode of MDD in the future. Approximately 80% of individuals who have experienced two episodes of MDD will experience an additional episode in the future (Sources: American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition; Interpersonal Factors in the Origin and Course of Affective Disorders, 1996; American Journal of Psychiatry, 1992 Aug; 149(8)).

 

A clinical diagnosis of MDD is determined by conducting a clinical exam and interview to establish if the patient is experiencing the combination of symptoms as defined in the DSM-5. The severity of a patient’s symptom profile is typically measured using a standardized rating scale. These scales can be derived from a patient-driven, self-reported questionnaire, such as the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (“PHQ-9”), or from an observer-dependent and interview-based scale, such as the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (“HAMD”). These rating scales, among other diagnostic criteria, can be used to grade a patient’s MDD symptoms on a continuum from mild to severe. In addition to the depression symptoms and their negative impact on quality of life, MDD is also commonly associated with a number of serious co-morbidities, including other mental health disorders, with an estimated 75% of patients with recurrent MDD suffering from accompanying psychiatric conditions or substance abuse disorders (Source: American Journal of Psychiatry,1997 Dec; 154(2)). MDD patients also have a substantially increased risk of committing suicide and increased risk for other conditions, such as heart disease (Sources: Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2016 Jul; 33(7); American Association of Suicidology, 2014). The common and most widely accepted clinical measurement threshold for determining whether there has been a positive response to treatment of MDD is a significant decrease in depressive symptoms as measured using a standardized ratings scale from certain baseline scores. Where a patient demonstrates few or no symptoms at all, the patient is commonly referred to as being “in remission”. The return of symptoms is commonly referred to as a “relapse”.

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As with many psychiatric disorders, the direct causes of MDD and underlying pathophysiology remain to be fully elucidated. However, a variety of interrelated factors are known to likely be involved, including (i) the physical and neurochemical status of the brain, including specific brain regions, (ii) hormonal changes, (iii) genetics, (iv) acute life events, (v) chronic stress, (vi) childhood exposure to adversity, and (vii) a myriad of other environmental factors. A signaling network in the brain that is known to function in the regulation of mood, and is believed to play a significant role in the occurrence of MDD, is a circuit that includes the prefrontal cortex, the anterior cingulate cortex and the limbic brain structures (Source: CMAJ, 2009 Feb; 180(3)). This network, and all other networks and signaling structures in the brain, are created by connections between individual nerve cells called neurons. A neuron is a specialized cell-type that responds to both chemical and electrical signals and is connected to other neurons through specialized cell-to-cell connections known as synapses. The release of chemical messengers, or neurotransmitters, in the brain occurs across these synapses and results in changes in the electrical properties of the receiving neuron and the further propagation of the signal in the brain to form neuronal circuits.

 

This communication process between two neurons across individual synapses or between different regions of the brain is ordinarily regulated by feedback mechanisms that result in the decreased release of neurotransmitter signals through a process known as reabsorption or reuptake, in which the neurons actively reabsorb the neurotransmitters back into the cell once adequate signaling has occurred. In people with MDD, however, this complex system of neuronal communication is impaired and does not function properly. In MDD, a number of causes may underlie this impaired signaling. For example, specialized neurotransmitter receptors may be either oversensitive or insensitive to a specific neurotransmitter, causing their response to its release to be either excessive or inadequate, or the signal might also be weakened if the originating cell produces too little of a neurotransmitter or if the reuptake process is too active and reabsorbs too much of the neurotransmitter to allow for proper signaling.

 

It is now widely accepted in neuroscience that improper regulation of one or more of the three major neurotransmitters, serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine, plays a role in the emergence of depression. This understanding has been essential to the development of psychiatric drugs and the treatment of depression based on targeting chemically-based mechanisms underlying mood regulation. In contrast to chemically-based treatment, TMS therapy is a newer treatment paradigm that instead uses a targeted, circuit-based approach that relies on the ability of electrical mechanisms to help restore and augment neurotransmitter signaling to help re-establish proper function to neuronal pathways to treat depression.

 

The images below illustrate brain activity as measured by positron emission tomography (or PET) imaging for patients suffering from MDD as compared to normal functioning brain activity (blue and green represents decreased brain activity) (Source: Mayo Foundation):

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Prevalence and Societal Cost

 

The World Health Organization (the “WHO”) now ranks MDD as the single largest contributor to global disability and a major contributor to the occurrence of suicide worldwide (Source: Depression and Other Common Mental Disorders - Global Health Estimates (WHO 2017)). A study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry estimated the economic burden of the disease at approximately US$210 billion in the United States alone, including outpatient and inpatient medical costs, pharmacy costs, suicide related costs and workplace costs (Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2015 Feb; 76(2)). A study published in Psychological Medicine reported that the global incidence rate of MDD is approximately 3.0% (Source: Psychological Medicine, 2013 Mar; 43(3)) and the WHO estimates that there are over 300 million people in the world struggling with depression (Source: Depression and Other Common Mental Disorders - Global Health Estimates (WHO 2017)).

 

Traditional Treatment Options

 

In the United States, an initial diagnosis of MDD in adult patients is typically determined by the patient’s primary care physician. Upon diagnosis, the most common form of treatment for MDD is the prescribing of an initial course of antidepressant medication, which may or may not be accompanied by psychotherapy. The physician would typically discuss a number of different treatment options with the patient, following which the physician would design a treatment plan tailored to the patient’s specific symptoms, personal preferences and the psychiatric services available in close proximity to the patient’s home or workplace.

 

The most commonly prescribed antidepressant medications are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (“SSRIs”). SSRIs primarily act to affect the levels and activity of serotonin in the brain and attempt to combat depression by blocking or inhibiting the reuptake of this particular neurotransmitter, thereby increasing the levels of available serotonin to promote proper signaling. Different classes of antidepressant medications also work on different combinations of underlying neurotransmitters. For example, serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (“SNRIs”) work by blocking the reuptake of both serotonin and norepinephrine. Other medications may have more diverse effects on all three major neurotransmitters. During the initial treatment period, patients commonly suffer from negative side effects that may offset any benefits in symptoms experienced and result in discontinuing treatment. Therefore, it is common for a patient and their primary care physician to experiment with different antidepressant drugs and drug combinations before determining a medication regimen for the patient that provides both adequate symptom relief and is tolerable from a side effect perspective.

 

Depression-focused psychotherapy, or “talk-therapy”, is also commonly recommended as a treatment option for patients suffering from MDD. Psychotherapy is generally implemented as part of a treatment plan in conjunction with the use of antidepressant medication. Two of the most well studied and commonly available psychotherapy techniques for MDD are cognitive behavioral therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy, both of which are interactive therapies conducted between a trained professional and the patient.

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If initial treatment approaches do not sufficiently relieve a patient’s symptoms, a primary care physician will often refer the patient to a psychiatrist trained in psychopharmacology. There are a substantial number of drugs and drug combinations that a psychiatrist may consider as second line therapies for MDD after an initial treatment has failed. For example, a psychiatrist may recommend combining two or more antidepressant medications, which is referred to as “combination therapy”, or using a second medication such as an atypical antipsychotic drug that is not an antidepressant along with the initial antidepressant medication to potentially augment the efficacy of such antidepressant, which is referred to as “augmentation”.

 

Other, later-stage treatment options, such as electroconvulsive therapy (“ECT”) and vagus nerve stimulation (“VNS”), are associated with greater medical risk, and are usually only considered for patients with severe cases of MDD. ECT is a hospital-based, inpatient treatment approach that is typically reserved for patients exhibiting the most severe MDD symptoms and is implemented most commonly in patients that are experiencing catatonia, psychosis, or acute suicidal behaviors that necessitate inpatient hospitalization. ECT involves the direct application of high voltage electrical current to the surface of the head and must be administered under anesthesia. VNS is the most invasive treatment option currently approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) for MDD and is usually only considered for patients who have proven to be severely treatment resistant. VNS involves the surgical implantation of a stimulating electrode that is wrapped around the vagus nerve, which travels through the neck near the carotid artery, and a pulse generator that is separately implanted under the skin near the patient’s collarbone. The pulse generator sends electrical impulses to the electrode with the aim of stimulating the regions of the brain known to be directly associated with the regulation of mood.

 

Limitations of Traditional Treatment Options

 

Although a large number of antidepressant drugs have been approved and can be efficacious in subsets of patients in relieving depression symptoms, drug therapy has two primary limitations as it relates to the treatment of MDD:

 

1. Limited efficacy, which can decline with each successive cycle of medication, with respect to both the same or different class(es) of antidepressant drugs; and

 

2. Treatment-emergent negative side effects and toxicities causing poor patient treatment adherence or discontinuation of treatment therapy altogether.

 

The limitations of drug therapy in MDD were well demonstrated in the Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression Study (the “STAR*D Study”) conducted by the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health that enrolled 4,041 adult patients (aged 18-75) suffering from MDD at 41 clinical sites in order to examine the outcome of a sequenced series of antidepressant medication attempts that replicated current views on best practices. In the STAR*D Study, the results of which were published in 2006, only approximately 28% of patients achieved remission in their first course of medication and only approximately 21% of patients achieved remission in their second course of medication.

 

Many patients taking antidepressant medications experience negative and/or intolerable side effects to treatment that contribute to a delay or failure in attaining an effective or optimal antidepressant dose, poor patient treatment adherence or discontinuation of treatment therapy altogether. Furthermore, the likelihood of achieving remission is limited and such likelihood declines with each successive medication attempt (Source: STAR*D Study). Antidepressant medication therapy for the treatment of MDD is often administered along with a recommendation for a depression-focused psychotherapy. While these treatment options have demonstrated efficacy in some clinical studies, they are also associated with limitations in practice. For instance, the experience level of the therapist may significantly affect the treatment outcome and access to such therapy can be limited for many patients.

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The other treatments that offer patients alternatives where drugs and psychotherapy have failed, ECT and VNS, can have significant disadvantages when compared to TMS. ECT typically requires general anesthesia and must be administered in a controlled hospital setting with direct access to emergency resuscitation equipment. ECT is typically administered three times per week for up to 12 treatments, with some patients requiring as many as 20 treatments. The two most common side-effects ECT patients may experience are confusion and memory loss, each of which can occur immediately following a treatment session. Other side effects may include nausea, headache, jaw pain, muscle ache, hypertension and hypotension and life-threatening complications including adverse reactions to anesthesia, arrhythmias, ischemia or prolonged seizures. (Source: Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2016 Sep; 39(3)). Despite the risks and potential side-effects of ECT, VNS is actually considered the most invasive treatment option currently approved by the FDA for MDD patients who have proven to be severely treatment resistant. The surgical implantation of the VNS device (both stimulating electrode and pulse generator) introduces risks including infection or local damage to the recurrent laryngeal nerve, which may lead to permanent voice alteration. Other significant potential adverse events associated with VNS include risk of developing cardiac arrhythmias and the need for repeated invasive procedures required to replace the pulse generator battery (Source: Psychiatry (Edgmont), 2006 May; 3(5)). Lastly, complications and delays relating to reimbursement for the implantation and ongoing monitoring of the VNS device results in limiting access to the procedure for many patients.

 

TMS as a Safe and Effective Treatment Alternative

 

Overview of TMS

 

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) is differentiated from traditional drug therapy approaches for the treatment of MDD and represents a different paradigm for the treatment of depression. TMS uses a pulsed magnetic field to induce electrical currents in neural tissue designed to stimulate specific areas of the brain associated with mood. The target for stimulation and activation in TMS to treat MDD is the prefrontal cortex, which serves as a starting point to regulate the neuronal circuitry connected to this region of the brain. This stimulation triggers a cascading electro-chemical effect that can pass along the neuronal circuit and reach into the deeper structures of the brain that also serve to regulate mood. This process can change the level of excitability and neuronal connections among these structures in a manner that improves the overall activity of the neuronal circuit which is believed to underlie the improvement in MDD symptoms in responsive patients.

 

TMS is most commonly performed as an office-based procedure using an FDA-cleared medical device specifically designed to deliver the magnetic pulses necessary to stimulate the neurons. A course of treatment typically requires treatment sessions five times per week, conducted over a four- to six-week period that can last from 19 to 45 minutes per session. Post-TMS treatment, patients can immediately return to their normal routine, including driving home or to the workplace.

 

 

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TMS is considered to be an appropriate alternative and a potentially life-changing treatment for a patient suffering from MDD who has failed to achieve satisfactory improvement from prior antidepressant medications and psychotherapy in the current MDD episode. TMS is also not associated with the risk of serious adverse treatment-related events that can occur with the more aggressive treatment options, including ECT or VNS.

 

Safety and Efficacy of TMS Therapy for MDD

 

TMS is an FDA-cleared neurostimulation therapy for the treatment of patients suffering from MDD that has been clinically demonstrated to be a safe and effective treatment option for MDD. The safety and efficacy of TMS therapy has been demonstrated through two large, sham-controlled trials. The results of these clinical trials, conducted on patients who failed to achieve satisfactory improvement from antidepressant medication treatment, demonstrated that approximately 58% of patients responded positively to TMS therapy, and approximately 37% of patients achieved remission of their MDD symptoms (Source: Depression and Anxiety, July 2012; 29(7)). The majority of patients in the initial trial also participated in a 12-month follow-up TMS treatment phase, during which the response rate to TMS therapy increased to approximately 62% and the remission rate increased to approximately 42% (Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2014 Dec; 75(12)). This is contrasted with the results from the STAR*D Study on MDD drug treatment outcomes where only approximately 28% of patients achieved remission in their first round of drug treatment. For patients failing the first-line drug therapy and undergoing a second round of drug treatment, approximately 21% of patients achieved remission in their second medication attempt (Source: Star*D Study). In addition to the higher efficacy rates, as measured by remission of MDD symptoms versus drug therapy, TMS has also demonstrated to be better tolerated by patients with only limited adverse side effects being observed through the TMS clinical trials. The discontinuation rate in the sham-controlled TMS clinical studies were approximately 5% (Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2008 Feb; 69(2)), which is a marked contrast to the single medication treatment in the STAR*D Study in which the adverse events discontinuation rate increased from 9% to 41% as additional alternative monotherapy treatment attempts were administered (Source: Star*D Study).

 

 

 

 

Notes:

(1) Star*D Study.

(2) Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2014 Dec; 75(12).

(3) Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2004 Apr; 65(4); Biol Psychiatry, 2004 Feb; 55(3).

(4) CDC NCHS Data Brief No. 283, August 2017 – Antidepressant Use Among Persons Aged 12 and over in the U.S., 2011-2014.

(5) Management estimate.

(6) Mental Health America (mentalhealthamerica.net/ect), accessed March 15, 2019.

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TMS Delivery Systems

 

TMS treatments are delivered through FDA-regulated medical devices specifically manufactured to transmit the magnetic pulses required to stimulate the cortical areas in the brain to effectively treat MDD. These devices are commonly referred to as TMS devices (a “TMS Device”). There are currently seven FDA-cleared TMS Devices on the market in the United States; these include NeuroStar Advanced Therapy Systems, Brainsway Deep TMS, Magstim, MagVita TMS Therapy, Cloud TMS, Nexstim and Apollo TMS. Greenbrook currently has ongoing collaborative relationships with four of the seven TMS Device manufacturers (Neuronetics, Inc., Brainsway Ltd., The Magstim Company Ltd. and MagVenture, Inc.) and we actively use three different TMS Devices in our centers. By not limiting ourselves to exclusive relationships with any particular device vendor, we believe we are well positioned to ensure that the best-in-class TMS technology can always be made available to our physicians and patients throughout our network of TMS Centers.

 

Key Benefits of TMS Therapy

 

Effective treatment option – In randomized, controlled trials, TMS has demonstrated a response rate of approximately 62% and a remission rate of approximately 42%, as compared to an approximate 49% response rate and 28% remission rate observed in the monotherapy drug treatment utilized in the Star*D Study.

 

Positive patient experience with convenient treatments – TMS is a short outpatient procedure administered in an office setting, allowing for convenient patient access. Patients can immediately return to their normal routine following each treatment session, including driving home or to the workplace.

 

Non-invasive and non-sedative procedure – In contrast to other second-line treatment alternatives, TMS therapy requires no anesthesia and no hospitalization.

 

Well-tolerated treatment option with no major side effects – TMS is generally well-tolerated with minor side effects experienced in a small subset of patients. The most common side effect is mild and temporary scalp discomfort. TMS is also associated with a minimal increase in the risk of seizures in a small subset of patients. In contrast, drug therapy is often associated with side effects such as blurred vision, anxiety, weight gain, constipation, nausea and insomnia, and is less tolerated by patients as evidenced by the 41% rate of treatment discontinuance for patients that had received multiple monotherapy drug alternatives in the Star*D Study.

 

 

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Compelling value proposition for insurance companies and reimbursed by all major insurance carriers in the United States – We believe that a broader adoption of TMS therapy is likely to significantly reduce costs to the U.S. healthcare system and broader economy due to the well documented economic burden of depression and related co-morbidities. Broader access could also help to address an underserved patient population with limited treatment alternatives based on poor access to traditional psychiatric treatments. Inpatient medical costs, pharmacy costs, suicide-related costs and workplace costs can be significantly reduced by providing access to care in the form of TMS therapy. The direct cost of a TMS treatment course in the United States ranges from approximately US$6,500 to US$10,000. TMS is equally compelling to the United States insurance providers (or other payors in the healthcare system) given that the costs are comparable to or, in many cases, less expensive than the ongoing cost of combination drug therapies and psychotherapy treatments typically associated with patients that are determined to be suitable candidates for TMS therapy. TMS therapy is now covered by all major commercial insurance carriers and Medicare, representing over 300 million covered lives in the United States.

 

 

 

Market Opportunity for the Delivery of TMS

 

Based on U.S. Census Bureau data and the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, management estimates that approximately 14.7 million adults (between 18 and 70 years of age) in the United States suffer from MDD annually. Of these people, we estimate that approximately 7.6 million of these individuals actively seek treatment and, based on applying data from the STAR*D Study, approximately 5.5 million of these patients are likely to have failed to achieve remission of their MDD from any prior antidepressant drug therapy. Management further estimates that approximately 3.5 million (or 69%) of those patients have commercial insurance or Medicare coverage for TMS.

 

Based on these figures and expected provider revenues for a standard course of TMS treatment ranging from US$6,500 to US$10,000, management believes that there exists a significant potential market for TMS treatment in the United States.

 

Expansion of Market Opportunity Through New Indications

 

TMS Device manufacturers are actively seeking FDA clearance for TMS to treat additional mental health indications outside the current approval for MDD, including adolescents with MDD, post-traumatic stress disorder (“PTSD”) and bipolar disorder. In August 2018, Brainsway Ltd., a TMS Device manufacturer, received clearance for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (“OCD”) using TMS therapy (Source: Brainsway Ltd. company filings), following which Greenbrook’s TMS Centers began offering treatment for OCD. There are also initial studies being conducted on the use of TMS to treat many forms of addiction (Source: clinicaltrials.gov). Greenbrook’s established footprint and proven service delivery model for TMS therapy makes us well-positioned to lead the delivery of treatment for any new indications if and when such treatments are approved by the FDA and eligible for reimbursement by insurance carriers. Management believes that the treatment of new indications can be rapidly incorporated into our TMS Center network with minimal incremental investment required.

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Greenbrook’s Role as a Leading Provider of TMS Therapy

 

Despite the magnitude of the market opportunity, based on the proven safety and efficacy of TMS, and the fact that TMS is generally accepted by psychiatrists and neurologists as an effective treatment for patients suffering from MDD, the number of TMS procedures performed annually in the United States remains low relative to the addressable market. Key factors contributing to this discrepancy include a historical lack of insurance reimbursement for TMS, the social stigma attached to publicly seeking treatment for depression, the lack of awareness of TMS among both the general population and physicians as a viable treatment alternative for depression, and the overall poor alignment of TMS treatment with the traditional practice of psychiatry. Furthermore, the almost-daily nature of TMS treatment is one of the key challenges facing our patients in successfully completing their TMS treatment protocol and is generally a major obstacle to access to TMS therapy. Our TMS Center network is purpose-built in order to address this challenge through the implementation of multiple convenient locations within a given region and operating hours that allow our patients to easily and effectively incorporate TMS into their daily schedules (see “Business of the Company – Our Business Model – Our Focus on the Patient Experience”).

 

There are some significant challenges involved in incorporating TMS into the existing model for the practice of psychiatric medicine or the provision of mental health treatment more generally. A typical psychiatrist office is simply not conducive to high patient throughput using device-oriented therapy such as TMS and psychiatrists have generally been slow to deviate from the more standard practices of talk therapy and the administration of antidepressant drugs.

 

Our business model was developed to overcome all of these challenges and to take advantage of the opportunity for a new, differentiated service channel – a patient-focused, customer service model to make TMS therapy easily accessible to all patients while maintaining a high standard of patient care.

 

business of the company

 

Overview of Greenbrook

 

Operating through 121 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of TMS, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of MDD, in the United States.

 

Our predecessor parent company, TMS US, was established in 2011 to take advantage of the opportunity created through the paradigm-shifting technology of TMS for the treatment of MDD. In 2018, Greenbrook’s TMS Centers began offering treatment for OCD. Greenbrook was created upon the identification of the following key opportunity drivers:

 

the safety and efficacy of TMS as a treatment option for patients suffering from MDD and OCD;

 

the growing societal awareness and acceptance of depression as a treatable disease and a corresponding reduction in stigma surrounding depression, seeking treatment and mental health issues generally;

 

the growing acceptance, but slow adoption, of TMS;

 

the poor alignment of TMS treatment with traditional practices of psychiatry which created an opportunity for a new, differentiated service channel;

 

the fragmented competitive landscape for TMS treatment which provides an opportunity for consolidation; and

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the track record of success by the management team in multi-location, center-based healthcare service companies.

 

After opening our first center in 2011 in Tysons Corner in Northern Virginia, we have grown to control and operate a network of outpatient mental health service centers that specialize in TMS treatment (each, a “TMS Center”) across the United States. We currently own 121 TMS Centers, located in convenient locations to provide easy access to patients and physicians, in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the States of Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, Texas, Connecticut, Florida, South Carolina, Michigan, Illinois, Alaska, Oregon and California. Our center-based delivery model has established Greenbrook as a leading provider of TMS therapy in the United States. As of December 31, 2019, Greenbrook has provided more than 370,000 TMS treatments to close to 10,000 patients.

 

Our Business Model

 

A Regional Approach to Center-Based Delivery of Care

 

Our regional model seeks to develop leading positions in key markets and to leverage operational efficiencies by combining smaller local TMS treatment centers within a region under a single shared regional management infrastructure. Management regions typically cover a specific metropolitan area that meets a requisite base population threshold. The management region is typically defined by a manageable geographic area which facilitates the use of regional staff working across the various TMS Center locations within the management region and creates a marketing capture area that allows for efficiencies in advertising costs.

 

Our scale and density within selected geographies provides valuable and mutually beneficial long-term relationships with key payors, local physicians, behavioral health groups and referring physicians. Our regional operations team is responsible for managing local physicians, non-clinical staff and referral relationships to provide for a patient-centric, customer service model, which makes TMS easily accessible to patients.

 

We provide centralized support to management regions through corporate training programs, standardized policies and procedures, systems and business infrastructure support as well as the sharing of best practices among the physicians and support staff across our regional networks. Centralized services include professional marketing management, call center support, centralized patient scheduling, legal and finance support and centralized medical billing services.

 

Our Patient Acquisition and Treatment Model

 

Our patient-focused, customer service model makes TMS therapy easily accessible to all patients through three core business processes supported by a centralized, scalable business infrastructure: (1) Patient Inquiry; (2) Patient Conversion; and (3) Treatment Delivery. Each of these core business processes are further described below:

 

Patient Inquiry

 

The patient inquiry process consists of utilizing several marketing channels in order to drive patient and physician awareness of TMS and the Greenbrook brand. Direct to consumer marketing strategies (such as radio, web and digital) are combined with a regional account management sales team that develops and nurtures relationships with local physicians, physician groups, primary care providers and behavioral health groups. We offer these physician groups the opportunity to offer access to TMS by referring their patients to one of our local TMS Centers or in partnership as an extension of their own practice. As a specialist TMS provider that does not provide general psychiatric services, we generally do not compete with our referral network and frequently direct outbound referrals for general psychiatry inquiries coming into our call center where appropriate.

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We further support regional and corporate marketing strategies with local community events and sponsorships. Patient inquiries are directed to our technology-enabled call center, which gives call center administrators the ability to schedule patients centrally to a nearby local TMS Center for a free consultation to start the patient conversion process, as further described below.

 

Patient Conversion

 

The conversion process begins with our team of experienced consultants that operate regionally to conduct an initial free consultation at a TMS Center of the patient’s choice. The consultant conducts a comprehensive assessment in order to determine whether TMS could be an appropriate treatment option for the patient and is responsible for introducing and explaining TMS therapy to the patient and answering any initial questions the patient may have. Following this consultation process, reimbursement support will be offered by the consultant to patients interested in proceeding with treatment. As part of the reimbursement support, an initial benefits investigation is undertaken by the consultant to provisionally determine whether the patient will be covered by insurance for the TMS treatment as well as the extent of any out-of-pocket costs to be incurred by the patient in respect thereof. If a patient desires to proceed with treatment, the consultant or an administrative staff member will schedule a pre-assessment appointment with an on-site psychiatrist to review the patient’s medical history to confirm the initial assessment and ultimately decide whether TMS is an appropriate treatment option for the patient.

 

Treatment Delivery

 

Following the patient conversion process, if it is determined by the psychiatrist during the pre-assessment that TMS is appropriate for the particular patient, and the patient wishes to proceed with such treatment (which can occasionally be dependent on the outcome of the insurance eligibility investigation conducted by the billing and reimbursement support team), a course of TMS treatment is scheduled at a TMS Center of the patient’s choosing. The location selected is typically one that is most convenient relative to the patient’s home or workplace.

 

A treatment course typically consists of 20 to 30 individual treatment sessions, including an initial and repeated motor threshold determination to determine the TMS intensity level necessary to evoke a peripheral motor response, thereby optimizing the treatment protocol based on each individual patient. Treatment is then conducted by a trained and certified TMS technician and supervised by a psychiatrist. A course of treatment typically requires treatment sessions that last from 19 to 45 minutes per session, five times per week, conducted over a four- to six-week period. Post-TMS treatment, patients can immediately return to their normal routine, including driving home or to the workplace.

 

Greenbrook is not directly involved in the practice of medicine and does not in any way interfere with, or exercise control over, the professional medical judgment of the psychiatrists and clinical support personnel involved in the provision of medical services at our TMS Centers. Rather, we are involved in the operation and administration of the medical practices operating at our TMS Centers in order to facilitate the successful delivery of TMS therapy.

 

Centralized, Scalable Business Infrastructure

 

Our three core business processes are supported by a robust, technology-enabled, corporate business infrastructure including information technology, medical billing, human resources, branding, training, regulatory and finance. Our custom end-to-end integrated systems enable a seamless process from the first patient interaction, through the patient treatment process until payment is received with the assistance of our centralized billing support team.

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Our Focus on the Patient Experience

 

The almost-daily nature of TMS treatment is one of the key challenges facing our patients in successfully completing their TMS treatment protocol and is generally a major obstacle to access to TMS therapy. Our TMS Center network is purpose-built in order to address this challenge through the implementation of multiple convenient locations within a given region and operating hours that allow our patients to easily and effectively incorporate TMS into their daily schedules.

 

Our regional model provides a seamless patient experience. The consultation with a TMS technician and the initial physician visit can be attended at any of our regional locations. Our highly-trained technician team (under the supervision of a psychiatrist) provides the treatment at a local TMS Center selected by the patient, which is typically in close proximity to the patient’s home or workplace.

 

We aim to embed our TMS Centers within Class A office space that provides a comfortable and discrete experience for our patients, in an effort to counteract the stigma often associated with a mental health facility or a mental health in-patient clinic. Our standardized center design and color pallets provide for a relaxing and welcoming treatment environment that is designed to not feel like a hospital or medical office. Our highly-trained technician team and experienced clinical leadership are focused on delivering the highest standard of patient care while also delivering a pleasant and welcoming patient experience. Our TMS Devices are located in comfortable private treatment rooms where patients can relax while receiving treatment. The daily nature of the treatment allows our technicians to develop a relationship with many of our patients and we believe this relationship can be a supportive factor in the success of the treatment and a positive improvement in many of our patient’s lives.

 

Regional Development Strategy

 

As discussed above, our regional model seeks to develop leading positions in key markets and to leverage operational efficiencies by combining smaller local TMS treatment centers within a region under a single shared regional management infrastructure.

 

A new regional build-out is typically associated with a metropolitan area that meets a requisite base population threshold. The management region is typically defined by a manageable geographic area, which facilitates the use of regional staff working across the various TMS Center locations within the management region, and which resides within a marketing capture area that allows for efficiencies in advertising costs. Management regions are not strictly defined by state lines or other geographic borders, but rather a functional management area.

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In order to maximize cost efficiencies, we focus on developing our clinic networks within metropolitan areas that can support multiple centers. Our current management regions have between 5 and 19 active or planned TMS Centers, all with additional opportunities to add density within the region. TMS Centers are placed in sub-populations within the metropolitan area that provides local treatment access to patients in order to alleviate the time and effort associated with the almost-daily nature of the treatment course. Convenient, local patient access is essential to attract patients suffering from MDD, as depression is a condition associated with low motivation, a lack of energy, and typically a reluctance to take action and travel to a medical facility. In establishing our regional footprint, we carefully evaluate elements such as traffic patterns, highway access and major regional employers to optimize accessibility and to ensure that the addition of new TMS Centers incrementally adds to the addressable patient population within the management region. Our current development focus for existing regions is on incrementally increasing the patient volume within the management region rather than assessing an individual TMS Center location in isolation. As a result, we will from time to time establish a TMS Center that may, over the short term, negatively impact the patient volume at another nearby TMS Center, but which adds incremental patient access and volume to the region as a whole in an economically beneficial manner.

 

Management regions are evaluated, assessed and ultimately selected for development through careful consideration of the following core factors, among others:

 

population density and demographics;

 

state legislation as it relates to the practice of medicine;

 

local insurance reimbursement rates and coverage criteria;

 

commercial real estate rates;

 

availability of high quality clinical partners and regional staff;

 

awareness of TMS (which is typically greater in areas where TMS therapy is incorporated into local university research programs); and

 

regional marketing overlap which generates cost synergies.

 

Once we are comfortable with the cost of patient acquisition and the cost and profitability of treatment delivery based on the factors highlighted above, we establish an initial single TMS Center as the regional hub for the management region, typically in partnership with an anchor physician partner. Additional TMS Centers are then added based on capacity utilization and required patient coverage areas which is monitored based on referral data and patient inquiry activity. Subsequent TMS Centers share allocations of regional and corporate overhead costs. See “General Development of the Business”.

 

Current Footprint and Expansion Plans

 

Our current footprint consists of 121 TMS Center locations spanning 13 management regions in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the States of Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, Connecticut, Florida, South Carolina, Michigan, Alaska, Oregon and California. Our management regions consist of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, North and South Carolina, the Greater St. Louis Region (Missouri and Illinois), the Cleveland Metropolitan Region (Ohio), the Greater Houston Region (Texas), the Austin Metropolitan Region (Texas), Connecticut, the Tampa-St. Petersburg Metropolitan Region (Florida), Michigan, California, Alaska and Oregon. See “– Locations” below. In certain circumstances, we partner with local physicians, behavioral health groups or other strategic investors, which own minority interests in certain of our TMS Center Operating LLC subsidiaries. We currently have 68 wholly-owned TMS Centers and 53 TMS Centers in which we have a controlling interest. We are in advanced stages of discussion to establish several additional TMS Center locations and management regions across the United States. We also actively look to add density within our existing management regions, where appropriate.

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Growth Strategy

 

We have a well-defined, long-term growth strategy, supported by multiple sources of projected cash flow growth, including the following four key drivers for sustained growth:

 

In-region Growth and Development: In-region, or organic growth, is expected to be generated through the growing awareness of mental health issues generally, and TMS treatment, in particular, as a viable treatment option for the treatment of MDD. Paired with adding higher TMS Center density to access new patient populations by building convenient TMS Center access points, we are well-positioned for continued long-term growth and development within our existing service regions.

 

Development of New Regions: A core component of our expansion strategy is to replicate our robust regional model into new states and metropolitan areas. Since completion of our IPO, we have established nine new management regions with further expansion initiatives underway in other major metropolitan areas in the United States. See “General Development of the Business”.

 

New Indications: TMS Device manufacturers are actively seeking FDA clearance for TMS to treat additional mental health indications outside the current approval for MDD, including adolescents with MDD, PTSD and bipolar disorder. In August 2018, Brainsway Ltd., a TMS Device manufacturer, received FDA clearance for the treatment of OCD using TMS therapy (Source: Brainsway Ltd. company filings), following which Greenbrook’s TMS Centers began offering treatment for OCD. There are also initial studies being conducted on the use of TMS to treat many forms of addiction (Source: clinicaltrials.gov). Greenbrook’s established footprint and proven service delivery model for TMS therapy makes us well-positioned to lead the delivery of new indications if and when such treatments are approved by the FDA and made eligible for reimbursement by insurance carriers. We believe the treatment of new indications can be rapidly incorporated into our existing TMS Center network with minimal additional investment required.

 

Mergers and Acquisitions: As the market matures, we will continue to actively seek opportunistic acquisitions of established centers or smaller, regional multi-location providers, as evidenced by our successful acquisition of Achieve TMS (as defined below) in September 2019 (see “General Development of the Business – Acquisition of Achieve TMS”). The fragmented nature of the TMS delivery market, with many small provider groups, could ultimately provide an attractive opportunity for industry consolidation. We believe that our robust corporate business infrastructure, experienced management team and standardized systems and procedures, as well as our ability to rapidly integrate new centers, position us well to lead any future market consolidation.

 

Relationships with our TMS Device Suppliers and Cost Model

 

Our business model is focused on providing a differentiated service channel – a patient-focused, customer service-oriented model that strives to make TMS therapy easily accessible to as many patients as possible. We aim to make best-in-class TMS technology available to our patients and physicians throughout our TMS Center network. We do not own the intellectual property associated with any TMS Device (see “Meaning of Certain References”). Instead, we cultivate and foster relationships with the leading TMS Device manufacturers (including Neuronetics, Inc., Brainsway Ltd., The Magstim Company Ltd. and MagVenture, Inc). By not limiting ourselves to exclusive relationships with any particular device vendor, we believe we are better positioned to ensure that the best-in-class technology can always be made available at our TMS Centers to our physicians and patients throughout our network. As at December 31, 2019, we had 177 TMS Devices throughout our TMS Center network. The majority of our TMS Devices currently in use at our TMS Centers are the “NeuroStar Advance Therapy Systems”, supplied by Neuronetics, Inc., making Neuronetics, Inc. currently our largest TMS Device supplier.

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Neuronetics, Inc. has a market leading position in respect of TMS Devices and was the first TMS Device to receive FDA clearance in 2008. There are now seven FDA-cleared TMS Devices available in the United States, including NeuroStar Advanced Therapy Systems, Brainsway Deep TMS, Magstim, MagVita TMS Therapy, Cloud TMS, Nexstim and Apollo TMS. While we currently use the NeuroStar Advanced Therapy Systems, Brainsway Deep TMS and MagVita TMS Therapy devices in our TMS Centers throughout our network, we constantly monitor the TMS technology landscape and incorporate new technology into our TMS Centers where we believe doing so will add value to our patients and physicians, provide a novel treatment modality or is approved to treat additional indications.

 

Our status as a leading provider of TMS therapy in the United States and centralized procurement of TMS Devices provides us with competitive buying power and opportunities for strategic partnerships with device manufacturers, including as it relates to priority pricing and supply. These factors, combined with the efficiencies gained through our regional model (as described above), enables us to lower our cost of delivery of TMS treatment and provide a competitive advantage as a lower cost provider.

 

TMS Devices are typically leased from the relevant device manufacturers, with certain device manufacturers providing an option to purchase the device at the end of the lease term. As of December 31, 2019, we had 125 leased TMS Devices and 53 owned TMS Devices. The cost structure in respect of a particular TMS Device is generally dependent on the specific pricing model for each device manufacturer. Our current pricing arrangements with device manufacturers are either structured as (i) an operating lease with only fixed periodic payments, or (ii) a lower fixed periodic payment structure as compared to the operating lease, but paired with a variable per treatment fee. Our blended TMS Device cost represented 20%, 24% and 27% of gross revenue in Fiscal 2019, Fiscal 2018 and Fiscal 2017 (on a pre-IFRS 16, Leases, basis),1 respectively, as we optimized device usage and negotiated strategic partnerships and pricing arrangements with device manufacturers. TMS Device costs currently represent our largest operating expense.

 

We continuously evaluate our relationships with the device manufacturers to optimize pricing arrangements, after-sale support and reliability of TMS Device supply, while continuing to offer best-in-class technology in our TMS Centers throughout our network.

 

Revenue, Profit Model and Insurance Reimbursement for TMS Therapy

 

Revenue represents net patient fees received, or receivable for TMS services and is billed on a per treatment basis by our centralized billing team. TMS provides a highly compelling value proposition to payors and is fully validated with reimbursement in all 50 states and from all major insurance providers (including Medicare), representing over 300 million covered lives, with over 97% of our patients having commercial insurance, Medicare or other non-Medicare government-based coverage for TMS. Approximately 83% of these patients are covered by commercial insurance plans while 17% are covered by Medicare or other non-Medicare government-based programs.

 

TMS therapy is billed under three Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes:

 

90867 – Therapeutic repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment; initial, including cortical mapping, motor threshold determination, delivery and management;

 

90868 – Subsequent delivery and management, per session; and

 

90869 – Subsequent motor threshold re-determination with delivery and management.

 

A course of TMS typically consists of 20 to 35 treatments, with each treatment billed separately, with some patients returning for additional maintenance or repeat treatments. Insurance carriers typically reimburse 20 to 35 sessions per course of treatment. A typical course of treatment will consist of an initial cortical mapping and motor threshold determination and treatment (90867), various daily treatment sessions (90868), and a subsequent motor threshold re-determination and treatment (90869).

 

 

1 The Company adopted IFRS 16, Leases (“IFRS 16”) effective as of January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective approach. As a result of this approach, the prior period figures were not adjusted. For comparison purposes, the Company has provided explanations for prior period figures adjusting for the effects of IFRS 16. The figures quoted above are after adjusting for the effect of IFRS 16 in both periods for comparability. Please refer to our management’s discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations for our most recently completed financial year ended December 31, 2019 for further details on the impact of the implementation of IFRS 16 on our financial results.

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has not established a national coverage determination or centralized fee schedule for TMS. Instead, CMS leaves pricing discretion to the various Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs). Commercial payors also individually exercise discretion over pricing and may establish a base fee schedule for TMS or negotiate a specific reimbursement rate with an individual TMS provider. Commercial payors are not bound by any CMS coverage policies or pay rates and have the option to tailor their individual payment policies.

 

Average revenue per treatment has varied between $212 and $230 since the beginning of 2015 and is largely dependent on our payor mix and ruling reimbursement rates from commercial insurance plans, Medicare or other non-Medicare government-based programs. Depending on a patient’s specific insurance plan, secondary insurance plan (if any) and our enrollment status with the insurance provider, the patient may be responsible for a co-pay, coinsurance or deductible out-of-pocket cost. Approximately 3% of our payments received represent patients’ out-of-pocket cost, with the remainder paid directly to us by the applicable insurance provider.

 

Direct center and patient care costs, including device costs (as outlined in “Relationships with our TMS Device Suppliers and Cost Model” above), the cost of clinical and non-clinical staff, the cost of the space lease for the TMS Center and other day-to-day running costs, represent approximately 60% pre-IFRS 16 adoption) of gross revenue in an established TMS Center. We currently target an average margin of 40% pre-IFRS 16 adoption) after direct center and patient care costs with the current actual margin 38% pre-IFRS 16 adoption) as of December 31, 2019, as newly-developed centers scaled into their cost infrastructure (this typically takes between 6-12 months). As we add TMS Center density in our respective management regions, the contribution margin after direct center and patient care costs from the various TMS Centers scale into the single shared regional management infrastructure to ultimately target a regional operating income margin of 25% pre-IFRS 16 adoption in a mature region with an actual blended margin currently at (10% pre-IFRS 16 adoption) as of December 31, 2019 as we continue to add density in all regions.

 

Strengths and Investment Highlights

 

Management believes that the following describes the key strengths and investment highlights of Greenbrook and our business:

 

TMS is a New Paradigm and a Fully-Validated Approach to Treating Depression: TMS is an FDA-cleared approach to treating depression that is fully validated with reimbursement in all 50 states and from all major insurance providers.

 

Experienced Executive Management Team and Strong Independent Board: We have a highly experienced management team and clinical leadership with a track record of building center-based healthcare services businesses. Furthermore, our clinical leadership team are pioneers in the field of TMS therapy. Additionally, our board of directors (the “Board”), the majority of whom is independent, has extensive collective experience in the industry, capital markets and corporate governance.

 

Proven Business Model: Our proven TMS treatment delivery model has already made us a leading provider of TMS in the United States with over 370,000 TMS treatments to close to 10,000 patients since inception.

 

Regional Operating Model: Our efficient regional operating model, centralized business infrastructure, systems infrastructure and centralized buying power enables efficient delivery of TMS treatment, which provides a significant competitive advantage.

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Potential for Future TMS Indications: Multiple clinical studies and research projects are underway for label expansion of TMS therapy into additional mental health and/or neurological indications. Greenbrook’s established footprint and service delivery model is well-positioned to lead the delivery of new indications which can be rapidly incorporated into our existing TMS Center network with minimal additional investment required.

 

Competition

 

The current competitive landscape as it relates to the treatment of MDD through TMS predominantly consists of individual psychiatrists that have a TMS Device in their office and who can offer TMS therapy directly to their patients. We believe that individual psychiatrists generally deliver only a limited number of treatments on their devices due to the poor alignment of TMS treatment with the traditional practice of psychiatry.

 

We also face competition from a limited number of multi-location psychiatric practices or behavioral health groups that offer TMS therapy as part of their overall practice, as well as a few other specialist TMS providers.

 

Employees

 

As at December 31, 2019, the Company had 325 employees, of which approximately 273 were employed as regional personnel at our TMS Centers or as part of the regional management infrastructure, and 52 were employed as corporate personnel to support our centralized business infrastructure. As part of our regional expansion strategy, we expect our employee headcount to continue to increase.

 

Information Systems

 

We focus on creating optimal workflows and processes by investing and continuously improving our technology-enabled centralized business infrastructure. Our custom integration of various best-in-class software applications includes call center, customer relationship and lead management, medical billing, electronic health records, financial reporting and analysis and human resources systems. This creates an end-to-end integrated platform, which enables a seamless process from the first patient interaction, through the patient treatment process until payment is received. We will continue to optimize our information systems to create standardized policies, procedures and cost efficiencies.

 

Locations

 

We currently have 121 TMS Centers in the United States, all of which operate in leased office space. We also maintain a head office in Toronto, Ontario and a United States corporate headquarters located in Tysons Corner, Virginia, both of which are also leased. The majority of our TMS Centers are leased under non-cancelable operating leases ranging in terms from three to seven years and are generally subject to periodic consumer price index increases or contain fixed escalation clauses. Each of our leased properties are listed below:

 

Premises

Location 

Lease Expiration Date

Head Office Toronto, ON N/A(1)
U.S. Corporate Headquarters Tysons Corner, VA September 30, 2024
TMS Center – Agoura Hills Agoura Hills, CA December 24, 2022
TMS Center – Alexandria Alexandria, VA August 31, 2025
TMS Center – Anchorage Anchorage, AK April 30, 2023
TMS Center – Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI July 31, 2023
TMS Center – Annapolis Annapolis, MD November 30, 2022
TMS Center – Arlington Arlington, VA October 31, 2025
TMS Center – Ashburn Ashburn, VA October 31, 2022

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Premises

Location 

Lease Expiration Date

TMS Center – Arsenal Hill Arsenal Hill, SC N/A(2)
TMS Center – Asheville Asheville, NC N/A(2)
TMS Center – Beachwood Beachwood, OH April 30, 2024
TMS Center – Beaverton Portland, OR August 31, 2022
TMS Center – Bel Air Bel Air, MD September 30, 2024
TMS Center – Bloomfield Hills Bloomfield Hills, MI November 30, 2024
TMS Center – Bryker Woods Austin, TX June 30, 2022
TMS Center – Carlsbad Carlsbad, CA April 30, 2020
TMS Center – Cary Cary, NC November 30, 2021
TMS Center – Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC April 30, 2022
TMS Center – Charlottesville Charlottesville, VA March 31, 2022
TMS Center – Chester Chester, VA October 31, 2025
TMS Center – Chesterfield Chesterfield, MO May 31, 2021
TMS Center – Christiansburg Christiansburg, VA March 31, 2023
TMS Center – Clackamas Clackamas, OR January 15, 2023
TMS Center – Claremont Ontario, CA September 30, 2021
TMS Center – Clayton Clayton, NC November 30, 2021
TMS Center – Clearwater Clearwater, FL March 31, 2024
TMS Center – Columbia Columbia, MD September 30, 2021
TMS Center – Creve Coeur Creve Coeur, MO N/A(2)
TMS Center – Durham Durham, NC December 31, 2022
TMS Center – East Haven East Haven, CT June 30, 2024
TMS Center – East Lansing East Lansing, MI January 31, 2021
TMS Center – East Lyme East Lyme, CT January 31, 2025
TMS Center – Eastlake La Mesa, CA April 30, 2020
TMS Center – Easton Easton, MD August 31, 2024
TMS Center – Fairbanks Fairbanks, AK March 31, 2025
TMS Center – Fairfax Fairfax, VA N/A(2)
TMS Center – Fairview Heights Fairview Heights, IL September 30, 2022
TMS Center – Fayetteville Fayetteville, NC May 31, 2023
TMS Center – Festus Festus, MO November 30, 2024
TMS Center – Fort Bend Richmond, TX May 31, 2024
TMS Center – Frederick Frederick, MD N/A(2)
TMS Center – Fredericksburg Fredericksburg, VA April 30, 2023
TMS Center – Glen Allen Glen Allen, VA July 31, 2021
TMS Center – Glen Burnie Glen Burnie, MD June 30, 2023
TMS Center – Greenbelt Greenbelt, MD N/A(2)
TMS Center – Greensboro Greensboro, NC November 30, 2025
TMS Center – Greensboro (Medicare) Greensboro, NC December 31, 2021
TMS Center – Hudson Westlake, OH August 31, 2024
TMS Center – Hunt Valley Hunt Valley, MD November 30, 2024
TMS Center – Huntington Beach Huntington Beach, CA April 30, 2020
TMS Center – Independence Independence, OH July 30, 2023
TMS Center – Irmo Irmo, SC May 31, 2024
TMS Center – Irvine Irvine, CA March 31, 2026
TMS Center – Jantzen Beach Portland, OR June 20, 2021
TMS Center – Katy Katy, TX April 30, 2026

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Premises

Location 

Lease Expiration Date

TMS Center – Kensington Kensington, MD April 30, 2020
TMS Center – La Jolla San Diego, CA April 30, 2020
TMS Center – Ladue Ladue, MO December 31, 2020
TMS Center – Lakes West Bloomfield, MI December 31, 2020
TMS Center – Lakewood Ranch Sarasota, FL September 30, 2024
TMS Center – Lakeland Lakeland, FL December 31, 2022
TMS Center – Lakeway Austin, TX January 31, 2025
TMS Center – League City Kemah, TX July 31, 2024
TMS Center – Lynchburg Lynchburg, VA December 31, 2022
TMS Center – Matthews Matthews, NC July 31, 2024
TMS Center – Mechanicsville Mechanicsville, VA September 30, 2023
TMS Center – Memorial Houston, TX October 31, 2024
TMS Center – Midlothian Midlothian, VA September 30, 2021
TMS Center – Milford Milford, CT N/A(2)
TMS Center – Mission Valley San Diego, CA July 7, 2024
TMS Center – Mooresville Mooresville, NC July 31, 2023
TMS Center – Newark Bear, DE May 31, 2023
TMS Center – Newport News Newport News, VA February 29, 2024
TMS Center – North Raleigh North Raleigh, NC November 30, 2021
TMS Center – Northridge Northridge, CA June 14, 2021
TMS Center – Novi Novi, MI April 30, 2020
TMS Center – O’Fallon O’Fallon, MO November 30, 2023
TMS Center – Olivette St. Louis, MO November 14, 2020
TMS Center – Olney Olney, MD March 30, 2020
TMS Center – Owings Mills Owings Mills, MD September 30, 2021
TMS Center – Park Place Austin, TX January 31, 2025
TMS Center – Pearland Pearland, TX March 31, 2025
TMS Center – Pinehurst Aberdeen, NC June 30, 2024
TMS Center – Portland Portland, OR N/A(2)
TMS Center – Rancho Bernardo San Diego, CA April 30, 2021
TMS Center – Rancho Mirage Palm Desert, CA April 30, 2020
TMS Center – Reston Reston, VA June 30, 2022
TMS Center – River Oaks Houston, TX February 28, 2025
TMS Center – Riverside Riverside, CA September 11, 2021
TMS Center – Roanoke Roanoke, VA November 30, 2023
TMS Center – Rochester Hills Rochester Hills, MI August 31, 2024
TMS Center – Rockville Rockville, MD December 31, 2025
TMS Center – Round Rock Round Rock, TX December 31, 2023
TMS Center –San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo, CA July 4, 2021
TMS Center – Sarasota Sarasota, FL August 23, 2024
TMS Center – Shelby Utica, MI July 31, 2024
TMS Center – Solon Solon, OH May 31, 2020
TMS Center – South Charlotte Charlotte, NC November 30, 2024
TMS Center – South Park Charlotte, NC August 31, 2024
TMS Center – Southern Maryland Waldorf, MD August 31, 2023
TMS Center – Spring Spring, TX February 28, 2025
TMS Center – Suffolk Suffolk, VA November 30, 2022

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Premises

Location 

Lease Expiration Date

TMS Center – Sugar Land Sugar Land, TX March 31, 2025
TMS Center – St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, FL August 31, 2020
TMS Center – Taylor Taylor, MI December 31, 2024
TMS Center – Temecula Temecula, CA April 30, 2020
TMS Center – Tesson Ferry Tesson Ferry, MO June 30, 2024
TMS Center – Towson Towson, MD March 31, 2022
TMS Center – Tysons Corner Tysons Corner, VA July 31, 2024
TMS Center – University Charlotte, NC August 31, 2024
TMS Center – Virginia Beach Virginia Beach, VA August 31, 2021
TMS Center – Wasilla Palmer, AK April 30, 2022
TMS Center – West Hartford West Hartford, CT July 31, 2021
TMS Center – West Lake Hills Austin, TX November 30, 2024
TMS Center – Westlake Westlake, OH May 31, 2024
TMS Center – Westport Westport, CT N/A(2)
TMS Center – Westshore Tampa, FL November 30, 2024
TMS Center – Willoughby Willoughby, OH December 31, 2024
TMS Center – Wilmington Wilmington, DE N/A(2)
TMS Center – Wilsonville Wilsonville, OR December 31, 2020
TMS Center – Winston-Salem Winston-Salem, NC April 30, 2024
TMS Center – Woodbridge Woodbridge, VA May 14, 2024
TMS Center – Woodlands Spring, TX January 14, 2025

 

 

Notes: 

(1) Our head office premises is leased by Greybrook Capital Inc. (“Greybrook Capital”) who has provided us with use of this space pursuant to the terms of the MSA (as defined below).

(2) For certain TMS Centers, we lease space from the respective TMS Center minority partner. These leases are structured on a month-to-month basis with no set expiry date. As the minority partner has a vested interest in the operations of the TMS Center, there is limited risk with respect to having to re-locate the TMS Center unexpectedly. Furthermore, our TMS Centers are generally located in areas where we would be able to find alternative space on a timely basis (see “Risk Factors”).

 

Management Services Agreement

 

On January 1, 2015, we entered into a management and consulting services agreement with Greybrook Health (the “MSA”) pursuant to which Greybrook Health provides us and our subsidiaries with certain incidental services, including financial advisory services, business development advisory services and business and operating consulting services (collectively, the “Services”). More specifically, these Services include (i) the provision of office space for our head office in Toronto, Ontario, and (ii) compensation for our chief financial officer, chief operating officer and twelve other employees consisting of our general counsel, ten full-time employees that provide customary administrative, finance and accounting services to the Company and one part-time employee that provides customary IT infrastructure services to the Company. All of the Services provided by Greybrook Health are provided on a cost basis whereby the Company reimburses Greybrook Health for costs incurred in connection with the provision of such Services. There is no mark-up charged by Greybrook Health for the provision of the Services. The MSA will expire on January 1, 2021 or earlier if either party provides the other with at least 30 days’ notice of termination.

 

Intellectual Property

 

As of March 10, 2020, we own the Greenbrook service mark for psychiatric and neurological consultation and treatment services in the United States. We do not own the intellectual property associated with any TMS Device.

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General Development of the Business

 

Initial Public Offering

 

On October 3, 2018, we successfully completed our initial public offering (the “IPO”) via a long-form prospectus of the Company dated September 27, 2018, which qualified for distribution 10,000,000 Common Shares that were distributed by us without any additional payment upon the exercise or deemed exercise of 10,000,000 outstanding special warrants of the Company.

 

In conjunction with the IPO, the Common Shares were listed for trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) under the symbol “GTMS” on October 3, 2018.

 

Acquisition of Achieve TMS

 

On September 26, 2019, the Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, TMS US, completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding membership interests of each of Achieve TMS Centers, LLC and Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC (collectively, “Achieve TMS”) pursuant to the terms of a membership interest purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with the sellers named therein (the “Vendors”) dated September 11, 2019. Achieve TMS controls and operates a network of TMS Centers that specialize in the provision of TMS therapy for the treatment of depression and related psychiatric services. Achieve TMS currently operates 21 TMS Centers in California, Oregon and Alaska.

 

The total consideration for the acquisition was $10,596,912 (net of Achieve TMS’ cash and debt and subject to customary working capital adjustments), of which $2,611,044 was satisfied through the issuance of 1,431,736 Common Shares (the “Share Consideration”) to the Vendors and $7,985,868 was satisfied by way of a cash payment to the Vendors, in each case, on the closing of the acquisition. The Share Consideration was valued based on a price per Common Share equal to the volume-weighted average trading price of the Common Shares on the TSX for the five trading days ending two trading days prior to the closing of the acquisition.

 

In addition, the Vendors may be entitled to receive from the Company additional consideration based on the performance of Achieve TMS and the occurrence of other events described in the Purchase Agreement during the twelve complete calendar months immediately following the closing of the acquisition (the “Earn-Out Period”). The aggregate amount (if any) paid with respect to the Earn-Out Period will be equal to (a) the aggregate EBITDA (as defined in the Purchase Agreement) of Achieve TMS during the Earn-Out Period multiplied by 6.75, minus (b) $10,500,000, and will be satisfied through a combination of cash and Common Shares issued to the Vendors. The Company filed a Form 51-102F4 (Business Acquisition Report) in respect of the acquisition.

 

Management Region and TMS Center Network Expansion

 

Our development efforts have been focused on both optimizing our established regional footprints with added in-region density as well as on establishing new management regions in the United States. Since completion of the IPO, we have successfully expanded our TMS Center network across a further nine new management regions and have added a total of 78 new TMS Centers in our existing and new management regions, as further described below:

 

On October 16, 2018, we expanded our TMS Center network into the State of Connecticut through the opening of two new TMS Centers in Westport and Milford, Connecticut. This expansion marked the initial expansion of Greenbrook’s TMS Center network into the State of Connecticut.

 

On October 23, 2018, we expanded our TMS Center network into the Austin Metropolitan region in Austin, Texas, through the opening of a TMS Center in Central Austin, Texas. This expansion marked the initial expansion of Greenbrook’s TMS Center network into the State of Texas.

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On October 31, 2018, we expanded our TMS Center network into the Greater Houston region in Houston, Texas, through the opening of a TMS Center in Sugar Land, Texas, as part of Greenbrook’s regional development strategy and expansion plans in the State of Texas.

 

On December 28, 2018, we expanded our TMS Center network into the Cleveland Metropolitan region, through the opening of two TMS Centers in Cleveland, Ohio. This expansion marked the initial expansion of Greenbrook’s TMS Center network into the State of Ohio.

 

On January 9, 2019, we expanded our TMS Center network into the Tampa-St. Petersburg Metropolitan region, through the opening of three TMS Centers in the Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida, region. This expansion marked the initial expansion of Greenbrook’s TMS Center network into the State of Florida.

 

On May 9, 2019, we expanded our TMS Center network into the State of Michigan, through the opening of a new TMS Center in Detroit, Michigan. This expansion marked the initial expansion of Greenbrook’s TMS Center network into the State of Michigan.

 

On September 26, 2019, we expanded our TMS Center network into the States of California, Oregon and Alaska, through the acquisition of Achieve TMS and the 21 TMS Centers operated by them. This expansion marked the initial expansion of Greenbrook’s TMS Center network into the States of California, Oregon and Alaska. See “– Acquisition of Achieve TMS”.

 

Through the expansion of our management region networks into new geographic locations, the acquisition of Achieve TMS and the opening of new TMS Centers within our existing management regions, we have successfully developed 78 new TMS Center locations since completion of our IPO.

 

As of the date of this Annual Information Form, our network consists of 121 TMS Center locations spanning 13 management regions in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the States of Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, Connecticut, Florida, South Carolina, Michigan, Alaska, Oregon and California. For a complete list of Greenbrook’s TMS Center network as of the date of this Annual Information Form, see “Business of the Company – Locations”.

 

Financing

 

On May 17, 2019, Greenbrook completed a bought deal public offering and concurrent private placement for total gross proceeds of C$30,579,250 (the “Equity Offerings”). The Equity Offerings were both completed on a bought deal basis by a syndicate of underwriters.

 

The public offering of 4,025,000 Common Shares at a price of C$3.25 per Common Share (the “Issue Price”), for gross proceeds of C$13,081,250, included 525,000 Common Shares issued pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option. The concurrent bought deal private placement of 5,384,000 Common Shares were purchased by 1315 Capital II, LP at the Issue Price, for gross proceeds of C$17,498,000.

 

The Company used the net proceeds from the Equity Offerings for the development of new TMS centers, to fund the cash portion of the purchase price for the acquisition of Achieve TMS (see “– Acquisition of Achieve TMS”) and for working capital and general corporate purposes.

 

New Treatment Indications

 

On November 8, 2018, we announced that our TMS Centers would begin offering treatment for OCD. The treatment, which was recently FDA-cleared, delivers targeted magnetic pulses into the region of the brain implicated in OCD using the H7 coil system developed by Brainsway Ltd. This treatment has been rolled out to Greenbrook TMS Centers in each management region.

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OCD is a condition that causes intrusive and recurring obsessions and/or compulsions that interfere with a person’s daily activities and quality of life. Management estimates that over two million adults in the United States are diagnosed with OCD each year and conventional OCD treatments are effective in only approximately 50% of cases.

 

RISK FACTORS

 

The following factors could materially adversely affect us and should be considered when deciding whether to make an investment in us and the Common Shares. Other risks and uncertainties that we do not presently consider to be material, or of which we are not presently aware, may become important factors that affect our future financial condition or results of operations. The occurrence of any of the risks discussed below could materially adversely affect our business, prospects, financial condition, results of operations or cash flow, and consequently, the trading price of our Common Shares, could be materially and adversely affected. In all these cases, the trading price of the Common Shares could decline, and prospective investors could lose all or part of their investment.

 

Risk Relating to our Business

 

Our strategy to grow our business through developing new TMS Centers and management regions is subject to significant risks

 

A key component of our growth strategy is the development and building of additional TMS Centers in order to expand our footprint and increase our revenues. Accordingly, we are dependent upon our ability to find appropriate opportunities to develop new TMS Centers and expand our footprint into new management regions. Risks associated with developing new TMS Centers include:

 

finding appropriate clinical partners and psychiatrists with whom to partner in new management regions;

 

finding, hiring, training and retaining high quality regional management teams;

 

negotiating and establishing relationships with local commercial insurance carriers and/or obtaining state and federal certification for participation in the Medicare and other non-Medicare government-based programs;

 

increasing awareness of TMS as a treatment option for MDD, OCD or other potential future indications;

 

identifying desirable locations and markets to open new TMS Centers, which may be difficult and costly;

 

negotiating acceptable lease terms, including favorable levels of tenant improvement allowances;

 

successfully integrating new TMS Centers into our existing control structure and operations, including our information technology systems; and

 

addressing competitive, marketing and other challenges encountered in connection with expansion into new geographic areas and markets.

 

To the extent that we open new TMS Centers in regions where we already have existing TMS Centers, we may experience reduced revenues at those existing locations.

 

There is no guarantee that newly opened TMS Centers will be received as well as, or achieve profitability levels comparable to, our existing locations within our estimated time periods, or at all. If our TMS Centers fail to achieve, or are unable to sustain, acceptable profitability levels, our business may be materially adversely affected and we may incur significant costs associated with closing or relocating TMS Centers. In addition, our current expansion plans are only estimates, and the actual number of TMS Centers that we open, the timeline on which we do so and the actual number of suitable locations for our new TMS Centers could differ significantly from these estimates. Our inability to complete the development of additional TMS Centers could limit or significantly delay the overall growth of, and have a material adverse effect on, our business.

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Our inability to attract key managerial and other non-medical personnel such as qualified TMS technicians may adversely impact our ability to carry out our business operations and strategies as planned

 

We are highly dependent on qualified managerial personnel. Our anticipated growth will require additional expertise and the addition of new qualified personnel. There is intense competition for qualified personnel in the non-clinical healthcare management services space. Therefore, we may not be able to attract and retain the qualified personnel necessary for the development of our business. The loss of the services of existing personnel, as well as the failure to recruit additional key managerial personnel in a timely manner, could harm our business development and expansion plans as well as our ability to manage day-to-day operations, attract collaboration partners, attract and retain other employees and generate revenues, which could materially adversely affect our business, prospects, financial condition, results of operations or cash flow.

 

If commercial payor plans are subject to restriction in plan designs or the average rates that commercial payors pay us decline significantly, or if there are changes in Medicare or other non-Medicare government-based programs or payment rates, such occurrences would have a material adverse effect on our revenues, earnings and cash flows

 

There is no guarantee that commercial, Medicare or other non-Medicare government payment rates will remain at existing levels as they could be subject to material decreases in the future. More than 95% of the patients that receive treatment at our TMS Centers are covered, to a certain extent, by commercial payors, Medicare or other non-Medicare government programs. If we experience downward pressure on reimbursement conditions in the market due to employers shifting to less expensive options for medical services or as a result of consolidations among commercial payors, or if state governments and other governmental organizations face increasing budgetary pressure or increased focus on TMS services resulting in decreases in the average reimbursement rates for TMS therapy, such occurrences would have a material adverse effect on our revenues, earnings and cash flows.

 

If there is a reduction in reimbursement rates by higher-paying commercial insurance providers, our revenues, earnings and cash flows would be substantially reduced

 

Our revenue levels are affected by the percentage of our patients with higher-paying commercial insurance coverage. A patient’s insurance coverage may change for a number of reasons, including changes in the patient’s or a family member’s employment status. If there is a significant change in our payor mix, resulting in a reduction in the number of patients with higher-paying commercial insurance plans declining, our revenues, earnings and cash flows could be substantially reduced.

 

Our ability to generate revenue depends in large part on referrals from physicians and if we fail to attract new patients, we may not be able to increase revenues

 

Our success depends, in part, on our ability to attract new patients, particularly, in accordance with our growth strategy, within new management regions in the United States in markets in which we have limited or no TMS Centers or brand awareness. In order to expand our patient base in these new markets as well as our existing markets, we depend on patient referrals from unaffiliated physicians and other third parties who have no contractual obligations to refer patients to us for a substantial portion of the services we perform. If a significant number of physicians and other third parties were to discontinue or significantly reduce the rate at which they refer patients to us, our treatment volume could materially decrease, which would reduce our revenue and operating margins, which could have a material adverse effect on our business and financial condition.

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If our TMS practices lose a significant number of psychiatrists, our financial results could be adversely affected

 

Against a backdrop of significant mental health and addiction issues in the United States and an increase in suicide rates, there is an unprecedented demand for psychiatrists. At times, there has been a shortage of qualified psychiatrists in some of the regional markets in which we serve. In addition, competition in recruiting psychiatrists may make it difficult for our contracted psychiatric practices to maintain adequate levels of psychiatrists. If a significant number of psychiatrists terminate their relationships with our practices and those practices are unable to recruit sufficient qualified psychiatrists to fulfill their obligations under our agreements with them, our ability to maximize the use of our TMS Centers and our financial results could be materially adversely affected. Neither we, nor our practices, maintain insurance on the lives of any affiliated physicians.

 

Our ability to obtain TMS Devices from our suppliers on a timely basis at competitive costs could suffer as a result of any deterioration or changes in our supplier relationships or events that adversely affect our suppliers or cause disruptions in their businesses

 

We and our suppliers of TMS Devices may be affected by, among other things, increases in labor and fuel costs, labor disputes and disruptions, regulatory changes, political or economic instability or civil unrest, including terrorist activities, military and domestic disturbances and conflicts, natural disasters, trade restrictions, tariffs, currency exchange rates, transport capacity and costs and other factors relating to trade. Furthermore, major health issues and pandemics, such as the coronavirus that has impacted China’s population, commerce and travel and has spread to other countries, may adversely affect trade and global and local economies. Given the ongoing and dynamic nature of the circumstances, it is difficult to predict the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on our business. These factors are beyond our control, may adversely affect us and our suppliers or cause disruptions to their and our businesses and may impact their ability to supply us with TMS Devices. Consequently, our ability to provide TMS treatment to our patients on acceptable terms and within acceptable timelines may be impacted, which could have a material adverse effect on our profitability and results of operations.

 

We have a number of important supplier relationships with respect to the supply of TMS Devices that we believe provide us with a competitive advantage. Most of our TMS Devices are leased from one of our third party suppliers. We do not have long-term contracts with our suppliers and we generally operate without any contractual assurances of continued supply. Any of our suppliers could discontinue their relationship with us, or cease to provide equipment or services on a satisfactory basis for a variety of reasons.

 

The benefits we currently experience from our supplier relationships may be adversely affected if our suppliers:

 

choose to cease their relationship with us;

 

raise the prices they charge us;

 

change pricing terms to require us to pay earlier or upfront, including as a result of changes in the credit relationships that some of our suppliers have with their various lending institutions;

 

sell merchandise to our competitors with similar or better pricing, many of whom already purchase merchandise in significantly greater volume and, in some cases, at lower prices than we do; or

 

lengthen their lead times.

 

There can be no assurance that we will be able to obtain desired equipment from our suppliers in sufficient quantities on acceptable terms or at all in the future, especially if we need significantly greater amounts of equipment in connection with the growth of our business. We may need to develop relationships with new suppliers as our current suppliers may be unable to supply us with and produce needed quantities and we may not be able to obtain the same terms from new suppliers. If we are unable to obtain suitable equipment in sufficient quantities, at acceptable prices with adequate delivery times due to the loss of or a deterioration or change in our relationship with one or more of our key suppliers or events harmful to our suppliers occur, it may adversely affect our business and results of operations.

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A failure to reduce operating expenses and labor costs in a timely manner in response to changes in our business could adversely affect our results of operations

 

Our business and results of operations are sensitive to a number of factors, both within and outside our control. In the event of a sustained reduction in revenues, for whatever reason, it may be necessary to implement an expense reduction plan. The successful implementation of an expense reduction plan, if and when deemed advisable by management, depends on many factors, including our ability to identify the need for such a plan in a timely manner, to effectively implement such a plan, as well as certain factors which are beyond our control, including economic conditions, labor market conditions and ability to maintain our management team to implement our plan. Any one of these factors, or other unforeseen factors, could have a material adverse effect on our ability to implement any targeted cost savings to stabilize our results of operations.

 

We have incurred losses in the past and may be unable to achieve or sustain profitability in the future and may not be able to secure additional financing to fund losses if we fail to achieve or maintain profitability

 

We will need to generate significant additional revenues to achieve and sustain profitability. Furthermore, even if we achieve profitability, we cannot guarantee that we will remain profitable for any substantial period of time. Our failure to achieve or maintain profitability could negatively impact the value of the Common Shares and there can be no assurance that we will be able to raise the additional funding that we may require in order to carry out our business objectives and growth strategies.

 

In addition, we plan to continue our growth, including opening new TMS Center locations, and upgrading our information technology systems and other infrastructure as opportunities arise. Our plans to expand our network may not result in expected increases in our revenues, even though they increase our costs. Given that the growth initiatives that we intend to undertake will require significant capital investments over the near-to-medium-term, to the extent that we are unable to generate revenue growth at expected levels, our operating cash flow may not be sufficient to fund our operations and execute our growth strategies, which could have an adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019, we had negative operating cash flow. Our “cash” as at December 31, 2019 was approximately US$8 million. We cannot guarantee that we will have positive cash flow status in the future. To the extent we have negative cash flow in any future period, we may use a portion of our working capital to fund such negative cash flow.

 

The development of our business depends, in part, upon prevailing capital market conditions, our business performance and our ability to obtain financing through equity and debt financing or other means. If such financing is not available to us, or is not available on satisfactory terms, our ability to operate and expand our business or respond to competitive pressures would be curtailed and we may need to delay, limit or eliminate expansion plans or operations or other elements of our growth strategies. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in obtaining additional financing, if needed.

 

The issuance of additional Common Shares under any equity financing may have a dilutive effect on the interests of shareholders. The number of Common Shares that we are authorized to issue is unlimited. We may, in our sole discretion, subject to applicable law and the rules of applicable stock exchanges, issue additional Common Shares from time to time (including pursuant to any equity-based compensation plans), and the interests of shareholders may be diluted as a result.

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We do not independently own all of our TMS Centers

 

We currently do not independently own all of our TMS Centers, and healthcare laws and regulations in the United States may impact our ability to operate or own our TMS Centers in the future, thereby necessitating the use of partnerships and other management services frameworks. Consequently, we may be required to deal with diverse operating or ownership frameworks. In addition, from time to time, we may decide to use cash to restructure our arrangements with fellow owners, managers or operators of certain of our TMS Centers.

 

We are subject to risks associated with leasing space and equipment, and are subject to a number of long-term non-cancelable leases with substantial lease payments. Any failure to make these lease payments when due, or the inability to extend, renew or continue to lease space and equipment in key locations, would likely harm our business, profitability and results of operations

 

We do not own any real estate. Instead, we lease all of our retail TMS Center locations, as well as our head office and U.S. corporate headquarters. In accordance with our growth strategy, we also intend to expand into new geographic regions within the United States. Accordingly, we are subject to all of the risks associated with leasing, occupying and making tenant improvements to real property, including adverse demographic and competitive changes affecting the location of the property, changes in availability of and contractual terms for leasable space, credit risk in relation to tenant improvement allowances from landlords and potential liability for environmental conditions or personal injury claims.

 

The success of any TMS Center depends substantially upon its location. There can be no assurance that our current TMS Center locations will continue to be desirable in the future, or that we will be able to secure new desirable locations in the future on favorable terms or at all. TMS Center locations, patient conversion and revenues may be adversely affected by, among other things, social and economic conditions in a particular area, competition from nearby TMS treatment facilities, out-of-pocket treatment costs, changes in stigma relating to mental health issues, and changing lifestyle choices of patients in a particular market. If we cannot obtain desirable locations at reasonable costs, our cost structure will increase and our revenues will be adversely affected.

 

Our existing TMS Centers are leased from third parties, with typical lease commitments ranging from three to seven years. Some of our lease agreements also have additional renewal options. However, there can be no assurances that we will be able to extend, renew or continue to lease our existing TMS Center locations, or identify and secure alternative suitable locations. In addition to fixed minimum lease payments, most of our leases provide for additional rental payments, including payment of common area maintenance charges, real property insurance, real estate taxes and other charges. Many of our lease agreements have defined escalating rent provisions over the initial term and any extensions. Increases in our occupancy costs and difficulty in identifying economically suitable new TMS Center locations could have significant negative consequences, which include:

 

requiring that a greater portion of our available cash be applied to pay our rental obligations, thus reducing cash available for other purposes and reducing our profitability;

 

increasing our vulnerability to general adverse economic and industry conditions; and

 

limiting our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to changes in, our business.

 

We depend on cash flow from operations to pay our lease expenses and to fulfill our other cash needs. If our business does not generate sufficient cash flow from operating activities to fund these expenses and sufficient funds are not otherwise available to us, we may not be able to service our lease expenses, grow our business, respond to competitive challenges or fund our other liquidity and capital needs, which could harm our business. Additional sites that we lease may be subject to long-term non-cancelable leases if we are unable to negotiate shorter terms. If an existing or future location is not profitable, and we decide to close it, we may nonetheless be committed to perform our obligations under the applicable lease including, among other things, paying the base rent for the balance of the lease term. In addition, if we are not able to enter into new leases or renew existing leases on terms acceptable to us, this could have an adverse effect on our results of operations and profitability.

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Our new TMS Centers, once opened, may not be profitable initially, or at all, and may adversely impact our business

 

Our new TMS Centers, once opened, may experience an initial ramp-up period during which they generate revenues below the levels we would otherwise expect. This is in part due to the time it takes to build a patient base in a new market, higher fixed costs relating to increased labor needs, other start-up inefficiencies that are typical of new locations and cash build-out costs of new TMS Centers that may be higher than our target cash build-out costs, development costs, additional features, and budgets. It may also be difficult for us to attract a patient base, or otherwise overcome the higher costs associated with new locations. New locations may not have results similar to existing locations or may not be profitable. If new TMS Centers remain unprofitable for a prolonged period of time, we may decide to close these TMS Centers, which could have a negative impact on our business and results of operations.

 

Our expansion into new geographic regions may present increased risks due to lower awareness of our brand or TMS therapy in general, our unfamiliarity with those regions and other factors

 

Our long-term future growth depends, in part, on our expansion efforts into new geographic regions in the United States. As a primary component of our growth strategy, we intend to undertake a targeted expansion into new regions of the United States where we have little or no operating experience or brand awareness. While we have significant experience and awareness across the United States, we have significantly lower patient awareness outside of this region and our operating experience with respect to our existing management regions may not be relevant or necessarily translate into similar results broadly in our target markets in the United States. In addition, any new markets that we enter in the future may have different competitive conditions and/or less familiarity with our brand or TMS therapy as a treatment option in general. As a result, new TMS Centers in these markets may be less successful than centers in our existing management regions. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to penetrate or successfully operate in any market outside of our current management regions. In order to build greater awareness surrounding Greenbrook and TMS therapy in these new markets, we will need to make greater investments in TMS Center openings, psychiatrist reach-out, and advertising, with no guarantee of success, which could negatively impact the profitability of our operations in those markets.

 

We may also find it more difficult in these new markets to hire, motivate and retain qualified employees and technicians with familiarity of the TMS Devices used by us. In addition, labor costs may be higher and new locations could have higher construction and occupancy costs. Entering into new regions may also present challenges, as we may have limited experience with the different regulatory regimes, insurance environments and market practices in these new regions as compared to those in our current management regions. These regulations and market practices could subject us to significant additional expense or impact our ability to achieve compliance. In connection with any future expansion efforts outside of our existing management regions, we would expect to encounter many obstacles that we do not currently face in our current regions, including differences in regulatory environments and market practices, and difficulties in keeping abreast of market, business and technical developments. Each of these factors may have an adverse impact on our revenues or profitability in those markets, and could in turn adversely impact our revenues and results of operations. If we do not successfully execute our plans to enter new markets within in the broader United States, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be materially adversely affected.

 

We may engage in litigation with our partners and contractors and there are claims made against us from time to time that can result in litigation that could distract management from our business activities and result in significant liability or damage to us

 

The nature of our relationships with our partners and contractors may give rise to litigation or disputes. In the ordinary course of our business, we are the subject of complaints or litigation. We may also engage in future litigation to enforce the terms of our agreements and compliance with our brand standards as determined necessary to protect our brand, the consistency of our services and the consumer experience. Engaging in such litigation may be costly and time-consuming and may distract management and materially adversely affect our relationships with our partners and contractors or potential partners and contractors and our ability to attract new partners and contractors. Any negative outcome of these or any other claims could materially adversely affect our results of operations, as well as our ability to increase our number of partners and contractors and may damage our reputation and brand and our ability to expand into new regions.

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As a growing company with expanding operations, we increasingly face the risk of litigation and other claims against us. Litigation and other claims may arise in the ordinary course of our business and include employee and patient claims, commercial disputes, landlord-tenant disputes, intellectual property issues, product-oriented allegations and personal injury claims. These claims can raise complex factual and legal issues that are subject to risks and uncertainties and could require significant management time. Most of our equipment is manufactured and supplied by third party suppliers and some of these products may expose us to various claims, including class action claims relating to medical devices subject to a product recall or liability claim. Litigation and other claims against us could result in unexpected expenses and liabilities, which could materially adversely affect our operations and our reputation.

 

Although we maintain liability insurance to mitigate potential claims, we cannot be certain that our coverage will be adequate for liabilities actually incurred or that insurance will continue to be available on economically reasonable terms or at all.

 

We may become subject to professional malpractice liability, which could be costly and negatively impact our business

 

The physicians employed by us or our contracted practices could be subject to malpractice claims from time to time. We structure our relationships with the practices under our management services agreements in a manner that we believe does not constitute the practice of medicine by us or subject us to professional malpractice claims for acts or omissions of physicians employed by the contracted practices. Nevertheless, claims, suits or complaints relating to services provided by the contracted practices may arise. In addition, we may be subject to professional liability claims, including, without limitation, for improper use or malfunction of our TMS Devices or the conduct of our TMS technicians. We may not be able to maintain adequate liability insurance to protect us against those claims at acceptable costs or at all. Any claim made against us that is not fully covered by insurance could be costly to defend, result in a substantial damage award against us and divert the attention of our management from our operations, all of which could have an adverse effect on our financial performance. In addition, successful claims against us may adversely affect our business or reputation.

 

Technological change in our industry or novel drug treatments for MDD could reduce the demand for our services or require us to incur significant cost to incorporate new technology into our centers

 

Advances in technology or the development of novel drug treatments for MDD may reduce the demand for our services or result in significant cost to incorporate the new technology into our TMS Centers. If we are unable to effectively respond to technological advancement, our treatment volumes could decline, which could have a material adverse effect on our revenues, earnings and cash flows.

 

The effect of the uncertainty relating to potential future changes to U.S. healthcare laws may increase our and our partners’ and contractors’ healthcare costs, limit the ability of patients to obtain health insurance, increase patients’ share of health care costs and negatively impact our financial results

 

Current U.S. President Donald Trump and other U.S. lawmakers have made repeated efforts to repeal or materially modify the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (collectively, the “ACA”). While we are unable to predict what, if any, changes may ultimately be enacted, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office and others have estimated that the proposals made to date would result in millions of additional uninsured patients in the United States. Additionally, President Trump and other U.S. lawmakers have suggested that even if no formal legislation repealing or modifying the ACA is passed, that they may take, or omit, actions that could adversely impact the viability of the ACA and the health insurance markets, which could result in more uninsured patients, other patients having lesser coverage or patients having to absorb a greater portion of the cost of their health care services. Any such changes or any other future changes, including, for example, changes to the Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA), which alters the manner in which health care services in the United States are paid for and reimbursed by government and private payors, could materially adversely impact our business.

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Because of our U.S. operations, we could be adversely affected by violations of anti-kickback or other fraud and abuse laws. If our arrangement with physicians were found to violate the law, we could suffer consequences that would have a material adverse effect on our revenues, earnings and cash flows

 

Anti-kickback and other fraud and abuse laws and regulations, both at the federal and state level, generally prohibit companies and their intermediaries from making referrals to, or receiving referrals from, a physician or other person in a position to refer or generate business for a health care provider such as the centers and locations operated or managed by Greenbrook, in exchange for remuneration, unless an exception applies. Physicians and other financial relationships within the Greenbrook organization, including amounts paid under our management services agreements, distributions made to referring physicians who are also equity holders in the centers and all other financial arrangements involving Greenbrook, its intermediaries and potential referral sources or recipients may, notwithstanding our strict policies and procedures designed to ensure no violation of such laws, result in violation. We have sought to structure our arrangements to satisfy federal safe harbor requirements, but they remain susceptible to government scrutiny. If we were found to violate the law, we could suffer consequences that would have a material adverse effect on our revenues, earnings and cash flows.

 

Our management services arrangements with practices and our professional services agreements with contracted or employed psychiatrists or practices must be structured in compliance with laws relating to the practice of medicine, including, without limitation, fee-splitting prohibitions

 

State laws in certain of the states in which we operate prohibit us from owning physician practices, from exercising control over the clinical judgment of physicians or from engaging in certain financial arrangements, such as splitting professional fees with physicians. These laws vary by state and are enforced by state courts and regulatory authorities, each with broad discretion, and often with limited precedent as to how challenges under these laws may be ruled. One component of our business has been to enter into management services agreements with physician practices, whereby we provide management, administrative, technical and other non-medical services to the psychiatric practices in relation to TMS therapy in exchange for a service fee. We structure our relationships with these practices in a manner that we believe keeps us from engaging in the practice of medicine or exercising control over any medical judgment. However, there can be no assurance that our present arrangements with physicians providing medical services and medical supervision at our owned or managed centers will not be challenged in the future and, if challenged, that they will not be found to violate applicable laws. Any such ruling against us could subject us to potential damages, injunctions and/or civil and criminal penalties or require us to restructure our arrangements in a way that would affect the control or quality of our services or change the amounts that we receive from the operation of these TMS Centers, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.

 

The regulatory framework in which we operate is constantly evolving

 

Healthcare laws and regulations are constantly evolving and could change significantly in the future. We closely monitor these developments and will modify our operations from time to time as the regulatory environment requires. There can be no assurances, however, that we will always be able to adapt our operations to address new law or regulations or that new laws or regulations will not adversely affect our business. In addition, although we believe that we are operating materially in compliance with applicable federal and state laws and regulations, neither our current or anticipated business operations nor the operations of our contracted physician practices have been the subject of judicial or regulatory interpretation. We cannot assure investors that a review of our business by courts or regulatory authorities will not result in a determination that could materially adversely affect our operations or that the healthcare regulatory environment will not change in a way that materially restricts our operations. Furthermore, governments, government agencies and industry self-regulatory bodies in the United States may, from time to time, adopt statutes, regulations and rulings that directly or indirectly affect the activities of the Company. These regulations could adversely impact on our ability to execute our business strategy and generate revenues as planned.

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Complying with U.S. federal and state regulations is an expensive and time-consuming process, and any failure to comply could result in penalties or repayments

 

We are directly, or indirectly through the physician practices with which we contract, subject to extensive regulation by both the U.S. federal government and the state governments of those states in which we operate TMS Centers, including:

 

the United States False Claims Act (the “FCA”);

 

U.S. federal and state anti-kickback prohibitions;

 

U.S. federal and state billing and claims submission laws and regulations;

 

the United States Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009, and comparable state laws; and

 

state laws that prohibit the practice of medicine by non-physicians and prohibit fee-splitting arrangements involving physicians.

 

If our operations are found to be in violation of any of the laws and regulations to which we or the physician practices with which we contract are subject, we may be subject to penalties associated with the violation, including civil and criminal penalties, damages, fines and the curtailment of our operations. Any penalties, damages, fines or curtailment of our operations, individually or in the aggregate, could adversely affect our ability to operate our business and our financial results. The risks of our being found in violation of these laws and regulations is increased by the view that many of these laws and regulations have not been fully interpreted by the regulatory authorities or the courts, and their provisions are open to a variety of interpretations. Any action brought against the Company for violation of these laws or regulations, even if we successfully defend against it, could result in significant legal expenses and divert our management’s attention from the operation of our business, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, operations and prospects.

 

Furthermore, the Medicare reimbursement rules impose extensive requirements upon healthcare providers that furnish services to Medicare beneficiaries, including the Company. Moreover, additional laws and regulations potentially affecting healthcare providers participating in the Medicare program continue to be promulgated that may impact the Company in the future. From time to time, in the ordinary course of business, we may conduct internal compliance reviews, the results of which may involve the identification of errors in the manner in which we submit claims to the Medicare program. We may also be subject to periodic audits by insurance companies, including the Medicare program. These reviews may result in the identification of errors in the manner in which we bill the Medicare program for our services, which may result in our receiving incorrect payments from the Medicare program that we are required to repay. Under U.S. law, the failure to report and return Medicare overpayments can lead to a violation of the FCA and associated penalties, including exclusion from the Medicare program.

 

As part of our ongoing compliance efforts with these regulatory requirements, we periodically conduct reviews of our TMS Centers’ past operations to assess our compliance with such requirements. If and when such reviews demonstrate that there may be a repayment obligation due to our failure to comply with certain regulatory requirements, the Company remedies the deficiency and returns and refunds any Medicare overpayments within the statutorily prescribed time periods.

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We may be subject to additional taxes, which could affect our operating results

 

We may be subject to assessments for additional taxes, including sales taxes, which could reduce our operating results. In accordance with current law, we pay, collect and/or remit taxes in those jurisdictions where we maintain a physical presence. In computing our tax obligations in these jurisdictions, we are required to take various tax accounting and reporting positions on matters that may not be entirely free from doubt and for which we have not received rulings from the governing authorities.

 

While we believe that we have appropriately remitted all taxes based on our interpretation of applicable law, it is possible that some taxing jurisdictions may attempt to assess additional taxes and penalties on us if the applicable authorities do not agree with our positions. A successful challenge by a tax authority, through asserting either an error in our calculation, or a change in the application of law or an interpretation of the law that differs from our own, could adversely affect our results of operations.

 

Our ability to manage our operations at our current size and successfully execute on our growth strategies is subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, and any failure to do so could have a negative impact on the price of the Common Shares

 

The continued success of our growth strategies depends on, among other things, our ability to expand our network of TMS Centers and management regions within the United States, as well as factors which are beyond our control, including general economic conditions and consumer confidence in future economic conditions. If we fail to execute on our growth initiatives or fail to fully realize the benefits expected to result from these initiatives, our results of operations and our ability to remain competitive may be materially adversely impacted, and the price of the Common Shares could decline. Our results to date are not an indication of future results, and there can be no assurance that our growth initiatives will generate increased revenues or improve operating margins even if we are able to successfully implement our growth strategies.

 

As we move forward, we expect our growth to bring new challenges and complexities that we have not faced before. Among other difficulties that we may encounter, this growth could place a strain on our existing infrastructure, information technology systems, real estate requirements and employee base and may make it more difficult for us to adequately forecast expenditures. Our budgeting will become more complex, and we may also place increased burdens on our suppliers, as we will likely increase the size of our TMS Device orders. The increased demands that our growth plans will place on our infrastructure and our management team may cause us to operate our business less efficiently, which could cause deterioration in our performance. Our growth may make it otherwise difficult for us to respond quickly to changing trends, preferences and other factors. This could result in excess or deficient equipment, loss of market share and decreased revenues. We cannot anticipate all of the demands that our expanding operations will impose on our business, and our failure to appropriately address these demands could have an adverse effect on us.

 

In addition, we believe that an important contributor to our success has been our corporate culture, which we believe fosters innovation, teamwork and personalized customer service. As we continue to grow, we must effectively integrate, develop and motivate a growing number of new employees. As a result, we may find it difficult to maintain our corporate culture, which could limit our ability to innovate and operate effectively. Any failure to preserve our culture could also negatively affect our ability to retain and recruit personnel, continue to perform at current levels or execute on our growth strategies.

 

We experience competition from other TMS providers and hospitals, and this competition could adversely affect our business and revenue

 

The market for TMS services is becoming increasingly competitive. We compete with individual psychiatrist offices, multi-practice physician groups and other specialist providers of TMS therapy. In addition, some physician practices have established their own TMS treatment facilities within their group practices and compete with us directly.

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Many of our competitors are, and many of our potential competitors may be, larger and have access to greater financial, marketing and other resources. Therefore, these competitors may be able to devote greater resources to the marketing and sale of their products or adopt more aggressive pricing policies than we can. As a result, we may lose market share, which could reduce our revenues and adversely affect our results of operations.

 

Our competitors may seek to emulate facets of our business strategy, which could result in a reduction of any competitive advantage that we might possess. As a result, our current and future competitors, especially those with greater financial, marketing or other resources, may be able to duplicate or improve upon some or all of the elements of our business strategy that we believe are important in differentiating our patients’ TMS treatment experience. If our competitors were to duplicate or improve upon some or all of the elements of our business strategy, our competitive position and our business could suffer. There can be no assurances that we will continue to be able to compete successfully against existing or future competitors. If we are unable to successfully compete, our business and financial condition would be adversely affected.

 

Our business is labor intensive and could be adversely affected if we are unable to maintain satisfactory relations with our employees or the occurrence of union attempts to organize our employees

 

Our business is labor intensive, and our results are subject to variations in labor-related costs, productivity and the number of pending or potential claims against us related to labor and employment practices. If political efforts at the national and local level result in actions or proposals that increase the likelihood of increased labor costs, or if labor and employment claims, including the filing of class action lawsuits, or work stoppages, trend upwards, our operating costs could correspondingly increase and our employee relations, productivity, earnings and cash flows could be adversely affected.

 

None of our employees are currently subject to collective bargaining agreements. As we continue to grow and enter different management regions, unions may attempt to organize all or part of our employee base at certain TMS Centers or within certain management regions. Responding to such organization attempts may distract management and employees and may have a negative financial impact on individual locations, or on our business as a whole.

 

The maintenance of a productive and efficient labor environment and, in the event of unionization of these employees, the successful negotiation of a collective bargaining agreement, cannot be assured. Protracted and extensive work stoppages or labor disruptions, such as strikes or lockouts, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

A significant portion of our employees are subject to federal or state laws governing such matters as minimum wage, working conditions and overtime. Changes in these laws in the markets in which we operate, particularly increases to minimum wage, could cause our operating expenses to increase. A significant increase in labor costs could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

We are subject to insurance-related risks

 

We maintain director and officer insurance, liability insurance, business interruption and property insurance and our insurance coverage includes deductibles, self-insured retentions, limits of liability and similar provisions. There is no guarantee, however, that our insurance coverage will be sufficient, or that insurance proceeds will be paid to us on a timely basis. In addition, there are types of losses we may incur but against which we cannot be insured or which we believe are not economically reasonable to insure, such as losses due to acts of war or certain natural disasters. If we incur these losses and they are material, our business, operating results and financial condition may be adversely affected. Also, certain material events may result in sizable losses for the insurance industry and materially adversely impact the availability of adequate insurance coverage or result in significant premium increases. Accordingly, we may elect to self-insure, accept higher deductibles or reduce the amount of coverage in response to such market changes.

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Complications associated with our billing and collections system could have a material adverse effect on our revenues, cash flows and operating results

 

Our billing system is critical to our billing operations. If there are defects in the billing system, we may experience difficulties in our ability to successfully bill and collect for services rendered, including a delay in collections, a reduction in the amounts collected, increased risk of retractions from and refunds to commercial and government payors, an increase in uncollectible accounts receivable and noncompliance with reimbursement regulations, any or all of which could have a material adverse effect on our revenues, cash flows and operating results.

 

In addition, we accept payments using a variety of methods, including credit cards and debit cards. For existing and future payment methods we offer to our customers, we may become subject to additional regulations and compliance requirements, as well as fraudulent activities. For certain payment methods, including credit and debit cards, we pay interchange and other fees, which may increase over time, raising our operating costs and lowering profitability. We rely on third party service providers for payment processing services, including the processing of credit and debit cards. Our business may be negatively affected if these third-party service providers become unwilling or unable to provide these services to us. We are also subject to payment card association operating rules, including data security and management rules, certification requirements and rules governing electronic funds transfers and if we fail to comply with these rules or requirements, or if our data security systems are breached or compromised, we may be liable for card issuing banks’ costs, subject to fines and higher transaction fees and/or lose our ability to accept credit and debit card payments from our patients and process electronic funds transfers or facilitate other types of payments, and our business and operating results may be adversely affected.

 

A material disruption in or security breach affecting our information technology systems could significantly affect our business and lead to reduced sales, growth prospects and reputational damage

 

The protection of patient, employee and company data is critical to us. We rely extensively on our computer systems to track treatment and patient data, manage our supply chain, record and process transactions, collect and summarize data and manage our business. While our systems are designed to operate without interruption, we may experience interruptions to the availability of our computer systems from time to time. The failure of our computer systems to operate effectively, keep pace with our growing capacity requirements, smoothly transition to upgraded or replacement systems or integrate with new systems could adversely affect our business. In addition, our computer systems are subject to damage or interruption from power outages, computer and telecommunications failures, computer viruses, cyber-attacks, denial-of-service attacks, security breaches, catastrophic events such as fires, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, acts of war or terrorism, and usage errors by our employees. If our computer systems are damaged or cease to function properly, we may have to make a significant investment to fix or replace them, and we may suffer loss of critical data, compromise to the integrity or confidentiality of patient and employee information in our systems or networks, disruption to the systems or networks of third parties on which we rely, and interruptions or delays in our operations. A lack of relevant and reliable information that enables management to effectively manage our business could preclude us from optimizing our overall performance. Any significant loss of data or failure to maintain reliable data could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations. A disruption to computer systems could reduce revenues, increase our costs, diminish our growth prospects, expose us to litigation, decrease patient confidence and damage our brand, which could adversely affect our business or results of operations and our reputation.

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Experienced computer programmers and hackers, or even internal users, may be able to penetrate or create system disruptions or cause shutdowns of our network security or that of third-party companies with which we have contracted to provide services. We generally collect and store confidential medical information regarding our patients and any compromise of such information could subject us to patient or government litigation, which would harm our reputation and could adversely affect our business and growth. Moreover, we could incur significant expenses or disruptions of our operations in connection with system failures or data breaches. An increasing number of websites, including several large internet companies, have recently disclosed breaches of their security, some of which have involved sophisticated and highly targeted attacks on portions of their sites. Because the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access, disable or degrade services or sabotage systems, change frequently and often are not recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate preventative measures. In addition, sophisticated hardware and operating system software and applications that we buy or license from third parties may contain defects in design or manufacture, including “bugs” and other problems that could unexpectedly interfere with the security and operation of the systems. The costs to us to eliminate or alleviate security problems, viruses and bugs could be significant, and efforts to address these problems could result in interruptions, delays or cessation of service that may impede our revenues or other critical functions.

 

In addition, many jurisdictions in which we operate have adopted breach of privacy and data security laws or regulations that require notification to consumers if the security of their personal information is breached, among other requirements. Governmental focus on data security may lead to additional legislative action, and the increased emphasis on information security may lead patients to request that we take additional measures to enhance security or restrict the manner in which we collect and use patient information. As a result, we may have to modify our business systems and practices with the goal of further improving data security, which would result in increased expenditures and operating complexity. Any compromise of our security or accidental loss or theft of patient data in our possession could result in a violation of applicable privacy and other laws, significant legal and financial exposure and damage to our reputation, which could adversely impact our business, results of operations and the price of the Common Shares.

 

Recently, data security breaches suffered by well-known companies and institutions have attracted a substantial amount of media attention, prompting new foreign, federal and state laws and legislative proposals addressing data privacy and security, as well as increased data protection obligations imposed on merchants by credit card issuers. As a result, we may become subject to more extensive requirements to protect the patient information that we process in connection with the payment for TMS treatment, resulting in increased compliance costs.

 

Many of our business functions are centralized at our head office locations. Disruptions to the operations at these locations could have an adverse effect on our business

 

Our head office is located in Toronto, Ontario, and our U.S. corporate headquarters is located in Tysons Corner, Virginia. We have centralized a large number of business functions at these locations, including TMS Center design, patient support, marketing and management. Most of our senior management, our primary data center and critical resources dedicated to financial and administrative functions, are located at our head office and U.S. corporate headquarters. If we were required to shut down either one of these sites for any reason, including fire, earthquake, major health issues or pandemics or other natural disaster or civil disruption, our management and our operations staff would need to find an alternative location, causing significant disruption and expense to our business and operations.

 

We recognize the need to enhance our disaster recovery, business continuity and document retention plans that would allow us to be operational despite unforeseen events impacting our head office or U.S. corporate headquarters, and intend to do so in the future. Without disaster recovery, business continuity and document retention plans, if we encounter difficulties or disasters at our head office or corporate headquarters, our critical systems, operations and information may not be restored in a timely manner, or at all, and may adversely impact our business operations.

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We may upgrade or replace certain core information technology systems which could disrupt our operations and adversely affect our financial results

 

The implementation of new information technology systems may cause delays or disruptions or may be used improperly, either of which might negatively impact our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.

 

The risks associated with information technology systems changes, as well as any failure of such systems to operate effectively, could adversely impact human capital management and the promptness and accuracy of our transaction processing and financial accounting and reporting capabilities. Internal controls over financial reporting, the efficiency of our operations and our ability to properly forecast earnings and cash requirements may be adversely affected, and we may be required to make significant additional capital expenditures to remediate any such failures or problems.

 

We believe that other companies have experienced significant delays and cost overruns in implementing similar system changes, and we may encounter problems as well. Our planned investments in maintenance capital expenditures and infrastructure are forward-looking information and are based on opinions, estimates and assumptions that may prove incorrect. Additionally, unforeseen costs in developing infrastructure and other information technology improvements may adversely impact our business operations. We may not be able to successfully implement these new systems or, if implemented, we may still face unexpected disruptions in the future. Any resulting delays or disruptions could harm our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.

 

Changes in accounting standards and subjective assumptions, estimates and judgments by management related to complex accounting matters could significantly affect our reported financial results or financial condition

 

IFRS and related accounting pronouncements, implementation guidelines and interpretations with regard to a wide range of matters that are relevant to our business, including revenue recognition, impairment of goodwill and intangible assets, inventory, income taxes and litigation, are highly complex and involve many subjective assumptions, estimates and judgments. Changes in these rules or their interpretation or changes in underlying assumptions, estimates or judgments could significantly change our reported financial performance or financial condition in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

 

Our inability to maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting could increase the risk of an error in our financial statements

 

We are responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal controls over financial reporting, which is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with IFRS. Because of our inherent limitations and the fact that we are a relatively new public company and are implementing new financial control and management systems, internal controls over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. A failure to prevent or detect errors or misstatements may result in a decline in the market price of the Common Shares and harm our ability to raise capital in the future.

 

If our management is unable to certify the effectiveness of our internal controls or if material weaknesses in our internal controls are identified, we could be subject to regulatory scrutiny and a loss of public confidence, which could harm our business and cause a decline in the price of the Common Shares. In addition, if we do not maintain adequate financial and management personnel, processes and controls, we may not be able to accurately report our financial performance on a timely basis, which could cause a decline in the market price of the Common Shares and harm our ability to raise capital. Delisting of the Common Shares on the TSX would reduce the liquidity of the market for the Common Shares, which would reduce the price of and increase the volatility of the market price of the Common Shares.

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We do not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures and internal controls over financial reporting will prevent all error or fraud. A control system, no matter how well-designed and implemented, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the control system’s objectives will be met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Due to the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues within an organization are detected. The inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of simple errors or mistakes. Controls can also be circumvented by individual acts of certain persons, by collusion of two or more people or by management override of the controls. Due to the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and may not be detected in a timely manner or at all. If we cannot provide reliable financial reports or prevent fraud, our reputation and operating results could be materially adversely effected, which could also cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial information, which in turn could result in a reduction in the trading price of the Common Shares.

 

Risks Relating to Ownership of Common Shares

 

There are unexercised options outstanding and which may be issued from time to time. If these are exercised or converted, an investor’s interest in Common Shares will be diluted

 

As of December 31, 2019, there were 58,418,443 Common Shares issued and outstanding. If all of the options that were issued and outstanding as of that date, being 2,998,168 options, were to be exercised, including options that are not yet exercisable, we would be required to issue up to an additional 2,998,168 Common Shares, or approximately 5.1% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares as December 31, 2019 on a non-diluted basis. Furthermore, there are an aggregate of 1,068,186 Broker Warrants issued and outstanding that were issued in connection with the IPO and the Equity Offerings and are exercisable into Common Shares on a one-for-one basis at exercise prices of between US$2.00 and C$3.25 per Broker Warrant, as applicable. If all of the Broker Warrants were to be exercised, we would be required to issue up to an additional 1,068,186 Common Shares, or approximately 1.8% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares as at December 31, 2019 on a non-diluted basis.

 

These issuances would decrease the proportionate ownership and voting power of all other shareholders. This dilution could cause the price of the Common Shares to decline and it could result in the creation of new control persons. In addition, our shareholders could suffer dilution in the net book value per Common Share.

 

The market price for the Common Shares may be volatile and your investment could suffer a decline in value

 

The market price of the Common Shares may be subject to significant fluctuations. Some of the factors that may cause the market price of the Common Shares to fluctuate include:

 

volatility in the market price and trading volume of comparable companies;

 

actual or anticipated changes or fluctuations in our operating results or in the expectations of market analysts;

 

adverse market reaction to any indebtedness we may incur or securities we may issue in the future;

 

short sales, hedging and other derivative transactions in the Common Shares;

 

litigation or regulatory action against us;

 

investors’ general perception of us and the public’s reaction to our press releases, our other public announcements and our filings with Canadian securities regulators, including our financial statements;

 

publication of research reports or news stories about us, our competitors or our industry;

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positive or negative recommendations or withdrawal of research coverage by securities analysts;

 

changes in general political, economic, industry and market conditions and trends;

 

sales of Common Shares by existing shareholders;

 

recruitment or departure of key personnel;

 

significant acquisitions or business combinations, strategic partnerships, joint ventures or capital commitments by or involving us or our competitors; and

 

the other risk factors described in this section of this Annual Information Form.

 

Additionally, these factors, as well as other related factors, may cause decreases in asset values that are deemed to be other than temporary, which may result in impairment losses. As well, certain institutional investors may base their investment decisions on consideration of our environmental, governance and social practices and performance against such institutions’ respective investment guidelines and criteria, and failure to satisfy such criteria may result in limited or no investment in the Common Shares by those institutions, which could materially adversely affect the trading price of the Common Shares. There can be no assurance that continuing fluctuations in price and volume will not occur. If such increased levels of volatility and market turmoil continue for a protracted period of time, our operations and the trading price of the Common Shares may be materially adversely affected.

 

In addition, broad market and industry factors may harm the market price of the Common Shares. Consequently, the price of the Common Shares could fluctuate based upon factors that have little or nothing to do with us, and these fluctuations could materially reduce the price of the Common Shares regardless of our operating performance. In the past, following a significant decline in the market price of a company’s securities, there have been instances of securities class action litigation having been instituted against that company. If we were involved in any similar litigation, we could incur substantial costs, our management’s attention and resources could be diverted and it could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.

 

A decline in the price of the Common Shares could affect our ability to raise further working capital and adversely impact our ability to continue operations

 

A prolonged decline in the price of the Common Shares could result in a reduction in the liquidity of the Common Shares and a reduction in our ability to raise capital. Because a significant portion of our operations has been and will be financed through the sale of equity securities, a decline in the price of the Common Shares could be especially detrimental to our liquidity and our operations. Such reductions may force us to reallocate funds from other planned uses and may have a significant negative effect on our business plan and operations, including our ability to implement our TMS Center expansion strategy or continue current operations. If our stock price declines, we can offer no assurance that we will be able to raise additional capital on acceptable terms or generate funds from operations sufficient to meet our obligations. If we are unable to raise sufficient capital in the future, we may not have the resources to continue our normal operations.

 

Greybrook Health continues to have significant influence over us, including control over decisions that require the approval of shareholders, which could limit your ability to influence the outcome of matters submitted to shareholders for a vote

 

As of December 31, 2019, Greybrook Health beneficially owns, controls or directs approximately 35.6% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares. As long as Greybrook Health owns or controls a significant number of the outstanding Common Shares, they will have the ability to exercise substantial control over all corporate actions requiring shareholder approval, irrespective of how our other shareholders may vote, including the election and removal of directors and the size of our Board, any amendments to our Articles (as defined below), or the approval of any merger, acquisition or other significant corporate transaction, including a sale of all or substantially all of our assets.

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In addition, Greybrook Health’s interests may not align with the interests of our other shareholders. Greybrook Health is in the business of making investments in companies and may acquire and hold, from time to time, interests in businesses that compete directly or indirectly with us. Greybrook Health may also pursue acquisition opportunities that may be complementary to our business, and, as a result, those acquisition opportunities may not be available to us.

 

Our level of indebtedness may increase and reduce our financial flexibility

 

We are currently indebted under our loan facilities and we may incur additional indebtedness in the future. We are exposed to changes in interest rates on our cash, bank and controlling shareholder indebtedness and long-term debt. Debt issued at variable rates exposes us to cash flow interest rate risk. Debt issued at fixed rates exposes us to fair value interest rate risk. Our borrowings, current and future, will require interest payments and need to be repaid or refinanced, could require us to divert funds identified for other purposes to debt service and could create additional cash demands or impair our liquidity position and add financial risk for us. Diverting funds identified for other purposes for debt service may adversely affect our business and growth prospects. If we cannot generate sufficient cash flow from operations to service our debt, we may need to refinance our debt, dispose of assets, reduce or delay expenditures or issue equity to obtain necessary funds. We do not know whether we would be able to take any of these actions on a timely basis, on terms satisfactory to us, or at all.

 

Our level of indebtedness could affect our operations in several ways, including the following:

 

a significant portion of our cash flows could be used to service our indebtedness;

 

the covenants contained in the agreements governing our outstanding indebtedness may limit our ability to borrow additional funds, dispose of assets, pay dividends and make certain investments;

 

our debt covenants may also affect our flexibility in planning for, and reacting to, changes in the economy and in our industry;

 

a high level of debt would increase our vulnerability to general adverse economic and industry conditions;

 

a high level of debt may place us at a competitive disadvantage compared to our competitors that are less leveraged and therefore may be able to take advantage of opportunities that our indebtedness would prevent us from pursuing; and

 

a high level of debt may impair our ability to obtain additional financing in the future for working capital, capital expenditures, debt service requirements, acquisitions or other purposes.

 

In addition to our debt service obligations, our operations require material expenditures on a continuing basis. Our ability to make scheduled debt payments, to refinance our obligations with respect to our indebtedness and to fund capital and non-capital expenditures necessary to maintain the condition of our operating assets and properties, as well as to provide capacity for the growth of our business, depends on our financial and operating performance. General economic conditions and financial, business and other factors affect our operations and our future performance. Many of these factors are beyond our control. We may not be able to generate sufficient cash flows to pay the interest on our debt, and future working capital, borrowings or equity financing may not be available to pay or refinance such debt.

 

Future sales of our securities by existing shareholders or by us could cause the market price for the Common Shares to decline

 

Sales of a substantial number of the Common Shares in the public market could occur at any time. These sales, or the market perception that the holders of a large number of Common Shares intend to sell their Common Shares, could significantly reduce the market price of the Common Shares. We cannot predict the effect, if any, that future public sales of these securities or the availability of these securities for sale will have on the market price of the Common Shares. If the market price of the Common Shares was to drop as a result, this might impede our ability to raise additional capital and might cause remaining shareholders to lose all or part of their investment.

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As of December 31, 2019, there were 58,418,443 Common Shares outstanding. In connection with our IPO, certain of our directors and executive officers entered into the Lock-Up Arrangements (as defined below). Following release of the securities from the Lock-Up Arrangements in accordance with the Release Schedule (as defined below), those Common Shares are and will be, as the case may be, available for sale in the public markets subject to restrictions under applicable securities laws in Canada. In addition, there are options and Broker Warrants to acquire 2,998,168 Common Shares and 1,068,186 Common Shares, respectively, outstanding as of December 31, 2019. The Common Shares issuable upon the exercise of these options and Broker Warrants, will, to the extent permitted by any applicable vesting requirements, the Lock-Up Arrangements and restrictions under applicable securities laws in Canada, also become eligible for sale in the public market.

 

Further, we cannot predict the size of future issuances of Common Shares or the effect, if any, that future issuances and sales of Common Shares will have on the market price of the Common Shares. Sales of substantial amounts of Common Shares, or the perception that such sales could occur, may adversely affect prevailing market prices for the Common Shares.

 

Future offerings of debt securities, which would rank senior to the Common Shares upon our bankruptcy or liquidation, and future offerings of equity securities that may be senior to the Common Shares for the purposes of dividend and liquidating distributions, may adversely affect the market price of the Common Shares

 

In the future, we may attempt to increase our capital resources by making offerings of debt securities or additional offerings of equity securities. Upon bankruptcy or liquidation, holders of our debt securities and lenders with respect to other borrowings will receive a distribution of our available assets prior to the holders of Common Shares. Additional equity offerings may dilute the holdings of our existing shareholders or reduce the market price of the Common Shares, or both. Our decision to issue securities in any future offering will depend on market conditions and other factors beyond our control. As a result, we cannot predict or estimate the amount, timing or nature of our future offerings, and holders of Common Shares bear the risk of our future offerings reducing the market price of the Common Shares and diluting their ownership interest in the Company.

 

We do not expect to pay any cash dividends for the foreseeable future

 

We currently expect to retain all available funds and future earnings, if any, for use in the operation and growth of our business and do not anticipate paying any cash dividends for the foreseeable future. Any future determination to pay dividends will be at the discretion of our Board, subject to compliance with applicable law and any contractual provisions, including under any existing or future agreements for indebtedness we may incur, that restrict or limit our ability to pay dividends, and will depend upon, among other factors, our results of operations, financial condition, earnings, capital requirements and other factors that our Board deems relevant. Accordingly, realization of a gain on your investment will depend on the appreciation of the price of the Common Shares, which may never occur. Investors seeking cash dividends in the foreseeable future should not invest in Common Shares.

 

We are a Canadian company and shareholder protections differ from shareholder protections in the United States and elsewhere

 

We are organized under the laws of Ontario, Canada and, accordingly, are governed by the OBCA. This Act differs in certain material respects from laws generally applicable to United States corporations and shareholders, including the provisions relating to interested directors, mergers and similar arrangements, takeovers, shareholders’ suits, indemnification of directors and inspection of corporation records.

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Treatment of the Company as a U.S. Domestic Corporation for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes

 

Although the Company is organized as a corporation under the OBCA, the Company takes the position that it is treated as a U.S. domestic corporation for all U.S. federal income tax purposes under Section 7874 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. As a result, the Company generally is taxable on its worldwide income in both Canada and the United States. This treatment is expected to continue indefinitely, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition and results of operations. In addition, dividends received by Non-U.S. Holders (as defined below) generally will be subject to U.S. federal withholding tax at the rate of 30%, except as reduced by an applicable income tax treaty. Shareholders who are residents of Canada will not be permitted to claim a foreign tax credit under the Income Tax Act (Canada) for any such U.S. withholding tax. Investors are urged to consult their own tax advisers regarding the U.S. tax treatment of the Company and the tax consequences of owning Common Shares in light of their particular circumstances.

 

A “Non-U.S. Holder” is any person who is a beneficial owner of Common Shares and who is not, for U.S. federal income tax purposes: (i) an individual who is a citizen or a resident of the United States; (ii) a corporation (or other entity that is classified as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes) created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof; (iii) an estate the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income taxation regardless of its source; (iv) a trust (1) that has validly elected to be treated as a U.S. person for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (2) the administration over which a U.S. court can exercise primary supervision and all of the substantial decisions of which one or more U.S. persons have the authority to control; (v) a partnership or other entity or arrangement that is classified as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes; (vi) a person treated as engaged in the conduct of a trade or business within the United States; or (vii) an individual who is present in the United States for 183 days or more in the taxable year and who satisfies certain other conditions.

 

Any issuance of preferred shares could make it difficult for another company to acquire us or could otherwise adversely affect holders of the Common Shares, which could depress the price of the Common Shares

 

Our Board has the authority to issue preferred shares and to determine the preferences, limitations and relative rights of preferred shares and to fix the number of shares constituting any series and the designation of such series, without any further vote or action by our shareholders. Our preferred shares may be issued with liquidation, dividend and other rights superior to the rights of the Common Shares. The potential issuance of preferred shares may delay or prevent a change in control of us, discourage bids for the Common Shares at a premium over the market price and adversely affect the market price and other rights of the holders of Common Shares.

 

If securities or industry analysts cease to publish research or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about us or our business, our trading price and our trading volume could decline

 

The trading market for the Common Shares depends in part on the research and reports that industry or securities analysts publish about us or our business. If we obtain industry or securities analyst coverage and if one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrade the Common Shares, the trading price of the Common Shares may decline. If one or more of the analysts cease coverage of our Company or fails to publish reports on us regularly, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which in turn could cause the Common Share price or trading volume to decline. Moreover, if our results of operations do not meet the expectations of the investor community, or one or more of the analysts who cover our Company publishes inaccurate or unfavorable research about our business, the trading price of the Common Shares may decline.

 

The forward-looking statements contained in this Annual Information Form may prove to be incorrect

 

There can be no assurance that any estimates and assumptions contained in this Annual Information Form will prove to be correct. Actual results of the Company in the future may vary significantly from the historical and estimated results and those variations may be material. There is no representation by us that actual results achieved by the Company in the future will be the same, in whole or in part, as those included in this Annual Information Form. See “Forward-Looking Information”.

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DIVIDEND POLICY

 

The Company has not, since its inception, declared or paid any dividends on the Common Shares. We intend to retain any future earnings to fund the development and growth of our business and do not currently anticipate paying dividends on the Common Shares. Any determination to pay dividends in the future will be at the discretion of our Board and will depend on many factors, including, among others, our financial condition, current and anticipated cash requirements, contractual restrictions and financing agreement covenants, solvency tests imposed by applicable corporate law and other factors that our Board may deem relevant.

 

DESCRIPTION OF SHARE CAPITAL

 

The following describes the material terms of our share capital. The following description may not be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the terms and provisions of our articles (“Articles”).

 

Authorized Capital

 

Our authorized share capital consists of an unlimited number of Common Shares and an unlimited number of preferred shares, issuable in series. As of December 31, 2019, there were 58,418,443 Common Shares and no preferred shares issued and outstanding.

 

The Company has also issued at total of 1,068,186 broker warrants (the “Broker Warrants”) as forth in the table below:

 

Number of Broker Warrants     Exercise Price     Expiry Date
463,920     US$ 2.00     March 16, 2020
39,726     US$ 2.00     June 7, 2020
564,540     C$ 3.25     May 17, 2021

 

Each Broker Warrant is exercisable to acquire one Common Share, subject to adjustment in certain circumstances. As of the date hereof, no Brokers Warrants have been exercised.

 

Furthermore, as at December 31, 2019, we had 2,998,168 options issued and outstanding under our stock option plan (the “Stock Option Plan”). All options are exercisable to acquire Common Shares. Contractual restrictions on transfer following the IPO were entered into with respect to certain Common Shares issuable upon exercise of options granted under the Stock Option Plan. See “Securities Subject to Contractual Restrictions on Transfer”.

 

Common Shares

 

Each Common Share entitles the holder thereof to receive notice of any meetings of shareholders of the Company, to attend and to cast one vote at all such meetings. Holders of Common Shares do not have cumulative voting rights with respect to the election of directors and, accordingly, holders of a majority of the Common Shares entitled to vote in any election of directors may elect all directors standing for election. The holders of Common Shares are entitled to receive, if, as and when declared by the Board, dividends in such amounts as shall be determined by the Board in its discretion. The holders of Common Shares have the right to receive the Company’s remaining property and assets after payment of debts and other liabilities on a pro rata basis in the event of a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up, whether voluntary or involuntary. The Common Shares do not carry any pre-emptive, subscription, redemption or conversion rights, nor do they contain any sinking or purchase fund provisions. See “Dividend Policy”.

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Preferred Shares

 

The preferred shares may at any time and from time to time be issued in one or more series. Subject to the provisions of the OBCA and our Articles, our Board may, by resolution, from time to time before the issue thereof determine the maximum number of preferred shares of each series, create an identifying name for each series, attach special rights or restrictions to the preferred shares of each series including, without limitation, any right to receive dividends (which may be cumulative or non-cumulative and variable or fixed) or the means of determining such dividends, the dates of payment thereof, any terms or conditions of redemption or purchase, any conversion rights, any retraction rights, any rights on our liquidation, dissolution or winding-up and any sinking fund or other provisions, the whole to be subject to filing Articles of Amendment to create the series and to include the special rights or restrictions attached to the preferred shares of the series. Except as provided in any special rights or restrictions attaching to any series of preferred shares issued from time to time, the holders of preferred shares will not be entitled to receive notice of, attend or vote at any meeting of the Company’s shareholders.

 

Preferred shares of each series, if and when issued, will, with respect to the payment of dividends, rank pari passu with the preferred shares of every other series and be entitled to preference over the Common Shares and any other of our shares ranking junior to the preferred shares with respect to payment of dividends.

 

In the event of our liquidation, dissolution or winding-up, whether voluntary or involuntary, the holders of preferred shares will be entitled to preference with respect to distribution of our property or assets over the Common Shares and any other of our shares ranking junior to the preferred shares with respect to the repayment of capital paid up on and the payment of unpaid dividends accrued on the preferred shares. We currently anticipate that there will be no pre-emptive, subscription, redemption or conversion rights attaching to any series of preferred shares issued from time to time.

 

Advance Notice By-Laws

 

We have included certain advance notice provisions with respect to the election of our directors in our by-laws (the “Advance Notice Provisions”). The Advance Notice Provisions are intended to: (a) facilitate orderly and efficient annual general meetings or, where the need arises, special meetings of our shareholders; (b) ensure that all of our shareholders receive adequate notice of Board nominations and sufficient information with respect to all nominees; and (c) allow our shareholders to register an informed vote. Only persons who are nominated by our shareholders in accordance with the Advance Notice Provisions will be eligible for election as directors at any annual meeting of our shareholders, or at any special meeting of our shareholders if one of the purposes for which the special meeting was called was the election of directors.

 

Under the Advance Notice Provisions, a shareholder of the Company wishing to nominate a director would be required to provide us notice, in the prescribed form, within the prescribed time periods. These time periods include (a) in the case of an annual meeting of our shareholders (including annual and special meetings), not less than 30 days prior to the date of the annual meeting of our shareholders; provided that, if the first public announcement of the date of the annual meeting of our shareholders (the “Notice Date”) is less than 50 days before the meeting date, not later than the close of business on the 10th day following the Notice Date and (b) in the case of a special meeting (which is not also an annual meeting) of our shareholders called for any purpose which includes electing directors, not later than the close of business on the 15th day following the Notice Date, provided that, in either instance, if notice-and-access (as defined in National Instrument 54-101 – Communication with Beneficial Owners of Securities of a Reporting Issuer of the Canadian Securities Administrators) is used for delivery of proxy related materials in respect of a meeting described above, and the Notice Date in respect of the meeting is not less than 50 days prior to the date of the applicable meeting, the notice must be received not later than the close of business on the 40th day before the applicable meeting.

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Forum Selection

 

We have adopted a forum selection by-law that provides that, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Superior Court of Justice of the Province of Ontario, Canada and the appellate courts therefrom, will be the sole and exclusive forum for (a) any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, (b) any action or proceeding asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any of our directors, officers, or other employees to us, (c) any action or proceeding asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the OBCA or our Articles or by-laws, or (d) any action or proceeding asserting a claim otherwise related to the relationships among us, our affiliates and their respective shareholders, directors and/or officers, but excluding claims related to our business or the business of such affiliates. Our forum selection by-law also provides that our security holders are deemed to have consented to personal jurisdiction in the Province of Ontario and to service of process on their counsel in any foreign action initiated in violation of our by-law.

 

MARKET FOR SECURITIES

 

Trading Price and Volume

 

The Common Shares are listed on the TSX and are traded under the symbol “GTMS”. The high and low reported trading price and volumes of Common Shares on the TSX for the 12-month period ended December 31, 2019 were as follows:

 

Month   High     Low     Volume  
January   $ 2.89     $ 2.60       576,524  
February   $ 2.84     $ 2.50       321,405  
March   $ 3.50     $ 2.70       749,421  
April   $ 3.90     $ 3.20       694,018  
May   $ 3.80     $ 3.23       1,429,184  
June   $ 3.30     $ 2.76       913,650  
July   $ 3.25     $ 2.61       328,780  
August   $ 3.01     $ 2.32       821,128  
September   $ 2.50     $ 2.20       875,539  
October   $ 2.68     $ 2.10       1,079,369  
November   $ 2.36     $ 2.00       287,236  
December   $ 2.18     $ 1.50       391,947  

 

DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

 

The names and jurisdiction of residence of the directors and executive officers of the Company, their respective positions and offices held with the Company and their principal occupation for the last five or more years are shown below as at the date hereof. Directors are elected to serve until the next annual meeting or until their successors are elected or appointed, unless their office is earlier vacated.

 

Name, Province or State and
Country of Residence
Position/Title Office Held
Since
Principal Occupation

Elias Vamvakas

Ontario, Canada

Director, Chairman of the Board 2018 Chairman, Greybrook Capital

Brian P. Burke

Ontario, Canada

Director(2)(3) 2018 Studio Analyst, Rogers Sportsnet

Colleen Campbell

Ontario, Canada

Lead Director(1)(3) 2018 Vice Chair, BMO Capital Markets

Sasha Cucuz

Ontario, Canada

Director 2018 Chief Executive Officer, Greybrook Securities Inc.

Adrienne Graves, Ph.D.

California, United States

Director(1)(2)(3) 2018 Corporate Director

Adele C. Oliva

Pennsylvania, United States

Director(3) 2019 Founding Partner, 1315 Capital LLC

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Name, Province or State and
Country of Residence
Position/Title Office Held
Since
Principal Occupation

Frank Tworecke

Maryland, United States

Director(1)(2)(3) 2018 Corporate Director

Bill Leonard

Maryland, United States

Director, President and Chief Executive Officer 2018 President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company

Erns Loubser

Ontario, Canada

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer 2018 Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Corporate Secretary of the Company

Roberto Drassinower

Ontario, Canada

Chief Operating Officer 2018 Chief Operating Officer of the Company
Geoffrey Grammer
Maryland, United States
Chief Medical Officer 2018 Chief Medical Officer of the Company
Euphia Hsu Smith
Maryland, United States
Chief Marketing Officer 2019 Chief Marketing Officer of the Company

 

 

Notes:

 

(1) Member of our Audit Committee.

(2) Member of our Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee.

(3) Independent director for the purposes of National Instrument 58-101 – Disclosure of Corporate Governance Practices of the Canadian Securities Administrators.

 

Biographical Information Regarding the Directors and Executive Officers

 

Elias Vamvakas – Mr. Vamvakas is the Chairman of the Board, a position he has held since February 2018. Mr. Vamvakas is currently the founder and chairman of Greybrook Capital, a private equity firm focused on real estate and healthcare, a position he has held since 2007. Mr. Vamvakas is also the chairman of TearLab Corporation, a position he has held since 1996. Prior to joining Greybrook Capital and TearLab Corporation, Mr. Vamvakas co-founded TLC Vision Corporation (“TLC”) where he served as president and chief executive officer from 1994 to 2004. During this period, Mr. Vamvakas built TLC into the largest eye care service provider organization in North America with revenues of more than $300 million as TLC opened or acquired more than 100 laser eye clinics, over 200 mobile laser sites, more than 250 mobile cataract stations and several ambulatory surgery centres. Through TLC’s subsidiary, Vision Source Inc., TLC also developed the largest independent optometric franchise with more than 2,000 locations. Mr. Vamvakas holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Toronto.

 

Brian P. Burke – Mr. Burke is currently a studio analyst at Rogers Sportsnet, a Canadian television sports network, a position he has held since May 2018. Following graduation from Harvard Law School in 1981, Mr. Burke practiced corporate and securities law, with a focus on professional athletes and teams. Mr. Burke has been the president and/or general manager of several hockey organizations, including the Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, Anaheim Ducks, Vancouver Canucks and the Hartford Whalers during the period from 1992 to 2018. Mr. Burke previously served as a member of the boards of directors of the Sports Lawyers Association, Canuck Place Children’s Hospice Foundation and Rugby Canada. Mr. Burke is also a member, and served on the selection committee of, the Hockey Hall of Fame. Mr. Burke received a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and a bachelor’s degree in history from Providence College.

 

Colleen Campbell – Ms. Campbell is currently the vice-chair of BMO Capital Markets, the investment and corporate banking arm of the Bank of Montreal (“BMO”), a position she has held since 2012. In this capacity, Ms. Campbell provides senior client coverage and strategic advice to BMO’s investment and corporate banking group. Ms. Campbell has over 38 years of experience in the investment banking industry serving in various roles since joining in 1997, including 15 years in debt capital markets and ultimately as global head of BMO’s debt capital markets group. Ms. Campbell is currently a member of the Investment Banking Management Committee, chair of BMO Capital Markets Real Estate Inc., a member of the Investment Committee for the Merchant Bank Real Estate Private Equity Fund and co-chair of the Investment Bank’s Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee. Ms. Campbell holds an Honors Business Administration degree from Richard Ivey School of Business.

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Sasha Cucuz – Mr. Cucuz is currently the chief executive officer of Greybrook Securities Inc. (“Greybrook Securities”), a Toronto-based corporate finance and investment banking firm, a position he has held since 2005. Mr. Cucuz is an experienced private equity professional with over 10 years of transaction experience. In his capacity as chief executive officer of Greybrook Securities, Mr. Cucuz directs Greybrook Securities’ capital markets activities across the firm’s focus areas in real estate and healthcare. Mr. Cucuz also serves as co-chair of Greybrook Securities’ advisory committee for all active limited partnerships which include more than 50 real estate developments with an estimated completion value of approximately $14 billion. Prior to his role as chief executive officer of Greybrook Securities, Mr. Cucuz served as the chief executive officer of Greybrook Health and currently serves on its board of directors. Mr. Cucuz spent the early part of his career at CIBC Securities and TD Securities Inc. and also played three seasons of professional hockey. Mr. Cucuz holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from York University.

 

Adrienne Graves, Ph.D. – Dr. Graves is a neuroscientist by training and a global leader in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Dr. Graves held multiple positions at Santen Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of a 130 year old Japanese pharmaceutical company, over a 15 year period, including as the president and chief executive officer from 2002 to 2010. In this role, Dr. Graves successfully established Santen Inc.’s strong global presence, brought multiple products through preclinical and clinical development to approval and commercialization, and led global teams through successful acquisitions and partnerships. Prior to joining Santen Inc., Dr. Graves spent 9 years at Alcon Laboratories, Inc., beginning in 1986 as a Senior Scientist, where she progressed through various roles including director of international ophthalmology. Dr. Graves currently serves as an independent director on the boards of Akorn, Inc., Nicox S.A. and Surface Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Graves also serves on the corporation committee for the Brown University Medical School and the advisory board for Amach Capital Partners. Dr. Graves holds a bachelor of arts degree in psychology with honors from Brown University, her Ph.D. in psychobiology from the University of Michigan, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in visual neuroscience at the University of Paris.

 

Adele C. Oliva – Ms. Oliva is currently the Founding Partner of 1315 Capital LLC (“1315 Capital”), a Philadelphia-based firm that manages over $500 million and provides expansion and growth capital to commercial-stage medical technology, healthcare service, and specialty therapeutic companies, a position she has held since 2014. She was recruited to Quaker Partners in 2007 to expand their growth stage investing practice. Ms. Oliva has been a healthcare investor for over 20 years and focuses on commercial stage medical technology, healthcare service, and specialty therapeutic investments. Ms. Oliva co-founded 1315 Capital in 2014 to establish a firm focused on healthcare growth investing and the firm has since raised two funds and has over $500 million under management. Prior to 1315 Capital and Quaker Partners, Ms. Oliva was Co-Head of US Healthcare at Apax Partners, where she started in 1997. Ms. Oliva was also in business development and marketing at Baxter International. Ms. Oliva received a bachelor of science degree from St. Joseph’s University and a master of business administration degree from Cornell University.

 

Frank Tworecke – Mr. Tworecke has more than 35 years of experience in leading major retail and apparel companies. Prior to his retirement in December 2012, Mr. Tworecke acted as group president of Sportswear of Warnaco Group Inc. from 2004 to 2012 where he served as the head of the Calvin Klein jeans brand worldwide and Chaps® units. Prior to this role, Mr. Tworecke served as the president of Cignal Division at Merry-Go-Round Enterprises, Inc., president and chief executive officer of Bon-Ton Stores Inc. and chief operating officer of Jos. A. Bank Clothiers. Mr. Tworecke also served on the boards of directors of Cherokee Inc., Hampshire Group Limited, Grafton-Fraser Inc. and Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. Mr. Tworecke holds a bachelor of science degree from Cornell University and a master of business administration degree from Syracuse University. Mr. Tworecke was also a member of the Business Advisory Council of the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University.

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Bill Leonard – Mr. Leonard is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and its predecessor, TMS US, a position he has held since 2011. For more than 20 years, Mr. Leonard has provided operational and strategic leadership in the development of medical devices, pharmaceuticals and healthcare services. Mr. Leonard previously served as president of Leonard Consulting LLC from 2008 to 2011, and president of the Bio-Pharmaceutical Division of Euclid Vision Corporation from November 2007 to December 2010 where he developed FDA strategy for an ophthalmic drop that was successfully approved to undergo clinical trials. Mr. Leonard also served as president of the Refractive Surgery Division of TLC from July 2004 to March 2007, where he piloted a comprehensive business strategy and leadership generating over $200 million in revenue with 900 employees and a client base of 13,000 eye care professionals. Mr. Leonard holds a business administration degree from Towson University.

 

Erns Loubser, CFA, CA (SA) – Mr. Loubser is currently the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company, a position he has held since February 2018. Mr. Loubser joined TMS US as vice president of finance in 2015, where he managed the Company’s finance function and provided strategic financial leadership for expansion and funding initiatives. Prior to joining TMS US, Mr. Loubser worked for Deloitte LLP’s Financial Services Group from 2008 to 2011 where he led assurance and financial advisory teams. He later joined the South African Merchant Banking Group, now Stellar Capital Partners, where he ultimately served as associate director of investment banking and chief financial officer of certain portfolio companies from 2011 to 2014. Most recently, Mr. Loubser was part of British Telecom’s management consulting team in the United Kingdom from 2014 to 2015. Mr. Loubser holds a bachelor of commerce degree with a post-graduate specialization in accounting and finance from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He is a CFA charter holder and a chartered accountant.

 

Roberto Drassinower – Mr. Drassinower is currently the Chief Operating Officer of the Company, a position he has held since February 2018. Mr. Drassinower is an experienced technology business leader and operator. In 2002, Mr. Drassinower founded DME Consulting Inc., a management consulting firm specializing in strategy and mergers and acquisitions, and serves as its president. Through DME Consulting Inc., Mr. Drassinower also served as the chief executive officer of Brandimensions Inc. and Brandprotect Inc. from 2007 to 2018 and as chief executive officer of Nulogx Inc. and Greybrook Freight Management Inc. since 2009. Prior to founding DME Consulting Inc., Mr. Drassinower served as chief executive officer for SoftQuad Software Ltd., a company he acquired through a management buy-out and subsequently took public in the United States and Canada. Previously, Mr. Drassinower was president of Carolian Systems, a network management software solutions company.

 

Geoffrey Grammer – Dr. Grammer is currently the Chief Medical Officer of the Company and its predecessor, TMS US, a position he has held since 2017. In this role, Dr. Grammer develops TMS therapy treatment protocols and oversees the training of staff physicians and technicians. Dr. Grammer was responsible for creating one of the first TMS therapy centers in the United States. A decorated Colonel with the United States Army, Dr. Grammer has over 25 years’ experience in the psychiatric profession. Prior to joining the Company, Dr. Grammer served in the United States Army as a psychiatrist from 1992 to 2017 where he completed two deployments to Iraq: the first, serving as medical director for the 785th Combat Stress Control Company; and the second as a psychiatrist at the Combat Support Hospital at Contingency Operating Base (COB) Speicher. He also deployed to Afghanistan as a psychiatrist at the Combat Support Hospital in Bagram. Following his deployments, Dr. Grammer served for 8 years as chief of inpatient psychiatric services at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where he developed the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Program. In 2013, he assumed a position at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence as the department chief of research. Dr. Grammer is board certified on the United Council for Neurological Subspecialties-Behavior Neurology & Neuropsychiatry, American Board of Internal Medicine, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology and American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology – Geriatric Psychology. Dr. Grammer holds a bachelor of science degree in biology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and an M.D. degree from Uniformed Services University.

 

Euphia Hsu Smith – Ms. Hsu Smith is currently the Chief Marketing Officer of the Company, a position she has held since May 2019. From 2017 to 2019, Ms. Hsu Smith served as the Chief Marketing Officer of the American Telemedicine Association, Principal of South Point Advisors, and Managing Director of Knowledge to Practice (K2P). Prior to 2017, Ms. Hsu Smith was a Senior Director of The Advisory Board Company from 2010 to 2017. Ms. Hsu Smith holds a bachelor of arts degree from Mount Holyoke College and a master of public health degree from Yale University.

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Ownership Interest

 

As of December 31, 2019, our directors and executive officers, as a group, beneficially own, or control or direct, directly or indirectly, 7,935,000 Common Shares, representing approximately 13.6% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares (on a non-diluted basis). This figure excludes 20,790,000 Common Shares, representing approximately 35.6% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares, that are beneficially owned by Greybrook Health as of December 31, 2019 and 5,384,000 Common Shares, representing approximately 9.2% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares, that are beneficially owned by an affiliate of 1315 Capital. Mr. Vamvakas, chairman of the Company, is the chairman and founder of Greybrook Capital, the parent company of Greybrook Health. Mr. Vamvakas disclaims beneficial ownership of the Common Shares held by Greybrook Health. Ms. Oliva, a director of the Company, is the Founding Partner of 1315 Capital and disclaims beneficial ownership of the Common Shares held by an affiliate of 1315 Capital.

 

Cease Trade Orders and Bankruptcies

 

None of the directors or executive officers of the Company, and to the best of its knowledge, no shareholder holding a sufficient number of securities to affect materially the control of the Company is, as at the date of this Annual Information Form, or has been within the 10 years before the date of this Annual Information Form, (a) a director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer of any company that was subject to an order that was issued while the director or executive officer was acting in the capacity as director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer, or (b) was subject to an order that was issued after the director or executive officer ceased to be a director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer and which resulted from an event that occurred while that person was acting in the capacity as director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer, or (c) a director or executive officer of any company that, while that person was acting in that capacity, or within a year of that person ceasing to act in that capacity, became bankrupt, made a proposal under any legislation relating to bankruptcy or insolvency or was subject to or instituted any proceedings, arrangement or compromise with creditors or had a receiver, receiver manager or trustee appointed to hold its assets. For the purposes of this paragraph, “order” means a cease trade order, an order similar to a cease trade order or an order that denied the relevant company access to any exemption under securities legislation, in each case, that was in effect for a period of more than 30 consecutive days.

 

Individual Bankruptcies

 

None of the directors or executive officers of the Company, and to the best of its knowledge, no shareholder holding a sufficient number of securities to affect materially the control of the Company, has, within the 10 years prior to the date of this Annual Information Form, become bankrupt, made a proposal under any legislation relating to bankruptcy or insolvency, or become subject to or instituted any proceedings, arrangement or compromise with creditors, or had a receiver, receiver manager or trustee appointed to hold the assets of that individual.

 

Penalties or Sanctions

 

None of the directors or executive officers of the Company, and to the best of its knowledge, no shareholder holding a sufficient number of securities to affect materially the control of the Company, has been subject to any penalties or sanctions imposed by a court relating to securities legislation or by a securities regulatory authority or has entered into a settlement agreement with a securities regulatory authority or been subject to any other penalties or sanctions imposed by a court or regulatory body that would likely be considered important to a reasonable investor making an investment decision.

 

Audit Committee

 

Our Audit Committee consists of three directors, each of whom are persons determined by our Board to be financially literate and persons determined by our Board to be independent directors, each within the meaning of National Instrument 52-110 – Audit Committees (“NI 52-110”) of the Canadian Securities Administrators. Our Audit Committee is comprised of Colleen Campbell, who acts as chair of this committee, Adrienne Graves and Frank Tworecke. Each of our Audit Committee members has an understanding of the accounting principles used to prepare financial statements and varied experience as to the general application of such accounting principles, as well as an understanding of the internal controls and procedures necessary for financial reporting. For additional details regarding the relevant education and experience of each member of our Audit Committee, see “– Biographical Information Regarding the Directors and Executive Officers”.

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Our Board has adopted a written charter as set forth in Appendix A, setting forth the purpose, composition, authority and responsibility of our Audit Committee, consistent with NI 52-110. The Audit Committee assists our Board in discharging its oversight of:

 

the quality and integrity of our financial statements and related information;

 

the independence, qualifications and appointment of our external auditor;

 

our disclosure controls and procedures, internal control over financial reporting and management’s responsibility for assessing and reporting on the effectiveness of such controls;

 

our risk management processes;

 

monitoring and periodically reviewing our whistleblower policy; and

 

transactions with our related parties.

 

Our Audit Committee has access to all of our books, records, facilities and personnel and may request any information about us as it may deem appropriate. It also has the authority, in its sole discretion and at our expense, to retain and set the compensation of outside legal, accounting or other advisors as necessary to assist in the performance of its duties and responsibilities. Our Audit Committee also has direct communication channels with the Chief Financial Officer and our external auditors to discuss and review such issues as our Audit Committee may deem appropriate.

 

External Auditor Service Fee

 

We (through our predecessor parent company, TMS US) incurred the following fees by our external auditor, KPMG LLP, during the period provided below:

 

    Year Ended
December 31, 2019
    Year Ended
December 31, 2018
 
Audit fees(1)   $ 286,142     $ 157,214  
Audit-related fees(2)   $ 456,096     $ 244,078  
Tax fees(3)   $ 165,850     $ 158,360  
All other fees   $ -     $ -  
Total fees paid   $ 908,088     $ 559,652  

 

 

Notes:

(1) Fees for annual audits and quarterly interim reviews, in each case on an accrued basis.

(2) Fees related to the acquisition of Achieve TMS and implementation of revised policies as a result of new accounting standards.

(3) Tax fees include tax compliance fees associated with the filing of tax returns.

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SECURITIES SUBJECT TO CONTRACTUAL RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER

 

In connection with our IPO, the “Principals” (as such term is defined under NP 46-201 – Escrow for Initial Public Offerings of the Canadian Securities Administrators) entered into agreements (the “Lock-Up Arrangements”) pursuant to which each such person has agreed that he, she or it will not, directly or indirectly, offer, sell, contract to sell, lend, swap, or enter into any other agreement to transfer the economic consequences of, or otherwise dispose of or deal with, or publicly announce any intention to offer, sell, contract to sell, grant or sell any option to purchase, hypothecate, pledge, transfer, assign, purchase any option or contract to sell, lend, swap or enter into any agreement to transfer the economic consequences of, or otherwise dispose of or deal with, whether through the facilities of a stock exchange, by private placement or otherwise, any Common Shares or other securities of the Company convertible into, exchangeable for or exercisable to acquire, any Common Shares, except in accordance with the following release schedule: Nil on the date of the closing of our IPO (October 3, 2018) and 1/3 on each of April 3, 2019, October 3, 2019 and April 3, 2020 (the “Release Schedule”). As of the date of this Annual Information Form, holders representing approximately 16.8% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares and approximately 7.25% of our outstanding options remain subject to these lock-up arrangements, as illustrated in the table below.

 

Designation of Class     Number of Securities Subject to
Contractual Restrictions on Transfer
    Percentage of Class  
Common Shares       9,833,334       16.8 %
Options       275,000       7.25 %

 

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AND REGULATORY ACTIONS

 

We are, from time to time, involved in legal proceedings of a nature considered normal to our business. We believe that none of the litigation in which we are currently involved, or have been involved since the beginning of the most recently completed financial year, individually or in the aggregate, is material to our consolidated financial condition or results of operations, nor are any such proceedings known by us to be contemplated.

 

We are not aware of any penalties or sanctions imposed by a court or securities regulatory authority or other regulatory body against us, nor have we entered into any settlement agreements before a court or with a securities regulatory authority.

 

PROMOTER

 

Greybrook Health may be considered a promoter of the Company within the meaning of applicable securities legislation. As of December 31, 2019, Greybrook Health beneficially owned, controlled or directed, directly or indirectly, 20,790,000 Common Shares, representing approximately 35.6% of the total issued and outstanding voting and equity securities of the Company (on a non-diluted basis).

 

INTEREST OF MANAGEMENT AND OTHERS IN MATERIAL TRANSACTIONS

 

Other than as described elsewhere in this Annual Information Form, there are no material interests, direct or indirect, of any of our directors or executive officers, any shareholder that beneficially owns, or controls or directs (directly or indirectly), more than 10% of any class or series of our voting securities, or any associate or affiliate of any of the foregoing persons, in any transaction within the three years before the date hereof that has materially affected or is reasonably expected to materially affect us or any of our subsidiaries.

 

AUDITOR, TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR

 

Our auditor is KPMG LLP, Chartered Professional Accountants, located at 100 New Park Place Number 1400, Vaughan, Ontario, L4K 0J3. KPMG LLP has prepared an independent auditor’s report dated March 10, 2020 in respect of the consolidated financial statements of the Company as at December 31, 2019 and 2018 and for each of the financial years then ended. KPMG LLP has confirmed that it is independent of the Company within the meaning of the relevant rules and related interpretations prescribed by the relevant professional bodies in Canada and any applicable legislation or regulation.

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The transfer agent and registrar for the Common Shares is Computershare Investor Services Inc. at its principal office in Toronto, Ontario.

 

MATERIAL CONTRACTS

 

Except for the Purchase Agreement and certain agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business, there are no material contracts entered into by the Company in the most recently completed financial year, or before the most recently completed financial year, that are still in effect.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

 

Additional information, including directors’ and officers’ remuneration and indebtedness, principal holders of our Company’s securities and securities authorized for issuance under equity compensation plans, will be contained in the Company’s management information circular for the 2019 annual meeting of shareholders. Additional financial information is provided in the Company’s audited annual consolidated financial statements and management’s discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations for our most recently completed financial year ended December 31, 2019. Such documentation, as well as additional information relating to the Company, may be found under the Company’s profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

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Appendix A:
AUDIT COMMITTEE CHARTER

 

This charter (the “Charter”) sets forth the purpose, composition, responsibilities and authority of the Audit Committee (the “Committee”) of the board of directors (the “Board”) of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Company”).

 

1. Statement of Purpose

 

The purpose of the Committee is to assist the Board in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities with respect to:

 

financial reporting and related financial disclosure;

 

risk management;

 

internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures; and

 

external and internal audit processes.

 

2. Committee Membership

 

The Committee shall consist of as many directors of the Board as the Board may determine (the “Members”), but in any event, not less than three (3) Members. Each Member shall meet the criteria for independence and financial literacy established by applicable laws and the rules of any stock exchanges upon which the Company’s securities are listed, including National Instrument 52-110 – Audit Committees (“NI 52-110”) subject to any exceptions permitted under NI 52-110. NI 52-110 requires, among other things, that to be independent, a Member be free of any relationship which could, in the view of the Board, reasonably interfere with the exercise of a Member’s independent judgment.

 

Members shall be appointed by the Board, taking into account any recommendation that may be made by the Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee of the Board (the “GC&N Committee”). Any Member may be removed and replaced at any time by the Board, and will automatically cease to be a Member if he or she ceases to meet the qualifications required of Members. The Board will fill vacancies on the Committee by appointment from among qualified directors of the Board, taking into account any recommendation that may be made by the GC&N Committee. If a vacancy exists on the Committee, the remaining Members may exercise all of its powers so long as there is a quorum in accordance with Section 3 below.

 

Chair

 

The Board will designate one of the independent directors of the Board to be the chair of the Committee (the “Chair”), taking into account any recommendation that may be made by the GC&N Committee.

 

Qualifications

 

Subject to permitted phase-in periods contemplated by Section 3.2 of N1 52-110, at least three (3) Members shall be independent and financially literate as described above. Members must have suitable experience and must be familiar with auditing and financial matters.

A-1

 

Attendance of Management and other Persons

 

The Committee may invite, at its discretion, senior executives of the Company or such persons as it sees fit to attend meetings of the Committee and to take part in the discussion and consideration of the affairs of the Committee. The Committee may also require senior executives or other employees of the Company to produce such information and reports as the Committee may deem appropriate in the proper exercise of its duties. Senior executives and other employees of the Company shall attend a Committee meeting if invited by the Committee. The Committee may meet without senior executives in attendance for a portion of any meeting of the Committee.

 

Delegation

 

Subject to applicable law, the Committee may delegate any or all of its functions to any of its Members or any subset thereof, or other persons, from time to time as it sees fit.

 

3. Committee Operations

 

Meetings

 

The Chair, in consultation with the other Members, shall determine the schedule and frequency of meetings of the Committee. Meetings of the Committee shall be held at such times and places as the Chair may determine. To the extent possible, advance notice of each meeting will be given to each Member unless all Members are present and waive notice, or if those absent waive notice before or after a meeting. Members may attend all meetings of the Committee either in person or by telephone, video or other electronic means. Powers of the Committee may also be exercised by written resolutions signed by all Members.

 

At the request of the external auditors of the Company, the Chief Executive Officer or the Chief Financial Officer of the Company or any Member, the Chair shall convene a meeting of the Committee. Any such request shall set out in reasonable detail the business proposed to be conducted at the meeting so requested.

 

Agenda and Reporting

 

To the extent possible, in advance of every regular meeting of the Committee, the Chair shall prepare and distribute, or cause to be prepared and distributed, to the Members and others as deemed appropriate by the Chair, an agenda of matters to be addressed at the meeting together with appropriate briefing materials.

 

The Chair shall report to the Board on the Committee’s activities since the last Board meeting. However, the Chair may report orally to the Board on any matter in his or her view requiring the immediate attention of the Board. Minutes of each meeting of the Committee shall be circulated to the Board following approval of the minutes by the Members. The Committee shall oversee the preparation of, review and approve the applicable disclosure for inclusion in the Company’s annual information form.

 

Secretary and Minutes

 

The secretary of the Company may act as secretary of the Committee unless an alternative secretary is appointed by the Committee. The secretary of the Committee shall keep regular minutes of Committee proceedings and shall circulate such minutes to all Members and to the chair of the Board (and to any other director of the Board that requests that they be sent to him or her) on a timely basis.

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Quorum and Procedure

 

A quorum for any meeting of the Committee will be a simple majority. The procedure at meetings will be determined by the Committee. The powers of the Committee may be exercised by a simple majority of Members at a meeting where a quorum is present or by resolution in writing signed by all Members. In the absence of the Chair, the Committee may appoint one of its other Members to act as Chair of any meeting.

 

Exercise of Power between Meetings

 

Between meetings, the Chair, or any Member designated for such purpose by the Committee, may, if required in the circumstance, exercise any power delegated by the Committee on an interim basis. The Chair or other designated Member will promptly report to the other Members in any case in which this interim power is exercised.

 

4. Duties and Responsibilities

 

The Committee is responsible for performing the duties set out below and any other duties that may be assigned to it by the Board as well as any other functions that may be necessary or appropriate for the performance of its duties.

 

Financial Reporting and Disclosure

 

Review and recommend to the Board for approval, the audited annual financial statements, including the auditors’ report thereon, the quarterly financial statements, management’s discussion and analysis, financial reports, and other applicable financial disclosure, prior to the public disclosure of such information.

 

Review and recommend to the Board for approval, where appropriate, financial information contained in any prospectuses, annual information forms, annual reports to shareholders, management proxy circulars, material change disclosures of a financial nature and similar disclosure documents prior to the public disclosure of such documents or information.

 

Review with senior executives of the Company, and with external auditors, significant accounting principles and disclosure issues and alternative treatments under International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”), with a view to gaining reasonable assurance that financial statements are accurate, complete and present fairly the Company’s financial position and the results of its operations in accordance with IFRS, as applicable.

 

Seek to ensure that adequate procedures are in place for the review of the Company’s public disclosure of financial information extracted or derived from the Company’s financial statements, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures and periodically assess the adequacy of those procedures and recommend any proposed changes to the Board for consideration.

 

Risk Management

 

Review and discuss the Company’s major financial risk exposures and the steps taken to monitor and control such exposures, including the use of any financial derivatives and hedging activities.

 

Review and make recommendations to the Board regarding the adequacy of the Company’s risk management policies and procedures with regard to identification of the Company’s principal risks and implementation of appropriate systems and controls to manage such risks including an assessment of the adequacy of insurance coverage maintained by the Company.

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Internal Controls and Internal Audit

 

Review the adequacy and effectiveness of the Company’s internal control and management information systems through discussions with senior executives of the Company and the external auditor relating to the maintenance of (i) necessary books, records and accounts in sufficient detail to accurately and fairly reflect the Company’s transactions; (ii) effective internal control over financial reporting; and (iii) adequate processes for assessing the risk of material misstatements in the financial statements and for detecting control weaknesses or fraud. From time to time the Committee shall assess any requirements or changes with respect to the establishment or operations of the internal audit function having regard to the size and stage of development of the Company at any particular time.

 

Satisfy itself, through discussions with senior executives of the Company that the adequacy of internal controls, systems and procedures has been periodically assessed in accordance with regulatory requirements and recommendations.

 

Periodically review the Company’s policies and procedures for reviewing and approving or ratifying related-party transactions.

 

External Audit

 

Recommend to the Board a firm of external auditors to be nominated for appointment as the external auditor of the Company.

 

Ensure the external auditors report directly to the Committee on a regular basis. Review the independence of the external auditors.

 

Review and recommend to the Board the fee, scope and timing of the audit and other related services rendered by the external auditors.

 

Review the audit plan of the external auditors prior to the commencement of any audit. Establish and maintain a direct line of communication with the Company’s external auditors.

 

Meet in camera with (i) only the auditors, (ii) only senior executives of the Company (without the auditors present), or (iii) only the Members (without the auditors or senior executives of the Company present), where and to the extent that such parties are present, at any meeting of the Committee.

 

Oversee the work of the external auditors of the Company with respect to preparing and issuing an audit report or performing other audit or review services for the Company, including the resolution of issues between senior executives of the Company and the external auditors.

 

Review the results of the external audit and the external auditors’ report thereon, including discussions with the external auditors as to the quality of accounting principles used and any alternative treatments of financial information that have been discussed with senior executives of the Company and any other matters.

 

Review any material written communications between senior executives of the Company and the external auditors and any significant disagreements between the senior executives and the external auditors.

 

Discuss with the external auditors their perception of the Company’s financial and accounting personnel, records and systems, the cooperation which the external auditors received during their course of their review and availability of records, data and other requested information and any recommendations with respect thereto.

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Discuss with the external auditors their perception of the Company’s identification and management of risks, including the adequacy or effectiveness of policies and procedures implemented to mitigate such risks.

 

Review the reasons for any proposed change in the external auditors which is not initiated by the Committee or Board and any other significant issues related to the change, including the response of the incumbent auditors, and enquire as to the qualifications of the proposed auditors before making its recommendations to the Board.

 

Review annually a report from the external auditors in respect of their internal quality-control procedures, any material issues raised by the most recent internal quality-control review, or peer review of the external auditors, or by any inquiry or investigation by governmental or professional authorities, within the preceding five years, respecting one or more independent audits carried out by the external auditors, and any steps taken to address any such issues.

 

Associated Responsibilities

 

Monitor and periodically review the Whistleblower Policy of the Company and associated procedures for:

 

the receipt, retention and treatment of complaints received by the Company regarding accounting, internal accounting controls or auditing matters;

 

the confidential, anonymous submission by directors, officers and employees of the Company of concerns regarding questionable accounting or auditing matters; and

 

any violations of applicable law, rules or regulations that relates to corporate reporting and disclosure, or violations of the Company’s Code of Conduct.

 

Review and approve the Company’s hiring policies regarding employees and partners, and former employees and partners, of the present and former external auditors of the Company.

 

Non-Audit Services

 

Pre-approve all non-audit services to be provided to the Company or any subsidiary entities by its external auditors or by the external auditors of such subsidiary entities. The Committee may delegate to one or more of its Members the authority to pre-approve non-audit services but pre-approval by such Member or Members so delegated shall be presented to the full Committee at its first scheduled meeting following such pre-approval.

 

Other Duties

 

Direct and supervise the investigation into any matter brought to its attention within the scope of the Committee’s duties. Perform such other duties as may be assigned to it by the Board from time to time or as may be required by applicable law.

 

5. The Committee Chair

 

In addition to the responsibilities of the Chair described above, the Chair has the primary responsibility for overseeing and reporting on the evaluations to be conducted by the Committee, as well as monitoring developments with respect to accounting and auditing matters in general and reporting to the Committee on any related significant developments.

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6. Committee Evaluation

 

The performance of the Committee shall be evaluated by the Board as part of its regular evaluation of the Board committees.

 

7. Access to Information and Authority to Retain Independent Advisors

 

The Committee shall be granted unrestricted access to all information regarding the Company that is necessary or desirable to fulfill its duties and all directors of the Company, officers and employees will be directed to cooperate as requested by Members. The Committee has the authority to retain, at the Company’s expense, independent legal, financial, and other advisors, consultants and experts to assist the Committee in fulfilling its duties and responsibilities, including sole authority to retain and to approve their fees. The Committee shall select such advisors, consultants and experts after taking into consideration factors relevant to their independence from management and other relevant considerations.

 

The Committee shall discharge its responsibilities, and shall assess the information provided by the Company’s management and the external advisors, in accordance with its business judgment. Members are entitled to rely, absent knowledge to the contrary, on the integrity of the persons and organizations from whom they receive information, and on the accuracy and completeness of the information provided. Nothing in this Charter is intended or may be construed as imposing on any member of the Committee or the Board a standard of care or diligence that is in any way more onerous or extensive than the standard to which the directors of the Board are subject under applicable law.

 

The Committee also has the authority to communicate directly with internal and external auditors. While the Committee has the responsibilities and powers set forth in this Charter, it is not the duty of the Committee to plan or conduct audits or to determine that the Company’s financial statements are complete and accurate or comply with IFRS and other applicable requirements. These are the responsibilities of the senior executives of the Company responsible for such matters and the external auditors. The Committee, the Chair and any Members identified as having accounting or related financial expertise are directors of the Board, appointed to the Committee to provide broad oversight of the financial, risk and control related activities of the Company, and are specifically not accountable or responsible for the day-to-day operation or performance of such activities. Although the designation of a Member as having accounting or related financial expertise for disclosure purposes is based on that individual’s education and experience, which that individual will bring to bear in carrying out his or her duties on the Committee, such designation does not impose on such person any duties, obligations or liability that are greater than the duties, obligations and liability imposed on such person as a member of the Committee and the Board in the absence of such designation. Rather, the role of a Member who is identified as having accounting or related financial expertise, like the role of all Members, is to oversee the process, not to certify or guarantee the internal or external audit of the Company’s financial information or public disclosure. This Charter is not intended to change or interpret the constating documents of the Company or applicable law or stock exchange rule to which the Company is subject, and this Charter should be interpreted in a manner consistent with the constating documents of the Company and all applicable laws and rules.

 

The Board may, from time to time, permit departures from the terms of this Charter, either prospectively or retrospectively. This Charter is not intended to give rise to civil liability on the part of the Company or its directors or officers, to shareholders, security holders, customers, suppliers, competitors, employees or other persons, or to any other liability whatsoever on their part.

 

8. Review of Charter

 

The Committee shall periodically review and assess the adequacy of this Charter and recommend any proposed changes to the Board for consideration.

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Exhibit 99.21

 

 

  100 University Avenue, 8th floor
November 06, 2020 Toronto ON, M5J 2Y1
  www.computershare.com

  

To: All Canadian Securities Regulatory Authorities 

 

Subject: Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Dear Sir/Madam:

 

100 University Avenue, 8th floor Toronto ON, M5J 2Y1 www.computershare.com

 

We advise of the following with respect to the upcoming Meeting of Security Holders for the subject Issuer:

 

Meeting Type :   Special Meeting  
Record Date for Notice of Meeting :   December 01, 2020  
Record Date for Voting (if applicable) :   December 01, 2020  
Beneficial Ownership Determination Date :   December 01, 2020  
Meeting Date :   January 12, 2021  
Meeting Location (if available) :   Virtual Meeting  
Issuer sending proxy related materials directly to NOBO: No  
Issuer paying for delivery to OBO:   Yes  
       
Notice and Access (NAA) Requirements:      
NAA for Beneficial Holders   No  
NAA for Registered Holders   No  

 

Voting Security Details:      
Description CUSIP Number ISIN
COMMON SHARES 393704101 CA3937041018

  

Sincerely,

 

Computershare 

Agent for Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.22

 

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION CIRCULAR

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS INC.

 

SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

 

December 4, 2020

 

 

 

NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Special Meeting of the Shareholders (the “Meeting”) of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) will be held on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) by way of virtual-only meeting via live webcast.

 

Meeting Business

 

The Meeting will be held for the following purposes:

 

1. to consider and, if deemed fit, approve a special resolution, the full text of which is set forth in the accompanying Management Information Circular, authorizing the board of directors of the Company to amend the articles of the Company to effect a consolidation of all of the issued and outstanding common shares in the capital of the Company on the basis of a ratio that will permit the Company to qualify for a potential secondary listing on the NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (“NASDAQ”), being a ratio within the range of one (1) post-consolidation common share for every five (5) pre-consolidation common shares to one (1) post-consolidation common share for every eight (8) pre-consolidation common shares, with the ratio to be selected and implemented by the board of directors of the Company in its sole discretion, if at all, at any time prior to January 12, 2022 (see “Business to be Transacted at the Meeting – Share Consolidation” in the accompanying Management Information Circular);

 

2. to consider and, if deemed fit, approve a special resolution, the full text of which is set forth in the accompanying Management Information Circular, authorizing the board of directors of the Company to amend the articles of the Company to provide that the board of directors of the Company may appoint additional directors not exceeding one third of the number of directors elected at the previous annual meeting of shareholders as per section 124(2) of the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) (see “Business to be Transacted at the Meeting – Amendment to Articles” in the accompanying Management Information Circular);

 

3. to consider and, if deemed fit, approve an ordinary resolution, the full text of which is set forth in the accompanying Management Information Circular, to ratify amendments to the Company’s by-laws to (i) increase the quorum for any meeting of shareholders of the Company to one person present and entitled to vote at the meeting that holds or represents by proxy not less than 33 1/3% of the votes attached to the outstanding shares of the Company entitled to be voted at such meeting in order to comply with the minimum shareholder quorum requirements for NASDAQ listed companies, and (ii) make consequential and housekeeping amendments arising from a potential NASDAQ listing (see “Business to be Transacted at the Meeting – Amendment to By-Laws” in the accompanying Management Information Circular); and

 

4. to transact such other business as may properly be brought before the Meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

 

Record Date

 

You have the right to receive notice of and vote at the Meeting as set out in the accompanying Management Information Circular if you are a Greenbrook shareholder as of the close of business on December 1, 2020.

 

Meeting Format

 

Greenbrook will hold its Meeting exclusively by electronic means via live webcast. The decision to hold the Meeting by electronic means has been made in light of the recommendations and restrictions by authorities to address proactively the public health impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus) and to mitigate risks to the health and safety of our shareholders and the broader community. As a result of these recommendations and restrictions, it will not be possible to attend the Meeting in person. Shareholders will be able to listen to, participate in and vote at the Meeting in real time through a web-based platform instead of attending the Meeting in person. The health and safety of our shareholders and other interested stakeholders is our top priority.

 

 

You can attend the Meeting by joining the live webcast online at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GTMS2021. See “Voting Information” in the accompanying Management Information Circular for detailed instructions on how to attend and vote at the Meeting.

 

Given the extraordinary circumstances, management currently intends on only proceeding with the formal items of business of the Meeting without any opening remarks or subsequent management presentations. However, shareholders will still have the opportunity to submit questions during the Meeting through the live webcast.

 

Your Vote is Important

 

As a Greenbrook shareholder, it is important that you read the accompanying Management Information Circular carefully.

 

You are entitled to vote either by proxy or at the Meeting by online ballot through the live webcast platform. If you are unable to attend the Meeting, you are requested to vote your shares online or by using the enclosed form of proxy or voting instruction form.

 

Registered shareholders (whose Greenbrook shares are registered in their name) should vote online at www.proxyvote.com or complete and sign the enclosed form of proxy and return it in the envelope provided. Proxies must be received by Broadridge Investor Communications Corporation at Data Processing Centre, P.O. Box 3700 STN Industrial Park, Markham, ON, L3R 9Z9, by no later than 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on January 8, 2021.

 

Non-registered beneficial shareholders (whose Greenbrook shares are held indirectly through an intermediary such as a bank, trust company, securities broker or other intermediary) should review the voting instruction form provided by their intermediary, which sets out the procedures to be followed for voting shares held through intermediaries.

 

If you wish to appoint a proxyholder other than Elias Vamvakas or Bill Leonard, each of whom is a director of Greenbrook, you must create an appointee name and an eight-digit appointee identification number, either online at www.proxyvote.com or in your form of proxy or voting instruction form. This applies to both registered and non-registered shareholders. If you do not provide your proxyholder with the exact appointee name and eight-digit appointee identification number you created, your proxyholder will not be able to vote at the Meeting.

 

Greenbrook believes that the ability to participate in the Meeting in a meaningful way remains important despite the decision to hold this Meeting through electronic means. Shareholders will have substantially the same opportunity to vote and submit questions on matters of business at the Meeting as in past years when shareholders meetings were held in person.

 

For those that plan on accessing the live webcast, please allow ample time prior to the Meeting. The Meeting will begin promptly at 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on Tuesday, January 12, 2021, unless otherwise adjourned or postponed. Once logged in to the webcast, it is important to remain connected to the internet for the duration of the Meeting.

 

By Order of the Board of Directors,

 

 
Toronto, Ontario Bill Leonard
December 4, 2020 President and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION CIRCULAR

 

All information in this Management Information Circular (the “Circular”) is as of December 4, 2020, unless otherwise indicated.

 

In this Circular, “we”, “us”, “our”, “Greenbrook” and “the Company” refer to Greenbrook TMS Inc. and its subsidiaries, where applicable. “You” and “your” refer to holders (“Shareholders”) of common shares of Greenbrook (“Shares”). Unless otherwise indicated, all references to “$” or “dollars” in this Circular refer to United States dollars.

 

This Circular is provided in connection with our Special Meeting of Shareholders to be held on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 (the “Meeting”). Your proxy is being solicited by management of Greenbrook for the items described in the Notice of Meeting on the previous page. We pay for all costs associated with soliciting your proxy. We usually make our request by mail, but we may also solicit your proxy by telephone.

 

As a Shareholder, you have the right to electronically attend and vote at the Meeting as set out in this Circular. Please read this Circular, as it gives you information that you will need to know in order to cast your vote. We also encourage you to read Greenbrook’s management’s discussion and analysis and annual consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019. A copy of the management’s discussion and analysis and annual consolidated financial statements have been sent to all registered and beneficial Shareholders who have requested that these materials be sent to them. These documents are also available on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (“SEDAR”) at www.sedar.com and Greenbrook’s website at www.greenbrooktms.com.

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

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BUSINESS TO BE TRANSACTED AT THE MEETING 1
VOTING INFORMATION 1
ABOUT GREENBROOK 5
SHARE CONSOLIDATION 6
General 6
Principal Effects of the Share Consolidation 6
Fractional Interests 7
Treatment of Stock Options and Broker Warrants 7
Exchange of Share Certificates 7
Risks Associated with the Share Consolidation 8
AMENDMENT TO ARTICLES 9
AMENDMENT TO BY-LAWS 9
OTHER INFORMATION 10
Indebtedness of Directors and Executive Officers 10
Interests of Certain Persons or Companies in Matters to be Acted Upon 10
Interests of Informed Persons in Material Transactions 10
Auditor 10
Shareholder Proposals 10
Additional Information 11
Contacting the Board of Directors 11
Board Approval 11
Appendix A Share Consolidation Resolution A-1
Appendix B ARTICLES AMENDMENT RESOLUTION B-1
Appendix C By-Law Amendment RESOLUTION C-1
Appendix D AMENDED AND RESTATED BY-LAWS D-1

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BUSINESS TO BE TRANSACTED AT THE MEETING

 

 

 

Share Consolidation

 

At the Meeting, Shareholders will be asked to consider and, if deemed fit, approve a special resolution authorizing the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) to amend the articles of incorporation of the Company (the “Articles”) to effect a consolidation of all of the issued and outstanding Shares on the basis of a ratio that will permit the Company to qualify for a potential secondary listing on the NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (“NASDAQ”), being a ratio within the range of one (1) post-consolidation Share for every five (5) pre-consolidation Shares to one (1) post-consolidation Share for every eight (8) pre-consolidation Shares, with the ratio to be selected and implemented by the Board in its sole discretion, if at all, at any time prior to January 12, 2022. See “Share Consolidation” for further details.

 

Amendment to Articles

 

At the Meeting, Shareholders will be asked to consider and, if deemed fit, approve a special resolution authorizing the Board to amend the Articles of the Company to provide that the Board may appoint additional directors not exceeding one third of the number of directors elected at the previous annual meeting of Shareholders. See “Amendment to Articles” for further details.

 

Amendment to By-Laws

 

At the Meeting, Shareholders will be asked to consider and, if deemed fit, approve an ordinary resolution ratifying amendments to the Company’s by-laws (the “By-Laws”) to (i) increase the quorum for any meeting of Shareholders of the Company to one person present and entitled to vote at the meeting that holds or represents by proxy not less than 33 1/3% of the votes attached to the outstanding Shares entitled to be voted at such meeting in order to comply with the minimum shareholder quorum requirements for NASDAQ listed companies, and (ii) make consequential and housekeeping amendments arising from a potential NASDAQ listing. See “Amendment to By-Laws” for further details.

 

Considering Other Business

 

We will consider any other business that may properly come before the Meeting. As of the date of this Circular, we are not aware of any changes to the items above or any other business to be considered at the Meeting. If there are changes or new items, you or your proxyholder can vote your Shares on these items as you or your proxyholder sees fit. If any other matters properly come before the Meeting, it is the intention of the persons named in the form of proxy to vote in respect of those matters in accordance with their judgment.

 

VOTING INFORMATION

 

 

 

Who Can Vote

 

We are authorized to issue an unlimited number of Shares. As of December 4, 2020, there were 67,512,383 issued and outstanding Shares.

 

Each Share you own as of the close of business on December 1, 2020, the record date for the Meeting, entitles you to one vote on each of the matters to be acted upon at the Meeting, or any adjournment or postponement thereof, either by proxy or at the Meeting by online ballot through the live webcast platform. The right to vote at the Meeting is limited to Shareholders who own Shares as of the above record date for the Meeting.

 

The directors and officers of Greenbrook are not aware of any person or company that beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, or exercises control or direction over more than 10% of the total outstanding Shares, other than (i) Greybrook Health Inc. (“Greybrook Health”), which beneficially owns, directly and indirectly, or exercises control or direction over 21,638,485 Shares, which represents approximately 32.05% of our issued and outstanding Shares, and (ii) 1315 Capital, LLC (“1315 Capital”), which beneficially owns, directly and indirectly, or exercises control or direction over 8,855,855 Shares, which represents approximately 13.12% of our issued and outstanding Shares.

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Each of Greybrook Health and 1315 Capital has advised Greenbrook that it intends to vote FOR the Share Consolidation Resolution, the Articles Amendment Resolution and the By-Law Amendment Resolution (each as defined below).

 

How to Vote

 

Registered Shareholder Voting

 

You are a registered shareholder (“Registered Shareholder”) if your name appears on your Share certificate or on the register maintained by our transfer agent, Computershare Investor Services Inc. Your proxy form indicates if you are a registered shareholder. If you are a Registered Shareholder, you may vote at the Meeting by online ballot through the live webcast platform or by proxy in advance of the Meeting. See below for details on each voting option.

 

Voting at the Meeting

 

If you are a Registered Shareholder and you wish to vote your Shares at the Meeting, you do not need to complete and return the form of proxy. Your vote will be taken by electronic ballot and counted at the virtual Meeting. See “How to Attend and Participate at the Virtual Meeting” below.

 

Voting by Proxy

 

Registered Shareholders have three options to vote by proxy:

 

On the Internet in advance of the Meeting

 

Visit www.proxyvote.com or scan the QR code on the form of proxy to access the website and follow the instructions on screen. You will need your 16-digit control number (located on the front of the form of proxy) to identify yourself to the system. If you are voting through the internet, all required information must be entered by 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on January 8, 2021.

 

By Mail

 

Complete, date and sign the enclosed form of proxy and return it to Broadridge Investor Communications Corporation (“Broadridge”) at: Data Processing Centre, P.O. Box 3700 STN Industrial Park, Markham, ON L3R 9Z9, in the envelope provided so that it arrives no later than 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on January 8, 2021. This will ensure your vote is recorded.

 

By Telephone

 

Call 1-800-474-7493 (English) or 1-800-474-7501 (French) and follow the instructions. You will need your 16-digit control number (located on the front of the form of proxy) to identify yourself to the system. If you are voting by telephone, all required information must be entered by 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on January 8, 2021. If you vote by telephone, you cannot appoint anyone other than the directors named on your proxy form as your proxyholder.

 

Signing the enclosed form of proxy gives authority to Elias Vamvakas or Bill Leonard, each of whom is a director of Greenbrook, to vote your Shares at the Meeting. You may appoint someone other than the above-named directors to vote your Shares by writing the name of the person that you wish to appoint, who need not be a Shareholder, in the blank space provided on the form of proxy. It is important to ensure that any other person you appoint is attending the Meeting and is aware that he or she has been appointed to vote your Shares.

 

If you appoint someone other than the above-named directors as your proxyholder, you must create an appointee name and an eight-digit appointee identification number, either online at www.proxyvote.com or on your form of proxy. If you do not provide your proxyholder with the exact appointee name and eight-digit appointee identification number you created, your proxyholder will not be able to vote at the Meeting.

 

The persons named on the form of proxy must vote or withhold from voting your Shares in accordance with your directions. In the absence of such directions, proxies received by management will be voted in favor of the Share Consolidation Resolution, the Articles Amendment Resolution and the By-Law Amendment Resolution.

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The persons named in the form of proxy will have discretionary authority with respect to amendments or variations to matters identified in the Notice of Special Meeting of Shareholders and with respect to other matters which may properly come before the Meeting.

 

As of the date of this Circular, management of Greenbrook knows of no such amendment, variation or other matter expected to come before the Meeting. If any other matters properly come before the Meeting, the person named in your form of proxy will vote on them in accordance with their best judgment.

 

Revoking Your Proxy

 

If you are a Registered Shareholder and wish to revoke your proxy, you may revoke a vote you made by proxy by:

 

voting again by completing and signing a proxy bearing a later date and depositing it in accordance with the instructions on the form of proxy, which will revoke any proxy you previously submitted;

 

voting at the virtual Meeting by submitting an online ballot through the live webcast platform, which will revoke any proxy you previously submitted; or

 

making a request in writing stating that you wish to revoke your proxy, before any vote in respect of which the proxy has been given or taken. The written request can be from you or your authorized attorney or by electronic signature to the extent permitted by applicable law. This statement must be deposited at the registered office of Broadridge at the address listed below no later than 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on January 8, 2021, or two business days immediately preceding any adjournment or postponement of the Meeting, or delivered in any other manner provided by law.

 

Broadridge Investor Communications Corporation
Data Processing Centre,
P.O. Box 3700 STN Industrial Park,
Markham, ON
L3R 9Z9

 

Non-Registered or Beneficial Shareholder Voting

 

Information in this section is very important to non-registered or beneficial owners of Shares. You are a non-registered or beneficial owner if your Shares are held in the name of an intermediary such as a bank, trust company, securities broker, depository (such as CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc.) or other intermediary (“Beneficial Shareholder”). Applicable Canadian securities laws require intermediaries to seek voting instructions from Beneficial Shareholders. Accordingly, you will have received from your intermediary a voting instruction form for the number of Shares you hold.

 

Voting at the Meeting

 

A Beneficial Shareholder who receives a voting instruction form from their intermediary cannot use that voting instruction form to vote Shares directly at the virtual Meeting. To vote your Shares at the Meeting by online ballot through the live webcast platform, your intermediary must appoint you as proxyholder. In order to be appointed as proxyholder, insert your name in the space provided on the voting instruction form and follow the return instructions provided by your intermediary. In addition, you must create an appointee name and an eight-digit appointee identification number, either online at www.proxyvote.com or on your voting instruction form. If you do not create an appointee name and eight-digit appointee identification number, you will not be able to vote at the Meeting. Do not fill in the voting directions as your vote will be taken at the Meeting. The voting instruction form must be returned to your intermediary well in advance of the Meeting in order to appoint your proxyholder.

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If you are a Beneficial Shareholder holding your Shares through a U.S. bank, broker or dealer, you must also obtain a valid legal proxy from your broker, bank, dealer or other agent and then register in advance to attend the virtual Meeting. Follow the instructions from your broker, bank, dealer or other agent included with these proxy materials, or contact your broker, bank, dealer or other agent to request a legal proxy form.

 

Voting Instruction

 

Beneficial Shareholders who do not wish to vote at the Meeting by online ballot through the live webcast platform are still encouraged to vote their Shares. You can do so by following the instructions on the voting instruction form provided by your intermediary. The voting instruction form must be returned to your intermediary well in advance of the Meeting in order to have the Shares voted.

 

Each intermediary has its own procedures, which should be carefully followed to ensure that your Shares are voted at the Meeting. The persons named on the voting instruction form must vote or withhold from voting your Shares in accordance with your directions. In the absence of such directions, voting instruction forms received will be voted in favor of the Share Consolidation Resolution, the Articles Amendment Resolution and the By-Law Amendment Resolution.

 

The persons named in the voting instruction form you receive will have discretionary authority with respect to amendments or variations to matters identified in the Notice of Special Meeting of Shareholders and with respect to other matters which may properly come before the Meeting.

 

If you are a Beneficial Shareholder and have not received a package containing a voting instruction form or form of proxy, please contact your intermediary.

 

As of the date of this Circular, management of Greenbrook knows of no such amendment, variation or other matter expected to come before the Meeting. If any other matters properly come before the Meeting, the persons named in the voting instruction form will vote on them in accordance with their best judgment.

 

Revoking Your Voting Instruction

 

If you are a Beneficial Shareholder and wish to revoke your voting instructions, please contact your intermediary well in advance of the Meeting.

 

Delivery of Proxy-Related Materials

 

Proxy-related materials will be sent by Greenbrook to the intermediaries and not directly to Beneficial Shareholders. Greenbrook intends to pay for intermediaries to deliver proxy-related materials and Form 54-101F7 (request for voting instructions) to “objecting beneficial owners”.

 

Additional Voting Information

 

Broadridge counts and tabulates the votes.

 

For general Shareholder enquiries, you can contact our transfer agent, Computershare Investor Services Inc.:

 

by mail at:

 

Computershare Investor Services Inc.
100 University Avenue
8th Floor, North Tower
Toronto, Ontario M5J 2Y1
Canada

 

by telephone - within Canada and the United States at 1-800-564-6253, and from all other countries at 1-416-263-9200;

 

by fax at 1-888-453-0330; or

 

by e-mail at service@computershare.com.

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How to Attend and Participate at the Virtual Meeting

 

In order to attend the Meeting, Registered Shareholders, Beneficial Shareholders who have not duly appointed themselves as proxyholder, duly appointed proxyholders (including Beneficial Shareholders who have duly appointed themselves as proxyholder) and guests must log in online as set out below.

 

Step 1: Log in online at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GTMS2021.

 

Step 2: Follow the instructions below:

 

Registered Shareholders and Beneficial Shareholders who have not appointed themselves as proxyholders: Click “Login” and then enter your control number. The 16-digit control number located on the front of your form of proxy or voting instruction form is your control number. For Registered Shareholders, if you use your control number to log in to the Meeting, any vote you cast at the Meeting will revoke any proxy you previously submitted. If you do not wish to revoke a previously submitted proxy, you should not vote at the Meeting. If you are a Beneficial Shareholder who has not appointed yourself as a proxyholder, you will not be able to vote at the Meeting, but you will be able to ask questions.

 

Duly appointed proxyholders (including Beneficial Shareholders who have appointed themselves as proxyholders): Click “Login” and then enter the appointee name and the eight-digit appointee identification number provided to you by the Shareholder who appointed you.

 

Guests: Click “Guest” and then complete the online form.

 

Registered Shareholders and duly appointed proxyholders may ask questions at the Meeting and vote by completing a ballot online during the Meeting. If you plan to vote at the Meeting, it is important that you are connected to the internet at all times during the Meeting in order to vote when balloting commences. It is your responsibility to ensure internet connectivity for the duration of the Meeting. The Meeting will begin promptly at 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on Tuesday, January 12, 2021, unless otherwise adjourned or postponed. For those that plan on attending the Meeting via the live webcast platform, you should allow ample time to log in to the Meeting online and complete the check-in procedures.

 

Beneficial Shareholders who have not duly appointed themselves as proxyholders may listen to the Meeting and ask questions but may not vote. Guests will not be permitted to vote or ask questions during the Meeting.

 

For any technical difficulties experienced during the check-in process or during the Meeting, please call the technical support number that will be posted on the Virtual Shareholder Meeting log in page for assistance.

 

Greenbrook believes that the ability to participate in the Meeting in a meaningful way remains important despite the decision to hold this Meeting through electronic means. Shareholders will have substantially the same opportunity to vote and submit questions on matters of business at the Meeting as in past years when shareholders meetings were held in person.

 

ABOUT GREENBROOK

 

 

 

Operating through 125 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 510,000 TMS treatments to over 14,000 patients struggling with depression.

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SHARE CONSOLIDATION

 

 

 

General

 

The Board, in collaboration with management, has been studying the potential benefits of a secondary listing on the NASDAQ. Based on the stage of development of the Company, management’s observations regarding the market for peers of the Company whose securities are listed on a stock exchange in the United States, and discussions with financial advisers, the Company believes that there are potential benefits of a NASDAQ listing, including increased visibility of the Company amongst U.S. analysts and investors, increased access to capital and the potential for greater trading volume and liquidity for the Shares.

 

To be accepted for listing on NASDAQ, the Company must meet a variety of requirements, one of which requires a minimum trading price of US$2.00, US$3.00 or US$4.00 per Share, depending on a number of other listing requirements required to be met by the Company. In order to meet this minimum trading price requirement and to establish an initial trading price per Share on NASDAQ sufficiently above that minimum requirement to be in line with other newly-listed U.S. public companies, the Company is contemplating a consolidation of the Shares (the “Share Consolidation”). Accordingly, at the Meeting, Shareholders will be asked to consider a special resolution authorizing the Board to amend the Articles of the Company to effect the Share Consolidation in order to qualify for a potential secondary listing on the NASDAQ.

 

If the special resolution is approved, the Board will have the authority, in its sole discretion, to select the exact consolidation ratio, provided that the ratio may be no smaller than one (1) post-consolidation Share for every five (5) pre-consolidation Shares and no larger than one (1) post-consolidation Share for every eight (8) pre-consolidation Shares (the “Consolidation Ratio”).

 

In evaluating the Consolidation Ratio, the Board has also taken into consideration the expectations of investors for a company with a market capitalization and maturity similar to Greenbrook.

 

For illustrative purposes, should the trading price of the Shares prior to the Share Consolidation be US$1.16 (being the U.S. dollar equivalent of a price of C$1.49 per Share, converted on the basis of an exchange rate of US$1.00 for C$1.29), a share consolidation effected at a consolidation ratio of 1 for 5 would generally attain a share price of approximately US$5.80 per post-consolidation Share, and a share consolidation effected at a consolidation ratio of 1 for 8 would generally attain a share price of approximately US$9.28 per post-consolidation Share.

 

Although Shareholder approval for the Share Consolidation is being sought at the Meeting, the Share Consolidation would become effective at a date in the future to be determined by the Board if and when it is considered to be in the best interest of the Company to implement the Share Consolidation to enable a NASDAQ listing and facilitate its trading at price per Share appropriate for a newly-listed U.S. public company, but in any event no later than January 12, 2022. Notwithstanding approval of the Share Consolidation by Shareholders, the Board, in its sole discretion, may revoke the special resolution, and abandon the Share Consolidation without further approval or action by, or prior notice to, Shareholders.

 

Principal Effects of the Share Consolidation

 

If the Share Consolidation is implemented, a Shareholder will receive between (i) one (1) post-consolidation Share for every five (5) pre-consolidation Shares, and (ii) one (1) post-consolidation Share for every eight (8) pre-consolidation Shares, held immediately prior to the effective date of the Share Consolidation, subject to rounding for fractional interests (see “– Fractional Interests” below). While the Share Consolidation will result in each Shareholder holding a smaller number of Shares, it will not affect a Shareholder’s percentage ownership interest or voting rights in Greenbrook, except to the extent that the Share Consolidation would otherwise result in a Shareholder owning a fractional Share.

 

In addition, the Share Consolidation will not affect any Shareholder’s proportionate voting rights. Each Share outstanding after the Share Consolidation will be entitled to one vote and will be fully paid and non-assessable. The principal effects of the Share Consolidation will be that the number of Shares issued and outstanding will be reduced from approximately 67,512,383 Shares as of December 4, 2020 to between approximately 8,439,047 and 13,502,476 Shares, depending on the Consolidation Ratio selected by the Board (assuming that no additional Shares are issued between December 4, 2020 and the effective date of the Share Consolidation).

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The exact number of post-consolidation Shares outstanding upon completion of the Share Consolidation will most likely vary from the numbers above due to the effect of rounding for fractional interests under the Share Consolidation (see “– Fractional Interests” below).

 

The principal effects of the Share Consolidation include the following:

 

(a) the fair market value of each Share will increase (absent other factors which could influence the price) and will, in part, form the basis upon which further Shares or other securities of the Company will be issued;

 

(b) the number of issued and outstanding Shares will be significantly reduced, as described above;

 

(c) the exercise prices and the number of Shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding broker warrants of the Company will be automatically adjusted based on the Consolidation Ratio in order to preserve proportionately the rights and obligations of the holders of broker warrants (see “– Treatment of Stock Options and Broker Warrants” below);

 

(d) the exercise prices and the number of Shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding stock options of the Company will be automatically adjusted based on the Consolidation Ratio in order to preserve proportionately the rights and obligations of the optionees (see “– Treatment of Stock Options and Broker Warrants” below); and

 

(e) as the Company currently has an unlimited number of Shares authorized for issuance, the Share Consolidation will not have any effect on the number of Shares of the Company available for issuance.

 

Fractional Interests

 

No fractional Shares will be issued as a result of the Share Consolidation. Any fractional interest in Shares that would otherwise result from the Share Consolidation will be rounded up to the next whole Share, if the fractional interest is equal to or greater than one-half of a Share, and rounded down to the next whole Share if the fractional interest is less than one-half of a Share. In all other respects, our post-consolidation Shares will have the same attributes as our pre-consolidation Shares.

 

Because no fractional Shares (or payment in lieu) will be issued as a result of the Share Consolidation, if you do not hold a sufficient number of pre-consolidation Shares to receive at least one post-consolidation Share, you will have no further interest in Greenbrook upon completion of the Share Consolidation. If you want to hold Shares after the Share Consolidation, you should consider either purchasing a sufficient number of Shares so as to hold at least such number of Shares in your account prior to the effective date of the Share Consolidation that would entitle you to receive at least one post-consolidation Share or, if applicable, consolidate your accounts prior to the effective date of the Share Consolidation so that you have at least an amount of Shares in one account prior to the effective date of the Share Consolidation that would entitle you to at least one post-consolidation Share.

 

Treatment of Stock Options and Broker Warrants

 

The terms of our stock options and broker warrants that are outstanding prior to the effective date of the Share Consolidation will be adjusted pursuant to their terms on the basis of the Consolidation Ratio under the Share Consolidation (i.e., the number of Shares issuable will decrease and the exercise price or conversion price, as applicable, will increase proportionately).

 

Exchange of Share Certificates

 

If the Share Consolidation is approved by Shareholders and implemented by the Board, following the announcement by the Company of the Consolidation Ratio selected by the Board and the effective date of the Share Consolidation, the registered holders of our Shares will be required to exchange the share certificates representing their pre-consolidation Shares for new share certificates representing the post-consolidation Shares to which they are entitled. A letter of transmittal has been included in the materials for the Meeting which were sent to each of our Registered Shareholders.

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The letter of transmittal contains instructions on how to surrender share certificates representing pre-consolidation Shares to our transfer agent should the Share Consolidation be approved at the Meeting and implemented by the Board. Our transfer agent will forward to each Registered Shareholder who has sent the required documents a new share certificate representing the number of post-consolidation Shares to which the Shareholder is entitled. Until surrendered, each share certificate representing pre-consolidation Shares will be deemed for all purposes to represent the number of whole post-consolidation Shares to which the holder is entitled as a result of the Share Consolidation.

 

Shareholders should not destroy any share certificates and should not submit any share certificates until such time, if any, that the Share Consolidation is completed. We will publicly announce if and when the Share Consolidation is implemented.

 

Non-registered, beneficial shareholders who hold our Shares through a bank, broker or other nominee should note that these intermediaries may have their own procedures for processing the Share Consolidation than those that will be put in place by us for Registered Shareholders. Non-registered, beneficial shareholders who have questions about the procedures should contact their nominees.

 

Risks Associated with the Share Consolidation

 

The Share Consolidation will, in all likelihood, result in some Shareholders owning “odd lots” of fewer than 100 Shares on a post-consolidation basis. Odd lots may be more difficult to sell or involve greater transaction costs, including higher brokerage commissions.

 

Furthermore, there can be no assurance that the trading price of our Shares will increase as a result of the Share Consolidation or will not decrease in the future to below pre-consolidation levels. Furthermore, the reduced number of Shares resulting from the Share Consolidation could adversely affect their liquidity. In addition, Shareholders who do not hold a sufficient number of Shares to receive at least one post-consolidation Share will not have a continuing interest in the Company upon completion of the Share Consolidation (or receive any payment in lieu).

 

Finally, whether or not the Share Consolidation is completed, the Company is under no obligation to complete the NASDAQ listing of the Shares, on the currently expected timeframe, or at all, and has no obligation to maintain any such listing in the future. In addition, there can be no assurance that the Shares will be approved and certified for listing on the NASDAQ, and if the Shares are so listed, whether the Company will realize the aforementioned potential benefits of a NASDAQ listing.

 

Shareholder Approval

 

At the Meeting, Shareholders will be asked to consider and, if deemed fit, pass a special resolution approving an amendment to our Articles to effect the Share Consolidation, substantially in the form of the resolution set forth in Appendix “A” of this Circular (the “Share Consolidation Resolution”).

 

In order to be effective, the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) (the “OBCA”) requires that the Share Consolidation be approved by a special resolution of the Shareholders, being a majority of not less than two-thirds (2/3) of the votes cast by Shareholders present or represented by proxy at the Meeting. In addition to the approval of the Shareholders, the Share Consolidation requires regulatory approvals, including the approval of the Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”), which has been obtained subject to the filing of certain customary documents. Even if the Share Consolidation Resolution is approved by Shareholders at the Meeting, our directors will have the discretion not to proceed with the Share Consolidation.

 

The Board and management of the Company believe that the Share Consolidation is in the best interests of the Company and its Shareholders, and the Board unanimously recommends that Shareholders vote FOR the Share Consolidation Resolution.

 

Unless otherwise instructed, the persons named in the form of proxy enclosed with this Circular intend to vote FOR the Share Consolidation Resolution.

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AMENDMENT TO ARTICLES

 

 

 

Section 124(2) of the OBCA allows the Board to appoint additional directors during the year, up to a maximum of one third of the number of directors elected at the previous annual meeting of shareholders, if the Company’s articles so provide.

 

On September 4, 2020, the Board approved a resolution allowing such amendment to be presented for approval to the Shareholders of the Company. The Board believes that such provision will allow the Board to ensure better succession planning in cases where a director would communicate in advance his or her intention not to stand for re-election due to personal reasons or reaching the retirement age, or where the Board deems appropriate to add directors who would sit on a committee of the Board or bring specific expertise to the Board. This standard provision also provides the Board flexibility to add a limited number of directors who are suitable candidates to the Board in between annual meetings without having existing directors resign.

 

At the Meeting, Shareholders will be asked to consider and, if deemed fit, approve a special resolution authorizing the Board to amend the Articles of the Company to provide that the Board may appoint additional directors not exceeding one third of the number of directors elected at the previous annual meeting of Shareholders, the form of which is attached as Appendix “B” to this Circular (the “Articles Amendment Resolution”).

 

In order to be effective, the OBCA requires that the Articles Amendment Resolution be approved by a special resolution of the Shareholders, being a majority of not less than two-thirds (2/3) of the votes cast by Shareholders present or represented by proxy at the Meeting.

 

It is important to note that this amendment will currently allow the Board to appoint a maximum of two additional directors whose term will end not later than the close of the next annual meeting of Shareholders following such director’s appointment. To be re-elected, these directors shall be listed among the candidates standing for election at the annual meeting immediately following their appointment.

 

The Board and management of the Company believe that approval of the Articles Amendment Resolution is in the best interests of the Company and its Shareholders, and the Board unanimously recommends that Shareholders vote FOR the Articles Amendment Resolution.

 

Unless otherwise instructed, the persons named in the form of proxy enclosed with this Circular intend to vote FOR the Articles Amendment Resolution.

 

The Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee of the Board is currently in the process of identifying and considering suitable candidates to join the board of directors of the Company from time to time. Provided that the Articles Amendment Resolution is approved by Shareholders, the Board currently intends to appoint at least one additional director shortly following the Meeting; however, no assurances can be made in this regard.

 

AMENDMENT TO BY-LAWS

 

 

 

In connection with a proposed NASDAQ listing, the Board adopted amendments to the Company’s By-Laws to (i) increase its shareholder quorum requirement from 25% to 33 1/3% of the votes entitled to be cast at a meeting of Shareholders in order to comply with the minimum shareholder quorum requirements for NASDAQ listed companies; and (ii) make consequential and housekeeping amendments arising from a potential NASDAQ listing (collectively, the “By-Law Amendment”).

 

Pursuant to Section 116(2) of the OBCA, the Board must submit the adoption of the By-Law Amendment for confirmation by Shareholders. Accordingly, at the Meeting, Shareholders will be asked to consider and, if deemed fit, approve an ordinary resolution ratifying the By-Law Amendment, the form of which is attached as Appendix “C” to this Circular (the “By-Law Amendment Resolution”).

 

The foregoing is only a summary of the By-Law Amendment. The full text of the By-Law Amendment, as integrated into an amended and restated By-Laws of the Company, is set out in Appendix “D”, showing the changes made (additions are underlined, text removed is struck out). Shareholders are encouraged to review the By-Law Amendment in its entirety.

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In order to be effective, the OBCA requires that the By-Law Amendment Resolution be approved by an ordinary resolution of the Shareholders, being a majority of the votes cast by Shareholders present or represented by proxy at the Meeting. The By-Law Amendment will cease to be in force if it is not confirmed by the Shareholders at the Meeting. Otherwise, the By-Law Amendment will come into effect upon its confirmation by Shareholders at the Meeting.

 

The Board and management of the Company believe that approval of the By-Law Amendment Resolution is in the best interests of the Company and its Shareholders, and the Board unanimously recommends that Shareholders vote FOR the By-Law Amendment Resolution.

 

Unless otherwise instructed, the persons named in the form of proxy enclosed with this Circular intend to vote FOR the By-Law Amendment Resolution.

 

OTHER INFORMATION

 

 

 

Indebtedness of Directors and Executive Officers

 

None of our directors, executive officers, employees, former directors, former executive officers or former employees or any of our subsidiaries, and none of their respective associates, is or has within 30 days before the date of this Circular or at any time since the beginning of the most recently completed financial year been indebted to us or any of our subsidiaries or another entity whose indebtedness is the subject of a guarantee, support agreement, letter of credit or other similar agreement or understanding provided by us or any of our subsidiaries.

 

Interests of Certain Persons or Companies in Matters to be Acted Upon

 

To the knowledge of the directors and executive officers of Greenbrook, no director or executive officer of the Company, or any associate or affiliate of any of the foregoing persons, has any material interest, direct or indirect, by way of beneficial ownership of securities or otherwise, in any matter to be acted upon at the Meeting, except for any interest arising from the ownership of Shares where the Shareholder will receive no extra or special benefit or advantage not shared on a pro rata basis by all holders of Shares in the capital of the Company.

 

Interests of Informed Persons in Material Transactions

 

Other than as described elsewhere in this Circular and in our most recent annual information form under the heading “Interest of Management and Others in Material Transactions”, there are no material interests, direct or indirect, of any of our directors or executive officers, any shareholder that beneficially owns, or controls or directs (directly or indirectly), more than 10% of any class or series of our outstanding voting securities, or any associate or affiliate of any of the foregoing persons, in any transaction since the commencement of our most recently completed financial year or in any proposed transaction that has materially affected or is reasonably expected to materially affect us or any of our subsidiaries.

 

Auditor

 

Our auditor is KPMG LLP, Chartered Professional Accountants, located at 100 New Park Place Number 1400, Vaughan, Ontario, L4K 0J3. KPMG LLP has been our auditor since 2017.

 

Shareholder Proposals

 

There are no shareholder proposals to be considered at the Meeting. The OBCA permits certain eligible shareholders to submit shareholder proposals to us, which proposals may be included in a management information circular relating to an annual meeting of shareholders. The final date by which we must receive shareholder proposals for our annual meeting of shareholders to be held in 2021 is April 30, 2021.

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Additional Information

 

The Company is a reporting issuer under the applicable legislation of all of the provinces of Canada, excluding Quebec, and is required to file financial statements, annual information forms and information circulars with the various securities commissions.

 

Additional copies of our latest annual information form, this Circular and our consolidated financial statements and management’s discussion and analysis can be obtained upon request from the General Counsel of Greenbrook by writing to:

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc.
890 Yonge Street, 7th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M4W 3P4.

 

Financial information is provided in our audited consolidated financial statements and management’s discussion and analysis for the financial year ended December 31, 2019. Additional information about or relating to the Company can also be found at www.greenbrooktms.com and on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

 

Contacting the Board of Directors

 

Shareholders, employees and other interested parties may communicate directly with the Board through the Lead Independent Director by writing to:

 

Lead Independent Director
Greenbrook TMS Inc.
890 Yonge Street, 7th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M4W 3P4.

 

Board Approval

 

The contents and sending of this Circular to Shareholders entitled to receive notice of the Meeting, to each director, to the auditors of the Company and to the appropriate securities regulatory authorities have been approved by the Board.

 

  On behalf of the Board of Directors,
 
Toronto, Ontario Bill Leonard
December 4, 2020 President and Chief Executive Officer

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APPENDIX A
SHARE CONSOLIDATION RESOLUTION

 

BE IT RESOLVED AS A SPECIAL RESOLUTION OF THE SHAREHOLDERS THAT:

 

1. Pursuant to the Business Corporations Act (Ontario), the articles of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Company”) be amended to consolidate all of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company (the “Common Shares”), on the basis of a consolidation ratio to be selected by the Company’s board of directors, in its sole discretion, provided that the ratio may be no smaller than one (1) post-consolidation Common Share for every five (5) pre-consolidation Common Shares and no larger than one (1) post-consolidation Common Share for every eight (8) pre-consolidation Common Shares.

 

2. In the event that the consolidation would otherwise result in the issuance of a fractional share, each fractional share that is at least 0.5 of a Common Share will be rounded up to the nearest whole Common Share and each fractional Common Share that is less than 0.5 of a Common Share will be rounded down to the nearest whole Common Share.

 

3. The effective date of such consolidation shall be the date shown in the certificate of amendment issued by the Director appointed under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) or such other date indicated in the articles of amendment, provided that, in any event, such date shall be prior to January 12, 2022.

 

4. Any director or officer of the Company is hereby authorized to execute or cause to be executed and to deliver or cause to be delivered, all such certificates, instruments, agreements, notices and other documents and to do or cause to be done all such other acts and things as such director or officer may determine to be necessary or desirable in order to carry out the intent of this resolution, including but not limited to, the determination of the effective date of the consolidation and the filing of articles of amendment under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario), such determination to be conclusively evidenced by the execution and delivery of such documents and other instruments or the doing of any such act or thing.

 

5. Notwithstanding that this special resolution has been duly passed by the shareholders of the Company, the directors of the Company may, in their sole discretion, revoke the resolution without further approval of the shareholders, at any time prior to the endorsement by the Director appointed under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) of a certificate of amendment in respect of the consolidation.

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APPENDIX B
ARTICLES AMENDMENT RESOLUTION

 

BE IT RESOLVED AS A SPECIAL RESOLUTION OF THE SHAREHOLDERS THAT:

 

1. Pursuant to the Business Corporations Act (Ontario), the articles of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Company”) be amended to add the following text:

 

“The directors may appoint one or more additional directors to hold office for a term expiring not later than the close of the next annual shareholders meeting, but the total number of directors so appointed may not exceed one third of the number of directors elected at the previous annual shareholders meeting.”

 

2. Any director or officer of the Company is hereby authorized to execute or cause to be executed and to deliver or cause to be delivered, all such certificates, instruments, agreements, notices and other documents and to do or cause to be done all such other acts and things as such director or officer may determine to be necessary or desirable in order to carry out the intent of this resolution, including but not limited to, the filing of articles of amendment under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario), such determination to be conclusively evidenced by the execution and delivery of such documents and other instruments or the doing of any such act or thing.

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APPENDIX C
BY-LAW AMENDMENT RESOLUTION

 

BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

 

1. The amendments to By-Law No. 1 of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Company”), in the form adopted by the board of directors of the Company on September 4, 2020 and reflected in the amended and restated By-Laws of the Company attached as Appendix “D” to the management information circular of the Company dated December 4, 2020, be and are hereby ratified and confirmed.

 

2. Any director or officer of the Company is hereby authorized to execute or cause to be executed and to deliver or cause to be delivered, all such certificates, instruments, agreements, notices and other documents and to do or cause to be done all such other acts and things as such director or officer may determine to be necessary or desirable in order to carry out the intent of this resolution, such determination to be conclusively evidenced by the execution and delivery of such documents and other instruments or the doing of any such act or thing.

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APPENDIX D
AMENDED AND RESTATED BY-LAWS

 

BY-LAW NO. 1A

 

of

 

GREENBROOK TMS INC.
(the “Corporation”)

 

1.                  INTERPRETATION

 

1.1           Expressions used in this By-law shall have the same meanings as corresponding expressions in the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) (the “Act”).

 

2.                  CORPORATE SEAL

 

2.1           The directors may, but need not, adopt a corporate seal, and may change a corporate seal that is adopted.

 

3.                  FINANCIAL YEAR

 

3.1           The financial year of the Corporation shall end on such date in each year as shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the directors.

 

4.                  DIRECTORS

 

4.1           Number. The number of directors shall be not fewer than the minimum and not more than the maximum number of directors provided for in the articles. At each election of directors, the number elected shall be the number of directors then in office unless the directors or shareholders otherwise determine.

 

4.2           Quorum. A quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of directors shall be a majority of the number of directors or such greater or lesser number of directors as the directors or shareholders may from time to time determine or the Act may require.

 

4.3           Calling of Meetings. Meetings of the directors shall be held at such time and place within or outside Ontario as the chairman of the board, the president and chief executive officer or any two directors may determine. A majority of meetings of directors need not be held within Canada in any financial year.

 

4.4           Notice of Meetings. Notice of the time and place of each meeting of directors shall be given to each director by telephone not less than 48 hours before the time of the meeting or by written notice not less than ten days before the date of the meeting, provided that the first meeting immediately following a meeting of shareholders at which directors are elected may be held without notice if a quorum is present. Meetings may be held without notice if the directors waive or are deemed to waive notice.

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4.5           Meeting by Telephonic or Electronic Facility. A meeting of directors or of a committee of directors may be held by means of a telephonic, electronic or other communication facility that permits all persons participating in the meeting to communicate adequately with each other, and a director participating in a meeting by such means is deemed to (a) consent to such meeting format and (b) be present at that meeting.

 

4.6           Chairman. The chairman of the board, or in his or her absence the lead independent director, if any, or in his or her absence, the president and chief executive officer if a director, or in his or her absence or if the president and chief executive officer is not a director, a director chosen by the directors at the meeting, shall be chairman of any meeting of directors.

 

4.7           Voting at Meetings. At meetings of directors, each director shall have one vote and questions shall be decided by a majority of votes. In case of an equality of votes, the chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.

 

4.8           Committees. Unless otherwise determined by the directors, each committee of directors shall have the power to fix its quorum and to regulate its procedures.

 

5.                  OFFICERS

 

5.1           General. The directors may from time to time appoint a chairman of the board, a president and chief executive officer, a chief financial officer, one or more vice-presidents, a secretary, a treasurer and such other officers as the directors may determine from time to time.

 

5.2           Chairman of the Board. The chairman of the board, if any, shall be appointed from among the directors, shall, when present, be chair of the meetings of directors and shareholders and shall have such other powers and duties as the directors may determine from time to time.

 

5.3           President and Chief Executive Officer. Unless the directors otherwise determine, the president shall be appointed by the directors and shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation and shall have general supervision of its business and affairs.

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5.4           Vice-President. A vice-president shall have such powers and duties as the directors or the president and chief executive officer may determine from time to time.

 

5.5           Secretary. The secretary shall give required notices to shareholders, directors, auditors and members of committees, act as secretary of meetings of directors and shareholders when present, keep and enter minutes of such meetings, maintain the corporate records of the Corporation, have custody of the corporate seal, if any, and shall have such other powers and duties as the directors or the president and chief executive officer may determine from time to time.

 

5.6           Treasurer. The treasurer shall keep proper accounting records in accordance with the Act, have supervision over the safekeeping of securities and the deposit and disbursement of funds of the Corporation, report as required on the financial position of the Corporation, and have such other powers and duties as the directors or the president and chief executive officer may determine from time to time.

 

5.7           Other Officers. Any other officer shall have such powers and duties as the directors or the president and chief executive officer may determine from time to time.

 

5.8           Assistants. Any of the powers and duties of an officer to whom an assistant has been appointed may be exercised and performed by such assistant unless the directors or the president and chief executive officer otherwise direct.

 

5.9           Variation of Powers and Duties. The directors may, from time to time, vary, add to or limit the powers and duties of any officer.

 

5.10         Term of Office. Each officer shall hold office until his successor is elected or appointed, provided that the directors may at any time remove any officer from office but such removal shall not affect the rights of such officer under any contract of employment with the Corporation.

 

6.                  INDEMNIFICATION AND INSURANCE

 

6.1           Indemnification of Directors and Officers. The Corporation shall indemnify a director or officer, a former director or officer or a person who acts or acted at the Corporation’s request as a director or officer, or in a similar capacity of another entity, and the heirs and legal representative of such a person to the extent permitted by the Act.

 

6.2           Insurance. The Corporation shall purchase and maintain insurance for the benefit of any person referred to in the preceding section to the extent permitted by the Act.

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7.                  SHAREHOLDERS

 

7.1           Quorum. A quorum for the transaction of business at a meeting of shareholders shall be one person present and entitled to vote at the meeting that holds or represents by proxy not less than 2533 1/3% of the votes attached to the outstanding shares of the Corporation entitled to vote at the meeting.

 

7.2           Casting Vote. In case of an equality of votes at a meeting of shareholders, the chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.

 

7.3           Meeting by Telephonic or Electronic Facility. A meeting of shareholders may be held by telephonic, electronic or other communication facility that permits all persons participating in the meeting to communicate adequately, and a shareholder who, through those means, votes at a meeting or establishes a communications link to a meeting shall be deemed to be present at that meeting.

 

7.4           Scrutineers. The chairman at any meeting of shareholders may appoint one or more persons (who need not be shareholders) to act as scrutineer or scrutineers at the meeting.

 

7.5           Certificates for Shares. The shares of stock of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates, or shall be uncertificated shares that may be evidenced by a book-entry system (including a non-certificated inventory system) maintained by the registrar of such stock, or a combination of both. To the extent that shares are represented by certificates, such certificates shall be in such form as shall be approved by the directors. The certificates representing shares of stock of each class shall be signed by, or in the name of, the Corporation by the chairman of the board, the president and chief executive officer, the chief financial officer, or any director. Any or all such signatures may be facsimiles. Although any director, officer, transfer agent or registrar whose manual or facsimile signature is affixed to such a certificate ceases to be such director, officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate has been issued, it may nevertheless be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as if such director, officer, transfer agent or registrar were still such at the date of its issue.

 

The stock ledger and blank share certificates shall be kept by the secretary or by a transfer agent or by a registrar or by any other officer or agent designated by the directors.

 

7.6           Replacement of Share Certificates. Where the owner of a share certificate claims that the share certificate has been lost, apparently destroyed or wrongfully taken, the Corporation shall issue or cause to be issued a new certificate in place of the original certificate if the owner (i) so requests before the Corporation has notice that the share certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser; (ii) files with the Corporation an indemnity bond (unless not required to do so by the Corporation) sufficient in the Corporation’s opinion to protect the Corporation and any transfer agent, registrar or other agent of the Corporation from any loss that it or any of them may suffer by complying with the request to issue a new share certificate; and (iii) satisfies any other reasonable requirements imposed from time to time by the Corporation.

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8.                  DIVIDENDS AND RIGHTS

 

8.1           Declaration of Dividends. Subject to the Act, the directors may from time to time declare dividends payable to the shareholders according to their respective rights and interests in the Corporation.

 

8.2           Wire Transfers or Cheques. A dividend payable in money shall be paid, at the Corporation’s option, by (a) wire transfer, or (b) cheque to the order of each registered holder of shares of the class or series in respect of which it has been declared, and (i) sent, if by wire transfer, to such registered holder as per the wire instructions provided by such holder in the Corporation’s securities register, or (ii) mailed by prepaid ordinary mail, if by cheque, to such registered holder at the address of such holder in the Corporation’s securities register, unless such holder otherwise directs. In the case of joint holders, the wire transfer or cheque shall, unless such joint holders otherwise direct, be made payable to the order of all of such joint holders and transferred to them as per the wire instructions, or mailed to them at their address, in the Corporation’s securities register. The issuance of the wire transfer or the mailing of such cheque as aforesaid, unless the same is not paid on due presentation, shall satisfy and discharge the liability for the dividend to the extent of the sum represented thereby plus the amount of any tax which the Corporation is required to and does withhold.

 

8.3           Non-Receipt of Wire Transfers or Cheques. In the event of non-receipt of any dividend wire transfer or cheque by the person to whom it is sent as aforesaid, the Corporation shall issue to such person a wire transfer or a cheque for a like amount on such terms as to indemnity, reimbursement of expenses and evidence of non-receipt and of title as the directors may from time to time prescribe, whether generally or in any particular case.

 

8.4           Unclaimed Dividends. To the extent permitted by applicable law, any dividends unclaimed after a period of six years from the date on which the same has been declared to be payable shall be forfeited and shall revert to the Corporation.

 

9.                  EXECUTION OF INSTRUMENTS

 

9.1           Execution of Instruments. Contracts, deeds, mortgages, hypothecs, charges, conveyances, transfers, assignments or other documents or instruments in writing requiring the signature of the Corporation may be signed by any one director or officer of the Corporation, and all contracts, documents or instruments in writing so signed shall be binding upon the Corporation without any further authorization or formality. The directors are authorized from time to time by resolution to appoint any one or more officers or other persons on behalf of the Corporation either to sign contracts, documents or instruments in writing generally or to sign specific contracts, documents or instruments in writing.

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10.              NOTICE

 

10.1         General. A notice mailed to a shareholder, director, auditor or member of a committee shall be deemed to have been received at the time it would be delivered in the ordinary course of mail unless there are reasonable grounds for believing that the shareholder or director did not receive the notice or the document at that time or at all.

 

10.2         Electronic Delivery. Provided the addressee has consented in writing or electronically in accordance with the Act and the regulations thereunder, the Corporation may satisfy the requirement to send any notice or document referred to in section 10.1 by creating and providing an electronic document in compliance with the Act and the regulations under the Act. An electronic document is deemed to have been received when it enters the information system designated by the addressee or, if the document is posted on or made available through a generally accessible electronic source, when the addressee receives notice in writing of the availability and location of that electronic document, or, if such notice is sent electronically, when it enters the information system designated by the addressee.

 

10.3         Omissions and Errors. Accidental omission to give any notice to any shareholder, director, auditor or member of a committee or non-receipt of any notice or any error in a notice not affecting the substance thereof shall not invalidate any action taken at any meeting held pursuant to such notice.

 

11.              ADVANCE NOTICE PROVISIONS

 

11.1         For purposes of this Section 11:

 

Applicable Securities Laws” means (i) the applicable securities legislation of each relevant province and territory of Canada, as amended from time to time, the rules, regulations and forms made or promulgated under any such statute and the published national instruments, multilateral instruments, policies, bulletins and notices of the securities commission and similar regulatory authority of each province and territory of Canada; and (ii) any applicable U.S. securities laws, rules and regulations, which may include the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 and the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, in each case, as amended from time to time, and including the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and any other applicable U.S. Federal or state securities laws, rules and regulations;

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public announcement” means disclosure in a press release reported by a national news service in Canada and/or the United States (as applicable), or in a document publicly filed by the Corporation under its profile on the System of Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval at www.sedar.comwww.sedar.com and/or on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR website at www.sec.gov (or any other successor site(s)), as applicable; and

 

Representatives” of a person means the affiliates and associates of such person, all persons acting jointly or in concert with any of the foregoing, and the affiliates and associates of any of such persons acting jointly or in concert, and “Representative” means any one of them.

 

11.2         Subject only to the Act and Section 11.9, and for so long as the Corporation is a distributing corporation, only persons who are nominated in accordance with the following procedures shall be eligible for election as directors of the Corporation. Nominations of persons for election to the board may be made at any annual meeting of shareholders, or at any special meeting of shareholders if one of the purposes for which the special meeting was called was the election of directors:

 

11.2.1    by or at the direction of the board, including pursuant to a notice of meeting;

 

11.2.2    by or at the direction or request of one or more shareholders pursuant to a proposal made in accordance with the provisions of the Act or a requisition of the shareholders made in accordance with the provisions of the Act; or

 

11.2.3    by any person (a “Nominating Shareholder”):

 

(i) who, at the close of business in Toronto, Ontario on the date of the giving of the notice provided for below in this Section 11 and at the close of business in Toronto, Ontario on the record date for notice of such meeting of shareholders, is entered in the securities register of the Corporation as a holder of one or more shares carrying the right to vote at such meeting or who beneficially owns shares that are entitled to be voted at such meeting; and

 

(ii) who complies with the notice procedures set forth below in this Section 11.

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11.3         In addition to any other applicable requirements, for a nomination to be made by a Nominating Shareholder, such person must have given timely notice thereof (in accordance with Section 11.4 below) in proper written form to the board (in accordance with Section 11.5 below).

 

11.4         To be timely, a Nominating Shareholder’s notice to the board must be made:

 

11.4.1    in the case of an annual meeting of shareholders (which includes an annual and special meeting), not less than 30 days prior to the date of the annual meeting of shareholders; provided, however, that in the event that the annual meeting of shareholders is to be held on a date that is less than 50 days after the date (the “Notice Date”) on which the first public announcement of the date of the annual meeting was made, notice by the Nominating Shareholder may be made not later than the close of business in Toronto, Ontario on the tenth (10th) day following the Notice Date; and

 

11.4.2    in the case of a special meeting (which is not also an annual meeting) of shareholders called for the purpose of electing directors (whether or not called for other purposes as well), not later than the close of business in Toronto, Ontario on the fifteenth (15th) day following the day on which the first public announcement of the date of the special meeting of shareholders was made.

 

11.4.3    in the event of any adjournment or postponement of a meeting of shareholders, or an announcement thereof, the required time periods for the giving of a Nominating Shareholder’s notice as described above shall apply using the date of the adjourned or postponed meeting, or the date of announcement thereof, as the case may be. This means that a Nominating Shareholder who failed to deliver a timely Nominating Shareholder’s notice in proper written form to the directors for purposes of the originally scheduled shareholders’ meeting shall nonetheless be entitled to provide a Nominating Shareholder’s notice for purposes of any adjourned or postponed meeting of shareholders as the determination as to whether a Nominating Shareholder’s notice is timely is to be determined based off of the adjourned or postponed shareholders’ meeting date and not the original shareholders’ meeting date.

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11.5         To be in proper written form, a Nominating Shareholder’s notice to the board must set forth the following information, all of which the Corporation believes to be necessary information to be included in a dissident proxy circular, or is necessary to enable to board and shareholders to determine director nominee qualifications, relevant experience, shareholding or voting interest in the Corporation or independence, all in the same manner as would be required for nominees of the Corporation:

 

11.5.1    as to each person whom the Nominating Shareholder proposes to nominate for election as a director (each, a “Proposed Nominee”): (A) the name, age, business address and residential address of the person; (B) the principal occupation or employment of the person for the past five years; (C) the status of such person as a “resident Canadian” (as such term is defined in the Act); (D) the class or series and number of shares in the capital of the Corporation which are controlled or which are owned beneficially or of record by the person as of the record date for the meeting of shareholders (if such date shall then have been made publicly available and shall have occurred) and as of the date of such notice; and (E) any other information relating to the person that would be required to be disclosed in a dissident’s proxy circular in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors pursuant to the Act and Applicable Securities Laws; and

 

11.5.2    as to each Nominating Shareholder giving the notice, any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding or relationship pursuant to which such Nominating Shareholder has a right vote any shares of the Corporation and any other information relating to such Nominating Shareholder that would be required to be made in a dissident’s proxy circular in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors pursuant to the Act and Applicable Securities Laws.

 

11.6         The Corporation may require that any Proposed Nominee furnish such other information as may be required to be contained in a dissident proxy circular or by applicable law or regulation to determine the independence of the Proposed Nominee or the eligibility of such Proposed Nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation or a member of any committee of the board. Such information, if received, will generally be summarized in the Corporation’s information circular.

 

11.7         All information to be provided in a timely notice pursuant to Section 11.5 above shall be provided as of the record date for determining shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting (if such date shall then have been publicly announced) and as of the date of such notice. The Nominating Shareholder shall update such information forthwith if there are any material changes in the information previously disclosed.

 

11.8         Subject to Section 11.9, no person shall be eligible for election as a director of the Corporation unless such person has been nominated in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 11 shall be deemed to preclude discussion by a shareholder (as distinct from the nomination of directors) at a meeting of shareholders of any matter in respect of which such shareholder would have been entitled to submit a proposal pursuant to the Act. The chairman of the applicable meeting shall have the power and duty to determine whether a nomination was made in accordance with the procedures set forth in the foregoing provisions and, if any proposed nomination is not in compliance with such foregoing provisions, to declare that such defective nomination shall be disregarded.

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11.9         Notwithstanding the foregoing, the board may, in its sole discretion, waive all or any of the requirements in this Section 11 and this Section 11 shall not apply to any nomination of directors pursuant to the Investor Rights Agreement among the Corporation and certain of its shareholders.11.

 

12.              FORUM SELECTION

 

12.1         Forum of Adjudication of Certain Disputes. Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Superior Court of Justice of the Province of Ontario, Canada and the appellate Courts therefrom (or, failing such court, any other “court” (as defined in the Act) having jurisdiction and the appellate Courts therefrom), shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation; (ii) any action or proceeding asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer, or other employee of the Corporation to the Corporation; (iii) any action or proceeding asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the Act or the articles or the by-laws of the Corporation (as either may be amended from time to time); or (iv) any action or proceeding asserting a claim otherwise related to the “affairs” (as defined in the Act) of the Corporation. If any action or proceeding the subject matter of which is within the scope of the preceding sentence is filed in a Court other than a Court located within the Province of Ontario (a “Foreign Action”) in the name of any securityholder, such securityholder shall be deemed to have consented to (a) the personal jurisdiction of the provincial and federal Courts located within the Province of Ontario in connection with any action or proceeding brought in any such Court to enforce the preceding sentence and (b) having service of process made upon such securityholder in any such action or proceeding by service upon such securityholder’s counsel in the Foreign Action as agent for such securityholder.

 

13.              EFFECTIVE DATE

 

13.1         Effective Date. This by-law shall come into force when made by the directors in accordance with the Act.

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14.              REPEAL

 

14.1         Repeal. All previous by-laws of the Corporation are repealed as of the coming into force of this by-law. Such repeal shall not affect the validity of any act done or right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired or incurred under, or the validity of any contract or agreement made pursuant to, or the validity of any articles or predecessor charter documents of the Corporation obtained pursuant to, any such by-laws prior to its repeal. All officers and persons acting under any by-law so repealed shall continue to act as if appointed under the provisions of this by-law and all resolutions of the shareholders or the board or a committee of the board with continuing effect passed under any repealed by-law shall continue in full force and effect except to the extent inconsistent with this by-law and until amended or repealed.

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Exhibit 99.23

 

GREENBROOK TMS INC.

 

REPORT UNDER NATIONAL INSTRUMENT 51-102  

REPORT OF VOTING RESULTS

 

In accordance with Section 11.3 of National Instrument 51-102 – Continuous Disclosure Obligations, the following sets out the matters voted upon at the Special Meeting of Shareholders of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (“Greenbrook”) held on January 12, 2021 (the “Meeting”). Each of the matters set out below is described in greater detail in the Notice of Special Meeting of Shareholders and Management Information Circular dated December 4, 2020, mailed to shareholders prior to the Meeting (the “Circular”).

 

According to the scrutineer’s report, 123 shareholders were present at the Meeting, in person or by proxy, representing 49,229,852 common shares or approximately 72.92% of the 67,512,383 common shares outstanding on the December 1, 2020 record date for the Meeting.

 

Approval of Share Consolidation

 

At the Meeting, the shareholders passed a special resolution authorizing and approving an amendment to the Articles of Incorporation of Greenbrook (the “Articles”) to consolidate the authorized, issued and outstanding common shares of Greenbrook on the basis of a ratio that will permit Greenbrook to qualify for a potential secondary listing on the NASDAQ Stock Market LLC, being a ratio within the range of one (1) post-consolidation common share for every five (5) pre-consolidation common shares to one (1) post-consolidation common share for every eight (8) pre-consolidation common shares, with the ratio to be selected and implemented by the board of directors of Greenbrook (the “Board”) in its sole discretion, if at all, at any time prior to January 12, 2022.

 

Voting results are as follows:

 

Special Resolution Votes For % Votes For Votes Against % Votes Against
The special resolution, the full text of which is set forth in Appendix A to the Circular, to authorize and approve the filing of Articles of Amendment to consolidate the issued and outstanding common shares of the Corporation on the basis set out in the Circular, all as more particularly described in the Circular. 49,209,762 99.96% 20,090 0.04%

 

Approval of Amendment to Articles

 

At the Meeting, the shareholders passed a special resolution authorizing and approving an amendment to the Articles to provide that the Board may appoint additional directors not exceeding one third of the number of directors elected at the previous annual meeting of shareholders as per section 124(2) of the Business Corporations Act (Ontario).

 

Voting results are as follows:

 

Special Resolution Votes For % Votes For Votes Against % Votes Against
The special resolution, the full text of which is set forth in Appendix B to the Circular, to authorize and approve the filing of Articles of Amendment to provide that the Board may appoint additional directors not exceeding one third of the number of directors elected at the previous annual meeting of shareholders, all as more particularly described in the Circular. 49,225,754 99.99% 4,098 0.01%

Approval of By-Law Amendment

 

At the Meeting, the shareholders passed an ordinary resolution authorizing and ratifying amendments to Greenbrook’s by-laws to (i) increase the quorum for any meeting of shareholders of Greenbrook to one person present and entitled to vote at the meeting that holds or represents by proxy not less than 33 1/3% of the votes attached to the outstanding common shares of Greenbrook entitled to be voted at such meeting, and (ii) make certain other consequential and housekeeping amendments.

 

Voting results are as follows:

 

Ordinary Resolution Votes For % Votes For Votes Against % Votes Against
The ordinary resolution, the full text of which is set forth in Appendix C to the Circular, to authorize and ratify the amendments to the By-Laws of Greenbrook, all as more particularly described in the Circular. 49,225,754 99.99% 4,098 0.01%

 

Dated this 12th day of January, 2021.  
     
GREENBROOK TMS INC.  
     
By: Bill Leonard”  
  Name: Bill Leonard  
  Title: President and Chief Executive Officer  

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Exhibit 99.24

 

 

 

  100 University Avenue, 8th floor

Date: May 4, 2020

Toronto ON, M5J 2Y1
  www.computershare.com

 

To: All Canadian Securities Regulatory Authorities 

 

Subject: Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Dear Sir/Madam:

 

We advise of the following with respect to the upcoming Meeting of Security Holders for the subject Issuer:

 

Meeting Type :   Annual General Meeting
Record Date for Notice of Meeting :   May 29, 2020  
Record Date for Voting (if applicable) :   May 29, 2020  
Beneficial Ownership Determination Date :   May 29, 2020  
Meeting Date :   June 29, 2020  
Meeting Location (if available) :   Toronto, ON  
Issuer sending proxy related materials directly to NOBO: No  
Issuer paying for delivery to OBO:   Yes  
       
Notice and Access (NAA) Requirements:      
NAA for Beneficial Holders   No  
NAA for Registered Holders   No  
       

Voting Security Details:      
       
Description CUSIP Number ISIN
COMMON SHARES 393704101 CA3937041018

 

Sincerely,

 

Computershare

Agent for Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.25

 

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION CIRCULAR

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS INC.

 

ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

 

May 19, 2020

 

 

 

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Annual Meeting of the Shareholders (the “Meeting”) of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) will be held on Monday, June 29, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) by way of virtual-only meeting via live audio webcast and teleconference.

 

Meeting Business

 

The Meeting will be held for the following purposes:

 

1. to receive the annual consolidated financial statements of Greenbrook for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, and the auditors’ report thereon;

 

2. to elect members of the Board of Directors of Greenbrook (see “Business to be Transacted at the Meeting – Election of the Board of Directors”);

 

3. to appoint Greenbrook’s auditors and to authorize the directors to fix the auditors’ remuneration (see “Business to be Transacted at the Meeting – Appointment of the Auditors”); and

 

4. to transact such other business as may properly be brought before the Meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

 

Record Date

 

You have the right to receive notice of and vote at the Meeting as set out in the accompanying Management Information Circular if you are a Greenbrook shareholder as of the close of business on May 29, 2020.

 

Meeting Format

 

Greenbrook will hold its Meeting exclusively by electronic means, including via live audio webcast and teleconference. The decision to hold the Meeting by electronic means has been made in light of the recommendations and restrictions by authorities to address proactively the public health impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus) and to mitigate risks to the health and safety of our shareholders and the broader community. As a result of these recommendations and restrictions, it will not be possible to attend the Meeting in person. Accordingly, we would strongly encourage shareholders to vote in advance using their proxy or voting instruction form as described below and to participate in the Meeting through the live audio webcast or teleconference. The health and safety of our shareholders and other interested stakeholders is our top priority.

 

Given the extraordinary circumstances, Management currently intends on only proceeding with the formal items of business of the Meeting without any opening remarks or subsequent management presentations. However, shareholders will still have the opportunity to submit questions during the Meeting through the live audio webcast or teleconference.

 

Voting in Advance of the Meeting

 

As a Greenbrook shareholder, it is important that you read the accompanying Management Information Circular carefully. Shareholders are encouraged to vote in advance of the Meeting by using the proxy form or voting instruction form accompanying the Circular. You will not be permitted to vote in person or via teleconference during the Meeting.

 

Registered shareholders (whose Greenbrook shares are registered in their name) may vote in advance of the Meeting by telephone, on the internet or by mail in accordance with the instructions set out on the proxy form previously sent. For voting by mail, registered shareholders should complete and sign their proxy form and return it to Greenbrook’s transfer agent, Computershare Investor Services Inc.,100 University Avenue, 8th Floor, North Tower, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2Y1, Canada, Attention: Proxy Department, by no later than 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on June 25, 2020.

 

Non-registered beneficial shareholders (whose Greenbrook shares are held indirectly through an intermediary such as a bank, trust company, securities broker or other intermediary) should review the voting instruction form provided by their intermediary, which sets out the procedures to be followed for voting shares held through intermediaries.

 

 

Attending and Participating During the Meeting

 

Shareholders will be able to listen to the Meeting via live audio webcast and teleconference, which will be accessible as follows:

 

Toll Free North America: (866) 521-4909
     
International: (647) 427-2311
     
Webcast: For more information or to listen to the call via webcast, please visit: www.greenbrooktms.com/investors/events.htm

 

Shareholders will be able to submit questions following the conclusion of the formal business of the Meeting through the teleconference platform by following the instructions provided during the Meeting.

 

As in-person attendance at the Meeting will not be possible, shareholders should not appoint a proxyholder, other than the proxyholders named in the proxy form or voting instruction form, to participate and vote on their behalf at the Meeting.

 

Greenbrook believes that the ability to participate in the Meeting in a meaningful way remains important despite the decision to hold this year’s Meeting through electronic means. Shareholders will have substantially the same opportunity to submit questions on matters of business at the Meeting as in past years when the annual shareholders meeting was held in person.

 

For those that plan on accessing the webcast or teleconference, please allow ample time prior to the Meeting. The Meeting will begin promptly at 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on Monday, June 29, 2020, unless otherwise adjourned or postponed. Once logged in to the webcast, it is important to remain connected to the internet for the duration of the Meeting.

 

By Order of the Board of Directors,

 

 
Toronto, Ontario Bill Leonard
May 19, 2020 President and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION CIRCULAR

 

All information in this Management Information Circular (the “Circular”) is as of May 19, 2020, unless otherwise indicated.

 

In this Circular, “we”, “us”, “our”, “Greenbrook” and “the Company” refer to Greenbrook TMS Inc. and its subsidiaries, where applicable. “You” and “your” refer to holders (“Shareholders”) of common shares of Greenbrook (“Shares”). Unless otherwise indicated, all references to “$” or “dollars” in this Circular refer to United States dollars.

 

This Circular is provided in connection with our Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on Monday, June 29, 2020 (the “Meeting”). Your proxy is being solicited by management of Greenbrook for the items described in the Notice of Meeting on the previous page. We pay for all costs associated with soliciting your proxy. We usually make our request by mail, but we may also solicit your proxy by telephone.

 

Please read this Circular, as it gives you information that you will need to know in order to cast your vote. We also encourage you to read Greenbrook’s management’s discussion and analysis and annual consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 (“Fiscal 2019”). A copy of the management’s discussion and analysis and annual consolidated financial statements will be sent to all registered and beneficial Shareholders who have requested that these materials be sent to them. These documents are also available on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (“SEDAR”) at www.sedar.com and Greenbrook’s website at www.greenbrooktms.com.

 

 

Table of Contents

 

 

 

Page

BUSINESS TO BE TRANSACTED AT THE MEETING 1
VOTING INFORMATION 2
ABOUT GREENBROOK 5
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS 5
General 5
Advance Notice Provisions 5
Individual and Majority Voting Policy 6
Director Nominee Biographies 7
Board and Committee Attendance 11
OUR APPROACH TO CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 12
General 12
The Role of the Board 12
Corporate Governance Policies and Practices 12
Composition of our Board and Board Committees 13
Director Independence 13
Meetings of Independent Directors and Conflicts of Interest 13
Committees of our Board 14
Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee 15
Director Term Limits and Other Mechanisms of Board Renewal 16
Orientation and Continuing Education 16
Ethical Business Conduct 16
Diversity 17
Disclosure Policy 17
DIRECTOR COMPENSATION 18
General 18
Director Fees 18
Directors’ Hedging Policy 18
Director Compensation Table 19
Outstanding Option-Based Awards 19
Incentive Plan Awards – Value Vested or Earned During the Year 20
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION 20
Introduction 20
Compensation Discussion and Analysis 20
Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans 27
Summary Compensation Table 27
Outstanding Share-Based Awards and Option-Based Awards 28
Incentive Plan Awards – Value Vested or Earned During the Year 28
OTHER INFORMATION 29
Indebtedness of Directors and Executive Officers 29
Interests of Certain Persons or Companies in Matters to be Acted Upon 29
Interests of Informed Persons in Material Transactions 29
Shareholder Proposals 29
Additional Information 29
Contacting the Board of Directors 30
Board Approval 30
Appendix A MANDATE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS A-1

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BUSINESS TO BE TRANSACTED AT THE MEETING

 

 

 

The following business will be transacted at the Meeting:

 

Receiving the Annual Financial Statements

 

●      Management will present the annual financial results at the Meeting.

 

Election of the Board of Directors

 

●      Eight director nominees are proposed for election to the board of directors (the “Board”). Shareholders may vote on the election of the directors.

 

Appointment of the Auditors

 

●     The Board recommends the re-appointment of KPMG LLP as Greenbrook’s auditors. Shareholders may vote on the re-appointment of the auditors and the authorization of the Board to fix such auditors’ remuneration.

 

Receiving the Annual Financial Statements

 

Our audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, including the auditors’ report thereon, have been prepared and will be sent to registered and beneficial Shareholders who have requested that these materials be sent to them. Our audited consolidated financial statements are also available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and our website at www.greenbrooktms.com.

 

Election of the Board of Directors

 

The Board has determined that eight directors will be elected at the Meeting. See “Election of Directors” on page 5 for more information.

 

The Board recommends that you vote FOR the election of each of the following persons who have been proposed by the Board for election as directors by the Shareholders:

 

Brian P. Burke

Colleen Campbell

Sasha Cucuz

Adrienne Graves, Ph.D.

Bill Leonard

Adele C. Oliva

Frank Tworecke

Elias Vamvakas

 

Directors appointed at the Meeting will serve, subject to our articles of incorporation (“Articles”) and the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) (“OBCA”), until the end of the next annual shareholder meeting or until their successors are elected or appointed. All of the proposed directors are currently directors of Greenbrook.

 

Appointment of the Auditors

 

If you are a Shareholder, you can vote on the appointment of the auditors and authorizing the Board to set the auditors’ remuneration. The Board recommends that you vote FOR the re-appointment of our current auditors, KPMG LLP, Chartered Professional Accountants, Licensed Public Accountants, as our auditors, and authorizing the Board to set KPMG LLP’s remuneration.

 

The auditors will serve until the end of the next annual shareholder meeting or until a successor is appointed. KPMG LLP has been our auditors since 2018.

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Considering Other Business

 

We will consider any other business that may properly come before the Meeting. As of the date of this Circular, we are not aware of any changes to the items above or any other business to be considered at the Meeting. If there are changes or new items, you or your proxyholder can vote your Shares on these items as you or your proxyholder sees fit. If any other matters properly come before the Meeting, it is the intention of the persons named in the form of proxy to vote in respect of those matters in accordance with their judgment.

 

VOTING INFORMATION

 

 

 

Who Can Vote

 

We are authorized to issue an unlimited number of Shares. As of May 19, 2020, there were 58,418,443 issued and outstanding Shares.

 

Each Share you own as of the close of business on May 29, 2019, the record date for the Meeting, entitles you to one vote on each of the matters to be acted upon at the Meeting, or any adjournment or postponement thereof, by proxy. The right to vote by proxy at the Meeting is limited to Shareholders who own Shares as of the above record date for the Meeting.

 

The directors and officers of Greenbrook are not aware of any person or company that beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, or exercises control or direction over more than 10% of the total outstanding Shares, other than (i) Greybrook Health Inc. (“Greybrook Health”), which beneficially owns, directly and indirectly, or exercises control or direction over 20,790,000 Shares, which represents approximately 35.59% of our issued and outstanding Shares, and (ii) 1315 Capital, LLC (“1315 Capital”), which beneficially owns, directly and indirectly, or exercises control or direction over 6,310,400 Shares, which represents approximately 10.80% of our issued and outstanding Shares.

 

Each of Greybrook Health and 1315 Capital has advised Greenbrook that it intends to vote FOR the election of directors to the Board and the appointment of the auditors and authorizing the directors to set the auditors’ remuneration.

 

How to Vote

 

Registered Shareholder Voting

 

You are a registered shareholder (“Registered Shareholder”) if your name appears on your Share certificate or on the register maintained by our transfer agent, Computershare Investor Services Inc. Your proxy form indicates if you are a registered shareholder. If you are a Registered Shareholder, you may vote by proxy in advance of the Meeting. See below for details on each voting option.

 

Voting by Proxy

 

Registered Shareholders have four options to vote by proxy:

 

By Mail

 

Complete, date and sign the enclosed form of proxy and return it to our transfer agent, Computershare Investor Services Inc., in the envelope provided so that it arrives no later than 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on June 25, 2020. This will ensure your vote is recorded.

 

By Telephone (only available to Registered Shareholders resident in Canada or the United States)

 

Call 1-866-732-8683 and follow the instructions. You will need your 15-digit control number (located on the front of the form of proxy) to identify yourself to the system. If you are voting by telephone, all required information must be entered by 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on June 25, 2020. If you vote by telephone, you cannot appoint anyone other than the directors named on your proxy form as your proxyholder.

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On the Internet in advance of the Meeting

 

Go to www.investorvote.com and follow the instructions on screen. You will need your 15-digit control number (located on the front of the form of proxy) to identify yourself to the system. If you are voting through the internet, all required information must be entered by 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on June 25, 2020.

 

By Fax

 

Complete, date and sign the enclosed form of proxy and return it by fax to 1-866-249-7775, so that it arrives no later than 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on June 25, 2020.

 

Signing the enclosed form of proxy gives authority to Elias Vamvakas or Bill Leonard, each of whom is a director of Greenbrook, to vote your Shares at the Meeting. You may appoint someone other than the above-named directors to vote your Shares by writing the name of the person that you wish to appoint, who need not be a Shareholder, in the blank space provided on the form of proxy. It is important to ensure that any other person you appoint is aware that he or she has been appointed to vote your Shares.

 

The persons named on the form of proxy must vote or withhold from voting your Shares in accordance with your directions. In the absence of such directions, proxies received by management will be voted in favor of the election of directors to the Board and the appointment of the auditors and authorizing the directors to set the auditors’ remuneration.

 

The persons named in the form of proxy will have discretionary authority with respect to amendments or variations to matters identified in the Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders and with respect to other matters which may properly come before the Meeting.

 

As of the date of this Circular, management of Greenbrook knows of no such amendment, variation or other matter expected to come before the Meeting. If any other matters properly come before the Meeting, the person named in your form of proxy will vote on them in accordance with their best judgment.

 

Revoking Your Proxy

 

If you are a Registered Shareholder and wish to revoke your proxy, you may revoke a vote you made by proxy by:

 

voting again on the internet before 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on June 25, 2020;

 

completing a proxy form that is dated later than the proxy form you are changing and mailing it to Computershare Investor Services Inc. so that it is received at the address indicated before 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on June 25, 2020; or

 

making a request in writing stating that you wish to revoke your proxy, before any vote in respect of which the proxy has been given or taken. The written request can be from you or your authorized attorney. This statement must be deposited at the registered office of Computershare Investor Services Inc. at the address listed below no later than 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on July 22, 2020, or two business days immediately preceding any adjournment or postponement of the Meeting, or delivered in any other manner provided by law.

 

Computershare Investor Services Inc.
100 University Avenue
8th Floor, North Tower
Toronto, Ontario
M5J 2Y1 Canada

 

Non-Registered or Beneficial Shareholder Voting

 

Information in this section is very important to non-registered or beneficial owners of Shares. You are a non-registered or beneficial owner if your Shares are held in the name of an intermediary such as a bank, trust company, securities broker, depository (such as CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc.) or other intermediary (“Beneficial Shareholder”). Applicable Canadian securities laws require intermediaries to seek voting instructions from Beneficial Shareholders. Accordingly, you will have received from your intermediary a voting instruction form for the number of Shares you hold.

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Voting Instruction

 

Beneficial Shareholders are encouraged to vote their Shares in advance of the Meeting. You can do so by following the instructions on the voting instruction form provided by your intermediary.

 

Each intermediary has its own procedures, which should be carefully followed to ensure that your Shares are voted at the Meeting. The persons named on the voting instruction form must vote for or withhold from voting your Shares in accordance with your directions. In the absence of such directions, voting instruction forms received will be voted in favor of the election of directors to the Board and the appointment of the auditors and authorizing the directors to set the auditors’ remuneration.

 

The persons named in the voting instruction form you receive will have discretionary authority with respect to amendments or variations to matters identified in the Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders and with respect to other matters which may properly come before the Meeting.

 

If you are a Beneficial Shareholder and have not received a package containing a voting instruction form or form of proxy, please contact your intermediary.

 

As of the date of this Circular, management of Greenbrook knows of no such amendment, variation or other matter expected to come before the Meeting. If any other matters properly come before the Meeting, the persons named in the voting instruction form will vote on them in accordance with their best judgment.

 

Revoking Your Voting Instruction

 

If you are a Beneficial Shareholder and wish to revoke your voting instructions, please contact your intermediary well in advance of the Meeting.

 

Delivery of Proxy-Related Materials

 

Proxy-related materials will be sent by Greenbrook to the intermediaries and not directly to Beneficial Shareholders. Greenbrook intends to pay for intermediaries to deliver proxy-related materials and Form 54-101F7 (request for voting instructions) to “objecting beneficial owners”.

 

Additional Voting Information

 

Our transfer agent, Computershare Investor Services Inc., counts and tabulates the votes.

 

For general Shareholder enquiries, you can contact the transfer agent:

 

by mail at:

 

Computershare Investor Services Inc.
100 University Avenue
8th Floor, North Tower
Toronto, Ontario M5J 2Y1
Canada

 

by telephone - within Canada and the United States at 1-800-564-6253, and from all other countries at 1-416-263-9200;

 

by fax at 1-888-453-0330; or

 

by e-mail at service@computershare.com.

 

How to Attend and Participate at the Meeting

 

In order to attend the Meeting, Registered Shareholders, duly appointed proxyholders (including Beneficial Shareholders who have duly appointed themselves as proxyholder) and guests (including Beneficial Shareholders who have not duly appointed themselves as proxyholder) must log in to access the webcast or teleconference as set out below:

 

Toll Free North America: (866) 521-4909
     
International: (647) 427-2311

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  Webcast: For more information or to listen to the call via webcast, please visit: www.greenbrooktms.com/investors/events.htm

 

Shareholders will be able to submit questions following the conclusion of the formal business of the Meeting through the live audio webcast or teleconference platform by following the instructions provided during the Meeting.

 

As in-person attendance at the Meeting will not be possible, shareholders should not appoint a proxyholder, other than the proxyholders named in the proxy form or voting instruction form, to participate and vote on their behalf at the Meeting.

 

Greenbrook believes that the ability to participate in the Meeting in a meaningful way remains important despite the decision to hold this year’s Meeting through electronic means. Shareholders will have substantially the same opportunity to submit questions on matters of business at the Meeting as in past years when the annual shareholders meeting was held in person.

 

For those that plan on accessing the live audio webcast or teleconference, please allow ample time prior to the Meeting. The Meeting will begin promptly at 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on Monday, June 29, 2020, unless otherwise adjourned or postponed.

 

ABOUT GREENBROOK

 

 

 

Operating through 124 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 420,000 TMS treatments to over 11,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

 

 

 

General

 

The Articles provide that the Board shall consist of a minimum of three (3) and a maximum of fifteen (15) directors. The Board determines the number of directors to be elected at a meeting of Shareholders. The Board has determined that, at the present time, there will be eight (8) directors, each of whom is to be elected at this Meeting and who will hold office until the end of the next annual meeting of Shareholders or until their successors are elected or appointed.

 

The director biographies on pages 7 to 11 of this Circular describe the directors who are proposed for election, along with their ownership of securities of the Company.

 

All nominees have established their eligibility and willingness to serve as directors. Five of the eight nominees are independent within the meaning of applicable securities laws. All nominees are currently directors of Greenbrook. Management does not believe that any of the nominees will be unable to serve as a director, but if that should occur for any reason prior to the Meeting, the persons named in the accompanying form of proxy (or voting instruction form) may vote for another nominee at their discretion. Each director shall hold office until the next annual meeting of Shareholders or until the director resigns or a successor is elected or appointed.

 

Advance Notice Provisions

 

We have included certain advance notice provisions with respect to the election of our directors in our by-laws (the “Advance Notice Provisions”). The Advance Notice Provisions are intended to: (a) facilitate orderly and efficient annual general meetings or, where the need arises, special meetings of our Shareholders; (b) ensure that all Shareholders receive adequate notice of Board nominations and sufficient information with respect to all nominees; and (c) allow Shareholders to register an informed vote. Only persons who are nominated by Shareholders in accordance with the Advance Notice Provisions will be eligible for election as directors at any annual meeting of Shareholders, or at any special meeting of Shareholders if one of the purposes for which the special meeting was called was the election of directors.

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Under the Advance Notice Provisions, a Shareholder wishing to nominate a director would be required to provide us notice, in the prescribed form, within the prescribed time periods. These time periods include (a) in the case of an annual meeting of Shareholders (including annual and special meetings), not less than 30 days prior to the date of the annual meeting of Shareholders; provided that, if the first public announcement of the date of the annual meeting of Shareholders (the “Notice Date”) is less than 50 days before the meeting date, not later than the close of business on the 10th day following the Notice Date and (b) in the case of a special meeting (which is not also an annual meeting) of Shareholders called for any purpose which includes electing directors, not later than the close of business on the 15th day following the Notice Date, provided that, in either instance, if notice-and-access (as defined in National Instrument 54-101 – Communication with Beneficial Owners of Securities of a Reporting Issuer) is used for delivery of proxy related materials in respect of a meeting described above, and the Notice Date in respect of the meeting is not less than 50 days prior to the date of the applicable meeting, the notice must be received not later than the close of business on the 40th day before the applicable meeting.

 

A copy of our by-laws are available under the Company’s profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

 

Individual and Majority Voting Policy

 

The Board believes that each of its members should carry the confidence and support of our Shareholders. To this end, the Board has adopted an individual and majority voting policy that requires that Shareholders be able to vote in favor of, or withhold from voting, separately for each nominee for director and that, in an uncontested election of directors, any nominee for director who receives a greater number of votes “withheld” from his or her election than votes “for” such election must immediately tender his or her resignation to the Chair of the Board following the applicable meeting or, if the affected director is the Chair, to each member of the GCN Committee. Any resignation received by the Chair of the Board will be promptly referred to the GCN Committee for consideration. An “uncontested election” means an election where the number of nominees for directors is equal to the number of directors to be elected.

 

The GCN Committee will, promptly following the resignation but in any event within 30 days of the applicable Shareholders’ meeting, consider the offer of resignation and will recommend to the Board whether or not to accept it. The GCN Committee will recommend that the Board accept the resignation absent exceptional circumstances that would warrant the applicable director to continue to serve on the Board.

 

The Board will act on the GCN Committee’s recommendation promptly following its receipt thereof and, in any event, within 90 days of the applicable Shareholders’ meeting. The Board will accept the GCN Committee’s recommendation absent exceptional circumstances. If a resignation is accepted, the Board may, subject to applicable law and our Articles, appoint a new director to fill any vacancy created by the resignation, reduce the size of the Board or call a meeting of Shareholders to appoint a replacement. A resignation will be effective upon its acceptance by the Board. We will promptly issue a news release with the Board’s decision. If the Board determines not to accept a resignation, the news release will fully state the reasons for that decision.

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Director Nominee Biographies

 

BRIAN P. BURKE(1)     Independent

Ontario, Canada

Director since:

October 2018

Age: 64

Principal Occupation:

Mr. Burke is currently a studio analyst at Rogers Sportsnet, a Canadian television sports network, a position he has held since May 2018.

Other Activities:

Following graduation from Harvard Law School in 1981, Mr. Burke practiced corporate and securities law, with a focus on professional athletes and teams. Mr. Burke has been the president and/or general manager of several hockey organizations, including the Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, Anaheim Ducks, Vancouver Canucks and the Hartford Whalers during the period from 1992 to 2018. Mr. Burke previously served as a member of the boards of directors of the Sports Lawyers Association, Canuck Place Children’s Hospice Foundation and Rugby Canada. Mr. Burke is also a member, and served on the selection committee of, the Hockey Hall of Fame. Mr. Burke received a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and a bachelor’s degree in history from Providence College.

 

Public Board Memberships During Last Five Years:

None

Public Board Interlocks:

None

 

Committees:

GCN Committee (Chair)

Meetings Attended in Fiscal 2019:

Board Meetings - 3 of 4 (75%)
GCN Committee Meetings - 1 of 1 (100%)

Share Ownership
Shares Owned or Controlled Options(5)
Nil 60,000

 

COLLEEN CAMPBELL(1)     Lead Independent Director

 

Ontario, Canada

Director since:

September 2018

Age: 62

Principal Occupation:

Ms. Campbell is currently the vice-chair of BMO Capital Markets, the investment and corporate banking arm of the Bank of Montreal (“BMO”), a position she has held since 2012.

Other Activities:

Ms. Campbell has over 38 years of experience in the investment banking industry serving in various roles since joining in 1997, including 15 years in debt capital markets and ultimately as global head of BMO’s debt capital markets group. Ms. Campbell is currently chair of BMO Capital Markets Real Estate Inc., chair of the Investment Committee for the Merchant Bank Real Estate Private Equity Fund and co-chair of the Investment Bank’s Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee. Ms. Campbell holds an Honors Business Administration degree from Richard Ivey School of Business.

 

Public Board Memberships During Last Five Years:

None

Public Board Interlocks:

None

 

Committees:

Audit Committee (Chair)

Meetings Attended in Fiscal 2019:

Board Meetings - 4 of 4 (100%)
Audit Committee Meetings - 4 of 4 (100%)

Share Ownership
Shares Owned or Controlled Options(5)
25,000 60,000

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SASHA CUCUZ(1)     Not Independent(2)

Ontario, Canada

Director since:

September 2018

 

Age: 42

Principal Occupation:

Mr. Cucuz is currently the chief executive officer of Greybrook Securities Inc. (“Greybrook Securities”), a Toronto-based corporate finance and investment banking firm, a position he has held since 2005.

Other Activities:

Mr. Cucuz is an experienced private equity professional with over 10 years of transaction experience. In his capacity as chief executive officer of Greybrook Securities, Mr. Cucuz directs Greybrook Securities’ capital markets activities across the firm’s focus areas in real estate and healthcare. Mr. Cucuz also serves as co-chair of Greybrook Securities’ Investment and Project Advisory Committees where he is part of the team that is responsible for approving new investments and overseeing all active limited partnerships which include more than 70 real estate developments with an estimated completion value of over $15 billion. Prior to his role as chief executive officer of Greybrook Securities, Mr. Cucuz served as the chief executive officer of Greybrook Health and currently serves on its board of directors. Mr. Cucuz spent the early part of his career at CIBC Securities and TD Securities Inc. and also played three seasons of professional hockey. Mr. Cucuz holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from York University. In terms of charitable organizations, Sasha serves on the boards of the Greybrook Foundation and the Blu Genes Foundation. 

 

Public Board Memberships During Last Five Years:

None

Public Board Interlocks:

None

 

Committees:

None

Meetings Attended in Fiscal 2019:

Board Meetings - 4 of 4 (100%)

Share Ownership
Shares Owned or Controlled Options(5)
Nil 50,000

 

ADRIENNE GRAVES, Ph.D.(1)     Independent

North Carolina, USA

Director since:

October 2018

Age: 66

Principal Occupation:

Dr. Graves is currently a corporate director.

Other Activities:

Dr. Graves is a neuroscientist by training and a global leader in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Dr. Graves held multiple positions at Santen Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of a 130 year old Japanese pharmaceutical company, over a 15 year period, including as the president and chief executive officer from 2002 to 2010. In this role, Dr. Graves successfully established Santen Inc.’s strong global presence, brought multiple products through preclinical and clinical development to approval and commercialization, and led global teams through successful acquisitions and partnerships. Prior to joining Santen Inc., Dr. Graves spent 9 years at Alcon Laboratories, Inc., beginning in 1986 as a Senior Scientist, where she progressed through various roles including director of international ophthalmology. Dr. Graves currently serves as an independent director on the boards of Akorn, Inc., IVERIC bio, Inc., Nicox S.A., Oxurion NV, Qlaris Bio, Inc., TherOptix, Inc. and Surface Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Graves also serves on the boards of the following foundations: ASCRS (American Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery), FFB (Foundation Fighting Blindness), GRF (Glaucoma Research Foundation), HCP (Himalayan Cataract Project), and Retina Global. Dr. Graves holds a bachelor of arts degree in psychology with honors from Brown University, a Ph.D. in psychobiology from the University of Michigan, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in visual neuroscience at the University of Paris.

 

Public Board Memberships During Last Five Years:

Akorn, Inc.
IVERIC bio, Inc.

Nicox S.A.
Oxurion NV

TearLab Corporation

(2012 to Present)
(2018 to Present)

(2014 to Present)
(2018 to Present)

(2005 to 2018)

Public Board Interlocks:

None

 

Committees:

Audit Committee
GCN Committee

Meetings Attended in Fiscal 2019:

Board Meetings - 4 of 4 (100%)
Audit Committee Meetings - 4 of 4 (100%)
GCN Committee Meetings – 1 of 1 (100%)

Share Ownership
Shares Owned or Controlled Options(5)
Nil 50,000

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BILL LEONARD(1)   Not Independent(3)

Maryland, USA

Director since:

February 2018

Age: 55

Principal Occupation:

Mr. Leonard is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and its predecessor, TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc., a position he has held since 2011.

Other Activities:

For more than 20 years, Mr. Leonard has provided operational and strategic leadership in the development of medical devices, pharmaceuticals and healthcare services. Mr. Leonard previously served as president of Leonard Consulting LLC from 2008 to 2011, and president of the Bio-Pharmaceutical Division of Euclid Vision Corporation from November 2007 to December 2010 where he developed FDA strategy for an ophthalmic drop that was successfully approved to undergo clinical trials. Mr. Leonard also served as president of the Refractive Surgery Division of TLC Vision Corporation (“TLC”) from July 2004 to March 2007, where he piloted a comprehensive business strategy and leadership generating over $200 million in revenue with 900 employees and a client base of 13,000 eye care professionals. Mr. Leonard holds a business administration degree from Towson University.

 

Public Board Memberships During Last Five Years:

None

Public Board Interlocks:

None

 

Committees:

None

Meetings Attended in Fiscal 2019:

Board Meetings - 4 of 4 (100%)

Share Ownership
Shares Owned or Controlled Options(5)
4,162,500 50,000
         
ADELE C. OLIVA(1)   Independent

Pennsylvania, USA

Director since:

June 2019

Age: 54

Principal Occupation:

Ms. Oliva is currently the Founding Partner of 1315 Capital, a Philadelphia-based firm that manages over $500 million and provides expansion and growth capital to commercial-stage medical technology, healthcare service, and specialty therapeutic companies, a position she has held since 2014. She was recruited to Quaker Partners in 2007 to expand their growth stage investing practice.

Other Activities:

Ms. Oliva has been a healthcare investor for over 20 years and focuses on commercial stage medical technology, healthcare service, and specialty therapeutic investments. Ms. Oliva co-founded 1315 Capital in 2014 to establish a firm focused on healthcare growth investing and the firm has since raised two funds and has over $500 million under management. Prior to 1315 Capital and Quaker Partners, Ms. Oliva was Co-Head of US Healthcare at Apax Partners, where she started in 1997. Ms. Oliva was also in business development and marketing at Baxter International. Ms. Oliva received a bachelor of science degree from St. Joseph’s University and a master of business administration degree from Cornell University.

 

Public Board Memberships During Last Five Years:

TELA Bio Inc. (2019 to Present)

Public Board Interlocks:

None

 

Committees:

GCN Committee

Meetings Attended in Fiscal 2019:

Board Meetings - 2 of 2 (100%)

GCN Committee Meetings – N/A(7)

Share Ownership
Shares Owned or Controlled Options(5)
Nil(8) 25,000
         

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FRANK TWORECKE(1)   Independent

 

Maryland, USA

Director since:

October 2018

Age: 73

Principal Occupation:

Mr. Tworecke is currently a corporate director.

Other Activities:

Mr. Tworecke has more than 35 years of experience in leading major retail and apparel companies. Prior to his retirement in December 2012, Mr. Tworecke acted as group president of Sportswear of Warnaco Group Inc. from 2004 to 2012 where he served as the head of the Calvin Klein jeans brand worldwide and Chaps® units. Prior to this role, Mr. Tworecke served as the president of Cignal Division at Merry-Go-Round Enterprises, Inc., president and chief executive officer of Bon-Ton Stores Inc. and chief operating officer of Jos. A. Bank Clothiers. Mr. Tworecke also served on the boards of directors of Cherokee Inc., Hampshire Group Limited, Grafton-Fraser Inc. and Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. Mr. Tworecke holds a bachelor of science degree from Cornell University and a master of business administration degree from Syracuse University. Mr. Tworecke was also a member of the Business Advisory Council of the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University.

 

Public Board Memberships During Last Five Years:

None

Public Board Interlocks:

None

 

Committees:

Audit Committee
GCN Committee

Meetings Attended in Fiscal 2019:

Board Meetings - 4 of 4 (100%)
Audit Committee Meetings - 4 of 4 (100%)
GCN Committee Meetings - 1 of 1 (100%)

Share Ownership
Shares Owned or Controlled Options(5)
200,000 50,000
         
ELIAS VAMVAKAS(1)   Not Independent(4)

 

Ontario, Canada

Chairman since:

February 2018

Age: 61 

Principal Occupation:

Mr. Vamvakas is currently the founder, chairman and CEO of Greybrook Capital Inc. (“Greybrook Capital”), a private equity firm focused on healthcare and real estate, a position he has held since 2007.

Other Activities:

Mr. Vamvakas is also the chairman of TearLab Corporation, a position he has held since 1996. Prior to joining Greybrook Capital and TearLab Corporation, Mr. Vamvakas co-founded TLC where he served as president and chief executive officer from 1994 to 2004. During this period, Mr. Vamvakas built TLC into the largest eye care service provider organization in North America with revenues of more than $300 million as TLC opened or acquired more than 100 laser eye clinics, over 200 mobile laser sites, more than 250 mobile cataract stations and several ambulatory surgery centres. Through TLC’s subsidiary, Vision Source Inc., TLC also developed the largest independent optometric franchise with more than 2,000 locations. Mr. Vamvakas holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Toronto.

 

  Public Board Memberships During Last Five Years:
  TearLab Corporation (1996 to Present)  
  The Caldwell Partners International Inc. (2019 to Present)  
 

Public Board Interlocks:

None

 
 

Committees:

None

Meetings Attended in Fiscal 2019:

Board Meetings - 4 of 4 (100%)

Share Ownership
Shares Owned or Controlled Options(5)
Nil(6) 100,000
         

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Notes:

 

(1) Except as hereinafter described, none of the director nominees of Greenbrook, as at the date of this Circular, is or has been within the 10 years before the date of this Circular, (a) a director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer of any company that was subject to an order (as defined below) that was issued while the existing or proposed director or executive officer was acting in the capacity as director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer, (b) was subject to an order that was issued after the existing or proposed director or executive officer ceased to be a director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer and which resulted from an event that occurred while that person was acting in the capacity as director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer, or (c) a director or executive officer of any company that, while that person was acting in that capacity, or within a year of that person ceasing to act in that capacity, became bankrupt, made a proposal under any legislation relating to bankruptcy or insolvency or was subject to or instituted any proceedings, arrangement or compromise with creditors or had a receiver, receiver manager or trustee appointed to hold its assets. For the purposes of this paragraph, “order” means a cease trade order, an order similar to a cease trade order or an order that denied the relevant company access to any exemption under securities legislation, in each case, that was in effect for a period of more than 30 consecutive days.

 

No director nominee has, within 10 years before the date of this Circular, become bankrupt, made a proposal under any legislation relating to bankruptcy or insolvency or has been subject to or instituted any proceedings, arrangement or compromise with creditors, or had a receiver, receiver manager or trustee appointed to hold the assets of the director, executive officer or shareholder.

 

No director nominee has been subject to: (i) any penalties or sanctions imposed by a court relating to securities legislation or by a securities regulatory authority, or has entered into a settlement agreement with a securities regulatory authority; or (ii) any other penalties or sanctions imposed by a court or regulatory body that would be likely to be considered important to a reasonable investor in deciding whether to vote for a nominee.

 

Ms. Oliva was a member of the board of directors of NovaSom, Inc. (“NovaSom”) from September 15, 2009 to September 26, 2019. In August 2019, NovaSom filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States. The directors and officers of NovaSom remained involved with the company during the Chapter 11 proceedings in order to facilitate the sale of the company. NovaSom’s assets were sold on September 27, 2019 and the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings were dismissed on October 31, 2019.

 

(2) Mr. Cucuz is considered a non-independent director as a result of the fact that he serves on the board of directors of Greybrook Health, a significant shareholder of the Company, and is an employee of Greybrook Securities.

 

(3) Mr. Leonard is considered a non-independent director as he is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Greenbrook.

 

(4) Mr. Vamvakas is considered a non-independent director by reason of the fact that he serves as the chairman of Greybrook Capital, the controlling shareholder of Greybrook Health.

 

(5) For additional information regarding stock option (“Options”) held by directors, see “Director Compensation” below.

 

(6) Mr. Vamvakas, chairman of the Company, is the chairman and founder of Greybrook Capital, the parent company of Greybrook Health. Mr. Vamvakas disclaims beneficial ownership of the 20,790,000 Shares held by Greybrook Health.

 

(7) Ms. Oliva was appointed to the GCN Committee on November 4, 2019. There were no meetings of the GCN Committee held between November 4, 2019 and December 31, 2019.

 

(8) Ms. Oliva does not own or exercise control or direction over, directly or indirectly, the 6,310,400 Shares held by an affiliate of 1315 Capital.

 

Board and Committee Attendance

 

The following table provides a summary of each director’s attendance at Board and Committee meetings in Fiscal 2019:

 

Name

 

Board

 

Audit Committee

 

GCN Committee

 

Overall Attendance

Brian P. Burke   3 of 4 (100%)     1 of 1 (100%)   4 of 5   80%
Colleen Campbell   4 of 4 (100%)   4 of 4 (100%)     8 of 8   100%
Sasha Cucuz   4 of 4 (100%)       4 of 4   100%
Adrienne Graves   4 of 4 (100%)   4 of 4 (100%)   1 of 1 (100%)   9 of 9   100%
Bill Leonard   4 of 4 (100%)       4 of 4   100%
Adele C. Oliva(1)   2 of 2 (100%)       2 of 2   100%
Frank Tworecke   4 of 4 (100%)   4 of 4 (100%)   1 of 1 (100%)   9 of 9   100%
Elias Vamvakas   4 of 4 (100%)       4 of 4   100%
TOTAL   97%   100%   100%     98%

 

 

Note:

 

(1) Ms. Oliva was elected to the Board on June 28, 2019 and was appointed to the GCN Committee on November 4, 2019. Accordingly, Board and committee attendance in the above table reflects Ms. Oliva’s attendance from June 28, 2019 to December 31, 2019.

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OUR APPROACH TO CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

 

 

 

General

 

We recognize that good corporate governance plays an important role in our overall success and in enhancing shareholder value. The disclosure set out below describes our approach to corporate governance.

 

The Role of the Board

 

Our Board is responsible for supervising the management of our business and affairs, including providing guidance and strategic oversight to management. Our Board has adopted a formal mandate in the form set forth in Appendix A that includes the following:

 

appointing the President and Chief Executive Officer;

 

appointment, evaluation and development of senior management and succession planning;

 

approving the corporate goals and objectives that the President and Chief Executive Officer is responsible for meeting and reviewing the performance of the President and Chief Executive Officer against such corporate goals and objectives;

 

taking steps to satisfy itself as to the integrity of the President and Chief Executive Officer and other senior executive officers and that the President and Chief Executive Officer and other senior executive officers create a culture of integrity throughout the organization; and

 

reviewing and approving management’s strategic and business plans.

 

Our Board has adopted a written position description for the Chair of the Board, which sets out the Chair’s key responsibilities, including, among others, duties relating to setting Board meeting agendas, chairing Board and Shareholder meetings, director development and communicating with Shareholders and regulators. Our Board has also adopted a written position description for our lead director. See “– Meetings of Independent Directors and Conflicts of Interest”.

 

Our Board has adopted a written position description for each of our committee chairs which sets out each of the committee chair’s key responsibilities, including, among others, duties relating to setting committee meeting agendas, chairing committee meetings and working with the respective committee and management to ensure, to the greatest extent possible, the effective functioning of the committee.

 

Our Board has adopted a written position description for our President and Chief Executive Officer which sets out the key responsibilities of our President and Chief Executive Officer, including, among other duties in relation to providing overall leadership, ensuring the development of a strategic plan and recommending such plan to our Board for consideration, ensuring the development of an annual corporate plan and budget that supports the strategic plan and recommending such plan to our Board for consideration, supervising day-to-day management and communicating with Shareholders and regulators.

 

Corporate Governance Policies and Practices

 

Greenbrook is committed to strong corporate governance policies and practices. Our policies and practices continue to be developed having regard to the external environment and externally cited best practices to ensure that our governance practices are comprehensive, relevant, effective and transparent. We have adopted the following corporate governance policies to date, certain of which are available on our website at www.greenbrooktms.com:

 

Code of Conduct;

Corporate Governance Guidelines;

Disclosure Policy;

Insider Trading Policy;

Majority Voting Policy; and

Whistleblower Policy.

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Composition of our Board and Board Committees

 

Under our Articles, our Board is to consist of a minimum of three (3) and a maximum of fifteen (15) directors as determined from time to time by the directors. Our Board currently consists of eight (8) directors, the majority of whom are considered to be independent under Canadian securities laws and all but four of whom are resident Canadians. Under the OBCA, a director may be removed with or without cause by a resolution passed by an ordinary majority of the votes cast by our Shareholders present in person or by proxy at a meeting of our Shareholders and who are entitled to vote. The directors will be elected by our Shareholders at each annual meeting of our Shareholders, and all directors will hold office for a term expiring at the close of the next annual meeting or until their respective successors are elected or appointed.

 

The nominees for election by our Shareholders as directors will be determined by the GCN Committee in accordance with the provisions of applicable corporate law and the charter of the GCN Committee. See also “– Committees of our Board – Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee”.

 

Director Independence

 

Under National Instrument 58-101 – Disclosure of Corporate Governance Practices, a director is considered to be independent if he or she is independent within the meaning of National Instrument 52-110 – Audit Committees (“NI 52-110”). Pursuant to NI 52-110, an independent director is a director who is free from any direct or indirect relationship which could, in the view of our Board, be reasonably expected to interfere with a director’s independent judgment. Based on information provided by each director concerning his or her background, employment and affiliations, our Board has determined that, of the eight directors nominated for election to our Board, Bill Leonard, Sasha Cucuz and Elias Vamvakas are not considered to be “independent” within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Mr. Leonard is considered not independent by reason of the fact that he is our President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Cucuz is considered not independent as a result of the fact that he serves on the board of directors of Greybrook Health, a significant shareholder of the Company, and is an employee of Greybrook Securities. Mr. Vamvakas is considered not independent by reason of the fact that he serves as the chairman of Greybrook Capital, the controlling shareholder of Greybrook Health. Certain members of our Board are also members of the board of directors of other public companies (see “Election of Directors – Director Nominee Biographies”). Our Board has not adopted a director interlock policy, but is keeping informed of other public directorships held by its members.

 

Meetings of Independent Directors and Conflicts of Interest

 

Our Board believes that given its size and structure, including the fact that a majority of our directors are independent, it is able to facilitate independent judgment in carrying out its responsibilities. To enhance such independent judgment, the independent members of the Board hold in-camera meetings with members of management and the non-independent directors not in attendance, as part of regularly scheduled Board meetings. Open and candid discussion among the independent directors is facilitated by the relatively small size of the Board and great weight is attributed to the views and opinions of the independent directors. Our Board has not appointed an independent Chair; however, Colleen Campbell has been appointed as lead director by our Board and is responsible for ensuring that the directors who are independent of management have opportunities to meet without management present, as required. The lead director shall be appointed and replaced from time to time by the Board. Discussions are led by the lead director who provides feedback subsequently to the Chair.

 

A director who has a material interest in a matter before our Board or any committee on which he or she serves is required to disclose such interest as soon as the director becomes aware of it. In situations where a director has a material interest in a matter to be considered by our Board or any committee on which he or she serves, such director may be required to absent himself or herself from the meeting while discussions and voting with respect to the matter are taking place. Directors are also required to comply with the relevant provisions of the OBCA regarding conflicts of interest.

 

As at the date hereof, no existing or potential material conflicts of interest exist between the Company or a subsidiary of the Company and a director or officer of the Company or a subsidiary of the Company.

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Committees of our Board

 

Our Board has established two committees: the Audit Committee and the GCN Committee. All members of the Audit Committee and the GCN Committee are persons determined by our Board to be independent directors.

 

Audit Committee

 

Our Audit Committee consists of three (3) directors, each of whom are persons determined by our Board to be both independent directors and financially literate, each within the meaning of NI 52-110. Our Audit Committee is currently comprised of:

 

Colleen Campbell (Chair);

 

Adrienne Graves; and

 

Frank Tworecke.

 

Each of our Audit Committee members has an understanding of the accounting principles used to prepare financial statements and varied experience as to the general application of such accounting principles, as well as an understanding of the internal controls and procedures necessary for financial reporting. For additional details regarding the relevant education and experience of each member of our Audit Committee, see “Election of Directors – Director Nominee Biographies”.

 

Our Board has adopted a written charter for the Audit Committee that sets out the purpose, composition, authority and responsibility of our Audit Committee, consistent with NI 52-110. The Audit Committee assists our Board in discharging its oversight of:

 

the quality and integrity of our financial statements and related information;

 

the independence, qualifications and appointment of our external auditor;

 

our disclosure controls and procedures, internal control over financial reporting and management’s responsibility for assessing and reporting on the effectiveness of such controls;

 

our risk management processes;

 

monitoring and periodically reviewing our whistleblower policy; and

 

transactions with our related parties.

 

Our Audit Committee has access to all of our books, records, facilities and personnel and may request any information about us as it may deem appropriate. It also has the authority, in its sole discretion and at our expense, to retain and set the compensation of outside legal, accounting or other advisors as necessary to assist in the performance of its duties and responsibilities. Our Audit Committee also has direct communication channels with the Chief Financial Officer and our external auditors to discuss and review such issues as our Audit Committee may deem appropriate.

 

Additional information about our Audit Committee, as required by NI 52-110, is in our annual information form, which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

 

External Auditor Service Fee

 

We incurred the following fees by our external auditor, KPMG LLP, during the periods provided below:

 

    Year Ended
December 31, 2019
    Year Ended
December 31, 2018
 
Audit fees(1)   $ 286,142     $ 157,214  
Audit-related fees(2)   $ 456,096     $ 244,078  
Tax fees(3)   $ 165,850     $ 158,360  
All other fees   $     $  
Total fees paid   $ 908,088     $ 559,652  

 

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Notes:

 

(1) Fees for audit services and quarterly interim review, in each case on an accrued basis.

 

(2) Fees related to the acquisition of Achieve TMS Centers, LLC and Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC and implementation of revised policies as a result of new accounting standards.

 

(3) Tax fees include tax compliance fees associated with the filing of tax returns.

 

The Audit Committee charter provides that the Audit Committee must pre-approve the retaining of the auditors for any non-audit service. The Audit Committee may delegate to one or more members the authority to pre-approve the retaining of the auditors for any non-audit service to the extent permitted by law, but pre-approval by such member or members so delegated must be presented to the full Audit Committee at its first scheduled meeting following such pre-approval.

 

Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee

 

Our GCN Committee is comprised of four (4) directors, each of whom has been determined by our Board to be independent directors, and is charged with reviewing, overseeing and evaluating our corporate governance, compensation and nominating policies. Our GCN Committee is currently comprised of:

 

Brian P. Burke (Chair);

 

Adrienne Graves;

 

Adele C. Oliva; and

 

Frank Tworecke

 

No member of our GCN Committee is an officer of Greenbrook, and as such, our Board believes that the GCN Committee is able to conduct its activities in an objective manner.

 

Our Board believes that the members of the GCN Committee individually and collectively possess the requisite knowledge, skill and experience in governance and compensation matters, including human resource management, executive compensation matters and general business leadership, to fulfill the GCN Committee’s mandate. All members of the GCN Committee have substantial knowledge and experience as current and former senior executives of large and complex organizations. For additional details regarding the relevant education and experience of each member of our GCN Committee, including the direct experience that is relevant to each committee member’s responsibilities in executive compensation, see “Election of Directors – Director Nominee Biographies”.

 

Our Board has adopted a written charter for the GCN Committee that sets forth the purpose, composition, authority and responsibility of our GCN Committee. Our GCN Committee’s purpose is to assist our Board in:

 

the appointment, performance, evaluation and compensation of our senior executives;

 

the recruitment, development and retention of our senior executives;

 

maintaining talent management and succession planning systems and processes relating to our senior management;

 

developing a compensation structure for our senior executives including salaries, annual and long-term incentive plans including plans involving share issuances and other share-based awards;

 

establishing policies and procedures designed to identify and mitigate risks associated with our compensation policies and practices;

 

assessing the compensation of our directors;

 

developing benefit, retirement and savings plans;

 

developing our corporate governance guidelines and principles and providing us with governance leadership;

 

identifying and overseeing the recruitment of candidates qualified to be nominated as members of our Board;

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reviewing the structure, composition and mandate of Board committees; and

 

evaluating the performance and effectiveness of our Board and of our Board committees.

 

Our GCN Committee is responsible for establishing and implementing procedures to evaluate the performance and effectiveness of our Board, committees of our Board and the contributions of individual Board members. Our GCN Committee also takes reasonable steps to evaluate and assess, on an annual basis, directors’ performance and effectiveness of our Board, committees of our Board, individual Board members, our chair and committee chairs. The assessment addresses, among other things, individual director independence, individual director and overall Board skills, and individual director financial literacy. Our Board receives and considers the recommendations from our GCN Committee regarding the results of the evaluation of the performance and effectiveness of our Board, committees of our Board, individual Board members, our chair and committee chairs. In identifying new candidates for our Board, the GCN Committee will consider what competencies and skills our Board, as a whole, should possess and assess what competencies and skills each existing director possesses, considering our Board as a group, and the personality and other qualities of each director, as these may ultimately determine the boardroom dynamic. Our GCN Committee is also responsible for orientation and continuing education programs for our directors. See also “– Orientation and Continuing Education”.

 

For information on the process by which the GCN Committee and the Board determine the compensation of our directors and executive officers, see “Director Compensation” and “Executive Compensation” below.

 

Director Term Limits and Other Mechanisms of Board Renewal

 

Directors are to be elected at each annual meeting of Shareholders to hold office for a term expiring at the close of the next annual meeting, or until a successor is appointed or elected, and will be eligible for re-election. Nominees will be nominated by the GCN Committee, in each case for election by Shareholders as directors in accordance with the provisions of our constating documents and applicable corporate and securities laws. All nominees who are nominated by the GCN Committee will be included in the proxy-related materials to be sent to Shareholders prior to each annual meeting of Shareholders.

 

Our Board has not adopted director term limits or other automatic mechanisms of board renewal. The Company believes such limits and automatic mechanisms would discount the value of experience and unnecessarily deprive the Company of the contribution by directors who have developed a deep knowledge of the Company over time. Rather than adopting formal term limits, mandatory age-related retirement policies and other mechanisms of board renewal, the GCN Committee will seek to maintain the composition of our Board in a way that provides, in the judgment of our Board, the best mix of skills and experience to provide for our overall stewardship. Our GCN Committee is also expected to conduct a process for the assessment of our Board, each committee and each director regarding his, her or its effectiveness and performance, and to report evaluation results to our Board. See also “– Diversity”.

 

Orientation and Continuing Education

 

To maintain reasonable assurance that every new director engages in a comprehensive orientation process and that all directors are provided with continuing education opportunities, the GCN Committee has implemented an orientation program for new directors under which a new director will meet with the chair, the lead director, members of senior management and our corporate secretary. New directors will be provided with comprehensive orientation and education as to the nature and operation of the Company and our business, the role of our Board and its committees, and the contribution that an individual director is expected to make. The GCN Committee is responsible for overseeing director continuing education designed to maintain or enhance the skills and abilities of the directors and to ensure that their knowledge and understanding of our business remains current. The chair of each committee is responsible for coordinating orientation and continuing director development programs relating to the GCN Committee’s mandate.

 

Ethical Business Conduct

 

We have adopted a written code of conduct (the “Code of Conduct”) that applies to all of our directors, officers and employees. The objective of the Code of Conduct is to provide guidelines for maintaining our and our subsidiaries’ integrity, reputation, honesty, objectivity and impartiality. The Code of Conduct addresses conflicts of interest, protection of our assets, confidentiality, fair dealing with our Shareholders, competitors and employees, insider trading, compliance with laws and reporting any illegal or unethical behaviour. As part of the Code of Conduct, any person subject to the Code of Conduct is required to avoid or fully disclose interests or relationships that are harmful or detrimental to our best interests or that may give rise to real, potential or the appearance of conflicts of interest. Our Board has ultimate responsibility for the stewardship of the Code of Conduct and it monitors compliance through the GCN Committee. Directors, officers and employees are required to annually certify that they have not violated the Code of Conduct.

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The Code of Conduct is available on our website at www.greenbrooktms.com and on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

 

Diversity

 

We believe that having a diverse Board can offer a breadth and depth of perspectives that enhance our Board’s performance. We value diversity of abilities, experience, perspective, education, gender, background, race and national origin. Recommendations concerning director nominees are expected to be based on merit and past performance as well as expected contribution to our Board’s performance and, accordingly, diversity is taken into consideration. As of the date of this Circular, three of eight members on our Board, or approximately 38%, are female members.

 

We have recruited and selected senior management candidates that represent a diversity of business understanding, personal attributes, abilities and experience. Currently, 9 of 21 members of our senior management, or approximately 43%, are female.

 

We do not currently have a formal policy for the representation and nomination of women on our Board or our senior management, as we have been successful in recruiting and retaining qualified female directors and senior management under our existing recruitment policies and processes. We have not adopted formal targets for gender or other diversity representation in part due to the need to consider a balance of criteria for each individual appointment.

 

The composition of our Board and senior management is shaped by the selection criteria established by the GCN Committee. This is achieved by, among other things, ensuring that diversity considerations are taken into account in Board vacancies and senior management, monitoring the level of female representation on our Board and in senior management positions, continuing to broaden recruiting efforts to attract and interview qualified female candidates, and committing to retention and training to ensure that our most talented employees are promoted from within our organization.

 

Disclosure Policy

 

The Board has adopted a Disclosure Policy to deal with the timely dissemination of all material information. The Disclosure Policy, which will be reviewed annually, establishes consistent guidance for determining what information is material and how it is to be disclosed to avoid selective disclosure and to ensure wide dissemination. The Board, directly and through its committees, reviews and approves the contents of major disclosure documents, including annual and interim consolidated financial statements, prospectuses, the annual information form, management’s discussion and analysis and the management information circular. The Company seeks to communicate to its Shareholders through these documents as well as by means of news releases, its website and investor relations calls and meetings.

 

Disclosure Committee

 

A Disclosure Committee comprised of senior management of the Company oversees the Company’s disclosure process as outlined in the Disclosure Policy. The Disclosure Committee’s mandate includes ensuring that effective controls and procedures are in place to allow the Company to satisfy all of its continuous disclosure obligations, including certification requirements. The Disclosure Committee is also responsible for ensuring that the policies and procedures contained in the Disclosure Policy are in compliance with regulatory requirements. Our Audit Committee is responsible for reviewing our disclosure relating to our financial reporting.

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DIRECTOR COMPENSATION

 

 

 

General

 

The following discussion describes the significant elements of the compensation program for members of the Board and its committees. The compensation of our directors is designed to attract and retain committed and qualified directors and to align their compensation with the long-term interests of our Shareholders. Directors who are employees of the Company (each, an “Excluded Director”) are not entitled to receive any compensation for his or her service as a member of our Board.

 

Director Fees

 

Our Board, on the recommendation of the GCN Committee, is responsible for reviewing and approving any changes to the directors’ compensation arrangements. In consideration for serving on our Board, each director (other than Excluded Directors) was entitled to be compensated during Fiscal 2019 as indicated below:

 

Type of Fee       Amount  
Annual Board Retainer   Chair   $ 50,000  
    Board Member   $ 25,000  
Annual Committee Retainer   Audit Committee Chair   $ 5,000  
    Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee Chair   $ 5,000  
    Audit Committee Membership     Nil  
    Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee Membership     Nil  
Meeting Fees   Board / Committee Meeting     Nil  

 

In lieu of receiving a higher annual cash retainer, each director (other than Excluded Directors) will be granted Options under the Stock Option Plan (as defined below) each year as follows: 50,000 Options will be granted to the Chair; 25,000 Options will be granted to each director; and an additional 5,000 Options will be granted to each director who is also a Board committee chair. These options will generally vest on March 31 in the year following the grant date and will generally expire on the tenth anniversary of the grant date. For further details regarding the Stock Option Plan, see “Executive Compensation – Compensation Discussion and Analysis – Long-Term Incentive Plans”.

 

All directors are also entitled to be reimbursed for their reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred while serving as directors.

 

Directors’ Hedging Policy

 

Our insider trading policy prohibits all directors of Greenbrook from selling “short” or selling “call options” on any of our securities and from purchasing financial instruments, such as prepaid variable forward contracts, equity swaps, collars or units of exchange funds that are designed to hedge or offset a decrease in the market value of equity securities granted to such directors as compensation or of any other securities of Greenbrook held directly or indirectly by such person.

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Director Compensation Table

 

The following table sets out the compensation that was earned by, paid to, or awarded to directors (other than Excluded Directors) during Fiscal 2019 under the compensation arrangements described above. Mr. Leonard does not receive any compensation for serving as a director of Greenbrook.

 

Name Fees
Earned
Share-Based Awards Option-Based Awards Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation All Other Compensation Total
Brian P. Burke $30,000 $30,000
Colleen Campbell $30,000 $30,000
Sasha Cucuz $25,000 $25,000
Adrienne Graves $25,000 $25,000
Adele C. Oliva(1) $12,500 $12,500
Frank Tworecke $25,000 $25,000
Elias Vamvakas $50,000 $50,000
          Total: $197,500

 

Notes:

 

(1) Ms. Oliva was elected to the Board on June 28, 2019. Accordingly, compensation in the above table reflects Ms. Oliva’s compensation from June 28, 2019 to December 31, 2019.

 

Outstanding Option-Based Awards

 

The following table sets out information on the outstanding Options held by each of our directors (other than Excluded Directors) as of December 31, 2019.

 

Name Option-Based Awards
Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options Option Exercise Price Option Expiration
Date
Value of Unexercised
In-The-Money Options(1)
Brian P. Burke 30,000 $2.00 October 3, 2028 $-
Colleen Campbell 30,000 $2.00 October 3, 2028 $-
Sasha Cucuz 25,000 $2.00 October 3, 2028 $-
Adrienne Graves 25,000 $2.00 October 3, 2028 $-
Adele C. Oliva Nil
Frank Tworecke 25,000 $2.00 October 3, 2028 $-
Elias Vamvakas 50,000 $2.00 October 3, 2028 $-

 

 

Notes:

 

(1) The value of unexercised in-the-money Options is calculated based on the closing price per Share of C$1.75 on December 31, 2019, the last trading day of Fiscal 2019. The exchange rate used was the rate at December 31, 2019 of C$1.00 = $0.7699.

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Incentive Plan Awards – Value Vested or Earned During the Year

 

The following table indicates, for each of our directors (other than Excluded Directors), the value of the Option-based awards that vested in accordance with their terms during Fiscal 2019. No bonuses were paid in respect of Fiscal 2019:

 

Name Option-Based Awards –
Value Vested or Earned During
the Year(1)
Non-Equity Incentive Plan
Compensation – Value
Earned During the Year
Brian P. Burke
Colleen Campbell
Sasha Cucuz
Adrienne Graves
Adele C. Oliva
Frank Tworecke
Elias Vamvakas

 

 

Notes:

 

(1) The value of Options vested is calculated based on the closing price of the Shares on the applicable vesting date.

 

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

 

 

Introduction

 

The following discussion describes the significant elements of the compensation program for the named executive officers (“named executive officers” or “NEOs”) of the Company, namely:

 

Bill Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer;

 

Erns Loubser, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer;

 

Roberto Drassinower, Chief Operating Officer;

 

Geoffrey Grammer, Chief Medical Officer; and

 

Euphia Smith, Chief Marketing Officer.

 

Compensation Discussion and Analysis

 

Overview

 

We operate in a highly competitive and evolving market. To succeed in this market and achieve our strategic business and financial objectives, we need to attract, retain and motivate a highly talented executive team. Our executive compensation program is designed to achieve the following objectives:

 

provide compensation opportunities in order to attract and retain talented, high-performing and experienced executive officers, whose knowledge, skills and performance are critical to our success;

 

motivate our executive team to achieve our strategic business and financial objectives;

 

align the interests of our executive officers with those of our Shareholders; and

 

provide incentives that encourage appropriate levels of risk-taking by our executive team.

 

We offer our executive officers cash compensation in the form of base salary and a discretionary annual bonus, and occasionally equity-based compensation in the form of Options under the Stock Option Plan. We believe that executives who have significant equity investment in the Company, whether in the form of Shares or equity-based compensation awards, will be motivated to achieve our strategic business and financial objectives, and it also aligns their interests with the long-term interests of our Shareholders.

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While we have determined that our current executive officer compensation program is effective at attracting and maintaining executive officer talent, we evaluate our compensation philosophy and compensation program on an ongoing basis and plan to continue to review the compensation of our executive team on an annual basis to ensure that we are providing competitive compensation opportunities for our executive team and that the interests of our executives are in line with the long-term interests of our Shareholders. As part of this review process, we expect to be guided by the philosophy and objectives outlined above, as well as other factors which may become relevant.

 

Compensation-Setting Process

 

The GCN Committee is responsible for assisting our Board in fulfilling its governance and supervisory responsibilities, and overseeing our human resources, succession planning, and compensation policies, processes and practices. The GCN Committee is also responsible for ensuring that our compensation policies and practices provide an appropriate balance of risk and reward consistent with our risk profile.

 

Our Board has adopted a written charter for the GCN Committee setting out its responsibilities for administering our compensation programs and reviewing and making recommendations to our Board concerning the level and nature of the compensation payable to our directors and executive officers. The GCN Committee’s oversight includes reviewing objectives, evaluating performance and ensuring that total compensation paid to our executive officers, personnel who report directly to our President and Chief Executive Officer and various other key employees is fair, reasonable and consistent with the objectives and philosophy of our compensation program. See also “Our Approach to Corporate Governance – Committees of our Board – Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee”.

 

Our President and Chief Executive Officer makes recommendations to the GCN Committee each year with respect to the compensation for the other NEOs.

 

The GCN Committee generally meets annually to review the compensation program and make recommendations for any changes to the Board, as appropriate. As part of this annual review, the GCN Committee may engage an independent compensation consultant to evaluate the Company’s executive compensation program against market practice. No independent compensation consultant was retained in respect of Fiscal 2019.

 

Risk and Executive Compensation

 

In reviewing our compensation policies and practices each year, the GCN Committee seeks to ensure the executive compensation program provides an appropriate balance of risk and reward consistent with the risk profile of the Company. The GCN Committee also seeks to ensure the Company’s compensation practices do not encourage excessive risk-taking behaviour by the executive team.

 

Trading Restrictions

 

All of our executive officers (including the NEOs), directors and employees are subject to our insider trading policy, which prohibits trading in our securities while in possession of material undisclosed information about the Company. Under this policy, such individuals are also prohibited from entering into certain types of hedging transactions involving the securities of the Company, such as short sales, puts and calls. Furthermore, we permit our executive officers, including the NEOs, to trade in the Company’s securities, including the exercise of Options, only during prescribed trading windows.

 

Components of Compensation

 

The compensation of our executive officers includes two major elements: (i) base salary, and (ii) a discretionary annual bonus. Additionally, from time to time, the Board has granted awards to executives who have taken on additional responsibilities and/or as a way to periodically recognize executives who have consistently performed at an exceptional level. These awards are in the form of Options under the Stock Option Plan, which assist the Company in retaining key employees who have the potential to add value to the Company over the longer term. Perquisites and benefits are not a significant element of compensation of our executive officers.

 

Base Salaries

 

Base salary is provided as a fixed source of compensation for our executive officers. Base salaries are determined on an individual basis taking into account the scope of the executive officer’s responsibilities and their prior experience. Base salaries are reviewed annually by the Board and may be increased based on the executive officer’s success in meeting or exceeding individual objectives, as well as to maintain market competitiveness. In addition, base salaries can be adjusted as warranted throughout the year to reflect promotions or other changes in the scope or breadth of an executive officer’s role or responsibilities.

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Discretionary Annual Bonuses

 

The Board believes that its ability to exercise discretion and judgment is critical to ensuring that annual bonuses reflect the assessment of risk in the decisions and actions taken by our executive team and consider unexpected circumstances or events that have occurred during the year. In determining annual bonus amounts, the Board reviews each NEO’s performance over the year, including how their decisions and actions align with the Company’s long-term strategy and how they considered the risks associated with such decisions, along with the Company’s performance over the year. The discretionary annual bonus, if any, typically represents less than 50% of an NEO’s total compensation. No NEOs have a contractual right to a bonus. The annual bonuses awarded to each NEO in Fiscal 2019 are set forth below under “— Summary Compensation Table”.

 

Long-Term Incentive Plans

 

Stock Option Plan

 

In 2018, we established the stock option plan of the Company, which was amended and restated by our Board on May 24, 2019 (and approved by Shareholders on June 28, 2019) in order to expand the definition of consultants to include non-individual consultants, to revise the termination provisions of the stock option plan to contemplate the termination of non-individual consultants, to revise the amendment provision to clarify that the list of the types of amendments that do not require shareholder approval is a non-exhaustive list, and to make other changes of a housekeeping nature (as amended and restated, the “Stock Option Plan”).

 

The Stock Option Plan provides eligible participants with compensation opportunities that enhance our ability to attract and retain our executive officers, other key employees, directors and consultants and ensure that their interests are aligned with the success of the Company and its affiliates. The material features of the Stock Option Plan are summarized below.

 

Administration and Eligibility

 

The Stock Option Plan is administered by our Board, provided that the Board may, in its discretion, delegate its administrative powers under the Stock Option Plan to the GCN Committee. Employees, directors and consultants of the Company and its affiliates are eligible to participate in the Stock Option Plan.

 

Shares Subject to the Stock Option Plan and Participation Limits

 

The maximum number of Shares that are available for issuance under the Stock Option Plan (including upon the exercise of the replacement options that were granted by the Company in exchange for options granted under our predecessor’s amended and restated stock option plan) is 10% of the issued and outstanding Shares from time to time. Shares underlying Options and replacement options that have been exercised or that have expired or terminated for any reason will become available for subsequent issuance under the Stock Option Plan. As a result, the Stock Option Plan is considered an evergreen plan pursuant to the rules of the TSX. The TSX requires that the approval of all unallocated Options under the Stock Option Plan be sought by the Company every three years from a majority of the votes cast by shareholders. As at December 31, 2019, 2,998,168 Options have been granted under the Stock Option Plan, representing approximately 5.13% of the issued and outstanding Shares as of that date, and 2,843,676 Options remain available for future issuance under the Stock Option Plan, representing approximately 4.87% of the issued and outstanding Shares as of that date.

 

The number of Shares that may be (i) issued to insiders of the Company within any one-year period, or (ii) issuable to insiders of the Company at any time, in each case, under the Stock Option Plan alone, or when combined with all of the Company’s other security-based compensation arrangements, cannot exceed 10% of the outstanding Shares. Additionally, the aggregate value of all Options granted to any one director in any one-year period under all security-based compensation arrangements of the Company cannot exceed $100,000 based on the grant date fair value of the Options.

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Options

 

The exercise price for Options will be determined by our Board, which may not be less than the fair market value of a Share (being the closing price of a Share on the TSX on the applicable date (the “Fair Market Value”)) on the date the Option is granted. Options will vest in accordance with the vesting schedule established on the grant date, which historically has been as to one-third on each of the first three anniversaries of the grant date.

 

Options must be exercised within a period fixed by our Board that may not exceed 10 years from the date of grant, provided that if the expiry date falls during a blackout period, the expiry date will be automatically extended until 10 business days after the end of the blackout period. The Stock Option Plan also provides for earlier expiration of Options upon the occurrence of certain events, including the termination of a participant’s employment.

 

In order to facilitate the payment of the exercise price of the Options, the Stock Option Plan contains a cashless exercise feature and a net settlement feature. Additionally, vested Options can be exercised by payment in full of the applicable exercise price in cash or by certified check, bank draft or money order payable to the Company or by such other means as might be specified from time to time by the Board. Pursuant to the net settlement feature, to the extent permitted by the Board and as permitted by applicable law, a participant may elect to have the Company retain such number of Shares otherwise issuable in connection with the exercise of the Option as will have a Fair Market Value on the date of such exercise equal to the aggregate exercise price. Pursuant to the cashless exercise feature, to the extent permitted by the Board and as permitted by applicable law, a participant may elect to receive (i) an amount in cash equal to the cash proceeds realized upon the sale of the Shares underlying the Options by a securities dealer in the capital markets, minus the aggregate exercise price, any applicable withholding taxes and any transfer costs charged by the securities dealer, (ii) an aggregate number of Shares that is equal to the number of Shares underlying the unexercised Options, minus the number of Shares sold by a securities dealer in the capital markets as required to realize cash proceeds equal to the aggregate exercise price, any applicable withholding taxes and any transfer costs charged by the securities dealer, or (iii) a combination of clauses (i) and (ii).

 

Termination of Employment or Services

 

Unless otherwise determined by our Board or if a participant’s employment agreement or consulting agreement or arrangement expressly provides more favorable rights with respect to the Option in the event of termination, the following rights apply. In the event a participant ceases to be an employee, director or consultant of the Company or a designated affiliate, all outstanding Options granted to the participant under the Stock Option Plan that are unvested on the cessation date will be forfeited. All outstanding Options that have vested as of the cessation date will be exercisable as follows, after which time such vested Options will automatically terminate: (i) if the participant ceases to be an employee, director or an individual consultant by reason of death or disability, the participant’s Options must be exercised within 9 months of the date of death or disability; (ii) if the participant ceases to be an employee, director or consultant (whether an individual or entity) by reason of termination without cause, the participant’s Options must be exercised within 3 months of the cessation date; (iii) if the participant ceases to be an employee, director or consultant (whether an individual or entity) by reason of voluntary resignation or termination, the participant’s Options must be exercised within 30 days of the cessation date; and (iv) if the participant ceases to be an employee, director or consultant (whether an individual or entity) by reason of termination for cause, the participant’s Options will automatically terminate on the cessation date and may no longer be exercised. In no event may Options be exercised later than the applicable expiry date of the Options, after which time all remaining Options will terminate.

 

Change of Control

 

In the event of a change in control, except as otherwise provided in an option agreement, the Board will provide for the treatment of each outstanding Option, which treatment need not be uniform for all participants and/or Options and which may include, without limitation, one or more of the following: (i) (a) continuation of such Option, or (b) conversion of such Option into, or substitution or replacement of such Option with, an award with respect to shares of the successor corporation (or a parent or subsidiary thereof) with substantially equivalent terms and value as such Option; (ii) acceleration of the vesting and the right to exercise such Option as of immediately, or during a specified period, prior to such change in control, and the termination of such Option without payment of any consideration therefor to the extent such Option is not timely exercised; (iii) if such Option is subject to performance criteria, the level of attainment of such criteria will be determined by the Board in its sole discretion, including, without limitation, by deeming such criteria attained at the applicable target or maximum level regardless of actual performance, or measuring the attainment of such criteria based on actual performance through such change in control or a specified date prior thereto; and/or (iv) permitting the participant to surrender to the Company such Option in consideration for a payment, in cash, securities, rights and/or other property, in an amount equal to the intrinsic value of such Option as of immediately prior to such change in control.

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Adjustments

 

In the event that there is any change in the Shares or in the capital structure of the Company by reason of any stock or extraordinary cash dividend, stock split, reverse stock split, an extraordinary corporate transaction such as any recapitalization, reorganization, merger, consolidation, combination, exchange or other relevant change in capitalization (each an “Adjustment Event”), then the number or kind of shares or other securities reserved for issuance pursuant to the Stock Option Plan and the number of the Shares subject to Options and the exercise price thereof will be subject to such adjustments, if any, as the Board may acting reasonably determine, acting in good faith and to ensure economic equivalence.

 

Amendment or Termination

 

Our Board may amend or suspend any provision of the Stock Option Plan or any Option, or terminate the Stock Option Plan, at any time without approval of shareholders, subject to those provisions of applicable law and the rules, regulations and policies of the TSX, if any, that require the approval of shareholders or any governmental or regulatory body. However, except as set forth in the Stock Option Plan or as required pursuant to applicable law, no action of the Board or shareholders may materially adversely alter or impair the rights of a participant under any Option previously granted to the participant without the consent of the affected participant.

 

Our Board is permitted to make certain amendments to the Stock Option Plan or to any Option outstanding thereunder without seeking shareholder approval, including but not limited to, housekeeping amendments, amendments to comply with applicable law or stock exchange rules, amendments necessary for Options to qualify for favorable treatment under applicable tax laws, amendments to the vesting provisions of the plan or any Option, amendments to include or modify a cashless exercise feature, amendments to the termination or early termination provisions of the Stock Option Plan or any Option, and amendments necessary to suspend or terminate the Stock Option Plan. However, only the following types of amendments will not be able to be made without obtaining shareholder approval:

 

increasing the number of Shares reserved for issuance under the Stock Option Plan;

 

increasing the length of the period after a blackout period during which Options may be exercised;

 

any amendment that would result in the exercise price for any Option being lower than the Fair Market Value on the applicable date of grant;

 

permitting the introduction or reintroduction of non-employee directors as eligible recipients of Options on a discretionary basis or increasing the limits previously imposed on non-employee director participation;

 

removing or exceeding the insider participation limit;

 

reducing the exercise price of an Option, except pursuant to a change of control or an Adjustment Event;

 

extending the expiry date of an Option, except for an automatic extension of an Option that expires during a blackout period;

 

permitting awards to be transferred or assigned other than for normal estate settlement purposes;

 

amending the amendment provision under the Stock Option Plan; or

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amendments required to be approved by shareholders under applicable law or the rules, regulations and policies of the TSX.

 

Assignment

 

Except as required by law or in the event of death or disability of the participant, the rights of a participant under the Stock Option Plan are not transferable or assignable.

 

Burn Rate

 

The following table provides the number of Options granted under the Stock Option Plan for Fiscal 2019 and Fiscal 2018, expressed as a percentage of the weighted average number of Shares outstanding during the applicable fiscal year (“Burn Rate”).

 

Fiscal Year Number of Options Granted Weighted Average Number of Shares Outstanding Burn Rate
Fiscal 2019 385,000 53,828,597 0.72%
Fiscal 2018 450,500 40,209,697 1.12%

 

Benefit Plans

 

We provide some of our executive officers with disability, health and dental insurance programs on a comparable basis as other employees of the Company. We offer these benefits consistent with local market practice.

 

Perquisites

 

We do not offer significant perquisites as part of our compensation program.

 

Pension Plan Benefits

 

Dr. Grammer participates in the Company’s 401(k) plan made available to its US employees. The Company provides an employer safe harbor matching contribution equal to 100% of a participant’s salary deferrals under the plan up to the first 1% of plan eligible compensation, plus 50% of a participant’s salary deferrals under the plan up to the next 5% of plan eligible compensation, subject to the limits imposed by the Internal Revenue Service. Other than the 401(k) plan, the Company does not have any pension plans that provide for payments of benefits at, following or in connection with, retirement or provide for retirement or deferred compensation plans for the NEOs or directors.

 

Defined Contribution Plan Table

 

 Name and Principal Position Accumulated Value At Start of Year(1) Compensatory Accumulated Value At
Year-End
Geoffrey Grammer
Chief Medical Officer
N/A $7,401 $7,401

 

 

Notes:

 

(1) The 401(k) plan was adopted effective January 1, 2019.

 

Termination and Change of Control Benefits

 

For a summary of the termination and change of control benefits provided under the Stock Option Plan, please refer to “– Components of Compensation – Long-Term Incentives”. Except as described below, the Company has not entered into contractual termination, post-termination or change of control arrangements with any of its NEOs.

 

The Company has entered into an employment agreement with Ms. Smith that provides for contractual termination entitlements. In connection with Ms. Smith’s termination by the Company on a without cause basis, Ms. Smith is entitled to her accrued base salary and vacation through the termination date, and subject to her execution of a general release of claims in favour of the Company: (i) in the event that the termination occurs prior to May 1, 2020, a severance payment equal to 2 months of Ms. Smith’s base salary; (ii) in the event that the termination occurs after May 1, 2020, a severance payment equal to 2 months of Ms. Smith’s base salary, plus, one additional month of base salary for each additional full year of employment, up to a maximum of 6 months of her base salary. If Ms. Smith was terminated on a without cause basis on December 31, 2019, she would be entitled to her accrued base salary and vacation and a severance payment equal to $35,000. Ms. Smith would not have received any incremental payments in respect of her 60,000 Options granted under the Option Plan in connection with such event.

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Ms. Smith is subject to a customary confidentiality covenant and certain restrictive covenants that will continue to apply following the termination of her employment, including non-competition and non-solicitation provisions which are in effect during Ms. Smith’s employment and for 2 years thereafter.

 

Performance Graph

 

The following graph compares the Company’s cumulative total shareholder return to the S&P/TSX Composite Total Return Index, assuming reinvestment of any dividends and considering a $100 investment on October 3, 2018, being the date the Company’s Shares began trading on the TSX. The S&P/TSX Composite Total Return Index tracks the share prices of the largest companies on the TSX measured by market capitalization. Stocks included in this index cover all sectors of the economy and are not significantly weighted in the any comparable industry to the Company and are therefore not directly comparable to Greenbrook.

 

Cumulative Total Shareholder Return
October 3, 2018 to December 31, 2019

 

 

During the period covered by the performance graph, our common shares have both outperformed and underperformed the S&P/TSX Composite Total Return Index. However, throughout Fiscal 2019, our common shares largely underperformed the S&P/TSX Composite Total Return Index.

 

Executive officer compensation is not strongly correlated to Shareholder returns in the short term, in part because equity-based incentives are calculated at the time of grant using grant date fair values, which do not reflect the actual value of compensation received when such incentives vest or are settled. In the longer term, executive officer compensation is directly impacted by the Company’s Share price performance.

 

Fiscal 2019 represented our first full fiscal year as a public company. As such, there is limited history of our common shares trading on the TSX, and it may not be possible to draw conclusions from the existing trends. Aside from base salaries, our compensation program is designed to include short-term incentives that align with the near-term targets of the business as well as long-term incentives that are tied to successful execution against our long-term growth strategy.

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Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans

 

Plan Category Number of Securities to be Issued Upon Exercise of Outstanding Options, Warrants and Rights(1) Weighted-Average Exercise Price of Outstanding Options, Warrants and Rights(1) Number of Securities Remaining Available for Future Issuance(1)
Equity compensation plans previously approved by Shareholders 2,998,168 $1.36 2,843,676
Equity compensation plans not previously approved by Shareholders N/A N/A N/A
Total 2,998,168 $1.36 2,843,676

 

 

Notes: 

(1) As at December 31, 2019.

 

Summary Compensation Table

 

The table below shows the compensation paid to the NEOs in respect of the Company’s two most recently completed financial years in accordance with applicable securities laws. As the Company became a reporting issuer during Fiscal 2018, compensation information for prior financial years is not presented.

 

Name and Principal Position

Year

Salary

Share-Based
Awards

Option-Based
Awards(1)

Non-Equity Incentive
Plan Compensation

Pension Value(3)

All Other
Compensation(4)

Total
Compensation

Annual Incentive Plans(2)

Long-Term
Incentive
Plans

Bill Leonard
President & Chief Executive Officer
2019 $350,000 $150,000 $500,000
2018 $304,167 $125,000 $429,167
Erns Loubser
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
2019 $275,000 $100,000 $375,000
2018 $181,173 $100,000 $281,173
Roberto Drassinower(5)
Chief Operating Officer
2019 $232,500 $75,000 $307,500
2018 $212,491 $75,000 $287,491
Geoffrey Grammer
Chief Medical Officer
2019 $225,000 $7,401 $232,401
2018 $175,000 $31,240 $206,240
Euphia Smith(6)
Chief Marketing Officer
2019 $140,000 $87,600 $75,000 $302,600
2018

 

 

Notes:

 

(1) Reflects the grant date fair value of Options that were granted in Fiscal 2018 and Fiscal 2019, as applicable, determined in accordance with the Black-Scholes valuation model, using the following key assumptions

 

Grant Date Expected Life (Years) Expected Volatility Risk Free Interest Rate Expected Dividend Yield
May 9, 2019 10 46.48% 1.68% 0.00%

 

(2) Amounts reflect annual bonuses that were paid to NEOs in respect of Fiscal 2018 and Fiscal 2019, as applicable.

 

(3) Reflects contributions made by the Company to Dr. Grammer’s 401(k) plan.

 

(4) None of the NEOs are entitled to perquisites or other personal benefits which, in aggregate, are worth over $50,000 or over 10% of their base salary.

 

(5) Mr. Drassinower’s compensation is paid by Greybrook Health to a corporation wholly-owned by him pursuant to the Management Services Agreement.

 

(6) Ms. Smith joined the Company on May 1, 2019. Accordingly, compensation in the above table reflects Ms. Smith’s compensation from May 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019.

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Outstanding Share-Based Awards and Option-Based Awards

 

The following table sets out information on the outstanding Option-based awards held by each of our NEOs as of December 31, 2019. None of our NEOs currently hold any share-based awards.

 

  Option-Based Awards
Name and Principal Position Number of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Options
Option
Exercise
Price
Option
Expiration
Date
Value of
Unexercised
In-The-Money
Options(1)
Bill Leonard
President & Chief Executive Officer
Erns Loubser(2)
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
50,000
25,000
675,000
$1.00
$1.00
$1.00
March 31, 2025
March 31, 2026
March 31, 2027
$17,366
$8,683
$234,444
Roberto Drassinower
Chief Operating Officer
Geoffrey Grammer(3)
Chief Medical Officer
200,000
25,000
10,000
$1.00
$1.00
$1.00
March 31, 2025
March 31, 2026
March 31, 2027
$69,465
$8,683
$3,473

Euphia Smith(4)

Chief Marketing Officer

60,000 $2.54 May 9, 2029

 

 

Notes:

 

(1) The value of unexercised in-the-money Options is calculated based on the closing price per Share of C$1.75 on December 31, 2019, the last trading day of Fiscal 2019. The exchange rate used was the rate at December 31, 2019 of C$1.00 = $0.7699.

 

(2) Mr. Loubser was granted 50,000 Options on March 31, 2015, which are fully vested; 25,000 Options on March 31, 2016, which are fully vested; and 675,000 Options on March 31, 2017, which vest as to one-third on each anniversary of the grant date and are subject to the terms of the Stock Option Plan.

 

(3) Dr. Grammer was granted 200,000 Options on March 31, 2015, which are fully vested; 25,000 Options on March 31, 2016, which are fully vested; 10,000 Options on March 31, 2017, which vest as to one-third on each anniversary of the grant date and are subject to the terms of the Stock Option Plan.

 

(4) Ms. Smith was granted 60,000 Options on May 9, 2019, which vest as to one-third on March 31, 2020, March 31, 2021 and March 31, 2022 and are subject to the terms of the Stock Option Plan.

 

Incentive Plan Awards – Value Vested or Earned During the Year

 

The following table indicates, for each of our NEOs, the value of the Option-based awards vested in accordance with their terms during Fiscal 2019 and the value of the annual bonuses paid in respect of Fiscal 2019:

 

Name and Principal Position Option-Based Awards –
Value Vested or Earned
During the Year(1)
Non-Equity Incentive Plan
Compensation – Value Earned
During the Year
Bill Leonard
President & Chief Executive Officer
Erns Loubser
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
$363,810
Roberto Drassinower
Chief Operating Officer
Geoffrey Grammer
Chief Medical Officer
$18,191

Euphia Smith

Chief Marketing Officer

 

 

Notes:

 

(1) Includes time vesting Options that vested during the fiscal year. The value of time vesting Options vested during the fiscal year is calculated based on the closing price of the Shares on the TSX on the applicable vesting date.

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OTHER INFORMATION

 

 

 

Indebtedness of Directors and Executive Officers

 

None of our directors, executive officers, employees, former directors, former executive officers or former employees or any of our subsidiaries, and none of their respective associates, is or has within 30 days before the date of this Circular or at any time since the beginning of the most recently completed financial year been indebted to us or any of our subsidiaries or another entity whose indebtedness is the subject of a guarantee, support agreement, letter of credit or other similar agreement or understanding provided by us or any of our subsidiaries.

 

Interests of Certain Persons or Companies in Matters to be Acted Upon

 

To the knowledge of the directors and executive officers of Greenbrook, no director or executive officer of the Company, any proposed nominee for election as director of the Company, or any associate or affiliate of any of the foregoing persons, has any material interest, direct or indirect, by way of beneficial ownership of securities or otherwise, in any matter to be acted upon at the Meeting, other than the election of directors.

 

Interests of Informed Persons in Material Transactions

 

Other than as described elsewhere in this Circular and in our most recent annual information form under the heading “Interest of Management and Others in Material Transactions”, there are no material interests, direct or indirect, of any of our directors or executive officers, any shareholder that beneficially owns, or controls or directs (directly or indirectly), more than 10% of any class or series of our outstanding voting securities, or any associate or affiliate of any of the foregoing persons, in any transaction since the commencement of our most recently completed financial year or in any proposed transaction that has materially affected or is reasonably expected to materially affect us or any of our subsidiaries.

 

Shareholder Proposals

 

There are no shareholder proposals to be considered at the Meeting. The OBCA permits certain eligible shareholders to submit shareholder proposals to us, which proposals may be included in a management information circular relating to an annual meeting of shareholders. The final date by which we must receive shareholder proposals for our annual meeting of shareholders to be held in 2021 is April 30, 2021.

 

Additional Information

 

The Company is a reporting issuer under the applicable legislation of all of the provinces of Canada, excluding Quebec, and is required to file financial statements and information circulars with the various securities commissions. The Company has filed its annual information form with those securities commissions which, among other things, contained all of the disclosure required by Form 52-110F1 under NI 52-110.

 

Additional copies of our latest annual information form, this Circular and our consolidated financial statements and management’s discussion and analysis can be obtained upon request from the General Counsel of Greenbrook by writing to:

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc.
890 Yonge Street, 7th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M4W 3P4.

 

Financial information is provided in our audited consolidated financial statements and management’s discussion and analysis for its most recently completed financial year. Additional information about or relating to the Company can also be found at www.greenbrooktms.com and on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

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Contacting the Board of Directors

 

Shareholders, employees and other interested parties may communicate directly with the Board through the Lead Independent Director by writing to:

 

Lead Independent Director
Greenbrook TMS Inc.
890 Yonge Street, 7th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M4W 3P4.

 

Board Approval

 

The contents and sending of this Circular to Shareholders entitled to receive notice of the Meeting, to each director, to the auditors of the Company and to the appropriate securities regulatory authorities have been approved by the Board.

 

  On behalf of the Board of Directors,
   
Toronto, Ontario Bill Leonard
May 19, 2020 President and Chief Executive Officer

 

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Appendix A

 

MANDATE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

1. Introduction

 

The members of the board of directors (respectively, the “Directors” and the “Board”) of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Company”) are elected by the shareholders of the Company and are responsible for the stewardship of the Company. The purpose of this mandate (the “Board Mandate”) is to describe the principal duties and responsibilities of the Board, as well as some of the policies and procedures that apply to the Board in discharging its duties and responsibilities.

 

Certain aspects of the composition and organization of the Board are prescribed and/or governed by the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) and the constating documents of the Company.

 

2. Chair of the Board

 

The Board will appoint an independent director to act as Chair of the Board (the “Chair”). If the Board determines that this is not appropriate in the circumstances and instead appoints a non-independent director to act as Chair of the Board, the Board will also appoint an independent director to act as lead director (the “Lead Director”). Either an independent Chair of the Board or the Lead Director will act as the effective leader of the Board and ensure that the Board’s agenda will enable it to successfully carry out its duties. The Chair of the Board and the Lead Director, as applicable, may be removed at any time at the discretion of the Board.

 

3. Board Size

 

The constating documents of the Company provide that the Board shall be comprised of a minimum of three (3) Directors and a maximum of fifteen (15) Directors. The Board shall periodically review its size in light of its duties and responsibilities from time to time. Applicable residency requirements will be complied with in respect of the composition of the Board.

 

4. Independence

 

The Board shall be comprised of a minimum of three (3) independent Directors. A Director shall be considered independent if he or she would be considered independent for the purposes of National Instrument 58-101 – Disclosure of Corporate Governance Practices.

 

5. Role and Responsibilities of the Board

 

The Board is responsible for supervising the management of the business and affairs of the Company and is expected to focus on guidance and strategic oversight with a view to increasing shareholder value.

 

In accordance with the Business Corporations Act (Ontario), in discharging his or her duties, each Director must act honestly and in good faith, with a view to the best interests of the Company. Each Director must also exercise the care, diligence and skill that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in comparable circumstances.

 

6. Board Meetings

 

(a) In accordance with the constating documents of the Company, meetings of the Board may be held at such times and places as the Chair may determine and as many times per year as necessary to effectively carry out the Board’s responsibilities. The non-employee Directors may meet without senior executives of the Company, as required. The independent Directors may meet without senior executives of the Company and any non-independent Directors, as required.

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(b) The Chair shall be responsible for establishing or causing to be established the agenda for each Board meeting, and for ensuring that regular minutes of Board proceedings are kept and circulated on a timely basis for review and approval.

 

(c) The Chair (or other Directors as delegated by the Chair from time to time) may invite, at its discretion, any other individuals to attend its meetings. Senior executives of the Company shall attend a meeting if invited by the Chair (or another Director delegated by the Chair).

 

7. Delegations and Approval Authorities

 

(a) The Board shall appoint the chief executive officer of the Company (the “CEO”) and delegate to the CEO and other senior executives the authority over the day-to-day management of the business and affairs of the Company.

 

(b) The Board may delegate certain matters it is responsible for to the committees of the Board, currently consisting of the Audit Committee, and the Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee. The Board may appoint other committees, as it deems appropriate, to the extent permissible under applicable law. The Board will, however, retain its oversight function and ultimate responsibility for such matters and associated delegated responsibilities.

 

8. Strategic Planning Process and Risk Management

 

(a) The Board shall adopt a strategic planning process to establish objectives and goals for the Company’s business and shall review, approve and modify as appropriate the strategies proposed by senior executives to achieve such objectives and goals. The Board shall review and approve, at least on an annual basis, a strategic plan which takes into account, among other things, the opportunities and risks of the Company’s business and affairs.

 

(b) The Board, in conjunction with management, shall be responsible to identify the principal risks of the Company’s business and oversee management’s implementation of appropriate systems to seek to effectively monitor, manage and mitigate the impact of such risks. Pursuant to its duty to oversee the implementation of effective risk management policies and procedures, the Board may delegate to applicable Board committees the responsibility for assessing and implementing appropriate policies and procedures to address specified risks, including delegation of financial and related risk management to the Audit Committee and delegation of risks associated with compensation policies and practices to the Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee.

 

9. Succession Planning, Appointment and Supervision of Senior Executives

 

(a) The Board shall approve the corporate goals and objectives of the CEO and review the performance of the CEO against such corporate goals and objectives. The Board shall take steps to satisfy itself as to the integrity of the CEO and other senior executives of the Company and that the CEO and other senior executives create a culture of integrity throughout the organization.

 

(b) The Board shall approve the succession plan for the Company, including the selection, appointment, supervision and evaluation of the senior executives of the Company, and shall also approve the compensation of the senior executives of the Company upon recommendation of the Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee.

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10. Financial Reporting and Internal Controls

 

The Board shall review and monitor, with the assistance of the Audit Committee, the adequacy and effectiveness of the Company’s system of internal controls over financial reporting, including any significant deficiencies or changes in internal control and the quality and integrity of the Company’s external financial reporting processes.

 

11. Regulatory Filings

 

The Board shall approve applicable regulatory filings that require or are advisable for the Board to approve, which the Board may delegate in accordance with Section 7(b) of this mandate. These include, but are not limited to, the annual audited financial statements, interim financial statements and related management’s discussion and analysis accompanying such financial statements, management proxy circulars, annual information forms, offering documents and other applicable disclosure.

 

12. Corporate Disclosure and Communications

 

The Board will seek to ensure that corporate disclosure of the Company complies with all applicable laws, rules and regulations and the rules and regulations of the stock exchanges upon which the Company’s securities are listed. In addition, the Board shall adopt appropriate procedures designed to permit the Board to receive feedback from shareholders on material issues.

 

13. Corporate Policies

 

The Board shall adopt and periodically review policies and procedures designed to ensure that the Company and its Directors, officers and employees comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations and conduct the Company’s business ethically and with honesty and integrity.

 

14. Review of Mandate

 

The Board may, from time to time, permit departures from the terms of this Board Mandate, either prospectively or retrospectively. This Board Mandate is not intended to give rise to civil liability on the part of the Company or its Directors or officers, to shareholders, security holders, customers, suppliers, competitors, employees or other persons, or to any other liability whatsoever on their part.

 

The Board may review and recommend changes to this Board Mandate from time to time and the Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee may periodically review and assess the adequacy of this mandate and recommend any proposed changes to the Board for consideration.

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Exhibit 99.26

 

GREENBROOK TMS INC.

 

REPORT UNDER NATIONAL INSTRUMENT 51-102 

REPORT OF VOTING RESULTS

 

In accordance with Section 11.3 of National Instrument 51-102 – Continuous Disclosure Obligations, the following sets out the matters voted upon at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (“Greenbrook”) held on June 29, 2020 (the “Meeting”). Each of the matters set out below is described in greater detail in the Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders and Management Information Circular dated May 19, 2020, mailed to shareholders prior to the Meeting.

 

Election of Directors

 

The election by the shareholders of the following nominees as directors of Greenbrook until the next annual meeting following their election or until their successors are elected or appointed was approved by shareholders without a ballot being conducted. The following represents the proxies received with regard to such matter:

 

Nominee Votes For % Votes For Votes Withheld % Votes Withheld
Brian P. Burke 19,157,451 99.98% 3,000 0.02%
Colleen Campbell 19,160,451 100.00% 0 0.00%
Sasha Cucuz 19,157,451 99.98% 3,000 0.02%
Adrienne Graves, Ph.D. 19,157,451 99.98% 3,000 0.02%
Bill Leonard 19,157,451 99.98% 3,000 0.02%
Adele C. Oliva 19,160,451 100.00% 0 0.00%
Frank Tworecke 19,157,451 99.98% 3,000 0.02%
Elias Vamvakas 19,149,451 99.94% 11,000 0.06%

 

Appointment of Auditors

 

The appointment by the shareholders of KPMG LLP as auditor of Greenbrook and the authorization of the directors of Greenbrook to fix the auditor’s remuneration was approved without a ballot being conducted. The following represents the proxies received with regard to such matter:

 

Votes For % Votes For Votes Withheld % Votes Withheld
20,533,883 99.99% 3,000 0.01%

 

Dated this 29th day of June, 2020.  
     
GREENBROOK TMS INC.  
     
By: “Erns Loubser”  
Name:  Erns Loubser  
Title:  Chief Financial Officer  

 

Exhibit 99.27

 

EXECUTION COPY

 

AGENCY AGREEMENT

May 15, 2020

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

890 Yonge Street, 7th Floor

Toronto, Ontario M4W 3P4

 

Attention:           Erns Loubser, Chief Financial Officer

 

Dear Sir:

 

Bloom Burton Securities Inc. and Clarus Securities Inc. (collectively, the “Co-Lead Agents”) and Canaccord Genuity Corp., Desjardins Securities Inc. and Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc. (together with the Co-Lead Agents, the “Agents”) understand that Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Corporation”) proposes to issue and sell a minimum of 8,484,849 Common Shares (as defined herein) (the “Initial Shares”) and a maximum of 10,909,091 Initial Shares, at a price of $1.65 per Initial Share (the “Offering Price”), for aggregate gross proceeds of a minimum of $14,000,000.85 (the “Minimum Offering”) and a maximum of $18,000,000.15 (the “Maximum Offering”).

 

In addition, the Corporation hereby grants an option (the “Over-Allotment Option”) to the Agents to arrange for the purchase from the Corporation, on and subject to the terms and conditions contained herein, in whole or in part at any one time, until 11:59 p.m. (Toronto time) on the 30th day following the initial Closing Date (as defined herein), up to an additional 15% of the number of Initial Shares (the “Option Shares”) issued under the Offering (as defined herein) at the Offering Price. If and to the extent that the Co-Lead Agents, on behalf of the Agents, shall have determined to exercise the Over-Allotment Option, the Agents shall have the right to arrange for the purchase of the Option Shares from the Corporation on the same basis as the Initial Shares. If the Co-Lead Agents, on behalf of the Agents, elect to exercise such Over-Allotment Option, in whole or in part, the Co-Lead Agents shall notify the Corporation in writing, which notice shall specify the number of Option Shares to be sold and the date (the “Option Closing Date”) on which such Option Shares are to be purchased. The Option Closing Date may be the same as the initial Closing Date but not earlier than the later of (i) the initial Closing Date and (ii) two Business Days (as defined herein) after the date of receipt by the Corporation of such notice. Option Shares may be purchased solely for the purpose of covering over-allotments and for market stabilization purposes.

 

Unless the context otherwise requires, all references to “Offered Shares” shall assume the exercise of the Over-Allotment Option and shall include the Option Shares issuable upon the exercise thereof. The offering of the Offered Shares (including, for certainty, any Option Shares issued in connection with the exercise of the Over-Allotment Option) by the Corporation is hereinafter referred to as the “Offering”.

 

The Offered Shares may be offered to Purchasers (as defined herein) in each of the provinces of Canada (other than Québec) (the “Qualifying Jurisdictions”) pursuant to the Final Prospectus (as defined herein). The Offered Shares may also be offered by the Agents for sale by the Corporation: (i) to Qualified Institutional Buyers (as defined herein) and/or Accredited Investors (as defined herein) in the United States (as defined herein) through the U.S. Placement Agents (as defined herein) in accordance with the provisions of Schedule “A” of this Agreement; and (ii) subject to applicable law, including Applicable Securities Laws (as defined herein), and the terms of this Agreement, to Purchasers outside Canada and the United States where they may be lawfully sold on a basis exempt from the prospectus, registration and similar requirements of any such jurisdictions (collectively with the Qualifying Jurisdictions and the United States, the “Selling Jurisdictions”).

 

 

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The Agents shall be entitled to appoint a soliciting dealer group consisting of other registered dealers acceptable to the Corporation for the purposes of arranging for purchases of the Offered Shares. The Agents shall ensure that any investment dealer who is a member of any soliciting dealer group formed by the Agents pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement or with whom any Agent has a contractual relationship with respect to the Offering (each, a “Selling Firm”), if any, agrees with such Agent to comply with the covenants and obligations given by the Agents herein.

 

In consideration of the Agents’ services to be rendered in connection with the Offering, the Corporation shall pay to the Agents at Closing (as defined herein) and any Over-Allotment Closing (as defined herein) a cash commission (the “Commission”) equal to 6.5% of the gross proceeds realized by the Corporation in respect of the sale of the Offered Shares, it being acknowledged and agreed that a reduced Commission equal to 1% shall be payable with respect to the sale of Offered Shares to the President’s List Purchasers (as defined herein).

 

DEFINITIONS

 

In this Agreement,

 

Accredited Investor” means an “accredited investor” as that term is defined in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D;

 

Achieve Acquisition” means the acquisition by TMS of all of the issued and outstanding membership interests of Achieve TMS;

 

Achieve TMS” means Achieve TMS Centers, LLC and Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC and their respective subsidiaries;

 

affiliate”, “associate”, “distribution”, “material change”, “material fact” and “misrepresentation” have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in the Securities Act (Ontario);

 

Agents” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement;

 

Agents’ Information” means information and statements relating solely to the Agents which have been provided by an Agent to the Corporation in writing specifically for use in the Offering Documents;

 

Agreement” means the agreement resulting from the acceptance by the Corporation of the offer made hereby;

 

Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus” means the preliminary short form prospectus and amended and restated preliminary short form prospectus of the Corporation dated May 6, 2020, including all Documents Incorporated by Reference, relating to the distribution of the Offered Shares and for which receipts have been issued by the Ontario Securities Commission (as principal regulator) and each of the other Securities Commissions pursuant to the Passport System;

 

Annual Financial Statements” means the audited consolidated financial statements of the Corporation for its fiscal years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018;

 

Applicable IP Laws” means all applicable federal, provincial, state and local laws and regulations applicable to Intellectual Property in Canada, the United States and the jurisdictions in which the Corporation and/or the Subsidiaries has registered Intellectual Property;

 

 

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Applicable Marketing Materials” means, collectively: (i) the term sheet dated May 5, 2020 filed on SEDAR; and (ii) the term sheet dated May 6, 2020 filed on SEDAR;

 

Applicable Securities Laws” means Canadian Securities Laws and U.S. Securities Laws;

 

Business Day” means a day on which the major banks are open in Toronto, Ontario and which is not a Saturday, a Sunday or a statutory or civic holiday in Toronto, Ontario;

 

Canadian Securities Laws” means, collectively, all applicable securities laws, regulations, rules, rulings and orders in each of the Qualifying Jurisdictions together with applicable published policy statements, notices, orders, blanket rulings and other regulatory instruments of the securities regulatory authorities in the Qualifying Jurisdictions;

 

CIPO” means the Canadian Intellectual Property Office;

 

Claims” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 14;

 

Clinical Trials” has the meaning ascribed thereto in subsection 6(ppp);

 

Closing” means the completion of the issue and sale by the Corporation and the purchase by the Purchasers on the Closing Date of the Offered Shares as contemplated by this Agreement;

 

Closing Date” means on or about May 21, 2020, provided that the Minimum Offering has been attained, or such other date or dates as the Corporation and the Co-Lead Agents may agree upon in writing;

 

Closing Time” means 8:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on the Closing Date or such other time on the Closing Date as the Corporation and the Co-Lead Agents may agree upon in writing;

 

Co-Lead Agents” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement;

 

Commission” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the sixth paragraph of this Agreement;

 

Common Shares” means the common shares in the capital of the Corporation;

 

comparables” has the meaning ascribed thereto in NI 44-101;

 

Corporation” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement;

 

Corporation IP” means the Intellectual Property that has been developed by or for or is being developed by or for the Corporation and/or a Subsidiary or that is being used by the Corporation and/or a Subsidiary, other than Licensed IP;

 

Corporation’s Auditors” means such firm of chartered accountants as the Corporation may have appointed or may from time to time appoint as auditors of the Corporation;

 

Disclosure Record” means, collectively, all of the documents that have been filed by or on behalf of the Corporation with the relevant securities regulatory authorities pursuant to the requirements of Canadian Securities Laws, including all material change reports (excluding any confidential material change reports), annual information forms, management information circulars, business acquisition reports, marketing materials, press releases, financial statements and management’s discussion and analysis of the Corporation;

 

 

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Documents Incorporated by Reference” means all financial statements, management’s discussion and analysis, management information circulars, annual information forms, material change reports, business acquisition reports, marketing materials or other documents filed by the Corporation on SEDAR, whether before or after the date of this Agreement, that are incorporated by reference, or deemed to be incorporated by reference, into the Prospectus;

 

Eligible Issuer” means an issuer that meets the criteria and has complied with the requirements of NI 44-101 so as to allow it to offer its securities using a short form prospectus;

 

Enforceability Qualifications” means (a) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally, (b) the application of equitable principles when equitable remedies are sought, including the remedies of specific performance and injunctive relief, and (c) applicable laws limiting rights to indemnity, contribution, waiver, and the ability to sever unenforceable terms;

 

Engagement Letter” means the engagement letter dated April 28, 2020 between the Corporation and Bloom Burton Securities Inc. relating to the Offering;

 

Environmental Laws” has the meaning ascribed thereto in subsection 6(gg);

 

FDA” means the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services;

 

Final Prospectus” means the (final) short form prospectus of the Corporation to be dated the date hereof, including all of the Documents Incorporated by Reference, relating to the distribution of the Offered Shares and for which the Final Receipt will have been obtained;

 

Final Receipt” means a receipt or deemed receipt for the Final Prospectus issued by the Securities Commissions;

 

Financial Statements” means, collectively, the Annual Financial Statements and the Interim Financial Statements;

 

Governmental Authority” means any (a) multinational, federal, national, provincial, state, regional, municipal, local or other government, governmental or public department, ministry, central bank, court, tribunal, arbitral body, bureau or agency, (b) any subdivision, agent, commission, board, or authority of any of the foregoing, or (c) any quasi-governmental or private body exercising any regulatory, expropriation or taxing authority under or for the account of any of the foregoing, and any stock exchange or self-regulatory authority and, for greater certainty, includes Health Canada, the FDA and the Securities Commissions;

 

HRC Charge” means HRC charge (no. 2017131E) filed with the Office of the Human Rights and Equity Programs on November 30, 2017 pursuant to Chapter 11 of the Code of the County of Fairfax, Virginia, alleging that TMS discriminated against Angela Logan (a former TMS employee);

 

IFRS” means International Financial Reporting Standards, which are issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, as adopted in Canada;

 

Indemnified Party” or “Indemnified Parties” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 14;

 

Initial Shares” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement;

 

 

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Intellectual Property” means intellectual property rights, including: (i) all inventions, patents and patent applications, including all continuations, continuations-in-part, divisionals, provisionals, non-provisionals, re-examinations, re-issues and extensions, and all improvements and modifications thereto, regardless of the jurisdiction in which the rights are registered, applied for or used (“Patents”); (ii) trademarks, service marks, trade dress, trade names, corporate names, logos, slogans, industrial designs and Internet domain names, including all registrations, applications and renewals for any of the foregoing, together with all goodwill associated with each of the foregoing; (iii) copyrights and copyrightable works in whatever form or medium, including all registrations, applications and renewals for any of the foregoing; (iv) proprietary computer software (including but not limited to source and object code, data, data bases and documentation); and (v) trade secrets, confidential information and know-how;

 

Interim Financial Statements” means the unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements of the Corporation for the three-month period ended March 31, 2020;

 

Investor Rights Agreement” means the investor rights agreement dated May 17, 2019 between the Corporation and 1315 Capital II, LP providing for, among other things, participation rights in favour of 1315 Capital II, LP;

 

knowledge” means, as it pertains to the Corporation, the information to the best of the knowledge, after due inquiry, of the following persons: William Leonard, Erns Loubser and Aniss Amdiss;

 

Leased Premises” has the meaning ascribed thereto in subsection 6(z);

 

Licensed IP” means the Intellectual Property owned by any person other than the Corporation and the Subsidiaries and which the Corporation and/or a Subsidiary uses;

 

marketing materials” has the meaning ascribed thereto in NI 41-101;

 

Material Adverse Effect” means any change, effect, event, occurrence or change in a state of facts that is, or would reasonably be expected to be, individually or in the aggregate, material and adverse to the business, operations, financial condition, results, assets, properties, rights, liabilities or prospects of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) or that is or is reasonably likely to be materially adverse to the completion of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;

 

Material Agreement” means any material mortgage, note, indenture, contract, agreement (written or oral), instrument, lease or other document to which the Corporation or a Subsidiary is a party or by which the Corporation, a Subsidiary or a material portion of the assets of the Corporation or a Subsidiary is bound;

 

Material Subsidiary” means each of TMS, Achieve TMS Centers, LLC, Greenbrook TMS St. Louis LLC, Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC, TMS NeuroHealth Centers Owings Mills, LLC, TMS NeuroHealth Centers Rockville, LLC and Greenbrook TMS Houston LLC;

 

Maximum Offering” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement;

 

MI 11-102” means Multilateral Instrument 11-102 – Passport System;

 

Minimum Offering” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement;

 

Money Laundering Laws” has the meaning ascribed thereto in subsection 6(mmm);

 

 

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NI 41-101” means National Instrument 41-101 – General Prospectus Requirements;

 

NI 44-101” means National Instrument 44-101 – Short Form Prospectus Distributions;

 

Notice” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 24;

 

NP 11-202” means National Policy 11-202 – Process for Prospectus Reviews in Multiple Jurisdictions and its related memorandum of understanding;

 

OBCA” means the Business Corporations Act (Ontario);

 

OFAC” has the meaning ascribed thereto in subsection 6(ooo);

 

Offered Shares” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the third paragraph of this Agreement;

 

Offering” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the third paragraph of this Agreement;

 

Offering Documents” has the meaning ascribed thereto in subsection 5(a)(iii);

 

Offering Price” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement;

 

Option Closing Date” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the second paragraph of this Agreement;

 

Option Closing Time” means 8:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on the Option Closing Date or such other time on the Option Closing Date as the Corporation and the Co-Lead Agents may agree in writing;

 

Option Shares” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the second paragraph of this Agreement;

 

Over-Allotment Closing” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 9;

 

Over-Allotment Option” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the second paragraph of this Agreement;

 

Passport System” means the system and procedures for prospectus filing and review under MI 11-102 and NP 11-202;

 

Permits” has the meaning ascribed thereto in subsection 6(u);

 

person” shall be interpreted broadly and shall include any individual, corporation, limited partnership, general partnership, joint stock company or association, joint venture association, company, trust, bank, trust company, land trust, investment trust, society or other entity, organization, syndicate, whether incorporated or not, trustee, executor or other legal personal representative, and governments and agencies and political subdivisions thereof;

 

Preliminary Prospectus” means the preliminary short form prospectus of the Corporation dated May 5, 2020, including all Documents Incorporated by Reference, relating to the distribution of the Offered Shares and for which a receipt has been issued by the Ontario Securities Commission (as principal regulator) and each of the other Securities Commissions in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pursuant to the Passport System;

 

President’s List Purchasers” means those Purchasers that have been pre-identified in writing by the Corporation to the Co-Lead Agents, and will be consented to in writing by the Co-Lead Agents to the Corporation, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, prior to the Closing Date;

 

 

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Prospectus” means, as the context requires, the Preliminary Prospectus, the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus and/or the Final Prospectus, including any Prospectus Amendment;

 

Prospectus Amendment” means any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus;

 

Purchasers” means the persons who, as purchasers, acquire the Offered Shares;

 

Qualified Institutional Buyer” means a “qualified institutional buyer” as that term is defined in Rule 144A;

 

Qualifying Jurisdictions” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the fourth paragraph of this Agreement;

 

Registered Corporation IP” means all Corporation IP that is the subject of registration with a national intellectual property office (including CIPO and the USPTO) for Intellectual Property or applications for such registration with a national intellectual property office;

 

Regulation D” means Regulation D adopted under the U.S. Securities Act;

 

Regulation S” means Regulation S adopted under the U.S. Securities Act;

 

Rule 144A” means Rule 144A adopted under the U.S. Securities Act;

 

Securities Commissions” means, collectively, the applicable securities commission or other securities regulatory authority in each of the Qualifying Jurisdictions;

 

Selling Firm” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the fifth paragraph of this Agreement;

 

Selling Jurisdictions” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the fourth paragraph of this Agreement;

 

Standard Listing Conditions” has the meaning ascribed thereto in subsection 4(a)(v);

 

standard term sheet” has the meaning ascribed thereto in NI 41-101;

 

Subsidiary” means a “subsidiary” (as such term is defined in in National Instrument 45-106 – Prospectus Exemptions) of the Corporation;

 

Taxes” has the meaning ascribed thereto in subsection 6(l);

 

template version” has the meaning ascribed thereto in NI 41-101;

 

TMS” means TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc., a Delaware corporation;

 

TMS Center” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus;

 

Transaction Documents” has the meaning ascribed thereto in subsection 6(a);

 

Transfer Agent” means the registrar and transfer agent for the Common Shares, namely Computershare Investor Services Inc.;

 

TSX” means the Toronto Stock Exchange;

 

U.S. Exchange Act” means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934;

 

 

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U.S. Memorandum” means the U.S. private placement memorandum, in a form satisfactory to the Agents and the Corporation, acting reasonably, preliminary versions of which were attached to the Preliminary Prospectus and the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus and the final version of which will be attached to the Final Prospectus, to be delivered to each offeree and Purchaser of Offered Shares in the United States in accordance with Schedule “A”;

 

U.S. Person” means a “U.S. person” as that term is defined in Regulation S;

 

U.S. Placement Agent” means a duly registered U.S. broker-dealer who is acting as sub-agent to conduct offers and sales of the Offered Shares in the United States or to U.S. Persons;

 

U.S. Securities Act” means the United States Securities Act of 1933;

 

U.S. Securities Laws” means all applicable securities laws in the United States, including the U.S. Securities Act, the U.S. Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and any applicable state securities laws;

 

United States” means the United States of America, its territories and possessions, any state of the United States and the District of Columbia; and

 

USPTO” means the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

 

Unless otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, words importing only the singular number include the plural and vice versa and words importing gender include all genders. References to “Sections”, “subsections” or “clauses” are to the appropriate section, subsection or clause of this Agreement, references herein to any agreement or instrument, including this Agreement, are deemed to be references to the agreement or instrument as varied, amended, modified, supplemented or replaced from time to time, and references herein to any legislation or enactment are deemed to be references to such legislation or enactment as the same may be amended or replaced from time to time. References to “including” shall mean “including, without limitation”.

 

The following schedule is attached to this Agreement, which schedule is deemed to be a part hereof and is hereby incorporated by reference herein:

 

Schedule “A” – United States Offers and Sales

 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

 

1.       Nature of the Transaction.

 

Based upon the foregoing and subject to the terms and conditions set out below, the Corporation hereby appoints the Agents to act as its sole and exclusive agents and the Agents hereby accept such appointment, to effect the sale of the Offered Shares for an aggregate purchase price of a minimum amount equal to the Minimum Offering and up to a maximum amount equal to the Maximum Offering, on a “best efforts” basis to persons resident in the Selling Jurisdictions. The Agents agree to use their “best efforts” to sell the Offered Shares, but it is hereby understood and agreed that the Agents shall act as agents only and are under no obligation to purchase any of the Offered Shares, although the Agents may subscribe for the Offered Shares if they so desire. The Offering will be subject to subscriptions being received for the Minimum Offering. All funds received by the Agents will be held in trust until the Minimum Offering has been raised. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, all subscription funds received by the Agents will be returned to the Purchasers without any deduction or interest if the Minimum Offering is not raised on or before the date that is 90 days after the date of the Final Receipt. The Corporation may undertake one or more Closings on a rolling basis after the Minimum Offering has been raised, up to the Maximum Offering and in any event prior to the date that is 90 days after the date of the Final Receipt.

 

 

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2.       Corporation’s Covenants.

 

The Corporation makes the following covenants to the Agents and to the Purchasers and their permitted assigns, and acknowledges that each of them is relying on such covenants in purchasing the Offered Shares:

 

(a) Until the date on which the distribution of the Offered Shares is completed, the Corporation will promptly take, or cause to be taken, all additional steps and proceedings that may from time to time be required under Canadian Securities Laws to continue to qualify the distribution of the Offered Shares or, in the event that the Offered Shares or any of them, have, for any reason, ceased to so qualify, to so qualify again such securities, as applicable, for distribution. The Agents shall be entitled to assume that the Offered Shares are qualified for distribution in any Qualifying Jurisdiction where the Final Receipt shall have been obtained.

 

(b) The Corporation shall, concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, prepare and file in accordance with Canadian Securities Laws the Final Prospectus and any other required documents relating to the proposed distribution of the Offered Shares in the Qualifying Jurisdictions, and obtain, pursuant to the Passport System, the Final Receipt, and take all other steps and proceedings that may be necessary to be taken by the Corporation in order to qualify the Offered Shares for distribution in each of the Qualifying Jurisdictions under Canadian Securities Laws on or before 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on the Business Day following the date hereof or such later date as the Corporation and the Co-Lead Agents, on behalf of the Agents, may agree.

 

(c) Prior to and at all times until the Closing Time and any Option Closing Time, the Corporation will allow the Agents (and their counsel and consultants) to conduct all due diligence which the Agents may reasonably require or which may be considered necessary or appropriate by the Agents. The Corporation will provide to the Agents (and their counsel) reasonable access to the Corporation’s properties, senior management personnel and corporate, financial and other records, for the purposes of conducting such due diligence. Without limiting the scope of the due diligence inquiry the Agents (or their counsel) may conduct, the Corporation shall use its best efforts to make available its directors, senior management, auditors and counsel to answer any questions which the Agents may have, acting reasonably, and to participate in one or more due diligence sessions (such questions to be distributed reasonably in advance of each session) to be held prior to Closing and any Over-Allotment Closing and prior to filing each of the Preliminary Prospectus, the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus.

 

(d) The Corporation covenants to use commercially reasonable efforts to fulfill or cause to be fulfilled, at or prior to the initial Closing Date, each of the conditions required to be fulfilled by it set out in Section 8.

 

(e) The Corporation covenants to fulfill all legal requirements to permit the issuance, offering and sale of the Offered Shares, all as contemplated in this Agreement and to file or cause to be filed all documents, applications, forms or undertakings required to be filed by the Corporation and take or cause to be taken all action required to be taken by the Corporation in connection with the purchase and sale of the Offered Shares.

 

 

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(f) Until the date of the completion of the distribution of the Offered Shares, the Corporation covenants to use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the Preliminary Prospectus, the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and the U.S. Memorandum comply at all times with Applicable Securities Laws.

 

(g) During the period from the date hereof until the later of the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as applicable, and the completion of the distribution of the Offered Shares, the Corporation covenants to promptly inform the Agents of the full particulars of any request of any securities regulatory authority for any information, or the receipt by the Corporation of any communication from any securities regulatory authority or any other competent authority relating to the Corporation or which may be relevant to the issuance of the Offered Shares.

 

(h) During the period from the date hereof until completion of the distribution of the Offered Shares, the Corporation covenants to promptly provide to the Agents and the Agents’ counsel, prior to the publication, filing or issuance thereof, any communication to the public, and will not publish those communications (unless otherwise required by Applicable Securities Laws) except with the prior approval of the Co-Lead Agents, on behalf of the Agents, acting reasonably and without delay.

 

(i) The Corporation covenants to apply the net proceeds from the Offering in accordance with the parameters described in the Prospectus.

 

(j) The Corporation covenants to advise the Agents, promptly after receiving notice thereof, of the time when the Final Prospectus and any Prospectus Amendment has been filed and receipts therefor have been obtained pursuant to the Passport System and will provide evidence satisfactory to the Agents, acting reasonably, of each such filing and copies of such receipts.

 

(k) The Corporation covenants to advise the Agents, promptly after receiving notice or obtaining knowledge thereof, of:

 

(i) the issuance by any Securities Commission of any order suspending or preventing the use of the Preliminary Prospectus, the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus or any Prospectus Amendment or the institution, threatening or contemplation of any proceeding for any such purposes;

 

(ii) any order, ruling, or determination having the effect of suspending the sale or ceasing the trading in the Common Shares or any securities of the Corporation having been issued by any Securities Commission or the institution, threatening or contemplation of any proceeding for any such purposes; or

 

(iii) any requests made by any Securities Commission for amending or supplementing the Preliminary Prospectus, the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus or for additional information, and will use its commercially reasonable efforts to prevent the issuance of any order referred to in (i) above and, if any such order is issued, to obtain the withdrawal thereof as quickly as possible.

 

 

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(l) The Corporation covenants that, for a period of one year after the final Closing Date, the Corporation shall (i) not take any action which would be reasonably expected to result in the delisting or suspension of the Common Shares on or from the TSX and the Corporation shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to comply with the rules and regulations thereof, and (ii) use its commercially reasonable best efforts to maintain its status as a “reporting issuer” (or the equivalent thereof) not in default of the requirements of Canadian Securities Laws.

 

(m) The Corporation shall allow the Agents to participate in the preparation of the Final Prospectus and any Prospectus Amendment that the Corporation is required to file under Applicable Securities Laws relating to the Offering.

 

(n) The Corporation covenants to deliver to the Agents, without charge, contemporaneously with, or prior to the filing of, the Final Prospectus, unless otherwise indicated, a copy of any document filed with, or delivered to, the Securities Commissions by the Corporation under Applicable Securities Laws with the Final Prospectus.

 

(o) The Corporation shall deliver opinions, comfort letters and other documents substantially similar to those referred to in Section 8, as applicable, to the Agents and the Agents’ legal counsel, as applicable, with respect to any Prospectus Amendment, contemporaneously with, or prior to the filing of, any Prospectus Amendment.

 

(p) The Corporation will make any offers or sales of Offered Shares in the United States in accordance with Schedule “A”.

 

3.       Agents’ Representations, Warranties and Covenants.

 

The Agents hereby severally represent and warrant to and covenant with the Corporation that at least one of the Agents is duly qualified and registered to carry on business as a securities dealer in each of the Qualifying Jurisdictions where the sale of the Offered Shares requires such qualification and/or registration in a manner that permits the sale of the Offered Shares on a basis described in subsection 3(a). Each of the Agents hereby severally (on its own behalf and not on behalf of any other Agents) represents and warrants to, and covenants with, the Corporation that:

 

(a) it shall offer and solicit offers for the purchase of the Offered Shares in compliance with Applicable Securities Laws and the provisions of this Agreement and only from such persons and in such manner that, pursuant to Applicable Securities Laws and the securities laws of any other Selling Jurisdiction, no prospectus, registration statement or similar document need be delivered or filed, other than any prescribed reports of the issue and sale of the Offered Shares and the Preliminary Prospectus, the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus and, in the case of any jurisdiction other than the Qualifying Jurisdictions, no continuous disclosure obligations will be created;

 

(b) upon the Corporation obtaining the necessary receipt or deemed receipt in each of the Qualifying Jurisdictions pursuant to the Passport System and NI 44-101, it shall deliver one copy of the Prospectus to each of the Purchasers;

 

 

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(c) it shall not provide to prospective Purchasers any document or other material that would constitute an offering memorandum within the meaning of Applicable Securities Laws without the prior written consent of the Corporation;

 

(d) it will not offer or sell the Offered Shares in any jurisdiction other than the Qualifying Jurisdictions (unless subsequently agreed to by the Corporation) and the United States in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;

 

(e) it will make any offers or sales of Offered Shares in the United States in accordance with Schedule “A”;

 

(f) it will refrain from advertising the Offering in (A) printed media of general and regular paid circulation, (B) radio, (C) television, or (D) telecommunication (including electronic display and the Internet) and not make use of any green sheet or other internal marketing document without the consent of the Corporation, such consent to be promptly considered and not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned; and

 

(g) it will use its commercially reasonable efforts to complete the distribution of the Offered Shares pursuant to the Final Prospectus as early as practicable and the Agents shall advise the Corporation in writing when, in the opinion of the Agents, they have completed the distribution of the Offered Shares and, if required for regulatory compliance purposes, within 30 days after the initial Closing Date and any Option Closing Date, provide a breakdown of the number of Offered Shares distributed and proceeds received (A) in each of the Qualifying Jurisdictions, and (B) in any other Selling Jurisdiction in which the Offered Shares are offered or sold.

 

It is agreed that no Agent will be liable for any act, omission, default or conduct by any other Agent under the foregoing Section 3.

 

4.       Deliveries on Filing, Marketing Materials and Related Matters.

 

(a) The Corporation shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to each of the Agents, without charge:

 

(i) on the date hereof, a copy of the Preliminary Prospectus, the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus, each signed and certified as required by Canadian Securities Laws;

 

(ii) contemporaneously with the filing of the Final Prospectus, a copy of any other document required to be filed or that is otherwise delivered by the Corporation under the laws of each of the Qualifying Jurisdictions in compliance with Canadian Securities Laws;

 

(iii) the U.S. Memorandum and, forthwith after preparation, any amendment to the U.S. Memorandum;

 

(iv) concurrently with the filing of the Final Prospectus with the Securities Commissions, a “long form” comfort letter dated the date of the Final Prospectus, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agents, acting reasonably, addressed to the Agents and the directors of the Corporation, with respect to financial and accounting information relating to the Corporation contained in the Final Prospectus, which letter shall be based on a review by the Corporation’s Auditors within a cut-off date of not more than two Business Days prior to the date of the letter, which letter shall be in addition to the consent letter of the Corporation’s Auditors addressed to the Securities Commissions;

 

 

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(v) prior to the filing of the Final Prospectus with the Securities Commissions, copies of all correspondence from the TSX indicating that the application for the listing and posting for trading on the TSX of the Offered Shares has been approved for listing subject only to satisfaction by the Corporation of certain standard post-Closing conditions imposed by the TSX as set out in its conditional approval letter in respect of the Offering (the “Standard Listing Conditions”); and

 

(vi) prior to the filing of any Prospectus Amendment with the Securities Commissions, a copy of such Prospectus Amendment signed and certified as required by Canadian Securities Laws. Concurrently with the delivery of any Prospectus Amendment, the Corporation shall deliver to the Agents and the Agents’ counsel, with respect to such Prospectus Amendment, opinions, comfort letters and such other documentation substantially equivalent or similar to those referred to in this Section 4, as appropriate or reasonably requested by the Agents in the circumstances.

 

(b) The Corporation shall deliver without charge to the Agents, at those delivery points in the Qualifying Jurisdictions as the Agents may reasonably request, as soon as practicable and in any event in the City of Toronto no later than 2:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on the first Business Day after, and to other cities no later than the second Business Day after, obtaining the Final Receipt, and thereafter from time to time during the distribution of the Offered Shares, in such cities in the Qualifying Jurisdictions as the Agents shall notify the Corporation, as many commercial copies of the Preliminary Prospectus, Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus and Final Prospectus (and in the event of any Prospectus Amendment, such amendment) as the Agents may reasonably request for the purposes contemplated under Canadian Securities Laws. The Corporation will similarly cause to be delivered to the Agents, in such cities in the Qualifying Jurisdictions as the Agents may reasonably request, commercial copies of any Prospectus Amendment required to be delivered to Purchasers or prospective Purchasers. Each delivery of the Preliminary Prospectus, Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus, Final Prospectus or any Prospectus Amendment will have constituted and constitute the Corporation’s consent to the use of the Prospectus by the Agents for the distribution of the Offered Shares in the Qualifying Jurisdictions in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement and Canadian Securities Laws.

 

(c) The Corporation shall deliver without charge to the Agents, at those delivery points as the Agents may reasonably request, as soon as practicable and in any event in the City of Toronto no later than 2:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on the first Business Day after, and to other cities no later than the second Business Day after, obtaining the Final Receipt, and thereafter from time to time during the distribution of the Offered Shares, in such cities as the Agents shall notify the Corporation, as many commercial copies of the U.S. Memorandum (and in the event of any Prospectus Amendment, such amended U.S. Memorandum) as the Agents may reasonably request for the purposes contemplated under U.S. Securities Laws. The Corporation will similarly cause to be delivered to the Agents, in such cities as the Agents may reasonably request, commercial copies of any Prospectus Amendment required to be delivered to Purchasers or prospective Purchasers of Offered Shares. Each delivery of the U.S. Memorandum and any Prospectus Amendment will have constituted and constitute the Corporation’s consent to the use of the U.S. Memorandum and any Prospectus Amendment by the Agents for the distribution of the Offered Shares in the United States in compliance with this Agreement and U.S. Securities Laws.

 

 

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(d) The Corporation shall also prepare and deliver promptly to the Agents signed copies of all Prospectus Amendments.

 

(e) Delivery of the Prospectus and any Prospectus Amendment shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Corporation to the Agents that, as at their respective dates of filing:

 

(i) all information and statements (except Agents’ Information) contained in the Prospectus and any Prospectus Amendment are true and correct in all material respects, and contain no misrepresentation and constitute full, true and plain disclosure of all material facts relating to the Corporation and the Offered Shares;

 

(ii) no material fact or information has been omitted therefrom which is required to be stated in such disclosure or is necessary to make the statements or information contained in such disclosure not misleading in light of the circumstances under which they were made; and

 

(iii) such documents comply in all material respects with the requirements of Canadian Securities Laws.

 

(f) During the distribution of the Offered Shares, the Corporation and the Co-Lead Agents shall approve in writing (prior to such time that marketing materials are provided to potential Purchasers) any marketing materials reasonably requested to be provided by the Agents to any potential Purchaser, such marketing materials to comply with Canadian Securities Laws. The Corporation shall file a template version of such marketing materials with the Securities Commissions as soon as reasonably practicable after such marketing materials are so approved in writing by the Corporation and the Co-Lead Agents, on behalf of the Agents, and in any event on or before the day the marketing materials are first provided to any potential Purchaser, and such filing shall constitute the Agents’ authority to use such marketing materials in connection with the Offering. Any comparables may be redacted from the template version in accordance with NI 44-101 prior to filing such template version with the Securities Commissions and a complete template version containing such comparables and any disclosure relating to the comparables, if any, shall be delivered to the Securities Commissions by the Corporation.

 

(g) The Corporation and each of the Agents, on a several basis, covenant and agree:

 

(i) not to provide any potential Purchaser with any marketing materials unless a template version of such marketing materials has been filed by the Corporation with the Securities Commissions on or before the day such marketing materials are first provided to any potential Purchaser;

 

 

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(ii) not to provide any potential Purchaser with any materials or information in relation to the distribution of the Offered Shares or the Corporation other than (A) such marketing materials that have been filed in accordance with subsection 4(g)(i), (B) the Preliminary Prospectus, the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus, and (C) any standard term sheets approved in writing by the Corporation and the Co-Lead Agents; provided, for greater certainty, that the Applicable Marketing Materials were approved by the Corporation and the Co-Lead Agents on May 5, 2020 and May 6, 2020, respectively; and

 

(iii) that any marketing materials filed in accordance with subsection 4(g)(i), and any standard term sheets approved in writing by the Corporation and the Co-Lead Agents, shall only be provided to potential Purchasers in the Selling Jurisdictions where the provision of such marketing materials or standard term sheets does not contravene Applicable Securities Laws or the securities laws of any Selling Jurisdiction other than Canada or the United States.

 

5.       Material Changes.

 

(a) During the period from the date hereof until the Agents notify the Corporation of the completion of the distribution of the Offered Shares in accordance with their obligations in subsection 3(g), the Corporation shall promptly inform the Agents (and if requested by the Agents, confirm such notification in writing) of the full particulars of:

 

(i) any material change (actual, anticipated, contemplated, threatened, financial or otherwise) in the assets, liabilities (contingent or otherwise), business, affairs, operations, financial condition, prospects or capital of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis;

 

(ii) any material fact which has arisen or has been discovered and would have been required to have been stated in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus had the fact arisen or been discovered on, or prior to, the date of such documents;

 

(iii) any change in any material fact contained in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus or any Prospectus Amendment (collectively, the “Offering Documents”) or whether any event or state of facts has occurred after the date hereof, which, in any case, is, or may be, of such a nature as to render any of the Offering Documents untrue or misleading in any material respect or which would result in any misrepresentation in any of the Offering Documents, or which would result in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus or any Prospectus Amendment not complying (to the extent that such compliance is required) with Applicable Securities Laws or which would reasonably be expected to have a significant effect on the market price or value of the Common Shares; and

 

(iv) any breach or potential breach of any of the representations and warranties in subsection 4(e) and/or Section 6.

 

 

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(b) The Corporation covenants to comply with section 57 of the Securities Act (Ontario) and with the comparable provisions of the other Canadian Securities Laws, and the Corporation will prepare and file promptly any Prospectus Amendment which may be necessary and will otherwise comply with all legal requirements necessary to continue to permit the Offered Shares to be distributed in each of the Qualifying Jurisdictions as contemplated herein.

 

(c) In addition to the provisions of subsections 5(a) and 5(b), the Corporation shall in good faith discuss with the Agents any change, event or fact contemplated in subsections 5(a) and 5(b) which is of such a nature that there is or could be reasonable doubt as to whether notice should be given to the Agents under subsection 5(a) and shall consult with the Agents with respect to the form and content of any Prospectus Amendment proposed to be filed by the Corporation, it being understood and agreed that no such Prospectus Amendment shall be filed with any securities regulatory authority prior to the review thereof by the Agents and the Agents’ counsel, acting reasonably and without delay (unless otherwise required by Canadian Securities Laws).

 

(d) If during the period of distribution of the Offered Shares there shall be any change in Applicable Securities Laws which, in the opinion of the Agents, acting reasonably, requires the filing of any Prospectus Amendment, upon written notice from the Agents, the Corporation shall, to the satisfaction of the Agents, acting reasonably, promptly prepare and file any such Prospectus Amendment with the appropriate securities regulatory authority where such filing is required under Canadian Securities Laws.

 

6. Representations and Warranties of the Corporation. The Corporation represents and warrants to the Agents that each of the following representations and warranties is true and correct on the date of this Agreement:

 

(a) the Corporation is a corporation duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it was incorporated, has all requisite corporate power and authority and is duly qualified and holds all necessary material permits, licences and authorizations necessary or required to carry on its business as now conducted and to own, lease or operate its properties and assets and no steps or proceedings have been taken by any person, voluntary or otherwise, requiring or authorizing its dissolution or winding up, and the Corporation has all requisite power and authority to enter into, execute, deliver and file, as applicable, each of this Agreement, the Offering Documents and the U.S. Memorandum (collectively, the “Transaction Documents”) and to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder;

 

(b) each of the execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents, the performance by the Corporation of its obligations hereunder and thereunder, the issue and sale of the Offered Shares and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, do not and will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under (whether after notice or lapse of time or both) (A) any statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Corporation or the Subsidiaries including Applicable Securities Laws; (B) the constating documents, bylaws or resolutions of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries which are in effect at the date hereof; (C) any Material Agreement or other document to which the Corporation or any Subsidiary is a party or by which the Corporation or any Subsidiary is bound; or (D) any judgment, decree or order binding the Corporation or any Subsidiary or any of their respective properties or assets;

 

 

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(c) the Corporation does not beneficially own or exercise control or direction over 10% or more of the outstanding shares of any company other than the Subsidiaries disclosed in writing to the Agents and the Corporation beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, the applicable interest in such Subsidiaries as disclosed in writing to the Agents free and clear of all mortgages, liens, charges, pledges, security interests, encumbrances, claims or demands of any kind whatsoever, all of such shares have been duly authorized and validly issued and are outstanding as fully paid shares and subject to no further call for contribution and no person has any right, agreement or option, present or future, contingent or absolute, or any right capable of becoming a right, agreement or option, for the purchase from the Corporation or the Subsidiaries of any interest in any of such shares or for the issue or allotment of any unissued securities in the capital of any of the Subsidiaries or any other security convertible into or exchangeable for any such shares; provided that, under operating agreements entered into prior to the date hereof, TMS has granted certain minority shareholders of certain Subsidiaries the right to tender such shares in exchange for shares of TMS or a successor public company, on terms determined under the terms of the operating agreements;

 

(d) the Material Subsidiaries (other than Greenbrook TMS Houston LLC) represent all of the Subsidiaries with over US$1,250,000 in trailing 12 months revenue;

 

(e) each Subsidiary is a corporation duly organized and validly existing under the laws of its governing jurisdiction in which it was incorporated, has all requisite corporate power and authority and is duly qualified and holds all necessary material permits, licences and authorizations necessary or required to carry on its business as now conducted and to own, lease or operate its properties and assets and no steps or proceedings have been taken by any person, voluntary or otherwise, requiring or authorizing its dissolution or winding up;

 

(f) none of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries is (A) in default or in breach of the constating documents or resolutions of its directors or shareholders or (B) in default of any material obligations under any Material Agreement or other document to which the Corporation or any Subsidiary is a party or by which the Corporation or any Subsidiary is bound;

 

(g) except where no Material Adverse Effect would result, each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries is licensed, registered or qualified as an extra-provincial, foreign corporation or an extra-provincial partnership, as the case may be, in all jurisdictions where the character of the property or assets thereof owned or leased or the nature of the activities conducted by it make such licensing, registration or qualification necessary and is carrying on the business thereof in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations of each such jurisdiction;

 

(h) all consents, approvals, permits, authorizations or filings as may be required under Applicable Securities Laws necessary for (i) the execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents; (ii) the issuance of the Offered Shares; and (iii) the completion of the Offering, have been made or obtained, as applicable, subject only to satisfaction by the Corporation of the Standard Listing Conditions and any post-Closing filings required by Applicable Securities Laws;

 

 

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(i) none of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries has approved, is contemplating, or has entered into any agreement in respect of, and none of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries has any knowledge of: (A) except in the ordinary course of business, the purchase of any property material to the Corporation or the Subsidiaries or assets or any interest therein or the sale, transfer or other disposition of any property of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries or assets or any interest therein currently owned, directly or indirectly, by the Corporation or the Subsidiaries whether by asset sale, transfer or sale of shares or otherwise; or (B) the change of control (by sale or transfer of shares or sale of all or substantially all of the property and assets of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries) of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries;

 

(j) the Financial Statements (i) have been prepared in accordance with IFRS, consistently applied throughout the periods referred to therein, (ii) contain no misrepresentation and present fully, fairly and correctly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries as at such dates thereof and the results of the operations and the changes in the financial position of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries for the periods then ended, and (iii) contain and reflect adequate provisions or allowance for all reasonably anticipated liabilities, expenses and losses of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries, and there has been no change in accounting policies or practices of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries subsequent to the date of the Interim Financial Statements;

 

(k) each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries maintains a system of internal controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that access to assets is permitted only in accordance with managements general or specific authorization;

 

(l) all taxes (including income tax, capital tax, payroll taxes, employer health tax, workerscompensation payments, property taxes, custom and land transfer taxes), duties, royalties, levies, imposts, assessments, deductions, charges or withholdings and all liabilities with respect thereto including any penalty and interest payable with respect thereto (collectively, Taxes) due and payable by the Corporation and the Subsidiaries have been paid, except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect. All tax returns, declarations, remittances and filings required to be filed by the Corporation and the Subsidiaries have been filed with all appropriate Governmental Authorities and all such returns, declarations, remittances and filings are complete and accurate in all material respects and no material fact or facts have been omitted therefrom which would make any of them misleading. To the knowledge of the Corporation, no examination of any tax return of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries is currently in progress and there are no issues or disputes outstanding with any Governmental Authority respecting any Taxes that have been paid, or may be payable, by the Corporation or the Subsidiaries;

 

(m) except as disclosed in the Prospectus or in any Prospectus Amendment, there are no rights, warrants or options to acquire, or instruments convertible into or exchangeable for, any securities in the capital of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries that are outstanding and no person is entitled to any pre-emptive or any similar rights to subscribe for any Common Shares or other securities of the Corporation or any of the Subsidiaries (except as set forth in the Investor Rights Agreement and as disclosed to the Agents with respect to the side letter agreement dated October 15, 2018 among TMS, Advanced TMS Health Centers, Inc. and Serena-Lynn Brown and the side letter agreement dated December 28, 2018 among Greenbrook TMS Cleveland LLC and Ohio Psychiatry Specialists, LLC); provided that, under operating agreements entered into prior to the date hereof, TMS has granted certain minority shareholders of certain Subsidiaries the right to tender such shares in exchange for shares of TMS or a successor public company, on terms determined under the terms of the operating agreements;

 

 

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(n) except as disclosed in the Prospectus or in any Prospectus Amendment, there are no persons with registration rights or other similar rights granted by the Corporation to have any securities of the Corporation registered or qualified for distribution pursuant to any Applicable Securities Laws or the laws, rules or regulations of any other country, other than as set forth in the Investor Rights Agreement;

 

(o) neither the Corporation nor any Subsidiary has declared or paid any dividends or declared or made any other payments or distributions on or in respect of any of its shares (except for distributions made by Subsidiaries to certain physician partners in respect of TMS Centers that are co-owned by such physician partners) and has not directly or indirectly redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired any of its securities or agreed to do so or otherwise effected any return of capital with respect to such securities;

 

(p) other than with respect to the HRC Charge as disclosed in writing to the Agents, there are no legal or governmental actions, suits, judgments, investigations, charges or proceedings pending to which the Corporation, the Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Corporation, any of the directors, officers or employees of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries is a party or to which the Corporation’s or the Subsidiaries’ property or assets are subject which if finally determined adversely to the Corporation or the Subsidiaries would be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect and, to the knowledge of the Corporation, no such proceedings have been threatened against or are contemplated with respect to the Corporation, the Subsidiaries and/or any of their respective directors, officers or employees, or with respect to the property and assets of the Corporation or any Subsidiary (taken as a whole) and none of the Corporation or any Subsidiary is subject to any judgment, order, writ, injunction, decree or award of any Governmental Authority, which, either individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;

 

(q) each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries has conducted and is conducting its business in compliance in all material respects with all applicable laws and regulations of each jurisdiction in which it carries on business or holds assets (including all applicable federal, provincial, municipal and local environmental anti-pollution and licensing laws, regulations and other lawful requirements of any governmental or regulatory body, including all Governmental Authorities), holds all Permits under all such laws and is in compliance in all material respects with all terms of such Permits, and has not received a notice of non-compliance, nor knows of, nor has reasonable grounds to know of, any facts that could give rise to a notice of non-compliance with any such laws, regulations or Permits, which would have a Material Adverse Effect;

 

(r) the Corporation does not have knowledge of any legislation, or proposed legislation published by a legislative body, which it anticipates will cause a Material Adverse Effect;

 

(s) each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries, as applicable, owns or has the right to use under licence, sub-licence or otherwise all Intellectual Property used by the Corporation and/or the Subsidiaries in their respective businesses;

 

(t) any and all of the agreements and other documents and instruments pursuant to which the Corporation or a Subsidiary holds the material property and assets thereof (including any interest in, or right to earn an interest in, any such property) are valid and subsisting agreements, documents or instruments in full force and effect, enforceable in accordance with the terms thereof. None of the Corporation or any of the Subsidiaries is in default of any of the material provisions of any such agreements, documents or instruments nor has any such default been alleged and such properties and assets are in good standing under the applicable statutes and regulations of the jurisdictions in which they are situated, all material leases, licences and claims pursuant to which the Corporation or a Subsidiary derives the interests thereof in such property and assets are in good standing in all material respects and there has been no material default under any such lease, licence or claim. The material properties (or any interest in, or right to earn an interest in, any property) of each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries are not subject to any right of first refusal or purchase or acquisition right;

 

 

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(u) each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries holds all of the permits, licences and like authorizations necessary for it to carry on its business in each jurisdiction where such business is carried on that are material to the conduct of the business of each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries (collectively, the Permits); all such Permits are valid and subsisting and in good standing and each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries are in material compliance with each such Permit;

 

(v) the Transaction Documents have been authorized and have been (or will be, at the time of filing thereof) executed and delivered by the Corporation and constitute (or will constitute, at the time of filing thereof) valid and binding obligations of the Corporation, enforceable against the Corporation in accordance with their respective terms, except as enforcement thereof may be limited by the Enforceability Qualifications;

 

(w) at the Closing Time, all necessary corporate action will have been taken by the Corporation to validly issue the Offered Shares, which upon issuance in accordance with the terms of such securities, shall be validly issued as fully paid and non-assessable securities in the capital of the Corporation;

 

(x) the authorized capital of the Corporation consists of an unlimited number of Common Shares and an unlimited number of preferred shares, and as at the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the date hereof, 58,418,443 Common Shares were issued and outstanding as fully paid and non-assessable shares in the capital of the Corporation. There is sufficient authorized capital for the issuance of all Common Shares issuable on exercise of all outstanding convertible securities of the Corporation;

 

(y) none of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries has made any material loans to or guaranteed the obligations of any third party that remain outstanding or are in force;

 

(z) with respect to each premises of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries which each of the Corporation or a Subsidiary occupies as tenant (each, a Leased Premises), each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries occupies its respective Leased Premises and has the right to occupy and use such Leased Premises and each of the leases pursuant to which the Corporation or a Subsidiary occupies its respective Leased Premises is in good standing and in full force and effect under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with such exceptions as are not material and do not interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such property and buildings by the Corporation or the Subsidiaries;

 

(aa) each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries is in compliance in all material respects with all applicable laws respecting employment and employment practices, terms and conditions of employment, pay equity and wages and none of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries has or is engaged in any unfair labour practice;

 

 

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(bb) all information which has been prepared by the Corporation relating to the Corporation, the Subsidiaries and the business, property and liabilities of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries and either publicly disclosed or provided to the Agents, including in the Disclosure Record was, as of the respective dates of such information, true and correct in all material respects, and no fact or facts have been omitted therefrom which would make such information misleading, and to the knowledge of the Corporation, all information which has been prepared by the Corporation relating to the Corporation, the Subsidiaries and the business, property and liabilities of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries and provided to the Agents was, as of the respective dates of such information, true and correct in all material respects, and no fact or facts have been omitted therefrom which would make such information misleading;

 

(cc) none of the directors, officers or employees of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries or any associate or affiliate of any of the foregoing had or has any interest, direct or indirect, in any material transaction or any proposed material transaction with the Corporation or the Subsidiaries;

 

(dd) other than with respect to the HRC Charge as disclosed in writing to the Agents and other than as disclosed in the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus, there have not been and there are not currently any labour disruption or conflict, or material disagreements with any employee or employees of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries which are adversely affecting or could adversely affect the business of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries;

 

(ee) except as disclosed in the Prospectus or in any Prospectus Amendment, other than as mandated by a Governmental Authority, as at the date of this Agreement, there has been no closure or suspension to the operations of the Corporation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Corporation and the Subsidiaries has been monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential impact at all of their respective operations and have put appropriate control measures in place to support the health of all of their respective employees where the Corporation and the Subsidiaries operate while continuing to operate;

 

(ff) the corporate minutes and records of each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries made available to counsel for the Agents in connection with its due diligence investigation of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries for the periods from May 17, 2019 to the date hereof are all of the minute books and records of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries, respectively, and contain copies of all resolutions (or certified copies thereof or drafts thereof pending approval) of the shareholders, the directors and all committees of directors of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries to the date of review of such corporate records and minute books and there have been no other material meetings, resolutions or proceedings of the shareholders, directors or any committees of the directors of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries to the date hereof not reflected in such minute books and other records;

 

(gg) in connection with the ownership, use, maintenance or operation of their properties and assets, including the Leased Premises, none of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries has been in violation of any applicable material federal, provincial, municipal or local laws, by-laws, regulations, orders, policies, permits, licences, certificates or approvals having the force of law, domestic or foreign, relating to environmental, health or safety matters (collectively, the Environmental Laws);

 

 

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(hh) there are no pending orders, rulings or directives issued, or, to the Corporations knowledge, threatened against the Corporation or the Subsidiaries under or pursuant to any Environmental Laws requiring any work, repairs, construction or capital expenditures with respect to the property or assets of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries (including the Leased Premises);

 

(ii) to the knowledge of the Corporation, there are no environmental audits, evaluations, assessments, studies or tests relating to the Corporation or the Subsidiaries except for ongoing assessments conducted by or on behalf of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries in the ordinary course;

 

(jj) the Corporation and the Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary in the businesses in which they are engaged; and none of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries has reason to believe that it will not be able to renew any such insurance as and when such insurance expires or obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue the business of each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries at a cost that would not have a Material Adverse Effect;

 

(kk) other than the Agents (and any Selling Firm), there is no person acting or purporting to act at the request or on behalf of the Corporation that is entitled to any brokerage or finders fee in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;

 

(ll) neither the Corporation nor any of the Subsidiaries own any Patents; there is no material Corporation IP and there is no Corporation IP to which present or past employees of the Corporation or any Subsidiary or any of the past and present employees, consultants, contractors or agents of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries have contributed;

 

(mm) the Corporation and the Subsidiaries are the sole legal and beneficial owners of, have good and marketable title to, and own all right, title and interest in and to all Corporation IP free and clear of all encumbrances, charges, covenants, conditions, options to purchase and restrictions or other adverse claims or interest of any kind or nature, and the Corporation has no knowledge of any claim of adverse ownership in respect thereof. No consent of any person is necessary to make, use, reproduce, license, sell, modify, update, enhance or otherwise exploit any Corporation IP. None of the Corporation IP comprises an improvement to Licensed IP that would give any person any rights to the Corporation IP, including rights to license the Corporation IP. Each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries has a valid and enforceable right to the Licensed IP used or held for use in the business of each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries;

 

(nn) all applications for registration of any Registered Corporation IP are in good standing, are recorded in the name of the Corporation or a Subsidiary and have been filed in a timely manner in the appropriate offices to preserve the rights thereto and, in the case of a provisional application, the Corporation confirms that all right, title and interest in and to the invention(s) disclosed in such application(s) have been assigned in writing (without any express right to revoke such assignment) to the Corporation or a Subsidiary. To the knowledge of the Corporation, there has been no public disclosure, sale or offer for sale of any Corporation IP anywhere in the world that may prevent the valid issue of all available Intellectual Property rights in such Corporation IP. All prior art or other information has been disclosed to the appropriate offices as required in accordance with Applicable IP Laws in the jurisdictions where the applications are pending;

 

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(oo) the conduct of the business of each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries (including the use or other exploitation of the Corporation IP by each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries or other licensees) has not infringed, violated or misappropriated any Intellectual Property right of any person in any material respect;

 

(pp) none of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries is a party to any action or proceeding (including with respect to ownership of any Corporation IP), nor, to the knowledge of the Corporation, is or has any action or proceeding (including with respect to ownership of any Corporation IP) been threatened that alleges that any current or proposed conduct of the business of each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries (including the use or other exploitation of any Corporation IP by the Corporation or the Subsidiaries or any customers, distributors or other licensees) has or will infringe, violate or misappropriate any Intellectual Property right of any person;

 

(qq) neither the Corporation nor any of the Subsidiaries uses, reproduces, sub-licenses, sells, modifies, updates, enhances or otherwise exploits any Licensed IP to operate any aspect of the business of the Corporation or any of the Subsidiaries;

 

(rr) there is no material Corporation IP that is licensed to or has been disclosed to any person outside of the Corporation or any of the Subsidiaries;

 

(ss) each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries has taken all actions that are customary and reasonable to protect the confidentiality of the Corporation IP;

 

(tt) to the knowledge of the Corporation, it is not, and will not be, necessary for the Subsidiaries to utilize any Intellectual Property owned by or in possession of any of their employees (or people any Subsidiary currently intends to hire) made prior to their employment with a Subsidiary in a manner that is in violation of the rights of such employee or any of his or her prior employers;

 

(uu) none of the Subsidiaries has received any grant or loan which is subject to repayment in whole or in part or to conversion to debt upon sale of any securities of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries or which may affect the right of ownership of the Corporation or a Subsidiary in the Corporation IP;

 

(vv) to the knowledge of the Corporation, no person has interfered with, infringed upon, misappropriated, illegally exported, or violated any of the Corporation’s or the Subsidiaries’ rights in the Corporation IP;

 

(ww) to the knowledge of the Corporation, there is no claim of infringement or breach by the Corporation or the Subsidiaries of any industrial or Intellectual Property rights of any other person, nor has the Corporation or the Subsidiaries received any notice or threat from any such third party, nor does the Corporation have knowledge that the use of the business names, trademarks, service marks and other industrial or Intellectual Property of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries infringes upon or breaches any industrial or Intellectual Property rights of any other person;

 

(xx) there are no Intellectual Property disputes, settlement negotiations, settlement agreements or communications relating to the foregoing between the Corporation or the Subsidiaries and any other persons relating to or potentially relating to the business of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries which have not been resolved;

 

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(yy) each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries has conducted and is conducting its business in compliance in all material respects with all Applicable IP Laws of each jurisdiction in which it carries on business and has not received a notice of non-compliance, nor knows of, nor has reasonable grounds to know of, any facts that could give rise to a notice of non-compliance with any such laws;

 

(zz) there is no Corporation IP, the use of which requires a licence from another person;

 

(aaa) no litigation, legal or governmental proceedings or inquiries are pending to which the Corporation or a Subsidiary is a party or to which their respective properties are subject that would result in the revocation or modification of any certificate, authority, permit or licence necessary to conduct the business now owned or operated by the Corporation or the Subsidiaries, except where such litigation, legal or governmental proceeding or inquiry would not result in a Material Adverse Effect and no such litigation, legal or governmental proceedings or inquiries have been threatened against or, to the Corporations knowledge, are contemplated with respect to the Corporation or the Subsidiaries or with respect to their respective businesses, assets and/or properties;

 

(bbb) none of the Subsidiaries is a reporting issuer (or equivalent) under the securities laws of any jurisdiction and has not made any filing or application to become a reporting issuer (or equivalent) in any jurisdiction;

 

(ccc) there has never been a reportable event(within the meaning of National Instrument 51102 Continuous Disclosure Obligations of the Canadian Securities Administrators)

 

with the present or former auditors of the Corporation or its Subsidiaries;

 

(ddd) the audit committee of the Corporation is comprised and operates in accordance with the requirements of National Instrument 52-110 Audit Committees of the Canadian Securities Administrators;

 

(eee) the Corporation is an Eligible Issuer and a reporting issuer under Applicable Securities Laws in each of the provinces of Canada (other than Quebec); the Corporation is not in default in any material respect of any requirement of Canadian Securities Laws nor is included in a list of defaulting reporting issuers maintained by the Securities Commissions. In particular, without limiting the foregoing, the Corporation is in compliance at the date hereof with its obligations to make timely disclosure of all material changes relating to it and, other than in respect of material change reports previously filed on a confidential basis and thereafter made public or material change reports previously filed on a confidential basis and in respect of which no material change ever resulted, no such disclosure has been made on a confidential basis and there is no material change relating to the Corporation which has occurred and with respect to which the requisite material change statement has not been filed, except to the extent that the Offering constitutes a material change;

 

(fff) the currently issued and outstanding Common Shares are listed and posted for trading on the TSX and no order ceasing or suspending trading in any securities of the Corporation or prohibiting the trading of any of the Corporations issued securities has been issued and no proceedings for such purpose are pending or, to the knowledge of the Corporation, threatened;

 

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(ggg) none of the directors, officers or employees of the Corporation, any known holder of more than 10% of any class of shares of the Corporation, or any known associate or affiliate of any of the foregoing persons or companies (as such terms are defined in the Securities Act (Ontario)), had or has any material interest, direct or indirect, in any transaction within the previous three years or any proposed transaction that was or is material to the Corporation or the Subsidiaries;

 

(hhh) other than the Achieve Acquisition as disclosed in the Prospectus, there are no significant acquisitionsor probable acquisitionsthat would be a significant acquisitionfor the purposes of Applicable Securities Laws required to be disclosed in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus;

 

(iii) the definitive form of certificate representing the Common Shares complies with the requirements of the OBCA and does not conflict with the constating documents of the Corporation;

 

(jjj) each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with managements general or specific authorization; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with managements general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences;

 

(kkk) the Corporation has provided the Agents with all information reasonably requested by the Agents in connection with the Offering. The Corporation does not have knowledge of any material fact that has not been disclosed in the Prospectus, or to the Agents in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby. The Corporation has not withheld from the Agents any material information relating to the Corporation or to the Offering;

 

(lll) neither the Corporation nor any Subsidiary has, and to the knowledge of the Corporation, no director, officer, agent, employee or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries has: (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity; (ii) made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Corruption of Foreign Officials Act (Canada) or similar legislation; or (iv) made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment;

 

(mmm) the operations of each of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of money laundering statutes, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any Governmental Authority (collectively, the Money Laundering Laws) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or Governmental Authority or arbitrator involving the Corporation or the Subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending, or to the Corporations knowledge threatened;

 

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(nnn) none of the Corporation or the Subsidiaries has, directly or indirectly: (i) made or authorized any contribution, payment or gift of funds or property to any official, employee or agent of any governmental agency, authority or instrumentality of any jurisdiction; or (ii) made any contribution to any candidate for public office, in either case where either the payment or the purpose of such contribution, payment or gift was, is or would be prohibited under the Canada Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (Canada) or the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (Canada) or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder or under any other legislation of any relevant jurisdiction covering a similar subject matter applicable to the Corporation or the Subsidiaries and their respective operations, and will not use any portion of the gross proceeds, in contravention of such legislation;

 

(ooo) neither the Corporation nor any of the Subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Corporation, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Corporation or any of the Subsidiaries is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (OFAC) and the Corporation will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the Offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC;

 

(ppp) all clinical, pre-clinical and other studies and tests conducted by or on behalf of or sponsored by the Corporation or any Subsidiary (collectively, the Clinical Trials) have been and are being conducted in accordance with all applicable laws where such studies and tests are being conducted, including applicable laws administered by Governmental Authorities. Neither the Corporation nor any of the Subsidiaries has received any notices or written correspondence from any Governmental Authority with respect to any Clinical Trial requiring the termination or suspension of such Clinical Trial. All such Clinical Trials are insured by the trial sponsor against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary in the circumstances;

 

(qqq) on May 5, 2020, the Corporation filed the Preliminary Prospectus in each of the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario and obtained a receipt dated May 5, 2020 from the Ontario Securities Commission (as principal regulator) and each of the other Securities Commissions in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pursuant to the Passport System; and

 

(rrr) on May 6, 2020, the Corporation filed the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus in each of the Qualifying Jurisdictions and obtained receipts dated May 6, 2020 from the Ontario Securities Commission (as principal regulator) and each of the other Securities Commissions pursuant to the Passport System.

 

7.       Closing Deliveries. The purchase and sale of the Offered Shares shall be completed at the Closing Time and any Option Closing Time, as applicable, at the offices of Torys LLP, Toronto, Ontario, or at such other place as the Co-Lead Agents and the Corporation may agree. At or prior to the Closing Time and any Option Closing Time, as applicable, the Corporation shall duly and validly deliver to the Agents one or more global or definitive share certificates representing the Offered Shares registered in the name of CDS & Co. or its nominee, or in such name or names as the Co-Lead Agents may direct (or its equivalent in the non-certificated inventory system of the Transfer Agent) against payment by the Agents to the Corporation, at the direction of the Corporation, in lawful money of Canada or the United States as may be agreed between the Corporation and the Agents by wire transfer(s) of an amount equal to the aggregate purchase price for the Offered Shares being issued and sold hereunder less the Commission and all of the out-of-pocket expenses of the Agents payable by the Corporation to the Agents in accordance with Section 15.

 

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8.       Closing Conditions. The obligation of the Agents to complete the initial Closing shall be subject to the satisfaction of each of the following conditions (it being understood that the Agents may waive in whole or in part or extend the time for compliance with any of such terms and conditions without prejudice to their rights in respect of any other of the following terms and conditions or any other or subsequent breach or non-compliance of the Corporation, provided that to be binding on the Agents any such waiver or extension must be in writing and signed by each of them):

 

(a) the Agents shall have received an opinion, dated as of the Closing Date and subject to customary qualifications, of Torys LLP, Canadian counsel to the Corporation, or from local counsel in the Qualifying Jurisdictions (it being understood that such counsel may rely to the extent appropriate in the circumstances, (i) as to matters of fact, on certificates of the Corporation executed on its behalf by a senior officer of the Corporation and on certificates of the Transfer Agent as to the issued capital of the Corporation; and (ii) as to matters of fact not independently established, on certificates of the Corporation’s Auditors or a public official) with respect to the following matters:

 

(i) as to the incorporation and subsistence of the Corporation under the OBCA and as to the corporate power and capacity of the Corporation to own and lease its properties and assets and to conduct its business as contemplated in the Prospectus, and to carry out the Offering and the transactions contemplated under the Transaction Documents and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder, respectively;

 

(ii) as to the authorized and issued and outstanding share capital of the Corporation;

 

(iii) that the Corporation has taken all necessary corporate action to authorize the: (a) execution and delivery of this Agreement and to perform its obligations thereunder; and (b) creation, issuance and delivery of the Offered Shares;

 

(iv) that the execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and the performance by the Corporation of its obligations thereunder does not and will not conflict with, result in a breach of or create a state of facts which, whether with or without the giving of notice or lapse of time or both, will result in a breach or violation of any of the terms, conditions or provisions of (A) the articles or by-laws of the Corporation, (B) the resolutions of the board of directors or the shareholders of the Corporation, or (C) the OBCA or the TSX Company Manual;

 

(v) that this Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Corporation enforceable against the Corporation in accordance with its terms, subject to the Enforceability Qualifications;

 

(vi) that the Over-Allotment Option has been duly and validly authorized and granted by the Corporation and the Option Shares issuable upon the exercise of the Over-Allotment Option have been duly and validly allotted and reserved for issuance by the Corporation and, upon the exercise of the Over-Allotment Option including receipt by the Corporation of payment in full therefor, the Option Shares will be duly and validly created, authorized, issued and outstanding as fully paid shares and non-assessable shares of the Corporation;

 

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(vii) all approvals, permits, consents, orders and authorizations have been obtained, all necessary documents have been filed, all requisite proceedings have been taken and all other legal requirements have been fulfilled under Canadian Securities Laws to qualify the distribution of the Offered Shares to the public in each of the Qualifying Jurisdictions through dealers duly and properly registered under the applicable laws of each of the Qualifying Jurisdictions who have complied with the relevant provisions of such laws and the terms of their registration;

 

(viii) all necessary corporate action has been taken by the Corporation to authorize the execution and delivery of the Preliminary Prospectus, the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and if applicable, any Prospectus Amendment, and the filing of such documents under Canadian Securities Laws, and to authorize the use and delivery of the U.S. Memorandum;

 

(ix) subject to the qualifications, assumptions, limitations and understandings set out therein, the statements set out in the Final Prospectus under the headings “Eligibility for Investment” and “Certain Canadian Federal Income Tax Considerations” are true and correct as at the date of the Final Prospectus;

 

(x) that the attributes of the Common Shares conform in all material respects with the description thereof contained in the Final Prospectus;

 

(xi) the Offered Shares have been duly authorized and validly issued as fully paid and non-assessable shares of the Corporation;

 

(xii) the form of share certificate representing the Common Shares has been duly approved and adopted by the Corporation and complies with the constating documents of the Corporation, the OBCA and the TSX Company Manual;

 

(xiii) the Offered Shares have been conditionally approved for listing on the TSX, subject only to satisfaction by the Corporation of the Standard Listing Conditions;

 

(xiv) that the Transfer Agent, at its principal offices in the City of Toronto, Ontario, has been duly appointed as the transfer agent and registrar for the Common Shares; and

 

(xv) as to such other matters as the Agents’ legal counsel may reasonably request prior to the Closing Time;

 

(b) if any sales of Offered Shares have been effected in the United States, the Agents shall have received an opinion, dated as of the Closing Date and subject to customary qualifications, of Torys LLP, U.S. counsel to the Corporation, that the offer and sale of the Offered Shares pursuant to this Agreement in the United States does not require registration under the U.S. Securities Act;

 

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(c) the Agents shall have received favourable legal opinions by local counsel in the governing jurisdiction of each Material Subsidiary, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agents acting reasonably, dated the Closing Date, and with respect to the following matters: (i) the existence of the Material Subsidiary under the laws of its governing jurisdiction; (ii) as to the registered ownership of the issued and outstanding shares of the Material Subsidiary; (iii) that the Material Subsidiary has all requisite corporate power under the laws of its governing jurisdiction to carry on its business as presently carried on and as proposed to be carried on and to own or lease its properties and assets; (iv) to the knowledge of such counsel, there are no actions, suits, proceedings or investigations, pending or threatened, against the Material Subsidiary; and (v) to the knowledge of such counsel, there are no execution or judgements against the Material Subsidiary, nor any petitions into bankruptcy or any other bankruptcy proceeding against the Material Subsidiary;

 

(d) the Agents shall have received lock-up agreements duly executed by the directors and executive officers of the Corporation and Greybrook Health Inc. providing that, for a period of 90 days following the initial Closing Date, such persons or companies will agree not to, directly or indirectly, offer, sell, contract to sell, lend, swap, or enter into any other agreement to transfer the economic consequences of, or otherwise dispose of or deal with, or publicly announce any intention to offer, sell, contract to sell, grant or sell any option to purchase, hypothecate, pledge, transfer, assign, purchase any option or contract to sell, lend, swap or enter into any agreement to transfer the economic consequences of, or otherwise dispose of or deal with, whether through the facilities of a stock exchange, by private agreement or otherwise, any Common Shares or other securities of the Corporation convertible into, exchangeable for or exercisable to acquire, any Common Shares, without the prior written consent of the Co-Lead Agents, on behalf of the Agents (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), except in respect of a bona fide take-over bid or any other similar transaction made generally to all of the shareholders of the Corporation, provided that, in the event the change of control or other similar transaction is not completed, such securities shall remain subject to such lock-up agreement;

 

(e) the Agents shall have received an incumbency certificate, dated as of the Closing Date, including specimen signatures of the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer and any other officer of the Corporation signing this Agreement or any document delivered hereunder;

 

(f) the Agents shall have received a certificate, dated as of the Closing Date, of the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Corporation (or such other officer or officers of the Corporation acceptable to the Agents, acting reasonably), to the effect that, to the best of their knowledge, information and belief, after due enquiry and without personal liability:

 

(i) the representations and warranties of the Corporation in this Agreement are true and correct in all material respects (or, if qualified by materiality, in all respects) as if made at and as of the Closing Time and the Corporation has performed all covenants and agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied in all material respects at or prior to the Closing Time;

 

(ii) no order, ruling or determination having the effect of suspending the sale or ceasing, suspending or restricting the trading of the Common Shares in the Qualifying Jurisdictions has been issued or made by any stock exchange, securities commission or regulatory authority and is continuing in effect and no proceedings, investigations or enquiries for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or threatened;

 

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(iii) the constating documents of the Corporation delivered at Closing are full, true and correct copies, unamended, and in effect on the date thereof;
     
(iv) the minutes or resolutions or other records of various proceedings and actions of the Corporation’s board of directors relating to the Offering and delivered at Closing are full, true and correct copies thereof and have not been modified or rescinded as of the date thereof; and
     
(v) subsequent to the respective dates as at which information is given in the Prospectus, there has been no Material Adverse Effect, material change or event or occurrence that would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or material change;

 

and each such statement shall be true and the Agents shall have no knowledge to the contrary;

 

(g) the Agents shall have received a letter dated as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agents, from the Corporation’s Auditors confirming the continued accuracy of the comfort letter to be delivered to the Agents pursuant to subsection 4(a)(iv) with such changes as may be necessary to bring the information in such letter forward to a date not more than two Business Days prior to the Closing Date, which changes shall be acceptable to the Agents;

 

(h) the Offered Shares shall have been conditionally approved for listing on the TSX, subject only to satisfaction by the Corporation of the Standard Listing Conditions;

 

(i) the Agents shall have received a certificate from the Transfer Agent as to the number of Common Shares issued and outstanding as at a date no more than two Business Days prior to the Closing Date;

 

(j) the Agents shall not have exercised any rights of termination set forth in this Agreement; and

 

(k) the Agents shall have received such further documents as may be contemplated by this Agreement or as the Agents may reasonably require, provided, however, that the Agents or their counsel shall request any such certificate or document within a reasonable period prior to the Closing Time such that is sufficient for the Corporation to obtain and deliver such certificate, opinion or document.

 

The Corporation agrees that the aforesaid legal opinions and certificates to be delivered at the initial Closing Time will be addressed to the Agents and the Agents’ counsel.

 

The obligations of the Agents to complete any Closing other than: (i) the initial Closing; and (ii) the Over-Allotment Closing, shall be subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in subsections 8(e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j) and (k) only (it being understood that the Agents may waive in whole or in part or extend the time for compliance with any of such terms and conditions without prejudice to their rights in respect of any other terms and conditions or any other or subsequent breach or non-compliance of the Corporation, provided that to be binding on the Agents any such waiver or extension must be in writing and signed by each of them).

 

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9.                  Over-Allotment Option Closing Conditions. The obligation of the Agents to complete the Over-Allotment Closing (in the event that the Over-Allotment Option is exercised by the Co-Lead Agents, on behalf of the Agents) shall be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Corporation contained in this Agreement as of the Option Closing Date and the performance by the Corporation of its obligations under this Agreement. Any such closing shall be referred to as an Over-Allotment Closingand shall be conducted in the same manner as the Closing. At any Over-Allotment Closing, the Corporation and the Agents shall make all necessary payments and the Corporation shall, at its sole expense, deliver all of the certificates, opinions and other documents to be delivered by it on the Closing Date, each updated to the date of any such Over-Allotment Closing.

 

10.               All Terms to be Conditions. The Corporation agrees that the conditions contained in Section 8 will be complied with insofar as the same relate to acts to be performed or caused to be performed by the Corporation and that it will use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause all such conditions to be complied with. The Corporation further agrees that all representations, warranties, covenants and other terms of this Agreement shall be and shall be deemed to be conditions, and any breach or failure to comply with any of them will entitle any of the Agents to terminate its obligations to purchase the Offered Shares, by written notice to that effect given to the Corporation at or prior to the Closing Time and any Option Closing Time.

 

11.               Termination Events. Any Agent may terminate its obligations on or before Closing and any Over-Allotment Closing if, commencing on the date hereof and prior to the Closing Time or Option Closing Time, as applicable:

 

(a) there shall occur or be discovered by the Agents (or any of them) any material change in the business, financial condition, assets, liabilities (contingent or otherwise), results of operations or prospects of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) or any change in any material fact contained or referred to in the Final Prospectus or any amendment thereto, or there shall exist any material fact which is, or may be, of such a nature as to render the Preliminary Prospectus, Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus, Final Prospectus or any Prospectus Amendment, untrue, false or misleading in a material respect or result in a misrepresentation (other than a change or fact related solely to the Agents), in each case, which in the reasonable opinion of the Agents (or any of them), seriously adversely affects or may seriously adversely affect, the business, operations or affairs of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole or prevents or restricts trading in or the distribution of the Common Shares or seriously adversely affects or might reasonably be expected to seriously adversely affect the market price or value of the Common Shares;

 

(b) any inquiry, action, suit, investigation or other proceeding (whether formal or informal) is instituted, announced or threatened or any order is issued by any Governmental Authority or otherwise (other than an inquiry, investigation, proceeding or order based upon the activities or alleged activities of the Agents), or there is any change of law, or the interpretation or administration thereof, which in the reasonable opinion of the Agents (or any of them), operates to prevent or restrict the trading in the Common Shares or the distribution of the Common Shares, seriously adversely affects or may seriously adversely affect, the business, operations or affairs of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole or seriously adversely affects or might reasonably be expected to seriously adversely affect the market price or value of the Common Shares;

 

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(c) there should be announced, develop, occur or come into effect or existence any event, action, state, condition or occurrence of national or international consequence, acts of hostilities or escalation thereof (including as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, but only to the extent there are any material adverse developments in Canada or the United States related thereto after the date of this Agreement) or other calamity or crisis or any change or development involving a prospective change in national or international political, financial or economic conditions or any action, law, regulation or inquiry which, in the reasonable opinion of the Agents (or any of them), materially adversely affects or involves, or may materially adversely affect or involve, the financial markets in Canada or the United States, seriously adversely affects or may seriously adversely affect, the business, operations or affairs of the Corporation and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, prevents or restricts trading in or the distribution of the Common Shares or seriously adversely affects or might reasonably be expected to seriously adversely affect the market price or value of the Common Shares;

 

(d) the due diligence investigations performed by or on behalf of the Agents reveal any material information or fact not currently generally known to the public which might, in the sole opinion of the Agents (or any one of them), acting reasonably, adversely affect the market price of the Common Shares, quality of the investment or marketability of the Offering; or

 

(e) the Corporation is in material breach of a term, condition or covenant of this Agreement or any representation or warranty given by the Corporation in this Agreement becomes or is false in a material respect (or, in the case of representations or warranties qualified by materiality, in any respect).

 

Upon the occurrence of any of the foregoing events, any Agent shall be entitled to terminate and cancel its obligations to the Corporation hereunder by written notice to that effect given to the Corporation and the Co-Lead Agents prior to the Closing and any Over-Allotment Closing.

 

12.               Exercise of Termination Right. If this Agreement is terminated by any of the Agents pursuant to Section 11, there shall be no further liability to the Corporation on the part of such Agent or of the Corporation to such Agent, except in respect of any liability that may have arisen or may thereafter arise under Sections 14 and 15. The right of the Agents or any one of them to terminate their respective obligations under this Agreement is in addition to such other remedies as they may have in respect of any default, act or failure to act of the Corporation in respect of any of the matters contemplated by this Agreement. A notice of termination given by one Agent under Section 11 shall not be binding upon the other Agents.

 

13.               Survival of Representations and Warranties. All terms, warranties, representations, covenants and agreements herein contained or contained in any documents delivered pursuant to this Agreement and in connection with the transactions herein contemplated shall survive the purchase and sale of the Offered Shares and will continue in full force and effect for the benefit of the Agents and/or the Corporation, as the case may be, regardless of any subsequent disposition of the Offered Shares or any investigation by or on behalf of the Agents with respect thereto for a period ending on the latest date under Canadian Securities Laws (non-residents of Canada being deemed to be resident in the Province of Ontario for such purposes) that an action may be commenced or a right of rescission may be exercised with respect to a misrepresentation contained in the Final Prospectus or, if applicable, any Prospectus Amendment. The Agents and/or the Corporation, as the case may be, will be entitled to rely on the representations and warranties of the other parties contained in this Agreement or delivered pursuant to this Agreement notwithstanding any investigation, which the Agents and/or the Corporation may undertake or which may be undertaken on the Agents’ and/or Corporation’s behalf, as the case may be.

 

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14.               Indemnity and Contribution.

 

The Corporation agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Agents (and any investment dealer who is a member of any soliciting dealer group formed by the Agents pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement or with whom any Agent has a contractual relationship with respect to the Offering) and each of their subsidiaries and affiliates, and each of their respective directors, officers, employees, partners, agents and advisors (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties” and individually, an “Indemnified Party”) from and against any and all losses (except loss of profit), inquiry, claims, actions, suits, proceedings, damages, liabilities or expenses of whatsoever nature or kind, including the aggregate amount paid in reasonable settlement of any actions, suits, proceedings, investigations or claims and the reasonable fees and expenses of their counsel in connection with any inquiry, action, suit, proceeding, investigation or claim that may be made or threatened against any Indemnified Party or in enforcing this indemnity (collectively, the “Claims”) to which an Indemnified Party may become subject or otherwise involved in any capacity insofar as the Claims relate to, are caused by, result from, arise out of or are based upon, directly or indirectly, the performance of professional services rendered to the Corporation by an Indemnified Party hereunder or otherwise in connection with the matters referred to in this Agreement, whether performed before or after the Corporation’s execution of this Agreement, including in connection with Claims relating to or arising from the following:

 

(a) any information or statement (except any information or statement relating solely to or provided by the Agents) contained in the Offering Documents, which at the time and in light of the circumstances under which it was made contains or is alleged to contain a misrepresentation or any omission or any alleged omission to state therein any fact or information (except facts or information relating solely to the Agents and provided by the Agents) required to be stated therein or necessary to make any of the statements therein not misleading in light of the circumstances in which they are made;

 

(b) the omission or alleged omission to state in any certificate of the Corporation or of any officers of the Corporation delivered in connection with the Offering any material fact (except facts or information relating solely to the Agents and provided by the Agents) required to be stated therein where such omission or alleged omission constitutes or is alleged to constitute a misrepresentation;

 

(c) any order made or any Claim commenced or threatened by any securities regulatory authority, stock exchange or by any other competent authority, based upon any misrepresentation (as defined in the Securities Act (Ontario)) or alleged misrepresentation (except a misrepresentation relating solely to the Agents and provided by the Agents) in the Offering Documents (except any document or material delivered or filed solely by the Agents) based upon any failure or alleged failure to comply with Applicable Securities Laws (other than any failure or alleged failure to comply by the Agents) preventing and restricting the trading in or the sale of the Common Shares under the Offering;

 

(d) the non-compliance or alleged non-compliance by the Corporation with any material requirement of Applicable Securities Laws, including the Corporation’s non-compliance with any statutory requirement to make any document available for inspection; or

 

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(e) breach of any representation, warranty or covenant of the Corporation contained in this Agreement or the failure of the Corporation to comply in all material respects with any of its obligations hereunder,

 

and further agrees to immediately reimburse each Indemnified Party forthwith, upon demand, for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Indemnified Party in connection with any Claim; provided that the foregoing indemnity shall not be applicable to any Indemnified Party in respect of any Claim to the extent the losses, expenses, claims, actions, damages or liabilities covered by such Claim are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final judgment that has become non-appealable to have resulted from the gross negligence, willful misconduct, or fraud of such Indemnified Party.

 

The Corporation also agrees that no Indemnified Party shall have any liability (either direct or indirect, in contract or tort or otherwise) to the Corporation or any person asserting Claims on the Corporations behalf or in right for or in connection with the performance of professional services rendered to the Corporation by an Indemnified Party hereunder or otherwise in connection with the matters referred to in this Agreement, whether performed before or after the Corporations execution of this Agreement, except to the extent that any losses, expenses, Claims, actions, damages or liabilities incurred by the Corporation are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final judgment that has become non-appealable to have resulted from the Indemnified Partys breach of this Agreement, or the gross negligence, wilful misconduct or fraud of such Indemnified Party.

 

In the event and to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction in a final judgement that has become non-appealable determines that an Indemnified Party breached this Agreement, or was grossly negligent or guilty of wilful misconduct, fraud or dishonesty in connection with a Claim in respect of which the Corporation has advanced funds to the Indemnified Party pursuant to this indemnity, such Indemnified Party shall immediately reimburse such funds to the Corporation and thereafter this indemnity shall not apply to such Indemnified Party in respect of such Claim.

 

In case any Claim is brought against an Indemnified Party or an Indemnified Party has received notice of the commencement of any Claim in respect of which indemnification may be sought against the Corporation, the Indemnified Party will give the Corporation prompt written notice of any such Claim of which the Indemnified Party has knowledge and the Corporation will undertake the investigation and defence thereof on behalf of the Indemnified Party, including the prompt employment of counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indemnified Parties affected and the payment of all reasonable fees and out-of-pocket expenses. Failure by the Indemnified Party to so notify shall not relieve the Corporation of its obligation of indemnification hereunder unless (and only to the extent that) such failure results in the forfeiture by the Corporation of substantive rights or defences or to the extent that the Corporation is materially prejudiced thereby.

No admission of liability and no settlement, compromise or termination of any Claim shall be made without the Corporations consent and the consent of the Indemnified Parties affected, such consents not to be unreasonably withheld.

 

Notwithstanding that the Corporation will undertake the investigation and defence of any Claim, an Indemnified Party will have the right to employ separate counsel with respect to any Claim and participate in the defence thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel will be at the expense of the Indemnified Party unless:

 

   (a)

the employment of such counsel has been authorized in writing by the Corporation;

 

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(b) the Corporation has not assumed the defence within a reasonable period of time after receiving notice of such Claim;

 

(c) the named parties to any such Claim include both the Corporation and the Indemnified Party and the Indemnified Party shall have been advised by counsel that there may be a conflict of interest between the Corporation and the Indemnified Party; or

 

(d) the Indemnified Party has been advised in writing by counsel that there are one or more defences available to the Indemnified Party which are different from or in addition to those available to the Corporation, which makes representation by the same counsel inappropriate.

 

The rights accorded to the Indemnified Parties hereunder shall be in addition to any rights an Indemnified Party may have at common law or otherwise.

 

If for any reason the foregoing indemnification is unavailable (other than in accordance with the terms hereof) to the Indemnified Parties (or any of them) or insufficient to hold them harmless, then the Corporation shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by the Indemnified Parties as a result of such Claim in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits received by the Corporation on the one hand and the Indemnified Parties on the other hand, but also the relative fault of the Corporation and the Indemnified Parties, as well as any other equitable considerations which may be relevant; provided that the Corporation shall, in any event, contribute to the amount paid or payable by the Indemnified Parties as a result of such Claim, any amount in excess of the fees actually received by the Indemnified Parties hereunder in which case such fees and expenses will be for the Corporation’s account.

 

The Corporation hereby acknowledges the Agents as trustee for each of the other Indemnified Parties of the Corporation’s covenants under this indemnity with respect to such persons and the Agents agree to accept such trust and to hold and enforce such covenants on behalf of such persons.

 

15.               Expenses. The Corporation shall pay all expenses and fees in connection with the Offering, including: (i) all expenses of or incidental to the creation, issue, sale or distribution of the Offered Shares and the filing of the Preliminary Prospectus, the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus; (ii) the fees and expenses of the Corporation’s legal counsel and of local counsel to the Corporation; (iii) all costs incurred in connection with the preparation of documentation relating to the Offering; and (iv) the reasonable fees and disbursements (including applicable taxes) of the Agents’ legal counsel to a maximum of $90,000 (except in the event that the Offering is not completed, in which case such amount shall not exceed $60,000) exclusive of taxes and disbursements, whether or not the Offering is completed.

 

16.               Standstill Period. During the period commencing on the date hereof and ending on the day which is 90 days following the initial Closing Date, the Corporation shall not, without the prior written consent of the Co-Lead Agents, on behalf of the Agents, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, directly or indirectly, issue, agree to issue, or announce an intention to issue, any additional debt, Common Shares or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for Common Shares, or enter into any agreement or arrangement under which the Corporation acquires or transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Common Shares or agree to become bound to do so, or disclose to the public any intention to do so, except: (i) in connection with the exchange, transfer, conversion or exercise of existing outstanding securities or existing commitments to issue securities; (ii) in connection with an arm’s length acquisition; (iii) pursuant to the grant of stock options or other compensation securities exercisable or convertible into Common Shares pursuant to any long term incentive plan that the Corporation may adopt from time to time for the benefit of its directors, officers, employees and consultants; or (iv) Common Shares under the Offering (including, for greater certainty, Option Shares under the Over-Allotment Option).

 

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17.               Agents’ Authority. The Corporation shall be entitled to and shall act on any notice, request, direction and other communication given or agreement entered into by or on behalf of the Agents by the Co-Lead Agents who shall represent the Agents and have authority to bind the Agents hereunder, except for any matters pursuant to Sections 8, 9, 11, 12 or 14.

 

18.               Compliance with U.S. Securities Laws. The Agents make the representations, warranties and covenants applicable to them in Schedule “A” hereto and agree, on behalf of themselves and their U.S. Placement Agents, for the benefit of the Corporation, to comply with the selling restrictions imposed by the laws of the United States and by applicable state law and set forth in Schedule “A” hereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, an Agent will not be liable to the Corporation under this section or Schedule “A” with respect to a violation by another Agent or such Agent’s U.S. Placement Agent of the provisions of this Section or Schedule “A” if the former Agent (or its U.S. Placement Agent) is not itself also in violation; and the Corporation makes the representations, warranties and covenants applicable to it in Schedule “A”.

 

19.               Conflict. The Corporation acknowledges that the Agents and their affiliates carry on a range of businesses, including providing stockbroking, investment advisory, research, investment management and custodial services to clients and trading in financial products as agent or principal. It is possible that the Agents and other entities in their respective groups that carry on those businesses may hold long or short positions in securities of companies or other entities, which are or may be involved in the transactions contemplated in this Agreement and effect transactions in those securities for their own account or for the account of their respective clients. The Corporation agrees that these divisions and entities may hold such positions and effect such transactions without regard to the Corporation’s interests under this Agreement.

 

20.               No Fiduciary Duty. The Corporation hereby acknowledges that the Agents are acting solely as agents in connection with the offer and sale of the Offered Shares. The Corporation further acknowledges that the Agents are acting pursuant to a contractual relationship created solely by this Agreement entered into on an arm’s length basis, and in no event do the parties intend that the Agents act or be responsible as a fiduciary to the Corporation, its management, shareholders or creditors or any other person in connection with any activity that the Agents may undertake or have undertaken in furtherance of such offer and sale of the Corporation’s securities, either before or after the date hereof. The Agents hereby expressly disclaim any fiduciary or similar obligations to the Corporation, either in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any matters leading up to such transactions, and the Corporation hereby confirms its understanding and agreement to that effect. The Corporation and the Agents agree that they are each responsible for making their own independent judgments with respect to any such transactions and that any opinions or views expressed by the Agents to the Corporation regarding such transactions, including, but not limited to, any opinions or views with respect to the price or market for the Corporation’s securities, do not constitute advice or recommendations to the Corporation. The Corporation and the Agents agree that the Agents are acting as principal and not the agent or fiduciary of the Corporation and no Agent has assumed, and no Agent will assume, any advisory responsibility in favour of the Corporation with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether any Agent has advised or is currently advising the Corporation on other matters). The Corporation hereby waives and releases, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims that the Corporation may have against the Agents with respect to any breach or alleged breach of any fiduciary, advisory or similar duty to the Corporation in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any matters leading up to such transactions.

 

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21.               Time of the Essence. Time shall be of the essence of this Agreement.

 

22.               Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable in Ontario and the parties hereto irrevocably attorn to the jurisdiction of the courts of such province.

 

23.               Funds. Unless otherwise specified, all funds referred to in this Agreement shall be in Canadian dollars.

 

24.               Notices. Unless otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, any notice or other communication to be given under this Agreement (a “Notice”) shall be in writing addressed as follows:

 

(a)            If to the Corporation, to:

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

890 Yonge Street, 7th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M4W 3P4

 

Attention:       Erns Loubser, Chief Financial Officer

Email:               eloubser@greenbrooktms.com

 

with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

 

Torys LLP

79 Wellington Street West
Suite 3000, TD South Tower
Toronto, Ontario M5K 1N2

 

Attention:       Robbie Leibel

Fax:                  416.865.8201

Email:               rleibel@torys.com

 

(b)            If to the Agents, to:

 

Bloom Burton Securities Inc.
65 Front Street East, Suite 300
Toronto, Ontario M5E 1B5

 

Attention:       Jolyon Burton

Email:               jburton@bloomburton.com

 

Clarus Securities Inc.

130 King Street West, Suite 3640

Toronto, Ontario M5X 1A9

 

Attention:       Robert Orviss

Email:               ROrviss@ClarusSecurities.com

 

Canaccord Genuity Corp.
161 Bay Street, Suite 3000
Toronto, Ontario M5J 2S1

 

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Attention:       Steve Winokur

Email:               swinokur@cgf.com

 

Desjardins Securities Inc.
25 York Street, Suite 1000
Toronto, Ontario M5J 2V5

 

Attention:       William Tebbutt

Email:               bill.tebbutt@desjardins.com

 

Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc.
145 King Street West, Suite 300
Toronto, Ontario M5H 1J8

 

Attention:       Matthew Gaasenbeek

Email:               mgaasenbeek@stifel.com

 

with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

 

Dentons Canada LLP

77 King Street West, Suite 400
Toronto-Dominion Centre
Toronto, Ontario M5K 0A1

 

Attention:       Ora Wexler

Fax:                  416.863.4592

Email:               ora.wexler@dentons.com

 

or to such other address as any of the persons may designate by Notice given to the others.

 

Each Notice shall be personally delivered to the addressee or sent by fax or email to the addressee and (i) a Notice which is personally delivered shall, if delivered on a Business Day, be deemed to be given and received on that day and, in any other case, be deemed to be given and received on the first Business Day following the day on which it is delivered; and (ii) a Notice which is sent by fax or email shall be deemed to be given and received on the first Business Day following the day on which it is sent.

 

25.               Entire Agreement. The provisions herein contained constitute the entire agreement between the parties relating to the Offering and supersede all previous communications, representations, understandings and agreements between the parties including the Engagement Letter, with respect to the subject matter hereof whether verbal or written. This Agreement may be amended or modified in any respect by written instrument only.

 

26.               Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is determined to be void or unenforceable in whole or in part, it shall be deemed not to affect or impair the validity of any other provision of this Agreement and such void or unenforceable provision shall be severable from this Agreement.

 

27.               Public Announcement. If the Agents so request, the Corporation shall include a reference to the Agents and their role in the Offering in any press release or other public communication issued by the Corporation related to the Offering. The Corporation shall provide the Agents with a reasonable opportunity to review a draft of any proposed announcement and an opportunity to provide comments thereon. Provided the Offering is completed, the Agents (or any one of them) shall be permitted to publish, at their own expense, a such advertisements or announcements relating to the services provided in respect of the Offering in such newspapers or other publications as the Agents (or any one of them) consider appropriate, and shall further be permitted to post such advertisements or announcements on their websites.

 

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28.               Headings. The headings contained herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the meaning or interpretation hereof.

 

29.               Successors and Assigns. The terms and provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and enure to the benefit of the Corporation and the Agents and their respective successors and permitted assigns.

 

30.               Further Assurances. Each of the parties hereto shall do or cause to be done all such acts and things and shall execute or cause to be executed all such documents, agreements and other instruments as may reasonably be necessary or desirable for the purpose of carrying out the provisions and intent of this Agreement.

 

31.               Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by any one or more of the parties to this Agreement in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.

 

32.               Language. The parties hereto confirm their express wish that this agreement and all documents and agreements directly or indirectly relating thereto be drawn up in the English language. Les parties reconnaissent leur volonté express que la présente convention ainsi que tous les documents et contrats s y rattachant directement ou indirectement soient rédigés en anglais.

 

33.               Facsimile, etc. The Corporation and the Agents shall be entitled to rely on delivery by facsimile or other electronic means of an executed copy of this Agreement and acceptance by the Corporation and the Agents of that delivery shall be legally effective to create a valid and binding agreement between the Corporation and the Agents in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

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If the Corporation is in agreement with the foregoing terms and conditions, please so indicate by executing a copy of this Agreement where indicated below and delivering the same to the Agents.

 

Yours very truly,

 

BLOOM BURTON SECURITIES INC.

 

Per:

(signed) “Jolyon Burton

 
  Authorized Signing Officer  

 

CLARUS SECURITIES INC.

 

Per:

(signed) “Robert Orviss

 
  Authorized Signing Officer  

 

CANACCORD GENUITY CORP.

 

Per:

(signed) “Steve Winokur

 
  Authorized Signing Officer  

 

DESJARDINS SECURITIES INC.

 

Per:

(signed) “William Tebbutt

 
  Authorized Signing Officer  

 

STIFEL NICOLAUS CANADA INC.

 

Per: (signed) “Matthew Gaasenbeek”  
  Authorized Signing Officer  

 

 

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The foregoing is hereby accepted and agreed to as of the date first written above.

 

GREENBROOK TMS INC.

 

Per:

(signed) “Erns Loubser

 
  Authorized Signing Officer  

 

 

 

SCHEDULE “A”

UNITED STATES OFFERS AND SALES

 

As used in this Schedule “A” and related exhibit, capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Agency Agreement to which this Schedule “A” is annexed and to which it forms a part, and the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:

 

(a) AI Subscription Agreement” means an Accredited Investor Subscription Agreement in the form attached as Exhibit B to the U.S. Memorandum;

 

(b) Directed Selling Efforts” means “directed selling efforts” as that term is defined in Rule 902(c) of Regulation S;

 

(c) Foreign Private Issuer” means a “foreign private issuer” as that term is defined in Rule 405 of the U.S. Securities Act;

 

(d) General Solicitation” and “General Advertising” means “general solicitation” and “general advertising”, respectively, as used in Rule 502(c) of Regulation D, including advertisements, articles, notices or other communications published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over television, radio or the internet, or any seminar or meeting whose attendees had been invited by general solicitation or general advertising;

 

(e) Offshore Transaction” means an “offshore transaction” as defined in Rule 902(h) of Regulation S;

 

(f) Qualified Institutional Buyer Letter” means a Qualified Institutional Buyer Letter in the form attached as Exhibit A to the U.S. Memorandum;

 

(g) SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission;

 

(h) Substantial U.S. Market Interest” means “substantial U.S. market interest” as that term is defined in Rule 902(j) of Regulation S; and

 

(i) U.S. Investment Company Act” means the United States Investment Company Act of 1940.
Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Agents

 

Each of the Agents acknowledges that the Offered Shares have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act or any applicable state securities laws, and may be offered and sold only in transactions exempt from or not subject to the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and state securities laws. Accordingly, each of the Agents, severally and not jointly, represents, warrants and covenants to the Corporation that:

 

1. It has not offered or sold, and will not offer or sell any Offered Shares in the United States except as provided in paragraphs 2 through 11 below. Accordingly, none of the Agent, its U.S. Placement Agent or any persons acting on its or their behalf has made or will make (except as permitted in paragraphs 2 through 11 below) (i) any offer to sell or any solicitation of an offer to buy, any Offered Shares to any person in the United States, (ii) any sale of Offered Shares to any Purchaser unless, at the time the buy order was or will have been originated, the Purchaser was outside the United States, or such Agent, U.S. Placement Agent or person acting on behalf of either reasonably believed that such Purchaser was outside the United States, or (iii) any Directed Selling Efforts in respect of the Common Shares. In connection with offers and sales of Offered Shares outside the United States, the Agent, its U.S. Placement Agent or any person acting on its or their behalf, have complied and will comply with the requirements for an Offshore Transaction in respect of such Offered Shares.

 

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2. All offers of the Offered Shares by it in the United States will be effected by its U.S. Placement Agent in accordance with all applicable U.S. federal and state broker-dealer requirements. Such U.S. Placement Agent is and will be, on the date of each offer and subsequent sale of Offered Shares in the United States, (i) duly registered as a broker-dealer pursuant to Section 15(b) of the U.S. Exchange Act and the securities laws of each state in which such offer or sale is made (unless exempted from the respective state’s broker-dealer registration requirements) and (ii) a member of and in good standing with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.

 

3. It has not entered and will not enter into any contractual arrangement with respect to the distribution of the Offered Shares, except with any Selling Firm (including the U.S. Placement Agents) or with the prior written consent of the Corporation. It shall require each Selling Firm (including the U.S. Placement Agents) to agree, for the benefit of the Corporation, to comply with, and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that each Selling Firm (including U.S. Placement Agent) complies with, the provisions of this Schedule “A” applicable to such Agent as if such provisions applied to such Selling Firm (including U.S. Placement Agent).

 

4. Offers of Offered Shares by it and its U.S. Placement Agent in the United States have not been and will not be made (i) by any form of General Solicitation or General Advertising, or (ii) in any manner involving a public offering within the meaning of Section 4(a)(2) of the U.S. Securities Act.

 

5. Immediately prior to offering Offered Shares to a person in the United States, the Agent and its U.S. Placement Agent had a pre-existing relationship and has reasonable grounds to believe and did believe that such offeree is either a Qualified Institutional Buyer or an Accredited Investor, and at the Closing Time and Option Closing Time, as applicable, the Agent and its U.S. Placement Agent shall have reasonable grounds to believe and shall believe that each such person who is purchasing Offered Shares is either a Qualified Institutional Buyer or an Accredited Investor.

 

6. Each person offered Offered Shares by it and its U.S. Placement Agent in the United States has been or shall be provided with a copy of the U.S. Memorandum. Prior to any sale of Offered Shares to such a person in the United States or to such a person who was offered Offered Shares in the United States, each such Purchaser shall be provided with a copy of the U.S. Memorandum, and no other written material was used in connection with the offer and sale of the Offered Shares in the United States.

 

7. It agrees that it will not complete the sale of any Offered Shares to any Purchaser within the United States or who was offered the Offered Shares in the United States, unless it has received, and provided to the Corporation, an executed Qualified Institutional Buyer Letter or an AI Subscription Agreement, as applicable.

 

8. All Purchasers that are in the United States who were offered Offered Shares by the Agent through its U.S. Placement Agent or that were offered Offered Shares in the United States by the Agent through its U.S. Placement Agent shall be informed that the Offered Shares have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act and are being offered and sold to such Purchasers in reliance on the exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the U.S. Securities Act.

 

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9. At least one Business Day prior to each of the Closing Time and any Option Closing Time, if applicable, the Transfer Agent and the Corporation will be provided with: (a) a list of all Purchasers who were offered Offered Shares in the United States by the Agent through its U.S. Placement Agent; and (b) all executed Qualified Institutional Buyer Letters or AI Subscription Agreements, as applicable.

 

10. At each of the Closing Time and any Option Closing Time, if applicable, each Agent together with its U.S. Placement Agent that offered Offered Shares in the United States, will provide to the Corporation a certificate in the form of Exhibit “A” to this Schedule “A” relating to the manner of the offer and sale of Offered Shares in the United States or will be deemed to have represented and warranted that it and its U.S. Placement Agent did not offer Offered Shares in the United States.

 

11. None of the Agent, or any of its directors, executive officers, general partners, managing members or other officers participating in the Offering, or any other person associated with the Agent who will receive, directly or indirectly, remuneration for solicitation of Purchasers pursuant to Rule 506(b) of Regulation D (each, an “Agent Covered Person” and, together, “Agent Covered Persons”), is subject to any Disqualification Event except for a Disqualification Event (A) covered by Rule 506(d)(2)(i) to (iii) of Regulation D, and (B) a description of which has been furnished in writing to the Corporation prior to the date hereof or, in the case of a Disqualification Event occurring after the date hereof, prior to the Closing Date. The U.S. Placement Agent has exercised reasonable care to determine: (A) the identity of each person that is an Agent Covered Person, and (B) whether any Agent Covered Person is subject to a Disqualification Event.

 

12. None of the Agent, the U.S. Placement Agent, or any person acting on its or their behalf has engaged or will engage in any violation of Regulation M under the U.S. Exchange Act in connection with the Offering.

 

Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Corporation

 

The Corporation represents, warrants, covenants and agrees that:

 

1. The Corporation is a Foreign Private Issuer with no Substantial U.S. Market Interest in its Common Shares and is not registered or required to be registered as an “investment company” under the U.S. Investment Company Act and after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Offered Shares and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Prospectus, will not be, registered or required to register as an “investment company” pursuant to the provisions of the U.S. Investment Company Act.

 

2. Except with respect to offers and sales of Offered Shares to Qualified Institutional Buyers or Accredited Investors in reliance upon an exemption from registration under the U.S. Securities Act pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the U.S. Securities Act, neither the Corporation nor any of its affiliates, nor any person acting on its or their behalf (other than the Agents, their U.S. Placement Agents and any person acting on their behalf, as to whom no representation, warranty, covenant or agreement is made), has made or will make: (A) any offer to sell, or any solicitation of an offer to buy, any Offered Shares to a person in the United States; or (B) any sale of Offered Shares unless, at the time the buy order was or will have been originated, the Purchaser is (i) outside the United States, or (ii) the Corporation and any person acting on its behalf (other than the Agents, their affiliates and any person acting on their behalf, as to whom no representation is made) reasonably believe that the Purchaser is outside the United States.

 

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3. Neither it nor any of its affiliates, nor any person acting on its or their behalf (other than the Agents, their U.S. Placement Agents and any person acting on their behalf, as to whom no representation, warranty, covenant or agreement is made), has made or will make any Directed Selling Efforts in respect of the Common Shares, or has taken or will take any action that would cause the exclusion from registration afforded by Rule 903 of Regulation S or the exemption from registration afforded by Section 4(a)(2) of the U.S. Securities Act to be unavailable for offers and sales of the Offered Shares pursuant to the Agency Agreement.

 

4. None of the Corporation, any of its affiliates or any person acting on its or their behalf (other than the Agents, their U.S. Placement Agents and any person acting on their behalf, as to whom no representation, warranty, covenant or agreement is made) have (i) engaged or will engage in any form of General Solicitation or General Advertising with respect to offers or sales of the Offered Shares in the United States, or (ii) undertaken any activity in a manner involving a public offering within the meaning of Section 4(a)(2) of the U.S. Securities Act.

 

5. In connection with offers and sales of Offered Shares outside the United States, the Corporation, its affiliates, and any person acting on its or their behalf (other than the Agents and their U.S. Placement Agents or any person acting on their behalf, as to which no representation or warranty is made) have complied and will comply with the requirements for an Offshore Transaction in respect of such Offered Shares.

 

6. None of the Corporation, any director, executive officer, other officer of the Corporation participating in the Offering, any beneficial owner of 20% or more of the Corporation’s outstanding voting equity securities, calculated on the basis of voting power, nor any promoter (as that term is defined in Rule 405 under the U.S. Securities Act) connected with the Corporation in any capacity at the time of sale (each, a “Corporation Covered Person” and, together, “Corporation Covered Persons”) is subject to any of the “Bad Actor” disqualifications described in Rule 506(d)(1)(i) to (viii) of Regulation D (a “Disqualification Event”), except for a Disqualification Event covered by Rule 506(d)(2) or (d)(3) of Regulation D. The Corporation has exercised reasonable care to determine: (A) the identity of each person that is a Corporation Covered Person, and (B) whether any Corporation Covered Person is subject to a Disqualification Event. The Corporation has complied, to the extent applicable, with its disclosure obligations under Rule 506(e) of Regulation D, and has furnished to the Agents a copy of any disclosures provided thereunder.

 

7. None of the Corporation, its affiliates or any person on behalf of any of them (other than the Agents, the U.S. Placement Agents, any Selling Firm member, their respective affiliates or any person acting on any of their behalf, in respect of which no representation, warranty or covenant is made) has engaged or will engage in any violation of Regulation M under the U.S. Exchange Act in connection with the Offering.

 

8. The Corporation will, within prescribed time periods, prepare and file any forms or notices required under the U.S. Securities Act or any applicable state securities laws in connection with the Offering.

 

 

EXHIBIT “A”

TO SCHEDULE “A”

 

AGENT’S CERTIFICATE

 

In connection with the private placement in the United States of common shares (the “Securities”) of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Corporation”) pursuant to the Agency Agreement dated May 15, 2020 among the Corporation and the agents named therein (the “Agents”), each of the undersigned does hereby certify as follows with respect to its activities:

 

(i) the undersigned U.S. Placement Agent who offered Offered Shares in the United States is on the date hereof and was on the date of each offer and subsequent sale by the Corporation of such Securities in the United States duly registered as a broker or dealer under the U.S. Exchange Act and the securities laws of each state in which such offer or sale is made (unless exempted from the respective state’s broker-dealer registration requirements) and a member of and in good standing with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.;

 

(ii) all offers and sales of Offered Shares in the United States were made only through the U.S. Placement Agent and have been effected in accordance with all applicable U.S. federal and state broker-dealer requirements;

 

(iii) each offeree of Offered Shares in the United States was provided with a copy of the U.S. Memorandum, and no other written material was used in connection with the offer and sale of Offered Shares in the United States;

 

(iv) immediately prior to transmitting the U.S. Memorandum to offerees of Offered Shares in the United States, we had reasonable grounds to believe and did believe that each such offeree was a Qualified Institutional Buyer or an Accredited Investor, and, on the date hereof, we continue to believe that: (A) each person offered Offered Shares in the United States, in each case that is purchasing such securities from the Corporation, is a Qualified Institutional Buyer or an Accredited Investor;

 

(v) we obtained from each purchaser in the United States, an executed Qualified Institutional Buyer Letter or an AI Subscription Agreement, as applicable, and we have delivered copies of the same to the Corporation;

 

(vi) no form of General Solicitation or General Advertising, or any Directed Selling Efforts, was used by us in connection with the offer of the Offered Shares in the United States;

 

(vii) neither we nor the U.S. Placement Agent have taken or will take any action that would constitute a violation of Regulation M under the U.S. Exchange Act; and

 

(viii) the offering of Offered Shares in the United States has been conducted by us through the U.S. Placement Agent in accordance with the terms of the Agency Agreement, including Schedule “A” thereto.

 

Terms used in this certificate have the meanings given to them in the Agency Agreement (including in Schedule “A” thereto) unless otherwise defined herein.

 

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Dated this ___ day of_____________ , 2020.      
       
AGENT:     U.S. PLACEMENT AGENT:
       
[Insert Name of Agent]     [Insert Name of U.S. Placement Agent]
       
By:                         By:

 

  Name:     Name:
  Title:     Title:

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.28

 

CREDIT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

 

by and among

 

OXFORD FINANCE LLC,
as Agent

 

THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO,
as Lenders,

 

GREENBROOK TMS INC.,
as Parent,

 

TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS INC.,
as Borrower,

 

and

 

THE OTHER CREDIT PARTIES FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO

 

Dated as of December 31, 2020

 

 

 

 

Table of Contents

 

  Page
     
SECTION 1. Definitions       1
     
1.1. Defined Terms 1
     
1.2. Terms Generally; Construction 44
     
1.3. Accounting Terms; IFRS 44
     
1.4. Dealing with the effect of the LIBOR Replacement Rate 45
     
1.5. Quebec Interpretation 45
     
SECTION 2. Borrowings and Collections     46
     
2.1. [Reserved] 46
     
2.2. [Reserved] 46
     
2.3. [Reserved] 46
     
2.4. [Reserved] 46
     
2.5. [Reserved] 46
     
2.6. Deposit Account and Collections 46
     
2.7. Application of Payments and Proceeds of Collateral 46
     
2.8. Collective Borrowing Arrangement 47
     
2.9. [Reserved] 47
     
2.10. Monthly Statement 47
     
SECTION 3. Term Loans; Issuance of Warrants 47
     
3.1. Promissory Notes Evidencing Term Loans 47
     
3.2. Term Loans 47
     
3.3. Provisions Regarding all Term Loans 49
     
3.4. Warrants 50
     
SECTION 4. Conditions Precedent 51
     
4.1. Conditions Precedent to Initial Funding 51
     
4.2. Conditions Precedent to All Loans 54
     
4.3. Post-Closing Requirements 54
     
SECTION 5. Interest, Fees and Expenses 54
     
5.1. Interest on Loans 54
     
5.2. Default Interest Rate 55
     
5.3. Computation of Interest and Related Fees 55
     
5.4. Out-of-Pocket Expenses 55

 

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5.5. Unused Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Fee      55
     
5.6. Fee Letter      55
     
5.7. Due Diligence Fee      55
     
5.8. Capital Adequacy      55
     
5.9. Taxes      56
     
5.10. Obligations Absolute      59
     
5.11. Mitigation Obligations      59
     
SECTION 6. Collateral 59
     
6.1. Grant of Security Interests      59
     
6.2. Extent of Security Interests      60
     
6.3. Limited License      60
     
6.4. Representations, Covenants and Agreements Regarding Collateral Generally      60
     
6.5. Reference to Other Loan Documents      63
     
6.6. Credit Balances; Additional Collateral      63
     
6.7. Power of Attorney      63
     
6.8. Filing of UCC and PPSA Financing Statements      64
     
6.9. Duty of Agent      64
     
SECTION 7. Representations and Warranties 65
     
7.1. Financial Condition      65
     
7.2. Organization Matters; Collateral Locations      65
     
7.3. Power and Authority; Conflicts; Enforceability      65
     
7.4. Material Contracts      66
     
7.5. Compliance with Laws; Permits; Anti-Terrorism Laws; Anti-Corruption Laws      66
     
7.6. Environmental Matters      67
     
7.7. Pending Litigation      68
     
7.8. Employee Benefits      68
     
7.9. Regulatory Matters      68
     
7.10. Disclosure      72
     
7.11. Security Interest      72
     
7.12. Taxes      72
     
7.13. Margin Stock      72
     
7.14. Canadian Pension Plans      72

 

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SECTION 8. Affirmative Covenants 73
     
8.1. Maintenance of Financial Records; Inspections      73
     
8.2. Further Assurances      73
     
8.3. Insurance and Condemnation      73
     
8.4. Payment of Taxes      74
     
8.5. Tax Returns and Reports      75
     
8.6. Notices Concerning Environmental, Employee Benefit, Pension Matters and Healthcare Matters      75
     
8.7. Compliance with Laws      76
     
8.8. Financial Reporting      76
     
8.9. Material Adverse Developments      78
     
8.10. Business Qualification      78
     
8.11. Hazardous Materials; Remediation      78
     
8.12. Use of Proceeds      78
     
8.13. Fundamental Changes      78
     
8.14. Proceeds under Representations and Warranties Insurance; Purchase Price Adjustments      79
     
8.15. Joinder of New Credit Parties      79
     
8.16. Statutory Divisions      79
     
8.17. Protection of Intellectual Property      79
     
8.18. Collateral Access Agreements      80
     
8.19. Disclosure Updates      80
     
8.20. Compliance with Administrative Services Documents      80
     
SECTION 9. Financial Covenants 81
     
9.1. Pro Forma Consolidated Revenues      81
     
9.2. Minimum Qualified Cash      81
     
SECTION 10. Negative Covenants 81
     
10.1. Liens and Encumbrances      81
     
10.2. Indebtedness      81
     
10.3. Sale of Assets      81
     
10.4. Corporate Change      81
     
10.5. [Reserved]      81
     
10.6. Restricted Payments      82
     
10.7. Investments      82
     
10.8. Related Party Transactions      83
     
10.9. Business Conducted      83
     
10.10. Prohibited Uses of Proceeds      83

 

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10.11. Compliance with Anti-Terrorism Laws, Sanctions      83
     
10.12. Credit Parties' Statements      84
     
10.13. [Reserved]      84
     
10.14. Payroll Accounts      84
     
10.15.    84
     
10.16. Amendments      84
     
10.17. Inconsistent Agreements      84
     
10.18. Fiscal Year      84
     
10.19. Canadian Pension Plans      84
     
SECTION 11. Events of Default and Remedies 85
     
11.1. Events of Default      85
     
11.2. Remedies with Respect to Outstanding Loans      87
     
11.3. Remedies with Respect to Collateral      87
     
11.4. Application of Proceeds      88
     
11.5. General Indemnity; Release      88
     
11.6. Authority      89
     
SECTION 12. Agency 90
     
12.1. Appointment of Agent; Powers      90
     
12.2. Delegation of Agent's Duties      91
     
12.3. Disclaimer of Agent's Liabilities      91
     
12.4. Reliance and Action by Agent      91
     
12.5. Events of Default      92
     
12.6. Lenders' Due Diligence      92
     
12.7. Right to Indemnification      92
     
12.8. Other Transactions      92
     
12.9. Resignation of Agent      93
     
12.10. Copies of Statements and Financial Information      93
     
12.11. Payments of Principal,Interest and Fees      93
     
SECTION 13. Guaranty 93
     
13.1. The Guaranty      93
     
13.2. Obligations Unconditional      94
     
13.3. Reinstatement      95
     
13.4. Waivers      95
     
13.5. Remedies      96

 

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13.6. Contribution by Guarantors      96
     
13.7. Guarantee of Payment; Continuing Guarantee      97
     
13.8. Subordination of Other Obligations      97
     
SECTION 14. Miscellaneous 97
     
14.1. Termination      97
     
14.2. Waivers      98
     
14.3. Entire Agreement; Control      98
     
14.4. Usury Limit; Interest Act (Canada); Criminal Rate of Interest; Nominal Rate of Interest      98
     
14.5. Severability      100
     
14.6. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL; SERVICE OF PROCESS; CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES      100
     
14.7. Notices      100
     
14.8. CHOICE OF LAW; VENUE      101
     
14.9. Publications      102
     
14.10. Counterparts; Effectiveness of Facsimile Documents and Signatures      102
     
14.11. Assignments; Participations      102
     
14.12. Sharing of Liabilities      106
     
14.13. Exercise of Setoff Rights      106
     
14.14. Confidentiality      107
     
14.15. Amendments; Agent's Discretionary Rights      107
     
14.16. Deemed Consent      108
     
14.17. Judgment Currency      108
     
SECTION 15. Inter-Borrower Provisions; Joint and Several Liability 109
     
15.1. Joint and Several Liability      109
     
15.2. Subrogation and Contribution Rights      110
     
15.3. Certain Borrower Acknowledgments and Agreements      110
     
15.4. Maximum Amount of Joint and Several Liability      111
     
15.5. Authorization of Borrower Representative by Borrowers      111

    

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EXHIBITS    
     
Exhibit A Form of Assignment and Transfer Agreement
Exhibit B Form of Loan Request
Exhibit C Form of Term Loan Promissory Note
Exhibit D Form of Delayed Draw Term Loan Promissory Note
Exhibit E Form of Closing Checklist
Exhibit F Form of Compliance Certificate
Exhibit G Form of Joinder to Credit and Security Agreement
Exhibit H Form of Warrant
     
SCHEDULES    
     
Schedule 4.3 Post-Closing Obligations
Schedule 6.4(f) Commercial Tort Claims
Schedule 7.2 Perfection Certificates
Schedule 7.4 Material Contracts
Schedule 7.7 Litigation
Schedule 7.8 Employee Benefits
Schedule 10.1 Liens
Schedule 10.2 Indebtedness
Schedule 10.7 Investments
Schedule 10.8 Related Party Transactions

 

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CREDIT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

 

THIS CREDIT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (as the same may be amended, restated, modified or otherwise supplemented from time to time, this "Agreement") is dated as of December 31, 2020 by and among OXFORD FINANCE LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("Oxford") and each other financial institution from time to time party hereto pursuant to Section 14.11(a) hereof (together with Oxford, collectively "Lenders" and each a "Lender"), and Oxford, as administrative agent for Lenders, GREENBROOK TMS INC., an Ontario corporation ("Parent"), TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Company" and collectively with each other Person that becomes a Borrower hereunder pursuant to a Joinder or otherwise, and their respective permitted successors and assigns, "Borrowers" and each a "Borrower"), and each other Person now or hereafter party hereto as a Guarantor.

 

SECTION 1.

 

Definitions

 

1.1.        Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement:

 

"Accounts" means collectively (a) all accounts and any right to payment of a monetary obligation, whether or not earned by performance, (b) without duplication, any "account" (as defined in the UCC and the PPSA, as applicable), any accounts receivable (whether in the form of payments for services rendered or goods sold, rents, license fees or otherwise), any Health-Care-Insurance Receivables, any Payment Intangibles and all other rights to payment and/or reimbursement of every kind and description, whether or not earned by performance, (c) all accounts, General Intangibles, intangibles (as defined in the PPSA), Intellectual Property, rights, remedies, guarantees, Supporting Obligations, Letter-of-Credit Rights and security interests in respect of the foregoing, all rights of enforcement and collection, all books and records evidencing or related to the foregoing, and all rights under the Loan Documents in respect of the foregoing, (d) all information and data compiled or derived by any Credit Party or to which any Credit Party is entitled in respect of or related to the foregoing, and (e) all proceeds of any of the foregoing.

 

"Achieve TMS Earn-Out" means the Earn-Out Payment (as defined in the Achieve TMS Purchase Agreement), as in effect on the Closing Date.

 

"Achieve TMS Purchase Agreement" means that certain Membership Interest Purchase Agreement, dated September 11, 2019, by and among Borrower, Parent, Achieve TMS Centers, LLC, Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC, TMS Center of Alaska, LLC and the sellers named therein.

 

"Acquisition" means the acquisition by any Person, in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions, of all or any substantial portion of the Property of another Person, or of a division or other business segment, line or unit of another Person, or at least a majority of the voting Equity Interests of another Person, in each case whether or not involving a merger, amalgamation or consolidation with such other Person and whether for cash, property, services, assumption of Indebtedness, securities or otherwise.

 

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"Administrative Services Documents" means each management services agreement entered into prior to the Closing Date between or among any Credit Party and a Supported Practice and any substantially similar management or administrative services agreement entered into between or among any Credit Party and a Supported Practice after the Closing Date pursuant to which (a) a Credit Party agrees to provide management, administrative and/or business services to such Supported Practice, (b) a Credit Party agrees to supply certain equipment, inventory, and/or the use of certain physical operating locations owned and/or leased by such Credit Party to such Supported Practice or (c) a Credit Party licenses any Intellectual Property to such Supported Practice, in each case, for the purpose of managing or providing management, administrative and/or business services to a healthcare practice, and in each case as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.

 

"Affiliate" means, with respect to a specified Person, (a) another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified and (b) with respect to any Lender, any entity administered or managed by such Lender or an Affiliate or investment advisor thereof which is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans. Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither Agent nor any Lender shall be deemed to be an Affiliate of any Credit Party or any Affiliate thereof.

 

"Agent" means Oxford, in its capacity as administrative agent and collateral agent for itself as a Lender and for the other Lenders hereunder, as such capacity is established in, and subject to the provisions of, Section 12, and the successors of Oxford in such capacity.

 

"Agreement" has the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

 

"Anti-Terrorism Laws" means any Laws relating to terrorism or money laundering, including the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended, and each of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) and any other enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto, the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA Patriot Act of 2001), the Laws comprising or implementing the Bank Secrecy Act, Canadian Anti-Money Laundering & Anti-Terrorism Legislation and any Laws administered by OFAC, as amended.

 

"Applicable Margin" means 7.75% per annum.

 

"Application Event" means (a) the occurrence of a failure by Borrowers to effectuate payment in full of the Obligations on the Maturity Date or Early Maturity Date, or (b) the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default and the election by Agent or the Required Lenders to require that payments and proceeds of Collateral be applied pursuant to Section 11.4.

 

"Approved Fund" means any (a) investment company, fund, trust, securitization vehicle or conduit that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of business or (b) any Person (other than a natural person) which temporarily warehouses loans for any Lender or any entity described in the preceding clause (a) and that, with respect to each of the preceding clauses (a) and (b), is administered or managed by (i) a Lender, (ii) an Affiliate of a Lender, or (iii) a Person (other than a natural person) or an Affiliate of a Person (other than a natural person) that administers or manages a Lender.

 

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"Assignment and Transfer Agreement" means the Assignment and Transfer Agreement in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.

 

"Authorized Person" means the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, or other officer of Borrower Representative authorized by specific resolution of Borrower Representative to request Loans as set forth in Borrower Representative's resolutions delivered to Agent on the Closing Date.

 

"Bankruptcy Code" means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled "Bankruptcy".

 

"Blocked Person" means any Person: (a) listed in the annex to, or is otherwise subject to the provisions of, Executive Order No. 13224, (b) owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, any Person that is listed in the annex to, or is otherwise subject to the provisions of, Executive Order No. 13224, (c) with which any Lender is prohibited from dealing or otherwise engaging in any transaction by any Anti-Terrorism Law, (d) that commits, threatens or conspires to commit or supports "terrorism" as defined in Executive Order No. 13224, (e) that is named a "specially designated national" or "blocked person" on the most current list published by OFAC or other similar list or is named as a "listed person" or "listed entity" on other lists made under any Anti-Terrorism Law, (f) is either the subject or target of any Sanctions, (g) that is a "designated person", "politically exposed foreign person" or "terrorist group" as described in any Canadian Economic Sanctions and Export Control Laws or (h) is located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is, or whose government is, the subject of Sanctions, including, without limitation, currently, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria.

 

"Borrower" and "Borrowers" have the meanings assigned to such terms in the preamble hereto.

 

"Borrower Representative" means Parent, in its capacity as the borrowing representative for itself and the other Borrowers under this Agreement.

 

"Business Day" means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or other day banking institutions in the State of New York are authorized or required by Law or executive order to close.

 

"Canadian Anti-Money Laundering & Anti-Terrorism Legislation" means the Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46, the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act, S.C. 2000, c. 17 and the United Nations Act, R.S.C. 1985, c.U-2 or any similar Canadian legislation, together with all rules, regulations and interpretations thereunder or related thereto including, without limitation, the Regulations Implementing the United Nations Resolutions on the Suppression of Terrorism and the United Nations Al-Qaida and Taliban Regulations promulgated under the United Nations Act.

 

"Canadian Defined Benefit Plan" means any Canadian Pension Plan which contains a "defined benefit provision" as defined in subsection 147.1(1) of the Income Tax Act (Canada).

 

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"Canadian Economic Sanctions and Export Control Laws" means any Canadian laws, regulations or orders governing transactions in controlled goods or technologies or dealings with countries, entities, organizations, or individuals subject to economic sanctions and similar measures, including the Special Economic Measures Act (Canada), the United Nations Act (Canada), the Freezing Assets of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Canada), Part II.1 of the Criminal Code (Canada) and the Export and Import Permits Act (Canada), and any related regulations.

 

"Canadian Pension Plan" means each "registered pension plan" (as such term is defined in the Income Tax Act (Canada)) and any pension plan that is subject to federal or provincial pension standards legislation in Canada that is established, maintained or contributed to by any Credit Party for its Canadian employees or former employees, but shall not include the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) as maintained by the Government of Canada or the Quebec Pension Plan (QPP) as maintained by the government of Quebec.

 

"Canadian Pension Termination Event" means (a) the voluntary full or partial wind up of a Canadian Defined Benefit Plan by any Credit Party or any Affiliate thereof or initiation of any action or filing to do so; (b) the institution of proceedings by any Governmental Authority to terminate in whole or in part or have a trustee appointed to administer any Canadian Defined Benefit Plan; or (c) any other event or condition which would reasonably be expected to result in the termination of, winding up or partial termination of, or the appointment of trustee to administer, any Canadian Defined Benefit Plan.

 

"Canadian Security Agreement" means, collectively, that certain general security agreement entered into on or about the Closing Date between Parent and Agent, and any and all other security agreements and deeds of hypothec which may be entered into from time to time by any Credit Party in favour of Agent (including in its capacity as the Hypothecary Representative), governed by the laws of Canada or any province thereof, in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent.

 

"Capital Expenditures" means, for any period, the aggregate expenditures of Parent and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis during such period on account of property, plant, equipment or similar fixed assets that, in conformity with IFRS, are required to be reflected as capital expenditures, other than amounts financed under Capital Leases.

 

"Capital Lease" means any lease of transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy devices or other Equipment which, in conformity with IFRS, is required to be capitalized.

 

"Cash Equivalents" means, as at any date, (a) securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States or the Government of Canada or any agency or instrumentality thereof (provided that the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged in support thereof) having maturities of not more than twelve months from the date of acquisition, (b) United States dollar-denominated time deposits and certificates of deposit of (i) any Lender, (ii) any domestic commercial bank of recognized standing having capital and surplus in excess of $1,000,000,000 or (iii) any bank whose short term commercial paper rating from Standard & Poor's Rating Group ("S&P") is at least A1 or the equivalent thereof or from Moody's Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's") is at least P1 or the equivalent thereof (any such bank being an "Approved Bank"), in each case with maturities of not more than 270 days from the date of acquisition, (c) commercial paper and variable or fixed rate notes issued by any Approved Bank (or by the parent company thereof) or any variable rate notes issued by, or guaranteed by, any domestic corporation rated A1 (or the equivalent thereof) or better by S&P or P1 (or the equivalent thereof) or better by Moody's and maturing within six months of the date of acquisition, (d) repurchase agreements entered into by any Person with a bank or trust company (including any Lenders) or recognized securities dealer having capital and surplus in excess of $1,000,000,000 for direct obligations issued by or fully guaranteed by the United States in which such Person shall have a perfected first priority security interest (subject to no other Liens) and having, on the date of purchase thereof, a fair market value of at least 100% of the amount of the repurchase obligations and (e) investments, classified in accordance with IFRS as current assets, in money market investment programs registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, which are administered by reputable financial institutions having capital of at least $1,000,000,000 and the portfolios of which are limited to Investments of the character described in the foregoing subdivisions (a) through (d).

 

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"Casualty Proceeds" means (a) payments or other proceeds from an insurance carrier with respect to any loss, casualty or damage to Collateral, and (b) payments received on account of any condemnation or other governmental taking of any of the Collateral; provided, however, Casualty Proceeds shall not include payments or other proceeds received by Borrowers in the Ordinary Course of Business in connection with claims under stop-loss insurance policies held by Borrowers.

 

"CERCLA" means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980.

 

"CFC" means a "controlled foreign corporation" within the meaning of Section 957 of the Code in which any Credit Party or direct or indirect owner of a Credit Party is a "United States shareholder" within the meaning of Section 951(b) of the Code and with respect to which the provision of credit support by such controlled foreign corporation of the Loans provided under this Agreement could reasonably be expected to result in a tax inclusion to any United States shareholder under Section 956 of the Code, after taking into all applicable provisions of the Code and Treasury Regulations, including Code Sections 245A, 951(b) and 959, and Treasury Regulation 1.956-1.

 

"CHAMPVA" means collectively, the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veteran Affairs, a program of medical benefits covering retirees and dependents of former members of the armed services administered by the United States Department of Veteran Affairs, and all laws, rules, regulations, manuals, orders, guidelines or requirements pertaining to such program including (a) all federal statutes (whether set forth in 38 U.S.C. §1713 or elsewhere) affecting such program or, to the extent applicable to CHAMPVA, and (b) all rules, regulations (including 38 C.F.R. §17.54), manuals, orders and administrative, reimbursement and other guidelines of all governmental authorities promulgated in connection with such program (whether or not having the force of law), in each case as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

 

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"Change of Control" means the occurrence of any of the following: (a) any Person or two or more Persons acting in concert (other than Permitted Holders), shall have acquired beneficial ownership, directly or indirectly, of Equity Interests of Parent (or other securities convertible into such Equity Interests) representing 30% or more of the combined voting power of all Equity Interests of Parent entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote for the election of members of the Board of Directors of Parent; (b) any Person or two or more Persons acting in concert (other than Permitted Holders), shall have acquired by contract or otherwise, or shall have entered into a contract or arrangement that, upon consummation thereof, will result in its or their acquisition of the power to exercise, directly or indirectly, a controlling influence over the management or policies of Parent or control over the Equity Interests of such Person entitled to vote for members of the Board of Directors of Parent on a fully-diluted basis (and taking into account all such Equity Interests that such Person or group has the right to acquire pursuant to any option right) representing 30% or more of the combined voting power of such Equity Interests; (c) during any period of 24 consecutive months commencing on or after the Closing Date, the occurrence of a change in the composition of the Board of Directors of Parent such that a majority of the members of such Board of Directors are not Continuing Directors; (d) the failure of Parent to directly and beneficially own and control 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests in the Company; or (e) the failure of the Company to beneficially own and control, directly or indirectly, at least 51% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests in each other Credit Party (including Equity Interests representing at least 51% of the combined voting power of the Equity Interests of each other Credit Party).

 

"Charge" means any fee, loss, charge, expense, cost, accrual or reserve of any kind required to be shown on financial statements in accordance with IFRS.

 

"Closing Checklist" means the checklist attached hereto as Exhibit E.

 

"Closing Date" means the date of this Agreement.

 

"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

"Collateral" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.1.

 

"Collateral Access Agreement" means a landlord waiver, bailee letter, or acknowledgement agreement of any lessor, warehouseman, processor, consignee, or other Person in possession of, having a Lien upon, or having rights or interests in any Credit Party's books and records, Equipment, or Inventory, in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent.

 

"Commercial Tort Claim" means a "commercial tort claim" as defined in Article 9 of the UCC.

 

"Commitments" means the collective reference to, and "Commitment" means, as to each Lender, the amount of the commitment for such Lender set forth on the signature page to this Agreement or in the Assignment and Transfer Agreement to which such Lender is a party, as such amount may be reduced or increased in accordance with the provisions of Section 14.11(a) or any other applicable provision of this Agreement, and includes the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment and the Term A Loan Commitment.

 

"Company" has the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

 

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"Compliance Certificate" means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit F.

 

"Consolidated EBITDA" means, for any period for Parent and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, all as determined in accordance with IFRS (and without duplication), an amount equal to Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus the following to the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income:

 

(a)            Consolidated Interest Expense for such period (including fees and expenses paid to the Administrative Agent in connection with its services hereunder);

 

(b)           the provision for (less any benefit from) Federal, state, local and foreign Taxes computed by reference to income or gross receipts and foreign unreimbursed value added Taxes paid, payable or accrued for such period;

 

(c)            the amount of depreciation and amortization expense for such period (including amortization of goodwill, software and other intangible assets);

 

(d)           one-time transaction costs incurred during such period in respect of the Credit Facility and the other transactions occurring on the Closing Date in connection therewith in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,500,000,

 

(e)            the amount of earn-out, non-compete and other contingent consideration obligations (including to the extent accounted for as bonuses, compensation or otherwise) and adjustments thereof and purchase price adjustments incurred in connection with acquisitions and Investments completed prior to the Closing Date and any acquisition or other Investment permitted by this Agreement, in each case, which is paid or accrued during the applicable period;

 

(f)             the amount of (i) startup costs and expenses incurred in connection with any Practice Location Opening after the Closing Date and prior to the date such Practice Location Opening is open for patients and (ii) operating losses with respect to any Practice Location Opening prior to the twelve month anniversary of such Practice Location Opening,

 

(g)            with respect to each Practice Location Opening occurring during the prior 36 months, solely to the extent the applicable practice location has generated a Consolidated EBITDA contribution during the most-recently ended three-month period greater than $0, the positive difference (if any) between $166,000 and the actual Consolidated EBITDA contribution of such practice location over the most-recently ended twelve-month period,

 

(h)            potential cost savings that are identified by the Borrower Representative in good faith with respect to corporate, general and administrative expense and center development costs as reported on the financial statements of Parent and its Subsidiaries, provided, that (x) such adjustments shall be identifiable, factually supportable and reasonably acceptable to Agent, (y) a duly completed certificate signed by a financial officer of the Borrower Representative shall be delivered to the Agent together with the applicable Compliance Certificate, describing in reasonable detail such adjustments and certifying that they are factually supportable and could reasonably be realized in the good faith judgment of the Borrower Representative, and (z) no net cost savings shall be added pursuant to this clause (g) to the extent duplicative of any other item otherwise added to Consolidated EBITDA, whether through a pro forma adjustment or otherwise, for such period; provided, further that the amount added to Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to this clause (h) in no event shall exceed 50% of total selling, general and administrative expenses of Parent and its Subsidiaries for the applicable period,

 

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(i)             any Charge with respect to any liability or casualty event, business interruption or any product recall, (i) so long as such Person has submitted in good faith, and reasonably expects to receive payment in connection with, a claim for reimbursement of such amounts under its relevant insurance policy within the next four fiscal quarters (with a deduction in the applicable future period for any amount so added back to the extent not so reimbursed within the next four fiscal quarters) or (ii) to the extent such Charge is covered by insurance, indemnification or otherwise reimbursable by a third party (whether or not then realized so long as the Parent in good faith expects to receive proceeds arising out of such insurance, indemnification or reimbursement obligation within the next four fiscal quarters (with a deduction in the applicable future period for any amount so added back to the extent not so reimbursed within the next four fiscal quarters)) (it being understood that if the amount received in cash under any such agreement in any period exceeds the amount of expense paid during such period, any excess amount received may be carried forward and applied against any expense in any future period);

 

(j)             any non-cash compensation Charge and/or any other non-cash Charge arising from the granting of any stock, stock option or similar arrangement (including any profits interest), the granting of any restricted stock, stock appreciation right and/or similar arrangement (including any repricing, amendment, modification, substitution or change of any such stock option, restricted stock, stock appreciation right, profits interest or similar arrangement or the vesting of any warrant);

 

(k)            any after-tax extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring losses,

 

(l)             unrealized net losses relating to any hedging transactions or foreign currency fluctuations; and

 

(m)          other items acceptable to Agent in its sole discretion;

 

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minus the following to the extent included in calculating such Consolidated Net Income: (i) non-Cash gains or income; provided that if any non-Cash gain or income represents an accrual or deferred income in respect of potential Cash items in any future period, such person may determine not to deduct such non-Cash gain or income in the current period, (ii) the amount added back to Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to clause (i) above, to the extent the relevant business interruption insurance proceeds were not received within the time period required by such clause, (iii) to the extent that such Person adds back the amount of any non-Cash charge to Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to clause (d), the cash payment in respect thereof in the relevant future period, (iv) any after-tax extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring income or gains, (v) exchange, translation, or performance gains relating to any hedging transactions or foreign currency fluctuations and (vi) the amount of Restricted Payments paid to minority equity owners of a Credit Party (other than Parent) during such period.

 

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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, neither the receipt of proceeds of the PPP Loan, nor the forgiveness of all or any portion of the PPP Loan shall be deemed to result in any increase to Consolidated Net Income or Consolidated EBITDA.

 

"Consolidated Excess Cash Flow" means, with respect to any period and with respect to Parent and its Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with IFRS the result of: (a) the sum (without duplication) of the following: (i) Consolidated EBITDA, plus (ii) the amount of any decrease in Net Working Capital for such period, plus (iii) interest income, minus (b) the sum (without duplication) of each of the following, to the extent actually paid in cash during such fiscal period: (i) any principal payments made in respect of the Term Loan and in respect of other Funded Indebtedness, (ii) all fees paid in cash to the Administrative Agent or any Lender pursuant to this Agreement, (iii) Consolidated Interest Expense, (iv) Taxes paid in cash, (v) Net Capital Expenditures paid in cash during such period (net of (A) any proceeds reinvested in accordance with Section 3.3(c)(ii) hereof, and (B) any proceeds of related financings with respect to such expenditures), (vi) the amount of cash items added back to Consolidated Net Income in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA for such period, (vii) amounts added to Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to clauses (g) and (h) of the definition thereof, and (vii) the amount of any increase in Net Working Capital for such period.

 

"Consolidated Interest Expense" means, for any period, interest expense on all Indebtedness of Parent and its Subsidiaries, whether paid or accrued, all as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with IFRS.

 

"Consolidated Net Income" means, for any period, consolidated net income (loss) of Parent and its Subsidiaries, all as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with IFRS.

 

"Contingent Liability" means any of, and "Contingent Liabilities" means the collective reference to, those agreements, undertakings or arrangements by which any Person guarantees, endorses or otherwise becomes or is contingently liable upon (by direct or indirect agreement, contingent or otherwise, to provide funds for payment, to supply funds to or otherwise to invest in a debtor, or otherwise to assure a creditor against loss) any indebtedness, obligation or other liability of any other Person (other than by endorsements of instruments in the course of collection), or guarantees the payment of dividends or other distributions upon the shares of any other Person. The amount of any Contingent Liability shall (subject to any limitation set forth herein) be deemed to be the outstanding principal amount (or maximum permitted principal amount, if larger) of the indebtedness, obligation or other liability guaranteed or supported thereby.

 

"Continuing Director" means (a) any member of the Board of Directors who was a director (or comparable manager) of Parent on the Closing Date, and (b) any individual who becomes a member of the Board of Directors after the Closing Date if such individual was approved, appointed or nominated for election to the Board of Directors by either the Permitted Holders or a majority of the Continuing Directors.

 

"Control" means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise, and "Controlled" has the correlative meaning.

 

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"Controlled Investment Affiliate" means any fund or investment vehicle that is, with respect to any Person: (i) organized by such Person for the purposes of making equity or debt investments in one (1) or more Persons and (ii) is Controlled by such Person.

 

"Copyrights" means all of the Credit Parties' present and hereafter acquired copyrights, copyright registrations, recordings, applications, designs, styles, licenses, marks, prints and labels bearing any of the foregoing, all reissues and renewals thereof, all licenses thereof, all other general intangibles, intellectual property and other rights pertaining to any of the foregoing, together with the goodwill associated therewith, and all income, royalties and other Proceeds of any of the foregoing.

 

"Credit Facility" means the aggregate commitment of Lenders in an amount equal to $30,000,000 to make the Term A Loan and Delayed Draw Term Loans pursuant to Section 3 of this Agreement.

 

"Credit Parties" means the collective reference to, and "Credit Party" means each of, the Borrowers, the Guarantors and any other Person who becomes party to this Agreement as a Borrower or Guarantor pursuant to a Joinder or otherwise, and their respective successors and permitted assigns.

 

"Criminal Code Section" has the meaning given to such term in Section 14.4 of this Agreement.

 

"Current Assets" means, as at any date of determination, the total current assets of Parent and its Subsidiaries (other than cash and Cash Equivalents) which may properly be classified as current assets on a balance sheet of Parent and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with IFRS.

 

"Current Liabilities" means, as at any date of determination, the total current liabilities of Parent and its Subsidiaries which may properly be classified as current liabilities (other than the current portion of the Term Loans and the Consolidated Interest Expense thereon) on a balance sheet of Parent and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with IFRS.

 

"Default" means any event, fact, circumstance or condition that, with the giving of applicable notice or passage of time or both, would constitute or be or result in an Event of Default.

 

"Default Rate of Interest" means a rate of interest equal to two percent (2%) per annum greater than the interest rate accruing on the Obligations pursuant to Section 5.1 hereof, which Agent and Lenders shall be entitled to charge Borrowers in the manner set forth in Section 5.2 of this Agreement.

 

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"Defaulting Lender" means any Lender that (a) has failed to make any Loan or other credit accommodation, disbursement, settlement or reimbursement required pursuant to the terms of any Loan Document on the date such amounts were required to be funded hereunder unless such Lender notifies Agent and Borrower Representative that such failure is the result of such Lender's good faith determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, (b) has notified Agent, any Lender or Borrower Representative in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect unless such Lender notifies Agent and Borrower Representative that such failure is the result of such Lender's good faith determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, (c) has failed, within two (2) Business Days after written request by Agent, to confirm in writing to Agent that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder unless such Lender notifies Agent and Borrower Representative that such failure is the result of such Lender's good faith determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of any insolvency, bankruptcy, arrangement or other proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada), the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) or any other similar debtor relief Law, (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, interim receiver, monitor, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state, provincial, territorial or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity. Any determination by Agent (or Required Lenders, if Agent is a Defaulting Lender) that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (d) above, and of the effective date of such status, shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender as of the date established therefor by Agent (or Required Lenders, if applicable) in a written notice of such determination, which shall be delivered by Agent to Borrower Representative and each Lender promptly following such determination. If Agent (or Required Lenders, if Agent is the Defaulting Lender) agrees in writing that a Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, Agent (or Required Lenders, if applicable) will so notify Borrower Representative and each Lender, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein, that each Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase at par that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders or take such other actions as Agent (or Required Lenders, if applicable) may determine to be necessary to cause the Loans to be held on a pro rata basis by Lenders in accordance with their applicable Pro Rata Percentages, whereupon such Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender; provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of Borrowers while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided, further, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed to by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender's having been a Defaulting Lender.

 

"Delayed Draw Term Loan Availability" means, as of any date of determination, the result of (a) if Pro Forma Consolidated EBITDA for the most recently ended twelve-month period for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 8.8(d) is equal to or greater than (i) [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information], then $5,000,000, (ii) [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information], then $10,000,000, or (iii) [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information], then $15,000,000, minus (b) the original principal amount of previously advanced Delayed Draw Term Loans.

 

"Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment" means, with respect to any Lender, the Commitment of such Lender to make a portion of the Delayed Draw Term Loans to Borrowers pursuant to the terms of Section 3 of this Agreement and subject to the conditions of Section 4 of this Agreement, in the amount set forth under such Lender's name on the signature pages hereto and, with respect to all Lenders, the aggregate Commitments of Lenders to make the Delayed Draw Term Loans to Borrowers, in the aggregate amount in effect on the Closing Date of $15,000,000, as the same may be reduced from time to time by advances hereunder or otherwise pursuant to the terms hereof. The Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment shall terminate on the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Termination Date.

 

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"Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Termination Date" means the earlier of December 31, 2022 and the date on which the full amount of the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment has been borrowed and the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment has thereby been reduced to $0.

 

"Delayed Draw Term Loans" means the term loans made from time to time by Lenders to Borrowers after the Closing Date and prior to the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Termination Date pursuant to the terms set forth in Section 3 of this Agreement.

 

"Deposit Account" means a "deposit account" (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC), investment account or other account in which funds are held or invested for credit to or for the benefit of any Credit Party, including each bank account (and the related lockbox, if any) that is established by Agent or any Credit Party pursuant to the terms and provisions of this Agreement.

 

"Deposit Account Control Agreement" means each of, and "Deposit Account Control Agreements" means the collective reference to any deposit account control agreement by and among a depositary institution, any Credit Party and Agent, as each of the same may from time to time be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

 

"Derivative Obligations" means every obligation of a Person under any forward contract, futures contract, exchange contract, swap, option or other financing agreement or arrangement (including caps, floors, collars and similar agreement), the value of which is dependent upon interest rates, currency exchange rates, commodities or other indices.

 

"Disposition" means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition of any Collateral by any Credit Party (including any Equity Interests owned by such Credit Party), but excluding all Involuntary Dispositions.

 

"Disqualified Equity Interest" means any Equity Interest that, by its terms (or the terms of any security or other Equity Interests into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event or condition (a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for Equity Interests that are not Disqualified Equity Interests), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Commitments), (b) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part, (c) provides for scheduled payments of dividends in cash, or (d) is or becomes convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case, prior to the date that is one hundred eighty-one days after the Maturity Date.

 

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"Disregarded Domestic Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary treated as a disregarded entity or fiscally transparent entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes all of the assets of which (other than de minimis assets) consists of equity or equity and debt of one or more CFCs.

 

"Documents of Title" means all present and future Documents and any and all warehouse receipts, bills of lading, shipping documents, chattel paper, instruments and similar documents, all whether negotiable or non-negotiable, together with all Inventory and other Goods relating thereto, and all Proceeds of any of the foregoing.

 

"Dollars, "dollars" or $ refers to lawful money of the United States of America.

 

"Domestic Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary incorporated or organized under the laws of the U.S., any state thereof or the District of Columbia.

 

"Early Maturity Date" means a date prior to the Maturity Date on which Borrowers or Agent or Required Lenders, as the case may be, terminate this Agreement in accordance with Section 11.2 or 14.1.

 

"Eligible Assignee" means (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender, (c) an Approved Fund, and (d) any other Person (other than a natural person) approved by Agent; provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) "Eligible Assignee" shall not include any Credit Party or any of a Credit Party's Affiliates, and (y) no proposed assignee intending to assume all or any portion of the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment or any unfunded portion of the Term A Loan shall be an Eligible Assignee unless such proposed assignee either already holds a portion of such Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment or Term A Loan or has been approved as an Eligible Assignee by Agent.

 

"Employee Benefit Plan" means an "employee benefit plan" within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA which any Credit Party establishes for the benefit of its employees or for which any Credit Party has liability to make a contribution, including by reason of being an ERISA Affiliate, other than a Multiemployer Plan.

 

"Enterprise Value" means, as of any date of determination, the product of (a) the Revenue Multiple and (b) Pro Forma Consolidated Revenues of Parent and its Subsidiaries for the most-recently ended twelve-month period for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 8.8.

 

"Enterprise Value Ratio" means, as of any date of determination, the quotient (expressed as a percentage) obtained by dividing (a) Senior Debt, by (b) Enterprise Value.

 

"Environmental Laws" means any federal, state, provincial, territorial and local laws, statutes, ordinances, rules, regulations, standards, policies and other governmental directives or requirements, as well as common law, pertaining to the environment, natural resources, pollution, health (including any environmental clean-up statutes and all regulations adopted by any local, state, provincial, territorial, federal or other Government Authority, and any statute, ordinance, code, order, decree, law, rule or regulation all of which pertain to or impose liability or standards of conduct concerning medical waste or medical products, equipment or supplies), safety or cleanup that apply to any Credit Party and relate to Hazardous Materials, including CERCLA, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.), the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.), the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. § 5101 et seq.), the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq.), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. § 136 et seq.), the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (42 U.S.C. § 11001 et seq.), the Occupational Safety and Health Act (29 U.S.C. § 651 et seq.), the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act (42 U.S.C. § 4851 et seq.), any analogous state, provincial, territorial or local laws, any amendments thereto, and the regulations promulgated pursuant to said laws, together with all amendments from time to time to any of the foregoing and judicial interpretations thereof.

 

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"Equipment" means all of the Credit Parties' present and hereafter acquired equipment (as defined in the UCC and the PPSA, as applicable), including all machinery, equipment, rolling stock, furnishings and fixtures, leasehold improvements, and all additions, substitutions and replacements thereof, wherever located, together with all attachments, components, parts, equipment and accessories installed thereon or affixed thereto and all Proceeds of any of the foregoing.

 

"Equity Interests" means shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity ownership interests in a Person, and any warrants, options or other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any such Equity Interest.

 

"Equity Transfer Restriction Agreement" means, with respect to each Supported Practice, an agreement which (i) prohibits the owners of the Supported Practice from encumbering or transferring the Equity Interests of the Supported Practice to any Person other than a Credit Party or its successors and assigns (or to a Person designated by Borrower Representative or its successors and assigns); and (ii) entitles a Credit Party and its successors and assigns to effect a transfer of such Equity Interests from the owner of the Supported Practice to any other Person selected by such Credit Party or its successors and assigns who is legally permitted to be the owner of the Supported Practice.

 

"ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act or 1974, as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder from time to time.

 

"ERISA Affiliate" means, as applied to any Person, (i) any corporation which is a member of a controlled group of corporations within the meaning of Section 414(b) of the Code of which that Person is a member; (ii) any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) which is a member of a group of trades or businesses under common control within the meaning of Section 414(c) of the Code of which that Person is a member; and (iii) any member of an affiliated service group within the meaning of Section 414(m) or (o) of the Code of which that Person, any corporation described in clause (i) above or any trade or business described in clause (ii) above is a member. Any former ERISA Affiliate of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries shall continue to be considered an ERISA Affiliate of Parent or any such Subsidiary within the meaning of this definition with respect to the period such entity was an ERISA Affiliate of Parent or such Subsidiary and with respect to liabilities arising after such period for which Parent or such Subsidiary could be liable under the Code or ERISA.

 

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"ERISA Event" means (i) a "reportable event" within the meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA and the regulations issued thereunder with respect to any Pension Plan (excluding those for which the provision for thirty day notice to the PBGC has been waived by regulation); (ii) the failure to meet the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the Code with respect to any Pension Plan (whether or not waived in accordance with Section 412(c) of the Code) or the failure to make by its due date a required installment under Section 430(j) of the Code with respect to any Pension Plan or the failure to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (iii) the provision by the administrator of any Pension Plan pursuant to Section 4041(a)(2) of ERISA of a notice of intent to terminate such plan in a distress termination described in Section 4041(c) of ERISA; (iv) the withdrawal by Parent, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates from any Pension Plan with two or more contributing sponsors or the termination of any such Pension Plan resulting in liability to Parent, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective Affiliates pursuant to Section 4063 or 4064 of ERISA; (v) the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate any Pension Plan, or the occurrence of any event or condition which may reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan; (vi) the imposition of liability on Parent, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates pursuant to Section 4062(e) or 4069 of ERISA or by reason of the application of Section 4212(c) of ERISA; (vii) the withdrawal of Parent, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates in a complete or partial withdrawal (within the meaning of Sections 4203 and 4205 of ERISA) from any Multiemployer Plan if there is any potential liability therefor, or the receipt by Parent, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates of notice from any Multiemployer Plan that it is in insolvency status pursuant to Section 4245 of ERISA, or that it intends to terminate or has terminated under Section 4041A or 4042 of ERISA; (viii) the occurrence of an act or omission which could give rise to the imposition on Parent, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates of fines, penalties, taxes or related charges under Chapter 43 of the Code or under Section 409, Section 502(c), (i) or (l), or Section 4071 of ERISA in respect of any Employee Benefit Plan; (ix) the assertion of a material claim (other than routine claims for benefits) against any Employee Benefit Plan or the assets thereof, or against Parent, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates in connection with any Employee Benefit Plan; (x) receipt from the Internal Revenue Service of notice of the failure of any Pension Plan (or any other Employee Benefit Plan intended to be qualified under Section 401 of the Code) to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code, or the failure of any trust forming part of any Pension Plan to qualify for exemption from taxation under Section 501(a) of the Code; or (xi) the imposition of a Lien pursuant to Section 430(k) of the Code or pursuant to Section 303(k) or 4068 of ERISA with respect to any Pension Plan.

 

"Event of Default" has the meaning given to such term in Section 11.1 of this Agreement.

 

"Excluded Accounts" means Deposit Accounts of the Credit Parties (a) exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes, workers' compensation, deferred compensation, and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for any Credit Party's employees to the extent such amounts in such accounts are not in excess of amounts permitted hereunder, (b) exclusively used for the direct collection of receivables from Government Account Debtors, or (c) consisting of other Deposit Accounts, the average monthly balance of which does not exceed $50,000 for any individual account, or such other amount consented to by the Agent in its reasonable discretion.

 

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"Excluded Assets" means any (a) rights or interest in any contract, lease, Permit, license, or license agreement if under the terms of such contract, lease, Permit, license, or license agreement, or applicable Law with respect thereto, the grant of a security interest or Lien therein is prohibited as a matter of law or under the terms of such contract, lease, Permit, license, or license agreement and such prohibition or restriction has not been waived or the requisite consent in respect of such contract, lease, Permit, license, or license agreement has not been obtained or the grant of a security interest or Lien therein would, under the terms of such contract, lease, Permit, license, or license agreement, result in the termination of or give rise to a right of termination (provided, that, (i) the foregoing exclusions shall in no way be construed (1) to apply to the extent that any described prohibition or restriction is unenforceable under Section 9-406, 9-407, 9-408, or 9-409 of the UCC, the PPSA or other applicable Law, or (2) to apply to the extent that any consent or waiver has been obtained that would permit Agent's security interest or Lien notwithstanding the prohibition or restriction on the pledge of such contract, lease, Permit, license, or license agreement and (ii) the foregoing exclusions shall in no way be construed to limit, impair, or otherwise affect any of Agent's continuing security interests in and Liens upon any rights or interests of any Credit Party in or to (A) monies due or to become due under or in connection with any described contract, lease, Permit, license or license agreement (including any Accounts), or (B) any proceeds from the Disposition of any such contract, lease, Permit, license or license agreement); (b) any United States intent-to-use trademark applications to the extent that, and solely during the period in which, the grant of a security interest therein would impair the validity or enforceability of (or result in the abandonment of) such intent-to-use trademark applications under applicable federal law; provided, that, upon submission to, and acceptance by, the United States Patent and Trademark Office of an amendment to allege use pursuant to 15 U.S.C. Section 1060(a) (or any successor provision), such intent-to-use trademark application shall be considered Collateral; (c) leasehold interests in real property; and (d) the Equity Interests of (i) any CFC, (ii) any Disregarded Domestic Subsidiary or (iii) any foreign partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, one or more partners of which is a CFC or Disregarded Domestic Subsidiary and no partner of which is a Domestic Subsidiary, in each case other than 65% of the issued and outstanding voting Equity Interests of such entity, as applicable; (e) any motor vehicle, airplane or other asset subject to a certificate of title; (f) any asset with respect to which the Administrative Agent and the relevant Credit Party have determined in good faith that the cost, burden, difficulty or consequence (including any effect on the ability of the relevant Credit Party to conduct its operations and business in the ordinary course of business) of obtaining or perfecting a security interest therein outweighs the benefit of a security interest to the relevant Secured Parties afforded thereby; and (g) Excluded Accounts.

 

"Excluded Taxes" means, with respect to Agent, any Lender, or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of Parent or Borrowers hereunder: (a) Taxes imposed on (or measured by) the recipient's net assets, receipts or income (however denominated), franchise Taxes and branch profits taxes, in each case, (i) imposed by the jurisdiction (or political subdivision) under the Laws of which such recipient is organized or in which its principal office is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which its applicable lending office is located, or (ii) imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising solely from such recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, or received or perfected a security interest under this Agreement); (b) in the case of a Lender, any United States federal withholding Tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such Lender at the time such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office), except to the extent that such Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled at the time of designation of a new lending office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts from Borrowers with respect to such withholding Tax pursuant to Section 5.9; (c) United States Taxes attributable to a Lender's or other recipient's failure to comply with Section 5.9(e); and (d) any United States federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.

 

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"Executive Order No. 13224" means Executive Order No. 13224 issued on September 23, 2001.

 

"Exercise Price" means the lesser of (i) the average closing price of the common shares of the Parent on the TSX for the prior 10 days of trading (calculated on the day prior to funding of the applicable Term Loan), and (ii) the closing price of the common shares of the Parent on the TSX on the trading day prior to funding of the applicable Term Loan; provided, however, that, if the price calculated by the foregoing formula will result in an Exercise Price that is less than the “market price” (as such term is defined in the TSX Company Manual) of the common shares of the Parent, then the Exercise Price shall be equal to the “market price” as such term is defined in the TSX Company Manual or in such other manner as the TSX may approve (or, as applicable, any lower price permitted as a result of Parent submitting price protection forms to TSX when and as requested by Agent).

 

"Extraordinary Receipt" means any cash received by or paid to or for the account of any Credit Party not in the Ordinary Course of Business (and not consisting of proceeds described in any of Section 3.3(c)(ii) or (iii)), in respect of purchase price and other monetary adjustments, indemnification payments or the proceeds of representations and warranties insurance, in each case received in connection with any Purchase Documents, Acquisition, or Administrative Services Documents; provided, that Extraordinary Receipt shall exclude (x) customary working capital, tax or other similar adjustments pursuant to the Purchase Documents or in connection with any Acquisition and (y) amounts received and used by the Credit Parties for the purpose of replacing, repairing or restoring any assets or properties or otherwise satisfying the condition giving rise to the claim for indemnification or otherwise covering any fees, costs or expenses incurred and paid in cash by the Credit Parties in connection therewith.

 

"FATCA" means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code and any fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules or practices adopted pursuant to any intergovernmental agreement, treaty or convention of the United States implementing such Sections of the Code.

 

"FCPA" has the meaning set forth in Section 7.5(d).

 

"Federal Funds Rate" means, for any day, the rate of interest per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers on such day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day, provided, however, that (a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Business Day, and (b) if no such rate is so published on such next preceding Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate quoted to Agent on such day on such transactions as determined by Agent.

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"Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Website" means the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York at http://www.newyorkfed.org, or any successor source.

 

"Fee Letter" means that certain fee letter, dated as of even date with this Agreement, among Borrowers and Agent.

 

"Foreign Lender" means any Lender that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States of America, each state thereof and the District of Columbia.

 

"Freely Assignable" means, with respect to any Administrative Services Document or other contract or agreement (a) it does not contain express restrictions or conditions (including the payment of any fee) on the assignment, sale, disposition or other transfer by the Credit Party party thereto (or any of its successors and assigns) of, or the granting of any Lien by such Credit Party (or any of its successors and assigns) in, its rights, title and interest thereunder, to any other Person (including any such transfer as a result of the exercise of any such Lien therein, whether by foreclosure or otherwise), (b) without obtaining the consent of any Person, no default will occur, no penalty will accrue and no violation of breach of any terms thereof will result or arise due to (i) any such granting of a Lien in such rights, title and interest of the applicable Credit Party (or any of its successors or assigns) or upon any such assignment, sale, disposition or other transfer, or (ii) any change of control or change in ownership of any Credit Party, and (c) otherwise, under applicable Law, it is freely assignable to third parties (or Affiliates) by the applicable Credit Party (or any of its successors or assigns).

 

"Funded Indebtedness" means, as to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all of the following Indebtedness, whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with IFRS:

 

(a)            all Indebtedness for borrowed money, whether current or long-term (including the Obligations, but excluding any undrawn Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments, and any Subordinated Debt) and all Indebtedness of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments; provided, that, for purposes of calculating Funded Indebtedness on the Closing Date and for a period of 120 days thereafter, the PPP Loan shall not constitute Funded Indebtedness unless and until a final forgiveness determination is made;

 

(b)            all purchase money Indebtedness and obligations under Capital Leases, whether or not such Indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse (but if recourse for such Indebtedness is limited to such Property subject to a Lien, then such indebtedness shall constitute Indebtedness only to the extent of the lesser of (x) the amount of such Indebtedness secured by such Lien or (y) the fair market value of such Property subject to such Lien);

 

(c)            unreimbursed drawings and other obligations under letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers' acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments to the extent not cash collateralized;

 

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(d)            all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on, or payable out of the proceeds of, Property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the obligations secured thereby have been assumed;

  

(e)            any deferred purchase price obligations for Acquisitions, including performance based incentive bonuses, seller notes, earn-outs (including the Achieve TMS Earn-Out) and similar deferred obligations, whether structured as compensation obligations or otherwise, to the extent unpaid when due and payable in cash; and

 

(f)            all guarantees with respect to Indebtedness of the types specified in clauses (a) through (e) above of another Person.

 

"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect from time to time, and for the period as to which such accounting principles are to apply, as consistently applied.

 

"General Intangibles" means all of the Credit Parties' present and hereafter acquired general intangibles (as defined in the UCC) and intangibles (as defined in the PPSA), as applicable, and shall include all of the Credit Parties' present and future right, title and interest in and to all: (a) Trademarks, (b) Patents, utility models, industrial models, and designs, (c) Copyrights, (d) trade secrets, (e) Permits and franchises, (f) other forms of intellectual property (including industrial designs), (g)  customer lists, telephone lists and directories, choses in action, distribution agreements, license agreements, supply agreements, blueprints, indemnification rights and tax refunds, (h) monies and claims for monies now or hereafter due and payable in connection with the foregoing, including payments for infringement and royalties arising from any licensing agreement between any Credit Party and any licensee of any of such Credit Party's General Intangibles, (i) payment intangibles, certificates of need, books, records, contracts, contract rights, rights (if any) to or in employee or other pension, retirement or similar plans and any assets thereof (to the extent permitted by applicable Law and subject always to the rights of the beneficiaries thereof), or any portion thereof, including refunds for overpayments, distributions upon termination, reversion of any surplus assets or otherwise, returned and unearned insurance premiums, rights and claims under insurance policies including credit insurance and key man life insurance policies, and computer information, software, records and data and (j) Proceeds of any of the foregoing.

 

"Goods" means all present and hereafter acquired "Goods," as defined in the UCC and the PPSA, as applicable, and all Proceeds thereof.

 

"Government Account Debtor" means an account debtor making payments under any Government Reimbursement Program and any other healthcare program operated by or financed in whole or in part by any foreign or domestic federal, state, provincial, territorial or local government.

 

"Government Authority" means any nation or government, any federal, state, provincial, territorial, municipal, local or other political subdivision thereof, any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, tribunal, arbitral body, department, administration, authority, program, plan, office, commission, board, bureau, division, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government, and any corporation or other Person owned or controlled (through stock or capital ownership or otherwise) by any of the foregoing.

 

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"Government Reimbursement Program" means (a) Medicare, (b) Medicaid, (c) the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program under 5 U.S.C. § § 8902 et seq., (d) TRICARE, (d) CHAMPVA, (e) any other federal healthcare program as defined in 42 U.S.C. § 1320a 7b(f) as amended, or (f) if applicable within the context of this Agreement, any agent, administrator, administrative contractor, intermediary or carrier for any of the foregoing, but excluding all non-governmental funded third-party payor programs.

 

"Guaranteed Obligations" has the meaning given to such term in Section 13.1 of this Agreement.

 

"Guarantor" means each of, and "Guarantors" means the collective reference to Parent, and each other guarantor of all or any part of the Obligations.

 

"Guaranty" means the guaranty made by Parent and each other Guarantor in favor of Agent for the benefit of Agent and Lenders pursuant to Section 13.

 

"Guaranty Agreement" means each of, and "Guaranty Agreements" means the collective reference to, any guaranty agreement (including the Guaranty) with respect to the Obligations in favor of Agent for the benefit of Agent and Lenders, as the same may from time to time be amended, restated, modified or otherwise supplemented.

 

"Hazardous Materials" means petroleum and petroleum products and compounds containing them, including gasoline, diesel fuel and oil; explosives, flammable materials; radioactive materials; polychlorinated biphenyls and compounds containing them; lead and lead-based paint; asbestos or asbestos-containing materials; underground or aboveground storage tanks, whether empty or containing any substance; any substance the presence of which is prohibited by any Environmental Laws; toxic mold; any substance that requires special handling; and any other material or substance now or in the future defined as a "hazardous substance," "hazardous material," "hazardous waste," "toxic substance," "toxic pollutant," "contaminant," "pollutant" or other words of similar import within the meaning of any Environmental Law, including: (a) any "hazardous substance" defined as such in (or for purposes of) CERCLA, or any so-called "superfund" or "superlien" Law, including the judicial interpretation thereof; (b) any "pollutant or contaminant" as defined in 42 U.S.C. § 9601(33); (c) any material now defined as "hazardous waste" pursuant to 40 C.F.R. Part 260; (d) any petroleum or petroleum by-products, including crude oil or any fraction thereof; (e) natural gas, natural gas liquids, liquefied natural gas, or synthetic gas usable for fuel; (f) any "hazardous chemical" as defined pursuant to 29 C.F.R. Part 1910; (g) any toxic or harmful substances, wastes, materials, pollutants or contaminants (including asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls, flammable explosives, radioactive materials, infectious substances, materials containing lead-based paint or raw materials which include hazardous constituents); and (h) any other toxic substance or contaminant that is subject to any Environmental Laws or other past or present requirement of any Government Authority.

 

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"Healthcare Laws" means all Requirements of Law applicable to any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries relating to: (a) fraud and abuse (including the following statutes, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time and any successor statutes thereto and regulations promulgated from time to time thereunder: the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)), the Ethics in Patient Referrals Act, as amended (Stark Law) (42 U.S.C. § 1395nn and § 1395(q)), the civil False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq.), the federal health care program exclusion provisions (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7), the Civil Monetary Penalties Act (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7a), and the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Pub. L. No. 108-173)); (b) any Government Reimbursement Program, Title XVIII of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1395-1395III (the Medicare statute), and Title XIX of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1396-1396v (the Medicaid statute), and any similar state fraud and abuse or self-referral prohibition laws and regulations; (c) the licensure or regulation of healthcare providers, suppliers, professionals, facilities or payors; (d) the operation of any healthcare facility or the provision of, or payment for, healthcare items or supplies; (e) healthcare quality, safety certification and accreditation standards and requirements; (f) the billing, coding or submission of claims or collection of accounts receivable or refund of overpayments, in each case for healthcare services; (g) HIPAA; (h) the practice of medicine and other health care professions or the organization of medical or professional entities; (i) fee-splitting prohibitions; (j) requirements for maintaining federal, state, provincial, territorial and local tax-exempt status of any Borrower; (k) [reserved]; (l) health planning or rate-setting laws, including Laws regarding certificates of need and certificates of exemption; and (m) any and all other applicable federal, state, provincial, territorial or local health care laws, rules, codes, regulations, manuals, orders, ordinances, professional or ethical rules, administrative guidance and requirements (including those pursuant to which Healthcare Permits are issued), as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time.

  

"Healthcare Permit" means any Permit (a) issued or required under Healthcare Laws applicable to the business of any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries or necessary in the possession, ownership, operation, warehousing, marketing, promoting, sale, labeling, furnishing, distribution or delivery of goods or services under Healthcare Laws applicable to the business of any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any Supported Practice, (b) issued by any Person from which any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any Supported Practice has, as of the Closing Date, received an accreditation where such accreditation is required for such Credit Party to conduct its business and/or participate in and receive payment under any Government Reimbursement Program or other Third-Party Payor Arrangement, as applicable, or (c) necessary to enable any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any Supported Practice to conduct its business and/or participate in and receive payment under any Government Reimbursement Program or other Third-Party Payor Arrangement, as applicable.

 

"HIPAA" means the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1320d-1329d-8, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, enacted as Title XIII of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Public Law 111-5, as the same may be further amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, and any successor statute thereto, and its implementing Administrative Simplification regulations related to the privacy of Protected Health Information and Security Standards, as defined by Law (45 C.F.R. parts 160, 162, and 164), also known as the HIPAA Privacy Rule, the Standards for Electronic Transactions, the Security Standards and any and all rules or regulations promulgated from time to time thereunder.

 

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"Hypothecary Representative" has the meaning given to such term in Section 12.1 of this Agreement.

 

"IFRS" means the International Financial Reporting Standards as set out in the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants Handbook - Accounting, as in effect from time to time.

 

"Indebtedness" of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all indebtedness for borrowed money, whether or not evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (b) obligations with respect to Capital Leases, (c) all obligations to pay the deferred purchase price of Property or services (other than trade payables incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business and repayable in accordance with customary trade practices), (d) all indebtedness secured by a Lien on the property of such Person, whether or not such indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person, (e) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, with respect to the face amount of all letters of credit (whether or not drawn) and banker's acceptances issued for the account of such Person, (f) all Derivative Obligations, (g) all Contingent Liabilities, (h) all liabilities of any partnership or joint venture of which such Person is a general partner or joint venturer, but only to the extent there is recourse to such Person for the payment thereof, and (i) all obligations of such Person in respect of Disqualified Equity Interests. For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall exclude (i) deferred Taxes and accrued expenses payable in the ordinary course of business, (ii) any purchase price or working capital adjustment obligation, (iii) obligations under non-compete agreements and (iv) accruals for payroll and other liabilities accrued in the ordinary course of business.

 

"Indemnified Party" has the meaning given to such term in Section 11.5(a) of this Agreement.

 

"Indemnified Taxes" means all Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by, or on account of the Obligations of, any Credit Party under this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

 

"Intellectual Property" means, with respect to any Person, all Patents, Patent applications and like protections, including improvements divisions, continuation, renewals, reissues, extensions and continuations in part of the same, Trademarks, trade names, trade styles, trade dress, service marks, logos and other business identifiers and, to the extent permitted under applicable Law, any applications therefore, whether registered or not, and the goodwill of the business of such Person connected with and symbolized thereby, Copyright rights, Copyright applications, Copyright registrations and like protections in each work of authorship and derivative works, whether published or unpublished, technology, know-how and processes, operating manuals, trade secrets, computer hardware and software, rights to unpatented inventions and all applications and licenses therefor, and other intellectual property (including industrial designs), in each case, used in or necessary for the conduct of business by such Person and all claims for damages by way of any past, present or future infringement of any of the foregoing.

 

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"Inventory" means all of the Credit Parties' present and hereafter acquired inventory (as defined in the UCC and the PPSA, as applicable) including all merchandise and inventory in all stages of production (from raw materials through work-in-process to finished goods), and all additions, substitutions and replacements thereof, wherever located, together with all goods and materials used or usable in manufacturing, processing, packaging or shipping of the foregoing, and all Proceeds of any of the foregoing.

 

"Investment" means any investment in any Person, whether by means of acquiring (whether for cash, property, services, securities or otherwise) or holding securities, capital contributions, loans, time deposits, advances, guarantees or otherwise, and shall include, without limitation, any Acquisition. The amount of any Investment shall be the original cost of such Investment plus the cost of all additions thereto, minus the amount of any cash return realized on such Investment, without any adjustments for increases or decreases in value, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect thereto.

 

"Investment Property" means all of the Credit Parties' present and hereafter acquired "Investment Property," as defined in the UCC and the PPSA, as applicable, together with all stock and other Equity Interests in the Credit Parties' Subsidiaries, and all Proceeds thereof.

 

"Involuntary Disposition" means any loss of, damage to or destruction of, or any condemnation or other taking for public use of, any Property of any Credit Party.

 

"Joinder" means a Joinder to Credit and Security Agreement in form of Exhibit G attached hereto.

 

"Laws" means any and all federal, state, provincial, territorial, local and foreign statutes, laws, judicial decisions, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, codes, injunctions, permits, governmental agreements and governmental restrictions, whether now or hereafter in effect, which are applicable to any Credit Party in any particular circumstance. "Laws" includes Healthcare Laws and Environmental Laws.

 

"Lender" and "Lenders" each has the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

 

"LIBOR Rate" means an annual rate equal to, as a reference rate, the greater of (i) the annual rate reported as the London Interbank Offer Rate applicable to thirty (30) day deposits of Dollars as reported in the Money Rates Section of the Wall Street Journal (or, if the Wall Street Journal no longer reports such rate, another nationally recognized rate reporting source acceptable to Agent) on the date of determination and (ii) 1.00%, as determined monthly on the last day of the month immediately preceding any date of determination.

 

"LIBOR Replacement Rate" means the sum of: (a) the alternate benchmark rate (which may include SOFR) that has been selected by Agent giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a replacement rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a rate of interest as a replacement to the LIBOR Rate for U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities and (b) the LIBOR Replacement Spread; provided that, if the LIBOR Replacement Rate as so determined would be less than 1.00%, the LIBOR Replacement Rate will be deemed to be 1.00% for the purposes of this Agreement.

 

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"LIBOR Replacement Spread" means, with respect to any replacement of the LIBOR Rate, the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by Agent in its reasonable discretion giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of the LIBOR Rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of the LIBOR Rate for U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time.

 

"LIBOR Transition Event" means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the LIBOR Rate:

 

(a)            a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of the LIBOR Rate announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide the LIBOR Rate, permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide the LIBOR Rate;

 

(b)            a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of the LIBOR Rate, the U.S. Federal Reserve System, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for the LIBOR Rate, a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for the LIBOR Rate or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for the LIBOR Rate, which states that the administrator of the LIBOR Rate has ceased or will cease to provide the LIBOR Rate permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide the LIBOR Rate; or

 

(c)            a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of the LIBOR Rate announcing that the LIBOR Rate is no longer representative.

 

"Lien" means any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or similar encumbrance.

 

"Loan" means a Term Loan, and "Loans" means the collective reference thereto.

 

"Loan Documents" means this Agreement, the Promissory Notes, the Pledge Agreements, the Deposit Account Control Agreements, the Fee Letter, the Collateral Access Agreements, the Warrant Agreements, the Canadian Security Agreement, the other closing documents executed by any Credit Party and any other ancillary loan and/or credit and security agreements executed by any Credit Party from time to time in connection with this Agreement, all as may be renewed, amended, restated or supplemented from time to time.

 

"Loan Request" means a written notice in the form of that attached hereto as Exhibit B duly authorized by Borrower Representative.

 

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"Margin Stock" means any "margin stock," "margin security," "marginable OTC stock" or "foreign margin stock" within the meaning of Regulation U or X of the Federal Reserve Board.

 

"Material Adverse Effect" means, with respect to any event, act, condition or occurrence of whatever nature (including any adverse determination in any litigation, arbitration, or governmental investigation or Proceeding), whether singly or in conjunction with any other event or events, act or acts, condition or conditions, occurrence or occurrences, whether or not related, a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon, any of (i) the business, results of operations, properties or financial condition of the Credit Parties taken as a whole, (ii) the rights and remedies of Agent or Lenders under any of the Loan Documents, or any impairment of the ability of the Credit Parties (taken as a whole) to perform their obligations under any of the Loan Documents, or (iii) the legality, validity or enforceability of any of the Loan Documents.

 

"Material Contract" means: (a) the AthenaHealth Master Services Agreement, dated October 1, 2018, among the Company and AthenaHealth, Inc. (related to the Company's billing/collections system); and (b) any Administrative Services Document, the breach or termination of which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; (c) the Achieve TMS Purchase Agreement; (d) that certain Investor Rights Agreement, dated May 17, 2019, by and among Parent and 1315 Capital II, LP; (e) the Registration Rights Agreement, dated May 17, 2019, by and among Parent and 1315 Capital II, LP, and (f) the Master Subscription Agreement, dated June 14, 2016, by and between the Company and salesforce.com, inc.

 

"Maturity Date" means December 31, 2025.

 

"Material Subsidiary" means, in respect of any fiscal quarter, any Subsidiary of Parent with net revenues of at least $1,000,000 measured on the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter for four quarters then ended.

 

"Medicaid" means, collectively, the healthcare assistance program established by Title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 1396 et seq.) and any statutes succeeding thereto, and all laws, rules, regulations, manuals, orders, guidelines or requirements (whether or not having the force of law) pertaining to such program, in each case as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

 

"Medicare" means, collectively, the health insurance program for the aged and disabled established by Title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 1395 et seq.) and any statutes succeeding thereto, and all laws, rules, regulations, manuals, orders or guidelines (whether or not having the force of law) pertaining to such program, in each case as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

 

"MSO Acquisition" means any transaction or series of related transactions entered into by the Company or another Credit Party after the Closing Date in order to (a) purchase or assist a Supported Practice in purchasing the personal goodwill (related to the operation of a healthcare practice), Equity Interests and/or substantially all of the assets of an existing healthcare practice and integrate such assets with an existing or newly-established Supported Practice and/or (b) establish a new Administrative Services Document with one or more existing healthcare practices.

 

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"Multiemployer Plan" means a "multiemployer plan" as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA which is contributed to by, or required to be contributed by, Parent, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates, or with respect to which any of Parent, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates have any liability.

 

"Net Capital Expenditures" means, for any period, the aggregate of all Capital Expenditures that are made in cash during such period; provided that "Net Capital Expenditures" shall not include (i) amounts expended or capitalized under Capital Leases or financed with the proceeds of Permitted Purchase Money Indebtedness, (ii) the purchase price of any goods that are purchased simultaneously with the trade-in of existing goods to the extent that the gross amount of such purchase price is reduced by the credit granted by the seller for such existing goods being traded in at such time, and (iii) expenditures during such period that, pursuant to a written agreement, are reimbursed by a third Person (excluding any Credit Party).

 

"Net Cash Proceeds" means, with respect to any transaction or event, the amount of cash proceeds received from time to time by or on behalf of any Credit Party in connection therewith (including cash proceeds of any non-cash proceeds) after deducting therefrom only (i) the amount of any Indebtedness secured by any Lien on any asset which is required to be, and is, repaid in connection with any Disposition, Involuntary Disposition or Extraordinary Receipt, (ii) out-of-pocket fees, commissions, and expenses that are reasonably incurred and required to be paid by the Credit Parties in connection therewith, and (iii) Taxes paid or payable to any taxing authorities by the Credit Parties in connection therewith (provided, that if the actual amount of Taxes paid is less than the estimated amounts, the difference shall immediately constitute Net Cash Proceeds), in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that the amounts so deducted are, at the time of receipt of such cash, actually paid or payable to a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Credit Parties, and are properly attributable to such transaction.

 

"Net Working Capital" means, as of any date of determination, Current Assets as of such date minus Current Liabilities as of such date.

 

"Obligations" means (a) all loans, advances and other extensions of credit made pursuant to this Agreement by Agent for the account of Lenders to the Credit Parties (or any of them), or to others for the Credit Parties' account (including all Term Loans); (b) any and all other indebtedness, obligations and liabilities which may be owed by the Credit Parties (or any of them) to Agent or any Lender and arising out of, or incurred in connection with, this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents (including all Out-of-Pocket Expenses and the fees provided for in the Fee Letter) (whether such indebtedness, obligations and liabilities arose or accrued during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, arrangement or similar proceeding, and regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding), whether (i) now in existence or incurred by the Credit Parties (or any of them) from time to time hereafter, (ii) secured by a pledge, a Lien upon or a security interest in any Credit Party's assets or property or the assets or property of any other Person, (iii) such indebtedness is absolute or contingent, joint or several, matured or unmatured, direct or indirect, or (iv) the Credit Parties are liable to Agent or any Lender for such indebtedness as principals, sureties, endorsers, guarantors or otherwise; and (c) without duplication, the Credit Parties' liabilities to Agent under any instrument of guaranty or indemnity, or arising under any guaranty, endorsement or undertaking which Agent, on behalf of Lenders, may make or issue to others for the account of the Credit Parties (or any of them), including Agent's acceptance of drafts or Agent's endorsement of notes or other instruments for the Credit Parties' account and benefit.

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"OFAC" means the U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control.

 

"OFAC Lists" means, collectively, the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List maintained by OFAC pursuant to Executive Order No. 13224, 66 Fed. Reg. 49079 (Sept. 25, 2001) and/or any other list of terrorists or other restricted Persons maintained pursuant to any of the rules and regulations of OFAC or pursuant to any other applicable executive orders.

 

"Ordinary Course of Business" means, in respect of any transaction involving any Credit Party, the ordinary course of such Credit Party's business, as conducted by such Credit Party in accordance with past practice.

 

"Organizational Documents" means, (a) with respect to any corporation, the charter, certificate or articles of incorporation and the bylaws; (b) with respect to any limited liability company, the certificate or articles of formation or organization and operating agreement; and (c) with respect to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of business entity, the partnership, joint venture or other applicable agreement of formation or organization and any agreement, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto filed in connection with its formation or organization with the applicable Government Authority in the jurisdiction of its formation or organization and, if applicable, any certificate or articles of formation or organization of such entity.

 

"Other Collateral" means all of the Credit Parties': (a) present and hereafter established lockbox, blocked account and other deposit accounts maintained with any bank or financial institution into which the proceeds of Collateral are or may be deposited (including the Deposit Accounts); (b) cash and other monies and property in the possession or control of Agent or any Lender (including cash collateral held by Agent pursuant to this Agreement); (c) books, records, ledger cards, disks and related data processing software at any time evidencing or containing information relating to any of the Collateral described herein or otherwise necessary or helpful in the collection thereof or realization thereon; and (d) all Proceeds of any of the foregoing.

 

"Other Taxes" means any and all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement, other than Excluded Taxes.

 

"Out-of-Pocket Expenses" means (a) all of Agent's present and future reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs, fees and expenses incurred in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including (i) reasonable and documented out-of-pocket cost of lien searches (including tax lien and judgment lien searches), pending litigation searches and similar items; (ii) documented out-of-pocket fees and taxes imposed in connection with the filing of any financing statements or other personal property security documents; (iii) reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by Agent in opening and maintaining the Deposit Accounts and any related lockboxes, depositing checks, and receiving and transferring funds (including charges imposed on Agent for "insufficient funds" and the return of deposited checks); (iv) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs, fees and expenses incurred by Agent in connection with any action taken under Section 8.1 hereof, including reasonable and documented out-of-pocket travel, meal and lodging expenses of Agent's personnel; (v) all out-of-pocket costs that Agent may incur to maintain the Required Insurance to the extent Borrowers fail to do so as required hereunder, and all out-of-pocket costs, fees and expenses incurred by Agent in connection with the collection of Casualty Proceeds; and (vi) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs, fees, expenses and disbursements of counsel hired by Agent to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including the documentation and negotiation of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and all amendments, supplements and restatements thereto or thereof), and to advise Agent and/or Lenders as to matters relating to the transactions contemplated hereby; and (b) all out-of-pocket costs, fees and expenses incurred by Agent and each Lender in connection with (i) any action taken under Section 11.3 hereof; and (ii) the collection, liquidation, enforcement, protection and defense of the Obligations, the Collateral and the rights of Agent and Lenders under this Agreement, including all reasonable fees and disbursements of, without duplication, outside counsel to Agent and each Lender incurred as a result of a workout, restructuring, reorganization, arrangement, moratorium, liquidation, insolvency proceeding and in any appeals arising therefrom, whether incurred before, during or after the termination of this Agreement or the commencement of any case with respect to the Credit Parties (or any of them), any Guarantor or any Subsidiary of a Credit Party (as the case may be) under the Bankruptcy Code, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada), the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) or any similar statute.

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"Oxford" has the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

 

"Parent" has the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

 

"Participant" has the meaning given to such term in Section 14.11(b)(i) of this Agreement.

 

"Patents" means all of the Credit Parties' present and hereafter acquired patents, patent applications, registrations, all reissues and renewals thereof, all licenses thereof, all inventions and improvements claimed thereunder, all general intangible, intellectual property and other rights of any Credit Party with respect thereto, and all income, royalties and other Proceeds of the foregoing.

 

"PBGC" means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any successor thereto.

 

"Pension Plan" means any Employee Benefit Plan, other than a Multiemployer Plan, which is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA or Title IV of ERISA.

 

"Perfection Certificate" means the certificate attached hereto as Schedule 7.2 or another certificate delivered after the Closing Date in the same form.

 

"Permits" means, with respect to any Person, any permit, approval, clearance, authorization, license, registration, certificate, concession, grant, franchise, variance or permission from, and any other contractual obligations with, any Government Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law and applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its Property or products or to which such Person or any of its Property or products is subject, including all Healthcare Permits.

 

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"Permitted Acquisition" means any Acquisition after the Closing Date by a Credit Party (other than Parent) of (i) substantially all of the assets of an acquired business (or a division or line of business), which assets are located in the United States or (ii) at least a majority of the Equity Interests of an acquired business incorporated or formed under the laws of any State in the United States or the District of Columbia, in each case so long as each of the following conditions shall have been satisfied, or Required Lenders have agreed in writing to treat such Acquisition as a Permitted Acquisition:

 

(a)           Agent and Lenders shall receive not less than thirty (30) days' (or such shorter period as agreed by Agent) prior written notice of such Acquisition, which notice shall include a reasonably detailed description of the proposed terms of such Acquisition and identify the anticipated closing date thereof;

 

(b)           Agent and Lenders shall receive, not less than ten (10) Business Days' prior to the consummation of such Acquisition (or such shorter period as agreed by Agent), a due diligence package, reasonably satisfactory to them, which package shall include, without limitation, the following with regard to the Acquisition of the applicable target:

 

(i)             pro forma financial projections (after giving effect to such Acquisition) for Parent and its Subsidiaries for the current and next two fiscal years or through the remaining term of this Agreement;

 

(ii)            historical financial statements of the applicable target for the three fiscal years prior to such Acquisition (or, if such target has not been in existence for three years, for each year such target has existed);

 

(iii)           a description of the method of financing the Acquisition, including sources and uses; and

 

(iv)           any other material due diligence with respect to such Acquisition reasonably required by Agent;

 

(c)           With respect to any Acquisition involving total consideration in excess of $1,000,000, Borrowers shall have furnished to Agent, not less than fifteen (15) Business Days (or such shorter period as Agent may agree) prior to the consummation of such Acquisition, a quality of earnings or other accounting report with respect to the applicable target, in form and from an independent accounting or other similar firm reasonably acceptable to Agent;

 

(d)           Borrowers shall have furnished to Agent and Lenders, not less than ten (10) Business Days (or such shorter period as Agent may agree) prior to the consummation of a Permitted Acquisition, copies (or the most current drafts) of the Purchase Documents pursuant to which such Acquisition is to be consummated (and any related Administrative Services Document) and any schedules, exhibits and annexes to such agreements or documents (if not final, then in most current draft form), together with any required regulatory or other Third-Party Payor approvals in connection therewith to the extent available at such time;

 

(e)           Borrowers shall have furnished to Agent and Lenders a duly and properly completed Compliance Certificate demonstrating that after giving pro forma effect to the Acquisition, the Credit Parties would be in compliance with each of the financial covenants set forth in Section 9;

 

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(f)            the Credit Parties (including any new Subsidiary) shall execute and deliver the agreements, instruments and other documents required by Sections 8.15 and 8.16;

 

(g)           such Acquisition shall only involve assets located in the United States and comprising a business, or those assets of a business, of the type engaged in by the Credit Parties as of the Closing Date or as permitted under Section 10.9, and which business would not subject Agent or any Lender to regulatory or third party approvals in connection with the exercise of its rights and remedies under this Agreement or any other Loan Documents;

 

(h)           the applicable target must have had positive Consolidated EBITDA (adjusted in a manner consistent with the definition of Consolidated EBITDA, or otherwise reasonably satisfactory to Agent) on a cumulative basis for the immediately preceding four fiscal quarters;

 

(i)            no Default or Event of Default shall then exist or would exist after giving effect thereto;

 

(j)            the total consideration paid or payable, including any earn-out or similar obligations, shall not exceed $40,000,000 for any one Permitted Acquisition;

 

(k)           after giving effect to the consummation of the Acquisition, Qualified Cash of the Credit Parties is equal to or greater than [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]; and

 

(l)            such Acquisition shall not be hostile and shall have been approved by the board of directors (or other similar body) and/or the stockholders or other equityholders of the target.

 

"Permitted Contest" means a contest maintained in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently conducted and with respect to which such reserve or other appropriate provision, if any, as shall be required in conformity with IFRS shall have been made; provided that compliance with the obligation that is the subject of such contest is effectively stayed during such challenge.

 

"Permitted Discretion" means a determination made in good faith and in the exercise of commercially reasonable (from the perspective of a secured cash flow lender) business judgment.

 

"Permitted Dispositions" means (a) Dispositions of Inventory in the Ordinary Course of Business, (b) Disposition of obsolete personal Property (other than Equity Interests of any Subsidiary) with a fair market value not to exceed $500,000 in the aggregate in any fiscal year, (c) Dispositions of Property (other than Equity Interests of any Subsidiary) to the extent that (i) such Property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of replacement Property or (ii) the proceeds of such Dispositions are reasonably promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement Property, (d) Dispositions of cash and Cash Equivalents in the Ordinary Course of Business made to a Person that is not an Affiliate of any Credit Party and conversions of Cash Equivalents into cash or other Cash Equivalents, (e) the unwinding of hedging or swap contracts entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business, (f) the lapse or abandonment in the Ordinary Course of Business of any registrations or applications for registration of any intellectual property rights not necessary for the conduct of the Credit Parties' business, (g) non-exclusive licenses or sublicenses of Intellectual Property and leases or subleases of real Property, in each case granted to third parties in the Ordinary Course of Business not interfering with, or impairing, in any material respect the conduct of any of the Credit Parties' business, (h) Dispositions of less than 50% of the Equity Interests of Subsidiaries of the Company in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or MSO Acquisition, (i) other Dispositions of Property; provided that (w) at least 75% of the purchase price thereof is paid in cash, (x) no Event of Default shall have occurred or be continuing, (y) the consideration payable to the applicable Credit Party in connection with such Disposition is at least equal to the fair market value of such Property and (z) the aggregate value of all such Dispositions shall not exceed $500,000 in any fiscal year or (j) or (i) transactions that are permitted pursuant to Sections 10.1, 10.4, 10.6, 10.7 or 10.8, in each case, to the extent such transactions constitute Dispositions.

 

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"Permitted Encumbrances" means:

 

(a)            all Liens existing on the Closing Date on specific items of Equipment and set forth on Schedule 10.1;

 

(b)           Purchase Money Liens;

 

(c)           Liens of landlords, carriers, warehousemen, bailees, mechanics, materialmen and other similar Liens arising in the Ordinary Course of Business and securing amounts not yet due (or which are the subject of a Permitted Contest and which proceedings are sufficient to prevent imminent foreclosure of such Liens);

 

(d)           pledges or deposits made (and the Liens thereon) in the Ordinary Course of Business of any Credit Party (including security deposits for leases, indemnity bonds, surety bonds and appeal bonds) in connection with workers' compensation, unemployment insurance and other types of social security benefits or to secure the performance of leases, bonds, tenders, bids, contracts (other than for the repayment or guarantee of borrowed money or purchase money obligations), statutory obligations and other similar obligations arising as a result of progress payments under government contracts, in each case, incurred by any Credit Party in the Ordinary Course of Business;

 

(e)           easements (including reciprocal easement agreements and utility agreements), encroachments, minor defects or irregularities in title, variation and other restrictions, charges or encumbrances (whether or not recorded), if applicable, and which in the aggregate do not materially interfere with the occupation, use or enjoyment by any Credit Party of its business or Property so encumbered;

 

(f)            Liens granted to Agent, for the benefit of Lenders;

 

(g)           Permitted Tax Liens;

 

(h)           Liens securing judgments, orders or awards for the payment of money against any Credit Party not constituting an Event of Default under Section 11.1(m), and which are subject to a Permitted Contest through an appeal or other proceeding for review that is then being pursued and the execution or other enforcement of such Lien is effectively stayed;

 

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(i)            any interest of title of a lessor under, and Liens arising from precautionary UCC or PPSA financing statements (or equivalent filings, registrations or agreements in foreign jurisdictions) relating to, operating leases entered into by any Credit Party in the Ordinary Course of Business;

 

(j)            normal and customary rights of setoff upon deposits of cash in favor of banks or other depository institutions and Liens of a collection bank arising under Section 4-210 of the UCC or other applicable Law on items in the course of collection, in each case, incurred by any Credit Party in the Ordinary Course of Business;

 

(k)           Liens on premium refunds and insurance proceeds granted in favor of insurance companies (of their financing affiliates) solely in connection with the financing of insurance premiums in the Ordinary Course of Business;

 

(l)            Liens arising by operation of law under Article 2 of the UCC (or equivalent foreign law) in favor of a reclaiming seller of goods or buyer of goods arising in the Ordinary Course of Business of any Credit Party ;

 

(m)          Liens (i) in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of Law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods in the Ordinary Course of Business or (ii) securing obligations in respect of bankers' acceptances or letters of credit issued or created for the account of any Credit Party in the Ordinary Course of Business to the extent encumbering either (x) cash and Cash Equivalents deposited with, or subject to, the control of the issuer of such bankers' acceptances or letters of credit or (y) specific items of Inventory or other goods and proceeds thereof which are the subject of such bankers' acceptances or letters of credit issued or created for the account of such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such Inventory or other goods in the Ordinary Course of Business;

 

(n)           Liens arising out of any refinancing, extension, renewal or refunding of any Permitted Indebtedness secured by any Lien permitted by any of the foregoing clauses, provided that such Lien shall at no time be extended to cover any Property other than such Property subject thereto on the Closing Date or the date such Lien was incurred, as applicable; and

 

(o)           other Liens with respect to Property of the Credit Parties securing liabilities at any time not to exceed $500,000.

 

"Permitted Holders" means: Greybrook Securities Inc., Greybrook Realty Partners Inc., 1315 Capital II, L.P., DME Holdings Inc., and William Leonard and their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates.

 

"Permitted Indebtedness" means:

 

(a)           Indebtedness existing on the Closing Date and described on Schedule 10.2 and any refinancings, renewals or extensions thereof which do not increase the principal amount thereof;

 

(b)           Indebtedness arising under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents;

 

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(c)           to the extent constituting Indebtedness, unsecured obligations arising from agreements of any Credit Party providing for indemnification, working capital purchase price adjustments or other similar customary obligations, in each case, incurred or assumed in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or MSO Acquisition;

 

(d)           the Achieve TMS Earn-Out;

 

(e)           Permitted Intercompany Loans;

 

(f)            Permitted Purchase Money Indebtedness;

 

(g)           the endorsement of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the Ordinary Course of Business;

 

(h)           Contingent Liabilities in respect of obligations of any Credit Party to the extent such obligations are permitted hereunder; provided that if such obligation is subordinated to the Obligations, such Contingent Liabilities shall be subordinated to the same extent;

 

(i)             hedging or swap contracts entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business for bona fide hedging purposes and not for speculation or taking a "market view";

 

(j)             to the extent constituting Indebtedness, obligations in respect of any cash management arrangement and obligations in respect of netting services, overdraft protections and other customary bank products in connection with Deposit Accounts, so long as such obligations are incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business;

 

(k)            Indebtedness in respect of letters of credit or bankers' acceptances issued at the request of Borrowers in the Ordinary Course of Business not to exceed $50,000 in the aggregate at any time;

 

(l)             Indebtedness incurred in favor of insurance companies (or their affiliates) consisting of the financing of insurance premiums in an amount not to exceed the premiums with respect to the applicable insurance policies and incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business of the Credit Parties;

 

(m)           Indebtedness in respect of leases (other than Capital Leases), statutory obligations, surety, stay, customs, bid and appeal bonds, performance bonds and performance and completion and return of money guaranties, government contracts and similar obligations incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business;

 

(n)           unsecured Indebtedness owed to any Person providing workers' compensation, health, disability or other standard employee benefits (including contractual and statutory benefits), pursuant to reimbursement or indemnification obligations to such Person, in each case incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business and in each case so long as the amount of such Indebtedness is not in excess of the amount of the unpaid cost of, and shall be incurred only to defer the cost of, such benefits for the year in which such Indebtedness is incurred and such Indebtedness is outstanding only during such year;

 

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(o)            Indebtedness in respect of netting services, overdraft protection and similar arrangements, in each case, in connection with cash management and deposit accounts incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business; provided, that such Indebtedness is extinguished within ten (10) Business Days after incurrence;

 

(p)            unsecured Indebtedness representing customary and reasonable deferred compensation to directors, officers, and employees of any Credit Party incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business;

 

(q)            to the extent constituting Indebtedness, Permitted Investments;

 

(r)             the PPP Loan; and

 

(s)            other Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $1,000,000 at any one time outstanding.

 

"Permitted Intercompany Loan" means a loan or other extension of credit made by a Credit Party to another Credit Party (other than Parent), but only so long as (a) if so required by Agent, such loan is evidenced by a promissory note, the original of which shall be delivered to Agent, and (b) the promissory note evidencing such loan provides (in form and substance satisfactory to Agent) that the repayment thereof is subordinated to the payment in full of the Obligations.

 

"Permitted Investments" means:

 

(a)            Permitted Intercompany Loans;

 

(b)            any Investment by Parent in any Credit Party and by any Credit Party (other than Parent) in another Credit Party (other than Parent);

 

(c)            Investments held in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents;

 

(d)            Investments existing as of the Closing Date immediately following the consummation of the Transactions and described on Schedule 10.7;

 

(e)            Investments consisting of extensions of credit in the nature of Accounts or notes receivable arising from the grant of trade credit in the Ordinary Course of Business, and Investments received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled Account Debtors to the extent reasonably necessary in order to prevent or limit loss or received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of suppliers and customers or in settlement of delinquent obligations of, or other disputes with, customers and suppliers arising in the Ordinary Course of Business;

 

(f)             Contingent Liabilities permitted by Section 10.2;

 

(g)            Investments in the form of non-cash consideration received in connection with a Permitted Disposition;

 

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(h)            to the extent constituting an Investment, the endorsement of negotiable instruments deposited or to be deposited for collection in the Ordinary Course of Business;

 

(i)             deposits of cash made in the Ordinary Course of Business to secure obligations secured by Liens to the extent permitted by clause (d) of the definition of Permitted Encumbrances;

 

(j)             other Investments constituting Indebtedness solely to the extent permitted under the definition of Permitted Indebtedness;

 

(k)            advances made in connection with purchases of goods or services in the Ordinary Course of Business;

 

(l)             equity Investments by any Credit Party in any Subsidiary of such Credit Party which is required by any applicable Law to maintain a minimum net capital requirement or as may be otherwise required by applicable Law;

 

(m)           earnest money deposits made in connection with any letter of intent or Purchase Agreement;

 

(n)            Permitted Acquisitions, Permitted MSO Acquisitions and other MSO Acquisitions for which total consideration paid is less than $1,000,000; and

 

(o)            Investments of a nature not contemplated in the foregoing clauses in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding.

 

"Permitted MSO Acquisition" means an MSO Acquisition for which total consideration paid is more than $1,000,000 with respect to which:

 

(a)            Agent and Lenders shall receive not less than thirty (30) days' (or such shorter period agreed by Agent) prior written notice of such MSO Acquisition, which notice shall include a reasonably detailed description of the proposed terms of such MSO Acquisition and identify the anticipated closing date thereof;

 

(b)            Agent and Lenders shall receive, not less than ten (10) Business Days' prior to the consummation of such MSO Acquisition (or such shorter period as agreed by Agent), a due diligence package, reasonably satisfactory to them, which package shall include the following with regard to the MSO Acquisition of the applicable target:

 

(i)             pro forma financial projections (after giving effect to such MSO Acquisition) for Parent and its Subsidiaries for the current and next two fiscal years or through the remaining term of this Agreement;

 

(ii)            historical financial statements of the applicable target for the three fiscal years prior to such MSO Acquisition (or (x) if such target has not been in existence for three years, for each year such target has existed and (y) such shorter fiscal year period, to the extent approved by Agent)); and

 

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(iii)            a description of the method of financing the MSO Acquisition, including sources and uses;

 

(c)            Borrowers shall have furnished to Agent, not less than fifteen (15) Business Days (or such shorter period as Agent may agree) prior to the consummation of such MSO Acquisition, a quality of earnings or other accounting report with respect to the applicable target, in form and from an independent accounting or other similar firm reasonably acceptable to Agent;

 

(d)            Borrowers shall furnish to Agent and Lenders, not less than ten (10) Business Days (or such shorter period as Agent may agree) prior to the consummation of a MSO Acquisition, copies (or the most current drafts) of the Purchase Documents pursuant to which such MSO Acquisition is to be consummated (and any related Administrative Services Documents) and any schedules, exhibits and annexes to such agreements or documents (if not final, then in most current draft form), together with any required regulatory or other Third-Party Payor approvals in connection therewith to the extent available at such time;

 

(e)            Borrowers shall have furnished to Agent and Lenders a duly and properly completed Compliance Certificate demonstrating that after giving pro forma effect to the MSO Acquisition, the Credit Parties would be in compliance with each of the financial covenants set forth in Section 9;

 

(f)             the Credit Parties (including any new Subsidiary) shall execute and deliver the agreements, instruments and other documents to the extent required by Sections 8.15 and 8.16;

 

(g)            the target of such MSO Acquisition is organized under the laws of a State in the United States of America, or the District of Columbia and such MSO Acquisition shall only involve assets located in the United States and comprising a business, or those assets of a business, of the type not prohibited by Section 10.9;

 

(h)            the applicable target must have had positive Consolidated EBITDA (adjusted in a manner consistent with the definition of Consolidated EBITDA, or otherwise reasonably satisfactory to Agent) on a cumulative basis for the immediately preceding four fiscal quarters;

 

(i)             no Default or Event of Default shall then exist or would exist after giving effect thereto;

 

(j)             the total consideration paid or payable, including any earn-out or similar obligations, shall not exceed $40,000,000 for any one Permitted MSO Acquisition;

 

(k)            after giving effect to the consummation of the MSO Acquisition Qualified Cash of the Credit Parties is equal to or greater than [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information];

 

(l)             such MSO Acquisition shall not be hostile and shall have been approved by the board of directors (or other similar body) and/or the stockholders or other equityholders of the target;

 

(m)           the Administrative Services Documents (or any amendment to existing Administrative Services Documents) entered into in connection with such MSO Acquisition shall be in form and substance consistent with the requirements of the last two sentences of Section 7.4; and

 

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(n)            Agent shall have received a certificate signed by a Senior Officer of Borrower Representative certifying compliance with the foregoing conditions.

 

"Permitted Purchase Money Indebtedness" means, as of any date of determination, Funded Indebtedness (other than the Obligations, but including obligations under Capital Leases) incurred after the Closing Date and at the time of, or within 120 days after, the acquisition of any fixed assets for the purpose of financing all or any part of the acquisition cost thereof, in an aggregate amount at any time outstanding not to exceed the lesser of (a) [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information] or (b) [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information] for the most-recently ended twelve-month period for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 8.8; and any refinancings, renewals or extensions thereof which do not increase the principal amount thereof, except by an amount equal to a reasonable premium or other reasonable amount paid, and fees and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such refinancing, renewal or extension.

 

"Permitted Tax Liens" means Liens for Taxes not yet delinquent and Liens for Taxes that are the subject of a Permitted Contest and which are sufficient to prevent imminent foreclosure of such Liens.

 

"Person" means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, unlimited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Government Authority or other entity.

 

"Physician" means a licensed physician who is a "Person with an ownership or control interest" (as defined under 42 C.F.R. § 420.201) in any Credit Party or Supported Practice.

 

"Pledge Agreements" mean those certain Pledge Agreements, and "Pledge Agreement" means each Pledge Agreement, executed by any Person in favor of Agent for the benefit of Lenders, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

 

"PPP Loan" means a loan made by U.S. Bank to the Company pursuant to the U.S. Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program in the principal amount of $3,080,760.

 

"PPSA" means the Personal Property Security Act (Ontario), including the regulations thereto; provided, that, if perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or the priority of any Lien created hereunder or under any other Loan Document on the Collateral is governed by the personal property security legislation or other applicable legislation with respect to personal property security in effect in a jurisdiction in Canada other than the Province of Ontario, "PPSA" shall mean the Personal Property Security Act or such other applicable legislation (including the Civil Code of Quebec) in effect from time to time in such other jurisdiction in Canada for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority.

 

"Practice Location Opening" means the establishment by the Credit Parties and/or the Supported Practices of a new healthcare practice location (including the establishment of any such new healthcare practice location by the sellers thereof prior to an acquisition by the Credit Parties and/or Supported Practices).

 

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"Prepayment Premium" means an amount equal to the product obtained by multiplying the principal amount of any Term Loan prepaid (other than mandatory prepayments required by Section 3.3(c)(i) or Section 3.3(c)(ii) (solely with respect to Involuntary Dispositions) hereof) or the principal amount of the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment reduced or terminated by (i) [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information] if such prepayment and/or reduction occurs on or before the first anniversary of the Closing Date; (ii) [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information] if such prepayment and/or reduction occurs after the first anniversary of the Closing Date but on or before the second anniversary of the Closing Date; (iii) [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information] if such prepayment and/or reduction occurs after the second anniversary of the Closing Date.

 

"Pro Forma Consolidated EBITDA" means, for any period, Consolidated EBITDA for such period, plus (without duplication of any item added back in determining Consolidated EBITDA) with respect to any Permitted Acquisition or any MSO Acquisition consummated during such period, Consolidated EBITDA of the target and/or business, division or assets acquired in a Permitted Acquisition or a MSO Acquisition on a pro forma basis as if such Permitted Acquisition or such MSO Acquisition were consummated on the first day of the applicable period for which Consolidated EBITDA is being determined with adjustments agreed to by Agent and Borrowers.

 

"Pro Forma Consolidated Revenues" means, for any period, consolidated revenues of Parent and its Subsidiaries for such period, plus (without duplication) with respect to any Permitted Acquisition or any MSO Acquisition consummated during such period, consolidated revenues of the target and/or business, division or assets acquired in a Permitted Acquisition or a MSO Acquisition on a pro forma basis as if such Permitted Acquisition or such MSO Acquisition were consummated on the first day of the applicable period for which Pro Forma Consolidated Revenues is being determined with adjustments agreed to by Agent and Borrowers.

 

"Proceeding" means any actual or threatened in writing civil, equitable or criminal proceeding, litigation, action, suit, claim, investigation (governmental or judicial or otherwise), dispute indictment or prosecution, pleading, demand or the imposition of any fine or penalty or similar matter.

 

"Proceeds" has the meaning given to such term in the UCC and the PPSA, as applicable, including all Casualty Proceeds.

 

"Projected Revenues" means, for Parent and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, for any period (a) as of the Closing Date and until replaced pursuant to the following clause (b), the projected revenues for such period delivered to Agent prior to the Closing Date in a document titled "Oxford Financial Forecast.xlsx" and (b) following delivery of revenue projections for the 2022 fiscal year pursuant to Section 8.8(g), the projected revenues for such period shown on the projections which have been most-recently delivered to Agent pursuant to Section 8.8(g), and which have been approved by Parent's Board of Directors, are no lower than public guidance provided by Parent and are reasonably acceptable to Agent; provided, that the Projected Revenues shall be subject to adjustment to reflect changes to such projected revenues as a result of Acquisitions and MSO Acquisitions consummated following the Closing Date (in each case, to the extent not otherwise reflected in the Projected Revenues then in effect) and other events not contemplated by the Projected Revenues in effect at such time, so long as any such adjustments are reflected in updated projections which have been approved by Parent's Board of Directors, are no lower than public guidance provided by Parent and are reasonably acceptable to Agent.

 

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"Promissory Notes" means, collectively, the notes in the form of Exhibit C (in the case of the Term A Loans), and Exhibit D (in the case of the Delayed Draw Term Loan) attached hereto, delivered by Borrowers (or any of them) to a Lender to evidence the loans made by such Lender to Borrowers (or any of them) pursuant to this Agreement.

 

"Property" means an interest of any Credit Party in any kind of property or asset, whether real, personal or mixed, or tangible or intangible.

 

"Proposal Letter" means the Proposal Letter dated as of December 2, 2020 issued by Agent to Bloom Burton Securities, Inc., and accepted by Parent.

 

"Pro Rata Percentage(s)" means, as to each Lender at any time, (a) with respect to such Lender's Commitment to make Delayed Draw Term Loans, a fraction (expressed as a percentage), the numerator of which is the amount of such Lender's Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment at such time and the denominator of which is the aggregate Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments of all Lenders at such time, (b) with respect to the outstanding Delayed Draw Term Loans at any time, a fraction (expressed as a percentage), the numerator of which is the principal amount of the outstanding Delayed Draw Term Loans held by such Lender at such time and the denominator of which is the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Delayed Draw Term Loans held by all Lenders at such time and, (c) with respect to the outstanding Term A Loan at any time, a fraction (expressed as a percentage), the numerator of which is the principal amount of the outstanding Term A Loan held by such Lender at such time and the denominator of which is the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Term A Loan held by all Lenders at such time, and (d) for all other purposes hereunder, a fraction (expressed as a percentage), the numerator of which is (x) the amount of the sum of such Lender's Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment at such time, plus the principal amount of Delayed Draw Term Loans then owed to such Lender hereunder, plus the principal amount of the outstanding Term A Loan held by such Lender at such time, and the denominator of which is (y) the sum of the aggregate amount of all Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments of all Lenders at such time, plus the principal amount of Delayed Draw Term Loans then owed to all Lenders hereunder, plus the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Term A Loan held by all Lenders at such time.

 

"Purchase Documents" means, collectively, all purchase agreements and each of the other material documents, instruments and agreements executed and delivered in connection with any Permitted Acquisition or Permitted MSO Acquisition.

 

"Purchase Money Liens" means purchase money Liens or the interests of lessors under Capital Leases to the extent that such Liens or interests secure Permitted Purchase Money Indebtedness and so long as (a) such Lien attaches only to the asset purchased or acquired and the proceeds thereof, and (b) such Lien only secures Permitted Purchase Money Indebtedness.

 

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"Qualified Cash" means, as of any date of determination, the amount of unrestricted (other than customary account agreements and restrictions in favor of Agent and Lenders) cash and Cash Equivalents of the Credit Parties.

 

"Qualified Equity Issuance" means, a public or private issuance, after the Closing Date, by Parent of its common Equity Interests which generates gross cash proceeds of at least [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information] in any jurisdiction.

 

"Register" has the meaning given to such term in Section 14.11(a)(v) of this Agreement.

 

"Relevant Governmental Body" means the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or any successor thereto.

 

"Required Insurance" has the meaning provided for in Section 8.3(a) of this Agreement.

 

"Required Lenders" means those Lenders holding greater than fifty percent (50.0%) in the aggregate of the total Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments, the outstanding principal amount of the Delayed Draw Term Loans and outstanding principal amount of the Term A Loan; provided, that at any time there are two or more non-Defaulting Lenders that are not under common Control, "Required Lenders" must include at least two Lenders that are not under common Control. For purposes this definition, a Lender and its Approved Funds shall be considered under common Control. The Commitments and the Term Loan of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Lenders.

 

"Requirements of Law" means, with respect to any Person, any law (statutory or common), ordinance, treaty, rule, regulation, order, policy, judgment, writ, injunction, decree, or other legal requirement or determination of an arbitrator or of a Government Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its Property or to which such Person or any of its Property is subject, including all Healthcare Laws.

 

"Restricted Payment" means: (a) to declare or pay any cash dividend or make any other cash payment or distribution, directly or indirectly, on account of Equity Interests issued by any Person or to the direct or indirect holders of Equity Interests issued by such Person in their capacity as such; (b) to purchase, redeem, make any sinking fund or similar payment, or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Equity Interests issued by any Person or any claim respecting the purchase or sale of any Equity Interest in such Person; (c) to make any payment to retire, or to obtain the surrender of, any outstanding warrants, options, or other rights to acquire Equity Interests of any Person now or hereafter outstanding; or (d) to make, or cause or suffer to permit any Person to make, any payment or prepayment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, or redemption, purchase, retirement, defeasance (including in-substance or legal defeasance), sinking fund or similar payment with respect to, any Subordinated Debt.

 

"Revenue Multiple" means as of any date of determination, (a) from the Closing Date to the date on which a Qualified Equity Issuance first occurs after the Closing Date, 1.84 and (b) following a Qualified Equity Issuance, the quotient (expressed as a ratio) of (i)(A) the implied total equity value of Parent calculated as the average price per share for the most recent Qualified Equity Issuance multiplied by the total number of shares of Parent then outstanding, plus (B) Funded Indebtedness then outstanding, less (C) unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of Parent and its Subsidiaries, less (D) minority interest in Parent's Subsidiaries, divided by (ii) Pro Forma Consolidated Revenues for the most-recently ended twelve-month period for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 8.8.

 

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"Sanctions" means, collectively, any sanctions administered or enforced by OFAC, the U.S. Department of State, the UN Security Council, the European Union, the Government of Canada, Her Majesty's Treasury or other relevant sanctions authority.

 

"Seller Undertakings" means, collectively, all representations, warranties, covenants and agreements in favor of any Credit Party, and all indemnifications for the benefit of any Credit Party relating thereto, pursuant to the Purchase Documents.

 

"Senior Debt" means, as to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all of the following Indebtedness, whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with IFRS:

 

(a)            the principal amount of the Loans outstanding, together with any accrued, unpaid interest; and

 

(b)            all purchase money Indebtedness and obligations under Capital Leases for Equipment, whether or not such Indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse (but if recourse for such Indebtedness is limited to such Property subject to a Lien, then such indebtedness shall constitute Indebtedness only to the extent of the lesser of (x) the amount of such Indebtedness secured by such Lien or (y) the fair market value of such Property subject to such Lien).

 

"Senior Officer" means each of the Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of any Credit Party.

 

"SOFR" with respect to any day means the secured overnight financing rate published for such day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as the administrator of the benchmark, (or a successor administrator) on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Website.

 

"Subordinated Debt" means all Indebtedness of Parent and Borrowers that is subordinated to the payment in full of the Obligations pursuant to a Subordination Agreement.

 

"Subordination Agreement(s)" means an intercreditor and/or subordination agreement in form and substance satisfactory to Agent in its sole discretion by and among one or more of the Credit Parties, a subordinating creditor and Agent, on behalf of Lenders, pursuant to which Subordinated Debt is subordinated to the prior payment and satisfaction of the Obligations and the Liens securing such Subordinated Debt, if any, granted by any Credit Party to such subordinated creditor are subordinated to the Liens created hereunder and under any other Loan Document.

 

"Subsidiary" means, with respect to any Person, (a) any corporation of which an aggregate of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding capital stock having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether, at the time, capital stock of any other class or classes of such corporation shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) is at the time, directly or indirectly, owned legally or beneficially by such Person or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person, or with respect to which any such Person has the right to vote or designate the vote of more than fifty percent (50%) of such capital stock whether by proxy, agreement, operation of law or otherwise, and (b) any partnership or limited liability company in which such Person and/or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person shall have an interest (whether in the form of voting or participation in profits or capital contribution) of more than fifty percent (50%) or of which any such Person is a general partner or may exercise the powers of a general partner. Unless the context otherwise requires, each reference to a Subsidiary shall be a reference to a Subsidiary of Parent.

 

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"Supported Practice" means any Person (other than a Credit Party or a natural person) substantially engaged in the business of providing healthcare services to patients, and which Person has entered into applicable Administrative Services Documents with the Company or another Credit Party (other than Parent).

 

"Taxes" means all federal, state, provincial, territorial, municipal and other governmental taxes, levies, charges, claims and assessments imposed by any Government Authority primarily responsible for the assessment and collection of taxes.

 

"Term A Loan" means the term loan in the initial principal amount of $15,000,000 made by Lenders to Borrowers on the Closing Date on the terms and conditions set forth in Section 4.1 of this Agreement.

 

"Term A Loan Commitment" means, with respect to any Lender, the Commitment of such Lender to make a portion of the Term A Loan to Borrowers on the Closing Date pursuant to the terms of Section 3 of this Agreement and subject to the conditions of Section 4 of this Agreement, in the amount set forth under such Lender's name on the signature pages hereto and, with respect to all Lenders, the aggregate Commitments of Lenders to make the Term A Loan to Borrowers on the Closing Date in the aggregate amount of $15,000,000. The Term A Loan Commitment shall terminate on the Closing Date immediately upon the making of the Term A Loan.

 

"Term Loans" means, collectively, the Term A Loans and the Delayed Draw Term Loans (if any) and "Term Loans" means any of the foregoing.

 

"Termination Date" means the date that (i) all Obligations have been paid in full and (ii) no Commitment or other obligation of any Lender to provide funds to any Borrower pursuant to this Agreement remains outstanding (as further defined in Section 1.2 below).

 

"Test Period" means a period of twelve fiscal months of Parent and its Subsidiaries (taken as one accounting period).

 

"Third-Party Payor" means (i) any Government Account Debtor making payments under a Government Reimbursement Program, (ii) private insurers, health maintenance organizations, or managed care plans or other Person including, without limitation, Medicare Advantage plans and managed Medicaid plans, that pays or reimburses providers for healthcare services provided to individual patients through Third-Party Payor Arrangements, (iii) self-funded ERISA plans, and (iv) any other Person which presently or in the future maintains Third-Party Payor Arrangements, including employers, hospitals, health systems, physicians or other providers, or related entities of the foregoing including, without limitation, independent practice associations, accountable care organizations or similar entities.

 

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"Third-Party Payor Arrangement" means a written agreement or arrangement with a Third-Party Payor pursuant to which the Third-Party Payor pays all or a portion of the charges of any Credit Party, any of its Subsidiaries, any Supported Practice or any Physician with respect to any Supported Practice for selling healthcare goods or providing healthcare services.

 

"Total Leverage Ratio" means, as of any date, the quotient (expressed as a ratio) obtained by dividing (a) Funded Indebtedness, by (b) Pro Forma Consolidated EBITDA of Parent and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for the Test Period ended on such date.

 

"Trademarks" means all of the Credit Parties' present and hereafter acquired trademarks, trademark registrations, recordings, applications, trade names, trade styles, corporate names, business names, service marks, logos and any other designs or sources of business identities, prints and labels (on which any of the foregoing may appear), all reissues and renewals thereof, all licenses thereof, all other general intangible, intellectual property and other rights pertaining to any of the foregoing, together with the goodwill associated therewith, and all income, royalties and other Proceeds of any of the foregoing.

 

"Transactions" means the execution, delivery and performance by the Credit Parties of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, the borrowing of the Term A Loan on the Closing Date, and the use of the proceeds thereof.

 

"TRICARE" means the program administered pursuant to 10 U.S.C. Section 1071 et seq.), Sections 1320a 7 and 1320a 7a of Title 42 of the United States Code and the regulations promulgated pursuant to such statutes.

 

"TSX" means the Toronto Stock Exchange.

 

"UCC" means the Uniform Commercial Code as the same may be amended and in effect from time to time in the State of New York; provided that if by reason of mandatory provisions of law, the perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection of the security interests in any Collateral or the availability of any remedy hereunder is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on or after the date hereof in any other jurisdiction, "UCC" means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection or effect of perfection or non-perfection or availability of such remedy.

 

"Unused Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Fee" means, for any month, the product obtained by multiplying (a) the daily average of the aggregate Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments in effect during such month, times (b) 1.50% per annum.

 

"Warrant Agreement" means a Warrant to Purchase Common Shares executed by Parent and the holder of the Warrants in the form attached hereto as Exhibit H, granting to the Agent, or one or more of its Affiliates or a Lender designated by the Agent, concurrently with the funding of the applicable Term Loan the applicable Warrants.

 

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"Warrant" means any one of, and "Warrants" means all of, the share purchase warrants for common shares of Parent in the amounts required by and referred to in Section 3.4, which are evidenced by one or more Warrant Agreements, as applicable.

 

1.2.            Terms Generally; Construction. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words "include," "includes" and "including," when used in any Loan Document, shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase "without limitation." The word "will," when used in any Loan Document, shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word "shall." Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, restatements, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person's successors and assigns, (c) the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder," and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (d) all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement, (e) the words "asset" and "property" shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights, and (f) the following terms are used herein as defined in Article 9 of the UCC and the PPSA, as applicable: Certificated Security, Chattel Paper, Documents, Documents of Title, Electronic Chattel Paper, Health-Care-Insurance Receivables, Instruments, Letter of Credit Rights, Payment Intangibles and Supporting Obligations. Any reference herein or in any other Loan Document to the satisfaction, repayment, or payment in full of the Obligations means (a) the payment or repayment in full in immediately available funds of (i) the principal amount of, and interest accrued and unpaid with respect to, all outstanding Loans, together with the payment of any Prepayment Premium applicable to the repayment of the Loans, (ii) all Out-of-Pocket Expenses that have accrued and are unpaid regardless of whether demand has been made therefor, (iii) all fees or charges that have accrued hereunder or under any other Loan Document (including the Unused Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Fee) and are unpaid, (b) the receipt by Agent of cash collateral in order to secure any other contingent Obligations for which a claim or demand for payment has been made by Agent or any Lender on or prior to such time or in respect of matters or circumstances known to Agent or a Lender at such time that are reasonably expected to result in any loss, cost, damage, or expense (including attorneys' fees and legal expenses), such cash collateral to be in such amount as Agent determines in its Permitted Discretion is appropriate to secure such contingent Obligations (but in no event more than 100% of Agent's reasonable estimate of the amount of such contingent Obligations), (c) the payment or repayment in full in immediately available funds of all other outstanding Obligations other than unasserted contingent indemnification and reimbursement Obligations, and (d) the termination of all of the Commitments of Lenders.

 

1.3.            Accounting Terms; IFRS. All accounting terms not specifically defined in this Agreement shall be interpreted in accordance with IFRS. If at any time there is any change in IFRS or if the Borrowers elect to adopt GAAP in lieu of IFRS, which has the effect of altering the computation of any financial ratio or financial requirement set forth in any Loan Document, and either Borrower Representative or Required Lenders shall so request, Agent, Lenders and Borrowers shall negotiate in good faith to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in IFRS or to GAAP (subject to the approval of Required Lenders); provided, however, that until so amended, (a) such ratio or requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance with IFRS prior to such change therein and (b) Borrowers shall provide to Agent and Lenders financial statements and other documents required under this Agreement which include a reconciliation between calculations of such ratio or requirement made before and after giving effect to such change in IFRS or to GAAP. All amounts used for purposes of financial calculations required to be made herein shall be without duplication.

 

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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the foregoing paragraph or the definition of Capital Lease, in the event of an accounting change requiring all leases to be capitalized, only those leases (assuming for purposes hereof that they were in existence on the date hereof) that would constitute Capital Leases on the date hereof shall be considered Capital Leases and all calculations and deliverables under this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be made in accordance therewith (provided that all financial statements delivered to the Agent in accordance with the terms of this Agreement after the date of such accounting change shall contain a schedule showing the adjustments necessary to reconcile such financial statements with applicable accounting principles as in effect immediately prior to such accounting change).

 

1.4.            Dealing with the effect of the LIBOR Replacement Rate. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a LIBOR Transition Event, Agent may amend this Agreement to replace the LIBOR Rate with a LIBOR Replacement Rate. Any such amendment with respect to a LIBOR Transition Event will become effective at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on the fifth Business Day after Agent has notified Borrowers of such amendment.  Any determination, decision or election that may be made by Agent pursuant to this Section 1.4 will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in Agent's sole discretion and without consent from any other party.

 

1.5.            Quebec Interpretation. For purposes of any Collateral located in the Province of Quebec or charged by any deed of hypothec (or any other Loan Document) and for all other purposes pursuant to which the interpretation or construction of a Loan Document may be subject to the laws of the Province of Quebec or a court or tribunal exercising jurisdiction in the Province of Quebec, (i) "personal property" shall be deemed to include "movable property", (ii) "real property" shall be deemed to include "immovable property", (iii) "tangible property" shall be deemed to include "corporeal property", (iv) "intangible property" shall be deemed to include "incorporeal property", (v) "security interest", "mortgage" and "lien" shall be deemed to include a "hypothec", "prior claim" and a "resolutory clause", (vi) all references to filing, registering or recording under the UCC or the PPSA shall be deemed to include publication under the Civil Code of Quebec, (vii) all references to "perfection" of or "perfected" Liens shall be deemed to include a reference to an "opposable" or "set up" Liens as against third parties, (viii) any "right of offset", "right of setoff" or similar expression shall be deemed to include a "right of compensation", (ix) "goods" shall be deemed to include "corporeal movable property" other than chattel paper, documents of title, instruments, money and securities, (x) an "agent" shall be deemed to include a "mandatary," (xi) "construction liens" shall be deemed to include "legal hypothecs", (xii) "joint and several" shall be deemed to include "solidary" and "jointly and severally" shall be deemed to include "solidarily" (xiii) "gross negligence or willful misconduct" shall be deemed to be "intentional or gross fault", (xiv) "beneficial ownership" shall be deemed to include "ownership on behalf of another as mandatary", (xv) "easement" shall be deemed to include "servitude", (xvi) "priority" shall be deemed to include "prior claim", (xvii) "survey" shall be deemed to include "certificate of location and plan", (xviii) "fee simple title" shall be deemed to include "absolute ownership", and (xix) "foreclosure" shall be deemed to include "the exercise of a hypothecary recourse". The parties hereto confirm that it is their wish that this Agreement and any other document executed in connection with the transactions contemplated herein be drawn up in the English language only (except if another language is required under any applicable law) and that all other documents contemplated thereunder or relating thereto, including notices, may also be drawn up in the English language only. Les parties aux présentes confirment que c'est leur volonté que cette convention et les autres documents de crédit soient rédigés en langue anglaise seulement et que tous les documents, y compris tous avis, envisagés par cette convention et les autres documents peuvent être rédigés en langue anglaise seulement (sauf si une autre langue est requise en vertu d'une loi applicable).

 

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SECTION 2.

 

Borrowings and Collections

 

2.1.            [Reserved].

 

2.2.            [Reserved].

 

2.3.            [Reserved].

 

2.4.            [Reserved].

 

2.5.            [Reserved].

 

2.6.            Deposit Account and Collections.

 

  Subject to any applicable time periods provided under Section 4.3, the Credit Parties will enter into Deposit Account Control Agreements with each financial institution at which any Credit Party maintains a Deposit Account (other than Excluded Accounts), in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, with respect to each Deposit Account (other than Excluded Accounts) in which funds of any of the Credit Parties are deposited.

 

2.7.            Application of Payments and Proceeds of Collateral. Unless this Agreement expressly provides otherwise (including as provided in Section 3.3), so long as no Application Event shall have occurred, and except as otherwise provided herein with respect to Defaulting Lenders, Agent may apply any proceeds of Collateral and all other payments received by Agent at any time when an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing to the payment of the Obligations in such manner and in such order as Agent may elect in its sole discretion; provided all principal and interest payments received by Agent shall be applied against outstanding and unpaid principal and interest and apportioned ratably among the Lenders (according to the unpaid principal balance of the Obligations to which such payments relate held by each Lender) and all payments of fees and expenses received by Agent (other than fees or expenses that are for Agent's separate account) shall be applied against outstanding and unpaid fees and expenses and apportioned ratably among the Lenders having a Pro Rata Percentage of the type of Commitment or Obligation to which a particular fee or expense relates. At any time after the occurrence of an Application Event, Agent shall apply any proceeds of Collateral and all other payments received by Agent to the payment of the Obligations in the manner and order set forth in Section 11.4.

 

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2.8.            Collective Borrowing Arrangement Borrowers have informed Agent that: (i) in order to increase the efficiency, profitability and productivity of each Borrower, Borrower Representative has established a centralized cash management system for Borrowers that entails, in part, central disbursement and operating accounts in which Borrower Representative provides the working capital needs of each of the other Borrowers and manages and timely pays the accounts payable of each of the other Borrowers; and (ii) all Borrowers presently engage in an integrated operation that requires financing on an integrated basis, and each Borrower expects to benefit from the continued successful performance of such integrated operations. Therefore, in order to best utilize the borrowing powers of Borrowers in the most effective and cost-efficient manner and to avoid adverse effects on the operating efficiencies of each Borrower and the existing back-office practices of Borrowers, each Borrower has requested that all Loans be disbursed solely upon the request of Borrower Representative and to bank accounts managed solely by Borrower Representative, it being the intent and desire of Borrowers that Borrower Representative manage for the benefit of each Borrower the expenditure and usage of such funds.

 

2.9.            [Reserved].

 

2.10.          Monthly Statement. After the end of each month, Agent agrees to prepare and make available to Borrower Representative (by mail, facsimile or e-mail, as mutually agreed to by Borrower Representative and Agent), a statement showing the accounting for the charges, loans, advances and other transactions occurring among Agent, Borrower Representative and each Borrower during that month. Absent manifest error, each monthly statement shall be deemed correct and binding upon each Borrower and Borrower Representative, and shall constitute an account stated between Borrowers and Borrower Representative and Agent unless Agent receives a written statement of exception from Borrower Representative or any Lender within forty-five (45) days after receipt by Borrower Representative of such monthly statement.

 

SECTION 3.

 

Term Loans; Issuance of Warrants

 

3.1.            Promissory Notes Evidencing Term Loans. If any Lender elects to evidence a Term Loan with Promissory Notes, Borrowers agree to execute and deliver to such Lender a Promissory Note to evidence the Pro Rata Percentage of the Term A Loan and/or Delayed Draw Term Loan extended to Borrowers by such Lender.

 

3.2.            Term Loans.

 

(a)            Funding of Term A Loan. Upon the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 4.1, each Lender (severally and not jointly) agrees to advance to Borrowers a term loan in the amount of such Lender's Term A Loan Commitment.

 

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(b)            Funding of Delayed Draw Term Loans. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 4.2, each Lender (pro rata in accordance with such Lender's respective Pro Rata Percentage of the aggregate Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment then in effect), severally (and not jointly) agrees to make term loans to Borrowers from time to time after the Closing Date and prior to the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Termination Date; provided, that no Lender shall be required to make a Delayed Draw Term Loan in excess of its Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment then in effect. In no event shall any Lender have an obligation to make a Delayed Draw Term Loan to any Borrower, nor shall Borrower Representative or any Borrower be entitled to request or receive a Delayed Draw Term Loan, if (i) a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and remain outstanding on the date of request for such Delayed Draw Term Loan or the date of the funding thereof, (ii) the amount of such Delayed Draw Term Loan, would exceed the aggregate Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments then in effect or the Delayed Draw Term Loan Availability then in effect, (iii) the requested amount of any such Delayed Draw Term Loan is less than $500,000 or greater than $15,000,000, (iv) Agent has not received a calculation attached to the applicable Loan Request, in reasonable detail and with such supporting information as reasonably requested by Agent, evidencing that as of the requested funding date for the Delayed Draw Term Loan, recalculated as of the last day of the most recently ended month for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 8.8(d) on a pro-forma basis after giving effect to such Delayed Draw Term Loan, (x) the Total Leverage Ratio does not exceed [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information] and (y) the Enterprise Value Ratio does not exceed [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information], (v) Agent has not received a Compliance Certificate evidencing that as of the requested funding date for the Delayed Draw Term Loan, recalculated as of the last day of the most recently ended month for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 8.8(d) on a pro-forma basis after giving effect to such Delayed Draw Term Loan, Borrowers would be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 9, (vi) after giving effect to such Delayed Draw Term Loan and the proposed use of proceeds thereof, Qualified Cash of the Credit Parties would be less than [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information], (vii) Agent has not received notice and a copy of a signed letter of intent, term sheet or similar document with respect to the proposed Permitted Acquisition or Permitted MSO Acquisition to be financed with such Delayed Draw Term Loan less than thirty (30) days (or such shorter period as Agent may agree in its sole discretion) prior to the proposed funding date or (viii) Agent has not received a Loan Request with respect to the proposed Delayed Draw Term Loan, at least ten (10) days prior to such proposed borrowing (provided, that any such Loan Request may be made contingent upon the simultaneous closing of an Acquisition or other Investment permitted hereunder). Each Delayed Draw Term Loan shall be advanced on a Business Day.

 

(c)            Repayment of Term Loans. The principal balance of each Term Loan made hereunder shall be due and payable in principal installments equal to (i) 0.25% of the aggregate original principal amount of such Term Loan, on the first day of each fiscal quarter, commencing on the first day of the first fiscal quarter (beginning no earlier than April 1, 2021) after the date on which such Term Loan is funded and ending on April 1, 2025, (ii) on July 1, 2025 the greater of (x) 5.75% of the aggregate original principal amount of such Term Loan or (y) an amount sufficient to reduce the outstanding principal balance of such Term Loan on such date to an amount not more than 90% of the aggregate original principal amount of such Term Loan, and (iii) one-sixth of the remaining aggregate principal amount of such Term Loan on August 1, 2025 and the first day of each month thereafter until paid in full. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the outstanding principal balance of all Term Loans shall be paid in full on the Maturity Date. Term Loans which are repaid or prepaid by Borrowers, in whole or in part, may not be reborrowed.

 

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3.3.            Provisions Regarding all Term Loans.

 

(a)             Repayment Upon Termination; Prepayment Premium. In the event this Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms by Agent, Required Lenders or any Credit Party for any reason whatsoever prior to the Maturity Date, or upon acceleration of the Obligations in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, all Obligations, including all Loans and all accrued interest thereon, as well as a Prepayment Premium with respect to the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment and outstanding Term Loan balance, in each case in existence immediately prior to such prepayment or termination, shall be due and payable in full on the effective date of such termination or such acceleration, as the case may be. In the event that the Loans are required to be prepaid pursuant to Section 3.3(c) and a Prepayment Premium is applicable to such payment, the applicable Prepayment Premium shall be due and payable in full on the date such prepayment is required to be paid.

 

(b)             Optional Prepayments; Prepayment Premium. Borrowers may from time to time, on at least five (5) Business Days' prior delivery to Agent of written notice, prepay the Term Loans at any time, in part or, subject to the terms and provisions of Section 3.3(a), in whole; provided that (i) any such partial prepayment shall be in an amount equal to $500,000 or a higher integral multiple of $250,000 (other than in the case of a prepayment in full of the Term Loans), (ii) on the date of any such prepayment, there shall be due and payable (x) accrued interest on the principal so prepaid to the date of such prepayment, and (y) a Prepayment Premium with respect to the amount of the Term Loans prepaid and the amount of the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment terminated.

 

(c)             Mandatory Prepayments.

 

(i)            Consolidated Excess Cash Flow. Within 5 Business Days after delivery to Agent of audited annual financial statements pursuant to Section 8.8(a) and the Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 8.8(c), commencing with the delivery to Agent of the financial statements for Parent's fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 or, if such financial statements and Compliance Certificate are not delivered to Agent on the date such financial statements and Compliance Certificate are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 8.8(a) and Section 8.8(c), respectively, within 5 Business Days after the date such financial statements and Compliance Certificate were required to be delivered to Agent pursuant to Section 8.8(a) and Section 8.8(c), respectively, Borrowers shall prepay the outstanding principal amount of the Term Loans in an amount (not less than $0) equal to 25% of the Consolidated Excess Cash Flow of Parent for such fiscal year. Each such prepayment of Consolidated Excess Cash Flow shall be supported with a written calculation in reasonable detail of the Consolidated Excess Cash Flow for such fiscal year and accompanied by a certificate in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent executed by an Authorized Person of Borrower Representative certifying the manner in which Consolidated Excess Cash Flow and the resulting prepayment were calculated and shall be applied as set forth in Section 3.3(d) below.

 

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(ii)           Dispositions or Involuntary Dispositions. Except as set forth below, Borrowers shall prepay the Loans as hereinafter provided in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of the Net Cash Proceeds of any Disposition (other than any sale, transfer or other disposition of Inventory in the Ordinary Course of Business or any Permitted Disposition under clause (a), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h) or (i) of the definition of Permitted Disposition) or Involuntary Disposition (each such prepayment to be applied as set forth in Section 3.3(d)). Notwithstanding the foregoing: (1) if at the time of the receipt or application of such Net Cash Proceeds, no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and Borrower Representative delivers to Lender a certificate, executed by an Authorized Person of Borrower Representative, that it intends within one hundred eighty (180) days after receipt thereof to use all of such Net Cash Proceeds either to purchase assets used in the Ordinary Course of Business of the Credit Parties or to make Capital Expenditures, the Credit Parties may use such Net Cash Proceeds in the manner set forth in such certificate; provided, however, that, (a) any such Net Cash Proceeds not so used within the period set forth in such certificate shall, on the first Business Day immediately following such 180-day period, be applied as a prepayment in accordance with Section 3.3(d) and (b) any assets so acquired shall be subject to the security interests under Section 6.1 hereof with not less than the same priority as the assets subject to such Disposition or Involuntary Disposition; and (2) Borrowers shall not be obligated to prepay the Loans in accordance with this Section 3.3(c)(ii) in connection with any such Permitted Dispositions or Involuntary Dispositions that do not, individually or in the aggregate, give rise to Net Cash Proceeds in excess of $500,000 in any fiscal year.

 

(iii)          Debt Issuances. Immediately upon receipt by any Credit Party of the Net Cash Proceeds of any sale or issuance of any Indebtedness for borrowed money other than proceeds of Indebtedness expressly permitted pursuant to Section 10.2, Borrowers shall prepay the Loans in an aggregate amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of all such Net Cash Proceeds (such prepayment to be applied as set forth in Section 3.3(d)).

 

(iv)         Extraordinary Receipts. Immediately upon receipt by any Credit Party of the Net Cash Proceeds of any Extraordinary Receipts, Borrowers shall prepay the Loans in an aggregate amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of all such Net Cash Proceeds (such prepayment to be applied as set forth in Section 3.3(d)).

 

(d)            Application of Prepayments. Each voluntary prepayment pursuant to Section 3.3(b) shall be applied pro rata to each Term Loan if multiple Term Loans are then outstanding and to the remaining installments (including the amount due on the Maturity Date) of principal of the Term Loans as directed by the Borrower Representative. Each mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 3.3(c) shall be applied pro rata to each Term Loan if multiple Term Loans are then outstanding and to the remaining installments (including the amount due on the Maturity Date) of principal of the Term Loans in inverse order of maturity until fully repaid.

 

3.4.            Warrants. As additional consideration for the Term Loans, the Parent shall issue to the Agent or an Affiliate of the Agent or a Lender designated by Agent, concurrent with the funding of the applicable Term Loan, non-transferable (except by operation of law, in accordance with the Warrant Agreements, or with the written consent of the Parent) Warrants entitling the holder to purchase from the Parent common shares in the capital of the Parent on a one-for-one basis in an amount equal to 3.0% of the Term A Loan or the applicable Delayed Draw Term Loan, as the case may be, divided by the Exercise Price. The Warrants shall have an exercise price per common share equal to the Exercise Price, subject to adjustment as set out in the applicable Warrant Agreements. The Warrants shall be issued to the Agent or its designee pursuant to the terms hereof and the terms of the Warrant Agreements issued from time to time to the Agent or its designee in accordance with the terms hereof, and shall be evidenced by the Warrant Agreement issued to the Agent or its designee at the time of funding the applicable Term Loan.

 

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SECTION 4.

 

Conditions Precedent

 

4.1.           Conditions Precedent to Initial Funding. The obligations of Agent and Lenders to consummate the Transactions and to make the initial Loans are subject to the satisfaction, in the reasonable judgment of Agent, of the following conditions precedent:

 

(a)             Loan Documents/Closing Checklist. Agent shall have received each of the agreements, opinions, reports, approvals, consents, certificates and other documents set forth on the Closing Checklist attached hereto as Exhibit E in each case in form and substance satisfactory to Agent in its sole discretion (with such number of originals or copies as required by Agent) executed by each of the Credit Parties party thereto and other required Persons, as applicable.

 

(b)             Lien Searches. Agent shall have received tax lien, judgment lien, UCC and PPSA, as applicable, searches from all jurisdictions required by Agent, and such searches shall verify that Agent, for the benefit of Lenders, will have, upon the repayment of the Indebtedness described in Section 4.1(n) below, a first priority security interest in the Collateral, subject to Permitted Encumbrances.

 

(c)             Insurance. Each Credit Party shall have delivered to Agent evidence satisfactory to Agent in its reasonable discretion that all Required Insurance is in full force and effect, and Agent shall have confirmed that Agent, for the benefit of Lenders, has been named as a lender's loss payee or additional insured with respect to the Required Insurance in a manner reasonably satisfactory to Agent.

 

(d)             UCC and PPSA Filings. All UCC and PPSA financing statements and similar documents required to be filed in order to create in favor of Agent, for the benefit of Lenders, a first priority perfected security interest in the Collateral (to the extent that such a security interest may be perfected by a filing under the UCC, the PPSA or other applicable Law), subject to Permitted Encumbrances, shall have been (or, simultaneously with the closing of the Transactions will be) properly filed in each office in each jurisdiction required and Agent shall have received evidence that all necessary filing fees, taxes and other expenses related to such filings have been paid in full.

 

(e)             Resolutions. Agent shall have received a copy of resolutions of the governing body of each Credit Party authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to be executed by each Credit Party, certified by the respective Secretary or Assistant Secretary of each such Credit Party as of the date hereof, together with an officer's certificate of as to the incumbency and signature of the officer(s) executing the Loan Documents on behalf of each Credit Party.

 

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(f)              Organizational Documents. Agent shall have received a copy of the formation documents or the certificate and articles of incorporation (or foreign equivalent) of each Credit Party, certified (other than with respect to the Parent) by the applicable authority in each Credit Party's jurisdiction of formation, and copies of the other Organizational Documents as amended through the date hereof of each Credit Party, certified by an officer of such Credit Party.

 

(g)             Officer's Certificate. Agent shall have received an executed certificate of an officer of Borrower Representative, satisfactory in form and substance to Agent, certifying that as of the Closing Date (i) the representations and warranties contained herein are true and correct in all material respects (except that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof), (ii) each Credit Party is in compliance in all material respects with all of the terms and provisions set forth herein and (iii) no Default or Event of Default has occurred.

 

(h)             Disbursement Authorizations. Borrower Representative shall have delivered to Agent all information necessary for Agent to issue wire transfer instructions on behalf of Borrowers for the initial Loans and/or advances to be made under this Agreement, including disbursement authorizations in form acceptable to Agent.

 

(i)              Examination & Verification. Agent shall have completed and be satisfied, acting reasonably, with an updated examination and verification of the books and records of Parent and its Subsidiaries, and such examination shall indicate that no material adverse change has occurred in the financial condition, business, profits, operations or assets of the Credit Parties since December 31, 2019, and Parent and its Subsidiaries shall have provided Agent and its representatives access to diligence and meetings with the management team and industry participants as reasonably requested by Agent, the results of which are satisfactory to Agent and Lenders.

 

(j)              Financial Statements; Projections. Agent shall have received (i) such financial statements of Parent and its Subsidiaries as of and for (x) the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2019 and (y) the nine month period ended September 30, 2020, in each case, together with such reports, certifications, and other operational information required to be delivered under this Agreement or otherwise required by Agent and (ii) satisfactory projections for the next 5 fiscal years of Parent and its Subsidiaries.

 

(k)             Opinions. The Agent shall have received a favorable written opinion (addressed to Agent and Lenders and dated the Closing Date) of counsel and any applicable local counsel for the Credit Parties to the extent requested by Agent, in each case, in form and substance acceptable to Agent in its reasonable discretion.

 

(l)              Legal Restraints/Litigation. As of the Closing Date, there shall be no (x) injunction, writ or restraining order restraining or prohibiting the consummation of the financing arrangements contemplated under this Agreement, or (y) Proceeding (judicial or administrative) pending against Parent, any Credit Party, any Subsidiary of any Credit Party or any of their assets, which, in the opinion of Agent, if adversely determined, could have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(m)            Background Checks. Agent shall have received and be satisfied with background checks on key managers and principals of each Credit Party as Agent shall designate.

 

(n)             Payoff Letters; Releases. To the extent applicable, Agent shall have received payoff letters and releases from all Persons having a security interest or other interest in the Collateral (excluding Permitted Encumbrances), together with all UCC-3 and PPSA terminations or partial releases necessary to terminate each such Person's interest (other than Permitted Encumbrances) in the Collateral.

 

(o)             Fees; Expenses. Agent shall have received payment in full of all fees and expenses payable to it by Borrowers or any other Person in connection herewith, on or before disbursement of the initial Loans hereunder, including payment of all underwriting fees and legal fees in accordance with customary practices of Agent.

 

(p)            Minimum Revenues. The amount of Pro Forma Consolidated Revenues of Parent and its Subsidiaries as of September 30, 2020 for the Test Period then ended is greater than $45,000,000.

 

(q)            Equity Investment. Borrowers shall provide Agent with documentation evidencing receipt by Parent of the cumulative proceeds of cash equity contributions prior to the Closing Date in the aggregate amount of not less than $62,300,000.

 

(r)             Cash and Cash Equivalents. Borrowers shall provide Agent with evidence that, after giving effect to the Transactions and the consummation of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement to occur on the Closing Date and the payment of fees and expenses in connection therewith, Borrowers shall have unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of not less than $18,200,000.

 

(s)            Warrants. Agent shall have received the Warrant Agreement(s) evidencing the Warrants issuable to the Agent or its designee on completion of the Term A Loan, executed by the Parent.

 

(t)             TSX Approvals. Agent shall have received a copy of a letter from the TSX granting (i) approval for the issuance of the Warrants pursuant to the Warrant Agreement, and (ii) conditional approval for the listing of the common shares of the Parent issuable on due exercise of the Warrants, issued in connection with the Term A Loan.

 

Upon the execution of this Agreement and the initial disbursement of the initial Loans hereunder, all of the above conditions precedent shall have been deemed satisfied or waived, except as Borrowers and Agent shall otherwise agree in a separate writing.

 

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4.2.           Conditions Precedent to All Loans. The obligation of Agent and Lenders to fund any Loan is subject to satisfaction or waiver on or before any such funding of the following conditions precedent:

 

(a)             all representations and warranties contained herein and in the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects (except that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof) on and as of the date of such extension of credit, as though made on and as of such date (except to the extent that such representations and warranties relate solely to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all material respects (except that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof) as of such earlier date); and

 

(b)             no Default and no Event of Default shall exist or have occurred and be continuing on and as of the date of, and immediately after giving effect to, the making of such Loan.

 

(c)             Agent shall have received the Warrant Agreement(s) evidencing the Warrants issuable to the Agent or its designee on completion of the applicable Delayed Draw Term Loan, executed by the Parent.

 

(d)             If required for listing of the common shares underlying the Warrants, Agent shall have received a copy of a letter from the relevant stock exchange granting such approvals (or conditional approvals, as the case may be) as are required for the issuance of the Warrants pursuant to the Warrant Agreement, and the common shares of the Parent issuable on due exercise of the Warrants.

 

The request and acceptance by Borrower Representative or any Borrower of the proceeds of any Loan shall be deemed to constitute, as of the date thereof, (i) a representation and warranty by Parent and each Borrower that the conditions in this Section 4.2 have been satisfied and (ii) a reaffirmation by each Credit Party of the granting and continuance of Agent's Liens and security interests, on behalf of Agent and Lenders.

 

4.3.           Post-Closing Requirements. Borrowers shall complete each of the post-closing obligations and/or provide to Agent each of the documents, instruments, agreements and information listed on Schedule 4.3 attached hereto on or before the date set forth for each such item thereon or such later date as Agent may agree in writing in its sole discretion, each of which shall be completed or provided in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent.

 

SECTION 5.

 

Interest, Fees and Expenses.

 

5.1.           Interest on Loans. From and following the Closing Date, the Loans and the other Obligations shall bear interest at a rate equal to the sum of the LIBOR Rate plus the Applicable Margin. Interest on the Loans shall be paid in arrears on the first (1st) day of each month and on the maturity of such Loans, whether by acceleration or otherwise. Interest on all other Obligations shall be payable upon demand.

 

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5.2.           Default Interest Rate. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default (other than under Section 11.1(a) and Section 11.1(i)), all Obligations may, at the election of Agent or Required Lenders, bear interest at the Default Rate of Interest until such Event of Default is waived in writing by Agent and Required Lenders, and upon the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 11.1(a) or Section 11.1(i), all Obligations shall bear interest at the Default Rate of Interest until such Event of Default is waived in writing by Agent and Required Lenders.

 

5.3.           Computation of Interest and Related Fees. All interest and fees under each Loan Document shall be calculated on the basis of a three hundred sixty (360) day year for the actual number of days elapsed.  The date of funding of a Loan and the date of repayment of a Loan (including, without limitation, the Maturity Date) shall be included in the calculation of interest; provided, however, that if a Loan is repaid on the same day that it is made, one (1) day's interest shall be charged.

 

5.4.           Out-of-Pocket Expenses. Parent and Borrowers agree to reimburse Agent for all Out-of-Pocket Expenses charged to or paid by Agent.

 

5.5.           Unused Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Fee. On the first day of each calendar month following the Closing Date through and including the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Termination Date, and on the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Termination Date, Borrowers agree to pay to Agent, for the benefit of Lenders having a Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment, ratably in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Percentages of the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment, the Unused Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Fee for the immediately preceding month (or partial month, as applicable).

 

5.6.           Fee Letter. Borrowers shall pay to Agent, for the account of Agent, as and when due and payable under the terms of the Fee Letter, the fees set forth in the Fee Letter.

 

5.7.           Due Diligence Fee. On the Closing Date, Agent shall credit the $100,000 due diligence fee paid by Parent to Agent under the Proposal Letter to any Out-of-Pocket Expenses then due and owing, and Borrowers agree to pay to Agent any remaining balance on the Closing Date.

 

5.8.           Capital Adequacy. In the event that any Lender, subsequent to the Closing Date, determines in the exercise of its reasonable business judgment that (x) any change in applicable Law, rule, regulation or guideline regarding capital adequacy, or (y) any change in the interpretation or administration thereof, or (z) compliance by such Lender with any new request or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of law) of any central bank or other governmental or regulatory authority, has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender's capital as a consequence of its obligations hereunder to a level below that which such Lender could have achieved but for such change or compliance (taking into consideration such Lender's policies with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount deemed material by such Lender in the exercise of its reasonable business judgment, Borrowers agree to pay to such Lender, no later than five (5) days following demand by such Lender, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender for such reduction in rate of return; provided that notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, (i) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a "change in applicable Law", regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued. In determining such amount or amounts, such Lender may use any reasonable averaging or attribution methods. The protection of this Section 5.9 shall be available to any Lender regardless of any possible contention of invalidity or inapplicability with respect to the applicable Law, regulation or condition. A certificate of a Lender setting forth such amount or amounts as shall be necessary to compensate such Lender with respect to this Section 5.9 and the calculation thereof, when delivered to Borrowers, shall be conclusive and binding on each Borrower absent manifest error. In the event a Lender exercises its rights pursuant to this Section 5.9, and subsequent thereto determines that the amounts paid by Borrowers exceeded the amount which such Lender actually required to compensate such Lender for any reduction in rate of return on its capital, such excess shall be returned to Borrowers by such Lender. Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this Section 5.9 shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender's right to demand such compensation.

 

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5.9.           Taxes.

 

(a)             Payments Free of Taxes. Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Credit Parties hereunder and under any other Loan Document shall be made free and clear of and without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable Law. If the Credit Parties or any other withholding agent shall be required by applicable Law to deduct or withhold any Taxes from such payments, then (i) if such Taxes are Indemnified Taxes, the sum payable by the Credit Parties shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions or withholdings (including deductions or withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 5.9) Agent or Lender (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions or withholdings been made, (ii) the Credit Parties shall make such deductions or withholdings and (iii) the Credit Parties shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Government Authority in accordance with applicable Law.

 

(b)             Payment of Other Taxes by the Credit Parties. Without limiting the provisions of paragraph 5.9(a), the Credit Parties shall timely pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Government Authority in accordance with applicable Law, except those wherein the amount, applicability or validity are being contested by appropriate proceedings being diligently conducted in good faith (which effectively stay or delay the enforcement of any Liens relating to such amounts) and in respect of which adequate reserves in accordance with IFRS have been established.

 

(c)             Indemnification by the Credit Parties. The Credit Parties shall jointly and severally indemnify Agent and each Lender, within ten (10) Business Days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes paid by Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, on or with respect to any payment by or on account of any obligation of the Credit Parties hereunder or under any other Loan Document (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto (including reasonable attorneys' and tax advisors' fees and expenses), whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Government Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to Borrower Representative by a Lender or by Agent, on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

 

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(d)             Evidence of Payments. As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by the Credit Parties to a Government Authority, Borrower Representative shall deliver to Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Government Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to Agent.

 

(e)             Status of Lenders. Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding tax under the law of the jurisdiction in which a Borrower is located, or any treaty to which such jurisdiction is a party, with respect to payments under this Agreement shall deliver to Agent (with a copy to Agent), at the time or times prescribed by applicable Law, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable Law or reasonably requested by Borrower Representative as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding sentence, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in paragraphs (e)(i) through (vi) of this Section) shall not be required if in the applicable Lender's reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Lender shall deliver to Borrower Representative and Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the request of Borrower Representative or Agent, but only if such Lender is legally entitled to do so), whichever of the following is applicable to such Lender:

 

(i)           In the case of a non-Foreign Lender, duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding Tax,

 

(ii)          duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, claiming eligibility for benefits of an income Tax treaty to which the United States of America is a party,

 

(iii)         duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI,

 

(iv)         in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not (A) a "bank" within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (B) a "10 percent shareholder" of Borrowers within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or (C) a "controlled foreign corporation" described in section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a "U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate") and (y) duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN-E,

 

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(v)          to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, executed copies of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN, IRS Form W-8BEN-E, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Foreign Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner; or

 

(vi)         any other form prescribed by applicable Law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in United States Federal withholding tax duly completed together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable Law to permit Borrowers to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made.

 

(vii)        if a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to Borrower Representative and Agent at the time or times prescribed by Law and at such time or times reasonably requested by Borrower Representative or Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable Law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by Borrower Representative or Agent as may be necessary for Borrowers and Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lender's obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment.

 

Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify Borrower Representative and Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.

 

(f)             Treatment of Certain Refunds. If Agent or a Lender determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by the Credit Parties or with respect to which the Credit Parties have paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 5.9 it shall pay over such refund to the Credit Parties (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Credit Parties under this Section 5.9 with respect to the Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of Agent or such Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Government Authority with respect to such refund); provided that the Credit Parties, upon the request of Agent or such Lender, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Credit Parties (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Government Authority) to Agent or such Lender in the event Agent or such Lender is required to repay such refund to such Government Authority. This Section 5.9(f) shall not be construed to require Agent or any Lender (i) to make available its Tax returns (or other information relating to its Taxes which it deems confidential) to Borrowers or any other Person or (ii) to pay any amount pursuant to this Section 5.9(f) the payment of which would place such Person and its Affiliates in a less favorable net after-Tax position than such Person (and its Affiliates) would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid.

 

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(g)            Survival. The obligations of the Credit Parties under this Section 5.9 shall survive the termination of this Agreement, the repayment of the Loans and the replacement of Agent.

 

5.10.         Obligations Absolute. Except as otherwise provided in this Section 5, all payments by any Credit Party of principal, interest, fees and other Obligations shall be made in Dollars in immediately available funds, and shall be absolute and unconditional, without defense, rescission, recoupment, setoff or counterclaim, free of any restriction or condition, and delivered to Agent, for the account of Lenders, not later than 12:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on the date due.

 

5.11.         Mitigation Obligations. If any Lender requests compensation under Section 5.9, or if any Credit Party is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Government Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 5.10, then, upon the written request of Borrower Representative, such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder (subject to the provisions of Section 14.11) to another of its offices, branches or Affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or materially reduce amounts payable pursuant to any such Section, as the case may be, in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender (as determined in its sole discretion). Without limitation of the provisions of Section 15.1, Borrowers hereby agree to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.

 

SECTION 6.

 

Collateral

 

6.1.           Grant of Security Interests. As security for the performance and prompt payment in full in cash of all Obligations, each Credit Party hereby pledges and grants to Agent, for its benefit and for the ratable benefit of Lenders, a first-priority continuing general Lien upon, and security interest in, all of the following now owned and hereafter acquired Property in which such Credit Party has rights or the power to transfer rights (collectively, the "Collateral"):

 

(a)             all Accounts, accounts receivable, notes receivable, contract rights, chattel paper (including electronic chattel paper), documents (including Documents of Title), instruments and letters of credit;

 

(b)             all Goods;

 

(c)             all Inventory;

 

(d)            all General Intangibles;

 

(e)             all Equipment;

 

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(f)              all Deposit Accounts, securities accounts, investment accounts, commercial paper, investment securities, and certificates of deposit, of every nature, wherever located, and all funds received thereby, deposited therein or associated therewith and all documents and records associated therewith, and all supporting obligations, letter of credit rights and Other Collateral;

 

(g)             all Investment Property;

 

(h)             all Commercial Tort Claims identified on Schedule 6.4(f);

 

(i)              all Property of such Credit Party now or hereafter in Agent's possession;

 

(j)              all books and records evidencing or relating to or associated with any of the foregoing and any and all claims, rights and interests in any of the above;

 

(k)             all information and data compiled or derived by such Credit Party with respect to any of the foregoing;

 

(l)              all other personal Property of such Credit Party not described above whether now existing or hereafter acquired; and

 

(m)            the collections and Proceeds, whether cash or non-cash, of all of the foregoing (including, without limitation, any adequate protection payments);

 

provided that, notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the contrary, the term "Collateral" shall not include, and a security interest is not granted in, any Excluded Assets (except to the extent otherwise set forth in the definition thereof).

 

6.2.           Extent of Security Interests. The security interest granted hereunder shall extend and attach to all Collateral which is presently in existence or hereafter acquired and which is owned by any Credit Party or in which any Credit Party has any interest, whether held by such Credit Party or by others for such Credit Party's account, and wherever located, and, if any Collateral is Equipment, whether such Credit Party's interest in such Equipment is as owner, lessee or conditional vendee.

 

6.3.           Limited License. Regardless of whether Agent's security interests in any of the General Intangibles has attached or is perfected, each Credit Party hereby irrevocably grants to Agent, for its benefit and for the benefit of Lenders, a royalty-free, nonexclusive license to use such Credit Party's Trademarks, Copyrights, Patents and other proprietary and Intellectual Property rights, in connection with the advertisement for sale, and the sale or other disposition of, any Collateral by, or on behalf of, Agent in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.

 

6.4.           Representations, Covenants and Agreements Regarding Collateral Generally.

 

(a)             Representations and Warranties. The Credit Parties represent and warrant to Agent and Lenders that except for the Permitted Encumbrances, (i) upon the filing of UCC and PPSA, as applicable, financing statements covering the Collateral in all required jurisdictions, this Agreement creates a valid, perfected, security interest in all Collateral of the Credit Parties as to which perfection may be achieved by filing of a UCC or PPSA, as applicable, financing statement, (ii) Agent's security interests in the Collateral constitute, and will at all times constitute, perfected Liens on the Collateral, and (iii) each Credit Party is, or will be at the time additional Collateral is acquired by such Credit Party, the absolute owner of such additional Collateral with full right to pledge, sell, transfer and create a security interest therein, free and clear of any and all claims or Liens, subject to Permitted Encumbrances.

 

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(b)             Covenants Generally. The Credit Parties, at their expense, (i) agree to forever warrant and defend the Collateral from any and all claims and demands of any other Person, other than holders of Permitted Encumbrances; (ii) shall maintain the security interest created by this Agreement as a perfected security interest having at least the priority described in Section 6.4(a) and shall defend such security interest against the claims and demands of all Persons whomsoever; and (iii) shall furnish to Agent and Lenders from time to time statements and schedules further identifying and describing the assets and property of each Credit Party and such other reports in connection therewith as Agent may reasonably request, all in reasonable detail. At any time and from time to time, upon the written request of Agent, and at the sole expense of the Borrowers, each Credit Party will promptly and duly execute and deliver, and have recorded, such further instruments and documents and take such further actions as Agent may reasonably request for the purpose of obtaining or preserving the full benefits of this Agreement and of the rights and powers herein granted, including (I) filing any financing or continuation statements under the UCC or the PPSA (or other similar laws) in effect in any jurisdiction with respect to the security interests created hereby, (II) in the case of Investment Property, Deposit Accounts, Electronic Chattel Paper and Letter of Credit Rights and any other relevant Collateral, taking any actions necessary to enable Agent to obtain "control" (within the meaning of the UCC and the PPSA, as applicable) with respect thereto, in each case pursuant to documents in form and substance satisfactory to Agent.

 

(c)             Instruments, Certificated Securities and Chattel Paper. If any amount payable under or in connection with any of the Collateral in excess of $250,000 shall be or become evidenced by any Instrument, Certificated Security or Chattel Paper, such Instrument, Certificated Security or Chattel Paper shall be immediately delivered to Agent, duly indorsed in a manner reasonably satisfactory to Agent, to be held as Collateral pursuant to this Agreement and in the case of Electronic Chattel Paper, the applicable Credit Party shall cause Agent to have control thereof within the meaning set forth in Section 9-105 of the UCC or the PPSA, as applicable.

 

(d)             [Reserved].

 

(e)             General Intangibles. Each Credit Party represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that as of the date hereof, such Credit Party possesses all General Intangibles necessary to conduct its business as presently conducted. Each Credit Party agrees to maintain such Credit Party's rights in, and the value of, all such General Intangibles, and to pay when due all payments required to maintain in effect any licensed rights necessary to the conduct of its business. The Credit Parties shall provide Agent with prompt notice (not more than five days thereafter) of the registration or acquisition of rights with respect to any additional Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights so that Agent may, for the benefit of Lenders and to the extent permitted under the documentation granting such rights or applicable Law, perfect Agent's security interest in such rights in a timely manner.

 

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(f)           Commercial Tort Claims. Each Credit Party represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that as of the date hereof, such Credit Party holds no interest in any Commercial Tort Claim except as set forth on Schedule 6.4(f). If any Credit Party at any time holds or acquires a Commercial Tort Claim in excess of $250,000, such Credit Party agrees to promptly notify Agent in writing of the details thereof, and in such writing such Credit Party shall grant to Agent, for the benefit of Lenders, a security interest in such Commercial Tort Claim and in the Proceeds thereof, all upon the terms of this Agreement.

 

(g)          Letter of Credit Rights. Each Credit Party represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that as of the date hereof, such Credit Party is not the beneficiary of any letter of credit. If any Credit Party becomes a beneficiary under any letter of credit having a face amount in excess of $250,000, such Credit Party agrees to promptly notify Agent, and upon request by Agent, such Credit Party agrees to either (a) cause the issuer of such letter of credit to consent to the assignment of the proceeds of such letter of credit to Agent, for the benefit of Lenders, pursuant to an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, or (b) cause the issuer of such letter of credit to name Agent, for the benefit of Lenders, as the transferee beneficiary of such letter of credit.

 

(h)          Seller Undertakings. The Credit Parties shall keep Agent informed of all circumstances bearing upon any potential claim under or with respect to all Purchase Documents and the Seller Undertakings and no Credit Party shall, without the prior written consent of Agent, (i) waive any of its rights or remedies under any Purchase Document with respect to any of the Seller Undertakings in excess of $250,000, (ii) settle, compromise or offset any amount payable by the applicable sellers to such Credit Party under any Purchase Documents in excess of $250,000 or (iii) amend or otherwise modify any Purchase Documents in any manner which is materially adverse to the interests of Agent or any Lender. Each Credit Party shall perform and observe all the terms and conditions of each of the Purchase Documents to be performed by it, maintain each Purchase Document in full force and effect, enforce each Purchase Document in accordance with its terms and take all such action to such end as may from time to time be reasonably requested by Agent. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, (i) the exercise by Agent of any of its rights hereunder shall not release any Credit Party from any of its duties or obligations under any Purchase Document, (ii) each applicable Credit Party shall remain liable under each Purchase Document to the extent set forth therein to perform all of its duties and obligations thereunder to the same extent as if this Agreement had not been executed, and (iii) neither Agent nor any other Lender shall have any obligation or liability under any Purchase Document by reason of this Agreement, nor shall Agent or any other Lender be obligated to perform any of the obligations or duties of any Credit Party thereunder or to take any action to collect or enforce any claim for payment assigned hereunder. Each Credit Party hereby irrevocably authorizes and empowers Agent, in Agent's sole discretion, at any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, to assert, either directly or on behalf of such Credit Party, any claim such Credit Party may from time to time have against the applicable sellers under or with respect to the Purchase Documents and to receive and collect any and all damages, awards and other monies resulting therefrom and to apply the same to the Obligations in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Each Credit Party hereby irrevocably makes, constitutes and appoints Agent as its true and lawful attorney in fact for the purpose of enabling Agent to assert and collect such claims and to apply such monies in the manner set forth above, which appointment, being coupled with an interest, is irrevocable.

 

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6.5.           Reference to Other Loan Documents. Reference is hereby made to the other Loan Documents for additional representations, covenants and other agreements of the Credit Parties regarding the Collateral covered by such Loan Documents.

 

6.6.           Credit Balances; Additional Collateral.

 

(a)          The rights and security interests granted to Agent and Lenders hereunder shall continue in full force and effect, notwithstanding the termination of this Agreement until the Termination Date. Any reserves or balances to the credit of any Credit Party and any other Property of the Credit Parties (or any of them) in the possession of Agent or any Lender, may be held by Agent or such Lender as Other Collateral, and applied in whole or partial satisfaction of such Obligations when due, subject to the terms of this Agreement. The Liens and security interests granted to Agent, for the benefit of Lenders, in the Collateral secure payment and performance of all present and future Obligations.

 

(b)          Notwithstanding Agent's security interests in the Collateral, to the extent that the Obligations are hereafter secured by any assets or Property other than the Collateral, or by the guaranty, endorsement, assets or property of any other Person, Agent shall have (subject to applicable Law) the right in its sole discretion to determine which rights, security, Liens, security interests or remedies Agent shall at any time pursue, foreclose upon, relinquish, subordinate, modify or take any other action with respect to, without in any way modifying or affecting any of such rights, security, Liens, security interests or remedies, or any of Agent's or Lenders' rights under this Agreement.

 

6.7.           Power of Attorney. Each of the officers of Agent is hereby irrevocably made, constituted and appointed the true and lawful attorney-in-fact for each Credit Party (without requiring any of them to act as such) with full power of substitution to do the following (such power to be deemed coupled with an interest): (a) endorse the name of such Credit Party upon any and all checks, drafts, money orders and other instruments for the payment of monies that are payable to such Credit Party and constitute collections on the Collateral; (b) execute in the name of such Credit Party any schedules, assignments, instruments, documents and statements that such Credit Party is obligated to give Agent hereunder or that Agent deems is necessary to perfect Agent's security interest or Lien in the Collateral; and (c) after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, do such other and further lawful acts and deeds in the name of such Credit Party that Agent may reasonably deem necessary or desirable to enforce its rights with respect to any Collateral, including without limitation, to (1) direct any party liable for any payment under any of the Collateral to make payment of any and all moneys due or to become due thereunder directly to Agent or as Agent shall direct; (2) ask or demand for, collect, and receive payment of and receipt for, any and all moneys, claims and other amounts due or to become due at any time in respect of or arising out of any Collateral; (3) sign and indorse any invoices, freight or express bills, bills of lading, storage or warehouse receipts, drafts against debtors, assignments, verifications, notices and other documents in connection with any of the Collateral; (4) commence and prosecute any suits, actions or proceedings at law or in equity in any court of competent jurisdiction to collect the Collateral or any portion thereof and to enforce any other right in respect of any Collateral; (5) defend any suit, action or proceeding brought against any Credit Party with respect to any Collateral; (6) settle, compromise or adjust any such suit, action or proceeding and, in connection therewith, give such discharges or releases as Agent may deem appropriate; (7) assign any Intellectual Property, throughout the world for such term or terms, on such conditions, and in such manner, as Agent shall in its sole discretion determine; (8) vote any right or interest with respect to any Investment Property; (9) order good standing certificates and conduct lien searches in respect of such jurisdictions or offices as Agent may deem appropriate; and (10) generally sell, transfer, pledge and make any agreement with respect to or otherwise deal with any of the Collateral as fully and completely as though Agent were the absolute owner thereof for all purposes, and do, at Agent's option and at the Borrowers' expense, at any time, or from time to time, all acts and things which Agent deems necessary to protect, preserve or realize upon the Collateral and Agent's security interests therein and to effect the intent of this Agreement, all as fully and effectively as any Credit Party might do. THE POWER-OF-ATTORNEY AND PROXY GRANTED HEREBY IS COUPLED WITH AN INTEREST AND SHALL BE VALID AND IRREVOCABLE UNTIL (X) THE OBLIGATIONS HAVE BEEN INDEFEASIBLY PAID IN FULL, (Y) AGENT AND LENDERS HAVE NO FURTHER OBLIGATIONS UNDER THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS, AND (Z) ANY COMMITMENTS HAVE EXPIRED OR HAVE BEEN TERMINATED (IT BEING UNDERSTOOD THAT ANY SUCH COMMITMENTS OR OBLIGATIONS WILL CONTINUE TO BE EFFECTIVE OR AUTOMATICALLY REINSTATED, AS THE CASE MAY BE, IF AT ANY TIME PAYMENT, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, OF ANY OF THE OBLIGATIONS IS RESCINDED OR MUST OTHERWISE BE RESTORED OR RETURNED BY AGENT OR ANY LENDER FOR ANY REASON, INCLUDING AS A PREFERENCE, FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE OR OTHERWISE UNDER ANY BANKRUPTCY, INSOLVENCY OR SIMILAR LAW, ALL AS THOUGH SUCH PAYMENT HAD NOT BEEN MADE; IT BEING FURTHER UNDERSTOOD THAT IN THE EVENT PAYMENT OF ALL OR ANY PART OF THE OBLIGATIONS IS RESCINDED OR MUST BE RESTORED OR RETURNED, ALL REASONABLE OUT-OF-POCKET COSTS AND EXPENSES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, REASONABLE ATTORNEYS' FEES AND DISBURSEMENTS) INCURRED BY AGENT IN DEFENDING AND ENFORCING SUCH REINSTATEMENT SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE INCLUDED AS A PART OF THE OBLIGATIONS). SUCH APPOINTMENT OF AGENT AS PROXY AND ATTORNEY-IN-FACT SHALL BE VALID AND IRREVOCABLE AS PROVIDED HEREIN NOTWITHSTANDING ANY LIMITATIONS TO THE CONTRARY SET FORTH IN THE CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION, CERTIFICATE OF FORMATION, ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION, BY-LAWS, LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENTS OR OTHER ORGANIZATIONAL DOCUMENTS OF ANY CREDIT PARTY.

 

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6.8.           Filing of UCC and PPSA Financing Statements. Each Credit Party hereby ratifies its authorization for Agent to have filed in any jurisdiction any initial UCC and PPSA, as applicable, financing statements or amendments or continuation statements thereto indicating "all assets of the debtor" or similar language as the collateral description.

 

6.9.           Duty of Agent. Agent's sole duty with respect to the custody, safekeeping and physical preservation of the Collateral in its possession shall be to deal with it in the same manner as Agent deals with similar property for its own account. Neither Agent nor any Lender nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees or agents shall be liable for any failure to demand, collect or realize upon any of the Collateral or for any delay in doing so or shall be under any obligation to sell or otherwise dispose of any Collateral upon the request of any Credit Party or any other Person or to take any other action whatsoever with regard to the Collateral or any part thereof. The powers conferred on Agent and Lenders hereunder are solely to protect Agent's and Lenders' interests in the Collateral and shall not impose any duty upon Agent or any Lender to exercise any such powers. Agent and Lenders shall be accountable only for amounts that they actually receive as a result of the exercise of such powers, and neither they nor any of their officers, directors, employees or agents shall be responsible to any Credit Party for any act or failure to act hereunder.

 

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SECTION 7.

 

Representations and Warranties

 

In order to induce Agent and Lenders to enter into this Agreement, each Credit Party makes the following representations and warranties to Agent and each Lender which shall be true, correct, and complete, in all material respects (except that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof), as of the Closing Date, and shall be true, correct, and complete, in all material respects (except that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof), as of the date of the making of each Loan (or other extension of credit) made thereafter, as though made on and as of the date of such Loan (or other extension of credit) (except to the extent that such representations and warranties relate solely to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all material respects (except that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof) as of such earlier date) and such representations and warranties shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement:

 

7.1.           Financial Condition. (a) The amount of the Credit Parties' assets, taken as a whole, at fair valuation, exceeds the book value of the Credit Parties' liabilities, taken as a whole, (b) the Credit Parties, taken as a whole, are generally able to pay their debts as they become due and payable, and (c) the Credit Parties, taken as a whole, do not have unreasonably small capital to carry on their businesses as currently conducted absent extraordinary and unforeseen circumstances. All financial statements of the Credit Parties (or any of them) previously furnished to Agent present fairly, in all material respects, the financial condition of the Credit Parties as of the date of such financial statements.

 

7.2.           Organization Matters; Collateral Locations. As of the Closing Date, the Perfection Certificates attached hereto as Schedule 7.2 correctly and completely sets forth each Credit Party's (a)  exact name, as currently reflected by the records of such Credit Party's jurisdiction of organization, (b)  jurisdiction of organization, (c)  federal employer identification number and State, provincial or territorial organization identification number, (if any), (d) chief executive office, registered office and the location of all Collateral of such Credit Party.

 

7.3.           Power and Authority; Conflicts; Enforceability.

 

(a)          Each Credit Party has full corporate or limited liability company power and authority, as applicable, to execute and deliver this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Credit Party is a party, and to perform all of such Credit Party's obligations thereunder.

 

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(b)          The execution and delivery by each Credit Party of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Credit Party is a party and the performance of such Credit Party's obligations hereunder and thereunder have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, limited liability company or other relevant action, and do not (i) require any consent or approval of any director, shareholder, partner or member of such Credit Party that has not been obtained, (ii) violate any term, provision or covenant contained in the Organizational Documents of such Credit Party, (iii) violate, or cause such Credit Party to be in default under, any Law applicable to such Credit Party or its assets, or (iv) violate any material term, provision, covenant or representation contained in, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation of any Lien under, any loan agreement, lease, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, note, security agreement or pledge agreement to which such Credit Party is a signatory or by which such Credit Party or such Credit Party's assets are bound or affected.

 

(c)          This Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which the Credit Parties (or any of them) are parties constitute legal valid and binding obligations of the Credit Parties, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, subject to (i) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, arrangement, moratorium, fraudulent transfer and other laws affecting creditors' rights generally, and (ii) general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding at law or in equity.

 

7.4.           Material Contracts. Set forth on Schedule 7.4 (as such Schedule may be updated from time to time in accordance herewith) is a reasonably detailed description of the Material Contracts of each Credit Party and its Subsidiaries as of the most recent date on which Borrowers provided the Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 8.8(c); provided, however, that Parent and Borrowers may amend Schedule 7.4 to add additional Material Contracts or remove reference to agreements that Borrower Representative has determined are no longer Material Contracts so long as such amendment occurs by written notice to Agent on the date that Borrowers provide the Compliance Certificate. Each Material Contract (other than those that have expired at the end of their normal terms) (a) is binding upon and enforceable against the applicable Credit Party or its Subsidiary and, to Parent's and each Borrower's knowledge each other Person that is a party thereto in accordance with its terms, (b) has not been otherwise amended or modified (other than amendments or modifications permitted by this Agreement), and (c) is not in default due to the action or inaction of the applicable Credit Party or its Subsidiary. Each of the Administrative Services Documents is Freely Assignable by each Credit Party party thereto.

 

7.5.           Compliance with Laws; Permits; Anti-Terrorism Laws; Anti-Corruption Laws.

 

(a)          Each Credit Party and such Credit Party's properties are in compliance with all applicable Laws, and all orders of any federal, state, provincial, territorial or local legislative, administrative or judicial body or official, except to the extent the failure to so comply could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(b)          Each Credit Party maintains all Permits necessary to the operation of its business, except to the extent the failure to have such Permits could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(c)          None of the Credit Parties and, to the knowledge of the Credit Parties, none of their Affiliates, nor any director, officer, agent, or other person acting on behalf of any Credit Party or Affiliate, (i) is in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law, (ii) engages in or conspires to engage in any transaction that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in any Anti-Terrorism Law, (iii) is a Blocked Person, or is controlled by a Blocked Person, (iv) is acting or will act for or on behalf of a Blocked Person, (v) is associated with, or will become associated with, a Blocked Person or (vi) is providing, or will provide, material, financial or technical support or other services to or in support of acts of terrorism of a Blocked Person. No Credit Party nor, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, any of its Affiliates or agents acting or benefiting in any capacity in connection with the Transactions, (A) conducts any business or engages in making or receiving any contribution of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of any Blocked Person, or (B) deals in, or otherwise engages in any transaction relating to, any property or interest in property blocked pursuant to Executive Order No. 13224, any similar executive order or other Anti-Terrorism Law.

 

(d)          None of the Credit Parties and, to the knowledge of the Credit Parties, none of their Affiliates, nor any director, officer, agent, or other person acting on behalf of any Credit Party or any Affiliate, has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that would result in a violation by such persons of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the "FCPA"), the Corruption of Foreign Public Official Act (Canada) (as amended) or any other applicable anti-corruption law; and the Credit Parties have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to ensure continued compliance therewith.

 

7.6.           Environmental Matters. Except as, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:

 

(a)          no notice, notification, demand, request for information, citation, summons, complaint or order has been issued, no complaint has been filed, no penalty has been assessed and no investigation or review is pending, or to such Credit Party's knowledge, threatened by any Government Authority or other Person with respect to any (i) alleged violation by any Credit Party of any Environmental Law, (ii) alleged failure by any Credit Party to have any Permits required in connection with the conduct of its business or to comply with the terms and conditions thereof, (iii) any generation, treatment, storage, recycling, transportation or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, or (iv) release of Hazardous Materials; and

 

(b)          no real Property now owned or leased by any Credit Party and, to the knowledge of each Credit Party, no such real Property previously owned or leased by any Credit Party, to which any Credit Party has, directly or indirectly, transported or arranged for the transportation of any Hazardous Materials, is listed or, to such Credit Party's knowledge, proposed for listing, on the National Priorities List promulgated pursuant to CERCLA, or CERCLIS (as defined in CERCLA) or any similar state list or is the subject of federal, state, provincial, territorial or local enforcement actions or, to the knowledge of such Credit Party or a predecessor of a Credit Party, other investigations which may lead to claims against any Credit Party for cleanup costs, remedial work, damage to natural resources or personal injury claims, including claims under CERCLA.

 

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7.7.           Pending Litigation. Except as set forth on Schedule 7.7, there exist no Proceedings of any kind by or against any Credit Party pending in any court or before any arbitrator or governmental body that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or result in a Change of Control.

 

7.8.           Employee Benefits. Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) each Employee Benefit Plan complies with, and has been operated in accordance with, all applicable laws, including ERISA and the Code, and the terms of such Employee Benefit Plan, (ii) no Credit Party has any liability for a fine, penalty, damage, or excise tax with respect to an Employee Benefit Plan and no Credit Party has received notice from a governmental authority, plan administrator, or participant (or any participant's agent) that any such fine, penalty, damage or excise tax may be owing by such Credit Party and (iii) each Employee Benefit Plan intended to be qualified by a Credit Party under Section 401 of the Code is so qualified. Except as otherwise set forth on Schedule 7.8, as of the Closing Date, no Credit Party contributes to, or has liability to contribute to any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan. No ERISA Event has occurred and to the knowledge of the Credit Parties, there is no event or circumstance that has occurred which could reasonably be expected to result in an ERISA Event.

 

7.9.           Regulatory Matters. Without limiting the generality of any other representation or warranty made in this Agreement, each Credit Party hereby represents and warrants that:

 

(a)          Compliance with Healthcare Laws. Each Credit Party and each of their respective Subsidiaries is in compliance with all Healthcare Laws applicable to it and its assets, business or operations, except to the extent that any noncompliance, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Credit Parties, each Supported Practice is in compliance with all Healthcare Laws applicable to it and its assets, business or operations, except to the extent that any noncompliance, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Credit Parties, each Physician is in compliance with all Healthcare Laws applicable to each Physician, except to the extent that any noncompliance, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(b)          Material Statements. No Credit Party nor any of their respective Subsidiaries, nor any officer, affiliate, employee or agent of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, has made an untrue statement of a material fact or fraudulent statement to any Government Authority, failed to disclose a material fact that must be disclosed to any Government Authority, or committed an act, made a statement or failed to make a statement that, at the time such statement, disclosure or failure to disclose occurred, would constitute a violation of any Healthcare Law that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Credit Parties, no Supported Practice, nor any Physician, officer, affiliate, employee or agent and on behalf of any Supported Practice has made an untrue statement of a material fact or fraudulent statement to any Government Authority, failed to disclose a material fact that must be disclosed to any Government Authority, or committed an act, made a statement or failed to make a statement that, at the time such statement, disclosure or failure to disclose occurred, would constitute a violation of any Healthcare Law that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(c)          Exclusion. No Credit Party nor any of their respective Subsidiaries, nor any Physician, owner, officer, director, partner, agent or managing employee or Person with a "direct or indirect ownership interest" (as that phrase is defined in 42 C.F.R. § 420.201) in any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, has (i) been excluded from any Third-Party Payor Arrangement or had a civil monetary penalty assessed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7; (ii) been convicted (as that term is defined in 42 C.F.R. §1001.2) of any of those offenses described in 42 U.S.C. §1320a-7b or 18 U.S.C. §§669, 1035, 1347 or 1518, including any of the following categories of offenses: (A) criminal offenses relating to the delivery of an item or service under any federal health care program (as that term is defined in 42 U.S.C. §1320a-7b) or healthcare benefit program (as that term is defined in 18 U.S.C. §24b), (B) criminal offenses under federal or state, provincial or territorial Law relating to patient neglect or abuse in connection with the delivery of a healthcare item or service, (C) criminal offenses under Laws relating to fraud and abuse, theft, embezzlement, false statements to third parties, money laundering, kickbacks, breach of fiduciary responsibility or other financial misconduct in connection with the delivery of a healthcare item or service or with respect to any act or omission in a program operated by or financed in whole or in part by any federal, state, provincial, territorial or local governmental agency, (D) Laws relating to the interference with or obstruction of any investigations into any criminal offenses described in this clause (ii), or (E) criminal offenses under Laws relating to the unlawful manufacturing, distribution, prescription or dispensing of a controlled substance; or (iii) been involved or named in a U.S. Attorney complaint made or any other action taken pursuant to the False Claims Act under 31 U.S.C. §§3729-3731 or qui tam action brought pursuant to 31 U.S.C. §3729 et seq.. No Supported Practice nor, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, any Physician, owner, officer, director, partner, agent or managing employee or Person with a "direct or indirect ownership interest" (as that phrase is defined in 42 C.F.R. §420.201) in any Supported Practice has (i) been excluded from any Third-Party Payor Arrangement or had a civil monetary penalty assessed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7; (ii) been convicted (as that term is defined in 42 C.F.R. §1001.2) of any of those offenses described in 42 U.S.C. §1320a-7b or 18 U.S.C. §§669, 1035, 1347 or 1518, including any of the following categories of offenses: (A) criminal offenses relating to the delivery of an item or service under any federal health care program (as that term is defined in 42 U.S.C. §1320a-7b) or healthcare benefit program (as that term is defined in 18 U.S.C. §24b), (B) criminal offenses under federal, state, provincial or territorial Law relating to patient neglect or abuse in connection with the delivery of a healthcare item or service, (C) criminal offenses under Laws relating to fraud and abuse, theft, embezzlement, false statements to third parties, money laundering, kickbacks, breach of fiduciary responsibility or other financial misconduct in connection with the delivery of a healthcare item or service or with respect to any act or omission in a program operated by or financed in whole or in part by any federal, state, provincial, territorial or local governmental agency, (D) Laws relating to the interference with or obstruction of any investigations into any criminal offenses described in this clause (ii), or (E) criminal offenses under Laws relating to the unlawful manufacturing, distribution, prescription or dispensing of a controlled substance; or (iii) been involved or named in an unsealed U.S. Attorney complaint made or other action taken pursuant to the False Claims Act under 31 U.S.C. §§3729-3731 or unsealed qui tam action brought pursuant to 31 U.S.C. §3729 et seq..

 

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(d)          HIPAA Compliance. Each Credit Party, each of its Subsidiaries and, to the knowledge of the Credit Parties, each Supported Practice and Physician: (i) is in compliance with HIPAA and all similar state Laws and other applicable Law governing the privacy, security or confidentiality of medical and/or health information of patients (collectively, the "Privacy Laws") except to the extent that any noncompliance, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Each Credit Party, and each of their respective Subsidiaries has executed current and valid "Business Associate Agreements" (as described in 45 C.F.R. §§ 164.502(e) and 164.504(e)) with each (i) "covered entity" (as defined at 45 C.F.R. § 160.103) for whom the Credit Party, or its respective Subsidiary provides functions or activities that render that entity a "business associate" (as defined at 45 C.F.R. § 160.103)), and (ii) "subcontractor" (as defined at 45 C.F.R. § 160.103) of the Credit Party or their respective Subsidiary that is a business associate (pursuant to paragraph (3)(iii) of the definition of "business associate" at 45 C.F.R. § 160.103), except to the extent that any noncompliance, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Credit Parties, neither the Credit Parties nor any of their Subsidiaries have breached in any material respect any such Business Associate Agreement and, to the Credit Parties' knowledge, no covered entity or subcontractor has breached in any material respect any such Business Associate Agreement with the Credit Parties or any of their respective Subsidiaries. There have been no material complaints to or investigations by the Office for Civil Rights or any other Governmental Authority with respect to a Credit Party's, Subsidiary's, or to the knowledge of the Credit Parties, a Supported Practice’s or Physician’s compliance with Privacy Laws during the past three (3) years. No Credit Parties or Subsidiaries, and no subcontractor, or, to the knowledge of the Credit Parties, no Supported Practice or Physician has experienced any reportable (i) material breach of security, as defined by the Privacy Laws, with respect to medical or health information of patients, (ii) Breach of Unsecured Protected Health Information as "Breach," "Unsecured Protected Health Information" and "Protected Health Information" are defined by HIPAA, or (iii) Security Incident as "Security Incident" is defined by HIPAA, which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Credit Parties and their respective Subsidiaries, and to the knowledge of the Credit Parties, the Supported Practices and each Physician have identified, documented, and addressed Security Incidents that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(e)          Corporate Integrity Agreement. No Credit Party nor any of their respective Subsidiaries, any Physician, any owner, officer, director, partner, agent or managing employee of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, is a party to or bound by any individual integrity agreement, corporate integrity agreement, corporate compliance agreement, deferred prosecution agreement, or other formal or informal agreement with any Government Authority concerning compliance with any Healthcare Laws. No Supported Practice nor, any Physician, officer, agent, or employee of any Supported Practice, is a party to or bound by any individual integrity agreement, corporate integrity agreement, corporate compliance agreement, deferred prosecution agreement, or other formal or informal agreement with any Government Authority concerning compliance with Healthcare Laws.

 

(f)           No Violations. The Credit Parties and their respective Subsidiaries have not received any written notice from any Government Authority, regarding any actual or alleged violation of, any applicable Healthcare Law by any Credit Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries, except with respect to violations or alleged violations that, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Credit Parties, no Supported Practice or any Physician of any Supported Practice, has received any written notice from any Government Authority, regarding any actual or alleged violation of, any applicable Healthcare Law by any Supported Practice or any of its Physicians, in each case, except with respect to violations or alleged violations that, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(g)          Third-Party Payors. Each Credit Party and its respective Subsidiaries meet all of the applicable requirements of participation in, and payment from Third-Party Payor program in which it participates except with respect to requirements which if not met, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There is no audit, claim review, or other action, application or proceeding pending or threatened in writing which would reasonably be expected to result in the imposition of penalties on or exclusion of any Credit Party or Subsidiary from any Third-Party Payor program, or which could limit, restrict or delay any Credit Party's or Subsidiary's right to receive payment from each Third-Party Payor, in each case, except as, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. All Supported Practices meet the applicable requirements of participation in, and payment from Third-Party Payor Arrangements in which it participates except with respect to requirements which if not met, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There is no audit, claim review, or other action, application or proceeding pending which would reasonably be expected to result in the exclusion of any Supported Practice or Physician from any Third-Party Payor program in which it participates, or which could limit, restrict or delay any Supported Practice's right (on its own behalf, or on behalf of any Physician to receive payment from each Third-Party Payor program in which it participates, in each case, except as, individually or in the aggregate, (i) would not impact more than 10% in number of the operating locations of the Credit Parties and Supported Practices, (ii) would not impact more than 10% in number of the Physicians associated with the Credit Parties and Supported Practices and (iii) would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(h)          Healthcare Permits. (i) Each Credit Party, each respective Subsidiary and each Supported Practice, possesses and is operating in material compliance with all Healthcare Permits issued by, and has made all declarations and filings with, all Government Authorities necessary to conduct its business; (ii) all such Healthcare Permits are valid and in full force and effect; (iii) all applications, notifications, submissions, information, claims, reports and statistics, and other data and conclusions derived therefrom, utilized as the basis for or submitted in connection with any and all requests for a Healthcare Permit, when submitted to the Governmental Authority were true, complete and correct in all material respects as of the date of submission and any necessary or required updates, changes, corrections or modifications to such applications, submissions, information and data have been submitted to the Governmental Authority within the Ordinary Course of Business; and (iv) there is no Government Authority action, application or proceeding pending which would reasonably be expected to limit, revoke, suspend or materially modify any material Healthcare Permit, or which would reasonably be expected to result in the delay or denial of payment from any Third-Party Payor, in each case, except as, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(i)           Audits. To each Credit Party, each respective Subsidiary and each Supported Practice’s knowledge, as of the Closing Date, there are no current, pending, or outstanding Third-Party Payor reimbursement audits, appeals or recoupment efforts pending against any Credit Party, respective Subsidiary or Supported Practice, other than audits and claim reviews conducted in the Ordinary Course of Business or that would otherwise be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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7.10.         Disclosure. As of the Closing Date, each of the Schedules attached to this Agreement set forth a true, correct and complete description in all material respects of the matter or matters covered thereby. No report, financial statement, certificate or other information (other than projected financial information) furnished in writing by or on behalf of any Credit Party to Agent or any Lender in connection with the Transactions contemplated hereby and the negotiation of this Agreement or delivered hereunder (as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished) contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that, with respect to any projected financial information, the Credit Parties represent only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time. Such projections represent the Credit Parties' best estimate of the Credit Parties' future financial performance and such assumptions are believed by the Credit Parties to be fair and reasonable in light of current business conditions.

 

7.11.         Security Interest. Pursuant to Section 6.1 and subject to the provisions thereof, each Credit Party has granted to Agent, for its benefit and the benefit of Lenders, a valid, perfected, first-priority security interest in the Collateral subject to no other liens, claims or encumbrances, other than Permitted Encumbrances. Nothing herein shall constitute an agreement to subordinate such security interest to any Permitted Encumbrance.

 

7.12.         Taxes. All federal, state, provincial, territorial and other material Tax returns and reports of the Credit Parties required to be filed by any of them have been timely filed, and all Taxes shown on such Tax returns to be due and payable and all other material Taxes imposed upon the Credit Parties and upon their respective properties, assets, income, businesses and franchises which are due and payable have been paid when due, except those wherein the amount, applicability or validity are being contested by appropriate proceedings being diligently conducted in good faith (which effectively stay or delay the enforcement of any Liens relating to such amounts) and in respect of which adequate reserves in accordance with IFRS have been established. Borrowers know of no proposed Tax assessment against any Credit Party which is not being actively contested by such Credit Party in good faith and by appropriate proceedings.

 

7.13.         Margin Stock. No Credit Party is engaged principally, or as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock. No portion of the Obligations is secured directly or indirectly by Margin Stock.

 

7.14.         Canadian Pension Plans. No Credit Party maintains, contributes, sponsors or has any liability with respect to any Canadian Pension Plan or Canadian Defined Benefit Plan.

 

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SECTION 8.

 

Affirmative Covenants

 

On the Closing Date and at all times thereafter until and including the Termination Date:

 

8.1.           Maintenance of Financial Records; Inspections. Each Credit Party agrees to maintain proper books of record and account in accordance with IFRS in which full, true and correct entries shall be made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities. Each Credit Party agrees that Agent and any Lender (but at such Lender's expense unless such visit or inspection is made concurrently with Agent) may enter upon any Credit Party's premises upon reasonable notice to the Borrower Representative, in order to (i) examine and inspect the books and records of any Credit Party, and make copies thereof and take extracts therefrom, and (ii) verify and inspect and perform valuations of the Collateral and any and all records pertaining thereto; provided that Agent shall not exercise such rights more often than one (1) time during any calendar year; provided, further, that the foregoing limitation shall not apply to the exercise by Agent of such rights during the continuation of an Event of Default. All reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs, fees and expenses incurred by Agent in connection with such permitted examinations, inspections, physical counts and other valuations shall constitute Out-of-Pocket Expenses for purposes of this Agreement. The Credit Parties irrevocably authorize all accountants, after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, to discuss the financial statements generated by them regarding the Credit Parties or the Collateral.

 

8.2.           Further Assurances. Each Credit Party agrees to take such actions as are necessary or appropriate, or as otherwise requested by Agent, in order to grant to and maintain in favor of Agent, for the benefit of Lenders, valid and perfected first priority security interests in the Collateral (including all Equity Interests of each Subsidiary of Parent), subject only to the Permitted Encumbrances. Agent is hereby authorized by the Credit Parties to file any financing statements, continuations and amendments covering the Collateral in accordance with the provisions of the UCC and the PPSA, as applicable. The Credit Parties hereby consent to and ratify the filing of any financing statements covering the Collateral by Agent on or prior to the Closing Date. The Credit Parties agree to do whatever Agent reasonably may request from time to time, by way of (i) filing notices of Liens, financing statements, amendments, renewals and continuations thereof, (ii) delivering Pledge Agreements with respect to any Equity Interests owned by any Credit Party, (iii) executing and delivering any deed of hypothec with respect to any Credit Party or Collateral which may be located from time to time in the Province of Quebec, and (iv) performing such further acts as Agent reasonably may require in its Permitted Discretion in order to effect the purposes of this Agreement, including the execution of control agreements with respect to Deposit Accounts (other than Excluded Accounts) and Investment Property.

 

8.3.           Insurance and Condemnation.

 

(a)          Required Insurance. The Credit Parties agree to maintain with insurance companies reasonably acceptable to Agent and that the Credit Parties believe (in the good faith judgment of their management) are financially sound and reputable at the time the relevant coverage is placed or renewed, insurance with respect to the Properties and business of the Credit Parties against loss or damage of the kinds customarily insured against by Persons engaged in the same or similar business and owning similar properties in localities where the applicable Credit Party operates, of such types and in such amounts (after giving effect to any self-insurance reasonable and customary for similarly situation Persons engaged in the same or similar businesses) as are customarily carried under similar circumstances by such other Persons (the "Required Insurance"). All policies relating to Required Insurance (other than business interruption insurance, director and officer insurance, key person insurance and worker's compensation insurance) shall as appropriate name Agent as an "additional insured" or "lender's loss payee," as applicable, thereunder as its interests may appear, and in the case of each casualty insurance policy, shall contain a lenders loss payable clause and endorsement that names Agent, on behalf of Lenders, as lender's loss payee thereunder, together with an endorsement to such policy or policies confirming same. Each lender's loss payable endorsement in favor of Agent shall provide (x) for not less than thirty (30) days (or ten (10) days in the case of nonpayment of premiums) prior written notice to Agent of the exercise of any right of cancellation and (y) that Agent's right to payment under any property insurance policy will not be invalidated by any act or neglect of, or any breach of warranty or condition by, the Credit Parties (or any of them) or any other Person.

 

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(b)            Agent's Purchase of Insurance. In the event the Credit Parties fail to provide Agent with evidence of the Required Insurance in the manner set forth in Section 8.3(a) above, Agent may purchase insurance at the Credit Parties' expense to protect Agent's interests in the Collateral. The insurance purchased by Agent may, but need not, protect the Credit Parties' interests in the Collateral, and therefor such insurance may not pay any claim that the Credit Parties may make or any claim that is made against the Credit Parties in connection with the Collateral. The Credit Parties may later request that Agent cancel any insurance purchased by Agent, but only after providing Agent with satisfactory evidence that the Credit Parties have the Required Insurance. If Agent purchases insurance covering all or any portion of the Collateral, the Credit Parties shall be responsible for the costs of such insurance, including interest (at the applicable rate set forth hereunder) and other charges accruing on the purchase price therefor, until the effective date of the cancellation or the expiration of the insurance. The costs of the premiums of any insurance purchased by Agent may exceed the costs of insurance that the Credit Parties may be able to purchase on their own. In the event that Agent purchases insurance, Agent will promptly notify the Credit Parties of such purchase. If, within thirty (30) days after the date of receipt of such notice, the Credit Parties provide Agent with proof that the Credit Parties had the Required Insurance as of the date on which Agent purchased insurance and the Credit Parties have continued at all times thereafter to have the Required Insurance, then Agent agrees to cancel the insurance purchased by Agent.

 

8.4.           Payment of Taxes. The Credit Parties shall pay when due all federal, state, provincial or territorial income Taxes and all other material Taxes lawfully levied, assessed or imposed upon the Credit Parties or the Collateral (including all sales Taxes collected by the Credit Parties on behalf of the Credit Parties' customers in connection with sales of Inventory and all payroll Taxes collected by the Credit Parties on behalf of the Credit Parties' employees), unless the Taxes are the subject of a Permitted Contest. Each Credit Party shall timely and duly filed all its federal Tax returns and all other material Tax returns and all such Tax returns shall be true, correct, and complete. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a Lien securing any Taxes is filed in any public office, then the Credit Parties shall promptly pay all Taxes secured by such Lien and remove such Lien of record. Pending the payment of such Taxes and removal of such Lien, Agent may, at its election and without curing or waiving any Event of Default which may have occurred as a result thereof, (i) establish a reserve in the amount of such Taxes (or such other amount as Agent shall deem appropriate in the exercise of its reasonable business judgment) or (ii) pay such Taxes on behalf of the Credit Parties, and the amount paid by Agent shall become an Obligation which is due and payable on demand by Agent.

 

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8.5.           Tax Returns and Reports. At Agent's request from time to time, the Credit Parties shall promptly furnish Agent with copies of the annual federal, state, provincial or territorial income Tax returns of the Credit Parties.

 

8.6.           Notices Concerning Environmental, Employee Benefit, Pension Matters and Healthcare Matters. Each Credit Party agrees to notify Agent in writing of:

 

(a)            any expenditure (actual or anticipated) by any Credit Party or Supported Practice in excess of $500,000 for environmental clean-up, environmental compliance or environmental testing and the impact of said expenses on any working capital;

 

(b)            any receipt of notice from any local, state, provincial, territorial or federal authority advising such Credit Party or any Supported Practice of any environmental liability (real or potential) arising from such Credit Party's or Supported Practice's operations, its premises, its waste disposal practices or waste disposal sites used by such Credit Party or Supported Practice;

 

(c)            any Credit Party's or Supported Practice's receipt of notice from any Government Authority or any sponsor of any "multiemployer plan" (as that term is defined in ERISA) to which such Credit Party has contributed, relating to any of the events described in Section 11.1(j) hereof;

 

(d)            any Credit Party's or Supported Practice's receipt of notice from any Government Authority of any investigation or audit, or pending or threatened proceedings relating to, any material violation by any Credit Party or Supported Practice of any Healthcare Law;

 

(e)            any Credit Party's or Supported Practice's receipt of written notice from any Third-Party Payor that such Credit Party or Supported Practice or any of their employees or contractors has been excluded from participation in a Third-Party Payor program or is under audit, claim review or other action that would reasonably be expected to result in the imposition of material penalties or exclusion in a Third-Party Payor program or could limit, restrict or delay the Credit Party's or Supported Practice's right to receive payment from a Third- Party Payor in any material respect;

 

(f)             any Credit Party's or Supported Practice's receipt of written notice or entering into any agreement that would result in a material reduction in the reimbursement rates paid to such Credit Party or Supported Practice by any Third-Party Payor;

 

(g)            any Credit Party's or Supported Practice's receipt of notice from any Government Authority threatening to limit, revoke, suspend or materially modify any material Healthcare Permit held by a Credit Party or Supported Practice which would be reasonably likely to result in a material delay in payment, or a denial in payment of any material amount, by any Third-Party Payor;

 

(h)            any of the events described in Section 7.9(c) occur with respect to any Credit Party, its respective Subsidiaries, or a Supported Practice or any Physician;

 

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(i)             any Credit Party, Subsidiary or Supported Practice experiences any (i) reportable breach of security, as defined by the Privacy Laws, with respect to medical or health information of patients, which has or would be reasonably likely to have, a material impact on the Credit Parties, their respective Subsidiaries, or the Supported Practice, (ii) reportable and material Breach of Unsecured Protected Health Information as "Breach," "Unsecured Protected Health Information" and "Protected Health Information" are defined by HIPAA, or (iii) a Security Incident as "Security Incident" is defined by HIPAA, which materially impacts, or is reasonably likely to have a material impact on, the security or integrity of the Credit Parties, their respective Subsidiaries, the Supported Practices, or other covered entity data;

 

(j)             a Credit Party, Subsidiary or Supported Practice becomes a party to or becomes bound by (i) any individual integrity agreement, corporate integrity agreement, corporate compliance agreement, deferred prosecution agreement with any Government Authority resulting from non-compliance with any Laws, or (ii) any other formal or informal agreement with any Government Authority concerning material non-compliance with any Healthcare Laws;

 

(k)            a Credit Party's or Subsidiary's receipt of written notice of any material breach or default of any Material Contract of such Person;

 

(l)             promptly upon any Credit Party becoming aware of the existence of any condition or event which constitutes a Default or Event of Default under any of the Loan Documents, together with a description of the nature and period of existence thereto and what actions such Credit Party is taking (and proposes to take) with respect thereto;

 

(m)           any written notice of default given to any Credit Party or Supported Practice by any creditor in respect of Indebtedness in excess of $500,000; and

 

(n)            any Proceeding that is reasonably expected to result in a loss to the Credit Parties of at least $100,000 or that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

Each of Parent and each Borrower agrees to provide Agent promptly (and in any event within five (5) Business Days, or within such other timeframe specifically provided above, as applicable) with copies of all such notices and other information pertaining to any matter set forth above if Agent reasonably so requests.

 

8.7.           Compliance with Laws. Each Credit Party will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries and Supported Practices to, comply with all applicable Requirements of Law, except where the failure to comply could not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

8.8.           Financial Reporting. Parent and Borrowers agree to furnish to Agent and Lenders:

 

(a)            as soon as available but in any event within ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal year of Parent, deliver financial statements of Parent and its Subsidiaries for such year which present fairly Parent's and its Subsidiaries' consolidated financial condition including the balance sheet of Parent and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year and a statement of cash flows and income statement for such fiscal year, all on a consolidated basis, setting forth in the consolidated statements in comparative form, the corresponding figures as at the end of and for the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail, including all supporting schedules, and audited and accompanied by a report and opinion of independent public accountants of recognized standing and satisfactory to Agent, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and shall not be subject to any "going concern" or like qualification or exception or any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit;

 

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(b)            as soon as available but in any event within thirty (30) days after the end of each fiscal quarter, deliver to Agent Parent's internally prepared quarterly consolidated and consolidating financial statements, along with year-to-date information, including a balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows with respect to the periods measured;

 

(c)            contemporaneously with the delivery of the annual and quarterly financial statements referred to in clauses (a) and (b) above, a Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit F attached hereto, signed by an Authorized Person of Borrower Representative. Contemporaneously with the delivery of each such Compliance Certificate, Borrowers will provide Agent with copies of (x) each Material Contract entered into since the delivery of the previous Compliance Certificate, and (y) each material amendment or modification of any Material Contract entered into since the delivery of the previous Compliance Certificate;

 

(d)            as soon as available but in any event within thirty (30) days after the end of each month, deliver to Agent Parent's internally prepared monthly consolidated and consolidating financial statements, along with year-to-date information, including a balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows with respect to the periods measured;

 

(e)            as and when filed by any Credit Party, copies of all (x) financial reports, registration statements and other documents filed by such Credit Party with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Canadian Securities Administrators, or similar agency or Governmental Authority, as and when filed by such Credit Party, provided that such filings shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date on which a Credit Party notifies the Agent of filing such documents on EDGAR and/or SEDAR, and (ii) annual reports filed pursuant to ERISA in connection with each benefit plan of any Credit Party subject to ERISA;

 

(f)             not more than five (5) Business Days after the completion of each meeting of the board of directors of Parent, copies of all materials prepared for such meeting or delivered to the members of such board of directors at such meeting, excluding materials Parent determines are subject to attorney-client privilege or materials which are likely to present a conflict of interest for Agent or Lender or materials that include highly sensitive proprietary information;

 

(g)            not more than forty-five (45) days after the beginning of each fiscal year, annual consolidated and consolidating projections for Parent and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year, including a balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flow projections, all prepared on a monthly basis;

 

(h)            contemporaneously with delivery of the financial statements referred to in clauses (a), (b) and (d) above, a schedule of the Credit Parties' and Supported Practices revenues by payor class for the applicable period;

 

(i)             contemporaneously with delivery of the financial statements referred to in clauses (a), (b), and (d) above, a customary management discussion and analysis of Parent's and its Subsidiaries' operating results for the applicable period, together with a report of key performance indicators prepared by management of the Credit Parties; and

 

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(j)             such other data, reports, statements and information (financial or otherwise), as Agent or any Lender through Agent may reasonably request.

 

8.9.           Material Adverse Developments. Parent and each Credit Party agrees that immediately upon any Senior Officer becoming aware of any development or other information which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, it shall promptly (and in any event within five (5) Business Days after such awareness provide Agent notice specifying the nature of such development or information and such anticipated effect. In addition, such verbal communication shall be confirmed by written notice thereof to Agent on the next Business Day after such verbal notice is given.

 

8.10.        Business Qualification. Each Credit Party agrees to qualify to do business, and to remain qualified to do business and in good standing, in each jurisdiction where the failure to so qualify, or to remain qualified or in good standing, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

8.11.         Hazardous Materials; Remediation.

 

(a)            Each Credit Party shall comply in all material respects with each Environmental Law requiring the performance at any real property by any Credit Party of activities in response to the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Material.

 

(b)            The Credit Parties will provide Agent (within thirty (30) days after written demand therefor) with a bond, letter of credit or similar financial assurance evidencing to the reasonable satisfaction of Agent that sufficient funds are available to pay the cost of compliance with clause (a) above, such demand to be made, if at all, solely upon Agent's reasonable business determination that the failure to comply with clause (a) above could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

8.12.         Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of Term A Loan shall be used by the Credit Parties solely for working capital, general corporate and any other lawful purpose permitted by this Agreement, including Permitted Investments, MSO Acquisitions, Practice Location Openings and payment of fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with the Transactions. The proceeds of the Delayed Draw Term Loans shall be used by the Credit Parties solely to finance Permitted Acquisitions, MSO Acquisitions, Practice Location Openings and payment of fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection therewith.

 

8.13.         Fundamental Changes. Each Credit Party shall give not less than thirty (30) days prior written notice to Agent of any changes in (a) its jurisdiction of organization, (b) in the location of any of its chief executive office, registered office or the location of any Collateral of such Credit Party or (c) its name.

 

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8.14.         Proceeds under Representations and Warranties Insurance; Purchase Price Adjustments. All purchase price adjustments, payments under representation and warranty insurance, or other similar payments in favor of any Credit Party or any direct or indirect equity investor in any Credit Party in connection with the any Permitted Acquisition or MSO Acquisition, in each case paid to Parent or any direct or indirect equity investor in any Credit Party (other than any Credit Party) shall be contributed or distributed to Company.

 

8.15.         Joinder of New Credit Parties. Each Credit Party shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to become, at Agent's option, either a Borrower or a Guarantor hereunder. In furtherance of the foregoing, within 30 days after the acquisition or formation of any such Subsidiary, such Subsidiary shall execute and deliver to Agent (i) a Joinder adding such Subsidiary as a Borrower or Guarantor, (ii) financing statements, stock/membership certificates (to the extent certificated) and other documents reasonably required by Agent, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent and substantially in form and substance as those equivalent documents previously delivered hereunder, pursuant to which such Subsidiary shall secure its obligations under this Agreement by a first priority, perfected security interest in all Collateral of such Subsidiary, (iii) a good standing certificate from the state in which such Subsidiary is incorporated, organized or formed, and any and all states in which such Subsidiary is authorized to do business and where the failure to be so qualified could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (iv) a certificate executed by the Secretary or other officer of such Subsidiary (or its member) in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Agent and substantially in form and substance as those equivalent documents previously delivered hereunder, and (v) solely with respect to a new Subsidiary that will constitute a Material Subsidiary, an opinion covering such Subsidiary in substance consistent with those opinions as previously delivered hereunder. The parent of any new Subsidiary shall deliver a new Pledge Agreement or a supplement to an existing Pledge Agreement, and take such other actions as are reasonably necessary or desirable to grant and perfect a Lien on the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary. In the event that any Equity Interests of such Subsidiary is certificated, the parent of such new Subsidiary shall deliver to Agent such certificates representing all owned interests in such Subsidiary with attached transfer powers executed in blank.

 

8.16.         Statutory Divisions. Notwithstanding anything herein or any other Loan Document to the contrary, no Credit Party that is a limited liability company may statutorily divide itself into two or more limited liability companies (pursuant to a statutory "plan of division" as contemplated under Section 18-217 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act or otherwise) without the prior written consent of Agent, and in the event that any Credit Party that is a limited liability company statutorily divides itself into two or more limited liability companies (with or without the prior consent of the Agent as required above), any limited liability companies formed as a result of such statutory division shall be required to comply with the obligations set forth in Section 8.15 (without giving effect to any grace periods for the completion of such actions) and the other further assurances obligations set forth in this Agreement and become a Borrower or Guarantor (as reasonably required by Agent in consultation with Borrower Representative) under this Agreement.

 

8.17.         Protection of Intellectual Property. Each Credit Party shall (a) protect, defend and maintain the validity and enforceability of any Intellectual Property material to the conduct of its business and (b) not allow any Intellectual Property material to such Credit Party's business to be abandoned, forfeited or dedicated to the public without Agent's prior written consent. Each Credit Party shall at all times conduct its business without knowingly infringing, misappropriating, diluting, violating, or otherwise impairing the Intellectual Property of any other Person in any material respect. Each Credit Party shall remain liable under each of its Intellectual Property licenses pursuant to which it is a licensee that are material to such Credit Party's business, and shall observe and perform, in all material respects, all of the conditions and obligations to be observed and performed by it thereunder. None of Agent or any Lender shall have any obligation or liability under any such license by reason of or arising out of any Loan Document, the granting of a Lien, if any, in such license or the receipt by Agent (on behalf of itself and Lenders) of any payment relating to any such license.

 

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8.18.         Collateral Access Agreements. Subject to any applicable time periods provided under Section 4.3, unless otherwise agreed to by Agent in writing, Parent and Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain and deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement with respect to any real Property (other than real Property owned by such Credit Party)  that is Parent or Company's principal place of business, where such Credit Party's books or records are maintained.

 

8.19.         Disclosure Updates. Each Credit Party will, promptly and in no event later than five (5) Business Days after a Senior Officer obtains knowledge thereof, notify Agent if any written information, exhibit, or report furnished to Agent or any Lender pursuant to this Agreement contained, at the time it was furnished, any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary to make the statements contained therein not misleading in light of the circumstances in which made. The foregoing to the contrary notwithstanding, any notification pursuant to the foregoing provision will not cure or remedy the effect of the prior untrue statement of a material fact or omission of any material fact nor shall any such notification have the effect of amending or modifying this Agreement or any of the Schedules hereto.

 

8.20.         Compliance with Administrative Services Documents.

 

(a)            Each applicable Credit Party (other than the Parent) shall at all times (i) perform and observe all of the material covenants under the Administrative Services Documents to which it is a party, (ii) take reasonable actions to enforce all of its rights thereunder, and (iii) maintain the Administrative Services Documents to which it or any of its Subsidiaries is a party in full force and effect in accordance with its terms.

 

(b)            Each applicable Credit Party (other than the Parent) may enter into Administrative Services Documents so long as (i) the applicable Administrative Services Documents shall be in form substantially similar to those in effect on the Closing Date other than with respect to any modifications required by Law, or otherwise in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Agent, (ii) such Credit Party's right, title and interest therein is collaterally assigned to the Agent within thirty (30) days after the effective date thereof and (iii) the Equity Interests of the applicable Supported Practice shall be subject to an effective Equity Transfer Restriction Agreement.

 

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SECTION 9.

 

Financial Covenants

 

Until and including the Termination Date, Borrowers agree, with respect to Parent and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis:

 

9.1.           Pro Forma Consolidated Revenues. Commencing on March 31, 2021, and as of the last day of each fiscal quarter thereafter, to maintain Pro Forma Consolidated Revenues for each such fiscal quarter of not less than 80% of the Projected Revenues for such fiscal quarter.

 

9.2.           Minimum Qualified Cash. Commencing March 31, 2021, and as of the last day of each fiscal quarter thereafter, maintain Qualified Cash, calculated as the daily average of Qualified Cash for the 30 days ended on such date, of not less than $3,500,000.

 

SECTION 10.

 

Negative Covenants

 

On the Closing Date and at all times thereafter until and including the Termination Date, each of Parent and each other Credit Party agrees not to (and not to permit its Subsidiaries to):

 

10.1.         Liens and Encumbrances. Mortgage, collaterally assign, pledge or otherwise permit any Lien to exist on any of the Collateral or its other assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, except for the Permitted Encumbrances.

 

10.2.         Indebtedness. Incur or create any Indebtedness other than the Permitted Indebtedness.

 

10.3.         Sale of Assets. Sell, lease, assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any assets, except for Permitted Dispositions.

 

10.4.         Corporate Change. (a) Merge, amalgamate or consolidate with any other entity, (b) change its name or principal places of business, or (c) change its structure or organizational form, or reincorporate or reorganize in a new jurisdiction; provided that (i) any Credit Party (other than Parent) may merge, amalgamate or consolidate with any other Credit Party (other than Parent), so long as, if a Borrower is a party to any merger, amalgamation or consolidation, a Borrower is the survivor of such merger, amalgamation or consolidation, (ii) any Credit Party may change its name, its principal place of business, its jurisdiction of organization, its chief executive office, its registered office or the location of any of its Collateral so long as such Credit Party provides Agent with not less than thirty (30) days' prior written notice thereof as set forth in Section 14.7 and executes and delivers to Agent, prior to making such change, all documents and agreements reasonably requested by Agent.

 

10.5.         [Reserved].

 

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10.6.         Restricted Payments. Declare, order, pay, make, or set apart any sum for any, Restricted Payment; provided that the foregoing shall not restrict or prohibit dividends or distributions or other Restricted Payments, directly or indirectly:

 

(a)            by any Subsidiary of any Credit Party to such Credit Party (other than Parent) at any time and in any amount;

 

(b)            that constitute reimbursement for reasonable operating expenses (i.e., administrative and corporate maintenance, exchange fees, etc.) of Parent for actions permitted by the terms and provisions of Section 10.15 hereof; provided that (x) at any time an Event of Default under Section 11.1(a) has occurred and is continuing, such payments shall be prohibited until such time as such Event of Default is cured and Agent authorizes in writing any such payments and (y) such payments shall not exceed $500,000 in the aggregate in any fiscal year; and

 

(c)            that constitute conversion by Parent of its convertible Equity Interests (including warrants) into other Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) issued by Parent pursuant to the terms of such convertible securities or otherwise in exchange thereof or conversion of subordinated debt issued by Parent into Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) issued by Parent pursuant to the terms of such Subordinated Debt and to the extent permitted under the terms of the applicable subordination or intercreditor agreement;

 

(d)            that are solely in the form of common Equity Interests of the Issuer;

 

(e)            that are cash payments in lieu of fractional shares;

 

(f)             that are repurchases by Parent of Equity Interests issued by Parent pursuant to stock option, award and other compensation arrangements and which are approved by Parent's board of directors, not in excess of $500,000 each year;

 

(g)            that are distributions to minority equity owners of any Subsidiary of the Company in accordance with the Organization Documents of such Credit Party so long as any corresponding ratable distribution required to be paid to a Credit Party is made concurrently; or

 

(h)            that constitute payments in respect of the Achieve TMS Earn-Out, solely to the extent such payments are permitted to be made under any applicable Subordination Agreement or other applicable subordination provisions, and so long as, (x) no Default or Event of Default exists or would result from the payment thereof, and (y) after giving effect to such payment, Qualified Cash shall not be less than $6,000,000.

 

10.7.         Investments. (i) Create any new Subsidiary unless it joins this Agreement pursuant to Section 8.15, or (ii) make any advance or loan to, or any Investment in, any Person other than Permitted Investments, or (iii) acquire all or substantially all of the assets of, or any capital stock or any Equity Interests in, any Person, other than Permitted Investments.

 

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10.8.         Related Party Transactions. Enter into any transaction, including any purchase, sale, lease, loan or exchange of Property, with any shareholder, officer, director, or Affiliate of any Credit Party (except another Borrower or another Credit Party), other than: (a) to the extent otherwise specifically permitted by the terms and provisions of this Agreement, (b) those transactions described on Schedule 10.8, (c) such transaction otherwise complies with the provisions of this Agreement, and (d) so long as (i) such transaction is for the sale of goods or services rendered in the Ordinary Course of Business and pursuant to the reasonable requirements of the Credit Parties, as the case may be, and upon fair and reasonable terms, no less favorable to such Person than such Person could obtain in a comparable arms-length transaction with an unrelated third party (as reasonably determined by the Credit Parties), and (ii) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and remain outstanding at the time such transaction occurs, or would occur immediately after giving effect to such transaction and (e) reasonable and customary director, officer and employee compensation and other customary benefits including retirement, health, stock option and other benefit plans and indemnification arrangements approved by Parent's board of directors.

 

10.9.         Business Conducted. Engage in any line of business substantially different from those lines of business conducted by the Credit Parties on the Closing Date or any business reasonably related, complementary, corollary, synergistic or ancillary thereto or reasonable extensions thereof.

 

10.10.       Prohibited Uses of Proceeds. Use the proceeds of any Loan made under this Agreement, directly or indirectly, in violation of any applicable Law or regulation, including Regulation U or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as from time to time in effect (and any successor regulation or official interpretation of such Board), or to purchase or carry any Margin Stock.

 

10.11.       Compliance with Anti-Terrorism Laws, Sanctions. Agent and Lenders hereby notify Parent and Borrowers that pursuant to the requirements of Anti-Terrorism Laws, and Agent's policies and practices, Agent and Lenders are required to obtain, verify and record certain information and documentation that identifies the Credit Parties and their principals, which information includes the name and address of each Credit Party and its principals and such other information that will allow Agent and Lenders to identify such party in accordance with Anti-Terrorism Laws. No Credit Party will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, knowingly enter into any dealing or transaction (i) with any Blocked Person or any Person listed on the OFAC Lists, (ii) with any Person, or in any country or territory, that is, or whose government is, the subject of Sanctions, (iii) in any other manner that would result in a violation of Sanctions by any Person (including any Person participating in the Loans, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor, or otherwise), or (iv) directly or indirectly, in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of the FCPA, the Corruption of Foreign Public Official Act (Canada) (as amended) or any other applicable anti-corruption law. Each Credit Party shall immediately notify Agent and Lenders if such Credit Party has knowledge that any Credit Party or any of their respective Affiliates or agents acting or benefiting in any capacity in connection with the Transactions is or becomes a Blocked Person or (a) is convicted on, (b) pleads nolo contendere to, (c) is indicted on, or (d) is arraigned and held over on charges involving money laundering or predicate crimes to money laundering. No Credit Party will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, (i) conduct any business or engage in any transaction or dealing with any Blocked Person, including the making or receiving of any contribution of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of any Blocked Person, (ii) deal in, or otherwise engage in any transaction relating to, any property or interests in property blocked pursuant to Executive Order No. 13224, any similar executive order or other Anti-Terrorism Law, or (iii) engage in or conspire to engage in any transaction that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in Executive Order No. 13224 or other Anti-Terrorism Law.

 

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10.12.       Credit Parties' Statements. Furnish to Agent or any Lender any certificate or other document that contains any untrue statement of a material fact or that omits to state a material fact necessary to make such certificate or other document not materially misleading in light of the circumstances under which it was furnished.

 

10.13.       [Reserved].

 

10.14.       Payroll Accounts. Maintain a greater balance in any payroll account than is necessary to support such Credit Party's current payroll and payroll for one additional payroll cycle (bi-monthly or weekly as applicable).

 

10.15.       [Reserved].

 

10.16.       Amendments. Directly or indirectly, terminate, amend, modify, or change any of the terms or provisions of any (a) Material Contract except to the extent that such termination, amendment, modification, or change could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to be materially adverse to the interests of Agent or any Lender, (b) the Organizational Documents of any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries if the effect thereof, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to be materially adverse to the interests of Agent or any Lender or (c) agreement, instrument or other document relating to any Subordinated Debt, if such modification is prohibited by the applicable Subordination Agreement or subordination provisions.

 

10.17.       Inconsistent Agreements. Enter into any agreement containing any provision which would (a) be violated or breached by any borrowing by a Borrower hereunder or by the performance by any Credit Party of any of its Obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, (b) prohibit any Credit Party from granting to Agent and Lenders a Lien on any of its assets (other than (i) restrictions or conditions imposed by any agreement relating to Permitted Purchase Money Indebtedness permitted by this Agreement if such restrictions or conditions apply only to the property or assets securing such Permitted Purchase Money Indebtedness and (ii) customary provisions in leases and other contracts restricting the assignment thereof) or (c) create or permit to exist or become effective any encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any Credit Party to (i) pay dividends or make other distributions to any other Credit Party, or pay any Indebtedness owed to Parent or any Subsidiary of Parent, (ii) make loans or advances to any other Credit Party or (iii) transfer any of its assets or properties to any other Credit Party.

 

10.18.       Fiscal Year. Change its fiscal year (other than, with respect to any Subsidiary acquired after the Closing Date, to match the Parent's fiscal year).

 

10.19.       Canadian Pension Plans. None of the Credit Parties shall, without the consent of the Lenders, maintain, administer, contribute or have any liability in respect of any Canadian Defined Benefit Plan or acquire an interest in any Person if such Person sponsors, maintains, administers or contributes to, or has any liability in respect of any Canadian Defined Benefit Plan.

 

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SECTION 11.

 

Events of Default and Remedies

 

11.1.         Events of Default. Each of the following events shall constitute an "Event of Default" under this Agreement:

 

(a)            the failure of the Credit Parties to pay any (i) principal payable under this Agreement or any other Loan Document when the same shall be due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or at a date required for prepayment or by acceleration or otherwise, or (ii) interest, fees or other amount (other than principal) payable under this Agreement or any other Loan Document when the same shall be due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or at a date required for prepayment or by acceleration or otherwise, and the continuance of any such non-payment (in whole or in part) referred to under this clause (ii) for a period of one (1) Business Day;

 

(b)            if any representation, warranty or certification made or deemed made by any Credit Party to Agent or any Lender herein, in any other Loan Document, or in any document delivered in connection herewith or therewith shall be incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made or deemed made;

 

(c)            the breach or violation by any Credit Party of any covenant contained in Section 2.6, Section 4.3, Section 8.1, Section 8.2 Section 8.3, Section 8.4, Section 8.6, Section 8.8, Section 8.10, Section 8.12, Section 8.13, Section 8.15, Section 8.16, Section 8.20, Section 8.21, Section 9; or Section 10;

 

(d)            the breach or violation by any Credit Party of any covenant contained in this Agreement (other than those referred to in Sections 11.1(a) and (c) above), and the continuance of such breach or violation unremedied for a period of thirty (30) days;

 

(e)            the cessation of the business of any of the Credit Parties, or the calling of a meeting of the creditors of any Credit Party for purposes of compromising its debts and obligations;

 

(f)             any of the Loan Documents ceases to be valid, binding and enforceable in accordance with its terms;

 

(g)            the occurrence of any event of default (after giving effect to any applicable grace or cure period) under any instrument or agreement evidencing or governing (i) any Subordinated Debt, or (ii) other Indebtedness of the Credit Parties (or any of them) having a principal amount in excess of $1,000,000, in each case the result of which is to permit acceleration of the maturity of any such Indebtedness or require such Indebtedness to be repaid prior to its stated maturity;

 

(h)            the failure of any Credit Party to generally meet its debts as those debts mature;

 

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(i)             (i) the commencement by any Credit Party or Supported Practice of any bankruptcy, insolvency, arrangement, moratorium, reorganization, receivership, assignment for the benefit of creditors or similar proceedings under any federal, state, provincial or territorial law; or (ii) the commencement against any Credit Party or Supported Practice of any bankruptcy, insolvency, arrangement, moratorium, reorganization, receivership, assignment for the benefit of creditors or similar proceeding under any federal, state, provincial or territorial law by creditors of any of them, but only if such proceeding is not dismissed or vacated within sixty (60) days after commencement, or any of the actions or relief sought in any such proceeding shall occur or be authorized by such Credit Party or Supported Practice;

 

(j)             the occurrence of any ERISA Event that could reasonably be expected to give rise to a payment liability of any Credit Party in excess of $1,000,000;

 

(k)            a Canadian Pension Termination Event occurs or exists or a Lien arises in respect of a Canadian Pension Plan (save for contribution amounts not yet due) which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

 

(l)             the Credit Parties (or any of them) shall modify the terms or provisions of any agreement, instrument or other document relating to any Subordinated Debt, if such modification is prohibited by the applicable Subordination Agreement or applicable subordination provisions;

 

(m)           a Change of Control shall occur;

 

(n)            a final judgment for the payment of money in excess of $1,000,000 shall be rendered against the Credit Parties (or any one of them) (other than a judgment as to which a financially sound and reputable insurance company has acknowledged coverage of such claim in writing), and either (i) within thirty (30) days after the entry of such judgment, such judgment shall not have been discharged or stayed pending (or if stayed appeal, shall not have been discharged within thirty (30) days after the entry of a final order of affirmance on appeal), or (ii) enforcement proceedings shall be commenced by any holder of such judgment;

 

(o)            any Guarantor shall attempt to terminate its Guaranty Agreement or deny that such Guarantor has any liability thereunder, or any Guaranty Agreement shall be declared null and void and of no further force and effect; or

 

(p)            any Credit Party or Supported Practice shall be prohibited or otherwise restrained from conducting the business theretofore conducted by it in any manner that has had, or could reasonably be expected to have or result in, a Material Adverse Effect by virtue of any enforceable determination, ruling, decision, decree, ordinance or order of any court of competent jurisdiction, Government Authority or municipality having jurisdiction over such Credit Party or Supported Practice.

 

(q)            any Government Authority shall make a final non-appealable determination that one or more Administrative Services Documents pertaining to one or more Supported Practices is invalid or unenforceable (unless, within thirty (30) days after such determination, such invalid or unenforceable documents are replaced by Administrative Services Documents that comply with the provisions of Section 8.20) and such determination has had, or would reasonably be expected to have or result in, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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11.2.         Remedies with Respect to Outstanding Loans. Upon the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default, at the option of Agent or Required Lenders, all loans, advances and extensions of credit provided for in this Agreement thereafter shall be made in Agent's and Lenders' discretion, and, in any event, the obligation of Agent and Lenders to make additional Loans shall cease unless such Default is cured or such Event of Default is waived in accordance herewith. In addition, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, Agent may, at its option, and Agent shall, upon the request of Required Lenders, (a) declare all Obligations immediately due and payable, (b) charge Borrowers the Default Rate of Interest on all then outstanding or thereafter incurred Obligations in lieu of the interest provided for in Section 5.1 of this Agreement, and (c) immediately terminate Agent's and Lenders' Commitments upon notice to Borrowers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) Agent's and Lenders' respective Commitments automatically shall terminate without any declaration, notice or demand by Agent or Lenders upon the commencement of any proceeding described in clause (ii) of Section 11.1(i) and (y) Agent's and Lenders' obligations to Borrowers under this Agreement automatically shall terminate and all Obligations shall become due and payable immediately without any declaration, notice or demand by Agent or Lenders, upon the commencement of any proceeding described in clause (i) of Section 11.1(i) or the occurrence of an Event of Default described in clause (ii) of Section 11.1(i). The exercise of any option is not exclusive of any other option that may be exercised at any time by Agent or Lenders.

 

11.3.         Remedies with Respect to Collateral. Immediately after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, Agent may, at its option, and Agent shall, upon the request of Required Lenders, to the extent permitted by applicable Law: (a) remove from any premises where same may be located any and all books and records, computers, electronic media and software programs associated with any Collateral (including electronic records, contracts and signatures pertaining thereto), documents, instruments and files, and any receptacles or cabinets containing same, relating to the Accounts, and Agent may use, at Borrowers' expense, such of Borrowers' personnel, supplies or space at any Borrower's place of business or otherwise, as may be necessary to properly administer and control the Accounts or the handling of collections and realizations thereon; (b) bring suit, in the name of the Credit Parties (or any of them), Lenders or Agent on behalf of Lenders, and generally shall have all other rights respecting the Accounts, including the right to (i) accelerate or extend the time of payment, (ii) settle, compromise, release in whole or in part any amounts owing on any Accounts and (iii) issue credits in the name of the Credit Parties (or any of them) or Agent; (c) sell, assign and deliver the Collateral and any returned, reclaimed or repossessed merchandise, with or without advertisement, at public or private sale, for cash, on credit or otherwise, at Agent's sole option and discretion, and Agent, on behalf of Lenders, may bid or become a purchaser at any such sale (to the extent permitted by applicable Laws), free from any right of redemption, which right is hereby expressly waived by the Credit Parties; (d) foreclose Agent's security interests in the Collateral by any available judicial procedure, or take possession of any or all of the Collateral without judicial process, and enter any premises where any Collateral may be located for the purpose of taking possession of or removing the same; and (e) exercise any other rights and remedies provided at law, in equity, by contract or otherwise. Agent shall have the right, without notice or advertisement but subject to applicable Law, to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the Collateral whether in its then condition or after further preparation or processing, in the name of the Credit Parties (or any of them) or Agent, on behalf of Lenders, or in the name of such other party as Agent may designate, either at public or private sale or at any broker's board, in lots or in bulk, for cash or for credit, with or without warranties or representations (including warranties of title, possession, quiet enjoyment and the like), and upon such other terms and conditions as Agent in its sole discretion may deem advisable, and Agent shall have the right to purchase at any such sale on behalf of Lenders (to the extent permitted by applicable Laws). If any Inventory and Equipment shall require rebuilding, repairing, maintenance or preparation, Agent shall have the right, at its option and subject to applicable Law, to do such of the aforesaid as is necessary, for the purpose of putting the Inventory and Equipment in such saleable form as Agent shall deem appropriate. The Credit Parties agree, at the request of Agent and subject to applicable Law, to assemble the Inventory and Equipment, and to make it available to Agent at premises of the Credit Parties or elsewhere and to make available to Agent the premises and facilities of the Credit Parties for the purpose of Agent's taking possession of, removing or putting the Inventory and Equipment in saleable form. If notice of intended disposition of any Collateral is required by Law, it is agreed that ten (10) days' notice shall constitute reasonable notification. The proceeds resulting from Agent's exercise of any of the foregoing rights shall be applied by Agent to the payment of the Obligations in the order set forth in Section 11.4 hereof, and the Credit Parties shall remain liable to Agent and Lenders for any deficiencies, and Agent, in turn, agrees to remit to the Credit Parties or their successors or assigns, any surplus resulting therefrom. The enumeration of the foregoing rights is not intended to be exhaustive and the exercise of any right shall not preclude the exercise of any other right of Agent or Lenders under applicable Law or the other Loan Documents, all of which shall be cumulative.

 

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11.4.         Application of Proceeds. Following the occurrence of an Application Event, Agent shall apply payments received in respect of the Obligations and the proceeds resulting from Agent's exercise of any of the foregoing rights to the payment of the Obligations in the following order: (a) first, to all unpaid Out-of-Pocket Expenses; (b) second, to all accrued and unpaid fees owed to Agent and Lenders; (c) third, to accrued and unpaid interest on the Obligations; (d) fourth, to the unpaid principal amount of the Obligations; (e) fifth, to any remaining unpaid Obligations; and (f) sixth, to Borrowers or whoever else may be lawfully entitled thereto.

 

11.5.         General Indemnity; Release.

 

(a)            In addition to the Credit Parties agreement to reimburse Agent for Out-of-Pocket Expenses, but without duplication, each of the Credit Parties hereby agrees, on behalf of itself and of its successors (including any receiver, trustee, interim receiver, monitor or similar officer acting on behalf of such Credit Party and any debtor-in-possession with respect to such Credit Party), to indemnify Agent and Lenders, and each of their respective Affiliates, officers, directors, employees, attorneys and agents and their respective successors, heirs and assigns (each, an "Indemnified Party") from, and to defend and hold each Indemnified Party harmless against, any and all actual and out-of-pocket: losses, liabilities, obligations, claims, actions, judgments, suits, damages, penalties, costs, fees, expenses (including reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees of one firm of counsel to Agent and one firm of counsel to all other Indemnified Parties, taken as a whole, and, if reasonably necessary, firm of local counsel to Agent and one firm of local counsel to all other Indemnified Parties, taken as a whole, in each material relevant jurisdiction, and solely in the case of an actual or perceived conflict of interest, where the Indemnified Party affected by such conflict inform Borrower Representative of such conflict and thereafter retains its own counsel, one additional firm of counsel in each relevant jurisdiction to each group of similarly situated affected Indemnified Parties) of any kind or nature which at any time may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against, any Indemnified Party asserting any claim for legal or equitable remedy under any statute, regulation or common law principle arising from or in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery, performance, administration and enforcement of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, the Obligations or any Collateral; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnified Party, be available to the extent that such losses, liabilities, obligations, claims, actions, judgments, suits, damages, penalties, costs, fees or expenses resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnified Party as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. All amounts due under this Section 11.5 shall be paid promptly (but in any event not later than thirty (30) days) after demand therefor (together with reasonably detailed backup documentation supporting such reimbursement request); provided further, however, that such Indemnified Party shall promptly refund such amount to the extent that there is a final non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction that such Indemnified Party was not entitled to indemnification rights with respect to such payment pursuant to the express terms of this Section 11.5. This indemnification shall survive the Termination Date.

 

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(b)            To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, in consideration of Agent and Lenders entering into this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which each Credit Party hereby acknowledges, each of the Credit Parties hereby agrees, on behalf of itself and of its successors (including any receiver, trustee, interim receiver, monitor or similar officer acting on behalf of such Credit Party and any debtor-in-possession with respect to such Credit Party) (collectively, the "Releasors"), hereby forever releases, discharges and acquits Agent and each Lender and each of their respective Affiliates, officers, directors, employees, attorneys and agents and their respective successors, heirs and assigns (collectively, the "Releasees") from any and all claims, demands, liabilities, responsibilities, disputes, causes, damages, actions and causes of actions (whether at law or in equity), indebtedness and obligations (collectively, "Claims") of every type, kind, nature, description or character, including any so-called "lender liability" claims or defenses, and irrespective of how, why or by reason of what facts, whether such Claims have heretofore arisen, are now existing or hereafter arise, or which could, might or be claimed to exist, of whatever kind or nature, whether known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, liquidated or unliquidated, matured or unmatured, fixed or contingent, each as though fully set forth herein at length, which may in any way arise out of, are connected with or in any way relate to actions or omissions which occurred on or prior to the date hereof with respect to this Agreement, the Obligations, any Collateral or any other Loan Document. This provision shall survive the Termination Date.

 

11.6.         Authority. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing, the Credit Parties hereby authorize Agent, or any Person or agent which Agent may designate, at the Credit Parties' cost and expense, to exercise all of the following powers, which authority shall be irrevocable until the Termination Date to: (a) receive, take, endorse, sign, assign and deliver, all in the name of Agent or the Credit Parties (or any of them), any and all checks, notes, drafts, and other documents or instruments relating to the Collateral; (b) receive, open and dispose of all mail addressed to the Credit Parties (or any of them), and to notify postal authorities to change the address for delivery thereof to such address as Agent may designate; (c) request from customers indebted on Accounts at any time, in the name of Agent, information concerning the amounts owing on the Accounts; (d) request from customers indebted on Accounts at any time, in the name of the Credit Parties (or any of them), any certified public accountant designated by Agent or any other designee of Agent, information concerning the amounts owing on the Accounts; (e) transmit to customers indebted on Accounts notice of Agent's interest therein and to notify customers indebted on Accounts to make payment directly to Agent for Borrowers' account; and/or (f) take or bring, in the name of Agent, Lenders, or the Credit Parties (or any of them), all steps, actions, suits or Proceedings deemed by Agent necessary or desirable to enforce or effect collection of the Accounts.

 

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SECTION 12.

 

Agency

 

12.1.         Appointment of Agent; Powers. Each Lender hereby irrevocably designates and appoints Oxford to act as Agent for such Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and irrevocably authorizes Oxford, as Agent for such Lender, to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to Agent by the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. In performing its functions under this Agreement, Agent is acting solely as an agent of Lenders, and Agent does not assume, and shall not be deemed to have assumed, an agency or other fiduciary relationship with the Credit Parties or any Lender. Agent shall not have any (a) duty, responsibility, obligation or liability to any Lender, except for those duties, responsibilities, obligations and liabilities expressly set forth in this Agreement, or (b) fiduciary relationship with any Lender, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, or otherwise exist against Agent.

 

For the purposes of holding any hypothec granted pursuant to the laws of the Province of Quebec to secure the prompt payment and performance of any and all Obligations by any Credit Party, each of the Lenders hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes Agent and, to the extent necessary, ratifies the appointment and authorization of Agent, to act as the hypothecary representative of the present and future creditors as contemplated under Article 2692 of the Civil Code of Quebec (in such capacity, the "Hypothecary Representative"), and to enter into, to take and to hold on behalf of the Lenders, and for their benefit, any hypothec, and to exercise such powers and duties that are conferred upon the Hypothecary Representative under any related deed of hypothec. The Hypothecary Representative shall: (i) have the sole and exclusive right and authority to exercise, except as may be otherwise specifically restricted by the terms hereof, all rights and remedies given to the Hypothecary Representative pursuant to any such deed of hypothec and applicable law, and (ii) benefit from and be subject to all provisions hereof with respect to Agent mutatis mutandis, including, without limitation, all such provisions with respect to the liability or responsibility to and indemnification by the Lenders and the Credit Parties. Any Person who becomes a Lender shall, by its execution of an Assignment and Transfer Agreement, be deemed to have consented to and confirmed the Hypothecary Representative as the Person acting as hypothecary representative holding the aforesaid hypothecs as aforesaid and to have ratified, as of the date it becomes a Lender, all actions taken by the Hypothecary Representative in such capacity. The substitution of Agent pursuant to the provisions of this Section 12 also constitutes the substitution of the Hypothecary Representative. Agent, acting as the Hypothecary Representative, shall have the same rights, powers, immunities, indemnities and exclusions from liability as are prescribed in favor of Agent in this Agreement, which shall apply mutatis mutandis to Agent acting as Hypothecary Representative.

 

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12.2.         Delegation of Agent's Duties. Agent may execute any of its duties under this Agreement and all ancillary documents by or through agents or attorneys, and shall be entitled to the advice of counsel concerning all matters pertaining to such duties.

 

12.3.         Disclaimer of Agent's Liabilities. Neither Agent nor any of its Affiliates, or its or its Affiliates' officers, directors, employees, agents, or attorneys shall be liable to any Lender for any action lawfully taken or not taken by Agent or such Person under or in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (except for Agent's or such Person's gross negligence or willful misconduct). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Agent shall not be liable to Lenders for (a) any recital, statement, representation or warranty made by the Credit Parties or any officer thereof contained in (i) this Agreement, (ii) any other Loan Document or (iii) any certificate, report, audit, statement or other document referred to or provided for in this Agreement or received by Agent under or in connection with this Agreement, (b) the value, validity, effectiveness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents or Agent's security interests in the Collateral, (c) any failure of the Credit Parties to perform their respective obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (d) any loss or depreciation in the value of, delay in collecting the Proceeds of, or failure to realize on, any Collateral, (e) Agent's delay in the collection of the Obligations or enforcing Agent's rights against the Credit Parties, or the granting of indulgences or extensions to the Credit Parties, or any account debtor of the Credit Parties, or (f) any mistake, omission or error in judgment in passing upon or accepting any Collateral. In addition, Agent shall have no duty or responsibility to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any of the terms, conditions, covenants or other agreements of the Credit Parties contained in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, or to inspect, verify, examine or audit the assets, books or records of the Credit Parties at any time.

 

12.4.         Reliance and Action by Agent. Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon legal counsel, independent public accountants and experts selected by Agent, and shall not be liable to Lenders for any action taken or not taken in good faith based upon the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts. In addition, Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any note, writing, resolution, notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, facsimile, statement, order or other document believed by Agent in good faith to be genuine and correct, and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person or Persons. Agent shall be fully justified in taking or refusing to take any action under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents unless Agent (a) receives the advice or consent of Lenders or Required Lenders, as the case may be, in a manner that Agent deems appropriate, or (b) is indemnified by Lenders to Agent's satisfaction against any and all liability, cost and expense which may be incurred by Agent by reason of taking or refusing to take any such action. Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents in accordance with a request of all Lenders or Required Lenders, as the case may be, and such request and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all Lenders.

 

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12.5.         Events of Default. Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default hereunder (other than a payment Event of Default under Section 11.1(a)) unless Agent has received written notice from the Credit Parties or a Lender describing such Default or Event of Default with specificity. In the event that Agent receives such a notice, Agent shall promptly give notice thereof to all Lenders. Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as shall be reasonably directed by Lenders or Required Lenders, as the case may be, provided that (a) if appropriate, Agent may require indemnification from Lenders under Section 12.7 prior to taking such action, (b) under no circumstances shall Agent have an obligation to take any action that Agent believes in good faith would violate any Law or any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, and (c) unless and until Agent shall have received direction from Lenders or Required Lenders, as the case may be, Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action or refrain from taking action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as Agent shall deem advisable and in the best interests of Lenders.

 

12.6.         Lenders' Due Diligence. Each Lender expressly acknowledges that neither Agent, nor any of its officers, directors, employees or agents, has made any representation or warranty to such Lender regarding the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the financial condition of the Credit Parties, and such Lender agrees that no action taken by Agent hereafter, including any review of the business or financial affairs of the Credit Parties, shall be deemed to constitute a representation or warranty by Agent to any Lender. Each Lender also acknowledges that such Lender has, independently and without reliance upon Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as such Lender has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis, appraisal of or investigation into the business, operations, property, financial condition and creditworthiness of the Credit Parties, and made its own decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender agrees, independently and without reliance upon Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as such Lender shall deem appropriate at the time, (a) to continue to make its own credit analyses and appraisals in deciding whether to take or not take action under this Agreement and (b) to make such investigations as such Lender deems necessary to inform itself as to the business, operations, property, financial condition and creditworthiness of the Credit Parties.

 

12.7.         Right to Indemnification. Lenders agree to indemnify Agent (to the extent not reimbursed by the Credit Parties and without limiting the obligation of the Credit Parties to do so), according to their respective Pro Rata Percentages, from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind whatsoever which may at any time be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against Agent in any way relating to or arising out of (a) this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (b) the transactions contemplated hereby or (c) any action taken or not taken by Agent under or in connection with any of the foregoing, provided that no Lender shall be liable for the payment of any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting solely from Agent's gross negligence or willful misconduct.

 

12.8.         Other Transactions. Agent and any Lender may make loans to and generally engage in any kind of business with Borrowers, as though Agent or such Lender were not Agent or a Lender hereunder. With respect to loans made by Agent under this Agreement as a Lender, Agent shall have the same rights and powers, duties and liabilities under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as any other Lender, and may exercise the same as though it were Agent, and the terms "Lender" and "Lenders" shall include Agent in its individual capacity as such.

 

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12.9.         Resignation of Agent. Agent may resign as Agent upon thirty (30) days' notice to Lenders and Borrower Representative, and such resignation shall be effective on the earlier of (a) the appointment of a successor Agent by Required Lenders, subject, in the absence of an Event of Default, to the prior written consent of Borrowers (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) or (b) the date on which such 30-day period expires. If Agent provides Lenders and Borrower Representative with notice of its intention to resign as Agent, Required Lenders agree to appoint a successor to Agent as promptly as possible thereafter, whereupon such successor shall succeed to the rights, powers and duties of Agent, and the term "Agent" means such successor effective upon its appointment. Upon the effective date of an Agent's resignation, such Agent's rights, powers and duties as Agent hereunder immediately shall terminate, without any other or further act or deed on the part of such former Agent or any of the parties to this Agreement (except that in the case of any collateral security held by Agent on behalf of Lenders under any of the Loan Documents, the retiring or removed Agent shall continue to hold such collateral security until such time as a successor Agent is appointed). After an Agent's resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Section 12 shall continue to inure to such Agent's benefit as to any actions taken or not taken by such Agent while acting as Agent.

 

12.10.       Copies of Statements and Financial Information. Agent shall forward to each Lender a copy of the monthly loan account statement delivered by Agent to Borrowers. In addition, Agent agrees to provide Lenders with copies of all financial statements, projections and business plans of Borrowers that Agent receives from Borrowers or their advisors from time to time, without any duty to confirm or verify that such information is true, correct or complete.

 

12.11.       Payments of Principal, Interest and Fees. After Agent's receipt of any principal payments, or any interest and fees earned under this Agreement, Agent agrees to remit promptly to Lenders its respective Pro Rata Percentages of:

 

(a)            fees payable by Borrowers hereunder, provided that except as otherwise set forth herein, Lenders shall not share the fees required to be paid pursuant to Section 5 of this Agreement, and (ii) the Unused Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Fee shall be payable to the Lenders holding Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments during the time such fee accrued; and

 

(b)            principal and interest paid on the applicable Term Loans.

 

SECTION 13.

 

Guaranty

 

13.1.         The Guaranty. Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to each Lender and Agent as hereinafter provided, as primary obligor and not as surety, the prompt payment and performance of the Obligations in full when due (whether at stated maturity, as a mandatory prepayment, by acceleration or otherwise) strictly in accordance with the terms thereof. Each Guarantor hereby further agrees that if any of the Obligations are not paid in full when due (whether at stated maturity, as a mandatory prepayment, by acceleration or otherwise), each Guarantor will promptly pay the same, without any demand or notice whatsoever, and that in the case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any of the Obligations, the same will be promptly paid in full when due (whether at extended maturity, as a mandatory prepayment, by acceleration or otherwise) in accordance with the terms of such extension or renewal (collectively, the "Guaranteed Obligations").

 

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Subject to Section 13.6 and the last sentence of this Section 13.1 below, the Guarantors hereby jointly and severally agree, in furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right which Agent or any Lender may have at law or in equity against any Guarantor by virtue hereof, that upon the failure of any Guaranteed Obligations to be paid when and as the same shall become due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise (including amounts that would become due but for the operation of the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable Law), the Guarantors will, upon demand pay, or cause to be paid, in cash, to Agent for the ratable benefit of Lenders, an amount equal to the sum of the unpaid principal amount of all Guaranteed Obligations then due as aforesaid, accrued and unpaid interest on such Guaranteed Obligations (including interest which, but for any Borrower becoming the subject of a case under the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable Law, would have accrued on such Guaranteed Obligations, whether or not a claim is allowed against such Borrower for such interest in the related bankruptcy case) and all other Guaranteed Obligations then owed to Agent and Lenders as aforesaid.

 

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained herein or in any other of the Loan Documents, the Guaranteed Obligations of each Guarantor under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be limited to an aggregate amount equal to the greatest amount that would not render such obligations subject to avoidance under the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable Law, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, arrangement, reorganization, or similar debtor relief laws of the United States, Canada or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.

 

13.2.         Obligations Unconditional. The Guaranteed Obligations of each Guarantor under Section 13.1 are joint and several and absolute and unconditional, irrespective of the value, genuineness, validity, regularity or enforceability of any of the Loan Documents or any other agreement or instrument referred to therein, or any substitution, release, impairment or exchange of any other guarantee of or security for any of the Obligations, and, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, irrespective of any other circumstance whatsoever which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a surety or guarantor, it being the intent of this Section 13.2 that the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances. Each Guarantor agrees that such Guarantor shall have no right of subrogation, indemnity, reimbursement or contribution against any Borrower or any other Guarantor for amounts paid under this Section 13 until the Termination Date. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, it is agreed that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the occurrence of any one or more of the following shall not alter or impair the liability of any Guarantor hereunder, which shall remain joint and several and absolute and unconditional as described above:

 

(a)            at any time or from time to time, without notice to any Guarantor, the time for any performance of or compliance with any of the Obligations shall be extended, or such performance or compliance shall be waived;

 

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(b)            any of the acts mentioned in any of the provisions of any of the Loan Documents or any other agreement or instrument referred to in the Loan Documents shall be done or omitted;

 

(c)            the maturity of any of the Obligations shall be accelerated, or any of the Obligations shall be modified, supplemented or amended in any respect, or any right under any of the Loan Documents or any other agreement or instrument referred to in the Loan Documents shall be waived or any other guarantee of any of the Obligations or any security therefor shall be released, impaired or exchanged in whole or in part or otherwise dealt with;

 

(d)            any Lien granted to, or in favor of, Agent or any Lender or Lenders as security for any of the Obligations shall fail to attach or be perfected;

 

(e)            any of the Obligations shall be determined to be void or voidable (including for the benefit of any creditor of any Guarantor) or shall be subordinated to the claims of any Person (including any creditor of any Guarantor); or

 

(f)            any other action or inaction shall occur that might constitute a surety defense (other than payment in full of the Obligations).

 

13.3.         Reinstatement. The Guaranteed Obligations of any Guarantor under this Section 13 shall be automatically reinstated if and to the extent that for any reason any payment by or on behalf of any Person in respect of the Obligations is rescinded or must be otherwise restored by any holder of any of the Obligations, whether as a result of any Proceedings in bankruptcy or reorganization or otherwise, and each Guarantor agrees that it will indemnify Agent and each Lender on demand for all reasonable costs and expenses (including fees and expenses of counsel) incurred by Agent or such Lender in connection with such rescission or restoration, including any such costs and expenses incurred in defending against any claim alleging that such payment constituted a preference, fraudulent transfer or similar payment under any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.

 

13.4.         Waivers. Each Guarantor hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, for the benefit of Agent and Lenders: (a) any right to require Agent or any Lender, as a condition of payment or performance by such Guarantor, to (i) proceed against any Borrower, any other guarantor (including any other Guarantor) of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other Person, (ii) proceed against or exhaust any security held from any Borrower, any such other guarantor or any other Person, (iii) proceed against or have resort to any balance of any deposit account or credit on the books of Agent or any Lender in favor of any Borrower or any other Person, or (iv) pursue any other remedy in the power of Agent and Lenders whatsoever, and each Guarantor hereby waives the benefits of discussion and division; (b) any defense arising by reason of the incapacity, lack of authority or any disability or other defense of any Borrower or any other Guarantor including any defense based on or arising out of the lack of validity or the unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or any agreement or instrument relating thereto or by reason of the cessation of the liability of any Borrower or any other Guarantor from any cause other than payment in full of the Guaranteed Obligations; (c) any defense based upon any statute or rule of law which provides that the obligation of a surety must be neither larger in amount nor in other respects more burdensome than that of the principal or any law, rule, regulation, or order of any jurisdiction affecting any term of the Guaranteed Obligations; (d) any defense based upon Agent's or any Lender's errors or omissions in the administration of the Guaranteed Obligations, except behavior which amounts to bad faith; (e) (i) any principles or provisions of law, statutory or otherwise, which are or might be in conflict with the terms hereof and any legal or equitable discharge of such Guarantor's obligations hereunder, (ii) the benefit of any statute of limitations affecting such Guarantor's liability hereunder or the enforcement hereof, (iii) any rights to set offs, recoupments and counterclaims, and (iv) promptness, diligence and any requirement that Agent and Lenders protect, secure, perfect or insure any security interest or Lien or any property subject thereto; (f) notices, demands, presentments, protests, notices of protest, notices of dishonor and notices of any action or inaction, including acceptance hereof, notices of default under any Loan Document, notices of any renewal, extension or modification of the Guaranteed Obligations or any agreement related thereto, notices of any extension of credit to any Borrower and notices of any of the matters referred to in Section 13.2 and any right to consent to any thereof; and (g) any defenses or benefits that may be derived from or afforded by law which limit the liability of or exonerate guarantors or sureties, or which may conflict with the terms hereof (other than payment in full of the Obligations). Each Guarantor agrees that such Guarantor shall have no right of recourse to security for the Obligations, except through the exercise of rights of subrogation to the extent permitted by Section 13.2.

 

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13.5.         Remedies. Each Guarantor agrees that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, as between such Guarantor, on the one hand, and Agent and Lenders, on the other hand, the Obligations may be declared to be forthwith due and payable as provided in Section 11.2 (and shall be deemed to have become automatically due and payable in the circumstances provided in Section 11.2) for purposes of Section 13.1 notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such declaration (or preventing the Obligations from becoming automatically due and payable) as against any other Person and that, in the event of such declaration (or the Obligations being deemed to have become automatically due and payable), the Obligations (whether or not due and payable by any other Person) shall forthwith become due and payable by each Guarantor for purposes of Section 13.1. Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that its Guaranteed Obligations hereunder are secured in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents and that Agent and Lenders may exercise their remedies thereunder in accordance with the terms thereof.

 

13.6.         Contribution by Guarantors. All Guarantors desire to allocate among themselves (collectively, the "Contributing Guarantors"), in a fair and equitable manner, their obligations arising under this Guaranty. Accordingly, in the event any payment or distribution is made on any date by a Guarantor (a "Funding Guarantor") under this Guaranty such that its Aggregate Payments (as defined below) exceed its Fair Share (as defined below) as of such date, such Funding Guarantor shall be entitled to a contribution from each of the other Contributing Guarantors in an amount sufficient to cause each Contributing Guarantor's Aggregate Payments to equal its Fair Share as of such date. "Fair Share" means, with respect to a Contributing Guarantor as of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the ratio of (i) the Fair Share Contribution Amount with respect to such Contributing Guarantor to (ii) the aggregate of the Fair Share Contribution Amounts (as defined below) with respect to all Contributing Guarantors multiplied by (b) the aggregate amount paid or distributed on or before such date by all Funding Guarantors under this Guaranty in respect of the obligations Guaranteed. "Fair Share Contribution Amount" means, with respect to a Contributing Guarantor as of any date of determination, the maximum aggregate amount of the obligations of such Contributing Guarantor under this Guaranty that would not render its obligations hereunder or thereunder subject to avoidance as a fraudulent transfer or conveyance under Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code or any comparable applicable provisions of state law or any other applicable Law; provided, solely for purposes of calculating the "Fair Share Contribution Amount" with respect to any Contributing Guarantor for purposes of this Section 13.6, any assets or liabilities of such Contributing Guarantor arising by virtue of any rights to subrogation, reimbursement or indemnification or any rights to or obligations of contribution hereunder shall not be considered as assets or liabilities of such Contributing Guarantor. "Aggregate Payments" means, with respect to a Contributing Guarantor as of any date of determination, an amount equal to (1) the aggregate amount of all payments and distributions made on or before such date by such Contributing Guarantor in respect of this Guaranty (including in respect of this Section 13.6), minus (2) the aggregate amount of all payments received on or before such date by such Contributing Guarantor from the other Contributing Guarantors as contributions under this Section 13.6. The amounts payable as contributions hereunder shall be determined as of the date on which the related payment or distribution is made by the applicable Funding Guarantor. The allocation among Contributing Guarantors of their obligations as set forth in this Section 13.6 shall not be construed in any way to limit the liability of any Contributing Guarantor hereunder. Each Guarantor is a third party beneficiary to the contribution agreement set forth in this Section 13.6 and a right to receive any Fair Share Contribution Amount shall be deemed an asset of the Guarantor entitled to such amount.

 

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13.7.         Guarantee of Payment; Continuing Guarantee. The guarantee in this Section 13 is an absolute and unconditional guaranty of payment and not of collection, is a continuing and irrevocable guarantee, and shall apply to all Obligations whenever arising.

 

13.8.         Subordination of Other Obligations. Any Indebtedness (including any right of subrogation or contribution) of any Borrower or any Guarantor now or hereafter owing to any Guarantor (the "Obligee Guarantor") is hereby subordinated in right of payment to the Guaranteed Obligations, and any such indebtedness collected or received by the Obligee Guarantor after an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing shall be held in trust for Agent for its benefit and the benefit of Lenders and shall forthwith be paid over to Agent for its benefit and the benefit of Lenders to be credited and applied against the Guaranteed Obligations but without affecting, impairing or limiting in any manner the liability of the Obligee Guarantor under any other provision hereof.

 

SECTION 14.

 

Miscellaneous

 

14.1.         Termination. Except as otherwise provided in Section 11.2 hereof, Required Lenders (acting through Agent) may terminate this Agreement only as of the Maturity Date. Borrowers, or any one of them, may terminate this Agreement at any time prior to the Maturity Date by written notice to Agent and in accordance with the terms of Section 3.3(a). A termination by one Borrower shall be deemed to be a termination by all Borrowers. All Obligations (other than unasserted contingent indemnification and reimbursement Obligations) shall become due and payable in full on the earlier of the (a) Maturity Date or (b) Early Maturity Date. All Commitments shall terminate upon termination of this Agreement. All of Agent's and Lenders' rights, Liens and security interests granted pursuant to the Loan Documents shall continue after any termination of this Agreement until the Termination Date; provided that upon the Termination Date, all of Agent's Liens and security interests in the Collateral shall be automatically released and terminated and Agent shall, upon the request and at the expense of Borrowers, forthwith execute and deliver (or otherwise authorize the filing of) UCC and PPSA termination statements and/or other documents reasonably requested by Borrowers evidencing such termination, including Lien releases, discharges of security interests, terminations of deposit account control agreements, re-assignments or releases of Trademarks, Copyrights and Patents, and other similar discharge or release documents (in recordable form, if applicable). Upon the request and at the reasonable expense of Borrowers, Agent shall promptly execute and deliver a customary payoff letter, in a form reasonably satisfactory to Agent and Borrowers, setting forth the amounts required to be paid in order to effectuate the Termination Date.

 

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14.2.         Waivers. Borrowers hereby waive diligence, demand, presentment, protest and any notices thereof as well as notices of nonpayment, intent to accelerate and acceleration. No waiver of an Event of Default by Agent shall be effective unless such waiver is in writing and signed by Agent and Required Lenders. No delay or failure of Agent or Lenders to exercise any right or remedy hereunder, whether before or after the happening of any Event of Default, shall impair any such right or remedy, or shall operate as a waiver of such right or remedy, or as a waiver of such Event of Default. A waiver on any occasion shall not be construed as a bar to or waiver of any right or remedy on any future occasion. No single or partial exercise by Agent or Lenders of any right or remedy precludes any other or further exercise thereof, or precludes any other right or remedy.

 

14.3.         Entire Agreement; Control. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents: (a) constitute the entire agreement among Borrowers, Agent and/or Lenders; and (b) supersede any prior agreements (including the agreements set forth in the Proposal Letter and any confidentiality agreement). Should the provisions of any other Loan Document conflict with the provisions of this Agreement, the provisions of this Agreement shall apply and govern.

 

14.4.         Usury Limit; Interest Act (Canada); Criminal Rate of Interest; Nominal Rate of Interest.

 

(a)            In no event shall Borrowers, upon demand by Agent for payment of any Indebtedness relating hereto, by acceleration of the maturity thereof, or otherwise, be obligated to pay interest and fees in excess of the amount permitted by applicable Law. Regardless of any provision herein or in any agreement made in connection herewith, Agent and Lenders shall never be entitled to receive, charge or apply, as interest on any indebtedness relating hereto, any amount in excess of the maximum amount of interest permissible under applicable Law. If Agent or Lenders ever receive, collect or apply any such excess, it shall be deemed a partial repayment of principal and treated as such. If as a result, the entire principal amount of the Obligations is paid in full, any remaining excess shall be refunded to Borrowers. This Section 14.4 shall control every other provision of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any other agreement made in connection herewith.

 

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(b)            Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document, solely to the extent that (i) a court of competent jurisdiction finally determines that the calculation or determination of interest payable by a Credit Party in respect of the Obligations pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be governed by the laws of any province of Canada or the federal laws of Canada, or (ii) the Interest Act (Canada) otherwise applies: whenever interest payable by a Credit Party is calculated on the basis of a period which is less than the actual number of days in a calendar year, each rate of interest determined pursuant to such calculation is, for the purposes of the Interest Act (Canada), equivalent to such rate multiplied by the actual number of days in the calendar year in which such rate is to be ascertained and divided by the number of days used as the basis of such calculation. Each Credit Party confirms that it understands and is able to calculate the rate of interest applicable to its Obligations based on the methodology for calculating per annum rates provided in this Agreement.

 

(c)            In no event shall the aggregate "interest" (as defined in Section 347 of the Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46, as the same shall be amended, replaced or re-enacted from time to time (the "Criminal Code Section")) payable (whether by way of payment, collection or demand) by any Credit Party or any Lender under this Agreement or any other Loan Document exceed the effective annual rate of interest on the "credit advanced" (as defined in that section) under this Agreement or such other Loan Document lawfully permitted under that section and, if any payment, collection or demand pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document in respect of "interest" (as defined in that section) is determined to be contrary to the provisions of that section and the amount of such payment or collection shall be refunded by the Agent and Lenders to the Credit Parties with such "interest" deemed to have been adjusted with retroactive effect to the maximum amount or rate of interest, as the case may be, as would not be so prohibited by the Criminal Code Section to result in a receipt by the Agent or such Lender of interest at a rate not in contravention of the Criminal Code Section, such adjustment to be effected, to the extent necessary, as follows: firstly, by reducing the amounts or rates of interest required to be paid to the Agent or that Lender; and then, by reducing any fees, charges, expenses and other amounts required to be paid to the Agent or Lender which would constitute "interest". Notwithstanding the foregoing, and after giving effect to all such adjustments, if the Agent or any Lender shall have received an amount in excess of the maximum permitted by the Criminal Code Section, then the relevant Credit Parties shall be entitled, by notice in writing to the Agent or affected Lender, to obtain reimbursement from the Agent or that Lender in an amount equal to such excess. For the purposes of this Agreement and each other Loan Document to which any Credit Party is a party, the effective annual rate of interest payable by the Credit Parties shall be determined in accordance with generally accepted actuarial practices and principles over the term of the loans on the basis of annual compounding for the lawfully permitted rate of interest and, in the event of dispute, a certificate of a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries appointed by the Agent for the account of Credit Parties will be conclusive for the purpose of such determination in the absence of evidence to the contrary.

 

(d)            Any provision of this Agreement that would oblige any Credit Party to pay any fine, penalty or rate of interest on any arrears of principal or interest secured by a mortgage on real property or hypothec on immovables that has the effect of increasing the charge on arrears beyond the rate of interest payable on principal money not in arrears shall not apply to such Credit Party with respect to such portion of the Obligations, which shall be required to pay interest on money in arrears with respect thereto (and not other Obligations) at the same rate of interest payable on principal money not in arrears.

 

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14.5.         Severability. If any provision hereof or of any other Loan Document is held to be illegal or unenforceable, such provision shall be fully severable, and the remaining provisions of the applicable agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall not be affected by such provision's severance. Furthermore, in lieu of any such provision, there shall be added automatically as a part of the applicable agreement a legal and enforceable provision as similar in terms to the severed provision as may be possible.

 

14.6.         WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL; SERVICE OF PROCESS; CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.

 

(a)            TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EACH OF THE CREDIT PARTIES, AGENT AND LENDERS HEREBY WAIVES ANY RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE LOAN DOCUMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED THEREUNDER. EACH CREDIT PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES PERSONAL SERVICE OF PROCESS AND CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS BY CERTIFIED OR REGISTERED MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED, TO THE ADDRESS FOR NOTICE FOR BORROWER REPRESENTATIVE PURSUANT TO SECTION 14.7 BELOW.

 

(b)            IN NO EVENT WILL AGENT OR LENDERS BE LIABLE FOR LOST PROFITS OR OTHER SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS.

 

14.7.         Notices. All notices, requests and other communications to any party hereunder shall be in writing (including prepaid overnight courier, facsimile transmission or similar writing) and shall be given to such party at its address or facsimile number set forth below (or, in the case of any such Lender who becomes a Lender after the date hereof, in an assignment agreement or in a notice delivered to Borrower Representative and Agent by the assignee Lender forthwith upon such assignment) or at such other address or facsimile number as such party may hereafter specify for the purpose by notice to Agent and Borrower Representative:

 

if to Agent, at:

Oxford Finance LLC
115 S. Union Street, Suite 300
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
Attn: Portfolio Manager (TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.)
Telecopier No.: [Redacted: Personal Contact Information]

 

with a copy to:
Oxford Finance LLC
115 S. Union Street, Suite 300
Alexandria, VA 22314
Attn: John Toufanian, Chief Legal Officer
Telecopier No.: [Redacted: Personal Contact Information]

 

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with a copy to:
Goldberg Kohn Ltd.
55 East Monroe Street, Suite 3300
Chicago, IL 60603
Attn: Christopher M. Swartout, Esq.
Telecopier No.: [Redacted: Personal Contact Information]

 

if to the any Credit Party, to Borrower Representative at:
Greenbrook TMS Inc.
8405 Greensboro Drive, Suite 425
Tysons Corner, Virginia 22102
Attn: Bill Leonard, Chief Executive Officer
Telecopier No.: [Redacted: Personal Contact Information]
Email: [Redacted: Personal Contact Information]

 

with a copy to:
Greenbrook TMS Inc.

890 Yonge Street, 7th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M4W 3P4

Attn: Aniss Amdiss, General Counsel
Email: [Redacted: Personal Contact Information]

 

with a copy to: 

Torys LLP
1114 Avenue of the Americas, 23rd Floor
New York, NY 10036-7703
Attn: Darien Leung, Esq.
Telecopier No.: [Redacted: Personal Contact Information]
Email: [Redacted: Personal Contact Information]

 

Each such notice, request or other communication shall be effective (i) if given by facsimile, when such notice is transmitted to the facsimile number specified by this Section and the sender receives a confirmation of transmission from the sending facsimile machine, or (ii) if given by mail, prepaid overnight courier or any other means, when received or when receipt is refused at the applicable address specified by this Section 14.7.

 

14.8.         CHOICE OF LAW; VENUE. THE VALIDITY, INTERPRETATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT INCLUDES AN EXPRESS ELECTION TO BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION. EACH CREDIT PARTY, EACH LENDER AND AGENT HEREBY CONSENTS TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF ANY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN NEW YORK COUNTY (BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN) OR OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK AND IRREVOCABLY AGREES THAT ALL ACTIONS OR PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS SHALL BE LITIGATED IN SUCH COURTS; PROVIDED THAT ANY SUIT SEEKING ENFORCEMENT AGAINST ANY COLLATERAL OR OTHER PROPERTY MAY BE BROUGHT, AT AGENT'S OPTION, IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION WHERE SUCH COLLATERAL OR OTHER PROPERTY MAY BE FOUND. BORROWER HEREBY EXPRESSLY AND IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY OBJECTION WHICH IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY SUCH LITIGATION BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT REFERRED TO ABOVE AND ANY CLAIM THAT ANY SUCH LITIGATION HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN AN INCONVENIENT FORUM.

 

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14.9.         Publications. No Credit Party will in the future issue any press releases or other public disclosure using the name "Oxford Finance LLC" or any other Lender or referring to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents without at least two (2) Business Days' prior notice to Oxford or such Lender, as applicable, and without the prior written consent of Oxford or such Lender, as applicable, unless (and only to the extent that) such Credit Party is required to do so under applicable Law and then, in any event, such Credit Party will consult with Oxford or such Lender, as applicable, before issuing such press release or other public disclosure to the extent not prohibited by applicable Law. Each Credit Party expressly consents to and authorizes disclosure by Agent and Lenders of customary information concerning the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to loan syndication and pricing reporting services. Each Credit Party and each Lender hereby authorizes Agent, at its own expense, to make appropriate announcements of the financial arrangement entered into among the Credit Parties, Agent and Lenders pursuant to this Agreement, including announcements which are commonly known as "tombstones", in such publications and to such parties as Agent shall in its sole and absolute discretion deem appropriate.

 

14.10.       Counterparts; Effectiveness of Facsimile Documents and Signatures. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Loan Documents may be transmitted and/or signed by facsimile or other electronic transmission. The effectiveness of any such documents and signatures shall, subject to applicable Law, have the same force and effect as manually signed originals and shall be binding on the parties. Agent may also require that any such documents and signatures be confirmed by a manually signed original thereof; provided, however, that the failure to request or deliver the same shall not limit the effectiveness of any facsimile document or signature.

 

14.11.       Assignments; Participations.

 

(a)             Assignments.

 

(i)            No Borrower shall have the right to assign this Agreement or any interest therein except with the prior written consent of Agent and all Lenders.

 

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(iii)            Each Lender may, with the consent of Agent but without the consent of any other Lender or Credit Party, assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents; provided that (i) for each such assignment, the parties thereto shall execute and deliver to Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register (as defined below), an Assignment and Transfer Agreement, and a processing and recordation fee of Three Thousand Five Hundred and No/100 Dollars ($3,500.00) to be paid by the assignee, and (ii) no such assignment shall be for less than Five Hundred Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($500,000.00) (or, if less, all of the assignor's remaining Loans and Commitments). Upon such execution and delivery of the Assignment and Transfer Agreement to Agent, from and after the date specified as the effective date in the Assignment and Transfer Agreement, (x) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto, and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Transfer Agreement, such assignee shall have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (y) the assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Transfer Agreement, relinquish its rights (other than any rights it may have pursuant to this Agreement which by their terms will survive) and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Transfer Agreement covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto).

 

(iv)            By executing and delivering an Assignment and Transfer Agreement, the assignee thereunder confirms and agrees as follows: (a) other than as provided in such Assignment and Transfer Agreement, the assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, (b) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of any Credit Party or the performance or observance by any Credit Party of its obligations under this Agreement, (c) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 8.8 of this Agreement and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Transfer Agreement, (d) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement, (e) such assignee appoints and authorizes Agent (including its capacity as the Hypothecary Representative) to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement as are delegated to Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto and (f) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender.

 

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(v)            Agent shall maintain (acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of Borrowers) at its address referred to in Section 14.7 of this Agreement a copy of each Assignment and Transfer Agreement delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of Lenders, the Commitments of each Lender and principal and any stated interest amount of the Loans owing to, each Lender from time to time (collectively, the "Register"). No assignment of any rights or obligations under or in respect of the Loans or the Promissory Notes evidencing such Loans shall be effective unless and until Agent shall have recorded the assignment in the Register, and the entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and Borrowers, Agent and Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register and copies of each Assignment and Transfer Agreement shall be available for inspection by Borrowers, Agent or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior written notice. Each Borrower hereby designates Agent to serve as such Borrower's agent solely for purposes of maintaining the Register (the "Register") as provided in this Section, and each Borrower hereby agrees that the entity serving as Registrar and its Affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees shall constitute an Indemnified Party under Section 11.5. At the request of the registered Lender, the Registrar shall note a collateral assignment of a Loan in favor of an Eligible Assignee on the Register and, provided that the Registrar has been given the name and address of such collateral assignee and such assignee is an Eligible Assignee, the Registrar (i) shall not permit any further transfers of any Loan on the Register absent receipt of written consent to such transfers from such collateral assignee and (ii) shall record the transfer of such Loan on the Register to such collateral assignee (or such collateral assignee's designee, nominee or assignee that is also an Eligible Assignee) upon written request by such collateral assignee. It is intended that the Register be maintained such that the Loans are in "registered form" for the purposes of the Code.

 

(vi)            Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Transfer Agreement executed by an assigning Lender, Agent shall, if such Assignment and Transfer Agreement has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto, (a) accept such Assignment and Transfer Agreement, (b) record the information contained therein in the Register and (c) give prompt notice thereof to Borrower Representative if such Assignment and Transfer Agreement is to a Person that is not a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender. Within five (5) Business Days after its receipt of such notice, each Borrower shall execute and deliver to Agent in exchange for the surrendered Promissory Note or Promissory Notes, a new Promissory Note or Promissory Notes to the order of the assignee in amounts equal to such assignee's Commitments and outstanding Loans hereunder and, if the assigning Lender has retained a portion of the Loans, a new Promissory Note or Promissory Notes to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal to the remaining Commitments and outstanding Loans hereunder of such assigning Lender under the terms of this Agreement. Such new Promissory Note or Promissory Notes shall re-evidence the indebtedness outstanding under the old Promissory Note or Promissory Notes and shall be in the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Promissory Note or Promissory Notes, shall be dated of even date herewith and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of the Promissory Note or Promissory Notes subject to such assignment.

 

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(b)            Participations and Financings.

 

(i)            Each Lender may sell participations (without the consent of Agent, any Credit Party or any other Lender) to one or more Eligible Assignees (each, a "Participant"), in or to all (or a portion) of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of the Commitments or the Loans owing to it); provided that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged; (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations; (iii) Borrowers, Agent, and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement; (iv) such Lender shall not transfer, grant, assign or sell any participation under which the Participant shall have rights to approve any amendment or waiver of this Agreement; and (v) each such Lender selling such participations complies with the Participant Register provisions described below. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of Borrowers, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant's interest in the Loans or other obligations under the Loan Documents (the "Participant Register"); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant's interest in any commitments, loans, letters of credit or its other obligations under any Loan Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such commitment, loan, letter of credit or other obligation is in "registered form" for the purposes of the Code, including under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error and no participation shall be transferable except as record in the Participant Register. Such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, Agent (in its capacity as Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register. Each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 5.9 as if it were a Lender provided that such Participant complies with the form delivery requirements of Section 5.9(e) by providing such forms to the participating Lender.

 

(ii)            Each Lender may (without the consent of Agent, any Credit Party or any other Lender) transfer, assign, pledge or collaterally assign and grant a security interest in or to all (or a portion) of its rights and obligations under this Agreement in connection with its own financing or securitization transactions, including all rights, benefits, warranties, representations, covenants, indemnities and remedies, and all proceeds of the foregoing, contained in this Agreement and any of the other Loan Documents and, notwithstanding any provision in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the contrary, there shall be no requirement, limitation or restriction on the ability of each such transferee, pledgee or assignee to foreclose upon and further assign or otherwise transfer all (or a portion) of such rights upon the occurrence of a default, event of default or similar occurrence with respect to such financing or securitization transaction; provided that in each case, no such transfer, pledge or assignment shall be made to any Person that is not an Eligible Assignee, or release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such transferee, pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto unless such transferee, pledgee or assignee executes and delivers to Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Transfer Agreement, and a processing and recordation fee of Three Thousand Five Hundred and No/100 Dollars ($3,500.00) to be paid by the assignee.

 

(iii)            In connection with the efforts of any Lender to assign its rights or obligations or to participate in interests, subject to compliance with applicable Laws, such Lender may disclose any information in its possession regarding the Credit Parties in compliance with Section 14.14.

 

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14.12.       Sharing of Liabilities. In the event that Agent or any Lender is sued or threatened with a suit, action or claim by any Credit Party, or by a creditor, committee of creditors, trustee, receiver, interim receiver, monitor, liquidator, custodian, administrator or other similar official acting for or on behalf of the Credit Parties (or any of them), on account of (a) any preference, fraudulent conveyance or other voidable transfer alleged to have occurred or been received as a result of the operation of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby, or (b) any lender liability theory based on any action taken or not taken by such Person in connection with this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby, any money paid in satisfaction or compromise of such suit, action, claim or demand, and any expenses, costs and attorneys' fees paid or incurred in connection therewith (whether by Agent or any Lender), shall be shared proportionately by Lenders according to their respective Pro Rata Percentages, except to the extent that such Person's own gross negligence or willful misconduct directly gave rise to such suit, action or claim. In addition, any costs, expenses, fees or disbursements incurred by agents or attorneys retained by Agent to collect the Obligations or enforce any rights in the Collateral, including enforcing, preserving or maintaining rights under this Agreement, shall be shared among Lenders according to their respective Pro Rata Percentages to the extent not reimbursed by Borrowers or from the Proceeds of Collateral. The provisions of this Section 14.12 shall not apply to any Proceedings or claims that (a) are filed or asserted prior to the Closing Date or (b) are based on transactions, actions or omissions occurring prior to the date of this Agreement.

 

14.13.       Exercise of Setoff Rights. The Credit Parties authorize each Lender, and each Lender shall have the right, after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, without notice, to setoff and apply against any and all Property of any Credit Party held by, or in the possession of such Lender, any of the Obligations owed to such Lender. Promptly after the exercise of any right to set-off, Lender exercising such right irrevocably agrees to purchase for cash (and the other Lenders irrevocably agree to sell) participation interests in each other Lender's outstanding Loans as would be necessary to cause such Lender to share the amount of the property set-off with the other Lenders based on each Lender's Pro Rata Percentage. Each Credit Party agrees, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, that any Lender also may exercise its right to setoff with respect to amounts in excess of such Lender's Pro Rata Percentage of the Obligations then outstanding, and may purchase participation interests in the amounts so setoff from the other Lenders, and upon doing so shall deliver such excess to Agent, for distribution to the other Lenders in settlement of the participation purchases described above in this Section 14.13. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each Lender hereby agrees with each other Lender that no Lender shall independently take any action to enforce or protect its rights arising out of this Agreement or any other Loan Document (including the exercise of any right of setoff) without first obtaining the prior written consent of Agent or Required Lenders, it being the intent of Lenders that any such action shall be taken in concert and at the direction of Agent or Required Lenders. Each Lender agrees promptly to notify Borrower Representative, Agent and each other Lender after any such setoff and application made by such Lender, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.

 

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14.14.       Confidentiality. Agent and each Lender agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its and its Affiliates' directors, officers, employees and agents, including accountants, Rating Agencies (as defined below), portfolio management servicers, legal counsel and other advisors on a need to know basis (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (c) to the extent required by applicable Law or by any subpoena or similar legal process; provided that Agent or such Lender, as applicable, agrees that it will notify Borrower Representative as soon as practicable in the event of any such disclosure by such Person unless such notification is prohibited by applicable Law, (d) to any other party to this Agreement, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or any Proceeding relating to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section 14.14 to any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement, (g) with the consent of Borrower Representative or (h) to the extent such Information (i) becomes publicly available, other than as a result of a breach of this Section 14.14 or (ii) becomes available to Agent or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than a Credit Party or Parent (so long as such source is not actually known to Agent or such Lender to be bound by confidentiality obligations to any Credit Party or Parent). Notwithstanding the foregoing, Agent and each Lender may disclose to any and all Persons, without limitation of any kind, the tax treatment and tax structure of the transactions described herein and all materials of any kind (including opinions and tax analysis) that have been provided to such Persons relating to the tax treatment and tax structure of the transactions described herein (it being understood that this authorization is retroactively effective to the commencement of the first discussions between or among any of the parties regarding the transactions described herein). For the purposes of this Section 14.14, (i) "Information" means all information received from any Credit Party relating to any Credit Party, Parent or their respective businesses, other than any such information that is available to Agent or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by such Credit Party, and any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section 14.14 shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information; and (ii) "Rating Agencies" means Moody's Investor Services, Inc., Standard and Poor's Financial Services LLC, Fitch Ratings Inc., or any other nationally recognized rating agency or service. The obligations of any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section 14.14 shall continue with respect to any item of Information for only so long as the item of Information has or retains a confidential nature, but in no event beyond a period of three (3) years from the Termination Date. In no event shall Agent or any Lender be obligated or required to return any Information or other materials furnished by a Credit Party.

 

14.15.       Amendments; Agent's Discretionary Rights. No provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document may be amended, waived or otherwise modified unless such amendment, waiver or other modification is in writing and is signed by Borrowers and Required Lenders (and, if (x) any amendment, waiver or other modification would increase such Lender's funding obligations in respect of any Loan, by such Lender and (y) the rights or duties of Agent are affected thereby, by Agent); provided that no such amendment, waiver or other modification shall, (a) unless signed by each Lender directly affected thereby, amend or waive Borrowers' compliance with any term or provision of this Agreement, if the effect of such amendment or waiver would be to (i) reduce the principal of, or rate of interest on, the Loans (other than the application of Default Rate of Interest and with respect to any mandatory prepayments under Section 3.3(c)), (ii) reduce or waive the payment of any fee in which all Lenders share hereunder or (iii) extend the Maturity Date or the date fixed for payment of any installment of principal thereof or any interest or fee; or (b) unless signed by each Lender, (i) alter or amend the definition of "Required Lenders", (ii) except as otherwise expressly permitted or required hereunder, release all or substantially all of the Collateral or Guaranties in any transaction or series of related transactions; or (iii) amend any provision hereof specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to waive, amend or modify any rights hereunder or make any determination or grant any consent hereunder. In all other respects Agent is authorized to take or to refrain from taking any action which Agent, in the exercise of its reasonable business judgment, deems to be advisable and in the best interest of Lenders, unless this Agreement specifically requires Borrowers or Agent to obtain the consent of, or act at the direction of, Required Lenders. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, and notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, Agent shall have the right in its sole discretion to (i) release any Lien on any property granted to or held by Agent under any Loan Document (1) upon the Termination Date, (2) that is sold or otherwise disposed of as part of or in connection with any sale or other Permitted Disposition permitted hereunder or under any Involuntary Disposition, or (3) as approved in accordance with Section 14.15; (ii) subordinate any Lien on any Property granted to or held by Agent under any Loan Document to the holder of any Lien on such Property securing Permitted Purchase Money Indebtedness; and (iii) amend any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents in order to cure any error, ambiguity, defect or inconsistency set forth therein. In the event Agent or Required Lenders terminate this Agreement pursuant to the terms hereof, Agent and Required Lenders agree to cease making additional loans or advances upon the effective date of termination, except for expenses which Agent in its sole discretion determines are reasonably required to preserve, protect or realize upon the Collateral. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder, except that the Commitment of such Lender may not be increased or extended, and a change in the principal of, or interest on, the Loans made by such Defaulting Lender and any date fixed for payment of principal of, or interest on, the Loans made by such Defaulting Lender may not be made without the consent of such Lender.

 

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14.16.       Deemed Consent. If a Lender's consent to a waiver amendment or other course of action is required under the terms of this Agreement and such Lender does not respond to any request by Agent for such consent within ten (10) Business Days after the date of such request, such failure to respond shall be deemed a consent to the requested course of action.

 

14.17.       Judgment Currency. If, for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert a sum due hereunder or any other Loan Document in one currency into another currency, the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures Agent could purchase the first currency with such other currency on the Business Day preceding that on which final judgment is given. The obligation of each Credit Party in respect of any such sum due from it to Agent or any Lender hereunder or under the other Loan Documents shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the "Judgment Currency") other than that in which such sum is denominated in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Agreement (the "Agreement Currency"), be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to Agent or any Lender from any Credit Party in the Agreement Currency, such Credit Party agrees, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, against such loss. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is greater than the sum originally due to Agent or any Lender in such currency, Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, agrees to return the amount of any excess to such Credit Party (or to any other Person who may be entitled thereto under applicable law).

 

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SECTION 15.

 

Inter-Borrower Provisions; Joint and Several Liability

 

15.1.         Joint and Several Liability. The Loans made to Borrowers shall be deemed jointly funded to, and received by, Borrowers. Each Borrower jointly and severally agrees to pay, and shall be jointly and severally liable for the payment and performance of, all Obligations directly incurred by each other Borrower, regardless of whether such Borrower actually receives the proceeds of the indebtedness governed hereby or the benefit of any other extensions of credit hereunder. Each Borrower acknowledges and agrees that the joint and several liability of Borrowers is provided as an inducement to Agent and Lenders to provide loans and other financial accommodations to Borrowers, and that each such Loan or other financial accommodation shall be deemed to have been done or extended by Agent and Lenders in consideration of, and in reliance upon, the joint and several liability of Borrowers. The joint and several liability of each Borrower hereunder is absolute, unconditional and continuing, regardless of the validity or enforceability of any of the Obligations, or the fact that a security interest or Lien in any Collateral may not be enforceable or subject to equities or defenses or prior claims in favor of others, or may be invalid or defective in any way and for any reason. Each Borrower hereby waives: (i) all notices to which such Borrower may be entitled as a co-obligor with respect to the Obligations, including notice of (x) acceptance of this Agreement, (y) the making of Loans or other financial accommodations under this Agreement, or the creation or existence of the Obligations, and (z) presentment, demand, protest, notice of protest and notice of non-payment; and (ii) all defenses based on (w) any modification (or series of modifications) of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, that may create a substituted contract, or that may fundamentally alter the risks imposed on such Borrower hereunder, (x) the release of any other Borrower from its duties under this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, or the extension of the time of performance of any other Borrower's duties hereunder or thereunder, (y) the taking, releasing, impairment or abandonment of any Collateral, or the settlement, release or compromise of the Obligations or any other Borrower's liabilities with respect to all or any portion of the Obligations, or (z) any other act (or any failure to act) that fundamentally alters the risks imposed on such Borrower by virtue of its joint and several liability hereunder. It is the intent of each Borrower by this paragraph to waive any and all suretyship defenses available to such Borrower with respect to the Obligations, whether or not specifically enumerated above. Borrowers acknowledge that the credit provided hereunder is on terms more favorable than any Borrower acting alone would receive and that each Borrower benefits directly and indirectly from the Loans made hereunder. Each Borrower shall be jointly and severally liable for all Obligations regardless of, inter alia, which Borrower received proceeds of the Loans.

 

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15.2.         Subrogation and Contribution Rights. Each Borrower hereby agrees that until the Termination Date, such Borrower will not exercise any subrogation, contribution or other right or remedy against any other Borrower or against any security for any of the Obligations arising by reason of such Borrower's performance or satisfaction of its joint and several liability hereunder. In addition, each Borrower agrees that (i) such Borrower's right to receive any payment of amounts due with respect to such subrogation, contribution or other rights is subordinated to the full and final payment and satisfaction of the Obligations, and (ii) such Borrower agrees not to demand, sue for or otherwise attempt to collect any such payment until the Termination Date.

 

15.3.         Certain Borrower Acknowledgments and Agreements.

 

(a)            Each Borrower acknowledges that it will enjoy significant benefits from the business conducted by the other Borrowers because of, inter alia, their combined ability to bargain with other Persons including their ability to receive the credit extensions under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents on favorable terms granted by this Agreement and other Loan Documents which would not have been available to an individual Borrower acting alone. Each Borrower has determined that it is in its best interest to procure the Credit Facility contemplated hereunder, with the credit support of the other Borrowers as contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

 

(b)            Agent and Lenders have advised Borrowers that each of them is unwilling to enter into this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and make available the Credit Facility extended hereby or thereby to any Borrower unless each Borrower agrees, among other things, to be jointly and severally liable for the due and proper payment of the Obligations of each other Borrower under this Agreement and other Loan Documents. Each Borrower has determined that it is in its best interest and in pursuit of its purposes that it so induce Agent and Lenders to extend credit pursuant to this Agreement and the other documents executed in connection herewith (i) because of the desirability to each Borrower of the Credit Facility hereunder and the interest rates and the modes of borrowing available hereunder and thereunder, (ii) because each Borrower may engage in transactions jointly with the other Borrowers and (iii) because each Borrower may require, from time to time, access to funds under this Agreement for the purposes herein set forth.

 

(c)            Each Borrower has determined that it is and, after giving effect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the other Loan Documents (including the inter-Borrower arrangement set forth in this Section 15) will have assets having a fair saleable value in excess of the amount required to pay its probable liability on its existing debts as they fall due for payment and that the sum of its debts is not and will not then be greater than all of its Property at a fair valuation, that such Borrower has and will have, access to adequate capital for the conduct of its business and the ability to pay its debts from time to time incurred in connection therewith as such debts mature and that the value of the benefits to be derived by such Borrower from the access to funds under this Agreement (including the inter-Borrower arrangement set forth in this Section 15) is reasonably equivalent to the Obligations undertaken pursuant hereto.

 

(d)            Borrower Representative (on behalf of each Borrower) shall maintain records specifying (i) all Obligations incurred by each Borrower, (ii) the date of such incurrence, (iii) the date and amount of any payments made in respect of such Obligations, and (iv) all inter-Borrower obligations pursuant to this Section 15. Borrower Representative shall make copies of such records available to Agent, upon request.

 

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15.4.         Maximum Amount of Joint and Several Liability. Notwithstanding any provisions of this Agreement to the contrary, it is the intent of the parties hereto that the primary and secondary nature of the liabilities of Borrowers, and the security interests granted by Borrowers to secure the Obligations directly incurred by any Borrower not constitute a fraudulent conveyance under Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code, as amended, or a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer under the applicable provisions of any fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer or similar Law of any state, nation or other governmental unit, as in effect from time to time or otherwise be rendered invalid or unenforceable due to the nature of the joint and several liability. Accordingly, Agent, Lenders and Borrowers agree that if the obligations and liabilities of any Borrower hereunder or under any Loan Document, or any security interests granted by such Borrower securing the Obligations would, but for the application of this sentence, constitute a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer under applicable Law, or would otherwise render Borrower's Obligations or the security interests granted herein invalid or unenforceable, the Obligations of such Borrower hereunder, as well as the security interests securing such Obligations and liabilities, shall be valid and enforceable only to the maximum extent that would not cause such Obligations, liabilities or security interests to constitute a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer under applicable Law or otherwise result in such invalidity or unenforceability; provided, however, that each Borrower's Obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall be presumptively valid and enforceable to their fullest extent in accordance with the terms hereof or thereof, as if this Section 15.4 were not a part of this Agreement.

 

15.5.         Authorization of Borrower Representative by Borrowers. Each Borrower hereby irrevocably authorizes and appoints Borrower Representative, as agent for such Borrower on its behalf, to (i) request Loans from Agent and Lenders, (ii) to give and receive notices under the Loan Documents and (iii) take all other action which Borrower Representative or Borrowers are permitted or required to take under this Agreement, including to give notices, make requests, make payments, receive payments and notices, give receipts and execute agreements, make agreements or take any other action whatsoever on behalf of such Borrower under and with respect to any Loan Document and each Borrower shall be bound thereby. This authorization is coupled with an interest and shall be irrevocable, and Agent and Lenders may rely on any notice, request, information supplied by Borrower Representative, every document executed by Borrower Representative, every agreement made by Borrower Representative or other action taken by Borrower Representative in respect of Borrowers or any thereof as if the same were supplied, made or taken by any or all Borrowers. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the failure of one or more Borrowers to join in the execution of any writing in connection herewith shall not, unless the context clearly requires, relieve any such Borrower from obligations in respect of such writing.

 

[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the date set forth above.

 

BORROWERS: TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS INC.
   
   
  By: “William Leonard”
  Name: William Leonard
  Title: President

 

PARENT: GREENBROOK TMS INC.
   
   
  By: “William Leonard”
  Name: William Leonard
  Title: President

 

Signature Page to Credit Agreement

 

   

 

 

GUARANTORS: GREENBROOK TMS INC.
  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS INC.
  ACHIEVE TMS ALASKA, LLC
  ACHIEVE TMS CENTERS, LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS ARLINGTON LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS AUSTIN CENTRAL LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS AUSTIN NORTH LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS BEL AIR LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS BLOOMFIELD HILLS LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS CARY LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS CENTRAL FLORIDA LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS CHAPEL HILL LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS CHARLOTTE LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS CHRISTIANSBURG LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS CLEARWATER LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS CLEVELAND LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS CONNECTICUT LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS DURHAM LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS EASTERN CONNECTICUT LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS EASTERN SHORE, LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS EASTON LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS FAIRFAX LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS FAYETTEVILLE LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS FORT BEND LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS FREDERICKSBURG LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS GREENSBORO LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS GREENVILLE LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS HOUSTON LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS HUNT VALLEY LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS LYNCHBURG LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS MECHANICSVILLE LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS MICHIGAN LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS MIDLOTHIAN LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS MOORESVILLE LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS NEWARK LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS NEWPORT NEWS, LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS NORTH DETROIT LLC

 

  By: “William Leonard”
  Name: William Leonard
  Title: President

 

   

 

 

  GREENBROOK TMS NORTH RALEIGH LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS ROANOKE LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS SOUTH CAROLINA LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS SOUTHERN ILLINOIS LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS SOUTHERN MARYLAND LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS ST. LOUIS LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS ST. PETERSBURG LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS SUFFOLK LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS TAMPA LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS TOWSON, LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS WEST HARTFORD LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS WILMINGTON LLC
  GREENBROOK TMS WINSTON-SALEM LLC
  TMS CENTER OF ALASKA, LLC
  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS ANNAPOLIS, LLC
  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS ASHBURN, LLC
  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS CHARLOTTESVILLE, LLC
  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS COLUMBIA, LLC
  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS FREDERICK, LLC
  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS GLEN BURNIE, LLC
  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS GREENBELT, LLC
  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS KENSINGTON LLC
  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS OWINGS MILLS, LLC
  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS RESTON, LLC
  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS RICHMOND, LLC
  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS ROCKVILLE LLC
  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS SERVICES, LLC
  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS TYSONS CORNER, LLC
  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS VIRGINIA BEACH, LLC
  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS WOODBRIDGE, LLC
   
   
  By: “William Leonard”
  Name: William Leonard
  Title: President

 

 

 

 
AGENT: OXFORD FINANCE LLC, as Agent
   
   
  By: “Colette H. Featherly”
  Name: Colette H. Featherly
  Title: Senior Vice President

 

 

 

 

LENDERS: OXFORD FINANCE LLC, as a Lender,
   
   
  By: “Colette H. Featherly”
  Name: Colette H. Featherly
  Title: Senior Vice President
   
  Delayed Draw Term Loan
  Commitment:$15,000,000
  Term A Loan Commitment:  $15,000,000

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT A

 

FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER AGREEMENT

 

Reference is made to the Credit and Security Agreement dated as of December 31, 2020 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to time, the "Credit Agreement") by and among each of the financial institutions from time to time party thereto as a "Lender" (collectively "Lenders" and each a "Lender"), OXFORD FINANCE LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as Agent for Lenders (in such capacity, "Agent"), GREENBROOK TMS INC., an Ontario corporation ("Parent"), TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS INC., a Delaware corporation (together with such other Persons joined thereto as a borrower from time to time and each of their successors and assigns, each individually a "Borrower" and collectively, the "Borrowers"), and the other Credit Parties party thereto. Capitalized terms used in this Assignment and Transfer Agreement (this "Agreement") and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Credit Agreement. This Agreement, between the Assignor (as defined and set forth on Schedule 1, which is made a part of this Agreement) and the Assignee (as defined and set forth on Schedule 1) is effective as of Effective Date (as set forth on Schedule 1).

 

1.               The Assignor hereby irrevocably sells and assigns to the Assignee, without recourse to the Assignor, and the Assignee hereby irrevocably purchases and assumes from the Assignor, without recourse to the Assignor, as of the Effective Date, an undivided interest (the "Assigned Interest") in and to all of the Assignor's rights and obligations under the Credit Agreement respecting those, and only those, portions of the financing facilities contained in the Credit Agreement as are set forth on Schedule 1 (collectively, the "Assigned Facilities"), in an amount for each of the Assigned Facilities as set forth on Schedule 1.

 

2.               The Assignor (i) makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or any other instrument, document or agreement executed or delivered in connection therewith (collectively the "Loan Documents"), or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of the Credit Agreement, any Collateral thereunder or any of the other Loan Documents, other than a representation and warranty that the Assignor is the legal and beneficial owner of the Assigned Interest and that the Assigned Interest is free and clear of any adverse claim; and (ii) makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to (x) the financial condition of Borrowers or any Guarantor, or (y) the performance or observance by Borrowers or any Guarantor of any of their respective obligations under the Credit Agreement or any of the Loan Documents.

 

 Exhibit A – Page 1

 

 

3.               The Assignee (i) represents and warrants that it is legally authorized to enter into this Agreement, (ii) confirms that it has received a copy of the Credit Agreement as amended through the Effective Date, together with the copies of the most recent financial statements of Borrowers, and such other documents and information as the Assignee has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis, (iii) agrees that the Assignee will, independently and without reliance upon Agent, the Assignor or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as the Assignee shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Credit Agreement, (iv) appoints and authorizes Agent (including in its capacity as the Hypothecary Representative) to take such action as agent on the Assignee's behalf and to exercise such powers under the Credit Agreement as are delegated to Agent by the terms thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, (v) agrees that the Assignee will be bound by the provisions of the Credit Agreement and will perform in accordance with its terms all the obligations which by the terms of the Credit Agreement are required to be performed by it as Lender, (vi) if the Assignee is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States, attaches the forms prescribed by the IRS certifying as to the Assignee's exemption from United States withholding taxes with respect to all payments to be made to the Assignee under the Credit Agreement or such other documents as are necessary to indicate that all such payments are subject to such tax at a rate reduced by an applicable tax treaty, and (vii) represents and warrants that it is an Eligible Assignee.

 

4.               Following the execution of this Assignment and Transfer Agreement, such agreement will be delivered to Agent for acceptance by Agent, effective as of the Effective Date.

 

5.               Upon such acceptance, from and after the Effective Date, Agent shall make all payments in respect of the Assigned Interest (including payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts) to the Assignee, whether such amounts have accrued prior to the Effective Date or accrue subsequent to the Effective Date. The Assignor and the Assignee shall make all other appropriate adjustments in payments for periods prior to the Effective Date made by Agent or with respect to the making of this assignment directly between themselves.

 

6.               From and after the Effective Date, (i) the Assignee shall be a party to the Credit Agreement and, to the extent provided in this Agreement, have the rights and obligations of a Lender thereunder, and (ii) the Assignor shall, to the extent provided in this Agreement, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under the Credit Agreement.

 

7.               THIS ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAWS PRINCIPLES.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by its respective duly authorized officers on Schedule 1 hereto.

 

 Exhibit A – Page 2

 

 

Schedule 1 to Assignment and Transfer Agreement

 

   
Name of Assignor:  
   
Name of Assignee:  
   
Effective Date of Assignment: _________, 20___

 

Assigned Facilities    Dollar Amount Assigned
Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment   $
       
Delayed Draw Term Loan   $
       
Term A Loan   $                                  

 

  ASSIGNOR:
   
   
  By:          
  Its:  
   
  ASSIGNEE:
   
   
  By:  
  Its:  
   
  Accepted by Agent:
   
  OXFORD FINANCE LLC, as Agent
   
   
  By:  
  Its:  

 

 Exhibit A – Page 3

 

 

EXHIBIT B

 

FORM OF LOAN REQUEST

 

Date: _______________________, ________

 

Reference is made to that certain Credit and Security Agreement dated as of December 31, 2020 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to time, the "Credit Agreement") by and among each of the financial institutions from time to time party thereto as a "Lender" (collectively "Lenders" and each a "Lender"), OXFORD FINANCE LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as Agent for Lenders (in such capacity, "Agent"), GREENBROOK TMS INC., an Ontario corporation ("Parent"), TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS INC., a Delaware corporation (together with such other Persons joined hereto as a borrower from time to time and each of their successors and assigns, each individually a "Borrower" and collectively, the "Borrowers"), and the other Credit Parties party thereto. Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings set forth in the Credit Agreement.

 

Borrower Representative hereby notifies Agent, pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement, of Borrowers' request for the following Delayed Draw Term Loan:

 

(1)              Borrowing date (must be a Business Day):                                                          

 

(2)              Aggregate amount of the Delayed Draw Term Loan requested: $__________, to be disbursed to the recipients and pursuant to the instructions set forth on the schedule attached hereto.

 

The undersigned officer hereby certifies to Agent and Lenders that both before and after giving effect to the request above (i) the undersigned is an Authorized Person of Borrower Representative, and Borrower Representative has been, and continues to be, duly authorized as Borrower Representative for each Borrower in accordance in with the terms and provisions of the Credit Agreement, (ii) all of the representations and warranties contained in the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects (except that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof) on and as of the date hereof, as though made on and as of the date hereof (except to the extent that such representations and warranties relate solely to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all material respects (except that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof) as of such earlier date), and (iii) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date hereof. 

 

 Exhibit B – Page 1

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned officer has executed and delivered this Loan Request this ________ day of _________________, _______.

 

                 ,
  as Borrower Representative
   
   
  By:
  Name:    
  Title:

 

 Exhibit B – Page 2

 

 

EXHIBIT C

 

FORM OF Delayed Draw Term LOAN PROMISSORY NOTE

 

$_________ _________, 20___

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS INC., a Delaware corporation ("Company" and together with any other Borrower that is joined to the Credit Agreement referred to below, individually, a "Borrower" and collectively, the "Borrowers"), jointly and severally, absolutely and unconditionally, promise to pay to [__________] or its registered assign ("Lender"), at the office of Oxford Finance LLC, in its capacity as "Agent" under the Credit Agreement referred to below, in lawful money of the United States of America and in immediately available funds, the principal amount of [__________] Dollars [($__________)], in accordance with the Credit Agreement.

 

Borrowers jointly and severally, absolutely and unconditionally, further agree to pay principal and interest at the times and in the amounts set forth in the Credit Agreement dated as of December 31, 2020, among GREENBROOK TMS INC., an Ontario corporation, as Parent, Borrowers, the other Credit Parties party thereto, Lenders party thereto and Oxford Finance LLC, as Agent for Lenders (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"). Capitalized terms used in this Delayed Draw Term Loan Promissory Note (this "Note") and defined in the Credit Agreement shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Credit Agreement unless otherwise specifically defined herein.

 

This Note is a Promissory Note referred to in the Credit Agreement, evidences a portion of the Delayed Draw Term Loans made to Borrowers thereunder by Lender, and is subject to, and entitled to, all provisions and benefits thereof, including optional and mandatory prepayment, in whole or in part, as provided therein.

 

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Note to the contrary, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of any Event of Default specified in the Credit Agreement, or upon termination of the Credit Agreement for any reason, all amounts then remaining unpaid on this Note may become, or be declared by Agent or Required Lenders to be, immediately due and payable in accordance with the Credit Agreement.

 

 Exhibit C – Page 1

 

 

This Note shall be held in registered form, and transfers of this Note must be recorded in the Register maintained pursuant to Section 14.11 of the Agreement. Borrowers may deem and treat the Person in whose name this Note is recorded on the Register as the absolute owner of this Note for the purposes of receiving payment of, or on account of, the principal and interest due on this Note and for all other purposes, notwithstanding notice to the contrary.

 

  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS INC.
   
   
  By:                   
  Title:  

 

 Exhibit C – Page 2

 

 

EXHIBIT D

 

TERM LOAN PROMISSORY NOTE

 

$_________ _________, 20___

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS INC., a Delaware corporation ("Company" and together with any other Borrower that is joined to the Credit Agreement referred to below, individually, a "Borrower" and collectively, the "Borrowers"), jointly and severally, absolutely and unconditionally, promise to pay to [__________] or its registered assign ("Lender"), at the office of Oxford Finance LLC, in its capacity as "Agent" under the Credit Agreement referred to below, in lawful money of the United States of America and in immediately available funds, the principal amount of [__________] Dollars [($__________)], in accordance with the Credit Agreement (as defined below). Capitalized terms used in this Note and defined in the Credit Agreement shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Credit Agreement unless otherwise specifically defined herein.

 

Borrowers jointly and severally, absolutely and unconditionally, further agree to pay principal and interest at the times and in the amounts set forth in the Credit and Security Agreement dated as of December 31, 2020, among GREENBROOK TMS INC., an Ontario corporation, as Parent, Borrowers, the other Credit Parties party hereto, Lenders party thereto and Oxford Finance LLC, as Agent for Lenders (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"). Capitalized terms used in this Note and defined in the Credit Agreement shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Credit Agreement unless otherwise specifically defined herein.

 

This Note is a Promissory Note referred to in the Credit Agreement, evidences the Term Loan made to Borrowers thereunder by Lender, and is subject to, and entitled to, all provisions and benefits thereof, including optional and mandatory prepayment, in whole or in part, as provided therein.

 

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Note to the contrary, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default specified in the Credit Agreement, or upon termination of the Credit Agreement for any reason, all amounts then remaining unpaid on this Note may become, or be declared by Agent or Required Lenders to be, immediately due and payable in accordance with the Credit Agreement.

 

 Exhibit D – Page 1

 

 

This Note shall be held in registered form, and transfers of this Note must be recorded in the Register maintained pursuant to Section 14.11 of the Agreement. Borrowers may deem and treat the Person in whose name this Note is recorded on the Register as the absolute owner of this Note for the purpose of receiving payment of, or on account of, the principal and interest due on this Note and for all other purposes, notwithstanding notice to the contrary.

 

  TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS INC.
   
   
  By:                  
  Title:  

 

 Exhibit D – Page 2

 

 

EXHIBIT E

 

CLOSING CHECKLIST

 

(See attached)

 

 Exhibit E – Page 1

 

 

EXHIBIT F

 

FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

 

Oxford Finance LLC, as Agent
201 N. Union St., Suite 420
Alexandria, VA 22314

 

The undersigned, the [____________________] of TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS INC., a Delaware corporation, in its capacity as Borrower Representative under the below-defined Credit Agreement, hereby delivers this Compliance Certificate to induce OXFORD FINANCE LLC, as Agent for itself and certain other lenders ("Agent"), in accordance with the requirements of that certain Credit and Security Agreement dated December 31, 2020 by and among GREENBROOK TMS INC., an Ontario corporation, as Parent, the Borrowers party thereto, the Credit Parties party thereto, Agent and the Lenders identified therein (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"). All capitalized terms used herein which are not otherwise defined hereunder shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.

 

1.               Based upon my review of the financial statements required to be delivered to Agent under Section 8.8 of the Credit Agreement for the [fiscal year] [fiscal quarter] ending [__________], 20[___], copies of which are attached hereto, along with the calculations for each of the following financial covenants, I hereby certify that the Pro Forma Consolidated Revenues for the Test Period ended on such date are _________; and Qualified Cash (calculated as the daily average of Qualified Cash for the 30 days ending on such date) as of such date is ______.

 

2.               No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

 

3.               Attached hereto is a Perfection Certificate or supplement to Perfection Certificate reflecting new or changed information since the date of the last Perfection Certificate or supplement delivered to Agent.

 

              ,
  as Borrower Representative
   
   
  By:
  Name:
  Title:

 

[attach appropriate exhibits]

 

 Exhibit F – Page 1

 

 

EXHIBIT G

 

FORM OF JOINDER TO CREDIT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

 

THIS JOINDER TO CREDIT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (as the same may from time to time be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, the "Joinder") made this ___ day of _____, 20__, by and among TMS NEUROHEALTH CENTERS INC., a Delaware corporation, and other Persons set forth on Exhibit A hereto (collectively referred to as "Existing Borrowers" and each individually referred to as an "Existing Borrower"), [________] (collectively referred to as "New Borrowers" and each individually referred to as a "New Borrower," and together with the Existing Borrowers, the "Borrowers"), and OXFORD FINANCE LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as agent (together with its successors and assigns, "Agent") for itself and certain other financial institutions (collectively, "Lenders").

 

BACKGROUND

 

A.              Existing Borrowers, GREENBROOK TMS INC., an Ontario corporation ("Parent"), the other Credit Parties party thereto, Agent and Lenders are parties to a certain Credit and Security Agreement dated as of December 31, 2020 (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, the "Credit Agreement") pursuant to which Existing Borrowers established certain financing arrangements with Lenders. The Credit Agreement and all instruments, documents and agreements executed in connection therewith, or related thereto (in each case, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time) are referred to herein collectively as the "Loan Documents." All capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Credit Agreement.

 

B.               New Borrowers have become affiliated, directly or indirectly, with Existing Borrowers and, in recognition of the benefits and privileges thereunder, New Borrowers and Existing Borrowers have requested that each New Borrower be permitted to join into the Loan Documents on the date hereof as if an original signatory thereto, and Agent and Lenders have so consented subject to the terms and conditions hereof.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, with the foregoing Background hereinafter deemed incorporated by reference herein and made a part hereof, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, promise and agree as follows:

 

a.               Joinder. Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4 hereof:

 

i.            Each New Borrower joins in, assumes, adopts and becomes a Borrower under the Credit Agreement and with respect to all Loans. All references to Borrower or Borrowers contained in the Loan Documents are hereby deemed for all purposes to also refer to and include each New Borrower as a Borrower, and each New Borrower hereby agrees to comply with all of the terms and conditions of the Loan Documents as if such New Borrower was an original signatory thereto.

 

 

 

 

ii.           Without limiting the generality of the provisions of subparagraph (a) above, each New Borrower is thereby liable, along with all other Borrowers, including each New Borrower, for all existing and future Loans and other Obligations incurred at any time by any one or more Borrowers under the Loan Documents.

 

b.               Representations and Warranties. Each Borrower hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that, immediately before and immediately after giving effect to this Joinder:

 

i.            All representations and warranties of the Borrowers contained in the Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects (except that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof) on and as of the date hereof, as though made on and as of the date hereof (except to the extent that such representations and warranties relate solely to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all material respects (except that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof) as of such earlier date); provided, however, that to the extent any representation or warranty applicable to a New Borrower under the Loan Documents expressly relates to a date prior to the date hereof, such representation or warranty (to the extent applicable to such New Borrower) shall be deemed only to relate to the date hereof, and the New Borrower makes such representation or warranty on and as of the date hereof, and not as of such earlier date.

 

ii.           The execution and delivery by each Borrower of this Joinder and the performance by it of the transactions herein contemplated (i) are and will be within its corporate or limited liability company powers, as applicable, (ii) have been authorized by all necessary corporate or limited liability company action, as applicable, and (iii) are not in contravention of any order of any court or other agency of government, of law or any other indenture, agreement or undertaking to which such Borrower is a party or by which the property of such Borrower is bound, or be in conflict with, result in a breach of, or constitute (with due notice and/or lapse of time) a default under any such indenture, agreement or undertaking or result in the imposition of any Lien, charge or encumbrance of any nature on any of the properties of such Borrower.

 

iii.          This Joinder and all allonges, assignments, instruments, documents and agreements executed and delivered in connection herewith, are and will be valid, binding and enforceable against each Borrower in accordance with their respective terms.

 

iv.          No Default or No Event of Default has occurred and is continuing as of the date of this Joinder under the Credit Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents.

 

c.               Collateral.

 

i.            As security for the payment of the Obligations, and satisfaction by Borrowers (including New Borrowers) of all covenants and undertakings contained in the Credit Agreement and the Loan Documents, each New Borrower hereby assigns and grants to Agent, for its benefit and the benefit of Lenders, a continuing first priority security interest in and Lien upon, all of its right, title and interest in and to its following property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, created or arising and wherever located ("Collateral"): [LIST COLLATERAL FROM CREDIT AGREEMENT]

 

 Exhibit G – Page 2

 

 

ii.           Each Borrower confirms and agrees that: (i) all security interests and Liens granted to Agent are in full force and effect, and (ii) all Collateral remains free and clear of any Liens other than Liens in favor of Agent and Permitted Encumbrances. Nothing herein contained is intended to impair or limit the validity, priority and extent of Agent's security interest in and Liens upon the Collateral.

 

iii.          Each New Borrower hereby authorizes Agent to file UCC-1 and PPSA, as applicable, financing statements against such New Borrower covering the Collateral owned by such New Borrower in such jurisdictions as Agent shall deem necessary, prudent or desirable to perfect and protect the Liens and security interests granted to Agent hereunder.

 

d.               Effectiveness Conditions. This Joinder shall be effective and each New Borrower shall be deemed a Borrower under the Credit Agreement and the Loan Documents upon completion of the following conditions precedent (all documents to be in form and substance satisfactory to Agent and Agent's counsel):

 

i.            Execution and delivery of this Joinder and any other Loan Document;

 

ii.           Delivery of copies of, for each New Borrower, (i) the resolutions of such New Borrower's Board of Director, members, managers, or other similar management authority authorizing the execution of this Joinder, and (ii) the Organizational Documents of such new Borrower, in each case as certified by the Secretary or comparable officer of such New Borrower;

 

iii.          Delivery of an Incumbency Certificate for each New Borrower identifying the Authorized Person with a specimen signature;

 

iv.          Delivery of a legal opinion in form and substance satisfactory to Agent and its counsel; and

 

v.           Execution and delivery of any and all agreements, instruments and documents requested by Agent to effectuate and implement the terms hereof and/or the Loan Documents.

 

e.               Acknowledgment of Guarantors. By execution of this Joinder, each of the Guarantors, pursuant to the terms of the Guaranty Agreements, hereby accepts and acknowledges the terms and conditions of this Joinder. Each Guarantor hereby covenants and agrees that such Guaranty Agreement remains unchanged and in full force and effect and continues to cover the existing and future Obligations of Borrowers to Agent and Lenders, including those Obligations of each New Borrower.

 

f.                Ratification of Loan Documents. Except as otherwise expressly set forth herein, all of the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement and the Loan Documents are hereby ratified and confirmed and continue unchanged and in full force and effect. All references to the Credit Agreement means the Credit Agreement as modified by this Joinder.

 

 Exhibit G – Page 3

 

 

g.               Miscellaneous.

 

i.            Each Borrower hereby agrees to take all such actions and to execute and/or deliver to Agent all such documents, assignments, financing statements and other documents as Agent may reasonably require from time to time, to effectuate and implement the purposes of this Joinder and the other Loan Documents, and to pay or reimburse Agent for all reasonable and documented attorneys' fees and expenses incurred by Agent and any Lender in connection therewith.

 

ii.           No rights are intended to be created hereunder for the benefit of any third party donee, creditor or incidental beneficiary.

 

iii.          The headings of any paragraph of this Joinder are for convenience only and shall not be used to interpret any provision hereof.

 

iv.          This Joinder may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Execution and delivery by facsimile shall bind the undersigned.

 

v.           No modification hereof or any agreement referred to herein shall be binding or enforceable unless in writing and signed on behalf of the party against whom enforcement is sought.

 

vi.          The terms and conditions of this Joinder shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York excluding conflict of laws statutes or common law principles.

 

vii.         EACH BORROWER AND LENDER, BY ITS EXECUTION OR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS JOINDER, REAFFIRMS ITS WAIVER OF THE RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM OF ANY KIND ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO ANY OF THE LOAN DOCUMENTS, THE OBLIGATIONS OR THE COLLATERAL, AS MORE PARTICULARLY SET FORTH IN THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 14.6 OF THE CREDIT AGREEMENT, WHICH PROVISIONS ARE HEREBY INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE, MUTATIS MUTANDIS.

 

[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]

 

 Exhibit G – Page 4

 

 

EXHIBIT H

 

FORM OF WARRANT

 

[See attached]

 

 

 

 

THIS WARRANT AND THE SHARES ISSUABLE HEREUNDER HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “U.S. SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY U.S. STATE AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED, EXERCISED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED UNLESS AND UNTIL REGISTERED UNDER SAID ACT AND LAWS OR EXEMPT FROM SUCH REGISTRATION, AS EVIDENCED BY AN OPINION OF COUNSEL OR SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE ISSUER OF SUCH SECURITIES, AND SUBJECT TO THE ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS AS SET FORTH IN SECTIONS 5.3 AND 5.4 OF THIS WARRANT.

 

THE WARRANTS EVIDENCED HEREBY ARE EXERCISABLE ON OR BEFORE 6:00 P.M. (EASTERN TIME) ON [ ] AFTER WHICH TIME THE WARRANTS EVIDENCED HEREBY SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT.

 

WARRANT TO PURCHASE COMMON SHARES

 

Company: Greenbrook TMS Inc., a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Province of Ontario
Number of Warrants: [   ] Warrants (as such number may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this Warrant). Each whole Warrant shall entitle the Holder thereof to purchase one Common Share at a price per Common Share equal to the Warrant Price.
Class of Shares: Common Shares
Warrant Price:

C$[   ]

 

Issue Date: [   ]
Expiration Date: [   ]
Credit Facility: This Warrant to Purchase Common Shares (as amended and in effect from time to time, this “Warrant”) representing the Number of Warrants set forth above is issued in connection with, and as consideration for the commitments pursuant to, that certain Credit and Security Agreement of even date herewith among Oxford Finance LLC, as Agent, the Lenders from time to time party thereto, the Company, TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. and certain other direct or indirect subsidiaries of the Company (as modified, amended and/or restated from time to time, the “Credit Facility”). Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings set forth in the Credit Facility.

 

THIS WARRANT CERTIFIES THAT, for good and valuable consideration, OXFORD FINANCE LLC (“Oxford” and, together with any successor or permitted assignee or transferee of this Warrant or of any shares issued upon exercise hereof, the “Holder”) is entitled to purchase the number of fully paid and non-assessable common shares (the “Shares”) of the above-stated class of shares (the “Class”) of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Company”) at the above-stated Warrant Price, all as set forth above and as adjusted pursuant to Section 2 of this Warrant, subject to the provisions and upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Warrant.

 

SECTION 1.             EXERCISE.

 

1.1                Method of Exercise. The Holder may at any time and from time to time on or before the Expiration Date exercise this Warrant, in whole or in part, by delivering to the Company the original of this Warrant together with a duly executed Notice of Exercise in substantially the form attached hereto as Appendix 1 and, unless the Holder is exercising this Warrant pursuant to a cashless exercise in accordance with Section 1.2, a cheque, wire transfer of same-day funds (to an account designated by the Company), or other form of payment acceptable to the Company for the aggregate Warrant Price for the Shares being purchased.

 

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1.2                Cashless Exercise. On any exercise of this Warrant, in lieu of payment of the aggregate Warrant Price in the manner as specified in Section 1.1 above, but otherwise in accordance with the requirements of Section 1.1, the Holder may elect to receive Shares equal to the value of this Warrant, or portion hereof as to which this Warrant is being exercised. Thereupon, the Company shall issue to the Holder such number of fully paid and non-assessable Shares as are computed using the following formula:

 

X = Y(A-B)/A

 

where:

 

X = the number of Shares to be issued to the Holder;

 

Y = the number of Shares with respect to which this Warrant is being exercised (inclusive of the Shares surrendered to the Company in payment of the aggregate Warrant Price);

 

A = the Fair Market Value (as determined pursuant to Section 1.3 below) of one Share; and

 

B = the Warrant Price.

 

1.3                Fair Market Value. For purposes of this Warrant, “Fair Market Value” shall mean the following: If the Company’s Shares are then traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (the “TSX”), the Fair Market Value of a Share shall be the closing price or last sale price of a Share reported on the TSX (or another stock exchange where the majority of the trading volume and value of the Shares occurs). If the Company’s Shares are not then traded on the TSX, but are traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) or on another nationally recognized Canadian or U.S. securities exchange, inter-dealer quotation system or over-the-counter market (an “Other Market”) (any of the TSX, Nasdaq or Other Market, a “Trading Market”), the Fair Market Value of a Share shall be the closing price or last sale price of a Share reported on the Nasdaq or Other Market, as elected by the Holder in its sole discretion, for the Business Day immediately before the date on which the Holder delivers this Warrant, together with its Notice of Exercise to the Company. If the Company’s Shares are not traded on a Trading Market, the Board of Directors of the Company shall determine the Fair Market Value of a Share in its reasonable good faith judgment.

 

1.4                Delivery of Certificate and New Warrant. Within a reasonable time after the Holder exercises this Warrant in the manner set forth in Sections 1.1 or 1.2 above, the Company shall deliver to the Holder a certificate representing the Shares (or in the case of non-certificated Shares, other evidences of entitlement) issued to the Holder upon such exercise and, if this Warrant has not been fully exercised and has not expired, a new warrant of like tenor representing the Shares not so acquired.

 

1.5                Replacement of Warrant. On receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Warrant and, in the case of loss, theft or destruction, on delivery of an indemnity agreement reasonably satisfactory in form, substance and amount to the Company or, in the case of mutilation, on surrender of this Warrant to the Company for cancellation, the Company shall, within a reasonable time, execute and deliver to the Holder, in lieu of this Warrant, a new warrant of like tenor and amount.

 

1.6                Treatment of Warrant Upon Acquisition of the Company.

 

(a)                Acquisition. For the purpose of this Warrant, “Acquisition” means any transaction or series of related transactions involving: (i) the sale, lease, exclusive license, or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company; (ii) any merger or consolidation of the Company into or with another person or entity (other than a merger or consolidation effected exclusively to change the Company’s domicile), or any other corporate reorganization, in which the shareholders of the Company in their capacity as such immediately prior to such merger, consolidation or reorganization, own less than a majority of the Company’s (or the surviving or successor entity’s) outstanding voting power immediately after such merger, consolidation or reorganization (or, if such Company shareholders beneficially own a majority of the outstanding voting power of the surviving or successor entity as of immediately after such merger, consolidation or reorganization, such surviving or successor entity is not the Company); or (iii) any sale or other transfer by the shareholders of the Company of shares representing at least a majority of the Company’s then-total outstanding combined voting power.

 

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(b)                Treatment of Warrant at Acquisition. In the event of an Acquisition in which the consideration to be received by the Company’s shareholders consists solely of cash, solely of Marketable Securities (as defined below) or a combination of cash and Marketable Securities (a “Cash/Public Acquisition”), then, subject to Section 1.6(c), either (i) the Holder shall exercise this Warrant pursuant to Sections 1.1 or 1.2 and such exercise will be deemed effective immediately prior to and contingent upon the consummation of such Acquisition or (ii) if the Holder elects not to exercise the Warrant, this Warrant will expire immediately prior to the consummation of such Acquisition.

 

(c)                 The Company shall provide the Holder with written notice of its request relating to the Cash/Public Acquisition (together with such reasonable information as the Holder may reasonably require regarding the treatment of this Warrant in connection with such contemplated Cash/Public Acquisition giving rise to such notice), which is to be delivered to the Holder not less than seven (7) Business Days prior to the closing of the proposed Cash/Public Acquisition. In the event the Company does not provide such notice, then if, immediately prior to closing of the Cash/Public Acquisition, the Fair Market Value of one Share (or other security issuable upon the exercise hereof) as determined in accordance with Section 1.3 above would be greater than the Warrant Price in effect on such date, then this Warrant shall automatically be deemed on and as of such date to be exercised pursuant to Section 1.2 above as to all Shares (or such other securities) for which it shall not previously have been exercised, and the Company shall promptly notify the Holder of the number of Shares (or such other securities) issued upon such exercise to the Holder and the Holder shall be deemed to have restated each of the representations and warranties in Section 4 of this Warrant as of the date thereof.

 

(d)                Upon the closing of any Acquisition other than a Cash/Public Acquisition, the acquiring, surviving or successor entity shall assume the obligations of this Warrant, and this Warrant shall thereafter be exercisable for the same securities and/or other property as would have been paid for the Shares issuable upon exercise of the unexercised portion of this Warrant as if such Shares were outstanding on and as of the closing of such Acquisition, subject to further adjustment from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this Warrant.

 

(e)                 As used in this Warrant, “Marketable Securities” means securities meeting all of the following requirements: (A) (i) the issuer thereof is then subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or the corresponding reporting requirements of the Securities Act, and is then current in its filing of all required reports and other information under the U.S. Securities Act, the Exchange Act and/or the Securities Act, as applicable; or (ii) the issuer thereof is a “reporting issuer” as such term is defined in the Securities Act; (B) the class and series of shares or other security of the issuer that would be received by the Holder in connection with the Acquisition were the Holder to exercise this Warrant on or prior to the closing thereof is then traded on a Trading Market; and (C) following the closing of such Acquisition, the Holder would not be restricted from publicly re-selling all of the issuer’s shares and/or other securities that would be received by the Holder in such Acquisition were the Holder to exercise or convert this Warrant in full on or prior to the closing of such Acquisition, except to the extent that any such restriction (x) arises solely under U.S. or Canadian federal, provincial or state securities laws, rules or regulations, or (y) is included in a lock-up or standstill agreement that does not extend beyond six (6) months from the closing of such Acquisition.

 

SECTION 2.             ADJUSTMENTS TO THE SHARES AND WARRANT PRICE.

 

2.1                Share Dividends, Share Splits, Share Consolidations, Etc. If the Company declares or pays a dividend or distribution on the outstanding shares of the Class payable in Common Shares or other securities or property (other than cash) (which, for avoidance of doubt, shall not include any Shares issued by the Company upon the prior exercise of a portion of this Warrant), then upon exercise of this Warrant, for each Share acquired, the Holder shall receive, without additional cost to the Holder, the total number and kind of securities and property which the Holder would have received had the Holder owned the Shares of record as of the date the dividend or distribution occurred. If the Company subdivides the outstanding shares of the Class by reclassification or otherwise into a greater number of shares, the number of Shares purchasable hereunder shall be proportionately increased and the Warrant Price shall be proportionately decreased. If the outstanding shares of the Class are combined or consolidated, by reclassification or otherwise, into a lesser number of shares, the Warrant Price shall be proportionately increased and the number of Shares shall be proportionately decreased.

 

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2.2                Reclassification, Exchange, Combinations or Substitution. Upon any event whereby all of the outstanding shares of the Class are reclassified, converted, exchanged, combined, substituted, or replaced for, into, with or by Company securities of a different class and/or series, then from and after the consummation of such event, this Warrant will be exercisable for the number, class and series of Company securities that the Holder would have received had the Shares been outstanding on and as of the consummation of such event, and subject to further adjustment thereafter from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this Warrant. The provisions of this Section 2.2 shall similarly apply to successive reclassifications, exchanges, combinations, substitutions, replacements or other similar events.

 

2.3                Merger or Reorganization. If at any time there shall be any reorganization, recapitalization, merger or consolidation (a “Reorganization”) involving the Company (other than an Acquisition which is subject to the provisions of Section 1.6) in which the Company’s Shares are converted into or exchanged for securities, cash or other property, then, as a part of such Reorganization, lawful provision shall be made so that the Holder shall thereafter be entitled to receive upon exercise of this Warrant, the kind and amount of securities, cash or other property of the successor corporation resulting from such Reorganization, equivalent in value to that which a holder of the Shares deliverable upon exercise of this Warrant would have been entitled in such Reorganization if the right to purchase the Shares hereunder had been exercised immediately prior to such Reorganization. In any such case, appropriate adjustment (as determined in good faith by the board of directors of the successor corporation) shall be made in the application of the provisions of this Warrant with respect to the rights and interests of the Holder after such Reorganization to the end that the provisions of this Warrant shall be applicable after the event, as near as reasonably may be, in relation to any shares or other securities deliverable after that event upon the exercise of this Warrant.

 

2.4                No Fractional Share. No fractional Share shall be issuable upon exercise of this Warrant and the number of Shares to be issued shall be rounded down to the nearest whole Share. If a fractional Share interest arises upon any exercise of the Warrant, the Company shall eliminate such fractional Share interest by paying the Holder in cash the amount computed by multiplying the fractional interest by (i) the Fair Market Value (as determined in accordance with Section 1.3 above) of a full Share, less (ii) the then-effective Warrant Price.

 

2.5                Notice/Certificate as to Adjustments. Upon each adjustment of the Warrant Price and/or number of Shares, the Company, at the Company’s expense, shall notify the Holder in writing within a reasonable time setting forth the adjustments to the Warrant Price and/or number of Shares and the facts upon which such adjustment is based. The Company shall, upon written request from the Holder, furnish the Holder with a certificate of its Chief Financial Officer, including computations of such adjustment and the Warrant Price and number of Shares in effect upon the date of such adjustment.

 

SECTION 3.             REPRESENTATIONS AND COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY.

 

3.1                Representations and Warranties. The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the Holder as follows:

 

(a)                All Shares which may be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant, and all securities, if any, issuable upon conversion of the Shares, shall, upon issuance, be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, and free of any liens and encumbrances except for restrictions on transfer provided for herein or under applicable U.S. and/or Canadian federal, provincial and state securities laws. The Company covenants that it shall at all times keep available, and reserve if necessary under applicable law, out of its authorized and unissued share capital such number of common shares as will be sufficient to permit the exercise in full of this Warrant into Shares of the Class.

 

(b)                The authorized capital of the Company consists of an unlimited number of Common Shares and an unlimited number of preferred shares, and as at the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the date hereof, [   ] Common Shares were issued and outstanding as fully paid and non-assessable shares in the capital of the Corporation, and [   ] Common Shares are issuable under options and convertible securities. There is sufficient authorized capital for the issuance of all Common Shares issuable on exercise of all outstanding convertible securities of the Corporation.

 

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3.2                Notice of Certain Events. If the Company proposes at any time to:

 

(a)                declare any dividend or distribution upon the outstanding shares of the Class, whether in cash, property, shares, or other securities and whether or not a regular cash dividend;

 

(b)                offer for subscription or sale pro rata to the holders of the outstanding shares of the Class any additional shares of any class or series of the Company’s share capital (other than pursuant to contractual pre-emptive rights);

 

(c)                effect any reclassification, exchange, combination, substitution, reorganization or recapitalization of the outstanding shares of the Class; or

 

(d)                effect an Acquisition or to liquidate, dissolve or wind up;

 

then, in connection with each such event, the Company shall give the Holder:

 

(1)                at least seven (7) Business Days prior written notice of the date on which a record will be taken for such dividend, distribution, or subscription rights (and specifying the date on which the holders of outstanding shares of the Class will be entitled thereto) or for determining rights to vote, if any, in respect of the matters referred to in (a) and (b) above; and

 

(2)                in the case of the matters referred to in (c) and (d) above, at least seven (7) Business Days prior written notice of the date when the same will take place (and specifying the date on which the holders of outstanding shares of the Class will be entitled to exchange their shares for the securities or other property deliverable upon the occurrence of such event).

 

Reference is made to Section 1.6(c) whereby this Warrant may be deemed to be exercised pursuant to Section 1.2 hereof if the Company does not give written notice to the Holder of a Cash/Public Acquisition as required by the terms hereof. Company will also provide information requested by the Holder that is reasonably necessary to enable the Holder to comply with the Holder’s accounting or reporting requirements.

 

SECTION 4.             REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE HOLDER.

 

The Holder represents and warrants to the Company as follows:

 

4.1                Purchase for Own Account. This Warrant and the Shares to be acquired upon exercise of this Warrant by the Holder are being acquired for investment for the Holder’s account, not as a nominee or agent, and not with a view to the public resale or distribution within the meaning of the U.S. Securities Act or the Securities Act. The Holder also represents that it has not been formed for the specific purpose of acquiring this Warrant or the Shares.

 

4.2                Disclosure of Information. The Holder is aware of the Company’s business affairs and financial condition and has received or has had full access to all the information it considers necessary or appropriate to make an informed investment decision with respect to the acquisition of this Warrant and its underlying securities. The Holder further has had an opportunity to ask questions and receive answers from the Company regarding the terms and conditions of the issuance of this Warrant and its underlying securities and to obtain additional information (to the extent the Company possessed such information or could acquire it without unreasonable effort or expense) necessary to verify any information furnished to the Holder or to which the Holder has access.

 

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4.3                Investment Experience. The Holder understands that the purchase of this Warrant and its underlying securities involves substantial risk. The Holder has experience as an investor in securities and acknowledges that the Holder can bear the economic risk of such Holder’s investment in this Warrant and its underlying securities and has such knowledge and experience in financial or business matters that the Holder is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of its investment in this Warrant and its underlying securities and/or has a preexisting personal or business relationship with the Company and certain of its officers, directors or controlling persons of a nature and duration that enables the Holder to be aware of the character, business acumen and financial circumstances of such persons.

 

4.4                Accredited Investor Status. The Holder is an “accredited investor” within the meaning of Regulation D promulgated under the U.S. Securities Act, and is purchasing the Warrant pursuant to an exemption from the registration and prospectus requirements of applicable securities laws.

 

4.5                Registration Exemptions. The Holder understands that this Warrant and the Shares issued upon exercise of this Warrant have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act or with the securities commission of any state by reason of their issuance in a transaction that is or will be exempt from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) thereof, nor have they been qualified by a prospectus under the laws of any province or territory of Canada and, accordingly, are subject to resale restrictions and may not be offered or sold except pursuant to an effective registration statement under the U.S. Securities Act or a receipted final prospectus under provincial or territorial laws unless offered or sold pursuant to an available exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act or the prospectus or other requirements of the laws of the applicable province or territory and in accordance with applicable state, provincial and territorial securities laws. In addition, the Holder represents that it is familiar with Rule 144 promulgated pursuant to the U.S. Securities Act and understands the resale limitations imposed hereby and by the U.S. Securities Act.

 

4.6                Purchase outside of Canada. The Holder is not a resident of Canada and is purchasing this Warrant as principal for its own account, not for the benefit of any other person, for investment only and not with a view to the resale or distribution of all or any of this Warrant or the underlying Shares.

 

4.7                Holder not a Shareholder. Nothing in this Warrant nor the holding of a Warrant evidenced by hereby or otherwise shall be construed as conferring upon a Holder any right or interest whatsoever as a shareholder of the Company.

 

SECTION 5.             MISCELLANEOUS.

 

5.1                Term; Automatic Cashless Exercise Upon Expiration.

 

(a)                Term. Subject to the provisions of Section 1.6 above, this Warrant is exercisable in whole or in part at any time and from time to time on or before 6:00 PM (Eastern time), on the Expiration Date and shall thereafter expire and terminate.

 

(b)                Automatic Cashless Exercise upon Expiration. In the event that, upon the Expiration Date, the fair market value of one Share (or other security issuable upon the exercise hereof) as determined in accordance with Section 1.3 above is greater than the Warrant Price in effect on such date, then this Warrant shall automatically be deemed on and as of such date to be exercised pursuant to Section 1.2 above as to all Shares (or such other securities) for which it shall not previously have been exercised, and the Company shall, within a reasonable time, deliver a certificate representing the Shares (or such other securities) issued upon such exercise to Holder.

 

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5.2                Legends. Each certificate evidencing Shares (or, in the case of non-certificated Shares, other evidences of entitlement) issued on exercise hereof shall be imprinted with legends in substantially the following forms:

 

THE COMMON SHARES EVIDENCED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “U.S. SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE AND, EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THAT CERTAIN WARRANT TO PURCHASE COMMON SHARES ISSUED BY THE COMPANY TO OXFORD FINANCE LLC DATED ¨ MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED UNLESS AND UNTIL REGISTERED UNDER SAID ACT AND LAWS OR EXEMPT FROM SUCH REGISTRATION, AS EVIDENCED BY AN OPINION OF COUNSEL OR SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE ISSUER OF SUCH SECURITIES.

 

THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE ARE LISTED ON THE TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE (“TSX”); HOWEVER, THE SAID SECURITIES CANNOT BE TRADED THROUGH THE FACILITIES OF THE TSX SINCE THEY ARE NOT FREELY TRANSFERABLE, AND CONSEQUENTLY ANY CERTIFICATE REPRESENTING SUCH SECURITIES IS NOT “GOOD DELIVERY” IN SETTLEMENT OF TRANSACTIONS ON TSX. A NEW CERTIFICATE, BEARING NO LEGEND, DELIVERY OF WHICH WILL CONSTITUTE “GOOD DELIVERY”, MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE COMPANY UPON DELIVERY OF THIS CERTIFICATE AND A DULY EXECUTED DECLARATION, IN FORM SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY, TO THE EFFECT THAT THE SALE OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT.

 

5.3                Compliance with Securities Laws on Transfer. This Warrant and the Shares issued upon exercise of this Warrant (and the securities issuable, directly or indirectly, upon conversion of the Shares, if any) may not be transferred or assigned in whole or in part except in compliance with applicable U.S. and Canadian federal, provincial and state securities laws by the transferor and the transferee (including, without limitation, the delivery of legal opinions and/or other evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company, as reasonably requested by the Company, to the effect that such transfer or assignment is permitted under applicable securities laws). The Company shall not require the Holder to provide an opinion of counsel if the transfer is to an affiliate of the Holder, provided that any such transferee is an “accredited investor” as defined in Regulation D promulgated under the U.S. Securities Act. Additionally, the Company shall also not require an opinion of counsel if there is no material question as to the availability of Rule 144 promulgated under the U.S. Securities Act.

 

5.4                Transfer Procedure. Oxford may transfer all or part of this Warrant to one or more of Oxford’s affiliates (each, an “Oxford Affiliate”), by execution of an Assignment substantially in the form of Appendix 2. Upon providing the Company with written notice, Oxford, any such Oxford Affiliate and any subsequent Holder, may transfer all or part of this Warrant or the Shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant (or the securities issuable, directly or indirectly, upon conversion of the Shares, if any) to any other transferee, provided, however, in connection with any such transfer, the Oxford Affiliate(s) or any subsequent Holder will give the Company notice of the portion of the Warrant being transferred with the name, address and taxpayer identification number of the transferee and the Holder will surrender this Warrant to the Company for reissuance to the transferee(s) (and the Holder, if applicable).

 

5.5                Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder from the Company to the Holder, or vice versa, shall be deemed delivered and effective (i) when given personally, (ii) on the third (3rd) Business Day after being mailed by first-class registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, (iii) upon actual receipt if given by facsimile or electronic mail and such receipt is confirmed in writing by the recipient, or (iv) on the first (1st) Business Day following delivery to a reliable overnight courier service, courier fee prepaid, in any case at such address as may have been furnished to the Company or the Holder, as the case may be, in writing by the Company or such Holder from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5.5. All notices to the Holder shall be addressed as follows until the Company receives notice of a change of address in connection with a transfer or otherwise:

 

Oxford Finance LLC

115 S. Union Street, Suite 300

Alexandria, VA 22314

Attn: Legal Department

Telephone: [Redacted: Personal Contact Information]

Facsimile: [Redacted: Personal Contact Information]
Email: [Redacted: Personal Contact Information]

 

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Notice to the Company shall be addressed as follows until the Holder receives notice of a change in address:

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

890 Yonge Street, 7th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M4W 3P4

Attn: Aniss Amdiss, General Counsel

Telephone: [Redacted: Personal Contact Information]

Email: [Redacted: Personal Contact Information]

 

5.6                Waiver. This Warrant and any term hereof may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively) only by an instrument in writing signed by the party against which enforcement of such change, waiver, discharge or termination is sought.

 

5.7                Attorneys’ Fees. In the event of any dispute between the parties concerning the terms and provisions of this Warrant, the party prevailing in such dispute shall be entitled to collect from the other party all costs incurred in such dispute, including reasonable attorneys’ fees.

 

5.8                Counterparts; Facsimile/Electronic Signatures. This Warrant may be executed in counterparts, all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Any signature page delivered electronically or by facsimile shall be binding to the same extent as an original signature page with regards to any agreement subject to the terms hereof or any amendment thereto.

 

5.9                Governing Law; Jurisdiction and Venue. This Warrant shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable therein. The Company and the Holder hereby irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the City of Toronto, Ontario in connection with any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Warrant. The Company and the Holder hereby agree that any breach of any term or condition of this Warrant shall be deemed to be a breach occurring in the Province of Ontario by virtue of a failure to perform an act required to be performed in the Province of Ontario and irrevocably and expressly agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the City of Toronto, Ontario for the purpose of resolving any disputes relating to this Warrant or the transactions contemplated hereby. The Company and the Holder irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which they may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Warrant, or any judgment entered by any court in respect hereof brought in the City of Toronto, Ontario, and further irrevocably waive any claim that any suit, action or proceeding brought in the City of Toronto, Ontario has been brought in an inconvenient forum. The Company and the Holder hereby consent to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding, by mailing a copy thereof to the address in effect for notices under Section 5.5 and agree that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing in this Section 5.9 shall affect or limit any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.

 

5.10              Headings. The headings in this Warrant are for purposes of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning of any provision of this Warrant.

 

5.11              Business Days. “Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or a day on which commercial banks in the City of Toronto, Ontario are required or permitted to be closed.

 

5.12              Public Disclosure. The Company acknowledges that it may be required to file a copy of this Warrant with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in order to comply with any of its obligations under U.S. federal securities laws, if and when applicable to the Company.

 

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[Signature page follows]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Warrant to Purchase Common Shares to be executed by their duly authorized representatives effective as of the Issue Date written above.

 

GREENBROOK TMS INC.  
   
By:    
Name:    
  (Print)  
Title:    
   
OXFORD FINANCE LLC  
   
By:    
Name:    
  (Print)  
Title:            

 

[Signature Page to Warrant to Purchase Common Shares]

 

 

 

 

APPENDIX 1

 

NOTICE OF EXERCISE

 

1.                   The undersigned Holder hereby exercises its right to purchase ___________ Common Shares of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Company”) in accordance with the attached Warrant to Purchase Common Shares, and tenders payment of the aggregate Warrant Price for such shares as follows:

 

[   ]                  cheque in the amount of C$________ payable to order of the Company enclosed herewith

 

[   ]                  Wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Company’s account

 

[   ]                  Cashless Exercise pursuant to Section 1.2 of the Warrant

 

[   ]                  Other [Describe] __________________________________________

 

2.                   Please issue a certificate or certificates representing the Common Shares in the name specified below:

 

__________________________________________

Holder’s Name

 

__________________________________________

 

__________________________________________

(Address)

 

3.                   By its execution below and for the benefit of the Company, the Holder hereby restates each of the representations and warranties in Section 4 of the Warrant to Purchase Common Shares as of the date hereof.

 

  [HOLDER]
   
   
   
  By:  
  Name:  
  Title:  
  Date:       

 

Appendix 1

 

 

APPENDIX 2

 

ASSIGNMENT

 

For value received, Oxford Finance LLC hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto

 

Name:                         [OXFORD TRANSFEREE]

 

Address:                                                                

 

Tax ID:                                                                            ]

 

that certain Warrant to Purchase Common Shares issued by Greenbrook TMS Inc. (the “Company”), on [DATE] (the “Warrant”) together with all rights, title and interest therein.

 

      OXFORD FINANCE LLC
       
      By:  
      Name:  
      Title:  
       
Date:      

 

By its execution below, and for the benefit of the Company, [OXFORD TRANSFEREE] makes each of the representations and warranties set forth in Article 4 of the Warrant and agrees to all other provisions of the Warrant as of the date hereof.

 

  [OXFORD TRANSFEREE]
   
  By:  
  Name:  
  Tile:                                                                                                                               ]

 

Appendix 2

 

 

 

Schedule 4.3 — Post Closing Obligations

 

1. On or before the date that is sixty (60) days (or such longer time period as agreed to by Agent in its sole discretion) after the Closing Date, the Credit Parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain and deliver to Agent fully-executed Collateral Access Agreements, to the extent required by Section 8.18 of the Credit Agreement.
   
2. On or before the date that is sixty (60) days (or such longer time period as agreed to by Agent in its sole discretion) after the Closing Date, the Credit Parties shall enter into and deliver to Agent, Deposit Account Control Agreements with each financial institution at which any Credit Party maintains a Deposit Account (other than Excluded Accounts), sufficient to comply with the requirements of Section 2.6 of the Credit Agreement.
   
3. On or before the date that is sixty (60) days (or such longer time period as agreed to by Agent in its sole discretion) after the Closing Date, the Credit Parties shall deliver to Agent additional insured, lender's loss payable and notice of cancellation endorsements with respect to each Credit Parties' liability insurance and property insurance policies, in each case, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent.

 

 

 

 

Schedule 6.4(f) — Commercial Tort Claims

 

None.

 

 

 

 

Schedule 7.2 — Perfection Certificate

 

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule 7.4 — Material Contracts

 

1. Master Services Agreement, dated October 1, 2018, by and among TMS Neurollealth Centers Inc. and AthenaHealth Inc.;
   
2. Membership Interest Purchase Agreement, dated September 11, 2019, by and among TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc., Greenbrook TMS Inc., Achieve TMS Centers, LLC, Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC, TMS Center of Alaska, LLC and the sellers named therein;
   
3. Investor Rights Agreement, dated May 17, 2019, by and among Greenbrook TMS Inc. and 1315 Capital II, LP;
   
4. Registration Rights Agreement, dated May 17, 2019, by and among Parent and 1315 Capital II, LP
   
5. Master Subscription Agreement, dated June 14, 2016, by and between TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. and salesforce.com, inc.;
   
6. [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information];
   
7. [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information];
   
8. [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information];
   
9. [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]; and
   
10. [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information].

 

 

 

 

Schedule 7.7 — Litigation

 

None.

 

 

 

 

Schedule 7.8 — Employee Benefits

 

None.

 

 

 

 

Schedule 10.1 — Liens

 

None.

 

 

 

 

Schedule 10.2 — Indebtedness

 

None.

 

 

 

 

Schedule 10.7 — Investments

 

Company

(Holder of Security / Instrument)

Name of Issuer of Security / Instrument Description and Value of Security / Instrument
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information] TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. Promissory note issued to [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information] $96,180.61

  

Person Record Owner  Number of
Shares/Interests
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. Greenbrook TMS Inc. 100%
TMS Neurohealth Centers Services, LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Rockville LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 51%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Kensington LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Frederick LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 75%

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Greenbelt, LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 75%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Hunt Valley LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Glen Burnie, LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 70%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Columbia, LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Annapolis, LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Owings Mills, LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
Greenbrook TMS Wilmington LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 70%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Bel Air LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
Greenbrook TMS Easton LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 80%

 

 

 

 

  [Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

Greenbrook TMS Newark LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
Greenbrook TMS Southern Maryland LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
Greenbrook TMS Eastern Shore, LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

100%
Greenbrook TMS Towson, LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
TMS Neurollealth Centers Tysons Corner, LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Reston, LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 51%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Ashburn, LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 51%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Woodbridge, LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 70%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Fairfax LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 60%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Arlington LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS Neurollealth Centers Inc. — 70%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Richmond, LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 65%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Charlottesville, LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS Neurollealth Centers Inc. — 65%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
TMS NeuroHealth Centers Virginia Beach, LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS Neurollealth Centers Inc. — 70%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Newport News LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS Neurollealth Centers Inc. — 75%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Midlothian LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS Neurollealth Centers Inc. — 80%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

 

 

 

 

Greenbrook TMS Fredericksburg LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
Greenbrook TMS Suffolk LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
Greenbrook TMS Roanoke LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 70%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Lynchburg LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 70%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Christiansburg, LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 70%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Mechanicsville LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
Greenbrook TMS Cary LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 75%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS North Raleigh LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 75%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Chapel Hill LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 90%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Greensboro LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 70%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Durham LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
Greenbrook TMS Winston- Salem LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 80%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Fayetteville LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

100 %
Greenbrook TMS Charlotte LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
Greenbrook TMS Mooresville LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS Neurollealth Centers Inc. — 80%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS South Carolina LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 90%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Greenville LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%

 

 

 

 

Greenbrook TMS St. Louis LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 60%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Southern Illinois LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

100%
Greenbrook TMS Austin Central LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 80%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Austin North LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
Greenbrook TMS Houston LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 80%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Fort Bend LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
Greenbrook TMS Connecticut LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 80%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS West Hartford LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 85%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Eastern Connecticut LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
Greenbrook TMS Clearwater LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
Greenbrook TMS St. Petersburg LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: CommerciallySensitive Information]

TMS Neurollealth Centers Inc. — 90%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Tampa LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 80%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Central Florida LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
Greenbrook TMS Cleveland LLC Class A Shares Class A Shares

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

Class B Shares

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 88.24%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

Class B Shares

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 85.73%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

 

 

 

 

Greenbrook TMS North Detroit LLC

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc.

[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]

TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. — 90%
[Redacted: Commercially Sensitive Information]
Greenbrook TMS Michigan LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
Greenbrook TMS Bloomfield Hills LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
Achieve TMS Centers, LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. 100%
TMS Center of Alaska, LLC Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC 100%

 

 

 

 

Schedule 10.8 — Related Party Transactions

 

1. Management and Consulting Agreement, dated January 1, 2015, by and between TMS NeuroHealth Centers Inc. and Greybrook Health Inc., renewed and set to expire on January 1, 2021.
   
2. Investor Rights Agreement, dated May 17, 2019, by and among Greenbrook TMS Inc. and 1315 Capital II, LP.
   
3. Registration Rights Agreement, dated May 17, 2019, by and among Parent and 1315 Capital II, LP.

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.29

 

FORM 51-102F3

 

Material Change Report

 

Item 1    Name and Address of Company

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc. (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) 

890 Yonge Street, 7th Floor 

Toronto, Ontario 

Canada M4W 3P4

 

Item 2    Date of Material Change

 

February 1, 2021.

 

Item 3    News Release

 

A news release was issued by Greenbrook on February 1, 2021 through the facilities of Business Wire and filed on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR).

 

Item 4    Summary of Material Change

 

On February 1, 2021, Greenbrook announced that, in conjunction with its application to list its common shares (the “Common Shares”) on The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (“NASDAQ”), the Company has completed the consolidation of its issued and outstanding Common Shares on the basis of one (1) post-consolidation Common Share for every five (5) pre-consolidation Common Shares (the “Share Consolidation”).

 

Item 5    Full Description of Material Change

 

5.1 - Full Description of Material Change

 

On February 1, 2021, Greenbrook announced that, in conjunction with its application to list its Common Shares on NASDAQ, the Company has completed the consolidation of its issued and outstanding Common Shares on the basis of one (1) post-consolidation Common Share for every five (5) pre-consolidation Common Shares.

 

On February 1, 2021, Greenbrook filed articles of amendment which implemented the Share Consolidation and the Company anticipates that its Common Shares will begin trading on a post-consolidation basis on the Toronto Stock exchange (“TSX”) at the market open on February 4, 2021 under its current trading symbol “GTMS”.

 

The Share Consolidation resulted in the number of issued and outstanding Common Shares being reduced from approximately 67.5 million to approximately 13.5 million, on a non-diluted basis. No fractional Common Shares were issued as a result of the Share Consolidation. Any fractional interest in Common Shares that would otherwise result from the Share Consolidation was rounded up to the next whole Common Share, if the fractional interest was equal to or greater than one-half of a Common Share, and was rounded down to the next whole Common Share if the fractional interest was less than one-half of a Common Share. The exercise price and number of Common Shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding stock options, warrants or other convertible securities were proportionately adjusted to reflect the Share Consolidation in accordance with the terms of such securities.

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5.2 - Disclosure for Restructuring Transactions

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 6    Reliance on subsection 7.1(2) of National Instrument 51-102

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 7    Omitted Information

 

No information has been omitted from this report on the basis that it is confidential information.

 

Item 8    Executive Officer

 

For further information, please contact William Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer, at (855) 797-4867.

 

Item 9    Date of Report

 

February 2, 2021.

Exhibit 99.30 

FORM 51-102F3

 

Material Change Report

 

Item 1    Name and Address of Company

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc. (“Greenbrook”) 

890 Yonge Street, 7th Floor 

Toronto, Ontario 

Canada M4W 3P4

 

Item 2    Date of Material Change

 

December 31, 2020.

 

Item 3    News Release

 

A news release was issued by Greenbrook on December 31, 202o through the facilities of Business Wire and filed on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR).

 

Item 4    Summary of Material Change

 

On December 31, 2020, Greenbrook announced that it and its subsidiaries entered into a credit and security agreement for a US$30 million secured credit facility (the “Credit Facility”) with Oxford Finance LLC (“Oxford”). As consideration for providing the Credit Facility, Greenbrook issued 256,535 common share purchase warrants (the “Warrants”) to Oxford. Each Warrant is exercisable for one common share of Greenbrook at an exercise price of C$2.24 per common share. The Warrants will expire on December 31, 2025.

 

Item 5    Full Description of Material Change

 

5.1 - Full Description of Material Change

 

On December 31, 2020, Greenbrook announced that it and its subsidiaries entered into the Credit Facility with Oxford.

 

The Credit Facility provides a US$15 million term loan which was funded at closing and an option of drawing up to an additional US$15 million in three US$5 million delayed-draw term loan tranches within the next 24 months, subject to achieving specific financial milestones. All amounts borrowed under the Credit Facility will bear interest at a rate equal to 30-day LIBOR plus 7.75%, subject to a minimum interest rate of 8.75%. The Credit Facility has a five-year term and amortizes over the life of the Credit Facility with 1% of the principal amount outstanding amortized over years one to four with the remaining outstanding principal repaid in installments over the fifth year.

 

As consideration for providing the Credit Facility, Greenbrook issued 256,535 Warrants to Oxford. Each Warrant is exercisable for one common share of Greenbrook at an exercise price of C$2.24 per common share. The Warrants will expire on December 31, 2025.

 

5.2 - Disclosure for Restructuring Transactions

 

Not applicable.

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Item 6    Reliance on subsection 7.1(2) of National Instrument 51-102

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 7    Omitted Information

 

No information has been omitted from this report on the basis that it is confidential information.

 

Item 8    Executive Officer

 

For further information, please contact William Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer, at (855) 797-4867.

 

Item 9    Date of Report

 

January 11, 2021.

 

 Exhibit 99.31

FORM 51-102F3

 

Material Change Report

 

Item 1   Name and Address of Company

 

Greenbrook TMS Inc. (“Greenbrook”) 

890 Yonge Street, 7th Floor 

Toronto, Ontario 

Canada M4W 3P4

 

Item 2   Date of Material Change

 

May 21, 2020.

 

Item 3   News Release

 

A news release announcing the closing of the Offering (as defined below) was issued by Greenbrook on May 21, 202o through the facilities of Business Wire and filed on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR).

 

Item 4   Summary of Material Change

 

On May 21, 2020, Greenbrook announced the closing of its previously-announced public offering (the “Offering”) of common shares (the “Offered Shares”). The Offering was made pursuant to an agency agreement (the “Agency Agreement”) entered into among Bloom Burton Securities Inc. and Clarus Securities Inc., as co-lead agents, Canaccord Genuity Corp., Desjardins Securities Inc. and Stifel GMP (collectively, the “Agents”) and Greenbrook. Pursuant to the Offering, Greenbrook issued a total of 9,093,940 Offered Shares at a price of C$1.65 per Offered Share for gross proceeds of approximately C$15 million.

 

Item 5   Full Description of Material Change

 

5.1 - Full Description of Material Change

 

On May 21, 2020, Greenbrook announced the closing of its previously-announced Offering of Offered Shares. The Offering was made pursuant to the Agency Agreement. Pursuant to the Offering, Greenbrook issued a total of 9,093,940 Offered Shares at a price of C$1.65 per Offered Share for gross proceeds of approximately C$15 million.

 

Greenbrook intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering to fund operating activities and for other working capital and general corporate purposes.

 

The Agents have a 30-day over-allotment option to sell up to an additional 15% of the number of Offered Shares sold as part of the Offering.

 

As part of the Offering, Greybrook Health Inc. and 1315 Capital II, LP, each of whom is an insider of Greenbrook, purchased 848,485 Offered Shares and 2,545,455 Offered Shares, respectively. The participation of insiders of Greenbrook in the Offering constitutes a “related party transaction” (as such term is defined in Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions (“MI 61-101”)) for Greenbrook. Greenbrook has relied on the exemptions contained in sections 5.5(c) and 5.7(1)(a) of MI 61-101 from the valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements in MI 61-101 in respect of the insiders’ participation. Greenbrook did not file a material change report 21 days prior to the closing of the Offering as the details of the participation of “related parties” in the Offering were not known at such time.

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5.2 - Disclosure for Restructuring Transactions

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 6   Reliance on subsection 7.1(2) of National Instrument 51-102

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 7   Omitted Information

 

No information has been omitted from this report on the basis that it is confidential information.

 

Item 8   Executive Officer

 

For further information, please contact Erns Loubser, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, at (855) 797-4867.

 

Item 9   Date of Report

 

May 21, 2020. 

 

Exhibit 99.32

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS ANNOUNCES DATES FOR ITS FOURTH QUARTER AND YEAR END 2020 FINANCIAL RESULTS

 

February 23, 2021 - Toronto, Ontario – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”), will release its 2020 fourth quarter and year end operational and financial results after market hours on March 30, 2021.

 

Fourth Quarter 2020 Conference Call Details:

 

Bill Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer, will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on March 31, 2021 to discuss the financial results for the quarter.

 

Dial in Numbers:

 

Toll Free North America: (866) 521-4909

Toronto: (647) 427-2311

 

Webcast:

 

For more information or to listen to the call via webcast, please visit:

www.greenbrooktms.com/investors/events.htm

 

For those that plan on accessing the conference call or webcast, please allow ample time prior to the call time.

 

Conference Call Replay:

 

Toll Free (North America): (800) 585-8367

Toronto: (416) 621-4642

Conference ID: 6797231

 

The conference call replay will be available from 1:00 p.m. ET on March 31, 2021, until 11:59 p.m. ET on April 30, 2021.

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 126 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 510,000 TMS treatments to over 14,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

 

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For further information please contact:

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.33

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS ANNOUNCES COMPLETION OF SHARE CONSOLIDATION
IN CONNECTION WITH PROPOSED NASDAQ LISTING

 

February 1, 2021 – Toronto, Ontario – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that, in conjunction with its application to list its common shares (the “Common Shares”) on The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (“NASDAQ”), the Company has completed the consolidation of its issued and outstanding Common Shares on the basis of one (1) post-consolidation Common Share for every five (5) pre-consolidation Common Shares (the “Share Consolidation”).

 

The Company today filed articles of amendment which implemented the Share Consolidation and the Company anticipates that its Common Shares will begin trading on a post-consolidation basis on the Toronto Stock exchange (“TSX”) at the market open on February 4, 2021 under its current trading symbol “GTMS”, and under new post-consolidation CUSIP and ISIN numbers of 393704309 and CA3937043097, respectively.

 

The Share Consolidation will result in the number of issued and outstanding Common Shares being reduced from approximately 67.5 million to approximately 13.5 million, on a non-diluted basis. As previously announced, no fractional Common Shares will be issued as a result of the Share Consolidation. Any fractional interest in Common Shares that would otherwise result from the Share Consolidation will be rounded up to the next whole Common Share, if the fractional interest is equal to or greater than one-half of a Common Share, and rounded down to the next whole Common Share if the fractional interest is less than one-half of a Common Share. The exercise price and number of Common Shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding stock options, warrants or other convertible securities will be proportionately adjusted to reflect the Share Consolidation in accordance with the terms of such securities.

 

Registered shareholders have received letters of transmittal with respect to the Share Consolidation, which were mailed with the Company’s Management Information Circular on or about December 15, 2020. The Share Consolidation is now effective and registered shareholders should surrender their existing share certificates (representing pre-consolidation Common Shares) for replacement share certificates (representing post-consolidation Common Shares). Until surrendered, each existing share certificate will be deemed, for all purposes, to represent the number of Common Shares to which the holder thereof is entitled as a result of the Share Consolidation.

 

Registered shareholders may obtain copies of the letter of transmittal by contacting Greenbrook’s transfer agent, Computershare Investor Services Inc., or under Greenbrook’s profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

 

Shareholders who hold their Common Shares through their broker or other intermediary and do not have actual share certificates or DRS Advices registered in their name will not be required to complete and return a letter of transmittal. Any pre-consolidation Common Shares owned by such shareholders will automatically be adjusted as a result of the Share Consolidation to reflect the applicable number of post-consolidation Common Shares owned and no further action is required to be taken by such shareholders.

 

Greenbrook has applied to list the Common Shares on NASDAQ under the symbol “GBNH.” The Company is currently targeting to complete the proposed listing on NASDAQ by the end of February 2021, or as soon as possible thereafter, subject to satisfaction of all necessary listing requirements and completion of review by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 126 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 510,000 TMS treatments to over 14,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

 

 

 

For further information please contact:

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information

 

Certain information in this press release, including with respect to the receipt of final approval from the TSX with respect of the Share Consolidation, the date that Greenbrook expects the Common Shares to commence trading on a post-consolidation basis, the proposed listing on NASDAQ and related registration with the SEC, constitute forward-looking information. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “is positioned”, “estimates”, “intends”, “assumes”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate” or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.

 

Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this press release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the factors described in greater detail in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s current annual information form available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.34

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS INCLUDED IN FIRST

PSYCHEDELICS-FOCUSED EXCHANGE TRADED FUND

 

January 27, 2021 – Toronto, Ontario – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it is one of seventeen companies in the U.S. and Canada that will be included in the world’s first psychedelics focused exchange traded fund, which is managed by Horizons ETFs Management (Canada) Inc.

 

The Horizons Psychedelic Stock Index ETF index started trading on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 on the NEO Exchange under the ticker symbol “PSYK”, and will be using the North American Psychedelics Index (the “Index”) as its market index. The Index includes companies that are listed on regulated stock exchanges in the U.S. and/or Canada and are involved in the research and development of psychedelic medicines, production and/or supply of psychedelic medicines, or companies that are part of the supply chain for, or a distributor of, psychedelics.

 

“We are pleased to be included in the world’s first psychedelics-focused ETF,” said Bill Leonard, Greenbrook’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “Greenbrook has always been committed to bringing evidenced-based treatments to our patients suffering from depression, as demonstrated by the recent launch of our esketamine nasal spray pilot program. We are excited by the potential to make other new psychedelic compound based therapeutic options available to our patients, building on our long-term business plan of utilizing our Greenbrook TMS treatment centers as platforms for the delivery of innovative treatments to patients suffering from depression and other mental health disorders.”

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 125 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 510,000 TMS treatments to over 14,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information

 

Certain information in this press release, including with respect to the Company’s future financial or operational performance, and the potential for delivery of new psychedelic compound based therapeutic options, constitute forward-looking information. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “is positioned”, “estimates”, “intends”, “assumes”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate” or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.

 

 

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Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this press release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the factors described in greater detail in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s current annual information form available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.35 

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS ANNOUNCES DIRECTOR RESIGNATION

 

January 15, 2021 – Toronto, Ontario – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) announced today that Mr. Stephan Roker has provided notice of his intention to resign as a director of the Company, effective today, citing the existence of previously unforeseen conflicts of interest as the reason for his resignation.

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 125 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 510,000 TMS treatments to over 14,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

 

Exhibit 99.36

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS PROVIDES UPDATE ON SHARE CONSOLIDATION
AND APPOINTMENT OF STEPHAN ROKER TO THE BOARD

 

January 12, 2021 – Toronto, Ontario – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that its shareholders have approved a special resolution for an amendment to the Company’s articles and has authorized a consolidation (the “Share Consolidation”) of the Company’s outstanding common shares (“Common Shares”). The resolution was approved at the special meeting of shareholders held earlier today (the “Special Meeting”).

 

Share Consolidation

 

At the Special Meeting, Greenbrook’s shareholders approved the Share Consolidation on the basis of a ratio that will permit the Company to qualify for a potential secondary listing on the NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (“NASDAQ”). The Share Consolidation was approved by approximately 99.96% of the votes cast by Greenbrook shareholders eligible to vote at the Special Meeting.

 

The board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) intends to implement the Share Consolidation on the basis of one (1) post-consolidation Common Share for every five (5) pre-consolidation Common Shares and has selected February 1, 2021 as the effective date for the Share Consolidation (the “Effective Date”). The Common Shares are expected to begin trading on a post-consolidation basis on the Toronto Stock Exchange (the “TSX”) on or about February 4, 2021 under its current trading symbol “GTMS”, subject to final approval from the TSX.

 

No fractional Common Shares will be issued as a result of the Share Consolidation. Any fractional interest in Common Shares that would otherwise result from the Share Consolidation will be rounded up to the next whole Common Share, if the fractional interest is equal to or greater than one-half of a Common Share, and rounded down to the next whole Common Share if the fractional interest is less than one-half of a Common Share. The exercise price and number of Common Shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding stock options, warrants or other convertible securities will be proportionately adjusted to reflect the Share Consolidation in accordance with the terms of such securities.

 

Further details regarding the Share Consolidation are provided in the Company’s management information circular dated December 4, 2020 (the “Circular”).

 

Letters of transmittal with respect to the Share Consolidation were mailed to registered shareholders with the Circular on or about December 15, 2020 advising that, following the effectiveness of the Share Consolidation, registered shareholders should surrender their existing share certificates (representing pre-consolidation Common Shares) for replacement share certificates (representing post-consolidation Common Shares). Until surrendered, each existing share certificate will be deemed as of the Effective Date, for all purposes, to represent the number of Common Shares to which the holder thereof is entitled as a result of the Share Consolidation.

 

Registered shareholders may obtain copies of the letter of transmittal by contacting Greenbrook’s transfer agent, Computershare Investor Services Inc., or under Greenbrook’s profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

 

Non-registered shareholders who hold their Common Shares through an intermediary such as a bank, trust company, securities dealer or broker should note that these intermediaries may have their own procedures for processing the Share Consolidation which may differ from those described above for registered shareholders. Non-registered shareholders who have questions should contact their intermediary for more information.

 

 

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Greenbrook has applied to list the Common Shares on NASDAQ under the symbol “GBNH.” Completion and timing of the proposed listing on NASDAQ is dependent upon satisfaction of all necessary listing requirements and completion of review by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, but is currently targeted for early 2021. The Company will provide further updates in due course.

 

In addition to the Share Consolidation, at today’s Special Meeting shareholders also approved amendments to the Company’s by-laws to, among other things, increase the quorum requirement for shareholder meetings, as well as an amendment to the Company’s articles to allow the Board to appoint additional directors not exceeding one third of the number of directors elected at the previous annual meeting of shareholders. Each of these amendments were approved by approximately 99.99% of the votes cast by all Greenbrook shareholders eligible to vote at the Special Meeting. Further details regarding these amendments are provided in the Circular.

 

Board Appointment

 

Greenbrook is also pleased to announce the appointment of Stephan Roker to the Board, effective immediately. The appointment of Mr. Roker increases the size of the Board to nine members.

 

Mr. Roker has over 20 years of executive leadership experience. His management experience spans a range of functions including Sales & Marketing, Operations Management, Business Process Improvement, and Strategy. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of Service Operations at Independence Blue Cross where he led business functions such as Enrollment, Benefits, Claims, Customer Service, Appeals, Quality Assurance, and Vendor Management. Prior to joining Independence Blue Cross, Mr. Roker was Senior Vice President for Bank of America Card Services, where he was responsible for risk management, underwriting, and U.S. credit and business cards lines of credit.

 

Mr. Roker currently serves as board chair of EducationWorks, a non-profit organization committed to helping Philadelphia area students and their families in economically disadvantaged communities. He also serves on the board of Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health, a non-profit organization committed to helping children and adults with behavioral health challenges, and on the board of Brighter Horizon Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides college scholarships to high school students. Mr. Roker received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Master of Business Administration degree from the New York Institute of Technology.

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 125 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 510,000 TMS treatments to over 14,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

 

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Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information

 

Certain information in this press release, including with respect to the Effective Date of the Share Consolidation, receipt of final approval from the TSX, the date that Greenbrook expects the Common Shares to commence trading on a post-consolidation basis, and the proposed listing on NASDAQ, constitute forward-looking information. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “is positioned”, “estimates”, “intends”, “assumes”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate” or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.

 

Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this press release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the factors described in greater detail in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s current annual information form available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.37

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS CLOSES US$30 MILLION CREDIT FACILITY

WITH OXFORD FINANCE LLC

 

December 31, 2020 – Toronto, Ontario – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”), a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy in the United States, announced today that it and its subsidiaries have entered into a credit and security agreement for a US$30 million secured credit facility (the “Credit Facility”) with Oxford Finance LLC (“Oxford”).

 

Bill Leonard, CEO of Greenbrook commented, “We are very pleased to complete this debt financing that provides us with an immediate US$15 million of minimally dilutive capital to strengthen our balance sheet and fund our ongoing growth. The up to US$15 million in delayed draw tranches will allow us to prudently use additional debt as we further expand our network of Greenbrook TMS centers through both our organic growth strategy and potential acquisitions.”

 

The Credit Facility provides a US$15 million term loan which was funded at closing and an option of drawing up to an additional US$15 million in three US$5 million delayed-draw term loan tranches within the next 24 months, subject to achieving specific financial milestones. All amounts borrowed under the Credit Facility will bear interest at a rate equal to 30-day LIBOR plus 7.75%, subject to a minimum interest rate of 8.75%. The Credit Facility has a five-year term and amortizes over the life of the Credit Facility with 1% of the principal amount outstanding amortized over years one to four with the remaining outstanding principal repaid in equal installments over the fifth year.

 

As consideration for providing the Credit Facility, Greenbrook issued 256,535 common share purchase warrants to Oxford (the “Warrants”). Each Warrant is exercisable for one common share of Greenbrook at an exercise price of C$2.24 per common share. The Warrants will expire on December 31, 2025.

 

Bloom Burton Securities Inc. acted as the Company’s sole financial adviser in connection with the transaction.

 

About Oxford Finance LLC

 

Oxford is a specialty finance firm providing senior secured loans to public and private life sciences and healthcare services companies worldwide. For over 20 years, Oxford has delivered flexible financing solutions to its clients, enabling these companies to maximize their equity by leveraging their assets. In recent years, Oxford has originated over $6 billion in loans, with lines of credit ranging from $5 million to $150 million. Oxford is headquartered in Alexandria, Va., with additional offices in San Diego, Calif.; Palo Alto, Calif.; and the greater Boston and New York City areas. For more information, visit https://oxfordfinance.com/.

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 125 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of TMS therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 510,000 TMS treatments to over 14,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

 

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For further information please contact:

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information

 

Certain information in this press release constitutes forward-looking information. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “is positioned”, “estimates”, “intends”, “assumes”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate” or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.

 

Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this press release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the factors described in greater detail in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s current annual information form available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.38

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS TO PARTICIPATE AT THE 13th ANNUAL LD MICRO MAIN EVENT CONFERENCE

 

December 7, 2020 - Toronto, Ontario – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”), a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy in the United States, is pleased to announce that Bill Leonard, Chief Executive Officer, will present at the 13th Annual LD Micro Main Event Conference, on December 15, 2020 at 9:40 a.m. (Eastern Time).

 

Interested parties can register to attend at the following link: https://ve.mysequire.com/

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 125 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of TMS therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 510,000 TMS treatments to over 14,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.39

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS ANNOUNCES PROPOSED SHARE CONSOLIDATION

 

December 4, 2020 – Toronto, ON – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) announces today that, in support of its previously-announced application to list its common shares (the “Common Shares”) on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“NASDAQ”), and to assist the Company in meeting the NASDAQ’s initial listing requirements, the Company will hold a special meeting of shareholders (the “Special Meeting”) on January 12, 2021 to, among other things, consider, and if deemed appropriate, to approve, a special resolution to authorize amendments of the Company’s articles to consolidate its issued and outstanding Common Shares (the “Consolidation”).

 

The range of ratios for the Consolidation are set out in the Management Information Circular (the “Circular”), a copy of which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and will be mailed to shareholders of record on or about December 15, 2020. At the Special Meeting, shareholders may also be asked to consider and vote in respect of other matters that may be properly brought before the Special Meeting.

 

Subject to the approval of the Toronto Stock Exchange, approval of the special resolution by shareholders would give the Board of Directors the authority to implement the Consolidation, or, in its discretion, revoke to the special resolution, without further approval or action or prior notice to shareholders. If approved and implemented, the Consolidation will occur simultaneously for all of the Common Shares and will affect all shareholders uniformly.

 

The Circular contains, among other things, details concerning the proposed Consolidation, requirements for the Consolidation to be implemented and the procedure for receiving new common shares if the Consolidation is implemented, as well as the procedures for voting at the Special Meeting and other related matters. Shareholders are urged to carefully review the Circular and accompanying materials as they will contain important information regarding the Consolidation.

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 125 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 510,000 TMS treatments to over 14,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

 

 

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information

 

Certain information in this press release, including with respect to the Consolidation and the Special Meeting; the timing, receipt of regulatory approval for, and listing of the Common Shares on NASDAQ, constitutes forward-looking information. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “is positioned”, “estimates”, “intends”, “assumes”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate” or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.

 

Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this press release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the Company being successful in completing the Consolidation or obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals to complete the listing on NASDAQ and the factors described in greater detail in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s current annual information form available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.40 

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS ANNOUNCES PARTICIPATION

IN UPCOMING INVESTOR CONFERENCES

 

November 18, 2020 - Toronto, Ontario – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”), a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy in the United States, is pleased to announce that Bill Leonard, Chief Executive Officer, will participate in two upcoming virtual investor conferences.

 

Presentation Details:

 

Event: Canaccord Health & Wellness Virtual Conference 2020

Format: Panel- Mental Health Services

Date: Monday, November 23, 2020

Time: 11:00 a.m. (Eastern Time)

 

Event: Desjardins Digital Healthcare Conference 2020

Format: Corporate Presentation

Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Time: 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 125 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of TMS therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 510,000 TMS treatments to over 14,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.41

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS REPORTS Third Quarter Financial RESULTS
WITH continued RESILIENT PERFORMANCE THROUGH THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC,

ANNOUNCES SPRAVATO® PILOT PROGRAM AND PROVIDES CORPORATE UPDATE

 

November 10, 2020 – Toronto, Ontario – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”), today announced its third quarter 2020 (“Q3 2020”) operational and financial results. All values in this news release are in United States dollars, unless otherwise stated.

 

THIRD QUARTER 2020 FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

 

Quarterly revenue increased by 42% to $12.0 million, up $3.5 million from the third quarter of fiscal 2019 (“Q3 2019”), representing our second highest quarterly revenue results to date.

 

Revenue for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2020 (“YTD 2020”) increased by 43% to $33.2 million, up $10.1 million from the nine-month period ended September 30, 2019 (“YTD 2019”).

 

Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, quarterly revenue increased by 23%, up $2.2 million from the second quarter of fiscal 2020 (“Q2 2020”).

 

Quarterly regional operating income increased by 26% to $1.0 million, up $0.2 million from Q3 2019; however, YTD 2020 regional operating income decreased by 38% to $1.5 million, representing a decrease of $0.9 million from YTD 2019.

 

Added one active TMS Center during Q3 2020, with an additional 11 TMS Centers in development, bringing the total Company network to 125 TMS Centers, representing an increase of 18% as compared to Q3 2019.

 

Bill Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer of Greenbrook commented:

 

“In Q3 2020, we proudly announce our second highest quarterly revenue results since our inception and a return to strong regional operating income, despite the challenging operating environment imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. We continued to experience record monthly highs in new patient starts throughout Q3 2020, highlighting the essential need for TMS therapy during these challenging times. We believe these record monthly highs will support a continued strong upward trend into the fourth quarter of 2020.”

 

Greenbrook also announced today that it has signed a non-binding term sheet with a third-party lender in respect of a secured term loan facility in an aggregate amount of up to $30 million. Completion of the proposed financing remains subject to customary conditions, including completion of customary due diligence and negotiation of definitive documentation; however, there can be no assurances that the financing will be completed on the terms set forth in the non-binding term sheet, or at all. Further details regarding the terms of such proposed financing will be provided if and when a definitive loan agreement has been entered into between the parties.

 

Selected THIRD Quarter Financial and Operating Results (1)

 

(US$)  

Q3 2020

(unaudited)

   

Q3 2019

(unaudited)

   

YTD 2020

(unaudited)

   

YTD 2019

(unaudited)

 
Total revenue     12,006,570       8,459,103       33,215,627       23,148,860  
Regional operating income     967,584       770,813       1,482,182       2,399,979  
Loss before income taxes     (7,667,755 )     (3,365,014 )     (21,643,193 )     (8,846,208 )
Loss for the period and comprehensive loss     (7,667,755 )     (3,365,014 )     (21,643,193 )     (8,846,208 )
Loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook     (7,636,132 )     (3,431,009 )     (21,271,910 )     (8,875,523 )
Net loss per share (basic and diluted)     (0.11 )     (0.06 )     (0.34 )     (0.17 )

 

 

Notes:

(1) Please note that additional selected consolidated financial information can be found at the end of this press release.

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As at September 30,

   

As at December 31,

 

(unaudited)

 

2020

   

2019

   

2019

 
Number of active TMS Centers(1)     114       94       102  
Number of TMS Centers-in-development(2)     11       12       17  
Total TMS Centers     125       106       119  
Number of management regions     13       13       13  
Number of TMS Devices installed     191       164       178  
Number of regional personnel     286       253       273  
Number of shared-services / corporate personnel(3)     47       36       44  
Number of TMS providers(4)     113       102       109  
Number of consultations performed     7,718       5,560       8,039  
Number of patient starts     4,017       2,888       4,080  
Number of TMS treatments performed     141,584       104,096       155,343  
Average revenue per TMS treatment   $ 235     $ 222     $ 230  

 

 

Notes:

(1) Active TMS Centers represent TMS Centers that have performed billable TMS services.

(2) TMS Centers-in-development represents TMS Centers that have committed to a space lease agreement and the development process is substantially complete.

(3) Shared-services / corporate personnel is disclosed on a full-time equivalent basis. The Company utilizes part-time staff and consultants as a means of managing costs.

(4) Represents physician partners that are involved in the provision of TMS therapy services from our TMS Centers.

 

For more information, please refer to the Management’s Discussion & Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (“MD&A”) and the unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements of the Company for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019. These documents will be available on the Company’s website at www.greenbrooktms.com and under the Company’s SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.

 

CONFERENCE CALL AND WEBCAST

 

Third Quarter 2020 Conference Call Details: 

 

Bill Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer, will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on November 11, 2020 to discuss the financial results for the quarter.

 

Toll Free North America: 1-866-521-4909

 

Toronto: 647-427-2311

 

Webcast:

 

For more information or to listen to the call via webcast, please visit:

www.greenbrooktms.com/investors/events.htm

 

For those that plan on accessing the conference call or webcast, please allow ample time prior to the call time.

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Conference Call Replay:

 

Toll Free (North America): 1-800-585-8367

 

Toronto: 416-621-4642

 

Passcode: 5597694

 

The conference call replay will be available from 1:00 p.m. ET on November 11, 2020, until 11:59 p.m. ET on December 11, 2020.

 

Spravato® Pilot Program

 

Greenbrook also announced today that, beginning in early 2021, Greenbrook will be implementing a pilot program that offers Spravato® (esketamine) at select Greenbrook TMS treatment centers to treat adults with treatment-resistant depression and depressive symptoms in adults with major depressive disorder with suicidal thoughts or actions.

 

Spravato® is a nasal spray that can only be administered in certified centers under the direct supervision of a healthcare provider and administration is performed under an FDA mandated Risk Evaluation and Mitigation System (REMS) program. The pilot program will provide the Company with an opportunity to assess the value of making this treatment option available to patients at all of the Company’s treatment centers in the future.

 

“Greenbrook is committed to bringing evidenced-based treatments to our patients suffering from depression,” said Bill Leonard, Greenbrook’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “We are excited at the prospect of making this new therapeutic option available to our patients, building on our long-term business plan of utilizing our Greenbrook TMS treatment centers as platforms for the delivery of innovative treatments to patients suffering from depression.”

 

“In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we now, more than ever, must leverage the latest in medical innovation to help patients recover from the debilitating symptoms of depression,” said Geoffrey Grammer, M.D., Greenbrook’s Chief Medical Officer. “Our expert clinicians and platform of care provide patients fast and friendly access to community-based treatments so that patients can focus on their recovery rather than worrying about the logistical obstacles to accessing medical care.”

 

CORPORATE UPDATE

 

Greenbrook also announced today that Erns Loubser, the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company, will be taking a medical leave of absence. Greenbrook has appointed Ed Cordell as Interim Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately.

 

Mr. Cordell has over 30 years of accounting and financial management experience. His industry background includes life sciences and medical device technologies, and he has extensive experience working with both private and publicly-traded high-growth companies.

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 125 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 510,000 TMS treatments to over 14,000 patients struggling with depression.

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For further information please contact:

 

Glen Akselrod 

Investor Relations 

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information: 

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information

 

Certain information in this press release, including with respect to the Company’s future financial or operating performance, the proposed debt financing, and the Spravato® pilot program, constitute forward-looking information. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “is positioned”, “estimates”, “intends”, “assumes”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate” or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.

 

Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this press release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the factors described in greater detail in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s current annual information form available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

Cautionary Note Regarding Non-IFRS Measures

 

This press release makes reference to certain non-IFRS measures. These measures are not recognized measures under International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”), do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and, therefore, may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. Rather, these measures are provided as additional information to complement those IFRS measures by providing further understanding of the Company’s results of operations from management’s perspective. Accordingly, these measures are not intended to represent, and should not be considered as alternatives to, loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook or other performance measures derived in accordance with IFRS as measures of operating performance or operating cash flows or as a measure of liquidity. In addition to the Company’s results determined in accordance with IFRS, the Company uses non-IFRS measures, including “EBITDA” and “Adjusted EBITDA”. These non-IFRS measures are used to provide investors with supplemental measures of the Company’s operating performance and thus highlight trends in its core business that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on IFRS measures. See the Company’s MD&A for a further discussion of these non-IFRS financial measures and for a reconciliation of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA to loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook.

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Selected Consolidated Financial Information

 

(US$)  

Q3 2020

(unaudited)

   

Q3 2019

(unaudited)

   

YTD 2020

(unaudited)

   

YTD 2019

(unaudited)

 
Total revenue     12,006,570       8,459,103       33,215,627       23,148,860  
                                 
Direct center and patient care costs     5,473,759       4,267,769       16,521,201       11,655,616  
Regional employee compensation     2,569,958       1,670,037       7,419,487       4,460,213  
Regional marketing expenses     1,584,426       742,482       3,539,227       1,881,054  
Depreciation     1,410,843       1,008,002       4,253,530       2,751,998  
Total direct center and regional costs     11,038,986       7,688,290       31,733,445       20,748,881  
Regional operating income     967,584       770,813       1,482,182       2,399,979  
Center development costs     65,291       496,509       435,659       1,176,180  
Corporate employee compensation     2,555,515       1,420,069       7,577,540       4,336,220  
Corporate marketing expenses     202,435       578,330       806,120       1,210,219  
Transaction costs           378,407             378,407  
Other corporate, general and administrative expenses     780,402       748,297       2,165,361       2,395,084  
Share-based compensation     171,056       117,112       455,908       573,426  
Amortization     115,832             347,498        
Interest expense     708,665       513,138       2,060,707       1,316,795  
Interest income     (8,857 )     (116,035 )     (18,418 )     (140,144 )
Earn-out consideration(1)     4,045,000             9,295,000        
Loss before income taxes     (7,667,755 )     (3,365,014 )     (21,643,193 )     (8,846,208 )
Income tax expense                        
Loss for the period and comprehensive loss     (7,667,755 )     (3,365,014 )     (21,643,193 )     (8,846,208 )
(Loss) income attributable to non-controlling interest     (31,623 )     65,995       (371,283 )     29,315  
Loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook     (7,636,132 )     (3,431,009 )     (21,271,910 )     (8,875,523 )
Net loss per share (basic and diluted)     (0.11 )     (0.06 )     (0.34 )     (0.17 )

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(US$)   Q3 2020     Q2 2020     Q1 2020     Q4 2019     Q3 2019     Q2 2019     Q1 2019    

Q4 2018(4)

 
(unaudited)                                                                
Revenue     12,006,570       9,788,555       11,420,502       12,536,671       8,459,103       8,082,559       6,607,198       7,092,455  
Regional operating income (loss)(2)     967,584       (225,198 )     739,796       2,056,836       770,813       1,002,166       627,000       1,418,347  
Net loss attributable to shareholders of Greenbrook     (7,636,132 )     (9,477,505 )     (4,158,274 )     (7,034,356 )     (3,431,009 )     (2,874,092 )     (2,570,422 )     (949,031 )
Adjusted EBITDA(3)     (937,073 )     (1,665,672 )     (1,648,053 )     (1,296,201 )     (1,033,876 )     (957,428 )     (827,557 )     (865,210 )
Net loss per share – Basic     (0.11 )     (0.15 )     (0.08 )     (0.13 )     (0.06 )     (0.06 )     (0.05 )     (0.01 )
Net loss per share – Diluted     (0.11 )     (0.15 )     (0.08 )     (0.13 )     (0.06 )     (0.06 )     (0.05 )     (0.01 )

 

 

Notes: 

(1) Represents management’s best estimate of the earn-out payable in connection with the Company’s acquisition of Achieve TMS in September 2019 and is subject to estimation uncertainty. 70% of the earn-out consideration will be settled in cash and the remainder will be settled through the issuance of common shares to the vendors, subject to applicable regulatory and stock exchange approvals.

(2) Regional operating income for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2019 has been updated to exclude amortization.

(3) Adjusted EBITDA is a non-IFRS measure. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Non-IFRS Measures” in this press release.

(4) The Company adopted IFRS 16 – Leases effective as at January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective approach. As a result of this approach, the prior period figures were not adjusted.

 

Exhibit 99.42

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS ANNOUNCES SUBMISSION OF ITS APPLICATION TO
LIST ON NASDAQ

 

November 5, 2020 – Toronto, ON – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”), a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy in the United States, is pleased to announce that it has submitted its application to list its common shares (the “Common Shares”) on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“NASDAQ”). In advance of its anticipated listing on NASDAQ, the Company will file a Form 20-F Registration Statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). The listing of the Company’s Common Shares on NASDAQ remains subject to the approval of NASDAQ and the satisfaction of all applicable listing and regulatory requirements, including the SEC declaring the Form 20-F Registration Statement effective. While the Company intends to satisfy all of the applicable listing criteria of NASDAQ, no assurance can be given that the Company’s application will be approved.

 

Subject to approval for listing, it is anticipated that the Company’s Common Shares, including the existing Common Shares trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”), will trade on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol “GBNH”. A trading date will be made public once all regulatory requirements are satisfied. The Company will continue to maintain the listing of its Common Shares on the TSX under the trading symbol “GTMS”.

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 125 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of TMS therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 500,000 TMS treatments to over 14,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Erns Loubser
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Glen Akselrod
Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com
1-855-797-4867

 

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information

 

Certain information in this press release, including with respect to the timing, receipt of regulatory approval for, and listing of the Common Shares on NASDAQ; and the filing of a Form 20-F Registration Statement with the SEC, constitutes forward-looking information. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “is positioned”, “estimates”, “intends”, “assumes”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate” or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.

 

 

 

 

Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this press release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the Company obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals to complete the listing on NASDAQ and the factors described in greater detail in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s current annual information form available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

  

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.43 

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS ANNOUNCES DATES FOR ITS THIRD QUARTER 2020 FINANCIAL RESULTS

 

October 20, 2020 - Toronto, Ontario – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”), will release its third quarter 2020 operational and financial results after market hours on November 10, 2020.

 

Third Quarter 2020 Conference Call Details:

 

Bill Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Erns Loubser, Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on November 11, 2020 to discuss the financial results for the quarter.

 

Dial in Numbers:

 

Toll Free North America: (866) 521-4909

Toronto: (647) 427-2311

 

Webcast:

 

For more information or to listen to the call via webcast, please visit:

 

www.greenbrooktms.com/investors/events.htm

 

For those that plan on accessing the conference call or webcast, please allow ample time prior to the call time.

 

Conference Call Replay:

 

Toll Free (North America): (800) 585-8367

Toronto: (416) 621-4642

Conference ID: 5597694

 

The conference call replay will be available from 1:00 p.m. ET on November 11, 2020, until 11:59 p.m. ET on December 11, 2020.

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 125 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 500,000 TMS treatments to over 14,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

 

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For further information please contact:

 

Erns Loubser

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.44 

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS TO HOST INVESTOR WEBCAST ON SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

 

September 17, 2020 - Toronto, ON - Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it will host a webcast investor presentation on Thursday, September 24, 2020 at 2:00 PM ET.

 

During the webcast, Bill Leonard, Chief Executive Officer, will provide a presentation through a PowerPoint discussion that will cover key areas of Greenbrook’s business. During parts of the presentation, investors will have an opportunity to ask relevant questions through an interactive Q&A portal.

 

To listen to the webcast or to ask questions during the live event, please pre-register at the following link: https://event.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1361629&tp_key=2ea4a371ad.

 

An archived version of the webcast and presentation will be available on the Company’s website, https://www.greenbrooktms.com/investors/events.htm following the event.

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 125 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 500,000 TMS treatments to over 14,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Erns Loubser

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.45 

 

 

 

Greenbrook TMS Reaches Milestone with More Than 500,000 Treatments

 

September 15, 2020 – Toronto, Ontario – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”), a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy in the United States, today announced it has delivered more than 500,000 TMS treatments since the Company was founded in 2011.

 

“Reaching 500,000 treatments represents more than 14,000 patients who have entrusted us to treat their depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. We are confident that because of TMS treatment with us, these patients are now able to live fuller, richer lives,” said Bill Leonard, Greenbrook’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “When we opened our first TMS center nine years ago, our goal was to provide life-changing treatment in a safe and supportive care environment for people struggling with depression. Every one of these patients is someone’s loved one, co-worker or neighbor, and each patient’s healing causes positive ripple effects in families, workplaces and communities.”

 

In the first half of 2019, an estimated 6.6 percent1 of Americans had symptoms of depressive disorder. Recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that number may have increased to nearly 25 percent since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.2

 

“The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have strained people’s well-being and substantially increased the rates of depression,” said Geoffrey Grammer, MD, Greenbrook’s Chief Medical Officer. “Depression is a serious illness that can lead to significant health consequences, and all of Greenbrook’s affiliated physicians approach treating depression with a goal of helping our patients achieve total remission. That goal is what motivates and inspires us, and it is the reason we are so eager to continue our work.”

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 125 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of TMS therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 500,000 TMS treatments to over 14,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Erns Loubser

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com
1-855-797-4867

 


1 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/ERmentalhealth-508.pdf, accessed 9/9/2020

2 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/pulse/mental-health.htm, accessed 9/9/2020

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.46

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS REPORTS Second Quarter Financial RESULTS
WITH RESILIENT PERFORMANCE THROUGH THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

  

August 4, 2020 - Toronto, Ontario – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”), today announced its second quarter 2020 (“Q2 2020”) operational and financial results. All values in this news release are in United States dollars, unless otherwise stated.

 

SECOND QUARTER 2020 FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

 

· Quarterly revenue increased by 21% to $9.8 million, up $1.7 million from the second quarter of fiscal 2019 (“Q2 2019”), significantly exceeding the Company’s previously disclosed guidance.

 

· Despite the challenging operating environment imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, quarterly revenue decreased by only 14%, down $1.6 million from the first quarter of fiscal 2020 (“Q1 2020”), again, exceeding the Company’s previously disclosed guidance.

 

· Revenue for the six-month period ended June 30, 2020 (“YTD 2020”) increased by 44% to $21.2 million, up $6.5 million from the six-month period ended June 30, 2019 (“YTD 2019”).

 

· Quarterly regional operating income was down $1.2 million from Q2 2019 to a loss position of $0.2 million; however YTD 2020 regional operating income remained in an income position of $0.5 million, representing a decrease of $1.1 million from YTD 2019.

 

· Effectively implemented cost cutting initiatives in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, reducing Greenbrook’s quarterly operational cash burn rate as compared to Q1 2020 and the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019.

 

· Added three active TMS Centers during Q2 2020, with an additional 12 TMS Centers in development, bringing the total Company network to 125 TMS Centers, representing an increase of 62% from Q2 2019. 

 

Bill Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer of Greenbrook commented:

 

“We are very pleased with our Q2 2020 results, which demonstrate our ability to navigate the challenging operating environment imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, we were able to exceed previously disclosed revenue guidance while continuing to provide the highest quality of services and protecting our patients, employees, and physician partners. With access to TMS therapy now more essential than ever, we have increased efforts to expand patient interactions virtually and the corresponding increased usage of these platforms by both patients and physicians contributed to this positive result.”

 

Mr. Leonard added: “We are particularly proud of our ability to reach new patients during this difficult time. In June, we experienced a record monthly high in new patient treatment starts, which supports a strong upward trend following the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and positions us well for what we hope to be a strong third quarter.”

 

Selected SECOND Quarter Financial and Operating Results (1)

 

(US$)   Q2 2020
(unaudited)
    Q2 2019
(unaudited)
    YTD 2020
(unaudited)
    YTD 2019
(unaudited)
 
Total revenue     9,788,555       8,082,559       21,209,057       14,689,757  
Regional operating income (loss)     (225,198 )     1,002,166       514,598       1,629,166  
Loss before income taxes     (9,734,642 )     (2,841,107 )     (13,975,438 )     (5,481,194 )
Loss for the period and comprehensive loss     (9,734,642 )     (2,841,107 )     (13,975,438 )     (5,481,194 )
Loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook     (9,477,505 )     (2,874,092 )     (13,635,778 )     (5,444,514 )
Net loss per share (basic and diluted)     (0.15 )     (0.06 )     (0.23 )     (0.11 )

 

 

Notes:

 

(1) Please note that additional selected consolidated financial information can be found at the end of this press release.

 

 

 

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    As at June 30,     As at December 31,  
(unaudited)   2020     2019     2019  
Number of active TMS Centers(1)     113       67       102  
Number of TMS Centers-in-development(2)     12       10       17  
Total TMS Centers     125       77       119  
                         
Number of management regions     13       10       13  
Number of TMS Devices installed     189       127       178  
Number of regional personnel     275       199       273  
Number of shared-services / corporate personnel(3)     44       30       44  
Number of TMS providers(4)     112       64       109  
Number of consultations performed     4,435       3,383       8,039  
Number of patient starts     2,544       1,839       4,080  
Number of TMS treatments performed     90,551       66,206       155,343  
Average revenue per TMS treatment   $ 234     $ 222     $ 230  

 

 

Notes:

 

(1) Active TMS Centers represent TMS Centers that have performed billable TMS services.

 

(2) TMS Centers-in-development represents TMS Centers that have committed to a space lease agreement and the development process is substantially complete.

 

(3) Shared-services / corporate personnel is disclosed on a full-time equivalent basis. The Company utilizes part-time staff and consultants as a means of managing costs.

 

(4) Represents physician partners that are involved in the provision of TMS therapy services from our TMS Centers.

  

For more information, please refer to the Management’s Discussion & Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (“MD&A”) and the unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements of the Company for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019. These documents will be available on the Company’s website at www.greenbrooktms.com and under the Company’s SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.

  

CONFERENCE CALL AND WEBCAST

 

Second Quarter 2020 Conference Call Details:

 

Bill Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer and Erns Loubser, Chief Financial Officer will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on August 5, 2020 to discuss the financial results for the quarter.

 

Toll Free North America: 1-866-521-4909

 

Toronto: 647-427-2311

 

Webcast:

 

For more information or to listen to the call via webcast, please visit:

www.greenbrooktms.com/investors/events.htm

 

 

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For those that plan on accessing the conference call or webcast, please allow ample time prior to the call time.

 

Conference Call Replay:

 

Toll Free (North America): 1-800-585-8367

 

Toronto: 416-621-4642

 

Passcode: 1294443

 

The conference call replay will be available from 1:00 p.m. ET on August 5, 2020, until 23:59 p.m. ET on September 4, 2020.

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 125 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 460,000 TMS treatments to over 13,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Erns Loubser

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information

 

Certain information in this press release, including with respect to the Company’s future financial or operating performance, constitutes forward-looking information. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “is positioned”, “estimates”, “intends”, “assumes”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate” or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.

 

 

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Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this press release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the factors described in greater detail in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s current annual information form available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

Cautionary Note Regarding Non-IFRS Measures

 

This press release makes reference to certain non-IFRS measures. These measures are not recognized measures under IFRS, do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and, therefore, may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. Rather, these measures are provided as additional information to complement those IFRS measures by providing further understanding of the Company’s results of operations from management’s perspective. Accordingly, these measures are not intended to represent, and should not be considered as alternatives to, loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook or other performance measures derived in accordance with IFRS as measures of operating performance or operating cash flows or as a measure of liquidity. In addition to the Company’s results determined in accordance with IFRS, the Company uses non-IFRS measures, including “EBITDA” and “Adjusted EBITDA”. These non-IFRS measures are used to provide investors with supplemental measures of the Company’s operating performance and thus highlight trends in its core business that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on IFRS measures. See the Company’s MD&A for a further discussion of these non-IFRS financial measures and for a reconciliation of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA to loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook.

  

Selected Consolidated Financial Information

 

(US$)   Q2 2020
(unaudited)
    Q2 2019
(unaudited)
    YTD 2020
(unaudited)
    YTD 2019
(unaudited)
 
Total revenue     9,788,555       8,082,559       21,209,057       14,689,757  
                                 
Direct center and patient care costs     5,166,153       3,931,231       11,047,442       7,387,847  
Regional employee compensation     2,323,340       1,538,755       4,849,530       2,790,176  
Regional marketing expenses     1,087,698       674,531       1,954,800       1,138,572  
Depreciation     1,436,562       935,876       2,842,687       1,743,996  
Total direct center and regional costs     10,013,753       7,080,393       20,694,459       13,060,591  
Regional operating income (loss)     (225,198 )     1,002,166       514,598       1,629,166  
Center development costs     140,861       414,975       370,368       679,671  
Corporate employee compensation     2,398,594       1,456,050       5,022,025       2,916,151  
Corporate marketing expenses     298,237       427,543       603,685       631,889  
Other corporate, general and administrative expenses     437,342       978,892       1,384,959       1,646,787  
Share-based compensation     175,447       162,155       284,852       456,314  
Amortization     115,833             231,666        
Interest expense     694,208       405,817       1,352,042       803,657  
Interest income     (1,078 )     (2,159 )     (9,561 )     (24,109 )
Earn-out consideration     5,250,000             5,250,000        
Loss before income taxes     (9,734,642 )     (2,841,107 )     (13,975,438 )     (5,481,194 )
Income tax expense                       -  
Loss for the period and comprehensive loss     (9,734,642 )     (2,841,107 )     (13,975,438 )     (5,481,194 )
Income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interest     (257,137 )     32,985       (339,660 )     (36,680 )
Loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook     (9,477,505 )     (2,874,092 )     (13,635,778 )     (5,444,514 )
Net loss per share (basic and diluted)     (0.15 )     (0.06 )     (0.23 )     (0.11 )

 

(US$)   Q2 2020     Q1 2020     Q4 2019     Q3 2019     Q2 2019     Q1 2019     Q4 2018(3)     Q3 2018(3)  
(unaudited)                                                                
Revenue     9,788,555       11,420,502       12,536,671       8,459,103       8,082,559       6,607,198       7,092,455       5,338,364  
Regional operating income(2)     (225,198 )     739,796       2,056,836       770,813       1,002,166       627,000       1,418,347       476,556  
Net loss attributable to shareholders of Greenbrook     (9,477,505 )     (4,158,274 )     (7,034,356 )     (3,431,009 )     (2,874,092 )     (2,570,422 )     (949,031 )     (1,480,489 )
Adjusted EBITDA(1)     (1,665,672 )     (1,648,053 )     (1,296,201 )     (1,033,876 )     (957,428 )     (827,557 )     (865,210 )     (840,374 )
Net loss per share – Basic     (0.15 )     (0.08 )     (0.13 )     (0.06 )     (0.06 )     (0.05 )     (0.01 )     (0.04 )
Net loss per share – Diluted     (0.15 )     (0.08 )     (0.13 )     (0.06 )     (0.06 )     (0.05 )     (0.01 )     (0.04 )

 

 

 

Notes:

 

(1) Adjusted EBITDA is a non-IFRS measure. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Non-IFRS Measures” in this press release.
(2) Regional operating income for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2019 has been updated to exclude amortization.
(3) The Company adopted IFRS 16 effective as at January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective approach. As a result of this approach, the prior period figures were not adjusted.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.47

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS ANNOUNCES DATES FOR ITS SECOND QUARTER 2020 FINANCIAL RESULTS

 

July 21, 2020 - Toronto, Ontario – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”), will release its second quarter 2020 operational and financial results after market hours on August 4, 2020.

 

Second Quarter 2020 Conference Call Details:

 

Bill Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer and Erns Loubser, Chief Financial Officer will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on August 5, 2020 to discuss the financial results for the quarter.

 

Dial in Numbers:

 

Toll Free North America: (866) 521-4909

Toronto: (647) 427-2311

 

Webcast:

 

For more information or to listen to the call via webcast, please visit:

www.greenbrooktms.com/investors/events.htm

 

For those that plan on accessing the conference call or webcast, please allow ample time prior to the call time.

 

Conference Call Replay:

 

Toll Free (North America): (800) 585-8367

Toronto: (416) 621-4642

Conference ID: 1294443

 

The conference call replay will be available from 1:00 p.m. ET on August 5, 2020, until 11:59 p.m. ET on September 4, 2020.

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 124 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of TMS therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 420,000 TMS treatments to over 11,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

 

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For further information please contact:

 

Erns Loubser

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.48

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS ANNOUNCES RESULTS OF VOTING AT

ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

 

June 29, 2020 – Toronto, ON – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”), a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy in the United States, announced today the results of voting at its annual meeting of shareholders held earlier today (the “Meeting”). Each of the matters voted upon at the Meeting as set out below is described in greater detail in the Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders and Management Information Circular of Greenbrook dated May 19, 2020.

 

The total number of common shares represented by holders by proxy at the Meeting was 20,536,883, representing approximately 30.42% of Greenbrook’s outstanding common shares entitled to be voted.

 

Election of Directors

 

All of the nominees listed in the Management Information Circular of Greenbrook prepared in connection with the Meeting were elected as directors by a resolution passed by a majority of the shareholders represented by proxy at the Meeting, to hold office until the next annual meeting following their election or until their successors are elected or appointed, without a ballot being conducted. The following represents the proxies received with regard to such matter:

 

Nominee   Votes For     % Votes For     Votes Withheld     % Votes Withheld  
Brian P. Burke     19,157,451       99.98 %     3,000       0.02 %
Colleen Campbell     19,160,451       100.00 %     0       0.00 %
Sasha Cucuz     19,157,451       99.98 %     3,000       0.02 %
Adrienne Graves, Ph.D.     19,157,451       99.98 %     3,000       0.02 %
Bill Leonard     19,157,451       99.98 %     3,000       0.02 %
Adele C. Oliva     19,160,451       100.00 %     0       0.00 %
Frank Tworecke     19,157,451       99.98 %     3,000       0.02 %
Elias Vamvakas     19,149,451       99.94 %     11,000       0.06 %

 

Appointment of Auditors

 

KPMG LLP was reappointed as auditor of Greenbrook and the directors were authorized to fix the auditor’s remuneration by a resolution passed by a majority of the shareholders represented by proxy at the Meeting, without a ballot being conducted. The following represents the proxies received with regard to such matter:

 

Votes For   % Votes For   Votes Withheld     % Votes Withheld
20,533,883   99.99%     3,000     0.01%

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 124 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of TMS therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 420,000 TMS treatments to over 11,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

 

 

 

For further information please contact:

 

Erns Loubser

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.49

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS TO HOLD VIRTUAL

ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS ON JUNE 29

 

TORONTO, ON, June 17, 2020 – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) (TSX: GTMS) announces that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it will hold its Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “Meeting”) on Monday, June 29, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) by way of virtual-only meeting via live audio webcast and teleconference. Shareholders will not be able to attend in person at the Meeting.

 

Shareholders are encouraged to access the live audio webcast, which may be found at https://www.greenbrooktms.com/investors/events.htm beginning at 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on Monday, June 29, 2020. Alternatively, shareholders may also access the meeting by telephone beginning at such time at (866) 521-4909 (Canada and U.S.) or 1 (647) 427-2311 (International).

 

For those that plan on accessing the webcast or teleconference, please allow ample time prior to the Meeting.

 

Greenbrook strongly encourages shareholders to vote in advance of the Meeting using their proxy or voting instruction form and to participate in the Meeting through the live audio webcast or teleconference. Additional information on the Meeting, including details on how to vote and meeting participation, is available in the Management Information Circular dated May 19, 2020 available on www.sedar.com.

 

As in-person attendance at the Meeting will not be possible, shareholders should not appoint a proxyholder, other than the proxyholders named in the proxy form or voting instruction form, to participate and vote on their behalf at the Meeting.

 

About Greenbrook

 

Operating through 124 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 420,000 TMS treatments to over 11,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

Forward-Looking Information

 

Certain information in this press release constitutes forward-looking information. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “is positioned”, “estimates”, “intends”, “assumes”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate” or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.

 

 

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Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this press release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the factors described in greater detail in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s current annual information form available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

Contacts

 

Erns Loubser
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Glen Akselrod
Investor Relations
Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

 

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com
1-855-797-4867

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.50

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS COMPLETES C$15 MILLION EQUITY OFFERING

 

NOT FOR DISSEMINATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES
OR THROUGH U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES.

 

TORONTO, ON, May 21, 2020 – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) (TSX: GTMS) is pleased to announce the closing of its previously announced public offering (the “Offering”) of common shares of the Company (the “Offered Shares”). The Offering was made pursuant to an agency agreement (the “Agency Agreement”) entered into among Bloom Burton Securities Inc. and Clarus Securities Inc., as co-lead agents, Canaccord Genuity Corp., Desjardins Securities Inc. and Stifel GMP (collectively, the “Agents”).

 

Pursuant to the Offering, the Company issued a total of 9,093,940 Offered Shares at a price of C$1.65 per Offered Share for gross proceeds of approximately C$15 million. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering to fund operating activities and for other working capital and general corporate purposes.

 

The Agents have a 30-day over-allotment option to sell up to an additional 15% of the number of Offered Shares sold as part of the Offering.

 

The Offered Shares were qualified for sale by way of a (final) short form prospectus (the “Prospectus”) dated May 15, 2020 filed by the Company and receipted by the securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces of Canada, other than Quebec. Copies of the Prospectus and the Agency Agreement are available under the Company’s profile at www.sedar.com.

 

The Offered Shares have not been registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or applicable state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from such registration requirements. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the Offered Shares, in any province, state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such province, state or jurisdiction.

 

Insiders of the Company acquired an aggregate of 3,393,940 Offered Shares (representing approximately 37% of the Offered Shares), which is considered a “related party transaction” within the meaning of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions (“MI 61-101”). The Company has relied on the exemptions from the valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of MI 61-101 contained in Sections 5.5(c) and 5.7(1)(a), respectively, of MI 61-101 in respect of such insider participation. The Company did not file a material change report 21 days prior to the closing of the Offering as the details of the participation of “related parties” in the Offering were not known at such time.

 

About Greenbrook

 

Operating through 124 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 420,000 TMS treatments to over 11,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

 

 

 

Forward-Looking Information

 

Certain information in this press release constitutes forward-looking information, including with respect to the use of the net proceeds of the Offering. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “is positioned”, “estimates”, “intends”, “assumes”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate” or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.

 

Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this press release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the factors described in greater detail in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s current annual information form available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

Contacts

 

Erns Loubser
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Glen Akselrod
Investor Relations
Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com
1-855-797-4867

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.51 

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS REPORTS First Quarter Financial Results

 

May 12, 2020 - Toronto, Ontario – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”), today announced its first quarter 2020 (“Q1 2020”) operational and financial results. All values in this news release are in United States dollars, unless otherwise stated.

 

FIRST QUARTER 2020 FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

 

· Quarterly revenue increased by 73% to $11.4 million, up $4.8 million from the first quarter of fiscal 2019 (“Q1 2019”).

 

· Quarterly regional operating income increased by 18% to $0.7 million, up $0.1 million from Q1 2019.

 

· Added eight active TMS Centers this quarter, with an additional 14 TMS Centers in development, bringing the total Company network to 124 TMS Centers. This represents an increase of 85% from Q1 2019.

 

· As anticipated, the Company has started to scale into its centralized business infrastructure with a significant decrease in the year-over-year growth rate of aggregate corporate costs.

 

· On May 6, 2020, the Company announced that it has launched a public offering of common shares and intends to issue a minimum of 8,484,849 common shares and a maximum of 10,909,091 common shares at a price of C$1.65 per common share for gross proceeds of a minimum of approximately C$14,000,000 and a maximum of approximately C$18,000,000.

  

Bill Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer of Greenbrook commented:

 

“We are very pleased with our strong Q1 2020 results despite the challenging operating environment imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic late in the quarter. As an essential business, we have taken the necessary steps to protect our patients, employees and physician partners in order to continue to be able to deliver the highest quality service at all of our TMS Centers. I am particularly proud of the initiatives that our management, employees and physician partners have put in place to expand our ability to interact with patients and potential patients virtually.”

 

Mr. Leonard added: “While we expect the second quarter of this year to reflect a decline in treatments as a result of the government-mandated restrictions imposed in response to the pandemic, we believe this to be temporary, as we are starting to see an increase in new patient starts and inquiries across the majority of our centers. The pandemic is significantly worsening what is already a staggering unmet need for mental health treatment, making TMS therapy more essential now than ever.”

 

 

 

 

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Selected FIRST Quarter Financial and Operating Results (1)

 

(US$)   Q1 2020  (unaudited)      Q1 2019  (unaudited)   
Total revenue     11,420,502       6,607,198  
Regional operating income     739,796       627,000  
Loss before income taxes     (4,240,797 )     (2,640,087 )
Loss for the period and comprehensive loss     (4,240,797 )     (2,640,087 )
Loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook     (4,158,274 )     (2,570,422 )
Net loss per share (basic and diluted)     (0.08 )     (0.05 )

 

 

Notes:

 

(1) Please note that additional selected consolidated financial information can be found at the end of this press release.

 

    As at
March 31,
    As at December 31,  
(unaudited)   2020     2019     2019  
Number of active TMS Centers(1)     110       57       102  
Number of TMS Centers-in-development(2)     14       10       17  
Total TMS Centers     124       67       119  
Number of management regions     13       9       13  
Number of TMS Devices installed     189       118       178  
Number of regional personnel     302       155       273  
Number of shared-services / corporate personnel(3)     47       27       44  
Number of TMS providers(4)     117       55       109  
Number of consultations performed     2,360       1,441       8,039  
Number of patient starts     1,326       840       4,080  
Number of TMS treatments performed     47,970       29,387       155,343  
Average revenue per TMS treatment   $ 238     $ 225     $ 230  

 

 

Notes:

 

(1) Active TMS Centers represent TMS Centers that have performed billable TMS services.

 

(2) TMS Centers-in-development represents TMS Centers that have committed to a space lease agreement and the development process is substantially complete.

 

(3) Shared-services / corporate personnel is disclosed on a full-time equivalent basis. The Company utilizes part-time staff and consultants as a means of managing costs.

 

(4) Represents physician partners that are involved in the provision of TMS therapy services from our TMS Centers.

 

For more information, please refer to the Management’s Discussion & Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (“MD&A”) and the unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements of the Company for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019. These documents will be available on the Company’s website at www.greenbrooktms.com and under the Company’s SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.

  

CONFERENCE CALL AND WEBCAST

 

First Quarter 2020 Conference Call Details:

Bill Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer and Erns Loubser, Chief Financial Officer will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on May 13, 2020 to discuss the financial results for the quarter.

 

Toll Free North America: 1-866-521-4909

 

Toronto: 647-427-2311

 

 

 

 

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Webcast:

For more information or to listen to the call via webcast, please visit:

www.greenbrooktms.com/investors/events.htm

 

Conference Call Replay:

 

Toll Free (North America): 1-800-585-8367

 

Toronto: 416-621-4642

 

Passcode: 5855438

 

The conference call replay will be available from 1:00 p.m. ET on May 13, 2020, until 23:59 p.m. ET on June 12, 2020.

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 124 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 420,000 TMS treatments to over 11,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Erns Loubser

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information

 

Certain information in this press release, including with respect to the Company’s future financial or operating performance, constitutes forward-looking information. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “is positioned”, “estimates”, “intends”, “assumes”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate” or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.

 

 

 

 

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Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this press release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the factors described in greater detail in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s current annual information form available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

Cautionary Note Regarding Non-IFRS Measures

 

This press release makes reference to certain non-IFRS measures. These measures are not recognized measures under IFRS, do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and, therefore, may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. Rather, these measures are provided as additional information to complement those IFRS measures by providing further understanding of the Company’s results of operations from management’s perspective. Accordingly, these measures are not intended to represent, and should not be considered as alternatives to, loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook or other performance measures derived in accordance with IFRS as measures of operating performance or operating cash flows or as a measure of liquidity. In addition to the Company’s results determined in accordance with IFRS, the Company uses non-IFRS measures, including “EBITDA” and “Adjusted EBITDA”. These non-IFRS measures are used to provide investors with supplemental measures of the Company’s operating performance and thus highlight trends in its core business that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on IFRS measures. See the Company’s MD&A for a further discussion of these non-IFRS financial measures and for a reconciliation of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA to loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook.

 

Selected Consolidated Financial Information

 

(US$)   Q1 2020
(unaudited)
    Q1 2019
(unaudited)
 
Total revenue     11,420,502       6,607,198  
                 
Direct center and patient care costs     5,881,290       3,456,616  
Regional employee compensation     2,526,190       1,251,421  
Regional marketing expenses     867,102       464,041  
Depreciation     1,406,124       808,120  
Total direct center and regional costs     10,680,706       5,980,198  
Regional operating income     739,796       627,000  
Center development costs     229,507       264,696  
Corporate employee compensation     2,623,430       1,460,101  
Corporate marketing expenses     305,448       204,346  
Other corporate, general and administrative expenses     947,618       667,895  
Share-based compensation     109,405       294,159  
Amortization     115,833        
Interest expense     657,834       397,840  
Interest income     (8,482 )     (21,950 )
Loss before income taxes     (4,240,797 )     (2,640,087 )
Income tax expense            
Loss for the period and comprehensive loss     (4,240,797 )     (2,640,087 )
Loss attributable to non-controlling interest     (82,523 )     (69,665 )
Loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook     (4,158,274 )     (2,570,422 )
Net loss per share (basic and diluted)     (0.08 )     (0.05 )

  

 

 

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(US$)  

Q1 2020

   

Q4 2019

   

Q3 2019

   

Q2 2019

   

Q1 2019

   

Q4 2018(3)

   

Q3 2018(3)

   

Q2 2018(3)

 
(unaudited)                                                                
Revenue     11,420,502       12,536,671       8,459,103       8,082,559       6,607,198       7,092,455       5,338,364       4,926,625  
Regional operating income(2)     739,796       2,056,836       770,813       1,002,166       627,000       1,418,347       476,556       697,293  
Net loss attributable to shareholders of Greenbrook     (4,158,274 )     (7,034,356 )     (3,431,009 )     (2,874,092 )     (2,570,422 )     (949,031 )     (1,480,489 )     (1,372,984 )
Adjusted EBITDA(1)     (1,648,053 )     (1,296,201 )     (1,033,876 )     (957,428 )     (827,557 )     (865,210 )     (840,374 )     (448,762 )
Net loss per share – Basic     (0.08 )     (0.13 )     (0.06 )     (0.06 )     (0.05 )     (0.01 )     (0.04 )     (0.04 )
Net loss per share – Diluted     (0.08 )     (0.13 )     (0.06 )     (0.06 )     (0.05 )     (0.01 )     (0.04 )     (0.04 )

 

 

Notes:

(1) Adjusted EBITDA is a non-IFRS measure. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Non-IFRS Measures” in this press release.

 

(2) Regional operating income for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2019 has been updated to exclude amortization.

 

(3) The Company adopted IFRS 16 effective as at January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective approach. As a result of this approach, the prior period figures were not adjusted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.52

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS ANNOUNCES OVERNIGHT MARKETED OFFERING OF COMMON SHARES

 

NOT FOR DISSEMINATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES
OR THROUGH U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES.

 

TORONTO, ON, May 5, 2020 – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) (TSX: GTMS) announced today that it has filed and been receipted for a preliminary short form prospectus (the “Preliminary Prospectus”) with securities regulatory authorities in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario, pursuant to National Instrument 44-101 Short Form Prospectus Distributions, in connection with a proposed overnight marketed offering (the “Offering”) of common shares of the Company (the “Offered Shares”). The Offering is being co-led by Bloom Burton Securities Inc. and Clarus Securities Inc. (the “Lead Agents”) on behalf of a syndicate including Canaccord Genuity Corp., Desjardins Securities Inc., and Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc.

 

The number of Offered Shares to be distributed, the price of each Offered Share and the minimum and maximum size of the Offering will be determined by negotiation between the Company and the Lead Agents in the context of the market with final terms to be determined at the time of pricing. The Preliminary Prospectus is subject to completion and amendment.

 

The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering to fund operating activities and for other working capital and general corporate purposes.

 

The Offering is subject to a number of customary conditions, including, without limitation, receipt of all regulatory and stock exchange approvals.

 

The Offered Shares have not been registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or applicable state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from such registration requirements. This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the Offered Shares, in any province, state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such province, state or jurisdiction.

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 124 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 420,000 TMS treatments to over 11,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

 

 

Forward-Looking Information

 

Certain information in this press release constitutes forward-looking information, including with respect to the use of the net proceeds of the Offering. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “is positioned”, “estimates”, “intends”, “assumes”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate” or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.

 

Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this press release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the factors described in greater detail in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s current annual information form available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Erns Loubser
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Glen Akselrod
Investor Relations
Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com
1-855-797-4867

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.53

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS ANNOUNCES PRICING OF OVERNIGHT MARKETED OFFERING OF COMMON SHARES

 

NOT FOR DISSEMINATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES

OR THROUGH U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES.

 

TORONTO, ON, May 6, 2020 – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) (TSX: GTMS) announced today that it has priced its previously announced overnight marketed offering (the “Offering”) of common shares of the Company (the “Offered Shares”). The Company intends to issue a minimum of 8,484,849 Offered Shares and a maximum of 10,909,091 Offered Shares at a price of C$1.65 per Offered Share for gross proceeds of a minimum of approximately C$14,000,000 and a maximum of approximately C$18,000,000.

 

The Offering is being undertaken on a “best efforts” basis in each of the provinces of Canada (except Quebec) through a syndicate of agents co-led by Bloom Burton Securities Inc. and Clarus Securities Inc. (collectively, the “Co-Lead Agents”) and including Canaccord Genuity Corp., Desjardins Securities Inc. and Stifel GMP (together with the Co-Lead Agents, the “Agents”).

 

The Agents will be paid a cash commission equal to 6.5% of the aggregate gross proceeds of the Offering (the “Agents’ Fee”), other than the gross proceeds from sales of Offered Shares made to certain pre-identified purchasers, in which case the Agents’ Fee will be reduced to 1%. The Company will also grant to the Agents a 30-day over-allotment option to sell up to an additional 15% of the number of Offered Shares sold as part of the Offering.

 

The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering to fund operating activities and for other working capital and general corporate purposes.

 

The Offering is subject to a number of customary conditions, including, without limitation, receipt of all regulatory and stock exchange approvals.

 

In respect of the Offering, the Company will file a preliminary short form prospectus in each of the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador and an amended and restated preliminary short form prospectus in each of the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario (collectively, the “Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus”).

 

A copy of the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus will be available under the Company’s profile at www.sedar.com or may be obtained from Bloom Burton Securities Inc at ecm@bloomburton.com. The Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus will be subject to completion and amendment. There will not be any sale or any acceptance of an offer to buy the Offered Shares until a receipt for the final short form prospectus relating to the Offering has been issued. This press release does not provide full disclosure of all material facts relating to the Offered Shares. Investors should read the Amended and Restated Preliminary Prospectus, final short form prospectus and any amendment, for disclosure of those facts, especially risk factors relating to the Company and the Offered Shares, before making an investment decision.

 

The Offered Shares have not been registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or applicable state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from such registration requirements. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the Offered Shares, in any province, state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such province, state or jurisdiction.

 

 

 

 

About Greenbrook

 

Operating through 124 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 420,000 TMS treatments to over 11,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

Forward-Looking Information

 

Certain information in this press release constitutes forward-looking information, including with respect to the use of the net proceeds of the Offering. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “is positioned”, “estimates”, “intends”, “assumes”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate” or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.

 

Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this press release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the factors described in greater detail in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s current annual information form available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

Contacts

 

Erns Loubser

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.54 

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS ANNOUNCES PRELIMINARY FIRST QUARTER 2020 RESULTS AND

PROVIDES A BUSINESS UPDATE

 

(Note: All dollar amounts in this news release are expressed in U.S. dollars except as otherwise noted.)

 

April 30, 2020 - Toronto, ON - Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) today announced certain preliminary unaudited financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 (“Q1 2020”) and also provided an update regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business, as well as actions taken in response to this unprecedented operating environment.

 

As previously announced, Greenbrook’s TMS Centers have been deemed “essential businesses” and are permitted to continue to operate following the implementation of temporary exceptional measures by various local and state governments in the United States to minimize the spread of COVID-19.

 

All active Greenbook TMS Centers remain open to both current and new patients.

 

Preliminary Q1 2020 Results

 

Greenbrook’s Q1 2020 revenue is expected to be in the range of $11.3 million to $11.5 million (representing growth of approximately 70% as compared to revenue of $6.6 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2019 (“Q1 2019”)), and Q1 2020 Adjusted EBITDA loss is expected to be in the range of $1.6 million to $1.8 million (as compared to $0.8 million in Q1 2019).

 

Paycheck Protection Program Loan

 

Greenbrook ended Q1 2020 with approximately $3.2 million in cash on hand. On April 21, 2020, Greenbrook entered into a promissory note with U.S. Bank National Association (the “Lender”), evidencing an unsecured loan in the amount of $3,080,760 (the “Loan”) made to the Company under the United States Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”). The PPP is a program organized by the U.S. Small Business Administration established under the recently-enacted Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”). The Loan bears interest at a fixed rate of 1.0% per annum with a maturity date of two years from the date of the Loan. Interest payments are deferred for the first six months under the Loan, and the Loan will be forgiven in its entirety provided that the proceeds from the Loan are used by Greenbrook to cover payroll costs, rent and utilities during the eight-week period following the Loan origination date.

 

As federal authorities continue to update relevant policies and guidelines regarding the PPP, including some that have retroactive effect, Greenbrook is monitoring these developments and assessing any changes in the Company’s eligibility for the PPP or any other subsidies or support mechanisms under the CARES Act.

 

Business Update

 

All of the active Greenbrook TMS Centers remain open to both current and new patients and are expected to continue to remain open as essential businesses. The Company is experiencing a decline in treatments and new patient starts as result of the governmental restrictions imposed in response to COVID-19. As a result, the Company expects that its revenues in the quarter ending March 31, 2020 (“Q2 2020”) will decrease by between 20% and 25% as compared to Q1 2020. Based on this decline, Greenbrook expects Q2 2020 revenue growth to be approximately 10% on a year over year basis.

 

As a result of this anticipated decline in revenue, Greenbrook has taken the following measures:

 

· Approximately 20-25% of the Company’s employees will be furloughed as of May 1, 2020. During the period of furlough, Greenbrook will pay 100% of employer and employee medical premiums, through May 31, 2020.

 

 

 

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· A Company-wide hiring freeze has been implemented.

 

· The Company’s executive management team has each agreed to a 10% salary deferral.

 

· Budgeted discretionary expenses are expected to be reduced by approximately $2 million for the year ending December 31, 2020.

 

Greenbrook also continues to evaluate all available financing strategies.

 

Commentary from CEO, Bill Leonard

 

“As we navigate through this period, we are taking all possible steps to safeguard the health and well-being of our patients, employees and physician partners, while our entire team works tirelessly to continue to deliver the highest quality of care at all of our TMS Centers”, commented President and Chief Executive Officer, Bill Leonard.

 

“I am incredibly proud of our team during this challenging period, as all of our active TMS Centers have remained open and fully operational during the pandemic. We have continued to deliver TMS therapy to more than 600 patients per day across our TMS Center network despite all of the challenges created by COVID-19. As evident in our preliminary Q1 2020 results, we experienced limited effects of the pandemic in March, with the impact becoming more significant in April as more government-mandated shutdowns and stay-at-home orders have gone into place. As a result of the expected drop in revenue, we are working to align our operating costs as best as we can while continuing to deliver the highest quality of care to our patients.”

 

Mr. Leonard added: “While we have certainly experienced some of the negative impacts from COVID-19, we do see these challenging operating conditions as temporary, as we are starting to see a positive change in sentiment. We are seeing an increase in patient inquiries, along with a growing number of our current and new patients coming to our TMS Centers to receive treatment. We have continued to expand our ability to interact with patients and potential patients virtually and have seen increasing usage of these platforms by both patients and more significantly by physicians to manage and refer patients.”

 

Mr. Leonard continued: “In conversations with our partner physicians, staff, and even friends and family, it is evident that an important impact of the pandemic is the significant worsening of what is already a staggering unmet need for mental health treatment. With access to TMS therapy now more essential than ever, Greenbrook will continue to serve our patients across the U.S. both during this global crisis and beyond.”

 

As previously announced, Greenbrook will hold a conference call to discuss its Q1 2019 operational and financial results at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on Wednesday, May 13, 2020. The call, consisting of a presentation by the Company followed by a question period, may be accessed at 1 (866) 521-4909 (Canada or U.S.) or 1 (647) 427-2311 (International). A replay of the call will be available from shortly after the termination of the call until 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Friday, June 12, 2020. The replay may be accessed at 1 (800) 585-8367 (Canada or U.S.) or 1 (416) 621-4642 (International).

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 124 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 420,000 TMS treatments to over 11,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

 

 

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Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information

 

Certain information in this press release, including with respect to the Company’s future financial or operating performance, constitutes forward-looking information. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “is positioned”, “estimates”, “intends”, “assumes”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate” or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.

 

Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this press release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the factors described in greater detail in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s current annual information form available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

Cautionary Note Regarding Non-IFRS Measures

 

This press release makes reference to certain non-IFRS measures. These measures are not recognized measures under IFRS, do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and, therefore, may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. Rather, these measures are provided as additional information to complement those IFRS measures by providing further understanding of the Company’s results of operations from management’s perspective. Accordingly, these measures are not intended to represent, and should not be considered as alternatives to, loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook or other performance measures derived in accordance with IFRS as measures of operating performance or operating cash flows or as a measure of liquidity. In addition to the Company’s results determined in accordance with IFRS, the Company uses non-IFRS measures, including “EBITDA” and “Adjusted EBITDA”. These non-IFRS measures are used to provide investors with supplemental measures of the Company’s operating performance and thus highlight trends in its core business that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on IFRS measures. See the Company’s management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations for a further discussion of these non-IFRS financial measures and for a reconciliation of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA to loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook.

 

 

 

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For further information please contact:

 

Erns Loubser

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com 

1-855-797-4867

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.55

 

GREENBROOK TMS ANNOUNCES DATES FOR ITS

FIRST Quarter 2020 Financial Results

 

April 23, 2020 - Toronto, ON - Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) will release its first quarter 2020 operational and financial results after market hours on May 12, 2020.

 

First Quarter 2020 Conference Call Details

 

Bill Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer and Erns Loubser, Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on May 13, 2020 to discuss the financial results for the quarter.

 

Dial in Numbers:

 

Toll Free North America: (866) 521-4909

 

Toronto/International: (647) 427-2311

 

Webcast:

 

For more information or to listen to the call via webcast, please visit:

 

https://www.greenbrooktms.com/investors/events.htm

 

Conference Call Replay

 

Toll Free (North America): 1-800-585-8367

 

Toronto: 416-621-4642

 

Conference ID: 5855438

 

The conference call replay will be available from 1:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on May 13, 2020, until 23:59 p.m. (Eastern Time) on June 12, 2020.

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 124 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of TMS therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 370,000 TMS treatments to close to 10,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Erns Loubser

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.56

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS PROVIDES UPDATE REGARDING COVID-19 RESPONSE

 

March 25, 2020 - Toronto, Ontario – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) today provides the following update regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Greenbrook’s business and its response to dealing with the pandemic.

 

As of today, there has been a minimal impact to patient treatment numbers and all of the Company’s active TMS Centers are fully operational. Greenbrook’s TMS Centers have been deemed essential businesses and are permitted to continue to operate following the implementation of temporary exceptional measures by various local and state governments in the United States to minimize the spread of COVID-19.

 

The Company has been piloting, and effective immediately will be rolling out, a new telehealth platform that facilitates access to care for patients that are seeking treatment, enabling patients to complete certain physician office appointments from home without the need to physically visit a Greenbrook TMS Center. Greenbrook is also assessing opportunities to utilize other technologies to maintain contact with prospective patients that have inquired about Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, including through the implementation of an encrypted text messaging platform that will enable patients to stay in touch with the Greenbrook care team from home.

 

“We recognize that treating Major Depressive Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is more important now than ever before,” commented President and Chief Executive Officer, Bill Leonard. “We are aware of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance that individuals with pre-existing mental health conditions should continue treatment during this challenging period. We have therefore taken necessary steps to protect our patients, employees and physician partners in order to continue to be able to deliver the highest quality service at all of our TMS Centers. While the situation remains fluid, and while we expect to see a decrease in traffic at our TMS Centers as the pandemic progresses, we are doing everything we can to be able to continue delivering care to our patients.”

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 123 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of TMS therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 370,000 TMS treatments to close to 10,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Erns Loubser

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

 

 

 

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information

 

Certain information in this press release, including with respect to the implementation of patient text messaging applications, or the Company’s future financial or operating performance, constitutes forward-looking information. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “is positioned”, “estimates”, “intends”, “assumes”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate” or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.

 

Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this press release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the factors described in greater detail in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s current annual information form available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.57

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS REPORTS RECORD FOURTH QUARTER AND YEAR END 2019 FINANCIAL RESULTS

 

March 10, 2020 - Toronto, Ontario – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) today announced its fourth quarter (“Q4 2019”) and year-end 2019 (“Fiscal 2019) operational and financial results. All values in this press release are in United States dollars, unless otherwise stated.

 

FOURTH QUARTER AND YEAR END 2019 FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

 

· Q4 2019 revenue increased by 77% to a record $12.5 million, up $5.4 million from the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 (“Q4 2018”).

 

· Fiscal 2019 revenue increased by 68% to $35.7 million, up $14.4 million from the 2018 fiscal year-end (“Fiscal 2018”).

 

· Q4 2019 regional operating income increased by 36% to $1.9 million, up $0.5 million from Q4 2018(1).

 

· Fiscal 2019 regional operating income increased by 54% to $4.3 million, up $1.5 million from Fiscal 2018(1).

 

· Added 55 active TMS Centers during Fiscal 2019, with an additional 17 TMS Centers in development at the end of Q4 2019, bringing our total to 121 TMS Centers as at the date of this press release

 

· Completed the acquisition of Achieve TMS Centers, LLC and Achieve TMS Alaska, LLC (collectively, “Achieve TMS”), which, provides the Company with a national footprint of over 100 TMS Centers. The acquisition also provides a platform for further expansion in the western United States, which is enhanced by Achieve TMS’ excellent brand recognition, physician reputation and high visibility in the local TMS community.

 

Bill Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer of Greenbrook commented:

 

“We are very pleased with our Q4 2019 and annual results. The acquisition of Achieve TMS expands our footprint to the west coast and gives us a national footprint. The growth strategy in our business continues at a rapid pace, with a combination of strong organic growth paired with new regional development. With 121 Greenbrook TMS Centers coast to coast, we continue to expand our presence, bringing this life changing treatment to patients suffering with treatment-resistant depression and other mental health disorders.”

 

 

Note:

 

(1) The Company adopted IFRS 16, Leases (“IFRS 16”) effective as at January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective approach. As a result of this approach, the prior period figures were not adjusted. For comparison purposes, the Company has provided explanations for prior period figures adjusting for the effects of IFRS 16. Growth figures quoted above are after adjusting for the effect of IFRS 16 in both periods for comparability. Please refer to our MD&A (as defined below) for further details on the impact of the implementation of IFRS 16 on our financial results

 

 

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SELECTED ANNUAL AND QUARTERLY FINANCIAL AND OPERATING RESULTS(1)

 

Annual Financial and Operating Results

 

(US$) (audited)   2019     2018     2017  
Total Revenue     35,685,531       21,259,015       13,776,929  
Regional Operating Income     4,334,546       2,811,797       1,725,604  
Loss before income taxes     (15,852,289 )     (4,709,287 )     (2,174,495 )
Loss for the year and comprehensive loss     (15,852,289 )     (4,709,287 )     (2,174,495 )
Loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook     (15,909,879 )     (4,958,043 )     (2,373,145 )
Net loss per share (basic and diluted)     (0.30 )     (0.12 )     (0.06 )

 

 

Notes:

 

(1) Please note that additional selected consolidated financial information can be found at the end of this press release.

 

(2) The Company adopted IFRS 16 effective as at January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective approach. As a result of this approach, the prior period figures were not adjusted.

 

    As at December 31,     As at December 31,     As at December 31,  
(unaudited)   2019     2018     2017  
Number of active TMS Centers(1)     102       47       25  
Number of TMS Centers-in-development(2)     17       10       5  
Total TMS Centers     119       57       30  
Number of management regions     13       8       3  
Number of TMS Devices installed     178       108       65  
Number of regional personnel     273       132       80  
Number of shared-services / corporate personnel(3)     44       17       11  
Number of TMS providers(4)     109       46       27  
Number of consultations performed     8,039       4,211       2,781  
Number of patient starts     4,080       2,626       1,807  
Number of TMS treatments performed     155,343       95,621       65,126  
Average revenue per TMS treatment   $ 230     $ 222     $ 212  

 

 

Notes:

 

(1) Active TMS Centers represent TMS Centers that have performed billable TMS services.

 

(2) TMS Centers-in-development represents TMS Centers that have committed to a space lease agreement and the development process is substantially complete.

 

(3) Shared-services / corporate personnel is disclosed on a full-time equivalent basis. The Company utilizes part-time staff and consultants as a means of managing costs.

 

(4) Represents physician partners that are involved in the provision of TMS therapy services from our TMS Centers.

  

 

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Quarterly Financial and Operating Results

 

(US$)   Q4 2019     Q4 2018  
(unaudited)                
Revenue     12,536,671       7,092,455  
Regional Operating Income     1,934,567       1,418,347  
Net income (loss) attributable to shareholders of Greenbrook     (7,034,356 )     (949,031 )
Adjusted EBITDA(1)     (1,296,201 )     (865,210 )
Net income (loss) per share – Basic     (0.13 )     (0.01 )
Net income (loss) per share – Diluted     (0.13 )     (0.01 )

 

 

Note:

 

(1) Adjusted EBITDA is a non-IFRS measure. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Non-IFRS Measures” in this press release.

 

For more information, please refer to the Management’s Discussion & Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (“MD&A”) and the consolidated financial statements of the Company for fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 and 2018. These documents will be available on the Company’s website at www.greenbrooktms.com and under the Company’s SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.

 

 

CONFERENCE CALL AND WEBCAST

 

Fourth Quarter and Year End 2019 Conference Call Details:

 

Bill Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer and Erns Loubser, Chief Financial Officer will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on March 11, 2020 to discuss the financial results for the quarter.

 

Toll Free North America: 1-866-521-4909
Toronto: 647-427-2311

 

Webcast:

 

For more information or to listen to the call via webcast, please visit: www.//www.greenbrooktms.com/investors/events.htm

 

Conference Call Replay:

 

Toll Free (North America): 1-800-585-8367
Toronto: 416-621-4642

 

Passcode: 5674294

 

The conference call replay will be available from 1:00 p.m. ET on March 11, 2020, until 23:59 p.m. ET on April 11, 2020.

 

 

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About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 121 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) therapy, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 370,000 TMS treatments to close to 10,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Erns Loubser

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information

 

Certain information in this press release, including with respect to the rapid expansion of our TMS Center network, or the Company’s future financial or operating performance, constitutes forward-looking information. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “is positioned”, “estimates”, “intends”, “assumes”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate” or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.

 

Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this press release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the factors described in greater detail in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s current annual information form available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

 

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Cautionary Note Regarding Non-IFRS Measures

 

This press release makes reference to certain non-IFRS measures. These measures are not recognized measures under IFRS, do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and, therefore, may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. Rather, these measures are provided as additional information to complement those IFRS measures by providing further understanding of the Company’s results of operations from management’s perspective. Accordingly, these measures are not intended to represent, and should not be considered as alternatives to, loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook or other performance measures derived in accordance with IFRS as measures of operating performance or operating cash flows or as a measure of liquidity. In addition to the Company’s results determined in accordance with IFRS, the Company uses non-IFRS measures, including “EBITDA” and “Adjusted EBITDA”. These non-IFRS measures are used to provide investors with supplemental measures of the Company’s operating performance and thus highlight trends in its core business that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on IFRS measures. See the Company’s MD&A for a further discussion of these non-IFRS financial measures and for a reconciliation of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA to loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook.

 

SELECTED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

(US$) (audited)   2019     2018(1)     2017(1)  
Total Revenue     35,685,531       21,259,015       13,776,929  
                         
Direct center and patient care costs     17,368,894       13,348,011       8,948,442  
Regional employee compensation     7,122,556       3,075,725       1,736,278  
Regional marketing expenses     2,705,891       1,946,580       1,341,393  
Amortization     122,269       -       -  
Depreciation     4,031,375       76,902       25,212  
Total direct center and regional costs     31,350,985       18,447,218       12,051,325  
Regional Operating Income     4,334,546       2,811,797       1,725,604  
Center development costs     1,466,119       530,068       274,881  
Corporate employee compensation     7,063,682       2,607,803       1,632,077  
Corporate marketing expenses     1,934,227       961,094       381,683  
Transaction costs     385,674       467,375       -  
Other corporate, general and administrative expenses     6,987,763       2,486,384       960,263  
Share-based compensation     690,230       467,627       400,390  
Interest expense     1,822,442       81,725       250,805  
Interest income     (163,302 )     (81,462 )     -  
Loss before income taxes     (15,852,289 )     (4,709,287 )     (2,174,495 )
Income tax expense     -       -       -  
Loss for the year and comprehensive loss     (15,852,289 )     (4,709,287 )     (2,174,495 )
Income attributable to non-controlling interest     57,590       248,756       198,650  
Loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook     (15,909,879 )     (4,958,043 )     (2,373,145 )
Loss for the year attributable to:                        
Non-controlling interest     57,590       248,756       198,650  
Common shareholders of Greenbrook     (15,909,879 )     (4,958,043 )     (2,373,145 )
Net loss per share (basic and diluted)     (0.30 )     (0.12 )     (0.06 )

 

 

Notes:

 

(1) The Company adopted IFRS 16 effective as at January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective approach. As a result of this approach, the prior period figures were not adjusted.

  

 

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(US$)   Q4 2019     Q3 2019     Q2 2019     Q1 2019     Q4 2018     Q3 2018     Q2 2018     Q1 2018  
(unaudited)                                                                
Revenue     12,536,671       8,459,103       8,082,559       6,607,198       7,092,455       5,338,364       4,926,625       3,901,571  
Regional Operating Income     1,934,567       770,813       1,002,166       627,000       1,418,347       476,556       697,293       219,601  
Net income (loss) attributable to shareholders of Greenbrook     (7,034,356 )     (3,431,009 )     (2,874,092 )     (2,570,422 )     (949,031 )     (1,480,489 )     (1,372,984 )     (1,155,539 )
Adjusted EBITDA(1)     (1,296,201 )     (1,033,876 )     (957,428 )     (827,557 )     (865,210 )     (840,374 )     (448,762 )     (837,746 )
Net income (loss) per share – Basic     (0.13 )     (0.06 )     (0.06 )     (0.05 )     (0.01 )     (0.04 )     (0.04 )     (0.03 )
Net income (loss) per share – Diluted     (0.13 )     (0.06 )     (0.06 )     (0.05 )     (0.01 )     (0.04 )     (0.04 )     (0.03 )

 

 

 

Notes:

 

(1) Adjusted EBITDA is a non-IFRS measure. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Non-IFRS Measures” in this press release.

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.58

 

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS TO HOST INVESTOR WEBCAST ON FEBRUARY 11, 2020

 

February 4, 2020 – Toronto, ON – Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it will host a webcast investor presentation on Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 11:00 AM ET.

 

During the webcast, Bill Leonard, Chief Executive Officer, will provide an introductory presentation through a PowerPoint discussion that will cover key areas of Greenbrook’s business. During parts of the presentation, investors will have an opportunity to ask relevant questions through an interactive Q&A portal.

 

To listen to the webcast or to ask questions during the live event, please pre-register at the following link:

https://event.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1280240&tp_key=05ff63f0e1.

 

An archived version of the webcast and presentation will be available on the Company’s website, https://www.greenbrooktms.com/investors/events.htm following the event.

 


About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 119 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. We expect that TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 320,000 TMS treatments to over 9,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Erns Loubser

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Contact Information:

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

 

Exhibit 99.59

 

 

GREENBROOK TMS ANNOUNCES DATES FOR ITS FOURTH Quarter AND YEAR END
2019 Financial Results

 

January 14, 2020 - Toronto, ON - Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) (“Greenbrook” or the “Company”) will release its 2019 fourth quarter and year end operational and financial results after market hours on March 10, 2020.

 

Fourth Quarter 2019 Conference Call Details

 

Bill Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer and Erns Loubser, Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on March 11, 2020 to discuss the financial results for the quarter.

 

Dial in Numbers:

 

Toll Free North America: 1-866-521-4909

 

Toronto: 647-427-2311

 

Webcast:

 

For more information or to listen to the call via webcast, please visit:

 

https://www.greenbrooktms.com/investors/events.htm

 

Conference Call Replay

 

Toll Free (North America): 1-800-585-8367

 

Toronto: 416-621-4642

 

Passcode: 5674294

 

The conference call replay will be available from 1:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on March 11, 2020, until 23:59 p.m. (Eastern Time) on April 11, 2020.

 

About Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Operating through 119 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”), an FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Greenbrook has provided more than 320,000 TMS treatments to over 9,000 patients struggling with depression.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Erns Loubser

Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Corporate Secretary

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

Glen Akselrod

Investor Relations

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

Contact Information:

 

investorrelations@greenbrooktms.com

1-855-797-4867

 

 

Exhibit 99.60

 

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

The Board of Directors

Greenbrook TMS Inc.

 

We, KPMG LLP, consent to the use of our report, dated March 10, 2020, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of Greenbrook TMS Inc., which comprise the consolidated statements of financial position as at December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the consolidated statements of net loss and comprehensive loss, changes in equity (deficit) and cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2019, and notes to the consolidated financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies, included in this Registration Statement on Form 40-F.

 

Our report refers to a change to the method of accounting for leases during 2019 due to the adoption of IFRS 16 Leases.

 

/s/ KPMG LLP

 

Chartered Professional Accountants, Licensed Public Accountants

March 10, 2021

Vaughan, Canada